The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 16, 1913, Page 4

THE STAR—SATURDAY, AUGUST 16, 1913. EDITORIAL PAGE OF THE STAR RRB THE SCRIPPS NORTHIWHer OUR OF NEWSPAPERS Telegraph News the United Prose Association, PHONES "SS "ene oe RATES "r,t. “mt cmerter, bo elt7, She moma’ A Monstrous Tale of Corruption HERE is hardly any news to add to the dispatches which | of the empire Star Circle Girl Who Suggested This Week’s Contest Acts as Judge; Picks Best Joke and Gets Picture Take | The funny story contest, sug: — ‘ | say. 658 ee : |gested by Bexsio Day, 6567 1st av. | | Have N. W,, for which she won the dollar | y tell us of the predicament of Gov. Sulzer, state of New York. We almost wrote it “the rotten state of New York.” The charges against the governor have not been legally B submitted to proof as yet. The smoke in that direction is sure, but let's not condemn him ) at present pretty dense, to be until he is found guilty prize last week, ls over. The con But if the governor really is guilty it shall be remembered test closed Friday afternoon at 3 t with burning face by every American citizen that Sulzer’s loclock. Miss Day awarded the ‘corruption has not been exposed because he is corrupt. Do prise in the contest dest need. a f. | y i " c ‘elen Sundeen, who reside tn not fancy that this is a case where honesty, high ick ee 811 ath ot, Anacortes, Wash. cent | in honorable principles have any part. They haven't, Not the in w joke which appealed to Judge + 8 i t. Hexsie as the most comical contri — bution, The funny story submitted Bo by the Anacortes girl was not orig {nal by any means, but tho rules prescribed that the funny incidents [did not necessarily have to be or| It is simply a case of monster corruption, the most jmonstrous in all the world, overwhelming picayunish corrup ition. It is Tammany Hall, whose leaders and lesser lights steal | { an; “ . calp” of the little | Setual © | millions and millions a year, “getting the scalp ¢ | : | Sulzer because—well, we'll let the New York World tell it} boea MGs this tout Sane an) can fo you in the following editorial size-up of the situation many times as we have read it, we! 4 ‘ a “©The Sulzer scandal is no less an exposure of the governor jhave laughed. It ts worth reading i rt 1 mon Yhan of Tammany Hall. It is the most convincing object les- ) Jover # couple of times. It appears | di i York has ever Jelsowhere tn the Circle Corner. jon on government by blackmail that New | Mins Day was delighted with the! som way the Circle boys and girls re-| sponded to her contest, which was) a little hard to thoroughly under stand, as {t was written In poetry when submitted last Saturday for | the Circleite’s competition. An| unusually large number of boys and girla strove for the prize, with a Mr. Sulzer has not been destroyed because he pocketed | tampaign contributions or because he used the money to carry on his Wall st. operations. Those are all traditional Tammany practices. Tammany candidates no less than Tam- many bosses are expected to pocket as much of the campaign fund as they can with safety. “Tammany has exhibited the governor to public shame con: * uence that the competition | + i Was keen. 1 and disgrace only because he broke, with the organization and It took Mise D {derabie | "tf he had not longth of iiss to wade cevouet he refused to take further orders from al y: Se attempted to be governor in fact as well as in name, if he had not resisted the looting of the state, if he had not reached ‘out for indictments, Tammany would have protected him, “The Sulzer scandal ought to drive Mr. Sulzer from the| BY GENE MORGAN. | durro and wearing a recklons, cow- head, the goyser Is liable to get its] W i ip, but it ought also to destroy Tammany Hall.”