The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 6, 1921, Page 6

What Ails America? James Bryce Has an Answer. Do You Think It’s the Right One? \“\ JODERN DEMOCRACIES,” a two-volume study of contemporary republican forms of |government, by Viscount James Bryce, former Brit- lish ambassador to the United States, is published to- \day by the Macmillan Company. ; | ose who remember Lord Bryce’s sympathetic study, “The American Commonwealth,” will be sur- |prised to find that the former British plenipotentiary jat Washington is become cynical toward democratic jideals in practice. | Where once he viewed congress with an amused \tolerance, he now looks upon the whole operation of |political theory in America with a dissatisfied eye. | He sups up the defects in the working of popular |government in America as: “ONEState legislatures do not enjoy the confidence of the people, as lin shown by the restrictions impored upon them, and by the transfer, In |many states, of some of their powers to the citizens acting direetly. Con poem maintains a bigher level, yet one below that to be expected in @ nation proud of its institutions as 4 whole. “TWO The civil service (with the exception of the acientifie branches of the national government) ts not yet equal to the taske which the extension of the functions of government ts imposing upon it ba il } F 31 } i h ? i “THREE—The state judiciary is, in the large majority of the states, infertor in quality to the better part of the bar that practions before it, and has in some few states ceased to be respected. “POUR—The administration of ertminal fustice t* slow, uncertain, and in many states so ineffective that off Jers constantly escape punishment. “FIVE—The laws are in some states so imperfectly enforced that the together, and one of them, after | [security for personal rights and to a less extent for property rights alsa on, left for ano’ | |e inadequate, eas anion. nue ay art | } “SIX—The government of cities, and expeciaity of the largest cities, has gee each other for 20 years, And | been Incompetent, wasteful and corrupt. one day a man dropped into the © “SEVEN—Party organizations, democratic In theory and in thetr ont office of the fellow who had mov. | | ward form, have become selfish oligarchies worked by profeasiona! poll “OUR DAILY FICTION Once upon a time there were two friends who went te school | 1 ed to the distant city, And he | | teians. said | “RIGHT —The tone of pubtic Ife and the sense that public service te “Tm the fella you used to) an honorable publle trust, tho now rising, are not yet what they should chum with back East.” “Glad to see you, old sport,” re- pitted the other And they held a regular rem} niscent feast. And finally, the visitor sald: “By.the way, Jack, I'm a little short now, but I'm putting thru & deal and wil! be on easy street next week. Lend me twenty.” He got the twenty, and the |be in so great a nation. “NINE—The power of wealth, and particularty of great incorporated }-| companies to influence both legislatures and the cholce of persons to | | ait in legislatures and on the judicial bench, has been formidable. | “TEN-—Tho there are and always have been in public life some men of brilliant gifts, the number of such persona is leas than might be expected in a country where talent abounds and the national insues before the |nation are profoundly important.” very next week he paid it. | , cee Bryce asks, “To what cause shall we attribute each of these failures of democratic practice to attain the In the window of a fish market. we read: “If it swims, we have ft." Rut standard required by democratic theory?” And answers: they didn’t. We went in to order a Sennett bathing girl «ae WULL, MEBBY ‘TIS “It's paradoxical, ts it not,” Said Uncle Abner Skittie, “That senators kin talk such an awful let ; An’ say such an awful little? eee Tho his bark may be worse than his bite, we'd rather see the pup wag are (in some states) below that average in point of character “TWO—The ctvil service was recruited without regard to competence, and the spoils systern not only disregarded fitness, but taught the official that his party organization had the first claim on hie loyalty “THREE—The mediocrity of most state judges, and the delinquencies of a few, are the natural result of popular elections, short terms of office, and low salartes “FOUR—The deinys and uncertainties of criminal justice are due partly to the weaknem of the judges, partly to an antiquated and cumbrous having been passed at the instance of a small but {naistent section, are easier in 2220. found hard to enforex partly becauw elected officials (in cities amd coun eee Cae ge aga te pnygeacogeer at Dang erclbaue gon Sony ls aman proffieering: accomplished | Pertly also because in many statar there is no Pincm Bas a diadidaed of Gua aiken “SIX—The scandals of city government may be ascribed (a) to Cre annoying yard of cloth on the tail of | YOUns power of mames of immigrants ignorant of the institutions of the a shirt country; (b) to the fanity frames of municipal government which so eee Atvided responsibility that it could not be definitety fixed on a few per- Announcement by the treasury de sons, (c) to the failure of the ‘reepectabie’ taxpayers to select and support ‘ partment that everybody in the coun.