The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 13, 1914, Page 4

THE SEATTLE STAR BER OF SCRIVES NORTHWEST LEAGUE OF NEWSPAPERS Telegraph News Service of the United Preas Assoctation Entered at § yatoftice as Second-Class Matt By mi atti, Wash. year $8.26 mon, up to atx moa; atx mom, $1.80 elty @ month 1, out of ofty, 35 p By carrier Published Datly by T exe. A Way Out of Canal Toll Muddle HAT Wilson says about the economic side of the Pan Any toll on American railroad ama tolls question is debatable Shipping at Panama plainly raises rates by an amount equal to itself and by so much adds to the cost of living No man can gainsay this—it is too obvious | A main purpose of the big ditch was to give to American p shipping the full advantage of water haul competition with p rates by rail | : A toll on American vessels using the canal is also a toll competition transcontinental OM every ton of freight transported on land in With every ton transported on water, Every dollar thus collected at Panama will mean many extra dollars taken ut of the pockets of the American people by the railroads of America If it were alone the question of surrendering to Toad imposition, we should be in favor of resisting the repealer to the last But Wilson rests his request for toll repeal on a dif ferent footing. He says the repeal is necessary to the suc cess of his foreign policy. Without offering to submit details, he implies that unless equality of treatment shall be extended at Panama to ships of all nations, the United States will get into international difficulties which he would at a loss to face. * Taking him at his word, isn't there another way of ? €annot the effect Wilson wishes be produced by LISHING ALL TOLLS AT PANAMA AND RUN-| iG THE CANAL AS A WATERWAY ABSOLUTELY ! rail toll That would cost in the neighborhood of $20,000,000 a a great sum, but probably less than a toll system) Sout cost when used to jack up rail rates as well : And there are plenty of swollen incomes upon which the} eres income tax could be increased enough to meet the) mey. Alaska Gets Its Railroad ASKA will have its railroad, and well may the people of this city and state join with those in the Northland in celebrating the signing of the Alaska bill + Even the fact that there had been doubt for some time @s to the ultimate passage of the measure, and its Approval the president, does not lessen one, whit the importance the event. Alaska will have a government-owned railroad } Can you imagine the significance of that fact? | Alaska, which to the Eastern mind has been treated until only as a wild, frozen, uninhabitable territory, will be “Given its greatest opportunity for development * The hardships of travel will be largely eliminated 7 Its coal, its agricultural products, its commercial oppor- ies, its mineral resources, will now be given their full unity in the markets of the world. j And naturally rage Seattle and Washington will fall to a large portion of Alaska’s prosperity. Tt has taken several years to win over certain people and rests in this city to the advantages of a government oad in Alaska. We have fought out that proposition, and it is done. Seattle today stands united on the Alaska railroad bill, d behind the government policy, and united we should jain on all the questions affecting Alaska Let us develop that rich country for the many. Let us ‘Make it a country for a permanent instead of a nomadic a > ° ing’s Coming HE spring robin is on his way northward, but you aren't! A, going to care much about the robin this spring, owing oa to another thing that comes this spring, and that's Piccadilly’s | dictum as to what the swell American dresser shall wear How can robin, in brown coat, dull red breast and yellow ‘Overshoes, hope to compete with a thing rigged out like this:| i Tight English suit; high crowned derby; high collar; Ey pointed shoes; thick cane; top-coat just like a kimono, sleeves so full that the raising of the arms raises the And, oh yes, a bright colored band on the oes whole garment. hat. | You cannot set traps for it. You cannot shoot it. You €annot swat it. And the chances are that if you ever again ‘Say one word about woman's folly as to dress, your wife Will buy you a high crowned derby with a bright green © band and talk you into wearing it as the up-to-the-minute WITH 15 INCHES of snow from New York to St. Louis, and with daffodils and violets blooming in Seattle, E folks are beginning