The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 25, 1919, Page 6

She Seaitle Star ~~ | Maid, out of city, He per month; # months, j HP S280; 6 months, $2.75; year, $5.00, In the te of Washington, Outside the state, Per month, $4.50 for € months, or $9.00 | Per year. Ly carrier, city, b0c per month. | Same Old Brutal System — We Suppose there are humane cops, just as there must : Indians who are not holding up a tombstone. few days ago, a couple of husky officers picked up id man on Third ave., near Columbia. prisoner appeared to be the victim of too much » or something. he was suffering from a stroke of some sort. was old and helpless, . the two cops picked him up,»and yanked him to Wagon, and then, with great expedition and kicked him into said wagon. d when he arrived at the station he probably was @ bit, and thrown onto a nice hard cement floor, time, he will get yanked around a bit more sent on his way or given a few days in the Any- he! English police officer never handles a case that ‘ his prisoner if he has to, he never beats him up. French civic officers are efficient, but you see no eyes, cracked skulls nor wrenched backs in the ’ docks. ' fhis country somehow has from time immemoral given the license to indulge in their lowest passions 8 expense of the helpless. force, just as they stir up hatred and forceful among those they maltreat. a helpless prisoner. F ' ; that is so common in every American police station is thought of it. helpless old chap, even if he were a mere tramp was a less dangerous and more desirable citizen than the two burly officers who mistreated drunken vagrant is chiefly a menace to himself. sober, cold-blooded brute in uniform is the best little of anarchy, of hatred for authority, of contempt law, that we can secure. If we were chief of police of Seattle we would retire the force any officer found guilty of abusing any we would also advise the lads in blue that they d to protect the helpless, and that the best offi- the one who kept his beat in order with the arrests. Almost Funny doing of our courts and legislatures sometimes on the surface, but most of the jokes that are judges, lawyers, senators, congressmen and state are about the highest priced comedy the ’t the fault of courts in Massachusetts that be called upon to determine whether play golf on Sunday. ne one digs up an ancient law, the police are urged ip 3 the Massachusetts Golf association wing to defend its sport by carrying a test case to a 1) * yj what about the citizens of the commonwealth? D who can think of a number of things that thtfully be brought to the attention of the ties? Tf ever there were solid problems for the laws to it is now. rts for silly by-play seemingly can’t be checked. the courts can’t be b , lawyers can’t be blamed, ts themselves are not always at fault in such mat- , but a strange habit of mind exists somewhere. Can’t we, as a people, cure ourselves of the spasms of that absorb so much of the energies and the of government? ne: What Do You Know? w] painfully acquired and handed on since our [f ancestors came down out of the trees, is only a faint ner in the midst of the datk unknown. luch of the unknown is unknowable; a little of it, the mind laboriously takes possession of as centuries _ Most of us are amazingly ignorant. example of the school children, conning their books, couldnt tell what kind of wood their desks were e of the trodden ways; we despise the “highbrow.” And at the same time, how contemptuous we are likely g some one who seems to be more ignorant than our- The man who has stopped learning is living at a stand- il. every one you meet your teacher, if you would the most from life. That boy scout, that venerable , that sharp young salesman—each has a bit of spe- mowledge for you. @ a student, even tho your school days are in the re- past, and not a mere book student. d, so long as you keep your mind open, you will be humble. You never will despise “ignorance, pwn atti from a trivial wisdom, you will y avoig. w Dis-United States? A Japanese journalist who has made a tour of the States writes enlighteningly for the press of his » From information he gained in Washington, he inced that the United States is “soon to break up.” three separate countries will be formed by the “dis- ition,” he asserts, and