The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 3, 1920, Page 6

=~=| The Seattle Star "*Al my life I have been Stars and Stripes to ev ny other American port. ' Liars are the cause of all the sins and crimes v “the world. — Epicte- ‘The Star: It was my privi- to eee . “The Lady he Dugout,” and hear Mr. Al Jen- ; several times since their ar- in Seattle, The author of this and I were born the same i and my life has been lived ere I knew of the Younger and boys and other bands of men ; be due, to the individual, in) ate walk of life, who finds 4m error and repents and —s ay: ft is the burden of heart to magnity & Christ and fortify his fellow ly young people, against king the same error that he made. Question the sincerity of ¢ , of know his past history, y making the bandit play the) ef the Good Samaritan, does it that purpose? it herolze the bandit? ‘ not appeal*to the young = tt whe “af candor, you who read this, ‘you not believe, in order to fortify young against outlawry, that the of ruthless murder of good, men, of broken hearts, homes of widowed wives and orphaned children that 2 made hear him sorry. It whom he one way or an- career, quite a absolutely without linked with the history of past that were said to be with- fear. ‘were never armed; they never any resistance; they never @way from the law. They were d before kings and emperors and highest magistrates in the land. ‘They were sentenced to be scourg- they were cast into prison; they shut in dungeons to starve and in filth and darkness. They were to wild beasts while alive, and ‘were placed upon the rack and torn limb from limb, They crucified and their limbs broke: were chained to tne stake and to death by fire, and they per- _ They withstood these things for Fighteousness sake, and for Him that lived, and died, and rose again. | To those who read this, I appeal fe your judgment. Are these two _Sroups of men alike? " Which of the two do you say were ie fear? has not been my intention in this to eriticize this particu- picture or its author. But I do ‘ea large Movies as constituted today to be 3 of the greatest menaces to the development of child life in A There is an absolute void of soul in Yheir production. There 48 much suggestion of that which ts Bomoral, and some are vicious. Many engaged in the production of these pictures, even the movie ‘stars, regard not the law of God or “the welfare of humanity. They are do not impart that they have not received. t Ts it not _ for our children and young people to come under the Influence of such, @even days in the week? Ought we spirit which Mot to protest against this evil? A TOURIST FROM NE Mr. Faraway: “I was going to call you up last evening, but I forgot Four telephone number.” Prof. Letterkink: “It is 742. You ean remember it eastiy by associat- ete or To & Chariemass . | TheMerchant Marine--and the N.W.| nting to the president the authority to arm our merchant marine at any that an emergency arises, calling for the vessels of ‘the United States to be d and, if necessary, to arm our merchant ships at all times, but I am opposed law which purports to create an American merchant marine and carries a provision which discriminates against any American port in favor of in whatever measure It! ee thus| thru traffic are withdrawn from certain ships. This does not} Jennings and many) of those discriminated against. one! woulde be no objection to the section, but the effect of this majority of the} ‘Rot Christian nor Christ-like, and so! extremely unfortunate| , THE SEATTLE STAR in favor of an American merchant marine, carrying very sea and to every port in the world. I am in favor “The so-called merchant marine bill, taken as a whole, is in all probability a good bill, but when that act was under consideration before the present con- gress, with Senator Jones a high ranking member on the committee that had charge of its drafting, there was submitted to it a section which discriminated | against the ports of the Pacific Coast in general and the Northwest in particular—a provision which, ac- cording to the overwhelming authority of the ~~ ping men, would destroy the commerce of the - west by diverting it thru the canal and to the eastern seaboard and to the Gulf ports. ; “When this provision became known to the public, repre- sentative commercial bodies and business men of Seattle and Tacoma sent protests to Washington and had a representa- tive in Washington to