The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 30, 1919, Page 6

‘DITORIA Bitor The Ste Velleve the pr Witt you please do what you can thru your paper lerable conditions under which government and supplies ought by the public? “The supply depot sends out letters refusing acceptance of mail orders Recauae it has instructions that no mai) orders oan be accepted for deliv: Py in the Seattle city limits, And this is also made to apply to all rural out of the city. ‘The parce! post was established to serve all the people, and one of asic arguments was that it would enable us (o take advantage of Buch opportunities as this. ‘The postoffice might as reasonably refuse to handle the parcels of Dig mail order house? during the Christmas rush. It waa widely Y that mail orders would Qe accepted, so evidently it was the nt's intention to use the parcel post, If this is a local ruling he postmaster should be forced to rescind it and accept the parcels as If it is a departmental ruling it should be taken to the post general for relief; for of what use ix a system that refuses to when needed most? [f the Seattle postoffice is not equipped to handle thie business it be so equipped, as it is at Christmas time to take care of busi for merchants and mail order houses is absolutely no sense in people standing for hours in a line for a few clerks to. serve a thousand people. if mail orders were received the congestion would be relieved. Very truly, R FP. HETZEL. cm are advised that the government clerk in charge be- that more people who need these groceries will be ved if all who live within the city or adjacent country) fi ced to come to the store in person, Star does not at all agree with his view of it. Nor The Star look with favor on the present system of Jong lines of patrons to stand out in the cold and there is abundant room inside the warehouse for women. "Nor has The Star been favorably impressed by the re- al of the local officers in charge to double their clerical ee for the public good. | are we infatuated with the idea of locating such a} miles away from the business center, down on the/ it. see no reason, except the official mind, why mail should not be received for these goods, and why cel post should not serve suburbanites and farmers as mail order houses. d The Star sees mighty little reason about this ri ental store system, except that, if one will it half a day in the rain, he can secure certain small 2 of a few staples at a material discount. ie bargains are there, but they are made about as im-} and unreachable for the average housewife as tho ORIAL— _* Service While You Wait | EVERETT TRUE *. J | SHAMIACK THE SLEUTH (Synopsis; Folled in every other endeavor to get the recipe for the verfect basement beverage, Sham thkes Dr. U, TL € an, noted to Grashon Inland te n the n ehiball, T et recipe! of his need in tention chief's | glands into the y of @ living hu man and thus imbue the latter with |ambition to reproduce the beverage | Put Hub Stooker, whom Shamiock lwupponed had drowned in ‘elliot | Hay, had swum to the island ahead of the detective) om, the «hinds fr ie ancient Chief It Johief alone knew t | for the mort pote day Zi \ CHAPTER 14 Shamlock ordered Mayor Gerald B Fitscec!] to remain on guard on the) yacht Holeinthewater with Watt 1 |Frankerhouse while the detective and Dr, Cates, accompanied by Josh G. Reene and Stim D, Charleson, hurried inland to the tombs of the muminies. Entering the erypt, Shamlock | urged Cates to employ all speed in removing Ryeb{ball's glands, Cates got out his tools, THe carefully ster illned each maw and ving at th ind. He cut flesh, suddenly turned, awed tones announced the awful! | truth | “These glands have already been | removed! Shamlock’s eyes blazed pel, then be “Stolen!” he exclaimed. “Potled again.” He ordered the party to speed back to the yacht Once inside the yacht's cabin,| plowing thru the water towards Se attle, Shamlock conferred doctor at length In ft pomsible to take the glands of a living human, transplant them into the mummy of the dead chief and fetch him back to life?" he with the ‘were a thousand miles away. . William McAndrew, associated superintendent of ¢ York schools, told a California teachers’ con- that “a teacher who is not well dressed ts not worth his or her salt,” but he neglec in just how a lot of teachers can be very well on the pay they get. Pass the McNary Bill Quick is a shortage of sugar. and sugar interests believe it is due supplied. MeNary of Oregon has introduced a bill which r control over 1920. Tt is too late to prevent some rise in prices, because the d to take the offer, in ited at 4,500,000 tons for the next being sold in the open market at high prices. . T, government officials believe that it will still be to reopen negotiations with the Cuban government y_ most of this crop IF WE ACT QUICKLY. have of getting sugar in 1920—at anything like a price. u want sugar in 1920 at a reasonable price, better ir representative and senators to get busy. They you tell them loudly enough. wt Old Clothes society, organized by the municipal 8 of Chicago, should have Retle trouble in extending bership all over the country, for a big majority us are already wearing the regalia of the organiza- * How They Pick Them would imagine that when an employer wanted a man By bricks he would hire a bricklayer. Nor would he iid for the family physician when the gas pipe needed Dit of plumbering tinkering. if he was sane. the government doesn’t appear to do things in such and thoughtful manner. n it wanted a secretary of agriculture did it select rienced farmer? No, it chose a college president. when