The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 14, 1920, Page 6

_ Would that we could do more! The Seattle Sta ried, ta the etty, Btate of Washington. 94.60 for ¢ wontha-or $9.00 per year, By carrier, city, 1 wentha 01.007 Outside of the te par month: 2 tate, The per month, per week, Words are but weak instruments to portray the infamy of injecting relig- affiliations in politics. Nothing can be more despicable, nothing more un- Decent Americans, who - freedo: into such suicida ican, nothing more serious to the peace and happiness of our country. are proud of the country that proclaimed religious must co-operate against the religious fanatics who would steep this 1 controversies. . THE SEATTLE STAR EVERETT TRUE HOUSE LAST SUMMER H® SNORED SOMOTHING AWPUL IN HS Steep. We have before us a screed, circulated on Seattle streets, and signed by J. C. | Letters to the | ink or typeroriter. side of paper only. Bign your name. STUDY } ‘ERBS | Blas it ever occurred to you that might derive much assistance) the management of your life f& thoughtful study of prov- ba, as you perhaps do not. ntly appreciate, represent the ulated wisdom of the race. ‘are the product of the experi | not of one man but of mult) : of men. ‘exhort, they encourage, they with all the authority of col- knowledge. They are the peo voice, teaching lessons drawn the life history of generation generation. people's voice, the voice of God we call. ‘i what are proverbs but the) public voice. ‘first and common made by every occasion, for every prot be solved, there are helpful you now unhappy, bappy.” ia but «@ slippery happiness |attack he has Davis, “secretary, campaign committee, Box 536. We do not know Davis. He may be a fictitious person. But it is his type that must be wiped out of America. He is a menace. If the legislature has any sort of backbone or courage, it should pass a law put- ting men like Davis in the penitentiary for the sort of thing he has done. Davis’ screed is an attack upon Catholics. In this ne mad. He attacks both Senator Jones and William Inglis, yet neither is a Catholic. He attacks Gov. Hart, | oo forsooth, the governor has appointed some Catholics. The Star, as all must know, is against Hart, and it is against Jones, but may it lose every ounce of prestige it has —may it lose every reader it has—if it should ever de- nounce ANY man because of religious differences. But Davis is not the only offender in this respect. We have before us another screed issued by “The Ameri- can Patriotic Educational League, 4152 Arcade Bldg.” And this league urges the election of certain candidates because they ARE Catholics. Pity America if either the Davis group or the Arcade building group ever secure control of public affairs. The Star pledges itself unalterably against them both. It wants neither the A. P. A. nor Catholicism to ,rule this country. It wants no religious dogma or creed or faction to rule us politically. The church and the state must ever remain separate in these United States. Americans, this is a call to duty! Be on guard, lest fanaticism overtake us. You Tell ’Em While politicians have been potnting with alarm at various [lls in the bedy politic, that justly famous American sense of humor remains steadily on the job. It declines to wear crepe and thruout the nation man, woman and child are having a good time at the merry sport of ringing the changes on “You Tell ‘Exn.” You tell ‘em, Mississippi, you have a big mouth. You tell ‘em, skyscraper, you have a lot of stories. ‘These are same germs of the pun-epidemic that has swept the land, sparing few sections. Making “you-tell‘ems” has become a favorite indoor sport at parties; and the pun in fts many varteties has become, at least temporarily, a favorite in the American idiom. ‘The history of punning runs back to the time of the ancient Greeka, but no form of pun ever has recetved so democratic a reception as this one that is keeping a nation in good humor. As old Dr. Addison, the celebrated English essayist, Probably will exclaim, “You tell ‘em, doctor, itaf"—as old Dr. Addison said: of punning are in the minds of all men, and, tho they sald--trreverent you have the the greatest genius It is indeed impossible to kil! soll has a natural disposition to produce.” for office take himself too seriousty this fall, & state of affairs in which a people pun while smoléer. For the punster will be quick to exclaim: i. ‘em where to sleep, Mr. Candidate, you have the bunk!" | | Whence arose this ancient enmity between The Man and The Fish? Why does the “paragon of crea- tion” spend hundreds of dollars and days and weeks of time and travel in purwult of a few pounds of fish- Nesh ools and rods and files and creels are manufactured with infinite care and skill and at what seems a pro