The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 2, 1922, Page 6

uy death of inspiration. ‘Fichness, and failing under the is gathered to the granary, ef promise. It has done the ed thing of destiny every in the way. But man, he's different, mostly. He sprouts, but he grows every way; he tries to tear him- up by his roots, he cusses sun and groans under the r he grows a few wilted _ Heaves, and maybe a nubbin or and thinks by dropping « fn the collection basket to to his crown of glory and the native worthlessness is in him. And when he is down by the scythe of Time is as likely to be a bull thistle | This is the beginning of 1922. you will have another year life, and maybe you will sot, most of us make no betier Ge the next 12 months than we ef the last 12 it will make difference to anyone but whether wo linger on or the enly thing that Have you grown in wisdom, in charity, in Justice this last year? done anything for any- yourself? Balance the see if you are “in the hj you but NETH TheS owt of elty, tm the for 4 ww “Pass then thru this little space of time conformably to nature, and end thy jotr- | mey in content, just as an olive falls off when it is ripe, blessing nature who pro- duced it, and thanking the tree on which it grew.” A very wonderful old Roman wrote that, and few written things better image the For death can te an inspiration to the living, rather than a terror or a pain, or a “regret. The man who is broad enough to not only die content, but to leave behind him a faith that his passing was as divine an event as his birth, that man is in himself {fe resurrection and the life. Most men do not die that way; because few men live naturally. _ The grain bursts thru the clod in the spring, it spreads its tiny green arms and into the heart of it heat and light, it ripens, it mellows, it loads itself with head in thanks under the pouring rain; it flourishes thru the summer, it bows sea are cradle rocks, Come on back, summe we said about you. Let’s make the naval no fireworks. Best way to get rid of your duties is to dis- charge them. im occupation of the northern half of the island of Saghalin, terri tory rich in coal and petroleum, This territory belongs to Ku» sia, For two years Japan has been making herself very unpopular in Siberia—the Frozen El Dorado— part\of which is likewise under Japanese military occupation. Siberia belongs to Russia. Russia is down and out, but she will “come back.” And when she dors “come back” she will as surely demand an accounting of Japan as Jehovah made little fishes, If the Herding interpretation of the fourpewer pact holds, the United States is under no obliga tion whatever to take a hand, one way or another, Hardly any of these rocks on the matrimonial | Punliahed Paty by The Miter tahini Coy move Mate e600 ro r onth | r. We didn’t mean what holiday safe and sane— awaiting a day when she will be strong enough to sirike for inde pendence, Decidedly it is NOT “unimpor- tant.” The duty of the senate is clear. Tt must decide between the Hard ing interpretation andthe Hughes’ interpretation, and the Harding interpretation must stand. From the {8th census figures, there was an average con- sumption of 1731 dowen egos per capita, In the Lith conmus it was 15.41 dozen eggs per capita, a de- crease of 1.9 dozen or £1 eggs per captta—Prof. James E. Rice, American Poultry Association, be- fore senate finance committee. 1 dare say there ls no member of this body whe knows what it is to be cold m the high price of coal ia more than an tn convenience. But there are people no one fo wh | suse THE SEATTLE STAR LETTERS TO EDITOR | Cowen Parkers Appreciative |e Editor The Sur innue must be mquarely faced AU & meeting of our executive com ‘The city must furnish these out mittee last Thursday night 1 was bn | lying districts with rapid auto bur structed to formally convey to you! tr wlation or else let some pri our thanks for the editorial support | vat nization do it, ‘The sooner and ews item. j the inmue in faced and settled t We appreciate the support’ you! better it will be for every one com have given us in our fight to obtain | cerned. Yours