The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 5, 1912, Page 4

E SEATTLE STAR Private Exchange Matin 9400. TH ress ~ Bintered a jaall, out of olty, Boosting Rome Just think, Rome—ancient and famous Rome—has decided that she must do something to attract capital, industries and population, like any ordinary town on a new railroad in the West. They will doubtless have the Rome Chamber of Com merce—yes, and the Roman Boosters. The. trouble with Rome is that neither food nor building materials are found in its neighborhood. Result: High cost of living, stagnation, and hard times for its 530,000 people, The only real good asset is the tourist, and just when he is most needed he doesn't come What's to be done? Why, Rome is to be made a seaport. Deep water is 17 miles away and the Tiber is no good except for poets. There is to be a big canal and then gigantic basins and docks. This means cheap foodstuffs and building materials, to be followed by industries and commerce. The generation that does it will rank with the generations that built the Coliseum and St. Peter's Keep your eye on Rome! PRESIDENTIAL campaign managers may get away with it else where, but they don't seem able to put it over on the people at home. Manager Dubola of the Clark campaign has been left at home in the selection of national delegates, even as the same has happened to Manager McKinley for Taft and Manager Dixon for T. R. | Loading Up the Future London wasn’t much of a town in the time of Henry VIII, back in the 16th century. When the king gave his courtier, Richard Page, a slice of land he had taken from one of the abbeys nobody thought it much of a gift. It made a nice little cow pas- ture, but that was about all it was good for, Even as late as 1825 it was valued at only $25,000. King Henry long since turned to dust; likewise Richard Page. But millions have been born. They swarm daily over that old cow pasture. They have reared great buildings on it, Street railways converge there. The air resounds to the roar of traffic. And now the old pasture is valued at $150,000,000. Never mind about Richard Page's gift from the king. But did you ever stop to think of the enormous real estate values that t remain to be created by the unborn millions of the future? id you ever stop to think that someone must pay rent, interest and profit on all those values-to-be? Quite a load for the future. LEAVE it to the Northwest for real enterprise. “The Seven States) Gun” is the name of the only daily newspaper published on a train. The! lant and all, is coming to Seattic today at the rate of 40 miles an) hour, on board the Northwest Congre: In the last ten years the cost of your shoes has increased 73 per cent. «Twenty per cent of the increase went to labor; $3 per ceny—didn't. Even with a gain of one-fifth in wages, the shoemaker is mot rapidly increasing his investments in government bonds. He gets, even now, only $496.54 a year, on the average. His is} skilled labor, too. He can't live comfortably unless his wife and children also work in the factory—if you call that com- fortable. BAND of feasted on $1,500 worth of apple trees after break- Ing into Walia Walia apple orchard. They ought to be able to break Into society’s “400” now. Frenzied Politics Thomas W. Lawson announces his candidacy for the United States senate from Massachusetts. This is probably his greatest “remedy” for the evils of the time. Hope it will go better than that “National Stock” that got stuck in the mud of popular in- credulity. t ee Sins GOOD EVENING! Why not make your plans for a sane Fourth early? oe s. - THEY seem to beat up everything in Brussels these troublesome days except carpets. o o ° SENATOR LORIMER says he will not resign. however, how long he will stay on the job. ET “SINGLE socialist gets on ticket In Everett.” says Proves the disadvantage of married men even in politics? oe OHIO convention's disregard of the 30,000 majority rolied up against President Taft, while high-handed, can hardly be called jofty. ec Oa'é THAT garage bill, as Mayor Cotterill pointed out, was in immedi- Bte need of repairs before it could become a valid ordinance. es ae SEATTLE man claims to have been blinded by sait and his money taken from him. His wife now tells police she can’t see the story at all. =e * 1F IT’S necessary to public peace and safety to build a garage, may- be we pedestrians can steal a few joy rides on the piea that it is neces ary to public health. He is not predicting, atch. Which e.