The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 18, 1920, Page 6

Ry out of city, He per menth; # months, ¢1.60; @ montha, week, tm the State of Washington. Outside of the etata 1 for ¢ mentha or $9.00 per year, ge zt j ; g - e 2 Se E Res o if H g 4 aS 5 i i 3< | rie Hi B | oft ie ; I rbee3 iy carrier, city, It’s a wise gnan that knows his own city. And a wiser man who ap preciates its manifold advantagee) Just to remind you of what kind af a city you live in, here are @ few facts that may have slipped your mind: Seattle’s 1920 population ts $15,653. Seattie’s 1910 population was 367,194. Seattle has 194 miles of commercial water frent. Seattle was settled in 1952. Seattle has 35 miles of scenic boulevards. Seattle is the shipping center of 123,000 feet of lumber last year. the state that manufactured 4,¢03,- Seattle handled 53.8 per cent of the foreign commerce of the Pacific Coast in 1919, Seattio has 2,000 acres of parka. Seattle's death rate last year was onty ¢3 per 1.000 population. Seattl®? has 300 churches gné no sloona Seattio’s bank Geponits are $1896,667,970, SEATTLE Is THE THIRST ANDTHE MOST BRAUTIFUL : HEAL’ CITY IN THE WORLD AND THE FINEST IN WHICH TO RAISE Fears Unrealized CHILDREN! It's difficult to guess how dice will fall. cast what will be the effect. of any. It’s almost as hard to fore. legislation. Each law ts an experi, ment. It seldom has the exact effect.anticipated. Rarety are the hopes of its supporters or fears of fte opponents fully realized, Prohibition’s opponents thought that much property which had been occupied by saloons would be left vacant. But circumstances which had not been taken into account prevented that. Grape owners whose product bad been used for wine feared great loss. These fears have proved unfounded. The United States bureau of markets reports that the manufacfare of unfermented grape juice, jams a nd jellies is utilizing an increasing tonnage of grapes, and indicates that soon the annual production of will not fill the demand. Taxicab companies feared @ joss of business as a result of prohibition But an increase is reported by companies represented at the recent convention of the National Taxicab Owner aasociation. The difficulty of forecasting the effect of any election accurately is. one reason why the progreas of civilization falters, and is slow at its “Animal” There-ts a time tn the life of a child when it fs fascinated by animals. {| A dog or a kitten ts “adorable,” and itn the absence of something better in-| even a lifeless teddy bear is clasped to the breast. and loved. well meaning The animals know so much, and they d Ustens breathless to “Brier Rabbit” Jungle Book.” And then the big much wonderful things. One or “Reynard the Fox” or “The beasts are so strong and fearlenn gets up in| What could be more brave and splendid than a bull, a lion or an eagle? ten Sometimes men do not get beyond this childish way of feeling. write the] Egyptians worshiped cats; Israel demanded {ts golden calf; and tn India wouldn't care today the sacred bull wanders where {t will and does what It pleases. here arid now what's the the U. 8. A. and the west of the world. Everybody's been payin’ too much to the lawmakers, and too to the song writers. human warbiers have slip- gomething over. Something? @ lot of ‘em. ee tters tothe cditor— INDIANS, AND JAPS Editor The Star. Many advocates ‘the Japanese, as an argument, ask question: “How much more just it that the white-man should America from the Indians than that the Japs should take her from the white man?” This seems at ‘Drst, to be a good argument, but, on @onsideration, it loses power. Statistics show that the United Btates is the most civilized nation on earth, She has the finest system of government and education. The manners of the people are peerless. Bhe leads the world when it comes * In America the Indians had their man. Amongst Anglo-Saxon peoples symbol and many animal face.” he is, and animal he must remain. ascetic, but to be decent; to feel his with more foresight and delicacy. ‘When a boy carries a chip on his into a fight wars.” is short and easily taken. the bad rule of the mother country. It was the world’s good luck these aspiring people could have to inventions and theories. She has4 wide, new land to conquer and thrive Jed it ever since the Declaration of Independence. But for America we ‘would still travel in small, leaky sail- fing vessels, would read by candies and amoky whale oil lamps; would miles on ‘foot or by boat to word from place to place. In- © would do a thousand more things had white men not outed the savage. At the