The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 29, 1923, Page 8

THE SEATTLE STAR 1922. MONDAY, OCTOBER 29 An Honest Word to a Good Friend, Japan To the People of Japan: Your history and ours have been strangely The future is certain to bring us even more closely into contact, for good or ill. For good, if we understand and respect each other; for ill, unless we each see the position of the other and intertwined. try to respect it. You have just been sorely afflicted by earth- quake, fire and storm. You are grateful to us for what little we have done to help you. We have not done too much. We make no claims for what we have done. We shall be satisfied if you will regard it as proof that we are your friends. You have been hurt and angered in the past because of the attitude of the United States toward the immigration of Japanese to Amer- ica. You felt that it meant an official act as serting the inferiority of Japanese and of our hatred of them. We ask you to take our acts recently as proof that it was not hatred. And as to which race is inferior, our common people’s feeling is exactly like the common feel- ing of Japanese toward us. All peoples feel themselves superior to all others as far as the common man is concerned. The average Jap- anese feels superior to Americans. The aver- age American feels superior to Japanese, This is quite natural and inevitable, Thinkers in America regard the Japanese ially the equals of Americans. : Our exclusion of Japanese is not based on But it is rather based on a real difference between us. Our We let in f people who cannot mingle with us racially and combine into one race with us. This must your inferiority. nation is a lemocracy cannot great numbers be in the main by intermarriage with our people. The Japanese cannot do this. Japanese and Amerians of the educated and cultured classes might successfully intermarry, but it cannot be done among the commonalty. The reason lies in our great physical dissimilarity. Prejudice rules in matters relating to marriage, and prejudice asserts itself in voting and contro government, Therefore, if there were very many Japanese ir would be sure to cause trouble between America and Japan. America, it ise dismiss from your minds that notion of inferiority. We don’t to let you in because we know better than you can know that if you come in large numbers it will produce an impossible situation which will result event- ually in international and perhaps worse, Try to understand this at the hearts of the two nations are so drawn to- gether by the sympathy of giving and receiving, and remember it in the future when the immi- gration question shall arise again, as it is sure to do. want friction this time when aerreeaaaasnnnonnnny pessaannnsnansaasaneasnaaanaaasannasnansneases ss tannaaanaaa ean ennaet cena ne nnC cane e Seattle Star tar Publishing Ce, 1907 Berenth Ave. Phone ciation end United Prese Services, By 9 $1.68, ¢ monihs $2.00, year $3.50, OE LEWER FROM |(SCIENCE VRIDGE MANN ||, |, a 4 a TS. PiANN Dear Fotks Oyster’s Enemy. the lady of Parts, with all the styles she Deadly Grip. Opens Valves. Supreme Court’s Rise to Power BY LOWELL MELLETT Pub Dally by The Main jewapaper Enterprise Asso mail, out of city, Ste per th, § mont By carrier, city, 50¢ a me: Glimas, Nicoll @ Rath office, Monadneck Bidg.; Ch Canadian Pacific Didg.; Bom aprenentatives Ran Francisee Fe ea eee: Mew Tork office Editar’s Note—Lowell Mellett, mt Bid | of this paper's Washington staff, has made an extensive study of the movement to eur tail tho power of the supreme court, Mellett has tien a t No \ tional,” ete series of articles giving the out rat OPINION WRITTEN standing incidents in the court's . k Trevor H BY JUDGE TAN PP ay aaSy rece! eh (4 BpIsON, ‘th ag history, Thts is the sixth article what hap The reaching the ground. But Pe oe arora : Bho yoda sateen ’ Pk , x 7 “ it—4t den’t the style to be wide; it fixes the mazimum limit Many at taking a seven-inch stride % rm ved ; I watch them with solemn compassion, these women who the oyster’s deadly en limpingly mince; I murmur, “The French Mra, Fashlon found that the undoubtedly gave them @ quince!” However, I'm hope nteady 1 it de me v ug that most of the women will balk; for many, yat » of resisting notice, are dressing in skirts that permit them to. toalh h y 900 grakenie I never have found that it rankles—I frankly and freely Phi secon ‘the oye admit—to give me a glimpse of the ankles, with skirts that prey, “Ayman are shortened a bit. Mut that tan't back of the for s apart and slowly tae thle ts the feature I stress cserve us the freedom of sumes its victim, ‘The starfish ts motion American women poss hated by oyster-fishermen not only because {t preys upon oysters, but because it eats the balt they use. @pectat co offica, ‘Trib n office, ‘Tres ri restri decide it tion before They take If they