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

The out of ctty, ttle Star ore © per month, per weer Sea “T cannot see that Japanese immigration and occupation of land have any-| thing to do with the business management of the port of Seattle,” declares Port Commissioner Lippy in a public statement. } A short time ago Mr. Lippy could not see why the bars should not be lifted for the wholesale immigration of Japanese so that they might cultivate and develop “vacent lands which white people refused and failed to do.’ | f | Now, since he is a candidate for re-election, he pre-| U € Al is |fers not to have the question of Jap immigration and! |Jap encroachment in agricultural and industrial) L I F E fields come up as an issue in the campaign. A : ’ A perfectly natural desire—from a candidate’s — ~—* standpoint. Why discuss embarrassing questions? HISTORY REVISED We can understand Mr. Lippy’s reluctance to have the When Rip Van Winkle woke up || Jap question opened in the port campaign. But why spould) after ed ot lengthy sleep, he || Jay Thomas be so bashful, and why should Thomas” morn- Eiteve the retail dealers learn || iN mouthpiece be so backward, and why should the Asso, ed that wholesale prices have || Clated Industries care to ignore it? Didn't they all, and one, fallen” hang upon the head of Bob Bridges the “crime” of leasing -— land to Japs? Didn't they say ridges had Japanized him-| When Noah read the census re || self and so should not be elected to public office? porta, he choked like Jay Thomaa | |“ 80 should nc e electe 0 c cet in a Jap argument ‘| Is Bridges fish and Lippy fowl? Is Bridges’ Japism a “Whassa mattar™ he demand |/crime and Lippy’s Japism pure as the driven snow? ed. “How come that the popu Yes, indeed, says Jay Thomas finally. Bridges ran for eee ei vad the orn. |/f0Vernor; Lippy is running for port commissioner, Bridges | sus man. “We de was a farmer-labor candidate; Lippy is a “business man”. Moating population.” But George Lamping, who is opposing Lippy, is also a ke “business man.” And a successful one-——far more of a busi- a 63.6 ness man than the loud-mouthed political shysters, journal- And lest we forget, gals, there's istic and otherwise, who, like Jay Thomas, are opposed to) Dut 36 days left to do your Leap his progressive ideas. Year Popping. Sen, Fred Hastings) Why take Japanized Lippy when Lamping can be had— es ap | Lamping, the successful business man; Lamping, the pro- ASHION NOTE |gressive; Lamping, the independent; Lamping, the uncon-|} Kneenf nia will be much in style| trolled; Lamping, the tried friend of the veterans; Lamping, this winter |loyal to the people; Lamping, author of the soldiers’ bonus A New York hotel maid found $25 j bill Lamping, who is for the port of Seattle and the Pa- 900 under a pillow and returned tt; Cific Coast first and ahead of any Jap interests? Bhe never make good in the bis, Political chameleons like Jay Thomas and Jay’s morning | Beague. Or in a cafeteria. Or a8 4) glory, may find it all right to bury Bridges in a Jap grave aeet tromote, jand to raise Lippy on a Jap pedestal at practically one and | ; the same time. But those who are not in professional pol- STEP ON IT r >: “Cousin Henry.” gasped the coun | ities can’t and won't make such unscrupulous distinctions. | try visitor trom Woodpecker Fiats.| It is important that our public officials—in whatever “you just barely missed that man.” | canacity-——shall be in sympathy with rather than antagonis-| ‘Can't help it,” bell red hi city ry . . wi fin . i Fe eee te her open anotner| tic to the struggle of the Pacific Coast against further fotch. “Haven't got time to go back |JAP aggression. and try again."—The American Sse 4 a... Death Insurance | renee necmier: a ‘The average family lives pretty close to its income. j that need help; it's the oo earner of the family passes, there ts usually some life | Which i a mighty good thing. But perhaps there ought also to be some “death ingurance,” cise a good portion of the nest@eg-provided-by life insurance will be dimipated by the funeral, At the time of death, all wconomical eaferuards are down. Who wants to bicker and bargain, when the funeral is the very last thing the family ean do for the departed? So the family pays a perfectly outrageous price for the casket, easily two or three times aa much for carriages as they would command for any other service, and everything cise in propertion. The very pine box which contains the casket costs as much as the casket Itself ought to do. ‘ ex’| The lem the tamfy can afford It, the leas ft ts Inctined to stint the me | pense, for appearance sake. er Plainly, the funeral ought te be taken out ef the hands of the et bis garden.”