The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 11, 1919, Page 6

TAGE & EDITORIAL- ad | From a White Farmer Editor The r: I have been a close observer of the | Jap for 30 yes and I have my first Jap to see who was #® good American, or who worked for the betterment of any cause or nation but himself and the Japanese government. Their first and last thought is to get the dollar. The Jap is industrious, and will work long hours and make his whole family do likewise. But they are slow of movement and so can stand long hours. In comparison to a white man the Jap will do less in 12 hours than the white man will in 10. ; Iam a berry grower and there are Japs on three sides of my place. I have never employed a Jap and hope I never shall. : The great secret of Japanese success in co-operation. The boss Jap will contract, or have his fellow Japs bring their produce to his place, and he either buys their goods or sells on a commission basis. And he takes out a fat profit for his superior knowledge of our language and our customs, Most city folks would turn pale with disgust if they could step into these packed quarters where the Japs live. I have seen as many as 30.to 40 sleep in one box car, and com- pared to the white man’s house for one family there will be three to five times as many Japs in the same sized house. You can be blind and recognize a Jap house 50 feet away, if your nose is at all sensitive. . If the nice city housewives, who go out of their way to patronize the Jap vegetable stalls, could see the methods employed by these Jap gardeners to enrich their soil, to keep the bugs from their garden truck, etc., they would never buy anything grown by a Jap. Inquire from some informed gardener what the Japs use to spray their green vegetables with; you will be enlight- ened. One Jap, who is clawing in our money as fast he can grab, said to the owner of an adjoining berry patch, “Oh, you white men will have to get out, one by one.” Some encouragement to us Americans who refuse to rent or sell our places to the Japs. They aim to force us to move, or see and smell Japan every time we look over our fence. Another Jap says to the man he was working for: “1 work for you, by and by you work for me.” If ever I work for a Jap, it will be putting him aboard a ship bound for Nippon. Of course, some of our big corporations want to keep the Japs here to “solve” the labor problem, but they are cor- porations that put the dollar ahead of the love of country. What do they care for anything but money? But we, who till the soil and earn our bread by the sweat of our brow, have to bear the brunt of raising our children and fighting for our rights among the continually increas- ing Jap invaders. I heartily indorse The Star’s stand in this greatest American question, and I truly hope the American people will awaken to their danger. If we don’t make a stand, and protect the coming gener- ation from this peril, we will be false to the trust our fore- fathers left—they who so nobly protec gor heritage for us. I would like to see more letters from 100% Americans. E. L. B., Sumner, Wash. I The Star would also like to see more letters from 100% Americans, like y: From who are bravely fighting out, on their little farms and berry patches, the white man’s fight against the yellow peril. ‘ One such fighter as you, one such man, struggling against odds, to.continue true to the trust of keeping this country stainless from alien saturation; one such is leaven to enliven the sodden lump of selfish, or bigoted, or silly Jap lovers who, thru ignorance or greed, would peddle their birthright for a mess of yellow pottage. A Real Hero |e Our idea of a 1919 peace-time hero is Rudolph Brenck of | New Britain, Conn., who doubled his family of eight children by marrying Mrs. Annie Newfield, mother of another eight children. Thus starting their new matrimonial venture with 16 children in the family. In these days of high living costs the undertaking of feed-| ing, clothing, educating eight children is a man’s sized job. Doubling the task is an achievement worthy of the super- -man. * Also, while we are distributing medals to Mr. Brenck let us hand a few to the new Mrs. Brenck, who will sew, mend, nt and do a thousand and one things for 16 instead of | eight. Surely peace has hey heroes—and heroines! | ARMISTICE DAY BY EDMUND VANCE COOKE Armistice Day! when a new sun rose And the hate and the horror reached a close. But here is the slave of a crawling crutch, So made by the shrapnel’s devilish whim, And our ribbons and trinkets don’t mean much To a man torn limb from limb. Armistice Day! and a peace proclaimed, But how is it peace to the halt and maimed? Armistice Day! when the curtain dropped On the tragic field and the strife was stopped. But there are no fields, nor hills, nor skies For him whom the noon-day lends no light, For the demon of gas ate out his eyes* And his day is endless night. Armistice Day, with the war behind! But how is it ended for one made blind? Armistice Day! and the joy-bells ring And the children of earth leap up and sing! But one, who is here, is yet away, And