The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 15, 1916, Page 4

‘Sertppe weet League of Newspapers Motered at Beattia Wash 44 hands of the people. Shrinking profits are pointed out. decent service on the 23rd ave. car line, ‘to work. against the severe cold. ADS, CONTINUES TO GROPE ALONG PARENTAL RESPONSIBILITY IFTY PER CENT of the girls taken into Chi- cago’s morals court since its opening in 1913 Mave been returned to their homes. Similar reports come from other, cities. _ This condition indicates a pronounced “change in public opinion. A Puritan tradition is in _ evolution. : Up to this generation, virtuous parents turned their erring daughters from their doors, thus wrathfuily denying their own responsibility for the ‘girls’ conduct. Now we know that these parents had failed to bring up their daughters in the way they should go and that when they made them a charge upon the community, they were shirking their own duty. ’ Now we know that when a daughter becomes | 4 nuisance or a menace to society, the parents are usually to blame. We know that they have no oe °° make society responsible for their mis- Ge The increasing willingness of 50 per cent of ich parents to keep incorrigible girls and unmar- | ried mothers in the home indicates an improving | ‘sense of the general responsibility of the family for ) the character and conduct of its members. One Big Difference f, And then again they may not. =| THE SEATTLE STAR By mail, out of city, ene year, $5.60, im oOLhe 91.00) Ihe per month up The S. E. Co. and Its Cast-Iron Conscience OTS of talk is circulated these days about how the down-hearted corporations are suffering at the Attempts are made to gain “good will,” and to mold favorable opinion thru paid advertising But the Seattle Electric company’s action in the matter of heating the street cars and in giving keeps most folks unconvinced of the company’s sincerity. For years the people in the 23rd ave. district have had to transfer to the Madison st. line to get ‘ Every morning hundreds of them have had to stand and see Street cars go by, loaded with patrons from across Lake Washington ; Of course they wanted thru service during the rush hours. Of course the public service commission ordered it. “ And of course the S. E. Co. immediately set to scheming and stalling to dodge responsibility. The company claims the line is not a money maker, and that the service would cost $19,000 a / year more than the present watchful waiting service It shows the company doesn’t want to shoulder the responsibilities that a street car company should anxious to shoulder—the responsibilities for development of outlying districts thru satisfactory service. The company wants only the cream of short-haul business. It shirks development cost. The same spirit is responsible for neglect in heating the street cars. One would think a company claiming to be suffering from a new competition, and from the public stemper, would make haste to improve the service and cinch the public’s good-will by protecting patrons BUT THE SEATTLE ELECTRIC CO., IN SPITE OF THE NICE THINGS IT SAYS IN ITS WITH A CAST-IRON CIVIC CONSCIENCE, ORD NORTHCLIFFE, one of the few British journalists having a big reputation in this country, says that affairs in America are not unlike those in England before the war. 2 “You are as eaten up with commercialism and pacifism as we were,” he warns us. “You have lots ‘of money, few soldiers, and comparatively few sailors. ; ean for any war. There will be an immense amount of talk, as there was with us. planders or the Greenlanders (change the name as and pacifist, and will come and take what they want.” England never had any such discussion of preparedness as is sweeping over this country. Here the voice of the people counts, and the people are already talking over plans for meeting pos- sible aggressors who are even more powerful than the -Laplanders. i STAR—SATURDAY, Published I Phone Mate lame matter Postoffies a# soo moe By carrier, sity, ea month — | three or four crowded Madison IT’S JOE’S TURN HERE’S one member of congress who has been elected to have a mighty fine time. The gent is Hon. Joe Cannon, the long, lean, lank and lively representative from