The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 20, 1920, Page 6

THE SEATTLE EVERETT TRUE & The Seattle Star Ry malt, ent of city, Ste per month: # months, $1.60; 6 montha, 02.78; year tate, The par month, My carrier, city, Ite par week. r in the $4.50 for @ montha er $9.00 por year, Changing Chiefs State of Washington, Outside of the Pubiianing Ca, Phone Male IL By Epictetus w my “Tad actors campaign. Copyriaht, 1990, w ’ Frank Crang OLD CLOTHES With all the earnestness of which | © are capable let un encourage the | ovement to “Wear Your Old Clothes,” It is even better than the Overall For there ts a seamy to STAR eX, You're SuPPO ScD yy KNOW, AND DON'T Ger SAISY HTHER, OR LL REPORT You, Sect rve Gor wouR NUMBER, ar Today's beet bet: “in town.” The new chief's eee HEALTH ADVICE Editor We'll Say So: Now that we| @ 1 cannot sleep without dream bave @ new chief of police, it might be timely to suggest that he explain ing, and when I wake my head feels heavy. I am always in bed by 11 “These things are to be expected In political life,” Epictetus, the Greek philosopher, mld wide to that; if the fashionable warld | just how it im that the detectives fig-|°F 1130. I go to a dance once » Bald Joel F. the office of chief of police. to excesses of speech, thus Joel, Tt ts well that he takes {t so philosophically A more rambune @ity should be grateful for that. Warren upon his being retired from not usually given walk instead of around thee; alone The cannot sing alone; but only tn chorus cannot walk alone. poke an entire mouthful. | to skulking . In bestir thyself that thou mayest 80 some men Man, if thou are’ aught, strive hold converse with thyself, | nt the chorus! Think, look | w know and takes to blue jeans and gingham the price will go up and prove a hard hip to the workers who have to ear these goods, | There has already appeared in| Gous individual might have engaged the mayor in fierce verbal combat over the manner and means of Joel's exit. Mayor Caktwell's tactics, indeed, may find severe | Gondemnation tn some quarters, and Warren may be | standing six ong alg an “under dog” role. But, feet for Is it seven feet six) in his stockings, Broad shouldered, stalwart Joe Warren will make Poor material for that role. Tt might have been better had the mayor acted ‘Quickly and directly at the beginning of his term fmstead of skirmishing about and Warfare. But the deed’s done And going to be any popular upheaval or @lamation over it. ‘The city wants peace—and the great the people sincerely wish the best success mew chief of police, WI H. Searing. there isn't popular ao bulk of to the The Proper Answer “Guess who this is!" ‘The person who calls you on the telephone and Bried to force you into a guessing contest is a suave, Cousiderate fellow compared to the tactless one who person with “I bet you don't re He knows you don't remember him. He lets you he is prepared to be hurt because of it. He Means that you shall be punished by embarrassment ‘The manner tn which this situation uy ‘aréues that most persons are kind. They are unwill ing to hurt another by an unintended slight. Not @ven one so inconsiderate. If he were considerate he would name himself the moment he realized he was | Bot remembered. Insteag he bens every effort to force his victim | apologetic attitude. The one assailed may an ~ ally he does remember. Political campaigners be- | ome expert at that. Some become so expert that they seldom are caught in the bluff. But most persons flounder, saying: waging guerilla | | with aed | who thou art.” Paria, the Epictetus lived In the first century A. D., but he | young ans styled “The Overall King,” have been addressing some fellows of our own time. snappy English of the day “The trouble with too many that you are afraid of yourselves. might timid yourselves. the fellows And the reason you are afraid of yourselves, ts that you don't know Get acquainted with yourself, old man! ‘There's a lot more tn you than you think, “You complain that some other fellow who baan‘t getting along much The other making good use of all the brains G You're letting yours runt. ‘Think! of faflure. You've got the stuff in yout] hotel, own a $25,000 automobile tke brought out Few of us use our brains to ke idle dreaming for think as much brains as you ts better than you. ‘That's your fellow ta has given him. “Dust ‘em offt move on! Don't afraid of yourself! It's there waiting yourvelt. full