The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 25, 1921, Page 6

and United Press Service Ry matt $5.00 out of city, fe o the atate $4.50 for & month, or 99 = Montgomery Lynch at the Wheel per month or W de of the etal Ny carrier eattle Star 3 monthe, $1.50; @ mont Phone Maia “Wayfarer” cast and patrons will join in applauding the selection of Montgomery ‘ynch as general manager for the 1922 season, asures the success of the enterprise. This choice, it seems to The Star, By that, we mean, not that Mr. Lynch has ny one-man powers of staging 6,000-person pageants, but that he will rally all fac- ions in Seattle to support of the undertaking, where, under other management, iimight ‘ave failed to receive such backing. As director of the “Wayfarer” this summer, Mr. Lynch worked hard and intelli- rently. He may be relied upon to repeat next year the great cored in the initial Seattle production. Edgar L. Webster has been made president of the Wayfarer society. success which has While The iar has heretofore expressed its candid opinion that, in his dealings with the pub- tiee, he made serious mistakes, yet it is easy to admit that he did much valuable vvork which contributed to the general success. His new position will give him an opportunity to exercise his considerable abilities where they will most heavily count, and where his temperament will not have opportunity to clash with other important dements in the community undertaking. It looks as if the “Wayfarer” is off on the right foot to become the Ngrthwest’s greatest entertainment event in 1922. Selling Yourself Yonder comes the most import ant man in the werld—the sales- man. For the next 20 years, America’s prosperity will be in bis hands. He alone can bring in the orders that will start up the factories and restore good times. And it is the salesman—not peliticians—that will shape the course of delayed reconstruction when it begins. Young men, looking about for a Ira Lackey, drummer, who has traveled 1,750,- 000 miles as a salesman, says that <after you sell a customer you must hold him. Trickery may get the first order. But to hold a customer you must give honest value—make good every minute. ‘The goods must live up to the representation of the seller. That fs as true when you sell your- self as when you sell an order of groceries, clothing or insur- ance, Learn = salesmanship, young man, to dispose of your ability and services to best advantage, Back your selling with a con stant endeavor to make yourself of greater service to mankind. Learn to sell. But be sure you have something worth selling. SELL YOURSELF on this idea first! When this divorce wave subsides someone should put out a “Who's Whose.” Bachelors are like automobiles— Dirty don't want one that has been run 10,00 miles You're wrong—the New York Bave-a-IAfe league ts not an antt- prohibition organization. The British may lack sense of humor, but they have complete scents of trouble. But no one will notice their cars until they lengthen their skirts, You and Henry Ford Without raising any question of the integrity of our bankers, the average business man might do well to consider whether he re lies too much on the banks, The irresistible success of Henry Ford's business methods suggests the query. Ford's enormous industrial en- terprises were no more able to eseape the effects of the big busi- ness depression than other busi nesses were, The banks were ready to aid him—on their own terms. The terms may have been fair enough, but Ford turned the offer down. If he borrowed mon- ey he told himself he would sim- ply add heavy interest charges to the load he already was carrying. In his case it meant millions. So, instead of borrowing, he started trimming sail. He could do it; he had no false front to main- tain. Ford bought a railroad. Tt was ® rotten railroad. But he could have borrowed a, lot of money on it, He could have “financed it,” as the usual expression has it. When the Burlington was “re financed” recently, it paid the bankers $40,000,000 in advance to obtain = loan of $320,000,000. So Ford didn't “finance” his sew rallroad—at least not in the usual way of taking off his hat and beg- ging the bankers to treat him as gently as possible, Of course, It is said, Ford has resources that the average bust- ness doesn't have. It could be replied that Ford also has obliga- tions and nerds that Seattle busi- ness men do not have. If the average business man will take the trouble to study Ford's meth- ods carefully, he probably will be surprised te find the mamber of ways in which his businers can be made to resemble Ford's. Homesickness