The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 4, 1919, Page 6

“We, the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, pro- vide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the U: _ America.” That preamble to our constitution tells it all. For the first time in history, a people united for defense and liberty, for domestic tranquillity, and to establish justice. On this day, when we commemorate the wisdom of the forefa- thers, and renew our allegiance to the nation, it is well to get back to essentials, and understand what our job is as American citizens. This people, for we are a people, indeed we bid fair to become a distinct race in another hundred years, grew from the formless womb of time into a power, because it was born for service, and liberty, and justice, as well as for protection, trade advantage and the other material aims countries strive for. Smiles _ Smiles! : How important they are! How much they mean in, How vitally tley affect us! eres wifey’s ‘smile for hubby in the springtime after has stopped and looked and hearkened to the song of| > tags in the spring shop, windows and has decided | it hubby will stand for a new outfit if properly ap-| . |. There’s hubby’s smile for wifey after a big fer game when luck was “agin” him and he is contem- img requesting a further reduction in the household ex- There’s the smile with which, the tailor presents overdue bill. And there’s the smile with which you! h the boss in quest of a raise and the smile with) your secretary asks for the afternoon off to visx friend. Oh, Boy, the things that smiles do to us! _ | How a pretty girl’s smile makes a man straighten up wish he’d put on a fresh collar!. How a business rival’s! e makes a man grit his teeth and endeavor to get even. d oooohhh, vg the sweet young thing who has taken a job in the) THE SEATTLE STAR—-FRIDAY, JULY 4, 1919. nited States of ~ the law, to all men. This HEY, FELLER! YER PINCHED FER LOITERING ON THE STREET ANOS OBSTRUCTING TELL 'T TO THE JUDGE — WE'RE ON OUR WAY man, what things are done to us by the p of } to have something to occupy her time with until she/ , and who pays about as much attention to her| does to the Nebular Hypothesis. Oh, that ever-| tating, exasperating smile—the smile that won't Hf when she is reprimanded for mistakes, or urged sy or asked to stop having so many personal during business hours. Ooooohhhh, the things has done to us—it’s made us the probable mur- r some blue Monday of the sweet young thing and her ik about smiles brightening the world! Ye Gods, » whole office would leap for joy if this dame would D! The War Bride j ‘The all-seeing editorial eye evidently has been troubled| ty or something of late, or it would have. paid more} We these arriving battalions of war brides. ze can see a lot of interesting eventualities trailing ¢ just behind these troops of English and French} who have married our soldiers, or have become) | ied unto them, and who are coming “home” to get inted with “his folks.” ; _ But of one thing we are certain, their coming will rer ewuse the last of our provincialism. ©) In’one second class American city 27 French and Eng- : arrived in a few weeks’ time. “In 27 families will be a mother who can tell her chil- of new lands, new customs, new ideals; a mother who have cosmopolitan children, who will go out into the) d unhampered by the old narrow viewpoint of the typi- | American. ; ie _ And yet, children who have a higher regard for their} m country, and its institutions, because they will know} tt sort of a world it was “over there” when mother a girl. a of brides are binding the freedom- peoples, not their governments, perhaps, but the! , together with thousands of invisible wires of love sympathy, and, in time, €ngland and France will under-| that America is not exclusively populated by red In-| , just as-we are discovering that the. Frenchman is| mindtd, and the Englishman can really see a joke) a reading glass. } : Ingularity makes for suspicion, for bigotry, and for injustice to our fellows. __ The wedding rings on the graceful fingers of ten thou- sand war brides are links in a golden chain of understand- | will make war between the great nations of the th: ; Pen Beever impossible. | rs Ada eee 2 ite oh Doubtless we shall never know whether the men were kept at Archangel to protect the stores stolen long before, or because they were lost in the card index sys- tem at Washington. | the higher up. It is not surprising that the Austrian people are thetic about the peace terms. They were nurtured in faith that all thinking should be done by somebody | The state department having refused Mexico per- | mission to send troops across American territory in | bond, Mexico can get even by refusing entry to Amer- | tcan goods bottled in bond. | * Wilson wanted Germany admitted to the league | _ and Clemenceau wanted her kept out. The difference 18 explained by several thousand miles of ocean. a The magistrates of two hundred Hun mnicipalities ") who are appealing to America for justice learned the | | meaning