The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 16, 1919, Page 6

She Seattle Star we DR out ¢ 3 months, 1 P ©, In the the atale, ha, or $9.00 per week. THE SEATTLE STAR—MONDAY, JUNE 16, 1919. | The world has a way of embalming a truth in a bon then forgetting it, When someone said, “The! » the evils of democracy is more democracy,” he rnished an epigram whose use saved millions of successors @ trouble of thinking Some epigrams are records of the world’s foolishn is one is not. It is really a profound and practical . Its gospel works. It should be kept working. Whenever democracy seems to fail it is always for of democracy. Corruption comes because politi¢al ma- hines introduce autocracy. Incompetence can often be ced to private industrial plutocracy or to those who have ht to carry the methods of autocratic management ® democratic institutions. Substitute real democracy | these disturbing elements and the machine moves for- Always More Democracy ess. Demagoguery corrupts democracy only because of a} |’ of democratic education. The people have not been all the truth, or they have not been trained to find for themselves. They are not equal in intellectual op- ity. An ignorant democracy is not democracy for not discover its own will nor translate it into institu- nor common action. The cure is more democracy in| tion and education. } Wherever inequality, inherited from former autocracy, | ts democracy, there is friction and trouble. The greater contrast at the point of contact the greater the heat) ited. It was inevitable that the contact of the of ‘the old regime in France in the 18th century of ezardom in Russia in the 20th century, with the spirit racy should cause an explosion that shook the) stones of social institutions. | At the present moment democratic institutions every-| are straining and growing hot with the friction be racy and industrial autocracy and educational ity. A democracy cannot function when 10 per cent population cannot read, write, nor even speak the na-| language. Such a condition breeds the autocracy of political machines and outbursts of violence against defeat of only half thought-out desires. Democracy cannot rest upon an autocratic dation. While the two exist there will be continuous lict between the regime of the workshop and that of y in government. Those disfranchised in the fac- grow indifferent to suffrage in government and seek and more direct action. Democracy fails when it is not sufficiently democratic | — for a peaceable expression of the popular will in| s. Whether the obstacle be lack of common knowl- and means to acquire it, or reserved power by in-| I autocrats, the obstacle must be cleared away and democratic road constructed. If present institutions do| wide such a road, then a way will be hewn out and! be the worse for institutions that stand in the way.| Events everywhere are trying hard ‘to teach us this} on. It will be better for us if we learn that lesson| cl 4g v industrial 0c} “ Use one job and training for the next job. | A reading of the life of Theodore Thomas, the mu-, in, reveals a great and simple lesson for any young man profession, trade or field of endeavor. jomas came to. America as a mere boy, and was| not only to earn his own living, but to contribute the family support. | This he did by playing the violin at all-night dances} New York. | Like a good many of us, he did not like his job and Prospect for anything better was dark, very dark; for) great American metropolis ~vas at that time of two-| buildings with cattle roaming Broadway. His sensitive soul revolted against the class of music| was forced to play. | But he schooled his will to rise above it; he imagined | if practicing, and thru all the long, weary hours of jose all-night affairs he drew his tone pure and clear, and} ‘the while keeping a perfect rhythm of the dance. » It is stated that here he acquired the sense of rhythm lat characterized the work of the great orchestras which afterward directed. | __ His next work was in a Bowery theatre where Shakes-| was produced and when the other musicians went out, ring rests to drink and smoke and gossip, Thomas stayed | the orchestra pit to listen to and study the lines. | Then he went down South on horseback, giving con- for the most part in hotel dining rooms, but no| itter how smiall the audience or how low the admission he gave a good concert—he gave his patrons more n their money’s worth. In 1851 he was made second concertmaster of the lian Opera company of New York. The stars of this or- nization were Jennie Lind and Henrietta Sontag, perhaps 0 of the finest natural singers that the world has ever luced. Night after night young Thomas sat and listened to) those two women and trying at every note to imitate their pure, flute-like tones on his violin. It was thru this experience that Thomas in after life Tecommended that all singers study the violin and that all violinists study singing. Thomas was finally made concertmaster of this organi- zation—and well, opportunity—luck—always seems to come to a man who studies and works; for thru the sudden “illness of the director he finally succeeded to that position. Theodore Thomas took many large musical organiza-| tions across the continent numbers of times and amid many discouragements and financial loss in his early days; but he did more for the musical education of America than any | ‘man that ever lived. He realized all his life’s ambition. ; His was finally one of the three best orchestras in the| ‘orld and it was finally installed in a permanent hall of ‘its own. | He accomplished it all by using one opportunity to! make another—using one position and training for the