The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 28, 1914, Page 4

4 ‘£ Women of Seattle, the eyes of the world are upon you, ‘virtually buying the mayoralty because Trenholme and his fich do. Happiness and content are states of mind.” authority. | Proposition, and it is a flaw that makes his proposition al- ° THE STAR—SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1914. MEMBER OF (THE SCRIPPS NORTHW LEAGUE OF NEWSPAPERS raph News Service of the United Brees Assoctation et Bintered at the pos! Reattio, Wash. as second eines er t The Star Publishing Company every evening except Sunday to Women Voters A Message - re ™~ a ° THE good women of Seattle Two and three years ago you joined with The Star, Upon a moral issue, and defeated Hiram Cc, Gill OUTBURSTS OF EVERETT TRUE Today that moral issue does not exist rhe red light abatement law has a restricted district impossible, It Paste cs OU Was not Hiram C. Gill who lobbied against this bill in the AND WHAT '$ legislature It was the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, which ~~ more, MR. TRUE, printed editorials against that law. : / Te MEN IN MY FACTORY 4RE Let no one insult your intelligence. good women of Se WELL PROTECTED FROM THE Attle, by fanning any ‘flame of prejudice against Gill, and MACHING RY. THE GEARS AND thereby making you believe he or any other man can main tain a restricted district in Seattle The moral issue in the present campaign is dwarfed into insignificance by reason of this law, and the important issue is whether Seattle is willing to sell the mayoralty to anyone and everyone who is willing to pay a big enough price in cash Shall it go out to the world, women voters of Seattle, that you countenance the sale of the mayoralty to the highest hidder? Shall it go out to the world that you care nothing whether the corporate interests meet in a back-room con ference, handpick their man, and saddle him on the city as & mayoralty candidate? SHALL IT GO OUT TO THE WORLD THAT WOMAN'S SUFFRAGE FAILS TO MAKE FOR GREATER HONESTY AND DEMOCRACY iN CIVIC AFFAIRS? You have helped Seattle and the state to solve the m« ral | tion to a large extent. Restricted districts are now a& thing of the past, and no Trenholme or Gill can resurrect But the women’s” influence in politics must not cease Where. They must now make the barter and sale of the Mayoralty a thing of the past, too They must say to men like Trenholme: “Who are you, that you should seek the mayoralty? What other reason did you have for throwing your hat in the ring except that you had money and believed could buy a nomination and an election? and the world will seek to know whether you move in a little, narrow groove, or are big and broadminded enough to take up the civic uplift struggle in all its phases Women of Seattle, you have won the battle for decency ‘That fight is over, so far as the mayoralty can affect it Your fight now is to lift the mortgage off your city which the corporate interests have attached to the candidacy of J. D. Trenholme “What message shall go out to the world? ¢ Shall it be this: The women of Seattle defeated Gill be- they defeated him three years ago, though the same does not exist today? Or shall it be this: Although they defeated Gill three irs ago, the women of Seattle were not trap) by the oe money influences into pcg J. D. Trenholme. They Eleven Owner Ways. sognized that the same issue did not exist this year as you claim to be a literary n they recalled Gill. And they knew that Trenholme wi So 1 wrote that book, ‘A to Make a Living ers were admitting it themselves? you are selling shoe INK, WOMEN—THINK WELL AND SERIOUS- LY BEFORE YOU CAST YOUR VOTE NEXT SSDAY! } of the Yeualr; ways that's one NEI Zeppelin dirigibie balloon might have made as Diecc ks Gettnare Galligeaia jack neck when soutmers ||. The. arummer wee, boasting Pacific and Santa Fe railroads were tied up for five days on Ih ho wee traveling fer jp Secount of the floods. “I suppose your house ts a pret ty big establishment?” asked the . ° 29 customer. : ‘A State of Mind “Big? You can't haye any {dea 4 4 of {in dimensions. Last week ve ‘TD EPLYING to a trolley man who wrote asking why he/] took an inventory of the em ployes and found out for the first time that three cashiers and tour bookkeepers were missing. That will give you some idea of the magnitude of our business.” was opposed to union labor, Dr. Eliot, former president Harvard college, says: | “I cannot agree with you that trades unions have brought | ppiness to any workingmen. Higher wages, shortened) ra, better clothes and more meat do not necessarily con- bute to genuine happiness any more than the luxuries of the Here’s