The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 6, 1919, Page 6

THE SEATTLE STAR—FRIDAY, JUNE 6, 1919. She Seattle Star By mail out of city, S0¢ per month; # months, i 50; € months TS; Fear, $6.00, in the tate of Wash n. Outatde the state, Se per month, $450 for & montha, or $9.00 per year. liy carrier, city, 120 per week. “Germany and the Kaiser HOW DO YOU THINK THE LEAGUE oF NATIONS 1S GOING TO TURN OUT, ANYWAY ? my DEAR, I HARDLY BELIEVE [ COULD MAKE THAT SUBTECT CLEAR TO You Germany refuses to consent to the trial of the kaiser This ought to dispose of the obsession that, w hile the kaiser acted the part of a murderous autocrat, the German ‘were ‘Something different, loyal to the kaiser’s bloody busi ness, but her misled and innocent of brutal intent. However, it is not likely that the matter of trying or not trying the kaiser will become so serious a question as to interfere with the conclusion of peace. It must be ad mitted that when the treaty prepared by the peace con- ference indicts the kaiser “for the supreme offense against international morality and the laws and customs of war, it is like making criminal statute of a retroactive character ‘There is no international law defining such a crime, nor any ty provided for its perpetration. It is, rather an in mel on general principles, and so far as legal exacti tude is concerned, is about on a par with a lynching. Of course, the kaiser and his bloody-handed crew should be ed to the limit of human ingenuity tempered by the that the injured peoples are civilized, but there’s no Precedent for a formal court trial on the indictment brought against the Hohenzollern. But the point made plain is that the Germans are stil! i r. One reply the allies might make HOw ABOUT THE NEW POSITION OF WOMAN IN inDUSTRY ? Now THERE'S SOMETHING You COULDN'T Possiscy COMPREHEND All right, we will not ask Holland to return the kaiser to Germany. We'll make her hand him over to us. The sun never sets on the British flag, and the wet optimist predicts that America will never be without his moonshine. Probing War Costs The republican house of congress has already made the beginning of a muck-raking campaign on the war de- tment as to the matter of war expenditures. The country will look upon the move as wise and , provided that it does not at all impede the all-| | t work of reconstruction. The country will not se a play made merely for the effect of political) dal. That the war department wasted many millions) highly probable. It could not be otherwise. There is) ; a large percentage of waste in any big public under. |” ting, and our getting into the war, in time, was the! itest thing that any nation ever attempted. | We succeeded, and the people will bear with the ex-/ ul of waste, but what they will expect from the/ tigators is the exposure and punishment. of the rofiteers end crooks who took advantage of the period hurried expenditure to fatten their pocketbooks, and restitution of the ill-gotten gains. Mistakes and waste are one thing, but a lot of the mil-| ge disappeared were taken by and rer < , nd d Jongress can hardly make a mistake in find | out how and where the money went and who has got it. | In this glad day of self-determinatign, almost head has a sphere of influence in China except WELL, WHAT ABOUT peat bigs OUR PROSPECTS OF} | QUESTION— BUT TROVBLE wity, || QUITE OUT OF JAPAN ? BEYOND YouR “I see they have voted the country bonedry, back im the states.” said one buck private to another “Just as I expected,” said the second BP. “ knew my motherin-law would put something over Democracy in Terms of Power It is power-sharing not, profit-sharing that industrial tress is bringing. Power is always the prize in social It has been so from all time. we of power sah inflict and the motive that drives men to pile billions in excess of any real need. The power to Ise is more universal than the hunger for profits. distribution of power is the foundation of democ- . It is all of democracy. Without it there can be no cracy. With it all things democratic follow. When de- ty enters industry it is inevitable that it should speak of power rather than profits. This explains why fights harder for union recognition, the closed shop collective bargaining than for higher wages. It ex- also why employers resist these things with greater ae cee oon cial h: proved ‘or the same reasons profit-sharing has 80 puz- rly disappointing as an industrial solution. It was hailed § an industrial, panacea in the early '80s by many philan- , well-meaning