The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 11, 1920, Page 6

| The Seattle Sta eet of city, Se per month; 8 montha, 6! fm the State of Washington, Outat | ana Unites |] Presse Bervice bed 14.60 tor 6m: 0; @ monthe, #2. f the state, Th By carrier, city, 120 per week. year, onthe, oF $9.00 per year, Uncle Sam Holds Bag a ‘The question of who is left holding the hag in the disaster that has befallen he if France and England. The fact is that, quite unknown.to the average citizen, our nd interests the people of the United States quite as much as it does those Uncle Samuel has een gambling on Polish success, and Polish failure. raises the question of e the money is to come from. ' While ostensibly at peace with Russia, our government has: nevertheless s Neither fear, nor { for, your last day. lartial. . * ers to the side of paper only. your name ‘The starr ft ts an olf but interesting tale retold of the pioneers who first braved the C wilderness, croshing the Plains in prairie schooners, p own father and perhaps yours @Re Of them; other who came and upon their arrival abroad over the North: Set, some settling on the shores of get Sound and founding our great others venturing far into the Plog on horseback and on foot, f Tough end unknown trails, be- @angers both day and night of og {been busy supplying the Poles with military supplies. The Polish government now owes the United States la total of $71,920,111, covering sales made from sup- |plies shipped to France for the use of the Ameri¢éan |expeditionary force, and sold by Secretary of War Baker to Poland, not for cash, but on credit. For these supplies the Polish government gave the U. S. treasury department its Lee eer lg notes bear- ing interest at 5 per cent and running three, four and five years, each note being for one-third of the total amount purchased. To these sums must be added others, totals of which are unknown, for purchases made by the Poles thru the grain corporation and the navy department. The navy department has refused to say how much war material it sold the Poles. The best estimates are that these latter transactions will bring the total sum due the U. S. from Poland up to $100,- 000,000. Officials responsible for these sales, including the state department, which approved at least the latter transactions, are busy scratching their heads over the explanations they may be called upon to make to congress in case the Polish government defaults. All of which goes to show that it might be a good idea if the people of the U. S. A. were kept advised of what is being done with their property. ° Conservatives “Safe, sane and conservative" is a phrase that rolls approvingly off of lips of men who believe that whatever ia, is best. And it must be admitted that human experience is an excellent guide and those who would rush pell mell into experiments must take upon themselves the burden bf demonstrating beyond a reasonable doubt that the, thing they propose to substitute is better than the thing that is, Nevertheless, it would be a curious world, indeed, if conservatives had always had their way. Witness: *{ some of our forefathers thought of the tnnovation of riding on ralis. In a letter dated 1826, belonging to ¥. W. Force of Gfiman, signed by the schoo! board of Lancaster, Ohio, the board refuses the use of the school houne for a meeting to discuss the question as to whether railroads were practital or not. An excerpt from It readw YYou are welcome to use the school house to debate all proper ques tions im, but such things as allrvads are impossibilities and rank infidelity. There is nothing in the word of God about them If God designed that His intelligent creatures should travel at the frightful speed of 15 miles an hour by steam, He would have clearly foretold thru His holy prophets. It is a device to lead immortal soule down to hell” who are “kicking” almost nothing about the Japs. I might truthfully say less than or what amounts to worse Japs publicly from stamp and by | I know that the “Japs," next to Chinese, are the brightest and peoples on earth, and in one of greatest virtues superior to even Chinese—namely, bravery sor mn and much more honest selfishness than we are. I that fear is the curse of the kingdom, and that the Japs less of it than any other cr@- and, if allowed to be, are more than any other people ex- the Chinese, on earth. I worked with them, for them, have had them working under for me, And further, I know it to cross blood with them would to our advantage if it was done the right way—for good, in the tt spirit. And, did you ever read | a story, I read when a boy? by, I i! Disraeli, in which a little boy to @ friend of his father who Visiting him, when dsked by the it if he liked him, replied: “If like me.” Love begets loves, hate is contagious too; and charg. is the greatest of virtue—and I that what “you-all” are saying nd doing will work only yours and ir ruins. And if you will just think Jesus’ standpoint you will it “to. =) And now, !f you are honest and mt more from me say #0; if not, u'll get it just the same. Yours for the good of al crea