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

Trivate ntered at put of elt By mall be Datly by The St If the enactment of a law make to the farr their hands will put a stop to av., by all means let us have Tf the lies The toil Seattle think the problem will accounting remedy men who on surrounding disposition of their produce by the commission; man is torn away, so that th been sold, and so that they they desire find if receive the Perhaps The to into the high cost of living he In the Or the beneficiary, as Seattle just The farmers blame hi and out t price he said he gx fashion is blame blame goat In where. high cost of he's as k re Weattic, Wash, postolfice as ® somewhere the Xchange Main $400. to alx me ¥ anme Mata 2400, | LET’S FIND OUT | requiring commission men to sold through oh Western ner for produce present condition such a law. find country let it the e us farms in about have been ey will know to whom it has can investigate personally, jf he commission man really did ot the middleman, All inquiries re have lodged against him the living, the middleman is the you wish y a little middleman as else m unrestrainedly for their own lack of profits and for the big price the consumer pays. Maybe they're right But by all means, let us s bery are right in their charges the secret caucus, has taken the place of Cannonism in the) body} House of Representa is- delegated to the ways and means; caucus, control the publican minority Study of the situation wor two most important, if not all Democratic majorities of Sout urally reactionary But let us hope for the bes a lot of new members in whose They may have more regard Democratic party, and since t ives; les con Democrati the reactionary South, they may even be courageous enough and numerous enough to unite to secure things which the peo There are Democrats in t in the next, who see the late election only Democratic victory,” and who issues are not as to parties b woodism,” gag rule, secret legislation and the caucus whip are things that the 63d congress should put down first thing li the Democratic party don't THERE’S ALWAYS A WAY Speaker Howard Taylor's hostile attitude toward reappor- tionment of legislative representation according to popula- tion calls for decisive action lf Taylor repeats his trade of two years ago with some of the so-called “cow counties” election as speaker, and again feapportionment, the initiative be invoked as surely as the sun rises, to rebuke Taylor and his crowd. King county’s interests w feapportionment in accordance by the constitution. King cou the state and needs its prog lature. If fair reapportionment speakership, the duty of the King county delegation is simple ‘op Taylor “HELEN Milled Gould,” in-| stead of “Helen Miller,” is the way one newspaper put it. We don’t care whether she's milled or bullion, she’s pure gold, and that Shepard person she's go- ing to marry has sure got the pick of the luck. MISDIRECTED ENERGY —Gor. Hay preparing a mes-| sage to the next legislature. OUR horny-handed secre- tary of labor, Nagel, wants the trusts regulated by a commis sion so regulated that the _—- == that tart something and find out FOLLY, THE CHILD OF POWER, . | It is quite likely that Representatives Gray and Rodden-| that “Underwoodism,” through all mittee of that committee the and power the on that 115 members, through control of the} i¢ majority and hence the Re ild seem to disclose that these important committees, contain hern Democrats who are nat- t. The new congress will have ears vox populi ts still ringing. for vox populi than for vox he issue must be joined with with Republicans and Moosers ple demand his congress, as there will be “a glorious| simply cannot learn that the} mut as to principles. “Under- as do it, the people surely will in order to make certain his blocks proper, legal and fair} machinery of the state will! | ill! be greatly enhanced by a with population, as is uired nty pays one-fourth the taxes/ per representation in the legis- stands in Taylor's road to the THE SEATTLE STAR | solved if the secrecy} | | | WIS THE ONLY “THE FOURTNH® | | ONE YEAR AGO Second trial of Ell