The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 3, 1921, Page 6

AGE 6 a The Seattle Sta re You walk into many book stores nowadays and you see a sign: “Buy a Book a Week.” _ That strikes you as a bit optimistic on the part of the bookseller. Does he really © think he has a book a week that will interest the average buyer? But then, it isn’t meant to be taken literally. Books.” What the sign means is, “Buy ‘And that ts good advice. The habit of reading will give you contentment that you n't get, always, from the movies, or your car, or from visiting with the neighbors over back fence. ~ And here's another fact: More books are being published that are WORTH BUYING, and WORTH READING, ever before. Mr. Bookseller’s sign read, “Buy a Book a Month,” you could take {t literally, and well repaid. “Bight months of 1921 have gone. We believe there have been in these elgbt months, of course, as far as fiction is concerned, comes “Main Street,” the remark- wovel by Sinclair Lewis, which bares the very soul of the American small town— ly the most important piece of American fiction produced in a decade. in Street” has achieved the real distinction of being the “best seller” of the and at the same time a work of high literary merit, internationally recognized. r other novels already published this year, would be more read and more talked were they not overshadowed by “Main Street.” These are: Lulu Bett,” by Zona Gale. Adams,” by Booth Tarkington. White,” by Sherwood Anderson. Calf .” by Floyd Dell. ; there's Harold Bell Wright's forthcoming “Helen of the Old House”—his first sek for two years. In advance of its reading one may assert that it will fulfill the Epectations of Wright's public. critics” have a way of sneering at Wright. One of them once wrote: can’t write.” And all, or nearly all, repeat it. ‘his is because Uterary critics are mostly brainless parrots who flock in droves and he NEVER by any accident announce an opinion unless they believe it will meet with ® approval of their fellow-critics. Wright CAN write, and most of his work is much more worth while than the best f the novelists more favored by the professors and the pedants, buy too many novels, if you intend to make It “n book a month.” Remember it some of the most interesting reading is to be found in books of travel and history. # the habit of reading such books and you will never give it up. the best travel book this year is O’Brien’s “Mystic Isles of the South We admit it isn’t as good as the eariler book that made him famous—“White fi—but few men have produced two such volumes of equal merit. Mstory, by all means read Wells’ “Outline of History.” | understand life, and enjoy life, much better for it, am Park's | : il it a8 my , ie i br f il i t UY Hie bifEEE | sreek te | H $Es i #¢ i} | | r | s HI ti Hi 3 | ; r f 4 a i 3 of claims for “maintenance of By,” and that from 70 to 75 per eneral of railroads as #0 wlative and contingent in charac- as to rant no conalderation tever—6en. Btanley (D,), Ken eee A FIGHTIN’ PARSON a new member I want to say a concerning some of the ts I have heard here on the of the house today and almost day during the last five s . I feel very much like a Binieter in my section of the great of Bouth Carolina whose piety, Hy 2 s 2 g a brag | | it if i t Hieitdi ee t HG ll il z ; ply Hh PY ef 38 j | 88 8 H g § : ? i g ! alt He by i Bh f é | B A ef e& z a Bi H [ EF i i F High prices are beginning to fect the cutting remarks, —T Lote of fishermen catch theirs when they get home, xP iff ra} : ii rl iN I Hi i 5 7 | | i I | : i z tF f i : l i 4 | : 2 : & : 3 i i j r Hi ad > SS i zs = ll "em on the ing sult girls fad except owimming. A mantourtst Hives by the hands of othere. When vou see @ man look at the calendar and grin he's @ coal dcaler, or 1 f S your ( P} CONFESSIONAL BY KATHERINE McKLUSKEY I do not knee! at night, to say a prayer; I think of spiders and I do not dare! My knees are thin, and eastly they could Gather a splinter, roughened from the wood. I'm cold, and bed tg warm; I'm better there Than tn the outer darkn: of @ prayer! But when the morning wakes up, pink and cool, And sunrise makes our peach-blooms glory-full; And God comes smiling down th garden-walk, I run and slip my hand in His, and talk? Try This on Your Wise Friend If a man had as many more chickens as he has, and i ott many more, and a third as many more, he would many had he actually? * fas Baresi THE SEATTLE STAR | Subjects Star Readers Are Pondering Over Makes New Building Offer Wiitor The Star: Under the caption, “Do You Want to But you printed a letter from non-resident tn which an offer was suggested pertaining to building, he furnishing part of the framework end he to wait for payment till set tler had bad time to construct and ecoupy his place, The writer, a resident for many years, and here to use every effort to ald the upbuliding of our etty, will go still farther in lending lum. ber, ground and ansistance to pros peetive homeowners who demon: Strate thelr firm desire to own a ood home tn the best part of the Dest city in America, I live right on the ground