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

THE SEATTLE STAR TUESDAY, JULY 18, 1922. Our Statesmen Weaklings, Harding Feeble, Says ‘Mirror’ Man The United States government te @ hopeless muddle of Ineffi- ieney, Its statesmen are weak: lings, and its pet projects “sops to the public.” This ts the news tmparted to America in “Behind the Mirrors,” the new book by the anonymous author of “Mirrors of Washing Unlike “Mirrore of Washing: ton,” which was a collection of sketches of political personall- tlos, the new book ts a discursive narrative in a philosophical vein concerning Amertean tendencies. President Harding ts made out to be a weak character, but Is fa vorably contrasted with Secre. tary Hughes. But—tho “Mr, Harding has more common eense than Mr. Hughes, he is feebler than Mr, Taft,” and the present chief jum fee is not painted in complt- mentary terms. Mr. Hughes ts dented credit for his startling warship-serapping proposal at the Washington con ference. “Even the dramatic method of making the proposal, with de falls of the tonnage to be scrapped, was not Mr. Hughes’ iden,” says the writer, “Let us do the man In the White House Justice, He conesived it on the Mayflower, read it to Senator dames Watson, and wirelessed it to the state department.” Few public men are spared Roosevelt and his colleagues come tn for thetr share of vitriol ‘The colonel lived by picturesque exaggeration, it ts told, with the additional remark, “Actually, hia rule was one long compromise with Aldrich and Cannon.” The author goes down the Hat of government figures and enter prises with tronte energy The cabinet ia a “set of weaklings” the senate now “rules the execu tive.” The bloe system is not new, and the Washington confer. ence was an “abortive affair,” =, In regard to the mind of Seo retary Hughes—the animonity to- ward the head of the state de partment continues in the new volume. ‘The writer says “An extraordinary but limited mind, Mr. Hughes impresses us fan the boy calculator and leaves us unsetinfied.” Of Attorney General Daugher ty, who is represented as always secking a “vindication,” this per sonal sketch is given “In physique the attorney gen- eral is burly, thick-necked; his eyes are unsteady. © * * His view of the world being highly personal, his instinctive idea of office ts that It, too, Is per : fomething to be used, always within the law, to ald friends and punish enemies.” Put by The Publien in Phone Maia 0600. An ugly threat emanated from the White House last Friday evening. Happily it was an empty threat, according to later developments. Empty because it is officially that correspondents misinterpreted certain responses by President Harding to hypothetical questions put to him. ‘The threat, as broadcasted to the world in Saturday morning newspapers, was that ‘the president was not only prepared, if he thought necessary, to seize and operate the Newspaper Ba- terprise Asan. end Volted Press Service The Seattle Star montha $1.40 de of the ier, elty, Ry m t ety, tn the «tate of W montha, or $9.00 APetter from AIVRIDGE MANN. Dear Polka: I often look around and nee the many things I'd like to be; for lots of other guys I know are drawing bigger wade of dough, and oftentimes I really think I'@ like to be some other gink But even so, there's quite a tot of things I'm mighty glad I'm not; and very first of all of these, tn that benighted piece of cheese, the godforsaken, human chump, whom baseball fans entitle “ump.” For when I went, the other day, to eee our local swatters play, T used my ears and filled my head with what the folks around me said; and then I thought, it's plain to see—no baseball umptr 1 le he rooting throng, the poor galoot ts always wrong; the robber, so the dope would seem, ts sore at all the looal team; the dumb-bell, an the fact appears, ts solid oak behind the cars. He never gives the gang a cause to greet his work with wild ey ever shout, is “Kill the bum! or } | | } LEARN A WORD EVERY DAY Today's word in STIPEND. It's pronounced sti-pend, with ac cent on the first syliable, The 1 in long and the © short. It means—ettled pay for services; | wagen; Tt comes from the Latin ati pendum, from stipis, a gift given in small coin, and pendere, to weigh or pay out. It's used ike this—Ifis weekly stipend was too small to meet ex penses.” salary RADIO