The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 9, 1920, Page 6

The Seattle Star Unfair to the City Mayor Caldwell, among others, must qujt kicking the municipal railway ound—first, because it doesn’t deserve it; and secondly, because it hurts the 1 t may be all right for unscrupulous reds who were the first to clamor for the municipal railway, to turn hypocrites and now make faces at the system, But mayor should be above stunts of this kind. a) > i There was much ado about the railway during the ds, but what is his nicipal league. ing ‘a fairly profit. Mayor Caldwe ing like mad? What does it profit the city to have its can't on. We haven't invested a nickel in the carline. It hasn't cost — AND Sie TELL You, ARISS Mister, WOULD FROM A SICK BED AND FIGHT THE ENTIRE MARINE CORPS TO GATTLE FOR ING PRIN Frank } Pure Affinity. No Dependencies. No Fear, No Favor. | A friend is the rarest jewel tn the | boman treasury. | ‘The tle that binds you te him te | pure liking, and liking ts» far scarcer than loving, scarce as love may be. <<} | Idking t# pure affinity. AND You cice Er, TO, Jenkins AE THE MGHTING WERE GONFINED To SPEAKING WY | But pit! was nit by the back-to t bug. had never been on the land. had flivvered along the rural , and it looked to independence for your} Well, politics be darned! To Intervene Brazil proposes a venture into government triding. A mensure re- cently introduced in the chamber of deputies gives the government “power to Intervene as buyer or seller’ in commercial marketa, It tan't that the government intends wiping out private business, to ban tn | *O8s* in state socialism as a substitute for individual initiative, but that the government hopes to stand between the Hrazillan producer and loxs, and, when necessary, to come between the Bresilian consumer and The municipal railway has se as a political football in one mayoralty election. Let us hope the people won't be fooled In ts between }|again by insincere attacks upon it. ~ C poor, consider u what the man {|mayoralty election. And now the cat is out of the bag. The situation is the same today. as it was then, eremy Taylor. ity Mayor Caldwell’s own admissions before the, u 8 If an arbitrary depreciation charge is added to the U ( Hl 1s actual expenses of the city line, there is a loss. If L I F E q this “paper” depreciation is not added, then the ety is m hg alent aa hasn’t changed that fact in the least since March— you might pen on your|Nor can any one else. So, why should we set up bogie men and go about scream- mayor seeped the railway in a most pessimistic light? There IS no actual loss and the city ought not to suffer in| reputation by a purely fictitious loss that even the experts | The mayor simply has to quit kicking the municipal railway around. Let’s quit knocking. anybody in this city a red cent except for what carfares we would be paying anyhow. * What's all the how) about? Pofitics? grows your cropa You ‘em, and spend = the well, doesn't it? air, outdoor exercise, lowes, . wns ay classy a ‘as you'll find anywhere. ‘The idea being nothing more than thie If prices drop below the cost of production—plus a fair profit—the government will buy, of tie prod- a ie egy ter ucts enough te hold up the price. When prices go too high—profitecring "s Sahading in an age then the government steps in and sells enough of the products to hake. lower prices. Hank had been to the city. Fenceless Lawns for four days on a the big days, what} At the newer, fashionable end of the avenue the lawns are unfenced. movies and the burlesque, | At the older end mapy lawns are protected by tron fences. cars, and the parks,| These fron fences supplanted wooden picket fences. Those who sokt crowds of people pranc-|the iron fences gave convincing reasons why tron was better than wood. street, what} For a long time it didn't oceur to any one that no fence ix needed. t out of life?) Others had fences. This had been so long es any remembered. So each felt that he also must have a fence across the front. Without stopping to figure it eut, he aswumed that @ fence was as necessary a a roof. ‘The first man to eat @ clam wns a Garing fellow. Then along came another with a venturesome, courageous heart. He put up no fence. He left his front yard open to the street, absolutely ynprotected. Others -warned him against this, There was much smve shaking of heads, and dolorows predictions that disaster would overtake him. He \ would be sorry. Those who warned him were prepared to say “We x . | told your yf to pull up stakes But nothing happened. He seemed to get along all right. Others eaid, “and go where | olwerved this. Gradually