The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 22, 1919, Page 6

She Seattle Star out of city, 606 per month: 3 months, 6 months, $2.76; year, $6.00, in the 7 Outalde the te rrier, city, 120 per week Mechanic’s Place in Democracy ; The American mechanic has been as large a factor as — in the democracy we have attained up to The mechanic has economized and distributed human for the ease and cheapness by which we obtain the ities, comforts and many of the luxuries of life. And the ease and cheapness by which we obtain our is quite as important in a democratic program as expressions of our will in the matter of law and gov- nt. The average man or woman of today carrjes a watch only a king or queen could have afforded a century Many of us can in our homes and at will hear the world’s test symphony orchestras and human song birds. These, together with the more utilitarian items of our life, are due to the efforts of the American me- very desire for increased and low cost production, uding the modern plow, the reaper, the automatic lathe, punch press, the power loom and sewing machine. Tt is true that there were great mechanics in the old before the conception of a social democracy, these MADE things only for the very rich. The large difference between the American mechanics those of the old world is that the Americans devoted ir efforts and ingenuity on machinery and tools and to produce a thing in quantity and at low cost, while Europeans put their efforts on merely making a few the thing itself. The world’s modern manufacturing methods in the of mechanical devices grew out of the New d clock industry. In 1803 a Boston merchant saw a large market for ll shelf-clocks if they could be sold cheaply enough. He offered Eli Terry, a wooden-movement clock maker if Watertown, Conn., an order for 4,000 of them if he 0 procure them for $4 each and make delivery witvin tiol ‘ years. ' Terry, in order to carry out this contract, invented a u form of gear cutting machine, a semi-automatic Tat ppsited water power to his machinery and divided workmen into groups, each engaged upon a separate _. He thus produced the parts with such uniform accuracy they were interchangeable—they could be assembled comparatively unskilled labor. ‘This was about the beginning of MANUFACTURING rather than merely MAKING them. SEATTLE STAR—THURSDAY, MAY 22, 19) |Fable of the Steeplejack and His Applejack. {} Pa an f oi feon om method of production has since been applied in| perfected form to sewing machines, typewriters, le, the automobile and now the airplane—every device of war and peace. _ Yes, the American mechanic has been fully as important ‘the democratic scheme of things as the American statesman gave us the formulas of government free expenditure of our efforts, but the mechanic mized our efforts and made our modern life rich in comforts and pleasures, where those of fathers were poor and barren by comparison and burdens. Woman suffrage passed in the house yesterday by margin. It's in the senate where it will have the skirt effect. The Men of the Depot Brigade~ Because they have clerical ability, a number of soldiers | E held at Camp Lewis arbitrarily, and demobiliza-| rights are virtually being denied them. The camp needs clerks. Therefore it refuses to dis- these men of the depot brigade. Yet it does not fair. Othgrs are being discharged daily-——others who, ily for themselves, are not as capable in a clerical way. ri _ Still, when these men were drafted, it was not at all in the! of the president or congress or the war department those who make good clerks should be kept longer in| le army than those who are good carpenters or black- If Camp Lewis needs carpenter work done, you may sure that some private contractor will be put on the Whf, Camp Lewis itself was built by private con- The soldiers were not called upon to do it. Why should not purely clerical work be considered in same light? Let these clerks, taken from their homes tpeir families for war service, go home with the rest the men. They are as fully entitled to discharges as other class in the national army. A miss is as good as a mile, it is said. And a prom- ize to pay Northern dividends shortly—who'll say what that is? For the Full Sunlight of Freedom Language is the prime basis of understanding. It seems that people cannot have the same brain cell ngement and be in agreement without speaking the| language. We get along pretty well with our neighbor, Canada; We speak the same language. We are always in some kind