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The 1 et of city, Be per month: # montha #1 $8.08, fo the & tf Washington. Outside of 14.00 for # montha oF $900 per year, wtat By carrier, ety, will be severely condemned by public opinion. tage of economic conditions to bludgeon his m of the worker. American standards will not permit men at hard jIt was almost universally BASIER | ING OF CARS | a day’s work. in obtaining the license number um . he | ilies corona the he has A Bee | Indications in certain indus have the following suggestion to|~—point to a reversion to the o! that will reduce each plate to/ing ten-hour day. Fetter and three figures, which . De much easier to obtain Ato 909, Bi to B® Al to A999. Ci to 0999, Se ee reans wea|__ ‘The employer who filches a a r ; . ; fone letter and three figures, MeN 1s In no better position be much easier to read than Seize another's figures, Yours very truly, J. K. SNODIZUKL 10T Dearborn St. eee ECIATE HELP SALVATION DRIVE : The Star: On behalf of the P. 0. Biks’ lodge No, 92 and the Division association of the state | Washington, we, the joint com- of Elks and 91st Division as vets, wish to thank you and gtaff most cordially for the gen- assistance and helpful cooper | “Sab Cat.” federal prohibition authorities in | sreat dry experiment impends Pamiles on every social "It was thra the co-operation of the a | have revived the ancient art of Po Oe neat seer, |e home-made bread ts produ: Le. rigors of prohibition has served JULES E. MARLOW, the weeklin; s favor with kitehen al afflicted persons will that the breweries, eager to make in the old days, irritated public op! thru state and national prohibition Or it may be that, if commercial: clalism can jointly exert sufficient democracy, Real enemies of temperance will tend to make prohibition unpopular, Seattle Star @ months, 2.78) peer -_——_______— |more than eight hours a day. tters to the thought that the question had been definitely din Beattie to clement to the Anti-Salcon league victory. hadow of former commercial brews cannot are responsible for the suppression of the sale| of hops and malt, ali the clamor for “personal liberty” set up by these become a mockery. two bars thrive where one sufficed) inton until it was possible to push] Pubtioned Matty by The Mar Pabitent 1 The per . Lee per week, Attempts of some labor employers in the Northwest to return to the 10-hour For the employer to take en into working two extra urs for him is as reprehensible as sabotage or loafing on the job on the part , arduous labor, to work In this country it was ettled. coneeded that eight hours |was the only fair, honest and efficient standard for Even in Europe, where labor conditions are not as satis- Eilitor The Star: To assist @ pedes factory as here, employers admit that a laborer has earned a full day’s pay when he has worked eight hours. tries here—notably in lumber ld back-breaking, soul-destroy- This is not the way of Progress—it is a step back into the Dark Age of industry. |move in the wolf-eat-wolf game that has destroyed indus- | trial peace in the United States. It is another two hours of work from his than the worker who would plant or destroy an industry. The men who are attempting to force the laborer back to the old ten-hour |day schedule here are the Capitalistic “Reds jthe community, tho they ride in limousines instead of in side-door Pullmans and adore the Golden Calf instead of the ——a menace to More Prohibition Tf tt ls true that the brewing Interests have succeeded tn » taking | Mfacture of malt beverages, another intensely interesting phase of the coercing ction against the home man- level, excepting, perbapa, where there ls Wealth enough to provide an inexhaustible stock of wines ‘and liquor, More home-made ale This tempering of the reconcila a large and influential If brewers, jealous because compete for ome brewing. Americans will recall, too, amendments and a Volstead act. It may be that the people, should the sale or purchase of malt and hops become a crime, will develop toward the fallen brew barons such re be forever aed fanaticiam and fanatic commer Pressure on a patient and docile resignation will cease to be a virtue. rejoice at added restrictions that we.