The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 23, 1921, Page 6

bid curiosity was gratified. of zephyr in that locality. “above-named date. started. boy! ig a different life. w’s end to another. Decome anxious and even taciturn. “The cyclone is a natural ph Say, folks, did you ever read about Bill Nye’s experience as a cyclonist? If you did, | ioe you'll want to do it again as an antidote for taxation worries and business cares; and ‘Wf you never did, well, we suggest you try it, Here is his story: ' “7 have not the necessary personal magnetism to look a cyclone in the eye and ‘make it quail, I am stern and even haughty in my intercourse with men, but when a “Manitoba simoon takes me by the brow of my pantaloons and throws me across town- Bhip 28, range 18 west of the fifth principal meridian, I lose my mental reserve and For 30 years I had yearned to see a grown-up tyclone, of the ringrtail-puller variety, mop up the green earth with huge forest trees fand make the landscape look tired. On the 9th day of September, A. D., 1884, my mor- “As the people came out into the forest with lanterns and pulled me out of the crotch “of a basswood tree with a ‘tackle and fall’ I remember I told them I didn’t yearn for any ‘more atmospheric phenomena. 4 “The old desire for a hurricane that could blow a cow thru a penitentiary was sa- — I remember when theg#octor pried the bones of my leg together, in order to of draw my attention away from the limb, he asked me how I liked the fall style “] said it was all right, what there was of it. I said this in a tone of bitter irony. “Cyclones are of two kinds—viz., the dark maroon cyclone, and the iron gray cy- with pale green mane and tail. It was the latter kind I frolicked with on the | “My brother and I were riding along in the grahd old forest and I had: just been singing a few bars from the opera of ‘Whoop Em Up, Lizzie Jane,’ when I noticed that the wind was beginning to sough thru the trees. ‘Soon after that I noticed that I was “poughing thru the trees also, and I am really no slouch as a sougher either when I “The horse was hanging by the breeching from the bough of a large butternut “tree, waiting for someone to come and pick him. ' I did not see my brother at first, but after a while he disengaged himself from a rail fence and came where I was hangiug, wrong end up, with my personal effects ‘ppilling out of my pockets, I told him that as soon as the wind kind of softened " down, I wished he would go and pick the horse. He did so and at midnight a party close friends carried me into town on a Stretcher. of a torchlight procession coming way out there into the woods at midnight and carrying me into town on their shoulders in triumph. And yet I was once a * ‘It was quite an ovation. To i “It shows what may be accomplished by anyone if he will persevere and insist on exbmenon, enjoying the most robust health. It may be pleasure for a man with great will power and iron constitution to stidy more care- . into the habits of the cyclone, but, as far ns I am concerned, individually, I | eould worry along some way if we didn’t have a phenomenon in the house from one “As I sit here, with my leg fn a silicate of soda corset, and watch the merry throng nading down the street, or mingling in the giddy torchlight procession, I cannot Farnum, a former Se man who is buyer of fruit in for big Eastern | o Illustrate what he brought to The Star of- today a box which he had pht at » downtown Jap mar- ‘The boom had been raised considerable distance from its ginal position and retacked, ap- by hand. As @ result, buyer was cheated ont of one layer of berries. The con- were flagrantly short of the measure, This condition, of course, can ‘Be corrected as far as Seattle buy “€ts are concerned if our local of- ‘ficlals will wake up enough to ‘make a thoro inspection and prose- ee aes se otaling ot- to the limit. Bat a grave injury to the whole “Bound berry industry 1s done in Eastern markets whenever boxes ‘Hike this are-shipped away. Farnum says he has learned he @an depend on the fullmeasure honesty of Southern berry grow- ers, and that in many cases as & “eonsequence they are getting the preference when the Washington ‘berries are finer and the prices equal. It is time the white berry grow- es formed an effective association 9) » and brought about some sort of of- ficial action to stamp out this de- “eeptive and costly practice. In these days of rouge, women folks “kiss—and make up.” The Polar Oil Lure Edmonton, Canada, ts packed with fortune seekers. When the fee goes out in the Far North, late this month, they'll stampede inte the new fields, Mf any one in Seattle ts thinking of joining them—and doubticss dozens are—remember this: No Tallroads run to the polar oil fields. To build oil pipelines would cost hundreds ‘of millions. How are they going to get their oil to mar- ket? Of course, if the oil is there in quantities a way will be found; But don’t discount the problem. Transportation, from where things are plentiful to where they are needed, is the greatest prob- lem of business today, “Why.” whys a Star reader, “did the park commission buy an ele- phant