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

THE SEATTLE STAR—THURSDAY, SEPT. 25, 1919. On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise Seattle Star = ‘ ‘of city, * Year, $5.00, In the = Months, '$ A Washing A month, $4.50 for 6 mont r Ry ‘carrier, city, b0e Outside the state, ha, or $9.00 per month WE'LL SAY SO ) TOMORROW WOKLIYS POOKEST KEPORTER | OPE CLEMENT VIL, Julius de | COVERS POLICE BEAT i M * 1534, on the 6 a] et Be © Death—the black hand that smites all our| opes, our loves, our memories, and kindly hu- ties into the dust of forgetfulness and chaos. m What hope and relief from sorrow the old orld would feel if it knew, not hoped, that death not only did not end all, but that man’s latter estate was more blessed than his former. What golden glow of hope wquld emblazon now dark chamber where a world mourns beloved dead, if those left behind knew their id not only lived again but kept in spiritual ouch with the living on earth. “Do the Dead Live Again? Wh periences. Men of art, of letters, of science, become con-, vinced that the dead do send back messages; and other men as well trained, of as honest and sincere desire to know the truth, assert, after much investigation, that it is all foolishness and ithat there is no piercing of the veil. Recently many newspapers over the country have been publishing what purports to be the spirit message of Mary Baker Eddy; a message to the church she founded, giving the name of jan English psychic authority as the channel thru _ Thru the ages man has pried into the future, which her future revelations would come. nd tho he seldom reached anything in his grop- ag, still he kept on; there is an innate urge to that may mean mankind is destined one day fo build a path of light from this shore to the ext Also along come letters from this English scientist, Frederick L. Rawson, demanding to know whence came this news of his apostleship, and stating that he had not been advised of it, nor had he knowledge of the author of the letters if our memory serves us aright, one of the funda mental antipathies of Mrs. Eddy was spiritual- lism and its manifestations, and along with it mesmerism, hypnotism and psychical research generally. But the world is astir on this old, old subject more than ever before in its history. ithat of the resurrection, and of spirit messages to those living. The Star has no cue for, nor criticism of, those earnest delvers into the infinite mysteries. but we will gladly publish experiences, opin- ions, theories, beliefs and arguments on this en- tire subject. Not only because of the human interest the at Say You? Certainly no subject is of more human in-|! terest; certainly no hope is more persistent than ¢ Cornelius J, Giazard IL, wapape? reporter “ ‘ about,” preferr or work here to his long © Weekly t me, in ch he interviewed the chief of ot Four Corners, Kan, the man of train No. 4 of the npern Pacific, with whom he had y words, and other notables, | “This t# the Mfe!” declared young Gizzard this morning, after inter | viewing.one of the hopheads in the “It's Just what I want— |? un than talking to the t Cent is, Ill., and big men, and young Vanderbilt has nothing on me.” ER CHAMPION MAY ICKEL CHAMPION —WoT? $1.50 and $1.00 60 cents, except \GREAT SIL | BECOME | Season tickets |Single admission, lfor W. J. Bryan, which will be 6 jcents, No one permitted to buy more than 10 ticket fo war tax |—Barberton (O.) But, as the milkman remarked, “Pouriness big, but there's not much cream in it.” ling the Protestant Epinc Clement VIL » of Henry against Hen tallated by separating England from the Church of Rome a stablish ‘opal Church as the church of England. On the 26th of September, in 1776, congress appointed Benjamin Frank Dean and Thomas Jeffer- ommissioners to the court They were the first per ted by the government of the United States to act as rep resentatives in @ foreign countrys | In 1777, on the 25th of September, British troops, commanded by Lord entered Philadelphia. Wash army lay at Skippack , 18 miles distant from the city In 1814, on the 26th of Septem ber, the American privateer brig |General Armstrong was attacked in |a neutral port by three British jthips. Captain Reid, in command of the American ship, twlee drove off the attacking fleet and sunk several of their boats. He was fin- ally obliged to scuttle his ship to je capture. The American loss Numerous British statesmen Pie two men killed and seven country should sell some of|wounded. The British losses were the islands in the western Atlantic) 120 dead and 130 wounded. to the United States. What's the| In 1878, on the 26th of September, Are they leaking| Richard Mansfield made his first appearance on the American stage WEDS MEISE OFC SK ZTE, dMakinga _—sif Medicine 1875 —1919 In 1875, Lydia E. Pinkham of Lynn, jass., gathered and dried the roots and herbs whi she used in the now famous topic holds, but because such a discussion always brings to the light new facets of the many| faced jewel of truth, and so the world learns) [matter with ‘em? and about to «ink? And then, maybe, it is all vain imagining, and| purporting to give the interviews with Mrs. hen the dead die they are utterly vanished,| Eddy. oe : d those places that once knew them shall know) Meanwhile the Christian Science church no more forever. ‘ recognizes no spiritualistic revelations; indeed,|and grows. r ng with the general spiritual stirring that| HR FER Ree OLA cette j ond out of / world "aoe has come a re- Sort of Warms You All Up Inside. —By McKee. ved endeavor among the sons of men to strive BG EET c r across the borderland. MMe ejb " The world today is filled with spirit message rts of all sorts. , lew societies spring up and collect weird ex- v) Ul MMU WLLL a YY fd, } / / Wed Ud as dy Led lh