The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 2, 1921, Page 6

slow uninterestedness of misplaced lawyer. tam’s is the poignant its little ruling circle of nonentities, its hatred cht and its opposition tq all Progress, with its acceptance Hthe vacuous campaign of Watch ° Prairie Grow. treatment Bjornstam got is p treatment stupidity metes out non-conformists; or stupidity Hike to, It doesn’t always ™ a ‘Washington Team: if Boys—Tomorrow you've a te show the stuff that’s in the i; the team you'll meet, to say ; and they will try, before thru, to knock the devil out wag y e to see the score; nor do ee co get us fame; we only tell Dt yy the game! and open up the eyes of all ‘many Eastern guys; that they know, give our very best; for, win all the same-—the crown f his who plays the game! 4 so, tomorrow, let us see just your very best can be; your When you are going strong, best when « best in plunging to the goal, ur best in times that try the soul! iN uncaressed by Lady Luck, n't ever -lose your grit and pluck; beet and brawn and still, t an undefeated willt for we betting, it’s a cinch you'll show if mettie in a pinch. If you get lickeg, we do not care— t's nothing either here or there; fust be proud you played a that honored old Seattle's , and showed the stuff we like boast is native to the Western can hold its own with all/¢_, i | fe do not a wicked chin, and | that you've got to win: we! Sod tell you, furthermort, what . that in the West, we al-) rything is wrong, | Doc Will. tragedy of the book. Published Datiy by ‘The Ber Gopher Prarie’s “Red Swede” You have followed “Main Street” well along to the end. You have wondered at the braveness and shallowness of Carol Kennicott. You have been patient with You have pitied the poor simp Valborg and d what Carol “saw in him;” you have scorned old Stowbody, banker, and you smiled at the gay enthusiasms of Vida Sherwin and the futile dreamings of Guy you give a thought to Miles Bjornstam, the Red Swede? ‘village tinker and socialist, tolerated because he was a handy man—the man who the banker and mocked the Grand Old Institutions, he was a hero withal to son; and young Olaf, handsome Norseman, was another altho lesser hero for his of plaything-making and the ways of birds and what goes on outdoors, to Miles! Praises to all men who are heroes to young boys! Whatever their ‘ may think of their views, they are pretty likely to be superior men. Youth sees ly, and by instinct knows. The Star would like to know what became of Miles Bjornstam. Did he come to Se- and join the general strike or become a hermit in the Canadian north? That's what Gopher Prairie would have driven him to—Gopher Prairie, with its smug A soft answer doesn’t turn away as much wrath as @ hard look. They will be the first ships ever sunk by weighty arguments, It isn’t what a man stands for as much as what he falls for. You can’t lead a double li fe on a single salary. ‘There was no music, no carriages. There was only Miles Bjornstam, in his black wedding suit, walking quite alone, head down, behind the shabby hearse that bore the bodies of his wife and baby.” And then the pariah’s depar- ture. There had been talk of ar- resting Bjornstam, of riding him en a rail, At the station he was berated and told be “better not come back.” “He must have felt guilty, everybody agreed, for as the train left town, a farmer saw him standing in the vestibule and look- ing out. “His heuse—with the addition which he had built four months ago—was very near the track on which his train passed. “When Carot went there, for the last time, she found Olaf's chariot with its red spool wheels standing in the sunny corner be side the stable. She wondered if With German marks counted by there ts @ great opening for paperhangers as bank cashiers. Lo’s Last Stand The red Indian probably will make his last stand in Canada, which reports an Indian popula tion of 106,000. They are farming 1,800 acres of land, and their average wealth ranges as high as $2,217 in the province of Alberta. Not all of them are farmers, The fur coat you are wearing may |have been trapped in the four. | legged state by a Canadian Indian. It ty less than two centuries since the Indians were masters of most of the American conti- |nent. The white man has exter- minated them at a rate almost without precedent in history, Will the white man be a curios ity some centuries hence, like the Indian in 19217 Ask the Orient, Lots of men, who think they were fools when they married, haven't changed much. Fortune smiles at some people and laughs out loud at others, Her Monument Louisa Wells tolled as 8 weaver girt in @ mill at Lowell, Mass Her great dream was to be buried in a certain cemetery, among the departed mighty. She died in 1886, leaving her life *savings te purchase burial space and a mar ble monument. Her heirs contested the will Now, after 36 years, courts decide that Louwisa’s lifedream is te be fulfilled. The poor little weaver girl rests among the mighty. Too bad, for her aching heart, that Louisa cannot see her monw ment. It will be finer than she