The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 25, 1920, Page 6

“Liberties have touched ‘2 Mr. Gerrie’s re ' conditions, coupled wi lows in part: “Liberties are the wo UCH is LIFE! | “Acoumulating wealth Is pleasant.”| gays one of America’s richest men. Bo everybody else thought! “But accumulation of wealth is a Dothersome worry.” Many cries of “IT should worry big had a million or two!” “The possession of wealth usually | to a man when he is too old) the things he wanted in his days,” observed the multi “I would give all my a few of the days I en- struggling toward the @ bit of headway, It) ng that gave me hap-! I thought of a milifon id do with a million dol-| I don't want to do any HH i ui g- I ' : i i H i of Pitiful, isn’t it? Doesn't your heart overflow. with) sympathy for the man? But don’t waste all your sympathy ‘upon him, for here's another guy in ‘woeful need of it: “The happier man,” asserts the) “wealthy son of a wealthy farmer, “is . young man who has to start at bottom rung and carve his own - : i ® iS atte poem it wasn't what Edmond calls “marketable As to agricultural accuracy, entirely wrong, insists Pro A. Spade. For, as it now ap @ turnip doesn’t grow and and grow until it can grow no Yarger. 4 turnip is made to grow. Which brings the topic around to Hiram Rube, of Hickville township. . < i iif Now really starts the growing. Does the turnip grow voluntarily? Not so you could notice tt. That turnip wouldn't amount to a row of pins if Hiram didn’t get out early and stay late with it, pulling Weeds, mulching the soil, stirring up Ground, irrigating, etc., and so 8F ‘Comes fall and the turnip stops growing, pot because it cannot grow any larger, but because Hiram quit coddling it and chilling atmosphere discouraged further attempts at growth, All of which leads one to tmagine that now Hiram reaps his reward. eee Egbert saved his country in the cruel German war By counting beans and biscuits in a commissary store, But back in civil life again, he found it irked his soul To work and earn three squares a day to keep his stomach whole. He wants to go to congress on his record in the fray So now he's making speeches, but he hasn't much to say. ‘The folks they gaze upon his mush, they hear his bleating notes Ané walk away contentedily. He's lost & lot more votes, na Bre By mail, out of otty, mm the Mtate of Washington, Outside of ¢ 44.60 for @ montha or $9.00 per year, editor of the San Francisco Bulletin, in the leading article of his page recently. “The swing of tht pendtlum henceforth will curve upward,” Mr. Gerrie writes. based on his intimate, expert knowledge of financial a conversation he had with’ Dale H. Poole, of the banking house of Lee Higginson & Co., of Boston, New York and Chicago, fol- “Hold your Liberty bonds! Buy more ¢f you can! Liberties have touched their lowest. The pin Pe the pendulum henceforth will curve! upward. r .|is rapidly becoming the leading merchant in the world’s | -|market place. Seattle Star , Oe per month; # months, $1.60; @ monthe, 02.75; year, te, Te per month, By carrier, elty, 120 per week. Pubttened Balt by The Afar Publiehing Oo. their lowest,” according to John H. Gerrie, financial ’s premier investment. Temporarily under a cloud of enforced selling, they have begun to emerge beyond the silver lining. With a softer money market they will sail into leadership. Get aboard before they sail! “This nation has just furnished a remarkable ex- hibition of absorbing power. During the war it issued twenty billions in bonds. Already it has di- gested fifteen billions. That is the status of the sit- uation —: . “Fifteen billions of war bonds are in the hands of investors now. They have made their own market level. There has been no bolstering process to help them. Weak holders have sold and taken their josses. Forced selling has run its course. During the selling there has been unosten- tatious accymulation by banks, corporations and astute investors. e bonds are in strong hands. Those hands will hold, ' “The market price of Liberties today does not frighten the wise investor. His bonds are locked away until matur- ity. He knows he will get dollar for dollar and interest to boot. Instead of selling, he is buying whenever he can. He knows that at the present market the yield of Liberties is particularly attractive. He knows also the great funda- mental wealth of this nation that is back of the Liberty issues. Here are some of the facts he is banking upon: “A yearly commercial turnover of nearly six hun- | dred billions! “Estimated wealth of two hundred and fifty billions! “Estimated debt of only twenty-five billions! it “Agriculture alone yielding more than fourteen bil- ions! “Railroads alone appraised at nearly twenty billions! “He knows that, as a nation, we may be retarded from time to time by political differences, but that the trend of our progress forever shall be forward. He knows that ood and industrial conditions, by and large, are better today than in the nation’s history. He knows that