The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 7, 1923, Page 8

PAGE 8 The Seattle Star Ave. Phone Bervice, By 0, year 08.60 Published Daily by T ta 0. Newspaper Knte Be por 4 Pre sreaentatives. fan Francisee une Bide; Mew York office, We Admit We're Good, but— Vladimir de Pachmann, when asked who is the greate pianist on earth, admits it is himself. f rance, in the Ruhr, confesses she is there in self defens Secretary of State Hughes, in his speech before the American Bar association, admits there is no intention on our part “to superintend the affairs of our sister re- publics” in the Americas The trouble with such glowing admissions is that there are still some folks left who question them. | The Manchester Guardian, for instance, an English | publication, and one of the world’s very best newspapers refuses to make unanimous what Secretary Hughes says. | “Cuba and Panama,” it observes, “have never had more | that a partial independence. The Dominican republic put its customs under United States control in 1907, Nicara- gua in 1911, and American marines have been in occu- pation in the former republic since 1916 and in the latter since 1912,” “But,” it continues, “the tendency toward a similar sub- jection of other republics is less generally known.” “Similar subjection!” The very idea. How'd the Guar- | dian get that way? Huh? The last years,” this feast-spoiler goes on to say “have seen American capital flooding Latin Americ: (Here it cites figures.) With these loans goes a greater or less degree of control. Now he names—Haiti, Santo Tromingo, Bolivia, and so on. Cuba, Mexico, Guatemala, Salvador, Honduras, Nic- aragua, “known as the Republic of Brown Bros,”—Costa Rica, “colony of United Fruit Co”; Panama, “of course ‘made in the United States’"’—and so on down the line | — thru Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia. “Only Chile, Uruguay and Argentine,” concludes the ghost at our banquet, “are strong enough to receive i ETER United States capital on the kind of independent terms settle a row with Cuba which has the temerity to say aera much the same thing. perhaps History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and con troversy; the Inscription moulders from the tablet;Mhe statue falls from the pedestal. Columns, arches, pyramids, what are they but healps of sand, and their epitaphs but characters written in the dust—Washing ton Irving. For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; d the place thereof ane {Wt hatl them th and greet them unafraid; for all t shall kgow it no more.—Psalms cllic16. trength Is bent to hear a neighbor's friendly ald , — N thou future rar the hing for wht they stand Bandit talked polities as he robbed a train in Oklahoma, Probably « on Your, when Warshing reach the land reformed pi Even though an Elkton (Ma.) minister married 9,060 couples he has died a natural death. r fw Furs and fur coats will be about three arguments and one crying spell higher this fall. A shoplifter entered a St. Lou ome future ante th * for quick y lay, perhaps, th 3 eel that Kindness holds the higt store and gota nice fur coat and Some day, perhaps, a friendly Fi AT TL STAR FRIDAY eo oer — FROM on which Canada receives it.” 8 a i.e Tay Food for thought in this mirror of ourselves as others v LANIN see us, especially now, engaged as we are in trying to September 7, 192 s, held in reserve by the United States government nflict with Japan Itvelf, © to be went to succor the Japanese p ay » bent, at last, on reaching acid tine y turn each prow t place within the hall © will let us learn the four months. Peace has conquests far more great than victories of War! No female mosquito lives more than one winter, thank heaven. What a pity shoes won't stay shined, ax noses do. old youngster, was sentenced to die by hanging because in a mischievous moment he set fire to a neighbor's house. That happened in the 17th century, we further read, How to Boost Seattle and we heave a sigh of relief that times have changed, | gaitor The Star enlist the services of most are running fast across an ocean's span, their far Japan. But Jap fn race will learn, thru Sorrow’s rod, iod that Making Criminals of Children | to Picking up a department of labor report, we read with LETTER a shock that in Abingdon, England, John Dean, an 8-year- the | i The Trouble With Our Politics BY FRANK R. KENT This in an excerpt from or things ax the Farmer-La | polit icine gy | of o series of articles on the bor combination, Magnas Jobe k {ty Du eye now revolt in American polities n In Minnesota 00k art in siuara tie ra awindling ag written for the Baltimore Sun lowa and other recent ithea bir and emia by one of its stuff ners nomena ; 164 who has been traveling three hove all, it explains the signi- | WheD they sr months on an Investigation of ficant shrinkage in registration Jer St can fly im 80040" 0 the subject. Kadltor. figures and the great decrease