The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 23, 1920, Page 6

The Seattle Star a Pet, ont of etty, 800 per month; # months, $1.6¢; @ montha, #1 76 for € montha oF $9.60 per year, | ty The Star year, of Washington, Outside of monty, By cari Can Japan Colonize? Japan's population must find more territory. That is the peremptory ra mt of the Japanese government. But, the problem of over-population is as old Written history. 2 inferior parts of the There have alwe The first way has been to open up new territory. ys been two ways at attempting the solu-| That is to say, to col- world and raise the colonies to a higher level on he second way has been to seize upon the territory of a superior civiliza-| ~~ Fortune gives too much to many, but to\ ma enough.—Martial. | UCH is | af y W Oh, these society editresses! Our contemporary, the Mourning | ye, in a description of the} Schmitz nuptials Wednes- evening, declared the wedding | One of “eweet simplicity,” j Saem@hen the dear iady went! on to that the chapel was ornate, the voguish, the streamers the gowns handsome, the rib-| Wavish, the bows coquettish, the) vivid and the bride's man-} of rare old Duchess lace which the bodice and formed the H roughneck that we are,| ® wonder what the PeaNye's so-| editress’ idea would be of al " wedding. eee first we didn't think he was but @ correspondent has us two letters on the same hence we submit both to the in the hope that someone able to answer: No. 1 cotton gin, I hear so much you'd been hanging around for 12 months, doing a the most violent patient we've in this ward.” all the energy that ts being pe in dancing halis might be instead of going to waste.” the thought drove all the/ - inmates stark, staring mad Your editorial evening entitled, | Ya Your Party?” should dissti-| those who imagine political | r as now organized, managed | Maintained, ts the proper and means under which a democracy thin a republic may function. We | told to select public servants on platforms for which parties | #0 there will be a party re- lity instead of a personal re ibility to the people for a faith L performance of obligations en. Minto. Let's note how this idea | len down. party was responsible for claration of war against Ger- Which party was respon- for the prosecution of the war inet Germany? Which party is sible for the failure to make with Germany? Why, of| both of them, for these ques- like all other great American | 0 are and should be non | n, and no artful demagog public servant who makes poll-| his business has been or ever) be to convince the Amer- in people otherwise. the declaration of war against yy: All for war except O'Gor- | Vardaman, Kirby, Lane, La | Cummins, Works, Stone, u and Jones—these the “Little Group of Willful) ” Some political mix-up, I'll say. how are the people going to ‘The Star's idea of non- ip? It's a big job. It's now for an independent to primaries, and it in quite LIFE! tion and to live as parasites upon the alien race. In the history of the world, only four nations have been distinctively successful as colonizers. They are an- cient Greece and ancient Rome; modern Britain and modern America. All the other nations have either been indifferent pioneers or have become frankly parasitic afield. | Japan has attempted to colonize Korea, Formosa and parts of Manchuria. Nowhere has success attended her methods. Militarism has dominated her policies; and no successful colonizer has ever ruled by the sword. The other method of expansion remains. Japan looks longingly in its direction. If the superior civilizations of America, Canada and Aus- tralia were opened to the Japanese overflow population, the problem would be solved for Japan. But, the superior civil- izations would be brought down to Japan's level. That is history’s consistent evidence. | Japan's urgent insistence upon her right to send her peo- ple where she pleases is a policy full of danger. It is playing with fire. Japan must know this, for the Japanese elder statesmen are very shrewd. Nevertheless, the game con- tinues. Is it because the Japanese governmnt realizes its people have not yet acquired the pioneer spirit? Is it be- cause the elder statesmen have become convinced Japan jean retain her medieval absolutism only by invading lands where the way has been made smooth for them? It is time to ask Japan these questions. ~ Timidity St. Terésa, a Spanish nun with great reforming zeal who lived tn the 16th century, writes of the “masculine courage” with