The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 28, 1923, Page 8

and United eof W ee | Newspaper Bo terprise Assn, ton | By ma ver By bee @ month Where Real Harm All over this land Seattle attle St ar ie S&L Done Is is being ADVERSELY advertised. An Eastern paper prints a ludicrous “news” story about our being on the verge of municipal bankruptcy figures compiled for propaganda uses loc: tion that was fighting the Port of Seattle lying figures were disproved here and the laughed to death —-BUT IN THE GIVEN CREDENCE. In Los Angeles a tourist is solemnly warne attle because our street cars “have quit runn It is based on some lly by an organiza- development. The phoney conclusions EASTERN CITY THEY ARE »d not to come to Se- ing” and all is chaos. The fool yarn is the natural thirdor four generation offspring of misleading statements made on the first page of a Seattle news- paper. At home nobody believes the ori; California there are many who will sw geration of the falsehood. The Spokesman-Review, to bring the case ¢ kane, has an almost daily editorial attack o and sanity and wholesomeness, based alway allc inal falsehood, but in »w the absurd exag- 1s close home as Spo- n Seattle’s integrity s on jumbled truths or distorted views put forth IN SEATTLE by men with an ax to grind. Now that Know-Seattle week is out of the way, it is in order to inaugurate a Chase-the-Propagandists season. Doc Borah’s Pink Pill 3 Now comes Bill Borah, United States S Idaho, with a cure for war Often sound and meaty as a new crop this time we find him juggling with soap bubbles dynamite. . Opposing America’s entry into the world court of ) justice, which President Harding wants, he offers us & scheme to “outlaw” war. The world war, he says, was brought on by less than 20 men. So he would “make war a crime,” and “hold those who foment war responsible.” Whoever heard of a nation being in the wrong at the Start of a war? Both sides are fighting “for God and our rights” at the beginning. War is never a crime until it fails. Then the loser is always “it.” Suppose the plan to “outlaw” war had been in effect in 1914 with the United States a party to it: Would we have dared name the “less than 20 men” the sena- tor now has*in mind? Would we have demanded that Sthese be delivered up to an international firing squad that justice should be done? Maybe so. Then again, maybe not. Had we done so, however, you can bet your last thin dime on this: We would have been in the war a darn sight sooner than senator from hickorynut, and ' What people want is something to prevent war—not “just a jury to find out ye started it or a legal method to bump the guilty off. That won't start new arms and legs growing in place those shot off nor make the dead to rise. TACOMANS IN EXPOSITION Tacoma manufacturers will take part in the Northwest Merchants’ ‘exposition in July. The exposition will display the wares of practically ‘every manufacturer in the Pacific Northwest. It is intended to show the ive buyers of this territory exactly what we produce, and show ‘them so conclusively that they will buy Tacomas decision to join in the exposition was a good one, It means More markets, and a betfer spirit of friendliness between Tacoma and Seattle. J Refore proposing, see how she looks In a kitchen. Before accepting, see how he looks before shaving. Certainly You Can’t Miss It Seattle people are being notified by one George J. Bene- ict, of Los Angeles, that riches await them. Just send im your cash to George. He'll put it in his new oil leasing ‘scheme and make you rich. Listen to George: “I estimate or predict wells good for something like 000 barrels. The lease pool means millions upon top of “millions for those who have helped pay for these leases. Tsay to you, wire your money.” George is a quick, efficient worker. He sends his glad invitation, printed in red ink on the back of a postcard. And, unless the law of averages runs against him, he'll cash in on at least a few of the suckers. Notice how George juggles his thousands and his mil- lions. He piles them end on end. One would almost be tempted to accuse George of being an optimist. George writes: “It’s really the greatest chance of the age. I have seen with my own eyes; we just naturally can’t miss.” Yes, it’s a wonderful opportunity—to throw away your mone You just naturally can’t miss losing what you put in. Poor in abundance, famished at a feast, man’s grief is but his grandeur In disguise, and discontent is immortality. —Young. What could be worse than having the house burn Just after finishing spring cleaning? It is a wise drinking man who marries a trained nurse. An Appeal for the Wild Flowers (From the Christian Science Monitor.) Strangely enough, what is called clvil{zation has, in many parts of the United States, destroyed m of the rugged beautles of the woods and Bilisides, without putting anything in their place. Perhaps in New Eng- ‘land, more than elsewhere, many of tho sutiful things have been preserved. The farms h ot encroached xo relentlessly upon the woods as in the sections of the Middle West and South, where land {s more “Yaluable. The mountains, too, remain a forbidding barrier to the thing €alled progress, and stand as sentinels over the treasures which they have guarded for centuries But modern invention has made St possible for the predatory tourist to extend his invasions farther and ever farther from the beaten path, Where he goes he is too often inclined to destroy, to take what he desires and leave nothing in its place. His camp site in the woods is a place of | fesolation as he strikes his tent and moves on, To the