The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 12, 1920, Page 6

| THE SEATTLE STAR—FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 1920. * | She Seattle Star month, $4.50 for ¢ montha, or $9. per pear by’ carrier, city, lc per week. Feeling Competition | the railroad an out-of-date invention? Will it ually go with the stage coach into the scrap heap? “The above questions may sound absurd. But they are absurd. The railroad is asking the public for a subsidy continue its financial existence. There is difficulty in ing money to pay interest on the bonds, and dividends the stock. There is complaint that the roads cannot bor- money in sufficient quantities to replace rails and out rolling stock. The truth is that the railroad is ming to feel competition. The gasoline car is the tor. Freight between cities like Philadelphia and York, which used to go by train, is now nana by Thousands of tons of freight are travel ing gas ee wer which formerly patronized the steam car. ‘There is talk of a 25 per cent increase in freight rates. tt a 25 per cent increase in freight rates will drive a lot freight to the gasoline-propelled vehicle. The margin tt for the gas car will be greater and, instead of trucks moving daily between Philadelphia and New there will be 75 or 100. This story will be repeated every state. The 25 per cent increase in freight rates ‘Way produce a 10 per cent increase in revenue, while the sss to the railroads by permanently diverting traffic will @ more than the gain resulting from the raised rates. The automobile has destroyed the monopoly created by rail. The gas-car can move on the unrailed road. It} 9 on the highway like any citizen without asking a/ hise or paying a speci toll, When transportation is industry is to that extent relieved from monopolistic he railroad will always do to carry pig iron and a certain ber of passengers.. And railroads some day may be| ted like the postoffice, by the government, with a} stamp rate which will give practically free trans- station for anybody to go anywhere. That will help in way. it is not certain that the railroad is not a back Anyhow, She Gets It ‘It’s like this: a Thanez, the noted Spanish author, says: “Women are surfeited with male servility toward them want a little cave-man stuff for a change.” d, replies Mrs. Clarice Baright, noted she-lawyer of York: banez doesn’t know what he’s talking about. There ‘was a time when women needed more sympathy from ir husbands.” Df course, the question as to what women want has got ‘be settled. They’re bound to get what they want, and so, tt they: want is of first importance, and the public is under high obligation to consider the matter. on’t believe for a minute that we're going to try to what women want, but may we not suggest that a ttl mpage: mixture of cave-man and sympathy might tried? at’s the sort of mixture most married women : ing now, but the solution seems to be too weak times. However, nature may bring things out all The Easter shopping season is on, when all of the man that’s in a fellow is likely to come to the surface d wifey will work husband’s sympathy to a fare-ye-well. ‘is bound to show much of what woman wants—and ynez and Mrs. Baright needn’t worry about her not get- it, thru working the sympathy racket or exercising it of the cave-woman that’s in woman. The People Decide The United States is without what the British know as fesponsible government. In Great Britain “the king can no wrong.” But then he cannot do anything at all the way of government except thru his ministers. The inisters are not only members of parliament but are nsible to it. They must resign their ministry as as it is clear that they have not the support of a iamentary majority. Thus what Americans call the| sutive branch of the government must keep in constant ch with the legislative. ‘ On the other hand, parliament must deal reasonably with ministry, for the latter has the right at any time ‘ask the king to dissolve the parliament and call for a election. When parliament has turned against the ers they can hold their office long enough to “appeal » the country” and see whether the new parliament is of same opinion as the old. The system makes for harmony. When disagreement the people decide, and decide at once. In France it " 4s much the same. The president of the American Politi- eal association, Professor Henry J.‘Ford, olds that while | yo ung republics once looked to the United States for a they now turn to France. This is because of the tive and legislative functions in the United States is a ng conviction that the sharp separation Between ex- Under the Brtish and French systems the government presents more closely than in this country the actual ng will of the people. A change in this respect in ie United States is most desirable. The Ideal Girl Of an afternoon she is seen often at her window darn- stockings. It is her hour of rest. Some folks wonder how she stays so young and good- king, working as she does. “Those boys of hers keep her mending and patching she isn’t cleaning and cooking, and yet she seems find time for everything. She is a leading member her club and when somebody in the neighborhood is she is always on hand to help out. ' Those who visit her home notice it seems to shine with i cheerful presence. With a kiss she can heal the fingers the children bring in from play. Her hus- finds he can think his way out of his worries and difficulties better when she is at his side, giving the wise ‘counsel of perfect intuition, that he can at the office. You know her, of course you do. She is the good mother —the Ideal Girl! ‘Tonight, long after the children are in bed, she probabl: san be found sewing back the buttons they ripped bs thelr the day. And she is humming a song as | WE'LL SAY SO SOME CEILING The plasterers have finished a ceil- ing in the new bank building and it is a beautiful piece of work, When men can handle plaster as these men have handied it, plastering ceases to be a trade—it is an art, This skill fully designed ceiling ts not sur passed by any Work of the plasterer in the state of Iowa, is the honest opinion of this paper.