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Press. . Published Publishing Co. United The Star Member of Daily by Taft Still Naps i naps in the people's watch tower the president's measage, would assume that the United s now In a condition of profound contentment. From be- ginning to end the tnstrument contains no marked demand for progre and no note dissatisfaction with things as they are. It is the complacent message of a complacent president with the tariff will be A man from Mara, Doubtless the manner in which he ¢ generally approved, though even there he dodges the vital tasue as to whether rates should be radically changed. He does take strong ground, however, In favor of a scientific method of future vision. He urges a permanent commission, which shall with a the h knowledge of the facta, and rightly says fon should deal with individual schedules, rather than with general revision, if we would avoid a repetition of familiar evils eally ¢ i to any further disturbance of rath s, at least so far as new laws looking to restrto tion and ulation are concerned. The progressive sentiment, which & wands physical valuation of the railroad properties, will get no ald or comfort from the White House If presidential complacency Is disturbed anywhere, it ts tn rela tion to the Panama canal, He thinks the government must pro- vide drydocks and repair shops, not only for the benefit of the Bary, but for the benefit of the public as well, And he thinks inter state railroads should not be permitted to own or control ships trading through the canal, lest the people lose the benefit of com- petition. This sounds well, but means nothing, unless the president fe Prepared to go further and urge that the nation itself shall own and operate fleets of commercial steamships. If this is not done, individuals controlling the railroads will own the ships in their pri } vate capacity, or own them in the name of some affiliated company The result will be monopoly and explottation of the public by monopoly rates Taking it by and large, the message contains no spark of genius, no note of leadership, When the whole country is demand ing grave steps of progress for the betterment of the conditions of life, he's asleep at the switch THE NATION STILL ras bth AITS He is pr roads and tri THE MAN New Work for Labor Unions ’ The labor unions of Des Motnes, 000 strong, are planning a strike against high food prices that ought to win and show the way to others. They propose to join hands with the farmers and n CO operative meat and grocery markets to supply themselves and the public generally with the necessities of life at bedrock cost. They will tackle meat first, having a central market and storage ware- house to distribute the supply to numerous branches. Such distributive co-operation has won out in England upon an @normows scale. It started very humbly with the poor weavers of Toad Lane, Rockdale. Now it does a business of hundreds of mib Mons a year American labor unions would accomplish a great work of social Statesmanship if they created a similar system e. Itiso way fo raise the standard of living by making the dollar go farther. Future Arizona Justice ' Arizona is the first state In the union to provide fn its constite- tion for the recall of judges by popular vote. “And now,” says one of the kept newspapers of public serv ‘one need Rot be a prophet to fortell the peculiar br that will ! flourish in Arizona.” “Peculiar brand” is good—It will be so different from the kind | gow handed down by judges nominated and elected by corporation lawyers and political bosses | The Arizona judges will satisfy the people that they are Straight; that they hold the scales even between men and money— | OR THEY WILL GET OUT! \ And that will be not only “ peculiar,” but almighty refreshing. Day of the Under Dog “Bebind these attacks on the I the spectre of socialiem. Well, with a million paupers, many millions searee able to exist, and a handful of great proprietors owning half of Engtand’s soil, tt is about time for SOMETHING to loom, don’t you think? Every dog has bis day. Perhaps the English are to see the day of the under dog rds," | * Roseberry exclaims “jooms POINTER for Indians are rich lawyers; Missionaries report that most Alaska 0 0 oO THE game of politics is like love. lose, and vice versa. When you win you often he WAPPY has shut down on raffilng for boxes of chocolates at the cigar stands. Isn't he the cute jittle reformer? o 0 © IF Peary also thinks that he may have missed the North Pole by a few inches, now's