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PAGE 6 LETTERS TO EDITOR When the American government proposed the Hughes 5-5-3 naval reduction plan, it said to the naval powers of the world, “Stop Where You Are.” It did not mean that one runner should creep forward 10 yards and then stop. Notice has been served to fications of the Hughes progr ; When they were proposed s concerning the navies, on the powers. posed 5-5-3. It intends to insist on 5-5-3 gates would have. “Stop Where You Are” say: the day of tender tender associations! people of this city net yet contributed for the community's work during 1922 will across” with a gift for the in the shape of a chest do- or all of the plays attributed to Wil- liam Shakespeare. I am more inter ested in some} things I am sure| he wrote, About the time) the Mayflower and scrambled from the op to the rock and from the Fock to the shore, Francie Bacon | Wrote his “Novum Organum.” He , d to “regtore or cultivate a and legitimate familiarity be- the mind and things.” ‘That is a great need of every gen- ‘eration. The man who can assist us - to establish a right understanding of ‘the relation of the human mind to | emternal things is in every age a s or. Bacon did that and the World has been wiser for many ages. ‘The learning of the last 200 years fg enriched by the great work of Bacon. It influenced thought Mot only in England but on the Con- tinent. It came to America. I own Cotton Mather’s copy of Bacon's great work. It belonged to his father, Increase ‘Mather, before it belonged to Cotton It has the autographs of both of titm—"Crescenti Matheri Liber” and “Cottonus Matherus.” For they liked to write their names in Latin. __ Bacon was impatient of knowledge that yielded no fruit. He was intent upon bringing philosophy down out of the clouds and hitching it to a plow. He was determined to compel science to work for a living. And his influence was immediate and lasting. ‘There were faults enough in hin Philosophy and limitations more than enough to supply the critics with rial for discussions for genera- to come, but he established a é High administration officials have again made this clear. the world that this nation will not stand for any modi- am. the United States was in possession of complete data sea, in the shipyards and contemplated, of all the It knew the amount invested by these nations. ~ Had the American delegates been inclined to be exacting and insist on an even program for disarmament, taking into consideration all factors of financial invest- ment, as well as coast lines to be protected, the proportion would have been 10-10-5, But the United States was not so inclined. To the contrary it was generously pro- and will not accept a 10-10-7 plan as the Japanese dele- s the United States. If they can collect bootleggers’ income taxes, why not collect the bootleggers? Our only regret is that we have but 66 ships to sink for our country. Christmas cigars are made by the thief who was given enough rope. Invention is the mother of laziness. Honesty is the best foreign policy. THE SE $8,000 Going Meditor The Star There's something radically wrong with a city that will pay $8,000 for a few weeks’ work could call it that If this money were to be spent tn Seattle tt w vt be quite wo bad but practieally all one mar if you out of the city and spent elsewhere Editor The Star ning the questions Seattle?” and se not enough ex to that? I must my, Mr. necessary; but Leonard, true “Buddie,” who fought in. th trenches beside the ro in the late war, would not let any enter his mind concerning a driving the marshal the negroes in France should over balance your shortsightednens History will show that by the negro was brought here in 1809 and during the civil war was re leased from bondage: was declared a citizen that time the negro has fought for the American ideals, Parking Aut Editor The Star f it will be taken 1 would like to say a few things . it forward Were there! n to attend it was I do befleve that a The work of force and still later During all of |thin the better it will be for those always | concerned. it! ATTLE STAR LETTERS TO EDITOR| Out of Town On the other hand thin same eity ¢/Counc!! refused an appropriation of , | $2,000 to bulld a municipal woodyard which would give work to hundreds of unemployed men Ma sez: “I's a funny world sooma like them what ql 1 it » | allus has, gota,” . HANNAH K. MEAGHER, ' 1658 18, 76th Bt The Man Who Drove Foch was with this same attitude that he went into the last war, Mr. Leon ard, let me ask you, “Why is some of rd in an article of |that ‘democracy’ that he fought and has axked, first,|died for in France not practiced “Why was it necessary that a negro|and preached in the United States? should drive Marshal Foch about} During the war no “why” was asked unless of his (negro's) disability to perform military duties Concerning the Japanese major at tending the university; why not ask the R. O, T, C, officials? They could tell you many interesting