The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 9, 1919, Page 6

She Seattle Star f city, 50e per month; 2 months, TS; year, $6.00, In the Qutside the estat per month, 0 for 6 months, or $9. Ry carrier, city, We per week. Germans Gain at That | The peace terms are not altogether punishment for the} x of Germany. } _ True, the country will be reduced to a second-rate But the people of this second-rate power may conceiv- be much happier than they were under the autocrats y, one of the leading world powers. ) They won't have a big army and a big navy. Neither y have to support these parasites. The millions upon that were sunk by Germany year in and year out needless enterprises, will, for some years to come, id in indemnities to the allies, it is true. But even ten, the German pople will have gained something. Once he money debt is paid off they will be free to use their bt millions for more sane and more civilizing devel- ‘To be freed of the military incubus is something for the German people will, at some future date, if not be thanking the allies. et the allies themselves will be slower to wish the beneficent article for themselves. For the immediate at least, we shall see them spending countless mil- 8 upon large armies and navies, millions that could very ove living conditions materially everywhere. They so because the fear of war is still imbedded among of the world. this one point—disarmament—the allies have pre- Germany with an inestimable boon—a boon they unfortunately unable to confer upon themselves as yet. “The hideous, savage, vulgar, heartless shame of ; thig pandering of the daily newspapers of our city fo a morbid curiosity in order to sell more papers.” tn reference to the Garrison case, was uttered— whom? By a newspaper that has been printing col- about the case every day. Can you beat this moral” hypocrite? Liberty Bonds _ We t our bonds in times of stress, to help our ele Sam’! fight; war being done, we say, “We guess we'll F to all our bonds, “Good Night! We need the coin for for suits of clothes and shoes and lids, for playing slot machine and buying fireworks for the kids.”| are so anxious to unload their precious bonds they) can wait; they want to scorch along the road that to the poorhouse gate. And so the price of peain to figures low. I've seen them skid, and/ wi | 4 k, more now than minted gold!” sons of , how fatuous, so help me bonds or ten, they’re frantic care not for the rainy day— living is serene, and so they throw their that they may burn more gasoline. All heed- put a mortgage on their coops, ‘or a song, that they may gayly is willing to let carmen work more than th ite hours a day fixed the charter, it should t be squeamish rter clause forbidding payment of time and a half. about any ¢ Let the People Be Heard or Chamberlain is confident that his constituency the of nations treaty. Senator New sizes in declares that his constituency is opposed league ig mea that Senator Knox of Pennsylvania e treaty would be unconstitutional because to another political entity powers delegated to nment by the constitution. : so it goes. Pulling this way and that. The ci body rattled or ignorant. And the real is as to what the people want. One distinguished in says that this treaty is the most important matter since the framing of the constitution. } May be true. If so, the people should have the say. Verily, the arguments for a popular referendum on treaty pile up every hour the matter is discussed. Looks like it’s the right of an alienist to be alien ‘to his own tests. At any rate, Deputy Prosecutor Car- seemed to be the gent who put in a hard lick for Dr. | Doughboys Make Good “Wives” Every soldier is a housekeeper. If he isn’t handy at ng himself all ways, he doesn’t get by. . A Nebraska man called to an Ohio man in an Eastern yard filled with troop trains: | “First thing I get home, I’m going to get married. learned how to wash dishes, make beds, peel potatoes, veep floors, sew buttons, and keep house. I'LL MAKE Se Rae | FINE WIFE.” war ¢! ? many a sissy into a big strapping in. Speaking judicially and judiciously, we should that doughboys make either good wives or husbands, In Ei the lea, but here at the _ ested in rooters. Uncle Ichabod’s Proverbs EDMUND VANCE COOKE. | “Bome folks,” said Uncle Ichabod, “dig back into the past And drag out proverbs, such as this: ‘He laughs best who faughs last” But here's © proverb of my own I'd like to have advanced: “Laugh any time you kin, or else you may not git the chanst!” is concerned about looters, ig and little leagues are inter- “Some folks,” said Uncle Ichabod, “they give me quite a jar By sayin’ that you orter hitch yer wagon to « star, But if you want to git some place, as sure as I'm a voter, ‘You better take my proverb—'Fit yer wagon with a motor!” “Bome folks,” eaid nele Ichabod, “with just « touch of scorn, Say to throw away yer hammer and to go and buy a horn. But lemme make « proverb, with a stinger in the tatl— ‘Don't throw away yer hammer, if you want to drive a nail!’ ~ (Copyright, N. ©. A, 1919.) will never be able to under- demand Canada as the price of our war, ; European statesmen stand why we didn’t _ partic in the PRbece ny ‘DIT HEY,.KID — ff WHO YUH TALKIN’ To— HUH? a ORIALS — \It’s a Comfort to Know the Worst Has Happened. HAW, HAW! TALKIN’ TO ; nimsetr agouT [7A A BATTLES AN’ GENERALS AN’ WAWAVIN' HIS a VY WANT TUH HAVE Y'R BRAIN EXAMINED, KID— } ‘S wut 1 SAY On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise FINE WRITING BY DR. FRANK CRANE (Copyright, 1919, by Frank Crane ‘To all aspiring literary gents and ladies , I wish to announce that at last I have discovered the model of fine writing. It is the Theatre Programme. When I get settled in my seat and am waiting for the show to open at 8:45, which was scheduled for 8:20, I love to open the Theatre Programme and read the Sty for Men, Gosh! as Old Bill Cantrell would say, but it’s sure elegunt. There may be niftier literachoor somewhere extant, but I uever | saw it. Thus, for instance, our Shelley- | souled valet begins his gurgle: on “Protean, cosmopolitan New York is | ashine with top hats; aglitter with white shirt fronts; agleam with burnished boots; aglow with jewels and joie de vivre.” There you have it—and just a little dab of French at the end to give it the proper atrnospher One can but exclaim, as one reads these ree-fined and uppety words, one | can but exclaim, with May Irwin, “O lin- | srie, O robe de nuit and O negligee!” } Our author continues—but perhaps it’s an authoress—and if so we imagine her “beautiful but sneery. - ot even strutting London can befog | Nobody except some one who has worked for a marquise or sold cloaks on Fifth ave. could rise to such noble scorn. “I flout them,” she adds, and we can see her haughtily drawing her $375 furs about her and nervously fingering her diamond necklaces, “as the whistle flouts the echo; as the melody flouts the accompaniment; as the bee flouts the drone; as the hunter flouts the house dog; as the locomotive flouts the caboose; as Jt flouts the Op posite.” Some flout! B! We are further assured, as we sit waiting for the curtain to go up, that “the habit of repression, or attaque de nerfs, or what- ever you choose to call it, is still deep-rooted among Americans,” and that while “colorful searfings and polychromatic shirtings run rampant in the Southland,” in the North they don’t seem to ramp so much. This is literachoor with a mission, litera choor that realizes its responsibility of gild- ing the actual, glorifying the commonplace, and making maw and the girls, as they are spending a few days in New York at hotel not too far from the Automat, and H the right little, tight little island of Myn- Paying $2.50 apiece for theatre seats, ap- WHEN THE LOAFERS’ IN FRONT OF THE HOTEL HEARD YOu + TALKING TO YOURSELF, AND KIDDED YOU ABOUT YOU HAVE HEARD OF RAINBOWS? HOOD RIVER, Ore--The rare phenomenon of « snowbow was witnessed by residents of this city re cently. Fine anow, mixed with a drizsle of rain, was falling, when the sun burst for @ moment from the velling clouds, With a background of snowcovered hills on the Washington side of the Columbia river, the giant bow, spanning the gorge in its brilliant colors was impressively emphasized. eee All this talk about alcoholic drinks te be mede under the kitchen sinks, suggests that there are those who still think that a woman could keep a secret stille—Boston Transcript. eee John Warren, of Nashua, says an old biack hen at | his home has taken upon herself the task of mother | ing @ litter of 10 pigs, clucking and scratching away for them, and when they lie down she makes @ strenuous effort to spread her wings over them— Liberty (Kan.) Advance. Now isn’t that just like a hen? Here all the world ie hotl is for fried and bofled eggs for breakfast and she's raising ples! However, maybe she’s providing the ham or bacon which mixes so well with eggs. eee AND HE OUGHT TO KNOW Irving Schwerke @ plano recital at the high | school yesterday aft n. Wherever Mr. Schwerke | has appeared the press has acclaimed his work, and he has been called “Paderewski's twin” by the music critic of an Indiana mining town.