erely the transportation to which our dis | NORTH RAV NA TRA "ORTA- | trict is entitled, The action of the TION ASBOCIATI | city council yesterday ximply serves BY C, A. NEWHALL, to further delay the day when the Beoretary | The $100-a-Month Men Editor The Star ‘ nine or ten of us must read about I wish to call your attention to a | 60,000 meters per month, | feel con grave injustice regarding the wage | “ent that our cut would not be per | mitted to ovour outs of city employes (the $100 per) stont of us are married men, and | month men) jall but one exservics men, and to Beginning with January 1 we were| tive as Americans and rear our faim supposed to have had a raise of $10, | ilies at $90 per month is a very | but now it is to be @ cut of $10| serious problem, | Inetoad. ‘Trusting that your paper wil! bring If the public were to give one min-|the fact before the good people of | ute’s thought to our hardships in the | Beattie, tam winter thru wind and rain, where! A CONSTANT STAR READER. Reads Record on Caldwell Béitor The Star {should agree that the aetion pro | On June 7, 1920, a meeting W"s) posed would stand the test of the! called by Mayor Caldwell to take | courte. his office, at which the) “Councilmen Thomason and Haas wing decision was ached (| voted against approval of the Terry quote front the Beattie Postiotelll | resolution and Councilmen Moore, gencer of June 8, 1920) Hesketh, Erickson, Carroll, Tindell | The’ meeting was called by! and Bolton voted in favor of its Mayor Caldwell in response to a re-| adoption. | quest from City Comptrotier Harry | Immediately thereafter Council. | W. Carroll and City Treasurer Ed) man Thomson's ordinance came up| L. Terry, and in accordance with @/| for action increasing the fare to} n from the council finance|7 cents and 1 cent additional for} committee, for the purpose of acting|a transfer, The extra 1 cent for upon Terry's resolution declaring it| transfer was dropped and upon roll the Intention of the council to meet | Hesketh, Erickson, Carroll, ‘Tindall | > the overdraft in the city railway | Moore, Thomsen, Carroll, Bolton and | fund by levying general taxes, and | Daas pledged to pass the oPdinance; to consider Counciiman R. H. Them | Oliver T. Brickron voted no. son's ordinance increasing the fare “Following the council meeting. to 7 cents with an extra charge of| Mayor Caldwell, in announcing his 1 cent for a transfer | intention to sign the ordinance for “Clearing house was represented /a Tcent fare, declared he had de by J. A. Swalwell, J. W. Spangier| cided after mature deliberation that and James T. McVay The city| his proposal to wipe out the deficit council adjourned ite regular meet-/in the city railway fund by increas ing into a session of the whole and|ing the fare to € cents and leaving | then repaired to the mayor's office! general taxes to pay off the bonded|King county are entitled to name | where Mayor Caldwell, ity Treas on the lines would not urer Terry, City Comptroller Car per solution of the finan roll, Corporation Council Walter F./ cial problem confronting the «treet! Meier and L. B. Youngs, superin-|raiiway department, for several | tendent of the city water system, | reasons | conatituting the city advisory board, joined in the conference “Regardiens of what we ought to| do in theory, the rate of taxes w “After considerable discussion it|now pay makes it tnadviaable to was finally decided to approve the|transfer any of the financial bur-| Terry resolution in event attorneys | dena of the street railway system to for the C wrociation |the tax rolls, be sald. According | and the thin year in 70 mills, Next year it will be 80 of #5 m an the new levy for edu al purpo ‘ milla and a Seattle #eehool reane of 6.5 tm will be effective. Under the etreumstar it does not com advisable to add to the burden of taxation by appropriating from the general fund to aid the street railway system, Mr, Editor, it must be remem bered that there was some doubt in the minds of the councilmen am te whether Caldwell would sign in fares, but when he removed that Goubt Mr, Terry withdrew his reno: lution, and right there in where