The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 31, 1921, Page 6

$5.06, tn $4.80 for superintendent of lighting. Ty carrier, city, Reduce Home Light Bills, Too This afternoon the city council has before it an ordinance proposed by J. D. Ross, attle Sta 3 menths, 61.5008 months, Outside of the state, $; year, per mouth, th. It is aimed to reduce the rate charged to factories for electric current by some 30 per cent. comfortable for industry. Halloween customs date back remete antiquity. They are that we have left to remind DR. WILLIAM E. BARTON | = HE United States of America makes many and varied ef. forts to educate the people of! this fair tand.! For instance,| there is the) marine labora- tory, at Wood's) Hole, Mass. That ts where) they have fertil-| by artificial means the eggs of | In forms of life and thus ob- ned interesting results, _ Among the most interesting ac tances I made there seme) .480 was the remora. I had) about him, but had not seen There he was in the same ank with a shark. _ The remora is a very small fish, the top of his head is a slatted suction, The remora ewims up or beside, or even over the rk, attaches himself by this de- Vice and lets the shark perform all the labor necessary to their travel. They tell different stories about cones and the shark. I have that @ shark will sometimes | try to rid himself of this free-rider, id become go worried a# almost to We nervous prostration, but that rarely, if ever, succeeds in killing | companion, 1 have heard that the remora, by suctio derives nourishment from the shark and weakens him, 4 e this hag been disproved. I have rd that a shark after a time gets | © like his companion, thus making! aired of necessity, I have been| that the remora guides the| and he is sometimes called pilot-fish,” but this story I be ¢ is discredited and the name de. | elared to be without foundation tn _ The sherk has this strange mess- ite, who is capable of doing his Wn swimming, but prefers to have it done for him, and ts able to pro- ri his own food, but instead is Hing to take pot luck with the sh, pared with a shark, being at} two feet long and very thin.| epot, with remarkable powers| It seems to be a good ordinance and should be passed. It is predicted that Thanksgiving — are going to be cheaper this year. Of course. E Seattle should be made Seattle, too, should be made comfortable for citizens, housewives, who are paying twice as much for electricity in their homes as the factory owner pays for current in his factory at the present rate. If this rate is to be reduced 30 per cent, is there any reason under the sun why the tate to the housewife should npt be reduced as much, or more? If there is, let’s hear about it; if not, let's be fair with the wife. very- body has noted that Thanksgiving turkeys always are cheaper in October. A supply of corkscrews and corks is kept in stock at the stationery room of the United States senate at Washington! The Pestiferous Coyote (From the Everett Herald) The coyote, formerly unknown this side ef the mountains end now becoming fairly common here, as occasion. poultry losses ottest, bas not confined his ex- pansive qualities solely to this part of the world, In fact, in spite of aggressive warfare that has been waged upon him, he continues to in- crease the scope of territory that is annoyed by his presence, Like the rat, he seems to be one of those pestiferous animals that can adapt itself to changing condi- tions and thrive in spite of the persecutions of banter and trap i the plains country, of the coyote, it ts esti- 300,000 have been 4a) that since 1 ti il i H i Lit } : : i ! i HE ali i! [ ri | [ i? : i i | a | z if 3 af ape 3 i Te: ah in al a wilt ‘ 3, rf | RIEE : i f j ne “iF i ‘There are people who lve on the remora principle. They are not pre- cisely pirates or parasites, but they have become’ measurably dependent upon the opinions and decisions of other people. It is not a very cour- ageous or wholly safe way to order) one’s life. I heard that the remora becomes s0 dependent upon some other con: veyance than his own that he some- times attaches himself to an ocean Uner. This is satisfactory as to transportation, but not as to the food supply. Also he sometimes at- taches himself to @ sea-turtle, and bever gets anywhere, It is probably too late for the re- mora to learn any better, but some of the rest of us may not be so hopeless. From the Boston Post— Hard by the loom sor ems! A “ ” I SAW A WEAVER AUTHOR N I saw a weaver seated at his loom, And as he worked, the weaver crooned a tune; threads discarded lay, business into