a maggot is at his festered brain. He whimpers and whines at his painful play And he giggles at sores and pain, Armistice Day, and the world is glad, But how is it happy for one made mad? Armistice Day! and the wild world cheers And laughs and forgets its foolish fears. But the wooden crosses stand in hordes And stretch white arms in an endless prayer, For they who have paid for the broken swords Hold eternal armistice there. Armistice Day! and a petty pride! And the war is over—for those who died! (Copyright, 1919, N. E. A.) THE SEATTLE STAR—TUES lost on the battlefield of land and sea. went. we have done little but talk about it. In tinues. One year has not brought the returned farm he wanted and which the governmen possible for him to own. Our vast armies have been demobilized. being held in Minneapolis shows they r welfare. United States within the past 12 months, a co-operation in peace is as fruitful and as during the war. Labor and capital must | must the producers and consumers. co-operation hadn’t.ebbed away with the mistice. our second year of peace! ONE YEAR OF PEACE One year ago this day the Germans signed the armistice terms Marshal Foch dictated, ending a war they alréady had One year ago today a new era of peace began. A world was to turn from making munitions to pursuits of peaceful indus- try, and millions of men were to change from uniforms of de- struction to overalls of construction. Wonderful projects of re- adjustment were planned—and planning is about as far as they One year has gone by and what plans of readjustment are not piled on the junk heap are woefully in lack of repairs. We still are talking about the peace treaty. We haven't done any- thing with the railroads. Nor with the merchant marine. The peace cost of living is higher than it was during the war, and this includes both capital and labor, has been the subject of no end of conversation, while production lags and But with all these things not a¢complished, urgent matters left undone, business unattended to, we—the nation and the people—are better off today than when the last shot was fired. back home and gone back to their jobs. Their convention now team work—work together—for their own and their country’s It has been this lack of team work, the peace-time failure of co-operation, which has slowed up production in the the feeling of unrest naturally following war. We who may not have the honor of being members of the American Legion may take a tip from them. We can learn that Our first year of peace would have been entirely different, immensely more pleasing to all of us, if the war-time spirit of Let us bring it back into life, starting this, the beginning of DAY, NOVEME ER 11, 1919. dustrial unrest, and vaste con- soldier nearer the t was going to make The boys have come ealize the need for nd which has stirred necessary as it was earn this lesson. So signing of that ar- EVERETT TRUE HUNTER WITH SHOT-GUN, TAKI NICE ENAMELED ROAD SIGN PUT UP AT EXPENSE TO DIRGCT THE TRAVELER ON +1 IS POT SHOT AT REAT WAY. PRETTY Good SHOT, STRANGER — COT ME TAKE YouR SUN A MINUTE, ss = : “My Best Friend For Ten Years” “Crescent Baking Pow- Ger is not a fair weather friend,” enthustastically writes a user of Cres. cent Baking Powder; “it has begn my best friend for ten years. 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The de tective has gone) Chapter 4 The driver leaped back upon his seat agd raced down the road. FE minutes later he drew up « the curb in front mansion in on aive districts Its blinds were drawn. Apparently there was no life within. But in chauffeur was up th opening the door, b About a table in ot a browne the ne most exclu great drawing room w h ered a convention of odd figures. Some had long whiskers and no hair Others had no hair and long whis kers, Altogether they were as tough A gang of crooks an ever hoarded a pound of su; r raised the price of boo! exclaimed the chauf him, but he escaped.” 1 cut-throat!" bellowed one of the bewhiskered com “You |have double-ere herhood! | At him, brothers, and tear the traitor to shreds!" ~~ 2 made quick work of the Jehauffeur, It was a terrible lesson |to others in that brotherly assem who might have entertained hairman We ate an get this trouble: Jother muri some detective.” It was noticeable that every brother wore a heavy fur overcoat, fur leggings, thick wool cap pulled |down over the ears, and heavy mit | tens 1 We must | lest embled mi ir ballots a | in the center o! | The chairman sole the ballots one by the save the black dia hanted the y silently wrote into a rew out one, counted n, and announced in a mono tone: | “Brother Knox M, Kuku, you are |named as our avenger. It is your pleasant task to seek this person Shamlock out and slay him until he is dead, dead, dead. Otherwise, we shall perish, but you shall perish | fire "Delighted!" springing up. my mission | took exclaimed Kuku, trothers, I go upon But first let me have a at the two black gems." “They are in the se vault!” do- Jelared the chairman pe them if |you wish. But death shall be yours | tonight if Shamlock live das rapidly ut of the council cham BI