The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 31, 1920, Page 6

<seereeeeenews os ° : © She Seattle Star per month; 3 months, $b) year, $2.00,r in the ‘ the atate, or $9.00 By wait out of city, 6 1.50; apparently doesn’t fit into their se work in harmony with President Wilson. tion nominate him. We don’t know how popular Hoover will be by the time the nomina- tions come round. We don’t know if he will actually be drawn into the race. We needn't even express an opinion as to how good a *president he'd make. But it's a cinch that the more these politicians keep harpooning him, the better chief executive he’d be if he got elected. He wouldn’t owe them anything—and they’re a fine crowd not to owe anything to. In the meantime, the Young Men’s Republican club will probably hold its Lincoln day banquet in Seattle quite successfully without from Hoover. Senator Poindexter will no doubt be long enough for a couple of presidential candi- any message able to write one 1 dates of the stereotyped kind. And, for the rest of us, if nothing more comes out of the Hoover boom than a few anxious nights for the professionals, why, even that'll help some. | “Good-bye. I like to try everything once.” So spoke Gordon Fawcett Hamby, murderer, robber, ad- venturer. As a catch phrase, this “trying things once” has its fasci-| nation. There is a certain amount of admiration, murderer tho he was, for the man who could repeat this catch phrase just before paying the death penalty in the electric chair Thursday night. He had nerve. He had strength. But he tried too many things once, then twice, then more times—and he made the mistake of not differentiating between things that seemed right and things that were pos- itively wrong. He tried to break into a bank once. And when he suc- ceeded, he tried again. He tried many times. He killed one man, then he killed others. This trying things once is all right if done in good conscience. But try something wrong once, and even tho successful in. that once, you lose in the long run. Almost ating himself for saying it because he might ap- pear as a “moralist,’ Hamby nevertheless did ask the warden to tell “all the young fellows for me not to ever START doing wrong, for once you start, you can never stop a career of crime.” | In the shadow of death, Hamby spoke a great truth. What a man he could have been with his strength, his nerve, and his faculties, if only he could have taken his own advice—if only he hadn't followed the easier course of reck- lessly “trying things once,” whether right or wrong! Spokane forger held up five citizens with a fountain pen. On with the debate once more. Is the pen mightier than the sword? The Profiteer’s Mask E. D. Hulbert, one of Chicago's leading bankers, blames the excess profits tax as the main cause of high prices. , “This tax,” says Hulbert in a newspaper interview, “falls most heavily upon those of limited means. It is passed along to the consumer in all cases. For every dollar the government gets in the excess profits tax, $10 comes trom the pockets of those of limited means.” Banker Hulbert knows what he is talking about. has inside knowledge. He He sees the excess profits tax in * actual operation and recognizes it as unsound and unjust. The government in 1920 will collect $1,125,000,000 in| excess profits taxes. According to Banker Hulbert’s figures, this amount will be padded to $11,250,000,000 in the process of passing the tax on to be paid by consumers. This is an enormous load—about $100 for every man, woman and child. There is general grumbling about the size of the income! °"™" Greetings! {seems to have been made safe for the sugar profiteers oe And now the public is beginning to think the only thing fair about the falr price committee is its name. ph ‘The Of course, the mysterious lettert| pave the fair price committee ix getting | from anonymous persons who sup- port families of three on 6100 a month, and still have enough to buy a home and furniture, could not be fakes for propaganda. oe. Th elect Seattle police e lac rh ning once ° Any way, seem Herbert Hoover is a hard pill to swallow—for the politicians. He heme of things. They are already -beginning to squirm under the growth of the Hoover boom. It pains | ‘them and it galls them because if he is nominated by either of the | ‘two big parties, it will be despite the politicians. — ee f It is really laughable to watch the professional politicians in ‘the republican party, for instance, cavort about these days, strain- ing themselves in the attempt to make a case against Hoover be- eause he had been holding a non-remunerative job under a demo- cratic administration and had even urged a democratic congress to It is laughable because they take themselves so seriously, and they take their contention so seriously, when the rank and file of the voters aren't a bit worried over the republicanism or the democratic affiliations of Hoover. It they are for him, they are for him regardless of party affiliations. _ Nor is the situation much different in the democratic party. It is very likely that before long the democ ratic politicians will discover ‘that Hoover favored some republican at one time or another—and ‘would consider it high treason, therefore, to have the Frisco conven- the . said on the way to the lke Ought to be well to try turbed over finding bones in a What an enigma ix a policeman! : Mra, J. HL. S., 6602 "51st ave “Did you ever hear of a chicken that is neither hen nor rooster?” Of course we have. day See ‘em every down on Second ave rh these days, greatly per ) SEATTLE STAR SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 1920 Gee, BUT I HAVE AN AWFUL TIME WITH MY CORNS ! You KNOW, UVG | SUFFERED THE [= TORMENTS OF THE ~~ ‘ NO WONDER !! I suPPose if fr WERE THE STYLE TO WEAR A HAT A COUPLE OF SIZES TOO SMALL \) CORNS ON TOUR HEAD, TOA "I! ue INSANITARY WASH ‘The U. & Public Health Service and the various state and local) boards of health haw ken ade | quate measures for the abolition of that distributor of disease germs, the common towel. Now comes the news that the common wash rag is leven & greater menace to health. hoteia and public hostelries Tecognized this for some time, and have supplied their guests with sterilized wash cloths in individual sealed packets. The damp, “sour” ameliing warh rag still existe, how RAGS is often hung radiator near to collect dust the wame wash world | dirt cretions from person to person wal towel, but there ess | ble every It hou sate to dry tact with other wash cloths. secure these days for and three times the money twice You'D HAVE A BUMPER CROP OF Frequen ie used by the entire family, thus affording an easy/turns of reforestation are too slow for pri- means of transference of mouth se many households each individual has his own wash cloth and his individ hang #0 clone to one another on the racks that there im ready Interchange of bac teria. Each individual should have his own wash cloth, and this should ever, in many private bathrooma.|be thoroughly washed out with clean y washed out after use,|hot water use. It should be not wrung out at all, it| they wrung arly dry as possi nd, if possible, hung in the eun not come in con | Years has been progressing at an alarming | Dat was anybody buying these | ry suite? | _ONCLI KAM, M.D.” will anewer, | either in thie column er by mail, Evidently not or they wouldn't be | qucstions ef general interest relating there day after day, with these Foy dincnee, it ou - small prices in force impossibte for him to answer quee- » ask®:| You see this was @ pawn shop, a wecond hand store where the gar- ments of others were on sale. The garments generally appeared about INFORMATION KDITOR, ut Mra. as new, in many cases they vere | J, H. 8. had something in mind. She | not monatrosities, and not unduly T have cue thet aot ‘ shoddy, but they were on a aide} bat put in its first | street window and were second year as any other pullet. This year | hand welt giant ae pegged myn ign It might cost $2 to have such «| rooster,” ne ® mult steam-cleaned #o that the most j pernickety would feel secure in All We care to say fw that Mra. J #8. had better watch out thing she knows, the blamed thing Hu will begin barking laying bricks like a mason Mu anid Ja Fran abip AND MILDLY ENOUG We te gar ek nee yard as the pe have an ung cause there Uke lage on the postage stamps in eanant taste be Sno sugar in It, that be to the well-known the Dempsey in . the lock Hereafter may But if there's consideration for the et of things, the fight will whe ernment should use vanilla of chocolate t remarked Thundering lke the gates of the pit, with th natul mildest batteries—and again changing with-| pela us to buy at the top of thel out effort to the aeolian sweetness! inarket and well at the bottom | of the wind harp—that, mildly, is tute x Evanaville’s organ answering ‘the touch of Prof, Gillette.—Evangsville, Ind., Courier netimes we wonder if consid ral howling» zephyra, swiftiy pi of of this high living panic | 16 to a state of mind dog and fight to be an » SAY WE tempestuous furies; then with the cooing of the changing again to the brasses of pillared gates clashing and the roar of the giant MATTHEWS Will preach a sermon Sunday morning en- titled, “Another Decade With Jesus” This will be the anni- versary sermon on the beginning of the nineteenth year of his pastorate. In the evening he will discuss the subject, wearing 4, but the idea of patron- | jaing @ pawnshop for even a work-| ing sult, such an idea would curdie the thought of any among us, no| matter how sadly we might need the twenty dollars we might save Furniture « ons offer a wide range of household goods, but when we buy even a kitchen chair it must be new whatever the price. The latest style is more impor tant than the question of price or rervice, and late new shoddy al ways will have the call ever all- wool that is not of the latest mode. | A lot of us serve grape fruit when the humble but juicy prune would be more in place, and we have an aversion to half soles, | overalis, caps and patches, Patches may be flags of inde- pendence rather than signals of helpless poverty, and you will find that the families that have assured independence of investment or tn- come are much less insistent on the latest fashions, and much more ex acting tn securing their dollar's worth than families that are one Jap behind the