The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 22, 1919, Page 6

By, mail, out of city, montha, 0; 6 months, > Year, $5.00, in the tate of Washington.’ Outside the atat ‘Se per month, $4.50 for 6 months, or $9.01 per year. By carrier, city, 12c per week. 50c per month; 8 $2.75 ANew Cosmic Problem _—--——- - ced | z Physicists and astronomers say millions of years were} required to prepare the earth for life. Geology tells of | > another million before man appears. 3 | a Osborne in his “Old Stone Age,” tells of a man-like| ‘creature who walked upright upon the earth some half Million years ago. In these ages man passed from chipped to polished stone, built rude dwellings, domesticated plants ‘and animals, started art paintings on cave walls and founded few basic human institutions. : A few hundred centuries later the misty dawn of written ds disclose laws, literature, art and philosophy developed where they stand unabashed comparison with today. Mechanical progress was immeasurably slower. Wash-| n worked with tools much like those of Homer. Sickle, | , loom, forge and millstone, changed in details, but still moved only by the muscles of men or animals. While Washington lived the great change came. Stored | heat was hitched to tolls. é : From the time when the first amorphous organism) ed in paleozooic ooze until last century, the cosmic prob- | n was to wrest enough from the inorganic world to supply nic wants. Man has now won this battle. Limitless| r permits limitless complexity and size in tools. ! Lester F. Ward pictured man’s history reduced to a} e circuit of the clock. All but a few minutes were i with the unrecorded happenings of prehistoric time. machine age, with achievements many times greater all previous time, occupied but a few seconds’ space this cosmic clock. ; Within this age man learned to produce more in min than the cave man, or even the man who signed the ion of Independence, could have produced in days. Man’s conquest of nature completes one cosmic age creates a new cosmic problem. The question of the lation of man to his environment has ended in man’s tte victory. There are present difficulties due to years’ orgy of destructiveness thru which the world as passed. But the knowledge is here, the tools are here, | he energy is available to produce beyond all possible physi- F s of the human race. The new cosmic question is the relation of man to the distribution of the fruits of man’s conquest over This question has been postulated with less than a half of the seconds on Prof. Ward’s/cosmic clock. But it s already challenged the foundations of our civilization. The world is awake to the urgency of the question. yre is written each day on economics and sociology than ‘all other subjects. We must solve this riddle which the Sphinx of ages puts to us or admit our inability to fill our place in capital scheme. ogy oon The unspeakable Bernstorff is trying to win Italy's dship with a tale of what Germany would have her. Italy will do well to remember what: Ger- y did give her. There is fame and fortune in store for the garage anic who can get into your car and test it without iting three pounds of grease on the cushions. Killing Little Babies | ‘1s it worse to kill a baby with an ax than with a mt house? Oh—it’s more cold-blooded, and the onlookers may be horrified, but the body suffers less thru death in is way than it does thru lingering illness in a close, un- At this season of the year the tenement dwellers en- fe the tortures of the damned. They drag their weary, ison-charged bodies to the roof or the street to get a breath. The closeness and oppression of their bedrooms, and @ presence of vermin, in spite of the efforts of hard- sing women to keep their homes clean, makes life a) nent, and the morning finds them hollow-eyed, dry- gued, and with heads numb because of sleeplessness. Much of this suffering is probably unavoidable, buf e it is due to the selfishness and greed of landlords house-owners, then one could wish that the latter ht be compelled to spend an eternity in a stifling, stag- 1 room—such as ¥e killing sweet little innocent babies the thousands. rivin td If we deny justice to the little peoples in the east, we drive them into the arms of Germany. If we grant them justice, we drive Russia into the arms of Germany. A sophisticated man is one who realizes that the twenty-five billion of public debt will not lessen the contents of the congressional pork barrel. | Vote Today The school election requires your earnest attention. Go