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=| The died without an enemy. man than Cooper. Bs Henry Ford. Contemptible on Mist be a great comfort to peddlers, smugglers, and engaged in the illicit business to read the lat- @ecision of the august license of the state of Washington. The beard has decided that viola fen ef the United States anti- act is not “moral turpl- gp @ecision was made in the @f = Tacoma physician who twice ‘convicted of violating mntidope act and twice sen- by Federal Judge Cush- ‘The state board at Olympia been asked to take away the ould Cancel Allied Debts BY AMATEUR ECONOMIST Justice John H. Clark, of the “gupreme court of the United Btates, addressing the Cleve land chamber of commerce, urges the U. S to cancel Bu Fope’s debt. ‘The justice advocates this ac tion for several reasons, among Which are the following: ‘The U. S. owes this to our allies because they, used this Money in fighting o battles. In his words: “If we do not cancel the loans we will never be able to convince these now friendly nations that the U. 8. its fair re of the bur- Wen ef the war and that if the Process of collection goes for Ward this conviction will deepen into aversion and enmity on th part of every one of the most important nations of the world.” Again, “When war ended and Victory came we @laimed that we would cept a dollar of indemnity from the enemy. What in the jude Ment of a candid world Dow be thought of us if we in- @ist upon collecting tribute from our friends which will imr taxation upon them so crushing @s to be equivalent to slavery for a generation?” proudly pro- t our lean the mar- that if flood cannot they vndersell us in Kets of the world and they do underseli us and our markets with cheap com Modities the lc on our part Will be a great deal more than any gain we might receive “On our part, the war of the pay u Allies was the noblest joint en- terprise in the history of man- kind, anda our nation discharged the part asrigned to it in such & fashion that the glory of it will be the most precious posses nm of thore who shall come @fter us for centuries unless we Gespoill them of it by making America the Shylock among the fations by collecting these loans.” I say all honor to the justice for saying what he thinks. Most 1 of us really believe as he foes, but raid to come it and say what we believe, fearing that a majority have lost their idealiem. At heart We are the same generourn, ideal- atic people that we were during the war. Our politicians Misrepresenting us are are As soon as the people have a chance the U. B. will rise to as great a Place In peace as it did dur- ing the war, itr, tte stale of for € montha oF 19.00 per aenr, SeattleS Washington, Owtslde of the Wy carrier Publientos Phome Mate Poptianed Datiy by The Mer On Peter Cooper was one of the most remarkable men of his time. » He invented, when a boy, a machine for shearing cloth. ir, a cloth-shearer, a maker of glue ard isinglass, and finally, on the largest seale known, as an iron-master. He succeeded A built one of the very first steam locomotives designed in this country. m to take over a business was to make it a success. He grew to be a rich man, He was a great in- as a te Ford, he connected up his mines and his works with a railway owned by him- If it had not been for his help Cyrus W. Field gould not have laid the first Atlantic For As a super-mechanic, he stood supreme in his day. he thought he knew all about the currency question. it on the greenback ticket and got a little less than 1 per cent of the votes He thought that the government could solve our troubles by issuing irredeemable currency which would always pass at par merely because the government could it a legal tender for all debts, public and private. ir. Ford has Mr. Cooper's high’ character and keen sense of justice. | @ greater genius as a super-mechanic. He was nominated for He has per- He has won a success in business which well become the classic example of what the poor man in America may do, Even making allowances for the changed conditions, it is probable that Ford is a But the resemblance between them is amazing, not only in strengths and their weaknesses, but in their kinds of powers and defects. was greatly exercised about the control of the schools by the Catholics. has been equally troubled about the power of the Jews. Both have run for office, d both were beaten—if one accepts the verdict of the United States senate on the even on the currency question, Ford thinks that the government might build improvements by merely issuing currency for the work, “which it might retire Rot as it might choose.” This was Cooper’s thought, too, course, this would mean two developments: The volume of currency would be which alone would bring on a boom and then a panic; and the currency— mting a debt which might or might not be paid, and which while outstanding bear no interest—would of course depreciate as compared with interest-bear- — paper, and paper which would be redeemable by the treasury or the banks, and siness would crash. But this Ford-Cooper type of mind cannot see this. after all, it is no insult to any man to tell him that he is like Peter Cooper I resolve to speak ill of no Man whatever, not even in a matter of Truth; but rather by some means -excuse the Fault 1 hear charged upon others, and upon proper Occasions, speak all the good I know of Everybody.