of a quarrel with our hbor, Mexico; for we speak a different language. One reason, and perhaps the main one, that Holland! ‘and Switzerland get along so well with the rest of the world | ig that they are both nations of linguists f Both are small countries with commercial relations with ‘Most other nations, and, for very material reasons, languages have long been made a particular part of their Publie school systems. , Bank clerks, store salesmen, and even newsboys on the streets of Holland cities will often try fiye languages | on a foreigner before finding his native one. _ This is no argument for our learning all languages of the earth, nor for the earth speaking one language, but it presen?s the necessity for the use of one language here in America if we are going to get on well together. The largest, fullest, brightest ray in the full sunlight of freedom here in America is common understanding. The prime basis of this common understanding is one language, the prevailing language—English. ‘oe ‘ Hun delegates to the peace congress at Versailles will have full power to sign a treaty and the league will have full power to make the signatures worth some- | thing. A rood hog knoweth no age, nor docs he who preaches always practice. | EVEN HIS HAIR 18 RED Henry King, school director, baberdasher and story teller, is well read eee LET THE STAMM BROS, KING BROS, HATTON | AND OLIVER, WORRY ABOUT THIS. | | When Hank Ford gets his carta down to $2.99 each, and the art of pedestrianing will pass, what will |caneet™ of the chaps who cannot navigate without canes? | oe Perhaps Livingston B. Steadman, the atty. at law, | and Dick Kinnear, the real estater, could answer ithe above | see | LEVY-LEVY of theatrical fame in this neck | of the woods, and Miss Vivian May Levy, are en gaged. Looks like the Levys and their names are seldom parted j Anyhow, congratulations, Gene and Miss Vivian | If you can find the stuff anywhere, drink one on us. eee THE NIGHT BEFORE——?? the night before payday, when my jeans I searched for the price of some coffee and beans. Not @ quarter was stirring, not even a “Jit”; All coin was off duty—milled edges had quit Forward, oh, forward, oh time in your flight, And make it tomorrow—just for tonight —SERGT. 8 M. PELL, Tours, France. Genial Gene Levy "Twas all thru A WORD FROM JOSH WISE TIME may be money—but “a good time” is somethin’ After reading he Germans decided to close theatres ¢ halls and other places of | amusement for a week. That was a wise move They can find plenty of amusement for a week by t to figure out how long it will take them to pay up WHAT DETAINED HIS MOTHERIN.LAW? Herman H. Hodges, who gradi of 1918 at the California Poly | town and out the school y | companied by his father, mother party were on a wedding trip Cal in He and wife he San Luis Obispe Telegram. see Gen, Douglas been given McA ray a berth West he doesn't go to sleep in it thur has wager the newspapers Point. We'll . ‘ A CONSIDERATE ORCHESTRA The Perth Orchestra wish to announce will give a dance for the on Friday next attend, for that they benefit of the orchestra A good time is assured to all that as we will endeavor to secure a good orchestra the occasion.—Perth, N. D,, ae THEN HE TOOK HIS HAT AND LEFT And did you bring me back any Ve here's a German bullet that the out of my } Oh New She He took She souvenir? doctor I wish it had been a Germa ore MOTH-EATEN ADVICE “You shouldn't ery over spilt milk.” “My friend, that remark | wasn't 10 cents a pint.’ helmet originated when Washington Star milk MRS. PUFFPOFF PUFFS A PIPE Charles Puffpoft, Chicago ad his wife in the rt of domestic relations , a8 he said, she nt too much time puffing a pipe and cigars and work o- ittle doing hou . I'm ashar see you crying because a ng you. A a man Yees, and ththen youyou'd gimme a it | |i like you said y-you would Lif you ever h-heard }mme usin’ that k-kind of Manguage. “PRINCE OF WALES MAKES ESTATE PAY HIM WELL LONDON.Yes, the Prince of Wales is a very busy He gives @ lot of his time to his the Duchy of Cornwall, and it brought in $250,000 last | |year, of which the prince «nent 195 099 i» better. | | man estate, | will mean ultimately a year around o! By McKee | On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be Mo Compromise LITTLE OLD NEW YORK BY DR. FRANK CRANE (Copyright, 1919, by Frank Crane) w York is the largest city in the United | States of America and the largest center of population in the world, As such it is America’s pride. But sometimes we are ashamed