The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 13, 1919, Page 6

CAGE 6 THE SEATTLE STAR—WEDNESDAY, AUGUST e Seattle Star per month; 7 montha Th Bi 419 | Whither, Whence, and Why? Some folks are fortunate enough, for their own peace of mind, to be born “put.” That they start out by being republican, a radical. or a conservative, change. They buttress their soul each year with new belief in the infallibility of their faith, and regard all outside their camp as crooks, enemies, forsaken aliens, and without hope of a hereafter. Such minds miss a lot of exercise, and also much confusion. Your true conservative clings to the feet of his ancient idols, and never loosens his grasp of faith, no matter what storms sweep over him. Your born radical keeps agitating, regardless of argument, or proof of the error of his theories. Most of us are whipped about by the contending tides; we ebb with the safe and sane crowd, and surge with the insurgents. One day we regard the plea of the suffering wage serf, and find our heart melting in pity at his sad plight, and the next we get mixed up in some riotous strike, called without due cause by some fiery agitator, and, as the brick- bats rattle from our beans, we feel the tides of reform ebbing away, and leaving us stranded, gasping on the shoals of hide-bound standpatism. Somewhere between the outposts of these two contend- ing camps is the line of truth, but the mass of the people surge and sway back and forth over this thin line, are pushed by the Bolshevik one day, and by the imperialistic; the next, until about all the line is gwd for is to be an imaginary mark for our souls to shoot at. democrat and they or a never a iN If the Kaiser Had to Face a Jury of His Peers. Most of the world wants to do the right thing—more | ; so today than ever—but most of the world has a terrible! lot of trouble making up its mind what is the right. Neither the communism of riotous Russfa, nor the high-handed regime of the Hohenzollerns, appeals as a haven of refuge for a wondering world; and we find communistic Russia a bit tired of its freedom and republican Germany bending a more attentive ear to the pleas of the depos imperialism. The League of Nations supports have had another bunch of luck. Cole Blease of South Carolina has an- nounced his undying opposition to the plan. Grandmother Is a Good Sport Nothing has changed so much in this whirling world as the fashion in grandmothers. We remember our grandmother. Aged beyond all calculation, she seemed to us then. | She was wrinkled, and toothless, she smoked a red clay | pipe, and a brand of tobacco that resembled shavings as to} texture, and street sweepings as to flavor. | To her death she clung to the candle and privately she} pape to do her baking in a dutch oven in a bed of hot es. For 15 years before her death she retired to her room, and there sat and rocked ih the old split bottomed chair, draped in a thin black shaw! and wearing her black sateen | bonnet winter and summer, inside and outside. The only! time she ever left off the bonnet was when she donned a| red flannel night cap, and retired to her feather bed; a} big, deep, wide, hot feather bed, with gigantic bolsters | under the mammoth pillows. | But when grandmother died she wasn't a day over 75.| The other day we saw an account of a grandmother | who celebrated her golden wedding anniversary by taking her first ride, in what? | A street car? No. ‘ H A railroad train? Not at all. An automobile, then? No, sir. i In an army airplane! j And when grandmother alighted and rejoined pa, who! didn’t think much of such foolishness, she said she had! been wonderfully entertained, and was going to do it ag’in That grandmother was as old as ours was when she The new grandmothers have no wrinkles, they have! red cheeks and lots of teeth, and are up and going, instead | of down and vegitating. | We may not find the font of perpetual youth, but we! are discovering how to conquer the mental shabbiness that | once came with advancing years, and how to ward off the hairless, toothless wrinkled era of dotage. If Lloyd George has a sense of humor, he doubtless gets a lot of fun out of the desire of King George to con- fer honor on him! Ships and More Ships * The emergency fleet corporation is turning out ships in fine style. Up to the middle of July it had delivered 1,096 vessels, totaling 6,068,739 deadweight tons. It