The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 31, 1920, Page 6

PRB inte es nase sab oo [he best seller day tn and day out, month In and ==.| The Seattle Star and United Press Service 95.46, in the State of Washington, 44.50 for @ montha of $8.00 per year, By mal, owt of ofty, Bho per Month; B months, 61 6 @ month, $3.70: year Outside of (he state Téo por month, My carrier, elty, Le per week. The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.—Jonathan| Swift. They Who Have Gone | The path from the cradle to the grave ts short. | Measured in the light of ali time, the life of man is but a flickering flame, a ny spark, a flash of fire @nd embers. Hut that is not all of life. It ls but the feast noteworthy of some lives—-of the lives of those who were truly great. For their earthly careers ended pot at the grave, They live on, They live thru all the time that follows ‘The sum total of all the world has today, of all ctw ‘Bization, all knowledge, all love, all happiness, al un- | @erstanding, all the joys, comforts and pleasures of @xistence, are the fruits of lives lived before, humans @ho have gone on, beings who existed, struggled, de weloped, drove ahead, and left behind them when they @ntered the tomb a better world, a happier human family, a more desirable existence for their children and their children’s children. That ia something to remember this Decoration day | @hen the living strew flowers of memory upon the graves of the dead. ‘There is no better time to strongly urge upon the @ving mind to remember—with Ruskin— | ulen cannot beneft thowe that are with Chem as they can benefit those that come after them; and of all the pulpiis from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which a feaches so far as from the grave. Voices now are beard from the stilled lps of those bo gave their all that this nation might be a united ation of free men. | ‘The product of thelr handiwork, a great and free | people reaching from ocean to ocean, from Canada's Werder to the Guif, this is how the dead of the Civil War apeak, and that voice will be heard as long as tthe United States endures. Bo, too, with those who gave of their Life tn other q@ara, and 50, too, with thone heroic figures of peace | q@ho, at the cost of time and effort and even life ; ‘ nation forward and upward. | ‘Their deeks speak everlasting!y | The heroes who died on the battlefields of France | sqrere not silenced by the German bullets. Nor by the | gbrouds, nor by the heap of blood-stained earth, nor fey the time that has passed by since they fell that the “q@erid might be a better place in which to live. Their “welcea crying for freedom of mankind, freedom from @ailitarism, from war tocracy, are heard this day, heard wile bosom of the ,ecean, across thousands of miles of 4. They are ‘heard in heated tropic and the frigid polar home of gan. They will never be silenced. On no other day is this thought so ardently tm Gay, when the grateful benefac | may be compelied to do so on account of the HH (pressed upon the living mind as upof this Decoration | tors of the hervic dead | tribute to their memory. Then, indesd, do the | fring come to a full realization of the voice speaking from the graves Over There, speaking distinctly and earnestly the words of liberty, of civiliaation’s supreme feed. of human progress Freedom, For All, Forevert Well, the house passed the bonus bill Sat- erday. Now the senate will have a new topic for oratory till 1922, or thereabouts. The Leader ‘The knowing «mile when they read the published @f the best selling booka Because these lists ‘@aldom, if ever, contain the name of the real leader -menth out, 10.years in and 10 years out, Is The * the Bible. To supply the demand and to extend tts usefulness, ‘She Bible ts printed in over [00-languages and diaircts it has been estimated that {ts contents in some ble language or other ts now available even out of ten people on the globe. Within | | ite covers are fertile fielis. History, romance, drama, tragedy—-the story of life easily accensibie. ‘The Bible was the first printed book from movable Im the 485 years following, the Bible society has distributed over 250,000,000 copies. Other yeocieties and private publishing houses, before and y@tnce, have distributed many other millions And the demand does not lessen. ‘The world’s best seller has a lead that, Tprobability, the centuries will not overcome. prose, in all it in all What Caldiell thinks of Hanson is only equaled by what Hanson thinks of Caldwell. And the chances are they are both right. | economic necessity The 16th amendment to the federal constitution provides: “Phe cotoct congress shaf have power to levy and taxes on tmcomes from whatever source | derived.” Te {t not claar that the people intended to give con to reach all Increases in wealth? This amendment was