The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 30, 1920, Page 6

The Seattle Star By mail, ovt of etty, S00 per month; # montha, 1.6 tm $8.00, fn the 14.60 for & m Publianed Datty by The Star Publ @ months, 92 year, r te Ths month, Bate of Wai per y, le per week. onthe or #9 Writing for the New Republic, Chester H. Rowell, well known Californian, presented the following able summary of the Japanese question: “Because the question of Japanese immigration has been agitated chiefly by California, there is a tendency to regard it as a local California question, whose importance Californians local aspects, this may be exaggerate, from a too-near perspective. As to its conceded, The Californian who would risk the peace of the world because he is annoyed by too many Japanese neighbors at Florin or San Gabriel must not ¢ expect sympathy except from the few others similarly situated. And of course any pretense that Occidental civilization is staggering under the burden of one or two hundred thousand industrious and generally law-abiding Japanese is too absurd te be regarded as anything, but hysteria. If this. were all, Californi ans would deserve the serene condescension with which their appeals are too often met. “What thoughtful Cali To go to law is for two persons to kindle fire at their own cost to warm others, and singe themselves to cinders. —Felltham. Letters to the Editor— Uae ink or typewriter. One side of paper only. Bign your name. APPOINTMENT OF P. M. BY CIVIL SERVICE Waitor The Star: I was very much fn. an article which ap- in the September 24th tesue your paper, under the title “ ‘Dub’ Mailman by Hard Work Gets Ble ‘The write-up related to the ap- tment ef John M. Jones as post- master at Portland, Ore, thru the Rew merit system (if {t may be called new) which was inaugurated more than three years ago. Following the executive order ts. sued by the president, placing ~— Position of postmaster at first an class postoffices under civil supervision, there was a t deal of complaint from the| of both great political par- The party that was in power g@eemed to feel that legitimate pat- had been wrenched from and the party that was out power scemed to regard the plan with suspicion, claiming that it was & political trick to perpetuate polith favorites in government jobs. After a test of over three years of plan, altho in the midst of a very political presidential campaign, never hear any criticism of {t. reason for this is the fact that position of postmaster has post- tively been removed from the bane- influence of partisan politics thru service examination. In each instance, the highest eligible receives appointment to the position if no “eg charge can be brought his character. Such charges, fhade, must be substantiated by & nom-partisan investigation. The 4 papers of all applicants are rate! by " & non-partisan board and all state- ments as to politics or religion are barred from the applications. The Fating, therefore, is strictly meri torious. a ‘Therefore, you will observe that the appointment of Mr. Jones at Portland was not a departure from the usual practice of the government @t the present time. In fact, all ap- Pointments to postmaster positions are now being made in the same Manner as that outlined in the Port land case, and have been so made) since the executive order of March 31, 1917, was issued. Very respectfully, Cc. W. PAINE, District Secretary, . THREE GIGGLING GIRLS AND BRAINLESS YOUTH Editor The Star: A word on traf. fic rules. As you know, from 7 to 9 D. m., on Second ave., there is gener- ally a line of automobiles «stretched Out at times for two blocks without @ space to get thru. People are Standing in the street trying to get t© the sidewalk. All of a sudden some fellow steers his machine out of the line into the street and you have got to do some quick thinking and lively stepping to keep from getting Killed. One of these machines did this last evening, and would have Fun over a woman had [ not grabbed her by the arm and pulled her out of the way. The three giggling girls and brainless youth had @ big laugh and thought it a joke. There should be some rules whereby these ma chines should be compelled to keep in line, or, if they are in a hurry, go on some jess busy street. Yours for safety, PAUL GOERNER. The oldest work of fiction extant fg thought to be “The Tale of Two Brothers,” written 3,200 years ago by the Theban scribe, Enana. GUESS THIS ‘The picture am ene of the oldest, and one of those most frequently What is it? fee tomorrow's Star for correct answer. | |later we shall have to admit the Chinese also. fornians contend is that this is not all, and that in its jlarger aspects the Californian, not the provincial Eastern view, presents the truer perspective. In this we are joined by all the English-speaking white peo- ples bordering the Pacific—by Washington, Oregon, British Columbia, Australia and New Zealand. These peoples are only a small part of the white race of the world. But they are its vanguard and its jwhole representation on the shores of the Pacific. | And they are unanimous in demanding the support of the American Union and of the British Empire in} excluding Japanese and Chinese immigration. “They all need immigrants, and they all reject those {m- |migrants who are nearest and easiest to get and whose! jlabor, if admitted, would produce immediate and great pros- | }perity in their several commonwealths. Whatever the |abstract merits of this race question, at least there is only one concrete opinion on it among the outpost peoples of ithe white man’s world. | “In California