The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 4, 1925, Page 14

j 4 i i } t i } é PAGE 14 xz] The Seattle Star | Newspaper terprive Avan, Seventh Ave. Seattle, Wash and United Gliman a, a) Spectal Representatives San Franciece Press Service, at a en: Ave; Hee pe my A the $2.09, ase matter at Beattie, Wo. under act of Maren #, 1878 | HE Federal Council of Churches has aroused the whole country with its report on prohibition. Its most rnificant conclusion, after a careful and apparently thoro investigation, is that 4 “We are witnessing the testing and, it would appear just now, the supreme test- Ing of a new social policy that has been written into our basic laws. No one can Say with positiveness what the ultimate outcome of this test wiil be. . . . Much j Seems to depend on the development of public opinion in the near future.” One result of this report was an immediate outery on the part of certain professional reformers and an ill-considered effort to discredit the report. Another result was a seizing of the report by professional opponents of prohibition as proof that prohibition is a failure. The average citizen who read the report, however, was convinced that an honest and painstaking study of the situation had been made by the churches, and agreed with the report itself when it said “Tt is too early to form final judgments.” Some day the people of the United States will form this final judgment. In the meantime, it is essential that they have all the information that can be obtained. With this in mind, The Star and its associated newspapers sent Gilson Gardner, a newspaper man of long experience, to Canada. He was asked to report the result of experiments made by the various Canadian nets in the handling of the liquor traffic. Each of these provinces has een, in a way, its own laboratory and has carried on its experiments without interference from the others. Not bound by the rigid provisions of a constitutional amendment, they have been able to adjust and modify their regulations, with the idea of making them fit their need ch prov- ince has at this time the sort of regulation which the majority of its vot- ing population finds most satisfactory. r Gardner will report how these regulations are working. His series of icy ’ ae The Observ articles will start in The Star Monday. ler the $ prac- in America? KIDDING OURSELVES all n > LAS a nation, we Americans are very numerous “third-degree fond of kidding ourselves. ticed by police in various cities.) The process begins early in life and Are we kidding ourselves when we ‘stays by us to the grave. It seems to be expatiate on the Americ | por tsomething that is native to our country, free speech? (Ask the California editor | who gets OR COMPNY« ¢ 30SS SLIPS OUT “TO THE Coal SNM the how ¢ " have FOR AN EXCLUSIVE SMorF 5 ; : tbat BY WILLIAMS \I( ; ANLS Be ae 8 | As Th YY ngs Look Rig Youthful Senator Has a Message! It’s ° : Mr. Fixit of The Too Much Buncomb! Uadertahes Hate to | Rewas f iar ve St ve By Eart Sparling .r— Are of Public Interest something that we draw in involuntarily 4 thousand days in jail for con- as individuals and persist in blindly col- lectively. + It extends into every part of our life. We demand it. The public man who re- fuses to kid us along soon finds an early ‘and unlamented retirement. ; In other words, we have fostered cer- ftain illusions about ourselves which we will fight vigorously to preserve unim- ‘paired. > Some of them are amusing, but harm- ‘less. As for example, the hoary belief, ithat hasn’t died even yet, to the effect ‘that we are the most humorous people on tthe globe, and that no Englishman ever scan see a joke without having it dia- ‘gramed for him. + Then there is the other old one which tholds that we whipped England in the Swar of 1812. And the one about how any good American can lick any three iforeigners in hand-to-hand combat. And ithe amusing belief that the small town is ‘always the home of virtue and that the big city chap never means right by the ‘country maiden. These little illusions aren’t particularly ‘damaging. They soothe us and we might ‘as well let them ride. * But perhaps we also kid ourselves jabout more important things. And it might not hurt anything if we examined ia few of our national traditions to see tempt of court.) Is it an illusion tl 8 just and e¢ the marines in Hait yr national poli ghtened? (If not, +) true that we are a liber r ded people? (Dozens « sorship boards and thousands of blue laws to explain if it is.) Is it true that America’s intellectual level is higher than those of othe: tions? (We have a number of “anti lution” laws on our stat books.) Are we a courteous people? (Tr drive a car or ride in a street car Seattle.) Now the putting of these question doesn’t by any means imply that the tra- ditions mentioned above are false. But it doesn’t hurt to examine them pretty carefully, once in a whil Com- placent assurance that we are all right is not a healthy frame of mind. It’s much better to stop, occasionally, and find out if we are really kidding ourselves. Because, if we are, we can ea edy matters. We can, if we w the facts fit the illusion—by keeping illusions and changing the facts DIFFERENT HE whiskered Bolshevik is indeed be- nighted. It was only the other day that some ‘whether they will hold water. half dozen Russian gentlemen were sen- | Are we kidding oursel or are we tenced to death for defrauding the soviet telling the truth, when we say that this government out of some money. | Gs a land’ of perfect religious freedom? Cheating the government can’t be a | Do a little thinking before you answer.) very healthy occupation over there. Over | t Are we kidding ourselves when we here, of course, it’s unhealthy, too. | Maintain that there are equal rights for | Did anyone mention Teapot Dome? | | ? ? Answers to Your Questions ? ? <a —— Q What is the differen — Mfiotype printing machine and at Nos Monotype printing machine? 1] UA. The linotype, as the name im-| | formation by wr piles, casts type by the line instead | tof by single letters. Strictly speak- ling, the linotype does not set type; 1 it sets matrices (moulds) for the | loose i type. The monoiype casta and medical, or marital Tcomposes single type in lines of re-| | V3 al replies co Us ‘quired length, automatically justify- letters must par d ing each line. EE vor it an Q@. Is a zebra black with white plant out each one wtripes or white with back stripes A. It is white with lack stripes.| shoots Q What 1s generally included in the term the British common- wealth? A. Usually it means the common- wealth of autonomous nations with fn the British empire, namely Aus-| A+ There ts noth tralia, New Zealand, Dom of | about the way th Canada, the Irish Free State and\ birds and when out ou tell me where on hey are Ie are dispe is great dé y the letters and jen of @ther self-governing possessions of |1t is true that the be ome plate glass England. wild animals are rarely if ever ly wedging them off with a eee found, but it ig believed that in or ra bh in about the Q. How can I keep tuberose bulbs, #eir dying hours they conceal| safest way remove them, aa far @uring the winter? themsclves as nearly as possible|as the plate glass ts concerned, but the letters are almost sure to be ‘A, Take up the bulb and hang it|from sight. Others, unless dispo | broken 4 the cellar or any dry place that|of bv human agencies, disintegra fs frost-proof. In the spring divide} | _NATURELAND J Criticism Can’t Shake eertars ramets | Man’s Faith on Seattle| started for the Far tab lish a station, probably chitan, where the hea | (VY RLED letters crpressing a{ Yacific Slope both an to harbor | gun's rays will be taken hourly strong and abiding faith in Se-| and shipping facilities, Ye for the purpose of establishing |attle are covering the editor's deal 1 1 far and wide as the most its variability. 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