The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 2, 1920, Page 6

THE SEATTLE STAR Doctor Frank . CRANE’s||| AS IT SEEMS T0 ME DANA SLEETH Daily Article (Copyright, 1920) The League. e Seattle Star fox» of Washington, Outstie of the state, The per ‘or $9.00 per year, My carrier, city, lke per week. | EVERETT TRUE By CONDO | {i AM TRYING TO INTeResT THIS COMMUNITY INTHE POOR DEARS IN THe JAILS. “THEY ARG GIVEN ENOVEH To GAT, BUT THESE POOR UNFOR] TUNATES WOULD BE MADE HAPPIER é Ir FloweRsS— = Co. menthe, 61.76; year, Mate ony, HERE did this idea origin CHIPMUNK came just ‘ $0 Nations wn It. n frisked himself joy ate that man is the most Already Working. ously from out the green important animal, any- and perched on & how? We Must Join. black rock before Are we sure that the With the League of Nations as a|my tent. n considerable ac-| goat doemn’t laugh in his bewhisker- mubject of controversy between the|quaintance, he knew that I wasled sleeve—if goats have sleeves; E republican and democratic parties we | harmless, and, being in a social| know they have whiskers—at us? have nothing to say. mood, bo paused and combed his| Are we eure that the monkey in Ans to the League of Nations, how. | Whiskers, polished the end of his|/the cage doesn't consider himself over, 00 02 and a fact| nose, and @miled on me with hit | yastly above us? that is of sern tO the} black eyes; then he scam Is this feeling of selfimportance United States, the public should bo | Dered away In wearch of amusement |, sign of superior attainments? and sustenance. nope he hasn informed. forgotten the hoard ut watermelon | It 1 not, for the lowest tribe of Hence keep these facts in mind. | rey) oe led under the vine. | American Iotens— fish eters, cow. uertion jards, slothful, unspeakably unecl whether the nations shail have it or | €*f U8. Also I hope he derives more | "sane itealf tne chogen people, efaction out of tho ede than not is not Bp. ‘That ie nettied. 1t ix | TUMBCUON OU Ot one iv umeed (and wpoke of all outside peoples ae now extant and doing business. | tnat melon to camp on a hot day, and |“ !nes. Some thirty nations are in it my mouth wag watering for its julcy| Every race, no matter how é& Whether the U. 8. A. shall enter | rednogs every step of the two niles. |based, clings to the idea that it, and is a matter for the president and the|1 carved into the rich, deep, red|itse customs, its habits and its hab senate to decide. heart of the five-centsa-pound lux-| tations, are superior, and only the Careful réading of the judicial election law will reveal that somebody has een tampering with it. As it stands on the books today (having been amended ‘the last session), it is more than probable that every judge in both county and| elections will be chosen to held office by a minority vote, instead of a) ee rity. The law (which is construed to favor the judges already on the bench) de-| res that candidates receiving the highest votes (if the same constitute a ma- | ty) shall be deemed elected at the primaries without ing thru a second| tion. Which is fair enough IF A CANDIDATE RECEIVES A MAJOR-| OF THE VOTES. But the law goes further. It defines what shall consti- | sant Ee A ee a majority, and the majority it defines really is a minority in most in- THIS, MY ONY UN@REC —s OF THE CAUSE WITH LO CTLs TIME BuT WITH TELUNG EREECTI ) | It provides that all the votes cast for all the candi-| _ Man is the merriest \'dates for judge be totaled. This total shall then be cies of the creation; }| divided by the number of offices to be filled. A ma- all above and below him}|jority of the figure thus obtained shall constitute a serious.—Addison {majority in the judicial election. | This would work out well, and create a real major-| ers to the ity, if all the voters voted for the full number of | |judges to be elected. But they don’t. Thus in King /county there are nine judges to be elected. There are | about 100,000 voters. If every voter voted for nine) candidates there would be a total of 900,000 votes. | Divide 900,000 by nine and you have 100,000. A ma- jority of that would be 50,001 votes, or a real majority jof the total number of voters. a Star: Pour issue of| , But in actual practice, everybody doesn’t vote for 20th, © man, sigoing bimself nine candidates. The law doesn’t require the voter to : of Economy, asks ™°/ do so. What happens then? i ft ¥ teen at ctare when! Assume the 100,000 voters of King county vote as follows: | world any other way Eventually we will have to jotn for the simple reason that we can not do business with the rest of the Both of our political parties recog: nize that. The only iseue between them ts whether we shall enter ac cording to the program of the dem ocratic party as formulated by Mr. Wilson, or that of the republicans, as indicated for the senate majority. The