The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 14, 1914, Page 4

THE STAR—WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, 1914 THE SEATTLE STAR’S LAUGH DEPART A LOGICAL CHOICE | OUTBURSTS OF EVERETT TRUE | SEATTLE STAR’ OF NEWSPAPERS | sa fon | THE — Spinning’s scCRIPeS NORTHWEST LeAGun ed Breas Association, | Entered at Seattle, Wash, Postoffice as Second-Class Matter By mali, out of city. 35 a 35 per mon, up to six mos.; lx mos, $1.80; your 98.25 Li hy carrier, city > & month Published Datly by The Star Publishing Oo. Phone, Main #400, exchange connecting all departments. The Value of a Man » : OW can we measure the value of a man? Private | Lord Haldane, recently at the head of England’s} The} jal system, says a human life is worth $25,000. ement is arbitrary. You wouldn't sell your life or the life} "wt one of your children for $25,000 or any multiple thereof. | 3 Tn law there has to be a dollar measure so that damages ay be reckoned when men are killed, Custom in America| fixed this measure at about a fifth of Lord Haldane’s! te. In a number of states, if a railroad kills mdents can’t recover more than $5,000. The legally damage for maiming a man is often, indeed usually, larger in for killing him But, of course, this makes only Suppose that a Lincoln or an Edison or a Marconi had Killed in his youth, Would $5,000 compensate civilization its loss? On the other hand, you have seen many human derelicts ms, wastrels, incompetents—-whose lives you wouldn't of valuing at $5,000 apiece; though in each was once invaluable human soul, with limitless possibilities of} lopment. ic have thrown them on the junk heap as we would d old machinery or old shoes and thought no more it. The fact is, there isn’t any way to measure the value of a in terms of dollars and cents. The best we can do is} ‘go on making blind staggers ~ But we can save and enrich human life by curbing greed Mpholding brotherhood. We can give our children chances. We can emphasize those values which aren't ble by the dollar standard. We can strive to pass jy and welfare around. Phere is no end to such a task. Remember that when a standpatter pleads with you to let well enough alone. im a man, his de-| allot. | a blind stagger toward aa best A NEW workday schedule of 9 hours, instead of 10, is to be adopted) the Baldwin Piano Co., In Covington, Ky. This schedule will enable men to quit at 4:30, giving them a longer evening and more hours In which to enjoy their hours of ease. And the wages are be reduced. This is a good form of profit-eharing. Yo Silk Shirt Affair NCE it seemed true that the question of peace or war in a country hinged on whether Despot A or Despot B the crown. Notice we say “seemed,” because even divine tulership usually had an economic cause tucked away its vest somewhere. it today economic causes are too plain for anybody to fe them; and therefore it doesn’t look at all probable ‘the “A. B. C.” mediators, in spite of what you may read contrary, will really expect to find a way to peace in co without touching the land question. ' And how are they going to touch the land question with, touching it Pancho Villa’s way? P h way is simplicity itself. Instead of talking ig the great estates he does it, and runs the Very irregular; very brutal and horrid? Oh, we ic know. Not really worse than the way those estates were originally obtained. Revolutions n are polite. If the land question in Mexico e HA Stes The Goat—It happens that both of us are represented among the twelye signs of the Zodiac, I am under the bead of Capricorn. Can you think what head you come under? The Cow Aqnartus? The Goat—-No; that means “wa- ter~carrier”—you're thinking of the milkman. (after pondering)— im aReo OP HEARING You | RUN THIS TOWN Down }! OLD STUFF Explorer (seeking to impress native)—Today Iam going to command darkness to fall over the land. Native—Out the bunk! Every time there's a solar eclipse scheduled, some Caucasian at tempts to make capital out of tt among us eimpleminded = Afri cans The Greyhound—They