capitalists. Books at that time pro- d it the righteous road to social peace. Few of the Promising experiments of those years survive. Many down in bitter industrial struggles of the very char- they were supposed to prevent. All things, including profits, follow power. Profits re- ‘main with power; they are taken with power. A violent fight for power is rebellion or revolution ac- cording to its success. Product and profit disappear until the question of power is settled. . v8 Democracy was established among men that struggles for power might not bring violence. Democracy fails if it does not do this; and the most frequent cause of the fail- ures of democracy is lack of sufficient democracy. The Breatest test democracy has ever been asked to Meet is its extension from the political to the industrial field. This change is now well under way. Collective bar- ing by unions full of power, recogriition of labor in peace treaty, many experiments in joint management, 3 extensive plans of power-sharing in every nation prove that industrial as well as political autocracy is passing. The best promise for the future is the peaceful charac- ter of the steps already taken. Industrial autocracy is bar- gaining away its Benes, ~ fighting to retain it intact. e€ are moving toward democracy in al i 5 jong ago passed the fork ih the rede. hee back. We can only choose the method share power peaceably we can pass We It is too late to go of prgress. If we on without violence. Stubborn men are ditched on the road to happi- ness because they haven’t sense enough t iv their own foolish perversity. iit ileal The excess-profits tax is here to sta but the man- ufacturer should worry. He can slip " out Of the pockets of the consumer. The poor man can find consolation in the fact that he can now pay his old debts with dollars that are north about 40 cents. The tgouble with prosperity is that it teaches our daughters to believe that pounding a pi i. i making biscuit is drudgery. iby sin Alaa Any community avhere everybody is related 1 everybody else and quarreling about it affords a iba ture of the European problem. Let them divide the spolls, It doesn’t matt yi _ we get out of it, just so we get out of it. phioge et | on me while I was away from home."—The Spiker | than love of money is the root of the evil of class) In any case production stops and| (published by the 18th Engineers) in France. eee The good fairy gave ber but two wishes, She wished for a husband and then had to use her other |wish to get rid of him. | eee | ANOTHER KNOTTY PROBLEM SOLVED The U. & government ts wor%ertng whether sus |penders are underwear, and as such taxable to pay for the war. Those experts who call ‘em gailluses inetet they are not underwear, bot outer garments. |you won't care {f suspenders are classified as under | wear or overcoat—if you wear a belt. eee GREAT VICTORY FOR TIGHT SKIRTS Jennie Berger, New York, was arrested on a charge of disorderly conduct. A witness said she kicked a man. “Judge,” said Jennie, “I couldn't kick anyone with this here tight skirt on. See™ And she showed the Judge bow she couldn't kick. Skirt too tight. Magistrate Douras thought s0, too. JOSH WISE A good thing ain't often passed eee SAY FOLKS, HERE'S A DANDY WAY TO SAVE | AND IT ISN'T COPYRIGHTED, EITHER A man who used to buy his grape juice by the | pint was persuaded by a friend to purchase a small barrel on economical grounds. The evening the bar |rel came the first pint was consumed. The wife said, | "Well, William, we've saved something on our grape juice tonight.” “That's #0," replied her husband “Let's have an- other pint and save some more.” eee | Miss Mary Norton, a public school teacher, was | dismissed by the Mahanoy City (Pa.) board of educa ltion for sticking adhesive plaster over pupils’ mouths |to prevent them from whispering. AND— A St. Louis little boy kept his baby brother from crying by stuffing baby's mouth with old rags. BUT— has sued her husband for divorce alleging he hit her jon the mouth with a frying pap every time she tried to talk to him, | Oh, yes, indeed; there are several ways of persuad ing silence to hover near one! eee SPORT EDITORS ARE GREAT STICKLERS FOR ACCURACY “The baseball player you pointed out to me ts an ugly mug, isn't he?” Inquired Al Right. ‘He isn't a mug at all," sald the sport editor, “he's {a pitcher.” cee HAR! HAR! YOU GOTTER HAND It TO THESE KIDS Freetown, Mass, will break @ long standing custom this year and pay no bounty on the hawk. One of the town councilmen telle why: “Every