The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 16, 1919, Page 6

The Seattle Star | THE SEATTLE STAR—-TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1919. EDITORIALS — Mie mall, out of city, b0c per month; 3 months, | | |. $1.50; 6 months ‘$2 ve | Btate of Washin o | The per month. 6 per year. by | aoonaee by paying what you owe. This applies to nations as las individuals. And the shortest path out is the saving ite, putting awny a portian of every pay-envelope, thus ally—often slowly—but surely, reducing the n of debt. It is nothing new for the United States to be in debt The only newness about its present indebtedness is its size, ter than anything in the national debt line America ever dreamed of. But this very enormity of debt an early start at paying all the more imperative. | Secretary of Treasury Glass included in his estimates to s an appropriation of $287,500,000 toward a sinking ind which ultimately is to retire the national debt. Other staries have urged congresses to indorse the sinking debt-paying method, business-like and certain, .Other ngresses preferred the more shiftless program of paying B debt when there was no other place to put the money. systematic debt-decreasing se heme never appealed to pb pork-barrel congressmen “In the meantime the nation—that means all of us—will tinue paying over a billion dollars a year interest on ational debt. This interest will be collected from the Sle in the form of taxes, direct and indirect. It will lwindle only as the principal is reduced. ‘The present congress should inaugurate the national debt- payit g fund, at this session, too. The only question should ‘as to the initial and annual totals which we will put into sinking fund. The sum suggested by Glass, $287,500, doesn't seem large enough. Couldn't. we cut down the by half a billion a year? moun The ex-service man who tramps the streets looking the job he was promised when he doffed the khaki, t get a lot of comfort from the news that $65,000,000 gold bullion has gone into the manufacture of 1919 “Christmas jewelry. Modern Pallas Athene " | is hard for a grown-up nation to get a new point of | It is harder still to enlarge its sphere of benevolent . Grown-ups want to go the way they have always and no other. That is why America is withholding Europe. the mythology of ancient Greece, Pallas Athene, god- of wisdom, was born fully grown from the head of | Not since then has there been an adult birth in| Maman society until Europe invited America to become s power. | fro \EV ‘ERETT TRUE for the most part > ’ aaa | ti WE'LL SAY SO Suop EARLY. DO You OWN THIS. BULLDING 7 J UNCLE. St ISN'T AS SAVAGE_ AS HE LOOK Boy HIM THAT GiET SOON. ONLY 7 DAYS To Go tt th as predicted b Greetings! world doen end tomorrow ers, what a blewsing it will the astr nome folks were tal le All Churches, 1 weriounly I DIDN'T THINK You DID A» for the writer, he stayed home BY "THE WAY YOU WERE anday and thawed frosen pipes. In SCRATCHING MATCHES OretT IY the next wot pipes do not freeze The wife has gone to the country, wishing not to be found in bad com pany when the end oe comes . Fut you'll admit there are worse situa tie ur being seated on a nice, hot rock in one’s B. V. D.’s, fan ning one's self with a palm leaf ‘+ @ The great drawback Is that the place is likely to be all cluttered up with exdandiords ee Watch this column for latest bul jeting hot off the w if the astro! gore are right, The word “hot” tv ised advinedly . Silk stockings, say manufacturers are going to $12 and $15 a pair. Too bad. This price will make them so sular that the wool stocking fad will never get very far Unlem, of course, the wool stock ing manufacturers are shrewd enough to raise prices to $20 or $25 |® pair What Did She Say After They De parted? One of the m beautiful social affairs of last week was the function jetven by Mra. Thos. RB. Smith, com |piimenting one of the fair future | brides of Crowley, Mins Genevieve the condition of | Smith On this particular oceasion about a careful examina and nose to pated In making the WORRIES Not all worry ts preventable, but can be avoided never re tion te the kidney and tion of the eyes. determine 5 guests Most of our f are Athene, tho personifying all wisdom, probably | ic¢ and, as a rule, if we meet our|make sure that these organs are not| “linen show which bore such ed a little and rubbed her eyes before she became |troupies day by day as they come, |at fault |eloquent testimony to the popularity tom to her sudden environment. That is what) without worrying about them before sitndia jot the honoree, an event long to be ry $ » y "7 rion’: js they arrive or fretting over them 2 What does the germ of “flu” remembered. ca is doing now. Europe needs America’s before after they have passed, we will find |look Ike? | Immediately upon the arrivel of Greeks needed the wisdom of Pallas Athene. Me) that we have the strength to rise) A. It is not at all certain that|the guests, the charming hostess, as ca, like the Greek goddess, has had no infancy Of | anove them the germ of "flu" has ever been| sisted by Mra. Geo. B. Nye, present ; 4 pare Worry undermines the health to a lated. The so-called influenza tion for a world pots f lif leertain extent. It really weakens the bacciilun” originally discovered by | ete Inden with gifts. The happy