The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 26, 1921, Page 6

. 44.80 for 6 mi _ “policy. That is what America’s Fepresentatives should strive for. One thing Americans and the American senate mast remember YOUTH BY DR. WM. FE. BARTON —e HERE comes « period in youth when the young man or woman fecl_ a sense of fsolation. The boy thinks him- self a man, and can find no one who shares his opinion. The girl thinks herself a woman @nd ts troubled because ahe still is treated as a child. They grow sad and solitary. ‘Then they meet each other, And that |s a great event. Fach one discovers that the other, also, is misunderstood. “My father doea not understand me; my mother does not understand me; the people with whom T asso Ciate are all stupid and cannot ap. Preciate my high ideals; my teachers give me bad marks; nobody under. @tands me but you.” ii They come to understand each ether #0 well that they cease to Reed language. They can «imply wit and gaze into each other's eyes, ; Or hold each other's hands, and they understand All this seem@ to all the rest of the world a very silly process, ‘The Fest of the world smiles and mak merry over tt, But it is a somewhat important Procesn It is one stage tm the return to Rormaicy, and that return haa to be made over a pew road. V in not simply a disease of Adolescence; it is a process by which ®@ life discovers itself in being dis covered Emerson has m chapter some Where which, if you ever run acrors WH, {8 worth reading Shout those two young people of i y ‘whom we were speaking, 1s, that ‘* mereafter they become good citi That fs an achievement worth while. ‘ of the Anglo-Jap agreement. We are that much to the good today. is very Itkely to| His remark | a The Seattle Star By mall, out of atty, Se per month! # mewths, §1.60e¢ months, $2.78) rear on. Outside of the stat per year, By carrier, city, te @ menth. state of jontha oF The chief accomplishment of the Washington arms conference to date is cancel- This agreement might, in case of an American-Jap : The 4-power pact substituted for the Anglo-Jap alliance does not under any con- nor in any conceivable case, line England up against us, rt We will be that much to the good when the ference ends unless American representatives play a foolish game, indeed. The good results already accomplished are principally threatened from two sources. The first is the misunderstanding over the terms of the 4-power pact with regard the Japanese main islands, This dispute must be settled, and settled right, or American people and the American senate will see to it this treaty is never rati- |'" °°"**" é | They will be justified. This is no time for the Japanese to seek a special po- in the 4-power treaty-making group, whereby the other powers would agree to with them in defense of their homeland, altho they would not be bound to ee per month, the University bei Buiter The Star: ' The following quotation from ku, & Japanese daily, may in- terest you and help to understand the situation, A missionary rent it The real people of Japan are mont Jelightful when they get away from this belief, When they become real- ly Christian—that ts, take the Christ | nto thelr hearte—they are charming, and greatly deplore this imperialistic reign, It surely ts like the kaiser's method of keeping a «plendid people THE QUOTATION “The imperial famiry of Japan is not only the parent of her 60 mil- lions, but of all mankind on earth “Rules Bees Can Roam at Will.”—Kansas head- line. Pity poor Will. When permanent peace comes it will be labeled “Made in U. S.” gift is that of being The least expensive pleasant. is that the great result of this conference must be embodied in two treaties, net one, These are the four-power pact already drawn and the projected ninepower Far East agreement. The way these two dovetail and approach—e- gether, not separately—the Amer lean objective of peace and the security of American rights will spell their merit orsdemerit, Also an understanding between America and Japan halting im mediately and fully the Jap immi gration to this coast should be reached. Bonus Offer a Flim-Flam, Says Writer BY AMATEUR ECONOMIST ‘The administration believes that we should pay the service man a bonus; congress will be asked to pass a law to that effect, ‘This means a happy let of Yanks, and as we look far ther we find that others will also be happy. This bonus isn't to cost the taxpayer a cent. The service man is promised the first four billion dollars that we collect of the money owed us by the European powers. ‘The fact is that we simply haven't the money to pay this bonus any other wa cut down the ta big busines | amon li t hardly enough make up for what we are by cutting the tax