the situation presents itself under various aspects, some of which are confessedly local and temporary. There are perhaps a hundred thousand Japanese in the state (no one knows the real number), mostly industrious and _useful people. Some of them are engaged in business or professions and some in skilled mechanical trades, but most of them are farmers. As farm laborers they scatter every- | where, but as farm owners or renters they tend to concen- \trate in a few districts, and to Hawaiianize these. As ‘laborers and as renters the larger land owners welcome them. As land owners, nobody wants them, and as land renters nobody wants them for neighbors. The reasons are partly economic. They underlive and overwork their white |competitors. But they are mostly racial. | “Right or wrong, our people will not live with those of-a | physically different race except on the basis of that race’s inferiority. Since the Japanese are not inferior, and are in |some respects superior, there is friction. Seven years ago California passed an alien land law, forbidding land owner- | ship by ‘aliens ineligible to citizenship’ (which means Japan- ese) and restricting their right to lease land to three years. Ingenious lawyers found ways of getting around these in- |hibitions by putting title in the name of native-born minor \children and naming their parents as guardians. So there is an initiative law now before the people, limiting guardian- ship over real estate to persons eligible to own real property, and abolishing the leasing privilege entirely. The initiative will undoubtedly pass, but it will have little effect. Leases will be changed into contracts ostensibly for personal employ- ment, and other forms of guardianship will be devised. othing will have happened except the impressive declara- tion of the people of California that they do not want the Japanese. | “So far as the Japanese now here are concerned, this is ‘all; and it is not much. Willingly or unwillingly, we shall have to make a place for them in our industrial structure, jand they will fill it well—too well to suit us. If this is all, we tan stand it, and it may even be good for us. Certainly it is California’s business whether we face the problem wisely and Teap the benefits or foolishly and take the conse- quences. Either way, if the Japanese do not increase we can take care of those who are here. The only great thing is to be sure that there shall be no more of them. And over that not California, but the nation, has jurisdiction. On this our appeal to the nation at large is based. “The possibilities of increased numbers are three—the birth rate, smuggling in violation of the ‘gentlemen's agree- ment,’ and a letting down of the immigration bars, under the plea that whatever laws we pass must not discriminate between races. % “Statistically, the birthrate looks startling. Mr. V. S. McClatchy has presented figures to show that in a few gen- erations the Japanese will be most of the population of \California. To which Mr. John P. Irish responds with | computations showing that by similar geometric progression Mr. McClatchy’s grandchildren will then own all the land in California. Of course neither will happen. But the nucleus is here, and it is already certain that for all time to come California will have a considerable population of Oriental race. What has happened to Hawaii has begun to happen to us. Even a slight relaxation of the immigration bars would finish it. The natural increase alone, in spite of Mr. McClatchy’s startling figures, will scarcely do so. “Under the ‘gentlemen's agreement,’ Japan avoids an exclusion law by undertaking to,do the excluding from the| Japanese side. Japanese laborers can not enter the United States without passports, and Japan undertakes to refuse these passports. But if a Japanese does smuggle in, over the Mexican border, and can then lose himself among his own people for a few years, there is no way afterwards of excluding him. Chinese exclusion is effective, because if a |Chinaman does slip in and is caught afterward without the \necessary papers, he can be deported. A Japanese can not. In consequence there is an undetermined but doubtless very considerable amount of organized smuggling over the border. {If this continues and grows, either an exclusion act or a tightening of the terms-of the gentlemen’s agreement will become imperative. | “But of course the only overwhelming menace would /eome from a reversal of the national policy that we: shall have one law for immigrants of European race and another |for those of Oriental races. To relax or compromise that | principle would be to undermine the dyke that keeps out the! infinite ocean. For the really serious aspect of this race question is the fact that the races which we are considering are so overwhelmingly numerous. There are nearly as many Japanese as Americans. There are four times as many Chinese. If the racial barrier is to be lowered, sooner or Then there will happen to America—to California immediately and to the whole nation within a generation—what has already happened to Hawaii. Our grandchildren will find out, from the Hawaiian laboratory, whether they dare let that happen. “What their verdict will be is perhaps academically debat- able. But until the verdict is rendered, the frontier people of the white man’s world are unanimous that it is th advance-guard duty to take only one side of it. For this is the only human blunder which, once made, can never be undone. The world may go Bolshevist or imperialistic, Buddhist or atheist; it may abolish property, marriage, government or