The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 23, 1919, Page 6

The Seattle Star BY, mail, out of city Gde per month; 3 months, $2.50; 6 montha $2.75; year, $6.00, in Btate of Washington. Ov the stat TSe ger month, $4.50 for 6 months, or $9.00 per Year, Ly carrier, city, Se per month FOITORIALS — FEATURE Better Let ’Em Stay Captured Everybody seems to be missing the real important thing about this latest Mexican mess. The point that impresses us is that all this ruction has been caused because two American army officers were Simple minded enough to allow a boob Mexican bandit to : them into camp like silly sheep. The officers explain that they had no arms. didn’t they have arms? : Soldiers, flying over hostile territory, likely to © forced to alight in the midst of bandits any hour; such usually make some slight preparation for their journey A btless they carried a toothbrush, and an extra spark . . There wasn’t any law against their including a* well six gun in the baggage, was there? , It doesn’t look well for two American offic¢rs to be herded by a simple single lowly peon. ee Indeed, arms or no arms, the tradjtions of the service} " would lead us to expect that somehow*two Yankee offi- Gers could get the best of one lone, lorn greaser, no matter much artillery he might have at hand. The average Mexican can’t hit anything, anyhow; he his eyés and shoots. Why didn’t the officers take chance? It boils down to about this: ‘Because these two official str had a wreck, and ly allowed themselves to be captured, and then wildly ated for rescue, we are likely to get into-a mixup that have for years been trying to escape. This country doesn’t need any more war at this time, | if it is to settl@ this Mexican problem by a war, it nts to have something more basic to build on than the ness of a couple of shavetails. | And it is poor a for the Mexican peon to get | idea that one gréaser is worth two American officers. | / may take considerable demonstration to remove that} sion. * Also we are of the opinion that it was a piker trick | the messenger to lope off with half the promised tribute the bandits had kept faith by turning over the Why be 8 "An “American army officer should keep his word, at as well as a Mexican bandit. And $7,500 is not enough to lie about, these days of eap money. in this ‘mess; indeed, there has been nothing for m years in our relations with the Mexican government, or| le various princes of banditry below the Rio Grande, that} If we are going into Mexico, we should go in and stay until we do something lasting for the peace of the coun- y and its people. i : ng over the line and dodging back, taking this oldier out of hock, and then beating it with half of the pawn ticket—that’s no business whatever. Representative Gard would provide a fine of $10,000 wr five years’ free board for hoarders. The only objec- | ion we sce is the use of the word “or” instead of “and.” ding People and Seeding Them | ‘of the prime factors in the high cost of foodstuffs of producing food. And on the cost of food | tion in the United States there is no accurate infor-| in the possession of the United States department | agriculture, or congress. There always has been more | Tess guessing at it, even when we were fixing wheat} # American farmers long have demanded, governmental | on food production costs, insisting that until & costs were known there could be no fair price fixing, | 2 way in which the consumer may learn how much more) the cost of productfbn he pays at the market. | r of production investigations—and congress handed 873. not enough to find out the cost of producing feed! And in seeds, a cheap bait with which some congressmen) ¢ they may add a few votes to their election day) _ With gasoline at the present price, government will 4 thunder reducing the cost of living by selling its automobiles. oN latur. al” | Senator Reed says that it is foolish to attempt to do. ng to remedy the high cost of living; that it is! d by the operation of natural laws. | : es intended to better conditions are dangerous, | senator insists, because they “disturb the natural eco-| tendencies. | 2. jit up the job. | Jarthquakes, | W _. An influenza epidemic ods and fires are “natural Food shortages, difficulties in transportation, ed, extravagance—all these are “natural.” is “natural.” we oy m ' © And there are members of Congress who would be Nitterly opposed to Heaven if members of the other po- Utical party declared themselves in favor of it. jel You can’t blame the packers for kicking about regula~ of the storage industry. You would kick as hard you had a corner on that graft. pl | Garretson