adopted to overcome the five to four decision of Ute United States supreme court whieh destroyed a former income tax law. Now the mame court, by another five to four dectsion, practically nnfitfies the amendment, as to finmense corporate profits, It rests its present dectaton on its former decision, which the people intended te wipe out by the sixteenth amendment. Anybody whe ls in terested in legal halraplitting abould read the ma- jority opinion in the case in which that court held « law of congress taxing stock dividends to be un constitutional Tta effect in well charncterined by Justice Tirandem, whe said. “The owners of the most mucceasful businesses in America will be able to eBeape taxation on « large part of what t» actually fress power teir income.” All that a corporation has to é0, under thin de cixton, & to retain it profits and iseve etock divi dends to tt# stockhoklers and they will escape taxa-| tion thereon unless they sell the stocks The bie stockhokiers won't need to, while small stockholders Ck ‘The Standard Of company of Indiana tncreased tts capital from $1,000,000 to $30,000,000, giving its stock: | hoklers a stock dividend of 2900 per cent. Such a dividend, according to the majority of the supreme court, ty not taxable, If a corporation pays @ dividend in cash, bonds, or the stock of another corporation, it in taxable, bat tf it distributes its own stock, it is not taxable. If A and B are partners, and the partnership earns profita, they will have to pay income taxes thereon, altho the partnership still retains the profits, and they have nothing to show for it but a credit on the partnership books. If A and B form a corporation, and it earns profits and they get a new certificate of stock therefor, they do not have to pay income taxes on {t, according to a majority of the supreme court. When remember that many big taxpayers, who are thus exempted, would have had to turn 60 to 10 per cent of much stock dividends to the government, we can nee what it means to them—and to the government Yet. judges and lawyers wonder why reepect for the courts ls diminishing. over One circus has come and gone. Rut the mayor and the ex-mayor are still with us. [Good for the Cubs _ For cubs, the students of the Journaliam department of the University of Washington did a mighty finished job when they got out the Saturday edition of The Star, We, of The Star staff, join in the congratula ons they are receiving from the general public. We are proud of them and of ® university that produces euch apt students. ‘The Star consented to tet them get out Saturday’s paper In orter to give them a bit of practical expert ence, but we mumt way that it was not only the sto dents who gained expettence in the enterprise, Mem bers of The Star staff did, too—gained it thru the atmosphere of exuberant youth, a plenitode of pep, and the abundance of good cheer and self.confidence of the young men and women. Higher car fare or higher tazes? Caldwell says both. ~~ Pass the Tindall Bill Mayor The Tindall bill, to regulate the collection of gar bage in Seattle, is a stride in the right direction to curb Japanese aggression It is one of the drastic measures now mudly needed for this purpone. Had we a Tindall bill, of the same Intent and scope. to curb the leasing of farm landa, we would not now be at the mercy of Japs for our vegetabinn The Tindal! bill ie aimed at Jap hog raisers Pass it and put them out of business, They should be out of it both from @ health standpoint and because of Conventions of Other Years-- Roosevelt and Bryan “Fixers” BY GILSON GARDNER ‘The republican convention of 1990! was a “fixed” convention. It was| the unchallenged wish of the party that William McKinley be given a @econd term, and be was nominated) ‘manimously on the first ballot. | ‘The only interest in this conven » @on, which was held at Chicago, was) fa the choice of Theodore Roosevelt “Bor vice president. Roosevelt had organized his fu-| ous Rough Rider regiment and had Been a spectacular figure in the war With Spain. This prominence had led & his choice as republican governor of New York. He aspired to a second term as governor, and, at geome time,| hoped to be presidential timber. | Senator Tom Platt was then re New York, and he particularly lke young He was not much in favor of Roosevelt's governorship Tom Platt, @nd presidential program. So he de York, who in his day was a eided to “kick him upstairs” out of smooth manipulator of po- litical conventions. . intent | he left the choice of candidate to the| fully and fully pressagented for the vention, the way by putting him on the ticket} With McKinley a* vice president. | Roosevelt recognized the Gnd did his best to escape the nom!