The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 11, 1919, Page 6

ue She Seattle Star mail, out of city, 50c per month; 8 months, 1.50;°6 months, $2.75; year, $6.00, in the tate of Washington,” Outside the stat Se per month, $4.50 for 6 months, or $9.01 year, By carrier, city, 12c per week. Best Place on Earth | | red Where is the person who says America is a horrid| beset with evils and a mockery of justice? ‘ Lead him around the world and he'll come home in cloth and ashes and hungry under his belt. Abuses in America? Yes. Many of them. Erosion | four-flushers and some bad laws and some paleozoic | pyers and some crazy people. We've probably got the| trusts in the world, just as we've got the tallest) uildings and the most acres and the queerest legislator ’ But there isn’t a wrong thing in America that Ameri-| can’t fix whenever they want to badly enough. There | a wrong thing that isn’t subject to the control of | inery that Americans either have ready to use or} the power to make. No honest person can have a h about a land that contains wrong things as Jong | tt land offers the machinery for making things right. | Europe they are just fighting their way up to a) ng acquaintance with what we've had for a long time. are just getting their wages up to our levels, they ing to get their standard of living up to somewhere ar ours, they are trying to devise labor and capital ma- inery that will keep things right side up so they can live ‘well as we do. But we are still a lap and a half ahead on every count—and we're due to stay that way. » British workmen went thru the war on wages far below | American average. In France, still lower. ‘And profiteers? Arthur Giles, secretary of the Gro-| Federation of England, told that association that Brit-! made nine millions sterling, largely by dumping goods on the poor people under food control. | High prices? England and France have them, with a} lation less able than ours to pay the bills. Paris will) ge you $1.50 for a half-dollar breakfast. he workman who says, “they’ve better conditions over) has been listening to fairy stories. It will be some) xe before war-torn Europe can build conditions for her tion that will even approximate our own. Good cannot be made out of thin air. Nor can their foun- gms rest upon ashes and shell holes. | rica is like a big man—a 260-pounder—strong, iy, fearless, capable. And plenty of food in sight. saw a big man go crazy, or get despondent, or pc rope is like a’ slim, hungry man. That man of| has got to build up and get meat around the waist | ‘across the chest. And in those age where bi isn’ ‘| ly to be for a long time the thin man may do some Ay ation teams there’s nothing else to do and} he isn’t normal. 3 ure, food, clothes, steel, lumber, machines, tools, | ll these and a ‘thousand other things, America) t make for the world. America must be the world’s! it hive of industry, and so it must be the world’s home| Civilization isn’t entirely faultless when it impels to spend billions for organized slaughter and can't usin a sition to spend other billions for p system A real roads, ‘Bride and a Grandmother me satirical person has said a young girl never mar- old man except for money. Pshaw. ; sider the case of Matilda E. Neill, nee Seibert. Neill was born at 5119 N. 11th st., Philadelphia. m she was only a week or 10 days old her mother, nswering the door bell, took her out to the entrance jeir home. It was the letter carrier who was there and had delivered the mail he tickled the baby under in and complimented Mrs. Seibert on being the mother prettiest baby not only on the block but in the town. ie letter carrier was Edwin J. Neill. He has been route for lo! these many years. He married and a family. One of his daughters is married and child. ill saw the Seibert baby grow into a small girl and into a miss and then into a girl in long dresses. years ago his wife died. Meanwhile Miss Seibert gone to school and did so well there that she became er. bringing the mail and for the last year or ly attentive to Miss Seibert. And they are married. Incidentally the new Mrs. Neill not only a ready made family but becomes a grand- » It isn’t every bride who has such honors thrust her. 4 The special session of congress will be able to at- to its work as soon as it gets thru expressing its opinion of the peace treaty. Tomorrow A man said, “Tl oil my automobile tomorrow.” The tt day found the bearings burnt out, which meant a expense in having