The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 22, 1920, Page 6

|. Let useful observations | be at least some part of the subject of » A word from Josh Wise: “Tf it never could keep in step.” oe. Detroit police have indorved the Stocking bank as the sifest place for & Woman to carry her money. Meb by, mebby—but why let the world money? eee Every day a reporter for a Chi MO paper goes out with a $50 b ich he gives to the most po! Man he finds, The other day a ticket seller in a theatre boxoffice won the money. This story shows wh Man can find if he looks long Or, on the other hand, it may show Chicago has a rough jot of folk within the city limits. | NORTHBOUND TRAD CARRY MORE PASSENGERS THAN SOUTH BOUND Day laborers and colored tenants ‘Fe still asicep as to the Krave situa which ts now on them. Here in Camp Hill they want $2 per day, and t they will have to get hungry | they realize the distreswed | n that is prevailing all over me country —Cump Hill (Ala) News eee American women may in French courts. eee AN of the members of the Society the women, are more than Es these days, Among the gifts the women folk are making are Fevival services in the Brethren church, spoke to a audience on Friday night on | in Both Feet." Mrs, Wik sang a solo in keeping with the Decatur (ll) Review. eee more days to do your Leap popping, gals, and Richard ‘White still buys his own eee “Now that we are having mince with the kick out,” postcards J. 7., “I am beginning to appreciate full significance of the expres ‘kick in.” F coe ‘The prohibition officer In the Ros district announces mince pies and beara io may be seasoned with in private homes. Especially have the brandy. TODAY'S QUESTION What are you asking Santa Clans fo bring you for Christmas? ANSWERS MRS. THOMAS SIMMONS, 917 Ith ave. 8.: “I'm going to ask fora bunch of switches to use on a certain young man who amuses me with his impertinent questions.” |AM H. MURPHY, 722 Pw- [ting st: “Good health, good friends | and good business.” MRS. MABEL MILIAS, 1420 Eighth ave: “Not a darned thing. A friend fhas already made me a present of gome beautiful unmentionablea, and that’s enough. Christmas is for the Kiddies, anyway.” GEORGE D. SCHOFTELD, 756 16th ave. N.: “I'm too busy to ask. TM take whgtever Santa Claus is willing to tote along this year.” MRS. PEGGY MORTON, 1512% “Nothing but a lot of His Wife—Why don't you clean the spots off your coat? It looks horrid. The § fo the State 60 for ¢ mont Guns must be kept out of unsafe hands. number of gunmen must be decreased. The way to keep guns from irresponsibles, to lessen shootings, to decrease | the number of gunmen, is to strike at the heart of robbery, assault, burglary} and murder, by making the gun harder to get, keeping a closer check on it, and | by punishing to the limit the genuine gunman, : ration law, as outlined by The Star, in in- | Wurn’t for th’ drum a lot uv fellers | | pastime, ever since George Waalfngton’s administration. about cabinet officer. cutive authority tn th Khow where you are carrying your | men | the Promotion of Useless Giving. | much even if conditions have. year just as there have been for some yeart past, And there's just monthe, #1 uta By ear ft Washington. oF 19.00 per yes city, Shootings must b | A regis terviews with police offic harder to get. zen as for the crook. check on guns and in that way shun nels that lead away from crooks. als, wou The gun registration law, approved by experienced police officials, apparently offers some remedy besetting the people. Nothing better i interests and lobbies who frown on the proposed law, | Give the registration of guns plan a chance, Make it a law at the next session of the legislature. And then, enforee it. Cabinet-Making Ruikting cabinets for presidents-elect has been The the de president, pre constitution says nothing sn of the constitution to ledge all but it was soon found that the job Jent to handle by himself. So the governme ents, by congressional enactmenta, and the ta became the cabinet of the president. ‘Tho first cabinet, organized in 1789, consisted secretary of the treasury and an al arde to entitle the pe posta 4 of sufficient dignity seat in the cabinet. Later, however, the mitted to the official family circle. The expansion of the cabinet has generally ke overnmental needs. Nine years the navy department was organized and a secret. the cabinet, op y ed to let In a new member later, in 1889, eattle Star @ montha, $2.78) year, state The per month, lke per week, Not so much so for the average citi- The law would keep a closer orney general, Later the place of postmaster general was created, but ft was not then after the first Fifty.one years elapsed before the ctrete around the cabinet table) the secretary of the tntertor. it wus deemed advimable to give »¢ lessened. The | Id make the gun t them into chan- for the gun crimes is offered by those a popular quadrennial Tn