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THE SEATTLE STAR —By CONDO! \EVERETT TRUE | | Pybtemea Datty || EVE Rerr, HOw DY You ti WHY, IT COOKS lime MY New HAT ¢ E& PRETTY GOOD. = WHERE DID KOU T he Seattle Star eat of city, Ho per month: & mentha, $1.50) @ months, 62.18) year, 35.68, in the State of Washington, Outsidl’ of tn: 4 The per month, $4.80 for € montha or $9.00 per year, My carrier, city, tke per woek. ‘ot in rewards, but in strength to strive, the blessing lies.— Trow-| age. Proving It has been much confusion tn the public mind the subject of profiteering, and the publicity of big organizations have helped to | fy the situation, Most people today are in con doubt as to whether the big packers have | Tightfully accused by the federal trade com of profiteering Ze especially important and useful, therefore, to what a newspaper, the New York Globe, has done to prove the case | Globe has been buying New Zealand lamb and the meat to retailers in New York at 18t% j@ pound, and making an ample profit to cover nees of shipping and marketing Globe's food expert, Alfred W. McCann, has that this identical New Zealand lamb which bring to New York for 16 cents a pound the are selling for 25 cents a pound. its comparatively small and new organization, Globe has thus demonstrated that it can sell with sufficient profit to all who do legitimate for 7 cents less than the packers’ prices. conclusion is obvious that, with all possible made in their favor, the packers appear Profiteering to the extent of at least 35 per above a legitimate wholesale price. is a case of direct comparison between two | of the same meat, bought at the sme ‘An New Zealand, and marketed in the same ctiy fr the same conditions the packers’ orgunization {s so Inefficient ft overhtad expense ix 35 per cent greater j the small and amateur newspaper orgy nization, it is profiteering to that extent. The first is obviously ridiculous. sia hasn't been admitted to the League , but she knows where all the knot- in the fence are—New York World. Why do you indulge in kissing?’ was the ques asked of students at Columbia university re Truly, a foolish question and of ail the the best was this “Nobody seems to know dy cares.” a kiss fs as futile as trying to describe 1 of @ rose. It can't be done. Analysis for thinking and the very idea of thinking in ton with a kiss is unthinkabia you consult a dictionary of poetic quotations ‘will find 150 references to kidses and not one poets has attempted to analyze a kiss. They ly rave about it. ie related that a shy and stupid professor on his girl one evening and, thinking deftly | the way to a kina, proceeded to recite to | the history of the kissing custom of which has been considerable written. | just spolled the evening for the gtri and get Ris kiss after all, for when he had fin- this dissertation afl she sald wax “My, how dge is a good name for a summer ign.—Mobile Register. A Discovery has found out that a palace is good for king has decided to split up his palaces and out furnished suites to members of the court | the housing problem. | fie true that the step fs at present confined | to members of the royal household, who have | baving great difficlity getting a town house | f London, and have been having equal trouble in hotel accommodations. But maybe George will not stop with the inner Who knows but that some day a London or docker, or tram-car man, may be living to his majesty in Buckingham palace! | | Maybe George thinks it’s better to share up | Palaces at $25 a suite than to run any risks having the whole “un of palaces confiscated. | t up palace rooms while the dividing is rather than having them requisitioned by the issioner of housing” as they did in Russia, is certainly better business for the king, and perhaps all concerned. = On the Irish question, however, the G. O. | ‘The man who carries Ohio, , refused to stand Pat.—Columbia Record. ; Cox and Harding Of the three leading candidates before the demo eratic convention, James M. Cox, the nomines, easily will prove the most formidable contender against Warren G. Harding for the presidential election. Hoth are from Ohlo—and Obio is a pivotal state, will move to the White House next Mareh, has carried Ohio against republican oppo three election Harding was successful nor Cox nenta in but once. Cox ts considered Iheral—both on the wet and dry question, and on political and economic questions generally. Harding is considered of the old guard No man has ever been elevated to the presidency from the United States senate, Many governors, on the other hand, have risen to that honor, In this respect, too, Governor Cox has the precedent of history with him, It now remains to be seen what Willlam Jennings Tiryan’s attitude will be toward Cox nation was opposed bythe Nebraskan t common knowledge, Cox was not, or is not, “dry* enough for Bryan, On the other hand, Harding has Johnson of Call- fornia to consider, Johnson's attitude toward the republican nominee has not been satisfactorily defined as yet. It is hardly pomdble that elther Bryan or Johnson would bolt for a third party, If they did, wouldn't it be a grand and glorious campaign? It would, And it will be, anyhow. The chap who used to say that any republican can win tus pear spoke @ bit too hastily. It will be impossible to tell just who won the war until there is a published list of the profiteers, | a : : 5 Americanization He ts a peasant from Burope. From southwestern Europe, @ land of congiom- erated peoples hard for America to