The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 17, 1919, Page 6

THE SEATTLE STAR—TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 1919. Zhe Seattle Star my p year, By carrier, city, 12 | a The Aesthetic Worm | Did you know * leworm, et al., o ht, and a hig th earthworm, fishworm, | idealistic trend of | |= of nature? much that e lowly had a poetic soul, ar veneration for the beauties didn’t ; of us know earthworm is earthly only abiding place. At sunset he hes his the sur and, sticking the his ne earth, he revels in the glories of the suns We presume that is why at eventide he comes to light. Come up he does; maybe to do tomorrow's shopping; Merhaps to escape the home cares, and the nagging of Mr form; mayhap to attend worm vespers for his soul's but we prefer to regard this daily journ token of his ideals, his lofty artistry, his innate adora- A of nature's wonders. And waiting for this worshiper is Cock Robin. ‘Cock Robin, with no highly trained power of percep for the glories of the setting sun; with no aspirations ing the perfect life of philosophical content © Cock Robin, with nothing but a vigorous appetite, and |} keen eye, and much spryness as to beak and legs, waits @ in the golden glow of the *s most mystic hour, and fren the worthy worm pushes ever lightly on his arthly shelter, Cock Robin swoops, pecks and swallows; ‘one more idealist has gone to inhabit the maw of hun- ‘Sty materialism. © Watch the robins in your garden some evening and see they gather worms, a dozen to three square inches of A soil. Staying at home still continues to be the safest all the virtues—except for robins of all degrees and bably you few as as in. But the T’' JOIN OUR BASE TEAM? : way just above tip of MY GRANDFATHER GAVE ME A SILVER DOLLAR FOR MY BIRTHDAY, so © An indemnity is all right as far as it goes, but it oesn’t put back the complicated and delicate machinery Stolen out of Belgium and northern France 5 The Stepping Off If the percentage of suicides thruout the world obeys Taw of averages, then it is youth, not age or middle that walks in the valley of tragedy and suffers the st pangs of the “malady of life.” In Seattle, almost week, some girl, some young woman, or a youth Ing into manhood, takes the gas or poison route to the eternity. Older people are inclined to regard the sufferings of DI lightly, minimizing them, explaining that youth has WHEN YOU ARE SUDDENLY AC AS AN EQUAL BY YOUR EL art Sort of Warms You All Up Inside. —By McKee.| On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise The Community Council BY DR. FRANK CRANE Pr wit oro ir er nengiaEE >. WE MIGHT DROP IN AT THE (1CE~- CREAM PARLOR BEFORE THE GAME any other kind of Government is |Democracy’s unit is the Neighborhood, while in all other forms of Government it is a Class, of some kind. In the monarchies of former times the king and the nobles managed the state; the |people had nothing to do with it except jpay taxes, fight in the wars, and look | pleasant. In the Bolshevik schertie a little group of | theorists takes the place vacated by the for- | mer bosses; the people still have nothing |to do but to submit. Both of these schemes rest upon the as- sumption that the people, taking them as they run, are too ignorant to attend to their own affairs. Singularly, the people have often been sat- [ated with this. Self-government is diffi- cult. It involves responsibilities which are ‘troublesome. Also thought, which is worse. | They willingly avoided the burden, side- |stepped, and were only too glad to let George do it. George. Democracy’s unit is not the educated \class, the politician class, the laboring class, ‘the propertied class, the moral class, or any jother class, It is the neighborhood, in- cluding men and women, old and young, good and evil, wise and ignorant. BALL SURE, YER OLD ENOUGH T'BE ’ ONE OF TH! HE'S GOT ER DOLLAR! Of course we have not actually realized | this yet. We are still afraid of it. But we ‘are coming to it. And only when we get |there will we have true and real Democracy. It may be bad, but it will be no worse ‘than we are. It may be good, but no better than we are, We shall not have the Best government. We shall have the kind of Government we Want, which is better. |. A movement has been set on foot in America to establish Community Councils. That means to organize by Neighborhoods, CEPTED DERS (Copyright, 1919, And George looked out for— by Frank Crane) The difference between Democracy and | regardless of race, politics, religion or sex. that | It is the ideal form of political organi- zation, | It makes the basis of organization not any | one of the things that heretofore have been | considered essential, not whether all in the | group are Republicans, Socialists, White | Folks, Methodists or Property Owners. | But whether they are Human Beings. | This movement contains the only idea that | goes down to-the bed-rock of Democracy, | which is Humani If it succeeds it will, as President Wilson has said, “result in welding the nation to gether as no nation of great size has eve | been welded before.” | In War we quickly discover that our | real defense was Men, any kind so they | could march and shoot, not the titled, nor |culchahed, nor white, nor rich—but just | Folks. | And in Peace, which is far more difficult | than war, we ought to recognize that it is this same Humanity that we must de- pend on. There are a number of things a Com- munity Council can do better than any other kind of an organization, including matters relating to Health, Sanitation, Publie