a solution of all your troubles, by an eminent You are not underpaid, cold or hungry—you just think | are. Unfortunately, there’s one flaw in ex-President Eliot's BOOST FOR GILL Editor The Star: The Star °¢, tainly has played a noble part Tn |the present campaign. Most as valuable as a water bucket without a bottom “States of mind” are largely the results of conditions. If that trolley man had been raised from birth on little or nothing, he probably would now be able to be happy on|the first page of the Morning Bat low wages, long hours, no clothes and no meat | ter of the 23rd, citing the attitude : lof the saloon element south of That is, he would be in the state of mind to enable him | washington at, etc., if my Judgment to be happy and content don’t miscarry, ts certainly a de The same is true of a hog cided boost for Mr F.M. P. quarters and he will be content he will be content in cleanliness That which is true of trolleymen and hogs is true of all the rest of us. But there is a difference between hogs and human animals, a difference which moves the world. Humans have control of their condition and it is their “state of mfhd”| Give a hog filthy food and Give him cleanliness and WITHOUT A GROUCH i notice among the advertise ments in the street cars one adver tising a certain newspaper aa being without a grouch 1 did not bel {t could be so and now I find I was not mistaken ve to be always striving for something better Any newspaper that could sup. siaebssiaparsosiesatagnee port such a m as Trenholme for) mayor surely b a grouch. YONKERS WOMAN asks police to find her husband, who, she says, washed, ironed, scrubbed, pared potatoes, cooked, never smoked, drank or stayed out late and was obedient. Bet | I think if some of the private cor porations would close their pocket she’s never thought of looking in the lunatic asylums |books, Mr. Trenholme would not have his picture stuck up on so many billboards and his praises Jaung in this newspaper “without a Striking Pay Dirt in Colorado HE Colorado mine strike probe has been striking pay dirt One grouch.” A STAR READER INSANE WOMAN ON CAR | Editor The Star; The passen-| gers on an In urban leaving at tle for Taco ntly were given Felts, Colorado manager for the strike-breaking agency of whom the mine operators hired their imported|a nervous shock that will be hard gunmen, has been forced to admit that the machine guns used | to efface from their memorios t It was a usual oteurrence on the armored trai butcher women and children WERE TO THE STATE OF COLORADO BY THE ATORS and worked by a lieutenant of militia in their over. As the car drew a taxicab arrt ance of a pol how. | to the station Very kind of the operators, wasn’t it? ant, a woman placed aboard | i ] the car and carried int. the emoker And well calculated to make governme —oP F / well calculated to make government by gunmen| she was violently inss » and ap popular peared to be in a stralt-Jacket After this, maybe you'll wonder why the sons of Colo-| Sh was laid upon the floor of the tee» worsingmen don’t fall over themselves in eagerness to beak Ph ese re pa the tea aces | epee militia. al the passengers in the two| Or wt crowded cars were forced to laten the pitiful heart-rending screama of the poor woman the workers have about made up their minds to go into poli and see whether they, too, can’t establish aj voice in the administration of the state, instead of SERVING meats TARGETS every time they decline to starve |_ In the name of humanity, cannot something be done to put a stop to Do you begin to comprehend why federated greed fought| such barbaric methods? so hard to prevent and then to circumscribe CLARA MAY vestigation? MORE LIGHT, CONGRESSMEN! the federal in-| MILLER a ce | THAT TRAFFIC ORDINANC Let's find out who's ag Ff Fy Editor The Sta notice " who in our industrial slave camps. es sty iia otha I Rett ie _ | measure to 1 t people from PLANS FOR hunting in Maine woods are reported to be go crossing the streets between the tn ing on apace since that pretty miss announced she was going to tersectians. play the part of Eve In those woods. Such an ordinance would do for Se |much people as have nothing else to do but walk the streets, but it will] EB LADY PAGET has given up her Dublin home because she nevér do for the thousands who are| had to shake hands with several thousand people every time — | busy making their living | they had a blowout. She should have kept In practice by doing “fs sented aie th the housework. of a block on © business errand or | hopping trip Could that person | SOMEONE HAS been crue! enough to suggest that Bill spare enough time to w around Bryan did not pick up that ginss 6f