undervtand Hard for this peasant to understand America, too, No wonder. First place, be calls himself a peasant, which no American would do, He knows no language save his own and he cannot read that. So here he ts tn America, with @ wall around him. No outlet. No tnlet. No way to obtain information, to get in touch with American spirit, to keep in march with events He has a job? Oh, yea. No trouble about that, Good Joh, too, as jobs 0. Big factory. Fair hours. Wages enough to insure food, clothea, etc. But what then? . - “Man does not live by bread alone.” No truer words ever spoken, even by the Great Speaker who maid them. Our peasant doesn't like America, He ts disappointed, disillusioned, disheartened. He ts meat for the Bolsheviata Not that he likes Bolshevism more, but he Ikes America leas. The other day somebody got next to him and Our peasant pondered a long time ef his farmwork back Im the old, old country, remembered each’ animal he tended as @ personal friend. He thought of the little village where he knew ever stick and stone He thought of the public house and the long, jolly talk»—whole libraries of convermation. He thought of the village «iri, strong, decent young women, one of whom he might hope to marry some day. He thought again of his work there, bard work, but it was doing some thing, something he understood. At last he answered, saying: “It isn’t home!’ Why not make Amerien FIOME to every inhabi- tant, native and foreign-born? It would lend a sporting touch to the gen-| eral situation if there were an open season for profiteers.—Philadelphia Inquirer. The senate took Hapgood’s official head and now Joseph Grew has been nominated as minister to Denmark, It sounds Grewsome. The report that Poland is to have a senate like ours is obviously an effort to injure Po- land in the eyes of the world, In hot weather one should wear as mile and as little else as possible. At this season, weeds are given mandatory control of the average garden, ¢ | Now—Ain’t That a Man for Yuh? MISTER Jor sory To see You~site! SN diet RIGHT IN! AM INGURANCE MAN-sir — - SAYS Youre INSUTANCR HAS LAPSED, ‘That his nomi-| | WHERE DID F Cer IT I goTt it on} | wit | SO Today's Rest Ret—(The day after)! Never, never, no more. eee One thing that annoys ts more than any other is a talkative barber, Today a chatterchatter boy got hold of us and kept up & line of talk that drove us half crazy, And as he was stropping his razor to put on the finishing | touches, he asked | “Wil T go over tt again, air?” “No, ‘taint necessary, I can remember every word of It” And, for ® wonder, he tok the hint, eee s Why é@0 they always cartoon the | democratic party as a donkey? On account of its Bryan, eee page by loafing eberts, between tho cee Oh, watta wolld! Wen a fella goes) |to the doc and telle him he's gotta jcold he’s gotta prove ft by coughing | up. eee BABE RUTH'S MOTTO “Bwat the fy” There are several kinds of moon. shine that a man can t lit up on besides Light wine. Which reminds wus that tn gay Paree they have cut out the lights At 10 o'clock. Mont everybody's lit up himeelf by that hour, ve 8 “I gotta get my teeth out.” “Going to the dentist?” “No; to the pawnshop.” HERE'S THY FAST ONES You can't buy string beans by the cord, but you can buy the cord and string them yournelt. It's no wign a woman is young juwt because she wears KID | gloves. | Howl you have your exe, | sir, up or down “Bring it up. I'll put ft down” eee You may think this was all writ ten today it wasn't we haven't |got back fi r vacation yet, When this was written we didn't know whether the Dems were going to nominate Gibbs or not. But in case somebody is nominated, tell him he'll never get our vote. We're gonna vote for a fella with a fancy | name, like Gamaliel. oe As far ag we are able to see ahead [aa wo Are writing this, it's a mafe bet that right now we're sitting on the bank waiting for a bite. And beside us i# the pound cake Hazen Titus sent us three weeks ago, and the jug of wine (censored) DR, J. BR. 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Mehing mont prominent | and constant «ymptom in eczema ts the itching, which may be preceded by or give place to a burning pain. 2. Redness from Congestion—This is an eamential clement of the erup tion, dependent upon the nature of the process; there is almost invarta- bly an elevation of temperature in the part affected. This redness dis appears momentarily on pressure: after ft has continued some time a yellowish #taining remains, 2. Papules, Vesicles, Pustales, or Frxudation emma being an inflam. | matory eruption of a catarrhal type, | the exudation takes place in the up| per portion of the skin. If the proce The ning of timmue, and ling. After the neas, wi ic consequent ae eaned patch has been bereft of its rectly from the surface, and forms} the “watering,” “leeting,” or dis | charging feature belonging to certain phases of the eruption. In some! casen thin moist #tage occurs almost immediately, the epidermis being | shed in mana, | 4. Crusting and Sealing—The exu date of eczema, which stiffens and stains linen, has @ very strong tendency to dry into crusts and] If a discharging surface is| t exponed to the air, it soon be} comes glazed over and dry, in place | of being sticky; this coating in creases from beneath, and scales or crusts of varying ness. 5. Infiltration, formes | Uhick- | | or = Thickening— | This symptom belongs principally to | |chronic eczema, but is seen more or| lens in every case; the skin then/ acquires a hard, leathery condition, and the increased thickness ia recog: | nized by comparing a fold of dis. eased integument with a correspond. ing portion of unaffected skin. 6. Fissures, or Cracks—Clonsely onnected with and dependent upon the Inst symptom are the fissures, Columbia Colo in better.—Ady. Padilla Bay Lands What the Mount Vernon 1, 1920, says about these lands: DIKE PROJ GREAT BOON COPYAIaHT 1920 BY FRAnH cCRaWe THE EASIEST WAY There are many things in this world that cause wonder, and with most things wonder wanes, and cus- tom dulls ite edge, but that which re mains amazing, and which ts wtill in credible the more it ts proved, is the strange fact that Hate is easy to believe, and Love is hard to believe, When you hear that somebody does not like you, it seems probable enough. When you are told some body admires you, it rouses your sus picions. The one mighty, miraculous and radiating TRUTH that would save every man's soul, and save every group's soul (city, nation, family, race), if believed in, is LOVE. But we don't want to believe ft It is Uke pulling teeth to get one to admit it. We resist it, scorn it, sneer at it, call {t @ lunatic fancy, ate has corrupted our most basic idea--God. The most horrible thing about humanity is not that it in cruel, but that it has believed it pleases God to be cruel, The human the assanst nations of the Thugs, the obncent ties of the Greek tempje, the perse- cutions and tortures by Christian or. Mahometans—thes@ constitute the blackest chapter of the race, We go stumbling on, believing tn the efficacy of Hate and Force, be caune it is the easiest way. We pursue criminals Ike wild beasts, imprison and kill them, not because it deters crime, but because It ts the easiest way. It is hard to heal, remove causes, educate, belp. It is easier to slap @ child and elec trocute @ pervert. Doctors dose um ft in the eastest way; it is hard to teach us health. Parents beat and scold their chil dren; it is the easiest way; it taken time and strength and self-discipline to set them right examples and train them by love. Nations war and prepare for war, it im the easiest way; it ls dificult to understand each other and to co-oper- ate. A fight is #o aimple. It is the simplest thing in the world. Lovers quarrel, families bicker, communities hold grudges: it is the tasient way; the path to patient un derstanding is up hill, the way to love and barmony is thru the dim cult paths of self-control, Hate is news, We must have ft fn our daily paper, Love stories are in magazines ad books; once a month will do for them. Yet Love will triumph. It is tough. er than Hata Hate burns out. Love Love is eternal. It is the enty eon vincing argument for tmmortality. Hate ts easiest, because it is re version to type, the heritage of the beast. It is slumping. To lo" to go on. Annee or cracks, which occur in localities where eczematous ekin is called upon to stretch and bend, as on the knuckles and palma, behind the ears, and élsewhere. If you believe you have eczema do not attempt to diagnose or treat the condition yourvelf, but be eure to place yourself under the care of an experienced physician, preferably one who specializes in diseases of the skin, Columbia Colo, the new American beer. —Adv. Dentist I am now devoting my entire time to my dental practice, I make all examinations and diagnose ¢ach case as well as do all extract- ing between the hourr of 9 a m. and & p.m My offices have bee: established =f more |than @ quarter of « century, and under my personal management aince July 16, 1901. I do not compete with cheap, transient, advertising Gen cata, My prices are the lowest, con- sistent with firstclass work. EDWIN J. BROWN, D. D. & Deeaatiog Herald, of Thursday, July ECT i The Seattle National Bank A much needed development ts now about to put under way at Padilla Bay in the matter of district. The lands have recently of Washington at a price that forming a diking and draining been purchased from the State enables the present owners to resell them in small tracts of 15 acres or more to people who signify their intention to use same in the future for a home, The reclaiming of this tract of 12,000 acres should be her alded as a boon to Skagit county as it brings from 1,500 to 2,000 people into our county and will add a million and a half of taxable property to the tax rolls of the county, and will add @ vast amount of farm products famous district in the world than Skagit county is from 75 to 100 feet in depth and where the wash of the Skagit river for centuries has been fill Padilla Bay project will be the means of adding 12,000 acres of the very best lands to this already large district of reclaimed lands, and are now about to become a part and parcel of our rich farms. The people of Mou push’ this matter along, as it is of great public benefit, We are selling these rich acre. Call at our office or write for particulars. : Holland has long been famous for her rich diked landa, but we can safely say that there are no better lands to the exports of this already reclaimed lands, where the soil ing in these flats, nt Vernon and vicinity should garden lands for $10 per SPARKS, CHASE & DYE 514 Second Avenue Money in the Bank Te you have ever experienced misfor~ tune—and who has not?—you can appreciate the message of cheer con- veyed by those words. ‘The best friend in time of need is @ Savings Account. If you have been planning to have one for some time, why not begin now? Every day lost means money and time lost. 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