The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 15, 1914, Page 4

i citi Hi} NA DISCUSSION of city light plant finances, | Hi Gill lives in a glass house if there is any | throwing of stones to be done. It is certainly in poor grace that Mayor Gill assumes in his veto message to the council Monday to find fault with what has transpired between the day he was recalled in 1911 and his re-election in 1914, As far as the lighting plant and its finances are concerned, Hi Gill should be the last to complain. When Gill was mayor before, Seattle resi- dents paid 25 per cent more for electric service | than they do now. The reduction came in the three years that Gill ‘Telegraph News | Cervice of the United Prose Association jeaitie, Wash. Postott F month up to @ mos. # mos. $1.00; year rier, city 280 g month. Star Publ nge cow IT BEATS all how many “decisive” batties have already been fou in this war. But nobody's been licked to a finish yet, What's “decialv anyway? PLANT KIND words in the poorest soll you can find; the richest) Man's conservatory will not be fine a garden ae yours, Giving Up Much AVID Starr Jordan, chancellor of Leland Stanford univer- sity and one of the Peace-Anyhow Advocates, told the National Civic Federation convention “I would rather give up the Pacific than see this country | © to war with Japan.” % tT mewhat like talked in 1860. By giving up the Pacific, Dr. Jordan probably means our possessions in the Hawaiian and Philippine islands, But these possessions are but a small side show compared to what our real interests in the Pacific mean. Involved in’Uncle Sam's influence in the Pacific are the Monroe doctrine, that costly canal, our insular holdings and the property of all our Pacific coast from Vancouver to San Diego Nobody wants war with Japan. argument Nobody can guarat the way northern “copperheads” But that doesn’t end the ¢ that Japan will not want war with us the minute it becomes ¢ to put a pistol to our head and} demand our Pacific commerce or our life. The question is as to whether we can wear our fat purse on our watch chain and never become a victim of the universal greed of nations. Battles Do Not Cause Rain You belfeve, of course, that cannonading brings rain? Ninety-five to 97 of every 100 persons do. It is an opinion cherished almost as fondly as that other belief, also handed down from prehistoric”times, that rain follows prayer. Rain often does, Just as i sometimes follows, or drops, during great battles. But that isn't saying that either the praying or the gun | firing caused {t “As a matter of fact, according to science, there's but one poste connection between gun fire and rain, and {t is very slight Smoke or dust iu the alr make what the scientists call “nuclei” little centers around which moisture may form {f there happens to be enough moisture in the alr. But the fact that smoky Pittsburg is one of the driest places in the country rather dampens even this theory. | The other notion, commonly held, that the concussion of cannon- ading jars the atmosphere till its moisture spills out, hasn't, the scien- tists tell us, a leg to stand on. Clap your bands violently fn a room| where the moisture from,a boiling tea kettle ts thick, and not a drop of! rain will fall. AN ICE pack, applied to the head, is beneficial in case of marked | nervous disorder—DOCTOR’S COLUMN. That's a good tip, all right, but our nervousness has been known to be more marked than ever when cur wife sized the thing up. THE NORTH SEA mines have claimed their thousands, but the| American mines have claimed their tens wa! thousands. Three thou-| Sand dead, 100,000 wounded during the GIVE SHOW AT TIVOLI TO HELP POOR Vaudeville acts from some of Seattle's best play houses, ten reels| of picked motion pictures, and skits by two well-known Seattle ama- teurs “Snowball” and Louise Snowden, is the variety of entertainment which » be put on at the Tivol! theatre all this week, beginning today, for the benefit of the city’s needy nged under the direction of Mrs. W. A. Bur. leigh, of the library board, and Mrs. George W. Aiken. | Performances will be given afternoon and evening at the Ttvoll, which Manager A. Logan has gladly donated for this purpose. John Considine has agreed to provide one of the vaudeville num-| bers from the Orpheum circuit, and Alexander Pantages will also con-| tribute an act from his theatre. The show has been was not in office. If that is financial t, Mr. Mayor, let us have some more of the same kind. The trouble with Gill is that there still is rank- Thsg in his breast an unreasoning bitterness against the two administrations that intervened between his recall and his re-election. He refuses to see any good in any department of the city in anything done or not done in any part of the three years he was not in office. His veto message to the council, opposing the extension of the city lighting service to Duwamish valley, plainly betrays this narrow prejudice. He admits the city light plant has taken care of its obligations out of WEL, MI33 DILL PICKL 88, Iv 4uways CAMG@ €4sy wo me. ACROBATIC TEAM. To Be ay ACROBAT £” The money will go to ald jobless men with families. Inthe Editor’ r CHARITY AT HOME Editor The Star: Gov. Lister | has called on the people of Wash- ington to contribute Itherally and quickly to the ald of the Beigians.