The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 24, 1921, Page 6

"And then * * * ip “en bloc.” The judge asks the 100 you know these candi 100 witnesses answer in “We do” the judge asks: they qualified for citizen and the witnesses respond: are! the judge turns to the and asks thom wheth- are ready to take the ‘of citizenship, and they hold hands and take the oath. that block retires another in, They keep that up all is a free country, but it Met to be so almighty free that. @ oppressed of other lands m, and ought to, find asylum Dut those with a cop at their ls ought not to be able to him off by the Philadelphia le haven't quite enough jobs Found as it is, and we cer- do not want people of this squeezing honest Ameri- out of such jobs as there government is supposed to sifter. Phey Vive close enough, send Boone of these messages: . Merry Christmas. Grace, Ma strained soup in 9s. Merry Christmas.” Bil, the tie for you got My family burned it” fome friends have the gift useless gifts. Wik handkerchiefs are fine f catch cold. Ret stockings con be hung curtains Willie what's in sister's dot he looks. a wou plenty of candy and ‘§ phone number handy? 365 more days wnt Christe Christmas. pman—God less Her! i are just little boys grown say Philosophers. stubs his toe, runs to cries @ moment, gets & en the head and 2 cookie and Feturns to play again. would be a much darker these days for the men who fe out of work, if it were not lor the wives, mothers and sinters encourage them, keep the of hope ¢ in their and send them forth anew the quest for prosperity. Woman is the shining light of world, the source of all in the generator of cheer- the dispeller of gloom. is her greatest function in ages—furnishing the electrie- that drives the motors, Tagnden Tribune suggests: “Why postpone the shortest day in Year to December 26? Every- fa shortest then.” about 200,000 Quakers in country, bot they have set to get 1,000,000 barrels of for Russian famine sufferers. ‘Vf all Americans helped on the game basis of population, Russia would get 535,000,000 barrels of Quakers, active as a good in- fluence in the world, have ecar- led on their creed nearly 300 years. They have been unfalter- ae chompions against war, siav- and swearing. Too bad we | haven't 200,000,000 instead of only 200,000 of them. When a flowery fellow meets a @feen fellow the time is ripe for @ rotten deal Bome people go about a thing While others tall: about it |. Mary Garden says, “The moat Beautiful thing is a leg in a black “wilke stocking.” Mary mustn't be- Weve what every man tells her. 4 Edison is trying to make gola Ut Of other metals, Some people | Make gold out of brass. There may be merchants who n't advertise, but you never hear Of them is Use the Sifter Being a citizen of this country is a priceless privilege are giving it away, like a prize with a package of corn-plasters, Come one, come all. my “I have knowledge,” said Congressman Albert Johnson, of southwest Washington, : “that One country, at least, has been giving passports with is barred from returning to the country of his nativity.” Pabiiened Deity by The # Pubiientnw Yet there are some who the warning that the “The chief examiner of the Philadelphia district described the plan” for granting “He admits blocks of 50 candidates for citizenship at one time,” he said, “while an- J block waits in the hall. The 50 candidates are accompanied by their 100 wit- So this is Christmas Some say “It comes but once a year—thank God.” Others say “It comes once every year—thank God.” “Some” can’t see the pleasure for the expense. “Others” can’t see the expense for the pleasure. “Weary Christmas and Nappy New Year,” mur- mur the tired shopgirls. “Bleary Christmas and Snappy New Year,” smile favorite bootleggers. Charity may cover a multitude of sins—but it covers more backs. If the shimmy is what we think, she’s already been shook. If things don’t come your way—go after them. You, the Creator George Pultman’s first Pullman steeping car was so crude that hatehot and nails bad to be used in making up the berths. Pullman's friends, who took the first trip, awakened next morning, fagged out and aching as if they had been prisefighting all night. After that first trip, whieh stilt is remembered vividly by many now living, Pullman's idea was a source of merriment. All inventions and ideas ore crude when they are born, No matter how brilliant your nrw idea, infinite patience ix needed, along with much burning of mid- night olf, before the crude idea ts This invention was the tele evolved inte polished nrarperfee Phone, born in the creative brain gion, of Alexander Graham Bell in 1876. ee The telegraph was its forerunner. The rounded corners of Pullman