The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 23, 1921, Page 6

Seattle Star By matt, out of city, Ste per momth: F onthe $1.50; € months $2.75) rear, $6.00. In the Mtate of Washington. Outside ef the state, foe per month, Vase for & montha or # per year, Ty carrier, city, de per week Rewepaper Enterprise — Acsootation end United Frese Bervics Daity by The Star Publish: Puttin! tag Co Phone Main 600 Quit Knocking Don’t Play Into the Hands of Chronic Baiters of Education "THERE are some people who grow vehement at every school expense that goes beyond teaching ahe three r’s—readin’, 'ritin’ ‘rithmetic. With these fanatics there is no use discussing the Roosevelt high school or any other high school; or any modern grade school, for that matter. They have no tolerance for the vocational training idea that teaches both girls and boys useful things. Because for many lyears high schools taught dead languages and other for domestic sciences or manual training, = The clamor of these people that we are going in- sane on education is heard ever and anon in the discussions over the Roosevelt high school. In fact, it may be said that it is due, to a large extent, to some of these mossbacks that the hue and ery has been raised at this time. Is it worth | while arguing the point with them? ‘ y Suffice it to say that in the opinion of The Star it is far ‘better to spend school funds to teach a boy carpentry than \to-have him master Cicero's orations. So far as this paper SETH TANNER dead subjects exclusively, these people have no use | i Th’ man what kin pick other mon ¢ do things ts a sure win ner, Th’ more a dog looks like | » bug, th ‘more you can git | fer ‘m. TT LE AS OTHERS SEE THE WORLD Vditorials and Comments Kept filed From Various Newspapers IT'S MOSTLY OUR OWN FAULT (from the In cussing dincunsing the for you to find the imperfections panes. Now comes Viscount an. He's an Englivhmar selves in the @nited States Hiryee finds lots of things wrong observations but “ Americans are ruled by a medioer legislators afd executives much low « | Short terms of office and a jumble of officialdom—negligent \the tool# of political machines or Democracy is a fine machine The | automatioally | We expect our demoers Joonerete or turning out fictala) to grind on at top i a mechanic piece [competent person even the best machine functions ramus or anyone not an expert . to wor ackn peed with just learning Ti American for wien lany but not an faultx of democracy are largely due to ita Inability to cure tts ills an part of its functioning We ntart the machine (elect public then most of us go about our burt ‘acoma ‘Times) of government, It's easy They stand out like broken window James Bryce and shaken his cane at the broken world authority on how we rule our with us, Hotled down, these are hin © clans of men, We pay our judges » that we don't get the best. « dexire to be reelected produce a sometinves indifferent, frequently ial interests automatic machine k Uke an automatic machine mixing of ~ and expect the machine ut further attention. hin trade will tell you that every of machinery has to be watched constantly, oiled and operated by a imperfectly if operated by an igno Ours ix the beat government machine in the wortd. It cannot function perfectly unless “the beat men tn () shop” run It is concerned, any curriculum that has-for its goal the teach- ing of useful occupations for our boys and girls, at the same time giving them a cultural foundation, will receive unstinted support. Too many of our boys and ‘girls leave the grade schools land high schools unequipped for the battle they must put up to carn & livelihood. Ip Met, the longer they go to schoo! the more helpless many SONG OF SELF-RESTRAINT Trve never been given to cruel guf- faws OM dbeholding some other chap's We need more engineers in public life Furthermore, the machine must be watehed constantly. In this, every ane in responsible. Our elected public officials are empectally re#ponsible, but they are buman beings, not miracle men, and must have constant help-—oceasionally a prodding—from you personally. Eternal vigilance is the price of Mberty—and of good American govern- | ment. | "Phe fault t# not in our machine of government but in the way we Inqutring Reporter woes; For instance, poked fun. at some greser because He's equipped osm, Bay one is so crosseyed both ways he can see, Or perchance, be has ginee birth: Ye he crosseyed to furnish amuse ment for me? Does he stutter to stir up my|achoo! was built there was a floor area of 97 cuble feet per pupil In 1908 Queen Anne was erected, and it had %9 cubic feet mirth? Fup, based on misfortune, is going too far, But—tho I'm aware ‘tis a sin-— ‘When a fat guy’s potato sack busts BELOVED HYPOCRITES with an oversize stuttered |of tham become. They have mastered a dead language or two, | whether Shakdlpeare/or Bacon wrote the Shakespearean plays, and may jeven wrestle with Buelid