The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 1, 1921, Page 6

The resulted in a daily loss t idea of giving ity. thing but actually to ion That iated mail brings staff lettets state over the sug: to sh fee ilk fill Hey ae i | And, finally, he discovered a 4 where he could put his feet the chairs and flick the ashes any old where and he drop part of his paper on floor and go to sleep, using p ofher part as a fly net for then wake again he could be so ungrateful 80 unappreciative of the neat, home she kept for him. ‘An “old flame” 1s one you have to go to blazes. ——$=—————— se and censor sound alike don’t often go together. I pecinesanenneenemnmemsie Bome men are born poor and 4 buy second-hand cara, Our (dea of a mean trick 9 o itor testing the echool belt, good politician has a set of fe ments denying anything, public is betraying a keen curiosity about the “mysterious theft” of 3,500 quarts from the government vault on Elliott ave. the truckload of high-grade booze is recovered and the men who stole it in i, the U. S. prohibition office and the city police are not going to enjoy unmixed 2 confidence and respect. Tt was a fishy affair, and the sooner the “mystery” resolves itself, the sweeter will odor thereof in the public nostrils, ot Politics Must Be Served courthouse statesmanship! Instead of cutting out the immense waste that over-high salaries, eliminate unnecessary repair jobs and cease buying superflu- lies from “our friends.” Seattle Star/ ear elty, 606 per month; 3 mon $1.50; @ montir tale of Washington. of the atate, ‘ ' ‘op wie Ff 99,00 per ye rrier, city, 000 @ month. of $1,000 a day in ferry operation, the county commis- are now proposing to reduce materially the service to the east side communities. course serves the double purpose of strafing the settlements that unitedly fought the ferry system into private hands along with a $75,000- r cash bonus, and of making a show of “economy” to the people in the rest of slash needless political appointees off the payroll, reduce LETTERS TO EDITOR Russian Thistle a Pest Here Editor The Star: when county and city officials fail 1 have been a reader of your| ‘© perform their sworn duty regard- A ing this matter. Paper ever since my arrival in Your) other reason for our complaint city five years ago, and fully appre | is that those who are #o fortunate ciate the value to the community|as to own @ few acres are very of many stggestions and requests| promptly told that we must destroy your paper has made for the better-| all cockleburra and thistles; but ment of all concerned, and I am/ please go along the road from calling your attention to the Georgetown to Renton via The slack manner tn which a great men-| Meadows sanitorium, via Jdtenton ace to our agriculture ts cared for, | junction, and take particular nptice viz. the (Canadian) Russian thistle.|of the Russian thistle between I ask that you detail some of your| Georgetown and The Meadows and able reporters to look into this mat-| also about half way between Renton ter and then tell thru your colurns| junction and Renton. I can tell you of many, many acres of land in this same condition; why? A CONSTANT READER how those of us who depend on earning our living from agricultural sources can be expected to prosper How Many Miles Does He Ride? i The Stan im the morning, rides to front and on your wise friend: back to rear arriving at 6 o'clock column ef treops is 20 miles| at night. How many miles has he ‘They march 20 miles in 12 | traveled? Respectfully, A courier starts at 6 o'clock 7. HW. Bremerton, Wa, McCoombs, Page and Wilson Editor The Stan These men are the product of I was greatly pleased upon read-| English and United States history tng letters of Ambassador Page and | and tn a generation McCoombs shall President Wilson published in the!| be forgotten while they go march August World's Work and continued! ing on, in September. We'll find ourselves pretty soon ‘These letters show an abundance/ very much interested tn the affairs of human feeling and let us into) of Europe and also tn the Asiatic the family circle. Mra. Asquith says! question as the coming conference in her diary: “Mr, Page ts one of/ will show. God's good men.” Perhaps, after all, a name foes Iam not of the party but I have! matter and opposition to a League always been grateful that we had/of Nations may disappear when !t like Woodrow Wilson and/ is called a “Conference of Nations.” WILLIAM ARTHUR, haunts sees here too much of same news, as if there wae an attempt st Presumptious aristocracy on the part of that most unassuming in- habitant of the garden, which gives; S sa disappoints or to acts and looks, Even false) rise to a lingering quspicion that thinking 1s lying. All men are/these have risen to distinction by Mars. the aid of a designing hand; as if it was a kind of charity to conceal) those warty and vagrant members with whom they had been competied to associate while yet in the hill. One who will deliberately employ the meek, unostentatious and tnof- fensiy potato as a star witness inj the defense of Ananias ts sold Into the possession of the King of Un truth; he becomes the prince of duplicity, indeed. Even as @ liar, Dickens’ boastful American ts entering the list of the unemployed. It has come to tht breaking point; the Jap must ¢o, W. H. SCOTT. Would Debate on Scriptures Editor The Star: will debate on any mysteries or on I am not prejudiced against the| prophesies or on any churches of today, but I would like| Whatsoever to see more unity of bellef. However, no authority ts to be I am « Scripture student, 19 years) considered proof except Scriptures of age, and for the sake of truth,/and it may be elther a Catholic or and to let the public know the| Protestant Biblia Sincerely, truth, I hereby offer to debate, us- D. J. STRUVEN, ing The Star as a medium if {t| 818 W. 70th st. can be arranged, any preacher, pas- ~ tor or head of any church, or any| While The Star is «lad to print person or persons whatsoever, on| this earnest young man’s challenge any of the modern day beliefs and) to debate, tt cannot join in hia iny- If you wish to behold the prince of Mars come with me to your pub- Me market; I will show you the Jap, he of eager shamelessness in the art of finesse. Look at the symmetrical oval