The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 30, 1919, Page 6

She Seattle Star By mail, out of city, 606 per month; 3 months, 1.50; 6 months, § year, $5.00, + in tate of Washington Outside the # per month, $450 for 6 montha or Der year. Ly carrier, city, llc por week. It Can’t Be Done? _ *“T don’t believe it can be done.” Mr. Hoar, of Massachusetts, a worthy United States tor, now dead, jingled his keys, as was his habit, and the above words. “But,” he said, “! will vote for this measure. It promises make the desert blossom as the rose. It sounds like but I don't believe it can be done.” That was 20 years ago. The national reclamation act RS mas on its final passage. What Senator Hoar had to say 7 typical of the minds of men who sit in our national he ture. : ‘ Rage 1902 the reclamation service has constructed an : igation system which completely supplies 1,780,000 acre e are storage reservoirs for furnishing another supp’ water to a million other acres. be reclaimed. , are now profitably employed and happily housed reclaimed land 4,000,000 people. Where there wer f and sage brush there are vistas of fiélds and chards. “The land is blossoming as the rose!” Crops on this land since the water came to it have sold ) 000,000. The annual crop sells for more than 000,000. his land was worth, before reclamation, less than $10 acre. Its total value was less than $17,800,000. Every is now valued at more than $200 or a total of $365, 000. Other adjoining land amounting to 1,000,000 has been increased at least $100 in value per acre adjacent projects. This adds another $1,000,000 value of land in cities, towns and_ villages in the projects is estimated at $100,000,000. The total ncre: land values is $565,000,000, "To accomplish this work the government has done nothing mit advance funds, every dollar of which comes back. The 1 nt also furnishes skill and plans. d Hoar said, “It can’t be done!” We have often wondered what conditions were when Work stopped on the Tower of Babel. Current events 4 an excellent demonstration. | Senator Smith of Georgia, admits that responsibility ) for treaty delay is 50-50 between the two parties. Now there another honest man in the senate? Of course you understand that sugar is high and carce because the war made millions of people too poor buy sugar. We're All for Bobby — bottom, human emotions are the same the world over thru all ages. Some of us are Bolsheviki and others of plutocrats or autocrats, or whatever the Bolshes call me of us like ragtime and other like the classics; e poetry, and others like detective stories. Some like cabarets and others like church sermons. at bottom we are all the same when real human are touched. The cry of a babe in the Union depot us all forget our differences—and daily we watch erly for the fate of little Bobby Shain. n the depot, the tot came to the police station, and) ® big fellows there, touched to the heart, fondled and ‘with the baby like the tenderest of mothers. From B police station, Bobby went to the city hospital—and all hearts went out to him. thruout the city, hungry mother hearts and hungry hearts long for him, pray for him, hope for him. Mexican situation? The Russian problem? city election? Who'll e our next president? Who What we are most anxious for now is to see little Shain placed in a good home—and the whole city is for him. Seattle taxi company announces the installation of chines that print the exact fare, and thus eliminate arges. We can't imagine what the old-time drivers ill do now, unless they become plumbers or landlords. Cheapening Real Thing disagreement between Admiral Sims and Secretary undoubtedly lies in the fact that Daniels awarded poration to Lieut. David W. Bagley, Daniels’ brother- , whose distinguished service consisted largely in his torpedo boat, the Jacob Jones, sunk by a Ger- submarine. issue is decidedly larger than appears on its face, ind the congressional investigating committee should dig the bottom of the matter. the brother-in-law business has been worked in the of making awards for heroism, all decorations are to say nothing of the effect upon the navy of g distinguished service medals on commanders who out and get licked. x _ Harry S. New is reported near collapse. With all due 3 peoard for California weather, he'd probably appreciate at if the judge prescribed a change of scenery. : In Real Life _ Not one of our best selling fiction writers could ive such a love plot as the one we're going to tell you out. If any one of them had done it, you and the rest ; However, it did happen. her