The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 19, 1920, Page 6

The Se ‘the $4.60 for ¢ montha or $9.00 per year, A attle Star hi B monthe, #1.60; 1h) year, Rate of Warrington per month, Outside of the per weak. By carrier, Free People Allen McCurdy relates that while addressing a New York republican meet- ing, he uttered these words, “This country, with its institutions, belongs to the le who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing gov- ernment, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their + revolutionary right to dismember and overthrow it!” whereupon he was sound- ly, roundly and furiously hissed. ; When the hissing had subsided, McCurdy remarked that he had never UCH is | LIFE! “Hetlo™ says sha “Hello yourself,” says he “You can't come over this evening,” saye bea | “Canse Wi Me's got the measles,” say 5) aha “And does the meanle keep him out of the parlor™ says he. “Tn sy they! do,” says she. ‘Then I'm) @oming, for I do want to see how) : parlor looks without Willie) 4 in every two minutes,” says ing of horns will be- universal cust eee “Then the lamb and the lion may ‘Be down together and get up to a predicted the prophet. “Huh? grunted Squire Abner Harpt: “they'll get up together, Fight, for the lamb will be Inside THEY ARE RICH BY ROGER W. BABSON ‘There is « family near us who to have everything that money buy. They have a lovely home, grounds, servants, motor the things that make life and comfortable, they are not happy. mother of the, family has a ppointed, sad look on her face, | The husband is cross and ill-na q most of the time. | The children, who are now grown Bp, are fretful and hard to please, : ‘They are very rich! | There ts another family across the mt from us. They live in a roomy, ) Plain old house that is decidedly in 4 of paint. We often see the father and boys working in the garden or doing repairing about the house, _ We know the mother makes her own and her n'a clothes over and over. _ But they are very, very happy. ‘We love to sit on our porch and hear’ their pleasant voices in the | @venings when they are at home. | These people are not happy be they are poor; nor are the oth- @f» discontented because of wealth. "But wealth cannot bring happiness 5 We do not carry happiness with if ‘or can poverty bring dissatisfac- ay father wears his | coat for several winters and that thought to live to see the time when a re ablican meeting in the chief city of the land would hiss the words of Abraham Lincoln, taken verbatim from his first inaugural address. The story is dramatically perfect, ended right there, and requires no moralizing as to how people live by tradition, have too little independence of thought, and can only judge the truth of a statement by the label of authority which it wears, ete. Yet, lest any of “Bolshevistic” tendencies should find) lincentive to “direct action,” or what not, in Lincoln’s words, it might be as well to quote another paragraph fron? the same address, viz: “A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with delib- erate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does, of necessity, fly to anarchy or to despotism.” The world has quite a long way to go before exhausting the solutions of ills offered by constitutional democracy, which is, by the way, the contention of McCurdy himself, and of the committee of forty-eight, of which he is (still) secretary. The forty-eighters contend for a democracy which avoids both red-radicalism and rot-reaction. The Assessor of Success Copyright, 1920, by Doubleday, Page & Co; published by special ar- rangement with the Wheeler Byn- dicate, Ine, Hartings Beauchamp Mortey saucn tered across Union Square with « pitying look at the hundreds that lolied upon the park benches. were a motley lot, he thought; the men with the stolid, animal un aven faces; the women wriggling land self-conscious, twining and un jtwining their feet that hung four Inches above the graveled walks Were I Mr, Carnegie or Mr, Rocke feller 1 would put a few millions In my Inside pocket and make an ap pointment with all the Park Com missioners (around the corner, if necemary), and arrange for benches in all the parks of the world low enough for women to ait upon, and rest thelr feet upon the ground. After thag I might furnieh Ubraries| to towns that would pay for ‘em, or/ build minitariams for crank profes « hundred grimy, unfortunate ones) wanted to. Women's righty societies have been laboring for many yeary after | equality with man. With what re sult? When they sit on @ bench they must twist their ankles to gether and uncomfortably sewing They | HUMOR PATHOS ROM. Ho settiod the wrapped bottle care fully In the child's arms and escort ed him to the corner, In hin own pocket he dropped the 85 cents ao cruing to him by virtue of his chem foal knowledge, “Look out for the cara, sonny,” he said, cheerfully, to his small vio Un. Two street cars suddenly swooped in opposite directions upon the youngster. Morley them and pinned the infantile mee senget by the neck, holding him in safety, ‘Then from the corner of his treet he sent him on his way, «win died, happy, and sticky with vile, cheap candy from the Italian's fruit atand. Mortey went to a restaurant and ordered a «iriotn and pint of inex penstve Chateau Breuille, He laughed nolsclemily, but so genuinely that the “Why, no,” said Morley, who sel dom held conversation with any one. “It