The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 24, 1920, Page 6

The Seattle Star (== Pubttenin By eet of city, Se per month; # monthe, $1.86; @ months, 62.78; bon a $8.06, to the State of Washington, Outside of the stata, The per mont 04.60 tor ¢ montha oF $9.00 per year, cartier, city, 180 per week. The greatest grand opera company ever’ heard in Seattle, it is said, will be the Metropolitan theatre next week. But thousands who want to hear the tti Grand Opera singers will be denied the privilege because of the limited ting capacity. : ttle tS ll more indebted to the Ladies’ Musical club for the enterprise s exhibited in bringing to the city so notable a musical aggregation. The fies have time and again provided music fit for kings—but the city has con- ned its failure to provide the needed auditorium. Naturally, members of the Ladies’ Musical club are entitled to first call for 3{Seats. Even by limiting the number of seats each No man ever became }| member ed purchase, there are few left for the ; ly wicked all at }\ general publi —Juvenal. ers to the uel for a musical treat such as is in store next week. Naturally, there are many music, lovers who are disappointed. e have a letter from a California woman. She writes: “I am from San Francisco. We intended makin, Seattle our home, but when something really wo! while comes and we are shut out, do you wonder I |long to return to my home city, where we have a atest civic auditorium with a seating capacity of 10,000, hang wand where the stranger within our gates is welcome amusement?) to a first choice of seats? eee ete! The Arena is an insult to a real artist. It ts a crying fine in the case of the/Shame that Seattle is so asleep to her deficiency. She murdered in cold blood Should possess and be able to support a theatre of some baba Mant ~ Fi em einen boast of. vee - “ — “| “In our beautiful public library in San Francisco, we have remy ine that, but you see, @ Music room with Siac. The walls are padded so as not about that and to disturb those in the next room. The privilege of taking * music out is the same as taking out a history or novel. “Wake up, Seattle! Wake up “California booms!” The lady from California states the case well. Seattle needs an auditorium. Its absence is costing us not alone a loss in satisfaction but possibly a loss in dollars and cents— a loss of good, fine citizens who miss some of the good things here that they can get elsewhere. Advantages 't we have an “agree-| Her husband had lost his money, and she was lamenting the fact something for this| that pew bee daughters must go without the advantages she had hoped to give them. That meant an education tn a private school, European travel, and other things of the sort which common people cannot have For what is an “advantage” if anybody can have it? And then a second woman spoke up: “s “We alto lost our money, but it brought advantages to me, I do my own work and I know the cost in labor of every little dainty and every elegance. At my own back door, which I used never to go near, I talk to all sorts and conditions of men, and I know their point of | view. Ihave learned more at my door about foreigners and their ways than I learned thru months of travel abroad. “As for my daughters, they have discovered that decent clothes and three square menis @ day are no small blessing; they know how to do useful things; they do not imagine that there is something peculiarly respectable about idleness; if they ever marry they will not demand impossibilities from their husbands; and they will not think life @ failure if it does not bring them something which others cannot have as well. “If the special opportunities you speak of happen to come their way. so much the better. But if they can't make life worth living without some kind of ‘advantage’ over ethers, then they are inferior to the working people that can.” ° An Ax to Grind Funng how some popular and very expressive sayings originated. “He bas an ax to grind,” is one of them. Generally, people give Ben Franklin credit for that But that tan't the way history records it. Charies Miner, a writer, who died in 1865, gave birth to that idea when in 1811 he published an essay in an obscure newspaper in Pennsylvania, entitled, “Who'll Turn the Grindstone?” When Miner was a little boy he was accosted one winter morning by @ man with an ax on one shoulder. “My pretty boy, has your father a grindstone? the lad waa asked. “And you are a fine little fellow, will you let me grind my ax on it?’ | was the next question. Fiattered, the child was induced te turn the grindstone until his hands were biistered. ‘ Meantime the school bell rang. When the ax was edged the owner changed his tune: “Now, you little rascal, you've played truant from school; scud to school or you'll rue it.” When he again heard @ flatterer, Miner said: “That man has an ax to grind.” Later, he incorporated the idea In his essay. years. wea boy. But you'll) wouldn't do such @ le, innocent fellow like your| Do you know where your bey ? i i from fallen from and ng men ence girls Ad xk 3 g « i i Hi i It has lived for 109 As It Is Measured Athens was a small city as size Is figured in the United States. ent transaction than Alexander received for putting the foundation under the Unit- Btates of America. to think it strange that ttle boys cannot be persuaded Fegard the school room with the pr amount of admiration and in a century. Plato. Aristotle. Socrates. The statesman, Pericles. The sculptor, Phedias. The painter, Polygnotus. The dramatists, Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides The lyric poet, Pindar. The comic