The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 31, 1919, Page 6

She Seattle Star By, mait, gut of city, Bc per month; 3 months, 1.50 Months, $2.75; year, $5.00, in. the tate of Washington | Guiside, the tate, ‘Se per month, $4.50 for & months, or $9.00 Per year, By carrier, city, 12c per week, | Why Not U. of W. Educators? _ Not U. of W. | Why Not U. of W. Educators? _ __ The new head of the public school pri- ‘mary department in Seattle hails from Min-| nesota. ; The appointment is undoubtedly a most. meritorious one, and the appointee is un- doubtedly well qualified for the position. _ Still, without the least unfriendliness to ‘the appointee, may we not be pardoned if ask why the school superintendent must ff ys go East to find teachers and prin pals and heads of departments? Surely, there are a great many gradu- of the University of Washington who |~ fully. qualified for the posts of high |2 teachers and even principals. Yet, after year, we find them shut out of ttle schools. Many of them pay taxes too. Merit should count. Yet, when all things equal, the University of Washington duate ought to get the preference on the staffs of this state. council’s lic safety, committee favors pur- ae | army ao by municipality, and now it’s up to the nce committee. It’s a darn lucky thing bacon - oad t spoil quickly. d five hundred dollars for a piano, the sole will be to annoy the neighbors for three e of wi ar years while Susie is growing up; after which time will serve, once in a fortnight, for father to tap out ” with the index finger of each hand. we have taken our advantages so carelessly, ‘ us uneducated. broad the arts mean something, and only those have i sical instruments who can master them. _ a wonderful instrument, and a lifetime is trained, eager student to master it. poe of sixteen, after six months’ casual baby grand to ride, make it canter, and coieans ave it the third degree, and make it mercy, a without apparent effort; or an under- of the awfulness of her crimes. @ few years ago, w@ turned out “artists” by the “Painters” of china ....d of wood; masters of art, mt Gibson heads with a hot poker on an Imitation ‘racquet, and gave it to their beloved for a birthday nt thought of what was beautiful, or of what or of the real essence of art, we shunted our of pseudo artistic junk; and forever ruined them ‘appreciation of the fine things of life, by making tawdry and common. the gods of the material somewhat. dethroned upheaval of the war, maybe we can take a on — art ocean, and sail a few ships somewhere Breed we heen cay Daten the guage ’s on @ need teachers that are aetna va inne ee than crafts- d een eat are earnest and eager, rather than ¥ ae Uncle Sammy is going to sell $120,000,000 of army to the public by parcel post. But don’t rejoice too Remember! Burleson’s still postmaster. An Expensive Proposition Cats are an expensive proposition. It’s not because they eat so much food, or because carry germs which start disease and entail the em- alpen of a doctor at a fancy salary, or because a high- F cat costs a young fortune to buy in the first place, Or anything like that. - No; it’s for an entirely different reason than any of the foregoing that cats’ are expensive. a It’s not because they eat pet canaries which have cost a pretty penny themselves; it’s not because they fly around thru’ gardens upsetting plants which have been to bloom at enormous expense of time, attention and thought; it’s not because they get into fights with a. dogs and claw out extensive hunks of dog hair, ‘ necessary the employment by the neighbors at your expense of a veterinary surgeon to rehabilitate the hound, or anything like that. It’s for none of these reasons that cats are expensive, but for an entirely different reason. Cats are not expensive because they sharpen their claws on valuable lace curtains, or because they lap up the cream that was designed for use on the breakfast table or Oiing like that. Cats are so dawgone expensive because—and pretty nearly every one will agree on this—because you use up so everlastingly many shaving mugs and tubes of tooth paste and pairs of old shoes throwing at ’em at night to keep them from their eternal, sleep-destroying chorus practice m the back fence! The safe and sane element in each community is made up of those who follow the fashions and pretend to enjoy Milton, Dante and Browning. One thing is certain, you can’t beat the coal trust by not buying your coal now. Old Man Winter is ag’in you. Possibly if we cultivated and otherwise nursed weeds as we do flowers, they'd be just as hard to grow. The reason supper costs more than breakfast is be- cause prices have had that much time in which to climb. 