The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 17, 1909, Page 4

> [once THE STAR EDITORIAL AND MAGAZINE PAGE: wr " Being President by a Small Majority | Don't blame Taft! He's doing the best he can! | John Wesley, founder of Methodism, once said that a man is what he is by a very small majority, oe. ¢ 6 6 While Taft was down in Georgia, the other day, his secre | linger, was calling a man named Glavis/ against tary of the interior, B a iar, scandal under disposed of that situation by firing Glavis. But Glavis was a liar because he insisted on talking about | gotten—a public coal land offense Ballinger was not shaking up a} all, Glavis’ Ballinger’s swivel chair; not at Ballinger something that Ballinger wanted for grab by private interests. s So at once the smoke from the bonfire Glavis built under | ; | make fin Chie etty Ballinger rolled up as a black cloud hiding a boom labeled “Roosevelt, 1912." + eo * John Wesley, whom we quoted above, once made a trip to Georgia like Taft's. Volume 17 of the International Encyclo- | pedia tells about it in the column at the left which follows: | | JOHN WESLEY. WM. H. TAFT. “It was not long, however,| It was not long, however, before he changed his mind and | before he changed his mind and was persuaded to go as a mis-| was persuaded to go as a mis. | sionary to Georgia. His mis-| sionary through Georgia. His) sion was not altogether a suc-| mission was not altogether a cess; some of the points on! success; some of the points on) which he insisted were not) which he insisted were not) thought to be in sympathy with | thought to be in sympathy with | Protestantism.” | PATRIOTISM. Yes, you can’t blame Taft, even though some of the “points on which he insisted were not thought to be in sympathy with patriotism.” One of these points was ordering the firing of Glavis.’ Another was defense « And perhaps still} another of these points was in refusing to allow the better Taft nature to fire Ballinger himself. On the first leg of the noteworthy Taft trip, Ballinger was Taft's close and whispering mentor. Ballinger then turned him} over to Frank Hitchcock, and what Hitchcock whispered lasted} until Joe Cannon spit tobacco juice and stogy the same time whispering—still whispering—on the Mississippi river voyage. By the time Taft got to Georgia, naturally Ballinger, back} in Washington, had recovered courage enough to call somebody a liar. So if Taft has failed in being like his predecessor, it is probably all because he is what he is by a very smal! majority. When the Taft train pulled in for a final stop Ballinger and Hitchcock lined up at the Washington railroad station and wor- ried their purple Ascot ties with palpitating hands while they did some more earnest whispering Then they howled, in slight discord, of a “Roosevelt 1912 conspiracy,” and intimated in a confessing sort of way that next after Ballinger, Hitchcock would be over a bonfire. Does Hitcheock’s conscience hurt him? It must be. * It’s plain that after mashing things to a pulp in the last campaign, the steam roller, grown to juggernaut proportions has kept right on, up the steps of the White House, into Taf very office, crushing what most people still prefer to believe is an honest desire on Taft's part to make good. But remember, man is what he is by a very small majori as Wesley said. So perhaps it's better not to blame Taft. May-} be he’s doing the best he can. of Ballinger. smoke while at} The fact that only thirteen per-} It must be discouraging to Sen- sons have been killed playing foot-| ator Aldrich to find that 80 million ball this year should be an addi-| people are reluctant to allow him tional incentive for a fervent /to do all their thinking for them. Thanksgiving. President Taft's fine new office The ultimate consumer is getting | arrangements don't seem to expe- it again. The price of divorces|dite the Pinchot-Ballinger contro has gone up in Walla Walla. MY THANKSG. WHAT SHALL I DO TO MAKE IT How shall’ I spend my | Above nip cnayy § else, it means a Pm day for giving thanks to God for Thanksgiving? his blessings.” , The Star asked this question in its editorial columns yester- day. Believing that the con- sensus would be helpful, it of- fered prizes of five dollars for the best short answer, and five prizes of one dollar each for the next five best answers. Already a number of replies