The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 29, 1919, Page 6

She Seattle Star § montha 00, in. the | On the Issue of 4 mericanism There Can | Be Mo Compromise | By, mai! out of city $1.50; € months § Btate of Washtngtor Tbe per month. oF wv per year oe EDITORIALS — FEATURES mtaide t The Art of Citizenship BY DR. FRANK CRANE 1919, by Frank Crane) ee ——.|Why Men Rush Out afid Walk Rapidly Around Block. By McKee} Fixing Rent Prices by Law? ; = — A + iienae = t Editor The Star: The only solution of this high rent Bituation is by the city administration licensing the hotel, @partment and flat owners. | License the hotels by class and for each class fix a certain © * rate for outside and inside rooms. é “This would stop this present graft of charging $10 for Yooms that are advertised at $4, I have found that the first | class hotels today are giving far better accommodations for | Jess money than the so-called cheap hotels, that advertise | NERE'S Someone \~ TO LOOK AT THE APARTMENT, DEAR STURB YOU}! Loom AY THE (Copyright, Buy —— The difference between an art and a| school to science, as often has been pointed out, is that a science may be learned from books ‘and by instruction while an art can be mastered only thru practice. The supreme business of the school ig to There is some attempt in our high schools | develop a sense of justice, the power g and colleges to teach the science of govern- | initiative, independence of character, cor. ment, As a result this attempt is highly | rect social and civic habits, and the ability accumulate facts, to learn lane guages, to fit themselves for a career or to acquire accomplishments. They are sent to school for training in citizenship, ¢ i 183 rooms, but that are charging from $9 up by the} Tt costs me 50 cents to get a dollar and a half white vest Jaundered; no wonder the Chinese washermen have their shelves full of bundles. ” The whole world seems insane with greed, and there seems Mo relief. Wishing you success in your fight to lower living ‘costs, I remain, respectfully, JULIUS MEYER, In a perfect state, doubtless, rents, with all other prices, id be fixed, as certain food prices were fixed during the The city and state and federal authorities would discover | ‘what the cost of doing business was, would decide what was ‘a fair profit, and would fix the rents at a figure insuring a profit to the landlord, and a fair deal to the tenant. As it is, the rental charge is left to the cupidity of the wd, who is frequently an alien speculator in leases, and greed is only bounded by the ability of the unfortunate tenants to pay. oe : There is no more inherent difficulty in regulating rents in there was in fixing the price of flour, or of bacon, or} of ships, or of powder or sugar. é a while price regulation smacks of paternalism, and is} dangerous remedy, still something must be done to check | senseless and brazen. rapacity of these rent hogs and tuffs profiteers, and\either the government must act, the people,- burdened to the point of revolt, will take n. And if the people do act, we would hate to be a rent Discounting authenticity of Mazimilian Harden's t, Germany counted on Japan to keep the U.S. out of war, still it is evident Japan is more friendly - toward Germany and German plans today than any of the other allies. Let’s Talk It Over Americans meet great national crises by first getting to- r and talking them over. This was the “town-meeting” od, our most important contribution to popular govern- It is the democratic method. If it fails, democracy Toleration, discussion and acceptance of the majority lion so evolved is the essence of our whole system of gov- nt. Theevolution of a common mind rests on meetings posite minds from corner groceries to congress. moment's most pressing problem is the relation of to industry. Strikes, lockouts and wage and hour its of all kinds, collective bargaining, closed shop or open | » industrial management, profit and power-sharing are | of this problem. Unless we can so satisfy labor as ure continuous production, labor and most of our in- will break down. far there is least trouble,in industry where there is the | frequent meeting and freest dissission. Collective | gaining and shop management thru joint committees to point the way toward better relations. Common is at least the first step toward common action. not talk it over in a great national industrial con-| ion? Congress cannot meet the need. It does not con- sin the le most interested or best informed in regard | the subject. It does not fairly represent the parties in| iontroversy. It has neither time, ability nor machinery to the situation. ne et Altho the house of representatives has adopted a reso- ‘lution directing the federal trade commission to investi- ite the high cost of shoes, it has refused to have the iry extended to clothing and food. Perhaps con- semen opine if a man buys a pair of shoes he will we no money left for other things. Future of the Interurban Probably, next to rural free delivery, the interurban electric systems have done more than anything else to ize American farm