husband. The other, Grover Gordon, appears to re won the husband's place in the wife’s affections, band went away. The other man, however, was not ly satisfied that he wag secure in the woman's love, a jealous rage he shot her. A moment later he regretted . At the hospital he twice gave of’ his life blood transfusion into the woman's veins. Physicians be- the blood saved her life. “I love her,” Gordon said. “I will give all of the blood my body—my life—to save her life.” 4 ee oesids as romantic as anything the fiction writers n. - But let us continue— “I am thru with Gordon,” the woman said. for him has turned to hatred.” “My love Paris surgeons say that a Parisian on whom they've just ate got appendicitis from swallowing hair from his mustache. Serves him right. He should have eaten his whiskers when that hungry. ap Lents your nose in town until it's counted by Uncle m. of debate on the poor quality of Consumers sey gigniy ‘bate—but no rebate, _ 908 in Seattle, ih Still more land is soon > The! the reading world would have agreed that it was “too}, E Provence A. Robinson was loved by two mene One| The} |EVERETT TRUE WHEN TWO PEOPLE AGREE TO MEET AT A CERTAIN TIME AND PLACE, THAT'S AN APPOINTMENT !f | ning to ——— BUT WHEN ONG OF THEM SHOWS UP THE SECOND “TIME IN ONS WEEK ABOUT HALE AN e© THAT'S A = = yd a as =e a DISAPPOINTMENT ff! | 2 to } BY REV. CHARLES STELZLE Pain is the reward of «reatnens The dull, the stupid, the brutal suf- f tittle pain meat | Morse and goen to weep without re ot or suffering of | en mime Lene mind b mother dures the tortures gf the damned | | te ‘ |p " - " of the misdeed of her son | Pain ts reserved for the senaitive,| “iitween the tee jthe refined, the souls made strong | rather te in the + thru cleansing from dross ahd | coarnencns: * Nnocent becau, you and I ® plac hte in weep-| of soul even jtho whe spe a jing and in tuba Without feeting children in sweat Y | never The brutal nvurderer red blood of the his wipes tim from n for a there would) have any crusades in} their behalf, and often the crusaders | |felt more keenly the afflictions of these little ones than they did them- | selves, for the children had become) | Mtupefied because of their surround: | joa. been HOW LONG, OH, HOW LONG? Editor The Star: Almost aa fi miliar to the people of Seattle ‘Peruna Noy! Haking Powde are the headlines, “GAS COM RAISE OF RATE: or|of slaves, UMERS ARE URGED TO|forms fought for GAS, SUPPLY 18 ALMOST! people. AUSTED,” “GAS CAUSES) The ATH OF THREE PERSONS | “heathen” lands and sees the fear |THRE PAULT OF LOW PRE | fully low level of living of the peo- URE, ete, until we who | ple mentally more than the compelied to use gas for cooking are | natives be ne he wt thetr lack tempted to cry out, “HOW LONG ey do not know because they OH LORD, HOW LONG? |have never soen the possibilities for We never know when there will| themselves be enough gas to cook a meal, or how | much our bill will be at the month. The peo are singularly patient this last straw se that should cause us suffered by the teaner he and the long line of re-| and won by the | missionary who goes to} Knowledge always brings pain, but | he end of] i¢ we were compelled to choone be-| of Be tween the “heathen” who are “bliss- | ful” because they are ignorant and | |the missionary who suffers because | he knows, we'd choose the lot of the] ros a wh cleved | one who suffers ne nightmare. hy not take} o, aye over the gas company for the benefit} Pain ts thy thermometer of the} lof our citizena? We have made a /%0Ul. It is an one grows tn hia apul-| sucthes of our light and water de. | fe that pain becomes more intense | partments, and Mr. Murphine in| The low-lived, coarse and brutal do} taming our streét car ines and in| not notice the things that torture} & few years they will be ax popular |the refined and gentle | jas the other departments Lat's| The most sensiive soul that ever | start now to save further annoyance | lived died not because of the spear and lives, And we don't need to be | thrust, but of a broken heart. held up for a big price, either. I'll! pain is not punishment—it be one who will do everything in| ward my power to accomplish this end) |. land there are thousands just like me | Le eaten , OMLINSON, __ | finitely an those who are in Seatth WwW. M. TOMLI ieataiianl; thay autor the bau happiness which come only to those whose souls pond to the fin { TOMORROW st and purest pleasures of man-| | _ in the kind ouls are in tune wit | N the Sist of December is re or while the sensitive suffer in- more t can re