The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 28, 1921, Page 6

ae aa RR rr re amen _ house of representatives. federal election laws. . He is right. They do. 5 0 ding Nobility Carpentier, who helped dack Dempsey pay a big tax*for 1921, will be made Rebleman on January 1. To honor Carp the French gov- "i has invented a new Order of Physical i Carp's title will be . Descamps, his manager, be made a Knight. | Apparently this elevates Carp to . social standing with the of Dolittle or the Knights the Golden Prune. fhe French are a subtle people, and past masters at deli- frony. The Frenchman who the scheme probably “kidding” the nobility of less democratic neigh- eee With a prizefighter’s manager @ knight, we see the ruins which the ancient system of has been reduced, It More startling than finding a grand duke washing in an American restan- ‘They kissed their swords, to defend the queen with lives. In exebange, they knighted. see | Titles are losing out as democ- 'Y gains control of the social Canada recently gave us fine iMustration when her peo- Faised violent objections to elevation of Canadians to _ Noblemen were the expression % destructive and parasitic forces had free swing by keeping the people down. | The tide now runs in the other @irection, with tiles and medals @onferred for constructive work. | We have the Nobel prizes for ach year's greatest literary, sci- ‘entific, humanitarian and other _ @entributions to the world. We see inventors and engineers with international med- als. ‘The Aristocracy of Public Serv- fee eclipses the knights, dukes, _ Counts, barons, earls, That is Progress. The thing I complain of ts that You pretend that you are running | @ Bunday school down here at the | Postoffice department, headed by a Presbyterian deacon, when | know that his real claim for distinction & that he is a past master of par- j Hean politics, and that he is put | §mto that place to take cage of Faithful republicans. I am not ob- | Meeting to hia appointment of re- + publicans, but I am objecting to his | hypocritical pretense. —Representa- tive Wingo (D.), Arkansas, Our ‘Adaptable . Body Every organ of your body de Yelops resisting powers as you need them. A miller gets so used fo the sound of his mill wheels that he ceases to hear them and can catch a whisper. Pat 50 identical machines in a room. Workers forget the noise. Bot, if one machine stops, the oldtime operator knows it Stavtly by the changed sound. 3 This power of the ears, to ad- ; Inst themselves to i ft environment, } makes city life possible. Metro- t Politans live in an inferno of f noise. The ears ignore it, in a { large sense, tho the noise is there, tearing away dt the nervous sys tem. For the year 1918 the total per tapita property tax in Washington tan $20.68. Thirty out of 68 cities ; Paid a higher and 38 4 lower per f tapita tar.—~Kenator Jones (R.), Washington. The good die young; so do good resolutions. Men who only look out for Num- Mer One forget how small it 44, tm the at 44.50 for # montha oF 19.00 per year, —_— oo of Washington. The Newberry episode must not occur again. The Seattle Star BY mall, owt of city, fe per month; # menthe, $1.50e6 montha, H2.TE) year Outside of the stat Thy carrier, ofty Published Datty by The Mar Pubtianing Prove Mata 0400. Yet it will unless something is done within the next few weeks to prevent it. The supreme court has held that the corrupt practices act is unconstitutional in so far as it applies to senatorial primaries. Attorney General Daugherty has ruled that it is also unconstitutional in so far as it relates to primaries for nominations to the In most states either one or the other of the two major parties has such strength ‘that a nomination is equivalent to an election. _ The law, therefore, is a dead letter, Some republican congressmen realize this. _ They know that technicalities have upset the will of the people. They believe that unless a new law is enacted, and enacted quickly, the primary tions next summer will, in many states, be repetitions of the Newberry scandal. “The people of the country expect congress to meet the situation,” says Representa- Luce, republican, of Massachusetts, one of the best posted men in congress on Ability and patriotism must be the key to congress—not gold. Looking at a ton of coal makes us believe that even big dealers do business on small scales. Japan says she will be out of debt by 194 Japan is more optimistic than father. Rouge makers are meetihg.. A regular ladies’ aid society. Any man who agrees with his wife can have his way. The Whole Truth? Every