grocer; and whore | fandlord is always prodding for the last month's rent | There is a psychology that tm- |} Next sugar there's fitness ‘i “Mary, Nicodemus and the Rich Fool” Good Music A Welcome for All I sean rita at super First Presbyterian Church Seventh and Spring If You Are One i Yet wronmar cer yweyinny income tax to be collected! A state of mind that insists on this year is only $175,000,000 more than the excess profits|buying bigh things, even wher : P m : tax. The income tax is direct. People see it? The | there are cheap things eet of the 99 in 100, you will become immediately excess profits tax is indirect. People do not see it. Unt. do HHS ote ic absorbed in Ralph Parlette’s new book But they pay it, just the same. At draws no more heavily on the millionaire purchaser of a specific article than on the poorest purchaser, In effect, it is a flat assessment of so much a head regardless of ability to pa Repeal the ex ’ profits ta Hoover didn’t launch a presidential boom. It launched itself Back in the days when he handled that big job in Belgium. Apparently everybody believes in ratification by com- promise except the few who are in position to block a compromise. There would be little talle of intervention in Me sico if there was no oil to feed the flames Kolchak struck out; Japs to the but. Tear away this profiteering mask. |« It had a coat and the’ cox ris hed stat other day 5 assing A upon t long a ten hought The Salvation of a Sucker which will be mailed you upon request with the compliments of and buttonholes and but ‘tor sale for S180, GOVERNMENT F333.) NN DS wonicieac ame window were por 4 SECOND AVE. COR.COLUMBIA, SEATTLE aber ile eal heer _ Permanent omen ere | 48 good quality as one expects to| ‘Washington, D.C, _|a half billion feet of logs and lumber were | }our wood inheritance. ~ Up by the state. j | | | |der Selkirk on the { | ewes AMERICAN LEGION SHRAPNEL | “VOL. 1, SEATTLE, J AN 31, 1920. yet | RAINIER POST A. L. Scores Gold- } ENTERTAINING ,,, i "rmait organization of ex-service mer ( At the next week! have been adapted t 1¢ four American Legion ) meeting of Tuinler Post here : ‘ { the 69th artillery will pro ae J ‘ “y * J iy hi : a ) duce some entertainment tae of the American Legior that will remind service Bome of the public are fooled na ar ex-nervice men @ But mort ever the American public, in ne fashioned the importec men of the dizzy shows ) that used to be produced jin France, i The {to bring forth a number artillery promises Furope ) of the men who remained (in France after the outfit returned, entertaining the — 'T DIDN’T PAY { “Yanks waiting to come =9While in the service, If } home we were wont to nay, in there { The next week the 1618t many cases, that the next doubt lantry will show war would find us in re service Janis and Harry gion unknown and to see De ler and those other cessible to government thelr own champ. overseas entertainers. agents Martin, and the ¢ — Now comes the case of the French of Grover C. BMergdoll, Georges Carpentier. ENROLL NOW! wealthy son of a Philadel The champs neve Exservice men! Pick phia brewer, who spent a the chance to get to- tained at St. Aignon @, out one of the Legion fortune dodging the draft. gether. But now, when Rue St. Anne? ports lated below and en- j1¢ was beginning to cele- the opportunit is at - iat now. Join up with the prate hin “victary” over hand, it is usurped by a A. T. Behenck entertain. { men who fought the war Uncle Bam, when the cops few high-fly in finance ¢d the members of Rain. from © ewis to the him by putting up a man who ‘er post this week wig } Rhine. No guard Had he answered the not even tasted issue the novel stunt of Blow. fatigue, K. P., or for call he would have been coffee. ing the bugle calls ons Marches under full pac a glorified man now. He What does the Ameri. regulation 36 caliber site Beattle Post, No. 15. could have looked back can Legion think of it? Reveille didn't draw 1616% Third ave, Phone with pride and « feeling Action has already been much applause, but whes Main 6426 of honor to his service in taken by the Leo Lyden he sounded mess call, en. Elmer J. Noble Post the army. Post of Denver and Pu- core followed encore. {7 tiers’ and Batiors’ It was no fun living a eblo Post 2. Not only = { club. hone 47%. secret, hunted fe, It was have they indorsed Mar Who said Jack Sullivan } Rainier Post, No, 21-—~ worse than serving in the tinCarpentier bout, but was going to run againg, 1616% Third ave Phone Jiuesian arm It will be have sent their resolutions Pershing for president? $ ta n 6426 even worse for him here to all other American —_ ) Lieyd Cochrane Post, after. Legion posts in the coun Have you enrolled your {No, 40—Hallard, 1 Ask Ber |, and it's 10 tr buddie in the Legion yet? Bigurdson, adjutant, 1519 to 1 he'll way draft dodg- ‘The spirit of fair sports. American Legion jo fallin Weat 62nd at. ing didn't pay BY DR. FRANK CRANE (Copyright, 1919, by Frank Crane) Bad as the coal famine threatened to be, a wood famine would be far worse. We have been too recklessly consuming for centuries in America should the forests are It is time that forest conservation should be intelligently taken For the state is the