of the rich | Let us look a little farther; | does any one think for a mo- losing | ment that we are going to be able to collect this money in the near future? Frank Simonds says that tf England makes us a substantial payment, sterling would drop to $2, and our exports automatical- ly stop. use an other panie on we are already going thru, A lot of peopié have said that we would collect this debt, but not one of them has told us how it could be done. I have yet to see any attempt to fiure out @ reasonable way by which | our debtors can pay us. A «reat many thinking people believe that the debt will never be paid. Those who expect it to be paid admit that it will take many years to collect it, 25, 60 or 100 years at leant | A slice of this bad debt 1s | what im offered to the service | man in payment of the one that | the nation owes him, I certainly feel that this wi | be one of the gr that this made. It arding | bill in the The fact is that many admire | him for it, 3 s latest move | looks like an attempt to trade | on the credulity of the ex- | soldier, to buy his good will and | offer in payment something that | will be found worthless. If the nation can't afford to pay the debt that she owes the dough | boy there will be little com | plaining provided the unfortu- nate are looked after, But don't try to put anythiag over on him; for it won't work, Editor The Star So far all civitined barter is ex: pressed in the terms of the amount} of labor expended in the production | of gold. This, tho uneconomical, has | been possible thru the medium of an expensive mystem of trade credit. The war caused a sudden and tn cuculable increase in barter, and barter of t one-sided and non-re forcing all the gold into one hand, thue making the use of gold for uarter impomible, and creating the | present world wide depression Rriefly, supposing that Instead of using for barter a gold token repre- eenting the labor expended in mak-/ ng an unproductive hole in the! ground, @ certificate waa tnmued rep: | resenting the labor expended tn the! creation of, say, a productive 7-_! | As to the proposed agreement for limitation of armaments itself, that should hold ne terrors fer us because of thie country's financial ability to play the navy game as high or as low as the other pow- ¢rs want it, and still come out on top. So far it has net been sug- gested America take any second ary position tn this respect, as against any one power or any combination ef powers likely te oppexe her. road or canal, the barter of the world could recommence tmmexdi- ately. ‘This Is atmple where direct ol ernment action ts possible, much as) building railroads, canals, harbors, | houses, the production ef raw mate | It is hardly leas atmp! “| | | 0, GENTLE CRITIC! BY LEO H. LASSEN To My Mother ‘The years are fleeting on their efiver wings And Winter's wand hag touched your lovely hair, | But Summer blooma within your ¢yes, and there } The magic flute of Youth Eternal sings Remember, Mother, dear, the carty rhyme, | at faltered? But you gladly Metened, | I read my lines your whole soul glixtened ¢ mo—the love that mocks at Time. ther, rome should the gods decree follow Song, I ask no Paradine | than that your «mile may eriticise | ds with that same light that meang to me | The heights. What others say can hold no fear If you are only giad, Mother, dear! | | GEOGRAPHIC PUZZLE YESTERDAYS ANSWER. CHAIR — Alle + 1 +NAIL-IL=CHINA Just Honest Milk Scientifically pasteurized by the most modern methods in a most modern plant Your Grocer Will 7 erv. | a. Serve You MAYFLOWER DAIRY ELLIOTT 6210 TERS TO EDITOR JOB AWAITS “H. G.” Editor The Star If “TL, G..” whose letter appeared in your paper on th call at the Silver Star Shingle Co, 419 FB. 0, he will find employment SILVER BTAR SHINGLE QUOTES = A Labor Certificate Plan plant potatoes, informa the bank of |#th? If he did, and still holds the|o\4’ poy? Ladies! aren't we glad |the number of labor certificates de-| Viewpoint be published, he je 9/4 aan araw him for # husband?| manded by the seedaman for the pro.