The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 5, 1921, Page 6

Newspaper Association United Press Service Enterprise and eof Wann " $9.00 per y By att tar oar, 90,00 hy $4.00 for 6 Published Daily by The Star Publishing Co. Phone Main 0600 HE Ku Klux Klan, we are told, has gained a foothold in Washington. And we are assured that the purposes of this secret and very mysterious organization are pure and almost holy. It may be so. But if it is so, why is it a secret organizatio ? The correct answer to this question, probably, is not that the true purposes of the Ku Klux Klan are sinister, but that men would not join it if it were not a secret organization. There is something in a secret organization—and we are stepping on a lot of toes, our own included, when we say this—that appeals to the primitive and childish in men. We are not condemning secret societies. fellowship. nections. Men get a lot out of them. They get real They get pleasant and profitable social, political and business. con- But is it impossible to get fellowship and pleasant and profitable connections thru a society that is not secret? It is perfectly possible. The reason why, then, we join secret societies is that they seem to lift us out of the commonplace. They give us a feeling of importance denied us elsewhere. They give us pomp and mystery. * * * * * * * * * ILL SMITH, the grocer, is a fine fellow, easy as an eld shoe, whom we meet and trade with every day. We has bunions on his feet from standing behind a coun- fer day after long day. He would be a good-looking ‘man but for the wart on his nose. Every time we meet Bill we stop and swap funny stories. But we do not swap yarns with Omnipotent High- ‘Cockalorum Smith of the Ancient and Awful Order of Liamas as he sits on his throne in the imperial robes. The Omnipotent High-Cockalorum is, indeed, well guarded. To approach him, if you are a member, you must whisper the password to the Guard of the Outer 3 you must greet the Guard of the Inner Portal by cing the thumb of your left hand to your left ear and your fingers; and thereafter you must do noth- as you approach the sacred presence, that is not in ‘Btrict accordance with the ritual. * 8 #& * * # * * * OT LONG AGO the writer joined the Spanish War ‘Veterans. He did it because he wished to share in fine and very real fellowship that had its birth in camps of 1898. Without intending any disrespect to the Spanish War rlins whisper a password and go thru a certain amount of to enter a room in the courthouse and meet lot of good guys who never dream of being formal or Whoever invented the Ku Klux Klan was a genius. it follows, in its ritual and titles and other eS eee oe wet Bind wo 6 nat kiow, __ But certainly the name itself is appealing to the prim- mind. Ku Klux Klan! The very sound sends up and down the spine. White-robed and masked at midnight! Br-r-r-r! Secret oaths! It is an “aulik of the imperial wizard” who rules over “invisible empire,” and he dwells in an “imperial ee? * * * + # & * * & LL this is innocent enough, or may be. Our young- sters play similar games, and no harm comes of The Star hopes the Ku Klux is in strong, sane hands. are savage souls, wearing lightly the veneer of tion, who would use it to promote mob violence. “White supremacy?” “Pure Americanism?” Fine Phrases to roll on the tongue. But what do they mean? What methods will the klan employ to achieve white Probably the klan has a constitution, It may be a fine document. But the constitution of the United States is good enough for The Star. And you can find no surer guide to “pure Americanism” than the preamble to the Declaration of Independence: “We hold these truths te be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Cre- ator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” Yes, to Be Fashionable, One Must Ape the Human Skeleton! ‘The Turks, I'm told, Prefer them fat, But here it’s not At all like that. Might just as well Kesign the Game To those whose Figures Stress the Frame, t hang in long cted Lines From razor Shoulder Blades and Spines, it, to he ectly dressed, Plump Ladies, to ie 4 Thelr Grief, have found » Nvlew Chest. It's Meatless Day The Year around. The Skeleton Once hid itself Inside the Closet On the Shelf. But Time has torned Another Trick, And those who have No Bones to pick Yes, Life holds grim Perplexity For Victims of Convexity For nowadays, The One-Piece Frock And limp, near-Latin Quarter Smock Their only Recourse Is to ren Apartments in The Orient. —FRANCES BOARDMAN. The Way Out for Business Americans are the greatest bluffers or the greatest optimists