—Ladora, Ia,, News. eee Cardinal Mercier hag rebuked the rich folk of Belgium for setting a bad example to the poor by their extrava, gance. How countries differ, Over here the rich complain that the poor set the bad example eee LET IT GO AT THAT The Record-News wishes to correct an unintentional error in saying that while the prices charged here for the performance of Mr. Post were not high when the average prices here are considered, that they were high in comparison with those of other efty in the United States where charge here as were paid at every other city in the United States where Mr, Post has appeaged, the theatre management announces. — Wichita Falls, Tex., RecordNews, eee New York telephone girls are form. ing a union. After they’re organized @ telephone girl can be called up, down or out oe An Indian princess says the In dians invented jazz, That will no doubt be news to most folk, as it is to us, We never suspected for a moment that they invented it. We had supposed they only improved on it, eee THIS SOUNDS LIKE AN APOLOGY The undersigned in his editorial {tem in no way meant to insinuate that the editor of the Marengo Re publican was in any way disloyal. In fact I have always known him to be loyal to the core and I take pains to reiterate our statement tn the is- sue above named that he is a fine, loyal gentleman. And I desire that my readers shall so understand this point. I am sure after deliberation that Mr. Farquhar’s paragraphs con- cerning not liking democrats were in the form of a jest and I feel that I did him an injustice by commenting on them as being facts, and I feel that he has this apology coming to him. I also acknowledge that I sent & couple of newspaper clippings to Mr, Farquhar thru the mails, same being unsigned by me. Furthermore the editorial columns of the Sentinel and Democrat wil! in the future be free from personalities which may lead to misunderstandings and hard feeling. B, Fullmer. ‘The retraction upon the rord of the Sentinel editor will ap- pear in the Sentinel and Democrat,— Marengo (Ill) Republican. eee A citizen reported to the police that he had been held up by 4 man wear. ing a @iamond. The last man who held us up wore a white apron. And carried a tray. 8 i bs ei BEST $2.50 GLASSES on Earth We are one of the few optical stores in the Northwest that really grind lenses from start to Minish, and we are the only one in SEATTLE—ON FIRST AVE. Examination free, by graduate op- tomet Glasses’ not prescribed unless absolutely necessary. BINYON OPTICAL CO. ue TO OWRKEN AR PLY SAE TEA A Few Applications of Sage Tea and Sulphur Bring Back Its Vigor, Color, Gloss and Youthfulness Common, garden sage brewed into a heavy tea with sulphur added, will turn gray, streaked and faded’ hair beautifully dark and lixuriant. Just a few applications will prove a revelation if your hair is fading, streaked or gray. 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Now a raisin shortage seems provabte. iy 2) through your hair, 1g One small strand at a time; by morning ali gray hairs disappeared, and, after another 4 eation or two, your hair becomes; beautifully dark, glossy, soft and luxuriant, EVERETT TRUE | JUSTICE TO SOLDIERS Editor The Star; My vote was cast for Caldwell and Tindall, two ex-serv ice boys, and it is at the disposal of Lamping, if he chooses to run for governor of our state, and even tho he doesn't make the race himself, he can sway my vote his way, pro- viding he inn’t a turncoat. ‘The idea of this letter is to express my views on the comipg Igisiation for ex.army boys; view# which many of us hold. I have noticed right along that congress was always ready to adyance any amount for the shipping board and allowed the fooara to write off huge sums as ‘Then, again, didn't department accept a profit and loss. our ‘Yreasury for some interest she owed? How | many billions of dollars did we loan Europe when we knew the security shaky? If Uncle Sam ever allows | Burope to cancel the debts or write off the interest I predict the I. W.) W. order will have about three or| four million new members, largely recruited from ex-soldiers. I am in favor of a loan to every ex-service man who desires one for starting a farm or building a home for himself. Let the loan be for 50 years at 4 per cent. Fifty by 4 equals 200 per cent. Uncle Sam can write off the loan at the end of 50 years and still be winner. He has ample security. Close your eyes and see the boom our Northwest would have and even the whole U. 8. A. if a million boys started to build houses. Our lumber mills would have to work overtime. There are the hardware and plumbing works to profit too, Last, but not least, the immense amount of work it would give to our idle bricklayers and car penters is another thing to keep the jdollar in healthy circulation. The boom in business would last at least two ar three years, long enough to ceep us busy and happy and out of mischief. At the end of that time in- | dustries will have righted themselves and squared away to be’ world su- preme. Is there a man by the name of United States take some worthless islands from England in payment of her debt to us.” He must like “J. Rum.” Ha, ha, methinks even brainy men can be foolish. solve the reason thereof? me. They made a place all right, but I had to start almost at the bottom again. Did I take it? No. I soon found a position, though. There are plenty of men who understood and treated the returned men splen. idly. I know several boys who had the same thing happen. Boys who were managers. Remember Uncle Sam pald his clerks nice salaries and also gave them a bonus. There you have the fact in a nutshell, the fact that he can be generous, ‘ This is what I want to say most of all; I know several young fel- lows, my age and also twice my age, who stayed nd