Melovich against Stone & Webster Company began before Judge Hanford, who ruled that he ased the word “any” in an improper way from a legal standpoint, in the fi: t trial FIVE YEARS AGO Big changes to be made in local postoffice force Wappenstein investigates report that city policemen act as gatemen at the Union depot Plans for establishing county morgue on foot Editor Nothing Serious on a Green Lake car: other day.” “Yea; i days.” “Where were you burt?” “On Pine street.” WKS. laid me up for a tow Somewhere this winter there is When a man has conquered the furnace at home, nothing like an least trouble. trusts can regulate themsel Makes a mighty fine recom-} nendation for another lot of} well-paid do-nothings, any how. HAMILTON. Now Hill man. Is Wappy next? He used to be. SEATT has dise doctor claims he 1 secret of creat-| ing life t we hazard al guess that even he couldn't discover that street-car h ing we were promised not so long ago. LE | Editor The Star: Two letters have appeared in The Star in the last two days relative to the Blethen chimes, which require an guswer, “Common Sense” main. tains ‘that the campaign against the chimes should bave been made at the time of the first announce ment of the gift. The facts are as) =: The offer of the gift of the chimes was made and accepted by the board of regents at the same meeting. That is to say, before the public or student body was aware of the gift, it had already been ac- cepted by the board of regents. At the time of the announcement a widespread feeling of protest was among a great many of the students and members of the! faculty, but this protest had no or. ganized expression until the formal geceptance of the gift was immi- nent. Its full significance, then, for the first time, began to dawn upon the minds of the majority of sta dents. The evidence embodied tn the student protest was then gath ered and presented to the untyer. sity and public as quickly as was possible. Furthermore, if “Common Sense” will read the petition now being circulated by the Washington Wel- fare League he will find this stnie- ment: We believe that the ‘Blethen Chimes,’ as inscribed, do not comply with the terms of the original offer that was accepted by the board of regents.” It is a well-known fact that the inscription on the bells violates the understanding according to which | the chimes were accepted; and had regents known of this inacrip. tion, and of the self-publicity that would be loduiged fn by the editor of the Times because of the gift, it is very probable that they would Bot have accepled it. The Times has so far given the [public no opportunity to, forget to whom the university is indebted for the chimes; even could it do #0, we do not care to have the editor of the Times increase or #0, we do not care to ha in the university, as Mr Blethen is reported to have s#o aptly expressed it in a speech on |the campus last year | The writer of the second letter referred to, Vina M. Vallet, is un- der the wrong impression that Mr Alden J. Blethen is at the present time a member of the board of re- gents. His term as a regent ex pired in 1902, for which duly thankful. ONE OF THE [a Editor The Star: 1 would sug \gest the retention of capital pun ishment and have it also include the commission men. Surely they are worse than the old-time pirates and modern hold-up men. The lat ter at least possessed courage,! which {s a virtue not possessed by the commission men, It takes no| courage to rob @ man who is twenty| miles away. J. R. J.) Editor The Star; What have the devotees of President Taft to ofter| in defense of that monumental in-| justice of the age—the breaking of| the heart of faithful Justice Har-| len? Rumor says it is to pay a political debt to Tammany Hall What defense of Taft's notoriously | Weak cabinet—weakest in all our history, his weak appointments | generally—especially the dozens of ‘lame ducks” repudiated over. |“hielmingly by the people's ballot, appointed to fine, fat salaries? | What of those secret maneuvers at the people's expense on the border line of Mexico? Afraid evidently take the people into their con- fidence. What of