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|The $8. Se attle at Whaddymean disarmament? The quartermaster general’s department of the U. S. army invited bids on a supply of swords for officers! | So far as the records of the late war reveals, the total casual- inflicted with swords totaled one—a foreign officer of rank Sta By mail, out of city, Se per month; 1 monthe, $1.46) @ manths BATE year, the state, 800 p lor, city, bee & mowth | month, » tripped over his own and cut his shins. Next to the British army’s practice for a year or more after war began of equipping its air pilots with spurs, we can’t ak of anything funnier than an army officer in our democrat- United States wearing a sword in time of peace—unless it ‘would be the same in time of war. Poison gas, high explosives, armored tanks, aircraft, filthy and great masses of human _ bodies — that’s war, in e days. Swords—in the language of Potash and Perlmut- the support Harding, has pre om motor cars, good chance Inte law. tax of $10 9 car ellen, whe prebably ib HS Hi e e i ge ks § ay H 5 i ree ! | i z = tHE agressions of monopolistsic combinations, Bome hung juries should be, We now suffer see-sicknesa. Blue aus have cone bloocy. 4 tentiary, has just taken his first auto ride and seen his first mov- ing pictare show, It was the first time he had been eutside the prison in more than 20 years. ‘The world had changed a let in 20 years Dan had read about the changes. But his sensations and amazement as he gaped about him demonstrated that actually seeing @ thing is 100 times as ef- fective as merely reading about it, Dan's euting, in custody of prison officials, lasted only a few hours. A brief glimpse at start- ling change. Back to his cell. ‘The tron doors clanged shut on ® world as strange to him as it would be to you if, when you bed tonight, to 20 3 i j j j E F ‘ H | i H pr i j i ry i i Ft ! TH FEE i Hy { | | i i EE FS : | i i ‘ ? Hi Bie Hy 33 5 f , | F iH _ E ut tr I ftir ri i Hi Leow Tellegen wants a divorce from Geraldine Farrar. Unhitch- ing his wagon from a star. The trouble with America’s di- vorce from European affairs is we can't get allicd money. A Kansas man mortgaged his cemetery lot to buy an auto, Per- haps he'll be buried in debt. | REMARKABLE REMARKS There is no sign of revolution in| And dye the Fragments Italy—not now or in the future. Tomaso Tittonl, president of the Italian senate, now in America, eee Care tn the cutting of American timber ts needed much more than re. forestation.—Roger J. Hudson, Knox- ville, Tenn, tumber leader. eee ‘The years just ahead will see won- derful advances in the co-operative movement.—S. J. Lowell, National Grange master, of Fredonia, N, Y, The Story of a Flirt Of course, with » girl, there ts always some particular ene—« man who towers head and shoulders above the others in her opinion. And Marjorie wasn't any exeep- tion in that way. But in the fitful margin ef Marjoric’s regard ware sach 8 world of others! In the really quite sincere beart which beat under the bedices of Marjorie’s pretty frocks was something of Diana. She loved conquest purely for itself. ‘There was » particular joy for her tn entangling in the meshes of her fascination some momen- young. He might have been Jost trying the strength of his second teeth or battling parental objec tien to his first patr of long trow ners; he might have been sporting his second set of false teeth and flirting with the grave while he i if f Li j ait il ! Often the half-shot ere heard around the world. The difference (s Hollan®s ttadmills work but our kind don't Bryan aces hope for the demo- crate, Probably noticed i in @ mirror. The unemployed wish every day twas labor day. Do your Christmas sa Of Slavery (And really get Away with it) In Circles where ‘The Name of Art Is used in Bulk, And a la Carte, The Female Scribe Should bob ber Hair, That confine Hanging there ‘With Super-Henna From a Flask; And having thus Commenced the Task, cal emery to the bearings that the Dress and Deportment Play a Part in Twentieth Century Ultra-Art Discard such Signs As Stays and Shoes And Hosiery— Mere stale Conventions A Spirit which Can only shine When not hemmed tn By such Attire As makes the Inmer Soul perspire. Her Garments should Be long and Mat, And very few, No sordid Hat TUE SEATT LE STAR A Misleading Headline Hditor The Star: I am disappointed in you: I bought a copy of your 9th edition Wednesday on the strength of the) headline “Mra. Mahoney Allve,"| thinking It contained some startling new information that the Tth ed) tion, delivered at my offices, did not) have When I had the paper epaned up in my hand I found the rest of the headline read “When Put in Trunk, Say» Capt, Tennant” The story was in addition to what had appeared tn | my copy And was now and start ling, Also It way in accordance with | the headlines aa read in thelr en- Urety, But, Mr, Wditor, the paper was #0 arranged that I, nor