The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 3, 1921, Page 6

is altogether fitting that American Education week, which is to be observed thru- : the country, beginning tomorrow, should be fostered by the American Legion, the public school system is the foundation of American en granted constitutional forms of government. Liberty is the freedom of an educated people. into liberty. fostering good Americanism. as the war-time feats of its members, can’t notice it. the state. The veto of the “blue Politeness costs nothing, but is tcorth more. ARABLES, ZS Om) PARABLE OF OLD FIFTY-TWO f DR. WM. E. BARTON And they began to Sit Up and Take <S]ANY years ago! Notice. there was a! And after a time, they looked, and! World's Fair in| Behold, they were going Seventy Buffalo, And) Miles an Hour. there was a Rail way that ran into Buffalo from the region toward the going down of the sun. And its officers said among themselves, Go to, let us run a time, and beat the fa Record for a Long Run. | they took two fine new Loco- ‘that had been builk to haul State Express, and they one of them to Chicago, and er they placed at Collinwood, | was midway and nigh unto ) And the fireman was sprinkling In the coal, and kebping the steam | pressure just where it belonged, and. | behold, the train climbed up to Eighty-Four miles an Hour And when they pulled into buftaio, the telegraph instgumenty along the | the flight of that train. And the World's Record for a jong- distance run was broken. Now listen unto me, all ye men who stand idly upon life's Side Track thinking that there is no great place in life for y Hauling freight on a Branch Lim no disgrace, but highly honorable. Yet are there men left Chicago hauling a Car and a Day Coach and Car. And in the Parlor the officers of the com- _ And they had Instruments to Register Speed. the fine new Locomotive out of Chicago and hastened the Sunrise. And it made fun, but when it pulled into it was Three Minutes the World's Record for that who ought to get out onto Life's Main Track, and actually Get There. running on the Main Line, with the Throttle Wide Open and the Track Clear: and I {nvite other men who ;are no longer young, but who are capable of Going Some, to back out of the Round House and undertake some job worth while and renew their Youth. + the Officers said: will never do. The other new ptive must do better. as they were starting to hook Fe other new Locomotive, be id, they discovered a Broken Valve id they said, We cannot use that tive. ‘were their hearts haavy. they said. Give us an Engine | sort, for we must get to Buf. Poem the fardmaster said, Behold, only one Locomotive in the with steam up and this is Old PTwo—that years ago went ott | ’ “main line and hath long been Local Freight on a Branch the Officers aid, Give us any- that hath Wheels and a Boller, ‘We must get on to Buffalo. Pd they hooked up Old Fifty-Two. the Engineer of Old Fifty ®Ae no longer young, but in his he had been a Great Engineer, he knew his Engine. And he} “It was the men who make up the Legion who forsook their peaceful pursuits during - the war to kill the Beast that threatened to drive democracy from the earth, Surely no one can question their right to carry on their work, now that the war is r. “For, tho the Beast is dead, the menace to democracy has not been removed. The work that the Beast sought to accomplish with submarines and poison gas has taken up by propagandists, who use lies and half-truths as their weapons. propagandists’ fire is directed against the American public school system—and, ) less deadly, their menace to democracy is no less real than was their predecessors’. democracy, Without it ca would be no farther advanced than the countries of the old world, which have License is the freedom of the un- masses. And it is the public school—the public school alone—which can change | is therefore impossible to emphasize too much the importance of the American effort to inform the public of the accomplishments and needs of the public and to secure co-operation and support in meeting these needs and in teaching ‘the week accomplishes its purpose—and The Star sincerely hopes it will — the Legion will have performed a deed of nearly, if not quite, as much import- Boston women, who can't vote unless they live with their husbands, are greatly handicapped. One week's bills placed end to end reach from one side of the pay check to the other. We are still at war with Austria. So still you A Pig and a Suit the widows, orphans