A little less than seven years car vestibules were conceived by age Bell and Thomas A. Watson, 1 porter. He had wearied of be- who helped him invent the tele ing the target for the wrath of phone, opened the first transeonti- passengers who had struck vie nental telephone line. Theediterof ently on the former sharp cor- ‘The Star has talked by that means ners when the train rounded a with » man in New York. You curve. can hear over that line now as Porters for many years patient plainty as you telephone across ly took the kicks of passengers the street—your volee traveling who had their clothes splashed 3,400 miles thru 740 toms of cop with water that lurched out of per in @ fifth of a second, Pullman car washbasins, Then a Recently we have the wireless porter got the idea of projecting telephone—phantom speech. the top edges of the wash basins Wouldn't that astound the other inward. two great inventors who created In almost pumberiens details, speech and writing! the Pullman car was improved by **e the porters until today it is prob- A great historical book has Jost able that they have had more jo been published from the pen of @ With giving us the Pullman A. Lincotn Lavine. It's called Palace car than the original in- . " itor, “Circuits of Victory,” recording ‘°O'* the great part played in the The man who uses a device Werld War by the to knows more about it than the The telephone, American inven. 4" Who originated it, tion, has revolutionized warfare ; Nearly every contrivance that elk has revolutionized civilly use in civilization Ip the F 01 sult of the combined effort of thousands of minds, For instance, the steam engine. Circuits of Victory The greatest invention ever div covered by man is communica tien. Ite first form was human speech—the power to transmit knowledge from one brain to an other. This exehange of thoughts is the basis of all civilization. The second step in communiea- tiem was the invention of writing, by whieh human speech was con veyed by the eye instead of the ear, transferring thoughts to the man miley away in the jungie, Many thousands of years passed before man made his third step in communication—the invention of a device to carry the human volee over great distances. Great battles in the past often were lost by inability to commun feate. The power to communicate fy various crude forms it exixted regulates the element of time, for thousands of years. Then which in turn controls military james. Watt perfected it to the strategy and tactics, point where it was useful—and The telephone in the World got the credit as its inventor, The others are forgotten, but their service to humanity was nearly as great as Watt's. All humans have the creative War saved millions of lives, by making it unnecessary for mil- Kons of message carriers to ex- pose their persons to death. instinet, the desire to build and The war, horrible as it was, a improve, Man is the tool of vanced civilization in many great creative force that in at branches, shorteutting time. It work all thru the universe, stimulated development of com- The only life that really is munication, flying, mechanical worth while is the one that con- production and surgery tributes to the progress of hu- Most valuable of these probably manity, ‘That is the real sue was the advancement of wireless — cous, communication. Peace thus makes enh Mee a a a definite gain, ° Thirty-four million telephone Sensibly conversations are earried on daily Come Together over the Bell lines, millions more (rom Puyallup Valley ‘Tribune, independentty Robert Montgomery, Editor) Will we live to see the wireless Hoth Seattle and Tacoma now F displace the copper wire? intelligently recognize the exist- It is not improbable. Communi ence of certain conditions, and cation then would be universal their Chambers of Commerce and and instantaneous, regardless of Commercial Clubs have very sen location—the basis for « real cly- sibly come together to promote ilization. mutual harmony, and to elimi EE ate all the controversies, You have to be an old man he- fore you believe a fellow ought to work and save while young. and rivatries of the past. both recognize that their ests are substantially identical and that cooperation is the wateh-word of the future. Seattle has advantages p itself; so ; a Why worry? Only one person in be 1200 is murdered and less than that get into the movies. liar has Tacoma, Wt is fortunate that the men of vision in both cities this fact. ‘This understanding augury well for both cities and for all of Puget Sound. “ to The fool killer ts loafing Pay day is father’s day. A pretty girt no use for mistletoe has THE SEATTLE ST LETTERS TO EDITOR] !leet Helps Some Folks ’re Deceivin’ Wditor