The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 21, 1919, Page 6

She Seattle Star Ry, mati, out of city, 60¢ per month: 8 months, 1.50; 6 months, $2.75. year, $6.00, in the te of Washington Outside the at be por Month, $4.50 for ¢ months, or $9.06 Ide per week per year, Hy carrier, eity, The School Situation Seattle has some of the best schools in the United And some that are not so good. But it hasn't enough schools Seattle's system of educating the youth of the While it may not be flawless, considered uniformly cellent. But Seattle has grown by leaps and bounds, and the eile population fastest of all. And Seattle has outgrown schools. Seattle needs new schools, improvements to Modern. school buildings, and wide and comprehensive Program of construction. The voters will have a $4,500,000 bond issue for school ing and a 314 mill tax increase for teachers’ salaries and improvements placed before them for approval at a 5 _ Special election July 22. The public should not hesitate in this matter. For it mot a matter to be stingy about. It is a matter of duty and civic pride. ' With from two to seven portable shacks put up on ly every school grounds to catch the overflow of stu- its, yet in some of the school districts it has been nec- to divert pupils to other schools, at great incon- ce. These portables are in their very nature undesirable, even these are not as bad as many of the principal ol structures they surround. _ School board officials say that if they are not enabled b start an extensive constructive program at once it may @ Necessary to have only half-day sessions this fall in x to accommodate al! the children in the city, With public backing the school board would be enabled gradually eliminate the portables, a war-time necessity; lear down the old frame structures, add units to the brick concrete schools and embark on a systematic building . This would bring all of Seattle’s schools up to and make the city progressive “in this respect as in ex is a There will be an end of war when the people of all Mations decide to request diplomats and statesmen to do their own fighting. * Seattle’s School Gardeners _ Every single pupil of the Whitworth school this year! § growing a garden. This record is being circulated thruout nation as an example of service in this field. Seattle well be proud of her School Garden Army, which re- ded to Director J. H. Francis, who issued the following __ “This old world is tired and sick and hungry. The war| left a frightful wound on the face of civilization that take time and work and care to heal without leaving) “an ugly scar. You helped to win the war, and now you will, Relp to heal the wounds it made. Millions of boys and giris are sick and weak because they do not have} to eat. Hundreds of thousands are actually starv- Until these are all well fed our work as a garden army not finished. It will take years before this can be done. growing gardens in times of peace you are stil! helping | fight the great battles of democracy, for democracy is| safe while people are hungry. You are not only helpirig! but you are learning some of the most valuable les- that can be learned. While doing your part to help) world you are gaining knowledge and power that wil!| te you a bigger, better, stronger man or woman. “Let us put our garden flag in the home of every) rican boy and girl and show our country that we wish pull our share of the load.” | | _ We have eight ships of pork and flour in the Raltic, | ready to be sent into Russia as soon as Lenine quits or _ @8 s00n as our statesmen have a foolish spell. Goat Getting _ The milch cow with her luxurious tastes has about ired the collective goat of the American housewife, and housewife is now reversing the process and securing nanny of the dairymen by adopting a sure enough goat. Five milch goats give as much milk as a big cow, and feed costs a third as much. Goat’s milk is nearly all cream; cheese made from it! for $1 a pound, and more demand than cheese. _ No better butter is made than that from goat's milk. A goat is a cow wrapped up in hand-size package. ___ Almost any suburban family can pasture a goat; few ‘ean maintain a cow. Mie The goat gives about the quantity of milk needed by| 0d average family, and its feed problem will never harass| : family purse. ____ Likewise the’ milk of the goat is the ideal food for! babies, and many a child that can be nourished on no other | food is saved by goat’s milk. | As an indication that the housewives are discovering| | some of those things we note that a Washington state milk| , = breeder recently shipped three cars of goats to Port-| a , Ore., the heart of a great dairy country, and sold the three cars to the women of the city in two days. Even auto! tourists find the goat a convenience. Anchor Mrs. Goat in her pen on the trailer, and carry your fresh milk right along with you. | But dad’s worn-out galluses and ma’s antique corsets| are not considered the best maintenance ration for the mod- ern mileh goat. A goat will eat anything, if it must, but} rich clean food pays in a goat's system as in a cow’s. The old argument against goat’s milk because of its odor and strong flavor came entirely from the brush, weeds | _ and can heaps the goat browsed from. A goat Is a genius all right, but even a genius needs something more than an| empty catsup bottle to build a quart of cream on. ice # When a controversy can’t be settled without a re- Wb to ae a one aoe or the other is unwilling to we peace if it must be obtained at the price of doin the decent thing. z f “{ People who use Maximilian Harden as an argu- ment that the Hun is not as black as he has been paint- me ahowa remember that Harden is not a Teuton, but a Jew. Rantzau insists that the terms are more than Ger- _ many can bear. Belgium lived thru worse, and Belgians - @re not supermen. 