when the city of Seattle had one on its hands and the county also had one? * Well, we Bite, Why? a ane) Mintster threatens to invade golf courses to warn Sunday players of the error of their ways. They'd more likely welcome advice on the error of their plays. Admiral Sims ought to be @ haré boiled citizen. He spends half his time in hot water. f2) lravelers ¥ by BertonBraley~~ ,! repress a feeling toward a cyclone that almost amounts to disgust,” Not Worth Remembering Pennsytvania State College grad uates a young woman industrial engincer, Miss Frances Barbara Hosfeld, She rolled up her sleeves and went at forging, foundry and steam engine work on equal terms with young men students. Young wo men, this year, receive degrees from every school in the Pennsy+ vania State College except the school ef mines, Not long ago women were barred from such opportunities and even ® higher classical edueation tde women was thought unsuitable, One forgets the arguments against it. Whatever the argu ments may have been, they were wrong, and not worth remember. ing. The Cleveland housekeeper whe 4s suing for the $25,000 estate of her former employer evidenfly be-~ Kieves in a@ summer cleaning. More college girls are taking wp @rchery. They're all expert with beaus. No matter how good a photo- graph, the subject always says, “It's not a very good one.” The green-grocer’s daughter has sailed o'er the water Along with her mother and aunt; ‘The wife of the plumber will spend her whole summer In places I certainly can’t; THE BEATILE STAR LETTERS 10 EDITOR To Defense of Teachers Waiter The Star: As is customary solemn oath to upbuild, I submit in taxation conferences tn the North | herewith several of the outstanding west, Seattle school teachers were| points of the teachers’ wage ques honored with the stellar role of inno | tion in Seattle; cent bystanders in the governor's! educational experts have tong conference on taxation held in Olym-|agreed that at least 70 per cent of pla last Monday, A delegate from sehoot expenditures Snohomish county is quoted as hav- , ing said that present tim: portion | “Seattle was to blame for most of | of educational expenditures is 64 per the discontent found among teach-| cent. ers all over the state, and that there| | atorsover, wages of teachers tn wasn't @ her in Snohomish coun-| Seattle were not advanced during BY DR. WILLJAM FE. get out of the bunker, at whatever cost to the the habit of wining. Self-pity is the suicide ty that wasn't trying to get Into the|the first year of the war, and even Segttle schools” when rais®d, not at all in proportion Tf that ts realty trae, Snohomish /to the advance of living expenses, county teachers have not very mueh|nor in proportion to wage advances to be proud of in the matter of jin other activities. wages, Snohomish county people! An investi¢tion conducted re have still less cauye to be proud of|centiy in the school systems of 150 their schools, and the esteemed pub- Ko-spirited eftizen who made the fore: golng incriminating confession in Olympia will never attract first-class teachers to his county by such indis- ereet outbursts, Neither would teacners be attract ¢d to Seattle if the actual facts rela- tive to wages were publizhed to the country, It is worthy of note here that a delegate from Seattle who was born in & foreign country where public school education ts given scant con- sideration, and who himself is well known for an abiding antipathy to ward educational progress, gave a most hearty second to the utterances of the gentleman from Snohomish county it, but do it in a spirit man. may, by some mir: wages in Seattle are 69th in the list, while grade principals’ wages are|to his tasks. Those ten faint-hearted spies 12th from the top of the List, and/|the land returned saying that tle 10th from the top, One of the leading assailants of education in Seattle has based his argument for reducing appropria- tions for educational purposes upon the claim that the enrollment in Se attle high schools next year will be much less than in the past He ignored the fact that Seattle high schools graduated 1,300 students this spring, while more than 2,100 pupils completed atie eighth grade in the city schools, more than three-fourths of whom will enter local high schools Since those who have ventured to| next September. attack teachers wages (for wages| The few skirmishing shots fired in they have ever been, and are even) the conference at Olympia are only to this day) in Seattle have failed to|the beginning of a grand and con state a single specific fact relating | certed assault on education all along thereto, even the member of the Se-|the line, The men who have been attle board of education who has|most votuble in thelr complaints been foremost tn the assault upon | about the princely fortunes extorted ‘the school system he has taken @!by Seattle teacher# from the public . Try This on Your Wise Friend There is a way by multiplication and addition of the numbers 1 to 9, inclusive, to make 100, each number being used but once. Can you do it? Answer to Tuesday's: 99 and 99-99ths. we in our own eyes.” Measurembut. To him all difficulties