of potatoes, all comfortably arranged with eyes to windward—every one a twin bfether to an ounce, as ff/ they came from a Common ancestor and had but newly received a bless- ing from the spirit of the ancient enemy of frogs and snakes, the patron saint of Spudiand. But the experienced eye that has looked upon the potato tn its native question | in the Scriptures for mutual and public benefit, religious tenets such as “Do the| tation to use this newspaper's col-| Live Dea: Again?” or “Eternal|umng for the purpose, because the “Death and the Cause of | discussion would demand more col- “Where Heaven and Heli|umns of space than any one news Are and What They Are;* “The! paper could afford to devote to the Mystery of the Holy Trinity,” or 1| subject—Editor, Super-Psychology After all, has the author not dis- carded the profoundest sentence ever uttered on applied paychology only to accept a half truth as a conclusion? “Providence implies a loving Providence. After 40 years of constant effort to study those! laws and apply them, and far from| {being master of my own destiny, 1/ find a better agreement with Job,! who explains that the world of! chance is governed not by uniform: ly acting laws but by the supreme law: (Job, 1:11). “But put forth thine hand and touch all that he hath! and he will curse thee to thy fac Natura}, socig! and moral “law are changed a billion time "On the contrary, he found the| ute by the Supreme Istellgenes te same caprice, the eame rule of mere | the use of thi® dot in a universe an casualty, in the world of thinking,|® testing ground for individual char| the world of feeling. {acter, the only thing that endures! “Nothing, then, that seemed| beyond this instant. of time and chance was really chance. It was) thru eternity, One may be master the operation of a law so large that | of his own character but not pd we caught a glimpse of its vast| temporal destiny. | EAitor The Star: About 40 years ago there was published in a magazine a study in applied psychology. In the opening chapter a speaker at a banquet wala: “The social and moral world Is controlled by laws as clearly defin ed and definite in action as the nat ural laws, and he who learns these laws and acts in harmony with them may be master of his own destiny.” I wi impressed with the thought guide to ambition, Evidently @ author, at the end of his study, concluded that he had claimed much for applied psychology. Hix final chapter said: as orbit once or twice in aw lifetime. 1. B. EMERSON, It was Providence,” 204 Ist Ave, N, your BY DR, WM. FE. BARTON ——Jatone for ft, you gain nothing sbut eee ROCKRASTINA:| remorse and self reproach by R d TION is | waiting. A hard but righteous thing | ecor ing to lis to be done; do it now ; millar ada@go,| if you see responsibilities piling LET US KNOW WHAT 15 { the thief of time.|up ahead of you, heavy and #0 GOING ON If that were all! high that you feel like lying down oi hava f a ent would never ha’ | that should bé/and making no effort at ail, take up|, Disarmament ven teen tor the | @aid against it,/ the nesrest one {t ponsible the | vent demand of the public. It iq . Pro crastination! hardest one, and be surprised to dis the people's fight. Upon the quem fo he ©¢ 0 M+) bilities will yield to direct attack VE K , determined, more reliable than leade BY ALINE KILMER demned. But]! It is not simply the method of wonky ap n Plareialewreages Sagseig 0 erastinatio er ernal cond on st is os ne T do not know which ts worse when you are away: = AAT agesen aoe ow Sar cha tae : : sera . + 2 lin mans to deal with it. They must > mund 1 needed: the important thing ts that a |!" tives Long, gray days with the Iisping sound of the rain, | enter at tind, HE le the sonemis olen shail learn how to marehet kioest tare we presenta’ sg gh | And then when the lilac dusk ts beginning to fall, cntdad chasabees ia atheros fir the anaes lhe @ great hazard to a Tho thought that perhaps you may never come Back again; It doen ite work a@tealthily, but Napoleon won by being the bersod Aeap vargg tas chen ae Or days when the world i a shimmer of blue and gold, surely, There is no surer way for| minutes sooner than the other gen-|P!ves out from thowe, wanm ot Sparkling newly all in the dear spring weather, a man to undermine his own In | eral Bs thes Henator ‘a ”™ And with a heart that is torn apart by pain. rity than the habit of evading the| ‘There are times when the whole | /4@ho. Vos { I walk alone in the ways that we went in bea anna 5M facing*of duty of success depends upon a boat held only two people and no man wanted another man to speak to his wife, Answer to yesterday's: Honesty tx the best policy. | Sazz- 6hitdren T From Any News- dealer or Boy Agent THE SEATTLE STAR for If you have a task to perform, it now, You get the task out of t . . . way, but what ts far more impo Try This on Your Wise Friend hs es i ol pratt Three jealous couples wanted to cross a river. The |) teem. You way, “1 have discover the way to do it, and I have fou lout that I am capable of doing How did they get over? thus.” feel that you ought to Apologize and ————- fo} man's abiity to bring himself] 4, VONDON Om creat legal ming squarely and promptly to the meet-4_ Yh iar What a pity. Herq [is of & situation is a brain gone to waste-—Repreq | Whether little or light the task, 0| sentative London (8.), New York. ‘ed | it now. nd at If you have fone @ wrong, and| never gets there The work ‘ THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 192f.* Jowh Pillings remarked that the | ward belong to the man who faced man who knew just what he would] tne task and does en it now. have done if he had been there, | — Mary Roberts Rinehart, writing in THE LADIES’ HOME JOURNA ——— CAE er wate. L, says: the motor car went the chaperon: :-“With ‘With the™ motor car came the road house, the jazz_ band; restaurant © “dancing, * _unre- stricted association of sexes, the - new fashions.” Our boys and girls are being exploited by the profiteers in sin! Every Mother and Father should read “Freedom and Our.Changing Standards.” There are more than 40 stories, articles and helpful features in the big Septem- ber issue of H E LA D E s* HOME JOURNAL On Sale Today at Pre-War Prices 15c. the Copy By Mail’? 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