The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 14, 1920, Page 6

he Seattle Star » a joe per month; F montha, A5e: @ months, $1.76; reer, 88.00, In the Mm of Washington, Outside of wate, The per month, $4.58 for ¢ montha or $9.00 per year, By carrion, sity, Ite per week, When several hundred shipping men of the Pacific Coast, all American citi-| ens and vitally interested in the maintenance and development of ocean com-| ee on the Pacific, get together to discuss common problems, the ultimate is certain to be only beneficial. . | Though there was a wide divergence of opinion among the shippers who met vith Senator W. L. Jones in Tacoma Tuesday afternoon to consider section 28 the new merchant marine act, the real desires of both sides to the contro- were the same. Endless argument both pro and con will not result in changing of a single opinion, and in the meantime it is safe to say that i factions will continue to exert their best efforts towards the building up a strong and unsurpassed merchant fleet for America. | The only accomplishment of the Tacoma conference,.if anything at all was complished, was to establish at that bg et Bai Bit section 28 is - ~~» {actually the law and as such wi given a trial The pa heap wag derd at least. The terms of the section so objectionable th; the wicked is snared in {| to most Pacific shippers are not to be enfpreed before | "work of his own hands.)| January 1, 1921, and if the petitions of shippers on| ion, Selah.—Psalms || this coast are effective there will doubtless be further | _,||suspensions of the section in question. he motives actuating all concerned are the high-} ars to the (est, and it is largely but a matter of viewpoint as to “dito the purposes of the new law. It ill behooves either : r— side to cast reflections upon the patriotism of those ny with whom they disagree. Least of all should Sen- Ime side of paper only ator Jones throw stones, as his glass house was al- Sagem most cracked some three years ago when American- [ES TO SAM HILL ism was a new topic. | Sear te. samuei Hin,| Much depends upon the policy adopted by this p “Laird of Maryhill,” in a com. country during the next few years towards ocean uo nb ag eee Mare. commerce. And perhaps the most. essential factor| cing the anti Japanese move will be harmony among American shippers. Let! eee So remain unanswered |NOthing disrupt the strength of the new merchant! marine !—Journal of Commerce. | } | A Splendid Fight that the Japanese are here “John, the orange man,” sold fruit to Harvard studbnte and he was loyal to the university. One day a stranger asked him the meaning of the words Christo et Ecclesiae (for Christ and the church) @m the Harvard shield. He said, “I don’t exactly know, sir, but I think it means ‘Down With Yuale.’* Men are like wolves, they hunt and fight tn packs, and ft ts often bard for them to understand @ loyalty that does not mean hostility to some other group. This is explained by the agelong strugnie and mastery—a struggle that went hard with always ready for a Oght, while the warrior warlike children. What is to be done with the fighting spirtt In a world that feels or at least professes to belleve in the brotherhood of all mankind? To repress it is lke sitting on @ safety valve. It invites explosions. | fe not an ind} The beat hope seems to be to guide it into such friendly rivairies as} ‘any desire on| John's words indicate, with the rivals finally, becoming partners in a ve them take posmes.| *Plendii fight of the whole human brotherhood agninst naturé to of his dwelling or cxmp| "rn her secrets and conquer her in perilous explorations and feats! the two} of enxineerine, or in fishing, mining and transportation, with the part- ners racing to outstrip fn service to all mankind. Primitive man could préve his loyalty and capacity and courage by killing some one outgide of the tfibe, But there are better ways of Will They? “The great industries of the country could amply afford to deduct the increased freight rate from the price of their producta” says the economist and statistician for the railroad labor organizations, comment. | }ing on the addition of the billion and a half dollars to the annual transportation bill which the public must now pay | He points out that by no possible computation comld the Increased freight rate be made to justify an increase of one per cent in the price per pound of meat for instance, or of & cents in the price of a pair of shoes. He figures that the rate increase should not add to the price of a suit of clothes, or as much as a fourth of a cent to the price of a loaf of bread. Only on’ the price of coal, he mys, can any material increase in the retail price be legitimately charged, this rang ing from 75 cents to $1.25 per ton. When the butcher, the baker and the ¢andlestick maker begin telling; Mr. Consumer how the “increase in freight rates” is remponsible for the addition of a dollar or two to the price of this, that, and the other commodity, it may be well