oppose the incorporation of this pro- | vision in the bill. This representative in Washington and business committees in Seattle and Tacoma WERE AS- | SURED BY SENATOR JONES THAT THIS PARTIC LAR} PROVISION WOULD NOT BE INCORPORATED IN THE ACT. A hearing on the law as a whole was held by the com- mittee. The transcript of that hearing makes a volume of hundreds of pages. In this vast volume approximately one page is devoted to the consideration of this obnoxious section, | the citizens and business interests of the Northwest being de-| prived of the opportunity of being heard in opposition to this section by the assurance of Senator Jones that it would not be incorporated in the act. “Nevertheless at the last moment this bill, having passed the senate and house of representatives with this section, was ed out of a conference between those chambers with this section injected and incorporated into the act, and before the business interests of the Northwest could reach Washing- ton by rail or by wire, the bill was rushed thru to a law,! Senator Jones making no protest against the final incorpora-| tion of this act and taking no action to protect the interests | of his home state and the Pacific Coast as against the Atlantic seaboard, notwithstanding his presumed exalted position on the committee that was framing the bill. This section, which jis inimical, if not disastrous, to the commercial supremacy, |or even the commercial existence, of the Pacific ports, and particularly the forts of the Northwest in the state of Wash- ington, is known as Section 28. “Under the provisions of this section preferential rates on| necessarily mean that other ships will be p! on the lines If such were a fact there | section, as already observed by shipping men in Seattle, Ta- coma and other ports, is that the ships which formerly made these ports are now diverted therefrom and sent thru the | Panama canal to-the Gulf and the Atlantic ports of this coun- ‘try. By this provision we are not depriving foreign anes of} the commerce they formerly had, in favor of American ships. | the Atlantic. The result will be that the Pacific Coast and the! the Gulf ports and the Atlantic ports will profit, and no bene- fit will result to the merchant marine of our nation. “This is clear to anyone who stops to consider—that we | cannot compel persons in foreign countries to ship the prod- ucts they purchase in this country over any particular line, | and if they find that they can obtain the products by having them shipped to them in their own vessels, sending those ves- sels thru the canal to the Eastern coast and to the Gulf | cheaper than they can by having those products shipped by rail from the Atlantic seaboard to the Pacific Northwest and then by water to its destination, that they will without doubt, as has already been demonstrated, take the former course. “Wherein will this benefit the merchant marine? What was the hidden power that injected this obnoxious provision into this law, secretly and clandestinely, after our senior senator had assured his constituents that he would see from | his exalted position that it would not be incorporated? What wer stayed the senior senator's hand when the interests of | his constituents were at stake? It was not the welfare of our }merchant marine. Could it have been the interests of other |commercial centers than that of the Northwest? The sena- | tor has not attempted to explain how or why this section was | finally incorporated in the act, but has simply insisted that it now being there, it must be given a practical test, even tho it is admitted that that practical test means the destruction of the foreign commerce of S Tacoma, Bellingham, Everett and all the ports of the Northwest.”—From a speech by William Inglis, candidate for the U. S. Senate. Quien Sabe? Many of the famous “best families” of New Enetand date their wealth and prosperity from the days when some hardy sailor ancestor engaged in the profitable business of “running in” rum from the | West Indies, AS IT SEEMS TO ME DANA SLEETH following the thrillin Ventures of myself a night murdering pnek to know that righteous, letory reste with meaning myself. paging one, his life far from civilization tells that me that he was 4 grown m before he ever saw or heard of any rat but the wood rat; the wharf is evidently an alien, and the pack rat was the pioneer, the native son kopt the early settlers minda off their