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The By mati, owt of ' ) } “honest in business, kind in h 6. in the ot $4.60 for @ montha or To publish the news faithfully, fearlessly, f to strive to increase the opportunities of the poor while recognizing the rights of the rich; to be American in word and deed, independent Peblisned Datty Seattle St city, $80 per month: & menthe. eof ar Th) year inom th, ly and decently; to defend public rights; in polities, tolerant in religion, uman distress and helpful in the upbuilding of the entire Pacific Northwest—these are the aims of this newspaper. The New Year is at hand. all right. The most pitiable time was going to do for the time. Leave it to time.” health to time. 70 or 80 years later he may _ dunces, mediocres and brigh’ Wook alike to him. this. winter a Northwest Mieacts curt, ‘The store is setting aside all ite ‘street windows for a two weeks’ 4 period, with‘ complete change every four days, and clearing its ‘entire fourth Noor in order to show the consuming public the merits and extent of the goods manufactured locally. iis this, moreover, with @ut charge to the manufacturers who will benefit. ~ Naturally, it is receiving enthas- deluded individual in the concern who did nothing but counsel the great things that So they did. And in time the business decayed. Foolish people leave all sorts of things to time. Others leave the question of thrift to time. Only today we heard of a $25,000-a-year man who at 50 is spending every nickel he makes—saving nothing. probably thinks that God cares for the ravens, and that God will take care of him. God | will no doubt care for him—just as He cares for the ravens. But ravens don’t live until they lose their jobs because of old age. apartments, underclothes, and hair mattresses to sleep on. | Left to itself, time is nothing but a grand little passer. ‘desert and in the Arctic circle. Plenty of time—but no potatoes. Don't leave anything to Father Time. “he does is to provide you room in which io perform. Father Time is a janitor in the employ of the Almighty. and go. But he has nothing to do with any of them, cares nothing about them. When You enter the arena he may bow and say, “Good morning.” his interest in you, or knowledge of you. But January 1 and the days to follow will be no different from December 31 and the days behind, unless you make them different. One of the silliest of human delusions is the idea that time will bring everything out business failure The Star knows of was due to a self- business. “Just wait,” was his advice. “What we need is Some leave the question of ill He | Neither do they require steam-heated } Look how it passes in the | He won't do anything for you. He can't. All | He sees the tenants come When you check out | say, “Good night.” That, however, will be the extent of jthe 43,000 ranchers and other stock Jof another change? | perience in the city Heht department [that from § to & — wauaeaae ne THE SEATTLE STAR | LETTERS TO EDITOR] WhatAbout | Protests Forest Changes Over half of the the 1 efficiency untry will lone versed nv al func | the Tariff | ' jin America? BY AMATEUR HOONOMIST In it true that the interests of the farmer and the m ] Dear Foik | turer are gol My + } | When we ent filled ' ala | All are begin realize and nt ’ ital activitie | w We car ait ents from the jurisdiction of the for und to be accompanied | tural products cles npr eat wervice to the Interior paeting oe eae Iment. Another transfers t » ieeatent oe "anal yma Ol song compe ms | tora! the Interior department, The the publie forests from the profit. But if Kurope hasn't just |chairman of the reorguntaation om: | oiiy oy tion of the Béver nr anything to exchenge for our | mitteo is quoted in the papers 98) a) naw experience and t farm products, prices will have at oning & divinion of the functions | 1. fie them, Such ac the forests between the two de ve the building up of partmenta, organization which would Any such change in jurisdiction | will Involve changes of policy and of adminintrative plana, and will b Very unsettling to those who «@ uring th ational forests and their resources, The West must now face the possibility of a new adventure in regard to these public properties, De And thin de atthe time |uales of pulpwood are being made that will bring into the territory new and Important Industries whore per manence depends on the skillful handling of the forests, Bo much ts at stake in the service of the national forests to the local Do the 12,000 /communities and local industries of rc | Weet that experiments in depart purchaware of tunber wish a new de! mental jurisdiction will be fraught men who have cattle and sheep on the forest dosire to run the gauntlet partmental jurindiotion, with the in-| ™ mgr em evitable new viewpoint and new)! Brave dang methode? | Very truly yours, HENRY 8. GRAVES, Former Chief Forester. Any of the proposals mean dupll-| cation, increased expenses and re City Should Excel as Employer Editor The Star: Jin the year about to dawnt The mayor's veto of the salary| 1 do not find that the salary goes er than it did Mie ago. budget affords an for | further than it did @ while ago. I re for street car service, TI the writer, a civil service emoloye, hildren to the opportunity to urge that the question be settled by continuing the present salaries throughout the new year, T can state after four years ex I pay &@ much interest—the