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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-04-01

WASHINGTON. April what
appears 20 be an important step In
tho effort 20 check the further
spread Of Bolshcvisrn In Russia. was
seen in simultaneous announcements
today BY the war trade board and
the federal reserve board.
Resumption OF trade with Poland
and Esthonia IL provided in new war
trade board regulations. granting H.
ccnscs on commodities intended solo
~ for international consumption Re
s,rictIons on foreign exchange trans
actions with f.sthouia. Lcttland.
Lithuania and Poland were removed
By the federal board.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-04-01
FOOLED" FRIENDS

SAN FRANCISCO. April tip.
setting all plans for a big wedding In
Portland. Capt. Thomas T.. Markiey.
U. s. A.. and Miss Marguerite Far
rar. daughter OF prominent; North
rrn physician. April fooled" their
friends today by t.loxraphing them
news OF their marriage here. The
wedding was soiemnssed last night
4 romance growing from the soldier
receiving tho girls picture before he
started overseas preceded the mar
rage.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-04-01

MINERAL WELLS. Texas, April
Arthur Hardy. savannah, Ga,
catcher. was added TO kid" Glea-
sons White Sox lineup today. With
the team split two ways, Gleason
found there was too much work for
one receiver on the second team.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-04-01
ACCEPT BID FOR BONDS

The highest tender received. the
bid Of tho National City Co. OF New
York and Seattle. OF stes.i5s for
$500. 900 worth OF newly authorized
port OF Seattle Improvement bonds.
was accepted by the port commission
in special session Monday.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-04-01
1900 SOLDIERS
COME IN TODAY

NEWPORT NEWS. Va. April L.
Bringing more than 1890 soldiers.
the battieships Kansas and Georgia
docked today from srest.
pctachmcnts OF the it9th infantry
for Camps Meade. Lee, Gordon and
Greene and nine casual officers we're
aboard the Kansas
on board the Georgia were de
taehmenis Of the ii2th engineers for
Camps Greene. Lee and Bowie. de-
tachnents % tho issth infantry for
Camp Bcaurrgard. casuais from
North Carolina and California; a
casual company scattered and II
casual officers Many Of the men
we're mcsnbers OF the Ohio National
Guard
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-04-01
BARNES HEADS
WHEAT BUREAU

PARIS. April President VIII.
son today announced appointment OF
Julius Barnes as head of the organi-
zation for handling the 1919 wheat
crop under the congressional guaran.
tee. The appointment was made on
recommendation or Herbert Hoover.
Hoover. II was further announced,
will continue as chairman of the
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-04-01

Europe. when. it is expected, the
food crisis will be passed.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-04-01

Senator Reed is afraid the American people do not
understand the league constitution. No does 10
experiment. to be hetUed into shape rough edges
appear
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-23
LOOKING OUT BELOW

AMONG Europeans, whom we like to
"a consider backward, the regulation of
air traffic was being seriously considered
years ago. In the United States the mat
ter is one that has been left until now to
dilettantes and jokemakers. The tragedy
at Chicago may bring Congress and the
state Legislatures out of their trance.
An airplane when it crashes in the
open will kill only the occupants. If it
crashes in the city it may kill hundred
people. What a falling airship can do
was shown in the Chicago disaster.
The general public is protected by mill
tary regulations from danger by army
and navy dirigibles and planes. Pilots
are compelled to operate their machines
with plenty of leeway.
But what of the thousands of amateurs
who are now taking to the air in various
types of flying machines? A manufac-
turer's report shows that within the last
year five hundred airplanes have been de-
livered to civilian t1iers in this country
Five hundred additional orders are being
filled. The civilian fliers will be serious
problem, and since Legislatures never
think rapidly they ought to begin to
think about air traffic regulation now.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-23
WHAT ARE JAPAN'S PLEDGES?

