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STAR—WEDNESDAY, JAN. 5, 1916. PAGE 4, EDITORIAL PAGE OF THE SEATTLE STAR | SPEEDING WITH THE CARR'S | A Fable on the Low Gear Yy Listen T Me, MA. oP Y Tf, -30 ve. WrNt30n THAY GANG OF PIRATES SHOW ONE OF THEM TAKES MAME ANT ape TRYIN’ AGENTS THE COLOR. Go¥s Down ANT THICK “TH OF Two HUNDRED Looks TH CARE oLd GENT Bones AN THEN You over. HE WAS TER A PAY AS You RIDE! Do SURPRISED GAS WAGON’ THAT'S STRAIGHT STUFF. AT THE PRick- BHA! HA! H AN' THINK, OF “TH CAR. Membev of the Scripps Northwest League of Newspapers Published Daily by The Star Publishing Oo Phome Main 9400 VERY Rich Man had a Good Idea, and he desired to get somewhere with It, a Good Idea being like good butter in that it doesn’t go well unless spread on something. Moreover, the Rich Man, being an Original sort of a fellow, decided to travel with his Good Idea in a Mixed Company. “So, the Rich Man rented a big boat and invited a Minister who had ideas of His Own, and a AN THE TERMS Y7 Soares Publisher who had ideas of His Own, and a number of Women who had ideas of Their Own, and SAVED! THAT HE BouenTY//)/ Gor THAT oh! about a hundred miscellaneous others, each of whom had an Original Idea of His or Her Own. LL PAY Rod OME. GEE, AINT 1/2" loon It was a Mixed Company for fair and the Rich Man filled his big boat with it and its Ideas and sailed Yy RP ¥ . MAME TH LUCKY away, with much joy, to put his Good Idea where it should be at. “But, when half-way to it, the big boat began to toss up and dive down, all the time, whereupon the Rich Man's pancreas and the Minister’s gall-sac and the Publisher's liver went all wrong. So that, by the fifth day, all those Original Ideas were scrambled up, and jumping on the Rich Man’s Good Idea because each Idea was fierce for being the Only Idea. And, sick in heart, mind and other Insides, the Good Idea never did Get There. Moral: Old Dog Tray, he was gentle and true; Old Dog Tray, he was kind. But he was not The Only Dog. THE DISCOURAGING TIME TABLE Were glad we don't travel. If we made more than two short trips a t i ¢ : year, we'd sure have six or eight scraps with the passed since you started out in 1915 resolving to wea > @ a < F uncrowned despots that brood over railway ticket make each one of them count! LIFETIME 4 - | mantle ot une offices. HAVE YOU? “ — Se £ — ae | “Lt should say not,” the pessimis- Eight thousand seven hundred and sixty hours ; : tie would reply: “the more the snow have passed since the whistles blew out their wel- 2 , . the words the een come to the new year, 1915, a | vi HOW MANY HAVE YOU WASTED f fans COCK-A-DOODLE-DOO! Five hundred and twenty-five thousand and Poder ed Poem Cre six hundred minutes have been ticked out since mos’ useful antmule altve is de you pledged to yourself that you would hold each vy | Rta Date pore bewe at py iin | 2 ach < ‘ wt | “ * y icago?” But he apparently doesn’t understand ssi ID YOU? Re PY : ‘ { Poesia oe © want the first train in the afternoon. A | ae ‘ le , i You're sorry, you chide yourself, you swear “Which afternoon train od ; you'll never be so faithless and careless ain, How are we to know “which afternoon train” but— until we find out what time each afternoon train YOU KNOW YOU DIDN'T! goes? Well, what about 1916? Like as not he'll point to a large pasteboard What are you going to do with eovered with figures and headlined, “Time Card CHAN of the Microbe Central” that hangs beside a look- Misery and failure are more patient than time ing glass next to the door into the smoking room. and progress. Misery and failure will wait. Time Like as not we'll go look at it. and progress WON'T. Figures, figures, figures! And not even the Take an inventory of yourself for 1916 autocrat of the time table knows what they mean. Let your gain be an awakening to your loss. “Read Up’—“Read Down"—*“Trains marked Let your gain be the experience of having failed C do not stop at Crawfish Jct."