The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 17, 1921, Page 6

Frayed Trousers asked the editors wife, as she looked up from the Senger paces Inquiring 7 dear, that the trousers you wore Inst week are frayed Seattle Star — TODAY'S Have you any sw QUESTION IVES THERE A MAN with soul so dead he never to his Eiidsetha site: ¢ srontne 82.707 your, wife hath said: “What made you give that suit away? ident Harmiing's ca ae an ae t You know ‘tis good for, many a day You know I loved its ANSW | $480 for ¢ ‘ comfy feel—I loved the frayed edge at its heel. I loved its |, G07T) CAMMOBN, oye rune corer, ony hore | creys » baggy knees—go beg it back, dear, won't YOU, | hon: atudt man in the country for EP aan ‘Danes tree Gorrie | Dleake? any Job if the cabinet." Published DP by The Star Pubtian-| For, ever since the world began—-since clothes were donned| Bowan w tAVEN,, 1267 ing Co, Phone Main ¢0¢ | by mortal man—he’s loved his oldest suit the best—the | pire busting: 1'd lke {0 eee Root J or pomdily Knox an secretary of ae “ a trou ers that were seldom pressed—the coat that sagged S| stats. Charlee B, Hughes should oo| little bit tho once it was a perfect fit—the vest that didn’t | on the aupreme court bench.” nN ALNERT G 46 New York beiding My choloe for secre tary of state would be lihu Root.” D SOM, JK, 607 White | building: “I'm of Uhe other party, but 1 wast Prosident Harding assured «| | quite connect, altho ‘twas not completely wrecked few years back we thought ‘twas fun to heed the word from Washington: “Spend not your edin on glad array, but Buy a Bond to Save the Day!” Ah, happy he who had by chance, a clothes-press full of ancient pants! The tailors gave one awful yell ‘was stylish then to look like a hobo. Tl! fares that land, to bills a prey, where men wear new suits every day. "Tis better far, without much swank, to | S>/R&t as Root, Hoover, Lowden and a . Gay. ever far, Without much bowed | Sutiert of Utah, The latter put some Money in the Bank. The peacock is a foolish fowl. | snowmt be attorney general.” uccawful administration by the presq@nce of such strong men in the He scorns the feathers of the owl. But let us not so far] marrinew W. HULL, 816 Second digre Thesubject of this piece is: Dress. aves “Herbert Hoover, ssaretary of row took FF * Dy ta lihu Root, secretary of state Oh, brown@#ld suit from Way Back East—Oh, light Palm warchasian It Micuon etiaooee aap Oh, Pongee silk of gfay and |p. ge that shows a sheen—Oh, mourn- | st—Oh, khaki garb, adventure blest of every hue celebrate each Beach that warmg us least green—Oh, dark blue 8 ful black that’s shy a ves Oh, “business suits’ TODAY'S BEST BET How much did you the fund for brokendown ontribute t we burglars thread of you! A Pig and a Gun : " ” > | . * fast night Re “Old friends are best,” the poet writes. Old suits are best} A Bos shot a man at Paris, Texas fer, ct Westville, Dl, was arrest. Too soon their days of doom draw nigh. Too soon we'll |fioa oft the gun if the man hadn't “Your pants are f. 1 check for fifty beans and buy self some brand-netv jeans.” yed; as sure’s ‘our j@2 on a charge of violating the ordi: hear on some bright morn ee voreal regulating the sale of soft you're born! Go write Aeft it in the plgpen, Moral: Don't leave loaded guns lying round where @ pig gan mistake them for something to eat. ee . And many of the apartment houses In Los Angeles bear this sign: Th | If a wild joker fits to « handful of “Begears ant peddlers not admit-| kings, the four aces held by ue ee e Cause |saer, he Sew cong ne bes ee” i. / HE heart-rending tragedy of Friday, ip which @ . dag Heged at ng wed b Bom © Johnny Kilbane wired Tex Rickard heroic Seattle policeman was killed, five children|°PPcvent In the game, Manuel For . he was willing to fight in Madi- left fatherless, and four boy desperadoes face years 18.