--| "milly, at such a time. ; A man ought to contract for his funeral tn advance, yes, and pay for it, too, so that it would be taken entirely out of the hands of his mourning survivors. WHERE? ‘That would be death tnsurance, and when the habit of arranging has ae of the old-fash-| one's funeral during the years of one’s vigor were eatablished, the law toned tinman, of compensation would bring down the price to a just basis. His red cart resplendent with gtit|" pot "untl the time comes whea a ian will consent to go shopping 7 tering wares? to find out where he can buy his funeral to the best advantage, he is geting become of the needie-and | +, apt to leave his funeral expenses as a mad legucy to hia @ And the man who once used to put or ' is the Ind who would mend| “Man is a creature of sorrow. Hoe i» born in teara and never smiles! your umbrejia, before his 40th day.” Replacing lost ribs in a marvelous! go wrote the philosopher Pliny, and pessimists in every age before ee way? an4 since haye found their ways of declaring life a vale of tears and) ) Where is the plausible salve selling | 4 valley of sadness. | fellah, Much that is idie and silly has been written of laughter. Thone who| Who'd cure your worst corns in| forever preach of laughing away sorrow and giggiing in the face of not more than @ day? catastrophe will find their most proficient students in kindergartens, | where children laugh with little cause and in mad houses where the! Whither is vanished the man who | inmates need no cause for laughter would settic But, between the two theories of life—morbid peavimism and inane Your mantel clock’s troubles, and | optimisin—lies a middie path that the most of folks will find it best| cause it to run? & faiew. ‘Whither sy Sgr who would solder | “worry is the implacable foe of laughter. No one denies the value of| your a laughter, but many deny its possibility at some times. Worry too often| stand th Or had the best monkey wrench | coquers laughter. wader the sun? Divide your worries into two parts. There are thone misfortunes | which thought and a full appreciation brought by worry will remedy) ahd there are others thgt no amount of remorse or regret will alter. | ‘The man who worrtes because his pay envelope holds not enough for! the comfort of his family, may, if he keeps his worry within due| bounds, increase his salary and the happiness of his brood. Laughter| then will follow apd be good | osmographi athe thoes a a of our youth | But to grieve forever more for the dead—dead mortals or dead hopes yet be found? —is simply tg shut the door fast on heaven-sent laughter and to make| i of life a trie vale of tears and a valley of distress. | : Believe neither the one nor the other; the wail of the pensimist or ge rer Petrie MT ceredd aad Uitescine chuthle abd grin of the constitutional optimist. | All done by hand—where is he, do | oth are fakers and hypocrites—the one denying joy and the other sorrow. 1 say? Well, this philanthropist still seems ae oo The Biggest Farm ‘Where is the man who sold cam paign biographies, Or @ big county history, giowingly bound? Speak, in what country that’s known In cola just paid me a visit) rirec years ago the country was startled by the news that Wall st ‘=G. 8. B. in the New York Trituine. | '4 gone Into the farming business. The Morgan firm put up the| money for a 200,000-acre Montana farm; the land was to be reclaimed | and introduced to the plow for the first time. Many persons said Wall y , Sorrow’s Crown st. would fail at farming. D) _ “What's the matter, old man? You! nix year has been the first real text of the venture. Nearly al look unhappy. million bushels of wheat bave been threshed, and considernmble flax! “Tam. 1 am almost as unhappy | and oats. In all, 62,000 acres were cultivated. Within five years it is = & woman with a secret that no | believed the whole 200,000 acres will produce food. | ‘Body wants to hear."—Boston Tran-| Morgan is making good as a food producer. meript. age But the greatest share of credit should be awarded to Tom Campbell, | |a “regular” farmer, who conceived the idea of interesting Wall st A Bad Crash money in what was to be (and is) the biggest farm in the wortd.| Peters—I hear Randall got kicked | Campbell had two other ideas; the all-machine farm, and the best-seed.