—‘“This train via to do your best. . Nobalk Division”—“Stops to let off passengers What are you going to do for the world, from stations on the P. Q. D. east of Nova Scotia.” vig eae _ YOURSELF “ 1916? ; wv : ’ at a grand opportunity—the opportunity o' as! acai ger gel ; ANOTHER CHANCE! . , Nonchalantly we walk up to the corner drug Store and wait for an interurban trolley car. EVERY BODY S GOTTA CAR Bur US. “+ PL ive os TERRIBLE T BE SO Pook, “A man must get his clothes made to fit but a wom. get her to fit her ANOTHER CHANCE! HAT have you learned in a year? Three hundred and sixty-five days have | TEACH 'EM | RHETORIC AND SUCH From the Morning Grouch we | glean this THe CHANCE “Isn't this a beautiful, downy wags the stock Whenever we ask a simplle question of one of these autocrats of the time table, such as “When does the afternoon train leave for Chicago,” he Snaps at us: “Which afternoon train?” Now, if we had known there were two after- Noon trains for Chicago, we would have asked him: “When does the first afternoon train leave for _« | “It must be that his friend, Frank Baker, has no more duck ponds |to sell to Uncle | Sammy,” sald Ev. erett True this morning, in dis- cussing the story that Humphrey is inst the $1 000,000 a cific Coast. vrei rennet ANOTHER HOT AND COLD pra It appears that a lot of fellows Peace System in Germany; Even More) « stite iits Sst mae Efficient Than War System, Says Howe lista” tact before he'll give them any heat. By the time they cool off, itll be plenty warm enough in the cars without any heat, and then it would make them hot to make it any warmer. And then yg [encouragement of competition rath-|to Please them, won't put in any er than thru our anerina, way of|heat. Which leaves the whole | | question of heating the street cars | just where it started. for the city Itself and on easy terms land clowe to the fallroade and j with the best pogsible facilities. “Germany fights monopoly thru BY MILTON BRON uate preparedness NEW YORK, Ja - | the world that only in ade- peace lies adequate: pre- great deal in Washington paredness for war!” this winter about prepar- The speaker was Frederick C edness for defense, pre- | Howe, commissioner of immigra pies Sige ood men in Le Pian paredness for war, but I tion In charge of Ellis Island. 1 cari cy for war, but | anked him to point out what this "ip farther even than the states. am far more interested in country could do in the way of | They not only own the local utill- PEACE PREPARED- |taking a leaf out of Germany's | tes, but they build houses for the NESS, because Germany has demonstrated to all PROF. SAUNDERS of the U. of W. says the earth- quake Saturday in Seattle probably was caused by a slip in the mountains. Anything is liable to slip with so much snow and ice on the ground—yes? DO YOUR registering early. KING COUNTY contractor works 25 to 30 men the eight-hour limit allowed by law on public work. ; arrested and convicted. And he’s fined the grand ' sum of $25. Jokers are more plentiful in the law than “THE SITUATION I8 GRAVE,” SAID THE PRESIDENT TU DaY. HE NEVER WENT QUITE AS STRONG AS THAT BEFORE MARRIAGE. book. | poor, Tenements that are models Knows the German System jot convenience and comfort can be | Howe was educated in German |rented for as low as $50 per year |untversities, hag lived in German |!" Berlin j cities, and is one of the American | authorities on Germany's state so-) clalism. I want to make clear at the! start,” said he, “that in what | am 1 am: not proGerman, not CYNTHIA GREY’S ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS ntl aoe ; : ' paternalism. 1 am F conflicting claims % Miss Gray: | am a youngjof the underworld. All these I|time. Q.—Will you please give me, thru | litical, TET is carcenel rave chaten ‘porsaratty; Weval’ Seco ene heer tninga expeondea|V0Or Soiemee soem Wnmeotione tor confuse you when you come to choose a tire- ty hy Sade the ebrommakancns around) SZ cmmnstore of the goapel, and 86-1 58'S" Be eorvat en Now Yorre | hold fast to this thought:- The joint judgment of a for me to le them, land well-educated people that eve? It is only a 4 . home to go to work befoi in short, | have presumably | stand in bold contradiction to nat- (9G but | am at a to to what majority of consumers and motor car manufacturers is ing a high school course, seen a little more of life than most ural laws and scientific facts, They © serve and how to serve it. my work being continuous men of my years, and now, Miss seem ta be dealing in beliefs and INEXPERIENCED. that Goodyear Tires give better, longer service. days per week), kept me Grey, after having become ac superstitions that were exploded If there are very many | attending church for a num- quainted with life and conditions| by cold, calculating science years © servo the lunch buffet atyle Goodyear