The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 8, 1920, Page 6

The: Seaitle. Star mail cut of etty, ite meath; $ menths, as 1) monthe, $ a Wt) he Washi tgeton t be Month, $4.59 for per year. By carrier, cit per ¥ i EVERETT TRUE / The New Traffic Division | aeTee STA BEVeaaCINED Te HEARD Mets teas ee jhor THE RIDICVLOUS ORDERS Ya (S8UE To Your] | (3 You Got your doe THROVEH "PULLS, AND NAT BY WORKING YoUR> The inauguration of a distinct traffic division in the THe TROUBLE Police department and the appointment of Lieut. C. G. Carr! ‘as its head, augurs well for the establishment of an orderly | “ to handle a most vexing problem, The division, at ‘present, is working under handicaps, but gradually, as its ‘organization becomes more thoro, the good effects will show themselves. Other cities, with larger motor traffic than we have) have found it of advantage to operate thru a separate unit. ee oe mtn ate a thee te ert at| e “slips” w requ em to at . headquarters, or en they a they would | fii) : the matter up with officers who happened to be on at eons pes but who had only a nominal acquaint- ic affairs. Offenses were consequently treat ‘in a jocular way, and the morale of the motorists, in| of being strengthened toward a stricter enforcement precautions, suffered and grew more lax. ith a separate traffic division on the job, a safer city be expected. Having initiated.this move, The Star confident of the results. ‘ “ fangled Fanny Hurst’s hubby says he likes the new-fangled 4 ial idea. He acne have to spring the hack- neyed “lodge meeting” and “sick friend ” excuses when he wants a night out, he says. And what's more, he doesn't have to pay Fanny's millinery bills, tither! The Street Car Fare ~ 7 * Mayor Caldwell’s position that the street car fare remain five cents until every possible means has been exh d put the system on a paying basis, will be generally ap- If there are any holes that can be plugged up; if there! changes, alterations, or improvements that willl in economies; if the regulation of the jitneys will the city lines any substantial part of $1,000 per day, | claimed—these should be tried out first. | When these fail it’ will be time enough, as the mayor nts out, td discuss’ a raise in fares. in the recent election Mayor Caldwell obtained many dreds, if not thousands, of votes because it was be- he would take hold of the car situation, throw it to public scrutiny, and develop the best relief possible. ho have the chance to prove himself equal to the ns of these voters, MEN. S@.™ UP THROVGH THE CONS&e ———— ait yee: vat gue. Um GOING To PULL ba Caldwell received a letter addressed to’ “His Seattle, Canada.” That's what comes from so | ttleites spending week-ends in British Co- CATARACT The térm cataract is applied to all opacitios of the lene of the eye In other words, it constitutes a form of blindness, more or leas» complete. | Some forme of cataract are inher j ited, but in the rhajority of cason jthe trouble ts acquired and comer with old age. As a » thé diseane ie progressive and in general way it may be said that about two yeare jis an average time for an oldage want to have a strong personality? want to be attractive and magnetic? cataract to bepome ripe for opera at all times, BE YOURSELF.: |Uom. The progressive forms of eat one A the world just like you. ‘Don’t try to | smc eh te" gga are apt to borrowed attractions. er ag . “, ” , When not relieved by operation. a “copy-cat.” | wually goes on to blind very things which seems so attractive in someone else! ila: tena tha te aooe ether pec 0 because they are expressions of themselves. | mente are exploited, but none so far Heep an independent mental attitude, What gthegs think, | orrise' tmerutave bon wie ot | agen po iad that ‘blows. lly advertised by chartatans. for per e is no need of asserting yourself |wonal gain, but they are worthiens. s much as possible the divinity within you and operation consists in the removal of ey Then, first in a disagreeable] Operation by @ abiliful eye special to a orp confidence in the hopes} tne iens and is usually spoken of as inspirations 0 ers as wi as your own. x “extraction.” After the operation the strong personality is a magnet in that it always at-|'tfractive power of the removed lens. mcts. Everyone bows before it. This is fitting because, pr". Corresponding lens worn in tyr ter all, it is only an exp’ ion of the soul. As the soul, |rorm of glasses or epectacien. is the personality. We