| boy sombrero, tn Danbury,|!cue to perform. The effect will be| Miss Day made such a good igovernorship, bin, ce Mnenadlbdl (Who Was Never There in His Connecticut? Gixastrous, although elevating. |judge that Uncle Jack insisted that Life.) ' e 1 O raptures At Yello one the bears are|she pose at her work for The 8 REPRESENTATIVE McARDLC, who Is now on the public payroll |, uneven teen-There” Sketch Tell . poten ’ Ing a desire to pledge | ere’ etch of t Yellowstone Park {s nature in tame. They are so tame that they |photographer. She did, and « yee a deputy state auditor, ie virtuously expressing he Yellowstone by Artist Randall. her most dramatic mood will walk right ‘into the middle ot see, her pene sepente rm this ed -| to & limited session In case the legislature is to be special 5 oy come pial ‘a law for direct election of senators. Oh, you Mo. While gnawing a picnic lunch,|a table cloth which has been spread |umn. Just gaze at the heap of let jters and see if you do not agree! jolie 4m with us, that it was some job. ly To admit that you have never one can be diverted t a it n't for McArdle, and Sims, and Taylor, and the rest y can be erted by a dancing on a rock, and help themselves. a Ce ahcay maaan siaed ty @ few oo ratic standpatters, we | *e? Yellowstone Park ts a mighty geyser. I can hear the sounds of Yellow eae | rescey f nee! -eaigins confession, It is at least’ A geyser sends up hot water ati stone Park! The mad splashing) When Miss Day was ready to! | “wouldn’ extra sess! ior any American who ever had the most regular interval You of beauteous falls and cascades, the Commence the work of picking the vast pile of letters to select a win-| jner, She declared that the work lof the judges must be no small task | |if the letters came tn at that rate can's eyes do not giisten as he con- before It gets ready. jures up tts glorious “grandeur? Impatient tourists are pot ad che bee of railroad fare and por can telephone, ring the bell and | gurgling ataral springs, the| Winner, It was decided that the ten ‘ storm and fume, bet the geyser|thunder of failing bowlders, the|bext best letters would be awarded The Hero of the Payroll Yellowstone! What Amert-| will not send up any hot water of giant forests, the shrieks |&2 honorable mention. ; armed tourists, the chuckle of| The judge was one of the first| Miss Bessie Day, In The Star Office, Picking the Prize-Winning } HE biggest heroes aren't necessarily those who go to|iim (iis fe guldes as they inflate their sleeves |of The Star boy and girl readers to ast does not ew | vised by guides to use the bubbiing with lawfter, the creaking of burro’ Join the Circle Club. She has bee: poss! war, get shot and leave behind a memory for the poets. |pand with noble pride as he fan-|hole of a geyner as a ab d y | e stuce, (George Horner, Sarah Blake, Nan-|made later, oy ge y as having cup. saddles and, above all else, the|an enthusiastic member ever since, nie Sunberg, Grace Hawkins, Mar- contest. Watch for it. . ; ‘3 jes himself being snap-shotted on| The water ts sald to b y True, even amid the brutalities of war, the innate virtues | © a is © be nice and /bilthe caroling of thone long-cared,|/and ft gave Uncle Jack great pleas | +5, Fred the edge of an abyns, while aboard| warm, but while you are scraping stubborn mountain canarte jure when she was the toh Gene, Sea Bee eons ee 5 sd : 3 | THI the human species have a way of coming to the surface. |ing passenger deck of a mountain|your ‘chin wi r ) ; | | th But do you want to know whom we baer hr = coal B. b mountain | 7 chin w an Indian arrow-| Ho for Yellowstone Park fing ptr ge ged ya Shattuck, Blendine Miller, Beatrice | STORY Wi 7 is? It’s the worker with a weakness for & Melleur, Henry Anderson, Fannie grr: ae hero, there learned of the Circle Club While Ruckley, George Pinkerton, Samuel | After Him. th den —- real geome oo, Meeorieg, whet, Neopets co. saveighs | OSs 'T AN Y v THING > living In Texas. She wrote from pinkerton, Anna Lindberg, Donald| A small boy, who had bees i that state for a membership cer Greene, Henrietta Hazleton and|"aughty, was first rep with the boys,” bravely marches past, goes straight to his : tiffeate and competed in the con-!Gornies Blewett. then told that he must take little home, throws his arms around the missus, uptips her} What Has Become of— Improbable Stories. Our Precise Artist. testa upon moving to Seattle. } ee ping. He flew upstairs and Bid . : So many of the stories were good | the far corner under a bed. i d then hands over the enve- A middieaged gentieman who ther came home, Mone pertoBe-: me kiss an pay received a comfortable salary but then. the ty that Uncle Jack has decided to| INVENTION CONT ‘There's bravery for you! Not just brute courage, which who had no Scotch ancestors and - mother told him what had publish the letters of a few near. : / Che kad Geomemeenee ee praseccr winners, The letters will