The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 5, 1919, Page 6

PAGE 6 THE SEATTLI } STAR—TUESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1919. The Seattle Star | 3 me , fr month Oe per month ie 6 months, 9 yea f Washington, Out per month, $4.50 for € m: ry By carrier, city ad | FDITORIALS — FEATURES On the Issue of Americanism Zhere Can| Be No Compromise | In the Editor’s Mail Assessor Frank Hull proposes to strike at the rent-hogs in And so the matter goes on indefinitely. The owner does not Gio 860 Mba. Sanirn waak,. 4 barre he pr a but there to my t ‘ nd leave poles wi C one a2. dean 10) } Seattle by fixing their assessments at the higher valuations which get any more rent out of his property than in the original transac- taken great interest in reading The « : he 1 as I not ime pos they tl 5 Ives fix by their rents. tion, yet the tenant keeps paying a more and more exorbitant rental. oe Star : not r rrectly ort je to wets t on ms . : emselves » a ents, ha wa und r edl-|he has too h to I muy at ne ney themseive : . If Assessor Hull should step in and make the owner pay taxes torts . ave fh rable ex < oe Unfortunately, the full force of Assessor Hull’s campaign will proportionately to the amount of rental the property is yielding to the point, ut f rth ! t care I nincerely hope yo wil ome pons . ‘Or . « that, to r ming in clone touch with e ot P not be evident this year because he is prevented by law from re- the last lease holder, the owner would kick fearfully. Yet that ne re attes’ Woldere. Gna Ockee then = valuing real estate until next year, might be the only effective club over rent-hogs. It would tend to firet page of star ers-00 rote te Wes eee e ss . . da : viz t igh ‘Time ay , nited utes senator he If he could only assess apartment houses—and others—upon make owners of property careful of the interests of their tenants, This is worthy of being run many « found that some are honest ‘ of 1 ron the basis of the rents they are now charging, it would cost the too. It might help to curb the activities of lease speculators. consecutive days en ur ciewt and - Seer ach,, while many ew words to * nit he nail on | others ore ‘orte s ne owners of the property a pretty penny. And yet these owners are In the meantime we shall keep on paying higher rents, no and = few years ago J got some i not always those who reap the benefits of the high rents. It is the doubt. Assessor Hull's proposal to raise taxes on personal property enn ie lessees. An owner may have leased his property at a fair rent held by the lessees is entirely justified. : The lessee immediately raises the rent so as to make a profit on the But, knowing the nature of the rent-hog, it is quite probable i | omorrow an lease. He may even sell his lease to a third party—and make a that the higher tax will only be shifted on the tenants. ‘ars profit on it. The third party then raises the rent once more so as However, Hull has started something, and more power to him. Greetings: Who put a monkey wrench in. our O* the 6th of August, in 1585, Davis, the navigal to come out ahead. He may get the rent-hog yet. vata erg ae reached the strait which bears his name and esi HTT HHT [_HUtVtCtTtii————————__««_:! 11 PKROUAIIY PAs DEUCES AND SIXES *! hor in Exeter ¥ fe WILD, TOO In 1687, on the 6th of August, Ben Jonson, fi sas * ® Eng poet and dramat t, a at the age “H oO ERE REE | A Man May Be a Perfectly Good Citizen and Still Feel This Way. tunes». toe. presisent of the t hits La: \aualae ecamtentee: on seem aed en ' Trust Co, ts going to be a movie actor in “The : ‘ “ dicial Autocracy By McKee. rest Co. Je guing, 1 bes movis actor ia Tb | on the th of August, in 1766, Seoset AMMEN Bust iets ne % | pretty big roll, believe you us. English scholar, was executed for rani and ay — a P en) WW Saar | in Knaresborough Forest ¢ murdered ) It is easy enough for the people to keep a vigilant eye Ailes Ue a amas . ” (Copyright, 1919, by Deaald-MeKee)| | F pedlvoee ) tryman for his money, The incident @MM ori on two of the three branches of government. They can A~ "43 FOR TO-MORROW You WILL a ri) ] weet \s beg Mey e r oooeigah ae Aram was = von a — . ry q fo ¥ wpect Mr. & th took ” i « great erudition ho