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She Seattle Star ‘By, matPout of city, 50c per month 1.50; 6 months, $2.75; year, $6 tate of Washington, Outslde the state, Se per month, $4.50 for 6 months, or $9.00 per year. By carrier, city, 120 por week. months, in the 5 “Thomas . Jefferson Many historians are of the opinion that Thomas ferson was the most useful American that ever lived. he was one of the most useful, all will agree; for he ‘ a very partial list of his inventions and social services many of the benefits of which extend into this time, and will serve in all times: Author of the Declaration of Independence. The first secretary of state of the United States, the second vice president, and the third president of the United States. The father of religious freedom py law. Author of the first anti-slavery bill. i Inventor of our present decimal money system. The first American prison reformer. The first to suggest the Panama canal, : Invented the letter-copying press. _ Suggested certain improvements in the mold-board S plow, and from which the shear plow was evolved. ‘ Started the fashion of wearing trousers instead of breeches. é ae Conducted the purchase from France of the Mississippi | "valley, since known as the Louisiana Purchase, and the most gigantic real estate deal of all times. ‘ ‘ The first to advocate courtesy as a national blessing) a efficiency measur a - Founded the University of Virginia. ‘ : Selected design for the national capitol at Washington. | _ The first to use the chicken incubator. | Financed the exploration and the original settlement the Far West, including the Lewis and Clark expedition, | that of Lieut. Pike, for whom Pike’s Peak is named. | _ The first man to plant rice in America. | * Founder of American glass industry. i As an architect he designed his own residence Monti- | ; that of the Harrison’s on the lower James river in} Virginia, the state capitol building of Virginia, and finally | ll the buildings of the University of Virgina. sae Invented the wheel-barrow, the whirling office chair, d the camp stool. The first farmer in America to use the thrashing ma-| llo SAILOR, BE-WARE SaiLoR, BE-WARE Pe —By McKee THEY'S NOTHING TOO BUT SHOOT 'EM WHEN THEY GET LIKE THAT G VC: WHY DIDN'T SOME BODY U) Tern Me To J, Beware oF (W\(| ras eatery? { I'™ HARD OF HEARING, BUT IT HURTS JusT THE On the Issue of Americanism Jhere Can Be No Compromise DON’T SPOIL IT BY DR. FRANK CRANE (Copyright, 1919, by Frank Crane) Let us | We have done a fine thing, folks. jnot spoil it! | You know how it A man does a noble |deed, rises to a heroic achievement, and then either he himself or his friends or his ene- {mies spoil it and make it seem ridiculous or |mean by some petty word, deed or gesture. The fleas, cooties, water-bugs and rats are jever with us. y the chiggers and house-flies respect not his | grandeur. | You recall héw the insect-minded flew at Admiral Dewey to pull him from his pedes- ‘tal, how they swarmed about Roosevelt, /Grant, and Lincoln. The heroic figures re- main, the pests are forgotten, but, at the |time, their activities humiliated us all. have won a splendid victory. When the jcrisis came we met it gloriously, Let us not spoil it! Of course, no so great thing could have been accomplished without friction, dissat- isfaction, and imperfection. Some were all our slips and awkward remember only our greatne: | Shall we sneer at the heroism of Chau- tau-Thierry because some lieutenant was a imartinet, or despise the achievements of \the navy because we know a sailor who iwon’t pay us that $5 he borrowed? Come, let us take the larger view! Great Britain has her faults, we all have our pettinesses and irritating ways, looked at as a whole, what a magnificent Great Britain it is! She stood by Belgium jand France, she maintained the loyal sup- gestures and > Man is a noble animal, but | We | Bese | bound not to be pleased, But why not forget | but, | ——————— oe | India were ready to die for her when it came to the pinch, she hung on like a bulldog till she won. You can criticize France, you can criticize | everybody, but after all, what a splendid France, what courage beyond all praise she showed! You cdn find things you