The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 24, 1920, Page 6

* eet seldom do we visualiz Binet lock for a p come. fig where he th forced higher Samal cash payment wufficient to give him an equity = and then put pay the higher =| The Seattle Star [es How to Keep Democracy From Being Nothing But a Beautiful Dream We think of people in too abstract a way. -not as individual human beings, each with b alstuff like unto our own. Ve stand elbow to elbow with people in crowded street ple to and from trains. Ong with people into churches and theatres, stores, and hotel lobbies, THE SEATTLE STAR /EVERETT TRUE Wee, WAIT TK I CAN SEG oF MING —— ANY THING F Pubtianed Publishing Co. He Phon te of the state, Tay carrier, city # montha, $2.78) year, per month, 00 per year, © per week. LUC TEC YOU, MISTER CRUG, WE WILK HO NEVER CHAR GOS MS LGGAL ADVICE _—_ Doctor Frank CRANE’S A LAWYER PRIGND We think of them.merely as peo- n-stuff and heart-stuff and cars. We hurry with We push into office elevators with people. We = | tind senate | 3 Daily Article | The Sophisticated. “Lord, Deliver | Knowing Too Much. One of the Cattle. (Copyright, 1920) I would add to the Litany there | words “From sophistication and all) sophisticated ones, goad Lord, deliver | us I love to enter a #hoe #tore and meet the urbane salesman who knows what I want better than I do, He miley Ima pained way at my sug tions. He tries, oh, #0 hard, to | *SHARKEY ¢ Today's Bent Met: aboard the battleship. eee VOICR AT WHONE: Could you pleane tell me how many passengers | died when the Princess Sophia went | down? CANADIAN PACIFIC EMPLOYE That is a dead issue don’t dincumn it VOICE AT PHONE: Yeh! It's also a DEAD Issue with several hun Carry « pie |dred other folks, what! DAN O'BRIE 4 ye get any tokens for the « ’ p; «No. I got five gallons of gas, That will token | me back and forth for quite a while eee % with us, Wel SATURDAY, JOLY 24, 1928. KOOKOO KRITIK BAYS: Aty—“Jane Novak ts coming to | the Seattle in “The Great Accident’ * Must be @ Ford. Mack Sennett tells us that married |life is a good subject for a comedy. |This shows how much Mack Sennett knows about married life, It’s serious. Mr. Sennett, married men are @ better subject for a comedy—they jare the joke. “The Great Accident” ought to be a hit | Bull Montana ought to make @ | g00d lead in a picture lke that. We would Uke to correct the Uttle mintake that we made last week. We |{nformed the public that Anite Killer. |man would appear in person, but we discovered that she is to appear in @ in’ everything we get riding to and Yet all the while we remain singularly aloof and apart from them. So far as || consciousness of their personalities is concerned, they virtually are non-| ‘istent to u They: wale they talk, they smile, they weep, they are shabby, they are well ! they look healthy, they look sick—these obvious facts we perceive, as) s must if we are awake and among people. e people to. ourselves in their beneath-the-surface lities. We may be with people, we are with people, day after day: Hardly vel r do we truly feel with them. hat tired expression in the eyes of the woman across the way, what does «it mean? Be not wise in thine own That youth with the beaming face, why is he so fear the Lord, and}| lad? The girl in the blue dr and the faraway) from evil— Prov-} look, what are her longings this fine morning? Questions, to be sure, for which we can find no answer. This does not make them any the jless questions which we may well put to ourselves |from time to time. For the mere self-asking more definite, more tangil makes us more human. Making us more human, in every way. Pert fo we hi ave been fattening our bank accounts and soiling our by profiteering. We could not possibly peofiteer if we really f with the people who surround us. Perhaps, as landlords, we have been compelling tenants to live in unsanitary hon We could not do this if we saw people as other than abstract entities. Perhaps, as workmen, we have been rude, surly, posi- am, His| tively dishonest in our day-by-day dealings. ing with" those for whom we work, sensing our kinship to them, we fare certain to render better service, hence to find more joy and satisfaction in life. Often it is asked, “Is democracy a failure there be an efficient democracy—a democracy of such questions makes people driefty. “ more human to us. Aye, and dak or typewriter. aide of paper only your name. SEATTLE EL. HER TO POESY of The Star; I live in West tle, and for some time now I felt that I must burst forth gong about the scenery, serv it makes us kinder, truer, better souls your beautiful little | “When Sam Meta Swam.” to ride—tt I may—tnstde ‘@levated car. ‘PD must stand with strap tn band: only trifles ara my fare, with chastened air hardly dare to ask frembling lip, « transfer altp, the of the Stony Mask. I have @ ertek How worthy ean nothing but peopl* to one another? Surely we can find time every day, despite the rush and | bustle of modern life, to give a little thought to those other | problem-laden folk with whom we mingle. And it needs no great effort to establish a thought-habit that will make those others very real and bring them very close to us. Nothing will do more to realize the dream of democra: Whereas, unless we do contrive to see each other as some Buea starts quick Bil the people leer. / then the view Is lovely, too, & pecking house, and shed. tt" well Pleasure t T may ride the strap inside @ City’s Oldamo die. JESSIE LEE BURGESS — -| A Thrifty Workman Buys an Auto CULATORS IN A thrifty agent who does intensive work among the é«mployes of a TY EQUITIES big manufacturing plant has fecently been telling some stories about of The Star A plain-spok-| his experiences. man had something to say the) This agent, by the way, ts dol p this thrift boosting amon day about a certain type of/ workers because It pays—his conde inn on sales of small fiteer that is werth pasting along.