The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 18, 1921, Page 6

The Seattle Star Outside of the oF $9.00 per year, tm thi of Washington, $4.60 for @ montha 00 per momth, 0o @ month, By ca elty, What the Citizens of Alkali Center Learned EADWOOD DICK al- ways packed a sawed- off “45.” And Rawhide Luke toted a short “44.” Then Deadwood bought a gat to hang on the other hip. And Rawhide saw it. So, he, too, added a big, new shooting iron to his collec- tion. What happened is what al- ways happens in such cases. Deadwood, being the swag- gering bully of the village, announced in a gruff, whisky bass that he didn’t like the looks of Rawhide. Both ‘Deadwood and Rawhide found they could shoot faster with two guns than with one. Deadwood’s friends and Raw- hide’s pals leaped into the . When it was all over they—the non-shooters—got | a shovel and buried Dead- wood and Rawhide and sev- eral of their mates. And the town took up a collection for | the widows and kiddies. — . ‘WHO WON? THE MAN- UFACTURERS OF THE “GUNS AND AMMUNI- TION AND THE MEN WHO SOLD THEM. No- body else won anything—but _ debts, for the families were ‘in debt because the hus- | bands spent so much of their a * * * E FroLss, that’s exactly what ‘ happened in this old world in 1914. Germany had a lot of guns,and a lot of men _ to use them.: Germany didn’t ike England’s looks, or | France’s disposition, or Rus- ' sia’s necktie. So she started oting. But wait—what h ened back in Wolfville? Let’s see. ae ‘ io state legislature look- | & ed over the casualty lists from Wolfville, and. Alkali Center, and Sage Hill, and Red Neck. And then made it a crime to'pack a gun. So Deadwood Junior and little Raw- ide weren’t allowed to emulate their ies. And, not having gats strapped to their shanks as they grew into their long pants, they didn’t shoot each other Oh, yes, they fought. Certainly. tt they did it in the old-fashioned American way—with their knuckles. Or, they went to court. And they learned to give and take, and to talk over like humans. Eventually, We le became an orderly place with a paved street and a movie theatre and a high school. And young Mrs. Dead- wood didn’t have to pay the expenses of friend husband’s gun toting. | * * * : They didn’t call it limita- tion of armaments in Wolf- ville. They said it was just plain horse sense to stop all this unnecessary killing. But, disarmament or limitation of } armament—that’s what it 4H was. * * * ELL, Germany put up 4 scrap, all ’ right. And, England and France and Russia chimed right in. We got into it just in time to keep the kaiser’s gun toters from making it unanimous. Over in Europe, where they did the shooting, they’re still looking for the bones of the victims, and they’re bury- ing the dead men. But, there isn’t anybody to take up a collection for the widows and orphans, for everybody’s “busted flat.” Debts? Oh, my, yes. They owe for the whole blamed war. Look like those guns. Give ‘em guns and they strut and swagger. sailor? ers. In the bargain, Russia went plumb loco and insists on staying that way. Widowed and orphaned nations are crying for credit and cash and coal, And each and every one is toting as many guns as his belt will support Sell his guns, or stop buying new ones" What for? their debts and attend to the chores, Nix. N What? So’s they can pay y. Not. : Poland, “How do you Me quit gun totin’! ho-Slovakia, will yuh? He’s got nearly as many guns as I have.” Some of the little fellows are taking pot shots at each other right now. They don’t like each other. They do They're human, too. HE Germans had to be licked, so we helped lick ’em. But, honestly, who won the war? George Bernard Shaw, when some one asked him that one, replied: “Who won the San Francisco earthquake?” Who won the profits? Did you? Nope, you didn’t. Did the soldier or Ask him, then get out of his way. Ask the ammunition and gun mak- Did they make any profits? Ah! Verily, they did. Also the folks who made other war supplies. Wait a minute. Let's hesitate a mf{n- ute to admit that we had to have the guns and ammunition and the war sup- plies. And, we had to fight Cripple Brained Bill. Admit that much, but it doesn’t change the situation a bit. THE GUN MAKERS GOT THE PROF- ITS OUT OF THIS, WAR. * Now. let’s go back to Wolfville for a line or two. Whs there any racket when the state legislature made the gun toters quit it? Uhuh. There was. And who made the racket? Why the men with the most guns, and the lads who were quickest on the’ draw, and the hard- eyed folks who had some more killing to do, and the gun-sellers—BUT MOST PARTICULARLY THE GUN AND A ITION MANUFACTURERS. “Let’s get the anti-gun bill into committee and then we'll see what we can do,” said the gun makers. So they got a jug of gin and a wad of greenbacks and called on the committee. The committee held up the bill until the le of the state roared for it. Publicity of all the details made the leg- islature afraid to turn the bill down. Publicity made the governor afraid to sign -it. That’s how they got the law. Publicity! HERE isn’t any international leg- islature that can make the inter- national gun-toters