The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 22, 1922, Page 6

PAGE 6 Palmy Days for Good afternoon, have you been “gypped” yet? If so, kiss your hard-earned savings good-bye. If not, read on, and hang on to your money, for the palmy days have come for the sucker hunt- ers, all set for a New Year's clean-up. Their bright little scheme of cashing in on a bonanza next month, when Uncle Sam pays back some $645,000,000 to holders of 1918 War Savings Stamps, is described in another column of this paper by the U. S. treasury’s expert on savings, Lew Wallace, Jr. Postmasters the country over report that the mails are flooded with “come on” letters, prom- ising fabulous returns from distant oil wells, factories, farms, and what not. Seattle, perhaps, is the most promising field he Seattle Star Main oso Published Daity by The Star Punt New. Exaggerates Power of Klan Oleott, defeated governor of Oregon, gets excited back about the Ku Klux Klan. Says it controls Oregon which isn't true. Says it defeated him for gov- mor, Which is only partly true. ‘Oleott opposed the Klan in the primary election, and de- fated the Klan candidate. Of course the Klan went in final election to the man who opposed Oleott—Pierce. F wasn't a Klan candidate. He was merely the nt of an anti-Klan candidate. The Klan’s own was beaten by Olcott in the primary. the Klan votes had gone to Olcott in the finals he have been elected, naturally—but nobody expected to go to Oleott. The Klan was not the issue in the on. It was merely one of several elements that pre- Pierce to the retiring governor. side from one sporadic outbreak—is there any hee to support the governor’s claim that the Klan a reign of lawlessness in Oregon. In states where became lawless it got its fill of hard hot lead. likely to try any rioting, kidnaping, tarring or sjacking in these parts. Klan DID NOT put over the compulsory public bill in Oregon. That measure was drafted by en- tic members of the Masonic order, in the probably m impression that they were advancing the cause pation. It was backed by the Federated Patriotic and by a few of the more active churches, par- by those denominations which make no attempt blish parochial or private schools. The Klansmen insignificant part of the element which shoved he schoo! bill. Klan gets credit—or blame—for much that it does Both its members and its enemies exaggerate its oh Ps ae onde really a very simple device for extracting money simp! = Its promoters—clever and some- crupulou: ividuals—by preying on the racial prejudices of prospective members, are able that in the aggregate are amazing. thaps the members get their money’s worth in mum- ‘and masks. As long as they keep their masks in- harm is done. As long as they remain peaceful, 3 ld be let alone. » Klan was—and is—a menace in Texas and Okla- It may have become a menace in Louisiana; it can y t a menace where there is a lawless and ig- nt element sufficiently large and possessed of nerve. the Klan isn’t the menace in Oregon which Olcott it to be. It isn’t a menace in any of the North- American Editor The #tar Before this year expires, I wish, to my a by your kind permission, |few words In regard to citizenship, | There are many of your intellige “ve not to yet dec become citizens of the United States, and thousands who have not taken out their citi |aenship papers. I have consulted ‘many this year and, asking why, only a few have answered like this } “It i» too much trouble;" “It makes no difference;” “I claimed exemp- tion from military service during the Wilson war;" “If the democrats lever should get in power, we will have another war,” ete. To all aliens whatsoever reason | they might state, there is only one |answer, and that ts “You don't [know what you lose by not becom. jing citizens of thie great nation.” It matters not what country you came from—on the American ground you owe no allegiance to y monarch, pape, priest, king, czar, absolutely none. On the American soll we all are Uncle Sam's people Editor The Star: Some time during last summer in your old country, | The cat that is always hungry | quests. Citizenship | | whether or and those citizens net better than the United States should/ugal by the Moors and of Southern |about his Nps and eyen, emigrate for those lands Hundreds of boys have consulted this a” ip, and having goal they have told worth the strugste. 1 would not lone this paper for any price;” ‘I am | now « citizen of the greatest nation in the world” “Everything went fine; nothing to it” “I am now a/ new-born person.” Reader, tf you love this country, if you think it ts the best country, | if you are willing to fight in seit! defense in case any nation should! attack America, you should never | give up before you are a citizen of | the United States | I care very ifttle whether you or your attorney made an exemption claim on the questionaire; both of you had the right to do #0; and the jtime is near when such @ claim | never shall be questioned tn any court in the city of Seattle, state and country. Respectfully yours, REV. B. 0. CLAUSON. Y. M. C. A, Deo. 19, 1922, expiring year regarding cith reached that me it was Would Eliminate 64 Principals jaained by other achool workers, of | the ease with which these men and }nations that have become moribund | LETTERS EDITOR and Caucasian stock became fuxed with other The brilliant Hellenes of ancient Greece, thru the influx of Oriental slay after the ron have developed into u people of mediocre Intellect To amalga mation, rather than the Saracens, was due the fall of Byzantium. Hecadent an their Macedonian invasion of Spain and