° 6 ee ROSE time in Seattie can’t be beat. Take the visitors at the North. west congress and electrical convention to see the wealth of flowers in every part of the city. —— = IN THE EDITOR’S MAIL Editor The Star—I saw in to-ja pretty day? It does not seem so, night’s Star that Councilman God-| for I am sure they would not want dard says there are two or thr | Oe = ¥ it thew - very Kind ‘mace 4 person is found there, The home good sites for the city Sarage and jjess tramp who does not want to that it is not absolutely necessary | hang around saloons, the weary to have it in City Hall park. If this | cripple in search of rest, the tired fs so what possible excuse the} mother with her baby, the small council have for putting it there? boy who is tired of his pi ( Any lover of civic ty can see| the business man in ewe org ie that a garage in tuat ee will be} minutes in the sun, all these do we @n eyesore to the city. That little| find in the little park and their spot of green is the only pretty| presence there is a protest against Place inthe business district; it is| putting in a city Sarage. A picture Very restful to the eye after blocks | of the park on any sunny afternoon of buildings. The city needs a| would furnish a strong and convince place like that, ing argument against its destruc But aside from any question of|tion. It is not needed as a site for beauty there still remains this feat-| the. city garage, so let's keep it to ure—Dilling park affords a resting| beautify the cit and furnish rest place for hundreds every day. Do| for the weary . the councilinen ever go by there on MRS. O. 0, DAWSON. Whe OS. JCOREY SIGNCO 127 Ae Naps SEL9I7TT7TLE Wasyy, SAY YOU SAW IT IN THE STAR. THE STAR—WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5, 1912, Tae tat lady is mad as a wot hornet today.” “Yes; she was married to the sword awallower yesterday, and only the living skeleton attended.” | of “And ts that what ratsed ire?” Jinke—Do you think the average human wisdom ts her | higher? Biinks—No; the baseball season Yes, the pepers said there was keeps coming along every spring a ‘all ttendance.” land suthmer as usual, RNAL INSPIRATION. _ HW BOY. “Don't you feel Mke writing poetry as spring draws near? “Certainly not. I'm physician, I'm too busy writing prescriptions) for the grip.” PA'S EXPERIENCE. First Lawyer—Your now office boy's face is very familiar. Second Lawyer—Hiie manner i ven more familiar A FUNNY ONE. Preddy--What ts the stock os change, pa? His Pa—Tho stock exchange, my son, is @ place where a man is apt to exchange a stock of money for a) Artemus stock of experience, days.” “Who says there are no women bumorists? “t don't know. Why?" “My typewriter spells as funny as Ward in bis palmiest GOING FURTHER BACK A man who had suddenly become very rich went to ive in New York and began to spend money with a lavish band. He decided that his name needed advertising, so he visited a genealogist. “I suppose,” he said, “if i pay you enough, you can trace my family | back to Adam. “My dear sir,” replied the genealogist, “if you're willing to put ap the money, we can prove by evolution that your family existed before Adam.”"—Lippincott's Magazine. THE VALUE OF PRAYER “Grandma.” “Yes, Marjorie.” “You know I just believe a whole lot in prayer.” “Why, I'm glad to hear it; that’s a good little girl.” “Yes, | prayed the other day that auntie wouldn't be cross with me for breaking her little hand mirror.” “And was she?” “No, She thought it was Uncle John who broke it, and I didn’t tell her any better.”—Pittsburg Sun. growing | NOBODY—By Meek. VACATION, YOu ARE INDEED AN EXCEPTION, Wao's LITTLE Boy ARe You? Met OH, | AM NOBODY'S THE VOICE OF EXPERIENCE Bragg—It my wife*had the the candidates I opposed Rage—Pretty talk for an old married man, Don't you > ‘ y € \. 1 see you'd have her with you by pretending to favor the candidates you didn't right to vote, she'd be sure to favor all favor? Some men never seem te i , 0 gain experience through mar —_ Cleveland Plain Dealor, 2 ae eeetaeeeeeens TEAKWERARE RASS KEEPING THE COOK * “Our cook has been with us ® two months now,” * “How do you account oe rv “She's reading a continued ® story in the weekly magazine ® we subscribe to,"--Los Angeles # Evening Herald, ee eee ee AFTER THE GAME ‘ Tt was a girte’ ket ball team and play had been strenuous. “Irene has fainted,” cried some one. “Steady, girls,” sald the captain, “Give her a little alr and pass the fudge." —Exchange, TIME TOO GHORT Beauty—Don't you sailors dreadfally homesick at times? Bo'sun--leas yer heart, we ain't never home hardly long enough. Los Angeles Pvening Herald, THE FAT MAN'S HOPE Ticket Agent--1 can't give you a lower berth, air; they are all taken. Mr. Patleigh—That's right; give mo an upper, When the man who has the lower notices my size and weight he'll be glad to ex change-—Roston Evening Tran- script, y . 4. -aa a “Th’ Beeleysport house has been greatly improved an’ eniarg A new potato is mow on th’ desk fer wests ter stick th’ pen in.” EASY WAY TO FIND OUT Woman (to small boy who ts fish- ing) wonder what your father would say if he caught you fishing on Sunday. Hoy—I don't know. You had bet- tor ask him. That's him a little far- ther up the stream.—Lippincott’s Magazine. A REAL FRIEND “Brown volunteered to lend me money.” “Did you take itt” “No, That sort of friendship is too good to lose.”—Detroit Free Pros. THE PRICE OF PEACE Willie—Paw, what is the price of peace? Paw—Alimony, my son.—Cincin- nati Enquirer. A fellow who lived at Magnolia, Got stuck on a “gal” called Folia, Hat her pater so mean, Swiped bim on the bean. As she sweetly murmured, “I tolla.” Going Up “The packers buy beef on hoot.” “And the rest of us buy beef on the roof."