other troubles. And | *o plain is the line between the wil derness and the settled that while there are no wharf rats within a of & gun whe mile of my place, you will never f! & wood rat on the farms down the valley along the highway, and that Is leas than two miles away, OWTIERE but in the Pac Northweat this close conjunction the primitive and ultra somodern, = I within two miles of a hard surface highway, a raliroad, a boat line; J over the hill ton flash by every minu nee buen busily; ve telephones and electric lig And tramps, and milk bottles on we front porch in the morning, Here Y can walk fitjeen rods and show you fresh deer signs; or a mink track, or a bob cat #ign, or whi the small black bear scratched the rotten log for hid meal of ante) and big white grubs. ‘Two miles away cord wood ts seven dollars a cord: eighteen miles away it ls twelve dollars; here I burn logs a hundred feet long and four | feet thru because they encumber ground. Right now there is a grouse drum. ming up the woods, and a pine aquir rel chattering in the chief disturb und the bend of the hill you ance; battalion may be pleased w immeasurable guile and shifty pro: | vision I managed @ series of traps that ensnared the remaining ram The particular pitfall that caught him was an apple, eum pended on a atring above a concealed | trap: eince his, or her, capture the house has peace abiding once more A neighbor who baa spent most of can you find! houses crowd on each | there they HOSE of you who have been; until the rains start, ad-| Modern plumbing has no delight for the normal mén, until he goer without @ hot bath for a fow weeks. It is good for you to draw your own water, and hew your own wood, land blow out stumps by thelr resin ented roots; and it Is also good to draw clone to the communion of your fellows and nisters, to hear the pextette from Luca in, and revel in symphonic muste and # on the bitter end of a_mtrap, dodge taxis, and pay gas bills, and pay ex prices for indifferent food at # gaud- lly decorated cafe. s Neher in bucolle whiskers nor nan slecknens les perfection rat the ith me pan | nor contentment; men and wemen |i rat| need to rough it, and men and women need to soften the callous spots of a tollful, lonely, simple ex- intence with association of thelr fel lows and of luxuries, Were I forced to make a choles, I would prefer being my own bors on & hill patch of woodland to being « mere routine cog in a city mill; at least I could expand my chest and glory in @ sunset on my wilderness patch; but the wise man is he who mingloe the delights of town, and the pleasures of country, only doing some useful thing as well a he can, no matter where he happens to be ‘ind in fle ¢| the Weary townsmen, seeking « fat ain|Where children are permitted and dogs not barred, may sorrow for the good old days of log cabin and free dom; but no modern city family would choose a pioneer home and the pioneer family routine; given @ cholee between that and a ten-year term in some comfortable, sanitary self-heated and lighted penitentiary Pioneering makes a mturdy race we need some of It for the salvation of our souls and the vigor of our re | bodien, but all pioneering is ax bad | am ali castor ofl; too wearing on tho nyatem, junt | ute, hea | up! the} “BY EDMUND VANCE COOKE The day in eet Where roses eway and lilies bask, Put duty’s hand ts thrust in mine And leads me to my task, Today, @ new crop of millionaires seems to be on the way—the rum smugglers of national prohibition, Those conversant with the situation know that there are scores | of men in Seattle making fabulous sums thru the NMaquor traffic. Will our “first families” 50 ‘years from now date their social j ascendancy from the outlawed, furtive-eyed bootleggers, qpoonshiners: jand whisky smugglers of 19207 | ‘ ——- ° Selfishness When you give a blind beggar a quarter, do you feel a certain antia- faction, an inner glow, a bit of @ crook in your elbow caused by patting | yourself on the back? *o | Doesn't that Indicate that your gift was a gift to yourself and that | you really bought a quarter's worth of “glow”? Pure selfishness, wasn't it? But don't condemn yourself too severely, until we see whether any | deed apparently good may not be traced to selfishness, It is related of Abraham Lincoln that he drove past a pig caught | under a fence and after he had gone some distance, he turned back to release the pig. His companion commented upon his