The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 29, 1919, Page 6

Governor Hart Makes Good ics But N ot Gov. Louis F. Hart will not recall the appointment of Senator Kuykendall as a member of ‘the public service commission. Naturally. Governor Hart is an organization man—a party organization man. i As between the party organization and the veterans of the world war, there is but one choice for Gover- | ‘nor Hart. He has to make good to the organization. And he has made good to it, however painful the ap- ' pointment must be to the veterans. “I have watched the services of Senator Kuykendall thru two sessions of the legislature,” said Governor, ' Hart in justification of the appointment, and the governor’s watchful eyes, we are led to believe, perceived statesmanlike qualities in the senator. A statesman Kuykendall may be—but when they needed it most, came up, Senator Kuykendall opposed 2 g Seattle wanted the measure was because the merchants of this city would profit by it. i would be given the proposed bonuses, Statesman Kuykendall said, would come to Seattle to spend it. There- fore, he was against the Lamping bill. when the Lamping bill, to give relief to the veterans at a time it with brilliant argument that the reason The soldiers, who Kuykendall hails from Pomeroy. But let us not blame Pomeroy because Kuykendall is a “small town” ‘man. Pomeroy has produced big men—truly big men, notably former Governor Samuel Cosgrove. The Star has all the respect in the world for Pomeroy—and it cannot help feeling that' Senator Kuykendall would be a small-town man if he lived in the largest city in the world. That he is not big enough for an office such as the public service commission is plain. The veterans. ‘could have swallowed the appointment of an anti-Lamping man who, at least, would have shown big calibre. | al Down and Out Kings * The cables tell us former King Constantine of Greece ‘is broke and is trying to patch up some sort of a deal with Venizelos by which he may get some sort of an allowance. ‘Since he departed from Athens Constantine has been “grub- staked” by former Kaiser Wilhelm, but the once kaiser ‘Seems to be a bit shy of money. Former King Nicholas of Montenegro is pottering about making a “touch” wherever he finds a charitable and iffluent gentleman with sympathy for royalty in distress. ‘icholas deserves sympathy. He is the most aggravatingly bowlegged person who ever wore a crown. When he en- ors to walk north or south his legs act as if they wish take him east or west. ‘ Ex-Kaiser Carl of Austria-Hungary not only is “busted” financially but matrimonially. He is in Switzexland send- ing out “S. O. S.” calls to persons with money who for- nerly kowtowed to him, but now do not seem to hold him ther in reverence or esteem. King Peter of Serbia, broken in health and wretchedly or, is in a sad state. He is in a Greek village by the ea almost bedridden and with few creature comforts. His is acting as regent. Peter still remains a king in name, his country is a wreck. These certainly are parlous days for monarchs. Even im Hohenzollern, who was to have ruled the wor upon whose temper the fates of nations depended, i ne too strong financially. He was the richest man in a few years ago, had 33 castles, and a personal of millions a year. Now he is endeavoring to make ‘deal with the German republic by which he may get sort of an allowance for himself and his tribe. : Dukes have gone into the discard. Princes are in ty. . The world, so far as those who were fortune es by “divine right,” is topsy turvy and seems to remain so. - Phis is a distressful state of affairs, especially for the number of persons who worshipped at the feet of « ts. * Ht bad as conditions are for the once mighty, they iorse for the literary persons who wrote novels about Ities and near royalties. The world is bankrupt so ‘as they are concerned. Are we to have no more novels itten about the lords of creation? Are we to have no _of literary persons who followed on the lines of Walter Scott, Thackeray, Ouida, Marion irop re ay ess, d and the like who pointed a moral or adorned a) ith royal or lordly precept or person? wT. Tike As if this war not only has bankrupted the ld for royalty, but for the writers of royalty rubbish, Any mote citizen of 35 years may now be president any, but any man of that age ought to know | "Their Land and Your Living You know what “cut over” land is—from which the marketable timber has been removed, and which is now growing up in brush, dedicated to stumps, and annualiy ravaged by forest fires. Most of these cut-over land could be reclaimed for civilization, and would make fi food-producing farms. Indeed, Secretary of the Interior ‘Lane had these millions of cut-over acres in mind when he asked congress to pass a faims-for-soldiers bill. At one time the owner couldn’t give cut-over land away. By the millions of acres they were sold for taxes, as the timber cutters moved northward, southward, west- ward in an ever-widening chain. And then, the price of foodstuffs began soaring, and land prices went up. Good farming land went to $200 the acre, and our farmers be- gan going to Canada in search for cheap land. While farm acres were soaring in price, a few in- dividuals were acquiring possession of cut-over lands. The practice of leaving them to the tax collecting sheriff was ‘abandoned and the holders held on for dear life. Today 80,000,000 cut-over acres are held by 1,800 individuals. Not an ounce of food is raised on all the acres. Nothing is being done to improve them, not a road, not a drainage ditch, not a stump removed. There could be carved out of these idle cut-over lands} 160-acre farms for 500,000 farmers, That would increase ¥ue food-producing acreage and by increasing the produc- tion of food, decrease the price. Lower land prices, and thus it is possible to bring about a further decrease in food prices. 