| ‘The battle that followed the pree Son Square Garden for $50,000. Tex) prison, if not the hangman's noose, leaves the observer | entation of five kings wil! be settled must have asked him to fight Jack in court when the judge haa: noted aghast at the horror and futility of the crime. ‘Dempsey. | what Hoyle mays on the subject Re simple matter to ascribe the tragedy to a “crirge eee ———-®| wave,” to “evil influences,” to “born criminals”; but the] Sweden realizes the neceesfty for ANSWERED | }cause lies far deeper than any of these facile explanatioms. | discournging emigration of her men BY MR. CYNTHIA GREY | folie: sious as the boys und ae dine 1ey . : Vicious as the boys undoubtedly are, they are the)’ tixnotm—tnder the prov: | My son Willie wants to go to work products of their environment. That environment, to. Alot the new Swedish marriage law | for a butcher and learn the business, fo he can have a meat market of his |the wife is compelled to help sup | port the fumily . certain extent, was responsible for the death of Patrolman lmmouda I tot bam é0 V. L. Stevens. That boys of 19 could become so hardennd, this?—H. RD. |so utterly callous to the value of human life, points un- “ No, indeed. A butcher always gets|erringly to rotten, running cancers in our.social order. the wurst of It. | All of the boys exhibited at the police station the snper- Please tel! me one kind of reot/ing callousness of men who have spent the best part of Bp ocak gro Rever found in the woods.—r. H. M.| their lives behind prison bars. ‘There was no sign of | Fasbionable milfiners of Parts now Cube root. jweakness in their bearing. Every kindly feeling had been/are making stylinh hate for ents. iground out of them in a world where honesty, humantity, | Yep, real fetines. Mra. Elta Fiekts, Oceanport, NJ has a rabbit trained to chase stray | ats out of the yard. Louts Neilson, Madison, Wis, has Please tell me if face powder ever neh Teen, decency and sportsmanship weré merely terms at which to} yo) Grose canenden Que, tas > Itdoes. A lot of it is so hichty ex. Stieer. a sixiegeed lamb | Plosive tt disappears in a puff, | It would be difficult to find, even in the criminal @¢ess-| The diminutive mutton can, and joes walk on any four of ite lee. Who was tt that started the “net.|Pools of the cities of the East, men ‘of more hardengi or sgt perth a oi ms hank ‘cameain jal of which are perfectly forme ter Engtish week” in this country?} mature viciousness. but ean't walk on six, Two are al —F.T. Longer prison terms, more hangings, larger polic® @¢-| ways resting ao. Grey for since @*./ partments—all these may be adyocated as preventive] Many a human has wished for an wee $ ya ™ measures. But one fact should never be forgotten: “Certain | t™ couple of legs for use along) |toward the end of a far journey | industrial, economic or social forces are responsible fer the} development of boy criminals. Are the heavy weights the most briftiant prime Mehters?—J. A | They could not possibly ba The "Mest brilliant are the light weights QUESTIONS MR. ; AN afoot. ee Shertff J. W. Potts, of Mason coun ty, ts hurting for a double-nosed In finn, accused In @ robbery chare. He t mid to be the only redskin Till Death Doth Them Part cl with two noses, GREY CANNOT How is it possible for a man's bost-| HE divorce bill introduced by Representative Rawson eee Teas to be = it ts at a} of Pierce county, at the request of the Minésterial hil gppeora ange egg acs es chee how much sugar 1|2880ciation, would give courts the right to impose limited ted. ie. wan. Rae te divorces, namely, divorces that prohibit either party from remarrying until death takes the other. There is no question that divorces lead to many ill re-| jsults, especially with relation to the care and education of | for my cornet?—J. C. children. It is, however, also a faet that where husband ee © and wife are not respectful of each other, tho they are MR. GREYS HOUSEHOLD HINTS/ not divorcees, the results are also harmful, and children Sypadey aap et ape acreamgin V oo ed up in an atmosphere of this kind might be better ton p odepens ie aan dg on| Off with either one parent or the other. : either a 13% or a 14% shirt There is no absolute rule of wisdom in domestic affairs Red ants will not eat be an evil in some In othegs it ma: egg unless the shell is re 4 Never throw away an old rasp . , 3 ; berry pie. "The gules 008 berries can| Certainly there is no good ca for granting a divorce be used to dye napkins, handker-/and forevermore prohibiting the remarriage of the parties peeete and pillow cases. |The good clergymen to the contrary notwithstawding, this u hen t ciano hav M } 4 iii osa’ ore ee eee wees one provision, at least, should be eliminated from the knife, and wish’ to rip up an old| divorce bill, for in actual practice, it will prove an invi- Gress, try a can opener. tation to poor moral In making turnip pudding, first re- move the skins from the turnips Use about one pound of raisins to) ach turnip. a pet horse, The anima! had been trained to open and shut doors. | While Troteklor wae in the fered | room the horse came up, clased the/ door, and tatched ft. Trosekler got out next afternoon. Moral: Never teach a horee to lock a door. should use to make © dining room suite —J. B. Would it be possible for a police man to make a pinch of salt?