or the fourth dimension. Star, many of these subjects are the ornamental things In education, while manual training and domestic sciences are the useful. In the old days a high school that tagght the boys ‘woodwork or elec tricity, or kindred subject, was unheard of. Today they are the modern |idea of things thruout the United States, and Seattle is not going to lag behind. turalty than it did formerly. the modern high school must occupy more apace per pupll And # wo find that when the Broadway high ‘That was in 1900. per pupil. Lincoln high school waa built in 1907 and remodeled in 1914 The floor space there is {11 per pupil. Franklin high, built in 1911, has 114 cubic feet per student; Ratlard high school, baflt in 1914, has 112.5, and West Seattle, built in 1916, has 118. How much doce the Roosevelt high school provide? Lens than at Weet Seattle and less than at Franklin. It provides 113.5 cubic feet per pupil Yet up and down the city the tale has been carried that Roosevelt high school is just a sheer waste of space. Mucti ado has been made about an anditortum and a stage and gymnasiums. and boys. busy thruout the day to comply with thie provision. ‘The gymnastums, one for beys and one for «iris, will be kept Ballard high schoo! woman who says: “I haven't| nas a stage comparing favorably with the proposed stage at Roosevelt @ thing to wear.” high school. And every high school has an auditorium, or, Shouk! have ‘The woman who says: “Why. I) one large enough to accommodate the enrollment at the school. Are wer @ink tt & amply stunning” going, In any penny-pinching fashion, to kill off that comradeship which ‘The girl who says: “I shall never! soo spirit gives by denying our boys and girls awembly hails and a symnastums? ‘The sirt who mys: “He ts merely who says: “Darting I at who another woman.” says: mays: “We marched miles that day, and I drove the “You don't | hard I have to work to| Let us not be sity about this, Junt beenuse a few old fortes, remem | bering their own school days, where there Were a handful of students in @ school, wil tell you they never had assembly rooms and they never had gymnasiums, and what in the world do we want a «tage for, and such other old-time stuff, t get to thinking that conditions are the | same today hs then. Roosetelt high school is to have 1,600 students, and the old-timers are talking about villages that didn't have 1,500 population altogether, The 1.600 at Roosevelt high school, and the thousands in the other high schools, must make the school thefr social center. They can't trot off a few biocks, ike thetr dads could, and find a’ «wimming hole, or @ trout stream, or go capgoeing at will, or even find « decent area to play ball in. We haye new conditions, and the Bigh sehool must be modern. fgjt high school, meeting all these conditions, asks for no more can tell In the opinion of The The law requires physical training two periods a week for both gtrie Franklin or West Seattle per pupil, and asks for lees. It asks for but one cubic foot more per pupil than was allowed in Hailard Now as to the cost. Everybody knows it costs ago. There's no escaping han 100° per tent tnore. Have you built & house recently? Compare tts cost with what « similar jouse would cost in 1916. ‘That's the only fair base t@ approach the cost of the Roosevett high school. | In 1916, the West Seattle high schoo! was Mected. It ts a fireproof building and was to accommodate 700 pupils. The cost, fully equipped, Roosevelt high school, to house 1,500 students, would have cost tn 1916 more than twice the amount, for it ts to accommodate twice as many This would bring the cost of the Roosevelt high school in 1916 near $700,000. In 1921, the estimated cost of the Roosevelt is $1,250,000, fully equipped. It iw expected. however, that estimate will be reduced somewhat. If it costs over 100 per cent than it did in 1916, then the Roosevelt high school, if a milion and @ quarter, is than the West ‘There remains, then, , the question: Is another high school, neceamry at this time? Or should the high school wait till all the grade school children are provided for? ‘This is really the most serious question Of all. Broadway high school, buflt te accommodate 1.800 students, has 2.250 Lincoln bas an attendance now of 2.032, tho originally built to acgom modate 1,300. Franklin high school, built to accommodate 1,200, ‘has 1,518 pupils. Ballard, built to house 1,000, has 1,243. \ Went Seattle, built 700, has 778. to build now than it did five years fact, It is claimed that it costs mora high school. the exceas would be ap vercrowded. It ts for that reason that the Roosevelt high school is proposed. would be ready for occupation in September, 1922. It would seem, then, that there is adequate reason for building anothe; high school. But, at the same time, there must be no let-up in grade school accom modations. While the percentage of excess is not go great in the grade schools, the