The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 1, 1920, Page 6

[Newspaper Kn- I Asem and United Prose fBervice | PY TN, Sa ine ut is none the less re ‘given the country by To go to law is for two ons to kindle fire at their own cost to }warm others, and singe elves to cinders.— INGES ‘Tho Star; In your tssue of yy, August 28, under “Letters Editor,” and headed “County Is Criticized,” appeared an communication, appar Ease abe cedstt erfareeeeti R G _. “I don’t like this place at all; | Bt should have a larger garde: _ _ And a great deal lower wall; ‘This is my home and should be 3g ed As my desires and tastes demand; 4 commonest profiteer plans his'n, So surely I should plan my pris- ‘he on!” uid the beggar to the baker, _ “Yours are methods I despise; ‘Curse you for a biscuit-maker! Why not multiply your pies? Cit out, cut out the common bread And make the people cake instead; “Phen, as I ply my weill-worked beats _ I'll likely get some better eats.” the horsefly to the auto, “Some folks call you ‘And it may be I ought But you're a measly substitute, Por tho I bite thru steel and mud, You certainly have darn poor blood?’ (Copyright, 1920, A circulation of the 30 ‘The currency Teading nations of the world has in-| ‘Greased from $7,000,000,000 before the ‘War to $51,000,000,000 the first of this year. AN UNAPPLIED LESSON ting ? Sun- that when you're struck on one other to- he Seattle Star $4.60 for ¢ montha or $9.00 per year, My carrier, city, 12¢ per week. Legislative crookedness does not necessarily involve individual corruption, rehensible. An instance of legislative trookedness was Tennessee legislature in the desperate tactics employed the anti-suffs to reconsider the ratification vote. ‘ Consider the facts: Nearly two weeks ago the house ratified by a majority ote-of all the members. Notice of reconsideration was given b; . The machine dictates and they obey. | ; conauerors. If they are pampered now, they will try the same game egain. | SREB ONE o dS a Per month; # months $1.60; @ montha, $2.76; year, Bate of Washington Outside of the state Tee per monty hee speaker. The house met the next day, all members bemg ad- vised of the possibility of reconsideration. The speak- er makes no Poe to press the motion. The vote is thereupon certified by the governor, forwarded to Washington, D. C., and the ratification of the 19th amepdment is formally announced. Yesterday, out \of a clear sky, the anti-suffs, taking advantage of the jabsence of many suffrage members, brought up the motion to reconsider in the house of representatives of Tennessee—and passed it by a vote of 47 to 24. It is not ngpontet that their action is going to change the suffrage status. But that a group of men should stoop to such unsports- manlike, aye, crooked methods, is the pathetic thing, for it reflects what is true only ‘too often in legislative hall and in politics. The anti-suffs in Tennessee are in the minor- ity—and they know it. They were licked in an open and fair fight and vote. So they delivered their blow from ambush. While they had the votes to pass the motion to reconsider egg they did not have a majority of the house membership, had everybody been present. Perhaps not a single man in the entire anti-suff group would pad his boxing gloves with horseshoes if he were! kmatched against an opponent in the ring, and it is doubt-| ful if any of them would cheat in a golf match, or in| poker, or in any other game. But they lose their indi- vidual fairness in the corruption of a legislative machine. What, was true of the Tennessee legislature yesterday is. true of other legislatures. The “machine” in politics is| an infernal thing; it degrades men and debauches public | service. More Light American business men were told by the department of state more than & month ago that they could trade with Russia at thelr own rink. That is to may, the tien at Washington repudiated inputations | that the United States is at war with Rusda. | But, for the American government while at pence to use ite powers to Ip one foreign nation against another is an arbitrary act, indefensible @angerous in the retaliation which {t invites, Poland's sovereignty was granted by the peace conference which created | the league of nations, But the United States has refused to ratify the| and is not @ member of the league of nationa, America, there formal right to assist in pulling Poland out ef the meas into Danzig is a free city, eo guar But, America not being a member of the tm that guarantee, of the tangle at Danzig, the Washington take the country further into tts confidence. How! government intend going to help the Polack recov- ery? These