The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 11, 1920, Page 6

THE SEATTLE STAR EVERETT TRUE "By CONDO I BAH! UNrTe’ STATES NO Goop UNITE’ STATES R=R-R-ROTTEN LE! BATORDAY, DECEMPER 11, 1929. Why Be Discouraged? Did You Know That— BY WHIT-HADLEY Cyrus W. Field said to a friend: “Buccens tn the chilé of drudgery and perseverance. Fame never comen becuse it in craved.” .e The Seattle Star . Month; # montha, 91.60; ¢ montha, $2.16) year, we ym the State of Washington. Ovtaide of (he state, The per month, 44.60 for ¢ montha or 09.00 per year, My carrier, elty, Ie per week. A Worthy Cause Dear Friend: The Children of Sorrow stand before = Won’t you set a for one of them at your table on Christmas day? They are ragged, home-! 8 and hungry, but they are not hopeless. In their simple faith they turn tingly to you. | h ildren of sorrow! ° Jean Paul Richter wrote: “I have suffered greatly from poverty, but I would not have been born rich for wertee.” . TODAY'S QUESTION Do you believe in stricter Sunday bine Laws? ANSWERS MRS, G. LA VIOLETTH, 2643 W.! 69th wt. €’No, I dont*think we need | bother about making Sundays any | more dead than they are.” JIM JOHN, $03 Fourth ave: “No, keep everything open on BSunday,| too!” | thru the MRS, BE. LAIRD, 3711 tist ave. 8. | Honor. W.: “I think times are tight enow vhy. now. I wouldn't like to see nines | A Mippant clereyman mid to the Bishop of TAtchfield by 0 Tages any tighter tor my bere.” | it is the easiest thing in the world to preach Why, very i — RALPH JOHANSEN, 10030 67th| my text after I enter the pulpit, and then I just go ahead and preach « « ave. Bs “Well, I don’t know what| sermon, thinking notbing of 1" “Ah, yes,” muld the or ok cath, and |1'4 do with myself if I couldn't wee a| exactly with what I hear your people say; for they hear ws little baseball gamne once in a while | they, too, thnk nothing of ft pee » Sundays,” | rs CALVIN &. LARRISON,| Lord Campbell wrote te his fathor in Switzerland: “I want | Ford 2736 Montlake bivd.: “Bvery indi| but to have any chance of success, I must be more steady than oone | men; hambers when they are off to the theatres; I must vidual whould be allowed to ch jy | must be in ¢! ey [oll py sonigedidig oe ‘| for hiniself how he will epend Bun-| stady when they are asleep; I must, above all, y nll? tae days.” are im the country. In short, I must work, and strive and tru . und became @ member of parliament When he died he was worth four million @ollars. Jai Gordon Bennett mid to George W. Childe: “Childs, if you and 1 had been boro rich we would never have done anything worth meu tioning.” Fide? tae ‘The Romans are #aid to have arranged sents tn their two tempter to Virtue and Honor, #0 that no one could enter the second without passing h, th eaid, the order of advance-—-Virtue, Toil, There are unknown thousands of them—more than first. Buch, they was the {110,000 are under American care. It is an appalling number of pitiful, ba ag regan be the Near East) | Relief must shelter under its merciful wings. | Fatherless and motherless, these are children of Armen-| ians, Greeks, Syrians and Jews, made homeless and depend- | ent by the atrocities of the Turks. They will have no place | this year at a family table of their own on the great day we celebrate. | As you eagerly plan this festival for the children dear to| your own heart, think for a moment what it would mean if | some terrible fate deprived them of your love and care—left | them desolate and suffering with hunger and disease and| bitter cold. } A diet of bread for breakfast, bread and soup for dinner and bread, nothing but bread, for supper is the fare of these | Children of Sorrow. Yet this slender ration means life to} WHA the other —Bdmund Vance Cooke. WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT SEATTLE? — . . A diackamith makes five doflars’ worth of tron into horseshoes and gets ten dollars for them. The cutler makes the same iron into knives ‘and gets $200. The machinist makes the same iron into needies and gets 4 $6,800. The watchmaker takes it and makes it into mainsprings and gets « LIFE! fm a while you find a man Jeoks at today’s bad luck as 60 times the value of the as dooks at yesterday's. |them. Their hungry eyes would grow big in wonder at QUESTIONS $200,000, or into hairsprings and gets $2,000,000, eee met Mrs. Rosie Cheek, an old ‘of mine.” posteards C. 8. im our little chat she sak she to sing. But she added that she lyour simplest meal. Five dollars a month will keep a child alive; fifteen dollars a month will provide food, clothing and education in our pevens orphanages. Can you not imag-| ine one in this hungry and yearning group reaching out have a very good veice and | longing hands to you and your Christmas tree? At this sea-| ber husband wouldn't stand for | son of giving, won't you let the claim of one of these Chil- is ats ete “he star | dren of Sorrow find a place in your heart? Banner"? 