value me for my speed. I can overtake anything that rune The Rullkiog—Yea, 1 notice that every time another dog growls at you you're suddenly re minded of something you want to overtake. THE BRICKLAYER By Jim Maneo You might call him the human fowl "Cause he can lay a brick He smothers them tn mortar So they will surely sick He makes your home foundation, His work {s true and tried, If he fell in the mortar, folks, Would he be mortified? P, S-He loves his work ce- mentsly. . Strong Reasons Trate Patient , sirree, You can't h her, I won't have a soniniaw who has no more brains than to want to marry a girl with no more sense than my daughter bas shown tn allowing you to think you could have her, “Well, my lad, which do you enjoy more—going to school or coming from school?” “Goin’ to school,” “Why, how's that? “Because, gotn' to school I don't mind if I get late.” . HAS A LONG WAIT “I'm 70 years old, my child, and this is the first time I ever was on roller skates.” “My goodness, mister, you'll be old a Methuselah by the time you ride a motorcycle.” LETTERS TO THE EDITOR FEARS AN EPIDEMIC Editor The Star: The taxpayers have paid over « quarter of a mil- ition dollars to provide incinerators to take care of our garbage, and yet today they He Idle, and all garbage from the North End ts be ing dumped into Lake Union The stench from the lake, espe- elally during a southwest wind, is dreadful, The — night were compelled to close all our windows, It was enough to sicken & person. The very sight of the water around Brace & Hergert’s mill, where the city in filling in with refuse, is disgusting. How many dollars that fill will cost the city from typhoid victims remains to be seen! A STAR READER. | we} world t# picking on old John D., I would like to come to his partial defense. The whole American peo- ple are as much to blame for con- ditions in Colorado as John D. ta. The Lord, tn His magnificent gen- eroaity, gave us a continent teem- ing with natural wealth. Coal, iron, copper, timber and soil tn tn calculable abundance were ours to use, But we were timid. How j found some one to own our land and pay our taxes! And now people are starving be- cause they can't get access to land. Yet no attompt is being made to destroy land monopoly. THEO, TEEPE. — 7 wants Caw FOR WAR Editor The Star; In view of the fact that it has recently been | could we use these things or raise| shown that the army in the late our public revenue unless we had civil war was made up in great & private owner for them? | part of the children of the country We renounced the Lord for His | and, as we are now upon the verge gift. We prayed for a Lord of/of another war, congress should fleeh and bone—a landlord. And) be urged to pam a law forbidding when Jobn D. stepped forward and sald, “Sam by @ fell down and worshiped him and crowned him landlord of all. the enlisting of children under 14 years of age. In this way we may possibly pre vent the children from rushing In GILLSTANDS PAT: WON'T RECOGNIZE RENTON CARLINE’ Declaring the city of Seattle! could not recognize the Seattle, | Renton & Southern Railway com- pany, since its franchise has been revoked and legal right to operate |denied, Mayor Gill definitely ex pressed his views on the disputed subject when he sent to the coun- ell yesterday afternoon a veto of the $600 appropriation to the com- pany for damages caused by water from a broken city water main. “The city has revoked the fran- chise of the company,” said the; ymayor, “and, @ far as;T am con-; cerned, it has no rights within the city. Clearance Sale Offers you extraordinary price inducements to fill your present needs and to anticipate your future wante now, But a few of the money-in-your pocket savings are given here. A personal vinit to our store will show hundreds of other paying reasons for investing liberally before stock ts depleted $2.00 No. 2 % to 4%4Inch Pipe Wells Hinged Pipe Vise. $2.50 0c 104nch Blade Sheffield Kitchen Saw and Knife...10¢ ——— iy 400 Winner 4seam House Broom oe BBE $2.00 Set of 6 Braunsdort. Mueller Best English Steel | Wood Carving Tools...