League has already done sev- eral important things It bas taken control of the city of Danaig. It is governing the Saar valley. It has anwumed the obligation of (| (office and an international health safeguarding the racial minorities tn | Poland; also in Turkey | It has set up an international labor offios. | Under fts auspices tnternational financial conferences © been held. ury, and discovered a hide-bound mem of unripeness within, Water melons in this country are @ great! disappointment, but, coming from a jand where melons grew on vines rather than inside the safe, next to the depreciated currency, I will keep boning for @ melon in July, and still | keep throwing my money away on green-bound abominations, But to return to that chipmunk: He reminded me of childhood, for in his frisky, capering, ever-prying, gleeful activities, he perpetually re minds me of children at play, eee HAVM been watching a stream of bubbles fulfill their destiny at the end of f riffle in the tiny brook be fore my tent door. They constantly stream down the center of the Uny current, and some ride high and fair around the bend and world traveler, the scientist, the com mopolite, the advanced thinker, gains enough experience, knowledge and internationalism to know that there is good and evil in every Da tion and race, and that no tribe, peo ple or government hag @ monopoly of intelligence. But this thing is getting too deep for me, for if one pursues this bub bie far enough, tt leads to utter im difference,"to utter slackness, to ut ter bestiality, Man bas always had to have something to keep him from sinking, and a sense of his own im portance, and of the value of his own deeds, is abapt the momt efficacious something we know of. And I'll admit that there is no keen er pleasure on h than the pleas ure that comes When you do a diffi- cult gthing, and do it a bit better than you thought you could. Pint maybe the bubble that dodges ‘outlines and which we all recos-! 10,000 vote for one candidate, ‘making a total of.. 10,000 | Both Japan and Great Britain | into the future; others dash them | the out-thrust rock by the chance of i as all too prevalent for the 9 9 000 vote for two candidates, making a total of.... 40,000 | have reported to the League that the | selves on the waiting pebbles; others |¢ne current feels the same thrill. ’ s jnew treaty they will make, to take |burst without apparent cause, just in| put a bubble can't go up stream, | 30,000 vote for three candidates, making a total of.. 90,000 "bl agg dalle Seo onl 40,000 vote for six candidates, making a total of... .240,000 ‘rapid increase in the dissolution! This would show that the 100,000 voters of King county the home and the divorce evi. cast a grand total for the judicial candidates of 380,000 eet es the old! votes. Divide this by nine, as the law directs, and you have} dre ecine out “Sustios’—to-| 42,222. A majority of 42,222 is 21,112. fix the blame and punish the! Under the law, the nine highest candidates who received for his act of omission/ 21,112 votes or more would place of the present one, which ex-|midetream of their carcer; others are | that. | pires in July, 1921, will be made pub-| caught im thelr fair course, eomehow and, by soil, © mae. cap do 1 lic and otherwise will be in harmony | set deflected a bit from the current,| The island of Marken, in Holland, with the League's requirements. | eddy about and about in little whirl! was once entirely submerged, but | Thin is an achievement of the first | pools and back currents, until they | hae risen from the water and is now | rank. | Vanish thru sheer ennui at their use- ja thrifty settlement of fishermen. It has prevented war between Fin a round Writes for The Star Today on 6 ess” land and Sweden over the Aaland! And because man ts @ meditative | deemed elected at the pri-| 4 BY ROGER W. BABSON seems to be afraid of everybody |Isiands, These two countries were “nimal, always seeking reasons and - justice, as one] ories and would not be subject to the final election in ereat many executives fail be- | else near the breaking point, A war| “Ways measuring eventualities by | Latin philosophers once |}? e 2) cause of thelr inborn fear of some-| The self-protective sense ts ab-/mixht easily have occurred. They | th¢ yard stick of his own slow inc ‘constant and irreaststi-| November. thing or somebody. normally developed, but the organi-| were summoned before the League, |'"#*—you have eeen that queer, to give everyone his due.” And yet 21,112 is but 21 per cent of the total number| T»* mental coward never be-| sation of the government is not land the matter amicably adjusted. If | £Te¢0 worm that humps its back and Hustice that people of| of Sadie fon, is only 2 * comes @ good executive jalone tn this difficulty, ‘The mame|such machinery had been in opera, |!nches along #0 tollfully-—well, there demand; it is the social Jastce| the 100,000 voters, Dut the law says it ia pe Ait mg cent of |“"rne man who always feels that /is true of many commercial and 4n-| tion in 1914 there would bave been because of this innate yearn towards by Roosevelt; it is the) tyr ik F) lof th 4 A pda don y. , somebody is after him not only dustrial organizations no war. jcomparison, I wondered if men were | motive of the new legisla} We talka good deal of the evils of minority rule. Yet here, | fais himself but ts a source of] The best executives are thom who| The League has established a per /0t driven Qs the bubbles, and if im of workmen's compensation acts,| in the most important branch of our country and state gov-|¢v!! infliction in the entire organi-| forget themseives and who radiate! manent court of international jus some of us were not borne to the ts wation, | trust, confidence, and enthustaam.|tice. This in due in great part to the |". some to the quick, fair cur scales, commerce/¢rnment, minority rule is slipped over—slipped over, it is PE PF One of the difficulties tn Wadh-| These are the motive powers which | services of Elihu Root, a republican, | St that sweeps us high around the | ~ Of 2 mifitmeters in mens- uring the distance be- tween the pupils of the when fitting may seem in- VACATION'S END certain forms of eye- | the popular, pepful, bright-stare jont: | a, Our eye examin- | Over-there doctrine we all have fed to are no carefully | us from ev: killfully performed re rvery syndicate editorial Safety First SCATTLE OPTICAL Co Street Railway Officials acknowledge efficiency of National Automatic Safety Fenders, ; E. M. FARMER. =) And this is the way the item ap peared in the local paper a month | later: | “Mr, Hardup and his bride, for. |merly Miss Millions, have returned |from their honeymoon. They will | live at the old man's.” eee Some women can sing a baby to sleep in two minutes and talk a hus band awake all night | 7 ond Avec by starting to save here on or before Monday, ons, etc. The laws must be! caj 3 oo ian nace | Sid, at the suggestion of a supreme court judge. For, if} ington seems to be that everybody! make for business muccenm just aa the League itself ower its ex. | Commer to what men call muccess, and | at ve entoreed a judge already ‘in office, can get a lead at the primaries istence to the efforts of Mr. Wilson, |%0%@ to the back eddies and weary ly im the management of| (and in most cases they do), he can save himself the an- pe We set the pace in Pain- noyance of obtaining an actual majority at the November =o Se) "ll Altogtther, whether Harding or ee ee friction of A election. @ ay Oper || cox ts elected, we will join the motion until we} Jess Extraction. We ex- Who shall have the credit for tt, and|, Sometimes, 4 bu * a pda cent, and sometimes only 15 per cent judge thereby.| 4 54.1 mn saiistes ees bad which party shall bave the glory? pid posh to rg, on gg me;'| morning, and give you your ere is fine work ahead for the next legislature. head when she lays it on @ young |is John D, we'll say you may put it! a Mea od man’s sboulder. down as a fairly good guess. the average man cares & whoop 19 /wnca! there ain't no sich thing asaniido all kinds of Dental ES Halfax. insect mammallia—anyhow, looking | Work at most 1 bi Pm a | Ho, at the great dug MAN, tn his buz-| Time advances apace to a certain evening in carly September when | (Nat someone has refused an offer ON MY TOES! ma will stay up late darning socks and sewing on buttons and, perhaps, |" movies. Still, it s unlikely) Another advantage of the new! wonder whether he, too, is not as work guaranteed 15 the bubbles, coming around the cor-| vo: But the next morning she will be the first one up—as usual—to|™Ovies Will have t resort to com jag i130 a m. in that it gives the ner from nowhere "and going in an! — finish the work of the night before and to get breakfast ready and to eo 4s Trib tine to rewrite more than ever | - where. | e There's great excitement in the house. At the last moment Willie haa|,Ou'7 # Smually too plain to be at: Tacoma Times |_ I think this doctrine of the ulti United -| gotten some jelly on the white waist ma washed and troned for him dur-| Mie Ag rip is horrible, and yet, squinting back | Ma observes that all rummer Jimmy knew exactly where to find his bw. CHES FOR THIS ONE thru the dusty, rotting aeons, and t to break up that| hat; it is mighty strange he should lose it on thi b thers! “Where will you reside?! asked righ’ iD is * should lose it on a day above all others , versa human activity, the sclentific | e the nearest substitute) “And, Mary, the ribbon in your hair fy undone already!” couple. Tee calh tapes Sos: woes |mind might be pardoned: tf it inter. j D tists “and, Tommy, did you brush your teeth? | “At the Old