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pe Pte. SEATTLE STAR and Independent 441. We Will Always Have Girls Like Avis Linnell and Men Like Rev. Richeson BY KATHERINE LECKIE Editor and Famous Writer on Social Questions As long as the world whirls we will probably have fair young girle @oing, like Avis Linnel), to their ruin and to their death * We will have handsome, black: eyed men making love to one, two, three, and even more, girls at the same time. We will have girts begging false men to set them right before the world and have thetr tears and cries cruelly disregarded We will have men, terrified disgrace staring them in the fi and stupidly thinking to save thenr selves by murder, It is not an optimistic view to) take of life, but unfortunately It ts) & true one, lame society if you will, but the blame, if placed where upon old Dame Nature refuses to look at life as it really fs, and makes Hare and murderers of some of its that «irls are romantic. Roman comes to them by inheritance and education. . When black-eyed, raven-locked Clarence Virgil Thompson Riche- son, with his soft Southern voice and his courtly Virginia ‘roa appeared in the steru New Englan “Sigmon teapge fisher village of Hyannis, Mass. should have been a foregone conclusion that some fair girl would jal ® victim to his charms. His name, in the first place, should have attracted suspicion. Clar- vence Virgil! It is better even than Algernon or Reginald! It ts so more sentimental than George, John or Joseph. When, added to his sentimental name, Richeson's profession is red, it seems as if none of the girls to whom he made love escape his wiles. A minister of the gospel! He is everything ‘that is pure, noble, great and humane in the eyes of the young women ie sit under his teachings. When gentle little Avis Linnell, as a girl of 15, sat before Riche 's pulpit and heard him express hia ideals and bellefes, she, of course, it that the verbal expressions were those of (be man within. She did not know that in his first charge, at the Budd Park Bap- church, Kansas City, Richeson was asked to resign. This was after “@hree girls had faced him, one after ther, voicing the question: “Did you not promise to marry met did Avis Linnell, only 15 years old when she first listened low voice of the tempting preacher, know that before resigning charge he bad been expelled from William Jewell college for un- tional conduct towards a young woman. did not know he was engaged to Violet Edmands, a rich Cam Neither did he tell her that he was ambitious and thot of his new love could help him gratify his material ambt- hen she finally learned that the marriage day was set for October, she knew disgraceful exposure was to come to her. will show whether she committed saictde or whether her great and she drank the drug the young Virginian pre le i sta F Z of ure +4] 2 i a8 Avis Linnell and Clarence Richeson were poor, unfortunate Both were the innocent victims of society. In each old se showed itself was perhaps her strength. believed that existed where there was only evil. She loved to the end. "Col. Edward H. Green, who derives both money and fame from his “mother, Mrs. Hetty Green, has plunged into philosophy and brought up (& new definition of happiness that is worth talking about. § “Happiness,” he says, “is being successful in the eyes of others. H The bey returns from college or from life in the distant city. If che has made a name for uimsetf or got money, he is “successful in the es of others,” and, consequently, happy. phe colonel’s definition explains the universal craving for money, hy should a man want a million dollars? Why. when he gets tt, he nt ten million, or a billion if he can possibly get his han: Simply to be enormously “siccessful in the eyes of others,” and thus to magnify his own happiness So with fine clothes, diamonds, lordly homes and rich tombs; they “are badges of “success.” ‘that ts “happiness.” iness in order to see the ahrewduess of the colone!’s definition, as) to the temper of the times. ABOUT 23,000 alee gir in — weve States. LA FOLLETTE pene is Aouriahing like a green bay treey ° 4 SPOKANE man collects Matrptns with 4 magnetized cane and then “Makes fun of the women who ripe fom. co he's a bachelor. EXACT size of wool tax, $s figured “by Underwood, Is $104,400,000 No wonder the beneficiaries don't want to be pried loose. Who would? ° ° * GOOD EVENING! Yember. Why not get a turkey now and faiten him up for the festive day? o 0 0 SEATTLE policeman who shot and killed a man who was trying to arest is to be prosecuted for manslaughter. It’s just barely pos Tevolvers as small boys use “bean shooters.” o o 0 WAR-CRY of Chinese revolutionists: How!” Geewhilikins! fun! What they mean is: say #0, and let it go at that? that way. hotbrau Spend this evening at the Hofbrau. “Min- gle with the care-free crowd.” Go where the “eats” are good—where the crowd is jolly— the entertainers pleasing. The price moderate at the Hofbrau, of course. “Jookmoun Sow Foke Houn “Down with the Manchus!” Why can't they Oh, because they are Chinese and bullt First Ave od Mad CUT RATE DENTISTS—ONLY CUT RATE DENTISTS IN SEATTLE ARE GIVING AWAY 20,000 in Dental Work CALL AND RECEIVE A COUPON We Use Nothing but the Best Material. PAINLESS EXTRA: TION FREE. ALL WORK GUARANTEED FOR 12 YEARS. i 5o¢ up | #10 Teeth ... $3 $8 Gold Crowns $15 Sets Teeth .... UNIVERSITY AND SECOND AVENUE ntrance 207 University Street, Opposite Stone-Fisher Co. members, Society seems to aa ty when the quest is carried clear beyond the point where money | necessary to the satisfaction of needs, even of the most extravagant ° Only 23 days before the last Thursday in No-| sible that our guardians of the peace may some time learn not to use) No wonder they've got the standpatters on the| Tommy Father hing in fiat. tl.” re had ey sald tj ips like cher ry prott, But Ike jeyes much more Plain Dealer, hurry?" ing.” soon aa Wall there will be cago Record-E “Stadame,” wayfarer wit now." Puck. “What makes you so grouchy?” “Financial “Are you al “Short? Say, I'm so short that when my co; got a Leader. Beca Say, pop, what is meant by “race auteide ?