The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 7, 1909, Page 4

ae cams Ne een teem ember of the Untted Press Habed ts ity by The Star Poblish- FERTILE ACRES beet wiser man 18,000,000,000 acres of fert world } in the which will more than su ¢ erson says h pported } ¢ y gr Imother ar up eight ¢ mered ar ng This was going some for grandpa—but assuming the fact to be as stated, assuming that the land of this round old world of ours could easily support ten times as many people as it now feeds, are we handling our share of it in the manner to get the ‘ .? most out of it with favor, Just why, it is difficult Grandpa in Sweder ted ten people on an acre—but}to + and, in as much as the ; jeountry ts aa responsible for the} he had th 1 1 1 rtant matter And h | he had the acre. This \ t | he | Phillppines as it is for Porte Rico bad the life history that + upable of using the acre tojor the Sanwieh Islands, and more #0 than It ts for Cubs | its best advantage Another very portant matter a 5 Oe. ay Cena | advantag i The production of sugar tn the York, Mr. E s so full that vehicles Go down or, and sec the swart eatest sight in New York is ean scarcely pass thr hy the the children of the cor sted Ea be vastly better off using tl would then breathe t Side. ‘These people would} They sweet country se acres of which you speak sweet country air, and eat food, and see sweet country sights, and feel their nerves let down from the fearful city strain | But if you put them out on those half-used acres they would starve. They are the most industrious people on earth but they would starve on farms. ‘They don't know how to sup port one per acre. They than farms. When you change the habits of mind of a people, be careful that you change them right: for it's a mighty hard task to change them back And again—if they all wanted acres to use, they couldn't} get them. We partly use our lands; but we prefer to use their| values rather than their acres. Did you ever hear of the Vacant | Lot Culture associations of Philadelphia, New York, Detroit London and other cities? They are organizations for getting} the poor of the cities the privilege of growing gardens on vacant lots. There are acres and acres vacant near New York—acres | enough within reach of an hour's ride to give one to each person in the city—figure it up—but the acres are monopolized | They are worth more under our present laws to speculate with | would rebel. rather stay on | tire production of BY F. G, SANDERSON $AN FRANCISCO, July Gen eral Ja Prancta Smith, gevernor gener the Philippines, thinks that the 1 ition in this oountry removing the Philippine tariff ta ull nonsen He told me po tn am interview a fow daya ay The General had t iyned from the Philippines, and topping tw this elty en rout Washington I important question from the Philippine standpoint ts Payne svides for free trade t the Philippines and the United States, and that would be the great enefit the talands 1 of the facet that the Unit s never has produced «ar for ite own consump ” ip to the 4 nt, Kept pine sugar, Trade with the Sand wich Islands, Porto Rico, and Cuba han been fostered; that with th Philippines does not seem to meet] Philippines has fallen to only about 114,000 tons, beeauae of the lack of encouragement which trade would supply How about tobacco? The annual production tn the United States fails of meeting the local consumption, | understand, by 70,000,000 pounds: There fa no dan r of our supplying this deficit by the free admission of Phillppine to baceo. In the Philippines the en tobaceo of all 10,000,000 pounds free kinds la only “1 cannot understand this opposi tion to removing the tariff, it ems to me it resuite from fear | based on lack of knowledge rather than on sound reason, The senti ment that the Philippine production of sugar and tobacco is so great that local American Interests would be hurt is all nonsense, Desplte Smith's previous probibl “JUST 0 ne b b THE SEATTLE STAR EDITORIAL AND MAGAZINE PAGE HOWL AGAINST LIFTING, PHILIPPINE | STAR DUS coo TARIFF NONSENSE, SAYS SMITH, GOV. GEN. JAMES FRANCIS SMITH, GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF PHILIPPINES, tlon of military and naval questions,;ment and public opinion, they # entitied to but little consideration,” I ventured to ask him if he thought the Japanese are casting eyes on the Philippines. “No, | do not,” he replied prompt ly. “All that kind of talk originates, not They are if any, real basis of fact to sustain fortuna | think, on thie side, and has tittle, in my opinion, is ani mated by the most friendly of fee! ings toward the United States suppose there have been foollehy statements made in J ' other countries, but | think you will