The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 2, 1919, Page 6

She Seattle Star By, mail, out of city, §0c per month: 8 months, 50 : € months, $2.75; year, $5.00, in the State of Washingt Que estate, 7Se per month, $4.60 fer 6 months, or $9.06 per year, by carrier, city, 2c per week. How Cities Can Buy Surplus Food | From War Department . There are three ways in which municipalities can take vantage of the war department’s sale at cost, or below, of is surplus food supplies: : 1. Where the city operates a municipal market, the Buthorities in charge of the market can bid on the supplies. ; 2. The mayor or common council can appropriate a Sum of money for the purchase of the supplies, appointing @ committee to handle the bidding. tas) age: > 38. Gitizens can organize COMMUNITY BUYING UBS where the other two plans are not feasible. The way to follow the latter plan is to get busy and ize. It makes no difference how the organization is ‘ected; the principal thing is to provide enough money to pay for the supplies wanted. : A single carload of food supplies will cost anywhere $9,000 to $20,000, so the amount of money to be raised pends on the number of carloads of food needed. Uncle Sam demands his money before he delivers the “supplies. That's an important point to remember. _ Perhaps a number of wealthy, public-spirited citizens “Will agree to advance $10,000 apiece to pay for the goods. ‘When the supplies arrive and are sold to the public, these} fen can be paid back. t The first thing to do is to get the mayor and commor? ouncil interested. If they refuse to act, it’s up to the) is themselv: The best way is to call a meeting in some centrally-| cated schoolhouse, church or theatre and appoint a com-| ttee to handle the work. This committee, with the force) public sentiment behind it, should be able to raise the cessary funds for so worthy a cause without trouble. | The result will be that hundreds of*poor people in this) ty will have the opportunity of buying excellent hot-| Weather meats, vegetables and fruits—the kind that made doughboys fat—at a cost far below current market! We are told that the laborer will turn anarchist | » when denied his beer, but we resent the inference that labor is a maniac when sober. The Vanguard of Civilization Any seaport of any civilized country in the world is e accessible from New York today than was Denver, | 9., at the time of its first settlement in 1858. Thus the world has done pretty well in the matter of portation. / It is also doing much by means of this same trans- tion, for it is making a world prosperity, a world se, and one people as near as the elements of the race id climate will permit. : Lord Bacon said: “There are three things which make tion great and prosperous; busy workshops, fertile fields easy means of transportation for man and goods from lace to place.” ‘ ' Lord Bacon also said: “Of all inventions of modern the alphabet and printing press alone excepted, “inyentions which abridge distance haye done most i mn. We are quite naturally reminded of what Benjamin iklin said about aeronautics 136 years ago. The French | ad just then made a few ascensions in gas balloons, and | he probability of steering and propelling these craft was eirig discussed—crossing the Atlantic was even then sug- "Someone asked Franklin if he believed an aeronaut ld ever be able to steer his balloon: “The thing is in its fancy,” said Franklin, “it is necessary to wait.” “But what useful process will it ever serve?” this ques- ner continued. : “It is a child just born,” replied Franklin, “let us wait judge it when its education is completed.” < so it is, aviation is just now in its youth—youth | just now playing with the tools with which it will finally ifest itself in larger accomplishments. It is idle for us to prophesy, but it is the opinion of and other inventors that it will be fully 25 years) fore aviation has reached the point of perfection and use- fuln that the automobile attained 15 years ago. Tesla ites that the future of the aeroplane is going to be the lity to make great speed and ascend great heights in to be free from storms. The first constructive purpose in the greater perfec- ion of aerial navigation will- be in the ‘ability to go to laces of discovery and prospect—as a carrier of men and} ail to remote parts, and water and rail transportation a carrier of bulk freight will finally follow air courses. will serve as the vanguard of civilization, democracy and de in now inaccessible regions. det The habit of rising to make a few remarks is much like the drug habit. As the years pass, more and