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The Seattle Star. eet of omy, te ES ym the tor @ montha of 09.60 per yean ly menth; § meethe $1.60; 6 montha, $1.78; rear, Of the state, Tee per month, earrier, ity, 180 per week. mate of ington. Outside Burleson Again is Postmaster Burleson, according to word received in Seattle this week, has creed that families of _ politics. One woul postal employes are barred from participating in id be surprised if Burleson had failed to issue such an edict. We ve come to view our postmaster as an American czar who revels in auto- cratic dicta and arbitrary power. : : P Whatever may be the reasons behind the rule which forbids postoffice em- from participating of these men and women. sister or father or uncle Every man’s life lies) within the present.— Antoninus. of chiliren to do when we ‘a house? Almost ‘all the ads says “No you can readily se ic she is.) There are here than in Seattle. before we left there tments “welcomed they would in that way y landlords refuse children, espe . furnished places. But what I think of this ‘lidren” for rent houses. can deliberately told them how » “no children,” little things = is more than I can If everyone thought were a bother and a EDMUND VANCE COOKE the lore of yesteryear, treasure of its song; too short, my dear, much too long. you gold and get you gear build your ramparts tall and strong, the laugh too short, by dear, ‘Yet is the sigh too long. ‘Cry challenge, like a cavalier, And fight for right and smite the wrong, ‘et is the laugh too short, my dear, And every sigh too long. Make every art your own career And win the plaudits of the throng, Tet is the laugh too short, my dear, And laughter dreary long. ‘Then, when your beard is sflver-sere, Your thin, cracked voice shall sing my song— “A laugh is ail too short, my dear, A sigh is much too long!’ (Copyright, 1920, N. SUCCESSFUL AD) Gubbs—There goes a man who ‘Won strictly by perseverance. Over. came all obstacles, Bubbe—Where did he get his first Messon? Gubbs—One windy night in trying © light a cigar. Used every match E ad in polities, they do not equally apply to the families hat authority has Burleson over the brother or of a postal clerk? | What right has he to say that if the brother of a ‘mail carrier runs for office the mail carrier must |lose his job? : | It is inconceivable that any real American could Burleson. e, indeed, is about the only one who might have. And yet—Seattle is a long way from Washington, D. C. We would like to give even Burleson the benefit of the doubt. Mebbe he hasn’t gone quite that far. The official copy of the order should be here in a few days—and we shall see. oe Colby’s Vision Germany is now bidding for Russia's future friendship, No counter acting propaganda ts evident among the alliea Only America has ex- tended her band to the Russian people. And Mr. Colby assures Russia that the United States will not see the Slavs despolled in thelr moment of helplessness, True democracy will win tn Rumsla tn the end. All the world will then want Russia's friendship. But, America alone will be able to point to a record of active regart for Russia's welfare, while others believed they couBi take what they liked. In the Far East, Russia and America eventually wi have thelr moeting place of amity, Mr. Colby cannot but have had this fact prom! nently in mind when he penned his note to the Italian ambassador, Next to Russia herself, the power mogt vitally concerned in Mr, Colby’s words ig not Poland at all, It is Japan. How It Grows A potato grower writes: “Last summer I got $1 a bushel for potatoes I sold thru a growers’ association. The transportation cost from the local freight station to the retailer's store in a large city amoutited to $2 a bushel, or twice as much as I got for cost of production and profit. The city consumer paid $6 a bushel. The marketing system cost $3 a bushel, ér three times my price. In all, the city consumer paid six times the original cost of those potatoes.” A grower of grapefrult writes “I got half a cent per fruit for growing them, which tmctuded my | profit, The transportation system got two and « half cepts, and the! marketing system got nine cents per fruit, making the total cost to congumer 12 cents.” Before you subscribe to the doctrine that the farmer ts gouging his city cousin, get on more familiar terms with your nearer relatives, those inefficient, hence expensive, twing, transportation and marketing systema, How much are they costing you? A Stiff Upper Lip Keeping a stiff upper Np ts all right, but there's nothing com- mendable about it. Everybody keeps a stiff upper lp; has to, The upper Up can't be anything but firm. Ever watch a child overcome by emotion? It's the under Ip that trembles, and then the jaw drops, to open an exit for the roar, Next time tell him to