agree with me that as such utter nese government or by than to cultivate. The point is here. A very small plot of land will support a) family skilled in its use, if they do not have to divide with the landlord. They must have all they produce. That is the fact} which makes these unused acres useless to the landless poor. | Perhaps if we would adopt Henry George's plan of taxation, it would solve the problem in some future age, One thing is sure: | We are not solving it. | 1 So far the number of volunteers; A certain man in Africa has shot to take up the work of the second |a lion. As it was done in the nick congressional district has been of time, it is not necessary to men- gratifying in numbers and prompt-|tion any names. ‘mess. With due consideration for the ~ All the mangled Uttle celebtants| stranger within our gates, the sus-| are doing niesly and the caure of | pteton remains that there is $65,000 safe and sane te once more indefin- | missing hereabouts. ftely postponed. ¢" Now if the winter ones weren't! ‘There is nothing the matter with 'done up in moth balis,—but what's} this kind of weather except that ihe use? ft comes at the wrong time of the year. . Every time it ratas we don't win. oe A BRACE OF DISAPPOINTMENTS. *Bo that is Swelibeansthe matinee star? tinguished as I {magined.” He doesn't look as dis- He: She (eewtatically) Washington, D. C., July 7, 1909, Dear Dad; What people can't get used to in these flying machine Wright boys is the habit they have of doing everything for themaelven. I saw a good example of this the other day. Afier one of the pre Hminary trials of the machine it was necessary to have & monkey wrench, The “contraption,” as Brother Ruchelin calle It, had set “No. And he doesn’t look as distinguished as he imagines, either.” ——— = POINTED PARAGRAPHS, on Mether A small boy with his first watch| “Wait till we get to Ticonderoga,” has the time of his life. |the manager would say to anyone Men who own electric plants are| 0 faintly suggested the price of ith light harvests & breakfast, Performance that kept them to. Finally they did reach Tico When a woman pretends to be im-| deroge. It wer eventide, and a rosy morant she ix playing » deep fame | wiow iiumined the western sky One secret of success ta the carly “Ah, me.” sighed Daniele to the Giacovery that you can't do every-| stage driver. thing. other pine Get the habit of saving money be- | he d yon—" fore marriage if you would save it “Sunset! growled the driver. or. “Bunset bell! That's the opry house & seit-made man may look | burnin’ down.”—Everybody’s Maga like @ sult of clothes or a dammy at | ne & distance. - a People who try to stand prosperity Injurtous is the gift that are foolieh. They should wit down |away freedom—ltatian and take it easy —Chicego News. a PANTS MAKE EXIT. “The sun may set in but never as it does taken REFLECTIONS OF A BACTIELON, A sane love letter isn't one The virtue we are surest of Is the one we have never been called upon to practice Moro often than not people out face thoes who would lead them into temptation ‘The safest thing.for a man who thinks he hes good Jadament is to let other people follow ft ‘The reason no scheme ever maken | the money for you that people who} get you Into it promise fm it has to! make tt for them. THR LAST #rhaw., July 7 GENEVA, 0., New York Press.| go your pants, dear,” was the “There ery | Mra, E. B. Tibbitts used to awaken jher husband this morning. Investigation showed that rob. bers armed with a fish pole were at Frank Daniols, early in his caroor, wae principal in @ small ¢ ny that ‘was touring “the provinces.” | Work and had carried off a quantity had boen peor and att of wearing apparel, reaching mea luxury, ft was only 8 ope ering, baowlst@e thet the through the open window and fish use at Ticonderoga, N.| 28 With good success. mont sold out for that! Were recovered The pants opera by ay had beer tled down in the middle of the field jabout a quarter of a mile from the shed, Did Brother Wilbar turn to | one of the 47 members of the stenal corps whe were at his command and say, “Hustle down to the shop and bring the monkey-wrench’ Not |Brother Wilbur, With that phenom enal black stiff hat on the lee side of his he and the off shoulde \drooping a little towards the north | west, watching the blades of grass }as he went along, slowly and with) vin it” infinite deliberation Wilbur fogged off toward the shed and got the | wrench himself. 