The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 26, 1923, Page 6

: A street corner with a lot of doubtful hanging around, A woman, passing by, drops her pocketbook. Behind her, a man of winning mien—perhaps a parson, perhaps a pickpocket—the crowd can’t tell— stoops and picks it up. For a minute he stops, and turns the object over in his hand. “Say, cull,” says one of the gang, “whatcher go’nter do with it?” “Give it back to the lady,” says the queer-acting man, And he starts walking after the lady, but so halt- ingly that his actions belie his words. “Like fun he is!” mutters the gang. go south with i “Watch "im . . . During the Spanish-American war Uncle Sam picked up the Philippines, “What are you going to do with them?” asked a skeptical world. The Seattle Star Published Datly by The Star Publishing Co. 170T Beventh Ave. Phone Main 0600. Newspaper Eoterprise Association and United Press Bervice. My mall, out of city, 6c per month, 2 months $1.60, § months $2.00, year $3.66 By carrier, city, Sc a month. Qiiman, ‘Nicoll & Ruthman, § Gat anock Bide. ano acitie Bidg.; Boston offi Why We Won the War Emperor Bill, when he decided to shed the world’s blood, overlooked his best bet. This fact is revealed now from Berlin. He secured a lot of fighting generals and fighting men from Bavaria but he failed to enlist Madame Beaudrex! for the fray. That was a fatal error. True, the madame’s husband, the general, was in it, all right, but he was not the fighting member of the family, it turns out. Fact is, he was nothing at all in the home or elsewhere when the madame went a-warring. The general died recently and there were allegations made that the madame chased him out of life. Investi- gation developed that she beat him with a club many, many times, locked him outdoors, on a balcony, in dead of winter, and starved him to a skeleton. She showed not the slightest respect for, or fear of, his uniform or his war record as a fighting man, and he succumbed under her Amazonian barrage. As a result of her war- like propensities and little journey into the realms of mur- der, she will go to jail for all of 18 months. That sen- tence sounds American, but really it is Bavarian. The main point, however, is that we now know why we won the war. Madame Beaudrex! fought only at home. fen Francisco New Tork offics, lal Represen’ ce, Tribune Bi . Tremont Bldg, Dean Stephen I. Milter, of the University of Washington, goes to the American Institute of Banking at salary three times as large as tho state of Washington Is able to pay him. The public seldom pays a good _ man what he is worth, and so does not often have the services for very Tong of such men as Miller—Yakima Herald. England and France couldn't be any madder at each other if they ran rival filling stations. Dirty, low-down rum pirates are still robbing honest, hard-working bootleggers. You never know how lucky you are until you are not. _ An optimist is a man planning to go fishing. Corporation That Has a Heart A fine thing is being done at Cisco, Nevada. Clyde Patnoe, a little, crippled boy, fell into the Yuba river, was drowned and his body went over the falls. Because of these falls and the rush of waters, the body could not be recovered. Little Clyde, pitifully handicapped, was the object not only of his mother’s love, but of her constant ministra- tions. He had not been “born equal,” and every thought, every act of her days was in the direction of softening the cruel blow of fate that had fallen on her child. And now he was gone away from her under the waters, alone. She could not see him nor reach him, but she could hear his plaintive cry. More than ever her heart yearned toward him. She wanted to hold him in her arms again. She wanted to place his poor, broken body where she could cover it with flowers kept fresh and fragrant with a mother’s tears of love. He must come to her or she Must go to him. It was the insistent demand of grief. So, the Pacific Gas & Electric Co., at a great cost and thru the rending of enormous rocks, is turning the course of that river that this sorrowing mother may have again all that is mortal of her loved one. Corporations may be ungrateful; they may be sordid in their reach for material wealth; they may be hard and even cruel in their pursuit of possessions and power; but being human agencies, they cannot, all of them, turn their hearts to stone. This one, at least, lays bare and exalts its soul before the tear-stained grief of a mother. It is moving, not amountain, but a river, for her. Georgia man who wondered if the $5,000 he had in a coffee pot would be: stolen found it would. There would be more perfect gentlemen in the world if some didn’t consider them perfect bores. Every now and then you see a man with a vest laughing about women’s foolish clothes. What tickles a man more than finding a dollar bill in the pockets of his old fishing clothes? None of these European statesmen yelling for another war was shot in the last war. All of us would be patient if it didn’t take so much patience, Germany Gazing Eastward? With Germany dismantling its industrial organization in the Ruhr and moving it to unoccupied districts, a very plain swing