tourist family the wild flowers and the blossoming trees seem to offer the opportunity | for the practice of vandalism. Nothing is safe from the hands of tho greedy visitors, In a bulletin recently issued by the University of the State of New “York, an appeal is made to save and protect the wild flowers, It ts shown that they are gradually disappearing even from those sections _ where once they’ were common. It is not what one person or one com: pany of tourists gathers, There are still enough wild flowers and to #pare for the thousands who will gather them thoughtfully and consider- ately. The menace to the wild life of the roadside and woods {s the greed of the city dweller, who assumes that all ho can find i his for the taking. it should be remembered that the wild plant is Ike the cultivated shrub or flower in the garden. It is as easily destroyed, and it responds as quickly to the considerate treatment which it deserves. ‘Thoso who gather flowers along the way are admonished to plek them carefully, Just as they would welect a bunch of blossoms froma garden or a con- ory. The unmatured blossoms left upon the stock may flower and weed, thus renewing and increasing the beauty of the place, whereas a Plant torn up from the ground and thrown aside is destroye, He that hasteth to be rich huth an evil eye, and considereth not that poverty shall come upon himn—Proy. xxvii Aa optimist is a man who gets tckled at what hard tine he has, LETTERS to the EDITOR The Chinese Side of it } tha Congressman Dyer, and 1 that 1 am right in saying th | nese officials and busine | China regard Interv | powers as unnecessary « | toable and if attempeted, would ulti mately lead td a greater war than the one thru which we have just | passed. . | | Every patriotic Chinese’ regrets |deeply and sincerely the banditry now gxisting in China, but we also} have the faith that the Chinese re-| | public can and will solve the prob- }lem, We know that the banditry can} |conduct their warfare only because |ammunition Ia furnished them from countries outside of China We feet that ff men of the ability of Con greseman Dyer, who claim the interest of China at heart, » | use their power of pers | vent the smuggling of | munition into China for the use of} lbrigands they would go a far way to jution of this problem and} manifest their ¢ in- n the of oyr ublic | jon ine future w ryone who studies the situation ite today knows that if the Chi-| |mese army were to advance on the lbrigands that they might kill the | foreigners who are now in their pos- | session, Such a tragedy would only lintensify the international complion- tions. The situation is most delicate Jana requires deep though ation and profound sympathy, rather than criticism. Surely every American knows that the capture of these foreigners by the brigands of China is not tho manifestation of an anti-foreign fee! ing. As has been so often explained in Seattle by people familiar with the situation, these brigands are unpald soldiers who have used the capture of foreigners as a means of collecting money from the Chinese government, and, further as a political weapon to put the existing government in bad light before the eyés of the world. || All patriotic Chinese deplore the militaristle spirit of the Tuchuns in China today and all are doing every-| thing in their power with the hopes! that their military organizations may | be broken up, and supremacy and sovereignty be again lodged in the central government, where it belongs. International control by outside powers has proved a failure thruout history, instances of which may be found in Persia, Egypt, India, Korea and Germany today. International control of China would mean the de struction of Chinese sovereignty, the selfish development of separate na tional powers, the conflict of these separate elements, which would ulti- mately lead to international war. | The struggle thru which the Chi- nese republic is passing at the pren-| ent time is not new to history in the |development of notions. Americans should not forget that in 1784 a} French agent in’ the United States, after searching vainly for the Ameri- can congress, reported to his govern- ment: ‘There is in America no gen- eral government, neither congress, or president, nor head of any admin- istrative department.” Present-day Americans forget sometimes that their forefathers knew what it was to neo the finger of scorn and hear tho disheartening cry, “You cannot suc- coed,” The Chinese consider | republic 1s only 12 years old. For 6,000 years she wns & monarchy. Compare Ruasia’s| transition to that of China today and wo aro forced to admit that China VAPORUB 17 Million Jara Used Yearly If you value your watch, let Haynen rex pair it Next Liberty Theater—advt, -| America and Ameri Yy inn PAUL Y. CHING | President Chir tudent luo, Us of Washington, 4339 Tenth V RIDGE MANN now, they have a baby 9 rife at washday’s open hen all the Ridden things of Ufe are hanging on has toade remarkable progress in so] Dyer proposes intervention in China Umited a time toward the establieh-| by the powers I feel sure, as a result w ota It) of hy Boritact with the Americans in took the Unite yearn to| Seattle for four years, that be is no! make her what she Not un-|expressing the sentiment of the tl after the civil war wag she really! Ameriean people a pation China has faith in America of France I likewise n| looks toward you as her only ent de-|tefested friegd. In this hour of need she desires your friendship anc today from) your sympathy more than ever thru- sth the samo] ott her history. 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