on earth, according to whether you leok at Americans with mal- ice or with esteem, An American seldom admits defeat to himself—never to the world, Business may be rotten, few merchagts will admit it. The manufacturer may be “in the red” until his books look like a summer sunset, but to hear him at the club you would imag: ine be was exuding prosperity. Only the very great institutions, that are established on firm foun- dations and that have a great cash reserve, ever admit that trade ts not what It once was, As a people we not only refuse to admit failure, we shut our eyes to the facts, and plunge along the paths of pseude prosperity until we pop over the precipice of the actual. And it is this virtue and fault that Just now is causing a lot of but workers would rather work than strike, and they would rather ferests thrive on suspicion and get fat on class strife, but labor and business generally would get along fine if business would be as frank with labor as labor is frank with business. We know of no instance where the employer has laid his cards on the table, and proven to his men that either they must take a wage reduction or he must close, where the workers have proven other than loyal, or where they have refused to do their bit to keep things going. In every shop there Is enough ~ lost motion and loafing to give a profit; when workers feel they are a part of the business and will share in the profits, the loaf- ing, the lagging and the ineffi- clency are eliminated. Wages never broke any busi REMARKABLE REMARKS Girls all over the United States are automobile crazy,— Police Superin tendent Alderdice, Pittsburg. T am a radical nationalist anti imperialist anti-cdilectiviat distribu: tivist Christian social democrat— G. K. Chesterton, British author, Thoughts e tennis balls volleyed — back forth tween the external world and the ductiess glands, The brain corre sp tennis net.—Dr, Ernest | York osteopath. see ‘Tucker, Ne ing of hope and a belief that condi tions are going to be better.—How ard Eliott, chairman Northern Pa Everywhere I found a general feel: | ness; It is what you pay for and don't get that ruins you. The answer is; Tell the men the truth and receive their loyalty, Of course if you are holding out on them, and are trying to make unjust profits by fooling them, then this advice is worthless—as worthless as you and your bust ness are to the nation. The Craving for Thrill dohn Barleycorn comes to life in the Far North, The Yukon Canadians, after trying prohibi tion, voted wet by = big majority and the saloons of Dawson ard sald to be staging wilder orgies than during the Klondike gold rush. This purzies the drys, for the Yukon previously had voted bone dry so overwhelmingly that it was thought the liquor question up there had been settled for all time, Strong drink can be legistated out. It's not as casy to kill the craving for stimulants, The Ma lay chews betel nuts. The Amer jean gets his stimulants from home brew, tobacco, coffee, jazz bands and amusement park thrills. eee Few people can be happy with- out stimulants, tho they shorten human life, says E. Dana Caul- kins, expert on physical educa- tion, The world is physically sick, ac cording to Caulkins’ theory. Lacking perfect health, which is the real joy of life, most people resort to stimulants in an effort to experience artificially the men- tal buoyancy natural to the nor- mal, healthy person. “It is this physical sickness of the world that has developed unl- versalty the use of stimulants,” says Caulkins. “If we could ef- fect @ return to the normal, thra healthful living and bodily exer- cise, legislated prohibition would be unnecessary. In my judgment there should be provision for the teaching of physical education in all our schools.” oe You have times when Iife be comes almost unendurably monot- onous. Hence the expression, “Let's start something.” How can you get @ thrill? Better still, how can you re move the craving for thrill? Only « few out of the many are capable of acquiring destred stim- ulation thru the writing of books, the invention of new mechanical devices or supreme joy in their life work. What most of us need, to satis- fy the craving for stimulation, is vigorous play—recreation. There is no stimulant in the world so thrilling as good health. Good health may require lots of hard work. But it also re quires hard play. If you want to keep normal and physically fit, get that play—whether it’s by playing baseball or golf or taking long walks, The flower of politicians is the forget-me-not. Hope the Irish stew is i} leific Railway company, recently