The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 22, 1919, Page 6

She Seattle Star Oo per month; 2 months, 75; year, $6.00, im the hington, | Outaide the state, r mo: $4.50 for & montha or $9.00 By carrier, city, le per week Monor anil Good Business, Too é By JAMES W. GERARD (Former Ambassador to Germany.) 4 There is not a business man of legitimate methods in ‘ the country who cannot appreciate the reasons for the final f the Victory Loan, the issue of Victory Notes, The average American of business meets his notes and his debts omptly. He knows subconsciously that business could not on if he did not. But he also feels deeply within him- like to think—that he is heir to American history. America has always sacrificed to pay her national debts, Washington advanced to the colonial government ne $72,500 for his own personal expenses and the expenses the intelligence service of his armies. Benjamin Frank- offered to lend to the government his entire worldly Alexander Hamilton floated the first big Liberty , assuming the entire indebtedness of the colonia and ite governments, amounting to some $75,000,000—a large for those days—which had been contracted for the sake bf the war of independence. Andrew Jackson regarded the! ‘ debt with peculiar horror, and made many national that it might be paid off quickly. men and others of their kind established the tradition that America would honorably pay any that had been made in defense of her national honor. The soldier population of the United States did its task The German was checked at Chateau-Thierry and an destiny set up for the “superman.” The soldier did ty and completed his work. He is not on trial. There be no question as to what he did or the way in which d it. “Now the matter is shifted to the civilian population. p the finishing of the war, the final payment of the bills, j the civilian who stayed at home in safety while faaldiors risked their lives—and in many cases gave them. So, on the ground of the honor of the nation and the out of its traditions, there can be no question that bts of the nation should be met promptly. But there is also a strong business reason for the carry- r to complete success of the Victory Loan. If the ple do not assume the obligations the banks will be com- sd to do so. This will mean that bank credit will be over- with the Victory Loan. itimate commercial | ngs will not secure the credit—the banking # i hey need. that case, the whole of legitimate business would be line. The period of reconstruction would be retarded | return to normal peaceful—peace time—conditions | eg far backward. Democracy—Its True Meaning oh lie : has a finer meaning than that of oven and which all of us can take unto ourselves as in-| and for better government. y is the efficiency of the individual. cy is individual order and system. oc} is co-operation, and which is just another | for the bi yp of man. and cheap goods. iety, or what we call all the people, is made up of democratic government is simply individual effi- order, system, co-operation, justice, economy on a quality of the community or society we have, both matter of its physical and governmental state, de- upon us, every one of us, as individuals. } creates as he thinks—not only as individuals, but ‘mass of individual thought’ or kind of government we have is very much up to one of us, our efforts as we think, or our neglect as we ) think at all. 4 ratic government is of first importance in the th it permits of the free development of the individual | her state of efficiency. We of this country created our democratic form of gov- ; for we as a people, as a mass of individuals, saw ‘we could trust ourselves alone in the matter of govern- that a people have a right to make their own mis- and the mistakes are more often the process by they establish truer government. _ And there are higher no for a higher democracy when e consider that this is the first generation in America that attempt has been made at the universal education of the| Yes, democracy is up to every one of us. His First Long Trousers It’s a mighty important event in the family when, fny-boy makes his first appearance in long trousers and | ; what relatives and friends have to say upon this HIS FATHER—“Well, well, you're quite a man now, Pretty near time you were buying your own I suppose you'll be wanting a night key and your own private cigar humidor. You sure have up like a young weed. I can hardly believe it.” YOUNGER BROTHER—“Gee whizz, Sonny looks in those things. When I grow up and get long pants to look like a million trillion dollars.” OLDER SISTER—“I do hope, Sonny, now that yo up, you'll act more like a man and not her Mr. Jennings and me the way you've been doing he’s come to call. PAL—“Say, you want to turn up your pants at ttom. All the fellers are wearing cuffs on the bot- their oe ig oll thor oe to know that. And wn your ves' ’t put things in your coat pockets, 4 them all out of shape.” 