see what the executive and legislative branches are doing jg °VEM <j MEMORIZE ARTICLE X OF uM pence bel (blushing erimson)—Ob, Willie, how can you | wrote a poem upon the subject which he called, “hy —for the president and congress are subject at all times | -. SS ,| THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS Be, \ea b Dream of Eugend Aram to pitiless publicity. . COVENANT, AND DE READY Aw —— (| =f AIN'T Willie-—Well, when he was saying good night to you On the 6th of Aug 1777, during the Revolution It is not so easy for the public to keep track of the TO STATE WHETHER You They | AFRAID OF fest Ne cape Bs Boe Mand Mabel, dear, I'm—I'm Herkimer, marching with $00 steady usurpation of power by the judges. Watching the APPROVE OF IT O® Nor, | never | wimt You eee er a gna eye strong, atalila United States supreme court at Washington isn’t enough. AND why sali” Giye us ) watt Tee Vanderllp says Russia ix being flooded with coun: | of Britith regulars and Mohawk Indians at Orisitaap For all over the country big and little judges, federal and} Sg Sap ~ A REST ) we ASTS ME jterfelt money. It's as good as the government's, | One of the bloodiest b of the war ensued, “ia state judges are at work. | fo a ae | wear t eet than a quarter of the number of men engage « First here, and then there, a federal or state judge} ft / BUT LOoRYHERT hate KNOW —I'LL \| | Every now and then Wilson makes @ speech in sottnata a Foe prosgeand gh of the Britis aa | “hunches” a little, puts into the law some meaning con-| a | BS aac ti } SAY “T DON'T)| (MHIch he leads everybody to believe that he is tired | under Bt. Leger, were besieging the fort ' gress or state legislatures never dreamed of, much Jess > ATION! wHOo Fete asad ve “ @ president. But not a tired, it mons ‘Pat | On the 6th of August, in 1778, Sieur Gerard, Frese intended. Appellate courts and state supreme courts affirm EVER HEARD OF ies NG Gyan Ng ne’d be glad to be succeeded by @ republicar | aanbaseedor to ‘the United States, wae introaenl the new encroachment on old liberties. Then these de-| LESSONS IN que 2 Tega tl An fC powr || 2 ed as ae congress. Gerard was the first ambassador of aay tae .. as | ss Pad J “The hair for centuries,” ejaculates Arthur Bris mm to this countey, _ cisions become authorities, and are adopted by other courts ee a Ae |. Bee \ WANA KNOW | 1 pane: “has been = ba dee ct marriage to many cout | "1 121s. on eno"dch oe annie, Baligte Gut - until finally by judicial interpretation old laws are turned a tee \ wornin’! tries.” And so, too, in many cases, has been the | 410 1pit om the Woh ot Abul to the British, inside out and given a new meaning. . | Pi meee a8 Ht page asin | Brock. After Hull was released by the And it is the rule, not the exception, that these We agree with the American admiral who rays, “It | | was oourtennrtialed, by the Americans, fal ‘ i " p! ~~ aed Roan wats she stbtepeaoe eR FT of cowardice and condemned to be shot. changes reduce rather than enlarge the liberties of the was « fine old hen that hatched the American eagle.” | SUutY of cowardice and condemned to be shat “d ‘ ; : see orable discharge from the army and allowed Hull These changes are’ so persistent and progressive Women’s votes, says an Eastern suffragist, cannot | go free. Popular opinion has later exonerated Hall as to the abridgement of free speech, free press and free- be bought. This, no doubt, will cause many old style | for his surrender dom of assembly, as to give ground for suspicion that there), gents to wonder why they want the ballot RRR mammanas | is some system to this gradual limitation of the rights of : shah: ; | Getting “picked up" or a “ift™ downtown in MIM 9 the people. The latest step in this wrong direction was A New York court has upheld a city official who | gondolas by kind hearted autoists is part of the alll 0 x barred reales that are affected by the weather. But program now! pos _ taken in Tennessee. A judge in a state court imposed al sae eatatiaie te kaa eredion saan to haiaen a ae oe program nowy mi _ jail sentence on the editor of the Memphis Press for con-|| ¥ scales that are affected by the gentle pressure of a big: problem & tempt of court for writing and publishing