The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 18, 1920, Page 6

AGE @ z he Seattle Star eet of city, Be per month; § montha, #1 ® @ montha, 61.16; rear, 1 of Washingt Outtde of A OF 19.00 per year, Public and Prince Thousands, it is reported,-gathered at the railway station where Prince ol of Rumania was expected to arrive in Seattle. They gathered, witnesses te, at 8 of a Sunday morning. There are plenty of inducements in this sec the Sunday morning lie-abed privilege. There are mountain roads But those who will! mble out and stand around to glimpse a specimen of royalty, and an_ob- out streams and golf co and urses and similar attractions. 2 and undistinguished specimen, at that, present a problem to the student human nature. If Prince Carol were a murderer or a scandalous divorcee; a ring champion _ Thou art a God ready to} gracious and mer-} slow to near one of } great kindness, and_for- gookest them not. ; f 9sxvii. ry tters to the sditor— driefly. ink or typetoriter. side of paper only. your name. DOES DUFFIELD THAT WAY? Editor The Star: One would think the way RM. Duffield defends Japs that he employs them. 1! something about Japs my: as I was formerly foreman ® gang of them. As for being T can't eee it, or the bunch Thad charge of were unusually As for being honest—they take the pennies off a dead eyes. And any one can't be Drave or fearless who will stab in the back, and I have Japs do that very thing. How Mr. Duffield get that stuff crossing their blood with our Deing to our advantage? Why “One e Se people were to heed what he| where would this nation be in : Years? Charity is the great of virtues; yes, when it beg home and gives jobs and not so many Japs. needy ones walked the streets. the good of all Ameri VAN BUSKIRK. Rr ° ° three to eight years, taking nap. They SLEEP, with only little tossing, EACH day—showing regularity and firmness wil! ind what a necessity that nap is for them with so many playing children have every care th need, but there are things you : leisure, and even small means ‘eould do for this wonderful and Recessary home. One little tot to me, “I like flowere—I want flower.” “I will bring you some I said. “I want a flower said. “My daddy doesn't me any flowers!” o in a few flowers? little one sala: “My stay at home with me al! Sunday.” Imagine! How these ‘ehildren, as all children, want love! in charge do much real lov- for them—but one will find with ‘the many attentions needed by 20! “or 20 children there is not much| ‘anergy left for loving. «Every day a cup full of candy is by those in charge (ofte their private resources) ju @ surprise after the nap. How 4 ft would be to have more than ONE piece, each, some day—or a box of fruit, etc.? Some one want ‘img & moment's real pleasure try ‘#urprising these kiddies! Here are necessities needed also— Wash cloths, handkerchiefs, some ‘Spoons and pans for mud pies, more Mattresses for the rest period—and the call comes for a new dig down and help, they need ft Charity begins at home—but don’t wait until Christmas. Do it ‘now! MRS. W. FE. BURLESON, Kirkland, W eee VACANT LOT OWNER AND “DOG IN MANGER” Kaitor The Star: Is there an ordinance in this city Tequiring owners of vacant lota to keep them free of weeds? ‘Two years ago when I purchased my home, we had a nice lawn that ‘Was the comment of the community. Now, with vacant lots growing rank with noxious weeds, the seeds of which blow across the street with the slightest breeze, we have what wome blind person might call a “awn,” but is 90 per cent dande ions, Jim Hill mustard and Russian thistle. I wanted one of the vacant tracts for a garden this summer, but t owner refused, with the excuse he had a purchaser, We who follow the “Own Your Home” slogan should not be the of a lazy vacant lot owner. “LAWN MOWER PUSHER.” Prof. Binder, of New York uni- y, entimates that the United has resources sufficient to for 260,000,000 inbabitants, he} */ them int to more| How many| , or others, realize the hap-| lor a movie star; a presidential candidate or a recov- lered victim of kidnapers, public eagérness for sight lof him might be explicable, according to American | standards. Perhaps, now that royalty is becoming increas- jingly scarce and retiring, the good folk of Seattle |were willing to lose a bit of sleep that they might linquire into some of the mysteries of monarchism. fad Prince Carol appeared they might have asked him, “Prince, how comes it that you roam the world jin private cars while strife and hunger threaten your peo- ple? What have you ever given to your country that you | deserve so much of luxury and safety and ease?” | Royalty is rapidly becoming no more than a passing lux- ury of the nations that keep titles alive. Americans