The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 4, 1920, Page 6

he Seattle Sta aity, S00 par monthy | montha, $1.60; @€ months, 99.76) year, BP TES Sa ihe Srnte oc Wasninatan, Outside of the state, The per montis F080 fer © montha ar 800 par year By carrier, ety, Ite per oe e e,@ Hinky Dink Politics Lincoln and Lippy are sounding a false note in port af- tisan politics into their administration, f Camouflage it as t M might, it.is a fact that the coarsest kind of petty poli- lies behind the resolution to dismiss C. J. France as executive secretary. ort Commissioner Christensen is to.be congratulated at his refusal to be a party “to this sort of crucifixion. ‘ | — Neither Lincoln nor Lippy have the temerity to suggest that France has been niss in his duties or unequal to the job. France probably knows more about affairs than the entire commission combined. The objection to him, as Lippy and Lincoln must con- fess, is purely political. Active in behalf of the Com- mittee of 48, C. J. France differs in political party |affiliations from all three of the port commissione }He has a right to this difference, especially since the | port commission is supposed to be purely nonpartisan. He has a right to this difference if it does not in any | wise interfere with the duties of his office. Nor is it conceivable that Commissioners Lippy and Lin- coln are so much perturbed by Frarfce’s political opinions as they are by the desire to confer the job upon a political protege of their own. It is common knowledge that an active | Port Commissioners 4 if they inject By luxury we con- ourselves to great- torments than have been invented by or revenge, or in- d by the greatest uy the worst men.—Temple. ers to the | France's post. At best, then, the port commissioners would get a republican politician in exchange for a “48-er.” | That's all. If they were conducting their own private business, they would never dream of making this kind of exchange. It | would ruin any business to trade an experienced man, un- derstanding his business, faithfully serving the firm, de- suicide is commonly ‘an insidious sapping of then voluntary limit: But this ts only one to the Young Men's Republican club. whereby 4 people may com) Tt is time that our public officials began to acquire a higher pean outchte. certamn in its Sense of duty anti prepriety; yes, and honor! eens owenly Gentlemen of the Port Conmnission, watch your step lest you drag the port into the political mire of the Hinky Dinks “4 and Bathhouse Johns. ‘The clock ticks 20 minutes—and a man is killed thru auto accident It ticks for another 30 minutee—and another person is killed And #0 it goes, hour in and hour out of the 24, day in and day out of the seven, month in and month out of the 12—every 46 minutes some one lis killed in thie country thru automobile accidents. The grand total is over 15,000 deaths a year. These were facts brought out at a recent, meeting of The National Safety Couneil in Atlantic City, It i# a bad recard, It is an astonishing reqord larger and ever larger crowds) 41.4 wmething ought to be done about it, Ag their work to flock to gina | million autos in use and the number gmowing, the chances are not that — ieee, pasebell accidents will be fewer moving mown It behooves both the pedestrian and the driver of a motor car to take to be doubly eareful. “Watch your step” is sound lomtc for walkers, “Be always on guard, and your car ursler perfect control.” good advice for chauffeurs, Each might figure that the other is a consummate foot just as a safety factor, Then and Now September 25 will mark the 230th anniwersary of the birth of newspapers in America. This initial bow of the press was made-at Boston. It was named “Publick Occurrences.” It frightened people of that day, just as newspapers seem fearful | Objects to some timid souls today. It was something new, something they hatin't seen before; therefore, it must not be. The Colonial legisiative body immediately suppresned the first Amer fean newspaper. And yet It contained nothing but news of the nearby neighborhood. It printed no editorials, no cartoon; it did not attack any person nor political party, and did not attempt to propagate any political nor social doctrine. But they suppressed tt The country has progrensed in the last 230-years. suppress newspapers. Only a few judges with they can gag the press by jailing editora. bos na} an: Leeistatures