things con cerning this young man you do not know And last, but not least, the United tates in the “crucible of the world, made up of a more or leas hetergen cous mass trying to better their con |dition. It behooves us to try to make thia a better place to live in instead jof trying to atir up hatred and pre) udices, The quicker we all realiz Yours truly, JOUN BE. PRIM os Downtown Jon # car and the ride home is al Last Friday's tawue of The Star had| Ways ready and aafe. us men for reserved park ber car, The has my sympathy in being com: petied to walk six long city blocks with a few parcels undg her arm 1 sincerely agree with the lady in leaving her car at home and hope that many others will foliow a space lady certainly itation conference are having hard sledding. That's because they lack ® great leader like Li Hung Chang. Too bad, too, that Li Hang Chang is not living to tell the conference what the reat of +s are only thinking. } Ame Did you ever have to grit your teeth, in polite circles, to keep from telling someone what you thought of him? Did you ever stop to think what ® commotion there would be ia Seattle if all persons spoke their reat thoughts instead of salving each other? Safety first pays well, The in- wentor of safety pins made 3$2,000,- 000. One thing that ts moceping this eee country i vacuum cleaners The most remarkable visitor that ever came to America was Li Hung Chang, Chinese diplo- mat. When he toured our country in 1896 he was 73 years old, mys terious and inscrutable. What Nations will find there is no wrest in peace. To a» rich man he was apt te | Dear Folks: . “How T can't recall the names of all our — Lamm it by sie many childhood gamen—those party ‘worth? Did you get it by work: | snings we used to play to pase @ Iit- ing for it, or did some one else | tie time away, in days when enter. earn it for you?” taining art was chiefly found within This bluntness, and an uncer. | the heart. dainty 00 to whethel of net he There's “Button, Button,” I would i say was quite exciting in its way; was kidding ws, made 14 Sung |-jccussiom” gras hard to beat—you Chang 4 sensation when he [had to rush Yo get a seat; but mont toured America 25 years ago. He jof all, I biush to state, I liked the of “Spin the Plate.” asked his bland questions with a | #8me pin the or Of course, we couldn't play them Anse deplichy that mate | iow—welve nearly all forgotten how; them inoffensive, but one of them, I'm here to say, we eee all should start to play today; the You would think that a man |0n¢ we need, it’s plain to see, is “Quaker, Quaker, How Art Thee?" au 54 gc gl resign Of course, you know, I do not would very far e “I don't know, but I'll go see!" woe, we merely answer, “I know”; but how much bettter would be, if we should add, “but I BO nee.” For lots of us have chanced the clairvoyant gift. of looking | that policy now, and troubles that have arisen because it was not lived up to, The Chinese at the arms lim- P @) our go .- : Book THE VOICES BY GEORGE STERLING Last night the granite headland loomed A Titan on the night, About whose knees the billows bogmed, Enormous, baffled, white, And now to morning’s throne of gold Murmurs the chastened sea: Its thunder and its whispers hold From House of Orchids, _ Working system of thought upon yhich is based much of our modern _I have @ very remote interest in @icovering whether Bacon wrote | Shakespeare; but I should tike people | who care for good English and good | pense to read a few pages from those | good strong writings of 300 years ago, which you may be able to pick The selfsame mystery. ' Try This on Your Wise Friend What is the lowest number, ‘which if squared will pro- duce a number,the sum of whose digits will be the square of another number, which itself is the square of a third number? An answer to yesterday's: Start counting with the sixth from the up for « dime in front of a book store he “Novum Organum” and “Ad- " mit of Learning,” Person determined upon. claim to know the way to play the game; but I have carried in my head the words that everybody said—"and how's thy neighbor next to thee?’—~ Now don't you think we often need to play that game in act and deed? When asked of someone's weal or don't roam away from olden friends and None, ber example. To my mind, great deal safer on the Seattle streeta if more than half of the Sutos were left at home and shop it would be a Editor The Star: I am writing this with the hove that the public and also the postot floe may be benefited. Recently we have had all kinds of “weeks.” Why not have a Letter Carriers’ Week, or, Preferably, 10 days, beginning De cember 207 As you all know, the letter carrier at that time | laden, with the accent on both the “weary” and “heavy laden.” It would speed up the service and also be a humane act to your carrier if you would be prompt to answer the door bell when he comes with registered mail, or have change handy for C. 0. D. mail or postage due. Would f not also be a! ® true Christmas