The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 17, 1921, Page 6

LET pis entitled. ng politicians. C) a * rst fore fe @ reason why The Star | Greulation in Seattle by | ® day—a food reason; sev. among the United ee, Great Britain and Japan jap the AngloJapanese al- substitute a fourpower agreement, to include ef the agreement was tm detail, and in addition stated that the powers af- observe a “breathing declaring a state of any member of the Seattle newspapers did hint at the possibility head of beef cattle t - tes today for each > 100 inhabitants in 1910 inhabitants in 1900.—James president Bennington ‘ Vt. Farm Dairy assocta- Before senate finance commit- x they sue for divorce the custody of the reputation. Ruth needs a dig salary of the high price of fines. t Life you contemplate an ocean mge, do you think of the pos- danger? You do, quite fre Amd do you occasionally take ‘gn additional accident insur. policy? § Quite frequently @o, the chances of death by ac At sea, according to steam ist Inspection service figures re wed by the census bureau to ‘are just one in 5,097,404! ly journeying by water } passengers lost their lives in accidents of one kind another. the same period 651 per- Were killed or injured in Se Up to December 10 of this ‘732 automobile casualties has Seattle's record. during the past year over human beings have been im this country alone by and electric trains at rail grade crossings! i is almost like war!” you You're right, it is. other day an auto bus con 15 girl students of the Bluff, Cal, bigh school was by ao Southern Pacific and 12 out of the 14 were outright and two died a few Inter, ‘Bo common has this particular of horror become that many gave it only « paragraph type. we have known people to at the thought of the haz- of the sea! ‘only one. still | am one. it do everything. ati I cam do something. decause I cannot do everything | Twill not refuse to do the some- ee e Seattle Star By mall, oat of attr, Hee por monthi mentha, F1.80e% montha, O11: ren tm the wea 44.60 for & montha oF 99.00 per year PEOPLE Whether the city shall abandon its policy of making the car fers pay all street railway costs, as is contemplated in the five- ént-fare ordinance that is before the council for action Monday, a big, important question. It decidedly is not one for snap idgment in the council chamber. r at least two reasons: (1) The ordinance has not been carefully enough drawn. (2) The step has not received the popular discussion to which Dy carrier, otty, SST of Washingt Outside of the stat 00 per month, @ month. It ought not to pass Monday bviously the measure is a political subterfuge designed to ud the three-cent fare issue on which the people are to vote in @ spring, and designed further to help the cause of certain as- ere is just one fair method of procedure. That is for the if it feels a five-cent fare is a solution of the town’s to submit the question to referendum at the spring elec- e people are just as much entitled to pass upon the highly tant question of how the system is to be paid for as they to say whether the city should take it over in the first place. Lord Carson says he never has and never will smoke a cigar. Now he is ready for Christmas. If Christmas does bring peace in Ireland Lloyd George will claim he is Santa Claus, Dr. Katzoff’s book, “How to Hold a Husband,” says briefly, “Use both arms.” When a man hires a stupid stenographer he is in for a bad spell. Is the Japanese sandman throwing dust in the . diplomats’ eyes? The A-B-C of Christmas is All Buy Cheerfully. It takes a drug store to make the girls blush. A Matter of Politics Greater Than Justice The Star believes in “justice,” but here is something greater than “justice”: “We were driving home frem » friend's house,” the wife of a physician told ns the other night, speeding down hill toward ay and swerving from side te side of the e's behalf le going te make much street. It crashed Inte the rear better campaign material next of our ear, wrecking ft. The chi fall than the behavier of those dren miraculously escaped mjury. 4 suard leaders who have latety People rushed out ef their homes called the president to their ald to offer help. Better let the farmers keep up “‘The man ts drunk, ene of their good work. them told as, pointing to the — guilty driver, A dentist may tell you to take “The doctor, searching fer proof, ere of your tecth and hepe you found a child's rusty shee in the “™* — / roadster’s body. The next day he went fo the man's home, found Sounds him sober and penitent and his Wife almost sick from worry. She Reasonable saw jail for ber husband the The U. S. supreme court de cides that « strike ts “n lawful in strument in @ lawful economic struggle or competition between employer and employes,” and that i “‘T'd like to! the tan replied, ‘but if I do I'M have to stop pay- ments on this.’ And he indicated ° violence or intimidation. . bis modest but clean little home. “You don’t owe me anything,’ the doctor told him, snd Ieft. The doctor couldn't see the sense of Punishing the wife and children.” Foundries plant, at Granite City, Ti, and hae some of the aapects of a tremendous precedent. Big things will surely happen if the U. S. sapreme court forms s habit of deciding against the gentlemen who furnish us our steel, at their own price. The Louisiana couple married at 2000 feet in @ earth quicker th Opportunity docen’t knock Ground with other knockers. Films may come end films may ge, but they'll be called “fillums” forever. " They call them quack doctors Because they are all Dill. ? or our Lap Bo ON WE ARE THE MAIMED BY W. B. FRANCE in Life In Flanders’ fields we do not lie Where poppies grow and larks will fty, Forever singing they go Above the bodies, row on row, Of those whose duty was to die. ‘We are the maimed! Death did deny Its solace. Crippled, blind, we try To find on earth the peace they know In Flanders’ fields, Forget ue not! As years go by, On your remembrance we rely For love that sees the hearts below Our broken bodies, Else we grow To crave our peace with those who lie In Flanders’ fields. GEOGRAPHIC PUZZLE Pditor The Star I have for some time entertained the notion of paming along @ few comments tn regard to the family THE SEA TLE STA Till the Last Rat Leaves Umes of stream they have bat to| rend forth the fiery cross, and web| Minimum of loans at their banks, and come the wathering clans brothers and sisters of local business men who have #0 managed their affaire that they are generally in strong position with a Pathors, |@walting the advent of improved con “The |ditions before obligating themselves trees that Mourish around our| curfew SHALL NOT ring tonight’—|for"extensive loan credits, I hope County-City building, but the muw| what a bulwark to stan® between |the foremoing anawers fully and di» pertor, self satisfied contentment) a sizable county pay check and the “ney the main points rained, dinplayed by them who thrive in| hardships of private employment Business in admittedly quiet here, thiy sanctuary of plegishness Is of| 1 do not wish to convey the idea|PUt Just as good and on a firmer such @ puncture proof order as to] of emnity towards thease opportun vundation than in most of the re make mere words curl up th shame If I possensed Judge Chadwick's ing our county administration te old woman who lived in a oo, and after the line about the perfulty of children, end the verse by continuing, "So #he gath ered them in, one and all; and gave them jobs in the olty hall.” The jingolet idea of politica! de mocracy—and if silence means ac ceptance, I might may the popular idea-—seoms to be the edifying apeo tacle of cheap politicians passing around cheaper cigars before cleo tion, and Jobs to a few “strong and studies” after that event, This lat ter gentry, of course, retains, in com mon with the othe ne inalienable right to stuff the public payrol! with all manner of friends and relatives, efficient or otherwise. The knowlod« t with the voters it in often a ch between undesirables and that, the bread being buttered on both sides, the “public trust seldom if ever leaves the sacred clr cle, this knowledge, derived from long experience, might partially ac count for the familiar attitude men. toned in the opening paragraph. It must be “a grand and giorious”| feeling for all these to know that, effictent or not, in Banks Have Funds and Faith which I am connected, burt, too, I am sure are only typical of any other local bank institution I will anwwer hie statement that local concerns have been denied cred |'t by saying emphatically that I do not believe any firm or individual here that is entitled to credit cannot obtain sume, and readily, too, statement that @ loan could not be Federal |werve Bank would not rediscount,”|mtock holdings are of small conse for whatever bank was referred to|quence compared with their Beattie & member |interents, and all of whom are just lof the Federal Reserve System) ts, in|as alert to advance the welfare of | the parlance of the day—bunk, Editor The Star: I had thought that my reply to various articles contributed to your cotumna by the Ringmaster denounc- ing alleged bank policies existing in Seattle was explicit in denying that local enterprise was not being ac corded justifiable support by Seattle financial institutions, In my letter} I wet forth what I had construed to be a vigorous Contradiction to these accusations, and as proof of the erro neous viewpoint of the Ringmaster’s articles I tried to sty ity of his claims by the ing sense was eanential to the sub in the last it, an, ha gentiomen | Dusiness man would attempt to run|™terialine within th such & burwery, or for that mati » * home for the aged and All of which speaks for itself, I never expect to ses or hear of an organization or individual chang | ing & satiofying, if not natinfactory, | mode of existence, because someone, the half-hearted sympathy | piled by such an expression, “con | structively criticised.” If necennity |ia the “mother of