charges that the railroads have been oper- I by men who wished to make government owner- vip a failure. Well, they carried their point. | | A half-million dollars to investigate the increased cost living! Increased costs wouldn't bother us if we had | @ half-million. Judging by the number of half-baked bills introduced, er that congress means well, anyway. W way we look at it, we find nothing to be proud|[t’ give any red-blooded American citizen anything to brag ba shat until the cost of food producing is known there| fy was asked to appropriate an adequate sum| G% “ the same breath appropriates $358,980 for | key But is that any reason why we should abruptly sur-|so much “pe \of. order, jafterwards, “Tt a « AUTO TRIPS I ‘ A ( tele tat tire thru thi re 1 er One at of a 1 pe m" Weare pleased, indeed, to have the other side of the | will build. The truth, of course, is that more fot ling averng acatio ut ( ( Rome EM rent controversy presented. aie is being done and planned in Seattle today than in tart. for nowKers ts part [ saa The Star has been seeking the landlord’s side of it several years, “a + teat prali te ‘ , Pres. as well as the tenants but landlords have been some- Rents are higher in Seattle today than in any other pie a kt > pee what reluctant to attempt a defense. coast city, \ what did 1 ¢limt t ! trict orden And, if the following letter is a sample argument, Apartment house rents are higher oh the whole, that back paring of we do not blame them for their silence. considering the sort of apartments, than anywhere , # vr ' - : The @ honor of Here's the letter: else in the country, in a city anywhere near the popu ap eavaila’ ib “toe rn he builé Rditor The Star: 1 have read your fulminations against lationfof Seattle. 0 journey thru véeation. life ( sain the shelter owners with a great: deal of ¢ i ‘ Labor does not get three times as much as it did * pump and repair b © wa ' re t. Barthol Do you think men with money wil build apartment houses — | ne 0 age > aay z + aalianeide ess “r a2 as long as you and othérs, who nevet have built @ house, ery three years ago; but many a landlord, whose expe ni a nl way va out against a fair return on the tnvestinc? have not increased 20 per cent, has boosted rents from ni Ses Brn Hcy t ned > 7 lay no one will build for the mmplé reason that the cont 50 to 100 per cent : : : J Nig artholcanaial O¢ labot’ Ghd material fe 20 Bigh Chat fo ons gen mttord to build = | The “poor boobs” are building their own homes, ee ‘i ‘ instigated by ee oni bulldtr s and surely some would build if the pres brother, and when some of the exceks' valuations afe rs ; is otek ent rentals would pay a profit. As long es you keep up this Gow squeezed from these idle, weed-infested lots, more " oe 5 Genenaben 4 . nugteeel against rent hog# you will get no more apartments or other boobs will build, and will keep on building until a lot poker. WOuld coved: bls pace choke sn at a buildiogs for t mt. apital for ng time has refuses Regs ae of you rent hog landlords come down to earth and Henut ambe rth Da ch or the reason that they afraid of the req ’ , rae Gah souk Wee hase dose tecre tadesy $0.06. HGMel are glad to fill your fottefing old houses and unre-, re ; Cease ! sis - other body of mer | paired flats at a moderate rental. ‘ npc resi Son A ‘ " ow in this ¢ compared with other cites of lke The uttle Star in its fight to get the thousand th th Car a leered Wast . De you tt BET OGRE SE DARE BC Se ewes of incoming families—families who expect to stay here - ke, Junk your 4 tay|the Cay figures and rent for rentals that prevailed three years ‘ago? If | ~ Pri Aponte aa etd pry you do, you have another guess coming. and work here And invest here—a place to live, is movies—a and several p Labor that gets three times what it received three years doing more for the permangnt improvement, of, the nad sil fy SRY b Shae sige & ago Must expect to pay at least 70 per c mor nt, or the man city, and the wélfare of the worker and business“man, j ss Sethe a tote’ t 7, — eggetes —_ eon eat is aan nat ngthconns fail than all the rent fogs that can crowd to the trough We read that the prose Jomtructi nat men ¥ ne money to bulld a hin way in : , ; " ‘ - GubiEh UH tas Suah thik tone Pabuns t6 Dele Ye Gas tonto betey Aye, more, “If it were not for constructive work torney ot the ‘dry. ok On th hb of Aug in 1818, are #o profitable do you think they would be slow to build? like The Star is dping and for the fights.of this oi ae gy Pe 1 Foy bt Poy age ac ra Keep up your present tirade against rent hogs and you will kit | sort that The Star¥makes, Seattle would in ‘time be Nop ade