| One of the favorite Langford | ment,” but plainty this is a misnomer, am of the} Young couples become sufficiently “incompatibility of temper” better. maybe the wife @ 25-year term have of tentiary. That was 25 years ago. Just the same, the very day that agent, does Seattle's buy- Geattic’s oldest playfield was in Lincoln park, acquired city in, 1897, DON’T LET "EM DOWN YOU "SPANISH PIANIST DIDN'T to the charge of adulterating and Nobody was sent to jail. And yet than the stealing of $84 worth ‘of There is little doubt that, at times, well blindfolded! The Lite And ‘This of the again will be destroyed. comes straight from Karl book entitled “The Detuge; away your last summer's car, Debs hasn't been heckled, ‘Count Gera Zichy, ambitious as B pianiat, lost his left arm at the 17. Then he took concert that were too hard for most and arranged them so he y with his right hand. He, two successful operas, Dr. Jas. Writes for The ! FROM THE BARBER stor ‘The very inexperience of youth ts} an agset. True, we learn by experi-| ence, but some of the things we learn we would best leave unlearned. We learn to get discouraged, but | youth is daring in its audacity. It will succeed where others have tailed. We learn timidity, We grow| cautious with age. Often caution i @ name for cowardice. But youth in bold. It flings caution to the winds, and attempts the impossible ‘We grow weary with the load‘long | carried. Our shoulders stoop, our | feet lag, and our steps stumble. But | head is in the alr, and life's chal ¥ lenge is like wine, Barber naing in hie seraping)~| We grow pessimistic and melan fom aci000 shave, sir? choly as life dips toward the sunset ‘VieUm (gaspingy—It { get out of | Some glorious old men fight off the dishes, chamber-maided, partor-maided, kitchen- youth rejoices to run a race. Youth's) rubbed, scrubbed, swept, dusted, tullables, told stories and washed red 10 telephone calls and 20 door calls and washed dishes, maybe the man would understand his wife's would learn something by released from prison in Maemachusetts after having rely, you will cay, this man must have committed some particularty paid for it with 25 years of his life. He was found having stolen $84 worth of shoes, For each $3.36 of stolen shoes Hanley wan given a year tn the pent Pat came out of prison, the United States department of agriculture announced that the Armour Grain Co, of Chicago, had been fined $1,050 and costs after having pleaded gullty misbranding 28 carloads of oats. the adulterating of but one carioad of oats,means a loxs to producers and consumers tremendously greator shoes. the Goddess of Justice is exceedingly The Deluge world again wil be submerged in deluge. a newer Noah will start things going again. Brandier-Bracht, a German, author It Will Come Again,” en until the year 8200. President Wilson joins the great army of house-huntera I. Vance Star Today on Great Is Youth in withered bodies; but for the mont | part, age is a time of decay. But youth is optimistic. It believes “the best is yet to be." It refuses to ac cept defeat. It ia full of confidence on the threshold of battle, Youth is full of thrills. Life has not grown stale and tasteless. Y outh has vision and imagination and re silieney and reeuperative power. Great {# youth! The world would be doomed but for the every 60 years or wo, th news Itself, and a new sration, capable and courageous, stepa out to salute the morning. Hope is the gu®edon of youth, immortal hope. Hard indeed would be man's lot if the children of tomorrow had to start where the children of today leave off. hoy come into the |heritage of the achievements of the ‘act that race re ‘chair alive, { shall certainly en touch of age, keep young brains past, but they come without the white hairs, and fresh hearty laudicap of the failures of the past. The Plutoniain Fire Copyright, 1920, by Doubleday, Pag & Co.; published by special ar rangement with the Wheeler Syn er County tain,” my good friend. Honea. the pinewoods and fieldg adjacent thereta his gripmack two manuseript novel of the adventures In Pleardy of on Gaston Laboulays, Vicompte 4) Montrepos, in the year 1329. ‘That’ nothing, We all do that And som day when we make a hit with th broom sede: lame dog, the editor prints t other ing t#-and then—and then we hav to get a big valise and peddle thos: patent airdrat, gas burners. A tht everybody should have ‘em. New York,” some day, when we go! they with it. there, drawing on the general stor for his expenses. 1 bow much narrower Treadway | than Lee Avenue in Hosea Thi ‘Let's go have some beer, whole I rather lke the elty.” and sounding epic of life. sonorous, The classic od, vitreous perian cared to dine at aad Httle tables In thetr socatied Bohemian restaurants: and we shuddered lest they should seck out our resorts and make them consplevous with thetr presence. Pettit wrote many stories, which the editors returned to him He SEATTLE ‘ BORROWERS oO YOU want to borrow money at the lowest rates and on the most favorable terms of re payment? inquire about terms, We ake Real Wetate Loans on monthly payment plan, where you are permitted to pay @ small amount on the prin cipal of your loan each month, with the privilege ef paying oe much more as you are able, No Commissions—Prompt Service WASHINGTON MUTUAL SAVINGS BANK 810 SECOND AVENUE Resources $12,600,000 THRIFTOGRAM: In Life's Melt ing Pot, Thrift should be a principal ingredient, our However, you