The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 16, 1919, Page 6

She Seatile Star month: # months, . ?, By, mail, out of city, 506 per ‘ tha, $2.78; y n the i 80; Be p 4 Prospects of Payment BY R. F. PAINE Roughly put, Germany has approximately yealth and they demand that she pay something ons. It looks like an impossibility. It is a certainty that she must have time and such help as anxious creditors are Willing to give in the spirit of “business is business.” Studying history, we discover that one of the mans’ strong holds in money-making lay in “Made in Ger- many,” meaning that their foreign-sold goods had certain : r attractions due to superior material and work- manship and cheapness. But “Made in Germany” is pretty thoroly accursed, thruout a considerable part of the world. Will this taboo prevail, when it is solely a matter of Ger- “many’s paying her debts? Your psychological attitude 7 da fellow whose head you are trying to punch dif from that when you are trying to collect a bill from n. In the view of a good part of the world, this old leutonic trade-mark may come to read, “Made in Ger- proceeds to go to France and Belgium.” History also is to the effect that thousands of Ger *s rich autocrats, headed by the kaiser, made heavy tments in foreign parts, in realty, manufactures and curities. Why should a socialist government of Germany tate to turn these properties over as part payment of y’s debt? Lord! It looks like an especially blessed ortunity of socialism. In addition, there are in foregn the United States included, en@my alien Germans sing property in appropriating which to pay the therland’s just war debt there could be no moral ie. And recent war history testifies that Germany’s tax has been ridiculously low compared to that of Britain, and Italy. Germany simply bet on securing big nnities and, in the case of Belgium, at least, did col- them as she went along. The rich of Germany, the pent that fited greatly thru militarism and more warfare, has borne a lower tax rate on income than been imposed upon any of the other belligerents, save United States. 78 billions like 4 It’s never too late. Dr. Matthews is getting mighty hot over the cold apartments in this town. In another month or two, the landlords will be | brought to time. In spite of them, there'll be enough heat in July and August. — First Hand Opinions We should form our own individual opinions of others— far as is possible. How often have we found unjust the ill opinion we accepted from one of another? | How often in becoming a new resident of a town, or j on a new job, we have listened to and believed ‘of a citizen or fellow worker, and all to be found untrue We have all lost valaable-time, fe have lost # , agreeable companion- and opportunity for profit by accepting judgment one ‘of another. . second-hand opinions is the istified hatred. ormin source of preju- Obviously, the reverse is often true—in accepting good on of one from another. We eee good opinion of one from another and live » suffer : _ But second-hand evil opinions ar more often wrong , ee ones sare ore 0 relate and, diecu 88 i others kph be aap oe gna vat ig iy do. _ Then, a good evil is engen the carryi n one to another. 5 i oy E And the same mistake can be made in accepting in- judgment against books, authors, brands of aice ways of doing things and political, economic and re- The ‘principle. of mis le judgment will ay to f te ee eee -_ aussie How ‘or instance, have we accepted an adverse ion from another, of a book or an author, and after our n reading to have that book or author become among ? We may have for years been deprived of a joy and ure by ee omens other than our own of _ Allowing others to form our opinions and think for us contrary to the independent spirit phorbol free, ty-loving Americans. : Accepting judgment from others, allowing others to our thinking for us was the whole basis of old world inny and is that of our own political corruption in the rule of today. Accept: ting the opinions of others is dependence. Thinking and judging for ourselves is independence. In searching for the Reds who plotted general with bombs, it won’t do to arrest ple le who cusses the government. Cussing the government is the only joy of some of our prominent citizens. Speed Will Be Appreciated Some time ago there was an announcement