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

# q a i A ar fen Frenclece New York office, How Coolidge Impresses Us Almost everybody seems inclined to give Calvin Cool- idge a chance to make good on his new job before direct- ing any criticism at him or his acts, That is well, It per- haps is one of the compensating results of the death of President Harding—a greater sympathy toward the man in office. To date, President Coolidge’s efforts have made two impressions on The Star. (1) That he is taking hold of his administrative duties in a clear-cut, decisive way; that he is showing the ear- marks of a good executive. (2) That he is speedily and surely gaining a grasp on his party's machinery. at he is going to be in position to contro! its career for the next few months, and prob- ably during the next national convention. These are impressions merely. _Prelimins sions, at that, But impressions which the W mews every day makes stand out more sharply. ‘y impres- ashington Miami, Fla,, motorman wants a divorce, Says his wife refuses te talk to the motorman. Hungary has 60,000,000 bushels of wheat, so won't be hungry 20,000 Cartloads of Stones Twenty thousand cartloads of stones were picked up and hauled away by J. P. Jakobsson-Elmquist in clearing Jand for his farm in Sweden. So no one objects to his Winning this year’s first prize of the Swedish Agricultural association. We'll call him Jake for short. In 1895 he took three acres that no one else wanted; it was such a rock pile. Patiently he set to work, digging up the boulders. Finally he had the stones all removed and the soil bear- ing crops. Gradually, with profits saved from his har- vests, he bought more rock pile. Now he has 80 acres, 10 © devoted to crops which support him and his family, and 70 acres of forest which he planted. Jake used his 20,000 cartloads of stones to build a “beautiful wall around his farm and a fine highway along one side. f © He and his wife can take things more easily now, for ‘their nine children—whose living was wrested from as hopeless-&-looking strip of land as can be found almost anywhere—are assisting in the work. How many men would have the patience and the confi- dence in their own efforts to attempt the task undertaken ‘by Jake back in 1895? His success demonstrates that success is largely up to ‘the individual himself, that no handicap is too big to be ‘overcome, that man can create his own opportunity. The story of Jake’s life is enough to make some of the rest of us ashamed of ourselves when we grumble or be- come discouraged at our lot, tho we have easy sledding compared with Jake. Save your alibis, They are valuable. You can sell them to the presi- dential candidates. ‘Two New Orleans mothers have 18 kids each. What if they lived on either side of you? President’s First Big Job Calvin Coolidge has faith in destiny. “What circumstance,” he asked in a speech July 4, 1916, “put the young George Washington under the mili- tary instruction of a former army officer, and then gave him years of training to lead the Continental forces? What lengthened out the days of Benjamin Franklin that he might negotiate the Treaty of Paris? What in- fluence sent the miraculous voice of Daniel Webster from the outlying settlements of New Hampshire to rouse the land with his appeal for liberty and union? And finally, who raised up Lincoln, to lead, to inspire, and to die, that the opening assertion of the Declaration might stand at last fulfilled?” So, in his own case, may he not inquire: “Why was I drawn from the narrowing duties and in- fluences of a single self-contained state to spend a long period of preparation at the center of national events, if not, indeed, of world events, before the greatest au- thority entrusted to a single man was placed in my hand?” Only time can answer this for the new chief executive, but it does seem as if the reason has been written clearly across the whole face of national events. It ddes seem that the whole significance of the history whose making we have been watching is that America can no longer live apart in selfish isolation from the rest of the world. To the claims of our better ideals, the pressure of one _ economic fact after another has been added to show that America must take her full-sized, man’s share in the work of the world. Europe, without the stabilizing influence of America, today verges nearer a catastrophe of greater dimensions than that of the recent world war. America must help avert it—or America must be dragged in. America, and America’s chief executive, must have a vision of her proper part in world affairs, if world tragedy is to be avoided. Perhaps, then, it is destiny that has put Calvin Coolidge the last two years where he could acquire this vision. Had he been called directly to the presidency from his own restricted realm of thought in Massachusetts, he might have been impelled to rely on the inward-turned vision of his state’s senior senator, Mr. Lodge, for understand- ing in the field of foreign affairs. But the last 29 months in the midst of world problems, » while yet free from participation in their details, has ' given the new president a chance to see America’s duty _ from a broader and more enlightened point of view. Let ‘us hope he acts now in the light of the wisdom thus _ gained. Keokuk, Iowa, golfer named Jim Matless made a hole in one, but Jim _ Still speaks to his friends, _ | started the change. The latt =} Chri Japan Turning From Militarism Japan is showing repeated symptoms of recovery from its severe pre-war attack of militarism, based largely on { admiration for the kaiser’s machine. ; Germany’s defeat, unexpected