The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 17, 1920, Page 6

“Make the Christmas of 1920 the kids’ Christmas, as no other celebration of Remember that there are three million and’ a half of the tiny wards of Herbert Hoover in the war-torn countries of the birthday of Christ eve wwe ch of Washington OF 09.08 per year or Was. rope whose best Christmas ean be nothing more than just enough to eat, and Happy it were for us all % we bore prosperity as well and wisely as we endure adverse for- tune.—Southey. UCH is LIF &% } What's the difference between Pledisciting a king and electing « President? eee ‘An Iincis man made q vain at tempt at suicide because he cc id a wife. Ret his mai! ia With propomis now. It pays to ad Vertive. Neweastle, according to a London @ispateh, ix suffering from a t Bee of coal. Strange, when for so Many years so many folk have been @arrying coal to that town. : eee Seventeen more days to Leap Year popping, and Cor Tindall is as in mt of a wife ax» @ landlord of do your van science . . Britain sti clings to the bottle Bur evidently they nave no use for} @ny Cork. see } ‘A word from Josh Wise: “Fools Push in where bankers fear t* tread. “A friend of Ine who rune « Slothes cleaning and pressing shop tx | Pigh®@there with the comeback,” post. | ards H. A. D. tieally that a man in his business n't have a very easy time. “"Yea, auld he, ‘the way of the) “In a few years,” says Prohibition ‘Commissioner McDonald. “Uquor wilt Be forgotten.” sHardty. If we were i ‘Writing an epitaph for booze it would » be, “Gone, pet not forgotten, ad Rew bice laws, my the men who nding their passage, What of our stage villains? Many an ol maid withes the League of Nations would give her @ mandate . e ‘fou hear talk about # survey of conditions in Seattie. But the ‘bandits make a payroll eutvey once ‘g “ 8 ° A Chicago man dictated his will @m a phonograph record. Ang thus Money talks. eee fesued a proclamatio& urging farm ‘g | to plant less gotton. We had! _ Sappored alt along, farming the idea from the way the southern planters | Were talking, that you had to beg a Man to plant cotton. eee | > A man picks bis friends, but he ) Miberits his director of aafety, a eee j . DO ALL SANDUSKY MEN HAVE A POCKET LIKE THAT? het SANDU@KY, Dee, 5—A thief en by tered the apartments of former Mayor Roy PD, Mitebell on the sec @nd floor of the Fleck Building some e last night and made away with Mitchell's Sunday trousers in a kd etyot witth there were two $if is and an overcoat that had been livered by the tailor last evening =—Cleveldnd (O.) Piain Dealer. te aes Uncle .Warren gave up a golf Game Thesday to look after busi fess. By heck, the old boy must be taking bis new job seriously. - see © The Chicago police . department | Wants congress to form an interna | fiona! finger print bureau, The fin @er print stunt has bedome quite Popular among the police of the World. It was originated by the} Waiters . oe Charlie Sh 8 nnon has decided to} tevive th lety for the Promo-| tion of U Giving “Applications for membership are Pouring in,” he writes, “and I am @onfident our society will be much larger this year than Inet. ‘Three! Westside men are solicitiug new Members and @ deputy sheriff, in-| furmed me yeuterday that there are & dozen mén in jail who would like| to go out and work for us.” eee Women may not know anything} about foreign exebange but they're! experts on the Christmas gift ex-| ghange | | ILLEGAL, TOO “What is an improper fraction?” “Anything over one-half of one per een.” £ ~ “I remarked sympa Nhe whose worst is the prospect of the terrible death of starvation, unless America will buy those baby lives with dollars.” That is-the message behind the campaign to raise $33,000,000 during Christ- {mas week—a fund to be expended by the European | Relief Council, behind which are the eight great re- lief organizations of America — the American Red Men's ristian the American Jewish Relief Committee, n Cross, the Knights of Columbus, the Youn; Christian Association, the Young Women’s Association the American Relief Cofmmission, the Ameri Friends’ Service Committee and the Federal Council of Churches. Heading the national organization is Herbert Hoover. which means a lot of things, but principally that the work is a huge and pressing one, and that the funds raised will be administered with the maximum of efficiency. L. H. Burnett, of Tacoma, is