spirit if you should meet him on the steps and mve him Editor The Star I am a reader of The Star and in &@ recent edition I noticed a letter asking why a negro drove Marshal |Foch when he was in Seattle. Be jcayse he is an exsoldier and a great one. I would like to ask the questioner f he was @ soldier, Then I would Editor The Star: Sunday night, o'clock, when I saw a group of chil sure was a miniature band. Eve: one of the tots played different in struments, There were a few people standing around. I still very long or 1 would have froz- en; there wag a heavy fog and it was almost freezing my heart out jin that one position for half an hour: tt il Editor The Star: A great deal has been eaid about the unemployment sitmation in Wash to ington state. I have traveled exten- tember, 1899, “the open door” pol. | home, and in our trials, blues and |sively and 1 find while the cities are ley for China. such, we like to feel the friendly ian overcrowded that a:isan in the touch; #0 let our words and deeds country and emall town has as good | You are hearing = lot about [attest tho friendly spirit of the “ . a show of securing a job as before the war. Are not all the mills run ning in Aberdeen, Everett and else whereg uring the war thousands of city nd ng home town. the young men are vainly looki for work in their old Did Editor The Star: I am wondering if the leaders in the American Legion belong to the 91st division and are amongst those thousands of selected service drafted men who were the most benefitted by the perfectly wonderful, unselfish, tireless work of the council of de fenne or are they mostly of the Mayor Caldwe type of soldier, who was bern into the service with the silv spoon of @ commission in his mouth? Amongst my serap book clippings of war-time remembrances are many like this “Seattle gave a warm-hearted fare. well today to 179 of her young men who leave Jate this efternoon for Camp Lewis to d@h the olive drab and shoulder a rifle ip Uncle Sam's | army sumptuous Bsa of the of Women's Service and an elaborate entertainment pi gram was awaiting them. Members of the King County Couneil of De- Editor The Star: I would like to shake your hand, Mr, Justitia—you have sounded the right key, The may@ and the city council have forgotten whom they are jworking for, When they were ‘beg. |wing for your vote itewas the “dear @ letter under the heading “Men Hog Auto Parking Spaces,” signed by one Mra. C. H. F., Wherein she appeals to to Proposes “Letter weary and heavy) A Childr I was walking down Second ave. | December 4, about § | visite; jdren all the way from 7 to 14 years | doe old. They had formed a circle and it uid not stand | for jthese little ones, who may have stood girls took the places of boys and | family men, and today we find most these women holding thejr jobs a: of |back to normalcy and hire a Many accidents and fatalities could be avoided if reckless driver left their cars at home. Besides, our carfares would have a far better chance to drop down to the old-time nickel. It is impossible to limit the num |ber of autoy—they are increasing jevery year—and that's exactly what | hetpa put our street car system jin a Ught place financially. | To remedy this, why don't they impose « email tax, say 26 cents ja day, on every auth parked regu larly in the business section of ti city?, That would perhaps enabic jour “city officials to. reduce ou ping trips made on our street cars! carfares—and help “the poor old instead. In that case, the shop-| widow who appealed for aid after perm wouldn't be limited to half} being permanently injured on on an hour, but could stick around] of the street cars the stores all day. They wouldn't I. O. GAASLAND, have to walk six blocks to cal Care American Can (Co. Carriers’ Week” weary climb with his load? Figure out what it means for a carrier who has between 40@ end 500 flights of latepe to climb om trip. | It haw always been the policy of the newspapers to call attention of the public to the condition of the clerks in stores, street car men, ete. | but nothing has ever been mid about the letter carrier, The letter carrier ts on the job every day, regardiess of edhditions Of traffic or weather, yea, Chi day inctuded. The writer never had & Christmas day at home in nearly 20 years of service. I hope for the reasons above stated you will deem this of sufficient im | port to give “Carriers’ Week" a | boort, and may other Publications» |hetp it along. I thank you. Yours ‘truly, POSTAGE DUE Why Negro Drove Foch [ike to know if he is a citizen of jthe U. 8. A | It appears to me if he wag he | Wouldn't ask such a thing. Perhaps he is from Texas or Georgia, but this is the land of the free and the home of the brave, I am a much better (talker than writer. | G. W. FRENCH, 1216% Jackson St. en’s Band sage, This in a dimerace to Seattle. A r would carry away a very fine pression of what our community # for the orphans that are left in |Our city! There are other hours of imp TY |the day for thene