The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 15, 1921, Page 6

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Outside of t Seattle’s Pleasant Responsibility How often have you heard people say, “Oh, Seattle has nothing to offer of ar- Seattle Star 2 montha $1.60) @ montha $2.78; year, state, te per momth, or $9.00 per year, My carrier, city, boo @ month These people have been thinking for so many years that Seattle is still a backwoods artistic here. worth while?” * * * * * & have Settlement, that they have failed to observe the sure and slow development of things The Symphony Orchestra, the Fine Arts society, the library, the Ladies’ Musical ‘lub, the state university and kindred organizations brought famous musicians and painters and writers here, and we still go on saying, “Oh, don’t you wish we could get to New York occasionally to see something really grown steadily, have . o”"s © This spring, with little blaring of trumpets, a group of artists slipped inté Seattle and quietly took up the work of establishing a repertory theatre at the Cornish school. One of the best equipped stages in the United States was erected—it would be Were set to work. * * #* te be expected artistically the commercial stage, They now that the finest dramas of the Hast decade have come, not from the dollar-grabbing producers of TRroadway and Piccadilly, but from the little theatres of Manchester, ‘Birmingham and Dublin and the _ @becure tittle playhouses of New Fork and Chicago. | That is the reason they have de ‘Setted the “popular” stage, with great monetary rewards, to de- 2 their time to the development Theatre movement. eee company in America! It ts center of the Little Theatre in the United States. the success or failure of the Browne company perhaps the immediate future of the a in this country. | Efforts have been made for a “Mere of years to establish a true repertory theatre that would carry forward the best traditions of the art. Most of the attempts of your support. They are this a battleground for a ga They are endeavor: to develop a» true national Will you back them up? ‘The dangers of walking increase @s the price of gasoline decreases. ——— your own negligence. Health is what really counts. } Moncy is only surface-wealth. eee ‘Bleven years ago this month, Frank Parkinson, student at the Montana School of Mines, was blinded by an explosion. ‘That destroyed part of his real wealth—a sound body. With $100, his total savings, he opened a candy store in Vancou- ver, Despite his handicap, he - forged ahead, accumulating money. eee Harry Christy, professional ath- lete, strained his back in @ gym nasium. Paralysis set in. Hie can moyé nothing but his fight hand and hiv eyes. He's been sitting in one position, strap ped in # harness in the same chair, for six years. One leg has been amputated and soon he must lose the other. Harry Christy has lost most of his natural wealth—bealth and a sound body. Yet he is one of the most capable business men in Newark, N. J. From his invalid’s chair he man- ages a large haberdashery busi- ness which he has built up since physical misfortune overtook him. oe * Compared with blind Frank Parkinson and paralyzed Harry Christy, your Jot in life is a very easy one. Both of them were financially poor when health, their real wealth, became impaired. Yet despite their handicaps, they achieved success to a satisfactory ‘And you still have health—your regi wealih. Wh be discouraged? The old-fashioned girl sat on the beach to dream, while the new- fashioned yirl who sts there 6 @ drce * & & Bud Coffee Is Dead Searcely more than a week ago he was in The Star office laugh- ta exulting over the thrill of ay t-completed exploit. Hoe had flown from San Fran- cisco to Seattle, and before that from Cheyenne, Wyo, to San Francisco, with pictures of the knockout in the Dempsey-Carpeo- tier fight, He had carried these photo graphs into San Francisco so that they could be published there 48 hours after the referee had count- ed the Frenchman out on the At- lantic seaboard—and ehead of all competitors. He had brought the pictures on And now the shep of state lists to tm-port side. International shoes are wiped on the diplo-mat. A New Way to Hooverize During the war meant “eat sparingly.” Now it means “give more than you get.” Hoover draws $12,000 a year as cabinet member, But a fellow cabinet member says he immediately pays it back in salaries to other men in his de partment. Only by supplementing from his own purse the.small salaries al- lowed by congress for important subordinate positions in the depart- ment could Hoover get with him in the government service men measuring up to his standards of ability and efficiency. “Hooverize” The European cabinet motto seems to be “When in doubt, re- sign” Real Prosperity: When a silk shirt sale attracts less attention than an overall sate. | difficult to match the beautiful little Cornish—and decorators and lighting experts ; Last night the first play of the repertory season was presented, “The Philander,” by G. Bernard Shaw. It was an artistic triumph, far transcending in brilliancy and technique all but a few offerings of the commercial stage. * * * Maurice Browne, his wife, Ellen Van Volkenburg, and their associate players are artists who have the best interests of the theatre at heart. They know that there is The Chicago