The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 23, 1919, Page 6

The Seattle Star il, out of city, 50o per month; # montha. € mentha, $2.75; year oo, im the | of Washington Outs! the state, | x" y| Victory Bonds hasten the return of our men home their families. The failure of this bond issue would their return. They went “over there”~ -and did } duty. Now do yours. Bedtime Tales in 1965 " Once upon a time, when daddy was a little boy, long, he sold newspapers. every night he would a bartender. “He wore a white apron, a saloon, and he sold things to drin “He had a regular trade, and men would ever after-| . gather there, and laugh and sing and talk and | rlay | rds, and lots of them stay up till way late at night. | and worked in a place they k to people. What made them laugh and sing, papa?” f “The drinks. There was somethmg they called whisky, thing called beer, and—um, let’s see what was was a boilermaker’s cock-| But it made at other drink—oh, yes, there i I don’t know what they put in it. | crazier than anything else.” | was that all the man did, just sell things to) e2” es, that was \ before sun-up, and stayed open until after mid-| t, selling drinks to people.” | it didn’t anybody work then, papa? , yes, men worked, but they didn't let that interfere wart, 0 in this saloon there were big, bright pictures, Yows and rows of bottles, behind a long counter that| ‘gp brass rail in front of it. And there was a hot lunck where any one could go and eat all they wanted to) nothing. And marble floors, and stained glass win- d mahogany furniture; my but it was fine.” w than our church, daddy?” 2 finer than our church now, but lots finer than was then. Churches weren't near so nice when a boy. ‘And now you toddle along to Bye Bye.” N e, Abigail, there hasn't been a solitary cop ap- this week for bootlegging. Rah! Rah! A Tribute to the Dog n members of the Grand Army of Liberty gather in future years, dogs that served in the war saved a warm place by the fire, for they, too, | Y Here is a tribute to our friend, the dog, that place beside the words of Senator Vest: Johnston, N. Y., Dr. J. Aspinwall McCuaig, a Scotch- was recently addressing a great audience as- in one of the theatres in observance of Britain's) | @ point in his address the attention of the speaker alled to a dog that walked into the theatre and was ti attention as it strayed down the aisle. no one touch that dog,” cried Dr. McCuaig, “Let put him out. It’s proper he should be here. The ds of the British soldiers on the field have been They fe t beside the lion; they helped the I have at home an Irish terrier who wears a star. His brother is at the front with the Irish é are not sure whether or not he will be The casualty list of dogs has not yet been is proper that this dog should be here today. his kind. Had I my way, I'd invite him to I'd cover him with Red Cross decorations. the flags of all allied nations—to let Britain day, what the British owe to one touch him. He has a right to be | sell a paper to a man they! / iE all he had time to do; why he opened | ind to Animals” week—in Seattle—and States. Why not depose the dove as the emblem of peace t the snail? ‘ The Heart of America h to really know America some day,” said a q lishman leaving this country after lectures, » rs, feeds, “I hope to see your country when @ no functions, conferences and newspaper interviews g the duties of the day.’ Phe farther you get away from the-American crowd you know about America. The place to find out what America stands for is to stand in the crowd m instead of making speeches for the crowd to i wes Marshal Petain is just sending word from Paris that ‘going to make two trips to America and see it two Once he will come and eat big feeds and toss off And the second time he comes incog and can the crowd and hunt for the secrets of the heart The Flying Elephant BY EDMUND VANCE COOKE (One for the Children.) ©, the elephant looks like a big balloon And his tough skin never will tear, fo we'll blow in his trunk and pretty soon He'll be all filled up with air, And then, when the air is heated thru He can do the funniest things; ‘Why perhaps he can fly, lke the birdies do, If he flops his ears like wings. Take a big breath and blow! For if we blow up the elephant's hide, Maybe he'll give us an airship ride, i: the elephant once, in the circus tent, Didn't want to perform his trick, An4 the bad, bad trainerman he went And punched him with his stick. But when the elephant lets us ride, Why we never will use a goad, For if we should prick the elephant's hide, Why the elephant might explode. Oo! Oot I'm sure that never would do, For if we should fall off the elephant's hide, ‘Wouldn't we get a terrible bump! Copyright, 1919, N, B. A) ae THE SEATTLE “The Spirit of 119” A Star fan since 1901 sends the following surges tion as a fitting tablet to show what the legislature @id for returned Yanks; —*" . Bikencnptn NEWS OF THE WILLINGS Mr. and Mra, Ernest C. Willing # bounce ine baby girl on Friday evening. It ts thetr firw born and is the pride of the household. The «ra parents on both sides also have Increased confid in the young couple tn thelr good efforts In matrh montal success. Mother and child are doing weil under the able attendance of Dr. H. 0. Caswetl™ of Fort Atkinson. Friend Ernest ts wearing the big smile and cigars are forthcoming to his well wishing friends. “Good tuck” is the wish of the Banner Jefferson (Wis) Banner. , wee THE SIMPLE LIFE FOR THEM Mr, and Mra, George Hartshorn, who have been on one of the barges all