The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 23, 1919, Page 6

The Seattle Star By, mail out of city, 60c per month: # months 1.60; 6 months "$2.75; year, $4.00, in the tate of Washington. Outside the state, The per month, for ¢ tha or $9.00 per year. By carrier, c per week. THE SEATTLE STAR—FRIDAY, MAY 23, 1919. They’d Be Our fundamental laws are the constitution and the treaties, and, under the constitution, we have the United q ‘States senate in control of the making of treaties, Reading the “secret debates” of that convention at Philadelphia, in 1787, which got up our constitution, we find that, respecting the construction of the senate, _ “Mr. Gerry observed that the great mercantile inter- ‘ests and of stockholders is not provided for in any (pro- d) mode of election—they will, however, be better nted if the state legislatures choose.” é Well,we got United states senates picked by the legis- and it took us over a hundred years to discover that “the great interests” were being represented by the senate nost exclusively. The United States senate was originated ‘as a check upon the people, and for better representation ial interests, and it answered its undemocratic pur- so well that the people were compelled to do the ing themselves. But, there has been no change in senate’s despotic power to establish fundamental law the people. Nor has there been change in the con- ney features of the selection of these fundamental makers. . ae A perfectly villainous senator holds his job so long he satisfies the people of his own state, and Rhode d has as many votes in the making of national funda- laws (treaties) as has New York. Under such a condition, there springs up the critical of the league of nations. Great Caesar! what wouldn't blessed old framers of the constitution say if they that, in getting up a check of the people, they'd left matter of entering into a moral, commercial, economic military alliance with a dozen or so monarchies up to thirds of an irresponsible senate? Wouldn't those old ots of 1787 just cut loose in behalf of a referendum? think so. for It Seattle hotel man is arrested on suspicion of help- is ing @ jailbreak in the county bastile. What's that you Said about a fraternity of holdups and landlords? Oh, well, have it your way. The Automobile Club of Western Washington is justi- ly riled at the irresponsible statement recently pub- ' lished in a Los Angeles paper concerning road conditions in the Northwest. A so-called tourist is quoted as say- “I went up there and had to ship my car back, or was left of it. I started from Los Angeles with the tically new. Now it’s a wreck.” ich would be sad, if true. Between Seattle and San Francisco, there are three ches that would be classed as bad roads, and one of! is in California. Another poor stretch is in Oregon, the third is between Kalama and Vancouver, Wash., is under construction. A good detour is provided by ferrying at Kalama to thence to Portland by a fair, graveled road and| In southern Oregon, thru what is known as Cow canyon, a distance of 21 miles, a new road is being ted and a detour is impossible. The Oregon au- at considerable extra expense, require the con- to clear up the day’s work and travel is allowed 6 p. m. and until 8 a. m. every day. The third and stretch is in northern California, where new con- work is ing, but these places are only x or seven miles can be easily negotiated if proper is taken by the tourist. ‘What was that about those who live in glass houses? calbed Now we're all ready to proceed. We've heard from . J. Bryan_on the booze question. One word from in, and Wilson does as he pleases. ai | You Owe Self Good Music | _. Nearing the end of the spring concert season, the Se- Symphony orchestra, which gave a recital Thursday in the Masonic temple auditorium, has already gained appreciable following. It is certain that with the be- ing of the fall season in October, when the pleasures vacation and out-of-doors are missing, the attendance _ at the concerts will be greatly increased. _ While it is to be regretted that larger turnouts are greeting the orchestra, it should be gratifying to its ws that it has a representative following and one will not desert it—and that the numbers of this ing are steadily increasing. Seattle’s cultural life would sustain a severe loss, it to lack the compositions of the master musicians 80 ably delineated under the baton of John Spargur. The ' Fecognition of good music is something the loca i s to itself. . er DO Jurors in Bruce case ask for “talking machine.” Huh! As tho George Vanderveer and Judge Claypool weren't giving them enough chatter! When people say that a gay young man has finally settled down, they mean that he is finally making an effort to settle up. Heaven will be a disappointment to some of the very good when they