had launched at the same time 1,524 vessels with a deadweight tonnage of 8,030,288 and had laid the keels of 2,081 vessels with a deadweight tonnage of 11,421,111. | The deliveries for the first six and a half months al-| most equal the total for 1918. Between the launching of a ship and its there is a period of nearly 2 months. What the production of the American shipyards means| may be appreciated when it is said that the 2,081 vessels whose keels have been laid represent nearly 60 per cent of the total tonnage of the merchant marine of Great Britain before the war. delivery It might help some to require our manufacturers to gots for America the same prices they quote for export | rade, | “In Its True Light” | Referring to the China-Japan problem, Wilson says | “the ultimate action of Japan with regard to Shantung_| will put the whole matter in its true light.’ ery one hopes “its true light” will be one that will show f hantung in poss ion of the Chinese, and that Japan will interpret “ultimate” as “immediate.” | So far as we iknow, the Salvation Army was the only thing that got thru the wor without being knocked, What the country thinks of the league will depend largely on what the country thinks of the president, | Humility i: A the reward of an intimate half-hour | with a bad conseci tence, |“The League of Nations,’ A Book You Ought to Own BY DR. FRANK CRANE (Copyright, 1919, by Frank Crane} As I have said before, there are some | public. books you should borrow, skim, and return; | Opinion. some you should read once and give away, and others, a very few, you ought to buy, | read only. to own, to keep, and to read over and over. | In this last class is a little book called * written by Henry This is a Government by Public Find out the facts. has been made the, subject of bitter attacks there must be something wrong with it. | The Constitution,of the United States was attacked quite as strenuously as this pro-; posal, E. Jackson. It is a concise, simple, and authoritative statement of the facts in regard to the League. It is not partisan, passionate, nor at all extravagant. During the coming months the League | of Nations will be the most important topic before the American public and the whole world. You want to have an intelligent opinion upon it. You cannot have such an opinion unless you know what you are talking about. You want to know what the exact words of the League are. This book gives them. You want it explained in simple language. Here you will find a cleaf explanation. You want to know just what the Presi- dent of the United States and the other men who drew up the League have to say about it. This is here stated. Every town in this country ought to have meetings at which this League may be dis- cussed. The Senate’is now debating upon it, but more necessary than the opinion of the Sen- ate is the opinion of the whole American more perilous than its eve.” We are now} lowing a successful war. We should not make a mistake. The Common Sense of the American peo- ple will by and by make itself felt on this question, which is far and away more vital than any issue ever before us. Make up) your mind, and use facts, not feelings. | The Executive has done his part. He has made the Treaty, as was his duty} under the Constitution. It is now up to the! People to ratify, modify, or reject what he has done. It is very much now as Lincoln stated the case in his time, in his homely and striking language. He said: “I cannot run the political machine; I} have enough on my hands without that. It is the people’s business—the election |in their hands. If they turn their bac to the fire and get scorched in the rear they'll find they have to sit on the blister,” | Find out about the League! “KNIFED IN THE Editor Star: While « member of the 20th eng had a large number of We men in my company. ¢ suld casionally copy of The Star and we would all yell with de light while ad what the ing bitt We pluck t up in our you to @ we were or of the p ever, wh BACK" ersens know} will be invited vliticlans listen fon to office be asked to and do surprised had to wear 1 of to working charge? Do the economists sa a |WhY? Some day these b: we to their lic new and it is by force only, that the government can be kept from functioning land—-his we same fp to DeValera is true to Ire- own = country—just as Geor Washington was true tq Ame HIS own country when | «are