Illinois. Not long ago, the whole country, particularly the democratic party thereof, was batting Joe on ff} one ear and then the other, because of “Cannon- ff ism” in the house of representatives, and now a | democratic house is so obsessed with “Cannonism” ff that it dare not call its soul its own. | Again, the democratic house is for prepared- ness, but has as floor leader, Claude Kitchin, who cusses preparedness on every occasion. | If that isn't a situation presaging fun for Joe Cannon, we don't know comedy when the curtain goes up. ANYHOW, YUAN SHI KAI sat in the Chinese throne chair long enough to warm it, for New Year's §f) day. ' EUROPEAN NATIONS are all recognizing Carranza. | Wouldn't it be funny if the old order of things should be | reversed and Mexico become a popular retreat for de- posed rulers of Europe? Mail 'em an invitation, Carry, like they did you! Yet I doubt if the United States will really One day the you choose) will take notice that you are rich Tt has been remarked that of all the frivolous, self-centered the salesgiri takes the cake; that the smile she wears comes from the heart, hut is synonymous with the firm's sign over the ply a trade mark, an item of competition. ‘This may be true in regard to some salesgiris, but I KNOW it be applied to all of the girls who stand behind the counter for instance, the salesgirls down at Lennon's Glove Store, on ave. Let me explain. Yesterday, upon returning from lunch, I found upon my desk a large package, neatly done, bearing the stamp of Lennon's. I upon the point of calling them and informing them of a delivery mistake, when I spied the corner of a note protruding siighuy the package. It was signed, “From Lennon's Salesgiris to the Poor.” Upon opening the package I found a number of dozens of wom- and children's hosiery The note further explained that the was leftovers, out-of-date, and was left to the salesgiris to e of as they saw fit. They immediately thought of the many women and little chil- in the city, practically penniless, and suffering in the clutch upon this thought, they sent it up to mo to distribute, A and practical thought, dear girls, and many thanks, 4 am going to ask you to heip| citizens. 1 have been married eight fe this month and have two chil- whom | would walk thru fire [fe raise decently Into worthwhile | PEEL FINE! TAKE nes anes can no longer agri altho | the room. d 10 cents! Don’t stay bil- ious, sick, headachy, constipated. small space to answer In. and decently? reply. A SUFFERING MOTHER. A—It is not my wish Can’t harm you! Best cathartic 4 for men, women and children. inkling Of what you may be Enjoy lite! with an accumulation of bile and bowel pol*on which keeps you bil . headachy, dizzy, tongue c d, breath bad ang stomach 1 Why don’t you | 10-cent id of Cascarets at the drug store and feel bully? Take Cascarets to- tht and enjoy the ni » Bentlest ‘er and bowel cleansing you ever need. You'll wake up with clear head, clean tongue, lively ‘step, rosy skin and looking and feeling fit. Mothers can give a whole Cascaret to a sick, cross, ilious, feverish child any time—| sewing or washing, or even are rmless—never gripe or| work enough to make both enc Dp. meet. the children her and make a living. get his advice, (CYNTHIA GREY’S LETTERS AND ANSWERS | But It seems to be quite a problem to know what a woman can do after working eight years for ner family | and who has not a very good educa- agreed we have 5 | tried for three y to put down all |pride and stay for the children’s |sakes, But since New Year it has | grown unbearable. No gentieman can care for himself, much | hie |wife and children, when he will 5 choke his wife and kick her about |jconcelvable. If | could talk to you | could make you understand much better, but I realize you have much What do you think | can do to support myself and babies honestly Hoping for a quick to dia courage you but only to give you an up Your system is filled | against if you cannot have your hus band compelled by law to eupport Because of economic conditions at the present time it Is practically impossible for a woman without much education who has no profession to keep her children wth Firet of all, you should go to the juvenile judge, state your case clearly to him end Tt 1s just possible that thru the assistance of the various benevolent societies in the city you could get | Dear Miss Grey: | notice twojrace and a race of fewer defectives. more letters on the subject of ster. Instead of pulling weeds in our Hization In your columns, one sign-/neighbor’s yard, let’s pull them in| ed “Zoa" and the other “C. L. A.”