government” in the shipping board. The biggest transactions, tn dol- lars, that are going on are in con- nection with the shipping board's operations. For instance, a single sale of surplus materials is being planned whereby property worth $389,500,000 is to be offered for sale at $59,000,000 — and it is naively said that a less price is expected to be realized, Mr, Dawes is not in on this brilliant bit of business. Tage “And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares that infest the day Shalt fold their tenta lke the Areds And as silently steal away.” —Lengfeliow. France i) Sees Light Premier Briand of France has given the world the best news re EE t it i If there ia any way to make Germany pay, without ruining {either the allies or Europa, Pre- |mier Briand has only to make it | known. The world will be glad. But, hitherto, France has re |fused to listen to pleas for inter- | dependence and solidarity, fearing they were tricks of the enemy to | escape Just punishmnt. Premier | Briand now sees the matter dif- ferently. Whether Germany can pay or not—and this is a problem in economics—statesmanship must see to it that Europe ceases (o harbor enmities and resumes its normal co-operative life. Premier Briand apparently is changing his policy with this pur- pose in view. The world will ap- plaud bis right-about. AN railroads lead to trouble P) or your Book «7 ae i OT KNOWN They were the snarle-—mistakes of yesterday; They were of hope—the And there were threads by far a brighter hue, threads of prospects new. I saw a weaver choose the threads with care, Slowly he wove them in a pattern rare; Some threads appeared in bold relief and free— High lights were they in Life’s bright tapestry. You are the weaver of your future days; Sing as you weave—Success will reign always, Ti A blin Answer to Saturday: This on Your Wise Friend ggar had a brother and the brother died. The man that died had no brother. How is that Polaible 2 Let It rain. TH Editor Tho Star: | Will you kindly answer thru your column the followt question? I went to my grocer yesterday (Sun- day) and wanted to purchase a pound of butter, as it was forgotten on Saturday, and J was met with this answer: “I am very sorry, but We cannot sell any groceries on Sun day other than perishable goods, such as fruit, candy, tobacco, milk and bread.” Defends Killing of Game Birds Ieditor The Star; The party who wrote up the hunt. ing question did not take into con sideration that if the birds were not killed off they would multiply so quickly that they would eat up everything and then we would all have to starve, There is no more harm tn killin: Palitor The Star: In your columna lately there seems to be a great hoe and ery tn regard to hunting wild game, What about | vivisection, that terrible criminal torture of dumb animals by the med foal fraternity? They claim it is in the interest of sclentfic research that they cut animals up alive, It ts claimed that they purchase cats and dogs from the pound for this pur- (LETTERS TO EDITOR Who Can Answer This Query? | E STAR | I askéd my grocer since when did this happen? and he sald, “Il was no | |ufied by the Grocers’ Protective ae woclation not to sel! goods on Sun days.” 1 walked around the corner and purchased from another grocer my | butter, w tell me hew it ts if one can sel the & th, why not an other? You can to any Jap gro-| cer and buy any amount on Sunday. | Thanking you, 1 remain, yours truly, BK. BH the birds mercifully for food than there ls in killing your own barn. yard fowls that are so tame, and slaughtering the dear little lambs | and calves, People who get up these argu- and discretion before they put them before the public, ALICE M, MEYERS. ments should ure a little forethought | A Letter From Editor The Mar: Dear Ea: stem to the rising sun proclaimin, I nee the path the sparrows mak street, like streaks of lightning, 1c beneath the ground, Acrows the mountaing, flat and flow of #tationery cloyds that fly bed, I feed the clock and wind the hat; but that is all I'm going to a brew; he said it wouldn't treat me stuff; raisins in. ’ hope, new foree; which enlarges the | man. In other words, you will be a| new creature. You will never again bo satiafied with your sdcond best. | You will make tremendous leaps for ward, You will have a real motive for redeeming your past. You wil! take @ new lease on life and strive to have your highest endeavor re alimed. pose, I would die of any disease rather than know an anima! had been tortured to death to find a cure for me. | ‘The Bible says, “not a sparrow |falleth to the ground