The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 18, 1922, Page 6

TH AL etter from | AVRIDGE MANN Dear Avridge Mann STAR | Mh, eat of efty, Bho per menth: # mowtha #6 e6, me ea tmaton. Outeite of per year, BP warr | Ay know you ban good-hearted gtnk, and 90 skal! help me out, |] ay think; #0 yuet you tell poof “Lamber-yacker,” who like to rry modern flapper, that he #kall much more happ¥ be med nice young vidow, yust like me. Yor ay ban sure that “Orphant Ann™ won't care for Skanda hoovian; she yust ban give her head a tom at marry skidroad section bows; and Lamberyacker he skall see, if he yust take a squint at me, ay ban some pippin, too, you bet, and hold my own med flapper yet vieked hoofs ay skal not #hake, but ay ekall Ike to scrub and bake; med pote and pans ay sure skal frink, and cook @ome dandy lutefiwk, If Lumberyacker set the day, ay skall be ready right avay, and yust crank up my litte fitvver, and yurney up to Nooksack river. So please put in good word for ma, and ay skall—yen, by Yumpin Yeo! (Don't let friend wife get next to this), but ay rkall give you one big kiss! Ay truly ban one anxious dame— » hopeful. peek il i L tel i il : 4 i [ I E i ne if iy ite whe say the world ton’t eny progress are not. much overhead keeps many ‘sa under foot. d Shaw’s Shaw has lived with Intellectual intensity than skepticism and natural ob- of his temperament have Been ® sieve thru which the minds of history have their output belief has been too sacred escape Shaw's satire. He has for idols solely to riot destruction. He has bent upon proving life be @ materialistic quagmire of to their this scornful Mephistoph- 3 McNary, of Oregon, has been worrying about his great reclamation bill, but Secretary of the Interior Fall has written him a letter of approval and he feels out, senator, the man from New Mexico isn’t interested in reclamation of ma semi-arid or Southern swamp lands. : ry Fall's big interest in life right now is the territory of Alaska, a country th but 27,000 white people in it, but containing potential wealth enough to make seem like a corner fruit stand keeper by comparison. ‘Falls business just now is the making of friends. He wants all the friends he cold bather kicking about spring coming. Laughing yourself to death is better than worry- ing your head off. Lots of them are fine cooks if you can live on salads and fudge. dies mew confesses his humility before the shrine of spiritual ip i Er gUTEEL et =F accepts the doctrine of cteative evolution. He does not believe mankind has been evolved mechanically or by chance, Evo lation is » spiritual, self-perpetu- ating, purposeful force, ever at work, developing Man ts the latest of these tn struments. If man falls to pro vide a sufficiently free creative outlet for the life force, life will evolve @ better instrument for its purpose. Man will not be ab lowed to balk life’s determination te evolve an ever higher civilize tion. Man may éestroy himself; but he cannot destroy civilization. Shaw calls this belief the ro ligion of the fatore. Whether that be = true prediction, creative evolution makes men hamble be fore the great mystery of life That is a gain for righteousness im these days of devastating rival- ries and selfish deterioration of character. Advertising tt; Spring ts the time for ad ventures. Business may be down but never out. It’s an important incident, the Mustrating the power of com pound interest te bring wealth te the thrifty. It ts not fale, tt te not decent, for some senator who wants to excuse his vote in this (Newberry) mat- ter to pretend that he was beset dy corrupt influences and that cor- rupt influences were exerted to compel senators to vote one way or the other. A senator may vote as he pleases, but after he has done #0 let him carry the responsibility for 20 voting, without trying to be- amirch the integrity of every sena- tor who differs from him.—Benator Caraway (D.), Ark. Radium (4 quoted at $4,500,000 en ounce, Pay no more. Germany's broke. Hook der ex- kaiser. B. V. D.—Before Volstead Did. LEARN A WORD EVERY DAY Today's word is SPHCTER., It's pronounced—#peck.ter, with nocent on the first syllable, It means—a ghost, a spirit, an ep. parition, a phantom. It comes from—Latin “spectrum,” an image. Companion word—pectral, It's used like this—“Appearance of pecter at Antigonish, N, 8. has @ party there to investigate,” | BOYS AND GIRLS! You gude bye, ay hope you ba: HoPEY To Lamber jacker: 40 is spend a little wad of do porhaps the wedding bells will Bwede thing! . editor The Star: In @ document int tiative measure No. 46 (the 20-10 bill, & diagram shows that the loon! tax will be reduced from $12,000,000 to | $6,000,0007 ‘This lo very Interesting and piaus ible—jooks well on paper—bat how does it work out? An mont of the bonded tndebted | neon, which is the purpose for which the local tax te levied, ts In the 10 firet-clans districts, and there ts more | and more extravagant building being | done and proposed than ever, it will) be highly important for