The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 14, 1919, Page 6

7 6 months, $2.75; ate of Washington. Se per month, Der year, year, $6.00, in the Outside the state, 0 for 6 months, or $9.00 By carrier, city, i120 per week. The Place to Be Europe is tied in a bow-knot. Debt aka deficit are across the face of things. ' Nowhere does the bright sunshine of Opportunity glow such a welcome warmth as in America. ‘Half the nations of Europe would have to declare a of bankruptcy if they had to cash in today. They n’t survive the shock. They haven't got the goods. America is about the only nation of importance } world today that rates as a going concern, er in A SNvoR's UF pMeniuhd And & | LY ss nee tl So, entirely apart from the matter of love of home-|||@> , America is the place to be. t only is America the place to be for the big men ncial power. It is the place to be for the average he mechanic, the shipping clerk, the farmer. e a look at the map of Europe. ‘ALY—short of coal, short of ‘raw materials, short | short of employment. ¥ | FRANCE—one-sixth in ruins, the balance short of raw) i short of employment, short of srials, short of coal, if ENGLAND—Depending on imports for food, short of| Materials, everything unsettled, readjustment of ma-) proceeding slawly, much unemployment. TUM—Brussels, a “show window” where food| be had at exorbitant prices; most of the balance of the painfully desolate. [(OLLAND—Short of coal, short of food, death and rates higher than ever, unemployment general, raw supply almost zero. |A—A massive interrogation point, where a bale THE MIDSUMMER A LiKE ON THE OCEAN WAVE | FOR M— BLOW WiGH, Blow Low wy ¥ ney will buy a loaf of bread if there is any bread) ht. MANY—Defeated, beset by all manner of wolves and about to be loaded with an indemnity charge keep every German humping for the next three! \\e USTRIA—Gone where the woodbine twineth. 01 D, CZECHO-SLOVAKIA, JUGO-SLAVIA— tions that must be built from the ground up with largely furnished from without. | ILGARIA—Submerged and torn by revolution fol- z defeat. EECE—lIn fair condition, compared to the rest of but in great need of imports. erica is the solidest, brightest, homiest, happiest on earth. owes Europe a duty. It must provide the they need in the vast desolation “over there,” in plain words, that means the busiest kind of an| id the American people love a busy place. The bone-dry bill permits the storage of booze in private dwelling. The bill permits it, but the price Using Talents | € was a man who had 10 acres of land, and, by it carefully, was able to support himself and comfort with occasional luxuries. ; door was a man with a hundred nates De game ‘ eee 7e i mee merignsed ie Ags neighbors not helped out, the funnily would in desperate straits, the amount of land or money or “education ‘that enables you to buy automobiles. It’s the 1 use what you have. o. with only a strong body will accomplish years than another man with the strong ly 1 Reveal doliars will be 50. ny times the knowledge that one lacks this or that ake one develop and use what he has to the greatest super-developed talent is worth more than half en only half trained. In Lithuania each farm is an independent king- This is also true of America. Cobwebs Cobwebs are all right for a spider to galavant about on haven’t much prestige in 1919 business or on the) Cobwebs are a symbol of carelessness. Nothing so es a housewife as to have her friend discover in the corners of the rooms of her home. Cobwebs in business are a sign of methods and man- | srs of doing business that are antiquated. That are out | tte. They are behind the times. Cobwebs on the brain mean sluggish thinking and ideas have long passed their period of usefulness. “Ambition in all three cases is the broom that will, p the cobwebs brushed clean from the walls. It your ambition is a bit jaded give it a vacation or tonic, then go after the cobwebs and clean them out— keep them out. The senate is making a frantic and final effort to keep from doing the sensible thing. The Grand Jury! An unafraid grand jury has virtually dropped a bomb-| shell into the community. The “wise ones” had shrugged eir shoulders when the summons for a grand jury came. “Nothing will come of it,” they said. But something! d come, Something came that was more lore so than the indictments. The indictments may be quashed—or some of them will. in the