The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 17, 1911, Page 4

THE SEATTLE STAR Phones! 2490 and Independent 44 Petvate Mxohange Mato ot Untied Press. dally by The Siac Publishing Go T deatile, Wash. pe a2 sevond ot Shall Seattle Grow? Scarcity of available tadd and ground sites drives out population and oppresses those who continue to live where these conditions prevail Seattle needs no demonstration of the fatal results of Jand speculation Scarcity in available ground sites cripples business by fhereasing rents, and it levies a tribute on the people of every walk of life except those who are land speculators. Whether Seattle shall grow or go backward depends on whether she will encourage the land speculator or the great mass of her citizens. There is plenty of land in Seattle and plenty of ground sites for businesses, residences and all other needs. BUT THESE ARE HELD BY THE SPECULATORS. The Henry George solution seems to hit the nail on the head. Tax the unused land into use. Throw waused busi ness and residence sites into the open market. Stop taxing improvements and tax the man who will not tenance improvements, but grows rich by the improvements paid for by other people Freedom of California The action of the people of California on 23 constitutional @mendments submitted to them on October 10 is the most Significant and important expression of public opinion in mertica for many a day It used to be said of California that it was “the rich man’s paradise and the poor man’s hell.” ‘That was in the day of Yast landed estates, of unrestricted Chinese immigration and of absolute railroad domination in business and in politics. These conditions have gradually changed, but was left.a residuum in the form of hard-and-fast political tyranny on the part of big business, headed by the Southern Pacific failroad. This tyranny extended to every branch of the gov ernment, legislative, executive and judicial It was used to Oppress and exploit the people in the matter of franchises, failroad rates, cost of living and the relations of capital and labor. The condition became intolerable. The people, without @istinction of party, decided to unite in a supreme effort to overthrow it. Their first move was to take away from big business the wer to nominate candidates for office This was accom plished by bludgeoning out of a railroad le gislature and gov @rnor a direct primary law—a clumsy device, but one that the people managed to use for good ends. They elected Hiram Johnson ernor with a reform legis lature behind him In riding rough-shod over the old chine gang they undoubtedly crushed some well-meaning men and did some acts of individual injustice, but—they carried their point. They ended the regime of misrepresentative gov ernment and inaugurated the day of a government responsive to the neers and desires of the vast ity Then they proceeded to lay the ax at the root—they mitted a long list of constitutional amendments for the direct Action of the people. These included many things ordinarily e by the legislature. California would take no : put them into her constitution ost important of all she voted by tremendous majorities for initiative, referendum and recall, including recall of judges. we judges are henceforth the servants of the people Doubtless mistakes will be made, but the right te mistakes is one of the most valuable rights of democr is the right to live and grow—the right to be free! And that is what California is today for the first time in her history—FREE! A Little Mercy for Poor Amsterdam has conducted a municipal pawnshop since 1614. he Loans range from 16 cents to $201. The ducted by a manager and a committee of thre council. When property pledged for loans is chances make It isiness is con from bor i, the cent charged for administration. For 297 years the Bank of van Leening has been making life a little easier for the very poor of Am sterdam. Germany, France and other countries have followed its example. i : In the United States pawnbrokers and joan sharks collect 36 to 100 per cent interest from the poor, and their dealings as it is-called, The New York Sun has started a “let-us-alone” cam- ign, backed by business men who want the anti-trust law ‘of more democratic forms of government summarily squelched The cry is for “a great man like Mark Hanna.” Well, 1912 is presidential year, and perhaps the prayer will be answered; also, perhaps not! SAUCY California, to put recall of judges into her constitution just as Taft was about to cross her bor NOW a brigadiergeneral has married his trained nurse. Even the soldiers capitulate to them o 0 