- national con While the balloting on McKinley ‘was in progress various conferences took place. Roosevelt protested vig- @rously. He finally decided to yield. As history had arranged things,| his is seen to have been a critical decision. The death of McKinley a ., later placed Roosevelt in the ite House charged with carrying ut for three years the policies of the dead president. The democratic convention of 1900 ‘was alno devoid of dramatic interest It was the unchallenged will of the| @emocratic party that Bryan Mould} © the democratic candidate and he| was named by acclamation on the first ballot. ‘The silver issue had waned since 1896 and the campaign went off chiefly on the “paramount issue” of igen,” Both the republican and the demo- @atic conventions in 1904 were) conventions, The republican | ‘was fixed for the renomination of and the democratic con | ‘was fixed for the nomination | B. Parker. knew the vaine = public on a rbaiowe : <le f ee Editor The Star church pulpits of our Pacific churches with Jap ministers? For the small struggling church It would solve the salary problem, the Jap with his populous family could Ive on one-half of what the lhiord |would be manipulated by Hanna. Platt and the “old guard,” and that | these manipulations would eliminate | him. So he began about aight months before the convention to «tir things up. Ho announced himaeif a candi date for renomination and put out the slogan, “Whoever is not for me in | against ma” In the democratic party there wan |I!kewise a preconvention settlement | Bryan bad suffered two defeats. Free silver as an inmue was dead. Roose velt promiaed to be a formidable can didate. ‘There was nothing inviting to Bryan in the nomination. So he was easily persuaded to step aside and let the tories in bis party have a try at it. Their effort was typically tory. They set up a ery of: “Lot's got back to the constitution!’—meaning the use of that document to protect big business and apectal interests. They pasned the hat in Wall atreot land nominated (at St, Louis) Alton |B. Parker, a New York lawyer, care boss of New the delegates | purpose. In the Editor’s Mail WHY NOT JAP PREACHERS? jerage preacher receives Why not fill the) And there would be no need of pro- Coast | viding a parsonage, for the Jap could bulld living quarters in the attle of the church which would be far su perior to their present habitations. His wife and famfly could till the ground around the church and thus provide another source of income by welling garden truck. As for the large downtown av. i] ' THE SEATTLE STAR ADDING TO HIS COLLECTION Mr, and Mra Merritt Junk, Jv. are receiving congratulations on the arrival of « Iittle son The Ifttle boy will be named for bie maternal grandfather, Mr. Bharp and will be eniied Vii Natohes (Misa) Demoorat ee Now that we're reduced the price of clothing (cries of “Wot? Wot™> || with overalie clubs, let's all eat candy J instead of sugar and force the re Anors to cut prices, And let's wear overroats and force down the price of coal. eee We've been trying to figure out for several months why the demo- cratic delegations were going to the San Franciseo convention and we've got it at inst, They're like the old Indy at the funeral whe went for the rile, eee . A New York paper reports that chorus girls are wearjng overalls | Not while they're working, we'll bet | ea. ‘ore Rut, as the boothiack remarked, “T may be no good in some joba, but | here's where I shine.” | eee | A Kansas paper reports a gtri m that town who wore openwork stock ings cut her ankle with « safety mm sor, She must have been trying to pare & cor wot AND THEY DON'T CARE WHO KNOWS IT Handy with knits, a jomtreal Oeneral how ment in Monte Apply | adver an) Gane cee Amertea’s worst three peste: | Saxophone xylophone, telephone. | AN DIETS AN PALL LEFT AN CAUS IN TH GANG! Pride and hate Cooperate eee Modern Astronomy Vice President Hodgin gave a very instructive talk to the Hi Y chub yesterday at the Y. MC. A. He told the story of the stars, the vast ness of universe. There are eight planets tn solar mystem, but they are not lighted bodies, like the earth. Some ares are so far away It takes one hundred years for their tight to enter the earth at the rate of 18,600 miles a second. The alae of the aun t# equal to a militen of our earths. If th mn were ho wo oand the earth placed in Its centet and the moon where it is now, the earth uid revolve 240.000 miles from the sun, and there would be 200,000 miles to spara The sun is the emaliest of the heavenly jbodies, Some w are a thousand on bigger than the sun. The earth rotates around the sun every M4 hours 740,000 miles. The sun revol once a year at the rate of 1.000 miles a minute. The whole planetary ays- tem revolves in a space of 160,000,- 000 miles a year Pieaides reveals efx stare to the human eye, the telescope shows 2.600 stars, photographic plates 7,000 stars, Our great telescopes and apectroncoperss and cetellial photog raphy