they picked up courage to follow his example. you kpow you're liv-/ Their number increased. Finally, some who had tron ferfces, purchased and erected at considerable cost, took them down. Now only a few ; No ordinary home builder erects a fonce across the front of his lot thinking it needed. That is, in 19%. How many costly things that seem neceasary today will be recognized as useless in 19307 Partial Control ‘admits, Out of the chaos of conflicting forces in Italy today there appears ait |‘ b® emerging a movement on the part of Giolitti's government to work out @ compromixe under which the workers in the metal and other industries, who seized the factories rather than'suffer lockout, shall net hea sax assume at least partial control of the management of these factories. han he did in the city shop.|, Ths control, according to present information, t# planned to last H “ fter tackling | fF five or ten years. The premier has appointed @ commission to pre- different varieties of | Pare & bill for the contro! of the industries. finally glued himself to wav-| Socialist Deputy Turutl, leader of the’right wing, or moderate Italian ‘the flag at a grade crossing, |*clalists, is a member of the commiasion. The commissioners are Tewards him.in the sum of|TePorted to regard the forthcoming act, which they are to draw, as “an egperiment which might continue over a period of 10 years, résulting finally in @ termination of labor unrest in Italf and later thruout the world.” c In other words, the Italians, with that whimsical good nature which replied another, a| distinguishes their most determined controversies, seem bent on trying Of farm hands hustling to the | out “Sovietism” peacemeal. Instead of turning the country topay- to escape the drudgery of farm|turvy by violent revolution, and attenipting to usher in a new economic * order in the midst of the inevitable chaos whicif revolution brings, there what's that other proces-| seems at least a fair chance that Italian labor will be satiafied, and Italian manufacturers, if not satisfied, will at least acquiesce without too great a struggle in a tryout of worker control of industry. If it! should, by any chance, succeed in the metal industries—and it would | be very remarkable if it should in view of Italy's lack of tron and coal —then the workers would have a real argument for its extension. Of course, the radical left wing syndicalists, headed by Maletesta, | the anarchist leader, will never consent. Neither will the more obstinate) manufacturers, But Giolitti, knowing the strength of Italian socialism and the General Confederation of Labor—already manifested in com-| pelling the government to open relations with soviet Russia, in refusing! to manufacture arms for Poland, and refusal to permit troop trains| to move—seems to be seeking a bloodless way out by arranging for this novel experiment in sovietism. 19 It could be arranged, it would at Blivvens has spent 12 that procession ™ asked _ “What's F bystander. that’s city Yellows beating it to escape the drudgery of work.” eee y freshman in a pitiable sight first the poor, besotted invades ing place of knowledge and of light fo aptly called the dim, collegiate shades. § mental areas present a blank, ‘ Why Be Discouraged? \ By Whit Hadley DID YOU KNOW THAT— Robert Clive started life with the sobriquet of “tern dunce.” His teachers pronounced him “impos sible” and requested his parents to remove him from school, At 32 he could barely read or write. Yet ‘Clive boasted that some day he) would “show everybody.” He left bome In rage and joined the army. During 4 crities] engagement, and while severely wounded, he was call ed upon to command 3,000 men. Un. trained and ridiculed by them, he nevertheleas forced those men for ward by sheer grit and succeded in defeating 5,000 men at Plassey, there by laying the foundation of the Brit- ish empire in India. Engtand erect- ed a statue to his memory in Try falgar Square, eee Another “born dunce” was Carolus Linnaeus, the Swedish naturaliat. Yorn in Rashult, In Smaland, Swed- em, what little chance he had in life ap 4 boy be threw awny. “Unhandy at everything; even unfit for the pul- pit,” later wrote his critics, Yet in the fields alone where be was com manded to work he studied botany in| @ crude way, and seven years later was joyfully hailed as the greatest botanist of his age, see Charten M. Schwab saya there are more opportunities today than ever befor®, Lut that most people live in a rut . eee Tife was not very kind to Joseph Pulitzer, aa a boy, and opportunities were few up to the age of 16. It Is reported he said: “I will make my