find it occupied by some who were not 80 good. 4 One reason why wages can’t keep up with high 4 aya ts because the more we get the more we feel ails for aeration hae says Judge Gordon. Jail World brotherhood would win more converts if it could overcome that playful indulgence in homicide. Only time will tell whether the war or the peace conference bred the most sore spots SINCERITY The world has had plenty of preaching, For the figure of speech is a naught. The world is aweary of teaching, Yet still the world babbles untaught. We are all of us dreamers and actors, Who mumble and mouth the Ideal, But they who are ultimate factors Are they who dream on to the Real. Vor we pose in a painted proscenium, Where we gild words to cover their dross, But only once in a millenium Comes the stark on his Cross, (Caprten 909, by Oanatd Metter) ————}|Why Not Deliver the ex-Kaiser to Villa With Carte Blanche? GR-R-RO WwW WE MIGHT BEGIN BY BOILING HIM RATTLESNAKE OIL, THEN WE CAN TAKE HIM SLOWLY APART AND — On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise Ke LLPA th G; BY (Copyright, 1919, OOF! we Y St, SENOR! AND DCN'T FORGET THE TRIAL BY FIRE ieee IN The best cure for what is the matter with the United States or any other country, for that matter, is the Home. No Movement will move | there. No inates | No there, No Religion will prosper that is not usable there. | No Edueation is of much does not include the Home. A real Democracy is a cluster of Homes, not a number of Individuals. The real Unit of either Politics or Eco- nomics is not the Man, but the Home. Every nation is more or less artificial. The State is a man-made thing, a device, an expedient. The Home is a natural thing. It is founded on the Instincts. Hence it is Eternal. It was present in the world before any other institution—the State, the Church, or the School; it will {be present when all these have changed, fallen, and been reshaped a hundred time: We do not have Revolutions in this coun- try for just one reason—we have too many contented Homes. unless it start teform will reform unless it orig- there, Law will stand unless it is favored account that The only antidote for Bolshevism is the, | Home. ' The Home is where industrial unrest can be prevented—there only. The defective Home is the prime cause of prostitution, drunkenness, and idleness. It is the Home that has bested and ousted the Saloon. The one institution that irritates and dis- gusts the apostle of unrest, the cantankerous ‘radical, and the cracked grouch-propagan- Greetings: Have you been thrown in the jug for | speeding, yet? | eee | JULIA HAD THE STUFF Take It from Turleson there is no O'CONnor, despite typographical appearances | «- IT’S STRANGE, Gillette owns a t' in BUT TRUE | Speaker beard, but no safety | razor. | Bert Swezea has been grand marshal often, but the vice president has been Marshall much longer. see What has become of the old-fashioned wallpaper store that used to give away yardsticke in the spring? eee Lamped fn the advertisements: “A wonderful gentleman's farms for sale. “Clothes for younger young men.” eee However, or words to that effect, I. H. Joy t# an undertaker in Lansing, Mich. | C. B. Glass in a diamond dealer in Columbus, Mo. And George Hood can be found near the Automo- bile club In Se That ts, he is manager of the Metropolitan theatre. eee Germany, however, ts getting a great deal more out of the peace than she did out of the war eee Now that it is pretty generally known that wine can be made of dandelions, the man who doesn't keep |"em out of his lawn will be under suspicion. eee TT SOUNDS MORE LIKE THE “SHIMMY Tt was an order! ed, gloom dispersing eol- lection of ladies y at graced the en- chanting loveliness of K all taet Raturdey evening and participated tn the first dance staged by the popular new peciai clab known as the file It was ® Deautiful nigh twinkling a the vibrating of unreserved joy an seemed to fn the hearts of all those present | it wee utiful to describe the feet of the dancers glided, and thelr lithe bodies swayed. like | thistiedawn before a gentle autumn breess, to the at | of the latest fox trort or 2 —-Cudahy (Wis) Enterprise. oe And beware, children, of sassafras tea’ You never can tell what it will lead to oe the merchant remarked, “We sell lots of wet weather.” ee But, as dry goods in . The rug manufacturers of the United States ralsed $100,000 to fight in the courts the luxury tax on | |rugs, but they found the tax #o easy to beat they |told their lawyer to keep $10,000 and not bring any suits. You can beat anything in this country ex jcept a lawyer. What has become of the o to buy a new hat every season? If you really wish to know—why, now every month. f. woman who used And the o. & man who every season, now buys a new one every two years. eee But, as F. C. P. blows no perfume.” telephones, “It's an {ll wind that eee TAKE OUT YOUR LIFE INSURANCE FIRST I will be at the hotel Saturday afternoon tto pierce ears, It ts now the time to get this work done with- out causing pain, but will not be responsible should any serious results occur, Mra Boon Thompson.