professor trying to prove Einstein's theory should try @ hand at the relativity of railroad rates and business depression. The trouble with some politicians is that when they haven't any- thing to say they say it. We can expect from Judge Taft some weighty decisions i BY DR WILLIAM E. BARTON saluted and her struggle for Uberty which Bastile, July 14, 1789. Now tet us ask ourselves why the Freneh revolution was not as successful as our own? One reason is that in the hour of her supreme crisis, ber liberty-loving leadership failed. Lafayette was a great and good man, but he wae not & Washington. After the fall of the Bastil France was sure she had her Wash-j©™Mption made in the name of relig ington. In 1792, Lafayette was tn com-|Church sentiment may line up on those|the aide of the wicked? armies were strong enough to resist |°"C® made human smucrifice obli- mand of her armies, and the invasion of the Prussians. and made executive, But Lafayette feared what we now call the bolshevistic element in de mocracy; be did not quite dare to trust the people. Hoe resigned his command and withdrew from France. Then the assembly declared La-|! fayette a traitor. With Lafayette gone came Robesplerre, the man of blood, and the guillotine was busy day night until the good day when it fell upon the neck of Robespierre him- self. Could Lafayette have saved France from Robesplerre? We do not know, What we do know is that the leadership of the new republic failed it in the hour of its crisis—Lafay- ette was not a Washington. He was & good man, and in many respects a for the supreme teat And the grim humor of the situa tion is in this, that the man who ultimately gave to Lafayette his per. sonal freedom in France was no other than Napoleon Bonaparte. pense of France. Our leadership has failed us more than once, not in crises so tremendous, but still in emergencies so great as to give us | pause. A republic can never be perma: nently safe except as it raises up freat leaders who have both right eousnes# and courage The test of a republic is not its power to resist foreign invasion, elwe [had Lafayette been the first press {dent of France, and America and France would have had one more tie to bind them. As it is, they both have “at least one solemn lesson, applicable to | both ROMANCE BY LEO H. LASSEN I love to earch among old books Before an open fire. Within their pages I may be A beggar or a king; Or I may wai) the unknown seas, Or hear a glad bird sing. But when I find a faded bloom, Perhaps a summer rose, Pressed between the tattered leaves, The old book surely knows A romance, and the story holds A tender love, Because a heart in memory Had placed the flower there, and falr, An oid book holds such strange delignt Before an open fire. But while Lafayette was driving} ‘M8 9 all just. all wine, all tack the hereditary foes of France|*!! merciful and loving God wou! without her borders, the people of [Pt Paris rowe, and dethroned the king, | Wicked deeda in his worship. Lafayette their chiet|¥i@ and beer and other aicoholica brave man, but he lacked courage} Let not America glory at the ex.! ern The Use of the Koitor The Star: Please allow me Book of Genesis, where it ts record ed that “In the beginning God creat ed the heavens and the earth,” and jhe seems to think that 1 was talking about the universe in which we live. He reminds one much of the young man who was to call on a girl friend, and desiring to make a good Impression, went to the dictionary to enlarge his voodbulary. He opened the dictionary and saw the word “narrative,” and the meaning being “us this was new tos him, He turned over a few pages and | bis eye fell on the word “extinguixh” (to put out, Thus mentally loaded to the overflow, he called on his |friend. Soon after his arrival a pig got out of the sty and into the Elwood Answ: Editor The Star: Iam highly Ipleased to find that a Baptist min lister has seen fit to defend his de Inomination from my attacks and to lanswer my eriticilema goncerning ltheir unreasonable attitude toward the movies to the best of his ability It goes to show that at least a part of the Baptists are really sin jcere in their opinions in this tm portant matter; however with due respect for Rev. P. A. Klein's ree sontng ability and common sense, I (and I believe I am, not alone in m: attitude) consider the D. D.'s logic bit faulty. In the firet place I believe T am not committing a very grave error [se I way that the Rev. Klein is @ human being, and, being such, is apt to make occasional mistakes, or thra lundue enthusiagm on one subject is Apt to overlook the good points of Another. The Rev, Klein could take me to the garbage can and point out |the good points mixed with the bad. It in very tr@ that I would not ESTERDAY we|want any member of my family to} France, take the good fruit from the garbage of movie house and have seen some remembered can because it might be contami-\ef the world’s greatest picture pal with rejoicing nated by its close proximity to the aces of the West and heard some of |bad. Unfortunately for the Rev is Ki¢in hie comparison does not fit preted by © © m memorated thing was clean, orderly and elevat-|ter musicians who put their heart | in the fall of the|ing. Which was the greatest expres and soul in their work. same |into his argument. Using the From the Congressional Record THE JEWEL