The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 9, 1914, Page 4

MEMBER THE NORTHWEST LEAGUE OF NEWSPAPERS, Telegraph News Bervice of the United Press Association. or sOREY Entered at the postoffice, Seattle, Wash, ae second el patter, Py ed by The Star Publishing Company every cvening except Sunday If Not, Why No i ee t? SPEECH of David J. Lewis ir Uncle Sam should take over, the’ wire service the House December on why } \ j 1e) is unanswerable, We hope you wil (telegraph and teleph write to him for a copy you nd study it carefully—it will astounc | | 1] J e these high points: | and messages by phone we pay the| Just as sar For | highest rates in the world, and our service is the worst cents to a dollar for 10 words by tele} one telegram and a tenth a Paying from 25 graph, we average only year, whereas in New Ze 1, with its cent-a-word rate, the aver age is cight tclegrams per capita a year—private monopoly cheats itself as well as the public by its greed. The public is charged six Phone rates are even worse ®evenths as much for long-distance service as the railroads wharge for hauling a ton of frei ht over a right of way many SRimes as expensive to install, maintain and operate. We} pay SIX TIMES as mach for equal service as Germans pay ur local phone rates average TWICE as high as those in tontinental European cities, and the service is no better ranks sec-| ; but among] As to efficiency, Uncle Sam’s postal service POND in the world’s list, crow 1 the telephone systems of 16 countries that of the Bell system | ranks NINTH. Not only is private ownership expensive ;} 4 is also inefficient. Its cry that Uncle Sam couldn't do the) Job as well is a false cry which only those believe who haven't} investigated. | On this basis of fact, what reason is there for delaying| taking the wire business over, or so muc h of it as is worth while? | Lewis shows it can be done at about twice the cost of the Panama canal, WHICH YOU'VE NEVER NOTICED, | and with an immediate saving of more than enough to pay the interest charge and retire the principal within a few years, | meanwhile giving an improved service at a reduced price. Now if government is for the greatest good of the greatest} number, WHY NOT DO IT? | ‘ What blocks the way and why? MOTOR TRUCK In New York the other day carried a safe ty vault door weighing 45 tons, sald to be the heaviest load a truck ever had. | | z SOME 1,200 tons of raw material are handled every year In . Colorado mines to get 12 grams of radium, about as much as a 5Ocent piece weighs. The One Sure Way to Get On A’ DER L. JACKSON may be offered as “Exhibit | A in proof that Opportunity plays no favorites. Alexander lives in Englewood, N. J., is 22 years old and is a negro. While he was a mere kid his father died, forc-| sting Alexander to work to help support the widow. He sold “papers, tended furnaces, mowed lawns, did whatever he ‘could, meanwhile studying in spare moments. + He worked his way through high school, graduating ith honor. he track team, won a scholarship and was orator of his lass. Then he went to Harvard, where he took honor after jonor; and next June, when he graduates, he will once more be orator of his class. Alexander intends to devote his life to helping his race | *\He has what seems to us the right idea of how to help it! ti—che believes that the colored brother must upbuild himself *\by education and industry until he has his own respect and ithe respect of his neighbors. the rest of the journey ought to be easy. , The career of this negro boy is a challenge to boys of pall colors. He didn’t wait for charity or uplift or patronage the hustled. It is the one sure way to get on. ; NEW YORK transfer company has on Its hands a shop- . worn lion once owned by Gaby Desiys. She got it and her rep- utation from the ex-king of Portuga ROSE COGHLAN, actress, says Los Angeles Is a jay town. Some heartless lady there called her a “cat,” but of course that had nothing to do with her decision. se ees es ewes eee apse ROCKEFELLER COMMISSION finds that it costs 77 