The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 28, 1921, Page 13

| SECTION TWO after the last war, Uniess the cover @ way to uni only by a miracle averted. & strong, progress! {politicians oppose |vision over any of tive national pride, they know the time Own nests, By international mean the China.” ‘a nation is not to disappear from } face of the earth, some form of sentence, sums up | ¢d- Imy most outstand- ing impression af- ter months of rh search ih the Ori- ental republic; and, in its nakedness, it states one of the most terrify.| ing political sttua- tions called to pub- Ue attention with. in a generation. elgnty” Self and to society. Decause it sug: |Suide her footsteps gests a state of affairs out P.SIMMS which might|HARM COUNTRY Store Hours: 8a. Made of heavy orders. Has fluted tight grip handle, 5%4nch hexagon feel blade that can’t come loose. Tool Section Door Bell Out of Order? Install a bell-ringing transformer and elim- inate all future trouble. Easily installed; last in- definitely. An excep value at.. $2400 @ value at.. 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Household Goods Section Born comeoe RA ei kee Om MM TTT maining vestige of civilization left Pacfic which begins November 11, can dis & plan for the rescue of China—per- haps against the desire of many, if hot most, of her own politicians— And the unification of the powers on the China question will not be all the great powers do not want of them see their great opportunity in her utter helplessness, CHINA WILL ADD TO DIFFICULTIES China herself will add to the diffi- culty, Probably the majority of her of them because of a highly sensi begins, the day ends when they can Plunder the country to feather their Yet, for the sake of the peace of the world, the job must be done, difficult and dangerous tho it will be. “internationalization of To the contrary. pj the everlasting interest of all con- cerned that the sovereignty of China should be restored and then respect- Today China's so-called “sover- is a mockery. jabout as “sovereign” as little Alice, homeless match-girl of streets, nalvely wondering where her | [next meal is coming from, uncertain of the future, at the mercy of an un- scrupulous world, a danger to her China needs a guardian and, Ike Orphan Alice, is bount! to find one. Bither a stronger influence will pick her up and make her its plaything, It is terrifying Or some disinterested group must position to take care of herself. ot |GRAFT AND LOOT spring events which would] Among China‘s 400,000,000 people, a destruction of the re-'two small groups will be found to!to restore order in China They Three Pans in each set, 1, i oe ae Sn Be not confuse with cheap competition sets. These an a wonderful value. Come early. No phone or C. O. D. oppose any form of control over any of the country's affairs, ‘The first group is the grafters; the second, a section of the educated classes. The masses—about 390,000,000 strong—if influenced by ether of the two groups, would welcome any- thing which would better their pres: ent beast-of- burden lot. There is scarcely a province in China which has not its grafting tuchun, or military governor, a little king and warlord, and a law unto himself, Backed by his own personal army, he defies all comers, including Peking. Gen, Wang Chan-yuan, one such tuchun, recently deposed by his own subjects, is reported to have carried off with him between $10,000,000 and $16,000,000 of the people's money and is now living in peaceful retirement There are 22 tuchuna in China. Some 19 or 20 of them are Wangs. Under the tuchuns are the minor grafters, clean on down to the coolies who scrub the yamen floors, There is graft at Peking. is graft all over China, in public and n private enterprise, At my hotel in Peking a peddier came up to my room to sell some trinkets. He confessed he had to pay “aqueexe” to the head porter at the door and to the hall-boys on my floor. If he did ngt come thru, he said, he could never enter that hotel again, He was not lying, either. THEY CANNOT BUCK THE GAME No grocer or butcher ean long do business with a household unless every servant In that household 1# igiven his bit of graft, or “squeeze.” conference, te the powers on can disaster be ive China. Some foreign super- Wer affairs; some the rest because sueh supervision control I do not It is to She ts just the city | Try, if you dare, to buck the game! Graft, In high places and low, rides China Itke a Little Old Man of the Sea. Educated Chinese recog. nize this, but, unaided, it would take them a hundred years to rid China of it. until she ts ina) The republic is in no wise re- sponsible for this. Graft was handed down to the republic from the dragon throne. So grafters will oppose any move m. to 5:30 p.m. ALUMINUM SAUCE PANS 100 Sets only, $1. 