makes some peo- ple return home and others stay away. An @utoist must have a good outlook; a pedestrian a good look- out, A Toledo man lost his wife ina poker game. But won his free- dom. The “heavy” question soon wil be “To wear them or not to wear them.” Disarmament doecan’t mean we should throw down the men who carried arma. Jump Into the Melting Pot Fine results are coming from the Americanization movement, Latest report shows 6,928,027 foreign-born white males of voting age in our country. Out of every 100 of these, 48 were natoralized and 16 had tak- en ont first papers. The percent- age of naturalized citizens, com- pared with those who haven't been won over, has gained 20 per cent since 1910, Come on, the rest of you! Unele Sam's family. doin One way to reduce rents in your neighborhood ts take singing les- sons. A friend indeed 1s one who keeps your dog while you take a vaca- tion, In some restaurants you can read the menu on the waiter’s coat front. The burning question will soon be the price of coal. ihe black sheep of the family is good at woot gathering, When a girl gets a new dress she visits some girl she doesn’t like, the corn? Try This on Your Wise Friend A man wishes to cross a river with a fox, a goose and some corn, and can only take one at a time. do it without the fox eating the goose or the goose eating Answer to yesterday's: 12% eents. How can he Have You an Alaska? Grandpa will recall the great public protest that rose when Usele Sam bought Alaska from Russia in 1867, Alaska cost us $7,200,000. That was less than 2 cents an secre. But Alaska hadn't been explored in those days. Now comes = government re port that Alaska last year yielded $25,307,757 in minerals, More than three times as much as the whole thing cost us originally! Alaska has paid for itself 25 times In fish alone, As eften happens, it has taken time te prove that what seemed bad Judgment at the moment was really good judgment coupled with farsighted visione Have you an Alaska in your life—something you are banking on despite the snecrs and jibes of your neighbors? it has been @ long time since women’s skirts kept their shoes shined The success of @ party ts judged by the mumber of cars that stand oul front “Immigrants Robbed”—headlina, When im America be done as Americans are done Business looks better after tts reat cure. Crooked landlords make strait- ened circumstances, A Mystery in Sugar For the first time since it was organized 30 years ago, the Ameri can Sugar Refining company has passed the regular quarterly divi- dend on its common stock. This may be » good alibi to the charge of profiteering and it may not, The public, which was goug- ed out of 25 cents a pound for sugar not so long ago, will want to know how much of this com mon stock represents water and what surpluses have been piled up in the company’s treasury. The answer to the last question may soon be forthcoming, as some of the minority stockholders are demanding that the financial statement be made public. Assuming that the company is entitled to a clean bill of health, the question who got the millions of excess sugar profits will be more of a mystery than ever, The man with a damp collar docan't believe in the freedom of the seize. The man with a damp cellar any hell never umpired a picnic ball game. Why travel to sce strange sights? Stay at home and drink home brew. A #mall boy can't see why stster wants to expose her ears and get them dirty. Diplomacy a La Mexico President Obregon of Mexico has rather cut the ground from under those who have been pro- testing agnins¢ the export tax on Mexican oil. He has announced that ft Is his policy to apply all the money rais- ed from this tax, on the Interest and principal of the Mexican for- eign debt, Perhaps the Colorado cashler, missing with $75,000 and a girl, felt the call of the wild. Attorney General Daugherty claims he caught 100 fish on his vgcation. Daugherty is a lawyer. Anyone suffering from loss of memory might run for office. He will learn his past life then, A Miss ts as good as her smile. City broke. vacationists get The first home run king was the prodigal son. A otrl with a contagious laugh ts worth catching, THE SEATT’ Answers “Job Editor The Star \ Gilbert Morm, of 1055 Bwing at in your taeue of Ang, 19, seem to! bave taken upon himself the task of making som grave charges which 1 aa a member f Andy Purseth's Job Trust s ho terms it, feel called Ho states that he is a senb, and} upon this point I fully agree with him: He staten that “on every have been there have been country. at sabotage on the lifeboats I would like to