appar- ently like to enjoy the spectacle of this extravagance when lit costs them nothing. seaeeaigeetiemempsnenentu ° . Pictures With Punch Fest sellers are not being written rapidly enough for the producing |companies of the silent drama. And so the big directors are looking for other ideas, They must be finding them for they tell ps that “Deserted At the Altar” will be reeled out in the Bast goon. | And the chances are that the rising generation, following plenty of |sugar and sirup of the best sellers in screen drama form, are ready for it little bit ef the blood, thunder, punch and pep of the old hooks and old playa - Gee, wouldn't you Ifke to see “Acrom the Pacific” on the screen? Or that dime novel classic, “Deadwood Dick,” with the rolling Western country, the wild Indians and the stage holdup, with the messenger throwing down the express box containing the $500,000? And wouldn't be worth while to spend an hour in the home of the aflent story with “Wedded, Rut No W tripping thru the damera? Just think of the Bertha M. Clay titles, and her millions of readers of long ago that are potential patrons of the movie house now! Wouldn't these drag “Wife In Name Only,” “Her Soul at Stake," “Gladys the Governeas,” “The Manor Mystery,” “Who Murdered Lord Ralbant* As @ woman has said: “Give the women a good hot mystery, a wild, | wild love affair, a drowning in the old mill pond at midnight and you'll catch and hold their interest." That goes for the men, too, There must be thousands who'd like very much to see the screen version of “Nellie, the Beautiful Cloak Modell : * Which End of Life? “Grew old along with ma The best te yet to de ‘The last of life, for which the first was made” The Hebrew story tells of a wonderful garden in which man lived, all free from toll agd pain, at the very beginning of history; and the Greek poet sang of a golden age, placed, like Eden, in the distant past. But the modern man sees the golden age in the future and his poet sings of “= © © © one farcff atvine event To which the whole creation moves.” Both pictures appeal. Eden is like the wonderful heme of @ happy childhood, seen thru later years of care and troubla In reminiscent moods one turns back to it with yearning and sees it all tn rosy colors. What a pity to have lost it! Progress appeals to hopeful, worldcom- pelling youth that feels Its powers and asks only time to make the future glorious, And what one pictures for himself tn the past or fm the future one pictures for the race. Hence Eden at one end of time and some splendid goal of evolution at the other. Both pictures may be wrong. Perhaps there never was an Eden, and the faroff divine event may never come. And what of it? If all the changes that man goes thru are nothing more than Herbert Spencer's “moving equilibrium”—a constant adjustment of individuals to countless changing conditions—it simply means that the best thingy of life are not packed away at either end of the path. They are present to be en joyed at every moment by any one who is not too much atworbed to see them. Man lives in the present, and if he can't find happiness there where will he ever findit? Making Good There are many different ways of making good. Great acten tists, inventors, jurists, doctors, deserve the world’s renpect and get it. But there is a fashion in such matters, and In the ‘world today the thing that people strive for most is money, not to supply their needs, but to prove their power. And so there is no end to the amount that those who play the game will struggle to amass, Now a man can create wealth by attacking Nature with !mproved appliances, “making two blades of grass grow where one grew before,” or he can simply take it from his fellowmen without creating anything. It makes a difference which, for the first enriches the world. But @ cheap man does not know the difference. He simply sees the prize and grabs’ for it. And so he exploits his fellows if he can, and then asks them to respect him for doing it. And after awhile they generally do, And thus the game goes on, class warring against class and nation against nation—all for the cheap satisfaction of saying: “I am the king of the castle. Get down, you dirty rascal.” Jesus said, “I am amongst you as que that serveth.” But he had no money. So those who play the game believe that he really made good? a Worrying About Lemons Hila attention having been called to lemons, Nominee Harding wires to California: “I feel an especial concern for the California fruft industries.” How little it takes to set a presidential nominee to quivering with leconcern over matters that he had forgotten to quiver over! But it ts not too late for Nominee Harding to put into his platform a plank reading, “Higher lemons thru