The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 28, 1914, Page 4

cee £ : ago he was widely known as a successful business man _*~ He told a reporter that his failure was caused by the as fatal. Be to own sawmills, or wholesale egg houses, or pickle plants, or own responsibility, but you seldom hear it, for the simple reason that a fellow who just after he had licked England and only 20 years before his country had to figh? off. a for- eign invader, that is, in December, 1793, George Washington addressed congress as follows: “I cannot recommend to your notice measures for the fulfillment of our duties to the rest of the world without again pressing upon you the neces- sity of ourselves in a ition of com- and of exacting from them the ful- t of their duties toward us. United States ought not to indulge a per- THE SEATTLE STAR OF SCRIPPS NORTHWEST LEAGUE OF NEWsra © per my up to # mos, By carrier, city 25: ™ ‘Published Datty by The Star tah Pre exchange coancetiog al! ¢epartm imam By mail, out of city, O ONE will seek, by either word or agtion, to discourage any set of public officials who are truly bent upon a mm of economy in their department. For that reason, © much praise cannot be given to the park board for efforts } the direction of economy to be pursued in 1915. There is, however, always the risk of cver-zealousness. much of a good thing is sometimes bad Every reduction in expenses does not necessarily mean! In this connection, it might be well to keep in pind that it might prove altogether unwise if certain social ‘activities now conducted at the various playfields and field-| ses should be abolished There would no doubt be a lessening of expenses should board so decide, but would it really be economy? It might be just as good economy to do away with the altogether! lexico and History N FRANCE, wealth and land are both well distributed.| Panics are unknown, and financial and economic disturb- are less violent than in other nations. Historians record the ruling class and vested interests suffered in the French olution, but that, with all its blood and terror, the lot of average man and woman was improved. And the French olution has come to be regarded as one of the mile-stones the world’s history. May it not be even so in Mexico? Who has been kicking d since Madero began his revolution, the big landed ro ‘ors, holders of concessions and exploiters generally, the plain common people? The exploiters liked the reign Diaz, but it may be that the peons will find in Villa, and Zapata, larger opportunities to own and cultivate some and be freemen instead of slaves than they did under field +95 Sp, ‘ackling a Real Task at Last! EW YORK is using its police to count the unemployed, check up the persons willing to help them and turn the mainder over to a central bureau of relief. It is the first real census of unemployment our largest city | has ever taken; the first official sign that government in ‘ica is eager to strike a trial balance in its most important misiness——the business of living. When every one of our cities forms the habit of taking ock in this way, it will be easier to swing plans to put the! idle to useful work, thus banishing the sting of private charity. | How odd that we've so long been demanding an exact of horses and dogs and stray cats, yet have been content merely rough guesses on the number of jobless men and Rough guesses and rougher neglect! It’s time to go to this real task as if we meant to do police picked up a down-and-out yesterday that used to be worth several hundred thousand. Not 10 years lity of his brother-in-law. » It is amazing how many rascally brothers-in-law there! in the world. Why, a mother-in-law is not 10 per cent »_. We hardly ever find a fellow who has gone to the finan- scrap heap whose brother-in-law or partner was not to ie. At least it was caused by signing somebody's note You can pick them up everywhere. Fellows that used big hat stores, but who, alas, were ruined by a rascally brother- in-law. , We never could quite figure out why these fellows have Mot since got a divorce from the brother-in-law and tried it - It would seem odd but refreshing to meet a failure who lost out because of his own blunders; to hear a fellow say: “I had a good business, but because of my own wooden head I let it get away.” There are fellows, plenty of them, who talk like that; takes his own knocks like a man, and never tries to shift hig is not down and out —Throughout the world, one-fourth of all children die before 6 of one-hi before they are 16, and only one person in each 1 ATTEND TO YOUR TEETH NOW While We Are CUTTING THE CUT RATE PRICES We use nothing but the » result for period of 16 y tinae Filling Ta A Alloy Filling #1. ales Ratonction Veree Fauminations und Estimates Free. UNION DENTISTS—Cor. Third and Vike, to 5 | Hoary Goi to By | Sold Bridge W | Sets of Teeth Kntrance 105% Pike rt aniiness, comfort and courtesy for least money. Transient, 690 te $1; wom rivileges PLAYFIELDS TO STAR—MONDAY, DEC, 28, 1914. PAGE 4 suasion that, contrary to the order of human