see ony that part of the soul| - ch is thus expressed, and (som cure for the condition, what diet fe to it. "You have as much opportunity and right to be a success |? States Pht = tee woes! ‘your own way as any one has. Cultivate a strong per-| 4. There are many different causes lity and you are bound to be successful. ee . ROGER W. BABSON. shawia puree of anemia. Various forma of para |sites or bacteria may invade the blood corpuscles, This type of ane «| mia ts seen in malaria and in ceftain |forms of blood infection. In other Cheer up! Seattle may have an off day—and win a cases of anemia, the blood cells are jepparently destroyed by some polaoy | cireulating in the blood. Thin type { anemia is seen in lead poisoning, in tuberculosis and tn Bright's dis cane. . AND AVG You PULL ON SOMme OVERALLS AND CET YOU TRY SOME OF THE PREAK STUNTS THAT wou exPecr YouR MEN TO Puce fii “Ab \« times aunknowingly), PAY whar wre tus spmptomat What ts the blood and cause a destruction of the! have noticed it, but George ©. | Wheeler, of the well known rentals | firm of West & Wheeler, is red bot, seething mad | Ob, nothing much, except that he | was doing 50 m. p. h. in his nice new auto out on Mainler ave. And was observed by copa. And was hdled into court. And Judge Gordon wasn't there. | And Lee Johnson was acting Judge And Lee didn't know | And Jack Miller, the bailiff, leaned over to Lee and malt: “That's'a tough bird, that guy. | Better make him sit with the stew. bums in the privoner’s dock.” | And Lee took it sertousty, | And made George sit im the dock af mowing And Georme nat. * And got riled beneath the surface. | And perspired heatedly, | And at length And finally, when he “got bis,” he BUSINGSS, You might, or you might nét,| | eared a I | On the Issue of || Wmericanism There Can ] Be No Compromise The Prospector and Lizzie Spring is breaking on the and the prospector has begun to function. | The prospector of form familiar character in fiction and history. No Western novel or magazine story was com- | plete without him, a weather worn, taciturn | man, with whiskers stained bacco, hard-boiled as they make ‘em, truag- ing along behind a burro over the waste reaches of the illimitable West. Nowhere has modernity given a sharper toveh than to this picture. and Hellroarin’ Pete in their this Spring are not blistering their feet pa- tiently nding sand in the lonkey. Not. They have a Tin Lizzie. as September Morn, the little hither and yon like a jack-rabbit, rattling, | oil field. NOU OVT INTO THE EHOP]| didn’t for! any better, And went out And there was a steely gfint tn bis | eye. And if Lee ever gets into a house | rented by George. ty’ And George recognizes him. | Look out. e But it musta been a great moral | eeeon eee | You used to hear the expression, | |“Not worth the paper it is written | "pen." But that doesn't mean any |tting any more, since the paper shortage j | y night and on dren pal | building with {B Wonderland setting of greenery 14 Diossoms, the soft tinkle of melo | diew from sylvan secreted musicians, and myriads of lights shedding soft [faye on beautifully gowned women | for whom the darker luster of luxurt- — OUN Cars was an enchanting fol! pre sented & scene of briljiance—Des) Moines (la) Register see ‘The girle in Parte are weartng shoes with feathers on ‘em, And in | this country the boys are worried for fear they'll have to wear trousers with fringe on the bottoms eS ‘The New York assembly has pase Jed two bills barring from public of an | flict members of any party deemed a| ‘blood surkin, raniten euch soe menace to American institutions, We bookworm, There ts a form of ane mia of rather obscure origin, and ap- | %OP® this is not a movement against parently associated with constipation |" well known democratic and re and other functional disturbances ol bawwnerg2 pore, the bowels, This type of anemia in| . not uncommon in young women. |AND WE'LL WAGER THEY SAW A person suffering from anemia HER FIRST should be sure to consult a reliable phyaician and submit to a thore ex.(S%%. stated that she had seen two | jamination. Asa rule, such an exams-|Tobine on Tower bill the latter part) nation should include an analysia of /Of last week.