R. M. DUFFIELD, Port Townsend, Wash. SYNONYMOUS TERMS _ The Porter—Lady in No. 4 wants to tell her when she reaches her 0 on.” I reckon sho means Conductor—Her ticket reads r City, where I used to live, sume ‘a Which shows, perhaps, that ft doesn’t do any harm to discuss new things, since nobody can say In advance ef « trial that a new - plan one couple te America, they were great cities, at which reception, the mayor and his lady to officiate. The king was appreciative and sympathetic, Thus bis royal high- ness: “I can ‘readity imagine that the diversified duties of administration of so great a modern commercial metropolis, such as yours, Mr. Mayor, are at once critical, acute and compelling, involving, I feel sure, « greater degree of capacity and adaptability to circumstances than the merely perfunctory exercise of prerogative, such as my station re quires.” The queen, delicatety sensing the parity of sex m Amerfea, turned graciously to the mayor's wife and added her word. “And I am sure that while the official and executive duties mayor may seem the more onerous and responsible, yet in reality, the scope and complexity of social duties required of the mayor's wife demand a finesse and a savoir faire which are attainable only by the most insistent and sensitive devotion to her exalted position.” The mayoress was touched almost to tears by this quick and sympa- thetic appreciation of her delicate position, and gazing straight into the eyes of her royal highness, she responded fervently. “Queen, you said a chinfull- Now, while there will be some hypereritical purists who will deride the answer of the mayoreas, we defy any one to deny its succinctness, its piquancy and Jta adequatenesn It goes straight to the point, it brings a breath of frestneas to the diplomatic atmosphere and it remains indelibly impressed upen the memory. The queen’s well-meant words are heard, or read, and instantly forgotten. Not so those of Mrs. Mayor. We venture to may that her stirring phrase will be pleasurably remembered in royal closets and palaces of state long after the addresses of welcome and diplomatic hyperboles have vanished as the breath of the yesterdays which bore them. “I came, I saw, I conquered.” “Wp guards, and at them! “LaFayette, we are here Ponzi—Wizard Consider the case of Charles Ponzi, Boston money wizard, who reached out and took—so he says—$8,500,000 from somebody for his own pocket in eight months, to say sothing of the money he made for “investors,” First off, you have to admire Charles Ponzi's cleverness, He bought foreign money at tremendous discounts and had \ gent back to America in money-orders or international reply coupons svhich he was able to cash in at par. He turned to his own afvantage the | failure of the various governments to keep pace in their money- order regulations with the movements of exchange. Pretty shrewd. ed 80 he was—but when you have mid that, you have sald about all there is to be suid for Charles Ponzi. Rockefeller amassed millions—but he produced off. Carnegie amassed millions and turned out mountains of steel. The list is long. Ponzi Amassed millions and produced nothing. He did let a handful of people in on his get-rich-quick scheme, but aside from these investors and his own shrewd self, he has @pne the world no good. And some | de™t-burdened country or countries have to foot the bill He is the least desirable variety of money-mad money-maker. However—the United States government, which is now frantically “investigating” Mr. “Ponzi, is, at the same time, bragging of having made millions by the same general process, Uncle Sam has been charging the customers of his postoffice $4.86 plus fee, for sending a British pound worth jess than $4 to England by international money- order. These customers could have gone to a tank and bourht a pound draft at the prevailing rate, about @ dollar cheaper than the postal price. Same with French franca. Same with Italian money. Moreover, the people who went to the postoffice and sent these postal money-orders were people who didn't know much about finance and exchange and who trusted Uncle Sam. ‘ Why all the “investigation,” gentlemen of the government? OUGHT to know how it’s done, of the You “Warsaw ts cut off.” says headline, The Dolshevikt must de strong with the telephone girls, Everyone scems to de willing to forgive Francisco Villa, including Wash- ington, American Leagve pitchers have decided that Babe Ruth t old enough to walk now, According to the price of paper the American éoRar bill ts wort paper it ts printed on hei 4 —_—_——_ A We in the game of golf ia defined as the position of the dall when ready to play. Not always. ———_a_ Bmearing tar and feathers on WUhelm's statue causes it in Doorn apparertly. air hetes. beppeets os! French rellresds aee8 Amcrican experts, says a cable. Then they the eame boot cs Amertoan railroads. " m~ WAH! some one kindly inform the butcher that the wholesale Res been going dqon for some time now? arin-at dat = THE SEATTLE STAR | EVERETT TRUE By CONDO MSTER TRve, MEST METER REGINALD DEPEYSTER, I SvVPPOSE YOU HAVE READ OF HIS 1 RECENT MARRIAGE, — OH, YOS, 1 HEARD OF YOUR MARRIAGE, e's Sec, . WHAT WAS YouR MAIDEN NAME 7 ee eee eeseeeeeeeeseeeree ee ewes tee “God Bless Our Home” : BY EDMUND VANCE COOKE “Many jaile over the country are being converted inte apartments © « to solve the hausing problem.”"