The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 10, 1921, Page 6

montha or 90 per month; # months, #1.600¢ ¢ Washington. Outaide of a montha, S $2.78) year, per month, Ry carrier, city, 6c a month <a - Gov. Hart HAS Made Good (From a Postland, Ore., News Story) Governor Hart told the crowd that the Washington ad- hinistrative code, patterned, he said, after Lowden’s st in Illinois, has made it possible for him to wipe out oa p state’s debt of more than $2,000,000 and to place $240,000 in the state treasury at the same time that he re- uced taxes more than 50 per ‘cent. Beg Baloon-keeper used to have to lose. His license, for e thing. He was the great evil of his time; but he held back by certain selfish # bootlegger starts out as an ~ He has nothing to lose. ip desperate. His vocation is an act of desperation. ‘ts coming to be an influ @ in politics. business is enormously when successful. The treasury issues regulations permitting the sale of beer and wine, and congress is asked for 10 million dollars to enforce prohibition. Is this an example of the co-ordination in government that we hear so much about? “The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.”—Theodore Roosevelt. fellow publishers having a spare roll of print might go over to Russia and buy # county, or a bank, or something equally as good. Up to date, the soviet government has issued 5,750,000, 000,000 paper rubles. If you can't pronounce this sum, measure it Days are getting so short we should have eight a week. There would be more astrono- mers if stars wore tights. Four Chinese and a Bottle Thirty years ago, four Chinese / | Dear Folks This morning I got out of bed with music running thru my head, and so I started in to sing a little bit of everything, like Annie Laurie, Old Black Joe, and other songs I used | winn t | M open. t th plinhee liquor jp | This ¢ | could | nent ¢ | | parea | Editor 1 ju jot the the It # | honor hancia | aitor The Ry have | pansen utility means This special in vac i ferent lected each. West muddle ter from what ang their arbitrary Caldwell his stool pigeons in th deprived the citizens of their only! yield as much the sole purpose of burden on already During September there were col. | staliment on the pri Answers “Globe Trotter” j today free from rum and beer slav y's inneue was @ lot Trotter” had better trot | Of drink and i hoses und he can readil don th jery. Thousands voted “dry” who ned “Gle uld not resiat the eure when it wan ur their longer ep hin ¢ and the of United und other countries, as thing the 1 was to reveal the had on ition h nabled on every street corner, o they were more than glad to have it They happy homes, food to eat and clothe war for themselves and chidiren. bad effect| 1 our soldier boy 1 to be put in ur people te done by ne war has hi out of their reach now have wel good Aecom ople who make money at the ex of live to be ut of and | y rrve foree. | employment what they f lone We would like to hear from wives and mothers whose husbands have men again and happy homes for their families PROHIBITION came atay H. B, SINTON © what cod upon others a0 voting for perma prohibition. who have made millions of the terri cout of the bodies of men, women and amall number com: | since to the vast multitudes who are! Objects to Woman’s Remarks The Star t re chite Pa ing | students ad a& very good letter on! In Americ ge by the president} where we are sending our children to school primarily to consider the nocial and financial positions of oth are; in other words, to be 1 hope not, I alvo hope that iby, if she feels such un. nentiment, will at least drifting to the point Queen Anne gram er snobs? Mra. I democratic eems a shame to me that a » who holdw a position of such should make a remark in her letter to you about the social and fi-| «pare the readers of The Star 1 positions of grammar school! J.-C. KLINKER Car Muddle Looks Ugly the Star more I study the street car | « the uglier it looks, no mat it in viewed. tion Mayor/and an 8 1-3-cent msor id} item is $182,799.25 city council | ond between a driven away nearly 6,000,000 | $18,991, and gers a month from our city | for September, robbed it of its revenue and| Should each nh 82, | | The making a revenue of $36, between a Scent fare in the first difference and KR. H. Th 5 and « in both 1921 month in the revenue the boost in faren would Amount to the enormous jum of $2,414,284.20 taken out of shielding he pockets thowe who are forced interests and the speculator | to ride, in addition to paying a 5 nt property, and placing the| cent fare. the small home owner,| The interest on the bonds for overburdened by eight dif-| which the utility is held reaponsib! lines of taxes. |i» $815,500 per annum, and the ir cipal te $832 fares at £13 cents| 000 per annum, or a grand total + a revenue of $457,-| $1,648,500, no you will notice th: of transportation, Mr. Editor, was done 5.484 making thus get fs year | taking from{ per annum | to meet the! { he boomt in fares in | the people $765,784.20 more than is eded ‘or pri and in t | and munt be applied to operation and | | maintenance and swallowed up in the grand total During September there were col | lected 6,093,874 cash fares, all told, Jor about three and a half fares per | jday for each home that patronizes | the street « H This went an expenditure of ubout 29 day for family I nominate Caldw and his gang to of fame for their masterly handling of our public utility, whereby they have caused a boyoott of 56,000,000 Daneengers a month atreet one of the most neces. ! charges | cents per each 1 and Thomson seat in the hall to our car systern THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1921. I