The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 19, 1912, Page 4

Phone: Private Bxohange M Wane OF TH Nowriw full leaned wire mews Wy Wall, out ot alty, ly mall, out of city. Published Daily by DISTRESSING COINCIDENCE And at the very time little Philander Knox was making his Seattle speech against a third term, an anti-third-term crank was shooting Roosevelt. : ‘ Philan will live a long time before he's permitted to for- get the untimeliness of that speech, A New Program for This State From a political viewpoint, The Star is not a partisan newspaper. It is partisan only to the extent that it endeavors always to better the conditions of the oppressed and to battle with the oppressor. This brief explanation is made because of the position The Star will take in the political campaign now being fought. : “tthe Star believes that the progressive party in the state of Washington is a big fighting force for the common good. The time may come in future years when it will be necessary for The Star, and all other papers honestly endeavoring to serve the people, to wage war against the candidates of this new political party. When that time comes we will do what we are doing today, endeavoring with all our might to build up the new party that will arise then. It will serve us little if we pone ag state house at Olympia the essive candidate for govrnor there is. Ton wih him state officials and mem- bers of the legislature pledged as the governor is pledged. It will serve us little if we allow to remain in the hands of the corrupting influences of the old political party our county offices. The time has come for a cleaning up and a new in which human life, human hands and cen heats shall be given consideration ahead of the Almighty Dollar. A MAN who positively predicted Taft's ¢ New York was committed to Bellevue yesterday tion, although the judge was rather inclined t to the asylum at once.—Newark News. m over in for observa pack him off An Unconscious Snob “Whoever wrote that sign,” said a min in a West Queen ‘Anne car yesterday to his seat-mate, “is an unconscious snob.” He pointed to an advertising card overhead, which read: “The Whole Country Is Prosperous Under TAFT. Why Change?” “I don’t get you,” said the seat-mate. “It" says,” the first speaker explained, “that the whole country is prosperous ‘under’ Taft. Neither the whole coun- try, nor any part of the country, is ‘under’ Taft. Kings rule ‘over’ their subjects. Persons living in countries where mot archical rv’ obtains, are ‘subjects’ ‘under’ a king. Taft, therefore, in the mind of the snob who wrote the sign, must be somewhat in the position of a ruler, which he is not. He must be in some vague way superior to the common run of men. It is the aristocratic idea.” “Well,” said the seat-mate, “ be president of the United State: “That,” objected the first man, “is not the point. We— the American public—have a lot of good jobs to hand out— police, street-cleaning, army and navy, fire departments, con- gress, postoffice, dog-catchers—and president. “The best job of the lot is the president's: We pay good wages—$75,000 a year. We expect to get a good man for the money. When we hire a president, we sign a four-year contract. At the end of that time we either renew the con- tract or can the president and get another, That's all there is to it. “It is just as absurd to say that we are prosperous ‘un- der’ Tait as it would be to say that John D. Rockefeller or any other stockholder is prosperous ‘under’ the man who hap- pens to be president at the moment of the Standard Oil Co. “Nobody but a snob would have put in that little word “under.’” u gotta be some class to “THE opponents of the plan have only touched om the dollar side of the question. That is where it affects them This is a fight between dollars and humanity, and in a fight of that nature, humanity will win.” So spoke Mayor Cotterill in behalf of the double platoon system for our firemen. NEITHER $13,000 nor $50,000, nor the exoneration of the supreme court on the ground that “the penalty is too great,” nor any “put-the-clamps-on” letters in the Hay interests can faise to a man’s level the villifying and falsifying character assassination campaign against “Bob” Hodge. MR. ROOSEVELT may w with alarm,” or “point with pride,” but he is never “speechless with astonishment.” -—Wall Street Journal. THE Auto Speeders’ club is; THAT wind the other night THE SEATTLE STAR _ keeping up its same little old! gait in gaining new members, A few jail sentences instead of fines would decrease the aver- age speed for autas in “right was like a breath from Old Man Winter, sweeping the leaves away and getting Seat- | tle ready for her brisk little | cold season, smart” fashion. 