The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 26, 1920, Page 6

The Seattle Star out. of city, Oe per month: # monthe, $1.60; @ mentha $2.18; reer $8.08, fm the State of Washington, Outside of the sata The per month, $4.60 for ¢ montha or $9.00 per year, My cartier, elty, Ite per week. Pubtianed Datty by The Mar Pubiiening Co, ° A good deal of heat is being generated in Everett today over the Carlyon "Bill by the Washington State Good Roads association. The debate is waxing > Warm, and partisans, pro and con, are making the fur fly. One would im- | gine the fate of the Carlyon bill would be sealed at the convention, Not so. The people are going to settle it at the polls in November. The Everett bettie is preliminary Cs the palo bout. It is staged for effect—call it dramatic, advertising, or political effect, as you may, : . The decision of the Good Roads association will be heralded far and wide. Whether the one side wins bly remain ser oboe but |! or the other, the state will be placarded, ticketed and fonstantly takes part one ||circularized from one end to the other on the position Sha The heart cannot possi- tesbury. ||taken by the Good Roads association. The debate will be ignored, the division among the members and the actual vote will be omitted, “The State Good Roads association indorsed the Carlyon bill,” or “The State Good Roads association rejected the Carlyon bill,” will soon be staring us in the face. It will be used as an argument, per se, for and inst thé measure. Vherefore, it is not to be wondered at that the oratorical, paving, legislative and engineering forces of the state are carrying on an immense offensive today at Everett. But the little old taxpayer, tricked many a time by glib conversation, may, for a change, decide to figure this thing out for himself. Mebbe, when he is accosted in November by the suave chap who advises him to vote or to reject the Carlyon bill because the Good Roads association indorsed or rejected it, he might arise to inquire: “Yes, yes; but why did they take their action? Don’t tell me the result of their action, but the arguments that influenced them.” The taxpayer may decide that he has taken somebody else's word for it too long. And he may be quite right. A ® The Moving Bait Hiram Whiffietree got more than a good day’s work out of his stub- born mute by tying a bunch of oats a few inches beyond the mule’s a As I have read “Mother's” letter Star, describing the objection ehildren, will you allow me to {n- form all interested mothers and oth- that some building schemes are consideration in Seattle at the uptodate ar first step to- so far ahead of the mule, tempted his muleship, They certainly seemed Near enough to nibble at, the mule thought. Therefore the mule bestirred himself to faster action. Stepped a dit livelier, feeling certain that each step would bring him within eating distance of the oats. Blut it didn't. Not a million steps would have brought him any nearer, For the faster he went forward the faster the oats traveled In the same direction. ° The mule never did get over the notion that some time be might each up with the oats, But he was only a mul There is no little similarity between the mule’s endeavor and that of the producing public today. The bunch of oats fastened Just beyond reach isn't, somehow, brought any nearer by @ raise in wages. For as the wage step is made forwant the crafty driver pushes the cost of ; | tiving just so much farther. Before the wage increase reaches the pay envelope tH® price increase has become effective. And the public Jobe along, hopefully confident ef some time catching up with the cost of living. ° Disaster Oswald Spengler hax written a book, the “Death of Western Civitiza. tion,” which reviewers ramard as noteworthy, He compares the future with the past and declares that the civilization of Western Europe (which of course includes America) has reached its Umit and is about to come to an end. ® When a civilization ts broken up ft means disaster for tndlviduals. Even a railroad strike may starve a city. But if disaster overwhelms the civilized peoples of today it is their own fault. Some writers at tribute the fall of Rome to the weakness caused by malaria; but today medical ‘science is competent, as it never was before, to overcome the Plagues that once laid peoples low. With scientific agricuiture and a world to draw on for supplies, no country need be starved by local famines. The wider ctvilization spreads the less it has to fonr from barbarian