The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 30, 1921, Page 6

pit orator could preach. an democracy is founded. Longfellcw, Emerson at G. O. P. geography of the republi- insurgency agatmst the reduc In surtaxes is interesting. solid republi- states voted solidly against and Harding—W isconsin, and Notth and South Da Nebraska was likewise with ‘the exception of one voted 10 out of 11 mem- against the reduced surtaxes. against the president, in Indiana, right between the fe states last named, the vote It with the president, one and one absent. fan opposed the president four out of 13 and California four out of six republicans Dillion dollars wilt be spent vernment and Publioned Detty by The Star tar $2.78) year month, Mark Twain’s Anniversary and Howells. Now is the time for all aid of their country. Righty-six years ago today Samuel Langhorne Clemens—known in every corner of e world as Mark Twain, “the most delightful man in English letters"—first saw the light of day in an obscure Missouri village. To the literati the anniversary has particular significance this year because it fol- close on the heels of the laying of the cornerstone of the new home in New ‘ork of the American Academy of Arts and Letters—marking the fulfillment of one if the fondest dreams of the great writer. But to the plain people—those of us who ciaim no special literaty knowledge but who and revere the memory of Mark Twain—the day has a lasting’ significance to h luster cannot be added by any casual event. . _ For Mark Twain's life is a living sermon—a greater and a finer sermon than any Mark Twain—we like to think, at least—was a typical American even before he | Mark Twain was not reared in the lap of luxury, as were his contemporaries, His early life was mean and miserable beyond any description save his own. _ He was serving his apprenticeship in a print shop at thé time that his rivals-to-be were studying in expensive institutions of learning. Yet we feel safe in predicting that Mark Twain's name will shine bright in the Hall Fame long after the works of his brilliant fellows have been all but forgotten. And it is significant to remember that Mark Twain always contended that he at- his great successes more because than in spite of his early surroundings. good ships to sink for the A certain nation is not a bit” backward about coming forward, Many a neighbor's dog time in four I can make money enough for any sane man's needs,” country in the world on Thomas Jefferson for $15,000,000, @ little over 100 years And Ben Franklin, another wise ene, figured that the Guadaloupe islands were worth more than all of Canada, and you probably don't even know where the uadaloupes: are located today! ° And who in the whole United States thought Seward had made ® good bargain when he bought howling success. wa Alaska 50 years ago from Russia for 200,000? Yes, judgment is mighty rela tive, like a» lot of other things in the world Potiticians who go from side to side don't make much speed for- ward ee 7 Taking Out the Nicotine Rumor floats in cigar and cige ret trade that someone has per- feeted a process to take the nico tine out of tobacco, He artives on the job » trifle late, like @ man arinouncing that he had discovered America in 1921. More smokers weuld become ex- cited if someone discovered how to put nicotine into some of the alfalfa, cabbage leaf and dried apple peelings that masquegade as the real thing, BY DR. WM. E. BARTON conversation. telephone the ruined that. and count | will suffice. portunity. | preciatively is rare NE of the finest of the fine arts | to you. And if you f is in danger, and at some point that is the art of | thing to the disc As erly pleased for the art of let- | portance, ter-writing, t he do not hen Think over your friends, on | the fingers of one hand the peopie | who can really converse. One hand | You have friends who can talk; | when and will talk, if you give them op-|nothing more to be said And you may have a les-| mistaken upon that point. ser number who can listen, tho the | told what they know, they should be lability to listen intelligently and ap-| ready to learn CONVERSATION how to converse, what a joy it gives ‘ind yourself able uasion, you are prop. with your owne im It is to be hoped that you eeforth proceed to monop- an 4 olize the conversation typewriter | have nearly agr People ought to be able to talk eeably. They should know things |that other