|_ me character amount to a decent income Pointed out that the people who) “when I went.into that plant,” he wid, “I knew that T had a stiff boosting rents are not really deal-| joy i¢ 1 meant to get enough business te make it pay. I knew fm actual pror they are mere/] nad to get on close terms with everybody alators . They care “And 1 have done just that. I know the general mans hing about thd values of the! an the office boys, I know every worker in the they are holding up the | move of them by name. For example: “I go to every meeting the workers h and 1 kn sales" which actu- | tnat needs help in working out his financial problems. 1 passing ot title are | out some way to solve these problem: I lend *e ™ rage profiteer does | si ything I can to make ‘em see I'm @ regular guy ety ween wilt} I've got a number of the workers w le and steady In-) 1» bonds so tHoroly that they are willing to these roughnecks is named Kelly. He rounded the other day that T had never been able to sell, “‘Here,’ says Kelly to them, ‘go ahead and sign ugh for me it's good enough for you—I'm tak said, and I signed up one of them Ruas for $4 a week jay a bird came in to get $70 on some bonds I had sold hir m what he wanted the money for. He * beautiful dream. « the mill bonds of that nt boost for him a rea: me. What he does look for is a build up nks the rent can be On this he makes a & payment just and the ot The on the screws. ed the te he ¢ nants to ther sits b When he bt Semen * to enjoy bh Whis small | f equity ata it poets 20 in order to make costs, ¢ 2 get right In close to the pock ks of the mil a big field there is for our » t ‘The next ¢: ” es into the | * p ¥s eontrol of the lire out a way t the rental income is one device whi used self house of 12 eight-room fenting efor $1 will have The te Alterations rushed thru Months, say, he made-over buil the limit will be reached particular speculator | the cities seem to be more Why Raise a False Issue? the much-kissed) Hobson, Richme regard: wires Go Obvious object, nor Cox a quest prohih to put the democrat Suppose the new owner finds him in water Bry co an, and declin a staterme 1-bearer sulks In his tent, noat extinct party in y toward the democratic standar c # thereof deck: v tor x 1 cerebrum a ashing from a » +s s the asinine cleared out and Within ready to re tw discover that Governor Cox ever has advocated © gone on record for de in hin public career that ent of the law tional constitution This being t ttitude law-respecting Amertcan And Cox is a law-respecting American, gue ia not in er called upon to meddle in It was organized to abolish the saloon. The » may be a reason for the Anti-raloc there certainly is no reason for nably a dead ¢ into American politica and perhaps surprising, to know just exactly Governor Cox. The attitude of tt nable on other groungs than the false in. He invites the “docile” public and live in his newly furbished “a splendid housekeeping tment for only $125 a m the public rents his apartmer Where the house formerly yielded income of $1,500 a month, it Yields $3,000. The cost of the tions will be covered within a by the increased rentals. 3 originator of this brilliant stroke not care to wait a year for b He, in turn, looks speculator in equities who will @ substantial premium for the ng. | Some day, of course, | Then this | turn to| At the “Trail’s End” the democrata hope to find the next president. on > © | he believe ‘The pr fore an tr would . there. 1 part question of ke toward it there president b this p league's has bee it |why the Anti-saloon | other persons me issue of “Cox and Cocktails ghd tioned Bo it goes. Mezican presidents are nominated by an automatic convention. will other form of exploitat Meanwhile we who have to live in) Even against great odds it begins to look as if Greece will have Turkey) or "ess | for Thanksgiving. _ belpless victims. shamans JOHN M. OSKI£ON. to stay that way. The immigrants to this country are never popular until they become democrats or republicans. Judging from the marriages in the movte world “catch as catch can” ty very popular with the atara, The Lord wilt have blessed Furope when he teaches that country that sympathy wAll not regain losses. Getting accustomed to a plece of peace wouldn't be so bad tf tt didn't prolong the Wigh cost of a piece of pie. 9 If the Germans find trouble in reducing their army, Foch rehearse some 1918 scenes for