sales to both of these two great markets are of years, yet | did not forget as they are today, | find | am ago. Students In schools and col 1 of seating the at a table much larger than those of any thoughts and ideas impressed bumping Into a solid stone wall. leges are taught the natural laws \sh sig ee og ra ; - ad i Be Good t Y Teeth ¢, or two kinds of sandwiches salad and coffer, make a nice 0 our other tire. industrial and social Efficient at All Times “Most persons think of Ger- many as merely a military country. They believe she is po- tent In arms because of military training. BUT GERMANY {8 EFFICIENT IN WAR BE. CAUSE SHE IS EFFICIENT IN PEACE. She laid the foun- dations for her present war achievements 40 years ago. Germany is organized as a unit, as a great working ma- DRL. Rh. CLARK u my mind. Of tate, | have had the oppor that govern the universe and all | Since | went to work 1! have tunity to attend church and have life In it, which may be proved ‘ 5 nN thrown into personal con-\taken advantage of the same; but step by step as a simple problem Instead of serving salad with men and women of every hi math yet even a promi. YOU may serve sandwiches, cake nent clergyman of this clty stated | 0d coffee, If you wish changed entirely since | that these facts must be ignored boy. Possibly it is my point of| when they conflict with the Holy view, or probably | did not Inter.| Bible. pret the Bible the same at that| | see conditions around us that make It physically Impossible to obey the Ten Commandments and live, while the pulpit condemns b ' 5 te ea TOS 8 toto to the den chine to promote the Father- Take pity on your poor olf teeth = |and and have the dentist give them the In order to do this, the govern IN FIVE MINUTES r nally, Just sup- ment has had the intelligence to race, creed and color. From fanatically religious to the from the capitalist to the lar-aday miner, from the min- of the gospel to the denizens could talk, just see that it must promote the well # fhey would call ieing of all the people. When a man is out of a job in Germany, he 4 to the city labor bureau and k is found for him only Ing the dentist as soon | Outbursts of Everett True —/ 4 I GUSSS THE MISSUS IS RIGHT — A MAN'S PLACE OF EVENINGS /$ AT i) HOME. ANYHOW I'M PRETTY WEARY AND 1 CAN CATCH UP IN MY READING ™ THINGS ON, EVERETT, we've GOT AN INVITATION! To A THEATER men and women for being in cer- tain conditions, over which they have absolutely no control. Now, Miss Grey, there is some- thing fascinating and inspiring about going to church, and singing those grand old hymns, There is something compelling about them that makes one almost tread the air; but must we abandon all eci- INDIGESTION,CAS “Pape’s Diapepsin” Is the Quickest and Surest Stomach Relief. entific progress and education that | stand In the way, or should one for- get the Ideas impregnated in the mind from childhood on, and re- gard the Bible merely as superstl- tion? | am personally acquainted with a number of clergymen in this city and have had long talks with them, but they either cannot or will not give a satisfactory answer. | would appreciate an open discus: sion In your column on the subject, also your opinion RH. EE A Religious arguments or dis cussions get a person any whe We have had several auch rguments, and my conclusion is that it is a waste of time and ‘ space. While your has been neglected ed many valuab school of Life—the that really counts never you have learn lessons in the only school That is the ex ir change of views y you can obtain no satis faction from a minister of the gon pel. He is bound by a ereed, and all creeds are narrow. Every Chria tlan church has a cre tle different et all of them claim to be right Like I arrived at the ng of th ways My con whispered to me that the « an ft is conducted each a lit ed that I would take what good I found in all creeds and beliefs, as in the other things of Life. 1 can take nothing for granted, can ac cept nothing that cannot be prov ed; therefore, the calculations and elfevident truths of cold, compu ‘tating sclence have a peculiar fas. eination for ma ARMIN RY er ‘done will digest and pre pare for as technical education | similation | burn, If what yon Just ate ts souring on your stomach or lies like a lump of lead, refusing to digest, or you beleli gas and eructate sour, undigested| food, or have a feeling of