"TNTlMATloNs" are still transpirng
from the White House instead of
straightforward, frank statements. The
President is not doing much to help the
cause of the peace treaty and the league
of nations covenant by his confidential
confabbing On the contrary, he is weak
cning it by raising doubts and suspicious
where probably none should exist.
If it is true that Mr.. Wilson himself
dictated the clause handing over the
Shantung concessions to Japan in con-
formity with the Allied secret treaties
which is the latest explanation via the
subterranean route from the executive
offices-there is a thousand times more
reason than ever for immediate and un-
equivocal explanation from him, not to
the Senate alone, but to the public gen.
orally, why he should have taken such
an apparent about-face on a matter
where he had irrevocably committed him
self and this nation to the side of the
weaker people.
If it is true that Mr.. Wilson took this
action only after obtaining some sort of
pledge from Japan for the return of the
concessions to China, he has lost much
time and gravely imperiled the treaty
upon which the hope of the world, as he
says. depends, by not making the facts
clear at once.
The quick and emphatic refusal of the
Senate foreign relations committee to
sanction the appointment of an American
member on the reparations committee,
the restive attitude of the senator's under
the Presidents rather discourteous fail
ure even to acknowledge receipt of for
NAL requests for papers and documents
corollary to the treaty and the evident
ton of the radical opponents to fight to
the bitter end ought to indicate to Mr..
Wilson how the wind is blowing.
The situation both at the Capitol and
the White House at present is distinctly
disquieting to those who believe that the
treaty ought to be ratified in the best
form possible at the earliest possible
moment There is too much feinting and
sparring for position at both places.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-23
Member of the Associated Press
POLITICAL MAcERS AT WORK

WE HAVE been waiting for some eX-
w PLANTATION Of that demand by the sec
retary of the Democratic state committee
on federal oficeholders for 2 per cent of
their salaries, but none has been forth
coming.
The only comment from official sources
is that made by the federal district attor-
ney, Francis Fisher Kane, who said that
he was in the habit of paying his politi-
cal assessments and that it was Gus
tomary to assess officeholders, and that
it was all right. And he cited the prac-
tice of assessing firemen and policemen.
But it is not all right. The new char
ter absolutely forbids the assessment of
policemen and fremen, putting teeth in
the old law that was supposed to forbid
it. And it is contrary to law for any
political committee to levy an assessment
upon a federal officeholder. Mr.. Kane,
who used to be reformer, once appealed
for the votes of decent people as a candi-
date for Mayor of this city. 1t is puz-
cling to account for the change in view
point.
But, regardless of Mr.. Kane's attitude,
the Civil Service Reform Association
ought to call the attention of President
Wilson to the macing letter of the Sec
retary of the Democratic state commit
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-23

"race question" in Washington. "clti-
zens' committee" organized in secret
after the manner of the Bolshevists them
selves, has managed to create one that
will last painfully for many years.
The District committee of Congress has
permitted a condition that involves dis
grace for itself and for the people of
Washington. The city has an elaborate
police and detective force. The brutal
crimes of irresponsible and homeless
negroes against white women have gone
unpunished. 1t was a lawless mob that
sought to visit vengeance indiscrimi-
nately upon negro families in their
homes.
Soldiers who engaged in that sorry pas
time disgraced their uniforms. Had they
done similar violence in France they
would have been court-martialed. And
now the world is treated to the spectacle
of a Congress which, while it is telling
the world how to behave, is unable to
keep peace at its own doors.
An investigation Of the whole police
administration in the District is impera-
tive, and if impartial justice is not done
to whites and blacks alike we might as
well stop talking of our superior civiiza-
ton,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-23
miss BROWN, co TO THE DOOR"

MISS STEARNS, of the Y. W. C. A.,
A'A thinks she has solved the domestic
service problem by abandoning the COM
mon practice of calling a maid Mary or
Jane or Anna and substituting for it the
practice of the employer of young women
in Offices where they are called Miss
Brown or Miss Harrison or Miss De Peys-
ter. She also calls the maids "home as
sistants."
In proof that her plan works she says
that she advertised for a home assistant
who was to work eight hours day for
six days week and get salary of SIS.
She had eighty applications and gave the
Job to a college graduate.
But has it occurred to Miss Stearns
that it would be much easier for the aver
age housewife to say Miss Brown go to
the door," than to get the SIS week to
pay to a maid for six eight-hour days :?
And has it also occurred to her that the
wages offered may have had something
to do with the number of applicants?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-23
LOVES IMMORTALITY