more of it is required to satisfy the victim. Eddie Rickenbacker—American * Seattle today welcomes Eddie Rickenbacker—America’s most picturesque ace. i? He did not wait, when America went to war, but was ong the first to land in France. He started as a chauf- leur and came out of the conflict a captain in the air forces, fter officially accounting for 26 enemy planes. - Today every civil and social club in Seattle is host to Captain Eddie Rickenbacker—a tried and true American. or After July 1 the popularity of a patent medicine will depend on the percentage of the ingredient that isn’t patented. All nations and individuals are willing to arbitrate, except those who think they can lick the other party ‘0 the dispute. The man who has done one excellent piece of work gets mo sympathy from the public if his future work is merely good. + deeb oN tae Peestas These proposed speaking tours may not instruct the people concerning the league. But they will instruct the speakers concerning the people. When we hear a grown man use the word perspire, we listen carefully to catch him pronouncing it rawther. The nearness of a senator's ears to the grass roots depends on the nearness of election day in his state. Choate says that a duty will not keep out Hun dyes. \There’s Always Something to Take Our Minds Off Our Work.| By Mc KEE. THEY SAY A GOOD BIG MAN A GOOD LITTLE MAN CAN ALWAYS LICK (© THAT'S So, wuy DON'T You TRY YOUR HAND ON tes pest? YA BIG STIFF- | I'm GONNA | muss You uP | AND THEN SWIPE YouR, GiRu! YA-A-A-AH ! —= NS No, said Wiggins, when the Official Board met to take action on the resignation of their Old Minister and to select some Young Pastor. No, he said, I’m against it. | Old Brother Thompson has been with us | twenty-five years come September. He's grown up with us. He’s a part of us. Same as. kinfolks. I'd just as soon think of ac- tepting my father’s resignation, because he has a notion he’s been in the fathering busi- | ness too long, and the children need a younger man. Brother Thompson has married us and buried us, that is, some of us—there’s a lot more need burying, take it from me. | But he’s been part and parcel of our wed- dings and sociables and parties and fairs and town meetings and everything for a| lifetime, and this here propositon to kick him out—for that’s what it amounts to— leaves the undersigned plum cold. You say he’s over sixty and is feeble. Well, let’s hire him an assistant to do the chasing around nights. But, for me, I want to see old J. M. Thompson marching | into that pulpit every Sunday morning, until | he can’t leave his bed. | It may be, as has been stated here, that a Younger Man would attract larger con- gregations and build up the Church. Maybe he would. But this is no Department Store | nor Theatre. We're not in this organiza- | tion to make money nor to pack the house. We're here to be a center of good, whole- | some, decent living and belief. There’s not a man, woman or child in this town that does not feel the influence of Mr. Thompson, | and they’re better for it. | He helps this town. When he walks down | ANSWERED BY MR. GREY T am very anxious to become an aviator, I sup: | pose that I must do a great deal of preliminary study: | ing, especially read a lot on the subject. What do | you advise me to read?—A, L, T. Begin by reading a sheet of fly paper. Can you tell me why it is that nobody can have a | quiet tennis game?—A. P. J This is on account of the racquet Is it possible for a fat man to be thin?—B. H. Yes, Mr. Grey has frequently seen a fat man lean | out of a window | Why it it that lawyers are always dressed men?—B. R. R. Because they delay tryin . such poorly ig their new suits. oe But, as the man remarked when he received his | light bill, “Here is a bill for current ex . A MILITARY SECRET “Where do you come from in the States?” inquired | M. ©. A. worker of an American darkey ‘ou'll have to pardon me, sah, but the captain tells me not to divulge no valuable military informa. | tion.” | see MAKING IT EASY FOR THEM TO HIT THE HIGH | YOTES | Moravian anniversary services, 9 to 9:30, Sacred | music by the trombone choir from the church spire. | West Salem (Ill.) Advocate | eee ohn Barleycorn may be dead,” postcards M Gc. | “but I'm afraid he hasn't been buried My guess is | that his body has been placed in the vault.” | eee HAVE YOU A MARY A.? | Will you please try and find out for us why it is that about one out of three John J. O'Briens has a wife whose name is Mary A.? Research workers in the insurance division. Bureau | A sense of duty will. jot War Risk Insurance, have 175 John J. O Briens