winter, have gone to New York for rest and quiet—Deep River (Conn) New ee A remarkable bird in Mexico {s the beemartin which has a trick of ruffling up the feathers on top of its head into the exact resemblanes of a beautiful flower; when a bee comes along to sip the honey it ia snapped up. . Army officers announce they have a trap that re sembles a balloon, to be used in fighting files. A sort of an antifiying machine. * ee Won't some congressman introduce a bill that will provide ch tobacco Cigars must be not less than 62 28 per cent tobacco. Havana cigars must contain not less than 15 per cent of Havana tobacco. Pipe tobacco must be 52% per cent tobacco. eee This ts the rainy season all-over the world, cording to the newspaper headlines: Reign of Bolsheviki in Russia, Reign of Terror in Hungary, Reign of Reds in Rerlin. cee However, B, H. D. says: Kain & Sugarman are opening a confectionery store at 6032 Broadway, Cleveland, : . The Kaiser Wrong Again BY THE REV. CHARLES STELZLE ‘The kaiser, in solitude in Holland, said to an inter- viewer that he cared nothing whatever for the opinions of men—he was responsible to God alone. ‘This ts a balf-truth which is largely responsible for the kalser’s downfall. God himself cares for the good opinions of men— ff the Bible is true. He sent Jesus into the world to win men to Him- self. And this was the mission of many of the prophets of old. It would be easy to quote Scripture on this point. God yearns for His children even more tenderly than earthly parents do. And if the kaiser had the faintest glimmering of the spirit.of the Almighty he would quietly think thru the famous words found in both the old and the new testaments: “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, with all thy soul, with ali thy strength, and with all thy mind, and thy neighbor as thyself. And no man can truly say that he loves God with all his heart unless he also loves his neighbor, The kaiser can't afford to be indifferent to the opinions of men, because if he is, he deliberately makes himself superior to God. Nor can any of the rest of us “shut ourselves upto God” and thereby shut ourselves out from our nelghbor. If any man does not love his neighbor whom he hae seria how can he Joye God whom he has not seen Wk. a Sees. patios go back and study his even got it letter-verfect— to say nothing about ite spirit / te must be not less than 40 per cent | . | STAR—WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 1919. | THE IRISH CAUSE E4itor The Star: The recent report of the senate foreign relations committee favoring Irish . seifde termination has focused attention on the Emerald Iele, and nearly @ score of state legisiatures have a ted motions fi demand and urging the Amert bring it before the peace conference « is only a part of what we owe “the little bit of heaven” th | root on the bosom of the broad Atlantic take up ntirely too much space to est why | our pres ould urge their cause at the peace confere: Keen realization of what the Irish had & in the revolution was voleed in the house of commons April ind, 1784 by the Hon. Luke on tiaeeine atte a NNN eA Ne AN OT tt On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise RIDICULE FRANK CRANE 1919, BY Di. (Copyright, Ridicule is the sharpest weapon of the soul, It is a poison arrow, its wound does not heal un, but festers. Sometimes its use is permissible, to slay a humbug; wv there are some forms of that call theme amug mar nity, that can only be reached by ridicule. Sut its use is always dangerous and ought to be exeludéd in the modern of wits as barbarous and unworthy of the humanities of civilization. It takes no brains to laugh. inveterate laughers. And while to laugh with a person signi- fies sympathy, to laugh at a person is often but sheer hardness of heart. If you are vindictive and want to cause pain, and yet feel yourself powerless and Idiots are that the hated one is too high and secure | for your assault, be of good cheer, the very | weakest of us can sneer. | If you cannot roar like a lion and frighten him, you can always bite like a rat or jstrike like a snake. So be thankful for ridicule, the last dagger of the impotent. The laugh of the torturer is more hellish than his curse, The curse is red and hot, but somewhat human, the laugh is white yand cold and diabolic. When you ridicule those that are more awkward than you, those that have not seen what you have seen, those that are younger or older, than you, those that are less handsome or Jess skilled than you, or those that in any way are beneath you in advantage, in possession, in skill, in power or in any of the gifts of the gods, you show yourself unworthy of any pre- eminence. Especially. to laugh at a child, and bring him to shame and inward hurt, is an. un- pardonable sin. It is a refined cruelty, more inhuman than to strike him with your fist. All real superiority is gentle, considerate, helpful. The sneer is the consolation of vicious. The harlot-minded can always laugh at the decent woman, the drunkard Ives religious, | and some egotisms that masquerade as dig- | war | the | by Frank Crane) |at the sober, the thief at the honest man, the spendthrift at the thrifty, the un- principled at the conscientious, the nasty at the clean. The most hellish thing about hell is not its tears, it is its laughter. Tomorrow MORROW, April 2 versary of | T the death of Da De novellat, who died in 1731. Defoe, son of a London butcher, received an excellent education at a Dissenting aci emy. His early life was employed with various un- | successful