The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 1, 1912, Page 4

’ THE SEATTLE STAR d_at Soattd 3 of olt me Wah. postoffies as ic profits as a result. It SHOULD be easy to get able, two fisted, honest fighters for the public good, but it is not. We have the apostle of fake reform, the open grafter, the freak, the long haired, long shouter, but real, solid men with a determination to DO the right thing and the savvy to KNOW the right Te da ai alien, Bob Hodge. in Oregon Jonathan Bourne told the voters that they would honor themselves more than him by == a Ye b The man who works for what he gets, and a lot he doesn’t, is the chap who chiefly profits when a plain-folks candidate gets on the job. y, but it was so. returning him to congress. That was a fool thing to Everybody knows Bob Hodge. Some folks remember him when he worked he worked with his fists, some when he worked with his head. BUT nobody ever knew Bob Hodge any time, anywhere, when he wasn’t on the dead level. Bob was the rare individual who considered $200 a month a better recompense from the sheriff's job than $3,000 a month. He preferred the $200 because it was what was coming to him; he was the first ’ King county sheriff who didn’t take everything he could surround, whether it belonged to him or the people. HODGE IS THE SORT OF A FELLOW YOU CALL BOB; THE SORT DOESN’T KICK A SICK DOG, OR DOUBLE CROSS A FRIEND, OR LIE ABOUT HIS RECORD, OR HAVE TO LIE ABOUT IT. BOB HODGE IS THE SORT OF A MAN YOU WOULD PICK TO MAKE A LAST STAND WITH; THE SORT OF A CHAP YOU WOULD PUT ON THE JOB IF YOUR LIFE OR HONOR WAS AT STAKE. HE IS RELIABLE, SQUARE, FRANK AND A MIGHTY FINE DOUBLE. FISTED HITTER OF EVERY MEAN THING THAT BOBS UP. We have had stool pigeons for governors, and cripples—mental, moral, physical. We have had “me- too” yo tome political yon wrens silty players of the game, BUT we haven't had a straight, honest, masculine person on the job for some periods. we ‘ : Usually, men like Bob Hodge do not enter the political ring; we don’t make who are not theorists, schemers, diplomats or plain liars. When a Hodge does manage to show up we usually elect him and stay with him, because we know he is sticking with us. We do not need a diplomat nor a lecturer at Olympia, WE NEED A MAN! ——— == = = =. 2 : IT’S AN awful pity that it takes tragedies to enforce er protection #f human lives. A beloved citizen was Fitted at a grade crossing, and now automatic gates will be constructed. Two boys were drowned in the lake, and now life saying apparatus will be placed at the lake parks. [Tre Opinion of the People | Gentlemen who talk affrightedly aboat the hasty judgments | . of the people lack either honesty or observation. The judg- ments of the people are not hasty, but deliberate—even slow. | The people are naturally conservative. They bear long and} iently ; they turn from the old Ways and old ideas wit lace But there is something tremendous, like the f of nature, in their accumulated convictions. The need of re foad regulation, the demand for protection from poisoned food, the right to control the parties for which they furnish the votes, mone of the deep, abiding convictions of the public have cqme &@s sudden waves, as hasty judgments. But deliberately, very) slowly, the people have reached these national conclusions AT THE SODA FOUNTAIN ‘ ‘The Bmart Alec ‘ are many instances of sudden changes, of whirlwind con-|nut sundaes do you serve? What kind of The Drug Clerk—All kinds. The Smart Alec—Then gimme « joughout sundae, Wictions, of radical moves on the part of men managing great business concerns, of statesmen, of judges even. But the} 4 gama of the people are deliberate, slow, cumulative, and never’ was a more groundless fear than that a majority z the nation may be played upon at will by demagogues and m into a flame of rashness that will consume our “sacred itutians”—or any other sort that are worth keeping. — Collier's Magazine. MISS ALINE GORDON of New York, of course, has) bought two pairs of stockings. That isn’t so strange, most) women wear ‘em, but Miss Alite’s are of pure gold, $100) & pair, and she can wear a pair but twice. MATRIMONIAL TRIALS Neighboring Next time you get hemmed in, actually sewed up in a crowd so that it seems impossible either to go forward or get back, you can work & trick that if you do it heartily, will open a path along which you May pass between smiling faces. The only thing it is absolutely nee. essary for you to observe in using the formula is that unless you are Sincere and hearty about it, it won't work. , Just say: “Neighbor, will you help me get through?” $f you wish and it's the truth, “my work requires it. It never fails, that word “neighbor” that we have so nearly lost) .. 