The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 14, 1920, Page 6

prema Ie The Seattle Star T oat of city, Ste per manth; § montha $1.60) @ months, $2.78) year W.08, fm the State of Washington Owiside of (he stata ber month, 44.00 for @ montha oF 09.00 par year, By carrion, Clty, 126 per week. WONDER WHO SHE ST wimed my OFST —D GET An weitopuction SHE SURE LOOKS Like A QUEEN F You Wao ied your very Best “© meer A prety Gini DSO Cres Were B.ue AS Heavens own, |] you RavEU ABOUT HER RUD AND CHEEKS WST Wn A ROSE — ~ Sta Ante I Weelr MY HUSBAND AN’ T Would Be Aw- FULLY GLAD 10 HAVE come Our ano SEE US Tre Wy, “ ou MARRIED —. 1 BET “Would MAKE you map!!! “Small” ‘The average American hates to be considered “smal.” and so he AND FOUND ouTs SHE ‘ | too small of spirit to stand up, for his righty and for the rights of his fellows. If the hotel installs a hat-checking gtrt, he courhs up @ dime or 4 quarter, the he knows perfectly well that the hotel ie “working” him | thru his sense of gallantry and his distike of appearing “rmall.~ If the grocer or the ice company short-weights him, be says, “Let If the it go," the he Is thereby encouraging erime by his moral cowardice street car company raises the fare arbitrarily, or even Mega!ty. Dimself te be ejected tn bis righta, because he hater once went to great pains te restore was this great man’s weman who te a= mor nda for his is beeet, Were it than it & to reveal certain facta, tm the glaring teht of which the average, everyday modern fellow, concealed behind his newspaper en & crowded street car, appears, by comparison, a knight of chivairy. The manners of the old-timers—his contemporaries—are exposed by no less an authority than Charis Lamb. celebrated English enmmyint the middie of the 19th century. In hin eamy on “Modern he tells of often seeing “women standing up in the pit of heatra, til wick and faint with exertion, with men about sented at ease and jeering at their distress.” now the gallantry of the modern man. hold on to a seat in a street car, but he doen't jeer at the woman standing in the aisie, es did his ancestors in the theatre fact, he ls rather ashamed of himsclf to be seated when womer standing, and scarcely lifte his eyes from bis newspaper. ° Tree Repairs familiar with repair work. They have heard that red; and furniture. Bodies are repaired, as are rail Yes, such repairing te well known. But, another ts gaining popular attention. It ts the repairing of repaired, asserts the United States department of immediately after injury. A storm comes and bicws ving an ugly, sometimes @ killing, gash. it the trees in your yard, advises the department. Not ft argued, and will save many trees for summer shade and autumn fruits. The department of agriculture will send you & bulletin telling how to be surgeon to your own trees Write to the department asking for Farmers’ Bulletin 1178 on tree surgery. Woodisms William M. Wood—te of the American Woolen company, whe was indicted for profiteering, but who escaped prosecution because a fudge found that cloth was not clothing—has a convenient explanation for unemployment. It is that the “public” ts rexponafbte. “The public,” he says, “has rebelied against the high cost of Ilving It's simple, The “public” (which, of course, consists almost entirely of the vast body of wage earners) has struck against itself. It won't buy at bigh pricem; therefore it is losing its jobs. Tt follows, logically, that it can either pay high prices, or stay out of work. Did it ever occur te Wood or the other big-businesseconomists that it might be just ponsible by reducing profits both to lower prices and prevent unemployment? It's & poor rule that works both Es p and an exceptionally good one “Works either way. you. If I had tried as hard details of my busines play that game, I should Invest Your Savings Carefully It has been shown that $3,000,000 are lost annually by Seattle savers who confidently, invest their money in get-rich-quick schemes. Be cautious, Consult your banker about intended investments, He can give you much valuable advice about contemplated