liberty, and afterward retrace its steps. But it can not mongrelize physically different races and ever after unmix them. Either they will intermarry, and destroy the white race (the yellow race is safe in Asia) or they will THE SEATTLE STAR | EVERETT TRUE AND ts THs PARTIOS TO THS | WHEN T TALK TO ou LOOK M@ IN “THE GYG, AND Not UP AND DOWN AND SIDEWAYS IN A CRITICAL SXAMINATION Of THE CUT NO TOXTURE or ‘ UCH i LIFE! Take a shot at the moon! Perfectly safe, this shooting at the moon, | You may not hit the moon. But there'll be nobody round here who can say you didn’t If you aimed at something lower we'd know if you mined. Therefore, aim at the moon! Worry your brain with the canals on Mara. Sit up nights wondering how the canal system on Mars may be im proved. days drawing diagrams of Argue with the other fellow that these canals are mere irrigation ditches. Or prove to him that they are highways of commerce. This is a very important matter, worthy @ lifetime of study and con Versation, ot ” Some wire guys already have learned that ft takes thousands of years for light from distant stars to reach the earth. Star light, still reaching us, tf traveling from a «un which long since has darkened. Scientists now are doping out the situation we'll be in when the last ray of this extinct sun's light ar riven, WIM it cause a drop, more or lesa, or won't happen? Did another estar come into exist- ence some million years ago, just at the right time to get ite rays to the earth when the falling star's light faded from our vision? Who knows? (“Who gives a whoop?” asks Squire Aboer Harpington.) And those spots on the sunt My goodness, they're bothering large flock of our very best atu dents! Some classy brains are bubbling over in sunspot study, Are the spots getting larger? Or smaller? Are there more now than | yesterday? Or lees? If it takes a sun speck $,641,2 years to crow spot, what will years hence? That's something to purzle any conglomeration of gray matter! Why, honest to goodness, some! scientista worry as much over these! sun spots as a pretty girl does about a few freckles on her noset | into a mature «un it be 246 million “Shooting at the moon may be fine scientific sport,” observes Car-| be kept from doing so by a caste system which will destroy democracy. Either there mus tier at the Golden Gate, or frontier, right down the middle of our institutions. not a question entirely of econ nomic¢ inequalities are temporary and we have already assim- ilated civilizations quite as al question of physical race, and race is hereditary. It lasts| forever. “Also it is a question of world peace. | spent that time finding a more ef. By CONDO” Conquer Temper BY ROGER W. BABSON Billy Sunday told of a woman who had a bad temper but who maid ahe was “over it in a minute.” Billy remarked: “So is a Gatling gun, but ft blows everything to pleces.* We keep out of the way of the person who bas a temper. At least, we try to, It ien't pleamant to be “blown to pieces as most of us know by un pleasant experiences, I like to hear a man may of his “I have it under com plete control” Does this mean that it won't go? Decidedly not. It means that it will travel easily at Ite highest speed without any likelihood ot an aceldent; that ft will do ex- actly what ts required of it and do it without effort, ‘Temper tw all right, but i should be under control, When a man can fight against worry, dimease, appetite, or passion. under great opposition and yet with out strain, we all admire him. ‘The same is true of the man who can conquer his own temper, motor car CONCLUSIVE EVIDENCE William and Henry, chauffeurs, were dincussing the ill luck of a feb low chauffeur, Clarence, who had the day before been fired for taking out | his employer's car without permis. sion, “Rut how did the boss know Clar. ence had taken the car out? asked Henry. “Why.” explained William, “Clar ence ran over him."—Harper’a, Renner toonist Bob Satterfield, “but I'd rather see ‘em take @ shot at some thing nearer home.” (and) “The canal system of Mars has lows to do with the cost of living,” argues Squire Abner Harpington ‘than the way railroads block wa terways improvements on earth.” (and) “If all the earth's water-power wns used,” asserts Secretary of In terior Payne, “electric light would be so cheap and plentiful we wouldn't mixs a few stars at night.” Any pretty girl knows ft would be far better [f sunspotting scientists fh tr Oe eee nt method of removing human lea, t be a geographic racial fron- else we shall have a social It is omics or of civilization. Eco- ien as the Japanese. It is a If the scattered embers of the European war are successfully extinguished, a world-polit; is theoretically and probably practically pos- sible which will guard against the repetition of that calam- ity. Nothing can guard the peace between the Occident and the Orient except the development of friendly co- operation across the Pacific. It will take all the nations to establish that peace, but any two of them could break it. We must make sure that these two are not America and} Japan. And to this end we must avoid causés* of friction. | With the two races physically on different sides of the! ocean, we can develop our common national and international Doctor Frank CRANE’S Daily Article (Copyright. 