The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 13, 1919, Page 6

‘ DIT Zhe Seattle Star r month; 3 months, $5.00, MAIL out of city, boc pe en tha 7s ‘ : THE SEATTLE STAR—FRIDAY, JUNE 13, 1919. On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise “Let the People Say” i Regardless of the merits of Senator Knox’s resolution to Separate the league of nations covenant from the peace proper, one of his declarations appeals with sledge r force. The statement reads: “That since the people alone have the right to amend ° constitution, the senate has no authority to make a which in effect amends the constitution.” We don’t know whether the league of nations covenant or is not an amendment to the constitution. Senator has the reputation of being one of our greatest au- ies on such matters and says it is. “But there is no dispute over two facts, to-wit: The becomes fundamental national law; and by the nt we do surrender wisely or fool®&hly part of our exclusiveness and independence. This last is ad- 5 and justified by the champions of the covenant. ‘The matter is serious, It must be almighty serious any important element of the United States senate that that body has no right to act in it. In the circumstances one simple way to keep the United “safe for democracy” would be this: | If necessary, let the senate go ahead and ratify that r part of the treaty which puts Germany out of the as they are sure to do anyway, without long) partisan debate. | let the people themselves say by nation-wid um as soon as it can be arranged what they think J Teague plan, admission of a chastened Germany to} ue and all the rest of it. | GOSH, WHAT'S ¥ COMIN’ NOW ? I WISH HE'D LAY ON THE SHINGLE AN’ GET (T OVER Ebert declares that Germany will not endure en- | . Belgium did when she was in the fiz Ger- | fis tn now, if ‘The Dream Will Come True ‘We have before us a photograph of an American sol-| cemetery in France. is so clear that many of the names on the grave! can be plainly read. | names indicate that those lying there were of Faces and nations of the earth, either by their own tir parents’ birth. ‘ they were all Americans. in spirit, at least. yy or their parents came here from lands of castes fs, and small opportunity. Ve ber Turning Point in Your Career. - ER-ER-— BMY BOY, L THINK H You've ARRIVED AT AN AGE WHEN YOUR FATHER DECIDED THAT YOU WERE TOO OLD TO WHIP AND WOULD HAVE TO BE “TALKED TO” The New Religous Rivalry BY DK. FRANK CRANE (Copyright, 1919, by Frank Crane Rewer e & The Sects are competing. And everybody | bond of contention. is pleased. Of all by-products of the war, this, next They always have competed, and the |to the League of Nations, is the most im- rivalry was not always edifying. In time | portant in its bearings on human progress. past they have contended with the sword. | For it promises the ,unification of men in Catholics slew Protestants in Spain, and | their spiritual impulses. Protestants slew Catholics in Ireland. The! We shall no longer strive to reach Heaven ancient Jews were not tolerant with Ge! by building separate Towers of Babel, but tiles, and the modern Gentiles have perse- by creating one grand Temple of Humanity, | cuted Jews. Less bloody but quite as | the foundation stones of which shall be of acrimonious contentions raged among the | unselfishness, its soft-shining windows of religious denominations in the last century. | love, its golden towers of that One God who WHAT'S THe MATTER — why DON'T WE GET HLS LICKIN’? WE WANT TO HEAR sumPin — AIN'T WE GOT ANY anne Uae T DON’T HEAR NOTHIN, do vou? oS we. sh RIGHTS ? Baptists and Anabaptists disputed over | hath made us all of one blood. : : water; Universalists and Evangelicals over | Here shall come the Hebrew with hi fire, From the corner grocery, where | ancient moralities, the Romanist with his stately ritual, the Salvation Army lassie with her burning zeal, and whoever else will justify his faith in God by doing good to men, Ephraim Tutt was known as the best long- coor debater in the settlement, to the | plehary councils, where high dignitaries hurled anathemas at heretics, the war went merrily on, | Then it stopped, seemed to die down with \the end of the century. Nothing was set- WA tied, neither side whipped, they just ap- peared to run out of breath. Now it’s on again. The War brought it 4| They are vying again. / i} But it is a wholesome, welcome construc- j and altogether God-blessed rivalry “YOU CAN'T GRIN AT GOD— 1 AND GET AWAY WITH