The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 24, 1921, Page 6

‘Thanksgiving: i to cross the Atlantic. the first winter. a fiving day. one but the turkey life seems ¥ ‘ good to me. I i am thankful to c be alive, HAVE HEALTH. I take Medicine, and no head- or other drugs. The doc- friend, a) I and I profit by it. But T T cures ‘is my little about the rules of and I have not spent one everyone can have as good th as I have, but a great many people could have it than now have it. iT I HAVE A HOME AND ILY. We began very simply. house cost not quite four hun- doliars and the lot two hun- and the other improvements two hundred more, and our Y than two hundred. thousand dollars would have the bills and did. And the was mortgaged—for I did not @ thousand dollars. But if you that poverty, you do not know @ Meaning of the word. I am and Ie have been a rich man. i T 1 HAVE A JOB. I have been out of work, and I do think that I shall ever be out of I work long hours, and I rk seven days a week, ahd I go @ bed very tired. But it is good ind I am glad that I have it ae ¥ ire our lot with the Pilgrims’! value his| bed in more than 40 years. | The woods were full of game, but they were not skilled at hunting. no fish hooks small enough for shore angling. were 102 Pilgrims in that original settlement. Death claimed half of them should rejoice. Puditened Daity hy The @tar Pe All Except the Turkey | *he first American Thanksgiving day was celebrated 300 years ago. you haven't much to be thankful for, this year, turn back the clock to that first If you think | The Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock December 20, 1620. It had taken them 63 r Their first winter was a terror of bitter cold, disease and They Clams were their chief food. the spring, an Indian named Squanto taught them how to plant and cultivate Autumn brought the first, harvest. The pioneers celebrated with the first the Pilgrims underwent frightful hardships, such as crop failures, and usually . little to be thankful for, they continued Thanksgiving day as a permanent yearly We have a thousand times as much to be mkful for. The war is over. A sane attempt to prevent another war is being ” by the Washington conference. Harvests are big. Cost of living is gradually com- 7 Business depression is passing. have been fatter years, in the past, than 1921. But, in view of what has pre- the prospects for the future, it is doubtful if the American people ever had h cause to be thankful as they have this Thanksgiving day. “How will men look in 1950?” asks a woman writer. Often, very often. Why doesn’t the movie star, who complains all men want to kiss her, try onions? Some in their t os talk in their sleep and others sleep that to he given Ireland. Whether this will meet the situation or whether the move has been too Hi! the Hughes proposal. In that case, it would mean program. And if this question were put simply, avoiding excesses and|(o vote in Great Britain today, Hughes would win 10 to 1 against Japan in @ referendum vote. The man who inherited three mattress factories fell inte some- jthing pretty soft. From Old Irish Songs do. [AT I HAVE FAITH AND . Tam not unconscious of the ino signs of the age in which live, but I believe that God is and life is good and that the Poem Exactly as was predicted by this Paper several weeks apo, Thanks giving day has arrived. Also, as predicted, it falls on @ holiday Of course, the odds favored ws in this because nearly ali great cele- brations fall on holidays But then, if i had deen one day sooner, or one day later, we would day, contrary te Detief, was not originated by tur~ key growers and dealers Even the cranberry men were absent. It started “years ago when the Pilgrima thought of how much obliged they were for living. They gave thanks because they landed before we did. owe thanks because we jlanded after m twat held on wild turkeys, while the only thing wild about our turkeys is the price. Wd turkey prices are harder te tame than wild turkeys wore. In fact, some of us must do with- out turkey. These can be thankful that there will/be no hash Friday. They can laugh while the others are talking turkey. Rut they spelied it “thankful” while some of ua spell it “tankful.” They practiced the “giving” while we mostly ‘notice the “thanks” For those who think they have nothing to be thankful for we give several reasons free. Be thankful that you are not Prosperity, who has been sitting Grourid the corner for nine months. not the Just think of what Re thankful you are missing link. he is minal Be thankful you are not Tom Edison, who docen't sleep much, Be thank/ul you don’t have to have