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‘people earnest! ay =| The Seattle Star tor € m: Pubtianed Datty by The Publiabing 7, B00 per month; # months, § of Washington, © ° onthe or $9.00 per year, By 1 ¢ months, 92.75) your, co ther, city, 120 per week. Oh, Listen to the Band! (How Can You When the Autos Drown It Out? Perhaps Americans in @ moderate presumption 500 cities enjoyed band concerts Sunday, but it is that nowhere on the continent did they enjoy such THE SEATTLE STAR EVERETT TRUE © SAW “THE FetroOw WAS GOING TO BUY My CAR, BUT Ho —— ~~ ANDO Tat setting as those who went to Volunteer park last night. The sun set behind Pp "the Olympics, and tinted mountains and Sound with a glorious quality of color. “The music drifted over the formal flower gardens as twilight descended. Thou-| ands of souls found peace. A thousand autos or more, parked along the winding park boulevards, con- gpired to break the spell of happiness. » but— Inconsiderate drivers would start their otors and pull out regardless of the faint melody of the band, which many wanted to enjc Chief Searing should send 100 policemen to ‘olunteer park next Sunday night to insist that motors remain quiet during | music. When a motorist has absorbed his capacity of music let him de- But he can at Rast perform his raucous exit during the intermissions. No Wonder There’s Freight Congestion! Statistics show that the railroads, during the first five months of this year, d 5 per cent more passenger business and 43 per cent more freight business, luring the same months of 1919. That’s one reason for the jam. ‘Bear it in mind when you criticize. /Many an efficient business machine‘ would be clogged by such an overload. ' Fear not; for, behold Th bring you good tidings of } i joy, which shall be to \| ll people.—Luke ti:10. | Letters to the, ditor— briefly. mk or typereriic’ side of paper ony your name. SHIPPING TRUST EMIGRATION or The Star; While the Jap | problem is waxing warm, it not be amiss to attraft the public to the existence ot tion subsidiary to the Jap Shipping trust. which was| d for $30,000,000 to promote rration to the littoral of the) ce! This concern was subsidized Jose by the Japanese govern | to the extent of $1,000,000 year | id company was formed in 1919| efforts seem to be directed tion of the Western Pacific especially in the choicest ‘of the South and North Tem ; Zones, namely, Chile, Peru the Pacific coast states. q GEORGE T. BRADY. MORE STRINGENT LAW ENFORCEMENT Seattle Star: The annual of State Game Warden L. 1 conveys two messages to the of Washington: This state is excelled by im the conversation of wild a Unless more stringent are adopted, the sports of and fishing will die out with tion. splendid policies in force in i yn for the propogation and of fish and game are tn ing with the slow awakening of to the fact that the end ‘the supply is not far distant. Fed: legislation and the cooperation Canada in the safeguarding of ory species have yielded re- but all that is being done by and the national government yet turning the balance against ‘extermination of game animals fish. The hunting and fishing grounds @ decade ago were accessible @ few resident sportsmen, or to exceptional devotee able to spend time and money, are now with reach of thousends. The gaso- boat at the same time carries) shooter to the furthermost feed. places of wildfow!l, and the last es of real wilderness are now ly invaded by those who take toll from stream, field and “In European countries, sport with and gun is restricted to the thy cIisses. There are no ns or cover open to the public Are we to permit the rugged Amer sports, which have heiped to id national character, to become select pastimes of a fashionable not, the brakes must be put on than ever, The bureau of sical survey urges that a fed- _ it | enslaved. Dope Habit Is Not Hereditary There is a widespread notion that the child ef an alcoholic, or a mor phine addict, or other “drug fiend,” is fated by heredity to become a “drug fiend” himself. ‘This notion ts pernictously false. It has been the mean# of promoting the downfall of many a man who, aware of the skeleton in the family cupboard, has been driven by selfsuggestion to become a slave to some drug as bis father had been before him bs > “What is the use of resisting the craving I have inherited?’ he has msctously or subconsciously asked himself. “I must be as my father us, because I am his son.” If he would only stop to think, he would appreciate that were this heredity ‘doctrine sound, almost all the people he knows would be drug For there are comparatively few whose ancestry is com: pletely free from a taint, at of alcoholiam. The true situation has recently been well stated by «@ leading author. ity on the drug problem—Mr, Charles B. Towns. Writing in his “Habite That Ha ap," Mr. Towns vigorously affirms: “I want to go on record, once and for all time, to the effect that— all the old grannies tn the world to the contrary notwithatanding there is no such thing as inheriting the alcohol or drug habit least, “A man’s father and mother—and all his: relatives, back to Brian!gration into America, is commonly Boru or Julius Caesar or cocaine snuffers. might have been But this doesn't drunkards, or opium mmokers, constitute the slightest reason in the world why the man himself must inevitably be a drunkard, al *hop fiend,’ or a cocaine user “For the drug addiction, any other addiction, trait. And acquired traits cannot be tranamitted. . “This does not mean, however, that a man may not Inherit an un stable nervous system from ancestors who had systematically poisoned their organisma. “A man who had a father whose cells were thoroty saturated with ‘booze’ and tobacco, could, and probably would, inherit a defective nervous system. But he could not inherit a craving for drugs or drink.” Which suggests. of course, that a man born of a parent addicted to alcohol or morphine, may be so constituted that he is in special need of training in moral control ’ But given that training—or training himoeelf, in Inter tife—the nervoun weakness which might impel him to seck relief in some drug will no longer harry him. it has been demonstrated suredly, lke fs an acquired in countless cases. to justify the emphatic reiteration that Often enough, as be totally overcome. s Put on your gas mask—here comes a candidate ‘ In Appreciation of Insurance Agents | Insurance agents are not generally appraised at their true value to | the communities which they serve | No class of salesmen must work harder | labor more persistently to land a customer, | to sell thelr goods; few calling on him at night at his home, if they can't corner him in his office in the day time. Their persistence alone would deserve credit, qven if the article they have to sell were not a thing of most excellerit merit. But the attitude of the average man toward an insurance agent is one of resistance, such as one puts up against a fellow who has come to borrow money. Seldom does a man think of an insurance agent as one who has come to shéw him a method of saving money. Such attitude is not unnatural. vision that afflicts most men. A man oll stock salesman of a get-rich-quick imagination submits readily |men love to dream. But the insurance agent will give patient ear to an concern because the average to suggestions of fabulous wealth. Most dreams. | Guarantees. He is able to tell you that at the end of a certain period | your policy will be worth so mueh peddles no be provided for when their bread-winner has departed. And yet, such is the perverse nature of the mind of man, that the sure thing of the insurance agent frequently is turned down for the | speculation that is woven of the stuff that dreams are made of, Senator Jones says the United, States must fight for her foreign trade. | After what we've seen of peace, any old fight will be welcomed. Wait a Minute: Think of a Pickle Just for one minute put your mind on a green, juicy pickle. Picture it in your thought as being taken out of a gray stone jar, with the i | | there ia no fatal tion, gave the president power to heredity to drugs, only, at worst, a neurotic predisposition which may|terer this indirect entry of Jap. It flows from lack of long-distanced He mnkes law-proot | ca: True, he does not promise that} at constitutes the ensence of | you will roll in automobiles, but he does pledge that your family will) Gentlemen's Acr [that in the future Jap: C MUST INTERRUPT YOU, PAT TORS WHILE YouU'RS TALKING WITH A MA DON'T BE FUMBUNG WITH THE PENCILS AND = THINGS IN HIS vest p PocKeTs ti! _ = “e. —— H. Stanley Benedict Writes for The Star Today on ‘Gentlemen's Agreement’ BY H. STANLEY BENEDICT (Member California State Board of Controf HE prenent tween the United States and! Gentiemen's Agreement. A c Japan, controliitg Japanese immt-| 1. percentage wf students immediately, upon arrival in “Gentlemen's Agree! America, become ahasars One of the largest Japanese grow ern and producers in California has Get of congress made the statement that all bis farm July 1, 1906, to June 39, | inborer He designates 1907, Japanese immigration reacbed them « oa ag {ts highest total—30,266 immigrants. order to appear to be meeting that Karly in 1907 representations were cjassification, an evening class for made to congress that Japanese la-| study is held on the ranches. borers evading federal laws prohibiting their entry into cont! nental United States, by securing passports to outside territory, par tieularty Hawaii and the Canall jog, ak Game Zone, and thereafter eoming here | been without the neceaity of passports] oe Jananene residing in Ca: because they were coming immedi 1914 “gave nearly $0 per cent of -the ly from United States territory. | tora! a» laborers. Congress, becoming alarmed at the rapid increase of Japanese immigra ider- known as the ment” It tw in reality = treaty, not an From were titled “Japanese Ifnmigration,” by Yamato Ichihashi (916), Japanese An anatynis of the designated oc cupations of Japanese in California. shown in the special censue of 1919 taken by anese immigrant laborers, and the president, on March 14, 1907, istued an executive order