The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 23, 1920, Page 6

The Seattle Star ut of city, 50c per month months, $2.75; year, $6.00, w ate Quesiee the th, $4.50 for ¢ months, . y carrier, city, Ide per week. My That Cherry Tree d cherry tree story has changed a lot since it fy by M. L. Weems, the Virginia parson, who, in RO, wrote “A Life of George Washington With eee sdotes Equally Honorable to Himself and Exemplary to Young Countrymen.” Thus, many generations have pictured the cherry tree as} on the ground after George was thru using his little | on it. Such was not the case, however. What} George really did was “to bark the tree so terribly | believe the tree ever got the better of it, according ] liable Weems. : ie Diere is considerable variance as to what his father *d to George and what George said to his father after} Ss ruined tree was discovered. Weems, father of the story, | y ‘ds, thus y said is father, ‘do you know who killed that ittle cherry tree yonder in the garden? ing at his father with the sweet face of youth, | ned with the inexpressible charm of conquering: th, he bravely cried out: 4 | "T can not tell a lie, pa. You know I can’t tell a lie. 1 t it with my little hatchet.” tun to my arms, you dearest boy,’ ‘Run to my arms. Glad I am, g killed my tree, for you have paid me for Such an act of heroism in my son is wor trees, tho blossomed with silver and their ee ve 1 Pe cahot Lodge, in his biography of George Wash-} gives almost a chapter to Weems, whom he regards genial old liar. Lodge doesn’t believe the cherry tree) ‘fat all. He calls the cherry tree story “hopelessly Tidiculously false.” Other historians hold the same but the cherry tree story still blossoms every Febru- nd may it continue so to do to the end of time. cried his father in George, that it a thousand- th more than fruits of stgf 3 n off relations | i ine has broke Former King Constantine has gigs thon his mother. A fellow usually goes to the does that. Before an Audience disconcerting to a novice aker or peérformer—before | lently and solemnly upon that he is safe. He the place is secure;/ | are few things more | to stand alone—a solitary spea mee of people who stare si He knows, or ought to know, let us say, in a concert hall; i | S people are civilized and interested and friendly, or] ‘would not be there. Nobody is going to eat him. And} he could hardly feel worse.if he were facing a horde t wry cannibals. And all this is perfectly natural, for fear takes possession there is no room left for reason. | is bad enough to be silently serutinized by even a) p formidable-looking person. It takes some nerve to) his eyes; and a crude cloth mode! of an animal's face, h big eyes, can often make a baby cry. : : the motionless silence of a formal andience is ie and ive seme sign of recognition Pie inthe ive some sign o : hall they only stare, like mals preparing to r ‘And this is likely to be worse with children than ‘adults, for when one talks TO an audience, or leads s song or chant in which they all take part, the silent, | tare gives way almost at once to something else, and on the platform becomes one of the crowd. But) % “piano or a boy reciting a piece, the icy stillness lasts, | the performer may feel more and more the terror of apart, before those silent eyes. If he could only me caper to make them laugh! then, after all, an audience is a crowd; and ages ago, men ever dreamed of children’s recitations or schools halls, before they ever wrote a line or had even} to speak, a single man or animal, faced by a pack,| rd, or gang, or mob of doubtful-looking friendliness, in danger of his life. Discretion was the better part or, and he could be thankful for an ail-possessing fear bave wings to his flight. much of the past is packed into the human nature day! Women will not take well to politics. What woman d throw her fiat in the ring? Public Tast —_—_$— mtin Quidnunc, The Star’s inquisitive reporter, who @ question every day of five persons picked at random, da query Saturday. It was: tt is your favorite book? Quentin, being a cynical cuss, expected that the answers _ would prove the degenerate taste of the reading public. _ The answers he received surprised him. ‘Of five persons quizzed, four of them declared for books an astonishingly high standard. William Allen White, Sir Walter Scott, Burrough’s nature and Robert Hichens’ “The Garden of the Allah” were favorites chosen. fc over the country, this list, representative in a degree the public taste, shows a sound and healthy judgment ‘One of the five, in a jocose mood, selected the telephone as her favorite volume. There’s a rather bewildering number of characters in- uced in this popular work, but at that it’s a more in- volume than some of the so-called “best sellers” are foisted on the public. public “knows nothing of art, but it knows