candidate for congress, regardiess of party, race or re ligious creed, is to be card cata- logued by the national woman's party during the next few months preceding the campaign of 19%: According to Miss Maud Young: er, national legislative chairman of the party, the result question naire, now being prepared for gen- eral distribution, will contain 54 questions. Upen the completion of this questionnaire, says Miss Younger, “the woman's party will possess the most comprehensive and best analyzed fund of political informa- tign in the country.” “We will not only haye side- lights upon the character and temperament of each congression- al candidate,” says Miss Younger, “but we will know his type of mind; his hobbies and pleasures; his reereations and studies; his educational, religious and ¢conom- ie background; his attitude to- ward women (industrially and eco- nomically considered); toward all social problems, labor, etc; the character of his home district; chances for election or re-election; his financial status and backing; his home life, and, in fact, every- thing about him.” Bernard Shaw some years ago declared that no truthful aute- biography had yet been written because such an one couldn't pass thru the mail We strongly suspect a similar fate would await answers to Miss Younger’s questionnaire, did they attempt the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truh, on the boys who go to Wash ington. “What will I cook?" doesn’t worry mother as much as it doce father. Artificial Gold German scientists are said to be close to the discovery of arti- ficial gold. This problem in labor- atory research may be solved at any lime, The principle on which tists are working is to gain con- trol of the positive and negative electrons which seem to be at the base of all matter. The electrons are always the same, Only their varying movements and their changing numbers make gold dif- ferent from any other element, If the Germans succeed in their quest and produce gold cheaper than it can be mined, the world’s money standard will over: thrown, It might be necessary to discard metal money altogether. For the same process for chang: ing lead into gold by rearranging the primal electrons of lead might well produce platinum or any other metal by rearranging the electrons differently. All metals would thus interchange- able in the laboratory. Any mon- ty metal could be made from cheaper clements at will, The use of ‘money primarily is to serve as a stable medium of exchange. The bootmaker who doesn't want to trade his boots for any other commodity imme diately takes money for his boots, The money is a generally recog- nized certificate that the boot maker has done a certain amount of work for which the community will give him a return at his pleasure. But the only reason the certificate is recognized as scien. be become | | worth a return iy because it bas a fairly stable value and is hard to get without » fairly determined amount of work, If all metals become unstable thru being casity created in a laboratory, and if they are easy to get with @ littl labor, they will not serve as @ certificate of work done. They can be had without work. Another kind of certificate will have to be found. Perhaps the world’s governments will adopt a flexible dollar unit, with monthly announcements of its value. Perhaps we shall adopt an en ercy unit, and call kt a Henry Ford. Every girt likes outdoor sporte— {f they are handsom When the tandloré raises the rent it's your move. ith you away? Now I am brave. My Editor The Star; jin regard to the school and surrounding community jand like communities; The Highland Park school is trying to pay for a moving picture machine for educa: tonal purposes, They are giving an Editor "The Star: M. Dalby i# entitled to a vote of thanks by the motormen. Yea, we could stand some heat, but tho the cars are not so equip ped, with the help of the patrons we could be more comfortable, The front door is our enemy. worst comfortable; when open, especially {when the car in coming to a stop, the draft that created feels like @ blast from the North Pola | Balt }lands mplit in the world-war, The Star This alarm about lower street car [rates raising our taxes is scaring everybody, but let's stop and Neure | \owet ‘a th la moment I own an average home, perhaps, and my taxes are $52 4 year. If | the fares were lowered it might add 186 to my yearly tax. Awful! w, lot's eee what it costs me to pay 8% cents instead of 6 ~ torman to see. | 5 cents centa. | ‘andies That Burn (George TL" Doran & Co.) I SHALL NOT BE AFRAID BY ALINE KILMER I