$1.50 | 25¢ 9%-Inch ‘No. Garment $1.00 Brace Chuck 5¢ | Hanger Bracket Abe $1.50 No, 0 % to 24inch Pipe Corner house, lot and garage, Wells Hinged Pipe Vise.$1.2% | corner East Blaine St. and $2.50 No. 1 % to 2%-4nch Pipe | Lakeview Bilvd., for sale on Wells Hinged Pipe Vise. $2.00 ' easy terms. View property. 0 SPINNING’S CASH STORE 1415-1417 FOURTH AVE. GEORGE IS A BEARYOUNG GETS JOB Joseph H. Young, of Portland, for | mer president of the Spokane, Port- George wan standing at Fourth av.|land & Seattle railroad, has been near Jackson st. last night, when | chosen as chief executive of the Nor- some one told Patrolman Woodlock | folk Southern railway, according to he was carrying a gun. George ran| word received here today from Nor- the cop started for him, and| folk, Va. 1. C, Gilman recently suc- jumped from the viaduct to the| ceeded Mr. Young in the Portland ground below. » position. He kept on running. — He was captured later, but had no gun. A leap of 40 feet is a mere trifle with George Pappas, 26, a Greek. pleaded guilty on a counterfelting charge, may be @ state witness against his two alleged accom- plices, W. C. Vaugh and Harry C. Stone, MAY BE STATE WITNESS Charles Dutcher, who yesterday Cheasty’s Haberdashery The Big Store for Men Second Ave. at Spring St. Store Directory First Floor Hats, hosiery, » gloves, handkerehie! ing Gress accesso: irta, collars, underwear, canes, umbrellas, . belts, suspenders, hose supporters, even- Cross (London) leather gooda, traveling bags, sult cases, wardrobe trunks, steamer rugs, auto robes. Second Floor Alfred Benjamin, Bociety Brand and Cheasty Special sui evening suite and tuxefoes, bath robes, dress! ne gowns, make ing jackets, fancy and evening Wests, tailor shop. Third Fleer Thank goodness, at last we hadyand filling up the ranks and crowd. Nothing should be done by solved by politeness there probably wouldn't revolution. D talk about pacifying Mexico without reference to Villa he represents suggests “Hamlet” without the Dane. we can’t become very sorry that Carranza and didn’t ey, turn their task over to the South Ameri- “buttinskis.” It doesn’t strike us as being a job that } performed well with solder and palaver. What Mexico is, we think, isn’t a surface settlement merely begging issues but the basic peace of justice. ich is not to be achieved of an afternoon at a water- by three diplomats, as they would carve a fowl or @ set at tennis. IKHOBOR COLONY of 6,000 In Northwest Canada that threat- run naked Ih the street if government enforces law gov- recording of bii and deaths had better wait until July or ance That Chauncey Missed ELEBRATING his 80th birthday in hale good health, plutocracy’s former favorite court jester, Chauncey , the other night, in a burst if spellbinding, poked fun Mexican rebel, Villa, for posing for the movies. jealous, are you, Chauncey? pcause if you are, you should remember, in fairness to that the camera wasn’t working when you were in| heydey. \YBE THOSE |. W. W. and attendant policemen will get into the ut of going to Rockefelier’s church. tn ‘AN HAS gone to manufacturing fountain pens Ji floods and riots didn’t trouble her at all. A great people! RE FROM LIFE: GETTING BACK TO CAUSE OF IT iis of the board of public lion were startled today by hed shadow of office buildings. “It 1s because they live in cel- THE KITCHEN SLAVE Editor The Star: Most of us would be willing and anxious to seo the laboring man, the girl in the shop and men and women serr- ing in almost any capacity whose work is laborious, benefited by the eight-hour law, and, in fact, we would do everything in our power to help them. But when thie question forces its way into our kitchen, then we at once become indignant at the very thought of our human machine stay tioned there elevated to an equal basis with other labor. No, we could not afford to keep her unless she was willing to do almost double the amount of work done by any other laborer. She ia the slave of centuries and must