of it. Because, like all things over-successful, it occasionally gets chesty, i. e., it thinks more ‘highly of itself than it ought to think. For, after all, our great cities are but the expression and front of the vast country | behind them. New York City is great only because it is the exponent of Oklahoma, | |lowa and Dakota, The roots of Wall Street run down to Louisiana and to Illinois. It is the focus of business where the rays from Texas and Colorado meet. | And if there were no hinterland there would be no New York, Like every great metropolis, New York is apt to suppose itself to be the whole works. Hence, like all the proud, it be- comes now and then absurd. New York is the show-place of the coun- try. Broadway is its Midway Pleasance. / ron visiting the city want to dance (REPRESENTING ROARS OF APPLAUSE FROM THE FRENZIED POPULACE 20 STORIES BELOW) TREES AS MEMORIALS Eéitor The Star: We wish to compliment you on that editorial "The Gardener's Best Friend.” Indeed a fellow feels better when he hee on @ clean collar and your admonition to the city to take a tip from nature is indeed a timely one. As you doubtless know the American Forestry as esoctation’s suggestion for the planting o memorial trees tor satiors and soldiers in the great wa has been taken up all over the country and we know that you will find fn the planting of trees, not alone for those who lost their lives, bat in honor of those who have offered their lives to their country, & great impetus to the suggestions you make in your editorial » If the people of Seattle will plant more trees we feel sure that there will be a greater inspiration to keeping the neighborhood of thone trees clean. This ity” which, of course, is what the people of Seattle want We think you will find the proper inepiration for! a city beautiful in Joyce Kilmer’s wonderful poem. “Trees.” which reads 1 think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree, A tree whose hungry mouth ts prest Against the earth's sweet Mowing breast. A tree that looks to God all day And lifts her leafy arms to pray, A tree that may in summer wear A nest of robins in her hair, Upon whore borom Who intimately tnow has lain; lives with rain. Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a@ tree. We feel assured that anyone who has a personal interest in a tree will also have a much clearer in terest in keeping your city beautiful With all good wishes for the success of your pug gestion, I am, Yours very truly CHARLES LATHROP PACK, President the American Forestry Association, Washington, D. C. Tomo w On the 2ard Savonaroja, an Italian political former, was hurned Florence by order of Pope Alexander VI, whose enmity he had incurred. Sav onarola’s influence among the people of Florence wa ) great that of May, in 1498, Geronimo and religious re for several years he guided . the jovereign, but when he bre t revival by his dénouncem ruption in the Church and attacked the conduct of the pope, neither his upright © his popularity could save him on the 23rd of May of Canterbury, pronounced the as its religious and cor infamous life about of the Cranmer, archbishop of Henry Artagon, invalid in the marriage i Catherine of precedence for divorce 2trd of Ma i bort 1798 Hood ts and satirioal ons Thomas Hood, the chiefly remembered ems. His poems created a great deal of hey were written 28rd of May, Napoleon crowned As there was none the head of Corsican peasant, ent Iron Crown of Lombardy, f with his own hands, given it to me, put upon Napoleon crowned saying as he did so has Le him beware who would h it. Iron Crown derives its name from a narrow} band of iron attached to the inner side of the circiet It is #ald to have been made out of one of the nails used at the crucifixion. The earliest quaeihistorical notice of the Iron Crown is that it used at the coronation of Agilufus, King of Normandy, in the year 591 On the 23rd of May, 1808, the first of the Swage riots among the English weavers broke out In 1872, on the 23rd of May, the first national con | vention of workingmen, as a political party, at New | York nominated Gen, U. 8. Grant for president Grant was the regular republican candidate If you are afraid to ask for what you want the chances are that some one will hand you a lemon, We wonder if the Lord loves a cheerful giver as well as the cheerful giver loves himself, the} and caper and drink and watch the mounte- | \banks that throng the garish highway. But New York is not the United States. It does not represent the United