any other buy er, could not #ee more than the first three words as the newsboys displayed the paper, Taken by them- volves they mado @& gronsly mis leading statement. We have come to expect stich tno tics of some newspapers, but not of The Star, In tact, your careful- ly edited, complete fight extras and election extras and the usual ao curacy of your headiines is tn con trast to thls tnatance I complain “ur nt & of, Why did you do cee If you recelved the mistaken tm- pression that the words “Mra, Ma honey Alive’ would naturally give! when read by themselves, and bought a paper on the strength of that impression, The Star le genu inely sorry. Frankly, the makeup of the page was bad, and nobody more deeply regretted it than did staff members whey they mw It on the street. There was no intent whatever to give the false impression that the heading evidently did give you. Io stead, it wus the result of the rush in handling # big story that “broke” Just before prees time, In the bur ry to get the news to you and to the other \housands who are eager | ly watching the development of the framatic Mahoney case the men handling the edition failed to con sider, as they ordinarly would have done, that part of the headline would fall “below the fold.” We are mighty sorry, i. T. &, and we apol ogize to you and to any others who feel that they were “stung.” Editor. Likes News of Ford’s Plans Editar The Star: Allow me to commend and thank | you for the interest and space your papor Is giving to the efforts of Hen- | ty Ford to aastst the laboring ctassen, ae well as ¢xpane and condemn the} methods of our ratiroad #ystema, Your editorial surmising what wit happen to Mr. Ford's offer to the| government for the latter's nitrate! plant ts t!luminating and instructive. If the mans of our citizenship had its eyes on Washington and the press of our nation were giving the cuss on matters that Special Interent ts continually forcing our law makers to enact, our nation would not be tn the depressing condition that it ix to- day. We neod more papers of the class of The Seattle Star, Reapectfully, AKC Preserving Law and Order Editor The Star: Ih answer to letter signed “M M,” appearing in Mon@ay*s Star, I be eve the people of Seattle and King county are too Intelligent, and be lieve In higher ideals, than to toler ate any such uncivilized actions on the part of any mob, If the several branches of the de- partment of justice cannot cope with | the undesirable dement here, ae | find more efficient men, or enlarge the forces, that everyone aril have a fair trial, to which he ts entiued. Should the autnorities of Beatue and King county allow any gang of roughnecks under any pretentious Rame to operate io a country where law and order t# respected, It ts then time for every American to arm him. nelf m the cause of degency, and J want to may thet, when the roll is called, I'll be there. Respectfully, nh Ww. Disappointed in Ku Klux Klan Editor The Star: I've been making « careful study of the Kuo Klux Klan through the news columne of The Star and else where. I must eny that I am rather disappointed, for this game of galt and peppering a “hop-bhead” or some; female with tar and feathers looks | like a cheap, endless job, for if every one was properly mmenred with tar | that some faction wishes, we would | have to dig up every stump in the says Etnatein; so says J. J. Thou fon, the great English scientist, and HL A Lorents agrees. We bad thought that only wilted pippina, the lining of « gizzard and the moon were specially favored in Unis respect. Einstein does not my whether these wrinkles In the unfversal par- enchyma are the result of extreme old age or whether they are just youthful dimples. He thinks, how ever, that they may be.the result of “strain” and “distortion,” the new Jack and Jill of science. If, there fore, “Strain & Distortion are om nipotent thetr must be unt vernal, which id account for the actions of Gov, Len Smal no lem than the idioeynerasies of our own reigning monarch fimaN found a éummy bank; bav- ing, we presume, @ cashier slightly wrinkled under the eyes, with @ wil | lowy and prehensile disposition in| the finger tips. In this bank he cached the state funds. (All this, of course, co-ordinates with his term of office as state treasurer) This placed our frolicsome Mr. Small, unwedded to amy grief, in much the game position aw that of Chartos Dickens’ seif-hetpful bullfinch, who had @ well at the bottom of his care from which he had learned to draw his own water. Small, as you might naturally suppose, had already developed the derrick instinct. His elevator was well oiled and nolselens; tt was not until the rival gang applied politt To cripple Thought; And sloppy Sandals Should be bought, Floor Cushions, Cigarets and And highly Bolshevistic Views Asks Psychoanalysts ' For Tea, 1 only she is queer enongh She's Sure to Put Across her Stuff. FRANCES BOARDMAN. 