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

STAR—FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, THE EDITORIAL PAGE OF THE STAR 1914. PAGE 4 What Happened to Jones: A Sermon on Idle City Man and Vacant Land OR years Jones worked in an Eastern city as local manager for a big express company. He paid a high rent for his home; he had to be well dressed, to belong to a club or two, to entertain; he and his wife, as a matter of business policy, “moved in society” and from time to time were “stung” for contributions to various “funds” which the company should have paid and charged to ad- vertising expense, but which it wouldn't pay. All this while Jones, though putting up a front, really got a small salary. He built up the business, but others pocketed the profits. Luckily he had saved a little nest egg, enough to give him a breathing spell. Looking back over his vista of well-nigh wasted years, he decided that the next man he would work for should be himself. But how? He had no trade, no profession, and only a handful of money. Just then, by good luck, he ran into a friend of his youth who had gone West and become a rancher. The friend was t on a visit. Jones took him home and listened to his story. The friend, years before, had taken up a homestead, worked like Sam Hill, lived simply, saved, invested and He, too, had been green at the beginning; he had learned through necessity. That was eight years ago. The other day we saw Jones. He owns a ranch not far from Seattle. He looks the picture of health and happiness. His wife looks ten years younger. “Thanks, old man, but no more city grubbing for yours truly,” he said. “You couldn't get us back into the old treadmill with a hundred yoke of oxen. Why, just think; we live a free life in the open; what we do we do for ourselves—and each year’s work finds us really better off. Lonely? Why should a fellow be lonely when he likes his work, is prosperous, has a happy home, kind neighbors and plenty of animals to pet?” seemed far away. But I know now that what we went through back East wasn’t really living. It was only a weak imitation.” To work for yourself. To be your own master. be free and healthy and strong. Somehow, sound good, To how many of us is it possible? Given the will, for how many of us is there a way? Henry Pauly, who has charge of the unemployed men housed at the Liberty Hotel, has suggested that the legislature appropriate money for the purpose of putting the jobless man on the vacant land. “People,” says Ole Hanson, “are giving thought to the ‘Back to the Land’ propaganda upon which I based To that does Then one day there was a shift at headquarters; a new superintendent took charge with pets to place and Jones, at middle age, suddenly found himself minus his job. re-invested until he had become the unencumbered owner of a profitable ranch, now keeping him on Easy st. “Yes, I endorse every word Jim says,” Mrs. Jones ¢ my campaign for United States senator. It is the only broke in. “At first I missed the city stir and my friends real solution of our unemployed situation.” | [OUTBURSTS OF EVERETT TRUE ——| sToP Your CRYING Ow, CR KL GIVE You ANOTHSR GOOD SHAKING! Hs IDEA Twar YOU CAN'T Be MORE CARS FUL WITH Your CLEAN ONE MOURNER FOR OSCAR AND ADOLF We do our work, or we idly dream. We steer to the chart in Life's hurrying stream, Or we drift without compass upon the rock, Broken and crushed by the Game's hard knocks. NORTHWEST LEAGUR Telegraph News Service of the United Pres * Say, DANA, NOUR CEMETERY TICKET 13 our In FRONT? another “muny” dance at Collins fieldhouse Tues-| Sounds _ THERE'LL BI day. Going? Six dances for two-bits, then three for a dime. Feasonabie. But while we travel the treacherous course, Some things there be which break the force Of the eddying currents which bear us along; There's Love and Laughter; there's Sunshine and Song. HIS EXONERATIJN gives the ex-Dartmouth football star more Treason than ever before to register a Place kick. And one of the sources of many a |augh, Was the slap-stick, rough-house banter and chaff, The horse-play, josh and myriad stunt a . ss Of lanky Oscar and that little runt, ; THERE SEEMS to be more a case of tape these war-tax days in the Bulit like a hogshead of German kraut, office than In Judge Cushman's court. Who was always ready to help him out. Pardons Won't Cure It 3 ee CASE of Oscar SATURDAY |S schoo! and port election day, Not much interested? Well, you ought to be. Who typified us of the common mass, Slammed and banged by the other class, The bunch with the coin and temporal power, Who are having just now their happy hour. Somerville, N. J., boy SAY, MADAM, WHAT ©LSe CAN You @xpecT WHEN You DRESS UP A HEACTHY KID IN AN OUTFIT OF SPoTLEss WHITES I= a YOU'RE “THE OND THAT N@@DS A SHAKING! Philipson, who has been sentenced to jail for four months for kill img a rabbit out of season, is pat * He is the main support of a children. ' He has the reputation of a good, industrious boy, and} will come out with the everlasting reputation of a convict Tt is very pathetic and the governor should pardon him + But the pardon will not have the slightest effect upon disease. tic, all right But, like Osea Adolf, they’ ; widowed mother and f , io ane AN, Shey pueeaamky} Then the Adolfs of Life will have their day; When the currents of Life will run less strong, And the bread lines will not be so long. When weaith will be counted In those hours spent For Mankind’s Social Betterment. —A READER. ur “DON'T YOU Rerer To MY UNDER- TAXGR BEA IN THAT FRIVOLOUS MANNER “HE WANTS To KNOW IP Youu. TAKE 4 DRWS geN WITH HIM, HE'S In HIS MACHING NOT THE HEARSE, THE RuNABouT? ACAIN, Dickie t wHaT Does | As well might you hope to cure dyspepsia by using quill instead of wooden toothpicks * So long as we permit law to mean vengeance; so long ‘ ‘we put on the bench men who read only the letter of the ‘Statutes, and say that their ugieiey and horrible loyalty to “procedure and precedent are final, we'll legally break up) | widow's homes and ruin boys’ lives. Moreover, we'll Tupt ourselves with the obsession that there’s no justice pos-| ' sible in law. | All the rabbits in New Jersey aren't worth this single} demonstration that, in order to do the right and just thing! ‘and what is best for society, the governor has got to step im and make the judiciary of his state a little more disreput-| able. ca, | The Signal of the End woM past middle age, both rich and used to high| living, were told by their doctors that they had only a One was a gambler; the other a retired] "MOST: ANYTHING. 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