| For God's sake, let first do| something to ald thousands of starving people in America. Of oul it may not mean as much for us in an advertising way, but {ll surely benefit the country at large Every dollar spent to aid the| starving In the war zone is a dollar spent for a prolonged war. ABE NYQUIST. MORE STUFF Editor The Star: Upon reading a letter written by J. J. Donovan, in a recent Star, It has caused me to| wonder where he was stationed when Kronje surrendered at Spion Kopje, in Natal Kronje surrendered in the went ern part of the Orange Free State. on Modder river, Paarde Burg | know from personal observa- {tion that the English gathered up| fopen and children, keeping them in front of them as a shield against ins rifle fire of the Boers. Q2"ZNCH XPUNCHDU ZEIGO MUPE Zon2ZG It might be well for Mr. Donovan to read up a@ ttle before making| statements so sweeping and posi-| tive. I am a veteran of the Boer war,| having served under Kronje. | M. HOIDAL. MUNY LINES WILL PAY | Editor The Star: I notice that mt. and aw any care via Westlake av. Modern. flemantiy daratehes roams, wih the bent in cleanliness, comfort and courtesy the least money. Transient, S00 to a Weekly, $3.60 to 06 The bs al Ie tr very Dimmicucy PROM A THEATRICAL MANAGOR! | | | A ACROBAT ALL RIGHT, HE BOUNCED RIGHT OFF THE COPRBLOSTONES WHEN T THREW HIM INTO THE STYRGET, | the P at least one friend in the city coun cil whose desire ts to sell the city car Ii It seems to my mind that some people cannot see ahead what the city car lines will ultimately accom: | od, plish, Just ave. N. W., Ballard, is completed, it! will give the muny line a lift that will more than put it on a paying | baste Tt will not be long now before the! jear | | club H. M. | meets tonight at 8 o'clock, at the — | Ross Marche, corner of Third ave. SINGLE MEN SHOULD QuiT |W and Nickerson st. Extens! Editor The Star it right for the superintendent of| on the new cold storage plant to give| W jobs married men with families to sup-| port on street car extension and port? Puget Sound Traction Co, has) There are at least four young men working there who have had|| employment for the last five months. It {s the writer's opinion that some of these men could just an well be Iaid off for a short pert. to give the married men a ce. Bi. 8. IMPROVEMENT OLUB TO MEET TONIGHT Improvement ne to them. j chi it as soon as the bridge on 16th | ines will be as profitable as | the city light and water plants. } The Ross Do you think| of street lighting and water m Third, Fourth and Fifth a will be up for discuasion. The franchise committee will re- to single men and turn away heating franchise, a ed a DVN STAR—TUESDAY, DEC. | 20 years, and at this season | wish | self as a Christmas present.” | you, air.” PAGE 4. 1914, 15, MAYORS WHO LIVE IN GLASS HOUSES SHOULDN’T THROW STONES its own earnings and has reduced rates besides; yet he gloomily remarks that there is no assurance it will continue to do so. Why this unreasoning pessimism? If the mayor is of the opinion that the city light plant ought not to go into the Duwamish valley, either for financial reasons or because of the policy involved, it is his privilege to think so and state so. That is a matter that rests entirely upon the merits of the particular case in question. But it is idle for the mayor or any one else to make a general charge of “financial mismanage- ment” against the light plant, as conducted in the Say, ea JACK, GIMMe ) A UsHT! Ccerraincy !— UGHT over “MOST ANYTHING. The Brute | The door opened and in came the} “And yet, when you proposed, you! maid, bearing a huge platter upon actually went down on your knees| which was a little sonat pik to me.” | v. “1 admit ft. I had to do some} A Chance to Get Even ‘Going to | Jack?” you from sitting Wombefi wedding. called bis friend thing to prevent on them!"—Fun. . “She hung the portraita of her three former husbands there.” eg ——— Se Very Like Him a cee 7 | amp “Jones,” began bis economical|\ //44 rou Pipes oe mnployer, the day before Christmas,| | “2954 00 you have been in my employ for! | AWE 0A FAVOR? to make recognition of your fidel ity. Here, then, Is a pleture of my-| " sald Jones, as it's just like| Thank you, sir, he accepted the gift, eee Resisting Temptation Sunday School Teacher—William, did you ever resist temptation?! William—Yes'm, once. Sunday School Teacher—And what noble sentiment prompted you to do it? o 4 William—The jam was on the top| wo #OWEY!||SORAT BUT shelf and I couldn't reach it JUST voTé.\\OUR /DEAS 7 e W POLITICS) Crossing a Bridge Too Soon fon re ' ton JIBE!