followers of the Prussian tradition brought disaster upon | Poland by trying to override the boundaries fixed by the peace conference which gave Poland its freedom. Their purpose was to push Poland's rule far tnto Russia, as imperialistic The Trade Balance A few pessimistic souls saw in the recently published report of American foreign trade something to be frightened at. But what they naw was nothing other than a declining toward normal of the lopsided trade balance. Nothing to be frightened at. Really, it ls something to welcome. Uniess foreign nations can pay their American debts they travel to the Poorhouse via bankruptcy. They cannot pay these debts in gold; not enough gold ‘They can pay tn goods, things to eat, to wear, to use in other ways, This ts what they are doing. Before the war the United tSates was paying Europe something Ike a half billion dollars a year. Thin went over largely tn the form of food, oll, cotton. It paid interest on European capital invested here. The war rear. ranged that. Buropean capital withdrew from American investments: American capital went to Europe. Now Europe must pay America half billion dollars a year as interest charge. Europe cannot pay in gold; she must pay tn gooda Europe is paying. That ts why tmports into the United States increased during the fiscal year ending June 30; and why exports decreased. It is true that other continents, Asia, South America, Australia and Africa, sold more to America than they purchased. The trade balance ts in their favor. This is partly accounted for by the fact that Burope doesn’t make all her payments to America directly. She sells manufactured goods to South America, and South America sends coffee to America, and tn this roundabout way Europe pays United States debts. Probably long before Europe gets her American bills settled the United States will have evened her trade with the others, The billion dollars «pent for coffee, rubber and leather materials of South America, Africa, Australia must be balanced by increased exports | from America to those continents. The trade balance now is a billipn dol-| lars in their favor, The thing to do isn to worry over the decreasing trade balance with Europe. It is to think about increasing exports to other continents, par-| ticularly South America. This can be aided by the investment of American capital in the development of South America, Asia and Africa, You Tell Him It may not be long until your butcher, or grocer, or some other retail) dealer begins singing the song— “The increased freight rate makes us charge more.” When you complain because he is charging 10 or 20 or more per cent higher price than he did the day before, he'll talk of— “You know the freight rate has gone up,” otc, ete, ‘Then is your chance to tell him somethin You might, for instance, say— “Yes, I know all about the freight increase. I know it is less than 2 per cent on the annual production of the farms, factories and mines, 1 know It is leas than 1 per cent of the price of meats as they were before the rate was increased; 5 cents on a pair of shoes, and about 10 cents on a suit of clothes. How come then that you %add not only the freight increase but considerable more to your price” Yes, you tell himt The antt-ruffragiste should write tt—Gnashville. Maybe the campaign fund inquiry will add @ Ut of jase to a rather dull presidential race. These days when @ frisky old man ts asked how he feels, the proper reply ts “Just gland.” Prof. Simon Askenacy of Warsaw ta the new Polish ambassador to Lon- don. What will he accomplish? Askenazy one. Foch ta coming to the United States for a vistt, thus renewing the controversy over the correct pronunciation of his name. One of Mrs. Wilson's evening gowns has been placed tn @ museum, which many women would regard as a doubtful compliment. Goldfield, Nev. lost 67 per cent population aocording te the census. Touse-hanters will approciate this as there must be @ lot of vacant homes re In 1911, Wesley Lusttanta Jones was “unfit; a “Magrace” to the state, and worse, according to the Post-Intelligencer, the Spokesman Review, the Tacoma Ledger, the Tacdma Tribune, the Kverett papers, the Bel- Hingham papers, the Walla Walla pap: the Yakima papera, the |reason why | high: cult of afl instruments to manipu- and pick the musio out of the mid THE SEATT EVERETT TRUE HUSH UP Sv ervtH RoosteD on (tit THs WRDS YOu CAN Writes for The BY DR. JAMES I. VANCE Tt ts such an easy thing to pity yourself, It requires no argument to make out the case, It in not neo coxary to summon Witnesses OF con sult legal authorities, You know you have not had @ square deal, and it ts useless for