The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 16, 1923, Page 8

The Seattle Sta Published Dally by The #v ng Co Phone Main 0. Paper Enterprise Aseoctatt ad United Pres Hervicn, By » Sty, He per month; 2 montha $1.60; @ months, $1.00; year, Of Garver, city, Ste @ modin Gime, Nicol! 4 Rethman Spesiad Representatiy Mouadnock Didg.; Chicago office, Tribune bid Pectfic tidg.; Bosws effice, Treme: Hart Does Good Day's Work ' Goy. Hart used his veto power just where it ought to be when he killed Ed Sims’ pet bill appropriating $ > for an oi! well and otherwise embarking the State of fashington on a career of wildcatting. The bill was a vicious pork-graft measure, and the deader is the better for the welfare of the state, Now if Gov.Hart will kick Ed Sims himself off the state ia he will be doing the state and himself a good turn. Ban Franciace of | New Tork offies, Pennsylvania game commission wants to protect groundhogs. No doubt great many people have tried to shoot them lately y Entirely too many people think equality consists of swapping places those above them, _ The only reason one can’t marry and live happily ever after ls because Ht takes two. © Practically alt of jast June's bridegrooms know how to wash dlahes now. 6,863 Books Off the Press ‘Only 6,868 new books were published last year in ica. You wonder why the “only.” It seems a lot But in 1921 the total was 10,310. ; A falling-off of a third in the number of new books ed, however, doesn’t necessarily reveal the amount Feading being done by the public. For instance, 100 books selling an average of 1,000 copies each or a of 100,000 copies, do not mean as much bok selling 150,000 copies. The public unquestionably d more books last year than the year before. The drop in the number of new books issued last year s that publishers are selecting manuscripts more efully before putting their money and sales organiza- Am bli t as one good new works of fiction are being published than m 1892. The movies explain that. They supply fiction fithout the bother of wading thru type. © The poets and dramatists seem to be getting a larger at Last year 680 new works of verse and drama re published, compared with 259 in 1892. § phy and travel, in the matter of new books, shown very little change in the last 20 years. ography has ‘fallen off a third; we get our great men nm the daily news. | The world war has made many of us interested in iginal causes. Which probably explains why 518 dif- works of history were published last year, com- with 165 in 1892. en you observe that 17,173 new books were pub- d in our country during the last two years, you lize how few books out of the total the average per- has time to read. To wade thru all of them, you ald have to read nearly 24 volumes a day. diet may be cheap to government officials who do the talking, but expensive to the men who have to pay the taxes. country of ours has too many people who are making money making anything else. st being able to break out in any other way, Sing Sing prisoners have a out with the mumps. : ton woman admits to the cops that she may have shot her husband. sound plansible, “Queer” or a Sixth Sense? The birds that will build their nests near your house a few weeks probably will be the same ones that ed near you last year. So claims H. Knight Hors- field in his new book, “Sidelights on Birds.” sm, or the instinct of seeking old homes year r year, is highly developed in birds, “the very fields ‘woods which constitute home for them being re- ight year year.” do they find their way back? field writes that the strange way-finding power of tory birds is leading up to the idea that there exists an occult power which may be classed as a food- sense, separate from the additional five senses ised by people and animal life. of us, who are considered “queer,” merely have ‘sixth or psychic sense. irds are very human, Horsfield comments. He thinks @ lure that makes them return to former homes is “passionate attachment for their native lands— true home—in which the most fascinating period of ir lives is spent.” Horsfield also claims that certain bird families Have a i sense of the rights of abs cig A Sometimes they ght and drive out invaders of what they consider their elusive territory. “With rooks it is clear that a given elt of trees is marked out as the property of a par- ular colony.” In other words, a fence. All of us have recognized, in cats and dogs, this instinct ‘ich brings birds back to their former homes. As the d saying goes, “The cat came back.” But the cat will not come back unless it has