refusing any fur ther such entries. . condition. ‘ understanding be |s#tudents, an exempt clans under the, Pianet these so-called) the Japanese Axsociation | of Amefica, at request of the state and so, “that it might be fulfilled board of congrol, will show a «imilar | which was spoken by the prophet.” Doctor Frank CRANE'S Daily Article Life a Puppet Show. The Highest Power. Shaping Destiny. Special Providence, (Copyright, 1920) It often comes over ua, a sense of being moved by some unseen force. The round of events goes by. I have little or nothing to do with them. I watch them, @ spectator. And the thi that happen me ne from out tne darkness, Life is 4 continuous unfolding, As 1 grow older I have an increas: | ing wense of being managed, Lean and less do I believe I had anything do with my destiny, Things came, things went, and I adjusted myself to them after @ fashion. Macterlinck conceived his dramas as puppet shows, to be acted by marion. ettes, instead of living creatures, | Very true to life! | I look out of my window at a | street full of people, They move to and fro, nome hurriedly, some lolter- ing. Doubtless each one thinks he ta |woing where he pleases, But is he? |i bave @ profound suspicion that nome one ix behind, operating them The Three Questions BY EDMUND VANCE COOKE ‘There were three questions which were wont To make their victima rage; First, it To ent that now, Or, maybe, he might not. But do not ask him, anyhow, “How much hooch have you got?” It once was not de rigeur, quite, In sorting sheep from goats, To ask « candidate, outright, | What price he paid for votes. | Yet even that query might get by, | But this should be deleted: Ask no man, with expectant eye, “Where is your stock secreted?” It once was wisdom to resist The impulse, urging hot, To ask the famous novelist Where he purloined his plot? | But now, if you are at his home, As haply you may be, The question primed to make him foam Is “Where d'ye keep your key?” o(Copyright,1920,N.A)e © ee ee oo Ow eeeereeser =—=We'll Say So Today's Beat Bet: Help ws amass our million, get out of a gallon of gas days?” “Only five miles. But enough water for my radiator, HERE'S HOW wee ere eres e reese eeseeeeene 1 get A® promised Saturday, we now dis Clone for the first time, exctuntvely in this column, how we intend to garner @ million fish, wl, pulling the strings, eee Tt amuses me to hear one aay he oil for my grease cups and coal off | for my lamps out of it.” ss A HINT fom not believe in a Higher Power. | What difference does it make what he believes, except to render himself | miserable? No person of intelligence, who has | gone thru the experimental stages of youth, can doubt that the scenes of his career have been shifted by “a power not of himself.” And this manipuistion of one's | life extends to the smallest tems of the dey, as well a# to the main jsrochs. | Why 4id I come into t room and pick up this pen? Why did I choone this chair, and not chat? Why did I glance around, just now, or move my finger, or shuffle my feet? Because I willed to? Perhaps bot, if so, my Will fitted into my Shaping Destiny lke a hand tn @ glove To my there is a Providence for) te and not for Trivial is Science knows no Big Great B | not acient Jand Little. jerain of sand as carefully as the There are no Big Affairs; |they are merely agglomerations of Small Affairs. . Instead of siying that Nature tn | too busy with World to bother with | Molecules, it would be nearer the truth to say that Nature is occupied with Molecules and lets World for themnelves: The only kind of a Providence there can be at all, recognizable by intelligence, in a Special Providence. Generalizing in a lazy trick of men's In proof of such possible evasions,| minds, swamped by infinite detail let me call attention to @ book en-/ hut Nature never becomes confused never needs to take refuge in gener- alities, She can attend to every drop university. | of water going over Niagara ae eas- , In clamnifying the occupations | ily as she can spin Jupiter along lifornia in| his groove, So I am @ puppet, and, most baf- fling of all things, a puppet con xcloun of free will, I think I do as I like; that is why Puck laughs at me, for He sees who pulle the etrings. It was said of Jesus that He did so That is, He was following out His The Gentlemen's Agreement ts en-| line, marked on the trestle-board of Urely ineffective, denies to the United | deminy Diplomatic negotiations ensued be-| States the right of selection. tween the United States and Japan, possible of pror resulting in @ general understanding should be imm would ane) + ie im tely abrogated Talk of possible conflict between sume the responsibility of ing a the two governments over this ques passports to the United State would | tion baer a ~ ce be tuaued to non-laborers Only, €X*| nese government recognizes the in cept that both countries agreed that jer, passports could be issued to three |i 4, clauses of laborers described as fol-| vithin {ts borders lows 1—Thawe seeking to resume a for merty acquired somiciie In her retending to believe in 