3 COOK—‘T hope you'll realize that young men in trousers don’t steal cookies and keep pestering the ok for a eat all the time.” _ _ HIS Mi R—“Why, my dear boy, how manly you very And yet I hate to think ban, I'm so id of you, my dear ttle boy.” A lot of peuple who are telling us what will happen peace is delayed, will be bitterly disappointed if it ’t happen. One language isn’t enough by which to express the 8 opinion of a nation that is willing to give up the ilippines. esp A statesman is a man who bows and uses words while waiting on Destiny to shape affairs. Since Elihn Root gave an opinion favorable to the brewers, the drys are wondering if he is related to that friend of Job’s, Elihu, the son of Buzite, if: JACK PO Wee, Boys, THIS Port's For Poor. oL1o Homer, Homer, LET Evertin’, UPA Beery! ne A You VE SuRE HAD RoTTEert buck T NIGHT, Homer, } Hope you Ger Tid Por, UPA BERRY! RSV SS SS 4 a STARSHEL First ride humans get i in the baby buggy, also | pronounced baby carriage, gocart, and perambulator. | That's how civilixed folks get the idea that it's easier | to ride than walk. Always we tench our children) first how to ride a then = give them walking lew Man in his most | promitive exist mee acquired the! wehicle habit, and he's «been riding the hobby ever) since. Without wheels man would be glued to the soll. He'd never) get more than a mile from his birthplace. Starting with the firat wheel man began getting acquainted with his next door neighbor. (pause) We go riding, automobiling, driving, ete, but Car | lyle writes, “My traveling friends, vebieulating tn cig* or otherwise over that piece ef London road.” (pause) ‘The first vehicle didn’t have regular wheels. Man just hitched another animal to two saplings and climbed on. Then he got the hunch to make wheelr out of tree trunks, sticking an axle thru the centers (paure) “The king in @ carriage may ride, ] And the beggar may crawl at his wide; | But in the general race ‘They are traveling all the same pace.” (pause) ‘The most pernicious wheeled ideas of mankind are Wheelbarrows, Lawn mowers, | Three cents a mile rate. (pause) ee ON A DARK DAY HAVE HIM PAGE MR. SUN. LIGHT. Japanese beliboys at a Seattle hotel are polite. In fact, they are too polite to ask a gentieman to! repeat anything when he speaks | to them, So when a busy clerk | said, “Boy, sign light,” meaning to turn on the lights in the front of the building, the boy rushed to the counter, picked up @ rray with a} card in ft, and went thru the lobby and dining room crying: | “Mr, Signiight! Mr. Signiight!| Call for Mr. Signiightr’ He reported that “Mr. Signlight” could not be found, eee THE FIRST SLEEPING CAR Was run over the Cumberland Valley railroad, be- tween Harrisburg and Chambersburg, Pa, in 1838 It was different from the modern sleeping car: There was no charge for sleeping accommodations. The Pullman car was invented later to give porters tipful jobs. . } | (pause) Ships are not vehicles. ‘They travel neither on wheelx or runners, but a pair of skates iv a vehicle, unless they're human, and they won't be that way after July 1. eee If camels straight jacketed their hoofs the way wo- men do their feet, the desert ferry boats would be one bundle of humps from the ankles up. Wo men put humps on their dispost tions by the way they sentence their feet. If her foot size is num ber 9, she says it upside down, and proceeds to crow bar her pedals in- to a pair of foot satchels that only fit her fancy. The shoes fit the box, but she doesn't try on the box, tho #he mentally“admits to herself it would make a better comfort fit. If it were the style for women to let their feet wet in cement, and then try to soften the blocks by walking, it would feel quite natural to them so far as comfort is concerned. In the relay race of life, women's age and foot size are always T —Sympathizing With Heavy Loser. J You DESERVE A GooD,FAT Pot, ; N- 3 NER 9 MAK I6G IT BouGHT 4 Been GETTiee BERRIES IN ERS OR STAcKS BOT HooKeD Aut “Toro 9 STACKS: 1F You keer YG a few laps behing a Hey! Have A < $ Gee! immigty | | Ont SMEAR ING me witrt SORRY, OLD MAM.) | cvmpatHy fut HAVE To BUY wn 8 . osts Me ¥ To AY ~ WELL, Nee mane iv AS LonG AS IT'S FoR. Poor. OL 0 Homer. / > eras te's see - 17 9 more! A \ ( S WO Y BIBLE Editor ‘The Star: A short time ago there was an article on your editorial page written by the Rev Raker P. Lee, of Low Angeles, opposing “prohibition.” ‘The reverend gentieman saye Prohibition is neither