The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 30, 1919, Page 6

Ahe Seattle Star By, mail, out of city, $00 per month; 8 month, $0; 6 montha, $2.75; year, $5.00, In the 1 face of Was! n,' Outatd stat be fer ¢ mon! et per month, per year, By carrie ity, Ide per week. At the Rainbow's Foot _ Why is: Utopia always so far away? Why is its 1o-| "gation so hard to visit? Why, alas, does it so often, like mirage, disappear upon closer approach? Why, worst of | “eS does its contemplation so frequently interfere with) ‘ application to domestic tasks? Today Utopia is located in Yucatan, Russia and Hun-| Pretentious publications prove that the Maya In- ins of Yucatan have shorter working hours, more pleas- a better schools and a higher civilization than is to found in the United States. | Men and women return from Russia to tell of the} of Bolshevik civilization. But they always return. do not stay to enjoy the glories. Others describe | ous transformations wrought by Bela Kun at Buda- Any doubt cast upon these travelers’ tales receives the) reply of travelers: “But we were there to see.” Fortunately these are days in which personal! visits do furnish the most reliable information concerning a A visitor sees much less than tabulated investi- | ions make available to any reader. el Tt is not necessary to visit Russia to learn that its of more than 6,000,000 square miles contains a popu- n of 180,000,000 people, one-half of which is totally literate, while few of the others have even a common | education. We know, without going to see, that than three per cent of the population are factory upon the dictatorship of a factory population. Without a personal visit we can know that neither Rus- Yucatan nor Hungary have ever had a free press in th to evolve a common mind, nor freedom of assemblage | form intelligent group opinions, nor liberty of organiza- to create bodies to carry out a democratic will. We rather important fact in considering a Utopia\| | || Feelings of Man With Large Family and Small Income. Wy : that none of these countries have an industrial or- | tion of either men or machines capable of directing | t, nor a governmental organization capable of| industry democratically or effectively. | Geniuses, “born out of due time,” caused Russia to lead | ris world in certain phases of painting, music, literature) dramatic art, but POLITICAL AND INDUSTRIAL VEMOCRACY ARE BUILT OUT OF DEFINITE INSTI- UTIONS THAT HAVE NEVER EXISTED IN RUSSIA, | or Yucatan. Therefore we have no more need to/ these nations to know that they are not the seat. of | than we have to visit the poles to disprove the) ticability of conducting banana plantations there. | | If a society comes in which pleasurable, co-operative | Produces plenty for all it will be built upon those | cratic and industrial institutions that evolved thru| f centuries of struggle. The Utopia reached by short ts past such institutions is like the pot of gold at the) of of the rainbow—found only in childish imaginations. | The chap who brags about his generosity means it he finds genuine pleasure tn spending money on Pay Your Debt ‘Too many Seattleites have neglected or refused to “buy tk” for Mother Ryther. Surely those who have not | exchanged a dollar for a brick coupon are unacquainted Mother Ryther and her service to the community. Years and years ago, when Seattle was little more than ind settlement, Mother Ryther assumed the responsi-| of feeding and comforting little children and unfor-| mothers who were without shelter or food. She no questions but went about her task as only a whole- Christian mother, pulsing with human kindness, how. She moved from house to house, scraped and economized yy the butcher and grocer, until finally the community | was awakened to the necessity of providing | Ryther with a modern, sanitary, sunny “plant” for | work. ‘The lot has been purchased. Union building tradesmen te donating their labor. Material concerns have granted eral discounts. But the big, fine structure will cost } 000, and only half of the amount has been raised. So, this week, let’s step out and finish up the job. Buy more bricks and see that the other fellow does like- For the sake of homeless little children and grief- ned