re. jturned from trip to Northwest done. | Special $5 || Reading | r 4 xan Globe Optical 1514 Westlake A Between Pike and Pi To A Where only thoughts And when the I find gay Who flee wi Within my heart there MY FRI BY LEO H. LASSEN Within my heart there is a secret place | shadows come I always know That there I find the vision of your face T love the ready friends The cleanly honor in your eyes. And when the highways . tree wit rain, the Uneel of the earth. I ask the fine companionship of you A golden room I bold apart. END M of you, my chum, may go; hip of your smile, m with rainbow hue | feat and mirth, is & wecret place, LETTERS Editor The Star We suddenly discover that the un asnimilable alien has grown to su immense proportions and has as sumed control of our ultural as well as every other line of business jin the elty and is flooding our cities with their large families that white folks dread their presence. Now we must have diplomatic interchange in order to save our country for our selves! | Imagine a tourist seeing a sign on jthe highway leading into towns in Washington: “NO JAPS ALLOWED | KEEP OL yet that & a common sight in California We neem to have le@rned nothing from our negro proble waiting to find ourselves In another fiy from which it will be no eary matter to extricate ourselves. Look at Hawail: it's Hawall only in name, but Japan in fact. The |Jap problem over there te a daily Editor The Star: ‘The writer has never met the man | Preducing “The Wayfarer”: neither | is he personally acquainted with any of thone in charge of tts production. ft have met Dr. Crowther on one or two occasions, but only ax a citizen, and as one who ts enough of a sport jo like fair play, 1 am writing this letter. I must confess that the attack made by The Star seems to be alto- gether uncalled for and unfair. Those who undertook to produce ‘The Wayfarer” knew that were taking « great risk and ventur ing © good many thousands of dol lars. It seems to me that the only manner in which they could possibly have protected themselves was to have done as they did; namely, to se- cure control over the copyright. They did not know, and in the fu- ture it may not be true, that Seattle Will appreciate “The Wayfarer” nut: ficiently to warrant its production here. I hope that Seattle will always do that, but if ft had not this year, or if In future yearn It does not ap- preciate “The Wayfarer” and the same can be produced elsewhere, the Management ought to have the priv- tlege of producing it in such cities as would appreciate it, I dare say that not 1 per cent of those who participated in its produc: tion have any regrete whatsoever in having put forth thelr energy and The Japs Within Our Bounds argument and the problem of mak. | Defends “Wayfarer” Management | Ager of “The Wayfarer” nor any one | | ‘a connection with the corporation | they | TO EDITOR) | {ing a Jap an American tx something | jthat hasn't been nettled, They are too numerous a race to deal with, | | ‘The papers report that the manu-| facturers, merchants as well as all representatives of British Columbia organizations have come out solidly for the regulation of Asiatic immi. gration and have taken @ survey of Japanese land holdings in B. C. Startling figures were presented which showed practically all im proved lands were in the bands of the while white farmers nd many refusing to It may be maf C. will find « way out but sbtful whether the United States will find it so easy for our coast line is so much longer and such @ grasp has been taken by the Japs. Canada finishes a job when she undertakes one. How long will jt take America to wake up? | ONE THAT BELIEVES IN AMERICA FOR AMERICANS. Japanese were landlens Ume and loss of money to make its | production the wonderful success it] was In all fairness to “The Wayfarer,” the management and all those who participated in its production, it seoms to me that you should make a Public apology for the unwarranted attack which you made. If you are the good sport that I think you are, you will do so, Had the manage ment sustained a lous of $20,900, who would have come to ita rescue? I |dare say that The Star would not have contributed $1,000 to pay off the debts incurred. Very truly yours. CLARK R. BELKNAP, Attotney at Law. Hoge Building. The writer of the above letter en | tirely missed the point of The Star's | editorial. The Star did not criticise the “Wayfarer” manager for obtaining the copyright control or for reserv. | ing the right to produce the pageant elsewhere. What The Star did criticine was | the deception which was practiond upon the press, the