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

OR eee ACK and Tom are brothers. Jack is conscientious, studious, modest, sensitive When a lad at home his mother always felt that she could trust him. At school he was the pack horse, because, being good and kind, he toted others’ cares. Tom, on the other hand, is dashing, venturesome, self-confident, almost “fresh.” Even while a youngster, wherever he went, he led. While Jack was in a corner with a book, Tom was on the ball field running the nine or heading a column of kids on a prank When Jack set out to earn his way he soon became known as “Old Dependable.” He did what he was asked to do and more. He was on the dot in the morning and the last to leave at night. His mind worked, too, during business hours and after. But he did not push ahead. He waited for advancement to come unsolicited as a re- ‘THE SEATTLE STA OF NEWSPAPERS MEMBER OF SCRIPPS NORTHWEST LEAGUP reas Assoc! @ as Second-Class Matter at of elty, 35¢ per month uy on. $1.90; year $8.26. / By carrier, city abit By mali. c Published Six-sevenths of American teachers are women; and there is danger lest they, with their lady-like ideas of conduct, quench the natural pugnacity of our boys below the point of even chivalrous spunk. Cer- tainly, a woman-taught generation is showing an alarm- ing willingness to take oppression and robbery lying down.—Prof. E. A. Ross. _ EEE EEEEEE EEE “WE WANT a fight with the sword, to the bull moose conference at Chicago militarist in the army of the Lord. Herbsman evidently is a | THE STATE OF WASHINGTON has a woman as superintendent ‘ef education, and Mrs. Josephine Preston Is making an enviable record in that office. Seattle has thus far been a laggard in the march of | thought which calls for a broadness in educational direction that in cludes woman's as well as man’s viewpoint. On Saturday Seattle has) the opportunity to make its schoo! board more properly balanced than it has been before by electing Mrs. Nellie M. Burnside hool direc | tor. it is an opportunity broadminded people should not overlook | JUDGED BY Seattie’s experience with It on its first day of opera tion, Gen. Sherman would have said it about the war tax also. Just a Pause; That’s All HE SPIRIT of the movement which has come to be known as the progressive movement is well exemplified in an incident. z Bill Smith is a farmer in a Western state who never had the chance to get much schooling and who, therefore, didn't} take much stock in new-fangled about “scientific farming.” Tom, his son, was ambitious. By great coaxing Tom got the father to consent to let him} go to an agricultural school “You can have a year,” the old man said But I you plainly to understand that after you've been there one fear you can’t go back unless you can show me that you've allt something practical, something worth while, some thing that I can measure as an offset to the $500 your year’s schooling will cost.” During the year Tom studied faithfully and tion came went home, shed his town clothes and reported business. “Got anything to show me?” the old man asked “Tell you later,” was the reply Pa Smith grows wheat. Year after year he had been Taising his-own seed wheat and sowing it broadcast by hand the way his father and granddad had done. Now Tom, in his year at school, hadn't learned an awful Jot, but he had learned the value of pedigreed wheat and the wisdom of drill planting. So he bought the best seed wheat he could find in the market and proceeded, on a test patch, to sow it scientifically. It yielded nearly double the crop per,acre that the old man was accustomed to, and it brought a better price The old man is now planting all his wheat in pedigreed seed by drill and Tom is back in school A progressive is one who isn’t satisfied just to follow the ways that have been handed down. He is curious, inquisitive, ¥enturesome; he has the spirit of research. If there’s a better Way to do a thing,he wants to hunt for it, even though he May spend something in attempts that don’t pan out For he remembers that very few of the big discoveriess or great inventions that have tremendously iched life were attained without a lot of experimenting, a lot of disappoint ment and waste Society needs both rush-aheads and steady-downers. But i?'s a safe bet that in a live country the progressives won't be in the minority very long An Honest Count All That’s Wanted URELY no honest person will so stultify himself for par not notions want when a tisan reasons that he will admit there were whole- sale registrations fraudulently made for the November tion. Nor can any honest person be obtuse he will admit there were badly intoxicated ia ela tion boards. To deny these things would or a knave would attempt it The