women, pay your debt to Mother Ryther. —$____ \ oaae President Sietz of Austria 1s convinced that the ce terms are impossible. Not as impossible as re- cting them. \ “K-K-K-Katie—” yrasands of people assembled around the band stand ‘at Vanteer park Sunday afternoon and curiously watched} a hwy, tanned fellow in olive-drab uniform mount the ‘steps id take off his coat. Itive minutes the crowd was singing, laughing and ath g, Imiiuality merged into a unified group, engaged in a hapPworth-while democratic outburst of “K-K-K-Katie —Beau] K-K-Katie,” “Battle Hymn of the Republic,” “There Long, Long Trail,” and “Till Wé Meet Again.” Théader was Francis Russell, late song leader in the army Whas come to Seattle to foster community singing under thuspices of the War Camp Community Service. He ked his worth Sunday afternoon. It will be good for Seatty Russell stays here and keeps up his splendid work. Ehade Sunday a happier day for thousands of men and yen and little children. Ametig just awakening to the spirit of community singing. st possibilities are ahead. Community sing- ing fosternmunity spirit, makes for unity, adds its bit to group sntment and tends to stamp out the drab spirit of i8n that grips self-centered individuals. More P° to Songleader Russell and the War Camp Community vice, In Cola §. C., is a prosperous hot-dog stand , & C., g 8 that advertitself as The Kennel. Freckles Freckles {, 4 member of The Star family of comic paren Fre here to stay awhile. Every night you'll find uabusy, asking boyish questions and ad- vancing ait wers to kids and grown-ups. Get acquainte kles. He is one of the most amusing ica, and The Star is mighty glad resent him, Freckles has the ing life brighter for young and old erybody likes Freckles, It may bey, i ti ; great American public detests empire because 4, 6 much like umpire, | le BY 0. B. JOYFUL George B. Wood, who is only #4 years old, and jlives at Northboro, Mass, has just seen bis firat |moving pictpre show. He said it was a “fine expert jence.” That about makes it unanimous, dosn't It? eee |My, HOW THOSE YOUNG FOLKS DO BEHAVE | THESE DAYS! M. H. Snow, of Aurora, Il, 70 years old, won the affections of Mrs. Julia Licher, 60 years old, and thereby caused her divorced husband, 65 years old, | to sue his rival for $10,000. ee A LIGHT Waiter—What will you b Diner—Ob, bring me an assortment fats and carbohydrates—I leave it say 00 calories. teins, ot pr to you. Henry eee | The only thing the packers ever cut, Postearde | Tap, is a melon ee Editor We'll Say So: The man who Is startled évery time he hears a chocolate drop may be ner vous, but he has nothing on a man I know. This man is so nervous that if you put a dicebox in . QUICK DECISION “Young man wishes to know if you are at home.” | “Has he a car?” | “No, miss,” | “I am not.” ‘The jazz band player who killed Jim Burope hae been let off with 15 years in prison becmuse he is mentally deficient. Do you suppose he was deficient before he started to playing jazz or did he become | that way afterward? Either way seems highly prob: | able to us. | So many girls are talking about an airplane across the Atlantic that pretty soon the boys will be sing ing, “My bonnie flies over the ocean.” eee HOW TO KEEP COOL Never read an article that has over it a heay say ing, “How to Keep Cool.” | eee | Editor We'll Say So: I have an aunt woman, who ts frightfully nervous. Sh }to a Qospital every spring when the plants begin to shoot.—-Miss Belle Fone eee Editor We'll Say So: My wife is not Nervous but she ix the most tenderhearted woman I ever saw. She won't put pillows on any of the beds in the house because it frightens her half to death to see a pillowslip. I guese she's afraid it will break & leg or an arm—Henry Flivver see If you find the cost of living a bit high, try this dinner menu. It's expectally good on a hot day Clover Leaf Soup, Iced Boneless Dandelions, Baked ROAST LETTUCE Stewed Plantain Rolled Chick Weed Milk Weed on Toast Elm Leaf Coffee or Maple Leaf Tea Toothpicks #0 very SUCHISLIFE WHEN A LADY PINCHES A DOORMAT ‘There rushed into a police station a youngster very | much out of breath, who gasped out to an officer “You're--wanted—down—down an’ bring an ambulance!” “What's the trouble?” demanded