no longer 1690-model braina think ? Stealing a Soul New York woman complaina because fer husband stole her soul. Can't find any law with which to punish a soul etealer. Can't find any law which will make the soul robber return the soul. Ought to be a law like that. Laws to punish persons caught stealing bread, or diamonds, of money or puppy dogs, but no law against saul stealing. Now, don't rise burriediy and in ‘Gut down trees, #0 for the sake of; It isn’t. st this in a new sort of crime. | There has been thievery of souls going on for untold cen gain the interest of thé/turies. People didn’t call it stealing of souls. They didn’t cail it stealing te wacrificed. Under the great/at all. Henée, no law, and no punishment by mortal« civilizations, from the) But they stole so Just the same. They blackened souls, which is n to the Venetian, the coun- was wedigensty stripped of its for _ “The peasant, too, did it to make! | clearing, the shepherd to find ‘Then came the torrential) of every autumn and spring, @oll was washed away, and the were completely denuded. So/ Now we find barren rock where was fertile soil.” _Is history, 1 wonder, ‘Certainly we of today are hardly us for the conservation of drink. They did it with the temptations of vice, and with the lure of «in bedecked in pleasure’s garb. In every “potter's field" are rows and rows of mounds covering bodies of “missing girl,” and “wandering boys,” whom the world calin Man-made law, tho, never has recognized—as a crime stealing a soul, lost souls the crime of “Ship me somewhere east of Sucs Where the best is like the worst, And there aren't no Ten Commandments And a man can raise a thirst.” repeating forests and other natural re There is something wild in the heart that responds to Kipling’s lines best of men may dream of a far country . And certainly there are that craving for amusement |®"4 for a moment Gistaste for work are becoming | *"!ngs are different, where desires need no restraint and tional traits. }be had for the taking. The Prodigal Son in the par > Ia race suicide, consequently, some | “fT country,” too, and there he went | thing more than matter of academ-|eturn ashamed and broken where verything ear able dreamed of a only to spend his substance and fe interest to us? The question would) He had bad luck, perhaps, for the country must exist—a land where surely seem worth asking. | things go better, a paradise without the snake, where the sweat of th’ ae H. A. B. brow i# not the price of bread, where men are strong and women lov dled and there is a fountain of youth for all—a country in which wishes are TRUTH ON horses and beggars may ride. It is far away and it is warm and beautiful ICE OF TRADE and (in spite of Kipling’s soldier) it is Senerally in the Weet, where the SBaitor The Star: The editorial) *un sets in its glory; perhaps in distant islands of the sea, Hesperide Writer bf The Star certainly knows) Where golden apples grow Ris business. I have read many edi-| Whe er this land may be, no man has found it on the earth, tho in your paper which are right; Many have traveled far to seek it. the point and tell people the truth But above the rth—that's different. Long, long ago in Greece the ON economic questions, The editorial Pagan Plato wrote of a “Heaven above the Heavens,” where one could Mi Yesterday's Star on “The Balance | find the pure originals of all fair things and all fair acts: in the wreck @f Trade” in the best I ever saw in| of Rome Augustine dreamed of a better “C ty of God and today the ‘@ hewapaper. Editors have tried to children sing of “a land of pure delight where * * * pleasures banish ‘il us for years past that when this pain.” Gountry exported more than it im-| To every man his own far country. ast of Suez there Is license. The it was getting the long end) Heaven above the Heavens is a place of lofty admirations, But, which the transaction and that foreign | ever vision a man prefers, he likes to dream of getting away somehow or tries owed us the difference,| somewhere from the hard facta of life Which would have to be settled tn) He must not dream too Ic It is time to get to work geld, Your editorial has the truth amt Mi it from start to finish. 