—Appleton (Wis) | Post. | SUCH IS TELEPHONIC LIFE IN NIPPON | A lady in Kauriwaza called up her house in Tokyo, | left by the next train, got the call and talked to her. | self in Kauriwaza six hours after she arrived tn Tokyo. That's not a joke, It's the solemn truth.— Japan Timea. cee Why is it that a fellow who doesn't like to have his shoes stepped on insists upon sticking his feet into the street car aisle? eee HANDING IT TO THE DOCTOR It was one of thone rare occasions when Attorney General Guernsey lost a case and he wasn't feeling | so very happy over it “Your profession doesn't make angels out of men, it?” said a wedical friend teasingly. " snapped Lou, “that’s one thing we leave to you doctors!" eee And they say about the dentist who went to Italy— “He'll make Rome how!!” eee Sure! Two can live as cheaply as one—would Ike to live! eee William Wood sells coal in Morris, Ti. But a coal bill from Bill Wood is just as hard to pay. However, Johnson Coleman is a lumber dealer in northern Michigan and sells wood, eee Joshua's plan of handling sun time was much bet ter than monkeying with the clocks. eee THIS, TOO, MAKES MOVING MEN SORE SOUTH ST, JOSEPH, Mo—Pleasant Thompson has lived In the same house 30 y ) never paid a cent of rent, never slept a night away from his home, and his home has been in Ohio, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, | Oklahoma and Missourl. It was the same home, choosing to move his house rather than move himself | into another house. Be it explained that Mr. Thomp- son's house for 30 years has been bullt on wheels. | eee PROBABLY THE DOCTOR, TOO, WAS MARRIED “That horrid doctor! Tl never go to him again.” “What's the matter?” asked her husband, “Why, after I told him I had a terrible tired feel- ing, he asked me to show my tongue."—Boston Tran- script. see But, as the baker said, “The landlord uses no yeast to raise my rent.” ORPEN WILL PAIN | SIGNING OF PEACE »— 6 LONDON,—Sir William Orpen, who has painted Foch and Haig and other military heroes and mem- bers of the peace conference, will paint the scene | the world from the terrible, yes, dangerous unrest that | heaven help us to avert a worldwide ratastrophe by | expanding our laws to meet the needs of the people 'T HOMES THE CURE Why t the world so full of unrest? Can no one sense the cause of it allt No doubt our old black mammies of past generations could, in a few simple words, make the master minds of the present-day world fee! a#hamed of their ignorance on so vital a wubject. Yet the scriptures tell us that “The way of righteousness ts #0 simple that @ fool may not err therein.” Marriage, homes and good cooking is the answer to all inquirers who would know what to do to save seers to engulf everyone from the highest to the lowest, Writers everywhere are trying to explain why peo ple don’t marry and ludicrously enough attribute it to some strange prychological effect of mind; but ak the young man and the young lady at random—any- where—why they don’t marry. There are vital rea fons, the ability to own a home being the first and/ chief cause. Let our lawmakers and ruling classes come down out of the air and get down to real busi: nese—make it possible for every young man to own & home without fear of foreclonure in case illness thould overtake him ‘There can be no permanence to either home or mar- riage until there is vouchsafed a permanent security for both. Something ts radically wrong when single men remain single, deciare there ts nothing ab of them but slavery if they marry, and the young wo men say there is no security from either the man or the state, and decline with thanks. Now our young men and women are not to blame. Does not the big land owner have all the security while the home buyer, too often, under the strain and/ stress of modern living, must, perforce, lowe his home and all the work and improvements added thereto to the large land owner who sold it to him? I have facts and figures of several cases and worthy parties, | too. Why does our system favor the man free from| want while it draws still tighter around the helpless ones? Let's use a little divine logic—God, or the spirit of liberty is in all. Likewise God is Love, Now do we wish to perpetuate these qualities tn humanity? Or do we wish to usher in a reign of Bolshevism? have these two problems before us and may instead of contracting the people to laws that are too burdensome to be borne. Deprive a man of his hopes and he is dangerous. There is one man you do not fear, It is the happy man. Then it behooves us ali to do all in our power to create happiness on a permanent basis Create