have come in. Some of them are not competing for the prizes. ‘Their answers are help- ful and suggestive. Among those received are the follow- BY JOHNNY CLANCY. Sporteman and Liquor Dealer. “I am certainly going to get my share of any tarkey that may be around, and I hope to get out to the football game and wateh the boys. “While I baven't anything ea pecial to give thanks for, I think this is a pretty good old world in spite of reports to the contrary, and will giye thanks on general | principles.” BY MARION BAXTER Head of Wayside Emergency Hos pital, Second av. N. and Re- co: publican st. ig: “The hospital will, on Thankagiy- — ing morning, hold the largest BY RABBI SAMUEL KocH | Tbankegiving service in its history at the Moore theatre. “Personally, on that day, I am going to be thankful that I was ever counted worthy to come in such close touch with the Wayside work. I am going to be thankful that the nurses at the Wayside hos pital are so tender toward the desti- | tute sick; am going to thank God for the rich people who come when they are ill and pay royally for| j thelr care on the top floor. I am going to thank God for the doctors | who have stood so faithfully by the | Wayside, and for the good woman | who makes the rent on the hospital possible for four years more, “We shall eat turkey on Thnanks-| Head of the Temple de Hirsch “I am going to conduct patriotic services at the temple from 11 to! 12 Thanksgiving morning, and the rest of the day I am going to act as & good citizen should, which, however, means that I am going to act as I do every day. If the occa sion should arise I will try to act a6 a man should. No man should taboo anything on Thanksgiving day that he would not taboo on any other day.” BY THOMAS KNIGHT Engineer at King st. Station. “Though there should be no| Ving, and the patients in the free | ®°,8!¥ Or’ stolen, feasting on Thanksgiving, the day ds will eat precisely the saine| 80 With his kind permission, 1! «Don’t be ashamed to bring your set apart should still be a day for| 00d that will be served on the|™#de my debut as censor before the | dinner from home. It's better than giving thanks, Everybody hay | Private floor, and I am going to|Ca#h sirls, Instead of before the) yon can afford to buy something to be thankful for | thank God revorently and sincerely | *#lesladios a Keep your heads combed and | There 19 no one in all the world | fF the thousands of friends who| | At ‘he Fomaa a hoarttoheart| 7ur necks washed who can't be thankful that things |!ove and trust me, and for The {Cash eit! brigade a heart-to h ort! “Don't wear barber pole stock are no worse. None of us are co | Star that shines true and steady for | *!k sore S NOt Much chance Of &! ings. Also, remember that a. bole cieiahed ‘bet ? lthe Wayside,” comeback from a cash girl, and ft ts “a ut some one we know é would at least be a start toward big- | Your stocking is a luxury you had is more miserable. ae better put off ti you wear long Many of us who labor and have|, Prison ehaplaing find that alt put! ® Her ‘ ‘ dresses to hide ft not riches, nor ever shall b 4 inmates out of several thousand ere are some of the things.I told |", oe Meee enc "wha a profess to belong to # ralgious them | Don't make heroes of the ele Sreator for life lenomination 10} “Don't lace y: hoes with vator boys. None of them wear med strength to work, home, wife and| they have to # o be’ backelidere? ae ee wa Te cad cen 5 duaen be ies Sliven; whens G a itdlad wine. , and some of them have families ae belahten our fee TS aivedt. ue ates IS “Candy is not a substitute for|to support “What does Thanksgiving day |*<cesful men fg over notion that | iuneh You are sallow enough with-| 1 think that will hold them for a mean to me, a working man?! Duddy: Certainly! They come out peolates and fudges | while : 6 Man?’ on top-—Boston Transcript “If you have tired tect, take a hot | (Continuad.) jton, “I Jot thotr idown with a young STORY OF THE THIRD DEGREE Here Is the First Install- ment of the Novelized| Version of Charles) Klein’s Famous Play,| “The Third Degree.” Kiein’a famour p it did, on the problém of brutality, which is found more or joen In every great city In America has been rewritten #& & novel, and tnbod for the first’ time striking, aa | polles alle The recent dexroe” methods Miller In Seattle, though mreatly exageorated ory Umely fer everyo