The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 13, 1920, Page 6

per month; 8 moatha, ear, $6.00,r im the putside the stat ‘ @ montha or $9.0 My carrier, city, 12¢ per week. Russia’s Spirit Not the Bolsheviki but Russia's national spirit has won European Russia and Western Siberia, Soviet rule is its triumph. But, Lenine and Trotsky have not nm their theories of government are correct because | w have defeated foreign invaders. Lenine and Trotsky national spirit. They say it destroys the interests of working classes. But, it is to nationalism they owe} es success, | eae revolutions is always the same. The test} after peace has been declared, not in the midst of | Hlities. Foreign foes solidify a revolutionary move-| more than all the theories of revolutionary leaders, | ak, Denekin and Yudenich, tho Russians them- accepted foreign subsidies, In the eyes of the Rus- 4 le that made them agents of other nations, seek- ag to dictate Russia's course of action. So there was no eulty raising Bolshevik armies to keep alien influences | of holy Russia. soviet government at Moscow is now the dominant in Russia. There is no doubt of that. If the world fight famine with Russian wheat, the Bolshevik gov-| nt may have to be recognized. But, that doesn’t Bolshevism will be given a permanent hold on Russia. ns scarcely more than formal assurance to the Rus- people that the world intends to let Russia’s domestic alone. , n, for the first time, Russia can peacefully judge Bol- ism on its merits and demerits. The Russian people shown they wil! not swap horses while crossing 8 m. After the stream is crossed, it will be different. You needn't ask a snan whether he likes his job, Ob- serve the quality of his work and you will know. whe Tolstoy who told the story of the man who went) ner te bay some fine threads. But the threads | sinner showed him weré not fine enough fer him. fhe spinner said: ‘If these are not fine enough for you,} here are some others that will suit you.’ nd she pointed to a bare spot. The man declared he} not see them. | spinner replied: ‘The fact that you can not see that they are very fine; I can't see them if? fhe fool was rejoiced, and ordered some more of the} ne thread, and paid down the money for it.” ‘ The story might be a satire on the extravagance of the times. Flush folks demand the finest of everything. scorn cotton and call for silk. The moderate-priced ticle is rejected with suspicion because it doesn’t cost unnecessary things they buy are as futile in their) n as the invisible theeads’ which, very likely, the! and foolish man attempted to spin into something) nt to a $20 silk shirt. read the story once more and think it over. ‘Paris whispers that the wasp-waist is coming back. ess Paris will sting the buyers as usual. the ant at work. He has his world, his work, blems, as we have. . far does his world extend? How far into his en- does his power of perception penetrate? He know you are near. Your immensity is beyond his} the other side of the hill, a stone’s throw away, is ant hill. The creature under your observation is not know it exists. He will complete the span of his life without ever learning what is beyond the little] e2 his activities. ; low like the ant are humans! What wonderfully im-| ase things there may be in the universe of which hu-| cannot conceive any more than the ant can conceive) human sphere. There may be even a race of beings| above man as man is above the ant. | Politicians don’t much care what Hoover stands for , but they wonder how much he would stand for if | jand not enough confidence in the people. I UNDERSTAND YOU ARG IN NEED CFA NOW OFFICS MAN, PERHAPS YOU MIGHT CON. gsioeR MC. — NOTHING DOING ! i see You BITE YOUR NAILS —— WS HAD ONE FECCOW “THAT “WAY — HALe THE TIME HE ACTED CIKG X= NIBBLING A CARROT Ii! | Uniess recognized early and meanures aro taken to remove it, the effects of malnutrition in child hood may last to adult life. It may | show itself as prolonged il! health and feeble resistance to disease; the individual may grow up undersized and underweight, not strong enough woman, eye How common the condition of malnutrition i# may be shown by the result of the selective draft, lwhere nearly 40,000 of the young men examined were rejected be- jeause of the de | principally unde: | Careful investigations hich have jbeen made show that failly 20 per cent of the children tn our schools Jare at present ®uffering from mal | nutrition, In your child one of this ber? WHAT | 10 DO | In Order to prevent malnutrition, jor at least to recognize it before | serious consequences have followed. the most important thing is, watch |the child's weight. This ean best be done in school, where monthiy | weights of all children should be jtaken and recorded and mpecial at | do not make @ normal gain by the | Parents, teacher, or school nurse or | doctor if there is one. It is essential that every child of the schoo! age should receive a full medical ex- amination once @ year A child who is suffering , trom malnutrition—that is, one who ts much below normal weight or one who is steadily losing weight or What's the Matter With America? BY DR. FRANK CRANE e (Cougright, 1919, by Frank Crane) Too much competition and not enougif co- operation. Too much party and not enough pa- triotism. | Too much labor union and not enough labor. Too much hate and not enough under- standing. Too