The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 17, 1920, Page 6

Some Questions Answered The Seattle Sta BY mall, oot of city, He par month; 8 months, $1.00: @ monthe $3.98: Fearn aS e° State of Washingtos, Outside of the state, The per mently, 6.00 for 6 montha or $9.00 per year, By earrjer, city, ide per week. _ PAGRE boomerangs: the catcher to get t d seeing him triple by & present opponent.” ting with your soulmate finding your wife there with man.” a. League of Nations world—and then refusing it” | | course, isn't feasible, the ving slipped in a few laws en the killing of lawyers Was as wise as lawyers there'd ‘Ro lawyers. They'd all starve to which, under the law, isn't _ As Mose Crowell tipped us off: “It is a secret worth knowing | that lawyers rarely go to law.” Easiest thing in the world to get with a lawyer. All you have $0 do is to stop sueing some one else behave yourself so nobody can r you. One of those queer customers who @elight in frittering away his time ) Fading tombstones (and there are such} recently enjoyed a! afternoon in the burial ground A letter from Mr. A. L. Freeman asks us: “Will you or Dana Sleeth kindly elucidate some questions we fail to understand?” And then follow some perti- “nent questions about politics and government, which we shall try, as well as we n, and one by one, to answer: can it be the choice of the people when part of the men we want are on one ticket and part on the other, and we ire forced to vote only for men of one party?” The party system is maintained because it is the interest of professional politicians, y controlled by that kind of business men, to keep the mass of voters divided into or more political camps. This makes it possible for voting minorities to control the wnment—these minorities generally being the less intelligent voters, who vote t tickets” at the elections and favor the machine or gang candidates in the pri- is at best only the expression of the will - ag bgp nd within a certain group. It is purposely maintained to re- | tay bea ys strict free popular choice as far as possible. Some day the extreme disrelish to\)party system in this state will be wiped out and we will told their duty. —}| choose in the same manner as the city of Seattle chooses its mayor ? e of the candidates who have survived the first contest. ( ~ U Cc BH 1 s After several states have thus established non-partisan elec- tions the system is likely to be extended to cover the whole >) United States. This will then be a more democratic gov- Doomerangs are many and “Why is it thag the republicans sneer at a democratic administration Have YOU ever been hit by/ when a republican congress had blocked every move of the president, oor and made things move their way?” rt you a boomerang i=. Pt! ‘The ever-ready vote-getter of a republican politician is to boomerang.” says Webster, “is|Sheer at democratic “inefficiency” and “extravagance,” just that recolls upon the/as the principal political play of a democratic politician is to view with alarm republican “slush funds” and “alliances 'o the| With the money interests.” The main difference between the licans are smarter and a little less sincere. “What ts a republican or » democratic administration? There are many of us who do not understand this. It looks aa if there had been a democratic president, but as if it iad been purely a republican everything.” The administration is called democratic because the exec- utive branch, comprising the president, vice president and your nest—and hav-| cabinet, is democratic. e legislative branch, on the other Senator voting for ratifieation| are of the same political complexion the word “administra- ‘sock iy rectaediona’ wis Pr tion” is used loosely to cover them both. The dictionary defi- eee nition is: “The government as existing, or the persons collec SUSIE'S POPULARITY tively who compose it, especially its executive department. ¥ seven engagement rings, thing in both party papers, and 1 can't find out.” b ecthaful, mondertul things, |. The crowning achievement of President Wilson, according to his own idea, is the League of Nations. As designed, em- bracing his “fourteen points,” it was to be a world-wide cove- —... tionalities, and establish international justice. p. Pilledn Powders came to the ot-| At the Versailles conference, President Wilson was forced ‘this morning to protest because| to accept many compromises, dictated by the imperialist de- France. It is the argument of the league's foes that these take a slam at the | COMpromises have distorted the original structure so that it ” Dr. Pow-| insures rather than prevents war, oppresses rather than frees small nationalities, and plays one state against another to the soared eet, | the time at least, by might and money. It is the argument of lawyer. Read. | the league’s @riends that, while imperfect, the league covenant of Blackstone | is the best that can be obtained ; that, like the original Ameri- Harpington Geclares that few | by a newer constitution, which, like the present American constitution, can Of the peace read that much | and will be frequently amended; that three-quarters of the world is already in the league and that the United States should join, Ptesident Wilson's official family also has been the subject of attack. “and follow his suggestion, | as Louis F. Post (assistant secretary of labor), William B. Colver (chairman bury more mistakes than we) of the federal jrade commission), Herbert Quick (member of the federal farm loan beard), and Frank P. Waieh and Basil M. Manly, joint chair men with Wiliam Howard Taft, of the war labor board. Such appotnt- people whom Roosevelt used to call “malefactors of great wealth.” On the other hand Wilson has appointed, and continued in office, men whose sole claim to preferment has been their partian activities for the democratic machines: Albert Sidney Burleson, who has crushed the spirit mer, whose activities as attorney-general have caused more resentment and unrest than all the plots and pamphieta of Lenin and Trotzky. Appoint ments such as these explain why many liberals hate Wilson. If Wilson had succeeded, history would have hailed him an the greatest dom. He did not entirely succeed. He was balked by mon far cleverer than he, who killed his world-ideal and handed him a substitute labeled “just as good.” He could not realize this, tho his countrymen could. And his failure, permanently ill, more deserving of sympathy than of censuge. Or so it seems to us 9, They Don’t Worry “If developments show that profiteering is going on in Washington ~~as it has in the case of pre ering in other lines.”"