|our own, and tend to the right rais-| Does “Zoa” think she In a god, with ing of our children, #0 as to pe the right to take from God the pow-|the wrath of the sin of immorality, er of doing things and make man-|which is brought about by easy fa-| made jaws of fools effective, in there and mothers, who do not| place of safe and sane laws? If the watch thelr children, but let them | Almighty intended that degener become virtual Top . who “just ates, defectives and criminals of dif-| grow up.” nt typ ould be sterilized, He this lax type a much defectives would have caused such action to as the worst defective in the world take effect automatically, and not| have left It to the poor, weak pow.| ers of mankind about such action.| It Is sald that an organization of| Does she think that officials of pen-/ women in Japan numbers 10,000 Itentiaries and asylums are so just;mombers, who huve sworn never to that they would never punish those marry unless their prospective hus under their charge whom they carry|bands agree to support a wm {grudges against? {ment for obtaining them equal To give thim power to man would ‘reatment with men be putting too strong a tool for per- sonal revenge in the hands of offi- the state under their care, and) | whom they can act against at will for petty offenses which sier> SOURS THE FOOD their might and dignity, | | saw a good deal of the brutality| , of prison officials brought to light | agai poor unfortunates In their charge in a Southern penitentiary, wherein occurred a legislative inves- tigation, brought about by a club of} A well-icnown authority states | women of that state, while | was/ that stomach trouble and indiges.| employed on a dally paper In a city| ton Is nearly always due to acidity | of that state several yea . acid stomach—and not, as most| The brutality these officials arbi-| folks believe, from a lack of diges tive Juices, He states that an ex-| of Hydrochloric Acid of Indigestion | Says Exces s Cau traril ercised against the! arene was, to say the least, i ceas of hydrochloric acid in the! These officiaie -had|*tomach retards digestion and starts food fermentation, then our! meals sour like garbage in a car forming acrid fluids ease which inflate the stomach like a toy balloon, We then get that heavy, | the stories of crucities that came) jimpy feeling in the chest, we eruc to light will ever remain a blot “P-/tate sour food, belch gas, or have on the name of that state, heartburn, flatulence, waterbrash, | Men having such power as “Zoa”) , “4 advocates would have a very desir." payee | power to whip these men and wom- en; In fact, thelr power was abso- ind every indignity wae heap- pon those poor wretches, and and He tells us to lay an ai-j vit any pharmacy four ounces of Jad} “C, L. A.” states, In toto, that! Salts an take a tablespo alae many ‘people, worthy people, mind) siass water before breakfast | you, are seeking sterilization, In| while it is effervescing, and fur preference to bringing children who) thermore, to continue this for one might be defective Into the world.) week While relief followa the| We are plants In the garden of/ first done, it is inrportant to neu God, and He is the Gardener, If | tralize the acidity, reuere the abe | some of the human plants are born) making mass, start the liver, stim-| defective, it must be His will, for,| ulate the kidneys and thus promote| ike the plante in the field, which| a free flow of pure digestive juices ara sometimes found defective, we} Jad Salts ts inexpensive and is| cannot all be perfect. | made from the acid of grapes and| Instead /of trying to sterilize de-{lemon juice, combined with Ithia fectives, let's teach our boys and) and sodium phosphate, This harm girls morality and the fear of sin, less salts is used by thousands of and teach them how to dress decent. peor