chairman of the state committee in charge of the campaign; David Whitcomb is in charge of the work thruout King county. “In this campaign I speak only for King county,” says Chairman Whitcomb, “but as far as that area of Washing- ton is concerned, I want it understood that we are seeking a free-will offering for those millions of starving babies. Nobody will be assessed; nobody will be hounded into giv-| ling. All we want to do is to try to make people know what! the conditions are, and to leave it to their own good im- pulses to dictate the ponse that they will make.” “Here is an issue,” declares Heover, “that is outside of race, politics and religion. It is just the preservation of the lives of children. “Today there are 3,500,000 waifs who live by virtue of the 3,000 asylums, hospitals, clinics and canteens whose doors would close but for American charity. To me it is the glory of the United States that three million hungry chil- dren should sit every day at our table. I would rather have the American flag implanted in the hearts of the children of Europe than flying from any citadel of victory. Twenty years from now they will form the basis of civilization in Euro If we are to preserve the foundations of society in ‘ast—if we are to keep open the love of humanity in the West—our duty is clear before us.” . Rural Santa Claus ‘The most needed and most valuable Christmas gift presented to the people of this country is set forth in the language of the secretary of agriculture “The farmers of Ameriea have again justified the faith of the nati®in in their ability to meet its requirements of food, feed and mw ma, terials for clothing. They have produced this year, in the face of ’ ) Cigarets will be abolished by the) enormous difficulties, the largest harvest in the history of American ihave always managed to keop ™yY| pavenna blvd agriculture, with « single exception.” ‘Truly the’ Americans farmer makes a fine Santa Claus, livers his -ifte at all times of the year! there lx another side to thiv story, according to Secretary Mere the threshold of their marketing season the farmers en- sharp decline in prices. This covered nearly everything had to sell, as the secretary's report pointe out, but “it did Materialty affect the articles they had to buy. For labor and used fn harvesting they were compelied to pay prices sub ty as high as those prevailing during planting and cultivation.” ' Santa Claus Farmer gave his country @ total output greater than thas.of 1919, and received $3,000,000,000 lens tor it. Of course it is too much to expect farmers to continue In thelr present philanthtopie mood, for {it imn’t good business to receive lems pay for a larger production. Some time the farmer will stop being a Santa Chuus. He is now studying ways and means of retiring from his Hanta Claus role, The department, of agriculture is firm in ita belict that farming must become a paying business and not a mere Santa Claus job. “We must see to it that the road between the producer and the ¢on @umer is open and direct and thé farmeri have a free and competitive market,” reads Secretary Meredith's annual report “We must omit no effort to imptove our market machinery and preticts and to furnish necessary market information to the farmer si who de- The governor-of Tennessee has| sq that he may take full advantage of modern businens methods in| Mot citizens, and the number of ain- the distribution of his commodities.” Farm financing, the secretary suggests, “may be done by the farmers themselves, cooperatively.” The Slant in the Eye China exerting herself to become the doll nation, China has awakened to the fact that little American girls are in the market for dolla, especially so at thin time of the year. Hence China has sent boatloads of dolls to our little girls. They'll get them via Santa Claus, of course. But, our little girls being as bright as they are, are sure to notice that fanta Claus ts doing some of his Christmas shapping in China, for the Chinese doll makers have put a siant into the doll eyes. Having siant-cyes themselves they made siant-cyed dolls. For similar reasons our United States manufacturers never have done well in South Am trade; not nearly as well as England’ Germany, and other European nations, When an Englishman manu: fuctures goods for South Ameriean trade he makes up the kind of goods South Americans have been accustomed to getting, and in the