events, they will, forever, keep at a distance those painful appeals to arms, with which the history of every other nation abounds. “There is a rank due to the United States among nations, which will be withheld, if not ab- solutely lost, by the reputation of weakness. “If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, “LISTEN, Beaus! T've TosseD AU Your PRESENTS INTO THE ASH GaRReL. A _MISCELLANGOUS COLLECTION OF PALTRY JUNK AS You SENT ME, 1 WANT A CHRISTMAS GIFT FROM GACH OF You THAT 1 THERE A PECce OF MY HIND, T'VG THROWN ovT THose TIRESOME GOLDFISH TO LEAve THE PEeDesTAL CLEAR FoR SOMETHING ANOTHER PLOCK JUST Come 9" and the Collins, Ballard, South Park and West Seattle playfields are to be managed by one attendant and Janitor each, PRINCE VON BUELOW IS SENT TO ROME BERLIN, via Sayville, Dec, 26. Prince Von Buelow started LOSE TEACHERS Sweeping changes have been ordered by the park board tn an| economy program for 1915. Super intendent Thompson's budget of $178,074, lower than it has been for five years, has been still further re duced by 20 per cent. The board abolished the positions | 04 today, to take charge of the of assistant superintendent, chier Kalisere embassy there engineer, stenographer; reduced six have been persistent re park foremen to the rank and pay Ports that Von Buelow's principal Of laborers; reduced the secretary's business a Rome would be to keep salary, and dismissed several play Italy from taking part in the war Sreeiad twaahihes as an Anglo-Franco-Russian ally Tho board also contemplates rad lear changes in the playfield activi |. Protest against minimum wage tles, All gymnasium classes andj for hotel help will be heard Satur. social activities are to be eliminated, day, for eit wa gaanitinetnne mir nen Rome Wednesday, 1t was announc it must be known that we are all times ready for war.” Times have changed. Conditions have changed. Methods of offense and defense have changed. Has human nature changed? Has “the order of human events” changed? Are there fewer “painful appeals to arms” by the nations? When our first president thus addressed con- gress, our country was at peace with the world. It was » & More compact country. OUTBURSTS OF EVERETT TRUE SAX, reciows, (T'S RAINING LIKE EVERYTHING ovVTsIDS! wae? SOT AN UMAREWA 5 WHY THE BANDAGE * jan THE LIT DO You NAVE USOTHER: ACCIDENT # Tough Luck A man tolls of a dinner he once had at a farmhouse, on which occa sion the piece de resistance was |Iiterally a very tough chicken. | Those at table, including the far |mer's two young sons, struggled! © | Unsuccessfully to make some im | pression upon their respective heip- | ings, Bam turned to his brother. ‘Tom,” he said softly, “somehow I wish old Dick hadn't a died. Don't you?’—Houston Chronicle. eee | | Neutral | “He's an unosual man.” “In what way?” “I asked him how the European! | War fs coming out and he said he| jhadn't the alightest iden. Hous. | ton Post, ee | | Time to Fly | “Why, what in the world has ve-| | come of your watch? The one you used to have had a handsome gold | case.” “I know it did, but circumstances jalter cases."—Philadelphia Tele | graph. IRKS OF BFFECTION “FP ¥OU PLEASE! I HAO TMS FISAT HATH PI UAFE! Famoue Folks What train did James Montgom: ery Flagg? What kinds of fish were caught by Harrison Fisher? What did John eat besides Oxen ham? What White? Who taught Ed Howe? made Stewart Edward Effeminate Some time ago the Smiths at: | tended a reception where they met & man named Brown. On the way home, while exchanging opinions of the guests, Brown was men. tioned. ° “Speaking of that man Brown,” vigorously remarked Smith, “he certainly has an effeminate way of talking.” “Why, John!" was the wonder. ing rejoinder of Mrs, Smith, “How can you say that? He certainly has‘ very loud and masculine voice.” “Yos, | know he has.” explained | Smith, “but what I mean is that he jtalke all the time.”—Philadelphia Telegraph | . The Light Fantastic The war may cripple business, And industry go lame, But times will still be piping On Waltz street, just the same. o- ADVANCED , ain't you smokin’? “Say, kid, don't let that That happens only with a first seegar—this one is second handed!” afraid of gettin Careful Statement Two farmers met in a certatin town, a day or two after a cyclone had visited that particular neigh borhood. “She shook things up pretty bad out at my place,” said one, strok ing his whiskers meditatively. “By the way, Hi,” he added new barn ¢ “Waal,” dunno, HE KNEW Say, Marjorie, what brings that young Longshanks bei you five nights out of the week? Marjorie Why er I don't know Papa—Well, | thin that bring him here are two of th jmost skinny legs that ever a dude possessed, Papa “that! yourn get hurt any? drawied the other, 1 haven't found it yet.” “1 worry » to see What George Washington Said About Our Nation’s Means of Defense How urgent would have been his appeal for roadiness for war, had he then had to consider Alaska, the Philippines, Hawaii, the Panama canal, the Monroe doctrine and region! the vast Pacific const Current events and present conditions