The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 14, 1921, Page 6

Seattle Star By mati, ovt of city, te per month: t)/ No t Fr @ montha, $2.15) year, > ee ‘ State of Washington. We're so sur as Outakie of the state, 800 pe: $4.50 for & montha or # year. By carrier, city, 120 per week Rewspaper Rnterprise Association and Untted Prese Service Published Deity by Th Publtteh- Ing Co, toe Phone such a narrow | That’s what su know that. this censorship | the war. beat the Huns. A Word From vosn wise “| it fairly. Not Editor Home Frew: I read in The © Btar that a litte girl tn Iilinols has talked constantly for a week. That's Rething. My wife has been doing it for 15 years. big change. $260,000 more money be spent in lighting parks so that flirting will) stop. The theory being, of course, that if a man gets a good their intelligen Be so ready to Mirt with her. eee Jess Willard wants half the gate Feceipts to fight Jack Dempsey ‘again. We don't blame him. We'd hate to get a second beating unless ‘we were paid for it. ee fought shy of ANSWERED Do kings and emperors prefer Dright, sunny days to all others?— J.D. T. No, indeed. They enjoy the reigny Gays most of all. My wife wishes me to plant blue grass in our yard next spring. I tell her we should plant green grass. Whoever heard of a yard that was Rot green?—T. A. D. Not all yards are green. You ever hear of a tan yard? puzzle from an Didn't} Bison herds any humorous articles for the Now that we have prohibition. ‘what is a good thing to whet the ap petite?—J. HL. You might try a hone. preserves.” “Why does my vest wear out so @uickly in the back?—H. H. Tt may be that your shoulder and buy more for the rapidly eee UNANSWERED harvest my chickens’ | hison-stocked that saflors are espe a think the Dill posters ‘Would make good ball players? My, would paste the bail.— M. M. Kindly explain to me how I can @harpen an ice sickle—A. L. ‘Which is the easier to board, a Man with dyspepsia or a Greenwood e@r?—E. P. G. ° e-. HOUSEHOLD HINTS Never throw away an old roll-top Any man who has a few and a few pieces of wood can Make a kitchen cabinet out of it. Nutmeg can be grated more easily -. hot than when ice cold. Keep in the oven half an hour before __ A safety razor can be used to re- Move old wallpaper. Lather the paper well with shaving cream or made to the pedestals, in m A ‘ Window shades will not crack if Fiven a coat of ofl in the spring| Qnd fall. A- turkey or chicken @tuffed with wet beans before it is -oged in the oven be roasted. im beans will swell, and stretch thi fowl, making it look more attractive, “2. IT MUST BE A.ROUGH GAME | Mrs. Cora Corbett will entertain | the Fiinch club next Thursday eve ing in her home on W. 23rd st. in Rose Hill cemetery.— 's Ferry, O., Times. cee + A Berlin cable says the study of enly one foreign language in inter- Mediate schools of Germany is pro — by the department of educa- » We don’t care which foreign language speak, bi ine =Germans learn to fount in both French and English. should be nght up front. into the store. tong ago he waa ju: they're going to learn to BY DR. WILLIA When you are in Rome, and journey out on the Via Fiaminia, you will find the cemetery of Saint Valen- tine, and you will be told that the saint whose body and name are there enshrined was an hon- ored bishop, who was faithful to his trust amid the Claudian perse- cutions. You will be giv- en a date for his martyr- dom, and the year is 27) A. D., and the month and day are February 14 You will hear won- drous tales about this good old man. You will hear that he was cast into prison, and was un- terrified; what is more, he was not embittered He healed the jailer's daughter of blindness, and this kind act, in stead of softening the arts of his ersecut- ort, made them the more hateful. So they beat 8 nd beheaded bim, and supposed that that was the,end T° Senator Dear Walter: of the theatre and screen, est preachers, priests, politicians or | honest dollar | with our other institutions. They'll be better by and by. |more effective ways of hastening that day than the one your bill proposes. Sixth, Senator, you can't get away with it any more} «tn» |than you ean with a blue law program. Boston police have asked that) want either a censorship or a set of blue laws. took at al humans in intelligence. Boston woman's face he may not/ folks and not particularly to you or us, Senator, forget this blue law and censorship business You have always been liberal in your views and you have sliding out of existence. tse and birth ate climb adil ard A. Edison ever writ} and bi rate climbing steadily upward. ge “The