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

She Seattle Star By mail, out of city, 500 per month; 3 months, 1.50; € months, $2 the € Washingto F month, $4.50 for &é m My carrier, city lic per week Rarest Trait of All sy To love mankind, regardless of whether mankind de-| © serves loving or not; that is the rarest trait of all, and the | most appealing. . You cannot simulate this sort of impersonal affection; ‘and the lack of it has wrecked the plans of many great men > and institutions that desired to be of service in a racked Compassion, sympathy, the dwelling in your little house by the side of the road and being a friend to man; one man > in a generation may manage to do that; when he does the world worships his name forever As we see it, that is mostly what Christmas is about. That is the fundamental thought of Christ; the greatest over of the ages; that is the foundation of the golden rule ‘and all that it implies. The doing of good, not because it is a duty or a sacred obligation, but because of a love for your " fellows that impels you to do everything you may to lighten _ their load. Suppose men of the world felt towards each other as the mother feels for her children; would that not bring heaven to earth in a day? Certainly « would. “But there are some men nobody can love, " Was there ever a bad boy who was not loved by the] ‘Mother who bore him? | There’s your answer, and the nearer we approach to this | ple of sove and life the nearer will we approach the nnium. And no fussing with economic ordinances; no messing | taxation; no bandying of words regarding this or} wi.l ever in the slightest aegree take the place of this | affection for our fellows. "> Most of us will never be Lincolns, but all of us can at least } justly with our brother, and refrain from hating him. Or from giving him cause to hate us. Doing that, all of us, will take the world a long way fore another Christmas comes around. And why not? It costs nothing, it saves mental worry, it ngs uappiness, it makes us co-workers with the eternal in observing the meet measures of final justice. Why not, indeed? you say? Planetary Neighbors 3 ‘The suggestion that elsewhere in the solar system there | 'to be found intelligence equal to that of man, or consider- | further advanced, is an old, and far from being impos-| ble one. Mars and Venus are two planets on which might creatures paralleling man. | At least Bese man has been here, the earth has had no} nor has man gone voyaging into space. Now, how- fer, we are beginning to look abroad ; phys s assert that planetary travel is at least theoretically possible. instance, there are intelligent inhabitants on Mars, be ju to be much older than the earth, it follows | the Ssstinn race is far older than humanity and d be more learned. What is only theory with us, tt to be practicable to our neighbors on the red planet, | Land on Earth,” is a newspaper head that may be flashed before us. What would follow? 2 Phhey come with death like the beings of Wells gination or would we increase our store of knowledge being put to a fight against extermination? er, this is certain: If we don't hear from the other, sooner or later they will hear from us. | What the Legion Did mn the committee of 48 first met in their St. Louis) nce it was reported that “members of the American on askea department of justice officials to interfere ;” it was reported that the Legion “would prevent the | Bolshevists,” etc. of which was true so far: Five or six former soldiers, ing buttons of the American Legion, did attempt to lere with the conference plans. d to have anything to do with these self-appointed cal censors. Thirty St. Louis posts of the American on, officially and promptly, squelched the initial efforts irresponsible objectors in these words: he American Legion stands emphatically for 100 per| Americanism. ‘Americanism,’ as we understand it, the right of free speech, which right is not to be d to any man or group of men who seek to accomplish in our government or its statutes by lawful means.” | “I Roads Saved France ‘With the A. E. F. home from France, the United States las two million new advocates of good roads. ench highways opened the eyes of American soldiers. | e doughboys insist even it was fun to hike over them, dless of 75-pound packs. | Excellence of roads back of the battle lines contributed | 4 measure to the maintenance of lines of communi- tion and supply. Without roads of the French variety, Papa Joffre never d have succeeded in moving an army in taxicabs and ping the Germans at the Marne when the first drive made on Paris. om Brest to the Rhine and Le Havre to Marseilles) American fighters found France honeycombed with the of avenues of transportation. ip by truck” facilities were ideal. They came home wanting the same kind of highways the United States. Wood Wouldn’t A iot of us have been pulling our hair over the problem, hould Wood resign?” We have quoted precedents and uments on both sides. We have gone back into ancient listory, and looked ahead into the dim and distant future. Probably we'd be still digging for the answer if Maj. Wood hadn’t taken the problem gway from us by riding he isn’t going to resign until he gets good and ving thus rid ourselves of both the Wood and coal ms, we can renew our attack upon the Christmas ping trenches. Captain of Detectives Charles Tennant given third de- e, is news headline. THE third degree? Not if ‘harlie 8 it. ip | “Weary But the legion itself) «: EDITORIALS — FEAT - Christmas Is the Childrer. a ay THIS HAPPY DAY, whose risen sun Shall set not through eternity, This holy day when Christ, the Lord, Took on Him our humanity A season of FOR LITTLE CHILDREN everywhere A joyous season still we make; We bring our precious gifts to them, E’en for the dear child Jesus’ sake. Awhile our And in their j i 1F WE SHALL make Thy natal day delight to these, A season always crowded full Of sweet and pleasant memories, WILT THOU not grant us to forget weight of care and pain, oys bring back our joy Of early innocence again? (From « poem entitled “Christmas,” by Phoebe Cary, 187414871) Merry Christmas! (ape the keven dear relatives wh us tho seven red polka-dot ne ties—one for every day in week.) “Weary” mas tree greatly Witkins patron, move made by the, tow © missing nt had denta This is Merry per ce r cent never used a per cent used one and only 27.4 per cent aily teeth reduce phy “I've been f ness.” “It in a nad work * 90 | 1m sical ef Im other naggletoothed for many rheumatiom ant buy my commodity for money, Iq isn't manufact left in the cold!” Tears were face of Wilk any coursing of the conference on the ground that the delegates | zs “A. J.C." postcards again: “Edit rf ‘We'll Say So": Please tell me} what kind of thread to ing a berry pateh.—Luck K A straight line. eee n and are doing the habits of » rural ne highest rents co- and continuously Mostar. ets luty which we owe our| use In sew cleanliness in Helena reports 24 degrees below | PP zero, That's Helena, val eee 320,179 school children ex: | Misdirected energy: Blowing a { whistle at a miner. TOMORROW | Arizona, Not by Augustus Thomas Wanted—For the snapplest road NM the Sib house this side 07 Monte Carlo, a girl ) eh or ho} und solo dancer. Must! , be two jumps ahead of the latest and as wise as a city bartender. Must all the latest steps and have nal ones. Must be pe son quainted with all the sports and spenders of the city good future for the girl with a pa Phoenix, Arizona.—Adve tixement in Phoenix (Ariz) Republi can, teun died December Enow land, per: | a tow , | formed homage land at N m the Republican newspapers over the country, as a rule, are indignant over the indictment of the neral Washing ricans, against Rall, the Prussian com crowd. ‘They have our sympathy. | with 1,500 Hessians, At t's the use in having a lot of| that time the cause of American in y if you can't buy what you was almost hopeless And why run a rich m 1 States senate if can't get some of his money? " ° . Colonel mander, sian troops, empl war 1 The English held posts ali New Jersey W ashin, the habits of the planned a 7OU} ¢ nglish, were thru George Applegate | knowing Fairfield, UL, | troops y and Ethel Applelearly in the morning of Volga, 8. I eto be married, | Christmas day He And J. L. Free of Cleveland has! Delaware at midnight before been sued for divoree. the sun was up fell upon the eee |earrison of drunken and sleeping One of the Worrying Kind Hessians, who had spent Christmas | After not hearing from her mother | day in ecarousals and were unfit to for 20 years, Lillian Rogers, Indian-| fight. The battle, lasting half an apolis, Ind., has become worried for| hour, was an overwhelming victory | fear something has happened to her,|for the Americans. Not an Ameri Des Moines (Ia,) Capital oldier was killed or wounded ee 1 only 292 of the Hessians es | A New York girl who won $10,000 | caped jin @& newspaper's beauty content | In 1832, on the 26th of December, |hought a farm with the money.| Stephen Girard, a wealthy Philadel |We're greatly disappointed. Wel phia banker, who was a native of supposed she'd buy a fur coat. | France and came to this country aw eee ja cabin boy, died, After rising to! But, as the steeplejack remarked,| be mate of the ship, he left the sea “I'm not at all snobbish, but I look| to become a merchant. He pros-| down on a great many people.” |pered greatly and finally became n| cee | banker of great prominence. He be-| The ex-crown prince anys his pop|queathed an estate of more thay gets exercise by chopping wood and | $10,000,000 to charity walking, That's better exercise than] On the 26th of December in 1897, | the old man took when he was) George Dewey, admiral of the] kaiser, He used to get it by éhiang-| United States navy, was born at| ing uniforms, Montpelier, Vt | Nevertheless, jand June Apr surprise and Lewis and try. amined in the elty of New York, 194 07 68.8 per cent, suffered from ective teeth, This exceeded the um total all the other defects nearly 80,000. Defective h impair ral health and im pede school pr * Disorders of the digestive tract, tu ently are preceded by dineased ently are precded by diseased conditions in the mouth There is a direct relationship be tween dental development and men tal development, and it in absolutely eavential to good work in schools that children’s teeth be maintained in a healthy condition. The Public Health service recom menda that a good toothbrush be in cluded in the list of Christmas pres ents for every American child and that its use be made a part of the daily training If this recommendation ia carried out the United States will have more heelthy children this than last ml their chances of growing up into ul, healthy men and women will nereased, ° “UNCLE SAM either in this questions of « ently te hygie prevention of disease. impossible for him to answer ques. tons of « purely personal nature, of to prescribe for individual diseases, Address INFORMATION EDtTOR, Washington, —. 