} Mr. Harrison had been Invited to| “= ~ a Christmas dinner and told that he would be expected to carve. He bought a cook book and a turkey and mapped out the bird. Then he paid for a couple of lessons from the server in a restaurant where he often ate, and felt that he was ready for the ordeal. On the fostal 4 day he awaited the incoming of the turkey with smiling self-confidence. POLITICS NOTHING! THIS (S A BEAUTY ConTE srs Sick skins made well by Resinol No matter how long you have been tortured and disfigured by itching, burning, raw or ecaly skin humors, just put a little of that soothing, antiseptic Resinol Ointment on the sores and the suffering stops right there! Heal- ing begins that very minute, and in almost every case your skin gets well so quickly you feel ashamed of the money you threw away on useless treatments. Resinol Ointment and Resinol Soap clear away pimples, blackheads, and dandruff, Sold by all druggtste;for trial sine of each free, write to Resinol, Dept. 12-8, Baltimore, Md. Avoid imitations, ——$—$—$—$—— \[oUR DEAS aw BEAUTY DO NOT J/BE! | OUTBURSTS OF EVERETT TRUE | past three years, FOR IT WON'T STICK. The municipal light plant has been entirely too successful. Give credit where it is due, Mr. Gill. AS MUCH AS YOU DISLIKE THEM PERSONALLY, YOU'VE GOT TO HAND IT TO MAYORS DILLING AND COTTERILL FOR RESCUING THE CITY LIGHT PLANT FROM ONE RICH- ARD ARMS, THE S. E. CO. MAN WHOM YOU HAD PLACED IN CHARGE AS SUPERINTEND- ENT DURING YOUR FIRST TERM OF OFFICE, WHEN LIGHTING RATES WERE HIGHER THAN THEY ARE TODAY. NOTES OF INTEREST FROM WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 15.—| ment, and for the iiberation of the Some plan for a system of per-| housewife, bulletin 1s now pub- sonal credit banking rather than | lished which declares: “Most sinks r land mortgage banks seems to| are too low for even a woman of © favored now as @ solution of the|medium height to wash dishes iral credits proposition | without stooping, and it would be The conference here {s working | better to have a box or stool for @ ong the lines of the so-called |child or short person to stand on Millikan plan, which ts embodied |than to oblige a tall woman to n @ bill to ald farmers in pooling | stoop to a low sink. The bottom thelr own credit, so that this credit | of the sink should not be less than may be issued by themselves to|30 inches from the floor and 31 srry on farm operations and im- inches 1s better for a woman of av- provements rather than to estab-| erage height.” ish banks which will refund farm| In the same bulletin are « lot ;™orteages at a lower rate of in-|more hints about rearranging terest. stove, table and sink in their rela- The kitchen sink has command-|tion to the pantry Woor and the ed the attention of the scientific | dining room door, in order to save agricultural depart- steps for the housewife. SPINNING’S ENTIRE STOCK NOW ON SALE Quick Action Is Necessary 18-In, Boy's or Girl's Juvenile Coaster Brake Lorain Bicycle One whitehandied six biades, one stropping at- tachment, one folding case. 35¢ Wadeworth Easy-Opener Jackknife 24e 75¢ Box Winchester 12-Gauge, High Loaded Shells Choice of 4, 5, shot. ban No. 7 Louieville ppg or 7 chilled road Pair C%in. Onlo Pred Handie Shears torcycle Frame Pump ....38¢ Don't take long to pump ap tires with these. 75¢ Rollis Hand Vise .....38¢ For making keys, holding things firmly when working with or upon. 6/ex1¥e Zim, Cell Nickel-Piat- ed Tubular Flashlights, cut to 22 “"A splendid present.” $2.00 26-in. 9-Pt. No. 55 Atkine Straight - Back, ee “Not 1," returned Jack grouchily rice Silver - aye A Clever Woman | “He cut me out with that girl.’ land Saw .. -# “Mrs. Chink hag hit on a plan to! Well, come on. You may get Mr. eae ge the president, keep her husband from smoking in/ chance to biff him in the Jaw with says this is better than any | the parlor. jan old shc } other saw in the world. “What did she do?” ee not essential for us from 7 a. m. to 6 turdays later. 1416 Fourth 1417 Ave. SPINNING’S CASH STORE Necessary to Best Results HE superiority of Coke over other forms of hard fuel is well known to all who have used it for any length of time. Its cleanli- ness, efficiency and economy are self-evident. To get the best results from the use of Coke, | however, it is necessary that it be carefully screened to the proper size for the use intended. Each par- ticle in the separate grades must be of practically the same size. This character of Coke is being produced at our Lake Union Station, where the equipment for crushing and screening is of the most efficient and | modern type. For domestic use, the Coke is screened to three different sizes, designated Lump, | Nut and Pea Oven Coke is sold at $6.00 per ton at the yards, plus the usual charge for delivery and carrying. Bench Coke, unscreened, is sold at $5.50 per ton at the Yards. Don’t neglect this chance to arrange for your winter's supply of splendid hard fuel. SEATTLE LIGHTING COMPANY PHONE: MAIN 6767.