Invasion. The invention of local self-government within a nation diminishes the chance of despotism. j In all these respects modern ctvitization has an advantage over all) those that preceded it What threatens it most is mutual misunder standing between its own different nations or clansen. But here also it bas an advantage over former civilizations. Christianity and Buddhism | are both religions of peace and sympathy. Slavery, once univernal, is a thing of the past; and the exploitation of otbers is recognized as bad morals and (in the end) bad economica Why Live? A St Louls millionaire killed himself. No scandal, no loss of fortune, no unbearable disappointment had fallen upon his Ufe, and yet he was tired of living. This man had accumulated millions. He had a mansion to tive tn, a family to love and live for, many friends, and health His neighbors had just honored him by nominating him as their candidate for con- sress. He had everything most men wish for, everything all young men set before them as goals worthy the strongest effort. And yet his life wasn’t worth living. Why? At the same time, in the same ward of a hospital. d Hit LI iL Hine gifeest i : (i i f i E H i ! | "4 *E z 4 3 repre county the legislature, chairman of the ot the Washing- association at Hi F i : 3 | a l city, a man of 72 tay in the charity nose. It was cleverly done. The oats, fastened to a stick stuck out jus | EVERETT TRUE Nes, > —s BY ROGER W. BABSON Noted Authority on Finance BOSTON, Mase, Aug. 23.— Usually I do not believe tn post mortem. The Ponst episode, how- ever, shows us some very important things. It reveals to us that: 1 The average man should not try to invest his money to earn more than the prevailing market rate 2. The bank should make tnterest rate which they can earn on their money. 2% «There will be no trouble get ting people to shve and invest if they are paid the full interest that their money ts worth. 1 have a good geal of aympathy for the people who were caught In the Ponsi affair, Some of those commonly calied “suckers.” They are always present when there tx a chance to be duped. The rest are largely the victims of circum stances. Everybody baa heard of prodigtons Ject not one man in a thousand really knows anything about. Then along came a man who claimed to sive the common pe a bi of profit from foreign exchange manipulation. saved many experienced investors from the same fate was they knew big profits mean bigger risks. Fifty Der cent in 45 days was too big « risk. So they stayed out. ‘The average wage earner thought he saw a chance to get part of the swag which the bankers are sup posed to have been getting. This was the argument that put Ponti’: scheme across. What ts more, any faker that comes along can make & haul with the mame cry. cee Investing your money t# fust Ifke working for wages. In one case you sell the use of your money for & certain wage. If you try to get more wages than you are worth you He was putting up a brave battle for life. He wanted to live. He had been a failure in life, as failures are reckoned. | This old man had never earned as much as three dollars a day. His| nome long ago waa broken up by death of wife and children. His friends | long since have passed away, or forgotten him. He had nothing to! live for, and no one to care whether he lived or didn’t. Yet he was exceedingly anxious to live, | Why? Can it be that the highest tf association in furthering the ue goal in Bfe te not wealth, fume, tamity, friende& Can it be that there is something more to lite than porsension of money, mansions, health? Can it be that this “something” miasing out of the millionalre’s life was present in the pauper's life, and out- weighed the lack of home, health, friends, fortune, tame? They Go to School Next month 24,000,000 children are going to return to school. Some, to the’ country school; some to more elaborate buildings of the cities. Some of them will see “teacher” for the first time, Ruddy-faced, shined up for fair, pig-talls hanging down their hacks and “high-water marks” temporarily eliminated, these little boys and girl, many of them, are to make their bows as pupils. What are they going to find? Reducing the 700,000 teachers to a composite picture, “she,” for 80 per cent of the teachers are women, will be found to be an underpaid person, trying her best to keep body and soul together as she teaches the young idea how to shoot, and almost Of the executive committee be its active officer,” says Mr. ‘Wott. “Through the actions