Port the Balkan Staten by the Tartar hordes, with the conse quent infusion of alien blood, hes left a blight upon these people that keeps them behind the rest of Fussia and Europe Where European colonists intermarried with native or foreign elements the result usually been a travesty on c)viliea tien. For example, we have much of Spanish America, the Dutch Bast Indies, Haiti and variour African colonies. In contradistinetion we have the successful, practioaiy pure-blood settlements of the United States, Canada, Australia, Zealand, South Africa and the Ar gentine Republic. Ethnologists often claim there are no people of pure Cau- casian stock. the advice of the dairyman and the breeder: “If you can't get pure breds get the best grades posstbie, but by all that’s good and holy avold scrubs.” Let us paraphrase Brutus: “Not that we love the Japs the lens, but America more.” Yours for a better U. 8. A. other has have | FRIDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1922 Be an “Angel” for One? for this sort of skullduggery in the country, due to the fact that Washing- ton is one of the few remaining states without blue sky regulation. “Get rich quick.” That’s the tempting siren song. Who wouldn’t like to? 3ut while you’re considering one of these alluring “come ons,” mailed out by thousands to sucker lists of “ y marks,” remember that anyone with a sure-shot in- vestment opportunity, offering 10 per cent or more, is not yoing around begging people to invest. He'll keep it for himself, and he’ll have no diffi- vulty in finding capital, if his proposition is bona fide. The man who gets rich at wild-catting is the wild-catter, 999 times out f a thousand. Those who exchange hard-earned savings for gaudy stocks merely enjoy the privilege of contributing to promoters’ easy livings some $500,000,000 a year. Don’t be one of these New Year's suckers. in, or don’t invest. Know Why be an “angel” for some sucker hunter? (Continued Frown Yesterday) vin Karam had only ther conversatior friend. He put two etn a rathe and got You, it was true that the » t why to go to the Yuga river was to follow up the creek by which he was now It was only out of the into Snowy Gulch: they would have to come beck to this very point, And yes, a pedestrian, carry jing a Ke pack, could make much better time than a horseman with jpack animals, The horses could go }no faster than a walk, and the time a moment's fur with his new or three ques curious, hushed voter his answer standing way to ge [required to sling packs and care for animals cut down the day's jmarch by half. | 7 things earned, Karam strolled over to his young partner. ; And at that moment he revealed the ponscanton of a talent that neither he |nor any of his friends had ever sus pected. The rtnge had lost an artist jof no m Ality when Ezram Mel- | ville had taken to the cattle business. |Outwardly, to the last, little lines he was his genial, optimistic, drofl old self. His jeye twinkled, his face beamed tn the Kray wtubtde, hin volee wan rollicking with the fan of life the same as ever And like I’agtiacci tn his masque | there was not the slightest exterior men of the fear and despair that jehitied hie heart. “What have wou and your New that If true, let us take a 8k jought to strike off now and figure | almost SKY LINE SPRUCE 1972-Little, frown & Company | victim been talking about, all thi« time?" Bep asked. “Oh, just a gab-fest-—a tat-\-tat as you'd call it ut you know, Ben I've got a idea all a-eudden.” Ben straightened, lighted his pipe, and prepared to listen. “This old boy tella me that we'd sa just 12 miles y striking off from », instead of goin’ into town, Snowy Gulch is six miles, and we have to come back to this very place What's the use of goin’ into town at all?” “Good heavens, Ez? Have you for- gotten we've got to get supplies? your brother's gun—and his you know he's got a) He said a pup, didn’t he? But it may be an elephant for all I know.) Of course, we've got to go on in.” “You, 1 know Ben. one of us has. But, it seeme to me that one of us out the way and sort of get located. One of us could take a little food and & couple of blankets and make it! thru tn lew than a day. Half a da Then we could have cabin all ready, and everything laid out for to begin work. He could | blaze any dim spots in the trail and save time for the other fellow, comin’ with the horses.” | “Oh, it would be all right,” Ben | began rather doubtfully, “I don’t se that much is to be gained by it. | (Turn to Page 13, Column 1) That’s the official postoffice estimate. what you're investing SCIENCE Atomic Theory. Not New at All. 2,500 Years Old. Known by Greeks. The atomic theory i* one of the most important theories of modern aclence Broadly speaking, it teaches that atoms are endowed with gravity and motion, by which all things are formed Recent investigations show tha® the theory 1s not so modern as has been thought. About 600 B. C. lived a Hindu philosopher, cailed Kanada, which meant “atom-eater.” He taught that all material bodies are not solid, but made up of indivisible particles One hundred years later Leucippus founded the atomistic school in Greece. His pupil, Democritus, by pure reason, stated the atomic the- ory so correctly that tt would pass ; unchanged today Lomonossof, a Russian, developed the modern atomic theory, but hf work was laughed to death and onl recently rediscovered. Meanwhile, John Dalton, in England, in 1693, made the discovery independently, and successfully impressed his views on the world. WM. G. McKENALL 103rd and Fremont Ave. school vacation Richard Mansfield! women, termed principals, get