2—Thone coming to join a parent,| yin wy P ws to in wife, or children living in the United Btate 1 one who would assume ac} itrol of an Already possessed st in a farming enterprise lo- 1 in the United States. This understanding thus arrived the EEeas ent. It was clearly intended to exclude laborers generally In cofsenting to such an agree ment, Americin diplomacy, it would appear, utterly collapsed. Our count’) entirely surrendered to Japan its sovereign prerogative of determining who shall or who shall not be admitted within her borders, To no other nation in the world has the United States ever surrendered this sacred right ee <> A man —- ‘The United States has no power to oe" rf Qdministration and A widow can make a man believe | _ If You Start to Save This Week you will earn a full five months’ dividend on January 1st, and for nineteen years we have never paid less than a 5% Dividend. At the | Might not the same be sald of you (and me and every man? To some minds thid thought may be oppressive, To me it is full of rest and assurance, “- o to think God's greatness t right which all countries have} ermine who shall be received | Among many things that fail to | impress a man favorably are his | wife's relations. jumbla Colo—the new American at Boldt's—Adv 4 AAS * | the required million. Gravitation bosses the | j Save the asilver-iead wrappings fromm your clgaret packages, your fancy cigars, chocolates, etc, and wend them to us, in care of The Star. ‘We will roll same into a large ball. | When the ball gets so big we can't | roll it, we'll sell it to a junkman for $150. e In thin way, It will be possible for us to liquidate about $150 every five years or so. By the time we are a |few thousand years old, we'll have | try thin: night. pected. Signed.” be hot enough for these birds spent all their life oe ogo. They denote shortage—in the of a shave. se . First came the Stone Age and tl the Golden Age and now we amongst us the Short Age. eee | Feller down East tried It. He sold . | one ball and was about to sell the} | second when it rolled on him. With| | him out of the world, we feel assured of success. The equator can still afford to around the world. Mayor Caldwell, Dear Sir: * We understand you walk from homie to the city hall mornings for exercise Now if you will watch along the way for tin fotl in the gutter, and pick it up and mail it to us, we'll be obliged, and will use your picture in this columa.— Ed. eee THE CHICKENS ALWAYS GET THE BEST OF IT News: Item.—Walter DeLong and his missing family have been found in West Seattle, He explained he had been going home to Bitter lake lever since July 17 to feed bis poul- | ltry. Neighbors, fearing the family had been murdered, had been feed ing the flock too. eee As the garbage man says, “The phew-er the better.” . Now we have a town In Aj called DOUG. Bet it’s an old g town. . oe touch system?” “No, 1 get a salary.” eee Rockefeller is certainly a stone. 1 gyess (hic) back to town. There's not an; home. (Hic) Why, I can’t even the key hole (hic). ee “He told a story about “Was it a cracker?” “Nah, punk.’ One great actress from France a few hairs from the tail of an can elephant tied to her leg. At height of fashion she could also room for a few trunks. The of America won't take up this fon because ivory is more and the majority wear it on ee “I say, Tkey, what makes yer eye black?” “Oh, dat tes a trade mark.” “How's that?” “I cheated an Irishman.” J © ese Alwnys be optimistic, frinstance: “Hello, Joe; say, how much do you ra — Go Fas, Through Alpine Fairyland through the defightful route of the CANADIAN PACIFIC ROCKIES. See Victoria first with its Empress Hotel enthroned at the head: of the Then pause at Vancouver to admire a great city, broad parks, the Straits, and farflung mountain ranges meet. ing the Pacific before you from the rose-garden roof of Hotel Vancouver. Then a daylight ride up the Fraser and Thompson canyons on an excellent Canadian Pacific train through The Canadian Pacific Rockies on a train whose service from diner to observation car is superb, Full information furnished on application to ea oh hee 608 Second Avenue, Seattle. Telephone: Main 5588 Canadian teerpapers and information regarding Canada on file at this office. on the RANGE, . ‘Whiskers do not any more denote When writing wedding invitations “We are to have a wedding te Your PRESENTS are em We often wonder {ff hell's gonna ¢ “So, you're a typist; do you use the Ad vinegar dripping off it. Doesn't it make your mouth water? Doesn‘t gun license be charged to finance | it make the saliva run? Of course St does. If not, just get a pickle|the right of the immigrant to entry thoro enforcement of the law8) ana jook at it. Don't touch it; just look at it Evasion of the agreement the ing wildfowl. In addition to! he ghove is one of the teats given by psychologists for ‘“Imagina-|easiest thing tmaginable | go behind the passports and question same time your Savings are abso- lutely secured by conservative a mess hatcheries and game farms, and protected waters must increased and the closed seasons