The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 21, 1909, Page 6

Member of the Ualted Press, Pub Mahed dutty by The Star P The Hookworm in Reform of the Union, with weapons that can, Ore be wielded cessfully in establishing a he people. rect primary, direct election of senators, initia tive, referendum and recall, the people, 12 months ago, were rul ing ate ring of political tricksters backed by powerful interests, went to the m Oregon, With a corrupt machine, contr sled by a desper the voters of Oregon simply broke sent their own man to the pitted against them up the machine, controlled United States polls, demoralized the ring th senate. r own legislature, It was a great spectacle, a magnificent demonstration of It the fact that the people can rule, if they will to rule, stirred the blood of the nation The po The city of Portland is the nerve center of Oregon. vote of Portland, litically, Portland today is ruled by the same political ring, the same machine, with the same powerful interests back of it that was demoralized, broken, by the people of Ore- gon a year ago. The ring is now planning to regain its clutch on the throat of the state, and with fair prospects of success. How did it happen? Portland decides the vote of Oregon, is Oregon. Look at There is a great, San Francisco, ago started f three ye rruption, rich city, that to clean out one of the nastiest messes of ex one the dirtiest gangs of corruptionists, one of the most powerful rings of politicians and rich law breakers in municipal history It was a magnificent spectacle, that cleaning out, a blood} | warming demonstration that the people can rule if they et The world applauded. The voters of San Francisco got behind the men who rule. were doing the cleaning. The voters simply went to the polls and put clean men and honest men where there had been corrupt and traitors. About a month ago these same voters went to the polls and let themselves be fooled into putting a stop to the vital part of the cleaning out. They broke the man who had been doing the work—their man—and put in his place a man chosen by the ring of rich criminals and political tricksters. How did it happen? men Look at other commonwealths and municipalities where the people have won great victories and then passively al- lowed the fruits of victory to be taken out of their hands. ae In Oregon the people went to sleep. In San Francisco the people got tired Whichever way you look at it, it’s the same thing. What about it? Well, it’s up to you, you individual voters, you who hope for decent government. It is up to you to remember that if you get tired or go to sleep, the grafter, the lobby- ist, the political trickster, the rich law breaker, is neither tired nor drowsy. Your drowsiness, your weariness, is his stock in trade. * He must cheat you to keep alive. You must keep awake if you would have a chance to keep a roof over your head without paying tribute to every public utility gang that may have a pull or a campaign fund. Isn't that about the size of it? Isn't it up to you? President Taft also is finding out that facts are obstinate things not at all amenable to the executive will. ‘Thaw’'s last hope gone’? Not while he's got one round dollar that can make its way ethically into his law yer's pocket. The police sportsmen report fine | shooting weather these clear nights. Several good bags have been made. Why shouldn't a certain secre- tary of the Interior try stovaine for that sore feeling of the head? The minister who preached on i “Who in Hell Is Leopold?” very like-| ™Mf- Parr of the customs depart iy haat “Where: | ment holds the record of being the sae j highest priced tattle tale Mr. Ballinger seems to be one of those kind on whom exonerations “do not take.” == OR aS RE | Probably it was just to be alltt-| lerative that Walia Walla went wet. | THE ARTLESS ANSWER WHATS THE OBSECT IN CRADLING WHEATS TO ROCK IT | entire | interest | queath MINSTREL MIDGETS “Say THE “U. C. G.” ag What is it that we speak ab All through November se What ts it that we figure « | ‘As neither cheap nor dear? “Shuah; but Ah begs to be at is it that we take ae cere a0 Ah done been eatin’ German | that helps friendship’ Bph, kin yo’ play de French | ox. | fried potatoes dance? Suttonly dis mawnin’, Kin yo! fly? never get ish to honor that i donor? Ah kin dance; night Ah washed mah fost, day Ah kain't do Yah-yah-yah but las’ an’ to Abeer a thing wif ‘om but by tumbled to and elu! A USEFUL Chri | ubstertute dat duet entitled Out we will jine in} Who Sawed a Gran’ma’s Sunday yu must drift thing ts tan gift ob Just | | rights jeannot dispose of the THE STAR EDITORIAL AND MAGAZINE PAGEi:; THE STAR IMPOR’ TANT E VEDENCE BY F. R, LEET, While Tommy Teots one winter's morn Was trudging through the drifted snows, He heard a groan and spied on high Poor Santa banging “Oh, Santa, please,’ by his toes. our Tommy cried, “Don't move til I bring Dicky Daws. You see, He said there he knocked on you, he did; ain't no Santa Claus!" IN LITTLE OLD NEW YORK BY NORMAN. NEW YORK, Dee. 21.