Schools, Politics, Franchises, Playgrounds Fee: all other things which affect every- y. Who knows? Some day we may get rid | of the rotten, vicious, wasteful, crooked and | undemocratic monstrosity known as the Political Party. And the Community Coun- cil may kill it. I pray so. | ————_ | 1S IT POSSIBLE: | Mrs. Knaggz (with magazine)—It says here that @ South Sea Island wife isn't supposed to talk until her | husband speaks first | Knaggs—I'll bet some of those husbands are foots enough to do it. | eee | Some poets are always amusing, but not necessarily ' gunny 0 self-control, that the passions master the intellect. Yet Fis the intellect that must rule to destroy the passions. is wanting in the judgment that comes with ex- and therefore is apt to place erroneous valua- on matters of vital import. Certain beautiful bubbles up, that are only bubbles, but in their disintegrated fments, youth sees everything worth while go, and, in ir, resolves to go likewise. © Our philosophers tell us that we will commit suicide the terrors of life over nce the terrors of death. |r ir ly, then, there are depths of darkness and dismay and “ster im life that the feet of the vast majority of US|, end spon ceatie peund eel in the ly escape. Then, too, the sensitive perceptions of ata tek ahead SEN GAM healoncd ten Tecoil from the shock of discoveries’ that have| inches in tength ned those who have passed thru them to a comfort- middle age. This, to a certain extent, explains why| youth that takes the suicide route. BY 0. B JOYFUL NOW, WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THIS? WILLIAMSPOR Md.—Nature fak by Henry Jack ake and Oblo canal, and v the canal section foremar oie were jolted by his wife an a threepound eel in the Potomac eee A MAN IS NEVER TOO OLD TO FLY WABASH, Ind—*t will remember it aa long as 1 ive.” remarked Uncle Jack Higgins, 101 years old after a 15 ute fight in an airplane at the service avint station he A wd witnessed the dest man in Indiana eee POWDER TO PENNIES the war ran down, Unk Sam was million hand grenades on Congress might make a better job of saving the large if it had the benefit of all the orations now i F istivered by graduates. ascent of the When left with What with the of bloole bons flock of marks, he's hit plan of ‘em into Beginning next Sunday, Seattle will have public band rel in the parks. The program will last 10 weeks there will be three evening concerts during the week. wo 36-piece bands will play each Sunday afternoon. 3 This is the most ambitious park concert plan ever pted, and the city council is to be congratulated upon i ipt action in appropriating the necessary funds. =* As Councilman Hesketh pointed out, the city will no ibt get back all the money spent for concerts in carfares thousands of people will have an opportunity for ant hours. Seattle should be alert to develop plans for public p ess. very great city ought to spend energy and jingles providing pleasure for the thousands. | toss | Seattle, with her inspirational climate and natural set-| ents. ig, Should be the happiest city in the world. aie | imo his hands. to do bevy was a question and now on the turning coin banks for young ish W. 8. B. ute. Of course they will all be operated on before they rent out The new firing pin to make ‘em y with are jit r effective will be a coin slot, and if fed regula next Xmas they will come in snappy counters to bring prisoner pres mazuma maneuvers. The renadte kid bank may n't safe to tamper with any al appearance grown other of the ups that it The returned Crusader wonders if the “Verboten” signs were any thicker in Germany than the “Officers Only” signs in France. | |ONE SHOULD BE SURE THAT ONE WANTED IT BEFORE ONE PRAYS FOR IT OKLAHOMA CITY El Ellison, kin would turn white, It did—f into a packing plant acid vat one s Miss Josie W etice in public o colored, prayed his a fa tive Wala Joined? Have you, Mr. Grown-up, joined the Boy Scout If| w have not, sit down now and mail a check for $1 to|rock inald Parsons, 442 Henry building, and inclose your!|' Mame and address. Just say that you want to become an ociate member of the Boy Scouts. You may not have a Boy Scout in your fami can help the movement along, and so help Amer oe a, ‘the thousands of youngsters who are growing up in your me . ‘ community. A Boy Scout learns to live in a manly way,| : ARE SOME PIGS @nd at the same time enjoy the red-blooded pleasures of| wii W. Vé., has some youth. A Boy Scout becomes a potential influence for|*trired p look tke, porikish > clean living, clean thinking—a real democrat. | sebras Atal : Every grown-up man in Seattle can take pleasure and|™* = 4 action in becoming a factor in the Boy Scout move-! How cot bang And he can help some youngster get more joy and out of living. Ish, of Providence, and not exercised remark eee er would put the exkalser on a of opinion is that eight pile—about Hap | snake M that ening « Hollow, Ky. has a bull he ¢ from the pasture and drives ‘em back again next morn home Huntington, cent birth, They tripes run the long way eminds © treak o' lean, streak 0° ? HE HAD HEARD AGAINST HIM? with DD HE THE EVID! Pat O’Riart battery judge fixed him with a * guilty up, charged assault | | omentiine | Agents of the kaiser are selling his Berlin real estate, but there has been no effort to sell that piece of his personal poperty known as “my fleet.” honor,” said he, “until I've soldat. |heard t eee & SCHOONOVERS GO TO © ACHER HANGS UP THE STANDING __ Brockdorff-Rantzau says that he came to Versailles _|WHEN with the hope that the days of scraps of paper had F passed. Well, we did our part to make them pass. | ROOM ONLY SIGN | ELKINS, W. Va.