The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 28, 1911, Page 5

THE SEATTLE STAR Phones. Private Kxchango Main 9400 and Independent 441 miber of hited Press. Publis ar Publishing Go. ered at tile, Wash claws matter Ss bat of city AY cantn pet ix Hy One year, $4. Gbacribera to ‘The fea Bt once of any faitu Paper, or any atte Tt le the dew and complaints falled to arrive once, Main 9400 pontottice as aecond nth up to six months by wotl?ying this livery of 8 madly phe roinek Tnd, 441, Ask for the Cirowlation Depart t The Court of Commerce (Edivocial from the Saturday Evening Post.) We hope Senator Poindexter’s bill to abolish the newly eated Court of Commerce will receive early and favorable ideration, Introducing the bill, the senator said: “With Or two exceptions, the commerce court, in every important where the petition was filed by a railroad, has enjoined © orders of the interstate commerce commission Spokane case was carefully considered by the commission years, Conclusions were tested by application to actual ess before ordered into effect. And yet the raw commerce purt, without special experience, on a brief hearing, enjoins is carefully considered and thoroughly tested order.” Suppose you were building a dam and had employed a com- tent civil engineer; but your lawyer insisted that all the engi- it’s orders must be subject to review by him. In the course some ye if the engineer were sufficiently patient in ex- Mining the import of his various orders the lawyer would derstand all the problems involved in the construction of dam; in short, he would become nearly as expert as the inecer himself. However, while the lawyer was acquiring this expert ledge you wouldn't be apt to make much progress with dam. That is about the situation created by the new commerce burt. ‘The interstate commerce commission, by years of inves tion, has become familiar with the problems of transporta- . The commerce court act simply makes this expert body bject to a body that does not know so much about transporta- That the general effect of the court will be to paralyze coimmission—at least until such time as the court itself be- expert in transportation—seems most likely, This new illustrates Mr. ‘Taft's passion for turning over as much as ble of the government to the learned but extremely dilatory nd of the judge. There is no question here of denying the railroads a right 1 to the courts. That right they always have had and lays will have. “Mystery” of It All Pulitzer's gift of another million to Columbia university chool of Jownalism has again started acrimonious dis fon as to the value of college instruction in journalism. lalter Williams, dean of Missouri University’s School of Jour lism, seoffingly remarks: “It has been urged that there is hing mysterious about newspaper work which only those ly. inspired may know.” Walter, there is no mystery, no divine inspiration about it. ped, nowadays, the successful newspaper invites the public et its affairs. If there is anything about the newspaper ss that at all appears to be mysterious, it is the “mystery” Ties in every other sort of business. Why does one news- man fail while another succeeds? Answer this very ordi Bry question and you have an answer applicable to any sort of ns: . as well as the newspaper business; you have all the ery” there is in it "Pwo green hands stand before, say, the city editor. “Boys,” Says, “here is an event. Reporting consists in telling the , When, Who, What and Why of it.” One of these green reporters reports the thing correctly en, in terms denoting education of the writer, and with full Ppliance with that formula of his editor. He tells where,| who, what and why. He has got all this. The other greenhorn tells all this in a pec outside the naked facts and with features or style ight out himself. His grammar may be faulty. “got the cart ‘ore the horse” here At. But he has originated, shown individualism, refused to p along in the rut, and he succeeds This is all the “myster other vocations The fellow who merely strives to keep up with the proces arrives with the procession, which is a crowd. The fe manages to keep just a bit ahead of th & there among the Schooling in journalism will add much to the equip would-be journalist led that it does not, like her sorts of schooling, him through loyalty ¢ d rote indeis, People’s Lawyer Elsewhere in The Star today appears the greatest state- bent of the trust question in its relation to humanity ever culiar way, with that he He may * in the newspaper busine procession sur first vi curse Miiered—the statement of Louis D. Brandeis before the Uni ited lates senate committee on interstate commerce Read it and arm yourself for the continental debate that is ing on the trusts, a debate that will finally be deci led by people at the polls. And as you read it let this thought sink ‘our mind and heart he measure which Brandeis advocates