The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 14, 1912, Page 4

° THE SEATTLE STAR _ ‘Exchange Main S000, eattie, Waal, postotfice as second @iasa matter E city, Sho por mon, up to slx mos. six mon. 840; year O85) » by Phe Siar Publishing Co, Phone: Exchange Mata #f00. Dissolution | ui scicciemnnd They tried it on the Standard and the To trusts, the railroads—this dis and now they're going to try it on golution, the panacea for the evils of monopoly and op pression—for the government case against “the Harriman merget What is this “dissolutton’? pee Does it provide punishment for violation of a law? No It is a dissolution “on paper.” It simply compels a It means but a battle between lawyers have won their new plan of doing business. government lawyers ahd lawyers of the trusts, the latter being the ablest lawyers in practice What is the intent of the Sherman anti-trust legislation It is to break wp monopolies, and, by restoring competition and possibilities of competition, promote the people. If the intent is other than this, if the of “dissolution” is not this, the law and the enforcement No MAN'S COLLAR, JAKE BARNS SEZ THEY’s OTHER COLLARS MORE BECOMING TO Him ANYHow BLAMED 9 IF JAKE a ‘AIN'T RIGHT! cheaper prices for effect Sof it are farcical and impotent. Have lower prices on petroleum products foll solution of the Standard Oil trust? No. On the Righer prices, In addition, the big holders of “Standard stock have been able to wipe out scores of small stockholders, thus making their own cinch more reliable Does anyone know of any advantage falling upon con sumers through “dissolution” of the Tobacco trust? Thousands of small tobacco stores have sprung up because] that “dissolution” made competition with the trust pos-| sible and profitable, haven’t they? No. The small dealer in tobacco isn't squeezed as formerly, is he? Yes, he is. |, can pemBenseR— What do the people get, then, from this “dissolution,”) ‘The old Nbrary building. , . : ; -en?| When the Broadway bigh had if they don’t get restoration of competition and lower prices?) .adets They get litigation and a fine view of able corporation law-| The old Washington hotel's pri- . vate street car. yers creating plans to, do in non-violation of law what When Bryan first ran for prest- n iolati of law. That's all dent ee eS # The first street car ride to Weat And some very well-meaning statesmen at Washington) goatte afe going to put crutches under our senile anti-trust legisla-]) CAN'T REMEMBER— Phey’re ‘going » this R y it vho ha To pay Jones that five. tion. They're going to take this Rip Van Winkle, who has A Pegg hd 1 been in drunken slumber up in the mountains for 20 years, |earty. : ‘ To drop my nickel in the street ~and rig him up afresh. car coin boxes. They're going to shave him, uniform him, arm him sien * My eo of : < rt fe 6 - s' Familiar Newspaper Stories. with more law, and send him out to Me nt for us against) ay, girl wept bitterly whes the splendid army of corporation legal talent, placed behind the bars Let us wreathe garlands for our victorious champion! BE yh - Pasay Meng ng Let us strew our streets with flowers for his chariot, to}artist’s ideal * * * refined features R i Pp L re.|*. * © delicately chiseled nose and whose wheels will be chained the captive foe! Let wp pre-| iu. * pe ike cnietere=* pare our cellars and our safety deposit vaults .for the spoilsjteeth * * * of war, for our decrepit Rip is bound to bring us in an owed dis contrary has enormous lot+of enormous lawsuits! But, hope springs ¢ternal, and there is hope that, some time, a body of able, strong, fearless statesmen will rise who will say that the way to kill monopoly is to make Uncle Sam a competitor in the business. A White Man’s Job : a ‘ . . 