The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 10, 1919, Page 6

She Seattle Star By, mail, out of city, 50 per mont! months, 1.50; 6 months, $2.76; year, $5.00, im the tate of Washington. Outside the state, © per month, $4.50 for § months, or $9.06 Der year. By carrier, city, 120 per week. So Pack Up Your Troubles Vacation! For every school child in Seattle! Thousands of the younger set turned loose lin’, ’ritin’ and ’rithmetic. It’s a gran’ and glorious feelin’—one that grown-ups recall with a strong inkling of pleasure. | And you can probably just imagine what Johnny and see, thru dream thoughts, today. Not the new daries of a revised world; not the various capitals of ites of our own country; not the names of numerous kes and oceans— s But, right before them, in a myth, stands out the li'l) Swimmin’ hole, the various camping spots, the picnic) all about Seattle, or the animals at the city zoo. . | | Close to nature! That's the call of the summer months. | d Johnny and Mary have their ears very much on the | from their i] _ A large percentage of our education comes from our ion with outdoor life. And we get the full benefit, e, who wants to play hookey from real play time? When school doors close for the summer rest, every 's son and daughter should romp forth to enjoy ‘nature has placed at their disposal. R | And Seattle is well fixed on parks, recreation spots, places, auto roads, fresh air and sunshine, incidentally it wouldn’t hurt mother or dad to get out) | the young folks and play young again. | The closer the! n between parents and children, the better you will your own family. And the result of it all is that when the school doors) open again, and the business of fall months takes} ‘once more, every member of the family will take | various burdens with renewed pep and ambition, | ’s go! Let’s take advantage. nk up your li’l old bus, or oil up your walking power | the call of the outdoors. _ “Chin-Chin” girls will add to the smoker program Mother Ryther event in the Arena Friday night. we be there, boys? We should chin so, The Auto’s Affinity e insurance actuaries say the fire losses in America reduced considerably if a means can be devised to @ complete separation if not a divorce from the fire it and the automobile. At present, they say, there to be an affinity between the two, especially in An automobile rushes upon a fire hydrant with or and smacks it so resoundingly that the hydrant is the same again. All sorts of efforts have been made to restrain the it without avail. In fact the records show its atten- the hydrants have been so persistent of late as to ble to get the autos to behave, the fire gentlemen y see nothing to do but remove temptation from {so they have suggested to the authorities of various hat some method of concealing fire plugs be devised. they declare, it may be necessary to increase ce rates in some districts for the losses, owing to de- tion of fire plugs, have been too busy to bear. “The British Empire won the war,” says Field Haig. Oh, very well. But we could start a i argument, if we wanted to. Hurry Up ‘ttle has outgrown her hospital facilities, and the ity is actually suffering for want of accommo- Many cases, calling for hospital care, develop . A hurried canvass of hospitals results in the zing discovery that there are no accommodations is situation has existed month after month. te interests have been aware of the condition, and hospital projects are under discussion. No definite n of action, however, has been announced. ‘Seattle cannot afford to wait longer. The suffering d by delay is too great a price for an intelligent com- to pay. If private interests intend to build a , the job should be tackled without delay and the et rushed to completion. i ' Certainly there are public spirited citizens in Seattle, if they understand conditions, will immediately apply brains and their money to the task of meeting the tal need. Every day of delay means untold human a % mer Every father knows that a weed is more hardy than a cultivated plant, because it has to male its own way, without petting, and yet he shields his son from hardship and calls it love. The peoples who ars once held subject by Prussia and Austria can now thank God that they were not held by more civilized nations, else they would be no nearer “freedom than they were in 1914. Rantzau fears perpetual unemployment in Germany. He doubtless means perpetual unemployment for the Hunzollern