The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 14, 1922, Page 6

PAGE 6 Self-examination is a sign of progress, America, therefore, must be a progressive commonwealth, for it is being self-examined to the right and the left; up and down; north, south, east and west, Earnest young women and men with technical knowledge of musie, art, philosophy, literature, science and what America has you will are arising to remark that none of these. Main Streets are held up to ridicule, as tho all Ameriea were confined within the narrow outlook of those thorofares. Babbitt, that self-sufficient soul, held fast to THE SEATTLE STAR middle-class stereotyped complacency, is declared to be Uncle Sam in the flesh, America is a soulless waste, going down into the depths of narrow fanaticism or the deeper wells of materialistic indifference, So say some of the critics. In thia mood of domestic pessimism, it is encourag ing to read what others say about us, The New Statesman, of London, refuses to take Americans at the valuation of their newer novelists. In a review of Sinclair Lewis’ “Babbitt,” the New Statesman says Babbitt, silly as he is, must have been struck by “the majestic creativeness of his own The Seattle Sta Path The Mar Pubitening Ce hay oor " end United Prees he, $1.00, 8 Outenie ef the Chicage etfien, thee, . N xs. Doron effin, Tremont bide Cemadian Pacitte bite Time for Change in Constitution Mayor Fleming's opening gun at Spokane in a battle to Win a new state constitution is well timed. There is a decided swing toward progressivism; a willingness on the part of the people to discard old and creaking machinery and get some efficient engines for the ship of state, The t plant eats up too much fuel for the amount of power it produces. Since the state document was adopted, not so many ago, it has never been liberalized to accommodate ihe liberalizing spirit of the times; on the contrary, it has several times been modified to abridge the rights of the Th pursuance of this doctrine we have seen stripped from us the right to regulate our own city business. Here and there a man has stepped out and defied the powers, aa Commissioner Funk, of Spokane, did when he put in a ‘eity asphalt plant, in plain defiance of his “rights” under the present code. But, for the most part, the people have been losing their ‘rights; the political swashbuckler, the special interest cor- tion, the profiteer, the crooked “big business” man, curtailed them, generally without much of a battle. ‘The result today is chaos. And a pretty expensive chaos at that, As a state we are getting nowhere with ¢ treme rapidity. We are heading into the general direo- ‘ion of bankrupte) steered along by dull-witted legislators who, when confronted by the need of raising a lot of ' money fast, slap a burdensome poll tax on the poor, be tause the poor’s objections don’t matter. because Ht has appropriated leas than was ie congress in 1918 when we were engaged in the world ms after the war thelr goal seems to be to reduce expendi we ted when the nation was @M) & C Pershing and bis claim they killed 200 ducks, but many they did They're Studying Our Ghosts tory has been opened at Leeds, England, for ying every man and his ghost. The investigators to prove that our ts are like our shadows and with us. ments eventually may be traced rho 0 wollen ong wen rg gpa bee ge ally, and biliousness may be cured by attention to a course. Perhaps it may be. But, ng at new ideas is that the next ugh against us too many times to skepticism a sure thing. Leeds theory of ghosts is based on the old idea of About each of us is supposed to be a dim outline light, called our aura. It is possible to see an aura proper lighting effects and by peering thru colored But, it is uncertain whether the aura thus made is an individual thing, or is simply a trick of light. Leeds laboratory it is hoped to prove that the aura complete entity, and is, in fact, man's astral 4 ich survives human death, and which, indeed, is ost. ‘The aura, according to the Leeds theorists, ought al- rays to show a proper shade of pink, if its physical coun- . the man himself, is in health. When different - colors exhibit themselves, something may be wrong with ‘the aura’s spirituality, which, in turn, may affect the wellbeing of the aura’s human frame. So, when ; Leeds pioneers find a pale pink aura accompanying a ‘subject in physical distress, they intend to try spiritual means of bringing out the color, hoping this will restore their patient to health. If ghosts really do exist, why not make the most of thém? Leeds is going to have a try at it, anyway. Thirty-five years age the congress of the United States began sertons efforts to check immigration. But the efforts of congress were vetoed Dy presidents ax carty as the first administration of Grover Cleveland and as Inte as the second admintetration of Woedrow Witeon —Repre sentative Johnsen (KR), Wash. Tt is strange how we put things off. In Kansas, a man needed « shave 3 years before he got Kt. Several Rattimore butchers hy told to mend their weighs, Herr Santa Claus Is Ill When Johnny hauls down his Christmas stocking on Dec, 25 will he see on his toys that familiar stamp: “Made in Germany ?” ly not. In the first place, the Fordney-McCumber tariff act toys 70 per cent ad valorem. Tn the second place, even as far back as June of this | year, costs of making toys in Germany had advanced to » such a point that they could be sold only at a price which practically equaled those of any other country There may be a