spring when the nests of hawks are filled with eggs the country boys shinned up the trees, took out the eggs, carried them home, put them under setting hens and hatched them out. Then the boys clipped their wings to keep them from flying away, and when they were full grown killed them, took them to the town office and collected their bounties.” eee WE YEARN FOR THE HEN WHO'LL LAY HAM-AND John Henry Dickson of Uniontown, Pa., has tnwagep ed a chicken feed formula which, he say pee duce multiple yolk eggs. He found ¢ ‘rtphayonme egs in the nest of his favorite hen and hopes b® next year to have achieved the fouryolk egg. And then along will come another chicken breeder and develop an egg which will contain egg and a slice of ham or hgeoa tn the same shell, RANGE |W. HL Taft, the wellknown former president, says | EDITORIALS — |Why Women Rush Out and Walk Rapidly Around the Block. | —By McKee YOuR SPHERE AND) | he didn’t know it. Mra. John Heldetberger of South Willington, Conn, | Do YOU suPPOSE THAT PROHIBITION 1S REALLY BEST FOR THE COUNTRY? THERE'S ALOT OF ANGLES To THAT QUESTION THAT You WOULD WT UNDERSTAND you woucorwT BE ABLE TO FoLLow mE 1 L WENT INTO THAT SIT TRUE THAT THE BOLSHEVIK ‘ARE A SERIOUS MENACE To THE WORLD? YOU GIVE ME A SHARP, SHOOTING PAIN! Do You REALIZE THAT I'MA Coecé GRADVATE, A THINKER, A VOTER? PRESIDENT OF THE WOMEN'S CLUB, AND PROBABLY Know ALOT MORE AGuUT On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise How the Actress Succeeds BY DK. FRANK CRANE (Copyright, 1919, There are thousands of girls who are anxious to go on the stage. Every city has hundreds. has been playing in “Please Get Married” at the Fulton Theatre, and her advice to these girls is suggestive. She was born in Union City, Tenn. She |began by getting a solid education at home and then studied in Paris. girls everywhere that no girl should go on the stage unless she has a good home | or an income. She goes on to say: “The first two years of stage salary do not yield enough pay even for clothes. Besides hav- ing a good home or an income, girls should thoroly ground themselves educationally for the work. Lessons in English, Fren cution, singing, fencing, dancing, xing should form part of the curriculum. After that—go into stock. There is no better school of the theatre than stock, provided jone doesn’t take the lesson too long. jyour stock season, if you have managed to | land a Broadway job, be careful of what | Take further | jyou do in, your spare time. |lessons in the things you feel you lack, so that you may be equipped to stand on the \top terrace instead of barely hanging by the jbottom rung of the ladder,” All of which infarmation I get from S. Jay Kaufman, who is a walking “Who's Who” as to stage folk. And all of which means that to succeed ‘in the theatrical profession about the same things are necessary as are requisite in any other. In other words— 1, You must have ability. 2. You must “learn the game_and keep | jthe rules.” | 8. You must work hard. | 4, And you must get a chance. | As to number one, you must believe thor- joly in your own ability and you must \get other people to believe in it. Neither | will do without the other. | The second point means that you Waste no time or strength trying to change condi- tions. Adjust yourself to them. You can change yourself a lot more easily than you ‘can change the world, or the theatrical managers. Find the line of least resistance, N June 7, in 1099, the Army of Christians, com Pristog the first crusade, which eet out from Burope to release the Holy Land from Moslem rule, encamped before Jerusalem. The first army, led by Peter the Hermit, had numbered more than 300,000. ers, Conflicts along the route, disease, and desertion | thinned the ranks so that only 22,000 remained of the host that had left Europe. In 1329, on June 7, Robert Bruce, king of Scotland, died. Bruce, after repeated conflicts, had succeeded in freeing Scotland from English rule. In 1566, on June 7, the Roya) Exchange was found ed In London by Sir Thomas Gresham on the mod of the Mart at Antwerp, which was then the center of European commerce. On June 7, in 1831, Sarah Siddona, the celebrated English tragic actress, died. She was the daughter! of Roger Kemble, manager of a company of strolling players. At the age of 18 she married Siddons and tn_ 1782 appeared at Drury Lane for the first time Her suceess wan instant and her career a series of triumpha. In 1812 she retired to private life with a jarge fortune. On June 7, tn 1769, Daniel Boone, with