end, many of the men indicted may be acquitted. he indictments alone, of course, do not prove any of the n guilty. Whatever the outcome of the specific charges, the act is that in the near future there will be fewer officials ho will wink at the booze traffic. It’s too dangerous a game. with a buzz-saw. important—vastly And he who plays it, > Z If it is ethical to demand the extradition of the _ kaiser’ to be tried for his sins, why not try it on Villa? Critics of Attorney General Palmer are em- by the sympathy and good will of Berlin. To say that Angeles is the best soldier south of the 0. Grande is a very restrained sort of praise. Villa’s promise of no reprisals means that he will er no more Americans than usual. | OUR PEEVE LAST NIGHT we pulled from the book case a copy of International law, a text book used in college a few years ago. How firmly we were convinced at that time that its laws and regulations would be adhered to by all civilized nations, But, they weren't, and now that book must be replaced by one of a new “code of international ethics.” NEXT WE READ a part of a commercial geog- raphy only to find it more out ot date in its maps, ete., than the law book. SO IT WOULD GO thru a hivde long Hat of other books. WHAT A TIME the publishers are going to have during the next few years! JUST WHEN Wigthought the price of paper would come down, alote comes this new demand that will keep the supply scarce for years. Oh, well— SUCH IS LIFE. “We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important,” wrote Auerbach some years ago. That probably observations to, is why we confine our weatherly “Is it hot enough for you?” eee Mark Twain's masterpiece: “Probable nor'-east to sou'-west winds, varying to the southard and westard and eastard and points be- tween; bigh and low barometer, place to place; probable areas of rain, drought, succeeded or thunder and lightning.” . snow, hail and preceded by earthquakes with 1653, the grand duke of Tuscany distributed thermom jeters around, and then everyone began noticing how hot it was. eee Tom Duff can’t see why it is that the hotter they |make it for a fellow the colder his feet get. jee eee effect “Winds whistle shrill, ley and chill Little care we; Little we fear Weather without, Sheltered about The Christmas tree oe Only umpty-teen more shopping days before Christ | mas. When father isn't shoveling snow he's mowing the lawn, And when he isn't jwith the iceman paying coal bills he's settling It is only in the summer that one can appreciate to their utmost the beauties of winter. In “good old summertime” means something different than it does in July. But Jan. 1 res will be easier to keep after this July 1. . Summer is a season For which there is no reagon, Excepting only these— Icedealers, Soda fountains, Skeeters, Pienics. However, Everett True holds to the theory summer was instituted to provide a field of activity for the fool who rocks the boat. . We could not fall for the story J. W, Summers, of Walla Walia, spring @ bill abolishing winters, that Congressman Wash, is going to a ae responsibility for the acts of Germany while I was in office and ask the allied powers to try me instead of his majesty Wil- liam II, former German emperor, Chancellor Von Bethmann-Hollweg eee But, as the barber remarked, but I've trifmmed many a man.” o- Former “I’m not dishonest Being greatly interested in seeing Germany pay the money she owes part of the world, 'we hope she drew the right Bauer, Modern weather prophets never quite come up to | sweeping round from | No one knew there was weather on earth until in | Nor why a dose of hot feet is a sure cure for a| On the hottest day this may be recited with cooling | that | ciaccerenillattas as. 0 I ScouTed AN! FOUND aman, AN LOOK WHAT HE Gimme — HALF A DOLLAR, TWO DIMES AN’ A NICKEL A QUARTER, Tomorrow ON July, 15, 1099, Jerusalem was taken by the Chris tlan Crusaders after a month's siege. The Chris tlan armies had constructed two large towers which they rolled to the foot of the fortifications of the | city. From the tops of these they fought the Sara cens on the ramparts. When the enemy was finally driven from Jerusalem, the cross was planted on the walls of the Holy City, In 1557, on July 15, Anne of Cleeves, the fourth queen of Henry VIIL, died. Henry had divorced her and sent her back to Flanders in order that he might merry Catherine Howard. On