tots to play music on the streets than at night, eape- clally when it is #0 cold. If this must be done to keep theme fehildren from going hungry then it jis time some other organization took jeare of these poor tots. I trust this imatter will be taken up for “hu manity’s sake.” A READER. Why Jobs Are Scarce rer instance, almost aN elevator | Operators and janitors before the war | were men; today the man on the job is the exception. Likewiss, in all types of clerical work, we find wom jen have supplantea men | The fault tes, not with the wom on,.but with Seattle big employers. | With a few exceptions, they hirs women because they can get them for « few dollars, while men expect }@ living wage for themselves and The war is over; let's get | aman at |@ man's wage to do a man's work, |Mr. Seattle Employer. Respectfully SEATTLE EX-SERVICE MAN, Legion F orget Friends? jfense worked untiringly tg give this | contingent as rousing a sendoff as | they had all previous ones. At the | end of the column was an atitomobile |in which citizens could throw coin to |be used to buy ‘amileage books’ for he * xt There are thousands of these nol diers now in the Legion. Do you think they have forgotten those go- ing-away parties? Have they forgot. ten the men who tried to make their going one little bit of sunshine, and | Who welcomed them buck with such a rousing cheer? There are reasons, perhaps, why | Lieutenant Governor Coyle should |not remember, and other reasons jagain why Mayor Cadwell should jnot remember, but there are many, many Legion men who engineer the reception, | Foch who should feel ashamed be. cause Harold Preston and Frank Gates of the King County Council of Defense was omitted from the invita: tion list. MAUDE SWEETMAN, iven Marshal Common Sense the Need people.” After they get the job, ther it's “We are the people and must be respected.” You, indeed, it's time the taxpayers wake up and let thease gentlemen know we are yet the dear people and helped to} rors of the story, “Ma Bogart cu her out ail morning, did she? Jun Se her neck, eh? Ma certainly is hell.cat.” “Yea, you know how she i»; #o| vigious.” “Oh no, her beat style ain't her viclousness, What she pulls in our store in to come in smiling with Christian Fortitude and keep a clerk busy for one hour while she picks out half @ dozen fourpenny nails, 1 remembs 6 tinge—"* Sam! »| was uneasy. “You'll fight for Fern, won't you? When Mrs. Bomart came to see you did she make definite charges?” ‘Well, yeu, you might any she did.” “But the school-board won't act on them?" “Guess we'll more or less have to. “But you'll exonerate Fern? ‘live. The $10,000 the city council handed over to Mr, Caldwell and the $8,000 with the trimmings they will nand over to Mr. Witt, ix only anoth- r item of waste to be charred up to he now over-burdened car line, Not until those in authority begin to use some common business judg nent can we hope to see any relief (rom the present high carfare, Mr. Witt's idea of junking our cara and buying new cars to help us get yut of a bad trade is too expert for the average taxpayer of Seattle to wee thru. on & business common sense manage- nent, as Stone & Webster conducted t, then you will see it meet all tte »bligations and have a little spending money left from a Scent fare. This I have to may for Mr. Henderson: If he can’t pull himself from these tin horn politicians and use some of the ‘treet car sense that Stone & Web- ster taught him, then it’s time to jar him loose and hire a real superintend- ent that is not contented to play seo- ond fiddle. So let us all wake up—those who voted for and those who voted against the car line. We have the debt upon us and ft must be paid. All this investigating, all this 14 taxpayers’ proposition, ts pure bunk. Now you peal taxpayers wake up and look around and see if you can't elect some businens men to our city council before you have to sell your little home to pay off Stone & Web- ster, A STAR READER. When the car line is put} | what will happen if you discharge] that way. It's thanke to youl | her.” fi ies | Sam moved uncomfortably, looked| “But can't you see that the at his wife, scratched his head, | il! take this as proot of sighed, eald nothing. | charges? | at seaffold?” Carol speculated. Nat Hicks stopped the Kennicotts “Won't you fight for her on the! board? whoever agrees with you, make | minority report?” “No reports made in a case like | this. |thing and announce the final dect | sion, whether it's unanimous or not.” “Rules! Dear God! Sam! Won't you stand by Fern, and threaten to resign from the board [if they try to discharge her?” Rather testy, subtleties, he complained do what I ean, but I'l bi Lill the board meets.” And. "I'll do what I can,” together | with |course you and I know what Ma Bogart ts," was all Carol could get from Superintendent George Edwin Mott, Mr, Zitterel or any other member of |the school-board. Afterward she wondered whether Mr. Zittere! could have been geferring to herself when