latter part of the colonial @ra the American colonists were a lot. They were animated h @ desire to advance and get @way from conventionalities. Being ‘too much inclined to think for them- “ea they were not content with jin, for they were thus enabled to set an example before nations. Eveh the Indians were benefitted. An end was put to the dissension and butchery practiced mong them. Some may say, “Yea, but if the In- dians had been left to themselves, in the course of yeara they would have risen to civilization.” Perhaps that is #0, but {t is not good that all mankind should have waited for the Indian to grow up, while man- kind itself plodded on in the same rut, any more than a whole school should back up for one slow pupil, In the case of the Indian, not only was be backward, but he occupied is not the mouth that ft contains but the fine lines that it lacks, shows instinct without consideration and intelligence, Man’s problem is not to escape his nature, but to glorify It; not to be Inviting Totems—animals from which men claim to be descended, and to which they pay great honor; and the Indian storfes tel how animals brought fire and other good things to the Eagte or the Lion is a national are honored by being called an Elk or a Moone. All this shows how close man likes to feel himself to the brutes. But civilized man resents the kinship. He speaks with horror of “an He conceals his body, and sometimes he will not even eat in public; he teaches his children to be ashamed of animal functions. Man has nothing to gain by denying or resenting the facts. Animal The trouble with an “animal' face” It kinship with all the world of living things, but to rise above his brothers, the brutes, by managing his life Wars shoulder he's Mable to edge his way Nationally speaking, one may invite @ war, and this itself may carry on until @ real, blood-spilling war is met up with. The Jones merchant marine act is such an invitation to war, Analyzing the possible effect of the Jones act, The Searchlight says, “Framed on the principle of monopotizing American trade so far as possible for privately owned American ships, ft carries the danger’ of bringing us sharply into conflict with other carrying nations.” The Searchlight is a periodical making @ business of throwing the light of publicity upon public problems. It adds: “We might find ourselves involved in numerous tariff and shipping Remember this: Often the step between a trade war and a gun war eT “the best seat in the synagogue,” and when white men came, it was sim- ply @ case of some one seizing the seat, who could make better use of it. Now comes the Jap stuation, which is ‘somewhat like that of the White man and Indian, yet, vastly different. In the colonial period the enlightened encroached upon the ig norant and set the world ahead. Now, the ignorant are besetting the enlightened and hauling the world back. The American colonists had some claim to justice, for they gave the world’ a lift; but the Japanese have no claim to justice, for they re- tard the progress of a great nation, Amertea is not thru climbing, #0, to make the contrast complete, let her set her foot down and not give way before theta, A SUBSCRIBER, THE SEATTLE STAR EVERETT TRUE | all i : By CONDO TER SMITHTON, 1 REMEMBER WHEN YoU STARTED IN BUSINESS HERE SOMGTHING LiKe Two YEARS AGO. FIND Cr — IF HE Looks IN MIS VEST-PocxeT SPELLGR YL ey —_— James Couzens Writes for The Star Today on Service-at-Cost a Makeshift BY JAMES COUZENS Mayor of Detroit ‘The report of the federal electric railways commission is a truly re markable document in that it virtu- ally admita that public ownership of muntelpal utilities will become a fret just as soon as the municipalfties have prepared themselves, legally and financially, to enter into such work. The commission tncorporates in a very prominent place tn ite report this very specific conclusion: “The right of the public to own and operate public utilities should be recognized, and legal obstacles in the way of its exer- cine should be removed,” HAS BROKEN DOWN ‘The commission apparently en- mfely “where the public right even. tually to wcquire the property is safeguarded.” FACT OVERLOOKED There is one baste fact which the federal comminsion failed to incor- porate In its regort, namely, that cities grant rights to private street railway managements for the pur pone of securing service, The man- agements accept them for the pur pose of making money. These two ideas are so din metrically opposed that cities will never be free from street car controversy until they run their own dines. The servicehtcomt agreement