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ill She Seattle Star By, mail, out of city, 50c per month; 3 months, 1.60; 6 months, $3.75; year, $6.00, ate of Washington. Outside the state, ‘Tbe Month, $4.50 for 6 months, or $9.00 per y carrier, city, 12e per week. Call That Conference late to offer a sermon-editorial on the conflict between d and Dempsey. | The burden of this sermon is such an old one that it| | d not be offered were it not so patent that as prom- it a citizen as Mr. Jess Willard would never take the ble to learn it. If he, why not others; possibly you? People who saw Willard “training” with his sparring} s agree that he played instead of worked, that he was, ll times confidently careless and that he seldom or never d for real action from his hired opponents. | Since editorial sermons are still occasionally preached | : ing the bout between Cain and Abel, perhaps it is not | \TTLE STAR—FRIDAY, JULY 18, 1919. \Sort of Warms You All Up Inside. 1 | NAW — WE CAN'T LEAVE YA BAT— TOO MUCH RISK. [Wee GAME KNEE. AN’ DON'T LET THEM YA FROM SLIDIN’ 1 Se TQ SECOND! People who | |< \w Willard enter the ring will bear witness that he entered! the championship contest in exactly the same way. He nil a] fhatever is worth doing is worth doing well,” to which he || d around upon the audience, as if he were the sj “he ta) his opponent li; mes, and when he and his er at ordered to “break,” he threw both arms wide and d back as gracefully as if the referee had ejaculated | !” at a country dance. In a word, he carried the ry of his previous play-contests to his work contest. Dem pursued diametrically the opposite course. His its were real contests. He fought all the time! church picnic, he sauntered to the center of the tly on the face a couple lversary came together and | an or twice he came rather near to getting the worst | in them. He entered the ring in a willing, winning, orking state of mind, because he had been in the same of mind for weeks. to the effect that “Life is real! life is earnest!” and iong the copy book lines of his school days he may recall add that “Shirking is a harder habit than working,” the psychological process of weeks cannot be undone | | ‘seconds. . The ex-champion has paid the price for these lessons. about us? Are you and I Willarding in our working? enforcement of the Willarding or Working Judge Hurn of Spokane has 0) ed the way for a new num wage conference by declaring illegal the $13.20 akly minimum fixed by the war emergency conference in astrial welfare commission, which is charged minimum wage, may either appeal to the supreme court or drop it and call the new » new conference should be called. It is the best way & proper wage for thousands of unskilled working i. Younger, state labor commissioner, says the $13.20 and he knows a new conference called now 00 wage. He favors the conference and he is about it. Same ‘if ein won out, the workin ‘would rirls e Hurn’s decision stand. Forget the $13.20 to the supreme court would take| «put» as tne auto salesman remarked, “the onty nothing. It would be a ho vie- or ay berry) on $13.20 a week. angers suggestion Id be adopted by the welfare conference. Englishwomen Smoke Pipes more than 30 years cigaret smoking has been com- | among women of the numerous smart sets English girls in all walks of life. Their smok- public is a habit of later date. No doubt it has come thru women and girls habituated to tobacco being . to deny themselves at times when they were unable sure the privacy in which they had been used to smok- and also thru the ever-growing feeling of indepen- ee among women and their claims to equal rights and with men. fost women and girls who are smokers began because thought it was “cute,” dashing, just a little wicked improper; and, in spite of the nausea inevitable from to enjoy the weed, they continued from the n n that they would not be outdone by some woman or girl. The habit, however, has not become so general among n and girls that one would be justified in applying ‘the sex and saying of the Saturday Review 25 years that “most men and all boys smoke.” > Americans returning from England report that women smoke short fat cigarets in holders shaped like pipes; the prediction is madé freely that before long they lil be discarding the cigaret altogether and smoking pipes the same way as men smoke them. The young Englishman considers as a “good fellow” the girl who is not too