affection its old home or kittens that need its care, according ‘to Professor F. H. Herrick of Western Reserve university. _ The cat, says Herrick, returns home by the power of rientation, a sense of direction. “This power of orienta- m is a keen sense of muscular feeling, far keener than by the human body. By it, a cat knows tantly in which direction home lies, thru the feeling its muscles, It is sense of direction in its most acute A dog owned by Frank Farrow recently was sold and ent by express from Denver to a town 700 miles away, it returned home, limping. : _ One prophet without honor the month of March. {n his home town is a weather prophet dur- _, Seattle man was sentenced to stay at home three weeks, but “Ish his wife that way? rey gt a ba The trouble with the modern dances _¢an learn them. In starting a spring to finish, 1s they are out of date before you garden alwoys make {t small enough for your Selling Poison Booze Murder _In Iowa, where people are close enough to the soil to be sensible, the legislature passes a bill which charges the vender or giver-of poison hooch with manslaughter, at will end the wood alcohol danger in Iowa, _ Every state should have a similar law. But the crime Might better be classed as first-degree murder instead of manslaughter, since the vender of poison booze op- : es with premeditation, even if the element of malice Tay be absent, i ee One tax that never will get @ Kick out of most of us Is thls Inheritance ie ‘One sign of spring is when young fellows get so mad at the general Y of things they go and join the navy, i crscmidhiga seeking his seventh divorce should be made an THE SEATTLE STAR OH, WHAT A RELIEF! Editor The Star: To think a humane society would | hellish days—¢0 days behind prison bara; €0 days without liberty—all be- cause wo, the supposed power behind | the throne, wo, but Bluff! Bluff and hot air! ivered, sanctimonious vating a@ balking horse over above a human being? Tf it does, then tt ts but a scrap of paper and should be repealed. But lo, and behold! How are you gsolng to repeal it?, and sloat over jailing « poor devil 60 long, | ore sanctimonious Doon the constitution any that we! tain provisions of the should soak in prisons so that white- | 60 Days’ Sentence Condemned You can't repeal tt until you find leginlature, componed also of still super-humana, who will vote 60 per cent to submit an amendment to the people. Will they do it? a We, the people, want an Initiative, @*red.” every soldier knows It to D@/ see a thing wounded, or bleed that| the people (poor| law that will enable us, without get-|% DiaKer | suckers) allow such @ thing asa hu-| dng | mane socloty to exist and to usurp! should be enough) to the power of the people by nothing| only desired Jaws and to repeal un 100,000,000,000 (1,000 not signers initiate desired laws, but also to repeal cer- ttution and no that tle people can pass upon dyspepticn| all lawn before they become effective | and eet them? may gloat over tho business of elo-| That ts what we w need any more humane societies to use OUT OWR Money to put us In jall, nor to divert public opinion from the real insue now about to bob up, and bob up strong. W. BE. LOVE, 707 Madison. Defends the “Gun Game” Editor The Star: I read with interest tho letter tn your paper by J. L. Petrie in regard to rifle practice. Hie remarks on the “gun game,” as he calls It, are out of place In these days. I want to ask him or anyone else, if he knows of a cleaner game than riffle shooting. In there any sport to- day that has rifle practice beaten in any way? 1 do not know of any. I like rifle practice. fond of it. Or does it inspire me with blood Just to kill the animals of the forest? De- cidedly not. Do we have wars because of the rifle, or in spite of It? Does one man kill another because of the existence of guns or could he just as well use & club, a stone or a hatchet? I am a member of the Seattle R. and R. association and National Rifle aswociation, and have been from coast to coast, and I have not met a better €roup of sportsmen than right here The Modernist Editor The Star: Iam sure that Rev. Klein, of the Dunlap Baptist church, touched a popular cord last Sunday night. He attacked, If reports are true, the modernist views represented by such scholarly clergymen as Rev, Percy Grant, of New York city. Pastor Kioin says "Grant's Christ is a man of straw, and a fraud, to be shunned as a viper.” I am in hearty accord with Pastor Klein on this point. In religion, Saint Augustine's motto 1s correct: “Credo, quia ab- surdum est.” Men like