The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 11, 1911, Page 4

THE SEATTLE STAR Phones: Private Exchange Main 9400 and Independent 441 “Bisinder of Waited Preas, Published Daily by The Star Publishing Co. iw med E is per month up to six months, Let the people of a community set about to do something for themselves in the way of public service, breaking away from the control and tyranny of corporation greed, and we at once have the big financial interests, bond houses and banks solidly arrayed to prevent or obstruct the enterprise, and, as municipal bonds are usually handled in large denominatidns, the combination has the advantage. But the people are learning, and a radical departure the matter of disposing of municipal securities has been in augurated in several quarters. A notable instance is that of Evansville, Ind., where bonds are issued in denominations of $100, $500 and $1,000 and publicly offered for the citizens’ bid ding. The big financiers laughed scornfully over the matter until the people of Evansville, enthused by the Evansville Press, got out part of the $11,000,000 they had in the local savings banks and took the whole issue of $800,000 worth of 4 © cents at a handsome premium. am In other word they teat themselves $800,000 at 4 per cent, a scheme which for satisfaction and security of invest- ment beats the bank deposit practice to a frazzle. In addition, they taught the corporation bosses, the chief corrupters of municipal servants, a salutary lesson. "Phere is neither law nor reason why a municipality should not borrow from its own citizens the money it needs for any purpose. It can do it every time, provided the loans are such as the people can afford to make. Make such a plan gen eral and it would not be long before that shameful condition of five or six men running the money matters of the whole country would be knocked in the head. in OHIO editor says: “No mere buman could hope to analyze the itieal working of James R. Garfield's mind, Oh, well! since that sence deat him out of that constitutional detegateship, we guess that Jim's mind is working on a constableship, or membership in the White “Wings cohort, or something like that that there are not too many after. Good Thing, Try It On! Senator Poindexter has introduced a measure to abolish the court of commerce on the ground that it is simply a court for the nullification of the action of the interstate com- merce commission. ee ~ Of course this is what the court of commerce is, but it is : one fr with out whole plan of judicial system et We make a court, and then another court to be superior | fo that first made, and then a supreme court to be supreme the superior court which was created to be superior to iistecior court. We are as silly and wasteful in getting at justice as we are in getting at the climax in that long- winded yarn about the cow who horned the dog who worried the cat who did things to the rat who did things in the house that Jack built. here has been progress and acceleration in the conduct of every affair ‘of life, save as to getting at justice, which is slower, more uncertaim and wasteful than it was a century ago. We never heard of a court dying of senility or general use- fessness, and we'd like to see a trial made of killing one by Statute on the ground that the court below knows enough to arrive at final justice. The New Man of China His name is YUAN SHI KAI, and a man who could make that mane famous must have something in him. He is not widely learned, speaks Bo language but his own, and never has crossed the boundaries of China. But he seems to be that “man of the hour” that the hour somehow geems always to have concealed about its person. For one thing, he ts a grim soldier, like our own Grant. For an- other—and this is hix biggest asset-they think he is honest and reatly on the people's side. | The people will go a long way for the man they belleve believes in | Truth is stranger than fiction but it isn’t as well advertised. | Some men inherit trouble and others just buy books on the} THE STAR—MONDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1911 WHY NOT SMILE AW | OUTBURSTS OF EVERETT TRUE || , / “1 WONT DO ANOTHER THING !! NO 1 WONT If 1 HAVE TO DO ALL THE worK }!! .f HAVE NEVER SET YOU BEFORE, GLORGIE” BuT 171 GOING TO SCE THAT YOU GET THE WATER FOR YOUR MANAT! Come NOW, AND NO TANTRUM, EITHER! THE HELPING HAND The Married Man—tI tell you, it's when a man falls into misfortune ppreciates @ woman Single Man-—You bet! It put all your property in your wife PAST TENSE B.—Take my advice, my dear; don't become the wife of « t be a handy thing sometimes to bame Puck Mra, genius. Myrtle—But your husband? Mrs, B.—Yes; I—er—I have,—Life. I thought you bad always been ideally happy wtih HARD LINES “In financial trouble? What tx it? “Oh, | promised to pay Brown $10 today, and [I've got it, and be knows I've got it, and he knows I know be knows I've got it!"