1 asked, real Pee hare ‘apd snappy lke. Pretty clever! The above letter is being sent out to Seattle folks by the} ar | Near East Relief committee. oi » ete | The object is worthy. Send your contributions to head- quarters at 27 Lippy building, Seattle. @andidate for office in an Eng War on Babies! bas issued a statement to) which he says, “I promise the voters will get from) ‘The yearly baby casualty Met of the @Inited States is five times as large as the total American casualty list during the world war. Two hundred and fifty thovennd babies die every year, killed just as s¥rely and ruthlessly by the war of ignorance and indifference as tho they had been wiped out by machine guns, mutilated by exploding in cireult! shells or suffocated by deadly gasen. the killing/ In the 19 months’ fighting, 215.489 United States noldicrs were wounded, 13,956 died of their wounds, and 1, were killed tn battle. £2 | During the same year and a half, 390,000 American babies, lew than & year old, and 37,000 mothers, pald the “supreme sacrifice” because her and killed the child—| of ‘ignorance, poverty and lack of attention. (Ky) Meagenger. To prevent this mcrifice in large measure, the Sheppart-Towner bill . om the country, and many of the men, Dill be panned in the next semlon of . Burlington @ Quincy i i chews ts gave om "| are working to the end that this & $60,000,000 stock dividend) ¢, ry he tional ti on t Fan $80,000,000 @ivid seal M every dofar paid into ¢ Rational treasury 1° pay for past and future wars, for war debts, for pensions, for war rink [the same time sue #109,000,000 | insurance and for the upkeep of the army and navy departments, One bor ‘Then the public will have! jo cent of the government's income tx used in the department deal interest on $169,000,000 bonds | ine with human welfare, and of this pitiful proportion, .005 available which will ,result in tbe | for women’s and children's welfare \ asking for higher rates) with ordinary health education and instruction for mothers, which hin the next year or twa “One 8/11. gneppantTowner bill will provide, twothinda of our babies can be maved. This has been definitely proved in some American cities. | © 1t has been proved in France, Engiand and other European countries AS TO EMPLOYING MARRIED WOMEN done and In need of work. all sirls and women who their own same housewiver have forgotten to| In. the Editor’s Mail A WIDOW. |ence z Only a sbort Ume ago, it seema, °° ince our boys were called away to MARKIED WOMAN war, Then it was that we had so PROUD OF WORKING much work to do enough left to do tt here, and not Editor The Star; May I answer That was the most narrow-mind Hut, alas, have they for | some peor fool with nothing to | but interfore with other | ment There in not so much work to be} Of course, every person has a rig! and many of our boys are idle) to hig or her own opinion, but But that ls not | way @ married woman who wor The number of seifeupporting must earn living t# startling; and hey are idie, Why? Because these to her bome and husband and can bitten to work. One. who has bad af this expert Housewives | a letter of November 14, exying mar- who had never worked, and did not| ried women were a dingrace to their! heed to, had Uneir homes and a hue band to fupport them, kept thelr | side the home? place at home, and made it a home| But in this time of need they offered | tine of bunk I have ever read. a hand. gotten that some of our boys home; some Wid not return, but left) business would make euch a state | widows? homes and husbands for working out Only people's and earns an honest living ix a credit thankful #he bas the health and am- same weight of gold. BETTY AND HER BEAU 1. What ts the shortest street in} | the city? 2. When was the ¥. 