of justice about four years too late. | _ Couldn't we save a lot of time in government busi- mae by adding to the cabinet a secretary of investiga- THeavene BREAST DENOTING MORTIEI CATION INNOCENCE AND deSPaik THE CLOSE -UP From the first blood-stained trails of our nation’s liberty ; from the bitter frozen paths of the colonial farmer-soldiers to the gas craters and stinking trenches of Flanders, America’s sons have died first for liberty; for an ideal, to overthrow despots, and to bring security and prosperity, and, above all else, equality before is the first nation that tried the Utopian experiment. It is now the oldest nation, maintaining the same form of gov- ernment, in the world. For the past generation we had forgotten some of these things; our Fourths were so safe and sane that they brought no message, as they did when the colonial heroes still limped over the country- side, or when the veterans of Jones and Perry refought their bat- tles at the town tavern, or when the blue and gray-clad fathers told their sons of the charge and counter charge, and assault, and repulse, and renewed assault of the four years when brother fought with brother and father fought with son. YES, YOU! IT'S AgIN THE LAW. COME ALONG PEACE ABLE, Now EXPRESSING AMAZEMENT INCREO- vury Q Sty) AND Gewiro- ERMENT aN Y As r eon WHADDAYA GONNA DO — mix IT? “I'M CASEY, THE CHAMPEEN OF : ae ~ SIGMIE YING RAGE RECKLESSNESS, Ferociry Rouen STUFF BE TOKENING TRIUMPH Os BAIN i DEFIANCE ANO Ne my “he » ik AO | / \ \ 1 hi \ go THE yor FADE -away ” = Covyrigdt. 1919, by Donald McKee.) INDEPENDENCE IN 1919 BY DR. FRANK CRANE (Copyright, 1919, by Frank*Crane On Independence Day, July 4th, 1776, the Colonies of America declared their in- dependence of Great Britain. The New Continent declared pendence of the Old. . Our fathers announced their determina- tion to live their own lives, form their own principles of action, and develop their own type of civilization. ‘ In 1919 we are confronted with another effort of Old World ideas to master us. All these ideas, grouped together, shaken down and reduced to a common denomina- tor, means just one thing—Class. In one form or another it is the Class feeling, or some by-product thereof, that threatens us. It is time we recognized this and em- phasized true Americanism. i Socialism, as shown by it& propagandists, Socialism, as a distinct movement, a party its inde- cry and an organized effort, and not as a} |vague attempt at co-operation, appeals di- rectly to the Class feeling. You see it in every Socialist publication, hear it from every Socialist orator. Bolshevism, the Russian perversion Socialism, and all Bolshevism’s kin over here, such as the advocates of “direct ac- tion” (meaning violence), appeal to the Class spirit. The thing we call Society, as we find it among wealthy idlers and the endowed class generally, thrives upon the Class feeling. The Lynching of Negroes is an outbreak of Class hate. The constant harping upon our danger from the “Yellow Peril” finds no response except in Class prejudice. Those who advocate the isolation of America, our refusal to join with our Allies of | In a program for the stoppage of War, the | maintenance of our national security by | keeping up a large army and navy, bigger | than the armed forces of any other nation, | ment with all to disarm, represent merely | the stubborn adherence to the Class ideas that thruout history have dominated nations. | The whole fabric of government of pre- war Czarism and Kaiserism was nothing but Class. _ The present Bolshevist tyranny in Russia is quite as much Class. The whole trefple, rotten spot and point of irritation in the disputes between Labor and Capital, comes from Class. Whenever employers and employed quit speaking of Class and begin to treat with each other as | Human Beings, there is no more Labor trouble. America means, if it means anything, that there ought to be no Capitalistic Class, no Laboring Class, no Criminal Class, no Ignorant Class, no Superior Class, Religious Class, Educated Class or any other Class soever, The Class business—all of it—lock, stock and barrel—is imported from the Old World. It is not Ours. It is Unamerican. It is all wrong, septic—and other things not fit to print. Let us declare our Independence of it! THE BUG BIBLE Mathew's Bible, printed in 1561, was called the “Bug Bible," on account of the use of the word bugges, in Psalms xci, 5: “So thou shalt not nede to be afraid for any bugges by nights, nor for the arrow | that flyeith by day.” “Terror” has been substituted for “bugges” in the authorized version of the Scrip- tures. and not by entering into a rational agree- | by the Hun, today our eyes se of the enemy’s heavies. On the Issue of Americanism There Ca Be No Compromise But today, just escaping from the shadow of a world dominion e more clearly thru our tears, and our hearts beat to a higher measure, since so recently they leaped to the alarm of the death rattle of rapid fire and the voleanic roar Let us once more renew our allegiance to the simple faith of our