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

Pupitencs Deity by The Mar Qerprine Awan. and United Pres Service, Ry mall, owt $5.00, tm 44.50 for The Problem of Poindexter Senator Miles Poindexter, on the basis of his record for the past few years, de- Berves to be retired. But he will not be defeated unless a man of sufficiently large caliber arises to succeed him. Nobody who answers to that description has yet en- tered the race. “It will take a mighty big, capable leader to defeat him. In spite of his vote in Newberry case, Poindexter is the strongest, ablest candidate in the field to date. The Star outspokenly condemns Poindexter for his betrayal of the people in voting seat the Michigan seat-buyer. The Newberry decision is a disgrace to the United senate. And Poindexter helped materially to save Newberry’s scalp. ‘But The Star has not forgotten that Poindexter was the pioneer progressive leader state. He fought gloriously in the battle that broke the rule of the old gang. xter won those early battles, defeated the pick of the machine candidates, @ as a congressman helped put Washington into the ranks of forward-looking com- Then his first years in the United States senate were years of honest, ive liberalism, of real service to the people. The Star cannot forget Poindexter’s disgraceful vote for Newberry nor ap- pve his tendency to swing over during the last few years to the ranks of reaction, Star has to be broad enough to admit that in the Newberry case the senator show one species of courage—the courage to be WRONG! xter should be defeated, but not by a little politician. It must be done, if at by a citizen who outclasses him both in ability and in sympathy with today’s of the great masses of Washington—by a real progressive. ding still hopes to go to Alaska. Why The Newberry 't he join the marines and see the world? Investment hm ar mR an : When the Newberry family says there are 50,000,000 rats in Amer- opened up its bulging cash be: ft this out where the cat will find it. paper ee " to buy a seat in the senate and LT @ place in the sun, the venture ple saving for a rainy day often mistake a fora fi probably looked like a good so clal investment. For with Tru- man Newberry sloshing sround in one of tire seats of the mighty, the whole blessed family could have a run for its money and slosh sociably along with the sen- ator in Washington, D. C, domain, with the probable result that for some timm to come it is camel to i Feil 5 a ail ve » fair amount of regu- brains inside their skulls. TFs A claim that America needa Wall Street and that the Street ia a necessary part of America ix in part true, but only presenta half the case, Wall Street could not exist without the lamba that grow on Main Street. — Representative Frear (R.), Wis. As F ree as Air The radio has descended upon us over night. A year ago only a few persons knew anything about wireless telephony; today there are tens of thousands of radio- phones in Pacific coast homes, and there would be s lot more if, the manufacturers were not six months behind with their orders. In the rush we are losing most of the significance of this evolu- tion, but the biggest thing about Pee gery the new order will be ¢ fr | It takes a girl with dreamy eyes to keep the men its very start it will riya doe ake. utility, The air is free, probably it al- ways will be free. You can in- - "yssed a radiophone and when you | The man writing a book on hell probably got his from sleeping in an upper Pullman berth. The call of the wild draws city people to the " and country people to the city. They ask men to wear corsets on the theory that omebody ought to wear them. have paid its first cost you have |paid it all; no corporation can |eharge you monthly toll for the use of the instrument and to the capacity of your instrument the | messages of the earth are your | own, | There will likely be a psychol- | ogy to this that will upset much (of our established utility pro- , cesses. When a man gets his | telephone service month after month for nothing, he may begin | te wonder why he shouldn't get | his heat, his light, his water and his transportation without paying Waviewvays Avewne BESE—EPE + BR + MAN +O =< GEEMAVY zen Tea Drinkers toll. Or at least without paying a TRY A PACKET OF— |Shylock’s toll to # private cor. | poration for the use of a natural 5 | resource. It (report of shipping board on ship subsidies) ia illuminating. When I received it with a letter from a gentleman urgently in favor of ship subsidy, coming from the | shipping board, I read it, and found wal Leaf Green Tea. It’s strength |!) \ way eerie ant pur and Economy in use will prove |)"; " elation. 308 i Sealed Packets Only — At All Grocers. GW. GC. GOUn, cast 3343, Elliott 0350, Distributors a ee etne Sat 100 Hie 6 You can't keep a good secret down. worm, THE SEATT A Word From The ng tO A NewnpAper lacy is going to be } 1 am very Hditor Star the Interelub and a few others: counell, | 1 know now why I am being ac cused of “using my position for po litical gain,” but 1 defy anyone to find one touch of dishonesty in my record, and 1 will m the open. I am waiting to show @ fow rascals up, I will tear the rage) of hypocracy off of thelr backs. y position” ha t an en one, but has always been one of neutrality I myself founded the “Millionair club,” and together with & few good people have been able to serve over 100,000 meals during the past year to worthy unemployed and it in Beattie’s shame that an in stitution such as the “Millionair club,” doing, as it in, a