be found! Many girls and boys have written |He went upstairs and en as not is simply the evidence of coarse physical fibre excepting the house in which he not much sensitiveness of gerve; but moral courage, un- in another part of this column. [to the Circle Club suggesting the|crawl under the bed lived and who, after paying in In- Those boys and girls to. be/greatest Invention of today. Usu-|youngster, who whispered: inching sacrifice of self. stallmentas $6,000 for the aald house, $ If she’s a wise woman, the missus in that home will awarded honoratfie mention by Miss /aliy, as the Circle printed one let- “Hello, papa, is had never been able to assemble ag very tenderly the hero-husband who does this and won't ~~ =~ Miss Lou Neff, R. F. D. 6, Box | greatest invention, in his or her) 1211 4th st, Anacortes, 145, Seatt Mary Lee, 25th av. estimation, several other Circleites , ee > and 67th «# Irene Munson, 5622/ would respond, naming a greater ~ 15th av. N. E; Marguerite Bugnon, invention than the one previously A NEAR WINNER. 6247 Palatine av.; Circlelte living | submitted. : at 1627 W. 64th at; Elvey Lovgren,| In view of the fact that there has Not Sweet Ei Poulsbo, Wash.: Inez Lindwall, 1407 been so much invention discussion! A superintendent of a city W. 87th st: Letha Duncommun,/among the Cireleites, Uncle Jack |day school endeavored to give} 1461 W. 57th st.; Maxine Neff, R. has decided to offer the weekly dol-/summer meetings added F. D. 66, Box 145; Adele Ayers, |lar for the best letter telling of the ness. Upon a certain warm 1514 Boren av. world’s greatest invention. The !n August lemonade was e . Circleite presenting the best argu- the close of the service the a MANY WANT CARDS. | Ment to substantiate his or her con- | intendent announced that . | tention, will receive the prize paper Aba ml be = te award pupils allowed to @ SURI DB ag opera are still com-| The contest closes next Friday |as to methods of making # er aes oe : afternoon at 3 o'clock. Describe |ings still more attractive. letters from boy — ae of briefly what you think is the great- youngster wrote: “Put more 4 paren from | Ae str readers of est invention, keeping your argu-|in the lemonade, A Mo | Whereupon he went to the bank | “rhe majority of appil | aeut, (2 lees tha 360 words, Th MNO. 6 Box 14 jcertificates. The majority of appll- shorter the better. R. F. D. No. 6, Box 145, Seattla, $ and negotiated a loan of $2,000 on cant ° Best Stories |his house, with that amount to pay & were Seattle boys and girls,| Write on but one side of a sheet eee ms 4 but ¢ - the 98 r the car and $1,150 for| weow put the ist of out-of-town children of paper, Address all communica. | — very AND apply Was no small umber [wave IT UP. Day were: lter from @ member telling of the| you, too?” more than a few hundred dollars, to draw too tight a rein on him. once concetved the idea of buying an automobile, feeling that for a ; For the best of men are merely grown-up boys and ee like to be patted and petted and once in a while given man in bis clroumstances a motor car was an ext 4 A ! " After reading ¢ equivalent of the boy’s favorite cookies. fi fi So the wise missus will some time say: ‘John, you've Iprorked hard for this money, and I know you're tired and in| talking to many automobile owners who had become experts, and also after having been the recipient of orf many demonstration trips, he ar | gty—hungry not only for physical food, but far more for ong ng age age tig ep Ee human fellowship. What takes you to the saloon isn’t pri- peice of whieh. wes publiely. Se marily your desire for drink; it’s to fellow with other men. nounced as $1,000, but which to So I’ve arranged a little surprise for you tonight. I’ve in- hm, owing to bis membership tn vited a few of your men chums in to dinner, and you're to rele mom af a Oe ae have an evening with them at home, just as free as if you gave him ® wide scquatatence oné swere in front of a bar. There are things to smoke and after "ve fed you I intend to leave you men have the place all to yourselves. So go ahead and enjoy yourselves and feel free fo make this home a headquarters whenever you like.” ! At which John, if he’s half the man we think he is, will | |corresponding influence, as the | agent explained, was only $860, tions to Uncle Jack, in care of The perenne sa waptilt