the advo-| cates of thin new measure to show} how there oan ever be any reduction im the local tax. When these advocates are present. tag their argumenta, why do they net use district No. 1 to Mtustrate thetr fncta? Seattle te district No. 1, and it ts commonly reported that Béttor The Star: There are many to rise in their places and cry out for a business ad | minkwtration, a business man for may- | Jor, out with all the “gang” and a new | }deai all around. Even the almost | unbroken record of failures of much administrations seems to have litte effect. A business man, ff he te rupcess ful tm bis own business, owes bin sucemss to the efficiency of his/ methods, the soundnens of his judr ments, and to his observance of dasiness ethics (7), among other tac- “tore Tle le trained and experienord | A AAS hl cE RE OE ets: A Cold baths may be fine; but you never hear a tm meeting competition, buying, sell | ing and making @ profit. He decides | quewtions that arise by answering the quention, “Will it pay?” | The successfal politician, on the other hand, is successful, in the long | run, because he provides himaeit | with means of knowing what his oon. | stituents want, and the varied ma | chinery for getting it for them. His Methods are very often crude, his Judgment faulty, as to busines mat- ters, His ethics are the subject of oceans of criticiem. Most of the af faire in which he deals do not tn volve competition, buying, nor sell. Editor The Star: The daily press for weeks hae pro- | claimed the agony of congreay in| deciding what to do with the sol dier#’ bonus bilL ‘The greatest concern seems to be & means of financing the obligation. This te to suggest plan that will! impose no burden that will amount} to a positive hardehip on any citizen. Use the dormant ellver in the! treasury, held for redemption of atl.) ver certificates, It will never be; needed for that purpone, an every | one will prefer the certificates to the jin, ‘The silver has been caged up| in the treasury for a score of yearn, | a burden and a bother, of no earthly | It might better be applied in pay | ment of & deserved and a concrded | obligation to the ex-service men. The | silver will sure look good, for they! A Politician for Mayor One Way to Pay the Bonus the mame. JLDA, Ballard, Nord Amerika. I pase along this note to yon, and think the least that you can ch to ve this jane the double-O; ring for Hulda—she’s a dear The 30-10 Bill and Tax Reduction 30-10 will take a great deal more money out of the district than It will bring in, aod this without affecting the building expense, which at the Present rate is getting more extrava- gant every minute, ‘Where, then, will be proponed re @uction from $12,000,000 to $6,000,000 be made? As the greater part of this sum of $12,009,000 is being expended and will continue to be called for in districts like Seattle, we would be very bappy to see it done, but the Prospects are not very bright to even help cut down the local tax from 912,000,000 to $6,000.00. Bo it might be well for these advocates to pause and do some figuring with the actual facts as against Weir fineepun the often, “It fe & condition, net a theory, that confronts os.” MILA ANNE B. STHYWART, 120 Nob Ht) Ave. tng. He maken his decisions by knowing what will get votes. ‘This is a republio—a representative democracy, We elect men to office, hot to tell as what they consider the beet thing to do, nor to make money, | but to carry out the policies and plana which the voters collectively want, or think they want, The prin- cipal political tmrue the world over just now te taxes With labor and basle cont of production down about to prewar levels, taxes (and trans portation) cover mort of differ. ence in the cost Would @ evccemful inclined to tbten thetr taxes on, done? Would a euccesetul poll try to ret votes by relieving, as far &- pomibie, the burden of the ones who have those votes? We do not want too moch politics in business, nor too much business in politics. As Kipling says: “The toad beneath the harrow knows, exactly, where each tooth point tictan ta Koen. butterfly open the road preaches contentment to that The TRA DYE. il have needs that would be quickly supplied. Once started, every dollar would go the rounds of the complete business circle, doing an immense Amount of good. It would be to bua. news like lubricating off to the dry raring» of a machine, otherwise im. possible of operation. For further funds needed, tmitate the act of David, who had the ambi. tion, fi giant Goliath, with thin difference Congress need neither kill nor cripple any citizen or corporation, just bold. ly provide that sufficient money for complete payment of the bonus be taken from the net profits of cor. | porations exceeding 6, 8 or 10 per cent, ag may be required. That will | place the burden on the strong and} able, who will still have plenty for | every worldly need. It would be | more just than forcing the poor to| or your CRAP Book SOUVENIR By CHALOTTE BECK Altho I did not meet her m There