The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 13, 1922, Page 6

PAGE @ It’s your move, Governor Hart! The Seattle Star Ry eut of city, Be per month; 2 montha, $1.50; € months $2.75: year, tn the state of Washington, Outside for # months, or $9.00 per year My carrier, elty Pubtioned Dafty by The Star Pedliening Om, Phone Main ose > A Great Man’s Anniversary Abraham Lincoln’s place in history becomes greater and more firmly established as the years roll on. _ Americans revere his character and teachings with an intensity that rapidly is mak- him a legendary being. : Tho his personality and plain, homespun philosophy were concentrated largely on that were almost exclusively American at the time, he is becoming as great character in world history as in the history of his own country. ‘The 113th anniversary of Lincoln's birthday occurred yesterday. brated in many countries, While his contribution to the spread of democracy was of infinite importance, Lin- greatest heritage to us and to future generations was his gospel of honesty, n and toleration. He was born in Kentucky in a log cabin. His rise from this humble origin to his wr during life and his place in history, after death, should be a constant reminder f what counts most in America is a man himself—his character and his service to the common good. It is being cele- New York is probably opening smoking rooms for women because there isn't any room for them Your own commission has reported that conditions at the state hospitals for the insane are deplorable. What are you going to do about it? | The statements of scores of witnesses have been verified by your committee; the | blackest charges against the administration of the hospitals have been shown in some cases to be mild beside the actuality; the terror chamber experiences of former inmates THE SEATTLE STAR MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1922. absolute facts. | APetter from | the delegates are on the brink of going home to get a drink, and lot their treation come to light to open up a renate fight | We'll hear @ lot of cons and pros, and oratory—-heaven. knows; each senator will start to spout and print hig speech and frank it out—for that's the ordinary way they seem to like to earn their pay. But when It comes to scrapping arma, we've also got to scrap alarms, and learn to view the other guy with faith and friendship in our eye, and take @ chance that he will be as honest, fair and square as we, It hasn't guns, and doen't care, because a common trust is there; there i” no fear of bloody fuss between Canadians and us; and tho, at times, we suffer strains, our common wall of trust remains. And that’s what we must try to do with many other countries, too; until we greet the coming day when all our guns are cast away, and every country’s sole defense y faith and trust and comm@n sense, | | Letters to the Editor wu. the man who wrote the letter signed “Juntus,” @hat appeared in The Star of February 6, please communicate with Mr. Marshall, of The Star. The name and address of the writer of the leller were lost.—IEditor. AIVRIDGE MANN |: STATE INSANE HOSPITALS MUST BE MADE HUMANE, DECENT, CURATIVE called to public attention last summer thru The Star have been proven to be based upon Nothing remains but that you wipe out these plague spots- and replace them with decent, healthy, well-administered hospital facilities for the sick in mind. It’s your move, Governor Hart! in surprising numbers. |i & rainiees desert, except in an oc The Literary Digest notes that/casional «mall river valley, from British capital is now being sought| Southern Keuador to Central Chile to open up @ large concession in| Nevertheless, it ig improbable that Peru, along the Ines euggested in a|the English promoters od n capital, | which this . is known | to thousands of Americans ax the fin-| est naturifl harbor between Seattle and James G. Blaine, whén Dear Folks: ne ary of state of the United) natural resour The Navy Conference ts past; they*ve finished up the job at last; | States, tried to negotiate a concession |able, America a for the American navy to have a| Burope hag the labor in such # quan coaling plant there. The really new | tity that we have to bar it out here. feature of this pian as at present|and both America and Burope have proposed is a method of making traf-| part or all of the necessary materi fie for the railroad by developing | als. the district east of the Andes, or, rather, in the mountain valley east| not yet so well sold in the United of the divide. The rajiroad could not| States as it must be to float the be made to pay without this develop-|many milligns of securities which ment, as it traverses mountainous | well-known and feasible projects can untry, and the whole Pacific slope! and will support. = nner ame Rivonia a | neaftoid. The idea of inventing extensive: | ly in Spanish Amefica, however, is| LEARN A WORD EVERY DAY Today's word is CATAFALQUE. Its pronouneed—kat-a-falk—with accent on the first syllable. It meape—a bier, a structure on | which @ corpse rests. It comes from—-lItallan “catafalco,%. iv'a used lke this—“Pope Rene dict's body lay in state on a mag- nificent catafalque.” May I further muggest that the geography and history of the Latin republics are to be found in the pub- lic library, and are, moreover, very interesting reading? Respectfully, IRA DYE. Mother Ryther’s Critics Editor The Star: }the glory of running it and she can 1 wish to any a few words tn reply take @ back seat. | to article In your paper of February) No one worried whether the ehil-| 9th in regards to Mother Ryther. |dren had old-fashioned remedies or It seems to me that It took some not when she was fighting her own folks a long while to find fault with | way, | her way of doing | From one who has known her for | They were satisfied with the way | 40 years and knows her love for she sold bricks fot a dollar apiece to |build said home. Now someone else wants to have’ children, | LEDA JONES, Los Angeles Recort) at home. few quiet, honest, ” » i Laetuk pecmene When a woman speaks of her new suit these down In bis home in days you don’t know if she has bought or brought one. Shot down without warning, x ns fs ‘without apparent reason! Shot in The only difference