The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 20, 1921, Page 6

The OCKEFELLER? NO. Morgan? N Nor is he a Weyerhaeuser nor a Guggenheim, Nor an Indian potentate with a peck of Koh-i-Nors. There's a new “richest man.” You've never heard of him before. He’s not one of the war profiteers. ships to Uncle Sam, He manufactured no munitions. Star By mall, oot of city, S00 par month: 2 Months $1.59; 6 montha $2.75) year $6.00, In the ‘of Washington | Yiches is self-announced, But it’s wor. attention, of the Norfolk (Neb.) Daily News. This is what he wrot 1 wonder if you know that one of the richest men in the world lives 4 miles north of Norfolk, right here in Pieree? That man is the writer, 1 Just a common “plug blacksmith,” bat oh, how rich! 1 go to my labors each morning, work until neon, go to dinner, return at I p,m, and werk until 6 o'clock, I enjoy the groatest of all blessings, good health, Rockefeller would give all that he possesses in money and holdings fur my stomach, but he can't have it, Each day sees something ‘accomplished and every job of work I turn out I feel 1 have done my customer a service “worthy of my hire,” I have a wonderful little wife, She has stuck tom now, so T know she must be a dendy to accomplinh ¢ I have a little home, » bewutiful litte daughter, a son grown to maturity and now in life's game for himself Rich? Why, man alive, who can powibly be richer? Then, to add to all the above riches, I take down my old shot gun in season and ramble (hru fields, weeds and tangle in search of the clusive cottontail, teal and mallard, with my faithful old polnter at heel (now past 11 years old), and he ks as happy when on the hant, Then, when I get back—how good everything dors laste! Then, when night has spread its mantle over this good old unt verse, I settle down in a good old easy chair, enjoy a smoke, atid then roll inte bed to be embraced by Morpheus and never hear a sound until the beautiful break of another day Rich, did you say? Well, guess, Dollars? You inquired about riches, not material wealth ‘The height of my ambition is to so live that I may have no regrets for having lived, when the time comes for me to # off this mortal coil, a hope by that time to have aceuny Just enough dollars that myself and mine may not be objects of charity ‘This, then, is my idea of # rich man. If any one enjoys tite more than 1 do, he is to be envied for hiv riches, With kindest regards, EDWARD J. MEYERS. Mr. Edward J. Meyers, Neb: ulate you on your riches! We call them “‘ill-gained.” We are Pubtiehed Daity by ing Co Phone Main © years TODAY'S BEST BET "Have you besun to worry about income tax return yet? No, not many guy who runs a col-yum 1 In his searches after truth a nechssary adjunct Is an information booth. for he has to answer questions — | And it doesn't do to miss— Phe qnestions that confront him © Seem to run along like this ska blacksmith, we congrat- re certain that nobody will certain that no fawning q kind of Turkish cigarets + Does Warren Harding smoke? "'s become of Col. House ‘And is the crown prince broke? shotgun and your pointer. bers never are made William Two still sawing wood’ Will thove who flee from fire “Twist 9 p.m. and 9 a m. all _ “Flee in scant ature”? uneasy with thoughts of retainers poorly rewarded. Few will rise to dispute your title—for we note that with becoming modesty you lay claim, directly, only to being ON of the richest men. Perhaps there are men richer than you. e many. haps the reader of it ig another. Chinese persons, running stills, Escaped the law with ease, not one refer to them, in print, ‘As nimble Moonshinese? ‘ Rabe Ruth find his batting eve | ar | In Nineteen Twenty-One? | Are jazz and movies worth the while ‘When all is said and done? But |been made richer by a portion of your richness N Gabrielle d’Annunaio you have never missed! Break out again this year? ‘ ‘Willard fights with Dempsey Who will mourn around the bier? Mrs. Peatliny Céines Across LL those people who have some little trouble of their own, and all those who are borrowing trouble from the future, and especially all those who view with alarm if Mary Pickford’s ange! emile ‘Goes on from day to day ‘Without a miss, could it be called “gimper fidelis,” hey? - } Tim merely mentioning these few To show the world how queer is The life of those who con a col. And puzzle over queriea, eee {Peachey and her eight little Peacheys. | Mrs. Peachey