of the pendulum is obvious: Germany’s cen- ter of gravity is retreating eastward. To the east lies Russia, unconquerable, as Napoleon learned. Hindenburg said that attacking Russia was like pounding a feather bed. From the standpoint of eco- nomics (bread and butter), an alliance between Germany ‘and Russia is more probable now than ever in the past, - even tho it would be like mixing oil with water, a Japan sits tight—and waits. Some men can't go forward because they always have the brakes on to keep from slipping backward. Hitching your wrgon to a star is fine, but don't let your little boy hitch his to the ice wagon. Speaking of optimists, a great many girls know it ix only about five months until Leap Year, Difference between a success and a failure is a success knew what kind of habits to pick out. The honeymoon is over when hubby starts chewing tobacco again. People often get so mad they tell the truth, Only a fow more weeks until income tax, }a convineing form. THE “Give them their freedom,” them over. “Like fun he will!” leers the knowing old world, “Watch him go south with them.” 8 8 said Uncle Sam, looking The United States today is on trial for its honor, For decades we have been telling the world how honest we are. And now we have got to make good or admit we are no better than the rest—just a big, powerful empire whose morals are molded to conform to the dollar, The whole world is watching to see what we will do next fou say you are not imperialistic,” it jeers. And it sticks its tongue in its cheek and looks at the Phil- ippines and Porto Rico and Hawaii and Guam and the Virgin islands; at our virtual protectorate over Cuba and the Republic of Panama; at our control of the cus- toms of the Dominican Republic and Haiti, and our oc- GOOD-BYES By Mary W. Green Night Is @ great, gray moth, And from his flutt‘ring wings Fall dust of memories And ghostly whisperings, He comes from but the years Laden with tearful sighs, Sifting upon the alr ‘The dust of past goodbyes. And some are gay and light As kins of butterfly, And some stab thru the heart Like a were wolf's hunger cry. And some are like « cloud With a silver lining bright, And some are like a moan Heard tn the dead of night. The somber great gray moth Sheds dust of trembling sighs Till my heart Hes burted ‘Neath @ pall of nad good-byen. LETTERS 2 EDITOR What Is a “Dirt Farmer” Editor The Star: [to turn us out on the highway no that Since the senatorial election In the |they may get all that we have paid ‘North Star state,” the expreasion,/in? In general, those to whom the ‘dirt farmer," has been used in the newspapers—in yours as well | fairs until they have rendered it im as tn others—that an average mortal }could easily be led to believe that/ exist alongwide of them, say nothing there also are other. farmers than | at living. We will be called a | “dirt farmers.” 1 think, Mr. Editor, | “crank” for ask these questions, that you would do the general public|but just watch as the year 1924 ap a favor by defining, a little closer,|pears around the corner and the |the meaning of the word in this In-| woods will be full of these cranks. | stance, or do you want the public to/It also ma, Mr, Editor, that thie take the general run of th "jother “farmer that farms the farm. ad sum it up and call It * Is very much in need of snappy An attack upon the good | attire to keep up a great, glorious acter of the individual mality that they do not do we would say, got F It's elected over in that state at th the new senator-elect over |time.” May it be that thia other/|in Minneso |farmer that you have in your mind. |that is not a “dirt farmer,” is the [fellow that “farms the farmer,” or| would rather go and seo a prizefight in other words, the that/on election day than go and do his forced down the price of wheat on| citizenship name and ¢ ho #o properly, n the cowshed. not belong to that neither does he be. at class of Americans that | clans of long to t “gink” or go to « bail game the board of trade in Chicago to 97|when his house fs afiré, and then | cents a bushel and Is regulating con-|nhout from the housets t he is ditions so that the bread loaf still | 100 per cent American,” he be. stays at 15 cents; fixes prices for|longs to a class whonxe wives and berry ralsers In this vicinity so that red by the In jit brings them a net proceed per | diana in the early Jcrate over the empties and trans-| state, but portation to the market of from 10/and made Minnesota what it ts to. to 60 cents a crate, and nothing for | day—second to none in this Union— the work, and have conditions/regu-|and {s there re any reason for lated mo that the berries sell on the| poking fun at him for this by our market in Senttle for 10 cents a box| “interpreter of high civilfzation?” or $2.40 a crate? Sold property to| Mr. Editor, who t# that farmer that us during the war at double the ac-|is not a “dirt farmer"? tual value of it and atill hold a war Very truly yours, club over our heads in form of war ANDREW SOLIN, payments waiting for an opportunity Box 14, Kirkland, Wash. children were mass Route 2, | Editor The Star: Dr. Rosenow makes tne unfounded statement that “a million lives have