The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 12, 1919, Page 6

She Seattle Star mail, out of city, Bc per month: 3 months, 3. + year, a. in the Outside the °, enth, $4.50 fer 6 months or es be pe Ry carrier, city, 16 per per year. lal Beauty—a By-Product of Use || All of us expect to build a home—sometime. Tt is a good deal like the chicken business—we have | ‘all either been in it or expect to go into it. | | A good many of us will build this year, All of us) ‘ that can, as a public-spirited contribution to pros-| if for no other reason. e average dwelling is a good deal more complicated the average commercial structure, even tho the cost rit) There is more detail that requires thinking out and us is more personal, intimate, than the commercial And a good deal of the thought is up to the owner;! architects have a way of saying that a building can't built any better than the intelligence of the man who : for it; that a good deal of the effort of an archi- is expended in keeping the owner from doing things} he should not do. | John Ruskin said that a beautiful thing in the way of a house or bit of furniture need be no more expensive than one that ts ugly, that the same amount labor or material is involved in both, and that it is @ question of thought in order to intelligently direct the labor. William Morris, the English poet and craftsman, said that a house should be designed from inside out, that use should. be the first consideration, and that the beauty and harmony of line would follow natur- . "A group of young Chicago architects say that construc- should be decorated, but decoration should not be con- | They also say that the lines, form or design of a build- Bg should follow its function, use or purpose. " This last theory is confirmed by the fact that very often | object is most beautiful which is not intended to be beau- where no thought is given its beauty. : A full-rigged schooner, for instance, is not designed as a | of beauty, yet few objects are more beautiful. his theory also has example in nature itself: ‘Nature does nothing for show, yet it is all show. No doubt you have noticed that some people do a of generous talking to camouflage an insignificant DON'T SPRING THAT OLD ONE ABOUT XOUR GRANDMOTHER DYING e S-SAY B-Boss : KIN I GIT OFF ? | MY GRANDMUDDER ~SHE - OF COURSE SHE AINT DEAD— SHE WANTS ME To Take HER The Case of the Street Car Men “If we grant extra pay for overtime work to city em- we will defeat the very principle of the city’s eight- n t is the argument advanced by members of the city answer to the street car men’s request for time- sluff on the job during eight hours some overtime,” say the councilmen. consider the fact that the men who cars can’t loaf on the job, and that they are RK after they have completed their to run “trippers” during the peak hours at “If we grant the street car employes extra pay it not be equitable, for we can’t pay other workers an says the council. at least two department heads have are paying time-and-a-half and even over eight hours. They ask why railway department can’t put on more men and with working its employes more than eight hours. rail officials are today advertising for more men— oe, say they | The city council meets Monday afternoon. It will re- Tecommendations from the finance and utilities com- practically tabling the car men’s petition for justice. be at least fair consideration given these workers’ instead of the steam-roller tactics adopted at the hearing on the question when the council adjourned a representative of the railway employes was still on feet, presenting his case before that body. Almost anyhere cast of the Rhine six men can get together over a bottle of wine and proclaim a revolu- | tion that will get their names in American headlines. When you go home today get out your hoe and rake — haged those garden beds of yours. thing of cultivation is more or less spoken of by rden writers, but not half enough. A seed or a tender seedling cannot prosper when it is its throat on the razor edge of a clod. he baby sprout, trying to push up from its grave its brief but fruitful heaven, needs a Se. Peter at the to prepare the way. '_ Only a weed will flourish in hard pan, or along the Cultivate after every rain, after every shower; cultivate) never you get thru irrigating. Not only must your garden be clear of all weeds, but soil must be kept as fine as dust. This brings light air and soil food to the plants. It allows the sub- moisture to reach up and bathe the roots of the derlings. When in doubt cultivate; a cultivation is usually