same for chureh and benevolence—daily pw pers, telephone, Nabt, wate? and in. surance, It was hard to make ends daily T have been | meet in 1921. Wo It through kept b ave carne! the salary 1922 won't incre ry! paid, 4 ve that I shall be of) If we are worth to the city he city in 1922 than | by reason of Increased experience 3 ow my work better of com. Year and can perform it more | ought to set a tently. | employer by the main T have no doubt thin! bi ‘ r holda true throughout the departments, Why then should we| to be penalised for doing better work and fair in & food Ume now © such & resolution. TRE He sees billions pass in and out the gate— t boys like Caesar and Willie Shakespeare. But they all The best thing we got out of the war was getting | out of the war. Some people are dodging | work, while work is | dodging others. | lastic cooperation from the fac tory owners. The Star predicts that it will win also the hearty thanks of Seattle housewives, to flattery could hold @ cow @ telephone booth © . aan whom the extent of the Madein- “Movie stare marry in winter! the-Nortt Shas net finds a writer. nm Dorgan 4 the yet fully come home. — _ have quit Why worry? Sis months from now the furnace wil be working fine and coal will be cheaper. Congresemen ought to make meeit movie comedies; they ge thru lots If some people could be twe places at once, doth places would 9 foolish motions be picture shows. nd The woman whe invented the BY DR. WM. E BARTON ET us not hastily assume that any of the problems of life are modern, For instance, there tx eburch ance and the eighteenth amendment. Read this ex tract from the autobiography of Benjamin Frank- Un: * “We had for our chaplain a zeal ous Presbyterian minister, Mr. Beatty, who complained to me that the men did not generally attend his Prayers and exhortations, When they enlisted they w promised, pay and provisions, a gill of Tum a day, which was punct @erved to then, half in the morning and the other half in the evening, and I observed they were very punc tual in attendance to receive it. “Upon which I said to Mr. Beatty, “It ts perhaps below the dignity or Your profession to ac teward of the rum, but if you w to deal it @ut, and only after pr you ‘Would have them al! about yo “He liked the thought, undertook the office, and with the help of a few | IN FRANKLIN'S DAY tool executed it to satisfaction; and attend. | |"shimmy”” save she is sorry, 20 that makes unanimous | | To keep your wife away from athe office hire an ugly stenog- liquor, ripher the eS never ee a ee hands to measure out We are working our heads off for posterity and posterity hasn't done a thing for ws Were prayers more punctually at tended; so that I thought this meth-| od preferable to the punishment tn-) |fileted by some military laws for, non-attendance on military service.” That was one way of getting men |to attend religious services in the days of our pious forefathers, Jonathan Turner Baldwin, for |many years professor at Lilinols college, told in his diary and his! daughter published in his blography, |°'/ S"¢ OR When needed.” how the president of Yale college in| | his day owned a bar and waa much | that prevented the students of that Venetable institution from drinking | . on the college premises, If the eighteenth. amendment ta| —e [hard to enforce, there were times| when It would have been tmpossible. | If men do not go to chureh as much | las they ought, there always have been men who were careless about their spiritual lives. If mipisters are | sometimes hard put to it for @pethods | | of attracting people to their services: at least they do not dole out to each attentive worshiper a half gill of| rum. | Rerhaps, after all, we are not real- worse than our fathers. I am inclined to think that, bad as We are, we average better than men did a hundred years ago. The longest and shortest day we ave is the one before payday. The older a man gets, the young- ler he wishes he was Resolution No. 1: We will swear off and or hen needed. “California Fig Syrup” hy From Candies That Burn (George WH. D BY ALIN Dainty yell They are nodding slim and Delicately stepping they tate curtse With your st All the little an that look Will wonder which ig lil DOROTHY’S GARDEN Dear, in all your garden I have planted yellow lilies, everywhere So when you walk among them like a lily ing head just bending own up y and whieh is Dorothy Even a sick child loves the “fruity” taste of “California Fig Syrup.” If the little tongue is coat Jed, or if your child in lixtiess, cross, | feverish, full of cold, or has colic, | give a teaxpoonful to cleanse th liver and bowels. In a few hours you can see for yourself how thor oughly it works all the ec ation poison, sour bile and waste out of | the bowels, and you have a well, playful child age Millions ot mothers keep “Califor: nia Fig Syrup” handy. you go a y down the paths along the hedgea, y in a row yoran & Co.) 1 KILMER They know | teaspoonful today saves a sick child tomorrow. Ask your druggist | for genuine “Calffornia Fig Syrup" which has directions for babie nd children of all agen printed on bot tle. Mother! You must «ay “California” or you may get an imi tation fig syrup. in your slimness, acious! ‘our garden Advertisement Open Child’s Bowels with | Seattle Gets Most of the Eggs Now Editor The Star }for Alaska would mean devastation This sheet (enclosed) expreaves the | 4nd = wild scramble for