been saved by the vivisection of ani mals." I fear the doctor would be hard put to present his statistics in practice, a deliberate dabbling in the blood and sensitive agony of sentient and fellow creatures without even the excuse of a beneficial re. |#ult, and there is no way of dealing with such a shameless evil except to demand its total abolition by law. “Experimentation upon living ant mals does lead and has led to expert Statements as | to the efficacy of methods derived from vivisection are swallowed only by the gullible or by those who can exercise “the will to believe.” If the| mentation upon human beings. We billionth part of the torture Inflicted]are having today—and I say {t un on God's innocent creatures by men |hesitatingly—not merely experiments posing as scientists were to fall on|upon the lower creatures, but upon the defenders of these men they |human creatures, too; not only upon would soon sing a different tune. — | private patients but especially among Dr. Waiter R. Hadwen, L. R. C. P.,| the poor in the hospitals of our land M. R. C. 8, L. 8, A. etc, London,|During the last 10 years I have England, lectured in Seattle last Oo- | watched theory after theory that has tober, as some of your readers will|been started that has exploded and remember. Dr, Hadwen “Vivi: | vanished into thin air, The whole section in a cowardly cursed! shore of vivisection is strewn with and SEATTLE much | common people have trusted thelr af. | pomsible for, the common people to| STAR cupation of the latter country by marines; at our hegemony, as they call it, over Central, and much of South America, And reviewing it all, it asks insinuatingly: “What are you up to in all those places?” “Just protecting the interests of the unfortunate peoples,” we say. “Oh ays the world, winking prodigiously. *“* « Well, a showdown is approaching. The Philippines may well be the test case. And the case of the Philip- pines is this: Congress officially promised the Filipinos their free- dom as soon as they proved they could govern them- selves. Gov, Gen. Harrison, from 1916 to 1921, gave them a chance, and they did a pretty good job. And President Wilson, in 1920, told congress the time had about come for America to make good her promise. Then bang! Something happened. It was Gen. Leonard Wood. He arrived in the islands and, as gov- =— I have a letter from a man who has more knowledge of farm con ditions in the Mid-West than any one I know, and he knows what they mean. He lives He has an enormous business with farmers, but himself is not a farmer, He writes “The government in the last few days has stated repeatedly that they have nothing to offer the farmers to help them, It of fers no hope. The only advice they have given ts to restrict production, leave the farms, and swell the industrial class in the cities, That, I say, ix « poor an swer to the agricultural industry of this country, when all that is troubling us ia @ very small sur- plus of this or that product, which could be disposed of very quickly and easily to a few of the countries of Europe, to say noth- ing of the whole trade of Europe, if the proper credit facilities were established “As @ result of this talk of the department of agriculture, our farmers are becoming discour- HH. G. Moulton, of the Washing ton Institute of Economica, which has made @ deep study of Ger man conditions, saya that Ger many importa only half as much raw cotton as in 1913, only two. thirds as many hides and skins, and uses only half as much iron ore as would give her her pre war output. She is using only 66 per cenkas much wheat as in 1913, 60 per cent a» much rye, 30 per cent much barley, 48 per cent as much oats, and meat in an accordingly reduced propor- tion, Sugar and potatoes are the only foodstuffs now used in pre. war quantities, Her people are going hungry. Mark this: Germany produces all her sugar and potatoes. Great Britain has 1,600,000 un- employed, and her people are not eating their old quantities of our farm producta. Italy, Poland and most European nations are in some degree in the same con- dition. They are hungry for what our farmers have and cannot pell! No wonder our farmers are in dewpair—as they are. Our mar kets are gone. Something stands between the empty stomach of the reat of the world and our pro- ducers. |the wrecks of these exploded the VORA B. SIMPKINS, President Washington Humane Edv- | cation and Anti-Vivisection Society Spokane. Personal Liberty Is Now Gone, Editor The Star: Liberty leagues can yawp; well-| | meaning so may shout protest |clubs may resolute, and even legis }laturey may make laws, but this na tion will tinually have less indi | vidual freedom rather than more. | We do not nave a freo press, nor |free xpeech, nor the right of unre- n ublic assembly in this coun: jtry; we have not had for 30 years, and we never will have again | Whenever you get a hundred mil ion people together under one roof you cannot have freedom for the in dividual; personal liberty in a city of 4 million people in as impossible as jit ts for a sardine to wiggle in hin tin. As nations increase in popula jtion, in importance, 4n congestion, nations add more and more laws jSanitation