only power that can adequately manage the matter. The re- vate capital. used daring the A Chicago paper points out that in the three states of Illinois, Ohio and Indiana there is a great deal of soil too poor for successful farming, but which might profit- ably be set out in trees. Trees are mineral feeders and do not need so much humus as grains and grasses. Trees are not only needed to conserve moisture and prevent erosion, which of late will be zero. ment: of print paper. rate, but they are of vital necessity to many industries. The newspapers are up against a very serious situation already as regards wood pulp, and the factories are not far from a still more disastrous wood famine. The demands of France and Belgium for American lumber is increasing. “Three and on the west. growing. The exported annually before the war; seven billion may be needed now,” says the Ameri- can Forestry Association. Forests have been carefully conserved is policy. copyright law between Great Britain TOMORROW and the United States and the | American publishers freely pirated |the works of British authors IN the Ist of February, in 1461,| ~~~ the battle of Mortimer’s Cross. in which Edward, Duke of York afterward Edward IV., revenged his father's death by a signal victory over the royallets, was fought In 1708, on the Ist of February Captain Rogers discovered Alexan Island of Juan Fernandez where he had lived alone for four fears and four months On the Ist of February, in 1775 the new congress of Massachusetts | met at Cambridge and elected John Hancock president In 1792, on the first of February war was declared against England and Holland by the French ness.” On the ist of February, in 1811 mu¢th more in years to come. If Arthur Henry Hallam, the son ot| prices drop your saved dollar will be Joti ihe harem ROR a phar that much more valuable. If the cost llaNam became an intimate friend | and was engaged t He died in Vienna of Tennyson the poet's sister then you will need your in his 234 year. His memory has been immortalized by Tennyson's Besides, these dollars you place in a beautiful jexaic “In Memoriam.” ed In 1815, on the Ist of February of the volcano of Al Philippine Islands oc curr A frightful eruption utterly | de ed five populous towns: and] killed 1,200 peo On the Ist of February, In 1837, a petition waw presented (o congress signed by 56 prominent English au-| thors, asking congress to secure to them the exclusive rights to their writings in the United States. There existed at that time no international OO The longest train on record was that worn by Catherine de Medici on her marriage, It was 48 yards long and borne by 10 pairs of pages (Central Baptist Church || ‘The members of the Central || Baptist Chureh believe that every || unattached Baptist in the city attend thia church, We ]| of the best Pastors on © Coast. He is a great ch But he is not a higher ritic, He is an eloquent and forceful preacher. But he does not use flowery words and long t all the time, and in years have piled up additional an eruption bany in the pendence later in life. Dexter Horton Trust and Savings Bank Second Ave. and Cherry St. Open Saturday Evenings 6 to 8 o'Clock the cholar | |Combined resources Dexter {Horton Trust and Savings Bank and Dexter Horton National Bank Over on “Principles ing.” Large « tra Third Avenue and Cedar Street |i On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise Brick Outfit COCHRANE Post or got manship should lead the Save the Forests growing demand for wood for all uses cannot after a while be met, Great Britain is to spend $17,000,000 in a 10-year campaign to replant as areas 25,000 acres of land to forests to prevent future famine, for wood is the backbone of the screw propeller was patented by its Ericsson, a Swede, When Dollars Are Worth More HE dollar saved now will be worth of living continues at present levels in life more than you need them now. savings bank will be drawing interest “vhich you did not have to work. $26,000,000.00 No, 10, S OFFICERS Cochrane officers for the! ear * the O4 ty halt night, The a, * who will get they! comminsioners ary { Hubbard, eam, Lioyd Ri! fay. GET Lioyd nder r The meeting is open » ull ex-service men. There will be a musteal program nd several short taka Hight o'clock sharp, SHRAPNEL’ Clarence twe Bob hamp army, tnction of being the lag Seattle man of the A, E, FP. to return, Was he de Une. Europe, and it is high time imitate this example. If not replenished the ever humm war in France, i We must do likewise. If we go on ever- lastingly subtracting, " b id y an by tie gawer makes i Charles L. Pack, president estry Association, “Publishers of the country are icing a _mggt acute situation because of The cost of lumber and pulp wood is becoming prohibitive. The center of the lumber industry is now near- ing the Gulf on the south and the Pacific That means high prices be cause of the long haul. is decreasing three times as Our lumber fast as lawmakers of this can do no greater service to Rem | who elected them to office than to take up and press forward a national at once We must our basi- In 1838, on the Ist of February, for eteas inventor, dollars later to come will savings for