your picture taken 365 days @ year, like Harding. < | ? or your The Harp That Once Thru Tara’s Halls BY THOMAS MOORE ‘The harp that once thru Tara's halls The soul of music shed, Now hangs az mute on Tara's walle As if that soul were fled. THE SEATTLE STAR GIVE HIM THE AX, SAM! Copyright d Vrom Yesterday) Th party strageled = ins} sam Clark, Jack Eider, Dave Dyer, | Jim Howland. ‘To her they mechan: | cally said, “'Devenin’,” but to Ker nicott, in a heroic male manner Well, well, shall we start pinying? Got a hunch I'm going to lek some | ented reelt | bad join them. her own fault, because friendly; but #he| they never asked body ¥ that wh that it was she was not more remembered that Mre. fam Clark to play | asked her «lane. wat in th living-room. ing acrom the hall at the men as they humped over the dining table They © in whirt sleeves; amok ing, chewing, spitting incessantly; | lowering their voices for a moment no that she did not hear what they | maid and afterward giggling hoarne. lyi using over and over the canont eal phrases; “Three to dole" “| raise you a finif,” “Come on now, | ante up; what do you think this is, | a pink tea?” The cigar-nmoke was acrid and pervasive. The firmness with which the men mouthed their! cigars made the lower part of thelr faces expressionless, heavy, unap pealing. They were like politicians cynically dividing appointments. How could they understand her world? Did that faint and delicate world exist? Was she a fool? She doubted} |sick in the acid, smokestained air. ! | MAIN STREET BY SINCLAIR LEWIS 1920, Harcourt, Brace & THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1921, awe, Ine. SOC CCCE—OOOEe She back int slipped the habit brooding house, routine At first he ved himeelt inte liking her experiments with food the one medium in which she could express now he round of favorite | beet, boiled pig's. baked apples, Because rp flexible period he hag mn oranges to grapefruit d himself an epicure, During their first autumn she hag smiled over hin affection for hig hunting-coat, but now that the leath. er had come unstitched in drthbles: of pale yellow thread, and tatters of canvas, smeared with dirt of the: fields and grease from gun-cl 4 hung in a border of rags, she hateg the thing. Wasn't her whole life lke that hunting-coat? She knew every nick and spot on each plece of the net of na purchased by Kennicott’s mother in 1895—discreet china with a pat tern of washed-out forget-menote, rimmed with blurred gold: the gravy. upe ility of t Kennicott was a fis an old man had amorousty dece imagination—but wanted only hi dishes fort at advances he consider boat, in a saucer which did not match, the solemn and evangeliest covered vegetable-dishes, the twe platters, ‘Twenty times had Kennicott sighe@ her world, doubted herself, and was over the fact that Bea had broken * (Turn to Page 11, Column 1) LETTERS TO EDITOR Why No Heat in Street Cars? Editor The Star Will you kindly inform me why the Seattle street cars are not heated |during this very inclement weather? Has the public gotten weary of mandin what seems to me to be right and just because they ha been imnored for so long & time the “powers that be"? Or is it simply a question of “the public be Hunting and Vivisection Editor The Star: Mr. Imersom, fn answering Mr. Clarke's letter, went a trifle afield in hie reading of Mr. Clarke's let ter, and in his answer only referred to that which touched his own ap patently selfish pleature—hunting— And missed some very imppriant There are many thousands of| ters of public record. points, people in the United States, and many hundreds in our own city who do not know to this moment that during the world war, out of Dear Folks: The Pligrim Fathers, long ago, were mighty poor, as you may know; they worked, they starved, they suf- fered, died, they failed in many things they tried; their life was far from being gay—yet they began Thankegiving Day. And *o I think it's up to us to cease to fret and fume and fuss, and realize that we, today, have greater cause for thanks than they, beeau: with all its storm and strife, we live a richer, fuller lite. We've life and hope and joy wealth: we've food and clothes homes and health; we've work fun and love and pla night and sunny day? mountains, crystal streams; we've memories and youthful dreams. We haven't all of thene, it's true, but each of us has quite a few so let us not bemoan our lot, but Jyst be glad for what we've got; for “Ife would be a tasteless dish, if we had everything we wish “We may have troubles, too, I know; but troubles often make us grow, and later on we recognize that they were blessings in disguise; and night i# darkest, 10 they say, before the dawning of the day. However little we posers, be thankful that it isn't less! And @o on this Thanksgiving Day, we each and all can truly say, “It ain't no use to fret and fuse: if times are |bad, they might be wuws!"