The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 12, 1922, Page 6

Re. terprive Agen and United Press Bervies F806, im um re cs “I wish they both could with their smiles.” “mother’s love?” 1458 for € me The Seattle St By mall, owt of etty. fee month; § monthe, maton. Owl per year, By carrier This is a letter which speaks for itself. It came to The Star yesterday, painfully scrawled on cheap, ruled paper. “You have found nice homes for so many little babies,” the letter ran, “that I am "going to ask you to help me finish breaking my heart—by finding homes for my two Es wonderful babies, a boy of three years and a teeny girl of one and a half months, “As I was bathing my baby today I thought what a great injustice I was doing them by letting them grow up in poverty without even a third shirt to their little backs, when there are so many childless people with nice homes, lots of flowers and everything to make life worth living for a child. So I have decided to let them go, so they can hold up their little heads when they are older and say ‘I have a HOME'— something perhaps they would never have if I kept them. But if it is impossible I would them to be the only children in childless homes, where they would bring sunshine go to the same home. It was a pathetic little letter. No possibility of doubting its sincerity—no question about the mother’s love. Yet it caused a lot of worry to The Star. “Are we,” that was the question, “are we justified in breaking up this home, separat- % “ing these children from their mother, just so they can wear better clothes, eat nicer fe The mother undoubtedly thinks that it is to the children’s advantage—but Is | whe competent to judge? Can all the riches in the world make up for the loss of a Tt was really a very difficult problem. * * & And then the mother solved it for us herself. In came a messenger boy, carrying a telegram to the editor. “Have changed mind. Will keep them. Can't let them go,” the message read, keep- ing just inside the 10-word limit. Somehow or other the sunshine seemed a whole lot brighter outside than it had been before that telegram arrived. if the state, ety, Se 8 month Febitened Datty by The Mar Publiening Os, Phone Mate 0) @ montha, $8.18: year, toe mew tn, i i! i reple H i] pil ae 3 crf fi . f : : FF ‘i Uy rll 4 i igh FER sss i my Ht | ly Ring, dlucbeils, ring! Winning eve and heart completely, Bing, robin, sing All among the reeds and rushes, Where the brook its music hushes, Bright the colopogon blushes— Laugh, O murmuring Spring! —Sarah F. Davie. Fact that there are bootleggers 4s proof they don’t drink the kind Of stuff they sell. _ intent With Bryan aay « the future, the only t the past and Doyle telling ing doubtful is the present. A man who falls in love with himself never has any rivals. You can't make loose ends meet. a Pertinent Question “Peace, peace” when there ts peace, ls @ fool's cry, There of that foolishness Proper at the recent Washington arms conference. As = matter of fact ff an American mberchant marine were not important to this counry’s welfare ae « potential war weapon it would not be important at ail. In times of peace it has paid os in the past to let foreign ship owners, bred to and trained In the business, carry our cargoes for us. A shoemaker might be able to build a house, But it is better business for him to go on mak- ing shoes, thereby saving money to pay a regular housebullder to put up his house for him. The real low-down Is that this American merchant marine ques tion isn’t primarily a business problem at all, but a problem of national defense. ‘The foregoing prompts at least one mighty pertinent question. If the merchant marine is, after all, mainly an arm of our national de- fense, why shouldn’t our govern- ment itself run It, Just as it al ready runs the army and navy? Why should it farm out the privi- lege with bribes and subsidies, to private individuals, any more than it should farm out the army and | navy privileges? The government already owns the ships, millions of tons of them, thru the shipping board. The government can find | trained men—the thousands re. jleased and to be released from the navy on account of naval re ductions, as well as regular | American merchant sailors and | mechanics. To begin with, these ships would have to be run at a» loss, But that would be a legitimate charge, and in the national inter- purse can The national | Tea, this in him was the peculiar grace, That before living he'd learn how to live, Othera mistrust and say, “But time encapes, TAve now or never.” . “What's time? Leéve NOW for & and apes! Man lives forever.” Robert Browning. ing in tents to fight renta Their only rents are in their tents, In Chicago $000 families are Hv- | Two married people can live cheaper than one single man in love. You May Fire When Ready, Harry Attorney General Daugherty says that unless people stop talk- Ing about the Morse pardon busi ness he will “tell all.” You may fire when you are | ready, Harry. | Also, be says that when he was ¢andidate for United States sen- ator from Ohio and his connection with the Morse case was an Issue, he had letters from Mr. Taft and | Mr. Wickersham which made the | whole thing clear for Ohio voters. | Um, yes, “made the whole thing clear,” but Mr. Daugherty was | defeated by the Ohio voters at that time. “Where do Hare got” ts pusrting Doyle, Perhaps they go where they they are often told to go. | With a daughter in high school | there den’t much parents don't LEARN A WORD EVERY DAY Today's word