the national capital will be to a more central part, probably the city of issippi. He concludes his observations with the state- at that “fifty years have passed since the civil war and } mind $ of the people are, consequently, in a dangerous J pr These revelations about brutal treatment of dough- prisoners are going to make shoulder bars unpop- as political platforms. The worst has happened. Statesmen are beginning that high prices are due to psychological factors, Maybe he was an epileptic. | Japanese officer is not even armed, and while he} never was an excuse for an officer beating or) yet the folly of using the costly machinery of | We are like the! of, _ Actually, we are afraid of seeming to know much out-| | | tality is like any other poison, it becomes epidemic | ti e; and one or two brutal cops quickly corrupt! « of his dignity, but inclined to trri-| |tability if things do not go exactly (right with |to some correspondence and having | visitors, wisest man in the world knows only a tiny fraction | outside of his private office door there is to be learned, and the mass of human cutting blueberry ples into seven pi box. lay @ snare for the wife of the man|City Tax, catcher; who had to stay at his office on| pitcher. account of business.” and I made up my mind I wouldn't| be mixed up in anybody's domestic! | troubles.” —Young | : concern in Muncie is a very pompous| No hits, no runs. man, who not only is very careful] the other day Blank cannot be disturbed.” | peared at the door of the private|asm, office, fread the note and strode in, but) yer soon came out the deor much more rapidly than he had entered. secretary asked of the | ‘ THE SEATTLE STAR—MONDAY, AUGUST 25, 1919. WE'RE GONNA ALL WEAR MASTS —TRY |— THIS ON AN! LESSEE How \T LooKs KEEP STILL WILL YA? I HAFTA WRITE THE RULES, <THE LIST OF MEMBERS, AN' A ‘NONOMOUS THE S‘'CIETY HAS GOTTA Bey} CALLED “THE BLACK PIRUTS" oR LC WON'T BILONG, THY (S MY SHED ORGANIZING A “SECRUT S'CIETY E PRICES GO UP BOSTON.—Restaurants here are oil leces, each piece selling for 15 pente. Blueberries cost 20 cents a One box makes three pies. ee Baliga the “Yes, I got up and went home.” | Power of the Dollar, third base, “When was that?” Lack of Pull, right field; War Tax. “I left when the villain began to/center field; State Tax, left ff Hard Knoe foot pontroradl | YOUNG MAN'S TEAM—Young| Didn't you see any more of the | Man, plicher, captain; Ambition to) FIRST INNING-—One hit by Am- | bition to Get Married. No runa. SECOND INNING—Young man HE COULD BE makes error by weakening Savings At the head of @ large bustness|!n using Savings for a side insue. | stown Telegram. an THIRD INNING — Opposition’s pitcher nearly brains Young Man by hitting him on the head with the ball. Young Man, however has stood up under other hard) knocks and makes this misfortune work out to his advantage as other | hard knocks have done. He takes! “Mr,|his base, but fatis to score. FOURTH INNING—Energy bats afterward ap-|out @ three bagger, but Enthust becoming over-anxiour, fai No runs ent him. Wishing to attend born peen troubled much of the day by rake he placed a note on the tion which read: A collector soon In walked past the secretary,| out > Lack of Puil | nearly steals home on Young M. but Good Character makes a wor the|derful throw and catches him a’ disheveled|the plate in the nick of time. was linvented in America. “Didn't you read the note?” jruns. Ambition to makes another big hit, but lacking support, falls to score, EIGHTH INNING—Game looks like a draw, Young Man's team shows signs of groggin while g¢| Opposition i* going strong. "UNCLE “ICHABOD— || NINTH, INNING—Young " [starts ninth inning with one | On Heredity |lger. Ambition to Get Married ¢ bi M%\lows with another single, ¥ comes across with a one-bagger, advancing Young Man to third| base. Pretty Good Job develops Junexpected strength and size and} Hines out a sizzling grounder, | Young Man races for home. De- creased Purchasing Power of the Dollar grabs ball and shoots it t> catcher. It looks like Good-Night for the Young Man, But here The Young Lady the Young Man Wants to Marry gets in some fine work She turns a beautiful Self-Sacritice | |smile on the Opposition team, ren- | |dering the entire team helpless. | | Young Man wins home amid the! enthusiastic cheers of the multi-| tude. | “I write for posterity you think of my work?” “Retter let posterity judge it. telling wh Louisviile What do try, No s may be then.”