—From statement iswued by Mitchell Palmer, high-cost-o’living reducer. Just as it has in other fines of profiteering The Standard Oil Co. of Indiana made 100 per cent last year and “Why, when we go to vote in a primary, is a party forced upon us? How s men who make profits thru political manipulation, and newspapers more or less }maries. A primary election under the present y system Men love to hear of our state officers and congressional representatives —by non-partisan eliminating primary, and then by election L I F E ®/ ernment, more responsive to the people's will. home, but your system? th| professional politicians of the old parties is that the repub- administration, since the republican congress hag had the say about ig some other bird occupy it.” hand, is republican. When both branches of the government fs back from vacation “What Is it that President Wilson has done? I have read every- T can never go near her,! nant to prevent wars, insure freedom of weak or minor na- t Squire Abner Harpington tell| sire of European governments, particularly Britain and ultimate advantage of a few powerful governments ruled, for &@ lawyer out of a guy, | can “articles of confederation.” it can be superseded when the time comes about lawyers,” observed Dr. He has appointed a number of lberal.minded men to important posta, such ments as these have won for Wilson the enmity of reactionaries and the and weakened the morale of the poxtoffice department, and Mitchell Pal man of the century, the world liberator, the super-hero of the new free and his inability to realize his failure, have left him pitifully and perbaps restaurants, the department of justice is prepared to take drastic action didn't get prosecute Lumbermen are rolling in wealth from exorbitant E profits that have held up the building campaign, with no prosecutions. Hie Royal hospital at Cheisea,| Shoes and clothes have sold for outrageous prices, and the birds who nd. got the money are not in cages. “Here,” he writes, “ies the bray. the brave, as per epitaph I from the monument.” lies William Hiseland veteran if ever soldier was Who merited well a pension If tong service be a merit. served upwards of the Days of Man Ancient but not superannuated in a series of Wars Civil as well as Foreign _ Yet not maimed or worn out by either Hils complexion fresh and florid His health hale and hearty His memory exact and ready In Stature He exceeded the Military Size . In Strength He surpassed ™ Prime of Youth mi id What rendered his Age Still more Patriarchal When above One Hundred Years Old Months ago Howard Figg states that one Washington eating house was selling flour, In the form of bread, for more than $500 a barrel. Restaurateurs openly admit that they add 100 per cent to the cost of all food before serving it, and some add more. In addition the eater has to tip the waiter or get no service next time he returns. Waiters are not paid much. But the proprietors have no reason to worry, if they are to be given the same kind of @ deal that other profiteers have received, ag Palmor When the End Comes Napoleons have thru oceans of blood to continents. Dollars wrung from hard-pressed pockets have piled up wealth for millionaires, Kings of nations and captains of industry have held the lives of multitudes within the hollow of their hands. And when they died their epitaphs told how far higher than other men they had climbed, It wasn't the ambition of John Lawrence Toole to command armies, nor dollars, to rule on throne or at the head of a board of directors His goal was to make the people of England laugh. Well and often that he did. And, when he died they wrote of him waded conquest of He kept a true good humors mark, He took unto Him a Wife . The social flow of pleasure’s tide; i omg — gyre omaha a He never made a brow look dark, p) Or caused a tear, but when he died! - As well as Warfare temporal. see REASONABLE RESTRICTION Of what a pitiful few of all the ages of time can it be sald, “He never made a brow look dark, or caused a tear’’? In advocating a ‘Hague tribunal with tecth,” Harding seems to favor @ return to molarcy. , THE SEAT Doctor Frank CRANE'S Daily Article (Copyright, 1920) Get Rich. In Character. In Friendship. True Wealth ‘There has been considerable confu sion in the advice we have recelved about money, On the one hand the Sunday school books, and third read ors, and all literature prepared for the guidance of the young, solemnly assure us that the way to rise and become a J, P. Morgan tx to be in dustrious, plous, and temperate, By observing the ten commandments and the golden rule, we will be blest in basket and store. On the other hand, the same liter ature warns us of the danger of rhe One of Mr, Carnegie’s books Informs us how pertlous a thing It is to be born rich, that the strugg! with poverty is @ great privilege. So, then, we are to bend every en ergy to gtt money, and when we get it we are to know that it ls a curse and a snare to the soul A man is to work all bis life to get that which will ruin bis children when he hands it out to them. It looks much like the old song: You're damned tf you do, And you're damned if you don't, You're damned if you will, And you're damned if you won't. I shall proceed to unravel this, hard knot. To do thin all that is neces sary in to get an accurate definition of what riches are We have one unfailing test of all human valuee—Death. The practical