what it ,” and it likes the best—in the long run. Hh The chief fault of those who favor reservations in the _ treaty is that they don’t favor preservation of the treaty. The new nations have old sore spots, In order to introduce our new (whalebone) plate, which is the lightest strongest plate known, covers very little of the roof uf the mout! you can bite corn off the cob; guaran teed 15 years, EXAMINATION FREE Sot of Teeth. All work ‘anteed for 15 ‘and get teeth wame day?” P rom Reet of 7 early tient whowe work is vin ents who have (ested our work Whee coming Bs are in the right place, Bring this ad with you. andaye From © to 12 for Working People a: CUT-RATE DENTISTS Oppesite Fraser-Patersea Ca, 2 £0! Considering the immense river of literary drool that} | pendents after deatis, BY H. P. BURTON NEW YORK, Feb. 23.-~The follow ing principles for which Herbert Hoover stands have all been enumer ated by himeecif exactly as they are given here. These are his own words and have been culled from several signed articles he has recently com tributed to American publications and from one or two public state ments he has given to the press in ‘This is the first time that all of these principlea have been selected and composed, #0 showing exactly what the political platform of Her bert Hoover is. hen he simply performs BEFORE them, like a girl at|i~pusTRIAL AND ECONOMICAL | PROBLEMS DEMAND SOLUTION We quote first from his writings copyrighted by the Curtis Publishing Co., in the Saturday Evening Post “That some readjustment of our industrial and economical relations ie necessary needs no argument, for the world is seething with the prob lems involved in the matter. They cannot be approached in the single aspect of the relations of the worker to the employer, for they involve intricate problems of social econom jem in the stimulation of effort and intelligence, the elimination of waste, the better distribution of wealth, the control of speculation, extravagance. checks to Gomination of groups, and the progressive development of gov. ernment to keep pace with the eco nomic ingenuity of our citizens. “It iw the easence of democracy that progress of the mass munt rise from progresa of the individual “The assumption of clase distinc | tions between labor, capital and the public is a foolish creation of false class consciousness and is building for ua the very same kind of founda tlons upon which Europe rocks to day. When all is said and done, labor, whether with band or mind, is the only excuse for membership in the community. Capital is noth ing but the savings of the nation, represented by tools of production and service, whether it be land, fac: tories, homes, railways or schools; ite managers are laborers themselves and must be sifted out py compe tition in accord with thbir intelll gence, skill and character, Capital is not money, for money is nothing but the token by which we barter goods and services. There ix no quar rel with capital itself; the quarrel is| over the distribution of its owner. ship and the profits that arise from it HIGHER STANDARD or NG SOUGHT “There are a few propositions of mixed social and economic character bearing upon present problems that are pertinent to these times and use- ful to reiterate when the attraction of economic novelties tends to divert us from the foundations of experi enge. I believe these propositions may be summarized as follows: “That the object of all national economic policy must be to maintain and improve the standard of living ———« |of the whole population “That the standard of Uving in the direct quotient of the amount of commodities and serv that are available among the total population Therefore the standard cannot be maintained or improved unless there in @ maintenance and increase in the production of commodities and ser. vices up to the maximum need of the entire number. “That the human animal labors under the major impulse of securing for himself a direct share in con. sumption of commodities and ser: vices, either today or in savings for hia old age and protection of his de His minor tm. pulse is the joy of craftmanship and a spirit of servies to the community. Socialism will be possible when, in the dim future, the latter becomes the dominant impulse—and then it won't be necessary. “The organization of workers to HOOVER'S PLATFORM HIS VIEWS SUMMARIZED FOR READERS OF STAR FOR INDIVIDUALISM THE SEATTLE STAR—MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1920. TRIAS, deie SUBTLARINE, AND FEED £ NES TO | Hooverisms: STIMULATE EFFORT. STIMULATE BRAINS. CUT OUT WASTE. CONTROL SPECULATION. CHECK CLASS GROUPS. DISTRIBUTE WEALTH BETTER. KEEP THE GOVERNMENT UP TO NOW. Democracy means the progress of the average man. In business affairs democracy should limit itself to preventing the rule over the many by the dollars controlled by the