and sind) This is the parable of the investors whe have lost money Middle Man. this year en worthless stocks 4. D. Beck, representative in should write a letter of thanks ¢ongress from Wisconsin, told it to the governor. before a committce of the house. He is entitled to much ef the Hans Andersen never told a bet credit, Why withhold it? ter, “In @ certain country,” he said, “lived a tailor who made clothes, A little way off lived a farmer ing raised pigs. Between them | Was @ river. bridge was built, On top of the bridge » man stationed himself to see that no ene passed over. “The time came when the farm- er wanted » sult of clothes and the tailor wanted a pig. “The farmer started out with couple of pigs and the taller start- ed to meet him with a couple of suits of clothes. “When they | bridge they were stopped by the And they became Greatiy Interest.| an on top, This man stepped up ed. | to the farmer and asked what he could do for him. “The farmer said, ‘I want some clothes,” “The man on the bridge said, ‘Well, clothes are up today and way were hot with the reports of | Digs are down, but I'll give you a sult of clothes for your two pig “And be went to the tailor who wanted pigs and said, ‘Pigs aro up today and clothes are down, but TU give you a» pig for your two suits of clothes.’ “And the trades were made. The ‘the first of these fine new | who are fooling away life on Short| farmer went home with a suit of Hauls of Less Than Car-Load Lots, | clothes but nothing to eat, while the tailor went home with a pig I am no longer young, but I am|>ut nothing to wear, “And the man on the bridge had a clothes. Across the river a arrived at the pig to eat and » suit of Tt is more than a race between a golden chariot and a “tin Lizsie.”— Senator Stanley (D.), Ky. >) or your < | BY LEO H, LASSEN The gods were good—Apollo loaned his lyre That I might sing to satisfy desire. Then Inspiration came and with her spell She brought me glowing words before so numb; And in the darker hours, when they have come, I would that I with Poesy could dwell. THE SEATTLE STAR = The Hankering We Should Do Editor The Star |‘» hard as we hanker after things Ma wen |for ourmelves, everyone'd soon have Somehow ‘r other It seams we're | éverythin’ they newded allus hankerin’ after somethin’, If HANNAH K. MEAGHER, we'd hanker after things fer others | 1658 Ki. Téth st Suggests Christmas Program Editor ‘The Star women, amd also Christmas baskets | Just before Christmas, a few year | of food or order for coal ago, you had delivered to The Star} 1 believe such an appeal made by | building articles which had accumm:| you, which would reach many thou lated in homes, and which you de-| sands, would bring a great response sired as Christmas pronents for chil from those who have and may not! dren who otherwise might not re-| know just where to dispowe of the colve presents during the holidays./ rifts, or, in fact, would not think of ‘This year, with times as hard as|it in this way unlews brought to they are, if you could repeat that) (heir attention commendable work 1 belleve it| A® to delivéry of the accumula would be a Godsend to many chil | tion, past experience has shown that dren whose fathers and mothers are| many automobile owners gladly vol | unable to give them such a Christ-/unteer machines and nervice ax Ban:| mas an they might wieh, These con-| ta Claus 1 it would be & won| tributions from people who are able | derful work on the part of ‘The Star to make them could be in the form| Very truly, LL. SMITH. of money, serviceable toys, books | . - and clothing for children, and in-| What do others think of this deed, suitable clothing for men and | plan?—Edlitor Outlines 5-Point Car Program Editor The Star of the street car xystem, and getting | What is the matter with the peo] Ur Approval by popular vote 4 I would suggest that we demand phe ef Seatiin? Are — on ed of the city counell the following | they ge rf e alia F ne | item. to be acted upon at once, via |despair and decided A | | mayor and city council to run the} Firat, pay Mr. Witt his salary up to date and dismias him, with | iT affairs of the ony according to a thanks, for hin expert advice (he: M&O: Cd emmawest wt | Second, that there shall be NO Let us hope that they are only | new equipment purchased not!l what asleep ]we-have in no longer usable or safe When the street car syetem was! Third, that there shall be abso | have to be purchased from Stone & W. lutely no further extensions made! ster the