Christian or Biblical, is correct, In one of the Pealms, written by King David, it speaks of “wine that maketh giad the heart of man,” and Christ himself turned the water Into wine at the marriage feast at Cana, and did He not drink wine himeelf at the last supper, saying to John, bir favorite dinciple, as he raised the goblet to Hin lips, “This is my blood which i# shed for thee"? As typical of our Lord's last sacrament, wine and bread have always been given by the priest, or clerzy- man, at holy communion. v denouncing the Pharisees Christ did call them “wine bibblers and fools,” but"there have ab ways been drunken, dissolute people. It was never intended that thore who use the gifts APPROVES WINE and he fo RR Re Erm On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise D— FOR THOSE WHO PRAY DK. FRANK CRANE BY (Copyright, 1919. There still remain some who pray. Some family circles yet keep up the beautiful service of common prayer. For the bene- fit of these I want to recommend the most satisfactory pray: I have ever known. They were composed by a master—Robert Louis Stevenson. Try them. You cannot fail to reap a delightful harvest of peace and strength. Read these, or some of them, when the family gathers. 1. Lord, the creatures of Thy hand, Thy disinherited children, come before Thee with their incoherent wishes and re- grets. Children we are, children we shall be, till our mother, the earth, hath fed upon our bones. Accept us, correct ys, guide us, Thy guilty innocents. If there be any here, sulking as children will, deal with and en lighten him. son, so that he shall himself and be ashamed. Make it heaven about, him, Lord, by the only way to heaven, forgetful- ness of self. 2. The days return and bring us the petty round of irritating concerns and duties.* Help us to play the man, help us to perform them with laughter and kind faces; let cheerfulness abound with indus- try. Give us to go blithely on our business all the day, bring us to our resting beds weary and content and undishonored, and grant us in the end the gift of sleep. 3. Grant that we here before Thee may be set free from the fear of vicissitude and the fear of death, may finish what re- mains before us of our course without dis- honor to ourselves or hurt to others, and, when the day comes, may die in peace. De- liver us from fear and favor; from mean hopes and cheap pleasures. Have merey on eacif in his deficiency; let him be not cast down; support the stumbling on the way, and give at last rest to the weary. 4. We are evil, O God, and help us to see it and amend: we are*good, and help us to be better. Look down upon Thy ser- vants with patient eye, even as Thou sendest sun and rain; look down, call upon jthe dry bones, quicken, enliven; re-create ] see renew im us the sense of joy. 5. We beseech Thee, Lord, to behold us with favor. Be patient still; suffer us a while longer to endure, and (if it may be) help us to do better. Bless to us our ex- jtraordinary mercies. Be with our friends; |be with ourselves. Go with each of. us to rest; if any awake, temper to them the dark hours of watching; and when the day returns to us, call us up with morning faces and with morning hearts, eager to labor, eager to be happy, if happiness shall be our portion; and if the day be marked for sor- row, strong to endure it. Make ‘it day about that per- | | i ~~~ |in us the soul of service, the spirit of peace; | by Frank Crane) 6. Today we go forth separate, n to pleasure, some to worship, some to du Go with us, our Guide and Angel, hold The before us the mark of our low calling, to be true to what small best we can attain top Help us in that, our Maker, the Dispenser events—Thou of the vast designs, in wi we blindly labor—suffer us to be so far com stant to ourselves and our beloved. Tomorrow fpoMornow April 2 the death of Di tinot» Diane, fa for her was the mistress of Henri 11 years she ruled not only the king but also the dom. Her unusual intelligence made her an fant factor in the politics of France thruout her time In 1883, on the 26th of April, a farewell dinner was given in New York to Tommaso Salvini, the Italian: tragedian, after a most successful tour of Amerin, | Salvini was born in Milan on January 1, 182%. Both, his father and mother were actors. Tommaso hin first appearance on the wtage at the age of will be the anniversary Poitiers, duchess of ¥i beauty and her of France. For % ¥ he was 18 he joined the company of A Ristori and scored t success in tragedy “Oreste,” Ristori ra and Salvini the role, In 1849 he left the stage t fight in the of Italian independence, but otherwise his life the age of 14 up to hiv retirement in 1590, wile of unbroken the muccennes 26th of April the