family. At first we didn’t consider that corridor of Poland’s e and secure access” to the sea, but now some of our marines have been landed at Danzig. Booze was doomed when men stopped using the argument that it is sinful and began to prove that it interferes with business. The reason that the average woman isn’t as happy as the average man is because she pays more attention _ to what the neighbors say. Daughter looks her best in gingham, and now that she can pay as much for it as she once paid for silk, the doesn’t mind wearing it on the street. Seattle is to have a battle tank, according to a war department announcement. Prohibition or not, we shall have our tank, eh what? Getting in the hall of fame doesn’t interest a states- may as much as staying on the payroll. A small town is a place where a competitor in busi- 3 is regarded as a personal enemy. Anyhow, no one has so far accused Logan Billings- of annexing that courthouse booze. || Adventures in Recollection. ATER oh ee wee "LL TAKE OFF MY SHOES FER A QUARTER, TAKE UP A C'LEECTION —IF Y' CAN RAISE A QUARTER, ALL RIGHT if YESSIR! HE'S WEB-FOOTE D— JUST LIKE A DUCK. I BETCHA ANY THIN’ HE THE SOUL OF THE TREATY On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise BY DR. FRANK CRANE (Copyright, 1919, by Frank Crane) The Soul of the Treaty of Peace is the League of Nations. Without the League the Treaty will be |but a Dead Body. It will be as a lifeless statue, a thing in- ‘capable of functioning; just, perhaps, but |powerless; formidable, but impotent; a sim- julacrum, not a living organism. | As a League it is Humanity at last united in an intelligent purpose. As a Treaty alone lit will be but another of a long list of |treaties, and the others lie broken all along \the roadside of history. Without the League of Nations it will |be a compound of oil and water, which can- jnot mix. The League is thé lye, and with- jout it your soap will not wash the world. | The League is the only rational object of the war.. We did not saerifice seven million \lives and two hundred billion dollars’ worth of property just to get another Triple Al- liance or Pact of Vienna or Entente. We waged the war to save the world from | war. And no human brain has yet conceived | anything else but some kind of a League THE PECULIAR AND FASCINATING PEDAL CONFORMATION OF AUGUSTUS RP. SWEENY, JR.|'| (Copyrigt, 1979, by Donald “BcKee.) | | | | of Nations that gives'any promise whatever jof stopping war. Only by a League of Nations, a common understanding among all governments, can Armaments be limited, the people saved from the intolerable burden of maintaining |monstrous organizations of destruction, to | devour the fruits of labor, and keep the poor |enslaved, The League is the Seed in the Treaty. | Without it there can be no propaganda of future world prosperity. A Leagueless Treaty will be an emascu- lated Treaty, sterile, by and by scorned by some new Conqueror. Only by the League do we make sure there shall never be another Conqueror Nation; another outburst of national egotism |and destructive race pride, repeating the devastations of Greece, of Rome, of Spain, of the Turks. With the League only can the small nae tions be protected; Sweden, Belgium, Chile, 7 Portugal, and Liberia are made partners with their independence underwritten by Great Britain, the United States, France and Japan. Only by the League does the Treaty se. © cure any Democracy of Nations. : Without the League the Treaty will se the world back into its old welter of rival militarisms, with all its waste, jealousies, cruelties, barbarisms. To cut the League out of the Treaty is as if you cut the heart out of a man. To make the League a partisan issue will be the most monstrous act of politicat prostitution which the envy and personal prejudice of politicians ever perpetrated. Gentlemen, we the People do not care a hang about the Treaty, for all treaties are stopgaps and makeshifts; what we want is that League. No Treaty ever stuck, permanently, Every one has been the seed of another war. Maybe the League will stick. At least it is worth trying. We the People are toiling, dreaming, plan- ning, organizing, saving, to make this world a better place to live in, happier, freer, more beautiful, fitter for our chil dren’s children, and we do not want Wars at regular intervals to smash all we have built up with so much pains, q And only a Treaty with a League in it can insure Humanity against