the time for him to chirp. °o 0 Oo HAPPY to record that there were no hair pulling matches be tween the satisfied suffragists at polls yesterday. { ° ¢ If Mr. Diaz has taken all the pri fent some foreign soil for cemetery o 0 arrested in New York had two daggers in her ver noticed the dozen sbe had in her hat © 0 0 THE DUWAMISH VALLEY people should find some gleam of hope in the ancient saw that “nothing lasts not even double fares, o 0 Oo he claims, he'll have TS es later on. ITALIAN | stocking. The 0 MAN caught spitting on the sidewalk gives excuse that odor from restaurant nauseated him. Original and rather plausible, at that an) ACTOR pe ying § rude remarks because they can't hav { beer wit dinner, What splen did iror o © oO PRESUME that crusty old bachelors will point to aged Leroy Lande now a county je uest, as a horrible example of the Is of ma ARIZONA co’ ary. ‘Rat lousy w Ww judiet and congress is et ee PSH! Don't make any nolse! Knute N revisit at majority report on Ballinger the whitewash has got worn (thin o 0 Oo WILLIAM, son of Pauline Wayne, the House cow, was one of the 100-pounders who died without being considered for ap pointment to the United States supreme benct SUGGEST that the Seattle high sch lor where the romance slender rattan or the janitor’s ° ASKED to surrender his night key, Har Cal., shot the mouth off his father. Father in writing hereafter, perbaps, like a real fam oe 6 GRADUATES from Harvard in 1671 became the fathers of sev fidren each; the class of 1880 of jess than one aplec What foes it profit a man if he play winning football and leave no sons to follow him? Why Suffer? Get Cured! We Cure by the Newest European Methods, Applying the Newest Scientific Discoveries of Modern Times. BRONCHITIS CATARRK on's in Washington eral places where White have a Matrimony Par attended to. Klther a schoolda Smith, of Oakland will put his requests diplomat NERVOUS DEBILITY VARICOSE VEINS DISORDERS OF THE LUNGS BIDOD HiRoRN RS Hlectrie Bake Oven treat hh cures the stubborn RAY TREATUENT POR TANT RR and other malignant krowths KIN, KIDN Ceiebrat £¥ and BLADDER | ment KUERS and their complications par a = Consultation Free «: cmiaet Gaim! if You Can't Write! ff, bad Come. > gating disguise last night, the one} Hotel room $ 7.00 writer fore Christmas. n which we appear as Old Mother] Meals in restaurants 12.00 Ruth Cameron's mother has got . Hubbard, we penetrated the back| Cold cream, manicures, money. Ruth admits it, 8 In London there are an average stage of the Orpheum, after a hand: | hair dressings, post the summer with mommer at Dan-| of 3,600 birtha every week | ohand struggle with the youth in| cards of the town..... 3.95 | bury, Conn . | charge during Manager Carl Clothing (average) ..... 3.00 Edna Welton reste up in Denver pen Rolter’s absence on a trip to} She figured up thie total to be| They've named a street for her Effie,” sald Margaret, who was Muckletehoe $25.95. We found tt quite correct. | over thore, I believe trying to reed a first reader. “How The “Bathing Girls” were the ob-| The other five girle spend their) The other girls are glad enough |"! tell a ‘d’ from a “bt ject of our quest stipend in much the same way to toddle up and down the sunny|,, “7.” sald Effie, “the ‘a’ has Just Think, They Spend $3.95 Each Every Week for Trifies Like Post-Carde and Manicure Luxuries. BY JOHN COPLEY “We get along all right and « Of the seven ancient questions | mone: a Simon GueKen- that lave pestered the Answers to| Ruth Cameron and Patsy Lyons, | They have just made a jump heim expires Questions editors since Sam T.|, Patey te the gel’s true name— | something ttke this from the senate , Hees just faney | Returning to the show girl, I - n 1917 Jack's “Black Crook" company|” ‘The girls receive $30.00 a week. | found out what occupies the dainty Our Mystery first took to the boards, this one| Their railroad and sleeper fares| clan in summer time, when the La Story ends ina is the hardest of all to answer are paid, and thetr stock-—or—| show shops are cloned this issue “Can show girls be respectable) hosiery is also supplied by the pro | Patsy goes to her daddy's farm Long forgot and enjoy a good salaries they receive! Donning our very best living on the! ducer of the act = Patay sp she says investt In addition to the two soloists) And in connection with t of thi# tabloid muste show, there | “Bathing Girls” act, it ts intere re six very attractive show gi Not the chorue girl, please bear in) the mind, but the five-foot-teninch | item on the bill girl; standard size