Star would not see even vorced from the public payroll if he we est vote But since there is ample ground for doubt instances of miscounting of votes, honest people @ recount of votes on the commissioners’ conte elec not ward heelers on be futile. None but a Knu ted by usele re elec an an The Best Investment HE BE : today, if haven't already made it, is a pair of rubber ST investment you can make The next best is a cake of soap Feet that are clean and dry prevent It’s odd how sensitive the feet are face, your hair, most of your body can be dripping brisk rubbing with a coarse towel will ward off all ill effect But let your feet get wet, and, even though you quickly dry and warm them, the chances are you IL soon be A general who wants to keep his soldiers in fighting trim makes care of the feet a prime ential. Armies on hikes sometimes pause five and six times to wash and d their Army shoes may not be stylish, but the be trong and dry fhe cost of a new pair of rubber overshoes is cheaper than a spell of sickness Be careful, therefore, that the youngsters don’t leave for school tomorrow morning with shoes that leak. to moisture Your \ and a neezing practice feet must , é STAR—WEDNESDAY, DEC, 2, 1914 PAGE 4. THE EDITORIAL PAGE OF THE STAR RAR ARARARAAAAAARAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIY PAA AAAI PPP PPP PPP PPP PAA “YS SPS PPR THE STORY OF TWO BROTHERS ward of merit. Tom hadn't been on a job a day before he began to edge toward the chap next highest in the line and to try to learn his job, too, He did this openly, pleasantly and with attractive good will, Which, maybe, is why the other fellow didn’t resent it; fact is, he was amused by it and went out of his way to give the kid a boost Tom was honest; as letter honest as Jack; but he didn't have so sensitive a conscience. If the business game called for cutting a base when the umpire wasn't looking, Tom played as if on the ball field. He was frankly out to win. But it's only fair to say he never started any crookedness. He simply refused to let an opponent get an undue advantage. When Jack had made good in a task with small pay and the longed-for promotion didn’t come, he carried an ingrowing grouch for months before, at the urging of OUTBURSTS OF EVERETT TRUE | WeLL, LET me Leave tt Hare in Your HOVSS 4 PEW DAYS To Try OVT, AND MAY@E You'Lc “CHANGES Your le = OR MIND. _, wired Chairman Herbeman| | THE $25 LETTER Editor The Star: | want to be listed as a friend of The Star because of its undaunted courage, its frankness and independence; because it fearlessly stands up for what Is right, yet always hae a helping hand for the fellow who has fallen. 1 am your friend because you are ever fighting the fight of the abused, the wronged and the needy. Your alert interest in the tolling mas Samaritan. But let us see where you might better yourself, | would find much Improvement in The Star if you would stop print ing so much scandalous matter. You have too good a mission to be wasting valuable time and space with “yellow sen- sationaliom.” You must remedy also, the methods of attack which you use against the opponents of your chosen political candi dates. “Cynthia Grey's” department is a credit to The Star The “Confessions of a Wife” are one your assets. They form a document which serves as a great teacher to your body of readers. The caricatures of “Diana Dilipickies” and “Oscar and Adolph” are conspicuous for their lack of humor and should be dropped. | am glad to see that you have devoted space to vital statistics, Make room, too, for the various activities—other than athletice—of the local university, so mighty an institu tion. A plan very popular and profitable to your readers. put Into effect, would be to have one of your word artists, once each week, take up an Intricate piece of legislative work and evolve its complexities into as simple a form as pos sible. The description of the new reserve banking #; in your issue of November 16 is an illustration of what mean. 1 am writing this as a friend who thinks he knows all about you, but loves you just the same, and because | fee! that the service of a true friend is to show you your frail tles and make you do all in your power to remedy them. Respectfully yours, MAX A. SILVER, 216 10th Ave. eo marks you asa RISE OUT OF THIS GREAT WAR BY HERBERT QUICK It 1s scarcely more than a century | fince Poland was the most powerful | country in Europe glorious part in the history of Hu She was enga world game of Euroy strife—a game nd a flag| "1 Which to lose is to be ruined. In tragically Mustrated by the prew |, She played it unskilfally, and she ent state of Poland and the Poles.