is not that. It ls something else that amuses ma Do you know what | three dividons of people are easiest “Bure,” mid the waiter, calculating the wine of the tp promised by the careful knot of Morley’s tie; “there's the buyers from the dry goods stores in the South during August, honeymoogers from Staten Island, and” — “Wrong™ said Morley, chuckling |happlly. “The answer ts just—imen, In the announcement made by the public health service that a Loulat | icie nighest French heels clear of|women and children The world ana aite has been selected for the location of a national leprosartum, there t more than ordinary Interest. First of all, this ts because the Louistana site offers the onty place in North America to which the gov- ernment was invited to come The location selected is the former state colony for lepers, where more than a hundred people have been in rea dence and cared for under state supervision. Few people tn North America realize that there are one more lepers in 20 different states of the union, and leadipg experts estimate the total number of people tn the United States who are affilcted with leprosy as anywhere from 500 to 2,500. As a matter of self-protection, the public could do no less than arrange to segregate the lepers of the United States, in order to stay the spread of the divease, It has been shown In other countries that the establishment of segregation campe wil! most effectively eradicate leprosy. While this is in mind as an ultimate objective, it ts good to realize that lepers tn the United States are being treated as human beings, and no longer wl it be necesmary to have such staftiing headlines appear in the newspapers ax “Leper at large in this ” “Leper eacapes from guard.” ete, for now there le a place where these leprous people may be cared for humanely, and it ls to be done under the direction of the U. & public health servioa ‘This ts but a beginning tn the program of winning governments in afl lands, and humane citizens everywhere, to « combined effort for the care of two million lepers, which, it is estimated, ts the probable number scat tered thru the length and breadth of the world Leprosy ts onty feebty contagious, and then by prelenged contact. For reason alone it is unscientific and inhuman to regard the leper as outcast. And the more beauty, the more danger. Nor they have never witnemed the manipui- ing @ tortuous way thru traffic for her iplees traffic cop who blocks her way in soothe the feelings of a bewildered pedes- she fanned, forgetting—no, might as well be of & safety sone. I just have to get home and start dinner.” Or, “The meeting will be half over! I just couldn't get started any sooner—eo many little things to do.” Will the equality of suffrage change man's attitude toward the pretty woman? Not if the laws of evolution hold good. Woren have learned thru centuries of experience that beauty te hing to conjure with. They not unlearn ft goon. And, it must be added in justice, men do not to Red Tape “Too much red tape! Time and again one heare that statement made. Its user means that proceedings are being unduly obstructed thru some sort of official formality. A shining «example of what too much red tape may accompliet is seen in the story of “Pigs Is Pigs.” By the time all the red tape due to shipping schedules and definitions were unwound the little pigw Mad increased by the natural process of birth from two to a family of several thousand more or leas related. As far back as 400 years ago English lawyers and public officials, tied up their briefs and legal documents with red tape. Too much red tape, clients and the public sometimes said Hence the local application of the term, which was so highly and accurately descriptive as to last longer than many of the documents themselves This ts to notify the candy makers thet euger te cheap There ts more corm for the hogs end leas for the hogshead. The cost of reducing has bees reduced. Corsets ere cheaper. How great a catactyem ts necessary these days te make the human race sit up and take notice? Paper ané cotton are so high they may be forced to make clothes out of wool again. The old-fashioned five-cent cigar has been discovered, hiding behind a 15-cent label. An Italian has perfected scales that wil weigh one one-thousandth of a milligram. Just what is needed to weigh a profitecr’s conscience. = 3 IMPORTANT! Surely nothing is more important in the Household Calendar than the Milk Supply. The quality of the Milk from this Great Modern Dairy is as reliable as the unfail- ing regularity of the Service. Phone Beacon 40 today and we will start Service tomorrow. a PASTEURIZED _ earthly support. Begin at the bot |tom, Indien Get your feet on the and then rise to theories of jmental equality. Hastings Beauchamp Morley was carefully and neatly dressed. That was the result of an instinct dug to his birth and breeding. I is denied lus t look further into a man’s bosom than the starch on his shirt | front; #o it te left to us only to re count his watke and conversation. Morley had not a cent in his pockets; but he «miled pityingly at | ® hundred grimy, unfortunate ones |who had no more, and who would |have no more when the sun'y firet rays yellowed the tall papercutter building on the west side of the square, ‘But Morley would have “Why, Bergman, man,” sang Mor. ley, dulcetly, “ie this you? I was just on my way up to your place to settle up Wrong address