—Puek. SCALING THE PEAK Knicker—Is that Boston girl frigid? Bocker-—I should say so. When fellows call on her they tle selves together with rope Harper's Basar SAME RESULT = ——— UP TO HIM installment plan. No girl is so careless that her engagement ring doesn't show| in her photograph. | Our only kick on old Doc Cook now is that every time he! gets vindicated he wants to pass the hat. j —_—~—— } Habit may not be as strong as we think. You seldom see} a horse switching his tail in the winter time. Constant reader wants to know “how to break cold.” A Get into a folding bed and touch the spring with your toe. Way, way back in B myst’ry to the modern ble history, there’s a story that’s no} Christmas shopper as he elbows! through the crowd Whether it be truth or fable ‘bout that an cient tower of Babel, a million tongues at Yuletide in this fash ion waggeth loud: “O, what CAN I husband brother, he's icky ;” “What | get for Guy?” “Let’s| start with the jewelry,| abel, go as far as wel are able, I've not the| slightest notion what} buy “Oh, no,| I'm only look-| I suppose goles, get you re’s my hac h'lor| fin can I do your cooking on the Christmas range your n nds ing to get?” “Yes, that IS a useful present.” “Christmas shopping’s far from pleasant.” “Mercy, have you? I loads to buy for yet.” “See that doll dressed like a lady.” | “Goodness, and there's Molly Grady, she remembered me last} Christmas, and I've left her off my list.” Von't that toy tr please the kiddies? And those boy dolls dressed like middie: “Now I wonder is there ANYONE I've missed?” “There's 3 bag for cousin Fannie, and a watch for little Dannie, still I haven't got a thing for Uncle Ed.” “Men are awful hard to} buy for.” “Willie has begun to cry for a Curtiss model air-| ship and a sled.” “Gee, Mame, but I am weary, Christmas may be gay and cheery, but to us it’s only rush and over time.” “This jam is simply frightful.” “Oh, that breath of air’s delightful.” “See this pretty little picture for a dime.” “Goodness, there’s a woman fainted.” “Do you ‘spose it IS hand-painted?” his Christmas shopping an AWPUL chore.” “Next year, I'll do it early and escape this hurly- r0- is Do you think your sister favors pres-| my sult? | Betore ° to buy me # ents.” And now you buy them and have them charged to me.” through, but if you don’t she favors a suit for breach of promise WILLING TO TRY. os Mrs. Youngwidow—-No one can ever take the place of my dear dead I'd like to have a wife like you.” | husband. Why don’t you get one and I'll »—Why-er-er-l was going to ake her tik at have|— “Well, it's all right if you come} lost JOSH WISE BAYS: “Granny Fride- mush, aged 100, has mighty keen , facuities fer woman o' her a She kin read bill. boards without th’ aid 0° glasses.” BEFORE CHRISTMAS. As the merry Christmas days come on, With the chime of the Christmas bells, And the Christmas stars shine clear and bright, And the Christmas anthem swells. O, it jan’t the gind, gay carotings That fall on my listening ear— For « sadder strain of pang and pain Breaks in on the Christinas cheer. For 1 see the children along street With fi 1 pinched and wan, And there ix no leap in the eyes of them. For the light of hope is I see them look with Where the Christm gleam, And the glistening joys are not for them, they have no dream. the ne; tfal gage windows For Christmas © ye who ait by your blazing fires And plan to spend your gold, Have ye no thoughts of the little ones Who mourn ip the outer cold? Your children amile on Christmas morn With stockings that overfiow, ‘Think of a child that hears no bells Ring over the Christmas snow! When « man's 60 and has begun to really know something, he dies. Nickel, like self-respect, expands when ft cools down. LAURA THE CLOAK MopeL. LOOKED INTO THE Maced OFFICE AND INQUIRED, “WREN ‘THE PIPE DREAMS Does THE BuLLdo=m ef’ CALL atau tt Those women who have been vac jolnated against love, will regret tt all their lives. Hooray! We haye discovered a deaf and dumb barber Quick, sharp decision wins bat whether one faces cannon or eryday problems of life Dear Landiady: A shortenke|} doesn't mean a cake short of ber.) res. Dallas county, Texas, there murders in one year. There 3 indictment con victlon f jis the reason? hang a man. The court instructs for firut degree murder or acquittal |Acquittal is the verdict, and the} | murderer doesn’t oven suffer a fine for carrying & gun. If eapital pun lishment were eliminated most of them would fail sentences. Say, will these new-fangled skirts conceal holes in stockings? | This one killed a woman in ar Aurora theatre He—-If | were you I wouldn't tr to take that note any more. She (singing)—-Why not? He-—-You don't seem to have any claim on it She—That so? He—Yes. 1 tried to take a note that didn’t belong to me and they put me in Jaf The presumption is that the Av rora woman would have died any- how. UPLIFT STUFF. Let your light shine” means not only lighting it, but keeping the chimney clean Be an optimist. Even the seeds sent out by the congressmen someo- times grow. Might as well give up. Jake won't put on another street car to save his neck. Or ours either. Hugging never fully appeals to a man till his arms have been cut off. Rice begins a romance, and rice soup generally ends it. H T. R, is talking again, but the! noise isn't so loud as it used to be Genevieve If you are tired of having John hang around you all the time, marry bim. Want to know how to manage a husband? Ask an old maid Howell—It costs a good deal more to live than it used to. Powell |, it's worth the dif ference.