Ll MY Uh UL Ls dd did In Marco Polo’s Day m we are not busy rediscovering something that was d by the ancients and then lost—finding it again and it an invention—we are busy patting ourselves on hly inventive backs and bragging about the strides n knowledge is taking into new fields. tainly the use of oil, of petroleum, for medicinal | fuel purposes is recent. oil lamps came within the memory of living men. | wide range of tar products used in medicine; the of coal tar derivatives for disinfectants and healing nds—all this is very new. “On the confines toward Georgiana there is a from which oil springs in great abundance insomuch | 100 shiploads might be taken from it at one time. | oil is not good to use with food, but ’tis GOOD TO IRN, AND IS ALSO USED TO ANOINT ANIMALS 1T HAVE THE MANGE. People come from great dis-| to fetch it.” | ‘This little note on the use of naphtha and baser oils for) it and medicinal purposes is taken from the writing of | co Polo, written some 200 years before Columbus dis-| d America. | was speaking of the great naphtha wells of the Baku ula on the Caspian sea—a field that is still produc- great quantities of oil, after these hundreds and hun- of years of free flowing. hich suggests that probably we will have oil and gaso- for some time yet, despite the frequent fret of oil| } mates lest the supply be speedily exhausted. | well that was flowing 100 shiploads six or seven hun- d oped ago, and that still is gushing, gives the flivver 1 hope. 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Pinkham's egetable Compound has brought health and happiness into their lives, once bur with pain and i It is easy to realize how these poor, suffering women feel when restored to health; and their keen desire to help other women who are suffering as they did. Ailing Women Should Try Lydia E.Pinkham’s § Vegetable Compound BERNIE FOR TELLING TALES ON THE CROWD (Copyright, 1919, by Donald McKee, Passing It On 3 | | “Passing it on” is an ancient game. The war immensely | mulated it, with additions. That is, not only the increased in raw material, wages, etc., was passed on by business n, but profit on the increase. It was like the “cost plus” | b s which the government entered into—the more! paid for material and wages, the greater their profits. | thing the consumer should watch is taxation plans | : | ed by congress. One of the big advantages of income|, The other half of any truth is what | that it cannot continue. Then another gen-| inheritance taxes is THEY CANNOT BE PASSED ON. |i8 already in a man’s mind. | eration appears, a bit less saturated with and inheritance taxes are DIRECT taxes. That is what Thoreau meant when he | error, and the reform advances again. ' Recently a questionnaire was submitted to nearly 2,000 said, “It takes two to tell the truth.” This has been the history of every form n of affairs by a prominent stock exchange firm. "On| And | that is what Jesus meant when He | of progress in civilization. For instance, in question of direct or indirect taxation, some 1,500 an. | S24, ‘To you it is given to know, but to,| Religious Tolerane in the Labor Move- d. The sentiment in favor of indirect as against direct | ™e™ it is not given. ment, in W oman’s Emancipation, in Educa- 4 was two to one. The reason advanced is a per- Furnishing proof is the smallest part of | tion, in Medicine, and in every one of the tly intelligible one; that indirect taxes distribute them-|COnvincing a man. | The most difficult part | phases of Democracy. E that is, CAN BE passed on to the ultimate consists in getting his mind into a con- So also in every quarrel you have to give |dition to receive the proof. the two sides time enough to wear them- That is why reforms go so slowly. selves out. It is not that your arguments Truth has to Grow. Your seed may be | are defective. It is that their minds won’t jall right, but it will not grow if the soil is | receive them. jbad. Supplying ideas is not the great problem Ancient religions, full of superstitions and | in Education, it is getting rid of ideas. absurdities, linger on, not because intelli- A savage, an ignorant lout, knows just gence has not exposed them, but because | as much, has as many ideas and convictions people’s minds are saturated with their | as a wise and cultured person. His brain error. is just as full. Only it is full of trash and Fallacies in government, such as absolut- | weeds. ism, class privilege and monarchy, hang on And to educate him is not like pouring long after they are dead, because they have | apples into an empty bucket, but rather been “inbred” into the mind of the race. | like cleaning # bucket of the pitch and It takes several generations to get rid | grease and garbage with which it is filled. |f of mental weeds and thistles. The beginning of wisdom is not eagerness So a reform will make a certain advance, | to learn, it is willingness to unlearn, and then seem to stop and fail; and after Every boob and Bolshevik can prove to a few years it will take another spurt, go | you he is right; but that man is truly wise a little further and halt again, and so on. who can see he is wrong. Each advance goes forward until it meets Humility is the foundation of the intel- such an accumulation of inherited prejudice ' lectual life. The Other Half BY DR FRANK CRANE (Copyright, 1919, by Frank Crane) and Tariffs and consumption taxes are indirect taxes. And More money collected by indirect taxation, the less mains to be collected by the direct route. ere’saF riendl Ti a ‘says the Good nnd 3 MME LISTE Mg Men who know tobacco} chew the best without its costing them any more. They take alittle chew and | it’s amazing how the good | taste stays in a rich, high grade chewing tobacco. 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