The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 21, 1912, Page 4

& paper having full leased wire asoctations, if i ~“postoltice ¥ it le me Wo per mon. up to we fished Daily by The Siar Publishing Co. Don’t waste life on doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right perform: ance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation tor the hours or ages that follow it.— Emerson The Terminals The Port Commission will SS. — into a ain with the Harbor terminal pro- Se that bargain will not be the one into which certain interests have been trying to club the commis- sion for several months. The Port Commission has re- fused to be coerced and has refused to be railroaded into a deal which a majority believed did not protect people. Had the hysterical stampede minals succeeded, Seattle today : worse off by at least a million dollars. That is, the contract now proposed is worth a million dollars more to Seattle than was the old, flimsy one for which the ial interest tom-toms have been so fiercely beating. t looks as if the “delay” was worth while at least. The Star is assured that the contract to be en- tered into today is a common sense business proposi- tion, and that the interests of the whole city are safe- aes That is all this paper has contended for the started for the ter- first—from the time that the interested boost- ers for the project tried to stampede it through without any regard to the welfare of Seattle. 2 If the contract in its details is all that it appears to be, Seattle will have no regrets in future years. IT IS believed a Carnegie hero medab sobn will be secured for Newton Johns, colored bootblack hero of the Colman dock disaster who saved eight lives. That medal should have ar- rived a long time ago. Recognition of real heroism can’t be too speedy. The Waste of the Sword More battleships and larger armies is the cry. The nations are turning themselves into armed camps, and the seas are filled with battleships. i The great powers are spending $2,250,000,000 a year on armament. That vast sum represents billions of day’s work—for, like all wealth, it is paid-for in sweat and pain. i , ; The United States, most peaceful of nations, in a time of profound peace, is spending for her army and navy and for pensions, nearly $500,000,000 a year. : We must have battleships, while Euroge and Asia threaten; there must be soldiers, while nations substitute brute force for wisdom, and we must care for the victims of past wars. The Panama canal is the greatest work of construction ever andertaken by man, and yet for the money we are spending for military ends we could build a Panama canal every year. If we threw no money into the ravenous maw of war we could reclaim all the irrigable deserts of America, and drain all the drainable swamps, in five years. In another five we could ‘cover the land with forests, doing away forever with the peril Of failing timber supply, and we could make available the latent power of streatns, wind and waves. 3 . Such a vast sum turned continuafly into internal improve- ‘ments would be magical in the development of industry, the dethronement of poverty and the promotion of the comforts of civilized life. And when the most obvious material improve- ments were effected, when the forces of nature were harnessed ‘and man was left with abundant leisure, we could turn these ‘vast sums to the promotion of learning, art and all things excel- lent. Then, with our new leisure and the enlarged opportuni- thes for its cultivation, we should become a race such as the world has never seen or imagined. The fighting instinct will always remain, but it shall be changed. Instead of the nations wasting their glorious strength in mutual slaughter of their best, they shall turn their power Against poverty, injustice and disease. Instead ofarmed camps ‘we shall have free universities; instead of slaughtering armies, contented armies of industry; and he that invents a useful thing or creates a work of beauty shall be greater than he that taketh @ city. A lawsuit weighing 300 pounds has been filed in California against the Santa Fe railway. That is the weight of the papers in an action In- ‘volving the long and short haul problem. But Bill May Veto The French press is unanimously pounding Uncle Sam for his attitude on the question of free Panama tolls for American ships. They call on Taft to veto legislation which “belies the solemn affirmation that the whole work at Panama was in the interest of mankind in general.” Our foreign friends might as well get unt ed now, as to their views of the purpose in building that canal. Uncle Sam loves mankind in general, but he never went into that canal job for wholesale charity’s sake. His main inspiration was commer- cial greed, the sentiment underlying all great national under- takings of whatsoever nation. He invested several hundred millions in a canal that would be his. President Roosevelt grabbed thie necessary territory for him, not for mankind in general. The canal is going to be forti- fied in protection