* and and and . BROTHERHOOD OF This department accepts contribu. we've starry | we've snowy | higher plane of thinking than th~ man who kills for the mere sport damned” on the part of theme mame | Of It “powers that be"? Is it not true} As to the present commercial that there is a state law which ays | Method of handling salmon, thin cars hall be heated during certain | Methud will be obselete in time, for ~ winter months? we are living in @ very 4 eenive. The writer has a half-hour ride) etcbanging age = we ro are 0 orkiny ein twiee a day and it is certainly a | any who are ‘working in thy f most uncomfortable, unpleasant ride, | (rests of just such things, and or us. I ast hence the inquiry. Sincerely, while the work seems siow, the re j P.8.1, | sults are pure to come, The writer wishes to correct Mr. Imerson's inference that Roosevelt hunted for the mere sport of kill funds solicited publicly for war suf el eck chante aivamiten cae ferers, the American Red Cross #0 | Camping with loosevelt,” em- ciety appropriated $100,000 for the) phaticaliy states that, Contrary to Purpose of Vivinecting little animals oe ier pe gk sg " | Roomevelt di This action of the Red Cross andi incre pleasure of billing, just as the work done by the anthvivl-| Rurroughe neyer killed in his hunts [section societies of the pountry! except occasionally for @ specimen against this appropriation, are mat-| Roonevelt loved to hunt. But there Jin @ vast difference between hunting find. Bur | Another important end killing what you Clarke stated that the chu roughs says that Roosevelt loved to jsuch, had never assisted in an ef-| fish, but that no one ever could j fort for the enactment of laws for) persuade him to fixh, or knew of financial support of our humane so-| him doing #0, unless necessary for cletios in the interest of dumb ant-| food. The true lovers of the great a a mais, In order to arouse interest | outdoors rarely destroy an animal to deliver service jin many things, the people must! or bird. It is true that the aver beca know about them—munat be edu- age «portaman, so-called, never sees tile driv eS cated, and it seems to the writer! the great outdoors, Nature yields capable vers. ni that letters such as written by Mr.| up millions of interesting, faxei olable rule that our Clarke will help do this. Just as! nating things to those who, ax Bur- je are beginning to see © move|roughs says, “have eyes to nee | toward the lessening of shipbutiding,| them,” and those who have the gift 80 we will gradually see less of gun! of euch vision know a universe too j manufacturing. And right here be full of beauty and wonder to in- it said, that the man who does not| clude elther rod or gun. Theodore kill because he actually has not the) Roosevelt and John Burroughs had desire in his heart to do 90, is on al such on. H. LIGHT. $15,000.00. He Differs With Peter Witt Editor The Star: |__My solution of the problem is to Mr. Witt, the traction expert, says! pay Mr. Witt off, lower the fares to the city stFeet cars should be junked |5 cents and transfers free and put j and new ones bought in their places. ome heat in the cars. Then, instead | Now what I wall to know is, what of walking and buying autos, the } car-bullding company is Mr, Witt in-| people will use the street cars, Re terented in bock.East? Why has the! paint and repair the cars that need city large repair #hopa here but to/it and pay for what we bought be | Tepair cars? |fore buying more. New cars and | I rode in one oar here this morn- } | motors are not going to solve the {ing that has been repaired and newly | problem. The present cars will {den on the sfteet cars of every city jon the Coast this year and none of {them has anything on Seattle's for | looks or riding qualities. We Are Glad Editor The Star: ~ I like your children's page, expe cially The Star Seattle Story Book T have only been Wost a year, and 1! json #tung us once; why get stung j again? BRYSON WILLIAMS, 201 First Ave. 8. You Do, Betty like those stories of what people did in Seattle long ago. ITTY JONES, & Yrs. 512 Betmont Ave. N. traveling public. mum service—service Bear this Cowen Park Values Drop | faitor The Star: | 25 per cent, on account of the coun. I see by the papers that the knight | climen taking away the transporta- of the whistle Is starting to hand the} tion which the knight of the whistle Cowen Park people a