— BY EDMUND VANCE COOKE "You see," said Uncle Ichabod, “this thing they call heredity Soaks thru the generations like the smell of asafedity. And once your family fastens to its own peculiar habit, You got no more chance to dodge it, or escape it, than a rabbit “Now, if you ever noticed that first chapter of St, Matt's You'll find it's, just heredity—a straight sting of ‘begats.’ It's set down there, before your eyes, Just like a diagram, Provin’ the begattin habit runs straight back to Abraham (AND THEN) “And next time you rod a birth | He finds that it was only a pra card, if you'll set to work and|tice game after all, and that the| trace it, real game of life begins with the| You'll find birth’s a family habit, as|tap of the wedding bell, | far back as you can chase it. The Opposition Team Plays bet-| The father's folks, the mother's|ter than ever before, and tho] folks, and all their folks be-|}Young Man's Team 1s weakened fore ‘em rather than strengthened by the Had babies in their families, and had mothers, too, which bore ‘em, Wor heredity is wonderful! Just beats creation How the baby-havin’ habit skip a generation,” (Coy yatght, 1919, N. B.A) . number of recruits he takes on Third baseman Savings t# kept the ragged edge all the time bu ing shoes and thinks like that fo: Jolingiie, Willie, Susie and Geral- dine, Ambition to Get way to his brother, and it 6 never | | Married gives Ambition to ny (Copyright, 1919, by Donsid McKee.) Dover. On the 26th of August result of the battle of Crecy revolu tionized the warfare of the middle ages, for the flower of the French | , [army was defeated by the English) Againet ward's tactics were the result not | Fitch and John Stevens On the 26th of August, Joshua Stoddard, the inventor, was! fal press agent of the cession Tharles a, Relance 26-piece set 26-plece set Oneida Community, EDITORIALS — FEATURES aA RL PPAR yaa (A T'M GONNA LEARN TH!’ SECRUTS An' THEN I'M GONNA TELL EVER’ Bopy = }) 55 B.C, on the 26th of August.| Julius Caesar landed on Pritivh| at a point eight miles north of in 1046 Battle of Crecy was fought in | |France. The English under Edward THAT'S RIGHT; KEEP OUT OF IT) THE LINEUP; 111, defeated a French force of “I saw you at the moving picture| OPPOSITION—High Cost of Liv-|three times their number under show last evening.” said the fat\ing, short stop, captain; Income|Philip VI. King Philip, who was plumber, “but when I looked for|Tax, first base; Inflated Rents,|twice wounded, was one of the last] ‘you @ little iater I missed you.” |second base; Decreased Purchasing |Wreochmen to leave the field. The! that French Edward cavalry soldiers the went ka picture?” }Get Married, catcher: Pluck, first |Of foresight but of chance; he Incked “No.” lbase; Pretty Good Job, second |horses and therefofe employed in “And you left at the most inter-/nase: Savings, third base: Good |fantry, but the outcome discredited esting part?” Character, right field; Energy,|the military efficiency of the day “Yes” lcenter field? Ability, left fleld: nd started a new mystem of tac “Why? thusiasm, short stop les. It is entimated by Frolesart “I knew if things kept on as they STAKE 3 . that 30,000 French soldiers, 1,200 AKE FOR WHICH GAME " were headed there would be = fuss) pr sven. bce young } - the | knighta, #0 bannerets and nine Pretty soon between the two men.| young man wants to marry, * princes, out of a force of 90,000 or between the man and his wife THe GAME: were killed. | In 1791, on the 26th of August,! the first patents for a steamboat! were issued simultaneously to Nath Read, James Rumeey, John The Fitch steamboat had made its trial trip] on the Delaware river four years previous to the insuing of the pat-| Stoddard | and bay chief pn to popularity was his inven of the steam calliope, that ger clrous pro horse. 1843 on the 26th of August, Thurber, of W 8, took out a pa writer. The Th the first practical typew | }Get Along, and, between you. | collector. " . | m 5 | SIXTH INNING—Income ‘Tax,|and the t, that’s about eat t Wat udu ee War Tax, State Tax and City Tax|far as the Young Man's Team ev : a Poppa “% a te 1(2° some wonderful team work on| gets, ¢ when it becomes the Old ) . Nn a ; dincovere t Tl Opposition Team and nip a great| Man's m fae AParaeo Ale bh case be and was.) rally started by Pluck and Ability.