alone makes it necessary | to closely restrict the liberties of the | householder, and to the very bottom of your garbage can the law must| | With density of population, with |ereat, unthinking {gnorant masses, jthere comes a ruling class, whether | Appointed or elected, and this ruling |class for its own protection upholds nfty by luw, and enlarges its constantly powers, if it survives. ‘The world has never before seen an attempt to herd @ hundred million people of alien and jarring racial ideals and blood strains into one mass, and in theory allow the mob |to govern, but the result .will of ne. Jcessity be the same as it was in Carthage, or in Egypt, or in Rome, or the Holy Empire; certain ruling cliques will govern, and tho the mob may each year entirely discard every | individual official, and elect entirely new men to power, still the office and the power, and the constant usurpation of new powers, will con-| tinue, | There {a only one environment | where personal liberty, or individual, Independent growth can be main-| tained, and that is the pioneer en-| vironment, the tribal environment, | the rural environment; cities breed | slaves and masters, but never breed | freemen, DP. 8. Will H. Hays has raised a fund of $120,000 to be given to the Y. W. G.A. in Los Angeles for the purpose of caring for the grand. army of young girls that is moving on that VRIDGE PANN Dear Folks: On Tuesday night I went to view “Americanus” played. My history, I sadly knew, was much in necd of aid. And so I thought, by sitting still, and watching what I'd sce, I’d tcarn it all from Bunker Hill to 1923. T saw the acenes from out the past; 1 saw the fashions change; I saw the country growing fast, from plain to moun- tain range. I thrilled to sce the flashing light and hear the shrapnel bang—and felt the hush that filled the night when Sophie Braalau sang, T plotured how the country grew from juat a humble start, with men who had the strength to do their patriotic part. And then at last a mighty throng came marching down the field; and when I saw them march along, I saw our strength re. vealed, For one by one we never seem to do a mighty lot; it’s only when we make a team, we show the strength we've got. hy many men and many years and many tests of soul, we Jour- ney, thru our smiles and tears, to reach a final goal! city, each “intent on becoming. a movie queen. Use olive oil and have hair with lovely gloss Hair cannot have light and color if it is left dry and brittle. 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By cheating the Filipinos we will destroy our own great influence for good in the world, We will destroy the faith an otherwise well- nigh hopeless old earth still somehow manages to re- tain in us—faith which may yet save mankind from perdition. We know what the people of this country would do about it. Wood would get his orders and he would get them right. But what will Washington do? Let it not forget the world, not merely the Philippines, is waiting to hear the answer, SCIENCE The Trinil Man. Coming to Washington? Quite a Mystery. Owned by Hollander. It is reported that the remains of the Trinil man of Java are to be brought to the Smithsonian institute at Washington, D. C. This announcement has aroused great interest in the scientific world. The Trini] man, about which there ie much mystery, is, perhaps, a mil- lion years of age. It was not really a man, but a specimen of an extinct species, called Pithecanthropus erec- tus, an erect ape—almost a man. ‘The few bones composing this specimen are owned by Dr. Eugens Dubois, of Haarlem, Holland. They have been locked in a safe since 1891. Even scientists have not been al- lowed to see them. Dr. Dubols has said that he was keeping them to complete his studies of the subject. Many of the theories of evolution of man have been built around these remains. Their liberation may settle many disputed questions, aged, They have never been #o discouraged since the war as they are today w no foreign market, and @ poor domestic market because agriculture has no margin. National economy was not considered in the pas- sage of the tariff bill, It was passed in the Interest of groups. It operates against the farmer.” If the people of other countries have no money with which to buy farm products, let's offer them food in exchange for goods and admit the goods free of duty. ‘This suggestion would be fought by the Smoots and their ilk, East and West, but it would work to stabilize agriculture. Couple the plan with the credit suggestion of my Mid-West friend, and the conditions would change for the farmers quickly. Unless something very far- reaching is done, agriculture in the United States, so far as its prosecution is concerned by free, upstanding, competent men, is doomed. And that means that the United States is doomed! PROOF OF A BETTER OIL HE function of a lubricant is toreduce friction toa minimum and thus increase the effective power of the engine. The best proof that Zerolene does this to a superlative degree is found in the fact that the Zerolene-lubricated automobile has more power at the drive-wheels on the ground. 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