don’t like that Italy has done, but. you are a poor stick if you cannot be stirred by the magnificent Hed of Italy to the common cause of man- kind. And America, Everything we did might, of course, have been done better. We bluns dered, stumbled, and took wrong bypatht But* we got.there. Don’t forget that. We were pacifists, and unready, and absurd and © everything, but we got two million boys across three thousand miles of water and landed a wallop on Fr jaw that sent ~ him to the ropes, just the same. And don’t forget Woodrow Wilson is our president. Defeat him and his party af the polls next time, if you want to, but, for decency’s sake, don’t besmirch your own country and its wonderful record by be- littling your regularly elected chief! i Baker and Daniels and Pershing are not | Democrats or Republicans; they are your representatives; you honor yourselves when you honor them. generous. Let us be fine, if we can, and if not, at least let us keep stiil. Fault-finding, envy, jealousy, carping, and sneering are cheap. And nas' Intelligent and dignified cri dependence of opinion are one thing. plain cursedness is another. ism and in- Just Don’t be afraid to be 4 |port of her colonies, Canada, Australia and 7 a WHY MEN ™ a jrbove Battle round The man who lost an arm or leg jim the war will live longer than if) jhe had not lost it. This®* amazing| statement comes from a great sur- geon, Col, Openshaw of the London hospital, in a speech made at the jopening of a hospital for the limb | less. | Openshaw. explains that much} |valuable energy is used up when the heart pumps blood thru the} arms or legs; that the drain on our! vital forces ts increasingly less as| the extremities are removed, result-| ing in longer life ‘ The first prominent American to submit to vaccina- | ' a | Founder of our system of fast mails by continuing the} ils at night on horseback after the end of the day's | journey, thereby increasing the speed of the mails| m 50 to 100 miles per day. The’ first farmer in America to rotate crops. Pe Founder of the United States secret service. Established the first mint in the United States at hiladelphia, our coins previously having been struck off, WHEN YOU ACCEPTED THE POPULAR VERDICT THAT YOU WERE NOT MEANT TO BE A SINGER_ {Ooprrigh, 1919, by Donald McKee.) Pe. : Constructed the manual of parliamentary practice, still governs deliberative bodies. “One of the authors of Washington's Tomorrow 1139 on the 27th of July, the country of Portugal} deciared an independént monarchy. Alfonso Hen- riques gained a signal victory over the Moors and on the field of Ourique he was proclaimed King of Port:} 4n of us at times, feel fagged.| ugal, “Just naturally worn out” is a term ie P ith B. Wit o Peer On the 27th of July, in 1586, Sir Francis Drake | commonly thea fist sat iat te vine betes i tn et |e we, macy yn AND NEVER A SENATOR HAS 5 lat us spend three minutes with BEEN ELECTED PRESI ing tobacco, which had hitherto been considered only] the scientists and learn all about| Swatting the presidential bee in as a drug. ithe connection between death and On the 27th of July, in 1689, Jobn Graham of Clav-|tne exhaustion of human energy. | erhouse, Viscount Dundee, dfed of wounds received in ‘ |the bonnets of republican senators the battle of Killiecrankie. Claverhouse had raised a 8 REM | has provided an afternoon of amuse- 2 Great} ment for Senator Thomas of Colo- | re parent! rado, democrat. body of Highlanders to fight for James II. against He reminded the senators that | Willlam III. He won the battle of Killiecrankie, but was mortally wounded in the conflict. The old Scotch song of “Bonnie Dundee” commemorates Claver- ; Che history of the. Dalted Dhol? Here is Rubner’s theory of life: | never in the history nin 1604, on the 21th ot July, the charter tor. the} Man is a power plant with a lim-| States has a on ta the Pesan. Bank of England was signed by William and Mary. |!ted amount of fuel—energy. This| Sted ond slected to the, pessaeney: . : d up, his engine stops.) im ‘ In 1775, on the 27th of July, congress established | S"ersy Use | ve seen since I the first military hospital and appointed Benjamin | Life is the resuit of energy being | formance fees re sade