The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 23, 1921, Page 6

Published Dany The Seattle Sta By mall, owt of efty, He per month; # menthe, # 4506 im the stale of Washington, Outstde of the stat 44.80 for # montha or 49.00 per year My earrter, otty Those Who Have—Care Not If it was human nature to count our blessings as zealously as we count our curses, a paean of praise would arise from ten million homes in this land every morning, just after mother once more discovered the faucet over the kitchen sink. If you, Madam, had to lug water, bucket by bucket, up a steep hill from the dis- tant spring, that water tap would bring joy everlasting; grandmother lugged the water and sang meanwhile. ; A sewer connection is the grandest contrivance of civilization but nobody ever So. TP ostine on a gas range is the acme of bliss; once you have fought with wet wood, ‘or sullen coal. Electric lights are heavenly, if you ever took care of six oil lamps and ‘a lantern thru a long, dark winter. Yesterday father went to work in a horse car, or behind a two-mile-an-hour span of oxen; today his own gasoline wings flit him to the job in a minute where once it was hours, but few jubilate over an automobile. The more you get, the more you want; the easier it is to live, the less worth while living becomes. The commonest house in Seattle is better fitted, more convenient, easier to work and live in, than the mansion of a generation ago, but nobody renders thanks. Grandpop came West behind an ox team; it teok 18 months; a baby was born on the road, Indians stole the milk cows, and nearly raised pop’s scalp. _ The family edged into the wilderness and toilfully, foot by foot, fought back the forest, gathering garden ground by inches. It was 18 hours of unremitting toil the year thru, and not $50 cash money in the family purse at one time thru 10 years, Grandpop was happy; so were ma and the youngsters. heirs are not hafpy; they are miserable and restless and lazy and discon- in direct proportion to their prosperity. The divorce, suicide and insane asxy- statistics prove this everywhere. ten’ Williams finds the Krupps will make typewrit- ers. That’s what all wars should be fought with. “I am laying for the consumer,” says the hen. But the cold storage men lay for us also, The men who write these southern songs never raised boll weevils instead of cotton. Life is just one day after another. - Two can give chea than one. second g tot - indefensible ng improvident marriages; alse for another night's work, be pre imagined. —t» limit the birth rate by adoption pares his and his children’s break the of birth control principles and by fast, puts up bis lunch and leaves the puck moral restraint, for bis dally work. personal veng- = 4 strong school af medernista “And there are many sech behind the hoids that the birth rate always cases.” ov tends. te be greatest in those “What are you giving us!” you warning, countries where conditions of life ask. “Is this the latest sob stery with © are the worst, as in Rassia, Italy of the New York sweat shop dis head with and the slums of Londen, while trict or of the slums of Londout” hs club. im these regions where conditions Net at all, It is merety o par _ True, the atiack was not om ary most comfortable, as in graph from the official annual _ @ened by the referee—he put prance before the war, Western repert of the director of the U. & Rowe oat ef the game for 19 14 southern States and in Chill, coast and geodetic survey. And minutes, Argentina, New Zealand and South the man referred to works for the Rowe should have been put cut arrica the birth rate is lowest. department ef commerce, the chicf @f the game for the season—and, = Taig pew theory seems to be of which is Herbert Hoover; for Mf the hockey promoters are wis borne out, se far ae the white the bureae which makes all our they will revise the rales te Pre pices are concerned. nautical charts, our tide tables, vide sach » penalty for s future = oy the other hand, the total current, magnetic and triangula- foul of this sort. population of Japan, after remain- tion data the bureaa without Boxing is such » “vicious” pae ing stationary for more than two which our sailors could not sail fime that the state finds it necer — conturies, has more than doubled the seas in safety, and by whose Bary to regulate it, Yet never in 1, the 6@ years since the country labors a thousand beaming Hgts the history of Seattle boxing has 4. thrown epen to the Western ‘go out thru winter's tempeste & fighter been guilty of » foul = = wortg by Admiral Perry, and is cach night te guide the storm contemptible—or dangerous—25 now growing almost as rapidly as tossed mariner along eur rocky was Rowe's, ever. coasts! The inference is unmistakable. trine, it would seem that Japan is the one. The most important step some people take is the shimmy, ond even then they feel shaky. I am interested more in ercanterd labor than im unor- @aniced labor merely because or- ganized labor is the organized fighting force of all labor. It is like the army that goes to the front @nd into the trenches to defend the women and children back home, Hever was a sacrifice made by Tabor organications that was not made on behalf of unorgantced men @s much as for themselves.