The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 31, 1919, Page 6

t of city, 50 montha, $2 hae ve reth Both Are Rotten | A strike of six hundred thousand railroad | orkers if congress passes a bill to make) king a crime! Surest thing you know.) nd that will be one case where the strikers Will have the sympathy of every American) i who cares a hang for democracy, our stitution, or any other expression of free- m that our soldiers have just finished fight- and dying for. he plain fact is that any abridgment of the ht of men to quit work either individually or collectively can mean only one thing—in- luntary servitude, or slavery. ‘ As a substitute for the Cummins anti-strike ni d bill, congress is now figuring on a ederal Black List Bill.” That is only call- ag a lion a lamb. It does not make him one. | he proposed black list bill is just as vicious | just as un-American as the Cummins bill. are rotten and congress KNOWS it. | ave: ail) ’ Seattle citizen who doesn’t register for the na- ae cess which begins next Friday, will be a “no- ,” so far as Uncle Sam is concerned. Next Year ‘ begins tomorrow. What kind of a year it pretty much on what you and I and the #t of us do to make it a good year for everybody. : common good must be the aim of all, else the year is sure to prove as disappointing as the year ne And the disappointments of 1919, let me it as emphatically as I can, are demonstrably due to » fact that the common good has not been the aim) there seems to have developed a veritable epidemic seking. It is as tho a noxious germ had affected, brains to make them forgetful of social obligations. some influence, at all events, a grasping ism has rampant. People struggle and for material gain, using without compunction meth- 5 certain to impose suffering on other people. we ‘business ment a mad scramble to amass see : exorbitant profits. Profits, big profits, they | have, even at the cost of compelling multitudes to) shoddy clothing, to eat inferior foods, to endure} br ciency of all the necessities of life. | thieves to gorgeous promoters of stock companies, tricking business men, sel ir savin; tho, would not succeed as they do if the! activity is itself a symptom of the disease of} Which, in truth, is a disease so terrible that) . 1 frankly, there is only one possible cure. | al must be Seenaded to less selfish, less success is not the highest good. They must im. to substitute lofty social ideals for gross a % all the while we also see swindlers of every degree, OB tow | and the general public out of their gain- for material wealth were not so widespread. Their will collapse unless a cure be achieved. d of thinking. ey must be taught to realize! > this end every educational force needs to co-operate, | m the school to the daily newspaper. May the new aF witness such co-operation on a scale and with a zeal| ‘before known. | may many men and women tonight, on the eve of } mew year, searchingly ask themselves what they are} w doing to promote or hurt the welfare of their fellows. : H. ADDINGTON BRUCE. _ Another crime wave is sweeping over Seattle. Wonder a wave of virtue will inundate us? The King of the Road d highways radiating out of Seattle were not orig- ted as speedways. However, speed records ing shattered almost daily by the fearless auto bus who put to shame such slothful laggards as Barney d and De Palma, of saucer track fame. auto bus driver is handicapped, too. He must pilot women and children thruout the race, and smash the annoying private traffic that clutters up the pave Yet the dauntless auto bus driver never lapses into dis- souragement or second speed. He bowls wildly on, brush- aside occasional cows and crowding pestiferous Fords to the ditch. z auto bus driver passes everybody else on the high- vay, turns dangerous curves on two wheels, skids over oads, and rushes madly on to his destination. His is a continuous shuttle between Seattle and adjoining nunities in face of terrific danger to life and limb. a rule officers of the law make no effort to hamper fe speeding bus driver. An exception to this official atti- nt charging them with exceeding the legal limit of | per hour. , é he indignant drivers told the arresting officers that had negotiated an agreement exempting th®m from regulations that govern other traffic, and that they tht go as fast as 45 miles an hour if they wished. such be the case, the public should be officially