| Gut of the ra Soe io asked olf} ti. be-found program. | Be iene wet meses oe | On this biggest of farms there Isn't a horse, nor a mule, not even a d , dog; no animal other than human, Everything Is done by machinery ny bape pep rn Aroma By the exctusive use of man and machine Campbell gets §$,000 bushela a iit pine in—London Answers. sg Pan oe per season, which will make up into quite a few! of OA) Living in @ machine age, Farmer Morgan also discarded some other! _ Dear Such Is Life: How can a fel-| motheaten farm habits. He has a bookkeeping system on the farm Tew keep from scratching when he) tie keeps track of every dollar, every acre, every man and every Symes on bis winter outfit? machine, The biggest farm is a business; not a thing of guesswork! TVONICH. | and trusting to luck. Easy. Wear your summer ones . -wnderneath. WEREN'T STRAIGHT LINES : Movies at Sea Just last week there steamed out of New York for South America a| ship, the Martha Washington, and one of the features for the entertain-| ment of the passengers while on the long journey will be motion pic-| tures, Up to this time the movies have been barred from passenger | ships because of the fire danger. But science and invention have got in thelr work The result is a | slow-burning film instead of the celluloid flash, And so the unrestricted | approval of motion pictures aboard boats has been secured | Wherever people assemble the movie now finds its way Its appeal | is universal Its clientelie, the world. Like the cartoon it tells its tale| with swift, direct strokes; the reaction is immediate. ‘The ship board movie may easily be of immediate educational benefit to its patrons, for, | *Itinerant P her (to tarmer)—| besides providing entertainment, it may also show most strikingly how | Did you ever stop to think who set to put on a life jacket, or how not to act in case of panic. The movie! the stars in the heavens, my good|!# Ublquitous—the world its field. The land has been conquered. Now | men? comes the sea. Farmer Hitchman—Nope! But the See pees j Sp feller that did the job could never set} Mildred Harris, it 1s reported, will marry again. This time i's probably termatary for me, by gum! a man who cats custard pie instead of throwing it. . THE SEATTLE STAR Seem To By CONDO STRIKE You as Very | $ THe TROvVGLS IS Yov HAve or HUMOR - = In the Editor’s Mail THE CONDITIONS AT STK ACOOM Editor The Star—Dear Str: T can hot refrain from writing a few lines relative to your Mr, Henjamin’s in vestigation at the asylum. if he would leave Keljer behind he would learn more. Keller goes along so he won't find out things he (Keller) does not want him to know. Tell him to ask about the two men in ward 7, that were murdered a few months lage. A man on the ward mw it, and attempted to help the man; was told to mind his own business or he would get nome of the same. Under man is now on ward 6. Also the abuses on wards 6 and 6. My boy was there for several years attacked till 1 threatened to lick |Kelier, whom I have known for years, I was « steady visitor there Ull God called my boy, and glad he is out of that veritable hell, Tell, Mr, Benjamin to ask about the two j November 10th you stated that with | the death of Frank Fleck you be loved t st survivor of General nd of Indian fighters had ay | at Fort Riley, Kanana, I aed by General Custer as a scout, guide and dispatch rider. 1 served an such continuously up until and was then ordered by the omanding officer at Fort Hayes to join Custer’s mmand of Beventh cavairy any place west of Omaha, to act a’ scout and dispatch bearer for the Jack Hills campaign, and had made preparations to go when I met Minx Mary E. Hawes, who had just arrived with her father from Wile} consin, It was lowe at firet sight) and I never again thought of Custer) or the Black Hills, but married and | wettio’d down as a good husband, Have lived in Washington 49) years: am 78 years old. Being healthy | and netive, I intend to be the last Custer's W passed In 18 wan er womeh who were drowned in the | of General Custer's Indian fighters, bath tub. Keller knows all this but is foxy enough to not tell it. The proper thing to do in to put a supposedly insane man or woman on each ward and find out conditions right. Hart | should be compelied to make a| change, and should be hammered at/ Ull he does, or be recalled. Take my/ advice; keep after Uingn till there ts a change A FATHER WHO NOWS, ELIAS L. TORRES NOT MEX. AGENT Kéittor The Star Piease take nOtice that the Mexican embasry at | Washington, D. C., in telegram| #¢ 44 © piscatorts thorobred. To fated yesterday informs me that it| ia not true that Elias L. Torres in| the personal representative of Presi dent-Elect Alvaro Obregon, of the Republic of Mexico From this you will undervtand that there are no grounds for the dectara. | tion of Senator A. Fall, of New! 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