7 “THE man of the hour’! GEMS worth $15,000 found j thanging o: ra : ° Macuedey: aight will. be Bob| han ging n branches of trees le is in New Jerse Sounds like Hodge, who will address the!, ,.). ¢ : : 4 a " P a tale from Arabian Nights, biggest meeting of the cam-jiut an American robber paign at the Coliseum. played the leading role HARRY LAUDER is to annie play the role of Hamlet, in| ROOSEVELT, lying on a regular drama. He'll be about} hospital bed, longs for the wild the cheerfulest Hamlet we've} country. Given a real moose heard of. And won't he make} steak, he orders it served in that ghost smile? hunter's style, with salt pork. JUDGES have some ideas of justice after all. One of them up in Massachusetts has sentenced a bigamist port both his wives—Nashville Banner. ee TONIGHT, Senator Miles Poindexter and “Bob” Hodge will discuss real issues in the campaign at the theatre. to sup- Coliseum HOW would Seattle like to groan under a city budget of $200,000,000? That's the 1913 New York estimate, the largest in the history of the city. . EDITOR NORMAN HAPGOOD quits Collier’s Weekly because Collier wants to support Roosevelt instead of Wilson, That's a division of real progressives the people don’t like to sce. SHE KNEW Ethel—1 understand she was “an old flame of yours?” Mra. Gotrox-So your club wasn't a success, woman's Kdward—Yea; 1 burnt a lot of] Mrs, Swift—No; it had all the money on her. discomforts of home. HOW HE GOT THEM NICE TER Kidder—These scars you nee on} my head were received upon the | field of battle “Has Ski * = great wealth! Katherine—Indeed? changed him Kidder Yes; I fell off my horse A little. He's eccentric where during the militia maneuvers last| he used to be impolite, and sarcas- summer. tie where he used to be rude.” The Editor’s Mail Collier's;the new and wonderfal Antl-Ex-| travagance league, which (in my leatimation) must be composed of ja band of men who believe a man should go home only when he has no place else to go, One of their arguments is that they are going to oppose the ex travagant expenditure of public} funds, (Penny wise and pound| foolish.) | Again, if they are an investiga Rattor Weekly says that “the claim that] The Star Wilson's nomination was arranged by the bosses is preposterous. Is it preposterous? Big crooked bus {ness interests know that their em croachments upon the general wel fare would be mont effectively re sisted by Roosevelt, provided he could get enough progres#ive sup- port in the house and senate. Se tion committee, why do they not their first desire was fo beat) got both sides of the story instead | Roosevelt. They knew that to do of jumping at conclusions? thts they had to put up a progres They say the double platoon sys sive apparently distasteful to Wail tem would not increase efficiency, st. They knew that Champ Clark, but have they studied the present without Bryan's backing, could not system? Every day in the week! cut Into Roosevelt's vote so muchithere are so many men off (their! as he would receive standpat votes day off). Then there are three that would otherwise go to Taft. meal hours for each man on duty, So, without openly cooperating |so that this reduces the number. with Bryan or Wilson, they tobi men on duty at any given time le erated the nomination of a man/at least two-thirds of the full cum hot the cholce of the majority of|ber, With the platoon system, the party. | there would be no “offs” and no The next thing to do was to ar|meal hours, which consequently range things to assure Wilson's|would mean a full crow at all safety--to promote the candidacies times at all stations. of men upon whom Wilson will) This league with the long game have to depend for advice and sup-| says the platoon system has proven! port im securing legislation. ja failure in other cities, one of, Looking over the list of demo-|them