investments, Restaurant Keeper—I hope the was all right. : 1 wincerely, THF SEATTLE STAR Letters to the EVERETT TRUE By CONDO Hey, wait A MINUTS, GvGRerT! Tve'BEGN WANTING to | TSLt Wu SOMETHING For A WEG Wack . Editor— Write briefly. Use ink or typewriter, One side of paper only. fign your name. COMPANY REFUSES TO INSTALL PHONE Editor The Star: I am writing to ab uy |¥ou In regard to something that ta | Waa that what we meant wher very important to me and probably |“readjustment”? Certainly it was what a lot of us meant. to lots of others, How would you If this readjustment ix to be beneficial it must be in the interests of lke to be in my Mx? I am working all, It must be unselfishly arri at. Ite greatest danger exists in or |for myself, and have bought some ganizations of unscrupulous per who, for their own purposes, are out ground and built ® house on it, and to. “put labor 4n its place.” Or to lead labor into precipitate and unwise the telephone company won't put a actions that will « ate from it the support of the great “middle classes. phone in for ma, even the I am will CISTGN, Vee Tace You — | The American , 4 recognize for what they are those organk ing to pay them what they will ’ a tions, whether of Assoc Indus r otherwise, that are today carry |charge, It seems to me they onght rs CINAMEN'T ron what they call the en shop” or miscall the “American system,” foR A WGAK GacK— lto be tied to instal ve | to compel & phone T]e0- tye any place in the city taita, I would | like to move in my own house, so I could ‘quit paying rent, but can't be | loause I can't get along without « phone, It puts me in such « shape 1 hardly know what to do, as I am & poor man with « family, and have lapent very nearty all the money 1 [have to buy this lot and build the! | house, Pease let me know what ts the | best thing for me to da, WM, 0. or tn pr th Editor's Note Tuke the matter up |with Corporation Counsel Walter Meier at the county<ity building. . | URGES “BUY A |BARKKL OF FLOUR Editor The Star: Business te rap- idly approaching stagnation. Fac tories are alrutting down and unem ployment begins to loom a a prob jem, during the next four or five months. The shrinkage of nearty five billion dollars in the price of agricultural products since last July is the one big factor in this situation. ‘This reduced purchasing power of farmers ls what in stopping factories. Consumers have been led to believe there waa no bottom to the wheat market and have held off on pur chases of flour. From July 1 to November 13 the mills of this country have ground in round nutnbers 66,000,000 bushels leas wheat than @ year ago. The people of the United States have not stopped eating wheat bread They have oterely been buying from hand to mouth, looking for, and to a degree forcing, lower wheat prices, and consuming reserve stocks of Nour. For every cent the American peo- ple have saved on four by this policy they have lost dollars in wages and profita, Normal baying would bare done much to have prevented the diss» in wheat | bu it 1 | \3. BY ROGER W. BABSON Jones is one of those people who] seom to have been born worrying. | powition He worries about bis health, the|he wouldn't worry or become de family and business, In fact, the | #pondent. Result: He got a job in a universe in general seema to com. | few days, afd his pleasant face and had stood him for so long. He made up his mind to get a good pon, but that if he didn’t, a h bine to give him something to worry | Confidence in himself were a great heip tn getting it about As the cost of ttving soared, Jones said they would land in the poor. house, altho he was well paid and had quite a comfortable sum in the bank ox m y fellow ” remarked Brown. asked Smith. banner pecesmary to do with these people asked the women's husbanda) “No, ave, Wu ‘You, I have.” I'm not going to tell.” he snapped. TUESDAY, DECEMDET 14, 1978. Don’t Listen to Them EDITOR'S NOTE—Thia ts one of a serion of articles being published by the Cleveland Press on the industrial conditions thrueut the country. The world goes forward—particularly