that a dtvi- 5 % nd was to be made thru the office of the bank examiner to the depositors of the erstwhile German-American bank. i Saeed the depositors are anxiously awaiting the 4 And depositors of the late Northern bank are also in a ive mood for another payment to them of their own Re bank examiner can move none too fast in this Count Arco Valley assassinated Kurt Eisner, the Bavarian premier, last February, and now a Sparta- can mob has dragged him from a hospital and killed him. Politics east of the Rhine is much like the old- fashioned Kentucky feud. Winston Adams says the manufacturers are con- testing the child labor law “as a matter of principle.” Ite a phrase we all use when an explanation is needed, and no good one is handy. y' The Russian soviet government has sent an ul- timatum to Rumania. We rather hoped those ati. matums would go out of fashion. The dog show is on at the Arena. But ev there the booze hound can get no consolation, ve \ All Up Inside. Sort Wr Y if: CES. t y jj 4 } Hf jj) SEEN } jj} AND, (i) YES — we've RAISED A HE'S AFRAID TO GO HOME NOWADAYS He was making & neat aftersupper speech, quoted Bobbie Burne: “She is a winsome wee thing, “She ts a handsome wee thing, “She ts a bonny wee thing, “This sweet wee wife o' mine* (But he got all mixed up and sald “boney™ instead of “bonny” in the third ling, and his wife heard about it.) (pause) WHATS A WIFE WORTH? “In Africa a wife is worth $15. In Amertea she often is worth less than that.” ‘The author of that idea is George Anérew Cham berlain, writer of novels, who goes on to say: “A woman's market price is in direct what she is worth. the most useless women, the daughters of the rich who cannot even keep house or supervise their serv ants. And the nen with least money marry the sensibly trained, efficient girls. “IL belleve civilized man ts becoming convinced that in the marriage of today he does not get value re ceived. Unless our women want marriage to go out altogether they had better study ite basic princtples, as understood and practiced by African slaves. (pause) SUCHISLIFE IN L. ANGELES attacked by the fair sex of the city, and already a number of protests against the mirrors have been lodged with officials of the company. Fashion, which has decreed the tight skirt, ts the real cause of the complaint, and the women declare r¢ of the motorman On the other hand, officials of the railway company have filed a counter complaint, charging that the tight skirts cause undue delay of the cars. In ad dition, they say the motormen merely do their duty in watching the mirrors.to make certain passengers are on the cars before starting. rors nicely polished these days.) eee A “dependable and harmless" substitute for mor phine has been evolved by experts in the Kansas Unt versity department of pharmacy, according to Dgan lL. KB. Sayer Piut Al Right ts the sayer of this: “Nothing can ever equal the sleep producing qualb when I was a boy.” oe Woodrow Wilson, arbitrator in the League of Na tions, is learning how ft feels to be the umpire in the National league with Heinle Zim and Jawn McGraw one run behind tn the last half of the ninth. ee Some have a tough time of life. Some don't get *lthree meais a day, and others “haven't’a thing to wear,” and a party invitation has just come in. Some have to live in Russia, and others know what you mean when you say— SUCH 18 LIFE IN NEW JERSEY PASSAIC, N. J—Under @ law passed in 1798 man- agers of five movies were fined $1 each for “break ing ye sabbath in ye ungodly fryvolos manner” with Sunday shows. AND SUCH IT IS IN URBANA, ILL. The girl students at the University of Tlinole, Ur bana, can stand for a lot of autocratic interferences with one’s pursuit of happiness, but when a bunch of crazy professors get together and pass a law lim- iting the co-eds to “four dates a week,” why, that’s a straw big enough to break any camel's back. Urbana girls held an election. . By a record-breaking vote they vetoed the faculty's orders, and now they are going to have as many dates per week as their gentlemen friends can finance. cee THE GOODS, ALL RIGHT “Don't tell a soul, but I saw a whole barrel of whisky delivered to the Topeley'’s this afternoon in broad daylight.” “How'd you know it was whisky?" “Why, Topeley himself helped the delivery man handle it with care."