life. Within less than two decades, a 50-mile trip to town has made easier than’ a five-mile jog behind old Dobbin ‘sed to be. And now far-sighted capitalists fear that the interurban ventually will be classed with the stage-coach. First it was the flivver; now the motor truck and all ds of automobiles, threading the highways so that "farm and city are knitted more and more closely together. ss _ Passenger traffic on electric lines has fallen off radi cally "+ within five years. )) It may be that the interurban’s future lies in freight ¢: ng. The shift from passenger service to hea duty in the tremendous task of transporting necessitie: may ) give the interurban a new lease of life. ‘- a f We are informed that Article X. imposes a moral obligation, but not a legal one. The moral obligation will be strong enough, except for nations powerful enough to break a legal one. Our secretary of state thinks Japan would have signed the treaty without the Shantung provision. This iz the crowning shame, that we permitted ourselves to be outbluffed. Baron Makino declared that Japan reserves the right to make a settlement in Shantung “under the usual conditions.” Are Korean conditions usual? Lansing testifies that the treaty carried out Wil- gon’s 14 points, “substantially.” It carried out some of them and buried them substantially. Persons eager to go abroad and sce the ruins can save money by staying at home and observing our postal system. We owe one debt to the Bolsheviki. They gave us a new term to apply to people who don't agree with our The chief menace to civilization everywhere is the wt that nobody feels responsible for what is going to And the laundry profiteers are as bad as the rent hogs. | | expecially lator Hanna ma re FUR TURE tm IT Chorus giris in New York have jolmed the actors’ strike. The cho rus girls are becoming more verea tile. now they have walked out. re Al Fenn sends it, telling of “Some Self Mader Tho I may lack Promethean fire, O'er tales of self-made men loat; . To emulate ‘em's my desire, Yet, now and then one gets my f° goat. . And then, as one can easily the baker can easily raise bread without any yeast oe Indiana rep man who will Why don't biicans can’t run for governor they ask some woman |to run? A newspaper story of Sena drew Carnegie milk Is an Hanna f and An nd pie in March, 1905. It is interesting because Sen died in February, 1904. . . But, as Bruns cashier, remarked, a very strong mar the state bank “It doesn't tak to break a silver dollar.” »—— —* MOST HATED MAN BY REV. CHARLES STELZLE % Staff Writer on Religious Topics for bricks from th The Star “They hated cause.” ‘There never was a man who was hated more bitterly than Jesus He was hated: By the orthodox religious peo- ple. By By leaders, me without a his narrow fellow towns the social and political By the stand-patters in indus trial life He was hated Because He preached which forg He advocated of by the commonest out the love of God eg all sin brotherhood the man assoct ating with caste, Because narrow He interpretation disregarded of and other big: and practices. He demanded 1 economic justice Thi that the bath observance noclal to all the hatred was Jewus He spit upon, He He was beaten He had a thorns forced 1 He crucified, He & spearthrust thru And yet Jesus never evaded nor side stepped a single issue, He never fled from his enemies, He never retracted his statements and He never wid or did one bitter per. onal thing—He was true to the end of the road During His last moments, as He looked down from the cross upon those who hated Him, He prayed with pity, in his heart “Pather, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” “0 was ordered lied intense out of about, He was put in with a of brow town was was prison, scourge crown hi was given clear And His last thoughts were not for Himself, but for the wel fare of His mother, whom He eating a luncheon of All they've ever been able to; do ts to walk on and walk off and | star 1) You've got nee.! | find a/to shoot interesting | Starr's right cheek IN THE WORLD | 7 jering aad coved TELL KITCHEN —¥+ = in, j os APARTMENT —1F THERE'S ANYONE ya SOT wo watery seen iT! SYEP RIGHT IM AND LOOK AT THE SUCH IP Malye PITY THE POOR MOVIE STAR If you think the life of a movie is ail sunshine and aonther think coming. Far from {t—very far from it—as the following honest-to-goodnens yunt will indicate, The scene * any movie studio; the time is ny time the star wants to get way early. DIRECTOR Now, Mr, Starr we'll rehearst this scene a couple more times and then we'll be re y Weo, ught to be thru in three or four hours. (Star groans.) CAMERAMAN: “Retter start all over again and rehearst it with Mr flowers. to the camera left the right photographs much better. Ith only take ah hour or two longer (Star groans again.) DIRECTOR “All start all again Mr, Starr, right (Two later thinks scene has ciently rehearsed.) DIRECTOR: “All right take Camera, it, Mr. Starr, turn tis way Instead of his Bo right, we'll Remember. cheek to over hours the the been suffi- now shoot! register hate. rig 1 know m't we'll ata ow it the