which certain states left her: and by thin courage nhe proves or tries prove the value of the experiences that it followa. For, like many another, she valued such courage as superior to the feminine “weakness” and Umidity to with which it is often contrasted. She wan hardly fair to her sex. Weak people are often timid. And yet timidity is not the same as weakness. It ix a tendency to flee or seek protection where courage is a tendency to fight. But one may be fo weak that he i neither timid nor courageous, but just indifferent Or he may be too stupid to be moved by either impulse, and simply blunder in where angels fear to tread. Feminine timidity i « positive thing-—<qulte as real an addition to week or stupid indifference as is masculine couraga It often comen with womanhood to girls who did not feel it before, And It has a pur| pone—to secure the future of the mace by keeping those who may| be mothers out of danger. Thus it ls a very beautiful thing, no more| to be despised than the inconspicuous plumage that protects a mother} bint on the nest. If fighting went with motherhood, things would be} different. But as a rule it dom not. And there ts an exception that proves the rule When young are there to be protected and concealment ts impoarfble, “the ferhale of) the species ts more deadly than the male.” That does not look like weakness. But it does fit in with the theory of nature made to protect offypring, As Others See You Rosa, the bilnking eyes, the tantalizing «nfft, eniff, the the street to scratch his knee, the man who to the alr, or the young lady who bites her have you ever tried te convince anyboty that he or she Can't be done! Here's the solution, then: Get the somebody to pose before the moviest A young man did it and when his posing was flashed on the screen, he turned to his wife and sald: “For the love of Pete--do I do that™ A flock of habits stuck out before his very even, Try your luck sometime If you would know yournelf as others know you, get yourself wn the screen and then watch you! ft.) Life’s Course ‘The setting sun passes over the western rim and tte last beams fall upon an old man who watches from his hospital window for the ending of his own day. How like the course of the sun te the span of man’s Mfet It dawns with a pink flush of hope which quickly fades It tofs thru the long middie stretch, bringing warmth and providing for them It protects. ‘Then, scarcely before we realize it, the renith is passed and the rapid descent into the clouded west is started. Clouds are aa the accomplishments of man on his journey. They reflect the glory of the sun’s rays. In glorious tints of gold and mauve and saffron they hold the magic of a thing departed, they presage the rising of the sun in another Jand after its setting here, the coming of another life after the paming Someone Who Cares A little girt stands on a suburban corner, one hand clasping that of a little tad in rompers, the other holding a lunch basket. A car comes along and stops. The conductor runs eut and kisses the girl and lifts the little boy to bug him. He whistles as the car rolls on. “Yours?” asks a passenger. “Yep,” he answers, There is pride in his voice The joy of life seams to be in him as he purseés his tasks, Some one cares. A woman who packs his lunch. Little children who | stand and wait to’be loved. Some one who cares—that Is what puts the joy tn Mfe for af of us. That ts the thing that lightens burdens, that drives us on in our work, that makes life itself worth while. Use Your Head Ninety per cent of all accidents occur in public highways. Auto fatalities have grown from nine per million population to 100 in 1919, and an estimate of 110 for each million Inhabitants in 1920. Which means one death every 31 minutes of the 16 allotted waking hours. ‘Thene are statistics on the United States, from C, M. Talbert, chatrman of the public safety section of the National Safety council. And what's the answer? Carelessness comes about as near as anything. If pedestrians will watch their step a bit closer and machine drivers will watch their drive closer, America can cut down this unnecessary, and alarmingly high, death rate, With paper ee high one may get leather soles again. “Paper eults may be all right,” says the Philosopher, “but where I strike my matches?” " Gangs that are robbing guests in hotels should realize the dontface has a prior claim. out part affiliation. The only pow didate’s name, upon the payment of |BVERETT TRUE— lL CAN'T MAKE OUT