The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 2, 1919, Page 6

THE SEATTLE*STAR—FRIDAY, MAY 2, 1919. She Seattle Star Ry mail out of etty, 0c per month: 2 months $5.00, 80; 6 months, $2.78; ¥ in the © of Washington, ide the atate, per month, $4.50 for tha, oF $9.0 ide pér week per year, My carrier, city, 1. Foreign demand for our goods greater than we ever had before. 2. We have a merchant marine that we never had before. : ; oe 3. We have better world-wide banking facilities than ever before in our history. . 5 : 4. We have learned that waste is criminal, which aid our future progperity. will 5. Our shelves of ordinary requirements are now empty. ney : 6. Our cities require vast building projects. 7. America has lost little man power in the war; Europe has lost much. 8. We will now export manufactured products where | in the past we have principally exported raw materials. 9. We have learned to produce at home what we used | to import—the money we used to send abroad will in the future stay here. 10. Think of the boom to the textile industry and mer- chandising industry by more than four million men buying civilian clothes. ‘ 11. If we can stand the test of war in prosperity, we can stand the test of peace in prosperity. 12. Even the prosperity we have accumulated will make a purchasing power that will keep us generally pros- perous for three years. 13. The profits from foreign trade will circulate here in America and bring increased purchasing power, pros- perity, to our own people. 14. We may be unprepared for peace, but if we are as unprepared for it as we were for war—why, may the Lord help our trade rivals! 15. By our part in this war we have acquired a better good will for foreign trade than we could have gained by) 50 years of trading relations—we have been advertised. 16. Our railroads require repairs, replacements and ex- tensions, which is in itself a very large contribution to our prosperity in purchasing power. 17. Being manufacturers for foreign trade rather than just exporters of raw material, our payrolls will be larger for more purchasing power, prosperity, at home. 18. Most of the world’s financing for developments, improvements and restoration must be done here, and it is only natural that the purchases of materials and sup- plies will be made here. ‘ 19. Germany will not be a competitive factor in the future, as in the past, for reasons of prejudice and the fact that her trade attention will be confined to Russia and the Far East for many years to come. 20. We have spread a knowledge of American manu- facturing and transportation methods in France, which means that they will want our products and machinery in adopting them. 21, The young men returning from abroad will have as for it will take a longer time for them Torus industry. : We have found in the past four years that we can more and better goods, and cheaper, with our ‘well- labor than Germany with her low-paid and child labor, reason that our labor does more work in a given 25. More people in more parts of the world have been made receptive to new ideas and new utensils of life than ever before, iby reason of this war—they have been intro- duced to artificial ice, sanitary devices, laundry machinery, and everything down to the safety razor—the demand for which we can supply. More “Scraps of Paper”? Lloyd George and Clemenceau don’t protest inst Italy’s being deprived po what was promised her a the London agreement, and Italy threatens to make a separate Peace with Germany, despite her agreement with England and France not to make a separate peace. It’s ’most enough to put a sick smile on old Bill Hohen- zollern’s face. ¥ BY EDMUND VANCE COOKE teat Elegance is not always eloquence.) is those things what creep into your dome, Like bugs in the kitchen when nobody's home, And sometimes they buzz till they tickle your noddle, But most of the time they just twatter and twaddle. Eats is those things which the cook shouldn't burn ‘em, Cause that makes it harder for you to intern ‘em, When you're packed full of eats to the very last swaller, It's lucky for you, if they don’t make a boiler, ‘ Sleeps fs the stuff that you get in your nightie, And sometimes it's fluffy and sometimes it's flighty, But if you can snozzle and gozzle and go it, You're havin’ one heavenly time—and don't know it. Talks is that sound oozin' out where you whistle, ¢ And mostly it’s somethin’ like chewin’ on gristle. They ought to be nobly and highly and trulf, But most people’s talks is just dribbly and drooly BY Feels is those somethings that tremble and twitter, And sometimes they're sweetness and sometimes they're bitter, But when you ain't got ‘em, you're thru on your sector, And then there’s a smile on some funeral director, (Tag: It is as much fun to be foolish as futuristic.) . (Copyright, 1919, N. EB. A.) Perhaps we'll be better able to realize the war is over after the baseball teams begin jumping over each other in the percentage column. When the Hun gets the peace treaty he won't try a very serious bluff, because he knows we have seen his hand. Will they christen boats swith. buttermilk at launch- ings after July 12. DIT Heres Ar inurratior ‘To The Mc eT yRE PARTY Orr tHe 25 Td 11'S To BE QUNTE FoRmaAL Ane youl. MAVE To WEAR {ven YouR OVErinG CLOTHES Gos! Onmvy 15 Days Away! Thar —!