total number of pupile for which accommodations must made in greater. It is, indeed, a perplexing question as to how the building program should be carried on. To say that the ‘high schoo! should wait until the grade schools are all provided, is, on the face of the thing, imporsibie. im To say that the grade schools should wait is equally absurd. The plan then, is to build concurrently. And that, we understand, is the pian of the school board. It is estimated that by the time the high school is completed there will also be 10 or 12 grade schools finished. In any event, let us look at this thing calmly. Don't let us play into the hands of educatioh baiters—those who would be tickled to death if our educational program could be lowered to the backwoods era. it In the daytime and the night; While the people, ever springing, And each to the other clinging the nervousness of fright; the time, time, time, siren's shrieking rhyme, "Mid the turbulence of traffic, as ft warns, as it warns— the croaking of the horns, horns, horns; the squawking and the hawking of the horns! ee . CONFESSION Our old heart jumps and Palpitates ok When a movie vampire Osculates. e- =. Wonder when prohibition goes fiato effect? Chicago taxicab driver whe found $7,000 in jewels and restored them to the owner, says he didn't get a reward. Cam it be that the Rollo Rooks had it all wrong? cee Silty kid, Car skid, Piwe million dollars in German gold arrives in New York. How did it get Glass lid. past the English Channe8, which apparently has one-way pockets? ) My first father, even Adam, was singing that song to the tune of “I Want to,Be an Angel,” and doing very well until thy first mother came along and put him off the key And I sang to her yet again, saying: THE PARABLE OF THE GARDEN I spake unto Keturah, saying, I will make a Garden. And Keturah said, So thou hast said, and so hast thou done, each Spring since ever 1 knew thee. Thou Wilt make a Garden in the Spring; but who will hoe in Summer? And I heeded her not, but went to work after a time she came unto me and helped me And I sang unto her a song, saying: And IM buy myself a Durham ram and a gray alpaca cow, And a« lockstick Osageorange hedge and a patent I J 6 I want to be a gardener and with en stand, An horny-handed son of toil with an haystack in mine hand; Beneath the tall tomatotree I'll swing the glittering hoe, And slay the wild potatobug that Pippeth o'er the snow. the gardeners . | ° And she made no comment, for from the days of Adam there hath been one unanswerable argument which a man might use in time of need. And I said, O Keturah, well do I know that I am a bum gardener; and that by midsummer there will be more weeds than garden-truck of my planting. Yet can I not deny myself the annual luxury of getting my own fingers in the soil and beholding that won drous miracle of God whereby the earth doth renew | life And Keturah Aw upon Adam am very glad to have thee get back to nature, and to| go back with thee. Yet, and so long as we do this, 1| think we can never wholly grow old WILLIAM KE. BARTON. And she inquired, exying, Didst thou make up that nonsense, or may there have been before thee another man who did it? And 1 said, The song that I have sung unto thee is @ free translation from the Sanskrit or some other Ancient Language which was spoken in the Garden of Eden. Thus doth mankind sing in every Spring And she said, Thy firet father who sang that song Was not a brilliant success ae a Gardener. + And | said, Woman, be thou silent, and remember, waid, My lord, I know it; and T blame thee not 4 gardener thou art little improvement thine ancestor, and he lost his job; but | Ex TODAY'S QUESTION | Deo you think you'll ever amount to much? ANSWERS F. D. CLEAVES, 8641 424 ave. Bs “TN let you look at paintings nd judge for yourself.” 7 JOHN M. WILMOT, 6050 Fifth ave. N EB. “I've got a family that's willing to temtify in my favor.” W. H. HICKS, 120 534 at: “Not if I take a certain newspaper man I | know for a model.” , COLE C. BURTIS, Renton: tainty, I'm gaining weight day.” G. V. GAU, 2913 N. 66th: “I"ve got 4 right to may yen, haven't I? “Cor every Questions of bealth, sanitation, hygiene, will be anewered If sent to ent, U. & Fab Me Menith Servies, Washington, D. C. { Catarch How does catarth of the throat or head affect & person? ‘The term “entarrh” ts so loosely used that it is not pomible to give any sati*factory answer to this ques tion. It all depends on the form of catarrh present. Tuberculonia Can tubereuicsia be cured, and, tf 20, why are there so many deaths from iT ‘There in no specific medicine which will cure tuberculosix, but if the pa tlerita take treatment earty, and es pecially if they can afford to do the things necessary, a large proportion of them recover. The ensentials of treatment are reat, fresh air and goed food. Milk for Children 1 tive in & small town, and the mitk sold here ts not pasteurteed. Would you Advise drinking i raw? [ bave three young children and the @urse @id 1 Should pastourine the milk. Bou ought not to give the children Yaw Instend of pasteurtzing it, you easily put it on the fire, and bring it to a boll. Do not let it boll for more than a few seconds, and then place ft at once in a cool place, Electric controls permit = new searchlight to be operated from points aa far away as 10 miles, “For a juicy steak, let's go Boldt's.