States. | It is a good deal of a European dump- heap. Much of it is foreign, an extraneous ‘something clinging to our shores. | New York does not want prohibition. It ‘interferes with its high-jinks, its profit- jtaking, and it Europacity. But Kansas and Nebraska want it, and the multitudes of plain bourgeois that swarm the hills and dales of the uncitified territory, the U. S. A., want it, and New York is discovering, greatly to its humiliation, that it is a part jof the U, S. A. and will have to conform. New York is metropolitan. Also ex- cessively provincial. It is apt to forget that civilization is not bounded on the west by |Jersey City. | SOCCOOSEEOHO HOO OOOOOOOOO OOOO OOOOOO OOO OOOOE e Fraser-Paterson Co. Second and University Special | duced for quick clearance. and 80. Madam Lyra Corsets, formerly $6.50 and $7.50; Lucille Corsets, formerly $6.00 and $7.50. Special clearance price Friday ..... 31 and 33. Lucille, B. & J., Treco, American Lady cially priced for clearance Friday. 8¢ ccccccccccccccsvcecects | | carriage for baby at a very low price. One $75 s Pul One $ $50.00 Reed Stroller $65.00 Re 90 Pullman Carriage, special Friday on}: One | 00 Fre | Special Friday only | a $s special Friday only .. $17.50 Volding Go-Cart, special Friday only | PTITTITITTTTTTTTTTTTirriT rrr 150 Slightly Soiled Lingerie Blouses Specially Priced Friday at $1.95 —All perfect garments, but slightly soiled from handling and display; made of voile in V and square necks with sailor and roll collars and trimmed with Val lace; sizes 34 to 44. Specially priced Friday at, each $1.95 ction, Third Floor. : \s ° ie ecccccesece use 65 Taffeta, Foulard Dresses Priced for Fri Georgette. and summer. —An extraordinary Friday offering. PeoCecccccccocccccesecseesesCs © —159 Corsets in sizes 19, 20, 21, 28, 24,25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 31, 32, 33, 34. This lot consists of Warner, American Lady, B. & J. and Grecian Treco; either front or back lace; some few are elastic Corsets. They sold regularly at $2.50, $3.00 and $3.50. Special for Friday clearance . Odd Reed Pullman Baby Carriages Greatly Reduced in Price —An unusual opportunity to secure a high grade in Carriage In old ivory, special $45.00 hh gray carriage, special Friday $45.00 —Luggage Section, F —$13.50— —A special purchase direct from New York arrived today. Materials are Taffetas, soft Satins and printed Foular All the very latest models and the colors are in the new shades for New York is a city of strangers, all pre- pared to do anything once, all impressed with a horror of being “pikers”’; that is why they pay $10 a day for hotel accom- modations they could get for $3 in Syra- cuse, and $11 for a dinner that would cost | them $2.50 in Denver, and $4 for a ride in a taxi which in Oshkosh would cost thent 50 cents. Sophistication is its god. Not to know celebrities and not to have seen the latest girl show is its idea of shame and disgrace, For all that, New York is the greatest | place to live in in the world, the wrestJin, place of giants, the literary and artisfi¢ center of the Western World, the gladdes baddest, maddest, humanest, craziest, cheap’ est, most expensive, loveliest, uglie clean- est, dirtiest, happiest, saddest, kindest, cruelest locality this side of the New Jerusalem, we {Maybe You Overlooked This} Ff Section IX., Clause 6, of the peace treaty reads: “Germany is to restore within six months the Ko- ran of the caliph Othman, formerly at Medina, to the king of the -Hedjas, and the skull of the sultan Okwawa, formerly in German East Africa to his Britannic majesty’s government.” . Language conceals some thoughts and renders some conspicuous. ee Main 7100 Friday Clearance of Corsets —Discontinued models in all standard makes re- —26 Corsets in sizes 20, 21, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 priced at priced at $3.95 —44 Corsets in sizes 22, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, Included in this lot are Mme. Lyra, and Fro- laset, which formerly sold at $4.00 and $4.50, spe- 4 e & e e . $1.95 —Corset Section, Second Floor. = y $37.50 » J) el ifth Floor. Wate Large Coverall White Aprons Special Friday $1.95 —Made of heavy Indian Head in V neck style; short sleeves and full belt; these are regular $3.00 values, but are specially priced for Friday COoocceccecoccescccccorceeeeeeesoocce E F The Special Price Basement and Satin day’s Selling { PRICE BASEMENT fi 8; some combined with spring b Sccccccccccoccccccsooes. QOOTOOTOOTOCOSSOHO SO OOESOOCES a