of the @elegates who remained in Yakima @ majority of the Eastern Washington delegates had left the “Yakima convention, the executive “We all know that large sums of Money are being expended for propa in favor of referendum No. 1.jafraid to ask the school board for the raise it ought to be glad to give n as the Carlyon bill, and I, for| her without asking My part, and chairman of the com J. W. Crabtree, secretary of the National Edutation association, mys | that last year 18,000 positions of teachers remained vacant. He expecta | a much higher percentage this year. He says that last year 42,000 teachers’ positions were filled by teachers who did not hold even the mittee, desire to repudiate ledge of the source of these or any expenditures which have been made. Inasmuch as it has been custom. &ry im the association to have all Dills O. K.4 by the president and by the chairman of the executive com jittee, I feel called upon to make statement because the executive committee must not be held respon- sible for any expenditure being made by thone who have taken over the Feimw of: administration of the asso- caton. The reason—only one—poor pay. Better pay up. A little more pay for the teacher tn this count, will be @ mighty good investmen 4 t, taxpayers are beginning to believe. | Seattle barbers decide te accept their employers’ terma. Btrike averted| by @ hair! Lawson introduced Frensied Finance, but that has been laced Ponzied Finance, om i Girl secures annulment of marriage from Seattle baseball pl at the home plate. player, Out) A special executive committee of three men has been appointed ap- parently with the {dea of taking over the functions of the main executive committee, which is representative @f the whole state. I happen to Know that the views of a number of the members of the executive com- * mittee of the Washington Stat®Gooa Roads association are not in accord ‘with the provisions of the Carlyon Boad bill.” EASTERN WASHINGTON HIGHWAY ASSOCIATION, When houses are dullt with the artdity cars, the housing situation will be relier ed, with which people bulla motor | Coman plans to bomb Keattle by airplane with gubernatorial cards. The| crowds will aure be Lamping when that comes off. The slowness of the public pulse would indicate that both the republican elephant and democratic donkey need so be me monkey glands. A New York ‘modiste has bequeathed $400,000 to build a home for aged dressmakers. A place, it is to be supposed, in which “7 hey all may basque | in the seamless joy where button-holes do not annoy.” Beattle bricklayer sues for divorce because his better half entertained her ‘ings they say to other women, or | relatives too frequently. In the words of Warren G. Cow (or ta tt Al Jol- the unplessant things thay aay| sont), he might be heard to say: “Of oll my wife's relations, I ke wmysel/| e@bout men. the best.” | soon lose your job. If you try to get more interest than your money is worth you soon lone your money The trouble with people who bought Ponzi notes was they believed their money to be worth more than it really was. How much was your money worth before the war? Three and a half to 4 per cent Interest wae a fair THE SEATTLE STAR HOO-HOO! | NOW, MRS. TRUE ! “THINK Of ANY THING You WANT TODAY 2 who bit are just the usual group | profits in foreign exchange, a sub | Many fell for his story. AN that | rate tf you would take a moderate | risk. Seven or 8 per cent was a big rink. Today the price of money fis fone up just like the price of gro: ceries, You can buy securitiqs which will yield you 6 or 7 per cent with Uttle r or 8 per cent if yon can Colu eo now American HOME OF THE BEST $2.50 GLASSES ON EARTH Examinations Free Our experience in vision testing enables us to correct your eyen with scientific accuracy, Wo | specialize in the most modern || forms of spectacles and eye. glasses. Grinding in our own modern lensgrinding plant—the ular Toric and Kryptok IN- VISIBLE BIFOCAL LENSES, Always Retlable Marcum Optical Co, 917 FIRST AVENUB Near Madison Ket, 1906 | denda. TM GOING Do “ou WANT You TO GATHER UP YouR, Beauty SET THAT You LEFT SCATTERED OVSR THE BATH ROOM tt! Roger W. Babson Writes for The Star Today on The Ponzi Episode’ take @ moderate rivk. If you put your money dn @ savings bank you can get § per cent, and you don't have to worry about picking out the right securities In many cases the banks are making much larger profite than they used to because of @ higher [rate that they charge when they loan money. And they