cham © by mistake. Well jthe block, rather than “short-cut he might have considered it a glorious mistake if he had got across the street? on the outside of it JOHN SOMMBEREXLD, | | BACK TO THE FARM | The lip that praiseth the da unconscio The St , SB Rita feieg conscious hath blessed its sation ihe Btar: The ‘ my PULLEYS ARE COVERED, snd — BvT You Di pers ing class no but am me the “back 1 to tank the farm As I look back days down on the farm, DN'T MAKE THOSE CHANGE UNTIC THE WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION ACT WONT INTO SGRFECT, 4nD Now You BRAG ABour ITs ." | EDITORIAL PAG 1 appreciate Its good work and sound editorials, A punch at talk Such trash as Was published on which your paper is an advocate. to my boyhood of ” think of the chores in the winter, when the mercury froze up; when in the sum mer we w 1 from daylight til! dark in the fields that the artists paint so beautifully, milking those af’ t hand-shaking cows. fooding t currying 4 I feo! rather the advice from to return to t TAX CHURCH PROPERTY we tousical pigs and then wn those weary hor backward about tak Editor The Star: There te a kood deal of talk nowadays about high taxes. There {# good ca for complaint, especially from the smal) prop OHIO CUT-, RATE DENTISTS We make withont method. plates by ow A specialty of teeth | r painless Amalgam Filling . $1 Gold Crowns . .. $3 ‘Porcelain Bridgework $3 Full Sets Teeth $5 & Up Any work that doe satisfactory will be rep of charge at any time, Come to OON—-tod wish—for free examin | estimate. WE STAND an't paired day, if ation WORK FOR 12 YEARS’ GUARANTEE versity St., Opp. Paterson Co, Fraser. prove free you and BACK OF OUR | \iddle| 207 University St, 2nd and Unt. AIN'T IT $0? By Jim Manes, E OF THE STAR Laugh and the Whole World Laughs With You! Wednond rhaeht haps, of any © Nureday and on Friday The moat familiar he That you. will run against, b ts “fet ino take @ dollar.” P. 8.—'Twas ever thus. he ye" Bo Easy. I envy you your rosy view of life,” said the married man. “Ob. it's ear mist Not up.” ina! alr, not fense, marry sorrow friend down.” bad.” Yop vorce?™ vorce. one not jerty Ay Groweher I might forget my troubles if he not constantly to make a terrible effort to cheer it you replied the Cynic ary “So you don't like that profes- sional optimiat? much ;” not | Bac replied enough to be an opti married phelor. Mr there are times when ad vising me Riske He Ran. ing ry “IT don't me. So am I well to make @ change.” oe “Every one hae some secret your orgraduate. immortal admonished the theological profes And what ts wor you render yourself Hable to a cash fine not exceeding $2 and lean than $1.26 for each of or to Wise why you won't I'm very well off. And I realize 1t too nee eald “The cost lady dressing for the theatre.” ‘It is?” “Yea Neat of us ha midat.” the p Right! It ot seems neither of them will ever come living “Ane you aware that you are impert! sir? soul, the ur hilosophic “You, even the fattest and jol- a skeleton tn bis ia like a though Spoiling Hie Fun. she boo-hoo--that I cud do tt!" What the matte: boy?” M—maw's gone an’ 1 the kittens Dear, dear! Now r, little drowned that's too p—promised— Supreme Test. “1 don't actually I merely want to "Does your husband treat you indly?” asked the lawyer. “Certainly not!” said the un substantial woman. Then, why do you want a d- nt a di. pply for Then I can judge by the kind of a fuss my husband makes whether he really cares for me or ~-Washington Star. is far away from the oppor tunity to get high rentals, or any There is a way to rentals a reduce alll taxe little, anyway.) |Chureh property should be taxed If such property is) be left untaxed at all, let it be to start the chureh property shureh property Ch use ship hel; with. proper. | not actually in principal” place for wor shoul ot be taxed Churches permitted to carry on 1 estate business -‘Matchles to women's comfort, physical ; well-being, and beauty—sure to pro- mote healthy, organs of dij BEECHAM’S PILLS natural action of the ion and elimination | the tonic, safe and ever reliable | New two-Story Street Railway Car at Columbus, O., Which Has Nearly Twice the Seating Capacity of a | ‘The Largest Sale of Any Medicine in the World | c. Ree Sold everywhere. In bones, 10c., 25. Advertisement.) FITZGERALD FOR COUNCILMAN TWO-YEAR TERM. ived 20,002 votes in the pri Private cxchanee cow PHONES "2.3800 fyinnie,cucnonee RAT By malt, @ Abe; whem By carries one month In advance $1.96; one year, £1.96 ia city, 26 = month. AS POET TAGORE WOULD HAVE WRITTEN IT BY FREDUPTA SCHAEFERJ OEAK AS? LEAST MOM YOUN6 AOU WAS MTOR AL me “ony msn WOVE BEEN ees — 7 5a, G Boobab! built on Beacon Hill