camera, yo the floor to move as th wall fall on yo hen the villain hits you on the head with the scantling. Yer, I know ft hurts, but we have to t—It's needed in the picture, Nov stagger to your feet a few brulees won't hurt you ra » don't want to go thru again, 1 know.” AR want big da DIDEK should say I DON it again—1I got TOF “There, at last DIRECTOR that's watch) © god: PUBLICITY M riedly): “And fore wo I of your time AN (entering Mr. § want hu arr, be you halt t got & newspaperman who wants to interview you from ply | here He wants » big you on ‘Why [ Ar Love With My Work to get tor 80 Dee committed to the of ciples; thiet Him day care nd crucifi He said of one who to whom thou shalt paradise a d that all thru the ages men have paid homage to Jesus? was th “When I cross On whieh the Prince of Glory died, My richest gain I count but Joss, And pour contempt on all my pride survey the wondrous “Were the whole realm ture mine, That were a small; Love "0 amazing, xo divine, Demands my soul, my life, my all.” of na Present far too the director ineffectual. It is a hard, There are few, if any, interesting text-books | oy upon it, and the impression so prevalent | toward the duties of citizenship, everywhere in this democratic world is not absent from the school room—that politics is something removed from the concerns of ordinary self-respecting people; that it is tinged“with reproach and that it is fol- lowed only by those who wish to hold office or secure graft, The salvation of democracy depends abso- lutely upon the salvation of politics. Unless the body of the people can become interested in politics, their government surely gravitates into the hands of the bosses and grafters, of the science of government | being taught in the higher grades of our educational institutions, the art of citizen- ship should be taught in every grade*from the kindergarten to the university. That is, children should have not only information about the theory of self-govern- ;yment, but, far more than this, they need democracy is politics. someon To Loom AT THE APART MmaNT : Instead |practice in self-government. There is no way to attain this end except to substitute democracy under instruction for the ordinary monarciical school govern- ment. | to co-operate toward the subject. The curse of dry common good,.— democracy is indiffe: It | stated that in Philadelphia from 20 to 6 per cent of the men habitually refrai# | from voting in local elections. In a election of members of the constitutional convention in Massachusetts more than 85 per cent of the men refused to vote, and in one wealthy and highly educated election | district in the city of Newton 96 per cent refused to vote. The edu- 4 of For 2 And this is a common story. cated, intelligent class are disfranchised their own indifference and by the pe cious notion that politics is unclean. The Philadelphia Rotary club passed a resolution to the effect that 4 declared its belief “that one of the prime purposes of education is to prepare boys and girls to become good citizens and to this end some definite training in the forms and procedure of voting and electing offi- cers should be provided by the public schools of Pennsylvania.” There is such a thing as saving at the spigot and wasting at the bung. It will do little good for us to wage wars and make treaties to preserve democracy if we neglect to teach the fundamental ele The teaching world should get it into ments of democracy to the rising genera- their head that children are not sent to ' tion. A “Think” on Human Nature F treaty Paris 18, the | erally lorado, “that the det of the nordidness among the ! : ; % any other time in history.” | TOMORROW opinion isn't wholly based upon such Cleopatra, Queen} mitted to know ot Exypt, destroye aarace ela?“ Ex.Soldier Gets In | en the great warrior Sultan of Turkey Asia and taken from the possession | of Rhodes. +England colonists and the to pay the expense of the prepara expenne already entered into wan ee On the 30th of August, in 1832 ince March were estimated at the Confederates under General Lee| King Swope is the first repub- On the 30th of August, in 189f| gress. He served with the U. S. |for the pork |resent his state In the lower house. ported drinks and edibles everal trom the United States on a SYDNEY, Aug. 29.—It isn't gen abr This many and given to Japan by the BY K. F. PAINE “I think.” says Senator Thomas, of pence congress, when given to the world, will dinclore a selfixhness and will prove that human nature is “| practically unchanged since 1916 or A whole lot of Americans are ac- quiring this same “think,” details of the peace congress pro- N the 30th of August, In the/ ceedings as the world has been per- year 20 B.C. herself by the; ———— bite of an asp to herself from | sg the diegrace of c In 1566, on the 20th of August, | |Solyman IL, called the Magnificent, | died. He had prosecuted his wars with great success in Burope and of the Christian Knights of Jeru-| |aniem their stronghold on the Island On the 30th of August, in 1645, a treaty of peace was signed between aneett Indians. By this the Indians were compelled tions incurred by the English to | prosecute a war against them. The timated by the colonists at 2,000 fathoms of wampum. | the deaths from a plague of cholera which tad been ravaging 900. AUING SU/OPR In 1862, on the 20th of August, |defeated the Federals under Pope at\lican from Kentucky tn 23 years the second battle of Bull Run to mucceed in being elected to con- lcongress passed an act providing army, in France, And he's only inspection by the Depart.