Man both Church director and physician in general progaced by’ consumptiony of. food, | 2TES "Ts ive lore ago ceased. t0:Won- On the 2th of July, in 179%, during the Reign of| Just A# heat results from bientng er want tae eatcaeese TE jo | ; f ing his arrest. On the day ,ot Robesplerre's death the|*? Produce only a fixed amount of | @bi6 F ih euaitowen | Mis Terror ended, but his death was the date and not the|°MeTsY: after that amount has been! Senator Borah be produced, death is a certainty. ‘The| Adam's apple rather hastily, and batteries cannot be overcharged. | 4 few others who are known to have We are born with a definite| presidential aspirations batted their cause of its cessation, In 1915, on the 27th of July, the first direct wireless amount of undeveloped units of en-| eyes. ergy. We can develop and use The remarks of the senator communication was established between Japan and the United States. them up normally—and die at the| Were occasioned by the balding up lripe age when we begin getting in| of a resolution that was favored by TM a Sse Literary Locks [rips easipnte ore coy ete tse 8 See BY EDMUND VANCE COOKE use them up fast—and die young. | Now let me say Did you ever notice that lazy men|into ashes, Others keep the fire! There was a day . lgenerally arg healthy and, outlive! oi) hot, by overwork or dis The worker has always responded to advances like these.| YOU'VE SEEN AN IRREGULAR SQUARE, When I had locks galore * tha apeinters’ who burn | themselves Eoation, auf buco thenisives:<up The more pienly paid any class of workers becomes, the HAVEN'T YOU? And then my head up? : before reaching the mellow age. _ more highly skilled it becomes, and the more profitable its} The lot ts a small, irregular square that lies close Was Irish bred— 5 eee The automatic machine, by con- ‘services become to their employer. to the cathedral—London (Eng.) Telegraph. | That is, my hair was MOORE. aA ker, Rubner Serving our energies, enables us to| 4 ty : ee From behind his whiskers, Rubner nid times as much into our The country over, it will be found that the bosses who Talis to weds announced the results of a lite) (r beating Soiertt hed vin, hist best pay their workers are the most prosperous. An English crest, |study: * ‘Machinery is the greatest force for| A business that must sweat its wage slaves, and rob An effort all too tardy; | “For every pound weight of his|jongthening human life if we are| their pay envelopes, is a business that is due for the junk Despite the care |body at maturity, the average man} content not to burn the whole forest | pile I gave my hair, | produces and consumes 900 cal-} a+ once. __.« That is divine compensation; fair dealing must always ‘ee ey eee jories of energy before he dies.| you cannot cheat nature, She has in i H Death comes when he has consumed} piqg, bsolute limit on the! win in the end; else there would be room only for devils placed an absc in the cosmos. “Farewell Two-cent stamps are to be the popular tongue exer- | TN jeiser again starting July the beginning. The ‘lil red | stockbands — will be back to stick. The entrance of the rosy-cheeked two-cent stamp marks the exit of the rosy nose two per cent damp. They will again push a let: | = ter any place In | the country at | the old twin- | penny power. | sr ao J And picture post cards will rattle along again be- hind schedule, | under a onecent head of steam. Hope the present mail service doesn't drop a notch along with the . The only trouble in waiting for an answer back A = a] a Mars is that one is apt to forget what one wanted ) know 15 or so years ago. We discover a new spirit and a new system taking hold American business. ny It is the systematic application of the Christian exhorta- } to divide your blessings. ? re Divide them with those less blessed; especially with | on whom you depend for your prosperity. | One big manufacturing concern See satynd to om for dollar the savings of its workmen, up to per ! 