without the | knowledge of the Father.” Why does not the Humane Society take up this matter? One individual alone cannot do an 5 ALICE M, MEYER. What Is Psychology? Editor The Star? Paychology is a sclence of the sou! mind, the sub-conseious mind. not visible to the eye or tangible to ¢ touch. Paychology plays the part of a Columbus—it discovers a vast territory within us of which we have been unconscious. It turns the spir. itual xmmy on the man. It it that divifte spark which enkindles a new fire in hugam hearts, It makes men out of beasts, If reveals the man you are capable of being. The question is how to arouse the niceping power within you to bring out the possible man. Psychology in Tt in| 4 flash of divine (itumtnation, which jwearches deep into your innermost soul and gives you « glimpse of this jother, your higher self. You apply | psychology when you take this other higher self for your guide and re. spond to the inner urge, to first develop the distinctive qualities of ltrue manhood, Psychology teaches us that real success does not consist in accumulating mere things; that material things are not the first em entialx, The accumulation of money is a side insue. It is a matter of character and personality. Applied peychology gives us new life, new The ‘H’"E* hot biscuit, George—and tell me how they are!” George took one. It was smoking hot. He broke it open, The Biscuit Failure spread butter on half of it—and took one bite. “You can’t guess who I saw down street today, Min? Elizabeth Bishop—” “Did you? But you haven’t told me how the biscuits are!” Human nature, like natural law, in the same today an tt was centuries ago; but what marvelous develop ment and advancement of human ability, since the great national | crisix, the recent war, when a su-| preme demand was made upon the great within us. The new philosophy, paychology, in Editor The Star: * “I see by the papers” that our) mayor has vetoed an ordinance for} Expert Witt's salary payment. If such action on his part is not an} insult to the intelligence of a two thirds majority of our city couneit-| men, somebody'll “have to show me!’ He advances no REASONS what ever for so doing, and even the “whyn" he gives out are wholly in| accordance with his previous ut | terances regarding the street car! problem—from its purchare on up to the 10-cent fare that we now! have. 1 hold him more culpabic for the complexities of this white When winter flowers bloom, I sit up in the attic room, deride a collar window pane, and watch the clatter of the rain, and where golden fields of purple wheat go rushing slowly down the where butterfly and sheadowlark de And when the morning sun has said I must get up and go to P. &.—Does that sound right to you? 1 tested Homer's batch of but then, perhaps it might have ‘ Condemns Caldwell’s Veto | public | | | | } Avridge Mann g that the day is done, © nerons the dry and dusty lake, | mg and round, that fly #0 bigh low, 1 hear the silent ebb and below the valleys, tall and bigh light to run and jump and bark cat, and put my head upon my y—-you don't believe it, any way, AVIUDGE MANN, | rough, that it was very harmless been he put too much | ht to be. disclosing to man a new but vital) **rved rent to law back of the flesti but not of it an intelligence back of the crystal back of the electron, which directs, | molds and fashions every particle of | matter in the universe, Previously that was ascribed to an unknown law, something supernatural but scierice in now beginning to recog nize that paychology is back of every thing in the universe, back of every thing in nature thru the ages. To produce the master man, evolve th n, we must apply paychology a knowledge of} the laws of psychology 1s essential in every field of buman endeavor. MADAME A. TILL, 716 Haight Bidg to elephant that Seattle has on its) hands than elther former Mayor Ole Hanson or Stone & Webster When corporation covnsel, previous to and at the time of this deal, be was in a position where he should have been the best posted of any official. Perhaps he was but he never seemed to know ought against the propriety ef such pur chase until long after the deal was consummated, We do know that be suddenly and violently awakened from his trance just previous to our last municipal election. It has become a matter of bistory how we'd been “buncoed” on that deal,! and that we might expect, if he, MONDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1921. and pructica! wan flected, to get a “$5,000,000 re bate from Stone & Webnter.” ang perhaps bave time indicted for intrigue od the mayor of