their beenfit will have to - His Wife—-We ought to have a wa new car. This one utable. Hardy But I'll fix up this old "bus—waeh it up on it, ¥ Aa long as the “For-Trotsky” remaina popular \n Russia, considers tt dangerous for an American step there, looks §disrep Uncle Bam Upton—Can't afford it. The United States ta the only country in the world with q Weekly mews and put a trea mortgage paper devoted exclusively to the Job of, hating the chlef executive of the, Aution, (Colonel Harvey, of Harvey's Weekly, please copy,! Nowadays any poor fool can get married, but tt takes a good diplomat j are of | T™ jthe name—so long as the people of that democracy are) | thing more than people, democracy must forever be only a} restrain bis contempt when I indi cate my depraved tastes. Hoe re marks, in hopes it will reduce me to a proper ailence, that been in the shoe business for 20 years. Final ly he geta me so cowed that I walk away in footgear that is killing m and that I have to give to the janitor eventually, because Mr. Know- itall insisted that the shoes couldn't | pousibly hurt. Hoe got me so scared at length that I was afraid to tell him they @id burt. ee | Occasionally you meet the religious | |Knower, The wooaler and crazier his |mect, the brighter burns his lamp of | jeertainty, He, too. t smile, | that biighting, withering smile of di ACC RIGHT; YoU SEG HIM AND Get MS CEGAL OPINION, AND THEN ASK HIM WHAT HIS OPINION 1S Of A PARASITE THAT PRIES PROPGCESIONAL ADVICE OVT oF PaoPLSe Ow THE BSYRONG TH oF ACQUAINTANCE SHIP LY! vine restraint I must not omit the carpenter who knows precisely how you want your shelf put up. You have almost to! stand over him with a cocked revolver to get him to do what you want. And Iwhen he goes away he leaves you lerushed under the consclousnems of your utter ignorance of what's what Let me not omit the w |restaurant who is pained beyond| words at the absurdity of your order |the head walter, who mats you where you don’t want to alt; the clothier, jwho will force a suit of clothes on you that you don’t like, unless you make @ scene; the physician, who re fuxes to listen to your #«ymptoms, who pate your arm as if you were a Dyearold, and who impresses you with the fact that you have nothing to do with the came, it is his business: you are only the man who is to take the medicine and die; and the boy who listens with {llconcealed impa | Uence.to your fool advice, you being nobody but a fat who, of course, reepects you as & |mother, only you don't understand. ily speech that you should estab | 2.0 9 the desirable habite of clearness, | lirectness, de concine | ness, pleasantness, dignity, and self Grenville Kleiser Writes for The Star Today on Speaking Well BY GRENVILLE KLEISER (Reprinted by permission from the mithor’s book, “Something to Say and How to Say It”) MOST approved type of pub) 4 | iat You meet once in a while, too, the knowing. One who has read your ar- les, or heard your lecture, and who assumes as @ matter of course that you are insincere, and congratulates you that you have fooled them all— except him. I mm 1 hate all amiliarity with public personages. nud select half a doxen really} Why in the world is it assumed to rthwh: books, and write out a/be something to make one chesty Jofinite plan for reading them, mak. | because he knows the Pullman con ng a strict pledge with yourself to| ductor, or the theatre ticket agent, | You cin make your dally conver-| carry out your plan faithfully, As|Or the orchestra leader in a restau sation serve the practical purpose | you follow thin method of regular /Tent, or an actor, an aviatot of comparing your preconcetved ideas and xyntematic reading, the way will | tor, @ criminal, a policeman, or any | with those of other of correcting open gradually to larger and more | ther of the spotlighters? | your opinions whel uA are erron productive fields of literature, And yet I do confess to @ certain) or clarifying yorr\houghts in| And It will-be of great practical|@We in me when @ friend’ with me the Procem of clothing them m sult-| value to you to read dally from the | #Peaks familiarly to one of thene herd. age, and of broadening | dictionary. ors of the human crowd. For I know ir general me! auttook. It ‘s not mufficient merety to ex.; none of them. I am one of the cattle. You can also learn much from/amin® the definitions of selectea|! step lively when the guard on the thera by being an intelligent lst: words, but 4 read the book In regu. | *lvated railway yells at me. When ener lar order, mbch as you would any|the head waiter holds up his finger | While you are speaking your other book. Many of the most muc-|! follow it, hypnotized, to the darkest | mind is giving out ideas; when you cenefal put speakers formed early | S°TRer of the dining room, inten. nm the in life the dictionary y babtt. " epeaking today ts conversa liberatencs: entars mally inten uMatancen, ro} For speech-making the principal nource of material is that of reading, especially of good books. As & methodical beginning yo talk to audience ould to any sincerely, and > not w your ya into an un: | why ah key. 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