the removing of Ucorgie widow as postmistress we are} A Guessing Contest. Sister sits on father’s lap, Showering him with kisses, Mother stops to stroke his brow, Guess what season this is A Jersey Egg Trust Frank Tilford. of Lakewood, owns 45,000 chickens. N. Bi The kissed girl doesn’t dread the mistletoe Meanest Man Again. “Where are you going, my son?” sked the old farmer. ‘Going down back of the barn to play circus,” replied the freckled lad. “Circus, eh? Well, take this saw and saw up a half cord of wood before you start. You'll need some xawdust for the circus rings,” / 7 Ont om the Barber? Harry Ching was 6 visitor in the elty Gales burg (1) Republican More than 2,000,000 grass hate were exported from the Dutch East Indies to the United States in ithe three-quarters of+ 1912. What D'ye Expect ‘Em Motormen? | Editor Nothing Serious The Drs. Bumpus are osteopaths in Steubenville.-L. K. |= = because of her admiration for Col. | Teddy? | The voice of November 5 was lone unmistakable protest echoing |from the remotest hamlets against Taft's reverence for established order, sanctity of man-made courts of law, secredness of human Judges and an unevolving constitu- tion in this age of progressive pa- triotism, and evolution in all things. M. B. F. to Be— Editor The Star: J want to ask Postmaster Russell the following pertinent questions: Why do you give university stu. dents work in the postoffice in preference to men with families, who are just as competent to fill the positions? Don't you know that there are hundreds of men in Seattle who are out of work and have families to support? Don't you know that a university student bas no mouths to feed? Do you think you are doing your duty a8 @ public official? A MAN OUT OF WORK WITH A FAMILY. Editor The Star:, If there is any thing that I can do in the way of writing or personal work to help abolish capital punishment, be«as sured that 1 will do it. it may be a mistake, but | want it tried in this state, ELLA HIGGINSON, Bellingham othin SURE, WE'RE LEARNING 1 heard this pass between airls| i “Lt hear you had a bad fat! the a lot of snow Firat call for the ext annual trip of the water wagon. Don't} crowd, please! atto or 4 locomotive gives bim the THE STAR-—SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1912, g Serious But we Founpa BETTER WAY +——» 1 CAN REMEMBER The old wooden reservoir at Sth jand Union : The old emergency honpital boat. MeCarthy's dry goods store. When the Y. M. ©, A. was on First avenne. “Skiddoo 23. bO YOU KNOW —~That $6 hate, on sale every whave for $2.60, caw be purchased for $4.10 or bought for the sum of $97 That a man telephoned in last night from Georgetown and re- ported a fire in Ballard, whereupon the fire epaine in Kirkland hurried ;to West Seattle and found that the fire was at Renton ‘That Smith's “History of Fre | Moot,” written by Bill Jones, was one of Turner's greatest works, the author of which was Sam Wells? | CAN'T REMEMBER My Year's resolutions When John D. paid that $29,000, 000 fine. How many votes Taft didn't get Who carried California. London's suftragets have now JOSH WISE [taken to turning in false alarms | SAYS: of fire, In the maniac class at “Although he's taat! leysport'’s inhabitant, Worth Ali It Cost. The bride and groom were honeymooning to the west. aiso boasts of} The train passed through a S aae lorg tunnel. As it emerged 4 ih joneer fall’ guy im tne! into the light of day the bride was grabbing desp ly at her hat and fighting three fast rounds with one or two hair- section far) ‘Wealthy Chicago} | widow pins which had become loom ened. “This tunnel cost $12,000, 000,” said the groom. PUSEIO PeeTe. “Well,” eaid the bride judi- People who think they own the) cisiy, “it was worth it.” whole sidewalk 7 The man who walks on the Most women worry more about |whether the rubber plant ls going to freere than they do about who's jelected president The New York Herald pubiithes two-column article about wild-cat wrong side of the sidewalk Children who skate on the side walk \ Wooden sidewalks. A Cynic’s Acrostic. Customary speculations, but makes no meno Hullabaloo jtion of the Kansas