The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 27, 1912, Page 4

THE SEA TTLE STAR | wa service of the Ual Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinions of ourselves La Rochefoucauld. NOT MORE FOOD; MORE MONEY TO BUY IT a Reduction of the high cost of living by increasing the Bt food supply of the country is the announced object of Repre- tative Lever’s bill for taking scientific agriculture to the seer by means of resident experts in every farming com- munity. en The theory is that by actual demonstration work farmers will learn how greatly to increase their crop yields, and oe quently that the country will benefit by a much larger supply of food and consequent lowering of prices. a Let's take a slant at this theory and sce if it’s going to a ; res, recently isstred, show that exports of wheat q {50,000,000 bushels for the year 1912, as against In two years, there- 2 to 100 million Census fi will exceed 1 ‘ 83,000,000 in 1911, and 62,000,000 in 1910. fore, our wheat exports have jumped from 6. seer bushels! Superficially, it would seem that we are producing an abundance of wheat—that every person in the United States ey supplied with bread and that we have a surplus for of 100,000,000 bushels. Unfortunately, we know that this is not the case. We well aware that every person in the United States was Nor fully supplied with bread during the year 1912. nething must be wrong. Vje have plenty of food, but oa our Beem must go Sithoet, while we export wheat ty taccigs lands. Thg trouble is not that we do not roduce ’ THE TROUBLE IS THAT MANY CANNO BUY AT THE COUNTRY HAS PRODUCED IN ABUND- . We will never solve the “high cost of living” by increasing’ ip increasing our ly of food; we can only succeed i aan that way. What we must do ra to increase on hasing power of a day's labor. We have got to put suf- t wages into the m4 envel of our working people ’o that they can buy the commodities which have been pro- duced. A iairer share of the value of their product is what the workers want; NOT AN INCREASE IN THE purr’ OF THINGS WHICH THEY HAVE NOT THE EY TO BUY. IT’S NO WONDER William Devitt, who fell five stories at the Hotel Plaza yeaterday, is a sewing machine agent. The doctors say he will recover. Sewing machine agents are a hardy lot. It would take gore than a five-story drop to kill one. Insurance agents, are impervious to bumps, and if one were to experience art fall, it would only serve as one more argument that fm the midst of life we are in death—therefore, now is the time to insure. If a book agent were to drop five stories, the chances are that he would buttonhole the first man he met at the Bottom and sell him a set of the “World's Best Authors, fm red Morocco, on the casy-payment plan. Modest heroes, these agents of sewing machines, in- surance and books. For a small commission they will risk pnubs, bulldogs, slamming doors, flatirons, kicks and five- story drops. We Ul, however, bet our money on the police reporter against the toughest of the agents. MORE'N 300 shopping days{sonny. They made Taft a 83 Christmas. committee tu get up one. acelin Pansies NEXT important nationall FRIGHTFUL political scan- fssue is a heavyweight prize|dal! Taft has appointed a fight. democrat to office. Makes ae Billy McAdoo one of the Red GERMANY’S to forbid sale} Cross society incorporators! dime novels. Thinks them —: and irreligious. IT I8 proper to forward —_— “Happy New Year Greetings” HOW’S your coal bill, since VU. S. supreme court dissolved = gga cinch on coal ? on a penny postal card. May-~ be you cam find a penny in some old pocket hung up in the wardrobe, papa. OF COURSE we'll celebrate that hundredth anniversary of peace, provided we don’t have to lick John Bull over that canal. Our last licking kept him pretty decent for a cen- tury. EDITOR’S MAIL Editor The Star: I should like to answer 8. O. ©.’s letter that ap- peared tn The Star a few days ago. Cain waa the son of Adam. Gen. 415, He may have been marked at birth. 