an editorial || jelerk’s hand the hoofer | A A id ; ; A cee le: which did not refer to any pending case, did not mention ; : how to act es et. : > ‘ . re You can say this for Eddie Hubbard's job: It keeps what to say M any court or judge, did not even criticize a decision that iia ts tok: Odes ak Me ee had been rendered, and did not by any stretch of the imag- “re ; pei Mis 3 ination tend to obstruct the administration of justice. } However, serving on the grand jury isn't so health. | with the prope The editorial was a sweeping condemnation of political | | ful. ‘The &. J. doesn't work out in the open, “Lift etiquette ame an r - | Wh methods under boss rule in Memphis, and referred generally |}; } de Caco akg th ‘end etree ‘bath teaches rf — Ps ben _ to the dishonor of courts along with other branches of to use when you want to get rid of a bottle of the wrong ? _ government. | hat cleaner ad rig ot: mumble you se Prey oe) é thanks and some — part of a general criticism of rotten politics read Kpeaking of cafeterias, John D. Rockefeller always thing about etb as OWS : operated on the serve-self p' poor car to ; “It is a shameful thing to see a court dishonored and a man dis graced to serve the ends of political selfseckers. It is a sickening thing to see men profit from vice. grow fat on corruption, thrive on stolen votes @nd flourish on wasted funds—al! for selfish, personal motives. It is a @readful thing to see a man of ideals and principles desert them and re ‘Yeal his traitorous soul to public scorn and contempt. in order that he May serve a master. Yet corrupt politics has caused all these things in Memphis. Surely, the ultimate day of its defeat cannot be far off Now it so happened that a judge had rendered a po- | litical decision, just before this editorial was printed, in | favor of the gang that controls Memphis politics. He was | then a candidate for re-election. He thought the shoe fit him and he put it on. Then he had the editor who wrote the editorial cited for contempt of court. And the editor, who was honestly trying to serve the honest people of | Memphis, is serving a jail sentence. | By suffering this martyrdom for liberty, Editor E. T. Leech of the: Memphis Press may serve a useful public pur- pose in arousing the people of this republic to the danger to our liberties in the steady and persistent development of judicial autocracy. Our democratic fight on autocracy didn’t end with the world war against kaiserism. We have yet to perform @ much-needed house-cleaning at home. ; When an administration leader gets into a tight Fa argument about the peace treaty, he clinches the matter i by asserting that the league's friends have the votes to s it—and there is no argument against that sort of gic. Young lieutenant in the aviation service is brought to Seattle to face bigamy charges. In the face of high rents, the cost of shoes, '’n everything, marrying two wives was flying a bit too high, even for an airman. Firet publication of a great novel in a newspaper is something new in newspaperdom. Jack London's last novel, “Hearts of Three,” beginning in The Star Mon- day, has never appeared before anywhere. If Mooney is innocent, as Densmore intimates in his report, he may yet be free. But those who put him behind bars to discredit organized labor will remain prominent in our best social circles. Notorious “Hardboiled” Smith got 18 months for abusing private soldiers. If a hardboiled private had abused Lieut. Smith, he couldn't have warmed up for his sentence in 18 months. President Wilson, we are informed, now has ample proof of profiteering. Gosh all hemlocks, if he keeps up, he’s liable to know as much as any housewife in Seattle. Senator McKellar says the league is required by “every dictate of commercial and industrial advantage.” Here is idealism in full flower. We believe one part of Gen, Gonzales’ statement that four of the bandits who robbed American sailors have been shot. At least we believe that they have been half shot. Most of the officers who were found guilty of mis- treating doughboys in our prison camps have names that remind us strongly of Kultur. There are many ways to discourage bombing in America, but convicting men who are not