—M. & Where can I buy a silk muffler ASPIRIN Name “Bayer” on Genuine ASES, Literary Burglars 2Y MAN who said there was nothing new under “Man drugged, kidnaped, in California,” reads a ns HE VE Take Aspirin only as told in each Other famous altbis suitable for vart-| the sun is said by some scholars to have pilfered the| package of genuine Bayer Tablet ous occasions: adage from a writer dead before Solomon lived. of* Aspirin, Then you will be fol “Just missed the last car, dearie."| It is quite the thing for critics to wrinkle their brows to|'owing the directions and dosage “Had to attend a meeting of the/frown on a modern philosopher for alleged thefts from the | *°"**? Mt by Physicians during 21 board of directors.” , | years, and proved safe by millions “Pat did it.” songs of Omar Khayyam, Persian, who lived im the eleventh | ruko no chances with etatinatn “The alarm clock didn’ ff.” and twelfth centuries of the Christian era. | if you see the Bayer Cross on tab 7. But old Omar, known to every lad about the time he first | iets, you take them without SPEAKING OF ALIEIS dons long trousers, didn’t have hands cle of literary } We rise to « ate that of the! burglary himself. He cribbed as clumsily and. inexpertly as anee:tia | Market reporter, who dritfed in at the yeriest schoolboy . andy tin 725 and said: | . nf” ‘ . = cost. few | Well, I went into a restaur on} About half of his “eat, drink and be merry” epigrams he | ce Druggists also sell larger | Union st, at 6:40 and ordered 1 stole from one Abu’l-Ala, Arab, who wrote songs he called | Packases. Aspirin is the trade peta of Bayer Manufacture of Monoace I looked over the market the “Luzumiyat,” 100 years before the Tertmaker 1 page xnd about 6:55 I r ticacidester of Salicylicacid alized that it hig back in a rose garden and poked fun at tle gods. Was time to be at work 14 T hadn't eaten. ‘Oh, lady,’ I called to the “I give and go, Grim Destiny—tI . K Waitress; ‘what about my ham and Upon th he rd of t and Day—* | ‘i Sees? And she says to me, 'T'll or Thus sings Abu’l and back comes Omar with | ‘a der them a» soon as the cook 5 it teste ‘ > Rei ome wee ome _ this checker-board of Nights and Days ’ | They finish the thought together with something to the For more than half a WHAT DO YOU 7 effect that when the game’s done the player’s done, too, | century this beautiful KNOW ABOUT About the only difference between Omar and the Arab|f| song has struck a re- t was that Abu’l was a woman-hater and—well, Omar wasn't! sponsive chord in the _ SEATTLE? || hearts of Americans. It QUESTIONS | is appealing both to the b 1, What is the value of the Alaska| An Unopposed Reform |]| home owners and those and Yukon territory trade handled by Seattle merchants? who long for a home, but NIQUE among so-called reform organizations, the White , are not yet fortunaté | 2. How many acre tile land ( ss is—apparent] se 7O0e8 . y : Girectly tributary to a, wilt be th ross is—apparently——unopposed. It goes out to do bat-|]] enough to have.one. | : + Pinacciipe dl page lighe i tle with an enemy who dares not show his head. To not ° h | ee Te tine en: ni of the Peddlers of narcotic drugs, propagators of the dope traf- prospec Wr jome | When will the first American L¢, ave not only without a day in court-~-they dare not ask | oe NOW? i Why not | passenger line between Puget Souna for one. | uy ? Lower and ports of the Orient be inaugur’ ‘Their secret, sNppery business needs amly the limelight of |f] Prices easy terms, and oe here iia ta 2 publicity to be destroyed. It is 100 per cent evil. It cannot better times in prospect, (Answers Tuesplay.) tand the light, . Ee all impel you to decide. PREVIOUS QUESTIONS | And when you buy, 1. ‘There are over 9,100,000 poten- When there wde talk of reviving the ball