between stumbling blocks cp gmeng = crumpled and stepping stones is in the way you use them. a a The first sign of spring is seed catalogs. touched his name He ‘: i w pygh . There is a scarcity of ex-bootleggers. those who vitally needed friend- AE the sort of » natural noble | Part of this comes thra the Cannibalism sity oreo ‘eeauaee menor if Resa? fom the screen, but that seldom © ‘lus to the ue’ M From. Bussls come stories of tench old world mote teicys the worst, All of castibaliam by people driven be ‘within a few hours of his '# Is ® disgrace to humanity. Gas de deere Aa scentel, goin, ramer, re = Every mas, womee or ent non relief administration, have surmise, backbit- ae ae ee, ci been Hee lo ee pele, “ogg ae Gam pepesit t sndeeds -«TAK@ that with grain of salt a 4 re Hunger reverts man te the ant- ly regarded in this city, and no fotenatiies inatinet payment on the indemnity bill. ‘These payments in kind are go ing on at the present time with- out disturbing the industries of France. ‘This arrangement 1s about the only real constructive interna tional financing that has been done since the war, Doesn’t the above successful operation have a suggestion for us in dealing with our bills out- @tanding In Europe? At present this 11 billion dol- lars that is coming to us is a lia- bility rather than an asset, for We know that as soon as we try to collect it that our imdustries will receive another jolt. At Present we don’t dare demand payment, for it would mean trag- edy to a lot of our industries, Now suppose that this invest- ment was in producing railroads and industrial stocks tn South America, China and the rest of the new places of the world, how happy we should be, and rightly #0, for it wold mean prosperity to the whole world. Now is it possible to arrive at &@ scheme whereby this result could be brought about? 1 be- lieve it is. Suppose that the U. S. places an order in Europe for 10 bil- Hon dollars’ worth of goods, the kind that are needed in any new country, taking these goods as payment for the debt; then goes to the South American coun- tries and gets concessions to build railroads, to develop water- power, etc. ‘We could pay for all labor with European goods; in fact, we could carry out the whole project without paying out a cent of our own money, ‘These developments would pay g00d returns on the investment. We could sefl the projects in the United Stateay by marketing stock. The money that we re- ceived would pay that much on our own national debt. If wo carried out such » project it would be United States engineers that would furnish the brains to carry out this work, American business men would build up a lot of the development that would be brought about, and America would make a place for herself in world: leadership that she would never lose. As it is, we may find ourselves pret- ty nearly crowded out in the de- velopment of the future, This plan would furnish an opportunity for all the millions that have very little chance to make their way in Europe at present. Capital always is the ery of any new country, while we have 11 billions of it frozen in this debt which would ruin us if we tried to use it in any other way, & There is no wealth but life—tife, including all its powers of love, of joy and admiration. That country ts the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and hap- Anyone who doubts this will be converted by slapping s baby in the presence of its father or mother, savage or civilized, hungry or well fed. And God said, This ts the token of the covenant which I make be- tween me and you, and every living creature that is with you, for per- petual generations, I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.—Genesis ix. :12, 13. eee My heart capa up when I dehold A rainbow in the sky; fo was it when my life began, Bo it is now Tam a man; Bo be it when I shall grow old— Or let me die. Wiliam Wadsworth A diplomat ts @ man who appro- priates your coat in #0 engaging a manner that you thank him for taking it—Senator Sheppard (DJ, Tez. The dest scenery isn’t along the road to success. From “The Poets of the Future” (The Stratford Co.) PUSSY WILLOWS BY ELIZABETH BRADY Perhaps they are pearis from the robe of the Night, With thelr luster all dimmed by the day; Perhaps they are pillows where shining heads test When fairies are weary of play. Perhaps they are sea-epray the Spring Wind has flung, With a laugh, to the green goddess, June; Perhaps they're the ghosts of the soft silver light That has strayed from the land of the moon. Or, perhaps, after all, they are just bits of down, From the wings of an angel who passed Soft grey Pussy Willows that come in the Spring, Have I solved your sweet ecret at [ GEOGRAPHIC PUZZLE | STERDAY a 1 BACON — BA +NECK—K + TPE —E+ CuT=CONNECTICN Editor The Star: ! Mra. Roy Gardner wag at the Pan tages last week, She tx just a tiitle girl—Swedish, steady blueeyed, sim ply dressed, with absolutely no make- | up, She believes that no sane man} would do what her husband has done, and, with the courage of her convictions, she haa started to try | to earn the money to pay for an op-! eration on his head. She loves him and wants to mve his soul, ‘The board of censorship, the act- ing mayor and the chief of police so Mrs. Roy Gardner on Stage ture film on the Pantages program for the name week was so full of thrills, daring hold-ups, escapes and murders that the Roy Gardner film | would be tame by comparison. And then— Where were these censors when Al) Jennings, Emmett Dalton and Jack Dempsey came to town? Three largeized men whe were! exploiting themselves and their past unsavory records for their own per- | gona! gain. And this tittle slp of « gtri, who worried her that she even forgot her | han got caurht in one of those mast-| Nttie talk Tuesday night, and they | stroma of life, not of her own mak | forbade the showing of the film she! ing, shouldn't she have received the brought, | Same consideration, at least? ‘The IRONY of it! | MAUDE SWEETMAN. What Necessity Will Accomplish Editor The Star: leently by the financiers who are re- An old saying tells us that “Ne- sponsible for the use and safeguard counity is the m@her of invention.” ing of American capital. 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