to remember what the statintician has said. . It will be more to the potnt, if the department of, funtice, tn charme vf the operation of the anti-profiteering laws, will take notice and get busy with the gentlemen who are to boost prices on the. geveral theory that.they can “get away with it* by blaming increases on the new freight rates, | In this time of high prices, it will alao be well for manufacturer, jobber, wholesaler and retailer. to remember that it is sometimel the last straw that breaks the camel's back; and to absorb these freight| increases themselves instead of piling them with additions on the Perry's visit to Japan the then president favored up of trade channels be- the Orient and the Pacific between tribes for food the group that was not tribes survived and left ther by the ities or selling citizens and the Oriental ‘The second statement that the and the Chinamen are de- as immigrants, and can be nized because we have suc 10 cents with the Russian, who ts Asiatic, and the Russian Jew. | is also of Asiatic origin, dis- an” ignorance of ethnology ly to be expected from a Har graduate. If Mr. Hill will run mind back to his Harvard days, | will find that in the history| he waa instructed that the te people were divided into four | ethnological divisions—the | jolians, Malays, the Indo<er- and the Semitic. That the who are commonly called brown race, inhabit the islands the south coast of Asia, the iippines and the South Sea isl- THE SEATTLE STAR EVERETT TRUE KET A CRAEKLING Shean SACK OF PEANUT =< CANDY, PORTIONS OF WHICH “ARE, PROM “TIME ~_- To TIME, CONVEYED TO : THe MOUTH TO BE RUTH CS SEC CRYUNCHED.—- By CONDO MOST PEOPLE COME TO THE PUBLIC LIBRARY TW GET FOOD FOR THOUGHT, so WHEN YOU'RE IN HERG, CHANGE YOUR DIGT I! | Nothing blights a man's jas effectively Jas @ reputation for no Doctor Frank CRANE’S Daily Article (Copyright, 1920) Efficiency and Religion. Golden Rule Good Sense Love in Business. Pays to Sacrifice. Did you ever notice how efficency d relig or For instance ‘There are 809 texts tn the Pible that tell us to rejoice and be giad. And everybody knows that cheerful folks am much more efficient ip wetting, along with people and tn getting things done than those who are grouchy The Bible says “Thou shalt not #teal,” And stealing is the quick eat known way to losé a job or dis rupt an organization, ‘The Bible threatens all Mars with the wrath to come. And the whole vast fabric of modern business in built upon human dependablenean. prospects business world keeping his in the word. ‘The Bible ts for monogamy. And looseness in the relations of men and } AS IT SEEMS TO ME BATURDAY, AUGUST 14, 1929, DANA SLEETH HM flying squirrel still pur- sues me family that former. ade my evenings in teresting in the tent have | departed. 1 think perhaps the larg | voracious owls that have been com Jing to hoot by my bedside in they dark of the moon may bh account | ed for the aquirrels; but now another fying squadron has massed ite ate tack om the farmhouse proper and there in a nfce howdyedo, These nightambling demong have taken up their abode between the |half-finished walls of the attic, and from there they go forth each night in quest of homebuilding material Th¢ pattern of the front room wall paper has struck their fancy so they leefully tearing the paper loone bearing it to their den. I sup poe by Christmas they will have |two or three rooms furnished and decorated quite to their satisfaction, and maybe then there will be peace lin the house; provided, always, that they don't take a fancy to the bed |ding. I am a patient person but 1| Certainly there can be no tore healthy impulse than the sport im pulse that gives the wild thing an even break, and that pursues for the joy of pursuit, nor for the love of butchery, nor the zead for a trophy. In the good old daya of 20 years ago this spirit made Americans of every degree brothers. The wild duck on every marsh and swamp and nd wire ery house had its Ze shotgun and most houses a high-power rifle. Boyn of could pot @ pigeon with their and the marksmanship of ‘age American was superior to that of the average protessonal noldier of any other nation, When recently our young men were mumtered it was found thattena of thousands of them had never fired a rifle; that few of them were marks» men, and that the southern and western recruits had to be depended on fpr the corps of sharpshootera, snipers and marksmen, In my youth boys had sure enough had ne BB rifl women has spoiled more prospects, | doubt if even for a cheery, friendly, | rifles; the airgun was not regarde¢ smashed more profitable deals, and made more bitter, enemies than any other one cause Keligion preserfbes kindness and forgiveness, It says to “turn the other cheek.” And there is not any successful business man not forgotten and forgiven a hun jdred times more offenses than he | No man of af mt unlens he has repaid in kind. fairs is widely effi |does business right along with peo Roger W. Babson Writes for The Star