to think there's something wrong with the distributing system. TO 540 FAMILIES IN SEATTLE bit of cheer and sunshine they cas to their home. I don’t care how rich or poor you are; I don't care how humble the home; I don't care how small the wages; I don't care if you come to my store with your honest hands and face covered with the dust of toll—I like you for it. No matter what your occupation may be as an |honest working man or woman, come to see me and I will let you have any one of our fine planos or player planos without paying down one penny. I will let you pay me a few cents or a dollar at a time just as you think you can best manage it, and your children can have any one of my elegant pianos. Or bet- ter atill, you yourself can have a fine player plano, so that everyone jin the family can play fine music |without any musie lessons—better music than any music teacher can There are about sixty thousand homes in the city play I have something that 1s really) I have been telling in the papers worth while to Jffer to just five how I am literally swamped with hundred and forty families ations 4 “aera “eg sovie : 0 us to arrive. My people the good, clean-hearted, honest in the Hast tell me to never mind working class families. My offer the firat payment so long as can fs not to th honest. My | get them Into good, honest homes. n And #0 I say again to every bon which lives by its wits. No! de est father and mother and to any cidedly not responsible young man or young This extraordinary offer 1s made |lady, come to me pick out any I mean only to the serious father and piano or player p WITHOUT mother who want to give their paying me one cent in money. This children every advantage they pos-joffer ts of until I can unload bE sibly can; who want co add every /540 Instrum ] NATIONAL PIANO MFRS. . 823 THIRD AVENUE, NEAR MARION STREET. One Block Below Madison Street. By D. W. THOMAS, General Manager, W Wholessie and Retall ern America, }ago a young man in West « out of employment, his wife sick baby crying for bread tion went out to help himself to the necess his attempt to procure food not wish to justify theft. It jen are would think that the development of the natural resources of the coun try was the millions live on the verge of des be done? { "-APARTICULAR MESSAGE itution, when ‘ows the ) Philadelphia in Lacove my on home |key, Otto Schleuter, Marquette stu dent, was and shot through the leg. A HOSPITABLE WISH ? e 1 can't come up to your house now-—-l've got to watch that hole in the ice. ‘Oh, very well time. Drop in some | Johnny Writes a toondy—spring in in the air, and clarice, the waiter girl, got a terrible case of spring fever my goodness, she says to one of the uther girls, If 1 could just get a good job of housework out in the subarbs, where | could hear the birds singin, and the cows callin to their mates, | certenly would duck this hash mill well, says the uther girl, why don't you take a slant at the ade in the papers, there's plenty of people in the subarbs lookin for broom swingers so clarice she got a paper, and she picked a ad of a family up tn yonkers that wanted a maid tn a small famely no washin she took a trane up to yonkers and she found the house all site with grass around it and a cuppel of trees, regler suburben stuff the lady of the house looked clarice all over, and then she says iam sure you will find it a nice place, all you will have to do ts the cookin and sweepin and dust in and frenin and get Jimmy and sadie ready for skool and take the baby out riding t. bis buggy and feed the chickins and cut the grass and help me with the mend- ing and sewin excuse me lady, asks clarice, but Is the soil good around here soil, says the lady, what has that got to do with it well, says clarice | trought tn my spare time { might raise veg- gitables after which she took the next trane back to no. y, and she ts still stacking wheats at the old stand as long as you feel springy in your insides, it don’t make so mutch diffrense where you are johny eee Ashamed of Them “Why does Brown sometimes go by another name? “He used to sign the popular songs he writes.” COMPLAINS OF CONDITIONS Editor The Star: Several we in despera He was killed In 1 do de fes of life. thing. ; |plorable, But the conditions lead i. Early spring robin? Huh! Watch for the early spring |!ng to this crime are infinitely more idiot! | deplorable. of men and wom One Several million unemployed. today should