cents to treat a person for hookworm. CALIFORNIANS ARE mad because their plague of grass- hoppers is located in the fruit instead of the chicken counties. THE POPE accepts the new Spanish law taxing all church properties. Wonder If there’s going to be a general move to SUFFICIENT REASONS WHY BOSTON SAMPLE SHOE SHOP SELLS STYLISH, HIGH-GRADE $4.00 AND $5.00 FOOTWEAR FOR MEN and WOMEN $2.50 A Few Specials $2.95 FIRST— We operate a chain of 49 stores, extending from Coast to Coast, in all of the principal cities. ENORMOUS PUR. CHASING POWER SECOND— Because of our con tracts with large Kast ern manufacturera to take their sample Shous and factory counter mands. STANDARD $4.00 AND $5.00 SHOES THIRD— Beca we have Second Floor Rent charge low accounts or ©. Moderate Expenses Men's High Top, as pie tured n t w@ $2.95 Mall Orders Dellvered Free by Parcel! Post Elevator. Take Open Saturday Evening to 9 BOSTON SAMPLE SHOE SHOP SECOND AVENUE AND PIKE Second Floor J. P, RAWLINGS, Mgr Ine, STREET ] Eitel Bidg tax such. je - thous » he Hed Co. fy D try set up am the ridie while | five in OUTBURSTS OF EVERETT TRUE | 7 Nau Ww THAT 'RE DOWN Town, WE'LL GO INTO A HAT STORE AND SET You a “er / ( Mare AW NONSENSO— Zip THE STAR—FRIDAY, JANUARY 9, 1914 |] LISTON on J TOME, MRS. TRUE THIS WHAT'S JUST AD GOOD AS IT EVER One of the Boys How 1s Httle Clarence Fother ingwell Jones getting slong at First rate, | guess, His play mates call him 'Muggsy’ now.” | ore Cautious Porter. | “So you gave up your job at the depot? Yes, sub, 1 afn’t Iiftin’ no mo* cases, When dem militant uffragettes 1s #0 busy dar ain’ no tellin’ which m is kerryin’ wardrobe an’ which t# kerrytn’ dy | namite.” | see | Quick, Watson, the toe FAT eightoe was the Chris fh Wu ” wie tM nth century, oat ung ». Re on pri the and bard drinking The debtors’ prison tn the Fleet | afforded a harbor of refuge to a con siderable number | vines, | clergy the scum of of these |debtors were not allowed to wander He. worked his way through prep school, made | from the precincts of the prison; to others this privi nied, so long as they elected to keep on othen Man: iy within a mile of the Fleet Silently they commenced by mar} Trying, without license, and withour |the publicity of banns who applied to them {n the chap of .the Fleet prison, charging a which varied from 6 to 15 shillfn no | Between 174, and Fr rlages sole: jon reache prey. tion, and frequ far an to drag in co the month of od was not all URING the early part of the op gmith Engla neipal object clergy most of their time in fox huntiog of dissolute 4!) jLelow the Anailean| clerical pee Octob: ruary, 1706, the c papers nized In the Fleet pris | , ‘. he total of 2,950. When he gets that far along.|on, not content with placards ladvertisements In the parsons frequently employed ers, who, sharing fn the profits, left stone unturned to secure their! These gentry never healtatod| | t |to resort to bullying and intimida-| atly even went sola m ies by force who happened to be passing. In Editor’s Mail A Reasonable Question D pa to w Wages ranging from $2 to day? day? time of the What 1 © ea Ko a fe Je oe than $3 t A. DWIGHT From a Friend of Dogs Editor Th the least poss to a casual observ ufacturer of 4 a strong political influen STICK AT WORK CHICAGO, handk girl operators hief Star langer, % muzzi ¥v Jan. 9 n the bla v Tying their faces, 5 Harrison tele sts u 1 dogs muzzled at year when there ie r Tt seo r that some man possessed G. was ext f about $1 SILVERWARE FOR STAK READERS of A set of six benutif ully decorated | mY French ¢ finish Rogers St! to mall subsert They are of beaut! ign and will last a Iifetime t these spoons could t de Lat wet of happy bride » that the hillside pure and . Covering a Risk Insurance Agent-—You jexamine this scheme. *p inducements dillets | Autotat—Ob, I guess I can man |age my car all right | Agent—No doubt, But our com pany would pay your family #0 much a week during the thme you lmay have serve for man | slaughter ought to It offers to automo Puck | oe | Rheumatism)" * “So you want to