prohibitive tariff! altho his party's na- tional convention forgot to do it and altho he probably never before in his life thought twice about the California lemon. It behooves Jim Cox to offset this shrewd political move by the enemy to come out with a demand for higher cost of California oranges, or walnuts, or limes, or even Belgian hares—anything promis ing that the California grower will have a chance to pluck the reat of the country. Of course, it looks a bit strange to be promising to raise the high cost of living but when there's a bagful of votes waiting to be bagged and delivered, the fellow who is after votes cannot afford to be too consistent or even too conscientious, . Where Will You Be? A national bank has compiled statistics which show that, 40 years hence— Out of every 100 healthy young men now 25 years old, 26 will be dead, 1 will be rich, 4 will be wealthy, & will be workifig to support themselves, and 64 will be dependent upon relatives, friends or charity. Forty years hence! Sounds unbelievable, doesn’t it? Yet it ts proved by the records of one of the biggest, most reliable banks in the Middle West. artiots The State Snag Railroad rate increases have run up agninat the state obstacles, ‘The first bump jostled the high rates considerably in Illinois, It is possible that other states will refuse rate increases for state | traffic. And @ wild jumble of different rates will prevail; railroad stations on or near state lines will ome more popular stopping points, where one may hesitate long enough to purchase another railroad ticket. Railroads, no doubt, will renew their agitation for complete and ex- clusive federal control, vested in the interstate commerce commission. It is more difficult to keep one's eyes upon 48 different commissions, especially as state bodies are so much nearer popular supervision and influence, Russia may not vate very high te educational circles, but one must admit that et east she ts wet Rede “Women will be degraded by the vote,” declared anti-suffrage orator tn Tennessee yesterday. Scratch the surface, and you'll find a lot of us still in the cave-man's age, ' arr pnts rtp erates nat cw e iia i cedaaania hitachi tion of the country, for surrender THE SEATTLE STAR | EVERETT TRU | Washing DEMOCKATIC Btates— Alabama .. .cceemceoeee, NOVARA 2.00 eece eens secee eee North Carolina. ..--.-----.-- Oklahoma .. . -..-+--ee-eseeee South Carolina. ...--eeee.- ee Tenneanee -..-.----e0--e ee VIFRINIA ... 220 neeweces coeee TRIAS 222-22 = eee eee ‘Total... seccecce seen eens EE States— Electors Connecticut 22+ .ceeenecseee Delaware Iilinols lowa Kansas Maine ... Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Nebraska BY GEORGE B. WATERS, WASHINGTON, Aug. 18.—The po litical battleground in the presiden- tlal election will be In 12 states, ‘The storm centers will be in Ohio, New York, Indiana and Lilinois, wax- ing hottest in Ohio. Fach party is reasonably certain to carry 18 states, giving the demo- crate 185 electorial votes and the re- publicans 195. The democrats must have #1 more to win and the repub- Heans 71. Iilinols ta placed tn the republican column by the democratic and G. 0. P. dopesters, but the democrats will carry the big fight into this territory, { for no other reason, to try to break the G. O. P. ranks and keep the Ilinols crowd out of the common battleground. HOTTEST FIGHTS IN OHIO AND NEW YORK ‘The party that can carry the three doubtful states, New York, Ohio and Indiana, can win. There are 84 elec tors in those three states, three more than the democrata would need to win and 13 more than the repubit- cans would require, provided both parties hold the states here conced- ed to them. California is considered doubtful because Wilson carried it against Hughes by less than 5,000 votes. The state is strongly progressive. The “pep” that Hiram Johnson puts into hig antileague campaign may have a bearing on the outcome in Cali- fornia. Colorado has gone democratic in five of the last six presidential elec tions, but ig now considered doubtful because a republican senator and three republican congressmen won by heavy majorities in 1918, despite Wil- son's request, that democrats be re turned. Idaho is doubtful for the same rea- son that California 1#—dissatintac- tion with Harding, who ts too reae tionary to sult the progressives, Democrats and republicags agree that Indiana and New Jersey are ex- ceeding doubtful. New Mexico was carried by Wilson and is considered doubtful for the same reason that other western states are, On New York both parties are go ing to make the fight of thelr lives, How the state goes will depend largely on how labor “up state swings its strength, But Ohio, home of both candidates, will be the hottest