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

By matt ° The S Popitabed Datly by The Star Popiiming Pr Mi je per month; J monthe, $1.69) € months, $2 tf Washington. Outel the 400 m, OF 59.00 per year, By ar Th; year, mouth, & month | | is mighty encouraging news that comes today from a committee of state bankers have been working all summer on reorganization plans for the Scandinavian bank of Seattle. just one or two more “if's” to surmount, it seems certain that a new insti- with assets of a million and a quarter will open its doors in Seattle before the of the year. It will be owned and operated by more than 100 banks scattered t the state and will be a Seattle correspondent of all of them. ‘ the present plans work out, it will make available to all the small depositors with $100 or less) in the failed bank the full amount of their deposits imme- F ly upon opening its doors. The larger depositors will get 60 cents on the dollar r ‘ence, and more—perhaps 20 or 25 cents more—as fast as the slower assets can be a “What is of additional importance, this will be accomplished without destroying the guarantee fund, and the latter will be left in a position to furnish some real cti in case other banks should in the future get into difficulties. nev, bank, if it opens, will have an unusually large cash reserve and be one of strongest in the state. The principal “if” in the way of realization is a series of test which will result as the legality of the plan is passed upon by the courts. All d parties will have an opportunity to insist that their rights be respected. If 1-9 passes this gauntlet—and the average citizen will hope it successfully does— b Bank of Washington and its little sister, the Bank of Ballard, ought to become an ast of which the community and the state will be proud. i E , s iit Hi Hin ¢ z | j a f f if i ef if i t le aI fF i hy ih TT I i : a5 Hn 7 fi i B t : i | i " ti i | i g 3 [ te § i gel i i t i i lee it é : Fe i i | _ And to keep the eyes still lifted ; the sweet blue sky will soon bY peep thru the dark clouds are rifted.” raising its prices. Orders 4 had coming. Basiness revival awaits only of prices—especially and freight rates, If “Bill Haywood” ever does re- turn,to the land of the Stars and Btripes he'll sce thé stars and get __ To the straw ud: “Bo long, old top. Bee you next year.” i Most rich men profited by our 8. Bills are casy to run up and hard run down. "The only thing reigning in Rus- és consternation, 4 With fergers it’s from pen to pen. Love isn’t stone-blind, if the stone is a diamond! The financial strain ¢. being harped on too much. Don't criticize dresses. Why kick over almost nothing? had kept her, fof 17 years never saw daylight or breathed fresh alr. When humane officers found her, she had the mind and body of » child of 6 i i i g E 3 5 ? i 3 E i i 1 Frf Jags in U. S. Now and in 1931 More drunkenness in America than anywhere else in the world, suys Gaston Monnett, traveling investigator for a French brandy concern, Come back in 10 years, my dear Gaston. Drunkards will be rare then. Md evil thousands of years old can't be wiped out overnight. Most Jags now come from home made hootch. After the novelty wears off, cellar chemists will de cide it’s more botlier than it's werth, The only teacher who isn’t un- derpeid ts experience. Not ef men have their price; bome give themscives eway. MERCER SCHOOL MA’AMS BY DR. WM. FE. BARTON WY) HIS is the way it was told to me, and it was a good story when I heard it: In 1866 Asa Mercer went from Seattle to Boston to buy) Seattle was young in| 1865, and Asa! Mercer and bis brother were of her leading citizens. For one of them is Mercer Island named, and if that island were much larger there would be no Lake Washington. Asa Mercer bought for himself| and other Seattle folk goods tn such | quantity that he chartered a schooner to convey them home; and the Panama cana) was not then in good working order. There was room for passengers, and he filled the boat with school-| ma’ams. He told the young women of New England that they could get | better wages in Washington than in Massachusetts, and that was no lie. They pay better wages now to school | teachers there than in the East. How many young women he sailed with I do not know. He appears to} haye had no difficulty in loading the| vessel full. It required five months | to round Cape Horn and reach San | Francisco, and some of the girls were ready to go ashore by the time they arrived in that port. He reached Seattle with about 40 of | | them still on the boat. | I am told that every one of those | 40 girls was engaged to be married | before she got off the dock. I sus- pect that some people will think this statement an exaggeration, and they must reckon with Judge Everett Smith, who told me the story. I re fuse to censor it or to admit that two or three of waited for g-week or two. The story as I heard it ts highly creditable to the men of Seattle, and I prefer to leave It as It was told to ma ‘Those young women @id some teaching. How much they did, I do not know. But they became the mothers of Seattle. They married men of character and enterprise, and their children rowe up and called them bleased. ‘The more I think about this Inci- dent, the more it seems to me that Seattle hgS done well to honor the name of Asa Mercer. I believe that it ts for certain civic and commercial achievements that he is chiefly re- membered, but I doubt if he ever did anything else so potent for food as in the collection of that fine bunch of schoolma’ams and taking them from New England, where they were not needed, to a place where there were children waiting to be taught and young men walting to establish homes. If there should be another cargo of that