The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 15, 1920, Page 6

he oity, PF es, Jn che Bate ot 06.60 for ¢ montha oF Sener Seattle Star B00 per month; # months, $1.00; @ months, $2.75; year Washington, Outside of the state, Tho per month, 99.00 per year, By carri Pubtiened Datty by The Star Publishing Co, Main jer, city, 130 per wi he first stage in this year’s election is over. Each of the parties now) with the men it has selected as its standard bearers. By their y must be reckoned with. has no regrets for its part in the campaign. Senator Jones has nominated. In retrospect, it is easy to see how it was possible. For 22 phe has been in congress, and a political campaign is not new to him. henchmen whom he could count on 10 years and 20 years ago, he count on today. These wavered only a second, when, in a fervent mo- it, they renounced him was ever any ge given to but to impart.— IUCH is LIFE! OW Timer vigorousty pro the county commission: that oxcarts no longer hitched up to the chain enterprising citizens were “to town in horse-drawn ve it was deemed a step of Feserve the public square fine new wagons and bug oxen cluttered when a fellow was one hand, as the yy days were go. be a wonderful victory because of his stand prior to the war. Three years have served to make them forget all other consider- ations except political. And so Jones went out with the experienced politicians behind him, not very openly, but nevertheless with him. Col. Inglis en- tered the senatorial race one month ago—that’s all. He is not an experienced campaigner, nor did he have a campaign fund that would enable him, to give him the state-wide publicity he needed. Under all the circumstances, his showing was highly creditable. In the opinion of The Star the republicans did not choose their best candidate for governor, nor, pos- sibly, their strongest. Whether the democrats did, of course, is also a question of opinion. | The actual results may not be so disheartening. | It is possibly more to the point to refer to the gen- eral apathy of the voters. The total vote cast was comparatively light. The general electorate appar- ently ref to function as it might have. The stay-at-home vote in the primaries may have had the balance of control. It may still exercise it at) the final election in November. Bumps on the Road Always there are humans who cannot believe a new way {ts better than an old, who are convinced that any change is a turn to and progress is never made by going forward. They are the barnacics on the ship; the bumps in the roadway. Three hundred years ago the barber and the surgeon were one and the same. Surgery was not a profession. Indeed, it was one of the lowest of trades. Then came William Cheselden. than whom the world Bever produced a more famous surgeon. It was he who gave surgery the dignity of a learned profession, and claimed for it the highest social respect. Claimed and obtained! In 1719 Cheselden was appointed surgeon te St. Thomas horpital in London. At that time only two patients out of a hundred survived @ major surgical operation. Cheselden wrote his “Treative on the High Operation for the Stone.” At that time stone in the biadder was one of the commonest and least understood of maladies, Few affiicted Tecovered, and quacks fattened upon the fears and credulity of the ill Surgeons, including all the quacks, of course, denounced Chenelden's Neverthelens, he performed the “High Operation” on a des "| perately bad case, with satisfactory resulta and literally, at one stroke, i } i i : ¥ g Just as tho he would bust. W” gays his friend, in dis t punish yourself in this the best he can tell: ll, but gee! it feels swell” eee as worn by the waitress ‘Sverage stag party, were the shock absorbers. eee true, there are many won- things in the world,” writes “The other day I went auto with a friend and his wife M8 altho she sat beside him in the mt sea for several hours not Wee Gid she tell him what to do.” eee } Our Advice and Lock the Door “Oat Person who took clothing line at 424 N. Lake st. was Return to front hall in 48 and no questions asked. door is unlocked.—Madison is.) Journal. see New York moving van men striking and no doubt a lot will try paying the rent. POOR MARKSMANSHIP Reporter—Don't you think my lot of fire? ‘Yes, considerable fire | bave with our hundred million inhabitants yet to produce that juced the percentage of deaths from 98 to ¢ He reduced the time 2 hours to 54 seconds. then surgeons and all admitted Cheselden was right. learn anything? the road were there again when Cheselden came of Vision.” roundly and soundly de- He removed those bumps by giving sight was the act of God, and Be a Chenelden; ride over will never again halt your Ball Players In a technical journal there has been discussion recently as to which Indeed, what other trade calls #0 continuousty for instant decision, Unerring judgment and such perfect co-ortination of mind and boty? To the thoughtful fan a baseball game is a psychologicel study; a mar- Yelous demonstration of the specialized brain in perfect operation. Fans applaud a triple play, even if achieved by the opposing team, making unerring decisions on the instant and doing the right thing at the right time. The carpenter, bricklayer and machinist have time to reflect as to whether one method of operation is better than another. But for the ball player, thought and action must so coortinate as to seem simul taneous. He dare not stop to think; no