1 believe it is not known what the mark was. We should in- fer that his great-great-grandson killed him. Gen. 4-24, Could Pilate have released Jesus? Yes, Moses evidently did not add any- thing to the ten commandments. J. AP, WE'D like to ask our East- erm brethren how far inland that proposed fashion gf side- whiskers has swept thus far. WHAT is the electoral col- lege yell? asks “High School Boy.” They've got none yet, Editor The Star: The recent trou- ble in District 175 of King County between Miss Kelley, a princtpal, and Miss Caffery, a teacher, and a daughter of one of the directors, ought to show the people that there should be a rigid law prohibiting the employment of relatives by school directors. Tn all cases t elatives demand and secure special privileges. Con- sequently the schools are ruined and money squandered. ME If you think all luggage looks alike, come in and see ours. You'll find difference in both style and durability. Our line of luggage con- tains about every form of trunk and bag that you can think of—Likly and other wardrobe trunks; Wilt “Ga- ble End” trunks; Cross (Lon- don) and other traveling bags, satchels, suit cases; all it man. to defy the baggage Cheasty’s Haberdashery Second Ave. at Spring St. Cheasty Has It, It’s Correct M, STILES. Why. I saw a thousand frantic men go running up the street, I saw a justice hurry by, a copper leave his beat; I followed in the rushing crowd, and hordes of hustling legs, And in a window saw displayed a dozen new-laid eggs. 1 aw a million cheering men along the sidewalk stand; with bearing grand; A guard of soldiers marched along to keep him from all harm, And then J learned the reason why, he owned @ chicken farm! | I saw them lowly bow before a man @Nomne village — out- up, wants a job in th’ consular service, an’ says like to find th’ fellow who pute the plum in diplomatic,” A Fulton County Inaurgent. Mr, M. C, Palmer says that it they pass a law prohibiting the shipping of liquor into dry terri tories he i going to polish up his old army musket,Arohbold Advo- cate. Among the new fashions an- nouneed in London are the Mephis | topheles cap, the Satanic feather and little devils embroidered on} stockings, Women seem deter | mined to look Iike what Sherman jours war te Kicking on the street oar service ls one of the oldest forms of amuse ment in this country, The charity that has home as Its starting point usually isn't worth making a fuse about The honeymoon is on tho wane when hubby quits taking wife everywhere be goes, 0. K. | ! ‘How's everything at your house?" “She's all right, thank you.” Sometimes Sane Enough. | “This bill for $1,200 is altogether} 100 high,” said the client ' “But didn't I prove you were crasy and get you acquitted?” responded the law, “Yes, you did; but you haven't) proved it | am crazy enough to pay this bilt - | SPECIAL BARGAINS ON ALL MACHINES } One of 15 Styles Any finish—Fumed Oak, Golden Mission, Mahogany, etc, to match furniture. SMALL PAYMENTS White Sewing M:.chine Co. New Main Store 1424 Third Ave., Near Pike St. Phone Main 1525 Albany Cut-Rate Dentists STAND DACK OF OUR worm ‘On 18 YEARS. Ce mania SIGNED BY Us. | | EASY PAYMENTS $20 Set of Teeth Guaranteed Best... Set of Teeth $5 Gold or Porcelain $12 Guaranteed Fit.. $7 Bridge Work. Solid Gold Fillings. .