5 : A na a er cree Ap ‘eS aero = wages Cis ‘irm will deposit another is credit. < ; fecal ns to - gre is oa oe vechons a Se cone Bagram ayo 2 fh algebra te A in corporation five years; er nus ING |doing he said he was celebrating Flag Day.” at the end of this period. eee This will be found good business for the boss, as well| “Pigeon Hatches Chicken,” says the worker. It attracts the most efficient and reliable |headline. “Tries to Make It Fi cers; it removes the necessity of constantly breaking in|“*'ve s¢¢" ™any 4 fly Sete orion it spreads cer! caslierny nngwe, balm over entire institution, and it protec e families of the cmen from the sudden reverses of sickness or death, that, | rsd" ey. eigen lars til recently have terrorized the toilers. eee Ever hear of Max Rubnei scientist. To one school of physiol- ogists he is a sacred cow. “We all know that since the dea of Mr, Roosevelt many candidates for the presidency of the United States have blossomed, and will @ tinue to blossom on the other side of the chamber, and each, of course, is plowing his own furrow with his own heifer, in the hope tna ee share wilh turn up the présidential grub.” New York World | Humph! Weill, The prince of Wales has made six trips thru the FREE DOCTOR Ex-Government Physician 1111 FIRST AVE. or 169 WASHINGTON ST. RIGHT DRUG CO. STORES Leok for the Free Doctor Sign, Opportunities in this country are as numerous as they ever were. A great fortune aw a man who can invent a non-intoxicating drink that will be pop: | ular at a clambake. eee On one page of a newspaper we lamped an adver. tisement of Swift & Co, in which that organization's many acts of charity and kindness to the public were told, concluding with this statement: “And this service of Swift & Co. is performed at a profit of a fraction of a cent per pound.” | And on the next page was the advertisement of | |men organizing a packing company and offering stock | for sale. Among other things it said “Packing plants earn handsome dividends, from 25 per cent to over 100 per cent. | “Ninety-eight per cent of all packing houses in the United States have been financial successes.” ee ter how badly hak eee ® tae damaged, for The worst is near, The worst and most distressing; For now I scratch * A German thatch, For every day it’s LESSING. |that amount. Nothing that he cah|amount of energy you can expend.| | possibly do will make his body pro-/xfake every calory count. The sup duce during adult life more energy! iy of life in your body is an ex {than the 362,900 calories; and noth-/naustible bapk account. Do not ling can possibly prevent his death| squander it | when this amount of energy is pro-| se te S | duced.” Let's go buy Boldt’s French Pas-| Uptown, 1414 3d Ave; down-! 913 2d Ave, ‘ Good until Aug, 14 If it's new in Jew- elry, we have it We pay cash for Diamonds and Liberty Bonds, JEWELRY CO. 4 ES Bob Bridges Retires Robert Bridges, president of the port of Seattle, has/ tendered his resignation, and it will undoubtedly be ac- cepted. Bridges rendered the community valuable service,| jut, as the blacksmith remarked, “T obey the law | particularly in the early struggles of the port. A man of |as a rule, but now and then I forge a piece of iron.” | ‘ corgi oe a Signi Be ce qualities, he is the| +. ae ag ind that naturally makes steadfast friends and everlasting | 7 ’ enemies. | A WORD FROM JOSH 4 The Va is, by ig time, on a safe road. Its success WISE assured. Enemies of municipal ownership can no longer | ‘any a skinny r * hamper its work. It becomes now merely a problem of de- @ oe, tg Sao ag tail to handle the business of the port. | r i. : Bob Bridges now finds himself at loggerheads-with the! band. other commissioners. This is regrettable, but not surpris-| abeliteg | ing. Bridges was also in more or less controversy with the} eis ae ove bhi Maboez Sch nae commissioners of past boards. | paisn, where Mr. Wooten has a position i the ariel | be ica |force of that city. Mr. Wooten has had experience in |police duty in the Bast, and his size and make-up should strike terror to the heart of an evil doer, on |whore trail be might be camping—Tuscola (TIl.) | | Review, | LUCIO'S »me men die before all their en-| try. ergy-fuel is completely converted tor "A MAN FIRST OF ALL | "THE WORLD'S DEMAND BY THE REV, CHARLES’ STELZLE Lieutenant Commander A. C, Read was selected by the navy department to fly across the ocean succeeded—the first man trip. Yesterday I met him and chatted with him. His tather