—Benjamin' Franklin. The optimist reads “no” from right to left. A girl with cotton stockings never sees a mouse. doctor's license to practice medi The doctor’s.license could have elne, The board refused. The bonrd was right in decid ing to let the physician continue to practice medicine. For if that man has any ability in relieving hunian suffering, he should have a right to use it. Society is en- titled to his services. If he were any kind of a malefactor, that right would still exist. Perhaps it is the best thing he can do, It | is SOMETHING at least of good, lof benefit to humanity. the dope law is not a crime in- | volving “moral turpitude” that | board of examiners, whoever they are—their names were kept secret —made a vicious, contemptible decision; one that should call down upon it the anger of de- cent citizens who want the dope traffic stamped out It wasn't necessary to make such a decision. Editor The Star: My attention has been called to a sentative on that commission by| t (An open letter to Senator Poin Bat, in ruling that violation of F lovin’ ditor is unknown; been saved without it Moral tarpitude! thing in violation of good morals, if it means anything at all. By what manner of Olympia beard reached clsion It means any- reasoning the its de certainty it wasn't by using plainest common sense. For wviolation of the dope morality, leadin, crime and v amile The It warms yu thru an’ thru.” nah K. Meagher, 1558 B. He who hesitates toned. (LETTERS TO EDITOR] Hoover and the Others Secretary Fall, In so far as the law Is the WORST kind of im- im to every sort of Star: Ma sez, “A ‘a like the sunahine. Han- 16th at, A Norwalk hen laid a four-ounea 99 and more than likely the roost- er ia still crowing. Boo prices are going down and #9 are evo ts old-fosh- Inter-American story signed by Mr. W high commigion is concerned Mr I field, ir f Hoover was recommended as chair. 1921, headed “*( man by Se ary Mellon | Big Tesues.” Furthermore, in so far as Mr. Hoo. In each reported case of a dis , ntment to agreement among the members of | commit |the cabinet you bring in Mr. Hoov-| limitation of a Sloover er’s name s I am wure tt 1 | w uggested tion by | would wish have the correct fact se tar Hugh } so far as the Colorado river CHRISTIAN A. HERTER, commission is’ concerned Mr. Hoover sistant to Mr. Hoover, was suggested as the federal repre. | De of Commerce, Washing. Poindexter and Newberry berry in the U. 8. sen dexter.) Of all the human beings in this | Quite a number of years ago it wan|wide unive there is none who |my privilege to attend several public needs to carry the banner of high meetings at which you were the|ideals more than a U.S, senator, So principal speaker. From that time|you think he had ‘em? You knew juntil recently I have « ed my-|that he knew that his election was jself one of your friendly constitu-|hought. You know you knew it, and lenta. no do and you were not even bi | When I listened to your able decla-|enough to come out w nha Wrigdiea | jrations of the ideals that prompted | say he ou were golng to vote. ‘ou to offer yourself as a cand knew that, too, but you stalled |for high honor and lucrative office, |mat on the fence. Well, senator, we | was satisfied and pleased that we |get you }had such a man available. I remem: I am not a politician, But, if there ber we adings for honesty |ever was anything that would drive of pur werving fidelity |me into politics, with my cont off and to the rights and best interests of |my sleeves’ rolled up, it would be |the people a» a whole, for the up-|something like this thing that you | holding of lofty ideals, and the appli-|have done, you and others; and one cation of hard-headed, good business |of my first activities would be to try | principles, coupled with the willing-|and help hang a few well seasoned |nem and eager desire to do valiant | political hides on the fence jbattle for them (all and sundry) at| One tremendously essential attrt lany and all times, | bute in any man who aspires to high | You lerously offered yourself} honor and public office is that he |x one eminently fitted to answer all| respects the law, and is willing to |these requirements and we fell for | abide by it lyou. We put you up there. We got| How do you think Newberry stacks Junder you and held you up there (in, up on that point? jour blind fidelity), and what do we indeed, Mr. Poindexter, #0 far get for it? Tam concerned (and I think there | Mr. Poindexter, all the good you| are myriads with me; you watch the have been able to do, all the good | future and see what yg think of me you could possibly have done under | a ute little predicter), your politt jthe most favorable circumstances,|cal career ts about ready to be | would be outweighed in the balance | tagged. if set againgt this one official act of | L, H. MARSHALL, yours, when you voted to seat New-| Prosser, Wash, (Continued