for stomach trouble with ex. |!) and we will build a stronger] cellent results, leame a Clrelelte Angu FAIR PLAY. bs |worn sled IAN. 15, 1916. THE STAR CIRCLE By Uncle Jack Harriet Is Only 11 Years Old, But She Some Circleite PAGE 4, a) oe Harriet Baughman Harriet Baughman, meet Circle- ite! Circlette, meet Miss Baughman! The formalities of tntroduction having been gone thru, we will now Ket down to business. Harriet Baughman ts the name f the little girl whose picture dorns and livens Uncle Jack's Circle this Saturday Harriet Hves at 515 Kenyon st., and tho only 11 years of age, has competed in just about all the con tests since she became a Circleite, and has won several prizes as well Harriet 1s very active tn her Cir cle work. Her stories are full of snap, and to boot, are original, | which counta for something. Sho ts an Easterner, born in St Louls, in the Show-Me state, and be 1, 1915, She is {n the high seventh grade of the Concord school, and her teacher j always has a good word for her. Story-writing contests favorites, sho declares. are her Circle Poets to Have Their Fling in Next Contest Following the suggestion of sev- eral Circieltes, who urged a contest for next week, Uncle Jack hereby proclaima one. This will be the first chance for some time that the amateur poeta of the Circle have had to display their talent, so Uncle Jack expects the competition to be keen, and the winner will have to submit a pretty fine plece of work to get by The rules for this week's contest are as follows Write your poem on one side of the paper, your name and address clearly on the other side. Be sure that your poem {fs not more than 15 lines tn length. Ink or pencil may be used, Ink pferably. The contest closes at 3 o'clock of next Friday afternoon. mitted before that time will be dered, so be careful. Children of 16 years and under only, may compete. Alfred Young Is Winner of Dollar in This Contest Alfred Young, Machias, Wash., in the winner of the dollar in this snow story” contest. Fol lowing is his story, a mighty good week's = “A BNOW STORY” | By Alfred Young It was with unmeasured delight one morning to see the very much: wanted snow, about a foot deep. In a tumblerush-about hurry IT ran up stairs and brought down my time. As I gulped down my fancied I heard the breakfast I |other boys already partaking in the| fun, and ft made me al! the more frantic to be there also, At last my meal wan over and I rushed out of the house to the scene of the ¢y excitement It was a steep hill about three fourths of @ mile long with a slight |descent at the bottom over which! wo sped. Soon, after many trips, the snow was packed solid and then the fun began in ear: With the * 1 of the wind the course was soon covered and a long tramp back to the top of the hill, But the pull ing up Was well worth the ride down again A accidents happened, but those made it all the more exciting in and we quit Tho hardly noticing {t the day, I was tired, but contented with my sport IN UNCLE JAK'S ML § $ Dear Uncle Jack T think that A good contest for next week would be a poem on “The Star Circle,” or a photograph, subject to be: “What I Like Beat” I like the Circle very much, es: pecially the letters, and story con-| ests, I also think that the Honor Mention is good, because it en courages the Circleltes tf they see their name in print FRANK B. Dear Uncle Jack the Ch p. | re like them exes lam 12 sixth grade, HOUSE. 1 wish to Join ad the stories and lingly ars of age and in the 1am sending my first Only poema| Soon, too soon {t seemed, night set r thruout SCHOOL NOTE Freddy Wells snuffed red ink up his nose last Friday, and the teacher let him go home, thinking he had the nosebleed e- e Lame, the waiter at the Washington Waffle Fac- tory, “When bread is heavy, turn it over—mebbe the but- ter le strong enough to held it up.” eee BOCIAL NOTES Mr, Clarence Gerald, the latest | idea in lady barbers, asked « | clerk at Phillips’ shoe store how much ts four dollar shoes, “Two dollars a foot,” says the flip guy. | “MAKES ME TIRED TO HEAR | thowe editors talk- ing of fighting the contempt —MUITUIIIS law,” said Ever- 7 ett True, after a visit to Frank Kane's meet at the university. | “Bome of ‘em a too busy saving the nation to save ltheir own necks.” eee “Be IT FVER 60 HUMBLE, ETC." (From the Kennett, Mo, Demoora Notice—1 understand there are = few tattling women and have family and rum off 1 want to say it 1 have not deserted my family nor never will You can find me at the Hampton & Allen livery barn et all times. 