in k of thaw arres the vote on election 4 tities) ‘mall ing onne’ rt i This growing refural of the gouthwe people to go to the pollw im t sae a ‘. ae pena most striking and consisten I not recopmiae th er # Ter TTLACAOanae ahGwh ite oan political thing in all thy don w day and that yf ing ‘2 vietion that the root trouble in You find it jn state after sta old game in played’ pug people in th More than 260,000 qualified vot- | : ChOte AY Oa ane NS ae ern did not cast a ballot in the will not “throw tn” wit fae ges pice Ne fle ee et ae election for United States senator radical leaders, wivose Insine Care et ne gate a month ago in Minnerota ity and sel nous ness of the small-bare fellow pe who have control of the party or- | EW VOTES BEING CAST me rave y n politieatiy «| THAN CAST 10 YEARS AG ganization ‘ It is the same story er ’ it in not that the: cheap where, Staten inthe West, great | — Since June 1). 1 have beetitag only on one side, for ou eth a Migh average of | sreat many states and Wim these great republican state gence, are polling regular na striking thing to realy when they turn ¢ domin eae wctaa than te dis | when you get away (fm erty” i 10 years ago, when you make the politi and . thelr party, the leadership, Fa a jovi nares the personal friends and talk wy) can be called, 1s even che Matar artis’ faunas "ee ¥ the ordi citizen—bemiien apd mare shoady.: (Bo that | You find it in Oregon, Washing man or p sional manny in no alternative. That this ‘ ton, California, Colorado, Idaho, never get one of them aay, Myrort, the situation In a large part o Nebraska, Minnesotaa and Wis where an expression of sdaid ns the country is not open to do consin. It ia, in fact, a general | ation a public offical—preg ie be p Any candid’ man who Knows condition that prevails in’ the dent or senator or goveemete tions °° facts will confirm it oie ane ih tha ‘Weet There never as is 0 EXPLAINS WEIRD CURRENTS . suc He ts a 5 REFUSE ‘This means two thing OF PUBLIC SENTIMENT HOW Hi wig First, of course, it strengthens It adequately explains mar y ‘ % . th It is, for instance, t me hands ost et Tee | te owas cynical soot Mr. Har others planation of the weird c ‘ont ment Lbs saat babe ie sara ing until ng a ed and It is cynaillt tanks, 4 of public sentiment that arise “odheap 4 about Mr rolldge now, guile y'm, taki with, the easier f about Johnson and McAdoo, ae hold on and to put things 0 at supp 1: peeree all my the West, the crazy twists of the ind, its readiness to Mii -ulinome“aniy = old ibaeilee Second, it compéin the people Ford, and all the ged oy Fits High eipagpeved either dingistedly to let thi th t into the newspapalll y can't Tacauisr ang Sete explain t KO, oF ow the lead of the ev the It is the rarest thagill (hose w ss Nols | be beet oning demagogue who drips to hear a word of commendatiall’ tienato ye — unrest and discontent Th Ag leg tive promires like a when public men are diseusmd| to discus try and thousands and thousands of| plains the electio h put mad dog with foam: | There is no admiration let Gi seny tha ie office of low pubic |DEMAGOGUES AND OLD | political figures—no more as weit us in this city do not want the| 0 Oi questionably exptains, |GUARD PLAYING SAME GAME) in publle officials atawed JUDK, but the, natal... mall in large part, the clamor for In some states the demagoguer ee witbout paying 20 cents per quart! Henry Ford and it explains such ' are ows fo «@ had doctors, lawyer and uni. | ment in reno versity professors come ax far as 15|we need stewed m ' nate parents who had by babies pasteurized Ju f me 2 great numbe thelr babi etting away with It; in |for it under the name of certified, | ~ - — —_———_—— | ; which is only natural milk and far| Nearly every store handles that|bas, The natural milk dairies never RIEDA’S older than the milk which we ave | stewed junk at 2 and 3 cents ek t/get a “hunch” like that to my| now getting from the amall dairies of |than the price we pay for the natural | knowledge | OLLIES intormed from 20 to 40 cows near the city lim-| milk, so Why this kalxerism to compe)| All citizens should get together and | In the all to ruin the he of their bables | send a committee out to inspect our} aminers I have | milk from iy own |and ta uff that nearly ga yu} natural milk supply, likewise these gation irizing demps, and where they| The way she went on, just whi iil, and I think you will| You would have thought against » put on about 750 de-| He had gone for a year, ie tH ar from the health | grees more heat if you are golng to| Instead of a week. (ere tas be for nas the pasteurized. Wives ARE temperamental @ pleaded h of| I was informed from a grocery| Of course, I have never beenaumg funds f Not that I give a hang, 3 tut this map was attractive, nothing over the ears, 4 Weeping sr his ara in thin city and|to 4 The part | Past than | get their All this croco- | tell the ce ky lo Ket the pure, warm, fresh, | dile sobbing