The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 26, 1913, Page 4

Eee, OF THR scHIrrs ponte Seattte, What, Pal by The Star yaniehing company every evening except Sunday ie gance. In these terms, Pomona grange of King county brands the work of County Commissioner Hamilton in the South district. Pomona grange has not jumped at wild conclusions. Its investigators spent months in the work. Their conclusions were based on definite, certain and specific facts, In every re spect their report has been careful to omit vague suspicions and mere conjectures, It tells facts—plain, direct, concise and unvarnished facts. King county’s purchasing department a joke, payroll rec ord incomplete, favoritism in choosing employes, juggling in claims against the county treasury, purchase of impractical machinery—all these are charged, And, of course, the people have had to pay the freight. Where it used to cost the county, to spread a mile of gravel, from $800 to $900, it shot up to an enormous amount, The situation becomes fraught with positive danger to the welfare of the county, in view of the great preparations for road building that are now being made, and for which the people of the county have already authorized a bond issue of Pomona grange, with its 5,000 farmer members, recognizes the danger. The farmers are vitally interested in good roads. THAT IS WHY POMONA GRANGE IS BACKING UP THE STAR’S DEMAND FOR AN IMMEDIATE GRAND JURY INVESTIGATION. THE EMPLOYMENT AGENCY GRAFT Hardly a passes that the local authorities are not day called upon to meet some phase of the employment agency graft. Like leeches, so firmly upon this state, opinion in favor of abolishing the private employment agen these institutions have fastened themselves that, of popular in spite general cies, the recent legislature failed to and vote on the measure presented to it the issue squarely meet the council is So, day after day, President Hesketh of called upon to secure relief for poor workingmen swindled by the employment agent sharks. Day after day, the la commissioner receives complaints against them And the complaints come to the prosecuting attorney and the mayor./| But the sharks are wily. They work their game too s oth ly to be endangered by criminal prosecution | fh workingman often pays his last dollar to get a } and then finds that he has been jobbed instead. He is left strand ed on the h ays and byways. He went out to ger’s job and found that they only wanted a cook | ticular camp. | Sometimes he gets work for only a day or two. He is laid off, and some one else is put on. The superintendent or foreman is in on the employment agents’ graft, Occasionally, the swindled workingman presses his com plaint and manages to get a return of his money. More often, he has become too disheartened to fight. Some day, and it's coming soon, Washington will have a legislature to express the people’s wants, and one of th n-| stitutions to go out of business then will be the vate em m-| | ployment agent. you see. , HOW HISTORY REPEATS the need of When the Roman plutocracy felt the multitude, restless under its iron heel, it gave in the amphitheatre. And the poor plebeians, untaught by| t »t watt free schools or honest newspapers, rose to the bait like trout) to flies and grected their exploiters with frantic cheers | The other day the mayor of Denver arranged a grand| >= MOST AN BACKYARD SPORTS YIN pennant Px CT Some BENNO) (AcnuReH ) {pans OAmeN misiber Now WAS \ RE me cone) f PLANTED THESE ONO UP 108 Down CAN HAVE! EM ADE INT A Sum (PAS Lerrin’ MR HAVE. AL THe Ras / ~ baad , Finn Ake Grr! va wre BUNK BY SCHLOSCHHEIMER HERR JACOB ear Mr, Slughammer band says it lacks cultivation Dear Maude: My name is not Slughammer | How would you like to be called Mud? jand cherished. It might some time get you out of jail. = 9 like your bunk very much, but my hue MAUDE, Please get it right