much oil stock and not enough war stamps. Too many silk shirts and mot enough savings bankbooks, Too many promoters and not enough school teachers. oo much fight and not enough team- play. Too much fear of Bolshevik bugaboos mothers and Too much i Too much Too mich Too much and not enou, Too much racy. Too much Too much compromise. Too much courage. Too many More government aid to hogs than to | preciators. | nn | No Matter How Greetings! The fair price commit: | tee Is busy again. Found a couple in Seattle living on $150 a month. What /#tuarte Caletum Waters Provide makes us sore ia that any couple in _ ge Seattle should have to live on $150 a| TRat Gives the, shin " month, | see | Editor We'll Say So: In searching | for an oil engine, I ran across an ew tablishment on the waterfront, nea: the fire station, but t sign renda, in big letters, “WERKSPOOR.” Please adyise.— Bearcat.” - P. §—Slen in a restaurant below Yeuler way “Two Eges, Any Kind, 25¢.” ‘ee e of the too general sine owders, cren nd other It goes without saying ural, beautiful complex- th beneath it, and with his vivacity and leade ai and other activities: how bright and active & face covered with pimples iw of healthful appoa “Bewnre of the saleslady who calla in evidence. Get rid enough interest’ in politics. babies. sm and cult and movement and not enough horse sense. national vanity and cockiness and not enough national conscience, cursing of politicians and not 7 bunk about Capital and Labor gh effort to get together. class and not enough democ- money and credit and not enough production. ultimatum and not enough pessimism and not enough critics and not enough ap- | Bad the Complexion PROFITABLE Becomi: ber of this strang mutual A eeas Asodiation is as sale a itis | iF AS SAFE AS IT IS Profitable. Strict State Supervision to do the average work of a man or | | tention should be given to thom who) On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise hen Do @e Eat? Also How and Where? And How Long Will the Farmer be the Goat? BY DANA SLEETH Conducted Under Direction of Dr. Rupert Blue, U. 8, Publle Health Bervice MALNUTRITION SHOULD BE TREATED jis: “When Do We Eat?” one who ls not making « normal) guin—ehould at once be taken to; 4 physician and examined to soe! if any discane is developing. In| stood, b: the case of children residing in areas Ci in which malaria or hookworm pre-| and vail the physiclan should search for] wo the parasites of these and similar diseases, The child's whole dally life should be carefully gone into to see Which of the rules of health he half what city folks demand for is violating, and whether thin per-| ; A ; tains to hin food, his habits of eating, | » Did you ¢ tk? stop to think his hours of play, of schoo! work, | farmers struck? or of sleep. Malnutrition is cured by correct- ing the habits .or removing the causes already ment 1 upon | which it depends, Ofter It isa mat! qe gtar considers it tmportant{ |ter of enforcing dicipline in the/eat the townsmen get the fi oa? |home. Attention to dict is, of COUP | viewsoint; not on behalf of Poser aad fenpgetaat, er, but because unless @he cities ANSWERED | Wake up they are going to go hun- | ery. Be Sgr ten ps ana arige ssc mesand (i happen to have had some recent | A. Yea, and iis drunk, but un-|frming experience; I spent 18) lean it can be taken far off from |™onths' labor and some thousands of | the shores it may be polluted with | dollars in a patriotic attempt to pro- sewage. When taken from near Vide pork for Uncle Sam and his! \the shore by municipalities for a/*lies, and about the time I had my/| | public water supply ft should first | Pork the market dropped from 23 |be purified by filtration or chlorn. | Cents to 12% cents, for some mys | ation. | terious reason, and I quit hogs, pock- | eted my lons, threw in my work, and smiled. But I'll raise no more hogs while packers thimble-rig the market, and there are tens of thousands of farm- ers right with me, The farmer is razooed, looted, stung, bilked on} every hand, and he's getting good and weary of it. Bo it eemed a good idea to get | the truth before the people and to in- vite discussion from farmers, city workers, housewives, business men everybody concerned. %, more luxuries. for love of country? Or did you imagine that the Q The doctor tells me I am wut fering from tuberchlosis contracted jin the army two years ago, I am told that 1 am entitled to free sana. tarium treatment, To whom should | 1 apply? | | A. Write to the Chief Medical Ad- visor, War Hisk Bureau, Washing: | ton, D, C. | saan Q What causes high blood prom sure? My doctor has got it back to | |normal, but I am afraid it may re) Here is @ letter from a farmer to, |turn. What shall I do? My doctor) start the forum. Write briefly what | | Just says “Leave it to me; I'll fix! you know, or imagine, on this sub- you up.” ject, send the letter to me at The! A. This condition ts caused by, or | Star, and let's see if we can't in one) |assoclated with, a number of differ-| city get a working basis on which | ent conditions, and only a physician producer and consumer can get to- |who is thoroly familiar with the gether for theirnutual benefit. condition, and who has examined the Editor Star: Please let » dry patient, could give you the informa | land farmer talk a» little, For en you ask for. Why not apeak to! your physiciag and ask him