world of g00d (this is conceded even by my opponents), I may it is Seattle's shame that such an inatitution has to so fight for its existence, and even now an I utter these words, I can hear the distant footsteps of the | creditors. No, I know what is the matter, T have been too - independent; I} have refused to be dominated by any clique, sect, group or individual. I have conducted the affairs of the “Millionair elub™ in such a way that even without the proper support the institution has won the good will of every force for good in the commu nity anyone in iter Witt, 1 LE STAR LETTERS EDITOR Mr. Johanson doing H for msmin ell for the Heattle should be Ineager ut I wan told by the it was illegal ity to and that 1 aid not expect to get any help But, mind you, it wasn't © $4,000 for 1 decided around 1 and If elect | that when elec |1 would run for ed 1 would leg loing good I was instrumental in bringing jabout Mayor Caldwell's ungmploy |ment committee, of which Frank | Kinnalr is chairman * 1 have built the institution not on |the weakness of others, but on its merits, The secret of my succens jhas been the altruistic give, not the exotintio gain, I have devoted the past year to a caune that has made Heattle a better place to live in with out thought of compensation, My | wife and three bebles have suffered | |no acute want, The club has been! | instrumental in preventing many a man, from becoming down and out #0 I point with pride to my pant ree: | jord and if the city of Seattle desires & man who will defy domination, let them vote for the “Millionalr cand) date I am not building my chances for | election on the weakness of any oth. er candidate (in fact there are two other candidates whom I would like! } to nee elected), but I am building my | support on the confidences of the people in my qualifications My ponition that I hold I have ere. jated; the good will I have tecured | 1 myself have inspired; the confi dence the public has in me in the result of nquare shooting, and I wtand ready to serve the citizenry of this fair city in a #till greater meas. Being absolutely independent and having won the good will of the en tire community, and doing in a large measure the work that the city of ure as one of their councilmen, Respectfully, M. G. JOHANSON, Candidate for Council. Celebrating St. Patrick’s Day Editor The Star Alice Monroe, discussing Irish hol idays, seems to think I have beer “insulting” and “full of hate.” 1 do not hate anyone, nor do T consider It | insulting to comment on a city’s pay-/ chology which I consider in some re- spects below par With the exception of Christmas and New Year, I know of no holiday so universally and for so long th observed as the Irish St, Patrick's} day. It te unkind to refuse a plea ant participation that hurts no one, It is foolish to insist upon the holt days of all other nations being also} oteerved. There is no particular part of Ireland to please, Everyone of Irish blood the world over loves the shamrock, whether he came from U! ster or from Cork. It «ymboliaes his native land. Ireland, thra her Amer loanized sons, doen celebrate every American holiday. We here are not particularly celebrating a festivity of @ foreign land. We are merely showing appreciation of the idealism and courage, the fire and lovableness, the brain and brawn of the Irish race that has been fused in American blood, American laws, American arts, and which, from the time of Patrick Hengy to our own day, has helped to make America what it is. But these thingy to Alice Monroe “mean noth- ing.” To stand scornfully amide, while the day ix celebrated world over, on the plea that “it twn't American,” I consider altogether too snobbish and narrow, Indicating a spirit that wouldn't whole-hearterty celebrate any sort of a day. There is} no responsiveness there, nor gratl tude, nor generosity of mpirit. With the exception of Washing ton's and Lincotn’s birthds bor day, in September, holiday at all but what were given us by other nations, Any person or event, in y land, which ts long re membered and revered for ita benefi cent influence, demands our sympa thy and respect. Spiritual forces | know no limitation of time, no geo. |eraphical boundary, nor racial line | We recognize, appreciate and exprens LEARN A WORD EVERY DAY Today « word is EXPIATE. | It's pronounced—ek»piayt, with | accent on the first ryliable. It means—to pay @ penalty, make amends for. It comes from Latin “expliare,” to appease. Companion words—explation, piatory It's used like this—“In most states | murder can be explated only by! | death.” | If a Strength and to coe DR. 4. KR. MINYON Free Examination BEST $2.50 GLASSES on Earth We are one of the few optical stores in the Northwest that really grind lenses from start to finish, and we are the only one in SEATTLE—ON FIRST AVE. Examination free, vy graduate op- tometrist. Glasses unless absolutely m BINYON OPTICAL CO. 1116 FINST ava 6 the whole]. gratitude for material favors, Why hot also be quick to recognize and be grateful for spiritual good? There in among some people a dis dainful arrogance, ~ hostility, a se. rene conceit, a desire to dominate and oppress, irked by inability to exprem iteelf by enforcing ball and chain. They would have the whole world even as they are. For these Amert ca haa no piace, I have neon the Mue and the Gray march together, I have known or. thodex Jews to celebrate the Gen. tiles’ Christmas, and English to share our July Fourth, and Americans who an wholeheartedly observed with | them the British Dominion day. I} have known Americans and Germans to kneel together at the grave mide Christinas tre®, meen Americans and Italians march under blended fags, | honoring freedom's heron. 