The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 26, 1920, Page 6

On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise She Seattle Star "E out of city, 50c per month; # monthn, Hina Meet’ $3. Tater ts $5.00,rin the ite of Was ya je the state, per month, $4.50 for ¢ tha, or $9.00 year, Hy carrier, ciiy, lc per week. 3 Save Them Lincoln’s Preparation for Democracy BY DR. FRANK CRANE (Copyright, 1919, by Wrank Crane) | WE'LL SAY SO }\2 ERETT TRUE By CONDO | WACCER ~WALLER = UM = - BM= MMM- MUM — SOOFUM — BLOCOY Sixteen thousand mothers and 250,000 babies die every two men, an old felt hat and a col because the protection of maternity and infancy is ea og plate—If you care to read it recognized by the state as a principle of government. |...’ th aan is ee a vers ‘ is the conclusion reached by Miss Anne Martin, who! ¢ wi pink, were in her ¢ : ( urging the public to help save a great majority f these wat before the judge tn, fhru insistence on the passage of Senate Bill S259 and |° urt, defiant, her saucy head flung || Hi Bill 10925, offering the aid of the national govern~| oe. wan eae rz to any state that will join it in infant and maternal) guutyr was ner plea + pe og z work not a plea, It was retort, a haughty ‘Miss Martin says that infant mortality rates are higher ry uttered caustically with a than in leading foreign countries. Of the dying quar) ")"Poiiceman textified. She got her er of a million one-half pass on within six weeks of their) first jai sentence—10 days bir “due directly to the poor condition and neglect of| Yesterday, on Fourth near Pike mother, before, during and after the birth of the child wth ng rode Bley holy limbs all the deaths of mothers are preventable.” i his hand was the old felt hat te other countries the methods differ, but the principle! nis tice was doseec saving is to relieve the mother of financial worry, and |“Mease,” he said she ell 6 a . J Mayme drew near. Her face was for rest and care previous to and after the birth ulead, Ghar tele Gee a the ghild. 4 i . P | work. She had learned a hard a oa The “stinger” that might arouse the nations is contained] in moratity and she was keeping this statement by Miss Martin: “Our government spent} clear of the police court, living “on than $47,000,000 last year to prevent losses of cattle, | the lev el.” ‘The police Will vouch for Fops and hogs; it spent just $47,000,000 less to prevent] “Prom tne opposite direction came Toss of mothers and babies. | the other man. He is @ pillar in the aa eal e _ | ehurch, He is a landlord, many times : \ Se . Dio over, He squeczes tenants, keeping © Tobacco companies would lend France 60 billion |°'*" of the police court, living! francs in exchange for a tobacco monopoly. Perhaps | switnin t aw.” The tenants will pers would assume Germany's debt in exchange for | vouch tor that the beer monopoly. | He saw Mayme. His glance be trayed he knew her, She dropped a a dime into the beggar's hat, and nodded recognition to the landlord. 1 Naughty! jaughty! Ho looked at her blankly, gave her | |no returning nod, did not raise hin jhat, looked the other way, pexed her by, passed up the beseeching | begrar and went on. i}. The only way to know a thing thoroly is. ly, brings out this idea in depicting Lincoln’s to be born to it, to vith your | boyhood. He says: 3 mother’s milk, to play child, to| “The country was newly settled by vig- have it and nothing but it all about you dur- | orous, adventurous men, who had brought ‘ing your adolescence, so that your unfolding | little or no property with them. _ There were mind shall feed on it during your formative | no tmmediate traditions of aristocracy or period. Those so planted and surrounded | servitude. Every one had to work for a , know any people or world in a way that an- | living, and every one could get a living by 7 other cannot possibly know who comes down | working. It was not necessary for Lincoln | to it from above, rises into it from below, or | to create out of his mind a new conception in any way penetrates it from the outside. | of Democracy. He grew up in a Democracy, | Only those know America, or the East, or | observed it, appreciated it, and then lived ‘rance, or Art, or Catholicism, or Aristoc- | and spoke what was in his heart. As a , who are thus born and bred into the | man he did his best to do away with the educative environment. physical limitations of his boyhood environ- It was so that Abraham Lincoln knew | ment, by the building of roads and encour Democracy. He was born of stock’that for | aging industry, while at the same time en- at least a generation or so had never seen | deavoring to retain equality of opportunity. class distinctions. His kind of people knew | He did not confuse primitive living with nothing of master and servant, aristocrat | Democracy. and plebeian, not even rich and poor. ! Out