expected, for her savings, origh nally about $2,900, have grown te $8,006 «by compound interest. Enough ts left over to care per- petnalty for the memortal. The chess player who made two moves in seven hours would Hake @ fine plumber. é Toxt drivers will cet your mency tn the long run. Hearing so little from Spain's war, it muat de @ bull fight. During the hunting season calves ere warned not to look like deer, The finishing touches are being put father’s pocketbook. — Answer to yesterday's: Tom had This on Your Wise Friend A AL properly arranged, make Saeed aaeeeghhhhbhilnnttttuw. What is it? a popular 12 cents; John had 6 cents. ain in halt A series of tions “Ranks headings, all by the same pearing general and in willing to eriticines: the them, ing! soclalistic sta ing a subject te Armour, J Have a Rendezvous With Death Prom his “Last Poems” written in France before his death in the charge! a | All streets from James to Virginia ore for some one who may want Bank Man Answers Critics Over 20 years’ banking expertence and as managing executive of a loca national bank, at Jeast fairly fami! prompts me puted | state that if the contributor of theve referred to will apply columns.| nary common sense to this subject ‘The writer of these articles modently | he will not have occasion to draw on | admits his knowledge of banking In| his alleged knowledge of banking’ to his appreciate the fallacy of his state familiarity with the loan and invest ment end of the business, He ts evidently fair-minded, for he Editor The Star: ker and Society,” lately bankers are as honest as himself, b whole and local bank managements | specifically, for policies ascribed to Aa to the first eriticiam, he seem approac: count of apace, be argued properly in your columna. ‘The burden of his complaint re. garding Seattle bankers is that they are not lending proper support to loca! enterprise, and purchasing outside bonds, both for-| eign and domestic, Swift and similar con coms by buying much practices did not indicate that THE SEATTLE STAR Men Hog Auto Parking Spaces Editor The Star I am one of the drivers in Seattle and I to do some shopping? Yesterday 1 wanted Fraser Paterson's many women would like my car at home an hour or three spaces In each | six, #0 1 say le articles under the cap and Bunk,” “The Ban and various other | with th business, apparently cont author, have been in your ap | articles more particularly ments. agree that as a clans, | that banking system a a | munity Increases. hes the matter from a ndpoint, thereby open- that could not, on ac-| concerned, even denial thin is too are instead | their New York aos BY ALAN SEEGER at Belloy-en-Santerve. | | I have a rendeevons with Death At nome dinputed barricade, When Spriqg comes beck with rustling shade And apple-blonsoms fil) the alr— I have a rendexvow with Death When Spring brings back blue days and fair. Tt may be he shall take my hand And lead me into his dark land And clos my eyes and quench my breath— It may be I shall pass him still I have a rendezvous with Death On some scarred slope of battered hin, When Spring comes round again this year And the first meadow-fNowers appear. God knows ‘twere better to be deep Pillowed in silk and scented down, Where Love throbs out in blissful seep, Pulse nigh to pul: nd breath to breath, Where hushed awakenings are dear... .. But I've @ rendezvous with Death At midnight in rome flaming town, When Spring trips north again this year, And I to my pledged word am trus, 1 shall not fall that rendexvous. Cc A Brick “Sold by our feslers only MRS, © In the firet place, the would indeed be a fool if he were! not keenly conscious at all times | there hin institution can only prow | per and develop as the business wel fare of its customers is enhanced, | jor the general promperity of the com: Competition business is as keen among benkers am that prevailing between neighbor hood grocers, and if a man entitled to credit cannot secure It banking, house, there are many oth. | ers glad to take on hin account \* An far ax New York control or tn fluence over bank policies here in absued Btock control of every Seattle bank with the exception of loaning money |two or three that are branches of | Canadian, Japanese, or San Francis. commercial | co banking concerns, is held by Seat paper, and raising the query whether | tle people who usually have all of thelr holdings in this town or vicin | Seattle banks were controlled or in.