shall not be afraid any more, ther by night or day; t would it profit me to be afraid In the dark night alone All thru the house I go, Looking the doors and making windoww fast When sharp winds blow. « For there is only sorrow in my heart; There is no room for fear, But how | wish I were afraid again, my dear! LETTERS TO EDITOR Asks Parents to Help jentertainment in the said way about As 1 am a constant reader of your | every two weeks, paper, I am writing you a few lines! Highland Park! If you could see how the principal and teachers are putting forth every effort to make it @ success, Iam sure | you would be satiafied when*you left. To the people of Highland Park, Be fair to your community and give it a chance, There are accom modations for all. ALBERT A. ANDERSON, $402 Zint Ave, 8, W. Can Help Motorman If there are more than three to get off let them remain inside with the door clowed until the car stops; they will then have plenty of ume to get off, also win the thanks of the motorman. In addition to this, holding open When closed, we are fairly j the front door causes the front win- dow to steam and frost, also the Nght» In the car reflect on the ‘aes making it hard for the mo- A MOTORMAN. | Down and back to work, two tripa |a day for 200 days in the year. costs me $19 more than it would at The family and I spend at ird as much on extra trips, to shows and market, making about $25 per year. I pay $19 more in car fares than I would have to pay in taxes, Who is squeali: the rage man or the large property owner? M. N. RQBINSON, * 3622 Densmore Ave. Can Liberty Advance Without War? Editor The Star: The release of Debs, together with the threat of war with Japan. brings/ Austrian military machine exista.| Possibly the fact that the municipal « vital query to the front. quention on which socialists in ail Debs asked, “How can war against foreien tyrants win us domestic freedom?’ Upton Sinclair replied to Debs “August Hebel bas told his friends “IF WINTER COMES” BY DR. WILLIAM KE. BARTON | INTER has come, and with it a book, “It Winter Comers.” It is strong in ite charwoter an- alynia, and por- trays the trag: edy of an inar- ticulate soul, a man who had ideals which oth- er people could not understand. ‘The author has worked overtime on his crisis, endeavoring to pile Pelion on Osea to crush everything but the soul out of his hero. In the war the hero loses his health, gains little honor and comes home unwelcomed. In buniness he only that it may turn to failure. His business associates cannot understand him; his wife cannot understand him He loses money, tion, but keeps hin ideals achieves success, | position, reputa-| | mercury, he has a much belated, and it must be chilly, spring. Now, in this world in which we live, an idea ia not much unless a man can express it, A plan is hardly worth the forming unless it can be bullt upon. In thie book, which thousands now are reading, the blame reeta, an ought to rest, on an unintelligent group of neighbors, business aasoel ates and more or less friendly friends, including the hero's wife, who is not @ very good friend; but some blarne must rest, too, upon the man who, having great visions, does as not invent some way of revealing them. Alas for those who, having any thing wherein mankind may benefit |do not somehow convey to mankind some part of their vision. The world is very stupid, and preoceupied, and full of a number of things: but the singer must sing, and sing to be | heard. The inarticulate saints must py littie lews attention to their vie a ne Jand a little more to thelr publicity And after a winter which simply | Otherwise, it will be a long and cola | knocks the bottom out of the tube of| winter for them. that liberty can make no forward move in Burope while the German. without fight for their own Uberty.” So In the present Japanese danger it ia Bernard Shaw, a great socialist, who says to us: “Portify Guam and store it with fleets of bombing Planes. Then my to Japan, "Make a move toward Seattle and we will at- tack your cities” When and where has liberty been won without war? Did our negro slaves win freedom without the legions of Abraham Lincoln? T hate war! I dread the thought of freat cities blown to dust by TNT bombs. Death, desolation and pov- erty! But is not SLAVERY a worse curse than the anguish of war, fam ine and pestilence? A letter by Mra. Annie Besant, of Madras, India, published In the early | days of the world war, seems to me to be the direction of more light here; and less heat. It reads about aa follows: “Deo not think that the kaiser alone in responsible