The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 16, 1920, Page 6

The Seattle Star eet of etter, tte month, 3 je od SS 18 tor ¢ mon 92.78) (year, Per ment, per weok 5 # mothe, of Woshington, rinla, The OF 00.08 per year, ‘Ovtaide of |e By It was originally intended that the title of this editorial should be: “The Essential Idiocy of Our Political System.” Perhaps. that’s still the better Bame. For politics gives us the willies. Think of having‘to decide which of two can- didates for resident, whi candidates K or governor, most merits the support ch of three candidates for senator, which of three f an independent newspa- per which endeavors to advise independent voters what is best for them to do! UCH is LIFE) Fred Santee ts the newort Har prodigy, He's 23 and special im Latin, Greck, wigonometry ona eee THEYRE NEVER TOO OLD LEARN, 2S OLDER THEY ARE, THE ER THEY FALL. TRY, TRY, TRY AGAIN. IF AT FIRST YOU DON'T svc. @EED, TRY A SHCOND. Any one of the headings may fit Qe following story: D. J. Maniey, 93 years of, om Parked upon his fifth matrimonial > woyage at Fort Worth, Tex., recent: jm company with Mra M.A. Wal $3 years old. This makes her Sith busters HERE IT MIGHT BE NOTED T— ‘Mr. and Mra, James Turner, Weat Ind, have just celebrated the anniversary Justice well of the " her Judge William N. mixes jelly with than a hundred Mr. Deft, de best to “What's a little pig?” asked three yearold Carrie, who never had seen Pork other than in chops and sau- mse. “A pie” sald Johnnie, “is an old Father had nothing to my for quite & while. . . @ONCERNING SEAMS, AND THE DIFFICULTY OF KEEPING THEM STRAIGHT My Dear Men: It's all very well scoff, but if one of the would devise a magic gar. id keep ‘em straight, the would be in the of you superior try walking two blocks yt of thelr marriage.) ee Consider the eight candidates under discussion. Does any one of the eight arouse your enthusiasm? Can you grow excited inydiscussing the merits of a single specimen? Do youjget anything but ennui out of this campaign? Yet, that’s the normal rasult of the system under which this nation operates, even with the various |minority parties, some of whiich rise to the dignity of being jealled “third party” in some states, only to rank fourth or /fifth in others. | The division into republicans and democrats is purely lartificial. You can’t sort them out by any known process; they don't divide on any single issue. ether it’s tariff, league of nations, preparedness, taxation, government own- ership of mines and railroad's, imperialism, Oriental immi- gration, prohibition, woman suffrage, er vs. closed shop, or recognition of soviet Rusgia, you'll find republicans and democrats on both sides-—and, members of most of the minor parties, too. * There are, as we see it, about five actnal currents of | thought in American politics:—radical, liberal, progressive, conservative and reactionary. Perhaps you'll get our menning better if we nominate the natural leaders of these five groups: The greatest radical—Yugene V, Debs. The greatest liberal—-Robert M. LaFollette. The greatest progressive—diiram Johnson, The greatest conservative—Charles FE. Hughes. The greatest reactionary—Elihu Root. Besides these there would be an outer fringe at both ends of the list—a fringe of revolutionists like Bill Haywood, and a fringe of terrorists like Mitchell Palmer, equally dangerous |today and equally harmless under a political system more resi ive to the public will e bulk of our population is neither radical nor reac- tionary. It would divide into liberals, progressives and con- |servatives. One could slide from any one class into the next without much shock. There would be a fluidity about our | political grouping that we now lack. With a non-partisan system of nominations in effect, to be followed by a non-partisan run-off election, the nation would be spared the spectacle of nonentities oe into ita highest offices. That's our weakness now. bi-partisan system keeps too many good men down and many bad men up. A tri- plan would be about as bad. Abo- lition of party lines at primaries and elections will do a lot toward keeping nincompoops. out of office. Just to amuse or in yourself, suppose you try to figure out which of the five political groups you would fol- low—radical, liberal, progressive, conservative or reaction- Premier Giolitt! says the world wif soon follow Italy's example and give workingmen everywhere a share in the supervision of all industries When a roaster of practical politics Nke Gilolitt! makes @ prediction ft tx take noticn For Giotitt) has the reputation of never being post statements until he has mastered his subject. meeting with the employers to evolve @ual supervision