2 ie from our daily use. It seems to call out an echo of the spirit of the| MY Wife Is always contradeting ing hand it stood for in the long ago, when neighboring was nec-|" And add, You're in luck.” Why? My wife acts as though my opin jions were not worth contradicting.” ‘A “Get together” and boost and “everybody's doing it now” are slan«, of course, but slang reflects what people are thinking about, after all. Nothing else is more expressive. This neighboring revival hap- ed to come up for discussion when several girls who have little re convened to “confabulate,” as they call it, during the lunch QUITE RIGHT hour. Somebody wanted to know what “we,” who must be bread win-| em =o — them, could do, just each one her mite, toward the general welfare.| {3 = on BSE 1s 5 One said: ‘ T, Toons & Ae! for each other. Here I’ve been worried to death over some unmothered| babies, and only just found out about a day nursery with all sorts of Playthings, nurses and good food, where the mother can leave them while she is at work. Will | get them together? Well, will I ¢ and equipped and maintains this day nurser: didn’t realize it needed to be advertised. Lots of things happen tik that and many good intentions go astray for lack of boosting, but if) everyone of us boost every chance we get, it ought anyhow to make) 8 dent, don’t you think?” } They all did think so and then it was that Marion, who always has gome queer quirk of an idea and a quaint way of her own in express ing it, said: } “Let's start a revival in neighboring. Let's guess everyone we| meet, is as good a fellow as any one of us, until he does something that roves he isn't. Suppose we do make a mistake once in a while, who's} ed by that? Pretty nearly everybody ts as good as he’s had a fair chance to be. Lots of people will think us crazy, but let’s smile right “It would help a lot to get together the things and peopie meant a slong and keep on being neighborly and I bet you they'll get to like it. Observations ‘They say that writer a good age. ome of them have to, in order to get their money from payments on publication magazines.” as a rule, live _ Semana SOME folks put their skelétons in closets; others put 'em in hobble skirts, Kept Him Busy. THE BULL MOOSE likes Chicago for a stamping| «what are the principal activities ground, of the official position oar friend sipeiintacabian couples 2” SEATTLE’S postoffice business is growing rapidly}, “Those involved in holding on to ." replied Senator Sorghum Washington Evening Post Pretty safe indication’ that the old town is “keeping up with the procession.” WHAT with the bar association meeting and the standpat- .promoted-strictly-invitational-third party function, the Aber- deen steamroller crowd held a sort of a reunion at Tacoma yesterday, Editor The Star-—I see that Port YES, Gov. Hay signed the bill which took the nomination | Warden Davies i going to investi of supreme court judges out of the direct pflmaries and placed | gate the cost of establishing a fast them in the old convention system |launch to patrol the shores of Lake : air decane Washington and act as a life saving TALK about American supremacy: Emperor William of | boat, and that after his report the Germany has as his own family dentist Dr. George H. Watson |Counell will pass an ordinance pro f Onondaga, N. Y. And doc says he keeps the imperial molars |‘rnig ie. a Been ge ag rr first class shape, too, The boat should be pit on duty -——---- there, no matter what the cost. It seems to me that the almost weekly loss of life should convince the council that some sort of protection ary measures are necessary, Think of the lives the lake has IT’S A great relief to have Taft informed at last that he’s been nominated. Now when they’ve told Woodrow and Teddy all about THEIR selections, we can settle down quietly to the business of electing one of ‘em. Once in 10 years or so a sure enough MAN runs for a job; when he does he usually gets it, and the IN THE EDITOR’S MAIL winded, shallow brained with hands, some when OF A FELLOW WHO THE STAR—THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 1912, © CAN’T RUN DOWN Do you know how long Wantwit this bill of yours has been running? Nopay—I believe it’s been rum ning now about six years, but Wantsit-—-Say, I believe discovered perpetual motion you've THERE WAS A FIRE it worth the while of men | | | He Would Divide. | “Yes. sald the eminent to the tramp who had cal him. “I will ¢ for $10." “All right, Doo,” said the tramp resignediy, “do dat, an’ if you find jit 0 give you balf.”