the chin and land just above it another smashing kiss | KoRgles, gauntlets, robes, ete., etc — ~ — ——| There {s no membership fee|” 108 | and inwardly return more thanks for having had the fine for- WATCHING FOR THE FUN. po ato we 4 that he int diggs en, clyhiey 16 Nee charged for admittance to the otr-| 8" ee kde Dear Uncle Jack: 1 thought I tune to draw such a woman in the lottery of life. Tidy, Wille Boss's playmate,| At his bome that evening ho told |Jonn Jaesd Asior, Tie wile of the|age of 18 sere te ele : JACKS PHO: would write a joke for The Sat | was asked by a motion picture com-| his wife a millionaire, who went down with the pete in the contests” Sos Salt bcp sash 7 skit Circle corner as follows: 4 AWAY WITH the tariff, the currency problem, the opening of | pany to pose for {t. Later, when You bonehead! cried that | Titanic, was refused an automobile girls can compete in four contests) Uncle Jack is still reoe! iving let- anything “St $e ould rs Pi Alaska! The Important question Is: “Did Senator Wesley ‘Lorimer’ |the picture was Produced, Bobby | thrifty and — practical woman. |license until she admitted she was before taking out a membershi ary 000 ew ae Sach SF oiling role of eocaping Han tas}ihorteces our bade! Mere! Gael eee The following boys and girls ap-|him to publiah his pleture in the|"sarther — Yea, Mise, Ones I ¢ age ov ome eve Sup | — pied for membersh! 2) - ’ bald man's pantry with a gi of jam just be- | pose you should die within @ year! | Gell that unused office furniture. Gladys Thorn, Hara Troan, | Sane sootone id coder Be tae eon seedy cverseun tse tt was . j le a H 7 fore bis “aunt” went in search of] Where would the children and I be|A few cents | : Piya Conserving Farm Life him. Gat bales fe st oo alae at Ma won, August Hempleton, |considering the matter very care-|a hare. MARY LEB, Bobby sat through the show, eye-/ 42 automobile. The street cars are pet _luther, Agnes Luther, fully. An announcement ts to be! 25th av. and 67th st F, as a boy, you had been shown by an enthusiastic ling his playmate a little Jealonsly, | g00¢ qnoush for me and rhe I —— 2 an. edd pa ‘ ; and then every day that week found | Want to go anywhere I'll take ‘em.” Em G 'dm : — — a we is in argo science ¥ Bobby spending his nickel for a| ong ma 0 an | fa rm chores and how the mysteries and beauties 0! front seat. " - Fa I Lect nature can be studied at close range with infinite sat- The manager of the show, becom-| Foolish Question No. 30 Tews, ure ing curious, asked the reason, and ; AT L. W. W. HAL l isfaction to your soul while meantime you were fit- Bobby replied: 211 Occidental Av. ting to earn a comfortable livelihood, do you suppose Cneene Gay that . that you would have been so eager to desert the estate tea, et Cackaaee tho ton. Entrance In Rear old homestead for the noisy, smoky, nerve-straining —Judge. alee SUBJECT TONIGHT city? “THE ANTI-CHRIST” Frederick Nietzsche's Powerful Attack on Christianity Questions and Discussion Ben L. Reitman, Chairman = a Insist on Si Wisconsin has just created an office known as the |f “LOCATED AT a “county representative of agriculture.” His duties are to|@——— - ‘advise with farmers regarding methods, aid in improving| “Good afternoon, Johnny!” anid country life conditions, help to form co-operative societies, oF oe | ann Poser Mr promote better business methods and assist in promoting |of charity. “Why don’t you como agricultural teaching. If the county will pay $1,000 a year|to our Sunday school? A lot of toward his salary, the state will match it with another $1,000. | your little friends have joined and Selection will be made by the board of regents, on recommen-|¥®, sre soins to havo @ lovely dation of the dean of the aricultural college. sae Old Gent—I suppose you a Soggy’ ‘ " , y shook his head. Then he y' re 2 zs MAgslet in promoting agricultural teaching” ‘There you |sudaeniy exdstzeds asked a great many foolish quee- In doing this you enable the manufacturer to increase his output, and compel him to emplay more 3 fhave the key to whether this new job will become worth| “Has a boy named Johnson, with “ pide * 7 vet? Porter—Yes, sir; ure fs aby while. It isn’t hard for a bright chap who has had the right |"¢4 hatr, Joined yet? the thirtieth T've been asked tear. help. REMEMBER, the greater the weekly payroll, the greater Seattle. ra “You, dear,” said the young Indy, yo apis pt sss — ee training to be worth $2,000 a year to a county as a leader , : eee Bak y rs 4 he seems to like It. H oh areries toward better farming; for unless he’s worth that he won’'tla 00d iittle boy!" s piapice Comes the report from K Hats Ornamental Iron be worth anything, and if he is worth that he can’t very well Huh! Is he?” muttered Johnny. |that the farmers are not discour PACIFIC ORNAME thsiag worth cuny times that. y “well, if he's there, I'll come, too.