decide, aa I to believe t Dama Fashion creates, 1s making a journey to harass the women who live in the Btates. cled the width of the carries her foollahness here; tion that skirts will be long for @ year So now, on the streets of the nation, the latest of fash- Bhe'a tra ocean, and she tella ua she's taken a no Some Advice to Spokane Alfred Holman, editor of the San Francisco Argonaut, has been contributing to the New York Sunday Times an interesting series ‘of articles about the Pacific North- west. ae , n one of these ; sight for transcontinental railroad rates as low Sane : enjoyed by Tacoma, Seattle and the other seaport ; cltt s. 2 yo 1 Without arguing the justice either of pokane’s case = me 0 66 the railroads’, he makes this observation, which seems to | ° Star as very pertinent: aay has arraied perhaps not more from the fact of discrimination in freight rates than by the Nan tinued exploitation of her grievance. She has eaves to the world that she lives under a handicap neers iz- ing to trade, fatal to industrial enterprise and a ot organization of wholesale trade. This clamor, I am dis- sed to believe, has as seriously affected the oie; of the city as the circumstances on which it was based. What now is needed is nof so much change int tem ‘ j oe : i Begs as assurances of something permanent, with cess tion of eer a vet a the Galion ae Pre the Suda ma Siete | Te es the everlasting acclaim that has tended, during its whole tien Caps 5 7 LINCOLN cos career, to discredit Spokane in its manufacturing and npry ME JUDGES cnuion _ : between lef Justicn T: commercial ambitions. | | | Great ft 1 has writ the bit unt of prepare this opinion, howev the act! In the first $0 years of tts his he touches quite at length on Spokane's as those y of the & the U. 8. supreme powe © attempted to assert reception led the existence persons”; to be merchandise i that the nd tion an such was fixed and un changeable acts invalidated by the court re 1 gene haatzing The act of congress which around {ts All other acts or portions of notion, announcement of the de p nm Was made two days after triot urated. It was openly charged in the nenate that Buchanan had advance knowledge of the de 4 that in his inaugura ed only to tho organtzation of courts and so drew litt @ discussion tnjur n'a welfare There are many varieties of the starfish, which is one of the strang- of sea creatures, most of them he pledged his i pESereD ote 1 ‘The civil war proved Seward | letters exchanged between Prest- pe gs t Bu sof eb A C4 eke ‘aie h appear acles rather than by its eyesight, y which Js only slightly develope T © except mous Dred S sion sald by Ave precipitated the « 2 this address ———— ———_ he n will be » far ad branch. “The supreme court,” A ky sien cae declared Senator Seward, of New Sey must confess that if the policy ) Concerning his right to eritt of the government, upon vital cize the ¢ n sald questions affecting the whole Ou sare as honest as people, is to be trrevocably fixed t so. They by decisions of the supreme same pas- court : © people will have : y, for power, and ceased to be thelr own rulers, vileges of thelr corps." having to that extent practically resigned their government into tho hands of that eminent tri- bunal.”* and tho pressure antly brought to i ha aney, States to President Buchanan and others, rag ple that one man one of thy prominent a Alex er H, Stevens, a Bouth and that of this was Abrahar ern Pp ticlan, his they m : 1 | bil He was abused unmercif brothe ity of that faleo « clous daring to criticize the ne T have been ur, the tn property. The p court, by Stephen A. Douglas in the and they never ¥ thelr famous campaign debates, territory, residing for two em to but im the recently published each of these jurind 4 rr In each of these Jurisd no longer the case on | "Works of James Buchanan” are fore returning to Miasourl. a wath claim was set up on the negro's behalf that residence tn IMinols, where slavery was prohibited by the state constitution, and in Wisconsin, free sof! under the Missourt compromise act, had made the negro free, The claim was sustnined by the local court, but reversed by the state su- Preme court, and then sent to the U. S. supreme court. Prominent free-soll advocates pressed the negro's caso for him. However, it is doubtful if a de- cision by the supreme court that temporary residence outaide his stato had not freed Scott would have caused any serious outcry. But the U. 8. supreme court went further. It declared the Missourt compromiso act Itrelf unconstituttonal, It was unconstitutional, sald the court, because {t interfered with the natural right of a slave- owner to take his property where he pleased and because it inter- fered with tho constitutional equality of citizens of different states, Two of the judges, dis- senting, held that the act was a rightful exercise of congress’ power