4 Try This on Your Wise Friend Can you make a popular proverb out of th : aaceeeffhhiiiiimnnoooprrssttttt? ae: Answer to yesterday's: One Jump will take the frog out—of the hole. & lot of therm that are so black now, that you would have to whitewash them to change their color. After reading Burepean and Ard atic history back for a few thousand years, and with Mt the odds and ends of the present Russian administra ton, our Kn Klux Kian looks like an tnstpid and almost denatured pub- Ne regulator. Now if Leon Troteky could be induced to become the grand wizard I think that soon after % would begin to gtve back « real “whitemule” kick. Here ie hoping that this Ko Klux Klan thing od thing began to squeak. Small was the operator, and, of course, he rode conmantly, tney occasionally, and they didn’t Ike that. Smalls plan was to discount short time notes with the state's cash and THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 1921. THE SONG OF THE SEA BY LEO H. LASSEN On the endlens shore the breakers roar The song of the mighty wea: “I roll and roll and take my ton To hold my \berty™ A fairy ship, & merry crew Afloat on the ocean's breast; “The wea’s domain, the waves we reign? ‘They cried in idle jem. ‘The skies grow dark around the bark A tempest shrieks and yell; ‘The curging waves are ghastly graves Worse than a million holls! On the endiem shore the breakers roar ‘The song of the mighty sea: “I Jord the deep where they shall sleep, The werfs of sovereignty!” Editor The Btar: Can you or any of the readers of this paper tell me why a policeman, or a5 ex-policeman, both holding well-paying positions and committing |erand larceny to the extent that In my judgment livestock is the mart Important industry to humanity in all the world, In every country where livestock has been neglected, etvilization has had a bard struggic to exist, I remember a few years ago reading that in one of the great states of the Union « large portion of the male population of two counties were indicted for selling their votes. Investigation showed that they were Hiving upon farms where the sofl was exhausted; farms that were once fer- tiie, but from lack of livestock and proper rotation, the soll had become it was a struggie on sustain Nfe, The cit pocket the profite with the Interest, duce taxes remove the freckles from leas two per cent, Simple, is it not? the expense account by discharging Moral: When you desire to re the hired man. W. EL SCOTT. A Contrast ‘in Sentences Clarence O'Keefe and W. W. Whit- ney did, get off with a minimum of six months, and, in the case of O'Keefe, a maximum of siz months and one minerable little day, when a woman, a young girl of O'Keefe's own axe, of frail constitution and g00d morals, should get as a mini mum two years and a maximum ten years for merely easiating her bus band in robberies which were com mitted when they were both practi cally penniless and thoroly discour aged, while her husband, a boy also morally clean, out of work at the time of his crime, received ag his minimum five years and his maxi mum 15 years? No doubt you remember the latter case, os all the newspapers flared the news for days at a time, It will be two yeare this next December, and both the people concerned were cheated by thelr own lawyer. These young people lost three homes thru the crookedness of people older than they. The boy was an ex-soldier and was faced with unemployment from | the start, for on his release from the army strikes were rife The young wife was sickly and took no! part in the robberies other than to accompany her young busbend, as @he could not carry anything, while Policeman Whitney seems to have | been quite capable of carrying off be understood as ecessary for the t if Eel i i é 3 3 - g g i i | he of as clover, alfalfa, corn, wheat and other crops if we are to grow enough in America upon our farms to feed our own people.—Sen. Gooding (R) Idaho. : H Se —— .. =~ ) are a ? lots of candy, I don't say that O'Keefe and Whit- ney should get more than six months | thelr minimum, but why should others receive such a jong and un- FEW days ago ft heard a noted and eloquent man who said, “I have come to Arend the sound of my volen, I de things I talk about, or my preaching seems futile Yet the longer I tive faith I have in the valu ‘The human voice and page make an appeal women beyond all that tate for good or tL if | and now and then treasure up a w | and ponder it in thetr heart. Speak (the comforting word, the helpful word, the word of kindness and commendation. “We live by approbation, hope and love,” said Wordsworth. Put your approbation, your bepe and your bove | into words, and speak them. Jesus raid to his disetples, “Go ye into all the world and talk to peoples © | tell them the good news.” 4 They did it and they transformed the world. something terribty wrong. It's about high time we woke up. A READER. 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