business ethics | are on a higher plane than ever before and that this country e. So he is holding his Liberty bonds and, buying more has submitted te him @ problem decision instantly nor does he an assembled mob of fang in average judge will decide tn a year not nearty so many cases a2 an umpire in @ baseball game decides in the course of two hours, And the umpire must decid He has ho chance to hear, afruments by the opposing tears and nobody ever files a brief In the! case at bar. He must pass on the point at issue right now and if the) decision means the winning of a ball game, as so often a decision does, | then the arbiter is liable to be mobbed after the contest is over. The judge sits in court, looked up to by all and esteemed by all, while the umpire has nd friend and everybedy who has paid his way| in is free to address uncomplimentary remarks to him. Yet the umpire has the harder job of the two. Because he has to pass judgment so quickly, he is bound to make mistakes that the judge in court can avoid by deliberation. The umpire, too, has so many fair lawyer will make a good judge; at least a» good a judge as the average of today, Bdt good umpires are bern and not made. Not ail good ball players are good umpires by any manner of meana | The Danger Year | A boat adrift in a whiripool ts akin to fate'’s handling a newly mar- ried couple on the sea of matrimony. Wee, insignificant quarrels easily may be likened to the whirling waters which twixt and turn the boat sometimes to send It to smoother sailings, or to whirl it so rapidly that the craft sinks before it can right itself. | Petty quarrels grow, and false pride, greatest and oldest enemy of married happiness, wrecks for all time the one real haven they know, home. Gilbert Frankan, the novelist, belleves the seventh year of married life is the most dangerous “Then passion.” he says, has cooled, and often there is nothing to take its place. Marriages founded on a mere whim or infatuation may lose their happiness in a year.” Others assert it is a question of age only. “I think the ‘danger year’ of marriage varies according to the dif- ferent classes of people,” says another writer, “Where the wife is her own maid, the danger year, for her, is the year the first child is born. Very often the girl-wife, new to the many household duties, fond of pleasure and pretty clothes, grows morbid because of the great care and the necessary extra economy the baby brings. Sympathy and love from her husband tide her over and when the full realization of life grows upon them—complete understanding, essential to married happ!- ness, has come to them.” “Eugenics and more honesty relating to life are the most tmportant factors of the-ideal marriage relation,” says a prominent divorce lawyer Judges, magistrates and lawyers seem to agree that “ignorance” is to blame for more divorces and separations than all other causes, Brasil and Brazil My, but they had a terrible fuss in Brasil! } No, not “Brazil,” for it isn*t Brazil; it is Brasil, minister of finance of Brasil. He ought to know! All this mess of trouble started in Brazil, Ind, U. 8. A. Brazil is a small North American city, while Brasil is a blg South American country. Rec y a banknote issued by @ national bank of Brazil, Ind, arrived at Brasil, South America, It occasioned more conversation in Rio de Janeiro than the latest coffee quotations. It may be explained that all Brasil's paper money ts printed in the United States. And these Brasilians jumped at the conclusion that the U. 8. A. was trying to put something over on them. “Making out as if Brasil was an American colony,” Ferras. “No,” explained Deputy Frontin, “this ‘Ind.’ on the banknote shows it was issued by one of the American states.” “Well,” shrieked Deputy Ferras, “doesn't that prove that the United States is stealing our country’s noble name for some tanktown station | on a branch line in Ind, wherever Ind is?’ After hours of debate they got the matter troned out stnoothly, and voted a law making it illegal for Brasilians to spell the name of thelr country with a “z.” But you just wait until Brazil, Ind. hears about those South Ameri cans calling that thriving Indiana community a tank-town station on a branch linet according to the | yelled Deputy Avoirdurots often passes for poise. Food riots in Dresden; the china waa bare. Atredales? Nine puppies born on an airplane. Eva Tanguay's married again. “We don’t care.” Grocers don’t seem to realize that fall time is here. Remember when skirts were 0 tong they swept the sidewalks? The Fiume national council resigned. Perhaps D’Annunsto’s proclama- tion was in blank verse. A Wisconsin woman who alept two years was awakened by her child. Most mothers consider themsclves lucky U the baby lets them sleep two hours, i more points on which to pass than haa the judge. And almost any! RATURDAY, SEPTEMMER 1, 1928. ‘What Is a ‘There are as many answers to th: question: What is a Christian? as there are gones of life Nationally, a Christian fs @ eftizen of a nation In which Christianity ts he majority religion. Theologically, a Christian is one who accepts the dogmas built on the teachings of Jesus. Philosophically, a Christian ts one who amsenta to that conception, of Ufe promoted and expounded by Christ and His aposties. Intellectually, @ Christian ts one who believes In the historic Christ without necemarily yielding his life to Christ's control. . Ethically, a Christian ts one who accepts Christ's code of morals with- out thereby subscribing to His creed. COMPANIONS IN CRIME Customer—Do you Make any re duction for thone In the same line of btulnens? Waiter—Yes; are you « restaurant keeper? Customer—No; I'm a robber.