The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 29, 1921, Page 6

ee [newpaper the- | terprine Asem and United 6 out of etty am Owl $80 per m tm the rate of Washi for # months, oF $8.00 per year ny $400 & Ry te The Seattle: St -——- | Publiahed Dait by The st Publishing Phone M 00 Ce. ain A Free “Ad” for Home Brew y The Star’s Home Brew column has been becoming more and more popular. lieve it is going to keep on improving and gaining in readabilit We be- And that gives one more opportunity for, you, Star readers, to help edit your own paper. The Home Brew editor wants funny wheezes and beauty, puns and poetry, wit and wisdom, ail to find a place in it. We believe a civilized colyum to be a sort of ivory tower from which free souls take pot shots at the world and life—the neutral ground where JAZZ AND CULTURE lie down in perfect amity—the one clubroom where WE NUTS and NICE PEOPLE meet—the safety valve whereby we may let off the damphool thoughts that sizzle in our dusty minds, Home Brew has no policy. Policies are deadly. wost tedious of all the virtues. They are, in addition, infernal bores. They force consistency on us, the Home Brew hereby pledges itself to fight all policies everywhere, in the name of human free- dom. One of the curses of the modern world is the “message.” death; made “better” men and women by main strength. We are messaged to Laughter and smiles and chuckles are all the medicine many of us need. Beauty may be the panacea for our pains. The minute a “message” appears on the horizon Home Brew will open upon | it with all arms, in the name of Laughter and Beauty. A colyum is brilliant in proportion to the number of keen minds that appear in it. Paraphrasing some genius, a colyum is no stronger than its contribs. Contribbing is fun. Contribbing is a good game. ping of ideas—joy. Contribbing leads to pleasant friendships—swap- ‘Home Brew therefore appeals to you all. The glory of such a common meeting place is that everyone has something to say. Business people and students—young and old—all have a new slant at some time or other on the magnificent, horrible, beautiful, funny pageant that is Life. Nothing is barred. Contrib long ar? often, folk. You can have a peach of a time. THREE WISHES BY LEO H. LASSEN T never hear a throng of summer birds Swvetly chant a woodland symphony, But that I wish that such # melody My pen may some day sing tn lovely words. I never nee the early sunlight break In flaming glory over sleeping hills, But thas! wish that some day with my quills A masterpiece of morning I may make And, too, I have known friends for whom I cared So much that I have always wished that I May tell in words the splendid love we shared, Companionship a» close ax earth and rky There are no finer things than golden words That tell of morning, friends and summer birds, portation and commission, have left only a narrow margin of the mar ket price of thelr product. With these, increased cost of transporta | ton counta. No one expects ferries to pay for King county and the ferry granted by them. ‘The inclusion of Medina was a happy afterthought of Gen. Chittenden. Some of our people say they have | th no complaint to make of high fares, regarding that as a minor maclven during the first few years. One rever hears inquiry as consideration, It t pleasant to . th knew that there are so many to|% Whether this or that ro a | paying investment. Ferries are for > i | but rest | the accommodation of the people in ° or P| he creased car fares é land are means of opening up t : mean. It would) country for settlement and enabling be discouraging if there were hope of amelioration for 10 yeare,|m™en and women to’make a hiving lif, with’ tore 4 car fares, boat |0Y honest industry The Kirklan tafes were maintained at their pres-| PTY !# paying already and if the ent level, the Bast side would not | *¥*tem ix economically managed and look attractive to working men and |‘h? people are treated rightly, all these whe saust ket their pro | *'l be paying handsome dividends an ican }in five years, With the management c | that has obtained of late, there By ere rd Rameay, wno car | wij) be iftle gain in population east poet penis tare ig Tees ot the lake, exeept for a few sum whom this matters little, dents of Seattle know what no , 1 c line pareeae Boat hie po. | homes where those so inclined | itiea! fortunes, regard such matters with indifference. People are dis posed to be reasonable, but 1 have may commune with mountain beay. | ers ond chipmunks. Only today I saw an article head. | el “The High Cost of Indifference.” The rate of exchange that should make every American dol lar worth $1.10 is scorned. Ameri- “We won the war and you Yankees won the money,” the small boy tells the American tourist on the street in Montreal and Toronto. And the small boy has heard that at home or he wouldn't say it. see Perhaps the anti-American senti- ment is being built pp by com- mercial interests which want to stop trade With American fac- tories. Just perhaps the muni- tion makers of Great Britain, and the gigantic war materials com- panies of the British Isles think it's a good idea. Anyway, it's worth thinking about. Maybe it’s worth a little investigating. Who is back of the anti-Ameri- can campaign in Canada? And why? Ancient kings couldn't sion thar names; modern ones might as well