that He was The and spectacularly so. voted a $10,000 appro for hb end ‘That app taken the wings of « soared to invinible hetghta, in ite wake a 10-cent fare. council n investi: The majority of our city counet- men are trying to hinge onto it che wings of m dove, that it may de part in ce and leave good will behind, But the practical, peace le wings of a dove doesn't seem to appeal to the mayor. Peter Witt a man of unquestioned ef. ficiency, attained thru hard work appliances much tm idence in Philedelphia, Boston, Cleveland, etc. Now, while Mr. Witt may appear to be a high flyer to some people, as far as his serv. joes are concerned, he has a de Firing Murphine and placing Stone & Webster's man at the head of our street car system hasn't got ten us anywhere—has it? “Higiey priced Witt Witt does things he hes proved it by doing them long before he struck this neck of the woods—time and again! I can't see how a man who has had $19, 009 appropriated for hin use toward the same end that Witt is now here to accomplish, and falled dix to make any showing what- . even along with that magie wand he waived, and at the same tume shouting esto!” just before big election, can have the temerity to £0 on record as insulting the intel- ligence of a two-thirds majority of our municipal lawmakers! Only recently the Romanoff. went the “way the woodbine twin eth,” and the Hohenzollerns supk | into innocuous desuetude. For God's rake, how long shall a swivel-chair war-record be able to stand against such raking, pitiless back-fire? J, C. BROWNE, 606% Maynard Ave, Seattle, Wash. CASTORIA For Infants and Children On Use For Over 30 Years nee ane ‘Signerare of Ly Fairco is one-hundred per cent fat. Biscuit failure the recipe given below, for it calls for just the right proportions. And there will be no extra moisture from the shortening, since FAIRCO Butter, on the other hand, contains about one-sixth water. FAIRCO mixes so easily and quickly with the dry ingredients of the dough “Um—all right, 1 guess. Elizabeth said she was coming up to see you tomorrow afternoon.” Then a silence—the suspicion of a tear glistening on Minnie’s eye- that your biscuits will bake a rich, even brown, and will be fluffy and tender. Follow this recipe and your biscuits will always be a success. FAIRCO TEA BISCUITS 2 cups flour lash—and the biscuit episode was closed, as several had been before, by George going around to Minnie’s chair and kissing the tear away. She was an excellent little housekeeper—much better than the average as a cook—made most things very well, except biscuit— the one thing she wanted to make. How many women merely awaken sympathy with their efforts to bake biscuit! And it is so unnecessary. First: Second: Third: and milk. Take out biscuit insurance with FAIRCO, the new cream of vege- table oil shortening. Your biscuits will not be too wet if you follow Why Biscuits Fail Too wet—too much milk or water. Shortening which mixes with the biscuit like oil, prevent- ing the outside from baking to a rich, delicate brown, giving a greasy feel and taste to the biscuit. Too much flour to mix well, which accentuates the inability of an incorrect shortening to mingle well with the flour 4 teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon salt 2 tablespoons FAIRCO % cup milk of milk and water mized. This makes about 20 biscuits. Sift flour, baking powder and salt together. Rub in FAIRCO with finger tips or cut knife. Add milk and mix to soft dough. Tera out on floured board and rel! to desired ness, Cut with biscuit cutter. Brush tope with milk and bake in hot oven 15 to 20 minutes, $ in F All measurements are level. baking biscuits. FAIRCO is a glistening white fat of creamy consistency. Wholly vegetable, it has no odor or flavor of its own, but how it does bring out and develop the flavor of everything for which it is used!/It does FAIRCO is quite as superior for baking cakes, for deep and shallow frying, for making sauces and for basting fowl and meats as it is for not absorb food flavors or odors, and so may be strained and used over and over again. The kitchen remains free from smoke, because FAIRCO does not smoke at the usual frying temperatures. Even the can in which FAIRCO comes*is different—a sanitary container with a clean friction cover which can be removed and replaced at will without using a can opener. grocer! Learn for yourself what FAIRCO will do—order today from your (EEK FAIRBANK ZSaEREO) PESSESSE SE, ob gpochagbiPZ-QiiZeeees 2aesgehegese fed s 3 oe . beware, oy moet $3529 2°22, 32%, S83, FPEREEE. will ps show, Ridg “500” Series the wi eving