4% 4 Get acquainted with the car driver who uses his ig to much, and you will discover that he also uses mouth too much. LAST NIGHT YOU WERE OUT UNTIL It O'CLOCK AND You SAID YOU WERE ON SPECIAL DUTY, - BUT I DON'T BELIeve | Softly |to another, EDITORIALS — On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise We Suppose This Is the Way a Traffic Cop Argues With His Wife. By McKee. IT. YOU WERE PLAYING POKER IN THE STATION —~, HOUSE erase ” a ( HOw dO YOU EXPECT ME TO GET ALONG ON THE ALLOWANCE You GIVE ME FOR HOUSEKEEPING? IT HAVEN'T HAD A NEW DRESS FoR (WE NEVER Go ANYWHERE OR ENTER. TAIN LIKE OTHER PEOPLE DO. I wanr A NEW CAR LIKE THE CAPTAIN'S wife HAS. THIS APARTMENT DOESN'T suit mE AT ALL IT WAS YOUR COULD PROBABLY GO *¢ seems a timid, Mowertike girl~ “Do you think her mother would allow her to go to the theatre without a chaperon?” “Why, I think my boy. She drove a supply wagon In France during the war.”—Loulsville Cour ter Journal #0, THE PESSIMIST ogi AGES. YOU SPEND _e. VOOT - TOODLE= O67! youre EXCEEDING THE SPEED LIMIT, I'VE GOT YOUR NUMBER. TURN AROUND AND BEAT IT DOWN A SIDE oy STREET NOW, AND NO BACK TALK — NO BACK TALK Tomorrow N the 22nd of June, in 1527, Nicoolo Machiavelli, | |U) ithe Florentine writer and diplomat, died. He was | such an astute politician that “machiavellian,” an | adjective derived from his name, is used to denote ex | | ceptionally clever policy In 1807 the i of June, the British warship Leopard, with 60 « tacked the American frigate | Chesapeake with 36 «nus. ‘This incident was one of the direct causes leading to our war of 1812 with | ngland. Acting on orders trom the British govern: | on It was a mile over Mount Clemens ment to search American ships for deserters from | The pilot of the plane from Selfridge Field was|the British navy, the Leopard stopped the Chegapeake giving a visiting officer his first air voyage. and demanded the right to search it. Captain James | He cut off the motor. those perople?” shouted the pilot cent of them think we are going to fall.” “They've got nothing on us,” waa the reply streamed for half a mile back of the plane; per cent of us do."~-Detroit News. . . SO SUDDEN Robby—Sister will be down in a few minutes, Mr She's upstairs rehearsing Mr, Sottly—What is she rehearsing, Robby? Bobby—I don't but she's standing in of the mirror and blushing, and saying, “Ob, tus, this is so sudden.” . . QUALITY “Aren't you ashamed to be seen about with that wretched cigaret in your mouth?’ asked the woman of the misguided urchin. See “Fifty per that “fifty know front Avgus “No, ma'am. There's some cheaper than these,” was the indignant reply * ee They told this one at the American Legion con vention When Witeon cated on King George in London! | the two rulers got real chummy Wilson spent the evening chatting with the king, and as the king afterward said, the president gave him a chance every once in a while to get a word or two Into the conversation. “Do you know,” King George enid, “President Wi) son told me all about my family history, and it wasn't long before I saw he knew more about me than I did myself That's what comes of being a historian. Yon've got the upper hand on a mere king eee Teddy Roowevelt was getting his shoes shined be tween convention sessions. There he was seated high above a quick mov an they think ng shoe shiner. Said one passerby noted Teddy and bis shoes “Do they are his own or his shoes?” Some folks stifl seem to trying to get about . you father's think Teddy . that Teddy junior is senior’s footwear in . Lieut Rennett Clark, of the convention mule state par e votes for Cot temporary vice chairman ‘omes from Missouri, the lent of the union, won a lot of hie father in Pike county with this mule which he dug up “over there me of the Huns had never seen a mule before the American troops got into Germany. They had horses and donkeys, but never the combination of both in mule form The mules puzzled them Also the matter of a mule's origin. I heard one telling another, “These mules are double-barrel Their front ends are used for pulling and their hind legs for kicking.’ The Huns are just beginning to Jearn of kick in a mule’s hind legs.” eee and who Remember the old nickel thriller novel you used to} read which went something like this Wins?” Well, “Nick Carter the other day Nicholas Carter, Great mato patch?” “The man who lived in your house last spring kept a dog,” waid the severe looking neighbor. “He left his dog come over and dig up my garden, That's where I buried It.” “What's that larger mound?” “That,” said the gardener severely, “is where I buried the owner of the dog.” animals. | [money in ico Barron, who commanded the Chesapeake, refused | continued to sail on. The British ehip fired a shot! across her bows and when the Amerivan frigate con tinued on her way delivered a broadside. The Chesa peake fired one shot in defense and then surrendered The British boarded her, took off three deserters and) d away Captain Parron was court-martialed for ect of duty for failing to clear his ship for action was found guilty and suspended from the service five years On the 22nd of June, in 1884, Léeutenant Greely and | six survivors from the Greely Arctic Expedition were found by a searching party from a squadron of relief! nent out the United States government. The numbering 25 men, had railed in 1881 in search of the North Pole. For three years nothing was heard from them and in 1884, on the 22nd of June, the relief party sent out undertCaptain Winfield Schiey found Greely and his six companiona near Cape Sabine. | In 1898, on the 22nd of June, “during the Spanish | War, an American army of 16,000 men, under Gen jerst Shafter, disembarked at Santiago, Cuba. by Greely party, on an expedition Letters of an Altruist III—TO HIS LADY-LOVE BY EDMUND VANCE COOKE. Dear Heart ‘Tis not mere adoration Which mak me sing your high laudation, For, I protest, no panegyric, No power of prose, or lilt of lyric, © homage of, or chorus to you | Can tell the plain praise which is due you. Of all tr Yours we scendent forme and faces, | = the gifts of all the graces; Of all sweet manners and capricers Yours bears the charm which never ceases; Of all wit written, heard, or mentioned. Yours sparkles first and best-intentioned. | Your beauty, virtue and devotion! Your humor, wisdom and emotion! All tongues combined have no Inflection | To tell the wweets of your perfection, Nor any tell how much I prize you, | | And f0 I simply idolize you. | So, as my praise mounts high and higher, It either proves that I'm a liar, | Or else you are so much above me It's inadvisable to love me. | In either case (if you'll excuse me) | I would advise you to refuse me | (Copyright, 1919, by N. BE. A) THE OLD GARDENER SAYS: "| Unfortunately this is a bad year for plant lice Bb at least, for the gardeners who grow plants on which | the lice congregate, If every other remedy has failed, Lakes gob, married Mins Myrtle Leenhouts, Milwau:| kee society girl see Sergeant Jack Sullivan speaking of the lengthy text of the peace terms: “That's a ‘scrap of paper’| 1 oid time ee das-autiies air |try the old-time kerosene emulsion see DO YOU BELIEVE THIS? f He looked over the back fence and spoke to a severe looking man who was hoeing a garden, ask- ing, “What's that mound in the middie of your to: You don't even @ spray pump, altho the latter is handy. You tie a bunch of grass around a stick so as to » & swab and easily brush over the under side of the leaves Kerosense emulsion can be purchased |ready at the seed stores and is cheaper than a tobac co solution such as is commonly recommended A |single plant louse is insignificant creature, but thousands of them make a formidable army, capable of doing no little damage. need The summer girl will soon begin to freeze on to a reckless youth who has a mania for squandering bis cream, in the U, THRIFT BY DR. FRANK CRANE by Frank Cranes (Copyright, 1919, Thrift is simply the application of intel- ligence to expenditure. It does not mean only saving. It not connote skimping and penny-pinching, niggardliness and miserliness. That is often the most foolish kind of waste, waste of health, of spirits and of the joy of life. Thrift means jntelligent Spending. To spend a dollar now may save you two dollars next month, Thrift implies a Budget does If you have no wise plan, it makes little difference how much you make. What is the use of forg- ing ahead when you don’t know your destination ? Some busy money-makers might sing, with Mr. Dooley. “We don’t know where we're going, but we're on our way.” Thrift implies Foresight. It means we can see Tomorrow as well as Today. It is the opposite of Childishness. The child can grasp only what is before him. He cannot realize the future. He “wants what he wants when he wants it.” If he had no older heads to think for him he would, like the grasshopper, dance all sum- mer and starve all winter. The savage eats when he finds meat. He gorges and sleeps, and between times starves. The civilized man lays up. In abundance he prepares against famine. He builds barns and warehouses. Thrift implies Self-Control. ters of self, not slaves of self. Thrift implies Self-Respect. We do not wish to become a burden upon others. Hence we lay up something for our lean days. Thrift means Decency. The decent por- tion of the race accept their due responsi- We are mas- bilities, carry their share of the burdens, ' | justify their existence by cheerfully doing their part of the world’s work. The in- decent are content. to let others work for them. They are parasites, vermin. They