4 Seems as how since July 1 fewer husbands are so tickled because their wives have gone to the country. | The school board will do well to con- i} 1 | the only nation in the world where the average | le All Depends on How You Were Brought Up. a = WHO DROPPED THAT SCRAP oF PAPER ON MY DESK, EH? DON'T you KNow PRIDE wiTH ME TO KEEP MY DESK CLEAR? *S THE i iS Lee aC SIGN OF ae A COMPARISON peTWween \f Gvess | ™ WAY. COCK ROACH PHALANK ADVANCING —AND AS A HOUSEKEEPER. DURING HIS WIFE'S ABSENCE BY THE VILLAGE PERSECUTOR The party who took the scraper from the corner of Sixth st. and Western ave, is known, and if scraper is not returned promptly perrecution will follow. An- drew Roegner—Watertown (Wis.) Times. eee We lamp on a sport page that in the Philippines cock fighting is no longer the national sport. Instead ot watching chickens fight the natives watch men beat each other up. for self-government. The Filipinos are about ready You can read a@ lot these days about this country's air service being poor. Put, oh, it’s hot air service! ee You hear a lot of taik about not mixing in “Buro- pean affairs,” but our hunch is that the republican congress will vote in favor of this country taking charge of things at Constantinople. It will make some good jobs for the, faithful. e A Holyoke, Mass. preacher has succeeded in stop ping Sunday golf on the links near that city. Pretty soon they'll put an end ‘to eating raisin bread in that state. eee Stopping the high cost of living by raising wages is @ good deal like running in the sunshine and trying to get away from yee adore. But, as the brakeman remarked, “I may be no ball Player, but I've made many a running catch.” A Seattle shoe dealer says we'll ail be wearing wooden shoes pretty soon. Hurray! They'll beat the paper ones we're wearing. eee New York hotel and restaurant owners say there Is no profit in a dry cabaret, that folk no longer patron- ize them. This confirms our oft expressed belief that men would not patronize a cabaret unless they could take something to dull Pager vain. . | THIS SEEMS TO BE a PERFECT EXPLANATION | OF WHEN AN AUTO IS USEFUL Charles Renner has made the purchase of a new car which he is using for riding when he and his wife go anywhere. The car was purchased thru the agency of the Pollock Auto Company of this place. Mr. Renner is getting pretty well used to running the car now, and this makes it doubly useful for him, and after Mrs. Renner has become proficient in the matter of handling it the car will become more useful. —Plattsmouth (Neb.) Journal. eee A bill has ‘been introduced in congress to prevent the president of the United States from leaving the country. That bill never could have beém passed when Bill Taft was president. eee Mary had A little lamb. Its fleece was White as snow But Mary had No great love For the lamb Even if its fleece Was white. For Mary had read In the papers That hogs were $23 a hundred. “Believe me,” said she, ‘To the pretty little lamb, “I wish you Were a pig.” A wise girl Was Mary. eee Professor Todd of Amherst, who had expected to send a wireless to Mars last Sunday, announces he postponed sending the message. That shows how honest the man is. Would any of us have known the difference if he bad said he sent it? eee YE EDITOR PINS A MEDAL UPON HIS CHEST The Candle Editor does not believe in bragging— when he's sober. However, the arrival of an eight and one-half pound baby boy at his home last Sun- day is an awful temptation, We are perfectly willing to give the Mrs. full credit for her share in the epoch. making event, and we congratulate the doctor and nurse for their good luck in officiating upon such a momentous occasion. Some people give considerable credit in such cases to a wise old bird, called a stork, but by Gosh, we don’t. We're’ some bird ourself, we'll say we are.—Credie (Col.) Candle. eee A Boston grand jury has indicted Armour & Co., Ho, hum! eee { “We are about to begin a 40 years’ march thru the desert,” says Germany's foreign minister. What! Prohibition there, too? ExEcuTIvEe MR. wHOOZIS AS A BUSINESS MAN— HO, HUM! WELL, THERE DOESN'T ,SEEM .TO BE ANYTHING MORE FOR ME TO PO AROUND HERE, I mcr AS WELL MIT Beart or, KMITTy —By McKee! 