The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 5, 1919, Page 6

She Seattle Star : | t of city, 8c per month: # months. | $2.78; year, $8.00, im the | By, mail, ow 2 | 1.60; 6 monthe. Herb Grant is a big, upstanding, husky youth of 23. u’d never suspect that he had nerves. But he has, and they're keyed to the breaking point. For he’s just back ‘from the front; from three months in a_ hospital. First d last, he was gassed, shell shocked, and wounded twice. d to him war is a hellish nightmare. ; He shed his uniform within 15 minutes of reaching He refused absolutely to talk of his experiences. d when a friend insisted upon questioning him he all fought with him. It was days afterward that he ex- ined. They asked him to make a Victory Loan talk. “fT don’t want to talk about it,” he declared angrily. “What's more, I'll not. I want to forget all about it. It's , grewsome, nerve-racking memory 1 want to ef- utterly. Do you mean to tell me that it’s necessary have some one get up before you people and satisfy a bid curiosity by describing how you saw your best shot down, blown up, gasping their lives out in a hole, reeking with poison gas, scores and scores of before you will lend your money to Uncle Sam? that what we're coming back here to face? “Why, man, even to think of it is like taking a pair pinchers and pulling upon every individual nerve in my ly. Can you imagine crawling out into No Man's Land the dark and searching for the bodies of your buddies a day of attacks and counter attacks? Dragging back, riddled with machine gun bullets, torn, shat ? Or gasping out their lives by candlelight your eyes? And get up and tell about it to pry from your dollars? : “Not in a thousand years! I left my peace of mind onder. 1 spilt a pint or two of blood on a yellow T've brought back a little more than one lung somewhere I lost a lot of my nerve. “But I'm hoping to God I won't have to lose my s for my fellow men now that I’m back. You just . them down at the meeting that that’s all I have to . Lloyd George told the house of commons that the had decided for non-intervention in Russia, but they would continue to aid friendly elements that fighting Bolshevism. It is all clear enough, except we can't understand the difference between inter- ition and intervention. | An opera singer who gets $150,000 a year goes up in| fe air—and we call it temperament. The idea is that if fre going to have grand opera then we've got to have! h ng woman who gets cranky and bawls out the the kitchen, the laundry, the dry cleaners, the and the new gown that—hang it all, O everybody's | But housemaids and cooks are different, as a general le. They are ~ mystery. Usually when they quit, nobody why. It’s a secret they keep to themselves. They know and the rest of the house knows half the story, if it’s that much. housemaids what the cooks and are medicine men and ts and jing try to read these es and write ee 2.2 Se eee "t tell us. ows how to keep a kitchen dress babies right, is a She quits when she wants to quit till then. And, of course, when of Israel starting for the Promised is way to undiscovered America. recently had an interview with a » who said that a housemaid should d referred to as a “home bird.” This be democracy in the home. ' Home bird—that sounds poetic. And a real home bird, | Teal thing, flits and wings her way hither and yon cellar to garret, keeping the place clean. She is a and builder, the human wren. : Men everywhere have the inalienable right to try » any form of government that doesn’t conflict with the Points Moses brought down from the mountain, _ Dispatches from Paris tell of the opening by the government of a chain of Paris restaurants which serve to the public not less thun 400,000 meals each | my pl WAL TOLLE vip) pot, yy Winth @ y yy Dud bs / MA iment ly: ho ij Pp “BE IT EVER SO HORRIBLE, There are 2,000 known species of the water beetle, Yj td < Wy, THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME” of whieh nearly 400 inhabit the United States. They're | cannibals of the insect world. That shows what water will do for @ fellow! And there are two species of the hot water bottle, the one you'd use if it didn’t leak, and the one that'd leak if you used it. eee “In general terms.” says @ learned scientist. “any aquatic insect of the order Hemiptera, including all the group Cryptocerate or Hydrocorisae, as well as the Hebridae and Hydrobatidae, are water bugs.” But after July 1 there'll be a whole lot mere water bugs. eee Most rivers are wet but the only Wateree river flows southeast into South Carolina where it helps form the Santee, eee During America’s liquid era there were many falls. | the state of Washington, now on watch on the Rhine, | | understand thru correspondence with Some falle under the table came after but a few | ginznes. Other falls into the gutter came after years | of bar rail scraping. And there were falls out of home, jobs and respectability. HOWEVER, THERE ARE WATER FALLS, TOO ‘The biggest drop is done by the Yosemite in Call- fornia, 2,660 feet. While the Niagara executes the greatest wholesale fall, a river of water plunging 164 feet. eee PASSING OF LIVERY BARN CLIFTON, Kan.