of this matrix of Democracy, more The most striking characteristic of his | absolutely democratic than anything in neighbors was that they were all of the | France, in Switzerland, or in Greece—out of same sort. Their economic equalit® would | this Great West, peopled by strong, free have satisfied the most rampant social revo- | men, to whom Class, as understood by high lutionist. | and low in Europe, as inbred by generations Destiny steeped this man to the lips in| of inherited privilege in the Old World, humanity, absolutely free from any taint of | meant nothing—out of this “new clay from class, to prepare him to be the world’s great- | the West” destiny formed the man who est Democrat. more than any other deserved the title of Arthur E. Morgan, in the Atlantic Month- | The First American. pennants silacineinieeeteiin ms o% familiarize himself with the differ | ent Jobs in the plant, with the dif-| ferent steps in the manufacturing | procemes, and then formulate a ret of standards with which the appli- cant must comply in order to fill the position to the best interests of both his employer and himeeltf. suited for a CAN'T ‘COU — UNDERSTAND MG, JOHNSON 4 ne pathos WELL, YOU OUGHT T THATS THE WAN Nov =| CHEW NOUR WORDS | WHEN You “TALK ‘To OTHERS Ut = = YT the Kaiser wants to avoid trial, he should Seanies him- as an American sugar profiteer. Five thousand gov- pn | nt investigations of these pirates have resulted in iat ee be a par hy wig a | 110 criminal prosecutions. The seven wholesalers with eee } we blackest records had their licenses taken away. Papa} We hear that the island to which | { William Hohenzollern may be sent by Holland has lovely clits te. In ho are the vultures who have more than doubled the) which caso Dill may get hin piace in of sugar within the past few months? Why dan the sun. | is ages ‘ 6 robe A enough detective ability in the department of justice} | } | : Fc nt. by tat « | find and jail the speculators? The sugar equalization | ,,7°r° !* are ae meee [om moan axe, education or | ‘Really , has. apologized for cae the 1920 sugar aan at | prosecuting attorney of a gang mur 4 | Se 00,000,000. It has revis its estimate—upw: % der. We should like to know just “UNCLE SAM, M.D.” oe * ; : ‘ »|bow many the p. a regards as a dither in this colanm Bh | ea ee fom ncle Jam Senay a | 2 + 4 * ti estimable sugar exchange reopened February 16. The} Since prohibition has been in et-| J Ch eB BoB e® — Miipcmitvic tor him to mmewer uum wf days of open competition and wash sales on 50 and| fee Howton has teen naming tine) erga 7 Sg} | ta rsh pace nti | a " . oie | oY having tea parties temarkabl ° pe d_ lots are to. be restored. 53 Press agents of the haw that tote kadoe' alive’ Ochonta Aa NVORMATION ¥DITOR, yw vv oor teers hip et es ext fete and | memorien Conducted Under Direction of Dr. Rupert Blue, U. 8. Public Health Bervice O; & Pati we FOR CONSTIPATION pres 2 a ne than ever before. vw is demonst tec PS. ABS 7 - ag > ry 7 % S FOR CONSTIF | superiority of private business manipulation over the unas wy COMI Mai be lng 3 HE “COMI ANY DO ¥ At the height of one mile the ay They WC A Emeient government control that held sugar to 11 cents.) ‘the absence of the sifen alarm|ician of the future rid himelf of the|. ‘Te make an iatelligent apptiek:| tense ob great as at the earth's fur | VORK WHILE YOU SLE the agitators who warned last fall that sugar might|wnas womiered at, but for some rea as 20 cents if the speculators were not checked, |*7 when the chief pushed the con be having a quiet laugh now. Folks laughed at them | ‘fo! button the whistle did not work. Nobody laughs After the now—nobody except the profiteer. | the tire the ciestricinn tented cur tha siren and ound it worked. It ts thought that birds had carried some designation of the “Company Doe,”| tion of his physical findings he must | face, the appellation of an official who] ———— a es took care only of what came his way, but he must be able to Inter- Pret industrial processes, understand the operation of mechanical appl an sine up the hu: strand sick tare ant thes tr |eonts ftee's as ae > reak ACold [eee SEEEE || Largest Life Insurance Business in the World In Few Hours won't pass. You'll never hear of @/o¢ increased production, politician voting to tax himself. The world would be a lot better off st dose of ‘‘Pape’s Cold Compound”’ relieves all raffiness and distress—No quinine! Costs little! jecreaned | | [labor turnover, and healthier and |if some of the time spent on tne |e. should. also be able to brad METROPOLITAN oulja board were spent on the drain- | Up the home, community and indus board, the washboard and the Mom | trta) environment, so that each a a eta hosemony [Tanners cneing tr LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY | eee 1, F. Watson made a trip to San | Me nation. Francisco and returned Wednesday| Th human engineer comes into ONCORPORATED BY THE STATE OF NEW YORK) aight with a magnificent eight-cylin-|!