—Newspaper item. . Dear, olf father te the turnkey; mother hae besome the ‘warden; Lite Willie wears a balland-chain, while working in the garden; * And tn thp drear old dungeon, which is somewhat dark and scary, * Slater Hel entertains ber beau, almost in solitary, ¢ It makes a hit with all our friends, which never seems to Pall, « When we say “Do come to see ua We are living in the jall® a ° « There @ deputy left over, who has got it in for “Reds,” And when our country cousins come, he wants to ehave thetr heads. * He routs us out at daybreak and we ask him what he meang * Whereupon he sourly telle us that it's time for bread and beana * So we locketep to the table, as we dare not anewer “No! « For if he turned us out of jall, wherever could we go? . « We can't afford to waste the cloth, so we affect a atripe, And when we go out walkii we're @ sort of family type, * Which attracts the rude attention of our ribald population, * But, anyway, mys father, jaillife has one, compensation, 1A als fav ty Tanga mlb gmngoas with an undertouch of spleen, + “Write your ma to come to see un We ve ec ewes 0 0 © (Copynishe 190 tyke mape es Smee ——=We'll Say Soma Editor We'll-faySo, Dear Str: tn jal” she explained. “And I 1 enclome you herewith a beautiful gant bom 0 exh bien be Desan poem I have composed to help the (the end) police band. I entrust you with this child of my brain tn all confidence { hear they are paying ten dollars aplece for gems of this kind over at the Ruta Baga. But 1 am afgaid to fo near there on account of the whiste. You can do anything you wish with it I mean the poem, but that goos for the whistle, too. Yra. Pomegranate Pomeroy. P_ 8.—(Censored by editor)* POEM BY POM POMEEHOY. The Police Band is going to blow Down to Frisco to give a big show. They're a fine bunch of coppers, Their hearts are all whoppers So come boys, kick in with your dough. | “I was going to une a different eee DO YOU REMEMBER— Prof. Porta’s end of the world? ‘The days of gasoline? Boseo? eee |_ Seven men held up.a taffor In New | York the other day. It takes about that many to hold up «@ tailor. eee MIDSUMMER HISPORY SLIGHTLY JAZZED What would we nay if we saw the| two leading physicians of the coun-| try engage in a pitched battle with | noun on the fourth line,” says Pome roy, “but a blind man cap sed a cop’n feet.” "Yea indeed, Pom-Pom, you can safely trust the sampling of your recipes to one very capable to Judge of thelr flavor and kick content Awaiting further word —Ed eee | SUCH 18 LIFE. | Tranky Talemento, Pittaburgh, Pa., | was fined $50 for stealing a kins from Miss Helen Maurice, “It was well worth the price,” he maid after separating himself trom the Interior of the courtroom. “I will buy more at the same price, if the young lady is willing.” She was not. (and) Florence Olson, very, very pretty, came tipping along a Chicago street Nick McSheates came, saw and was conquered, He kinwed her, Miss Olson swung her tiny fist upon Nick's eye. Her amash on his face sounded almost as. loud as his smack on her face a moment before. Nick ran right into the arms of a cop. Nursing his black eye next morn. ing In police court Nick said: “It was worth it—I'll say {t was worth it! <— OEE > a>» Than 5% oem al Oo our Members have to this substantial A> ADO ity. WATS Beas 2S aus @ Loan A AN Miss Margaret Noyes, Gridley, Cal, meczed and broke three ribs. (and) A young woman of Tiffin, 0. had four ribs broken when a young man at Goshen, Ind. hugged her too closely. (pause) Twenty-one years after his wife left him Henry Ake, Laporte, Ind., gave up hope of her return and asked for a divorce. (and) Mra Hazel Bush, Kalamazoo, Mich., got a divorce because hor husband would doll up when he came to the table, (Lack of good manners fs @ serious offense in Kalamazoo) (but) Rules of etiquet are entirely aif. ferent at Waukegan, Il. When Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Mana- man had a bit of @ squall in their home, Leslie delivered a Dempsey on his better half's eye. When she came to, a cop was summoned, Mra, Manaman appeared in court with her eye veiled by a fresh beef. steak, “What did you do? the judge asked Lenlie, “ I just tapped her one on the o) | ALL RIGHT, eye. “Ten days.” ‘Two hours later Mrs. Manaman re- appeared’ This time she had Leslie's supper. “Ho doesn't like the food they teed | Resources over Four Million Dollars Puget Sound Savings Where Pike Street Crosses Third mths thereto tie Doctor Frank CRANE’S | Daily Article | © (Coprrtant, 1990) Superstition. Mental Weeds. Free Your Intellect. ' Clear Your Mind. LAttle superstitions chain the soul We talk a deal about living in a free country, but a free country does not do much good #0 long as we are enslaved npirita, Examine yourself as you read this article, and neo if you are not all bound round with withes and cords of foolish featn; and