The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 11, 1922, Page 6

Published Daily by The Star Pablishing Co, Phone Main Newspaper Hoterprise Association and United Press Servi By mall, out of city, Se per month; J montha, 81.60) € months, $2TH: year, $5.00, In the state of Washington. Owtside of the sta © per mouth, $4.80 far € months, or $9.00 per year, By carrier, city, 600 a month. Your Soul Italian doctors say that a post-mortem examination of Caruso’s throat showed that his vocal cords were twice the normal length. Caruso’s lung power also was phenomenal. His lungs _ Were so strong, so energy-creating that he could make the ‘cords of a piano vibrate by merely breathing on them. _ “Caruso,” say the learned doctors, “was a magnificent ‘singing machine, from head to foot. That explains why _ he was a master singer.” * * & ‘The doctors are wrong. Caruso was the greatest singer all the 1,600,000,000 people on earth. But, unques- | you ever hear of them as singers? No. , _ Without this equipment, Caruso would not have been a Song was his brain, his personality, his soul, if you please. _ Wheel a piano on a stage. Bring out Paderewski. He make the piano talk.” That is genius. Millions of by Caruso. His music was in his soul. You play the finest harp with a hammer. * 8 * Your body has been defined by philosophers as “the of your soul.” It is the machine thru which your expresses itself. _ Using your body as a machine or a fine collection of ‘ you can accomplish things that others could not do with the same equipment. _ The great driving force of personality is separate from body. y The body goes back to dust. The mysterious spiritual hich uses the body to express itself—goes on w. No dissecting knife, no microscope can explain it. Some folks dance as if every bone in their body gone to their head. _ Nights are getting so short bootleggers must go ‘Yo work before dark. The first chicken ruined the first man’s garden. An Uncanny Power Suppese yeu and » friend ran away from civilization and built log cabin in the woods. After finishing, you'd say: “Well, that’s a pretty good job for just the two ef us.” Then, turning philosephical, you'd add:. “Of course, we have te give some credit to the many men, now dead, who invented axes, saws, hammers and nails for us. Without their efforts, the job would have taken us much longer. In effect, the dead men exercised the same influence as if they were here and helped us.” leok about you and you'll ob- serve that mearly everything you use in daily life is a gift from the dead. If all traces of former genera tions were erased (including in- ventions, shortcut production methods and fixed wealth, like buildings and roads) it would re- quire eight men to do the work now done by ont, estimates the celebrated engineering scientist, FE He will get it, The Star is sure. 4g His program is worth backing. Alfred Keorzybeki. a —————— He reasons that the world real- : not Woe by bread ¥ is populated today by three Be Man shalt a alone, but every word that pro- ecedeth out of the mouth of God.— Matthew iv.:4. different populations, all of them dynamic and active: ONE—1,600,000,000 living men. We'll be happy when things quict down again as s00n as Mrs. Las- celles” charivari is over—Lynden Tribune. REV. M. A. MATTHEWS will preach a sermon Sun- day merning entitled, Muzzling the Ox Ip the evening he will dis- cuss the subject, The Modern Man’s Belshazzar Hell Song Service led by M. D. Wells at 7:15 Bible taught D. Wingate every Sunday mornin, at 9:30. Father-Son Benaquet ‘Tuesday night at 6:30 First Presbyterian Church Seventh and Spring Cy Class ' The Seattle Star | TWO—10,000,000,000 living man you Matthew vi :3 | OEM or your RAP BO THE LAMP OF LIFE BY LEO H. LASSEN How like the lamp the boy Aladdin knew Is Life; the Genie, Time, will answer, too, If we but rub the magic vessel; he brings A store of wonders at our least command There is more joy to own the little things That we pass by in search of rainbow gold Than all the wealth our secret dreams can hold— And all for the asking CHARM HUNTING IN SEATTLE No. 1—The Ballard Fishing Fleet. Pictures by Henry Clay; Poem by Leo H. Lassen powers of the dead. | THREE—1,600,000,000 sun man powers, eee With each generation, the stand ard ef living advances. And each generation flatters tieelf that it alone is responsible for the advance. Similarly, we of this generation are preparing the standard of living for generations to follow. Man thus operates in an antimit- ed expanse of time. Haman energy and productive