The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 27, 1921, Page 6

= + We lamp tn the prints that Seattle Star Be mah, cut of city, Hee por month: F $1.50; monte $2.78: Fran, 00 tm ch aahington of the stata, Be per C450 for # month or 59.00 per Fear, By carrier, bity, Ube per Hewepeper Rnterprise — Aaportntion ‘and United Pree Rerview Published Daity by The Star Publ: tag Ca Phone Main 606 HOME INVITES HARDING | TO COME WEST The following telegram was | by the editor of Home | to be sent to President | Harding forthwith: “President Warren G. Harding, “Washington, D.C. “The editor of Home Brew, on Behalf of large number of lead. ing Alaskans and citizens of Se Attle and the Pacific Northwest, asks that you and such members of your cabinet as you desire to gelect visit Alaska during the coming summer. Let Will Hays come, too, if you want If you gant come this summer, we've decided to keep the invitation 1} Open for next summer also.” Tnvitations have also been ex tended to the president by the | governors of Washington, Ore |} gOn, Montana, Idaho and Wyo “| ming tar, yesterday asked: “How fast can u think?” All depends. Personally, we think when our wife demands to am eee must not smoke or chew to while driving, or use intox. ing likker. fe can understand the tobacco it, but seems like the rest of it superfiuous. How can anybody intoxicating likker when every- neglected— "MT guces we're doomed to listen— |) Hear of “leaders,” t:ooks’ and ‘flies’, And swallow all the ‘whoppers,’ For ansangier never lies!” % » —MRS. HOWARD EWING, | for $2.00. 2407 dist ave. N. eee |A WORD FROM JOSH WISE Did you ever hear uv a man gettin’ out uv breath runnin’ fer office? eee GOSH SAKES! Of all sad words Of tongue or pen, ‘The sa@gest are these, Please lend me ten.” TOOPER CENT. ‘There are sadder words, And they are plenty; For instance, these: “Please lend me twenty.” ‘ CURLEY. eee | Contribs whe may be contem-| man may be down but is never out.-Pitsburg Gazette Times. @ tacking on additional verses the above are hereby warned that has gone far enough. There's no telling where it might end. And, be Sides, we are very poor at figures : eee LOGICAL DEDUCTION The good die young,” so we are told, And if that stuff is on the level One must perforce conclude that old Methuselah was a reg’lar devil! ose Of course there are exceptions, but can usually spot an honest man by the fringe on his trousers. x eee To Kipling an American once Wrote: “Hearing that you are re failing literature at $1.00 a word, I @nciose $1.00 for a sample.” Mr. Kipling “Thanks” and kept the dollar. ‘Two weeks later the Amertean Wrote, “Sold the ‘Thanks’ anecdote Enclosed please find 46 @ents in stamps, being half the ested on the transaction, less the re." eee HOW TO LIVE FOREVER Eat nothing but stewed paranips. Drink nothing but cold water. Go to bed at 8 every night, Get up at 6 every morning. Don’t smoke, chew or play poker. Go to church every Sunday morn Split three cords of wood every y. Walk 19 miles before breakfast. Ride horseback two hours every afternoon. Play golf the remainder of the afternoon. Don't kiss the cook or anybody else. Shun public drinking cups. Keep out of crowded carn. Now comes the most important in struction—don't die. see Short skirts, says Congresswoman Alice Robertson, don’t aitract the Men. We should like to ark Alice if whe is theorizing or speaking from | | | | | | | | our worthy contemporary, Tee/this state will have no board member. and Seattle climbed to second position in the country. Seattle is taking the Humphrey defeat in good spirit; on the} and the rest of the state should feel | the same way. Any old appointment will not do for this state either| When it becomes important that this state have representation, our Tacoma contemporary and Ca me Bete Gc ll other influential bodies, civic and commercial, should join with the general citizenry in a fight against political manipulation. The recent fiasco is not chargeable to Seattle. It is chargeable, knows perfectly well this s ®/pather, to short-sighted state politics. why we didn't go home Ulli whole, it is congratulating itself, ‘That's the new law in thig state | a part w's got the fishing bug."|and he ran into @ street car. His machine was complied with | with tazicabbiste, Nobody can beat them, | | | The Humphrey F iasco (SETH TANNER) ago served in congress and the yoters in _ \ his district approved of his record so well| e) a J | that they have kept him home ever since. co) } But the Seattle interests insisted upon Hum- phrey or nobody for the shipping board. The president announced he would not take sides in factional controversies. dispatches California man is to be Lisner of Los Angeles. Chamberlain of Oregon is to be the other Pacific Coast member. gon will each have a representative on the All the ports of Washington must) suffer because Seattle couldn't have its own | It is the “Seattle spirit!’ Tacoma | Tt is to the sole credit of Seattle that the state of Washington will have no represen- tative on the United States shipping board. Recognizing the importance of the shipping and the ship-building of Puget Sound, Grays Harbor and Willapa Harbor ports, President | Harding was entirely willing to name a man | Washington from this state on the board. He preferred to appoint Col. C. R. Forbes of Spokane, formerly of Vashon. Col, Forbes is qualified by ability for the work. He was acceptable to the state with the exception of some Se- attle interests which insisted upon the ap- pointment of ex-Congressman William E. Humphrey of Seattle as the state's member on the board. Mr. Humphrey a few years board, way. Ledger. Our Tacoma contemporary is hardly neighborly. Y provocation is great and let us not judge our Puget Sound sister too hatshly for blaming the shipping board fiasco on the whole city of | Seattle. attle couldn’t have its own way.” Truth is, and our Tacoma friends will recognize it as soon as the first passions of honest indignation pass, that Seattle didn’t want Humphrey on the board. When we say Seattle, we mean the citizenry. Seattle is no more to blame for the failure to | Washingtonian on the board than Tacoma is, for that matter. The clamor for Humphrey came from the sources one would ex-| ipect such a clamor to come from, from politicians who still retain a j1:2 It wasn’t Seattle they were Wii the seasons.” warm spot for Seattle’s “lame duck.” Yesterday's | J ppointed, Meyer Senator George California and Ore- However, the It is fair to surmise Washington could have had aman on the ship- Se OTS ping board. But it wasn’t the “Seattle Spirit” that spoiled the Inquiring chance. Nor are “all the ports of Washington to suffer because Se-| Repor ter average | and a| | | Have you acquired spring fever ment of the liquor lawn. SEATTLE STAR Old Dad Everingham sea th’ trouble with business is th’ unm derproduction of the workin’ man—Old Dad spenis most of bis time pitchin’ hans sites, Th’ “big heads” in th’ ones what git bumped. TODAY'S QUESTION | yet? ANSWERS bth ave. 8. W round. seeking to serve, nor the state of Washington, but, rather, their old), % 4. BowMAN, 115 18m ave. political bedfellow. sirable, if the man himself is desirable. ——x! wil] not surrender one iota of their prestige and importance because |». co on the shipping board or elsewhere. A LUCKY KICK BY DR. WILLIAM E. BARTON paper which told ef @ collision which had occurred | camera man. the night before A man was riding a motorcycle, hurled against an fron lamp post, and he was thrown under the wheels of the car. The instant he struck the rails the car stopped. Ita brakes were set. It was found that an angie cock on the air tank had been turned, eetting the air- of the plays. Pittsburg. and they were not set from the platform. Just what happened nobody could be sure, but it was believed that the motorcycle rider's foot hit the anglecock, | dent records and instantly stopped the car. It would not do to put a stery like that inte a | ings. novel. The reader would declare that it was against all human probability. It might answer for a gro- tesque tale in the movies, in which the hero or hero ine faced certain death in every scene and came out bruises. sion with the lamp post. ' Observations | English cutlery manufacturer closes down his factory and bought 100,000 | butcher knives from Germany because the price was Ieas than tt would have coat him to make them. If this happens much, consumers in other countries will pay the indemnity for Germany. Farmers complain that at the present price ef hides @ carcass ten’t worth skinning. The shoe men still hold that the public is, however.— Preane Republican. Euwropeen kings appear te ethere to the Ralvation Army déctrine that « It te ap to some pcnius to invent on erplosive nickel that will blow ape phone box after the fifth wrong number.-New York Evening Mail Another man has escaped from Sing Sing and returned there after trying to make a living on the outside.—New York Bvening Mai, The allies epparently spurned a peace without victery for a victory with- out peace.—Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, Germany may conceal her gold, but she ten’t at all backward about re- vealing her brass.—Passaic News. One reason the country ts short of homes ts that too much money has) been put into the cellars,—Washington Post. City councilmen have no authority over Wbrary affairs, is latest ruling This, too, despite their experience in fiction. Policeman deate fitney driver, Proving that fitneurs aren't in @ class They wanted a berth for good old Will Hum- |startea in December.” iphrey, and they tuned up the cymbals and the tom-toms, screeching) 3 "Summit ure. “itn terse ail \that his defeat would put the port with its “back against the wall.” It is not going to do that. A Washington man on the board is de-| ‘a. x It had none during the war, | ss 1 wae tn Pittsberg recently, and I bought « news | as good as new thru ingenious contrivances of the Life ts more wonderful than any of the things we invent about tt The everyday world In which we live has in it more of the tragic and comic, more of | the pathetic and herole, than any of the plots in any I whould not advise anyone who rides a motercycie to head it into a moving street car on the chance that he might make as lucky a kick as did the man tn It might net work next time. great deal of kicking, actual and metaphorical, and very little of it ls an effective as that which this ine) | There in a But life is full of strange and improbable happen The man who kicked the valve was taken to the hospital and found to have only a few superficial But bis motorcycle fared worn, succeed in striking any valve that softened its cob It did not m all over it now, “It's fever all ite connection with spring.” 