linger with me ver Her curved mouth that seer The grace of her unstudie And when, the other day, I It ‘aint fragrance blown And sensed, for those who Her charm would last, ete Her bright hair, golden as the daffodil, Her laughter, like a ecale of silver chimes, ‘The'fresh #urprisos of her ranging moods, Her gestures, vivid as some dainty Mime's, In some stray sheet the notice of her death, med as it I caught a fi ETT, in N. Y. Herald any timea, y clearly atm med made for poets’ rhymes, od attitudes, | chanced to see sting breath n from memory, | pay a fow pennies extra for the pur chase of every necennity tux is revolting when corporations | proportions that greatly need protec | created by congress are nty, | tion in time of conflict, which often undantly able, and are making big | is the cause of war, for the purpone liens money, while many |wtrugeling to exiet and to extricate thetnselves from the mire of defia | ton | Congress could do no better act A mien are|ot equipping the U. SATURDAY, MARCH 18, 1922. jment to the constitution providing for comascripting wealth of certain s. «@ y and meeting the full requirements for compensating conseripted men of | military age and fitnem. Buch an amendinent would reentve to insure peace and prepare for war |99 per cent of the popular vote. | than to propose and submit an amend | PROG MU86IVE. Getting a Soldiers’ Bonus Quickly Editor The Star [the American Legion wus first talked wy |Learnin g Japanese Language | waitor The Star The writer does not wish to give the imprension that the average man or woman can learn to sp the Japanese tongue with but wishes to convey the fact to the ming of the reader how he or she may « some knowledge that may be nefit to then should an occasion | arise much aa did with Hal Armetrong }and his friend that day on the train. | Judging from the answer to the our | A 100 per cent American congress | about in this country? But when the| verse sent to Avridge Mann, he evs | would have had a soldiers’ bonus | paid within a month efter it was first muggested. All of the less than the half of one per cent Americans are stand pat againet any bonus, There in one sure fire way of get jting the bonus. Form a soldiers’ po litical agmpodiation, open to every man and woman who wore the uniform. | Also open to their wives and moth jor, Platform, Americaniam pure and | unadulterated from all the old party bunk, Also prosecution of all war profiteers and slackers, Before this amsociation would be a month old or « million strong, every politician in the country would be Promising everything or anything if they would only stop the formation of anything in the shape of « politi oul party, Why? De you know, @ good many poll. cians did not sleep for nights when Editor The Star: After reading your ed@ftortal con- cerning the hanging or Harvey Church, in @ recent imme, was very much dingusted, and then noticing that you received congratulations from Mr. Henry W. Colt op it, my disgust was unlimited. Methinks, Mr. Editor, you show freat ignorance when voicing your opinion, You, a man, trying to be wiser than our Creator, We ask, “Who made the law concerning cap ital punishment? Custom? So- clety? Peoples? Nay, none other than the true and living God, for in Hie Own Word in Gen, tx.6 He says “Whose sheddeth man's blood by man shall hin biood be shed” No exceptions made of sex, mental de ficiency, social poxition, or finances. lm your article no mention ts mate of sympathy for the innocent victims or their relatives It waa merely a “nob story” for a terrible criminal Church, not satiafied with the taking of the lives of two fellow. men, then tries to commit another crime, that of suicide, by starvation. This you tabel as dying quietly, de emmy, Another statement showing pure ignorance. Why wonder that tn these timer there are so many crimes and mur- Gers occurring when America ts lopenty turning tts back to tte Cre. ator and Provider? “Put.” you may may, “America is {® Christian nation.” Yea, but, alas, feng our Christianity ts eo very «hal ~~, We anmume that you would sug: A Morris Plan Bank E4ttor The Star; I have asked several cashiers In Beattle if there was a Megrip plan bank in Beattie and over balf of them aowwered me by asking, “What ie a | Morris plan bank?"