—The last livery barn here has been torn down and the lumber shipped to Colorado, where it will be used in the erection of a barn in a town where there are more horses than automobiles, At one time Clifton supported three livery barns, but with the advent of the automobile the man who wants a horse to drive has difficulty tn finding one. WHICH REMINDS US THAT— ox cart, altho they do remember hearing their drive. AND THERE WAS A TIME WHEN-- We thought we had made a wonderful advance by progressing from the horsedrawn street car to the cable line. And there'll come a time when we'll print a story The food is to be scientifically prepared so that the content of the day’s meals will be scientifically pro- tioned to the needs of the human body. The price gf the three meals is to be 39 cents. But, the most interesting and significant thing about ition is that practically all of the food to be used ese restaurants comes from America. Now the man or woman who would, under present con- ons, try to live in an American restaurant on 39 cents a y would be—well, we don’t like to characterize him. lng question that seems to propound itself insistently How can the French government get American food om America over to » paying all the freight bills, ind distribute it at the rate of three square meals a day 39 cents? And if the French government can do it, for 39 cents, iy should the same quantity of food over here cost so uch more? ~ If collective bargaining is a good way to settle the price of labor, why isn’t it a good way to settl i apa y to settle the price ° ° eIchabod Concerning Archimedes BY EDMUND VANCE COOKE “Arkimmydeez,” said Uncle Ichabod, “Said he could move the: earth, and he would test it, If you would furnish him some bar, or rod, And some place out in space, where he could rest it. “And while he blowed about his crazy stunts, ‘And how he'd move the earth—the earth was movin’! ‘Was whizzin’ on three different ways at once, _ And didn’t ast a crowbar fer the provin’. “L bet about the time some airyplane Circles the constellation of O’Ryan, ‘Ik: hens somes something like this LAST GARAGE REMOVED. ANYCITY (About 1949).—- The last automobile shipped to Slowtown, where there are more automo- biles than airplanes. At one time this city supported a garage in every backyard, but with the advent of the airplane the few who want to drive an auto have difficulty in finding them, And everybody'll be building hangars on the roofs of their houses. agr Why is it that a silent partner has so much to say? ‘The only tales that dead men tell are ghost stories, If he can't sell it the stationer keeps a diary for an entire yeor. Pleasures are the commas used to punctuate life's sad story ‘The deadly paratiel is too much for the average love letter It in said that several of the best penmen at the stock yards are unable to write When a woman tells you she will be ready in a minute she doesn't tell you which minute. It is said that tess than 90 per cent of the regular churchgoers complain of the sermons being too short Why isn’t a fireman a hose supporter? It is & wise man that does not repeat his own wis dom. ‘The foghorn is one of the basest things on earth, A bachelor says that kissing is a good way to re move paint Pointed P h: "aL cen - trav 8 Oe | CHINESE MOST DARING | OF BOLSHEVIK FIGHTERS | —_—___—-— $< VLADIVOSTOK.—-Chinese coolies are the most dar: ing fightery in the Bolshevik army, soldiers declare who have returned from the Czecho-Slovak front, In the first year of the war the allies sent about 25,000 of these Chineve into Russia to work in. the forests and mines, They have been impressed into the Ied army and they go over the top in the face of the most severe machine gun fire. Nothing stops them, * ONS ccm Many of our middieaged citizens have never eeen | grandfathers tell about yoke of oxen they used to | | | Tomorrow garage here has been torn down and the materials | MOMENI MOY PUA, b Ph y Be Crag f Y "yt yj 4 fe yp ty frayy my = j | | | | ! | A LETTER FROM COBLENZ Faiter of The Star: We, a number of oltizens of relatives and friends that the Hon, state legislators of our fair state has asked congress to pars « bill giving sol diers a bonus of $300 on being mustered out of serv fee, which congress turned a deaf ear to, Then we understand some of the bravest tried to get a bill thru our own Hon. legislators, and they immediately turned deaf, dumb and blind, and upon their recovery they immediately awarded one of our most Hon. citizens a present of $10,000. Which no doubt he and 4,000,000 more of our own deserve—and thousands of others that didn't serve in uniform. We don't want our people to think that we are looking for charity, for we are not. But how much happier that boy would feel on arriving home to be able to say to mother, wife or sweetheart, “We are going to take @ little vacation and forget our troubles, for our Uncle Sammy bas appreciated our services rendered when he was in need.” What a better citizen that boy would be. How much more he would love bin good old U. 8. A. Our Job Is nearly finished over here, and we are in hopes of saluting the Statue of Liberty scon—and then what next? A BUNCH OF WASHINGTONIANS OVER HERE, At Coblenz, Third U, 8, Army, ASK DISCHARGES Editor The Star: We are enclosing a copy of a let ter recently malied by about 150 men of this camp who are being held in this camp for the work of| demobilization, j We rightly belleve that we, as citizens of the United States of America, should be discharged and our post- | tions filled by civilians or field clerks—or at least be compensated for our services, Nearly all of us are men that have held rerponsible positions before our |. entry into the service, and we feel that an injustice is being done by holding us here so long after the rest of the personne! of this camp has been dis charged. Any publicity that you can give us will be appreci- ated. Each man sent one letter to the secretary of war and three letters to two U. 8. senators and one congressman from each state on the Pacific Coast and Montana and Idabo. Very truly yours, . WILLIS M. SLEE, N the 6th of May, 1862, Henry David Thoreau, writer and naturalist, died at Concord, Mars. Thoreau in his life carried out to the letter the phil osophy of simple living that he advocated in his writ ings, He lived alone, working no more than was necessary to gain the means for his simple wants. He was bred to no profession, he never married, he never voted, he