straightlaced to join him in a ‘ 3’ but the English character will have to undergo preat changes before the stolid shopkeeper class or the hanics who pride themselves on their “respectability” il take kindly to the idea of sharing their ’baccy pouches their pipe-racks with “the missus.” The Soul of the People AN EDITORIAL IN VERSE BY EDMUND VANCE COOKE. Soul of the people! battle’s flags are furled! Since war is ended, let our hot hates cease! Let us turn from the warfare of the world And make ourselves full worthy of our peace, Is there a Hunnishness at home in us? Do we applaud the riot and the rout? If we look in our hearts and find them thus, 'Tis ours to cleanse them out. Soul of the people! we aroused our might To drag the autocrat from his mad course. Shall we turn from that high resolve of right And make ourselves the autocrats of Force? Have we, or any of us, schemed and planned Whereby some Class shall seize the people's crown? If Junkerism breeds within the land, 'Tis ours to live it down! Soul of the people! let us still prepare! Our sword be Reason and our shield be Thought! Let us not make ourselves the greedy heir Of that which ruled, and ruined, those we fought. Set us no Violence upon a throne With ministers of malice and of hate. If we are kaisers to ourselves and own, Help us to abdicate! (Copyright, 1919, N, E. A.) He landed the first hard blow, | he had been in the habit of landing hard blows for) and months, and the first hard blow practically won| t. Mr. Willard will look into his Longfellow he will find | | ZZ Se ze A WORD FROM JOSH WISE Whut good is expert opin- ton if th’ experts disagree? thing I ever cut is a corner.” eee “Stand me up against a wall,” pleads eld Pop von Hindenburg. Preferably one of mahogany with a brass rail on which to rest a foot. eee ? EXCITEMENT IN CLINTON A large Iimb of «4 tree on the W. A. Lyall premises fell this morning about 10 o'clock. There was no wind blowing, and the limb was evidently decayed. There was no one around when it fell, therefore there was no one injured, altho the limb fell right next to the sidewalk.—Clinton (Ia.) Advertiser, eee An eastern publisher say# pfohibition will cause the People to read more and that he has sold 7,000,000 copies of Harold Bell Wright's books. And there we had always supposed Harold Bell Wright's books were one of the causes of the booze habit. But it only goes to show that if you take rum away from a man he will find a substitute. eee SUMMER FICTION (The Six Best Sellers) ‘The pretty feminine bather, * “I really feel warmer when I loaf than while work- ing.” The summer resort booklet. Any weather forecast promising relief. ‘Willie's promise to mow the lawn for papa, The adventures of a fisherman. ° THE MOST USED ALIBI “It isn't the heat, it's the humidity.” eee POSSIBLY IN MOURNING ON ACCOUNT OF A DEAD TRANSFER ‘Will parties who were on street car Saturday, who saw and heard conductor threaten to throw off a lady who was in mourning on account of wrong transfer please be kind and give his name and address to 1996, Dispatch—H. W. D.—Advertisement in St. Paul (Minn.) Dispateh. eee Surgeon General Blue says, “To keep healthy in hot weather, keep cool.” To keep cool— (To be continued.) cee Bat, as the jeweler said, “I never owned a hen but I've set many a diamons eee AN HONEST EDITOR I say very briefly that my Monthly for June is as bum as my stomach with which I have lately been having a siege. If I do not get better soon J shall send back the money of my subscribers.—Ed Howe's Monthly, eee A sign in a bakery window says, “Home Made Buns.” There'll probably be many a one come out of the cellars, eee A lot of experts are figuring how to make it pos- sible to send cargoes by ship direct from lake ports to England and their reports show all that is needed is ships, cargoes, wharves and warehouses. We take it that the water is on hand, eee Kansas reports it needs 10,000 men to harvest wheat. What has become of the uptodate girl who used to work in the Kansas wheat flelds? eee “Always keep your milk in a refrigerator,” advises a health officer. A better place to keep it is a safety deposit box, eee But, as the referee remarked, “I don't know any- thing about making lard, but I can render @ decision.” ‘ eee THE MARVELOUS MR. DEMPSEY In the quiet restaurant we selected a table which Mr, Dempsey said was “cool.” Then he ordered, first consulting my wishes. He ate soup, roast turkey, cantaloupe a la mode and drank ice water. He ath with appetite, handled his knife and fork with perfect propriety and ease, ate quietly and gracefully. Easily and intelligently he talked upon many subjects while we ate and when we finished he gave the flushed, proud waitress one dollar and a half tip, regardless of my protest.