capacity, Exercise ‘em! be afraid to be We mist | tne. “Don't always run with always ts following the easiest way, yourself. That way is harder you get near the top, oh boy! Your brain loves to think Give tt a chance. ‘There's nothing fault. the crowd and hiliter, But above ail, It thrives on thinking. ike an act many Speaking in the he would have sald of you Get oe Tpont be Get ‘The crowd |» Strike out for but when/ think! brain to keep you feeling good all the time.” So Epictetus would have spoken in the language First-class advice, don't you THINK? of the day. financial partnership, China on her \ feet and an undetermined France and Japan jointly will number in Great eal Help for China ‘The world's four princtpal powers have formed a} called @ consortium, Thirty-seven American banks Britain, provide, hereafter to {9 | sore busy their put | who sold out his overall factary at an immense profit and ts now taking & postgraduate course with Profes Nini, Chichi, Lolo, and Fifi, back of the Sorbonne Rut tf we wear our old clothes, and induce the style-netters to do fo, and make it “the thing,” so that all clanwen, rich and poor, high and low, city and country, will’ make ft «| point of pride to saye,'to not spend; | and if we enpecially, can make it seem vulgar, ili-bred, and disgraceful to flash diamonds, wear $1,000 coata, pend $20 a day for existence at a & movie king, and otherwise flaunt excess profits in the face of }atmpler and better folk, then the high price of things will come down. the only feasible process of re duction, except general bankruptcy. It is the public, not the profiteers, that make the high prices, by their childish, {1-bred love of display and extravagance, Without that desire to play upon, no profiteer ip luxur- | jes would charge his high prices ‘The present crase of vulgarity tn money-*pending i# simply a reaction from the spell of thrift and saving we had during the war; just as the riot of #ejfinhness, narrowness, Joal-| }ousy, and Bourboniam in the Senate | was a reaction from the high ideal fam and noble impulses to help hu-| manity into which the war swept us, | It is not in human nature to stay | bound to ump | resist the existing wave of swinish Mecca of profilgates, a| whateyer foreign loans China can absorb, The money | will be used for railway construction and for indus nes @s strenuously as we tried to| cease spreading the gospel of bad help along in the days when we all| taste and corrupting the moral per GOMG IN HERE AND QUARREC WITH MG Il! iT CONDUCTOR IS JUST STARTING IN. THS SINGSS, But IT WON'T BE CONG “Tice TROUBLE-HUNTERS LIKG You, ALONG WITH WOMEN THAT TRY TO GET BY ON TRANSPGRS Tuo PAYS OLD, HAVS CONPLSTGLY RULING D HIS DISPOSITION Lf good. After « spell of virtue we are | well-todo realize their respansibility, that they by thelr actions can re ‘The only thing we ean do ts to| deem or corrupt the world. Lat therm | lo eochow display, and extravagance, | ——~ For without of it, - STARTING simplicity, and t thing to bring simplicity into vogue. there can be no nobility SATURDAY | ured out that the chap whose body was found in Lake Union with his head beaten tn, committed suicide— Henry eee CURRENT SHOTS By Howard Estey Two tacks, alleged fo have been ewallowed by a ew Yorker while eating a bowl of soup, resulted in a jury in the supreme court awarding him $25,000 damages. Liow did the tacks get in the soup? Why, they were used in keeping the o: er in the bottom of the kettle, foolish. ‘Twin beds are like all other twins, the older they get the less they look alike, The French airman who looped the loop 624 times in one flight must have taken @ shot of American “hooch” before starting. Laurette Taylor, who ts playing “One Night in Rome” in the English | !*t OF at a clinic | week, I get plenty of exercise. Ab tho I am 21 years old, I weigh only 88 pounds and am & feet 3 inches tal, Would yeast be good for me? “VIVIAN L. Me.” A. Try going to bed at 10 o'clock, and try drinking @ cup of hot milk on retiring. Make sure that you keep your bowels in good condition, Drink no tea or coffee at supper, Take & short walk before bedtime if this does not help, be sure to con wult @ physician and see if he can find anything wrong. If you will send me your full name and addreas I will be glad to send you @ booklet entitled “The Road to Health,” whch may be ef further help to you. Ts there any permanent cure for tho gleet? A. Yeu, gleet ts curable if