completed. Wh How long is this fearful condition to exist? Our only hope rests in the awakening of th public conscience. ‘RY L. WALLER here {# #0 much to HE THE DIARY OF FATHER TIME The contemplat attempt to Atlantic ocean in a flying achine in 1914 brings to mind the efforts made by John Wise, the firgt cronaut in the United States, to ecure, in 1846, an appropriation rom congress to finance a trip across the ocean in a balloon John Wise was born on February 1808, He began experimenting 835, and tn 1837 d that while hunder cloud the cords M@™ gave forth musical sounds, and he heard voices on the arth when b After was a mile above It twice seeking appropriations he tried to get its aid ships from which ex iiding a land or sea 1859 he had made On September 28, 18 from Louis @ The body of one Up to 0 censions. returned member of the party was afterward found In A WINDOW PAIN. Lake Michigan MILWAUKEE, March 13.—Be he tried to help Mary Weber mb through " window at her when she had forgotte mistaken for a burglar passing| necessary, and much bi ould be thrown at an en-| THE STAR—FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 1914. THE SEATTLE STAR’S LAUGH DEPARTMENT MIGHT AS WELL GET OFF HERE WITH ME, THEN YOU'LL NGITHER BLOCKADE THE Exir FOR OTHERS NOR TALK TO THE MOTORMAN WHILE HE RUNS TNROUGH THE CROWDED STREETS f “Look, Jimmy, there's a mes wenger boy runnin’!” “Shucks, you're easy. That ain't no messenger boy;! that's a movin’ picture actor.” eee She Knew “It there were four flies on a table and I killed one, how mony would be left?” inquired the teacher. “One,” answered the bright lit the dead one.” SAYS IT WAS GRAMBS Editor of The Star: I find, on Closer investigation, that my state ment of today that Mr. F. D. Moore had personally taken insinvations against me to Mr. Trenholme was not #0, the statements having been taken to Mr. Trenholme by Mr. W J. Gramba, assistant to the prest dent of the Puget Sound Traction, light & Power company, who, I am told, said that his object was to get me I believe this statement ts due to Mr. Moore. I believe it is also |due to Mr. Grambs Yours truly, J, D. ROSS. Supt. of Lighting. 7 Frequently — | Wifey—Anyhow, a woman's | | mind is always cleaner than a mo Hubby—It ought to be. It changes oftener. WA ose ° Progress “Il am glad to see you home, Johnny,” said the father to his small son back on a vacation “How are you getting on at school Fine,” sald Johnny. “! have learned to say “Thank you!’ and If you please’ in Fr hb.” ood * said the father. “That's more than you ever learned to say in English eee Used to It Lawyer—The cross-examination 4id not seem to worry you. Have you had any previous expert ence? Client—-Six children. ee Oh, Don’ “Here's a fellow offers to teach you to talk and drink at the same time.” For pity's anke, don't let my wife find out about him.” ee Judges of Men “What kind of a man is he?” Well, he's cute socially and wonderful morally.” |-HUSTLE-] pute the a2 through Which wea All Clogged Up? Here’s Quick Relief A Simple Remedy to Correct Constipation Before It Becomes Chronic. Very few people go through life without some time or other being troubled with constipation, Thou sands injure themselves by the use of strong cathartics, salts, miner waters, pills and similar things They have temporar value in some cases, it is true, but the good effect is soon lost, and the more takes of them the less effective hey become. A physic or purgative Is seldom r and more permanent results can be ob tained by using a selentific remedy like Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin It does not hide behind a high sounding name, but is what it ts represented to be, a mild laxative medicine, It is so mild that thou sands of mothers give it to tiny in fants, and yet it is so compounded, and contains such definite Ingredt nts that {t will have equally good ffect when used by a person suf fering from the worst chronte con stipation, In fact, among the great ext endorsers of Syrup Pepsin are lderly people who have ars and found nothin: fit them until they ¢ rup Pepsin It is a fact that millions of fam ilies hay Dr. Caldwell's Syrup | Pepsip c@nstantly in the house, flomes like those of Mr. H, W, Fen stermaker, Siegfried, Pa, He says he has had wonderful results fron the use of Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin, that, in fact, he has never | | MR. H. W. 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