woman who Regarding pald $40 for a husband. Inane _———— | Swappings ‘Tariff hearings begin at W Th jington January 6 The ways Make means committee looks for a kick- Acquaintances ing game. Sore. ——— Postmaster Thomas B. Smith, of Philadelphia, has gone to Wash. ington to find out if chickens, tur. keys, butter and eggs will be al lowed transportation in the new parcel post. Meanwhile the lette carriers are bearing up as well as can be expected. New York cop was shot by mis take for a holdup man. Natural mistake, Peru has fixed the domestic cigarets at price of all half a cent saya the New York Sun, “keeps a« retail liquor store with a bar in the rear.” Possibly Mr, Wolf keeps a saloon. A Chicago dramatist admits a longing to have had George M Cohan play in one of his comedies, - and speak this line when talk Galveston is planning to spend ing of @ girl he loved: “Yes, when | $5,000,000 to raise its sea wall and i get near her I burn low, andjextend it to protect ap increased threaten to go out!” area. SKYGACK FROM MARS HE TAKES WIRELESS OBSERVATIONS IN HIS NOTE BOOK ON EARTH CUSTOMS. SEHELD CROWD OF EARTH-BEINGS WITH GLOW-FACES /N ACT OF SL/P= SLIDING ON HARD WATER - SURFACE WORE BLADE — RUNNERS OV THEIR FEET —— OVE WENT INTO HOLE-OPEMING, NO b0UBT, TO REFRESH HIMSELF WWTH COOL: FEELING ~~~ OTHERS MADE FLOP. BUMPS, WITH PRINFUL 3/T- DOWN SENSATIONS. SPOOL 7771 Dae TELLING THE TRUTH ABOUT SANTA CLAUS. 1 am in the negative side for many reasonn. Firat-—It would rob the little children of one of dreams of childhood, and it is not a direct Me, for Santa Claus reall means the spirit of giving. Second—The spirit of giving is cultivated, and a great help can be given to the unfortunate people under the name of Sant rather than charity Third—We never really dixbelieve in Santa, even there is no jolly fat man, for there is no greater fun Mam playin Santa Claus to younger brothers and sisters, As each of un Ket olde is only another expression of peace and good will towards men Ove thing that should not be taught is, that every wish gratified, Because that teaches selfishness and extravagance guerite Taylor, 11, 2814 €. Columbia at ” (Tits letter wins the $2.50 prix by in the Christmas contest.) HERE’S WHAT NEAR WINNERS THINK There were so many splendid letters received in the Santa Clau contest Unele Jack has decided to print the best parts of some © the essays of the near-winvers, Negative’ and affirmative letters the Santa Claus question will be printed | ! | AFFIRMATIVE =} I think parents should tell the lt NEGATIVE One day when I was 6 y and hang up my stocking and he|to mind would fll {t for me, When I got| Alaska st. up in the morning aad ran to the stocking it was empty. Some chil dren get many presents, while oth |no Santa Claus | was greatly disap —- }Claus they forget what Christmas “Should children believe in Sant is for and only think @f jt as a time Claus?” No! © Mothers teach their|to expect presents, perhaps criti children to be truthful, and then at|cize presents. They forget Christmas time they deceive their|thought, the little Christ child and children by telling them to be good |/lose the spirit and Santa will come.—Corinne| Christmas, - Peterson, Van Asscit, Wash. 4322 Phinney av. fi Why should mothers and fathers spoll all the pleasure for their chil on in telling them there Santa Claus? The children Dear Uncle Jack: 1am poing to join your cozy little Cire’ Please send me a membership card. I go when | 4 hey «o to sleep Christmas eve, are eee |to the Fairview school and am 10/‘ “ | lyears old —-Kugene Thorp, 8208 Sun|**Pecting the dear old fellow to) From Port Stanley, lay. N. EB : jcome down the chimney and fill! Dear Uncle Jack: 1 like to ag! os | their stockings. Why spoil their | vision Want to Join. | gate Dear Unele Jack: 1 would lke| to join your Star Circle. Will you| please send me a membersh:p card? i am 9 years old and I am in the} Lily Hempel, 4215 W. Hol- Read Many Letters. Dear Uncle Jack i have read mela’ sande 208 btn |™any Of your interesting letters ret grade.