get a position in the park 2007 Relieved in 48 Hours or Money Refunded on funded if a dollar b« Potassium Compound” “Beastly job.” Then the Parson Beat It Money re! falls to relieve you of Rheumatism ® Gout, Lumbago or Sctatica in 48} *|bours, It stops the pain, removes | °C) the cause and when that is done, at no fear of rheumatic deform *. Fullateed botth direct | prepald, by John A. Smith, 6602 Water St, Milwaukee, Wis, In ca you cann druggists’ named Potassium Com. pound” Is guaranteed to be free from Morphine and other Narcotics, and many stubborn cases hay been cured by a single one dollar bottle. Bold in Beattle at Ow! Drug ——— An old lady, wishing to pay & ‘ compliment to the new preacher, | told him: aiaa't'k bie rt io Preve Tress “Really, air, we didn't know wha! ptagen in The. newt ig sin was until you came to this | Expert Lady Attendant. town.” eee | A LUNDNERG CO. 1107 Third & NAVY YARD ROUTE Bh Kenne@y, Tourtet and Athion ad Mother's Boy. “Why, Tommi where did you that black eye?” + » boy downstairs struck me.” What for He said I struck him first.” nd did yout” . mother, I didn't.” Well, why didn't you?"-—Yonk ers Statesman . ut Seamers Mt exe 2100 ¢ | Time | notice [Phone Matin a101 ° An Indoor Sport FELT PENNANTS AND ite comducted the Ww. boarding house f PILLOWS Kas) Republican me Indian Wigwama for ohfidren The girls in the Wilson bridal party are not beautiful, declares a r. Well, » ever i H aid they were—except the news Lindquist & Lund, Inc. |) "0 ‘h°" Manufacturers | _s pee Winter Baseball Gossip 1104 Third Avenue. What's a batting average Elliott 5340. in the winter ague equal to in the mmer time?’ aske B. F. This ‘ {x an interesting question, but can | hardly be answered, as the 600 win ter hitters spend the summer in| Hleagues that do not keep batting | averages . ef Se Gy RS OE -| NOTIS || BGOLLY IF YA EVER |HAVE SOMETHIN’ (TER SAY TO A |MULE. YOU BETTER \NOT SAY |T ‘BEHIND HIS BACK. Uyeda Walliey ROBBED BY A DENTIST ON FIRST AVENUE a" "4, officn avery day 4 of thoir AY., rep: J. Brown, | = DEWARE this thief who ateals my == atients and liver off my reputation OFFICHS are at ee r . | : Woodrow Wilson has saved one ove 713 First Ave., Union Block house from being burned down ful : since he went South, and we ex Al aottar avery time you pay” one] pect him to save @ child's Iife from | ry ‘ horse before the end of ay ated any store for less than , ' the But we.do hope he We have bought them in| halt the pri won't lose his diamonds. h large quantities that we are cool ae . thle to give them to our subscribers. | Vor When a lovely woman seems to All that is necessary for you to do| 1 be surrounded by admirers th \ y your rubscription to ‘The ; days, you never can tell ar one yoar in advance ($3.25),|the one In this may bo her hired posse of priv and the spoons will be sent you,| Beware of f Browns dete@tives, charges pata, If your subsertption | Fle oes not expire for some time, you! EDWIN J, BROWN, D. D. $.|. «wen ejacutated Smithers, took: | take advantage of thin offor ing up from his paper, “here's an n ond renew for a year from the ‘ or Med tural death,” rata asta ce : Keattlo’s Leadng Dentia aviator who died a natural death f time it expires, or by inte ting a 7 ee “What was the matter with him?” { The Star and taking a « * eked Mes. Smither ear's subscription st the regular 713 First Avenue His, aeroplane fell a mile.” jprice, you will recelve the spoons ‘But that isn’t @ natural death yf Open evenings untt and Sunday ; mal! just the same, tentlh 4 for people who work. ndaye| yey, it is—for an aviator.” ra he has led a re) D.SRSE|S In the words of Lather Burbank! or maybe {it was Shakespeare who sald {t—strawberries may jcome and strawberries may go, but prunes remain with ups the year round | Without casting any asparagus jupon him, I. B. Youngs, supertn: tendent of the city water depart: | inent and chairman of the board of | public works, 1s the boarding | house prune of the Seattle city gov. ernment He's no more & prune, of course, the vernacular sense of the rd, than