whose Infinite year 71 B.C, the triumph | Pompey and Crassus was celebr t Rome. Pompey had successtu 4 the ten years’ war in Lusi }tania, and Crassus had crushed the | revolt of Spartacus | In 406, on the Stat |ber, the Huns |tered Gaul and laid waste the prov lince from the banks of the Rhine to the Pyrenees On the 1st of December, tn 1384 John Wickliffe, a professor of divir ity in the University of Oxford, died He ts known as the father of the | Reformation in England 83, on the 31 Seattle has the largest pier in the | States; one now building will be the largest in the world and will berth eleven 9,000-ton ships at one time. day of Dece 100,000 strong m of December Erastus, a celebrated Ger physic n and divine, died. He jis best remembered by his famous writings » the subject of excom | munication, denying the power vf the Church of Rome, and affirming }that its censures have no power to reach beyond the present life On the 31st of December, in 1775 | the climax of the American invasion of Canada was reached by the a» sault on Quebec neral Richard Montgomer the a of a little army of 1,000 Americans and 200 Canadians, stormed the strongly |fortified citadel of Quebec, which garrisoned by 1,800 British and 1adian troops, Montgomery di vided his forces into two parts, one led by himself and the other by Benedict Arnold. In a driving o'clock in the morning, cans made their attack, take the garrison by filed up the a, am oS BEST $2.50 GLASsES on Earth snowstorm at 2 the Ameri hoping to surprise, They| We are one of the rocky heights, Mont |@tores In the No-thwes' gomery leading his men, and were 5S pl eg ig OG ly met by @ round from the British |" SSATTLE, ON battery that killed Montgomery and|. 2kaminal ten of hix men. Arnold, leading the | {veg “absolutely *mecssaarn other division, was wounded and he| ens ; had to be carried off. After a gal! BINYON OPTICAL CO, land but hopeless fight lasting for four hours, the little band of Ameri | tng cans that remained surrendered, 7 I~ Whone Main 10 i ma fe: t : Phiew heist Atty pee L an eral —By CONDO! || the world is ar would | ' mutteriog | | WE'LL SAY SO t shoot ‘em we wish Greetings: If they m in taxicabs at midnight they'd take ‘em somewhere elne to do it other than right In front of our house hadn't beer If the street o muddy when we rushed we mightn't wounded mar have lost ur carpet slippers and got mar a puddle in our bare fect Mason, rash time, and mis ap who did the Halt!’ yelled Capt ut at the ws for ing taking shooting “Halt and give usa p replied ‘Come 0’ this mud chill these nights run- the ald of gunshot victima one’s pajamas and oar It's pretty jad only in pet slippers. ded back and the same pud thin, And then pulled the wif dle Henry Love is a wonderful ards Bs iw at the t of 4 b see in the prints Vv. O, “that the fellow head of the prohibit ox Be We nom ttle man n Cherrington nuff wed GONE & He was « great friend of mankind His last moments were epent trying dincover somethin with a kick in it to ity, He found it & widoy ave to poste and ie and six Mra. Jl. Brodert 4 an informal w ome New Year editor, A ‘ wag host at an informal watch party that turned out a great # cens the other night. They not only took his wateh, but his pants nociety Owing to the keen rivalry betwee the ladies of Seattle in the ma r of ing pumpkin and tide of mu not « ieht awful language we 1 used by jealous hou we hasten to their aid. matter once for all, we annou pumpkin pie contest, Mail your pies to the We'llSay#o editor. Tie ker of the beat ple will be de red winner tn thia colyum mak le the Just as the in Baltimore the not to let anybody do day. The hoboes a eventh of their hobo complished 1 great object | didn’t they? A Danish woman has Just finished an 11,0004nile trip she made to be married. There are only two things in the world that would cause & woman to make @ trip like that love and revenge. which * There's nothing to it, taining it must be properly t the found to be « sugars malts; (6) ne On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise Would Lead BY H. ADDINGTON BRUCE “The Kiddie of Personality,” “Psychology and Parenthood,” Bte 1919, by The Anno r Author of (Copyright To become a leader of men in any calling |when I give the word.” whatever, certain qualities are indispensable. It is the same in business as in military Among these none is of more importance campaigning. A self-confident leader can than self-respect. | get results when one lacking in self-confi- Men cannot be successfully handled by|dence will soon make it evident—painfully one