better n an irrigation, and two-thirds of the fertilization in the den could be dispensed with if the hoe was a daily Cultivate lightly, stir but the top two inches of th but stir it thoroly and Aiectuatie, ' Paste this around your hoe handle, and hang the hoe use is more personal, intimate, than the commercial og An amendment provides that the Monroe Doctrine Sada ers Aivesied, by 5nd league covenant. Nor will greatest navy w ‘apan’s hold on China be af- fected by it. r When we have made it impossible for one man to declare war, the next step is to make it impossible for any man to get a profit from war. Mexico City thinks Gen. Blanquet is dead because it has photographs of his dead head, We have dead- heads in this country who are live ones, Exports in March were valued at $605,000,000, i present 't take much to be worth { Cas HE ne The Victory Ship steamed into New York harbor Saturday after leaving Frisco three or four weeks ago with a letter from the mayor of San Francisco to the mayor of New York. That's about two days ahead of schedule, considering the usual Burleson service. ee Life te @ conglomeration of things, mostly serious, often ead, good and bad, but somewhere, somebody is holding the joker tn his hand. Also, there are goats. A musical writer says: “Da other day I walka down Broadway wid Cleo fonte Campanini an’ he eee a man who sella da dog, | an’ when you pulla da tail of Ga dog, da dog he maka @a equeak. Jus’ @ toy, you know. An’ Campanint, he stop an’ laugh an‘ maybe t'Ink dat nice for some ttle fren’ of his, so he say: “How mucha for da dog when you pulla da tall an’ he make da squeak? : “An' da man, he say: ‘Fifty cents’ “An' Campanini, he get one. An’ den, as we walka down Broadway, Campanini pull out da tail of da dog and dere is no squeak, so he go back to dat man an’ way: Dis ts bum dog! This in da fake, tail an’ dere is no squeak.’ “An’ da man, he take da dog an’ he pul! out da tail, an’ there is da squeak, an’ he any da dog is al! right T pall out da Se Campanini, he take da dog back an’ he walk down | Broadway, an’ he pull out da tail of da dog, an’ dere fs no squeak. An‘ den I say: “Cleofonte, he foot you! Da squeak te not tn da dog, but in da man! An‘ Cleofonte he say to me: ‘Gianni, dat man he will have made us a goat!” eee When Tom Littlejohn, Missour! stock raiser, went to Kansas City he calle@ up his home over the long distance. When central asked his name he told her, “Littlejohn.” “Quit your kiddin’ and tell me your re. she said. mary” eee George Fourthman, Waynesboro, Pa., ix the fourth husband of his present wife. While a laughiess life maketh of man a gloomy | cuse, a laughed-at wife can kick up an awful fuse Mrs. Helen Grace Latour, San Francisco, Cal, sues her husband, Leo M., for divorce, complaining that three months after their wedding he laughed heartily when she slipped on a smooth pavement and fell, Four times he went “Hawhaw” and she was thru with him. eee If any person thinks that after July 1 one cause for divorce will be eliminated, he had better read what happened to Mike Well: Mra. divorcee, alleging that Mike came home “showing evi dence of excessive drinking.” That happened 28 years ago, but his wife made it grounds for her divorce uit today. Tomorrow N the 13th of May in 1607 the firet English set tlement in America was started at Va. Three small ships, with 105 persons, for the mort part broken down gentlemen, younger sons and the black sheep of Englith families, sailed from Eng: land, Under the command of Sir Christopher New- port the expedition took possession of a peninsula on the Powhatan river and gave to it the name of Jamestown. The colonists encountered great difficul- ties, with which they were little fitted to cope, as among them there were only 20 men, agriculturists and mechanics, who had been used to laboring. Sev eral times they were on the verge of abandoning the enterpriee, but were ultimately established, mainly thru the exertions of Captain John Smith, a man of remarkable abilities and energy. Jamestown for a long time was the capital and principal town of Virginia, but now only the ruins of the rude fortification, two or three old houses and a churehyard remain. In 1783 on the 18th of May the Society of the Cin- cinnati was formed. Its membership was limited to commissioned military officers who had served during the Revolutionary war, Washington was elected its first president. At the time of its organization the society aroused bitter political opposition, It was charged with being undemocratic, as its membership was limited to officers and the