people care to know and be able to tell them briefly and clearly and interestingly. They should leave the subject where some one else can add something. Some good talkers are not conver | sationalists, They assume that they have spoken there ts They are Having }men and women who really know to contribute some. | But how many | Nor should conversation be wholly | great themes, It should never be jshallow and frivoloun, but there} |should be gaiety and mirth as well| las the serious talk of great mat ters. | people do you know who can give | on jand take in the varied moods of con- | versation? A recent writer has heen telling us that one-half of our best society is jalways telling the other half what it [does not want to know, but that }the two halves take turns, and this establishes conversation on the basis of a kind of armed truce, If you can make of yourself a renily good conversationalist, you | will confer a real boon upon society, | for there are few really good con./| versationalists, and to meet one is/| When you sit at the table with a joy. = | f or Poem Ss our tapBook ! (ie il 0, WASHINGTON! TEACH THEM OF THE EARTH! BY LEO H, LASSEN Perhaps I may not know the thoughts that stir Among thy books—lore of Socrates But | have known the fellowship of trees ‘That gladly lend their shade and smell of fir Upon thy campus. And I ¢ walked between ‘Thy hails a path that taught me of the earth Where grass and stones have known their lowly birth, A little journey thru the evergreen. fo Marshal Foch: Dear Marshal, T regret to my, T pnot parler much francais; but inmoins, I'll try to state une irt of all the good souhait that it le monde would tell to you, uld we but parler avec vous. } Car ici, it is plain to see, you are | ir friend—notre bon ami! We strug with votre nom a bit; to properly noncer ft: but, sacrebleu! What's a name, when in our heart, we ali aime? Nor does it matter that we speak different langue in Amerique, and} IM the francais we may know, is| ty hommes et eight chevaux™, for | languages and creeds are iped away by friendly deeds. We ull would think it might tine. to drink your health avec some wine cest against the law, you know, | all that noux avons ih eau; but “even water may tmpart the vintage s O, Washington! Teach them all to know ‘The soul of living; and thru thy great heart Give each who seeks the light an honest part Of truth; As down the aisle of years ye go Learn to love the earth and grass and trees That bind forever all the mysteries, ‘fa loyal heart. | $0 recevez our heart and hand, and un call “Ferdinand; we hail! hero of the war, but more than is, oui, beaucoup more, we give our dsbip, true, profound, to you,! de tout le monde! } F we Try This on Your Wise Friend A farmer made up 20 barrels of cider, one barre! u week. Each week he required one-tenth as many more apples to a barrel. If, on the 20th week, he ran short of apples, what did he have in the first week’s barrel’ Answer to yesterday's: 6 days, | | i THE SEATTLE ‘The Man Who Is Seattle’s Guest Today . | STAR o Meret Saga, é Bad — Te, FAMOUS FOCHISMS “Victory is a thing of will. An army conquers not with material, but by sheer force of will.” “T never throw away my own soldiers. It is Germans that I sacrifice.” “My right has been driven in, my left has been driven in—therefore, with all that I have left in my center, I will attack.” “T have loosed the dykes and flooded the enemy with Frenchmen.” LETTERS TO EDITOR | | ly : |United States government in irrign } IRIN ss 1 a try in being affected by interested. wrong With labor. “we EVERY TEL | MENT BUREAL } Think that over. Dr. Matthews said: “If the government were removed, saved letters a. day.” | Think that over | Another big headline says: questions if politicians evade t IPHONE CALI | business, legislative trading and THINK THAT OVER H Years ago on our #! | “L went to the anima The birds and the beasts ' The monkey he got drunk, I started to write an article al in the court house, and the inefficiency, duplications in the same families, sinecure jobs and dead the task too long and too great, and I was too indignant when I thought of the lineup in the very work And #0, instead, I extend this glad to take interested parties of taxpayers thru our court hi In order to clean it out thoroly and efficiently should know every man and woman in make the political history. I would like to hear from every unemployed man and woman in the city