—New York Press First Minister-Mayor on Puget Sound Will Take Charge in Everett Soon; He’s an Insurgent, To He came out for government own ership of raitways when that was considered downright and outright anarchy. And he wi oretary of a telephone company and an officer In an electric light plant. He joined the independent party way back In ‘00, showing himself above party fealty, Read his article in Tho Arena magazino in 1891. And he was prosecuting attorney in Redfield, 8. Dak, The independent party preceded the populists by a few years, and stood for control of the railroads, homes for the Amer- jean millions and money at cost That's the kind who will be at the helm of government in Everett beginning the new year Rev, KR. B, Hansell, the first minis ter-mayor on Puget sound. only 14 years, He was drawn into it by a desire to see the church take an active interest in every day affairs. “When the church fail interest it- self in the people, in their so- cial, sociological and political life, it might ae well go out of business,” is the new mayor's And he tackled public stions from the pulpit, That's what brought him before thi ple in Everett. He entered the Congregational ministry soon after coming to the| Coast in 1896, Before that he had practiced law for 12 years, held the position of prosecuting attorney, and turned down a nomination for | congress on the independent party ticket at a time when it elected two! United States senators and polled a vote of 1,200,000 votes in three states. | A quiet, unassuming man, but} with pronounced views on public matters, he was the champion about whom the advocates of a clean elty REV, R. B. HASSELL Mayor rallied In the last municipal elec tion tn Everett. Rey. Hassell had been out of active polities for about | years then Hassell’s Platform. Everett, the fourth elty state, had voted on local option a year befor and had voted “dry The tasue in thi rs election was plain: Shall the law be enforced on the liquor question? That was the controlling issue, But Hassell’s plat form went beyond that-—beyo merely the assurance that it » is Not waste when you telegraph. Western Union ‘‘Day Letters’’ and ‘‘Night Letters’’ save waste. Telephone ern Union the West- any time. THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY the} clean city od to work for a water ayetem owned by the city treat ment of union Jabor, & commis form of government. He told the people just what he favored. He didn't fght sny of any. question asked him, He told the people that he favored the single tax provision that was being voted on aa a char ter amendment. He was one of two among all the candidates in the republican, democratic and social int parties during the primaries and the elections to stand squarely on that issue, He was not afraid to let the pee know how he stood on national rhe and the ple of Everett know that th yor ts « thorough, |who will use wh may ponsens to send a La Follette delegation to the national conve | tion, And that is why, perhaps, that the people of Everett elected him for He | Nothing Fits the Toe of a Christmas Stocking Like a Savings Account pass book on this bank, and a small pocket bank It the is a fine way to start young on the road to independence. people “Accounts opened for $1 and up at 4 per cent. Resources Over $750,000.00 The Bank for Savings Cor. Pike St. and Third Ave. FAST ST LEAVE as FOR TACOMA EAMERS boc Stra, INDIANAPOLIS and FILTER 1109 A.M. 1:00, 8:68, ROUND TRIPS DAILT Bagle Trip 35¢, Kound Trip Sta FOR EVERETT AND EDMONDS STR. SIOUX 7:00 A. M., 12:00 Noon, 5:00 P.M. On Sundays Leaves at 1:36 AM 13:00 Noon, 6:00 P.M. THREE ROUND TRIPS DAILY. Single Trip, Bverett 50c, Edmonds ste Round Trip, Everett 15c, Edmonds Ste Special iow rates on Sundaya Scandinavian American AT THE CLOSE OF BUSINESS DECEMBER Sth, 1911 Loans Real I RESOURCES. and Discounts estate Furniture and Fixtures Warran Cash Capita Surplu Undivided Demand Deposi Time Stocks and Bonds ... nd Exchang . -$ 6,534,988.21 90,482.67 LIABILITIES. Profits 2 Savings 500,000.00 500,000.00 124,418.60 . -$3,854,026.70 5,694,220.72 9,548,247.42 $10,672,666.02 On the basis of strength, conservative and real banking service, we are pleased to invite additional accounts from banks and bankers, firms, corporations and individuals, to each of whom will be accorded courteous treatment and every accom- Alaska Bidg., Scandinavian jank home of the American a thoroughly sa that is so good? cent net with no inconvenience whatever? modation that is consistent with good, sound banking. Buy Mortgages for Christmas Presents Why not? If you want to give to mother, wife or daughter nd what can you unshrinkable investment, what can you get get that will yield 7 per The bank receives the interest as due, and will either hand the money to the owner of the mortgage or deposit it in our Savings Department at 4 per cent Compound Interest—as you may direct. Scandinavian American Bank Na cereremenerarenamaam RESOURCES OVER $10,000,000, : burly" — } So it goes ad infinitum as of yore; each year revives the fable of this modern tower of Babel, and though we talk of| making Christmas sane, the world’s bereft of reason at this| festive Yuletide season; it’s a matter of the heart and not the aeY c you run home. Just Started. “I thought you were going to get your share of the ple,” observed the ‘man who had stayed at home. “I guess I couldn't wait long enough,” answered the man who iBter,/lad gone to Washington in the ant to A walk alone. Jobnn3 |Pallman and came back in the “Dat's why I came—to see who it “Well, 1 must admit 1 do, But 1/smoking car, “I didn't seem to be was you was goin’ to meet and walk can only be a brifdder to her—pame |able to get any further than the {plane with,’ ,as you,” Cleveland Plain Dealer, I) “And do you love your STAR WANT ADS BRING RESULTS att Be a ee es