| 10%. all. Germany, Austria and The Poles are a brave and noble| Russa parted the ‘Poles among | peels |them, and still 4 | pe Boys tie squirrels together and Greeks were conquered, because of | Make them fight—a horrible plece Sete Hay -Alaienice of cruelty rmany, Austria and | ite downfall ot Poland. ehoct Russia tie the Poles together and | anita aaideh ta tin make them fight--one of the trag?| the world owed much to edies of the world If they could only become united | again—in freedom—I believe they would prove that this cenjury of captivity and dishonor has taught them their lesson | 1 believe they would again be | come great and useful in the polity | of the world | your own nome. It’s! Poland has played a great and} in the great rope and the The value of a cour were conquered as the! d For valor of the the Moh was the which turned back dan hordes from the gates of Vt enna in one of the great battles of world’s history, and per haps kept Europe from sharing the! fate of Asia and Africa—the Koran} or the sword | If the Poles could again be given 1 flag and a free government, thoy|¢@8y. Read the offerings in might yet resume the noble role!'STAR WANT ADS —then they played not so very long ago. choog Se NG sarth is a little fellow like you go ing a large melon? |git on d “WILL AFREE, UNITED POLAND heap easier some ob dem war dispatches! killed | Johnny ? of fun with it at school.” friends, he finally mustered up enough spunk to tackle the boss for a taise. Then he did it tremblingly and as if seeking a favor rather than a right, And he got the little extra that he asked for—and no more. Tom, on the other hand, breezed the front office every little while with a perky request for more pay—and usually got it. Twice the boss raised him voluntarily, ‘ There isn’t a squarer, cleaner or more conscientious fellow in seven states than Jack; and those who know him intimately think he is also very capable, in spite of his diffidence. But somehow he doesn’t get ,on, whereas dashing Tom vaults the hurdles with seeming ease, not- withstanding that, in his heart, he knows he isn't Jack's equal for either ability or character Will you tell us what is the matter with Jack? ‘MOST ANYTHING. A Modified Retirement ‘Has Smith’ retired ff ] ness?” Only from ther people's A “Clo Is old Doxey he ts Yeu He endar, for fe year out to into his own—not from One an stingy as the won't even buy a ea may not live the it up.” r he Praising the Censor While others are running the war censor down, And wanting to trouncing, 1 thank him for tome town Whose name would defy all pro nouncing ’ : give him a often deleting A Monopoly | Dr. Pillem—Are you call a consultation? Dr, Botue—I think not believe the patient has any money than I need myself. j cee 1 4 more * World's Champions Sunday School Tercher-—Did Pharaob overcome the children of larael at the Red sea? Small Boy—No, ma‘am. It was |& walkover for the Israelites, eee She'll Be Missed ttle Hirner will take a two weeks’ vacation from her duties at the postoffice. During her absence Postmaster Wade re quests patrons of the office to lick thelr own postage stamps |tuck (Mich) Commercial Record. see ’ Mine By Auto Mrs. Rural—I want you to kill a |couple of chickens for dinner. New Cook (late from the city) Yer am. Which car shall I do it with ?—Puck oe WEIGHTY SECRET Minister—Do Text for know nday, you next | Golde 8 " | Golden mi Billy nd then town in no tin Ploop you spread G'wan! Tell it all 1 guess not! you over Diplomacy “Harry, I am beginning to be jdieve the baby looks like you Are you, dear? Yos, I notice it more and more every day. I'm so glad.” Do you really want bim to look like me? r since at we didn't give I've en very brie orry tened 't Sweetheart nw ha thi And don't you make me t Harry, dear—t1 hat today, I don’t be er saw anything that w ‘oming on me. It's $25. think I ought to pay ont much for a hat? eee found the De that Goodness Rastus, how The Human Spectrum The grandfather was a blooded man Always in tion. Even if he was green Grandmother purple So she was However, grand He's white-tlivered And has a yellow to get’ on the outside of such re¢ 1 kia the pink of cond dias melon a Nebber yo’ mind outside o' ma‘am dan yo" kin swaller was born to the bine-blooded REMORSE take a look at thelr streak Inthe Editor’s Mail THE MUNY Editor The Star to be a movement Seattle Electric Co. lon to discredit our city lighting plant by contorting figures and making It appear that our lighting system does not pay No doubt A.,! Bouillon is out ¢ Ja job, so now will try to throw our splendid lighting tem bach into the hands of that “octopus the electric company No greater calamity any city tes fall corporation pany The city is done with A, V. Bouil- Jon, CHAS, B, HORTON. ATTACK There seems on foot by the and A. 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