The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 28, 1920, Page 6

/ PAGE 6 Newepaper Bn- terprise = Amen, and United e Seattle Star EVERETT TRU. SAM SMYTHE'S GOIN AWA ON AIS HONGYM so GIMME A COVPLE jee per month, # montha, #1 5 months, 02.76, veer ‘Washington, Outside of the state, The per month, 00 per year, My carrier, city, Se per week. Seattle, like it or not, suffers the reputation of being an overgrown lumber camp, especially in matters artistic. ne of the few cultural assets it possesses is the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, and it is in danger of losing even that thru) indifference. A symphony orchestra, by its very nature, must be assisted by the public.) Every symphony orchestra in the world is either endowed, supported by popu-| lar subscription or subsidi tural value are ng stand on their own fi In the loss of an ob-4 ject we do not propor- tion our grief to its real value, but to the value our fancies set upon it. —Addison. Letters to the Editor— Write driefty. Use ink or typewriter. One side of paper only. Sign your name. WOULD GET AFTER DELINQUENT DADS Editor The Star: ‘There is One thing that this state | needs more than it ever needed direct , primary or prohibition in the form that it now has prohibition. That one thing is a sure, effective method of compelling the father of children of divorced parents to support the children. We adopted prohibition because the saloon was gesting the money earned by the father instead of its going to his wife and children. Now that divorce has become #0 prevalent, we have a generation of children growing up who don’t know what the old-fashioned homeg the bome that is the foundation of so clety, looks like. They are farmed out among relatives or children’s homes, or herded into housekeeping while the mother gees out to to provide what the father should be producing. If I ever get to the legislature (1 suppose I should say like the other Officeseekers, “when I get to the legislature”) there will be something More stringent than a court order vor alimony provided to compel the self-supporting. nancial feet. | eul-| zed by the government. Institutions of purel iO not) Our colleges and universities THROW ANO ND LC BEAN “You BE ANY WASTING OF THe BRIDE Do IT KITCHEN == Seattle will never be a real city, a community which | nourishes the minds as well as feeds the bodies of its jcitizenry, until it’s able and willing to support insti- |tutions of the type of the symphony orchestra. It will never be able to attract the type of people here that {flock to California every year, unless it can offer them jcommasing over and above the crass necessities of life. | If Seattle, thru apathy, permits its symphony to die, it will be the only city of the first class in America which) does not support a symphony orchestra! Los Angeles,| alone, has two symphonies, the annual budget of each call-| ing for more than $150,000—just twice what our orchestra} requires for the coming year! | There are 50 symphony organizations in the United States. If Seattle is to continue to hold her place as one of the forward-looking metropolises of the country, she! cannot afford to lose such a valuable addition to her com- munity life. THE PEOPLE OF SEATTLE MUST GE BEHIND THE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA! Vacuous Vacations A preacher in an eastern city claima to have solved the vacation problem | by going to work in a factory during his vacation period | Like many others, this preacher found that the usual loafing vacation didn’t do him much good; that his mind, instead of being more alert, was forgier at the end than at the beginning of his vacation; that after letting | his brain rest for a month, it took him awhile to get it started again. | ‘Therefore, this preacher concluded that his whole mind didn't need a rest | but only that spectalized part of it which he used In his profession, | He reasoned that what he required waa not a complete suspension of | mental activities, but a change of program that would keep his mind exn-| ployed, with special stress on the group of brain cells that the skilled hand-| worker uses in bis trade daily, and which in the professional and office man seldom are exercised. ~ He reports that at the end of his wacation tn the factory hie ming was more alert and responsive to ita regular work than it ever had been after one of those “restful” vacations, The reverend doctor's idea of @ good vacation probably will not be unt | versally adopted, but it gives point to a well-known fact: That you do not| | sive your