The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 6, 1920, Page 6

TI sae iad If SEATTLE STAR—TUESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1920. ¥ Zhe BY, wal : t 5 mo Hace of Washin é Be per month, $480 for & months, or $2.00 | per year, by carrier, city, Ie per week 1] per month; 3 months. year, $5.00, in. the m Outside the state Seattle Star | : | Bi EDITORIALS — FEATURES | How Long to Wear ’Em ~The United States department of labor is responsible for i me statistics on the family’s cost of living. A budget a family is suggested. Included is some more ot th advice on how long we should wear our clothes. While it appears all right for the wife to wear her sum hat but one season, she should make her winter hat do two years. Her winter coat should last her three Her winter dress, two years, and her kid gloves, two An umbrella should stay by her for three years bear in mind that th suggestions come from Sam, not from the editor. The husband ought to wear his raincoat six years, his soat four years, and‘his suits should last two year 5 (prepare to laugh) he ought to carry the same ella three years! Ever hear of an umbrella that s to a man that long? P When it comes to little boys, the department is more . They a lowed three pairs of pants a year, a of stockings each month, and five pairs of BS, every little boy is permitted to have every pair F shoes repaired and re-soled every year. t is what we would call rank favoritism to little » We'll bet Secretary Wilson is making this play himself in solid with the little boys. What cares has to wear her last winter's hat? Or pa if his overcoat of the vintage 1915? les v shoes, he he Py of ish troubles ita- le ritain's uch oder ander, Lloyd George's scheme to settle B @corker from Cork. We would like an in to be present as an innocent by when L ge’s legislature from North Ireland meets his legis- from South Ireland to pick his real legislature all Ireland. ne 4 You Pay It York market authorities stopped sale of 35,000 that had been fed gravel to increase their t. Stuffing chickens with gravel is a good illus- of how the excess profits tax works out. The price that should normally be paid for commodi- ; the consumer represents the chicken. To this added the producer's excess profits tax—just as is fed to chickens going to market. has never been a tax easier to pass on than the profits tax. It is figured in as one of the cost pduction and passed on to be paid by the consum ‘The excess profits of the producing business remains is an outright tax on consumers, being a tax on profits in name only. And that part of an article's price that represents excess profits tax is the regardless of who buys. The toll levied on the consumer is identically the same as on the richest In effect, it is a tax levy of so much a head, of ability to pay. long will the public tolerate this excess tax on|am the falsely-named excess profits tax. Replace straight graduated taxes on personal incomes, so n will fall proportionately on the shoulders of those | * to pay. . ge hopes for early action on the treaty. He re- us of the man who deliberately stepped on an- 's corn and said he was sorry. ’ Death and Taxes once intimated that the two things surest to mortal man were: Death and Taxes. ly the inheritance tax, Congress thought. Astor, who was able to live in English castles of the fact that he exacted high rents from real estate, left behind him proof of a hearty t to beat the inheritance tax. He knew he couldn't death; he thought he could dodge payment of his ; transferred his property to a trust fund for his @ tax due upon the Astor millions it must convince } court that Astor did the transferring “in anticipa- of @eath.” Otherwise the estate escapes the tax. _ Con ss and state legislatures should not wait for case to drag thru the courts. The “leak” in inherit- tax Jaws should be “plugged up” immediately. oe The Bolsheviki have captured a few more of Kolchak's ™ generals and some guns. The old admiral will miss the guns. We Waste Our Coal every trainload of coal hauled from the mines to our bins, one carload out of every five is going nowhere ing to the department of the interior. In a train 9 cars, the last eight are dead load that might better been left in the bowels of the earth. Every fifth shovel full of coal that the average fireman || 's into his furnace serves no more useful purpose than > decorate the atmosphere with a long black stream of ‘ soot. In other words, we waste a fifth of the coal our miners And, we pay for it, too! he price we pay for that wasted coal would more than the increase in wages miners ask. it it this way: We can have as much steam and heat sing four-fifths of the coal we now purchase if we use jently. n essential factor in coal economy is the selection of for the particular plant. Secretary Lane suggests: government should sample and certify coal. We do to wheat and meat is just as necessary to avo: ice in the case of coal, and it is thoroly practicable. public should know the kind of coal it is buying. cause it should buy the coal it needs. : Palmer now controls the country’s food supply, and _ we may expect some very encouraging promises. " a. 5 * : The embargo is lifted and you can import Canadian wheat if you are careful not to include Canadian rye. ~ Massachusetts republicans suggest that a strike-mad ry exchange its birthright Jor a mess of Coolidge. EVERETT TRUE Yes, tus ts | | SAY, ASTER TRUE SPEAKING —— Excuse MES JUST A SECOND - | —By CONDO erert bo vou} KNOW WHERE) WE'LL SAY SO SV * y TRUE \ AWK Go AHGAD! mor tuent shops by In 31.8 in New ¥ carbon 18 p wa With th more and f warmed by on at both ¢ lost thru due to le tions it seems that before this government can collect) president Adams ident v Out ¢ dates first vice-pre On the Millard Fillmore dent of the Unite in Cayuga co was ni 1848 Taylor, When | 1850, Jobr was 7th of January thirteenth the candidate for president President Taylor wa died Fillmore and inaugurated erved for two y and a trifle under eight months | In 1822, on Ahe 7th o | Liberia, in Africa, was under the direction of Dr large tract of land w for the olonization warm and th president climate of soll fertile and cotton are the chief 1 ure easily raised erin in cane e 7th of January 8 Lawren lieh portrait j tt of a In the famous Png ter, died. He was} tish innkeeper and| ed only the most rudimentary tion, By genius, backed | by a most industrious tendency, he arose in his profession until on the| th of Sir Joshua Reynolds he s made portrait painter to the king, and in 1815 he was knighted. | 1820, RIGHT Non G3, THIS (3 Mister SPCAKING ExcUsSe Me JUST Sf A %ECOND —— ost ed! he ma » clined toward the firm which he has been Ts RACH OF THEM GE CANTON, Jan. ¢ MACTIINE ying to question the old mar Why build Why go to bing a bank? " y a trouble « not ¢ and ANSWERED hip curable in In an operation | tern she wear a the government tr than $4,00' In tact un diveane of pani © umual tre particular demands part of the but I cor and r examine pK 4. 