and among these homebutldere and a ready to work and walt, and lend helps of many kinds, and also the benefit of my experience gained tn @ period of & generation or more—in short, T A Letter From To The Editor: Dear Sir: It tent hard to tell that business ten't very well: and there are @ome who shai head and say, “Why bout the Gendt” And all of us, It's sad but true, at times get heltobetay blue, ‘The other day I had the bives; the children needed socks and shoes, my bank account was shot to bite, my maf} was full of Please Remits seven hours I stood the gaff, and made a dollar and a halt. With heavy heart and aching dome, I shut up shop and atarted home: and weary, dreary and per plexed, I wondered what could hap. pen hext—what final straw to lay me flat; and then the wind blew off my hat. One More Bit Batter The Star: I have read with Interest the story of Mra. W. J. Brown In regard to her treatment at Stefllacoom. I was taken from « hospital tn 1919 on commitment papers signed by my doctor, or at least he pre tended to be one. I know that some of the things that Mra. Brown tells of are atao lutely true, ae I was choked and kicked and food forced down my throat im that socalled hospital 0 farther in this than individual could sin the U, next to an im of little or no home-owner and will glad! the ave ‘There are many S.A, where ft te pgnsibility for @ means to become home, but not #o Beattie, if he ts lucky enough to take advantage of offers @ few men atand ready to ex- fend in thie direction. In short, mort of the lumber, one or more unencumbered lots, with title and tn good location, near pavement, and most all the utilities | in, will be contributed to an Indus | trious and worthy homeseeker who will contribute the Jabor needed to develop the home into a sultable abiding place for self reapecting mily, Tmrmed ection may be had by applying to the man who makes thin Offer at his home, 9447 25th Ave, 8. W., City. CHARLES PARKER. Avridge Mann I turned around and heard a shout, “I caught it on the fly-—-your out!” And then a friendly featured guy re turned the bat with smiling eye, re marking, “Ain't It gompel truth, for atting lids, the wind’s a Ruth!" It wasn't much, but let mo eny, ft drove my clouds of gloom awa: hard times, I thought, would be a foke, {f we could all be friendly folk, forget punectilio’s veneer, and insti. tute a “Friendly Year.” For lots of us have chanced to |roam afar from what we know an | “Home,” and when we're blue, It mat ters much to mins or feel the friend. ly touch; we may be strangers, yet yi can be friendly when we meet. A. MANN. of Testimony ward for no reason on earth that I gould discover, I tried to tell one of the so-called Goctors and was told that. I was legally dead, Have been to three attorneys and been told there is no redress, as lie at 18 no proof, Now, Mr. Editor, Reapecttully, JOHN D, GAMMONS. Yakima, Wash. Sunset on Green Lake The sun went down tn ember glow, Painting the West with red—and Lo, Sparkling and shining through the brake There gicamed a picture of Green Lake. A aflente came all too serene, And settled on the lovely scene, Completed ‘ere It scarce begun. T sat alohe and watched the sun Play on the lake Ite livid light In brief combat against the night, But darkness came to conquer all As one by one the shadows tall, Claiming this pleture as their right, Enguilfed it in the garment night. A.B Editor The Stan ‘On or about Aug. 8th a girt friend of mine was sent as a delegate from a telephone office in Seattle to visit the sick boys in the hospital here. ‘The girls in the telephone office took up @ collection amongst them: selves and It amounted to $12 They bought cigarettes and candy, oranges and such stuff to pass around among the boys here wha are aick and help lean, She left Seattle on the steamer Bol Due, and put her grip and this box that held the stuff for the pa tients in the hospital in a rack for that purpose, Dut when she wont to get off the boat at Port Townsend the box was gone, but her grip etill remained. She said that there were only three or four other passengers who got off the boat with her, and she says that Rone of them carried the box off the . Top-Heavy Hatter The star: * « The county superintendent of schools and the Instructors at the King County Teachers’ Institute are teachers to go back to and put less stress on frilla.” p When one runs against business men and thelr comments on our schools, it seems as though it would be an incentive to the easen-; tial, They tell us the average grammar pupil, as well as the high school pupil, cannot read tn public intelligently; that they have a faulty pronunciation; that they mumble the/ words; that they give little or no ex. pression. In arithmetic they stum:| bie at finding the cost of articles! sold by the hundreds, by the thou-| sand and by the ton; that the ma The Mear Editor The Star: Enclosed please find clipping from The Star referring to a dealer in timberlands charged with fraud and designated in the head line ag o “realtor.” The word “realtor” { applied j deet Doat with them. Bo ft must be up to