thie ate BY CHARLES KLEIN. It Is evening, In Robert Under wood’s art studio, in Fifth av,, New} York. Underwood, a pale, nervous man of about 98, is alone when Mr, Bennington is announced over the telephone. “Send him up.” Underwood calls. “This is a surprise,” he declares a moment jater, when his guest en ters “My time is short and my mle sion a delicate one,” sald Benning. have come to warn you that the firm employing you has learned that you bave sold many Valuable objects and kept the money Underwood tries to deny ft, but his visitor is convincing. He begs for time. “Well, they're coming tomorrow. T promised to let you know, and 1 can do no more,” Bennington an swore. Just then the and Underwood cetver. “Tt can't see you--I tell you I'm”- But he leaves the sentence unfin ished. telephone rings goes to the re “It's that infernal nulsance, How ard) = Jeffries,” Underwood an-| make a success of anything myself, nounces, and in another moment] tnough,” he finishes Jeffries, a young fellow of about 25, evidently slightly under the In. fiuence of drink, makes his appear Underwood-—-You've made a me of your life, but you've had some menaure of happiness— et leaxt-you ance, and Bennington soon takes | married the woman you loveg: The his leave woman I wanted married vate one Young Jeffries ts profuse with else—damn him! apologies for “butting in | Howard—Say, old man, I didn’t “Sorry to butt in,” sald Jeffries,/come here to hear a hard luck cheerfully, “but I've got a bard luck | story. I came to tell one. if you story. I need money~-badly lean't be cheerful, don't say any Wants to Borrow Money. thing—#hut up All this time Jeffries has’ been “When my family kicked me oUt) keeping the decanter busy,’ and for marrying the finest girl that! coon he falls aver on t seb ever lived, my father cut me OK | asieen, ain the bone Hoge, with a piking allowance, which | and Underwood learns that & lady told bim to put in th ureh plate,” | is calling. Leaving word for Her to | Howard rambles ‘on, as he helps > ar board. “I want to borfbw a couple toy ig dead to the world ite of thousand. |draws a screen about the couch “Why don't you go home and see | hyrriediy, just as the woman en your father?” aske Underwood ters, It ts Mra, Jeffries, or,’ the Howard—After being turned out | young man's step-t r Ike a dog, with a young wife on my fare. Jotiries Entere. hands—not much—-no—I've injured tneir pride. You know, father mar) It seems that abo has called in ried a second time—loaded melangwer to a note from Under tepmother. | wood, in which he threatens to kill |bimeelf uniese she continues to be [hie friend You should not have written to me,” she says. You know how that i Underwood-—Yes, I know Howard—She’s all right, but ehe's so confoundedly—you know her Say, didn't you and she-—wasn't| When you broke your ohgage there some sort of an engagement / ment with me you did not destroy once’ Seems to me I-- my love for y Underwood—-I don't care to talk; “I broke the engagement be about that matte, leause I found you were decelving The boy takes another drink and|me aa you deceived others,” she continues: “The finest little wo | replied hotly. You are a incapa man in the world; she ia @ little! crude, you know, and insists on | common honesty, Do you mean to going back to work—and I won't; loarry out your threat?” allow that. But I don't seem to! Unterwoes thal my life has no tn FROM DIANA’S DIARY Miss Dilipickies Undertak Balbriggan a Great Work as Censor at Taffeta & Great Department Store. BY FRED SCHAEFER, “| GIVES THE CASH GIRL BRIGADE A HEART-TO.HEART TALK.” ut. I didn’t follow My. Taffeta’s ad vice. The beginning he doped out for me as censor didn’t appeal. I |had a touch of stage fright compit ted with intuition that I'd better jfoot bath once in a while. | ie and purifier “Don't kick on wearing. uniform pinafores. They sve your clothes. Wearing badges ts also all right. It keeps you from being lost, strayed It's a ton. ble of disinterested friendship as of | terest should care? Mrs. Jeffries —But you’ accuse me of being the cause—of driving you to your death. I, who have been your friend in epite of your dishon esty, Ob! it's despicable, ungrate |ful, and, above all, it's untru Why did you come to see me aska ber for you-—why jhe I dread the shame of having my |f | name connected with that of a man jwho would take bia own