invention,” also the mother of change, and unti) Old general public gets busy with the hammer, and impresses the court | house gang with the absolute need, |there will be no relief from these polities! abuses, and even then, like some mariners, they will cling to the old ship until “fifth wheels” | the last rat leaves, CLIFFORD T, LOWMAN, t days, granted |(Providing the bank w The Ject, vin, that a bank can only pros. per as the interests of tte customers and the community at are | of bonds and commercial! paper read. lal element as secondary reserve for | Any welloperated bank, and that the| handling of mich paper represented | | & material low in earnings by rea | eon of lower interest rate and no jeredit balances carried, as would be | the case with local borrowers. | once over Beattie banks, is a joke;|for having at least sense enough to & matter of fact, we have much |try to protect their own welfare and cloner relations and mofe business it certainly does not require an eco- Ban Francisco |nomic expert to point out that in at the unused re /denying Justified cedit to Seattle discount and borrowing factlities of business concerns. they would not member banks at the Federal Re jonly be deliberately throttling bank serve bank and substantial cash re | nerve ponition of most Seattle banks, | is «© eplendid tribute to the acumen [intercourse fly convertible constituted an emen-|henking houses. Th: bank with because “the inference that with ig never measured my | own Virtue, the fact that I am not |fW favored localities, Beattie banks what course of action wuggente itself when his motor mani feats a disponition to knock? hin flivver get the proper attention, or does he pasm \t over with a lee ture on the evils of “destructive crit icin"? New York |anyone clae. jbanks exert some mysterious tnfiu-| winder of the country excepting able wit, 1 might fo! his emai | with them may merely mean that|8?¢ im excellent shape to properly by beginning my remarks by a quo-|I am out of my element, However, |C8F¢ for the oredit end of the busi tation from “Mother Goose,” liken-|I am certain that no merchant or | revival that we all hope will coming year @ Ringmaster rprine him lend welght | 1 will tell my friend something that may and at the same tin tofirm, using but little money. What I be eve in the largest business enter. | prine in this city 4? not using one) cent of borrowed money, altho they Are generally using « million dollars of their bank credit, and could get it today. This, to a more or lems ex-| tent, is true of the majority of nub | stantial business houses of the elty Our friend haa probably listened too intently to the wail of some one whose financial statement could not justify credit, and usually thoee with the wornt showing make the most nolse aboyt unfair treatment. Not long @#0 much an individual opened an Aoocount here, soon after asking for & loan, which was declined. It seems he had been refused credit at his previous banking connection, as was natural for the concern’s finan- cial wtatement was exceedingly bad. He at once launched into « bitter at tack on Seattle banks and ban stating that he intended to move hin Proposition to Lon Angeles, where he could get all the credit he wanted from banks; within four months he failed, with timbilities nearly three times his assetx, A loan made to him would have netted the bank ultimate ly about 10 cents on the dollar, During all times—good and bad— there in similar talk emanating from such people, but not from the sen sible, level-headed businem man. I Again reiterate that Seattle hanks are managed by Reattle residents, their policies determined by directorates of Beattie baminess men, whore bank wit inn it is in The Re | the community as the Ringmaster or Please give thease individuals credit Progress but would av well depreciate the value of their other properties tn the etty In closing, and answering other matters referred to tn Ringmaster’s SATURDAY, DECEMBER. 17, 1921. AIVRIDG Postmaster, Heattle: ‘There's nothing new in that old nugget. —with couxina, nieces, unclen, au ‘long about December first, the wife begins to fume and fret before. Joe? und cousin Jack? and brot! what of him?” know.” As to Mr. Tworoger’s “construct |t? My statement that business houses to me! I dodge the job without tv" objections to knocking, let me|!