not. Immigration shows foreign rela- tions want to become domestic re- lations. Fat people are always trying to change their weighs. One way to get a kick ia by miz- dng business and pleasure. Men who marry regular dreams find dreams go by contraries. High and dry—that’s America! Tom Ediso | and Tobacc« Thomas A. Edison, ceiebrating the 44th anniversary of his inven- tion of the phonograph, discusses Simplicity in Vacations Thousands of well-todo and rich by the business depression, are tobacco. economizing this summer by tak- Edison smokes like a bad chim- ing automobile camping vacations "7. “Tobacco doesn’t harm anyone, except papercovered = cigarrts, which are harmful,” he says, “But tobacco, aside from cigarets, dors A newspaper writer has inter. "™ barm to society, It Is not viewed a number of such families @neerous like narcotics and | upon their return and in every Whisky. sad An interesting view, coming from the smokerinventor whose body is 100 per cent efficient and, in ite vitality, as remarkable as his genius. . The married man says “United we stand—many things” The hardest winter in history ts always the one just ahead. Many 's opinion of @ wom- an is formed by her dressmaker. Prohibition officers are mot the only ones looking for bootleggers. LETTERS TO EDITOR Out to Get Trackless Trolley Editor The Star: which at best will be obsolete In lear This organization is going to use| than ten years. all fair means to establish @ track-| Sixth, This association has over less trolley on First ave., for the | 7,000 with families registered following reasons: that want work. First, For safety--discharge anal Seventh, Seattle has got to solve load passengers at the curb. } a congested traffic problem, so why Second, Gives thirty per cent more | pot begin now; with a few such traffic space; we need it, | trifles ax an elevated street along the Third, Time—at the peak hours it! water front, tunnel thru Capitol Hill takes longer for a No. 2 car to run} and Queen Anne Hill, a tube acroms from Pike st. to Yesler Way than| Lake Union, and a Coliseum, why it does to run from Yesler to Youngy-| not? Then we could invite Gov. town; the outlying districts can) Hart to tell us how he made good and will get better service. | ASSOCIATION OF UNEMPLOYED, Fourth, Elimination of noise. By W. R. ALLEN, 5 Fifth, Save the cost of new track, Madison st. Britain couldn't verify those ru- mors about Ireland being green. ery Answers Devlin’s Letter EAitor The Star: | You must be a remarkabir n to I read an article in The Seattle | know so much about the navies of Star (edition of Aug. 20th) and wish these two particular nations. I was to call H. P. Devlin on board a Japanese cruiser in Hono- ‘There is no doubt that the Japs |julu. The sights on board that ship would make an American sailor run away if he bad to put up with such | should have a perfect right to im: | prove their own land when they are | paying for it. They should not be | life in the American navy. The guns allowed in this country, and «ll of|on that ship looked as tho they them who are not citizens of the! would fall to pieces if they were fired U. 8. should be sent back to the) once. Japan may, as you say, have country they belong to. |a bigger navy, but It is not stronger | Lean't understand why you should | and never will be backed up by men be stronger for the Jap today than | equal to the Americans. | you were before prohibition. You| 1 am, must be able to get your sealed goods from them. Please let me remind you that Japan hasn't a more powerful navy HAROLD L. HARRIS. U. 8. & Texas, via San Franciseo, Flag Office, Catifornia Port Angeles, Wash. The Ferry Frame-Up Editor The Star: that the ferries shall giv in | The opened bids for the lease of} number of trips a day to certain | the ferries surprised the public @| places, for the next 10 years, One | little. It ts time a few facts reached | of the places is Medina, where the | the people Ramsay family owns 310 acres of The endorsement of the Builders’) land, which has been carefully Association is amusing. Capt. An-|jeoked after in the way of paved |derson will undertake to run the | roads in the last three years, at an ferries for the fares and $75,000 per | expense of $175,000 to King county annum when, under his manage-| [aet March the ferry service to the cost has gone high up in the hundred thousands. What economy! What a saving to the county! It is to laugh! The fact that the shipyard bear. ing the Anderson name has drawn in much of this year'g and last ment this year, Bellevue was discontinued and the ferry wharf, donated by Bellevue citizens to King county, must le unused for 10 years, if Mr. Ramsey has hie way, ‘This was done on ac- count of the urgent need for econ. omy, while the commissioners were Try This on Your Wise Friend || One man had a half a dozen dozen oranges. had six dozen dozen. Which had the most? to yesterday's: 36 roses, year’s cost in the way of repairs, is | pouring out money like water. Mr, Sat daken tate” meooust | Ramsay seeks to throw dust in the The fact that beautiful wharves,| peoples’ eyes by talking of the not yet necessary, have been pre-| ferries being maintained for tour. pared for a private company's oc: |ists, instead of the people in the cupancy is not mentioned. lake shore communities, Pure If all the ferries can be run for | camouflage! $75,000 a year, in addition to the| The ferries were not built for fares, and pay the company | tourists, altho all travelers are per- dividend and the manager a alary,|fectly free to use them under any why should the county lease them?