From Yesterday) XxXV Now that the flight was done, Bill lay quite calm and peaceful In the drifts The pain of the cold and th wreck of exhausted muscles were quite gone. Mo was face to face with the flany ing truth, and be knew hin fate. Ty North, defied xo long, had conquered him at last, It had been waiting for him, lurking, watching its chancet and with ita cruel agents, the bitter cold and the unending snow, it had crushed i beaten him down, He felt no resentment, He was the trial was over, He kne infinite peace. Sleep waa encroaching upon him now, He felt himself drifting, and the tide would never bring him back. Ho stirred a little, putting his hands in bis armpits, his f hin elbdw, ‘The wind swept by, sob- there in the shadow of death he caught its topes and its monsages as never before, He was being swept Into space. Ton On the trail that he had made on the outjourney, and which he had tried #0 vainly to follow back, Vir a deep, ginia came mushing toward him. Never before had her munscles re sponded so obediently to her will | ahe sped at a pace that she had neve: |traveled before. It was as if some power above herself was bearing her lalong, ewiftly, easily, with never & Wasted motion. She tilted the nose of her snowshoos at just the right angie, no more or leas, and all her muscles seemed to work in perfect upon. The bitter cold of the early morn ing hours only made her blood flow ta d gave added energy felt the pack on her The sno@shee trail, however, as to be almost in | back. was so faint visible Because the snow had been firm jin this part of Bill's journey, his | track was not so deep and the drift completely the track ways there i ing snow had almost filied 1 In a few pia was entirely obscured merely dim indentations. where Bill had encoQntered the soft snow. \ It became however, that the tracks would |completely fade away before that time. Soon the difficulty of finding [the imprints in the enow began to jalacken ber gait To lose them |completely meant failure |not find her way stretches unguided. As morning reached its full, the white was seemed to stretch unbroken. Was wind-blown snow going to defeat her purpose, after all? |A great weight of fear and disap |potntment began to asnail her. The truth of the matter was she had come to an exposed slope, and the tral had faded out under the snow dust At first there seemed but turn back nothing to It might be pos sible, however, to cross the ridge in jfront: the valley beyond wan more sheltered from the wind and she |might pick up the trail again, At |least she could follow ber own |tracks back, if she failed. | swiftly on. She bad guesned right. She sped Standing jon the ridge top she could nee, far joff thru one of the tresiens giades jthat are fqund so often in the spruce forest, the long path of a snowshoe trail. Inatinctively followed it with her eyes. Clear where the trail entered the |spruce thicket, her keen eyes made jout @ curious, black shadow against the mow, For a single second she it calmly, wondering what r of wild it might Its grow distinot r her intense gaze, and then cried out. It was only a little { & gasp and half a not | but expressed depths of terror and distress never known to hor It seemed ot ber that she could abe creature out more A Petter from AIVRIDGE MANN Dear Folks | Altho I'm really not to blame, now I'm in an awful stew because I don't know what to do; and 80 I'd think it mighty nice if you would give me your advice. A while ago I wrote somg news about a missing batch of booze; 1 said, “I'm arid, dry and blue; I haven't got a drop—have you?" For once I didn’t write in vain, but got a letter from a jane "It you can keep it dark,” she wrote, “I'll gladly irrigate your throat; in fact, I'd like to stake my shoes I'd show you quite a sea of boore—so much, if Mr. Volstead knew, he'd not believe it could be true.” Now there's a me I'd like to meet, but T admit I've got cold feet; for when adventure calis, you know, I've got to go a trifle slow, when all the address given me, i# “General Delivery.” At first it seemed, beyond a doubt, that I had been invited out; some benighted ape n but ma | or maybe someone made a bet I And #0 this p nt-sounding goat; two heads are better far should be done—and ¢o I put ought to do. lad that) sting on) the cold had already taken away had started an hour jater hie ife. The dread Spirit of the P = have ie er te aie ‘the | North bad lain jn ambush for him a or all the day was clear, the rete ; jwind still whirled flurries of dry pay «| oa pam Rae. Geene |anow Across her path | Hut she didnt permit herself to} They made an unearthly picture despair, If need be, ashe told her | these two so silent in the drifts |welf, she would follow him clear to { Bodtens about them lay the snow the Twenty-three Mile cabin. The|th® Winter forest was deep in its tracks were ever more dim, but | ternal silence, the little spruce trees surety they would be deeper again 4 patient and inert and que Increasingly probable, | she could} in these snowy | fan eternal it up to you to tell me She could only ‘The heart in her turned to toe, her blood ned to go ati! in her