The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 17, 1914, Page 4

Soviet tag a leah lea ded agg las ‘STAR—WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 1914. PAGE 4. SEATTLE STAR MOEN OF SCRIPPS NORTHWEST LEAGUE OF NWSrArens) Ay Daily by The Star e exchange co Taking the Next Best oy RE are as good fish in the sea as were ever caught,” : runs a proverb, So, when the man she was to marry Rept her waiting at the church, Bertha Aigon of Scranton kept faith with friends by proposing to and the best man Will she be happy? That, of course, depends Whichever man a woman marries there are probably s—more than hubby would like to realize—when she cies she might have done better had she taken some ‘one cls ea In your own case, dear madam, honest, now, isn’t that ue? Yet. having woman pre Velearaph News Service of the United Press Assoc Postoffice as Second-Clase M six mom, $1.90; your $3.26. th x mos. her assembled it's uncommonly bad, on these errant maue ‘ ice, unless sensible <eeds to draw. rein cies andl make the best of it Life is mostly a series of accommodations. What we is never quite equal to what we want or what we think ought to have. It's lucky this is so, for it keeps us striv- 3 But strive as we may, we never reach the goal of our bes and are fortunate if, in the inevitable compromises, we make enough headway to keep our hopes sweet So we shouldn't be at all surprised if Bertha’s swift swap ht turn out to be qui Clearly a man who can't remember his wedding day isn't for ™ the sole duty of appointing a chief of police. And still there are who claim the charter has “business merit.” Be AFTER THE way J. R, McLaughlin wae handpicked for the Aber : ‘convention, In 1912, why can't he also get Prof, Taft to praise Dr for university president? ee * ‘Concerning Health News DOCTOR, talking ern <tate. said they ks know wi He suggested, for example, that if each newspaper had a ined physician on its staff to pass on medical pieces before 2 into print it would help a lot. indoubtedly, if the trained physician were also a trained paper man. hiytd few activities of life are richer in n interest than the battles of the doctors with disease; wat as the usual doctor would describe them it would take ‘elassical dictionary, an encyclopedia and a course in col- to make the average layman understand But is it so certain that a trained doctor would be the to rep in medical Isn't his fessional knowledge to professional dices? The best source of simplified information about real ements in this field that we know is a properly trained health officer, who has been seasoned ie the right use SES sith hhed ene te to be congratulated. 18 the time of the year when the editor gets gray haire watch- ‘see that the typesetters don't make some fool mistake with that before and let more at is going on in their profession rt resu'ts progress? liable be offset by es _ TODAY AND tomorrow you have the last chance to sign the Initia- and show the ring which ran the last legisiature that the peo are boss. 7 he Mother Tongue N a number of communities the fixers are fussing about how many foreign languages should be included in year’s public school course. It is worth considering, for Americans are notably shy im languages. Especially in Spanish, a tongue which the anama canal will make a necessity in the near future. But there’s one language which, in any event, we must to teach and to use more effectually, and that’s English Do you happen to be where you can read many business ers? Aren't you struck by the large percentage which ex- 3 clumsily or fail to express at all what the writer has in mind? In purely social correspondence—the letters between arts and friends—exactness isn’t so important, for in m the heart speaks a language of its own. But a fog in a business letter may be almost as costly a fog at sea. Where large interests are at stake, clearness brevity are most desirable. Since English is our meal-ticket tongue, whatever other ngs our schools may offer, they should offer the best pos training in its efficient use You'll be surprised, young sir or young miss, now that have graduated, how very little use you will find in tryday life for most of the theorems and exercises and problems which have been puzzling your head in school. Chances are you'll never refer again to your trigonometry calculus or the intricacies of the Greek grammar. Above f rudiments of simple arithmetic, all those elaborate for- ‘mMulas in “math” will seem like time and gray matter wasted pesn’t call for a good working knowledge of English You can get that in just