dark day of the bison has Nelson, chief of the United State But the dark day for your Uncle Samuel is just breaking “As a matter of fact,” continues Dr. Nelson, “with the present rate of increase, it may become a problem in a few years how we shall care for the buffalo on the nationa! which, however, gives notice that halt the shooting. The buffalo is something of a white elephant. It may be that the thing to do is to preserve the buffalo as we preserve other | An Open Letter to | Senator Walter S. Davis, of Tacoma Walter S. Davis, of Tacoma, prised to learn that yor —ropose We know ye -between-the-eyes doctrine rprises us so. as Second, Senator, God hasn't made the man or jor set of men and women with enough brains and intelli- gence to judge what all the people really ought to see and what they ought not gaze upon. | doesn’t exist in any board that could possibly be appointed, | Third, Senator, the people of these United States resent Sufficient > business. the w ce. After all, Senator, you and the machine. You have more THE Back to Buffalo Bill Days NCLE SAM has another bison problem on his hands. Not long ago he was fretting because the buffalo was ‘ow he’s fussing with the sami other angle. Too many buffalo babies. heard about Result: the anti-race s pasturage for the buffalo. | Blades are so sharp they cut the|to do—buy a few thousand acres near Yellowstone growing buffalo family. island in Great Salt Wake. United States department of it will take rehistoric animals, juseums. In these piping days of bargains, “window shopping” tem Whereas now Ben Franklin ts hailed as the patron saint st an old tightwad. M E. BARTON of the old bishop and of his religion. They re mistaken, character But there were other noted men na and one of them, a priest, met death on and month, tho'in a different year. Charles Lamb thus speaks of him, th. of lovers “Thou comest attended by thousands and of little Loves; And the air is brushed with the kiss of Singing Cupids are thy choristers and t And instead of crosier the mystical a before thee.” So much for the good saint or saints given us as belonging to the day. Foi day has been celebrated with the giving Any day ts good for that purpose, and none too often fof a day that honors au No matter tf you have been marril years, or @ period that seems as long, quently say, “I love you.” Say it in pl it in a hundred datly acts. And say it unusual ways For instance, in a valentine. We didn’t think it of you, Valentine becay nator to establish a state board with the powers of a czar to tell the movie fans what they may or may not see on the screen. | Now, Senator, you know better. founded in the principles of democracy than to believe in yu are better censorship. First, Senator, you know there isn’t anything democratic, jfree, liberal or American about a censorship policy. You woman intelligence - te Yo will recall the newspapers | \.0"" had to put up with only a voluntary censorship during] home, trying to pay off the $600 P y ) Pp « They did that simply because it was the way to] ortaage on it. Dwork when I can, ie | |purists could put it over. It would be a blow at our Some men are like th’ legis | | American freedom. aoa ok ge A veel Fifth, Senator, it isn't necessary. There is no call for eat rae ;|a censorship. The films, as a rule, are not so good. But — & they are not so bad, either. They average up fairly well Both insult all the rest of us aren't so almighty high above the average run of And this country belongs to the] rly !n return? intelligence }than the most of your comrades in the state senate, but don’t impose on their ignorance and prejudices by handing them this censorship bill and blue laws. STAR. uicide stuff 500 bison calves a year, ed,” says Dr. E. W. iological survey. Those prehistorians who feared the extinction of the bison may now sit back and let the taxpayers hustle out park tell me when will be the/Congress appropriating $300,000 for the purchase of aj !mviting them He says if Uncle Sam doesn’t take this buffalo herd off the owner's hands they'll all be auctioned off to sportsmen, as many already have been, for shooting, at $200 a head. And this is what we may be coming to—back to the Buffalo Bill days when every boy again may dream of hunting the buffalo. Protest against staging these buffalo hunts has been agriculture, no steps to stuffed, on ere they'll eat no hay. ‘Parents, Talk to the Taxers! SSEMBLYMAN THEODORE ROOSEVELT urges in- creasing the New York income tax exemption for chil- | dren from $200 to $500. While New Yorkers only will benefit by this Rooseveltian legislation if Teddy, Junior, puts it thru, congress may be induced to take it up and extend it to the nation. “An exemption of $500 for each child is little enough,’ says T. R., Second, “with food and clothing costing what they do today.” Col. Roosevelt is a father, and knows the facts about the high cost of rearing children. When the next congress is framing the new reven fathers and mothers should keep this exemptio demand ts one right f thrifty not Kansas proposes a law to pay wages to housewives. Wit dj ‘ovide fo overtime when baby haa the colic? 