The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 11, 1921, Page 6

A NEW B HE suggestion of H. G. Wells that the world needs a new Bible will meet with warm ap- proval, and also with warm excor- iation, but probably neither side to the controversy will see the real reason for the certain failure of the Wells’ plan. | Leaving aside the question of the Bible’s inspiration, and the {near certainty that no confessed- ily man-made book could supplant \it with vast multitudes of believ- ‘ers, the real barrier will be that there is as much difference be- i\tween the tribes of men as be- tween plus and minus. | The gems for the new Bible that would thrill and inspire and edify and instruct the English- man and the American would be ||mere rough words without soul to the Asiatic, and the emotions that stir eastern adept and Oriental mystic to profound worship are alien to the western mind and heart. It will probably be found that the Catholic church, in its varied and understanding preaching of ceptance 0 And the as when flamed the derness of CONFESSIONS OF A The Bibl HUSBAND “tT have something to say to you,” said Det. Something was up. She was See cerious,.and I wondered if ® | had anything to do With my be ing out Ul) after midnight the night before Dot did look a bit queer at | Dreakfast. but she never said a | word, Good old Dot! Now I can | see she didn’t want to spoil my whole day. She waited for the evening I had shown her the Elkogram | +} and told her ali about our good | friend, Hiram Bowers, being on | the sick txt. And I told her T | was ordered by the ledge to visit | him, I knew he had,recovered | ‘and was weil again, but I had a date with a few food old souls who wanted to revive the game of pinochle/ We also renewed acquaintance with an old friend mittedly ples. HERE may be parents in Seattle who read with envy the stories about child prodigies of whom an unusual crop has appeared lately. now,” suki Dot. “Hub!” 1 pane te, dear; Saris Mer. and Mrs. | |while endowing a boy in New York with such a mind that Bowers were visitors here last) jat 414 years he cuts his teeth on big words like “psy- anata chology,” which he spells and uses familiarly. eee The child has been interviewed and is quoted as saying: MOTHER TAKES TO SLANG “Children are all very well, but they do not understand Now Mother's talking slang, because}Me, They see I am interested in teaching them things, Thruoat the livelong day, and they want to do nothing but plgy. I like to play, but fhe mys she hears so much, she/it’; 9 different sort of playing. It could be called playing Oe che way, with a purpose. The kids around here play for no reason he said to Dad at dinner time, at all.” “'m off of you for life, Poor little ! Nature has given him a grown-up iiaeee Joe Sewave sum Ge workel brain and him of his childhood. He likes to play Lhe “with a .” Other children play because their joyous called at 4 o'clock need Wie han te There's no purpose in their play, but sgn og the joy of it. wy by school, tho not shining; and can he hae for one. were regular boys. | Observations | With injunctions and mandamus proceedings, and threats and promises, the Women’s Industrial Home and Clinie case reminds one of the various carline suits. That is, the uni- formity with which they are getting nowh ere. tor| _ Lieut. Gov. Coyle declares he does not intend doing any- Doesn't he intend naked truth, and now that ixs|thing spectacular while acting governor. t here they want the fashions|to use good judgr¥ent? over the entrants in a beauty contest, it After lookin; "i appears that the Theory of Relativity applies to feminine jourishanent is a prominent char | charms. acteristic of our foods.” And a Seat- le restaurant has « sign saying, Wonder how long it'll be until some circus side-show im- ports a flock of Yap*anese. | 2Oyster Fry, Drop In.” ee WHE LADY MUST BE LONESOME Found—Brown fur collar. Owner have same by paying for ad and Surgeon points out that human anatomy resembles a hog’s. He must have dissected one of the fellows who stops his machine on a street crossing. The Supreme Court, not Woman, has the last word. ing on Mrs. William Grieg —Ad- Wertisement in Dixon (ill) Tele- tad eee THE TALES OF DEAD MEN “Dead men tell no tales,” observed re. “Maybe not,” commented the Fool. “But their tombstones are awful Many a hard working paragrapher wonders why he ever grew up when he reads of Jackie Coogan making a million a year. § Keep cabals out of the Yap cable knot. see Yes, love is sweet, it iv a treat, SF IS ea Tho it does drive you dafty; And yet, why shouldn't it be sweet, When it t mostly tafty? ip ga Pretty soon newspapers may be running extras whenever Babe Ruth doesn’t make a home run. It appears that “a change in taxation” merely means tak- ing it out of your other pocket. This prohibition is a serious mat fer. Where the Hek is father gonna > when he slams the door and leaves the house after @ two-hour Sawing match with mother? ore “Keeping liquor may not be an etfense,” coments Garry, rehashing @ headline, “provided your friends don't Know you've got it.” SETH TANN BY DR. WILLIAM E. BARTON About the middle of the day as you journey, there passes thru your car a colored man clad in @ white jacket, and distinguished from a Pull man porter by the fact that he alvo wears a white apron. As*he returns ne will call out in each car “Laineh is now served in the dining car. car in the rear, First call fof luncheon.” If you make it your rule to go always at the first call, and have washed your hands and brushed your hair a@ little while before in antici pation of this announcement, you will get a better seat, You are met at the door by the steward, who shows you to your aeat. A colored walter brings you a glass with @ lump of ice in it, and fills the remaining space within the glass with water, He also spreads out for you a clean linen napkin Up to that moment your meal has cost the company 57 cents. It cost $50,000 to build the dining car, and you must pay your part of the Interest on that sum, and some more for the repairs, upkeep, and depreciation. The car is fitted with ranges, refrigerators and tanks, and you must pay for your share of the fuel, the fee and the cost of procur ing and filtering the water, ‘The laundry bill is enormous, and a part of ft is charged to you. The steward must be paid, and #0 must the four cooks and five waiters. This is what makes up the total of your 67 