The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 1, 1909, Page 4

Momber he United Press. tes aay y'twe wer vee: THE STAR EDITORIAL AND MAGAZINE PAGE: Wha Fn The Gran Be! Or Ave We DIG SAME THING WITH COTTON THAT | : wt eal LET EM MOLLER, | DON'T GARE Germany is pursuing a policy as to waterways indicate if Danville, IL, were in Germany, Uncle Joc Cannon would be a private citizen of that village, and not in} the reichstag at all, not to mention being speaker, czar and] gaveler-in-ordinary, He would just stay in Danville and} smoke ° Germany has its | | l But not having anx Uncle Joe, ificially called the Kaiser Wilhelm canal is spoken of as the Kiel canaf, and was put in operation in of Germany orth sea. It 1895 as an inner ps from the north cos age along the Baltic sea to the west coast.on the Panama cat is to us was as important tc It is a great canal, about 60 miles long, with kk feet in length an The Germans, not content with “14 feet through the val- ley,” dug the Kiel canal 31 feet deep at the first attempt. And yet it has been a failure. Why? Because it was not big enough. The Mauretania is 785 feet long and 88) feet across. Such a boat could not pass through even the mighty Kiel canal. The Germans made the same mistake 81 feet wide that the Canadians made when they dug the Welland canal | ‘o only 14 feet deep, and with locks only 265 feet long. This mistake is that of failing to foresee the growth in size of ships. The canal never grows. Ships get larger and larger all the | = time. We have had the same experience on our inland water ways. They have gone out of use for several reasons, among them that of not being deep and wide enough And we have allowed them to stay out of use. We have rather smiled when the railroads have cut the thr s of river and canal commerce, while Germany has made laws to protect her boat owners| from her railways. But then, Germany has no Uncle Joe Canada, seeing her error, is going about building her} lakes-to-the-gulf deep waterway along the Georgian bay route And Germany? Well, not having any Uncle Joe, Germany is going to] deepen and broaden the Kiel canal so as to accommodate the Mauretania and such vessels as the future may produce. The} new Kiel cana! will be 36 feet deep, and with locks so about 1,000 feet long. There will be broad passing places every five miles or so, and four of these will be bors, dug in the heart of the empire where aciot When completed, this waterway from Kiel bay to the} mouth of the Elbe, and only cost $100,000,000. It will save the passage around the little peninsula of Denmark in v Baltic. Uncle Joe froths at the mouth when it is suggested that we, the richest nation in the world, spend a like sum on a waterway from the lakes to the gulf, to weld together the huge trades of the lakes and the ocean. Nine million tons went ges from the North sea to the through the Soo canal between Superior and the lower lakes | in September last. Our waterway commerce is growing where) it has a chance. And what a chance Uncle Joe will give it if} he is kept in power! Would that Danville were in the heart| iS of Germany! Or that congress were composed of men. When a Man’s a 1 Man, You Must Love Hil Don’t you just love human beings? Thus ends the recent short story People are sometimes in the mood when they do not. They become prejudiced, jaundiced, purblind. They see only the lit tleness, the selfishness, the pushfulness, the greed, the avarice the sensuality that are to be found more or less in all of u They overlook the reverse side of the shield—the bigness the seli-sac are also to be They see the bad and overlook the good. Color blind, they ifice, the generosity, the heroism, the Godlike tha ound in all of us, more or less see the black and not the white. But human beings in the 1 are not so bad Down at Cherry, IIl., it was only a crowd of rou incouth untutored miners who were penned up in the muck and the hor ror of the fire-swept mine. It was only another set of 1 ug uncouth men who attempted to quench the fires and to rescue those who were dying a horrible death See what happened: Down there in the pit of terror men were managing to write farewell notes to their dear ones, com- mending them to the blessings of God, cheering them with mes-| sages that they would meet death bravely, recording the