WHEN our gay hearts have laid their
w gories down;
When our young bodies mingle with the
dust
From which God made them tender and
august;
When I my singing robe and you your crown
Have yielded up to wasting moth and rust
When even in our own familiar town
Men mind not our mortality, trust
Our lives to live in more than their renown
For in our childrens children love shall be
Nobler for all the mighty love we knew;
Holier for pity that has stirred in you
Stronger for patience that has grown in me
In unborn lovers shall our love renew
It's mystery and magnanimity.
Theodore Maynard in the New Witness.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-23

heat and cold. But everywhere mans
brain has been winning the battle for
civilization.
In the circumstances it is strange that
in the oldest battle-ground of all, the
wheatfied, man is least successful
Wheat has been grown for countless CEN
turies-and it still ripens in the sun and,
when cut, is left to the mercy of the
rains.
This weeks rain has cost the farmers
of Bucks and Montgomery counties not
less than million dollars.
Nature has won the battle so far
but, sooner or later, man will rob her of
her victory, and no food grown will be
allowed to go to waste.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-23
WHEN sOLSHEViSTS LAUGH

pEHIND every ugly riot that has oc-
- Cured in this country since exag-
gerated war sentiment first began to
color or distort public opinion-in New
York city, in Bisbee, Ariz., and latterly
in Washington-there has been in the
background an officious "citizens' COM
mittee" with jumpy nerves, a self
appointed and self-directed band of
aggressive persons obsessed with be-
lief in their right to supersede the police
and afflicted with the delusion that they
are good Americans.
The city of Washington, like every
other community near the Atlantic sea-
board, drew in many undiscipined ne
groes from the southern states when war
industries and war wages were upset
ting the industrial balances of the coun-
try. Like other cities, it is experiencing
the logical aftermath. Negroes out of
work or drunk and without the habitual
restraints of their familiar environ
ment have run amuck. And in conse-
quence a "citizens' committee" with the
aid of soldiers and sailors irked by long
inaction, proceeded to make war upon
Jig hSBEo PoPuidtloH VI tne CITY.
Race riots seething in the very shadow
Of the Capitol and gunplay within ear,
shot Of the White House will cause
ssrdonic laughter in Moscow and grief
among all Americans who have pride ir
their national traditions. What will Car,
ranzn say of this when next we order hin
10 put down lawlessness in his noun,
fainsf
The record Of the Washington riots
shows whites and negroes injured OF
killed. But not one of the negroes who
Wsfe originally, at fault has beeF caught
punished'or even identified. IA
Until now there has been serious
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-23
Answers to Yesterdays Quiz

I When a stream breaks through an es-
tablished stream boundary and invades
the boundaries of an adjacent stream
IL Is geoiogicans ca'eu pirate anu
the stream seized is sald 10 De De-
headeu.
2. Under the peace treaty Austrias army
is reduced to 3o'ooo'
3. Ember and rogation days are certain
periods of the year devoted to prayer
and fasting: Ember days, the Wednes-
day, Friday and Saturday after the
first Sunday in Lent after the feast
OF Pentecost, atter the iestival OF the
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-23
GEESE AND GANDERS

ITALY and Rumania are reported to
have entered into treaty against the
Jugo-Slavs. Such treaty will be imme-
diately regarded as a menace to the
league of nations. 1t is 'indeed menace,
and it will be denounced as the begin
ming of sort of intrigue that yet may
wreck the whole structure of the Paris
peace.
Yet we cannot complain. We ourselves
are seriously considering a separate de-
fensive treaty with France and Great
Britain. What is good for the geese is
good for the ganders.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-23
THE CHAFFTNG DISH