last great rmy under General Johneton surrendered at Durham, N. ¢ » The number of : after the surrender was 33,047 men series officers April the 26th is celebrated in Alabama, Florida and M@siesipp! a» Confederate Memorial Day, day that corresponds to May 30 in the North. day was established by a woman from Georgia, Ann Williams, who, in a letter printed in the C bus Times in 1866, called upon her fellow citizens olmerve the following April 26th as a day to the graves of our martyrdead with flowers.” In 1917 on the 26th of April the first war loan made to an ally of the United States—$200,000,000 eat Britain. Z Pointed Paragraphs ca Why do the largest potatoes grow on top of measure? If two souls find they have but a single thought & gr is uselexs contemplating matrimony. 2 It is in accord with the eternal fitness of s that the police telegraph wires should be made of copper ES ‘ou can draw your own conclusion from the that there isn't enough truth in existence to tongues of gossip constantly wagging. ‘The biggest fish are caught with hook and lyin’, © A steak is none the thore costly for betng rare. It ie an easy matter to bear the aches of corns. . ‘The man who lives for himself alone has not to live for. When women meet they gossip and when men they go stp. of the earth judicially should have to suffer for those who make beasts of themselves. Port wine is a better tonic than any doctor's pre scription. Raw eggs and sherry restored me to health when broken down with nervous prostration, and whiskey is the best medicine in the world. If they had put the zeal they have used in stopping the liquor traffic into stopping the sale of morphine and other narcotics they would have done some good as it is, if the bone dry law goes into effect the state of man will be worse than it is at present These poor, drink-dixeased creatures, must have some thing to satisfy their cravings, #0, of course, they will resort to “dope” in some form or other, and then God help them! “The state of this man is worse than the first!" An the Reverend Mr. Lae says, the prohibition movement is a political one, pure and simple. If only they would get away from the graft, what a world of contentment and harmony this would be! But we cannot expect the Hon and the lamb to lie down together until the millennium, A. M, MEYER Let’s Swear Off on Cussedness BY THE REV, CHARLES STELZLE It's easy enough to prove an “alibi” when the big or double breasted. Spring’ ties of weaves and colors. Upstairs job should have been done—but alibis never get you anywhere—they'’re generally framed up to prove that you “weren't there.” When the roll is called they won't ask you where you didn't go, and what you didn’t do, but what DID YOU “GET ACROSS.” Our sins of OMISSION are more numerous than our sing of COMMISSION, The things we failed to do will make a pretty good-sized record, Some of us are too albfired lazy to do even a wrong thing heartily--we fall down not because we're so very good, but because we haven't the punch to put ANYTHING over in a BIG way--whether it's BAD or GOOD, We sin in small ways because we're BUILT on a amall pattern. We're guilty merely of “petty larceny,” not because we did not covet the thing that would have sent us to the penitentiary for life, but because we HADN'T THE NERVE to be “regular” criminals Maybe this is stating it rather bluntly, and! no doubt it will get @ rise out of somebody who'll tell us that CRIMINALS ARE COWARDL’ Undoubtedly most of them are, They're too cow ardly to face the hard facts of life—we won't disymte this point But having started out to become a crimin: it does require nerve to finish the job, altho it requires stil MORE NERVE to stop altogether. And so, whether we're criminals or cowarde—in jail or out of it—it would be great if we swore off on all kinds of cussednes#-—emall or large-—-and put REAL ENERGY into worthwhile jobs just ahead, A man lay on @ hospital bed, In a fight his nose was broken— The idea slowly entered his head That the wisest words he ever said Were the ones he hadn't sppken, Love may not make the world go round, but it makes the young man go round to her house seven nights a week on the Finest of Clothing— “Ready to Wear” $15 to $45 No special sale equals the val- ues we give upstairs. A look will convince you. Light and medium in weight. TOPCOATS form fitting, at $15 to $40. Full silk-lined Chesterfield at $25, Tailored Ready Co. Store No, Third at Yesler Way Waist Seam or Regular Models Thousands of them, in single newest creations in great varie- we positively save you money in Oxford, black, brown, green and heather. mixtures, also light gray checks and mixtures. 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