|ased by the drouth. Certainly not. | Have Your a Hat Cleaned IRON WORKS. Rattan Furniture Mfg. Co. I've been looking for him for three| How could a man who ever grows Where They Use No Acide. Manufacturers of Makers of all kinds of PACIFIC COAST HAT But the folks must see that he is worth it if his useful-| onthe, and never knew where to| discouraged be living in Kansas? REED FURNITURE }mess is to grow; and that is primarily a matter of education. | tind him before.”—Chica s ; , efore. ago Journal, eee FACTORY 7 pairing, | \ First off, the boys and girls on the farm will have to be db? The temperance movement, ac- Phone Ballard 666. 2845 Shtesnth: Avenve Wee taught how life there can be made so interesting they won’'t|®————pya_ awan Pf in, to & cable, ts spreading in Free Delivery. 46, 1 ; ting they , on aWAh geting & Case, 514 Fifth Ave. W. ny Phone Queen Anne feel the prompting to rush into town. This can be done sai Sccersialicssosiipie Saat 4 odes eg Std kod keep oo because, in spots, it has been done. But it can’t be done| While rambling round among ehisiheré, —_ hh ; ° po eer. {the animals with his father one vo Chili Macaroni Pies Salad Dressin + without overturning most of the teaching i 4 aching now done in the] itternoon little Johnny came to a| Edna Goodrich announced she country schools, which is foolishly aimed to exalt city life at a T 4 y aim a Tainjature lake on which two swane|W&s going to marry an English amaleGrotto ; Mastiae of futel ile; and’ which hae Inrgely gressured [are tontae AWAD | Te, beretipan the Lonton Papert Chili Con Carne Washington Brand Whiting-Smith Pies success by the dollar standard instead of in terms of health,| “Papa,” said Johnny, pointing a| called attention to the fact that e le Fb Macaroni, Spaghett!, Vermicelll, excellence usefulness and independence. chubby Mttle finger out over the Se vested eligible English duke Chichen Tamales Aeraese Piney Cuts, ARE BETTER Leads all grades ~ Tr ‘ . - P lake, “is t h js sixty-seven. But what is that t joodi . i je here in it is good o see a great state like Wisconsin start, even |the’mother swan? ™"" la woman who was once Nat Good-|f "'" {ety "ahied Avenue atenutactured. by aM Ti eeepc de Rohan ane is poet fs immense. jough modestly, to conserve its greatest r i ow: ¥ 7 win's wife? y i elgg vara 1 nin mnserve its grea esource, farm life. Which one do you mean, John-|Win's wife? | Wholesale and Retatl, A. F. GHIGLIONE & SONS Phone Elliott 3631, ASK YOUR GROCER. ny?” asked the old man, glancing TWO IDAHO bankers, “prominent in financial and soclety circies,”|in the direction indicated by the] “Officer Battles Dog, Chewing have been pardoned from prison by President Wilson. Doesn’t that| boy Baby's Leg,” says headline in the 7 1 D, “prominence” recommendation sound familiar, though? “I mean the one over there,” an-| Denver Republican Perhaps the Flour 2 Oil Clothing Li ortable Houses : Soda Water 4 oe pa swered Johnny. “The one with all | Officer was hungry | ORTABLE HO ie fT TOOK, Bin Taft only two months to “quite agree with the/the feathers pecked off his head cee Aak FOR Geo. A. Johnson Co. beateadee Cs ar GEORGETOWN SODA DB spf sa nspsigg «Bie Ady a Rermenent tariff board.” Geel to have the bis-| “What this fellow John Menry|— 66, . ” Manufacturers of WATER WORKS were | did get up and hustle to beat the band! f Saha Moary been doing that he's get-| ntennial t “Johnson's Best” Olt. Clothing Distributers of , my #on,” promptly rejoined | ting his name in the pape: Yi } Satiatied owners are our refereno Cola, Cherry, ales true as to wom at @ same ie} sigh. “That's the father swan, all “Globe trotting! Say, this R Pi dg Aree) aad Scaveme prices before you buy or build and al! carbonated be \ saad right, country’s dance crazy, ain’t it?” c ane fost Arcade ide, Phone Sidney 592. pb z | ;