3f gunized here? 3. When was the first direct tole «raph cireult between Seattle and jNew York inaugurated? | (Answers Monday) | PREVIOUS QUESTIONS 1. The work of constructing « mu | niolpal lighting plant for Seattle was intrusted by the city charter to the then city engineer, RH. Thomaon, | now & member of the council, | 2 There are 16 public schools in| Beattie, 69 grade, six high schools! and one university, j 3. One-third of the werld's logan berry crop i» converted into james and jellies in canneries adjacent to Seattle | The Christmas Tree ‘The flow of evergreens from their native home to the markets | | of the world, to serve as Christmas aq | teow, iW on, ‘Thin harvest, in Amer ion, gerves to help out the funds of many people whe live in the brush country, The woodsman, with just sbout two slashes of a keen ax, severn the stripling from the stump and so con- verts it into @ Christmas tree, Clone- ly packed in bundles the trees reach the wholesale market by the carload. | Ultimately they come to the “ulti be! mate consumer,” with botteds braces | enae. give them firm footing, and ready to be decorated with candies, | CA. or ; to do he 1 ke where the protection of maternity and infancy has brought down the take their place at home again. In| appalling mortality 60 per cent. sane department stores I have been | thru, I could almost count the un married women on the fingers of one Now, a married woman that runs to dances and will He Im bed half the day io a dingrace to her home and jhubby. But, then, that won't make/ tres ix only conjectural. Even be & bit of difference with our narrow. or when pomible, by #trings of mint-/ ature colored electric lampa. i Who invented the Christmas) Movies and Books works of fiction aren't so popular aa formerly amnert. chapters tn movies. There ts action every minute! They make ‘em snappyt sustained thrill of the goed old book of fiction that tn the wort “Finis” was reached Meals were lingered tom, at the deathbed of little Eva and, chapter was finished, one would read it over again full thrill af it. finish this chapter,” Johnny, communing with “Huckleberry plead when bia mother reminded him it was time to go Movies But today when the same Johnfty’s son tx asked if he ever read “Huckleberry Finn,” he replies: “No, but I saw it in the movies!" Closer ‘The world, day by day, is growing smaller, which means nothing more. than that the people of the work! are getting nearer each other. When the veteran organizations of all the allied countries met in Paris and perfected an international body, they but admitted that the shoulder to shoulder in the trenches have no wish to stand far apart in peace. Their }uggestion is that all the allied countries honer May 20th as the interallied memorial day, an hour when the world pauses in ite living to pay tribute to thane who once lived. An “Interailied Memorial day” hand. If only each one of these women would step out and say: “Give my place to some girl, perhaps one who le helping a mother to feed younger a hues ones at home, or 4 widow who has HOT s8TU little mouths to feed, some one who! ,, was wh must have work,” of are we going to|, “Peasy.” sald the young swain turn them on the street, and then | ‘M? Very red-headed girl, “keep at condemn them because they « dintance or you'll set fire to mer wrong? Don't you think that if a| “No danger, Danny! wife keeps her place at home it! #*ther too green to burn™ would be more tke a real home? If, [~~~ instead of a tired woman, there is a warm fire, a nicely prepared din ner, and, moet of all, the wife in miles, all waiting for the husband when be returns from his day's work! | And have every place in Seattle, | where they employ women, ask thone questions of ‘persons applying for work: “Are you married? What salary doer your husband get? Is he sick or crippled? Do you have to work? If not, we do not need you.” Now if all employers would follow this rule we would not ses so many girle and women standing in line! ! minded friend. A MARRIED WOMAN WHO WORKS AND 18 PROUD oF IT. You're alto| the tree at the Christmas season tn fore Christ was bern the “ Egyp pares na 0 cuasustion of overtat af & suggestion ing life Martin Lather used «| Victoria was married te a German Christmas tree decorat with | prince. Lawyer—What distinguishing fee candies for the pleasure of his chil- When there was a great mrigr®| ture wag there about the whitch that dren The idea was taken up in| tien of the German people from to) Germany and in the 19th century it) the fatherland to America they &\ spread all over Christendom. His-| brought that beautifur custom with tory has ft that the custom of using| them. It hes flourished here like| wae in it. | the well-known green bay tree, and | Lawyer—Ah! A woman tm the | England was introduced when Queen | perhaps will be evertasting. case.