29 while they last. . gauge aluminum, highly polished. Do & Household Goods Section Paint Brushes Special 78c ($1.00 Value) Three inches wide, black bristles that will not come out. A good quality and very appropriate size for all- around use. ‘ Floor Paint . Special 78c ($1.05 Value) Aeme’s Granite Brand, highest grade, made espe- clally for old or new floors; i-quart can in a large variety of colors, Paint Section Fireplace Grates Special $6.95 (Values to $10.00) Beautiful design as illustrated. Can be used for coal or wood. Dull black finish. Three widths, 20 ins., 22 ink, 24 ina. wide, Misc. Hardware Section 1 The Seattle Star There | CHINA OUT OF HOLE sound financial basis, would be one PAGES 13 TO 24 SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1921. | STATE LEADS IN | LUMBER OUTPUT will fight any move to place effec: tive control over the collection or distribution of public money. The qther group of Chinese who resent “foreign interference,” do so from purely patriotic motives It hurts their pride Chinese. HERE”S A CHANCE FOR JACK RABBIT BUSINESS IN CITY Opportunity for Seattle meat |] packers or wholesale dealers in School Pays Last Tribute to Hero Pupils and faculty of Lincoln high school Thursday attended the funeral service of Jerry B. Barber, Roosevelt Memory Honored in Seattle} To honor the memory of Theodore | Roosevelt on his 63rd birthday anni- versary more than 400 persons gath- They think China “loses face" every | former Lincoln high school student | ered in the Masonic Club auditorium || q position to handle quickly rad time a foreigner is employed tol who was killed in the Argonne ad-|Under the auspices of the Young | shipments of dressed rabbits, is |/Washington First in Union set things to rights, and preserva Men's Republican club Thursday || outlined in a letter to the in + tion ‘of “face” in China, not self |V@"ee October 6, 1018. Barber was/nignt Senator Fred Loomis of|| qustrial bureau of the seattle || With 5,525,000,000 Feet Preservation, is the first law. the son of Mr, and Mrs, James B.| Aberdeen was the principal speaker,|| Chamber of Commerce from ssiepia Many return students sincerely| Barber, 4022 Sunnyside ave, Judge G. A. Brown of Portland was || the Idaho Coney Fur Co. Inc., || Washington led all the states of ‘ believe mearly all China's ills come! On the same afternoon funerai| Unable to attend the meeting as|| Nampa, Idaho. The concern wishes |! Union in lumber production in thru “foreign interference.” ervices fi Planned. Mayor Hugh M. to ship each week from Decem: ,, This ts undoubaedly partly true, warp bald at ‘tos Beruecoeeeh suerte: was chairmah of the meeting and|| per 1 to March 1, 3,000 to 12,000 || 1920 with @ total cut of 5,525,000,000 : but today, whoever is to blame.Jary, Kilpatrick died at Providence | Paid Roosevelt tribute with a short || pounds of dressed, grain-fed rab | tect, according to a report just issued foreigners, Chinese, or both, the| hospital Sunday aa a result of | *Peech. bit meat. This will consist, the || by the forest service. country is facing extinction. China must have help from the outside or go under. China is now but an agglomera. tion of autonomous provinces, vir tually bankrupt, unable to pay her soldiers, sailors, officials or schoo! teachers, Pow letter says of “broilers of one and || This was an increase of 11 per a half to two and a fourth pounds || cent over the cut for 1919. each” and “fryers, three to four || Oregon ranked second, the report and a half poundy each.” “All of || shows, with a production of 3,317 this meat shall be from what is 000,000 feet, or an increase of 29 per |] known as the New Zealand rab- || cent. bit, all white meat.” ‘The concern || For 1920 the total lumber cut for guarantees no jack rabbits will be the United States is given as 33,798,- nent. 800,000 feet, a decrease of 2.2 per enerrencncensnesnemeeeered heart disease brought on while tn service in France, Trestle Destroyed by Runaway Train PORT ANGELES, Oct. 28,—A run away log train crashed head-on into @ car standing on a trestie eight miles from Clallam bay yesterday | and plunged 200 feet to the bottom administration renovated, all under competent supervision, before that can be. The powers—including China—at Washington must find a way to help China out of the hole. ‘Ss MUST HELP cent over 1919. The big Pacific powers must t ‘ taki the entire a The aggregate value of the 1920 Only by raking and scraping and}evolve a general constructive China| en ynn ie, ine . United States lumber cut is placed resorting to unusual measures canbpolicy and agree to watch each|tieees Warnich, engineer, and| Bee School Being at $1,299,000,000, the expenses of her delegation tofother to see that this policy Is!other members of the train. crew the Pacific conference be met. lived up to, both in letter and in Held at Y. M. Cc. A. leaped to safety when they found the With any kind of management, brakes wouldn't work. spirit, China, reorganized and put on China, on her part, must not al low false pride stand in the way of taking hold of the outstretched hand. If these things can not be done, then there will be no limitation of armaments and war will step in and finish the job. Changes Proposed in Building Code Building operations are to be stim- ulated here by changes in the build- ing code, it is believed. The changes are embodied in a draft prepared and passed by the executive committee } of the city engineers, | —$—$—$——— | More than 60 beekeepers attended the first session of a two-day “bee culture” school Thursday night, at the Y. M. C, A. The meetings are being held jointly by the Washington State college, the United States de. partment of agriculture and the county agricultural bureau. MRS. DORA Foss HONSMAN, 57, died at the home of her son, Herbert Yous, 218 Twenty-first ave. 8., Thurs- day night after a long inness. of the richest nations on earth, But first her rabble armies must be disbanded; her grafting tuchune, and other “squeeze” artists, eradi cated; her tax and customs collec tions reformed, and the vitals of her Giraffes can see behind them with- out turning their heads. 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For Men— MEN’S SHOES Men’s Brown Cordo Calf in straight lace and blucher pat- terns, with heavy single soles and on new, pleasing lasts. Specially Priced at $5.00 Josh-1a Green Bldg. Fourth and Pike.