The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 31, 1919, Page 6

She Seattle Star out of city, 50¢ per month; # months, 1 & montha "$2.75; year, $400, Mm the of Washingt Qutslde the state Se per month, $4.50 fer ¢ monthe, or $9.00 Der year. [ly carrier, city, llc per week. By, ma eemeks Spore |} Omaha, Neb., and Sioux City, Ia, have collaborated im as thrilling a story of romance as ever was written by &@ Six Best Seller, and the most interesting thing about particular story is that it’s a fact and not fiction. The rs really live and breathe, altho at the present mo- ment they are doing their living and breathing under the of the police. ‘ . In the old-fashioned days, now seemingly at an end, was “station blotters) for husbands to trade wives. it nothing out of the ordinary (see history and police The cave- when displeased with his better half, went out and tged in some other caveman’s wife. But these are modern times. Woman has come into own, a free, untrammeled soul, the equal of man, and ly becoming conscious of the fact that sauce for the also is sauce for the goose. For some years Amos Harvey and his wife, Margaret, d next door to John Tilford, and his wife, Rose, in Sioux iy, Ta. As is the more or less pleasing custom among married Mrs. Harvey was wont to remark to her husband the happy way Mr. Tilford mowed the lawn, raked the and did the little chores about the house. And Mrs. Tilford impressed upon her husband her ion that Mrs. Harvey had the husband ideal, a man wouldn't smoke up the house with his old cigars, and was always tickled to take his wife out for an even- leasure at the movie. (You have heard tell of the cow that couldn’t be kept in own pasture because she was forever thinking the next had more toothsome grass?) Well, that was the way with Mrs. Tilford and Mrs. TORIALS * TURDAY, MAY 31, 191! On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise | Superior Persons i IT AIN'T HUMAN, THASSALL— THERE Musr BE SomETIING WRONG With HOW'RE THE YOUNGSTERS, “Soon I began to like Mr. Harvey better than my hus-| and Mrs. Harvey ie extremely fond of John,” ned Mrs. Tilford to the Omaha police the other day. “Last August she and I consulted and we agreed: to) husbands. After we had entered into our agreement we called our husbands in and told them about it. th said the exchange would be fine for all of us.” Then suits for jurts are slow, and the heart beats early moments of a new-born love. “So we moved to Omaha,” continued Mrs. Tilford,| I lived with found houses next door to each other. They } ivorce were filed in Sioux City. But) quickly when it is in) larvey, and Mrs. Harvey lived with Mr. Tilford. We # our divorces to be granted any day now and then marry. We are the best of friends. But I wouldn't! with my husband again if he were the last man on| _“And I wouldn't live with my husband either,” sec- Mrs. Harvey, who expects to be Mrs. Tilford. swapped “we didn’t have anything to say about it but ‘Yes.’” us,” chorused Messrs. Tilford and Har- | Now we don’t know for sure how Mrs. Tilford-Harvey to like her new husband when she gets him legally, Mrs. Harvey-Tilford will get along with hers when shackled to him for better or worse, but we have a recollection that the fence-jumping cow found the the other field no better than in the one she le er, the/farther you get from meadow grass the rit looks, and— thboys clean up the ises Pershing, they sing “Work for the the heart beats rapidly | The Bothell road, and similar ones to it, may have done a they have outlived their usefulness in th days traffic. They have outlived their usefulness un. y are widened. Today, a road d as narrow as the Bothell road, and bear- the traffic it does, is a crime. With exceedingly | and careful driving, there is only a hair’s breadth fety for passing cars. do occur to the most careful driver—then there The road is too narrow to avoid it. If one of the cars should! a bit from the extreme end of the road—if one of | ny little twists and turns and jerks occur that some-|**tt to “see the fire wagon pass” should be dis- | Greetings: Has Chief Warren stationed a cop tm your house yet to open your mafi? see THERES A SILVER LINING Admitting that it published an error—in | words an untruth—the PI, this morning takes pleasure in stating that it is happy “so many people” noticed the mistake. Thus, the Pl. ts anxious to convey the impression that ite ciroula tion is vast and numerous. Oh, very well! So, If you see it tn the morning paper, which is gotten out in soporific hours of the night, tn stead of in the hustling, wideawake hours of the daytime, remember this: It may be wrong, bat then, a lot of people will see it. Then, again, it ail depends on what you con sider “a lot of people.” eee Nearly all city, state and national officials, real estate men, sociologists, college professors, uplifters, contractors and architects say the country needs more houses. But we haven't heard of a single man, woman or child saying it needs fnore land lords, f other What a lot of the souses really want ts 275 per cent beer. eee ONE GOOD WAY TO AVOID BEING STRUCK 15 TO LIE IN A FEATHER BED Citizens