them replaced. Who loiters on the way must pay—and pay dearly. | When you shirk your work you flirt with failure just Bure as you flirt with death when you play marbles with The $ lory of your past accomplishments casts no halo fer the doings of the present or the dreams of the future. Doing nothing or putting off what you have to do be the undoing of your reputation for past ac- iplishments. ‘reg is money—or moneyless—as we choose to it. “Putting off until tomorrow is the most expensive habit a can cultivate, even including that of driving a high- rer automobile on Fifth ave. Vorwaerts calls the peace terms a greater crime than the war. The terms are merely crime’s progeny, come home to roost. Appealing direct to the people for approval of peace _ 18 a great advance in civilization. Perhaps it will consulting the people before declaring war, The Huns who sunk their surrendered ships at capa Flow gave evidence of how thoroly we can trust Germany in the league. Munitions plants would go out of business if we dd make it as hard to start a war as it was to ar- nge peace. : Germany will now have the full confidence of every who thinks a mad dog can be trusted after being \|A THE SEATTLE STAR—FRIDAY, JULY 11, 1919. PLAY YA A TURE “AT SOUNDS FYST LIKE A WORD FROM - JOSH WISE Dog days, scientists say, start July 3 and end Aug. 11. A But on the other hand, any boy will tell you that dog days are all non-school days. Once the world used to think dog days were respons fble for the extreme hot weather, and blamed the dog star (Sirius) for the heat. Astronomers have learned, however, it just happens that the dog star rises with the sun. Towser’s star always did rise in the morning with the son, and it never made it any warmer for the son only when the pup tracked up the clean kitchen floor just after mother had scrubbed it. In time, some centuries off, the dog star will rise in midwinter, and no doubt dog days then will get the credit for the extreme cold of January. ese The dog watch is nothing but the old dodge watch, the shipboard hours sailors were wont to dodge, be tween 6 and 8 p, m. eee Once the watchdog used to keep watch at all hours, but now they lock the Pekingese and chow chow up in the safe along with the family jewels at night. eee ‘What do you think a Belgian schtpperke, or Rus sian wolfhound, or the Pomeranian would say if he was asked to “go get that rat?” eee The original wiki dog didn’t know how to bark Association with man tanght him. Now you know why it is that a dawg’s bark most frequently is worse than his bite, eee Long about the time when “Heck was a pup” all dogs were named Towser, Spot or Bruno. The other day we heard of a Russian wolfhound named “Zyclon of Perchina.” eee WE'LL SAY THE DOG WAS STUCK UP! SMITHVILLE, N. H.—Mrs, Agnes Smith went to the corner grocery, followed by her St. Bernard dog. Half an hour later she was summoned to the store by Grocer Woolruth, He took Mrs, Smith to the rear room and there the dog lay on the floor near a molasses barrel with its tail under the faucet, submerged in the sticky Nquid so that the animal could not extricate it. Mrs. Smith secured some warm water, soaked the tail and so loosened it that the dog was able to with. draw it. Grocer Woolruth expresses the opinion that the dog wagged its tail against the faucet, thus opening it, and lay down with its tail under the spout. The mo lasses ran out of the barrel and covered Rover's tail to a depth of three inches. eee The hot dog, tho, is especialy attractive to bugs, the baseball bug, frinstance, who can’t get home in time for supper, eee ‘The bark of the dogwood is no louder than tho baying of the baytres. eee "Member how they kicked Champ Clark’s dawg aroun’ at that democratic convention? eee Well, thank goodness, they've got the dogs of war back in the kennel and the door locked. Those are only pups of war in Mexico. eee FAMOUS CANINE QUOTATIONS FROM THE WORLD'S BEST QUOTERS: . “Let sleeping dogs alone.” “Every dog has his day.” “Sic ‘im Tige!” “Beware of the dog.” (Often read by peddlers and second-story workers.) . “Nice doggie.” (Always used when you want to get by an ugly-looking brute.) “Doggonit.” “Gee, how my dogs ache!” (After a long walk in a new pair of shoes.) * “D-O-G spells dog.” (See First Reader.) ll Over the Land This Domestic Tragedy Is Being Enacted (Copyright, 1919, When the NC-4 started on its trip across the Atlantic it broke down and had to limp | into port for repairs. It started