—-Le fire, Paris. Special akin treayment. Moedicat Complexion Beautifier, $3.12 remedy, Herb Medicine P, O. Box 851 oa Goltre-Go Mfg. Co. will deliver a sermon Sunday morning entitled, THE COMMUNION In the evening he will discuss the subject, THE CIVIC DUTY OF CHRISTIANS Come this afternoon at three o'clock to hear all about Russia, by one of Russia's great preachers, Rev. G. Perteleviteh Raud. A Welcome to All. FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Seventh and Spring The box is blue Opal jar inside Be sure to get real Resinol If you want to get rid of eczema, pimples, or other distressing skin eruption, you will accept no '' sub- stitute’ for Resinol. Preparations similar in name or appearance are not ‘‘just the same as Resinol.’ Although a few unscrupulous deal- ers may offer them as or for Res- inol, they are often crudely made, of little healing power, and some may even be dangerous to use. Buy in the original déve package. Resinol is never sold in bulk xe Dr. James L. Vance Writes for The Star Today on AS 1T SEEMS TO ME DANA SLEETH Doctor Frank |CRANE’S Daily Article (Copyrient, 1920) I Don’t Know, Proof of Wisdom. The Plant of Humility. Fool Pride. ‘The roe Bugar's a governmental boosts the tax rate KOBABLY a visitor from | mijis @ year. wome logical world, @| J believe that Iam not « world where man was a®| ary, but I will make bold to pay tl | ‘The best proof of wisdom ta a| reasonable and as persist: | between deing governed by willingness to confess ignorance, ent as the natural proc | Dee and Lenine, that I'lh take Ja’ yes ¢ sworn on Which he depended for an ex | and between being bosned by T |_ There are some people who have| istence, would marvel at us for our | men; and a soviet of bob hawed an unpleasant habit of being abno- lutely certain about everything, It ought to disgust us with this sort of | thing to note that all fakers, hum impontors, and frauds have the | habit, The Dowies and atreet comer | | orators never hesitate. On the other | hand, when you talk to a man of |real learning, mature experience, and trained mind, such @ man as a ect to provide for our nelves the simplest necenmition, Such @ tourist would seg empires of sugar cane waving in the low-| lands, and other empires of sugar beets thriving over a stretch of thousand hills; he would see great storehouses bulging with raw sugar, and warehousen filled with the re- | kintere and unshorn immigrants, take Tammany. . . ADMIT that the American public is b out of billions, but I that the American has the bifiions, The | stan peasant will not be looted fined product; he would #ee the hon-| much, because he will never Hocrates or Mark Hopkins of Presi | Cy bee dintilling purest sweets from | anything to tempt a thief. lent Eliot, the mont striking thing} the air and the flowers, from the I notice this, too: Thirty about him is his attitude of childlike | modenty, Certain plants never grow except n certain solle—edelweian in the Alps, bananas in the tropies, and acti in the sands of, the deserts. Wherever you find the plant called | humility, you will always find real Wisdom in the brain soll that grows it ‘The other day I was conversing with @ young woman and the mub- ject of socialism was mentioned. f-Oh, yes," she sald, “I know all about that er—Karl Marx, you know—and strikes—and the laboring lane-—we bad it in school, you know,” I noon discovered that beyond “a lick and a promise” she had given | the matter in the high school she knew nothing, It was an example of the positivity of a vast and com- prehensive ignorance. It ts upon the ignorance of the avorid that the partisan plays, He knows that men hate to acknowledge they do not understand. There is « fool pride in ud which makes us| want to parade a knowledge we do} Dot Posnenn, The most ardent fighters for any jarcular political platform, or re ligious creed, or social scheme are those who have one part fact and| ninety-nine parts hoopla, We quote second-hand opinions, turn and twist to argue for what we have already made up our mind to believe, We 0 to mass meetings and how! for free silver and bark at the “cross of gold.” We turn this preacher out of the association because he does not Believe Jesus was born of a| virgin. We call the one a narrow bigot because he does believe Jesus was born of @ virgin. A NOVICE weeds and the wild