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

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The Seattle Star p, bbe per menth; F months, $1.50) @ months $175) year, state of Washington, Outside of the state, Fe per month, 44.50 for @ mentha, or $K00 per year, My carrier, city, be a month —_ Your Road to Riches Here’s a man who, at 33, has worked himself up from stenographer ‘of the $100,000,000 company that supplies Chicago with gas. By mail, owt $8 08, tn et ctty, the Mitchell. What is it that has made Mitchell rise so rapidly to success while other men, who started on the same footing and with just as good chances, havg stood still? This question interests you, groping for the door to power and wealth. Published Datty by The Star Publishing Co, Phone Main ry to treasurer His name is George F. BY DR. WILLIAM FE. BARTON = URELY, everyone has heard of the famous twins born in Siam and exhibited by Barnum. They were joined to wether in such fashion that it was never judged safe to out them apart; and #0 they lived to manhood, ‘They married and each had chil- dren, One of the twins died, and the other lived several dreadful hours afterward before death merch Its answer is—ability, good workmanship, thoroness to the last detail, and patient toil to acquire knowledge. At 14, Mitchell went to work for a steel mill. Three years later, he was taking & business and stenographic course by day and paying his way by “carrying 2 spear” And shifting theatre scenery at night. He rose to success because he did every job well, no matter how humble, and be- -@ause he constantly trained himself so that whenever something better came along he was prepared to handle it. es % % * * & es * # : At 43, Carl Nyquist is handling $140,000,000 worth of property. He's vice president @f the Rock Island railroad, and one of the youngest railroad executives in America. _ “Luck? There's no such thing,” he says. to succeed? Here’s my way: “I made my work the most interesting and important thing in my life. “I started at 19 as a $15-a-week clerk. I didn’t change employers. I haven’t taken a vacation in 15 years. And in 24 years I've only five days from my job. Make your work successful and your work will you successful.” ss *% * 8 & * * *% ' When John D. Rockefeller organized the Standard Oil Co, in 1870, he was only 31 years old. Despite his youth, he already was a big success, with his first million dollars within Fifteen years before that, when he was 16, Rockefeller was a clerk in a commission house on old Water st., Cleveland. Today he is the richest man in the world. Thousands of reasons have been ad- to account for his success. The real one was voiced years ago by the people employed him in his early youth: “He was the best clerk and bookkeeper we ever had.” The same was true of every job Rockefeller ever turned his hand to.’ If you doubt ess 4% N * 8 &* * #8 It is not given to all of us to become Rockefellers, Mitchells or Nyquists. ': Do every job theroly as it comes along. each of us can attain success to a satisfactory degree by observing three simple IND: While making the immediate job a success, lay out a campaign for the and prepare yourself to handle a better job when it comes. | : i at lI i if Eri : i | i E | ! : i t Fy i ae ! is | “ i An 014 fogy believes that when @viators fall owt, undertakers get due. i Bome people call it hard times they can’t borrow the price dent’s head comes within cracking distance only onee in four years, while the heads of the other execu- tives are entirely beyond the peo- ple’s reach. All of which is set dowmfor our Washington congresamen to con- When a girl tells @ man she likes to sce him smoke a pipe he might as well start looking at houses for rent. Optimist: A man who can make @ molchill out of a mountain of trouble, Bome divorce suits that are be- ing pressed should have been cleaned. When o man tells his wife he was @ fool when he married her that makes it unanimous. A man who refuses to do honest work usually expects to do honest workers, If Adam had written his mem- otrs he would have claimed tt was @ peach he fell for. Dworce suits are more reveal- ing than bathing suits. Harding's peace plans are invit- that girls have knees. ing. | Maybe Burbank could cross the j Congress claims i's | orange and the shamrock. others soy a wake, ewake ; A ° ° Try This on Your Wise Frierid There is a number of six digits 6f such a nature that if you transfer the two left-hand digits (28) to the op- posite end, the new number thus formed is exactly double the original number. What is the original number? Answer to yesterday's: Nine feet. fully released him. There are people who belleve that all the character we have ts con- structed out of our hereditary traits and our