treat ment ts given by a competent special A permanent cure metropolis, will probably never forget | ¥'!! take from one to two years for one night in London. He ix a brave man who will drink his own brew Unwaceinated persons are not al- lowed to vote in Norway, Evidently polition is considered @ disease in that country, “The life of the party” is usually « man with an abnormal hip Art crition are now discussing the probable position of the missing arms of the Venus de Milo. I'll wager they were extended while she did the shimmy. Yes, indeod, woman ts the greatest fur-bearing animal. | ‘The scientist who claims that more | varieties of fish are to be found in |the Nile than any other river, evi- dently overlooked the Stream of Life. | If shoes continue to go up ft will |noon be cheaper to wear a pair of Fords. | | | completion. If you will send me your name and address, I shall be iad to send you some helpful bulle- tins dealing with venereal disea Your own h in the only reat me; $100 cash and $15 per month ie all you need. The ‘%-nacre of rund will help your living cost. Netter ‘go out Sunday to my local oMfice at 8424 35th ave SW. Agents on the ground. Take Fauntleroy car to 26th ave. bas line; then the b-cent city bus to my office, or THE CONFESSION ? waved and followed an ideal. ally let the wealthy and the eoptions of the people, Old clothes, by all meanst Biuebeard started his family tree by planting a number of wives. wel | _*Eedon't remember your name, but your face ts | familiar.” Or, “I have such a poor meiory for faces | Or, “I don;t remember you just at this minute!” | Anything to save the feelings of the pest! ‘The wonder is the inconsiderate one is not more fre met with the counterattack he invites when Be says, “I bet you don’t remember me!” ‘That is, “No! Why should I?” Got Your Goat? manny goat and buck the high cost af living. B. FP. Cook of Rainier Valley ts doing. « he is so enthusiastic about the value that with the assistance of Arthur lion county farm adviser, he ls going to my city office this week and let take you out. H.C PETERS, 71 Third Ave. VULNS WASSASWY trial and social development. ‘The consortium haa been organised tn Tokyo by! Thomas W. lamont, representing the American)“ bankers. ‘The Influence of the American govern: Ny DW A WAS I 4, ==. = Any- ) ment, however, was the dominant factor In the muc- 4) cena of the negotiations, The essential purpose of the) gad == project is to free China from the evil political conse- quences of privately negotiated loans with single powers, The turning point in China's independent development has now come. The new consortium wi make af future Chinese foreign loans @ joint concern of the four creditor | powers, No nation can thus hope to gain an ex- clusive advantage. “Equeeze” will be abolished. Every penny will be publicly accounted for, “Spheres of influence” wif disappear. China's own faterests will be considered exclusively for the first time since China began borrowing abroad. Japan's consent to the consortium is an acknowt- @igement by the Tokyo government of the value it places on American good will The muceess of the United States tn negotiating the consortium is notable evidence that America ts not isolated in foreign affaira The American gov- ernment has shawn it can bring to bear decistve international prewsure where American interests gre concerned, > af aww RS High Principles of Merchandising cow's milk. I would not the milk of my goat for « gallon he is going te form @ goat club in have nicknamed the nanny “Butter.” & misnomer go far as her are concerned, for she is avery Grist for the Lawyer’s Mill Elfhu Root’s brief, In the leral strugsie for the late Marshall Field's $100,000,000 residuary estate, seems to present something unusual. Field willed Practically nothing to public purposes and Root de clares this to be accumulation of mere accumula tion and, hence, “nguinst public policy.” Of course, the proper way to handle estates Ike Field's ts thru the right sort of Inheritance taxation. But lawyers must eat, and the pickings in @ $100,- 000,000 will fight are fina * small space in the back inter months, he feeds her a cats three times a Gay, with a Ittle In the spring and summer, much of the dry feed can Fair Price is Sound Policy. : irymen right out of existence. times as much as a goat, expensive investment to begin with, Dearly so nutritious and a goat much as the best cow that ever To our