grow small, Don’t whine, but climb, coffers are entirely entisfied to pay tens of thousands of dollars annually to keep the Snoqualmie pass open three months out of the twelve. ‘They will pour umtold thousands tgto some remote corner of the state or| county, for the benefit of automo- bilists who do not believe in taxation in any form. But they cry to high) heaven if asked to pay a decent,| American wage to devoted men and women who labor to train thelr chil- dren in the highest ideals of Amert can citizenship, They will employ every art and subterfuge known to the designing and unscrupulous poll- tictan to reduce education to a state of humiliation and abject beggary, as It was in the days of military fuedalism, when the courtly knight tomsed the scholar and teacher a |copper or a crust of bread. | The reactionaries are not satisfied | ‘They them same It ie tinue tonal | prade HOSE who follow President Harding to the golf-course #ay that among the other good qualities which char Qcterize his playing, In thin, that he never whines, When he lores a ball, he pays, “It wax my own fault.” can out of his situation, I know some good me whose prompects of success are very nearly ruined, by The man who has @ hard task to face owes ft to hin own moral character\not only to face it and perform the accomplishment of the task that counts it is also the registry of the spirit of victory in the mind of the ‘The people who eit around and whimper because they are not lucky cle, have thrust upon them some form of success; but if so, they wil be disqualified to make much of it. of the leading cities in this country | habitually face life's tasks with honest heroism are already conquerors, revealed that high school teachers’ |and if in that spirit they attain success, they know what to do with it Nothing unnerves @ man more than to belittle himself in bis relations “we were in the eyes of the inhabitants wages of grade teachers rank Seat-|of the land as grasshoppers,” and that was not the worst of it, “so were It isin that way the self-pitying man takes and registers his own self. He makes himself microscopic by magnifying his diffi culties. The brave man magnifies his own ability to conquer difficulties, preparation> checking up closety on those who at- tend surnmer |teachers to attend summer school. acher# in the Seattle bchools can- not afford to attend school during the summer, Some other systems offer substan- tial inducements for teachers to con- studies. In the Spokane high schools a teacher who has the degree of |master ‘of arts is allowed $75 addi- |hold the degree of master of arts are paid an additional $200 annually. The maximum ealary of teachers thruout al] grades in Denver, from imerely to cut the wages of teachers. | primary to high school, is §3,080; for | like? BARTON , LONDON DIAGNOSES The republican majority in the Then he proceeds to | house is guffering from obesis, The or make such remedy @8 he | elephant: is afflicted with elephantin in the best way pomslble, and | nia Representative London (8), New score, York. n whore Hives are spofied, and or has any other misfortune, eee WORK FOR THE WORKERS With the world in @ state of ab most complete eollapee, with farmers getting nothing for thetr products, with 4,000,000, men out of } work, the republican administratiog han sat here three months and done nothing except appoint republicans to office. ~ Representative Floog (D.), Virginia, of heroism. of courage. It is not simply i" i But the men Wh9|thove holding the degree of bachelep h of arts, the maximum salary $2,880. But Seattle does not. re nize scholarship among teachers. lexpects it, it is true, but is unwilling to pay for it We have yet another astoun fact for the “self-appointed and anointed” watchdogs of the pr finances, Only a little while ago t federal commissioner of educati told the country that the Am people spent during 1920/$22,700,000, 000 for luxuries, or more than 22] a times the amount that was expenfled for public echool education in the United States. Seattle's share of thi Stupendous waste was $68,000,000, or more than 15 times the ning the Seattle schoo Seattle spent in 1920 for snuff, cigars, cigarettes and tobucon, $8, | notorious that a majority of |670,000, or $1,000,000 more than spent for education. I am not com demning these expenditures, bet wish to suggest that if the opponents of education regard luxuries as more essential to present-day civilization than schools, they should discontinue the support of orgapized education altogether, and Invest heavily in to baccos, cold cream and eau de oe logne, Sincerely yours, FREDERICK WELLAND, Do you remember thoee first autay f that looked like phaetons? Can't Bite. | remember what a phaeton Jo whom Moses sent to epy out ( rit @emand more and more of in the matter of professional The authorities are school, but at the time offer no inducements to their academic or professional annually, In Denver, both and high school teachers who the OR NEARLY twenty years, millions of men acclaimed the old- type Gillette as the last word in shaving luxury and convenience. 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