— Robinson, Kas., Index. N EK WHEN SIN GRIPS A MA BY THE REV. CHARLES STEL “Remember Lot's wife.” ‘This is next to the shortest verse in the bible but it's one of the most powerful texts in the word of God Lot and his family were fleeing from Sodom—a city which has become a by-word for rottenness and corruption. the city, but evidently the temptation was too strong for Lot's wife. She became a pillar of salt! This is a most mysterious event. Few preachers talk about it, because it's so hard to explain. But whatever happened to her, it must have been a terrible punishment. And here's the mighty lesson that {t teaches—once the power of sin grips a man or woman, it’s next to impossible to break completely away from it. Now probably Lot's wife hadn't gotten very deep into the muck and mire of Sodom—just enough to | soil her soul, But it was enough to hold her back—and she was lost. “Remember Lot's wife.” Thousands of years after it happgned, the new testament writer reminds men of this tragic incident And its lesson should not be lost upon the men and women of today, | | “Remember Lot's wife” ry Lael Teal ‘eeetal bet atte) ho They had been warned not to turn back to look at | | } good > | now that might be | the Japanese, Chinese and Russian cigarets when | | I couldn't get the American made, dist most is the Home. The Home is bourgeois.. That is why the Smart Set turn up their noses at it and the Sansculottes curse it. The Hote implies three things, which are the greatest things in the world. One for Man, one for Woman, one for Child. For it implies a Man who Works. And a Woman who is Good. And a Child who is Taught. Only the Man who Works is a good citi- zen, for he assumes his due responsibilities, keeps the peace, observes the law, and his i “the veins of wealth” to any land. STAR TOBACCO IN HARBIN Editor The Star: Perhaps it will be just a uteie | surprine for yo arn that one of your “Packages of Cheer” from r Bi France Tobacco Fund han been safe ivered One of America’s Fight Men” in Manchuria, at sin rather the ing Siberia, or that shipment of the and intended for up THE HOME DK, FRANK CRANE by Frank Crane) Only the Woman who is Good is fit for mothering, and the world needs mothers |more than statesmen, poets, and professors. | Only the Child who is Taught is fitted for citizenship. If you want to save the world, don’t take to the pulpit—go home. If you want to reform society, don’t mount the soapbox. or write for magazines —go home, When in doubt—go home. Make Home a decent, happy place, and you have done something which you know will count. Anything else is debatable. Tomorrow N the 24th of May, in 1819, the steamship Savan- nah left Savannah for Liverpool. This first of our steamships, a boat of 250 tons, with # 90 H. P. engine, rigged as 4 threemasted ship, She was built at Elizabethport, N. J In 1844 the 24th of May muel Morse sent his first message over his newly constructed tele graph line from Baltimore to Washington. Vail, who had been working with Morse on the invention, re ceived the message. There had previously been @ | private tryout of the wire on May 1, but the firat public demonstration took place on the 24th. “What ders hath God wrought," was the message chowen we on the 24th of May. Fire Zouaves, a regiment in composed of New York firemen, while pulling down a Confederate a hotel in Alexandria, Va. the shot. He | Fire Zouaves. In 1875, on the 24th of May, the American Bank lers’ association was founded at New York. Seven teen bankers from 11 different cities formed the as sociation The firet convention was held at Sara- toga, N. Y¥., in July of the same year, The a» sock came int xistence as a result of the panic of 1873 th of May, In 1883, the first bridge con- w York and Brooklyn was opened and 13 years after construction had been Colonel Elmer the was shot flag flying The hotel proprietor fired was shot and killed by one of the Elis elvil dead In | | worth the war jon financial On the necting | dedicated, | started. On the 24th of May, 1915, Italy entered the world | war against Germany | Oe | Many of the world’s greatest men are unknown to |fame. They are great because they share the | greatness with others and keep their sorrows strict! to themselves | Altho a girl may know but little: of business, she |always knows enough to consider sealed proposals. brothers in France, in some mysterious y become mixed up with supplies for the American EXxpeditionary Forces in Siberia, and finally landed at Viadivostok to be distributed among the boys tn thin strange and faraway