The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 17, 1919, Page 6

> begin cutting and sewing on his new full dr She Seattle Star Ty, mail. out of city, 1.50; € months, § tate of Washington. Tho per month, $4.50 for per year. ly carrier, city, per month: 3 months, 00, in. the the state, a. ot $9.00 eo per week The June Wedding les ti he alive laughter echoing thru the Hear the sounds of silvery Fooms, catch the excitedly whispered conversations, listen | | to the rustling of silks—what’s it all about, anyhow? Can't you guess? Almost any one ought to see at once means— Sister's getting ready for her June wedding! Yes, she’s going to leave the old home and the prepara- ‘tions for the important event are in full blast. Brother makes alleged humorous remarks about the ration of HIS outfit—he’s to be best man, you know he wants to know when the tailors can come and suit, Father steps softly and carefully thru the living room “to his favorite chair in the library—he knows what wailing gnashing of teeth there would be if he inadvertantly pped on a valuable bit of lace dropped on the floor in rush and flurry. And the kid, otherwise known as Buster, hides spools bits of gown to his own great glee ‘and the con- ation of all the women folks concerned. It’s a happy time, of course, but every now and then her looks just a trifle wistful. For instance, when sister goes thru all the books in library and picks out those that are hers. She piles them in a neat heap and says she’s going to them with her to the new house. It makes the library shelves look rather bare—almost tho the family was breaking up housekeeping. | ' Then sister sorts out the other things that are hers. At gives a queer, different atmosphere to things when she just what is. No wonder mother looks wistful. But sister smiles and pats mother’s rather sad counte-| and says: “Never mind, mother, I’m not really leaving the old it HONEST, I LiKE TUN BuST mY ‘ \ SIDES ya \O) WAUGHIN' } rs | | \— a GIFT ~— se f. | | || The Turning Point in Your Carecr. - yy ee {mark my worps, } FORTUNE IN THAT THERE ACCOMPLISHMENT, YOUNG MAN _—_-—_—_—— Aw ws wormed’ | |. mun —— fy EDITORIALS — FEATURES The Man Wh (Copyriggt, 1919, By McKee Is there any feeling quite like that with which you pick up the paper? What will you see? Kings fallen? wonders of strange lands? Another crime’ |What new shifting in the kaleidoscope of Fate? ‘The other day J read that Harlow N. Hig- iginbotham, sometime President of the World’s Columbia Exposition, man of af- fairs, wealth, business, and philanthropy, had died. —=- and vigorous, he had fallen beneath an auto- - mobile in the street. (ss THAT This is not the story of his life. Others | WHAT IT will write his biography. They will tell of } os To his plans, achievements, honors. Ge A But certain men, to you, are types. They VENTRILS are symbols. Whatever may be their order ERQUIST? in the usual chronicle of the world, to you ~—W—"- | lof an idea, | Harlow N. Higginbotham will always be lto me the concrete representative and ( jf] fi ikon of Saal “The Man Who Did Me a Good Turn.” It matters not what it was all about, but i } inal a New once he, wealthy and busy, stopped his work, left his office and walked with me, little and unknown, down the street, to do me a favor, for no reason except that he Mj took a fancy to me. That was more than 20 years ago. So he is gone now! I wish I might drop a tear upon his folded hands; perhaps the Record- At 82 years of age, still active | they stand for a point of sentiment, a mark | “On the Issue of Americanism Jhere Can Be No Compromise o Did Me a Good Turn FRANK CRANE by Frank Crane) | pay my debts, if I live a thousand years, There's the man who gave me a match, the girl who gave me a smile, the farmer who gave me a ride, a cobbler in Munich once mended my shoe and would take no money, a man made way for me in a crowd to see the parade. A baby once smiled at me and held out her arms—I would not forget these small things, little sparkles in the life-stream. And men have given me a chance, and some have stopped to praise me, and I have seen the little flame in women’s as they looked on me, and years ago Georg Armstrong and Jo Holmes lent me mone} when I am sure they did not know would ever get it back. There are others, appearing out of the: | stranger throng, that have stood by me, dee fended by name, spoke out boldly and called! themselves my friends. Of all these, Harlow N. Higginbotham is the type, because my acquaintance with - |him was but casual, because he had no | reason for his kindness except the human | spark, because he emerged from the multi- tude, did me his Good Turn, and receded | again into the mist. | Always his strong face, shrewd and | understanding, will stand out from | the sea of human faces in my memory, | rebuke my dark moods, saying unto me | that this world of men and women is @ | good place, full of unexpected impulse, |a vale of tears, but a place of Heart you know. I’m going to live so close by that it will his account, might | Humanity. it the same as ever.” Mother smiles wisely, but says nothing. She knows never be the same. You see, she went thru all this felt just the same as sister does, when she prepared hher own wedding, many years ago. Grand jury exonerates garbage man in booze con- t