Today on _ |! Why Grow Old? BY ROGER W. BABSON J wanted to coddie him because of his A relative of mine, an optimistic | old age, he would resent It and usu old gentleman, recently died at the|ally said so That was one way to age of 104 yearn, He was inter: | insult him. exted tn all the happenings of the| Hind thoughts and unselfish ac day, and took great pleasure in his|tions do much to keep us youn, daily walk and occasional argument) Wo must be interested tn the wor' with the neighbors. and people, but not to the extent He refused to think of old age HHe/|of ‘taking it too serfously. One of never spoke of himself as an old | the greatest enemies of youth ts the man, I don’t think he thought | habit of taking everything #o seri of it either. If he wanted to go | ously. some place or do something out of| It's not strange that my relative, | the ordinary he never allowed his | 104 years old, was so happy and in age to interfere with it. He was as/|terented in everything worth while, happy and free as « child when out | llather it's becsuse he was eo made on @ pleasure trip, If some stranger! that he lived to 104, (We note the King County Demo-;about over. The off companies have cratic giub ts to meet to dincuns | an raised their prices, Gov. Cox's speech of acceptance.) Aes ae eee Today’s Best Bet—That they won't attack it i? A man who stow ¢5 from « Buf. hotel clerk was sent to jail We can’t quite get it thru our head how | & man clever enough to steal from | & hotel clerk could be caught eae But ft was with some murprise that we read of Policeman Harry Mull's hagrin when he pulled up his trou» ors and saw that he had ridden on the street car all the way to the station without his socks, It mfight have been worse, For instance, if he had pulled up bis socks and no tleed he had ridden all the way with out his troukers, . . And yet how natural that 22 fire mep should be overcome by the col onet's gas. ee “Ho's my husband ered Mra. Charies Pong. bought her seven automobile . ‘The bored youth yawned, turned 1 love him™ Bure; he | outers, gnds; that practically all of the east half of the Asiatic continent and ail ‘@f the northern part of Asia is in habited by people of the Mongolian ; these include the Chinese. Japa- | Rese and variots Turkish tribes. He| “Would further find that the one no- Mable characteristic of the Mongolian4 © Face is its inability to assimilate with races. The Turk, who has tn: ' parts of Europe for about | Wight hundred years, is as little as @imilated today as he was the day ) that he first set foot on European /@oil All that Mr. Hill would have fo do is to peruse the columns of the daily papers for the last 10 years order to verify this statement ‘The Magyar or Hungarian, who has | Mived in modern Hungary for over fwelve hundred years, is as little Qasimilated today, with the surround fing Slavic people, as he was when he first entered what is now Hungary ‘The Bulgarians, another branch of | the Mongolian race, have stood sep. rate and apart from the surround. consumer may be goed business in the end. | Why Pullmans? ‘Why must the traveler pay trivute not only to the railway over! which he travels, but also to a private company that hires out its cars to the railway? | Because there are two profits that can tlmreby be divided Instead of one. Why pay two conductors on a single train—one to collect rultway| tickets and the other to collect Pullman tickets? | Why pay one ticket agent to sell railway tickets and another to | sell Pullman tiffRets, both in the same station? The public has no protector in these matters. The Interstate com. merce commission doesn’t come to the public's relief because go govern: | ment agency ever initiates new devices for protecting the general welfare. | The public must first begin its own agitation’ Then, eventually, lest worse befall, government reluctantly finds a way out. | a | It 4s said that congress rushed the Jones marine Dill through seithout | knowing tts meaning. Congress evidently felt that it must adhere e custom to his dinner partner and inquired “Who's that distinguished looRing ran over there who keeps looking me so much? "Oh, that's Dr. pert on insanity. Cathoun, the ex-! JUDGE GORDON REMEMBERS An Irish case of a domestic riot involving much injury to person and Property. “A Witness, in the course of a vivid narrative, swore an fol lows: “Te says to me, ‘Is that your father? And I says to him It is me father’ .And he says, ‘It in well you told me, for I thought he was an oud gorrily,” and then the fight began, me lord.” | M. B, McLaughlin of Tacoma pends his summerg on a fafm near im There was an old well in the A telescope has been inrented that is a quarter of a million times more| front yard that he used for a refrig powerful than the human eye. Then high prices may be logated after all, |erator. No longer, Motor drivers | stopped here to fill the radiators of | | the Laplander bear as little resemb- | | Bavian people as they did more than | almost as mu ‘Wailan-born , @ludes the Arabs, the Berbers along|doliar a day as section ha ing Greeks and Serbian people dur. ing all the centuries before and since | ih domination. The Finn and| Honesty is aaid to be the test policy, but some men would rather play politica, ‘ | firen a political machine haw a euccession of backfires Hance to the surrounding Scandi-| ——+_____ of @ thorn in the estate, Miller Freeman was working Bine hundred years ago when they|fiesh of the Roman pire as the|18 hours a 4d: preparing tens of Mirst settled along the shores of the| Irish are in the Fritish Empire to | thousands of recruits for Uncle Sam's Gulf of Finland and the White sea.