$1 Up Silver Fillings. ...50c Up BASY P. MD) earn abou Wor diver Moato mand ALBANY OUT RATE DENTISTS, r | Secona Floor People's Bank Building | Take Bievator or Walk Up. [Pm xe i, thee WIeE BOY Hard-Working Father—-Can't seo how you dislike work; to me it's real enjoyment Lasy Son--That's {t—-I don't think it's right for one to give one's self up wholly to pleasure. Advice for Bride. The widower had just taken his fourth wife, and was showing her round town. Among the places vie ted was the cemetery. The bride paused before « very elaborate tombstone that had been erected by the bridegroom, Being a little near- , sighted, she asked him to read the inseriptions, He read Here Iles Susan, beloved wife of Joha Smith, and Jane, beloved wife of John Smith, and Mary, beloved wife of John Smith.” He paused abruptly, and the bride, leaning forward to see the bottom line, read: “Be yo also ready,” Day's Gest Story. Tommy ~sonberry was enter taining his sister's begu in the pa lor while Susan was putting the last touch on her rodent cotffure. Being possessed of an inquisitive disposition, Tommy asked, “Do you weigh very much?” “About 158 pounds, | guess,” re- plied the hopeful ewain “Well, then, I don't believe that sister could lift you, do you think 20?” continued Tommy “O, no!” exclaimed ‘Why should she" “I don't know my, “bat | heard her tell ma this afternoon that she was going to throw you over as soon as shoe could.” sis’ beau, Every woman who moves claims she cleaned the house she left, and roars about the dirt in the house she moves Into. We have profound sympathy for Poet Donald P. Silverman, of near Low Angeles. Donald wan ont In a sylvan giade reciting one of his best efforte when a brutal hunter, thinking he heard the noise of « rabbit, or a mountain ton, or some thing Mke that, filled Dopald with No. § propelled by smokeless pow- der, I2eauge, choke bore, ham- merlews J automatic. But thanks be! Th tomatic «tuck after the sixth fire, else there should not now be any real nearLoe Angeles poet. That Tantalizing Tommy. “Pop.” said Ton Goosenberry, & dentist on artist?” ‘Of courve, be ain't. An artint ts a feller what drawn or paints.” “Well, don't a dentist draw,” urged Tommy. Where do you keep your! brains?” yelled Mr. Goosenberry; “what could a dentixt draw, any- how?" “Teeth!” chirped Tommy, making a bee-line for the kitchen. Life is one disappointment after another, but a won rares not #0 long as another woman doesn't ap- pear in a eult like the one she bought for $19.98, and which she nays cost $46. “Doesn't that girl over there look like Helen Brown? “Yeu-—and just as.bad in white.” Harvard explorers report finding traces of a prehistoric people in Nebraska. Original Bryan men, Some man in Indiana has s#ue- ceeded in taking pletures of sound waves. We'd like to see a picture of a ton of coal betng shot into our cellar. Barly to bed and early to rise is one of the combination# that make a small boy sore, August Schaefelysky de Mukka- del de Castellane, of France, is tn Washington looking for a wife, pos sibly to help lug around his name. Many 4 man pate himeeifon the back because of the great things he's going to do some day. Had You Heard This? As he put himself outside a ca- pacious glass of strong drink, he shuddered as though there were spikes in it. “Want a chaser?” asked the bar- keep, sympethetically. “Yeo,” he shuddered agai bloodhound, please.” “A i : t The man who used to have a barn has put a gasoline can bebind it and called it a garage. PLAN CRIMP IN, , NEW YEAR'S JOY PITTSBUURG, Dec.) g72—Plan- ning to put a crimp in ‘New’ Year's joy in every hotel from New York to Chicago, a widespre s@ike of waiters is planned for N@we Year's eve, according to Manager Karas of the fashionable Hotel Schenley here. Karas sald his employes had been urged to join the Hotel Workers association, as the new union Is named, LINER FLOATED AGAIN NEW YORK, bec. 27.—-Wireless reports here today state that the nited Fruit company’s steamer Turrtalba, which ran ashore near Atlantic City in a blinding blizzard last Saturday, is safely floated by tugs and is expected to arrive here tonight, STIMULATING PROGR vas LOS ANGELES, Dec, 27,.