for Harding's inauguration a\§| see that your title is pro- tial hydro-electric horsepower in 11 of enthusiastic citisens cheered because theyythought the high ball was| | tected by Title «Insur- Washington, according to estimates, ”"¢*" lg as iss ; MIC asthe aventest potential hore | ance, as issued by | power of any state tr Union Don't mistake the whole human race becauseca fow thousand inhabitanta| bunkers from the conveyors on § We haven't noticed that girls are lows bold amd daring now than in lea »| | There are 800,000 acres in | Western Washington suited to berry The peasimiat keeps adding up 1-9-2-1 and. finding the result is 13 nse nig Saag growing, or ten times the present | expenditures and receipts in t " THE SEATTLE STAR History Civil War and World War Government Tilstory te repeating tteet{ in gov ernment financing. The effect of the | great world war on U. 4. government maune | as the effect of the civil war. Btatistician Roger W. Babson has worked out the above graphs which | demonstrate the healthy conditian | of-present government receipts and| expenditures ag compared with the| civil war period. The ordinary re Repeats Cause Same Phenomena in F 76 9 6D! joaipte and disbursements of the treasury have been 1 as a basin dinbursements including interest on the public debt, ‘There was the same rharp, sudden Increase in government expenses duc to intensive prosecution of the war both in 1861-65, as in 1917-1919 Ones the peak wan reached and the war ended, the return to normal ex penditure was effected in a year in both instances, Government penses, however, remained at alight, but permanently higher level after the civil war, If history re pents itself in this respect, govern ment ¢.penses will never go down to the point they ooeupied prior to the world war Wars have to be paid for over a long period. The interest on the debt alone suffices to raise the pub Ne expenditure, to say nothing of taking care of the wounded and crip pled. a penses of running the government will approach measurably to the pre war level The task of making hi» | BY BT. MEREDITN | U, 8. Secretary Agriculture D' KUM wheat, introduced in bulk of the Call - 1499 from Kunsia, nm Juce y seing a ¢ @ crop worth $50,000,000 a approxin y $16 | tian cotton, brought by the adn gram, sotrodu |nctentiata of the department tn 1, | from Beypt ow w come the basis of the long-sta- | 600,( " * industry in the Southwest secured in | valued at $6,000,000 in 1917, $11,00 oduced in 18 000 in 1918, and $20,000,000 in 1919 c . & native of central A rietien of | wernt foundations of the great introduced - im industry of Louisiana and Texas.| 1899, in by far the mont productive | ‘The Washington navel orange, in-| and valuable variety for the Soutie | troduced from Brazil in 1872, makes west Fut It in reasonable to fore | cast a period when normal receipts | wlll exceed expenditure and when ex. | tory repeat is up to the approprin. | tions committees of the short session of congress just begun. In the Editor’s Mail REFUND PART OF THE PURCHASE PRICK Editar The Star: Before the peo | ple of Seattle voted to buy the street car linen, they were given to under: | stand by the newrpapers that the deal would include very nearly all of the Stone Webster propertins in Beat Ue. Newspapers in the lange cities are the chief source of information | for the public and the articles print ed previous to the election had a erent deal to do with the outoome of the election. The power plants were jas much @ part of the street car ays tem as were the carn, rails or car barns, and the people of thin city would never have given the city council authority to purchase the} nystem ff they bad had the slightest | idea that the rundown cars, rails and car barns were all that the deal | inctuded. The members of the city council, the mayor and the others who helped to consummate the deal, knew that the power stations, offices, etc, of| the electric company were not includ. | ed, and they should never have com. | pleted the purchase of the lines until | some of the power planta were made to comprise a part of the purchase. or a certain amount of “juice” be furnished free to the elty to operate the cars with Fifteen million dollars was an out rgeous price to pay for what the city received, and such fact has been coneeded by a number