1, 218 Fitth ave §. ‘I never bh @wch © test of my ehiidrent boursa, thera, would advise you to have your chil dren tested. and weleh between 1 ode 1 gain Weight as I Pr. } Nj of the saloon, like the abolition of S CATHERINE DORRICOTT, | anyone that ever heard of @ lone “I have ft the bandit or two holding up a store, a It has nothing to do| bank or a ear full of pamengers be. My attack |Indiar led by a white man was right, I guess, but I can't testify to BALDWIN, 1420 Fourth nervy, determined men could do in But our Washington ports |". % te bromer, You got 1t,| the way of terrorizing the unarmed. | ‘What & the fichick teat for diphtherta? hall I allow the echool doctor te make If it does, % shows that the child in susceptible to diphtheria, If ft dors not, the child cannot take diph- The teat ts harmless, and tf the |mchoot doctor fs now making it, 1 ‘What te the cause and cure of obesttr? wn 28 years of ame, § feet ii inchee If the render will send ber name ponus, | and address, I will be gind to send I think that perhaps you remem. | her a helpful leaflet entitled “oben! | pet someone mying that the service ty,” by mail Address “Information | men would have thelr bonus in about Editor, U. 8 Public Health Service.) month after the referendum was Washington, D. C.” Letters to the Editor— SAYS PROHIBITION BOUND TO SUPCEED | Mdltor The Atar: After taking come little time to consider and inventt gate, I take pleasure in availing my- | welf of your invitation to exprems my views and observations on the pro hibition problem, and will start with the proposition that the elimination slavery, was an incident in the | progres of ctvilization, and its re habilitation would be @ backward | wtep, as would the reenslavernent of the colored race. At the close of the etvil war there demperate effort made to dix and nullify the abolition of slavery, and laws were passed apply ing upectally to negroes, so that mill tary commanders ordered that lawn should be made to apply to white and black alike, It was claimed that the | negroes were not prepared for eitt- zenship; but the farther we get away the more absurd would seem the sug gration of reenslavement. At the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the victory at Appomattox, an ex confederate soldier declared that the victory was a victory for humanity, We appear now to be in a wave of lertma ‘The prohibitory Nquor law jis not the only law that appears to be violated with impunity. Burglary and highway robbery have become a regular industry, Dora anybody pro pose a relaxation of the law an @ remedy? Rather a more vigorous exeention of the law; and an official of the law of considerable experience with bootleegers declares that the general sentiment appears to favor a more vigorous or rigorous enforce Numerous inquiries, partieularty of veterans of the efvl war, fail to find | fore the civil war, ‘The holding up| of a «tage on the plains by a band of and it sticks Im my memory to this day that it was quoted that the be . WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 1927. [a perhaps we would not sti be paying them. You will remember nos would be in the bands of the|that the engineering staff construc needy in a very short while 4 three or four miles of docking How long is it trom November 2| space in France, while the Vreneb. to April 207 As the dayn pass by, | men stood by and wuld, “Impowalbl we comfort ourselves with the | thers was #0 much swamp there,” thought that “perhaps we will get | the French said it would t lenge it in a day or two, “but the days | four years, and the war w clther come and 0, and we haven't sean|be lost or won by that Ume, an@ | there would be no need for the dockm, Why mast there be so much end-|It would not be a very far jump to lem red tape—so much time wasted | the case before the houwe—when we before we can accomplish anything? | get it, we will either have a job ow 7 If the staff working on the bonus | be past needing the bonus were nearly as quick as the Amer! 3. L. CURTIS, can engine rrance during the Burlington, Wash, it yet. 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It is to be hoped that the crest of the wave! has been reached Of not parsed), and | with the return to “normalcy” and | promperity a large portion of thin lawleay clement will find other ave- | nues for their activity: and the con- sensu of opinion, outaide of those in- fluenond by appetite or avarion, mast certainty ia, that the rehabilitation ef into the ekin of the forearm and ob serving whether or not « character. iatio red —s develope within 48 unnatural than the taste for Nquor; and were it not that “everybody is doing it” It would be considered self. ish and impolite to pollute the at mosphere with the fumes of tobac co, compelling tmnocent people to! take pecond-band dissipation. J. M. GRIFFITH. AND STILL THE BONUS IS DELAYED | Editor The Star: We fast won- dered when we are going to get our paseed. 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