Lyman Ab- bett, or John Fiske, or Charles Dar- win, obtrude the rule of puré reason Into the realm that belongs of right to only faith. I have always opposed the historic Inquisition with {ts bonfires and rack. And yet, when I seo how a man like Thomas Paine can mislead thousands of good churchmen into | | | in Seattle. Now, if friend Petrie Is open to conviction at all, it might broaden his ideas by reading a copy or two of | “Arma and the Man,” the official or- | gan of the N. R. A. I defy him to show mo a cleaner group of men than those who write in that magazine and give their ox- Pertences im rifle practice and sub- Jects pertaining to “the game.” I will admit that Jesus did not In fact, am/|teach us anything about rifle prac-| Does this tend to make | tice, me want to slay my brother man?| Very Ukely they did not have riffes in his thme. It weems to me that some of these would-be reformers ought to “get out from in under” and loosen up their minds. I suppose !€ would be much nicer to alt in the parlor and play tddly- winks or pi pong. We might hit the “bullseye” oncerin a while, We need freedom to practice any clean game, and I claim rifle practice is clean, Yours truly, * A. C. MANTELL, 610 Minor Ave. N, Religious View {nfidelity with his eternity of torture by a loving Father, I would almost welcome a speedy death by fire for all modernists, There is, tho, ono. matter that I wish that the clerical gentlemen of the cloth wouid give more heed to. It is that of lonsome young men and women in Seattle on the Sabbath day, There are so many of us, Edward Carpenter, in his volume, “The Drama of Love and Death,” rays: “Love, even rude and rampant and outrageous love, doen more for the moralizing of poor humanity than a hundred thousand Sunday schools. It cleanses the human soul from ita clustered Mes; its cowardices, mean- nesses and decelts." If tho orthodox clericals could ald nature here in So- attle on this puzzling issue, would it not promote our common Christian- ity? LARS OLSON, Kirkland, Wash, Defends Tennyson’s Thought Editor The Star: Hometimes you hit the nall on th Di, JOUN MH. PUGH DUATIO A att ny $5.00 Soe Glasses FROM EXAMINATION GLOBE OPTICAL CO. 1514 Wentinke Ave, Near Vourth and Vike head and sometimes it is your thumb-nafl that you hit. In your editorial on the dignificance of the “Charge of the Light Brigade” I think you hit your thumb-nall. 1 presume you mean to say that war lords and militarists find in it a splendid specimen for war propa- ganda, Undoubtedly it has been so used. You could scarcoly accuse Tennyson, author of the “Parllament of Man and Federation of the World” dea of writing the “Charge” for the purpose of propaganda, ‘Ten- nyson had about as much use for a war-breeder as ho had for a coward, His writings havo exercised a mighty Influence for peaco, and have Ufted the idea of knighthood to a vory exalted plane, Doom it not oc. cur to you that propaganda is to an end, that it anticipates something to- wards which {ts arguments and sophisma aro directed? Whereas ‘Tennyson's wonderful little poom is a memorial of something already achieved, It glorifies the man who obeys without question, Ho ts the real soldier, Who is the real moron? ‘Tho sol- dier who given obedience without question? If that were the only ao- tuating element tt might be trus, But it In never the only incentive, Wars fire never conducted on military ox- netions alone, The 600 undoubtedly had something of the spirit of Crom- and we don't! army of peasants or of those} red the « heard around the |world’% Even the Germans had |eomething akin to it It does not jchange the situation to my that it! takes root in sophiam It must be reck office only salvation again by m An officer a gun could not drive a regiment of sol- dlers with a} | mere feat of mil there is n the mass to} the private, | “someone has blun-| It ts there. mned wit iny with |always enough m: back the officer agains |Tho he knows blunder to mutiny in @ Crista. So he stands up to the ord to his comrade and trusts to t desperation of to get him out of a bad W mot a few Am Belleau | | Woods who dared ricans the The real moron {s the man in | whom individualism has gone to seed, jwho thinks so almighty much of | himself and his so-called individual ights that he will not play the game with the rest of his fellows, who sapiontly says someone has blundered and refuses to fump into the breach and try to make the best of it We Go make charges and ask questions, lots of them, as tn our right, but we |keep on paying the taxes that the jblunderers anes. We