you h 1 milk for their babi 1 have seen the grow, and|your ch n giving their | salt with me of |store this morning that these cow-| steur-|lees dairies were trying to boyvott | « cer-|the scores handling the natural mitx. | ave | So it is time se citizens of 8 have begged |the milk dr f times, when | zing concerns day of ea ying. for the fresh the| wake up before + n, pure, fresh milk delivered co fy be around, and he|but-our babies can't. | She sobbed. gestion the door without Its fir ng bee s mes on that day? What G. A. CARVER “Yes,” I rejoined; cuting 4 ed by stewing or pasteurizing it./ wonderful premonition that - 2324 N, 50th St. “Even its emptiness.” was in § of the! and treatment of children who go wrong is different Perhaps you have observed a full |state squad at Olympia into service now, when we have juveniie courts, special children’s re- | page ad in a Tuesday evening par (Be, thelr eines peatacesten: Test a is need that character of care | form schools, and all that. per, asking for the best suggestions | witch they would get from such at But a little farther on in this same report on “juvenile (for boosting Seattle and Puget tendants court. standards,” we find that we are not so advanced (‘0und. If you can use you may turn the cups over to the Ladies’ Aid and keep the change tract for the vervices of our deans from the 17th century as we thought. For instance: “In one state two boys were imprisoned recently in a First—Put a of the boys a scaffold was erected on which to hang two murderers. “In another state two children of tender years were association into placed in a cell in a lonely district, with a guard pacing» before the cell door. period, “Within the last five years children have been placed vourthe- Haye in death cells, waiting for their execution, only to be | expedition which pardoned by a high-minded governor.” three y of Commerce. ing that in one year he sent 65 children to jail, 40 to the chain gang, 12 to reformatories, and one to an orphanage, These things happen nowadays, not so much because of | 1 have a peeve. the lack of juvenile court laws, but because the function [sands of others who love their chil of these courts is not properly understood, either by Ea peta NE In the first. pl Man laughed himself to death in a Petersburg (Ind.) movie, at a sert teurize i ~ ei Pot! rs é pad! row of cells filled with adult criminals, and in full view three of the city’s news ond—Chloroform Third—Shanghaj the Real Es service of Arc’ ing expeditions for a three-year |tracted tre j dren and understand nature have some judges or by laymen. lope also, at the tactics of the health _— — department in trying to crowd this Pigeon flew from Grand Canyon to New York. Will find New Yorkers’ | stewed junk they yawn greater than Grand Canyon. milk on to everybody in this city |doctors will tell you that the Jecause it {s shipped in| children and babiex on about lof education oftic Chamber th eventh—If you can effect I am sure there will be no} for floating propaganda to ‘\effect a cure of a condition which iy the result of years of their pro tement. In three y we can pay for our street car sy#-| the city council tem, cut taxes in half and wonder join some good South pole exploring | why we didn’t wake up when Rip will be at least| Van Winkle went to sleep «in voyage. tre! The children’s bureau gives an instance of a judge stat- | Fifth—Conspire with Ringlings to | “Stewed Junk,” He Calls It _ while during that period he fined 165 youngsters. | Editor The Star Sixth—The Helgian lace manufac turers would be glad to have a con Your I. M, SINCERE, Hope Lane, Seattle, Wash. | would be sour before it could be de- |teurizing concerns have a and I know thou-|livered. Very few of these big pas: cow to their name, but call themselves dair ies, but they are really milk depots. Their junk is too old and not fit for} any bables by the time it geta to the call pasteurized | consumer. Any of our honest baby why do they pas-|natural milk is far better pure, " your ‘The doctor that | ous picture, we'll bet. | from way out-of-town places, such | is after plenty of business will advo- | as North Bend, Snoqualmie, Falls Way down yonder in New Orleans is a frog that sings instead of snor- | City, and all other directions, and it cate the pasteurized junk ing like other frogs. Probably thinking it wasn't going to hurt a bit, a Pittsburg dentist shot himself. This climate does not always agree with the calendar. Rockefeller is giving away nickels, but ean get more. They Call It Favorable The United States commerce department chartles over a “favorable” balance of trade for July, Goods exported from the United States were valued at $303,020,104 while imports were $287,335,239. That means that during July we were able to let the world (which already owes us 10 or 15 billions of dollars that it can’t pay) gu in debt to us half a million dollars 4, day or $15,595,165 for the