The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 9, 1919, Page 6

The Seattle Star 3 months, in th atate, or $9.00 r week By Mail, out of city, S0¢ per month 1.50; 6 months, $2 yea Rate of Washington < Tbe per month, $4.50 for per year. ly \ THE SEATTLE STAR--MONDAY, JUNE, 9, 1919. # Up to Us Older Ones This is about school vacation time. Tt is estimated that about five million mtry will leave school at this time to take their in factories, stores and offices. Some of these boys will come to us in all our places work. Their education will not be complete by any means—it ii only be in the rough, and it will be up to us older ones ‘at least assist in finishing the job. We all know how it was when we first went to work We will all remember how on the first morning of our it job we were looked upon with half pity and half con- by our fellow workers. We remember how we made many mistakes and were Tong time in learning the job and all for the want of a advice and very few simple instructions. And all this thru the indifference or contempt of the work boys of this first ' Most of these boys that will come unto us older ones school vacation are filled with high hopes and healthy bit Many of them, even of tender years, will have finite purpose in life. hopes may be beyond their present reach, but he ambition is there, and it will be up to us to discourage encourage it. | In other words, let us golden rule our attitude toward first job boys, and say: Do unto them as we would like to have been done by; we took our first job. - Or, let us do unto these boys on their first job as we like to have others do unto our boys. If the peace treaty is a fair example of idealism, ‘un has reason to be thankful that there were no tical men at the conference. There are no three words that can mean more and will get more than “PLEASE” and “THANK YOU.” But they must be uttered with their full meaning. As mere words of formal expression, they are meaning- and valueless. It is the spirit back of them. good deal is being said about courtesy just now. roads, hotels, large stores and business institutions wally, where employes form the only point of contact the patrons, are circulating preachments to these oyes. hey suggest meeting the discourteous, unreasonable with courtesy and reason—treatment by reverse tion, as a good carpenter turns the plane the other way a the board with knots or cross-grained wood. _ But there is no rule for courtesy. | ‘The only way to be courteous is to feel good toward one. 3 hose of us with the true spirit will have no trouble expressing courtesy. If governments can promote peace by insuring against invagion, surely they have power to pro- peace by insuring workers against unemployment d hardship in their old age. Getting Measured _ » You take off your coat and vest and you stand with , akimbo feeling like a prize boob. The tailor tells you p stand natural, but you take a shy glance down at your line, which protrudes like the breast of a pouter pigeon |‘ then, instinctively you throw out your chest and deflate well known stomach as much as is humanly possi- “Tho the exertion pains you severely, you feel yourself ne thick around the wgist line as I thought when you came While the tailor is putting down the figures in his per- 0 information book, you relax for a moment and heave sigh of relief. When he comes back for still more data! ou straighten up again. Two weeks later the suit is finished. But it doesn’t it! You angrily pounce upon the tailor. “Look here!” you ll, “it’s altogether too tight around the waist and too loose! And the funny part of it is, neither you across the chest!” the tailor can understand how it happened! It may be tht Wilson's point about freedom of the seas was ditched yy common consent because nobody could figure out what the darned thing meant. The pillars of Hercules one time bore this inseription— “Ne Plus Ultra”’—meaning “No More Beyond.” This stood for a great many years until Christopher Columbus was blocked by the American continent in his effort to sail around the world to Ind Then the negative “Ne” was chiseled off and the in- scription now stands “Plus Ultra” or “More Beyond.” Have you reached that stage in your life where you have inscribed on the columns of your brain, “Ne Plus "2 Do you feel that there is no more hope for you to succeed in your present or any future undertakings? ; If so, get out your chisel and hammer and cut off the “Ne.” Chisel the “Plus. Ultra” a little deeper, wider and longer. Get underneath your skull the idea that there IS more beyond. If you do you'll find it. Just look what Columbus found by ignoring the “Ne.” A statesman is one who can understand why it is wrong to killa man in order to get his farm, but right to kill many men in order to get a territory larger than a farm. Doubtiess you have noticed that “liberty-loving” nations manage to stifle their yearning to liberate their own subjects. A treaty made by a vote of the people might not be ofitable as one made by statesmen, but it would 8 last longer. ed when the tailor says: “Well, you surely aren’t| =FATURES The Turning Point in Your Career. ER-— DO YOU NOT THINK, BROTHER SCROGGINS, THAT A TRIFLING ADDITION COULD BE MADE TO MY ANNUAL STIPEND? “ \s EN RK SSS AAS SS SOIR NE NTS ~ A SS SSS SS WHEN YOU ACCIDENTALLY LEARNED THAT