-Waukesha (Wis) Her-| the urine and a miscroscoptecal ea: | *!4- amination of the blood. Only by de termining the cause of the trouble can proper treatment be outlined for the pauient. Mr. Wiiiam Wurm, Wissenstn | eee Be that ae It may, Jase Mee liver in Toulon, Ind. eee Bign tn a hotel: "Geotlemen, please walk light at! edt. The guests are paying 2 My e-. aa 76 | iaturbed.” banging, skidding along the | ing like a coyote, but getting there just the same. up a silent p er and scuttle to the sage- | BY Dh. FRANK CRANE (Copyright, 1920, by Prank Crane) Nevada desert er time is a read the hen by chewing to- | Fgypt. a rat hole, As he wanders For Alkali Ike peregrinations | wake of a sad- Stripped «ven car darts | thing, so it is | He arroyos, bark- Baptist. He He is the outpost of civilization. the forerunner of every mining camp and army of progress. And he rides in a Tin Liz | speeds as the homing bee to its destination. He is a wise hombre, the prospector, reads the rocks as a printed page. translates the hieroglyphics of serrated out- crops as shrewdly as any Champollion ever He He scratches on the obeliska of He pékes about like a terrier in He may be old, but his eye is not dim nor his natural strength abated. over‘butte and canon, braves the inhospitable desert, faces the hot winds of day and the sharp cold of night, he is vigorous and unterrified; age cannot weary him nor custom stale his lurid vocabulary. le will dig for gajd or drill for oii. Any- different and precarious, ~ He is is the advance scout of the He is wealth’s John the is the hard and sharpen Desert rats and pfairie dogs scurry |'steel point where mankind drills into its le, ” from its nt peje and horned toads send | flinty limitations and enlarges its Scope. brush, but Alkal ly on, eyes right, .whiskers spit flying over their shoulder, pick and | shovel and bedding and grub rattling be- hind, while their twentieth century limited | and Hellroarin’ fare swift- Night falls. breeze-combed, | tur. | down beneath More _— In the Editor’s Mail GOMPERS APPEALS TO LABOR Baitor of The Star; The condition of the workers in the United States has been tense since the signing of the armistice That conditiog has been agera by profiteers, by a number of oyers and by the action of na 4 state legislators in enact ing, Or attempting to enact, legisla tion not of a constructive, but of a | restrictive character a | Not a praction® thing has been Gone to prevent the soaring of the price of the necessities of life. Laws made to protect the masses of the people fram exploitation have been turned aguinst them while the profiteers and exploiters chuckle with glee No wonder, then, that the workers who did so much to win the war and who are now 281-2 pe? cent worre off financially than before the war are discontented and resentful. It requires no close social or eco nomic student to understand the ait- uation. Unless wages are increased to meet the tncreaged cost of living, it ts equal to reduction in wages and a corresponding lowering of the work: ers’ standards. is No wonder, then, that we find workers, non-members of organized labor and even some who are union men, becaming tmpatient and disre. garding the discipline usually prac ticed In labor unions 1 urge upon all the workers, fn nts to sleep and do not want to be their own Interests. to organize and | terested. practice stlf-restraint, so that in an orderly and rational mgnner the de | [mands of labor may be presented and secured. Little or nothing can | be accomplished by wildcat strikes | Employers, business men and men |in official and public life, whether | in or out of legislative or adminis: | trative bodies, should also under: | stand the acute situation and heed the normal demands made by the! | organized labor movement, for the |rumblings are menacing! SAM'L GOMPERS, — President, A. F. of le SHALL MARRIED WOMEN WORK? Editor The Star: It does not seem right to me that single girls, | earning their own living, should j have compete with married | women, whose husbands are earning | |a hundred and fifty dallare or more | & month. | Married women bring wages down because they can afford to work for) so much lene. In tt right to single girls, to men | or to children, do you think? | Yet it would do no good for 0 tow! women to Quit, because many could | te Let un get together and see that | & law fs made regulating this. { ‘There are actually many giris who | can not eat enough, because of this, | yet it in not the fauft of the mar. ried women. | ‘The best way of getting people tn. | terested is by getting The Star in-/ Very truly yours, Rn. B | wo the beat thleg to do veat itt A. In many children who take cold! readily, the trouble