ask him if he ts acquainted with the fact that there is a heavy penalty attached to the comminsion of these acts (if they ever existed)? If so, why were the offend ers not prosecuted? Also, does he imagine anyone so! foolish as to endanger his own life | as well an the lives of innocent pas. sengers, by destroying thelr only! means of escape in case of disaster? What would It benefit one who committed such an act, or does he! think it would benefit the “Job| Trust" to murder puasengers and it's Own members? He states that “about half of the deck force were ex-navy men"! (which I doubt) and “that any boy, | who has served thres months in the navy is @ better lifeboat man than two-thirds of the “shell backs.” Granting for argument's sake that | they were exnavy men, he is again wrong, for any “phelbback” that 1/ have ever seen who holds an A. B. certificate could tell at a glance the moment the covers were removed whether the lifeboats launching gear | was in order, Editor The Star: | I lve in Kirkland and work tn) Seattle, crossing on the Madison/ street ferry at T45/a. m. which puts/ me down town § to 15 minutes late for work. If the. boat would leave! Kirkland at 7:20 a m I think it] would sult most people better, ‘ Editer The Star: | At Bilanc’s cafe last week a new club was formed, sponsored by Fred} W. Oraham, assistant general agrt-| cultaral development agent of the Great Northern railway, It In call | ed “The Concentric club" and its slogan be “We, Not L* ‘The hundreds of people who know! Mr. Graham know that is his retig: | ton—he never thinks of himself— | | always of others, Those who be-| lieve that the millennium will be right on this earth when mankind has reached a state of perfection should take him for an example of | that pertod. He is always ready to help, with no thought of self. He will say: “Take a tip from me,” and he outlines “the Up.” He ts Japs Not Only Offenders Editor The Star: I with to call your attention to the fact that the Japs are not the only foreigners favored by employ ers more than our own young men. Also that some of the worst of- fenders in this matter are now, and have always been in the past, direct beneficiaries of the U, 8. govern ment. I refer to the refiroads and seal pecially the Northern Pacific. Not because it is the worwt offender, but| because I have seen the gungs of | Greeks and Italians earning good wages for fair hours of labor, get- ting the full benefit, in a word, of the-years of struggle by union men, while the sons of these men bunt in valf for work of any kind. The extra gang at present located here ts comi entirely of for. eigners speaking a foreign language. | | Do You Want to Build? Editor The Star, Stattie, Wash. Dear Sir: | It occurs to me that there might! be plenty of men tn Seattle who} would buy @ lot and start a home,} but who have not the money to be gin. 1 have for years bad a few lots there that I am paying taxes on and that are useless to me. I haven't enough loose monry to build houses, but I could advance enough for a man to build the framework of a room or. two if he did the work himself and he could finish building the house as he went along. I would sell the lot! at the market value and by not requiring any payment for a year or two it would permit him to put all his earnings that ordinarily go for rent™or payments, Jnto lumber and finishings for a house. As the man put his labor and Time to Stop Hospital Abuses Editor The Star: I have been reading the story of the “Hell Hole of Steilacoom.” I believe that this ts about the third time that just such a thing has/happened in this institution, and| nobody has ever been punished. It 1s about time that someone was looking into this thing and putting a& stop to it a once, The docors have elther got too much to say or the system=in the Wants Ferry Schedule Changed An Obituary on the Living | Deeps. | when pe heard his praises sung he j come out of the wrong hole” LE STAR LETTERS TO EDITOR Trust” Charge The Clallam foundered before my} time, but one who remembers her! surely knows that the Valencia was lowt through @ mistake by her akip-| r, and that three union sailors lont) their lives in nm attempt to swim ashore with a lifeline Also that @ fourth attempt was made by a Greek foreman, cholas | Segnalo, who wae saved and awarded | |a gold medal for his act of heroism by especial act of congress. Contrast this with the Boa'n of the Alaska, who argued, “Why not send| th oung fellows? They're getting} the same pay we are,” when asked }to make up @ rescue crew by~the! mate of the Anyox It ts simply a case of “a poor workman blaming his tools,” only in this case the poor workman blames the good workman whem he displaced as well as the tools he does not know how to use.