|>Y their votes trustworthy candidates; (4) to the power of party ma- : Inele John | chines. poe ng i agama “SEVEN—Party organisations, long neglected by the great buik of the eee neeuibete ¢f dadh gars, 36h tate tie Ribas Af petene whe sends pereuats THE INCOME TAXP: gain out of them, and whone sins were ignored becnuse the multiplicity panier misread of elections created a heavy mang of work, and they performed tt. Our Country, which are in debt: “EIGHT—The men of fine quality who entered politics “were, after the Tax us» little more; * | ftret 30 years, too few to maintain a high tone, while the ordinary poli We just think it fun; tielana were liable to be demoralized by machine methods and by the Grant us next year an outgo tax, impunity which the negligence of a busy public accorded to delinquents So that you will owe as. “NINTH—The power of wealth has been immense, because the bene Give us this day our daily bread; fie which rich men and corporations sought to buy from legtelatures Don't forget the butter; were worth a high price, becaume secret hargains could be easily made Lead us not into temptation; with either boases or with obscure iegisiators, and because these recipients By allowing us the extravagant|f money or whatever else wax offered were below the fear of social scum censure ince they had no social position to love. Of two thowsand dollars; “TEN—The comparative rarity of weibatocked and thorety trained Forgive us the lies we told you: minds among politicians of the second rank—they are of course to be As We would forgive you if you found in the front rank—is largely due to the attractiona, greater here were in our place; than ip most parts of Europe, which other occupations offer. For thine is the government, a ‘The power of taxation, The real history of the World War ts writ*-n im nattonal debts “Council to Cut City's Eepenses”—news headline. What, again’ The modern Horace Greeley edviscs, “Young man, come West and catch ep with the country.” ° Blogen for Bafety Week: Don’t prime your carburetor with alcohol be “Italy Finds Treasure in Red En-| fore starting on a joyride. voy’s ” says a headline in ——_—_— the New York Tribune, Hootch? No.| Eighteen Seattle men will act as judges of the prettiest ankle contest at “Nothing,” as the dry Arab re. the Auto Show. And it's Safety Week, too! marked in the desert, “nothing but | ———_ pearis.” If you envy the Hardinos, just think of the mud that’s tracked into their eee White Howse by the flood of sight-scers. E@itor Home Brew: An appeal for _— relief of the taxpayer. We might as| [van De Villiers, parachute jumper, te agein in the well start an appeal for this cause | there doesn’t seem to be much future in that game. as well as the Chinese, Armenian, | French, British and Irish causes Now, let's make it. AMERICAN. | Gorge Oreck amit of the Skagit hydro-electric project will cost nearly 310,000,000, according to engineers. And it's all for water! BY DR. WILLIAM E. BARTON Whatever else is to be said for or against Mr. Sher- “Instead, the giant, Industry, awoke Boys, whc ‘wood Anderson's book, “Poor White,” it has food for | in the schools had read of Lincoln walking for. nie thought on the change | thru the forest to borrow his first book, and of Gar in American life from | field, the tow-path lad who became president, begar rural to industrial, De-| to read in the newspapers and magasines of men whi scribing the changes | by developing their faculty for getting and keeping that came in one gener- ation into an Obio town, money had become suddenly and overwhelmingly rich.” Producing lands went to bed at night poor and woke in the morning rich. They moved to town and in vented their money in industrial enterpriaes, “A vast energy seemed to come out breas of earth and infect the people, gh the most energetic men tn the middle states wore them selves out in forming companies, and when the com panies failed, immediately formed others. It was a the coming of industry, before the time of the mad awakening, the towns of the Middle ‘West were sleepy places devoted to the practice of the old trades, to ag- riculture and to mer- nae tn the time ‘of hideous architecture, a time when thought morning the men of the pcr Man groin paused. Without music, without poetry (owns. went forth te ut beauty in their lives or impulses, a whole people, full of the native energy and strength of lives lived in a new land, rushed pelkmell into a new ane.” Money grew abundant, and people became financial ly richer and otherwise poorer, They bought more things and had less satisfaction. They spent more money and were farther behing with their bills. Life grew less laborious than/in the old days of grinding toll, but neither gore restful nor more satisfying: it grew hectic and dinatistied, These are sobering paragraphs, for these conditions are not monopolized by any one village or state; to some extent the