need be in no hurry about building an ark, nor giving | EO It will not hap It will take about that long for Germany to pay her war debts, Rev. M. A. Matthews will deliver a sermon Sunday morning entitled, THE REFUGE OF THE WEARY In the evening he will discuss the subject, HAVE WE FOUGHT IN VAIN? GOOD MUSIC You are welcome to our services, FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Seventh and Spring dicate, Ina, 7 é “Ilse I can wee your finish, 1 told retti out labama| Now, the editors are wrong about ry ie Pagar wih Ts —_ |that, of course, Women do not read | You this must come first, Write It to- papers had printed eight of his|‘he love mories in the magazines night and put it under my door when wtorios under an editorial captian|They read the pokermame ph Dare ays Saag: Mcgee OR 8 -_ “i tentity @ author 7 and the recipes for cucumber lotion. | pight when it ts finished-—don't keep | (Fo 7 Try +r identifying the author as the son of ita love aealinn oss ‘4 by fat cigar | it until tomor ” THEN IF Movu'R® Tere MANAG CR nt Major Pettingill Pettit, Attorney and here of the battle of Lookout Moun Pettit was a rugred flow, with a kind of shamefaced culture, and Hie father kept a general store in @ little town called Pettit had been rained in Me had in little sketch about a newsy and his one for us--or “on ua” as the my I took Pettit to the red-brick house | substance—tt |which was to appear in an article | gazed at @ symmetrical array of jentitied “Literary Landmarks of O14) presentable slamshelle from which He engaged 4 room | had been removed. showed New York to bit, and he did not mention seamed a good sign, eo I put the On the We discovered and enjoyed the only true Bohemia. Every day and night we repaired to one of those painces of marble and glass and tile work, where goes on a tremendous Valhalla iteelf could not be more glorious and marble on which we ate, the great, lightflood front, adorned with snow-white scrolls; the grand Wag din of clanking cups and bowls, the finshing staccato of brandishing cutlery, the piercing recitative of the whiteaproned grub maidens at the morguelike banquet tablem the recurrent lied«otif ef the cash-register—it wae @ gigantic, tri umphant welding of art and sound, RARE STARTER RRR NORE Nera ore BNE SON ODA A EINES SAREE PE of despising you. She was a New York girl, Well (as the narrative atyle per EVERETT TRUE— ROMANCE Sies Gk Meet an tees’ eles, ES, SIR, I'M THG dlenings and tr which he hdd written #0 unconvingingly were nin ik about Shylock’s pound of flesh! Twenty-five pounds Cupid| got from Pettit. Whieh the} usurer? | One night Pettit eame to my room exalted rd but ex al 4 given him @ jon quit “Old Hoes," ald he, with a new omile fiickering around his mouth, | ‘I believe I could write that story | tonight—the one, you know, that #| to win out, I can feel it, 1 don’ | know whether it will come out or |not, but I ean feel it.” I pushed him out of my door, “Go to your room and write it,” I ordered, | CG wrote love stories, « thing I have always kept free from, holding the belief that the well-known and pop ular sentiment is not properly a mat ter for publication, but something to be privately handled by the allen ists and florists, But the editors had told him that they wanted love stories, because they said the women read them. ie drummers and little ten-yearold| I was reading my bully olf pal) |SeG@ \* You CAN MANAGE cirta I em not aiticising the Montaigne at 2 o'clock when I heard To Brow THE WwHors PROGRAM judgement of editorn They are| the sheets rustie under my door. 1 THAT You ADVERTISE INDTYGARE Ce GYPING IT BECAUSE THE CROWD 1S Sma4ce Il! gathered them up and stor: Tho hissing of geese, the langutsh ing cooing of doves, the braying of| donkeys, the chatter of irresponsible | sparrows—Ahese were in my mind's ear an I read. “Suffering Baphor’ 1 exclaimed to myself, “ this the| divine fire that ls supposed to ignite | genius and make Mt practical and wage-earningl The story was sentimental drivel, full of whimpering soft-heartednens and gushing egolem. All the art that Pettit had acquired was gone A pe rusal ef ts buttery phrases would have made a cynic of «@ sighing chambermaid, In the morning Pettit came to my room. I read him his doom merei- lensty. He laughed idiotically, “AN right, Old Hons,” he eaid, cheerily, “make cigarligt of it.) What's the difference? I'm going to take her to lunch at Claremont | today.” ‘There was about @ month ef ft. And then Pettit came to me bearing an invisible mitten, with the forti- mowtly very fine men, but a man ean read the} be but one man, with tndividual opinions and tastes, I knew two a» nociate editors of « magasine who were wonderfully alike in almost everything. And yet one of them was very fond of Flaubert, while the other preferred gin. Pettit brought me bis retarned