THE SEATTLE STAR By CONDO THIS WRITING $ DID Nouv LEave THIS NoTe ON MY Desk 7 HANTS PI ‘ov MCAN Daily Article (Coprrtemt 1990) The Smatterers. Pretending We Know. Babes in Woods. We Know But Little. We are but smatterera, For tn- stance, what does the average man know of sciences? We studied some of them at school and a general notion and a few technical terms stay by us, Of Botany we recall endogens and exogens, and remem: | ber analyzing some plants by th aid of & table of genera; of geology | & few shreds of carboniferous era | and troglodytes and the like remain of mathematics we recall Buclid’ protien perhaps and an axiom or two; and of biology, peychology, his tory, Latin, Greek and the rest, what have we left? Twenty years of selling @ry goode or practicing law or working in @ railway office have sent these globes of jearning to people the distant esky. We amatter through tifa In eur Hy newspapers and magazines and re views we get gilmpres, and glimpees they must remain for the most part, | since we have no time to deepen and perfect them, Think also of the fullorbed life of China, of Japan, of India; how rich, crowded and multifarious are those|~ nations; we have but @ vague no tion of them. It i# not the least curtows tmpreeston one has in going | to France, or Germany, or Italy, to/ find how Intensely interested all the | people are in their own affairs, how their politics, society and business absorb them, much as ours do! us; and we are absolutely outside of | them, strangers, not understanding | even the language. How small a world, too, ts that of the graphic and plastic arts, paint ing and ecalpturet When you go into an art gallery or a museum, how you are bewildered! Very small is the number of inhabitants, com- paratively speaking, in the realm of music; for, how many people do you know who are thoroughly fami} jar with Bach and Palestrina, who know the motifa of Wagner, the manner of Techalkoweky and the scope of grand opera? Art critics write to us as if we knew all this; but we don’t We like to pretend we do. And then tn the more near and familar things, what worlds for us are unexplored! There are hundreds who haven't the faintest notion of the laboring clans and their prob- lema. There are thousands to whom society, or that little circle of the rich and workless and endowed which we call the amart set and the French call the beautiful world or simply the world (exclamation point), 19 as foreign and unexplored ® country as Peru and Tasmania, And how little we know, after all jof weightier things; of love, of eee — ———-—¢.. \ |tribunal, with state auxiliaries, sible chanee now for an Independent to become a candidate ts to run as a “aticker.”. I am at present trying out the “sticker” proviaion of our election laws by running as an independent | candidate for congress from t First district of Washington upon a platform of my own, declaring for | the creation of a national industrial for the purpose of trying disputes be tween capital and labor. 1 am mak ing this campaign because there t# not @ candidate in the field who has the nerve to stand for my solution of some of the ilis entering Into our | industrial life, and further because none of several party platforms han fies this industrial problem in a definite and constructive manner. The handicap to a “sticker” cand date is that electors must write his name in upon the ballot. There) should be some provision made for the printing of the independent can |P a fee, on the ballot. I believe your suggestion to have a “blanket” ballot at both the primary and general elections is fine, and a step in the rignt direction, and I should ike to cee our election Inws amended to that effect, so the public servants of this state, and all of tts subordinate political divisions, might be selected because of their personal competency rather than party af. fillation, and thus remove that lack of confidence and distrust in govern- mental affairs obtained under #o called “machine rule.” I believe The Star's idea will work out, matiefactorily, just ag well in our ptate’s affairs aa it now does in our city’s government. i HH, ALVIN MOORE, 2410 Ord ave, West. » 8—So far as I know, I am the, only candidate in the state who is campaigning on a nonpartisan plat- form absolutely independent of any political party, HL A. M. DRS. MUNRO AND CHAFER =, “<«s — DON'T ‘Tou RECOGNIZE NOW BY EDMUND VANC® COOKE Leave you no incgh unlaughed today. Time forges on and does not pay A be r4 gianee Tow