The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 8, 1922, Page 13

a altel a SF ee eee ee eee rn www Yy } BS a a a very of the tresa™—Eaedus a 1ds8 ‘The foreword Introduces us to a stpper of tea In farw Renee, whe cite! tn hie home Bnd directs the conquest of the United States’ Irene et THE LOCUSTS “Amd the locuate went wp over the land, and rested in coasts; previons were they, Defers them there sare ne ch hemes they. For thay covered the face ef the whole was darkened; ond they did eat every herd of the land, end all the fruit earth, 90 that the lend conquest, made under the law and without violence. reclaimed under the existing plan. of tea, they are well on the road to com: ~ ema cememremeeng gia a BY 8. B. H. HURST Auther ef “Coomer All” Copyright, 1092, Seattic tar It is @ peaceful empire that white Ingenuity had salvaged from the desert, The story opens tn 1945, the soene boing laid in the Columbia basin, The Columbia Basin project has been carried thru and a million and a quarter acres have been transformed into fertile farm land, just as was dreamed in 1922. Te ls made possible by tha American law, which gives citizenship te Japanese children born in| this country, even tho thelr parents cannot be naturalised. These “Ameri: | can citizens,” the first of whom are coming of age now, are concentrating | their efforts on the Columbia basin—which ts presumed to hav And, acting on orders from thi been sipper ‘upremacy in the great Inland But Americans have not profited. One by one they have been driven out by the Japs of American citizenship, until now enly two familes rematn— (OHN HAMMOND, @ veteran of the world war, and CARLSON, his neighbor, 4ACK CARLO. MARY HAMMOND. OREN TAKAHIRA, cidest son of Carlson's son, js engaged to Hammond's daughter, Jack and Mary are walking together in Neppel, TAKAHTRA, the Japanese boss of the community, Anakes insulting faces @t Mary. Jack strikes him in the nose, knocking him down, diately arrested for assault, the authorities holding that the eusly hurt. Mary rushes to her father and together the y call on Cariso: He ts in poor health and the blow kills him. Hammond and his 5 oe er ter then go to see TOM JENKINS, « white attorney. and is imme ax sort Arriving in Neppel, the Hammonds are surprised to read in the papers that Uren Takahira has died from the blow, They cannot understand it Because Mary says Jack didn't hit him hard. The Papers falsely accuse Jack of using brase knuckles and say his action was the result of a care fully laid pilot. eo Jack. NOW GO ON WITH THE sTORY (Continued From Yesterday) Had the father and daughter not Deen so upset, they would have smiled Qt the elaborate courtesy of the jail Officials who escorted them without ebjection to Jack, and left them alone with him. In the Jap polite Rear there was no hint of the hatred they felt towards their ‘fellow citi wens,’ and thelr Oriental mask was} too thick to ba penetrated. | One who did not know, hearing a Japanese make a Fourth of July epeech, could well have belleved that the speaker was descended from a man, who fought against the British in the Revolutionary war, and that such a country as Japan had Bever existed, or if ft had, the speaker bad never heard of it! ‘The boy, Jack, seemed leas con- cerned about his situation than he Was delighted to recetve a visit from Dis sweetheart. But he was bluff. mg desperately. At heart he was tick, Near his wedding, he could | be feet the pain of all the inherited, racial fears of opposition. For millions of years, thru the strugele of evolution, men had fought against obstacles to the con- #aromation of their love, until in the ds of thelr descendants had grown something, an tntangibie mem. ery which arose with throat-eripping Possibilities of fear whenever the course of true love appeared to be the course of Jack's love seemed Growing very rough indeed. But the boy showed none of this, i ited: there was no ton, even spoke to that Jap be hardly ever saw him!" iy i g t t i But why should after me this way? It was accident that I happened to im. But why didn't dad come your” was ® cruel situation, and aa looked appealingly at her fath- here came to her again the cer inty that Jack was the victim of well-thought-out Jap plot. But To force the last two white to give up their land? No But why such an elaborate ? But tt wasn't elaborate! That Jap had died was just an acct Gent, making the plot stronger. Why? And like every woman who tn tuitively feels the truth, Mary's at- tempt to reduce that intuition to tn- telligent concepts only confused her. For woman, being the more primitive of the two sexes, should be guided by her feelings. When she tries to think she usually makes a mess of nt $8 3 es ont runes that— Jenkins is worried, but goes to jail with the Hammonds to the world of getting him out on bail! What Jack has to do—and I know he will—is to show a bold front; show these yellow officials how a white | man takes things that hurt!’ “You're right," concurred the boy. Footsteps coming along the stone t an end. floor of the jail warned them the | visit was “But we haven't settled anything,” cried Mary passionately “There ain't nothing we can settle “Buri placated Jenkins. ter just leave this to Jack and me jand when they'll let you In to see | him don’t talk about the case at all It cheer him up better tf you do vom't it, Jack?" replied the boy with cheer. ful bravery. “You bet. So they were forced to say good- by, and leave Jack ‘te | meditations, | his unhappy He walked up and down hie cell laren. had gone rested on all the Why had the white men proved | untrue “Jack,” Hammond put an arm'they allowed their inheritance to be to hin thetr thoughts took on a ligious color, He lay down them into darkness. Tt had been « very fair land had America; and the gallant pioneers had hewed civilization out face of nature, for, as they their children and their children’s They had been a religious race, In the main—right back to the Puritan settlers a senae of religion had gone along with effort, and the teachings of Christianity had fol- lowed the ax through the forests. Tt had been a white man’s country, with white men’s ideas of fair play and decency—a country where wom- jan had been men’s ideal Tt was a white man's country no longer. For the locusts from Japan over the land and conata! trust? about the boy’s shoulder, while bluff |:axen away from them? old Jenkins became pocket. “Jack!” He hesitated, while the boy looked at him curiously, fearfully, gripping Mary's band the tighter. With a great effort, Hammond continued, “You know your father has not been well!” Something in the way Mary sighed, and perhaps more from the electric touch of her hand, told Jack Carb fon. “You mean that—that father— ould not come to see me?” he evaded the direct question Hammond nodded, unable to speak. “It seams that it had all to come et once, dear,” added Mary. “Did he—did he suffer?” the boy. “No.” Hammond felt grateful that he could say this. “No, Jack, he aia Bot suffer at all—tt was just like falling asleep!” Jack did not answer. The world, which had hitherto been a play ground. had unfolded a battle. His mother’s death had been something too remote—he was too young when ft occurred—to realize; but this pass- {mg of his father was as near and fntimate as his own breathing. As to all harried minds, one con- orete fact, connected with his situa- tion, troubled him, so that all he said was: “They won't let me go to the tu- neral, will they?” “Perhaps.” (Hammond fell into the sympathetic error of false hope.) “i Mean that Jenkins may be able to arrange bull, or something!” “John,” broke in the lawyer, “you know I cannot. They mean first de- gree, and there’s no ball for that. It's no use, in my opinion, filling Jack here up with hopes we cannot make good on. It's a whole lot bet- ter to face the truth. These damned Japs are after the boy, and won't let him have a chance to hop into @ plans and beat it! It’s no use telling him anything else! We've got a big fight on, and there ten’t a chance iny pursued th trouble. interested in| they brought to nought the stern e! some papers he had pulled out of his | torts of their fathers? Why had they |forgotten that white men had bled and died that they might hew out a fair land for their children? until, tired, he sat down on the béd. A Bible such has had been put in every prison cell by a society, at tracted his attention, Without think ing. he picked It up, opening it at random. As he focused his eyes to the reading, he saw that the book had opened at the tenth chapter of of the hoped, ty Why had Why had Why had congress permitted such immigration? Japanese And why had congress, by allowing the spawn of Orientals to vote and be citizens, given their country over to the alien? Why ts @ politician a politician? and again ell larger matter of his country’s do dauchery he could forget In the spreading of the lo custs over the land, over all the Co lumbia basin and its adjacent landa, the now “inspired” Jack Carison be. gan to see a punishment—a “plague” sent by God to rebuke the white peo ple of Americal In the his own But would God ever send a “strong east wind” to blow them away again? He thought of the history he had fead, and of what his dead father had told him; of the wave of care lessness and love of pleasure—with the children heeding little of what thelr parents told them—that had the followed the Great war: a change ex- tending even to music, @ sort of speed hysteria, in which rhythm of old-time had been lost. calm And the people had forgotten, Duty had become as a word extinct. Men had even arisen to call the sug- gested soldiers’ bonus “unpatriotic.” Vapid seribblers had written novels better fitted for the minds of sewer rats than for human beings. clous motion pictures had made much money for the producers. decency had almost disappeared. And the basic cause of all this had been the contempt for the command. ment: Sala- In fact, “Honor thy father and thy mother, eo.” that thy days may be long in the land which the Lord thy God giveth For netther had they honored their immediate fathers who had ma |been scorned. And “their” days in the land were no longer theira. Jand had passed from them, and soon a white man would be entirely out of place, with even the ponsibility of a congress of Japanene descent pass. ing laws to bar out all white men. Thus aid Jack Carlson, emotionally stirred, see prophecy fulfilled. parents, but, de the Iand had also, the The ‘And presently, overcome, he threw himself down upon the cot and @o Be Continue SSE tees «ra - . STAR BY AHERN | THE SFATTLE THE OLD) HOME TOW SAY KID, “THis 1S A SWELL MILL You'RE LIVING Now some vig | fWevS A couPLe TLL COME Home wrth] (OF CUPS WERE Ve ric int ANY OF! | i? Vou an’ give “WW! | | THAT RE FULL OF Lh ie Onis TMaT he WISE CRACKS, BUT | Ue ARNICA For We'll BE ABLE CMBR GUITT IF E'S GONNA SOME ONE, 1S GETTIN NO WONDER MARSHAL OTEY WALKER IS MYSTIFIED~ THIS 1S THE THIRD DAY HE HAS FOUNDA BUNCH OF FLOWERS ON HIS DESK. You MUST HAVE EXPECTED COMPANY FOR DINNER TomenT,)) (C) UUOGING FROM THIS Lavour | ag 44 . 16 THIS APPLE PIE OR 15 1T PLUM Pit? | HAVENT BEEN FEEDING WILBUR VERY GOoO LATELY SO MLL SURPRISE HIM WITH A NICE PIE FOR Dinner ! SWELL THEN, WHAT i DIFFERENCE Does }4 Mane ain Say! cookse useel ‘eu Got AN AWFUL CRUST FSOPLE BGNDING MG A Bice UKE THay #! ie & * od By Mabel CI hea and ar Goat + te SEER: a0 | Page 528 | | JUDGE AUSTIN CHAPTER & Pessy locked much puzzled hundreds of Indians, In guyest “But, Judge Austin, she said, “T do not know where all those sol- diers were going; were they start ing « wart” “Not at all, not at all; quite the other way around,” the judge re- plied. “The Indians were so very hostile that the settlers wanted troops at Fort Colville and the government hoped to put in troops and guns and show the war paint, and feathered head dress. Even thelr horses were painted, white and crimson, bril lant blue, and yellow, and green, with eagle plumes in their manes and talls. “The horwea pranced and arched their necks, the Indians gave out their long, blood chilling war cries, joyfully as if they were giad to be going to battle, and sure to DON'r Brow ve THS FIRST PERSON ‘You SEE HEN YoU COMG IN KORE Indians that they could fight tf| win they must. Then deal with them “It's @ long story, that fight, but the U. 8. soldiers won, of It was Simple Simon, after all, who gave them an idea. kindly. MOUILL CO OUT WITH Yancy and Nick asked all of|told them. “Whenever you wish to “But that one stretch of coun-| course, and finally the big chief mw arcing r05% friends about her| find anything, don’t go to the place try the Indians wanted left for| cam to Coleone! Wright and told MORE tw UT Oe. - you expect to find It at all! Profit||} them, and their chiefs got to-| him this, ‘Tam in a sad way NOW, what (S fr broom by my experience! When I want |] gether and said they would hold| Hither I must be killed by my Doctor Foster hadn't seen tt, al-|whate, do I go to the ocean? No, |} it whether or no. own people as a traitor, or fight though he needed it very much, he | gir, 1 get my mother’s pail. “I can't take time to tell you| the white man, who