The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 4, 1922, Page 6

od we uit of tty, tee mont the atale of Washington Cuter for 4 montha, oF 09.00 per year My saretet, ike TO SENATE ‘The Washington conference has it completed its grind. We can check up on what it has done— Stock of its successes and its When it was called, war loomed just round the corner. America and Japan stood growling at each other, heir Pacific and Far Eastern policies ing at every turn. China was— still is—bordering on collapse, a to herself and the world. _A reckless race for naval supremacy just starting, with the sure prom- ultimately dragging the United Japan and Britain into bank- ey or war, or both, while still her aggravating the situation, and king it the more perilous from the nerican point of view, was the An- mance alliance. The conference, Al. Materially lessened the chances r war. pearapped the Anglo-Japanese . S. Limited the size of the world’s td Stopped competition in Pacific v cation. s. Fixed the status of the islands of Pacific, mandated and _ others. P 6. Made it possible for China to on her feet and for Siberia to hold own. Nor is that all. THE CONFER- — TIGHTENED THE TIES OF [ERICA AND BRITAIN, a bless- in itself, for it cannot be denied upon the English-speaking peo- of the earth depends, in a large ure, the peace of the world. And Thru the conference America regained considerable of the d lost as leader among the na- ground sacrificed when partisan enators made party politics of inter- tional issues—the covenant of the pague of nations and the treaty of ersailles. Lastly—and perhaps the greatest of its achievement — the conference ‘uncovered a way for the great powers ‘to settle their differences without making cannon-fodder of the flower of their young. The failures of the conference were many. Land armament remains about where it was; Far Eastern questions were begged, etc., etc. But the sins were mostly of omission rather than commission, so let them pass. The conference’s accomplishments have now been crystallized into the form of treaties. There remains rati- fication. It is up to the senate. Ratification will clinch the suc- 7 cesses, leaving the way open to future conferences and the righting of this conference’s failures. Refusal to rat- _- ify would not only lose for us whatever | good the conference brought us, but 4 the nations which have collaborated with us, at our invitation, would accept the gesture as a direct slap in the face. And once more we would be headed straight for war, this time with the active hatred of the civilized world weighing us down. les The senate’s duty is clear. It must ratify the achievements of the Wash- ington conference. winte, & year mene, tee a month Question Right Up to YOU The bulletin of the Voters In formation league this month die plays the slogan “Not over 50 mills tax for 1922," and prints # cartoon that is of interest to Be attle citizens, The cartoon shows Voter am proaching & fork in the romd, Leading off in a ve to the left ls branch highway marked “More taxes higher rents; loss of population; industrial depression.” The road straight aheod ts labeled = “Lower = taxes; lower rents; industrial recovery.” Which road would you have Se attle take, Mr. Clitieen? ‘Then, in the words of the cap tion, “Here's where the roads fork—will you rogister?” The very senators whe criticise the agricultural bloe for trying to the farmers are always ready t port any legisla suggest- ed to help the rollroads, I have no prejudice againat the railroads; the comntry’s prosperity depends upon them. They should be encour- aged, but they should not be helped at the expense of every other com- modity, aa war done when con- ores, am vy republicans, passed the Hach-Cummina law and authorized rates guaranteeing the railroads 6 per cent dividends when farmers ahd business men were losing money. — Senator Harris (DJ, Georgia Movie Millions Motion picture theater owners, of which there are many thou sands, officially declared at their last convention in Washington, D. Cy *that the business, from their angie, at be is in a mighty bad way. They say that present reeeipte re running about $125,000,000 » year LESS than in 1919, and royalties to the motion picture producers are running $50,000,000 MORE, which makes a difference of 115,000,000 dotiars—not rubles— between the profits of 1991 and the profits of 1919. Whereat The Star is moved to ask, “What were those profits in 19197" However, that is not what we set out to discuss, but rather