5 ‘ ‘ jetole the clothes off the baby's Here's one situation in this great state of Washington|pack and admitted she had served lterms in four different work: houses. today: The small farmers on one side are being hard-preased by pe Japanese cheap labor and Japanese low cost of living. ekhhakniwetink det The small farmers on the other side are being crowded] @ to the wall by combinations of commission houses which con-|# trol the selling situation. ls It’s a strong white man’s job to find a way out for the|, small producer—-AND FOR THE GREAT ARMY OF CON-|® SUMERS WHO “GET IT IN THE NECK” ALL AROUND.|*® li illegal combinations of wholesalers have been rm ade, |% it’s strictly up to the state to BREAK THEM UP. le THA’?’S ONE WAY TO GET RESULTS. i* Ti the American farmers of this state are being crowded! * out by Japs, an energetic, virile farmers’ association WOH Ta is as ekeaenae do a whole lot of good figuring out ways to produce crops} at lower cost and obtain somewhere near the prices the big| First photo received in Seattle wholesalers are getting in the open markets, Sears Maul pre.” The. Bi Bn ' The situation is a mighty serious one for producers and|are the deeds pulled off by the pro-| consumers. Gov-elect Lister and the new legislature could fessor not map out a bigger, more important job than to try to solve], Jevesties 3 Ao i that doesn’t it satisiactorily for the people of Washington. Invented an eyeless necdie. | Invented a holeless doughnut. aeeeeeeeeeae ee ys ’ : , 2 ee Discovered an honest policeman! You've seen ‘em. Their heads aren’t nearly so big a8/i. Now-York. their feet, nor so effective cither, people say; but the foolish] Discovered a fresh eas birds believe if they can hide their heads they are safe, OF | cece eee anyhow their feet can get action better. YOU NE And every howl of holy horror that goes up these days about the New York police graft singin reminds a think- ing person of those foolish desert birds, that would have a heap more chance not to be plucked if they'd run along home} and attend to business. Bad as it is, the New York situation differs from that which prevails in other localities only in} scop The principle of easy graft governs in American municipalities, and the only good to be gained from talking} about it is to focus the attention of every one on matters in} his home town, so that if necessary a halt may be called be-| fore a crisis is reached. The lamentable thing ig not so much the loss of a gambler’s life as that conditions exist that culminated logically in murder. Beware the initial step of making vice the bulwark of} municipal revenues! The average man is “all right, or ne cly . Nothing Se THE STAR—SATURD. DECEMBER 14 G CHRISTMAS CONTEST BEGINS uid little children be told that ig no Santa Clans, or should] the parents continue deceiving U littlp ones by leading them to be Heve that a big, rosy cheeked, jolly lold codger, with long whiskers sips down the chimney on Christmas eve to leave armfuls of toys for the} g6od little boys and girls? Should they? Une} Jack cannot decide this himself, #o he is going to leave it to the Circlettes for discussion, The | question will be put into the form| lof a contest, the best argument for or against “telling the truth about Santa” taking 9 $2.60 prize, wo be offered by The Star Circle Club it's a hard proposition, I know |the Clreleites “don't believe in |Hanta Claus” because they are too grown up, it has been several years since rious SKYGACK FROM MARS HE TAKES WIRELESS OBSERVATIONS IN HIS NOTE BOOK ON EARTH CUSTOMS. MEMDERCD OW OCEAN-~SRNOS AND BEMELD CARO CONCOURSE OF LTH REMOS 1 SCANT CosTUrneS OF yHRoa mmne No cfrapT 70 ENTER BRIME-WETHESS MLTHOUGH /T WAS Close BY OF MALE AYO FEMALE ERRTI-BEINOS SCEMED TO CONSIST UN MAKINO EVE *GOQ- G0O3" AT AVE ANOTHER AHO WHISPERING SPOOY-WORDS ~— PROBABLY A PLORIMAN To wtvore ANGRY WRVEBRERNING To Li Down AND BE QUIET. PIATORI TV FAVORITE PMSTUDE |} One Year Ago Today | Dee. rein two biths, at the Ten right,” as Dooley puts it, but, oh! that some power could| rouse us from the average indifference, and ignorance, and|This ls What Is Known as a Para- laziness in municipal matters! dox. WANTED me man of good habits and college education would Observations . [iiss Sore _Sitarisersoat in Sushans “BACK to the soil” appears} “I WOBBLE up and down é wing Y¥.) News. to have been knocked up the | Seattle’s hills like a horse with Father and Son. P | ” “So your son is going to spout as a battle cry since the|}the heaves,” comments the) high school?” advent of the Western av.