some one of the crew to know where that box went to. The box could not have fallen overboard And what fs more, this ts not the firet time this sort of thing has hap- pened. But when you speak to a purser of the Bol Duo tn a nice way about these things, he does not want to talk about it. I think this matter ought to be taken up and «@ settle ment made to these girls who have #pent thetr hard-carned money to try to cheer us boys over here a bit, So, dear editor, if you can really find a little space and time in your Paper, please print this, as we would Ike to have this sort of thing stopped. Not for our own benefit. but for the good-hearted telephone girls, RAY McFOREY, U. &. ‘Marine Hospital, Ex-Sbrvice Man, Port Townsend. ° ° With Frills jority are blocked on finding the square root of 12.1. ‘The topics tn the eighth grade are full and somewhat topheary, and in ddition to those branthes teachers are supposed to give instruction In general exercises, fire drills, paint Ing, drawing, calisthenics, declama- tion, music, morals and manners, |Manual training, memory gems, do- mestic ecience, and two of the more recent ones are folk dances and sex hygiene. The idea that the foregoing sub. are non-essential ts not wished to be conveyed, but that the system fa topheavy ‘Wo hafl the time when more stress will be placed on the essentials and lesa time on some of the semtessen th GEO. W. SICKLES, Bothell, Wash. of “Realtor” only to real estate dealers who are | members of a local board, having membership in the National Asso jelation of Real Estate Boards, organ | ized in 1908, for th vancement of the Interests of real estate brokers and the protection of the public PARABLE OF THE PINCH OF By DR. WM. F. BARTON. HEN I dine at an hotel, and the waiter bring- eth unto mo a Plate of Soup, my firgt con cern is to know how far he hath put his Thumb in it. But soon after that I be. come interested | in the fact that the Soup hath not been anlted, Therefore do I look around for the Salt, and then for the Pepper, and about the time that eating the last of the Soup, it beginneth to be seasoned. Whereas, when Keturah cooketh soup for her husband, that unwor thy man findeth it good from the Firat Bite, for she seasoneth it Just Right. And when she Bolleth Pota: toes, she salteth the Water, so that the Potatoes are Salted all through; and #be knoweth just how much of everything to put in. SALT the added pinch of salt, without which the whole of life is in the Soup, and that Soup ie flat, stale and unprofitable. For I have heard that in every molecule of human blood there is one atom of tron, and if that atom be gone, the rest is of no value, and the man dieth, And this, although. that one atom be but one in two thousand atoms of other stuff such as maketh up plood for the life of man. And T am told that the specks of dust in the air alone give us the beautiful Biye Sky, and that otherwise the heavens would be Black at Noon, And T have noted tn men‘a lives how often it appeareth that they ‘@ almost all the qualities which they need for success, but for the lack of @ pinch of Courtesy, or the trivial virtue of Punctuality or some suchlike small thing, they fail, And #0 I think there ts a certain Moral Value in these added smal) | be enabled to rear a family tn their | | | it almowt seems ae if the word of all | those dixcharged patients ought to be proof enough. from unprincipled agents or brokers. The party mentioned is not a mem. bor of the Beattlo Real Estate Asso: ciation, which is a member of the national organiaation, and we are | writing you this letter to as hereafter the use of the word realtor in your columns be used with dis crimination, | You will appreciate our position in | the matter the more keenly, when | we tell you that the license law for brokers which was vetoed by the gov ernor, would have prevented such | people from conducting a real estate business in thin state. Washington in at present the only Pacific Coast state in which legitimate real entate dealers are not protected by a I conse law, ° Inhumanity at Editor The Star: The Northern Btate Hospital, at Sedro-Woolley, ie all that has been represented by the two correspond. ents, Mr. Bekman and I. Hf. Arnold, whoue letters appeared in The Star recently, 1 know, for my mother was a pa tlent at that Institution for 27 days, upon the recommendation of our family physician. He advised that she be sent there to get the scien: tifio care ahe needed, Mother's condition was @ nervous breakdown, due to worry and hard ships in her younger days, in her struggle to raise her family. Think ing she would recetve the best of | care, I consented to let her go, but after 20 days grew anxious and de | elded to vinit her, She was overjoyed to see me, and | clung to me like @ child. ‘Mother,” I said, “are they kind to you here?” “Hush,” she replied; “I will tell you when I get out.” “Do you get plenty of good foo4-~ eee, milk, meats, fruits, and the lke?" I askedher, She fooked at me tn surprise and replied, “Wh: haven't seen an ege since T came, and all the milk 1 get is @ half a cup of skimmed milk for ‘eakfast to put on my mush. I get post. stamp of Wutter once a day, too, and that ta for break And weak black coffee without sugar or milk,” “How abont fruit and meats, ham oon?’ I waked, bever get ham or bacon, and no fruit te ever served to us. Our dinner fs alwayn the same thing, stew made of barley and macaroni and dry salt pork, but no meat ts in the stew. Just once the atew was made of mutton, and a small piece of meat came tn the atew about the size of my two fingers for six of us Rolled rotten potatoes were also served at this meal. Our supper con sisted of dry bread and boutiton which was so rancid I could not arink it and took cold water Instead.” Did you get plenty of rest? 1 anked, which was one of the great “We were never allowed to tle down from the time we got up in the 0 until we went to bed at “Do you want te ge home?’ I asked, She repiied that she 4i4 eo want to go home, and the pleading look in her eyes,was more eloquent than words. When I told her I had com to take her home she was almos' When and Where Will It Take Place? Who Will Be Involved in This Great. Struggle? Sermon Topic of PASTOR G, W. PETTIT Sunday, Sept. 4th at 7:45 p. m. seed Adventist Charch Cor. Boylston and Olive St. PUBLIC WELCOME! REV. M. AL MATTHEWS will deliver a,sermon Sun- day morning, entitled The Light That Is Increasing In the evening he will dis- cuss the subject, The Conspirators Who Are Assassinating the City PUBLIC INVITED FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Tauo | VADIS | things like the pinch of walt. Where. fore, when Keturah handeth me my cup of Coffee, I ask her not, Didat thou put Sugar in It? But I ask per, AMY the J rg ‘ ot | 4 tran hoe ME AERATED EN RA ; SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER A test of the right to uae the word “realtor” wag made in Minneapolis, where the telephone company in Its directory listed all real estate dea) ors under the heading, “Realtors,” and refused to make any distinction The matior was carried into court, resulting in @ decision aa follows: “The court finds that the plain |tiffe are entitled to grant to thelr | members the exclusive right to use |the word ‘réaltors’ and that save only such a may be authorized #0 to do by the plaintiff.” Yours respectfully, | CTATION, By M'L COLLYER, Secretary. Sedro-Woolley overcome with joy, erying and laughing at the same time, I took her to the hote) and she said it was the first meal she had eaten since leaving home. Then she told of the treatment accorded the patients. Upon her arrival and after we had gone, she was setzed and her clothes ruthlessly stripped from her and she was put into a hot bath, her long gray hair shampooed with laundry soap, Bhe was not allowed to dry her body or head, but wae sent to bed wet, There patients to read. kind. She witnessed: cruel treat ments often injuring the patfént. One old indy in her eighties waa slammed spine injured. When her folks came to see her, they were told that she fell. She told of another patient whose trouble was talking inceasafftly. One of the nurses tick her in the mouth as hard e could, but the poor creature on talking as if nothing had happened. My blood was up as I Istened to thie, and I asked: “Mother, did they abuse you or use physical violence?” Her reply would determine whether I would continue on home with her in peace, said she was not abused by physical bie. 1 could write volumes on what mother told me she had to see and hear during the short time she was there Mr. Editor, fe there no way of stopping this inhuman treatment? Is there no society or organization that could intercede for these poor unfortunates? our ministers? How This House E hey ne geren | Many other styles and sizes at ‘warm as houses years or more. with lat! ‘ fer. reduced P pertante ise? at our it a gifice oF pend for catalogue, “American” pe Fe oe You can move inte your house tn from 10 to 16 @aya AMERICAN PORTABLE no} other persons, firms, or corporations | are entitied to use the sald term,! SEATTLE REAL ESTATE AS8O.| into her chair and her) or land in the Sedro-Woolley jail. She | violence for she gave them no trou-| ected on Your 8, 1921. know how long wa must continue to \ Sas? taxes in support of auch houses of torture? A SUBSCRIBER. You ean easly jearn to Gance at Bright's, 1604 4th, cor. Pine--Adv. Thoroughness metho® in ur eus- characterizes our tery €0 ent with sound bual- ness Judgment. Paid on & Check ih unts Bubject to Check Ari AeCOUnY Cordially Invited Peoples Savings SECOND AVE. AND P' Left With Us on or Before Tuesday, September 6 Will Sbare in Earnings Frem September 1 Thise bank remains open Sat urday evening from 6 to 8 o'clock for the convenience of depositors who cannot find time fo trans act their business ¢uring the week, Every dofar entrusted to the without security. You MAY START AN AC. COUNT WITH $1.00. Washington Mutual Savings Bank 1101 Second Avenue Estabtished Lot for $577.00 5 15x22 fect, room 12x15, kite Mg bath, closet, tw. 5. ie Build the hoube’ » pate fl ie you prefer. 3 ¥ " HOUSE :CO. 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