War. q The Fruits of Bolshevism GREAT INCREASE IN OFFICEHOLDERS. CAMPING IS GREAT—AT HOME Camping is another lefthanded way of spending one’s vacation Some ay if you go about it in the right way, camp ing is the ideal vacation, But with just a pair of weeks for camping, you be gin wrong, and the only right is coming back Camping a game of kidding yourself into enjoying making and get ting the worst of it, The stuff you make your self think sweet way |cookies in camping, would barbwire your disposition at one twist in civil life. To give you an impression. istic idea of camping life try this recipe. Wet your hair, put sand in your ears, sit on a wet blanket, rest your bare feet on twigs and sharp stones, then imag- ine yourself thusly—-a target for mosquitoes, trying to start a fire with wet matches, open a can of beans | sort out the good coffee grounds | with a knife) to from the part spoiled withecoal oil 50 and you have it! Multiply that by BY 0. B, JOYFUL HAVE YOU EVER NOTICED how differently things turn out in life from what you've planned? You work out a perfectly good line of talk to hand your butcher, for instance, and then tough meat he sent you, you go ahead and buy more of the same, And you determine upon a course of action to pursue with your neighbor's mischievous son and, instead, you hand said son a slice of bread | and butter covered thickly with home made jam IT’S THAT WAY with everyone, of course. For instance there's the girl who hopes that Hf will pro pose romantically—oh, so very romantically when the full moon is shining brightly and all that sort of | stuff. She hopes and thinks he'll cotne across with a bunch of stuff like this: “LIGHT OF MY LIFE, you see me here on my Knees an abject suppliant for your hand. I love you deeply, devotedly. You are all in all to me. Without you life means nothing to me, without you life is an | aching void. With you, helping me, alding me, en couraging me, 1 can do everything—conquer conti nents, pluck the sun out of the sky, vault to the stars on high heaven. Tell me, do you care for me a lit tle? May I hope that some day, some wonderful day, you'll be mine? Don't say ‘No,’ because if you do I shall leap to @ dismal death in the green waters of thé surging sea. Trembling I await your answer!” THAT'S THE WAY she hopes he'll propose. But does he do it? Nix, no, not! This is the way he really pops: “SAY, KID, me and you've been keeping company jong enough. Let's get married, huh? Hurry, I wanta know whether I gotta get me another girl or not!” LIFE IS SO DIFFERENT from what we plan for. Ain't it the truth? . A WORD FROM JOSH WISE Th’ th’'t takes time gen’rally loses it. eee SUMPTUARY LAWS SUMPTUARY LAWS, or laws designed to suppress extravagance in dress or cating, exist on the statute books of practically every nation on earth EXCEPT the United Sta BACK IN 212 drawn up to sui and jewelry, LAWS OF A SIMILAR NATURE existed in France down to the reign of LOUIS XV, ENGLAND ENACTED VARIOUS sumptuary laws that were not repealed until about the year 1856 when they were removed from the law books. THESE LAWS NEVER FOUND PUBLIC FAVOR and are of interest today mainly because of the light they throw upon the laws and customs of the ancients. SUCH WAS LIFR. man C,, or thereabouts, we have a law ress female extravagance in dress oes A dog turns around séveral times before lying down because he had to do that in his wild anima) days to be sure he wasn’t making a bed on a slumbering porcupine calm right down | and instead of giving him Hail Columbia for the | | “Rags” BY EDMUND VANCE We called him “Rags.” He was just a cur, But twice, on the Western line, ‘That little old bunch of faithful fur Had offered his life for mine. COOKE And ajl that he got was bones and bread, Or the leavings of soidiergrub, But he'd give his beart for a pat on the head, Or @ friendly tickle and rub. And Rags got home with the regiment, And then, in the breaking away. Well, whether they stole him, or whether he went, I am not prepared to say. But we mustered out, some to beer and gruel, And some to sherry and shad, | And IT went back to the Sawbones School, Where I still was an undergrad, One day they took us budding M. D.'s To one of those institutes Where they demonstrate every new disease By means of bisected brutes. They had one animal tacked and tied And slit. like a full-dressed fish, With his vitals pumping away inside As pleasant as one might wish. I stooped to