five other hunters from North Carolina, reached Red River, Ky They were the first white men to explore the terri- tory, forbiddingly called by the Indians “The Dark and Bloody Ground.” On June 7, in 1776, @ resolution was presented in the Second Continental Congrese by Richard Henry Lee declaring that “these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states.” In 1880 on June 7, John Brougham, a famous actor of Irish extraction, died. When the “Inner Light” Fails BY THE REV. CHARLES STELZLE Samson was the “white hope” of the Israelites back in the days when their enemies, the Philistines, made life simply one grand round of border skir. mishes. This giant's secret source of strength troubled the Philistines, so they got a woman—Delilah—to betray him. And Samson “fell for her.” Then came the Philivtines to take him captive, and Samson stretched his limbs with his old-time confidence, expecting that he would again wipe the earth with his enemies. But here's the scripture record: omit wist not that the Lord was departed from im.” Ana prison, enemies, But before he lost the sight of his eyes, his “Inner Ught" had fated. And it was this that brought him to his present trouble. The pathetic thing was that soon Samson found himeelf in the Philistine his eyes put out, grinding the corn of his There are men today who were once powerful in their various fields of work—leaders, because of some unusual gift that enriched their souls. But one day—because of sin or neglect—the inner Nght which had led them, failed. They continued to go thru the motions—but those who knew them, pitied—for the old power was gone And yet—there’s hope. Samson “came back.” may you. How much do you really wish to? Little Miss Morning BY EDMUND VANCE COOKE Little Misa Morning Comes with a warning, Comes like a bugle cail; “O, the moon ts dead, Since you went to bed And the sky is about to fall; The starheaded tacks Hiave melted like wnx, And there's nothing to hold {ft at alll Little Miss Morning Comes with a warning, Comes like a bugle call! So In terror and dread, I leap out of bed, But the day ts as bright as June, And held overhead Ry the sun's gold thread Is the sky, 22 af turquoise hewn, “Now where ty that oy Who frivrtened me quiet I wks teach her another tune But little Miss Morning, Smilingly scorning, Vilits over the fence of Noon, The story of Elise Bartlett, who | She says to} n, elo- | After | by Vrank Crane } use your head. Don’t complain. Try an- other way. If you want magazines to ac- cept your stories see what kind they have been printing, and send in that kind—at | first, anyway, until you have secured a rep- utation. There are quite as many conven- tions, prejudices, habits, and traditions in the theatre as in the church. Keep the rules—until you are big enough to break them. Third, Work! Get all the education and | special training possible before you begin, | and after you have begun keep on learning and training. The continual success is con- tinually at school. | And, fourth, you must get a chance. | While real and inward success, of course, | does not depend at all upon chance but is | mathematically certain if you observe the spiritual laws, it is not so with getting on in the world, nor in any trade, calling, or pro- | fession thereof. There Is a tide in the affairs of men Which taken at its flood leads on to fortuna, Worldly success depends on two things— You and Events. There can be no doubt that luck has had to do with all of us. The trouble is that some of us are not equipped and ready for luck when it comes. And sometimes it does not come. It’s a Game, a Great Adventure. You must play it hard, yet always be above it, ready at any time to drop it for things more worth while. Acting is Play. But behind all perfect Play stands a deal of Hard Work. THE OLD GARDENER SAYS: | If you want to plant flowerg that will give very quick results, try the annual Inpines, which come in various colors and make an excellent display. If the soll is good and the weather fairly warm, you will get flowers in six or eight weeks from the tt you plant the seed. This is a g@od annual to foll the orlental poppies or other early blooming p nials. You are Iikely to have unexpected c in the flower bed or border from time to time, lupines are most accommodating flowers for fill in. It ts perfectly safe to plant the seeds now. plants will not keep on blooming very long, so it ts best to make several sowings at of two weeks in order to cover the season. 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