0° |ders, and his veto won't work TURKEY is on the run, too| there, either. scared obble. As a matter of ooo ag the gobbling. | LOWEST amount for which man join, fact, Italy doe a |with family of three can maintain o NAVAL estimates call for $129,| himself in cities east of the Mis 000 more next year. In nine|sissippi and north of Virginia is — a hoa pin $60,000,000 |900, That figure fixed as the building homes in the desert! “efficiency” line, Prof. Scott Near think that’s “going|ing of the University of Peunsy! we spend cheerfully for|vania has made an elaborate In aes hie genes, grudsiagty. | veatigation and finds that “a large igo te |portion of American workmen can BOS INGERSOLL'’S statue will/ pot maintain that standard of liv unveiled at Peorla, Ml, during|ing.” Exactly what we thought wi our he, ooo oe th And many will journey) wtey us leave our railroads to ea work out their destiny under the EMPEROR WILLIAM has &% es-| law,” advised Taft at Portland, the tates and is Germany's biggest|commerce court just having de- landowner. |clded things in favor of the rail- ooo roads MAN who tried to give all-night | Parisian shows on Broadway lost| $5,000 a week and says cad York's ali right till midnight; then it’s ‘good night.” very fast set.” ooo “Fast nothing!” NOW . W. Perkins denounces | “Why, not one of th Tait for failure to have the anti-| cylinder car.”—Judge. trust law “modified,” as he prom ised Honeymoon or Divorce. “Where are you headed fo 000 ENGLISH stage is suffering from A the Falls, as usual.” an invasion of titled ladies. gara or Sioux?” Not Fast: “t understand,” says the father, “that you have been going with a retorted the son. m has a four- | } | now?” In the first edition of The Star each day now a free “Help Wanted” department is being printed. It is pri marily for the benefit of men and women who are looking for work. But it helps the employer, who can insert an ad, free of cost, and the department is of real interest to all readers. These free help wanted ads run exclusively in the first edition of The Star, ON THE STREETS AT 11 O'CLOCK. BuyaN ition and watch the ads. Noon ma-| sub-} Ten per cent a year is the highest interest charged.| the city] rower receives the balance above the loan, interest and 6 per} fepealed, railroad regulation dropped, and all agitation in favor) Silas Subscriptions Now Dy Advertising R was ob Request, As & porson gets older life is more and more made up of memories, ae ae The Watkins sisters, Armada and Amarilla, were late to church Sun- day morning on account of getting each other's white shoes mixed up in the wardrobe. 7. Somehow the fellows that owe the butcher, the visit and stayed until! he | 4) plains about the photog or not taking a good} picture | NEW SCHEME | What yer looking so gay about, Patey? Yell get a licking when yer get home for going in swim « “Oh, no! in swimming and got the before I lett home. Now 1 swim without anything on my mind.” rie As a staff photographeress of the |“Daily Sneeze” it almost looks like my entire destiny in the cosmic | ache is to camp on the fringe of the Van Svelte-Scadsborough nup- [tials with my camera, 1 have to get pictures every day. Lancelot Seadsborough hasn't married the Van Svélte girl yet, but the coin colony is all upheaved over the preliminartes Meanwhile the #9 99-100 per cent poor are marry. ing each other in bunches without the ald of a brass band or the so cial whirl brigade of the “Daily Sneeze.” | Bessie Biff of the “Sneeze” says it's because the idle rich have noth ing to do but relax, that rry on And the ~ PREMEDITATED. — | “I've just licked you because you waxed truant, Don’t you ever let en again.’ wi! it didn’t happen. ® purpose.” I did it left her a in Medoc two. -. OCTOBER, | | } last June Jough set has relaxed so much that _ some of them are pretty loose. Genius. That is, 1€ you want to look at it} “How far back can you remem that way, The oider ones go in for! be divorce to get loose, and the more| 1 can remember learning to youthful apy loove principally | spell ‘eat.’ | was only three. | in the noodle refer to those that Pshaw! Why, my first memory | shine as country club cutups.)is writing a letter to a Tespond-| That's where I had to go today to} ence school for lessons in watking cover some giddy function. They|~—Toledo Blade. were spilling wine. It was one — millionaire madeap's bright idea to A Mean Siap. have me sop up @ quart of ft and Do you keep asked the] 400 we get wobbly and crab my as-| lady with the acidulous face signment, but the grape is a thing} “No,” replied the mistress of the SEATTLE, Popham, swore in 1896 he'd never get married until I October days have come again, & man realize the flight of time so much as when his boys get to wearing I told dad 1 had been | spank you As a Camera Lady on the “Onily Squeeze,” Miss Dilipickt Tangied Up in a Romance of the Frivolous Rich BY FRED SCHAEFER Another of their pranks was to hides white rat in my 1 do not touch except on the trellis I told 1 didi kind they | pranks was to hide a white rat in Scadsbor-| my “Say, auntie, are second thoughts ebite. ted, haa changed his mind atnoe Beasley's father died and 160-acre farm Now, Freddy, I baye asked you! w. ocr. 17. who Ever know @ woman who would ask her hue band every night !f he had put the cat ont? *ee Spectal prleedin Boot Jack chewing tobacco at Piunkett’s are all next wook. ya Cynthia eee You will hardly ever see & man under 50 drink ing coffee out of a saucer. ee Hooper Majoy, who has been employed in an ice eream parlor in the city since July, has-given up his job and gane on the all the shows that come| October days have come) spreaders, | to town, because ella “ee It Is that time of year, Did you ever know a Witty yeate ego thls ee man 80 foolish as to) we Knight Golding In every town there} name one of his boys went to Canada on a| &f@ & few men who do| Ahab or Esau? | t seem to have much ee had grown « full crop of | of anything to do except The Bedburg fanner whiskers. clip coupons and act @#| was two hours late got | Saha oh pallbearers ting out last week on ac. | | It's nearly always the ed count of Timothy Hay: | homely girl who cot Hardly anything makes | burn of Locusville laying & lffoot sunflower on the Prouty proas while it was running AS HE WAS TOLD” nd if you don't answer I'll! There's you that) Johmy or—pop—I did. But FROM DIANA’S DIARY 228425 | aimed for Becomes | meds ol my Vot j 4 4 4» And ¢ jence in ' * To ga moat he |. ‘The fat man gets his laugh when Boon Wha | about?” | “That | “Thin | beach.” camera. the walter to take it back—! summer n't care to swim in that ot stuff. Another of thotr The STILL UNANSWERED, era. gay intended day.’ aa best?” “Say, “So we are told, my dear.” clvilizat “Then why don't people have) . “Qh! them first?” WASP Mamma | mamma, he closet hi ‘jam! LVotes for women we must win, Votes for worn And he Vs the next author to get real expert yto and from its hive. + | his trousers up with a belt | | “I should think that would suit! him first rate.” Mergendorfer Blaetter ) | Consequently spend it writing letters.” I have to finfwh tnis letter. This | is the letter I started to my fiance | farm house. “My wife is a gre: “So ts mine, game going Pittsburg Post brand-of face powder, my gen.” NO, 4, In every «small town are always half « he ratiros station to seo that the trains get out all right, see Jonas Whaley camo near not getting to teach the Stony Lonesome school this your after Dornick Headley, the trustee, found out that! Jonas was a subscriber | to La Follette’s Magazine, Dornick distrusts every. body that isn't a stand pattor. e- A young man ought to think twiee before he marries a girl who makes | & Specialty of having {| headaches. | eee Hostetter Menlope piok- od a Ben Davis apple Fri- day that had a “W" on It Hostetter thought it | meant war, but Pod Link- | horn sald it meant worms. Jack Doodler sat on a pile of tien at Nebo ewitoh all yer ‘day after noon on a bet that he'd soe & freight r go by numbered with 6 than | four figures A PAIR OF THEM ghost in that dark closet Did you say thank you! guards licking /to the man that gave ii a tees can | candy tT” Well told me not to mention it (two hours later)—Ob! that ghost in the 4: eaten nearly half 7 | | , and T let it pass for the same as his crowd did (Continued) {ficial yall of the ate be for women—trur on Broadway, too, sir. Jet-Rich-Quick Wallingford & divorce court | oneness | ther a pound of honey a bee! vo made nearly 23,000 trips| a thin boy trying to hold Not Surprising. t's your husband so angry been out of work for six se it' He just got a job" Time to Mail tt. fs my iast day at the you ought not to ‘I'm not taking any boarders this year.” Domestic. t homebody.” has a bridge nearly every s pretty PA'S IDEA OF IT. D fon I suppose it's some new what is the ‘pale of I Here’s one man with whom humor Ia no joke, but solld business, earn ia Sam the master of laugh creators from whom fun seems to roll in unending abund- anc ms funny that such an uproar lousty funny individual should fall to see the fun in his awn jokes and the humor of his personality on the stage? Yet th: th and Mr, Bernard tells The Jt is only necessary to soo Mr. Bernard off the stage to get hin