of Uncle Sam's interests, commercial and martial. And the thing is going to be run for the sake of Uncle’s dollars and cents, directly or indirectly It is to be hoped that the canal will be of great advantage to mankind in general, but the parties who have been telling that it is to be for mankind generally, particularly and wholly, have simply been trying to hornswoggle mankind in general. Uncle may be a philanthropist but he ain’t no fool, as Browning might put it. WILLIAM BOOTH has joined the “great dead.” Ags one of history’s greatest humanitarians, his name will be im- mortal. SUMMER pleasure travel in and out of Seattle beating records. That isn’t a bad indication of prosperous business conditions. STATE SENATOR FALCONER, the big progressive of Snohomish county, withdraws from the standpat joins with the progressives. EVEN fowls appreciate the beautiful in nature. Full blown Martha Washington rose found encased in double sack of protective tissue in Plymouth Rock hen in Oregon yes- terday. party and THE OUTCOME of the terminal negotiations ought to convince a good many Seattle peopf that haste should be made slowly in matters of this kind. ‘Today Seattle drives a bargain with the terminal promoters which may be imperfect, a mut it is 4 thousand times better than the one first proposed, would have been|" THE STAR—WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21, 191 Nothing S HOUSEHOLD FINANCE Dobbs ear Dealer—Thia model word In touring cars. Dobbe—The last word, eh? Then My wife can't decide on “How do you hold onto cook while you are awey on vacation-—by paying her a bon) back?" oo ia the last owe her.” she'll have it ee a POSED AS ACRED COW” Bray Reveals Ite Character, Surprising the Keeper in the New York Zoo, NEW YORK, Aug, 21--Once a jackass always a jackass. ‘That was the comment of “Bill” Snyder, head keeper of the Cen- tral park menagerie, when he found Pete, the sacred Chinese ass, exhibiting himeelf behind the bars of an inclosure which bore & label “Sacred Cow.” The jackass, which is one of the oldest monagerie exhibita, ie white, as are the sacred cows, ~ Visitors to the meonageries looked puzziod when Pete began to bray—even the sacred ones are not above it-—-long and loud at the prospect of oats. They saw before them a signboard with “Sacred Cow” on tt. old jackass, Why, that’s a plain Thomases,” fust as “Ht! “Ain't that a jacka: addressing “Hit” as the braying animal. “SurB it's a fac sald one of the “doubting ked a boy In the group, eeper stopped and looked at the loudly * sald Snyder, “bat he's In the wrong w. “Pill” ordered Pete placed tn a cage adjoining the one bear ing the “Sacred Cow” sign, bat another keeper misunderstood him. Pete was soon placed “right” before the public. eeeeee ee eee tee tt eae eee ete ete ed THE LADDER ~~ GIFTED “Yea; I begam at the bottom of the ladder, and now look at me!” “But you admit, do you, that Yes, Indeed. Why, he could sit somebody else provided the lad-jand play solitaire in a woman's der?” ‘conversation club. “He has a remarkable gi: self-concentration, 1 am told,” IMAGINATION NEEDED MASSAGE Ww. D. popular novelist “There is about as much poetry in him as there ls in McMasters, “MeMastera, you know, was walking with a beautifal girl in a wild New England wood. “What is your favorite flower, Mr, McMasteraT” the girl 4 softly. MeMasters thought a moment, then Cleared his throat and swered “Well, I believe I like the whole wheat the best.’"—New Yi Tribune. OUTBURSTS OF EVERETT TRUE 1 THE 8088 ry) moyse tt priay / aay DON? 826 ME TAKING ORDERS FROM ANY WOMAN It GEER 4 MUST DO THAT ERRAND SHE SENT ME ON _OR SHE'LL BE WARM UNDER THE COLLAR a a eT * HARD FOR THE SNAKE * “Talking about dry tons, have you ever been in Leavenworth, | * Kan.?” asked the commercial traveler in the smoking car. “No?! * Well, that's a dry town for you, all right.” * “They can’t sell liquor at all there?” asked one of the men, * “Only if you have been bitten by a snake,” said the traveler, ~*® “They have only one snake in the town, and when I got to it, the “*% other day, after standing in line for nearly half the day, it was, * too tirgd to bite.”—Milwaukee Wisconsin, * * i a oe Y Sette eeeeeetsy STAR WANT ADS BRING RESULTS wr erious by not paying her what 7 SESS e eee eeesee tet ee eeteeeee Th, Howells, at a luncheon at Kittery Point, sald of a certain af BUSH WORK Yapville Fan (to stranger, during Well, how does our new pitcher's delivery strike you? Stranger (a big league scout)— As RF. D—Judge. A SURE SIGN “Mra. Neverswim myst be out of nda,” Why?" “1 just passed the library, and o's in there writing a letter to jor husband.”—Detroit Free Press. PECEEREEESEREEYS MISTAKEN IDENTITY * Howard—Hiridget, did my * wife come in a few moments * axot Bridget—No, sir; that’s the & parrot you hear a-hollering!