is, according to all reports, as fine a speci- }men of immigrant as ever landed on New World shores. She was widowed by the war, and has nothing between her and want but her own willing hands and a pension the British government awards the family ef a dead hero. No; jthat statement is not exactly true. She has more. Mrs. |Peachey is the proudest mother you ever saw of eight boys, the oldest, 15; the youngest is 3. “With my eight boys I’m going to grow up in the New World,” Mrs. Peachey said when she arrived in Montreal. |By now the whole Peachey family is headed westward— |“where there’s plenty of outdoors and plenty of work and opportunity,” the mother explained. Many a person would be overwhelmed with such a bur- A WORD FROM JOSH WISE || You have t’ pay big interest | enall th’ trouble you borrow. | @perators robbed the government in coal. Well, you have to my They treat ‘The airmen who had the fist fight en their return to civilization cer tainly showed the tvory in their row. | They should have tought for a purse. lde eee | Philadetphia sport eds say Connie | burden. “Mack has the foundation of a first- ‘class team this year. fae foundation. and the older ones soon will prove themselves real Peacheys, WONDER IF HE TIRED HER (Sons their soldier-father would have been proud of if the Dear Home Brew: While flivering| war had returned him to us.” Bato this thriving metropolis from the) ‘Phe wife of a hero? Yes; but algo she has something Slububs the other morning I maw a/ a ; ; weet little aay pe maitiaa on| heroic in herself. Probably it requires no greater heroism the sidewalk. I asked her to ride | to command an army on the battlefield than for a woman EE oe, Dae He entinved and\to command eight little boys in a strange and unknown eregad te deine ‘tern her’ rejland, thousands of miles from home, in their joint and Marks that ‘she was afraid I would |Several campaigns to grab Fortune by the forelock. Jet the carburetor. Well, we talked | Here’s wishing success for the young Peachey army and ige tong on the corner about the mat-/its mother-commander! fer that I missed a date with my . Best girl and so I had to give it up ‘gpd let the speedometer —L. L. Good ‘win, 602 Burke bidg. eee WHAT EVERY FARMER OUGHT TO KNOW Finger-bowls are provided for the pur- ansing the fingnrs at the close fter eating frvit. They are fed on the fruit plate for the break- course, of on the demsert plate at| @inner. Lift the bow! from the plate and Get it in front of you, silghtly to the Fight. To use, dip the tips of the fingers Gato the bowl, which should be partly filled with water, and wipe them on the Papkin. It Is also permissible to molsten | the extreme corner of the napkin In the owl and pass this corner Mahtly | e lips.—Oklahoma Farm Journal The French and Belgians have Perfected a gun that carries a shell 200 miles. A railroad train could do} little better. Why not call them income tar blankety blanks? As s00n as a man buys an automobile he thinks a pedestrian is some kind of a wut, A new book in entitled “Rolsheviem at Work.” animal. There ain't no such Social climbers who laid in @ stock find their progress up the ladder ac-cellar-ated. Harding has ordered 18 fancy vests for White House wear. Hope they meet the approval of the senator from Pennsylvania. fing The modernness of postoffice methods should not be judged by the fact over ¢ that Burleson drives a barouche, Dispatches from Gawlior, India, say Clemenceau killed two tigers name of the place has an intriguing sound. The Tastes differ, luckily, or the winter sports at Banff could not compete with Florida golf A BAVER Coro At the first gchill! Take Ge | ‘Bayer Cross”’ to break up you ¢" Stuffiness. over 19 years, you must ask f jook for the name ‘‘Bayer’’ Always say ‘‘Bayer.’’ | Each “‘Bayer package” contains safe the relief of Colds—also for Headache, Neuralgia, Toothache, Earache, Rheumatism, Lumbago, Neuritis and for Pain generally, Bexes of 12—Bottles of 24— - - ARI th eicrwarndly- taped of 24—Rottles of 100—Also Capsules—All druggists : “Nomthe loot. [Aaviri te the trade mrark of Bayer Manufacture of Monoareticacidester of Balicy licacté . Babe Ruth says he lost $5,000 on} the horses in Havana, Evident, Babe didn’t pick the horses the wa fhe picks the pitched balla, On the @amwnd he picks the fast ones. ee B A New Jersey woman who has p @wed for breach-of-promise says she ‘waited 20 years for the gentleman in the case. Humph ! If they had been Married 20 years ago, the chances fare she would have been waiting on ‘There was a young lady named Bell, As % cook she was certainly swell; But she sald with a sigh, “This gas isn't high Enough to cook dinner in a hotel.” CORRECT — i nuine Aspirin marked with the ir Cold and relieve the Headache, q Warning! To get Genuine Aspirin, préscribed by physicians for ‘or “Bayer Tablets of Aspirin,’ and on the package and on each tablet, and proper directions for oe “Richest Man in the World” He sold no | extensty He lives in Nebraska. He's a blacksmith. His title to} The other day he sat down and wrote a letter to the editor |" the period of time just ahead, ought to meet Mrs. Henry | ent invert n, but to Mrs. Peachey eight small children are not a|®#*ter" “We'll get along somehow,” she said; “at first it may be} ieast three Yeh—a com) hard, but the pension will help while the children are small, |em: TH NO INCOME TAX ON FORTY BILLAONS (From the New A judge bonus charged by money-le More serious trouble If a man with however, 4 money on mortgage the 1 On the other and state Income tax for building more ¢ hand, bonds he which under the PULL In other words, sur Mr F cent to help build en in thin ¢ The government would take investor would get two, But if Mr state bonds at five per cent he government takes nothing. You men put their money In ineon mortgages to build houses, | labor |. There are now tesved in the MILLION DOLLARS |NO income tax prese INTHE of securities (Copyright, 1971 NOW urging immedi of the Reorganization is to committee wld be with the AM NOT reorganization party now ° democratic impossible | and the new of of course, in har views of the except as officers natic fi mony mittee I m advising the selection of pro: er e committeemen as the terme 1 aympathy reactionary {en th | with prog vr member wh re in expire n ne bit must ive who is reactionar sycophants besiege you when you venture out with your |auestion We are certain that your slum- | PROGR! SSIVES MUST business | rivals crushed, of friendships killed by jealousy, of faithful! POSE WALL Progressives | Want STREET must alvc ntreet the « of the principle Wa mpels party street Perhaps there} Perhaps the writer of this editorial is one. Per-| we are sure that} none of them is envious of you— and maybe they have! & portion |BRING DOWN TAXES DOWN RENTS | In thin eve an article TO B Fe ning’s paper i articl aeenclen, RIN I read on | Utled enta are coming down.” Ir quot whose answers thin 4 arioun rer are very vague. The following thone of an in pintons are 0: 1, but I feel « wif prove them nity abnolutely correct When are rents When the taxes come down, of course, It fs an impossibility to have cheap rental tn the face of a 74 mill tax levy. | San Francisco has a 3% per cent. | mill levy, leas than half that of | Seattin The assemed valuation | there tx 60 per cent of the actual valua, the mime rule which applies here, and in many other parts of coming down? | tits country, Why are we so often | told that valuations and levies are figured on a different basix there, | nd that their tax is as high as ours roportion ? During the p Eastern in | st year a number of! n ufacturera sent atives to this ie & @ultable city for distributing center, At that I know of, would »y OVer 2.000 men each to w#tart They all went to California to after looking over the situa Why? wecaune no per on, OF Kroup of persons, will Invest heir money they are penal |ized for so doing ’ To bring industries here, fin all available houses, and build more, spells success, To reduce rente by [driving industries and stary ling out what few can not get away |epells failure. Then we will have a » where nobody lives, and the rl Exposes Secret oo as the Braye, larke Coast, to & coastal with ocate, tion here. where away Gi manager ‘ r salary is no higher than other girls, and look at them! the How ‘Oh ahe # Cherr look nice for a long time then they to pay for them as T and in that way I can afford a new suit each » And they let do the same with blouses, loads of other things H the and and I think pretty th store, and they can drop aturday when they have of. time Their place I" easy to find. 207 | o Rialt 1g. over Pig'n Whistle, | betw Madison and Spring Adv “REAL PAINLESS DENTISTS | In. order (whalebone) Ne to Introduce our new plate, which is ‘the at and strongest plate known, not cover the foot of the ith; you can bite corn off the guaranteed 16 years. | Whalebone set of teeth . $8 Crowns .... 