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STAR—TUESDAY, NOVE ‘“T HAV® THE MUSIC FoR IT, MR, SPOONERLY. Now You CAN TeACH MOTHS Fox TRoT! Dillpickles | In Father's Chance | for a Coup A ‘Screecher’ |— “DELIGHTED, 1 AM SURE, MISS | DILAPICKLES. “4 BEHIND US CLOSER? A Gecrex FReoM > Jennny Meuse TE MAWO OF POUERTY WEUER WEARS A KIO GLout.! WHY TOSS A COIN WHEN ADOLPH IS HANDY? SAY OSCAR, VOT SS DOT ip DULL HOARSE MURMUR COMING GOOTNESS!! Deyvre WOLrS!! DEY WASS we FotLowine us! . _—t mE aot YEes, BUT "DEAR Me" US REACHES MBER 10, 1914, PAGE # Dorr ED HUNGRY WoLFS. EF VON oF Moscow AUFE, DER CODER MASS TO People of U. S. Must Tackle Land Problem, Too “ O YOU believe,” a reader writes, “that we are all equal children of the Divine Father, hence brothers and sisters and, therefore, equally entitled to the use of His free gifts—the air, the sunshine, the water and the land?” Brother, we do. It is not possible to read in either the writings of na- ture or of the world’s greatest inspired men any adequate warrant for private monopoly of nature's treasures. Patient, siciecatiaay lazy as most of us are, very few of us would stand for an attempted seizure, by a few, of the air, in order to tax the rest for the privilege of breath- ; True, we let a few poison some of the air with dan- THE SEATTLE STAR. ySPAPERS ‘Telegraph News Service o Entered at Seattle, Wash., Postoffice as Second-Class Matter. iy mail, out of city, 36c per month up to @ mos; & mow, $1.80; year $2.36, By carrier, city, 25¢_@ month. Published Datiy by The Star Publia! ‘exchange comnect What a Boom Book Omitted | ROM NATURE'S chambers in the bowels of the earth, from the store of riches put there by Providence, a few | sons owning titles to lands in Montana, though mostly living far away, in 20 years have taken a billion and a half of dollars, paying back, in taxes, to the state thus stripped, only paltry thousands. | Suppose there had been in force during these years the| plan, which Secretary Lane urges for Uncle Sam's mineral reserves, of a fair split between owner and developer Suppose Montana had got only 5 per cent of the millions which Clark and Daly and Heinze and the Rockefellers have made away with—not that such a split would be fair, though a great deal fairer than what happened | That would have yielded for the Montana treasury, light-| ening by so much the taxes of the resident toilers, nearly $4,000,000 a year, or more than the whole cost of the state) government thus far | This fine idea wasn’t in the last issue of Montana’s inter-| esting boom book. But we'll bet you it will appear in some} future issue—for those progressive Westerners won't forever} stay locoed | | } | | Crumbs for Lazarus HAT JUSTICE might be if lawyers, instead of getting| all they can under the fee system, were hired by the state, is hinted at by the experience of the Legal Aid society of New York It has handled 460,874 cases at a total cost of $547,962, or an average cost for each case of less than $1.19, which covers rent, salaries, postage—everything except the upkeep cost of the courts themselves | For its clients, servant girls too poor to hire lawyers, | widows in want, the whole range of oppressed victims of pov erty and bitter wrong, the society has collected and turned over, since its organization, more than $2,000,000. It and similar societies in other cities have this because kindly persons with money to spare have paid the bills. “But why whould a few rich folks endow the poor with these inadequate aids of justice when the whole purpose of government is supposed to be to promote justice? War-crimped, the Legal Aid society is appealing eagerly for more private contributions Save us or we perish,” it i crying Can anybody tell us why justice for the poor should con tinue as a charity pf the rich? done A GOOD citizen in private life and in public life—Seattie and the state of Washington will greatly miss the services of Judge M. M. God man, who has passed to the great beyond. WESTERN AV. commission me jury. The middieman always gets the int heade King county grand eh? WASHINGTON’S CROP Is valued at $12,000,000 more than Iast year’s. You don't find any war worries among our farmers, JUDGE TALLMAN seems peeved about the nickel-in-the-siot tele- phones. Wonder how he feels when the gates close on him just as he reaches a pay-as-you-enter car. The Virginus Kitchen Privileges ' ‘Virginia At. and Fighth Ay., Beattie, Use any care via Westinke av. Modern, jegantly furnished roome, with the best in cleantiness, comfort and courtesy for the least money. Transient, 600 te $1) woekig, $3.60 t0 0% gerous smoke, for private profit, and don’t object But that is because only some of the air is thus poisoned. -If it were all poisoned, and poisoned enough to endanger every human life, the practice would be stopped, consti- tutions notwithstanding. Perhaps the reason why there has been such tolerance of private monopoly of land