'T'S A MATTER OF A COMPETENT (Tomorrow 1560, on August 1, t1¢ Scottish parliament, which overturned the church of Rome in Scotland, as sembled. A state church was established under a new ecclesiastica) system founded on a Calvinistic and Presbyterian model, On Aug. 1, in 1589PHenri IIT. of France was assay sinated. Under his reign the country had been devas- tated by civil and religious wars which he was too weak to control. With his death the reign of the House of Valois came to an end. In 1790, on August 1, the first national census of the population of the United States was begun. On August 1, in 1798, the “Battle of the Nile” at Aboukir Bay, was fought between the English fleet under Nelson and the French under Admiral Brueys, The French were defeated with heavy losses and the French admiral was mortally wounded and perished in the burning of his flag ship L/Orient. Felicia Hemans, the English poet, commemorated the event in the poem: “The boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but him had fled.” Casablanca, the boy who perished at his post, was a young Corsican, the son of a commodore in the French fleet. He and his father went down on the admiral's flag ship. In 1834, on August 1, slavery was abolished in the British colonies and a temporary apprenticeship intro- duced. In 1893, on August 1, the first cable car in the world was put into operation at San Francisco, The inventor of the cable system was Andrew Hallidie. The cable cars were introduced into Chicago eight years after their appearance on the Pacific Coast and in 1883 were adopted in New York ard Philadelphia and afterward in London. Amnesty Now that war's blood is cooled and men May smile Now that the war-choked world Has onward whirled Out of the acrid path Of mad, mean wrath, Surely the time has come, Mercy, no longer dumb, Shall speak and dungeon bars Swing outward to the morning stars. Within the pestilential prison-grime Are men, whose only crime Was that they heid the view Of Him—the gentle Jew Who still is glorified, The while His teaching is denied, And these folk are our own, Our home-bred blood and bone. The Captains of the Huns, The Assassins of the guns, The Hohenzollern sons Are still untouched of chains, But our own souls and brains Are racked with prison pains. Aye, even we pollute their breath With foul disease and death. Deserved, or undeserved, The god of Mars is served. What boots it now to gloat And hold men by the throat, Choking their utterance when we Cry that the world is free! Surely, it is the hour! And Mercy, wed with Power, Shall wrench the prison bars And win approval of the eternal stars, EDMUND VANCE COOKE. 1919, N. B. (Copyright, A) eT — i r OUT OF MOUTHS OF BABES | Wh ee Small Havel—Papa, have you paid the doctor for the new baby, yet? Papa—No, dear; why do you ask? Small Hazel—'Cause if he charges full wouldn't pay it. door. price I It ain't near as big as the one next ee Four-year-old "Martha could remember that her birthday was on the 22d, but had difficulty in remem bering that the month was March, Thinking to im: press it on her, her mother said: “March, march, \livelier than jthan_ rabbits. |League of Nations. The only Big Things in this world, that, shoulder-blade, jcoming miles to see, are Thoughts. \like Katisha’s For Ideas are taller than wider than seas, deeper than fleas. John Leitch jan Idea, Of course, he never discovered it. {great Ideas are in the air, so to speak. Their real mother is the Zeitgeist. But some man comes along, grabs the |Idea, brands it, harnesses it and everybody how to drive it. we pay tribute. Such a man is John Leitch. He has written a book that tells all about It is called “Man to Man,” and jis an exposition of Industrial Democracy. Like every brilliant conception, it is sim- ply the application of common sense to a problem that has been all messed up by |passion, prejudice and crazy theory. It is this: If your Capital and Labor will arom, their fool Class talk, they’re both milking the same cow, get |together, quit fighting and talk things over, {they will have no more quarrel, ts, not his Idea. Leitch’s book gives f: INDUSTRIAL DEMOCRACY Nothing causes more unmixed joy than to run across a man with an Idea. It makes little difference whether it is jan Idea for mending clocks or forming a | Also better breeders Also more nourishing than |bread and more stimulating than booze. is one of these men with | On the Issue of y Americanism There Can i || Be No Compromise We BY DR. FRANK CRANE (Copyright, 1919, by Frank Crane) he originated 10 