1 have! knelt to pray in a Catholic church, joyously followed the skirl of the bag. | pipes, and worn at times my wooden | shoes, Wherever there haa been beauty or valor, unselfishness or in- epiration, I have honored them. ‘This, Alice Monroe, is one way “to live and let live.” This le why I wear the green. Il. M. CLARKE. TUESDAY, APRIL 11, 1922. A Potter from AIVRIDGE MANN. Dear Volks I took neend at the other 4 and yed up Port way, 1 wt 1 walking t 1 fro, to give the boat t n hope that I might chance to nee 1 who would talk to me I didn't make th ureh in vain, but fe a clamwy-looking jane 1 seuntered up and bowed my head, and ared my thr and amiled, and said, “The air is awful frewh today”; she anawe Bo are you, I'd I wandered on and saw @ pair that had four 4 youngsters there; of courne, it seemed « ain bet that they were man and wife—but yet, they seemed to love each other #0, 1 wondered—is he just a beau? I naw a dame that had a book and, p I took a look; “If Winter was what I read, and y nearly said, “I know thi k is up to par because Star.” And after that, I'm glad to # * Hemenway: would do you lot# of good id, the OEMs or your CRAP B BY J. R. J. in the London Times 1 love preliminary things, The tuning-up of flutes and strings; The little scales musicians play In varying keys to feel their way; The hum—the hush in which it dies; But most to see the curtain rise. I love preliminary things, The little box the postman brings; To cut the twine, to break the seals, And wonder what the lid reveals; To Lift the folds in which it les And watch the gift materialize. The snowdrop and the daffodil, ‘The catkins hanging straight and still, ‘The blossom on the orchard trees. Do you know greater joys than these? Each represents the hope that «prings in all preliminary things. Cruelty in Making of Films EAitor The Star: jane lack the intelligence to have We bear a great deal in regard to | feeling and sympathy for that which the work of the moving picture cen-|is helpless? Do these censors think ors, but as far an seeing any exhibl- | that the only harm that can come tion of thelr work where the abuse |from motion pictures must spring of animals ia concerned we who have |from a too abbreviated bathing suit witnessed a mighty lot of films have! or an artful “vamp”? If that is their tniseed this part of their work en-|idea they surely do not know their tirely. Kapecially i* this true in re-| business, and it is time they stepped gard to comedien. axide to allow those who do know Comedies, as anyone who knows | to attend to the matter, It is pref- children at all must realize, are the /erabie to think they do not under- special delight of the child. Are the | stand the underlying principles or censors ignorant of the impression |that they are neglecting their du- that abuse and wrong treatment of | ties, rather than that they put their animals makes upon a child, and,|stamp of approval upon entertain- for that matter, upon those people! ment that encourages brutality, and ~ lot mply or mincale director who nome we that he can get away with a ing 0 matter how beastly when it comes to ant mais In Oregon it Is now compulsory for the teachers in the public schools to devote no much time week to to ant of this jally, met is fant ap. instilling in children kind but what is the use mals will conclude to put their foo where the board of censors \« have long ago, but haven't. It might be suggested that as “Humane Week,” also known as “Be Kind to Animals Week,” is nearing (April 23 to 2%), the board of censors might help celebrate it by doing a little the work suggested—and let's | hope they will, and that the week's | work will become a habit, Perhaps | they have never looked at it from this point of view, but believe me, many picture fans have had an oth- erwise pleasant afternoon or evening spoiled by some stupidly cruel exhi- bition. G. V. BOUCHER, U.S. for Japs, _ Seems to Him Editor The Star: A few words in sympathy with “A Vietim” in Friday night's paper. I know that it must be hard to be discharged from the navy yard when there are so many skids being put under good, honest and worthy work- men just because they have no pull. I happened to be lucky enough to witness 4 “democracy scene” on April 5. That afternoon I had started from the coal bunker, west end of yard, to No. 1 machine shop. The ‘y band, which plays the “Colors” at sunset, were marching to the flag as it waved proudly. Those boys were walking very proud, too, for they were soon to play “The Star- Spangled Banner,” the music of which every true American loves. They wert soon to let every mortal in hearing distance know their spirit. Behold! When I arrived at No. 1 machine shop along comes the com- mandant’s car with chauffeur and a Jap as passenger. He was braced up like some general or admiral. I think it is beginning to look serious when Japs can ride in a car provided by Americans, We are deprived of soap and tow- els, which would enable us to look Uke white people before going home. |No, we must go home dirty. Then |help to pay for the upkeep of a car for a Jap. How does this happen when hotel! jand apartment owners, men and ithelr wives, work at the navy yard during the time men with big fami- jes are discharged, when the latter are equal in efficiency with the for- mer? A TRUE AMERICAN, James J. 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