— Advertisement. dollar earned. return. Combined R Trust & Savings | ip) Second Avenue Helps to Success ‘THE secret of successful per- sonal finance is: Save something out of every Save regularly and invest cau- tiously, looking first to safety of principal and second to interest A savings account in this bank meets these requirements. urces, Horton National Bank $23,875,207.66 Dexter Horion (4 Trust and ~ Savings Bank neglect that machine. | Im the Editor’s Mail MRS. ELLs VICTIM THE REAL CRIMINAL Editor The Star: In a recent insue lof The Seattle Star appeared a let ter written by @ Seattle man, In }which you are severely condemned | for your attitude toward Mra, Peart | O'Dell | I have never tn my life (and I read quite a good deat heard exprensed | such cruel, bitter, heartless contempt as was directed against that wo What did she do? , She killed & man named Kneip, be- cause he committed the worst crime aman can commit toward a woman He defiled her when phe was onjy @ | 17-year-old girl, and then, even after |ehe wae married and had warned | him, he ett continued to insult her | until whe punished him with her own hands, In this letter of which T mpeak not a single word was said against the |man Knelp or what punishment, if any, he should have had I would lke to ask this writer what he would have done had it been his eweetheart and wife, or if it had | been hie daughter No doubt, he would my that he should bave been punished according | to the Kut what value does law put on a woran’s virtue? In the state of [linols the prewent punishment for forcibly insulting @ woman may be as low as one year in the penitentiary, or the mame pun iahment which would be inflicted for @ theft of $30 worth of property Yet if a man steals a hore, a aw Dexter Horton Bank and Dexter at Cherry Street or an ans, the minimum punishment ie three years in the penitentiary, In other words, & woman's honor is | valued at $30, or one-third the value of a mule “Seduction, in Minols is only a min demeanor, a breach of manners, as it were.” Right bere in our own atate, not jover a week ago, a man wel) ads | vanced In years was given two years | at MoNetis island for engaging « 17- year-old girt in white slavery, On account of Knetp's crime, and for no other reason, two people were made murderers and an innocent baby dingraced, This jetter is not in defe of murder, but a condemnation th the mockery of our laws on this subject. | Knelp probably knew the law Would not do much to him—that’s why he continued hig vileness—and Mra. O'Dell, no doubt, knew it, too, so she punished him herself, Wearing a white carnation and slorifying womanhood one day in the year, and then placing her below the | level of a jackass the rest of the year, in not consistent, to my way of | thinking. I would advise this man to witness | the picture by Wiliam 8. Hart, | “O'Malley of the Mounted,” which is| | now being shown In Seattle, and see) | what any man worthy to be called | | red-bleoded would do with a man like Knetp, It ts right along this same subject, And I would Ike to add, tn closing, that at a recent convention of the Methodist church, held In the East, a “white list™ of clean movie actors REV. M. A. MATTHEWS Will Preach a Sermon Sunday Morning Entitied “The Doctrinal Effect of Our Hi Upon Our In the Evening He Will Divcuss the Subject “The Ministering Angels” This sermon will show the office, position and work of the heavenly an. gels im relationship to de parted saints. FIRST j | was drawn up, and William 8, Hart's! | name headed the list | 1 want to thank you, Mr. for the right stand you ha in regard to Mrs. Peart O'De | A MOTHER OF THREE BOYS. | | Editor NEEDS SPANKING, WED SAY) |funsfng around, seoiding and com plaining, reminds un of the little girl) who called: “Muvver, I'm ‘upatairs | crying; come an’ see what's the mat Goiy Influenza, Sore Throat | Mumphreys’ Homeo, Medicine Co, 166 ter wif me.” William Bt, New York, and at aii Drag end Country stores. ' P Poets are born—tut nobody ha» found out Why RODUCT OLICIE BUY PAC. NORTHWEST BUY NORTHERN LIFE ECURITY ERVICE HOME OFFICE—SEATTLE ADMITTED ASSETS January 1, 1921 $2,712,000.00 Insurance in Force ' $22,790,000.00 Write or phone, for full particulars regarding OUR 3 in ] POuUCY Combined Insurance Main 2795. { Name... ASETOED. 2... ceccccorsecccesoul Occupation. Age... tee tees seeeseccescoeees on to f. Usnally a little ready money is needed to take advantage of this tide. 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