The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 3, 1921, Page 6

wre ee erate > ~~. One of the most important days m that momentous questions are ely solved. Then Americans come blic servants, than at any other time. D’Annunsto now has three moves eto hire an undertaker, a publisher if a lecture tour manageri eee FATHER WISE |) Bobbie—My father must have been to aN sorts of mischief when he a boy. y—Why? e'Cos be knows ‘xactly Questions to ask me when he to know what [ve been do-| Cincinnati Enquirer. y eee ANSWERED te the best place to ptxy a ly litte game of poker?®—i 5. €P antercom. Piwrat te the aitterence between a = union and a cold drart?—J. i Ome sometimes backs the strike, the other may strike the back What ts the best way to telephone M. G What ts the difference between a fall and a scarf pin’. B.D. [Note bit, They both can be found POH ues . eee UNANSWERED can I buy two yards of cheese cloth?—T. KM. ‘My uncle ts a machinist and [ fear Keeps bad company. I heard him the other day that he had a Ain't it walking around tn my back- CG Weinberg.— Watertown , DJPudtic Opinion. pmething, nyhow BY RF. PAINE ‘ Jeague amembiy hen has Iald Reger. Let us cack To be sure. Product mey lick the germ of rillity and be good for cooking pur Deeg only, but In these times, there's Ord joy over the pullet that pro her under-sized first egg than ® hundred mature hens that stand around with gloomy mien ad mou Fy assembly at Geneva has adopt '& statute for a permanent inter x court of justice, without any t that disputants bring quarrels before that court or on of penalty for non-complt With that court's decisions. The that the big Muropean nations’ > ntatives fought the inclusion such requirément and provision strengthen suspicion that eaid Hons will not go into any arrange that will abolish their pc gettling European disputes by # secret or otherwise Billiards Kings, as well as the proleta Fiat, have been playing billiards Nearly 400 yearn It in a great game, bilyliards is—a test of aki! and brains and nerves. An one [drives the balis about it is doubt Pfu if one in a thoumund know ithe story of the game. William Kew invented tt. Kew & pawnbroker in London History tells us that Kew, at PAtimes when business was slack ‘Brew into the habit of removin three gilt balls, that ser ‘a sign on his shop, and sho them around on a table, hit Jone with the other, with a a stick. The idea of a gare with |] rules on a special table and with Hvory balls installed itself in his mind. He developed it and bil A Wards is the result, ‘The inventor's @ven nazne, you was Bill. He drove the first &round with a yard stick. Bo ‘it became “Rill-yards.” And again the inventor's last name wa “Kew.” Now it t# a cue, pro Mounced the same, but spelled dit Flewitt—What an awful face that nas. _ dewett—Yos, Mt must make her ache by Th Publishing Ox, mthe, 82.78) year The per month, . Le per week. of Washington, Elections Americans meet with is election day. It is answered; the public’s problems are pub- nearer to their government, closer to their Why not make the most of the day? | Why not make election day a legal holiday? Why not give to that one day of important public business our undivided attention? But making the day a holiday is merely a step toward making election day the most important day of the year for the citizen. We should abolish the ward boss’ voting booth, transfer- ring the election machinery to the public schoolhouse. It was bad enough to herd men in and around the temporary voting shack, or the corner barber shop. It is not to be thought of in the age when our wives and mothers, sisters and daughters accompany us to the polls. Why, at last election, many were the election shacks before which long lines of women voters stood in pelting rain! | | And, while we are about this matter of making election day the big day of the citizens’ calendar, why not oust the) old-style election icials, the ward boss’ “gang,” and sub-! | stitute the school-teaching force? This suggestion has been | }made by an American who, by actual experience, has come | to know how utterly incompetent the average election official is. » fee There is no time better than right now to think out these suggestions. They cannot be adopted the day before | | Inext election. But they can be adopted if the legislative machinery diately sets to work upon these proposals. | 1—Make election day a legal holiday. 2 ndon the voting shack in favor of the schoolhouse. 8—Replace incompetent election officials with the school- teaching force. And— 4—Combine the various elections tnto one. How to Help Your Resolution It might be well for folks t6 take stock of the resolutions they made a year ago-—and most of them probably will discover a deficit In most cases the books simply won't balance In the average life ar exceed resolutions kept Resolution ls the mont Its cultivation is the most dif resolutions broken f perishable flower of human character. r to wink at one’s fiulty than to fight them off; te com-} |} promise rather than to tnwiet on the strict letter of the New Year ontract one makes with one's self. A man, making a businewt agreement with another, demands a strict interpretation of every comma, period and semicolon, But he te much easier with himecif. Conscience says: “But you promised me faithfuny te de thin” The man answers: “Oh, well what's