to the polls today—and vote. Vote for the bonds and the tax levy. Vote for better schools—and sufficient accommo- dations for the growing needs of the city. 3 The investment in the educational system of the city will be productive of liberal rewards—in good citizenship. If you don’t know your polling place, call up the school board, Elliott 4160. The argument of the brewers is that congress has no right to define the word “intoxicating,” that being one of their inalienable rights. The little boy in the fourth row will please tell us what became of the Filipino’s share of self-determina- tion. . When the house needs a new coat of paint and daughter needs a few new dresses, there is a job for some local dressmaker. Government by party may be a good thing for a republic, but it often degenerates into government for party. We still insist that one should not buy an expen- sive map of Europe unless the boundaries are adjust- able. Adventures in Recollection. HOME ANYHOW. SO LONG, FELLERS O000-ocon! SMOKIN'! I'M A-GONNA r WANTTA LEAVE Him TELL FOR? TELL — ALL RIGHT I-1 Guess WHATTA FOR YOU, T'Lu BE GOIN’ |||] WE CARE? ERNIE. 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Pantagraph, eee There was a man in our town And he was wondrous wise; He moved because the landlord raised His rent up to the skies. And when he couldn't find a flat, With all his might and main, He turned the moving van around And moved back in again see ECHOES OF THE MASSACRE LAWRENCE, Kan.—Lawrence took the defeat of | its hero philosophically. The attitude of the residents is summed up in the remark of Ez Whetstone. When Ez was told that Willard lost he asked, “How much | did he make?” “With the purse, the training receipts and movies, he'll be $250,000 ahead,” he was informed “Wull,” said Ez, “I reckon he won't have t' worry much over th’ 17-year-locus' this summer.” | | | the TOLEDO. fixed up by James Montgomery Flagg and that when the job is finished public, “The fight showed one thing,” said Skinny Heller, “It showed Willard had the Jess will show his face to the the famous fistic expert. paunch.” ° “Anybody Alt But, as the hotel proprietor remarked who wants four of a kind is welcome to them. ask is a full house.” . Uncle John Rockefeller says that when he y he was ambitious to become a musician could make the rest of us dance to his music? But, as the traffic cop remarked, “I can’t see why Germany fought for @ place in the sun.” cee THE REPORTER WAS SUFFE COMPLICATION was a So he | ING FROM J. W. Beck, who was injured about the head when a rim on a tire which he was filling with air on @ Cadillac car at the Magon City oil and grease filling station on South Federal avenue because of defective burrs came off as the tire exploded and struck him on the head, is recovering nicely at the Park hospital Mason City (Ia.) Globe . in a Terre Haute barber shop: te must be the home of the old-fashioned man who used to say, “Well, I'll try anything once eee However, Ingebard Tune is a music teacher in the Bridgeport (Conn.) schools And Miss Mabel Cool is a stenographer for the FB Vv. D. Co, in New York, and Harry Chill i« a stenog rapher for a shirtwaist company in St. Loul And Mrs. O, B. Ruff is the chairman of the Father less Children of France committee in Kansas City But, be that ax it may, William Rohl and Rena Bunn; of Aurora, Ill, have been married one Uncle Sam has decided to scrap 12 battleships. That looks like great waste, but then isn’t every battle ship built for that purpose? (Then somebody must ask, r what purpose?" And you answer, “Why, to s Wie Professors at the University of Illinois are testing children in silent reading. There’s a long step for. ward. singing Or silent ukulele playing ee A MOST REMARKABLE SURPRISE PARTY ’ Statesmanship consists in satisfying the fellows who can make the most trouble. £ A surprise party wis tendered Mrs, J. Allen Weber last evening. It was a complete surprise.