America, “fetter conditions for the greatest number!” ts the battleory of Progress. And that means CHANGED conditions. Getting down to cases, it prob- Hy means for us alteration in the relations between the employer and work for him. during the war, we talked about e men and women who drive members out of legitimate labor for the union men to secure worl ye in to reduce wages and incre Mostly the purpose ts ‘ganizations by making it imp their po-called “open shops.” ofits. The American people, expectany organized workers, should realize that ey are false prophets, preaching chiefly in the interests of their own laims to leader », who proclaim doctrines like “limited production” and ¢ inconsequence of contracts rol uy entered into. Christ scourged the money changers from the temple, AM that f ts s to refuse (o listen to them. \ WHAT DO YOU rh KNOW ABOUT } SEATTLE? QUESTIONS in Senttle is the largest and most comprehensive publication of its TODAY'S QUESTION Have you bought your hrintenae present yet? | kind in the world? (Yesterday the ‘nquiring Reporter 3. When was the new Providence fame question of these | hospital completed? | (Answers Wednestay) ANSWERS | PREVIOUS QUESTIONS Mrs. Jon KE. Kelly, 716 Boren ave 1. The longest period that Seatfle 1 don't think I'm going to| went without rain last year was 26 uy it 1 think I’m going to make | days, August 4 to August 30. 38 | 2. There are 191 shoemakers tm th Mrs. J. T. Hyneman, 1417 First city “No, I haven’t—not yet.” | 2%. Seattle has more than 16,000 Mrs. John Hunt, 2311 Federal ave: street lights, i It’s Easy To Put On Fles to do if you w to put on solid “stay- there” flesh, five-grain tablet of Prosphate with each builds up the nervous es the blood, and thus enables the vital organs to assimi~ jlate the flesh building, strength making elements of your food which Folks who Mes. Ivan L. Hyland, 330 20th ave. | “It I tell you, then he'll know Mrs, I. dacoba, 1623 BR Jefferson “Yes, I have.” GOING UP j A very junior officer was trying | * firet case. “Seven days confined te camp,” h pounds of ie to take “Beg pardon, str” whirpered the “npany sergeant major. “You usto't give @ sentence like that ou “All right, then, 14 days.” retort | r have on flesh, but that it it variably increases their atre teed gy cere gy Dia yore pir . “Yes,” replied Brown, “Why. beleg the sub energy and endurance, iron cas ould, . have prove When some je men where he! could read a patent medicine alma-| put git are eet WE yg wt, sir,” pleaded thi . . price going below $1.40 in Minnelworked were discharged, he com:|nac and not have a solitary #ymP |major “Ire oe - _~ | wares weee” tee deadaies tod eo apolia, menced to worry about losing Bit)itom of some disease.”-—Cincinnall $1.50. and it's so uniformly success= ‘The world situation te uch that | feel wheat has seen ite lowest point job. He talked about It ever¥ night, | pequirer, o and thought of it in the morning Now, if every daily paper in the Unit-| One day be wna fired. The thing WHEW: od States will start @ “Boy @ Barrei/he had feared had come upon him.) “My wife is suffering from shell of Fiour” campaign it will put wheat/ tiie employer had noticed for some | shock.” up to @ price where farmers can af |time whet a grouch he waa, He had) “Inrpossible™ ford to sell They can pay their|reaily worried himeelf out of « job, “Not at all, At Dreakfast today bank loana, thereby reducing the credit strain, buy needed goods and wtart the wheels of commerce and in dustry turning. ‘This is not « selfish proposttion, as you may think, judging merely from its source, Restoration promptly of ae mroch of the purchasing power of the farm ors means money to as aj. Youre H. N, OWEN, H. N. OWEN, Publisher Farm, Stock and Horne, Minneapolia, but af course he didn’t know It ‘Then, one day he happened to go to an inspiring lecture on the une- \emunesn and harm of worry, Jones! De your © naw hiffieelf as he was, at last, and early. There’l] be an awful rush for he wondered how his wife and others New Years broke an eee that had seen bet ter days” ~—Buffalo eee TAX ON SALES 18 ILLOGICAL Editor The Star: Press reports tn dicate a dixposition to tax sales. Ben ater Smoot of Utah is said to be preparing « bill for this purpose ‘The absurdity of the proposition i» shown by the fact that when a de partment store sells a woman's coat! for, may $100, there ts at least $50/ profit, When a “cashandcarry’ store sells $100 worth of merchandis: the average profit never exceeds 10 per cent. Consequently, the “ensh and-carry” store is taxed five times | as much on its profits as the garment Safeguard yourself venders, Yours for common sense, trouble taking Formamint, the germ-fighting 3. 