THE MINISTER WAS PAID ONLY #40 A MONTH (Caprica, 1919, by Oomnit Malian 3 OPEN SEASON FOR SANDPFLIES Drag out the ewimming holes with ones with . and those do thetr « the . under um: as hand (on Swimming and diving in wa Latest styles in she bathing @ and sun won't cause colors ¢ es that the dameels mix in with are the 1 waves in their hair, Latest mode in gente’ wardrobes are gymnasium sults, for Only thing the water will be used for ts Life saver's Job will change to taking care oke cases. Swimming » be a >the-sotl” affair! . WHERE DO THEY GET THAT STUFF ABOUT ENGLISH I ING NO SENSE OF HUMOR? | Sir John Foster Fraxer, who spent a year of jwar In the United States, when he wae if |Indiana town, on his speech-making tour @ \plid up to the chairman of the meeting and asked | “Who is this guy that’s going to talk “Oh,” said the chairman, “he’s an English knighy” The chairman explained that a man knelt before a liking, the king put his sword on his shoulder, and #0 the man became a knight fd the boy “that’s nothing chief put a battleax on my him an ange . wat gymnastics < of s “back little boy There was grandfather's “Gee.” an Indian ead and made SHARE OF CONVERSATION: when sing to eat? gimme a piec cake; I'm starved.” kin I have another drumatick? LITTLE JOUNNIF “fay, ma “Say, ma. ma y, ma ma Willie's had two pieces of 5 what's this bug in the jelly? I have that cookie’ later:) feeling well.” o- “Say (And a di “Say ma, { ain't | THE |moving man. It | WwHtt Was HOUSING problem worrtes everybody but the keeps him too busy to worry politicians at HOUSING problems worry MOST FAMOUS OF ALL HOUSES “THIS 18 the House that Jack built.” etc., until you come to) yriest. all shaven and shorn that sil tattered and torn that kissed the 4 the cow with the d the dog that worried the t that ate the malt that lay in built “THIS 1 | married the ma maiden all forlorn jeat that ki the house tha OLD CICERO THOUGHT, “The owner should be an ornament to the house.” Nowadays he's the lawn mower, furnace tender, and beats rugs in the back yard while the ornament sits on the front porch ex plaining the details of ber new summer bonnet to| the ornament next door, MAN fever paid rent, taxes or plumb: 4 he whittled his furniture out of the | mountainside | The Eskimo lives in a house of ice; | But he’s warmer, at that, Than the bird who dwells With @ janitor who swells With pride At saving the landlord's coal | American diplomacy is Colonel Houseing in Paris, DO YOU REMEMBER the good old days when we use to clutter up the backyard with a dog house, a | chicken house, a smoke houke, a wood house and a dozen bird houses? ‘Those were the housey times, ( } 1 DUNNO — | HUM! WELL, | WAS THINKIN’ OF STUDYIN' TO BE A PREACHER! {T’D BE A | J BAD TIME Ye T' BRING IT | On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise MORE AND BETTER SCHOOLS BY Dit. FRANK CKANF (Copyright, 199, It is strange, and it would be ludicrous were it not so tragic, that we threshold of all reforms, with the our hand, and bruise our knuckle: on the door, instea of unlocking entering in ° The door is the Child The key is Education, We have a public school system of which we shriek that could not be accomplished thru the school house, and accomplished peaceably, smoothly, and permanently. We have a public school syste mof which we are proud, It is at the base of whatever there is in American life that is good and strong. And yet key in beating it and our public school system is a | disgrace. Because it is not big enough, not wide enough, not efficient enough. For all its magnificence it is trifling in | comparison to what it ought to be. are | the The Old Gardener Says: of garden Recause they in underground they makers t# tn have put That planting co fras seem to think treatment. In pe to plant unless inch and a half may hil! up the eor unlews the ground ja inclined to be wet, Hilling or ridging permite more moisture} to escape, and it i not a kindness to the corn to/ follow this old-fashioned practice. Don't be afraid that your corn will blow down. The roots form a support that is not easily weakened | one common mirtake deeply four thetr three ven that corn should have the same kind of of fact the soil in very Hehe len't necessary to! WRIGLEY nt an inch t# deep enough corn Then an better. It either ___g coe “G ‘ET OFF THE LINE— ’ THIS IS A BUSY WIRE” » * BY REV. CHARLES STELZLE Maff Writer on Keligious Toples for The Star ix unquestionably one of the greatest how men in other days ever got constant marvel to of us t our elbows, ready for The tele a who have telep in. stant” service Now that we are ready to tulk to ¢ and miles jometines * telephone advertising talk man who made it porsit mers across the street-—or without leaving our chairs, curses for bad telephone service more than blessings we heap upon the head ot Ale nm Bell | Probably there are some pious people who believe! that the telephone is an invention of the devil rather than of Prof. Bell, because it is the occasion of so. much profanity Of course, men don company is Iikely t two as a punishme marks which are int and sarcastically #p rhe swearing ls reserved for the stenographer in your office, who, by the way, quietly smiles at the show of impaticnce and petulance and the Iack of self control on the part of “boas.” | Dut—when three different