-—and there was |not one who could tell me where one wan located. Are the business men and finan piers in Seattle ignorant of the fact that it is the wage earner and smali man financially that make the citles? Do they not know that there are hun- dreds building up homes and that do not have a banking proposition? Have you ever tried \o borrow $5 in Geattle? Can you get it? Yea, you are on mary we can let you have money; you know we do not charge any commimdon and our notes are very reasonable—2 per cent.” You ask, “A year?” “Oh, no, a month,” they answer—and that is the only kind of a loan you can get. I know because I have tried it. I am trying to get started tn # small way, have property, am carry ing over $1,209 insurance on tt. Hav: always met my obligations and today find it Imponsible to secure a cent why? Who is making conditiona as ith and courage to face the|they are? Is my family going hun. | Gry because the banks are calling m their loans? Or are the money powers trying to make “bolahevike” out of every wae earner? " Have you had your ear to the ground and heard the rumble, hungry men and hungry families? Will a leader «pring up and lead them? If so, where? Our country ts too big and grand to be wrecked be- cause wo are hungry. Seattle and Puget Sound are idea! for the tourist an@ many of them will come this way thia summer What are you going to show them? Hungry people? I hope not. How much does the Chamber of Commerce know about what ts go ng on? I ask you to go there and try to get information. Seattle, get busy; take care of the people you have—not by charity—but what we Rev. M. A. Matthews will preach a sermon Sun- day morning entitled, The Miracle of Miracles In the evening he will dis- cuss the subject, The Insanity or Criminality of Woman Song Service at 7:15 M.D. Wella Mon's Bible Class at $:30a m., taught by & D, Wingate FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Seventh and Spring led by had known her glance, ral as romance. Disagrees With if you are a salaried man. What/ do you pay for it? “Well, you know if assurance came that the Legion's natitution debarred polities, why they went about with a grin like a Cheshire cat. All over the country |they were crying, “Vor God's auke |keep the soldiers out of politics.” They mid “for God's naket but they, themselves, were the God they bad in mind. And again, why? Weill, one reason was a good many of their good friends were war profi teers and some were slackers. And you know what these fellows have to expect from the soldiers, You bet they know. Have you heard of any war profiteers being sent to the pen? | You have not. And without the for- mation of @ soldiers’ political party you never will, There is only one way to win at politics—play politics, You cannot win at poker by watch- ing the other fellows play. If you want to win, get in the game. Yours for & band. WEED McGINNIS. : ° Editorial gest freeing Church, and thereby dumping him back upon society, to continue his career, or maybe you would “mercifully” piace him in the penitentiary for « term of years or the remainder of his natural life, as has been accorded other murderers. But the Bible mys in Prov. xii.:10, “. » » the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.” Which is algo verified by the investigations of #ev- eral institutions of this type. Mr, Henry W. Coit, in his letter of the 6th inst, states, “Capital pun ishment, which probably causes more crime than ft preventa.” I doubt if he has any authentic frounds for such @ statement, and if it were really true, what should we do but obey the voice of the Creator? He will take care of the result. Yours for more true wisdom, MRS. JACOB C. KOBES, Granger, Wash. j ifor su | dently thought that | meant that the | Japanese tongue can be learned with. out much effort, but such is not the [intention of the writer, | In your columns you my learn & | word of English every day. Very | g00d. Knowledge gained in this way | would not be acquired in any other Incidentally, why not learn @ word Jot Japanese every day, taking the principal nouns first, pronouns next, then the verbs and #0 on? ferred to the books, “Japanese Con- Yersation and Grammar,” and “Eng- lish Japanese Dictionary of the Spo ken Language,” in the reference room of the public library. Now, Mister £4, suppose one Amer- lean out of every 100 could under- stand what the subject was when be heard two or more Japanese convers. ing. Judge for yourself as to wheth- or the results would be of benefit. Your information girl stated over the phone today that Fridays cires lation was over 75,000. This figure divided by 300 equals 750. Surely 760 people out of 75,000 would take enough interest in a matter of this kind to learn a word @ day. The Star goes inte 11,727 more homes than any other Seattle paper. Why? Because the people ifke your expo sures of the Japanese methods of any other methods that are unfair. “Nowadays” % is “SALADA’ break fast,for dinner, and There is a possibility that other papers might copy this column and thereby help the cause along. The Japanese study and learn our lan guage, #0 why not we theirs, and so be better prepared should an emer- gency arise? v. Ww. Laptanders often skate es mucb as 150 miles a day. Nearty af] locomouves in Asis are driven by petroleum. Of] in America was first known for {ts medicinal value. for five \o’clocK Tea the Con- jtinent wide Queen Elizabeth of Engiand used to wear a wrist watch. To bufld yoursel¢ up quickty after Fic or any wasting iliness, take HEAMOTONE The great tonic and blood bufider; $1.00 and $2.00 bottles at all drug stores, or direct, | Drug Co, Spokane.—Advertisement. Dont wait for time to heal that rash j RESINOL. 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