Manse,” replied the Ry would Cajpee Son eee en into the street and away--to the opening of school! | a! —— on Ma, throwing herself wearily into a chair, says she’s giad they're) ‘The Star: I think nearty| very still the house ts; and she misses the patter of little feet and the understands that $600,000-| laughter and the shouting that kept the house nolsy all summer. | the country necessitated| hour when they shail return to her. Why are mothers happy only cent increase in passenger| when all their “Uttle troubles” are close at hand? Ask ma; she knows | Gear (traveling) public inspecting Pacific coast, I should like GREEN LAKE hip company follows suit—| Only @ small part of the world understands and supports “government| Little cared he that he had days after the railroads increase|°t the people, by the people, and for the people,” Bir Auckland Geddes, | crushed his thumbnail with the ham | I cannot find that their| ™enaces to democracy, emphasiges the fact that Lincoln's immortal words | tr ore and that the job has cost wages have been boosted| xpress a relatively new idea in human relationships. |tw ¢ what a carpenter would have ‘& nest chance to gouge the pub-|% majority of Europeans accept the democratic ideal; while Asia’s millions |etected and he retired to the house and no comeback? If Mr. Alex-| have opposed it thruout their history, and Islam necessarily antagonizes it. | Proud and happy. TehaPld certainty foot the bill himself) Americans, free and self-governed, regard democracy as a natural right, | fast his eyes once more upon his tri. ind mot charge it to his passengers.| beyond all argument. It ian’t. It is a right that always has bad to be|Umph, but, to his horror, the post ’ “Lord High Admiral” of the Ad-|be a vast democracy today instead of harboring so many different formsx| “YU pushed it, did your? he a l our Months r % of autocracy. od, seizing his youthful hefr. . . le See a a a tem soe bred on tad wrth Pek Dividend on rightly emphasies the fact that “we must maintain the heritage of free. |! S*¥ him do it” —___________.g | was made {nto workable form in England, Then it was carried to America| That perplexing question is in the BY EDMUND VANCE COOKE | and developed here, as well as in the British self-coverning dominions. spotlight again, ‘shine, were the first to make democracy @ practical success, A common under-| association sent some pretty models In whom the grass renews its standing of freedom must bind the free nations together. Otherwise |in knee length skirta to Washington, all thy gifts, I ask as mine reach a controlling position over the world’s destiny. Thoy were inspected, all right, all This only, that I seek the Truth. = right! Beauty Torture one gets his due as nearly aye . returning waters, where we fret our It’s a fine thing for the ju but the people get only Ledges AM: Ghe Seeee eee lias woking at these busy|| ‘Tact your teeth in the fe @ pomibitity. If the Cleveland man | And that is not an insue for which | jor plates the same day. We ven Every once tn a white you read HO, DOCTOR, HE'S STANDING xings and his booties contrivings, 1 | prices. Estimates free. All froning @ little dress or twa. ever to reach the point where tHe | complete white edition of The Times |awful hurry to not much of any wash the children’s faces until they shine. of The Times’ exclusive stories.—| aug mate uselessness of human activity ing the night; and his brother Jimmy has mislaid his hat. “cUrtIp" = MORRIS KENNEDY Painl noting the apparent useleseness of ess then they should be compelied| “And, Willie, have you shined your shoes?” |the reporter of the young bridal | pain and discomfort in [fed something much different from | Then, having been kissed, the brood troops past ma in review, out bride LINE? on their way at last. But then a few minutes later she notices how | im wages on the railroad She looks at the clock, It seems to move ever so slowly toward the ih! But—as one of pee. aac ao Little Liberty an informed why the Pacific . e col DNDENCE tariff—with a like 20 per cent|the British ambassador, who has a peculiar instinct for sowfilling out the | mer, spilt a pot of paint over his beat lly. Why the raise unless they| Addressing the American Bar association, Sir Auckland doubted whether |charged. The clothes post was now yacht needs overhauling he| That is to say, democracy, as a world group, is in a minority Ten minutes after he returned to I ask, why the raise? Let! fought for with bitterness and persistence. Otherwise, the world would |20W lay prone upon the lawn, Sir Auckland deseribes freedom as “the hard-won hope of mankind” No, father,” said the boy. “A spar dom against assault from within and without.” Sir Auckland recalls isd mt 1 t that the idea of freedom was first conceived by the north Europeans. It| How long should skirts be? anuary