4 This holding of cut-over acreage for land price boost- ing is not confined to any section of the country, In the Northwest three holders control 9,000,000 acres. In Michi- ‘an 32 own 6,000,000 acres. In Florida 180 holders have 000,000 acres. Wherever the timber cutter has hewed his way there is the idle cut-over land, the land hog and the waiting for unearned land profit and in the wake of all that is less food and high cost of living for the eaters of food. Congress could make itself more useful if it would quit trying to find out why the war departnent spent so much, and find out why the consumer must spend 80 much. The reason it irritates a man to be mistaken for somebody else is because he thinks he is more import- ant than the somebody el-- s of the hostess, and guests should know it. ‘Kuykendall’s petty argument against the Lamping bill makes Governor Hart’s appointment not only disap- ' pointing to the veterans, but has the appearance of “rubbing it in” as well. ~~ America’s Corn-Fed Philosopher BY DR. FRANK CRANE | (Copyright, 1919, by Frank Crane) »— a I am a disciple of Old Ed Howe. That does not mean I believe all he says. Nobody but a fool believes everything anybody says. | | We don’t read what men write in order |to get information, but in order to be stimulated to get our own information. | A writer I always agreed with would bore me to death. But Ed Howe represents a Point of View. 'He speaks for the Common Man in the 'U. S. A. better than any writer I know. His plain, quaint, hard-fisted, utterly wi enthusiastic philosophy is as refreshing ia dinner of ham and cabbage at Moore's | after you've been living at the Ritz. | I would like for you to-read the follow- jing sentences which | cull from a recent issue of his Monthly. There is nothing like | |them in literature. They will amuse you— jand make you angry } “In a few me says a big town writer, ‘the city saloc ill close, and alco- |holism will sink to what it is in the country j—a furtive sucking of jugs behind doors.’ This furtive sucking of jugs behind doors in the country is a notion originating in cities; I have lived in the country all my life and know nothing about it. The lure of whisky is grossly overstated everywhere. Getting rid of whisky is about, the best | thing ever accomplished; the jokesmiths should cease exploiting the idea that people jeare for it and cannot get along without |their dram. “There recently appeared in a newspaper | a letter from a visitor in Los Angeles. He ‘said: ‘It is difficult for tourists to under- ‘stand the California prejudice against the | |Japanese. They are industrious and well behaved, and seem to be responsible for the cheapest foodstuffs to be had here—vege- jtables and fish. The Japanese do most of | the gardening; they can raise more on an three acres.’ That is the trouble with the |behaved that they are an insult to us. “I dislike certain men, Am I unfair with them? Probably; I doubt if there ever was a man who could be fair with a man he |disagrees with. So watch me when I write ‘of those I dislike; take off something for prejudice, meanness and ignorance, “When a woman has a guest at her house she wjll put a fine display of towels in his |them. Everyday towels are for use; com- |pany towels are to display the artistic bent | “You may usually make a good guess about everything; the probable is nearly always true. , “No man who is always amount to a great deal. excited | “A crazy man never raves about the im- |portance of modesty, quietness, politeness, fairness, and common sense. “A great wrong is sometimes nothing ;more serious than a man clamoring for something he is not entitled to. “T suppose no one has looked more indus- triously, or in more places, for a Good Time jthan I have. Results have been so meagre that I have concluded that a Good Time is more or less of a phantom. | “Any one can make a success of modesty ; jonly a few succeed with impudence. “What great offenders beautiful phrases jare! And what a great number of speakers and writers are uttering them! Beautiful | Phrases have caused us so much expense and “inconvenience that I believe a time is jcoming when people will object to them as | much as gentlemen now object to dirty | phrases.” Vacation BY EDMUND VANCkK COOKE When your year has been bounded and bothered By the count and the discount of goods, O, to find yourself mothered and fathered By the balm and the calm of the woods! After concrete and brick have assailed you Where the stones of the streets never vary, What relief to find life has unjatied you For a look at the limitless prairie! When, your back, or your By the ti nd the tray O, to find raelf bro’ brain, has been» blistered jacre of ground than Americans can raise on |Japanese—they are so industrious and well | jroom; but she will talk about him if he uses | can | Brutal always bellows into the phone like a foghorn | hangs up in the middle of a conversation f By the infinite soul of the (Copyright, 1919, x Tomorrow § 167%, on July 30, the Island of Manhattan meat | Ticats retaken by the Dutch during the war between England and the Netherlands, The despotic English government, under the Duke of York, had became so unpopular with the colonists that when a smal! Dutch squadron, under command of Evertsen of Zealand, approached New York the bity submitted gladly to the Hollanders and both Manhattan and New Jersey were taken without resistance. New York became once more for a brief period a province of the Netherlands and under the Dutch enjc greater freedom of government. The Mohawk ch allies and adherents of the Hollanders, cam: congratulate them on their recovery of the On July 30, in 1689, Londonderry, which under siege for four months by the troops IL, wa relieved On July 30, in 1619, 22 nad been | of James burgesses elected from the settlement of Virginia, ‘met at Jamestown and drew up a code of laws for the colony of Virginia, This meeting constituted the first colonial legislative as: | sembly in America. In 1718, on July 30, William Penn, the Quaker founder of Pennsylvania, died at the age of 74 Penn received the charter for the territory from Charles I1.| in 1680, He was granted almost sovereign powers of government. Immediately upon taking office pledged to the people freedom to form their own| laws and protection and security against oppression During his long governorship, his pledges were amply sustained. He organized a free society of traders and under his wise and beneficent control the prosperity of the colony grew rapidly. Penn's treaties with the) Indians secured his settlement from the invasion that so retarded the development of the other colon.es and| enormously facilitated the increase of its population | BY O. B. JOYFUL | Kansas City citizen goes up in air because air} gondolas trespass on his vacant air lot. Argues that | ozone boats have! right —skid-| ding above his! chimney, Claims} that the air over! his wigwam is his property far up as it! goes, and ail! wind + wagons should eavort up the aerial street or alley on the side of his prem iser, Maybe in moons to come land owners willl have the air aBove their property fenced off in chicken wire. Another chance for landlords. Might set up aerial tol! gates or lease their air lots and raise the rent every couple of months for some shortweight reason like the high cost of soot, or the wear and tear of their fresh air property by the wing carts. Looks like they'U have to file down the sharp points on the stars for airplane passage in the future eee no A WORD FROM JOSH WISE Tears is a woman’s best weepin’. How very helpful it would ig if only our telep directories gaye this valuable information regarding subscribers for the aid of all busy telephoners AWGOWAN, JAMES A. Smiles 123. Always an swers the phone by saying, “This is the police sta: tion,” and then gives you the merry ha-ha when you! hang up ge BRUTAL, OMI HOWE, Gloom 42. Seems to think everyone who phones him intends to rob his home, murder him and throw his body in the river, Mr, $8, MRS, CISSIE, Callagain 9954. Always cing you to call again. If you ask her for the phone number of a friend she is certain to give you the wrong num: ber DENSE, DELIRIOUS LEK, Vacant 1. Never gets thru his head just what it is you are saying, After you have spent nearly all your patience and a halt hour trying to make him undtrstand he gets someone elwe to the phone to take your message, this second party invariably being thicker than Mr. Dense him self. SILLY, CLARISSA, Giggles 8845. Seems to think it is the biggest Joke in the World to get a phone mes sage, Judging by her unceasing giggle barrage while you are phoning. VERBOSE, MRS, VIOLET, Execruciating 8006. Will talk an arm off of you if you give her half a chance Has betn known to hang to the phone for an entire afternoon, i ZEALOUS, O. TOO, Anxious 404 Repeats every word of the conversation for fear you didn’t wet it the first time. Frequently ecalis you up again after the conversation to find out if there was any mistake or anything. One of the phone's worst pests. eee “Things 1 Would Not Have,” according to J. Wr A wife who called me by my initials, An acquaintance who still sings “A Perfect Day.” An uncleanable self-cleaning pipe, A daughter who plays the ukulele, A son who wears a ring on his forefinger. ary But, as the stenographer remarked, ° believe democracy, but I let the boss be a dictator.” FEATUR |We Suppose This Is the Way an Outdoor Dancer Does Shoppii to the Veterans he \*— TH r ‘es , | On the Issue of ws = Americanism There Ca Be No Compromise -By McKee. _ MORNING, MSS TERPSY KORE — YES, BUTTER'S GONE UP —\ AGAIN -—— N SEVENTY CENTS A POUND. NO, I CAN'T HELP IT — WIARDLY ANY PROFIT EVEN AT THAT ~~ 1 PRICE > EGGS 1S THE SAME BUT WE DON'T GUARANTEE ‘em~ Yourty TAKE A DOZEN “AS 19°? NO, I'M SORRY BUT WE'RE ALL OUT OF SPAGHETTI. WAS THERE ANYTHING | HERE'S YOUR CHANGE | MATAM, CAREFUL WITH THEM plead 8 YOU'LL FIND tT MORE CONVENIENT; mt ae YOUR ———__ ORDERS AFTER’ THis D»| Goon- par! 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