The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 8, 1919, Page 6

THE SEATTLE STAR—THURSDAY, MAY 8, 1919. are SoS ] She Seattle Star By, malt out o ynth; 3 mo 1.50; 6 m : $5.0 tate of Washing o The per month, $4 per year, By carrier ss a a That “V” Bond | + BY M. LECOUNT » For many days in the recent past on the streets of Seattle raged within me fierce and fast a miniature battle ; jo matter which way I gazed or what T tried to see, 1 was ed, for everywhere was that letter “V.” But on the Is of the coats of the passers-by, so few did I note | myself wondering why. Was everybody like me ought they didn’t have the money to spare—or might it they did not car “With me, of course, it is dif t,” I argued with that inner man. need every gent. I should buy bond, but don’t can, I ed a suit, an overcoat, and many other things. I'll have meet that note.” My conscience floated on fickle Here and there in that well-dressed, prosperou sing crowd, a lonely “V" would glare, the owner looking bud. ‘Truth to, tell, it sometimes must be told, some the wearers were not looking well and their clothes Were looking old. But some way, that button with that ¥” made their clothes look better than the stylish ap- rel of those not decorated with that letter! My con mee still bothered me; no matter what I'd think or say, awful “V” would nag and nag, “Buy a bond today”; to compromise with my sense of right, to get away pm the streets and out of sight, I sidled into a place of not that I was hungry in the least; for food I did not 8, to get away from that conscience beast I go most here. In a booth,.as I thought hidden away, at least m few moments free, Gol ding it! Say! There stood a 1 ty waitre: wearing a button “V.” She took my der, I know not what it was I swear, for I was on the of despair. She returned with my meal, and with kindly smile; I cannot express how it made me feel, when 8 fr. Le—, I haven’t seen you for such a while.” fe Gods! She knew me. | had known her long. In trying escape I simply got in wrong. She is one of God's good ever ready to please; had, been one of God's good overseas, who, with all honor to our boys, let me to say, were the grandest, bravest, noblest of our de and joys, who crossed the seas or returned in that d array. Here my story ends. Let me confide and to you, my friends: I, wear that button with greatest As a keepsake, it will e’er be prized and with me remain in memory of those who sacrificed—the living the slain. 4, ig see how | The Japanese government declares that Korea is trying to start something because “misinterprets | the significance of the doctrine of self-determination.” Subjugated people everywhere are making the same fool : r. Still, There’s Hope And now those Versailles managers of open diplomacy, ly arrived at, are positively rubbing the noses of all perfectly fine American correspondents in the dirt, ically speaking, of course. . Vith the German treaty representatives at Versailles ive arrived 15 German newspapermen. il be imposed upon their dispatches to Germany, but al- id newspapermen will not be permitted to communicate ' If Germany is to be kept posted, why not America? bless you, that’s been a question since 6 p. m., 2, 1914, when foreign censors drew their blue pen- and scissors on American press associations. However, Jim Burleson has got cold feet, which war- some hope of rejuvenation of a free press. To make the innocent suffer with the guilty is a _ hard doctrine. To make the innocent suffer while the guilty sojourn in Holland and Switzerland is a harder one. Councilman Cotterill The city learned with deep regret of the death of uncilman Roland Cotterill. As years go, he was still a ing man. At 42, he was just entering the councilmanic d of civic duty, after having contributed, in @# very netive manner, towards the upbuilding of the park pe this city. ardent municipal ownership man, he had opposed @ purchase of the Puget Sound traction system, belteving to be excessive. For the same reason, he was not ly enthusiastic for the development of the Skagit, be- the cost would prevent the sale of cheap light and to the consumer. He was a man of independent An office man is one who is afflicted at this sea: Z. the year with the notion that he could get rich on a farm. Every normal small boy feels a mized contempt and sympathy for the boy whose mother is somebody in so- and requires him to wear shoes all summer, President Butler of Columbia University says the Huns were guilty of 31 kinds of erime. The only one the Hun recognizes is that one of getting