sort, I think I could find a captain for the cruise. captain must look up his own cargo as Asa Mercer did. It is quite possible that the school ma’am in your own home district, perhaps beginning her first term this fall, is every whit as good a teacher and just as pretty a girl, and capable of being Just aa good a wife, as any of the young women whom Asa Mercer conveyed to Seattle ‘This ts a matter worth inquiring into. Poems BY LEO H. 2 or YOu 2 ook . LASSEN 41 think Goa paints Fis colors in the skies, When the sun winds 4 jown the Western way, For them who labor thru the hours of day, To bring thefn peace, to rest their tired eyes. I think God gives the lilac trees perfume, And tells the thrush his glorious song to sing For them who see but night; such things can bring ‘Tho light of spring within their darkened room. I think God bullds each high purple hin Strong with trees and stone and snow To shelter them in valleys far below: The awful might of His hands—the love of His Win. I think God brings the friends that I have known Because I have no kinsfolk of my own. meena Try This on Your Wise Friend What is the smallest number that, when divided by three will leave a remainder of one; divided by four will leave two; divided by five will leave three, and divided by six will lave four? Answer to ye€terday's: 3 years olf. THE SEATTLE STAR | nese? JOB DISCUSSION ALREADY STARTS WHEELS TURNING Editor The Star: Permit me to express a word of praise for the good you have undertaken in behalf of the unemployed of this state, It is a notable fact that The Star, thru its large and wide circulation, is doing more to stimulate business and to bring the attention of the leaders of industry to the startling conditions that confront the honest toilers of the Northwest, than all other agencies com- bined. Your front page editorial of the 10th inst., “Seattle’s Most Vital Problem Today,” has already made a per- ceptible impression of improvement upon employers of the Skagit valley, at least. That business is ready to go forward, requiring only a little urging and encouragement, is manifested up in this neck of the woods by the renewal of activities | of the mills and camps since your challenge—“Are You || Employers Big Enough for the Task?” | Further efforts of this kind by a united press of the state would start every wheel of industry going, and once under way there would be no cessation for many moons, while labor would be employed at good wages, and, with plenty of money to spend, the great yield of the farmers’ products and every other com- modity would find a ready market, and, instead of hunger and want, good will, happiness and content- ment would dominate every home thruout this fair land of ours. Mr. Editor, we tender you goneratalations, hes and EY, Wash. best wis a. Hamilton, Urges Need of City Manager Waiter The Star jthe treatment of the Cowen Park We need a bustneas man at tht) neonie and the pavements and ade head of the city, The council and poate Sigh Shaggy mayor have time and again shown their inability to handle large af-| estate schemes con fairs walks further demns the system ‘The rate of taxation ts double that} By ali means change the system. of Vancouver, five Umes that of/ Hire a manager, Our taxes are not Pringe Rupert, B. C. | taxes—they are rents. |- OLD READER or real THE STAN them may “have | But every | is} The purchase of the car system, | A Letter From Avridge Mann Editor The Star: have dissipated quite as much; and Dear Sir: You wrote, T understand, | we have wasted quite a bit thé way about our Western Wonderland, and/ that we have handled it. spoke about the golden yield that) Go wander round the state today, lay in fertile, virgin field, and al) and see the wealth that round us lay, the weagjth that we could selze from/where now remaing but barren hill, many million standing trees. ltoo steep for hand of man to till, We have a latent wealth, it's true, | but robbed of every single tres, um that even Croesus never knew; and | thinking of posterity. we could spend it quite a while, and| It's really time we took a peek to still retain a handsome pile, but even | see what lies beyond our beak, and| wealth of standing tree is not im | start repiantin ¢ go, and only | mune to bankruptcy. | reap as wo can sow, or else the} Our yearly forest fires, you know,| wealth that’s ours as jet, will be consume @ lot of latent dough, and/the future's vain regret. hurricanes and storms and such,| AVRIDGE MANN, . Convict-Inventor Wants Capital Editor The Star: I have two fn-|the money to pay for patenta, in ex ventiona, an unsinkable lifeboat and/chango for an interest in one or a new lawn game, which I am unable/ beth of my Inventions. Thanking |to patent, having no funda. you for your kindness. Yours truly, I wish to got in touch with some | CHARLES WESLEY DOUGLAS, one who would be willing to furnish U. & Penitentiary, McNeil Island. ° Jitneys, Joshua and Progress FAitor The Star: Mach has been street cars, the jitneys will survive aid, written and done in the jitney/ It in so ordained that the world controversy, but still the question] must progress. The evidence of this seems as unsettled as ever, One| is seen everywhere, evening paper seems very decided) A good many years ago a man by! in the matter and even brings the|the name of Morse Invented the) attention of the reader to one|telegraph. Today we walk into a| Roman statesman by the name of | telegraph office, put a thought on | Cato, who, after visiting ancient| paper and in a few minutes it ts a/ Carthage, sald, “Carthage must be | thousand miles away. Did the foot | destroyed.” Meaning, the jitneys| messenger of that day complain be- | must go. I notice they have been ine the telegraph hurt his