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

| By Miall, out of city, 95.00, in the stat $4.60 for € month or $9.00 per year. We Are Born Destroyers A 14-year-old Pennsylvania boy, with a passion for smashing things, confessed that he wrecked the Lackawanna Limited. His supreme ambition was to wreck a train. Now he’s awaiting trial for murder. A lot of brain experts will ponder this lad’s case. They’ll say he’s abnormal, that he has “destructive mania.” Psychologists will suggest ‘various cures. Many fathers will recommend strap-oil. What's really wrong with this boy—as well as many others—is that he was born several thousand years too late. The desire to destroy is one of the most powerful impulses of brute man. Civiliza- tion has restrained it, but who hasn't “gotten mad” at something and smashed it with great glee? When you were a baby, you smashed toys as fast as they were placed before you. That’s one reason the infant's playthings are made of rubber. If you were a normal boy, along about your sixth birthday pa gave you a chest of tools. Probably you rewarded him by sawing off the piano leg or driving nails in the parlor table. Every boy goes thru the window smashing stage. Throw a cracked 'gold-fish globe on the ash heap. Nearly every grown-up who passes will look about for a stone. “Let's see who can smash it first.” We boast a lot of the constructive spirit of man. But we all love to follow the fire en- gines to watch a house burn down. Watching a house being constructed isn’t as inter- esting. This thing we call civilization is, from the economic side, little more than a bottling up or caging of the destructive instinct. Periodically the bonds break and a nation goes on a destructive orgy—war. The world has just emerged from one of these orgies. Now we have to buckle down for a few generations and repair the damages. There were plenty of precedents in the past, warning us that what is broken must be replaced. But the desire to destroy proved stronger than the wisdom of restraint. You wonder what civilization will lead to—what its highest type will have as its lead- > ing characteristic. The answer is, absolute caging of the destructive intpulse. That has been the story of all great civilizations of the past. The ancient Athenian Greeks built a celebrated temple, the Parthenon, conceded to be the finest piece of archi- tecture in the history of man. Adorning it were statues carved by history's greatest sculptor, Phidias. Being highly civilized, the Greeks revered the statues. Invading Turks, less civil- ized, used the statues as targets for their primitive rifles—and ruined them. That one incident is characteristic of the whole history of man. Take a soda fountain clerk. He goes on a vacation to a small town, Says he never wants to see an ice cream soda again. But after a few days, like iron drawn to a magnet, he can’t re sist hanging around the local soda fountain, comparing it with his own. And the hiss of charged water is masic to him. Let a man be a reporter until he gets old and retired. Then the only way you can keep him away from newspaper offices is te shoot him. Work gets monotonous and it's &® good thing to take a vacation. But every job takes on the na ture of a habit. And the longer you work at it, the more its lure binds you in its iron coils. On first thought, you may But tell the truth as yon enjoy a vacw tion, doesn't it give you a thrill to get back to “the old grind”? A crime school has been found in Philadelphia. Every Seattle kid 1) thinks any school is a crime. Mosquitoes are becoming good pare back riders ia HA ry rile cid i i tit Hy Fy ie Hi i i ? ! ' 2it aT i! 3 : li iu if straining yourself, The intelligent thing is to dis tribute the load. Much has been said about the power of little things. Throw » Bucket of water on man’s head afd it won't burt him. But let that water drop on his forehead, drop by drop, and hell go crazy. Medieval fiends used this as torture, Many drops of water, running over rock, ate out the deep chan- nel of the Grand Canyon, Tiny particles of oxygen from the air, attacking a powerful train rail, can destroy it. So it goes with your life's work. Success is like lifting a moun tain, You can’t do it in one lift —or in s hurry, But little by little you remove the mighty