The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 13, 1921, Page 6

sien daenn a attice rorencanmntnnaeiee nee EE ee PAGE 6 The Seattle Star out of efty, tte per month; 2 momtha $1.60; @ months, 61.75; year, ta the state of Washington, Outstde of state, t0e per mouth, for & montha, or 18.00 per year, By carrier, city, be & month Newepaper Ra- teepriee Anon, and United Preas Gervice The Girl Next Door was married yesterday. She had a “swell” wedding and @tarted on her honeymoon in one of these twelve-cylinder cars that cost enough to @tart an old-time country bank. “A function like this,” said her pa, who's in his fifties, “takes us old-timers back ‘to the days when we were courting ma. “In those days, I got to work at 7 in the morning and didn’t quit until 6, so it re- ‘quired a lot of hustling to get to my future father-in-law’s house before dark, in time to play a few games of croquet. I was a sport, so I took along a bag of pop- torn. * 8 * 38 & s 8 | “If it happened to be a hot summer night, we took a trolley ride out to the park. ‘The street car was small and it rocked a lot. It was open at the shes, with seats clear across, and the conductor came along the running-board to collect “Later on, as I got more prosperous, I followed the fashions and bought a piano-box with red side-bars. If you drove one horse, you were in style, but if you could a spanking team you were a real sport. That was the Packard car of its day. * * * s. 58 #8 * # * “Ma’s skirts dragged on the ground in her courting days. She had a wasp-waist leg-of-mutton sleeves and a jaunty little hat about the size of a cantaloupe. “We didn’t have movies. A star entertainment was an ice cream social at the ch. By special arrangement, old-time ballads were sung, illustrated with colored “] remember that I proposed to ma after dancing ‘The Blue Danube’ waltz. * * #& s 8 # 7 * @ “The real thing in honeymoons in those days was to take a wedding trip to Niagara If you had the carfare and it were 1893, you honeymooned at the world’s fair Chicago and marveled at the first moving picture and the first phonograph, with Edison going around predicting great improvements. é “We visited ma’s Aunt Cora in Chicago and I recall overhearing her say to neigh- | bors that ma ‘married well and got a good provider.’ “Qne morning ma and Aunt Cora wanted to do some shopping, so I slipped out to the ir ground and saw The Streets of Cairo in the Midway. “That was tame compared with the stuff that’s pulled off now, bat it was the tht of daring for an old-timer. ' “The young folks of today think that courting couples of 20, 30 and 40 years ago a tame’ time. Maybe we did,, but it didn’t seem so then, and I really believe we ed life more. At any rate, we were building up a wholesome America of hon- sons, respected womanhood and real home life. Maybe it was tame, but if I it to do over again I wouldn’t trade it for, the present.” as » link te bind the past to the futere Obvicusty, Chan, the function of wonder what the = every man and women—inefading is tm making you Live this yeurseif—ts servies to humanity meditate: “What ts 8 for the present and for all tima, this thing we call fe? net merely » matter of personal of i streets of Seattle er | We have been taxpayers tm the in the presence of a number of Give me a stmpte Sreplace; I Uke that best. enseinent A fireplace to me Is the soul of the Simplicity BY LEO H. LASSEN A sender vane with fost a aingte flower, a picture of some cherished friend,’ or perhaps a print of a quiet field, would be upon the mantel And warm red bricks would bold the fire with dark tained wood for thelr I cannot bear brass candlesticks, I think ef people whe have come into wealth and put such things before them, houne, where one may sleep before a pleasant fire or dream just dreama Gtve me a rimple fireplace— {1 Mike that best. REMARKABLE REMARKS Cancer can be cured if it ts treat- ef ecarty enough-—-Dr. C Reguud, Paris Radium Inetitute. eee Peace tn Asia is Jost ag necessary to us as peace on the Rhine—luy ‘mond Poincare, French premier, see Inequality of women has ¢one prevalence of divorce and unholy marriages —Lady Frances Balfour, British social leader. From the | || Congressional Record AS BETWEEN BORROWERS ‘The federal reserve board is charg ing the farmers of the South and West today a larger rate of interest than this government is charging foreign nations for money laaned— Senator