host of friends, the sellers of Coca-Cola to the public: us have a little family discussion with the windows open so that the neighbors can hear it if they want to—about that ever-vital topic,: Prices. ? at This is the one time above all others in our long career of sound merchandising when Price ought to be governed by Principle. ‘ TAFT AND BONUS BILL Eéitor The Star: “Soldier Bonus Bungied,” says W. H. Taft, in a formed him that valuable contracts |it would be a blot upon the fair name were being let by the government/of the nation. During the war no at “coat plus 10 per cent” under the | price was too high to pay for the plea of neceasity—that cost at such | things necessary to carry It on, and a -|& time must be subordinated to| profita far in excess of the amount tt of the United Stages, has |*peed of production. And he won-| necessary to pay this bonus, or for peat National prominence. | dered that a government which could| that matter one much larger, have "tn it the following statements are|*© easily conscript {ts millions of been made in munitions industries : men should find it necessary to offer|alone, and why should not these money interests a sure profit of 10| profits be conscripted to pay thin| aot ow pegenionies —_ S per cent upon gross cost of produc-|bonus. Surely they are no more wun war, uding a poe finan. | on, in order to obtain efficiency red than the lives of men, which bave a make the proposal |#"4 speed, and the maximum of re-| were sacrificed for the “Good of the that from High principles of merchandising alone can be relied upon to combat high cost in many lines where the temptation to profiteering is strong because of public démand. To charge all that the traffic will bear is bad business at any time; at this time it is the worst of bad business for the Coca-Cola dealer whose maintenance of standard price for many years has not only established Coca-Cola's good faith with the Amer- ican millions, but, together with its maintained quality and maintained advertising} has built the good will of the product. : We ask our friends and partners in the most comprehensive system of distribution in American business to reflect that Coca-Cola was the beginning of the soft drink industry and has always been the backbone of the soda-fountain trade; has carried and built up many an enterprise which made it a trade “leader”; has far outsold any other soft drink in the world; and that for thirty years it made the 5-cent nickel the biggest buying power in a beverage. Independently of the cost of making it, The Coca-Cola Company has steadily maintained its delicious and refreshing quality insured above imitation, and maintained its advertising appeal to the increasing millions of its consumers without permitting any conditions of ordinary fluctuation ey ( to disturb: the price. In no other way could Coca-Cola have built up the volume of business for you, Friend Dealer. ry LANE. qe THE VAS ary AX |sults, He knew what happened in| Nation.” we seve eee Ey aotieae | army to the man who was lax| Congress ts without doubt playing @ billion in the performance of his duties.| polities, It should pass the Bonus " wtterly preposterous. The army court martial system has) Bill; the means to pay the bonus | hat when we consider that the! received sufficient airing, and It is| will be found. Look what England ‘ereation’ of this lability is an 84°) unnecessary to go into details here. | is doing for its returned soldiers, and q™ittedly impossible effort to meas | Therefore he could not understand | cry Shame that a country as rich as fm dollars the value of the p&\why the government did not con |ours cannot do as much. There are service of four millions Of | serine capital, and the men of in.|four million men who are watching Men willing to sacrifice their lives | telligence who controlled it. He| proceedings, and these four fnillion Gefense of the country, the futility | coud not understand that capital|men know that the blood-stained aon 1 is ernphasized. | was of more value than the lifeblood | lars made out of the war belong of not true that the men | o¢ the nation’s young manhood. | right to them, and should be‘used for When the civilian soldier got his| thelr benefit. discharge from service the govern- ment handed him « bonus of $60, which he was very glad to receive, because he needed it. When he went hunting for his old ,job, he found in many cases that his place had been