either judge or jury to try to reverse your own verdict. But of all moods that get things mixed, this mood of Belf pity la the worst, When a man starte out to make a martyr of himself let bis friends stand from under. Every thing they do will be misinterpreted. wasting noble in chardcter become infirm. A month ago I read it, I read it this day week; the statisticians said | it “High costs are at the peak. | This time next week, tomorrow, or) even by tonight, we'll leave the heights of sorrow and slide down to| delight. The crop outlook’s a won der, we'll now begin to reap; rejoice and stand from under, again shall food be cheap.” I listened while they told me these tidings of great Joy: @id ecstacy enfold me or bilan without alloy? Nay, tho I am a heeder of optimistic bieata, I doubt them, Gentle Reader, when they per | tain to eats. How dft the paper tells me, “Potatoes come by tons,” and still the grocer sells me the same old measley ones, Ho's there with every foodstuffs should be “There's too much rain this | season,” or “It has been too dry.” That High Cost Peak they mention I've stood on till I'm tired, shall I now pay attention to words by hope inspired? All I can earn or borrow for victuals must I pay and I know) by tomorrow they'll cost more than) today. eve ZOO LYRIC ‘The walrus, tho of mighty atza, Is not at all ferocious, Yet him, dear children, ostractze, His manners are atrocious, eee The necessity for economy has been impresned on high society. Most of the younger set are having elope. ment weddings this year, There doesn’t seem to be much | spirited bidding among the nations for the mandate for Ireland. eee Say this much for the present ad ministration in Mexico: Villa is now for it, eee ALL SEATS TAKEN ~ Jaggies—Do you know why this is such a hard world? Waggles—-Because places are occupied. eee NATURE THOUGHT. Observe the clam upon the shore And be with\reverence stirred. Tho lots of creatures rant and roar He never mys ‘wore. all the soft Sergeant Robert Burns tntroduced the “BAZOOKA” at the “Bal Ta barin,”\ New York. The most diffi- late is the “GAZAGTACK.” You blow in both ends at the same time Wenatchee papers. Ie Wesley Lusitania Jo: any better in 19207 The Star, for one, refuses te beat about the bush What it said im 1917 about Jones, it repeats today. Joncs is mot fit for ripe die with a nall-—The Billboard. eee . Near-beer seems to be getting farther off every day. Cora jeanne om LE STAR By CONDO ING “OU TODAY, SO BLOW OUT THERG AND COUNT SCE ON THOS 10 Bt Dr. James I. Vance Star Today on “Don’t Pity Yourself” strength and determination ef tt» mays cheerfulness and | serenity, and invites every old witeli of an accurred mood to come tn and eit with us, while we mope over “the | slings and arrows of outrageous for. vigor. It tune.” There te no herciam tn self-elected Nee heroics are martyrdom. All mock berelca No man ever found happinens by | nursing the mood of self-pity, Many have lost it, Bolf-pity reverses life's machinery makes pigmies of people who might | Were no public schools at all in your | , | West coast farmers who body is thinking about you. You are of no consequence whatever. Make | fin remedies. $2.00. Herb Medicine yourself comfortable.” {3 ABOUT ALL RIGHT, INCLUDING THG SCARE CROW YOU MAaDG POR THE GARDEN — THE BIROS CGYEN BUT I MADE A REAL ONG Doctor Frank CRANE’S| Daily Article (Coprriaht, 1990) Not So Long Ago. Ballot Denied Men. Things Better Today. Used to Be Worse, Don't forget— That once it was thought as out rageous, dangerous and revolution ary to give all male citizens the bal-| lot as it is now deemed by many to give the vote to women. That once trial by fire, and tortur- ing witnesses in court by the most inhuman devices, was as generally believed in and accepted as absolute ly necemary, as gloomy penitenti- artes, filthy county jails, hanging and electrocution are now. ‘That once it was universally agreed to by public opinion that it was & requisite of public morals and the safety of the state to torture those who did not acknowledge the king. ‘That while some of our plutocrats are arbitrary and intolerant, it was not #0 many generations ago that nobles in Europe were riding down peasants, debauching the daughters of yesterday was a slave with no rights at all. ‘That while the Interchurch move- |ment and the League of Nations |meem to be traveling & rough road, |never before in bistory have the nects even tried to get together, or the nations made any practical at tempt to stop war, That while the high cost of living in an affliction, it was not so long ago that the great masses in every nation were underfed, underpaid and | entirely