fathers. pangs and gasping in the dea where all seem crazed, and where wild va inings and brutalities of all degrees mar alike ; let us, in our own haven, let us, in simple faith, bend th POSTERITY. the 5th of July in 1801, David Glasgow Farragut ‘as born at Campbell's Station, Tenn ragut was the chief officer’ of the federal navy during the civil war and he was the first admiral of the United States navy. In the famous battle of Mobile Bay in 1864, when the Confederate fleet was | destroyed, Farragut was in command of the Union fleet with 21 wooden vessels and four monitors under him. The fidmiral attacked two strong forts, Morgan and Gaines, that guarded the entrance to Mobile Bay, ran thru the mined channel and attacked and stroyed the Confederate force within the harbor. F: ragut had himself lashed to the rigging of his flag- ship, the Hartford, and taking the lead he steamed at full speed over the torpedoes and into the bay. Farragut died at Portsmouth, N. H., in 1870, and was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, N. Y. On the 5th of July in 1809, the French army under Napoleon defeated the Austrians under the Archduke Charles. In 1810 on the 5th of July Phineas Taylor Barnum, the famous showman, was born at Bethel, Conn. Bar- num's traveling menagerie and circus was the largest jin the world. He was a genius at advertising and at ; Understanding his public. Barnum died at Bridgeport, Conn., the winter quarters of his circus, April 1, 1891. “ENTERTAINING ANGELS UNAWARES” | ttn vhemseniprasecdie nae eave EO BY THE REV. CHARLES 8TELZLE - Staff Writer on Religtoun Topics for The Star We have had it urged upon us that no needy ietrangers should be turned away from our doors, for |by taking them in we may be “entertaining angels unawar. Which is sound advice. But the story upon which this exhortation is founded would lead us to go further in the matter of “entertainment.” | Lot lived over near Sodom. Now Sodom hadn't a |very good reputation. Some very wicked men lived jin the town, | One evening two strangers approached Lot's home and he went out to meet them and invited them to remain with him. But they declared that they pre |ferred to spend the night on the stréets, Lot insisted that they come into his home, and they consented. Then came the mob of citizens, demanding that Lot surrender the ers. And Lot refused. He was ready to nybody else, but not his guests. And the |mob stormed his door. | Then the strangers—who were angele in “disguise” |-—-struck the mob with blindness and Lot and his fam- \ily escaped. Now that's the story. To get the blessing that “angels” bring means more of a sacrifice than that which comes, for example, from giving a stranger “a cup of cold water"’—which brings its own reward. “Angels' blessings” come to those who diligently seek opportunities to help others—not to those who reluctantly give a handout to persistent beggars. Modified EDMUND VANCE | BY COOKE | “We're for self-determination,” the thin-necked speaker | cried “Of course we are, and so's my wife,” the thin-faced man replied. “My wife determines her own s€lf, as very few can do; She does tt better, | So I let her | Determine myself, too” i l“Free speech for all free peoples!” the hard-voiced | speaker cried. ‘ “Aye, more than that; far more than that! the meek- toned man replied, “T've been living in connubial bliss for nineteen years or twenty, And speech is free All times for me, «# For my wife gives me plenty.” “We're. strong for the red-tied speaker cried. “No doubt of it, no doubt of it," the white-dowed man replied. “My wife's for open covenants. 80, but— In opening hers, The fact infers | I'd better keep mine shut!” | (Copyright, 1919, N. B. A.) open covenants,” T've heard her say ® —h | It ts time to begin spraying the potatoes when they Jare six or eight inches above ground. The spray to use is Bordeaux mixture. The work must be kept up all thru the summer if the vines are not to succumb to blight, which oceasions heavy losses every season Begin to spray for potato bugs at the first sign of |these pests, and remember that it is much easier to kill them while they are soft slugs than when they get to be mature beetles. You must ure a poison like arsenate of lead or Paris green for them. There are good spraying materials on the market which combine the Bordeaux mixture with the poison, and it is advisable for amateurs to use them. Then the vines may be protected from both bugs and blights in one operation. REGULAR CUSTOMER AT THE CORNER PHARMACY ‘The drug store beetle eats 47 different kinds of drugs, including aconite, belladonna, squill, orris root and ergot. It is the real book worm, One of the family once went through 27 large volumes in two months, not skipping a page. w— ~ Be || THE OLD GARDENER SAYS: || In a world of confusion, of nations struggling in the birth th throes; in the finite madhouse, apn and futile imag- people and kingdoms having done our duty to humanity, and left the sacrifice of our first-born on the altars of Europe; e knee before the ark of our cove- nant, and