—Rep- Ireland has plenty of loose bricks for reconstruction. Another Job Seeretary Hoover has brought help to millions of Europeans dur- ing and sines the great war. Now he has @ task worth his best en deavors right In his own depart ment Rather than stay at home atto- gether, several Lynden farmers equipped their Fords with paddica this week.—Lynden Tribune. As far es we can see, they have @uit rolling their stockings. compelled to ge to his home each night and prepare his and his children’s supper, while his wife works at night in order te meet the needs of the family, and each bt as his wife must rest Trouble ts easy to borrow; but hard to pay back. A friend in need ts @ friend gone to seed. To forgive and forpet ts fine; to give and forget ia finer. Too Many Babies? In 1913, the last year for which accurate statistics are available, the highest birthrate in the civil- ized world was reported from Rus- sia, 44.8 births to the 1,000 pope lation annually. The next highest was found in Southern Italy, 44.2 to the 1,000, . In the statistics Just compiled by the U. 8. census bureau for that portion of our country under registration laws, 59 per cent of the whole, we find a paradox, in that the highest and the lowest birth rate in the nation are in the same state, California, The white birth rate in that state is 18.3 per 1,000 against 23 for the country as a whole, and the dapanese birth rate in the same state is 39.4. In his doctrine enunciated about a eentury ago, the great English THE SACRED HOUR BY LEO H. LASSEN They say he never knew the joys Of tittle children, trees and toys On Christmas day And that he ays was alone, He had no kinefolk of his owa To join in play But when the cloak of evening falls And fire ligigts the shadowed walls With amber gleam, He lives a sacred hour of mirth, economist, Malthus, declared that A child again before the hearth A treasured dream 1 the population of the world tend- And there he builds his Christenas tree | ed to increase more rapidly than In aj] its tinseled mystery | the means of feeding could be de- | veloped and that the only way to Alone. But they will never know This tryst with dreams of yesterday He keeps within the embers’ glow Where flame and shadow dance and play, avoid ultimate starvation of the Face was legally to prevent early TH SEATTL TAR (LETTERS To EDITOR Opposes Green Lake Item ialay« camataakeipileg G2 16’ gn tor to spend some of the surplus mon. ay to help some of the poor children and also widows and returned fol Her, am wriGag you a few nee It! cine whe le unable te gut Wem jremard to Mayor Caldwell's approprt-| who we ali know, are with us | ation of $10,000 to freshen the waters| Now, I am not Making this holler jore n lake, Now, I have lived in| for mynelf, altho I am a marriea) | Seattle for 15 years, and know that| man, but happen to be lucky enough Green lake it fed by springs, and no) to have @ job, such as it is, working | }| Waters can be freaher in & Huwmill at $5.20 per day. I would say ft would be much bet’ L. FW, Green Lake District. . Raps the Western Union EditoPthe Star: | recipient 60 cents delivery charges. 1 I was under the impression that|oan unhook a token from my safety the of extortion was over, but|pin and ride all over Seattle with ft. with the Weatern Union. It] Half of the velegrams delivered are used to be that when a telegram was|nothing but watered stock, The Prepaid to @ person it included de | Western Union should be made to livery, altho a tip waa usually ex | designate the state, city or town the pected. Menage ie from, then the average Tt Is pombe that tt takes two men | man Id know whether to accept tt and a Ford to deliver one-half of one |or rejéet ft, and wave the hold-np teenth of an ounce of paper from | price for the welfare of his family. street to another, then woak the W. J. HALL. Vets in Hospital Not Neglected HAdltor The Star: j bate of the men who cannot leave the You were kind enough to publiah| horpital, and will not accept a cent) jan article for disabled veterans