in d. The public would like to know more about such| ements. Or, better still—could not all traffic, aside| n auto busses, be officially ordered not to trespass on paved highways? The present situation is confusing, | nd disconcerting to the bus drivers. People who are at greatest pains to advertise their gocial position are those who are not sure of it. The average statesman’s idea of Americanism is some- g that will keep him on the pay roll, __ The best loved wife is the one who is stupid enough to think her husband a great man. It is hard to find a high school girl who haen’t hitched “ther wagon to a movie star. EV. ih) CAN'T DISCOURAGE bern n ( yeouliyyny The New Year will world.” in every country, by all colors Interchureh World Movement the old world and the new, wh coming of another year. ‘This tw the prayer for peace, the elevation o Thou. Creator, make the earth bounds for their habitati we repent of our sin, and ognition of the transcende: ledges of production, that a devastated earth. Quicken the sympathy ports and sights of suf needless. Call us again, that we laws of creation, putting of the Most High. shall rule the hearts and This we ask in the spi Hope. Amen! Cancer Is Not Hereditary The influence of a family record o: cancer, including two or more investigated by the me nmittee of life insuran: put with negative results ane: the group of applicants having be ushered In with a It will be spoken in every language human beings pray | The Wateh Night Prayer was written at the suggestion of the transiated and sent all over the world so that it may be heard in Almighty God, Father of all mankind, at the end of a year in which malice has so often thwarted love, we join.the prayers of all Thy children around the world ‘or the races of men and didst set Open our eyes, we beseech Thee, to the dignity of labor, the sacredness of human service and the privi- man may join man justly in honest work to replenish ness and brutality, to enter into the peace of the sons Hasten by Thy gracious providence and by the con- secrated efforts of Thy children the coming of Thy world-wide kingdom where justice, mercy and love Create in us, O Lord, clean hearts, and renew right spirits for the coming year. actu: | com: | THE SEATTLE STAR—WEDNESDAY, DEC. 31, 1919. DITORIALS Come ON, HERE'S ANOTHER one $ On You OR Cou'tL PINISH “THE JOG ON CRUTCHES $ TA WIGGLE © I'M GOING TO PULL A POW OF THESE’ P SONALLY CONDUCTED TouRSs AND S66 JF I THE PRACTICG OF WI CANDIDATES LEAVING THEIR, POLITICAL Hh CARDS TACKED VP ALL OVER TOWN LONG APTERTHS CUSCTION 13 “prayer mround the of North America, and has been erever Christians meet to greet the f justice and brotherhood. r of all things, who didst ion, forgive us our greed as restore to all hearts the rec- nt right of human life to live. nation may join nation and of hearts made dull by re- fering incomprehensible and may bow before the eternal aside malice, envy, covetous- Greetings! to be taking our pumpkin ple bak \ing contest seriously. . with all this dir It is high time, champion pumpkin ple baker of become publicly known, Our Grandma used to pumpkin ples as golden as the sun She was the ch jon, But since lane died we ha seen a pum | kin ple, a real one, with plenty |pumpkin and nutmeg in it, we're hungry for @ good, loned pumpkin ple, ee kind of ple, as no other can, see | Pumpkin pie may not be the | acid test of cookery, but we'll say and we claim to know, that the Uke Grandma used to bake, its worthy of a champlonship and a crown of gold. He'll do the rest. ee A WORD TO THE WISE ci bane , PREPARE TH editor, eS WH sKey vu. 8. life maving stations are supplied with a small stock of high proof stuff to resuscitate drown- ing persona. Again we refer you to the rec ae amiled when he ordered ham and ogee? see A Sure Sign They Were Maste Lovers The audience was composed en tirely of music lovers, ax was evi deneed by their applause and man ner. Not @ sound was audible dur ing the performance.