of persons in position to know The men representing the city In this car line purchase were mupposed to be men of business ability, and had | they used their abilit for the elty bent interests, we would now have} the car lines on a’ paying basis with | the power houses as a part of the} system, or else the deal would not} bave gone thru. | The Stone Webster people must have had a good laugh thin | kind of a deal was put thru in a city where they had almost stantly at war with the council over franchine provisions. An investigntion of the ear line! purchase was started by the present mayor, but tt loubt¢ul if much “real information” will be un Should any incriminating ¢ on the part of any city officials shown, they should be given the limit | of the law. Tf, however, no under handed work in found, but the deal has to stand as it is now, with the when been con ‘Teity aaddjed with this monstrous debt then the men who demonstrated their lack of business acumen should be marked off of the city’s official list | for all time i It’s the jing fares to’ Tt seems an If it would be imponsi. | ble for this street car system to be made to pay for itself even by rais wice or three timer now, or by changing what they ar the cart to “one man cars,” an long an the clty haw to buy “Juice” and to pay interest on the inflated purchase price. If there are no means of compel ling the Btone- Webster Co. to refund part of the purchase price, then the city should adopt former Mayor Cot terill's plan of refunding bonds and consider that $7,500,000 has epent for experience. Taxing all of the property in the city to pay off the debt quickly would be better than to attempt to do so by raising fares. A STAR READER eee TRAFFIC MEN NOT ON THE Jon Editor The Star: Your editortal of the fourth, “Street Car Figures.” Bum management is responsible for the contrast of figures. I waa at my father's house near Woodland | park the night of the 23rd and start ed into the city at § p. m bound Green Lake cars to Fremont vertook me. I met 15 on Lake cars, four well lowded but half of them had vacant grata, and no cars turned around at Park Junction. One good traffic man on thie line alone could save ten times a liberal «alary in an hour. But the “muny” railway now has five times an many traffic men as the old com pany and seems unable to improve conditions. Fares of & 13 cents are enough. The percentage of traffic will decrease with advanced fares By next Jaly the muny railway will be nae ondition as now. lama je taxpayer for 15 years, but now live 15 miles out R. B, ZINN, No in I walked Switzertand has two women judges. Precious Stones and Jewelry Unquestioned Quality Reliable Prices ALBERT HANSEN Jeweler 1010 Second Avenue Flavor! Yes, that FBOLS BUTTER-NUT wonderful flavor popularity for our and QUEENANN ‘ BREADS Akind for every taste Order the one you like best Seattle Baking Co. 19th So, at Main Your Grocer Will Supply You ‘ it’s the wins such UM been | where a Wallingford car | outbound | not SECRETARY MEREDITH . Writes for The Seattle Star Today orf NEW GRAINS IN AMERICA into the Western states in 1 from Ching: has become in a genera Orient he basic crop of the s of the depart West, according to the report oful tent hums are the t of the Jeultural development of the rid Bouthwest Japanese rices, secured in 1899, ——=—«! ABigDrop ELLO | ackages’ 1S a The Genesee Pure Food Company, Le Roy, N.Y, One of Seattle’s Oldest Established Dental Offices Specializing in High-Class Crown, Plate and Bridgework Special Attention to Out-of-Town Patients Modern Methods—High-Class Dentistry—Low Prices. These we offer you. Electro Painless Dentists’ Located for years at S. E. Cor. Ist & Pike. Phone Main 2555. A Victrola for him He will come home tired tonight. He will want rest, relaxation, Prepare a little surprise for him. Have a Vic- trola and some well-selected records ready. Put on hig favorite melody—or the latest popular hit. Then watch! Watch his face light up! Notice how he sinks back in his easy chair, and grins! The day’s tronbles are already forgotten. A Vidtroia is so easy to own—it is made in so many styles, ranging in price from $25 to $1500 —that we know we can please you. Wewill gladly arrange convenient Payment terins ~ Sherman [Glay & Co. Third Avenue at Pine SEATTLE Tacoma + Spokane + Portland