The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 18, 1919, Page 6

She Seattle Star | By mail, out of city, Se per month; 2 months ABO; 6 months, $2.78; year, $6.00, rin the tate of Washington Outside the state The per month, $4.50 for 6 months, or $9.00 per year, By carrier, city, llc per week Reape RTS! rots Rm tN ge mee pg ny ABLES REE a Samm, = meet, a! fe ee THE SEATTLE STAR—THURSDAY, DEC, 18, 1919. Lis tletacdisedlediensablepuonneriephinag a i lage | On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise ss | What Is Americanism? A puzzled woman writes us asking The Star's definition of Americanism. Just now, when every newspaper, and every business @rganization, and every reformer, and every shouter, and even those who would destroy the government, are parad- ing behind their private banners, all of which boldly read “Americanism, Extra Select Brand,” no one can he blamed for being puzzled. Americanism is the act of being an American. An American is one who upholds the institutions of the American government. Not the theoretic institutions of some mirage govern- t, but the actual, constitutional, proven government we we today. ’ And this government of ours is a representative republic. - Some folks would have it that this is a collection of individuals, who should run the government by a viva voce Yote any bright afternoon. * But this is not that sort of an institution at all. Our forefathers laid the foundations, and until we up- them we cannot be Americans and live outside the saying nothing of being Americans while lying in and firing at the guardians within the house. This is a representative government which functions thru its officials elected by the people. It is not a democracy, where masses of citizens gather and manufacture laws by direct action. If the majority of the people desire to adopt the more iple, more direct, democratic type of government, the yy is open to them by constitutional methods. jut those who would, without recourse to law, overthrow government, or would hamper it, or would, by class club the government into unconstitutional action, are American no matter whether their home address be fall Street or a Labor Temple. ' Those who protest this form of government have but me recourse, as American citizens—the ballot; when they Advocate other methods they are un-American and undesir- So much for the constitutional aspect of Americanism. In effect, and usually in practice, despite the tirades of conscious squealers, our government has served to justice to the oppressed; to guarantee liberty to its ms, and to preserve the clear light of sanity in a ky world. . ' Americanism, boiled down, means a square deal guaran- by the will and the vote of the majority. In this country the majority always rules; if a minority the ballot to the discomfort of a sleeping and neglect- majority, that is not the fault of the system but of the __ And he is an American who believes in, and who votes fer, a square deal for all of us, regardless of his personal, And he is a traitor to this country who by ballot, or , or printed word, seeks to secure class benefits at the of the rest of us; or who seeks to club the gov- nt by show of force into a course that has not been) d by the vote of the majority. Kll abuses, without exception, that have crept in, have because the majority of the citizens of this country d them to creep in. When every citizen is a real American there will be clamor anywhere for a change in our form of govern- Police—Honest and Otherwise | a policeman. And when a policeman gets into trouble virtuous officers pan the fact that the case receives pitiless publicity. y complain that “it’s always open season for police- Naturally. When a dog bites a man it excites no par- cr interest, but when a man bites a dog, it’s something ifferent. t There are several hundred bluecoats who work honestly ' for the public, engage in hazardous service at nominal pay, strive and protect the rest of us according to their | These trustworthy officers should be the most resentful of crookedness within the police department. They should eager to make it hot for a hypocritical policeman. Until * police department can rid itself of treachery, the men \ wear uniforms and carry night sticks can hardly hope keep the whole city free of crooks. ig, stiff terms. Honest, efficient policemen ought to be retired on full pay after a sufficient term of service. Story About a Fox The great meat packers are going to “be good’’—at the Usual profit. ¥. _ Swift & Co. has begun division of its immense business ‘into smaller units. Armour & Co. is to reorganize into te corporations. And so forth. - It is reported that if the packers