* Why—er & bet down on the favort the thirty-to-one shot comes gallop: POST ANYTHING Intrinsic Valves. “Why did you select Charles in- stead of George?” asked Uke wild rose diamonds, pearle and lips seomed to me that his ideas were NOT VERY REASSURING chwayman any danger In this busin: Second Highwayman unless you get shot, Getting Ready for the Crash, “Where are you going in such « “To my broker's office. I've got to sell the stock I've been carry: What's the trouble? “Wickersham his barber scrapqd his chin a mo- ment ago while shaving him. “I was not always as you see me “I know tt,” The world acknowledges them as such. And viaaged woman at the back door “The last time you were here you One need not concede that this is the highest success nor the finest / had on a deaf and dumb sign.”—~ headache.” “How did you happen to become ® lightaing change artist?’ t started at the game by “I hate the rich, ® millionaires’ club. wouldn't care about “He used to ha coll I attended. deed? History or mathemat- a chalr tn the or it's having when “Nelther, = It chair.” was a barber's ane o — member tt Cost of Living. Kutcker—War ts § pensive to be Indulge Rocker—¥ the presenta have to take to my wife after wo], Walter—Yes, quarrel bankrupt me.—New York {for cabinet pu 8 ne JUST THE REVERSE Following Orders. jaude ‘George Our Varying Moods. lied Maymie, like violets, cheeks! ¢ shell-like 4 Yes; environment does influence hes 7 ‘How now?" “You never see & man coming i Charles sald 1 Hed) out of church with his hat perched rubles, 1¢/08 the side of his head.”—Louls- ville Courier-Journal y.” Uke No Experiment Station. 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Lapp, who lives near Kent, ts @ darkeyed, dark-haired woman just bordering on middle age, She was brought up on a farm, #0 to talk poultry, vegetables, «rain and other agricultural things in to her second nature, Candidly, Mra. Lapp hasn't much use for the rich customers, and by the same token she rejoices mont at sight of vA” people with not) much money In thelr jeans—or purses, a4 the case may be. She says the rich want the best in the market for the allest price, and haggle over sume that a wash erwoman wouldn't think twice} / a understand that we cannot “well our it conta us to raise it. wealthy woman it is different. doesn't have to work herself, and so just can't fully realize what it “Yes, that's ) right, , Seattle Farmers’ Wives Say They Don’t Crow Over Having Rich Customers; Like Working Folks Best cents more than With the She sald another "SHE ORDERED A HUNOREOD "POUNDS OF fora roas’ about paying, Of course Mra, Lupp]- acknowledgex that there are many] feminine 1 generous rich folks, BUT she would rather deal with other kinds. “1 have always found women of|to see come near the comfortable working class more] is sot living here t into the conversation, wealthy woman who I couldn't bear) dealer, breaking ;derweight, she left without taking “there is one | the spuds, “Bull, 1 bave some good cus my wagon. She tomers among the wealthy. Some now. She would|of ‘em know just what they want, generous than the wealthy,” she|finger over the vegetables, spread jand how they want !t said toa Star man. “The fact that their husbands work for a living make them appreciate the value of money, but it also opens their eyes to the fact that farmers work for a living Just as well, These women Editor Seattle Star: The high cost; tribute taker, or, of living b the people still worship at Privilege. It seems that they would rather go bungry than offend those gods. They have allowed a small class of people to legislate to them- selves the right to control the/at means of production and therefore they have given up the right to live excepting on the terms lald down by thelr masters. These terms are so harsh and exacting that hundreds of thousands die from under-nour Ishment. The valine of a commodity is equal to the labor it takes to pro- duce it, but because the monop- olista control the means of produc- Uon, they charge the price of the|ing and it seems labor power plus all the tribute the | people can pay. mass of the people this tribute levy- ing means that they cannot save even a penny Providence has blessed this world with abundance but not even Providence can satisfy the demands of the tribute takers and provide for the people too. Since it is the tribute taker and| not Providence that is the cause of the high cost of living, we can re duce that cost in proportion to the | extent we destroy the power of the} “AT FRIEDMAN'S production. tem and monopoly “all the treffie arms outstretched achs until nomic system. Office and FOR $15.00 903 FIRST AVE. corn out on the pavement, pick the peppers herself, and then | Welt, 1 ghould say not. try to beat me down tn price sho ordered 100 pounds of potatoes. | She had them weighed, and when |Give pn me the ‘average’ people every the machine showed one pound un- In the Editor’s Mail due to the fact that] other way, the cost of living will be the | reduced in proportion to the extent sbrine of Monopoly and Special) the people take over the means of Stated in a nutshell, I should say that the cost of living fs high be cause the people want it so. They jeast so declare themselves through their ballot. So far they have voted for the monopolist sys will bear.” Some of the Hindus hold their in fantastic shapes, gods, while we go with empty stom we are shriveled and shrunken in honor of Monopoly. 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