| management. It is doubtful if the It is stipulated in the agreement | tourist travel constitutes one per i es ———-———~| cent of the total. There is talk of the port com- mission having “wished” the Ferry Leschi upon the county. The peo ple of Bellevue petitioned the port commission to give them a ferry and, after some delay and much tribulation on our part, the ques tion was referred to the voters of Another a increased fares settled upon them|1: would be a god title for an for 10 years, by arbitrary fiat, | eseay on the ferry question. It is not @ pleasant prospect. beginning to look a4 if even as elick Those who raise and market pro} man ax Mr. Ramgay cannot fool duce by their own labor, with oc | all the people all the time. carional hired help if they can af. | MARY RAINE: ford it, pay for containers, trans | Bellevue How to Fool Footpads iter The Star 1 read, 1{02R8 £0 make: m near’ every read. " an ee vik = loniecne ‘hele heig| DOR'C walk after dark thru alleys up and by thom Judging or lonesome streets——better part with from the way some of thease “hold-|@ token on a street car, ups” occur, I really believe that | Never carry much money or val great nomber fan victims to thee? uapies: it is easier to part with amall criminals by some of their own care — jchange than a big bankroll Society will never get rid of these! Never accept a “lift from a “hold-upe:* they will always operate, | stranger—it may prove expenatve. but the public must try to met | Dent stop to accommodate a its, jatranger with a match or tell him To that end, I have a few sugges |the time in a lonely place; just keep GRAFTING IN BY DR. WILLIAM E. BARTON ¥ THE top of « | tree dies down, a satisfactory kind of fruit, new branch: can be grafted in, But what if it be the root that dies? Is there any way of grafting in @ new root? _ In Cal, stand the two parent navel or ange trees, If I have the informa tion correctly, the entire navel or jange industry on Pacific coast began with the successful propaga tion of that kind of orange from | these two trees: One of them stands on Magnolia ave, and thd other was transplanted by President Theodore Roosevelt, }and stands in front of the Mission inn Both theseitreés are very old and manifestly dying. But they are try. jing the experiment of creating « new root for one of them. | succeeds, 1 presume they will do the same for the other. on going, telling him you have neith or match or time. If compelled to walk thru a dark street, look over your shoulder now and then and gee if anyone follows you. If #0, cut acrons, and if hg still |persi#ta in following you—bike for | the first safe place. Never accept an invitation into an alley in pretense of having some thing to give or sell you. Better to | transact business out in the open. | In walking along dark streots, | Editor The Star: ‘What's the matter with the pa pers of Seattle and the whole state? Afe they all hand and «iove with fends that are torturing people Stellacoom? Were not Mra. De Montis* state ments enough to arouné every man, woman and child big enough to know {tx meaning to a pitch of fury tear them limb from limb? Call on every church, lodge or amociation pot to rest ll that hell- EAltor The Star: My attention has oeen called to an editorial in a recent issue of your paper, the answer to Mr. “T. Axpayer.” For myvelf, and for the other teachers, I want to thank you for | what you sald. This ts not simply because you upheld the cause of goed milaries for teachers, altho I do not pretend that we are not grate- ful for every good word along that SHAFER BROS. RETIRE FROM BUSINES | or does not bear | Rivernide, | If that | They take @ Vigorous young tree, A NEW ROOT cut off its top, plant It as close to the old tree as possible, and at an angie, and graft the top into the side of t id tree, a little above the root. | They have grafted in several auch | young roots, and they appear to be growing and to be saving the life of | the old tree, | Such an undertaking lends iteelf te | reflection There are men who are dying at the top because they hot sufficient root. Why not dig down near the root and put in a new one? You can learn Greek at 40, or | study Browning at 60, or become an expert on psychoanalysis at 60, or /make yourself either a learned man | or @ fool at 70 | Maybe you do not care for those! particular studies—in that case there are others Why should not a man who lacked | opportunities in hie youth for higher education set about it in middie life, and pursue a course of good réading Why not study astronomy, or bot- any, or literature? Many men die a good many years | before the undertaker carta them/ away. A man begins to die when he! ceases to grow. | Why not graft in a new root? | | |watch every telephone pole someone who might be hiding on the opposite side waiting for you, In| passing dark doorways and corners, | always look in that directfon. Walk on the outside edge of the sidewalk | —thus, you may avoid a crack over lyour head with a “black jack.” for) He Wants Some Real Action that would take those brutes and / If one or more are loitering around \in the shade on your side of the lwtreet, cut across and take the op | posite wide. Respectfully, : | 1. 