The Star | et o love that eud cover the hal Ma nox Bome folks ‘re deceivin rid The only trouble im, the e ol av on the he an’ jon like the snow. On the outside ve It folded away on t if a Jeb j fermtt t une it hey Heem cold's cold kin be, but un: | NANNAHM Ko MBACTIER |derneath there's a warm white bilan. | 1668 I. 76th at One Step at a Time Editor The Star have & lower ‘fare—wagen are com A man usually rune upstairs one ing down, freight ra are coming step at a time and when he comes down, everything Is coming down but not exactly to prewer down he comen one step at a time. 10" He can jump two steps, but it in| Me Pitegeraid should try it again dangerous businens—his foot might! and take it slower o us four of slip those little tokens for a quarter, Do That @ what Counce ald did, and 1 we Iman Piteger why We had a nit faromthen a 64 cont=then on §1d.0cent, Why did he jump that @4-cent p? Couldn't we come back as we went up? Mr. Fitageraid ix right—we should A Note to Deor Santa Claw On Christmas morning please bring un & beginning of the end of these “normalcy” days, dlonest, now, Mr Ranta Claw these days of nor are something awful, These day euch able stateemanship are the bunk, Piease take them away and give us days in whieh a mn oon earn enough to keep the home fires burning. In the past year there have been neven thousand conferences to relieve unemployment conditions. There have been two thousand nine hundred and cighty.tour committees appointed by congress and our state legislatures to “look into the unem. ployment condition,” and ey, Mr. Banta Claus, every dorn one of thane committces looked into it and then fave the news forth to the world simont anything rather than let that disextrous Seent plan of Mr, Brick * win, There wilt be only one ending to that plan—-the same ¢ that hay come to the ferries and t | ort of Beattie rain elevators. MAUDE SWEETMAN, Santa Claus [that there really was a pretty bed condition of affairs, and there ac tually was quite a litte unemploy ment! You remember, don't that in these “normaley” days there was to be no That also Is coming upon us, and it.) too, in awful. T saw a living ex-| ample of it the other day. A poor dub that had not ten ft than « day, He was no ft could barely wigele, tho 1 must con.) he was pretty wobbly, But} ‘get me," don’t you, Ranta? 80} take our normalcy days away | ond give us anything else you hap: pen to have, We'll take @ chance! on you. ‘Thanks, Santa, Your friend, ORO. B. HAWKSHAW, Manette, Wash, Seattle Asiatic Quarter Editor The Star It might jar the apathetic citizen to learn that Seattle, a eity of barely 820,000, not yet 70 years old, has a Aviatic quarter in which—to q@ the figures of the Beattie Chamber of Commerce—7.000 Japancse renide We have in King county, 10.954 Japanese engaged in all lines of bust nees from the small truck man to the proprietors of seven-story mod orn hotels. According to the records of the superintendent of schools, we have 1,035 Japanese school children between the ages of 6 and 21 years in the ecly mainder of 4 in four of the larger country districts. It will be observed that the above figures do not include the ehtidren Detween the age of birth and six years, but a trip thru the Asiatic quarter discloses the painful fact that this latter quantity exceeds the! The Peninsula Spruce Road Editor The star Tt would be which county offi clared “the unemployment ence wan annerting there in plenty of work and saying that ‘only ghose pertens are unemployed who prefer to be idle.” I dare any man to come out In the open with that statement. He would have the aatiafuction of learning just how quickly the tempe change for him on @ ce There have been more furrows of thought written across the stomachs of men than across thelr foreheads, and the 10,000 unemployed citizens in our city thie winter are thinking, and they would not soon forget. The American Legion has opened a hotel, where its unemployed can have & free bed and a sandwich, and the State commander and three officers are going to tour the etate, visiting the 169 American Legion posts, Many unemployed men resent charity, and a hungry man dosen't want to listen to political speeches, The Legion Ten Questions tor The Star Yow that Senator Poindexter has returned from Washington to mingle Amongst the voters to ascertain his chances for tion In the pri- maries next fall, it would be an ex cellent time for to ox plain to the rep hin state nome of the following quest First—Why has Senator Poindex ter become no ailent about the righ of labor that he formerly champlo #0 devotedly? Reoond—Why tor's voles not heard favor of equality in th of no-called words, why does he nteresting to know it Wag who de confer