people snarl at you:! "Get off the line--this is a busy wire.” when you're trying to get in a business call at 9:30 in the morn: ing, and when ye t at all responsible for in terrupting their | © conservations about last| night's party, this ning’s grocery order, or to:| morrow afternoon's baseball game, it just riles you up @ bit And the temptation t swear Into the telephone—the st off your wervice for a week or| the operator merely hearse re Jed to be cutting, altho smoothly are in strong to consign Alexander Bell, the telephone operator, and the three busy little teley talkers to the place where telephones trou: bl NO more—because all messages are carried by epe-| jal wirelees service furni#hed by the government uncensored—aitho probably there'll be no jong tance service between that place and heaven, cause between them “there i# a great gulf fixed.” And swearing makes the gulf wider Now when you feel that way remember the advice of @ very wire philosopher, who aid: “A soft answer turneth away wrath"—and {t will get you more than cuss words dis be ~~ __ | __ “The Middle-Man” ~~. ~~ ~ BY EDMUND VANCE COOKE “Reduce! reduce my cost of living I cry to butcher, baker, grocer They all politely answer “No sirt ‘They smile at me, without misgivin, And claim they're doing all they ea But can't cast out the middleman The wicked middleman is standing Hetween consumer and producer, They prove to me, (as I to you, stt,) We're all of us engaged in handing Our substance to this blight, this ban, This omnipresent middleman Accusing all, from farm to basket, They all respond, “Oh, no, not I, sir! It Is that other guilty guy, sir ‘To shave my, margin? Ouch! don't ask itt 1 look from Beersheba to Dan, But can't locate this middleman. Sometimes I'm forced to wonder whether I'm not myself the man I've sought Life's grinding millstones find me caught Between the upper and the nether, Alas! alas! that sol the riddle; ZT am the man who's in the middle! (Copyright, 1919, N. BE. A) There enough Our city schools are overcrowded not enough buildings, not teachers. There are still vast numbers of children in the United States that get no schooling at all and a vaster number whose schooling is pitifully inadequate in the country dis- tricts. We spent billions of dollars cheerfully to repel the Hun. The ignorance of otr own young is a greater menace than the Prussian Junker or the Russian Bolshevik. We have not enough teachers, and what we have are not good enough. For the reason that we do not make the salary of teachers large enough to attract the right sort of ability. Says the Literary Digest: “The men and women who are making Americans of tomorrow are being treated with less consideration than’ the janitors who sweep out the buildings in which they are employed; they are earning, on the average, less han the wages given to the scrubwomen employed in the public buildings of the United States Government. Normal school graduates receive less salary than street-sweepers; high school principals and superintendents less than section fore- men; country school teachers less for in- stand on the | a by Vrank Crane | structing the farmer's children than he pays his hired man to feed his hogs. No wonder there are fifty thousand va- in the teaching forces of the schools. No wonder the ranks are being filled with weak men and with immature women, who merely use the profession as a stepping-stone to something better. No wonder there are thirty thousand teachers in the United States who have had no schooling beyond the eighth grammar grade.” Two million soldiers back from the war are looking for jobs. It is of importance that they be taken cfre of. Ibis of vastl more importance that the many more lions of children yearly arriving at maturity should be fitly trained and equipped. Interested as we are in education, we have never grasped seriously enough its tre- mendous significance. Nothing less than “Every child in the United States well trained and well in- structed” should be our goal. That any child in his nonage should be ‘compelled to work for a living, and cannot afford to go to school, is a national disgrace, We have had five War Loans; I would like to see one huge Peace Loan, to guar- antee the Peace and Security of this coun- try, a bond issue of twenty billion dollars to put the public schools of America where they ought to be. I shall probably not see it. But I shall keep on. wanting to see it. cancies i criicininetiig lias — ——— PORTO RICO FUTURE | OF MOVIE STUDIOS | J N.-—Porto Rico may become to the motion industry all that Southern California has been. plenty’ of “atmosphere” of the artistic type, 4 it only remains to demonstrate that the atmos- of the climatic type is right. F. Eugene Farns New York, one of the pioneers in the picture here investigating, says mountains, vegetation and buildings are more active than California. It offers new plots that will prove of fascinatin ¢ are Informed by scientis el in the water at the rate of 25 miles an hour.” On dry land they can travel much faster than that ‘if encased in cans and stored in freight care. “Porto Rico's coast | ' [= The Flavor Lasts! # lass mmaas)d)d I for the price ll Aalto Mn, oO lt hteay ayy, Tt, “ty five-cents worth of beneficial refreshment possible to get. "en << Cet ernasapsppptwTf” eecnnrss ppp tttss amg