0. GAASLAND, Care American Can Co. hole, that has been whitewashed by Politicians many times, is cleaned out of its murderers. Mra. Peck was murdered in cold | blood, no inquest held, no protest Mrs, De Montis tortured for four months—and not a paper utters & protest or call for inquiry tho the |judge said a “mistake” made and the board of control told her to “go home and forget it.” Some slogan, some devile, Yours, JAMES FULLERTON, Port Townsend, Wash. | made; Seattle Teachers Enthusiastic line. Beyond that we greatly appreciate | the fact that you take a broad view of the schoo! situation. peorays sete you that the great majority | |of your Seattle teachers are trying | | to do the same. | | We work harder than the public) knows. That fact does not trouble | us greatly, but we wish you might! all know how sincerely and earnest-| ly your hundreds and hundreds of | MONDAY, AU | common sense had been} UST 29, 1921. HOPE FOR THE THIRSTY If the amendment (to the Volmtead bil) stopped after the word “many factured,” it would have said en and would have been elegible to ag compllsh the purposes we seek, to wit, prevent manufacture for home consumption, But they say “many. facture for hale or sold,” implying te man with the Volatead per cent of that is, 4 half. per cent of common sense—that he omnia manufacture it for his own unease | Senator Ashurst, (Dem), Arizona, A POETICAL ATTACK I oft have heard of Lydford lat Where in the morn they band and draw, And sit in judgment after. This Scotch verse ts now Ameri. canized so as to read— 1 oft have heard of Volstead law, “ How im the morn they sit ang draw, And «it in judgment after, Representative Ward (Mem) North Dakota, teachers interest themselves tn the lives and welfare of Seattle's boys and girls, If the public knew that and reap ized the truth you emphasize that such an {pterest, translated into intelligent ice, is of inestimable value to the state, there would be jess objection to our receiving « living wage plus enough to enable us to grow professionally. I want to assure you that the teachers this year will try as never before to make Seattle schools ef. ficient. They will be working under difficulties with larger numbers in their rooms, but they will main tain the high standard of progress, We are going to make this @ record year for accomplishment. Young Seattle will be better citizens next June because of the spirit that has inwpired their days in the sebook room during the school year, For all of our work I bespak your open-minded consideration, judgment not hastily given, aad friendly cooperation with our efforts to give of our best to Seattle boy- hood and girthood. Yours truly, » MYRA L. SNOW, President Seattle Grade Teachers’ club. Gee, but Boldt’s Bread is goed! Advertisement. PUBLIC LETTER OF THE NORTHWEST— success as has come class clothing at extremely low prices. TO THE WOMEN AND MEN to us. Sincerely yours, SHAFER BROS, By JULIUS SHAFER, ={={={==_=_—eEeEEz———eE—e—es=eEeueua_eE__—_—_—_——— Store Now Closed—Quitting Business Sale Starts Thursday, 10 A. M. Shafer Bros.’ Store was closed Saturday at 6 p. m. and will remain closed until Thurs- « 4 day morning, Sept. 1, 1921, at 10 a. m., when the big QUITTING-BUSINESS SALE be- A gins. Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday will be utilized by a small army of clerks in going over every article in the big store to re:mark prices that will compel quick sales. Full details will appear in all Wednesday papers. Hundreds of our first customers— _ | This fact, But conditions have now arisen in regard to cost of clothing, rent, and high operating expenses, as well as other necessary items in doing business, that make it exceedingly difficult for us to meet the present demand of the public for the highest After giving close and attentive study to the entire situation, we have decided to retire from the retail clothing business and close up Shafer Bros." store. Our clothing stock is probably one of the largest in the Northwest and we have, therefore, decided to open as soon as possible a great closing-out sale. in the store will be offered at prices that will mean quick disposal. of standard clothing, including STEIN-BLOCK and KAUFMAN BROS, clothing for men, SAM W. PECK and SKOLNY clothing for boys, STETSON, BERG and MALLORY hats, MEDLICOTT, GLOBE, ~ COOPER, VASSAR KNIT and GLASTONBURY underwear, and MANHATTAN and ARROW shirts, as well as our big stock of standard shoes, will now be re-marked at prices far below what it costs us to put these dependable makes in the hands of our customers, Shafer Bros.’ business was fouhded on a policy of “satisfaction guaranteed or your money back," and down to the last minute of the life of the store to the very last article sold by us—our well-known guarantee will hold good. With sincere thanks to all Seattle and all Northwest patrons, we remain, Everything | Our immense stock : | St RRPSTSRS5 oa 342% Pt 4 that port thar and Me alrea Nearly thirty years ago we opened the Shafer Bros.’ store and began catering to the : clothing needs of the men and boys of this community. with their boys since growrl to manhood—are still our regular customers. away and above all else, is the most gratifying feature of such degree of worldly | |v E