A name is a thing to be guarded JAKE. A JOLLY JOKE Once there was a little dog had a head and a tail—ju One warm afternoon, a cat ¢ He was a pretty little rascal. He t like a penny as the dog was snoozing on the veranda, ne up to him and bit his ear. Naughty cat! Fido—that was the dog's name—snaried and snapped his jaws In agony The cat climbed a tree and laughed, “Heow.” But the dog saw nothing funny in this joke, Neither, by the way, do |, ee ee JESSIE'’S RISE Jessie worked In a Pike st. bean joint. Oh, but she was a beautiful geil One day a customer came in Jessic was new at the job, and didn’t know and asked her for a fried prune he was kidding her.| She smiled sweetly and replied, her cheeks dimpling, “All right, Sir.” She didn't rebuke him. She didn’t chide him. She didn't even doubt him Today Jessie lives in a Capit as a cook Jen't it a beautiful day, WS UW The flowers are beautiful, Miss ‘Bujwuey> £N22Ned. of hill ma 15 a month lon and gets Jones!” aren't they?” “| refuse to talk with you if my words are going to be turned upside down.” . This didn't Silly, tan't it? eee really happen. How could the lady have known that her words were going to be upeet? TWENTY YEARS AGO Oh, her voice ia soft and tow, etc. (Sung with arme folded and body | motioniess.) AS IT 18 NOW Swing your hoolts around me, hon; smack me, for I'm wild about you, etc. (Scream, throw your arms in the air, jig a bit, and turn a handspring, if possibie.) e+ eee A tear in the lace, An absence of grace, Are nothing compared with No paint on the face. eee ee A sweet, demure little 10-year-old girl stood on the corner of Sec ond and James yesterday morning, admiring the crossing policeman. | “He is such a handsome fello Presently she went up to him and said, concert in the municipal auditorium. An opera tr !} tating voice, “I love you.” aes ay from Chicago. Admission was free "Go way; an orchestra came way f Chicag | license.” Many were turned av Thirty thousand citizeas got in i It ought It was a good concert, too, the papers say. to have been, for it cost $2,250. And how was the money raised? There's | point comes in. Part of it was taken out of | propriation for parks. That part all tionary use of the people’s funds ut for the honor passed the hat—passed it in front of the gas company, ed in $500; the magnate of the telephone cor vho chipy any, passed it in front of the n nate of the street railway cc | pany, who, though he hauled the folks to and fro and t | a liberal profit in 5-cent fares, for some reason held his con tribution down to $250, Not much different from the Roman w The wise ones must be right who tell us that history is prone to repeat. How much better, how if Den ver, wanting free concerts, rks, its own telephones, its own street cars, and put all the profits into public use! much safer, it would be should run its own gas we Dr. Max Strunsky declares that high heeled shoes are developing heels for woman where her toes ought to be. How a woman will be able to kick, with heels both fore and aft! Some British newspapers are advocating “lynch law or Its equiva lent,” for militant su ettes. Lawleseness is rarely a cure for la lesen All hall to that Vassar college gir! who set her room afire while! trying to warm her feet before going to bed! She ought to be marry early and live happily ever after, if she doesn't back that ambition, ide on to Cornel! college is crowing over a hen that's laid 600 eggs in three years. It's such birds, rather than Rockefeller donations, that Boing to lift our colleges to a higher plane are Husbands desiring new forms of amusement will find it worth while watching the cave of that Santa Barbara wife who charges her Jord and master with tr torturous electrical experiments on her. | We get you, Steve Chadwick. Looks like you're the next federal | ht. fudge, all ———— | Congressman Falconer is quite as silver-tongued as.he