cast and the pub- } He. j | The management tet it be thought that ali the profits of the pageant were going to the stadium, that the pateant was assuredly a permanent Seattle-only institution, and that Dr. Crowther’s original corporation was | im control. It did not even let it be lknown until afterward that the A boy picks a number of half the apples and half an the remainder and half an Many does he pick? Answer to yesterday's: Three. Try This on Your Wise Friend apples. He gives his father apple more, his mother half apple more, his sister half the balance and half an apple more and has one left. How | name From the Congressional BY DR, WILLIAM EB. BARTON - HERE was in the olden time a iad departed the had and moved ‘Troy Her name was Heler We are told about her by alhere a ytleman named filled wit Ho Her hus: the band followed (republi and there was a good deal of| profanity and the exasperation @ the matter, Helen|the cracking of the whip, thone girl who raixed the row.|the things that would make “mig! jinteresting reading Represent Itive Wingo (D), Arik. face that launched «| oe SINCE THE DEATH OF THE JULEP Then Louisiana does not produ anything mt cotton and stal another lady WhO men?—Representat Mann (RJ, lived in Troy, not quite so long ago, eee and »o far as T am aware, her IT CALLS FOR FAITH is not known. She was the lady who discovered that if a man| Speaking about norma! times, has good luck, he may be able to!gentleman from Te neeme, a whirt clean longer than afthink that we are going to get B |to normal times by being peasdagl The only way to get back is to m and uniam, » work and feel like wp who from that hers, to WON'T SOMONE PL iP ened in i would make mighia it ie what hal n right a . ro a r i A ma rniture r of your pa and the cussing and er magnificen an her trouble was the about Hers was “© © the thourand ships, | And burned the topless towers of Ilium.” exc ‘There was or er » alno discovered that if m takes him, and) little the shirt is not clean, he has more | opportunities of concealing the fact |!" ® normal amount of money, than are posujble in the case of the|“#nnot get down to normal see ol juntil we begin spending again The department of commerce of |P¥tting people back to work, a the United tes government hus not do it until you belley undertaken to find out how @ great ure, — Representative industry began, and when it had its origin. The government informe us| that the ¢ r business started in f to making the collar a separate ment That was the way it wag with Mary Walker, But she had to | man's attire to find how convent and how stupid it was; for men | wearing collar-buttons that dug # the backs of their necks, and sewed a Uttle flap inside the coll utton hole of the garment she and patented it, and all of us n are grateful to her. But this unknown woman of is not known to have worn the lars she invented. She bestows them as a great and undeserved b upon male humanity. We pay 1 ly $20,000,000 a year in apprecial of her service. She may not ha been as beautiful as Helen, but and Helen have this in com each of them put Troy on the ‘hot have been the year} ly ma the discovery, | but that was the year in which she got men to listen to her and cons copyright had passed out of the au thor's hands And it kept very dark the fact that under the new corporation by: laws it was quite possible and legal for the company, if {t desired, to commercialize the religious produe tion to the Umit and pocket the profits as dividends, Thin was not frank or honest. It was not “square shooting.” It was obtaining support under false pre- It was unnecessary and re le and wrong. That was the/| n of The Swer's criticism, As The Star still feels the same! way about it, it has no apologies to make for #& Editor, After the show, we'll go to Bo —Advertisement, A FABLE Was written many centuries ago, hav- ing to do with an ant and a grasshop- per. ‘It has become a classic, owing to the general recognition of its homely and simple moral by many ages of peo- ple. The lesson is as vital now as it was when medieval minstrels passed it down. Save and Have. A Dollar Will Start an * Account . Savings Department Open — Evenings, to Branches at Georgetown and Ballard “Without the treacherous help of cathartics” A simple food which gradually replaces laxatives who can control chronic constipation without the treacherous help of cathar- tics makes a ‘booster’ of his patient.” This quotation stipation carries a from a doctor's essay on con- message of great significance to thousands of men and women. 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