for this war; or Niets ache, or any Nor any other king or group of bil Honaire bankers, “There's a divinity that shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we may.” The kaiser and Junkers are puppets, who strut their little hour and mouth their parts, while the Unseen Rulers of our plan et write their parts for them and pull the wires that make them caner and dance about the stage of history. “So it was that Abraham Lince wrote of an eternal and overruling justice in his second inaugural. The gods behind the scene saw that lib- erty was at standstill, And that SPIRIN Always say ‘‘Bayer’’ when you buy Aspirin. Unless you see the name “‘Bayer’”’ on tablets, you are not getting genuine Aspirin prescribed by physicians over 22 years and proved safe by millions for WARNING! Colds Toothache Headache Neuritis Neuralgia Lumbago Rheumatism Pain! Pain Accept only “*Bayer’’ package which contains proper directions. Handy “Bayer” boxes of 12 tablete—Also bottles of 24 and 100—All Druggiate. Aspirin In the trade mark of Mayer Manufacture of Momonceticacidester of Balleyiiecacia | | What Shall . out | “Letter from | ‘Our Marine?| ZLVRIDGE MANN. BY AMATEUR ECONOMIST ‘American boata operating on || To My Son'x Sunday School Teacher pete the Poaifie are finding it neces Dear Sir, There's nothing I can do, except apologize @ you; for 4 ne eu that 1 used should rarely ever be excused, and sary to employ Chinese a» part tho the language rarely over be eneuse of the crew, in order to com- || tho the fault was part my own, I largely blame th with the English and I know a bunch of roughneck folks who're rather prone to Japanese ships offering the |] playing jokes, and ‘ne of them has a quite a way of phonir me same service Americans ate on Christmas day; so when the phone beging to ring I look for objecting to this, claiming these almost anything. places for, Amerionse | ‘The phone bell rang on Christmas day. I went and started in Nobody doubts that the Jam |] to way “A Merry Christmas,” which, you know, I #ay instead of anese can operate their boate plain “hello”; because the plain “hello” we hgar from day to day with Japanese crews cheaper acai the cea CED Fe ee Sbarete O88, BONA But when I'd wished my Christmas joys the phone produced an ba garegain ce: Paggtat awful noire; it sounded like a noise machine the youngsters use il dP ge gad og or gle on Halloween; 1 thought some addje-pated bloke was pulling off formulated @ policy that will Stsity dolen keep our merchant ma the seas or that will en | It is the | Thin machine must be destroyed from) car line dows not run within two | before German slaves can| | atatementa, or does not know what Jand objects to supporting @ utility, frank.) No raucous laughter did ear; and when you asked me for was done. to retire gracefully from the field? If we are to operate the feet That we have built at such « tremendous expense we will in; and tho I think I justly claim have to continue to subsidize it in some manner It profits us nothing to evade the question, Japan and Eng. land are going to push us hard. What is @ matter of pride with us ts @ matter of life and death WEDNESDAY, DE And #0 | shouted “Go to Blank!” And then—too late—I knew the din was merely Central ringing || 1 never should have #poken #0; excuse me, please—you needn't go! “EMBER 28; 1921 « (The word I used was plain and I hear—a solemn silence met my my son I knew an awful crime that Central wan a bit to blame, with them, Macuns and Japan both have Ie it possible that In a few to buy a@ tremendous lot of years we will find ourselves things abroad. The returns with a great merchant fleet and from their shipping business en- very little exporta? A few years able them to pay these bills, ago we had « great export We are in another boat en- business without any #hips to tirely, We have a great sure transport our goods; would plus of goods to sell. When we be swapping horses with a vengeance. . I venture to prophesy that In epite of al! economic laws, we will give up our ships only after & hard struggle to keep them, do our own carrying we deprive our customers of # means of paying for the things that we desire to sell. This can't help but cut down our exports. before the fair temple of human|pcrsess, The fods cause war becaune freedom could be erected, the ground |the slavehoider would be supreme must first be cleared by destroying| without the destroying forces of all obstructing forces. It is not Prus | blood and iron.” ma alone that is oppressive, England| So I would say of a war with alno would gain freedom for Britan-| Japan, if such war is written by nia but keep India in chains and/the stars of heaven in the Book of wavery for a thousand more years.