not assert herself, otherwise our home would be disturbed. AGNES DRUMMOND. WANTS TO KEEP CAT Editor The Star: With due re- spect to Mr. Bob Hesketh, who has many friends in the North End, we would like to have him withdraw his resolution prohibiting groceries and markets from keeping cata. We haven't seen a mouse or rat in our shop for six years. Before | we got Tabby, our place was over. | run with them. I belleve every grocer and butcher In Seattle will agree with me that Tabby ts very essential to our store. A BALLARD BUTCHER, GRAFT IN SNOHOMISH Editor The Star: 1 want to write a few words regarding the present conditions as they exist in Snohomish county. If we had such a paper as The Star in Snohomish county, I be- Meve we could clean up the biggest part of the graft now going on un- disturbed. yet the papers are doing nothing to check it. They are afraid! J. BONEFELT, Arlington. Grafting is done openly, | je publication of charges made by lars or in homes where there are Viola W. Daltry, principal of ‘Wilson public school, that chil-| come to school drunk. | ‘Miss Daitry’s sensational state- | ™ went farther. She sald that -it has xotten to be a regular oc-) | Ctirrence that pupils between the| ages of 6 and 12 come to their filled with rum, and that) has evidence that hundreds of mts in South Philadelphia fur- their children with liquor in| | Miss Daltry was pleading for the| lishment of social centers) nd boys’ cinbs in South Philadel hia, when she revealed the horri-| conditions she has had to face. And after she had made the ex-| Miss Daltry looked about and asked the cause. She hes for an answer. And then itically she declared: “Til tell you why it is. I can tell why boys loaf on corners, in- and remain in dis- places at nights, and) hundreds of boys go to the of the city and sleep in the not enough beds to go around.”— Philadelphia News-Post. YOUNG MAN, THAT'S DIANA 12 4 Bev KNIK GIVES WARNING The Knik (Alaska) Commercial ib haw issued a statement to the that the labor market there Med and t Knik ts for a man, without to go looking for work, as | are idle, DEFENDS JOHN D. Editor The Star While all the ‘OH, THAT'S ALL RIGHT —T'h ALMOST ONG OF THE FAMILY NOW, AND SHE WON'T MIND ne? | DR. EDWIN J. BROWN Seattle’s Leading ., | Dentist and : Optician Ratrance 706 and 118 View 4 In the Union Block and Washington Bidg. Phene Main S610 |THE LARGEST DENTAL OFFICES IN THE WORLD My sucess ls due to my ofa: tel apectaliate to do your your work, and wotking for prices | you can afford to pay for the best there jis tn Dentistry and Optical Work See me 4 EYER v oe ae ALBANY PAINLES? 188000604 Cheap Dental Work Expensive ‘There Is A vast Gifference between tting cheap Dental work and getting Dental work cheap. We do not with cheap Dentiats, nor do we recognise Dental grafters who clam to put in teeth without plates or bridge work and then sel) you cheap Sunk for bridgework und | We make | the best Porcelal $3.60 to 8 $8 and $12 | Synthette A au |whien | CS | without crowns, unknown to the | therefore, impom | Our work t* Sliver fi the bewt lings, $1.00 up who claims to do that To replace teeth ates or bridgework is science, and ts 9 to please you, to sult you. tne. examination free ANY CUT RATE DENTISTS Floor People’s Bank Bullding Second and Vike ‘Take levator or Walk Up. TER THS NUTMEG the city to recognize any righta‘eo! far as lines in operation are con-| |cerned. I am aware that the city, by mistake, I think, has in the past | recognized rights on the part of the company, but I don't propose |to let it happen at any time in the future.” | ACTOR DWYGHT ing out patriotic politicians who jare so valiantly advertising the | fact that they are consumed with | the desire to enlist as common sol | diers and rush to the front to face | the gune of the enemy, but seem to have mislaid the address of the | recruiting office. A STAR READER. WHAT THE PRESS AGENT SAYS Manager George J. Mackenzie has agreed to give the entire net pro- ceeds from three performances of the four-reel photodrama, “Hia-! MEADE