dramatist, Aristophanes, The historian, Thucydides. The orator, Demosthenes. But by invention, and other scientific achievement, « A coe You can’t express sympathy at ‘Any express office. eee Marry in haste and repent on your honeymoon and walk back. eee ‘If you began paying the farmer as for food he produces as you the speculator for not producing food you want, you couldn't coax sons to city jobs, cee ‘If they ever took to paying college ts salaries as large as they to college football coaches what | @Beramble there'd be to drink at the fount of learning! eee ‘One feminine diver earns more e0in of the realm disporting in a six- * tank on the vaudeville stage | than C. Columbus received for plac | ing a new world on the map. latest century were the achievements of that early period, and that the secret had been lost. Suppose man of today knew nothing of aviation, and was told that men of that age could fly. Suppose man today sent messages by runners on foot or on horseback, and was told that the ancients could make their voices heard across the continent the phonograph and the movies were achievement of men in ancient Athens! What would man today think of those men? We would think of them as gods! Not the Worst The rent profiteer, it seems, isn't as black as he has been painted. Indeed, when placed alongside of other profiteers the landlord is a mere piker at the profiteering business, . The national industrial conference board has prepared a H.C, 1. table, which sets forth the various increases made in the average cost of living between July, 1914, and July, 1920. Rent profiteers boosted the H. C. L, but 68 per cent. Bad enough, but the worst in yet to follow! Fuel, heat and light costs increased 66 per cent. Sundries (including pleasuring, doctoring, etc.) increased 85 Food prices went up 119 per cent. Clothing profiteers raised their prices 166 per cent, Potato profiteers boosted 368 per cent, Sugar profiteers boosted 282 per cent, Suppose FITTING REVENGE “Wood—1 understand someone stole tornobile. ‘You are right. 8 pretty low down, isn’t it?” “Yes. There's just one thing I ” “What's that?” { “I hope the thief keeps it as long as TI did and h go flat broke, y n Telegram. BTS GOOD FOR THE HAIR, TEETH AND STOMACH Chinese Minister Koo ts to trade jobs with Chinese Minister Bo. Oriental customs are S20 Koorioua, Four years from now they'll nominate a man who never smoked in the| parlor ond smelled up the lace curtaina, Polish Boos are now in Russia, according to late reports. Now watch the League of Nations shoo ‘em out. Watch! It is probably unnecessary to expliin that the druggist who displayed @ eign “Say It With a@ Brick” in his window was referring to ice cream, To make prices come down generally, Henry Ford has reduced the cost of filvvers by a substantial amount, And, at a time, too, when he can’t be Bangs—Do you believe in the | nominated for president. of vaccination? Bangs—I should say not! Because he was too busy himaeclf, Ira Bronson got Harry Jones, the sen- boy vaccinated the ator’s son, to buy Jap bank stock in the regular course of thetr law bust- c. The house is small—altogether too], Yet it is said to have produced more first-rate men in art, literature! and thought in one generation than this entire country has produced | civilization then was measured by thought; now It is measured! Suppose the periods were reversed. Suppose the achievements of the | a= lost, but were described as the = per cent. | = These| & y ie Bilkin's 4 ’ : day and yet he fell out of a| ness. Bronson says so himself. That's right, you tell ‘em, Ira, we're too dow and killed himself, good-natured, Doctor Frank CRANE'’S Daily Article (Copyrlgnt, 1920) The Blue Bird. Where Is It? All After It. Pursued Everywhere. The Blue Rird has been made by Maeterlinck the symbol of happiness. We all pursue tt. ‘This ought to bring us very near to each other, All those people darkening the pavement, every last one of them, is chasing the Bird There in no difference, The burglar robbing the safe t# after it Just aa the man who put his money in the safe, The cook pursues even as also the drenmahirted and low-necked diners. The shop girl hanging to a strap in the street car looks out the win- dow and sees the movie queen whi sing by in her canary and gold lim ounine, and thinks they two are worlds apart. They art not. Both are hunting the Bird. The cardinals and bishops who Toast the heretic, and the heretic roastes, are equally sure they have the Bird treed. Honorable Cox and Honorable Harding, and thelr conclamant at- tendants, are arguing hotly with th American people to persuade them each that he has the Bird in his par- ticular cage, The Prohibitionist believes that if he can destroy booze by legislation he will lure the Bird to come and sing in the national tree, and th hounds and bootleggers imagine that the Bird will more surely come and twitter for them if they destroy boose by the more hilarious and indl- vidual process of swallowing it. I often think of thin when I see dull, dignified, and stodgy people trudging along a path of life that would drive me to crime. There's only one reason why they lead such leaden lives, They beli¢ve the Bird is there. The ponderous bishop and the light and fluffy Dottie Twinkletoes of the Follies are both after the same Bird, tho one thinks it is to be cozened by Gregorian chants and the other by jana. You and I, who disapprove of each other #0 utterly, you who think I am @ fool and I whe know you ans, both of us imagine we ha little Bird at home in @ cage in our) dining room. © fluttering Biue Bird! Us are running after you, sitting and waiting for you to come Some are toiling and moiling to buy you, and some profligately wasting. To get you some are good and some are bad, nome work and some play, some study and philosophize and some fritter and dance, some seek fame and some solitude, some are going to Heaven to get you and some are going to Hell. Where are y TURNED THE JOB OVER From a report of good turns by a Balttmore Scout: “Monday—I bought @ pewspaper for a lady.” “Tuceday—Went on an errand and bought a paper for a lady, “Wedneaday—I bought a paper for a lady. “Thureday—I got a boy to serve papers to her regularly.”