mind @ vacation by placing it in a vacuum. The tired mind does| | not ery for complete rest. but for a change of occupation. It is worn out | by routine; seldom by work. It abhors a vacuous vacation and feels most | refreshed when it is doing something other than what It ts accustomed to doing. Nevertheless, most of us will continue to lise vacations In the good old fashioned lazy ways, such as Cishing, boating, reading, lounging, and sleep ‘Houses Needed Probably no maker of laws has had more experience in, nor more first. hand knowledge af, the housebullding industry than Senator Calder of | Roger W Writes for The To fear ts to fall. There is no Ukelihood of success tn any field of | endeavor for one who is a slave of that great wrecker of human happl neas— Fear, It ie pitiful to think how many of us are slaves of this harwh master From the cradie to the grave, we fear things and people. When we get along toward the end of life's journey, we commence to fear to die, In fact, this is one con stant bogy we always bave to fall back upon if there ls any scarcity of other fears Emerson says: you are afraid to do.” right Every time we do something we arp afraid to do, we are stronger for “Always do what He ta quite New York. ‘The house shortage ts far from solution, according to the senator, This fa as true in the United States, he argues, an it is elsewhere and rings true to your motto, “On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise.” e One of the most un-American because of official position, because of official position to pro hibit those under him, and those be- cause of relation to them from freely | exercising the rights and privileges | of American citizens to the fullest extent, including the right to vote! as they choose, and to run for office| if they so desire. But it is not necessary to go to Washington, D. C., to find one guilty of conduct to that charged against Mr. Burleson. You have only to go| to the auditor's office of King coun-| ty to find a similar situation. There, if all reports are true, you will find| the present incumbent not only} thfeatening to discharge, but ac-| tually discharging employes who! work for the people, and who are paid by the people of. King county, | because they do not choose to sup-| port the present chief deputy, whom | the present incumbent of that office is apparently moving heaven and earth to have succeed himself, even going so far as to permit employes to spend their time, paid for by the| taxpayers, in electioneering. I know of no tevy of taxes for this Pha and I believe this sort of Procedure | ia just as un-American, autocratic) and czar-like as Mr. Burleson’s, | A TAXPAYER EVENING BY EDMUND VANCE COOKE | What seemed a green and golden| globe Assumes a somber husk, AS earth slips on an outer robe Of twilight trimmed with dusk ‘The forest hastes across the mist To meet the drooping sky, Until his bearded lips have kissed Her pallor, ere they die. | The last, sad shadows sigh away | Am® scatter wide and far, As night steals on the gasping day And stabs her’ with a star. | And thru the air a piping throb Forever trembles on, That mournful, low, symphonic sob | Which binds the dusk to dawn, (Copyright, 1920, N. E. A) CLASSROOM NOTE, | —< Teacher-—-What is the highest form @f animal life? Little Peter (quickly)~The giraffe! lof working women says, “Nothing much has been done to bring the house supply up to the de mand,” Calder amerts, He suggests two governmental helps: 1. Exempting from taxation the income from real estate mortgagea, and— 2.*.An immediate investment of four billion dollars tn butldings. At least the major of this investment, he urges, should be made up the government, for, “it is impossible to build a home for those earning low wages or salaries at a cost which will allow it to be rented or sold without a loss.” “There has been increased production tn everything.” Calder points out, “excepting housebuilding. ‘This industry has stumbled along slowly, and the nation today is as far from the end of the hotse-shortage as it was last year.” “Since the senator first demanded action by congress house-bullding has slumped still mora, This during the period usually most productive in the building industry. The result has been a house demand far larger than the supply, a condition profitable alone to the rent-raising landlord ? Baby Buggies The demand for baby carriages has fallen 60 per cent In the last six months, reports the U. 8. chamber of commerce. This indicates a smaller birth rate, the C. of C. pessimistically concludes But does