guaran in addition to the sweet atx, “i by the maker, J. Hart, New| principal almost a carload York scenery and “props, “Do we get along on our little|trician and stage manager wages?” repeated Edna Welton,| ple in all the sloe-« brunette, second from the right end “THEN IT HAPPENED”. Peter Rabbit, left his enug barrow | was some|shod better in thetr country than and went where there nice eriap lettuce Our Dally Discontinued Story.) der green growth bis attention + a like « section of garden hose wi shoe button eyes. a cloner look the mec The more he loo! those shoe button © not let him Just about this of garden hose began to embe & grisly sort of manner Bunnyface ded around their » “What doth the Lord require thee. to do justly, and to lo This is a nature atory Bunnyface, the Micah ittle brother of thy God? TODAY'S STYLES TODAY Appropriate Gifts for Men Specially Priced Owing ¢ are devoting mo we are offering s fect a | seas. growth of our clothing business, we ace to this Therefore, ngs to ef lepartment es in furnish resent We present you with at t eptable e privi I nl H a ¢ priv lege ising your Credit. 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It will be a rare chance THE STAR—WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, THE STAR EDITORIAL AND MAGAZINE PAGE # The Sweet Show Girl Manages to Worry Along Somehow on Her Little $30. " chorused Mabel Davenish, | Spokane. is her $30.00 thin way,| proud of this, *\img to note that the salary paid twn’t it? extette is about the smallest The act carries, ing Girls” two | lasting question, reference to which sch and an eleo-| symposium 10 peo | Imagine paying fares and excess | fine to be a reporter and kn | Daggage rates on this little opera] the As he started to nibble the ten-| - - B | acted by a Thing which loowed nyface hopped nearer to fet poration ing within Bunnyface told A MODERN » right home, but somehow n of garden hose would me the section | The women of Rayanal, on the} ™and for them has thus far ex Kongo, wear wedding rings of brass | °#@ded = the merey, and to walk humbly with |!" $20, but they will be gift-buying | Credit Will Make fy Wate Buying Easy 1910. By Mall, out of city—1 year, $3; 6 montha, month, 260, Entered at Wash,, Postoffice, Beattle, J “Ie your flancee @ rich girl? 00 a W k, R ll : “Is she? Why, man, sho has ee ea y oe amethyst eyon, ruby lips, teeth Ike | Little girile Avold the hurly-burly These are words of | Pearly Late shoppers are surly Little girlie | Shop early | Karly pearls, and a wealth of golden hair and her father Is a plumber wisdom, T world fs made up of all kinds } of people, including thone who think they can shop late and get away j with it Anyway, nothing is gained by| postponing it, It all goes on the] j January bill Champ Clark has handed himself | | the speakership on a silver platter, | | But if he gets fresh there's no ree fon why it can't be taken away | from him with a sharp-pointed boot, | ve} troupe from Lawrence, Mass, to “They Never Wiil Be Mis dm Jat Ossipee, N. MH, She ts quite because she is a neighbor of Will Cressy, the sketch ten relatives seb dom fall to write about a week be he|side of Broadway, they say. Aw-| 't# tummy on ite back.’ wt-/fully patriotic of them, now, OUR MYSTERY STORY. | hetraganopterugon. . the last chapter of Our) Story, completes the! word ever written in any ee. it a in Aristo: “Ekklesiazousal,” a very excellent comedy in Greek, and was giibly spoken by the actors of murderers and things two centuries or more ago. But} no one seems to kn now junt what {t means. That's the mys hes are | tery I am very grateful to the “Bath-| for solving that ever | of | in made in the opening of thie little We will next turn to the twin tn | terrogation “My, but it mu TALKING MACHINE a IS AN IDEAL CHRISTMAS GIFT oe vic victor, FOR Talhios Austrians claim that b (The End.) auy place else in the world Little Commandments for Big | th | Busines Por the United Stat steel cor Thou shalt not kill | INVENTION One of the most tions for the | “Preato” men's cravenctte coats.. The de! useful inven rainy day is the convertible collar on| supply. Himelthoch Bros, at 625 First av. hare Just | vived a belated sbipment of} Dancing Guaranteed ia Private Lessons. Copyrighted Feb. 2¢ 1 ot Y cravenstte coats with | ve | Presto coders. The regular price} hurried | ‘Trial always free Btrict ly private Main 2911; L att out" this week at $11. This ts an| —~|"nprecedented opportunity at this eve ‘ - time of the year SKINNEY A. 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