—Buffalo xpress, OLD GARDE |) THE 1 ilk ‘That the root crope are naturally well behaved, but that when life is made too hard for them they may go wrong. If they have a deep, wellworked soll to burrow in they will drive roots straight down as they should, but if they meet such obstructions as large stones or @ clay subsoil they are almort certain to split and take on unseemly forms, This is particu larly true of parsnips, carrots and salsify. There is little Ukelfhood of getting a crop to be proud of unless @ good soil bed is provided in advance. LOS ANGELES, Cal—The little eafety mirrors on | cars of the Los Angeles railway company have been | (The only ones not | complaining are the motormen; they keep their mir tes of the oldfashioned sermons I used to listen to | YES, SIR — I'vE GoT TO ADMIT THAT'S THE | FINEST BOY I'VE EVER IN MY LIFE — AS YOU KNOW, ‘VE HAD SOME EXPERIENCE Y, Ae, Wc dled. ty “i! 7 RN ACKNOWLEDGED AUTHORITY PRONOUNCES YOUR FIRST-BORN | Paper The highest bids are made for | | the other soldiers? By McKee WE DIO THINK HE WAS A PRETTY FAIR, SPECIMEN — won't you STAY FOR, DINNER ? i | tertained the crowds. They were the world’s | y he A WINNER tit THE VOLUNTEERS FORGOTTEN? FAitor The Star: I have been an admirer of your As you are not afraid to publish facts, I am asking you to publish the following in your 3 “WHAT THE BOYS THINK OVER HERE IN GERMANY." Much has been written In recent edittorials com cerning the valor of a certain portion of the American army. Glowing tributes have been paid in all the leading papers thruout the United States to the dif ferent National Army and National Guards divisions. As & volunteer I'wish to state that tn all these fous articles not one ‘mention have I seen made bave I beard of an attempt to depict the life of men that in our estimation have made victory sible in #0 short @ time for the American nation. For the above reasons, I would like to ask for the privilege of a space in your paper to piace before the American people the grievances of the men who answered the president's call before the drat was even ready for execution, thereby perfecting and mak- tng possible one of the first fighting contingents for overseas service. Fietween April 6th and the time that exptred before the draft was perfected, President Wilson in behalf | of the American people terued a call for half a mib lion men. ‘These men silently left thelr respective positions, some very lucrative, to anawer the appeal— not as the now wouldbe heroes left, filled with pomn and glory, led by the dignitaries of the municipall tiee and stgtes, but aflently and singly, as all true Americans should have done in order to say that they rightfully upheld their country’s honor. Do the American people ever stop to consider what the feeling of the country would be at that time if the appeal would have fallen on silent ears? Do they realize the credit due the men that made such a thing impossible? Then in the name of our American re public, wo demand what is ours—a right, namely, “Justice.” Do the American people ever stop and consider that the tide of war was turned by the volunteer divisions on the 15th day of July, 1918, when they met and defeated for all time the pride of the German army (the Prussian guards) on the river Marne? é IT am also safe in maying the volunteer divisions have left more dead on the various battlefields in Europe than any other divisions in the American forces. Now this question arises: We have done our duty to our country. We were told before we left for for elgn lands that we would not be forgotten. But the fact remains WE ARE FORGOTTEN. Immediately after the armixtice was aligned, the political champions, representing the various states, began pulling strings to get their own men home, forgetting every sense of duty to the soldier In gen- eral and catering to nothing but the next vote in | their wild rush to get their own men from their own | states home. They either deliberately or else thru some grave oversight, forgot the men that made the first snert- fice. What can the spirit of our volunteer dead think of such base neglect on the part of our American statesmen? Do the American people take tnto consideration that we all have homes—fathers, mothers, wives and sweethearts, Just as anxiously awaiting our return as Do they realize that we have as much at stake, as much to