fret, ft was was too largé for one ent was divided into de heads of these depart of a secretary of war, | etmaster general master general was ad-| pt pace with Amerin’s cabinet was created ary of the navy joined And 40 the farmers a eat and a place was made for a secretary of agriculture oh The first secretary of commerce and labor was appointed tm 1903, but 10 years later the job was split in two, so that now the cabinet has 10 members. woman. And why not? Homes Wanted | ‘The people want homes. Homes to rent If pomsible; but homer which And in America, too, few homes either for | Aecording to a recent decision of a| rent or for sale are being built. In 1890 about 52 per cent of the people were paying rent; 30 year they will own, preferably. 121 families are living In each 100 homes. Young people want to get married, ‘There's Human about about two million babies born each year. built, And the year back of that there wore up, doesn’t It? Means young folks are going to parents on one side or the other, Means that ing down of the birth rate, and uw} trend means pessimism insfead of optinitem In views It has been stated that to put the country on as dwellings are concerned 1,140,000 new dwell bufit. High cost of building has kept building ONE IS HE KNOCKING? | cansed family congestion; family congestion frequently cause trouble tO. E. Williams, who ts conduct: | arch will have been accomplished when prices fall so that new homes for the average man and his wife may be built man owns his home he takes pride in it, becomes a fixture and a part May that time be on the’ way. Dear Santa Claus Please bring tack to ts for Chrintmas « little bit of the spirit af Unselfihness that we lost after we won the war. of the community. Restore to us something of the love that, in of their social obligations and responsibilities, endly “as We won the victories in war. Claus. We guess that's about all we have to year totaled 1,294,727 carata, valued at $13,192,250, ‘This coastal diamond field ts not long, and until 1908. of a carat Washed by the waves, they are more brilliant any others found in Africa. ia characteristic of this century that the waves dc Burnt Cork makes no minstrel show, New York expects to have a million telephones , Whatdayamean, tn operation business fashionable, REAL PAINLESS) DENTISTS ‘The been 2: Whalebone set of teeth $8 Crowns .... tates pi $8 Bridgework . County $2 Amalgam Filling . part of All work guar nteed for 15 years Have impre # taken in the morning and teeth same day Examination and ad free. Call and See Samples of Our Plate of all and ie Work. We Stand the Tent of Time. passing Mort of our present patronage tn recommended by our early custom- era, whose work tn atill giving go satiafaction. Avk our customers who have tested our work. When coming to our office, be sure you are in the| right place. Bring this ad with you, | OH Cut-Rate | Dentists “Under Mr. Motorbug—I know it does, but could get at least a half raile on 207 UNIVERSITY 87, Asnate M Opposite Vrasce-Patersen Co President-elect Harding has sumrested there ought to be a secretry of publict welfare, Women my this is just the job for a In fact, he's slipping. But—in 1919 in the United States there were only 10,000 @weflingy wulidings burned down as were built up. What doe that mean? that there’s bound to be more crowding tn the hotter that arm already folks think of themselves as their brothers’ keeper, Give tack to us just. small measure of the merifictal spirit that made people so anxious “to do thelr bit” and “to do thelr all.* Give us a little of the perfect understanding that most folks had then Give as moral power and courage to win the victories of peace as “We will keep our hearts wide open to recetve these gifta, Santa Wild Waves Talk Diamonds washed up on the coasts of Southwest Africa in one recent The diamonds are found tn the beaches and mind dunes. ones have been found, but most of them are emall, averaging one firth Yellow, pink, purplish, bluish, green and black diamonds are found on this beach, but most of them are clear white “What are the wild waves saying? has an answer there. Perhaps tt poetry or philosophy, but are content to make a noise like $19,132,250, Miners have to dig for coal. Miners? Poerybody. Astronomers report lots of falling meteors. Prices have made this falling Involves a very high order of legal and ability. The title to tens of thousands of | parcels of land in King BU asi. 3h County is affected by orde tice our ne d ; whalebone)’ plate which fe “the | {| the Probate Proceedings lightest and strongest plate known. /#\ through which the title | does not cover the of of the < mouth; gou can bite corn off the|§| has passed. There have | cob; guafinteed 15 years. | Title Company to search each Probate Proceeding and trace down the title WASHINGTON TITLE | INSURANCE COMPANY BUMPED Now (T GLASS IN ONS OF YouR ADLIGNTS THE SEATTLE EVERETT TRUE I See You