if so be that you are, then make your Declaration of Independence here and now, and inaugurate your own litte Fourth of July. No matter how small the matter, & superstition about anything ia in jurious; and almost every one is guilty more or lem. The next time you afe in & company, challenge them all, and gee if each one has not some little pet intimidity, Each person will begin by declaring that he has no superstitions, and will end by saying that, while of course he knows there is nothing in it, he "t really care to wit down with twelve other people at « dinner, or to look at the new moon over his left shoulder, e Now, go thra your mind and heart and pull up all these little weeds. ‘They seem small, but they. contam- inate your intellect and taint your free affections, Get rid of your su perstitions, whatever they maye be; whether you are afraid to pick up & pin that ties with its point to- ward you, or to do any important business on Friday, or to spill salt (without throwing a pinch over your *houlder), or carry a spade thru the house for fear some one will be dig- wing your grave, or to open an um- brella indoors, or to return to your home for something you have for. gotten, or to plant potatoes in the me of the full moon, or any other idiocy, All these are “survivals”—that ts, they are little remnants of inherited weaknesses. They are little epots of decay upon the apple of your soul. Cut them out. There's enough, good- ness knows, in nature and hey lawa, tm truth and her invariable - tions, to be afraid of, without in- dulging in fears of things that have ho substance nor reason. Bet ft down on your tablets that whatever has no ground In common- wenee, no clear linking of cause or effect, in not worthy of the conald- eration of any thinking being. today, the two most emi- nent physicians of London disagreed on @ diagnosis and fought a lively three-round battle on @ bésy street. Everybody thought it wag all right and the winner received hearty con- eratualtiona, Never Less For nineteen years the Savings of earned never less “than a 5% Dividend per Annum, and earning power is added the assurance of absolute secur- ssociation “SCRATCH . MY BACK” SAY WHEN! AS IT SEE DANA OU know Ponce de Leon waa! on the right t quit. Ponce decided that the fountain of, youth was in Floryla and, like many later Northern tourists, he settled there, to his ultimate disappoint ment. Had Ponce maintained the be- lef in the apring of youth, and kept on @ecking until he died; he would have kept young while he lived, and that's as lonk as anybody needs keep young, But once Ponce definitely located his dream, made situate by metes and bounds hin river of life, made definite an aspiration, then his glory departed, Ichabod, And it Would not have made a particle of difference had his local ized stream really been the river of youth; had it given vigor to the jaded limbs, and a flush to the cheek, k, only he and jazz to the spirits, still it would | have been a gruesome jeat in a few Years, without the spirit of youth re maining alive within; and that spirit died when Ponce decided he had caught up with his rainbow's ter- minus, * eee ICH men, men at the top of the heap, men who are en- vied by everyone but their Jntimates, who know them these men understand this, and feel the hollowness of life after you gain your goal. I wouldn't givé 10 cents an acre for land that was cleared, in crops; lafd that mere- ly squatted out in the sun waiting for some man, any man, to come along and reap its harvest. before bent in news to do it again, Bo when this week I found @ sure enough epring of youth on my own land I was not unduly excited, and while I feel somewhat chirked up know that I have back yard; but for regular drinking Purposes I'll take tea, “Oh, give me some more of that coffee, Jim Boldt!’—Adv. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1920, MS TO ME SLEETH OTHER EARTH, down in her depths, mixes some | strange doses. In this * Northwest country are al- most unknown eprings that are greater in medicinal worth than the most famed springs pf Europe” | Thete is the spring on the Columbia, that is almost a, specific for rhew matiem. There are hot mud lakes that boil the poison out of «ick hu- man bodies in @ marvelous manner, | No druggist ever mixed a» potent & brew as Mother Nature mingles © down in the warm center of her be ing, and no materia medica ever found medicines of greater value than many of the simple herbal reme dies that our grandmothers knew, I survived the multiplied visita tions of youth on sage tea, easeafran infusion and hot lemonade, with @ bit of Quinine and an.occasional dose of castor oll; and I doubt if seven eminent surgeons, an X-ray operator and three doctors of high degree could conquer measles, chicken mumps and whooping cough less, pain and more certainty than the pot herbs and hot blankets and sidering that I acquired, mumps, and chicken pox ak cheerful combination, —LOEW’s= IPALACE HIP THEATRE Cont iy: that was 4uous DAILY Patents protect the Rainier Special de-alcoholizing process. 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