life,” she | replied. | She reminds him of what her jhusband bas suffered through hin |non's marriage with a saloonkeep- jer's daughter | our dingrace ?” “Why should I consider your haw He did not con-| | band's feelings? jaider me when be married you. If lyou desert me now,” he threatens, | “you'll be sorry till the day of your | death.” jis coward enough to write the let ter you did has the courage to ear ry out his threat,” | fries. ‘Good night.” When she is gone pauses for a moment, the door, and, locking it, puts the key in his pocket, tain across the window, turns off | door room heard leading into an adjoining In another moment a ehot is —then silence. ‘The Third Degree. Ten hours later, in the same studio, Police Captain Clinton, as sisted by Sergt. Maloney and an. other officer, are giving young Jef |friew the “third degree” test. Hag: gard and worn, the boy stands un- dor a brightly lighted chandelier, hie hands resting on the table, and anewere over and over the ques tions Capt. Clinton keeps repeat ng. “I've told you so many times,” he pleads, as his breath comes heavily, “and you don't believe me hour after hour—hour after hour question upon question——won't you please let me go? My wife will be waiting up.” But the captain only goes over the ground again, Inaisting that Jeffries quarreled with Underwood, from whom he wished to borrow money, and then shot him. The boy keeps denying it until jutterly worm oat. He sinks into a chair, Capt. Clinton takes out a revolver—U nderwood's—and it close to Howard's face.” The boy looks at it a moment, fascinated. “You did it, Jeffries,” cried the captain. “You know you did Come, out with it-—-let's have the truth. You shot Robert Under wood—with this revolver.” He glares at the boy. Cliinton—-You quarreled. Howard—We quarreled. Cliinton—-You came here for money | Howard-—1 came here for money “You shot him,” sereams the cap tain. “IL shot hin repeats the boy, like one in a daze. “That's all,” said the captain, ex ultingly (END OF FIRST CHAPTER.) A DISCOURAGED POET. Young Henry Davidson, of Burr Oak, Mich., didn’t like his school teacher, and as he couldn't him to get even, be sat’ down and invented a of poetry and mailed it It was only a verse and read as follows: His legs aré bowed, his back ts would do for three; His eyes are crossed, and oh, his mouth, js It is a sight to see, | A nice, easy bit of poetry, you laee, but the teacher didn’t happen j|to think so, and so he brought sult againgt the boy’s father and got damages ai the ra of $100 a@ line. Young Henry has gone out of the poet business since that His father did things to discourage him. A Praiseworthy Motive. Sybil—Why, you funny boy, you have painted the snow brown, the |cows blue and the trees pink! | Cyrll—Yes, know, and when I've painted the sky green It'll be fin- isned. You see, I don’t want any body to think I've copied « from anything! —Chips. holds | lick | you “Would you add to lf “I do not believe that a man who | says Mre, Jet: |i Underwood | then goes to) draws the cur) the light and disappears through a | lunch recofd as above A Very Soft meine be by the mak Engin arrivals ever - See ee New Holt day Novel thes nod this week in our Art De riment | rd floor, | New denign of be adopted with on the ont tot Brooklyn Life. appendicitia today Naw; citais.”—Cornell Lightnin dining room. When Teacher lee, what fa the takes place? Rright Pupil Red Hen. tariff, why, he pending upon pop Teacher Short Kimonos, take If Aldrich wants to rency the same way he reformed the ie evidently —_ Third Floor. loo Viyella %, will not shrink; a beautiful assortment of atyles. y day. “Yea, th’ ‘high- or lnw’ ta becom | It In aupposed th nough Tor a up you Handits held up and tried to shipped in apectais water @reat change pretty reform fatr George if the dealgner's too much What do you intend to bought at Iam thinking some of a fishing preserve of it Going up to hear that lecture on im tired of these organ re- Widow. rob a butter and emg train in Wisconsin At the rate those valuables are ris ing In price, they'll soon have to be becomes that The change in price. able to on ur not de- ularity: And what do those things that men like to see fly-| we call ing In the Little Cla Raasahs!—Puck Brooks; Speaking of poetry, what | is the best known of Aldrich’s works? 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