—New York Sun. the “I PLAN To MAKE ALL AMERICAN SCHOOLS MOVING PICTURE THEATRES”--TOM Epis THOMAS A, EDISON As he looks today, and-— BY HARRY BURTON NEW YORK, June 5-1 have Just come from the studio of Thom as A. Edison, at West Orange where, tn an exclusive interview for The Seattio Star, he said to me “The most com ¢ revolution in education which world hi ever sten—this is to be the REAL- LY great work of my life!” What ts this crowning victory of Tom Edison, white haired, 65, and already crowned with the glories of the marvelous phonograph, the incandescent lamp and the storage battery? He told me about it-—at length It fa the crystallization of a per- fected system whereby the moving pleture film will supplant books and charts in American school- rooms and make school houses places of delight instead of bar- racks of gloom. In other words, json plans to CONVERT OUR SCHOOLA INTO MOVING PIC TURD THEATRES! “The thought is not @ new one with me,” smiled the wizard. jbave been working on it for years jt have known for long that our od jucational methods are all wrong. knew that I hated going to school 1 know that my boy has hated to «0 to school I know that most jother children bave hated to go to jschool. From: this I decided th jall the children could not be wrong, jfor God made them. So it jthe schools that are wrong, I con cluded. And I have set out to rem edy the schools. “We ean take the child into the most abstract realms of science by For the Thin and Scrawny Bamose Will Make You Plump and Rosy, Says wick, although you may not know it. If you are losing weight steadily there is something wrong needs looking after. If you have always been thin it doesn't follow that you are sick, but you may not be healthy. You cannot be strong if you are thin. Try then to be healthy and plump, it is not difficult if you know how The only way to increase the weight and gain health and fleah is by using Samoee, the standard flesh j forming food and tissue bullder jmingles with the food you eat and is assimilated so that all the flesh forming and tissue building ele | ments of the food are retained in j the system. This explains the great value of Samose. Bartell Drug Co. sells every pack age on a genuine guarantee to re- all that is claimed for it, must be} that} It} fund the money if it does not do ¥* ¥ ** VOD N ey ; HOW SCHOOLS wit” SON ational film need ite length te t is only one ineh mailing, The pa. we picture film waed jm * 1.000 feet long Baa ture hine, will be loaned Pom Ks jison labor, worked que oH n be placed tm in to purchage @ +h heh etetet eee eeetee Ke + aes means of pictures—a thing which we could never do by means of the deadly dull books. We have worked out, for Instance, bere in our labor- atory, a series of films which show exactly how pottery is made. We show the clay being dug; we show the workmen molding it in their wonderfully expert way; we show {t being baked, and then we show it in the enameling process. When the child gets through seeing this | picture, we are sure that he under stands the methods of pottery far better than any to him, and how much more enter- jall been! “The moving picture is the force in education—the greatest force that has yet been introduced into education. “There have been 219,000 cases of truancy in the New York public schools the last year. Books failed. jing pictures into the schools of New York and I'll not have to re- port a single case of truancy. “And what's more, I'll have all the parents down to the school | houses at night to learn the things |their children learned in the day- |time. People want to learn—God |put it in them to learn—but they want to learn in the natural way. Holding the mirror up to nature 1S the only natural way. “AND MOVING PICTURES ARE LIFE’S MIRROR.” AT THE THEATRES THIS WEEK. Moore—Wm. Hodge in Man From Home.” Seattie—Dark Metropolitan—Dark. deville. vandevitie, Pantagee—Vandevilie. Grand—Vaudevilie and motion “~The ~Photoplays and vau- deville. Melbourne—Photoplays and vau- deville. A BASEBALL FREE For Every Boy in Seattle Who Is Will- ing to Do Just a Very Little Bit of Work for The Star. Here's Our Offer: Get Us Three New Subscribers And We Will Give You a Dandy Amateur Base Ball This offer is open get your parents, or League Worth $I to all boys, Just your neighbor, or your aunt, or any three people in Seat- tle to take The Star for one month at 25 cents a month and bring their names to The Star office with their telephone number, and we will give you the base- book could teach} taining and how much easter it has} ball, You do not need to collect the money. Just bring us the names and addresses and telephone number. Don’t wait. There are only one hundred of these balls and you want one, so get busy right away and ask your people to take The Star for a month, delivered to their home, and then get two of your neighbors, HIS SCHOOLROOM DREAM — The luxury of a boo cannot be ounces of pow m original peeks & teaspoonful of thi j head. then bi and the scalp wil refreshed, whi i ing. | nor light. wavy and me © that will tone fins id lasting @ ace of yi itch has md 5 3 i an Mavatone will t come | show Hke 5 skin soft, fair w rs grow in an thin and st japnlied with } will siso | long and si rely | | Give me the right to introduce mov-| VEGET You never saw such - Save half. Houses complete *