July 15, 1685, James, Duke of Monmouth, was beheaded. He was the natural son of Charles I1 upon the accession of James Il. he invaded England and Headed an unsuccessful uprising against the king. He was defeated at the battle of Sedgemoor, captured two days later, and executed, In 1789, on July 15, Louis XVI. of France, capitu- lated to the demands of the National Assembly and declared before the es general his intention of act- ing in concert with the as bly. This act stemmed for a short time the advance of the revolution. On July 15, in 1815, following the battle of Water. loo, after which Napoleon had retired to Paria, he finally surrendered to the British Admiral Hotham at Rochefort. In 1870, on July 15, an readmitting Georgia, the into the Union. On July 15, in 1870, the United States army was | reduced by an act of congress to a peace footing of 25,000 men. On July 15, in 1918, the battle of Chateau Bele. took place in which an American force, largely com. posed of marines, threw back a German force which had crossed the Marne 50 miles from Pa and | thereby turned the tide of the last great German | offensive. t of congress was passed of the Confederate states, CARELESS WORDS 7 BY THE REV, CHARLES STELZLE Staff Writer for The Star on Religious Topics. There's nobody that's critieized quite so much as | the Almighty. And there are very few of us who think that we | can't run the universe more efficiently than God, This should give the most of us a great deal of comfort. For if men will persist tn finding fault with God—who is perfect—how can we escape their criticism? “A servant is not greater than hie mfaster"—that's the way the Master Himself put it—when He told His disciples that {if men persecuted Him they | would also persecute them. But ordinarily men criticize each other thru care: | less speech rather than because of hatred in their | hearts—just os they swear and “take God's name | in vain.” They don't mean all they say—it's just pure cutsedness which most of them deplore even more than you do. Next time you become hurt because somebody criticized you, just hark back to the last time you criticized somebody else—and you'll find that you won't have to go very far back over the road to discover the wreckage you caused in somebody else's life because of your thoughtless words, oo | Pointed Paragraphs Remorse is memory that has fermented. A mule by any other name would be a kicker. Some men are unable to think when drunk or talk when sober, What the dew is to the flower, kind words are to the heart. Lambs rush in Wall Street when the old sheep fear to tread, The spider has no cause for alarm when his life hangs by a thread, A woman's sphere is the home, week is willing to admit this. No, Cordelia, watered milk doesn’t necessarily come from the river scow. Pity the misguided amateur gardener live on the vegetables he raises, If men were compelled to eat their words there would be an epidemic of indigestion, The man who points out your faults may be a true friend, but you feel like kicking him just the same. Yes, Hazel, it is almost as difficult f man to get over a case of love sickness as it is { woman to get over a barbed wire fence. Any bride of a who tries to (Copyright, 1919, | No music in German restaurants, say the | newspapers. Orchestras has ceased on ac- count of the war. The war did some good. * * * * Victorien Sardou was asked if it was hard for him to write a play. “No,” he replied. “It is never hard. It is easy or impossible.” * . a * Ld The trouble with art is that it is behind |the times. It still lingers in the lap of {monarchical, caste, mediaeval, snob ideas. It has never felt the breath of Democracy. tures to hang in rich men’s houses, and go to making furniture, wall paper, and car- pets for poor men’s homes. “* * * Fine gingerbread mansions on Fifth ave, do not make a city beautiful. You create beautiful slums. ** * If you really want Democracy the first * “* *_* ££ # & is dropped into the world. This suggests the only place to inaugurate any real re- form. . Man’s instinct of morality is not due to the fact that he lives in a moral universe, but to the fact that the universe is im- moral. His morality is his eternal protest. In man’s soul, not in trees and animals and history and such, is the Undying Fire. This is what the Book of Job means. * * * * * Every day of every man’s life, of every This is one of