is my friend, said, to sweep away the puddies on| ‘y¢ 7 Jook for plums, do I go to|f about that war and its reasons,| What shall | do? “"I believe you speak truly,” the colonel replied, ‘but now we to the TN go on and tell you of this one grand battle, then go on to my his way to Glo‘ster. The Fat Man of Bombay said the orchard? No, sir, I go thistle-patch.” he waa busy enough hunting for his| ‘Then where shall we look for own story. You see, all this hap-| have fought with your people for pipe that the snipe had run off with,|Mother Goose's broom?" asked pened years before I came, but| four long days and we have wont! without undertaking anything more. | Nancy eagerly. js all connected with my own| “‘Bring me your arms, your ‘Tafty, the Welshman, knew noth. “Not up in the sky, that's cer story. women id your children, and tain,” nodded Simple Simon. “From their hilltop the soldiers | lay them at my feet to prove that ing about the broom. ‘Tweediedum said he knew nothing | “Look down on the ground. Ask|f looked out over the beautiful) YoU trust me; then, and only about it, either, but that he would|Scare-Crow, and Jack O'Lantern,|[ grassy plain, stretching to the| then, will T talk peace ask Tweediedee, as soon as they|and Show-Man and Tailor Dummy Northwest as far as the eye could “Well, the Indians sullenty sur- were on speaking terms and Jumping Jack and Wooden || see, in the distance the wooded| rendered, but in their hearts hills and the lakes bordered with | ™&2Y of them kept the fires of ‘The Baker's-man knew nothing. | soldier.” ‘ The Barber knew nothing. The Twins thanked him and said|} pine forests. hate burning and that's how it The Jolly Miller knew nothing. they would take his advice. “On the plains (Bancroft tells| “™* that nm a 20 years later ‘The Farmer on His Gray Mare| Then they swung themseclves|{ all this in his history) mounted we 8 on their swiftest ponies were (To Be Continued) KKK I rns & popular fiction that a man sup- ports his wife, They say that even when he contributes all the money to the undertaking, that the woman does her share in other ways. The excitement created when the census-takers listed housekeepers as saving no gainful ocoupation appar- ently had not been forgotten. Miss Mary Anderson of the woman's bu- reau of the department of labor, says: “Something should be done about down to the earth by a giant cob. continued their search, (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1922, Seattle Star) knew nothing. It was Simple Simon, who gave them an idea. “why, it’s as easy as can be,” he Woman Held Liable for Alimony by State Laws WASHINGTON, Noy, 8—The old, Woman's Party has discovered that song and dance about the “woman |in these states, under certain condi- who pays and pays and pays,” must|tions, a divorced wife is held Hable have originated in Oblo, North Da-| for the payment of alimony kota, South Dakota, Massachusetts] ‘The discussion had been on the or New Hampshire question of who brings home the|it, Twenty-one million women do Why? Well, digging around in the | bacon, The National Woman's party ‘their own housework with practically |the well known and highly prized of state lawa, the National that it's more or less just no help. We're just as much inter- ‘aport of “bringing bome the bacon.” ‘ 4 . after all,|/web and ested in these women as we are In those who work in factories and of- floes, We want these women to got economic oredit for what they are doing.” Mra. Thomas G, Winter, president of the General Federation of Wo- men's clubs, is also interested. She ts writing an exhaustive article on the subject for a popular woman's | magazine, It seems as tho cooking the salt pork may be about to come into Its own, sharing honors at least, with WHITE CAKE By Bertha E. Shapleigh Of Columbia University % oup butter 2 oups suger % oup milk 2% coups flour # teaspoons baking powder Whites 6 eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla; or, ¥% teaspoon almond extract Cream butter and sugar together. Add milk and flour sifted with aking powder alternately, beating thoroly. Beat whites of eggs until stiff and lightly fold into the mixture Add flavoring and bake in one par 40 minutes or in layers $0 minutes, In baking a white cake it ts best to have a slow oven at first, In- creasing heat gradually as cake rises and browns slightly—then de- weasing the heat to finish baking.