-x~! peess suvy! Mesee | Dorr peep rr! LATER FS More Days! 1S Pose May AS WELL MAKE OP My MIMD To WEARING THAT press surr.ceet 5% Friend wife bought a bunch of lettuce And, immediately, she found ‘That, ‘mong other things to fret us, ‘Water's now twenty cents the pound eee have found a novel way to handle the money I save by not buying booze,” writes A. 8. G. 1 shall ing myself, polishing my shoes, manicuring my nails and pressing my trousers, You have no idea what a big pile of money this makes at the end of the year. I put the money out at 4 per cent and thus make § cents more.” oe Wine, women and song after next month? Nothing doing. Sarsaparilia, a bunch of neighbors and « ukulele. eee But, as the rounder remarked about sarsaparilia, “T can drink it sometimes or let it alone.” eee —Buy Victory Bon@— eee And then again, you might say Uncle Sam is going it @ Loan. eee “A friend of mine gave his seat to a woman fn a car in the rush hour yesterday evening and I assured him I would report the case to The Star and recom mend a ball ticket for him,” postcards C. F. “But he spoiled it all by explaining to me that it was his boss's wife.” eee Back in 1 The Swedish naéwspapers were lam- | basting the United States for not sending food for | Scandinavia, and incidentally making caustic refer- ences to a certain foreign minister who spent much time dashing thru the waters of the archipelago in his fast motor boat—New York (N, ¥.) Telegraph. eee A Western woman has opened a school to teach men how to propose. Well, well! Are the men to {do the proposing hereafter? | eee Alf N. sends it: |“Take Home a Quart,” read the sign from the street, | So Jim entered that liquor store; | And when he debouched, with stuttering feet, Looked like Jim was carrying more. oe NEEDLE SOUP (The linotype man thought we meant “noodle” soup, and we had a dickens of a time getting needle soup from his typesetting machine.) Our old friend Big Bill Taft, says: “Sometimes a slight error may have momentous consequences. A friend of mine went into a restaurant and ordered noodle soup. In the very first spoonful he djscovered a needle, “‘George, he cried to the walter, what I found in the soup? A needle. George examined the needie critically and grinned: “‘Dat's all right, suh, just @ little mistake, suh, Just a mere typographical error, a typographical error. Dat needle should have been a noodle, suh!"” eee If you remember the time when Ben Harrison said, “A dollar @ day is enough for @ labor man,” you will be interested in the following: NEW YORK.—Louis Wokal, laborer in the steam roller gang of the Flushing street pavers, is hauled to and from the scene of his daily toil in his own automobile, by his own chauffeur, and has $100,000 in the bank. ‘come here See eee SOAKING THE ANTISOAKS Columbia, Mo., officials confiscated some whisky from bootleggers, and being loath to irrigate the gut ters with the stuff they stored it away as municipal property. Now the federal revenue, collector insists that the city pay the war revenue tax on the licker. eee Just as soon as they have the tobacco hors du com- hat, so to speak, will they turn their attention to the Demon Gum? “How did you ever get your mustache into this con- * asked the barber, “Guess I'll have to take Mt right. I tried to steal a kiss from a girl who was chewing gum."—Kansas City Journal. eee Waterford, Ireland, has more breweries and’ distil: Jeries than any other town of its size in the world, THE EARLY INVENTION OF THE MOTOR BOAT | ORIALS intend to add it to the money I have saved by shav- | | | mhould have gone to | of these countries needed an outlet on the Aegean HEAVEN FAitor The Star: I am an earnest advocate for league of the civilized nations of the world that will be strong enough to maintain peace thruout the world and do away with large standing armies and navies «1 | that are always a menace to peace, Just look at the results of this terrible war that has been devastating Europe for the past four years or more, and let us take heed for the future and not allow such @ great calamity to befall mankind again. What were the causes that brought about this terrible — I really cannot see any great cause for it. ere was never any greater prosperity among the nations of the earth than we were having at the time this war commenced, and all nations seemed to be striving to better conditions for their common people. But, the governments of continental Europe for the past four or, five hundred years have always been keeping large standing armies for their protection, and have been forming alliances, and vying with each Other for the supremacy of power in Europe. This