a Baptist minister. His clean-cut face and clearcut language marks him as a man of nerve. | And, by the way, he is the type of man who has done things in the war and who is working out our | perplexing reconstruction’ problems. | Blusterers and buffoons can't get away with it these entitled | 4 , days. ‘The times are too serious and demand too| batbemAie Diet for (All Ages much of our leaders. at Home or Office For the man who has a broad outlook upon life The Gates of Hell ge" a . ‘ and who can see and feel the needs of the people, In the evening he will fg) Avoid Imitations and Substitates there never was a better chance. hy H What te Rtipon REAL PAINLESS DENTISTS But for cheap, sneering, profane men well, they'll) What Is Religion In order to introduce our new (whalebone) plate, which is the lightest have a hard time to prove their sincerity of purpose and ;and strongest plate known, covers very little of the roof of the mouth; and their ability to measure up to the requirements Read reaped the fruit of many martyrs’ efforts in} What Is Its Depth you can bite corn off the cob; guaran- be eo } teed 15 years, | the aviation field. They had all done their share in| | preparing the way for this daring flight. Read had EXAMINATION FREE $15.00 Set of Teeth.... 10,00 many qualities and achievements to his credit, but he| was selected chiefly because he was a real man. $10.00 Set Whalebone Teeth. ...88.00 $8,00 Crowns ...... 84.00 it; | | ® r Pao * S ash for Horlicks The ORIGINAL Malted Milk aaah | and he| to successfully make the! Rev. M. A. Matthews will preach a sermon Sunday morning Safe Milk For Infants & Invalids No Cooking (HEARTS SOF ‘ THREE, The senate is now perturbed because the packers are adding propaganda to their various other produ Still, that’s one thing they certainly can’t monopolize. a Pah nti Fa Asay eee if re i s,| But, as the hair dresser remarked, “My expenses Only a Spartan soul’has the will power to invest his ie Nhat tok: ONE ane wittine ee™ summer vacation money in buying Christmas presents ree ap ‘mow. | WE COULD FIND IT WITHOUT HELP | Fred Imhoff 1s running the pool room across the |street from the street first since before the war.— |Cherokee (Kan.) Sentinel Whatever else the world demands of him who is selected for th place of honor, it always insists that he shall be a man. Capt. Isaac will lead the Song Service, be- ginning at 7:40 p. m. You are cordially invited. _Looking backward it now appears that the high cost of living of three years ago wasn’t a high cost of living. ‘TEETH PLATES, THE OLD GARDENER SAYS: ' There isn't much use in trying to keep a strawberry | bed for more than two years. Tt {s sure to become @ tangle of grass and weeds. Your best plan is to start a new bed every season, Then you will have a . a bed always in bearing, ‘The old bed may be plowed| First Presbyterian Teast of Time, Most of our present patronage or spaded up now and the ground used for some late| ’ a oie earl! Giying food satisfaction, Ask our crop, such as cabbage or cauliflower, If you have| Church ‘th “this ed with aE Lo OUF oftice, be sure | Bring this ad with you. neglected to start a new bed you can set out potted| : Open, Frem strawberry plants at any time from now until the} Seventh and Spring neovingec SA ee Ee con | etamrbnney paes Me Yar. ine, foe now pil the) OHIO CUT-RATE DENTISTS | year as though you had set out plants in the spring. 207 UNIVERSITY sT, Opposite Fraser-ratersen Co. | What has become of the old-fashioned used to say: “What'll you have?” “Some of the same.” “Soft drinks don’t go.” “Make it a thimble.” . eee men who Henry Ford ought to take those smart Aleck lawyers out in his machine shop and ask’em a few questions! . Garden hoeing tan is less expensive than the beach brand, altho the same sun does the painting. “Bares Feat of Pretty Girl Spy,” says a headline. It was bold of the secret service man, to say the least. es All work guaranteed for 15 years. forning and et, tee same Ay, Examin: Call and See We Stand the recommended, by our | Perhaps you failed to notice it, but it was Judge | Hand who, as the lawyers express. it, handed down | the decision by which Reds in New York {deported, Kicked out by Hand, so to speak,