| man - just - in-from-the-east, “Yes.” pisctie gligagn mie Eee? “How far has he got?” Big Six. to ke it Xight-o, “To the point at which 1 brother! Greatest exercise in| S¢em to be an intellectual 2 ONLY three arrests yester-| 4. w, spot.”—Chicago Record-Herald. y | the world, too. day of auto owners. Seems | Seicinestbhnnse eicaiak< rk: snes tee . they can live up to that stop-) | Told he had won'$3,000 on a |feimont—one of them—"can tell before-passing -standing - street prihidb wy Me man in Vienna an honest man from a grafter by * ‘ ‘ . intuition.” cars ordinance if they just sree Which, no doubt, Is one reason keep a tight hold on the wheel With unusual candor, a wom- |why no woman ts ever swindled. ; an’s organization in Connecti- And which also is one reason for and make up their minds to. | cut has been named the Nut |the low cost of living club. sefsnie | | MAYBE that box of toys) Editor Nothing Serious Attention, Ple: Why all this talk about the tur- ‘oungsters used to play} . a a ? PIAY| We wish to call your attention to| key trot? There isn’t anything new or perhaps a doll, i -|the dance whieh Is given by the| Peranky ; with, or 5 f 1, 18 ly-| Rina Center creherta’heita eyine|about it. Twenty years ago "thoy ing around the house some-|!n¥ tra has given good) used to sing “ The ore ” a , isfaction wherever Jt haw played,| Mamma, mamma, have you forgot where, Look ‘em up, There'll and the prem have began. to enm-| The wild goose chase and tho turkey : oH ) nt upon their fine work,—Alms trot? be lots of little boys and girls nter (Wis.) News, Naturally, the interrogation as to at The Star's Christinas party whether or not mamma had forgot $f Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt |it makes obvious the fact that there who would be tickled to death) urges suffragettes to discard | was a degree of antiquity about the to get "ous. | hats and corsets and wear Chi- |turkey trot at that time. Do you nese trousers. get me, Steve?—G, M, Did you ever hear anybody say: |/ dearly love the simple life, I don’t care much for it, but my wife likes it” is Yes, goodby. Well, Yes, goodby. Goodby, Oh, no, goodby gkoodby. 1 will-—-soon, Yes, goodby. Do ‘I'd Uke to see anybody say that do that and ‘tend to ess at the same time,” drop it on the JOSH WISE SAYS: “Accordin’ to our oldes’ inhab- itant, Bill Kainit, these modern in- ventions like th’ movin’ picters an’ th’ cab-taxi have gave a biack eye to th’ old pastime of pitchin’ ‘horae- shoes.” Rockefeller? He's the guy who put the “cush” in cqshlan Loeb? He's the gay “cus” In ecustonis In Five Years ‘Ago Today Crusade | one. Health author. 12,628, which were ex signs of the bubonic 14.—Danger of} * in city water, follow. |against rats started. ing water famine, declared over by | ities catch Dr. Cflehton, health officer. Wiley, contractor, carried | plague. into Judge Tallman's court room on | stretcher, suffering from a turkey j Third av. bone lodged in his throat, Doesn't it beat days are growin Haven't you noticed it? Neither have we, s : Discovered a street car company aaa Like Ostriches . that wasn't making money. 1A Rare Combination to Make $15, LOST—Fittveen on and a five. it store, Whitfield’s @recery or at Warrensburg (Mo.) Star jamined for First cluster lights gives Mayor Moore lead, W. B. Trimble second ; 1 how Jong the | and third, in] monds, Wash | mayoralty race. An English scientist says it's easy enough to cause a thun- der storm. All you have to do ja to separate the positive charges of from the negative. Good. Bring Mh a separator. AoW, WHADDR I love to watch the lettuce «row, I love to see the sun come up And hear the lusty ander In the fields ch the pumpkins turn to astimes soothe the soul ore than swatting flies. watch the brook, and think I love to guze at sky and hills, rob of fish the I wish that I might own a farm a farmer grand and free, And watch the wind come down the the to get up at 8a m, and ‘ w handles until the} Dear Unele Jack: I have read hurry or worry ‘In what department of the gov- are you employed?” The Busy Skippers, Mattern of Cadlx spent. 