effort are immortal. Btrugole not with thy life! heavy doom Resist not; it will bow thee like a slave Strive not! thou shalt not conquer The Thow go ctwueshed, and ground, the ne'er so brave. Complain not of thy life! for what art thow More than thy fellows that thow shouldst not weep? Brave thoughts stil! lodge beneath @ fevered brow And the way-wearted have the awectest sleep. —Frances Anne Kembie. It is generally the idle who com- plain that they cannot find time to | do that which they fancy they wish. | In truth, people can generally find | time to do what they really choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is wanting. The ad- vantage of lelawre is mainly that we have the power of choosing our own work; not certainly that it | confers any privilege of idleness. H Bir John Lubbock. i But seck ye first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto the treasure of the land | CHILDREN! $5 |New rigging for the sheets of sail | lable. HEY play no famous part at all in mighty foreign trips ;+ They never sail the waters of an Orient lagoon; They never know the glory of the fleet of splendid ships That sweep the seven seas which answer to the moon. P into the Northland where the silver horde had run These orphans of the ocean crossed the far Alaskan bars; On the bosom of the sea, when the web of day was spun, They sailed their lonely courses underneath the silent stars. ETURNING to a harbor that can know no ruder tides Than the wash of quiet waters in their endless ebb and flow, This little fleet of vessels, steeped in winter slumber, hides, Unnoticed in its dreaming of the seas the Northlands know if gat? found the spell of living in those distant northern sens That grips their - navigators like a tempered iron chain; No words can tell the secret of the ocean mysteries That lure them from their harbor when the spring has come again. REPARING for their journey to the land of silent stars, These ships are taking part again in life at crowded piers ———— and spars-———— For soon they v LEARN A WORD EVERY DAY be leaving for the last of God's | It means—clear to the understand | stood, clear in thought. not obscure or ambiguous. APeotter from ATVRIDGE MANN Dear Avridge Mann I'm awful sore, there's no joy living any more; I'm sere at landlords, first of all, I'm sore at Hart and the City Hall; and the Street Department helped me find just what is meant by a “One track mind.” Why do they always work the space in front of my abiding place? Yor all night long And al! day thru, the blow-torch blows, and the hammers, too; with all the other streets there be-—-why do they always pick on me? (M188) N. M, D. Dear N. M. D.: I do not know, unless because they love you #0; perhaps, becanse you're “sore at hart,” like Romeo, they ply their art, and all the noise their hammers made is just a modern serenade. But if their noisy noise annoys, and robs your life of all its Joys, you might enjoy the quiet charm that comes from living on a farm; but there, at 2 a, m, or #0, the roosters all begin to crow! And so I'd say, Don't mourn your lot—be satisfied with what you've got! For that's a means we all possess to gain enduring happiness; and where a sweet contentment glows there'll be a song in hammer-blows! CASH Fe IN PRIZES P pe frontiers. | be More on the 30-10 Measure Editor The Star: Your correspondent signs himaeif “Another Groaning Taxpayer,” and it is that longsuffering group I os pecially wish to reach with this mes- wage. Mr. Taxpayer, please get your lat- est King county tax statement and let us study it awhile. On the back of it you will find a list showing dis trict tax levy for schools. Suppose, sir, you live in district 13 you are paying 26.7 mills for the support of your local school; while Jones over in district 47 is contrib uting 4.7 mills to his, and perhaps has everything desired in his school while you have to pinch to make ends meet and have any kind of @ school And probably neither district is to blame that one has need and the other @ surplus. Or, perhaps you are Smith out district 183 and have cause to groan | under a local levy of 29.7 mills, whil +| Taylor in district 110 rolls in plenty | education.” on a 4mill rate for local use Now, sir, do you think it would cleanly-painted |e doing anyone an injustice should those four districts pool their ex nsea and levy such a tax aa would and would furnish the necessary funds to support all their schools and the same in all the four districts | SATURDAY, MARCH 11, 1922, LETTERS ie WILL PROTECT DISABLED VETS Editor