The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 31, 1920, Page 6

The Seattle Star 7 rs out ot ety, B60 per month) 2 me for ¢ montha or $9.00 per year 11 bef @ months, O2.Te) year, je Of The state, The per month, By carrion, ety, Ihe per weer. Mate of Washington. Behold, an Open Door “Behold, there is set before you an open door, and no man may close it.” That the text that heralds the New ite their fears for its fruition. Year. It is in the hearts of men, de- At this time of year it struggles for fullest ession. It bestirs every conscious individual to be the thing he might be few come back, but more are out.” eee : call, gals. Today's your last do your Leap Year popping. And eb geil, Dr. Arthur Burns, of the medical society ought to have a case on. eee ww in the first to file for ‘city council. Must have taken Aalk of carline bankruptcy sert and figures the city needs a hammer wielder. eee thy Gish and her chum, Con Talmadge, we note by the have gone and got married that film stars get married as divorced, ere man arrested on general because he had a Ford bug Jet us fellas with born-run- jinstead of the thing he is. In some phraseology or other It reaches us all. is balked only by reluctance, doubt and hesitation. | It is well, then, at this period, when the thought of the world is directed in concentrated fashion toward larger self- realization, to call attention to the futility of fear. | Fear, a mushroom growth, springing from nothing and leading to nothing, has no standing in the category of val- ues. It is mankind's greatest enemy, and yet is easily routed. | It will thwart the prophecy of “the open door” which “no man may clos and yet it ean be subjected to analysis and completely dissipated by clear thinking. It can appear as a stumbling block in the straightest path, and yet can be found to be only a shadow if one has the courage to go forward. Entering “the open door” is a matter Padsolute and un- qualified choice on the part of each one of us. In this new year it will be well to try it. Let us claim our birthright—and be unafraid. When Much Is Too Much Possitty the advice to increase pretuction, so iiberally handed out in the early days of 1920, was overdone; maybe it was too widely scat-| tered, or directed toward wrong channgla, for the overproduction of burglaries, holtups, bank robberies, and pocket-picking, during the year, was simply phenomenal, Robbers never before so overworked them: selves. They totled day and night, judging from statintica accumulated | under the auspices of the burglary underwriter? aanociation. So ambitious were the burglars in 1920 @at few, if any, underwriters, will show a profit upon the year’s businem. Many of them report © lose ratio of 100 per cent. Tha® ix, they paid out to burgtary’ victiins all received as premiums from policy holders. Same companies are) doing worse than that; one reports a goss ration of 115 per cont In ordinary years, when burglars are less enterprising-of policemen are It more watchful—-the low ratio is about 45 per cent Underwriters place the blame upon police laxfy and inefficiency Not that they beliewe more burglars should hafe been caught and sent to prison but that police forces should have handled the stolen goods system more capably. Burglar underwriters ineist that the way to check crime waves is to make it impossible for crooks to dimpose of stolen property; until this ix done, they say, crime waves cannot be held down by arresting robbers, nor by punishing them, as long as there are avenues for dimposing of stolen goods, Until these avenues {are closed new robbers will take the places vacated by arrests and im- #3 ig: i 3 i 3 i z t i - if lp : sf he in Bz : i sft i § i a q ucraker?—J. A. 80 may fo put @ new roof on your soe UNANSWERED If heat ascends, why is !t the coot ‘ of @ room is near the top? rate, that is where you al- the frieze.—K. lL. anybody tries to make a po the goat, what becomes of D. iH. Ses t experience at for- telier’s}—She was just telling! and hank of hair heraines. , about some gentlemen in blue I would meet-——~ le—Well, did you meet u certainly did, for just then coppers broke in, prisonipent. The opposite of contentment te diwtatisfaction. And a lot of people ore frequently dissatisfied with what they call “their lot” without any real reasons, (Rher people think they have “the best of it” in many ways, If everybody coukl view themscives as they are viewed by others the protabilities are that they would be more than sallsfied. One time a man deckted to sell bis property. He didn’t care for it. Bo he put it In the hands of an agent, who about it and brought tt to the client for his TAttie une of the vast stupendously. Fuel famine