point of view, He is not a grouch, not gruff buffoon. Sam nard is never a buffoon, on the Serious Business to Him, Says Sam Bernard | atta stage or off; but he is a humortat of the kind who see with keen eye into the many phases of human life, the oddities of individuals, aud able to reproduce thom because he is deadly in earnest. Short in stature, alert and af of kindly nature on all oc Sam Bernard is far from 4 joke in himself. Behind the good humored countenance {g the serious man, with a purpose—the purpose to amuse the world not by appear ing funny, but by portraying char- acter, Sam Bernard has his own ideas about humor. “I do not say a thing because I think it is funny,” said Mr. Bernard today. If there ts fun in mo on the stage it is not at me that you laugh, but the brewer from Milwaukee. The brewer is not fun- ny because I make him so, but be use he ts true to life, and I am credited with being funny only to the extent that the audience forgets mo and thinks of the brewer from Milwatkee. Does your audience always ap -/G00D-BYE CATARRH' Hyome! Quickly Clears Stuffed-Up Head and Stops Snuffling and Hawking. Get rid of catarrh now; it will grow worse as you grow older, One day of breathing pleasant, healing HYOME!I (pronounce it Higho- me) the guaranteed catarrh rem ody, sold by drugeia! erywhere, will give you such wonderful retief will wonder why that you you doubted the statement that HYO- MEI would end the most aggrava’ ing case of catarrh. | A bard rubber indestructible! pocket inhaler and a bottle of HYO. MEI costs $1.00. Extra bottles if nfterwards needed 60 cents. It is [guaranteed by The Quaker Drug role. The balance of th once, Four hundred p: and this sale. NEAR MADISON Merriman Shoe Company STILL CONTINUES AT 915 First Avenue is high grade stock of Men’s Shoes must be sold out at This is a sale of the famous PACKARD SHOE. The stock is all up-to-date, clean, and the prices are cut deep for immedi- ate sale. Following are a few prices: PACKARD’S BEST SPECIAL, $6.00, $5.50 and $5.00 grades, made in all leathers and all new winter styles ............... BROKEN LOTS above grades, now TE Nokon h 0 a563 0 60 bh ce spa cene 8 Packard’s Best Grades of Low Cuts, some $6.00 stamped prices, $1.50 to. . Look at our store any day, or ask 915 Firs SAM BERNARD. If I pay $100 to a butler to an- nounce that my cab is waiting I expect him to tell me my cab ts waiting as if it were waiting, he readily meant it and felt it. If I pay $30 for that role I might ex* pect a parrot to come forward an@ announce it. Whether the butler or any role is funny depends om whether the type of that role is actual life is funny, enough out of preciate the things you think most funny in your roles?” was asked “While at work on the stage 1 forget about being funny. I have the pulse of the people in my hand I cam fee! thom and if I bear a cough or the shifting of a foot I know somebody is forgetting the thing I am trying to portray—not because I fail to be funny, but be. cause I fail to be real. It ix a se rh r business. Karnestness is the the order of conventionality to be fi first essential of pure humor as if individualistic is the exsential or oratory. If an “True, | have never been able to find an equal of the word ‘suf- fiency. The success of this word rested not in the word nor even in the way it was said) This word fitted a character, and few other words have been found to fit character with such accuracy im forcing a role forward for its oddity. “Let me repeat that a comedian forgets about the fun, he works like a Trojan to make real some role, feeling the pulse of his audi ence ag the barometer of his suc- works mightily to make more speed, cess in making that role true two by shouts, by coaxing, by pleading. | life.” $0 @ comedian must push forward the character he is aiming to por- MONOGRAM DIES TRICK & MURRAY tray, and he to the extent that this individual Is lost to the situa.) Office and Factory 72 Columbia St audience thought Sam Bernard was trying to look and talk funny Sam Bernard might wel! quit the bust ness. That a your question 1 do not THINK of any of my words or situations as beng funny “The humorist Is like a jockey on a horse. He grabs the reins and speeds his horse forward. He d not think of the reins. He f only the pulse of the speeding horse. Automatically he pulls and caresses with the reins, but only feels the speed. If his horse is behind he tion. “The predominating influence of a role depends on the reality of that Any minor role cap be as| r role if it fs real.| funny as a cower cue $3.95 ... $3.45 $2.45 your friends about these Packard Shoes — ae