Tittle sop, which | claims he forced them to do, they will not swallow, He tells them | He says he in fighting for us Cow. in an editorial that they should be|en Parkers, I do not care for that his friends and not stop reading his| kind of friendship, and I hereby pasa paper, And he hopes they will en-/ my share on to some other fish, joy their walking exercises and) [have long since quit ading his |i hopes they will continue to take| knocking sheet, unless Some article 9 pthem (whether they enjoy them or | ix called to my attention J not) for an indefinite period. I hereby nominate the knight of He speaks of an increase in taxes, | the whistle for the office of past ma | but docs not mention the drop in the | ter of the Ancient Order of Knock. valuation of their property, A real-| ers, and recommend he be elected by dence that was worth $4,000 in the! acclamation, and, believe me, he de- Taking Tacoma Twice Around * the Globe A big undertaking for some, but NOT NOT an exceptional month. Ket iets Oe eat ae trav Veew ‘Taxis was grentty te ences of oul ficient to have carried the entire — of Tacoma twice around the w Moreover we trans- ported all these peo- ple in safety — without mis- hap or accident. Back of this capable service — the ability to reel off thousands and tens of thousands of miles each month without mishap— stands or- | painted, and anyqne that would ask | handle twice as many people as they for a better car to ride in has some|are doing now. My motto, drop the ganized responsibility. private strings to pull. I have rid-| prices and get the trade, Ole Han. ————s . month was We are able of this character our employ careful, we make it an invi- drivers must, above everything else, consider the safety and comfort of our patrons. They MUST NOT take chances. Furthermore, as an added protection to our patrons, we carry insurance—when you ride in a Yellow you are automatically insured up to Which means that we are a reliable company, representing an ~ investment of a quarter of a million and operated by substantial business men— men who realize their position with the These men use every means at their command to maintain maxi- plus, in mind the next time you re- quire a taxi. Do MORE than just call a taxi. Make sure of receiving the utmost in taxi service— | Call a | So sleeps the pride of former days, So glory’s thrill is o'er, And hearts that once beat high for praise Now feels that pulse no more! we man is good. 4 THAT I CAN DO SOMETHING HELP, There are people who ist me, and believe in me, and faith holds me up to a high There are people who need My confidence and help. Stevenson ‘Bal that no man jn useless fpo long fie hae a friend. I ‘have friends | Who help me: I have friends whom J ' No more to chiefs and ladies bright, The harp of Tara swells; The chord alone that breaks at night Its tale of ruin tells, Thus Freedom now to seldom walke, The only throb she gives Is when some heart indignant breaks, . To show that still she lives. Try This on Your Wise Friend A bridge is 72 feet long and 20 feet wide. A man stands at one end, at the right side, his wife at the other end, on the same side, and his cousin directly in the middle of the bridge. Who is the man nearer to? Answer to yesterday's: Holes. help. THAT 1 HAVE A SPIRIT or | IANKFULNESS. I have had my Wl share of disappointments and me sorrows, But life as I look upon it hides the sorrows in that now reveal no sorrowful and the hilltops are bright h the rays of the westward.mov. x gun. And I verily believe that Wat eventime there shail be light.” ‘This t* to be a day of thankful. and I wish you also full bei f tions for charity in any amount, In| Cowen Park district on September 13,{ serves that. honor. appreciation of your help, Avridge| when the fits were stopped, is worth | PRED W. MAXWELI, Mann will setid you a special letter | not more than $3,000 now—a drop of 936 29th Ave. signed ‘'n’ everything-—whte nas = — — inane Pastis) calls a membership decree in * Loyal Brotherhoed of Man.” | All undersigned coggsibutions will be sent to the Seattle community chest fund, Those who prefer to make a direct contribution to a epeci- fied charity, rather than thru the, chest, may #0 specify, ir contributions will be sent ted. ! jously acknowledged: Community Chest fund . Washington Children’ Salvation Army . Kyther Home . aoe wry Safe as the ground on which | % : = Sliema built. ¢ i} 8 STADIUM BONDS | | 4 of Associated Students . Me University of Washington 8 Pe Cent Maturities 1923 to 1934 PRICE PAR AND WYNN-DEARBORN INTEREST 1209 Hoge Building Elliott 4637 TAXI “MAIN 6500” Should y t numt the front I clept one d oe | YELLOW | e