thened. The bureau also recom- that limits be placed on the of game animals to be killed any section, and that licenses be istributed by lot. This seems hard fair, as many would apply for 1t- who would not fill them ana to whom the fall outing is omt a necessity, be crowded out the- drawings. ‘The state of Washington is wiser most in game conservation, but sportsman wilt welcome regula still more stringent lest our Gepleted waters and woods be totally empty of life, ¥. F. NOONAN, ORALLY SPEAKING Z _ First Real Estate Buyer—Tho fils ty isn’t much, I most admire for his candidness in“ his busi- dealings. Second Real Estate Buyer—Why Estate Buyer—Well, if tion.” People who can make the saliva run by simply thinking of pickles are classed “A” on imagination; those who must see the pickle | before making the saliva run are classed “Bi; while those who muat taste the pickle before the saliva will fill the mouth are classed “C.” How ts it in your case? In case you rate “A,” you have a valuable quality which you should |use, If you work in mill or factory, you can use your imagination |to develop improved methods of manufacture. If you work in a store |you can use your imagination to think out new ways of increasing sales. Imagination is something which every business man will pay good | money for if you will only use it for practical purposes, will use the present kitchen cabinet, Don’t Think of Birds as Shy One thinks of ‘birds as shy anf delicate creatures easily frightened by @ sudden sound. ‘That's an error, A bird is disturbed by noise only #o long as the noise is amnociated with danger. The moment noise ceases to threaten them, birds seem to mind it not at all. There's the gentle, sping Phoebe. f\_ This little bird chooses to nest under, bridges acrosa which wagons and bridge ts*under rail-) trucks pass frequently with a deafening roar. If th roud tracks, where the racket is yet greater, it's all one to Phoebe. Suspect. at night. $ Many of them seem to have abandoned the quiet country for the city. ‘The gravel roof of some high office building in the nolsy center of the city is the chosen nesting place of Mrw. Night-Hawk ‘The sound of « gun frightens birds only because they associate it with danger. The creature most b led Dy herves and noise is the one that makes the most noise of all t's Man! That ts because the night-hawks sleep thru the day, and fy A Plymouth Rock hen, in laying one egg with another perfect egg inw side, has demonstrated how to double output wthout inereasing machinery or hours, ’ ‘ ae A consumer and his money are soon parted » Probably the women are wondering if the next First Lady of the Land ‘The nighthawk ix a more common resident of cities than most persons! management Supervision. For a long period many Japanese have come to America classified as we o> Happiness and Comfort Plus Safety This is what you and your family can enjoy if you have a home of your own, a QBooQyad OQ (sneered dee And you can be sure the home is Your Own if, when you buy, you in- sist upon having a Policy of Title Insur- ance. Then all this company’s resources stand behind your title. Summer an Excellent Time to | Combat the Disease, Some cases of Rheumatism give “3 jvery Uttle trouble to their victim during the summer season, and for this reason now is @ most favorable |time to take a course of treatment Washington Title ngt | that will reach the cause of the trou Insurance Co ble and remove it from the system, le | Otherwise, with the very first “Under State Supervision” |eold, damp or disagreeable day, your Assets More Than Six Hundred , Thousand Dollars ‘ pains will return and gradually in- crease in thelr severity, until you will soon again be in the ciutches of this relentless disnana REVAMP NSF SRE TPL TET os and Strict Resources over Four Million Dollars Puget Sound Savings @ Loan Association Where Pike Street Crosses Third Guanacaste State QO Sleletelelere NAVE WeLSS DADA} mi eh Rheumatism’s Pains Are Al ways Treacherous Why not begin at once a system. atic and sensible attack on the mil- lions of tiny germs which cause your Rheumatism, and forever rout them from the system? This is the only way to get rid of the disease, for these germs are in the blood, and cannot be reached by liniments, lo tions, and other local treatment. 8, 8, 8. has proven a splendid rem- | § edy for Rheumatism, especially that form of the disease which comes from germs in the blood, Being such @ thorough blood purifier and clean- ser, it routes the germs from the blood, thus removing the cause of your Rheumatism, 8. S. S. is sold by all druggists. Write for free literature and medical advice, to Chief Medical Adviser, 611 Swift Laboratory. Atlanta. Ga. ; Vann eae Another Sleepless | i Ke been a busy and fretful day. Brain fagged, nerves frayed Night? body exhausted new trials and tribulations, he realizes the imperative need of a re night's rest. Yet, he hesitates and dreads to bed lest he roll The Great General Tonic ‘The hour of bed-time will soon lose ite Pent free from distur! 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