—Nellie Bly in the New York Evening Journal. eee However, Lieutenant Luck was among the officers on the British blimp that crossed the Atlantic, and Lieutenant Raymond B, Quick is an aviator in the United States army. BUT YOU CAN RUN [ld 0 FER ME —I GOTTA \.2 4 GOOD CLO'ES KEEP —< WHEN THEY LET YOU INTO THE GAME ON ANY TERMS —By McKee WE CARRIES Too MUCH Geer, AT THAT, THouGH, He MICHT TRAIN DOWN AN' MAKE OUR SECOND THANKS FOR RYTHER DRIVE Editor The Star: On behalf of the trustees of the Ryther Child Home, and also of the committee in charge of the drive for raising funds for a new Home, I wish to thank you very sincerely for the fine support you gave us. We certainly appreciate the interest you took and the splendid publicity you gave us, ‘We really cannot express to you our sincere thanks and appreciation of the manner In which you backed the drive and put on the smoker, which was such a great suceess in every way. The financial returns were certainly splendid. Respectfully, RYTHER CHILD HOME, By C. E. BOGARDUS, Secretary. Tomorrow 1374, on the 19th of July, Francesco Petrarch, the celebrated Italian poet, died at the age of 70 and was buried at Arqua, near Padua. Petrarch was born at Arrezo. He was the son of an exiled Florentine. During his life time he was the center of Italian lit- erature and it was largely due to his efforts and en- thusiasm that the revival of Literature whi dis tinguished the fourteenth century in Italy, toanttbioes. His prose, written largely in Latin, did much. to pro- mote the study of the ancient classics, and hie lyric poetry, written in Italian, has served as a model for the poets of Italy and southern France and gives him claim to be called the father of modern poetry. On the 19th of July, in 1629, Quebec surrendered for the first time to the English under Thomas and Louis Kerth, 130 years before its final conquest by Wolfe. In 1814, on the 19th of July, during our War of 1812 with England, an action took place off Sandy Hook between the United States privateer General Armstrong and the British sloop Henrietta. The Henrietta was on its way to Chesapeake Bay, laden with stores for the British fleet, when it was cap tured by the American privateer. In 1824, on the 19th of July, Augustin Iturbide, emperor of Mexico, was shot. Iturbide took up arms in the cause of Mexican freedom in 1820 and led his army to a series of victories. He was raised to the throne by popular acclamation, but after a brief reign was deposed and banished. He returned from his exile to enlist followers in his cause, was captured and executed, On the 19th of July, In 1848, the first Women's Rights convention in the United States, led by Lo- cretia Mott, a Quaker leader, and Blizabeth Cady Stan. ton, a gifted orator, was held at Seneca Falls, N. Y. —______. |GOD DESPISES THE | NEUTRAL MAN BY THE REV. CHARLES STELZLE Staff Writer on Religious Topics for The Star The will of God as revealed in the Bible is not that men should lead negative lives—that is, they are exhorted not only to stop doing wicked things, but they are urged to lead strong, positive lives. “Cease to do evil; learn to do well,” is a familiar scriptural injunction. “Let the wicked forsake his way * * © and let him return unto the Lord.” God doesn't want men to be neutral. There's a severe condemnation for those who are lukewarm—those who are “neither hot or cold.” “I will spew you out of my mouth,” ts the figure used to show God's contempt for men who are neu- tral regarding things upon which every real man should not only have opinions, but concerning which he should line up with one side or the other, I believe that God has more respect for an ont- andout sinner than he has for a cowardly “saint.” It’s different with the man who tries, and fails, and then tries to come back—God's love Is out-reached to him—it's the man who never tries at all that God and man despises. f THE OLD GARDENER SAYS: / Is your corn apparently standing still? If so it probably needs a Uttle extra feeding. Perhaps it has exhausted most of the plant food tn the soil. If the leaves have a yellow tint you may be certain