licked. Gompers says that oniaenig is a greater peril in the United States than Bolsheviem. It is fitting that 4 father should be greater than his child, Ma bowes pa in every way; Seems like he's awful scared of her, But pa, he says, I'll know some day That's what men marries for. Then pa, he takes it out on me, s he will not stand my Vor every one must have, says he, Some other one to bous And I says, “Yes, but who've I got” And after while pa says, “That's true It ain’t a fair deal. Tell you what; We'll get a dog for you.” %o pa brung home a dog for me And tho ma raised an awful row, And said he'd be a nuisance, she— She let him stay, somehow. And now ma bosses pa the same, And I'm still boxsed by pa, And #01 boas the dog, but blame! dog—he bosses mat No censorship |; || Mme in him, It’s a Comfort to Know the Worst Has FDITORIALS — FEATURES On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise By McKee Happened. — ‘ali | | GEE! ANYBODY COULD TELL A MILE AWAY THEM WAS GIRL'S SHOES! A WORD FROM JOSH WISE Not many men grind | their neighbors’ ares. | eee | Man wants but little here below and usually gets | io in an adult male per but it doesn’t mean the Blectrical Expert Tt has been said that ap ‘This may be a defin ything. Now you read what menter saye about man and you! get a fairly accu fate idea of what he is, Kindly peruse this WHAT 18 MAN da will contain approxi 3,500 cubic feet of gas—oxygen, hydrogen and nitrogen—for which the ompany about $2 He also contains all the necessary fats to make a 15pound candle “His system contains 22 pounds and 10 ounces of jearbon, or enough to make 9,360 lead pencils | “There are 60 grains of fron, enough to make one email «pike, worth about 6 cents “A healthy man contains 64 ounces of phosphorus. This deadiy poison would make 400,000 matches, or enough to kill 600 persons. 4 enough sugar to make 60 of the Aino, | | ee | | “A man weighing 150 poun mately ordinary sized cubes 38 quarts of water | “He also contains = grent deal of starch, chloride of potash, maghestum, sulphur and hydrochloric acid.” That is the scientific definition of MAN. } AND PRAY, WHAT 18 WOMAN? “Nothing but a rib of man.” “A rag, and @ bone, and a hank of h a's rarest blessing in, after all, a ‘An angel on earth.” eee THE LONG AND SHORT OF IT was John Mid Britisher, Marian, the “Ama }zon Queen,” was ¢ 2 inches Thereby again proving the supremacy of man, However The female of the species in the more deadly.” Smallest person who ever lived was Alypius of Al logician i philosopher, only 17 inches tall. “Princess Topaze,” of French parentage, born at Buenos Ayres, was 20 inches tall and weighed 15 pounds when she reached mature years. eee The ¢ | dieton, . BE GOOD, BYR ANDBYE A. Boole, New York: “It ie true that we are on the eve of a war, not only against users of cigarets, but inst an entire ceuntry of tobaceo users. And probably the same methods used bringing about prohibition may be applied over the entire world to do away with the tobacco habit.” And when they get us divorced from terbacker, we they can take away—and then this world will be a fine kettle of fish! GREAT scooPr! editors are worrying themselves sick ding the peace delegates #0 long in Newspaper what's } Well, over Paris. son “The corsages of some of the evening gowns were jeut exceedingly low in the back and a little lower than that in front! Never were such brief bodices seen in Paris as those which were featured a few days ago in the Jenny salons, Only corsage to the shoulders in some instances.” Bazar, Harper's NOT SAVING, AT ALL You mustn't jump at the conclusion that the ladies in Paria are thus economical in dresa material, for—~ “More than what was cut off at the top being at tached to the bottom—many of t trains very long and brilliant as the tall of the peacock."—Again quot ing Harper's. ca ~ ~ saa JAPAN SEEKS CONTROL | OF CHINESE ARMY | )—— woncinene ———14) Japan seeks absolute control of the Chinese army in new proposal for a Joan of $1,000,000 monthly for a period of 20 years for the purpose of training the regular army, in the opinion of the ¢ onents of the milftarist group in China which would offer. The result would be the equipping of t nese army with Japanese arms and ammunition and the employment of Japanese officers to train it, the creation of a force readily adaptable to Japanese aims, under the guise of national defense. ‘The fabric of your ready-made spring suit may not of best, but the fabrication of your dealer is | C'MON AND i Look, EVERY: HIS FOLKS BODY —HE'S MUST BE GOT HIS As HOES ON! | min which are taki would charge | He has two ounces of | 20 spoonfuls of salt, and | | wanted ‘to. reckon as how they can find a lot of other joys o’ life | they can quit fretting, here's the rea- | a miracle attached the | phia as ite first presidedt SISTER'S WHEN YOUR ONLY SHOES ARE AT THE COBBLER'S, AND YOU HAVE TO WEAR AN OLD OF YOUR SISTER'S TO SCHOOL PAIR TRAFFIC CONDITIONS BAD | © The lan't it about time the newspapers took up the unbearable traffic conditions of this city?