is because there has been so much land still unimproved and open on easy terms to private capture. As long as everybody felt that he had a chance to become a landlord, the personal staking off of this gift of the Almighty caused little st, BUT EVEN IN OUR NEW COUNTRY THIS TIME HAS ALMOST PASSED. TWO-THIRDS OF THOSE WHO LIVE I! OUR CITIES AND MORE THAN ONE-THIRD OF THOSE WHO LIVE IN COMS BACK HERE A®D FINISH WAITING "MOST ANYTHING. Poetry in Arkansas What does he manufacture? Molasses making days have come,| eee | The sweetest of the autumn Political Problem To him who raised a sorghum patch) He never used to speak to me, | And do not have to bought ‘em. | He passed me by it Walnut Hill (Ark. Correspond-| with obvious frigidity | ent And haughty eye. | see | How They Love Each Other, | THE GERMAN DRUM SONG. It's most a bore; The latest popular song in Ber | wonder what the crafty cuss lin has only an accompaniment of Is runnin drume tntine Jeder Stoss, ein’ Franzoss. Jeder Schuss, einen Russ. Wrinkles D ppear As If By Magic Jeder Tritt, einen Brit’ (Bvery knock a Frenchman; ] | Every shot, a Russian; | ‘tn the removal of wrinkles I have| Every kick, a Briton.) ene a beauty expert A Strange Plant. The hostess asked the solid man of her guest lst to take a talkative young woman in to dinner. The girl did her best to keep up the con sation, ranging rom Wall street to the Mexican war and back Only onee did the solid man desert the unfailing affirmative, , and that was when she asked Do you like Beethoven's works?’ “Never visited them,” be replied. But now he is so courteous wel 4’ Parixtan | they produce | nt, Mas ‘6 never seen anything work much ra as a simple, harmless solution | and use at home vertisement. THE COUNTRY TODAY ARE TENANTS, paying tribute for the land beneath them, not to the bounty of an all-merciful Providence, but to some other two-legged human animal who has put a fence around a piece of Providence’s bounty and begun to charge toll for the privilege of living upon it One day, brother, a day perhaps not far off, the pressure of those who haven't land and are with little hope of getting any, will force a land problem here as it has already forced it in Mexico and in war-stricken Europe. You and we may not be alive to see the terrific strug- gle that will follow. But we can try to avert or lessen it by urging our neighbors and our children to become wise in time. ens to pitch black. In the final scene Little Face, who is thought by her family to have been eaten by the tiger, has founded “the LARP AROD EEDA ADAP AOD 440-0 * = Makes Stubborn Coughs $ Vanish in a Hurry 4 MAKING LOVE HALF MILLION YEARS AGO the cave to elude an proaching tiger, he bars the door to Little Pace, leaving her to perish. Instead, she climbs a tree in full view of the audience, The spectacle of the bare legged heroine performing this feat fs appalling, whether from the point of view of art or morals. And this opportunity. 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SPINNING’S CASH STOR oldest in the world.” She is siren, sex exploiter, white slave, whatever you choose to call her, and the men, married or single, steal their wives’ best furs to be- stow upon her and carry to her cave the choicest chunks of meat Finally, Little Face's young: er sister, always considered the family beauty because her mouth was so large and her nose so flat, sees herself abandoned by the man who had always chased her when- ever she went out alone and whom she fully intended to permit to catch her some day. This time he chases, in- stead, the strange woman who is so improper as to wear long skirts “instead of show- ing her bare legs like a de- cent woman.” Little Face permits herself to be caught and comes on the scene with her sister's ® theart. When reproached with tak- ing him away she says that he ts perfectly free to g0; that she “gives herself to no nan, but lends herself to every man” and so remains free. She walks off the stage alone, but throws over her shoulder an astounding speci- men of what is known as the “come hither” eye. profession ___The man starts to follow | was fler 1415 Fourth 1417 Ave. — her, when the young sister, seizing an extra animal skin, wraps it about her bare legs and, thus endowed with the charm of mystery, woos him to remain. FAMILY WIPED OUT BERLIN, Nov. 10.—A retired colone! named Von Konig had three sons in the army at the, outbreak of the war, and two younger sons joined. When three were killed and one wounded and his wife almost went inscane, he made a person ai appeal to the kaiser, who om dered the remaining son sent to interior duty, away from the front. But ten mniutes before the message reached his com- manding officer, the fourth son wae killed. NEW YORK, Nov. 10.—A Paris © cable says 18,000 empty champagne © bottles were found in a certain cha teau occupied three days by Gen Von Kluck's general staff. 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