worked in the shipyards, or were able to go into business for themselves, who didn’t have a red cent when I went away, “Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets’”’ OH, WELL, THAT'S NOT F So BAD, THON a a BY DR. Whether or not you believe in Christian 3cience, at least Reversed Christian Science is true. That is to say, if you want heart ur pulse; if you want stomach trouble, inject your thought regularly into your stomach; if you want a bad-looking mouth, keep fixing it and screwing at it; and if you want any member, gland or organ of your physical frame to go on a strike and begin to act up, give it a-good dose of f- consciousness. Sq that I say that, whether yw not your thotight can cure anything, way of disease, The same is true of the soul. There is no recipe so infallible for giving you the mulligrubs and the moral pip and the spiritual colic as to keep prying into your- self. Analyze all your good motives and pretty soon you won’t have any. Suspect your good impulses and they will soon wither and die. Go around in your soul with a dark lantern, like a Sherlock Holmes, and before long all your decent, self- respecting, manly elements of character will get disgusted and move out, The one sensible, moral and religious thing to do with yourself is to let yourself alone. “Look out, not in,” was a famous saying of Edward Everett Hale. The reasonable- ‘ness of it is herein: That when you look out you can see something, and when you \look in you can see nothing. H Outside are the sun and trees and sky jand people. Inside is a deep, dark pit. disease, lie awake of nights and listen to | it can certainly give you something in the | On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise Reversed Christian Science RANK CRA (Copyright, 1919, by Frank Crane) You cannot see yourself by looking within yourself, The s a deal of danger in this same self-examination, self-study, self- culture, self-improvement and the like. | The way to ruin your watch is to tinker with its insides; the way to ruin your crop of beans is to dig them up every day to see how much they’ve grown, and the way. to ruin your body and soul is to think about them, “He that saveth his life shall lose it.” 3 The place to see your real self is outside. There are mirrors all about you in which you can see your soul if you wish. I will name some of these. .& First, if you want to see how good you)] are, look into the eyes of the one who loves ‘ you. Cheer up! It’s true. You are as 7 good as that. If you want to khow how mean you are, listen to your enemies, those who envy you and hate you. Be humble! It’s true. You are as bad as that, too. If you want to see what you amount to, look at your work. The psychological fune- tion of work is to reveal a man to himself, — When Wagner had finished a part of his “Tristan und Isolde,” he wrote: “As the — good Lord said some four thousand years ago when He had made the earth, that it was good, having no one else to say it for Him, so I say of this work of mine, having no one to praise me, ‘Richard, you’re the dickens of a fellow.’” That was proper, sane, and reasonable self-appreciation. If you’ve never done anything, in all prob- ability you are nothing. and when I came back, these same, Q. Two months after my son re | turned home from service in Franes | he developed red blotches over the body. Subsequently the other chil- dren developed the same trouble. It |is very itchy. What shall I do? men had houses and lots paid for | Conducted Under Direction of Dr. Rupert Blue, U. 8. Public Health Serves COLOR BLINDNESS = cars, small cars, to be true, to ride. Then consider the fact that there lare over 15,000 men in our country P |who made a million dollars or more| Investigations conducted by the during the war. Many of them are| United States Public Health Serv |not big enough men to make for-| ice show that some form of color. ltunes in regular times. The ones | blindness occurs in 8.6 per cent of |who made a hundred thousand dol-|men and 2.2 per cent of women in lars or more are too numerous to|every-day life among healthy indi- mention viduals in America. | ‘Therefore, I think {t 1 only to| Color-blindness of a degree dan be considered as payment for serv.|gerous in occupations loon rendered loan for building a home occurs in 3.1 per cent of the men My people have lived in New Eng. | 0.7 per cent of the women. land since about 1640 and have al-| Among \setence dictated. testing With colored lights of known spectral composition. done satisfactorily and expeditiously | with the Eldridge green lantern after | 4" fhe provisions of the war gaining an understanding of the prin- ciples of the test employed. requiring | rejection of a large percentage of we are allowed a recognition of colored signal lights, | subjects who should |especially among the | ligent, but ft possesses certain prac- refractive conditions of | tical features which render it super- ways voted for justice as thelr con-|the eye, color-blindness occurs least | {ior to other tests in certain lines of ANXIOUS MOTHER. It is possible that the trouble is scabies, but you should be sure to have a doctor make the diagnosis. Your son is probably entitled to” free treatment and sick benefits wi Color-blindness is best detected by This may be act. “If you will send me your name and address, I will be glad to advise ‘The Jennings test results in the | ¥°U to whom to apply. be accepted: “UNCLE SAM, M. D.,” will answer, more intel- impossible for him to answer ques- W. G. McAdoo who says: “Let the |, Mine dictates that | frequently in eyes apparently with-| examination where great few million dollars of worthless Rus- | cast my vote against any man who | out demonstrable refractive error; it | and classification of color defects are sian bonds from England as payment) opposes a loan to ex-serv bays. |occurs most frequently in eyes show- | not essential ing mixed astigmatism. 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