homes, give men the chances that their hearts are hungry for—for marriage has become a byword, Now is the time to restore man to his righte—the rights to buy a home. Autocratic insanity has tried to overthrow the God- dess of Liberty, but all forms of autocracy must go. LAURA J. BONE, April 23, 1919. Salem, Ore. DIDN'T LIKE EDITORIAL Editor The Star: In our many years’ of The Star we have found a number of objectio articles, but the climax was reached when we read the one entitled “May Be or May Not Be,” on Tues day's front page. It makes one wonder what has happened to the management. Does The Star mean to tell us that the American people have all become Pencoat-any-price advocates? And that we should pu.| interest before justice, and that it is well for the interest-seeking Italy to lead where the calculating Japan will surely want to follow? And what an ad-| mirable sentiment to preach to us “common” people,| that heaven with its rules is so far away and such an uncertainty that it isn't practical for folks or for nations to pay any attention! the Pilgrigs! The writer of the article seems to be thinking somewhat as the former kaiser did, who forgot that “Righteousness exalteth a nation.” bite wonders whether the article is pro this or pro hat. business Pointed Paragraph You can never tell whether a girl likes to be kissed or not unless you get it from her own lips Always look on the bright wide of things—and if you are buying them look on both sides Don't tell @ woman you take her to be an artist, Judging by her face, unless you are looking for! trouble. I Platonic love is a sort of prologue to the real thing.! The woman who falls to way “because” has some Pate ae a Shades of > heer Peter Stuyvesant” (far be it from so culchered a authoress to just say New York) “as a practitioner of the suave | urbanities of ultra-modern dress.” O Mabel! | “The high shoulder,” he or she goes on, | and there’s blood in her eye now—look out for some toppy langridge—‘the slim torso, the forward tilt, the rangy stride” (don't get no pants hereafter that ain't got no rangy stride), “all these changes, foretold a twelvemonth” (not a year—O nothing | like that!) “ago here are now being retold by parroting, pirating penny-a-liners every- preciate the fact that they are o fay and com eel fo; also that when they get back to Kokomo they are going to have a few hot ones to hand the ladies at the next Knights of Pythias sociable. Also Hi Perkins of the Main Street Em- porium is laying in a line of talk that will paralyze "em when he returns to Beards. town and resumes his task of selling gents’ furnishings. Such literachoor reeks of duchesses and billionaires, to say nothing of butlers and valets, 2 As the French poet so aptly remarks, © | “Jenny say qua and Patty de fwa grass.” IRST CHARGE RY INDUST. apace T . CHARLES STELZLE | It is counted irtue on the part of employers if | they are willing to maintain wage scales which were | wecured by the workers during the war on account of the advanced cost of living. Rut we may as well recognize the fact that even with this increase in wage workingmen—with some | posible exception—are no better off than they were before the war. ‘The cost of living since 1914 has advanced fully 70 per cent. And the cost of food has increased 2 per cent during the past month, eo that there is no sign of relief in food prices, Some articles have decreased in price, but others have risen. Prof. Irving Fisher of Yale Untversity, said at the conference of governors and mayors at the White Houre a few weeks ago: “The fundamental practical question confronting business men in whether the general level of prices is going to fall. In my opinion, it is not going to fall much, if at all. We are on a permanently higher price level, and the sooner the business men of the country take this view and adjust thimselves to it the sooner they will eave themeelves and the nation from the misfortune which will come if we persist in our present false hope.” When the question of increased wages in a partic ular industry is being considered, it is necessary, to a certain extent, at any rate, to give careful thought to the welfare of the industry as a whole, so that its interests may be conserved. | But we must not forget the fundamental principle that the first charge against any industry ts the wages of ite workmen And if an industry cannot afford to pay a living | wage it no right to live, It is far more important to conserve men than it fs to construct machines or to produce any other com modity. WAGES F AGAINST AN * BOLSHEVIK AND SINN FEIN STAMPS ARE ISSUED | —— Stamp collectors take notice. Bolshevik and Sinn Fein stamps are now on sale in London. They wouldn't carry a letter anywhere, but they will be | eagerly sought as additions to stamp collections, The Bolshevik stamps picture a hand grasping a sword and smashing the shackles of a chain. Behind the rising sun symbolizes the awakening, One Sinn Fein stamp bears a blue cross and the word Erin, another is green and yellow, with the Irish harp, and the third bears a shamrock leaf, the segments carrying the pictures and names of the three rebels who were executed n— Tomorrow 1574, on the 10th of May, Queen Elizabeth of wland issued her roys] license under seal allow | ing theatrical productions to be presented. This marked the beginning of the growth of the theatre fn England, q On the 10th of May, in 1649, Governor Endicott of Marrachusetts founded an association to oppose the | wearing of long hair. ‘ ; In 1774, on the 10th of May, Louis XV. ef France died in the 60th year of his reign. 2 On the 10th of May, in 1775, Ticonderoga was sur prised and captured by Colonel Ethan Allen and @ company of the Vermont militiamen Green Mountain Boys When the “In the name of the Great Jehovah and the Conte — nental Congress.” On May 10, 1875, the second Continental Congress wns opened at Philadelphia. This lasted for — 13 years. Its sessions were held in Philadelphia, Bak timore, Lancaster, York, Princeton, Annapolis, Tren- ton and New York. It was this congress that adopted the Declaration of Independence and managed the Revolutionary War. In 1859, on the 10th of May, gold was first di ered in the state of Colorado by John Gregory, a ernment teamster, who found nuggets of gold on tl banks of Clear Creek. In 1865, on the 10th of May, Jefferson Davis, dent of the Confederate States of America, was tured by @ detachment of Union cavalry at Ii ville, Ga, 3 On the 10th of May, in 1876, the Centennial Expo sition, in Philadelphia, was opened by President Grant. The exposition was kept open from May to October 19 of the same year. THE OLD GARDENER SAYS That it isn't necessary to worry any more about the cabbage maggot which has destroyed thousands | of plants during the last few years. This pest can be easily circumvented by the new plan of putting felt paper collars around the plants, These collars have a slit in one side so that they will easily pass around the stems, which they should fit rather closely. The collars or discs should hug the ground tightly on all sides. The fly which is responsible for the maggot will lay her eggs on the paper, but the maggots will not be able to get into the ground ia their usual fashion and will perish. This is a simple and easy way of circumyenting a most unwelcome — garden visitor, THIN, NERVOUS PEOPLE NEED BITRO-PHOSPHATE | -|What It Is and How It Increases Weight, Strength and Ne Force in Two Weeks’ Time in Many Instances 4 SHOULD BE PRESCRIBED BY EVERY DOCTOR AND USED IN EVERY HOSPITAL Says Editor of “Physicians’ Who's Who.” Take advice of’ physicia food ho | and there of the ef! thts preparation to warrant the rec 4 on. Moreover, if we judge tions and to thin, delicate, | phosphoric Ai auentiy: from the untiess prepa: treatments which are continually | advertised for the purpose of} n people fleshy, develop- n \ two patie! bein, 27 pound: neck and bes . ugly hollows an: our Hines ‘of health and evidently thou- who keen- on not felt as strong are lesaness and lack of energy, which nearly always accompany excessive soon disappear, become bright and pale cheeka i” than ts con-/thinn Physicians with the bloom 3* by quantities, p ia warantes of fditor of New Who! fnexpenst ag oe Te Uke nerves directly and by euppiying jain bitro-phosphate, is the) the body cells with the necessary being astonishing. al tests made in Ot. Cather- ‘ained in'weight 23 and ectively, through the of this organic pho Te, |phate: both patients claim they have doctor and used in every hospital increase aqtrength and ni and to enbich the blood.” Joni Harrigan, former visite it to North Lb ous, anaemic or runs a patel unadull ' substance such as bitro- and you will soon some asi lishing results in increase streagth, of body power of endurance.” Bitro-Phosphate is. mi ntirels of the organic phosphate compout referred to in the National 5! Dispensatory as being an excell tonic and nervine and a pre! tion which has recently iderable reputation in the k } and well for the its substance in for every Bitro-Pho: manufactured in with the U. & Pl dull Led secret nostrums, so-call r widely advertised “cure-alla’ UTION Loy yen ee cee fee sad erfect healt tals