the policeman “And why bring an ambulance?” “Because,” the kiddi covered his breath, pinched our doormat in our street—an’ | explained other's found the lady that Sydney, N. 8. W., Bulletin. cee ANOTHER PIECK OF FICTION EXPLODED BY SCIENCE New York doctor insists there is no grain of truth in the old-fashioned theory that negroes like water melon better than white folks do. Says color (of | eater, not melon) has nothing at all to do with one's capacity to inhale that frult—or is it vegetable? | . . IT WOULD SURPRISE MOST ANYONE TO 1 A CORPSE WHISTLE AT 0) When W. F. Russell, Bridgewater, Pa., undertaker, arrived for the body of a man struck by a train and Pronounced dead by a raflroad physician, the corpse was whistling, “Coming Up the River!" Russell took the whistler to the hospital instead the morgue, AVE | a ii 3 | Shenandoah his hand he shakes.—A. P. jt | both | ers w | supposed when he had re. | f mn | them ha ATU NEITHER SAFE NOR COMFORTABLE — BUT WHAT CAN I po? NIST U a RES On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise Compulsory Military Service BY DK, PRANK CRANE (Copyright, 1919, The American Union Against Militarism asks me to join, I cannot say, categorically, yes or no to this request. With the general tenor of any campaign against militarism I am at agreement. And yet I believe that every boy and girl in the United States ought to be required to d » at least one year to Government ice. One year, out of one’s life, devoted to the Common Good, would be of immeasurable benefit. It would develop the Civie Con- science, concerns to live for, and if need be, die for. And this Public Service might well be under the Army and Navy. Provided we realized that these organizations are not primarily to kill, but to create and conserve. A good deal will have to be done to root | out the Prussian traditions and customs of | Army life. The Army must be democ- ‘ratized. The idiotic spirit of Class must Tomorrow N the ist of July, in 1689, the battle of Boyne Water took place near Drogheda, Ireland. It was, there William I1f. defeated James Il, and drove need, The the ha of July, the battle of Gettye jon army had suffered se of the Confederates at Ksbure and at Chancelioreville. Under com | nd of General Hooker it had retreated and en-| camped on the banks of the Potomac to guard Wash: ington. * Encouraged by their sUccess, the people of the | | South urged Lee to invade the Northérn states and/ inive victory About the let of June, yield ar demand, Lee left his encampment near | Fredericksburg and marched Ris army west to the} alley, and then northward into Pennay! y left the banke of the Po| ced Hooker, | delphia Both euvered to get utelde of the by both com h other. Lee's advance f Meade came together west of the town The main joe were about 25 miles apart, and » the firet conflict between the advance guards | ok place reinforcements were steadily sent up _ te vanta ar burg were chow widen | ‘The preliminary skirmish of the three days’ battle! of Gettysburg lasted for six hours and ended in the Union forces retreating to a strong ‘position on Cemetery Hul in 1898, during the Spanish Juan Hill in Santiago, was taken by rican forces, Cajonel Theodore Roosevelt's regiment of Rough Riders distinguished themeelves in this assault | Pointed Paragraphs A gir an't fish for a diamond ring in her moth ub. A silver 1 A A ning may have a copper cloud stitch in tume may close the mouths of gossip little widow with dimples is a dangerous thing t milk. Call the cat 0 go Up in the alr go up in ar om regards the things he do © float a rumor than it ts to sink love is sentimental \ &@ man in love man's financial , goo se has been cooked | of the ancients to ours, are still alive the cat's the around the trap until they It is fa hard work wisdom may have been | we When away mice are apt to Bet it in thes neck man to say he er Por man to believe of her debut into ated bysa woman ping it takes her all after buying it takes her only a few! play joy it the a woman when she oe ae i ” - oe Protecting the garden crops from birds is some times & much more difficult task than might be This is particularly true where robins and starlings abound. The robin is well known and the starlings are