sometimes make profit on foreign exchange transactions, They are not making on their deposit In proportion to the | S77¥bere pear as much as most | People think. If the banks would | tell the public more about their earnings, it would save @ great dea) jot trouble | eee A bank should treat fts deposit | Ore an partners in the business. If it can get more interest for the money {t lends, tt should be will ing to pay more in the same pro. | portion, for the money which t# deponited with it The time ts not far off when some enterprising bankers will adopt plan. They | immediately will get the confidence jot the public, and all hands will make more money by it In & fow months’ time Ponzi would raise over $10,900,000, The ' people had plenty of money to lend when they thought they could get 50 per cent a month. What is more, everybody who could mve a few dollars did it tm order to get in on this scheme. Nobody is ever going to be able to pay such a fate for money, but the Principle ie there just the same, The government ts trying to en courage saving. The way to do it ‘9 to make saving worth whfie Pn- courage industries to pay large divi Urge them to pay as much Interest to depositors as they can with safety. When people ere a worthwhile Profit in saving most of them will save. Soe ‘The wrongs of our people are con. tinually getting mixed up with our rights, eh AES A ATER TEE TODAY'S BOST BHT—That's #0; there 18 @ war in Burope, eee And how the war must mina the kaiser and the clown prince! eee But there probably ta no dearth of folks over there who are still making the excuse “on account of the war.” eee . Speaking of war at home, and baseball, Bill Cunningham, tho right pert ball player, couldn't keep his wife from making a homer—back to mother, One run, no hits, one error. eee We have just heard that Los An- eles i trying to get Al Jennings, Sj | the famous bandit, to accept the job of mayor, That town always did— aw, you way it eee Under the spreading canopy The village tenor stands, Ammaninates “The Ronary,” While people clap their bands Under your breath—for you are mute— You chant @ hymn of hate, But much ae you may loathe the brute, ‘The girls all think he’s great. eee In 1869 Henry M. Flint wrote: “It is only within a few years past that travelers have been systemat leally robbed by being charged 60 cents for dinner at stations on many railroads” Ife called attention to the fact that P. Amich, a village innkeeper, served ham, turkey, roast beef, potatoes, pre served fruit, bread and butter, corn, peas, onions, coffee, for 37 cents, “making @ handsome profit” on the moal eee My greataunt visited a place where Plastice surgeons fix the face, @ | beauty doctor's mir, Said she, “I 0 to tt, never They tackled bide Said they, “These drooping lds must ree” They youthnisd her | rheumy eyes, unmindful of her tears, | and they amid her frantic howls they smoothed and tucked her wrinkied Jowle behind her ancient ears. ‘They caused her cuticle to peel, which made the old girl's senses reel, but still auntie was game; they went to work upon her head ead stained her hair a glowing red that shone lke lambent flame When auntie reached her home once more, ber poodie chased her from the door and all around the place; her children yelped when she came near, ber spouse got stewed on homemade beer; he murmured, “Wow, that face! Auntie eat down and walled, “In truth, there's nothing in this phoney youth where folks are in the know.” She rose and left that neighborhood. and now, by heck, ghe's making good in Broadway's biggest show! eee A Mill magnate indicted for prof- iteering says that woolen cloth is not wearing apparel How quite, quite true! We understand that when boiled {t is a delicious beverage, while fried it makes an excellent automo bile ure, eee The trouble with most tamity trees they are not sprayed often enough. eee ; SURE TO MISS ‘The ecion of the family had acted no, badly thet punishment of some sort was neceamary, "Ernest!" commanded his mother, “find a switch and bring it to mer Shortly afterward the bright young man returned. “I couldn't find « ewitch, mam- ma,” he reported, “hut here's @ stone that you can throw at moe!” eee In 1794 a Bertin actress was ac: cused of an offense againgt morality and decency when she appeared on the in bare arms. By iat? the world had wagred to a Ufe where it was considered per- fectly proper for Pritish ladies to ap- pear in public clad in nothing but silk Ughts and rings on their bare toes. Tn 1894 the Lil of world had wagged back again to a point where they pinched actresses for daring to wear knec-skirts upon the stage. In 1920-—aw, you know how ft ia, eee ‘The monks of the Capuchin monas- tery at Fiume have formed a union to insist upon the right to get their | hair cut. once; parties holding get your money back, ber, 1920. 