dizzine: heartburn, fullness, nausea, bad taste In mouth and stomach head ache you can surely get relief in five minutes Ask your pharmacist to show you| the formula nly printed on the fifty-cent cases of Pape's Diapeps: then you will understand why d peptio troubles of all kinds must go, and why {t relieves sour, out-of-order stomachs or indigestion tn five min utes. “Pape's Diapepsin” is harm-| le taster eandy, though each | Into the blood all the food you eat; besides, 1t makes you go to the table with a healthy ap- petite; but what will please you most, {9 that you will feel that your stomach and Intestines are| clean and fresh, and you will not| need to resort to laxatives or Iver pills for biliousness or conast!pation This elty will have many “Pape's Diapepsin’ I call them, but you will be en thustastic about this splendid stom ach preparation, too, if you ever take It for indigestion, gases, hea sour stomach m Get some now, this minute, and rid yourself of stomach misery and indigestion tn five minutes, ASK KOK and GET HORLICK’S THE ORIGINAL MALTED MILK | Cheap substitutes cost YOU eame price. cranks, as some people| ' dyspepsia or any| 1 fore y fined @ barrel of « long enough tooth will caune ot you don't flee you awful nerve-racking, You can't ot it dentistry, Bo naver mat in a den- There ain't n mn dentint.” you full of your teeth from them We want to also our Keep rture from th ade ita thing to ne feared @ welcomed, not Wo eave human suf » make the Our palniess sys your ¢tme your patience. ¥, then, shou you go to a dentist who makes you pay for the torture he inflicts on you? Our painless system makes all work on the teeth painless from start to finish, No matter how sen sitive your teeth are, we guarantee freedom from pain and @iscom tle re fixing them. Give trial and make us prove it Nowe ask matter if you have only one to repair, come to us and let 6 you time and foring. entistry means better den- Our practice Includes every branch tetry. All work that leaves e carries our fronclad guar faction, Thin euarantes h by the operator who aid the work and by TL. Rt Clark, D. D8, owner and manager of this office, who ts thoroughly respon atble Call at onoe for tre and get our prices fe work you require. Remem will not be underbid on pri any one, Only the best of materials are uned here. Regal Dental Offices ” or. Thire GUS GETS HIS QUICK n this country we arrest him vagrant Germany saw it was wasting human material to throw | 4 man into the street | Then Germany protected her | eople from poly and exp n. Th wes done partly by t elty slaughterhouses. When time re bad the cities buy meat fish and vegetables at wholesale nd sell at coat to the people. City Runs Pawn Shops “There are no loan sharks in any. The cities run the pawn | 8 and exact a very low rate of nterest If a workman wants to build a house he borrows from the} ity at a low rate of Inte he cities have much to le ause 92 per cent of all the sat igs in Germany are either in mu pal savings banks or postal sav- banks. The cities ther ‘oW some of this money to bulld| yvered, as we did, that railroads gave rebates, but in 1 of trying to regulate them, he determined under the leader ship of Bismarck, to own them. The | railroads of Germany are used to} serve every one. Passenger rates | are lower than In this country and | more people travel than do here. Railroads Pay for Selves The railroads have nearly pald for themselves out of the net earn: | ings in the past 35 years. German | states own fron and coal ml potash fields, forests and great ag. ricultural estates. It ts the, income from such holdings that enables Germany to bear war taxes easier | than Wer countries Everything is done to make competition easy, If you want to zo into business In any one of 300 | German cities, you can buy from PORTLAND, Jan, 5.--Gus Ander son is serving a three months’ sen- tence In the county jail, the first victim of Oregon's new prohibition | law. Arrested In a raid at 11 o'clock Monday night, be was Indicted at noon Tuesday, (001 eYEAR TIRES NOTICE European war demands have caured a shortage in the world's supply of materials used in the manufacture of White ‘Tread Tires, The color of Goodyear ‘Tires may ultimately be changed from White to Black. Our supply of the required materiale assures the greater portion of our 1916 season's output of tires being furnished with White Treads,