our mayors are straw ries, for they're not. Not some of them anyhow We've had some who were un mintakably nothing more than} lemons Youngs With Us Always But mayors come, and mayors go. Except for Tom Humes, there hasn't been one in Seattle during | the present who held| the Job more than one term | But Luther Burns Youngs 1s| with us slwa few days ago r Cotterill for an mu having been only a} appointed by Mayor | another three-year rintendent of the wa-| partment } or Byron Phelps, way back Started the ball rolling. The city had Just taken over the water | | business after a strenuous cam launched forth on tts PHONES tine with PAP PPP PPP PDP DPI GDP PLL DPD PPP PL PPP PP PPP zdsCCe~e L. B. Youngs first municipal ownership enter “What do you know about wa prise, ter?’ Phelps asked Youngs one Picks Youngs for Job | day, casual like Be ely ley pe freely and| Know Water? Well! Did He? kenerously predicted the town was ps waten’ be ~ ia ead sure to go to the eternal Mone | 4», Ouns® opined he knew several WOWSs a8 a result, and Phelps was anxious to find some chap who could bear up under the water-load | without spilling it and getting the things about it thing they the that chemists called it H20, booze. Knew it was some- er bridges and fall of it, Knew put oceans were lo ad: 4 ologista spoke of it an “chasers. <a cma abe and dairymen passed it off as milk. business at the ti contracting) He told the mayor several other ever since loeatinn to acre | things about water, and Phelps ‘fid<an4 ye ng in Seattle in sighed with relief as he mopped riety as doing rather well,! up the beads of water that had - a as gathered upon his brow, stroked Our Daily Animal Story NO, MR. HIPPO DOES NOT SWEAT BLOOD A popular theory tn regard to the | hippopotamus blood is that it sweats | potamus exudes from tt» res a pink, ofly substance which keeps | its akin in condition, mus carries {ts own cosmetics, his nd his nostrils as his eyes. be the only part of Mr. Hippo out | renders him practically invisible, Best modern outside rooms, 25¢ to 50c. Stewart House, 86 Wea Stewart — Advertisement e iping, etc. his beard contentedly, and said: “Tag, you're it.” On the Job for 19 Years And Luther Burns has now been 9400. Private exchange com li departments, 7, one month in sAvense "0 ‘ year, #98 260 & month, — PA AS WATER ON THE BRAIN ssse<e HE GETS PAID FOR IT j water superintendent tor 19 years consecutively. The city bad 36 nad 30 op 40 miles of pipe when he started Now it has over 600. : During the past year, the earnign of the plant were appree Imately $400,000 und Seattle enjoys the lowest w er rates on the J it being one-fourth what th f 16 folks down in Frisco have to pay | | After Mayor Phelps came Black, then Judge Wood tie Humes, then Ballinge Tr, and Mi and Miller, and Gill, and Dil and Cotterill. There were be jeans and democrats and prohibp jtionists and standpatters and pro gressives | imaginable Transferred Water Supply | Th came, appointed Youngs jand went. It has got so now that $ mayor would Just as soon think jof refusing his salary as bounce! Youngs : ape It was Youngs who supertnt, jed the job of transferring our ter supply from Lake Washington |to Ced. iver, and that wasn't @ small affair, efther A lot of folks had got so used tp the bugs and bacteria and the othe er microbes Dr, Crichton knows by their first names that they actually raised an awful! howl against pags ing the old favorites up for the Cedar river article. Carries a Double Duty Next came the municipal light plant. Youngs was made supertn tendent of that, too. He carried the double duties of the light and water department until 1910, when they were separated, and Youngs was left in control of the water de partment. . Next March we're going to have another mayor, and he'll be fo} lowed by many others. And you can bet the Smith build ing against the courthouse that Luther Burns Youngs will be water | superintendent as long as he wants to be. Youngs, you see, is the only example of a fellow who has water on the brain and gets paid for it. every