4. SPROULE. throat tablet, at the very first sign of a sore throat. This common ailment, inful enough in itself, if un- checked, may easily dangerous, lop into something more Sore throat ts cansed by germe—the kind you cant help inhaling, and that thrive in the soft tissues of the mouth and throat. Don’t wait until you get home to use a le or y, but have a few tablets of Fermin bay pong greg ny sign, let it die re " Diamond Rings Diamond Bar Pins Diamond Pendants half hour There is nev: Formamint mires its Pleasant tasting antheptic tion ay with the saliva, bathing the infecting membranes continuously, ques! as to qual- combats the germs, keeping them at a safe minimum. Formamint ity or style or price fa so convenient to take that it may be used unnoticeably any- where you may be, on the in a crowded car, stuffy office, street, ina » OF Buy a packag of today of your and be to off sore throats, tonsillitis influenza. find it very helpful in easing “smoker's sore throats.” Formamint is rold by all drugrisnts. Any dragriat will well you how widely Formamint ir ad by throat specialias, physicians and dentists, GERM-FIGHTING THROAT TABLETS Pornamaint te cur trode mark. 1t ideutifies our product. Besor Cham. Co., Ine, N.Y. ALBERT HANSEN 1010 Second Ave. One of Seattle’s Oldest Established Dental Offices Special arrangements for out-of-town patients whose time is limited. ee a eS OR, J. BR. BINYON Free ination BEST $2.50 GLASSES Modern methods — high-class dentistry — low on E prices. These we offer you En vraraace “| Electro Painless Dentists SEATILE—ON HIRST AVE, Examination free, oy graduate op. tomet Glasses pot prescribed unless absolutely necessary, |BINYON OPTICAL CO. = see cone? Aye Between ne uni v s cmeem, Laboring People’s Dentists 3. RB. VAN AUKEN, Manager Located for years at 5. K. Corner First and Pike. Phone Main 2555 Over Owl Drug Store. | or ‘ell give me 21 ser Tit Bits. “'Aft & mo’, major,” tnterrupted ye Tommy ful that your druggist, ee you know, is authorized refund our money if you don't Better get a package today gin to get stronger and beaithier, as” well as better looking. “Don't check ‘im again "P ain't a hofi-| ‘e's a hauctioneer’’ — London Many persons wonder why they have to pay 40 or 50 cents, or more, for the beef they buy when live cattle are only 10 or 15 cents a pound In the first place, we a’ only about 44 pound of viel ieee the pound of steer for which we pay 10 or 15cents. Only part of the other ‘half consists of such by-products as hides, oleo oil, tallow, etc. — the remainder is waste. And the return from by-products just now is small. Hides and fats as well as many other items are down to pre- war prices, In the second place, there are not many pounds of the kind of meat for which you pay 40 or 50 cents, or more, in the entire animal. Some- times the retailer has to sella lot ofthe meat he buys for about what he pays for it, because you and your neigh- bors pass by certain cuts and insist upon the other choicer cuts, such as Steaks, etc, ‘Necessarily, he must get ouenah for these choicer cuts to aks up for what he loses on the less popular ones, such as soup meat, etc. The difference between the final retail price of the finished meat product and the first cost of the live steer is less than it is for most farm products, If the foregoing raises any question in the mind of the reader, we will endeavor to answer it, upon request. Swift & Company, U.S. A, Seattle Local Branch, 201-11 Tackson St, j. L, Yocum, Manager