—Irene Thorp, £208 Sth) 14 would like to join The Star Cir- x. & us cle, Please send me a membership : A ard as soon as possible. I am 9 Interesting Circle. years old and am in the third Dear Uncle Jack: [ have read| grade—Ingvar Eide, cor, W. Dakota your letters and am very interested | and California av fo The Star Circle. | would like) — -——————______. you to please send mea member| DRAWING OF DOG $1 ship card. Julia Slade, 704 tindley | Are you an artist? draw a dog? Those two questions will receive newer “Yes” from many dozen cleites. The Circle has scores of ted artists, and, believe Unele they can all draw dogs. It's ee some of the things * can dri Uncle ck knows, because the Circle club |has had many drawing contests. |. Just think, $1 in cash for the best drawing of a dog. It's like roll ing off @ log. But, of course, there | will be plenty of competition, and | the drawing of the canine must cer- |tainly be a masterpiece. Many of the contributors spoil their chan on winning*in drawing contests Can you y regular drawing paper, The con- }test closes next Friday afternoon Shameless Men. o TIR | Dainty maid full of woe; Give THE Pins a jClinging skirt; breezes blow. Ravrune! p | |Men’s remarks maid invites; | Might as well be im tights. | | Dainty maid, cheeks aflame {Thinks that men have no shame If she pleased, maiden might Wear a skirt not so tight Couldn't Let think of it, though; ‘em stare—let ‘er blow, Naughty men, thus to smile; Maiden must be in style, If a woman has a good dress- maker she can be fairly happy part of tne time. “I've found,” writes a Peeved Reader, “the guy who took the heat ont of heater. He's the jan- j itor of our flat.” Man may advance by long and rapid stfides, but woman, poor dear, thinks it necessary to wear a hob- ble skirt. The bison is now among the most valuable of wild animals. A mouht- ed head sells at $400 to $500, Doesn't This Heat the Turkey Prott “Why DO they langh? Why DO The friends and neighbors of Mrs.ithey laugh?” asked William Lack Annie Rideout, numbering about 21, ‘ kathored at her home on last Sat-/4¥@, the actor, the other evening urday for the purpose of providing|48 he was dining with Miss Lucy wood for her use this winter. The] Weston in a Chicago loop refec sae oe atl tae ee tat toen:| tory. He indicated a merry group jat a nearby table “The tall man,” explained Weston, “has been married to the Miss one »thy on cite “tod {Short woman 26 years tonight; and Republ they are very, very happy.” Mr. Lackaye glowed. “Fine!” Men are not such handsome ani-|he said, “I'm glad of it! The first mals nowadays, but we should all be glad that we are not living tn the good old days when they wore tights for pants 26 years are always the hardest.” rugs, because now selling as high as $50,000; A great many of us will ms to have to do without them while Turkish war, are of the A Milwaukee firm cls have discovered a way to make |coal’s so dear, milk direct from hay, So there is} a firm up there that's not in the! beer business! COLD WEATHER HINT: Water - {have a lake or brook in your gar The president of the Boston car jden take it in before sunset lines says the public isn’t. fit to = operate street railways. Stil, al If a woman hasn't anything else lot of us would trust the people to worry her, she can claim that where we wouldn't some street/her hair is coming out by the railway mognates we have met {handful their dearest deal of} when we find we are taught that Christmas is Christ's birthday, and the gift-giving Mar to jtle children that there is a Santa; my sister took me to see | Two bundre letters, defending | Claus, for | can remember what a/ Santa Claus, 1 told him IT wante jand condemnin ta Claus, were lsorrowful Christmas it was for me|a big doll, a pony and cart. He elved ir : Claus coy when I first learned that there was|said he would bring them, and {| Which closed Friday afterapom ap no Santa. —Violet Moran, Centratia,| was delighted. Just before Christ-|0’clock. The flood of essays com Wash. mas several girls told me that there | tained many fine letters, which re was no Santa Claud, and that he | #ults in an extra big Met of names Children should be told that| wouldn't bring me those presents.