1920) A Letter. To My Landlord. How About Heat? Right Now. Dear Sir, Mins, Mra, mpany. Dr., Hon., or I don't know who you are. I never met you, and don't hope to meet you. Not in this world I rent a flat in your apartment It is a nice flat, an flats go, and tam thankful that theu your merey I have a roof over my head in these | days when better men than I are| | roaming the streets and rooming in hotels, But I want to tell you something I can't reach you. The only man I can get to in an Age in marble, and whose insides arg of brass, Besides, he ts @ lar. not mind that Only he has no imagination, He's a poor liar And no, having no way to get you, O owner and man-higher-up in this building, and the said agent having refused to give me your name and address, and having informed me that if I have any business with you I must pass it thru him, and I not wishing to go to the electric chair whone for what pass @ might make if I| saw him again, I say in view of all this, and 1 having @ part of this newspaper at my dinposal, I take | this means and opportunity to ad- irens you, Hence, with a aflent prayer that you may read this, I make known to you my petition, It fs not much. If the granting of it costs you more, stick on some| more rent; I'm used to having the price of things raised. My request is this—this only, I WANT HEAT, I want it now It doubtless is not the time on the enlendar for it, But calendars won't keep mo warm. Cold makes me sick. I get the stomach ache and the chills and fever and the neuritis and the rheumatism. I hate to go to the cold bed, and hate to get up in the cold room. I shiver in the bath room. And in the dining room my teeth rattle no 1 can't eat my soup nolselessly, as a gentleman should. You allow me fo stove, You've stopped up the gas hole in the tm! tation firepla There's nothing hot in the kitchen but the cook, Please give me some steam heat. Nobody ¢lse may want it. don@ they can turn it off. But I turn it on if there isn’t any. ‘This is the most treacherous and dangerous time of the year. It looks so bright and sunny outdoors, But within all is a whited sepuichre. Please, Mister Landlord. 1 know I'm @ poor nobody. I don't belong to @ labor union and can't strike. I'm not in with the police and can't threaten. I have seen my lawyer, and he smiled and told me I couldn't do anything, as the law does not face| Rut I would} THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1920. ] ad AS IT SEEMS T0 ME DANA SLEETH HY did God make weeds? 1 yowe everybody idencles has | er that prob hu , brink, # in the why were | words {man weeds, tares, uneleas, dangerous nub san order that God didn’t make t weeds do not exist | jexcept in an unnatural and sense | bound world, But that is sophistry, a necking of an easy way out, for) weeds do exist, and they bear as| much evidence of divine arrange ment In thelr affairs as does man I know why weeds were allowed, | for I have been watehing the fall mi: | gration of the birds for three weeks | now, and have been noting the joy with which each south-winging troupe greets a patch of assorted weeds in a fence corner of mine, The seed of weeds supports our| | bird life; it afford, n abundant, ever | present and assorted table spread be | fore the voyagers of the air, With out weeds, We either would have no| birds, or else we would have to raise | our fruit, our flowers and our vege- |tables under glass, because the | winged armies would descend like locust hordes and devour our suste- | nance, Weeds also supply the tnsect world | with its many needs, and the insect world feeds the order of greater | birds that do not thrive on seed alone, Our tnsects furnish many epe cles of animals that in turn feed the greater birds and beasts of the woods and fields, We have no conception of what sort of a world this would be without birds and insects, It is to be doubted if man could exist without the in sects which pollenize his plants and without the birds who keep enemy insects in check, and which serve Onn compel you to start a fire in the fur- nace until Christmas eve, and you can turn it off New Year's Day. Hence I have no recourse but to your mercy, ifany, I grovel. I beg. I bow down. I abase myself before you. I offer you all the money the | grocer and butcher have left me. | Hear these trembling words from | my bide and pinched lips, and an- | awer, and receive the blessings of a perishing man, just before he rigidi- fies: | GIVE ME HEAT, STEAM HEAT, | NOW! If they| One popular way of dodging the|*® | nine-tenths of the earth as ite engers. . . CTENTIFICALLY ered, it in weeds are more important to the comfortable habitas tion of man upon this” arth than the street car, steam heat, tricity or modern plumbing. ‘Then this must be remembered, the weeds were here fire, Our ® «rains, our fruits, our flowers, all come from weeds, and in time many % of our improved varieties run out” and return to the source from which ~ they sprang Nature provided the earth with erything man needed. Certain herb rat healing power, Others: have a give man milk. Nature somewhere on the” th has a plant for every bodligy need or ailment of man, and in the | old days the pioneers sought out these remedies, and these foods, these salads and garnishments, and filled storehouse and medicine ¢ without need of grocery oF store. Today we find it more co to compound medicines in les, to grow our salad stuffs 4 glass, and to cultivate certain cte | ed grainy and gtasses rather than g@ _ afield to gather from nature's as sortment. :4 That we live more healthfully, better nourished, or with less nd vexation than our ancestors der their primitive system might doubted, coe NOTHER {dea about weed thing. man wants to improve existing plant, he —=i back to the “weed” dom for his start. Walnut growers today are graf the English walnut on the u black stock to secure hardiness vigor. 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