4. P. MAMPTON. eee SURE Dear Wheeze: Instead of using the term, “I am going to cross the ocean,” why not say, “l am going to Ford the ? THER. Dear Wheere: Ni that J. M. G, asks the difference between a school teacher and a cashier. One tila the mind and the other minds the till Is that It? P. When You're Well KEEP WELL “CEASE SANs eames eree Another Article In The | Star’e Hesith Campaign Being Conducted With Co- | eperation ef American Medical Association | LIGHT The light in the classroom {s an important factor in the health of the school child. Many a case of defective vision is due to eye strain from try-| ing to study tna dim light or to} the effect of di-| rect glare, which | may be equally) armful, The area of giass in windows | should be at least one-fifth of the floor area of the room, and the light should come from the | left side of the pupils and from | | the long wall of the classroom. | On bright days the glare should | be controlled by shades. | The community assumes serious) | responsibility when it takes the |ehild away from the woods and fields and shuts it up for the better| part of the day in a schoolhouse, The least then that we can do as citizens ts to aid our health officers | jin seeing that the conditions under| which we keep the child in the arti-| fielal environment are made as lit tle harmful to health as possible. | Most of our human worrles | are almply excess baggage that we do not need to take along and which to carry costs us in bodily wear and tear ten times Its value. |story fn hopes that I may earn my jown spending money. ALEATHA KING, Bingen. We have taken The Star for a long time and I am | very interested in The Star Circle. Will you please send me a member. ship card? Iam 11 years old and am in the 3, FERN WATSON, 1627 Walnut St., Everett. To enter the contests you do not |need a membership The use lof the cards has been discontinued by Uncle Jack, #0 to become a Cir cleite simply send In your contribu. |tlon.—Unele Jack. HONOR MENTION | Aleatha |Marjoria © | Dear Uncle Jack | Wash King, Bingen, 7 W. Sith at tean, 113 dr, tarttora fare, Creor lOwens, Joves, Wash; felon Arlington bert Bore. suf ave Leon hase, 6740 27th Nw 4 Haratow ‘ Marion Duff, Renton; Mat 1 Rothe i ‘ 4 a Jola Hubbard, North B | FORM WIRELESS CLUB The Scouts of Independence, Ind., have formed a Scout Radio club. | Mombers will be Instructed tn wire less telegraphy by an expert INDIANA CLUB TO MEET The Indiana club of this city will] hold a get-together and social meeting, Tuesday, January 18, at the Swedish hall, Eighth ave. and Olive st, land 18 miles away. PROMISING YEAR “Thin in th ear of prom ine. was the slogan an nounced in The Star Monday, | | | You bet it is, with cand! dates for city, county, state and United States fMinging lids merrily into the ring ° > eee BIR WONDER IF WOODY TOLD THE MARRIAGE LICENSE CLERK that he wanted a license) to marry the beat girl in the world?” 1 did that not long ago and the clerk replied with a grin ‘I've had 1300 applications for 11 censes to marry that same girl in 11 months, Nothing doing see The government will here- after make its own steel for the Art Wiggins {s laid up in the honpital with the Jaundice. Art navy. This should prevent any | ere et aie troublen, how: from the navy ever, Art made a kick against ow shat & : his diet. “That's all the food you been abolished, women don't | [is Get. | Thal the hare, an" have to wait for the lowstep | tne doctors ordered everything street cars. It takes a lot of sentiment out of war when you consider a sol- dier’s principal bue to be stopping bul ore HIS QUESTION Bald little Lester Livermore: else in proportion.” “Well, says Art, “I guess I'll little readin’ now—bring me a postage stamp.” is 6 Streets are gettin’ these days at Second and Madt- non. “Wot chance hi @ peder- trian got?” asked Jim Pursely Wednesday, “outside of a mu- crowded \s where | the one When they're too tired to blow.” hese P —Judge. Purty soon, b’sosh, there's gonna be a cat show at the Bon Marche. There's talk of licensing better yet, | would Inquire, fore you close the door: cats, and the fur is flyin’ already Laura Potter was tellin’ Sarah “Where ail the collar buttons go, f ne fieer® James about it t'other day. “Ap- nen, Sey rere ee eee | plied for yours yit?” Sarah asked. Now they don't speak. 