1 at © @ popular ed Valentine, the same day patron saint ten thousands ustling wings. ny preceptors, row is borne vhose name is centuries the of love-tokens. lonce a year is h a custom da thousand you should fre in words, Say ecasionally in THE WHEN WIDOW IS MOTHER OF FOUR Editor The Star; In regard to th policemen’s widows, T will may they are being wonderfully cared for, But what of other widows whose hus bands were not lucky enough to be policemen, It is true, the pol n held worth yositions, Hut can e ery man pot a to hold that position No; a just because he was a hard-working, noble citizen is there any reason why his widow should not receive her just rights? Bome women think It is foolish for & woman to raise a family, her husband may die and jeave her. Suppose we all felt that way! How would the world stand? [ am thank ful to I have four healthy chit dren, from 2 to & years old, My hus band died a little over a year ago, and I have had no pension of $57 a th to live on, eith If 1 did why uld I complain? I have, since last February, received a month pension, But of that I hay because to pay part of my grocery bill, fuel, «i what clothes we get, I paying regularly on my but am not strong, and as I like to stay home with my babies and care Fourth, Senator, there’s too much danger in a censorship] for them in the right wax, I take in It would be impossible to handle | whatever work 1 can get to make an Of course, we do not suffer, but how far, does any one know, will $25 a month go where there ia a family of five? Th is to prove to the « of America that there are m polleemen's and firemen's and starving children of widows. Europe, The movies are undergoing a) that need help. And there are I have kept quiet and said little, I paid my taxes last year, but was working then, I will neon have to pay taxes again, and nothing to pay m with, So, you mee, we are The people don’t] placed on the same goal with the people that have plenty The and such are to be paid by the poor se well ag the rich We treat our country fairly, but we treated A MOTHER OF FOUR. Edmonds LIFE FOR TOTERS OF GUNS WITHOUT PERMITS Editor The Star four Beattle po ‘The case of the en recently mur ed, their f and the de ficlencies in the Seattle police force tre certainly terrible circumstances but, ag serious as they are, they are by far not the moat rer! tot the incident, The condition which permits (yes, invites) things, not four huma thoumands, perhaps, over, un aspec such but countr Juumt lives. th is not once touched upon or onaidered by nor any med your paper, others, as far as I am inf If thin occasion is not peated, probably many times, prew ent conditions will have to be hanged, If we do not change them, we cannot reasonably expect to put op to this sort of thing. Prosecutions and executions are not new, They are the old order; they are results, not caums, direct O ontributory One great reason why we have no many killings by automobiles and firearms, ig because our lawe, pre tending to stop such things, are a joke, and our judges are a joka This aamertion cannot be successfully combated, because inefficientey of the law and the judgments of Judges are too evident on every to be re This is exactly what Dr. Nelson wants the government |» Aa long as we slap the murderer m the wrist as a reprimand, so long will we have murderers and more Congressman Welling, of Utah, has introduced a bill in| murderers among us; in fact, we will long an we) As have murderers, we shall need no fur. ther evidence of the laxity of our awa As long as we are satixfied to rep rimand a murderer solely by con fining him in some penitentiary for perhaps one or two years. n he attempts murder without success so long as we treat alike the petty hief and the man who tries to kill another, but who fails—just #o long will we be inviting murder The man who carries a arm with which to kill another, not in self-defense, is an bad as the man ( At the first chill! Fever, Stuffiness. look for the name ‘‘Bayer’’ on Always say ‘‘Bayer.’’ ing which sightly pimples appear on your face . Don't close your eyes to the warn nature gives, when un and other parts of the body Not only are these pimples and splotches disfiguring, but they lead to serious skin diseases that spread and cause the most discomforting irritation and pain, Sometimes they foretell Hezema, bolls, blisters, séaly eruptions and other annoyances that burn like flames of fire, you feel that your skin is ablaze When these symptoms appear on any part of the body, take prompt steps to rid the blood of these disor. ders, And the one remedy which has SEATTLE and make| STAR In the Editor’s Mail Jwho actually dogs pull! the trigger; jin fact, he is if exactly the same Jolam, and the Interests of pnociety and justices require that the mur ae shall be either jhanged or itly isolated, and here ts the ' | int which should not be lost sight |p of. The man who carries a gun and usew it in attack, not in self defense, whether he actually fires, kills or only warns or minnes, is a murderer, and for society to treat him otherwise than as a murderer is but to license murder | 1 am informed that in England a mo ght with a firearm about his person, but without a police permit, is punished with life imprisonment with the result that the practice of carrying firearms by criminals and police is unknown. Why continue to consider the mur derer the man who is out to murder, and deny the Just citizen, his family and bis children? Buch procrastina tion is shortsighted, foolish, fool hardy and manifestly far trom suftt | elent. As Lam not in a position to influ ence the legislature in this matter, I am writing to ask you if you will use your influence to place upon our statutes a law which will send to a penitentiary for life any person caught carrying @ firearm or other jout a police permit. 1 acknowledge that the responal bility is fundamentally the public's, for such crimes, and thegefore en close what I hope is my share of the cost to be contributed to the families of the four polloemen recently mur dered in consequence of our laxity W. A. GLEASON FEEDING STONE- WEBSTER BABY Editor The Star | It's good to have a paper like The Star, which caters | to no one and dora not blow up and eet peeved, and how! with a pernist that knows no let-up, until it has something of tmportance to all And then the big guns are aimed at the target and fired with accuracy, and when the smoke and nolse have disappeared, the target is seen by enemies and | friends, full of holes, and battered out of shape, and hit by every shot The municipal car lines will pay when a lid is put on the treasury box and locked, leaving only a hole large enough to drop the coin in, and one t the overflow. | Tt Iw eamy to create expense when you do not want a thing to pay. Stone, Wall & Webster havg now received ever asked, of us to roar for every concession they from tearing up tracks, raine in fares to banishing the jitney, Mr nd others, who put together the machinery of the steering gear id not recetve, and no not expect to recelve for services rendered, any mation that could be put into circulation. They are mtisfied when Stone, Wall & Webster pat them on the | back and may, “Well done, my faith | ful servants, now get under the wag on and lick your paws.” Many a man has taken a death chance for no other reason than to be called a hero, Stone Wall & Webster will sure love their baby, which has been on a | weekend vacation, when it comer | toddling home, all dressed up in new | clothes and grown #o large dad has to say out loud, “You sure was well fed, boy.” YOURS TRULY. NO JUSTICE IF IT KEEPS | JOB FROM MPLOYED Editor The Star In passing thru your beautiful city, I regretted to find the atomephere tainted with Hletter in Who Wit your columns from “One Work Any Time She Chooses.” In what sense does she figure that the word “Justice” in used in the paragraph she mentions in our pledge to our fag? Is ft jum tice for her to be the means of keep. ng the necessities of life out of some one’s mouth, while she enjoys the luxuries? I understand this controversy was started in’ an effort to give our un employed men a chance, expecially our ex-servies men, and any woman who holds a position when she has Take Genuine Aspirin marked with the oss’’ to break up your Cold and relieve the Headache, Warning! To get Genuine Aspirin, prescribed by physicians for| over 19 years, you must ask for ‘‘Bayer Tablets of Aspirin,’’ and the package and on each tablet. 