refused to pay @ tax to the state, he ate no flesh and drank no wine and never knew the use of| tobacco. His life was devoted to study and dedicated to an utter simplicity On the 6th of May in 1896 Dr, Samuel Langley made the first successful trial of the flying machine. Dr. Langley was a member of the faculty of the Smithsonian Institution at Washington, His airplane was the first heavier than air machine that demon- strated the practicability of the airplane, The flight was made at Quantico, on the Potomac river, near ‘The machine was not built to carry a Washington. man. The motor was started and the plane flew 3,000 feet, remaining in the air only a@ little over a minute, Two years later the government commissioned Dr. Langley to build a man-carrying machine. The plane was built, but it proved a failure on its trial flight. On account of inefficiency in the launching it fell into the Potomac and the experiment doned. A few days after Langley’s second attempt Wilbur Wright made his successful flight with a man- carrying plane, Dr. Langley, on account of insufficient funds, dropped his invention, but in 1914, eight years after his death, Glen COrtiss took the old Langley plane, which had been on exhibition in the Smithsonian, in- stalled an efficient launching device, and flew the plane successfully over Lake Keuka, thus vindicating the dead inventor. ‘The man who has never tried to manage an opera company has missed a few of life's trials and tribula- tions, mame may ie money, but somehow your friends always appreciate the money you spend on them more than the time, ai x On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise THE INVESTMENT TRUST BY DR. FRANK CRANE (Copyright, 1919, by Frank Crane) The biggest object in the financial hori- | organized and safeguarded that the Little zon is the Small Investor. | Man is not afraid of them, and feels that In the general shake-up of war times he | his dollar is as safe as the Big Man’s million is the big potato who has come to the top. | dollars. Cannot Capital combine country- * ‘The financial world is realizing his su-| Wide and secure to the small investor his preme importance. | Wome contribution? Listen to Mr, American industry has a gigantic task | ph arg: . ; before it. It must feed, clothe and equip| “The small investor needs protection. the earth. To accomplish this task the | This consideration has led me to believe it prime requisite, of course, is Capital. would be very opportune for us to con- And where is the new Capital to come | Sider whether at this juncture the creation from? A is a large investment trust would not ren- i timely service. A large invest- Uncle Sam, thanks to some of us who | GCF & very ‘ _ kept prodding the old gentleman, has un- Liaw aah Ge aig yey Ftp ti covered it. By his Liberty Loan and War Pern mel guy Phoned ws vantage Savings Stamp campaigns he has made the money magnates see the Open Secret of Finance, which is, that it is the poor men vyho have the money. Or you might call it the Paradox of Capital, which is, that it is the Little Fellows who‘are the Big Fellows. In plain English, the enormous Capital required for the Reconstruction Era open- ing now to us is ready Mg hand, in | pockets of the $100, $10 and 25-cent people. Because there are so many of them. ae | tine? Way,’ nag; i¢ means the face \s 2 is cash, qui vail- Nay , 4 pacnoen their money is cash, quickly avai | ance of Democracy in” Business—call aa All it takes is an intelligently ordered | Socialism if you choose—and only by Co- campaign, a strong appeal and a guarantee operation and Organization can Democracy of security, and these dollars will come endure, while its ruin is rampant loose In- pouring into the industrial world, an irre- | dividualism and Competition. sistible torrent. ‘ The Old Gardener Say ' é | The most gold is in the low-grade ore, If you have exhausted the supply of dandelions of bridging the interval necessary for the better understanding and further develop- {ment of foreign propositions, and for. the creation of a better market, while, on the | other hand, it would enable the small in- | vestor to buy the obligations of such in- |vestment trust, representing diversified | holdings closely examined by the most com- petent people, and guaranteed by a very substantial paid-in capital stock.” Does this mean gigantic monopoly, y of Capital, and all that sort of | rather than in pockets of huge nuggets, if we can only devise the machinery to extract it at a practical cost. The Common People are low-grade ore. i | growing naturally in your neighborhood you will The most important essential, in per-| not find it difficult to grow a generous supply in suading the Commons to invest their money, | {he karden. | You must sow your weed tie sadlen ead of squandering or hoarding it, is to | jeeq at the same time, because dandelion seed is e them a sense of security. The man slow to sprout and the weeds might get ahead of © with only $500 saved up wants, foremost | you unless you start cultivation quickly. Throw @ of all, not to lose it. little loose straw or hay over the plants in the fall * : ‘ : and you will have al) the dandelions you want A sensible suggestion in this connection | next spring. Did you ever try. blanching them in was made the other day by Paul M. War-| the garden or in the field? Simply, cover them burg, a well-known financier. He proposed with straw or some other mulch when they are the formation of an Investment Trust. This | (ity wet Ere ee ee tee ce ought to be feasible. The Insurance Com-| jeautifully bieached. Dandelions treated in this panies and the Savings Banks are today so | way make a charming and delicious salad. WL The Greatesi Name. In Goody-lLand y WRIGLEY'S JUICY FRUIT CHEWING GUM a eanncoon wns COON LEY Z Sealed Tight Kept Right 0 Ea RE EE age