way they are used to, But Uncle Sam tries to sell in Argentina what he has discovered is wanted in Dakota, and faile too frequently. China sends millions of sianteyed dolis to little American girls who want doll eyes to look like real baby eyes—and they're not meet- ing slanteyed babies often has In various parts of the world every domestic bedat, from the ox to the dog has been made to do hard labor. But who ever heard of a pig work~ ing? He ta too amart for slavery. fefore D'Annunaio abdicates we with he'd suggest a good rhyme Fiume. The human speotes is legs than one-half of one per cent intelligent, Moat of the world's agony ia caused by foollahness, The fun we get out of life is mostly foolishness, too. MMM ETHICAL DENTISTS Modern Conditions of Living and Working Make Good Teeth a Positive Necessity | -S Avy person who knows anything about “health” will tell you that “teeth” are one of the greatest little troublemukers in the world. They will advise you to have your teeth taken care of before any think else You will also be advised to go to a reliable den- tist--one who will guarantee his work and stand back of it, We have no bired operators — al) work done by members of the firm and absolutely guarantéed LADY ATTENDANTS ELLIOTT 4257 MUULAAQULEQUODULLOULTLGOEUOVAOUAOTAL Anan “\\ cae ae 2 | THE SEATTLE STAR EVERETT TRUE By CONDO COME Back HERE AND TLL HE YOU PIND THE GUTTER FoR Thar Cigae SVB You THreew IN THE MIDDLE of THE srmewack t! fT LOOKS UiKS A DROWNED SPARROW St! Letters to the|| Editor— Write briefly. Use ink or typewrtter, One side of paper only. sign your name. KEEP WOMEN FROM WORKING OUT e TODAY'S QUESTION Editor The Star: Ihave read your! Have you noticed any decrease in piece in the paper as to w work. | the cost of living? ing when they really don't néed to, 1 and I think it is @ good reminder to ANSWERS some women. I should think any| MRS. SADIE GLENN, 229 11th woman holding @ position that any |%¥¢ N.: “Things don't seem any man or homeless girl can do would Cheaper to me than they were etx tumble and give them a chance when | months ago. I wish somebody would there are so many men out of work | “how me where the decrease is.” and lots of them have families, 1) MIS. JULIA ELLIS, 1046 Jackson think there would be lem robbery | st: “Oh, yes, a quarter's worth of and thievery going on if they had a| sugar lasts me barrels of time com- hance to go to work. I am A poor) pared to what it used to.” man with some small childres, but) MRS. TOWNSEND COALS, 2111 wife from working out.” I think the family would be much happier if the | women stayed home and let the men earn the living e HARD-WORKING, HAPT'Y HUSBAND. ee noticed a slight decrease.” Maks. LULU HARRIS, Jackson gt: “No, air, I noticed any decrease.” MRS. ANNA FINNEGAN, 1155 | Broadway: “Well, I think I have |wome, Butter, exes and sugar seem to have dropped a@ little” 104% haven't EMPLOYMENT AT CITY HALL, (eaiernatnestchineaeayeeminmnnataneniate Editor The Star: Apropos of the/ unemployment controversy, it a WHAT DO YOU pears from your paper that represen- tatfves of 11 organizations and Mayor Caldwell met to make recommenda. tions in the matter, and that sugges KNOW ABOUT Sacre et eerste geet QUESTIONS heads of families, ete, Will you se! y cure from Mayor Caldwell, for the|,.%, Wnat wes the Indian name for | that portion of Seattle which Her benefit of the readers of your paper Boing interested in the matter, the number | tween Yesler way and Madison st. of married women at present employ-| 2 How many lumber and shingle ed in the various city departments; jalso the number of married women | of Beattie? 3. Who wan the first president of the University of Washington? le women not citizens, I recom: (Answers Baturdayy mend that the list show the epecific departments, and since Mayor Cald- PREVIOUS QUESTIONS well's beginning of office. Specific! 