proposition was put up to} on any route until the future growth | the people to be voted upon, and we, | of Seattle demands it, and until barred ‘THE PHOPLE, voted to purchase the | of the thousands of vacant lots with lear system and pay $15,000,000 for|ing reach of the present street car jit, and we, THE PEOPLE, of Seat-| lines are built upon and tmproved tle, must pay for it, consequently |and pay their fair share of the taxes. the street car mystem belongs to each Fourth, and modt important, Dr. and every one of us and tt ls up to} MAND that the THREE cent car us to let the mayor and city coucil| fare with no transfers, be TRIED, know here and now, in no uncertain | until it t# proven beyond doubt or terms, that we are awake and on/| quibble that tt will not pay. No one the. job, and that there ix to be no/can tell until it hae been tried. business deal or transaction of im-| Fifth, demand that the three cent portance put through or contem-|carfare take effect January 1, 192 plated, without putting the matter) WAKE UP! SEATTLE. WA before US, THE PEOPLE, OWNERS | UP.” “JUSTITIA.” In Loan Shark’s Clutches Editor The Star: |which he filed at the city comptro} | We are about thru with the |ler’s offien. He draws my pay check pita Pant Meg -<Abrgese th jeach pay day and retains whatever te alee tive, [Part of it he soe fit, ‘The idea a voted aph re that ace | 1 have taken the matter op with | yi . gyorg wME out re ct, 0} | our watches, jewelry, eto, and being |Out result. In fact, one party 1 edbete ‘one oan te { inter talked with seemed to stand in wit charged an enormous re o the tailor. I also found it necessary to pawn my watch for $10. Sixteen days later I redeemed it but bad to pay $1 in ent? ‘There is supponed to be a law to! iprotect us but no one in authority |seems to try to enforce it cores ‘ Tam « elty employe I bought ®| 1 pave taken this matter up with |aniform from a certain uniform mak- | you because I know The Star is fear. | jer here in the city. 1 am compelied | less in going after the guilty. | to pay him about 15 per cent per| Can't we have theese loan harks | month on deferred payments I gave and grafters investigated? j bim an aswignment of my wages, | A STARK READER. Sports—That’s All | Editor The Star: E | pass them on to their It's just sport, that’s all—fust ter, and watch the dead wagon load ‘nport up the hawbeens, and bust tnto the | 1 used to laten with Joy at the court of justice and my “I skidded” | whiplike erack of my rifle as a bullet {sped away and drilled a hole in the |brain of @ Jackrabbit, and watch him jump in the alr and spin on the |fround and kick bie last kick, It's lJust sport, that’s all, just sport, And light a Roman candle and stick it in my mouth and Jump from the tower on the Smith building, and on the way down imagine I'm a com It’s just sport, that’s all, Just | wport. | And burst thru the atmosphere 20 miles an hour @n a silppery street, seated in my iron cage with my gat foot on the power and my hands on lthe steering wheel, and «kid into a |flock of common boobs and young chickens untonding from a street car and send a chicken flying thru the air, bouncing on her head and spin ing like a top, and showing everything | Fore! Shouts “Ringmaster” | alop- and listen to the judge shoot 20 rounds of laughter as he pate me on the back and says, “I own a car myself and when you pull off an other comedy like this let a fellow know #0 we can all see,” and calls another case on the docket; and I done out of the court room with a grin on my face like a hog cating it's Just sport, that's all, gust sport. We all tire of port. er out of a mere human) being doewn’t thrili me. The howls of 4 big boob with only six or neven ribs caved In and @ leg pulled out by the roots doesn’t even interest me. 1) used to play ring-eround-the-rosy, but I don't even play that any more, It's | Just sport, that’s all, just sport, WwW. W. GROW. Editor The Star: 1 No! The Ringmaster does not be The Ringmaster was glad to se lieve that banks can thrive in an im: | the letter of Paul Hedrick, Jr, in | poverished community, and be knows your imue of Wednesday and is in very well that they mum depend terested in the attempt made to an- upon local industry for their deposita, swer the criticisms of local banks and that is the very reason why be and bankers recently appearing in| would point out that if this commu- the same columns Nity ia to be kept solvent and a city Mr. Hedrick sema to admit, In 4 of enterprise and industry its