Pongal a = hg Mei “0 Cn a Eran. SA TAY CERNOS Hen, Ore Shout Gia weret enna Gags given-over to the few looters, who would rule or ruin Hae re Duy: aeything we'te. éty 4 the British dure tle has t# contend with in the matter of building, I know many ' : ot le? apa ; re 3 who refuse to build just because of your foolish cry-out against it, and whose rule, unchecked, would ruin it. } jcleane Are ne Coe. Wes of 18 2, was 19, be ree rente | It is unfortunate that this town has any one in ‘ PY oy otanihberselonirvs: ee ‘ i ; The United States is about to wit-/ isting of the central structure, with If the poor boobs won't pay rent, let them bald their own it who has your viewpoint, and your ignorance, and nest a baseball war. Lucky Europe,|its great dome and the two marble homes and find out for themselves whe the profit comes in ‘ a 0 * a Pygeriga™ De ¢ a i Barmy We whe havacthe-umenr Wilk @ dee'aven 4 per dont. | TOE brazen contempt for common justice. es : 4 jextension ngs of the house and profit at the prestnt rentalsy You know, if you know anything about rents (if Editor We'll Say So: On the car the senate. T Capitol was com: BUILDER AND TAXPAYER you don’t the “for sale” columns of any afternoon edi- a pag a two men talk plete 1 in sate ar 4 as it stands % : ? 4 ‘. 7 q ng abo: he flu day uding ¢ approaches a Perhaps the writer of the above letter, name un- tion will enlighten you); that hotels, apartrpent houses My wife had a bad ease last| terraces, it coxt approximately $16» known, is so ignorant as to believe what he says. | ‘and flats today are paying as big incomes in propor- spring,” raid one. “She' had the 000,000 Let us take a few of his statements: Today no one | tion tg the investment as any property in Seattle. —— fins Dr SE gs are, BE ~-=-————— hat’s nothing,” sa e “other. | ¥~ - es —— 4 ‘My wife had the talking fiu.” WHEREIN MEN Miss Luna Tick ROB GOD. And somebody told us Ohte went PHRMA NII s a Comfort to Know the Worst Has Happened. —By McKee. Hi CHARLES STELZLE But, as the attor retharked, “I Sqaff Writer on Religious Topics for n— prs ‘. |may not be much at pool and bi The Star t, Z. liards, but I know hoW to handle Will a man rob God? At first hte vt z the-thought seems foolish. Rob by £ , taitea| G00? Why, *the chances for 8 ae ee 1d pe ans 4 Nee br “" exeape from punishmentare £0 Cided” that hereefter Atmirican| slg thatany man attempting dishes are not to have fancy names,| it W@uld be’ counted like an vant You must admit that « red, white} What care we for the fancy names, ‘hat be himself could crush jand blue fish beats a pink elephant one we another? What worries; Without apy exertion in the matter of color display, jus i* the fancy prices. . Rob God? But that's precise Wie Frank Hedden, a member of the see ly what every one of us is do- , Hudson County (New Jersey) Aquar A report comes from Chicagothat) i9@.' And it's worse than rob- | OTA YA HAFTA ium society, crossed a Chinese Moor- | the sellin ples with a kick bing map. Eor God's rights are Vy yg} BuRY YERSELE K oldfish with a fish that had a|Do you eat ‘em or drink ‘em? | ‘subretfies The rights of the In- Ze i, FER NINE decaled Japan and « brown} Yee Be } finite are far above the rights (7 DAYS now transparentscaled Japanese for par-| Be that as it may, Frank Begin| of thé finite—the rights of the Va] a 14 GONNA ents. The result is, says a report/has begun to work at the Wanj Creator above the rights of his > BES Ne from Jersey City, a fish with a red|Dorn tron works. creatures * o he ae 2 WANWA THREW A body, white fins and sides and a blue | see iow can: 6. mah ceuonae NN he te noua evole “ae streak on its back. | Are and Are are the names of a! What is there that belongs to Tae 0 ® ae kit Ty |pair of acrobats at a local theatre.| Him that we appropriate to our- > 5 ay ; ‘ J is easily imposed upon, | x one of them is named| | selves? jen't she hae 1 Mra. Mollie Tucker, of Petersburg, | ee Fou've beard of :mien' SAE \ 106; bad-@ entind’ ‘bie, “Cut Gop that they are “gelf-made"”—they by as A yy Ui Mt) ro, cf a>? 