land. However, {t doesn't matter #0 much to us how it all came about, and we are sure that so long as we are boys from the Uv. 8 A, just the same qs the army in France, you) Will not be disappointed. | There ts only one thing that I ean think of just! preciated more than this gift from you, and that is a letter from home. Nothing! can take the place of that. But it is much more pleasant to read @ letter from home while enjoying & good Lucky Strike cigaret, than one of the kind that we are able to bay hera I have tried to smoke our * “Swift bot they com pare to our cigarets like a Londres cigar to a La Preferencia. I think they are made to smoke when | drinking vodka, especially after the second or third| she buys one | used to buy a new one v4 | among the masses of the people. 8. W, STRAUSS, | particularly | lettering or drink they might be substituted without detection, Yeu, I know your city. I lived there during the greater part of 1915-16. T am quite familiar with The Seattle Star and fully agree with your straight forward and progressive policy. | My home, before coming Into the service, was tn Loe Angeles, and I expect to return there after 1 am discharged from the army | We have had a long and cold winter here. In| fact, we can hardly say that our spring has yet but the zero weather, I'm quite sure, ts July and August are really the only sum onthe in this section, as September brings mer frost M m te now stationed at Harbin, M ia, North China. The population of this cf something lke 250,000, mostly Chinese. It ts al great experience to be among these people and to learn something of their home life, It is impossible for the people at home to get the true conditions of this country fixed In their minds, One must be here to fully realize it CORPORAL GUY Ft A member of A. E. Col P Harbin, company y is KRAMER, , Siberia, Bist Inf, Manchuria. BUILDING OPERATIONS Editor The Star: Two slogans that should be gtven the most widespread popularity in America today are, “Own Your Own Home” and “Build Now.” They signiy movements that are worthy of the greatest encouragement from every agency, both public and private, Notwithstanding the efforts being made to revive the building industry and Insufficient housing conditions, the amount of con struction work now golng on thruout the country is not equal to normal demands, and conditions are daily growing more serious, Much of the present stagnation t# due to a feeling | My on the part of many that construction costs will be cheaper later on. The fundamental conditions which will prevent re cession from present general price levels may be| enumerated as follows: 1; Constantly increasing scale of wages, and uni-| versal tendency toward shorter working hours, | 2: Shortage of unskilled labor. 3: Inflated credit conditions whtch depreciate the | # purchasing power of the dollar. 4: Present abnormal shortage of buildings tn the United States and in all allied countries. | 5: Tremendous amount of necessary public con: | Hf struction work of all kinds. | 6; Tendency toward better standards of ttving| It shows that received by Swift & correct live animals - for labor, freight expenses 3—Swift & Company profit of only POLITENESS Editor The Star: Let's have a “drive” to try to make Seattle the first city in the land in the matter of common politeness, not to say manners. I refer and solely to the tiny but aged and world-wide motto, “Ladies First," said motto to. be practiced daily and generally thrnout Seattle, wher ever @ street car is loading up with passengers, Let's have a little sign bearing that motto in neat gold red lettering to go right with the notice ‘Have Your Fare Ready” sign, at front and} rear, Inside and outside of cars It would take only that little reminder to keer the men folks who are so proud that they are| i Americans from forgetting their A B C's of home| | and school training and behaving Ike Rolshevikt| AME when boarding a car. iy Let's stamp out crowding at the astreet! Mil car doors, CLARENCE EB. LIPPON. | {if Give some agitators free lunch and they will man age to get along for a time without free speech, or the price of meat to the request. this ‘a Let Us Send You a Dollar” For a Pocket Piece It will interest you. It shows where the money goes that Swift & Company takes in. out of every dollar Company from the sale of meat and by-products in 1918— 1—Swift and Company paid for - 85.00 cents 2—Swift & Company paid out and other - 12.96 cents had left a -_ 2.04 cents Total 100.00 cents . - The 2.04 cents remaining as profit equals only a fraction of a cent per pound. It is too small to affect materially the price of live stock to the farmer consumer. A “‘Swift Dollar’’ will be mailed you on Address Swift & Company U.S. Yards, Chicago Seattle Local Branch, 201-11 Jackson St. J. L. Yocum, Manager over” iy +