banks half-hearted way, that money in an “Instrument of commer and also! that the federal reserve “may” facili [tate business “insofar a it may} grant credit under carefully thought out restrictions.” He dismisses those | |important subjects in just that off }hand manner. In last Saturday's! Star the Ringmaster #aid thet the | excuse «0 often offered by the banks. |L @., that the federal reserve bank | would not rediecount-—was mere sub- | jterfuge that the federal reserve bank had not refused, nor would tt refuse to rediscount acceptable paper | when presented according to the! regulations, This statement remains | undisputed and yet, I venture to say there is scarcely a merchant of any importance in Seattle who haw not at! one time or another In the past year! \been refused further credit on the | ground that the federal reserve would | jnot take their paper for rediscount. | must encourage local enterprise by loaning their funds at home rather | than to ship to the East to concerns) from whom they can expect no re | ciprocal relationship. Does Mr, Hed: | rick deny that local banks with! scarcely an exception are now and have for many years been the pur. chasers of vast amounts of paper is sued by outside concerns? He does not The Ringmaster is not the father nor stepfather of any of those “in-| fant industries” seeking in vain for | banking credit, nor is he one of thoae | Who occupy the “mourners' bench” thoughtfully provided by most banks | where thelr customers wait for some | mysterious to report | ‘nothing doing.” merely in| This Passing, as Mr. Hedrick implies that the motive of the Ringmaster is one | of “spite” or that he has a “grouch” because he Mps been turned down Girl, we will give them a Run | their Money. the officers were sitting in oth and ashes, when they haneed to look out of the window, | 4 behold, the Telegraph “went by like a Picket Fence Hey looked at their Instrumenta, sand behold, they were going Sixty / Four Miles an hour. And | Answer to yesterday's: Try This on Your Wise Friend The number 80 can-be divided into four parts, each an equal multiple of the next higher part, the first being the square root of the second and the second the square | root of the fourth. What are the parts? Jaugheth who winneth COLOR For tafente, tavalide anf Growing Children REAL. ‘The Original Food-Drink For All Ages Ne Cooking — Nourishing — INFANTS ood INVALIDS ASK FOR Horlick’s the Original | _ Milk Poel eet, Avoid [mitations and Substitutes Rich milk, malted grain extrect in Powder COMIC | Subjects Star Readers Are Pondering Over ‘The Ningmaster's interest in thse matter ta the me a» that of every) citizen; He lives here and dertres to| noe thecity prosperous and he knows that without commercial credit in | dustry languishes; the public have |leaw money to spend; more men and women are out of employment and | Umes are bad, and he knows further more that until commercial credits are again distributed by the banks] we will have no mend in conditions which all admit are acutely bad at this time. Even the bankers admit that mon ey in “Ugit" and conditions are #0 well known that ft seems unnecessary |to refer to Mr, Hedrick’s #tatement to the effect that “the only reason Any individuals or business firms are | refused money in Beattle—or else) where—i# that they have nothing to| offer —- nothing but “personality.” | There are too many wellostablished firma of ge credit who have been refused to make it necesmry to re fute any such statement. If Mr.| Hedrick meann when he says “noth ing to offer,” vo collateral such as Liberty bonda, ete, it may be ad-| mitted that business firme are not! generally in the habit of investing | their funds in such collateral—their funds are, and should be, invested in | the business in which they are en gaged and such investment in itaelt | forms the basis of commercial credit. | Mr. Hedrick mys the Ringmaster | asks some very general and very/| rtinent questions concerning the} investment by local banks in com mercial paper, but altho he refers to} these queries as “superficial” he does | not answer them specifically —even superficially He mays that because; ymercial paper imued by the large Kastern concerns is customarily paid, paid out of legit earnings, The, Ringmaster sim avked if i¢ were not the custom for! such firms to meet maturing paper) thru the immue of more paper, He} did not my it was good busines te do #0. Is it or is it not the custom? With reference to the purchase by loca! banks of