ONE of the most disappointed organiza-
" tons we know of is the st. Helena
Rotary Club. Those alert business men con-
fidently expected that Mr.. Hohcnzollern
would have been on the island long before
this and we are informed that they have
spent over half a million on hot dog stands
for the expected tourist trade.
Henry Ford is really public benefactor
for having permitted his mind to be over
hauled and tinkered with in public. Henry's
vagueness as to what is an anarchist or an
idealist is no worse than the vagueness of
almost all of us on many matters. And at
any rate Henry is not vague in his sincere
desire to make humanity happier, which is
thing that most cross examining lawyers
never even think about.
What Is really the matter with Henry's
mind is headlincitis, which affiicts those who
merely read the headlines and nothing else.
We hate to think what would happen to us
if we we're cross examined in the Chicago
fashion on almost any subject. Take Batik,
for instance, which we see mentioned in the
Women's pages every day or so. Our ideas
on Batk are so vague that it would really
be very amusing to be questioned about them.
One Of the first territories that will have
to be pacified by the League of Nations is
the District of Columbia.
Still thinking about Henry's mind 1t oc
ours to us that it is one of the few that
might really and dangerously SGT out of its
depth in a newspaper paragraph.
We advise our clients to keep an eye open
for "The Young Visiters," a novel by Miss
Daisy Ashford. which is soon to be pub
lished. Miss Daisy wrote this entertaining
tale when she was nine years old. I'm
happily she has since grown to years of ma
turity, which is pity. This is how Daisy
wrote when she was nine:
Next morning while imbbing his morn
ing tea beneath his pink silken quilt Ber-
| nard decided he must marry Ethel with no
| more delay. love the girl he said to him
| self and she must be mine but somehow
| feel cannot propose In London 1t would
| not be seemly in the city of London. We
| must go for a day in the country and when
| surrounded by the gay twittering of the
birds and the smell of the cows will lay
| my suit at her feet and he waved his arm
| wildly at the gay thought Then he sprang
from bed and gave a rat tat at Ethels
| door.
| Are you up my dear he called
Well not quite said Ethel hastily jump
| ing from her downy nest
| Be quick cried Bernard have plan
| to spend a day near Windsor Castle and
we will take our lunch and spend happy
| day.
! Oh Hurrah shouted Ethel I shall soon be
ready as I had my bath last night 80
wont wash very much now.
No don't said Bernard and added In a
rather fervent tone through the chink of
the door you fresher than the rose
my dear no soap could make you fairer
Then he dashed of very embarrassed to
| dress.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-23
The Knockout

Dear Mr.. Socrates:
Your letter reed. / guess the Joke sent was
That's. a good one my granddPop split laughln
a minister too. l don't as how Hal Temern-
bered tho because his grandpop died before he
was born. | guess his mother told him.
Well knows they would try out few subs
the old chainE dishs been on the side lines
because some body elses been fllinE your space
stun DUN shoes'' False Teeth. and other
MEANS rSops lots and got pep and jass to IL catch
you on Il as you mean. sutsle IKE IL somethins
SyWel so long I'll eend you one what Will knock
an for loop next time and Keep you on the
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-23
What Do You KnoW?
QUIZ

QUIZ
1. Can the British House Of Commons
make laws without the consent Of the
House of Lords?
2. What is meant by "dining with Duke
Humphrey?
8. Who was it said, "Amuse lent to an
observing mind is study?
4. What is the circumference Of the earth?
s. What is "gerrymander," and how did
the name originate?
6. What are "Bacchanalian songs?
Z. Who was the King of Roads?
s. Who was Croesus?
0. Which was the first state to ratify the
federal prohibition amendment?
10. What was the Parliament of Bats?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-23
THE BATTLE OF THE WHEAT

MOTHER NATURE is wise, but any
AVA student will tell you she is reaction
ary. Every step civilization has taken
has been against her protest. She seeks
an injunction to restrain every effort to
harness her forces. She woulH let the
weak die; and would have humAnity feel
kthe full effect Of food and drought, Of
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-23
The Polltest Man