| day, were of this race. |navy to fight Hun submafines; while ‘The history of the Japanese immi-| [ believe this will answer Mr. HiN’s| Mr, Hill was being decorated by tne Gration to Hawaii ix but a repetition | statement as to the racial phase of| "son of Heaven,” alias mikado Of that of the Mongolian tribes who| the question. of Japan, under the order of “The| Ihave settled in Kurope. The Ha-| Another ob§ection made by the| Rising Sun.” and the prominent busl fapanese 1s am little Ha-|"Laird” is the fact that very few of | ness men, who are #0 solicitous of the Watian or American today as the/|those prominent in business and #o-|welfare of the Japs, @urk, the Bulgar and the Finn is|cial circles are with the|ing their 100 per cent European. “Once a Mongolian, al janti Japanese This, reaeiving 100 per ‘Ways a Mongolian,” is the character-| course, 1s true. Not a single mem-| their chandise, Mase istic of these people. | ber of the Ral club appears to be| tain Colvin and Lieut. Tindall were If the “Laird of Maryhill” will| worried over the Js earning the croix de guerre and further peruse the pages of history, | penetration of America nor, over the|the Congressional medal of honor. the will find that the Indo-German | Japaniz tion of the Pacific coast.}by fnarching through Flander’s Face and the Semitic Miller Freeman, Wd. Clt-| fields, or lying in the rather t Classed among the White or Euro-|ford, Major Ross, Capt, Colvin trenches in France or fighting their ean wices and that practically all|Lieut. Phil. Tindall, are persona! way and driving the Hun through ‘of the European people of today and| grata either in the Rainier club or|the thickets of the Argonne to make their descendants on the Am anjin prominent business and social cir-| the world safe for democracy, with eontinent, belong to that division of|cles that Bi very name)\no ‘time to spar either | the human race; the Hindus, Ger-|of “Maryhill,” but then, there commercially or # prominent Mans, Scandinavians, as well as the | reasons for all things ‘The Pacific coast of America, from @reater part of the other Kuropean| While the “Honorable” Samuel Hil |Nome to San Diego, will remain a People belong to what is commonly|was assisting his father-i white man’s country, the herit of ealled the IndoGerman division of|making contracts with our children, and our children's chil the human race. The Semitic race,|padrones for furnishing Ja ren, and they will be a un ef which the Jews are a part, in-|coolies to work for less than one| polluted by anything yollo aither | ds for |racially or morally, by reason of the | the coast of Northern Africa, and|the Great Northern railroad, Ed.| efforts of the Cliffords, the Rosnes the people of Spain and Portugal, as | Clifford was serving under the Stars|the Freemans, Tindalls and Colvina: Well as most of the other people |and Stripes in the Philippine jungles; |in spite of the commercially pr @long the shores of the Mediter-| while the “Laird of Maryhill’ was|nent Burkes; the socially pri Fanean. The Phoenicians, the great-|enjoying long, cool cocktails within | Hills, and the missuide thews. est mariners of ancient times, the portals of the Rainier club, or|Crowthers and the subsidized Mur- “well ag the Cartheginians, who were| basking in the shades af his lordly | phy’m PULLIP TWOROGER, the were advertis Americanian nt profit on} Ross, Cap conected movement. 88 economic races are | Neith or to become fally mi ninent 4 their cars, and rode away with ev ery bottle he had in the well, It is always best to wive up your car Meat to a g00d King young girl rather than an elderly woman, for the chances are the elderly woman is going right home to stay while the poor girl has still got to dance most of the night see ‘There still is in New York a good deal of talk about prohibition, main ly among the anxious citizens who wonder when it is going, ingo effect The long war has brought on a mental typhoid fever and the di turbances of nature on the Pacific coast are warnings from on High to stop, look and listen,” says John Wanamaker in a recent advertise ment Below we find that women's bath ing sults at Wanamaker’s reduced from $19.50 to $12 ave been 0, It's the rolling tire that punctures. gets the see | Fred Carter saw a sign In a store vindow which read, “Shirts, 50 Cents daoh,” But when he went in to ask