ob- stacle and attain your goal, eee A famous ancient, named Milo, carried a calf around @ race track, He did this every day. Each day the bull was a trifle heavier—and Milo's strength » trifle greater. Finally, when the bull was full grown, Milo could carry it as easily as when it was @ baby. He killed it with one blow. Working steadily, to your ut- most, you steadily increase your strength, your power to do things, gradually able to carry a heavier load. That's why the road to success becomes easier, the closer you ap- proach your goal ff Washington. Outside ef the state, 800 By carrier, city, bee « THE SEATTLE STAR | (LETTERS To EDITOR | Where City’s Money Goes Editor The Star had been carelonuly left open during 1 wish to report to you a éase of |#0me reconstruction work on the gross negligence on the part of city | ‘cks railway officials. The damage to my car reeuited in 1 am a former business man of | T!Ay of two days in the trip which Leavenworth, Wash, and have been |! # making, touring by automobile for the last| On August 11 I filed a complaint two months thru Western Washing: | With the olaim agent and up to the ton. On the night of Aug. 10th, at 9| Present time there has been nothing o'clock while driving along Republic: |4one to protect other drivers from an at Broad st, crossing I ran into|running into the same hole, . a hole between the car tracks, which J ROSS IRWIN. Ex-Service Men Grateful Editor The Star: for thetr faithful efforte in our be The followingnamed exservice | half while in Seattle men from the hospital at Port Town- send, en route to Helena, Mont., can not leave this part of the country without an expression of gratitude to Seattle, Our sentiments are that the Seattle people lead the world for ho» pitality and service. We especially wish to thank Harry Weingarten, Frank Gatea, Capt. J. R. Dean, Mrs, Beale, Mra, Hamlin, Kx-Service Women's club, the man- agement of “The Wayfarer,” Eddie | Melon of Pantages theatre and John Hamrick of the Blue Mouse theatre, ar, ta, long as we live, Yours gratefully, JOHN O'ROURKE, Cc. J. CLARKE, CLAUDE ELERDING, ARTHUR BLOOMER, 0, J. CHARLESTON, L. M. HOLT, LEWIS SELL ARTHUR GL ALBERT M ALEX RANT ROY PARKS. Wants U. S. to Loan Money Editor The Star: united the telephone and telegraph Thru your clearing house, let Us| system with the postal system and recoup the finances, What a@re/it worked. We operate the parcel banks, and what are they for? post thru the post office and it works Did you or your constituency ever |fine, The government should accept nee one of the “oommon people” £0 | jewelry and other valuables, and into a bank and bring out money | take mortgages thru the postal bank they did not put in there? ing system for security. For what went weinto the Doers Yours for the shekels, ems to seo? “Have we @ national vision? A nation without a vision 308. A. SHIRES. perisheth.” There are some few good men in con. gress (both branches) and yet most of them bave a faith ag small as a tobacco seed; and @ vision that reaches just beyond the «noot. “There is @ reason.” Pawn brok- ers are becoming so powerful, they have controlled politics and legisia tion In some cities, We have usiry, 90-day call loans, private loans and both private and public greed and extortion. We have a farmers’ rural credits system, full of red tape and remote from the people. Now, why dorcan't the government help relieve this distress by operat ing a loan agency thru the postal system? It has the buildings, most of the equipment and a large part of the forces. It wouldn't be neces sary for all post offices to be loan agencies, It ts not necessary for the govertiment to try to do all the financial business, but, by competi tion, force others to do a buniness on just and fair terms and help do the great volume of the business that would follow loaning money on rea sonable interest and time. If some emergency in war neormad tated this government loan agency, we could have it in three days Wealthy people couldn't use their money in a better way than by loan A SAPIENT SAVAGE In view of the exact facts (con cerning the management of Indian affairs) there waa considerable justi fieation for the remark of the old Indian chief in council. After a rep resentative of the bureau had spok on, he was asked to take part in the dincussion, He responded with this npeech: Everyone who comes to us from Washington ts « Har. The bald headed ones are the worst. This man in a bald-headed liar.