Ss e God, in whom the great suns A duty to guard their joint inherita is laid upon those peoples who The National Garment Retallers’ youth, democracy, which is now a minority creed in ‘the world at large, can never|D. C., for inspection. They went to Senator Harding's Riches and honors, fame and power sa aL | ut office to get his approval. But the Are pleasant dreams for some, in|’ senator saw them first and bes ae iaoth, This is not going to be a scolding for girls, as the title might indicate. | tor indbmolt course, ee e tember ket, let me scorn them tn the hour| They who suffer for beauty’s sake are neither to be pitied, nor censured,| ‘They found other prominent ltl © ‘Thou givest me to find the Truth,| "% Aughed at. It is time for a few friendly words, zens willing to take @ look and ex-| — = Consider the girl who visits the beauty doctor to have her eyebrows | preas an opinion t = {And tho it bring me crown or cross, | Piucked Riven bod one the hatrs {are pulled out until the eyebrows are| “Skirts,” said one senator, “should | 4 4 _ Or fumed words, or se fg Seeees neness of a pencil mark, tn accordance with the prevail- r oat P 4 pertus jeorpion’s | re aahion, prevall-| reach all the way down to the hem For nineteen years our == Whatever the gain, whate'er the tons,|. Each pull at each tiny hair has a torture all its own, but beauty Members have earned a Let me with all men share the|1ctors report that never is a cry of pain heard. Agony suffered for = Fd ny beauty’s sake ts pleasure for these pretty martyrs who put to shame those observed a diplomat. | never less than (Copyright, 1920, N. E. A.) men vie agonize when they must wait ten minutes for their turn in a| ly forget my glasses, anyhow. = —— — barber shop. “ h . MM = = OMINOUS SIGNS But it should not be thought that such martyrdom is a new thing for Gas hee AAT comeniend te =S-5 PER ANNU == the sex. On the contrary, the suffering has been going on thru many | who didn’t need glasses, “is their en- ODIVIDENDS Official Safety Fender Test under authority of Mayor Caldwell and D. W. centuries, Henderson, General Superintendent of Seattle Municipal Railway, f ! tire absence below the knees.” As far back as 1810, Inaac D’Israel!,” writing on “Female Beaut, Re = ba s 18) ye ‘ teauty and| One senator pointed out that as Orname®t” ainid: “In China the girls wre continually plucking their | this was @ modern experiment in fig sources now over == ] y , ey may nin and long leaf apparel it might be wise to get Four Million Dollars => 'l ‘These fenders are now in use on the Seattle & Rainier And tn ancient Persia, where the aquiline nose was fashionable, lala and opinic ‘oO © Spec who were born with straight noses would have them broken in pethies pking Agathe Sota gg aehes give them a hump. Among the ancient Peruvians it was the custom of | trudged over te Howard Figg's of. the women to wear in their noses rings proportioned in thickness by the | fice. 4 y rank of their husbands. Fier (iselaimed any claim to being And it is only @ few years ago that lobes of little girls were pierced to|4n expert In the matter of feminine hold earrings! frocks. But he did think, as he em- phatically put it, that “skirts should Of course the Japs didn’t know his father was United States senator |°°m® below the waist.” when they made a deal with young Jones by which he acquired atock| NOW, then, ifgall these wise guys Valley Ry. and Seattle Municipal Street Railway. The Pacific Electric Railway of Los Angeles, Cal., and the Grays Harbor Electric Railway of Aberdeen, Wn., aid placed orders for National Automatic Safety ‘enders. The public is cordially invited to inspect this wonder- ful safety device at our headquarters, Suite 4087- PUGET SOUND SAVINGS and LOAN ASSOCIATION Where Pike Street Crosses Third in the biggest Jap bank in Seattle. The innocent J can't agree upoh a little thing It , : a ioncomet egal Tanepent | ee eer atte oh wali te ' AY Sa 4089-4089-A Arcade Bldg., Seattle, Wn. Elliott 3999. bmtninte the world are they ever going to Loan A tion in the "| . Judge: Howard E. Figg, Mitchelt Palmer's assistant tn charge of H. @, 1,\ Akt OP Any such Important topte ‘State of Washington 5 er of the: Conipany aret ‘ef insanity in your family?” « & Te) as the league of nations, or the sugar L. H. Gray, President and Treasurer. inquiries, got a license to marry. He will get some real WH. G. L, iene soy “Hm! Yow, my dangh. info now. vg he i A. L. Patterson, Vice President and Gen, Mgr. engaged to a butcher, and = a ri R. F. Guerin, Secretary. ghe threw him over for one of these| The maids in King George's palaces have been granted an eight-hour| A” ehawaaen’ ee ho” shana nt mt it J. H. Kelley, Sales Mgt. ‘futurist painters. day. The king will have to learn to whad the cewls esd put the cat out.) gasoline within the next two years