he observed. “There's too much license tn high places in this town, of sin fired.” the priest mind. She was at the hotel before eight next morning. Fern longed te go to school, to face the tittering, but she was too shaky, all day and, by reassuring her, con- vineed her own self that the school board would be just. She was less sure of it that evening when, the motion pictures, she heard Mrs. Gougerling exclaim to Mra. land, “She may be #o innocent and all, and I suppose she probably in, but still, if she drank a whole bottle of whisky at that dance, ti everybody anys she did, she may have forgotten she was so innocent! Hee, hee, heeft’ ing back from her seat, put “That's what I've said all along. don't want to roast anybody, but have you noticed the way she looks ee aR eg their way home. Carol hatedl him for bis manner axsumingy that they two had a mysterious und d to wink at her as 4 r What do you folka Thing . ‘ Mulling woman? I'n Y The Story of Carol Kennicott i Salk tat rou oak ool BY SINCLAIK LEWIS toh lecent women in our schoolay Copyright, 1920, Harcourt, Brace & Howe, Ine. : 400 know wh mt 1 heard? They COOOOSOOEHOEESOEOOES ESSE SEEEEEOOEEEEEES Wirt Mullins dame took twa! quarts of whisky to the dance wit ied From Saturday) I'l do what I can for the girl per | her and got stewed before cy “al was president of the|sonally, but you know what the | some tank, that wren! Ha, ha, hag When Carol told him board is, There's Reverend Zittere yee ie sews ich te and nhelghborly, nd Mra, ¢ rk #at| church, « f course he'll take her) by cooing t that too bad." | mayo; and Bera Stowbody, as a| He got Carol away before she wag Carol was interrupted only when | banker he has to be ali hell for mor en to speak Mra. Clark begged, “Dear, don’t | ality purity, Might ‘# well ad-| She saw Erik passing the house) speak #0 bitter about ‘pioun’ people. | mit it, Carrie; I’m afraid there'll be | tat #, and whe stared after him There's lot» of sincere practicing | majority of the board against her.|longing for the lively bitterness of | Christians that are real tolerant. | Not that any of us» would believe @|the things he would say about the Champ Perrys.” word ¢ maid, not if he swore|town. Kennicott had nothing fo Unfortunately | it on a stack of Bibles, but still, | her but “Oh, course, ev’body likes kindly people in|after all this gonsip, Mins Mullins| juicy story, but they don’t intendl the churches to keep them going.” wouldn't hardly be the | party|to be mean.” When Carol 1 finished, Mrs.|to chaperon our basketball team! ghe went up to bed proving t Clark breathed. ‘oor girli 1 don't) w it went out of town to play| self that the members of the schogh doubt her story a bit,” and Sam | other high schools, would she? board were superior men, rumbled, “Yuh, wure, Miss Mullins! “Perhaps not, but couldn't some! “1, way ‘Tuesday afternoon betorall in young and recklens, but everybody |one elne he learned that the board had moti in town, except Ma Bogart, knowa| “Why, that's one of the things she| oe in in the mening. and. vote what Cy is, But Mins Mullins was|was hired for.” Sam sounded cept Mies Fern Mullins’ regis a fool to go with him.” stubborn 2 nation.” Sam Clark telephoned “But not wicked enough to pay| “Do you realize that this isn’t just motte te’ tae ee net alll for it with disgrace fa matter of a job, and hiring and ny charges. We're juat letting i) “N-no, but Bam avoided ver | Oring that it's actually sending a resign. Would you like to drop o | dicts, clung to the entrancing hor. | splendid girl out with a beastly stain to the hotel and ask her to | the resignation, now we've ac it? Glad I could get the board r, giving all the other B world a chance at her? 7T je're not — making — no— charges—whatever!’ Sam was ob | viourly finding it hard to be patient, Fern left town that evening. F | Carol went with her to the The two girls elbowed thru a ail liplicking crowd. Carol tried stare them down but in face of the impishness of the boys and the bo. vine gaping of the men, she was em barrassed. Fern did not glance at them. Carol felt her arm tremble, though she wae tearless, listless, plodding, She squeezed Carol's | hand, said something unintelligibie, stumbled up into the vestibule, Carol remembered that Miles Bjornstam had also taken a train. Whae would be the ecene at the sta tion when she herself took departure? She walked uptown behind two strangers. One of them was giggling, “See that good-looking wench that got om here? The swell kid with the small black hat? She's some charmer! I was here yesterday, before my jump to Ojibway Falls, and I heard all about her. Seems she was a teach er, but she certainly was a high roller—O boy!—high, wide, and || fancy! Her and « of other skirts bought a whole case of whisky — and went on a tear, and one night, darned if this bunch of ° bers didn’t get hold of If you lowe, won't you, and a : Our rule is to just decide the Against @ girl's future! 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