| Destiny, it is that despouism perixh One purpose of this war is to gain and Uberty emerge stronger and for India the freedom within the em-| grander, The gods are the friends of pire that Australia and Canada now' freedom. CHARLES DARWIN, sa Bill Jones’ Advice Bill Jones would be clamoring just | an loucly for the city to purchase the Seattle and Rainier Valley line, and extend the reduced car fare to| | the line adjacent to his home. I also am a taxpayer, and under | the present fare am paying $150 a/ year to the street railway. If the! street car system was purchased by taxation (as other cities have pur- chased theirs) my taxes would prob- Jably be $5 a year more. With a decent fare my carfare would be| approximately $80 a year lees, or a/ net saving of $75. . “More Advice to Counciimen:” Congratulations to the five who could not be stampeded by a tribe | wearing the same brand. You do }not have to assume the respons bility. Just give the people a chance t vote on the question, and the tax dodgers will get what the pro verbiad chicken did. 3a. Editor The Star: 1 cannot refrain from comment ing on the “Advice to Councilmen” by one Bill Jones. I have lived in Seattle 31 years and am familiar with Saattle’s de- velopment since the fire in 1 including street transportation Bill Jones deliberately makes falve he tl talking about, when he at tempts to quote the cost of riding across town a few years ago. I do hot Know how much property Bul Jones, of 4616 Lucile st, owns, but 1 will wager that he owns a Oivver without which bis property would scarcely be worth paying taxes on miles of hin home may influence | his judgment, but should the electo- Pate order a change in the method of paying for the street car eystem, Pessimist the Happy Fellow Editor The Star: Rather, the idealist sees a golden crown of gustatory delight while | the cynic sees merely @ sordid piece “The optimist sees the doughnut and the pessimist sees the hole.” school of philosophy. | PORK-K + TUG + ALARM —ARM= PORTUGAL if your bin is filled HAM RANGE Coal. little lumps love quick cocking. With BELLINGHAM 1 a dollar dollar for work. EDWIN J. BROWN. 106 Columbia Stree: of underdone dough, fried indiffer ently in imitation lard, sanded with near sugar, and sold at ten times ite cost from a fly-tracked tray. Both attain indigestion after tack- ling the doughnuts, but each has his own private satisfaction with « his pain; the optimist retains savor of his anticipgtion, and the pensimist says with guste: “J knew it” Probably the present rat ot idealists to pessimists is about one to ten hundred. If we had as many {idealists as wo have pessimists we would be so — yeasty with unsuppressed emotions that we would run all over the place and « leaving noth- ing but a stale beer smell. ~ A pessimist knows that he is a foreordained son of misery, and misfortune only enhances “his re- spect for his gift of prophecy; good fortune tends to cast him down be- cause he feels sure that such an unnatural etate of affairs portends dire disaster. ‘ The optimist floats on wings of glory when his good fortune 7 him up, but he plunges into the depths when the destined ills over: take'him, and because his id lar little ant hill ts stomped on by the feet of careless Fate he imagines that God has dropped out, of His heaven and all is wrong with the world On the whole the pensimigt has the beet of it; he misses the belghts but he also minses the depths, and mostly he walks in the apy ‘ path without fear or illusion. And the outrageous stings of in- gratitude, disioyalty, unfaithfdiness never disturb him, for he under- stunds at the start that humans are wasplike in many of their charan- be teristics, and that it is but the na- ture of the beast to bite and etigg and bellow. - Certainly a politician who i an optimist has an uncomfortable ahead. Dz 8. Daddy, Boldt's Butterhorns are de- lictous.— Advertisement. iy a Lip Se atways, but ny prices will be a bargain for yor 1 must retee all wm for every you pay me yo) dental For more than 20 Seattie’s lead. HAT if you are late WHAT; themes will be a ims “Phtes cheer ese cheerful to rush out heat for FURNACE LUMP or BEL- LINGHAM REAL LUMP in furnace heater or grate the house will be cozy and comfortable even i the meal is ready. No soot—no clinkers. Get your order in quick to any good dealer. "Phone us if he doesn’t have it. BELLINGHAM COAL MINES ullding Seattle Seaboard Bi "Phone Eliott 6017 BELLINGHAM COAL “MORE HEAT PER DOLLAR”