called traitors by Eng dd, and them | by Tories in America, who prefer a the k tom to a republic. Ine who is false to the CIPLES of his intry, is a traitor at heart, and awaits the opportunity 1)only to carry that treason Into a don Washington and his com patriots fought for independence against sh tyranny and oppres sion, while enedict Arnold was false to his trust and betrayed the cause. @ patriot of his other was neers “ plea for ree : perhaps will our uniforms the be nil them we «tor a we clally the regiment and you eof us will re a discharge of funds Lamp buy to do for us re as going also wate PRIN ea LD-STRIPER We Shortly aeett ing soldier reward b Bishop Carlyon Cox Kuykendall Smith Young man. arch and Ie «as of the we Bolling Cleary Crawford Loomis Taylor al) track bill, How Cornwell arrived at Newport Hall were informed that it had Sinclair ed by the stand pat mem. | 7c the T ie men who wisely invests Liberty bonds and imagined they had done their part saving the from the Hun 1 us reward actual) Coman French MeCoy Thomle, One was e the “Father try,” the despised by yet PLAYS SYNOD'S ACTION The all men DeValera is now fighting the « English tyranny Ireland. His effort is to obtain in dependence for a well def To have a republic in p ® king's colony Government of the people, and for the We the prefer s rule and oppression ple,” with liberty Who Is guilty of DeValera his DeValera came to America to pre sent the cause of lon ing All he asks is or politiciar ame 1 their money 1 Faditor Star ecently the Synod gave to the press a resolution in condemning President DeValera, of tion country this saving of the ¢ There a Washington men who do not know were und a number asked me to write that you print the names of men who voted against thi have wondered if the the what France did what the Can. stralians did for urned soldiers and it’ makes to think we, the of any, received the national go the states Washington stantial for I only wis the Irish republic, aw a “traitor xmall ure asked that Seattle's city council in invitation to him, for an s here on thefreedom of His refuse people addres | Countr men have of service number saw who these of th you who have ki faise- hearted with It “rule by the peo and justice who As these tyranny tians serv men clat the to be Chri charge de than passing notice, If it contains any truth, the invitation to DeValera should be withheld; if it doe invitation should be Synod should publish broadly as they did ‘olutions mn to and - mo. and request the bil, 1 poll for jane their treason"? — Not often not, th know and the sold the anew Ireland hearing ack “ The ) of faith: it 4! againat yal of the in of be state, went a fair an their re apology as id n us richest nation Synod pi hearing ad are resolutions truth, which independence else not true to Ameri They want Liberty fo: but would deny it to do not practice what JOUN T. CASEY Treason is a b und und wher least from our that of with the exception of did do something eub- their returned boys ho th of the who of c sty welfare one’s own nitted alien ernment most untry. It cannot ee can ideals them: others they against a foreign government DeValera is an American by birth, an Irishman by adoption. He ts snglivh, and could not be guilty of treason to England, because it is not ry and he owes it no al The English government sland is one of force, not of to the same as it was in the to United States prior to the American dis:' Revolution, Ireland is now aw repub lves, they preset non politicians Lamp ing bill had a touch of what we went thru over there, and perhaps they would have voted different Have you ever noticed how many of there return boys wear t work on @ EVATOR SMASE Otis Metcalf, 1149 13th ave fered caught packing calf is a driver for th |pany, He wa ‘hospi roor S., suf. a crushed foot when he was in the elevat Prye'y Met packing com taken to Providence | He is 44 years old | have uniform ir first in starting job after DITORIALS — FEATURES Do not conclude that because the League |°®** Mazzini said, “The morrow of victory is) x in the crucial days of sharp contention fol-|St*ff Writ#r on Religious Subjects | | | Both } grateful |There were poets once in the yester and oppression in|To sugar our smiles and to sa nee to} Would a Homer live in suffer. | | On 10LD HINTS be ME. GREYS HOUSE Hash 4 clfemist ha should never served ob hove thas n days in one wee An