—Bridgeton (N. J) News, | | | | | It is reported that Jess Willard is being | | | | | | was guillotined during the Reign of Terror. | the National Assembly of France. | manded the army of the Rhine, and the year before | at Mount MeGregor, near Saratoga, N. Y. | the trials of life | endulas, candytuft, baby's breath, a | Mebby some day they'll be testing ‘em in silent | | | | Tomorrow | 1401, on the 23d of July, the city of Bagdad was sacked by the Tartars under Tamerlane, and upon the ruins of the city a pyramid of 90,000 heads of the victims was erected by their conquerors. On the 23d of July, in 1794, Alexander Beauharnais While serving in the American revolution unter Rochambeau he acquired republican ideals. When the French revolution was pending Beauharnais, altho a nobleman and a one-time favorite of the court, stood for the cause of liberty and was elected president of He was moderate in his policy, and because he refused to indorse the extreme measures of the terrorists fell under sus picion and was finally arrested. While Beauharnais was awaiting his trial his wife, Josephine, afterward the first wife of Napoleon, was also arrested upon suspicion of royalist tendencies and imprisoned in the conciergerie. Beauharnais was tried and convicted on a false accusation after some months of imprisonment and condemned to the guillotine. He was 34 years old at the time of his death, a man of fine character and distinguished achievements, who had labored hard in the service of France. After serving as president of the assembly, he had com- his death hadebeen made minister of war. He fell a victim to the insane fury, of the most sanguinary element of the revolution and was sacrificed for his| moderate tendencies and for his noble birth, in spite of the record of his services in the cause of freedom. In 1885, on the 23d of July, Ulysses S. Grant died — | » Sor x! THE LIGHT THAT NEVER DIMS || y E REV. CHARLES STELZLE Staff Writer on Religious Topics for The Star The other day the clouds gathered thick and black and the sunshine was shut out and darkness covered everything Then a curious thing happened. be the fireflies could seen sending out their phosphorescent light, as they dashed back and forth in the mid-day darkness. Now the light of the firefly is always shining—even in mid-day sunshine—but we can't see it because everything else is so bright and cheerful, It's only in the hours of darkness that the light of the firefly is seen. Isn't this much like He's always near us the light of God's presence? but when everything goes well we can’t see Him. It's only when the lights of life grow dim and we are shut up in the darkness of sorrow or tribulation that God is seen by most of us And this is the chief compensation of passing thru we come to see and know God And to know God is to love Him. For God is Love And in Him is no darkness at all, So that to know God and having Him dwell in us is to shut out all darkness from our lives THE OLD GARDENER SAYS: Hiesaee ia sion peninercanppleeiiahes 8 It is a good plan to go over your bean plants at intervals look for any on which brown spots may | show. Plants marked in this way should be immedi: | ately pulled up and destroyed, for these spots are| likely to be an indication of anthracnose, the most! tructive enemy of beans in the bean Spraying with bordeaux mixture may have som: fect in warding off the trouble, but there is no way of guaranteeing immunity. It usually pays to plant beans well into July in order that later crops may come along to supply the table in case those which are planted earler are overtaken by this fungus And dou't work among your beans when they are wet, even with dew. That many people who go into the country at this season wonder what they can plant in order to have summer flowers, Of course it is possible to buy started plants in pots, but that is expensive, There are many annuals which will bloom quickly and the but little. Good kinds to grow a eed costs sweet alyssum, cal. nual lupins, mari- golds, portulaca, Drummond's phiox, poppies, and zin- nias. If you are going to stay Jate in the season put in some early flowering coxmos, too, along with some dahlia roots and a liberal number of gladiolus bulbs. Even half the number named will give you a splendid garden. THE ADMIRABLE JWRIGHT, JR, The art of entertaining must have been atavistic. Jr, ally inherited by Mr, Wheelwright, the program, otherwise one could such a unique blending of palate-ple with mental melodies as was served the company.