one way—by diligent practice. ‘THOSE STRIKING Bronxville golf caddies who beat up members the Country club sure set a horribie example. . ‘THERE SEEMS to be a rising demand that the progressive whale ‘throw up Jonah Perkins before starting out on the next voyage on the political river of doubt, OHIO 18 due for the 17-year locust pest. But the Buckeyes should up. Scientists say the locusts make bully soup. (HOUGE N Iiit SHOE REPAIR MAN| 216 Union St—2 Shops—110 Madison marry-| s satisfactory as the original plan. | UNDER THE Hinky Dink charter, the mayor will get $5,000 a year | rroup of doctors in an East i But there’s hardly a job above the very simplest which} | THE SEATTLE STAR’S ARTMENT LAUGH DEP ° | | OUTBURSTS OF EVERETT TRUE | gas mamemmsmamcre ait | SENIORS G0 OUT i and Impremive MAS “9 DrAoy Stes of Wash The commencement add delivered by Prof. Frederick Ja | son Turner of Harvard. Fr ships were awarded. 1914 gazed TO FACE CROO-EL | CROO-EL WORLD! tear-producing remonies attending the Every member of the class of sadly about the big auditortum, and especially at the assembly, when, as fresh: of a ducking. -and hunting jobs! WASHINGTON, June 17 house disapproved of the navy 4 |partment’s plan, Pays for an “Byening Course” tn |B electrical, Gas or Steam Kagincering | SEATTLE ENGINEERING 6CHOOL. First Wert and Koy. siestpp! to Greece. THE RETAIL DEPARTMENT OF AAOwWARD D. 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Thin net Is very popular for the living room or Oc special ......4 0s "RIGHT SMART LONELY FoR YE Our HERE IN TH COUNTRY, AIN'T IT, MISS DILCPICKLES, WitHouT ANY Besus 2” AS Wer bie ek ES ) 4Ree | ‘Screecher’ Film "DEAR MG, YES, MR, GREEN BERRY, FAR AS SocieTY (S CONCERNED 1 MIGHT RAFT IN MIDeo Ocean! 7 ind Its terribly sad leaving college m, they were exiled to the heights and for- bidden to come down, under pain TO KEEP SHIPS. The e. indorsed by the senate, to sell the somewhat out of-date battleships Idaho and Mis TOUGH ON JIMMY Some time ago a wild | young animal named Jimmy | was promoted from the third grade In one of the public schools to the fourth. The teacher In the fourth grade was young and timid, and, knowing Jimmy’s ion, there came a fear In her gentle little With Jimmy‘e old her, however, It wae dif- ‘ent. “If you have any trouble with him,” said the third grade teacher to the fourth, “just send him downstairs to me, I'll fix his feet for him.” A week went by, and one day Jimmy appeared at the | third-grade teacher's door, Little schoolmarm got right on the Job, Without any pre liminaries, Jimmy wae | yanked Into the room, laid across her knee, and beautl- fully fanned, | “Now, then, my,” sald the teac ing the younget have you got to say for your. if | Jimmy, “Mise Magg! } to know If you won't Has 6he the Warbies? Wanted—A steady, respectable young man to look after garden | and care for cow who has a good and in accustomed to sing n the choir—Ad, in Connecticut | paper. HE State of New York, n completed the examination of the Metropolitan Life Insurance ir» which it is required by law to make every three years. The he NE&EDED NO COSTUME “Didn't you wear a red suit with horns at the mask ball last night, Uncle Joe?” Why, » my little man.” “Pa must have made a mistak He said you looked like i then. devil,” one A Timely Warning Willie (to visitor)—You'd bet- ter eat your ple slowly; ma nev er gives more’n one piece, eee The Test “How can you tell when woman is only shopping? “When they intend to buy, they ask to something cheaper When they're shopping, they ask {f you haven't something more expensive in stock.” $1.25 wine 7, 7x2x1% Combination India and Washita O11 Stone tenons $1.00 Corner Be be 10¢ box Mica Axle Grease We be and give the best made. 40c box 100 $-16x2%1n. Flat Head Stove Bolts . ‘ ihe The nuts alone are worth more. Buck Saw Rod and Turn 15¢ nave | 4hole Flat bo 2x7-16 260 buckle We wave U 10¢ Se 1-4n, Round Brass Key Checks ins fe B4x1-4n. same . 10 4x1-1n. same e Home, 1801-1803 Lakevie Bivd., for sale on EASY TERMS, 106 % Corbin Paracentric eed each 10¢; 4 for vest O34 a Electrie ter SPINNING’S CASH STORE 1217 “ave.” CANYON CITY, Or., June 17.—Following one of the bitterest trials ever held in this vicinity, Charles BE. Potts is today acquitted of the | charge of murdering his wife, The jury returned the verdict of not guilty late last night, after deliberating th WOMEN’S CLUBS END SESSION CHICAGO, June 17.