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

WE believe that the University requirement for high school graduates for admission to the state university is not in conformity with mod- ern industrial conditions, and should be dispensed with.” ful minority of the ct to the gates of the owing to the stress ¢ unable to complete th The above plank from the county progressive platform furnishes food for thought. It practically involves the entire scope of university education. diplomas. And without higt are, to a very large ex education, Is it fair? Take this case: A boy has compl Have the universities fulfilled their full prom- ise to society? Are they accomplishing the maxi- mum of results? Statistics are plentiful to show what a woe- hildren of the state ever get university. Most of them, of industrial conditions, are eir high school courses. A very, very small percentage ever get high school 1 school diplomas, students tent, barred+from university eted a year or two at high STAR—THURSDAY, SEPT. 17, 1914. PAGE 4. ARE OUR UNIVERSITIES FULFILLING THEIR PROMISE? *JELC WU SOME STRINGUEAN FALLING? THe Pe PUZZLE: Did He Make a | Sale? | | | 4Reei ‘Screecher’ | Film WE HAD A PICNIC LAST WEEK RWAY OuT IN TH' yvooDs! GEE WE HAD ER “SWELL TIME' WE ALL GOT STUNG BY WASPS 1; yw fly Wallan GOCINESS! ADOLPH DINKS JUICE COSTS NODDINGS! HE HASS LerT HrS LIGHT BURNING AGAIN. * UnHoNoRED AND sis 8 Ushers. Assessors. Book agents Salmon salad rolls. Enforced diet of milk and lime water. "NO, MY Ha SOWTION, MISS E Keeps peat. ith BUT You THe HAIR FROM MIGHT TRY IT MAKES A DIFFERENCE WHO OVERWORKS THE METER “pears 2 | SAV.FAT NOMBSKULL! How OFTEN MUST I JOLT YOU VEN YOU Go OUT DER LUGHT GHOULT VEWT OUT ALSO. IT SrHoOULT NOT BURN ON UND ON UND on! t! IR ‘DORSN 'r RSON MEMBER OF SCRIPPS NORTHWEST LEAGUE OF NE Telegraph News Service of the United Press Association. Entered at Seattle, Wash., Postoffice as Second-Clase Matter By mail. out of city. 35 per mon. up to six mos.: atx mos. $1.60; year $2.05 By carrier, city, 25¢ & month. Published Daily by The Star Publishing Co. 1 exchange connecting all depa' Easily Classified Uncle Ezra (on first visit to Se attle, gazing through a door in a Second ay. cafe) Eben, but I don't know what kind of a place it ts. Uncle Eben (ditto)—Don't show your ignorance, Ezra. If the peo: ple are wrapped up, it’s « Turkish bath. If they ain't got much on, jit's a very fasht ble restaurant . Kings and Pawns HE just-issued British and German “white books,” which give the messages that passed among the various Euro- pean capitals immediately before the outbreak of war, agree closely as to facts. They amount to these: ; Austria wanted to punish Servia for vexing her with political conspiracies and for alleged conniving at the killing of her crown prince. Germany endorsed Austria’s case and gave her carte The Natural Method blanche to go ahead. ~"l am learning to spell,” said Russia thought Austria’s demands too sweeping and) Harold, upon his return from feared a Teutonic combine to block her advance in the agll BT aD a kans. Thus fearing, the Russian bureaucracy prepared og ae pelt tread?” ached fight | “Not yet,” answered Harold, France ached for revenge on Germany; Austria went} ahead so fast and so far that Germany, at the last minute, couldn’t pull her back; somebo in Russia made the czar look like a liar in denying a mobilization which had already begun; England exhausted every diplomatic resource in her efforts to keep the peace, but refused to break faith with France; the war dogs of all the powers got their bristles up; and, first thing outsiders knew, the war was on On their surface these diplomatic exchanges reveal sur- prisingly little excuse for so murderous a struggle. Below the surface, however, and between the lines, we see irresistible hatreds, jealousies, vanities and distrust, no doubt secretly egged on by professional soldiers anxious to test the tools of their trade and eager for the limelight But the outstanding thing in these disclosures—the thing