| “prune.” If he did read them, | of labor he estimates as and when, | lll: It fotlows, if the estimates are not} realized, the grower would obtain no further have to become a laborer, whilst in advances, and eventuaily versely, the production of surplus, labor certificates could be expended jin luxury, or used as an anset to / | wards obtaining further credit. | Buch a bank would be a retorn to the original idea of @ bank namely, 4 trader's aasistant, and not & money making concern During the transitory period from the gold standard, a labor certifiente Dear Yotks: Northlake waiting but then he bel preserved the p us lots of work to do, kindly spirit, 1 believe, ALetter From AIVRIDGE MANN I haven't any cause to have a groveh at Santa Claus; he gave 4 to nee @ on Christmas use thru By N } ~~ gerry At six o'clock I reached the house, to greet a finbbers: oe te ood eh rig Be oe son we spouse; for she was in an awful stew about the things she had eoemate te Ge preneee to do, and started In to get my goat, before I'd shed my hat with the #q t amount of labor ici coun a no Baer mutin We ate—ate a hurried, pick-up meal—and then the kids com enced to rqueal In the eyes of the imperial family | duction menced — All races are one and the same. It) necemity pnd, in above all racial ‘considerations. | The country that first adopts the All human disputes may, therefore, | labor certificate basis will be the first be settied in accordance with its| to recover from the prevailing world immaculate justice, The League of | Wide depression, and the country that Nations’ proposals to save mankind|bas the largest supply of capable from the horrors of war can only|labor, combined with the greatest attain ite real object by placing the|Batural resources, will become the imperial family of Japan at its) mort truly wealthy head Yours faithfully, | “To obtain its object, the league HAMILTON ADAMS. | must have @ strong punitive force of & supernational a character, and this fe be found in the unperial family of Japan.” nage would of never, never try to peep. til nearly three, for the Christmas things. dead; we wen it seémed, It's Christmas day! It surely was a heetic night, bright THOS. Glad She Didn’t Marry Him EAltor ‘The Star | Would like a little space in your column to answer the writer who signed himeelf “A Charleston i Neader.” He criticises the “Ten surety getting ‘em—fust hear th | Commandments” written by a lady | men holler, Mr. Charleston read jin the inmue of December 14th. | would like to know if he read the| 7, ft nelt j “Ten Commandments” written by|Commandmenia, and neither 40 " women, but “what's sauce for the! A man desiring to/4 “man” in the inue of December) ric ig sauce tor the gander,” eh, | A. V. FREEMAN, 4328 Kighth Ave, N. E. all the other phases of industrial life, as it only means the Interven. tion of one intermediary—the Gov- erament Agency Bank. Yor example: Mc F. duction of the seed; and the amount | just notice, folka, how he took it | The lady writer merely turned the ter tis been intreduced | tables on the man writer. Of course, | ine, India which will write the 360 any one with brains thought both] cnsracters of the Bengali. alphabet. were absurd and had a good laugh sas Mother, bring home some of neoeanary for the planting and cuits. vating of the crop—on which enti mate, If considered semrais, the advance ia made, repayable on the sale of the crop. over them. Bhe expected resulty when she wrote them, and she's Boldt’s Milk Bread)—Advertisement. And after that we never ceased from working youst; we filled the stockings, trimmed the tree, and fussed around with timeue paper, ribbons, strings, and stickers before the kids commenced to say, and had us nearly seeing red before we got them tucked in bed, and told them they must go to sleep, and Ike a cake of And then, at last, we went to bed, fo tired we were nearly to sleep at once and dreamed, about a minute, so we get up? but Christmas day was gay and nd then, in spite of all the furs, and all the a very pleasant time was bad by all the folks tinsue paper including NOW LOCATED 1518 Second Ave. ss SEMI-ANNUAL Begins Tuesday, December 27 Coats, Suits, Gowns, Silk and Cloth Dresses, Skirts Silk Petticoats and Trimmed Hats AT HALF PRICE For Two Days Only TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY HALF-PRICE SALE Our semi-annual sales are, without exception, the greatest selling events of the year, because they are absolutely dependable; they contain the best selections ob- tainable, and the values are unquestioned. IMPORTANT NOTICE During this sale merchandise will be lo- cated as follows: Coats, Suits and Skirts Second Floor Dresses and Gowns Third Floor Millinery and Petticoats First Floor ALTERATION CHARGES NO APPROVALS, NO EXCHANGES, OUT DEPOSIT. BE RETURNED. 3 NO TELEPHONE ORDERS, NOTHING LAID ASIDE WITHOUT A DEPOSIT, NO C. 0. D.’S WITH- PURCHASES MAY BE CHARGED, BUT CANNOT Regular alteration rates will prevail during sale. Notwithstanding additional work- room help, it will be some time before all sale garments can be completed, and we urge you to take home all minor alterations. EXTRA SALESWOMEN WANTED—APPLY EMPLOYMENT OFFICE—8 A.M. ’ TUESDAY—PINE STREET ENTRANCE STORE HOURS 9 A. M. TO 5 P. M. DURING THIS SALE A epee oases eneaameeseniictnibsshhiseninnveninaneligninsnissibiiiiisceny inl ccsas visita Se SOE SECOND AT PINE °