—Ladies’ Home i led upon xamine you carefully | An inducement | Sultor—1 hope my motination to the curatorship of the musgutm. of | antiquities will induce you to trust your shier to my care. Mee |wendorfer Blatter. | sit See eke teed ethene * * A Puzzie. *® Mr. H. (after the theatre) |® —Did you like the play? Mrs. H.—Yos, bat with an interval of aix months between acts two and three—how do |* they keep the same servants? | —Los Angeles Herald. * see seeeeeeeeene (Tekan hhee / A Remedy Needed. “Do you know, I hav almost irresistible longing to steal a kiss?’ “Well, why don't you take some thing for it?"—New York World. ; Need it in Their Business. “Bo the appendix is useless, then, doctor? We could tive without it?” “Well, the patients, perhaps, but not the surgeons.”"—Pele Mele. A Few Exceptions. Rix—I always go by the motto, |“if you'd have @ thing done well, do it yourself.” Dix—Yes a haircut? but suppose you want Boston Transeript Where There ta Rest. She—Do you get a rest every sum mer, Mr. Jones? He-—Oh, yes. You see, Um only in business; I'm not in society | Boston Transcript. } j i] | aoe | ee eed e Such Common Tastes. * “Harold, come right in this bt minute, I don’t want you to play with that Kaddish boy #| any more. His people are not #/ in our class, They have jnst bought a $900 motor car! Goodness! You'll be playing with the washwoman’s chi dren next! I can't understand where you get your plebetan tastes.”—-Pittsburg Post. REET seeeeeeteeeee seeeeee Approaching the Shelf. Annt—Don't be nasty in accept- jing him, my dear. I don’t think much of the young men of today. Niece (twenty six)—I know, aunt, |but I can’t afford to walt fora young man of tomorrow.-Boston Transcript. | Fatherly Pride. “Ia he proud of his baby boy?” “Proud of him! 1 should #ay’ he lis. Why, he apent two hourp yester- day trying to imagine how he'll Jook in a silk hat!"—Detroit Free Press, The Way They Do it Now, Two summer girls, recent! arrivals at a seashore hotel, were talking on the veranda. Said one: ‘Il hadn't been here two hours before 1 was engaged “That's nothing,” returtied the j other. “T got engaged coming down on the train.”—Boston Transcript. taken already, and think of the number who could have been saved very easily, The drowning of those two boys Sunday has apparently awakened the city officials to a sense of the danger there. That two people should drown in the middle of an afternoon, so close to shore, is a striking example of the neglect of the authorities. They are drowned, nothing can be done for them now, but something can be done for those who will g0 canoe- ing next Sunday and every Sunday. Establish life saying boats and men |by all means, J, A. CALDWELL, pectaliat | —~ Bo the entry clerk was dle charged for persistently using cigar otton? You; 1 told him that where there was so much smoke there'd be a fire.” His CHANCE the meanest man in town.’ “Go on!” “Yes, sir. When I told him I couldn't remember anything any more he wanted to borrow a ten right off.” Not Alwaya What They Seem. The court was having troub! getting a satisfactory Jury. “Ie there any reason why you could not pass impartially on the evidence for und against the " asked the judge of « Juror, “You,” was the reply; “the very, looks of the man makes me think he ts guilty.” “Why, man,” “that's th Ladies exclaimed the prosecuting attor Home Journal h it was a pick handle, He Was Ali Beach A young mother who still con- siders Marcel waves as the most fashionable way of dressing the hair was at work on the job. The precocious child was crouch ed on its fatiter’s lap, the baby fingers now and then sliding over the smooth and glossy pate which is father's “No waves for you, father,” re marked the little one. “You're all beach.”