disarm, or even limit themselves as to guns. So Pres- ident Harding has called the leaders of the nations to Washington city. He wants them to sit down like friends, slip their feet under the same table, and talk it over. But, some of the national leaders don’t want any publicity. They have some killing yet to do, or they have some new guns, or they are influenced by the gigantic gun manufacturing in- terests. If the meeting is secret—as now ap- pears it will begthe people will lose. There won't be Ry honest attempt to limit the guns. The killing will go merrily on. The chores won’t be done, the debts won't be paid, and the taxes will keep on climbing. If the meeting fails, the ONLY peo- ple who will profit by the failure are the MAKERS OF THE GUNS, AM- MUNITION AND WAR SUPPLIES. * * HE only way to get any kind of limitation of armament is to sic old man Publicity on the Washington conference, Publicity can make the conference succeed, for every man at the confer- ence will have to do as his home folks want. And, the home folks everywhere are about the same. They don’t want any more killings, debts, or taxes. What are we to do about it? We can try to make such a roar that the conferees won't DARE to hold se- cret confabs. We can do that by writing to our congressmen and senators, by writing to the president and to Secretary of State Hughes, TELL THEM WHAT YOU THINK. ABOUT IT. For, if you don’t, you’re licked again. ' Published Daily Lj iditor The Star seven large beef hides to Seattle, and | after he pald expenses of shipping | and butehering, his net profit was ‘Tharles BE. Brown, 34 years old, ar. THE Editor The Stat see his, while, T far ja & neighbor of mine, a who sent two beeves and Editor The Star: We wish to ask you, how the dif. a man was “held under $500 ball” forbidden fruit, and now comes rested. by Walter Dench and G ¥r. editor The Star: emma: out of politics, not make goo by some one wh: ‘This man shou who in Interested |» this part of the country, as we have had ouf fill of| he Eastern book varlety—to our sorrow, financially. We don’t need any $1,000.a-week expert to show us how to run our system—just a little common horse sense. Second, I believe Mr. Henderson, will, editor The Star: A short time ago while on a trip st studying industrial questions, most interesting interview with | question. fire speakers and quite ike Col. Dawes, I imagine, in emphasizing inte in argument. When I ip red if he had any literature per might take back with me for the information of thone who’ are striving to solve our atreet | transportation problem, he replied |bor movement as an iron moulder, | 0; I have no literature upon the subject... All I know about trans 15 minutes’ talk on transportation which was indeed very interesting 4 instructive. “To begin,’ Mr. Witt asked, “what is a street car?’ And he anrwered the question by saying, “A street car fs a moving public highway.” He went back taghe toll bridge and the privately owned turnpike and brought the subject down, evolution- arily, to the present day, and he; wound up by stating, “Some day street car service will be aa free to the public as are the streets and | sidewalks now.” This is the first | time that I had ever heard of a free public service of this nature, ex- cept the free service rendered at! Johastown immediately following the | flood there. It struck me, however, | that such service would soon adjust | our jitney controversy. WHEN HAIR THINS, FADES OR FALLS, USE “DANDERINE” 35 cents buys a bottie of “Dander- ine.” Within ten min utes after the first application you can | not find a single trace SEATTLE [LETTERS TO EDITOR| A Letter From Avridge Womann Do you pay Avridge Mann for his foolishness? Star, and evenings the first thing we look at is your letters, T am getting awful tired of them and make a vote he lays off AVRIDGE WOMANN (MRS. H. b. T,, Bima, Wash) What the Middleman Does There is also another neighbor | Who bought a pair of logger shoes | that cost thim $16.60. What I'd like to know is, what ts) keeping shoes up eo high? Star readers can solve the problem, I would like to hear from them. A Sliding Scale of Bail? Reynolds, for having 360 quarts of | boer in his possession, and his bonds | ference In the enormity of crime is|fixed at ONE HU. determined in re.a bootlegger—as| LARS! Does Chief Searing have al instance, at various times thruout)| sliding seale of bail for these of the past year, we bave noticed that] fenses—the more a man is caught! with, the less his bail? Yea, verily, for haying from 10 40 30 quarts of | the application of justice as applied in Seattle is a truly wonderful af.) fair. Urges Use of Conimon Sense the present superintendent could op A sure cure for our street railway | erate the railway and make it a suc conn if he were given full power and c | unhampered by the city counel! and First, take the municipal railway | city hall ‘ceeltiadion: As it is, Mr Place some able, | Henderson is like @ motorman, oper xperienced man in full charge, with | ating the controller, and the conduc he understanding that if he does| tor, or city counell, in the rear, op. he will be