alno think that the downtown mer chants should hold a fair in recog 1 of their brilliant services be nith hese men should not held back but should be promoted as rap idly as the good of the public ser tee may demand sary branches of our public service. | | | | | | I would suggest | that the elty council pass an ordi-) person, man, wo if caught walk nance fining any man or child, $10 » of our city aldwell will sign it The people voted to regulate the jitneys and the clty council put them out of business, at the behest of big business and the whistle Don't you know, chapey, “The jitney must go!” Respectfully submitted, R. J. WILSON that More About Hunting Kaditor The Star | Several vr pndents have re. | jeently expressed themselves thru | your columns, in arguments for and| jagainet hunters and hunting | I wonder if both are not shooting | 4 little wide of the mark? | One intimates that hunters are a} cruel, bloodthirsty lot and the other | ,saye that there is no more harm in humanely killing wild animals than tame ones Evidently thie person went hunting or she would not have put in the word “humanely Prob. ably two-thirds of the birds and ani malin shot for “fun,” get away | wounded suffer a thousand | deaths unconscloumnens re: | levee them, We are all born savages and po» thousands of years of fight ing for ex ce. The man whol ‘must hunt to live is simply follow: | ing out a necessary law of his being uns by cruel, no matter what happens We necessarily selven Civilization and most have, however, to some take to protect our religions extent, | | } CASTORIA In Use For Over 30 Years Cn. Co plllitea the Gignature of smoothed the law of the survival of the fittest and would instill in us a spirit of con ideration for the weak Quite Irrespective of the feelings of the hunted, the man who kills and maims for “fun,” who finds Pleasure in putting a hook thru the skin of a live frog or a winnow's lips and dragging thrva to death in order to catch an unneeded fish, or who exults ‘in the agonies of ani mals hunted down and torn to pieces by his dogs, or who delights in turn ing into 4 soggy mass of carrion many of the fine creatures that would otherwise make our woods and mountains so much more interest ing, this man i certainly no. doing much, to say the least, either by act | 026.80. Also 267,820 fares at 10 cents! sensed of the blood lust instilled in| or example, to add to our claims of civilization, or Christianity, or any other religion. In fact he ix distinct ly putting back the hands of the clock. And the spirit expressed and in the seo-|and for this cannot be considered|thru him adds to the army of reds, cent fare 1. W. W. and communists. And 01,190.35 | Alno we are not cruel in any steps! nevertheless, this same man may be a fine fellow among his friends and might give you the shirt off his back. He is actually a greater suf. ferer, and civilization through him, than are the creatures he destroys For we must all eventually suffer and die. The lons is caused because, nine times in ten, he has received at home and at school, only usual lopsided education which ij nores what should be the very be. ginning and foundation of any edu cation, viz: Consideration for the feelings of others, that cornerstone rougher edges of the | and Wi! | | by @ great many people, | | of civilization which, I repeat practically ignored by home bent, just allowed t@ struggle up a» it may shrough the weeds in the garden of our chara tere Were we taught consideration for firet and all things, what a different world this might be. Your correspondents would find few calls to argue over the who bunt for fun, or who wear unnecessary furs, bought by days or weeks of agony of some her creatures, or thone who do the thousand and one acts, the recital of which in the daily papers, appalls us However, in spite of our lop-sided educators, it in a fine #ign of the , that people write ax do w of your correspondents, for 1 remember when a man who thought it degrading to go out and kill or maim something for would have been thought a fit subject r0r an insane asylum. Of course he i» still considered somewhat of a “nut” but there t« a growing minority in whom the still, small voice of civilization is being heard along this line One cannot be personal in thie matter, for many of those one likes best, may not yet have heard that voice, and of course and fortunat 1 transgress and clog each oth- steps onward and upward, if not in one way then in another. We must all rise together remain where we are, Yours truly, 8 M. FARRER. s and school or at others, people can “fun,” or other® * were prospecting for gold in the Tulameen district, British Cotum- bia. They had $48 worth of platinum. Not wanting to be bothered witlf it, they buried it in @ saki bottle under a rock. Time went on and the platinum was forgotten. Last spring, the four Chinese met in China, got talking about old times, remem- bered the saki bottle. Apparent- ly not being any too sure of each other's honesty, all four crossed the Pacific, found the platinum under the rock—and sold it for $7,100, You never can tell what tne will do to values, up or down. ts what we do to know. At last the wife was heard to say “What deviltry is on today! What } mischief is it you have planned, to make you act like Wagner's band?’ | | 1 truly said, merely seek to cele: | brate our Music Week.” But very much to my s#urprine, she showed suspicion in her eyes, and Uke a martyr sald, “Oh, well, I won't attempt to make you tell; I'l) simply swallow what you say, and learn the truth some other way At work, I started singing, too, about Two Little Girls im Blue; my steno said, “I didn't think that you ‘were such an ancient gink! So I explained, “Oh, that’s a thing I used to hear my grandma sing!” I wandered to the club for lunch but never lost my singing hunch; I warbled like a mocking-bird, at least until I everheard Doc Ostrom say “Pd like to bet, he's either drunk again—or yet!” But tho my voice may aeem to squeak, I'm mighty strong for Music Week; for music ix the mystic art that strengthens, soothes or cheers | the heart: and so, whatever may | wrong, let's etart to right it with ° the country is the one pros- “Btandpatter” from congress. “Gosh"—it almost rhymes with Fock. Old debts would be easy to pay if it wasn't for the new ones. What we need is a hen that will iny 30-cent eggs. When you change your mind, mind your change. WILLIAM E. BARTON armament conference at Washing gj HREE years ago) ton, tonight—do you remember it? I do not think it was the whis- ties that awak- ened = us, It seems to me I wakened just an instant before the first whistle blew. It was 2:30 in the morn- ‘Of Monday, November 11, 1918, @ day it was that followed! it tumult, what hilarity, what 4 mirth! From Seribner's had come! And with it had verything we loved and hoped THE PROFESSOR’S WIFE sh BY LILLIAN MAYFIELD ROBERTS Bo we thought. and I am not ready I ce a tat ee ware whely sometimes wish I were a common girl, soma Of common people, moving thru the dusk, ‘ken. a think strange ong rtd a Ba vs Naanttoe, With packages piled high upon my arms, oS ag asipiatady And weary hat pushed back upon my heud sometimes even wish that I had wed boys wae tad sae ok ote A common man, with simple common ways. sons, y Who would not be ashamed to walk with me I had marched from the Out in the moonlight on a starry night, building to the train in the And tell me that he loved me, in the dusk; Where I live with one con- Or sit beside me in some movie house, Mt after another, and in the Watching the simple ways of common folk ‘Of scores of the boys I wan the Smili " rina. gent eee wien miling or weeping for us, from the screen they shook hands as the train out, Parents saw them thru a inclosure which they might " ; I was permitted, and a few jers with me, to «pend the last few with them on the platform, Shipping the Millionth New Improved Gillette Patented January 131920 IN October 29, 1921, a shipment containing the millionth New Improved Gillette left the Gillette F: c - oe When men put themselves on record a million strong in seven months— For a shaving instrument that cannot fully be described in print— That cannot be adequately demonstrated except on one’s own personal face— What is it then ‘that makes people so spontancous!; isan toward the N Improved Gillette? a seca ie Briefly this— Sales figures show that 57,263 men bought the New Improved Gillette the first day, on faith in the Gillette word and record of achievement. enenros 879 28 PO awaaneto P) or < | But magnitude does not say everything. No one Fig Langs the vectiee My = e nm the way so many loy: - lowersof ol Gillette affectionate laid it aside Prey i Because they believed when Gil- Gillette lette said that the New Improved instru- ment is better. Important about the New I: Gillette—A Word about the Blades Most men to screw the razor ht the most satisfactory shave. ee Gillette deems it proper to ask the Gillette Blades only in genuine Gillette Resa, > The Gillette Blade and Gillette Razor veloped to work together. No Gillette Blade on deliver its full shaving quality unless used in a genuine Gillette Razor —buile by Gillette, in the Gillette way and up to Gillette standards. The Ne GILLETTE SAFETY RAZOR COMPANY, BOSTON, U.S.A, MADE IN U.S.A I can? imagine Braithwaite doing this, Or reaching for my hand across the dark, While I sniff-sniff in tearful sympathy. Within 24 hours, these men had dem- to Ives onstrated pores question the 75% improvement in shaving quality brought by the New Improved Gillette. The news spread from man to man. Thousands more bought—tried—and told about the New Improved Gillette. - 500,000 produced by August 1st—and ° ar : ry atill orders so outran production. thi Try This on Your Wise Friend night shift became necessary in the Gillette What two numbers multiplied together will produce Factories. one less than a ninth of 72? Answer to yesterday's: 14 days. I sometimes weary of the stupid round Of stupid people quoting stupid books, Which I was reared among and know by heart. to bid them their last Godspeed. I sometimes wish all this—and yet | know, I was there when they came If I should find myself among the crowd, ‘ And married to some blundering, loving lout, by did they go forth to “the I should be very plainly miserable. ‘8 mad-house” as a father said 3 ; ly to me as we walked away the station together after his | gon had gone to war. ‘we sent them into “a war to end | | __ And some of them died over there | iB that “war to end war.” ‘We micant it, too; and three years ‘Rgo tonight we were eure that we at the dawn of it. '@ may be three years nearer to it dawn tonight than we seemed KNOWN THE WORLD OVER day there convenes in Wash- } a body of men who may really Tea—to be good—must be fresh to do. __Or we may be a hundred years far. away from that event than we Isalwaysf “ alwaysiresh and possesses that unique flavour of "goodness’ that has justly made it famous, m MARK l seemed, Ast no man speak otherwise than tly of what Is to occur during conference, Let us believe in it, BBG hope for it, and pray for it. Let Mg pray for it more carnestly even three years ago tonight we | prayed for peace. Let us and tes all merica highly resolve “that these shall not have died in vain.” God bless and guide the dis