keep a stiff lower lip. It won't sound right, it will lack punch and probably will fall to inspire the subject to the proper degree of steadfastness, but you'll have the approval of the A Falling Nation “No country ever verged more rapidly expense,” said Timothy Flint. ominous of anything but good.” Timothy Flint was a noted editor and, observing the extravagance of his time warned the nation of the fate that overtook Rome and! Tyre and predicted similar disaster unless more work was done and| less money spent. Fiint died in 1840, but the nation survived to produce a new genere- br ot prasmots who in 1920 are saying the sume things Flint did in his time and predicting the same dire results unle the errors of its ways, nee See ee And, somehow, the nation will murvive these fellows, too, but very Mkely $0 years hence @ new breed of prophets will arise to sing the| aot ead songs in the same mournful words, t is consoling to read old-time prophesies of disaster beca: | show that the evils that beset the living are A agg le po tata. In the year 1830 Flint declaimed against the “young ladi.s brought up to do nothing except dreas and pursue amusement.” “Everytedy is ashamed,” he continued, “not to be expensive fashionable; and every one seems equally ashamed of honest ind: Here is the reason why every man lives up to his income, beyond it." Familiar words theset But the nation recovered from the diseases of which Flint plained and which, according to the economic doctors, now. Like the leaning tower of Pisa the countr pling to every generation, but never falls, Hail Venizelos A leutenant of the Greek army and a Ileutenant of t attempted to assassinate Premier Venizelos. They gav son that they wished to save Greece. Save Greece? made modern Greece territorially almost the eq Venizelos has do’ times, The very condition of victory | toward extravagance and “In a young republic lke ours it is ind try 4nd so many| com- afflict it again ¥ appears to be top-| | he Greek navy © as their rea Venizelos has nual of her ancient glory. me more for Greece than any other man of modern which an army and na poned to produce have been created by Venizelos with suarosly a chor having been fired. Greece won the war because of Venizelos’ diplomatic skill Venizelos has few peers amnong the statesmen of Europe, Greece's active part in the war was so «mall that nobody remembers it. Yet, Greece is now the foremost power of the Balkans, She has gained possession of European Turkey, and of the wealthiest region of Asia Minor, and is reaching across southern Albania toward the Adriatic. Venizelos did it all. And yet, the and navy tried to assassinate him. Why? Who can tell t al processes of an assasuin's mind? Instead of bullets, Venizelos deserves statues in hin lifetime. His praises will be sung by generations of Greeks whose grandparents are. atill unborn. But, so difficult ts it to see greatness near at’ hand, that Greek warriors wished to wap the ‘only one among them who is a king of men. Fortunately for Greece, Veriizelos has survived the bullet When, in the end, bis soul moves on, it will find a giad welcome from Hercules, Achilles, Ulysses, Theseus, and the other ancient heroes. His woat will be beside Nestor’s own, the wisest Greek of antiquity. 7 army There's a refreshing lack of vacitement about this comeetan The deadly joy-rider continues to help solve the housing problem. The world cannot be all wrong as long as there's huckleberry pie. A Canadian saved himeelf trom Tynchin 7 '-hour’s speech, they say silence is golden, hikadaricd ‘ nt _—_ However, it's a cinch that the candidate who never be arrested for auto speeding sticks to his veranda will Stewed chickens gave Spokane bootleggere 6 Po e quay. to expect them to keep © secret under those condit ee Republican and democratic Tt was really too much ions. campaign funds wil be investigated by the j|have promulgated the order attributed to Postmaster | THE SEATTLE STAR EVERETT TRUE I THINK “THAT'S WHAT 2 WANT, NOW SHOW M& 4UST “wees | To PLY oPe == \Yes, HOLD IT WHILE Does, MAYBE HE CAN SHOW HIS CUSTOMERS =f TODAY'S BEST BET — Knocking the § out of Sugar, eee LIFE 18 SUCH SWEET SORROW Tt i frightfully lamentable that the poor sugar profiteer could no longer get away with ft, and sad indeed that several of him will have to go to jail for 18 months. But he needn't be lonesome, For right in the next cell, to keep him merry) “Then why do you persist in going |#Fth (pomme de terre). company, will be the wretch who had to turn burglar to get enough to wweeten his coffee and who got 20 years to life AND IT CAME TO PASS ‘Three mena profiteer, a burglar and a chap named Ponsi—lay down to dream. T! dreamed. And when they awoke each said unto the other, “Lo, there ts one born every minute.” And, forsooth, it was so. er « burglar, and another « named