coat would pe Je | fore him were the two priceless lack diamonds of Lady Leevitoft. Deftly he took from his pocket two ’ ¢}inches in circumference, must | Too Big for Our Breeches BY OR, FRANK CRANE 1919, by Frank Crane) (Copyright see Class and Party. : We want to be just in taxation, but are cursed with a tax system fundamentally based on robbery, not equity, We want to be religious, but have means of religious expression but Chure} based on the issues of the Eighteenth Cen. tury and before. We have outgrown classes, but we nothing but classes, clas orvanieations eek” class passions, with which to protest, We have a deal of New Wine, but nothing on hand but Old Bottles, j We have nothing but the tools our fathers What's the matter with this world, and ! only especially the U. S. A., is that it is too bi for its breeches. We are growing too fast. We are wiser, hetter, more efficient, than our age We are as a boy of seventeen with the development of a man of thirty. For instance, we have ideas of fair play, of justice and of humanity, as to the Labor- ers, that will be all right fifty years from now, but just at present we haven't any machinery they fit. We have a wage system one degree re- | stronger, richer, moved from slavery, and are trying to make | left us, which were good enough for buil di twentieth century ideas of human relations | jog cabins, but we want to build a palace, a go into fifteenth century casings. ; We conceive of a Democracy, but we is We have a bumptious and vigorous spirit | nothing to make it with except Political Pap. bis of altruism, which we are trying to use in | ties, which is very much like making a silk Jens customs and institutions conceived in the | purse out of a sow’s ear. have selfishness and ignorance of yesterday. No, we don’t need prophets and idealist; oor | We have notions of equality and freedom | and dreamers, not right now; what we need Gern which we would fain put to practice fn insti- is Craftsmen,*Experts, to show us how to a |tutions of privilege and essential favoritism. | realize all the surplus dreams and ideals we Me | We have a sublime faith that nobody | have. P ring should have what he does not earn, but rock- Both Capital and Labor, in the Present who rooted laws of inheritance which constantly | rumpus, want to do right; they want to play ble function to give certain persons what they | fair, but they simply cannot; and they ort! jnever earned, cot ae haven’t the machinery; all their tools are grou We have the biggest idea in the world, a | out of date. after League of all Nations to stop war, but we We all want to be just and decent, but we ae can't get it into the minds that are not big | don’t know how. , i enough even to include the Nation, but can | We are too big for our breeches, Fa ‘aR Ei LEAR ERE ag OO pmpgey ws Se the h close Tt used to be that one ey . ” while th Metre paris b ne iron was hot,” You'll Never Be an Angel they consider this, to mage | production ts lowest, ‘affal BY THE REV. CHARLES STELZLE 5 ipa: taris Staff Writer on Religious Topics ‘ " You! never be an angel—that's! They keep those who put their “HIL it 2S" settled, no matter how good you may | trust in God. | %, have been ‘They cheer God's servants in the| prye They used to sing about wings and) Sour of trial. F other things that angels are supposea| TD0Y CArry departed saints home. f ee See —_ pp | They will gather out of God's king- to have, and the famous painters of! dom—at the end of the age—all| pay & couple of hundred years ago pic-|\ things that ¢ se stumbiing and in-! auets tured saints with wings, but there's |!/@uity, severing the wicked from the| ‘ positively no guarantee given in the | “&hteous. ; Bible that we're going to look or act} No—you won't be an angel in heav- clare or be like angels when we reach the °"--you'll be something better than dual glory land. an angel. = ‘Angels are different from sainte—| This is plainly the teaching of the saints being all those who will get to, Word of God. | heaven. In heaven everybody ts a| What SHALL we be like? “It doth saint. There'll be no monopoly to the | 2°¢ yet appear what we shall be, but title there. | we know that when He shall appear, Angels are a separate order of We shall be like Him.” beings. Here are some of the teach-| We'll be like God Himself. ings in the Bible about them: ‘They are created beings. ‘They are greater than man. They are mighty, and have great | power They neither marry nor die. They have great knowledge, but are m omniscient They are ndt to be worshiped. ‘They are glorious in their appear- ance. There are orders or ranks of angels. | ‘They are sometimes guilty of sin. They shall be judged by believers. They are sometimes seen of men. They are innumerable. } Haren on | Their home ts in heaven. They minister to God's ch earth. replicas of the famous gems, put these In the safe, and taking the gen-) uine stones out, dropped them into | hin pocket, closed the tiny door, wheeled about and darted thru a side door into the alley. Here he swiftly threw off his coat, VACUUM PAcKe? 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