1 hope to t more of them because the voters Wh Is Val fhouia know where they are at. 1) oii ana ni a ue @onaider it = crime to misiead the), Smith and his wife determined that their girl should have a bicycle _people with false theories such as we | ter & ris had them. It meant healthful exerci It would keep her ave had on full dinner pails and|°%t %f mischief. So they got one—the kind the children approved of—and ff tO this oF that. f believe| Smith worked a little harder to pay for it ie American people can run thia| Then the sirl y up—she became 14—and she did not une the bicycle @puntry for the best interests of ail| *!tho it was still in good condition. One day she made up her mind to if the newspapers will tell them the|**!! it. A friend would give ten dollars—a third of what it had cost, ‘The | truth on these questions as your|2@™n™ ) and #0 It ¥ ald 3 paper is doing. And ¢ dollars? It took about three minutes to get to the drug J. H. HEMER, | *tore an dspend it all for a single bottle of perfume. but she had that charged A Beginning Smith gasped, but his wife did not. “The child is growing up,” she “Anyhow,” said the optimist, “we | said, “and she wants to be like older girls. She has heard them talk of and if having it satiafies her ambition, what better value and wane.” 4. “Yes,” replied the pessimist, “but there are 364 other days in the year The tax was extra, could she get What Wetter value do most people get? Somebody poked a hole in the sugar bag. PonA has been offered $200,000 to appear in the movies. good in a ‘chase scene with all hia investors im purauit PY made stronger by the Many men love to recall when beer was 6 cents, with a lunch thrown in, by the roots, but they never speak of the days when milk was 4 vents a quart, e ‘ He'd be fs covered with willow the great dikes of the | EVERETT TRU member of the Young Men’s Republican club is seeking fending it, advocating it, studying every angle of it, and suc-| cessfully managing it, for a man who had no experience in} that line and whose only recommendation is that he belongs! ne doubt. With almost ten even worse than stealing them. They did it with money and with strong! THE SEATTLE STAR Daily Article (Copyriamt, 1990) Mr. Auto Owner! Enjoy Your Alachine. Here Is a Hint. And Do It Now. Do you own an automobile? Let give you a hint. No: I have no newfangled tires or windshields to offer, 1 do not know of a repair shop where the motto is not “Hoe et | tuum," and I have no recommenda tions to make of pleasant country rune | But I have a suggestion, which if you adopt it, will multiply the pleasure you get out of your ma jchine many times, What did you buy it for? it not to get en joyment? Then is it not worth your while to lend me r eye while I st down upon this page how to in reane the sum of that enjoyment me IUST A SECOND, ADY—THIS BIRD LWAYS RIDGS To THE TENTH FLOOR, | Thie in it BVT HS | REGISTER YOUR MACHT HANG AROUND | WITH THE SUPKKINTENDED e« Do OF |OF A HOSPITAL AND AGREE TO bs CAs due |LEND IT ONE OR MORE DAYS THs ave "4 |BVERY WEEK TO GIVE AN OUT . ING TO SOME SICK PERSON That is a definite, plain, under standable thing to do. I guarantee that !t will bring you more joy than |the repeal of prohibition, and you |don’t owe mo a cent for it Same price as health, love, and Heaven. | Haven't you any tmagination? Put yourself In the place of a convales ent, some active minded woman | nay, who t# compelled to ait idle and eat her heart day after day looking out of the hospital window, Wouldn't a nice motor ride help? There may be & little cripple that jhas been waiting for you to come and take him out Into the country walting for weeks, Are you going to | dinappoint bir? Perhaps the nurses might give better service, be gentler, and more human, if they could ride in your big lear once In a while. And imn't it better to take thene shuting, who need it than to take your friend Mollie Flpperty, who does not need it? If you have a chauffeur, send him. But better to go yourself, if you are intelligently selfish. Why et a hired uffeur have all the fun of seeing those human beings enjoy themselves? Do it now, Dont lay this aaide, and the momentary generous impulse with it, Every upward thought un used turns downward. Go tomorrow. Rides are treats to some people. mmm 9G" SAY SOc Dr. negro team driver came home on night and found his wife bighly ag tated. | Jott.” she maid, “you known dat Ase Tiger's wife Sallie # dead, Aint) you goin’ to be @ pallbearer at de | mo0d roads.” Fine! Now, aa @ re tur'rir | publican, my nly fear is that Cox ‘No; I ain't,” answered Jeff, with|may come out with an indorsement unusual positiveness. |of fresh alr or something. a “You ain't? Well, wusn’t you a/ i ke pall-bearer at the fun'r'l of bis sec |SNARED IN A FIRST AVR ond wife, Melissa T™ BOOKSTORE, “Sho I wus it dat ain't—* She was evidently ip a hurry, and “En wuan't you @ pali-bearer at de| ‘he Merce giare in her eyes aroused nm ae the young bookstall clerk from his | Richard Lyon reports that @/ation for appendicitis asked, “Doctor, will the scar show!” and that the doc, replied, “It shouldn't.” COMPETITION KEEN. | Dear We'll Say-o: “larding tog fun’ of his first wife, Mandie? 