look like the rest, of course, And the beast’s eyes levelled mine, | And his short tail thumped with a feeble force And he uttered a tender whine. It was Rags, yes, Rags! who was martyred there— Who was quartered and crucified— And he whined that whine which is a doggish prayer| And licked my hand—and died. And I was no better in part nor whole Than the gang I was found among, And his innocent blood was on the soul Which he blessed with his dying tongue Well! I've seen men go to courageous death In the air, on sea, on land! But only a dog would spend his breath In a kiss for his murderer’s hand. And if there's no heaven for love like that, For such four-legged fealty—well! If I have any choice, I tell you flat, I'll take my chance in hell (Copyright, 1919, N. BE. A.) * THE TEARS OF THE SON OF” GOD ——8 — BY THE REV. CHARLES STELZLE Staff Writer on Religious Topics for The Star Jesus wept! As he looked over the city, the multitudes, moving about, as shetp without a shepherd, stirred Him, There were mobs—without leaders, ‘There were lone men and women, These moved Him, too. Jesus wept His heart was moved with compassion. He knew the struggles of the people, But Jerusalem, with {ts problems and perplexities, was as nothing compared with the seething cauldron of the modern city—the melting pot of the nation. Jesus wept. The poet has pictured Him coming down to see how the men, His brethren, believed in Him. And He found a poor woman who faintly pushed from her want and sin, And a low-browed working- man confronted Him. These He pushed to the front as He hurled His condemnations at those who had made these “images” of Him. For He had told them that “inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these My brethren, ye have done it unto Me.” The evil as well as the good, Jesus wept. With sorrow that man had betrayed Him. ‘With compassion because His brethren had likewise been betrayed. A HUNDRED YEARS AGO SIR TOM NOON TALFOURD THOUGHT— “Tis a little thing To give a cup of water; yet its draught Of cool refreshment, drained by fevered lips, May give a shock of pleasure to the frame More exquisite than when nectarean juice Renews tue lide of joy in happiest hours,” Every revolutionist from the days of Absalom down, has complained of “Offictaldom.” officials in the affairs of everyday life. Max Eastman, Chrystal Eastman, John Reed, A. Rhys Williams, Raymond Robbins, and other Ameri- can defenders of Bolshevism, talk as the that was the Realm of the Blessed, the Home of Freedom, the place where everybody lived like everybody else, had plenty to eat and wear and where there was little law and few officials We all know that under the czar, Russia was cursed as “The Land of Officeholder.” Now, it just so happens that a body of European socialists, who were a bit suspicious of Lenine and Trotzky, looked into this matter. It to get any information, but they finally succeeded in securing figures as to one province, This province had 12 administrative districts or counties. In the 12 districts there was a total of 275 officeholders under the czar. This was an average of 23 officeholders to the distric Tnder the Botshevists, in F" districts of in good baking. was difficult | same province, there are 495 officeholders, This is an ¥ | Average of 99 officeholders to the district. The near-Bolshevists of this country complain about | the number of our officials and the interference of | In other words, there are more than four times as many officebolders under the Bolshevist as there were under the czar, and there were TOO MANY OFFICE HOLDERS UNDER THE CZAR. The natural result is given in the Isvestya, Bok shevist organ, of Dec. 1, 1918. It says: “With few exceptions, the mass of our officials are apathetic even to death, and appear only twice a month to drgw their salaries.” ‘ t is a safe bet, however, that they show up ab all the elections of Soviets, etc. Trotzky had a Tammany training in New York, + Trotzky is sure to apply in Russia the Tammany principle of “Give every man who can control votes — for us a profitable job with nothing to do.” ‘ Knowing Trotzky and his training, it could have — been predicted in advance that, under the Bolshevista, there would be a steady INCREASE in the number of officials and a steady DECREASE in the amount of work done for the government. It is interesting to have the socialists of Europe confirming this as a fact. 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