—-Appleton (Wis.) Post, who planned areely expect condiments ‘or absorption by | 4 ily BY DR. FRANK CRANE (Copyright, 1919, by Frank Crane) There is but one evil—coagulation. There is but one problem—distribution. Most diseases are due to some sort of congealing. Most cures consist in restor- ing the circulation. The curse of history has been provin- cialism. Tribes, clans, nations, and school boys fight because they are not acquainted, The gentlemen who advised the League of Nations did something toward securing the peace of the world. Steam did more. Railroads and steamships have the best right “to be called the children of God,” because they are the greatest peace-makers. Humanity, when it coagulates, spoils. It needs constant mixing. Nothing better could befall a nation than to be emptied periodically of its population, who should go about among other natipns. A certain portion of all the youth of one land ought to be sent at public expense to foreign lands for a part of their educa- tion. Man is a circumambulatory animal. When jhe stands still he gets morbid. Distribution! If workmen could be properly distributed there would be no financial problem. Famines come not from lack of food, but from inefficient distribution. There is plenty of wheat in Russia, while Russians starve. Sooner or later Government, that is, the | Whole People, must assume the responsi- bility of managing the railroads, postoffices, telegraphs, and telephones, either directly or indirectly, because Communication is a matter of life and death to the people. “Civilization is of the cross-roads.” Speech saves men from madness, for thus ideas circulate. THE ONE THING NEEDFUL On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise Exercise maintains health, for thus the blood circulates. Newspapers are better safeguards against riot and revolution than standing armies, For revolutions are never caused by the circulation of ideas, but by ideas that cannot. circulate; so they fester. Religion sours in temples; it sweeteng when it runs thruout the highways and hedges, The River of God, in the Apocalyptic vision, ran thru the streets of the city, and in that city the seer saw no temple. Hire the Bolsheviks a hall and make the talk, and give them a daily column in the newspaper. ‘Nothing dissipates nonsense like airing it. The only dangerous heresy is the one we prohibit. Nothing grows by martyrdom like bunk. Truth is not preserved by Institutions, Organizations, Armies, Laws, nor any othr form of force. ‘ What prospers Truth is Open Air. A free field and no favor is the cry of Truth. You do not need to defend it. Just find it, love it, believe it and tell it, and it will defend itself and ydu, too. Most historic “Defenders of the Faith” have done more harm than good. Open the ways! Remove the dams! Let Business circulate! Let competition go on! Let co-operation be unhindered! Let infor- mation circulate! Freedom! Liberty! Give us these! ° The reason is: are stronger, tougher, and _longer-lived than any Error or Evil. Their greatest hinderers are they that try to “protect’ The Open Door! | them. WILLIAMS DENIES HE INFLUENCES BIG DEAL from the he made no recommendations. Later | $1,000,000, and gave it the contract the government purchased the site| for two buildings amounting to over Winston company for ' $3,000,000, Williams said. WASHINGTON, July Charge, ing that Congressman McFadden, of Pennsylvania had made a “coward ly" attack upon him, John Skelton Williams has denied he had induced | the treasury department to purchase ® site for the war risk insurance building owned by the Winston Con- struction Co., for which his brother- in-law {is attorney. Williams, appearing before the senate banking and currency com- mittee, admitted, however, that it was thru him the proposition was laid before William G. McAdoo, then tary of the treasury, but that a “Ro ughin : “Roughing it de-luxe” expresses what a summer outing may be in the National Parks of the West. All the joys of the wilderness, within easy reach of modern hotels and railroad trains. Here you can camp out—climb mountains—go fishing —and hit the trail—in a region of peaks and can- yons, glaciers and geysers, Indians We ---and in New York A, fact: At many important clubs and hotels in New York, Fatima is the leading cig- arette. Typical among the hotels are: Astor McAvrin Bs.uont NETHERLANDS Bi-twore Parx Avenue} KNICKERBOCKER PENNSYLVANIA MANHATTAN VANDERBILT FATIMA —"“juat enough Turkish” it in the National Parks ° and bears, deep woods and ice-fed lakes. Around the corner are modern resort hotels and miles of auto boule- vards. Summer excursion fares, Ask for the beoklets you want. They describe Yellowstone, Glacier, Rocky Mountain, Mt. Rai- nier, Crater Lake, Yosemite Soqusia, Hawaii, Grand Canyon, Petrified Forest, » Mesa Verde and Hot Springs of Arkansas. Ask the local ticket agent to hel; plan your trip, of ly to nearest Consolidated "Ticket Office, oa ‘ravel ees bas R.R. Administration, Transportation -» Chicago; 143 Liberty Step New York; 602 Healey Bldg » Atlanta, Ga. . Vonne| ited Ticket Office Second Avenue, y, Truth and Righteousness ~~