The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 1, 1923, Page 6

The Seattle Star Outaide of t hy carrier, Cutting the National Guard (From the Tacoma Times) A mighty noise is being made by some misguided folks as a result of the action of members of the appropriations comunittees of the state legislature in slashing in half the amount proposed for the maintenance of the National Guard for the next two years, And a certain Seattle politician-soidier who never served a day in the ranks and who has finally been ele- vated to high rank in the guard thru his great influ- ence, is conducting a campaign to scare the folks into a panic because the guard cut is thre ened. Let’s get the straight of this affai The slash in the guard budget wasn’t made by so-called radicals or by farmerlabor party men. It was done by Eastern Washington farmers and Western Washington businessmen, all staunch republicans or democrats. These legislators reason that with more than 8,000 fed- eral troops always quartered in this state and with big forts and a huge navy base strategically located where it can act ifcatled upon, it is foolish to throw away $400,- 000 a year on the guard, when $200,000 would do just as well. There’s plain common sense in that argument, too. The Seattle political-soldier works himself into a frenzy of fear. He proclaims that there are more “radicals” in the state than guardsmen and that if the appropria- tion for the guard is cut down the state will be at the mercy of the “reds.” That's plain bunk. But if it were true it would not change matter For the governor of this state get as many federal sol- diers as he wants on an hour's notice if he asks the presi- dent to send them. Camp Lewis, Fort Wright, the forts at the straits, Fort Lawton, or the Bremerton navy base could furnish enough men in short order to quell any up- rising that even the feverish Seattle politician-soldier might imagine. The chief reason for the existence of a National Guard is for national defense. But, the secretary of war is pro- posing to cut down the National Guard. at shows what the war department is thinking. Getting right down to the facts, The Tacoma Times can see no reason for getting excited about cutting the National Guard cash. There isn’t any real reason for a big guard now. And if real, efficient methods were ap- Plied, the guard could be run mighty well on half the cash its officers ask. FINANCIAL LAME DUCKS Daring the credit pinch the large banks of the country carried more Jame ducks successfully thru the crisis than ever before in our history, because of the existence of the federal reserve system—Herbert Hoover, secretary of commerce, before senate committee on banking and cur reney. Jackie Coogan’s net income ts now officially stated by his family to be $1,500,000 net per annum. We will now awalt the income tax returns from Hollywood for 1923 to ascertain just how much somebody ts lying. Last year no individual tax returns from Southern California indicated an income of a million, Bankers say customers are still buying German marks by the millions. Easy marks? Or wall paper bargain hunters? Stabilizing Matrimony Senstor Capper, having done his best to stabflize the farming business, has now set out to stabilize matrimony. Acting for the General Federation of Women's clubs, he has introduced a bill in the senate providing for a federal marriage and divorce law and a resolution pro- posing an enabling constitutional amendment, so that such a law, when passed, would meet the test of the courts. Advance news articles have said of this proposed law that it would make divorce more difficult. That seems hardly borne out by later reports. Five reasons for di- vorce would be recognized, and these, whiJe not quite so liberal as those of Nevada, for example, would work little hardship on any couple to whom a “revoke of the yoke” was necessary. The fact that various states refuse to recognize each other’s marriage and divorce laws has led to undoubted injustices. Under this uniform law, those who are mar- ried in one state would be considered legally married in every other state. Children who are legitimate in one state would be legitimate in all stAtes. Mixups of prop- erty rights would be more easily adjusted. The new law does make marriage more difficult than it is now in many states. No one will argue that this is not a good thing. At the present time 17 states have