look forward to, as regards our homecoming; as good industries and po- sitions awaiting our immediate attention as the other soldiers? ‘Then why, in the name of everything that ts fn keeping with the spirit of fair play, should the votun- teers be filed out in order to stay for an indefinite period, without even a fixed date for their sailing and without even consulting the men as to the desir. ability of such,a move? It may be an oversight, but remember: It ts Un-American and WF know it. A VOLUNTEER. P. S—As this is the voice of all, I prefer you do not use my name, which I have to place on envelope. Eedithbr Star: As an old citizen of Seattle, having resided here for 33 years, I certainly commend Drs M. A. Matthews’ stand against rent extortion by landlords who do not even give adequate heat tw return, The fault les largely with three or four leading rent agencies. It is high time that the city council take steps against their form of robbery. Cc. N. NOYES. HER RECORD Visitor—-Have you a papa and mamma? Litue Girl—-I should say so. I've had three papas by my first mamma and two mammas by my second papa,—Judge. Painters are seldom of « military turn, but th always stand by their colors, ses a ° ‘The pen is mighty--and there t# a certain kind that some men ought to live in, On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise An important character in the theatric al world was Imre Kiralfy, just buried, Older readers will recall Kiralfy’s ‘“Excelsio which toured the country in 1884 with 850 people in the cast. It~ was the “Little Nemo” of dad's boyhood. | We owe a lot to Kiralfy, originator of |spectacular productions. Ten per cent of us amuse the other 90—census figures of jactors, stage hands, office forces, film peo- ple, amusement parks, athlet fields, base- ball, race tracks. Men like Kiralfy, who invent new forms of entertainment, bring real happiness into life. America popularized the theatre—in- vented vaudeville, spectacles, minstrel show, circus, movies. One reason we are not mor- bid and pessimistic like Europeans. Many centuries since Mr. Sophocles of the | Grecian peninsula put the drama on its jfeet. Actors in England classed legally as vagabonds, not permitted to own property. ven as late as 1612, four years before Shakespeare died, the village fathers of Stratford, his home town, forbade plays on the ground that they were wicked. Prejudices die hard. The theatrical | business still is not as respectable as cor- nering the stock market or employing child labor. Eight hundred years ago harlequins en- first professional clowns—the Charlie Chap- lins, Totos, Humpty Dumpties of their day. Dressed in fantastic skin-tights of every | color in patchwork, they’ skipped about the stage with lath swords. People of the 12th century thought them funny, Custard pies | and siapsticks came later. The sense of humor changes. | ‘The first American-written play, “The formerly were | Prince of Parthia,” put on ¢ wark theatre, Philadelphi |lasted one night. Thomas Godfrey, the author, went back to making watches and ting spring poems. ‘ircuses were on their feet in the ’30s. Blackface minstrelsy started at the old | Federal theatre, Boston, in 1799, when @ comedian named Young sang “The Gay Negro Boy” in character. The first real | minstrel show, according to the memoirs” of Billy Birch, was staged in 1842; one of Dan Emmett who wrote , do you remember Dume aders, Dick Pelham, Buckley’y | Virginia Minstrels, “Daddy” Rice, who samy | “Jim Crow,” or Birch, Wambole & Backugl Great characters in the show busing are few. ’ Austin Corbin, banker from Davenpart, Iowa, started Coney Island in 1873. B. F. Keith changed old-time variety into | modern vaudeville. In 1883 he had only one | dime museum act—Baby Alice, who we'trhed one pound and a half when three manths old. Then he chased out a piano dealer who had quarters upstairs, put in 12% seats —and the road was paved for Eva Tanguay, Houdini and the stars who fewl the “Follies.” The dime museum was a bright spot im our boyhood. The Fat Lady, Tattoced Man Living Skeleton, Bosco—He Eats ’Fyn Ali —Zip the Whatisit—we can thank “Barnu jits cast | “Dixie.” | bledon’s Sere: ton, the press agent who originated the big screaming circus poster. Kiralfy is gone. No.epochal fnnovation vention of spectacular producti¢ms, exe movies. When will a