chance.” With little money and a meager education he left his home in Budapest and came to the United States. Unknown and thoroly discouraged, when he falled to get « foothold in New York, he worked bis way to St. Louls and entered journalism as a|, reporter. In 1883 he bourht out the New York World, then a journal of small Rev. M. A. MATTHEWS will deliver a sermon Sunday morning en- titled, “The Personal Manifestation @till too far an unlicked cub to sce 4 fellow students are, in every rank, But fellow boobs, just boobs, the least be a most interesting experiment. It would be an Italian “i’lumb plan” in practicnl operation. ¢ Trade With Germany Politics may procrastinate, Statecraft may hesitate, ‘ Diplomacy may dillydally along the wny. But business gets busy; trade tarries not. Politicians, statesmen and diplomatista of the United States still are at war with Germany—and with each other. American-German peace! hasn't arrived—officially. But the United States and Germany have resumed business relations. The United States department of commerce has just issued figures of American foreign trade, revealing the progress business has made! in ending the war. For the year ending June 30, 1920, imports fgom Germany amounted to $8,540,073, as against $266,996 for the year ending) June 30, 1919. Exports from this country to Germany rose from| $8,418,842 for 1919 to $202,176,079 for the year ending June 20, 1920. | If business waited for statesmen, politicians, diplomats to biaze the trail to anywhere, business would get little father than its own front gate. But business doesn’t wait, Business paves its own way. Danger! Along the highway appeared a man waving a red flag. “Danger” he cried! “Don't go nearer; exploding dynamite In that excavation.” A bomb hurtles a human being into eternity; a wagon load of TNT kilis scores, A railroad train is wrecked, and others die, Automobile accidents add thousands to the list of maimed and slain, But all the accidents, all the bombs that have been hurted, kill fewer} People than the so-called “open-faced sneezer.” Health authorities will youch for the accuracy of that statement. This is the season for “open-faced sneezing,” By way of explanation: The “openfaced sneezer* te @ person who doesn't cover his face with his handkerchief while sneezing. Hoe scat- tern disease germs. These germs fill hundreds of thousands of coffins! every winter, and result in a large economic lows when translated into days of illness, ‘The open-faced sneezer is more dangerous than the bomb hurler, tn that he kills more people. The uncovered sneeze ts more dangerous than TNT, for the careless sneezer i» always at your elbow. bait He Gn motor car}—This lever here the brake It is put on quickly In case of an emer-} see, something like a ki- Reds have been transferred to Boston because of congestion ef Buls Island, If they were Dluca they'd probably be taken to New Haven, of Christ” In the evening he will discuss the subject, “Can Seattle Have a Pentecostal Scene?” Good Music You are welcome to our serviees, FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Seventh and Spring. ee soe a Characterizes our metho¢s tn ery transaction, and our ous- rn are accorded every cour- t bust Sa poze tons with sound 4% Wald om Savings Aossumts Aasounta Babjest to Check Ase Ou dially Invited Peoples Savings Bank ciroulation and wncertain profits, and in 1890 he etected on Purk Row one of the most costly and striking Newspaper structures in the world, He died neveral Umes @ millionaire, PAT’S REVENGE \¥ ROGER W. BABSON “Do you know that fellow Mortar. ity, that's always comin’ up and thumpin’ ye on th® chest and shout in’ “How are ye?’ asked Mike, “I know him,” answered Pat, “He's made me ache more than once, but UN get even with him yet.” “How will ye do it?" asked Mike, “Tl tell ye,” said Pat. “He's ab ways hittin’ mo just over my right Vent pocket. He'll bit me just once more. I'll put a stick of-dynamite in that vest pocket, Then where'll he be, I'd * to know!” e «Thus Pat plana to “get even,” and othegs who seek revenge are just as| willy, It always hits the man who plans it, In seeking to burt others or to “get even" w@ burt ourselves any other feeling. For Instance, any sort of depend ence tg likety to tunpair friendship | Ideal friends are arually of the same station in life, so that one may not expect advantage from the other, Friendship is hartaed by fear a | favor, | Friendship ta disturbed by money. A wine mang does business mostly with strangers and enemies, Friendship ia, as © rule, inconsint- jent with sex. Between a man and o woman friendship is probably a de- |lusion. Friendship