few German toys in the shops left over from the imports of 1921, when exports to the United States reached two-thirds the amount sent here ip 1918, But there won't be many more. Russian soviet covermment in five year old now W ever hax had enough to eat. Aradiana man bax found a new comet in the milky . bat the dog star gone after mith suas =” Take all youngsters, We're Getting Closer to Canada Canada expects to have her own ambassador, possibly under a different title, representing her in Washington. Heretofore her diplomatic relations with us have been han- dled thru the British ambassador. Tt means, Canada thinks it wiser to deal with Uncle Sam direct instead of thro a third party thousands of miles away. A sensible arrangement for neighbors Canada understands us better than the English a Cape May farmer chet an engie stealing bis eagien to leave pian alone. Wh Glen. Tit will teach Der most famous rich American henters are chores girts. A MESSED-UP JOB THE MOTTLED BUTTERFLY BEGIN HERE TODAY w M. Jonquatie, ohiet of the Rervion de |... shy bg Noo saad le furete and the areatest detective im 7 France, te attempting te eelve the mye The Marquis seemed pussied that ie not This Land of Ours Is On Its Way to a Great Cultural Re-Birth country, its miraculous power to bear and nourish without end countless multitudes of men and women. He is so silly, so ill-educated that he prefers to think of it bearing and nourishing countless multitudes of featureless standardized Regular Guys. “But there is in these ple a vitality so intense that it must eventually bolt with them and land them willy-nilly into the sphere of intelligence; and this immense commercial machine will become the instru- ment of their aspirations.” The prophecy is true. The era of intellectual humility into which America is passing is a sign of it. SCIENCE Cheaper Radio. Sale Is Epoch-Making. Babson's Idea. ~ What's Next Step? | A New York city department store lhas just sold 850 “Western Electric | receiving and brondcaating stations” | at $496 apiece. | ‘This wae at a special sale The outfits are deseribed as “Built for the | United States navy. Adopted by the United States government as atand jard. Now in successful use on gov lernment ships, Sets that have never | been used.” | Thin sale is a history-making event, | It is the forerunner of besterade | radio at « low price | ‘The ad offering these seta for $495 |saye “the estimated cost of produc ing thane seta today in $1,665, and the estimate is conservative.” ‘The production com, however, will | be reduced eventually, Cheap radio of the best grade ts Inevitable, |member, watches were almost pro hibitive in price to the average man | unt!) Ingersoll vet out to make them |for » dollar Bo were autos, until Heary Ford put on bis thinking-cap. Another prophetic vision of radlo’s future comes from Wellesley, Maas. where Roger Babson, business ex pert, backs a movement to build « “wireless community church.” In this chureh, at different hours each Sunday, religious services for al! denominations will be conducted } by radio. For instance, Baptists would get their service from 10 to 11 tn the heap : } only the memory of Infertora” | Man's createst Invention te the art The Profecr ot Police rested hie/ Of communication. Ite first form arm on the seat of the box, while|WA* speech. Peopple [the Marquis fingered his monocie | Ut of their separate idly, twisting the silk cord. He ap | TmYee and congregated in sumed an attitude of careless at. | Uemen' tention, and M, Jonquelie went on: “On ‘the plight of the 18th of | February, Monsieur le Marquis | beside the door, At the moment the Marquie gave this item no atten. tion; It did not impress him. Tt waa! lets, the servants having Fettred, Tet wes aviation. and the Marquis withdrew bis hedrocs alen Lg feel the primitive system af com “It appears, however, that digres. of tomtome or puffs from beacon tory covewetnng, te thett of a dlemen4| “Do you generalise, then, to no 8 of the mind occur to all of U% | preg epenteee from © definite purpose to the Marquis de Chantelic MARQUIAN DE CHANTELLE, wealthy ‘The telephone crowded close on Ageartene, wise of the ta “By no mea replied the Pre he border of dreamland. It ©) the nesin of the telegraph. MARQUIS DE CHANTEL [fect ef Potice, “I would generalize cv ed to him that this slip of paper! Now it's radio The beaqeitut to the solution of this mystery: and Wes & memorandum by the com! wus the next step, be mental MME EIRTENEOPP wae singing when M. Jonquelie entered the spere and Proceeded to the box oocupted by the Marquis, Before entering, be stepped an waher whe wes leaving WIth & lanes Om the pretext of with M. le Marquis’ aid, can arrive at it” “Monsieur,” replied the colity, “I believe the mystery [solution seems complete.” The Marquis M. Jonquatie if he) See ” pepeated the Prefect of Swoke, he remembered it, and @otng small private eafe in the apartment ean tell why Jean Leques, who confessed Police, “is the word precisely While into the drawing room in his dress when ft should be deposited with te the theft of werkiacs, would setlit is true thet the criminal, Jean /o@@own and slippers—it was before banker? But to these objections the magic py Ang o —e |Lequex, has confessed before the the arrival of his valet--he found Marquise always returned the same! | CuApeanl ix leourt and been sentenced to a term (the slip of paper where it had re answer-—that she alone had the) lef years for the robbe of theese Matned as the ft had been slipped M. Jonquelle emiled at th? eweis, the jewels rrmaers to be dis fn the door ee a bie oe Marquis covered The Marquis was surprised when “But I must be permitted. mon: ite paused and regarded the Mar.