replaced | erating the brake, | bination of this kind on a street car) be of the West, | or city! Dinaster, of course, if any commercial business were operated on the same lines as our clty utilities are operated, it would "vice ach year so bankrupt in 90 days, Please use a litle common sense. | Yours truly, © Peter Witt I remarked, “Mr, Witt, you know we have traction troubles out at Se attle and also have a Scent fare had the good fortune to have had | agitation on, “You; ter Witt, traction expert, in his|stated further, office at Cleveland, relative to fac | Mr. Erickson, spent a day here with lj tors entering into the transportation |me recently.” the source from whence Mr. Erick Mr. Witt is one of those rapid-)#on has drawn some of his ideas 7 hee' pertaining to traction matters.” singe iacag Alger Being a union man I took partic vier pains to ascertain Mr, Witt's attitude upon inbor problems since aining to traction matters which I/he entered the political field. I was home—Seattle—|informed that Mr. Witt's conduct in There is no doubt about Mr. Witt portation I've got in my head.” And |being an expert in traction matters. then ‘he cut loose and gave me about |If there were, the rapid transit peo STAR We take The We | | | | THE HILLS OF YOUTH BY ALFRED NOYES Once, on the far blue hills, Alone with the pine and the loud, in those high and still places, Alone with a whisper of ferns and a chuckle of rill, And the peat-brown pools that mirrored the angels’ faces, Pools that mirrored the wood-pigeonis grey-blue feather, ‘And all my thistledown dreams as they drifted along; Once, oh once on the hills, thro’ the red-bloomed heather I followed an elfin song. If any A FARMER. Once, by the wellsprings of Joy, Over the rocks, like a scrambling barefoot boy That never has heard of a world grown old with weeping; Once, thru the golden gorse (Do the echoes linger , where the foam of the may runs wild?) I followed the flute of a light-foot elfin singer, A god, with the eyes of a child. PRED DOL Once, he sing to me there, From a crag on a thyme-clad height where the dew still glistened; He sang like the spirit of Spring in that dawn-flushed air, While the angels opened thelr doors and the whole sky listened: He mang like the soul of @ rainbow, if heaven could hear it, Beating to heaven, on wings that were April's own; A song too happy and brave for the heart to bear it, Had the heart of the hearer know6, CHARLES ANDERSON, 3642 Admiral Way Once, ah! once, no more, The hush and the rapture of youth in those holy places, The stainless height, the hearts that sing and adore Till the eky breaks out into flower with the angels’ faces! Once, in the dawn, they were mine; but the noon bereft me. At midnight, now, in an ebb of the loud world’s roar, I catch but a broken stave of the songw that left me On bills that are mine no more Picture the com. | TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1921. ft In the glens of the hart's-tongue fern, where the brooks came leaping J f (CROSS THE ,| | CONTINENT! BY DR. WM. E. BARTON N 1806 Lewis sand Clark made their memorable tour of exploration. Three years be us fore the event President Jef- ab ferson had asked to congress to ap do propriate $2,500 fa) to cover the ex- ce penses of the , unde aking. There wae grave doubt In the minds of congress whether there was anything in all E that vast territory worth that eum |to the United States. Fifteen mil- th |ions for the Louisiana purchase th | seemed an extravagant expenditure. th | But Jefferson got the money\ and of {the exploration was made. Ss In 1830 Capt. Benjamin L. B - Bonneville blazed a trail to the Pa m cific, The discovery of gold in g fornia in 1849 and the Mormon ex- odug from Missourl and Illinois to ade « track, but it was so and perilous that many pre the route around the Iiorn or acroes the Isthmus, 1 And now the mail train or the be passenger makes the journey in less le than four days from ocean to ocean, But that is not the limit, In this year of 1921 a record has been made which is certain to cut the time of the delivery of mail between New York and San Francisco to some thing like 18 hours. This is as great an achievement and ag notable a reduction as that which the railroads made in 1869 when they superseded the pony ex- press, and cut the price of postage What id be the result? gre Na ae a He of Philadelphia wouldsardly give ;as they enter, him an annual retainer fee written in five figures for Just « few weeks’ |... worth the cost, providing In polities, term today 4 non-partisan. aim, so his friende say, in the po litical field, in to be of some real service to the mass of the people But for such devotion to common good he has often said that his re gard has been, “The biacklist of the criminal rich and the distrust of the ignorant poor.” Mr, Witt is what we Cc. KR. HOOPER, 1817 29th Ave, W. taxpayers’ money. in the preceding paragraph. too.” 1 know,” joy Mr. Witt is conceded the beat in |the country for the expeditious andl traffic and bis plan for |"Payanyouleave” is a great im. [provement over our system. 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