that they need a bracer. The simplest plan is to get a little ready mixed corn fertilizer and to work it into the ground between the rows. Be sure that it doesn’t touch the plants and do not let the cultivator blades sink deeply into the soil, for corn roots are often within an inch of the surface and fill all the space between the rows. When you have corn ready to use, do not pick-it until it can go directly into the kettle. That is the secret of having sweet corn at its best. On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise BAD SPORTS BY DR. FRANK CRANE (Copyright, 1919, | No, Mr. Xyzowski, or whatever your name is, you are mistaken. I |you because you ‘champion the down- jtrodden, nor because you have advanced ideas, nor because I am afraid of the cap- italists, nor because I am a dumb-head, re- actionary, Bourbon and snob. I don’t hate you at all. I simply don’t want anything to do with you and your crowd. d the reason is not that you are noble |martyrs, overturners and advanced scouts of creation, and that I am Mr. Man-afraid- of-his-job. Not at all. The reason is much simpler. It is that you are a lot of Bad Sports. And that is just a little lower down than any other class, in American eyes. Burglars, chicken-thieves, drunkards, and crooks we can send to jail. Sport keeps hanging around, just inside the law, and makes a nuisance of himself. Why do I call you a Bad Sport? This country is wide open to any reformer our laws if you can get votes enough. You can confiscate the banks, put the ’pren- tice plumbers in charge of the U. S. Steel Company, reduce the price of bread to two cents a ton, or do anything else you (count: one, two, three) please—if you can get votes enough. it isn’t locked and the latch-string hangs out? VCH WY ELE BY 0. B, JOYFUL PRINCIPALS: PATER FAMILIAS, known to/ ring-side fans as The Old Man, Dad, Pa, Pop and upon more formal occa. sions, Father. KOSTA LIVING, still known as the Climbing Kid. Both are topnotchers, and both have been training for some time. Betting ts 7 to 1 on the Climbing Kid, with little money in sight. PAP TIME is referee, also holding the watch. “Beefy” Packer, Korner Grocer, and “Robber” Landlord are Kosta Living’s seconds, better FAMOUS don’t hate | gay Lotharios we can get along with. Plain | But the Bad | Because you are peeved when you lose. | that hopes to function. You can change | Why break in the door with an ax when | ~. With by Frank Crane Go ahead. We'll try Socialism, on An- archy, or Bolshevism, or any other crazy scheme under the sun. All you’ve got to do is to convince the majority of us. us; no kaiser prevents ug; stic class intimidates us. Go on, | our spiel. We've tried a lot of fool | things, and may try yours. But, when you argue and fail to convinee | us, when you tear your shirt and only get a laugh, when you explain your grand and noble ideas and they only look bughouse to us, and then you go around pouting, or howling, or manufacturing some bombs to + blow us up—why, you don’t belong in th | game, "i If your insides just naturally boil to re- volt against some tyranny, and you are not happy unless you can defy and resist and revolt, and you can’t find any tyranny around to defy, ete. you'd better run al back to Europe where the oppression busi- ness_ thrives. If you want to stick around, Mr. Pszym- slippl, you gotta be good-natured. Tell us your ideas. We'll listen. But when don’t make a hit, then don’t get the and talk violence. Because if you do we will throw you ont, We don’t especially object to New Ideas, They’re quite interesting. We don’t even object to Prohibitionists, Look what they did to us! But they did it by law, not by T N T, and we're looking as pleasant as it is possible for to look, But we do object to Bum Sports, Cry Babies, Calamity Howlers, and all those | who can Scream and Scratch and Murder, but can’t Succeed. I hope you get me, Bo Peer MEN INDORSE FREE GARDEN AND FLOWER SEEDS Ma, Willie, Susie, Johnnie, Tommy, Henrietta, Geraldine, Bobby and the Baby are in the Old Man's corner. EVERYBODY IS AGREED: that | the Climbing Kid has the edge on the Old Man. The youngster has the pep and the punch. Still, how- ever, the Old Man is fairly good) &h the defensive, and can clinch to beat the band when he emerges from | a stiff wallop. THE PURSE: Ninety per cent to the Climbing Kid, win, lose or draw. 10 per cent to the Old Man, Ma Willie, Susie, Johnnie, Tommy, Hen- rietta, Geraldine, Bobby