few. Managers of capital are laborers sifted out by competition in a contest of intelligence, skill and character. The object of economic policy m@st be to improve the standard of living to all. Man works to get things and service and for savings in old age and for protection of his dependents. Socialiam will be here when man works for work's sake and service to his fellowman—and then it won't be necessary. Trade unions safeguard opportunity. The right to combine im- plies the right to bargain collectively. Corporations get too big when they dominate in wages, prices or production. Naturalization of industry fails where all socialiam falle—by destroying the impulse for efficiency and initiative. The price we pay for the privilege of the play of Initiative, abil- ity and character is that some people get more than they deserve. Inheritance taxes ought to be applied to reducing the public debt or for development of rivers and other national properties. | The exeees profits tax stimulates waste and is paid by the uitt || mate consumer. | America ought to help Europe help herself by furnishing her |] “Memporartly food, raw materials, tools and credit. | The league of nations offers hope of the ending of wars and per- |] mits economy in military expenditures I'm not for any party dominated by men opposed to free speech or free assemblage or free representation. I'm not for any party dominated by men who hope for socialism ot other destruction of individual initiative. The well-grounded discontent won't be cured until the misery due to selfishness has been rooted out. i Europe, with 450,000,000 people, ts producing enough for onty 250,000,000, largely because of socialistic impulses which aswume: That a man will work as hard for love of his fellowman as for himeeif, and That some afficial can best pick out for a man the kind of work he should do instead of letting him choose his own line of work, and That something has been devised that ts better than the school of Competition in fitting workers to the places where they can do best The American substitute for the socialistic disintegration of Bur xye must be founded in a practical American way, on American ideas, on the Am philosophy of life; on the normal develop- ment of our natural Institution; on the fundamental fact that every section of thix country, the farmers, the city workers, the profes sional men, the employers, are intetdependent on each other for maxi- mum production and better distribution of results. ' better the condition of labor ts un- | doubtediy a mafeguard of equality of | opportunity and in accord with basic | principles. ‘The essence of combina | tion of workers is collective bargain: ing, and the recognition of the right |to combine cannot be separated from jthe right to bargain collectively. | “fhe combination of capital for larger unit production and distribu tion Is, in Itself, economically sound |up to some points of expansion. It lis not, however, sufficiently recog | nized that overgrowth of such units leads them to bureaucratic adminis |tration and eventually renders them lless efficient than smaller unite. | From a social point of view, the mo- |ment they begin to dominate the community, either in wages or prices lor production, or to prevent the growth of competition, they are in flagrant violation of the primary principle of equality of opportunity. ‘Nationalization fails on the issues} on which all soctaliem falle—that ts, the destruction of the impulses which creat efficiency elther in employe or employer, and in the impulse to in | becduse It stimulates rank waste ittative, which is necesmiry for im.|!%. !n the main, pansed on to the provement an* extension. No scheme | “Umer and butes to the high based on po."ucal appointment bas | °8t of living, yet developed the ability to replace ‘6 Du competition in ita selection of ability | RRCIEL, ee tOPE and character in management, and ates r no government under the pressure| The following statement is from of local pol influences can prop-|the annals of the American Academy erly conduct the riske of initiating | for January extension and improvement. “The rebailitation of Europe is “The inheritance tax ts, theoretic: |immediately and primarily a Buro- ally, @ direct transfer of capital to|pean task, but it is of tremendous income in the hands of the state, and concern to America, if America and 4 thus might be criticised as stifling the increase of capital, Practically, this would be answered if the state ap plied such receipts to the extinction jof national debt or to reproductive expend ‘the national properties in rivers, }lands and so on, Such a curative jof unfair distribution of wealth is no | violation of the economic or social | principles stated above. “The use of increase in income taxes to secure better d@isthbution of wealth, breaks itself down at a