Omaha, Neb.. in spite of the crate in the house and senate and fact that in Omaha the double those, like Helffner, most active in| platoon system is in force today supporting Wilson, it is very prob- and has been for five years, and: able that Wall ot. felt that its in-/has proven so successful that the terests were not in any great dan insurance rates have been reduced wer, W. MDOWELL. | considerably. —_—_— Where ts by eg of huntanity Editor The Star: I have just/and good fal ip if these fire read an article in a ne re-|men are begrudged the few hours garding the two-platoon system for|that mean so much to their wives firemen which was authorized by! and children? MRS. W. OUTBURSTS OF EVERETT TRUE kkhhhhhhke * tke ekki khhhkkhkhekn me A RESOURCEFUL EDITOR * * “The late Gen. Booth,” said a Salvation Army official df % * New York, “often used to urge the ‘down-and. outer’ to cultivate * * the quality of resourcefulness. * “He would illustrate this quality by means of a resoure % Western editor, who found one night that he had neither pr * * tlsements nor copy for his third page, The page, accordingly, # # appeared blank, with a note in small type at the top: V4 THE STAR—SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1912 Write to Uncle Jack today f Role og o Y a today for a HAM WINNER. Ida Ruppert, 1737 44th ay. 8. W The drawing contest, which end Ivan Pierson, 6 10th ay. N. W./ed Friday afternoon, proved a wee Kirkpatrick, 1419 N, 6294) yurumer, and 50 drawings, penned Frigid im Rose Sablin, 1703 17th et, Ana-|¥% boy and girl readers of The ida Ruppert y. cortes. ar, were received by the Circle Chester La Dub ? Clara Le Gary, Edmonds, Wash.| department. The awarding of the Jolan Freed - |$1.00 prize proved « hard propost Elsie Kirk THEY SHOULD ALL _| tion, as there were 20 many good Rote Sahin JOIN IT, SHE SAYS “@¥ine= received. Both Louise! Lillian Swanson J , Graham, 1436 26th ay, and Ruth| Rarnice in 2) 2 1 ie “Why did she break the engage| Dear Uncle Jack: 1 am sending Hauck, S28 ist ay. sent in Hattie Li ment with Tom?” & drawing to your contest this| irize winner had not the other con-| Leona Lanterman She advised him to be econom-| week. Will you please send me a\ tinued to the contest. It Peter Robertson teal, and he started by getting her| membership card to your splendid] necessary to draw lots to de Minnie Frewaldt an imitation diamond.” Ctrele club? The Circle certainly | sn, po between these Lois McCoy Ri, } is a fine thing for boys and girls.) ievor artists, the prize falling to Marguerite Bugnon eeeeeeeeeeteeeeee CAN YOU WRITE A/COMPETITION KEEN IN DRAWING SHORT STORY? IF 80, YOU HAVE A CHANCE FOR THAT DOLLAR—READ ABOUT IT, If so, you have a chance for that $1.00. Read about it At the request of several mem- hers of the Circle, Uncle Jack has “Story Contest” for we this week The Circle bas had one or two Story Contests before, and in each case, judging from the large number of letters received, they were enthu- siastically received, A cash prize of $1.00 will be awarded to the boy irl writing the best short story containing not over 150 words. All manuscripts must be written neatly in ink, and must be on only one side 4 e of the paper. Th ag adnate aie —— The following is the latest letter today and I saw the sweetest thing.| Tecelved by Uncle Jack, requesting Mr. W. (a wine guy)—You must] story contest: have been looking in a mirror. “Dear Unelo Jack: Next week reenact may we tell in 150 or 100 words @ TOO ECONOMICAL short story? 1 just love to tell stories or write them MAUDE BURR, 10225 Sith av. 8. City FIVE MORE MUST HAVE CERTIFICATES ba The following boys and girls have written to The Circle club for) —~| membership certificates, The cer tifieates bave matled to them. ly YG We 1 .gee, RUTH HAUCK LOSER WHEN LOT 18 DRAWN—LOUISE GRA and | think every boy and girl that reads The Star ought to join it 7 MG ST Ida Reppert. 4ith av. 8. W. 9 LOOKS FOR THE STAR a2 nists and'“acett| WHAT CAN YOU MAKE OUT OF : “at TEENY TINY CIRCLES? years old and am in the Sixth grade at the Whittier school. I ee look for the Circle every Saturd and enjoy it very much.