| Star n by careless auto drivers who, in ot take the trouble to stop and People are ryn ¢ cases, do ancertain the extent of Injuries; run past street cars ng On and discharging passengers; run, wild up and down our busine It fe more dangerous to crows Second ave. between $ and 9 a. m. @ianapotia during an auto race | Every morning about ® o'clock you will find a) policeman standing in front of Rhodes’ store paying | no attent to the speed violators on Second ave while people duck and dodge acroes the street In mor tal fear of their liver Jitney drivers make no attempt to abide by what} few traffic laws we have; Urey take the attitude of) having rightofway at ali times and under all con} ditions, Are the city authorities going to devote all of their time to bootleggers while pedestrians are run down by caréless drivers, n of them dying or being cripple WHICH 18 THE MOST IMPORT ANT? Very respectfully, atreete. j than it is to crow jor life A READER. |f | KO-ENGLISH Editor The Star » noticed your slur against President Wilson in The Star of April 29th pe undere d President Wilson's te all right. The pec in Europe understand them also. And you would understand them if you only But the le with you i* that you pro-English, and + Amerioan, You atick up 1 grabbers and for horrible England and Ma rule. now that England ts as much to biame for the recent horrible war a many? Exile! the English lords and the kawer to some island and make them work with pick and shovel } Do you know what caused the w It was the Constantinople and Bagdad railroad. ngland wante| to keep the whole world under its thumb. Give Malta to Italy and let the people of Fiume decide their own | destiny | President Wilson is the only just man at the Peace conference. Hurrah for U. 8 A. But down, down! with English lord rule, land grabbers and the Japan| govergment * A READER. are for the its dir De ye just NAME OMITTED Editor The Star: In reading the names of t Washington men in the Sist division I found you did| not have my son's name, As he sleeps beneath « wooden cross somewhere in France, I think he should be named with the rest of those brave tnen—Daniel W. Root, Co. B, 261st Inf, 91st Div S. BMMA LA MARTY 6th Ave. N,, Seattle, Wash. Tomorrow N the 9th of May in 1502 Columbus with four ves sels sailed from Cadiz on his fourth voyage across the Atlantic In search of a passage to the South Sea. In 1657, on the 9th of May, @ secret treaty was signed rie between Louls XIV, and Cromwell for "the ruin and destruction of the proud and tyrannical monarch of Spain.” j In 1781, on the 9th of May, the Spaniards took pos session of all of Florida On the 9th of May 3, the government of France known as the Directorate issued a decree directing that all vessels of neutral countries carrying ‘arms or provisions to an enemy's port-—the enemy in question being Great Br ne~-should be seized. This announce. ment, which ¥ a serious bi to the developing commerce between Great Br in and the United States, marked the beginning of the controversy which brought France and America to the verge of war in 1798. On the 9th of May, in 1800, John Brown of Oxsa watomte was born. His raid on Harper's Ferry and his subsequent execution for alleged treason were among the important contributing ox the civil war, On the 16th of Oo Brown, at the head of 16 men, raided Harper's Ferry in Virginia, and released many slaves, He was at tacked by several hundred militiamen of Virginia and Maryland and entrenched himself in the United States arsenal of the town, After a short siege all of his men were killed or wounded, and Brown was captured. by a company under Colonel Robert W. Lee, A few weeks later he was tried by a Virginia court and sentenced to be hanged, Johann von Schiller, the famous German poet and dramatist, died on the 9th of May, in 1805, In 1816, on the 9th ‘of May, the American Bible Society was founded, with Elias Bgudinot of Philadel The | ¢ mt ao Woolworth, Typical American ny (Copyright The career of Frank W. Woolworth, whe recéntly died, is typical of