eliminates the incentive for proper efficiency and to my mind, for this season, is basically unsound. If mu- deavored to find a panacea for the| Picipalities have been negtigent and multitudipous troubles of our street railways, but as it entered into an analysis of the various situations it appears to have discovered that each city’s case munt separately, the state of public mind, the local and state laws, the financial limitations, as well as the personnel of the military management, all varying in no many respects that it was impossible to develop a general plan. . ‘The report ts an official 0. K. of the years’ old discovery of many of our municipal executives that “pri- vate management of street railways has broken down and the public regulation of private management is ineffective.” The federal commission tactfully admits that “franchises” are out of style. It suggests that In place of franchises cities hereafter sive street railway companies service-at-cost agreements. Service-at-cost wil] not put an end to our street car contro versies, Cleveland's agreement is proof of this. Such an ar- rangement merely adds labor as a third party to the arguments, because altho capital has a guar. antee of a fair return, labor has none ‘The citizens want more street car service but the commixsion fails to incorporate any proof that service. atcost agreements will provide addi- tonal car tracks in new districts where the matter of operating profit may be a question for a short period, and such tracks are absolutely essen. tial If the nation is ever to recover from its present housing plight, ONLY A BRIDGE The service-at-cost agreement ts only @ bridge at the best to reach over the gap between private man- agement and public ownership and management. The federal commis sion in @ left-handed way approves this belief. It states that service-at- cost agreements may be entered into REV. ML AL MATTHEWS will deliver a sermon Sunday morning entitled, CONDITIONS OF SUCCESS In the evening he will discuss the subject, WHO WILL PAY THE FIDDLER? Good Music You are invited to our services, FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Seventh and Spring. have pot prepared themasives for Public ownership, possibly the serv. lowatcost agreement will be worth while, using it as a makeshift while be handled|they do prepare for runuing their own lines. Sixteen @ifferent operations are performed by one press in printing the ordinary express waybill. (Doctor Frank CRANE’S Daily Article * (Coprright, 1920) Believing. . Two Schools. Provable Things. The Impossible. There has been a deal of talk dis putatious about what to believe. Pextremists on pne side have con- tended that we should believe noth ing We cannot prove, that we should stick to demonstrable facta. On the other hand extremists have gone #o far an to annert that there jis no virtue at all in believing what | we can prove, but that the saving | faith is in what we cannot prove, or |even comprehend. Still further, that | the greatest credit should go to thone | who “believe because it is impos | sible.” Both extremes are wrong, and for the cong gonna to-wit, that they mistake nature of faith and ite purpose. ‘Thie Is the nature of faith: that by |it we link ournelves to those forces | which we are unable to come at by knowledge. And this is the purpose of faith: that we shall thus be enabled, to une these forces. Hence the way out of the diffi. joulty, the try tim to believe only what we can | use. Not only what we can prove, We can uso many things we cannot prove. As for those things that are of no une, We would best “hang them up” |—that Is, leave them as open and | unsettled questions. If at any time we can use them. we can take them down and believe them. So long as we cannot use them, they make no matter. Let them alone. For instance, take one article that underlies all creeds of decent folk, | that the forces of Good are stronger | than thone of evil. | This means that God ts good, that the universe in so ordered that good- |nens brings happiness, and that tt never pays to do wrong. | This is entirely usable. It cleans the mind, strengthens the will, gives health to the emotions, and induces | contentment. more human satisfaction than money, fame or anything else men strive for. Hence it ts sound sense to believe it Take, on the contrary, some such Question as whether Jonah was swallowed by the whale, or the lo- cation of heaven, or the issue he tween the Homoousians and the Homolousians. These are matters that cannot conceivably affect one's growth or welfare in any way. Then why bother? Neither believe