experiences; that inherit ance and our environment make us If that is so, twins ought to be more alike than they are. Rut twins, ordinary twins, tho born at the same birth, and having identical hereditary introduction into life, do not live together every day and hour; they have opportun- ity to drift apart. Not so the Siamese twins and others of like character, Not for a single hour has eher been away from the other, Their character and disposition ought to be identical. But now we find in twine of this sort that their individuality is as marked as that of other children. In the case of the Filipino twina, whom I saw two or three years ago, one boy was studious and the other lazy. In the case of Christine Milly, two grown women whom I saw and talked with, the two heads not only carried different brains but different dispositions. As for the Siamese twins, Chang and Eng, one was jovial and the other morore, When we bave maid all that can be said for-heredity and environ ment, there is something in us that either makes or unmakes us, Char- acter is not wholly @ matter of em vironment. Heredity 1s @ potent fores, but it can be outgrown. Environment is a help or @ hindrance, but It aione does not determine whether a man shall be good or bad, « failure or a success, The first and permanent element is the man himsetf. REMARKABLE REMARKS The parables of Jesus are not only eternally true, they are eternal ly and universally fitting —The Rev. chairman U. 8. Chamber of Com LETTERS TO EDITOR Says Tacoma P. O. Is to Blame Editor The Star: Delay of mall from Seattle*to Tacoma, without a doubt, lies with the latter office. Last year special letter mailed from Elma, three hours out, was delivered three days later. Special letter mailed from Prosser, nine hours out, was delivered eight days later. Those are two samples only of the service in that city. Yours truly, ROBERT F. SKINNER. Disgusted With the Police Editor The Star: The whitewash- ing of the police by Mayor Caldwell shows that their methods are ap proved by the higher-ups. Tt i a dingrace to the city of Seattle the publicity she gets thru the misdeeds of her gentle cops. Most every day's paper gives ac counts of police being fired for euch small offenses ds bootlegging, hold- ing up autoists, robbing candy fac The Charge for Editor The Star: While a visitor to the boys’ pic- nic, given under the auspices of the Elks at Woodland park, I was as tonished by one of the things that I saw there and something that I am quite sure the Elks bad nothing to do with, and further, if they | had known about It, would have pro- tested and had it stopped. I refer to the charge of 10 cents each that was being assessed against the little children for the privilege of riding the baby ele Editor The Star: May I take the liberty to suggest to The Star my idea of a practical sotution of the Present unemployment situation in this country, especially bearing on the ex-service men and their tam- ilies? Now that the sotdlerx’ bonus nw seems a faraway draam and em ployment very searce in certain industries, what is the matter with propriating a few hundred millions that would be the means of giving every ex-service man first chance at a position kccording to his trade or ability? My idea ts for the government to start immediately construction work on huge dams to impound the waters of our great Western rivers so that we can irrigate the millions of acres of arid land, thereby giv- the United States government's ap-| tories, ete. I do not mean to say they are all crooked, but it looks as tho the percentage lenms that way. It ts about time something ts done to reform the police department of cities or there will not be room in the pen for the rest of the crooks. Keep up your good work and some day Seattle may have @ police de partment which she may feel proud of instead of a disgrace. H. A. KAY. Elephant Rides phant a distance of 40 to 60 feet Isn't it @ fact that this baby ele phant was bought with the chil dren's money? Perhaps I am mis- taken about this. Even at that, {t was too cheap a form of specious graft to exact of the little ones, expecially on a day that was dedicated by the Seattle Elks to thelr enjoyment at the park. Just another question to be asked: Who gets this money? Respectfully yours, R. M. JOHNSON, 912 B. Pike st. Proposes Bonus Substitute ing work to thousands of men. Not only would these vast irrigation Projects furnish work to hundreds of thousands in factories, transpor- tation and construction, but It would be the means of vastly increasing the revenues of the government for years to come im the sale of land and water, Every ex-soldier should be given absolutely free approximately 10 acres of land with a perpetual water right, to cultivate or