certain point because it discourages initiative and effort more than doce the use of inheritance taxes for such |purpose, Beyond a certain point in care of dependents the human animal is chiefly interested in comfort in |this life he use Of excess profits tax for this purpose or even for revenue: xcept as & war emergency measure pupled with controlled — prices breaks down not only from the dis: couragement to initiative, but worse, \ jf \ anna bapa 7 On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise |EVERETT TRUE _ I THERE'S FORTY CENTS POSTAGE DUE ON THE PARCEL, MADAM. | [ WE'LL SAY SO] Greetings! Lawyers down in San} Diego have formed a union, Public sentient outside of the profession favors a walkout * . THEY SHALL NOT PASS Reports from France an that Marshal Joffre has purchal Ford, ere First men to be guillotined if a soviet government is vet up in Amer Guys who weer leather coats Theatre ticket sellers, | Prohibitionints. We'll Bay Bo od ltore. If Quentin Quidnune had what our avorite book was, we would have told him book of fish- hooks, That boy's too darn inquist uve, World's Worst Joke-s'he reason the Chinese government is unable to maintain a navy ts because her ships are always full of Chinks. For the worst joke sent in to this office by March 1, the We'll Say Bo editor will give an autographed gal ley proof of this column, absolutely free, except for conta to cover in eidental expensts oe AR MRS. NEIGHBOR: DEAR OU BORROWED OUR VACUUM CLEANER ENOUGH TO MAKE liture in the improvement of | D WHEN WE WANTED TO USE (T WE FOUND IT ON BLINKe IT WAS ALC SNARLED UP WITH A MESS OF CONG HAIRS, THREADS AND HAIR PINS |WHICH L AM RETURNING HORE WITH. — GVERETT TRUE. ANGELS WEEP ‘The landlord ts doing us well His profits are certainty swell He raises the rent A hundred per cent, And makes us kick Ike hell & —From Port Angeles, Wash. | RBS. pyre other countries of tue world are to = SY: prosper. “America must temporarily, at least, furnish her not only with food, raw materials and equipment, but also with credit ‘to finance the im ports whe needs “The universal practice in all countries at war of raising funds by inflauion of currency, is now bring ing bome its burden of trouble. In extreme cases the most resolute ao | Yon must be taken at once. In other |countries, having & lesser degree of | : EY r* mad |inflation, such currency must be re-| THE TAXPAYER'S MONEY result of the demand ie by the duced and included in the funded| Péter The Star: It has been giv | Association of University of Wash- * | debt. or, as an alternative, the costs |" Out that salary increases from/|ington Snstructors for higher salarc lof wages, living and international|>* ber cent to per cent have| ies because of the increasing cost of exchange must be expected to adjust |De*n made for members of the Unt} living Here are a few of the fig- themselves to this depreasion. The Versity of Washington faculty, as a/ ures outery against the high cost of liv INCREASES . department (19 years’ service), from to . the constant increase of wages | teed of departmen: years’ Garvien),, frees 3.600 to n exchange going on are, | ‘faen 2.060 to Jerable degree, due to this from 2,900 to 4 inevitable readjustment.” Poca i. ; fre | FOR THE LEAGUE tor (7 years’ service), from Administrative secretary, from etary to the president, from Comptrolier, from Cvatier, from Becrsiary to the Wegistrer, from Assistant to the registrar, from Secretary to the registrar, from AND FREE SPEECH In his latest statement to the pres, Mr. Hoover says: “If the treaty oes over to the presidential cleo jae (with any reservations necessary to clarify the world’s mind that there Jean be no infringement of the nafe- | fuards provided by our constitution and our nationold traditiona, then I must vote for the party that stands | for the league. With it there ts hope, jnet only of the prevention of war, but also that we can mfely econo mize in military policies, There is/ hope of earlier return of confidence and the economic reconstruction of the world. | “I could not vote with a party if \it were dominated by groups who [meek to set aside our constitutional |guarantees for free speech or free | representation, who hope to re-etab- |Ush control of the government for | Profit and privilege. I could not wote | with a party if it were dominated by \groups who hope for any form of jfocialiam, whether it be nationaliza- |Gon of industry, or other destruc- jon of individual initiative, | “I do not believe in more than two great parties, Otherwise, com- bination of groups could, as in Eu rope, creat a danger of minority rule,” The taxpayers of this their school assessment murmur and they are proud of their university. They desire it to be one of the high standards to which their young people may go for fine instruction in the lecture room and in contact. But they