—Idaho Falls (Ida) Poat. & prehistoric brontosaurus in swamp in the Congo country, Evi in that neighborhood. ee . ] Another Landmark Gone corporal van * Not en know ye all that Carmowene’ ordinary moustache to be forgotten by tL might Jim Mam 1 lconnoteseur of Warhingtos the muchiy bewhiskered ph: The ladies seem | We | orated woman who bakes it successfully. | against | Gently there has been no prohibition | hands of men. rit of Jesus Christ, our only jin cases in which there wan a fam: f| ily record of two or more cases of *,| heart disease was 113 per cent ANSWERED Is infection of the accessory Q number of expected deaths in| sinuses dangerous? | A. Infection of the accessory ain: family record of two or more cases | uses is not necessarily dangerous of cancer in the family was 87.3, bu the actual number of deaths exper enced was only 69, or 79 per cent of the exposed. Moreover, deaths, only four were from cance: The evidence is, therefore, sions regarding a fa cancer were not justi of subsequent experi In contra Apples and Oranges Vegetables andNuts A friend of mine told me the other day that he paid $3.50 for a box of apples about in t Market, @ box, and it is safe to may that you save from 60 y the cook- ore buying have a nice line of nuts and other fruits ire and go downstgira to [t is much easier to live up to an income than it is to to a reputation. , Stall No. , in the Westlake Mar ket, and have # loo! ome real aoaien nae ik at some real DR. BDWIN J. BROWN of the 69 quite clusive that the earlier apprehen- history of by the facts t, it may be stated that occurred Monday, when two drivers were named in a) the ratio of actual to expected deaths | Q Ihave had three operations for this trouble, Is there @ permanent cure? r.| A, The condition sometimes per- | sista even after radical treatment. It | is impossible to advixe you whether | further treatment will benefit you | This is naturally @ matter to be de by @ physician, only after a very careful examination, Q Would you advise marriage un der these conditions? A. Such an infection ts not a bar | to marriage, | poe “UNCLE 8AM, M. D.,” will dither in this cob y mat or ques. purely personal nature, of be for individual diseases, re INFORMATION EDrron, Washington, —, | SHIPMENT OF RARE | DIAMONDS IS STOLEN LONDON, Dec. 31.—Diamonds worth a small fortune, consigned from London to a firm in Colombo o have been stolen in transit. ‘They missed when the steamer ned Bombay. ‘There is a big diamonds between London nts of rare PICTURESQUEL Disgusted Cop (at crossing) Some chauffeur, you are! Say, if you were crossing the Sahara desert you'd run into a hydrant.—Boston Transcript. (La) Bignel, eee An English scientist says he can That's nothing rmouche. | |tarn tin into gold |In this country they‘re turning eggs) into gold. : . Six chairs sold at $1,100 aplece and seven seats to the Friars’ show sold at $1,000 apiece in } York last week. The high cost of living is not confined to Seattle oe a seat for New Year's Eve in a serve-self restaurant. | One of Those “Particular” Women Mrs. Royce atated she was shocked his working attire She sald made but slight protest because Joelleved her husband was tired |by his labors, samo act was repeated night after night she became disgusted.—Keene Q. D. Sentinel. she oe Our Own Country Correspondence HICKSVILLB, Dec, 19.—Uncle Gid Skidmore, who has always played Santa Claus at the Christmas tree celebration at the schoolhouse, decided not to play the part this on account of the high price o ton Mace McMartin, who starte take music lessons from Prof dington last October, reports that he is now playing the cymbals by note » is the cymbal player of the band in Gray has been elected a member of the ical society r of our citizens this high honor, which we now enjoy the size of Hicksville. Earl Du ecelved a letter from the New York City postmaster Inst week, saying a package had been mailed to him in New York but was short 6 cents postage, Harl sent the stamps and is now anxiously waiting for the package, Al Duncan went to the elty Friday on business and returned with three new phonograph records of jazz mu music that has set all cities ago ‘atterson has bought 50 le pounds of raisins. ard J, Ham Lewis says the Democratic party will be in the race in 1920, We don't know whether he's an optimist OF @ pessimist ‘ational Geograph: | think is a good record for a town| We know a man who has reserved | and «#tartled beyond expression on the first night of her wedded life] Jwith Royce, when the latter, after working around a barn all day crawled into bed without removing | sho} out} but that when the| | On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise It is a beautiful and cussion going on, all this slurring impels the building of suit talk and lampoowing, that the real| for the soldier dead. The ancient form