ever ous feeders, Many ways to keep birds e have been tried, but most of! The moat effective be to throw clods of earth into the by the thieves are there. This gives them which they do not quickly recover Small trees may protected by throwing mosquito netting over them The same plan will make it impossible for the robins to reach the strawberries later on raction cherry trees hav vorac out th e from UsU WE DON'T BELIEVE FISH STORIES LIK Is, BUT YOU CAN IF YOU WANT TO. HIGHLAND LAKE, of vouch for the following: Charles Hamlin hurried to the Bay when the red signal showed As he was pulling up his catch, a 10inch pickerel caught on the shiner bait, a larger pickerel grabbed the catch and had it half swallowed when Hamlin pulled the three from the water. All Charlie had to do then was te null ene fish out of another. Conn,—-Scores witnesses sandbar in First ’ be eliminated. All, fromm Major General to | Private, must be made to feel thty are equally Servants of the Common Weal, and It would teach people that they | have something higher than their own little by Frank Crane {that Authority and means to Efficiency. There is a deal of Public Work to be done, Bridges and Roads to be constructed, Forests to conserve, Streams to clean up, Dams to be built for irrigation, and a thou- sand and one other useful objects. It would do the Youth of the Country nothing but good to submit to rigid Army | discipline one year, to live out of doors, to | endure hardship, and altogether to be made to feel that it is Humanity, and one’s Coun- try as the representative of Humanity, that has first claim, and not the individual, In a nutshell, therefore, the sound position seems to be: Let us have Universal Mili- tary Training for both Boys and Girls. But, let us organize our Military Machine so as to make its manifest and first purpose to Create and not to Destroy, to Co-operate |and not to Fight. If it should at any time become necessary to Fight, we should have the system and the material trained and ready to hand. No human institution should be discarded. | Let us keep what is Good in Army life, and | cast out what is Bad. Discipline are mere MEN LIVE UP TO OUR HOPES © FOR THEM BY THE REV. ar STELZLE * gaid Jesus to Peter.-but Peter s but a rock in the becaure he was moved by emotion hing in Peter that that he had qualities of it he were given the chance to use them he also knew that he had weaknesses which might nullify hie strength. And knew his weaknesses, too, but the method of Jewus in dealing with men was to remind f their good potn if they had any—#o as to encourage’ them In well-doing. He followed this principle disciples. Some of ther did not come up to his ex r tions, but undoubtedly they were strengthened because they knew that their counted on them ~~ And that's the way to get the most out of people If they imagine that we do not hope for much from them, they'll get their cue from that attitude “If they feel that they’re being counted on to make food, they'll strain every nerve to live up to their reputations CHARLES “0 strength y but Jesus them when he selected his Leader nobody | greatly | — The Altruist’s Wife BY EDMUND VANCE COOKE My artist husband daubs the faces Of nymphs and dryads, fauns and graces. I paint a face more fair by far Than any of his faces are, And yet my husband will not see The genius of my artistry He's fond of painting studies of Nude classic ladies, light of love ‘The figure I display excels ‘The eveltest of his ancient belles Yet he's inclined to make a furs If I am too diaphonous, But when we offer our “on views,” And patrons come to pick and choose, Like Mr. Monto, rich and gray, Or, Mr. Pronto, young and gay, Ab! then he sees the plain truth, viz, My arts gttract far more than his! (Co; igh’ 919, N. EB. A) BUT SUCH IS GOLF! Brady filed a protest declaring that Hagen on tne 12th green had picked up a cigaret butt, thereby violating the rules by removing an obstacle which ‘he had no right to touch.—Dispatch from Boston. ve OOK for the sealed pack- age, but have an eye out also for the name WRIGLEYS That name is your pro- tection against inferior imitations, just as the Sealed package is protec- tion against impurity. The Greatest Name in Goody-Land— GLEY DOUBLEMINT