|}9 the honor roll. The follow Santa Claus is just an imaginary| But 1 got many toys, #0 I wasn't| boys and girls sent in letters which |person, but it is difficult to make | disappointed Sarah Wallinberg, | 4% deserving of a worthy mention: them believe it —Helen K. Muscott,| Tukwila, Wash. Deena Dun am, Anacortes; Port Staniey, Wash. - one, 5607 20th av.; Helen There is no joy in Christmas, or |1907 Oakes av., Everett: Ethel I don’t think {t is right to deceive|in preparing for Christmas, unless Richmond Heights, Kathleen Hay. the ehildren about anything, evan|the little ones believe that Santa,| Wood, 301 15th av. N; Bitte Mag old St, Nick, Teach them the| big and jolly, is to bring their pres- | den, 212 Saar et. W., Kent; Bonnie [meaning of Christmas Matildalents. As to their parents deceiving | Curtis, N. Tower av., Centralia; iSienent, 6215 27th N. E their children, that isn't what I call |Hita Meyer, 2 rd av.; Cheater deception, It is just letting the lttle | Draper, $10 270h av.; Loulsa Walker, Children should be told that there }ones have a good time. And when | 667 Orcus st.; Peter Robertson, is no Santa Claus. One night | was| most children come to lize that| Buckley, Wash.; Mildred Alles, at a Christmas tree. I xaw Santa! Santa in a pleasant dream, they are| North Bend; John Grant, Arti Claus, and he told me to go bom ither too big to care or too little | Gertrude Koll 4343 6th N, By Margaret Schwartz, 4417 | Ida Ruppert, When I was told that there was) ors get none, and it makes those|pointed. I wished over and over) " who are forgotten wonder why|again that I had not been told. it|St-; Molly Esfled, $24 23rag.; Santa Claus has treated them sojis that way with m: children, | Sanders , 6246 Palatine; ; mean—Harold Earhart, Poulsbo, . if children are told from the |Scholz, Startup; Eugene Rew Wash. beginning that there is no Santa | 5th N. E.; Irene Thorp, the and sweetness of Margarette Larsen, is no} not using the very blackest ink and | perfect matched tooth PT match your teeth with artill cial teeth so perfectly that they al look alike, and replace the m ones without a plate. Our pri Jare excepiontally low, Just |we will make you an extra Row $10 gold crown for $400, or & jlar $10 plate for $5.00 ery Ja faulty p that will nol |the criticism of your mirror, Bave® .|Uigate our Cosmetic plate. It doe@ not slip or drop, and nr moves wrinkles from a prematurely mouth. Work guaranteed, of jwill freeze if left outdoors. If you! y a | ri Olga Langland and her siete both memhers of The Star . live Olga on the right. The sisters at Oak Harbor, Wash. ———eenig Worthy of Mention 4th 8. Wi; Bagley ham y Albert Lewis, ‘.; Bettle Vaughan, Port adys Neill, 523 i | Parker, 4314 Iter, Birm € | Terry av Stanley; |E.; Alice Olmstead, Auburu, Waste) |Percival Broder, Friday Wash Ld Watches for It, Dear Uncle Jack: Pease }me a membership card. I |for the Circle every weel and jit fine. Iam 13 years old and 1am |in the eighth grade. 1 am sending in a sort-of story for the'contest-— Percival Broder. | the letters in The StatGirde, s thought I would write and ask jou for a membership card, I am years old and in (be eighth grade at jac bool. I am sending my answer to the contest.—Helen K. Muscat: Port Stanley, Wash. Taken Star Years. Dear Uncle Jack: I would Hké to have you send me a membership card. We take The Star every id think it is a fine paper, er has taken it for about tes jyears. I go to Breidablick sehook jl am in the sixth grade: 4 Karhart Preston Member. Dear Unele Jack: I would Ike join The Star Circle. I am 9 yea) jold and I am in the third grade, 1 like to draw very muehy Will you” | Please send me a membership card?” —Gunoar EB. Berg, Preston, Wash | Wanted—Furniture. | Modern Furniture Co. to A UNEQE Charite—Wi p rething Di ‘int ks bank and ri savin t t | from uilding. wdaches will w and ke them I Or. L. R. Clark, D, D. & Fill that unsightly cavity with® | Regal Dental Offices | Dr, L. R, Clark, D. D. S (Manager? 1405 Third Ave, N. We Cor, Uniet NOTE—Bring this Ad with you Main 7920. Collins, Met ow | COLLINS oo = Wet Wash Laundry Ww \ s up to 26 Ibs Dey w hd Detiverns= Senttl Wa 1010 Vester ¥,