hor dinbelieve them. Leave them for those who have the leisure and the Inclination to argue. The credo that our dead five on undeniably ennobles and invigorates our life, It is usable, Hence we be | Meve it. , Most of the non-umble questions wither and die after q while They are neither proved for disproved. | People simply get tired of them, The usable elements of creeds live on forever. Th conviction of im. mortality, for example, is stronger now than five thousand years ago. It has never been “proved,” as we | prove @ chemical fact, nor disproved, ce TN 4 °" SCAND! OB NNR nd practical rule, is| It actually produces | T never occurred to me that there was any romance to tho life of the house mover, It seemed lke « : sort of & homely job, where you got down in the mud and A job where you were always blocking the street, or getting bogged down in a mudhole, or tearing down a trolley wire, or something nervous like that. But I was wrong, because moving things, saying to this mountain go yon, and to this valley be thou ex- alted, moving things is wonderful. T had occarion recently to associate with a crew of house-movers for a few days at the noon hour, and some. ‘Umes in between. They told strange stories of big deeds, ‘There was the yarn about the four- story 60x80 brick block that was moved six miles without cracking @ chimney, Some job, that, I opine. And then there was the story about the ship that went ashore on the Or- gon coast and that defied all efforts to float her, So finally along came a house-mover, and he took that big ship and shoved it overland for a few miles, apd launched her in a river. It took @ year to do the job, and it was a long way around, but he did ft, This crew expected shortly to go half acrons the state and move a 200- ton concrete bridge that suddenly found itself without a river. The river walked off a few dozen rods one wet night, but the bridge stayed behind. Boon the bridge ls going to take a stroll across country and get hooked up with its old chum river once more, That seemed like @ right romantic chore to me, And all these men work with is supreme understanding, @ few jack screws and some chunks of wood. They heave on the end of their little wrench, and the twostory house house steps right out of where it was. They consider anything less than 20 tons as a mere afternoon pastime, and if Tacoma really want- ed its mountain in tts back yard, T haven't a doubt but that this crowd of huskies would load up &@ couple of squads with a few tons of junk and do the mountain shifting without raising & sweat, and never will he. But it wil be belleved as long as it continues to feed human beings with idealism, heroism and beauty. With this simple rule, therefore, you can find the essentials of your creed. The rest you can let alone. Believe in nothing you cannot use. Solomon wns a pessimist because \he believed so many things he did |not use. Jesus was an optimist be- cause He used all He believed. County Democrats to Meet Sept. 25 King county Gemocrats will con- vene at the Arena ob September 25, Charles D. Fullen, chairman of the King county democratic committee, has announced, to formulate a pro gram of principles a a platform to govern the coming campaign, The state nominees will meet with State | Chairman George F. Christensen in democratic headquarters in the Lyon building, next Wednesday. AS IT SEEMS TO ME DANA SLEETH done, a Yankee goes and gets back for supper. The French Tbs were guns, and the French, years of war, might be expected to have mastered them. Came the new Yank levies without guns, The French supplied the newcomers with their pet gun, and casually re marked that 18 shots a minute was the fastest these guns could be fired. It took the American gun crews about & week to get thoroly acquaint- ed with their new plaything, and then, when they went into action on — the first barrage, they did 18 ghots, — then 20, and when they hit stride they were doing 27 shots a ute, where but 18 bad been done fore, Get It over with, and onto thing else—that is America, a peculiar verve and swing has given this country just the Of an edge over the rebt of the oe Y automobile salesman France reports that French are-copying last door hinge a American car sells for $1,200, and that @ few ago sold for $750, only in France cheapest it can be manufactured is $5,000, Probably the much-derided flivver would cost $3,000 if-manufao tured in the biggest European fac” Oliver, to step ber clamor, ‘When she would mot shell Socked his grandma with & mer. ‘To the chatr he has to ga. 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