battle-ground, Tho republicarm® are claiming it by 100,- |000 votes Cox hag been elected gov ernor three times and lost the state once, Wilson carried it in 1916, When Cox was elected governor in 1914, Harding was elected senator by | 103,000 majority. NOT NECESSARY TO CARRY NEW YORK Both parties put Utah in the doubt. ful column, Wilson carried it against Hughes by 30,000 and Bryan lost it to Taft by 20,000, It is prodleague and progressive. Washington the same, A Wisconsin ia normally republican, ton Listed in Doubtful States in Presidential Fight HOW STATES LINE UP | B y CONDO Doctor Frank CRANE’S Daily Article (Copyright, 1920) Religion Outdoors. “Sign of The Cross.” Church Is But Pot. It Is Not the Flower. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1928, AS IT OMEHOW, aa years impress on me the hardness of hu-| man existence, the glamor | of the ports of my youth fades, and in the minstrel SEEMS T0 ME DANA SLEETH threw a right eschewed =the wickly ailly, old Walt let gnaw at the Whitman quill and vapid and rough bug Walt «mart nweetly but even the poetic One of the most moving plays I | sy of the great ningers I find noth-|threshold of bis good hard sense jever saw was “The Bign of the Crons,”” which boldly dramatized the religious sentiment, Hut profession |al theatrical eriticn united with pro- | femsional church people to condemn it, Heligion, they said, waa out of place on the stage, HM was profanw tion, It should be in @ temple, wet | apart. | ‘Thin I conceive to be the acme of wrong-headedness, ‘The very place exactly for religion is on the stage, in the novel and in the street, Bo only will the day be hastened when |"*holiness shall be written on the pots and kettles and on the bells of the horses.” Nov mIND YouR OWN BusINGss! D’Annunzio and De Busey produced their “Saint Sebastian.” Bishops anathematized it and them and all who went to see it. And your the atrical Journalist echoed the bishops The one thing the professional cannot understand and cannot tob or professiona) artist or professional what-not, is that an emotion, or any little piece of life, should be mis placed. Hence the average arbiter of taste or of morals has no objection to de- votion or to vice provided it will stay where {t belongs, where tradi tion and custom have placed it All this is narrow, unsound, and cheap, As @ matter of fact, reli gion is much more effective on the stage than in church. It does vastly more good in the market place than in the pew. The great task of thin age is to unchurch religion, as the great task of the dark ages hitherto has been to fence it in and institutionalize it The finished product of institu tlonalized religion is the Pharinee, ‘The best part of the contents of the church is that which has leaked out and soaked into humanity, I prize the religious feeling highest of all human emotions, I value the church for what it has done to de | velop this, But the church ts but the pot that held the flower. It ts time to transplant. New Hampshire. . North Dakota. . Oregon .. Pennsylvania Rhode Island, ...... TODAY'S BEST BET—That as a eee ° Bat you've got to hand ft to Hans. | After setting the fire he tried to put |it out. The trouble is, you can’t do much with @ medicine dropper, eee At that, they didn’t gtve him a run for big money. He might have got it out alone tf somebody hadn't called the whole fire department into compeittion and spoiled all his chances of becoming a hera, eee Anyway, why is it that the man- agers of these much advertised fire proof hotels get so panicky when a Uttle conflagration gets started two or three feet away from their build ings? L CAlfornla 20. -secee ene ence COloradd 2+ ccceeee ese ceeee TAAN0 .. --cone serseeeereneneee IMAIAna 2. 2-2 we wnneceeecece New J0rwey cone neweeenneene New Mext00....cocceseseoeee New York. ..+s--serecccecee ONO -.--oee somes cneeseenes Utah 2... cccccccoeeccneesces Washington ...--ceceereene Wisconsin .. Wyoming TIA)... nnn eserr en ereene ++ 151 Total electors. ....... - 53 Necessary to elect. . 