IT! BY REV. CHARLES STELZLE Staff Writer on Religious Topics for The Star , ‘There was a time when the whole earth was “of one language and of one speech.” ‘There were no “foreigners”—no “outlanders.” And to most of us this wobld seem like an ideal condition. But these “natives” must have gotten “heady”—~ they were going to show the Lord that they cculd make a name for themselves—and that they'd never be scattered abroad “upon the face of the whole And #0 they started to build a tower, whose top was to “reach unto heaven”—when, probably, they thought they could grin at God and defy him. And to save them, God “confounded their lan- guace,” so that they couldn't understand one an- other's speech—and they stopped bufiding their city, | and it was called “Babel"—confusion. And the people became scattered—thelr tight little organization was defeated. Babel, Babylon or Berlin—no matter what the city or ite place in time or history—cannot defy God—and get away with it Cc sion always follows. ‘There's a law for ma tions as there is for individuals, that prosperity, | comes permanently onty as the decrees of God are fulfilled. No leagué—whether of nations or of tndividvals—q that laughs at the Almighty can prosper. tive, now, Because it is not a clash of arguments ‘and invectives, but a rivalry in good works. | | The Evangelical bodies, thru the Y. M. , C. A., followed the soldiers with coffee, ,cigarets, and chewing gum. The Salvation Army came also with doughnuts. The Roman Catholics enter the field of helpful- ve! , ness with vigor, as the Knights of Colum- bus. And the Jews were not to be outdone. ‘ Be 1" this strife there is no bitterness. Each > ed || kTOUp cheers on the other. Ancient ani- " | mosities are forgotten. For each is working, not for the selfish | aggrandizement of their own organization, but for Humanity. || They serve not some tribal Deity, not ' a God of a Chosen People, not some narrow cane on, Oey wens (and territorial Divinity, but the God of All |the Earth, This points the way to the Religious ——7 Bae . Many even from injustice and oppression. | e boys of many races and nations died that the) ght not come to our land, and which was) d of promise. died that the American spirit, democracy, might world-wide. now the struggle in which they fell is over, HERE'S THE LATEST PEST | Now that airplanes are @ regular habit on the daily | We | menu, and no sky i complete without at least one, @ nained at home, or have come home, are going to, new pest elbow it that these boys shall not have died in vain. | bis entrance in | to swell the list Menace to our democracy, a common enemy, has} Hl ze? “oe all moré a kin in America. who sunstases | any conversation on aerial wagons | | has intensified the democratic spirit within. now, we are going to show more of that spirit others and sisters of those boys—the spirit that Ste ts ae aot \ d with their lives in a common cause—those in an airplane | all races and nations who-now lie in the American once.” Every time an airgon- | dola is spotted | carving ozone, that mum ble of bunk ts} of France. will show them more consideration in our daily d business relation. J fe all of sg errr means, knowledge and ex-) oo innocent ivslanten,. *T ted aa Bye e with our institutions, will aid them to become bet- {/)"\;, an airplane once.” ‘The old off! That line looks r American: }"One of my ancestors came over on the Mayflower.” We will » time to ons perfect our Gemocracy—that | i ret rae tt thee dave MayGewer would make ; ns of social and economic justice and freedom of | {°"\" ladeP chix males aa mite ic] the world in all these centuries has vaguely or vividly | te other guy as the tom thet “aero , Will come true, and that these boys of all races! tions who died in that cause shall not have died in! | , eR OEE Oe | OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF | i BABES | a = * Little Bobby—Gay, Uncle Jack. what's the difference between @ genius and a lunatic? | Uncle Jack—If there is any difference at all, Bobby, the odds are in favor of the lunatic. He, at least, ts sure of his board and clothes. ‘The olf whaling business, They say, ix quite dead; But what of the whalings Within the woodshed? When Johnny sent schoolward Goes swimming instead There's sure to be whaling Within the woodshed. Jimmy—Huh! You're afraid to fight | Edward—No, I ain't; but dad will lick me when If 4 |get home it I do. " Some time ago Early was confined in a shack on the| 7immy—How will he find it out? irts