The politest man we have ever heard of
was the Philadelphia who was riding on
crowded car on Market street. After consid-
cradle buffeting he turned to a lady and said,
"I'm sorry, madam, you'll have to pardon
hatpin.'
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-23
Once upon a time joy
Long, Long Ago

Once upon time joy
Long, Long Ago Gus fans hied them
selves to a ball park
and had their faces tanned by the sun. They
ate peanuts and ice cream cones and drank
lemonade through long straws. They watched
sturdy players disport themselves on the dia .
mond and had fun with the pitcher and with
the umpire. But that was before rain be-
came habit
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-23

One of the reasons why we hate to spend
actual money for volume of free verse
poetry is that it is so much easier to carve
out ones own vers libre from the established
prose masterpieces. For instance, what free
verser has bettered this:
She struggled to a certain hilltop
And Sd,o before her
The silent infooding of the day.
out of the east
1t yelled and tohitened;
The darkness trembled into light;
Aud the stars toere ertinguished
Like the street lamps of a human city
The phiteness frightened into silver,
The silver ourmed to gold,
The gold kindled into pure and living fire;
And the face of the east
Was barred toith elemental scarlet.
We shred this up from one of Steven
sons novels; we shall not tell you which one,
as a search for it may set you to reading
r. i. S. all over again, which is always
seemly occupation.
We have seen sunsets striped with apple
green and peacock blue ; with bands of amber
and rose and yellow; with cloudy shelves
and ridges of lilac and gold and flushed
ivory; but we have never seen any sunset
that could compete with Market street silk
shirt.
Harriet, aged twelve, sends us the fol-
lowing:
Summer
'Tis summer, the berries are ripe
And we can go a-ishing for pickerel and
tripe,
We feed the hungry chicken we can
climb upon the trees
We can eat the growing berries and steal
honey from the bees.
When the shades Of night falling
And owls they start a-calling
Well return to our little house
So quiet, Yes! as quiet as a mouse.
HARRIET.
We are always amused to see just what
books are put in department store window
displays. A big store on Market street is
showing bedroom suite in yellow, and we
were surprised to find a copy of Yellowplush
Papers laid careless like on the bureau
Now we wondering whether the window
dresser did that on purpose, or was it just
luck?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-23

Rain continues to fall alike on the just
and the just $3.50.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-23

Some people live in amity; and some in
the Balkans.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-23

Wars aftermath is sometimes as deadly
es war itself.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-23

There is difference of opinion as to
whether Henry needs cranking or is a self
starter.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-23

What the Ford trial seems to need Is
the cloture.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-23
Perhaps

If all officers of the
Perhaps law were paid salaries
and all fees accruing
to their Offices We're turned into the treasury,
fewer traps would be laid for unwilling mo-
toriSts.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-23
The Wanderers

THE world will be as fair when you and I
l. Have wandered from the shores of this
dear land;
The same bright stars will grace the eve
ming sky
And lovers still will linger hand in hand.
Our feet may tread the soil of lands unknown,
For destiny is calling day by day,
To us to leave the land we call our own,
And go to meet what lies across the way.
Though fate may mark path that turns and
winds
And leads us far from those we hold most
dear,
Time cannot break fond memory's chain that
finds
And keeps our spirits ever lowering near.
Deep in our hearts, wherever we may roam
Deathless, unchanged, the years may come
and go,
There dwells the love for native land and
home,
And all the simple joys we used to know
EMILY L. BOOTH.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-23

Starvation is calling the rolls in Vienna.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-23

There Is still observable in many quarters
,, strong gin inclination to q r. Articls x the
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-23
He Is Back
Home Again

Our soldier boys
He Is Back proved in France that
Home Again they were the best dis
ciplined men in the
world but woe betde the man who imposes
on them! The position of Hard Boiled"
Smith. the American officer convicted by
court martial in France of brutality to SOL
dier prisoners, is not one to be envied.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-23
Revision

President Wilson is
Revision inclined to revise the
old saw to read, "A
man convinced against his will may be of the
same opinion still, but what difference does
it make so long as he votes the way desired?"