JUST Now INTO THE AND Looks UKe Your ABOUT TO DRive Mes, I'M Going owe TO THO GARAGE AND HA N&w CLASS IN RIGHT Away, evGeRY PLC, DYS HEAR tt Is There aries A. Dana's fame a Santa Claus? There are some things that cannot be told too often, One of theme tn Christmas letter to Virginia O'Hanlon, a «irl reader of the New York Sun, then edited by Mr. Dana. Ughts in reprinting this, the most noted of all Christmas letters, written tn December, 1897, THE LETTER “Dear Editor—I am § years ob. “Some of my little friends say there ts po Santa Claua ‘Thin newspaper de It was “Papa mys ‘If you ses it in The Sun it's 90." ter that percentage has imereased to 67 per cent. That means that ‘ ‘at a time, ladies. Don't rock the | the home owner “len’t getting anywhere. 1890 110 families occupied 190 homes; that ratio haw Increased until now It inn’t a healthy Increase. In nature hasn't changed & million weddings o 70 per cent aa many Means try to live with their there's to be @ oro to the death rate , upon life, & prewar hasty so far ings would have to be down; high rents have in quantity. When a that war time, made Is way. “115 Weet 96th 8t" it all real? abiding No Santa Claust Thank God! he Ives, and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now be will continue to make glad the heart of childhood. Onty faith, “Please tell me the truth, is there a Santa Claus? “VIRGINIA OTIANLON. THE REPLY Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by th@ | month for 18 months past. Since scepticiam of a sceptical age. They do not believe except they sve. ‘They | that time have heard no more from think that nothing can be whiph t# pot comprehensible by their litte minds. | All minds, Virginia, whether reat universe of ours man la a mere insect, an ant, in his Intellect, ax com pared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the iotelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge, Yea, Virginia, there te a Santa Claun Ho exists an certainty as love and | me. nor do they want me at the generosity and devotiof exist, and you know that they abound and give ieee to your life ita highest beauty and joy. world if there were no Santa Claus! were no Virginian. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no | romance to make tolerable this existence. Woe should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. the world would be extinguished. Not believe in Santa Claus! You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on | Christmas eve to cateh Santa Claus, but even if they did not see Santa Clans, coming down, what would that prove? Dut that in no sign that there fa no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are thone that neither children nor men can sea, Did you ever seo fairies dancing on the lawn? they are not there, Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there Are unseen and unseeable in the world You tear apart the baby’s rattic and see what makes the noise Inside, but there is a vell covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, not even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart. that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond Ah, Virginia, in all thls world there is nothing else real and ‘hey be men’s or children’s, are little. In this Alas! how dreary would be the It would De as dreary as if there ‘The eternal Light with which childhood Oils You might as well not believe tn fairtert Nobody sees Santa Claus, Of course not, but that's no proof that fancy, poetry, love, romance, can push axide Some large in the rough than are » not speak In terms of ‘= operation next year Probating of Estates. learning 300 different es- robated in King to date. It is a the duty of the real estate thus through probate. — ate Supervision” lore Than $600,000.00 A special Japafiess military misaton | recently completed a study of | German war office, and the details of the one-time powerful war machine Broken Lenses Dupticated SUSSMAN OTIC AL Graduate 64 Below Rotary Bakery Ordinance 34058, Section 7, pro- vide his vehicle ds being o cab unless it order.” Regariies of this there are over twenty outfits advertising in Seattle themselvea to By such advertising and misrepresentation they fool LADIES’ DIAMOND RING— some people into ontering Almost % carat, SPECIATs.-enemmmnane. thelr service, and who ars FINE PERFECT CUT DIAMOND— Meappointed and over. Any style setting: weighing 80 points, Big smap charged. We recetve daily complaints. from people who ALI-PLATINUM FANCY DINNER RING-— have been fooled by this ad- phone or order be sure you get the vertising. 