of assineton, y that city treated sick dogs better! Beware ea ieee the doctor gotng to your hoves t it did this human being afflicted with tbe disease| rots the flesh away. Naturally, the poor, doomed |¥»® *yearcid Elizabeth, observing them, exclaimed didn’t like it. He ran away. But there was no place|;™Y Soodners, but the angels make an awful lot of lim to go. No man’s home was open to him. Villages ere eee ee id cities drove him out when he appeared. Finally he| Recause Carrie Williams and Mae Mrown were good to New Orleans. There is a leper home, supported by |co#*. Judge T. R. Gordon, of Lous . Ky Te for the few lepers of that state. Here Early |jirt oie (ey am (0 Jul. “Good cooks must be taken in, fed, clothed and given what treatment phy-|"" °“ “ mths ns can give. , And now the Louisiana authorities have asked the Dis- __ The firm of Villa and Angelis should have a bright ft Villa can do the dirty work, and Angelis can the respectability. It’s a National Case Some day, it is announced at Washington, the govern- | is going to provide money for a national leprosium:| a John R. Early will have a home and medical attention | the dread leprosy has killed him. \ | But in the meantime, Early must be shunted from state rom a lepers’ home to an isolated shack, because ite feels it should bear the burden of caring for this Clouds were scurrying acrows the esky one morning They are « luxury,” . . What was your si She sent me to the r angry about? lrug store to get some of Columbia to pay for Early’s care and maintenance, |°°!4 eream and I got ice cream. That was the cold district refuses, claiming that Early was a resident of \° ' °™'4 #¢t—Child’s Hour th rolina when he enlis i ish-. ican | Ll Cai ted in the Spanish American | INTERESTING VOLUME As Jones wended his uncertain steps homeward he | faseaeend & way of concealing his condition x hy go home and read,” he It is a m jheard of @ drunken man readin, for the United States government, not for any A Any worhat is tha’ werla ore you rants th ih y one sate. Earby was a/soldier of the United States. He |askea. an ught for the whole country, not only for North Carolina, | i She aheortul sepiy, District of Columbia, or Louisiana. While fighting tes rere tO tee e U. S. in the Philippines he contracted leprosy, y Ob raf sly it th ti duty t wiously it is the nation’s duty to provide for Robe down to the last minute of his lite and to take pe e of his dependents. This must be done at once, should pay the Louisiana leper home for Early’s main-| when the Can nance until a national leprosium is built. | He was pl Early would never have been a leper had he not been|,,!", crt fe enough to enlist to fight our battles. For years he ee tat fish waited for us to do our duty. Let us do it NOW! line Pvc Ss ‘vald Ke Whee cent ‘one ae ae _ | him up to give the perch a ¢ hance to bite. I it Mi jto turn the fish loose when I got thru fishing.” “Mscharged,” said the judge. cee It's a# easy to approach some men as tt is difficult to get away from them, North Carolina refuses to pay because Early has not d in that state for many years, The United States government doesn’t pay because con- refuses to provide a national leprosium. decided a book?” “Who ever f | “You old idiot,” she said TOF! valise and come to bed.” for which Judge Walter McMahon, from a fishing trip to East Sister Island, tells how a fisherman escaped punishment for catching a bass out of season | punder tied to a string in the water | 1 fish warden came around, | under arrest explained how he happened to have If Sergeant York keeps his head from swelling, i this hero worship, it will be an even i Pb achievement than capturing a gross of and by these acts we will ourselves become jike it's gonna step high with the good old biaa of, | the) from his | k | | the | ington’s headquarters near Bound Brook, N. J. | mated the new flag of the republic, That “hadechanoetogo | 3 | the author of “Uncle Tom's Cabin” she is known to! wates, tho @ temporary illness is given as the reason, Tomorrow N June 14, 1645, the battle of Naseby, the decisive action of the English civil war, was fought. The Parliamentarians, under Fairfax and Cromwell, de feated the Royalists under Charles 1 and Prince Ru pert, forcing the king to retire into Wales. Qn June 14, 1777, congress unanimously parsed a Tresolution adopting the Stars and Mriper as the nw tional fag. “The flag of the thirteen United States! shall be thirteen stripes, alternated red and white; | that the