is LITTORAL. It's pronounced—lit-o-ral, with ao cent on the first syllable. It means—of or pertaining to a whore, expecially of the sea; a coast al region. It comes from—Latin the seashore It's used like this—“In connection with the future of the former do minions of the ezar Japan ia expe “Ittoralis,” cially interested in the Asiatio litto- ral.” oR J. BR MINYON Free Examination BEST $2.50 GLASSES on Earth est. We are one of the few optical stores in the Northwest that really | 1nd lenses from start to finish, and oy Deg tae -LK+ SEATTLE—ON vinsT ave | Examination free, by graduate op- | tometrist. Glasses not prescribed! unless absolutely necessary. RINYON OPTICAL CO. 4116 VIAST AVE YESTERDAYS ANGWER Oo + MAN -WN GEOGRAPHIC PUZZLES + HAT =D. <& OMAHA THE SEATTLE STAR AIVRIDG Dear Folks A little shot of boore or two would help me quite re, by feeling like a it lets you lose your load of APetter From E MANN I had # pretty rotten day, w way; I shut up shop and started dome; the only thing I seemed t a& drink hen nothing seemed to come my home, with weary feet and aching o think was, “Gosh! I wish I had lot, I knew IWonaire; and world a felt a bump and turned t He held @ wtrap, the he had a loaded market bag niee « bun an one could find nee th 1 knew hin cares were on the skids kide? pod still, to hear his stage 'e drunk agian!’ And wo I wondered, what's the but one? For, all in all, it doer way; and even joy becomes a v price, « bimbo standing next to me. no ant; I knew he was @ married guy and golly, what @ lovely jag ¢ ringing, talking, reeling kind. but what about his wife and As For I could feel her sudden chill, her heart that fluttered ered steps, and then—"Oh, mothert fun to see two things when there's n't pay to kill our cares the Nquid leo when others have to pay the Attacks Volstead Act Editor The Star: In today's Star, I read that A. L. D. Graham tn eritictzing Alice M. B. Meyer, because the later had stated that prohibition is filling our aay. uma with dope fends and our prison celle with criminals; Graham also ex plains that the wine mentioned in the holy Bible was nothing more or lean than ordinary fruit Juice, which in some cases was mixed and botied with certain herbs, and that tt wan! that kind of wine which w mended by Paul tn his lette othy, who, Graham clalma, was suffer ing from tndigestion. ‘ there at that time, I am deny or verify that statement, but having a firm conviction that the holy Bible means just what it says, and knowing from personal expert. ence and from my own knowled«e, that wine cannot exist, until fruit juice has passed thru the natural process of fermentation, which prof ean creates a small percentage of al cohol, I am inclined to believe that AL his base, when he tries believe that the S« to make us yer absurd, he ah f nm to recognize tac they fall to correspond with his own viewpoint, Let me add, Mr. Gr that unless government statistic inaccurate, the importation of nar cotics, th manufacture of illicit liquor, the prepetration of erime and the increase of dope addicts has in a in. D, Graham is just @ little off | creased at an alarming rate since | prohibition waa « ed. That law has also created a general feeling of contempt for laws, which is perhaps the most dangerous rerult of ali, it has created an opportunity for graft so great that enforcement officers, from village constable to government officials in high places, are aiding in distributing the poison you have stituted for pure wine and whole nome beer, Heavy penalties would undoubted ly have some effect in preventing general distribution of this but as long as there is a popular demand for alcoholic beverages, some one i# going to supply that demand If alcohol cannot be had when want ed, then something else will take its place, In this vicinity ft seems that narcotics are the substitute, especial ly among young generation, and that leads to degeneracy and erjme perhaps surer and quicker than a hundred tUmes drunk would do this connection I will state that in countries where wine and beer are in general use, for instance, Belgium, | Holland, Germany, Denmark, ¢ |drug vices are practically unknown pally have no desire for ff, 1 consider that you just right to prohibit y of th ve no more me from taking a drink of wine, beer | or water, than | have to prevent you from eating apple ple, because that particular kind of pie may not agree with my stomach BOB PETERSON, 1334 Shelton et. Editor The Star: Down in congress our national | lawmakers are being confronted with yartous petitions from so-called re | formers, asking that Sunday laws be mate for Um District of Columbia Among the various excuses put forth for regulating the business of other people on Sunday is that It te Getrimental to health to work seven Gays in the week. There are a num | ber of things that are detrimental to legislate on health matters, it has a wide field to explore. It in easential to good health to get the proper amount of sleep (which is rest in tte truest sense). It is eanential also, to eat the right kind of food, and at the proper time, and in the prope: amount, and have tt hygientca prepared and combined. It ts proper poison, | health, and if congress etarta in to| 10 whould @ lienb ned b diet different ne have ode ng are pr the year in or qua cold In wine ter, and not wuffer from heat in sun protection against hing Is nino neceasary and very oviding the temperature ter in multed to the physleal ondition of the pers Many emi nent physicians tell us that it in detrimen to health