and abnormally high prices halted industry and made living le comfortable for many. Still we neglected the enormous quantity of water power scattered thruowt the country. The nation kept on putting the utilixation of water-pewer off until tomor row, the while using just enough to demonstrate hew much -was being lost by not using more of it. Now, however, tt ts probable that the country stands upon the threshold of the water-power age. It spells more power for America. The World’s Greatest Auguste Comte compiled a still well-known calendar of the world’s great THE SEATTLE STAR EVERETT TRUE— An epiiemic of child prodigies tx flooding the works, Poland started the habit by sending over a kid-too youngtobea-rassier, who set the chens world to talking—some stunt in iteelt, Altho the kid has eaten onty eight candies off his birthday cake, be can By CONDO TODAY'S QUESTION De you approve of te mod take on @ full chorus of expert chen | dances? Another kid can arrue fluently tn languages—a nice accomplinh- ment when it comes te jawing with & conductor over yeuterday’s trans fer, Then there's another kid with « quartet mind when It comes to fig- Line him ap against a squad of adding machines in a warehouse full of numbers, and he'll Mash the cor rect. answer while the adding ma- chine masseurs are getting bunions on their Magers over the second Makers of kid’ headgear are start- ing to market hats with an elastic skull band. Mother's d@awting of yexteryear ' ANSWERS JAMES C. HAY, 822 W. 14th ot "I certainly do, my life, and believe in it, Modern dances respectable unless some dual dancer deliberately tries to make them other ° MRS. BH. KB. SEWELL, 1222 gum mit ave: “LT don't me anything Seuinet them. Are you gom@ to print this? Ob, weil, go ahead 1 should worry,” GHORGE ROBATA, 1003 FB. Repub Mean st: “I've seen only one dance in the last ten years, and that looked to be all right™ W. & RILEY, $41 34th ava &: “T certainly do approve of the modern G@ancea, I like them very much,” WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT SEATTLE?, QUESTIONS L What pioneer steamship router were opened here by Frank Water. house? 2. How @id the efty soqutre Kin. near park? 2 Who bultt the Frye hotet? (Answers Saturday) PREVIOUS QUESTIONS I have danced al!) \Letters to the Editor— FROM WIFE OF A CIVIL, SERVICE MAN Editor The Star: Have jnet read in your paper of the proposed salary eut for elty employes under civil] service, e4 introduced man FR. HL Thomson counefl in the city unbeknown to him, writing @ which I hope you will pub Viret ond last, we economize to the limit, If the council decided on the 16 per cent cut ? Here are facts: 1 have had only one drewwup dress in six years, and that I bought for $7.95 from the Bon Marche bargain window; have had it made over once at a cost of $5, and it la will doing duty as beet. My coat, bought about the sme year for $19.50, ia still my best one! for both suminer and winter, Have | hired it presed once at a cost of $1.50 Nelther a winter nor summer hat | have t bought for seven years—une | the same old ones, retinted and cam | Ouflaged each seanon. I have one pair of #ilk gloves I bought two years ago and some heavy ones bought when Martin's went out of business, Seven dollars and am half te the high@et I ever paid for shoes, and use | 50-cent underwear in these days of beatulful lingerie—10.cent veiln, My husband never has but one suft ;at a time, nd right now contem | plates buying one on installments. We have two children, and I make everything they wear, except shoes, |stockings and overalls—ALWAYS | out of old materinis, from underwear | to overcoats and hats, One child in| in school—we have oeulist, dentist | and doctor's bills for beth, We have been ten years now pay-| ing for our home, At our present salary, will clear it January, 1922~ with a 15 per cent cut, God knows when. I do al my own washing and tron ing, Soft collars have eliminated even the «tiff collar bill We rent part of our houme to help out, and I carn a little pin money by tutoring and in other ways, but it | Hever gooe for pins | | We never afford symphony tickets, | | erand dpera was out of the question | seldom entertain, once in a while go to & movie and hate ourre mw if proves to be of the dimenovel vari- ety. We keep a stiff upper ip, brush our clothes, pay our bills, and look | prosperous to any one on the out-| aide, but It is hard sledding, and I am truly discournged tonight as I think | of the possibility of that 15 per cent | cut instead of the small raise we ex | pected at the firet of the year, Mr. Ro HL Thomaon is surely a popular (7) man in the $,000 munict pal employes’ homes tonight. | 1 thank you, A CIVIL SERYICR MAN'S