would seem to prove that there has been no change in “the order of human evnets” under which the nations make “painful appeals to arms,” but the great change has been in that we have vastly more things to defend. Special Correspondence. LONDON, England, Dee, 10. An English officer at the front writes home the following interesting letter about war in the air: The prettiest thing of the whole lot to watch, if you aren't an Germans shelling one of our aeropla » which 8. They ha must, | think, be mounted fired at any angie, from the horizontal to straight up in the air. It must work on the sky-rocket princ’ it lets go a regular string of shells, and, cdnsidering the tremendous difficulties of the target, the Germans are amazingly skillful at it. They use a fuse which can be set to burst at a fixed height above the ground, When they epot an aeroplane, they first shoot three or four shells with different lengths of fuse, to that, they loose off in rapid succession anything up to a dozen ail bursting at the eame height. around the machine; xplosions will e it fall, "t know what It feels like to be a inating to watch from a safe p! discover its height. Havi “thet If they are lucky, they burst all hope that even If they do not actually hit alr pockets which, disturbing its balance, roplane pilot, but it Ie on the ground. You see an aeroplane, looking for all the world like a dragon-fly up In the sky. As you watch it, a lump of cotton-wool suddenly appears some- where behind it, then another and another. shells, bursting. These are the German They hang In the alr, looking just like enowbalis in the distance, or lumps of cotton-wool, If you are close, and then they very slowly spread out and gradually disappear. bursting, and it looks exactly like WASHINGTON, Dec. 26.—A sharp | difference of opinion exists betweer Andrew Feruseth, representing the | Seamen's Union, and President Wt) son in regard to the effect of the London safety at sea treaty. President Wilson has been in- formed by somebody that the Lon- don conference establishes a mint- mum as to safety provisions and does not interpose any obstacles to the passage by the United States of laws applying to the ships or crews of other nations in our ports. On the contrary, Feruseth and Samuel Gompers, of the American |Federation of Labor, take the | Sround that the treaty fs perfectly | clear as establishing a maxtmum of | ure legislation in the interest of men who work at this trade. | Feruseth has addressed eral communications to the president | jand government officials of the de-| partment of commerce showing how | | this London treaty will prevent fa-| |ture remedial legislation for sea men. eee The timidity which caused certain | public men to hesirate in the pas-| sage of a full-sized pork barrel bill! called rivers and harbors appropria | tons, before election day, his dis-| appeared since the elections. | That measvre now tncubates tn jcommittee and is predestined to | pass the house and the senate, un MAN BEGS SALOONS | >} TO TURN HIM DOWN LEHIGHTON, Pa., Dec. 28.—) John Retz of this town is deter. mined to escape “John Barleycorn,” With this end in view, he handed h hotelkeeper in this town and Welssport the following notice, and wants them to observe it to the | letter: | | "Take notice! I hereby notify all landlords in Lehighton, Weiss port, and elsewhere in this county not to sell me any strong drink. God knows I am trying to stop drinking, but I can't. “JOHN BETZ." If the hotelkeepers sell him} Uquor again after being served | with notice by himself, Betz says | he will have them prosecuted on | the charge of selling to a person of known intemperate habits, Little hope held for recovery of Themas Prectous, Everett auto vic- tim. Meanwhile fresh shells a dragon-fiy being snowbalied. less there is another filibuster equal to the previous ove, when Burton brought his bedroom slippers: and dressing gown to the senate chamber prepared to spen-] as many nights as necessary in talking the bill to death. . eee a Secretary of Labor William B. Wilson calls attention to the that during the first two weeks the opening of the public bureag employment in the city of New there were 6,232 applicants for po sitions, but only 349 positions of fered by employer i With an industrial situation of) this kind Secretary Wilson contends: he is amply Justified tn his efforts: to use the postoffice or any other governmen ,efs men 2 gether. Already a backfire has been opened on the secretary of labor by — certain financial interests, who charge that his efforts to relieve the {ndustrial situation savor of “Russian bureaucracy.” Hi eee Senator Henry Cabot Lodge has | written a letter to the organ of the, protectionists predicting that the _ tariff will be an issue in 1916, see : Leading republican candidates for — the 1916 presidential nomination continue to be Boies Penrose of Pennsylvania, William Barnes of New York and Myron T. Herrick of Ohio. NOTIS ‘TH’ BEST KIND OF PROMISSORY NOTES DRT 1 KNOW OF 1S LOVE LETTERS, B'GOLLY! 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