America. Eve boy in this country ought to be familiar with it. le died worth of the kings of become great appreciate —+——— millions. He wai Ameri industry. in the only way greatness —- by many one is not because of the Money he ac cumulated that we honor him; it is because he Did Things; he was a Creator, a Maker, in him also was the unconquerable Flame. Just read over the facts of his life, young man, when you are discouraged. Born April 15, 18! he spent hi years as a farm boy in dire poverty At 16 he had finished his schooling, con- sisting of attendance at public school at odd times and two- sessions at business college. Then he had to go back to the farm. At 21, a lanky, awkward country boy, he found a man in Watertown, N. Y., who was willing to employ him in a store at no ‘ only experience. He was not a nt success; he did not seem to be able td sell goods, he received no encouragement from the great men of the town. But he hung on like a bulldog, and refused to call himself a failure. At 23 he was getting $6 a his employer did not think he it. But he hung on. At 26 he was receiving $10 the job of dressing up the store. arly week, and a week at At 27 he opened his first five and ten- | cent store in Utica on $300 borrowed capital. It failed. The same year he opened a similar store at Lancaster, Pa. This was a_ success. Moral: If you can't make it go in one place, try another. At 28 he tried his idea in Scranton, Pa. It was profitable from the start. 29 he tried Philadelphia, lost $350 in , and quit. At 30 he established a store in Reading, Pa., which was successful. Then followed enterprises in various other towns. At 34 he invaded New York City. He rented a little room at 104 Chambers st. for $25 a month, employed no stenographer or bookkeener, did all the work himself, and devoted much energy te arranging the dis- | play of goods. At 36 he opened five more stores in as | many towns. At 43 he instituted his first huge store. | the speedway at In jit was in Brooklyn and was his greatest | breiia goes on_forever. a was worth | DK. FRANK CRANE 1919, by Frank Crane) uccess up to this time. The same year he began in Washington and Philadelphia, At 44 opened in New York and Boston. At Chicago. At he incorporated for ten million dollars and began : “consolidating” all the five and ten-cent stores he could reach. At 60 he combined some 611 stores inte the W. Woolworth company, and the sales the first year were over $60,000,000, So the green country boy met and m tered the wild beasts of failure, and bees one of the outstanding figures of his e try. He built the most beautiful building America, a noble and inspiring temple of achievement, the only business building im the world that has the majesty of the cathedral. And all this wealth of his was built from nickels and dimes. He saw the dynamic of multitude: ; He had Vision, Courage and Faith. 5 And the God-blessed element of it all if that to any boy in America that wants do likewise—THE DOORS ARE OPEN. store DON’T BE A CHAMELEON % BY THE REV, CHARLES STELZLE The chameleon is a lizard which has the poste change {ts color to harmonize with its surrou In this respect, at any rate, it's like a lot of who want to be counted “good fellows” because r contradict anybody or disagree with y are not necessarily without opinion MUST have a good many because they change often—but they haven't the backbone to express when they are Mkely to meet with opposition. You've probably heard of the poor little eh that was placed upon a piece of Scotch plaid—at it tried heroically to adapt itself to the bew!l of color, and then it blew up in despair! So watch out—you human chamel there'll come a time when you'll have to stand on some things, even tho it may cost you of your friends. Friends that want you to agree with them all £3 time aren't worth having, anyway. Bi And, secretly, they haven't a very good optt you beeause you agree with them constantly. Mont poeple appreciate just enough resistance them on their mettle, and they think most of who have the courage to point out the their plans and arguments. Perhaps some people do not know that the got its reputation for being wise by keeping its shut for 3,000 years. Men may come and men may go, but the lent It’s a Narrow Bridge Easily Crossed That Spans the Space Between The Mistress and the Drudge Useless hours over a hot stove make just the difference between good complexion, pliant muscles, vigorous health and sallow face, drooping shoulders and premature age. 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