is primarity due) to wome form of nasal obdruction, wuch as adenoids, It is imponsible to advise you definitely, You should be mure to take the boy to @ physician, have him examined thoroly to find] out what is wrong, and follow his advice. If you will send me your! name and address I will be glad to send you a book perernal to prescribe for individual dismees, Adres INFORMATION EDITOR, U, & Public Ment Services, Washington, D. ©, The New York assembly declined to investigate the charge of a state! senator that aasemblymen were #0/ |drunk one evening that they had to |be carried out of the assembly chamber. Main 1941 CHERIrY a ee 5 = Sol ruit et, montes umbran He wraps up in his” blanket and lies Lizzie’s sheltering wing, and | the peace of the desert enfolds him. to him! And Lizzi When as man blashes a woman apt to wonder whether he's a lob nter will preach a sermon Sunday morning en- Let all men wear the white or red cuz nation. , In the evening he will discuss the sub- ject, ; “Our Fraternal Obligations” Great Service. Odd Fellows will attend in a body. Everybody welcome. First Reareree Seventh and Spring. Main 2947 STREET WN mma a pete: SEED. FOR A ’ Quija and Mandragota Anemia is also produced by con One of the assemblymen boards in the twentieth century are sociable play-|stant ions of biood. Such loss of explained, “Never investigate « with enough of mystery About them to give an vievd may be due to an ulcer or to thing that's true.” ¢ and i Magn ghee rags how tame they =| — 7 - ‘compared wi ings of the le Ages. Take, for example, tht Mandrake or Mandragora, an In-| it little plant with wrinkled leaves and a thick taproot, | is sometimes for medicine. In the Middle Ages it was thought to be half human. ‘Men said that it grew beneath a gallows where a born thief | ; , as dthers say, an innocent youth) had been hanged, | ‘and that if it was pulled from the ground it would shriek} and so piteously that he who heard it had to die. | If you had found one and wanted to get it, you would before sunrise on a Friday morning, stuff your ears , make the sign of the cross, loosen the soil, and then) the mandrake to the tail of a black dog, which you} would tempt forward with some bread, The dog would| out the mandrake, but its shriek would kill him. Then) ’d take the mandrake home, wash it every Friday in dress it in white and put it in a shrine. | It would reveal hidden things and tell the future and make ‘all men your friends; and it would double small coins that you left before it. But, unless you sold it, it would remain " you to death and take you with it to hell, And if you fats it, the buyer could only get rid of it again by selling ‘it ata Ouij THRIFT CROP. the seed is only one the production of a If the harvest Is to be Sowing step in crop. LIED ZLB. The Federal Reserve System fs the great stabilizer of commer. cial credit conditions today. It | insures an ample supply of such eredit at all times, ‘Whee was the Povey which A. mother's hand And rnade it patient to her childs demand ‘Te work , te play, The live-long day And throvgh the night te hush all herm away? Zi 7 = Se = SEEEE EERE = is ee = Ld 3 SECOND AVENUE A bank is as strong as its resources—behind us we have the Federal Reserve System with ; Zh Lo lower price; so that any one who bought it for the coin there was would be certain to be lost forever. Just imagine that all this was true and that you really bought a mandrake for a cent. How comfortahle.you would ‘be! But this is only one of the superstitions which the ‘Modern man escaped when he pushed aside the whole unprofitable business of mystery-mongering, and got down sober work with common things. What was the Impulse which designed AV mother's mind | And, made it gentle , generovs end bind, Which mnekes her child the themes OF whirntied hopes end schemes And paints its futvre with her rainbow. dreams? Gold Reserves of $2,200,000,000.00 ALASKA BLDG ~~ Our Home. | " A Cleveland woman has sued for divorce, charging her | husband moved 14 times in 20 months. Off our lid | 24SCANDINAVIAN AMERICAN BANK SEATTLE And what the Infinite Apt, ‘Which set its counterpart Constant and warm within 9 mether's heort,. Whereby its inmosb pulse is planned ; overall clubs is that they make it just th derstend ? | fee Jv oO um en . : 9 man from a loafer. oe , ©1929, NEA) 4 ‘ * to a man who can find that many places to move to. Columbus Citizen. ” iis _ One fault of the to tella : a Branch wat Datla of. -