thin vicinity step to the front 494) building something useless. History is thick bake pyramids, and mausoleums. There is quite a gen that such memorials fail in their purpose. |A useful by life ought a useless The best monument for the noble dead \is something that shall develop nobility And ed, we set ourself up-as one| in the living. leapable to Judge the merit of that) It is with satisfac we learn from the B ings of the War Camp Community Serv- The Best Memorial BY DR. FRANK CRANE (Copyright, 1919, by Vrank Crane) contain a clock and chimes, a great pipe organ will be used for community choruses, and a huge bronze book will enshrine the normal instinct that | able memorials | and tradition is to | names of the citizens who entered the army. | Newport News, Va., plans a center of civic with statues, shafts, | life on a more extensive scale. A group of buildings will overlook the James river where it widens into a great harbor as it approaches the sea. There will be an open public forum where 12,000 people may gather. ; Seattle proposes an immense audi- torium seating 20,000 persons, the usual city buildings, and a magnificent Victory Square having as its center a monument. Birmingham, Ala., is on the way to secure as a war memorial a comprehensive civic eral feeling, however, | not to be commem- thing. that 3uild- tion, therefore, ureau of War ice that 280 communities have decided | center which will require years for complete upon the building type of memorial as | realization. the conventional “monument” The most pretentious plan, however, is | Wee \nificent group of rallying worthy those who died for t Portsmouth, Va., plan of colonial classic structures, to con- tain all the offices ment; an open may assemble; and a j inating all. The tower, or campanile, will N the let of January in thelr Austrian oppressors. the Austrian governor of wan killed by Of these some hav. | have had a still better vision. Mall pies to the We'll Say 60) have conceived of a Civic Center, a mag-| with a highway reaching thru the state. structures to be the | The plan contemplates a monumental treat- point of city life, as the most | ment of the park blocks, which will become ‘orm in whigh to do honor to | an approach to a Victoi plaza, Willa that of Portland, Ore., whose mayor and e gone still further, | committee have conceived a memorial that For they | will extend thru the city and will connect shaft, or some other suitable feature, which, because of its the | situation on a hill, will dominate the coun- try for miles. The American City Bureau is doing good work in furthering this idea, which com- bines wholesome sentiment with usefulness and beauty. heir country. has conceived of the city govern- where thousands memorial tower dom- ————f. ( Tomorrow ) Chinatown, Mystery Solved the yea onda of the war rixk Insurance J ‘ " partinent: Velvet Couch, a policy 54 B.C. it was first settled D Ch h W ll sarees ere Cone 2, ar | that the Moman csonuls shoskt 27 LE DULICS op Thru Walls «and n yon their office on this 8 tives in eee ae FR rscd Pico SOE Te Cae See ee 7 y sheriffs and a bottle! in the clutches of Capt. Hamer be rane Greve is & Peeaees SS renee" ong Tong|low. He rushed upstairs to spread ington, W ™, é In 1308, on the Ist of January despite a|the good news, But the bottle of William Tell, the Swiss patriot, first ith glisten-| gin was missing, and without it, What has become of the old fash:| pieaged himeelf, with a band of his and @ he used in| there was nothing to prove Tong’s joned man at whom the walter | countrymen, to resist the tyranny of|an attempt to outwit the officers. guilt. He gaid he couldn't open the Geasler safe. Conner was determined that Tong should be arrested, ty Sheriffs J. C Uoar arl Ft Swi am 8. Hamer, spe federal so off to the This wae the signal for a patr agent, made a raid on 417 Seventh county jail they hustled him. There p of the Swirs against the ave. 8. and it was there that Tong | he was booked and searched. which continued for three finally met his Waterloo Around his neck was a string, and and ended in the inde) Hamer and Ramage ascended the | at the end of the string, eomewhere of Switzerland stairwa 417 Seventh ave. while in the vicinity of Tong’s knees, was int of January, in 1618,|Conner and Loveall entered thru the |found a bunch of keys and @ little Bartolome Murillo, the great Span- Milwaukee hotel. The two parties |{vory