the difference™—and breaks the contract with conscience. The trouble is that the average resotution ts a sort of secret treaty, If resolutions were open covenanta, openly arrived at, more resolutions would be kept : One man realized thin. So whenever be decided to make a reeotution, he told his wife about tt. And what his conscience could bim to do, pride would not permit him to evade He his wife to think. him a Weakling. Others might cgpy his exampla dida’t ‘Tere te a pend Gral of talk In the air to the are for a decided drop. In this connection vice pi of the National Bank of Conunece tn York, in a public speech: “We hear in some Girections busines men eying labor had its swing while prices were high and labor wus scarca and that now the turn of the employer ts coming and thay intend to take fhil revenge. This may be homan nature, but ft ls m most stnister aspect of tt “Revenge t rarely profitable and at this time such an attitude would be little less than a public calamity. “It serves to alarm the working class and to curtail ft» buying far beyond what ta necesmry. “It serves to reduce working merle and to cates antagoniam be tween sections of the business community who may differ in the part they play in our business life but do not 4iffer in common welfare “Growing unemployment and lowered wages have created a fear on the part of many that their buying power t» going @o be drastically reduced They are struggting tov get along with their old belongings mther than to buy new ones, apprehenstve that Inter on they will need every cent they can mve in order to make sure of ottaining Iife’n necessaries. “It will very materially ald the orderty readjustgent now under way If business sees to it that a reasonable relation ts maintained be tween the reduction in the buying power of the wage group and the reduction in the high cost of living. “Real wages mean promoting the guneral prosperity, which affects us all. “The American wageearning public wil not contentedty socept a lower scale of living than It has become used to.” a maintaining “Water Falling in White River Area,” says Sunday morning headline. Considerable of it fell in Beattie, also, what? Theres something dubious about the oricf expressed by « man who spills soup on the Christmas necktie his wife gave him A couple were married at the base of the Statue of LAberty. Howowm, tAberty? cAbout One-Eleven Ocigateres] 56 UST an inside word about One- Eleven. The American To bacco Company has served the public with fine tobaccos for many years. It commands the experience and skill to prepare and know good cigarettes. The American Tobacco Com» pany would not give the address of its home office as the name of anew cigarette ifit did not believe thatthe blend would please you. FINALLY— try them THE SEATTLE STAR EVERETT TRUE—~ OHOl= New MAGAZING! Xess, Mister SPONG-GR, tts A N@wW MAGAZING AND I WANT To READ IT WHILS its NEW Yer {ll In the Editor’s Mail WANTS RAILWAY BONDS IN SMALL SUMS Editor The Starr If the etty of Seattle would eel] municipal bonds for about $25.00 and up, lke the Léberty bonds, then they could got ail the money they need. A FRIEND OF MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP, eee WHY PICK ON THE CIVIL SERVICE Ktitor The Star: Por the benefit of the public I desire that you pub linh thle letter expressing my opin jon regarding the bill introduced in the city councfl December 27th by | Counctiman RH. Thomson, which, | if enacted Into law, would decrease | the civil service employes ef the city 15 per cent in their monthly mlarten Mr. Thomeon ne doubt tntroduced this orfipance at the suggestion of & certain few, who belleve the prop- method cf successfully handling the city of Seattle's public utilities les in the reduction of certain clamen pf city employe, namely, the ctvf servion, presumably be cause they are immune from poll» foal preference or interference Permit me to suggest that im my opinion the proper method to pursue in successfully administering the! Public utilities of the city dome not li@ in the direction of reduction of | the milaries of thome who are tn any | Way connected with the operation or Management of there utilities, but rather, in eliminating superfiu Positions and establishing more ficient methods of obtaining resulta. The insincerity of his ordinance will be readily seen when you note that he makes class legislation by specifying civil service employee only, instead of Including all city mployese including himaelf, all other punciimen, mayor and all who are managed; but I believe attempting a cut in salaries as the first step to| efficiency is an admiasion of incom petency or indifference to the suc coms of the utilities, and especially does it look as such when there is/ does it ook a# such when the city jcouncli inereases the salary of Mr | Rous 60 per cent I might add that I em tn ne way conneeted with any of the city pay rolls but am a firm believer in jus toe and impartiality for all who are lin any way connected with the suo consful operation of our city’s many public utilities. BYRON P. WALKER 1342 Bast 62nd at. A woman who speaks from experi once says that it costs almort ax much to keep a husband in clother an it doce keep an sutomobiie in repalr. ~ ASPIRIN Name “Bayer” on Genuine | | Tr's criminal to take @ chance on any substitute for “Bayer Tablets of | Aapirin.” Unless