Ie sliver-| haired, and there were no lisp In his maiden speech in congress when he turned the double trick of defending the protective tariff for shingle and rapping the “sil and unseen forces which reach their tendrils into governmental control. | A grand jury, now and then, ie not relished by certain kinds of mene, There's a reason. | ° According to all accounts, Detective Barbee proved some bar b last night. i“ Ltd A speed simp, who drove with great speed, Was arrested, arraigned and then freed. Th true In a But we may as Six months past befo We Really Got This Editor The Star 1 have been reading your fish stories and | am plain disgusted. 1 am aregular reader of The Star and | have caught all kinds of fish in the Sound, but never anything that looks like them pictures yet. | wouldn't pay any more attention to them fellows’ letters, for | think they are stuffing you. A. J. HARDID. From a Gas Consumer To Th ar: I worms that the Gas company ha been stepping on, Your carto showing Judge Albert n whackin the Gas company gave me a lot St one of th e been using the same 2 eter for more than month for gas tlee that t a meter fo le than 50 centa per | het. to ire tf a t ga AT THE THEATRES THIS WEEK. Moore—Dark Metropolitan—Dark Seattle—Pailey & Mitchell stock in “Father and the Boys.” Irphourn—Vaudeville Frnprese Pantages—Va GRANO—V: pictures CLEMMER vaudeville, ideville and motion — Photoplays and MELBOURNE—Photoplay® and vaudeville, ALHAMBRA — Photoplays and vaudeville. he growled, “before | pinch you for peddling without a w," she thought in the dearest, little, hy wey, well say re he was freed ver that same period | § I HAD USED O ) CENT WORTH and the pe jtract read that I must consu ents’ worth per mon Lio | | The Japanese Question | 8 If th are fetent a r fellows in this country estate that they do not at war, would it be © on Uncle Sam's part to giv them that Would it not ig wiser to say right now, rather of, than give them a fe othold and later |the whole country old saying | about the devil the little | finger take the whole| paw rather outapoken, but per aps not far wrong in this ca There are more than enough J and Chinese here now; and if t given more pri will it end? A w outeast in his labor question goes or | A ht? no are where will be an as far as own country HEARD FROM BALLARD || She is a dar d blonde, The dear; Of her I'm very fond, I fear But when I take her out To dine he drinks an awful lot of Hditor Most Anything: ‘That's fine, Jsn't Jt? | never wrote poetry before. If you think this good enough for pub rint it and send me a check fo’ $10. (Editor's Note—We'll print this, but you'll get your $10 where kitty wore the ribbon) ——$ THE NAT§VITY OF CHRIST,” Benjamin Constant's masterplece, Will be on exhibition for two weeks, beginning today, at Grote-Rankin's REFRIG i Furniture ed French philosopher, ORES writes tc anation can understand, the philosophy that the distingut Henri Berg son, is now expounding in this coun in show, has chance to lease it to a confectionery | You R FIRST THOUGHT | when the /FIRE BELLS RING is your own home your valuables, Your second thought should be, that you keep your valuable Safe Deposit Box at the NORTHERN BANK TRUST COMPANY Pike St. at 4th Ave. VAULT pom’ Saturday 8 to 10 1B SOXES RENT and up per year. evenings The Star to anguage if he kin git rid of | th’ gamey amell.”