use of death is to show what is worth while in life When a man dies his soul goos down to the mea and steps into @ little boat, to go to # distant island. Hie real riches consist in those things he can take with him in his boat He can take but two things his tastes (character) and his friendships. All else in trash. Now go and take an Inventory of your riches, Count over, in other hands on which to enumerate them; possibly the fingers of one hand will suffice. When yeu get to the island your friends will be there, You will want only them, and you will have them; *© you will be a rich man over there. And if you have good sense you will Ukewixe be a rich man here and now. Make no mistake, when once we understand what true wealth is we recognize the everlasting truth that poverty in a curse, And that it is, whether it be wants unsupplied ig supplies not wanted, ‘There is a rational way and a fool! way of curing poverty. The rational way in to recognize that the world is ful magnificent supplies and to try to develop in the poor man a bet: ter kind of wante—1. ¢, to change his low thinking into high, to replace his love of mud and its by-products by a love of the spirit and spiritual qual ities, The fool way is to heap upon the soul, already oversupplied, a mass of money, houses, drapery fancy balls, golf balla, and high balls. Such a wretch has not riches—riches have him, and usually choke the life out of him, So get rich, get rich, get rich! | Poverty is a curse. Woe to the poor! But be careful that you know what words, your genuine friends. Maybe) you will need the fingers of both| TLE STAR HE evening of Labor day T loafed for an hour beside the High Line road and watched the returning re iments of pleasure seekers Eight cars in ten were driven over the rough, jagged macadam highway at asonali peed; two cars in ten were sent rushing over the high- way, sent bounding over ruta and careening from side to side reckless ly, Sometimes it was a blatant speed roadwter that offended, but more generally it Was some stripped fliv- ver, driven by @ couple of hot- headed | lade who were burning it up regard lone. ‘ | ‘These rushing cars were tearing themnelves to pleces; they were shed ding expensive rubber by the ten- dollars’ worth, These delicate, intri cate machines were being handled as neither freight care nor coal barges could be handled without sud den deterioration, and most of the | people driving them could not afford | to spend the money their folly was | Comting them, There, beside the road, I gathered the impression of @ multitude of hap. lean people who bad been hurrying all day seeking pleasure, and who, failing in their search, were tearing back to town to. get a few more thrills before morning, ‘The tense flight of these cars, al! pleasure bent, aud few of them with a eh among their passengers, neomed like the flight of some queer Martian crew, machine people, har- ried from here to yonder in the urge Of senscions resticnanesa, ee T WAS almost dark when I came upon & new cottage, Mfting Ite roof timbers in the green wilderness be side the road, Halanced on the gable was the amateur bulld er, and, below, shoving hard on @ two-by four, was his wife. All day they had werked; apparently most of the work on the little place bad been Aone at snatched Umes by these two. They were building thelr nest twig by twig, in the middle of a tangie of * and sturdy second growth and his wife had labored day, and a few more feet! of home had materialized because of | thelr labor, True, it was not #o moch of & house, and the back yard was a nix footthru rotten log, and the front! | wealth Jy and what poverty ia. Jenus Christ ts commonly suppored to be the wisest and greatest man ever born of woman. He lived thirty | three years and accumulated—eleven | frienda 80 don't be discouraged. A Watch Re Jones Is Always Right Telephone Elliott 2607 1329 FOURTH AVENUE Take 1 oF teoerne STEVENS’ ¥..23, <4 If you value time « Latte Cost, Priv it Day and Brening | || AS IT SEEMS TO ME | DANA SLEETH yard was & tangle, a jungle, and a despair for any but the stoutert heart and sternest courage, but little by little, an hour here, @ vacation day there, and in time there would be a home, Too tew people now are building thelr own homes with their own hands, Everywhere the demand ir for flats, apartments, housekeeping rooms—temporary corners to hiber nate in, like & hedge hog, until the next move comes, And yet it never was better busi news to build a home than it ts to day, Buliding costs are high, but rents have gone up more than build ing costa, and they will continue to aviate until tens of thousands of plain farmilies begin to throw off the landlord yoke and bulld thelr own homes, A rough board shack, covered with vines and, maybe, a amdll mortgage in far preferable to a modern bunga low at $45 & month, “adults only,” and tomorrow afternoon it will be $55, and next year it will be $65. see UT let this be remembered— while the homes of the city have to carry the bi« end of the tax load, and while the tax rite keeps climbing up and up until it reaches the means confiscation for the average home, during this era home-building and home-owning will be unpopular No matter how hard the landlord may drive at the pocket of his ten ant For the taxes we pay direct always hurt more than the ones we pay in directly, and tho the renter always pays the landlord's taxes, with over: head, bookkeeping and 10 per cent added, still, it doesn't seem so direct & drain Ss does the tax on your house and lot, If, instead of exhausting iteelf¢ in matching a factory here and there from a rival city, the average Cham ber of Commerce would help to keep the tax burden on the «mall city home endurabie, and would, as well, help bulld up the back country, that the city might be fed reasonably and surely, these bodies would do far more for their cities than by any pol icy of advertining, Industrial develop ment or civic improvements they may adopt. 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