cannot cash the past, ser berrow Upon the eredit of tomortow—- NOW is yor anes, which we understand but the laces and trimmings; of religion, whose names and terme and forms we know, but whose towering realities are an telescopic stare of blue-hazed mountain eumm: and of life it eelf, whore inner meaning, and ew fence, and use, and purpose, and Proper enjoyment we but gure. Come, brothers, let ue be ae friendly as we can and creep near one another tn comfort and charity, for our souls are truly babes tin the woods; on the branches are strange irds, among the dark trunks are HUMOR PATHOS ROMANCE O.HENRY Story a Day ‘The Champion of the ‘Weather (Copyright, 1920, by the Wheeler | Byndicate, Ine) | 20 you shouts wpeak of the Kiowa Renervation to the average New Yorker he probably wouldn't know whether you were referring to a new political dodge at Albany or @ leit motuf from "Parwital.” But out in the Kiowa Reservation advices bave been recetved concerning the exist lence of New York. A party of us were on a honting trip in the Reservation, Bud King» bury, our guide, philosopher and friend, was broiling antelope steaks in camp one night. One of the party a pinkishhatred young man in a correct hunting costume, mauntered over to the fire to light a cigaret, and remarked carelessly to Bud: “Nice night! “Why. yes,” anid Bud, “ne mice as any night could be that ain't recelved the Broadway stamp of approval.” Now, the young man was from New York, but the rest of us won dered how Bud guessed it. So, when the steaks were done, we besought him to lay bare his system of ratio eination, And, as Bud was some thing of a Territorial talking ma chine, he made oration as follows “How did 1 know he was from New York? Well, 1 figured it out as soon ag he sprung them two words cn me. |i was in New York myself a couple of years ago, and I noticed some of the earmarks and hoof tracks of the | Rancho Manhattan.” “Found New York rather different from the Panhandle, didnt you, Bud? asked one of the hunters “Cant may that I did,” answered Bud; “anyways, not more than some. |The main trail in that town which ey call Broadway, is plenty trav. ied, but they're about the same brand of bipeda that tramp around in Cheyenne and Amaritio, At first I was sort of rattled by the crowds, but I soon mays to myself, “Here, now, Bod; they're just plain folke like you and Geronimo and Grover Cleveland and the Watson boys, #0 don't get all fustered up with con) sternation under your saddle blan ket,’ and then I feels calm and peace ful, Uke 1 waa back in the again at A ghost dance or « green hining eyes of animales which we) know not te be friendly or fieres; in the eky are dalle of curious light, roved service make at this time mand of the District, p mn /OHEURY, retary of the Navy. collar, and his wife's and how he pays for clothes, alimon and chewing tobaces, It's a gift with me not to be penurlous with my tem per convermt “Hut this here New York was tn augurated on the idea of abstemiour ness in regard to the parts of speech | At the end of three weeks nobody in city have fired a blank syllable in my direction except the | waiter in the grub emporium where I fed. And as his outpourmes of syntax wasn't nothing but plagiar lems from the bill of fare, he ne satinfied my yearnings, which was to have somebody bit. If I stood next to & man at a bar he'd edge off and give a Baldwin-Ziegler look an if he suspected me of haying t |North 1 I began to wish that I'd gone to Abilene or Waco for my paseado for the mayor of them places will drink with you, and the first citizen |you meet will tell you his middie name and ask you to take a chance in @ raffle for a music box “Well, one day when I was par. ticular hankering for to be gregar fous with something more loquacious than a lamp post, a fellow in a caffy says tome, mys he: “"Nice day? Tle was a kind of a mannger of the place, and I reckon he'd seen me in there a good many times, He bad a face like a fish and an eye like Judas, but I got up and put one arm around his neck. “Pardner,’ 1 sayn, ‘sure it’s a nice day. You're the first gentieman in all New York to observe that the |imtricacies of human speech might not be allogether wasted on Willan Kingsbury, But don’t you think,’ says 1, ‘that ‘twas @ little cool early |in the morning; and ain’t there « feeling of rain in the air tonight? But along about noon it sure was gallupsious weather, How's all up to the house? You doing right well | with the caffy, now? | “Well, sir, that galoot just turns his back and walks off stiff, without & word, after all my trying to be agreeable. That night I finds a note from Summers, who'd been away j from town, giving the address of his |cump. I goes up to his house and had a good, old-fashioned talk with the even | nd desires interpretation. 