guilty isn’t ne of them. WHI CH? BY DR. FRANK CRANE (Copyright, 1919, t y Frank Crane} Let | shall About theories let us not dispute. us consider facts. “By their fruits y know them” is a good saying. We ask not now which is right, Bolshe- vism or Democracy; we ask how the t The alarmist, the complainer, the sore- head, the protester, are as eternal as the jsea. They are ever with us. The howl of |their incurable colic ascends forever, as smoke from the bottomless pit. For all that, the United States is the most prosperous, the happiest, the most efficient jcountry on the globe; so the most gener- ‘ous and benevolent. | People in Russia, and in countries neigh- | ibor to Russia, are starving by millions. And yet Russia has “wheat to burn.” The Con- sumers’ Association of Russia estimates that the country has a wheat surplus of 300,- 000,000 bushels. Russia has been called the granary of Europe. It is but a short day's ride ac ithe Black Sea, but a night’s ride to de {tated neighbor states. | Yet wheat remains and rots in Russia. Not from Ru cross the way, wher the new apostles preach universal brother- hood, but from America, 3,000 miles away, comes help. r Whose wheat to Batum for! |starving To Helsingfors for {the Finns? To Danzig for the Poles? To for the inhabitants of the {Central States? Answer: the ships of this \Capitalistic, Money-Mad, Hypocritical and hopelessly Bourgeois land, the United States of America. American Democracy has honored the Hu- man Race by commandecring the existing commercial and industrial machinery to feed ithe perishing. What | Bolshevism done to help? To what country does every nation in the world turn when in distress, whether from famine in India, ma in Armenia, |pogroms in Poland, atisfaction ,in Tre- | German ports land or Hungary, anything anywhere? | |Where are the millions raised to finance | the Red Cross, the Y. M. C. A., the Sal- | vation Army, and every jganization? Just in th |the stomach-ache — brig: j cursing. other humane or- | U. S. A. that all | are busy | an » | bene | lights of Bolshevism done? Did you ever hear of any such appeal | # being made to Lenine and his followers? This Democracy has fed the world and Stott Writ kept its own population well fed. Bolshevism has destroyed factories, ma-}| chinery, railroads, and ships. | American Democracy has built them. | Bolshevism functions in violence and un- rest. Democracy in Co-operation and law. 3olshevism gives dictatorship, Democracy | freedom. | Bolshevism puts the ignorant and inex-| pert in control of its Business; Democracy | | the efficient. y has produced a Rockefeller, a Carnegie, Marshall Field, and a Schwab.! Grant all that has been charged against them, and the system that made them—at least they gave millions for Education, for Disease Prevention, and otherwise for the it of Mankind. What have the high Democra Democracy and Bolshevism stand as rivals. > At the opening of the Twentieth Century | Which do you choos For most of the items in this article I am, indebted to a pamphlet published by the Institute for Public Service. ns nN OAARPHEN Ve " THE OLD GARDENER SAYS: x” ~ a * fany of the garden flowers can be kept blooming much “ger than usual by being cut back sharply | when the first show of blossoms has passed. ‘This is true even of sweet peas. If they have begun to| turn yellow. cut them back to within two feet of the ground and work some pulverized sheep manure or} bone meal into the soll a few inchés away, This will give the pl a new lease of life and they! soon will be blossoming freely again. Use the same method with your Dachelor Buttons if you want to| have flowers all summer. All too often Sweet Alys-| sum, when used as a looks bad after a short} time, Shear off the tops and soon the plants will] cover themselves again with a sheet of snow white! | bloom | MIGHT HAVE BEEN | Giles was rather a heavy smoker, a thing his good} wife deplored, chiefly on the of health “If you smoke that pipe of yours so much,” she sald the other day, “you'll kill yourself.” m 70 today! Do I look as if smoking had done mo any harm? | “No,” replied his better half, “but if you hadn't smoked you might have been 90 by now." the The United States has one-third of