—Rep, Kelly mm) Pa There ts some doudt about won the war. but not adoul peying for it. fs A whee men changes Ais mind ; les women her face Congress ten't passing eny more Where Can You Equal Its Low Cost Service? The satisfaction of owning an Overland is out of all proportion to its low price. It is a fine car in every sense of the word. The details are such as you expect in expen- sive cars. The riding qualities of Triplex Springs are superior to anything you ever experienced in Now $200 Less A ¥.0.B. Toledo a light car. : ane _ in ¢ economy is beyond your expectations. ui. . ; 7 : 25 miles per gallon is common. S| The touring car gives longer service with less cost, mr as than any car ever built. $ Touring Car 695 WILLYS-OVERLAND PACIFIC COMPANY , TWELFTH AND PINE PHONE BAST 0660 We can never forget Seattle as \e' © lowt rent and overhead charge, Those two lamps all the poss! pron. govee stairs can be moved quickly at §§, op on At $4. The basement bargain even ter, where articles are sold coun cont becomes a profitable venture’ In timen when trade ts slack, # ty ang time, well to 0 over the stock *r where money is unprofitabl, up in goods that might be moves be prices below cost, and reom made, staple articles or new articles whee business warrants some The same principle applies man's mental stock in ern every man may make bis own ap . a From Punch, London FLOWERS’ NAMES MARIGOLD ~-_~3 Fae plication. ANONYMOUS pe ait i : Supreme Blend Coffee—tne As Mary was awalking * "Aion a summer day, best that growe—1 lb, 40¢; 2 ibe, 3 Ibs, $1.10, Lunch with me—Best for Lag Quick Service. The flowers all stood curtseying And bowing in her way; ‘The blushing poppies hung their heads And whispered Mary's name, And all the wood anemones Hung down their beads in shame The violet hid behind her leaves And veiled her timid tan, And all the flowers bowed adown, For holy was the place Only a little common flower Looked boldly up and smiled To wee the happy mother come Repairing done right. Cah tor an deliver Without extra charge, Sougage.t ~ A-carrying her child. wr, ‘The little child, He laughed aloud To wee the smiling flower, 4 And as He laughed the Marigold on Turned gold in that same hour, For she was gay and innocent— He loved to see her so And from the splendor of His face She caught @ golden glow | | ( CLEANING OUT ON OLD STOCK | BY DR. WILLIAM E. BARTON | ket with any considerable stock, and) HERE was a fire) they sold their beds and wire! in San Fram’) gprings as fast as they could pull! @ cisco some years There may|them out of the cars. Nobody! Pubtd tei etertig x, > SERS oHSSPSPESES SES 8! ago have been an|stopped to ask whether a bed wax! earthquake be of the latest style; people needed a | fore the fire, but It ts not polite to | Pace to #leep. mention it A| The firm tured into ready cash certain firm in| large accumulation of dead stock. Chicago got) And they won the gratitude of many busy at the first) ple who were without comfort- news of the fire. | able beds, The firm manu-| The sale of old stock cannot often | factured tron beds and springs. be accomplished in such fashion. But They loaded onto cars all their/ it ought to be done. Many a firm | older stock, and shipped it by fast goes broke because it doesn't know freight to Frisco. They did not wait how to get rid of its old stock. 5 for orders. They cleared out their There comes a time when ft is) odds and ends of stock, their samples | food business to sell goods at less | E and discarded patterna, and every-| than cost, | thing in the attic of the storage| Suppose a firm buys a dozen lamps | warehouse. at a cost of $5 each, and readily sell | It was a great stroke of business.| 10 of them at $6 each, but the last They were the first men in the mar-' two do not sell, They have recovered | A ° ° Try This on Your Wise Friend c John and Jim weigh 100 pounds each. Tom and Tim the weigh 50 pounds each. How can they cross a river on a by boat that will carry 100 pounds? ‘Th Answer to Saturday's: One was 18, the other 6. ete age . 4 SY EEEREsEOTE*EES a - S pm S272 5252 wyess fea 5eeies, The Flavor Lasts!