are warned to keep off the streets when the new motor-driven hose wagon is making @ run | to a fire. The vehicle is capable of great «peed, and the practice of running to the middie of the OH, PRETTY GOOD —wuaT Do vou THINK ff OF THE RUSSIAN F SITUATION? | Perhaps, none of his capital for purposes of con- leontinued from this time forward. Such practice | will hereafter be attended by considerable danger t |lite and limb. Citizens should remain within doors. All this does not take into consideration the more|or, at least, refrain from running into the streets, drivers. Careful drivers and pedestrians, as well,| "hen the new hose wagon 1s passing to a fire~ 5 ey get none whatever on narrow roads. no avenue of escape there. ‘ it to some measure of protection from reckless |!" r*. World They The jury which investigated the recent accident on the ness of the road. There should be no time lost, and the money should! made available as soon as possible, to widen this and| stretches of dangerous road. The Crusaders have jinished their fight, but the fel- lows. who married to keep from going are now conker _ tng if Sherman really said that about war. ‘ A soviet government is something that b upinaday. Its chief weakness is that is ae ‘ knocked down in a day. A news service correspondent says the world at large feels sorry for Charles of Austria. If it i shouldn't be trusted at large. VM feet, 4 Since the House of Hohenzollern went to pot, the erown prince has very appropriately gone into the - tery business. e me Pe. A few more years of this and a silver dollar won't be worth enough to pay for the wear and tear on your pants’ pocket. Investigations by this congress will be for two pur- poses: to find proof of blunders or worse, and to find campaign thunder for use in 1920. An experienced motorist is one who expects his pocket-book to be a total casualty when his motor is ‘missing in action. If a man devotes himself painstakingly to the busi- ness of getting money, he may have enough by the time _ his health breaks to pay a specialist to repair it. Happy people are those who have learned that a - multiplicity of possessions has nothing to do with hap- piness. Poland gets only one-eighth of the Hun’s territory, but the arrangement occasions about nine-tenths of his howling. There are many explanations of high prices, the best _one being that manufacturers like profits and the people stand for it. road could very well have blamed it to the extreme | A WORD FROM JOSH WISE You can't ex- pect th’ big guns Uv fire uz often uz th’ little ones. | Professor Irving Fisher of Yale urges the Unt States to stabilize the dollar, We don't know J [how it ts to be done, but probably the princi used in making rabbit potple is to be applied. Firs leatch your dollar. , eee Jazz weddings are reported to be the latest thing |in London. But no doubt in London, as in many cities on the western hemisphere, jazz married life |ts an old story | | ‘That airplane trip across the Atlantic is growing linteresting. It took Columbus seven weeks to cross | and we're plugging for the airplanes to beat his | record eee |SPORTS THAT THE GRAND JURY | INVESTIGATES | Mrs. Charles Gebheim of Mackville was awarded | first prize as champion nail driver at the Five Cor | ners dance last night.-Appleton, Wis, Crescent. | | eee | My garden was covered by at least two feet of | water yesterday morning. ‘There is no catch-basin lor sewer in my back yard into which I could sweep | it, and the outlook was most discouraging, After |much study, I solved the problem by digging a | |number of deep holes and pouring the water into | | them.—Charlie Shannon sd . A natural gas man says the consumption of natural gas was reduced by raising the price. That's al ways the second step in reducing the consumption | of n. g. The first step is to shoot air into the | pipes. A resollition in the Cleveland city council asks that women retire from the positions they took during th ar, when there was a shortage of male labor. Waste of time, The women of 1919 are not of a re tiring disposition, Be that as it may, John Dice of Veedersburg, Ind., has sued Laura Dice for divorce. As to why Jobn | is shaking her, we know not. Probably he alleges | she threw him | And Mr, Beers of Rochester deals in spring water. | And George Spring of Huntington, Pa. 1s a saloon: | keeper. | But, as the shoe salesman remarked, “I'm no farmer, but I'm a@ great little corn planter,” —_— hsvsbtodt at Ay. Peis ba i ¢ | by my mother, | red plate in the | ning with “Send , aval, | other | fellows, | receognizable | little attention, You'll HAvE y TO SHow mMEe— 1 DON'T BELieve (T. HE DoEsa'T HE'S UNIQUE, ALL RIGHT, AND WE KNOWS tT — THE MAN WHO HAS FIVE BOYS AND NEVER TELLS ANECDOTES ABOUT THEM QUIZZES DR CRANE Editor The Star Dr. Frank Crane, in The Star of May 27, says that in settling the raflway question, “No group of people have a better right to be heard than those who actually own the rat) ways, they who own the stocks and bonds” We should be pleased if the Doctor will answer these questions: How much consideration would you give to the wishes of those who actually built