needinns.” ree the senator ans of in Senator Poindex n the senate in enforcement ? In other and by and al low the rich to have all the boose they desire. prohibition while the poorer people ly understand | BY AGNES LOCKHART HUGHES: The mistlet Retw December'y redew In memory only That bloomed but While Beneath great dri Yet, naught of sa The hearth is rosy red among the mistletoe, And, peret The winged god # Yor in my heart, Love's roses free And Yuletide brings the Sweet Christmas GEOGRAPHIC PUZZLE of the city, witha re | ety flashing pears gay ribbons green And ruby-crowned the holly blooms,— all the fragrant petale dream jformer, and to quote the bureau of |naturalization, all these children, if [native born, automaticslly become | citizens at the age of 21, with the) « Tight to declare Japanane citizenship | if they so denire, | Let the full mignifianee of the fot jlowing become a fixed quantity in | your mind: In 40 yearn the Jap hy | sprung from a mere handful of ser |vante to the startling number of 17.387, the present Japanese popula ltlon of the etate i has extended | his sphere of activity strom surf: | beaten Plattery to the“rich bottom lands adjacent to Spokane. Regardiens of the Asiatic exctuston act, the denial of eittrenship, or the) much talkedof nileman's agree ment, the Jap is steadily Increasing and if he is allowed to prosper in the future as he baa in the past, the | of the century Will see him ng & pouition of authority cut [should get solidly behind some proj cot lke the salvaging of the Umber on the Olympic peninsula, Reattle nhowed what he could do when he helped to build the Pasco bridge—the people all thru that ter) ritory have a kindly feeling for this | ity. Hut after this little burst of speed, our prominent business men went! to sieep and Portland stole the) Northwest Wheat Growers’ associa, on The spruce production headquar tere are in Portland, and Oregon would like to have lines inte the Olymplc forest The Oregonians are pot asicep. While our Chamber of Commerce is ing end passing resolutions: le our city iq known and adver tieed as having more unemployed than any other city in the country while our American Legton officers are touring the state, peddling politi cal propaganda, Oregon wilt steal our lumber trade, 6 stole our wheat. i MAUDE SWEETMAN. for Poindexter are raided and arrested for having! home brew in their possession and! denied their wine and peer? Third—Why was it that Senator Poindexter refused to deal with olther tor Johnson or Gen, Wood (both Roosevelt progressive candi daten) at the Chicago convention, but catered to the Old Guard for favors, in the hope thet he would be nomi. nated by them? Fourth—-Why doce Senator Poin. dexter want wherry to “show’| him, when every reading voter in th tate of Washington known Newberry purchased his senate seat?) Fiftth-Why did Senator Poindex ter handpick the federal officials for this state, appointing personal friends and totally ignoring the par. | reathed queen. lieow the rose yesternight tte of white. dness enters in miles o’erhead ah, memory keeps from rue holly beads, chimes, and You! me tare ntia} _ wt PEN — P + GLUE —UE + TERDAYS Anawt. AND = ENGLAND Ranta, | “wigale and wobble?) Complicate Trade Maze BY AMATEUR BCONOMIN' | tw have on our working on & ne enough wheat edish, or Hngiieh m left over, so the Ameriean on the farm and let the do his carrying t conditions have changed and we find ourselves with the second largest merchant marine in the world lot it be known, we expect to keep these ships and operate th Ig the past when we paid $590,000 freight bills, it took this money and bought | wheat and cotton with It. Now as far aa freighting for the U. 8, im concerned, these people are out of « job, and they won't have this money to spend for our goods In the future when we bal ¢ the international ledger we will not be charged with a | great bie freight bill. ‘The prob | ability i* that instead we will have @ considerable nount coming from other nationa for services rendered them Hut we must remember that the lowing of thie job i« going cut down Burope's ability to buy our goods For years to come one of our freatem®? economic worrles wille be over the world’s inability to pay for the goods that we have to welt ty organization, both state and coun- ty, ax well as the Young Men's Re. publican club, the strongest and best factor for republicaniam in the North- went? Bisth—Why ¢@id Senator Poindes- ter totally ignore the women voters jOf this atate in the unequal distribu | seen or known any such thing and| tion of patronage by refusing to ap point 4 single woman to » federal po- sition? Seventh—Why fs it that business men of this state have been repeated: ly