1 don't know what his theory is, I suppose he kadws [that he can get the wrench, and fan't quite sure that anybody else | can It's not lack of the price. ; They have gathered in checks for $7,500 aplece from the sale of machines, and there are all | kinds of amatetira and seml-profos jslonals sitting around on the base jlines fluttering cheeks tn | faces, but they seem quite as indif ferent to thin manifestation as to jerowds and kings, They just go jalong and get the wrench them selves. Their attention Is on cleats, |clampa, ignition batteries and the like of that All the fuss and | feathers go over thelr heads. The ‘army or congress, newspaper men jor kings, professionals or amateurs, silk stockings or rough necks, all look alike to them. Positively, they are the most uninfluenced, unas suming, unconscious young gentle |men I have met in the course of a long and varied newspaper career ore Ruchelin IT mot Brother Just think, Henrietta, in 15 more years we kin git married Oh, Jimmie! INTIMATE CORRESPONDENCE BY RATH | Kansas on a farm. ‘had been out on the farm for a goc | many yer several | their) | }it# nose In the sand, ke an embar- | |come down too fast,” \}in's only comment .-* . if the truth must be told, this |new machine which the Wright the | other Wright, you remember, who lived afternoon He ts He ts older # before the kid brothers longing } ought to be people have not bee ean they be Ej tion to come. The poople an as in! majority of methods of thinking, | see n have not been made by thee pers to sone representing Japanese senti-|eratic form of government.” Tplanes, and amoung other things re duced thé on lot him down ess thin writing it fe not perfectly evi se \ S Accept hie mart « filrts dent that Brother Wilbur did not | tion with another fellow and when ather overreach {1 e_perimen ur f i break off the f rreach in his eqperiment ‘ vile Courter The machine ancy, and it may be nocessary to re build Rnes of the other machine from our t Fielding RATH Ted—I hear he's giving a lecture - on "How to Live on Fifteen Cents) a 1M Is he doling well with 17] Mean O16 Thing. Ned i I met hin in « restau Mra, De-My late haaband was) rant after the lecture and he was! Jealous to the Inst eating a $2 dinner.-Puck | Mra, B.—Indeed! Awd te y Mra. D.—-You; Just before he died “Charming Mitle. ipped and he requested me not to wear mourn: #elidike ears yoo Mise Pot-| jug for him—and he know | looked toreed® you ever have them better in black than anything else. No, but Ive hi became famous. Before they | came famous he knew that a had become infamous by wasting | their time “fiddling around with them contraptions,” to the everiast- | ing detriment of the family name} and the inexcusable waste of val able time “Now, honestly, you didn't really! believe the thing until you saw it did you?” | I shot this at Ruchelin after Or ville had made his first skiddo| over the ground. “Well,” said Ruchelin, “I admit was a little bit doubtful, Only, yar know, I did see such a lot in the | newspapers about it that it seemed) like there ought to be something u The Wrights had made an ex- cursion for Ruchelin and father.| “Hishop Wright,” as he is known, | was there, too; and, of course, it} belng the first Might for the family, | the darned bird clung to the ground | like all possessed. The machine} seemed to think it was the star per: | former In ® skating rink rather| than a flying test. The first me it! went about 300 feet barely off the | ground, then whirled around with | raswed ontrich, The next time it did | the same thing, only turned in the opposite direction, The third time it went merrily along on ita run. ners like a sled In & dust storm; and it waa only on the fourth try that father and Ruchelin saw Ul) make a complete cireult of the fleld slow than to was Ruche Detter to begin boys are trying ont at Port Myer is not an exact reproduction of the Josh Wine Saye “TH liked by her ghbors is the knows loast erbout «1 | | Ww keep af | | i Vath ite mit n] "De you think the MPillpinos made independent? The Filipinos, in my opinion, are ready yet for independence naturally gifted, bat um the ody of the fh educated grea nor for more than a genera oaKet Kreat © been educat acquired inet ruction f when the and have 1 democrat why they at blish and maintain a de uid not be trusted o—"Ne; 1 atmply could not av t poor ma He—"ut I'm not : man.” * 2 ‘No; but you} one flown last year, The fet is ie be tt | married you Brother Wilbur would | Kansas City Journa i try a quiet experim © made qi y8.% aportn He mad Don't reckon your eres before} pome changes in the bulld of the |»), ¢ Italtan } 1 don't know brow to refy supporting surface. At seems to lack buoy: | ¥ t or make another along the We reason from our heads, but act One Three-P Pongres ‘ > ; y i tucked net yoke ar leeve r jacket ‘-button Gibson The Worsted and Serge tripes ulso gray ‘check plair p ri dove gray, § pach th self. 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