the roads? How much consideration would you give to the wishes of thore who actually run the trains? What rights in the matter have the public who actually use the roads? What rights in thg matter have the public who have given these stock and bond holders much of this capital (acres of valuable land, ete)? You say, apparenly, the government should @uarantee theee «tock and bond holders a fixed return on this capital. Do you think the government should guarantee the means of life to poor citizens? If not, why not? Do you think capital should be fixed return and brain and brawn not? why? Capital belongs to the rich. The tariff ts a tax on consumption. The poor man puts his en-| tire means into articles for consumption, #o being taxed on his entire means. The rich man ures guaranteed @ If #0, sumption, so it is not reached by the tartff. Shall the government absorb, thru the tariff,| & large part of the poor man’s means and then turn around and guarantee the capitalist a fixed return on his Invested capital? the government take from Peter tm the Féltor The Star; Just received a copy of your publication of March 27, 1919, forwarded to me| Mra, Wm, Wilkins, of 38701 Alki about 150 other tired and weary with great joyousness the big center of the front page, begin: Us Our Boys Home," and end- ing with “Write Your Congressman, Write Secre tary Baker, Write President Wilson.” We certain ly appreciate that you are one of the few publi cations in the United States that has not for- gotten that there ts still something: over 1,000,000 members of the A. EB. F. who are stranded in this| jesolate FROGLAND, marking time and using up| your good people's Liberty Bond money to no We have one tried and true friend over here in the Paris edition of the Chicago Tribune (of whieh I sent you a copy about a month ago). We all want to get home and are making every effort possible here, but a soldier in France is helpless. Myself and greeted ave. soldiers, | I was not originany a member of this branch || | of the service. | the I enlisted in the tank corps for duration of the war, and five weeks after the armistice was transferred here with some 3,000 unlucky tankers, into the motor transport | corps. The remainder of the tank corps is back | fn the States and demobilized, and we are stuck here, still fighting the battle of Paris, a battle which any one of any experience or knowledge of the terrain will tell you as I do, that it will never be won I want to thank you not only for myself, for every member of this organization, for “home-pulling” policy. Keep it up, tell them all that we did our best, and won this war, and| that we bear no malice to France, but we have} had enough of {tt and want to come home. | Keep up your good work because it is greatly | appreciated by many thousands of nice young! who will soon be old and gray, and un-| by our wives, bables, mothers, etc, if we are kept over here much longer. A. A. WILKINS, M. T. C. Supply Depot. D. A. P.O, 702 but | your Dr. Butler’s Definition of Socialism BY DK. FRANK CRANE (Copyright, 1919, One of the ways the College Man can be of service to the community is by Clear Thinking. Being outside of the struggle, a Spectator in the Great Game, he ought to see things more clearly than those in the turmoil of doing. He can give us an occa- sional Definition. And of Definitions the world is in sore hunger. Nicholas Murray Butler, President of Co- lumbia, in a recent speech with clarity defined Socialism; whether with truth is for each to judge. But certain it is, that what we need most of all, in these post-war days of unsettled ideas, is to know precisely what Socialism means, “Socialism,” he said, “in the large, gen- eral, and vague sense of the word, means simply social reform. In that sense every \intelligent and forward-stepping man or woman is a Socialist.” | When we are discussing the question let jus be sure what we are talking about. Is jit this, or the following? / ‘Socialism, in the strict and scientific jsense of the word, is, however, something | It involves not | jquite different from this. social reform but political and social revo- lution. It is the name for a definite public \policy, which is in flat contradiction to ‘American policy and American faith. | Socialism, says Dr. Butler, reSts upon three assumptions. “First, that all of man’s efforts, both past and present, are to be interpreted and ex- plained in terms of his desire for wealth.” Which, of course, is class materialism. Second, in the struggle for wealth, men are divided into permanent classes, those BY THE REV. CHARLES STELZLE Who is the worst sinner? Some of us sincerely believe that it's the murderer. | Others think that it's the drunkard. Many are sure that it's the adulterer. You might go down the list of the ten command by Frank Crane) who employ and those who labor, tween those classes there is and should be a class war, to be carried on to the ter end. This doctrine of class is the savage teaching Karl ® man whose consuming passion Was hate. It is the extreme form of the doctrines of Marx which Lenine and Trot- sky have been applying in Russia for @ year and a