future Kjralfy burst) ' forth with a new thrill? “LEMME LICK THE DISH” | EDMUND VANCE COOKE My! Myt when mother ured to bake! And beat the batter of the cake! The binges of my jaws would ache With gustatory wish. It seemed as if I could net wait The process of the fires of fata, And so I'd cry with hope elate: “Ma, lemme lick the disht Mm! mm! wee ever joy among The dear delights by poeta wun, As when I sped my eager tongue Around the yellow bowt ‘Then thrusting deep my face within, As tho absorbing thru the skin, I came up emeared of cheek and chin-+ But eweetened to the soul! And clouds of bopes and fears ‘Time! Time! cannct you turn your track And grant us just one wish? O, set us by some kitchen fire Where loving mothers never tire, But hearken to our ‘old deatre: “Ma, lemme lick the dish” (Copyright, N. BE. A, 1919) Tomorrorv r 1163 on the 17th of May, Heloise, the of Paraciete, died after survivires her lover lard for 21 years. Abelard and Hebdise, to atone their brief young Jove, separated fompver and | themselves to a religious life. TBeir love story Lone ef the saddest on record. Faithful to her after a lifetime of separation, Heloise was buried | the same tomb with him. In 1792, when the monasteries were destroyed removed to Nogent-surSeine. transported to Paris and a chapel, constructed of ruins of the Abbey of Paraciete, was built over t immortal lovers at rest in Pere La Chaise. In 1498, on the 17th of May, Vasquez de G @iscovered India. On his retumm voyage he doubled the Cape of Good Hope, which had been recognized as most difficult, of navigation On the ith of May in 1727 Catherine xi Empress of Russia, died. She was a daughter & peasant and remarkable only for her beauty. her marriage to a Swedish dragoon, who was ki in battle on the day of the wedding, she became the mistress of the Russian General Bauer, after she lived for a short time with Mentshicoff. In 17th year she became the mistoess of Peter the G who afterward married her. After the death of P Catherine@was proclaimed the Empress of all Russias. * In 1809 on the 17th of May Napoleon fesued cree from Vienna declaring the temporal power | the Pope to be at an end and incorporating R with the French Empire. The Pope retaliated issuing a bull of excommunteation against Napo | but his holiness’ spiritual pewer could not against the more forceful methods of the The pope was selzed at the Vatican and conveyed away at midnight under the pretense &@ life wo sacred in the eyes of all Christians not be endangered. | SPARKLERS COMING ‘ | VIA PORTO RICO NOW | fWAR PIGEONS DEMOBOLIZED, | SALE ‘AIDS WAR VICTIMS > ad BRUSSELS—Thousands of pigeons which have served the British army as messengers are being sold in France and Belgium and the proceeds given to charities of thowe countries. The Germans made the most thoro use of carrier pigeons, They had a unique message carrier which an English workshop reproduced and numbers of German birds that landed in the British lines were turned loose again with “dud” messages. ae | | | *5AN JUAN.—More diamonds than Porto ever believed existed will come thru this port and be cut at Ponce for the trade tn the United Staten New © | labor could be taught the art of cutting. the gems and would do it cheaper than New York ica Fur thermore, the Porto Rican legislature will probably remove the duty on uncut diamonds to encourage the industry. iceland A man will deride the 10-cent cigar that t& him, but he never murmurs about the nickel one he buys, * The Right Laxative ‘The natural condition of a ‘child is to be happy and carefree, When the girl mopes and te indifferent to school and study. or the boy is cullen and refuses to go out and play, the child necdea lazative to empty the bowels and stir up the liver. But something should be given that will produce the result in as simple and nat- ural a way as possible. Harsh cathartics and physics are neither necessary nor de- arable. Many mothers have found that the com- bination of simple laxative herbe with pepsin For The Little Ones— A few hours after its use the child will be its happy eelf again. Tt te an excellent remedy for the mother Nature’s sense of humor and Todty Hamil-f a York importers concefved the idea that Porto Rican | has come into the show world since his in — 4 France, the remains of Abelard and Heloise were || In 1880 they ‘