ternational relations are as the breath of life to) mental torcem by tiring them out by |Pfelffer Is now regarded by many au |— Baw to st Binal ne, pe. The Europeans have never known anything else. | doing nothing thorities an being only a secondary | pe, therefore, cannot understand why America holds} Europe vaguely attributes it to selfishness or com self-satisfaction or even fear. | is none of these. America, rather, strange responsibilities thrust toward her. « They ar s0 new. x fing America’s youth. They even antagonize some of s traditions of our days of undergraduate isolation. ‘ herty rubs her startled eyes. It is no more than that. Bradstreets figures the cost of living is today 131 per above the pre-war level, or the highest ever known as yet it has not given out any figures on how we to pay this cost. Plenty of White Coal The department of the interior advises strearn and the mine, the white coal with the black.” What, never heard of white coal? coal it is than its black brother. © We are using coal at enormous cost, robbing posterity, to drive our steam plants, lighting plants, for power of all kinds, and at the same time we barely touch upon the nation’s wonderful water-power resources. The theoretical maximum quantity of water-power that an be produced in the United States has recently been timated by Dr. Steinmetz, who calculates that if every could be fully utilized thruout its length at all ons, the pawer obtained would be 230,000,000 kilowats 4820,000,000' horse-power). Jt is clear, says the depart- um can ever be made available. The geological survey estimates that the water-power in this country that is available for ultimate development amounts to 54,000,000 continuous horse-power. Of this we is bewildered at|to explain the condition, and we must | viruses o|&0 deep into our lives or have the/thru the fine pores of unglazed porce They are supported by no traditions formed |), unravetting mental proceanes | worry ia «a change of mental occupa nerica, therefore, hesitates a little, and the Statue of open air | reati | occupation Address eutferer from thie unfor INFORMATION ondition ow t to bimaeit L c t U. & Pabite ; liscover ® healthfu | meane 4 t| Tet's go eat at Boldt's—uptown. Uve to health and) 1414 3d Ave; downtown, 913 2d Ave peace of mind alike “the wedding of | trom 3 to 6 ae Why, for long years the imaginative French have called) peau to «a |iable physician and have him give f that thie includes a urinary examina STYLE for sport clothes. A style for ‘ A For domestic, ‘round TOMORROW } the house clothes. For sheer waists, dinner frocks or dance frocks en eS Bie vaggre nal i 1 ; You wouldn't want a long-sleeved garment under a filmy blouse! And don’t you just nt of the interior, that only a fraction of this absolute} we developed les¢ than 5,000,000 horse-power. Available} iter-power would, if developed, furnish motive power| every wheel that turns in America. Water-power| wasted) @very street car, run every industrial plant. ould be converted into heat for homes. It rooms and our streets. » That is why Seattle is intent upon developing the Skagit _ Bite. Its benefits may well be said to be nigh unlimited. could be made to pull every train, drive Much of it would light A local astronomer, J. J. Burns, court bailiff, says that Professor Porta's prediction of disturbances or up- heavals on the carth, Dec. 17, has been put off until the W7th of March, Saint Patrick's day. The straw vote being conducted by Leslie’s Weekly gives William Jennings Bryan 36 votes for president. We didn’t think he had that many friends. A four-foot vein of coal was found while digging for | the foundation of a new building on the state capitol grounds at Des Moines, lowa. Now to find the men to get it out. Who wants a heated street car today? But just wait until the next cold snap comes along. Again the desk of the superintendent of public utilities will he piled high _ + with protests-—unless the city council appropriates @ fund to provide heaters. tera fishermen BINYON OPTICAL Co, In 17 n the 17th o Jecember the aurora boreal as first noticed ” RST aVE. t country, The people were Between Sp ad Seneen hear Main 1550 I filled with alarm at the unusual) - - aight, viewing | a sign of the lnat Cut so generously in the body judgment Carter's never pulls, never binds On the 17th of December, in 1788 anywhere. Polly and Margaret pbb ods ea ak AO rs omg tah dance with glee over the soft In 1830, on the 18th of Decembe Goziness o their Carter's Suits, fimon Bolivar, the great South American general, died. General Bol ling the revolution that freed Colombia, ¥ jo pre ident of the new re On the 17th of December, in 1895, Usually the relief from worry rests invader. Several European observ FEATURES | 4 | | Sal | Way Station: BY DK. PRANK CRANE (Copyright, 1919, t Vrank Crane) “A short time ago,” a woman writes to | to ten years f me, “I was passing thru what seemed to | of vantage se me‘the hardest experiences I ever had. There i One day, while waiting for a train, I hap- pened to notice, on the cover table I had been studying, th falo and Intermediate Stations.’ Immediately this impr great significance, and at one attitude toward my unpleasar “IT had been paying too much attention to the Intermediate Stations of not enough to the Destinatic “Do you get me?” Yes, I get you. And first of all, my compl O lady, and greeting to you, Elect! You are manifestly one o who feed upon this material not eaten by it. You have Spiritual Digestion, and can transmute the commonplace things into the spirit’s manna of ideas. So you are going to get a of your stay here than you whom life is but a whirlwind of atoms. I am going to take your i I have been too much occupied in looking | out of the car window and For, after all, it is the De matters, That is, like most folks, I lack a sense of proportion. Anything, said Emerson, i you view it from the right ¢ The secret of beauty is perspective. So when a thing worries I not use my imagination, transport myself bride-to-be opened each dainty pack age and in her usual gracious man ner made appropriate remarks about each lovely gift-—Crowley (La) | Signal eee A bill in the Ohio legislature pro-| vides that lobbyints wear a badge on which are the words ™ This is a nhould be copied by all states. Paid Laeby Legislator.” few York Intends to let retatiers ge 22 cents a pound for the best | quatity Java sugar, a price that is of beet In a few days you won't be od to Mins Smith several large bask. | able to find any sugar except Java) lin New York that and conatterably Louisiana wugar., higher than Cuba, Brazil splendid idea and And there should also be a bill providing that some of the lawmakers wear a badge bearing the inscription, “Paid wisdom: “It hundred year Try this fretted over of the time- e words, ‘Buf- ed me with | e I took a new it situation. my Life, and m. let your mince iments to you, The friend as one of the | of those Souls they are but Way Stations. world and are ch my Destination. As the office | boy says, “Ich Kabibble.” vegetations of deal more out | r neighbor, to more. dea to myself. | a time,—but at my watch. pstination that Grove, Pievil Hundredth Street—what’s the difference, if I come safely into the Central Station, and find the folks all there, Welcoming? Said Browning: s beautiful, if distance, “I see my I shall arr I ask not, me, why can He guides apd strongest plate known, covers $5.00 Set of Teeth All work guaranteed fer 15 years Have tmpresston taken im the merning and get teeth mame day Ce See Kampics of On: e ff Time, Most of our rs tested our work. t place. Bring Open Sundays From © patients who ha: | Vou are in the On the Issue of Americanism Zhere Can Be No Compromise a folk-saying that condenses this idea, think ahead to that day when your baby is gone, either vanished into mystery or mar- ried and absorbed by others, and you are left alone, with only memorie then maybe you will smile and not frown; perhaps you can enter into that large for- giveness« which God has. ness men that cheat me, the men that lie to me and the women that lie about me— I shall arrive. when my Life Book is balanced probably it will be found I got all I was worth—and I missed this opportunity, my pride was cut here, there was I pa cheated of the spot-light at such and such just Tie Siding, Hawkins’ Mills, Downer’s In some time, His good time, I shall arrive. REAL PAINLESS DENTISTS. Ip order to tutrof@uce our new (whalebone) plate, which is the lightest yeu can bite corn off the cob; guaran- toed 15 years. 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Will you be do kind tell me what to do for head noises and swimming in the head, which laste gat a time, nev and makes me a min eral times a day most It is impossible for this bu , what is the cause of the r “white coal”—the tumbling water which is converted| head r s which you complain of 2 so many forms; and a much cleaner, handier kind |!" aig le tha 00% ie oF ley co ¥ y) plundered Rome In 1413, on the 17th of December, England It contained | DR. 4. h BINTON the first book printed in t Oxford Free Examination was issue orty-one quarto leave | | | ‘, On the 17th of December, In 1593.) pppgep $2 50 | In Carter's you don’t have to enry May, an English mariner, was | Sialiiate 1 . 4 Henry May, an 3 mar as . GLASSES | get Carter's Knit Union Suits low-necked, wrecked on the island of Bermuda : ; He and hix mates were the first Eng on Earth | high necked or bodice topped. Couch 1s gat fect WA the SMAnG We abd. aust ue coe! dew eetica, half-sleeved or long-sleeved. 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OFF by @ treaty signed at Washington In 1908, on the 17th of December, | the first successful flight of a plane was made by Wilbur at Kittyhawk, N, Cc, air Wright | hate to tuck in the neck of your union auit when you are wearing an open-necked dress? It is 20 bulky and is always showing anyway! Carter’s cream-white. each tabbing fortable, even when This is why wit! the desired styles fc Your favorite shi You can Knit Underwear in Sleeveless, Ankle length Tar WitiaM Needham Heig and Spr E ’ . KNIT facto keeps you snugly warm. worn Carter's, the selection of their under- wear becomes merely a matter of deciding on Underwear FOR ALL THE FAMILY j An underwear style for every kind of dress Becomes softer and whiter after cannot get harsh. Shoer, yet In it you are com- motoring! h women who have once or winter's needs. opping place has Carter's cotton, silk, lisle, merino and wool—for every member of the family. Carter Company hts (Boston District) ing field, Mass. 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