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CS Semen \ ’sDay | Horrible, unspeakable and utterly degrad- ling as war is, you cannot realize its ter- rific depths of infamy until you see what it does to the Children, Nothing I ever read—of the agonies of the war, or starving prisoners, mutilated i vombarded villages, fields strewn 8 choked with dead bodies—noth- ing touched me with so peculiar and quick repulsion as the account of those little chil- dren shipped back by the Germans from | the enemy territory they had occupied, into Switzerland, arriving there with their gaunt faces, starving ey and swollen bellies, {their bodies starved. and diseased, their }minds blank with terror. | And those other children, clinging to their mothers’ skirts, as the miserable pro- cession of refugees fled from some sacked | town in Poland or North France. { If an oath and a clenched fist were ever | pardonable in a man, surely it is when such | | news comes, And children are starving in Hungary today; not thousands, but hundreds of thou- jsands of them. The Countess Szechenyi, formerly Miss Gladys Vanderbilt, of New York, who re turned recently to America after having | been for four years immured in Hungary, | describes the pitiful privations of the little ones there. “Milk still is not to be had,” she said. “This means that practically every child jand every person in the city sits down to breakfasts of tea (usually made with black- berry leaves, and in most cases without sugar or milk) and a piece of dry, sour, black bread. For dinner they may have beans or potatoes, and for supper black war | | coffee and bread. When children have had |this food for about three years you can j imagine the condition they are in. Would On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise The Bitter Cry of the Children BY DR. FRANK CRANE (Copyright, 1919, by Frank Crane) | you like to try it on your children for one day ?” America is prosperous, well fed, generous. A fund is being created here to help these children, It is hard to conceive of a nobler charity. Mr. Hoover, speaking of this, says: know that the American people yuld have no resentment at any effort undertaken to give support in saving the lives of children during this winter. The destruction of war has borne hardly on the children of former enemies as well as friends, and the; American people have not been fighting children. The European children’s fund has large reserve stocks of food at Trieste, but as we have no resources other than those provided by the Hungarian committee, we, of course, cannot draw on these reserves beyond the funds placed at our disposal.” There is the situation. Untold human suffering in Hungary. Little children dying of sheer starvation. Mothers waiting hours ever y in line to secure a pittance of bread, coal and milk. The whimper. of a vi multitude of babies in cold and hunger. And not far off, at Trieste, ample sup- plies, waiting for your dollars to bring them to where they mean life. Go without one meal today and feed those that are starving. Do without butter, or dessert, or coffee, or tobacco, or ice cream soda for a week, and send the price to pluck the little ones from the brink of the grave. Send your money—and do it quickly— to the American Relief Committee for Hun- garian Sufferers, Suite 362, Hotel McAlpin, New York City. Send anything, from ten thousand dollars to a postage stamp. For if ever a noble impulse will be re- warded at the Great Assize, surely this | will be. |Friends Pay Rent for Widow of Late Millionaire Shonts _NEW NEW YORK, Dec George W . attorney Mrs. Mila t her fr Henry for yy, Place, has cou had raised the $914.67 nece tall grass a short gulatun es me and hid le. The cat prevent her being apartments for non-payment of rent Altho Theodore P dent of the Interborough Transit company, left an estate ep. | timated $500,000, Files waid the eel bringing Shonts, Rapta for a snooze, at [CAT CATCHES BUNNY, WHOLE FAMILY EATS) CUMBERLAND, Drayer at dropped it on the porch and lay down | |GERMANS WANT GIRLS TO BUY OWN TREATS Pa, Dee STETTIN, Germany, Dec. 25.— residing in this The workers of Stettin and subur| A have struck against paying all the © af days ago he went to the entrance fees into dances and the re- distance from the freshments for their girl or women Along came a wild partners at dances, Women, they assert, are now earning about as |much ak men, and should bear their jshare. A Settin paper reads: “The dancing ladies’ world éhould seized it, killed it to the house, There was rabbit on | pay for itself. The revolution brought th Nl of fare at the Drayer home the and “Tom” got his share, same woman.” rights for man and widow must depend upon the char | ity of her friends until the contest over the will is settled. Mrs, Shonts received thru the wil! a $100,000 “debt” acknowledged by jher husband and $5,000 life insur Jance, but payment of these has been held up pending her suit to declare the document void. Shonts left the bulk of his estate to Mra, Amanda |C. Thomas, a friend Christmas Mail Goes Up in Fire OAKLAND, Cal, Dee. 25. Hun dreis of Christmas letters and | packages were destroyed by fire yex terday which broke out in a mail car attached to Southern Pacific train 28 near Rodeo. Spontaneous combustion was rail to have caused the fire. 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