special sentiment of those who really be Taos eahieid” Reslietsiae~ debra Heve In conservation as opposed {0 | enough to want to kill the goose. exploitation, jshe gets most of the exes now. The “Development Board” plan | DONALD H. CLARIC Movie Prices Too High Editor The Star [the anewer of well informed per Will people ever get over the | sone. grafting icea? To have real prow Refore the war the cost of view perity thie has to be @ reality andjing a good show was 10 cents for pot a wish. |children and 20 cents for adulta What T have fn mind te the At present the same privilege costs exorbitant prices charged by picture | us 25 cents and $0 canta show magnates. Has the cost of} producing films advanced or 4 | factor tn any man's home, but hun. clined since the war? Decreased, in' dreds stay cooped up because of HERE has not been a time when a savings account was as valuable as it is today. Under the influence of a period of falling prices the dollars you saved last year have doubled, even trebled, in purchasing power in many directions. The indications point to a continued trend toward reduced costs. If you are not a regular savings depositor plan now to begin at once. Arrange your budget to include a definite amount to savings each week throughout the year. Find for yourself the benefit of these growing dollars of today. SAVINGS DEPARTMENT Open Saturday Evenings BRANCH AT GEORGETOWN BRANCH AT BALLARD oO A S z i” Cy | oT, NATIONAL LTA) Sy” | Say Champion The Thrilling Story of “Kid” Hurley’s Rise to World ’ xt Tuesday than ever. | Some recreation ts an important | down. to ¢ forcing farmera out business until production | equals home consusnption It looks as if we had choloe () To sell our surplus wheat, corn and cotton, taking manu factured goods in return: or | ® Put up a bigh taritt and | keep out foreign goods, saving our home markets for our own factories, depriving Europe of a means of paying for our farm n Rule the | ” For everyone ean recognize th #: to do our work the best w kind, and fair; t that we'll unt to every need, deed; and let our daily motto be, | products, then cut down our farm production to a point where | We can consume it all ourselves. | On the face of it the last prop. | means to them, rest assured thal |—— edt mile onition seems a» reasonable as we will hear from them and heap” \ dik ‘hbee minnie ec the first, Let us look a little in no doubtful manner, timation w little wlagh| deeper. A high taritt will keep 7 mittanece tickets would be | d by increased attendance ways, it appears | to me, ther js one thing in Beattie whone cost is never fluctuating, but | }the quality t the sume, namely,! The Seattle Star. Respectfully yours, | GRAMPA Richmond Beach. the price of manufactured goods up, and benefit the industries, but If the farmer tx to suffer, the gain by protection may be 1 than offset by the lons of buying power on th ot the farmer, We have an agricultural bloc Washington. Where is it on the tariff? In going to #plit the an party? repub Already the administration has |Wireless Telephone Now Used in India| BOMBAY, Dee. 30—-The first wireless telephone in India is now! in operation between this city and| | Poona, 130 miles away. CASCARETS 10* |For Constipated Bowels, Sick Headache, seen fit to invite the agricultural senators apd represchtatives to back and play according to the old rules. 80 far they have refused, When the farmers wake Sour Stomach, Bilious Liver The nicest cathartictaxative in| pletely by morning, and you wil? the world to physic your liver and|teel Bz bowels when you have Dirzy Head-| you sleep.” Cascarets never stir you | tome’ Jache, Colds, Biliousness, Indigestion, | up or gripe lke Salts, Pills, Calo jor Upset, Acid Stomach is candy-| mel, or Of! and they cost only ten lke “Cascareta.* One or two tol|cents a night will empty your bowels com | carets too.-Advertisement. [ws coh lh | st Aetter from JAWVRIDGE MANN ferent failings, too ¥, but rich and poor, the wise, the Golden Rule to thous: “A better world depends on ME” out the law up fully to just what tariff ings. She wi ite _ Laz ac . two opt MOK *Ch DR J. RB BINYON of § * . cuse le BEST $2.50 Gis form a infa: on Earth Akr« char ‘We are one of the few the stores in the Northwest thet “I grind lenses from start to finish, ad we the only one in sam | = splendid. “They work while’ Yxamination free, dy graduate wou Glasses not prescril he é necessary. L i! and they cont only ten | BINYON OPTICAL CQy , sir pox lidren love Cas FIRST AVE. han: eve ws anew Spri Senees Fra | | | | “Amount of | FI Purchase PAYM ‘Upto $10 ‘Upto $20 Upto $25 Upto $35- Upto $50 | Upto $75 ‘Up to $100 and prices and consider the terms. 1332 Second ——————._ rwo unrnances — in which you can purchase your clothing requirements from our high-grade stock on’these - SPECIAL TERMS For December Only VT (Monthly or Weekly Only $1.00 " $4.00 | $1.00 Only $2.00 |” $5.00 |" $1.00 Only $2.50 | Only $4.00 | $6.00 | $1.50 Only $7.50 | $8.00 Only $10.00 | $10.00 | Only $15.00 | $15.00 | Saturday Is the Last Day PRICES REDUCED SHARPLY to make the two closing days of Eastern’s Special December Terms the biggest of a month that has already broken all records. You will know why business has been good as soon as you compare our merchandise \8B, 33F \ ‘Payments $5.00 | $1.00" $2.00 0 209 Union The Path of the Hurrica Starts in the Post-Intelligencer Next Sunday The Famous Writer Octavus Roy Cohen