TACKLES Fini, Prien” twot? Tie ve NEW RESTAURANT ; Dwyght A. Meade, leadin, inee performance at 2:45 was sched-|— : Pg om uled for the Junior Tillkums, while| Wi the Avenue Players in “A Ro- the Thkt, Moxt and Klone tribes will | weit ai ts wikis ee ag o, 18 8 be fi ba » of " | |be in charge of the evening shows! inca: ‘seoker after” extracrilnary $ jeating places HOLD RUMMAGE SALE | He heard of a Slavish restaurant Commencing Saturday, May 16,|80uth of Yesler way, where excel- and continuing until May 27, the | lent fish was served. Accompanied women of the Holy Trinity Eng-|by Allyn Lewis he sallled forth yes- Mish Lutheran church, will conduct |terday tn search of it. & rummage sale at 325 Yesler way,| Arrived and seated, he noticed a ve sign “Chicken Soup Like Mother | Made,” and ordered some. It came and disappointed | “There's no chicken in this soup. jand never was,” he complained to the waiter, “Soltenly,” replied the bun jug- gler. “Neither is they any dog in |dog biscult. Whaddye want any-! how, crocodyle eyelashes?” | G0 TO THIS SHOW Boost the Tilikum Potlatch. The Metropolitan theatre manage- | ment will turn over the net pro- ceeds from three performances of “Hiawatha” this afternoon and to-| | night as the first of a series of ben-| efits to be given for the Potlatch, Today’s Healthogram More attention should be given the eyes of the new-born babe. The child's future, ed tion, livelihood and happiness tn life depend on the preservation of good eyesight Ocular hygiene should begin at birth and continue through. out Ife The slightest inflammation of the eyes in a new-born infant should be viewed with suspicion and treated according to indi cations, No injury can result from the proper application of ordinary methods of prevention |} usually taken at this time. } Las grave results or a lifetime of blindness, Neglect, however, may produce | cs THs, 1 DOn'y In UKe HANDED Two night shows will be given. The Tilikums expect crowded houses at each performance, Alfred Benjamin, Burberry (London) and Cheasty Special overcoats and raincoats, automobile coats, Balmacaan coats— entire floor of coats. Feature Neckwear Displaying almost limitless assortment of the finest im- ported silks in late and popu- lar shades and patterns. Priced at 50c and up. ° New Spring Shirts This is the season when a man likes to don something new in shirte—more spring-like patterns and lighter materials. The late arrivals in shirts are especially likable. Most of the lines of shirts range up from $1.50 in price, but we are showing something novel in a full-made percale shirt at $1.00. Comfort and Union Suits The closed-crotch union suit is the latest improvement of the underwear makers. Make your next underwear purchase along this line and you will not regret it. Union suits range up from $1.00 in price. Straw Hats Are Here With the early summer days that we are having, interest in straw hats is much in evidence. The new sailors are snappy and comfortable. Priced up from $3.00. Young Men of All Ages Reflect Refinement With practically two entire Find Here Clothes That and Perfect Taste floors devoted to clothing for men and young men—business and evening suits and overcoats and every noteworthy style in raincoats—Cheasty's offers you such a selection and such economies of price as you will find elsewhere only in the very largest cities of the country. New spring clothing is the utmost in fine workmanship, pleasing, becoming materials, and you may be assured of a fit so perfect as to mean individual tailoring. Alfred Benjamin suits and overcoats are the standard for all dressers—$18 to $45. Society Brand suits, especially designed for, young men—$20 to $30. Cheasty Special popular price sults, overco: $15 and $18. and raincoats THE SHOE REPAIR MAN 216 Union St.—2 Shopse—110 Madison DIANA DILLPICKLES IN A “AH, I THOUSHT IT WOULD CATCH MY PHYLLIS — HEE —— AT HER 4-Reel “Screecher”Film “OH, YOU NAUGHTY Boy! CaucHT MG SHOWING MAMA HOW TO MAKE MY FAMOUS NUTMEC SPonceE. BUT COME away— IT THINK SHE mas