|he came to examine this bit of @eur le Marquis, to bold my ¢%- quis with an expression of compli. | Pe { contained some numbers planation as a @ort of wage against the details of your story. The Ser vioe de in Surete in Oiled with ad ment ‘We feel, at Surete, that if we cout! bring ¢ the Service & mination you: You must omit NO remaining feature of this matter the | aU antette | item of the narrative AR. BOw/ same degree of excellent acuihen Monsieur turned at once to the} enchanting Mme. Zirtensoff is! Hair cnet wag brought to its initial small «afe which te built into the! like @ sunburst of dreams, and th® stages by the Marquis de Chantelle, Wall of the apartment after the! figure of a Gryad! One would 40 we should be able to ree ye | American fashion. He tried the com. munier for her.” Recklace to the Marquise upe dination written on the slip of| The Marquis laughed febeen freon Amestes. G@iie paper. found It correct, opened the! “Murder, monsieur?” tomorrow, does she not? It secma | S#fe and discovered that the neck “An, yea,” replied the Prefect, a brief time for so difficult an un.| lace had disappeared.” | : a “murder or any lesser crime.” dortaking The Prefect of Police hesitated in The Marquis looked the Prefect M. Jonquelie amily’ the narrative and addressed an in i, ly in the face 4 reeret to Invade pleasure, Maracts. and expe this, the f nal night of Mme offs triumph—amasing © adorable woman! One should ho momdént of her excellence. He paused But monsieur, I upee You believe this robbery could hate been committed for a woman?” “For whom other could jewels be intended?” replied Jonquetie The Marquis continued to the Prefect with « “You mean.” he said, “that the veason why the Apache, Jean Le Quex, did not tell what he had done With the neckinos was, in fact, be cause he had given it to a woman? The Prefect of Police looked at the Marquis with some concern, with, In faot, @ certain siement of wonder ally reward certain Interest cannot ing of this matier unless 1 of it correctly sour, to repeat theee details, | aoouracy LETTER FROM V RIDGE MANN Dear Polke ‘They say T ought te take my pen, and say a worl of praise to bring to minds of older men the books of chilthood’s days. Now that's a thing Tm glad to do, for there in where I met the finest ftrienda I ever knew--a bunch I can't forget When Mother Goow’s airy rhymes had opened fancy’s door, I learned the lure of fairy times—the magic days of yore, What wondrous things they axed to @o, those charming folke I met My fairy friends were live and true—I half believe them yet And ther Rrowntes—fanny elvee—who looked for others pects, and always seamed to please themaeives by doing kindly donde Apé while | watched them roam eround, and saw the fe they had, I learned that Jasting joy is found by making others eiad And when I reached the golden age when bors begin to grow there stepped from out the printed page the finest friends 1 i know—Tom Brown, Tom Sawyer, Fauntleroy, and Huckleberry jf] Finn-—cach one a real, a human toy, « friend thru thick and thin. Ané when I see the way we scheme to keep a lofiy ar vtrut and sham tbat we may seem a bit above the neet he wande and ivel the free and open wave nt bare whose heart « in books of buvhood days were true and ree 1 think I Marquis has Already been concluded, I believe tts the | Combination of the safe of the Mar. | ech ae her gga wees ogee money, quately admire your exceiient hand-| am) quite certain that 1 have the detaiis! Permit me, mon-/ and correct me, I beg of you, if 1 should present them with an item of in I was absent and I have hour to verify this impree . been present, you spoke of the dan- but In the morning when he ger of keeping this necklace fn a tten with @ pencil and the worts ja | in 9 strained, unformed hand: “The (in memory of the four ne) een Next was the telegraph, evolved i] munionting long distances by relays | hat you did not know the combina. tion of this safe, that the combina = thom was known only to your wife, tye Marquise, and that more than ° for example at the Cafe An on the EB old fur 14 Of December at FOU Use a coal of high heat —— | value—one that doesn’t leave | part of ita combustible weight jin the ash can. The time to buy ts mow. The coal te BUNKER PRICES Superior Rock Springs Coal Lamp, per ton $13.00 | Keg. per ton......812.50 | Renton Hill | Fuel Company | DR. 2. Hh. 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( Our Heroes ] Have they not died wide by side? Are they not heroes? Under their engines, Have they not stood at the throttle and brake, And gone down to death for duty’s aake? Calm, undisturbed, be the peaceful repose Of the men who heve died tn their overciothes. I would not take from the soldier's grave Not even the blades of grans that wave; Nor do I ask you to hand me down A single star from the poldier’s® crown; All honor to him: but forget not those Who have lived and died in their overclothes ‘Twould be wweet to know, when they're laid to rest, With hands folded silently over their breast, ‘That their loved ones would come to thelr graves each year, Bringing wreaths of flowers; that thelr loved ones’ tears Would dampen the dust on the graves of those Who have lived and died tn thetr overciothes railway men who met death while at the performance of their duty November 8, 1922.) ate? Be miFRBER By? * a sae COFFEE -the universal drink