whom they do not respect. And no|evident—that leadership should never be one need hope to be respected who does not) intrugted to him. respect himself. And, if only because of the reflex action A man who by his words and deeds shows| on others, a man who aspires to leadership that he values himself lightly is bound to|should be an enthusiast in whatever he be held in light esteem by others. As re-| undertakes. marked by a close student of the psychology Two young men are engaged, at thd of leadership: | Same time, to do similar work for similar “Subordinates’ respect for their chief is at| pay. They start in, but with different atti- the bottom but a sympathetic reflection of | tudes. his own self-respect. He passes current The first is not at all interested in the with them at the value he has set upon him-| work he has contracted to do. All he self.” wanted is a job. His interest is in the And the man who would lead must not, money he will get out of it. He comes to only have self-respect. He must in a high| work as late as he dares and he quits work? degree have self-confidence. at the earliest possible moment. Suppose, on the eve of an important mili-! The other young man is also interested in tary movement, a captain called his men/|the salary he gets. Of course he is. But together and said to them: also he is interested, more interested, in “Men, we have been ordered to drive the doing his job as well as he can. enemy out of his advanced positions tomor- He comes to work early and he quits late, row. It is a big job,Sand we can carry it He does not grumble at overtime. He thru only by pulling together. I am sure keeps his eyes not on the clock but on fel you will all do your best and not ¢ dis-| low workers of more experience than he, couraged if things seems to go bad] And especially he studies those who are Would not this leader’s evident lack of above him. self-confidence be instantly sensed by his Doing always a little more than he is men? Mfght it not so leasen their confi- expected to do, planning how to do every- dence in themselves, so disorganize them, as thing better, he is certain to rise. Some- to render the issue of the morrow more than, body formerly his superior must move on doubtful? ah or out. Leadership is assured to him. Cont the effect if he said to them: Self-respect, self-confidence, enthusiasm, “Boys, we're going to start the enemy do not, to be sure, comprise all the essentials on the run tomorrow. And we're going to|of leadership. But they are prime essen- make him run as he never ran before. tials, in the absence of which a man must | Everybody ready | always be a follower, not a leader. OLYMPIA BANK SOLD OLYMPIA, Dec. 30.—The Olympia, National bank hag been sold, it be me Cw MD ru known today, for approximas ly $75,000, to P. M. Troy and P, C rT, of Olympia, and Senator E. T| n, William Huntley and E. &. od, of Spokane. sare needed to fur- e acids which are re-: form carbonates necessary rve the alkalinity of the egetables and fruits in the 9 raw state should be thoroly washed before being eaten, to remove any in: Jurious germs which may be present. ° . “UNCL M, M. D..” will answer, either 9 this column or by mail, questions of general interest only to Hygiene, sunitation and the prevention of disease. It will be Impossibie for him to answer t of a purely al nature, of ribe for individual diseases, FOOD FOR THE In order that a diet shall be sus need and contain a sufficient quantity of constituents that have been tial to Life. ‘There HUMAN BODY more, but this ia the average amount eaten. The nitrogenous substances as meat, een, proteins of milk gluten of wheat and certain tables, are tinue builders or formers. Oils and fats, both table and animal, together with starchy food, such as bread, potatoes, rice, beets, et are fe heat producers, M ould be cooked with h to kill any ani mal parasites that it may contain Cooking also softens the tissues! which hold the muscle fibers to- gether, it makes meat more tender ap such the vege flesh vege constituents The datly qu © or w heat units k needs from INFORMATION EDITOR, Washington, i. G Let's go eat at Boldt's—uptown, — ing, digestible, and improves’ 1414 3d Ave.; downtown, 913 2d Ave. while others consume Now as Always—“‘Credit Gladl y”’ 211 Union St. Sj \ M** articles from .the various depart- ments‘ are specially priced and offer splendid opportunities for thrifty women to purchase their apparel needs for some time to come and make substantial savings on what they purchase. 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