—The closing session of the 12th biennial con- vention of the general session of Women’s clubs was held today. It was generally admitted that the slate headed by Mrs, Percy V. Penny- backer of Texas, president of the federation, had been elected. The Auditoriam was jammed with delegates and spectators. KICK ABOUT MOVIE COPS j GRAND RAPIDS, June 17.—By unanimous resolution, the Intern national Association of Police Chiefs de ced “white slave, other crime and police caricature movies MEXICO TAXES hat brims $1 per 4 inches above a certain width, | Terrible blow at men’s styles, as the women love to go bare-headed. TO THE PUBLIC: through its De rtment of Insurance, has ief Examiner, in concluding the report, saids “The treatment by this Company of its “seopfingr esas in the prompt payment of their claims, in the volun features of the The payment of millions of 's business which deserve in bonuses, and in its social welfare work—ere commendation.” rintendent of Laden, the Hon. William Temple Emmet, in Sua approving the repent, wrote an THE COMPANY’S GROWTH AND MANAGEMENT. “The administrative officers of the Company * * ° review from which we make extractss have so increased the assets of the Company as to make these equal the resources of many states and even nations. They have at the same time steadily cheapened the cost of insurance to policy-holders, both by direct means and by the distribution of bonuses.” “They have extended the (with approximately one-eighth of the th has back in bonuses 1s business to such an extent as to bring it into contact now population of the United States.” (The number of policies outstanding December 31, 1913, was 13,957,768.) growth has involved no sacrifice of efficiency in the handling of Getails, but, on the contrary, has been the direct result of constantly administrative }, is shown the comparatively small losses sustained by the Company in proportion to the large investments made.” ITS POLICY-HOLDERS SATISFIED. “The fact that the percentage of lapses due to the abandonment of their insurance by policy-holders is constantly decreasing, speaks eloquently to the same effect.” “This last mentioned devel [The lapse ratio of Industrial policies has decreased 31.7 per cent. in eight years. lopment is perhaps the most convincing evidence which could be offered that the Company’s policy-holders are, broadly speaking, very well satisfied indeed with what altogether. “For years it has maintained for its they get in return for the premiums they pay. A very remarkable showing ITS SOCIAL SERVICE. “This Company waited for no changes in existing law before striking out as a pioneer among insurance companies along the pathway of social service on a huge scale. policy-holders a nursing service upon a great scale; this has latterly become a veritable marvel of efficiency and practical helpiulness.”* (Metropolitan nurses made 1,127,022 visits to sick for which the Company paid the in 1913, “Leaving out of consideration the mere numbers of those who have been directly benefited by these activities, I think that the example which the Metropolitan has set to other é@reat business organizations by its early recognition of the new to all business enterprises which have attained a certain size, is one of responsibilities the most beneficial of recent occurrences in the field of American business, For years it has through its publications upon the question of health conservation been serving multitudes of people as a sort of University of beneficial instruction upon this most important subject.” ABREAST OF MODERN THOUGHT. “This great institution, having so very recently been under our critical scrutiny and presenting 60 many admirable illustrations of what an efficient and enlightened modern business ‘tion on a lar, where I may their best still capable of do: been that these agencies shot be Assets, $447,829,229.00 Largest amount of insurance in force of any company in the world $2,816,504,462.00 scale can doin the way of keeping abreast ef modern thought, seems to be in a position rly use it as an illustration * * * Lowe s from which, latterly, all the talk has that private initiative and en‘ are at to retire.” Liabilities, $414,244,327.51 Metropolitan Life Insurance Company (incorporated by the State of New York. Stock Company) JOHN R. HEGEMAN, PREOIDPN®Y 4 MADISON AVENUE, NEW YORK “WAL, BY HECK, I Te NE what Ile po— 7 BE YouR BE4U—HAW-HAWw— AND Take YE BUGGY RIDIN’ TOMORROW} How's THAT £” Az BE ON A MOE "OH, MR. GRaew Berry, I WOULD Be DeUicHTeD To GO BUGGY RIDING TomoRRow: OM GIRLS, THERG'S A SWELL FELLOW COMING FROM THE City TOMOR Row ~ “ON SCCOND THOUGHT, MR. GREENBERRY, we'D BETTER Cal. ore he BUcEY RIDES. IVE Got TW STAY HERS AND WRITE A LCT OF LSTTERPS TOMORROW! %