8 evening with Willie Skipper of Selo sp urday and Sunday with home Luther Crowe and her of Kilgore are vis- was calling on Nettle and Willie Skipp were Cadiz callers Saturday event Wabiteh correspondence: a majority of Uncle Jack's lnleces and nephews discovered lthat papa and mamma bought all the toys, and that a big chubby \party dressed in red was only a| charming fake. If you've ever stood around o Christmas tree and watched Claus distribute the pr _|among the tiny children, you'll find lit difficult ‘to decide against old Santa. | It's worth every single penny In |veated In big dolls, with eyes that close, mechanical choo choo trains, jumping jocks and the scores of jother toys that delight the young jsters, to see the “kiddies” eyes sparkle with gindnews and hear| their joyous laughjer, It's a great joy producer Hut how about the awakening? ‘There is never as much fun when children find oul the truth, for they llearn that the former letters to Santa only fell Into the hands of papa and mamma, and that the big Santa Claus in the toy departments were only ordinary men dressed up|+ jin red togs and wearing masks But Uncle Jack is going to leave it to the Cireleltes. He's going to} }let them render thelr opinions in a |150-word letter. The contest closes) | Friday, December 20, at 3 o'clock. | ‘The winner wil’ be announced in the Circle column on the following day. Manuscripts must be written jin ink and must be on only one lulde of the paper. Addross letters to Uncle Jack, in care of The Star, MANY COMPETE The funny story contest,” which came to 4 close Thursday afternoon at 3 o'clock, brought a food of worthy contributions to Unele \Jack. Sixty-seven Circle boys and |girle sent in funny stories. Uncle jJack was on the verge of laughing himself sth. As Christmas nears it seems twice as may boys and girls try for the Circle's cash loffer. It i* certainly a good way jo getting handy Christmas money. |The following are the Circleites whose letters deserve a mention }Thomas Jones 903 Rainier av.; |Effie Moore, Edmonds, Wash {Mary Lee, 8532 15th N. W.; Rita Meyer, 217 23rd av.; Marie Scholz, jAlbert Lewis and Alice Olmstead, | Auburn, Wash | IN THIS CONTEST ABOUT THIS GIRL + item to you before and re membership card to your circle,| On Saturday night I always look forward to The Star Circle. 1 am} 14 years old and am in the seventh grade. In last Saturday's Star f saw that the contest for this week was on jokes; thought I would send one in. Hoping to receive a mem bership card.—-Effie BE. Moore, Ed- HERE’S ANOTHEH ONE WANTS TO JOIN Dear Uncle Jack: I have read your letters and am very interested in The Stat Circle. I would like t very much tf you would send me a membership card. I attend the Jefferson school, I am 11 years old and am in the high sixth — Esther Bide, 4016 Sist av. 8. W. TWO SISTERS WANT MEMBERSHIP CARDS Dear Uncle Jack: My sister and I would like a membership card. We both think the Circle is very interesting. I am 12 ygars old and my sister is 10, Her mame is Ber nice. We both go to the Columbia school.—Florence Baes, 4703 31st S. GRANDPA HAS TAKEN STAR A LONG TIME Dear Unele Jack: I stay with my grandpa on the farm. He has taken The Seattle Star for many “|years. Iam very interested in the Star Cirele and [ would like to join it. I am 12 years old and am in the sixth grade.—Emma Law, Stan wood, Wash, MARYSVILLE GIRL WANTS CIRCLE CARD Dear Uncle Jack T thought I would write and tell you I would like a membership card, and also thought I would tell you I have moved from Lochsloy to Marys: ville, R. F. D. 1—Julia Pike, ¥ HERE'S CIRCLEITE _IN CUSTER, WASH. The Star Circle every Saturday. 