foreign bonds: It 1 true that the banks do not carry these indefinitely, but they are heavy subscribers to practically every big inmue that is brought out and wheth er they keep them for infestment, or customers is wholly immaterial as far as tho re sult to Seattle ig concerned, The | money leaves the country and there is just that much leas left for local | une. | Mr. Hedrick t right tn his state | ment that high grade commercia! | paper is one of the very best form | of investment for commercial banks but no bank should so invest—except | to a limited extent—ta outside paper | no long ax there in a healthy demand | locally, Commercial paper —~rhort term—affords banks an opportunity to em unds that might other-| wine lie idle, but #0 long as the de | mand for credit at home will absorb | local money, that money should be | loaned locally in preference to loan-| ing it to outmiders Both Mr. Hedrick and the Ring Master agree that the banker ts the cuntodian of the public's money, but Mr. Hedrick would give the banker rare credit for merely locking it up and keeping it, while the Ringmaster it must be jto de seen on a indies’ bazaar coun. |believew it Ix placed with him for|rain.” {t's very apt to snow agnin use and for the um of the community | an the “ciroulating eapital of noctety.” | Money locked in the eafe does not circulate and money shipped to Tim bucton ceases to be the “circulating | capita! of society” tn Seattle, | Mr. Hedrick suggests that the Ringmaster is “indulging tion”; perhaps to some extent he tx but when surrounded by the dire die trees that ix met with on every hand and when that distress reaching into every home and every place of busi nem in directly traceable to the fact that people are unable to get credit from the banks, why should not some Yehement emotion be expressed? | Very truly yours, i THE RINGMASTER. | Daddy, Boldt’s Butterhorns are de Netous —-Advertisement. ERSON 101 CHERRY SEATTIE TO WESTEAN Urecr TI atle—will be complete No Christmas Package—to leave without @ copy of our | | | “Seattle & Mt. Rainier” A photorraph glance why Se from other witier to live her: to come here teNs at a tle is different why you like why others ought lefficlency of city employes, and | ment rules, rewuiting in gross ineffi | would charge with wrong doing, alsu | ae SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1921, Double Charge at U Editor The Star | conta ge h is too much), and they elare charging them ons than a My younger brother pose wd bes who paid the fee when they entered University of Washington and at the “t the opening he paid $10 to the A®| where are many going to "U" sociated Btudents to cover al! activ who are working their way and th itles held at the ” 1 $1 (graft) extra charge is going to Now, when the Penn State gume | keep ny of them away who are comes off next Saturday, all thowe| very anxious to eee this game and holding these A 8. UL W. tickets!) think the “U" will not be thought have to pay $1 extra to nee th of so well by the student body when game, which 1 think w& far from |they are getting double-crossed right From one who like to wee ta Another thing, they are letting | play. ARTHUR F. JOHNSON the high echool students in for 60 606 EK. Pike it : Defends City Employes FAitor The Star: jot wage, and asks “Will they be In Wednesday night's Star ap |feported ‘away without leave,’ and 2 proper reduction made from peared one of 9 series of at saat their pay check Thus the reader over the signature A r Axpayer | 1, led to believe tha because of in each of which a mystematic ate ee eee of city employer” tack is made upon the conduct and un- |i attendance at the hearing, busi was practically suspended in the various city departments news proven, incidentally and unjustly re flecta discredit upon the various de-|'N, Virion Sty tee ee in te partment heads weil, In i0'| norant of the fact that the fire de stances cited by A. T. A.. he claims |partment always has one shift off to have pernonal knowledge Of #P®) reeuiar duty all the time, the po cific eases of violation of depart lin. department two shifts off, ant the street railway a very large per centage of their number, in fact it iy wate to may that there are enough city employes off duty at ali times |to fill the council chambers to ca pacity, and the employe #0 situ eted who falleg upon that occasion to attend the hearing and register ciency. It is inconcelvable how @ public-epirited citizen, such as A. T. A presumes to be, would fail in hiv plain