7 Sidi see Julle Hawkins’ weddin’, accord- ing to West End folks, “beggared description.” Hod Peters says be thinks it beggared her old man. ee Joe Peters has been foolin’ around Nellie Jamison all week. He drives her out in his gas wagon every aft'noon. Friday Jamison asked Nell what Joe was honking so much in front of the house fer. “Oh, 28 honks means ) Sign near Des Moines, where mebbe the ferry to Seattle will | UN\OR OFFICE n. y. toomly—last month they elecketed a feller member of kon- gress from 1 of the east siue districkts & he was 1 of the Ist to hop on a trane & run down to washington D C, to get rite on the job running the guvernment as he !s a new member he wanted his fambly to be there to see there proud dad put his hand to the rains of guvernment, so he took is lttel son raymond with him now this kongressman always beleeves in telling the truth no mat- ter how panefull tt may ve they got to the house of kongress which is differunt from the sen- ate brite and urley, long befour {t begun to line up for the first day's work, and putry soon the chaplin he come in and prayed for while dad said littel raymond who is about 9 yeers old & very smart, who {s that man that, my son, ansers his pop, is the chaplin it dont look like him, dad, the @on replys look like who why. charlie chaplin, raymond ansered it aint that one, his dad sald, this is the man who prays o, 1s that so, chirped raymond, and does he pray for the members of kongress? the kongressman grabbed a deep thought for a minit, and then he said no, son, he looks at the members of kongress the country enty-two quarts of beer and a half 5 6 § | gallon of whisky will be used as | the setting for her act | Joseph Scharpf and Albert A, Grady will offer fancy stunts. — Scharpf is said to have been re- Miss Margaret Clark, 22 years | hearsing a demijohn skit in the Old old, of 818 First ave., is billed to} Corner saloon at 1200 Western ave. headline Monday's police court en-| while Grady is the boss of a pe tertainment in a one-act sketch en-|taurant at 82% Seneca st. titled, “I Didn't Intend to Sell It.” Robert Miller was given the hook Scenery taken from her place of Friday's performance. Judge abode will include six cases of beer | MacMahon, the censor, considered and several scores of empty wine, | act bad and ordered him off whisky and other liquor bottles. stage for 30 day® Miller shocked Policemen will play the minor|the audience by saying he had roles. Miss Clark has deposited a/*found two bottles of wood alcohol $150 guarantee to appear. on the city ‘dump.’” The bill will be augmented by Al- — — bert Heiki, pool hall proprietor, of 401 Fourth ave, 8., who will mono-|, Ford paid $72,000 passage money logue on, “How I Came to Have a|for his peace junket. An dif his Gallon of Hootch in My Place of |flivver cars would or!y ron on wa- Business.” |ter, he could take them there for Miss Corina Kettleson, manager /#ext to nothing. Hard luck! Healthful Sleep is necessary for the enjoyment and prolongation of life. During sleep Nature renews the vital forces of the body and restores the energy. Sleeplessness is one of the evil results of indigestion. To avoid it, keep the stomach well, the liver active and the bowels regular. The health of these organs Is Assured by and then he prays for Johny of the Turine hotel, 2133 First ave. was booked for the entertainment about 7 o'clock Friday night. Sev- Beecham's Pills. A harmless vegetable remedy, which acts immediately on the stomach, liver, bowels and kid- neys, toning and putting them in good working order. Millions of people sleep well and keep well because, at the first unfavorable symptom, they begin to take BEECHAMS PILLS Directions of Special Value to Women with Every Box. Sold by druggists throughout the world. In boxes, 10c, 25.