—In fights between the theatrical ayndt cates no holds are barred, and all known means of attack have been used by the combatants. Some of the enemies of the great and only Oscar Hammerstein went to the ox.) tent of saying that he was finan cially embarrassed. It did not affect hin standing with the people with whom he did business but it was annoying Oncar proceeded in the mont di rect way to dispose of the yarn He led together representatives of the newspapers and told them that his total indebtedness did not exceed $9,400. Then he went on to show that he owned real estate valued between $2,000,000 and $3, 000,008 Oncar's only singers who were dissatiafiod, there was a bright aide to that said, because they were happiest when most dissatisfied. troubles are with but ee War between window cleaners ta adding to the galety of upper Broadway and the troubles of the police. The men who held the jobs the! he | went on a strike a few weeks ago, and have since been b making iife miserable for their anoressors They have followed up the men now on the job to plaster ‘newly cleaned windows with mud When the plastering has gone on to 4 certain extent there f * a freeforall Night. The po are called and when they qome tn «ight the combatants scatter, A nuguiber of arrests have been made bot win dow cleaning bas been rated by the acch t companies as a haAirdous occupation. “-. The newest mammoth «kyscraper fronting on Battery park, will be 11 stories in height and will gost |$8,0000,000. In it will be 20 miles of sfeam pipe, 10 miles of plumbing and'65 miles of conduits. Ite height will be 416 feet. The materials used tn ite con struction will tnciwde 14,000 tons of structural steel, 7,000,000 com |mon bricks, $00,000 facing brick» jand 45,000 barrels of cement. A park 100 by 200 feet at the side af the building will give ft @ novel feature possessed by no other New York Sea ab Or FRED SCHAFFER. “Ongar, haf you any paper money?" “Yous, Here iss & penny; buy von. asso WHAT THE LAW ALLOWS WOMEN OF Married women in Washington, | thanks to the principle of commun. ity property in operation, have le gal privileges that should make women folks envious in other states | where the common law idea entire | ly holds sway Under the dear old common law, it was sacrilegious to think that a woman was capable of having any say in the handling of her hus band's property. Not until she be came a widow did her property become a matter of import and her Interest in most states women ance. even then i# less than the of Washington enjoy married life property d after mar riage, in| Washington, by either party to the marriage, belongs to community. ThejWife has an equal in it wit the busband By will the husbend can only be half of the. propert He half that Js All the woman's property Land or money given to the wife an a gift, legacy or coming to her as an inheritance Is her own ate proprety interest or control in it or property belonging to her fore her marriage also remains own separate property and is legal epar be REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR, if an under a girl's she It was a serenade on a guitar When a ne thing right he by doing No matter In what o born, than down window man knows to do to prove tt wrong something ot a woman can all her ‘rot ugh, # if they live during ata | Her husband has no|* All money | 7 will tell | WASHINGTON ly free from all interference by the) husband arate property the wife can handle or dispose of with the same legal celerity and freedom as if she | Were a single woman TUBSDAY, By matt office, we novond-clant matter DECEMBER 21, 1909 | STAR DUST JOST WISH SAWMs “Bo it ev stuck up, @ no place like glue factory.” foe trast fined in New York, Cold Wave making Iteealf felt Red Cloud, to the big Sioux chief the happy hunting far as in known he st nor even lead When will have fhe comes back he search warrant to icles, But then more where those onevelt Ket any of hi p may be some Well, aid he pay you,” asked the wife of a dentiet had been to calleet « bill “Pay who nie he had the © e with my t early, Hooray! A Gere a gun with dark. Thy can be nee ‘ed with an ordinary « by #hutting your eyes when pulling the trigger The baseball war has been more carnageous and h ing than the ebullle: curbatone scrap known as the N raguan revolution, They walked among the shredded heat, yhen grape-nute was Ho asked her why sb sweet, She anmwered: MEN In Reason: seemed #6 “There's a reason.” Brooklyn Life ‘MADE OVER Latest Ambition of Surgeons te to I Rebuild Commonplace Mor tals Into Apotios. BOSTON, Dec. 21.—In the course of the last few weeks some hope fal theortes have been fathered by wome of Boston's most progressive surgeons. If all the ideas are afopted, the future holds moch hope for men who were not born | with classic contours, The knife will make theta over into Apollos and sculptore modole Por tnstance, Dr. E. H. Nicholle bas an idea that the average man could spare about six feet of the) large intestine, and digest his food) better @ithout it. This would help! men with a large waist measure, Dr. Bradford, orthopedic sur on, declares that the average! city man's feet could be perfected by going barefoot all summer. Dr. Sameel A. Hopkins, dental expert, says that bad teeth can be corrected so that the jaw will be expanded to the natural size These are only a few of the things that surgery recognizes as| possible, The self-made man may | soon have to step aside for the made-over man Have You Written That Xmas Letter To Your Mother? Editor Star.—I am sending you @ few lines on the subject hearest my heart Thought perhaps it might act as a re minder to someone who has neglected thelr Xmas letter to mother. Am an Interes' tie reader of The Star; like its principles and exposures, I couldn't help but feel impressed the other night with the ten derly phrased tribute paid to Reporter Loute Sefrit. It was very touching and pretty. Respectfully ed, enthusias. 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