is the LaFollette Ml to supplement and make actually effective the nation’s tute forbidding private industrial monopoly. “LaFolletteism” is no mere political maneuver. ie and purposeless outburs mtented insurgency. IT A PROGRAM OF CON TIVE PROGRESS. This ogram calls for these things: © The stern repression of private monopoly by all the power @f the government. > The support of legitimate labor organizations in their effort holt their own with organized capital The development of co-operation among consumers in order at the exactions of the middleman may be moderated and the of living reduced. Brandeis and LaFollette fight shoulder to shoulder for a Her, freer and fairer America. It is no | Observations WHO were the twenty smallest men? Tom Thumb, Dr , Balling--oh, well, you'll find it right easy to get up a list y ee HEARST urges congress to express sympathy for the Chinese bels. 16 it possible that Willle cannot ¥ secs Chinese affairs himself? ° oO AFTER five dinner parties In one ‘ae at New York, Cousin Bill ‘Announces that one great fault of this age is that, people live fast. o oO ASTRONOMERS are excited about a new asteroid that’s sailing clos to the earth than anything save the moon, or Bill Taft, just now, The ing is very long and sharp as a razor, and occasionally gives evon the a aoe save. pa = =S3 ” STORM WARNINGS OF EVERETT TRUE Fe ever 1 go into the hands of a receiver, I'l guarantee tit ho lets the assets before he outlives the claimants, "t come to me and brag of your nationality. 1 don’t think much When a dentist telis me it isn't going to burt and It does, It is going him, too, and I don’t promise him it won't. winter baseball fan is harmless, but that doesn’t make me want next to him when he is talking diamond statistics, oben &@ man buttonholes me and asks me if | know what It means ne pee wick, ” give him one minute to switch off the symptoms or take a ys read in it. ste has a family to support, but endurance ceases to be MAN TO DINKEY, STEPS ff THE STAR—THURSDAY, DECEMBER 238, 1911, (IRS. TRUE! HOw 00 YOU EXPECT A NEEP IN STEP with bg wou TAKE such ciTme WHY Donr You TAKE LoNceR— Husband. ehan ator Sorghum. first.” —Lite, ‘Ob, you Swaggor Victim | and there in his ac-! "I was trying to bring my auditors to a # “And, Tommie, has your poor mother #p You'm, but it’s all right Native (sadly) how much he might have Fes, What is it? “Well, I Iive in hopes now.” “What's happened?” “Some of my rich relations have| taken up aeroplaning.” THE WRONG CHANGE | Certainly. ORATORICAL ORDEAL are hardly justified in giving them the third degree.”— ston Evening Star, MADE NO DIFFERENCE NOT LIKE FATHER DID Nope; we won't WHAT ALWAYS HAPPENS sent ff he'd wanted to SOMETHING LIKE IT There, that's something Mke a cigar! Answers, London ‘chances to.” Wife—-Can you spare me a little change this morning? Go owt and dine with your mother, will do us both good. —Tit- Bits. “That was a fearfully long and tiresome speech of yours,” said Sen te of conscientious intro- 4 hor ankle? She bought ail our Christmas presents Visitor—I suppose you fellows will vote as your fathers did. ta single cont for ours. —Judge. “Does your rich uncle send you something for Christmas? Every year he sends along just enough to make ua think Detroit Free Press. ye the prettiest girl but sho has the best | the anditor. Sorghum, Star. Dealer. Mistress— Bridget company. employe? Karnest lady who “Yeu; “Oh, “This item in yo That's an error on the part of the at It should read Don't worry, mum. Boston Evening Farnest Young Man—Have you any Frank Old Gentleman. Young M Frank Old Gent some young man last summer? it was 9 Eeighbor who takes the sate paper I do tella me everything he} And what was the sequel?’ they were married and she! has just sued him for nonsupport.” GOING OVER THE “1 don’t understand what you ‘hurrah mate’ A CULINARY PARADOX “Your cook ts @ contrary kind of creature.” “How so?” “Because she is a rare cook, yet all ber works are well dono.”— *| Baltimore American. NO DOUBT ABOUT IT He surely must be a poet! VERY CONSIDERATE I shall be very lonely, Bridget Transeript, GooD ADVICE Yes. Don't No. Don’t work work? Become an employer.- nber taat young ed by that hand “She ia a | tlon quite a romance,| “There is one |able to determine, “Her age.” BOOKS campaign expense account mystifies m by ‘raw matertal,’ replied Senator Washington Evening pher.” “And what is that We are told that most of the verses in a recent book of poems were written immediately after the author's 30-day faat. Thirty-day fast! Cleveland Plain it you leave me. T'll not go ufittl ye bave a houseful of advice to @ struggling young Judge. woman of determina i she is never The JOSH WISE BAYS: “Half of all th’ people in a small village consider | th’ other half ‘pe ouliar!” ly Works Out “Who is that happy, smiling gen Ueman over there, and what is he doing? Ho's the author of a funny col umn and he's writing his stuff for tomorrow's paper And what la that solemn-faced, |glum old fellow off yonder doing?” “He's reading the funny stuff the |tirst chap wrote yesterday.” ee ee ee ee Rash Man “Bilking a the magt, imprac teal man I ever saw,” In he, really?” “Beyond a doubt the sort of fellow who soda-water a — Birmingha & Ago-Herald. * RRA The Puzzle Jinks—-Figures won't lie, Binke—And often they won't stand, What are you going to do about it?