of thelr mutual interents. That is the way saved Italy from Bolsheviem. The workingmen will ha capitalists will not feht the Italian plan of labor co-opera- has nothing legitimate to lose by permitting labor to under. When labor knows the financial facts, there exorbitant demands for wage increases. When labor the output, there will be an end to the policy of the man who And, as executive control serves to keep up the workers’ efficiency, so knowledge by the workingmen of what the cecutives are doing will de velop higher ability in management. For, when workingman and man- ager come together as mutual supervisors the manager will have to ac- count for executive mistakes as the workingman does for mistakes in the shop. Progress requires this mutual watchfulness, as education spreads among the workers. Giolitt! is the Srat statesman to accept the fact and He has mved Italy from Bolsheviem by bis act. It is noteworthy that the recent report of the labor relations committee of the Chamber of Commerce in Seattle does not look askance at the idea that labor shall be given a wider opportunity to know the managing en4 of the business. The committee, too, has vision. Changes Overnight “If you were to commit the socialist party in America to the interna tional program laid down by Lenine, you would abrolutely kill the party!” This is the answer given by Eugene V. Debs, socialist candidate for president, from his cell in Atlanta penitentiary, in anewer to the national | campaign committees of the socialist party which asked him to define his position on the Thirtl or Communist Lotermational organized by Lenine, Troteky and company at Moscow, Debs’ answer shown @ realization that America and Amerteans can never be won by @ program of violent revolution which haa as ita object the in- stallation of the Soviet system in the United States. Debs knows that "the program of the Moscow Internationale ts incompatible with American institutions. He knows also, very probably, that it is incompatible with the facts of life If anything has been 4emonstrnted by the attempt tn Rusnia, ft |i» that fundamental economic changes cannot be wrought overnight If | Lenine and Trotsky and their co-workers oF co-conspirators (nccording to | the viewpoint) have demonstrated anything, ft is the utter fallacy of the theory of catastrophic revolution: the theory that soc nd economic inatutions can be built according to plan and theory and by some Aladdin- uke magic. Right “Crime” means something forbkiden by the law of the land; “sin™ Is often defined as something forbidden by the Inw of God, and “wrong” may be taken to mean something forbidden by what Locke called the law of opinion. What acts are to be classed as crimes depend upon the meaning of tho law, exactly where the line ie drawn, and on whieh side of it the act in question falls, Hence the long-drawn-out arguments of lawyers and the Close decisions of courts. And when one thinks of right and wrong in this sare legalistic way there is room for all sorts of casuistry and moral hair-splitting, One may try to come near the line without crossing over it, or to prove that he really has not cromsed it when he has. The eftect of this on character is bad. But a public-spirited man does not wish merely to avoid breaking laws; and in the moral field alxo it is often better to leave the question of lawn oF rules in the background and judge one’s conduct more freely for what it ts in itself and its natural effects—to speak lena of right and wrong, and more of better and worse—to ask If one's act is the best, the kindest, wisest or most honorable, that one could have carried out under all the circumstances. That makes it no longer a question of being on one side or the other of some absolute line, but of approaching as near as possible to the perfection that some master in the art of living might attain, Such an attitude encourages one to learn by experience, and it discour- ages ennobling self-righteousness, and the harsh condemnation of others who may be weaker, less intelligent or leas experienced than oneself. Walter Rofo, minister of labor and health of the Ontario provincial government, is supporting a movement to make it a criminal offense for any landlord to refuse to rent dwellings and apartments to people bo- cause of children. It is to be regretted that legislatures tn the United States have not be- come interested ir thus advancing the welfare of humanity THE SEATTLE STAR ) aE HUMOR _PATHO ROMANCE Story a Day The Romance of a Busy Broker (Copyright, 1920, Syndicate, Ine) Pitcher, confidential clerk In the offiee of Harvey Maxwell, broker, allowed a look of mild interest and ourprise to visit his usually expres sipniess countenance