English 9» invented a pr which be pa strawberries made to taste like REPORT ON DADS SPRING GAKDEN Garden — Cultivated Dad with remarkable the of Never throw 4 » old prune. and! Flower Skir and rem bones witt w ut glass resu astor weed Three as be ver throw awa The a palr of old Rubber ¢ car cut t complaints « public nu much stylish than| lodged by neighbors with 4 rawberry teh should not be allowed to seeds and equipment t with nut pick cultivating this patch 5 pick has been spoiled! Total value of strawberries Jin paten, $.07. (This worth, after being carefully guarded LET THE DEBATE IN THE SEN-|by Dad, was eaten one morning by ATE PROCEED a nelghbor’s child when Da ke to inform my friends s.) y recovered from| Asparagu my stomach caused | With the nd mad t been are more lo the police Total value of pick Many that a nut rained wasn't 1 would rete that I have en the soreness in Bed—Pianted & tation of supplyi re needs and the neighbors with much apparent y Dad fam quant again to eat all aw allows from early dawn till n't worry because of the having you will find me/™on Sunnybrook Farm, happy |°% as a lark, feeding pigs, gathering hog 1 le wild flowers, listening to the ac n cooking th of the birds vl the honey-| Sweet Corn VField— © bees making he and the bumble-|"¢ Of probable yield bees making bumbies te made by Di terson.—-St optimism—$1 value of the feed for the neighbor's ch this yield saving the jneighbors from buying $34.80 worth jot chicken feed. Total amount col |lectea by Dad from neighbors for miner whomade 8/5514 feed. $000.00 big strike is in Low Angeles, SiviNE|” Onion Patch away money. If anybody tries to stop him, we'll let you know. “- been used aD and per preciatior dow as past two his many fect b of abe me for cancer of edible stalke b *, which on way, were spotled by the c nated ording he height The only yield has wat Charles (M . ernible i ickens RB in trouble.” "I the remarked, root of as the dentist go to the cee An eccentric High! It emell-abi |tance of four blocks successful! from a dis away! THE MODERN SCHOOL is easily # | Drinkwater, an English poet, ed to arrive in this coun trend in education these dafs a few weeks to make a leo | is give the scholars something tour. It is quite appropriate! practical, something of distinct ber he should come as John Bar-jefit to them in battling their way geen, thru life and in making that battle ca and happier. Consequently we can expect the establishment of such practical *courses as these {n the most up-todate schools: Course in Patience—Designed to give scholars that smiling acquies cence in delay which is so to the maintenance of a good Aisposit when attempting to | reach the office in a hurry via au spending |tomobile at congested traffic J is ex try tr ture that leyeorn . an The But be that as it may, Fred Selt- wer lives in Rye Y Bridgeport and Danbury corset makers have been ordered out on @ strike, leading the man at the next| desk to remark, “Some will go out! and some, you might say, will stay.” fewtill neces rary ‘The | ex-kalser Do not repeat what you have heard or most of his time in prayer, say Hol |of the da persistent) Course in Higher Accounting He has been prayingsteadily|@reat value to every coming since August, 1914, and never aj/who will some day have to make prayer has been answered jout an income tax return. This |course combines all the latest meth x) |Ods adopted by the world's most ex jPert accountants and after taking this course for six years it is be |lieved that every scholar will be Wjable to make out his own income tax return with an average of than 75 per cent of mistakes Course in Self-Denial— Designed to |help the scholars over the posstbil jity of AntiTobacco, Anti-Kissing, Anti-Soda-Water and other blue jlaws being enacted. Scholars are |taught, by the simple method of making them do without meals, nice | clothes, sleep and other seentials, |Just how to control themselves so |that they will not feel an uncon- |trollable desire to violate these laws and be arrested for such violations jin the event of these laws being | passed. Course in Jolis—Realizing that every citizen in the course of life! | sets a good stiff jolt every week or so nowadays when a new raise in the high cost of living wallops him jor another of his pet hobbies is Jeliminated by some new Anti-la land dispatches. He's a "WHEN YOUR SINS | ARE FORGIVEN BY REV. CHARLES STELZLE