again. It | was attempting to do what had never been | done before, to fly across the ocean. But it |got there just the same, Type of the eternal forthputting of the |human race! The struggle of the indomit- | lable force of progress against the undying | {forces of reaction and obstruction. When the Wright Brothers were experi- 'menting with their flying machines on the sand dunes they were looked on as a joke. | But they got there just the same. | Elias Howe with his sewing machine, Cyrus Field with his cable, George Steven- |son with his steam engine, and Edison with jhis talking machine, were each up against \it once, just as desperately as you are, json. But they got there just the same. | Whoever seeks to make an improvement \'n this world finds the cohorts of Bourbon- \'sm fighting mad and drawn up to oppose him, If you think the mass of men are in favor \of reform you are mistaken. The mass does , 10t want to go on; it wants to stand still ind be let alone, Go ahead and push the world up a bit if you so desire, but know that the gray volves will get you if they can. They poisoned Socrates. They crucified Jesus. They burnt Bruno. They shot Lincoln. The integrity of man is a hundred times more facile in finding objections than in finding reasons for trying a new thing. Still, if you are right you will get there | iust the same. Tomorrow IN the 12th of July in 100 B. C, Jultus Caesar was born at Rome. In 1536, on the 12th of July, Erasmus, the cele brated Dutch philosopher, died at Basel, Switzerland. Hrasmus was the first actual publisher of the New Testament. The manuscript in Greek tn his: own handwriting, is still to be seen at Basel, On the 12th of July in 1543 the marriage of Henry ‘VIII. with Catherine of Parr, his sixth queen, took Place. Catherine had the unusual luck to outlive Henry. ¢ “In 1566 on the 12th of July, the first stone was laid in building the Tuilleries in the presence of Charles IX. and his famous mother, Catherine de Medici, The site of this famous palace was formerly eccupled by a factory. On the 12th of July tn 1712 Richard gon of Oliver, died at the age of 82. On the death of his father Richard assumed the protectorate of England, but he found himeelf inadequate to sustain the office and resigned it to retire to private life, In 1798 on the 12th of July the Knights of St. John surrendered to Napoleon at Malta. The knights had been in possession of the island for 270 years, Under their ownership it had arisen from a barren and des- titute island to a place of great wealth and luxury. The military works built by the knights remain to this day as evidence of their power and perseverance, On the 12th of July tn 1813 the United States frig- ate Constitution, under command of Commodore Isaac Hull, left Annapolis for New York and escaped a pur. suing British squadron of one gunboat, three frigates, and a schooner by running into Nantucket harbor. On the same day of the same year General William Hull, commanding a United States force, began the invasion of Canada from a point near Detroit. The expedition was a complete failure §—__________________________ | THE OLD GARDENER SAYS: | o- os Watch out for the iniquitous rose bug. This is a pest which has a wide feeding range. To think that it confines itself to roses is a great mistake. It has & special fondness for grape vines, and sometimes @oes great damage in the few weeks during which it is present. Hand picking is commonly recommended, but is a discouraging task. Spraying with arsenate of lead alone is useless, but jf you add a little mo lasses, which seems to attract the bugs, you will have wreater success. If you are a poultryman, by the wey, guard your chickens against rose bugs if you do not want to lose them. ONLY PORCH STEPS WICKERLESS Summer front porch fashions are getting so they're making the front porch about as useful as a pair of sun glasses in a coal mine. Now- adays if a front Porch wants to be in style ithas to deck up in wicker furniture and all its ac cessories, They crowd up all the Porch room and the only way you can use it in comfort is to a wax made of to sit . mottoniess amongst the wicker-ware while you squat on the lawn under a tree and look at the front porch. Wicker chairs, lounges, ice drink tables, book stands, foot rests, screens, bird cages with wooden orioles, and even wicker fish bowls with wicker goldfish swimming in wicker water. The only thing missing to make it all comfortable is a wicker porch strap