no minority age limit for marriage, while in 9 states the legal marriage age for girls is 12 years and for boys 15 years. There is no prohibition of marriage of the feeble-minded in 19 states, and in 35 states there is no prohibition of intermarriage of the white, black, brown, yellow and red races. WASHINGTON BEAUTIFUL The Virginia bank of the Potomac river is going to be filled in and the river will flow thru the capitol thru a park—Charles Moore, chatr- man fine arts commission, Dry agents say ‘hey are going to “clean up” the national capltol beginning FeSruary 1. Why not walt until March 5, so that members of congress won't be subjected to undue embarrassment? Most of us read the spring styles to see how much out of st; will be next spring. ep oe ask ah Let the People Declare War A constitutional amendment, by which war could not be declared unless the people voted for it in a referendum, is urged by Congresswoman Winifred Mason Huck. She wants our president to tell other world powers that we'll delegate to the plain people the right t» declare war— provided the other countries do the same. No chance of the others agreeing, while any of us are alive. And yet the referendum on war will have to come be- fore there can be really lasting peace. A preliminary step should be a law by which legislators voting for war would have to join the firs field army. OUTDOORS FUN During the past five years the number of people visiting the national parks has increased from 450,000 to 1,150,000—Arno B, Cammerer of national park service. Hunt the bright side. Longer winter lasts the longer it will be before spring cleaning. Attention, Lient. Carr’s Successor If traffic rules have become a pest in your life, give thought to Tokyo, Japan, where Traffic Rule No, 2, for street car motormen, runs as follows (translated into English): “When a passenger of the foot heave in sight, tottle the horn trumpet to him melodiously at first. If he still obstacles your passage, tootle with angry vigor and ex- press by words of mouth the warning: ‘Hi! Hi!’” LOTS OF SWEETS The ‘value of the sweet potato crop in five states along the Gulf foast this year is over $135,000,000—Senator Harrison (D), Mins, Painting « house or a daughter Is expensive. MISS LIBERTY / Bootleg ge solemnly rned to obey the not clutter up the path of regular ships.- eae z THE AS TRAFFIC COP nN ony traffic rules of navigation News Item. URSULA TRENT A Novel by W. L. George. Sopyright, 1921, by (Starts on Page 1) are cremated in the most modern conditions, Today. notably, I wiah I were educated, because I want to tell the history my life. The lite of 4n Individual Is so hard to understand unless » something ‘about the life of mankind, That pre vents one fron@thinking oneself ex- coptional. How can I discuss the func- tion of wealth, knowing no econom- fos? I want to talk of love, and |know no biology, What do I know of class wars? of metaphysics of psychology? of the real stuff of life? 1 don't know anything ex- cept what I've seen, But I met a Bc. the other day, and she didn’t know, ether. Perhaps one can’t know. mt I tried. 1 really did want to know when I was small, espectally the |things they told me I'd understand |when I was grown up. The trouble lis people don't know things when jthey're grown up. If one had to pans jexams. every five years one might. I remember Fraulein trying to explain to me why the Australians don't fail off. She did tt with an orange and two matches. Then abe moved; the lower match did fail off, and she lost ber temper. I don’t yet understand why the Australians don’t fall off. They made tt worse at Eastbourne ‘when the science master explained what was centrifugal force. It seems to me that if the earth does whirl round at I don't know how many miles an hour the Australians would not only fall off, but fly off, can be very difficult to understan: perhaps that’s why people are con- tent with the temporary shadow made by the fleeting mist that we call life. They can soe that in a way. | Lam sitting down to write the his- |tory of my life I'd lke to begin My name in Ursula Trent; I shall be 40 this year. I was born But how dull tt sounds! Besides, there are such fightful gaps, One doesn't remember. Sometimes I try to bring up the dissolving view that first met my conscious eyes. It 1s a very large room on the second floor of Ciber Court. I think it tacos southwest, for it 1s the late afternoon