—Gov- ernor Hiram Johnson will be the chief guest tonight at a banquet here, which has been arranged as a stimulus to the progressive move- ment in Los Angeles, THE STAR—FRIDAY, DECEMBE: answered Tom-| R a7, i Farmer and Country Merchant Will Get Quick Action Under New Parcel Post Law 4 order houses would use it to make even bigger inroads on bia bust ness; that, for example, a Chicago (By Gilson Gardner.) WASHINGTON, D. ©., Doo, 27 this particular plan of parcels post part of the plan and it t@ ie entirely experimental. It is op you, as or f the publie, to the people to try tt. in your protest or you ‘The sow parcel post rng house would come into violent com-| If the plan does not work the law/as to how ihe rule» ough rs ry wmall town merchant with) petition with the iittle country mer-|is of such a character that the post- changed afer you try th delivery service to his|chant in Texas by a Scent wtamp.| master general can change any and know \ ething about Tt ee The sone system protects the country merchant from the compe ple, Farmer Jones) tition which would result from @ small part in his|fiat rate parcel post system. As ? thresher--at 4 P. m, He tele | the distunce increases the cost In THE BEST 4 |phones to the village store where | creases, The mail order house must do business at a distance under the! handicap of a greater cost in send: | ing. However, tho mall order house wil! also profit by securing @ cheaper rate of delivery than they heve heretofore had by «x press. , Hitherto a large part of their! busindss bas been carried by freight, whieh, while It costs les is slow. With the opportunity opened up to send small packages | at reasonable rates quickly, the mall order house will unda develop new lines intry merchant has al which wil be a convenience and u afraid of the parcel post. profit to all consumers. © was that the big city mati; It should be remembered Stick Yourself in Center of This Map and You'll Get the Whole Parcel Post Zone System Idea. there {# an agency for the thresh- ing machino company, to send him out a new plece by the rural car- rier the next morning, Say the pack wolghs three pounds It gets the “local rate’ and costs 7 cents postage. That's quick delivery at slight cost. ‘The farmer's wite ge SHOESIE MADE in on t game, too, She has been making new dress and finds herself short a yard of material, She drops a note to the store with a sample, Next day ic —~AT— Popular|, IRAYMOND & HOYT} 1406 Third Avenue, Liberty Building. The Cheapest Place to Buy Good Shoes. she gets her cloth before that Ladies’ Pat., Gun Metal and Vici Kid Shoes, but- All the new styles. Extra- values at $3.50, $3.00 and .. ton or lace. iH A | Tailored Ready Co. | Fourth Av. at Pike St. Just Imagine you are in the v ery center of the toner circle on this map and that it represents ¢ he country for hundreds of miles around you Then you'll ree how the “zone system” works out with the new parcel post, beginning Jan. 1. In the Seattle post- office is a map of the country, divided into little squares and showing each particular town as the center of the radiating ones. The squares are all numbered. The space within the first cirele, and the spaces between any two circles are called zones. They are numbered from the center out, from No. 1 to No. 8 A package sent from Seattle to a place anywhere between the first and second circles fails into zone No. 2, and so costes a cent a pound more for postage than if you sent it to some place inside your own first circle. The squares are numbered to make it easy to locate any particu- lar place and see what zone it falls in. You simply look up the name of the town you want to send a package to im the parcels post guide which hangs on a nafl near the map. You find a num ber opposite it. You look om the map for the equare with that number and see at once what gone It is in. Pvery square that a Pre-Inventory Sale of High Grade Suits a Overcoats at 1-4 Off THE REGULAR PRICE These Suits and Overcoats are the best cirele touches is considered as being entirely the circle, . em tees . even though ft only clips off s little corner. So town in such tailored and most perfect fitting garments A square gets the lower rate of postage of the inner zone. made, and come from the shops of the ees es once wee = am Hirsh-Wickwire Co. NEW YORK LETTER | Pride and pomp to trading| ced. New York, Dec. 26. |stampe! So fade the glories of| Every Garment Guaranteed. When the Century Theater was|®*fth, and #0 fierce is the theatri- M $15.00 Suits and Overcoats at $11.25 opened and dedicated as the new|°l eame in New York these days. | All $18.00 Suits and Overcoats at $13.50 theater to art and the uplift .of Four women whose apparet pro. +495 abe. " 5.00 the drama, the millionaires who| Claimed that they had come from|} All $20.00 Suits and Overcoats at $15. had built it sat proudly on its Sune + aed be. bed tr 7 the All $25.00 Suits and Overcoats at ae huge stage and Matened to speeches | reat city attended a matinee at one Sui vercoats at $22. by eminent high-brows as to Its} of the Broadway theaters All erat ate ane Sa oats $26.25 lofty milesion and tts glorious aims.| They had seats far back. After All $35.00 Suits and Overcoats at The current attraction at the|the first act, they looked all around, so as not to miss anything that might be going on, and Aiscov. ered a doorkeeper giving pass-out | checks. | After much whispering, one of the women went to the door and asked for a check. She got it, and took | it back to the group. They all studied it, then another went over wad ct er se sen tel Tailored Ready Co. first woman take her check to her/ i 4 seat, inquired, “What do you want The Store That Satisfies with itt” theater hasn't been prospering over weil, and ¢he lessees sold the house bodily, for a recent performance, to a Sixth Avenue department store. The store, having gotten the seats, presumably, at a somewhat reduced figure by taking them all, gave them to its patrons im leu of trading stamps, A §5 purobase before noon got a pair of seats, after noon a single ticket. A sack of flour, a pair of rubber boots, a baby carrlage—you bought ‘om at Blank’s, and you sat with your wife in the red and gold chaira| “Why,” she answered. “We paid where once the 400 displayed its! to get in. Ain't we got a right to pride and pomp. a chance on the prize?” HOFFMAN'S After-Christmas Broken Lines of Underwear 1-4 to 1-2 Off HOFFMAN SYSTEM TAILORED Suits and Coats Made in Seattle, of the finest ma- terials. Workmanship ‘and fit guatan- FURS Beautiful Alaskan teed— $25.00 Suits ...........$12.50 Furs ones eee ss : From the Stock of the pone oe ts Alaska Fur Company Sense Suits oh, ‘ The prices were already low; they're tiow just half— $200.00 Red Fox Set. . . .$100.00) $150.00 Black Fox Set. . .$75.00 $125.00 Brown Fox Set. .$62.50 150.00 N Seal Long $150.00 Near Seal Lo $700 $50.00 Suits .... $20.00 Long Coats . $25.00 Long Coats . $30.00 Long Coats . $35.00 Long Coats ... Silk, Wool and Lingerie $125.00 Near Seal Coats. . $62.50 Dresses and Gowns $100.00 Russian Pony Congo) 0.00 Charmeuse P: Dresses} EO B@OEG BB fcc: Bee Maia GA s+ Sut wae » eM: eae Gh 8 i nee ‘$15.00 $75.00 Black Fur Coat. . $37.50 $30.00 Chiffon P. Dresses. .. $50.00 Coney Coats .... .$25.00 Re TRS rem, A $35.00 Fur Coats ...... ‘ $25.00 Fancy Silk Dresses $12.50 $125.00 Isabella Fox Set. . $62.50 $20.00 Charmeuse and Messaline Dresses... . . -$10.00 $18.00 Serge Dresses... . .$9.00 $15.00 Lingerie Dresses. . .$7.50 $12.50 Peter Thompson Dresses $10.00 Foulard Dresses. . . .$5.00 $2.50 Children’s Percale Dresses Lawn Dresses $75.00 Red Set .. $50.00 Mink Set ......-- $75.00 Russian Ss Set. am $25.00 Russian Lynx Sho Piece $12.50 $15.00 Lynx Sale Starts Saturday Morning at 9:30, Nothing Reserved, $15.00 Brown Coney Piece . $7.50 $12.50 Misses’ Fur Sets . .$6.00 $5.00 Children’s Sets.... $10.00 Children’s Sete: . «85.00 Hoffman Cloak and Suit Company 1316 Second Ave.