hibiUve expense, Men buy them eagerfy and use them with such meager results that the frugal mind is appalled. It used to be sald that more money |was put into gold mining than was ever taken out of gold mines, and therefore some prudent people re fused to Invest in gold stocks, ~ By CONDO YOU SHOULD SAY SIMPLY "He SNORGD*— PGOPLS DON'T SNORGS ANY OMER TMG The Common Lot. Carlyle Said: “All Men Fools.” Is It True? Walking along the street the other day I saw a crowd gathered about something at the curbstone. Of course I approached and elbow. ed my way in toward the center and craned my neck and raised my ears to find out what was the object of interest, One always does #0. We are crazy to see what the crowd sees, and when we seo it, it is ustatly something Uke what I saw— & faker selling soap. That is it. In the center, at the foal toward which all eyes and at- tention are bent, is a fool or a fool thing of some sort On the outside, toward which our backs are turned, are the sky and the glorious city and Ife, and wonder and beauty. The older I get the more I am | wild air, sent rushing like an arrow, | the tree, or safely on the plain out of reach? AS IT SEEMS TO ME | DANA SLEETH ID you know that man t# rather a pitiful, puny, withal funny, object? In town we forget this; surrounded by the ed-up witnenses of man's achievernenta, we forget that man in a recent arrival on the seene, and that millions of acons before he “mounted to much there was a great universe grinding its pon- derous mills with their eternal, unhuman grista, In the elty we think of today and of our own impor. tance; in the country we think of the countless yenter. days, and watch the age-old wheels of fate grind their grist, undisturbed by the swarming gnats called men Of courne the wheels of fate are really never dis turbed by the buzzings and boilings and botherings of men; their grindings are merely obscured and hidden | by the cloud of human midges; but always the mills | «rind, be sure of that; else the sun stopped when man slumbered and the moon grew dark when he frowned. But | om moralizing rather than telling my story. eee STOOD the other day in @ little fold of the hills and watched a gale roar itself along the tops of the forest. Where I was, all was still, but overhead the wind gods were driv ing thelr rushing steeds with loone rein and furious lash, Watching, 1 saw the top of a ripe fir snatched from its century-old anchorage and hurled, like @ great jagged javelin, thru the air and sent crash- ing to earth. Truly the heave of a storm god, this creat spear of the forest, as thick as one’s body, as long as a freight train, and tons in weight, torsed aloft, whirled in the Half @ regiment of men would have been brnshed aside by this storm thrust, and the earth shuddered with the descending of it, ‘That was nature in action, @ tiny bit of accidental force let loone in the wilderness; force without motive The tree was ripe, the wind was high; what cared the storm kings whether man had his habitation beneath I rather like that, you know. The imperturbable, off- hand, impassive fatefulness of great force minding its own business, and giving no whit whether good man or evil man be in the path of its prowess. oe OWN TOWN on the public market I saw a silly thing. A mail man's horse grabbed a bunch of celery, and two grown men fussed at each othet Iike cats, ‘The mail cart was waiting for the preasure of traffic to clear; the celery was heaped up beside a market stall; the horse saw a heap of tender green and grabbed @ mouthful-—sensible horse, But the “farmer” tn charge of the stall, one of those clever immigrant gentlemen who sell “truck” on our public markets at double prices, and who never bother to grow anything, for there are too many native sons farming now, well, this foreign gentleman was peeved. An American would either have laughed or had words with the driver, but the alien was not that sort of a sport, He turned, snatched the dangling celery from the horse's mouth, and then slashed the nag across the eyen with the disheveled stalk. ‘Thereupon the mail man descended and wanted to know wha'deell, ete; then appeared a fat policeman, and sundry small boys, and women shoppers, and men Writes for The Star Today on Freeing Egypt cratically governed By J. W. T. MASON, International in their history. TURSDAY, SHI TEMPER 14, f " f idiera,’and the rest of the town assortment. There were! words and mouthy threats, recrimination and invective, and I guews the officer had to call the patrol and clut ter the mills of Justice a bit more before everybody.) calmed down. ‘Thru it all the horse stood still in bis place—dignt fied, stolid, uninterested; aside from the occasional smack of his rubbery nether lip he betrayed no interest whatever in these