are going ont as if by magt into the great abyss of apace and are bringing back the long hidden pecreta bheid by the etara. Albu querque (N. M) Times eee HOW'S THE TRUCK? John Spencer bad a thrilling ox perience yesterday when he was run over by @ heavy truck. The whenis | passed over the center of hia boxy, [but John was game and just took « deep breath and eacaped with hardly & bruisa—Grinnell (ia) Herald. eee Rut, as the checker player remark- |. “I'm no athlete, but I ean jump.” the making a olrele of hour active liver and kidneys. jnew life in the body, sparkle iskin, nothing does so well as EVERETT TRUE OH, THis 1s You ARe BOUT THE JOB You TARTED FoR MS ND PROMISED To HAVE PIN(ISHED WESTERDAY ¢ —By CONDO | WHY —@R— We Tee wovu-— You 8GG 1 I HAVEN'T THe Leas tT Fo IDEA, DEAR, WHERE | [HE caw GG. - He MUST BE - AROUND HERE SOMGWHSe & — HERE'S HIS ni ACROSS THE EAS MEMORIAL DAY, 1920 By Edmund Vance Cooke Acrons the meas the Ulles bloom And spread their pitying perfume Where allent soldiers fought, While here the pansies’ morning eyes Are jeweled with bolize The sadness of our thought. tears to sym: Acromm the seas the laurel breathes Of valor symboled by Ite wreathes Which deck the wooden cross, While here the rosemary and rue rT, and remember, (terness of lows. Across the seas the poppies leave To cast thelr spell of sleep abo Some hushed and hallowed spot, While here full many a breast must ache But wears for some lost sobtier’s sake ‘The bive forget menet. (Copyright, 1920, N. BH A) All Camp Sites Thruout State Listed by C. of C. Thirteen communities of Washing ton have joined the Seattle Chamber of Commerce in the preparation of a booklet detailing the public camp sites in the various towns and cities and the booklet, in wh are listed alphabetically, will fill a long felt want, according to reports from commercial organizations the state The folder will be dis tributed at each camp to automobile tourists advising them of where they ean find accommodationg in the next oity ‘The cities which have taken space are Bellingham, Chehalis, Centralia Ellensburg, Hoquiam, Mt. Vernon Pasco, Seattle, Spokane, South Bend Tacoma, Walla Walla and Yakima Chinese Babies’ Bandit Career Ends Abruptly BAN FRANCISCO, May 21.~ Ah Fong, 6, and Foo You, 6, Chi nese baby bandits, stole a horas and bugey and cruimed “Fiisco,” On their trip they appropriated a full grown goat. Hore, buggy. feat and boys are held awaiting claimanta Build up for the Spring Attack! Put the body in condition for an invasion of the germs of grip, pneu- monia or “Spring fev- er.” At this time of the year most people suf- fer from a condition often called Fever. They feel tired, worn out, before the day is half thru. They may have frequent headaches and sometimes “pimply” or pale skin and white lips. The reason for this is that during the wintertime, shut up within doors, eating too much meat and too little green vegetables, one heaps fuel into the sys- {tem which is not burned up and the clinkers remain to poi- son the system—a clogging up of the circulation—with in- Time to put your house in order. For an invigorating tonic which will clarify the blood, put to the eyes, and a wholesome an herbal extract made from Blood and Stone root, Oregon grape root and Wild Cherry bark, which has been sold for the Pierce's Gglden Medical Discovery. feeding on the blood, when the blood is pure the nerves feel Sy reason of the nerves churches, tt would be a drawing card, the effect, and neuralgia or other nerve pains disappear | aa most of the congregations of these |ehurches have heard. about the su- |periority and progressiveness of the Jap. And no doubt the preachers would all welcome such @ movemont, for they have such brotherly Jove for | the Japs and are so desirous of help- ling them gain entrance into our | country that they wouldn't mind ane ing their jobs turned over to the | Japs and walking the streets with forme of our American-born citizens PPE seeking work Lot's try them once because food. Spokane, Wash-—T had scrofulons sores on my body and limba and! «a out in different places, did me no good. ‘hotles were always comic | several doctors but the such pain is the ery of the starved nerves for food. 1 took treatment from At last I began using Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery for my blood, When I had taken three bottles of it the sores were all healed and I have not been troubled any more with boils.”—U. 8 Fuson, 8. 11 Marysville, Calif down, my back ached, my that { Gould not even drink milk. 1 depended on Dr. it, In a short time 1 was gre appr hemanin rn <ppmaamamama “I needed a tonic; tly benefited. DAN BRADY, | was o wall weman."