veing. She | nized this figure now, It wae Hill, lying etilt in the trdésen drifts For endless hours, it seemed to her, she stood impotent with hor ror, In reality, the time waa not AD appreciable fraction of a breath Then, sobbing, she mushed fran tically down toward him, She fair |ly raced—with never a misstep. | |For all the ghastly sickness that) |awept over her, she held her body | Jin perfect discipline. She had no} doubt but that this man was dead | Lakely he had iain there for hours, land really only a very short time } at first stand and gaze. brea of such cold as this was needed to thought, his dark, heart was felons life. Already, she the fife had gone from gentle eyen; the brave ati; the mighty musctes ely No moment of her life had ever been fraught with such overwhelm- ing bitterness as this, She had never known such fear, even in the jarip of the wild. waters or during he grimaly'’s charge. This was something that went deeper than mere life: it touched realms of her spirit undreamed of, and the blow seemed more cruel and more dread: ful then any that the world could deal direct to ber. If she had paused for one second of #eifanaly- sis, heaven knows what light might | take have burst upon her spirit—what deep and wondrous realizations of her attitude toward Ill might have come to her; but she did not pause, She only knew that she must reach his side, Her only thought was that Bili wes dead, gone trom her ife an a flame s trom an ex tinguished candie | She knelt beside him, and with no knowledge of effort turned him ver and lifted his head and shoul her arma. His eyes were closed, bis face expressionieas, bis arms dropped limply to his side, At first she dared not dream but that under their heavy loads of snow a voloe In all the wastes. never a tear of pity or a stretching hand of mercy—-only the cold, only the atlence, only the dread solitude of a land untamed—the unconquer- able wild Yet her sorrow, her Never inettable despair. left no room for fesentinent against thie dreadful land. It wae only a lost fight in war; only @ little inch dent and inscrutable in the vast |achemes of & remorseless Nature She knew life now, cities, She knew that in her past life whe had never r lived; she had only moved in @ gentle dream that an artificial civilimtion had made possible. The etiew, the culture, the luxuries and the faxh jonas that had seemed so real and eanential before were revealed in their true light, only as dreams that would pass: deep ih them she had never heard the crash of armor in the battlefields without ber bow er. But she knew now, She saw life as it was, stark and cruel, re morseless, pitiless to the weak, | treacherous to the strong, ever wag ing war against all creatures that dwelt upon the earth. Yet #0 easily could it have been redeemedly If this man were stand. ing strong beside her, lite would be nothing to fear, nothing to appall her spirit. All the ancient persecu tions of the elements, all the pitfalls of life and the exigencies of fortune could never bow their heads. In. stead they would know high adven: ture and the exhilaration of battle even if at the day's end they should go down into death, it would be with unbroken spirits and brave hearts. But she couldn't stand alone! needed the touch of bis hand, his shoulder against hers, the commun: jon of his spirit and his strength (Turn to Page 9, Column 1) this girl of She T got a letter from a dame, and y want to get me in a scrape; hadn't cut my eye-teeth yet note has quite completely got my than one, in doping out what what I YESTERDAY & ANSWER COLOR + ADG— COLORADO. Seattle Ice Cream Co.— or your CRAP Book From Lave Bones (MacMillan Co . aval FOUR WINDS BY SARA TEASDAL “Wour winds blowing thru the wky, You have neen poor maidens die, Toll me then what I #hall do That my lover may be true.” Raid the wind from out the south, pon hie mouth,” d from out the went, “Wound the heart within his breast,” And the wind from out the cast “Bend him empty from the feast,” the north, “In the tempest thrust him forth When thou art more cruel than he, Then will Love be kind to thee.” “Heathized” your surety WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1922. LEARN A WORD EVERY DAY Today's word is DE por It's 06 —Aes pot jeent on the first syllable pronour with ae It means—one whe 5 abaolute ly, an autocrat, @ tyrant, It comes from—Greek, “deapotes,” manter Companion words—despotic, dem potinen. It's used like this—The omar of Russia wae a despot.” | | NEED MONEY! | And must do dental 1 he @ wale ship et for your dental work EDWIN J, BROWN 106 Columbia Ht. Yor more than 26 years Heattio’s lead- ing den of purity It is questionable if this city has ever before showered such appreciation in the form of actual business, as greeted the SEATTLE ICE CREAM COMPANY’S announcement of the new perfected process of freezing ice cream in an at- mosphere 100 times purer than air. This new perfected process—known as the Heathized pro- ce —is the talk of the town, for it represents the greatest advance for absolute purity in ice cream that the world has ever seen. 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