and the sun shines, Something large and movable is by the window. It may be a rock- |ing-horse. I have « sense of effort, of holding on. Tho window sill? ‘Then 1 must be looking, perhaps for the first time on my feet, at the great and mysterious city in the valley that in a year or two I shall learn to call Burleigh Abbas, A few years later I shall discover it as a village of 80 houses, collected round the post- office, that is also the general shop. I turn the handle, turn tt, turn It, and the film is blank, until I eat cream cakes at Mra. Robertson's in Grafton st, and a cross old Indy, wearing @ transformation, turns round from the next table and re- quests the child not to fidget. Then I am a woman of 14; I fall in love, am stirred to mysterious senquallties by harsh, boyish kisses; then almost at once I am faithless, I suppose it was a good Ilfe, for ‘one didn't feel tt go by so fast; time 1s long when one ts young because ‘one desires what one can’t get; later ‘ono only gets what one can't desire. One couldn't help being happy as a child at Ciber Court. I went down the other day; It hasn't changed sinoe I held on to the window sll any more, 1 suppose, than it changed be- tween my childhood and the day when the first Trent knifed In the back somebody that Henry VIII didn't like, was made a baronet, learned to sign his namo, and grew respectable. Ciber Court doesn't get old. It has got stuck in the corridors of Time, and that half makes me un- derstand why tho socialists want to clear It away. I suppose I had to leave all that, Thad to live, I'm not a Jane Austen girl, sneaking the Jam from the emo- tional'pantry. I'm greedy and bad mannered. I want my jam In pub- lic. Pots of it. I'd have gone if I'd had to pretend to be beth Bennett, tho there's somo ne- cretive Elizabeth in all of us, So many things we must hide from men: our physical preoceupations, because every man likes to think that we haven't got any until we moet him» our maneuvers to attract and necure those creatures that are #o fanciful, 80 much more nervous and Ifrrespon- sible than we; our exploitations of |men, this rare revenge of ours; our contempt for man’s apparent Inck of wensitiveness, the insensttivenoss which makes man so incredibly at tractive; we have to hide that, and our respect for his obstinacy, the sturdy density of the creature. Also we must encourage the perpetual ap- peal of a weakness which we half aftoct, which Increases hin sense of strength and self-reliance; we have to flatter his masculinity and yet at the same time alwayn make him foot how weak he ts when confronted with the physical impulves that we oan ‘@rouno In him. Facts | Harper & Brothers, | 1 bats men; I love them. 1 hate the things ‘they hide from u»—their jsucceastve coarse love affairs; thetr | Private conversation, made up of un- |Dleasant stories or of foolish ideas | golf, etchings, tobacco, Yet I delight tn thelr crudity; it makes thom mansdve I hate thelr con- sclousnoss of conquest, thelr secret contempt for women, and yet that joomterpt deliciously — subordinat jme, I hate the strength that makes jthem conquer me, yet I call to tt, jand I hate the hatred they feel for us sometimes, when they are ashamed of being conquered. Thetr selfiah- Ress annoys me, because thay want things for themaelves, while I want tings for my man, I realize that selfishness in another form, becau {t hurts me when my man has not differs from mine, and I don't lke that, And what I hate most is that the man should preserve things which are not mine—his work, « club, friend or two whom I do not favor. My man is mino; perhaps that ts why I say that lam hia Men are not greedy enough of ua Some of them treat us like thelr equals Equality! What @ disgusting rela- tionship! I prefer the idealists who grant us our own way, as they put ft, and call tt tolerance, ‘while It's only indifference. Or even the dense brutea. At bottom I am too proud to be merely @ man’s equal. T've tried to tell these thingy to men. They've thought them amusing. I talk too much; I don't conceal enough of my past and of my present moods, I kill the mystery which pro- duces Irritation and interest. Of |course, when a man comes to know Us It Increases his senee of mastery, |and he may despiee us for that, or rejoice in us for that. One just doesn’t | know, Every man is very mysterious, |and the life of a woman with a man & sorties of experimenta, Iv