the condition of Europe at the outbreak of this great war, The Balkan war, however, put all the nations of Europe on their guard, and when this war closed Turkey had lost nearly all of her European possessions, and this territory was to be divided amongst the Balkan states. London waa the place chosen for the delegates to meet and settle this question It was more satisfactory for Turkey to meet here than at any other place that had been named; and when they did meet, it seemed impossible to adjust the division of this territory in a way that would be satisfactory to all. Bulgaria had done the major part of the fighting: and at the outset abe pushed her army for Salonika— the most important seaport along the Aegean coast. She had thoroly invested Salonika with her army and the Turks were about to surrender, when the Greeks pushed their little fleet into Salonika and the Turks surrendered to them, and in this way Greece got Salonika. Greece did not need this harbor, for her country is full of good harbors. If justice had been done, I believe, this harbor julgaria and Servia, for both sea, It would have helped them materially in the way of trade. And again, Bulgaria, after a hard and stubborn struggle with the Turks, captured Adrianople, the most important city in European Turkey outside of Constantinople. Now this commission that had met in London to settle this question, after a long confer- ence, gave Greece Salonika, also gave Adrianople back to Turkey, and most of Albania was to be, for the time being, under the control of Austria, Look at the justice of such a settlement: You can plainly see the hand of the “Great Powers” in it. England did not want Servia and Bulgaria to possess the fine harbor of Salonika, for she very much feared Russia would get the use of it if they possessed it; while if Greece held it there would be no danger of that. England also got full possession of the nice island of Cyprus at this treaty. And undoubtedly in consideration for this “favor,” Adrianople was returned to Turkey. Austria also wanted to get the greater part of Albania and had ar ranged for one of her princes to govern it for the time being. And when this prince with his wife were on their to take control of this territory they were both assassinated at Sofia, a city of Servia, This was the spark that ignited the slumbering fires that had been smoldering for years. All of Europe was aroused and the fray began—we all know the results, And now our peace delegates and the delegates of most European countries are as- | sembled to settle this very grave problem that pre sents itself to the people of the world today, The question before this great tribunal is: Shall We still go on preparing for war with great standing armies and building great navies, that are always a menace to the peace of the world? Or shall we form @ league of nations strong enough, and wise enough, to maintain peace without the aid of big armies and navies? I most earnestly believe in a league of nations to maintain peace, If justice, mercy and righteousness prevaileth it surely ean be done. A READER, Retsil, Wash, HOME FROM SCHOOL Miss Mildred and Master Jimmie, son and daughter, or as we should have said, daughter and son of Mr, and Mrs. T, M, N. My, have returned home from school. They will remain several days, Measles, 3H elles from Abydos to BY DR. FRANK CRANE (Copyright, 1919, Gilbert Chesterton, when some one charged that we had tried Christianity and | |found it did not work, retorted that | | All we have had so far has been heathenism, more or less thinly veneered with | Christianity. |made to the critics of Democracy. We have never tried it. We have never fully trusted it. We have never honestly | believed in it. The very first thing our able forefathers land founders of this Republic dig when lthey launched Democracy in the Western {World was to begin to hedge against it. | They did not trust the People. Law- |makers and statesmen the world over, and leven in America, have never trusted the People, with some notable exceptions. For instance, they constructed an elab- ‘orate Electoral College to choose a Presi- dent, which scheme the People smashed. | And they tacked a Senate (in imita- ‘tion of the English House of Lords) on to our legislative body. The Senate was not devised as an agency to do the will of the | /People, it was intended to keep the People from having their will. And it has served |admirably its purpose. | So while we prate of Democracy we cling jto Autocracy. In a pinch we think only |} some kind of Absolutism will save us, | Hence our Army is an island of Kaiser- | ism in this sea of Democracy, because we | T Tomorrow | | | C\N May 3 in 1492 the Pope issued @ bull by which O he divided the infidel world and apportioned it between the Spaniards and the Portuguese. To Ferdi |nand and Isabella, who were then on the Spanish throne, was given the full right to all countries inhab ited by Infidels which they should discover west of