—Detrott News. SAVINGS DEPARTMENT Open Saturday Evenings from 6 to 8 o'clock es | 4 each morning at the stores, eecking any kind of honorable work. ie to be expected as a fruit of the interailied war. It gives promise of paving the way for a world memorial day. Why not? Why not soon? You never get closer to a fellow human being than when you stand by his side at the grave of one you both loved and honor. REV. M. A. MATTHEWS Will deliver a sermon Sunday morning entitled “THE AFFLICTIONS OF THE AFFLICTED” In the evening he will discuss the subject “BRICK WITHOUT STRAW” GOOD MUSIC FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Seventh and Spring “The golden hase of college days” isn’t a popular song at Annapolia “ ‘ e “What do you want?” says the old erb. “Pay for it and take it.” Sfunmy, fust when silk shirts get to the right price they go out of style hos senemnens i red Mi ring es Phe ee after you are too old to work? Or $200a month? Or more? It is necessary that one have about $20,000-in cash to receive $100 a month in interest. . If Europe ever taat peace again—that will be a state of abnormalcy. Between Red Russia and Green Eria, England is having a colorful eptatenca. How Long Do You Expect to Live? ‘ Of those who attain the age of 60 only a very few have saved as much as they*fully expected they would a few years after they had reached the age of 21. To accumulate an estate, or to save up $20,000, requires that one give close attention to his health and to his annual savings. He must get as much out-of-doors exercise as possible. He must save 5 Better not put off starting that Savings Account any Tonger. One dollar or more will start it. Form the habit of saving by adding a little to it each pay day. Prison visitors may pester Ponst, but his creditors can’t get at him Now you know why the shipping board advised the building of steal Jadies have learned that a man | °°!® B carry a million disease germs echariiechaplin mustache and Millions in a grandfather beard bey have shown a decided infatu- pn for kissing the shaven face. the lordly male had to between whiskers and kisses for the razor. this was neediess slaughter of foliage. The hay might have gaved. So asserts the Atlanta All that is necessary is boil If Burleson is to be dismissed by letter, they'd better put the blue envelope im the mail now. The experienced father ia not deceived by the attention he gets at home these days. Why Be Afraid? Ne one is too old te learn to dance and my quick method i Deposits Guaranteed By Washington Bank Depositors’ Guar anty Fund of the State of Washington ‘em in hot water just before on your best girl = eee Whe the wireless ‘phone becomes wonder what the form- between m. ah explain rived from dancing. MISS BRIGHT 1004 4th, cor. Pine Beginners’ class tonight. Big Sante Claus dance Xmas Eve, Friday, the 24th. Ip order to introduce our new (whalebone) plate, which is the 1 | and strongest plate known, covers very iittic of the roof of sottt 3 ou can bite corn off the cob; eed 1b years. ticura Make Cuticura Soap and Ointment your every-day toilet prep- rations. Bathe with the Soap and hot water on rising and retiring, using plenty of Soap, best applied with the hands. Smear any signs of pimples, redness or roughness with the Ointment and let it remain five minutes before bathing. Finally dust on a few grains of the ex- quisitely perfumed Cuticura Tal- cum, it takes the place of other perfumes for the skin. pee s PAINLESS EXTRACTION All work guaranteed for 18 ixave impression taken im the | morning and get teeth same day. Examination and advice free. | Call aud See Samples of Our Plate and Hsidge Werk. W: Went of Time. Bring thin ad with you. Peewtine : Open Sundays Frem 8 to 12 fer Werking People OHIO ,CUT-RATE DENTISTS ae UMIVERSITY @ppeaiic Vensesi'atarace GBs Bank ERICAN DANK. Branch al Balland oe ‘Transit: “You'll ike to work You'll be treated as an equal.” New Cook: “You'd better keep place, ma'am. I won't tolerate | ity?” CANDINAVIAN SEATTLE pasando