to smoke Shall congrens legixiate on all these questions and countless others that might be mentic If not, why I think, zen to be vacc not beca | will die If he contracts the smallpox, but because if he does contract it, he will be # source of contamination, jand endanger the life of others. But Bunday labor i# not infectious, It endangers the civil rights of no one It in no more evil to work on Sunday than on Wednesday But who knows for eure that Sun. day labor is detrimental to health? It fs comparatively easy to make a chart, indicating the deterioration of those who work on Sunday Instead of lonfing, but what are the facta? Take clergymen, for instance, Many of them work during the week at the [most taxing brain labor, and then on Sunday preach twice: and if they rise to the oceasion, when they re tire Bunday night they are weary. But what wearted them? Why, Sun- day work of course. But they are not noted as a clans being the most shortlived mortals because they | work on Sunday. Take doctors also, They are at the all of everybody seven days tn the week; night or day they must go, }and tn all kinds of weather, yet they live about as long as other men. But notwithstanding, we are told that Sunday work exceedingly detri- mental to longevity, Farmers, per- haps, observe the day of rest as well an any clanm, but they are not noted an living longer than men fn other occupations Leginiation regarding the observ. ance of » day of rent is a matter that foes not belong to the atate. It ta a question between the individual and | God, and men's conscientious convic- } | tions should not be tnterfered with by the legislative thinkers WILEY B. RANDOLPH. Omak, Wash. . eae Replies to Critic | Editor The Star: In tonight's Star A. I. Dz Graham criticizes what I wrote in & previous issue on prohibition. I am the daughter of an English | clergyman who was a brilliant orater and a great student. He was conversant with several! languages, both dead and living (y dead is | |meant Greek and Hebrew), but never did I hear him speak of medicinally made wine, tho of course It can be taken medicinally. uned to know the Bible almost by heart, from end to end, but do not remember reading of St. Paul's json having Indigestion. If the |aacramental wine had been unfer jmented the custom would have been kept wp thru all the ages. The Bible does not speak of unfer- mented wine. In one of the Pralms it mentions “wine that maketh glad the heart of man.” Unfermented Julee of the grape would not save that effect. A. lh D. Graham has the wrong bull by the borne. Hundreds of people, the clergy included, who | voted for prohibition see what « mistake it ts and are voting against ‘t now. T am not the only woman to take this stand. Drunke: You Should Be the Same LARGE number of women’s ailments are not surgical ones, Serious displacements or radical changes have not yet taken place. A tiny part ina fine clock may become loose and cause the clock to gain or lose. a If not attended to in time, the part ma: fall from its place and cause serious trouble. So it is with women’s ailments, they start from simple causes; but if allowed to continue, prod uce serious conditions. When the warning symptoms are first noted, take Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound to relieve the present trouble- some ailment, and to prevent the development of serious trouble. Veg ortland, Ind.—“I was troubled with irregularity and constipation and would often have to lie down because of pains, One Sunday my aunt was Visiting us and she said her girls took Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vego- table Compound and got well, 80 mother said she guessed she would let mo try it. It is doing me good and I praise it highly. You are welcome to use this letter as a testi- monial.”—Sretta Newroy, R. R. No, 8, Portland, Ind. Biltimore, Md.—“For _ several months I suffored with severe backache and general weakness, I could not sleep comfortably at night for pains in my back. I found your book at home and after reading it began at once to take Lydia EB. Pink- ham’s Vegetable Compound. I have had very good results and some of my girl friends are taking it now. You may use this letter to help other girls as the letters in your book 1elped me.”—Rosp Warpner, 3013 Roseland Place Baltimore, Md. Many such letters prove the virtue of Lydia E. Pinkham’s etable Compoun LYDIA E.PINKHAM MEDICINE CO, LYNN, MASS. FRIDAY, MAY 12, 1922. easod-crazed creatures will have) drinking wood alcohol and bootleg il it, or worne—dope-@jo matter what| whiskey. Yes, and far worse tham al price they have to pay for It Jeath, :omny are becoming blind, During the flu epidemic thou I conditions tn every sense of nda of lives would have been|the word are a thousand times | ved if they could have bad| worse since prohibition than they niakey. Good por ne enriches og! ; the teed rod when euftering| Were before and, a T eaid in my with nervous prostration raw eggs| former letter, unless something te ¥ and sherry wine saved my life fone to curb the mental monstrost- | It was right to clone the saloons,|ties now at large who think they | was @ fanation! act to take|are making such strides tn civilian from those who| tion, I see nothing evolving but dim The eternal) aster | the of} but it wine and whisky need them has taken actually triangle Once again, yours for = bette place liquor for wrecking homens! }and less civilized (7) world. Lives are being snuffed out by ALICE M B. 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