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Begin taking 8.9.8. toda & complete |history of Jour chief medical adyi give you # out charge, cal Direct | Adanta, @ | no equal as a rT, who will peciat instructions, with Write at onee to Medi 827 Swift Laboratory, Advertisement, mmon instrument for murder, with: | wach foul ideals aw those quoted In a| It ts sold by| The Flavor Las MONDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1921. y AS OTHERS SEE THE WORLD Editorials and Comments Reprinted From Various Newspapers | { THE MINERS HAVE SPOKEN (fom the Pittaburg Prens) | | American mine workers, by thelr enthuslantic re-election of John L, Lewls | as president, indicate clearly where the bulk of miners stand—for the; American organized labor idea and against bolshevism and communism. ‘The United Mine Workers of America decides to stick with the American TODAY'S QUESTION | What are you saying on your Vi Federation of Labor ‘ This much may be gathered from examination of the election figures just entine card? made public by the miners’ organizatic | ANSWERS 4 “ironJjawed chairman,” continues in offices and in con trol of miners’ p #. He defeated Kobert H. Harlin, Washington, leader of the extreme wing, by the largest majority ever given @ candidate for president in the miners’ union Lewin was fiercely fought. ‘The fact that he long has been right-hand | man to Gompers was a muchwused argument for and against him. That hia policies were rvative was hurled at his head. He gave battle on those innues—and won! |day might have come and gone witl Lewin is destined to play a prominent part in national labor matters of |out my knowledge. Anyway, It [tae tan ho firnt the Hight of 4 Lincoln's birthiny,:1800, 1a] Senennee a The man who first saw the of day on Lincoln's birth " , la ttle Towa village, now has a wonderful opportunity to follow in the} MRS. L. STORVICK, 627 Sevent] Lincoln footsteps of service to the people. ave, N.—“If I send any at all, I Lewis himself realizes that the people to serve are not'onty those WhO! have to think up my mensage on tl | wield the pick, but influde all who consume coal, directly in the home| Sees aed MRS. DAN SULLIVAN, 209 27¢ ave, N-—"I my sentiment in other ways, thank you.” ADAM BEELER, 1217 Third # “It you hadn't spoken, Valenti express spur of the moment.” | stove, or indirectly in the factory furnace |}—— - —— CRAWFORD §. WHITE, } | 20th ave, 8.—"I have written it) WHAT BECOMES ane | Since son al Snare the Lawent in || you. What do you think of th \OF GERMAN | ities MRS. H. G. HILBISH. 6220 | AMIN AS | Genesee st.—“T'm not bothered ab PROPERTY? : I'm sending no Valentines tl Broken Lenses Duplicated for Less PTICAL CO, | seful treatment of dis |tonstis and throat without op | testimonials, Herb Medicine ~~ | Box 8651, Seattle. Active and Healthy BY GILSON GARDNER What to do with the $400,000,000 |worth of property seized in this country during the |war, has become a puzzling ques German-owned j tion. | It is the theory of international law that the “allen property cus . a todian” holds such property in trust | With Cuticura ai during the war and when peace is . - me cure o restored it is returned to its former ‘owners German-American citizens have — Lai } y inremenmermrena Cvorything ECAUSE Abstracts |property ack Eyo en4 Ear of Title long ago | The Versailles treaty sets aside became obsolete there the usual international practice by and land titles are trans- |providing that this fund, should be! used to partially pay claims of ferred on the basis of Americans against Germany for title insurance only, The growth and de- | |American property seized or de jstroyed during the war Germany in left the job of com Really Valuable pensating “her nationals” in the velopment of Title In- United States for the alien prop- is always kept as near surance from one end of | erty thus & n. &5 possible like new. As things stand there is no re the country to the. Then why put off getting games when your wight begins to fail? other represents the sur- vival of the fittest }} method of dealing with |] land titles. In Seattle Title Insur- ance is furnished by WASHINGTON TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY “Under State Supervision” dress for either the Americans with | claims against Germany, or Ger mans with claims agdinst America, | we are still at war” with aune Germany ORs | other means of support is deserving | of the contempt of the world at large. | Her type didn't work for Uncle| Sam's benefit during the war, and I am sure the exkaiser feels that his| propaganda is still doing its work | when the married women of this| country are the means of killing off what soliders his bullets didn’t get! | BELLINGHAM GOLDEN RULE. | Whatever service your eyes require we can of- fer you. 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