half past, with such } results. ae And third, that under the present italistic’ system “the rich are steadily richer and steadily fewer, poor are getting steadily poorer ily more numerous.” “This goes on to say, “is easily disposed of facts which show that as applied in these two statements are absolutely fa Ours is a land in which more than 204 000 of men, women and children have now subscribed to Liberty bonds. It. land with more than 18,000,000 d occupied by about 21,000,000 is a land in which fully 6,000,000 own their homes without while 3,000,000 own their homes — to mortgage. It is a land ho wealth is now not less than — 900,000,000 and in which the tion of that wealth is ste ing more equitable and more under the operation of principles guided American life so long and So there you have it. If what D | says is not true, at least it is plain, and understandable, which is the fi tial in the intelligent discussion of @ | ject whatever, and quite unusual in cussion of this one. mil dily “PICKING THE WORST SINNER "| iacntinnssatpiainhinmastendinnsieniineianiestsnetanielsihenmnnseifll N the first of June, in 1533, Anne wife of Henry VIII, was crowned | land. In 1638, on the first of June, an curred in New England of sufficient | ments and pick a number of others who seem to | |have reached the limit of depravity. But after you've lined up your friends and ac jhave even a bowing acquaintance—who may be |mullty of the various sins in the decalogue, you'll | find that there are least four factors which actuate them in thelr “sinfulness.” First, motive. Becond, temperament. Third, opportunity. Fourth, training. And I believe that the Almighty will take these |into consideration at the Judgment. Sin is sin—but some sins are worse than others. The cold, calculating man who deliberately and jeruelly plans to wreck others by some kind of | financial or industrial manipulation will find himself | jin @ hotter hote in hell than the drunkard who gave | way to a weakness which he may have inherited. The same sin, committed by two different per- fons, si®uld not be equally charged up against them. For one may have been born with a slow, sluggish | temperament, while the other may have been cursed into the world with all the fires of passion con- trolling his life. Some are found tn the path of “virtue"™ because they failed to find a chance to sin—but in their hearts they have committed the most outrageous deeds Others, thru) ignorance, have placed themselves beyond the pale of the “righteous,” whereas the superior folk who despise them have been hedged in | and protected and trained in repression of feeling and expression. There's nothing #o anequal as the equal treatment Quaintances--and others with whom you decline to | & memorable epoch in the annals of the earthquakes had been considered im| New England coast. On the first of June, in 1660, Mary Dyer, ens, was executed in Massachusetts. banished from the state on @ charge of set upon her return was sentenced to om “for rebellious sedition and banishment on pain of death.” In 1774, on. the first of June # bill went into operation. At’ noon clored again all vessels and business” On a 20 days’ notice the citizens deprived of their means of gaining a” nation ran high thruout the Colonies, were raised in other cities for their people of Marblehead offered the the use of their wharves. In 1792, on the first of June, mitted to*the Union. On the first of June, 1796, Tennessee as @ state. On the Ist of June, in 1818, the fight American frigate Chesapeake and the Shannon took place in Massachusetts miles east of Boston Light. The battle victory for the British ship. Captain command of the Chesapeake, was and was carried below deck by his words in dying were “Don't give up the phrase became the American battle cry of @h 1812. In 1864, on the first of June, the battle bor, Va., was fought between the Union General Grant and the Confederates Lee. Grant attacked with 65,000 men, of 35,000 was entrenched. The result of unequaly That's why even the laws of the court do not always permit a just decision. But in our individual dealings with sinners we can | at least take into account the factors which drove them into their sin. THE OLD GARDENER SAYS That the butterfly bush or summer lilac ls an es | cellent plant for the amateur's garden, as it blooms | from July until the coming of frost, and takes but It has long, taillike, blue blossoms, with a slight fragran fascination for the butterflies. Altho really a shrub, it is easily grown from seed or from cuttings. When winter comes you should mound up earth about a foot high around the base of the plants to keep them from being winter killed.» Then, in the spring, cut them back to within a foot of the ground, The | ) » and really has an unusual || UK Kellogg Every grocer everywhere sells Kellogg’s everyday. new stalks which come yp will grow very rapidly nd soon begin to bloom, Good blue flowers are #0 ree that the summer lilac is indeed a treasure, — erate victory, with tremendous losses on side. — Ordinary mortals might possibly get physicians, but it would be pretty hard x 7 "WON ITS FAVOR THROUGH