descendants of officers, The Cincinnat! remains today one of the most ex: clusive organizations in the United States, ay the qualifications for membership have not been broad. ened. In order to belong to the society it ia neces vary to prove direct descent from a commissioned officer in the regular army in the War of the Revolution. . A floor washing match mivht be termed @ scrub race, ‘ Mike Weil of Fenton, Mo., has filed sult for | Jamestown, THE WILSON FIASCO WH! the League of Nations stop future ware? not! The League of Nations hw stopped the nation from spending millions of * for the army for the navy, From what we have read tn the news| papers in the last month about Secretary Dantel's| program I can say positively that President Wilson) has made a fiasco. Is Mr. Wilson for self-determination of the people? If #0, why does he refuse to give Fiume and all the Adriatic coast to Italy, when « large majority of those | peopte are Italians, speak Italian, and want to join Italy. Of course President Wilson does not take into consideration the Italian people, the ideals of those People, and probably he doeent pay any attention to | the fate of Italy. Filippo Turotl, the “leader” of the Italian socialists, who was opposed to the war from the start and who controls over 100 socialist deputies at Rome's cham | ber, declared on April 29th: “That the socialist party would not only be defenders of the sacred right of self-determination In the case of Fiume, but also of the equally sacred right of revolutionary Russia, and for the same reason we cannot range ourselves with | the socialists of other states who, In accordance with | the entent ideology, have applauded the new African | and Asiatic empire of Great Hritain, American dom! | nation tn Europe, and the occupation of the Saar region, where there is not a soul who speaks French, just as in Fiume there ts not a soul who does not speak Italian.” So Filippo Turati, for over 20 years at Rome's parliament, representing one of the socialist districts of MUlan, Turati, who ts the Debs of Italy, | spoke a few days ago, The history of Italy has suddenly been Interrupted by a solitary man—Woodrow Wilson—who has been bitnded by theory and by humanitarian dreams of his own creation. If Wilson thinks of the 129 Italian socialist representatives; if Wilson thinks about the jan Bolshevists, and they are a strong minority; ilson thinks of the Italian republicans, Mr. Wilson Would America lose or Bolshevism? ~ America jae can stop Bolshevism tn Italy gain with Italy ruled by would lose! ‘The newspapers have reported that Mr. Page, the American ambassador to Rome, has resigned on ac | count of Wilkon'’s determination, Frank H. Simonds. the famous American historian and war correspond ent, states that "Fiume is a wholly Italian city,” and before, “Flume was an autonomous Italian city, an nexed to Hungary, not to any section of the present Jugo-Slavia, and that its municipal council has de clared for the union with the mother country— Italy." Of course the defeated Austrians of Croatia. and the JugoSlavs may “need” Fiume. The defeated Germans, too, “needed” Aleace-Lorraine, but Alsace Lorraine bas not been left to them. And #0 why should Fiume and all the Adriatic coast, an old Vene | tian colony with Italian people, be left to Jugo-Stavia when these people have declared for union with Italy? Where is the self-determination? Senator Lodge says, “Italy should get Flume. I always de clared that the regions known as the Italian Irre denta, and all adjoining regions where Italian culture and Italian population are dominant, should be re turned to Italy.” How can President Wilson explain the treaty with Japan? Why was Wilson willing to sign such @ treaty, by which 40,000,000 Chinamen from now on are to be ruled by Japan? Is that self<d Thination® The biggest American newspapers, such as the New York Tribune, the New York Herald, the New York Telegraph, the New York American, The New York Sun, the New York Evening Sun, the Brooklyn Bagle, etc, are against Wilson. President Wilson is @ champion of fourteen points invented by. bhim- self. In the name of whom is he acting? Premier Orlando is expected to do as the Italian people order, He is @ democratic statesman—hé makes no claim to being Italy. He does not say: “I am the State." He awaits orders—submits himself to the judgment of his fellow citizens. American institutions do not give the American people a simi jar chance to speak their will, The American agent, except for senatorial ratifi- cation, i# an autocrat with respect to foreign rela- tions during his term. ‘This is unfortunate; Ameri can people want to know what the Italian people, a» distinguished from their government, think. 