—disa 4M Masher, 219 Oth Mt, 0 Ivory Bt my blood was thin, I was run- kidneys were weak and digestion was so bad remombered that mother had always Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery, so I decided to take I continued taking it and| i lt Spring | ast fifty years as Dr. | ( JoB ISN'T FinisneD YET AND HIS If your gums bleed you have Pyorrhea. This dis- ease should be taken care of at once, to insure good health. For the next 80 days, we will give a liberal discount on all Dental work. All work guaranteed 15 years. United Painless Dentists 608 Third Ave. | Face Peeling Habit Women seem acquiring Y oametics It doe {th om colized wax at any drug store (a ounce will do), since its virtues hay become generally known here, an there's no trouble uaing it ou use cold cream, night, The wax takes off th ¥ flakes, a litt unde in vel radiant. with girlish Any surface trouble like ed or yellow patche anial course, culcle, applying jet Becoming Fashionable | fashion and refinement the depending for y. mically. trouble getting mer- Pranks = MEMORIAL DAY Decoration day, or Memorial day, in a day set apart at the end of the month of May in the United States lot America as a boly day for the commemoration of the soldier dead. | ‘The soldier dend are of honor than others bees | business wax to die, While the mer |chant and worker, the teacher to the con | good by their liven, the soldie tributes to the welfare of the state by offering himself to dic. The supreme gift is life. ater love,” it is written, “hath po man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friend.” The supreme fear is death. It in the severest penalty the law |can infliet | Life and death are the most mean ingful words of human speech. | They are the twin 7 aks of de» Uny. more worthy une their | | all beliefs. || The scorn or mtwprinal of Ife tw || the mont damnable of all heresies The only, thing larger than life is the ideal; for men surrender life for ideals; while for comforts and luxu | ries and all the shining prizes of for tune and fame, no matterthow much the cynics may we worship them, no man would die We only live for the material; and of the spiritual, the shown by this, we will die riority | ideal, is for it The soldier then represents the best in us. For he is humanity's vol unteer for the ideal. War is wicked and stupid, the pen- | ality of Our backwi ent dness in govern but soldiers do not cause ware victims of war; and noblest among us; as vilest sins demand the jmacrifice of our holiest saviors, The combined sing of the world reached up and slew the Lamb of God. Wars are brewed in erafty kings’ counciis and stubborn #enates, not by soldiers While we cure war, therefore, and those hell-taught politicians that will not let the world rid itself of war, we honor the splendid youth who threw their bodies in the breach of the world’s mingovernment, and gave their lives that ideals might live America’s soul neyer reached a higher flame nor whiteness than the Jay her millions of youth obeyed the call for the Draft, and with negligi ble exceptions dropped the pursuits of life to go upon the quest of death. On this Memorial day we honor them with flowers and high praixe y are they are the The bellef in life ts the deepest of but most will we honor them if with SHOK AND FOOT TROUBLES | ‘The commonest form of ble is that which the lait as “fint-foot,” or “fall condition which is, In ways caused by bad clen weakened thru exercise, and expecially shoes of poor type, whi {cle action, expecially | toes, and give a faulty | tribution on the foot. | When the barefoot his foot “toes in,” | gramp the ground at | consequence of this the | whose tendons run back |ner ankle bone and are bitched | the nole and the toes, are strong elastic from use aud held up arch of the foot. | With stiff shoes, Ught or short onea, the toes is limited or even the muscles conseq ticity and tone. If one stands much tle, all the muscles foot lone strength. If one tons out standing (as is easy the strain on weak creased; moreover, there ing up of support of the ankle and ward (not really arch, with the result the arch and tn from strain. Every foot can ward—if there were no rofl ia we could not walk on but this should not be the position. Certain races and people, to be sure, have low naturally, but without foot Fice + on tke : 3 rolls inward in standing is never natural. “7 Q A cystoscopie examination te veaix malignant papitiomata of the ~ bladder. 1 wish to ascertaim the ee riousness of such a condition, A. ‘This condition is a very grave one, the treatment is surgical. Where an operation cannot be carried out, however, fulguraton and treatment: with X-ray or ractum a@re bop found beneficial. You are advised te be guided by the advice of the Galist whom you have consulted as to the treatment best suited for particular case. > l every votive rose we give a that the effort of all statesmen may prosper who that war shall cease. 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