ts not often found between man and wife; there may be loyalty, passion, but friendship ts quite different from all thene. { Friendship is incompatible with | moral propaganda, It goes without | saying that we want no man for a) | friend that neeks to injure us, but is Just as true that we want no friend | who is seeking to improve ua. | * Otter independence is eaxentia) to friendship, In fact, it might be sald that the basts of friendship is indif- ference. This does not mean lack of sympathy, but it does mean entire ab- wence of meddling, regulating, prone- tyting. It mut have room to play. | Hence friendship is difficult, not im- ponsible, but rare, between Lover and lass, Man and wife, Parent and child, Deo not fall inte loose thinking here. And do not deny the above statement too quickly, and say that very real often does exint in the relations cited. For, while tt is true that there te pornible and practical the most de Nghtful -harmeny, cooperation, jus- ice and even affection and loyalty between teacher and pupil, parent and child, and in the other cases mentioned, remember that we are talking about friendship, and for the calm, strong and uochanging feeling called friendship a certain detach- ment and independence is necessary. Friendship is, perhaps, the rarest an it in the most exquisite fewer in the human garden, Diner—Here, what @ye call this? Beef or mutton? Waltress—-Carn® yer tell the dif- ference? Diner-—Not Waltress—-Then why worry about ir eee far more than the enes we plan to hurt. Besides, when we come to think of it, most of us have no more real reason for revenge than had Pat. ‘Why hurt ourselves in trying to | change others? It is not up to us to | Judge or try to get even. It is rather up to us to “forgive and forget.” ee mh SC Mz Se co ND l wy Se ce Writes for The In Jowus of Nazareth « fact of his- tory? If not, there are some things without an explanation. ‘The four Gospels are @ fabrication end were invented to maintain and promote @ Iie, Is this believable? ‘These Gospels abound tn the subliim- ext moral teachings. They inculcate every virtue. They demand 'absolu' fidelity between man and his fellow. They cali for @ life of unyielding . They frown on the slight from rectit only for an honest clean heart. They axplare the mo- tives and Investigate the anes of the soul, and brand as bad fe that cherishes desire for evth Can At the Capital WASHINGTON, Oct. 9-—-The stage ie set for @ contest between the big- gest poap manufacturers in the coun try over the question of whether or not the middleman tn ennential to the distribution of their products. And a9 discusisong on H, C. L. invariably inctude the part played by middie men tn increasing prices and the de- nirability or undesirabilly, the possl- sumer, government economists and trade experts have taken ringside eigkesi gis #28 iat ie dincounta will evable Procter & Gam- er ultimately to wear down the By Was! enty Fund pe It’s easy to make money—if you have some. * It's easy to have money—if you eave it. It’s easy to save money—if you bank it. a ® Star Today on ry that the plea is built on a le? It is incred- ble. If Jonas is « myth, the early tlans were deceived. There can no doubt about the strength and cority of their belief, It was than surmise and conjecture. It conviction stronger than Ife itself, For the sake of this conviction they suffered the lose of al to know whether they ertved. The evidence could not be rejected in of justice. If they were deceived, | sure. If Christ 414-not lve as He. ported in the Gospels, church is without an ‘The church is here. With all tues and its faults, it is undeniable fact. Men ma; fering opinions about the church, but no man can myth. Its record is an and its influence is widespread. , | Independence and the Revolut! war as to explain the Christiag, chureh without its founder. Can it be possible that all built on a lie? As well the day without a sun without the waters of forests without without life as to Tr loses ail we think of as Gelight. Bat 1 whe have been banished and Se f ‘To the sweet solace of my reef, 0, them, ‘Mine is inner wisdom, for I leara Meaven Ip the Jor “ef getting home (Copyright, 19270, MW. RB A) Bank Depositors’ Guan of the State of Washington - It’s easy to buy 25-cent or 5-dollar Government Savings Stamps from us—if you don’t want to bank it. you will never stop saving ap you only come tn and get acqua! The potnt ts that we don’t care how you begin, We know that after you start compounded quarterly or you can open i that some day you will do business with us if inted. 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