—Doys’ ? T IS wrong, always, ev: orywhere, for any one to believe anything up: on inmufficlent — evi dence.” ‘To which axiom this might be added “An unreagoning faith is the work of the devil.” Nor has any man the right to mis take emotional enthusiasm for rea and to make the test of his “truth” the warmth of hie feeling for it, Sing of direct action are generally understood and condemned; lust, murder, lies, envy, malice, debauch: ery—then directly attack the wel fare of the moe, and are therefore commonly denounced by public sen timent and by mundane law, But the blind following of outworn beliefs is too frequently considered orthodox, tho no more deadly sin than the sin of superwtition. The mere theft of your neighbor's if this be made the neighborhcod pol- ley, if every man loots his neighbor at every chance, then we have « crew of thieves and civilization be comes impossible, To kill @ stranger tm not really « vital matter, To him you merely hasten his entrance into a presum ably happier state, But if murder becomes public policy, then human | life ceases shortly to or, at leant, society coanes to be anything | more than an anarchy, with the best armed, or the fleetest, or the most crafty, sole survivors, ‘The final consequences of your act of law, of all human rela 4 all laws that are out of ac cord with this fundamental truth are | lawless laws and inoperative from thelr birth, No human act so Gefiles the pure sources from which an’ independent and intelligent posterity must flow ms the too easy aoceptance of doo trines that are unprovable, whether these be doctrines of law, of civics, of ethics or of science, The sturdy doubter, who stands upright in @ world of supplant wor. shipers of things aa they are, te the only man who is saving the world, bo matter what the worshipers may think of him, and no matter whether | he be crowned king or boiled alive in L OT only is the sane man, the responsible citizen, in duty bound by the mere fact of his being alive, to search without ceasing for the truth, and @ adopt no lie or sham wittingly, but he is in duty bound to refuse allegiance to Any doctrine that depends for its evidence not on rea- son but on emotion, and that rests | Cinally on the fabled testimony of the unnatural, And about al the grief that has come to the world has come thru ne tions believing impossible things, set- ting up imponalble gods, and Invest: ing weak men with divine rights and rites, And yet, we have among us today common men in fudicial positions— men accidentally placed there thru the local monopoly of their politgal | party—who would have us hold them more learned, more righteous, more nearly infallible because of their po | sition, tho they are at beart the same | stumbting, irrational, blundering in- against posterity can be committed) lawn mower is in itself nothing, but | toward society i# the final teat of | DANA SLEETH competent they always have been. Thie doctrine of the majesty of the law's servants, not only of the law, mind you, but of its vassals, has wrought, and is still working, griev | ou {Tin : The doctrine of the divine seership. righteous character and power of Kings kept men serfs for thousands of years, It was porsible only in a world de to tradition, afraid of logic, axhamed of a new idea, scared of a new thought. voodoo kept Africa a savage, barren heatheniam, The unquestioning ptance of the rule of anybody over anybody ia | always dangerous, and the too easy credence in popular beliefs is the mont deadly sin that parents commit eee BECAUSE we believe any thing, if only somebody yells it loud enough and long enough, we are today believing @ lot of propa anda from Russian sources about the idealistic lot of the Rusman work ers, when the simplest bit of investi gation would prove the horrible con- dition of there people Bome envious whisperer starts a seandal about President Wilson. about Harding, or Cox, or some other public figure, and In @ month this | silly Ne has hinsed thru the land and has become aecepted gospel for 20,- 000,000 sinful folke who are too ready to believe lies, and who have never formed the habit of reasoning in quiry. This all comes from our ancient reverence for the established things, and ts a relic of the dark ages, when it was a capital offense to question | the divinity of the king, the flatness of the earth, the absence of an actual red devil, with horns and a red hot pitehfork, and an especially meat roasting oven, where unbaptized | babes were to steam forever and for ever. You know, man tn every age, when left to hin own traditions, has slevat- od the devile anf abased the gods of right being that dwelt within him, HEARD AT THE CORNER STORE Roy—Gimme 10 cents’ worth of cod liver of}—and it's gotta be fresh Storekeeper—Fresh, did you say? Do ypu think we are going to slaughter a whale every ume a young shrimp itke yow comes in jhere and wants 10 cents’ worth of cod liver olf? An Engtish novelty ts a shopping basket mounted on two wheels, REPUBLICAN VOTERS Our National Chairman, Mr. Will H. 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