WIFE A DANGEROUS SPOT ON COUNTRY ROAD | road, dimmed My lights and slack jened my speed slight; The ap proaching machine had headlights of ordinary brilliancy which, however, distant and badn't dimmed yet, when suddenly I noticed a flash of white aimost in front of my machine. By a sudden swerve in the face of the dics |cholee, we shall be nerveb worked 16 volumes & year, be averaged # vglume every two mouths during his whole working life, weariness.” the dawn of history down to about 1820, His includes only 659. ‘To get this many he included such tiny stars as the Bngtish dramatiot. Thomas Otway, the American novelist, Fenimore Cooper, and the Lialian Donizetti. composer, One conclusion that may be @rawn from this te that many men who many men | might be called great are not recognised. Doubtless this is true today. The man who invented the typewriter has affected the lives of mifions Judged by the benefits he has conferred this tnventor might well be called get water out of | «reat, But how many know that the typewriter was devised by Christopher only used his hend on the towel. “Like father, Ike son,” was the old chant, but the lad nowadays is mak ing a dumb-bell out of the old man. Pond parents are regarding the bumps on the child's dome with tm terest these eight-hour days There was a time when « lump en little Wallace’a cupola meant the brief 1. Hetween $1,000,000 and §2.000..| oncoming machine, accompanied by 000 worth of peanuts are shipped | screeching brakes of the approach- thru this port yearty. ing auto and screams from the occu 2. The West Seattle Cable com-| pants of my oar, I managed to swing pany was organized tn 1890 and a clear of a couple who were saunter. line built by San Francisco parties |ing along the edge of the road en interested in real estate in Went Sent-| tirely unaware of their danger, and (is They operated the first forry | was just able to get back on the edge acroms Elliott bay. of the road again to leave a clear 3. The municipal water plant has! passage for the other machine, The six large storage reservoirs and 1¢|Lord alone knows what the conse standpipes, having an aggregate ca-| quences might have been, but I am convinced that only the fact that the 000,000 gations, DANCE WITH THE BLUE BIRD CLUB Oyster Supper—DANCE—All Night FRIDAY, DEC, Sis¢ DANCB the old year opt and the New Year tn Also a DANCK Saturday, January tnt The newest maple floor in the city. Latham Sholes, a pollector of ctistoma at Milwaukes, in 18677 Another conclusion to be drawn from the old list of the wortd'» great men {fs that recognition of greatness is an accident, Men are much alike, however greatly their achievements may vary. Greatnesn, one may con- clude, t merely a inbel attached to = few whe are little different from their fellows wham none calis great. Canada Leads Us After reading about how we Americans are treating eur own disabled heroes of the world war ft t# turning to a« brighter page to note Canada’s Wherally sympathetic manner of handling her dimbied soldiers. This despite Canada’s smaller purve and larger proportion of disabled veterans. Long before the war came to an end Cunada had her hospital pro- gram in good ‘working order, Today there is hardly a ripple of din- content over the Canadian government's treatment of Canadian disabled. The United States did nothing, before the war ended, toward a dis ability program, and has done little since peace came. Compared to the United States, Canida is poor. Yet Canada gives her dimbled veterans a larger pension than the United States given. Canada gives more understandingly. The United States hands to each disabled hero $1,200 year, paying the single man as much as the father of a large faimily. This, you must admit, isn’t fair to the chil dren and the wife of the disabled father, Yet that's the way Uncle Sam does it! Canada pays the single man but $900. The living cost is lower in Canada and Canada has less wealth with which to pay. But she pays the married man $300 additional, plus $180 for the first child, $144 for the second, and $120 for each of the othera Quicker Action Will Result ‘Inangurate the president on the second Monday tn December, That, in a nutshell, is the constitutional amendment offered t2 con- frean by Representative Arthur of Oregon. ‘There’s much to be mid in favor of that proposal! When the nation was young and scattered over a wide area of rond- leas, railiess land, it may have been all right to have the tnauguraiton four months after the election. These, however, are speedier days. One fumps across the continent! in less than a week. It will not be long before new presidents airplane from the Pacific to Washington the day before inauguration