manusertpts, and we looked them over together to find out why they were not accepted. They seemed to me pretty fair stories, written in « good style, and ended, an they should, at the bottom of the last pare ‘They were well constructed and the events were marshaled in or derly and logis! sequence, Rut I |thought I detected a lack of living was much as if I ate is ° ie . ° ° r ° ° t t\the succulent and vital inhabitants I intimated that the author might do well to get bet ter aequainted with his thema “You sold @ story last week,” aatd ~ before, he mid he felt that he could do & great story, and as before 1 hunted bim to his room ‘and saw and died hard *) Pettit, “about @ gun fight in an him © | hime pen his inkstand. At one| him? "| Artzona mining tow ich the | 24° of @ dishrag. Me talked of the) 0 . Me hero drew his & ite . ven grave and -fouth Amertea and|? clock the sheets of paper alld under ‘A caA” anid Pettit “They give 45 and shot my door final te nat prumic acid, and I font an aft ‘aebones you toy your band at O\in the darn on Set ae they onme cutting him wtrmight. I took him out| £ Tead that story, and I fumped|know. I'd rather seli ploughs for descriptive article.” I. auguested,|coulge NOW: Hf & etushooter) ood haw that large and curative|UP, late as it waa, with a whoop of | father.” “«tving your impressions of New | “On. o ones of whisky were administered JOY. Old Pettit had done it. Just “put” 1 “you are revere York a seen from the Brooklyn}... waid 1, “that's differ-| 1, him. I warned you this was a{% tho it lay there, red and bleeding. | ing the decision of the world’s great rizona is a lon ‘ * | t into | est-—" Rridgea The fresh point of view,| y: - ae way from | ery y—'ware your white ribbons|* Woman's heart was written a yo ~y > Cram Oe New York. 1 could have @ man if r 2 ‘follow “thie. ‘ale, Yor Tan | the lines, You couldn't the join-| “Good-by, Old Hons,” said Pettit. Dont be a foot,” eaid Pettit. |"AbOed with « lariat or chased by &| weeks I fed him whisky and Omar,|'"& but art, art, and| “Critics,” I continued. “But—may pair of chaparreras if I wanted to and it wouldn't be heticed until the uqual errorsharp from around Mo Adama Junction teolates the erratum and writes tn to the papers about ft. Dut you are up againgt another pone Thie thing they call more «tories, THe recovered his old ae. “hha New| time facility and did work just lowed to sleep. the young onon season. “Tt may be | nett of Seed eneuat. Then the cur ey peony heeding the x im. It may bel cain pose on the third act, Oe the & + i sey are with @ little commer-| "4 iittie, dark-eyed, xilent gtrt from |sn editor, The great Poct| *Bemtal Office clalinm—they read Byron, but ¢ his hand. That} ,,pentel © look Bra rom, but they |New Hampshire, who was studying |Fising, gave Pettit ef 9 4 street's, too, while lapptied denign, feol deeply in love| Was & decoration, a of bay, with him. She waa the intense euct,|and @ guarantee of rent, and read to him regularly every eve ning the column in the evening paper that reveals the secrets of fernale beauty. I recommended the treatment. After Pettit was cured he wrote pu into @ love story that took you by the throat Uke the quinsy. I broke into Pettit's room and beat him on the back and called him dames— names high up in the galaxy of the immortals that we admired. And Pettit yawned and begged to be al |} from 6 to 8 o’clock SC aos you have not already converted your Liberty Bonds of the second tame, you should done before Nov, 15, We would be glad to attend te it for you without charge, During the first six months of this year the small investora, the men with $50 or More to invest, bought $119,000,000 worth of United States Liberty and Victory Bonds. ‘The smmaf tnvestor hag been in the market much more noticeably during the past three months than ever before and we believe that by January 1 they will have pur chased close te $500,000,000 worth of these securities, The podtic In general have awakened to the fact that the rock-bottom price on Liberty and Victory Bonds has been reached and with the lowering of commodity prices they may expect Investment prices to go up. At one time approximately 159% on some of these bonds would be collected at maturity. Deposits Guaranteed By Washington Bank Depositors’ Guar anty Fund of the State of Washington. ia at . aa ee glenn ~ Member Federal Reserve Bank. TE SCANDINAVIAN AMERICAN SEATTLE | Brunch at Ballard } eee \ camnrenoarmacca ANK BATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1920. WE ARTY “Shakespeare's sonnets™ I blurt ed, making a last stand. “How about it to you, and you sell !t-tove, you —-if the Major’can use a fairly good | salesman and bookkeeper down there store, let me know, will you?? SAVINGS DEPARTMENT, Open Saturday Evenings WN

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