| Ax to the brilliant idea of carrying} Chinamen, would say that he is a tue Inte, a» the shipping beard ts already making une of It on the new liners running between Seattle and the Ortent. Aub, a glance at the lst of the crew rescued from the Alaska will show several names which smack strongly of Japah if not of China, Hopfng that you will give this re | ply the same consideration and prominence accorded the accusations in your estimable columns, I am Respectfully yours, JOUN W. PHILLIPS, Care Marine Firemen, Ollers and | ders’ Union of the Pa- ttle, Wash, WI you print in ‘The Star a pe ttlon to the superintendent of K County ferries #0 the people can! may if they Uke this change in time from 745 a m. to 7:30 a m, and oblige, R. M. HANSFORD. Route 1, Box 141, Kirkland, Wash one man who DOES things for peo- ple, not merely in WORDS but in He is the biggest asset the city has today—he and men like him, What we need now is NOT OPTIMISM BUT HUMANITARI ANISM—the all-pervading spirit jof and picks up the fellow who ts | down and washes him and binds up hiv wounds. It is the spirit of Mr. Graham—"We, Not 1.” When Mr. Graham reads this, if he does. I hope he wil! not be like the man who dreamed that he died and came back to his own funera! didn't recognise himself at all but exclaimed: “By golly, I must have Yours truty, MAUDE SWEETMAN, Most of them are young men, very evidently recent arriyals in this country and surely not citizens of it. Probably most of them are single men and surely a consider able part of their earnings ts sent to Europe. Some time ago, when I canvazsed the railroad workers of this com munity for money for the Near Fart relief, I got a contribution from nearly every resident worker but not one cent from members of the Greek extra gang, altho ‘they were working regulariy, How many gangs of this sort are employed by the different rajiroads in the State of Washington? How many young Americans would be glad to do the work for the pay these foreigners are getting? Yours, respectfully, LYNN MARKEY, Easton, Waab. extra money into a bullding, my tn- vestmont would be secure, It would permit me to sell my lot and receive interest; while it would per mit someone with no money to stop} Paying rent and start a home, The only thing I would require for my own protection would be some kind ot guarantee that the fellow was solng ahead with the building of a home in @ straightforward manner. ar ought to be many people in Seattle who have been holding lots many years and who could furnish enough money for a purchaser to buy rough lumber for a house that he might desire to build or help build himself. I only have six lots, but it is enough to try out the ex periment on. Sincerely yours, ROBEY G. BANTA, Address Robey G. Banta, 1800 So, Glendale Ave. Glendale, Calif, asylum ts too rotten and they are ail afraid to do anything. If a few people knew what the Smith-Towner bill meant, the doctor would be looked after just as much as any criminal, and he would be limited instead of given more power, What is the use of the press taking this up if we are not going to act? It is about time to start something. Yours respectfully, PAUL GOERNER, 607-8 Montelius Music Bidg, When You Haven't Any Gun Editor The Star; “What funny things you see when you carry no gun.” Crossing a side streét this morn ing, | stopped to let a fine, large machine pass, If Henry Ford Came to Seattle Editor The Str: A number of years ago a gentle man of the ecclesiastical persuasion wrote a book entitled “If Christ Came to Chicago.” To the average individual a book entitled “If Henry Ford Came to Seattle,” if written with trenchant and practical embellishment, would be far more comprehensive, while he would vote it more useful. It may be our disease, but men are wont to think that the language | of the hands and arms has a war-| rant not found in the importunings | of the Idealist. liven the great Master ts quoted “It understand not earthly things how shall ye under. as saying ye On the back seat lolled a digni- fied-looking Jap “gentleman"—at the wheel a fine-lwvoking, apparently American man! “Let the good work go on! M. H. G. stand heavenly?” Certainly Mr, Ford possesses a Knowledge of earthly things that would almost induce one to believe that his spirit is in direct communi- cation with one of those strange wenil of the Arabian tale, If Henry Ford could be induced to come to Seattle and take charge of our municipal street railway we might reasonably