514 2nd PADILLA BAY LANDS All outstanding options must be closed at either call and make final arrangements or raised to $33.33 1-3 on the Ist of Septem- You can buy virgin soil, sub-irrigated gar- den land, without stumps or stones, for $10.00 per acre now. What you can buy for $150.00 at this time will cost you $500.00 Sept. 1st, 1920. Come to our office for particulars. Join our excursions and see this land. 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An alarm clock, that somebody knew enough to make keep time, wekes you; somebody has left the bottle of new milk on the back porch; somebody, several dozen of him, has somehow in the night man- ufactured the morning paper, and nomebody else haw delivered it; womebody has kept the gas going for the morning coffee, and somebody has kept @ watchful eye on the wa- ter mains, and other bodies have been on the job to see that neighbor hood chimney fires did not spread. Other men take you to work in self-propelled vehicles; more men and women boost you to offices in elevators; even the traffic on the street is guided for your safety, and ‘the pewtilence that haunts crowded places in kept away by constant vig Nance, @ vigilance that snatches up & stray bit Of paper on the street. You yourwelf could scarcely live the day thru without the uninterrupted, efficient work of ® thousand other unknown workers, and, if your work be worthy of @ man, each of these in some part depends for health, com- fort or protection on your effort. That in good, cities prove man's ability to cooperate ettocts ively, UT THERE ts an evil that comes from this multiplied , Uvision of effort, and that AS IT SEEMS T0 ME DANA SLEETH ie the loan of initiative and ability to fend for oneself. All that ever made this nation great was ite pioneer spirit that con- quered every difficulty without as sistance, All that ever makes a man inde- pendent, @ master, ts his personal ability in an emergency, to do with his own hands the things necessary for his existence, When the gas strike hit the town last winter how many thought of Unned heat sold in every heat enough for half a dozen to be had for fifty cents with a thrown in? When there wag no coal little wood, how many flivver ers thought of the acres of JOKR® at the city’s back door, and hb | many loaded @8 axe into the family | machine dnd brought home their own fuel? A few id that; but how many neighborhoods where a truck owner lived had foresight enough to get to gether & dozen families, going to the woods and cutting fuel, and the truck bringing it home on @ coopera- tive basis? quality, tasto of baked things. you would sugar. Economize with Crimson Rambler MELOMAR “Raxeo with MELOMAR" ts the explanation of that delightfully different flavor in cakes, cookies, etce.—that richness that has an ever-fresh, luscious MELOMAR for baking ts a true economy that Merits high enthusiasm, because it really does improve the Preserve with MELOMAR—the flavor te finer— —you'll be Use the same proportions of Melomar Syrup to fruit as (mson RaMeLeR ’ T 18 « low order of civilize i tion that forees the houne wife to weave her own Di cloth and knit the family 4 socks; We are not far from when the family has te periog yf own food, and make ite yoap, and butcher its meat, and gath er herbs of the field for its medica ments. But better such @ primitive order of living than that mankind become #0 specialized, so soft, and helpless, and dependent that the simplest problems conquer his tmagination. f r You will note that the peasants — survived during the war while the urban dwellers perished, : In time of famine, of petilence, of war or revolution the farmers sur vive because they can provide their ~ own living. And if the time comes when there will be more mouths than food for the civilized world, the agricultural classes will at last be revenged fog their centuries of underpaid slavery, | I would not have city fai waste their time trying to do po what public and private utilities splendidly, but I would certainly train the rising generation that { women could contrive to live far day without @ can opener, and that its men knew which end of CRAWFORD E. WHITE FOR SUPERIOR COURT JUDGE surprised my i