Thomson and Caldwell led the city into the wilderness of which Thom | non speakn Caldwell knew that the tn crease in taxes, of which he speaks, would be laid on the emall home owner, as well as the big tax pay ers, but he did not hesitate to penalize them in the entire cost of our street railway system, Then we our street railyway system, When we see one put his hand into an other's pocket and extract his purse or other valuables we call him a pickpocket, and when we study the traction deal we are forced to the conclusion that some political pick pockets are running at large in Beate There ts no way of concealing the fact that the citizens of this city are having their “pockets picket fo the tune of $200,000 a month for the sole purpose of protecting big MONDAY, JANUARY 2, 1922, ALetter From | AIVRIDGE MANN Dear Folk It wa Year's ¥ to oe figure how TY we t but then we on bette jay, 1 agroed that + had an awful row when +, we ta for ch a date Je our t New ought we began to I thought we ought to see it in with much bilarit 4 din, and get @ eeat in some cafe, and whoop her up the ent way, with now and then a chance to slip @ little something trom my hip The wife had other plans, it seems, and promptly vetoed all my Areamw, she told me she'd made up our mind to be more quiet end refined, and have a bunch cf neighbors in to play some bridge or eit and chin. Oh, well; of course, you know talked my best; but in the end, the rest—I argued, as you've surmined. cursed, and we quit the fight and compromised, and bad it plainly understood we'd do just whet she said we would. It wasn’t bad—I took the men to see the Sellar now and then; the evening really didn't drag-—we played some cards and chewed the rag, and danced and sang began to ring And then 1 #aid, horn “The year is and it would bring me lots of joy if they would tell me and everything, until the bells born—TI hear it crying lke @ it's a boy; but with the nolse its life begins, I'm mighty glad it ion't twins!” business and the speculators in va-| cant lan When one sits in the game and finds the dice loaded or the cards stacked, he knows at once that the dealer im dixhon and thet the player Bas not a ghost of a show in such a gs and the mayor and hin associates deliberat stacked the cards in the traction deal against the home owners of th city, You will notice the mayor is |quoted an saying “that after ma- bad reached ture deliberation” he his decision | In my opinion, Mr. Editor, the time is ripe for a new den! at the all if our public utilities are Sincerely yours, R. J. WILSON, | President, Public Ownership League. city |to survive. Who Can This Dark Horse Be? Editor The Btar Ten hundred and five lawyers in Seattle are going to get the jolt of their lives when the news leaks out that & prominent business man is to enter the senatorial race against “Pry cholog calls Senator Poindexter. This is the time, and Seattle and the man, and the entire country i* tired of lawyers and the way they run our government Congress has been lop-sided with lawyers, They are politicians first, last, and in the middie—they are a smooth, conniving, scheming and quibbling Jot. ‘The public today wants a business administration. King county is the largest and most important unty is partment |to the county asnesnor the tax rate'in the state, and Seattle is the larg-|the fence they found the 1 Miles,” as Bam Blythe |) ent apd best located city, and it ts | }omical that we send an experienced. responsible business man to Wash- | ington. | Senator Poindexter ts a Spokane |lawyer; Senator Jones in a Yakima |lawyer—both figurehead»—com pletely | eclipsed in this new world of thought where commerce is king. | The demand of the country ts to | place at the head of our public af- fairs young business trained men | ike Theodore Roosevelt, Jr, F. T. | Davideon and Bugene Meyer, jr., and Jat the head of our government de | partments such men as Herbert Hoo- ver, Andrew Mellon, Charles Dawes and Henry Ford. Heretofore business men have been to enter pu ife. They hadn't the time, and when they looked over 4 —————e of crooks, with whor they refus to associate. But, of late, they