266 TO WIN: Democrats need $1 of doubtful electors; Republieans need 71. Hottest storm centers of campaign, acknowledged by both sides: New York, Ohio, Indi- ana and Ilinota, cee MIDSUMMER HISTORY SLIGHT- LY JAZ This is the birth day of Joe Mil ler, the man who is said to have jmade all of the jokes in the first but In doubtful now because it im't | known what Robert LaFollette will | do. Wyoming was carried by Wilson | by §,000. The republicans think they'll carry it this time, but they do/ not count it certain. If the republicans hold thelr con ceded strength, and fail to carry Ohio, they will have to get New York, California, Colorado, Wiscon- sin, New Mexico and Utah to win. Then if the democrats should steal | | place, Joe was born just 182 years ago today. Poor Joe! As a matter of fact he 4id not crack a joke in all his life erate, be he profensional religioniat | ing of thrill, or of truth, | I guess most of the vaunted poetry merely fine writing, ordered phrases, rhymed words, with pense @ minor consideration. Maybe a genius felt, half a dozen times in a long | life, some passion that only verse could expreem; the reat of the time | his verse writing wa» forced. | When I exult in @ summer sky at high noon and then turn and read | nome ladylike poet's phrase of “ama |Fanthine azure” it doesn't somehow ot. I feel that he came to the time when he felt that he should say some: | | thing about the sky; maybe it was| ‘The same outery was made when | his sky week, like you get around to| epics, Revelations every so often in the Bible class, 80 he conned his vo jeabulary, culled from the crannies of his mind, and the crevasses of the | dictionary, wierd words that sounded pretty together, and slowly built up| & net of verses that would scan and rhyme, but that really meant noth- ing of consequence. see HERE have been few he- man porta, Study the photographs and portraits of these master poets; you will ‘find they all have high foreheads, weak chins, long hair and watery eyen, And the milk and water of their too sweet natures spilled itself into their verse, and to this day sticks gummily to our cloyed and clotted spirits, ol4 gags that he did not originate, knowing that the “actors” got them from his book—that be did not write? eee Are there any objections to our asking at this time just what the world is coming to? Hearing none— An enterprising manufacturer of automobile accessories has designed & ragiator cap with a whimsical and adjustable little figure on it, “He fits your mood,” proudly and advertisingly asserts the manufac: turer, “Be you sad; twist knob ‘A’ and he'll look sad. You rise cheer. ful in the morning and presto! knob ‘B’ makes him smile.” the news. ‘This ts the same once in & while, and he would go out and rapture about loving all the world, and gathering all the trees, and bifly goats, and ships, and greasy immigrants from south Fur rope, into one fond embrace, And 1 defy anybody to get romam tle over the Zulu, or over numerous works of nature, like the hornet and the mud-cat and the Gila monster, o- OME of the anctents rollea out sonorous verse like the eternal mounts of inspira tion that they were, and no critic can carp at Hom er, for he thought epics, and wrote and his rhythm and the roll and thunder of his ines make their |sound @ perfect complement to their nenne, But Homer died a long time ° and all the epieing that has , done since you could stick in your eye and #till have room enough, Mil- ton epleed in spots, but he should have called it a day when he pol- ished off Paradise Lost, and he might well have used the blue pen- jcli on’ some thousands of lines of leven that, Some day go over the socalled great English and American classics of verse; read them as if you had never seen them before; forget who wrote them; consider them merely \for the sound sense they convey and | the greatness of thelr deeper rhythm, if any; then paraphrase them and nee what it is all about when put in cold, true pros@ You will be sur prised, probably shocked, ee} emotions that can only be adequately set out by & mas ter poet, but nine-tenths of the work of such poets could be better done im prose, if at all. : Nothing should ever be sung that can be spoken; there are senti1 that only music can convey; it ¢ ens music as it cheapens poetry to make it run petty errands every time some hack writer needs @ new set of tires for his flivver. The ancients understood these things; the fitness of the arts they observed, and their masterpieces are _ (eternal, Most of what we call poetry © and music, a» most of what we term art, will die in a year. Finally, our language is the least, musical and the least adapted to ) poetry of all the modern n ; of civilized peoples, It is the greatest 7] medium for the master writes of POTTERY SALE 1,000 pieces, consisting of Jardineres, Flower Bowls, Fern Dishes, Vases, ete. Choice $1.19 Illinois from them, they would have to take In addition Idaho, Washing ton and Wyoming of the doubtful states to get over. It ten't necessary for either party to have New York to win, A non-spiiling milk pail & a new aneurance against cows “kicking the bucket.” “Gee, but I love Boldt’s French pastry!" —Adv, | Hie was so morose and glum-looking | that his friends, a lively lot, ascribed all of their jests to him, in trony | After he had died, a literary hack compiled them all in a book and blamed it on Joe. 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