strange humans, chattering In the street like sparrows, oe O YOU see what I mean? Force, abounding, unreckoning, 1. uitipiied and terrible; that's the world as it was before man came, and as it is today at heart. Man, petty, quarreling over a trifle, snatele ing at a frayed stalk of green rubbish and chattering like an ape. One gets the impression of the natural solemnities sometimes from great men caught off parade. The” brooding melancholy, the reserve that is not “u but that comes from @ realization of the pettiness of” most human strivings. One gets the same impression from the caged Hom / yawning in the face of the gaping, peanutchewing, grinning populace. You get it from savages of the higher type who, ta” stole solidity, outface nature in her dangerous mo and survive or perish with equal nonchalance. na Sportsmanship, that’s a cheapened word, but it comes. as nearly saying what I mean as the language avail Not to chatter, not to whine, not to fuss and f and fribble, not to vaunt yourself, not to spread your prayer robe on the street corner, not to boast when you win nor welch when you lose; that is the natural J epirit. ‘The blood and fron doctrine of the Hun is a natural: doctrine, but he left out the love and the pity and the brooding maternal heart of all natural processes, sa, when it came to the touch, he flinched and proved hime self utterly yellow; not with the yellow of fron, rusting, in dignity, but with the lemonish yellow, the saffron stripe the cur sports adown his back as a badge of hig base heritage. 2 %. oe ae UT if you would understand the rea} @ifference 1m between nature, the moving forces beneath 4 the worlds, and man in his far-removed ¢ trivings, get next to the heart of a moun . taineer who comes from 10 generations of mountaineers. Ah, the mountain people; the Helland | clan, the dwellers in the cold clouds and the big brave men of the purple hills! { } e ‘The mountaineer is his own man, and God's; the reat, of the world may do its worst, or its best. Neither wilh, trouble him nor excite his envy. Z The iron of the heart of the hills, the granite the face thereof, and, trickling thru the rugged wild ty ness of his heart, a gentle love for all helpless o and a sturdy courage to defend his own. rr * ‘That is man as he was in the beginning, whether be came from the rolling clouds of the hills, or the waves of the wide seas; for the Viking clan, too, its head pillowed on the bosom of the Almighty, sucks the milk of manliness from the breasts of the heaving deep. Man, alone, is a marvel; in herds, he is a distress, ‘ Khedive Abbas Hilmi went with: |Turkey and the central empires. | This was an act of war. Great Brit” (ain thereupon declared a protectorate over Egypt and deposed Abbas Ms in favor of the eldest member of l|royal family, Hussen Kamil, 4 | ruled for four years as khedive of than ever before Such an argument would never/coming to think that people are, as Expert has a bitter root but sweet Produces virtue, and virtue “Work is the thing that fatigues me the least.” ; Again, let us suppose, you have Z ly awakened to the truth that nn Must be earned, not merely Proverbs will help you ‘Wearn how to earn health: | After dinner sit a while, after walk a mile.” “Health and cheerfulness mutually each other.” “He that sits with his back to a “@aft sits with his face to a coffin.”| “He that would be healthy must ‘@at temperately and sup carly.” “Three things kill a man: a scorch- sun, suppers, and cares.” “Abstinence is the best medicine.” _ Remember, tho, that to study prov- | @tbs does not mean merely to read! them. It means to meditate upon, them, to return to them again and to let them sink into the " of the mind, there to become Part of one and unconsciously influ- ‘nce conduct. _For which reason he who would feally profit from proverbs should Own @ proverb book, so that he may have it always available for refer- ence. ‘There are several such books on the market. Any one of them may " be bought at little cost. And, right- Ty used, it is sure to prove a sur- Prisingly profitable investment. H. A. B, eee INDIAN APPROVES ANTIL-JAP STAND Editor The Star: I am pleased at your anti-Jap agitation because I am @n Indian; therefore, it makes me feel very sad when I think of how| shamelessly we folks have been | cheated of our lands only to have the | @liens take possession of this beau- tiful Puget Sound and Coast. ‘The treaty which was made be- tween the government and my tribe the Clallam) has been violated and for over half a century @nd we have been completely ig. Mored in our demands for a settle Ment—and now the Japs! My hegrt aches for my poor peo- SevEn years ago there were only of our tribe still living, and it ‘Would please us to have our rights Fecognized before it is too late. Keep up your g00d work, for you have our moral support, at least.