|ity and therefore are Just ax seatour | fluenced from shop at I knew I would) |to know why we can't have a re-|be In there over a half hour #0| [served space to park our cars over|1 started to look for place to| Propositions are situated |* half hour We can't possibly go} park my car. 1 finally found a) If our friend doubta the foregoing, | Jin a store to buy a dress or # pait| apace at Second and Lenora, then I/Iet him consult the county audlor's | lof shoes or, in fact, almost anything| had te carry all of my parcel office, where these stock Hate are | 4 get waited upon and get out] tong blocks. I may just aa well leave|available to anyone, He will find) may wake up, some of you men, | neattered stock held even outside the | Jand from First up to Sixth are pre | and not be no selfish, You park your | state ‘Tempted by mon who take their cars| cars at eight or nine in the morning | down and leave them all day. Why|and do not mave them until five or not leave two ue A Hepa or two. HM. ordi banker for | at one for The Dessert Special for This Week-End Another delicious ice cream novelty is offered for tomorrow and Sunday with a taste that will make you smack your lips in pleasure. If you do not know a dealer who sells Puget Pudding, phone Main 6225 for the name of the nearest. SEATTLE ICE CREAM CO. REAL COLOR For more than 20 years producers of eattle Cream of Quality ICE CREAM | ally, |Inetnerators that cannot be operated, Poems i, | apBook — j LETTERS TO EDITOR | as any other eitizen, Bank policies are also wupervised ang determined directorates impelled by nolf-interest if for no other reason, in advancing the best interests of the community in which their business by active of widely | |hut a «mall percentag It ts true that well-managed, con servative banks always carry a cer tain portion of thelr lonable funds in honds or compercial paper or both. This Is not based on the prin ciple of aiding outside proponitions but simply to have on hand stand: | ard securities the character of which | in sufficiently established In a gen ork! sense, as to make them readily marketab at any time, or in an cy. This class of investment or commercial purchased therefore on ae count of its quick availability: not by reason of sentiment for makers, whom we probably never have known nor will know, a» the paper is bought in the market the very element that makes Incident. | FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1921, L ABOUT NEIGHBORS 1 BY DR. WM. EB BARTON “It in too bad,” anid her neighbor } ———) T in my impress en | am sure I should have ied her, that the war, tol @nd T intended to call.” But It de which tt fw juat}velope that it jp not the mistress of | vm) the home who is dead, but her hus now fashionable | band's mother who was visiting ‘ to attribute) yi everything) And now that the new nelchbor wrong, did NOt ® | tn no longer dead, the olde idents Hittle to MAKE | intend to eal will t Ao it people lem Neigh | hefore the hearse comes around borly, They BD | seeing came lem care The quédtion “Who is my nélgh- , ful of social Ob! | hore” was asked in the New Testa — , ThY) ment by a man who was trying to merged all their rics in Wal) evade a duty. He did not wish to and kindred activities. be aetenbely ) fal clubs and literary organiza! Neighbors are the best thince we ly given up. Dre! have except our religion and our ' muita were packed away in the moth-| ga miijeg balls, and it seemed that Gabr: You havea new neighbor? Go hh into t hur not them out realm of life, , Weddings were ried up and executed to the drum beat. A new vorabulary eame into use. | Rough language became more com | mon; profanity ared in respect able pl Old-fashioned neighbor call could |liness dimappeared. We were all busy jon ng lberty bonds or rolling ban dages or making four -mingte | speeches or rushing off to Washing ton to collect our dollar a@ year, which was fully as much as nome of | us were worth | in nomething | too precious to spate out of life. | | But neighborliness courities deximble ax second ary reserve, makes them much less |attracttve from a return or profit standpoint than local loans, as convertability enables them to sel! readily at lower interest rates, Thin bank carries them on the same | principle that we always carry more than double legal requirements of cash reserve—for safety’s sake j wit the full realization that ft costs «much tn earnings to do so, The! total of these Investments, however jin «mall ‘in proportion to the loral| stroy the faith of Investors in our loan accounts of active commercial loans of any bank, Regarding the Skagit bonds—thense bonds will be readily absorbed by the active bond market prevailing if in the minds of invest they are good. Personally, I believe they are, but utter business incapacity as char acterized by the Cedar River dam. with millions thrown away, several hundred thousand dollars in garbage od other glaring examples of muni cipal tmefficiency may serve to de i mi COMIC their | a few more evidences of | A current magazine hae « two. page article, a mere outline sketch a suburban community into! |which a new family has come, and| her neighbors “intend to call.” | | But perdition t* paved with good intentions, one of which ts the in-| tention to call upon our new neigh-| born, Then @ hearse is seen at the door, and the word percolates around | that the mistress of the new home |= dead utility obligations, BANK MAN, and be neighborly pn JR Free Examination NYON ‘The writer of the above letter 1, | BEST $2.50 GLASSES & principal executive in a well known Seattle bank, am, his letter indicates |and his letter probably expresses the viewpoint of Seattle bankers gener | ally. 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