9 | reverie ee Whut you mean, you ain't BOin 0) oy i here” whe sald. “I want a! The Ukarine’s sugar production act dis time this year ts estimated at from 240. book for my husband. It's bis birth day, And I went it for a present Show me what you have and be julck about ft! Nothing too expen sive, mind you, and I don't want anything too clean, either. He's @ mild mannered man and not fond of *porta, so don't show mo anything In |that Une. For goodness’ make, don't offer mo any of these trashy novels, And none can honestly deride and no matter how much you try to |!t i time for the women of America His just content, bis simple prida persuade me I won't take anything |‘ take warning and look to their With haggard air we rush about lin the way of history or blography,|heelth. It may be headaches, back- And plead and barry, snoop an4| Come, now, I've already wasted too | Scho, Gragging down pains, nervous: scout | much tine here. Of course, you don’t | 2% mental depression that are tell- While he goes by with placid sout, For, Bean bas got his winter's coal. oe. ET FRESH WITH “Lisa.” he said, “suttiniy | wor « pall-bearer at dem fun'r'le, en I done de best I could, but I’m tellin’ you now I ain't acceptin’ no mo’ favors from nobody what I can't return.” 1 eee 000 to 326,006 ton: about one tenth of its prewar production. WOMEN SHOULD TAKE WARRING If the statement made at @ New |York Assembly of women, that |healthy American women are so rare Pride and contentment coat the meto Of Julio Alonso Bean mid cant you suggest something ap. | "™ngement for which Lydia E. Pink- | ” propriate You, ma'am,” was the aneistant’s ple remedy made from roots and DONT TRY TO THE FOURTH ESTATE lreply, after an Inetant’s reflection. |herbe—ie a specific and may be ne YOUNG LADY \diere is a little volume entitied,| lied upon to restore women to a (From the Lyons Mirror-Sun.) How to Manage a Talking Ma-|healthy normal: condition.—Adver. A certain young lady tried to act | chine’” | tinement. | amart by refusing to let the Mirror; Sun reporter know where she was going when ehe boarded the train a fow days ago. It dora not worry us any, but It revenis a peculiar trait of character the least. But we want to serve warning right here | that we will not tolerate any non: pense of this kind, and if you are looking for @ public expose and a ‘roast just try a few capers of thin kind. to my ° | It ie related at Providence hospital | that a young Indy regaining con-| sciousness after an emerge y oper The Comish Schoo! of Music, Inc. Offers the Following SCHOLARSHIPS Voice . Piano ne... ...Violin , ... Expression (a) One for man (b) One for woman One ...Ballet Dancing For further information, ad dress the secretary The Cornish School of Music, Inc. Browdway at Pine te / LT a REV. M. A. MATTHEWS will deliver a sermon Sunday morning entitled, THE NEED OF THE HOUR In the evening he will discuss the subject, THE ROTTING FRUIT OF CIVILIZATION GOOD MUSIC Everybody Welcome FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Seventh and Spring that they are almost extinct, is true, | |know my husband, but from all I've |tale symptoms of some organic de | jham's Vegetabie Compound—« sim. | |been subdued and nearly AS IT SEE BATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, a MS TO ME DANA HP sot) in the neighbor hood of the ea coast is of a brown color inclining to red, and generally poor; being # mixture of clay and gravel. In the interior, and eclally in the val loys of the Kocky mountaing, the oll im generally blackish, tho some times ye The vegetation in these valleys i# much more abund ant than near the coast; in fact it in in these fertile intervals, locked up between rocky Sierras or scooped out from barren waster, that popu lation must extend itself, as it were, In veins and ramifications, if ever the regiona beyond the mountains should become