complete these “‘segre- tions,” the government will feel that occasion for action inst them will disappear. Regular victims of the meat trust will easily recognize im Process. The big trust breaks up into a dozen or so trusts, and the consumer holds a dozen or so bags of one. That’s all. The Standard Oil and Tobacco istintegrated” after this fashion, cutting most luscious “melons” while at it, and no consumer ever felt the $lightest let-up in the extortion. On the contra “the traffic” paid the cost of the process, and it reminds us of | that cute little Story About a Fox. | _ A sick Old Fox was once lying on the ground, much} Plagued by a swarm of flies, when a Kind-Hearted Person | came along, who, observing the buzzing flies, said to the! Old Fox: | “Poor fellow! I will drive away from you those pestif-| erous insects muy pronto!” “Oh! do not, Kind Sir, do not!” shrieked the Old Fox. “These flies are already plumb full of my blood. If you tg them away, others, empty and hungry, will come and e the last drop of blood left in me.” _ Aesop, or somebody equally as good, got up a moral to| this Fox Story running something like, “It’s better to endure | _ the evils we have than fly to those we know not of.” But} | we've a moral which, we feel, is more applicable to the “packers and which we commend to the government, to-wit: _ To exterminate rattlesnakes don’t set ’em to breeding | young ones! | The first day impression of Lady Nancy Astor, M. P., of the British house of parliament, was that she never 3S saw a place where women were needed more. But maybe - she never saw the United States congress, EVERETT TRUE By CONDO | | | WE'LL SAY SO | 1D YE3— THE CLOW BUMPED INTO |) }one month. ee The recently perfected test used to “UNCLE SAM, M. D..” will answer, determine susceptibility ix called the | etther im thie calumm or ty 1, “Schick test.” In making this test | @eeetione of general interest | Count the month dull that does not record the downfall |; Crooked policemen ought to go to jail—and for good, : What I Want BY DK. FRANK CRANE, (Copyright, 1919, by Frank Crane) How TT THaT CRIPPLED SOLDIER AND Starred NEVE VEN eH ot avo sae’ | SHOP EARLY. NG FAT FPeccow ONLY 5 DAYS TILL CHRISTMAS. I want a lot of things I never expect to| I would like to get Drunk, without taking GEORGE get. alcohol or other poison, which makes me Plwitt Be There is a difference between Wanting | sick. , Ne YPECTING and Needing. What I want is as follows. I would like to be able to eat two pounds } (4 Somer HING= | What I Need—well, some of my correspond- | of Candy and a whole Cake with Icing, and | 4 lBuy IT “To Day | ents think I Need to be put in jail not suffer. T AND WIND But I would like to be 21 again, without being oe UP THE I want several Hounds. At least three. | an ass. SHOPPING. A Button Hound to retrieve the Collar But- I would like a special permit from the ton when it rolls under the dresser. A | Mayor or General Pershing or somebody, so Greetings! Well w that it's alt| Blotter Hound, for the measily Blotter runs| 1 could sass a policeman when he talks wer, the old world seems just about and hides somewhere on my desk and never | rough to me. ax healthy and obstinate as ever—|is at hand when I want it. And a Hat I would like to find a $20 gold piece in - what? Hound—you know. | my pocket every time I put my hand in, - see I would like to decline to play chess be- I would like to remember what I don’t Porhapa it ts better to keep rieht cause I could beat anybody. I decline now | want to forget, and to forget what I don’t er living, tho h n knows how its for quite the opposite reason, want to remember. SOND OvT WHE After Christmas billy have I would like to know which Stock in the 1 would like to live a hundred years from | Locbing Sat AGORA ye staph «4 n paid — market is going up 20 points otmorrow. now and see how it all comes out. MISTeR. : He DOESN'T te: Sab 1 would like to be fatally attractive to the I would like to eat when I am hungry and Kuow (ts to get py ladies. Not that I would be naughty—only | not wait till dinner time. Gates with those whis |naughtificacious. I would like to find a restaurant where ey I would like to look thin and feel fat. they serve Food, and have no music, dane- I would like to own a_ prize-fighter. | ing, nor nigger minstrels. 's a lot of things I'd like to settle out Sidney Smith said: “Every man wants inn 1 , , and am not able, and I would own | to build a house, to plant a tree, to have a gerie in the he ball a bruiser if I could afford it. | son, and to write a book.” I have done all 1 would like to be so rich that preachers | these and still want things. See tke talk te titing ta and everybody would warn me of the dan I want to be spoiled, to be waited on, to edit alana ; ger. | be pampered, to get in the spotlight and all ere I would like to have a Cook who is tickled | sorts of cheap and common things I’m ss! Over the When we have Company for dinne | ashamed of. lety editor I would like to see a Child that loves quiet.