years ago, and called “In- dustrial Democracy,” and what happened. They didn’t Kosh heat the government nor liberate the masses. They did a lot better, The ‘ot alon B. ¢ Forbetr: who knows what’s what in business, is strongly in favor of the Idea, He says: “Briefly, Industrial Democracy is based © on our national ati oe government. er is set up in eac large 01 President, a Cabinet, a Senate and a House of ioiggnpetomegh cs The ere. themeelv consist wholly o! e workers them and are elected, by secret ballot, by tl co-workers. Before any — hours, wages, piece-work rates, h production, or, in short, anything ever affecting the workers, can be adopted, it must first come before the workers receive their approval. ; President Wilson indorses the theory. He © declares, that our Industrial World has — gone as far as it can on the old road, “It has turned out a blind alley. It is no thorofare to real prosperity. We find another, leading in another direction, to | general co-operation and based upon a real community of interest.’ 4 Leitch’s books show why the present an- are worth sky-scrapers, oil wells and All shows And to him realize that ‘isms. He [tae how 40 corporations took up a plan SUCH WP SICH ee A MODERN FAIRY STORY Once upon a time a young mar- ried woman inserted the following want ad in a daily newspaper: “Wanted—A cook. Must be able to get three meals a day for family of three, do all the washing and cleaning, take care of the baby while mistress fg attending bridge parties and be prepared to cook and clean for a family of seven or eight when wife's relations come for v4sits of three or four months. Cook will have one hour off each week, every Thursday afternoon, from 3 to 4 o'clock, provided mistress hasn't something for her to do. Salary, $1.75 per week, all broken china- ware to be taken out of wages. Ap- ply, Mrs. O. Howe Hopeful, 23 Hard- job st” Ninety-seven excellent cooks, with superior references, applied for this position and from this number Mrs. Hopeful chose the best, a big Swede who was a bear for work, who was as gentle as a child with children, who adored washing, ironing and housecleaning, and who could do things with food that would make a French chef take rat poison out of sheer jealousy. However, after being on the job 10 days, the cokk made a demand on her mistress, She clairned the work was too little, and she wanted her wages reduced to 60 cents a week. Mrs. Hopeful, on the other hand, volun- tarily increased the cook’s wages to $16 a week and gave her two days march! What do the soldiers do?" A few days later on being asked when her birthday was Martha looked appéalingly at her mother and then said in a triumphant voice, “Shoot, 22.” J See How We Make These Famous Snow Flakes Visit our big modern bakeries where are made every day wonderful mixing machines we ‘ve seen them baked you'll Mae why they're #0. good, ‘our grocer can supply you, Don’t ask for Crackers Pacific Coast off. The affair ended in a big row and the cook, rather than make trou- ble in the family, quit Now now, Gentle Reader, don't | get excited and try to locate this cook, Just remember that hie nip a thoroly modern and up-to-the-mii ute FAIRY STORY. tagonism between Capital and Labor must be removed. He emphasizes the fact that human hearts are just the same a a worker’s shirt or behind a boiled white front; that the day laborer has human and sorrows, ambitions and pwr just the same as the millionaire. SOLDIERS OBJECT TO CELEBRATION MO LONDON, July 3. that the money to be spent be put to a better purpose fit vice men have notfled council that they refuse to in any of the proposed peace tions. The action of the We realize the tremendous times |in which we are living, when we compare the present with the past. In the year 1819, one century ago, | unanimously indorsed at @ the only important happenings in| at which plans for the August q the United States were the follow- | onstrations were before them for eqm ing: sideration. ‘ “Listen 1” says the Good “And remember it, too.”” The better the quality of your chew, the more you'll enjoy it. You'll get more out of your to- bacco money, too—you’ll save part of it for something else. A small chew of this quality tobacco tastes good — and it lasts and lasts. THE REAL TOBACCO CHEW put up in two styles ; RIGHT CUT is a short-cut tobacco W-B CUT isa long fine-cut millions of Saow Flakes See the ps cha and pn Be! Note the ge brick ovens. 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