1 am quite interested in it. I am 10 years old and fn the fourth grade, and I wish to have a membership card, I have read today’s paper, and there is a contest for the fun- niest story, and I thought I would try.—Sylvia Pickard, Custer, Wash ‘|STANWOOD GIRL nt Sate WILL JOIN CIRCLE Dear Unele Jack: Ihave wanted to join The Star Circle for a long time and would like a membership card, I would like very much to have one. I am 18 years old and am now in the eighth grade. I go to the village school, — Evelyn Jenny, Stanwood, Wash, TOOK SEWING WITH GIRLS) MANY MORE 1 sirls who have Rudolph, 206 Hawid Earhart, Pi Emma Law, Stanwood, Willle Sage, Clear eee Sorenson, 861 20th gy Geraldine Colby, 3808 ths Sylvia Pickard, Custer, | Lewis, 127 Terry, Esther Eide, 4016 Stet Bernice Baes, 4703 31 Florence Baes, 4703 Stet BOY IN CLEAR GETS CER ding The Star Cirele for and have decided te The following story, written by Corrinne Peterson, a Van Asselt| girl, which relates the experience of | her brother Frank in a girl's sewing | class, wins the $1.00 prize offered by the Circle for the best funny| The Van Asse’t rchool has man-| val training boys and girls, this is that the distance Is one and one-balf miles from school My brother, of whom 1 am about to tell you, was disabled tn a small aceident, therefore is unable to go far, so mother told him to ask the teacher if he with the girls, He thought he would though be ts a bit timid and shy around the girls morning came cle is certainly @ fine en the hour was up pin cushion all th jteacher, who passed and the girls ca their laughter, The atiliness of again in a roar of laughter as the'16 years, Van A; WHAT'LL WE GET THE CHILDREN FOR CHRISTMAS? HERE ARE A FEW “What #hall I get the boy or girl) for Christmas? | automobiles, Millions of parents are asking this | wagons and sleighs, scroll ltoot-power lathes, moving magic lanterns and flectorscopes, sai! and mechanical For little girls there are dolis,/| machines j}to begin with. And such an assort- j From stuffed comedy doll, UNCLE JACK FORGOT jcut out by mother, at 25 cents up) electrical toys, iron and steel to the “creation,” dressed by artists, s, lor $50, $75 and $100. Dear Uncle Jack i have writ-| dolls uested a|and cheap. There are doll outfits, doll houses, | pur |nothing of dozens of other. innumerable, attractive | table archery, pool and indoor air pistol and target, ing bag, boxing gloves, phye ical exercisers and camera. Among the imported toys is electric flash light made to an automatic pistol, which ight ro a when the trigger is % sells at $1.50 and is guaranteed ® last five. months before new but failed somehow in receiving| doll toflet sets, house furnishings, 1 would ike one very much, | china and enameled dishes, doll fur- There are Humpty Dumpty circus animals and clowns that can do an endless variety of tricks; i) lustrated books for the littlest ones and story books for older children; games by the bundreds, some new, |ies are needed the majority oid, but all interesting Mechanical toys, Another is a street beetles, grags-jselis at $1 and hoppers, clowns, ducks, automobiles|one shown in this country. in profusion, many selling for less| automobile garages of heavy than 50 cents and worth more in the! board, fun they provide _mobiles, sell for 25 and 60 casts Absolutely Pure There is a remarkable interest | in Home Baking and Cooking | throughout the land. This is a most encouraging in- dication that the battle against impure, improper food is going | to be won. The credit for the victory will belong to the women of the country. =f Home cooking has the backing — of science and the approval fashion. It adds to housekeeping® pride; to our food, healthfulness. It is acknowledged by experts and by the women who know, that the best cooking in the world to-day is with the aid of Royal Baking Powder.