the canses OF, and possible remedies FOR, the present admittedly father desperate situation. And it seems to us, after co ing over the various arguments Presented by theater men and producers, that three statements fre true: (1) The public will not stand for any further inerease in admission prices. (2) The theater owner should be the absolute and sole judge of what shall appear in his place— which means that the public itself will decide, and— @) The reduction of expense should and must come from the ce nama en Americans ore oll democrats, but that does not prevent most Ameri- can people from jotning secret 40 cleticn, There i4 the one place where everybody has a chance to be higher than somebody clear. It is in the secrecy of the lodge room that the humblest man in the full aplendor of the repalia of hia office Becomes the tupreme commander Of the tneteidle empire of the tn- serutadle frog pool. In any event, {t is quite a pleasure to think one- felt superior Representative Lon- don (D.), N.Y. No Militarism in U.S. A. Speaking before the house mil- itary affairs committee the other day, Gen, Pershing called atten tion to the fact that the United States, relative to population, has by far the smallest army of any nation in the world, and he said that he believed the present fig ures—150,000 enifited men and 14,000 officers—represented the “irreducible minimum,” below which we could not go in safety, “Soldiers we can secure very quickly in time of need,” he anid, “but officers must be trained, and I regard 11,000 commissioned of- fleers as the very lowest number consistent with ordinary safety.” If the United States standard of “militarism” should be adopted by the rest of the world, France's army would be reduced from 845,000 to less than 50,000; Great Bri from 200,000 to 60,000; Belgium's to 10,000; Switreriand, said to be the most peavef country In Kurope, from 200,000 than 8,000, and dapan, which has now 300,000 men under arms, would be reduced to less than 65,000, And even China, which militar. ists point to with such chortling glee an an example of a pacifist, non-resistant nation, would have to reduce her armed troops from more than 1,500,000 to less than half that number. If, 26 political historians have long insisted, great professional armies stand for oppression by the state, Americans are of all people freest from such fear ns to less The faster you drive, the easier misfortune overtakes you A Vird on the hat is worth two on the farm, STAR THE SEATTLE POEMS or your CRAP Bo Mifriin Co ! | Prom Lorie of doy (Mo To a Butterfly in Wall Street } BY FRANK DEMPSTER SHERMAN | Winged wanderer from « 1 Meadows sweet } Where ali day long b ho amiling aky You drained the wild-flower's cup of honey dry And heard the drowsy winds their love repeat What idie sephyr, whiepering deceit, Captured your heert and tempted you to fly Unto this noisy town and vainly pry Into the seorets of thig busy atreet? . To me your unexpected presence brings A thought of fragrant pastures, buds and flowers And sleepy brooks, and cattle in the fold; And, watching ae you soar on trembling wings, 1 think for those who toll thru weary hours You area tye of their uncertain Seid! | LETTERS To EDITOR Remember. Birds and Cats | nine baggy a i | Alno feed the homeless cats and eh ununnally hard! Wintet, won't you remind the dong | (e*—anything time la not sheltered people everywhere to feed the birda? | “4 comforted Buy oatmeal in bulk; put out bit Thanking you in advance, your jof suet, a cut apple for some larger | friend and well wiaher, A i Citizen Favors Dan Landon Baltor The star greasive ctly in the United States A vital question before the people! must be revived, To my mind, the in, “Who t@ the man podseasing the} man for the occasion is hone other aulaite qualifications for the ail-|thkn our féllowtownaman, Daniel important office of mayor? Landon, Hin public, his private and Too often we have those séeking | his businem record have stood the that position not in the interest of | Clofest seritiny of the mont adverse woop. the city, but for their own political |critle fis eternal yigilance and advancement or financial gain, What | Constant demand for justh 4 tase Beattie needs and what Beattie must | DIAY, his foariess fight wtate [have In her exeeutive chair is a fear. senate against vicious jon lean, plrély democratic citixen, able ana the aVagant éxpenditure of | to lead the diversified interests of the | the people's money, have rained for jcity into one grand movement for «| Dim the fidence of ali lovers of a bigeer and better Boat The crea |*Quare deal, Beattie, biéased with UONn Of a felling of civic pride and a|*¥ery Datural advanthes tending to [#pirit of loyalty on the part of each |Miake a city commercially gr and every cittren will do more to | #hould not be retarded in ite grow Ward the material for the want of a competent leader jo? ite tnhabita: AS « citizen, I fool that we shali all perity of each van any other one | thing do welt under the banner and That great Reattle epirit of 14/Hadersh the man who has been Which calited Beattie to) fied ahd not found wanting OM of end of the con-| W. EB. STILLINGER, to the other a» the moat pre | 2569 Filth Ave. N Protests Debt-Handling Plans tor The Star [the ringleader of the “gang” of five tepresentatives in congress and let them know we don't favor tueh high handed caariat methods in & republic, Kngland would never dare try such a thing on bér com. mons, and how ia it the people of the United States are so cowed down governing, and when « few mon} by some hook or crook, @*t coptrol of such an imménee item of the people's as the debt owing our country and we ox pected to keep our mouths whut un |shen's our own can lean it to yell “Hallelujah, all}they cannot protest, let alone ad power and glory to the honorable tually forbid such abeolutiem? What five,” Who verily seek to climb into|have others to my bout this raw the th ot God, saying “I will be | dealt If thie goes through, where} Wilkeweh things end? Yours for information CONSERVATIST. The 30-10 Initiative Measure Editor The Star That was a wonderfully good let |ter in The Btar of January 27, signed joy “A Groahing Taxpayer.” relative |to where achool money ‘gods, and Waa |not overdrawn The educational question ts getting | to be vety important from a tax payer's point of view, espedially now that profeewiona) highbrowe are at tempting to get thé 30-10 proposition passed by Initiative Last year the taxpayers paid over }$23,000,000 for educational purpos jon @ 20:10 tasie, Should the edu jlike the font High.” God help us if such can be tipped Over On Us, When we Conaldet that jfor the benefit of the children,” say the highbrows. But simmer the ques tion down to hard facts; that ex 900,000 will be me benefit of the educators. ir, Suszailo, president of the state university, gets $12,000 a year. Dr. Holland of Pullman gets $8,006, and the president of two of the normal |Achoola ach get $6,000; the president Of the third, $6,500. The superintend ent of state achools i# paid $3,000 per annutn At th ure ah ant seasion of the legistat tional committer succeed in their /rducational highbrows to get the 36 efforts to blindfold the public and|10 proposition enacted into law, but eet their 20-10 propoml posed it |it was defeated mainly by the efforts will mean an additional $19,000,000 of Mra. Josephitie Corliaa Preston added to the schoo! fund, and where [state duperintendent of achools | will that $10,000,000 go? “It's mostly | Suz: » wan down at OF mpla neatly | ARetter from | AIVRIDGE MANN Dear Avridge Mann I hand you back the booby prine, for tho you're right or other wise, I've got to have anothér may before I let you get away: tor } tho a million wofds were passed, a woman always haa the Inet | When any man has got & wife, no other queen should share his life; for if you ever try to roam, you #tafd a chance to lose your | home, the you may get to stay out late ad many times as «ix or elent Don't think the wife will not get wise—or you will win the booby | prize; for tho you never say a word, whe'll hear it from «ome other | bird; and then you cannot well explala your jagzing with another jane. Or, see it in gnother light—suppose your wife went out at night | with other better lpoking guys; you'd raise the roof, if not the skies; and that iq why it gives me pains to hear you talk of other janow So when you want to make a date for stepping out and staying } late, Just think of better things in life and hurry home and tell the | wife} for should you figure otherwise you'll surely need the booby prize. AVRIDGE DAMB, Monroe, Wash. Ogoshonowh! You make me wince quince! But take @ tip from me, thing you hear; tommyrot you handed me an awful my dear<don't swallow every we married geezers talk a lot, but most of it ls : GEOGRAPHIC PUZZLE | it BAYT ARS TERT MINE ~ E+ NES" fd fight was put up by the! Dr. | A WORD EVER R Y DAY - ord in f it pronoune NCAPACITATY in-ka-pawnttayt with aecent on the third mylint It comes tre Latin, “in,” pot