are free agents, It Is to laugh. How free ts the man who {1 « slave to his lower self? No man really attains hiel |truest freedom until he in really « slave, that is, really devoted to the best ideals of personal, home and na- tional lite, Individuals have rights; | communities; so have nations. Indi- viduals cannot Ilve altogether as in- |dividuals when they live in com- munition, Self-assertiveness without | regard to others causes friction. Fric- | tion spoils happiness of communl- ten, Laws are created, or should be, to minimize causes of friction. Tho constitution Is not an individual document; it is collective. It con- templates at least that there are two or more of us. It may not have fully janticlpated the time when there | would be 110,000,000 of ux So wo} make it fit that time with—amend- menta An Individual does not need to make a constitution. While the conaitution may seem to define Itself in terma of individual rights, it can only do so relatively, The individual must consider well the kind of Inter- pretation he gives to the definition, There are three kinds of imperial- fam; two of individual character— the individual at the top who wears the crown and the individual at the bottom who would like to wear the crown. Then there is the imperial- iam of the all—all! The two formor | must go, but the latter must abide to |save us from a decadent democracy. | ‘The individual cannot get away from }it so long as he is a part of it. He jmay fight against the pricks of its jblunderers. Me may have revolu- tlonary genius to overthrow {It and prove as big a blunderer as those he overthrows. A revolutionary right is good only for what it can get away with; if It fails woe be unto the revo- Jutfonist. Woe may be wiser, But glibness with which we question laws and or- ders doos not prove it. Woe certainly are getting cockler. When the ques- tion is tho offspring of the sapient, adolescent saphead, it may be a sign of a growing cockiness, The wonder is that It hangs on wo long to a youth masquerading In adult pants, The mart Alek,” sometimes the smart Alice, 1s ever on the Job, Interroga- tion Is tho middle name of so many | Aleks and Alices, that {t shows the influence of one good father at the christening. Jt certainly has a strango sensation for a gray head of 60 to hear young girls scarcely fn their teens settling such serious questions as the eschatology of thelr parents by telling them to go to h——. (Not heaven), Yet I have two Instances of the kind to record, I could wish they were exceptional, But unfortunately they are not, Too many parents let these young sprouts of Insolence and disobedience get away with It. It gets to be a habit at home, They try it abroad and sometimes {t works, These are the real morons, trained or mistrained, in the homes to be the morons of tho state, with a penchant to preface not only the blunderer's order, but soctety’s most funda. mental lawa with thelr {impudent questionssand more tmpudent viola tlons—tho Hagens, Plolowa, Ar+ buckles, et al. Tho real moron ta the pampered young man who does not have Komo« thing In his soul, in his Ufe, in hin homo, in his country for whieh “he will rush gladly to ombrace death” If occasion demands. Ho ts not much no have gates before it is t FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 1923. LETTER FROM VRiIDG Dear Folks: I'm haven't got a thing t I told the ed. 1 faver what would hap would I we oul my hen,’ said you be Jared at me, severe af By claring here's better get it in But i'm an independent cus when they say, “Do this or t bee t tos ! today—I'lt imply grab my ¢ away quite bu today, I nd and pase it t E MANN don't know what to do. I'm in an t tew. I day ts v fu how the ndite m: y line of ot t I, “should 1 pursus the heck! Gout m what I'd do he susned ‘ You belter and you my best advice to you And no boss can order me! I think, “You I'll fail to write at and hat and bustle bu ere he's at, went to fight, the sentiment of true tr tn All over this land our boys te with shattered health. fective the hatter: they dustry th: realize th | was Giritge Yomn of @ young man and he never will be | much of an old man, at least not | uch an old man as some desire to I am not one of th indie sacred doorstep or even country’s n. It| Editor T I am @ sport ehen nal all right for the f in his idea of the pet chickens heads, watch them to teed the hu flop on the block, gry? And what of the butchers who kill young calves and steers? Are they not innocent, too? They are dumb an » the only dif being they are domesticated. Wo take out thereby