|the second republican ever to rep- ment of Agriculture of salted and bacon for export and of im MARSHALL ISLANDS of the European nations ad dis eriminated against importations FOUND BY BRITON of the infected meat which known, but the Marshall American packers were sending| islands which’ are taken from Ger inning ongress were discovered by gliishman and take their name ot of congress was effective national jon, and, within a Parsage of the b countries re * from him. M ar after hall, and rborough, moved| John Charlott the Se master of the ship Thomas Gilbert of sailing for China ran into the islands and is how the Marshall Islands nd the Gilbert Islands got their names Europea their restrictio On the law p of colle han be raised by ame year "1 viding fe Ken honey the / Out of the Mouths of | 5 Babes. iH * Jack ¢ Stanley—Say, le gur Unele LAttle have Kot leg Jack—Certainly not, Then why child Stanle do they | breeche Tea c The or rrect what soon drank.” this sentence the man bought| “The was Bright bought ¢ Pupil man ‘oon drunk.” who iquor t uid the Sunday school teacher to tho juvenile class, wut you about Jonah and the Hub almed a five-year tor jkids on to Chat fish excl bright little] Ain't these yet?" story | Mamma—When that bad boy | threw stones at you why didn’t you come and tell me instead of throw |ing at him? Edward (aged 6)--Pshaw! That| wouldn't have helped any. You} Jcouldn’t hit the side of a barn, | |MILLIONS ASKED FOR JAPAN FORTS! TOKIO, Aug The war office | has prepared a budget f rly $200,000,000 to be expend on the! ston watched the 4 } nations that} and the} 8 | dispute. One detail, which Woodrow Wil- [like a stuck pig because she son himself has presented, shows that |get all she asks, Japan gete Sh America sat down at the peace table | tung and half the Gérman tslands. with the dice secretly loaded against |all looks like national sordidness ané# her, in the shape of secret treaties as | pre-war human nature, doesn’t it? | to selfish, sordid territorial appor-| In addition, some two dozen ite! tionment concocted by Great Britain, | nations are, right now, making war France, Italy and Japan. And that|more territory. Even poor, old, sordidness finally triumphed over Mr.| potent China {s sordid and hum Wilson's high moral aspirations for|She objects to being robbed ag! world democratization, open di-|means of getting the signature plomacy, self-determination of peo-|one of the high contracting parties ples and a square deal for the weaker | that covenant, which, President nations, son states, will owe its potency to This detail of the conference pro-| conscience and high moral attributes ceedings is plain to America. beyond | of the nations. Forsooth, the evidence for Hut there's much other testimony | ness and unchanged human nature fa as to the selfishness, sordidneas and | Europe is very strong, ty human nature of the foreign nations,| If selfishness and sordidness at least. Jteen put down and any great chat The league covenant is greeted |in human nature evolved, the all ‘with laughter In the British commons | tions must be looked for in At i] } asks the flunkey, giris romping in Hyde Park they made @ surprise visit to the festival in London's famous park, and made a jest in the French cham-|and when {t is considered how o bers, But England clings to every |rageously Americans are profit acre she had and acquires millions of | upon each other, the suspicion square miles of new territory. France |that human nature is doing quite gets more than Alsace-Lorraine. | bit of business on old-time lines, Italy gets more territory, and squeals|in America. All Right, Neighbors, Let’s Hang Our Latchstrings Out Fully 60,000 outof-town visitors will be in Seattle during “Fleet Week.” beginning Soptember 8, Seattle hotels are pretty well filled. So are apartment and reom- ing houses. But the visitors must be housed, and Jim Lansbury, chair. man of the fleet housing committee, has undertaken the task. “We're asking everybody to do their bit,” said Lansbury Tues day. “By opening our homes, and in no other way, will we be ablé to accommodate the crowd.” If you have a room, or more, fill out the following and mall it to the Fleet Housing Committee, 205 Commercial building: Street Cap Line . seeaeNO. of Car... Double Rooms.....-.+cssesseres Single Rooms ..,.. . Double (Male or female) Single Reds . Beds . (Male or female) Price, if any Parties Preferred Remarks TN eee “Blime, Where’s the Fun?” “Where's the bally fu forts of Japan over a period of 45 jof England as they years, faces of King George and Queen jolly They had jots ef fun with the chi but look at the