| J. WwW. A LOVELY TIME TOGETHER A “social climber” had been abroad fm Europe, Upon her return she was) asked by @ lady accustomed to trav- eling: “And you saw much of the Pyrenees, of course?” ~Bocial Climber (hesitating only a Open Diplomacy Open diplomacy between nations is replacing open diplomacy between diplomats. It is far safer and goes further. British labor unions have introduced it. The unions have declared that if France boycotts Rus sia, British miners will not mine coal for France. Since French indus tries largely depend on British coal, the action of the labor unions has the warning of an ultimatum. But, no jingo excitement has been created. The French government cannot protest to the British government, because the latter haa had no official hand in the pronoungement of the British trade unions. A strike of British miners would be sufficient to prevent the shipment of coal to France. No foreign government can make a diplomatic incident out of a strike if another country. For this reason, open diplomacy between nations goes much further than open diplomacy between diplomats. It promises enormous poanibilities of public education tn {nternational affairs. When one country makes an economic threat against another, in this strictly unofficial manner, retaliation may be expected. But, the principle of compromiise is then ready to step in, nation knows exactly what it is doing, step by step. That means each So, in the end, policies of foreign countries will have to stand the scrutiny of an international examination. Common sense may then be trusted to find a way out, encouraging the people at large to continue to be the protectors of their own interests. Nearly Right Precision is not a natural human trait. It is easter to be nearly right than to be wholly right. Exactitude is the basis of modern progress; yet mankind might have escaped, it altogether. To finish a problem requires persistence. Persistence ie painful. Therefore, habit tempts one into com: promises with the mental effort which all must use to be wholly right instead of nearly right. Professor Henri Bergson, of the College of France, the greatest living philosopher, points this out in a new collection ‘of his essays and addresses called “Mind-Energy.” Humanity owes its practice of precision, says Pr fessor Bergson, to the fact that in a small corner of ancient Greece the people refused to be content with being nearly right. That was 2,500 years ago, The people were the Athenians. For scores of thousands of years, no race of men ever before had been discontented at belng nearly right. If the Athenians had not discovered that creative joy is superior to the what another Frenchman has called the cult of incompetence, lished a clvilization, 500 years before the birth of Christ, which remains without a peer for intellectual efficiency. Whoever wishes a measure of his own mental development can still use the same Greek test. As the habit of being nearly right gives way to exactitude in information, so does the growth of intellect make itself known, A Spree of Color Folks used to think ft very queer when hifalutin music critics would refer to a diva's voice as “vivid carmine” or “a pale, neolinthic green.” But since the voice has been photographed, since the quivering aurge of vart-colored lights which emanate from the humaan body have been identified, and card-indexed, and since the soul itself, according to some scientists, has been weighed, you need not the sort. What does go a little hard with the man who likes to get right up in the front row of an evening, however, ix the threatened introduction of “color orchestration” in the theatre. Signor Achille Ricciardi is the innovator, bles in a flood of light blue light. The electricians in the wings are as busy as the actors, When the maiden blushes, there is a rosy red. Then in the final scene, when the old homestead has been saved, after all, and the heroine's honor has come thru all right, a sentimental hue of pink is cast over everything. The scene melts away, and the audience awakens from a spree of color-sensation, Ricciardi is going to bring his idea to America, D’Annuneio's new state of Viwme is called Quarnero. The “nero” gives it @ sinister touch, There scem to be several ways of spelling MacSwiney but for the British the name spells t-r-0-u-b-L-e. The map-makers are taling a vacation while Russia and Poland estad- lish their boundaries, Long time since Bryan said anything for publication. Moment)—Oh, yes, indeed, we dined With the on several occasibns, The former kaiser has founded @ hospital at Amerongen. Well, filled plenty of them in his time. Each nation controls its own destiny thru its open diplomacy. Each} nation will