when his em ployer briskly entered at half past nine in company with his young lady stenographer, With a snappy ‘Good«merning, Pitcher,” Maxwell dashed at his desk as tho he were intending to leap over it, and then plunged into the great heap of let- tors and telegrams waiting there for him. The young te@y bad been Max well's stenographer for a year, She wae beautiful in a way that was de idedly unstenographic. She -fore went the pomp of the alluring pompedour, She wore no chains. clots of lockets, Bhe had not the alr of being about to accept an nviteden to luncheon, Her dress was gray and plain, but It fitted her figure with fidelity and discretion. In her neat black turban hat was the goldgreen wing of & macaw, On thia morning she was softly and shyly radiant. Her eyes were dream ily bright, her cheeks genuine peach- blow, her expression a happy one, Unged with reminiscence. Piteher, sti) mildly curious, no toed a difference in her ways this morning, Instead of going straight inte the adjoining room, where ber Genk was, she lingered, stightty tr resolute, In the outer office, Once she moved over by Maxwell's deak, near enough for him to be aware of her presence. ‘The machine «ftting a¢ (hat desk Waa no longer & man; It was a busy New York broker, moved by buzzing wheels and uncolling "Wellk-what is KT Anything? asked Maxwell sharply. His opened mall lay Dke a bank of stage snow on his crowded dexk. Hig heen, ray eye, impersonal and brusque, Mashed apon her half tmpationtty. “Nothing.” answered the stencera- pher, moving away with a Uttle armile “Mr. Pitcher,” she sal to the con Midential clerk, “did Mr. Maxwell ray anything yesterday about engaging another stenographer™ “He did.” answered Pitcher, “Te told me to get another ona I noth fed the agency yesterday afternoon to send over a few samples this morning. It's 948 o'clock, and not by the Wheeler during a rush of business ts handi capped for the profession of anthro- pology. The poet sings of the “crowded hours of glorious life.” ‘The broker's hour in not only crowd. ed but the minutes and seconds are hanging to all the straps and pack ing both front and rear platforms. And this Gay was Marvey Max- well's busy @ay. The ticker began to reel out jerkily ite fiful colle of tape, the desk telephone had @ chronic attack of buzzing. Men be gan to throng Into the office and call at him over the railing, jovially, sharply, viclously, excitedly. Mes re boys ran in and out with mes sages and telegrams. The clerks in the office jumped about like sallors during a storm. Kiven Pitchers face relaxed into something resembling animation, On the Exchange there were hur: ricanes and landslides and snow storms and glaciers afd volcanoes, and those elemental disturbances were reproduced in miniature in the broker's offices, Maxwell shoved bis chair against the wall and trans acted business after the manner of & toe dancer, He Jumped from ticker to phone, from desk to door, with the trained agility of a harlequim. In the midst of this growing and important etress the broker became suddenly aware of a high-roiled fringe of golden hair under a pod. ding canopy of velvet and ontrich tips, an imitation sealskin macque and @ string of beads as large as hickory nuts, ending near the floor with a silver heart. There waa a felf-porsensed young lady connected with these accessories; and Pitcher ‘was there to construe her. “Lady from the Stenographer’s Agency to see about the position,” REV. M.A. MATTHEWS will preach a sermon Sunday morning entitled, THE SEATTLE CALL In the evening he will discuss the subject, THE SEATTLE MELTING POT GOOD MUSIC. You are welcome to our services. FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Seventh and Spring Maxwell turned half around, with his hands full of papers and ticker lupe. “What ponttion?” he asked, with « “Position ot " aald Pitcher, “You told me yesterday to call them up and have one sent over thig morning.” “You afe lostog your mind, Pitcher,” said Maxwell, “Why should I have given you any euch instruc dons? satiefaclon during the year she has been here, The place is hers as long fa she chooses to retain 1. There's no place open bere, madam. Coun- termand that order with the agency, Pitcher, and don't bring any more of ‘om in here.” ‘The sliver heart left the office. ewinging and banging itself inde pendently against the office fur niture aa f indignantly departed, Pitcher seized a moment to remark to the bookkeeper that the “old man” memed to get more absent minded and forgetful every day of the world The rush and pace of buntpess grew flercer and faster, On the floor they were pounding half « dozen stocks In which Maxwell's cu» tomers were heavy investora Orders