The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 2, 1914, Page 4

THE SEATTLE STAR. APRNs | MEMBER OF SCRIPS NORTHWEST LEAGUR OF Nw Telearap QUEAK Service of the U A Press Assoctation. Entered at Seattte, flee as Second-Class Matter RY Mak, out of city, 35 per mon. Wash 1x MOR) Aix Mom, $1.80; your $9.25 By carrter (Row! NEF Mags [AUC TRAUMA canr SUEY ee Ee (a AOE oes votes? «IF! y ihe The Eesnciite Side HE TESTIMONY, or, rather, report by Prof. S. S ~~ Huebner before the senate canals committee is right} iuminating as to the economic feature of the tolls problem. For} two years, Prof. Huebner has been employed by congress in investigating coastwise shipping, and it may be taken or granted that he is unbiased Stand until proved to be liars At any rate, his figures will} Prof. Huebner finds that 90 per cent of the coastwise Ships on the Atlantic coast and SO per cent of those on the Pacific are controlled by railroads or “conferences” of such Be yenics. so far as rate making is concerned ence, if such ships don’t pay tolls, there is subsidy] to the railroads. If they do pay tolls, the rate-making rail-| @erdiwe ar “ore Toads or “conferences” will take it out of the shippers. The} (44 70 “we! (wor 2 Failroads catch the coon goin’ or comin’ | an were TT Aiavee | What's the solution? DB vse tics as We're going to quote right here from a speech by Rep- Tesentative Bryan of Washington “Transportation is a governmental function. All profit, | all graft, all watered stock should be eliminated, and the whole business be operated for and by the people. The only| Solution is a government-owned merchant marine. Let us) take over for the government all this traffic. Why @hould) Private shipowners take a toll from coastwise traffic? The) whole people have to first chart the waters by sweeping and safeguarding the channels. Then lighthouses and safeguards to navigation must be established and maintained at public nme buoys have to be anchored and kept in place, life- “Saving stations are necessary, and crews with ocean tugs 1 scout the shore and be ever ready, at public expense, THE STAR—SATURDAY, MAY 2, 1914. 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Mrs, Wm. 8.'] consider seriously Peachy, bis granddaughter, aceom It would be difficult to meas- panied bim on the trip from San/|[ ure the amount of energy that Francisco. individuals waste daily. It takes energy to become angry. It takes succor those in distress or peril. The harbors and land- places must be dredged or otherwise improved by jetties, walls and structures. All the rules of navigation must ided after expensive hearings and great outlay. Enemies navigation have to be run down and the vessels have p be protected from interference. Then the people have to y for inspecting the hulls, the boilers, and every feature construction. Every wreck must be investigated, and all that occupy posts of responsibility on the vessels have be licensed. All this has to be done at public expense. the government wants its mails hauled, wants the to use the vessels in case of war, wants its freight its troops transported, and for all such service must heavily. Whenever any expense is to be incurred, the must put up the money, but when the money begins come in for freight and passenger services such money every cent of it, go into private pockets. Why?" he Story of an Apple Pie PNO THE great American appetite for pie we owe an im- portant move in the campaign against old High Cost| Living—to that and to Uncle Sam. When Uncle Sam made up his mind to have a parcel the express companies began to wonder where they} at and what they could do to be saved. One night Manager Mellor of the Wells-Fargo company THE DELIVERY BoY By Jim Manee | He bangs away at back doors Or rings the bell in front; | “A package for you, madame,” He snaps that off real blunt. | In any sort o° weather, He seeme chuck full of Joy; He pings along right cheerful, docs The young delivery boy. P, 8.—"Dey wasn't nobody at hum.” . A Friend in Need Sir Squire Bancroft went to call on a friend who was {l, and, “medicine time” coming round, | he poured out some of the in- bag mixture and affered It to “No,” said the Invalid, ob- atinately, “I won't take any more | of that beastly «tuff.” | “Ob, come,” coaxed Sir Squire, “do take it, for my sake. You know I'd do anything for you.” “Would you really?” asked the other, “You know I would!” declared Sir Squ “Ab!” sighed the tnvalid, aink- ing back with an air of relief. “Then you take the medicine for Sensational “He bas written a new play.” home to his New York flat and told Mrs. Mellor that| "Ortsinal™ " wanted pic—apple pie. He repeated the request next Ps dad eee ‘aa married =—™* eee Schoolboy Anewers / The grounds on which