month. Favorable? Well, mebbe so. Picture writing about a million years old has been found in British | Columbia and Holly wood. A gentle, loving Los Angeies creature wants to drink iodine if they won't hang her husband, Pennsylvania man has escaped from jail three times. If you think this &s easy, try it once, Great thing about cool weather is all these funny-named, new soft drinks will be gone. | New Jersey couple knew what one wedding gift was, anyway. It was | a live clephant, | Flies swatted this summsr, placed end to end, reach the conclusion it isn't enough. ate books we would like to see written is “Confessions of a Two Kansas @ily girls are suing their father for $3,800, miere rf § He is getting BY BERTON BRALEY ‘OW the doors of education Once again are opened wide And the children of the nation Troop unwillingly in#tde; Are they » th put it short and snappy, They are not! ot quite pleased and hippy s knowledge to be got? D’ they not discover glamor In the things their schoolbooks teach? Do they not, in learning grammar, Sense the magle of our specch? Do they not with eager yearning Hurry to the destined spot Where the lamp of wisdom's burning? They do not! N°’ vacation's silly capers Have been finished, put away, Do they not find books and papers More enthralling every day? Do they not begin pereelying Just how lucky is their lot be studying, aehiev They do no wit unwilling feet they're trudging Back again to enter school, Which to most of them is drudging Underneath « tyrant’s rule, It takes many years to tame them And to show them what is whgt, Do I blame then? I do not! (Copyright, 192%, Seattle Star) We supposed this was a free coun: PRECIATED | UNAPP failed. home a: The Hard Coal Industry On Trial For Its Life A single act of tryanny in the hard coal fields may be the last straw to break, not the back, but the patience of a long-suffering people. Already we read in the press of the. country of plans that are being formulated for a possible permanent abandonment of an- thracite coal by consumers; the immediate utilization of bituminous coal, coke, oil—and s the speeding up of plans to supersede coal in industry with huge water-power electric — projects, and even solar or atomic energy. From all of these far flung plans, The New York World deduces that, “The hard coal industry of Pennsylvania is on trial for its life.” There is an illuminating article in The Digest this week that presents all of the | facts on this timely subject. i” Other News-Features in This Week’s Digest Our Interest in Cuba’s ae i Railedad Problem The Klan as a Victim of Mob Violence A summary of the trouble in Cuba and how the t States ts affected. case for and against the attack upon the Klan at Carnegie on August 25th. The Night Mail in Reality Making Up With Mexico How ae shrinks with air-plane transportation of the mail. In the news of the successful five-day test of the Details of the steps that have led up to the present en airmail service there is a duplitation of the perils of the tente cordiale and the possibility of the proposed treaty dashing days of the pony express riders who carried the Ee ee overland mail in the pleturesque decades of the past Italy’s “New Liberty” The Plan to Split , of the Press Protestantism in Two The restrictions that have been placed by Mussolini to The schism that is widening between the Liberais and regulate Italian publications the Fundamentalists. Japanese Ire at China's Boycott—Wanted: Air Terminals—Are Animals Color-Blind?—The Uses of Drudgery—To Keep Timber Sound—Robert E. Lee in Drama—Two Men Who Helped Make the President—Magm , the Unbluffable, of Minnesota—The Girl Who Came Up From Despatr— “Gasoline Rabies,” a National Peril—Meaning of the Canadian Bank Failure—Topics of the Day There are also many striking illustrations, including the best of the Cartoons | September 8th Number—On Sale Today—All News-dealers—10 Cents The First Anniversary of FUN from the PRESS It was just a your ago that The Literary Dige short the country. The high spots of the cleverest newspaper humorous motion-picture reel FUN from the PRESS was humorists and cartoonists are transferre¢ to the screen in released. Almost from the first week, it became popular this jolly little reel and the public which attends theaters and each additional week but served to increase its popuy where it is shown may be sure of five minutes of laughter. larity with the public, It is bet shown in about 2,000 There is a theater in your town presenting FUN from the of the better class of motion-picture theaters throughout PRESS, Why not drop in and see it? Produced by 'The Literary Digest, Distributed by W. W. Hodkinson Corporation. The jiterary Digest EMILY POST’S ETIQUETTE—“The Blue Book of Social Usage” The most complete book on social usages that ever grew Selling 1,000 copt * FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY, Publishers, 354-360 Fourth Avenue, New York