you see the name Bayer” on package or on tablets you are not getting genuine Aspirin predcribed by physicians for 21 years and proved safe by mil tons, Take Aspirin only as told in the Bayer package for Colde, Head |"L have traveled a great deal, but | #0 impressive as the Seattle harbor Still on the Rhine Of the total of 213,067 officers and men enrolled in the United States army, 162.918 are In the continental United States and 14- 206 are in the army of ocenpation on the Ithine, in Germany, ‘There are 15,947 in the Philippines, 6,927 in Hawall, 6,600 in Panama, 1,493 in Porte Rico, 1,406 in China, 667 in Almwka, 101 in Vrance, and 6 io Bog land During October the enlisted strength of the National Guard was inereaned by 4,649) making the total strength on November 1 of 67,562 men, as compared with an authorized strength of 182,820. New York wtate has the largent National fiuerd organization, with 5,845 men, and Texas ie next, with Peon £00 men, with 6,270 Approximately 8,000 n sylvania is third, with and Wisconsin next, men. TODAY'S QUESTION What is the most impreastve eight Semtile? id ANSWERS 2. M HAMIL, 2029 B. Newton mt: “The view from observation tower in Volunteer park.” LOUIS A. FILE, 4625 634 ave 8: I have never seen anything quite when one ts coming in by boat.” MIS. A. R. MASON, 220 17th ave Na “The wind and bad weather.” W. C HUBBARD, 1118 Madison ots “Well, air, ve just bad a shave and a hair cut and I'm out for hon ors as an tmpreanive might myself.” M. & MOLIN, 922 20th ave, N.: “Its steadily growing businens and buildings.” WHAT DO YOU a2 MONDAY, JANUATY 8, f9t1, How] Put Harding Over’ erty, offers an entirely new ention of story of the as told to The Beez, wcherne was so to disconcert the BY HARKY M. DAUGHERTY | Sheetng tetrad po dyggeengay A One of the popular misconcepUon® enoice strength would give us Up as ie that Senator Harding's nomination | jont, was brought about at a midnight | waited until almost 3 a m., and conference in my room at the Com! then asmembied nearty « hundred grea hotel, in Chicago, after the Ba | joyal Harding workers in a room § tonal convention delegates had dead-| said to them: locked themnclves among Cundidates| “we're going to get every dele Lowden, Wood and Johnwon. gate in this convention out of bed A number of statesmen and poll | between now and morning and tell ticians did confer in my room late! nim to be prepared for treachery im that Friday night, efter Harding the Harding © stock had taken a rapid rise, follow-| 1 carefully explained what the ing the Lowden WoodJohnson dead move was to be, and my hundred jock. loyal “runners” got bury But practically all of them were! ‘The next day, when the Otto bolt there because the delegutes trom) came, was the convention disturbedt, their states declared they’d switch! Not at all, Instead, angry resen! to Harding. ment arone tn all parts of the ball Instead of lending their states Into| From that time on it was & the Harding camp, many of these| triumphal procession for Harding to leaders were following thelr delega | the nomination. tions to us —- Our strategy tor weeks before the| There were 240 industrial strfkrs convention bad been to go after in New York city during the year necond-cheice Wotes in the various ending June 30. stale ‘We can see now we did « shrewd | thing when we announced we would | not mek support im the home state of any other candidaie, We went to the convention with| only a few firstehoice vote, but) with about half of the convention | friendly to Harding an second choice. | I felt that Wood was the man| we'd first have to bead off. Bo 3 aid to the Lowden managerm | “We feel friendly toward your man, and we're going to throw you | enough votes no you can head Wood, but once Wood is out of it, look out for ua? | | The Lowden people felt that tt they could once imave Wood tn the rear they'd keep right on going until | . ‘ > weaned right by having ‘Tho Lowden coulént make the) my eyes exam grade, Lowden forces felt grateful to) ined. |us for what we had done for them, no \they didn't hesitate to swing to Harding. | By Friday night I befeved we bad ||} Seo Better increased our secon4-chotee strength to two-thirds of the convention total. | But the stroke that clinched Hard | ing’s nomination was thim | I had been tipped off that four or five of the Harding delegates from Ohio propored to bolt Harding for! arding victory, That I will start the New Year KNOW ABOUT SEATTLE? QUESTIONS 1. What were the three coldest Quays of 19197 2. What ts the value of the coop mut of shipped thru this port year yt 2 What amount of wheat was produced in Washington in 1919? (Answers Tuesday) PREVIOUS QUESTIONS 1 Albert Hansen ts the onty in any way drawing @ salary trom| ach mation, Kar- the ity of Seattia ee oo Gia cen an Ache, Toothache, Lumbago and for | a vatcnlime and taxpayer, alno as} Pain. Handy tin boxes of 12 tablets Septem of all the city’s public|cont few canta. Drugeists also sell bce gel firm believer in public | larger packages. Aspirin is the trade | eine ip of such, I desire them to|mark of ayer Manufacture of succend, and they will tf properly! Monoaceticncidester of Ballcylicactd. any wish one can make? ‘The Fury Godmother—Yea, dearte. Goldilocks—Then, why don’t you wish yourself young and pretty like me? CASH COUNTS! 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