to. legislate for the terri. tories, which had never beforo been questioned; and that it did not violate the equality of citt zons because citizens could only hold slaves in states that par- mitted tt. HOW DECISION CAME ABOUT of congress THE STORY OF DRED SCOTT A Frenchman has written 23,000 words on a posteard. We don’t know r judgment why it wasn't a Scotchman. asa alave, His master moved from Missou Iilinols and then to Wisc Are you feeling blue? This may cheer you a litte, Fifteen landlords were fined in New York. Mayor says Chicago Is dryest city in the country and we say January bis the hottest month, They Broke the Rules During the past year, some 800 persons were barred from United States civil service examinations. About 100 of these were dropped for attempted bribery, forgery, cheating in examinations, disloyalty to the government, , ete., while 700 received their dismissal for lying. The civil service commission now gives notice that those de- siring to’ compete in examinations must tell the truth. Tt is a remarkable revelation. Such unsophistication, such ignorance of accepted customs, such lack of dis- crimination excite astonishment! Indeed, they do. Here, in this day and age, are 800 of our fellow citizens who do not know when to lie and cheat with propriety! There are now and ever have been, unwritten but none the less binding rules to govern aspirants for official place. These rules are short but pregnant. For appoint- ive place the rule is to first get the job and then lie, as opportunity demands. The lie before the job is poor policy and very, very bad form. With relation to elec- tive places, the rule is different and much easier to ob- serve. The latitude accorded the aspirant is wider. He may, and he invariably does, lie at any time, either before or after getting the job. ‘ ‘ Until the civil service folks let us know differently, it had been supposed everybody knew the ruler. These 800 persons deserved the severe lesson they have been given. Despite their Gage 20 doubt bec rept) ey is time, the importance of knowing how, when an ae f hers to place thar lies. If they do not, they had bet- A delicious salad oil ter lay off of government affairs entirely, and try for : 2 living by honest toil and sweating brow. be ey samen The most wholesome fat for Srying ‘The compliments of the season to my worthy masters, and a merry | ‘ase. the original Intention of tho Andon eftsllont shortening aE ee with Wesson Oil if you WOMEN! DYE IT ike good things to eat. = first of April to us all. We have all a speck of the motley —Lamb. In frying, for instance, you need a NEW FOR | LTH fat as good as Wesson Oil to make fried food as good as it can be. Skirt Waists And it’s amazing that anythi J ‘ hing can Japan,” writes a great agricultural authority of the island Coats i : intra. “The land has not been destroyed, and next be so good and yet cost so little. year Mother Earth will yield her increase as before— gore than $2,000,000,000 in value in rice, silk, barley, Diamond Dyes wheat and other food crops.” “The good ship earth,” gs Herbert Quick puts it, still sails serenely one. Don't wonder whether you can dye or tint successfully, because perfect home dyeing is guaranteed with “Diamond Dyes” even if you have never dyed before, Druggists have all colors, Directions in each pack- age. Concerning the powers as- sumed by the supreme court, he said: “, the candid citizens $$$. Haven’t you ever used Wesson Oil for anything except salad dressings? Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in Heaven.—Matt, v.:16. Riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle foward heaven—Prov. xxiil.:5. The Ship Sails On “Tt is the land which survives and which will save Kimonos Dresses Sweaters Draperies Ginghams Stockings Zuppke of Ilinois is a football coach, even if he does sound like » . foreigner asking for soup. Best football players come from the broad open spaces, where men are men and women are girls. Learning football is no easy matter, Arguing with traffic cops and Ice men fs fine training. PS Ne (oko Excellent way to learn football ts by kicking every Jap-dog you see and then running. What Veterans Are Offered At least, Secretary Work is honest about this govern- ment land offered to ex-soldiers for homesteading. “What sort of land it is?” he says, “the question answers itself. Tt is what is left after a century of picking over by vet- erans of other wars and by hundreds of thousands of the early pioneers who went West to build future homes and future fortunes.” In other words. it’s mostly scenery, and nothing more—until Uncle Sam puts water-on it, Woe are all excited by the love of praise, and the noblest are mow influenced by glory —Cicero. Thousands of timid travelers will enjoy learning a Pullman porter was shot in Hlinois. | Football ts better than golf. Everybody knows where the ball is.