—-Kisie Kirkpatrick, 1419 N. 52nd at. WANTS A CARD Dear Unele Jack: I have con- tributed to many of your contests, but I haven't a membership. cer- Uficate. Will you please mall me one’—Clara Le Gary, Edmonds, Wash. Miss Graham. Both of these xiris are but 14 years old, and it is a certainty that they have a bright future to look forward to with the| drawings worth pen ti The boys and girls sending in| are: ‘rh J WISE SAYS: “Judd Hosscawn wears an oid sil- ver watch that hae from pawnbroker to pawnbroker.” os If you're clever with pencil and paper, you make lout of five little circles. Take a sheet of paper and draw INTERESTED IN IT | hitoranias, anywhere you like. Dear Uncle Jack: 1am 14 yéars! Then draw lines connecting them and see what funny old and in the mighth grade. 1 am|are sure to devise. The illustration shows some samples jsending a drawing for the contest) this art stunt works. and would like to get a membership card. Although I do not belong to the Cirele, | am interested in it and am ays giad when The Star boy} on Saturday nights.“-Rose ‘03 17th st., Anacortes A MISLEADING SIGN She entered the grocery store with a jar of marmalade in her and fire in her eye. “Bee! here,” she said to the clerk, “I) bought this stuff because the card in your window says it's an excel jont substitute for butter.” WAITS FOR CIRCLE | {2 1 can read tt 1 | Seventh grade and go to Dear Uncle Jack: I would like tier school. Please sa jt join The Star Circle. Every' membership card —tivaa Saturda: ‘6538 Tenth av. N. W. , it's & grand substitute, 1) must say! I tried frying a bit of| fish with it this morning and the) taste was so awful I had to throw) the fish all away.”--Boston Tran script. LIGHT COMEDY Unprepossessing Stranger (hold ing pipe in one hand)—t aay, | friend, could you give me “| match?" The Careful One-—A match? What would you do with a match? Unprepossessing Stranger (sar. castically)--Why, commit arson, of course.—-New York Evening Post.| "al tac Pa lata tate * ® HAD TO WORK THEIR WAY *® A drummer and a friend climbed aboard a ramshackle train in an isolated Missouri town. The train was @ feeble, asthmatic piece of mechan ism, and the Humane society should have prosecuted its owners for allowing it to run at all. It finally came to a dead stop just on the edge of tofn, and after a long interval of trying to make it go the engt- neer stuck his head in the door and bawled “Say, you two gente’l! have to git out till T git it started!” ® Kansas City Star. * Note the wonderful Mellowness and exq Flavor of Golden Wedding as you drink it. PERE EMER RE Grafton, a Fon du Lae man, said th :: +eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee CHANCE FOR SINNERS Of the late Bishop Charles C.} @ other day: “Once during a disastrous strike, Then note the wholly satisfying effect in | resort) ® capitalist of Fon du Lac ro in a church meeting and asked le to speak, The bishop gave him the floor and the man delivered him self of a long panegyric upon cap-| tains of industry, upon the good y do by giving men work, by booming the country, by reducing the cost of production and so forth When the capitalist had finished | his seif-praises, and, flushed and satisfied, had sat down again, Bishop Grafton rose and said, with quiet significance: “Ts there any other sinner who would like to say a word?’ "St Louls Globe-Democr Finch’s Golden Wedding _ Bottled in Bond wholesome These qualities are due to its purity from grain unequaled purity. to consumer, NF ‘Keep i ideboard, or CONFUSING Keep it on your sideboard, It is distilled by its own 4 "it we wohien bad the vote, 10M : ‘ in your medicine chest for family ters would be simplified.” special and different formula “I don't know,” replied Miss use for nervousness or depres- Cayenne. “They might be more and process, : seals complex. When a man sont us| sion due to low vitality, candy and flowers, we wouldn't op *, know whether he was leading up These are worked out with See that it has the Government to a proposal or merely election- ; eering.”—Washington Star, one object e to preserve its stamp over the cork. OSTRACISM Hotel Proprietor (at fashionable Shall I introduce you to ne of the women who are also living her “Made Differenty “4 * his space will be useful for the childre: * 6 me Wesdinaien ee for the children to write upon,'" & Mrs, Parvenu (sadly)—-No, thank you. I cannot smoke cigarettes, drink cocktails, play cards for y or talk politics, I am not