for The Star. How many times are you ex pected to forgive a man? The dinciples once asked that ques tion—and ene of them, who thought himeelf very generous, wondered whether “seven times” wasn't a pretty liberal allow ance to make for an erring brother. “Seven times?” Jesus “no-—seventy times seven.” To be sure, it wasn't expect ed that this reply would be taken literally—for you'd soon lose count—and that's exactly what Jesus expected men to do —to keep on forgiving and for giving to the end of the road Maybe this seems foolish, but that's what God is doing all the time for every one of us. Who is there that doesn’t break one or more of the com: mandments every day of his life? Seventy times seven? Why, that's only a little more than @ year of your life and mine With many wald, of us it's seven- ty: times times seven times seven—assuming that we sinned only once a day Most of us would multiply all this by seven and still be far from the enormity of our sin “If ye forgive not fen their trespassers, how can your heav fath forgive you trespasse Jesus once asked And there you have the phil of the matter of for given sin—your own sins will be forgiven only in the propor tion that you forgive the sins of others, enly your osophy LOOKING TWO WAYS BY EDMUND VANCE COOKE She'll admit that i Coals noted below years And there may be poets in days to come Grand Ridge Was Just right for the it our Berney But a Poet Today? Oh a five-room flat | With the Greek for “Welcome on his mat? hum! up NANOOSE WELLINGTON The old Original Welling- ton, the best at any price, $10 per ton at the Bunk There were statesmen once in the olden days And others shall to come follow in years PHONE YOU OR Men upon whom we could pour our praiwe But ‘an a a Statesman Today? newspaper print craving Webster the engraving? Oh, hum! suffice our} For Wise in a steel The Past faith calls loud to the ear of mont |" periods ort Range k Ask Any Good Housewife How Much Depends on the Quality of the Coal She Uses the results on baking day. Decide today on any one of the three wrong. Each is the leader at its price. range Grand Ridge Lump, $6.50 per ton, at the Bunkers. the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise 1th of taken by the Pee penlgaed it wae he 13th Meng following rendered, “y of August, tq Mth of Ay { August, ip t died. ia sropean and Jj Hoxers were & sag organized to @ ate all foreigners in Cig all foreign overnment Wig ag pressing them taf the Boxer upridae Pekin, the sileged that it wag © the Jegations * the Boxers aig cecupled by = or j term ax treacherously Mh when he left the shelter of the lay tion to negotiate with the Bom During corps of the side by come wide Their supply of food had most given out w States, Great Frahee, Germany and Japan rived at the gates-of Pekin afta) march of 100 miles from Tpe American di mand of ¢ numbered 6,000 men. Basins oe THE OLD GARDEN SAYS It is very difficult to get crop of peas in thme g] Grought unless you can apply Few flowers great amount of molsturm: watering is out of the q a deep mulch of straw, anything sweet freely an ply 4 manure, kind that available, ts. This will help to cool and prevent the out. Sometimes at this iT an excellent plan to mow the down to within a few inches aie ground. They will then of Gm up again and give a goob blossoms. Don't forget t ance of keeping sweet pe: If the seed pods are a form, blossoming will soon sap a tomatically, for the plants t that they have fulfilled sion in life or roots snarl this course is designed to the scholars to not only under such jolts but to als] while they bear them, cuts every few minutes to blows to the effective jolts curriculum | knock-out other equally part of the course. Course in Nuttiness—As to be strictly uptodate must be able to talk fluently principal topics of nuttinest |ing the world’s attention, thin) |will teach the rudimentary |ness of bolshevism and such crazy notions as from time to sweep over the earth. | iciency t can make or mar and you can’t go | | hed Nut $5,75 PER TON | and small “At the Bunkers RAVEN LUMP land hand-picked, ton at the Screen: 86.50 bunkers. per ™ DEALER THE And we look to the eyes of Future with hone the i wraith We swear by giants of myth And Tomorrow's people drous scope! the may have won But neighbors and and touch never — believe friends we We 707 Securities Building can much! (Copyright in—very N. B. AS 1919)