plate. lish painter, was born | descended upon a pool room, where, Among the keys was that Conner In 1644, on the Ist of January,| they found about 40 Chinese and|had lost. And the plate has numbers A Belgian hunter who has just) Michob Ader appeared in Paris and! returned to civilization says he @nw created a sensation by his extraord! ®) nary allegations. the Wandering Jew and 1,600 years. His story was had been an wu in the judement in J m and f th The Messiah had answere wo, but tarry thou till I come,” condemninig him to five until the second coming of Christ 5 the first of is was born at It is claim@ that Be Betxy PR phia made the first American flag, show jing the Bars and stripes, official fing that floated over Gen-|on.the floor, was a safe. eral Washington's headqua: On the Ist of January, the emancipation of the siaves went dia! brightly poMshed, it attracted the | effect -in accordance with the | attention of the officers. | into proclamation Lincoin, In 1918, made by on the Ist of the parcel post system was inaugu ‘\rated in the United States. SAME TO You “Sure,” said Patrick, rub! | head with d@ight at the prospect of! loose from the deputy’ duty.” ployer ‘and may —Houston Post. about what they owe. Iat's go ont | 1414 Sd Ave; downtown, 913 SOUVENIR GIVEN AWAY. EVERYONE WELCOME LADIES FREE He called himeeif! that he had lived for more than President \ present, “I always mane to do me/| mingled with the other Chinamen in it a |the room. It was useless to try to| Beethoven’s Third I believe you,” replied his em-| pick him out from the crowd. Dis-| S ho: “and therefore I shall make | couraged and defeated, the deputies ympaony you @ present of all you have stolen left. In the scurry, the bottle of from me during the year.” |Chinese gin had also vanished. | “cc ed “Thanks, yer honor.” replied Pat | Conner Goes Back | all your friends and ac-| When Conner got ba | a quaintances trate you as liberally." | fice, he Giecovered thas a bart ml sighed Some men even like to brag FHM ES Wei was unmistakably that of the Boldt’s—uptown, | much-wanted Tong. They knocked | ALLNIGHT DANCE DREAMLAND 7TH AND UNION TONIGHT NOISE MAKERS white men sitting about, ostensibly |on it. doing nothing. “The combination to the gafe, of “There must be a secret door,” said | Course,” maid Conner. Down to 417 Conner, as he started to tap the | Seventh ave. 8. he and the other dep- walls. Finally his tapping produced | uties went once more. They tried Ja hollow echo. He began hacking |the combination as given on the away with his ax, when suddenly | Plate, and the door of the safe swung tNe door sprang open, knocking him | Open. down. He had hit a nail which) Standing within the safe was the touched the spring which opened the | Missing bottle of Chinese gin. dver | It was taken to the county fail, and will be used as evidence against Tong, when he is tried. Tong, whore attorney is John F. Dore, is at lib- erty on $200 bail. claimed | that he court of that he ve court thou? him: “I thus Gambling Hall Entered A long stairway confronted him The deputies niounted until a strong: ly barred door stopped them. This January, was battered down, as was another | Philadel | door, and they entered a sumptuous- tsy Rows ly furnished gambling place. But there was no one fh it | They entered a side room. There, Black and rters. (glistening with golden Oriental fig-| in 1863, |aires painted on it, and the knobs and | MEANY HALL SEATTLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA JOHN SPARGUR, Conductor FIFTH SYMPHONY CONCERT the first They discovered another room, and} jon a bunk in it, lay Lee Long Tong January,|A half empty bottle of Chinese gin |was on the table beside him. He | Wes arrested and escorted back to| |the room where the 40 or more |Chinamen and whites had been. The | bottle was also taken back | But Tong was wily, He wriggled 's clutch and} bing his missing. Rack to 417 Seventh S. he and the other deputies went. They mounted the staira, and from within heard the sound of two voices. 70 MUSICIANS Violin Concerto Played by Mr. Albany Ritchie FRI., JAN..2 Tickets on Sale at Sherman, Clay's Piano House, Prices—50c, T5c, $1, $1.50, $2. Don’t Miss This 2d Ave. jon the door and it was opened. But ———— | there was only one Chinaman in the 4 \room, and he was not Tong "Tho safe,” said Conner, and they | |all gathered around. 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