next. | His work and study ended only a few days before his} , The reason a man fears that his mischief-loving little son won't turn out right is because he has for- gotten what a little devil he was at that age. Philosophers tell us that we attain happiness by liv Phi l 88 by liv- ing inside ourselves. We get more of it by living inside our incomes. When senators get thru relieving their minds about the League of Nations that threatens to take awa ¢ f ke y our liberties, perhaps they will do something about the \y | th E oly. % 3 a ata Mt eg Aut lO SIMMER SUMMER ie the fy in weather goes with summer like b Hot weat Hot keeps a ere set. for the wind to wander hearing and the clouds to over the horizon for parts unknown, then he proceeds to fry the helpless territory into a | burned pancake le, And all we can do to swat back is to wave our (mente we SUMMER AND THE eumwee a we \] out of Were o et YF THE wate | reach oh ad ~~ ¢ \ _ | faces in front of a fan, or hie to the beaches and get & tobascoflavored coating of sunburn. But there's no relief in that. Just like a mule kicking a cactus Plant for sticking him. The best way to keep cool in the simmer season ts to keep from trying to keep ee BY 0. B. JOYFUL Tt is easy enough to say, “Such Is Life,” easier than |anewering, “What Is Life?” “Late {9 a shuttle,” Bill Shakespeare observed, rath | er dodging the question fe is the gift of God, and is divine,” fellow. raid Long But he hedged thusly: “Life hath quicksands; life hath snares.” “Life is but thought,” according to Coleridge, while Horace Walpole thought, “Life is a comedy to him who thinks and @ tragedy to him who feels.” DO YOU LOOK UPON LIFE THIS WAY: “Lite at the greatest Life a malady and bert is a forward h roothes child, that must be hu mored and coaxed a little till ft falle asleep, and then all the care is over." Goldsmith OR DO You “Life in itself is nel good nor ev scene of & is In wh sleep us ever a pi remedy Chamfort een hours; jon; death is the according to TT THIS WAY: ‘There is no human and small as not a divine Mar many you make possibility,”"—James tineau OF THE OLD in the world is the Monte Chapultepec, Mexico. This # is about 6,300 years old, There California, These Mores was | The ot x | A redwoods in centuries old when in the bullrushes f d trees were | found | And we human |But then, < of a “ripe old age” at 80! erent, # in unventilated d@ expect doctor: trees }rooms, hurry and worry to repair Jinfractions of natural jaw st man in the world, raid to be 6,000 years be seen in the The old old, | Boul museum of antiquities at Egypt ! is three feet tall, with eyes made of pieces of opaque white quartz, with his pupils formed of rock erystal. He's made of wood. may ob Grozerman, despite his 105 ped a fondness for sitting on the edge of a roof and permitting his feet to dangle over the His grandson has asked the court to andpop from taking chances like that NEW YORK years, recently de restrain g! Md.Former Justice A. Brawne, E peared after leaving a note saying dieappointed in love. He accused his aged 61, of receiving attentions of other wooers asked his lawyer father, “Well, Tommie,” this your mother naughty boy today? welt?” “Wirst, dad, I want to know if you're representing me or ma. I don't want to be telling ma’s lawyer all about my case.” “what's ‘re having been a What have to say for your Al Right believes, with C one demd horrid grind.” Dickens, that “Life is of profiteers that is taking away our bank roll, __ Judging from his comment on the peace terms , expected the world to give him some f medal for distinguished servica eg omet Of all life pessimists the champion is Beaconsfield “For \ife in general, there is but one decree; youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret.” | Honestly, folks, wouldn't you like to know what Ife is? | le | ing troops. it is} | sought to “best | | rifle, —By McKee. SOME CLIMB FOR THAT JITNEY! MARK ; | MY woRDs, \ | You't. BE _ BACK YOUR SHACK ISN'T FIT TO LIVE IN AND You'RE THE ORIGINAL PROFITEER a Tomorrow ral Gage troops from warrhipa The heights side of the city culminated in two hills Bunker, which umanded both the river and the town, The ¢ was to occupy these hills and prepared to do. | were forestalied by the Americans, who, under C William Prescott, marched to Bunker Hill on the; night of June 16 and began to threw up an earth-| work entrenchment | river north of the 17th dawned the British discovered the entre Americans and opened fire from the ships proements arrived for’ the Americans under General Putnam, but they were still greatly outnumbered by the British and the Heesians At noon, w a barrage from the shipe 4,000 British infantry crossed to the opposite shore. Prescog commanded his men t powder and not to open fire until they could see the whites of the of advancing British. At is the Americans opened fire 1 ‘The whole front rank lish commander ordered a retreat When the morning der cover nay the the oncom and the Eng owe brought up y | another brigade which met the same fate A wecond time the British rallied and attacked, and again the deadly fire of the Americans drove them back. A pause came in the battle as the British commanders were unwilling to attack again, but Howe ordered them on, Had the Americans been reinforced the victory would have been theirs, but thelr little band was reduced to 200 men and their powder was almost gone. The third assault succeeded in breaking thru the lines and rewulted tn a hard won victory for the Brit ish and Hessians THE MEEK SHALL 2 BY THE REV, CHARLES STELZLE Staff Writer on Religious Toples for The Star The two great outstanding characters in the rel lous world are J 1 Mones