uncon- | querable human hope that some day, somewhere, under God’s| providence they would meet once again with all tears dried, all sorrows purged away. Up above men were risking their own lives by digg down ito the tes to rescue their fellows, to restore and maimed wrecks of men to their wives and bairr It just the every-day heroism and goodness and un was coming out into clear relief That's the lesson of Cherry, Il And now don’t you just LOVE human beings? ieieni . The next time Mark Ten Suie tries to get married he will wait may be considered a until after the ceremony before | qua congratulating himse'! joke in some will never become really popular One Hes down at Nicaragua, and Perhaps the civil out won't hurt it THE STAR BY W. G, SHEPHERD NEW YORK ukes-to-the-gulf deep waterway, too. | they're kolng to get aftor me again, j Um going fo stick to it wheat and br tement to the cotton wearing through the You were criticised by the coun: | at about the ert } I asked hin 1 them so many times » say that ae ago was making “JUST KIDS” about 60 miles long, will have} tor Christmas ter all de tings I dide ~INTIUMATE A compsronnence BY- RATA jtouch the soil of t Washington, special committ who enjoys distinction of being the named Wheeler. was fined $500 for species of dope misbranding [" was unable incumbent to do, no place go of commerce years mountains were cut down and tched into broad and endlessly tirely different category from yours, | und as an admirer beautiful city » and brilliantly been transformed into marble ra i | aces and fireproof skyscrapers Hishness that] \ices would be so valuabic eople of Seattle terful captains of industry and Seattle becar olls, and if the past phe | tivity continues at the & prosperous mining Working laundry girls ovate poe com parative ly few ‘The Oriental Pool Rooms 46—Pool Tables—45 25—Solo Tablee—25 ters, but at the present o it at the present cost It) powNING, HOPKINS @ RYRN, 1 (Batablished 1893) BROKERS seven chair | place of the kind in the world sh given away Third av., betwee Pike and Unton | Dance tonight, Admission free, *** service com r Har's name begins | mission thinks what it doesn’t find . Private Wires, “0 Alaska Hidw. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1909. —JAS. A. PATTEN 42 per cent of (he country’s supply | |The Independents are growing m rapidly than the steel compa | That Is because the country in grow ing #o rapid) Pation, a wizard with facts draws on any imaginable source for arguments to boost his came, This country is making uch a Jemand for cotton that we'll never see $12 cotton again, I be lieve, unless some miraculous crop lie ylelded Then he turned to automobile an argumen The new automobile industr ine 0,000 bales of cotton a year in the making of tires and uphol tery, That's # brand new deman on our cotton feida. Then he turned to his bed at the they're making fine woolen bla min them. It's] A new jen, but it a good one, be e e it makes the blankets softer 1 more pHable, On my bed up| t the Vaidorf hotel now there's lanke with lo of te in it And it a fine blanket, t kings,” he sald. the heels and toes, You'll find, tn the more expensive stockings, that fect are made of cotton. It tu only tn cont ye 1 to Tw a we volt mm of linary wi that’s another ton These fe can call me I'm « I don't ¢ to boas wateh cond! The eott thetr make ft m vp ondition they do. for 10 counted among the world cer York, London, Pari a Need New Politics. Strar nd impossible as tt may | j seem act is ae®@onapien: | ous as Mt. Raintor, that m a Seattic has made #, and what little is of a very et it Questionable natur | The municipal political arena was never fumigated or disin. | fected, its sickening smell of decayed peanuts is aiways of- | fending the nostrils of every de | cent and honest citizen, and at those who are ever ready to Grow fat on the scum and the ewill barre! of society. the same time very tempting to | 1 | During the previous municipal those who th self intere themselves black and blue the “red ight district,” and now, instead of a gated place that must allo’ i for this ne tire city became infested with the microbes of shame and dissipation. Is Worse Than Ever. fetpal car a heard at republican r ning If lam ¢ mayor of this city, the pink cuff brignde will minated they will be so re hat no