PRIMER fome of the cabinet members are deseribed in brief in the fol lowing fashion Secretary Vall—He has the frontiorsman'’s impatience, From bis kind lynch law springs. Secretary Denby—Has a big heart and more enthusizem than he has selfcommand, judgment and intelligence. Seeretary Davis—A_ profes sional glad-hand man. BY LEO H. LASSEN Fe MT. CONSTITUTION HERE is no threat of death along these trails, It takes no dare to climb this wooded height; More like a kindly hill, the mountain rules This myriad of islands; on a clear-skied night I have watched the stars from this higher place And there was a brighter glow to their pure gleam; I have gone at early dawn, high on the highest rock, To see the sun wake and rise from some fair dream. From the summit stone the mountain gives the sign teal mines, but to draft labor for work on the railroads, Since then it has been offi- cially explained that the president recognizes the probable necessity for congressional tion in case the government desires to take over the mines or railroads, and—-which far more important—that the only “draft” he can make upon American labor is a draft.” So, it seems, the president has a clearer understanding of such things as the U. S. titution and the inherent liberties of the American people than those correspond- who jumped to the conclusion that we were about to see the amazing spectacle forced labor in this country. : Pat it to your yourself; how would you like to be told by Warren G. Harding or ly else that you had to work, whether you liked it or not, on penalty of being jh om, th ; ob! applaune; the only thing And if you look the San Juans lift their veils, And the wonder of the firmament is beautiful . » « Even as the poet, David, learned, those trails, That lead to higher hill where the heart can sing, Bring newer peace; and in the sight of firmament, And glorious skies, a Wanderer may find rest; Only with this peace and rest will come content. 2 “Put him out!—you'd think, to hear the reoters wail, the crook weet ht apmaanate Ta ocala Kod Ne pens eg taba on | Winding an inductance coil tn layers And yet, in apite of all the mob, he seems to hold his thank. |/0F for the reception of long wave lens Job; and since he stays and draws his pay, perhaps he's nearer || lengths. This eliminates the neces right than they. But that’s @ job I wouldn't try—it takes a |) «ity of adding separate cotls to the better man than 3. ‘primary inductance, which take up more space than can be afforded. ont (Last call for A) Mann contest letters—they have to be received by tomorrow night) | them were elected as @ coalition, so e | the strength of the straight labor | | party in the commons is only 63, | The pariiament which met on Feb. | . in ruary 4, 19 was af follows—478 supporte: the coalition, composed of 334 unionists, 139 liberals and 11 laborites; against the government Were 229 noncoalition, composed of | 63 laborites, 48 unionists, 28 liberals, 73 Sinn Feiners, 7 nationalints and 10 independents. The coalition union. lets have 334, agninet labor's 6 ‘These measures could be used as @ start in @ program of school redue tion. They would tend to increase ecient isi Seattle's reputation for treatment of ” its teachers, improve the morale of How to “Reduce” Seattle’s Schools (12-22. ee ein Beet ace Editor The Star: In the three years many teachers witt | Y*ting personal spite against any © Asa teacher in the Seattle echacte |taee pereeed homes and when | Mdividual teacher and enable Seattle I take great interest in the letters on | they leave will be forced to sell at |= Dick tte teachers. trom 8 anger without considering the other tac- tions. GEO, MARSH, $04 Virginia St. That Burnt Bridge ereek cougar which may have been a bear, or @ bob cat, or an Airedale dog or something, seems to have departed for its home in the hills, Nothing disturbs a cougar quite so much as publicity.—Vancouver Columbian. Cheers for Mayor Brown Editor The Star: e | they have got a real he man for may- Allow me to express myneif on the | or, and that he is going to look into way Mayor Brown ts going after | things, no matter what the other things. Bully for you, mayor! ba way. ah We are giad you have taken up the an Coke like you are going to mak® | regate case to help The Star find pF Goss ae good to vee the fear. |(@ murderer, ax we about all think jess way you are going after the La.