cautioned by their Eastern friends that Senator Poindexter is entirely watiatactory to “big business’ in the East, and that his renomination and election are greatly denired? Fighth—Why is that when the Proposed section In the revenue bill, providing for publicity of income re- turns, was before the senate, and Jost by a vote of 82 to 30. when Kenyon, Rorah, Johnson, Kellogg and other progressives liped up for this re form, Senator Poindexter voted with the Standard’ Ol! “bloc"—Penrose, Lodge, Smoot, et al.? Ninth—Why does Senator Poindex ter remain silent on the question of the soldiers’ bonus? Tenth—Why does Senator Poindes. ter remain wilent on the reat Japa- |! nese question—-the crowding out of the white race by the Japanese on the Pacific coast, and particularly in our own ptate? ‘There are many progrestive repub- Heans in the #tate of Washington who would like to have Senator Poindexter do a lot of explaining on several other matters, but the above list of questions probably wilt keep the senator fairly busy during his brief trip here. Sincerely yours, WILLIAM A. GILMORE, 300 Central Building. Mother, bring home nome of MUk Bread}—Advertiaement, oe pate .. “a enema te a me AAR A ee penne qe SATURDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1921. Merry Christmas Aetter From JAIWVRIDGE MANN |. Deay Votke a big mistake to thin ant @ | fake; for you car a tip from me—he's as rea can bel saw him just a while age, and © I ough to know } mat And mused, the other night, before the fire's cheerf light; I let my thoughts go drifting back to Senta and hin ¢ ‘ mas pack; | beard a step beside my chair, and Manta Claun was rtanding there ™ came.” 1 #aid, “for someone told me 4 just like he used to do, and maid, “I'v heard that story buey an a hee 1 asked him boys?” And he too; but I'm alive, “Deo you bring the replied: “You bet hearts one; wherever open hea the Yule riment, and everything Christmas wish for you! that's it BY DR. WM. FE. BARTON ee INSTEIN has but! It emphasized an| idea which wan It rather definitely | fore, that things are to be inter. preted nof am they may be assumed to be in them selves, but as they are in their relation to other things. We do not know about that meta- | physical ebstraction, the German | name of which, translated, means | thethinginiteell.” We have never | [we do not know that it exists any-| where. Wherever we have any knowledge of existence, it is of things modified | by their environment, There is not uch of which we can say that it is absolutely” thus or so. There may be nome things that are absolute but | mont things are relative. And yet, it is well to remember that not everything is in a state of | flux. There are some pole-stars of truth and right. We have not yet! sailed part the north star, nor con-! sented to substitute for it one which |changes its place in the sky every | | hour | There i a Uttle Jingle, whose | jauthor is unknown to me, which I) jthink states well some things that! are flexible and some that are fixed: It might have been that the sky was | areen, | And the grasa serenely blue; [It might have been that grapes on thorna, | And figs on thisties grew: It might have been that rainbows | Before the showers came; [It might have been that lambs were fierce, And bears and tigers tame. It might have been that cold would melt, j And summer heat would freeze; It might have been that ships at sea | Would sail aguinst the breeze, [And there may be worlds unknown, Where we might find the change | From all that we have seen or heard | Rea ase The Pacific Telephone And Telegraph Company for when my Christmas business starts, #o may your heart be open wide, inside, and fill It full of true content good and as you Can wee, and just as toys 1 60 to all our Wttle girls « the indirectly, it im true my biggest job ls filling “1 carry gladnees, love, and fun, and hope, and cheer, for every are found abound, that happiness may live and rule I make my Christ yoy for Um the Spirit of that Santa Claus may get and joy and love and mer true—tor that’s my To others just as strange. Bot it never could be wine, dear, In hate-to act or #peak; never could be noble To harm the poor or weak. never could be kind, dear, | To give a necdiens pain; never could be honest ‘To win for greed of gain: in our minds be-|And there could not be « world, dear, While God ig true above, | Where right ana wrong are governed Ry any law but love. Christmas, Folk! Christmas Dinner will be served December 25 and 26—10:30 a, m. - 8 p.m. Featuring all those delicious dishes of the season MUSIC 5 TO 7:30 P. M. We serve Breakfast 7:00 - 11:30 a m. Table Service -PANAMA CAFETERIA “Where Quality Is Never Saerificea” 1415 Third Avenue NEAR PIKE