and “capax,” capable 108 Uned The thit—"Lack of sleep Will incapacitate you for your work (Cycle From | Sumalio’s » | | pammen | | | © ih our local morning | will be a man who wae worth $150. of how the foreign | 000,000 price to taking office during f Our 110,000,000 popu. | the war, and now oT i at $200, ntry in to be turned over, | 000,000, while soldiern who bore the and soul, to the tender ma-| brunt of the t get chinations of & committee of five|a dollar of help of any kitd until men to contre: for Ye Ignorant | more than three years after the war . Maser, who are dagmed incapable of | has ended, and not sure of it yet, adviniflg On thé disposition of our tany of them actually in want own money. from lack of employment What i our republic coming to I would make a suggestion that in these days when the voice of the|elub@ and individuals wire protests people can no longér be heard re'to our } ji ly for the} | | Derugetst Hard Times |: | DUG DOBLE, to Activity BY AMATEUR ECONOMIST ‘The following i taken from Babson's matistionl “organization report for J 4 shows something of the paycholo; of hard time ’ ", 4 . The SINESS CYCLE Rvery cycle begins at the Peak of prosperity, accompanied by large profits and high wages. 2. Thin in followed by a period of inefficiency, accompanied by declining bend prices. 5. Next we ha¥e the period of dishonesty and profiteering, accompanied by declining stock prices, 4. Phen comes the periodical crime wave with declining com- modity prices | 6. Lack of confidence ts then everywhere apparent, which re. sults in general unemployment. 6. People must then cut down living expenses, families double UP, all of which resulta in He clining real extate prices, This fa the end of the general de cline and improvernent usually begins at this point of the cycle IMPROVEMENT BEGINS 7. Thrift becomen more evi dent and thin resulta in dectin SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1922. nu Permiteam img Opeiad tangement ithe [Ay my 9 eee DAVE BANDERR, young cowpuncher for the D Bar Lazy Kt outfit, acoom- panied by LOK HART, bis pal, | 4D MILLER, who, with his FORGE per . half-broth has #tdlen Sanders’ pet pony, Chiquite. confederate. of Sanders’ foreman. Arriving at Mala they feet JO¥CKR CRAWFORD, Awughter of EMERSON CRAWFORD, owner WH the D Rar Lazy RN ranch. Joyee says she suspects her father has been kidnaped by Miller, Doble and other henchmen of BRADLEY STRELMAN, @ rival ranchman abd her father's enemy, Ban- ders and Hart trail Miller and Doble to & lonely hous where they sun- pect Crawford ix held. Sanders goes to investigatd and sees Miller, Bteelman and SHORTY, another of Bteelman's men, talking together. rings out upstiirs Now go on With the story. dpst then a shot ae Dave rose to go, At the same time the door in front of him Was Jerked open. five “What's | yore hatide The now biiliding af) again wet the wheels of industry moving. 4. The unemployment period always results in greater effi cleney, whieh in evident at this point in the eyele. Inerdising bond prices aré noticeable at this time 9. People become more honest, fairer prices are asked by both merchants and labor, We get a dollar in value whether buy | ing therchandise or labor, which | we did not get during the period | of prosperity. } 10. Renewed religious interest is now evident, rewulting in re stored confidence, greater buy ing with the strengthening of | @ commodity prices. 11. Thig followed , by great activity in all ines, with labor fully employed. 12 The cycle haa been com: pleted; extravawance and waste He puxhed bis forty into Miller's fat ribs. * yore burry? Stick “liek ‘em up boy was backing along the up ing interest rates, allowing banks to loan money to start every day lobbying for the pannag of the bill, and Mra. Preston said to] me: “If that bill goes thru, Dr y will be rained to 20,000 & year and the rest of the high ores in proportion.” Now that's where the additional $10,000,000 Will go if the 30-10 bill to raive the salaries of those Already too well pald educators. That $10,000,000 « year i* the mitk in the cocoanut the professors aré trying to tap and they have « large Flu Prevention and Filth Editor The Star ! I hear that there are sore canes of flu in Seattle, In that case, don't you agtee with me that it Is advie able to start a Warfare upon condi tons which favor and apread it? After our campaign of cleanliness of & year or so sg became ing and prosecutions of fenders languished. expectorating r floors, steps walls goes on