expect to see (within @ ‘comparatively short per fod of time) a canceled indebtedness, with a five-cent fare, Aluminum cars, made by somo new process which would render the aluminum as cheap as wood or iron, mounted on rubbertired wheels, BANKRUPT BY BERTON BRALEY «+ Oh, IT once owned a Castle in| Spain Where, some time, I dreamed 1 would reign, And laugh, love, and play | In a glorious way, | Afar from life's etreases and strain. | But now it ts wholly in vain That 1 think of It, over the main; - vision is lost, FOr 1 find, to my cort, I have mortgaged my Castle in Spain! Yor a matter of profit and gain, For triumphs that burned in my bri For workaday schemes, (Copyright, 1981 That builded my I have bartered the dreams Castle in Spain. Anda now that my youth's on the wane, I learn, to my bitterest pain, As indebtedness grows That the Fates must foreclose On my beautiful Castle in Spain, So te lesson, too late, is made plain That my vision of wonder is slain; I can nevermore fare To my haven out there— ny Since I've mortgaged my Castle in Spain! by Beattie Star) BY DR. WM. E. BARTON OSEPH HERGE- | SHIMER has been writing! about “The Fem-| the contin ued stories are read by ten thousand women for every man,| and that when : the stories ap-| pear in book form, it is still the women who read them. that The Alleged Feminine Nuisance He says that the standard, determined the ton of the characteristic American novel.” When he eomes to consider that says, is belng strangle® with @ petti- coat Now that he has said it, we may as well talk about it a little, Women bave set the standards not only for the novel, but for the movies, and for the theatre, and for the other forms of popular en- tertainment. These could not begin while the old cumbersome would become a thing of the past The prayers of Henry Ford in the physical world are the fruit of rails) great soul and @ mature mind, which may be the! paving of the way to @ spiritual millennium. W. H. SCOTT. Due Credit for County Jail Editor The Star: I have been « reader of The Star |! for some time, and I have seen ar. ticles about the jails and officers, of | |humanity which cromes the street) how they treat the people they ar-| rest in Seattle. Now, no doubt, some of this may be true, but there is a cause for some of it. Now, I ST, Quick Service. was picked up for being M. A. HANSEN—40 Economy Mkt —————— CALIFORNIA) Ra 1921 1% live op the patronage of meq But tola degree hardly leg women have set the standard top the art gallerien and for the publie | ibraries and the churches. The majority of the patrgns of all these |are women Women are @ problem and always | have been. er bave mea knows | what to do with them or how to @ without them. It is not certalm that the tastes of women are m nobler than those of men; it ig practically certain that in Ameries the men have left to the wome, | more than half of the responsibility of deciding what shall be the chap acter of our amusements, our com leorts, our standards of intellectual life The remedy fog the alleged femin | {ne nuisance ts for men to partie pate with women in the agencies that minister to life's hours releaseq from labor and not given over tj sleep. The Uterature and art that are good for women are just as goog for men, and nothing that is bag for the one sex is good for the other. drunk @ short time ago, and at my trial there were six men up for the [wame offense, and Judge Gordon | let all of them go. But he fineg | me $25 because the officer said 1 was rough. I had to Go my time out, which was eight days, and I had @ chance | to find out how they treated the boys in jail. We got breakfast at $8 a ma “Women have set| mush, coffee, milk, cooked bread, sugar, and plenty of all that Every officer at the jail was nieg to the boys and showed courtesy te all of them. The jal is as clap inine Nulsance tone and measure that standard, he| as any I ever saw, and I had seep in American Lit-| finds very ttle good to say of it.|@ few in my day before I was erature.” He says| Literature in the United States, he| rier. Now this was the county am writing this for the jare there. There were 24 in tank I was in. It was No. 4 The city jail could do the the county. Dinner was served at 220 p. It consisted of soup, spuds, tea, roast meat, brown gravy, ding, beans or vegetables. It was cooked well. Now, if you can find space for this, we will thank you many times, as I think the jail should have. credit for some of what is coming to it. BROWNIE. — ee jpreme Blend Coffee—the very best that grows—I Ib, 40c; 2 lbs, Tie; 3 Ibs. $1.10, Lunch with me—Best for Lem ul OIL COMPANY a