he thinks and acts at the sume moment. At least, there is no noticeable Ume-lapse between the thought and the His decisions are unalterable, as are bis errors. He cannot correst his mistakes as can other skilled tradesmen and his one error may boot the game away. His decisions, openty made and openly acted upon, are subject to the instant review of his boss, the gener! public. For him there is no covering up of mistakes in the hope that the boa will not find them out. All of which calle for such constant mental and physical alertness as in required in no other trade, business or profession, except, perhaps, that of the doctor when he ts performing an emergency operation. A noted lawyer once said. that wheri he had an important case to try he would work out several difficult problerns in mathematics before going to court in order to limber up his mind. Several innings of snappy baseball played in the morning before the day's work would serve the same purpose. The Fool’s Classic For over 400 years men have been saying: “A bird in the hand !s worth two in the bush.” They mean that it is better to keep that which one has than to take a chance at securing twice as much, which is uncertain. It must have been a wise saying. For it has lived so long. But a fool, a court jester, in credited with originating that sentence classic. But court fools were wise mon. They bad to be. Lacking wisdom they might have, if the boss proved in @ temper, lost their heads to say nothing of their jobs, Will Somers was one of these fellows. He wns court jester to Henry VIII. Somers once called on Lord Surrey. Surrey gave Will a dandy kingfisher, same sort of a bird that flies up the creek with a racket like a rattle. But kingfishers were rare. And Lord Hamilton, running over to Lord Surrey’s house after Will had gone with the bird, was disappointed because he wanted the kingfisher, too. Somers will give it up, Lord Surrey told Hamton, !f I promine him }another some other day. And Lord Surrey sent a messenger to Will the joker, prince of wits. | | “Sirrah,” said Will Somers the fokist, back there in the 15th cen- tury, “tell your master that I am much obliged for his liberal offer| ot two for one, but that I prefer one bird in hand to two in bush.” And Will's little remark has lived thru the centuries and has been| applied to hundreds of thousands of similar situations.. As the actor! would say: “It's a mighty good line.” ° All Cut and Dried “In Florence around 1200, Giotto painted a picture and the day it was to be hung in St. Marks the town closed down for a holiday and the people with garlands of flowers and songs escorted the picture from the artist's studio to the church. “Three weeks ago 1 stood in company with 600 silent, sallow-faced men at a corner on Wall st., a cold and wet corner, till young Morgan issued from J. P. Morgan & Co., and walked 20 feet to his carriage. “We produce per capita one thousand times more in weight of re ly. made clothing, Irish lace, artificial flowers, terra cotto, movie filma, telephones, and printed matter, than these Florentines did, but we little town; her Dante, her Andrea del Sarto, her Leonardo da Vinci, her Giotto—or the group who followed Giotto’s picture.” These are the words of Professor Carleton Parker, who died two years! His point is that modern industry and education and all of modern life are so cut and dried that the average man has no chance to do things for himself. His impulses are choked. “Florence had a marvelous energy-release experience. All our indus- trial formalism, our conventionalized young manhood, our schematized duce protesting abnormality, to block efficiency.” It is doing, not having, that makes life worth while. Machines make things, free action makes men, | ago, worn out in a splendid search for the causes of industrial unrest, |! universities, are instruments of balk and thwart, are machines to pro- |} THE SEATTLE STAR EVERETT TRUE WELL, THE WHOLE TROURLE MISTER TRUG, \S THAT LAGOR DOGSN’/T Buckle Down AND ProbucG GNOVGH } Why Are the British Fighting Now in the Mesopotamia Area? 1—MESOPOTAMIA, comprising the provinces of Bagdad, Mosul and Basra. British mandate under league of nations. 2—SYRIA—French mandate, comprises parts of Syria, Bei- Doctor Frank CRANE'S Daily Article (Copyright, 1920) To Your Tents, O Israel! All Force Rhythmic. Advances and— Also Retreats. The same law, says the poet moulds the etar that moulds the |tear, The ohemic affinities and) physical attractions that operate) among molecules operate among | mountaina. All force ‘# rhythmic. None 4s continuous and uniform, The wind |blows in gusts, the blood circulates in throbs, the seasons come and go, jand the waves rise and fall. | Hoven so with the sweep of vast spiritual laws. ‘The centuries also jare rhythmic, History has tides lke the sea. Evolution is by waves Progress goes forward two steps |and retreats one. The universe breathes like a sleeper. ‘There has been an advance of civilization since Caesar, but it has |been punctuated by many @ retreat. | We are witnessing now this pro- cons. The war, with ft» gigantic men- ace, called forth the enthusiastic |idealiem of mankind. All the world |swept forward to repel the inva \sion of organized barbarism, | The United States never knew a higher, purer peak of idealiem than in 1917, The dullest shone, The gronseat vied with the finest to cast their lives, their fortunes, their all into the sacrifice. For a moment we glowed with