to buy and sell were coming and going an ewift an the Might of ewal Mina Laalie has given perfect | EVERETT TRUE— MISTER GREENS, 7 18 MISTOR True ws WHEN SHAKESPEARE ||SAID THAT HE DHONIT ||SPRina tr asa“ CHEAP PUN ON A Man's NAME f! O'S WELL THAT |/@NDs we ly yy ¥ = | ] lows. Some of bis own holdings were | imperiled, and the man was work ing Uke some high geared, delicate, strong machine—strung to full ten sion, going at full speed, accurate, never hesitating, with the proper word and decision and act ready and prompt as clockwork, Stocks and bonds, loans and mortgages, mar gine and securities—here wos 6 world of finance, and there was no room in it for the buman world or the world of mature. When the luncheon hour drew near there caine a alight lull tn the uproar. Maxwel stood by hts Gesk with his hands full of telegrams and momo randa, with a fountain pen over his right ear and bis hair banging tn disorderty strings over his forehead Tis window was open, for the be loved janitress Spring bad turned on a tthe warmth thru the waking registers of the earth. Ana thru the window came a wan Gering—perhaps 4 lort—odor—a deli cate, wreet odor of Mae thag fixed the broker for a moment immovable. For thin odor belonged to Mins Lente; it was her own, and hers only, ‘The odor ht her vividty, ab mont before bim The world of finance dwindled wuddenty “I have but a moment to separa T want to ay something in that mo ment. Will you be my wife? I haven't had time to make love to you in the ordinary way, but I really do love you. Talk quick, pleaso— thone fellows are clubbing the stuf fing out of Union Pacific” “Oh, what are you talking about?” exclaimed the young lady. She rose to her feet and gazed apon bim, round eyed. “Dent you understand «id Maxwell, restively. “I want you to about the broker's neck, “Il knew now,” che aid, “Tt's thie old business driven everything else out for the time. first. Don't you remember, vey? We were married at § o'clock In Around the Corner. ‘The longest name of amy cclier in the United States army during wartime was Harry Adolph Thom- [as Richard Eugene Bulock. By CONDO k TIS TRUG, AND | PITTY ‘Tis ‘TIS TRUS! | SHAKESPEARE. | ' Tee HOO, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 78, Vive, 1776, while the continental rene eat in gloom awaiting the of the revolutioninte’ etrugste dependence, and at Yorktown thone Irish patriota—you say 1 ette and I paiute—t ray Sullivan the spit ef Weabington wave oid tattered fag of American ti pendence ; Again in the War of 212 our dependence was again being spa’ from us, and there eee those lo Irihmen under Andy Jeckwon b ing them to their knees while Of ‘ory sang Freedom Yorever to brave. And et the Alama, that strugee there wan built in BE land the two mau destructive vateer vanes of war known in turned against the Nerth But ge | es a} Hit Fe i g i ig til Hf ke a7 d rE Es E f f i i a ii $ re iu | rinil | ty g i igi civil war te not analogous to Bris struceic—our struceie for manufacturing plants—~yet hich séealian he is rich tf he —tt mutters not If one becomes ident of France or Mexico, or United States, be can't be king Fugiand. He ts extremely to conquest by diplomacy. , and propagan His politics or gion differ from mine, but that competition, Anyhow, here idealist, Oghter for his own, favors, a real factor in the freedom of actioMfor an Irish of regal biced, vamixed by No, I am not anti-English, for I an English girl, born and there, with pot ome drop of blood in my veing. Will the world stand by ané that great race fight to tts last for rigbt? America! Franca! We you forget the hand that no your independence? The greatest all empires rose from such a sts gin §=Right ts might, mot b equipment... One hundred people thruout the world with Irish blood flowing in their veing a enfeguard against world 3 AutomebDes that are used occasionally cost Just as much to OWN as the ones ‘that ere weed every day, Costly artictes reduce one’s annual income ake No greater incentive could be found than a high rate of interest, combined, of courses, with mfety, People should realize that a banner opportunity to save is now before them. $400 would earn from $20 to $30 a year in interest today, It ie well te bear this fact in mind when contemplating the purchase of anything that ts not really needed and ts therefore more or less of'a luxury. ‘The world knows no other way to induce people te save their money except by paying them to do it, just as it pays them for an hour's work, When there is a scarcity of labor the world raises the bid for tt When there te & scarcity of money or of the products of labor, the world increases the price for that, too. 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