dependent upon what the privileged classes chose to give them. ‘That while any good man who acquires prominence ls fiercely at- tacked, our fathers poisoned Soc- rates, burnt Joan of Are and cruct Ned Jesus Chriet. ° That while we have our lynchings, drunken brawls, riots and other forms of violence, the civilized) world’s favorite amusement was giadiatorial games and throwing captives to the wild beasts. It has bern found tha¢ the age of | & fish can be told from its scales If you value your health get anti- Mfg. Co, P. O. Box 851, Seattle his beefiteak writes ask going to come down, I don't know. this out, Mr. City Man: Beet is sell ing at about 10 cents a pound, live weight Repeated experiments by Western agricultural colleges have shown that it costs at least 17 cents & pound for the farmer to raise and fatten ‘a steer. When a commodity wells for about half what it costs to produce, when will it “come down"? You notice that hogs have gone up from 12 to 18 cents this summer, and that there are not many hogs coming | in, either. This situation was exact ly foretold in this colurnn months ago. Every farmer knew it, just as every farmer knows that every month of present beef prices is in- suring a beef famine @ year, two years, three years trom now, for & beet critter does not develop in & month, Today leather ts worth less than it has been for years, There is no market for woot; feed, fertilizer, im- plement prices are up in the skies, but the basic farm products are sell- ing below the cost of production. My bunch for you, Mr. City Man, ig that méat prices for you will get in reach about the time you feed your own heng table scraps and pas ture a few Belgian bares on your town clippings, $ HERE 1a one way ont tn the meat crisis, and one only, that I can ee, and that ts mutton, A sheep can thrive nine months of the year on these cutover stump pastures of the Northwest; a little roughage, fed in a few cheap sheds, will winter sheep, and the wool clip will about pay for the feed, giving the spring lamb for the grower's profit, At that rate sheep should make from $7 to $10 a bead a year, and do it without much labor, with- out much equipment, and en cheap land. The nation’s crop and meat crop will in the fature be raised on farms, rather than on ranges, and sheep will be found in bands of 60 and @ hundred, rather than in a few great flocks of a hundred thousand; and they will be better sheep, with better wool on them, and the mut- ton will be of a superior quality; just as the corn-fed, weill-bred hog is an advance over the half-wild razorback. Lack of reliable farm labor will force—indeed, I know it is already forcing—-many Northwest datrymen into some other line, and many of these are experimenting with sheep; some few with goats. Oncey ft was thought that sheep could not survive the long, wet win- ters of this region, but that has been found untrue, and there are North made a success = with Lincoln, Hampshire, Cheviot and half a domn other breeds, showing that sheep ™ I say anything about 'D| that little dab of summer bed apples I took into town? Somehow, I can't get over aa) market can be found for something @ farmer raises, The other evening I looked over a Thats Some Amoto Muu, 911 sts fin se lien (ronda! And, oh sev, jan What wakes a dent on nny cio praitim Zo Suan ta ‘ahah gauv You a Lacuna | is Har while Camels are Me mitdest Ciqautte aus Ko ausldowtst Qat ait ike Pete, set ofA ae Soy dur get as “rok ae 2 Reged tab of aud Cam Wy Mayr nas Sedtirg doar Anh WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 193% AS IT SEEMS TO ME DANA SLEETH ORRIED elty man who likes [couple of mmall trees that had a few ing when I think meat is | family Figure | these few pounds to town, but sa I quarts more of apples on than the would use, and I argued whether it was worth while to take was going in anyway, I tried the experiment and joaded up a couple of boxes with Yellow Transparents, an apple that no frult grower bothers with, because they won't «hip, and usually there is no demand for them, The grocer welcomed me with open arma, He said they were the first good apples he had seen in a week, and he paid me 6 cents a pound for them, which, on this lot, came to $6.34. Of course, those apples about a dollar each, but had even an acre of that sort of ple trees bearing well. Say, five trees, 40 trees to the acre, to the acre, 40 pounds to around about $500 to the make it. Of course, old orchards fancy winter apples return as high a8 $1,800 an acre @ year, but they are i the fact that a ready cash || The Burs ars fair on o funr- Kitty, Anil! , ose out! ‘me for anew 4 ta | 3 é is I: : i i iil iti i e i t j