=tmate contact with four depart der auto hearse. In coming home|™ents of an Industry, namely, em. HALEY Presiden Str. ‘Wateon (500 if Got oat tinny) Dloyment, entety, medicine and wel FISKE, t FREDERICK H. ECKER, Vice-President that he can make 40 miles an hour |f4fe If ho ts fulfilling the obliga stay stuffed-up! Quit blow-|stops nose running; relieves head-/if he has to.—Willits (Cal) News. jttons of hia position he must know and snuffling! A dose of ache, dullness, feverishness, sneez- eee jintimately and well the workings of . = gifs Gold Compound” taken ev-|I8E. sorencen. wtitinces, thuihs wh ne nusded Ges eumnk| Gaal Beaman ef tile aroun Total Amount of Outstanding Insurance = 5 . $5,343,652,434 “le! ‘ape’s Cold Compound” is the|report in your income tax return| The heman engineer will first e [two hours until three doses are| quickest, surest relief known and|your poker winnings, We once met\of ‘all be called upon to determine Larger than that of any other Company in the World, Usually breaks up @ cold and/costs only a few cents at drug|a man who boasted he had won $1.19 if an applicant, who is fitted by ‘all grippe misery, stores. It acts without assistance. |in a winter of poker playing, but he|training or otherwise for the Job Ordinary (annual premium) Life Insurance paid soxael a ee Sn te: Bonga Bo epg no quinine. | waa the only winner we ever met. [he seeks, is phy steally capable of} *for in 1919 a % a 4 “a $910,091,087 More than has ever been placed in one year by any Company in the World. Industrial (weekly premium) Insurance paid for in 1919 - - - - : - : $508,590,405 More than has ever been placed in one year by any Company in the World. me Total Insurance placed and paid for in 1919 - $1,418,681,492 The largest amount ever placed in one year by any Company in the World, Gain in Insurance in Forcein1919 - “~~ - $914,140,618 More than ever has been gained in one year by any Company in the World. Number of Policies in Force December 31, 1919 21,770,671 Larger than that of any other Company in America, Gain in Number of Outstanding Policies - - 1,986,410 Larger than any Company in the World has ever gained in one year. Assets ° ° ° - ae ee $864,821,824.55 Increase in Assets during 1919 - - Ten $89,367,126.27 Larger than that of any other Company in the World. 5 . Liabilities - - - + + +»- « ° » $835,736,487.38 Surplus - - - - “tae . - $29,085,337.17 Number of Claims paid in 1919 - . : : 289,125 Averaging one policy paid for every 30 seconds of each business day of 8 hours. Amount paid to Policy-holders in 1919 - - $73,581,759.91 Payment of claims averaged $505.93 a minute of each business day of 8 hours. Metropolitan Nurses made 1,300,883 ‘visits free of charge to 256,000 sick Industrial Policy-holders. Metropolitan men distributed over Twelve Millions of pieces of literature on health— Bringing the total distribution to over 200,000,000. Pneumonia is one of the outstanding dangers which menaces health and life just now. There is no immunity except through care and caution. If you take cold —if you have a “throaty” cough, pain in your chest or you feel feverish— ~ GO SEE YOUR DOCTOR Then follow his advice carefully. Such precaution May save you weeks of serious sickness. When the doctor prescribes, bring the prescription to us. It will be filled at a moderate price, and you will get superior service. ED. R. BRALEY BETS 1411 Fourth Avenue, Just Off Union Street Tol4 Pork AND Elliott 3106 MATO SAUCE EAL PAINLESS DENTISTS In order to introduce our new (whalebone) plate, which in the lightest ‘#74 strongest plate known, covers very little of the roof of the mouth; you can bite corn off the cob; guaran. teed 15 years, De. Monte Beans with Pork EXAMINATION FREE and Tomato Sauce are more than i i i: : Full Set of Teeth... just good to eat. ‘They are an ap- Red ne in > [ene pyres . ity ani agus? to74 * 8 years 17.9 per cent, petizing, wholesome, ready-to- yphowd re roulosss, over 33 per cent.: Heart setve food containing more nutri disease, over 23 'per cent.; Bright's disease, over 25 per cent.; In- diseases of children, over 46 mt. ment than steak or eggs —but Sections » over 46 per ce Eusranteed for 1 eosin tak - they cost much less, In general reduction and in each case of disease, this is far greater than that shown Sampics of F pa ee Four sizes of cans—convenient statistics of the Registration Area of the United States. oat of our present for every size family. Ask your . tients, whose work te wtill’ giving ood m yy Fi 4 si 4 ¥ i H 1 iad wit hate treted our wore. When coming'to our tiene seis grocer, Death Rate for 1919 lowest in History of Company, “ Open sundays 2 for Werking People ; \ Ay Hi C CUT-RATE D. ISTS raha. PACKING CORPORATION Copestte_Frecer-Eatemen on |