CONSISTENCY If prohibition be wise, why should there be the silly and cowardly ex jon? Are. legislators afraid that Theology gatory, but men quickly real tolerate, much less require if pernicious poisons like oplum and morphine, God will have none Chas, Stafford, read into Record by Rep. Sabath (D) IL ‘The tariff bill of 1883 was intro duced into the house on March 29, 2. It was not passed until March | 4, 1883, or an interval of over 11| months. The tariff oil) of 1890 was) imtroduced April 16 and passed Oc- tober an interval of six months. jThe tariff act of 1894 required for conaidération from December 19, 1893 to August 27, 1994, or nine months, The tariff act of 1897 re- quired five months; the Spanish War revenue act of 1898, two months; the tariff act of 1909, five months; the tariff act of 1713, six months.--Sen, |New Gt) Ind. GIRLS! 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Glasses’ not pr unless absolutely necessary, |BINYON OPTICAL Co. 1116 FIRST AVENUK Between Spring and sencea “home Maly Inn THE SEATTLE STAR ‘(LETTERS TO EDITOR an ory word about a former article in which I used the term | “world,” concerning which Mr. W }H. Scott, in hin article, makes a bit lof mirth, He says I almost succeed ed in being humorous. Weill, he has succeeded wonderfully when he |takes the meaning of the word “world” as I used it in its applica |tien to the world of mankind with | which God has no whip, as both John and James,’ New Tesfa- ment writers, used the word, and he crabs the word and runs to the of them. Be consistent.--Letter of | Word “World” garden, and the father of the girl | was trying to chase it ont the same | place where it came in and called on the girl to belp him. | ‘The young man, of course, volu |teered his services, went into t garden, ran up to the pig, ere by the “tall” and threw it o fence, and turned to the houne ‘The mother said to him, “How get it out #0 soon?’ and did the y young man replied, "I |the narrative and extinguished it So with Mr. Scott's rid the word can be used in reference to the h and other created things, but it never means that when connected with spiritual and moral qualitie |do not want the readers of The Star |to think I am making sport of Mr | Seott, for it is unbecoming any |to laugh at one whore opportunities perhaps have been limited by no fault of his own. 1 am not “infallible; T am prone make mistakes, and appreciate | to the Assistance of any one when | but, fall when carefully walking al poth, el pavement and ta man comes running to me and of | fern to aswint me to my feet, I will thank him for bis kindness, but be jing buman, I cannot help but smile. P, A, KLEIN ers Rev. Klein comparison employed by the Rev. Klein, the slums can properly be called the garbage can of a grefit ety, The grafters, traffickers in | vice, ete, are the rotten fruit. Occa sionally can one be found not yet contaminated enough to be class |fied a# bad fruit. 1 suppose the Rev, Klein would be afraid to rescue jthe good from the bad for fear of contamination. Judging from his line of argument. he does not condemn the movies themmelven, but thelr surroundini |In other words, movie theatres dens of iniquity and the people of [the movies are sinners of the black jest type. I with to say right now |for the benefit of Rev, Klein and all jothers who follow his line of logic faitho I don’t set myself up ax an jauthority on the movies) if Rev. Klein knew anything at all about the movies I am sure he would have jmore common senm than to even entertain such ideak, senseless and preposterous as they are. I have been in the cheapest type |the world’s best classic music inter. superb orchestra of mas- I enjoyed myself and was benefited jn both places in spite of the surroundings becaune everything was done sincere lly. The surroundings of an object do |not determine tts value in spite of the average human belng’s tendency to think no, I have been tn leading churches |where the choir leader quarreled with the organist over the way the organ was tuned, and where a man clad in overalls was gazed upon haugbtily by the so-called pillars of [the church. I have also been in the theatres where every employe, from manager to janitor, were in perfect quarrels, Everyone from the poor. ent laborer to the richest milMonaire was made welcome and given the same impartial treatment, Every- sion of true Christian spirit, the church or the theatre? I do not mean that I place the accord in spite of occasional surface | theatre above think that the o! sinning. © church, but T do urch is not above Undoubtedly God does con wider the world a spirttual and moral | garbage can but He can see the good | fre the bad and give the bad « le ¢ to make good, He made the atement quoted by the Rev. Klein “Love not the world nor the things that are in the world,” but when He mid it He meant the wordid and material things, not the masterpieces of man's and Hix own handiwork, which are an expression of spiritual ity livinity, and 1 believe the |Moview are an expression thru man By en ee, starting to FRIDAY, JULY 15, 1921. Try This on Your Wise Friend When the day after tomorrow is yesterday, today will be as far from Sunday as today was from Sunday when the day before yesterday was tomorrow. the week is it? Answer to yeuterday" of God's own wisdom. 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