him a bungalow | parsley, it would ravish an artist. And in the bathroom the medi- = Months before the building, | cine chest would be built in. With Sie Sint —~ L617.) B0odad! planned how the bunga- | a mirror of plate glass it was to Chae veny \ (rer Wa low was to be built. It was to | be built in. There t would Mee fbn Ae! tu be perfect, like the palaces of dwell Iike two shy glow-vorms, \O04 Cone SAL RIONT enchantment. It was to be com ceaselessly reading the evening plete, like the gamut of the lives of men. In {ts perfection tt would paper by thelr own That is to say lamplight in the bungalow make the Taj Mahal look like | Boobabi and his wife the hutch of a herdsman. S80 Boobabi did build the bunga No item of comfort was y's | low, It was strictly up to spect- lacking. It should have five fications, and the down payment rooms and a bath—a bath with a was 600 bucks. Nothing remained medicine chest bullt In. He and but to dwell in it and sing the his wife agreed that the medicine | sweet song of life unbroken. chest should be built in. It was | Nothing remained but the pay to be, in fact, Some Bungalow, ments, In their fancy they planned {ts But there {s no joy in the roof, its wall and the delicat bungalow; no joy in the bosom tracery of vines upon it Its of Boobabt. roof would be of red gravel, white stucco the walls of {t, and wan- tonly over all the clematis elambering. Resembling a Neuf- chatel cheene, embellished on top It is built in for eternity right with paprika and garnished with © behind a door! Nor in the bosom of his wife. For the medicine chest with the mirror—the medicine chest in the bathroom—tt is built in where it's unhandy LOTTI Away aun THEY HE MUST BE SOME NEW SORT OF A NUT Worse Yet. Here's one on Doo Matthews. “My dear,” exclaimed the long clergyman, “we'll have to fire the cook. Did you ever see such a wretched chop as the one I've just put on my Plate?” “Yen,” replied Mra. Matthews, “the one you've just put on mine.” SAN BERNARDINO, Feb. 28. ~Just to prove that he really Goes it, Mayor Catick has issued a standing invitation to the peo- ple of this city, and especially to the “votes for women” contin- gent, to come to his home any Tuesday morning and watch him o the family wash. The suffragets have just made their first excursion to the may- ors home and witnessed the dem- onstration. Its accomplishment | ts supposed to prove that the mayor has the deepest sympathy with the feminist movement. UBLE DECKERS GIVE STRAPHANGER A CHANCE ‘ en ee eee whee he Single-Floor Car. [i oreo] FLAGG DECLARES HE'S FOR Lady o' Dreams ame down the | MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP Editor Seattle Star: In some) Judge Winsor when he was hissed way @ story has been started that/at a meeting in the Seattle the 1 am opposed to municipal owner-|atre, and endorsed the action of jship. I do not understand how or the Port Commitsston, and Robert | Why, for of the four nominees for Bridges, especially, in their fight |the two-year term tn the city coun- for public control of our water 1 r/cll, I'am the only one who has| front improvements follow/been outspoken on the subject,| Anyone doubting the above ts re- and thought I had made my posi-|ferred to Judge William Hickman tion plain | Moore, Judge Winsor, R. H. Thom: Many of my opponents say I am}son, Mayor Cotterill and Robert My Lady o° Dreams ts blithe and fair With spells that lurk in her eyes and) her #he beckons I too radical on this point. To | Bridges Her deep enchantment hath prove where I stand, may I call Having ‘talned 4: dometsuct oan Yes, 1 must follow and T mu your attention to the following: I| water and Plight nstruct Ss systems spent time and money in our first | watched them attain success, I can fight for the principle in 1906; | but hold to the principle of munie worked and voted for it ever since | {pal ownership of all public utill- when I had a chance; fought the | ties until it is proven wrong in the Harbor Island scheme; stood by|ory and practice, A. EB. PLAGG. TH my La Dreams shall lead me home! yo Rerton Braley Y. M. Sunday Club) A free stereoptican lecture on! “With the Man of the Army and Navy” will be given at the session NORTHWESTERN CREDIT ASSN of the Sunday club tomorrow after Establishee 1903 noon at the Y. M,C. A, by William 3012-15 Arcade Bidg. Main 6324 E. Adams, international secretary of SEATT y the army and navy work of the} LE’S CREDIT BUREAU Y. M. C. A. at Port Townsend, | COLLECTIONS merton and Vancouver, Wash i mary ction, which was the high est number received by any candi-! date for the two-year counctimanic term, and respectfully asks your| support at the general election March 3. 1 . = eR SEE,