the world’s gold. We | getting downtown. When asked how far you thought Rockefeller alone had that much of it going. spar for time to see how far he is going, The same statistician says we -can make enough | if he isn't going all the way down, wherever he of everything to stock up the rest of the world. The | tell him, “that'll be fine, that’s just where I get only Oy in the molasses is that the rest of the world | can't pay for what they buy A mother having the habit of singing at her work, more that cross indicating the dog, asked seri warbled: “No more, Four-yearold Martha. Is he a crosseyed bear?” no ously Two ships bearing 1325 bales of rabbit skins arrived Just think what a lot of seal skin coats are going to be worn next winter. in New York the other day world is told by a student and it mighty fine” to be offered this rare opportunity Then give your views on the weather for the After a few moments’ silence ask the make of car. If an older model, say you “wouldn't guessed it. It sure has been kept up fine.” remark how quiet and smooth the engine and runs. When nearing the stop, get ready to get k ahead. Be all gratitude, as tho you jump off so he won't have to go to all the of stopping the car. Fumble with the door and step out awkwardly, bumping your hat the top, and again get all bawied up with thanks. I'd bear.” oJ ——--~ -—- —_9 “EXCEPT A MAN BE BORN AC AIN” BY REV, CHARLES STELZLE for The Star “Except & man be borh again, he cannot see the kingdom of God It's a great mystery. Nobody has ever been able t> explain "it But there men in every who have are “twice-born” community—men been recreated, made into the image and likeness of God Men who were once under the influence of drink and depravity of every sort—but now they are and in their right minds. who were once blind sober Men but who 1 Men whose names were once disgraced because of their mis. but who are now honored who always Ww see. deed above many smugly and their fellows Thieves, harlots, rm again.” ts, liars, orn again.” What did it? Going to chureh? has helped them what gave lived supremely above murderers rough necks No—that but it them new grow wasn't life Doing good works? gave them bigger hearts and broader minds, but it wasn’t works that gave them their re. birth, There are any No—that number of peo ple who doing these and good things, but they haven't been “born again,” It was because God came into their lives, How? Nobody You them, what most of them would say “L came to the end of myself. 1 saw how utterly helpless 1 Then I asked God to come take control of my life. He did more than that— gave me a NEW life. 1 »orn again,” That's all When they asked man who was made to se it ‘all happened, he replied “1 Know not; one thing 1 that, whereas I was now I see." are other knows, ask and here's we and And He w the blind how know, blind And all the argument and all er on*"Religious Subjects aban sn é EDMUND VANCE OOKE CLAY~* It was" a oc oa 4 While all the world was sleeping. With white lipr hid behind the Night to pray im “I Ahought him steal and granites : O, Ged! that Thou chouldst plan it “To make my idol turn to common clay!» It was 6 woman = singing, ‘ Her tones with courage ringing, ; And lifling up a brave face to the Day “Thank God! Tb didst not plen jf Te make him steel and Sropibes Trav God! ! may re-mald his enabled OS eg Ee weer ~ of aun ea 8 , |Watch Our Win } the wisely profound Philosophy in the world couldn't convince that blind man that he was mistaken. - Same way with those who Th W k They know that once they For Big Reduction Prices 08 were in the gutter—now they Solid Gold Agate dewelry | are seated at the table washed and fed and clothed | Moss Agates Who knows most about this | Lavalliers rebirth busin those who Rian |, KNOW they were “born again,” | ae ti or those who ridicule it bes | Ins All cause they've not experienced | Reduced Prices on oh it? | Watches 4 The millions who in every jf gale is progressing rapidly land and in every age felt the Don't delay: thrill of new life, or the few q who sat in sombre dignity thore who hid in the fancied | L Ni BERN security of their own misdecds | 2 . ‘ Manufacturing Jewel? 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