A hand ts laid upon my neck, caresses It. I do not move. I know that in a moment he will draw away my hair @ little more from the tem- ples. Ho likes me scragged, and I hate !t. But what is one to do when oné loves? One can become ugly ip one's own eyes, so that the beloved may think one beautiful, I let the hard, pleasant fingers draw back my hair, now and then pretending to growl with anger. This pleases him; tt (Turn to Page U1, Column 3) SEATTLE | craft, swarming off New York harbor, are and | all he wants Only man's selfishness | > | STAR LETTER FROM Avrer MANN Two weeks ago the wife and nonchalantly walking by Sexttle’ ttle now and then the wife here they are aguin—Spring hate And Fr apot wo saw a mighty lot of pussy pause and sikh, “It 10 ke have to buy « Spring and Summe We wandered in the balmy bree That night it started in to Hor dreams of Summer hats soul; I called Blake Milla upon thy later, in anot w To have the weather vary no ls be no blooming slow in making up nw it as to crowd everything, and tells us, Now that’s no way to treat « weather's due to Mayor Brown, I remember very well his pro-el or Hell”—and surely this is iT would pause chanced to look ab willows out L, were 4 wtores and shops. and my, are on dispiny with intermittent stops, And every “You notice, vat, and there the wife would noon TL And then ring, at that; eo hat.” and dreame pd gave now wh, and Spring 6 phone, and sald pretty at mummer heat nd sleet left our “Two tons of very far from kind. It shouldn't its mind, From Autumn thru to us thick with this and that and “Take your pick?” wn; and boldly I proclaim—the nd he’s the man to blame! For on skit, “I'll give you Harmony LETTERS 2 EDITOR The Lawyers Forming a Trust? ditor The Star ‘The news from Olympia ts that the awyern’ has pent agent to Olympla and laid before the judiciary committee a bill which among other th makes it al crime for anyone a lawyer to fill in the printed legal forma or blanks called contracts, bills of sale and agreements, unless this filling in ts done by « lawyer. In this thing not going @ little too association aa | far ‘The lawyers have a combine (they mn if anyone wishe call it an jon) which alen fees; now e 1 not do so, bu must go to an attorney and pay him from $5 to $25 for something he or he could do as good themaclves. It is @ mighty ie for this wtate that th rs of the legislature are not x good th lawye Boy Scout Show Coming Editor The Star I am writing you this letter tn] behalf of the Boy Scouts of America. | This organization (which of course ts very fine) is having an “Anniversary | Week” program February 9-10, Iam urging the ¢ltizens of this city to at- tend as tt will be @ very fine play, As everyone knows the scout show called “Scouting,” was very fing. This | play, called “Adventure,” will be stil! | better. “Adventure’ the armory, Also there in en Week Roundup” now being held by the Scouta, membership increase February 16, 1923. help unm, by Thursday, Hoping you will FRANK BUFFORD, “A Scout of Troop 62.” 1616 Bradner Place. The National Guard Appropriation Editor The Btar Your opinion of the value of the jonal Guard of Washington ap- peara to be in alight contradiction of your editorials in 191 May I remind you that the Nation- SCIENCE || Study ‘Electrons. Done ith Magnets. Tiny Needles Used. Patterns Formed. ‘The most striking of recent din coveries is that dealing with the ar rangement of electrons within the molecule. A molecule ta leas than .000000002 of an inch and thin contains 00 #maller bodies which circle around / like stars tn our sky. impossible to tell anything about the arrangement of these electrons. Here ts how it ts done: | A number of short steel needien | aro magnetized and pushed thru tiny fragmenta of cork no they will float Tn a bow! of water one of these will | point north and south. Put another | Dy ite aide and each will affect the other and they will hold fixed post tions, Make It three needles and a! definite pattern is assumed; and 20 | on for any number, | An clectron carries a negative leo trio charge and whore there is this/| charge there ts always magnetism. The electrons within the molecule arrange themanelves in the same way as the pleces of cork. We aro offering the interest Roadster $465.74 Fully Equipped, Inolud- ing Gus and Ol 9.00 Down $18.80 Per Month Oharges Insurance, Gi E Cy ‘Special terms and low following charge to stimulate sales during