case here. Proving that whatever may become 4 lly som it is only the empty bottle that lands in ash can. Science Is a Great Comfort scientist recently declared that anything which could | ly occur in the history of worlds and their inhabitants | dy occurred. He based this assertion on his concep-| the infinity of eternity. So many millions of years d into the discard, he said, that there's been plenty for the develo t of all possible forms of life,| mechanics, science, etc., ages and ages before we m. In other words it’s another way of saying there's , new under the sun. .is hard for any mind, not scientific, to believe that. -some hundreds of millions of years ago on some worlds, there were other human beings who had tele- automobiles, canned soups and all the other marvels modern times. It is to believe that such worlds f up into star dust, along with all their inhabitants and tions and that nature then set to work doing the same over again—creating another race. of human beings could again make gooseberry pies, barbed wire and liver » Of course when you look at it from the scientist's view- nt he has some foundation for his statement. The infinity nity is a tremendously long time and, with thousands ‘Billions of years behind us and with only a few million required to bring the human race to its present high it does seem plausible to think that anything which happen has already happened. There sure has been} ugh for anything. a comfort, too, all this is to us! What a pleasing ‘tion to realize that when you get a nasty crook in your gazing upward at the transcontinental airplane sailing fr your town with the mail that you are simply repeating thing that someone else did somewhere a half dozen ion years or so ago. It makes your neck feel so very th better, doesn’t it? ¢ After reading the various reports, anyone ought to easily convinced that Motorman Hector was either blame or not to blame for the street car accident. Why We're Enjoying It Again Say, do you know why all of us are enjoying baseball ® muc& more now than we have been for the past two 2? Listen. There’s no come-back to it now. here’s no uneasy feeling that players and spectators all be doing more important things—such, for in- as digging trenches or firing three-inch guns or cut- wire out beyond the front lines while the shells iked overhead and the rat-pat of the machine guns ded like the death rattle of civilization in our ears. There’s no feeling now that we shouldn’t be there, oping it up for the home team, scattering peanut shells ind until the floor of the grandstand looks like it had rash, and getting sun-burned and being happy in the old way. That’s why baseball has come back. It’s a regular man’s sport now, a regular man’s recrea- n once more. : Chicago authorities estimate that confidence men _ trimmed the American public for ten million last year. | This estimate does not include the graft of the re- epectable profiteer, of course. Collecting the indemnity from Germany may re- re keeping up a force that will cost more than the lemnity is worth. Arthur Griffith of the Sinn Fein says Wilson is fighting England, France and Italy. Not to mention Russia. We can understand why oppressed people should desire liberty, but we can’t understand he liberty makes their fingers sticky. | mother daughter —Yonkers Statesman Geraldine Farrar isn’t the only one who studi. Mier G from the sty comma ee _ “Across the Atlantic” in a couple of days! Zowie! THE NIGHT OF THE CHURCH ENTERTAINMENT, ; WHEN YOU RENDERED FOR THE FIRST TIME IN PUBLIC YOUR IMITATION OF A CAT-AND-DOG FIGHT, AND IT WAS ENTHUSIASTICALLY RECEIVED SUCH IS DEATH Never before has it been so expensive and unpleas ant to die Once was a time when a fellow could die for $150 and a mighty nice funeral he got for his But now, the least one can shuffle off for ts and the silver handles are nickel-plated at that. Grave digxers who once would open & grave for $6 now want twice that figure. Hearse Grivers are getting double pay. ‘And the casket makers have just added another Increase in prices. Why, it's getting #0 It's almost as cheap to live as to die! eee PINCHER PINCHES PINCHER ST. LOUIS, Mo.—This ts the story of the “pinch ing pinchers.” as related in the case of Private Watchman Isaac W. Kelly. Policewoman Alice Buck ley told the court that she was in @ store, and that Kelly winked at her. Then he pinched her arm, she said. Being a pincher herself, she Pinched Kelly for | The court sald $5 eee HOE, BROTHER, HOF! An Tiinois farmer plowed up 22 diamonds, one weighing 7 carata, Other diamonds have been found by diggers in South Carolina, Louisiana, Tennessee, zona and California. You might dig up one = sr garden. . ALSO, HE CARRIES THE PUMP WITH HIM In Athens goats are marched to housekeepers’ doors and milked before tho eyes of patrons. But this system does not prevent adulteration. The milk man wears a loore coat with wide sleeves. Around his waist is a rubber bag filled with water, and a pinching her. tube runs down his arm. As he milks he presses the | tube and the milk and water flow sllently together into the milk pail. eee LOOKED ENCOURAGING “Has that young man who is calling on you given you any encouragement, Emily?” asked the father. “Oh, yes, father. Last night he asked if you and were pleasant to