union be thirteen stare, white on a blue field, | representing @ new constellation.” As the colonics ers And this ts a good time to remember ft, when groups of men and of nations are attempting to build towers, “making @ name unto themselves"—~ they are simply preparing for themselves confusion of tongues and scattered resources. Unity of which Ee ages have dreamed. Fer it will be a “Unity of the Spirit, which is the bond of peace,” and not the ignis ‘fatuus of Unity of Opinion, which is the | were pot yet formally separated from England, the) continental army bad bad no flag of its own. Wart| ous improvised flags were carried by the different divisions, and Washington realized the necessity of| having one official fing | The first official fag was made to order by Betsy Ross, a young widow, after a design agreed upon by) & committee consisting of Washington, Robert Morris, | and Colonel Ross, an uncie of Betsy Ross’ deceased | husband. The new flag was first flown over Wash- It was brought to the general by a courier from Phil) adelphia on June 14 and formally raised before the commanderin-chief the following morning and dentg-| We who serve the nation by provid- ing its meat have many masters. There are hundreds of thousands of stock raisers, asking for a quick market and a high price for their stock. There are the millions of consumers looking to us, through tens of thousands of retail dealers, for a constant supply of meat at as lowa priceas possible per pound. There are the thousands of wage earners properly eager to earn more. There are the 25,000 holders of Swift & Company shares— 8,000 of them women—who have a right to expect rea- sonable returns on their investments. There are the hundreds of competitors, big and little, alert to discover, for their own advantage, any momentary break- down or lapse in our service. In all our activities we try to deal on a basis of equity, so that all may bene- fit and none be injured by the advantages On June 14, 1811, Harriet Beecher Stowe was born at Litchfield, Conn. Mra, Stowe was the daughter) of Dr. Lyman Beecher, a wellknown preacher. She) married the Rev. Calvin Ellie Stowe of Hartford. As all the Engtishepeaking world. Mrs. Stowe died at Hartford, Conn, on July 1, 1896. In 1834, on June 14, Leonard Noreroes, an tnventor born at Redfield, took out @ patent on a diving suit with a brase helmet. PRETENDIN’ BY EDMUND VANCE COOKE “Sometime I play my papa’s like A pony-horse, or just @ bike, And when I ride bis foot or knee, He jolts the gizzard out o° me! “Bometime I play he's Just a bear And then I grab him by the hair, And if he'll promise not to bite, I let the ol’ bear hug me tight. “And we have lot of fun, sometime, Pretendin’ he's a hill to climb, And play his stomach is a rock, And jab him with my alpenstock. “And sometime he's @ foreign foe And I jw t him good, you know. And then h Is down, like he’s dead, And I play I cut off bis head. “sometime he rays, ‘Now that's the end Of playin’-lik let’s-pretend,’ And he won't play no more. And then I play like he’s my pa again!” (Copyright, 1919, N. B. A.) THE OLD GARDENEI that go with organization, wide scope, ™ *, while making a gorgeous display erly and efficient management. mer. It will add much to the beauty of the beds to And this service of Swift*& Company is performed at a profit of a fraction of a cent per pound. Swift & Company, U.S. A. Seattle Local Branch, 201-11 Jackson St. Jj. L. Yocum, Manager er plant to screen the peonies after the n has p The common purple in the fall tiger lilies, while] still popular and seem to thrive in They multiply quickly and may be too thick, but it is an easy matter to thin them Pansies seem to like the same kind of soil as » peonies, and the tufted pansies in p desirable for such a situation, E should have a peony bed, but eis nor fame space should not provi season of bloom than the peony blossoms themselves and| attention fashione¢ peomy bed cular are warden ». FRENCH DON'T SALUTE * HUNS; KEEP HATS OFF PARIS.The natural courtesy of the was put to @ test with the arrival of th peace delegation, No soldier wanted to salute the members of the German mission, They avoid it by al simple expedient. When they see members of the German party approaching, Brench soldiers take off their caps. The fact that tzau remained seated while he addressed the peace congress {s looked upon by the French as a studied insult to the allied dele | Frenchman | German | ff | | | ” ee Al pen alld eeinaaadh ae «