haw come to realize that poll ing the whole bread of thousands is dependent upp |the acts of these irresponsible pa |tician lawyers—the living co |of millions of men, women and dren hang their acts—and 7 changing genUment is the result, The business men are going ® | climb over the fence and clean om the crooks, The day of the lawye| is passing and it is well for thi country. There are some things we which we never question because the name—we know the goods genuine. The Seattle man who will the field against Senator Pot) |has such a name. Every voter | realize he is the man for senater, | Until téday, when I quite by |@ent, stumbled into a very jconference, I have worried everyone has told me that there no one who could beat Senator dexter. To others who are I write thin letter. It may help somal Yours very sincerely, ‘ MAUDE SWI country on PSL e a-ha «46 of Japan in furnishing silk to the fe the credit of humanity and the If the Hughes’ interpretation va Ror gother that bore you? stands, America is bound “to ar jag without ‘There ure nenpte to And for the next year try thie = rive at an understanding (with whom it means hardship and su/- Qext for » daily guide< “Do not Japan) as tothe mont efficient ‘ering and discare: to whom it the going to live ares te be: tals pn Bare dont betwren food and thea wert mnent nto meet ormih, because they cannot fen thousand years. Death hangs the exigencies of the situation.” for pyre Mae ag jth dP tm be thee. While thou livet For such is the language of ¥. J. v ft is im thy power, be good.” = Article PI of the treaty. = eae” ' This is but one hypothetical Now that we know why a chich- a Before W.P..G. Harding, 9° ease. There are others. on engagne the rong, shy Geet one, : @rnor of the federal reserve board, Mr. Hughes would pledge ws to cross her knees? i : qade his speech in New Orleans I * a =— <a Gas offered £0 cents for my own SUpport the Japanese homeland An income is what you can't live be cotton. After he made that speech against the “aggression” of an ‘“ifhout or within bs a : 4 * you en- een ‘ete Profs. deen made 1% watchful Germany; = Korea ter are pay as you exit on ecith the intent to bring just such | ————— Pe aeR — ananenee bs disastrous results upon people pow ps @re not adie to stand them, ond } g ity cnont net tobe required tocn- | THE DARK DAY | dure them—Sen Watson (D) | | * rete. ee BY DR. WM. E. BARTRON —; ences." published in Boston in 1785. | a OTICE was given) He said: no lig ete of pein ok Paste: eseen tly to] “The appearance and effects were | B r bd bs © falling stars| such as tended to make the prospec be | tem i ng gu aeeetag epe egins luesday Morni z Far From and of the sig-| were lighted up in the inom; the! F nificance at-| birds, having finished their evenin J , . = < Ve ivi j po “Unimportant” tached to the|songm disappeared and became | Undoubtedly the Greatest of All Seattle Value-giving Events in the Matter of * oo . lent . ‘ere crow! 1 Ps i ? & N ‘4 i j i . President Harding says it is ic uae lode ce a ee ee ¢ “Quality” Clothing—Watch Our Show Window Displays Daily = “unimportant” what construction An even more!» could not be distingw 4 but fs placed on the four-power treaty. cotabin” eeletin| at very lita dintancen, and. every You Can Save From 20% to 33 1-3% on Kuppenheimer and Society He says it makes little differ- ph enomenon| thing bore the appearance and gloom | . * O Al Hi l O ence to the people of the United = Sear Hving on S weateniiols scientific explanation © * Br d Suits d ercoats—. eo h d Hi ther ts Biates whether the entire Japa | remember wan remembered with awe|of this event has t made, The $70.00, $75.00, $80.00 and $85.00 Groups of $55.00, $60.00 and $65.00 Empire ts included in the |for % full generation after it o¢-| mont probable explanation is that of | € Suits and Overcoats. .. $55 00 Suits and Ove ts : $47 00 bi - oe » oie N 's island | UrFed. and has found its permanent | extensive forest fires, together with | ot ec Beatty Ef: ibaa sai bina acge prea daa ie : His opinion is Japan ‘proper is | 19, 1780, | WhICter Tine Auld wa of the tecidant Overcouts, values to $50.00...... ° and $60.00 Suits and Overcoats. . 