nation has passed thru this period of transition, and the change is not wholly to our advantage. But Art and Industry are not of neceanit; onistic. It is ponsiple to have commercial y evened and at the same time @ growing regard for the finer and higher things of life, America t committed to a Program of industrial progreas: may she not also and simultaneousty be committed to a quest of the highest and best things? There are in every community choice souls to whom this suggestion may be a call t service, It is not impossible for a nation to be at onee commercially prosperous o talectually progressive, sel ain ae Dever work in the fields or to the practice of the trade of carpentry, horseshoe- ing, wagon-making, harneserepairing and the making of shoes and clothing. They read books and believed in a God born in the brains of men who came out of & civilization much like their own. On the farms and in the houses in the towns the men and women worked together toward the same ends in life. They lived in smalt frame houses, set on the plaine like boxes, but very substantially buflt. The carpen‘sr who built a farmer's house differentiated it from the barn by putting what he called scrollwork up under the eaves and by building at the front a porch with carved posts. After one of these poor Iittle houses had been lived in for a long time, after children had been born and men had died, after men and woren bad suffered and had moments of joy together in the tiny rooms under the low roofs, a subtie change took place. The houses became almost beautiful in their oid humanness. Each of the houses began vaguely to show forth the personality of the people who lived within its walls, © * © A sense of quiet growth awoke tn sleeping minds. It was @ time for art and beauty to awake in the land. he contrasts the oid Then followed the discovery of natural gas and the ig agg sudden awakening of the people. Farmers owning oi) | TODAYS QUESTION How long should a girt's skirt be? ANSWEKS MIS. 11 NOR PERRIN MIL- LER, 6 tus ave; “Do you want me to toll you the truth? It all depends on the lege. A girl who in bow-legeed shouldn't wear skirts higher than one inch from the ground.” MISS EDNA C. PETERSON, 3646 Ath ave. W.: “I have lot# of things to may on that subject, but not for print.” GBORGE V. GAU, 2313 N. 56th at. “About a yard and @ half longer than they are.” MISS CONDELIAM, THIEL, 4825 Austin st. “The height of the «irt should determine it A tall girt cer tainly should not wear knee skirts.” KING DYKEMAN, superior court judge “About even with the tops of | an ordinary pair of high shoes seems to me about right.” Letters to the | Editor— OBJECTS TO VULGARITY SEATTLE called inches long AT A CLUB BANQUET Fatitor The Star: A few nights of our leading business nba held & banquet at a lo The entertainment was similar to ones hekd in the past by | Uke organizations | It in my bellef that these organi mations are for the betterment of our busines, social and moral wel. | fare; if so, why not give good ox amples by having clan entertaln | ments, rather than having bathing | |eirte and hulabula performers «it |ting on the men's laps, embracing them, ete, ete? - What would our hosbands any if we, behind closed doors, would have half clad men perform for us as the above memtioned wornen perform for them? Would they stand for it? No! Then do they think we are going | to put up with it? As one prom) nent club woman sald, that ls going as far aw they dare In publie, It is not only dingusting to the women, but also to the cleananinded men, Thank God there are some. | A remark from one of the younger | club members waa, that he belonged to the club and, as & member, likes | to attend, but objects to having that | cheap, vulgar stuff forced on bim. Let thase who like it go where they can get it, he said We are spending time, money and energy training our Rey Keouts so they may grow up to be clean young men, and to what avail, if when they are old enough to join theae cuba, they meet the leading jmen of their city, yes, and even their fathers, gloating over such vul Lat ws hope that hereafter the clean«inded men will come to the front and lead the way. There is nothing or no ope to fear when you are in the right A CLUB WOMAN, for many years, gave out the follow ing recipe for a homemade gray hair remedy: “Gray, streaked or faded hair can be quickly turned black, brown or light brown, which ever shade you dewire, by the follow. ing remedy that you can make at home: “Merely get a box of Oriex powder at any drug store. It costa very lit Ue and no extras to buy. Dissolve it in two on of distilled or rain water and comb through the hair. Full | i [ “It te safe, doon sticky or greasy, and eaves the hair fuffy, It wi) make a gray-haired person look twenty years younger.” Advertieement, Best foodstuffs for the least at Boldt'a — Advertisement. | Core used to be treated by fakers. But ecience has found a better way to treat corns. And millions have adopted it. The modern way ie Blue-jay— liquid or plaster. A famous chemist perfected it. 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