variety of mayor ‘PAPE’S DIAPEPSIN DIGESTS FOOD WHEN STOMACH Circus men advertise the STOPS INDIGESTION, SOUR. animal as the “blood-sweating be-| NESS, GAS AND DYSPEPSIA hemoth.” The fact is, the hippo- | IN FIVE MINUTES If you feel bloated after eating, ; Instead of | and you believe !t {s the food which sweating blood, it would be more fills you; tf what little you eat lies proper to say that the hippopota-|like ® ac A curious thing about the hippo. |ing after eating, eructations of sour, potamus Is that he can close both | undigested food 8 well | burn, brash or a belching of ga: These organs are go | You need Pape's Diapepsin to stop located on the head that they can | food fermentation and Indigestion. lump of lead on your stom- f there {s difficulty in breath- and acid, h It neutralizes excessive acid, of water in case of necessity, which |stomach poison; absorbs that mis- jery-making gas and stops fermenta- |tion which sours your entire meal jand causes Dyspeps: lache, . Sick Head- Constipation, Your real and only Bilfousness, CAN’T—IT’S GREAT trouble is that which you does not digest, but quickly ferments and sours, producing almost any unhealthy condition. A case of Pape's Diapepsin will cost fifty cents at any p! here, and will convince any stom ach sufferer in five minutes that Fermentation and Sour Stomach is causing the misery of Indigestion, No matter if you call your ble Catarrh of the Stomach, Nert ousness or Gastritis, or by any oth er name—always remember that re lief is waiting at any drug store the moment you decide to begin !ts use. Pape’s Diapepsin will regulate any out-of-order Stomach within” five minutes, and digest promptty, without any fuss or discomfort, all of any kind of food you eat. ] | | | | Substantial Reductions on Bradbury Clothes Some of the neatest and most attractive patterns in the entire store, selling regu- larly at from $26 to $87.50, are now offered at reduc- tlons ranging from one-quar ter to one-half the prices at which they were formerly sold, The sizes run from 34 to 44, giving a wide chol from which to select. Prices begin at $15 and it {s doubtful {f you will have another chance this year to get such values in thoroughly well-made, depend- able clothing. It will pay any man to have a look at them now and make a selection while the prices are so reas- onable, | | Make a Saving on Shoes y reduo- | n made in | rtment, For ean now Leather r which clear saving of The $3.60 1 marked 3 plondid value at omely price ketr $1.9 Of one thing you may be certain ¢ $932-354 Second Ave. Near Union &t Seattle’s Reliable Credit Howse Take Advantage of These Reduced Prices and Bay on Credit at the Eastern’s Big Reconstruction Sale Everything throughout the store has been, underpriced in an effort to reduce the stock before the time arrives for us to move into ofr new quarters. the stock is all fresh and clean and thoroughly authentic as to style and materials, besides, purchasers may make use of our easy pay+ ment plan, notwithstanding the low prices that everywhere prevail. | One-Quarter Off on All Bradbury Winter Overcoats Women’s Apparel Specially Priced ° Winter Coats for Women and Misses in both full and three-quarter lengths, made from popular materials and in attractive patterns, may be bought during the sale, on credit, at the very special price of $14.50, Also a group of Women's Suits, in plain and fancy tail ored effects, representing & wide range of choice mate rials, and well made in every particular, are now marked $16.50. In fact, sudstantial reduo tions will be found throughout the entire line. Everything on Credit Our simple and dignified plan of opening charge a& counts permitting customers to pay a little now and a lit tle later Is a convenience that will be continued throughout the sale. In fact, the present reduced prices are a8 much for the purpose of interesting new patrons in our credit system as they are to reduce the stock preparatory to moving. If you have never tried it before this is a good time get acquainted with the plan the store. and