1, Says Summers, “he wasn't Intending to strike up a conversation with fou, That's just the New York style. He'd seen you was a regular customer and be spoke a word or two concealed on my person. | RATURDAY, OCTOREM 2, 1998. liwo words and no answer. Well, | he's going turn himerlf tnto | weather bureau and finich what he begun with me, berides indulging tm | neighborly remarks on other sub | Jocta.’ | “Summoere talked agin % but © | wae irritated some and I went om | the street car back to that eaffy. | “The same fellow waa there yet, walking round in @ sort of back cor ral where there waa tables and chairs, A few people was sitting around having drinks and sneering fat one another. “1 called that mam te one ide and herded him into @ corner, I at buttoned enough to show him @ thirty elgbt 1 carried stuck under my “Partner, 1 myn, ‘a brief space ago I was here and you seized the opportunity to say it was a nice day. When I attempted to corroborate your weather signal, you turned your back and walked off. Now,’ say® I, ‘you frog-hearted, languageshy, stiff necked cron between a Bpita bergen sea cook and a muzzled oye ter, you resume where you left ott in your discourse on the weather.” “The fellow looks at me and tries to grin, but he sees I don't, and be comes around serious. Well,’ says he, eyeing the han die of my gun, ‘it was rather a nice day; some warmish, tho.” Particulars, you mealytmouthed snoorer,’ I say—"let's have the speck fications—expatiate—fill in the out lines. When you start anything with me in shorthand it's bound to turn out a storm signal? | “ ‘Looked like rain yeuterday,’ eaye |the man, ‘but it cleared off fine tm |the forenoon. I hear the farmers are needing rain right badly up state’ “That's the kind of a canter,” L ‘Shake the New York Gust your hoofs and be a real agreeable kind of a centaur. You broke the you know, and we're getting better acquainted every minute, | Seems to me I aske@ you about your | family?” } “ They're af well, thanks,’ anys he. ‘We—we have a new piano.” “Now you're coming to ft,’ T says, | ‘This cold reserve is breaking up a& last. That little touch about the piano almost makes us brothers, | What's the youngest kid's name? [ asks him. j “Thomas,” says he “He's fust gee | ting well from the measles.’ | “1 feel like I'd known you alwayn,” jmys I. ‘Now there was just one more—are you doing right well with the caffy, now?” “Pretty well,’ he says. Tm pat ting away a little money! “Glad to hear it/ says Lo ‘Now |go back to your work and get etv- ilized. Keep your hands off the | weather unless you're ready to fob low it up in @ personal manner. It's lee i | ties, and I hate to see it handed out |in email change in a town like thin.’ | “So the next day I rolls up my | blankets and hits the trall away |from New York City.” For many si‘nutes after Bud Jum to show you he appreciated your | coased talking we lingered around custom. You oughtn’t to have fol-| the fire, and then all hands began to lowed it up. That's about as far as woe care to go with @ stranger. A word or mo about the weather may be ventured, but we don't generally make it the basis of an acquaint subject with me. Meteorology is one of my wore pointa No man can open up the question of temperature or hu- midtty or the glad sunshine with |myself the pleasures of sociable | me, and then turn tail on it without |yocal intercourse with friends and | its leading to a falling barometer. |wtrangern Out fn the Territories| [im going down to nee that’ man when I meet a man I never mw (again and give him a lesson in the before, Inside of nine minutes I art of continuous conversation. You know his income, religion, ize of|eay New York etiquette allows him logical survey as 1,170,000,000 tons in 1919 (metric ton pounds) as compared with 1, 000 metric tons in 1918. | Our du rate Tm order tion @ightly higher To the best of our bank. Out of this There ts such ‘We want you to bank with us, A good way to and paying 4% inte) \ é Depo By Washin anty Fund {tn thts community Is to provide a eafe place for your savin terest, you that fnterest we erarch out rock-ribbed and State laws made to protect you. 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