3 | ‘as || On || Americanism There Can Be No Compromise e of the Issu j / Te aps bun CD ae . AN ENCOUNTER WITH THE PERFIDIOUS “woops-PUSSY” (Copyright, 1919, by Donald McKee.) ~- 7) “ Vie lij| Wa + OF THE ORDER OF PETER PAN There is a you Tf we let “natural laws” have their way, without at-|has written me an interesting letter. mpting to better conditions, civilization might as well|signed her name, too. may ill not tell o Along with nm sev human | home was wrecked by booz ot Md of her bib sonal istake me. tement. I had a I get some man’s clothe |something or bust’ fee |me, just dress up and go out, of course at jnight? That surely would be exciting! € 2 tell me wha’ I have these feelings, for I always behave jas a sensible woman of 29, with two chil- jdren, should. tell me to be sens of the time. Well, first, fair Then w naughty, /her have my shortcomings, but I} I have always been good. jdon’t want to do any of the horrid, vulgar | things lonely women sometimes do for ex- | Pleg The usual ritual and cut up the high jinks AAS, if he says. beforehand “Go ahead and do it,” and you get arrested, or Mrs, BY DR. FRANK CRANE (Copyright, 1919, by Frank Crane) ou ng widow out West who | Peckinpaw happens to see and tells She | everybody in the sewing cire why then I will not tell what | you can lay it on to your adviser, and he will lose trade. So, my adv is: Do not dress man’s clothes. Do not rob a hen And do not do anything else hilarious. not even get kittenish. anything at all. dy. al thous, ce up in roost. Do In short, do not do and others, her and she had to lous spouse who enjoyed liberty” that she and her to “nature” without a fight? jchildren had nothing to enjoy but a little That I consider a masterpiece. It is on : 8 be | bit of hell. Pg |a level with most good advice. Becattse Charles E. Hughes thinks that Article XT will ave |.“ gut,” she says, “now this is why I am | you will probably pay no attention ,to it, the United States free to decide each case on its |writing to you. I must have some safety | and go ahead and do as you please. But ts. It will if the fleet is kept large enough to con- valve, some outlet some excitement once | I will save my bacon. tad decision. jin a while, or I feel I shall blow up. Don’t | Still, Ethel, if you should happert to kick | over the traces, and break loose some fine evening, and unhook old man Beaseley’s gate, or il Lawyer Tompkin’s apples, or something, and then come and tell me about | it, I should say, “Never mind. Don't again. But if you do, don’t tell.” |. The trouble with you, woman, seems to | be that you belong to the Order of Peter Pan, and are one of those blessed children | who never grow up. And if you won't give ine away I'll confess I am secretly a mem- ber myself. sut I’ve learned to save my antics for home consumption. At home T am—well, if I ever fall out with my wife, and she wants to have me put in the in- sane asylum, she will not have much trou- ble getting evidence, _ And, just for luck, I send you a ki if dri promise never, never to tell, won't. hurt you, and may help appease thirst for crime. makers lovely idea tonight. Could and when that ‘do ling takes hold of Do t you think. No one knows 2 write me. But don’t ble. I am_nine-tenths one, you are a little out is to go ahead and ask advice the wise adviser can say, but don’t do it again.” our biddy left th of food, and the eld cat litter of kittens and placed est to grab off a bi rried he the warm nest Wher the hen returned sh thought her eggs had hatched out flock of kittens, taking That e the mother cat plenty of time car find she haw bee of them ever singe. ‘ording to Mrs, Tucker visiting. | only clashes between hen and eat come when the a mouw the and tries t brings hom smu; neat for the kittens. Fur flies then. A new way been discovered by a hog. J i his _o time. porker commit suicide and thus save and n taxter, 8 ki But farmer living used to have in hog-butcherin other day he let Cu Hing the him time and trouble of killing. While blowing out stumps in the | axter left ' nig lot mite In the dynamite brand of pig fattener, gulped it down explosion which followed com. ; y wrecked the pig's head. The body was not injured, however, and the Baxter family now has a fresh | supply of meat ey aren't so crazy at that, | LONI Eng.—The very last word in strikes has come Dis patches state that the lunatics in the | the a stick Nice fat sow sa and thinking it a ne field them in » It Into to butcher hogs has | near to do | f dyna te or ne a en r, | w w ¢ n h jold | that hi |ments can be made.