replied the live with,” eee SPIDERS KNOW A THING OR TWO In his youth Mark Twain edited a weekly journal in a small western town, A subserfber wrote to him one day to remark that he had discovered a spider concealed in the folds of a rerently delivered paper. ‘The writer wanted to know whether such an occur: rence was a sign of good or bad luck. ‘The young editor replied in the next tssue as fol lows: “Constant Reader: The appearance of a spider tn a copy of Iagt week's paper was a sien of neither good nor bad luck; that intelligent insect was merely studying our columns in order to ascertain whether any store in the neighborhood had failed to adver tise in our paper, In order that ho might make for that establishment and there weave a web across the doorway where he might @well in undisturbed peace.”—Youth's Companion. * HAREM WOMEN PARADE | FOR INDEPENDENT EGYPT | % Exypt, where woman once observed the greatest seclusion, now sees its women joining vigorously in Nationalist street demonstrations. In gaily decked motor cars they ride thru the streets cheering and waving flags, while Arab girls do native dances on motor trucks, Most unusual of all—an Ejgyptian woman leaving her harem to address a gathering outside the sultan’s palace in favor of Egyptian in- dependence. * THE OLD GARDENER SAYS: || That amateur gardeners ought to be better ac quainted with the montbretias, which are among the best of the bulbous plants for small gardens, The flowers are similar to those of the gladiolus in form, | but are much smaller, They have bright, warm col ors and are produced in great profusion all thru the fall months. While they are not so showy as gladioll, each bulo sends up many more flowers. Few flow ers that grow in the garden are better for cutting, as they last a week or ten days in a vase of water if taken indoors just a# the first blooms on the spikes begin to open, Flower growers who do not know the montbretias will be grateful for the intro duction, | in regard to our president's 14 pointe that stopped | Knows we bave all the law that is needed in a cold Georgia, Alabama, | Idaho, Texas, Montana, Ari | the title of Emperor Augustin I. JURY TO BLAME Editor The Star: Where f* the Seattle Star going, anyway? What do you mean? On April 29 you my that awful war: “May Be, and May Not Be” On May 10 you said of the Garrison case: “Lat us pot biam ¢ jury so much as the law.” ‘The Seattle Star and every person in King county murder case like that. We all know that Hon. John Carmody fought like & bulldog, and Hon, Judge Jurey did hie duty to uphold law, but we had no jury—and here the Seattle blames the iaw instead of the jury. Explain, will you please ‘This jury is like one jast winter in the liquor case that given a quart of whisky for evidence, drank whisky and returned the empty bottle with a dict of not guilty. the) was) ver B. COLLY, Seattle. Tomorrow N the 18th of May tn 1822, Prince Iturbide war declared Emperor of Mexico by the army, under In 1832 on the 18th of May, Cassitmir Perrier, Prime Minister of France, died of cholera. Perrier was a man of great ability. He acquired an immense fortune as a banker and was famous as @ statesman and for his talent for public speaking. In 1824 on the 18th of May a machine for making nails was patented at Washington, May 18th, in 1899, was called “Peace Day.” It! was the opening of the International Peace Confer- ence at The Hague in Holland, which established the permanent Court of Arbitration for the settlement of all vital issues between and among the great nations. The conference was first proposed by the cmr of Russia, On May 18th, in 1917, President Wilson signed the Conscription Act, which provided for a selected draft to raise an army for the war against the central powers. On this day also the president issued a proclamation appointing the forthcoming June Sth as the national day for regi#tration. On May 18th, 1845, Sir John Franklin, the cele brated Arctic explorer, started on his last voyage. Thirty-nine relief expeditions, public and private, were sent out from England and America in 10 years | to search for Str John. On the last of these expeditiona, sent by Lady Franklin, traces of his missing ship were found and his death determined. ing | HEALING THE WORLD’S | | WOUNDS BY HELPING | YOUR NEIGHBOR ne BY THE REV. CHARLES STELZLE “Re a good neighbor.” ‘That's the only way that the world’s problems will be solved. They Aren't going to be settled by legislation, or war, or thru “selentific’ methods, Charity orgnnimtion societies are very necessary in our complex life, but by far the best way that the c. O. $ works is thru “good neighbors”—men and women who become responsible for a family or an individual, “Be a good neighbor.” Live it—and talk It. Get others to be “good neighbors.” And when you succeed in getting enough people in your community and your town to assume the friendly care of somebody else—helping them to find jobs, advising them when they are in trouble, having @ sincere interest in their children—we'll all be a whole lot nearer the dawn of the millenium, “Be a good neighbor.” It doesn't require any organization, or committee, or machinery—Jjust be a “good neighbor.” It doesn't require much money, either—mostly, it needs @ heart and a love for humanity, and some common