that secretary of agriculture wanted an as- at did he hunt round for a practical, soil-taught agri- ? Secretary Houston did this— d James R. Riggs of Indiana. , according to the department’s own publicity “was active in the development of the coal, oil, and lustries of his section. For 12 years he was presi- } of a trust company. Since 1912 he has been engaged le manufacture of drain tile.” he made his first purchase of farm land in 1882. seems, is what fits him so nicely for the United department of agriculture. A daily bealth column conducted by the United States Public Health Service| touched the dock at Beattie BY DIRECTION OF RUPERT BLUE Surgeon-General U. 8. Public Health Service DON’T STICK INDOORS meen | anked. “Nothing is imponsible,” replied | the surgeon, mysteriously | “Then we shall attempt it," maid Shamiock decisively. “We must have the secret recipe, With ft we oan offer the world’s parched tipplers| ORO something to steady their fraying The recipe in worth billions ~ Without it we nought.” But even as the yacht’s trim nose Hub Stooker, the ercaped multibillion aire barber, with a resolve to bent the detective throbbing in his breast, crawled out of the water underneath the pier and made off up the street nerves can do THE SEATTLE STAR—THURSDAY, OCTOBER tw, £919. jand you cannot lose. Dog fanciers have long noted| some food in an amount not exceed-| ang in his hands he carried @ bundle that when a house dog begins to get fat and wheezy it in pretty apt to| almost everyone. be attacked by a stubborn cane. In such a case they the det exercia burd be ata reane the ing and itv thus rn my The sin of gluttony is common and| therefore much condemned. every has penalty. fatigue and nervousness are due to! the abuse of the digestive apparatus. Rich, indigestible foods government, @ | quantities, highly seasoned to stimu- ‘crop and so were able to keep the price down and/!ato tho jaded palate, are forced into a body already rebellious from repletion. to walking to and from before the senate committee on agriculture extending | and bodily deterioration proceeds rap over-fed dyspeptic. suddenly dragged by the stern hand ry of circumstance from a life of phy» government, after offering us the sugar crop, when |icai ease and plenty and forced to scalded and bottled, or withdrew it in September, and| work out of doors, discovers that his semi-invalidiem has gone, that a|for months and make a delightful! jects idly, Many an chronic skin derangement ye that 4 has been given him. Not every one can spend time in the open air, but lary bill is the only hope the people of the United | amount of exercine and plain, whole apples are of little value for elder! FORD” on Sure, and it’s a dull day when we can’t get a new ference launched im these United States. Now, Gov. '. L. Harding, of lowa, asserts if the federal govern- is not able to settle the threatened coal strike, he ill call a conference of governors to do it, by heck! _ An English clergyman proposes the organization of a ion of clergymen to establish and enforce a living imum salary for its members. Wonder if they will demand « piece-work scale, or fiz a minimum number f howrs for work? . The No-Tobacco league is now holding meetings in fornia. And what is more, it is not composed solely victims of campaign cigars. We have no concrete, irrefutable evidence that Ger- is conducting a Baltic campaign, except the fact lat she denies it. get only 414 per cent on the money we lend Eng- while she gets 7 per cent from Persia, But then, } 10 on England, ot poisonous sub other violation of nature's laws Fat inefficiency, Exercise is largely limited ears standing has disappeared and new Vigor and zest of life apples Every housewi housewife “PENICK @ food means Brer Rabk body’s needs can be bad by |__o¢ mummy glands. #imple moderate | diet anf exercise make for health. These are not faddish they are just jing the (The 16th quart of this pulsating md theories: | tale of modern detective fiction will mn #ene*. be opened here tomorrow.) | ef | wkin dis cut down open air over plain oc he Rut saying, It's # shame the plot to kidnap Edsel was frustrated, My an we were interest relating ealy to hygiene, sanitation and the Prevention of disenan., It will be im- Dessibie for him to amewer questions . but ike eee Lost | The low miscreant who «natched the lump of coal ftom @ lady's purse in the Bon Marche yesterday is | known. No questions asked. Large reward for return of property. Ad- dreas We'llsayso, Care Star 2 INFORMATION EDITOR, U. & Public Mealth Service, WASHINGTON, D.C. a——------- The Old Gardener Says || me all ‘making, but most of the late kinds While the legal status of clder/are excellent, altho rumet apples are| has been a matter of considerable | considered beat of all. A hand Press| discussion ef inte, it expensive and by its use ail agreed that ¢ is x len which are not nel terfere with the } who wishes ¢ cider he require in large the table make all If the a harmices Dreservative used, it will keep sweet cider is There are nearly 250 different lan guages in India, and about 300 dia- of many jdrink. Don’t think, tho, that you| lean make cider of any worthless Negroes comprise 17 cont The character of the frutt| the industrial force of the country . will determine the flavor. Df | | Pane eS worth while to go over the fruit and! h pa try 7 ; down town, 913 cut out all decayed spots, Early! a ) A Word about Better Fog for Childreg T’S easy for most oftins t0 recall his whole a certain | \\. LL “Sticed Bread and Regf New Orleans \Bfstases” dering chilhdlll deys. 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