limaginary line drawn from pole to pole 100 leagues west of the Azores. To the Portuguese were given all | the countries dixcovered east of that line. On May 2, 1621, @ sentence of fine and imprison- ment for bribery was passed upon Lord Bacon by the House of Peers. In 1665, on May 3, the English took the Island of Jamaica from the Spanish. In 1810, on May % Lor@ Byron, in emulation of Leander, «wam the Hellespont—e parrage in the Dar Sestoa, which is swept by an swift current. It was said that until Byron accomplished the feat no man had swam the Heliespont since Leander crossed it to meet Hero. ‘The width of the channel ts barely a mile, but the distance Byron swam, as he was carried by the cur rent, was upward of four miles. In 1813, on May 2, Havre de Grace, in Maryland, was burnt by the British. In 1814, on May 3, Napoleon arrived at the Island of Elba, and on the same day Louis XVIII. made his entrance into Paris. On May 3, In 1818, Captain Ross sailed from the Shetland Islands on his first voyage to discover the Northwest Passage. On May 2, 1845, Thomas Hood, the humorist and poet, died in London. AS THE BOSTON TRANSCRIPT SINGS IT: Once the warning was to lay Something by for a rainy day Now it's to put something by For the day when all is dry. { It is a wise contrivance of nature that prevents a man's slumbers from being disturbed by his own snores. It is better to purchase 12 cents’ worth of music ered from an organ grinder than to owe for a grand piano. — a | | thing and whirls him every way, inner ear, to do is to work the lever. to it, with a control stick in in every aviation camp in the country. soon | DEMOCRACY IN SCHOOLS Christianity had never yet been tried. | The same kind of an answer might be | ‘This is an orlentator, An orientator gives a fellow who is going to be an aviator all flying upside down, looping the loop or doing the barrel roll. then asks him if he's dizzy. doesn’t tell him when he's upside down, he is no good for flying, All the & The man in the car can make the machine do the same stunts A2ty front of him. William G. Ruggles invented the thing and | family supplied with big, meaty string | On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be Mo Compromise ¥, s! Pi retu hast extr an the , by Frank Crane) “we by * ‘all unite to cry out that an Ary } “ be autocratic. Which, of course, Brn frais sense. You could have quite ag mach agg ficiency and discipline in a Demoenay al Army as in our present 7 British-modeled system, and @ a = hed morale, if we only believed Demeragy, one which we do not. ooh Our hypocrisy is further shown j trad our Public Schools, which are all (with fep prot exceptions) little Prussias with teacher ro as Kaisers. And in these d pal | autocracy and “absolute obedience Carry pect to train young people to stow » bee govern reas and the State! ig Two ks by Wilson R, Gill me. I wish a million Americans je be wi them. They are “A New Ci f “The Boys’ and Girls’ Republic,” 0: ast ig evoted oF the idea of ine the School Room a self-governing. Repable “bos Boys and Girls need to know hor § ii | govern themselves, make their own fam, hers elect their own representatives, and gt and politically what they want, ,one the | | times more than they need to he Page | to bound: Uruguay or work the Mar theorem. me: More power to Gill’s arm! on If I were Czar of the U. 8S, A. Lei mar lock every School Teacher and « — the School Board up in jail and not let ¢ : out until they had read these two b You can get the books by writing American Patriotic League, l Hall, Philadelphia.” I don’t price. The Old Gardener That no better variety of snap bean less green pod has yet been put on the a shell bean and a baking bean, G celied. Perhaps the best of the wax amateur to grow is Wardwell's kidney son's bush lima is the best bean of the the northern states because it matures there is room in the garden for @ few means plant Kentucky Wonder and t wax. Only a few hills will be neede@ there is a surplus, can them or put brine for use next winter. (Pointed Paradredl A man never loses money on fast slow ones that drive him to the If a rich man tells you that the fs found in poverty remind him in his Haste. ‘The graveyard population would be: if it wasn't inst the Jaw to kill Some poets soar upward others remain on éarth and sathty with pork and beans. ‘There are numerous hair tonics og nothing will stop some men's hair trea except death or divorce. <a Every candidate is a pole used by the an effort to knock the official HUNS PREPARING 10. GRAB TOURISTS’ Ml BERLIN.—The League of German poses to put Germany back on the for tourists. But it asks the ald of the ernment to do it. ‘The league points . of France in extending state credite serv resorts and watering places. It further Geer) in 1910 in 56 German cities 8,100,000 more than $500,000,000. “Come, Take a Ride in My Orientator,” Says Uncle Sam to Aviation Students; It Gives Tir Se —— The teacher puts him in It his center of equilibrium, there's