kindness of spirit and Lincoln responded that it wasn't kindness at all, for he would have "| felt uncomfortable the rest of the day if he hadn't released the pig. The kindness was to himself. The martyrs of the faith, even the Great Martyr Himself, may have been inspired, by a sublime selfishness. They knew it was more en durable. to die, even by torture, than to live untrue to themsclves and to the Cause which possessed them. which gave the greater comfort to Self. But maybe all this argues that Selfishness 1s not evil Of all the words of Shakespeare, none appeal more surely than the words of the prating Polonius “To thine Own Self be true! Thou canst not then be false to any man.” ss They, therefore, chose the course By wihter Palmer will be giving benefits for the sugar speculators, East Orange police demand more pay. An Irish policeman in a place called Orange ought to have more pay. TAcut, Hamilton dropped 20,900 feet from an airplane. Old General Epodprice could drop that far and still be cloud-high “Hoch Dem Jones!” If you toasted Wealey Lusitania Jones and with oF anda bitie a the forest, went place, hil} back of my house and see the Units of Portland at night. can head west for fifty find only forest. and game sign, and | mountain streams Alive with cut throat. That found all this broad land today, and yes terday where cities were only scattered, black dots} in an ocean of green. We are simply driving those ships away from the Pacific to| three months in a year, twelve. the Kaiser in 1917, you should vote for him in 1920. Bernstorff would vote for him tf he had a vote here. Nature folded ttm canned fish and stiff collars sign reading, “No gas today.” up in these} nd a man, after clearing off y and forgot t nd on the little tho I can at But you ies and combination I believe can be mask; in only a few happy spote in the wilderness was covery and mans sweaty, smoky = “Father,” told a story ERSONALLY I Ike to plo | ware preach neer, about two miles from| “Why, Ralph, what @ hard surface way. It is good for a man to! cook over @ “Well.” answered at ‘The lehts are glowing tn the hall, ‘The wine is dripping from the cask ‘The laughter rings from wall to wall, But drives me to my task, ‘The open country sends its ery, ‘The world ts all aman may ask; I Joiter, and perhaps I sigh, But bend me to my task, I do not know what gods there ba, Nor what the Face behind the I only feel the Tree tn me Which keeps me at my taskt (Copyright, 1990, N. BA.) the observing p fire, little fellow, “you said, ‘One more not| word and I have done,’ and then you went right on and talked for Northwest in particular will suffer by this provision, while| *'*m!r# !» & tent te wonderful, nearly 10 minutes.” Ask your dealer for Blue Buckles ,, today x urd out for yourself about Blue Buckles. ‘Test the long- wearing denim cloth, the wide double-stitched seams. Try on a pair. Blue Buckle OverAlls and Coatg never bind or rip—are big, roomy and comfortable. Solid work- manship in every detail is bound to give you your money’s worth. All sizes— Men’s, Youths’, Children’s. Ask your dealer today for Blue Buckles, rey N C's a ia v YY’ ‘ : wh ) < Blue Buckle OverAlls Biggest selling overall in the world © 1.0. ce. (Doctor Frank WORK-A-DAY || one who would not have you any dif keeps on talking after he has made celves himself. one you love. chureh, and earth—mine. edge that you have done your work can read. . the little Stars and Stripes—the Blue Fing of son of a clergyman, “I think you! Humanity). pie, moraine when you} <-” do you mean?” | asked the good man ip surprise.” CRANE'S Daily Article (Copyright, 1920) Greatest Sin—Fear. Greatest Need—Sense. Greatest Puzzle—Life. Greatest Play—Work. ‘The greatest sin-—ftear, ‘The best day—todny, ‘The biggest fool—the boy that wilt not go to school, The beet town-—where you succeed The mont agreeable companion— ferent from what you are, The greatest bore-—one who will not come to the potnt. A still greater bore-—one who point. ‘The greatest writer—one who tells you what you already know, her. ‘The greatont deceiver—one who de- The most beautiful woman—the the beat family on The greatest nation, the finest The greatest Invention of the devil war. ‘The greatest secret of production caving waste, The beat work—what you like, The greatest playwork. The greatest comfort—the knowl. well. ‘The greatest mistake—giving up. The most expensive indulgence— hate, The cheapest, stupidest