business adventures and adventurous ex periences. He sold hosiery, bore arms under Mon- mouth, became a commission merchant, served as @ trooper for William and Mary on their entrance to London, and finally undertook the operation of some tile works at Tilbury In 169% Defoe produced his “Essay on Projects” and @ series of other pamphlets dealing with economie | and political questions of the day. These essays of | Defoe brought him to the notice of the king, | Wuliam of Orange, whose policies the author tn his pamphlets was defending vigorously, and from that period the course of Defoe's life was determined, From then on he turned bis attention to literature, treatises and pamphlets, chiefly controversial and } topical It was not until 1719, when he was 60 years old, that his most famous work, “Robinson Crusoe,” wae written. From 1719 until his death, 12 years later, | all of Defoe’s fiction was produced, and as it ts his j tt jon that has mage him famous, his period of greatest literary brilllancy came between the ages of 6 and 72 On April 24, tn 1704, the first permanent news paper was started in America. Several papers had made @ short appearance and failed, but the News Latter, published in Boston by John Campbell, the postmaster of Boston, established a place for itself and lived as a weekly for 72 years. Pointed P ar Pensions are the silver linings of war clouds, The chronic bore makes a big hole in a man's busy day. ¢ Yes, Hazel, the jawbone ts the original bone of con- | tention A tree is covered with bark and a dog is usually lined with it If people didn’t have hobbies the world would soon crane to revolve. an who said 1 am assured from the beet authority that the ni of the American army was compored ot Irieh, I am also informed it was their valor so that it was England had By force of Irish im- determined the contest America detached trom her migr Maj. Gen. Robertson of the British army dence given before a committee tn London testified that the American general, Henry formed him half the Continental army were from Lreland. | The declaration of three of Irish birth Three others, MoKean, | of Irieh parents, while Carroll | Whipple had Irish grandparents. | Purther evidence of the well known accomplish ments of the Irish was the fact that George Wash: | ington became an associate member of the Friendly Sons of St. Pat and styled the Irish the “flower tn evi in 1 Lee, in boys was signed by and Thornton. Routledge, were Hancock and independence Smith, Taylor Head and Lynch, | and pick of the Continental army.” If space would only permit, I ¢ remind you of many things we owe these pec who love America for the good Tell me not of the ald we received f any other European nation In the struggle for ndence. Up the coming of the French, | Ireland had furnished in the ratio of one hundred | for one of any foreign nation whatever. And what | of the war just past? iverybody knows the per centage of Irish bleed in our army and navy, and | it ts a figure not eqwaled by any other nationality And so I would say to President Wilson, do not let slippery Lloyd George whixper In your ear and send you back with your hands empty to the Irish Twenty-six millions of that race are watching your every move, and unless they receive justice, you will find {t difficult to explain To England I would say, fo on your knees and ask God to forgive you for the past, and give Him thanks for the present, for she has a lot to be gratified for, Had the Almighty not led us in on the side of the allies, where would she be today? With her back to the wall more than a year it is the firm bellef of every selfthinking man that she would have been clean thru it long before this. From what I ean see, it will take more than one league of nations to guarantee her her own future independence, just as her navy failed her tn 1914, +*just shall it fail’ her again, Therefore, my advice to England {#, do justice to her neighbor, withdraw her army of oceupation from Ireland and perhaps God in return may bless her for all time to come. A SUBSCRIBER, | they see in Goon TO SEE COU It's a good thing for a city the country once in a while, It does him good seo a bunch of sky untnter: rupted by tall buildings, and plenty of open work fields with cows and what nots tered hither and thither and yon browsing and kicking up their heels and getting nice and hefty for future use in the form of steaks, ete. It does him good to realize the pease and quietude and the solitude of the country and to hear the birds and the neighing of horses tn place of the clang of trolley cars and the honking of autos, It does him “ood——we say—to get out into the country every once in a while. And the reason it does a city man so much good to do this ts because it makes him so dawgone glad very often to get back into the city again! NOW, HERE'S ANOTHER OLD ER THAT USED TO BRING A LAUGH ® “A young man in one of our western towns had patronized the arts so far as to buy a picture of the to get out inte America is proud of them—the whole world is proud of them. They finished their part of the job with a courage and daring best described by Marshal Foch in these words to General Pershing before the battle of the Argonne: “Your men have the devil's own punch. They will get away with all that. Go to it.” How proud of them are you? THE AMOUNT OF VICTORY LIBERTY BONDS YOU buy measures your pride in then ‘Temptation of Adam and Evg, Some one asked him if it was @ chaste picture “Ves.” he reviled “chased bya i, : * * This Space Contributed by Swift & Company.