duty to report the alleged in fraction of department rules to the department head before rushing into print with his statement. He does not only fail to do this, but In his! 1 emphatic protest against @ prop- he carefully pee om the | anition which alms to reduce the whom he wages of employes receiving $150 jor Jess $20 to $30 per month and raise the salaries $5 to $15 t tion that would make possible an In| peewiving $200 oh Pic jaf se vestigation to prove the truth OF! futies in his plain duty as a city falsity of his nocusation employe, to himself and to his i Is ey ee, ous | mnly WALTER THORBURN, 0 form, he again a venous 3 " 20: P attack upon the city employes, re| ae ey ae ow ferring to the hearing of the report | INDOOR SPORTS of the advisory committee of bt civil service commission. He says — that a vast throng of city employes | The discussion of Gress often packed the council chamber in their! forms the absorbing topic of conver effort to defeat the will of the tax-/ "4tion among men as well as women payers, and that this large number| “Where do you get it? How do you of men left their work, for which |!ike it? And how do you do it?” ratu | Basily answered. “Tom, see this new |sult which you thought I had robbed a bank to get? Well, I'm perfectly honest, and what's more, I'll be frank with you. I simply went to Cherry's. | They have the classiest suits and overcoats and the lowest prices yet. Best of all, my payday their pay. |day, and I don't start paying wil! next year. Instead of saving up, I can buy clothes in the beginning of the season and pay while wearing Don't thank me for the information old man; always glad to do a friend a favor, Sure, I have one of their cards. They are on Second Ave., between Madison and Spring, right over the Pig’n Whistle, 207 Rialto Bidg.”— Advertisement, Real Painless Extraction Free Daily statement name of any employe fails to give one item of informa they are ‘receiving the highest Dear Ed, prease let me off today— | I really don't know what to say; to- | day's the day that Kast and West) will meet in stern but friendly test.) and there is not a single chance to write correctly in advance. For should I my, “Don't mind the and should I say, “The snow ts fine,” a warm and lusty sun will shine; and everything, I must confess, 1 find it mighty bard to guess I even find the bean too dense to figure out the proper tense; of those who read it, quite a few will read it in emo |when the game is thru; while others | if there's more than one—will read before the game's begun! The only thing to do, it seems, ix just to say to both the teame Here's to you, boys! We know that you wil! do-—have done—all you can do; we're glad you'll win—have won the game, for it was—wil) be—ftar from tame. The game will be—was—worth the cont, no matter who will lose—has lost; and if the home team wine—has won, we will be—are—glad, everyone: but if Penn State gets -— got —the ——|fame, we hail the victors just the} (cy i me For life is like a game of ball, with kicks, and downs, and goals, and all. We make our gains, we get knocked out, our audience will hoot or shout: but, win or lose, it’s all the same pro- | In order to our new (whalebone) plate, which is the lightest and strongest plate Kpows, does not cover the roof of the mouth; you can bite corm off cob; guaranteed 15 years. introduce 62 Amaizam F' |. Ail work guaranteed for 15 years. Ha impreasions taken jn the morn- ing and get teeth same day. Hxami- nelion and advice free. Call and See Samples ef Our Plate and Bridge Werk. We Stang | the Test of Time. Most of our it | recommended. by our early ‘custome era, Whose work is, still c } satisfaction. ask. our cus cus- who have test | Wh mrcoming” to puree on. be oars | you lace Bri ith a with you, * sad vided we have played the game! Crtige Monn OOO will preach a sermon Sun- day morning, entitled THE GOSPEL VISION evening he will dis- the subject, GOSPEL SHOCK ABSORBERS ity invited t might service. Song service lod by M. D (Boe) y , In the © G Men’e Bible Class morning at 9 8. D. Wingate, Teacher, FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Seventh and Spring before the 5th o 81st. Bring in Your Account on or Share in the Earnings for the Full Month Ending December $1 to $5,000 Accepted HAONHUNAAILTDETOAE EAT APEUATEAU ATCA Hoeven aa f This Month and ee usar SEATTLE SAVINGS and LOAN ASSOCIATION SOs - S34 AVE. AUNWUALSQNOUUUEANEEUUUALERUCAER OREO AEEEOEOEAnUAAAAUTUAAiaeneeRAAEE EVERY SUNDAY IN THE POST-INTELLIGENCER