busi. / going for some time and this can — me be explained in one word, “Serv jee.” I also read an editorial tn The Star one evening in regard to Joshua and the interurban buses. Joshua was complaining because they hurt his business, namely, the steamers between Seattle and Ta coma. Joshua bas not taken into consideration that the people patron ize those who give the beat service. Service means progres. Progress te something we cannot stop, We may delay it momentarily, but it will triumph in the end. Some time ago I witnessed an educational movie which told of the life of the ancient cave man. There wat a battle reene. One tribe of cave men with rocks and Grove the other tribe back into their | eave, bruised and bleeding, leaving some of their tribe on the field. That night, while they were nurs ing their wounds, one fellow was |trving to conjure up some wa | defeat the other tribe To make a long story short, he invented the bow and arrow. The next day the| ow KNOX forth and made the other tribe take Salesmanship stones to their heels. Progress triumphed. And #0 {t goes, IF the jitneys can’ give better service than the iness Tra Specialist “The New Salesmanship Knox has a wide reputa- Sa specialist in Salesman- 1 Business Training. His experience covers Rix years.as @ successful sales manager, during which time. he employed an personally trained more than 1,000 salesmen, and ten years of specialization ‘in training and developing men. During the past five years he has trained more than 800 Se- attle bu, This tra ing ix ni ugh lectures and cla ns, but per= soval service Iping these men solve their business prob- lema, ading firms are constantly aging Mr. Knox to lecture on DR. J. hs BRINTON Free Examination Best $2.50 Guasses on Earth We are one of the few optical stores in the Northwest that ly grind lenses from start to finish, and we are the only one in SHATTLE—ON FIRST AVENUE Examination free, by graduate op tometrist, Glasses’ not prescribed unless absolutely necessary. BINYON OPTICAL CO. 1116 FIRST AVENUB Between Spring und Seucea and woman engaged in the ac- tivities of business, Y. M. C. A. AUDITORIUM TONIGHT 8 O'CLOCK ADMISSION FREE Department of Education I don't know, “Ask Joshua.” As time goes on progress will ret tle thin question and, surprising ax it may seem, it wil) be satisfactory | to all concerned. “Boy, page Vox Popul.” Sincerely, PAUL VAUGHN WOODHOUSE. Bremerton Boat Patrons Complain | Editor The Star; FP to set forth a clear case of discrimina tion which is bet: rmit us directed against | Seattle residents and the navy men) who work at the Bremerton navy yard. All other travelers are like wine affected. One can travel first class from Col man 4 greater charge than the trip to Bremerton, which is about one-half the distance, and which ts pitiful creaking, riverracked, obsolete, Pail ey Gatgort type of vennetn. The cost of fuel ol) haa been halved in the past year, crews on those vessels have been cut at least k to Tacoma for no 10 per cent in pay during the same| ity, nerved by | Yard time, and still the traffic is held up by a robbery system that gives Brem. erton and the navy people neithe safety nor service. And Joshua G knows it In the face of large decreased oper ation #; in the face of compart wonn Ike the Tacoma runs; in the| face of heavy naval cuts in pay—| why cannot the Navy Yard route give a fair, legitimate rate instead of rank discrimination? The Navy | route is cutting its own throat eventually by making bitter enemies out of those who should be friends, and by causing those who can escape from its brigandage to settle perma | nently in Bremerton or its commun. | NAVY YARD EMPLOYES. nm} | | spring rains, become used to ite ways, ite ar rangement of news; and they have confidenc its integrity. It comes to be almost a ppiritual consolation to them. They swear by it and they believe in it just as they believe in t pastor or their family phy e Thin is true expecially of read- in the emalier cities, altho it prevails everyhere, Now it behooves nurse this attitude & hold on a comm dislodge. It grows like a river after slowly but surely in- creasing in volume and tn strength. The people bought Greeley’s Trib une becauee they 4 that Greeley was honest. They were will ing to be influenced by what he said. For the same reason Bowles’ Springfield Republican became popu- lar and prosperous. Thruout the country we have repeated instances of newspapers having the confi- dence of the community because ¢ in b the editor to for once it gets nity it is hard to |they are honestly conducted. Jin by Private dancing lessons all day at Bright's, 1604 4th, cor. Pine.—(Ad) Reader Enjoys Letter Department Editor The Star: 1 wonder if you protected and expect to survive the would appreciate a kind word of|onslaughts of certain active yet un commendation for the good work | seen forces which are seeking to that you are doing, and the manner |tear down and destroy everything | in which you present “Subjects Btar | that ts for the good of humanity. Readers Are Pondering Over.” | Keep up the good work, Mr. Hdl The ¢fforta which you put forth|tor, for publig confidence is a! If of those poor victims of | mighty fine foundation on which to the Bteliacoom outrages are bearing | bulld a healthy circulation. fruit, and the “big Star family” all The clipping ts taken thank you. from an article which appeared in I wan deeply interested and more | ‘h* Saturday Evening Post Sept: 17, than gratified when J read the arti-| 192}, Page 10. and expresses my “Canada; Is There Really 9 | *entiments toward onr family new Widening Gap?” which appeared in|P&PCr, The Star. Yours sincerely, the tewue of The Star of the Zist DR C. D. 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