The Star: | I have read with considerable interest your editorial, | the Vulture Waits || Seattle Star, March 8, 1922. “Where in the issue of The Orders have been issued to all employes of the United States Veterans’ bureau, this date, to discontinue giving out any information on awards for compensation, training or insurance. veterans of the late war || of sharks and stock specu never have been permitted. Had I imagined for a moment that the disabled would become the victim lators, this practice would I am also communicating with the hospitals on this subject, in hopes that some plan can be devised which will tend, at least, to protect the men against these worthless stock investments. | Thanking you for calling / ter, I remain my attention to the mat- Sincerely yours, United | Editor The Star One of the best stories that has lever appeared in The Star was |the story written by Hal Arm |strong on bunco men and stock | ewindlers fleectng people—erpecially | widowe—out of their little savings. | I witnessed an incident the other day which impremed me as being material for a “story.” breds, by the way—thru the force of circumstances were compelied to part with some articles of value, | temporarily, by borrowing money on | them from @ certain loan company | in this city. } One day the husband went in to/ pay the interest on the articles in question. He had misplaced or lost| hin tickets. But they accepted his | money. He asked to take one of the articles home but they refused. They told him the ticket was in his wife's jmame, so she would have to come | after it. | The following day the wife went | jafter the article. She asked them why they refused to let her husband | | what was due L. C. JESSEPH, Manager 13th District, States Veterans’ Bureau. A Loan Shark’s Methods have their property after he had paid ‘They said it was their rule not to do a thing like that, if the Ucket was in her name. Some- thing in the manner of the employe aroused her suspicion. He shoved a card forward for her to sign as re ceipt for her property. She asked to nee the article before she signed & receipt for it. He refused. She finally signed the card. Then he re- A writer and his wife—both thoro- | fused to give her the article. He had beth her money and her signature. And she had nothing! He was saucy about it until I jumped at him with fire in my eye and rage against the injustice of it. Then I made him seratch her signature off of the car, She went to a notary and swore t © had lost her ticket and that the property was hers. She finally got it, But it was a nasty few minutes. The loan company employes bawied me out for interfering and put on a most virtuous and abused air, But I maintain that there was ‘something rotten in Denmark.” What do you think? JESSLE P. MOSTER, 1324 Sixth Ave. | Editor The Star Once again the law has made an junfortunate creature pay the penalty lfor the law's crime For the murder lof Ausmus and Daugherty by Har. |vey Church was the crime of this same law that hung an already men- |tally dead creature. This same law 4 weet, Isom White, of Ruth Gar. rison, and of scores of other mental ly Irresponsible unfortunates. How? By making {t a penalty not to have mentally deficient children. By refusing to allow. a doctor to de stroy an idiot when it is obvious that a child is one By allowing « male or female to marry without a | physical and mental examination. By jallowing morons to be born thru the refusing of birth control to the un- |ft. By refusing sterilization. Birth |control would soon give to the nation |a race of physically and mentally perfect children to be the parents of future generations, | In a very few years, if the above laws were enforced, we wouldn't need examinations or eterilizations or |birth control, neither would we need such legalized murderers az some |judges, juries, lawyers, sheriffs, jail- ers, hangmen and doctors, whose |duty it fs to wateh a human life ebb out at the end of a rope. We would |not have them, for only a mentally deficient himself or herself could in [PAs the death penalty on another was the cause of the crime of Roy | Perpetuating the Unfit human being when life and death is for God alone to give and take. If God isn't big enough to take His revenge, in His own good time, we had better try and find some other object of worship. But as jong as the people stand aside and allow capita] punishment, when it is obvious it never has nor |never will stop another murder; as jlong as they stand aside and aliow |morons to be born—fust so long will