—Thirty-four members of one tam |{ly and all members of one church is the unique rec Jord of th family of this county Fudy two daughters, two da law, two ontiniaw and 25 gra are now f the Cheat River church eady members and children son-in-law were baptized the The country will have a better chance to understand Schoonover the league covenant when senators get over the idea . that determination is argument. mover and one other The High Cost of Living has been invented since : , J day the day when « prominent citizen could wear a patch . 6 Oy on the seat of his pants without arousing comment. LIGHT ON DARK SUBJECT _——_— Little Hisie—Mamma says you are a self-made man, Mr. ¢ Are you? Mr. George-—Yes, my dear. Little le-—You must dark, didn't you? Before judging Italy, one should reflect that an 4a, a tion to ork Mexico would get by with the hot- Ga Amoi © made yourself in the tor | garages. | feet | and | stern eye and demand: | | URCH THE | Tomorrow congress passed the| naturalization of| in 1783, General Washington | of the several estates his| « the command of the American N June 18th, in the the first act regulating year 179%, the alle the 18th announced to the Intention of resign army In 1812, on the 18th of June, the United States de | clared war against England. The, chief cause of the war of 1812 was the impreasment of American rea men by England, Great Britain was engaged at that time in the war against Napoleon. Three years later! in 1815, on the 18th of June, hostilities between the/ United States and England ceased. | On the 18th of June, 1815, the battle of Watertoo, by which Napoleon's power was completely broken, | was fought between the French and the English and P ne. The forces of the two armies were about 75,000 each. The battle began about noon and con tinued tif] night, when the French were defeated | with the loss of about 20,000 men. The great battle gave peace to all of Europe which had been suffer ing from the constant aggression of Napoleon In 1832, on the 18th of June, the anniversary of the great victory at Waterloo, the Duke of Welling ton was attacked by a mob in the streets of London The duke at the time waa the prime minister of Eng land and he was somewhat reactionary in his stand against a popular demand for parliamentary reform | and the extension of the franchise. For a while his opposition made him so unpopular that he had iron shutters put up to protect the windows of Apsiey | House from the populace On the 18th of June, tn 1916, President Wilson called out 100,000 guardsmen, practically the entire force of militia in the United States, for service along the Mexican border. | of June, y i Amer Googe Se et NY ter Comm on Publ Inform, *TLLUMINED SOULS LIGHT THE PATHWAY the peace congress assisted in its preparation. a { BY REV. CHARLES STELZLE Staff Writer on Religious Topics for The Star And God said, Let there be light: and there light.” This is the first recorded command of the Almighty. And ever since men have been trying to bring the| earth back to the time when it was “without form. and void." and when “darkness was upon the face of the deep.” The kaiser succeeded fairly well sheviki him a pretty good second. But God has decreed that there shall be Light and no man can long compel the world to live in darkness. And then God sent prophets into the world, teachers—to establish “lights” in the of mer And the greatest of them all once said to his fol- lowers "Ye are the light of the world.” There isn’t much that's bigger and better and finer than being a light to men who are struggling in the darkness Maybe it's the darkness of ignorance which causes 80 much conflict and persecution Or it may be the darkness of sin. |} 80 much suffering, to the inocent guilty “And God said, Let there be light.” ‘That's the will of the Almighty And just as He swung the stars in the heavens when the world was young, so that men might not stumble has He sent illumined souls into the world, #0 that they might light the way for troubled, tempest-tossed tra # on the highways of life. war And the Bol and darkened souls The awettheart responsible for | as well as the ST nm MS ESS EN ae || OUT OF THE MOUTH OF BABES || »—__—__-—— i Mamma--Now be a good little boy and stop crying. Mark (aged 3)—Me won't stop crying till papa hears me. Mamma Mark | phone. But he can't hear you he's at work. Den me'll dest have to ewy frou de tele. eee Mamma (angrily)—Kdward, how many times have} I told you to stop that note? | Edward (after a pause)—Seven, mamma eee One day small Hazel's solling her dress “Be patient with me, mamma,” said Hazel like me when we get better acquainted.” see Teacher—William, can you known quantity is?” William (son of @ coal dealer) ~Yes, ma‘am it's what you get when you buy a ton of coal. mother reproved her for “You'll tell me what an un- WHAT PEACE TREATY DOES TO FOE [ESD] rerwatienaheed FSS Sovereignty to be determned by peputar verte Here is the National Geographical Society map of the new German boundaries as drawn for the U. 8. Committee on Public Information, on information in the published summary of the peace treaty. official, but experts who have assisted the American mission in Paris with special knowledge of the work of It is un- prea Pe a and shonger we could at because the sands wit statement. U:K Ke Every grocer everywhere sells Kellogg's everyday. Copyright 1919, by Kollege Toasted Corn Flake Co, the 4 Kelloggs | WON ITS FAVOR THROUGH ITS FLAVOR’