shrubs by the stream, and he would see @ hundred million people in the exact center of these treasures scrambling for a petty pound or two of nature's lar gees, and paying exorbitant prices for this trifling crumb of sweet com- fort. Such a visitor would wonder how we came in such @ tangle, and in that bewilderment he would be at one with the rest of us. ‘The housewife knows that when It came time to can, sugar was out Of | the initiative, the recall] and the reach, and when the canning #eason | erendum; but so far as the sturdy passed the bottom dropped out of the} dependence and awakened ini market. gence of the people is We know that when sugar was 11) there has been a vast advance, cents @ pound, there was no Sugar, | he will be a canny schemer, ff but that when it was jumped to 27| who can tomorrow fool the nation: cents there was wugar in abundance. | with a pecudo-president, jerked here Yesterday sugar was 22, today itis/and yon by @ Hannalikeshiddem — 20, 18,.16, according to where you | hand r buy. Tomorrow it may be 11, 9%, or And this aroused and anything in between, and that with- out apparent reason. Some few sugar speculators have been broken on the wheel of their | selfinhness——glad of that. | ‘The rag, tag and bobtall of hetero | | geneous Cuba is rolling in wealth— nothing there to complain of. Half the families of the country have been deprived of necessary sweets for a year, and the cellar shelves are empty of thelr glass and Unned teasures, And several millions of dollars have been diverted from the course of honest business and have been poured into the pockets of those who already had more than they could use. That seems a silly sort of a sys | tem; almost as silly as our insane sit- vation in regard to gasoline, or cord | wood, or shoes, or wool clothing. eee ¥ HEREFORE let us adopt | Aveid Imitations and Substitutes Bullshevitism and end - profiteering? Charectertses cur gy CJ nese Judgment ago, market manipulation of our | food necessities was common and | unremarked by the public, Today | the slightest whisper of man | not only arouses national wrath, the people take direct action, and, refusing to bly, they administer tice, a6 several sugar gamblers admit. . 80 far as government by the ticans is concerned, I doubt if it Much better than it was a | ago, despite the direct primary alien rede among us, fessional political advit gard patriotism as a platform and the flag as @ meal ticket. — ~ “SacHor! Christian?’ | Ecclestasticaly, a Christian ts on | who ia a member in good and standing in some Christian eb: Eevangetically, a Christian ts one who claims to have undergone th Spiritual change known as regenera |tlon and who adheres to the Chris. | tan doctrine of the atonement. | Experimentally, a Christian is one | who comes to know Christ in the tn | ner procenses of the soul, having be Neved on Him with the heart as well as the head, and who daily strives to [embody Christ's precepta in his life. Practically, a Christian ts one who attempts to apply the teachings of Jenua to real life Savingly and Scripturaly, @ Chris tian is one who “confemes with his mouth the Lord Jeris, and believes a ly those Russian idealists are ‘earer starvation than we are, and the lot of the anarchist general-| ly appears to become the less envi-| able in the direct proportion to his ability fo live according to his own visions, I think not. Apparent: | sak in his heart that God has raised Him I have watched the election of from the dead.” “good men” to office for a long time, 4% And eo there are all kinds of Chris. pr acre pore nga eg weed do anything, to think any thought, that we had worse government un- heeoun ts Out fect to Check Are Com to’ read any book, to make any plan. der the “good man” than we did un- - dally Invites to start any movement, without mw Mra. Blusox—Aren't you fond of | der the paras oh pin poms kad geen => wudnt val acyl pe ind bea wat -Cen't say that T am te cute Soaks for himself, The ama- Peoples Savings Bank of the gentle Nazarene. He i tho| Thos imported cigarets always | tour, the idealist, given power, leans | SECOND AVE. AED PIES GE. unavoidable Christ. make me cough. backward in his personal integrity, eee ecemenss & Deposits Guaranteed Washington Bank Depositors’ Guaranty 7 es nase NTU RRTIIES wy, Fund of tte State of Washington, oi - i [na Today’s Dollar Will Soon Be Worth More The fact that the dollar today will buy but half what it would a few years ago should be the greatest incentive to save one could have. Put those dollars into a ‘savings account where they will work for you and earn com- — interest until their normal purchasing power returns, or such time as you need em. 4 Then you will only need half as many dollars to buy what you could today and with the interest accumulating each month you will be many times better off than to spend your money now. A good many of us have the wrong idea of valuen “We think nothing worth while that is not expensive. 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