filled, and that the employer who had patted him on the back when he left and promised him his old job when he returned (if he re turned) had forgotten that promise |and had no place for him. He was | Out of touch with conditions and was | | TAS. =< TAN bY the ‘That it is peed it ‘That business conditions are most favorable to any who wish employ- . that wages are high and those fs ‘will work are greatly in demand, ” 4t is to be regretted that a man uch intelligence as William How- en Taft should Louis Ex Sergeant Co. “K* 20th Inf. U.S.A. HOW 70 DARKEN __ GRAY HAIR A Cincinnati Barber ‘Tell 1 Make a Remedy for Gray Halr Mr. Frank Harbaugh of Cincinnatt, Ohio, who haa been a barber for more than 40 years, recently made the fol lowing statement: “Any one can prepare a simple mixture at home, at very little cost, that will darken gray hair, and make it soft and glossy. To a hay pint of water add one ounce bay rum, a small box of Barbo Compound and one-fourth ounce glycerine. These in. gredients can be bought at any drug store at very little cost. Apply to the hair twice a week until the de- sired shade is obtained, ‘This will make @ gray-haired person look 20 years younger. It 1s easy to use, does not color the most delicate scalp, is not sticky Or greasy and does not rub off.” sla: NEERING API ae, STARTING SATURDAY THE CONFESSION 2 COLONIAL Raw From Eczema ‘net see what one bottle of D. D. D. do? We guarantee resalts. Itch eo Me, We, $100. Try ¥2.2.D—. Sv = BARTELL DRUG sTonES N67 ANG ANG ANY ANT ANST ANS ANTON ANY WA ANd AN Sound merchandising alone can weather the storms. The policy that overlooks the insured dollar of tomorrow to pick up the loose dime of today points away from Prosperity to demoralization. Your neighbor who is merely “getting while the Getting is good” is at the same time dispensing bad will that will react upon him in the day of reckoning. Sane prices are the only sound policy and‘safeguard of suce cess one year with another. Fair prices today are your option on the volume of trade that will forsake the profiteer tomorrow. You will be doing business at the same old stand. allow an article | plainly shows a lack of under- ling of the question involved to published as indicative of his ghts and conclusions concern. ENO E VOTE NOE of the article tn 7 on by the men who served in| not as valuable to business as the Great War will be made. Most |man who had remained at home and them read the newspapers, 4nd Kept up with its growth. However, learning to think for themselves. | while in the majority of cases he When the young manhood of the | finally managed to find a place into States was called to the col which he would fit, he didn’t find that whole-hearted welcome that he had been taught to expect. ‘The war being over, the fervor of patriotism seemed ‘to have subsided to its ordi- nary level. Mr. Taft is right in the asmmp- tion that the giving of this bonus to the returned soldier is an impos- sible effort to measure in dollars the value of the patriotic service of they |four million men. But the mere fact | that no value can be placed upon the services of these men in certainly no excuse for placing no value at ail upon them, which would be the case were the bonus not granted, Hoe is also correct to a certain extent when he says the returned soldier does not need the bonus. Neither does Mr. Taft need an income as large an he gets, but would he consider that a reason for part of it being withheld from him? Neither did the war in. dustries need that “plus 10 per cent” in the last analysis, but they got {t. .| Therefore it must follow that the men who served are entitled to the bonus asked, and the withholding of 4, x Stand by high principles of merchandising and they will stand by you when you have need of them — env 07 where goung men, intor business, and with ‘all at stake, were compelled to for the training camps in such and with #0 little notice, that had no time to dispose of their anything like their There is no more powerful and compelling example for good in these times than the merchant who stands on principle to forego opportunism — VON. There is no one force that will stand the nation in better stead. ~, wN ONVIA The Coca-Cola Company, Atlanta, Ga. tinually in contact with that plainly showed that going on, ‘vast number of the business men country were the gainers by ‘The soldier who thought asked himself why — se pared —. ASN PAN CLONE! USAT SNOT ES