resolve that, as a people united, we will fight on for jus- tice, for tranquillity, in our common defense, AND TO SECURE THE BLESSINGS OF LIBERTY TO OURSELVES AND OUR BY 0. B, JOYFUL Anybody who has been a house party to a young | regiment of cooties will be interested in learning that | there are more species of insects than of all other animals. Dr. Frank E. Lutz, associate curator, American Museum of Natural History, says there are 400,000 | different species of insects, as against 13,000 kinds of birds; 8,000 different brands of worms and 4,000 manr mals (including man). HE HAS A HEART! You wouldn't suspect the mosquito or house fly has a heart, but Dr. Lutz insists they have. It's “pulsating tube open at both ends.” Also, they have ears. And think of buying spectacles for a hawk- moth with 54,000 eyes! eee NICE LITTLE PET AROUND THE HOUSE Centipedes of the Scutigera forceps style are useful companions around the house, Dr. Felt, bug expert, asserts. They eat flies, cockroaches and other in- sects. “They should be welcomed in a house,” Dr. Felt urges, “since they are capable of inflicting no | injury aside from a poisonous bite.” * They won't bark at you like a house dog would,” and they won't trip you up when you're prowling round the house late at night like a cat would. Get @ centipede. All he can do is poison you. é eee Said Everett True to Mrs. True: “I'm a man of a very strong will.” And spoke Mrs. True to Mr. True: “I'm a woman of a very strong won't.” eee ‘The sport editor of July 4, 1776, wrote ft this way: “Backers and trainers of Young America met at independence hall today to draw up the paper for the | big bout for the championship of the new world. | “J. Hancock and others signed for Young America. “No one admitted representing John Bull, but he had boosters outside the building, especially in New — England, where his fqjlowing was considerable. “On form John had all the edge, He had the rep of an old stager, having acquired the title of Knock Out Johnnie in several bouts with Kid Spain, Bat- ~ tling France and others, “This was Young America's first ring test. j “G. Wettin, alias George III, L. Cornwallis and Gen. Howe were in Bull's corner. B. Arnold got in later on. "“G, Washington, Ike Putnam and a bunch of others were Young America’s seconds. = “The first round opened with a right hook to Bull's — bunkerhill which drew blood. “Everybody cheered. “‘Bust him in the eye! they yelled at Young America, is “Instead, he hit him on Ticonderoga. | “Bull countered with a right to Long Island, leay- | ing his adversary a bit groggy and hanging to the ropes. 3 “‘Hold him, kid, hold him?! J. Hancock yelled. “Just as Bull was getting set for a haymaker, Young America slid out from the path of the pile driver and did a G. Washington across the Delaware. Bull sent his glove thru a wad of empty air, and | received a smart blow on Princeton. “Bell rang on first round, “Kid France is in Young America's corner. “Round two opened with much sparring and clinch | ing. Before the bell rang Young America rushed | Bull onto the ropes and closed an eye with two sharp wallops on Saratoga. Young America scorned a body blow at his Philadelphia doing a Valley Forge to get to the center of the ring. “Round threé saw Bull weakening. ginning to tell. Youth must be served. “put him to sleep! the gang cried. other eye!” - “The youngster landed a monmouth sqqdae to. the jaw. Bull clinched to save his hide. Im the break away he hit to Savannah and Charleston. But he lacked steam. There was nothing back of his punches, “Round four was filled with stalling, both battlers getting their wind. “Round five was the last in which Bul showed a trace of his old time form. He landed a heavy to | the stomach with a Cornwallis, and the kid lost his Gen. Gates. Bull fouled with a Ben Arnold. Then it was all over but the counting. “Round six found the kid in tiptop shape and Bul} all but gone. Young America landed a whale of a blow at Cowpens. Bull went down but got up before the referee had finished the ten, “The kid got all set for the sleep producer, but Bull clinehed at Guilford Court House, and was pasted a hot one on Eutaw Springs as the kid broke away from the clinch, “Finish him, kid!" John Adame hollered. “‘Knock his teeth down hy Wtroat,’ T. Jefferson screamed. “Young America knew all lp had to do to put the slumber tag on his opponent was to reach his solar plexis. So he got ail set to feint with his left and land the quieter with his right. “The kid rushed Bull to the ropes, whaling away with both fists as quickly as he could land and let go. The sight was a pitiable one. The onetime cham- pion staggered around the ring, falling to the floor only to be picked up, only to go down again. “‘Say, ham Hi fightin’ a bloomin’ sledge hammer? he asked. f “Then thru the open guard the kid sent home the last blow of the battle, The knockout landed on Bull's Yorktown. $1:2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10!" Sound funny to you? No more se than of July 4, 19@ would sound to G, Watcee Age was be ‘Shut his