| For lif such! ous | SEVENTH Stil no} — Get Marriet| fet's go buy Boldt’s French pas: | Uptown, 114 3d Ave.; down town, 913 2d Ave. | Phone Elliott 2107 Seattle Advertising Service and Purchasing Co. 1264 EMPIRE BLDG. Distributors of Community Silver, ilor-Made Coats and Suits for Ladies and Gentlemen We purchase for you and extend credit ECIAL OFFERINGS UNITY SIL this week ommunity Bridal * wreath pattern 26-piece set, with $11.50 CIAL NO. Community pattern including $19.75 SPECIAL NO. 862 Oneida Community, Adams pattern including chest $31.60 SPECIAL NO, 898 Adams chest chest pattern Hollowhandle Dessert Knives 6 Wlat-handle Dessert Forks 12.50 ————— Te ¥ | r On the Issue of a = || Americanism Jhere Can | Be No Compromise in 1814,) SHAKESPEARE’S PEOPLE BY DK. FRANK CRANE | (Copyright, 1919, by Frank Crane) | The characters in Shakespeare's just as real in the mind of the world as the characters in history. The first class in literature will now stand up and answer the |following questions, to see how well they are | acquainted with these people. Give the jname of the play in which the character plays are ; 29, Hamlet. 30, A Winter’s Tale. 31, Ham- jlet. 82, Othello. 83, Cymbeline. 34, As |You Like It. 385, Romeo and Juliet. 36, The Taming of the Shrew. 37, Hamlet. 38, | The Merchant of Venice. 39, Twelfth Night. 140, Romeo and Juliet. 41, The Tempest. 42, A Midsummer Night’s Dream. 43, The loccurs, and, if possible, add some bit of | Merchant of Venice. 44, A Midsummer é | information. Night’s Dream. 45, As You Like It. 46, T% | 1, Ariel. 2, Mark Antony. 3, Antonio. | Hamlet. 47, As You Like It. 48, The |4, Sir Andrew Aguecheek. 5, Audrey. 6, |Merry Wives of Windsor. 49, The Taming |Bassanio. 7, Sir Toby Belch. 8, Benedick. | of the Shrew. 50, Hamlet. 51, The, Mer- |9, Benvolio, 10, Bottom, 11, Brutus. 12, | chant of Venice. 52, The Tempest. 53, A }Ann Bullen. 13, Caliban, 14, Capulet. 15, | Midsummer Night's Dream. 54, King Lear. |Cassandra. 16, Cassius. 17,Charmian. 18, | 55, As You Like It. 56, The Merchant of Cordelia. 19, Desdemona. 20, Dogberry Venice. 57, The Merry Wives of Windsor. es ; ee Paes at | 58, The Comedy of Errors. 59, The Tam- Duncan. 22, Elinor. 23, John Falstaff. ing of the Shrew. 60, A Midsummer Ferdinand, 25, Mistress Ford. |Night’s Dream. 61, As You Like It. 62, |\Fortinbras. 27, Gobbo, 28, Goneril. |The Two Gentlemen of Verona. 63, Twelfth |Guildenstern. 30, Hermione. 21, Horat | Night. 64, Hamlet. , Iago. 33, Imogen. 384, Jacques. 5, | jar John, 36, Katharine. 37, Laertes. NOTES. |88, Lorenzo, 39, Malvolio. 40, Mercutio. 19, Pronounced Dez-de-mo-na. 30, Herm- \41, Miranda. 42, Mustardseed. 43, Nerissa. | eye-o-nee. 82, E-ah-go. 33, Miss Terry |44, Oberon, 45, Oliver. 46, Ophelia. 47, | said Im-o-jen, Julia Marlowe Im-o-jene. 34, Orlando. 48, Ann Page. 49, Petruchio. | Sothern, said Jack; Furness, Jay-kweze; 50, Polonius. 51, Portia. 52, Prospero. 53, , Miss Anglin, Zhahk; Ben Greet, Jakes. 41, Puck. 54, Regan. 55, Rosalind. 656, Shy- | Mi-ran-da, first syllable short. 55, Most | actors say Roz-a-lind, first and last syllables short, but Furness pronounced last i long— lined. 63, Otis inner Vee-o-la, Fo Robertson, Vi—long i. 64, Short o. This article was suggested by Irvine’s | “How to Pronounce the Names in Shakes- lock. 57, Simple. 58, Dromio of Syracuse. 59, Christopher Sly. 60, Titania. 61, Touch- stone. 62, Valentine. 63, Viola. 64, Yorick. ANSWERS. 1, The Tempest. 2, In Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra. 3, The Merchant of | peare,” a new book every Shakespeare lover ; Vencie. 4, Twelfth Night. 5, As | ought to own. ; |You Like It. 6, The Merchant of —————— * Venice. 7, Twelfth Night. 8, Mach Ado |» |About Nothing. 9, Romeo and Juliet. 10, THE OLD GARDENER SAYS: A Midsummer Night’s Dream. 11, Julius | #—-——— —* \Caesar, 12, Henry VII. 13, The Tempest. | 14, Romeo and Juliet. 15, Troilus and Cres- When you are cutting your gladioli be sure to leave some of the foljage. Otherwise the bulbs will not A * *e 7 ripen up properly for the next season. 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