that to Americans is hardest to undersand, is the pitiable part taken by the people who must now pay with their property and their lives. During the whole period of the interchanges cas they were not once consulted. A mere handful of men, in Siaisea’ entiion ae Pies athe mre power under the antique claim of divine right, moved them as/| Ad in a Seattle paper. pawns, blindfolded—moved them to misery or death hegie “Try me on a plece of pie.” ” tr ee . ° SPURTS BY THE HIGHBROW * baicy ae nest. —Girls are more or less particu lar about thelr company, but » few of them go so far as to rave about the Model Young Man. —When a man has nothing to be vain about, he usually b: about his faults, —Next to running a newspaper, we can’t think of thankless as settling a family row. —One reason most of us demand a Happy Ending to our novel real life. “* In after years, when passion shall have cooled and the) ora ee ogo Ge nia wie) great conflict comes to be reviewed calmly, there seems cer- elactrio.” Chicas ed knee abe tain to be, if civilization is to endure, an immense advance of| His Wife—What, a coupe? democracy. Ships and Men B ECAUSE it is necessary for the public chant ships should carry our produc s the seas, congress will tax all the people to insure the ships aga hazards Dug—No, a flatiron | Extraordinary | saw a wondrous thing this noon, |_| have no words to fit It. A man spat at a brass spittoon And hit it welfare that mer Cobb's nst wat Advice , " ntly called at the! No odds how bad your liver, , sour, gassy stomach. They cleanse| The men “igs toil in our mines also incur risks for the pub- gi ol oh ‘niet | stomach or bowels; how much your | Your Pat bh r, and Bowels of all the relfa 1 W ek ¥ explosions ee wath any es to see 7 nile, LAOH o « lic welfare More men will be killed by explosions in mines you, sir,” said the tramp, “beeares| head aches, how miserable and un sg bile, nal ea 8 and tipat during the war time than will perish in war-sunk ships people told me you © very kind|comfortable you are from const!-| misery, A Cnar e pee Sia jut no delegations of business men are asking the govern \t yeien “fortunate fellows Mke| pation, indigestion, billonsness and| straighten you out by morning — ment to insure the lives and limbs of miners minded RRO . 4 up bowels—you always get 10-cent box keeps your head clear, Are ships worth more than men? Pei cn ia aged te. ired results with Cascarets. | stomach sweet, ver bets. visa water ee) going back the same sy end the headache, bilious-| regular, and you fi A PROTRACTED struggle of Christians at each others’ throats; “Yes, sir,’ was the answer Aigatnnge :ABTy oMAtREs, “250K, [DENT S08 minntis. means that the salvation of heathen in Africa and Asia must walt awhile, “Well,” sald Mr tradict that rumor Cobb, “Just con as you go, will ANYHOW, BY being a prohibitionist, you escape the war revenue YOU?” tax without the usual perjury. One of Its generators having burned out, the Tuckerton, N. J, wireless station, one of the two merican points of communication with Germany, is out of commis. sion HOUGEN [INT SHOE REPAIR MAN It's alf marble, | e| —Many a jest is spoken In ear- the dearth of Happy Endings in WHEN YoU Spry DO You | IN THE WIND Si YOU DON'T CARE WHERE IT GOSS, . school and then goes to work. His bent is toward has not enough credits in Latin, perhaps, or botany engineering. Perhaps his work Is along that line. or physiology. He gains a lot of practical experience, but lacks the sige’ University of Washington, oy be sure, is valued technical knowledge. Circumstances may ra fez He 5 fateh "a aay ts and makes al- owance fo ech ude t the diffi so adapt themselves that he could profit by the iia suidned ci is | ure higt } uh ilthes of university course in engineering. Perhaps his work ea 5 ih ; ne he is ugh ~ liploma allows him the necessary time. Or, perhaps he 4 t ‘a “sires sit sae ) uAldaind 1¢ university, has saved up some money and can afford to take sane ls 5a, Ages: eve ererenvas Ws, St CO er “ ; honors than the boy who stood first in his classes up the course. ; “ in Latin in all four years of the high school course, But here the rigid educational test arises. He rhe progressives have tackled a subject that had not completed his high school education. He warrants deep consideration, ae Cw aie. vo | STRING BEAN SOLUTION ft Wo KGePS THE HAIR the piiohy IF == FROM FALLING.’ bits ee ee ee WORDS BY SCHAEFER—MUSIC BY MACDONALD os i BREW Eada ist its sed a HUH! Aivays SAY, YOU KICK ABouT VELL, Dot's A MERE 1 SHOULD sare YET YOU Go OUT UND BAGATELLE !! ELECTRICITY, LEAVE DOT HEATER eats, ‘ L DowT vASTe VASTING JUICE! much. 1 PAIR OF SHOES | IN SIX MONTHS, One pair of shoes for the baby, at a cost of $1.60, |financial contribution made to the | family support by Letcher Yarbor was the total ough since New Year's, according to the divorce complaint filed this morning by Mrs, Beatrice Yarbor ough. She alleges, however, that he contributed profusely in the way of threats, epithets and general abuse. The couple were married at Washington, D. C., in 190 AND CATHARTIC. FEEL FINE! KEEP BOWELS ACTIVE, STOMACH SWEET AND HEAD CLEAR ——— > ¥ de . FY 3'@x5 STANDING OR HANGING WIRE % e tor s SOAP HOLDER 20.00... 0.0.0... cceee ee r ye Saves soap and helps to keep things tidy. t ° %c STILETTO ALUMINUM HANDLE by a SANITARY PARING OR VEGETABLE $ PGE. cay conns<sdrasusiccsivsn there 15¢ T NO. 0 VICTOR ANIMAL TRAPS 415¢; 2 bs SINGLE TAX IN SCHOOLS FOR PEE SE NMR 2H be Editor The Star: I wish to pro-| For rats, squirrels, mink and all small al tert the action of the Seattle school |j S@!mals x board in its ban of the single tax as ff &IN. STILETTO HEOGE SHEARS ..$1.50 rs a tople for high schoo! debates GIN, HEOGE SHEARS .. s25 For th en years the high|f 500 PKG. 6 DURHAM D BL SERVICE SAFETY RAZOR BLADES 45¢ And, please remember that each blade atate |ff has two sides, which means double service. bi WOOD CURTAIN POLE BRACKETS, WITH been on a uniform subject, each school supporting both sides of the|) THUMB TIGHTENING SCREW, PAIR 10¢ question in different contests. Takes poles ap to 116 inches pe 15¢ NO. 8913 30 TO 54 ADJUSTABLE CUR- TAIN, ROD coca ccccigeth ysasaienveee 10¢ Fancy round end $1.50 SCREECH OWL BICYCLE SIREN @1 Every boy hopes to have one. Phone orders delivered on a run. SPINNING’S CASH STO tie to go to the front. His letter/ American asylum for the criminal shows considerable ignorance, for insane—or worse.” Does he know he seems to think that in time of —perhaps not—that one of the war men are picked up out of the chief nations at war {is a republig Now the board of education steps | in and ordets Seattle schools to | keep out of the “land tax” debates on the ground that the “single tax is an “improper” question to dis cuss. If the single tax is wrong, it sure- ly cannot harm the public to have its defects exposed HENRY ©, AGNEW. eee RAP FOR ESTEE Editor The Star: I am writing a few lines tn reply to “Estee,” in one of your recent {asues. 1415 Fo 1417 Ave. I gather from the letter that {f/ctreets and simply told by a sov-|like our own country, and rejoices a | this country were involved in war|ereign to “go kill those men or be/|in the rule of a president, and not 4 jhe would think {t the act of a luna-| Kitled.” an emperor, king or czar, and | 7 Estee” says: “I would like to they fight, as would the United | see your czars and emperors flung | States under similar circumstance? | into the darkest dungeons of an| ONE WHO KNOWS. | —_—— —— —_—_—_e o Why Are Ten Tons of Quinine = - Used Every Year? | Tris enormous quantity of Quinine alone (representing! | | & about 1-30th of all the Quinine produced in the world! is required for the preparation of Laxative Bromo Quinine,” Seven Million (7,000,000) Boxes of which are used every year because of its extraordinary merit. of After reading the accompanying label from the box | Missing teeth are replaced by The Obio Method by artificial teeth Laxative Bromo Quinine, telling that are natural as your original |teeth. 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