the | white heat of herolam For a day we ascended into the rarefied at mosphere of pure devotion to hu- manity, We embraced the exalted ethics of Jesus and were ready to “save the world.” We were brothers to afl, to the British, the French, the Russian, the Italian. The president of the United States uttered the hot ang glorious re solve of a hundred million people when he proclaimed that we were teady to our last man and dollar, “to make the world eafe for demoo racy.” Woodrow Wilson's first vist to Europe was the tip of the peak, the highest point of the wave of our generous emotion, when it broke into spray. But, it was too much for us The force spent itself. It surged back- ward. We fell again into gronsnens Now we define true Americanism in terms of the most shameful self- ishness. Our allies, for whom the other day we were willing to die, can fo hang. Partisanship rages. The teht has gone from Uncle Sam's face and we behold a aneer, Whereas we saved, we now spend tn wildest extravagance. Labor graba Capital profiteera Poli- tictans snarl. let's go home and fight.” ‘To your tenta, O Ierael! rut and Lebanon and Aleppo. 8—PALESTINE—British| ~ | because it is an admirable exhibition of several minds thinking together,| mandate, comprising Sanjak of Jerusalem, and portions of former provinces of Beirut and Syria. 4—HEJAZ—Sov- ercign state, original member league of nations. 5—Fate of provinces of YEMEN, El Hasa (on Persian gulf) and scat- tering Arab tribes in interior remains undetermined. 6— ADEN—British territory, a narrow strip along the southern coast of the Arabian peninsula. | distinct states in Asta Minor—three “Why are the British fighting inj mandates and one separate and sov- Mesopotamia?” Jereign country. Mesopotamia was Thin question ia frequently asked) pinced under @ British mandate, these days as news dispatches tell of| Syria under the French, Palestine heaty fighting in Mesopotamia. | under the British, and the kingdom Here ts the answer: of the Hejas was made an independ: The league of nations created four | ent nation and an original member — of the league. INDIAN COLONIALS In Mesopotamia the British are charged with drawing up the organ- | fe law, protecting the Mesopotam- fans from invasion and preserving order, The chief cause of fighting is that the British are using a large number of Indian Colonials (the Brit- ish force divides 55,500 Indians and 9,800 British) and there is consider. able racial antipathy between the In-| . dians and the Arabs. It is estimated also that 200,000 of the Mesopotam- fan population are privately and ne eretly armed with British and Turk- ish rifles. ‘The troops are protecting peaceful farmers from Kurdish and other no- madic raids and trying to keep rival religious facticgs among the Arabs apart. But the political ideal of peace and orderly self-government mapped out by the league of nations never can be realized until the Indian Colonials are withdrawn and the British po- lieing army is recruited from and trained in Mesopotamia, ECONOMIC REVIVAL Mesopotamia has a population of 000, an area of 1,200,000 square 2. The country ts now showing signs of remarkable eco- nomic revival, and is destined to be come one of the great cotton, grain and oll producing nations. It is calculated that in ancient days, before the Mongol invasion de stroyed the vast irrigation works, | that Bagdad alone had more popula- jtion than all Arabia is credited with now. 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I noticed that one chap wan pasty faced, that his chin was sagging, his eyen were tired; he looked a lot older than I had ever noticed before, I noticed that another quivered tn nervous intensity, that his hands were never still, and that one big, black cigar after another wan chewed into @ pulp and pat out. Over in the corner seat a fine ol4 chap was playing bis band, but there was a foxy gleam in his eye, and he played his cards like a twoedged sword and gleefully chortled when he ruined his adversary These men, who had mate some thing of a success of thelr work, jab- bered and jangled over two white chips like allay cats. Hours slipped by forgotten. Pot succeeded pot with almost frenzied quickness; the banter of the early evening was gone; jevery player was grouchy; the losers were savagely determingd to break A& for taking womething for nothing,, even; the winners were as savagely and as for piling up unearned incre- ment, I never saw a winning poker player who didn’t earn all he won by | 004, hard work, I am one of those Gefightful, and occasional, players who always do- nate. I always hold a fourfiush against « pair, & pair against threes; two pairs for me are a sure #! that some lad had threes, and give me threes and watch the flushes flour- ish all about the board. If I get a pat flush, everybody will scurry for the tall uncut, except, maybe, one guy, Who will remain for his last three chips, and he'll doubtless fill his two pairs and clean up. With friends or with strangers, al- Ways the story in the eame, and if I had a million dollars and wanted to be a true philanthropist, I would vis- it card rooms where needy working men play games of chance and dis- burse my largess. z ee HIE other evening I became implicated in my seman nual “friendly” game, along with five estimable young gentlemen who were able to make @ pair of eights stand up, and fill to jacks, and wiz ardry of that sort. 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