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We Americans live well, and eat foods which are not conducive to the preservation of the teeth, DENTAL ATTENTION is often CALLED FOR—and shouldn’t be DELAYED especially in the case of GROWING boys and girls. j No charge for examinations here! Come in and let us advise as to the present state of your TEETH. Modern methods—high-class dentistry —low prices. These we offer you. Electro Painless Dentists Laboring People’s Dentists J. RVAN AUKEN, Manager Located for years at 8. K. Corner First and Pike, Pho ¢ Main 2555 On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise Speech Efficiency BY H. ADDINGTON BRUCE Kiddle of Persenalit “Peychot and Parenthood,” Author of “The Vite, — le but will count energetic, it may be, with the cultivated for much among the and ; to another worker, a bearing | le tammerer direct have on busine tutterers know Few people, outside of tutterers, appreciate how ability to speak well may success, Stammerer to their that their inability to ex press themselves readily keeps them from | disapprove of the use of ing as they should will continually feel a_ slight irritation this is true of speech defects gen ainst the slang user, a fact which cer- tainly will not be to his advantage. Thus with all speech defects. If they handicap in no other way, they tend to create prejudices which may operate seri- ously against the ine ient speaker. Hence it is no exagg jon to say, with my good friend Dr, S. S. Curry, of Boston, master in the correct use of the spoken word: é “When rightly considered, correct speak- ing is at least as necessary to the proper | use of our language as writing, and must be ever regarded as a fundamental part of education.” Those deficient in speech in any way and from whatever cause will indeed do well to make an earnest effort to overcome their particular defects. These may be of such a character as to be curable by self-training. In other cases their victims may require the guidance of a skilled teacher. They may even have to | call upon medical aid, as in the case of per- sons whose stammering is a symptom of nervous trouble. In any event, the effort to improve the speech should be made. Only beware of fraudulent “voice cul- | turists” and “speech specialists.” Inquire sharply into the reputation of any individual or institution whose services are contem- | plated in securing speech improvement. alert mentally, peech that people he has to sec The employers themselves may heartily If so, they Orrow slang. progre: And erally. Husky speech, lisping speech, blurring speech, word-clipping speech, ungrammatical speech, slangy speech, are real handicaps. There are men today in inferior position who long ago would have commanded good if they had only taken the trouble *,to overcome remediable speech defect ‘Take a man who habitually speaks in too low a tone to be sily understood. What employer will entrust him with work which brings him into constant intercourse with customers or client e He will be given secant consideration. He will be displaced by clearer speakers. Until learns how to speak well he need not expect promotions which otherwise might j be his without the asking. Likewise, a speaker addicted to slang should not be surprised if his employers "|refuse to allow him to undertake well pay ing work that involves contact with cultured and refined people. They well know that such people will not be favorably impressed by the slang addict ,,and consequently will not be favorably in- » Salaries chosen to represent. Under these circum- stances he will be a liability, not an asset, to his employers. There however reluctantly, they turn fore, Twice-Robbed Is the Man Who Tries to Cheat God s of him | pleasures of and there's 4 —% vuth have been drained, nothing left to enjoy, jthen ts the time to “make one’s peace ur | With God.” norma! state nh when th h At least, thi Hut there ts an almost inexorable ence as a pastor for law that when one's mind has been ng which I tried to be | closed to spiritual things for 40 or 60 dying and ars, it is next to impossible for it receive new birth—it requires uffered, or the | ®!most a miracle to change one’s way ¢ (of thinking. the| And any man who deliberately en- such as; gages ip a lifelong plot to cheat God illners—|out of lifelong service isn’t likely to suses, pro-|be in a frame of mind at the end of » which they | these years to calmly change all his little what be-| Processes of living and loving—he'll when they die. cling to the idols of his youth forever. mal ‘state—and {t's} And he's wrong when he takes ft h to wait for such an bour in| for granted that there are no joys in which to make one's plans for a jour- religion. There are no deeper, fuller ney thru eternity | Joys anywhere than those which are It is fairer, more reasonable, and | based upon spiritual truth. er fo think seriously about the! So that the man wno has been dis- ‘ entire matter of the future life when | honest with God and with himself ts last hour | « s mind ts alert to all the facts in- | twice-robbed—once when he ts robbed. a | of the richest joys of the present life: man will ever decide a more|and again when he ts robbed of the t question than this, and It / joys of the hereafter. ne ix, there worthy of the best » thought that one can give it. Let's go buy Boldt’s French pas- by | try. Uptown, 1414 Third ave.; down- It commonly assumed oughUless people that after the town, 913 Second ave. men to eet wine no man car that he may 1 deal, elther to na whole, for al} © jount on scape the of the hereafter-—whatever y be >» repent when his ened by long tline And, what ts still more Ik happen, he may t eart that he will be a in \ need for living expenses? Are you iI saving it or spending it? If you are wise enough to save it, are you wise enough to Save it Profitably? 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