Pons. eee ‘There are divers other ways of making money. two charming young women divers who, Frank Zimmerman says, skip ped out with his, eee ENRY IGGINS HIS OME Henry Higgins was in London for a week | And now you ought to hear old Henry speak! Why the way that he's attired tn the clothing he acquired While in London makes the whole town shriek. He wants to be as English as the Strand And the poor benighted boy can't understand his British imitation causes naught but @ cachinnation And it irritates poor Hank to beat the band. eee Lipton can’t decile just what to do with the Shamrock, Why nat give it to Germany to be used as a navy? . Why . Among the notification and accept: ance ceremonios that we haven't seen reported is the one wherein the con sumer is told about the new railroad rates and in which he enthusiasts ly “accepts.” Joel Warren, once a visitor at a DK, J. R. BINYON Free Examination BEST $2.50 G.asses on Earth We are one of the fow oj NorthWest that r y from start to finish, aduate op- rt f prescribed yeolu senate committee. As for the ch 7 (parties are still ous, hristensen and Debs funds, the scarching | necessary. BINYON OPTICAL CO. FIRST AVE, Between Spring and Seneca, Vhone Main 1550, By CONDO ALL THERE 13 TO IT 1S You Press THS KNOBS AND — ANO-~ ER— wecc’, iT DoesNT UTTLS DINKYS UNTTHL Nit “THAT FUNNY! LOOKS LIKe This Was MEANT N WHEN YOU — WHEN YOu — OM, I Guess A You Has TO HOLD ‘THIS KNOG WHILE — I RUN UP TO JONES’ /PLACG— MAYBE HE SELLE THEM, AND IF HE m= We'll Say S0m = county fair, noticed one melancholy individual who, despite the fact that he was apparently suffering greatly, Persisted in remaining on one of the merry ¢orounds. Eventually Warren spoke to him and asked him if he liked it ut “No; I don't Hke it a bit, the man ie es “The beastly thing makes me wf lon itt j “I can't help ft. The man who ownn this thing owes me money, and oe only way I can get even is by taking it out In rides” eee A bank in Ellensburg advertises as Hows “When wWe consider tt ts the con. |elusion, which is the factor in pro roms, the necessity for all to benefit is the proof. The necessity and the convenience of the check account fo! [count are wufficient proof that bank ing is progress, Ax & progressive in: | atitution we offer our service.” Thus of nations, eee If some men were a0 big as they think they are thelr tailor bills would bankrupt them. Flies in Amber. Words Not Made. They “Grow.” , Glimpses in Past. As files in amber #0 errors are preserved in language. Words are not made, They grow ‘The dictionary ts @ museum of the vagaries as well as of the discover tes of human thought. A man's sins moro strikingly re veal him than his virtues. And mis takes are more characteriatic, 80 the most vivid glimpses of our fore fathers are revealed to the etymol ogist in the fossil imprints in our word-rocks. The most valuable bequesta the past has left us ts ite fallacies. They are vastly more inetructive than ite achievements, Esperanto nor Ido nor other arti fictal tongue will be the final mode, Yor language is a secretion of life The universal speech will grow, it | will not be confectioned. It will be the idiom of the composite race. For nothing can endure far into the future which does not have its |roots deep in the past. But, to mistakes, files in amber, curious ignorances and eredulities immortalized in words. The turkey was fo called because of the fallacy among the commons that it origin ated in the country of the Turk; it was first found in America, Here also originated the “Trish potato,” so named because the Irish were fond of it and took it up as a cheap food, and not because they discovered it, Nicotthe gets ite name from Nicot, yet he was not the discoverer of tobacco, but the one who introduced ite une itto France, Every schoolboy knows that Amer- lea was named, not after Columbus, who first visited it, but after the quite secondary person, Amerigo Vespucct. ‘The apple i# according to tradi "tion our oldest fruit, and at one time or another in almost every language ail other fruits have been called some kind of apple. We call the rough coated fruit of a tropical plant & pineapple, our grandmothers gave tomatoes the name of loveapple, and the French for potato is apple of Oranges, erroneously supposed to come from China, were both in Germany and France called Chinaapples (Apfeiain- |nen and pommes de Chine). Pome- granate means an apple with many ened. Lunacy comes from the Latin word meaning moon and is a relic of the popular supersUon of the | moon's influence. Idiot originally meant a common, ordinary person, and in a survival of the general belief, before the days For one of ‘em is a profiteer, anoth | with the conclusion of a savings ac-|of democracy, that the common peo- | ple had no sense. Mythology and astrology Jong cast laside in the