helr rence a Meense to hunt, & to keep up the gov- o| ernment, not destroy it Real eportemen do not prowl the streets at night with their guna, nor does a real ap an Jay in @ blind and shoot birds after sundown. Hunting ts healthful and 1s « won derful recreation, for one is with lis head and hands sx days out ofa week. It fs not a destre to one goes hunting. It's to get some- The Sportsman’s Side of It busy | the young man wants to leave it t| the man at ¢ right. It's @ gc He may 5 the gaff quite so well, but me re left in b ent and 1 veins, Death Aoesn’ n penned remorveful o him and knocks head with the butt of his There are various sports that peo- | ple like, but I'd much rather bank | on « real bunter—I mean a man who loves the woods and outdoor life, I'4 rather have a son of mine killed! hunting in the field than over a game of cards. | As for ammunition. It's a good thing we do have a call for ammuni- | tion. If {t hadn't been for ammuni- |tlon, where w we have been in the war? Time will tell as to what our civilization s to when guns have ceased to have been manufactured. That won't prohibit | other countries from making them. | Ye, bo! Wouldn't that be a choice mornel for Germany—also bootleg-| | gers? Sincerely. L. BOSQUET, Sedro-Woolley. Disabled Vocational Students ‘| Editor The Star In your valuable publication I no- SAMADS 19) tem thin evening an article signed | the Brick Stilwell, attacking the disabled vocational student, the U. 8. veter- ane bureau and the many real American concerns which have given the disabled veteran the opportunity of entering those establishments for rehabilitation. Using his own expression, “Dollars to doughnuts,” Stilwell (if that ts bis real name), never was away from home during the war and long after the war In over shows « marked dis- Play of ignorance, He stated that the business establishments where there disabled veterans are given chance for rehabilitation benefit, as| the government pays the veteran, and that these business concerns ar- Tange with the government the pay- ing off of their payrolls. I will say that I have never heard, even from the princeling slackers of our nation, suth an untrue remark against the employers of the United States who are giving the maimed, armiens, and sightless veterans an opportunity to be rehabilitated in thelr establishments. If it were not! for these red-blooded true American | employers taking tho disabled vet- eran in it would cost this govern. | ment millions and millions of dollars | for trade schools, educational centers | and tuition in state and private schools and universities. Secondly, | i become useful |littte can be accomplished by a crip-| pled veteran until be is rehabilitated, | n he is placed In @ position. At | whi b time bis heart {s filled with gratitude for the employer, who had the love for his fellow man, to father him and assist bim to a life of use- | fulness, This Mr, Stilwell further states tn hie letter that when the vocational student becomes efficient his income will decrease and cause Indifference toward learning the vocation, for the more you learn to become efficient the sooner your income decrenses. If you were to become more effi- clent, Mr. Editor, would you be given & decrease or an Increase? When a disabled veteran Is rehabilitated he} fa efficient and he Is able to earn far more than the training pay he re. eetves from the government. There fore, the vocational trainee tn anx- fous to complete his training as soon | as possible, be independent and not jfect ke a public charge. In this |community these trained vocational students are building homes and have | citizens due to that employer who took them In and gave thern an opportunity and a chance! of a ifetime, and last, but not least, to the U, 8. veterans’ bureau officials much credit can be given for their kind treatment and untiring effort. Only sentiment, some will say. True. But then tt was only a senti- ment for which these disabled boys gery or placed thelr bodies a 0 rt arms; no legs; scale ne ertppled It was only « sentiment— r fellow men and true freedom United Btates of America— | which nerved their hearts and stecled 4 est Armageddc arma t feat into vie- at the er Sentiment has built this on vast sentiment has erica, fers the United States of A was sentiment of the so United t saved « States rica battle. ivilizwth with but one with but « or with with but one or with racked bodies, or Verile and ef- went, and broken and returned, Earners without place in ine back. 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