to hang on! yourself eee Lil’ 0° half per cent is coming into its own. And the raisin, oh, you raisin, how long will it be before you're raisin’ the kick out of the half per cent glass? Then Susie McGoosey will say: “Them lips that touch raisins Shall never smack mine,” eee QUICK DECISION “Young man wishes to know if you are at home,” “Has he a car?” “No, miss.” “I am not.” The abolition of’the open sale of alcoholic | poisons will seem reasonable enough to our children. For years it was ridiculed, sneered at, violently opposed. It got there just the same. The abolition of human slavery was once exceedingly unpopular, and those who favored it were called fanatics. But it got there just the same. The movement to recognize woman as a citizen, with all the civil rights of a citizen, | | was once deemed wild and wicked. But it got there just the same. The doctrine ¢hat any man has a right to think as he pleases about religion was long considered subversive to society and state, and its advocates were hunted as criminals. But it got there just the same. The right of wage-earners to organize was once denied, and those who dared to assert it were jailed, deported, and otherwise punished. But it got there just the same. Universal education of the masses was once considered dangerous and on a level with treason and anarchy. But it got there just the same. And the League of Nations? Unless this world is ruled, not by a God You Can Play All Records Better With On the Issue of Americanism Zhere Can Be No Compromise JUST THE SAME BY DR. FRANK CRANE by Frank Crane) who is a Friend to the human race, but by a sinister Demon who mocks at man’s strug- gles and delights in woman’s tears, the League of Nations, the first serious attempt of mankind to rid itself of its greatest curse, War, will arrive just as surely as the NC.4 made Plymouth. f JESUS TEACHES: MINIMUM WAGE FOR WORKER || SQQUARE DEAL FOR EMPLOYER | Says Dr. Stelzle »— BY THE REV. CHARLES STELZLE Staff Writer for The Star on Religious Toptes. Jesus advocated a minimum wage He made it part of his religious teachings which means that he made it part of his religion. For preaching and prac ticing were one and the same with him. In one of his famous parables he taught that no man should be paid less than a certain sum, whether he worked one hour or ten hours per day. It isn't possible for a man to be a “Christian” and remain indifferent to the wellbeing of those who work for him. It is his business whether or not they can live on the wages that he pays them. His chief consideration cannot be that of &@ certain percentage on the money that he has ine vested in his business. ‘The principal consideration should be whether he is giving @ fair deal to those who are working for him. t Unquestionably this means a revolution in com | merce and industry. This fact was also taken in account by Jesus in his teaching. ¢ And there will never be peace and brotherhood the industrial world until both bosses and men each others’ interests their primary concern. For, it be remembered, the gbligation to be fair rests heavily upon the workingman as it does upon employer. Jesus made no distinction between | Necessary Concealment Father's got a promise of a raise in pay, but hush! Don’t let the landlord know. y Mother’s turned her last year’s skirt and so she's feel- ing flush; ? Don't let the landlord know. | Brother has a dollar loaned him by his Coustn Sister has a quarter that she got from Uncle Hank; Someone dropped a nickel in the baby’s penny bank! Donjt let the landlord know! When you get your envelope and want to count your Pay, Don’t let the landlord know. Throw him off the scent and hurry home some other way, Don't let the landlord know. Hustle in the back door with your evanescent gain; Draw the curtains softly, slip the extra bolt and chain, Crawl down in the coal-hole, where it’s darkest—then refrain! Don't let the landlord know! It may be you're a burglar or a hold-up man, but say! Don't let the landlord know. day; Don't let the landlord knew! You might swear off your taxes, but you cant swear off your rent, So never save a dollar, for the sooner it is spent Then, let the landlord know! You wouldn’t buy a one-cylinder automobile— why consider a talking machine that plays only one make of record? @ LUSEC 1216-1218 Third Ave.—Tel. Main 3139——Bet. University and Seneca For then instead of once a month, he'll see you every _ The sooner you will be reduced without a single cent! ~ ed