about them the clerk mid): ""That should read socks not shirts.” | “Is that the price of each sock.” “No. ch pair.” | “L' wee,” eid Carter, “Otherwise the sign is all right, inn't it? We suspect the gas shortage js) ple who, one way or another, have done him wrong. It is not oply pious to keep the dep Youle; it ia good sense. The en Kule is the only rule that pays in the long run, The boss who treats bis workmen as he would be done by gets more work out of them and less trouble. The wage earner who can put himself tn his employer's place and act accordingly is the one who ts treated with the most consideration, and is most like y to get's raine in pay. “The com- pany that honestly looks after’ the welfare of its laborers adds from 10 to 20 per cent to its profits, Love is not a fancy Sunday school product. It is used on the street. The men of energy, enterprise and success talk about thelr friends, and are always helping and being helped; it is the buma, downand- failures and nogoods that specialize in hates, Selfwacrifice is not entirely for Sabbath consumption. The merch- ant, the politician, the mother, the clerk and the hired girl, if they are making a go of it, doing well, are prosperous, are doing hundreds of acts of self-sacrifice every week. They may not admit {t, and their enemies may deny ft, but watch ‘em, and you'll ses The fact ls that no- body can get along mthoothly without continuous self«ncrificea, We all do what we hate, give of what we want © keep, and amile when we don’t feel lke it, for the sake of others If we don’t, we lose out, and we know ft Some day a prophet will arise who will discover that religion is not any- thing woory ang strange after all: {it is wimply common sense and effi- clency wet to music, “Let's eat breakfast at Boldt's."— who has | and} | patronizing, aerial squirrel would I |give up an all-wool—where it isn’t shoddy—blanket in December. | eee HE gray gréund squirrels have also brought forth half a dozen new families this #eason and are busy | in the potato patch, and |are also skinning the summer apple | trees of sixcentsa-pound apples. | | OceasionaNy I get one—I mean a | squirrel, not an apple—but if I got a thousand instead of one, still there} | would be @ great abundance left. The first crop of potatoes they |kathered completely, They left just |one vine as & memorial; and that) with aeed potatoes 12 cents a pound. So I planted a second crop along in July, and now they have made a 00d start on those” Of course, you can poison squirrels; also you can poison your own and the neighbors’ | chickens, and ali the game birds in seven townships at the sume time, Being a farmer for recreation pum poses chiefly, I prefer to feed pota-| toom to the rodents, and have my | half dozen coveys of quail cheeping | around the barn lot, I consider one plume warrior, one | valiant helmed bugler of a quail) worth at least two sacks of potatoes, | and ever since | wiped out a covey) of young quail with squirrel poison ve been cautious, But probably the average Oregon and Washington forest rancher can |not be so considerate, and I imagine | |that these wholesale poison cam- migns, where entire counties are! ered with a blanket of poison barley and wheat and bran, mean the end of such litte game life as we have left. It evems « pity that man has to Geatroy every wild thing before he can make @ living for himself and! his more or less inoonsequential progeny, but that's the way of it, apparently. LE r XCEPT for cur Canagian cousins we are about the only civilized people left pe} that have any sense of sportsmanship. This spirit can onty thrive in a new land where/ the wild woodssare still peopled with | game, where the streams are virgin, and the lakes are unspoiled, highly. And at the age of 10 I h a 10-gange shotgun that knocked me over every time I fired it, but that certainly would reach up into the high heavens and pull down the haughty mallards, Eovery other boy T knew was stmt larly equipped, and just why half the Juvenile population eseaped an earty grave is a mystery; but, aside from & few toes and thumbs and ears and things, there were no mishaps. I guess « boy is about as near @ foolproof mechanism as you can de vine; the more risks he takes the longer he lives, and the tougher his environment the sturdier he be The First. Presbyterian Chur Seventh and Spring Dr. E. T. Allen of Persia, one of the great missionaries of the Presbyterian Church, will deliver a sermon Sunday morn ing entitled, Persia’s Challenge to the Church In_ the his Sadek ae The Victory of the Defeated GOOD MUSIC Everybody Welcome = rd g OP a OE re & deposit your securities with us and we will collect the in- come and credit your accqunt. ‘Advise your correspondents to send your mail in our care and we will forward it accord- tng to your instructions. You may do all of your banking by mail if it is more convenient. SAVINGS DEPARTMENT Open Saturday Evenings from 6 to 8 o'clock. 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