who feels competent I can be reached at the o'clock every morning, and in every evening from 6 o'clock until 8 Editor The Star: ‘The thousands of acres of arid land in central Washington offer a great opportunity for a reclamation proj- ect. Irrigation by gravity flow from the Columbia river offers the most reliable as well as the cheapest means of converting this arid section into @ region of vast production, The Wenatchee and Yakima val leys, once a desert of sage brush, are now far famed. The fair recently held at Burbank showed the agri cultural possibilities of the Columbia basin region, One root of alfalfa had - 2ysassae. Qs, “Pape’s Cold Compound” Breaks Any Cold in a Few Hours Instant relief! Don't stay stuffed up! Quit blowing and snufflingt A dose of “Pape’s Cold Compound” tak. en every two hours until three doses are taken usually breaks any cold right up. The first dose opens clogged-up hostrile and alr passages af Lead; || INVITATION TO UNEMPLOYED (A LESSON IN POLITICS) No matter whether you are interested or not politica, | Poter, Witt sala that we don’ } Headlines in morning paper read: NEMPLOYED IN SHATTLE FIGHT WAY TO ASK WORK.” BRINGS THRONG $1,500,000 in taxes annualiy could be There are men in the public { to clean out the politicians next; women are thru with monkey ighing parties we used to «ing a round: air | The big baboon in the light of the moen, | Was combing his golden hair; . and fell on the elephant's trunk, The elephant sneezed, and fell on his knees And that was the end of the monkey, monkey Think that over with the general public as the ele introductions, explaining at the same time each one's New Reclamation in Columbia Valley the whole coun and it is high time you became t think enough—that is what ts AT EMPLOY ‘MITY-FEDERA TO WINDOW, parasites in the county and city services who cannot write 10 “Wemen will settle our moral hem; women may take a notion horveplay.” were there— monkey,” ete. hant, bout the different elective Officers wood in their offices, but I found same building fighting for invitation: ANYTIME, 1 will be use every and I will be ¢ and willing to work Richmond hotel Cc. Smith up until 10 the Building tower MAUDE SWEETMAN, {1,700 stalks, many ured six feet in length. Stalks of | jcorn 15 feet high were on exhibition, | also watermelons weighing 50 pounds and a bunch of grapes that filled a 10-pound pail. All kinds of root vege tables grow large and abundantly | There are thousands of acres lying | jidle on both sides of the river that would blossom lik rose if only of which meas-| wate There are 25,000 aeres on the west «ide, toward Pasco on the | Burbank project 10,000 acres, and on the Attalia' side 7,000 acres. There is no use talking about de- | | | | | stops nose running; relieves head. | ache, dullness, feverishness, sneez- ing | pe's Cold Compound” is the! quickest, surest relief known, and costs only a few conte at drug stores, | It acts without dssistance, Tastes nice, Contains no quinine, Ansist | upon Pape's.—Advertisemant, veloping the country and then get ting irrigation. Irrigation must come first. ‘fore money must spent by the Uon. More must be spent by the state of Washington, The source of supply, the Columbia river, and the possibility and plausibil ity flow must be b tention of the stat fore we shall get help. y man and woman of the «tate, and espe this section, should write to thelr state senators and representa ves as well as their national con eremmen, urging upon them the need of ‘utilizing some of the vast amount of warer that flows by in the Columbia unused. ‘They y of a grav t to the at 1 nation be not do this once only but continual i Sate kee. ee Headache, Rheumatism form this devert into « garden of | Toothache Neuralgia Neuritis ‘The wheat yleld for Washington Earache Lumbago Pain, Pain thie year reached ov 50,000,000 bushels, oats 14,416,000 bu is, bar-| Accept only ‘Bayer’ package which contains proper directions. ley 3,712,000 bushels, rye 215,000 bushels, a! 7. Handy tin box f 12 tabl bes nels, und potatoos 7.848,000 bush abae Sees peg Aim of and 190 AU drome Fruits also were not lacking. should} WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 3% BY SINCLAIR LEWIS Copyright, 1920, jarcourt, Brace & Howe, Inc. 0, 1921. Seeevcevevercee? ever tie his scarf so that it would bh the top of the gap in his turn” (Continued From Yesterday) | At this point Carol awoke ¢ minute down collar | Bhe got thea three r ‘There were no other diversions te j by studying the face of @ girl in the |e found in the pew. She glanced pew across; a wensitive, unhappy! pack at the congregation. She girl whone longing poured out with | thought that it would be amiable intimidating self-revelation a8 #he| bow to Mra, Champ Perry worshiped Mr. Zitterel, Carol won| fer slow turning head stopped, dered who the girl was, She hod | gaivanized. |neen her at church suppers. She)” Acrows the aisle, two rows back, sidered how many of the three | was a strange young man who shone | thousand people in the town she did among the oud-chewing citizens Uke | not know; to how many of them the | « visitant from the sun—amber curls, Thanatopais and the Jolly Beventaen were icy social peaks; how many of them might be tolling thru boredom | thicker than her own—with greater courage She examined her nails, low forehead, fine none, chin emooth but not raw from Sabbath shaving, His lips startled her. ‘The lips of men in Gopher Prairie are flat in the face, straight and grudging. The Bhe read! stranger's mouth was arched, the two hymna, She got some satisfac: | upper lip short, He wore a brown |tion out of rubbing an itching | Jersey coat ,u delft-blue bow, a white | kn sckle, She pillowed on her shoul-| silk shirt, white flannel! trousers. He iggented the ocean beach, a tennig: court, anything but the sun-blistere@ utility of Main Street A visitor from Minneapolis, here for business? No, He wasn’t « buat i der the head of the baby who, after killing time in the same manner as |his mother, wax #0 fortunate aw to | tant asleep. She read the introduc | tion, title-page, and acknowledgment of copyrights, in the hymnal. She|ness man. He was a poet. Keats tried to evolve a philosophy which was in hin and Shelley, and (Turn to Page 11, Column 1) | would explali why Kennicott could This plan, if carried out. will re | ‘ |The apple yield reached 24,538,000) |buwhels, peaches 1,286,000 bushels, | claim 5,000,000 acres and give homes Jand peare 1,397,000 bushels, which \to 1,250,000 farm tamiliéy averaging |was a million bushels leas than a five persons each, or a total new farm population of 7,000,000 peopie. An equa! number woyld find homes in the towns and cities that would spring up in the reclaimed territory, | WH! this 15,000,000 people come to our state or to'others? Wt ts ap to us. The proposed cut in navy expendi tires is $250,000,000, This is twice ment figures in $60 per acre. The te|the sum spent on irrigation in this turn on 6,000,000 acres would be | country since it was founded. With $300.000,000, How many of these!tnis fact, and the fact that congress dollars do we want to come to Wash-|witi soon be considering the largest ington? A single crop taken from |reciamation project in history, let us the Snake river irrigated section 801d | be up and doing, and see if we cam for $40,000,000. What might one be not nave the Columbia river basin sold for from the Columbia river val | project the first one for congress to ley if it were irrigated? lconsider. By #0 doing we can bring | At the regular sesion of congress | millions of people to our state, mil- | whieh will begin in December an lidns of dollars to our pockets and organized effort will be made to set | bring a vast, lovely gurden to the the reclamation forces of the govern: | heart of Washingtom, the greatest of ment in motion, after remaining at|states, and make it worthy of the’ @ standetill for eight years, The plan | name it bears, Washington. lto which both houses have been giv-| J. G, PORTER, jing attention this summer looks to | ‘Walla Walla, Wash the expenditure of $500,000,000, How | . much of this is coming to the Colum: | er bia river valley? Are the people of| King of Spain has hag an sir- other sections idle and listless in this | Plane made for his private use. matter? No, indeed! What, then, a are we going to do? It is up to us, year ago. All of these crop well adapted to the Columbia valley When all of this was raised on @ wmali part of the tillable land of the state, what could be raised if the Vast areas thet are now covered with |nand and sage were watered? | The avernge yearly return trom | irrigated land as shown by govern Of the world's ‘population, three persons die every two seconds, ithe people of Washington. Never say “Aspirin” without saying “Bayer.” WARNING! 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