1. The first plat of Seattle was information thus obtained, headed | ted May 23, rite more than a year by the city, should likewise be fur-jarter Moren, Denoy and Bell first nished by the large corporations of | made their Jocations. the city, and the “100 per cent) H. C. Menry, Beattie banker American” slogan in industry be ¢f: | wag decorated by the French govern- fectively carried on in Seattle. ment with the Legion of Honor tor I¢ married women are employed) his work in behalf of the French who have husbands able to support| cntidren during the war, them, while husbands with ffmilies| 3 The green fee over the munict- are unemployed for this reason, and [if foreign men and women are re be en eee wee ployed who are not applicants for) —— citizenship, while American men and women fr tram, te" weer OPPORTUNITY ployed, legislation in needed for the! NTADS readjustment of prevailing ideas of] § patriotiam. MM. $3.00 Aluminum Double Rofler $2.00 Aluminum Stew Kettle . $4.50 Aluminum Tea Kettl®s . Free Examination $2.59 $2.50 Aluminum Strainer Ket on Earth $2.25 Aluminum Stew Kettles . We are one ot th: na Cn be Sines fos $1.60 stores fa the Northwe Petty ($3.25 Aluminum Percolators grind len, from start to finish, AFOF eee eseseee seeenes | | * and we are the only one in SEATTLE—ON FIRST AVR mination free, by graduat let. GI prescribed | leas absolutely necessary. BINYON OPTICAL CO, Asie viet AVE. jeon Spring and Seneca. Phone Main 1650. HARD-TIME DANCE inder auspices of Bell’s ichool gf Dancing, featur- ig egg and spoon waltz, SATURDAY, DEC. 18 GREENWOOD HALL 83rd and Greenwood Phinney Car or Jitney Westinghouse Mazda Lamps, = Watts— 12 Large Metal Table Lamps, with beautiful opaque glass shades; regular $40.00; priced to move quickly, at 27.75 A Most complete line of every. thing electrical that will make a most Appropriate gift and make’ a Merry Christmas last the whole year through, Seattle Electric Supply Co. MAIN 5331 | EDITOR labor lowe the public respect are those short-sighted and utterly h eer nase lations, who say frankly that they want to do away with of overcharge from These re considerations which organized labor cannot afford to over people who inte nded eho to and thought they hey are considerations ch t go to counteract a icy ‘ serv: the Famke of organised labor fost? that & daneerous i were using OUF serve Organized labor, if it in to be one of the foundation stones of our in-\M ice, yap #ystem, or of any American system, must be a responsible body it Cannot be reaponsible, then the complex civilization of an industrial } investi io wee ae ee it usually develops The labor contract must be as sacred an any other contrhet. If any ” sir calls ha iy erik a ee a ee cg een Senn, 1 eee ae Sat Teles alls ha that enters into the majority of manufactured articion been sold for a com- Also, no contract is good that ix not mutually advantageous, That is an issi vhie! - axiom of iaw, and the labor contract must come within st oo vg wae Per an - ~ - - — incite iss de ] : . The Folks’ Burden|™"" ” dur debta the coming | charged with a high- OlKS Jurden | Smith, jfor the “You, I think I have) mills within @ radiue of 106 miles! Scarcely a 'S NOTE—This is one of a series of articles being published by The Cleveland Press on the industrial conditions thruout the country D Goes B All Americans with a moral right to call themselves se are interested a in the common welfare. ‘This means they are in sympathy with the decent It means aims and activities of aime find aspirations of every . t now that they ized labor Probably the only people in this country who would like to see organized great body of their fellow citizens in the are keenly interested but we are com- plained to on account year. BY R. F. PAINE . All this outlay t non-produetive A pretty good indication of a fel-|It ix money spent without any tan low's character is the way in which gible return. We are Ikke a woman he spends his money, and this ap-| who starts her Christmas shopping plies as well to Uncle Sam as to John |by burning up nearly half of her funds, But, some day, our good sense will greatly reduce our arma ments, and our thrift wipe out the item of fpterest. It in a good time in the affairs of mankind to make er rate. We pay no commis- sions and our rates are the lowest in the city. " SEATTLE TAXICAB CO. Secretary Houston's estimates of expenditures for our army and navy ming year total $1,100,000. 000, which tncludes $96,000,000 for . “Peace on earth, ‘good will to all war alreraft and $184,000,000 to con: | “Pesce on ear a MA X tinue the extraordinary building of |Men” ™ a ae IN SI mere wc battleships, The proposit we spend one-fourth of pur out | lay for war purposes, Then, we are ‘This is -the busy season for to spend nine hundred millions on/lifters—up and shop. nm is that be of mouth. FIVE HUNDRED the| Christmas Specia Come In! Come Early! Come Now! 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