the winter ly Down—5% Interest 24 MONTHS BUY BEFORE MARCH 156 Touring $495.90 Pally Equipped, Inolud- Gas and Ol $105 Dor $28 Per Month Payments Include At Charges an: Tatereet, 2 2 NTRAL AGEN Srl g ii. Broadway at Pike Pe: KORA FORA FOr ai Guard of this state was ready for, and in actual service in France be- fore the drafted, or national, army was ready to take its part in the world war? In thone dayn the man who believed preparedness the training for service apparently had some value, but now tf your opinion can be said to be worth anything, his value is away below par. ‘Times do change, don't they? T. C EABOUREL, Bex-Gergt. tnd Wash. Int Yea, times do changa The only question before the house at present in whether the guard needs $450,000 ow from state funda. In the opinion of members of the appropriation com- mittees of both houses a considerably less sum will suffice. The Star be- Hevea that in the interest of economy lowest figure that will maintain a nucleus of the organization on an efficient basis, —Exitor, will be held at} “Anniversary | We must have 10,000} THURS DAY 'Good Luck is thought to go « long way, but Good Judgment goes farther, TO USE "SALADAY IS GOOD JUDGMENT, | “The Tea that is me always Re ” ‘R.& HG. COOK, East 3983, Ell, 0350, Distiny The Dismissal | Bdltor The Star: | 11 iw With much regret that I learn hat he wae fired be Jed the right to do J of the dixmin duty 1 am now sorry to way that I was one of those who helped elect Brown | mayor, and I am doubly sorry if he [thinks I belped elect him police | judge. It seems too bad that bright | men will some time or other do eome thing witch will damn them for al | time. | Everyone in Seattle knows that the auto regulation is becoming | worse and worse, and that speeding. with resultant accidents, is on the in creano, and all because Brown tn ted Beveryns and one Fuqua to look and forgive the first, and sometimes secon and, if the party was of some consequence, even third and fourth offense against the | tratfic laws Carr did the only thing a conscten- tious officer could do—demand that he be given a free hand in enforcing the law or be relieved of the odjum |of nonenforcement, and every law- abiding citizen In Seattle will be dis MARRIAGE ALA MODE Newly wedded Finnish couples have a novel mothod of raising money to set them up in housekeep- ing. At the wedding reception, bride and bridegroom sit tn state in all their finery, the bride holding a sleve covered by a rich shawl. As each guest advances to offer congratulations he slips a bit of money into the steve, and the bride- groom shouts the amount to the company, | Good Manners Brusque contradictions or interrup- tions are both unnecessary in a so jolal conversation, and they usually can be toned down #0 as not to | wound even whero unavoidable in a | talk of @ business nature, Dissent It would seem | the item should be held down to the| can be expressed in some such way as, “Quite true, but—" An interrup- tion, if it cannot be helped, should be accompanied by a word of apology. Metropolitan Theatre Thureday, February 8th Tickets on Sale at Metropolitan Theatre Beginning February sth “RACHMANINOFF Creates records for the Victor Rachmaninoff, one of the very foremost of living pianists, is soon to be here in concert, This mighty and original Russian player-composer has recorded his art for Victrola owners in a wonderful series of Victor records, We will be glad to play his Victor records for you. It is a splendid prepa- ration for enjoyment of his recital; and to own a few records will give you the imprint of his art after he departs. Sug- gested Vidor records: Prelude in G Minor (Rachmaninoff) 1.75 Etude in F Minor (Dohnanyi) 1.25 Minuet (BizetRachmaninoff) 1.25 Polka de W.R. (W. Rachmaninoff) 1.75 Study from “The Children’s Corner” (Dubussy) 1.25 Prelude in G Sharp Minor (Rachman- inoff) 1.25 Rachmaninoff always insists upon the Steinway piano, “Everything in Music” Sherman ay & Co. Third Avenue at Pine SEATTLE b nervice body and that Brown, Hever a Fuqua be censured for tghaldag caker, * does not ik ing goed mae fice as & publ tran ng ir whole duty? o olectas Ew a te 1 guilty, andy it won't take mae lke the Cary th governor (7 he wil m able to get elected ag stable own's of tell him that more break fix things elected story of the was adjud is, to nw gument in G TG TACOMA “1111 Pactfic Aves Phone Mata! So Pai Gouraud Oriental C: