The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 21, 1920, Page 6

tn the oy tet, ‘ Learning maketh “fyoung men temperate, \ “tis the comfort of old}| fage, standing for} wealth with poverty,}| and serving as an orna-} t to riches.—Cicero. | Letters to the Sditor— ~ Write briefly. "Use ink or typewriter. | One side of paper only. Bign your name, eee MEEKER ON CARLYON BILL Editor The Star: I am opposed to/ measure known as Referendum | 1, bonding the state for $30,000, “for the construction of a state of trunk line jurfaced " described in the bill, of Wer 1,500 miles. We have no choice; ‘Must either vote the whole sum | ZT am opposed to borrowing a 50 % @olar that to a certainty must back Mm 100-cent dollars. Tepeats itself; this nation | Not continue on depreciated cur Ro More than in former years ‘its lite. Concrete pavement cost $1.43. per yard in 1917, and $2.46 in 4 Concrete pavement cost $18, BO per mile in 1917 and $32,000 in ‘These are official figures. 30, 1918, State Highway Allen reported: “The increase of road building over that of the preceding bi lum ranges from approximately per cent in the early part of the jum to approximately 100 per im the latter part. The price of on labor has increased from $2} per day and in many cases th ae $5: per day is now being Now, we hear of a doliar an being demanded, and the Lord knows what the price of cement be did thie referendum pasa, [Fo pave the 1.500 milea of state At present coat of $22,000 per ‘Would involve an outlay of $48.-/ i; if this loan of $39,000,000 i» the price of all road materia! construction charges will un- materially advance until ft u ible if $60,000,000 would the cost of the whole. in: With the utmost effort of state highway commissioner for present biennium it is a race he can use the whole fund! ted from the system of | @s you £0,” and a part of the tions will remain unexpend _ @& What confusion worse confound @d would follow if this 50-cent dollar Joan fund is dumped upon an already overburdened office? To divert the automobile license fund from the state road general fund and apply ft to paying interest "on borrowed 50-cent dollars is high finance; it’s more; it's class legisla tion pure and simple; it's still more, it's @ plunge in the dark. It's on a Par, as the story goes, of the man fo asked his neighbor, “Suppose had @ horse, how’d you swap?” Hieense fee fund is not a relia @aset to mortgage. The framers the bill realized this; hence this " of section 10 mandatory the state authorities to levy a each year to pay the deficit, if shy, of interest and . When pinch of “hard times” comes, as surely will come, then will come to pay the borrowed 60-cent 3 ‘am told by parties {n position to a that the California bonding @eheme has resulted disastrously to that state; that the roads built are leaking up on account of faulty construction and that the good (7) Feads will soon be a thing of the Past, but the bends are there taxpayers for a generation. Go slow, gentlemen. Be sure you @fe right before you go ahead. | If, on the other hand, as claimed | Py the friends of the bonding scheme the license fees are ample to repay | the principal and interest on the Bonds, the sum so realized would y sufficient funds to push thine to the Iimit of avallable labor, rial and transportation without URdue increased cost and keep our feet on the ground of “pay as you| BO” policy. It’s a bad time to. borrow money te make permanent investment either state or private. I will not concede to any man in this state of having a deeper inter emt in good roada than I have. The afivance of otfr ctvilization demands | fi the crying urge, “back to the! farm,” demands it; the better coun try schools demand ft. By Tt is not becau I have lost inter. | est in the good roads movement that I oppose this bonding scheme, but because I sincerely believe that in the long run it will retard good road developments where most needed; lo a1 good roada for the farm and the home are as important as trunk line highways—may I not say more im- portant? ‘There is a crying need of a reform of our road laws and put them on a Bi. business basis. Until thiv is accom plished we should fight shy of in-| creased road funds Our state officers may not be to! Wame, as is believed by many. The} systern that makes possible the mis. | carriage of results, or rather lack of system that will result in waste of funds like the past records show whould be thrown in the scrap heap and a better system adopted—a nys- | tem based on a business principle that would utterly destroy the “pork barrel” temptation, It can be done; wi we have the courage to do it? It's up to the vot- for € moatha er $9.00 per year, A Man’s Castle ' The decision of United States Attorney Saunders to issue no warrants nst those who, possessing home brew, refrain from commercializing their) sessions, has all the earmarks of good common sense. = ths occupy themselves with trivial cases of this nature is both unjust to|) Sst he harmless offender of this type and to the government besides. ty of professional bootleggers who should occupy the time of the booze hounds. One real bootlegger is worth 100 home-brew convictions. “A man’s home is his castle,” quotes Mr, Saunders. And that includes his cellar. | mobilist— | who | were suspected of profiteering. The Seattle Star out of etty, S00 per month; # montha, $1.00; @ mouthe, 62.76: year ¢ of Washington, Outside of the etate, Ts My carrier, city, Ie “The World Do Move” ‘The world moves with bewildering speed. je per month, per week, -and His Cellar There are} the daredevil of 1920 is the commonplace business man in 1 O. Henry, wishing to describe a dashing, devilmaycare hero in “The Lickpenny “One day Lover,” Get that? drove his own automobile waa a wrote the following Irving Carter, painter, millionaire, traveler, poet, auto | sentence: romantic figure, To let prohibition || —= 920. “Automobdilist™ Less than a ‘score of years ago, @ man | In. dashing dividual, a man set apart from his fellows by his achievement in owning and driving an automobile! Sounds kind of foolish today, Lizzie as a character of high @ dozen times in the last few doemn't months “Horace Van Brocklin, society leader, clubman and AVIATORD romance! it? a line like this: The Judicial Veto A new form of the judicial veto has Thirteen merchants and ‘The appeared, federal three coal mine operators of Denver, district attorney asked Imagine a man drtving «| And yet, haven't you seen | Federal Judge Lewis to convene the grand jury in special seasion to hear evidence of profiteering. Lewis refused. A second requeat also wan refused. Then, last April, the grand jury met in regular session. District Attorney Tedrow had collected all the merchants and operators. the profiteering evidence, against | He intended to present the testimony to the grand jury as the law requires of him, and he intended to prose cute any indictments the grand jury might bring. But the alleged profiteers were frightened. They hurried to the federal court, and begged for an injunction restraining the federal prosecutor from presenting the profiteering testimony to the grand jury. And the federal judge granted that tnjunction! permanent! And he made it Can you fmagine a person suspected of robbery, murder, or any other crime, asking a judge to gag the prosecuting attorney and to close the ears of the grand jury? Can you imagine a judge doing that? But it waa done in Denver! Of course the judge did it perfectly legally. He sald he didn’t believe the Lever act was constitutional, Obviously the fair and just way would have been to permit grand jury consideration, and then, if the men were indicted, to have tried them. testing the constitutionality of the Leve: r act. If convicted they had the right of appeal to a higher court, thus As it is now, a year or mote will elapse before the supreme court gets to the Denver case. court it is possible that another And then if the court overrules the district prosecutor and another grand jury| may not be so earnéBtly concerned with a case almost outlawed by the statute of limitations. It may be all right for justice to be as blind as ahe ty painted, but her ear, the grand jufy, the prosecution, be dumb should not be deaf, nor she Good Medicine Laughter {# contagioun. It spreads like honey over buttere@ bread Did you ever note what happens in the house of the controllable mirth? He has started something. ime legitimate drama when one tn the piace breaks out tn a fit of un- r voice, svie or the First, there's a titter from some other part ef the housa ‘Then it is taken up and the volume sweils along unul the whole crowd is in a happy uproar. Just because one person saw something er heard something that ap pealed to his risibilities Folks itke laughter. It is good medicine, There ought to be more of It. Every ene should be on the lookout for opportunity to laugh. The world knows there's plenty of so: dred groans in any market. row. A laugh fs worth a hun- Hufeland says it ts one of the greatest helps to digestion. Cartyle points out that no man who has once beartily and wholly b be altogether and trreclaimably depraved. tial advises, And beware him who hates the laughter of a child, sagely | warns Lavater. “A good laugh Is sunshine tn the house,” smiles Trackeray. the windows, and let the sun shine in. Used to It “The allied fleet ts to blockade Russia™ That's the essence of the decision ¢ yn “alding Laugh if you are wine, Poland.” aughed can Mar- Open That's the net result of the conferences, ¢ouncila, conversations, ultimatums, notes, correspondence, and meetings. Nobody can imagine the Poles gotng Into ecatacten over the promt have been to see just help. Inasmuch as the allies more than two years, it is hari what has teen done/ for these many eftect. blockading how moons Russia the decision ls going to to do have much The Russians ought to be pretty well used to being blockaded -by now. If they have been able to get along thus far, they will hardly be per. suaded to withdraw from Poland by this latest manifestation Georgian subtlety. Fur, Not Glass “And on the top step,” she told the little boy and girl, of Lioyd “the prince) found the daintiest glass slipper imaginable; it lay where Cinderella had dropped it in her flight.” That's all wrong; the Cinderetla’s slipper wasn't of glass, but The authority is Jol ven Follies of Science.” The public is set right on no end o solar plexus blow landed is the most important. of fur. of things In that on the glass slipper version book, oa ttle boy and girl are being mndly deceived. | n Phin and he tells the world tn a Tittle volume: but Cinde the relia According to the Phin the translator Is to blatha. “Valr,” anid to be French for “fur” right, children. Fur, world -may go ahead « that the in, mistaken for “verre,” not glasa. Fixed Ideals ard Brown able; it lay where Cinderella had dropped it in her Might." Get Now said to mean “glans,” And on the top step the prince found the daintiest fur slipper tmag- Js the son of a tinsmith who came to this country © and married a wofnan as sturdy and tntelligent as himself, They looked to the future continually and made many sacrifices for It. And so they were able to give Richard education, which led to social and financial succean, Now Richard h when this boy Richard objecte—"Why isn’t wants to go out and his brothers a splendid a son of his own, who ta not In need of money | but is very much tn need of the things that come with social experience, | for he has not quite learned the art of getting on with others. But and earn money to spend on parties he looking to the future?” In a way he !s, for the parties will help him to get on, more than a bank account. But there is something wrong when the boy does not feel tt, too. Every one is more or less like Wichar himself seems a proper burden for ot! England must have used a regiment to Harold Wright's middle name must be a ern. Richard felt the strain of saving and he feels that The burden that one carried keep an eye-on one archbishop. a wedding Pell, Harding has asked Texas republicans to vote for him. That's like ran- sacking Siberia for crocuses. The man #mart enough to forecast the outcome in Poland can invent a practical pencil sharpener. A prisoner tn the Pottsville, Pa, jal proved a man can live 45 days with- out food by dying on the 46th, What a wonderful thing tt would be if one only knew what to believe of | the reports that come out of Russa. Dr. Yen ts the new Chinese minister of foreign affairs, but he should have got the treasury portfolio. Charles Pons, who made big profita out of little investments, may 90 baci, A news tiem says a Texas hog has bi re EZRA MEEKER. landlor¢ to making little stones out of big ones. en insured for $5,000. No, not a THE SEATTLE STAR EVERETT TRUE JUDSGE BROWN SMITH WELL, WEL, COOK WHO'S HERE By CONDO I Becteve! THIS (8 INDGED A PLGAS URE THAT WG | SHOULD MEET STRIPPED OF ALL |(OR NEARLY Aut) CONVENTIONS eee | NEVCR MIND MY NAME | TWO YOARS ABO WOU SOAKED M® #25. FO SoCcIALY R CONTEMPT OF COURT AND NOW IM GOING To DO ‘The radical ideas of today A CITTLGS SOAKING, BUT tT are the platitudes of tomorrow; an epigram is a bromide tn the MaKINE: Wont COST YOU ANY THING BUT A CITTLSG PERSO | INCONVGENIONCS {ff TODAYS BEST BET — Colebrat- ing the great victory of the home brewers, . . And right on top of the announce ment that home brewing ts abeo lutely safe if sane in King county, Wo get this fetter, and our answer is, darnéd if we know, The letter: Dear Editor: Why tn It that a per fon can be arrested for cooking @ batch of malt and hops? It surely |is not an unlawful drink at the time and doesn't become so before it con taine over % of 1 per cont, and a person may Just want to make a nott drink. Why do they allow the sale ©f hops and malt if & person can't use TA Reader, eee In the papers we note an ftem about Walter Fulton, the noted criminal lawyer (eo also next para- | Rrapb) | This ts the next paragraph above | referred to. Why the dickens f a lawyer Uckled when you call him a noted criminal lawyer? Try calling a physi clan & criminal doctor, or a banker @ criminal Mnancier, and a judge who hears criminal cares would send you to jail for a million years if you call- ed him a criminal fudea one How much do men gain by ex. |changing thelr bachelor quarters for better halves? cee I heard @ portly gant anent the benefits of booze could not liv sald he, enthuse “] “without just starts to be worth while when jive bad two or thres ‘A snifter for the stomach’s sake,” the Bible |eays, and what I take, you bet it does me good; I never drink a drop | too much; these prohibition laws and suchethey rile my very blood. The |drys are objects of my scorn”—he paused to quaff another horn, re. | 1 didn’t take the drink he'd poured for me, without a blink he buried | that one, too. “I often drink around the clock,” sald he, “I have a pri vate stock that fills my cellar up. ‘This life is brief enough at best; it | lends a bit of zip and seat to drain the brimming cup.” Now this was |several months ago, and thia here | Ought to show that drinker’s fearful end, & should, to make it's lesson clear, portray him on bis ¢runkard's bier, alone, without & friend. Nay, prosperous, he walks the streets, and many loving friends he greets; his eye is keen and bright; to me whose brain beging to rear with half a glass of almost-beer, somehow it isn't right. | A eee Took over a thousand people to ent one cake at Holdredge, Neb, But it was no ordinary cake, Frank Johnson ce! ted hin 35th r in business by treating the town folk to a cake measuring 18 feet in circumference, three feet in depth and weighing 2,094 pounds. FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Seventh and Spring Rev. C. W. Weyer, D.D., pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Tacoma, will deliver a sermon Sunday morning en- titled— | “Paul’s Prayer for the Church” In the evening he will discuss the subject— “Have We Outgrown the Gospel?” Good Music You are Welcome to our Services |my daily morning silo, and life! marking, “Here's to you,” and when | NAL There's a peach of a fudge in Du. buque, Lowa. ‘The other day when a young man was before him on a speeding charge the defense was that he was driving | with his sweetheart, and when one is | driving with one's sweetheart he has to keep one arm round her and that ie’ only one arm for driving. which tends toward non-watehing of the speedometer, ete. “Teach the ing Indy to drive,” maid the Judge, “and thea you can put both arma round her? Only charged $1 and costs for that advion, which i frightfully cheap these days when everything's so fear- fully igh, ian’, it? A GOOD REASON A lecturer was talking on the drink question. “Now, supposing I had a pall of water and @ pail of beer on this piat- form and then brought on a donkey which of the two would he take?” “Hea take the water™ came a from the gallery. “and why would be take the water™ anked the lecturer, “Recwuse you would beat-him to the beer!” eee “Snrar,” elucidates am agricoftural expert, “is found in the mp of nearly 200 treen and planta. Pat what does the housewife want of nearly 200 trees and plants? | ULL Di a » ‘ fh % '' Doctor Frank || CRANE’S | Daily Article (Copyright, 1920) Lloyd George. Power to Compromise. Healthy-minded. Hired Man of Destiny. The province of the journalist ts | |not only to criticie but to appre | late, Because most people love fault | finding, the rewards and fame of the superciiious are quick, wasps and blowflies love a picuous man, as Junebuga love an qeotric light | ‘The mont consplenous man of our | time i undoubtedly Mr. Lioyd | George, Every theorist in the world has taken a crack at bim. | He has been the disposing mind of | Great Britain thruout the greatent | crisis in her history, He haa kept) n the saddle during rough rides that | woull have unhorsed any other liv. | Ing man. He bn attacked, retreated, | stood, parleyed, defied, yieided—but he has saved his company. Ho Hines outheted the spokemmen | of all other countries, Clernenceau, Ortando, Wilson have passed. The ttle Welsh attorney remaina, He i the mowt consummate poll tielan, using the word in its best | sense, Great Dritaln ever had, | He is pastmanter in the art of get ting thing» don: G, Stanley Tall, in his recent book, “Morale,” which every intelligent person ought te read, myn “One of | the most clear and obvious conclu sions from the incomparably com: | plex life of our day is that the chief criterion of true leadership is the! power to compromise, All thone in power must be ready to accept a part when they ennnot get the whole.” Herein Lioyd George excels, Any one, even the weakest, can be stubborn. It is the most highly developed type tat “stoops to con quer,” Lioyd George {s the healthiest minded man in the history of states: | the excellence of any virtue; he has) balance. | As premier of England he realizes that he in not there to be a martyr |to his convictions—he has some | thing far more important on hand) |than saving his face, he has to keep | |the Ship of State from going on the rocks. He has something more vital to do than be honest, to be true, and to be succemaful; his fs the herculean | task of being as honest, true, and succemful an posaible, He in not an opportunist. THe ts the hired man of Destiny, and ix not too course to deal with kings nor too fine to kilt rate | He incarpates that morale of which Dr. Hall writes: “To grapple with & great and vital problem, to act aright in novel conditions undaunted | by their difficulties, and on great} occasions to be able to suramon ail | our energies and focus them upon a new goal, when this involves the very conditions of qurvival, is the ennence and acme of morale, The peychology of greatness teaches us that it consiste chiefly in aeeing everything In the Here and Now, or in the power of ‘presentification,’ while the weakling flees from reality. Not only bas all human progress since the origin of man been made | by those who had this ‘excelsior’ type of morale, but animal species thru all the evolutionary ages have manship. He has what i« better than | GJ leap a rat jon the eame old dusty, bleak, barren 5 Se AS IT SEEMS TO ME DANA SLEETH Le I by hook or crook, or|thru and away, and he will frequent- by both judiciously and]|ly be found running the works, wkitifally mbined, to ee oF cure a half @oren million | HIS is not @ thrillmg out dollars; and then to me,| look, it does pot give te witting in state, entirely surrounde the best man the reward, it doen int jibe with a lot of fine sounding aAvies that has been passed out by muccean ful men, who by no chance Were ever foolish enough to take their own Amonitions to heart; but it is as near a foolproof attachment to make the human animal successful ag any | thing I know about Success, I speak now of tmaterial, worldly success, is not a mystery, and no great talents nor great sneriey flcea, nor great vision are required’ to gain it. Success will come, gem erally, to the man who outiasts the other fellow, and in the majority of | cases that merely means hanging om. until the other chap gets tired, seekm) a change, makes a mistake, or mage ries money. ‘This in true of politics, too. ferior, plodding fellows push selves into public positions of responsibility because there fellows never quit plugging. They will rum errands for a minor party boss for 10 years to get a chance at being 4 nominated an alternate dejegate to y convention. They become by great wealth to thwart the there @hould come @ reporter mand my best hint as to hieve muccem, I would give him a| new one. us dev excens profits tax, I ae how Always the plute prudently dodges | the quextion of how he Hons and advises the y work hard, dave his mor up early, The been doing that nee what they got Chinese for centuries end ‘0, ir, were I to give the secret of wucces# 1 would boldly mtate “Hang on.” In 10 years in any given neighborhood 10 merchants will come in, thrive for « brief hour and vanish; one grocer in a dozen will atick, and he will make a living. “In @ factory with fifteen hundred employes, & score will stick; they will win, In the professions, the lawyer and the doctor and the dentist who dig in, hang on, persevere and do each day what they mee to do, thoue men will build up @ practice and achieve what we call puccens. Laborers, artisans, bostness men, professional men, all have this in . ote 1 to an inner place of author Sfonner, ~that far pastures 100k |i) Or they run continoally for minor offices, finally land one, year by year keep their little candle flicks ering under the nose of the public, and year by year tackle the pr martes for better jobs, and by foree of advertising, of having thelr name J before the public for years on years / these men of slight ability worm into high places. Any boy of 18 who wi choose his work, pick his location, and who then will stick, doing each day the best he can—that boy at 40 will have any thing he wants, whether it be power, cath or official position. Look around you and size up the “successes”; you will find Tam right. nance Skilled Optic Service Farmers are that Way, and many of them are perpetually on the move seeking some fairer, more fertile land where crops will grow with automatic initiative, and where every prompect ploanes And in every business, every trade, every ittle corner of industry, the man who sticks is the man who wins in the great majority of cases. eee REQUENTLY yon see suc cessful men, heads of their trade, business or profes- fexsion, and you wonder how they ever “scrambled to the top of the ladder, for they seem unimaginative, cold, cautious, routine minded, but bless you that is the type that survives, that hangs on, that refuses to take a chance and | ‘The pushing, vigorous. minded, opportunity-seeking adven. | turers do not stick; they ever seek the Eldoradoa, the fount of youth, the pot at the rainbow's end; while the bulldog individual keepa digging patch year after year, and trequenuy | discovers everything from oil to the | mother lode right at the end of bis | Uttle pick, | Ovcousionally the adventurer strikes ; usually when he does the great} bulk of the treasure is gathered by dull, plodding fellows who come and camp by the treasure trove while the adventurer gocs on for @ new thrill, The man of average ability who gets into any office or shop, and who does his work a» well as he can each day, and who ls always on the job, always looking out for rome bit of a chance to better himself in his environment, that man in 20 years will outlast all the bright, pushing fellows who have passed + NeConkingy ee Mcoetel Bore Hin on, ‘ . murvived according as they bad the! @ Watritions Diet TorsAR power of adaptation to the great Q ich L + at Hi q environment.” es yet coumic changes that went on in their ( Aveid Imitations and Substitates manana Ane BONDS Make a profitable investment for your idle funds. 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