their White wrote The Star a letter on the| pay checks out of the public treas question of salaries paid to princl-|ury, the plan suggested by groupe | Pale, declaring that they were paid | of citizens some time ago as a means for “latening to Mary enitch on | of curtailing expensesin tho school | N A BIG ASSUMPTION / farmers of my state being against this measure (ship ‘They will not be against it when they know what it means— assuming that it will accomplish what we hope it will accom. Jones (R.), Wash. Pershing is worried about our army and it might be better views were general. Melodramatist Dying odore Kremer, famous writer of old-time melodra- reported dying in Dresden, Germany. Maybe you is greatest hits: ‘Bertha, the Blind Sewing Ma- Girl,” “The Fatal Wedding,” and “The Queen of the ‘Critics, who “kid” themselves that we moderns are advanced and cultural than our ancestors, say such wouldn't go on the modern stage. However, we're the same line of stuff in the movies. think our soldiers on, the Rhine are enjoying life, a German takes care of their teeth. speak well of many memory courses, but what we | is a course in how to forget. girl with » Christmas ring hates to wear her Christmas gloves. Who Pays for This Crowding? fhe old Herald building, Broadway landmark in New fk, was remodeted in 1921 at a cost of $400,000. Now iy get ready to tear the whole building down. A new mucture, to cost $1,450,000, will be finished by next Oc- all our big cities, one of the severest penalties of con- tion is this vast outlay of building wealth, rapidly fol- d by destruction to make room for something better. in the long run, who pays for this waste of wealth? girl of 19 was elected judge and says it is » joke. Judicial elections often are, which is no joke. asks if a couple married near Christmas are yuletied. Yes, the hard thing about skating is to keep doing it standing up. The Peacock and the Turkey If you have turkey for Christmas, you'll be eating a mmber of the peacock family. The peacock struts, proud @f its plumage. The turkey hasn't the plumage, but he uts anyway, living on his ancestors’ reputation. Like Nany people. Be tolerant with the turkey. His strutting without cause uman. Strutting is vanity. Vanity is a manifesta- n of ignorance, Chance will manage the Boston Red Sox next year, giving this at least one chance. the modern girl has no complexion she will make up for it, good Christmas gift is the gift of knowing what others want. only hunter who trails race tracks is a fortune hunter, Chrisimas three-fourths of the fat people get fatter, | Johnny, and vice versa, in the ‘mnc- jtum sanctoriuma,’ which these fel- | lows always refer to as ‘My Awfia.’* We don't know how Mr. White aa- | him and the general public that these fellows have « lot of time on their hands to do nothing, after Mary and jJohnny are savagely told to go to thelr rooms, | that these principals were kept busy, with no idle time on their handa, i their minds kept busy with educa jsalaries which they receive might | come nearer being earned Ho@ever, as the situation stands at present, and with the knowledge Editor The Star Should Caucasian American and Malayan Jap intermarry? Should a thorobred racehorse and @ draft horse cron? ‘The Caucasian, in his purest form, is found in Western and Northern |; Burope and colonies in America, | Australia, South Africa and else where. He has characteristics pe- cullar to himself and not found in other peoples In constructive thinking, In over. coming complicated problems, in | pioneering and developing new ter jritory, he ts alone, tho others after- | ward come in, ape his methods and thru cheaper living and greater fe certained that fact, but we can tell| If the school board would see to it} | tional work, if that is possible, the | Should Whites | district shi iid be adopted, namely: | the istrict, comprimed of 80 grade schools, be divided into 16 sub-dis- triets A thoroly competent principal should be appointed to superintend | each district, comprising five schools, thereby creating a force of 16 prin- clpals, with five schools each to visit, one on each day of the week. Sixty-four principals could thus be out out, making @ saving of about } $160,000 a year, and also creating sufficient work to keep them busy, instead of standing around with their hands in thelr pockets, or sitting in the “awfis” walting on Johnny and | Mary to tell their stories. | 0. 3. F. Marry Japs? All worthwhile ~ aad or ideas have been developed by this peo- ple. In fact, the sum and substance of our modern civilization is due to them The Japaness, on the other hand, belong to the great Mongoloid Malay race. They are plodders and keen observers, but not originators. | Ambitious, they borrow the ideas of | the Occidental people, while the} more conservative Orientals, like the Arabs, adopt the methods of their forefathers, Neither type advances in themselves, As to our intermarriage with |Japanese or other non-Caucasian | peoples, we have the answer in the many examples of once flourishing LETTER FROM \V RIDGE MANN Dear Folks: The other day I thought T'4 go and look around the stores, and give them all the double.O, on toy department floors. For there is where I like to be when Christmas comes around—they make a“ bigger hit with me thgn anyth I se the big electric traine, wi only cost, the tate I'm getting old for Toys, I'd thin to show the boys the way it oug’ Another item strikes my eye I really ought to buy a telegraphic ‘set again, and string the thing about men should help the children out. 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