it? Once proud mothers and fathers had to have baby carriages os they could take baby round the neighborhood and show other folk what a mighty’ fine baby they had. Baby really didn’t appreciate the ride in a fluffy carriage Baby would have enjoyed himself as well in a wheelbarrow. Nowadays baby doesn't have to be hauled about in one of thon contrap. tions they call a baby carriage. For baby rides in the family auto. Father these days, hasn't time to push a baby buggy. Father is needed at the steering wheel. And baby autos, That's the answer. The C. of C. fe needlessly alarmed, Auto Exports The United States is putting the world on wheels—automobile and truck wheels. Export figures, just made public, show a decided increase in number and value of automobile shipments to foreign countries. For the year ending June 30, 1920, Uncle Sam sent 24,388 commercial cars abroad, as against 12,921 for 1919. Passenger automobile experts totaled 115,519 cars this year as against 41,291 the year before. All of which proves that Uncle Sam is a growing auto builder, and that foreign nations are getting on their financial feet, enough so to indulge in the pleasant pastime of autoing. Hiring Women The head of a big business concern, who does much of the employing of women in it, has just come out in print with six rules that govern him in thelr employment. Some of them seem odd. As to others, few will agree that they are correct. But there are several rules at least which may be of value to women who are about to go out into the business world. This fellow says that he never hires any woman under 20, and he explains: “Business, for men, is not ‘a part of life’; it is life. We want women*who will regard it the same way.” He chooses short, compact women rather than tall ground that middle-rize people have more vitality He selects brunets rather than plonds. Why? “They are veramental, less sensitive, and tore dependable.” He eschews women with “drooping” mouth corners: “They are often the mark of a woman enjoying poor health.” Women can't-—tho some do—change their ages, and they can't change their size, But this employer then touches on a couple of points which some looking for work may take unto themselves: “T look at their hair, their finger nails and their shoes,” this selector “Girls who, don’t care enough to look well, to do well. And I never hire a girl who is ex pensively dressed. The girl who ts careless with her father’s or her husband's money will probably be careless’ with things that mean money to us!" But has this fellow the right “slant’ Internationally “If we are to keep the peace of the world in the future we have to think internationally. One of the greatest lessons of the war, to my mind, is that thinking nationally without thinking internationally leads to disaster. Before the war, it seems to me, Germany was thinking more intensely nationally and less internationally than any other country in the world, and that led to disaster. One hopes that as the lesson of defeat Germany will realize that it is necessary to think inter nationally as well.” (Viscount Grey at the British Institute of Inter: national Affairs, July 6, 1920). Must It always take defeat and disaster to prove to a man or a class or @ nation that blind selfishness does not pay? ones, on the won't care ugh all thru? The stegeovich became a routaki. If you can't buy coal get a cellar full of discarded oulja béatds. This General Pilsudskd has an intriguing name for those who like their four per cent brew the next battle. After all, what bave any ef us to TODAYS BEST BET—Is not in| entertaining an unknown woman in a darkened doorway if | you have $300 in your wallet, Or so |eays Charlie Davin. eee SUCH IS LIFE | Gum-chewing baseball players, we aro informed by the sports editor, | | keep thelr idle gum on the buttons | of thelr caps while batting. Which | inn't such @ bad idea, and ts paased | along to whoever is in need of the | suggestion. | When your gum has lost its favor | Or your jaws are unable |To mansage it any longer Do you park it ‘neath the table? Or have you ever laid t down To ease your map a minute And then forgotten where it was } Until you sat down tn it? Or have you o'er discovered It When just about to eat And hastily removed {t to | A home under your seat? If you're gitilty, mow a button One upon each lid and bonnet, Arid when your jaw is tuckered out | | Just park your chewing on it! | than big people. | less tem- | Start the music, Mister, and we'll jal join in singing this touching jflock of varwes, entitled: “Where, oh where, is my