80 the Italians would like much to know what the American people think. The American people cannot answer, The Magna Charta of the fourteen points was torn to pieces. “Freedom of the seas” slumbers at the bottom of the ocean; “open covenants of peace openly construed asx permitting each nation to control its trade as it pleases; under the “mandatory” system new*colonial titles ure to be recognized; the equality of races is denied, and therefore, by necessity, the equality of nations, * SICILIAN JOR, Many a man is the victim of circumstances simply because he is too lazy to avoid being victimized. one resolutions are about the only ouried treasure: ‘ On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise PLAIN TALK TO MR. BOLSHY BY DR. FRA (Copyright, 1919, Just a little plain talk with you, Mr. | Bolshy, if you please. You have been complaining about every- thing and everybody till it has got on my nerves. You objected to the War, you ob- jected to Baker, yoy objected to Daniels, you objected to Wilson going abroad and to what he did when he came home, you | found fault with everybody that has done | anything recently. America also seems to you a bum coun- try, and the only true democracy is in Russia. You don’t like the League of Nations nor the Victory Loan. Government control | of Railways, Telegraphs and Express Com- | panies is the bright particular target for your sneers. And so on, Now listen! We don’t have an Ideal Government in this U. S. A. We don’t claim to have one. And the reason is that we don’t want one. But we've the kind of Government the people voted for. Please get that. We don’t know everything, we have not arrived at perfection, and our Government is like us—just muddling along, doing the best it can under the circumstances. That, my friend, is Democracy—doing the task in hand as best we can, meeting crises not with excellent theories but with prac- tical intelligence. You rail at the Government because it has not made any monéy running the rail- roads, to earn money, but to win the war. | It had a certain, definite purpose, to | transport men and supplies needed to lick | Germany, regardless of expense. | The U. S. A. has been doing everything “regardless of expense” since it jumped into | the war. And that is why we won. We were the nation that did not have to count | the cost. We were ready to put up our last man and our last dollar, and do it | ; quick. | You complain of taxes and expenses now. Just think back a few years! Would you not then have mortgaged your farm and | der NK CRANE by Frank Crane) pawned your watch to fend off a German victory? You are getting out of it pretty cheap, friend Bolshy. You are sitting in peace under your own vine and fig tree and the kaiser’s lieutenants are not bossing you. The power of the Hun is broken and the world breathes free. Isn’t it worth the price? And as regards Wilson, Daniels, Baker and company, I suppose they have made | mistakes and have their limitations, but I call your attention to just one fact, They put it over! With Daniels in the Navy and Baker in: the Army, managing things, this countey did the most magnificent piece of business ever seen. We got two million men across 8,000 miles of ocean almost over night, walloped the enemy, and are bringing them back. Of course the Secretaries of the Army and Navy and the President may have been all wrong, small men, income. | petent, and all that, and a lot of fellows, in- cluding you, could have done it better, but they did it. Furthermore, if you don’t like this coun= try, its laws, its officials and its way; you can pick out the country in Eu that suits you, and go there. You my permission. ~~ Don’t hurry. Here’s your hat. Just pull the door after you. | JAPS IN HAWAII FIGHT It did not take over the railroads | | FOR PRIVATE SCHOOLS HONOLULU —Japanere residents of Hawail are pro testing the bringing of Japanese language schools un the direction of the department of education, Bills to this end are now before the Hawallan legis jature. The Japs declare their schools are no menace to Americanization as the American flag floats over | each school. They say morality and conduct are | taught in the Japanese schools and not in the Amew jean public schools in the island, and that for reason some Americans send their children to Japanese schools. The Japs say the bill present would force their schools to close. 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