Heflin @), Ala ee READ IT AND SEE FOR YOURSELY Of course, we cman have peace There is a kind of peace that te said to pass understanding, and that may be the Kind we are driving at here (in the peace resolution}—Senator Fietcher (D), Mla eee RECKLESS CHARACTERS Tam now here to tel-the gentile men that I know men tn this house LETTERS TO EDITOR ° Throw Bully Policeman Out Wiiiter The star: I want te thank; time was Friday night you for the effort you are making | were together at Third ave to safeguard the tife and iherty of st. The policeman the law-abiding workingman en the| them. Outside of the 389 humiliation, One the he : test He but the The rough element are allowed to | by the police, and many a criminal is discus Cheat reiiroeds en the age limit, city for 20 years, and it is hard to see | quaintances, put in a Dodge car a. Einstein the money go to pay policemen that | taken to the’ police station. Unless the dog is properly tagged, | are so unqualified as some that are released as soon as searched, he's it, on the force at present, My son has insult remained “timedind- lived almost his whole _life at our | . ‘ author is Count Alfred H Present home, riding on the same) go undisturbed, and a number of men = soo: balmy who Spending Uncle atreet car line the whole time; he has | are arming themselves just to make Sami’s Money had steady employment af the year, | safe in such an emergency. The po- it in his mew book, “Man In these initial days of the bud | °° during that time has been ticemen that allow thetr uniform, of Humanity.” a searched four times by policemen, | gun and club to make bullies of them Paar oA lia igs coker two different times at the corner of should be put off the foree tmmedi- which expenditures the geverm | Fourth ava and Stewart st. while ately; they are creating hatred and —pcsialigen Age Bapat ogre ment are to be Gteemed foolish | Waiting for a car to come home from | disregard for the law, as represented fake energy from work. it into chemical energy. Al oh aek and what. sre 40 be A young man friend of his has! started in that way. can't move about. deemed essential and continued. | been searched five times, The last! A STAR READER FOR 20 YEARS. Animals cat the plants and 1,700 SO Sme of the scientific 7 move about in space Ecogal-deadhnys >) It Does Her Heart Good will, they also are space-bound. feed in that directon wt " E@itor The Star: Honest to good | doing just fine! Keep the ed0d work Jones” for big bravery in coming the front with his story. jail! You just go to it, Star! eats flood products, that the cost of all ~ the investigations since the depart horse knows that his anee™ ent was begun is at once wiped | Eéitor ‘The Star: The letter age chee inthe Or ee The big investigations, of of ts jz investigations, of course, sometimes are elected jndges judge ts advising mob violence. will not grow where he is, But some of the little side i» sues in the department have big financial rewards. One bureau has been investigating explosions in threshing machinery. In 1914 more than 500 threshing machines were Borant of the past, oblivious to the future, Amerjcan agitation, less of more than $1,000,000 in ma- chinery alone, without reckoning losses incident to threshing delays. The bureau hag not only found what caused the explosion, but has developed a suction fan to prevent it, and no threshing machine equipped with such a fan has ex- ploded since, The saving on threshing ma chine explosions alone has more than paid the total expenses of a dozen scientific bureaus, fog power which frees him from “space, Ever has he sought, learn “ed and pamed on to pds erity ways ee eto greater results in less Most of the material wealth now existing in the world is not the product of the toll of those now living. 