wander: | ing gum tonight” Times have changed considerably since that famous exponent of base |balling, Patsy Tebeau laid down thi | rule: “If you must chaw, chaw terback er, and leave the gum to the ladies,” Benjamin N, Duke, tobacco king, has this lovely boost for tobacco: “T have never used tobacco in any | form in my life and have never had | lany desire to do ‘so, although T have been connected with the cultivation | |and nhanufacture of the weed aince I was a boy.” eee The good preacher was telling his | youthful audience about the creation lof the earth, the sun, and got round to the moon He thought this a good opportan: ity to test the children upon their knowledge of the Sunday school lesson “Who made the moon to shine?” he asked, sure that every child would know the answer. One little boy beat the others to the floor, SEATTLE STAR Ss OON, SR ba THAT RICS THERE HAS TO FOODSTUFFS Lst Bagge SHS ceTs G ona, against our 225 billions eres . Babson Star Today on “Why Fear?” fear? The power of good is certainly stronger than the power of evil If we could only remember that our welfare in dear to the heart of our Creator, we would fear nothing No man can achieve either happl- | nen or success while he is @ slave of fear In thé morning, consider the many things you are afraid to do. Then do them. You will be surprised at the number of them. Don't be afraid to do anything that is right, anything that does not bring unhappiness to others. If you want to succeed, you must not be afraid to try. Above all, don't be afraid of fail. ure, ‘The person of real courage Goes not fear defeat, mmol] Say SQ “My father mid last night as how YOUNK | the policemens arrented some fellers | #04 bridges, and auto trucks are! serve banking system can absolutely yesterday for making tbe moon hine.” DANA SLEETH Daily Article (Copyriant, 1920) A Good Time Coming. America Richest. Bugaboos Disappear. Facts, *« there « Good Time Coming? Lat us not argue nor orate, but] I eniffed, then replied: “Onoe a look at the facta. train I Was on ran over one of th Statintice tasued as coming from|and the woman in the seat ahead the bankers give us the following | said: ‘Oh, what delicious coffee’; and " |the woman in the seat behind cried = l'Oh, smell that skunk’; the woman The United States ts the richest) (Ob. smell that ; country in the world. | bet The bank deposits in the United) “Do you mean to oy ou gard | States exceed by billions the com te oa right in camp?” deman’ | , 0 bined bank deposits of the whole/*4 te wife. ag | word outside of this country, 'e have more actual cash than . ae proximity thereto, any other nation. — Our, national wealth at the time of| “Well. you get right up and chane the civil war was about seven bi-|t @way,” was the next urge ons; at present it is 225 billions, | I snugsied deeper under th . |and made muffled reply In a single year we produce by |) Ui ine manufacture and agriculture more)" ung 1. ashamed,” she sald. than the entire national wealth Of) wt isten, my dear; if it was leop France. ards, or lions, or water buffalo, or Bnela even an itinerant tchthyosaurua, I'd brave it; even if & behemoth, blood | Of all thé wheat of the world We sweating and ravening, should come | Prodwce $2 per cent. lballyhooting about this camp 1 Of all the oats of the world, 88) would do my durndest, for Bam no per cent. pigeon breasted, pinchback plke: but Of all the cotton, 60 per cent. when it comes to skunks, he who Of all the corn, £0 pér cent, sniffs and runs away will lve to Of all the horses, 25 per cent. anit? another Gay.” Of all the cattle 27 per cent. “All you would need to do would Of all the hogs, 40 per cent. |e to take the flashlight and find it, And of the world’s dairy products, and then shoo it away,” argued the 25 per cent, wite. z One-half of the world’s pig tron fs = «1 might mhog ft, but not away: taken from the earth in the U. 8 Alan the awaying@that would be done | Fifty per cent of the world’s cop-| would be performed by yours truly, e. for « omunk does not oon Indeed, Ud not hasten his departure And @0 per cent of the world's); might make bold to state that in !"cha year, He would flinch petroleum. all nature there is no leas shoosome | bullet, and then he would Hexides this we produce 25 per) beastie than a skunk; he doesn't|busy bushy tail and fire; cent of the total production of wool-| now much, but he knows that there Would calmly proceed upon ens of the earth. is no need to hurry; indeed, the more | ®#tisfied that nothing allve l« Twenty-five per cent ef the linens. | harassed he is the leas he