88 Bridgework . $2 Amalgam Filling . All work guaranteed for 15 years Have impressions taken in the morning and get teeth same da. Examination and advice free ‘i Call and See Somples of 0: ond Mridge Work. We the Test of Time, Most of our present p recommended by our in tronage is early custom. | still giving good 1 ers who n coming sure you are in the ing this ad with you. OHIO Cut-Rate Dentists | 207 UN TY ST, | right place. { eee ea ane SEATTLE OTHERS SEE THE WORLD EXfitorials and Comments Reprinted From. Various Newspapers declares that lack of houw Multimillionaire four dot tax develop factories York Journ on in due to And found in this fact h Kreat deal of money and a the government may take fifty per cont ange interest in the shape of if a man with a big inco nt prepe IREST oF er h wb ity a falr ral out of t Hich Man in ALL wonde EXEMPT United States about FORTY THOUSAND on which t And that ts the greatest outrage in the tax situation WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN Writes for The Seattle Star Today on FUTURE -OF DEMOCRATS HY WILIAAM JENNINGS BRYAN by the United Press) The demoe ty ft nterest the « wo wh from the pre put ‘ willing to ¢ { the 5 extytence rehip of th and natic t hope voter at wed ¢ t upon the way party is [Meet the real sentiment of the party dogn bark at There are © alone { Tacoma, eattie comb: Jclans’ must the better STAR of the five or gt te with the republica party © treated by the party lead THURSDAY, 7-42" 20, 1921 Safe TUK tor WFANTS & INVALIDS - ASK FOR \ Horlicks Horlick’s ia - a) high interest rates and that is true, PARTLY TODAY'S QUESTION Can you make a dollar go a grent jer distance today than you could a year ago? For Infonts, Invalides and Growing Chilaren Rich Mlk. Matted Grain B. The Original Food-Drink For AllAges | Neo Cooking srichi large income lends bi a 1 income tax e invests in municipal ANSWEKS WFRAD I'm perte us conditions pay NO bond Id lend money THOMAS White Bldg can't J, M. HENS I'm certain f | far in the a doll CARL “1 think the ut ne I te of ir he vents bi at nix erent at present and the | in eity the that very prosperous securities and NOT in nployment to idle ix per cent per cent street cars as Iw 0 for CROBON, 900 Leary Bldg a dollar in a bit mor now in covering household ¢ pennes.” n There's covering a H. A. OWED oN " | have to axk the busine | 1 to he government collects SHIELDS ‘08 Lyon Bldg al ac ground now sth obrne mor mm. 1 GOLFER has a wonderful day's sport, takes a shower bath and then a vigor- ous scalp rub with ED. PINAUD’S HAIR TONIC Makes him feel like a new man., Many golfers also “rub down” | with ED. PINAUD’S LILAC after the shower—it is great for this purpose. Try it. my househo! obta forn accurat The history be tra as the birthy of Stratfordon-Avon ed back 1,100 ot may eur ri hag become 50,000 people ratic party cannot hope par upport of the predatory SPE SGLE PEPE PS ALPE EED # Home-made, but Has No Equal for Coughs n reeruite it merensive eleme arty must be t of the Makes a family supply of really dependable rough medicine. Vas lly prepared, and maves about Seacrastasteotastacta tactaote If you have « severe cough or ches vid accompanied with soreness throat tickle, hoarseness, or difficul breathing { your child wakes uy during the night with croup and yo want quick help, try this reliable ob home-made cough remedy. Any drug gist can su of Pinex. I and fill the bottle w lated wugar syrup. clarified molasses of mocratic party the tm not Interents it haw no rea an the the mmittes ix in Peete tee arn © party in of the b are reactior Kreat bow w nfider emphasize Internationa aune I expect them to of in a mhort time Per ty alignments will de domentic ques leadern wpenk for they the re an { be depended upon to give asting relief this take hold of na way that means business loosens and raises the phlegm stops throat tickle and soothes an heals the irritated m line the throat important that angern ore working men idle eo than in the whole nia. arings of San Fran greater and, ined salaries, expenses and come down; the sooner Why not » FRANK ¥. PARFUMERIE ED. PINAUD American Offices ED. PINAUD BLDG. way pine extra | beet known eoughe © are of thie mixture NEW YORK than those Spokane and/ ly refunded. The Pinex Co. Wayne, Ind. 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