41 is a gift from the dead— and this is a6 true of organized society and efficient methods of - doing things as it is true of physi- al gifts from past gencrations— puch as clearing timber land for farms or building railroads. Man records history, acquires wisdom, makes progress and cro ates material and spiritual wealth to be passed on to future genera tions. ‘ Animals cannot do this, Kryzyb> ki points out. 4 Hence man ts not an animal. He has conquered space-bound mature, » He has the power of timebind- _ fog—the ability to use the present ss Since our teachers never have ha living wage Jt would be setting cent and admifing public, station in life. Ratsing cain lowered the price of sugar; raising roofs will lower rents. Nowadays, when a novelist wants @ happy ending, he lets them get divorce. sities, Farmers seem to think @ good emergency act would be to adjourn congress. ought to avail themselves Let Harding take heart; Chartle Chaplin couldn't satisfy some pia to prove hunters, feeling. New York scems worrtcd by her Hylan fling, ‘The Star ge’ ,after our chief! I cant find words at my command to tel | how I wanted to congratulnte “C./ up. a *, night's paper, signed by one help to make public servants of the ‘udge Clough, praising the Seattle! public safety department see their police, shows the kind of men who duty, then good luck to yon, Washington. He thinks tt 0. K. for his homor, otherwise he would not | the police’ to beat a man up, bat! advise when you consider there ts no come-| That sort of @ judge should be run back when you are innocent, this| out of Seattle; this is no place for It is a fact that the Seattle polles| citizena Yours, force is the laughing stock of all otb-| A Living Wage for Teachers Eéitor The Star: Too much has been sald of late about paying our | school teachers a living wage. Please | permit me, a lone taxpayer, to raise my voice against this radical and un- | Man, however, has the timebind destroyed by dust explosions, s net To pay our school teachers a fv- ing wage would be a wild experiment and a soctal error of the first order. precedent fraufht with untold perils and dangers to our body politic to make #o cataclysmic a change in our | indifference to, the vital social, in- time-honored gnd traditional policy If teachers can no longer subsist on the modicum of cheertmg words and soft soap doled out by an inno they should make way for others who would gladly Uve as becomes their Instead of expecting “| the same remuneration that they are now receiving, teachers should pre- pare themselves in the near future for a reduction of salaries consonant with the recent phenomenonal col lapse of retail prices of living neces- ‘The teachers shonid avidly agree to this as a matter of Justice to the general public. They have not been called upon to make the great sac: rifices In the past four years that other groups have and consequently with alacrity of this golden opportunity their unalloyed, patriotic In case the teachers should not do| employment, nor would it this the alternative of resigning pre- ls welt, The Uilling of their po- ness, it dors my heart good to ete up! It makes my bicod boll to see how our citizens are being so bru- tally treated, Your plain talk may wake our chief He's been asleep now long to | enough. Hop to ft, Start Bravo for you, “C. Why, the very idea of the police | Jones,” for not being afraid to come treating our citizens as they are do- | to the.front! ing im that terrible manner at the You're MRS. MIKE JONES, Seattle, Wash, Disagree With Judge in | or cities, and tf the Grattle Star can It may in| be the copa have a good stand with them to commit murder. him.when we try to be law-abiding A. H. COURTENAY. | sitions would entafl no turden on the board of education. It would require only a few days to have from the Orient two or three shiploads of coolies, more than enough to provide every claas room in Seattle with a teacher, As intelectual epectmena, the ad j vent of the coolies would not trans gress upon American ideals of peda |®ogical intelligenca A prime req- juisite of the American school teacher is the utter ignorance of, or dustrial, economic and political jforces and movements of the ting. | He must possess no opinions of his own, and he must exercise extreme |cirpumspection in the use of those jhe borrows. He must be an in- tellectual eunuch, The.coolies could jconform to all of these requirements without burting their religious scruples, There would be a further advan- tage in the hiring of the coolies in that there would be no danger of their ruining thelr pedagogical capacities by thinking. The Amer ican teacher sometimes compromises | his usefulness by using his mind for | thinking purposes. Thinking ought to be forbidden everywhere, as it destroys harmony tn the community. Coolie teachers will insure complete harmony in the school room. That the coolies hold no degrees from colleges or untversities would constitute no valid objection to their militate against their fitness as teachers in our local gh schogly