was the trouble. Come up to the corner and I'll square up. Glad to see you. Saves me a walk.” Four drinks placated the emo- tional Begeman. There was an air about Morley when he was backed by money in hand that would have stayed off acall loan at Rothac . When he wan penniless his was pitched half @ tone lower, but few are competent to detect the dif. ference in the notes. “You cum to mine blace und bay ™me tomorrow, Mr. Morley.” maid Bergman, “Oxcuse me dat I dun you on der street. But I haf not seen you in dree mont’. Pros't!” Morley walked away with a crook e4 emile on his pale, amooth face. |The credulous, drmk-softened Ger man amused him. He would have to avoid Twenty-ninth street in the future. He had not been aware that Rergman ever went home by that route At the door of a darkened house two squares to the north, Morley knocked with a peculiar sequence of raps. The door opened to the length of a stxinch chain, and the pompous, importamt black face of an African guardian hnpored itself in the open. ing. Morley was admitted. In « thirdetory room, tn an at- mosphere opaque with amoke, he hung for ten minutes above a rou Jette wheel. Then downstairs he crept, and was outsped by the tm. portant negro, fingling in his pocket the 40 cents in ailver that remained to him of his fivedollar capital. At the corner he lingered, undecided, Acrons the street was a drug store, well lighted, sending forth gleams from the German silver and crystal of ite soda fountain and glasses. Along came a youngster of five, headed for the dispensary, stepping high with the comsequence of a big errand, possibly one to which his ad- vancing age had earned him promo tion. In his hand he clutched some thing tightly, publicly, proudly, con- eplcuously : Morley stopped him with his win- ning smile and soft speech. “Me?” said the youngster. “I'm doin’ to the drug ‘tore for mamma, She dave me a dollar to buy a bot of med’cin’.” nd “Now, now, now” aid ‘ “Buch « big man you are to be doing errands for mamma. I must go along with my little man to see that the cars don’t run over him. And on the way we'll have some choco- lates. Or would he rather have lemon drops?" Morley entered the drug store lead- ing the child by the hand. He pre sented the preseription that had been wrapped around the money. On his face was a amile predatory, Parental, politic, profound. “Aqua pura, one pint,” sald he to the druggist. “Sodium chloride, ten grains, Fiat solution, And don’t try to skin me, because I know all about the number of gallons of 120 in the Croton reservoir, and I al- ways use the other ingredient in my potatoes.” “Fifteen cents,” said. the druggist, with a wink, after he, had compound ed the order. “I see you understand pharmacy. A dollar ts the regular price.” “To gulls,” said Morley, smilingly. |well, any New York and as far an | summer boarders san swim out from Leng Island—is full of greenhorna. | ‘Two minutes longer on the broiler) would have made this steak fit to be jeaten by gentleman, Francois,” | “If yea Cinks it's oa de bum,” said the wuiter, “Gil” — Morley Ifted hie hand tn protest— alghtly martyred protest. “Tt wil do.” he said, magnant- mousty. “And now, green Char treune, frappe and a demi-tans.” Morley went out leiwurely and stood on a corner where two trade ful arteries of the city crom With & solitary dime in bis pocket, he stood on the curb watching with confident, cynical, amiling ayes the tides of people that flowed past him. Into that stream he must cast his net and draw fish for his further wurtenance and meet Good leaak Walton had not the half of his self. Umpbant look that sald: “See what 1 can do with him!” and added her queen's commang! to the invitations. “I leave you to imagine,” mid Morley, pathetically, “how dt deso- lates me to forego the pleasure. But my friend Carruthers, of the New York Yacht Club, ineto pick me up here in his motor car at 4." The white plume tossed, and the quartet danced like midges around an arc Ught dows the frolicaome way. Mortey stood, turning over and over the dime in his pocket and laughing gleefully to himself, “Front. “he chanted under his breath; “ ‘front’ does it. Tt in trumps in the game. How they take it in! Men, women and children—forgeries, waterandsalt lee—how they all take it int An ol4 man with an Mi fitting sult, & straggling gray beard and « cor. pulent umbrella hopped from the conglomeration of cabs and street cars to the sidewalk at Moriey’s aide. “Stranger,” said he, “excuse me for troubling you, but do you know anybody in this here town named Solomon Smothers? He's my son, and I've come down from Ellenville to visit him. Be darned if I know what I done with his street and num ber.” “I do not, atr,” enid Morley, half them. “You had better apply to’ the police.” “The potice™ maid the old man. “I ain't done nothin’ to call in the po lee about. I just come down to seo Ben. He lieves in a five-story house, he writes me. If you know anybody by that name and could"— “Iv told you I did not,” sald Mor ley, coldly. “I know no one by the name of Smithers, and I advise you to”— “Smothers, not Smithers,“tnterrupt- ed the old man hopefully. “A heavy- sot man, sandy complected, about twenty-nine, two frong teeth oat, about five foot”— “Oh, Smothers exctatmed Mortey. “Sol, mothers? Why, he lives in the next house to ma I thought you said ‘Smithers.’” Morley looked at his watch, You must have a watch, You can do tt for