and easiest thing to do—finding fault. The greatest trouble maker—talk- ing too much. The greatest stumbling block—ego- tiem. ‘The most ridiculous aanet—pride, ‘The worst bankrupt—the soul that has lost ite enthusiasm. ‘The poorest wretch—the one that has no dreagna, The cleverest man—one who al- ways does what he thinks is right. The most dangerous person—the Mar. The most disagreeable—-the com plainer. The best handwriting—that you The bent teacher—one who makes you want to learn, The best woman—one who doean't know it. ‘The best man—one who obeys the best woman, pleane state.” work Dr. James I. Vance Writes for The Star Today on BY JAMES I. VANCE “Love, honor and obey.” cites the ancient litdrgy of the mar riage altar, There ts no complaint against the “love and honor” part of the vow @ woman takes when she plights to a man her troth, but the “obey” fea ture raises difficultion phrase disappear from the marriage nervy’ ? Doos it make for a higher and hol ler relation wife to require a woman at the mar. riage altar to take a vow that she will obey her husband? there may be found a woman here and there who likes it enough of the survival of the age of savagery remaining in ber blood tor her to like @ mate who is rough with But for the avernge woman, there in a disporition to protest against the seeming inferiority with which the word “obey” seems to brand her and her sex It ail depends on what is meant by “ and ol ——We'll Say So-—— A regiment of Rhode Island na- tlonal guardsmen were holding rifle target practice within the confines of their native cont war. by Capt. Wee J. Coyle. range waa hiked to 1,000 an inac- curate doughboy shot high and killed & cow that wan placidly grazing in the neighboring state of Maasachu- setts, very decent when he filed his bill of complaint, that eventually e to the notice of the Rhode Istana ad jutant general. wiad to see that you boys in Rhode Inland are indulging in the patriotic practice of rifle shooting. the make of the rest of my livestock I would request that hereafter you | shoot lengthwise The AND THIS FROM THE PEN OF AL LUNDIN: “That young lady is very striking.” “A handsome girl” “But 1 never see her doing any mand," “and Obey!” In the idea that woman {s to be Thus re-|servile? Is the context of “obey” | the doctrine that woman is to trek lalong in the wake of her male lord, and have no thought or wish apart from his? If so, the vow is broken ere it is made, Women have gotten thelr emanct- pation. We are too civilized even to try to keep the fetters on her, The story of human progress is the story of the rise of womanhood Is the thought merely that of unity "in the home and a provision for headship in The husband, that the home may be saved from domestic anarchy and chaos? If so, is this not miready covered iu “love and honor?” Love ta the great spel binder for life and happiness. Only love can create a real union of hearts. If love is lacking, words are useless. “Obey” may be left in the service for the same reason that we still carve gar- goyles on the cornice. It is claasia But “obey” does not marry people. Only love can form “the Ue that binds.” Bhould the between husband and No doubt There in bey. “She's valuable, however. When the other side has a pretty witness, we find her very useful as a coum e early in the re | ter attraction.” cident in recalled ee When the Boccia Pains Given to Begin ners,” afivertises music teacher. How about the neighbors? oe T J. J. writes that he overheard on a street car: One little girl—"What éoes your father do for a living?” The other little girl—“He takes up the collection in church.” ee A POUND OF WORRY PAY AN OUNCE OF DEBT From the Portland Oregonian: My wife, Martha Anne, having left my bed and board and having left noth- ing eine because she took everything else away, I will not be responsible bts she may raise. With and prices high, I can’t pay my own debts, so I am not going to worry about hers. You are out of luck if you trust her. I never did. MARVIN Z. PENGILLY. owner of the cow was He wrote: “I am But for in your The best part of anytody’s re ligion—gentlenens and cheerfulness. ‘The meanest feeling of which any human belng iacapable—feeling bad at another's muccers, | The most important thing to learn in school—how to make @ living. The most important training— training in democracy. The one thing greater than the U. &. 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