and the Baby. TIME: Fight hour rounds; fight | t6 finish. RULES: No hitting below the soles of the feet, but sparring be- tween rounds permitted. Round 1 Kosta Living hops to the center of the ring, tacks a penny on the milk price and ducks when the Old Man takes water for breakfast. munching his cereal dry. The Climb- ing Kid pastes him-square in the eye with a six-cent egg, but Pa counters with a we-cat-oatmeal-instead-of eggs. Kosta upperents with a boost on | butter, and the Old Man slides to the floor for a couft of four, but clinches with a margarine. Father assumes the ageressive and lands on | his opponent's shins with a bunch of voretables from his backyard garden. The Kid comes back with an increase In coffee. Honors even, with Kosta slightly shading the Old Man. Round 2 Dad does some shifty footwork, walking eight blocks out of his way to save a dime on lunch, but the Climbing Kid catches him napping with a boosted ice price and a new pair of shoes for Willie. That sort Once more, self-proclaimed watch- dogs of the treasury in the house, who made arm attempt to divorce garden seeds from politics, have been utterly routed. The average congressman would sooner part with his right eye than give up his privilege of sending 5- cent packages of garden seed with his name emblazoned thereon to his constituents. Said Congressman Blanton: “Dur- ing 20 years as a lawyer in my state I received from my congressman garden seeds; from my senior sena- tor flower seeds and garden seeds, and from my junior senator garden seeds and flower seeds when I did — not have a garden and every was forced to either give them ar or put them in the waste basket. Sending garden seeds to lawyers, doc- tors, preachers and bankers in district wastes thousands of of the people’s money every year.” But Representative Chandler says: 4 “If you want to be a great states-_ man you will vote to maintain garden seeds service, The gi statesman in all the history of republic, from time immemorial dé to the present, favored the proposi- tion. If you want to appear on the © roll of fame of the future to be read for all time, if you want to get in ~ line with Patrick Henry, Thomas — Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin and — all the luminaries of the past, vote | for the bill as it is.” bs wades in with a left to Gerataine’s | party slippers, and a right to John. | nie’s shoes, with a cross blow at an entire new outfit for Ma. The Old) Man sure is groggy. We'll say so. | The Kid knocks him clear across the ring with a ten per cent boost in| rent, and sends over the sleep-pro ducer with an increase in caskets and funeral incidentals. (The Finish.) — 4 for potatoes. of dazes the Old Man, and he notes his advantage, following it up with a fivecent tap when the Old Man boys tobacco for his pipe, and then puts across a repair bill for the flivver and the Old Man is hanging to the ropes, But Kosta shows no merey and punches him for a few gallons of gasoline, and a new dress for Henrietta. Dad goes to the car pet) but is saved by the gong. This round is the Kid’s by 4 heavy margin. (Ringsiders yell at the Old Man: “Aw, put some action in this here mill. Bore into him, and soak him one” Clearly the gang is with the Old Man, but they know a loser when they see him.) Round 3 Old man comes to the center slow- ly. Plainly, he’s tired. The Climb- ing Kid ts fresh. He’s just come from a directors’ meeting where they cut an extra-profit melon and decided to boost prices all around Kosta smashes in with a right to jaw and hangs on five cents more He breaks thru the Old Man's defense with a boost on canned goods, and a pair of pants for Tommie. Dad tries to counter with some more garden work, insects beat him to that starts in to end the battle. He hoists | meat, lard and the price of Bobby's underwear, With a raise on Baby's rattle, the Kid gets set for the hay- maker, and the Old Man tries to climb thru the ropes, but Ma pushes him back, and he receives a stiff jolt in his market basket, and an- other on his gas bill. He goes down, but the referee drags him up and fans holler “Yaller!” at him, Costa Successful men, without exception, laid the foundation for their future when they first com- menced to save their earnings. worth forming, it is not firmly established with- out effort. Make your start by opening a savings account with this Bank. 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