8. 0 day NOT included—but, he adds, it is darienene begnn at 10 a m./in his poem, “Abraham Davenport.” = a tinued until the middie of the | T ol Puritan as een beer} ld wa “unimportant” what be thinks. t night. It was during the Revo-|the Connecticut legislature, When for Choice of a Close-out Group of Young Men's Suits. = 18 ft “unimportant”? | !utionary war, and the extent of the| darkness fell, a member addressed Sizes 34-40 Only. be dapan for two years has been [obscuration was sufficient to be ap-|the chair, and said, “Tt is the great ° b sf ly. , “ mee parent thruout New England, but | day of the Lord,” and moved to ad im [with difference of degree and dura-| journ. an What Japan {tien tn different places Davenport thought It quite porst- 25 Di ° ot ne darkness was not total, but it| bly true that the day of Judement Ss t : Sees Ahead roost, and to strike terror 10 euper \< > His work! and at to ae dee” Gn O I Cc O 1 Cc be. | stitut minds his motion candies were brought ofr la f every SUIT 2 PERC i wh Profeasor Samuel Witliams of Har-|and the day's wo oe regular price of every SUIT and OVERCOAT in Off a Large Assortment of Men’: ~ ! de! asa Menace ume ot Memotrn of the |New England tell the story in detail, at $20.00 and up. $3.50 Shirts eer 4 Be ptt lipo tean Academy of Arts and Sci | but these are the eanential fact, All Tailored Like Best Quality Men's Garments! $4.00 Shirts . _ .$3.00 ba Many persona think that China | 36 cents a pair for 50c “Shawknit” Silk-Faced $5.00 Shirts ..... ++. $3.75 dure will soon be a successful rival | Sox. Large variety of Men's Outing Flannel Pajamas ‘ay | are willing Japs world, The Chinese to work for less than the they have the personal qua to make them successful in the production of silk; they also have @ favorable climate. The loss of any considerable 4 portion of Japan's silk exports 3 would be a severe blow to her industrial life. For many years the Japanese have bought more 4 abroad than they have sold. Out- side of a few war years, the bal 4 ance of trade has constantly been against them. The only factor that hag saved therm has been the large export of wilk to the Unit- ed States and Europe. Now, if they were to lose this, it would be a tragedy for this jsland king- dom, In a real way, Japan Is fight. ing for her life. When we real- ize what she has at stake, we don't wonder that the Japanese delegation was so Jarge at the arms conference, We can't blame Japan for watching China's development with anxiety, Fifty years of ed ueation and political stability May #66 such development China that she will be a ve successful rival of Japan, and when that time comes, Japan is going to wuffer, If we tried to put ourselves in Japan's place, we probably would have a lot more charity for some oe nduct that we don't in for our Poem S al Bo ok rl BEAUTY BY LEO H. LASSEN I never knew before my pen could fail, But now the words I seek have lost their gleam; The gods have gone—perhaps they only dream— For even Song before thy shrine must pale. A fairer thing than thou'l cannot limn— The eup is full, once you reach the brim. | GEOGRAPHIC PUZZLE and Women Rolls Men's Rolls EGG -GG +U + ROPE = KUROPE. $1.65 for regular $2 Drewers. Three fine groups of Men’s Flannel Shirts on sale at $2.15, $2.55 and $2.95. All Fitted Cases, Bags For Instance: ’s $22.50 Fitted Regular $25.00 F Cases 78 cents for choice of a lovely line of $1.00 Silk Neckwear. 75 cents for regular $1.00 Marathon Belts. 25 Per Cent Discount Off regular Prices of All Dr. Jaeger’s Shirts and Drawers. Rolls on Sale -. $19.50 50 “Winsted” Shirts and and Nightrobes on sale at ee and $2.95. rer “Lewis” $7.00 Union Suits. . “Lewis” $5.00 Union Suits. . _A broken line of Wool Drawers, sizes 30 to 38. Choice ai $1.38, 2 cents a Sox—black, Oxford and heather. 25 Per Cent Di Off regular Prices of All gat Umbrellas at $3.50 and Up. Imported Velour $20.00 Dunlap Hats. ...$14.75 All $5.00 Cloth Hats $2.95 25 Per Cent Discount Off Regular Prices of All Stiff Hats in the Store $1.65, $2.15 +. $3.95 -. $2.85 values to $3.50; pair for Medium-weight $1. Men’s and Women’s 00 Wool