the hundred spdeies of fleas, magni- fied many times while being photographed. Countless unpleasant things have been said about the flea, and they're ali true. But we do have to dj hand the flea a medal for his athletic records, The flea is— Champion broad jumper, Champion high jumper, Champion standing jumper, On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise CHIPS BY DR. FRANK CRANE by Frank Crane} It will not, until artists quit painting pic- | must | place to institute it is in the Public Schools. | | only one ther Every eight seconds, says Wells, a baby | woman’s, too, and Charybdis, probabilities. is a steering between Scylla Our eternal task is to weigh * A prominent banker and a prominent the+ atrical manager, returning from the other side, say that Europe is on the brink of revolution, and that France and England will be upturned. Forty per cent off on this stuff. It is a rule of criticism that what- ever is very interesting is probably untrue, at least exaggerated. War, violence, and the like are so interesting that not one man in a hundred can tell the truth about them, *** * © # The same rule applies to all rumors about an individual that contain either of the two elements, Sex or Alcohol. Forty per cent off is a safe rule. * A cadet was recently appointed to West Point who passed 100 per cent by the Examining Board. He was marked “per- fect,” mentally and physically. He is the The business of this world Something’s the Ye ee s *6¢ * & is done by sick people. matter with all of us. ** * America sacrifices property valued at and producing revenues aggregating $2,268,000,- 000 for an Idea. That is the cost of Pros hibition. Yet they call us materialistic, a nation of money-worshippers. see * # * * t I move that the Governments of the world resign for three years and turn affairs of all mankind over to the Red C: to combat Ignorance, Disease, and organization. Motion unanimously lost. a CHAMPION BUG JUMPER Champion running jumper— Of the whole insect world. 4 In America fleas don't congregate on human beings to any large extent. In Europe they do. Here they dwell on dogs and cats mostly, but often make life a bitter pill for birds, and have been found — on every animal, avoiding only fish. There's one sure antidote for fleas. + That's cleanliness. OUR SIDEWALKS Editor The Star: Now that the world is more or less at peace would you kindly call the attention of our counciimen to the sidewalks of our Al city. The plank sidewalk on Stewart st., between Sixth and Eighth aves. is impassable; it would be much cheaper to renew it than pay for broken legs. word to the wise. * THE OLD GARDENER SAYS: Now {a the time to make a sowing of Witloof chic- ory in order to have a supply of French endive next New Year's Day and from then on until spring. This may seem like looking a long way ahead, but such a fine salad will be appreciated in midwinter as at no other season. Sow the seed thinly, There should |be four or five inches between the plants after they become well grown. Dig the soil deeply before you Then keep the ground well cultivated. When fall comes it will be only necessary to plant the roots in boxes of earth in the cellar, In @ few weeks you will have an unsurpassed salad. A few plants will give you a generous supply, for each root will furnish two or three crops. sow the seed, for the plants make a long tap root. | A Familiar Song BY EDMUND VANCR COOKE Thus the conductor sings his shout As the car sidws down to a‘stop; He opens his mouth and the words spill out Like the fizz from a bottle of pop, “Let ‘em off! let ‘em off! lively there! Hay foot! straw foot! hep! Move up front and give 'em some air; Get aboard now! watch your step!" So the song runs by years and days On the car we call the earth. The conductor sings, as we surge both ways, At the stations of death and birth; “Lat 'em off! let ‘em off! lively No matter whgt's your rep— Sad old sinners &nd little begin Lively! and watch your step!" there! ere, And even so in the after-show In Eternity’s elevator; Whether it’s up or down we go, Hear the drone of the operator: “Let ‘em off! oh, must I say it again? Come! come! show us some pep. Ladies of Hades and men of Gehenn, Lively! and watch your step!" (Copyright, 1919, N. BE. A.) a See Thursday's Papers \ “NOT AN ADVERTISEMENT | FOR ANY PARTICULAR CIGARETTE | —It may even make you like | your present cigarette better |