by the Jap overlords, tarte é "s ill-fated occupancy of Siberia, and the train of mistrust and trouble which it 5 caused, hastened the effect. Now high taxes arising from + their expensive military establishment have caused the | Japanese to think more soberly than ever on the subject. + Other indications along the same line compiled by the stian Science Monitor include: A 20 per cent cut ' in army personnel; scrapping of 14 first-line war vessels; || conversion to the policy of disarmament of Capt. K. Mi- "+ zuno, retired, author of a jingoistic book on war with | America; organization of Japanese peace council to hasten ) disarmament; rewriting of school books to promote idea of “friendly understanding of foreign lands”; recent dem- onstration compelling abandonment of Tokio meeting of ') * Association for Study of Military Science. 1 Doctors say Hugh Tracy, who made a golf hole in ove at Skokie, is | almost out of danger, WILL Tey Bite ? HUH! WILL A DUCK SWIM? Sure TING Reve Bile, YUH GoTTA KNOW HOW THANDLE ‘em ATS ALL AN & Ov CAP RIGGINS AN’ Me ARE THE ‘ONLY ONES IN This COUNTY WRAT KIN HANDLE ‘EM Fis WAY, Ts A GIFT.ATS ALL President Can Help Farmers FROM CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR “What can President Coolidge ment fixing of prices of agric do to help the farmer? HASKELL ON RURAL tural producta. This t Sidney B. Haakell, director of TRIBULATIONS ® name for ¢ the Massachusetts agricultural a) flation Another thing the preaiden ean do to ease the situation, experiment station, was asked ensive que that compr I've Juat been thinking about reulst all efforts to get. his # por a campaign to bring more and under cult t find markets als lema ige’s home been writing on #0 problems that face American farmers First off, the biggest prob- lem of our ors is Amps ‘ops on arable kh to maintain adequate distri ics do thes bet credit has b with ustry on a Wage basis, lower immlgra he declared. Om name farm la “This inability is fundamental a add to surplus to all the ills of farmers. It leads | government p to deserted farms, to indifferent nother in stringent times too farming, to @ can une existing astry rict ting wom preva and base his pr ing ima industry, regt ting hours He decrease can set the governme! > to in | xhould simply make sary for the farmers would much that farmer t next ye than they know ¥ This may be due, | turbed economi Europe which affect t try; but it goes back to more Pa | Probably there will never be time than right now to way. It has increased produc bl red mor | | tion and the commodity price has ta | down. are brought abe ve | Can such a condition con oversupply. And the resulting | In it reasonable to expect | In price be “tween what the farmer buys and | hing be done about what he has to sell traces back to | y knows. Many have the conditions under which the ditions? The answer is ries, some good, some bad. farmer works. THe remedy for | slready found in decreased activ This wu aeldont has been ‘fn poor living conditions on the | ity in many lines of agriculture. ventigats farm has a been to farm | “One thing bresident Coolidge more effic producé more. All the of the govern | ment ard | population o more efficient armer.’ H .om f during his term President fert and crop at when the basic | ) more than to have been solve t | see that impro | r 01 m which af. | p ed quanti r 1 has its in | the dit He fluence o1 andt or j} ¢ show that if we mady have that man sent {lle of too much of a crop th letting | the ogricultu down of immigration bars, inthe | not to" | name of cheaper labor on the tly affect farm, will serve to add to the the coun that men and women surplus real prog ng the farm for | He can expose the fallacy of | ress ng agriculture of sim’ proves that | tooktr cheaper money asa ® condition not inherent, but ar more efficient farming has rem wer tifleial.”” brought pric made it mor < for un to increase produc counted thous sred sole to employ when a ‘} oli if | eee hinind sour nec; eee || screen Nobility 5 8 the prob. | than reme suf- | : ich have | er money anc casi for an already ficient uction. He that cheap fertilizer pro government subsidy, if indeod it can be so produced, will simply n show | by ons nation, rather ut labor has recognized that even tho labor can no longer be classed as a than pr further the farm output without assuring a demand to consume it at a price the farmer can pro duce for “He can stand like a rock {nat all suggestion for govern commodity, the law of supply and demand still determines wages The result of the passage of humane legislation concerning Fruit Preserving—The Right Way Now when fruit is plentiful is the time to preserve it for next winter's use. There are right ways and wrong ways to do this, If you want to learn how to do it in the most approved, up-to-date manner, fill out the coupon below and mail to our Washington bureau ington Bureau, The Seattle Star, New York Ave., Washington, D. . ' 1 want a copy of the bulletin, “Conserves, Jams, Marma — a Jades and Preserves,” and inclose herewith four cents in loose ¢ postage stamps for same, “ Fee Name. Street and No " | Viscount Glerawly, titled Knglish nobleman, has enter- ed the movies as an “extra” in Hollywood. If he ever reaches stardom it will bel junder the nom de plume of | Pat Annesley, Clty. State... re while an unbel growing up in the uni young men are forming & jation with / obtaining for pro the state students avowed obje ssors and students at THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 1923. LETTER FROM im? BAA BTRY ‘VV RIDGE ILAININ Two Billion Years! 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