| If I had got what I wanted, always, I I would like to compel all the street cars | should probably be in the penitentiary. : ; - spor. and elevated and subway and railroad trains | All around me is an Aura, or Penumbra. tant question to run on rubber tires. The Me is enveloped in what I Want. And I would like to use the hook on nine-tenths | my Aura is Better than I, also Worse of ped hed and gentlemen who sing in| than I. It is the Possible Me. o (weattead it Sori abearah: weara, | VAUOGTIUS. | Dr. Jekyll walks in front o: A but L can't eee why it ie crows. Do} I would like to know which book is going | behind se. Thank Gocdnnee Fa ora you know?—C. V.-L to interest me—before I read it. them. And Alas! I’m a little of both! qj Editor We'll Say So: There ts a « walk near our houre 4 Perhaps it te bored ALC. (Now, the barrel held whisky, but; PES PEN POINTS ddd + a MLS OS WATER SOLD TO CHICO | Americans Buying : By ROW acd nothing of rye) | CITIZENS AS WHISKY Precious Stones nc e am i An was just trying to get canned | And liked the senantion, for it made| CHICAGO, Dec. 18—About 26 citi-|“@2# are buying more diamonds ané 7 9 © trom jail him feel gay zens of this city are in @ quandary,|other precious stones than at amy —. cee I'll Just get enough of this awful | not knowing whether to laugh or get | time in history. A Seattle youth has apparently good at ma ip solved the problem of extracting er Hefore that luff comes and They have on their hands cases| Precious stones valued at $10,426, of bottles marked bonded Canadian |?25 were imported into the United “iy mousie had filled | Club whisky, and upon testing the | States in October, reports showed to- contents of the bottles have found day. In October of last year the im- | juor that no more | nothing more exhilarating than plain | portation amounted to $1,154,329, AN IMPORTANT NEW TEST erey. from the atimoxphere—more | takew it a power to him! 1 when the methowis is naturally unable to contract dipt i Po Mae his wee ated by the United Btates public , If the new immunization advoc therta. ught per-|So full ¢ ao tee ar Bib bevad serves the purpose | ha use this could n H20, Water at $$ a quart is a ¥ om . of establishing beyon whether | for CADE He gave big jump to the top of | luxury, but that t# what the persons| Probably i at _Deeewnt renpe one-|a child tx It the din-| "Twas the night before Christmas the keg » ©" | who bought whisky from bootleggers tenia Comsat at tee fo seventh of the child deaths in Amer-|ease, and shoul anized, of and down in the cellar Cocked his head on one side and|have paid. It was found after in-| sades of wood, intended to pel Th pecome extremely rare of making immunization unnecessary | A barrel was left by a strapping big | wa ront leg. | vestigation that by some means the| ar obstruction to the ad eae 1° new procedure consists in the|in case he in not susceptible | feller “Pm an brave as a lion, I'm as big| bond stamp on the bottle wns re-| attrac! vance of es po st Be be teat by — h it be ‘The new procens, already tested ex-| And a wee little mousie who lived as a cow; moved, the whisky poured out and} {acuins force. »aaible to determine whether a child tensively in various schools and chil- thereabout 1 could lick that damned cat if he | colored water substituted. Let's Boldt’s is susceptible to the disease, and. {f It dren's homes, is described in a new | Saw a leak in the barrel and some-| came along now.” | There is but one consolation. 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I am| ee ne Roman capito as burned by | American orn as are all my pec | A © favorite set, especially welcome to the man the I Be poradinas “speed, cer + radi rmese who to keep his shaving things all together; Aulus Vitellius. 1 a member of the Botlermakers and Razor, Shaving Brush, Shaving Soap amd 34 iow (12 double-eds In 1567, on December 19, the| union and have been for more than Burghley papers stated t of foreigners in London of unions, and have held of then 3,838 Dute in unions from preside men, 137 Italian nen from New bere to nde $7.50 I am a@ staunch sup down an ex nple how me of the radicals control things hort time ago the office of sec easurer was vac an attack got busy and rragansett In a Washing meeting, at 1 forces of the ich they selected their principa ew and colonies. 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