| 00. Private ine with ail eae PHONES "*'" * ‘month, RESULTS OF CIRCLE CONTEST The majority of The Star Circle boys and girls declared for simple dress in the public schools, bug were opposed to uniforms for achool children, The t ¢ question, whieh fs now being taken up by the schoo! authorttle wan & Dr coe the ¢ 1 r ® great deal of inter in the matter of the over dressing of achool t the letter at much @ change would be unnecessary in the grade schools, High wen ci the contest suggested simplep dress in the high schools Clara Wilson, a Lincoln bigh school pu iy th won the prize offered for the bes lett ara is 13 years old. Hor letter in excelient, and well worth reading. Quite a number got thelp pam on the honor roll this w h The to get an honors ment were Florence Rose, 418 N. Sixth, Mt. Ver Mary Lee; Edna Albertson, Port Townsend; Doroth: nolds 4 16th N. B lee Smit! Whitman av.; Lester Fey, Monroe, Wash.; Letha Ducouaiiel 1461 W, 57th; Albert Lewis, 127 Terry av | oe © | x ea = = —= THE WINNER | WANTS A CARD | SISTER TAKES IT | “What we are tomorrow depends | |largely on what we are today.”| Dear Uncle Jack: 1 am ver Dear Uncle: 1 would itke to Join —Cooper. terested tn The Star Circle The rele A elster hag a would like to have bership been taking The § tor = leug If you older people, our fathers card. | am 12 years and my sis | while m 11 years old and 1 am and mothers, jealously guard our ter i# 14, She would alnc in the Third grade at the Jeffersom fool fearing they may rt membership card, 1 ‘ hoe Vernon Sibley. by seeing some others In our school you a story for this week's content pees more beautifully attired t we Nora and Syneva Lee, Bang BS st shall we when we have | Wash LIVES NEXT DOOR finished our sehool da nd hay Dear Uncle Jack are twe }launched out into tite wor gifs lvfos next doar ty 2m Who will there be then to tell our) THEY SUBSCRIBE ina we are very much innaey nail associates what they should wear, the Circle and its cot am we that our poor, weak minds shall) pear Uncle Jack: 1 am very|would be pleased if you would send not be so overcome with jealousy | much interested in The Star Circle. us each 4 ip card. We and | for the expensive We have heen taking The Star for The every Sat adornment of those with whom We | geveral months. Will you please ny , a8 Wo enjoy the come in ¢ et that we shall be send me a m ship card? | am idren's corner.——-Ruth Dunn, 2216 overthrown and fall by the W&Y- lin the Sixth «rade and am 12 years and Lois Dingley, 231g side? old.—Ruth Raines, Box 19, Sultan Rather instill into our minds | —— “ae inene stability, Help ws to a) bulid up ou haracters that may be prepa to. ignore RONG Se ATTEP ats hore alee ee those thing well in the matte Lumber, Lath and Shingles ake & specialty of High Grade of drews as anything else, which have a tendency to daw of | —o—— thoughts and minds away from whatever our object in Ife may be Don't bulld walis around us Gly NORTHWESTERN CREDIT ASSN. us liberty.—Clara Wilson, age Established 1903 12 h at., Seattle 658 Empire Bidg. Main 6324 Aa , DON’T OVERDRESS SEATTLE’S CREDIT BUREAU . COLLECTIONS mple dressing for #ct hi! has been talke t nuch tl whe think to some con = me, think that seboo! children enough. Of course, who we the thin: stockings the dare to wear tn the schoolroom } " and hair pulled down to thelr eyes There are very w public ro XCursion girls that dress to extreme i mowtly ae _ ja nice thing {n the schoo! Well, somebody—was it Dr. J. W.!not ike the uniform idea, FOUR FINE FAST THROUGH TRAINS EAST Huceon of the University of Mis | giris do not look good tn the same | fi} 7—has enid that Bergson's phil-|gtyle or color. 1 know girls who|} EACH DAY owophy ls summed up in the line Of! cry in school because they are not |i) the sons: dressed as nice as the girl near|[] Two to “IT don’t know where I'm going.|them. 1 think If the dre were | T'm 09 my way Kansas City | more simple the lessons would come Cc H I Cc A G Oo fr easier. VENNA FARNHA) ] F ne a er } mish, Wash In Just THREE DAYS From the Pacific Coast Jno of the stories aroy town ba! Soe ele tees nS ARERR ERE HE ESTE Three to hea 1 during the changeable * * MINNEAPOLIS AND . crictuded to take Sie HERE'S NEXT CONTEST *| ST, FAVE “ eaid wife came into), ircle’s next contest le ® One to Sosenant ‘ .