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SPECIAL, A WRITTEN GUARANTEE with every Diamond to be exactly as AMERICAN JEWELRY CO. “The Bargain House for Diamonds” 821 SECOND AVENUE Open Every Evening Till Xmas ITOK'S NOTH “l ‘This ts one of a series of articles being published by The Cleveland Press on the industrial conditions thruout the country | WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1928. HAT DO YOU ABOUT KNO SEATTLE? QUESTIONS cattie’s annual raintalt 1 What is | Freedom must be absolute, or else it does not extat ompared with New York and Hom | This country was founded upon the rights of free @peech, press and | o,1,7 manermbly. There can be no tampering with these rights without se het & mattle’n position consequences. jen in regard to onse in admittedly dangeroun. pression? No. i Thut is it ever wo dangerous as sup neriean elt busine ret meetings issia was a country of suppre species of Pa behind cloned doors. Germany waa another ures of Russia and mon Germany today should be object lessons enough for ui | (Answers Thursday) Industrial disputes rewulting in strikes and lc t# are often the mignal | for abridgment of fundamental American rights by auth te nd PREVIOUS QUESTIONS others. Bometimes the muppreased persona suffer in alle ome | 4 Mine on ximately 1000 tho, the result is pretty much like that of plugging up thes afety valve | 94 of telephone wires in King of an overheated botle If there were nothing else to be sald for freedom, the argument of attic fe the center of Ge choosing the lew ils would be @ good one. only coul distr n the Pacific coast In the interests of a better un anding between capital and labor, | o¢ the t nd ore ally 4,000,000 |which current events indicate ta a ning, it la on t ng be lions of this fucl are mined yearly, allowed to gum the works In the history of this t never 3. The e f the agg more important than now that the rights of free speech, press and am | eyitural prod of Northweatel the constitution # narantees, Obvic [the public interest, and are capable of being p In It not the duty of the department of Justic new head, to institute test cases and make a clean sweep of such | AUTOS RE WITH DOGS Editor The LESS He hearing. me ig all over. Star: T cannot under ptand why people owning dogs let} them run the streets, only to be b and mangled by street care and ma | qygenICA chines, and many tines they craw! | away and nuffer for days at a time before they I think It ‘whame that some of the people who Editor found The n good Ar here din is a Ned | Wry NOT SHI ved uned noon to cor Perhaps they will mend a notice of the hearing after it ONE OF THE MASS | IN N SHIPS? The Star: ri any way th I have abvays tar res industries hat we can get the following rallroads to cease help y to anni ‘| Fur Sale drive autos will not try and reign ships: | Fine Coats striking them, but rather « he Catan . Mtwisiene & wet enjoy running them down, Do they | paut rail Cieeite tas ever stop to nee if they have hurt OF | i. tine, and the Gre ? killed one of them? Oh, no, I should) way which favors the N. Y. K. lines nay not, they only drive the faster.| Rott, thene lines are ae 9 The other evening there was a beau-| Northern Pacific rail ontinually tiful red machine ocker spaniel struck by a at PF wt. and Rainier bivd, and one of the ladies working Jin the humane division from um Britinh, the | suit it died, and that is only one of the many that are killed every day on Rainier bivd. If T cared so little for | & dog az nome people who own them, 1 would moch rather have them shot | or sent to the pound and have them | killed, than let them run the streets. | A LOVER OF ANIMALS | ‘ M 467, it also bad @ eat license, 2451 ee GAS COMPLAINANT GOT NO QUESTIONNAIRE Editor The Star: For two months we have been protesting to the public fervies commission relative to the! | Poor quality of our gas. Alno the | poorer the gas the higher the bill until finally they asked the lighting jcompany to send them a copy show jing what I had paid month by home. you are™ the commiasion and no questionnaire haye they sent me nor notice of public hearing. It looked to me Ike they 414 not want a questionnaire flied out by pub- Don’t Forget the BIG CHRISTMAS EVE. BALL DECEMBER 24 and all-night masquerade ball New Year’s Eve, given under the auspices of BELL’S SCHOOL OF DANCING Greenwood Hall 83rd and Greenwood Music by Gove's orchestra. Feature waltz and fox trot. Ev eryone welcome Phinney car or jitney. Is you at least 25%. Let us you Bargains in Diamonds favors the Blue Funnel line, which is ‘The publication of this fact may re | in the American shippers de sheriff's office, took it In her M44 manding thelr goods shipped over| hine to the Kastiake hospital, where) American lines, thus forcing the raf roads to cease patronizing foreign nes, Yours truly, | “AMERICAN. HE OUGHT TO KNOW BETTER ‘There is no use trying to joke with |& woman. The other day Jones heard P. &.—The Noense on this dog was|a pretty good conundrum and decided to try it on hin wife. “Do you know why I am Ike mule? he asked her when he went “No,” she replied promptty. “7 know you are, but I don’t know why Boston Transcript. Tremendous Reductions W.H.Hahlo & Co. 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