hurries, harm him again. Twenty five per cont ef the cotton put those who harass him do quite| He has @ singletrack mind cloth. otherwise, | unpleasant personality, but Forty-five per cent of the paper, “While we are on this subject, my | solutely best to leave Twenty4ive per cent ef the glass! dear, and pending the departure of | bis own bent in his Thirty-atx pee cent of the shoes. | our evening's guest, who doubtless | ¥&7- And 60 per cent.of the steel pro® wil! soon finish with that garbage| Tho trappers say ucta, * bean and go hence, allow me to ad-| et used to the scent, it That i to may, of the total prod-| vise you never under any circum. | Pleasant. I suppose being bolled alive ucts of the globe, we contribute one) wtances to allow yourself to become !? oll comes to be endurable after quarter (25 per cent) of the agricul | vexed with aw ekunk, third millennium df so, but it's Geral quppiies. “Always restrain your natural| first three thousand years that Over one-third (40 per cent) of the) adam when toying with one of these | C®Uses Most of us distress, | mineral products, and e | | Onethird (4 per I HE OTTER night the wife | night, by the gittut flag, nudged me in the shortest cht, in pajamas, perl and tenderest short rib and | Christian character to rurtain bo whispered: “Somebody ts /J'll not trouble any nigh bind making coffee back in our | bud from nature's garden like that* “Well, even so, the really #0 bad," opined the wits “Huh, that is merely a Ute of curionity, perhaps of slight pew at our Inconsideration at he the Ud on the garbage can, That tg not jwkunk; that is merely the breath of a yettobe suspicion of @ woent. In full force, turned on malice aforethought, and 200-peung Pressure, blossoming in all tty ele *ance and flavor, there is possible, or even probable, skunk attar.” “Won't it wear off?" “It will in the course of ‘ight weeks; but the only | cific Is to bury all infec | Bicted objects in the ol ‘ts few days, and I submit that ‘tle bop ter to abide the evils that we have than to brave all, and possibly haye to make our beds under the cold, eaig |sod for 4 weekend.” | By this time the last taint trees | Of our little friend had | the lecture closed. In cane otber eit bred campers some time wake gp fa the night and are tempted, or unduly urged, to shoo their visitor away, discuss this matter at this So far as I know, there animal that never runs, it. At a safe distance I have a hen-mealing skunk @ with a small bore rij death dropped him in woods. ‘9 wealth i only 96 bil-| if 8 = e HeeH ue Uttle pets; thus will you live Jong in| 7 oend, of the! the land and, departing. leave behind | bingy ogo ooo, aew manufactured goods, you @ savory reputation: otherwise, | er be SA. And we do this, having but § per | not even your most excellent charac | cout, or onetwentieth of the world’s | er could encape entirely unscented. | oe | “If yon inquisitive fawn, or fauna, If we go bankrupt in this situa| oe what not, desires to hop up on my tion tt can only be by the most egre| “nest and kine me good night, he'll Gious folly. not find me thrusting him rudety| Almost all the bugaboos, whe away In the middie of a 40acre scrutinized, disappear. | field, by noonday sun, equipped with We are not going to have e bitu!, rubber suit, gum boots, a 20-foot minous coal famine, when the fig-| pole and « gas mask, I might try| ures of the geological survey show | conclusions with a right young and |@ll that for the last seven months We! none too vigorous skunk; but by Produced more coal (302,777,000 tons) | than during the corresponding period of last year (258,277,000 tona). Anthracite coal production for the first seven months of this year, 50, Oe shortage is getting better daily. Mexican conditions are better than at any time since Diaz ‘The secretary of agriculture says 675,000 tons, amounts to 3,268,000) that this year’s crops will be record tons more than for the correspond-| breaking. ing period of 1919. Dun and Bradstreet give reassur- Highways are tmproving, the gov-| ing reports of general business and ernment (state and local) having} banking affairs. spent $629.000,000 this year on roads And besides this, our federal re- markedly relieving ratiroads in short| bar a panic, hauls, AM this ts not rhetoric nor cam- The railway aituatign and car) paign matter, It is a fact. hy eae Rae hs ets Do you understand meaning of the word standing in your community. Can you go to your f and get from him the credit the security you mi have in your to enjoy credit. 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