senee, “Be a good neighbor.” —— The fact that there are just as good fish In the sen as ever were caught ts rather encouraging to the the | \ing Angel, checking up see it, and think it was a pearl, and put it So only can I pay my debt. to his credit. So, Recording Angel, when the case of | this man comes up on the Day of Judgment, 4 Reading of his death has set me thinking. \let me bear my testimony. How many persons there are who have |done me a Good Turn! Just I mean. All kinds. I cannot understand those owe no man anything. My days are crowded with undeserved Good Turns. $ dHere is the firet publication in America of the views of Halmar Eranting, president of the Berne conference. Branting ts « world-famous Bocialint. He is a fighter against the Rolshevtkt, a member of the na- tional parliament of Sweden, and was pro-ally during the war, strongly supporting Presi- Gent Wilson and the 14 points. The Rerne conference got to- gether all the right wing or conservative socialist groups of the world. They were in ses- sion nearly three weeks. AAPA APA BY HJALMAR BRANTING (Presicent of Berne Conference of Woe live today in an international crisix of cultures, wherein one na- tion must learn and take examples from another. Ever since the Russian and Fin- nith revolutions we have known a strong opposition at home to the tendency which would have social democracy go the way of a dicta- torship rather than the way of de- mocracy. We social democrats welcomed the Russian and Finnish revolu- tions, The winning of countries to democracy ts a thing we are re- sponsive to, But when later vio- lence was employed to meet the formation of a constituent assem- bly in Russia, that was a thing we could not answer for, The Swedish social democracy can neyer follow the path of either the Finnish or Russian Bolsheviki—it is the Swed- ish left socialists, not those of the right, who have followed them. The difference between a dicta- torship and a democracy is made clear for all the peoples of the Because we are still lacking in knowledge of what is happening tn Russia, and even tho positive dec- larations were made against Hol- shevism, an investigation commis- sion was appotnted which shall re- view events and conditions in Rus- sia. There were controversies be- REV. M. A. MATTHEWS will preach a sermon Sunday morning entitled THE FLICKERING LIGHT In the evening he will discuss the subject, IS AMERICA SAFE? Lotta Othick Madden will sing the Offertory at both the morning and evening service. You are welcome to our services, FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH piseatorial Mar. Lots of men who have traces of greatness in their makeup spoil everything by kicking over the traces, Seventh and Spring Let me recall. | that my memory for kindness is so poor! | world thru the Berne conference. | Harlow N. Higginbotham. One of the workers of the world Living tolled and tolling died; But others worked and the world went on, And was not changed when he was gone, A strong man stricken, a wide eail furled; And only a few men sighed. Well, I am one of them. casual people, | Alas, | who say they | I shall never | ‘Social Democrats Oppose Bolshies, . Declares Their International Leader jtween the French socialists and;true because such a league, the majority socialists. But we be-| honor and right as its reason, is |Heve that when the international! great a step forward, that it again assembles, it will work for well worth the sacrifice of Progress with an increased spirit /cignty involved for each of co-operation, lentering the league, | It was unfortunate that the con-| P " . ‘ference did not arrive at a de- cisive conclusion on the matter of the responsibility for the war. However, the conference took note of the admissions of the German delegates In this question, and the outcome of the matter will reveal | whether those delegates spoke in |the name of the whole German people. | | Events in all countries await the | service from shoes | peace in preparation at Paris. The | writes G. P. ~ groundwork for @ league of nations! More than 1! | which is being laid is one for | Soles have been [which no responsibility can be were |aseribed to the wishes of the Berne | can’ of |conference, tho it is nevertheless |—its jour right to point out its signifi- jcance in world history. It is our los that we canot take part in|} laying the foundations, drawing the ground lines of the league of nations, Both as a Swedish subject of a neutral nation and as an interna- tional socialist, I am come of this cause. must in such a part Every nation league yield up of {ts sovereignty. This is Prosperity and Wages Wages depend on prosperity and prosperity in turn depends on wages. The two are in- separable, Tavish expenditure of money by the tndi- vidual does not mean prosperity. The man or woman who has a surplus fund ready for any emergency is the prosperous individual. Your savings bank book i# the indicator of your prosperity. While wages are good and the country ts Prosperous, you should lay aside some part of your income in order that you may be Prosperous, no mattter how scarce work may be at some future time. Dexter Horton Trust and Savings Bank Second Ave. and Combined resources Dexter Horton Trust and Savings Bank and Dexter Horton National Bank $24,628,287.82