James claimed the throne of England were also Scotland and Ireland. An appendix fe a portion of a book which nobody has yet dis covered to be of any use. _and the night afterward. Now, Mrs. Mellor is one of those charming wives who ve that apple pie is best when properly hore made. So ordered fresh apples of the corner groc and the bill to 15 cents a quart—15 cents for only one of the raw jals in a properly constituted American pie. ‘Three dred and sixty-five times 15 cents meant a yearly pie bill é Melior apartment of $54.75, to say nothing of the other ings—for the Mellors had no storage place. Son afterward Pa Mellor, while up state, met a farmer ‘asked the price of apples. -“f’ve got a cellar full of pippins which I'd be glad to) }at $1.25 a barrel,” the farmer told him. Which set the manager to thinking. With this result: He offered the farmer $t a bushel, put the selected| pins in corrugated containers, shipped them to his New) office at a cost of expressage and containers of 40 cents) sold them at cost, in quantities to suit, to a buying club ade up of employes in his office. This was the beginning of one express company’s accept-| of the parcel post as a hint to dig up new business in ‘new way, based on real service at a fair price. Instead of 15 cents a day for the apples between its crusts, the or pie now gets better apples for a cost of less than five sents and the man who eats it is surer than formerly of his} “Oh, I know. And falls in love with another man.” “No, That's the original part of it. ‘The play shows marriage to be a sacred relation that some people take seriously, and get a good deal of happiness out of.” SAN FRANCISCO, May 2— j— “Huerta is relying on Japanese support.” It wae with this ominous claim that Col. Arthdr Isert, here refpgee after 30 years’ active participation in Mexican affairs, | explains the dictator's arro- | gance in flaunting the United | States. “From my Intimate observation of Mexican developments within the past few years and knowledge of events whose significance has | never been made public, | am con- | vinced that Huerta feols certain of Japan's physical as well as mor- | al backing in this crisis,” cont’n. wed Col. Isert. The resuit of these observa tions and his deductions, as well as maps, soundings and other In formation gathered during his of fielal service for the Mexican gov- | ernment, Isert has just communt- eated to the state department at Washington. He was for years chief engineer in the Mexican navy, became jefe politico in the province of Quin- tana Roo under Gen. Bravo, engt neered public construction, was judge advocate in a federal court, and held other positions of im portance and trust under the re- gimes of Porfirio Diaz and of Madero. “Japan has long been seeking high concessions from Mexico,” resumed Isert, “with her eyes on Magdalena bay, And what more provitious time to strike a bar- gain with Mexico than now, when Express companies which work this way have quite a ire as pace-makers for Uncle Sam. + iM THE Yakima Republic: “Congressman Falconer denies he to withdraw from the race for the senatorial nomination. Mr. | Hanson Is even more WE ARE just naturally curious to learn if there has been even one, in Seattle converted by our office-seeking amaigamationist New York, the Hon. Bill Prendergast. THE HEN had better look to its laurels. Price of a quarrel over fish| Col. Arthur Isert ‘was a stabbing affair at Enumciaw yesterday. Huerta is against the wall? Sas an esa In this connection 4 cant incident occurred City_in 1910, during a ta Japanese naval, officera—an incident whose dynamic impor- tance was not appreciated by the people of the United States, if, indeed, it was generally known. “During the dinner in the cap- {tal the Japanese officers loudly _ HAVE YOU signed the Hamilton recall yet? Now's the time. Leo i. ts, alana ption _ GEORGE ADE’S father went to a republican meeting in Indiana ind died. The sad scene which greeted his eyes gave him heart disease. ington handpickers, beware. HAMILTON IS not the only pebble on the beach. He wants a new ‘trial, and the people want a new commissioner. THEY'RE CELEBRATING Campus day at the university by taking coats and vests and collars off. In these days of extreme fashions, never can tell what's coming off. Mexico and emphasized what they referred to as ‘the very blood kinship’ between the two y., fridy—sum ladys that be- | longs to a sewing cirkel in brook- lin wanted to raise a little money ‘for a poor famely they desided that each one was to earn a doller by workin for it fn some way, and bring it to the next meetin so when they had the next meetin, each one of the ladys got and handed her doller to the | Poaroman, and told how she got | ‘WELL, You've