a dollar. Better go bungry than forego a gunmetal or the ninety- eight-cent one that the raftroads— according to these watchmakers— are run by. “The Bishop of Long Istand,” maid Morley, “was to met me here at 8 to dine with me at the Kingfishorw club, But I can't leave the father of my friend Sol Smothers alone on the street. By 8t. Swithin, Mr. Smothers, we Wall Street men have to work! Tired is no name for it! I was about to step across to the ‘ITS A GREAT LIFE” if you don’t , weaken dashed between | and | closing his eyes to veil the joy in| MANCE other corner and have a ginns of ginger ale with a dash of sherry when you approached me. You must lot me take you to Sots house, Mr Smothers. Wut before we take the ear I hope you will join me in" An hour later Morley neated him self on the end of a quiet bench in Madison Square, with a twenty-five cont cigar between his lips and $140 in deeply creased bills in his inside pocket. Content, light-hearted, tron. jeal, keenly philosophic, he watched the moon drifting in and out admint & maze of flying clouds An old, ragged man with a low-bowed head sat at the other end of the bench Prenently the old man stirred and looked at his bench companion. In Morley’s appearance he seemed to recognize something superior to the usual nightly occupants of the benchen “Kind air.” he whined, “if you ||| could spare a dime or even a few pennies to one who"— Morley cut short his steretotyped appeal by throwing bim a dollar. “God blees you!” said the old man. “I've been trying to find work for"— “Work!” echoed Morley with his ringing laugh. “You are a fool, my friend. no doubt; but you must be an Aaron and smite it with your rod. Then/| ater will gush! thingy better than out of it for you. That is what the world is for. It gives to me what ever I want from it” . “God has bleased you,” said the old man. “It is only work that I bave known. And now I can get no more.” “ I must go home.” sald Morley. rising and buttoning his coat, “I stopped here only for a mnoke I hope you may find work.” “May your kindness be rewarded this night.” eaid the old man. “Oh,” suid Morley, “you have your wish ajready. I am satisfied I think good luck follows ‘me like a dog. 1 am for yonder bright hotel Keron the square for the night. And what a moon that is lighting up the city tonight. I think no one enjoys the moonlight and wuch ittle thingy as Ido. Well, a good-night to you.” Morley walked to the corner where he would crons to his hotel He blew slow streams of smoke from his cigar heavenward. A policeman Passing saluted to his benign nod. What a fine moon it wan The clock mtruck nine a» a girt Just entering womanhood stopped on the corner waiting for the approaching car, She wae hurrying as if home ward from employment INSPECTOR Editor The Star: Will you do me & favor by answering the q@gpstions I set forth in this letter? To the laws of this state demand the fol lowing act to be carried out? A man here in this city decided to open a meat market, and pur. chased the required fixturea. Among these fixtures was a computing scale Valued new at about $150. Now, be fore he started selling meat he wrote or phoned the inspector to come out and inspect the scale. The inspector found the seale to be O. K. up to 10 pounda Above that amount, how- ever, it was found to be off one ounce, The dealer sald he would never weigh ag much as 10 pounds at one time. The scale, however, was con demned. The dealthen sent for the Dayton scale man, who the scale could be fixed to weigh perfectly, 80 the inspector Was notified, and on his arrival he said the chart was not up to date, so he forbade him to use it, and, as the dealer was not able to buy another, having tied up all his cash in other fixtures, he was forced to quit, and placed the scale DR, J. R. DINTON Free Examination BEST $2.50 GLassEs We are stores in th grind lense: and we Examination free, by graduate op- tometri: Glasses not prescribed unless absolutely necessary. BINYON OPTICAL CO. net pene Sanat Se Phane Main 1500, ‘The world is a rock to you, | Recently the Inspector made aut other call and asked the merchant (who had some groceries in buildthe) for the meat dealer, The merchant explained that he bad quit | at the time the scale was condemn: | ed, an be was not able to buy an-| other, He also asked the merchant) where the scale was, and on being | told it was under the counter, the) inspector went and took the scale) without even notifying the would-be | meat dealer. Is thig the state law?) Did the inspector have a right to do this? | Now this man if» trying hard to’ support his family in an honest way in these trying times, and along comes the state and breaks him up in business, using @ cold, unmerciful representative, ‘The people here know there was no intention of swindling whatever. Dead Men Tell No Tales ‘The most for your money, the best for your ‘mouth, the safest for your health, ts the guar- antes given by or b 108 ASK FOR end GET Horlick’ ‘The Original ’ y and Invalides A READER OF THE STAR. Avoid Imitations ead Substitutes ae Be cautious. Consuf Tr has been shown that $2,000,000.00 are lost annually by Seattle savers who confidently in vest their money tn getrichquick echemes, your banker about im tended investmenta’ He can gtve you much valuable advice about cantempiated investments. Scturday Evening trom @'te S convenicace. 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