—Los Angel oxaminer, REE KKK * * How a Blind Man Told Color, * “Is it true,” asked Sallie, * “that the blind can determine *% color by the sense of touch?” * “Sure,” said James. “I once * knew a blind man who could * tell a red hot stove just by * putting his finger on it.”— * Ladies’ Home Journal, RTI KKH IK bs ee Min Min iendlin Min Me Mal A Lesson in Horticulture. Little Alice—Do peaches grow on trees or on bushes? Small Tommy—They don't grow on neither. They come in cans.— Buffalo News, So He Was, “Officer, what's the charge? sternly demanded the judge, gazing at the shivering culprit. “Why, judge, I found him run. ning off with a caneof gold paint.”| “How came he to be in this | LEE MIGHT HAVE WORKED IN-A LAUNDRY, BUT AT THE THEATRES THIS WEEK, Moore—Wodsenday to Saturday, Grand Kirmess for Orthopedic hospital, Vaudeville, Pantages Vaudeville. Grand—Vaudeville and motion pletures. Clommer-—Photoplays and vau deville. Melbourne deville. Photoplays and vau Lee Tung Foo might have worked in @ laundry. Inetead, he chose to sing in vaudeville. Me might have followed the example of 400,000,000 of his countrymen by eating bird's nest soup and smoking opium. ‘In stead, he eats ham and eggs and smokes goldtipped cigarettes. Loe Tung Foo is clever. He sings a Chinese song, and makes you | think of the thronged streets of Can-| ton, He sings “My Irish Rosle,” | and you are earrted to the # {hills of Ireland. He sings the same song in French, with just the right gestures and shoulder shrugs, and you strof! in imagination along the | boulevards of Paris, Next he jumps linto Seoteh comtume, and you think lof Marry Lauder and heather and porridge. He hands you a heavy classic of two to prove his versatil- ity, and winds up with “Drinking, Drinking, Drinking!” in German, jand you fancy for a moment you are ldrinking beer in a German garden Lee Tung Foo was born in Sin Shuk Bin, in the province of Sing Nung You. Anyone born tn a place with a name ifke that has a right to be discouraged. Lee Tung was [brought to California when a baby |He had hard luck. He Jost his jhealth. There were times when be | couldn't get work. He worked for} others at truck gardening. He met a good womao—Madam | Blake-Alverson, a teacher of music. By sccident she discovbred the China-boy could wing. She gave bim lessons. When his luck was out, Madam Biake-Alverson sald: “Why don’t you try for the vaudeville stage?” “Nobody,” he answered, “wants to hear a China-boy sing.” “You're mistaken. Nobody has ever heard a Chinaboy sing. It will be new and novel.” | Bo he tried it, with bis heart tn jhis sandals, Everybody laughed to jhear a Chinaboy singing Irish, French and German songs. They | roared when they canght the burr in |his Scotch. They liked him so well jim New York that he dared to go to London, They didn't like him in London. They couldn't see any- thing funny in a China-boy singing irish songs. The idea, they said, is absurd And so it is That's why we like Lee Tung Foo's act America, where his music and|* humor are appreciated, and he's|*® knocking ‘om over at the Empres theatre this week. “It t# said that Indians never laugh. Is that true?” “1 believe so.” “What is the explanation—or is there any?” “Well, for one thing, their women Rever come out in the latest styles from = Parts."—-Chi-ngo = Reeord- Herald. aeeteeeeaeaeen So the Chinaboy came back to| & @&RAkRARKR HERR eRe Ke ee y' WHY THE LONG SILENCE? The 10-year-old daughter of a well known setress, in Harlem, went to sta: away, The vistior left home at 5 p. m. and was b the next day, i morning about 9 o'clock she called “Are you all right, mamma?” 6! “Yes, dear,” replied the mother. “Sure you're not sickT” “Yes, dear.” * “Well, why haven't you written me, then?” askéd New York Telegraph. HU night with another Iittle girl It was her first night away from! No, what happened to Sam? Sam woke up one night. Grandfather's Ghost standing right by his bed. Sam gives a yell and hollers: “What do you want around here?” What did the Ghost ‘say? Ghost said:— “T've come back to get just one more chew | CLIMAX “The Grand old Chew” plight?” querted the magistrate, “I tripped him up, your honor," grinned the officer, “I find him gilty,” thundered the! Judge, eek eeeheeteeee eee eee