|'t, WA# & case of murder, regardless your editorial page where the ene: | sacrifice, tnérepy leaving most of | "umber of applicants. mies of education hold high carnival. | their three years’ pay in Seattle, « Icy meas vehaeeiier acs bere No mere teacher or friend of edu} Second: Double the number of | interest In the fact that expenditures, preva yg aa or — take is-| pupils per teacher each year for a! next year for the collection of gare . | ny of the wild statements | certain specified period as a lesson in| bage will be doubled, and that thered gate case, Good luck to you, and | Sf the verdict of the coroner's Jury | repeatedly made: for by #0 doing ahe | geometric progression. {aoe bener teorennes tavether oltre The Star has been fighting this cane | gu, dont forget you have the good will of | | Now that we have « cour siete po tly or family to! rnird: Compare teachers’ pay con- | partments? P * & conse | tinualty with the pay of other work-| Perhaps this fact will point to the all the red-blooded citizens of Beat }agoous paper, The Star, and a fear te, which greatly outnumber the) 1. nesor, we will find some of | Senas tare 80 Sa ot Ti Star it }ers #0 a8 to arouse the réhentment real character of the “tax reduction crooks, Jerooks. Q¢ to It! We are with you, cation to the apciamuubte Gales ‘An | Ct, Orwanized labor; thus by playing | league” as merely the organized ene Go after them. mayor! Show some / Msyor Brown and Seattle Star! : | both ends naguinst the middle work-| mies of public education. of those city payroll grabbers that | FN. M. |about the @ubject jet me suggest a/ A. T. EACHER. egmee = few additional things that cin | The British. Labor Party further reduce the Seattle schools. | rare July Weak. pale, anaemic and thin peo First: Discharge every teacher|sainry reduetione may be discussed | 51° made strong and well. Editor The Star: Freee are sar,<m December. 1914, in the system getting more than the |and passed without opposition as the HEAMOTONE I should ike to correct an error | be og hand ae oe 70% uy of| minimum salary, Repeat this every | teachers will be disorganized and it/ ‘The great blood and nerve builder, ts | that {9 s0 often made by different | 0 von labor ctocten Va call ror cage mar brgee injecting “busi-| wil! be too late for them to find|now sold at-ail drug stores at $1.00. trying to form « labor party tn | ———————______™ re ney” Inte school finance. positions elsewhere. and $2.00 per bottie—Advertisement,. USA } In regard to the strength of the la bor party in the British house of | commons, & Seattle labor paper | states that Mr. Kennedy, of the farmer-iabor party, in a speech ai | that the labor party in England only had to get 4 per cent more of tho Votes at the next election to contro! the government. This ie a false and misleading statement. It t# the same in England as tt ts! in the United States; not the per cent of votes cast controls, but the num ber of members elected. At the Inat We extend the giad hand to Sir Auckland Geddes. In a London Never elect teachers be At that time any desired the things that ye shall do: Bpeak ye every man the truth to Ais neighdor; execute the Judgment of truth and pease in house conference. your gates —Zachartah viit.:16. 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In the present situation created by the strike of shop- craft workers, men who assume the work of the strik on oueae are cannot justly be reproached with “This ts not a customary strike in which the employer tries te impose upon ploye unjust wages and unreasonable working rules. In thie case the conflict igellicd tween the employer and the oppressed employes. The act of congress, signed by President Wilson, over wages and working conditions, which OFFICERS: DANIEL KELLEHER, Chairman J. W. SPANGLER, President H. C. MacDONALD, Cashier R. V. ANKENY, First Vice President C. L. LA GRAVE, Assistant Cashier P. B, TRUAX, Vice President E, K. REILEY, Assistant Cashier the E. G. AMES, Vice President C. W, MORE, Assistant Cashier wages and working conditions which an employer is trying to 1 . FOR THIS REA TE IRGE yi f SON PUBLIC SENTIMENT AND FULL GOVERNMENT POWER WILL Photma J. H. NEWBERGER, } na pM cl . WM. KAHLKE, Assistant Cashier .H. 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