One rules the Christians And as religion age man's life—w t two leaders are t influences amor men today It positions of power rts serve men Moses’ name ts a xynonym for meekness it said that a certain man is is rather ai, came, to there fourht to ruk over the bh of men but they humbly You hav heard us meek a Moses.” And of Jesus welf the form of came “not to be m You know that the than anybody else | himeelf forward into pli You say he is too And if there everybody helps shove The meek—the m er serve than bos honor On the face meek shalt trary our experience he took upon him ant.” He himself said that he ed unto, but to minister man whom you resent mor one who {s always pushing we are told that th of promi “fresh.” shove him into the rear s a chance to the people who would rath ones whom we delight t« saying of Jesus that “the e earth” seems foolish and con but if you'll stop to think about it, you'll discover that in the long run they wir out in the in spite of the fact that it is gen erally assumed that the race is to the “swift” and the “clever.” Meeknes a than a w For onl are perfectly sure of themsely of thelr positions or their prestige about them. t's why we like and honor them The meek shall inherit the earth.” inherit to ab race ign of strength of character rath¢ the strong ow to be meek hey The not afraic they care nothin HAVE HEARD OF SMART DOGS BEFORE, BUT THIS TOWSER TAKES THE CA | Nip Harper says that when he takes his double-| barrel shotgun to go hunting, Towser refuses to be stampeded by trees hanging full of squirrels and would hunt nothing but quail, When he takes up his| then the sagacious animal will not cast even! a sidelong glance at @ quail, but gives his whole at tention to squirrels, When Nip takes up his club| neither squirrels nor quail can secure an attention | from Towser, He has eyes for rabbits only. And| the other day when Nip took his pole and rn WE tackle to go fishing awhile Towser gave a demonstra. tion heretofore unknown in his curriculum, to work industriously digging up search of fishing wi He went the ground ‘ton in Qo.) Times, } On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise BROADWAY BY DR. FRANK CRANE (Copyright, 1919, An association has been formed to im- prove Broadway, the main artery of the City of New York. It is a movement that in well be imitated in other cities. All the world knows Broadway, for all the world, some time or other, comes to New York. American City Bureau issued upon this sub- ject I gather the following statements, which are amazing enough even in this day | of wonders: Broadway is the longest street in the world; only two streets in ancient times jwere longer. More people do business on Broadway and more persons pass along it every day than on any other street, ancient or modern. so many different kinds of business. street begins at the tip of Manhattan Island, and runs to Albany, due north and south. Near the lower end is the largest and costing $4,500,000. On this site it was in- tended to have the seat of government for he United States before Philadelphia was chosen; so Broadway just missed having |the White House. | Along lower Broadway are enormous sky- serapers, among them the Equitable Build- jing, whose 61 elevators carry 90,000 passen- |gers every day, or 25,000,000 a year—five times New York’s total population. |beautiful structure in America. The Second Federal Reserve Bank in the Equitable Building has the strongest bank vault in the world, weighing 2,000 tons. Its walls are three feet thick in their least width. On Broadway are two famous churches, Trinity Church, which faces Wall Street, and St. Paul's Chapel, which contain’s Washing- |ton’s pew. Other sights to be seen along jlower Broadway are the City Hall, a fine jexample of Colonial architecture; Wana- \maker’s store, with its high cross-street bridge modeled after the famous Bridge of Sighs; the Battleship Recruit, in Union Square, the only land battleship in the world; the Metropolitan tower, with its clock faces 2614 feet in diameter and its 17-foot minute hand; the celebrated paint- ng, Old King Cole, in the bar of the From the literature that the | On no other street in the world are there | The | most beautiful Custom House in the world, | Also the Woolworth Building, the most by Frank Crane Knickerbocker Hotel; the Indian relics in the Hotel Astor; the United States Rubber Company’s building near Columbus Circle, jthe first of the uptown skyscrapers; Columbus Circle, the automobile center of America, where more automobiles pass than any other point in the world; near Columbus Circle, the automobile district; around Forty-second st., the theatre district, where there are more theatres and moving picture houses than any other place in the world. On upper Broadway are the buildings of Columbia University on Morningside Heights, which have been called the Acropolis of America, and the Hispanic- American Museum at 155th st. Broadway has been considerably abused of recent years by the tearing up of its streets, necessitated by subway construction. It is the purpose of this association to stir up civic pride, to the end that the famous street shall be kept in a condition worthy of its fame and tradition. | After leaving the city on the north, the street skirts the Hudson River all the way |to Albany. It passes some of the most | a estates in America along the river- side. | New York has been called the show place of America, and there is no better part « | the show than the street called Broad | * "THE OLD GARDENER SAYS: ~ P 2 ans That kobirabi is a particularly good vegetable for back yard gardens. 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