The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 8, 1915, Page 4

Member of the Seripps Northwest League of Newspapers Published Daily by The Star Publishing Co Pome Main 9400 | The Best Town in the World ® HE visitors are coming, in their tens of thousands. How shall we greet them? How entertain them? What impressions will they carry away with them when they return to their homes? We are entering upon the greatest convention period in Seattle his- tory. Delegates representing more than 30 influential organizations, state and national, are coming to Seattle this summer and fall. Chief of these conventions will be the gatherings of the Shriners in July, the Knights of Columbus in August, and the American Bankers’ association in September. The visitor of today is the potential resident of tomorrow. How, then, shall we welcome these visitors who are coming to us, curious-minded, receptive, eager? Every man can do his part. Every woman can do hers. When you meet a delegate, give him the right hand of fellowship. Tell him the naked truth about Seattle—that it is the best town on earth, bar none. Climate? We KNOW that nowhere else is there a climate to com- pare with ours. Is the visitor a father? Statistics prove it. Is the visitor a sportsman? bass, the pheasants. Is he a farmer? Tell him about our hinterland. A lumberman? ‘el! him about the pine, spruce and fir. a Is he interested in navigation? You can wax ¢loquent there. 4 A manufacturer, perhaps? Dilate on sites, the cheapness of raw materials, the growing market. Discourse on Alaska, of which we hold the gateway, on the government railroad, on the Panama canal, on the Orient. Authorities agree that the economic pendulum is swinging back in America. We have about seen the last of lean times. What measure of prosperity we of Seattle are to enjoy is largely up to us. The convention period, then, is opportune, psychological. The best way to take advantage of it is to convince every visitor that we are telling but the naked truth when we say that Seattle, viewed from any angle, is the best town on earth. Healthiest place in the world for babies? Tell him about the trout, the salmon, the *_* ¢ © © * #* . |/Peanut Politics in Council OUNCILMEN have hesitated to support the McBride milk ordinance because it is an “administration measure.” That, in brief, explains the opposition. Because Mayor Gill, and Health Commissioner McBride, and Milk Inspector Henderson saw the need of this ordinance, for the protection of Seattle babies from the ravages of tuberculosis, and asked the council to pass it, some councilmen saw in the situation nothing save a_ political Side. It meant credit for Gill and McBride, and no especial credit for them. That's where it hurt. In spite of statements of Councilman Bolton to the contrary, medi- cal men are unanimous in their approval of the tuberculin test, as pro- vided for in the McBride bill. There is nothing to explain the opposition to the bill except the fact that Mayor Gill and Dr. McBride proposed it. Don't you think, gentlemen of the council, you would more worthily and efficiently represent the 300,000 people of Seattle if you would lay aside these narrow prejudices? - * * * * * * * 5 ? It Doesn’t Stagger Us! E ARE told the American merchant marine has been dealt “a stag- gering blow” by the Pacific Mail Steamship Co., which will change its registry from American to British, with Vancouver or Victoria, B. C., as headquarters, instead of San Francisco. The reason for the change is Uncle Sam's new seamen'’s legislation. By becoming British, this company avoids “safety first’ requirements, can get chief navigators at $150 per month, instead of the Americans at _ $275, and put in crews of Chinese and Lascars. We don’t know how much this will stagger the American merchant marine. We don’t have to risk our life with ocean navigators at canal boat wages, backed by a noble crew of Chinese or scummy Lascars, but if the American merchant marine has got to stagger or have these things, we say let her stagger. » * * * * e Get the Habit SONG that is sailing toward the high seas of popularity starts off with some words like these: “Nab it, grab it, get the dollar habit!” +» Wrong! That’s not the habit t o get, or to grab or to nab. This isn’t the time of the year to acquire a “dollar habit”—if, in- deed, there ever is any time of the year in which the “dollar habit” is a good one. But, there are other ,habits that are good and useful during the com- ing summer days. If you want to nab or grab or while, why not— Nab the “outdoor habit!” Grab the “‘take the family to the picnic habit.” © Get the “fresh air habit.” Let the “dollar habit” take care of itself. in order to take a day off once in a while. The dollar is necessary so that you can have beefsteak and shoes. But at best, it’s grubbing to get it and it's not to be mentioned in the same breath with the good, enjoy- able things of life. i ~_* @ get a habit that is really worth You must have money ~_* * * eH * GENERAL COUNCIL of women’s clubs, at Portland, squelched a proposition that each member deny herself one pair of silk stockings to establish a fund for aesthetic work. That's consistent. There isn't anything more aesthetic than a silk stocking, we've been told, * oJ od * -_* &* * DURING THE Spanish-American war, Germany maintained the right to sell munitions of war to Spain, and Uncle Sam admitted that it was her right. But that’s another story. _* * & ~_* * * _ BIRTHS IN Paris have fallem off nearly one-third. After the war France is going to be a good place in which not to start a eugenic crusade, * * “ * & * ~*~ * CONLEY, THE negro janitor, after serving one year for helping Frank murder Mary Phagan, is free and, first thing, announces that he perjured himself at Frank’s trial. There are some grounds for public demand for hanging the Frank jury. __* *# ~*~ * * * Seattle wife complains her 70-year-old husband stays out 3ut maybe he'll learn better when he grows up * 4, BOYS WILL be boys late at nights. GRRL AA INP A OBIE RECROG ONC EDITORIAL PAGE OF STAR—TUESDAY, JUNE 8, 1915. PAGE 4, Diana Dillpickles in Seattle men who are getting there or who have really arrived. They tell of them- selves and their methods. GETTING This ie another hele in the series y } selves, and what ther have done, and / how they have dome i | | Bartel! tried for in Alaska; and it was while he unting gold in Ala he discovered—gold? ; scovered why he had fail- “get there” in the drug business in Beattie. Having made the discovery, he forthwith returned to Seat ; tle, and = atraightway “got na) —with a chain of drug | stores. | eee | He had a store long ago—a little, }one-horse store. He thought, ff he jtended to business and made |friends, be could make the store pay. But be couldn't. He didn’t) know why. So he quit In disgust, and went to Dawson | That was the time of the rush | | Bartell could wield a pestle in a! | mortar as well as any druggist, but | a pick and shovel were strange! | tools | For three months he prospected, | | without success. 1 didn’t know gold when I saw) it he confesses | At the end of that time be had! spent all the money he had brought | than $1,600—and/ So he went with him—more owed all his friends |to work for wag | “Thad @ tough time getting the! lfirst job.” says Bartell, “because | |most of the men who were work. | ing claims were from Seattle and knew me. ‘That's Bartell, who | used to run a drug store in Seat. | tle,’ they said of me. ‘He couldn't do the work |think, the happlest time of my lite bya ps peed | Busted ond penniless, | proved to do much of anything but tie | still and think |strike, he might have done as oth er miners did—toss his gold away, | gamble it away, give it away and| home and put ko back and get more, in the de-| execution.” lirlous spirit of the time. | sdiRars And if he had done that, he Hartell doean't know would not have built a chain of| first suggested the plan drug stores in Seattle it was when he But Bartell was working for! stream | wages—$12, $15, $20 a day—and he Then | came that plan into | he just what | of Perhaps he is an ardent fisherman | pla’ for trout lay was paying his debts, So he had| You fish a pool |no time or money to spend on/above you are other pools. The] yor | nighttime jollity in a mining town. wise fisherman does not whip one| you \t P 0 r t l a D d “The Whole World ok | knows Ro The Portland Rose” It is blooming | JUNE 9, 10 AND 11 Go via the 10; Final Return Limit, dune 14, 1916, THREE FINE TRAINS DAILY TO PORTLAND Shasta Limited, teaves 9:30 a, m. Portland Express, leaves 10:45 a. m. Owl, popular night train, leaves 11:15 p.m. Stee! Coaches, Finest Service, Courteous Employes. for of the nm Round Trip, Portiand and Return ..... Delightful daylight ride over new Pt. Defiance line. For tickets, reservations, call at CITY TICKET OFFICE, 716 2nd Ave. Main 932 H. L. Hudson, D, F. & P. A. ovie La pool all day, bite. was whipping a| small ends and acquaintances cause I handy for them to ‘drop into.’ ” j ee ARE EVERYTHING " "T'S & DERN THERE “Finally 1 got work with stran gers. I lied to them. I told them George H. Bartell | was a coal miner. That was, I There are fish—a fish in {t to feed a druggist j When the plan had crystallized, | He brought | back less money than he took up, but enough to start the first store | returned to Seattle. the chain Most drug store purchases are Bartell in ex-| “A drug store is You | Relow and] will go blocks out of your way if| But if} ones,” says ining his plan lace where you ‘drop in." 7 «are buying a plano. 1 are buying a bottle of medi-/ cine, a cake of soap or a cigar, you | ‘drop in’ at the nearest drug store. | That was the mistake | made. | of | 1 don't} It was my fault be-| stores | counted on a wide circle them didn't have ne drug | He started his chain at Yesler way and Second; in all its rare a block north on Second; then a third at First and Pike; one at Bal- fragrance and lard; a fifth at Union and Second, beauty and the last one at Westlake and Pine. Now be has 29 druggists working him, all registered The drug business is a business infinite detail,” he says, “and price of success is {infinite pains.” KI-vIt" IT'S NEVER A SAFE BET TOTELLA MAN TO MIND HIS OWN BUSINESS! a if the fish refase to few in) in others—in all the! opened another | | Some, many jmyself that, at manual labor at! failed to make good in Seattle. | pools jleast, | could hold my own hae | Little by little a plan formed in | It was borne in upon Bartell that, | pay er ies te | my brain—t! worked out the de- jwhen he had the drug store on} tails of it during the night Jackson st., he was fishing a single} If Bartell had made a lucky| hours, when | was too tired to | pool—and there weren't enough} LE STAR nd - - The | | | | | Hy mali, out of city, one year, G80; 90; Outbursts HAr = 3 AIN'y LIT. fz RIDE OUTSIDE WITH THAT! 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