- * Sioux City Tribune, * * * REAR “At th’ end of their first day's ingagement at th’ leyeport fair, th’ Besisysport Marine band wal ed out. Th’ reason wuz that th’ management wouldn't allow ‘em to play in their shirtsieeves.” A RURAL RETORT Vacationist--Where doos this road go to? Parmer Smart--It hain't budged an toch In my time, mister-—Bow ton Transcript. PUNISHMENT OF CRITICS Nero fiddled while Rome burned. “it folke woald wet blanket the fire instead of my music they might save themacives,” he cried. —New York Sun, NOTIFICATION “Father,” sald the small boy, “what ie a notification?” “A notification, my son, is a lity of publicly reminding « matesman that a nomination has accepted him.”—Washington Star. STILL AT IT . “He certainly ts fond of his gar 2.” “That sot “You; he still thinks {t worth while to try to keep the weeds out of It"—Detroit Free Press. \ INHERITED “Ia your husband crazy over baneball, too?” Oh, no, He inherits it. He had an uncle and a cousin that were unbalanced mentally.” — Chicago Record Herald. LUCKY FATHERS Knicker—Our fathers didn't know beans. Bocker—They didn't have to; they bad beef. New York Sun. SUBSEQUENT GROWTH “It you do good work your work will grow after you are gone.” “That's a fact. Rubens left only some 2,000 pictures, but there are 10,000 of his pictures in circulation now.”—Loulsville CourierJournal. “NOT SO MUCH “Pa, is $100 vory much?” “That depends. When your ma wants a new dress it f#, but if you're ever asked to become dis honest for that amount {t jan’t."— Detroit Free Press, Haw! Haw! Haw! A highbrow was investigating the puzzle factory As he passed cell 23 the grinning inmate demanded a hearing. # “Why is a crow?” demanded No. “I mast admit that I am at a loss for a suitable reply,” said the bigh- brow. “Tell me, why is a crow?” “Cawa!” grinned No. 23.—-Cinein- nati Enquirer. Fixing the Light. Mr. Briggs called one evening to see his sweetheart, and her litle brother, Tom, was entertaining him until the young woman came down. “Tom, when your sister comes down and is comfortably seated on the couch with me, I want you to tiptoe in softly and turn the gas down low; will you?” “You're too late,” replied the boy. “Sister just told me to come in ang turn It out.”—Judge. Gold Medal, London, 1911 Largest Sale HIGH GRADB Tow tn Werkd Does not upset the stomach In not Weather as does the myriads of so- called popular soft” drinks. ‘Try Golden-Hued Iced Tea In Seated Ate Tight Pg. All High-Ctase Grocers Order Trial Package TO-DAY! Schwabacher Bros. & Co., Distributers, Inc., NATE IS A FINE, LIKEABLE YOUNG CHAP, AT THE THEATRES terda THIS WEEK. the Moore—Dark fotropolitan—Dark next Provol is a young fellow who has the distinction of having put one over on the eriginal bull moose, Teddy Roosevelt. Which is Nato ceedingly eager to do that very same thing. Nath wan only 6 regular army when f was stationed in pllowstone park in 1903, when Roosevelt, at the |head of # hunting party, was camp- ing there, Karly one morning Teddy rushed out of Dis tent at the call of an elk, camera in hand, ready to grab a snap shot. Teddy could hear the sound plainly, yet there was some- thing pecullar about this elk: The animal had an inspired knack, it seomed, of dodging the great hunt er and keoping safely secreted Tho dicky-dick, or whatever other mysterious quadrupeds abound in private in the curred, He NATE PROVOL nostrils. Provol never pa tunity for fun. partment official ficers hunting for imaginary Africa, waan't tn it with this won-| whining dogs and cate in water der of the forest. At last Nate| pumps, sewers, ash cans, etc, He up an oppor had street de- and humane of- HIS WAY THROUGH LIFE, AND GETS PAID FOR mane Oficer stepped to the end of the, Louis Post-Dispateh, $30 on $172 TRACIE 905 1-2 Third WHO WHISTUsS| pi | walking along y afternoon with a friend’ attor stopped ped to talk tg to an automobile, Orpheum— Vaudeville. the chirp of a tiny dog in Emprese—Vaudeville. came from under the Pantages—Vaudeville. Bogges got busy. He Grand—Vaudeville and motion and thither trying on te ro pietures. , , en ta ‘ 2 locate * Clemmer—-Photopleys and vaw ‘el ve posted,” deville. whilp wiping Metbourne—Photoplays and vau- om bis forehead, ed must have got into the tank. It's not under the When Bogen at “next” he promised to ai the show this week, THE NEW SELPHELP : some distinction, you must admit, “What sort of woman id te leonsidering the fact that Tom Wil- aq son and Will Taft are just now ex- ou koow him. What sort 9¢ woman would marry him? —ge rae couldn't keep it up any longer, and) — some Teddy discovered that he had been the victim of a hoax, and that Nate} Provol was an exceedingly clever ventriloquist. The bull moose laughed heartily, shook young ; tally, and said. y, my boy. Nate Provol ts a likeable chap who goes whistling through life. He gets paid well for hin whistle, too, by the way. He's at the Pan tages theatre this week. After he quit the army, having seen service fn the Spanish-American war and then three years in the regular army, Provol thought he'd do some newspaper work. He hustled for the Chicago Examiner a bit, antil a live vaudeville manager caught him giving a free whistling exhibition at the Saratoga hotel in Chicago. |The V. 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