—Baltimore American, His One Desire Ian't that Miss Yawler singing across the street? Yea. I wish she belonged to a grand opera company.” You surely don't think she can sing? Not at all, but grand opera com- panies never come to this town.”"— Birmingham Age-Herald. THE GREAT Musician His /MSTRUMENT AND CON FRONTED A PASSER BY WITH WIS QUESTION. VE THe SEATS IM A FIVE CENT Show WERE EMPTY, Wound THE MOVING PictuRe FILM? —_————_—, WHY Do THEY SHoor’ G00D MEN AND LEY THIS FELLOW LIVE,’ Not Going to Pieces Geraldine—May I see you apart? Gerald—Well I should say not! Do I i: New York Press. Their Compromise “You look seedy, old chap,” said the bachelor to the married man Anything wrong? Income tax? Burst botler? Measles?” “No, Just a little domestic wor ry.” the married ‘man answered, | knitting bis worried brow. “You see 1 want the hall door painted red and my wife wants it to be painted green. And now we hardly speak to-each other.” “Why not compromise?” sald the man cried “Good and burried off. Next day they met agato, * It worked splendidly!” exctalm- ed the married man, in reply to the bachelor’s query. “I told my wife your advice and she agreed at once.” “Well, and what color Is the door to be painted?” asked the bachelor. “Green!” said the married man.— Answers Up-to-Date ‘The German proprietor of a “wet goods emporium” was bemoaning the fact that an Irish rival was get ting most of the business of the nelghborhood. “You're not progressive enough, Hans,” a customer told him. “Gil hooley's got you beat a mile. The sign in hi@*window, ‘Ticker Inside,’ alone draWS a lot of business.” The next day the Dutchman's window bigssomed out with a big sign, “Tidker inside.” ‘The same customer gpon came tn and express: ed bis aphroval that Hans was getting wise” to the requirements of the business. “But where is the looking around. re it iss,” said the D nd he pointed ticker?” he ‘hman, to the A Lucky Beggar. Robert Newman telephoned the police 1 want you to find my trousers,” he sald, Did you look tress?” asked the in the chief's office, said Newman, : the description,” he under the mat telephone clerk number on the he number My waich.” “T thought it was your trousers,” “Yos, the watch was in the trous. ers pocket d here and a pair of trot ‘s I aid After e Was gone 1 discovered | gave him the ones with my wateh in them. Find that beggar, will you?”—St. Louis Post Diapateh Seeeeeeeeeee look as if I were coming to|-—— She Was 17, Yeu, whe ts Just as sweet and cute and clever as In little gay ragtime week And she's only 20. Star man know? you ask, Well Aubria’s mother sald so, Mother was in hor daughter's dressing room rday when The Star man looks in her pho Aubria Rich, the thi tograph, singer at Pantages How does ‘The | “I've been on the stage ever since 1 was a wee kid,” the actress ex plained, “playing everything from | Clara Lipman's ‘All on Account of | o the most up-to-date musical dy. The only thing I have| minsed thus far is ‘Uncle Tom's Cabin” Hut be that as it may, know it] now, once for all, dear reader, that | Aubria Rich's chief ambition for the future ts to bo a comedienne “Ah, if gnly I eould be tu |by myself sighed, “I we 1 am cheerful enoug! on be praised, but if 1 w comedicnne—well, take {t from 1 would laugh at my own stuff. One of Mins Rich’s other desires from-the-heart is to go to New York. | You see, she has never been there, and, an she puts it, she just live excitement. She thinks she would dote on old Broadway singer went into vaude or four years ago and| #0 Kood she stuck “But | never got so far as the| Coast before,” my very first trip to 1 love it. 1 love its enthusiasm thrilis me and makes me work very hard to please Aubria very nearly missed Seat tle and Seattle very nearly minsed Aubria, however, Recently a! had rehearsed to lead Meno pore’ # Stagedoor Johnnies,” a big musical act in Chicago, which was making ready for the road She was hard at work when Pan. tages’ representative in the Windy Olty came along with an offer to} start er his boss’ time without demy aud with a big salary, And Aubria epted and Jumped to Cal Bary, and bere she is, >), ~~ BY~ <2. Baa, baa, Yukon, _ Have you any coal? marry, have I, Bless my soul; None for the common sople by this time, All for the little boy They call Guggenheim, NUMBERS. LOOK FOR |ARCHAMBEAULT CO., Inc. | Every et in Our Store eae « ae BALLARD BAKING CO. Phone Ballard 614. 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