day, A month is plenty long enough to give a new president to pack bis trunk and write his speech. e What's true of the president 1# true of members of con: They, too, should get into action sooner after their election. ¢ Arthur amendment is fine, as far as it goes, There should be tacked onto it, tho, @ provision that congress members take their seata the same day as the president is inaugurated, in early December, That'll mean quicker action, Kipling 1a to worite morte scenurios, but probably hell have no rag, bone Blue Sundays and compulsory church-going may revive that instrument of torture used by the sexton to wake up sleepers. British troops captured Mad Mullah’s five wives and Mullah's no longer Mad, parking space of a brick. Now when he eases into the wigwam with « new mound on his conk, they take it that It may mean he is gonna enter the prodigy class as @ wizard fiddler or plumber, The chip off the olf oak block ts now a wive piece of mahoranyt (Copyright, 1920, N. FE. A) A Bumber of republican congrem. | men declare they are against any embargo that will keep farm prod- ucts out of this country, but say they will vote for a Atiff tariff on them, | Which, eny we, is about the best way to fool the city man and please the farmer at the same time, ———+— DR. J. BR. BINTOR Free Examination BEST $2.50 c.asses on Earth We are one of grind len from start to the only one in SEATTLE—ON FIRST AVE Ciniek, Examination free, by graduate op- | te a lasses not preseril absolutely heceesary. — the few optical | stores in the Northwest that really t RENTON HILL - GOOD To satisfy every appetite, three kinds of bread: BUTTER-NUT HOLSUM and QUEENANN Ask your grocer for the kind that pleases BREAD we make you best FRIDAY, DECEMEER 31, 1979, Why Be Discouraged? DID YOU KNOW THAT— Daniel Webster anid: “Work is the panacea for every heartache, every tl), by Counel) every discouragement, Thra it success comes.” Henry Watd Rescher added: “Work or starve tx nature's motto, and ft te An the wife of a ctvi! service man,! written on the #tars and sod allke—starve mentally, starve morally, starve It ie 4 inexorable law of nature that whatever is not used, ‘ip her maxim If we are idie and shifties by apd powerlenn by necessity.” fir Walter Seott believed tn work. Hie rore at four each morning and minutes. He wrote the “Waverly Novels” et the rate of 12 physically Nothing for nothin Randolph wrote: “Most people look upon poverty as bad fortune, and forget that it has ever been the priceless spur in nearly al) great achieve | ments, all down the ages.” “Not no very long to do the work fteelf,” maid Raphael, when aaked 01 time required to paint cottage acene with an old woman trying to thread & needle near the open door, “but jt took me 20 years to get that pose of the figure, and to correctly represent that sunlight coming in at the door.” Longfellow wrote to a young man: “The talent of success ts nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do, without & thought of feme" j ‘ “Mankind worships uccees,” maid H. M. Field, “but thinks too fittle of the means by which it ls obtained—what days and nights of watching and Rophocies mid: “Heaven never helps the man whe will not ect, and by acting, work.” ‘ A bottle ef Scotch war placed tin | the corner stone of a bank building | being erected in Jersey City, There's | bank thet will have no difficulty | in keeping its assets liquid. An Inch of Rain When it rains “cats and dogs,” or) “pitehforks,” for a length of time, | It in Ukely that the weather man will | announce that “the precipitation was | one inch.” | And just what does that mean What ts an inch of rain? The} weather man has instruments for very accurate measurement of it, Just as he does the snowfall, the eun-| shine, and the direction and velocity | of the wind, to say nothing of the rive and fall of the temperature. An sere is componed of 6,272,640 square inches, and if there was an inch of water on it, that would! amount to 72,640 cuble inches There are 227 cuble inches in a gal-| jon, #0 that 6,272,640 cublo inches | equals 22,000 gallons, and that much | water would weigh 220,000 pounds, | or 110 tons, ‘Take 1 or « Lessons STEVENS’ $45, If you value time and meney lady wore a white waist prevented at | least one and possibly both of them fom being bumped into eternity, At, the place in question, which I think is just about where Mr. Schoonover struck Ernest Sundblad with fatal re eulta, there is no path along the inless Dentists 608 Third Ave., cor. James Elliott 3633 C. MARCUS WIENAND, 4250 Ninth ave N. EB onight AT 11:00 P. M THE BIG, ELABORATE CW S Betrayed for A Quarter Every Hetel Hospital. 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