unrebuked. At « fruit stand in one of the markets recently 1 notioed @ very dirty Moor which I thought war due to carelessness of the public, but I wha Koon enlightened when the pro pristor coughed in my face and spat without restraint or apology upon the floor near a box of eating apples We often nee people of apperent | discriminatian eating fruit without washing it Bi ly they have | hever seen the fruit xtands covered | for the night with filthy canvas, discarded carpet and blankets Not long ago I saW a very tidy] housekeeper preparing lettuce and celery which she washed with gteat cate, then pushed aside a litter of | Outer leaves and discarded stems of the Unwashed vegetables and laid | het clean lettuce and celery beside we upon and Bhe sliced bananas onto a plate} containing unpeeled bananas which | Jhad probably been covered the night |before with the canvas or blanket too old and dirty for the fruit vender | to sleep under | ‘These things seem etrange indeed after all we have read and heard ut the situation in the past few | years. | But stranger still ts the fact that | in @any of the best restaurants} used napkins are employed for wip-| ing the plates of patrons | In fact t employed a few yeart ago by a man Who is now one of Seattle's leaMing caterers, who | would have disthixeed a waitress | whom he had caught “wasting” the | clean napkins by using therm for side towels. ASTHMA TROUBLES STOPPED LIKE MAGIC Makes nerous Offer to Send Atiazing Preseription to Every Sufferer—© Noth- ing if It Does Not Cure. wan Thirty years ago Mr, C widely khown Kaheas druggist, simple, enay-to-take hat ate Asthina Ike ve itt ople who had year “te their ent, they say they Were eaa- fly cuted-—these people told theif friends, and jn this way thousands have found the #ufe Way to stop Asthma. Mr. Leaveniteod feels #0 confident that bis prescription will cure in all casen, that he generously Offers to send a regular $1.26 bottle to anyone who will write for it, and loan it Cures fname " 4, 1989 | Biv@, Rosedale, Kangas, and the big Bolti¢ will Be mailed tn medintely.—Advertisement skin your handicap? Try the Resinol treatment. It makes red, oily, blotchy skins fresher and more attractive RESINOL |) Soothing and Healing | campaign fof Qhe purpose. | Thin if eapebiaily the ease in cate. Leayengood, | | are again in evidence with bigh money rates Our educhtional myetem nedds a drastic shakeup. The graft and ex-| travagance should be uhmereifully fat upon. Everybody favors, and is| willing to pay for, a mane, practical | passage as he spoke. He reached education of our children, which the ‘the newél postin that second while younfeter’ are not getting now, but Miller was being flung aside by an won't stand for graft under any pre-| eruption of mén from the room. tense, ‘ Like a@ frightened rabbit Dave ANOTHER GROANING TAX- |teaped for the stairs, taking them PAYER three at a time. Halfway up he collided with a man flying down, They came together with the heavy limpact of fast-moving bodiea. The low is another disease spreader, 1| two collapsed and rolled down, one have seen blocks of it dragged | ov the other. through the filth of many feet, in-| Sanders rose Uké a rubber ball. differently wash then crushed |The other man jay still. He had and scattered over butter and salads, | been put out cold. Dave's head bad struck him in the eolat plexus and knocked the breath out of him. Thd (Tart to Page 9, Column 1) The trigger fell, a bullet flying thre 2 ceiling. terian Laundries should be compelled to wrap bundles sufficiently to insure Protection againgt contact of their| wrapping the filthy bags inside of contents with bundies of solled|the bundle containing clean linen or clothes in the delivery cars and also | clothes. jt wash bags in whieh #olled clothes! An ounce of prevention fe worth fire nent to the laundry, instead of a pound of cure. BL Dr. M. A. Matthews Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church For 20 Years FEBRUARY 5th The Church Will Celebrate TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY SUNDAY Show Your Appreciation of What Dr. Matthews Has Done for Seattle and” the Church Fill the Church Morning and Evening. Make This a Home-Coming Day Long to Be Remembered Everybody Welcome Special Anniversary Sermon 11 A. M. Anniversary Song Setvice 7:30 P. M. SPECIAL MUSIC Bring in your account on or before the 6th of this month and share in the earnints for the full month. $1 to $5,000 Accepted nT SEATTLE SAVINGS and LOAN ASSOCIATION =lai—p =4 AV eae ede