cents, and there are at least 57 varieties of expense to absorb it. The problern of the company ta not how to recover the cost of what it actually feeds you, but to distribute this 57 cents over the pfices of the various articles of food you are to order, so a# fot to make any price prohibitive. Wor if they charge you too much you will eat your lunch out of a shoebox, So it is a problem in psychology as well ae in political ; |economy. All in all, I rather wonder that they do as well as they do. Don't you? Try This on Your Wise Friend There are two numbers such that twice the first plus the second equals 17, and twice the second plus the first equals 19. What are they? Anuwer to yenterday’a) 2. Meals @ la carte. Dining school master is hard—fightin’ th’ boys all winter an’ then hangin’ paper er lin’ books all summer t’ out @ livin’. Th’ “big noize” bs cenerelly pretty quiet a IBLE? the Word to the manifold tribes of men, has done all that mortal can believe that before long. if we mind may do in making universal | any one faith and in bringing to all men a more or less regular ac- ly And they may wonder with resentment at the ways of! nature that make of their boys just, ordinary youngsters, | f one Bible. } “Mother Church” has done this by keeping in the hands #eman’s police departinent of the priest the word, and by| meting out to the various peoples the interpretation of the word Meus writer that seemed suited to them. And, after hundreds of years of earnest, there are vast areas about as im-| pervious to the teaching of Christ| efficient endeavor, the first missionary braved the head-hunters and gospel forth in the wil- heathenism. e has wrought its won- ders because men believed in its inspiration, otherwise it would have died ages ago, and no man- made compilation, that is one ad-| man-made, light a zeal in ten thousand souls to carry its gospel to all the peo- can ever If the old Bible has failed don’t blame it on the Bible. | Is Your Child a Prodigy? | Letters to the Editor— FOR EDUCATION THAT EDUCATES Poditor The Star: Apropos of the recent controversy over the adoption Of plans for the construction of the Roosevelt high school, much wae mid about “impractical and vision ary school teachera” It in a pity that those who «till fomter the dino murian prejudices about teachers being dreamy idealists are no painful ly Impervious t facts, They seem never to have heard that peychologt | cal tents of soldiers in Camp Lewin during the war gave school teachers first place in intelligence, while “practical business men” were rated fgurth, according to the findings of the experta, In their frantic march for the irrelevant, thee prectoun ert: lee appear to have lost their sense of humor, As « taxpayer and an earnest ste dent of education and Its problema, ft has been my privilege to attend, during the past few months, a num- ber of meetings and institutes that Were addreesed by business men, Public school teachers and untvernity Professors. Invariably, the speaker Who gave the mort logical preeenta- tion of his toplc and who at the same time showed the most thoro under. etanding of the subject under dincus- sion, wae not the socalled practical man of affairs; he was not the man of business snd wide experience of the world, but the teachers and the university man, the betittied dream ¢@r. One outstanding fact tn all of thene meetings waa that the “prac tical man” could not or did not adapt himeelf readily to every situation that arose, The school man could talk business, but the bugness man could not talk education. Frankly, the man of busines: is unable to sense the significance of Problema in education. Me haa not the knowledge or the vision to di. vores education from a sentimental and pecuniary matertalian. He ap- pears unable to think of education Se 4 social Movement that is not bounded of restricted by provincial notions of finanes, He does not know that education cannot be di- fected or guided by thone pommeasing merely a back dooryard perspective of ife obtained at the accountant’s desk. He does not know that in om der to run ita true course, and to serve ita destined ends, education must have its Inspiration and direc: tion from the big-hearted and large minded men and women of sympa thy and vision, people of Intense hn- man feelitige, He who seen only the tor, He ix “fit only for treasona, stratagema and spoils” and the stock exchange, He can no more enter the | kingdom of Horace Mann, of Henry Barnard, of Wiliam T. Harris and John Dewey, and the thousands of unselfish men and women who have ennobled the work of teaching, than he can walk upon the waters of Gal- flee, He must be a master artiat who loves his art for the benefits he can bring to the race, who would win recognition in thia highest actty. ity of mankind, The clipper of cou- pons may be an expert in his chosen field, but he is treading on danger- ous ground when he ventures to the- orize in the realms of education. Yours, four square, for education, and more education—for education that educates, FREDERICK WELLAND. Kast Seattle. Congress has begun its taxk of re construction——with the accent on the “eon.”-—-Columbua (8, C.) Record, GIRLS! LEMONS BLEACH SKIN WHITE Squeeze the Juloe of two lemons tn- to @ bottle containing three ounces of Orchard White, which any drug! store will supply for a few cents, | shake well, and you have a quarter pint of harmless and delightful lem: on blench. Massage this awootly tra-| grant lotion into the face, neck,| arms and hands each day, then! shortly note the beauty and white | nese of your skin Famous stage beauties use this lemon lotion to bleach and bring that soft, clear, roxy-white complexion, also as @ freckle, sunburn and tan bleach, because tt doayn't tmltata Advertisement, THE SEATTLE STAR dollar sien in education ia no educa-|* WEDNESDAY, MAY 11, 1 REMARKABLE )| : | REMARKS ati “If we can judge the future by what bas happened in the past we “Deficious” is the word! Bluhill al things will ard , Ayren, nave courage, ind better."—Col, 1 viee president, Cleveland Trust Co see Green Chile Cheese “A wife should use every wile to jeep her husband bubbling with tn. terest, because If she doesn’t some other we will”—Mine Virginia onenencncwcsonenenonensenecesoncsesesen: May M ¥ head af Detroit Baa ate 4 eee Send your name and address to “1 did not come aeross an out-| "Information Editor, U. 8. 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