of the in payment. He also furnishes his world war a few days May we machine for every occasion. impose upon your ge ature @nce) Airs. pds gives an occasional more? house party, Mre, Gerrish brings We will not attempt to go into) daintion, ete Capt. and Mra Dean lenathy detail, but for some reason! make personal and other contribu the idea seeme to have gone forth tions Butterworth & Bons and the that the veterans here are # sadly Lexington Agency furnish autos. negtected lot, This Is far from the Tickets to games and shows arg sent truth |by Clay Hite, manager of the North Thru your columns we have mj west Athietic association, and Bill pressed our appreciation of the Klepper, of the Seattle baseball team, many kind deedy performed by peo doom likewise, fo we fare quite well ple not connected with the hospital. The Sisters of this howpital are very They bring things which hospitals considerate of the service men, and cannot furnish, Including thelr agree. | in general we are « happy lot. If the able presence. | impression has wpread that we are But we do not wish the Impression | abused or maltreated, we wish it cor out that we are abused or lack. | rected. ficient food, ae Uncle Sam in| ‘Thanks to a of you who help to a good guardian. We do appreciate| make each day @ little more cheerful | the things brought here by friends and pleasant, more enpecially for the Of the dimabied men and the courte | fellow who has spent long monthe won extended by come business insti | in bed af « result of war service, We tutions, ih you all the compliments of the Allow me te cite @ few of theme:| season, and with each year added Mr. Glenn MeLeod is a regular visit: | happiness and prosperity Of, each week he shaves and cuts the THE BUNCH. -Suggests Heat for Motormen Pefitor The Star: If a motorman was comfortable May I take ep some “f your valu-/ and not ao cold his teeth were chat- able space to make a iew remarks | tering, he could perform his dutics about beat In our street cars with more efficiency, ‘The tnetde of the cars are heated, For @ nominal «um heating ap. | Dut the place where the métormen | paratus could be installed im the stand ts not. I am referring to | motorman's part of the car as well those open end care on the Phin-jas the patrona Yours truly, ney, Broadway and other runs M. DALBY. ° Suggests Fare Compromise Eetitor The Star: 1 4p m. and again afer fT pm. What do you think of this for old copper tokens can be used | sotution of our street car problem? for this purpone, | Piret reduce the fare to six and a Ry this means the counch would quarter cents, Now ft te extimated be aninting the car riders most tn this will leave @ deficit In the month need of retief and helping downtown | ty revenue of say $65,000. Out of business and entertainments and the general fund let the council pur- churches. They would entice people chase car tokens, and resell them at oat who now get out very. seldom four centa or lem each, to thy people and it protmbly would not cost more | having dependents and to be used than $20,009 a month at the very! only between the hours of 19 a m.| most. EB J. FRANCIS. Ma’s Ten Commandments Ditto, The star: & Don't let every trifiin’ thing Ma sex: Upeet you. Keep calm. “Et T wee oalied on write ten) 7. Learn t' cook a 00d sanere commandments on how t hold a hus-|meal that tastes good Make hot band, they'd go tke this” biecuits an’ corn bread for him. The 1. Pay him the greatert compll-|way to a man’s beart is thru his ment in the world an’ let him know | stumick you're proud t be the mother o his) 8 Take « tntercet tn everythig* he ehfidren. |doen, both business an’ pleasure 2% Teach the babies © leve thelr) Keep up with the times, Don't crow pa better’n anyone else on earth. stagnant like a shallow pond. 2 Don't be ashamed t' use om 9. Have twin beds ef you want to | Grarin’ terms an‘ tell him yu love| but there didn't used t’be no twin him more an‘ more as the years go beds and there didn't used t' be no by. | divorces. 4 Keep yourself clan, beth boty) 10 Above all things keep 8 an’ soul, Don't go around all day/emilin’ face an’ keep yore temper | With frowsy hair an’ dirty wrapper | He don't want it. Don't nag an’ expect him t think you're eweet| It ain't possible t' hold some hus | | | | an’ purty. | bands an’ when these ‘uns leave tts 5. Ef yu have © negiect some. & good riddance o bad rubbish. thin’, let the housework go Take HANNAH K. MEAGHER, good keer o’ him an’ the babiea 1558 EL 76th St, Seattle, Wash. A Tip to Councilmen Féitor The Star: [are neither taxpayers or voters. Now | T would like to give our mort hon-|T have at thin date 235 men and more | orable councilmen a little advice. T| coming every day, pfbdged to work | am @ taxpayer, so much #o that I for and organize every precinct in! have been quietly bustling around to| Seattle to vote against any and all see how many people in our Iittle|commeiimen who vote for anything burg feel as I do on the tax ques-| that will take one dollar of the tax.