civilized T above was written by that eminent American author Washing ton Irving; it was written of the country lying between the Rocky mountains and the Pacific, and more expecially of the region now included in Oregon and Washington, and it Was written within the mem: ory of living man. Today this barren waste, this red wotl millions of prosperous people; this bleak and barren land sells for as high a# $1,000 an acre, and this red shot soil produces more abundantly than the boasted black solls of the Rockies. And,this vast empire has populated and our reat are standing on the verge of th fic and looking for new empires, and there, expectant they face the awakened Asiatic, he too, constricted to too narrow bounds and seeking Dew stretching places. na few brief years lens young men HAT next? Only the entirely oare- less «and ignorant can dodge this question that will Bomehow be settled before our children reach their majority. It took half a continent to give room to fifty million Americans; where do the hundred and ten mil lions of us go from here? We are @ pioneer ppople; a land! loving people; of hardy stock, with the smoke of the frontier fires still in our nostrils, and the itch of the trigger finger stil] Ungling. Think you that we will be content to hive here like bees and «warm in great colonies in cities without breath, or sun, or freedom? And yet our entire national pro gram considers that we have reached our bounds, havg pitched our tents, and have come to the con fines of our heritage I tell you that neither the Hague. nor the pacifiste, nor the interna tionalists, nor those shifty Orien. LABOR DAY FORTUNA PARK tefl of the Soar At ova Prom. Pefty siamo (Pak + ad oi By ani this poor, savage land supports! y Washington Bank De SLEETH a tala, who hope by confining the |white race to gain more room for lconquest unopposed; I ney that none of thene will be able to bottle up the destiny of the American people; and | the same «pirit that pushed us two thousand miles in sixty years will puch us four thousand miles in thirty. F we remain a great homo geneous people we will cover more territory; we must cover more land or } degenerate; not, only will | the undesirable alien, the Asiatic, the impossible Bouth of Burope sert, |and the non-mixable races be barred | from this land, but, either by peace | ful penetration or by force of arma, this people will add new territories despite al) diplornacy, high flowery banalities of “brotherhood,” and the | rest of the sweet sticky stuff we are wont to suck these silly days. | Peoples expand or they periah; | what peculiar morbid trait is it thas | makes us scared of considering na tional growth? What destiny mark our shores? When did our sun set? | Who fixed our metes and bounds? Has our coming to any land ever been an affliction to the peoples of it? In the anvage, the bandit, the huwt- |ful lazy native, the vermin-infected | peon and the wild man of Borneo to forever squat beside their miserable |hovels and bar a great people from | using the gifts of God for the good jof humanity? | And yet euch vapid, enervating doctrines afflict the seats of the I mighty today. Whether we wish or not we wil expand, or we will die; our natural national increase will, in a genera- tion, fill our present territory to overflowing; was there ever a time in history when a etrong people crept behind its borders and stag- ‘nated while across the ing fair de werted fields beckoned? UT this sholld be done: all new territories added to this nation should be kept in perpetulty for ALL the ‘people. There should be no private ownership of natural | sources, nor of lands in new annex lations, but with that exception no |man should say to this people, “Thus r and no farther," and no man il, when our national need arises, Sure to Think of It Schoolmaster—You don't remem ber @ single thing I tell you, Come |to my room after school and I'll | give you a sound thrashing. ' Pupll--Yes, sir; I'l tle @ knot is my handkerchief. —Tit- Bits. 7 PICNIC ts. RIOTOUS SPENDING has given a good many of us wrong idea of values. We think nothing good that is not expensive. We shall incline toward normal prices only when we begin to spend wisely and for necessities. Save now and deposit reg- ularly; your money will buy more later on, and in the meantime it will be earning compound interest. SAVINGS DEPARTMENT. 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