take pains to explain its own point of view to its neighbor.! be startled at anything of| As the stealthy monster hisses his defiance to the youthful hero, al” blatant yellow is flashed upon the stage. The aged father’s voice trom-! daunt your true fisherman. He will concede that if trout were thelr weight in gold, the annual leatch would scarce repay the aggre lgate invested in paraphernalia and |pureiiit, but that does not deter him jin the leas from making a far Jour. ney each season for the same vain purpose. When a party of truthful fisher men (oh, aye, there be such) gather |together, each will tell accurately of jevery game fish that he ever caught, jwith date, time, piace, weight in Jounces and detailed report of the joontent by rounda When all the tales are done and the resulta added, the innocent by |wtander is amazed to find that the | total catch of a lifetime would scarce be startling if every fish were o whale, Surely there is something of the [epirit of the ancient cavalier or cru. |sader im the modern fisherman. | He fares forth in full panoply of battle, He falls to with great energy apd spirit and seizes such spoil as he may. And if no such blessing fall to his good weapon, at leant he is still the |brave knight and gallant adventurer. He has kept the faitht Doubtiess he tells himself that none of King Arthur's knights really jobtained possesion of the Holy Grail, in the pursuit of which they |spent their lives, yet they had all |the joy of the pursuit, pain of pursuing @ problem to its end, the world might still be worshipping Because they did not stop at being nearly right, the Athenians estab- ‘Ten places welling fancy food grace my immediate neighborhood, and after 5 o'clock come highly-colored dames by scores invading these ex- pensive stores to decimate the stock They purchase jara of pickled beets, stuffed eggs and other piffiing jeats, sala or jellied eels, and then lthey hasten to their homes, to be there ere friend husband comes, to | get their evening meals | These wives have been upon the Ko to Jazzy dance or movie show or on the avenue, they ‘e no time to leook at all, but wonder when their | spouses baw! at this array of goo. They marvel much to hear them |say, “When I have Inbored hard all jday, I'd give my good right eye and all the dough that I can make for one old-fashioned chunk of steak, or slab of home-made ple," They wonder when a husband slams the door and hastens down to |Sam's to meet the other boys who |find the plain things fed them there from a substantial Dbill-offare are gastronomic joys. Oh, woman, in your hours of ease, why cultivate rotisseries and stores of foreign tlk! Revert again to pot and pan ahd you will find that with your man all will go smooth as silk! oes MOST CONSPICUOUS “I understand yours was the most conspicuous of all the bathing suits on view.” “It was," confessed Miss Cay enne, “It was one of those old fashioned affairs with a high neck and long skirt.” worth | Carlyle said, mostly fools, We are madly going in en direction while what we really fant is in just the opposite direction. For what is it we al seek? Is it not exclusiveneas, in one form or janother? We long to be rich or jearned or in the smart set, or din tingulahed or extraordinary by hook or crook. “Whereas, as a matter of \fact, the best things in life le not fat all in the uncommon but in the |common lot. I remember with what fear and trembling I once made up my mind to ride third class on a railway in Germany. The guide book had warn |ed me against it and a lot of nice |people had said it was dangerous, |but I tried it. I went from Munich |to Ulm and Nuremberg and then on to Paris, in the lowest and cheapest jcoaches. For when once I got started I was delighted. It beat the | elegant firnt-clase and the bourgeois second-class utterly. 1 met a lot of interesting people, commercial travelers, boys and girls, and we were not at all afraid of each other, Any one I saw I could spunk up and converse with and everybody was human and ap. proachable, and, in the language of the Podunk News, “a nico Ume was had.” And if I bad ridden first clase |1 would have been in the midst of half-frozen mummies, each afraid of |the other, all fearful that some one would encroach upon their precious excluaivencss, There's a limit to my democracy I draw the line on bad smelis and dirt. When it comes to horsey smell ling clothes and possibilities of ver. min, I am an aristocrat. But you | don't have to be high and mighty to |be clean. And I have an idea that the average United States school ma‘am is more fastidious in her personal antisepticism and intimate linen than the average grand duchess, altho, of course, far be it from me to know. SAFETY FIRST! 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