to teil/ you more about your condition? In. asmuch as he has been able to re-| @uce the pressure to normal, be may | feel that you are worrying entirely too much about It. Worry is known to have « bad effect on the condition, wo why not leave well enough alone and trust to him? | j the invest- ment of your a with those o! thousands of other thrifty Americans. Resources are now over Four Million Dol- In short, the city folks imagine that the farmers are to indefinitely continue to work sixteen hours a day for about The most important problem confronting the world today It is the most important problem confronting this country, And it is a problem that is not discussed, nor even un y one city paper in a hundred. L workers continually ery out against high food prices continually demand shorter working hours, higher six hours’ work, what would happen if # And do you expect farmers to continue to work long hours farmers were getting rich? If you did, you are ignorant indeed. et 4o strike and quit what you have. These fellows do nothing 3 i “3 fi & iste i eff i: aif ; Bi it bE f Hh 1 t i I i Fy : i 37 i | et i ul Ih i H te it, sFa3 E ; [ LEY 4 i i Sip rH vane t if i IMPORTAN ANNOUNCEMEN + oing | lars, with Two dollars of tangible | you ‘Honey,’” warns our wife. “Hon- was not the frayed and patched little garments that wed from their emaciated frames that made my heart} /* Zoe Beckley, special European correspondent, cabled. was writing pf the starved children of Central the little human beings doomed to death by starva- ion unless the good people of this country give liberally ‘of their nickels, dimes and dollars. | _ “Nor was it the broken boots that let in so much cold, ? the blueness of their hands,” Miss Beckley continued. was the look in their faces, the 8kin stretched tight over their cheek bones, the terrible brightness of their small “T shall never forget their eyes. or and of avid eagerness. ig . Please read that again—NO KIDDIE SHOULD HAVE UCH EYES! - Picture in your heart, and soul, and mind, the eyes of a , little child, starving to death for want of a crust of d. And multiply that picture by five million, and you the real core of the awful famine in Central Europe, want for food in lands where tiny human beings re falling like wilted flowers, sacrifices to the demon Inger. | It was a look both of No kiddie should have such If the British pound continues to drop in foreign ex- _ change it might be well to rename it the ounce. In the Streets “The communist revolution grows,” says the Communist} ternational, Moscow Bolshevik organ. ‘‘In France enor-| us demonstrations have started; in Italy the struggle 5 Jn America the working class comes out on the Without going into the matter of the French demonstra- ons or the I boils, it is safe to admit that American workers come out on the streets. _. Yes, siree! Actually come out on the streets! Most of *em_come out every pon. All of ‘em come out every after- ‘oon right after the whistle blows, and hustle for home. Then aga.n, later on, they come out on the street and make for the movie. But they’ve been doing that for years. |. John Barleycorn’s estate has been inherited by two _ very distont relatives, Patent Medicine and Hair Tonic. | clothes when bolling them. | this in not healthy water for people | ey and stings sometimes go to-| gether.” . AWAKEN THE ‘Ga OF She.led him gently in to the pas ture and leaned him gently against the lake, As the Peo. Wee twittered m the twig, she placed her tulips to his'n and muttered “Crocus! - sf WHY NOT POWDER THE WATER BEFORE DRINKING IT? To the Editor: 1 would like to say a word about the hard city water we are using. Unless 1 use a lot of| powders or things to inake the water | soft, it ia almost tmpossible to wash with it, You ought to see the gravel or water that gets on the Surely stone to drink. Another thing, why can’t | |a poor washerwoman have a ginss of | | beer when doing & washing? Deer is cooked, and surely thin is muéh| healthier for your stomach than that | hard city water, espectally when all the impurities are cooked out—A’ Washerwoman. Omaha, Neb} World Hera! | How jot the W 0 ie ation, and W. M. Dill has a delicates.| sen store in Pasadena ee We fight used to hear, “If you want to join the army.” But if you want to scrap all the time, join vy and work your wa to ‘al up oe. The beer and mebby w will go, too, el hag disappeared. ne day the pork barrel o- it, ag the prizefighter remarked, | “The banker puts it down in black and white, but I putit down in black and blue.” . Marshall says that as vice presi-| dent he is without power, authority | or influence, Let's keep him vice! president * Wood aloohol is doing more for the enforcement of prohibition than the police ever can hope to do. * tgs But, an the jockey ‘remarked, “The man with a strong pull loses many & race.” ‘ SPRING | (By the Author of Did the Cowslip?) _ it ®, roughn bh by using Stu re They contain considered by ae easential to © ‘ discouraged, you ean No matter how bad be from such condi- um Waters with it, And * to blackheads, pim- rash, and a muddy, sal- Yexion t bo blue, don't despair, ot cent box of Stuart's Cal- cium Wafers today at any drug store In the United States, and soon you may have as beautiful a com- plexion as you ever wished for.— Advertisement a 1p your skin may Di. J. Rh. 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