jfne world deteriorate, as it seems to be doing. Just so long will child |murderers be, will rape be commit ted, will the thousand and ome lesser crimes that lead to the bigger ones Sweep over the world in wave ware. For the law itself will never without the people changing it. |Nelther will the law enforcers, for they make their bread and butter and educate their children thru the misfortune of the mentally irrespon- |sible creature they force to pollute the earth. | ‘The unfortunate usually becomes many times a father, or in the case of a woman usually a mother (for they have no honor, are incapable of knowing right from wrong) before the crime which exacts the extreme penalty is committed. Thus the race of mental degenerates is partly kept up to fill the lockers of the puppets jot a mentally deficient law. EILEEN ARMSTRONG. | “Bear ye one another's burdens” | applies here as well as elsewhere. You will readily see, Mr. Taxpayer. |that whether your taxes are raised jor lowered depends upon where you | live If you are a resident of, say, dis trict 115, Pierce county, where the | give all the children an equal oppor. | t@* levy is 28.9 mills, and the valua | | ing, capable of being readily under-| tunity to secure an education? ‘That, in a measure, is the idea of the “30-10 initiative measure.” It raising of more money, but it does claim to equalize the burden of rais- ing a considerable part of the money needed for the schools To illustrate, suppose district 183 in King county costs $51 per child, it receives Under From state From count ° Local district... Total Under 3610 From state From county... Local district... re In other words, we wish such dis. tricts as 183 to have enough to sup port its school without having its taxpayers groan, so we decide to lift $10 of the local burden and place it on the state, thus allowing such dis- tricts as 47 or 110 to pay a more equitable amount toward the cause of education Hdueation used to be considered a personal affair; we can no longer regard it as even a local problem ‘The welfare of our fair state depends |dren, ‘Therefore, every true citizen | should be glad to bear his fair share of expense to secure “an equal oppor. | tion of $645 per pupil, your tax will | be lower because you are bearing an junfair share of the expense of run But |ning your school should you t comes from—Latin j.| seeks to raise by gn equal tax rate : ae to look thre Ventas for the entire dana sum that when/ live in district 65, Pierce county Today's word is PERSPICUOUS,| Companion word—perspicuousness,| dded to that derived from the state | pagar yy a gun ot Sars "spol oa - It's pronounced — “per-epick-you:| It's used like thie—“In order to be) Permanent fund will be equal to $30 ue te reggae sed Se eer ae Jus.” with accent on the second syl-| understood easily, write in a per-| Per census child in the state. jsmeule nar o : pe . 0 | spicuous manner. The 30-10 plan does not mean the| ‘hing nearer your just share of sup- | port of education Again, Mr. Taxpayer, may I sug. | kent that you refer once more to that tax statement under “State and |County Levy?” | You will notice the state school jlevy is now 5.3 mills. This, under 30.10, will be unifermly raised 3.2 unity to every child to secure an| mills over the entire state, the coun- ty levy remain as it is, and the dis- trict levy be raised or lowered ac | cording to whether a district is rich in money and poor in childrén, or the reverse. | Notice further, sir, that there is ja separate levy for the support of each of our higher institutions of learning in the state, So you see 30-10 applies only to the support of our common sc! hoo] If you wish further proof of t | would refer you to the state manual. Mossrs. Taxpayers, do not be fooled by the real estate speculators and tax dodgers who are trying to muddle the issue. udy “30-10” on its merits and you will be convinced that while it ig not a cure-all, it will do what is claimed for it—equalize the burden of taxation by raising the money |where the wealth is and using it where the children are, Yours truly, i 8. ., Over a Quarter of a Centu of Public Service of the highest order, stands behind every packet sold. Coloring Pictures in the Barkus B. Woof Fairy Story Story by Russ Simonton DETAILS OF CONTEST AND FIRST PICTURE IN THE POST-INTELLIGENCER NEXT SUNDAY ’ Illustrated by "SALADA T=zEIA. BlacKh-Mixed-Green-Sealed PacKet Only. |R, & H.C, COOK, EAST $383, ELL.0350, DISTRIBUTORS | largely upon the education of its chil. | ‘STAR WANT ADS GET RESULTS Paul Fung |