—Gladbrook, | Northern Know, our WE'LL SAY SO | FOR THE LADIES| tter of Fairbanks, is the barber at Fred Hoeg’s poot} For the benefit of the girls, maids and widows we will say he is married and will move as soon as proper arrange-| Ia ow all ere | ITTLE QUESTIONS BODY SHOULD B TO ANSWER (Compiled by — Prof. Jr.) you you you you you you EVERY. ABLE U. Auta] Did Did Did Did Did Did ever see a sidewalk? ever see a mounthin fall? ever see a match box? | ever, see the sky lark? | evér hear a stove pipe? | ever see the stairs go down? Did you ever see the stairs go up | Out of the Mouths of || Babes. i} ———-— x %—— — SAT Jennie—“What did. your mother} do for your ,cut finger, Stanley?” Stanley—"“She didn't do nothin’ but lick me for cuttin’ it.” | Sunday School Teacher—“Why did the Lord command us to love} neighbors?” Little Hazel—"t guess it was be-| ause we can get along with most asylum at Vorarlberg, Austria, |CVerybody else.” | ne On # etrike ft better food and more of it. ‘The dispatehes |, Dorothy had seen’ ter mother failed to state whether the lunatics |@TOP @ nickel in the Gontribution would refuse to be crazy any more |bOX at church and when she pro in case their demands were refused. | °** fed to tind fault. with. the. ser |mon on the way home, she said |*“Well, mamma, what could you ex % * a pect for a nickel T Yon éSava.ii The Old Gardener Says ade “ 5 | He was just five years old that day There isn't the sd ndcessity | When suddenly he paused at’ play for saving garden seeds that there And into my face he gazed and was during the war. Yet it will peices be money in your pocket if you do| “If I could ve my life over agaiy ©. It Is not probable that seeds/! really believe that I 1d be will be much cheaper next year)/A much better boy, mamma,” said than they have been this, when|* i prices have run higher than eve = " | before Some seeds, ¢ cour th Let's go at Boldt’s—aptown, can't readily save, but there ™ no | 1414 8d Aves downtown, 913 2d Ave. reason why you shouldn't make a : point of putting away all the be corn, cucumber, squash, pumpkir and melon seeds you will need for next year's garden Tak r pick out not only extra «¢ mens of different vegetable but those which grow on strong, hardy plants. By c ful selection from year to y some gardeners, who use only their own seeds, have | ereatly improved — the quality of their crops. = c LUCIO'S 15 SECOND AVENUE — ee oe = Se see Se BRING THIS.AD Will repatr An food until Aug. 86, We pay cli for Diamonds and Liberty Bonds, also W. 8. 8, JEWELRY c Ellie Another Week Then gone for er is your chance of buying high.@rade, standard Jewelry at bargain prices. THIS WEEK we're offering special prices on Sheffield Silver Plate Chafing Dishes Cut Glass Watches Clocks You had repair work tember Ist I. M. BENNETT Manufacturing Jeweler Plaza Hotel, Westlake, near Pine better call before for your we move i s ( TOMORROW “owe nothing to anybody.” This is ridiculous that when a man says it we put him down at once as a poor “simp.” Owe nothing to anybody? Suppose such a man had start ed out in life on a lonely island, naked, with no tools or shelter of any kind? There might have been some justification for his claim under such circumstan but even then he would have been indebted to his forefathers for certain characteristics which avere ded down to him by birth, and which would help him make good, But suppose he began to cul tivate the soll on his lonely island—what would he do with- out sunlight and rain and wind and the chemicals in the earth and al the other things that make things grow? What jwould his puny little efforts amount to even tho he had all the Iat- est and most wonderful machin- ery and all kinds of appliances that his forefathers have hand ed down to him? W® rob God of His glory, We put ourselves in the place of God Himself when we ignore 80 Him completely or deny Him, as many of us do. When we insist that there jg nothing greater than man we insult God We rob God when we decline to give Him service—the serv. ice that we could give Him by serving God's creatures on earth. We rob God when we refuse to give Him thanks for His favors. Many of our prayers are unanswered because we have neglected to prayers thank God for they he has already answered. We rob God when we fail to worship Him—the first great claim of God upon man We rob God by withholding the gifts that due Him, “Ye are cursed curse; for have me, even this whole God said thru Malachi The se of want and misery and ruin that fills the world to are with robbed nation,” ye dhy is o the fact that men and nations have robbed God, When the great statesmen of America and other countries awake to this fact, they'll be in fair a way to find a remedy— and not until then. From the German kaiser dowp to the meanest man in the alley—-we've robbed God. We've placed ourselves above Him, and we're paying the price, But there's hope for us, Here's what G has said Return un to me and 1 will return unto you * * © Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, * * @ Prove me now, *,* * YT will open the windows of heaven and pour you out a_ blessing that there shall not be room enough to receive it.” In the Argentine republic tf a man engaged to marry hesitates be. yond a reasonable time in leading his fiancee to the altar, he is heavily fined,