GeT To GOIN. MY = "Miss . DILLPICKLES| NIGHT! one of them said-that she made @ cake and sold it, and anuther took orders for sope, and an- uther teached a guy to hesitate, and 3 ete. a the last one was a little kind of a tired-lookin dame, and when | she passed up her doller, the | “chareman said, and how did you earn your money, mrs. peters 4 got it from my husbend, says mrs, peters ©, says the chareman, that do, this money was to be by hard work, and there no hard work about that toasted the entente cordiale with | | Just as it was by Porfirio Diaz— | the war game, | self. ‘High Ex-Official of Mexico Sees Hand Behind Huerta’s Defiance of the United States | ment from Salinas Cruz, the Pa- | official visit of Japanese officer OT TO EXCUSE ME, MR, WAFFLE —I'VE } Just been sent to jail energy to worry over small things. It takes energy to tra verse the hundreds of needless steps some people take in car rying on their dally duties. BIG WOOL CLIP NORTH YAKIMA, May 2.—Cof fin brothers estimate the Yakima wool clip this season at 2,260,000 pounds, with 60,000 still to come in, | Lam season the clip was 1,600,000 | An Old Fetish If your hand itches, You're going to take riches; Rub it on wood, Sure to come good; | Rub tt on fron, } | | pounds. “This is an original poem.” Sure to come flying; Rab it on brass, Sure to come to pass; Rub ft on stesl, Sure to come a deal; Rub ft on tin, Sure to come again. ee The Danger ‘The poor woman's husband had She was Weeping bitterly, and a sympa- thizer said to her: } “Now, now, don’t take ft so | hard! Two years ts « long sen- tence, I know; but he may not have to serve it all. Convicts who behave themselves often get out months before their appoint- ed time.” “That's just {t,” the woman | sobbed. “Joe can be an angel when he likes!” see An Observation “At what period tn life should & man's income be largest?’ “M is usually reported to be largest at the period of his life in which his wife tries to show the court how much alimony he could pay.” Boston Dentists 1420 Second Avenue. Opposite Bon Marche. Ye all my own poetry.” | 2 | “Well, then, how am I different —_ oy a ade Goods — from Browning, Milton and the rest?” In doing this you enable the | manufacturer to increase his | output, and song, him to em- ploy more help. REMEMBER, the greater the weekly payroll, the greater Seattle. 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I reported all this to Consul Wm. Canada, | “Japan knows Mexican waters like a book. In those Yucatan inlets, craft could be secreted readily, especially torpedo boats.” “In view of all this, and with the entente cordiale closely o mented between Mexico and pan, I should not be at all sur. prised to see the latter creat a situation that would force the United States into open hostili- ties with the mikado's forces, when once our army is busy with Huerta's forces. “There are today between 8,000 and 10,000 picked Japanese sol- diers in Mexico, in the guise of laborers, their commanding offi- cers among them.” Dancing From 3 p. m. to 11 p. m. Fine Pavilion, Beautiful Beach. Edibles on Grounds. Tables for Picnics. Loyal Heights Car, Market St. Ballard. Portable Houses a sort of trump card in playing “Linking up with that,” Isert affirmed, “was the recent recep- tion by Huerta to the new Japa- nese minister, In its exaggerated pomp it had the seeming of a re- ception to the emperor him- Cottages, Bungalows, Garagen Bte All sizes and styles. Made in SEATTLE and shipped everywhere. Sattefied owners are our reterences Attractive—Serviceable—Ecoscmical you buy or build Get our prices before AMERICAN PORTABLE HOUSE CO. nASa. RORI Arcade Bik Golden Gardens Amusement Co., Lessees. In the removal of coast arm: cific port of the Tehauntepec railway, by order of Madero, fol- lowing hard on the heels of an ARE YOU GOING FISHING TOMORROW? We specialize In box lunches, for fish- ing trips or outings of all kinds. See us about that picnic lunch, Hollywood Lunch 2i2 PIKE ST. “The Place That Made Pike St. Famous” envoys, and the failure of the Mexican government to replace the coast guns there, Isert claims to see another link of grave im- portance, “Lack of defense at this port will give the Mexican govern- ment an out if Japan should di sire to seize that town and com- mand the raflroad and the West Coast from this strategic point. “To the United States, in the event of her own nominal neu- trality between us and Japan, if a clash were to come, Mexico could shrug her shoulders and y, “We could not resist; we no guns at that point.’ “And to my mind that Is the (i) A “YOUNG MAN, I LOANED MY DAUGHTER 4 PAIR OF MY BEST CLOVES. WELL—THERE'S ONE MISSING!" "HER GLovG$ AH, DAINTILY SCENTED Stove, THGE witt I TREASURE FOREVER. AYE, FOR*EVAH!"