The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 12, 1924, Page 6

~ al Geprom@iaiives. | San Pronsioce Triveme Bids.) New York office, ® Hurrah! Push It Along HE Detroit News well demonstrates the crass igno- rance of the Eastern press in general as to the Pacific Coast objection to the Japanese, cAsten to it, as it roasts congress for its exclusion act: “Upon what grounds did congress take this action? On the complaint of the Pacific Coast states that 115,000 Japanese were ruining them because they worked hard and were thrifty!” Editorial pettifogging! The Pacific Coast states do not object to thrift. They are themselves as thrifty states as can be found in the Union. They certainly do object to the sort of thrift whose proceeds build nothing for the country but are sent abroad, the sort of thrift that takes from the soil its all to transport in shape of cash to Nippon. And the Pacific Coast states certainly do object to Japs, Chinese, browns, blacks, or whites who work them- selves, their wives and children in the fields 18 hours per day, Sundays included, in competition with Americans who believe in a standard of life above that of peonage. The Michigan bailiwick of the Detroit News may stand for that sort of thing, but the Pacific Coast people will not But, if the Eastern editors knew anything at all as to the Coast objections to its 115,000 Japs, they would know that there are other than the industrial objection. The Jap, not only industrially, but socially and morally, is a crafty parasite, and nothing else. He sucks all the life out of the soil, he éannot and will not be “assimilated” in any particular, and he has no particle of moral sense. And observe how the Detroit News Solon would set tle the issue: “Why not propose to Japan a mutual exclusion treaty, by which she would keep her labor out of the United States if we, in our turn, kept American labor out of Japan? That is a 50-50 arrangement that would be fair and carry affront to nobody."@ Whoop, whoop, whoopee! The whole Pacific Coast is for it. Just the thing! Magnificent! A second Daniel come out of Michigan! An even swap, with wholesale Pacific Coast joy, to boot. There are, pertaps, 10 Amer- iean labo! in Japan to 1,000 Jap laborers in America, but it is a 50-50, just the same. But Japan wouldn’t have it. She has got to have some sort of a sanctuary for her immoral and criminal, and she considers America to be the fat, easy It. She cannot afford to have in her midst, say, 115,000 American labor- ers to teach her masses that they work their women and children 18 hours per day, seven days per week, for a bare living, largely because said masses are supporting inherited royalty and Big Business elements already 'way up in the monopolistic art of plucking the geese. The honorable Jap probably does feel insulted by the exclusion idea of congress. But, if you want to see him in the hys- terics of insulted honorableness, try the Detroit News 50-50 panacea on him! An optimist Is one who still continues to make hale restorer Jobless Insurance * adobe hada insurance is put into effect in the garments industry. If successful, it will spread to other trades. It’s promised that the unemployment fund will be handled on a non-profit basis. Meantime, as we watch the experiment, not a bad idea to keep in mind that the original and best form of un- employment insurance is a personal savings account at the bank. How many are saving for the next period of business depression? It may not come for years, but the wise play safe. From Bunco to Bunk N HIS way to Atlanta federal prison to serve a 10- year sentence for fraudulent use of the mails, ex-Gov. McCray, of Indiana, issued a statement in which he said: “I am going to show them that I am a red-blooded American. I am going to Atlanta to do my part and then I am coming back to Indiana to round out my career.” Rather flamboyant for a man convicted of a score of gross crimes against a country whose red-blood he as- sumes to possess, and who was on his way to pay rigorous penalty for them. A patriotic, self-sacrificing hero, -going to a great service at arms, could not have announced himself more loftily or grandiloquently. But his public will not believe him, for his covert appeal to sympathy was ill-timed and ill-placed, and lacked the ring of sincerity. Men do not become suddenly red-blooded in their loyalty to country at the very moment when the Jaw of that country is laying its heavy hands on them for confessed offenses against it. Not at all. They are still dishonest. They are still cheats and liars, as they were when they perpetrated their crimes, and their eleventh-hour appeal to pure blood is only further attempt to gull those who may listen. They appeal from bunco to bunk. Neither McCray, nor other men like him, can be red- blooded Americans and criminals at the same time. More than that, the real, honest-to-goodness red-blooded man doesn’t have to identify himself by words. His manner of life speaks for him. And, quite invariably, he is never headed toward prison. Sweets to the Sweet ARQUIS CURZON, one of England’s conservative 3 lame-ducks, predicts the fall of the labor party, at a. gathering of the Primrose league in London. The Primrose league. What a lovely name for anti- laborites!’ It is a wonder that Henry Cabot Lodge doesn’t emigrate and join. LETTER, FROM V RIDGE MANN May 12, 1924 Dear Folks: é I got invited down to see a show they gave the other night. The phone officials wanted me to learn to use the dial right. I told the wife, “I'll take you, dear. We'll sally forth on pleasure bent. It's quite a dandy show, I hear— besides, it doesn’t cost a cent.” ‘We saw the demonstration there; and then Roy Hadley came along. He took us nearly everywhere around the telephonic throng. We saw the girls who, row on row, are sitting there with busy hands—incessantly to say “Hello,” and care for all the town's demands. SEATTLE STA Spring Is Not All Sunshine and Poisies * pee OP Sy \ HAT = ~ Someeun ~ NOW * on en w0S NOT Forse To Do SOMEHING ~ “IGS Tie eens An he Garven Tools Last DewT 1Teu. 07 STN tow TRWN Ano Go Tie TheAte ToniGHT ‘CauSa | WAS Goma CLEAN House 2° , flu Fen ouT Waal iT “— TH in AM x ) @ & ~ S Selling American Goods Abroad "B WASHINGTON, Ma nt and Manufact Lith In v matters mation is telegraphed io the service is tu ed free, the only requirem YESTERDAY'S PORTRAIT W. J. BRYAN Frieda’s Follies E E in Hollywood. IN Hollywood’ they ND OTHER things to do BESIDES the movies. THIS night it was mah jongg. | JUST like amusements in other cities. HOW THE women undressed every one of | THEIR reputations, | are a few char-| \ Hollywood, N if they are among | HE discards, on the table.’ | that make about 10 knots. !come baby to the tender mercy af Y KENNETH WATSON Telling It to Congress (Excerpts from the Congressional Record) governm be equivalent to new buildings retary of In before house appropria mmittee ete NO TEETH IN IT strike of about bec ed in it natance y had her to get luntarily to quit, while made that saw fit to dis obey could go unpunished, and there was no economic or legal power that could compel them to obey the decisions of tho present railroad labor board.—Representative Bark ley @,), Kentucky THE RUM FLEET There is a rum fleet off New| Y standing 30 or 40 miles out We have two or three cutters there They go plugging along this fleet, Naturally, when they have gone up the lino the launches shoot down the line} jand go to the vessel they have left | jand load up and get back.—Admiral | | Billard, coast gard, before house | interstate and reign commerce committee. ] ee WEEP NO MOF Rachel weeping for her has nothing in the grief line on the| gentleman who delivers his fat in MY INCOME!) first-born the collector of internal revenue—— Senator King (R), Conn. (A THOUGHT } Go to the ant, thou sluggard; con. si her ways, and be wise.—Prov. vib, see PITY the man overwhelmed with the weight of his own leisure. Voltaire. |SC\A7ILL you please keep your| | hands off the baby’s face,” was Mrs. Mann's almost hourly ad- monition to Mr. Mann. Like the verage fond daddy of) a firstborn, Mr, Mann found it hard j to keep his hands off the child | jand had a chronic desire to pat its} cheeks. “Tho trouble 1s your fingers come | KEEP GERMS FROM BABY FABLES ON HEALTH —. attention. Any Indication of eyo inflammation should particularly be | watched and reported to the doétor. | Under no clroumtance should any hard instrument, such as a hairpin or toothpick, be used in giving | treatment to any ailment of ears or nose, Soft, absorbent cotton alone should DOING WHAT. YOU DISLIKE BY ALBERT APPLE A that she is very r hool. Sh i he lad is quite bright it she fears he will never be able to master arithmetic I trouble probably is in one of two reasons First: Arithmetic is taught in the most interesting way ible, to reach the average child. Educators long since that making a subject interesting is the mer perception and making a study indelible ir nemor But this particular lad may be one of the excep ms to whom the tem of teaching mathematic dull and unattracti What fk the remedy? ested in figuring baseball percentages “play store” at home, encourage him to keep books on his imaginary sales. Saseball has greatly increased the average boy's know ledge of mathematics | | | worried be MOTHER cause he yung son a writes us much arithmetic n other studie ealized key te arousing present 8 We suggest getting this lad inter- MORE probable explanation is that this lad is not in- ted in mathematics for the very simple reason » is “not cut out for it.” There is such a thing a “arithmetic sen just as some people never cards, not having “card sense.” As long as the is reasonably bright in other studies don't worry too much if he is backward at arithmetic ances are, when he strikes out in the world for himself, he ill follow the line of work he likest best. And, not being od at figures,” he'll hire some one to do his figuring for chool mate who stands at the head of the metic clé . ducation is MENTAL TRAINING, rather than fill ng the brain with facts like pouring water into a jug wi F nnel, It is important to know things. But it is mor important to know and find knowledge when needed The world is full of star mathematicians anxious to work for $35 a week, the same as good fiddlers S° it goes with other studies. We know a man who in school was a dumbbell at history—simply because he He wanted to write for a living . Well, and writing history! In maturity his- tory began to interest him because he found he could make money out of it. So he began to study the past. Every child, except the exceptionally brilliant, has at least one subject in which he lags. Ponder-the studies at which he stars, also the ones in which he is “dull,” and probably you can figure out what kind 6f work he is going to follow. Increasingly life becomes a matter of specialization, not generalization. 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