dispose of as he sees fit. This plan would “be more far reaching and \mmeasurably more Profitable to the soldiers, citizens jand government of this country than any bonus bill so far pro- posed. Respectfulty, F. 0. BARKER, Box 743, Bremerton, Wash. Parentage Better if Later Editor The Star: I was interested in your late editorial concerning the scientific dictum, “The older the fa ther, the more intelligent the child.” It ts well known among stock men and fanclers of all sorts that stock, to be sound, must be reared only from fully adult parents, at not too frequent intervals, and when in prime condition, Humans, ignoring this rule among themselves, mate early, reproduce often, and under circumstances of repulsion, poor heqith and financia! worry, Then we wonder why we have idiots, morons, the frail-bodied criminals or vast hordes of merely commonplace folk, who give to the world nothing fat all for the outlay expended them, 4 GE a6y A few geniuses cannot lift the world, Progress must come thru the slow but sure forwara movement of the whole mass, and the mass can- not function, in @ mental or moral sense, unless it has some measure of idealism (ana the leisure that pro- ve 10, and a sufficient supply of © basic needs of life—t. and clothing, et Last week a minister of the Gospel in Seattle aavocated the open shop. Labor conditiong at the present time Are not such as to guarantee proper Progeny. A blow at unionism imper- ils the situation by that much more. This week in Seattle another minis- From the Torento Globe THE SNAKE FENCE BY ARTHUR S. BOURINOT Fast dimppearing emblem of old days When man first trod the frontier wildergess, Sowing the seed which later grew to drens ‘The ax-cleared land, with miles of sunlit maize, Along haphazard windings, zigzag ways, In April, bluebirds flew all azure plumed, Beside the lowest logy the blood-root bloomed, Unconscious of the brilliant noontide blaze. But now the logs lie rotting tn the grass Or feed the fires of chill October eves; Of former la@i@scapes progress only leaves A vestige which eventually will pass. Thus gradually the old-time glamour fades And, fading, dies, as winds thru forest gladea. ter of the Gonpel urged the rearing , riages not necesmarily so. Until the of large families, and stated that physical reproduction waa‘the only basis and excuse for matrimony, The state and nation recognize the neces: sity and justice of widespread contra ceptive knowledge, #0 that homes may be established at the 24th or mcredness of Jove, the inspiration of | 25th year, and parentage delayed till home, the idealiem that lifta us| the 40th, we can xpect poverty, above our baser selves, thus recelved | war, divorce, desertion, and a great a blow at hie hands, and if a gener. swarm of needy, unwanted, misfit, ally accepted doctrine, would delay | defective humanity. to that extent the spiritual progress of the mans, Chureh and government are allied in demanding compulsory ignorance But since the maas ts ponderous! of personal control of sex function and cannot advance ag a unit, there| Whatever blame arises from its fl) must always be a few individuals or| results must justly rest upon them. groups who, in mental or spiritual | Whatever good comes to the maas, in power, outclaas their fellows, and by| spite of these restrictions, can be their altruism, vision and ability be | claimed by neither, nor one in prefer. come leaders of men. Anything that) ence to the other, for they have done hurts the mass lessens the chance an evil thing and there is no contri- of developing such leadern. Late parentage is good, late mar-' cerely yours, bution between tort-feasors. Very sin- L. M. CLARKE. | del “4 Ret It’s Heresy to Slam the Farm, and Still I Find it Lacking Charny A Cosmic Urge To let my Urban Mood diverge And take a tow Poetic Turns On Agricultural Concerns. Tho I, My Child, Am City Broke, I've not a Thing Against the Folk Who like the Back- ToNature Way Of doing Penance Every Day. While, as for Poultry On the Hoof, > I find it best To hold aloof, And trost the Grocer Tells the Truth, When claiming that His Eggs Have Youth, Is theirs for Keeps; But oh, it gives My Spine the Creeps To think of living On a Farm! In Rastle Léfo I find scant Charm. ‘The Sight of kind, “Contented Cows” Has no Effect But to arouse An energetic : Fear which warns Me of their the picnic sandwich! Take thin cut slices of bread first with mustard and then with and uhill, Bluhill Green Chile Cheese AVAGE HISTORY OF THE RED MAN SERIES THE SPRE £3 rT) #3 § ti 3 F 7 “THE SIOUX TREATY OF 1868 918 East Pike Street ij sii 5p Waterfront i | i ij H $322 bie E i if Garage CKELS “SAVAGE” TIRE COMPANY FACTORY BRANCH ha ; j i) f i = 5 2 i ify

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