® their poliey of “marking time to night. use & homely simile, and ask this | tl they can get their bearings, are mal! them fast! = Deer Sir, You say we all should do our Christmas mailing P.D.Q before, and we will do our very best to mall our #tuff aa you We've alwayn done the best we could, but that is not wo very good; for in these ante-Christmas days the bean is in a misty maze for all the hundred ginks or more who sent us stuff the year Then in another week or two she's getting in an awfal stew; and she begins to warm to know, “What Am all these questions come and go, I answer frankty “I don’t It takes & winer bird than she to pass the Christmas buck Bo while we try to do our part, it taken so long to get a start —no matter when the job's begun, t's Christmas time before it's done; but when our gifts are bought at last, you bet your life we E MANN roar—we've heard it many times nia, it's hard to figure in adance the awful trath begins to burst; about the things she has to,get hall we get for Uncle her Jim? and then your fathes—~ @ fight by staving off from night — WAITING WITHOUT WATCHING BY DR. WM. FE. BARTON WAS about to and I Ticket Lower Berth And the Number ot the Berth wag Bight in Car 24. And when the day arrived I boarded the Train and found my Space and sat me down. And the Train waa Very Full. And there came a Red Cap bear ing baggage and he was followed by a Lady. And she stood in the Aisie and said, My berth is Lower Eight in Car 294. And I said, There hath been some Mixup and the Ticket man may have Crossed his Wires. Sit thou here until the Conductor comes, and he will straighten things out. And she took the seat without any Thanks to me and dismissed both me and the Red Cap with equal solicttude for our future well being, save that she Upped the ed Cap. And I went where men Smoke and I wat where they mat, tho I what thou canst and meantime I am not Worried. And when I said that he thanked me and he said, thou shalt have a ‘berth if I have to make one on the | Pilot of the Locomotive. So I sat with the men for a long | time, and learned much from their | conversation. But the Conductor {came not to me. But I worried not, And shortly before Bed-ttme the | Conductor came and said, I have | waited until the very end of the | day, for 1 desired to do something |for thee; and I had not even an upper. But now, behold, a party |who had @ ticket hath failed to |) Show Up, and I have for thee a | Lower. Therefore do I command to men not only the wisdom of Watchful Waiting but sometimes the policy |of Waiting without Watching. For all the time that I waited, my train was going straight toward the place for which my ticket read; and at the end of the day there was rest. Wherefore, beloved, be not fret- ful in things temporal or spiritual; for this well-filled train of human life is im competent hands, and there shall be for every man who Tt seers that the Ringmaster does | not consider my article tn the light it certainly was intended, and that I had evaded somewhat the tmue he has presented. In answer will may that I accord him the credit of his conviction; this article implies that he is honewt in hix ballefs and he pre sents hin views In « logical manner. ate apirit, for tMmy not only represent the actual policies adhered to in the! the next tools te Westaase une Theabanen co EVERSHARP PENCILS, $1.09 to $6.00 SCENIC VIEWS, | 650 to $4.00 SUITABLE FRAMES | At Reasonable Prices CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR'S | Cards You Will Like Far encugh from the shopping center te svold the crowds and save time. will preach @ sefmon Sun- day morning entitied, In the evening he witl dis- cues the subject, sows Youn Bong Service led by M. D. (Doe) Wells at 7:15 o'clock Pablic Is Invited Come the Men's Rible Class, thught by & D. Win wate, Sunday morning, 9:30. First Presbyterian Church Seventh and Spring RESINOL Soothing and Healing Improves bad Complexions Try it Dostt let 8 poor skin ar om whea the aa oe of Resinol Soap and Ointment is sure to relieve the condition De net give or put away these T hope he may be gracious enough to | cel pest, marking It “Returned Fait. accept my statements tn the mame | tppine Geode.” ‘Thies ticlpating any catastrophe; we have thra I eaid, ‘There ts @ woman who TIN WONT Sbiding faith In our city and the es sigh ONLY VIVA ltabitshed Durinee enterpetten of the sone Me wir'tt be eo, give it to| Tacte to jotn lenther belting for community and that there are funds 2 be oe atve GOOD PRICES ASSESSED AND (1, abundance to provide for creait|D@F &nd @o for me the best that| Machinery are made from-sturgeon rain thou canst. okina, requirements of any concern or in- dividual whose standing warrants such credit: and finally, Seattle banks are aot using thetr rediscount or bor- fo i rowing privileges al the Federal Re- o fivet firm ta! a {Pe {iret and only, tm lnerve to any xreat extent mf this! but send them im to ue by par. THONIZN Sf 08 Mt helpe wee''te|time. for the very good reason that| Berth and I have a long wuiting|| gaa ©. of Le mont of them have a surplus of loan, | list TS, SHOES, FURNISHINGS ANGE PRODUCTS co. able funds that are not fully ab} Aod I eaid, I know not how thou One Price—Cash or Credit 19 PLAZA CERVANTES sorbed by legitimate local loan re-| wilt adjust ft, but I have faith tn 1427 Cones & BANK MAN, |thee, even as in the Old Woman/ sitth Ave! Tedd, Mgr. smoke not And when the Conductor came| ‘he Gay, and rest when the night And he said, I would there were!” Daddy, Boldt's Butterhorne are de no Ticket Agents, for I have many | cious Advertisemen a od Mixup thru their careless » nem. 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