| tion payers money for the street cars, By The one big “tax question” now tx4¢the time the election comes off our street cars, which some of our most organization will be honorable councilmen want to mad: | councilman we go after |dle on the taxpayers, thinking it is| ‘Thin is no bluff, we are going to & popular move for them to make to do just what we started out to do catch votes. I find the majority of The downtown business men want a Pople I talk to who are voters are five-cent fare, thinking more people against It. The most of the people|win come downtown te buy. The whe are hollering for @ nickel fare real estate sharks want a fivecent able to beat any 100 YEARS AGO BY DR WM. KE. BARTON ¥ 2821, flour, yWhich had been red-hot during and watem bad ‘book j after the Revolution and fanned into selling at frem|®¢* fire by the War of 1812, suftt $10 to $17 in) ctently subsided so that the United 1817, went down | States government formally delivered to $6 and even {to Great Britain the body of Maj $5 a barrel, and) Andre, who had been hanged as farmers said it would not pay them to sow at © that a it whom America had heid in rent as the contempt which for his associate, Benedict Ar | | remaing of Andre were ex.) sh war. | ship, and conveyed across the ocean, | nold . The On December | humed and placed on a Briti 1, 1821, there} were many out of employment, and and interred with honor in Weet.| a hard winter was predicted. The! minster abbey | bard winter came. The Hudson| When we look back 100 yearn we| river was frozen across and people | have much to learn and some things | drove in aleighs from the Cortland to encourage us. The world was in| street ferry to Jersey City. ja slump for a good while after the Mining of anthracite coal in 1821 | Napoleonic wars, and the slump was had reaghed a stage where the nation | bad in 1821 burned 1,973 tons. People would Possibly by 1921 the world ha have burned more in that hard win. learned enough so that we shall not | ter if they had realized that anthra | have any more ware cite coal would really burn; but as! For myself, 1 would rather be alive | yet they were not quite certain that|in 1921 ¢ to have been alive in 1 or at any other time. and well worth living. it was good for anything. In 1821 hatred of } 1821 or 1 reat Britain, | Life te coe GEOGRAPHIC PUZZLE —— YESTERDAY S ARSWER. FROG +H —HOG + DANCE — D= FRANCE Tee rh great Debt to U.S. | Multiplying | With Years! BY AMATEUR ECONOMIST APetter From AIWRIDGE MANN, it nc aenae rpaeaad A -al| To the College Club of Seattle Wels We are silting thie sear | your #p 4, spacious hon ie done your wiser fu er i a bein, about $2,000,000,000 in goods | your future's looming big and ries pe thie, your dems om night More than we are buying), re | Not many yeare have pamoed away since first you sew the lghe mains the same for 25 years, the | of day: you were « husky ebild, it’s Fun, but, gosh amighty, bow world will owe un $170,000,000, you grew! For those who saw you make your bow would hardiy 000 1 recognize you now, ‘ With « true | You grew tho warfare stretched its hand, and made, on you, tty j Wales equaling 4 stern demand; your halls were grim that once were gay, for hat ( will © our $20,000,000,000 at your boys had marched awsy; your wervice flag its #tory told with compound interest about 40 many stars—and nome were gold. In brightest day, in darkest night, you grew becaum your beat whs right; for millionaire or Ph, D., oF Just an average man ike me, are merely pals who heed your call, of “all for one, and ong tor all.” If all the world could grow to own the friendly epirit you have shown, and every high or lowly man be merely Jim or Bil of D our troubles soon would fade away, as Garknens fades at break br while your home is bright and new, I dedicate this wish te you: I wish, a year® go passing by, you! hold your flag of trieng. ship bigh, and teach the world ite Maker's plan-—of One Big Brotherhood of Man. a gratulations ana good wishes and coerely trust that the wise and nanimoug sentiments which you Pprensed at the conference which just closed such & succesful may bear fruit at an early date, that this controversy which bag the people of the Pacific so much in the way of retarded velopment, ae well as loss of xbip and cooperation, may | @peedy ending thru some plan mutually agreed upon by the of this section of the country {by the great Ameri: for this greatest Americaf when men were working for $1.50 a|™ay be once — restored to the suburbs, who went out there to | day they had to pay 10 cents to ride ager bape encape taxen, itm to ride 10 or 12 from Pioneer Square to South Park. MG miles for a nickel He will get on a If they went from the north end ot re ae bent or train and pay five cents per| town it would cost 16 cents, or thres| 5 mile without = kick. nicke| fares, When the city took the car lines| Now, Mr. Councilman, watch your over the taxpayers had to make good step the way you vote on street car about $500,000 taxes which Stone & | ordinances We are sure watching Webster paid when they owned! you. BILD JONES, them. Something like 20 years ago! 4516 Lucile st * Cities Shoul te (Copy) |the railroad companies an@ other Mr, Wm. Pigott, tourist and advertising agencies. President, Northwest Trade Com| The Pacific Northwest can be ference, Seattle, Washington. | made one of the greatest tourist cen- Dear Sir: ters tm the world. Our commercial We desire to extend our congratu-|and industrial possibilities are limit- Jations upon your election as prewi-| tems, but unless these attractions, ad- dent of the Northwest Trade confer | yontages and opportunities are prop- ence, and also to express cur appre |erly made known, the course of de ciation and thanks for your person-| velopment will be slow and the pres- ally expreased wish that the rightful ent generation will not be able to! name of “Tacoma should be re-|reap the benefits that would most | stored to the great peak which aserrediy socrue from a policy of co | stands in our county, our dooryard, operation and good-wiN among the! and whose euphonious Indian name | citizens of this great “euramer play- | | our city bears; aso your recom-| ground of America.” | mendation that one of the construc. | We need to “tell the world" about DR. J. R BINYOR 4 tive works of the conference should our best all-theyearround climate rm 25 be to bring about thie result. our ever-verdured valleys, our fir- Free Examination | ‘There ie no question but that this | clad hills, our #ytvan bighwaya, our matter of the name of the mountain | primeval forests, noble rivers, match- ‘BEST $2 bas been and is todey = serious ob-| lees Inkes and Inland sea. We need le stacle in the path of co-operation and | likewise to let the outside world know on | yearn to reach the $170,000,000,- 000 point. With continued true balance of trade, people living today will seo thin dent equal the whole wealth of the world. It would reach 1,000 billions tn about #0 yearn Thies year we are miling tn round numbers $4,000,000,000 worth of goods and buying $2,000,000,000 worth. To have a true balances we would have to out Our exports in half, or double our tmports. An it in, exporters are how!lin calamity, And business men a: waiting for export demand to start good times again, Now if we were to cut our present ex- ports in half, what would hay pen? With the present amount of imports, congress in building « tariff wall to keep out foreign goodm, If the imports were to double and $2,000,000,000 worth of goods were to be thrown on the market, in its present state, what would happen? Not long ayo some one fig ured out that if Methuselah had saved the price of a smoke each day and put it in the eavings bank today he would be worth nix sextiflions (whatever they are), However, it would be enough to make our figure look like the score of the youngsters’ savings bank. Hut porlibly Methuselah never wmoked, and “Campbell's” may have been cheaper then, I don’t put much stock in these figures. However, our supposition is not only reasonable, but well on its way to completion. Five billion debt vo $20,000,000,000 credit in eight years; what in 20 years? fare to well lotea. The man out tn oa opr eR KF awrser s Maeva i ~—— ea ae OG Earth goodwill between Seattle and Taco |about our many resources along ma, whone interests are identical and| commercial and industrial lines. who must have cooperation if our) Neither Seattle nor Tacoma alone | stores citizens are to build up a great com-|can properly present these attrac Monwealth in thin Northwestern em: | tiona, advantages and opportunities, pire. This controversy has also been | but the united enterprise, energy. en-| pzamination free, by eTeat handicap to the progress and | thusiasm and loyalty of ail our cits Glasses clopment of the entire Pacific | zens can accomplish more in the next | Unless absolutely necessary. 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