also desire to know if their money ts being used toward this end. Just what was the decision of the board of regents about the increase in salary? Was it to apply to the faculty only? Or was it to apply to the faculty and the administra- tive force of the university as well? If the increase is for the faculty only, on what basis are the per- centages awarded? If the increase is an all-university increase, then have all workers at the university| the answers to these questions been benefited? Who has charge of/the taxpayer? What is being done making the salary budget, and who with his money which in this way decided the exact increase for the|he is laying in store for his chil individual? Did the board of re-| dren? A TAXPAYER. state pay without {Portion it out? If the latter is the lease, who are these administrative officers and did they award them- selves an increase and how much? Have their salaries been as low as those of the faculty and have they been at a practical standstill for the last five years as those of the fam ulty have been? Or have they been increasing? If they have been ine creasing, on what basis were the increases made and by whom?’ Are the subordinate workers re eajving their just share in such case or are they being left out? If they are sharing are they receiving a fair percentage according to their work, or are some given large increases and others little or none? “ Who has a better right to Now Is the Time BY DR. FRANK CRANE (Copyright, 1919, by Frank Crane) A Wall st. publication sensibly calls at- | tention to the fact that there never was a better Opportunity to save Money than jright now. It terms this “The Opportunity |of a Lifetime.” This is not a tip, nor a promotion scheme. /It is not a prelude to offering you Oil Stock, |nor a chance to subscribe to the Consoli- dated Maple Sugar and Phonograph Com- pany. It is just plain horse sense. Your dollars now are worth about half |what they were a few years ago. You | know that all too well. If not, you will find }it out when you go to buy a pair of shoes or a new suit. 7 And that means that in a few years to come your said dollars will be worth about twice what they are now. Values go up and down rhythmically. As the school-boy rhyme has it, “What goes up must come down, On your head or on the ground,* If you had saved up a thousand dollars 10 years ago it would now have a purchas- ing power of around five hundred, would it not? It would. And it is just as surely true that $1,000 put away now will be worth $2,000 to you in another five or ten years. Hence it follows that this is the best of seasons for laying up something for the \future. This world, and the finances |thereof, move on irresistibly, according to jnatural la and if your point in the rim of the wheel is on the bottom today it will be on the top after a while. ‘ Therefore, buy well-seasoned securities, yes Sore? it ur eyes or lids are sore; it} they itch, burn or feel dry; if your! vision is blurred, your eyesight dim;| if you are obliged to wear glaswes, | go to your druggist and get a bottle | of Bon Opto tablets. Dissol pne int a fourth of a glass of water and bathe the eyes from two to four times a day, Sound, comfortable eyes and improved eyesight will make the world look brighter. £ : Doctors say Bon-Opto strength- ons eyesight 60% in a week's time in many instan fr good bonds and preferred stocks. Ask @ broker or banker what he recommends. Then ask others. There are certain old reliable investments that are not liable to go wrong. And if you want to be absolutely safe, and take no chances, buy United States bonds and War Stamps. There is much more reason to buy these now than when you were asked to do so during the war. Government bonds bearing over 4 per cent interest can be had at a little over 90 cents on the dollar. They are as secure as the Rocky Mountains. War Stamps bear compound interest. If your boy is to go to college in five years and you are laying up a fund to send- him, every $100 you put by now in a Lib- erty Bond will have in all human probability $200 worth of purchasing power when the time comes for him to use it. This advice is not for the get-rich-quick- gentleman, nor for the stock market gam- © bler. It is for the patient investor, for the’ ordinary person who wants to save and to have his savings increase. It is, of course, not absolutely Nothing concerning money is so. is as sure as anything can be. The temptation now is to squander, with the rest of the crowd who are whirling along in a mad dance of extravagance. And if you have sense and stamina enough to resist this temptation and lay by your extra earnings you are going to enjoy yourself hugely some future day when many people will be out in the rain. sure, But it To Reach J. H. Stievene, Wire Your Address to Charles Schweim Care Curtis Co., Detroit, Michigan