ag teuchers much to bring about the dreadful | —no; perhaps not ip this house, 7 in the conntry—who would ride « jackass inte the Garden of Eden and hiteh him to the tree of life--Repre sentative Goodykoonts (It), W. Va who have no degree are pald the | mame as teachers holding the degree of doctor of philosophy. The fact that Seattle does not pay her teach ers for scholarship, only furnishes an additional reason for bringing coolies into our school rooms. I believe that I have shown from an educational standpoint, at least, that wages of Seattle tanchars should be reduced—or completely abolished —and that it would conduce to the educational progress of the city to place coolies in the claw rooms as teachern yours, WILBUR FORCK, Nainier Beach. SAVAGE : - WEDNESDAY, JULY 13, 1921. Where right and wrong are som INHERENT | =r By ony law but love | moral relativity | law of love, Tick Tock Clock Shop Repairing done right “all for and deliver Without extra ebarge 432 Walker Bldg. Cor, 2d and University Main 2372 ‘That tn the first and final ac our relation to BY DR WILLIAM KE BARTON OW that Binatein | bas come and fone we may be hearing lowe about relativity. On the other hand, we may fod a ten dency to extend the scope of that ideas from phys jes into morals. which I think is profoundly tru Th might have been that the sky was green, | And the grass serenety bine; Tt might have been that grapes on thorns And figs on thisties grew. |} Tt might have been that rainbows bright Before the showers came; us an aeetute yg nt| Tt might have been that lambs were Jand wrong, or are things only rel etd ively wrong and right? Is vi | And bears and tigers tame. jto quote from the first high school |It might have been that cold would leesay of William H. Seward, “the beat of the vices"? Do things be | |eome right or wrong by reason of | circumstances, and pot by any br} herent properties? I think we can face that question calmly, and say that human conduct in the moral sphere is largely a rela. tive matter, And mer heat would freem, It might have been been that ships at sea ‘Would eal! againet the breeza, And there may be worlds unknown, dear, Where we might find the change From all that we have seen or beara For myself, T do not tke the der: ni fyation of the word “religion” from| _7°, "ners dust as strange. the words which mean “to bind mt i never could be wise, Gene, In hate to act or speak: back” but rather from those which | moan “to lie alongnide,” “to be re-| inted.” Religion itself fe a matter | of relationships, or relativity. But some things are fixed, far be jyond the shifting degrees of con | vention; they inhere in the very | structure of human life | There ts a tittle unidentified poem Try This on Your Wise Friend a If you gave half of your apples and half an apple over || Bon-Opto to one friend; one-half of the remainder and half an || Bon-Upie tor the Eyes apple to a second friend; and half of your still remaining | 'scrine Bon-Opto as « eafe home supply and half an apple over to a third friend, how many | ‘e™e¢y 1» the treatment of eye did you have in the first place? ewe Gad wsder teeny It never could be noble To harm poor or weak; It never\could be kind, dear, To give @ needless pain; It never could be honest To sin for greed of gain And there could not be @ world, | Gear, While God & true above, Doctors Recommend THE SPRECKELS “SAVAGE” TIRE CO. OUR GEST ASSET IS THE SATISFIED C Answer to yesterday’« First cost §60; second $25. (Se THE “TOKEN OF POSSESSION. BY “O@UAN” MIER with wonder the customs they were able to & wbserve of the first white men who came to America. The cus! planted SAN DIEGO, tom of planting a cross in token of possession was i the very beginning. When Columbus first landed in the cross oft the beach, observed from a distance bey the deri ive. Ka ~ ‘When sailing for the king of England, John Cabot rediscow @réd America and Newfoundland in 1497, and planted the cross on the newly found land in token of possession, : ‘When Cabral, commanding » Portuguese fleet, reached the) fhainland of South America in°1500, he raised a cross in token of possession and named the land Santa Cruz, which means’ Cros: Much could be told of that strange ceremony, which the Indians, of course, did not understand. THE SPRECKELS “SAVAGE” TIRE COMPANY FACTORY BRANCH 918 East Pike Street The Tyre Shop 1 F. 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