one of oral Iepers will dare to ie city Now Seattic is the Mecca for | those moral lepers, They come here like flies to a bad, stinking carcass, and bring with them hat contagious poison that during the last year hae ruined in New York city alone over | 60,000 unfortunate girls, the “daughters of the poor.” The annua toxter watched, controlled atthe sale paying $1,000} f welling in- ' easily | regulated, o Sundays and after 1 o'clock every morning, nly to inoculate the elty with myriads of blind pigs and gambling dens, the shameful activity of which is oO well kni nts, which bas been made to clo: to those who are paid to know, and even to many of those who are ashamed and ap wiled to know it Promises Made The chain gang,” shouted Mayor Miller during his campaign, “the blackeat outrage of modern civiliza jon, will become a ch r of past history during my administratior The chain gang is now more con splevous than ever, The unfor-| tunates of that gang are now clad uniformly tn overalls and jumper so that they can be keen and rec ognized for a mile awa The skinning of the tax payer and the eager and the ever porations of public utilities is too old and too well known a fact to need my comments In the face of it a wonder, Mr that I was glad to see a man who is not! & hypocrite, not a liar, not a ward|' | aig ready servility shown to cor ® t facts is ,|heeler, who will not depend on graft for a living or to got rich,|® who has an ambition to do things! o for his own sake, and who has al rough but a clear and honest con-| ception of what is moral, rational nd consistent? Is it a wonder| ¢ shat I was glad to see you, a de Li cent man, to enter the municipal | Political arena? Hoping that you will b cted | by an overwhelming majority, anal that many other men of your Resp fully your MARK LEIT DANCE AT DREAMLAND, f hotel | Heada of the Mindy bomb Do your buying early while the as- rowers probably ix in Bomba sortments are choice and full, Buy on Awain ar a credit, eliminating the severe drain on ey'll noon have t your purse during the holiday buying is tae ee eS Furs make very appropriate gifts : - They are stylish, serviceable and com Nop fortable. We are showing some rare pad tenes: te ore beauties in Jap, Glascow and Mexican Mink, Lynx, Black Wolf, Fox and Rus: Do your Christi@as The Russell oxin a Campa Don’t Throw Away stamina will enter the muntetpal| Valuable erticion because they @re | arena and give it the thorough dis-| [infection that {it needs, I remaip|ing, gun ann locksmithing, also ex: | perimental work and models, Our prices are ypasonable. 225 Seneca, ¢ broken. » do all kind Beautiful Plumes jand Birds of Paradis Most Acceptable Gifts for Christmas We invite your inspection and comparison of the rea agnificent asse TEEN pow on display in our Millinery Section Choicest Plumes from male birds only, carefully selects ar natural cul : long and short plumes We lay particular emphasis upon our magnificent qualities of hand-tied “wi Plumes,” in “two” and “three tic » the excellent assortment of long “Amazong one and two-yard lengths, with drop head We carry no fact tied willows we particularly desire to impress upon you the beauty and longer-wear qualities of the hand-tied The beautiful examples of “Birds of Pa now on displ | prove a revelgiall te Exquisite specimens artistically ir tl fi 1 clected stock, ig natural 1 white and black Especially attractive are the long-tail specimen prayed and with heads, 1 Jap Mink Fourd We are sellide Gur Patlbinel Mew Vo Model Hats at One-Tiia to One-Halt Of 3 S . : Women’s Suits New Furs at Reduced brown satin lining, able Squirre 45 Of absolute worth and character are these very | Nadi Bauicrel Seurt si ing Prices at $18.75 rfs, brown eatin ining, Squirre) Stole, with heads and tals: and her Jap Mink Isabella Fox 8 Black Fox Fiat Co back satin | d Black Fox Throw Scarf Beaver Scarf, with head and $18.75 | lined ee obeee wena Oriental Rugs for Christmas Presents at Reduc Prices—Our Assortment Is Superb Plush Smoking Jackets New Silk Hosiery fr | 1) and SS. : fc Crushed Stripe Velour Plush, In mode and \s always, our Hosiery Section offers the 2 inches wide; per yard .#3.50 | very best-« tics in Women's, Men’s Shadow-Stripe Velours, extra y; 62 inches | Children’s Hosiery. 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