march of intelligence, agreeing completely with have left their traces in our tongue; For instance, the Harding in his ponttion on the league | aa martiel, warlike, from Mars, god of war; Saturnine, gloomy from the supposed melancholy influence of the planet Saturn; Mercurial, lively, from Meroury, the sprightly messen fer-god; afd #0 on; you have only to AS IT SEEMS TO ME DANA AN ANY good thing come out of Samarial™” Tw thousand years ago towns and cities were about a* they are today, and that the Redeemer of Man could hati from « rival town was as unthink able A. D, 27 as it would be today for « Tacoma pastor to touch the hearts of a Seattle congregation; afl the amen corner would be saying, all thru the sermon, would be: “Ite Rainier, it's Bainigr, I tell you.” . SPENT last year in Se attle, your before in Port land, your before that in Lon Angelen; going back before that there were spell in San Francisco, and « time in San Diego, and then I have met and enjoyed Victoria and Vancou- ver too, And I notice this, that insenafbly, |when I live in any city, I come to |the conclusion that it is the only city on the coast that is prospering, and that every other town is going | back. When I left Seattle a few weeks ago for @ sumuner in the hills, I felt that Seattle was the only town on the coast that was making progress, and that Portland was in the dumps. But in Portland I find the impres- sion prevails that Seattle ls just get Ung by, and that local business was never better. ing by inches; but when 1} spend a few days in the City of Destiny I discover that it is golng to catch up with Seattle in just a few months more. Living in either Seattle or Taco- ma one understands that Spokane is suffering from senile decay and @ shrinking population, but “when one takes a squint at the bank clear- reallzes that Spokane a the jew- 1 of the inland empire, is doing nicely, In Los Angeles I became con- vinced that San Francisco wag de cadent and that almost any after. noon the few people remaining there jbe lifeless, But when San Fran- | cleco was visited ft was fairly buret- ing the seams it was growing so fuat, tho one felt that real death and stagnation could be found across the bay at Oakland,” But if one went acroms the bay he found miler on miles of new industries being emtab- lished, he fOund new blocks, new hotels, great government improve. ments, and if one stayed ten days in Oakland he understood that it was the coming New York of the Pacific coust, turn the pages of the dictionary to find the many finger marks and footprints of the innumerable super. stitious fancies and childish delus. tons which like Paleozoic, Mesozoic or Cenozoic creatures, once trod the wtage of life, but have made long since their exit. several months in Spokane, and a! |ings and the building permits one| would move out, preferably to Los! Angeles, and Market street would | SLEETH 6 1 GEE tt, the entire fe £OINE ahead, and no city hes yet cchtoved certain lead. Until the te cont earthquake nent middle wentern touriete ing, Lom Angeles seemed most likely candidate, and may wind up with the leadership, fan I note that she bas brought in twe jbig oll wells in the middie of the town, and one ol well should be worth at least six earthquakes, San Francisco is and will te» great port; Oakland ts Y great manufacturing eity, Portland is assuming leaferehip te the manufacture of furniture, the manufacture of woolen goods: che always has been a great lumber, wheat and flour market, and she hag in to be the : q probably achieved the |e the packinghoune field, and ag @ stock market, for the entire wan Beattle has a wonderful trade ye ritory by land and by sea, her “sa ; | tunities are so many and ao that it will be years before her bets can be decided on. This can said of Beattie, that in spirit |achieverment she ie nearer the true metropolis, and she has more of the cosmopolitan splrit of the great east |ern cities than any western place San Francisco, be: Seattle is a true elty in spirit and in breadth of accomplishment; many Of the coast cities are still |sawky community with many town characteristics; Seattle is of @ city than Los Angeles, tho may only have half a» many within her bounds, But any western city ts any eattern city so far spirit, private enterprise, | provement or private vision cerned; it seems like @ when you come to the first time, And some Gay, unless | blows up entirely, this wilehave more great population than the Atlantic Columbia Colo—The new Americng, | | beer at Boidt's—Adv. ‘ fez it hh i re | AN you have to do If [thin and want to ic | pounds of solid “ss to take a five-gra | tren Phoeph: | builds up the nervo' riches the blood and th: vital org to assim: e building, strength-making el ot your food which how largely to waste. 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