on the list. Of these 50 of the John J.’s had married Mary A's. : | THE OLD MINISTER BY DR. FRANK CRANE (Copyright, 1919, by Frank Crane | know that beneath them there’s a heart as| publican » 25 the street years of integrity, honor, and] trust walk along behind him. When he said the prayer the other day for the boys that were leaving for the war, there wasn’t a dry eye among ’em; it wasn’t} as eloquent an address to the throne as some college guy ould have made, perhaps, but those boys knew who it was praying, the man their fathers and mothers believed in and respected, and I’m thinking the Al- mighty knew who it was, too, and listened. Brother Thompson has his limitations. | Everybody has, except me and you. But) we know ‘em. And love ’em. And we! sturdy as oak, and a soul as clean as sun- shine, and that, to say nothing of ourselves, who are so darn good we ache, there’s not a drunkard, or a woman that has gone wrong, or a sick man, or a sorry boy, that wouldn’t turn to our Minister as to a friend, in trouble. No, siree. You can’t turn an old pastor out like a horse. by This all may be sentiment. But, I take it, this Church business is about ten-tenths sentiment. Anyway, it’s sentiment to me, So long as I attend this meeting-house and J. M. Thompson is able to stand up and talk, he’s going to be my pastor. And when his resignation’s accepted it carries mine along with it. _ I haven’t much piety, but what I’ve got is red. And I guess I don’t want so much devotion to the Church’s welfare if it’s going to make me as dog-gone cold-blooded as it makes some folks. Thus ended the remarks of Wiggtns, of Wiggins & Waggins, dealers in stoves and| hardware, THE PENALTY FOR NOT MARRYING BY THE REV. CHARLES sTELZLE | Way back in Genesis, very early in the history of | the race, God said: “It is not good that man should! be alone; I will make him a helpmeet for him.” | And Adam's life was made richer when Eve was given to him. It is true that Adam spoke to God rather bitterly of her when he fell, charging it up to the woman whom Thou gavest me,” but Eve un doubtedly helped make more of a man of him. Anyway, “it is not good that man should be alone.” This is the judgment of the Almighty, who created him This is the strongest argument for marriage—it is the will of God, And any man who doesn't marry—when he can. and any man who prevents another from marrying by paying him less than a living wage or in any| other way, is going contrary to the wishes of the Almighty—to Whom he'll have to give an account some day, Is popular and rather “clever” to sneer at the statement that “marriages are made in heaven,” and some have added that they are repented of in hell. but it's a pretty safe guess to say that there are| more “unmarried” than married patients in hell, be. cause to remain single when there's a chance to get married, is simply adding just that much more to the sins that send a man to hell, MEBBE SO When the frost is on the pumpkin And the fodder's in the stack, We don't know—we're just suppostn'— That's when Woodrow will get back. Medicine Lodge (Kan.) Republican, THE TORRENCE REUNION Mr. and Mrs. Park ‘Torrence of Pasadena are suests at the Weimer ranch this week. It is the first time they haye met in 30 years.—Fresno (Cal.) Re WHAT'S MISSING—THE SHADE OR DOOR? For Rent—Second story front room; semi-private bath.—-Advertisement in Philadelphia (Pa.) Ledger. doesn't take person of superior intelligence Letters of an Altruist | TO HIS GROCER. BY EDMUND VANCE COOKE Dear Sir Your ti.deouity 1 take render monthly me As ear marked attention. My eye suffused at sighting Your “F remit” in your own writing! Yet, after cursory inspection I send your invoice for correction My warm, yes, my sincere advice In That you revise your current prices If you'll forgive the obvious jest I'll also add, revise the rest! Since “currant price” is but one item Revise them all, ad infinitem Currants to cabbage, chalk to cheese, Butter to bread and pines to peas. I trust sir, that you apprehend me And would not willingly offend me, And I shall be affronted deeply If your bill lets me off so cheaply. Do you not comprehend, I wonder, The “overhead” you labor under? And are you slow in realizing Your marketprice is daily raising? ‘Therefore, as heretofore contended Your invoice should be well amended. Yet, why submit you to such trouble; 1 send herein a check for double, Hoping I've thus approximated Your prices as anticipated This settlement, dear sir, I trust is Not hostile to your rules of justice. | (Copyright, 1919, N. E. A.) 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