|# simple one, The prize */ there a int or for 7ou-"|) Sward, @ pound bor of ¢ | KANSAS CITY AND ST. LOUIS shucks,” Jin k owled, “I'm | wit) be given to the boy or girl *| ae . . toe @ anybody # sending in the best drawing *|[] Our Unexcelled Dining Service on each train. Ask us sadert ick enough |* 07 @ny subject. All drawings # | | what some World Travelers say of it and THOSE bi.” : eee’ |t must be made in biack Ink, */1] GREAT BIG BAKED POTATOES. Sim * and ‘awing paper should be #/f) # used. Contributions will not #| KENNEDY, Gen. at J. 0. MULLEN, City Pass |* be te after 3 o'clock *| Piet Av and Vesle tT Way, Sea Wash = * next Friday af *) ; nee a ar teat JOSH WISE |» winning drawing in #] nd ‘on Sundays and holidays, call depot tleket offlen SAYS # the next Saturday's Circle cor- | . ‘ WOGe WUOMING <r Ganreen alt comiidualias *{ . CHARLTON, Asst. Gen’ Passenger Agent, Portland, Or. who rented his!» tions to Uncle Jack, in care of *| empty store room * The Star office, * to a wild animal * hd THREE RRR EEREERRER HERE’S A NEW. ONE | 1 like to read rele, as we have been| taking the paper for a long time. | | Please send me a membership card I am 11 years old and am the| Fifth grade.—Jessie Raines, Sultan. Wash. Please card, I girlw that girl high echoo ¢ unger On Sale May 28 to September 30 oe 90 : Stopovers Granted—October 31, 1913, to Return en ie oul. Evickecn, || TELL US WHERE YOU WOULD GO AND WHERE YOU WOULD STOP Full Information Promptly Given of Fares and Routings 1% Eightl UNIFORM STYLE? I think simple dressing Jack LIVES IN AUBURN its way by service Dear Uncle Jack: I am § years] old, and I am e | I like to r € i y ‘inde sate! isan send ne 2 = Le C, Smith & Bros. Typewriter membership card. I am sending a fishing story.—Lyle Weed, Auburn, | (Ball Bearing—Long Wearing) Wash In buying a typewriter you want a satisfactory TAKE THE STAR answer to three questions: Dear Uncle Jack: We have taken The Star quite a while, Ev What will it do for me? ery Saturday I look for the Star tg » Cirele. I am in the fifth grade How well will it do it? Will you send me a membership ns : card?—Goldie Jones, Edmonds. How long will it do it? IS INTERESTED By answering these queries with the needs of the Dear Uncle Jack: We have taker typewriter owner and user in mind, the L. C. Smith The Star for a long time, and I am| & Bros. Typewriter Company has attained the front interested in Star Circle. | rank in the typewriter field nd me a membershiy m 10 years old, and am in| Some people think that a typewriter is a typewriter and the fifth grade. I go to the Foster that is ail the is to it. Machines school.—Vera Hults, Foster, Wash may look alike but there is a lot of difference in efficiency, HERE’S ANOTHER : . Dear Uncle Jack: I would like The new Model Five is built not very wudh to fold your Circte. ! only for straight correspondence am 11 years of age, and am in the but for tabulating, billing and in fifth grade.—Margaret Heyer, 4348 fact for every service heeded in bth av, N. W., Seattle. the average business Pallure Its ball bearings at all points Failure is a rock hill where friction develops through But climb it with a will! nction, permit ‘close adjustment Failure 1 treacherous pit and insure eorrect and accurate But you must clamber out of it! typewriting. Failure {a an ugly coal, We would like the opportunity to tell you more about It. Fuse it to a diamond soul! Write for free book of our new Model Five. ailure is a river swift; Swim it, do not think to drift! Edna Caskey, Sequim, Wash L. C. SMITH & BROS. TYPEWRITER CO. A. Ohitaie, ARGON lies Head Office for Domestic and Foretgn Business: er told a senate committee SYRACUSE, V.2U0. 8. AL th w thr th Har GEUIM chetcallawe Cae ae Branches in all Principal Cities his cabaret. The only three | . that we can think of as cer- | - Seattle Branch, 900 Third Ave., CMM Mn tain of being barred from a cabaret: “Onward Christian Soldiers,” “Rock of Ages” and “Lead Kindly Light.” sd Seattle, Wash. x | Ug