are like the chaff which the wind bloweth away. And when they are gone they are hardly missed It is Thrift that creates Capital. And Capital represents the difference between civilization and barbarism. Where there is no Capital there is no progress. The intelli- gent and industrious Laborer does not despise Capital; he becomes a Capitalist. Is not that what Labor is contending for? Enough wages to lay by something? Capital itself is dissipated without Thriffhs It wears out like a moth-eaten garment No fortune, however great, can endure w less it is continually passing thru the hand of thrift. The wealth of a nation is not of gold and silver, nor fertile soil. It consists in thrifty souls. They can make the desert bl ssom, while the lazy and idle would starve in the midst of plenty. i Thrift mean Patriotism. Thrift means Love of Family. Thrift means you are not a Bounder, Sponge or a Nuisance. Thrift means using your Strength to pro tect your Weakne: your Health to tak care of your Sickness, your Fortune to pro vide against your Misfortune. Thrift means you are not your Past; you are content with yous Present; and you are unafraid of yor Future. ‘ It means you can stand up like a man on your two feet and face whatever destin: may have for you, and say I am the master of my fate I am the captain of my sou F f » ashamed o The Fruits of Bolshevism YOU CANNOT OWN ‘The land eis associates, and in effect since September wipes out ownership of land, of livestock and of buildings An old m and woman lived on a little farm. They had worked all their lives, had a comfortable | home, and in their old age expected to be kept from want by the produce of the farm. Their hopes were blasted by the following pro virions of the Land Law DIVISION 1—<General Provisions Article 1—All property rights in the land, treasures of the earth, waters, forests and fundamental natural resource within the boundaries of the Russian Federated Soviet Republic are abolivhed Article 2—The land passes over to the ure of the entire laboring population without any compensation, open or secret, to the former owners Article 3—The right to use the land belongs to those who till it by their own labor, with the exception of special cases covered by this decree. Article 6—All private Hvestock and inven toried property of non-laboring homesteads Pass over without indemmification to the dis Porition (in accordance with their character) of the land departments of the county, pro vincial, regional and Federal Soviets Article 7—All homestead structures men tioned in Article 6, ax well as all agricultural appurtenances, pass over to the disposition (in accordance with their character) of the county, provincial, regional and Federal Sov- lets without indemnification. Article 17—Surplus profits, obtained on ac count of the natural fertility of the land or on account of its location near markets, are Strike! This is a mosquito of malaria, enlarged many times The yellow fever mosquito looks much like this’ fel ow, but is heavier built, and doesn't bother us much S. A. Its cousin, the malarial skeeter, does especially in New Jersey, summer resorts and on the front porch after dark. This skeeter carries malaria germs, and usually it carries enough of ‘em to kill a dozen people, That's law in Russia, passed by Lenine and his | ANYTHING to be turned over for the benefit of social needs to the organs of the Soviet power. Article 18—The trade in agricultural ma chinery and in seeds is monopolized by the organs of the Soviet power Article 19—The grain trade, internal as well as export, is to be a state monopoly. There is a pretended provision for these people fa | Article $ of the Land Law, which says that those | “who are unable to work and who will be deprived | of all means of subsistence by force of the decree,” | may receive a pension, under a process involving ® trial in the courts and appearance before the Sow | lets, ete. | In view of the fact that the Rolshevists regard an | man who has accumulated anything as a crimi it is easy to guess how many people have rece allowances from the Soviet courts. It is said that In most of the states of this Unio | man stil has a legal right to commit suicid There is, however, a moral, if not a legal, obligat! | resting’ upon bystanders to warn a man that the he is about to commit will result in his death. | So every man who owns one Liberty bond or on@! | acre of ground or one horse or even a pig, is enti tied to be warned of what Bolshevism means Russia. | Pointed Paragraph | ; eens out love. i A smile ts appropriate for both summer and n wear man’s eyes. Here Comes a SKeeter! ir = sage el why the skeeter is worse than a pest. Skeeters are more easily prevented than slain. Just keep water covered and skeeters will vanish But we can't cover rivers and lakes, ‘Therefor We'll always have some skeeters stinging our silken hosiery. We can, however, drain swamps, cover water cans and introduce fish in all ponds—or cover them with kerosene. Fish or kerosense are just like roughoprats to mosquitoes He who loves without reason is apt to reason wil he Light is a symbol of truth—unless it Hes in a we