The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 10, 1922, Page 6

Press Berrie ——— 4 You don’t like it? law. BUT— tax. Repeal that poll tax law! i tf i i i H i i i f ? ay 2 a i E i i | i il 1 i 3 t | @nd to his labor until the evening. © Lord, how manifold are thy Morks! in wisdom hast thou made Psalms civ, 23-24. eee I keep some portions of my earlicr dream Brokenly bright, like moonbeams on a river: It ght's my life—a far, clave gleam— Moves as I move, and leads ma on forever. —v. T. Trowbridge. I Am the Newspaper Wy J. Douglas Gessford, Business Mgr. Hackensack Record) I was born in the silent forests far from the ports of men. I have watched the Red Man hunt his game by day and great ani- mals fight to death by the auro- ra's pale glare. The woodman’s stream, a merciless shrieking of wheels and k terrific heat and pressure, and I am a great white ribbon, spun into a roll, only to be drawn out again thru the battering, thundering jaws of ® printing press. But in the hands of all men I am now an inspiration, a clairvoy- ant, a historian. My sides are covered with magic symbols of a Kiguntic significance, I am the voice of the nation; the light of the world. When I £0 forth I bear the decrees of ax, an icy At least nine-tenths of the people of this The opportunity to vote that way is coming. - You must register if you are to vote. “open. Be prepared to sign the repeal petitions. _ You—if you are one of the 90 per cent who have to work for a living and strug- gle to save even a little bit—want that poll tax beaten. If you have a job in a sawmill and are lucky enough to get $4 a day, the poll tax Will take away $5—mere than a day’s pay. If you are an elevator girl and your pay is only $15 a week, you'll dig up $5 just them all: the earth ts full of Thy it wiches. The Seattle S By mall, out of tty $5.06. im th $4.50 for @ montty $00 per month 2 of Washing 2 months, 1 One * How do you like the vicious state poll tax law? You'd help repeal it? You will not get a chance unless you register. If you sign the repeal petition and your name is not on the registration book, _ your signature will be crossed off. Remember, your signature is needed to make the ‘Petition good because the fight already has commenced to block the repeal of the _ Maybe you'll have to hand over an extra $5 because a _ more because your mother is living. We must beat the poll tax law because it is the most inhuman, unjust tax law passed by our state legislature. Register! Sign the repeal petitions! Dr. Bishop says reading will cure insomnia. Going to church seems to have the same effect. “Love is everything,” “says David Belasco. Everybody thought David was older than that. Nations don’t fear underhand dealings ds much as underwater dealings. The horse is passing always. the greatest brains, and threats of the strongest mob forces of my time. 1 tell my story; a king topples from his throne, and millions of soldiers march gallantly to an unknown death, I sing their requiem and it is known in the farthermost corners of the earth, and in the deepest seas, I weave dreamer’s thoughts inte spans of steel across great tor renta, and build spires of stone to shelter men’s Gods. I speak, and continents are severed and worlds are cemented. I tell my tales of the Prince and the Pauper. My anthems are of the free and the brave; and I chant the song of the wage sia’ in dusty noon; or I bring comfort to tired eyes and jaded muss by fevered midnight. I am feared by afl men, fet wooed and courted like a fickle muse, Where men have gathered to gether Lam. And until the last man has gone to the Great Bo youd I shall be. I am the papyras of time I am the newspaper. Everybody gets punished accord- ing to his sina. A rich widow will marry Bill Hoheneollern Astrologers say people born in January are leaders. They should de, with @ month's start, Chicago maniac who scallowed five spoons was afl stirred ups Lote of lips fust made to kiss are made over again afterwards A girl with @ pretty knee can grin and bare @ That Cost of Living Three significant liitle items flutter by in the day's whirl of news. ; Washington suthorities find that takes $1,500 = year for an American family to live decently. Washington civil service bureau advertises hundreds of federal po- sitions paying $750 a year. Senator in a set speech says: “The trouble with this country is that too many people are living beyond their means.” Several million jobless workers still milling around looking for a meal ticket and a warmer bed than » park bench! The senator was half right; what he should have said was: “The trouble with this country is that too many people are living.” If he had quit there he would have said a mouthful; as it was he said nothing. He merely brayed, It will be admitted by any | father or mother in the land that So REGISTERS’ NOW! ta months. city would vote to smash the poll tax The books are you are married. And $5 a in ka m jab ne jot a ot th de - - tn and so are the autos— th — al $1500 is about the minimum on whieh a family can be fed, clothed, educated, insurance kept up and some freble attempt made toward acquiring a home. | Unele Sam, after admitting this, advertises for janitors, watchmen, workers in various lines, at a wage of less than half what it takes to maintain a family, And thereby immediately sets the mark for every cheap employ- er im the land to shoot at, for if your benevolent Unele Samuel ne is to cr Fe Int op Editor The Star that success that it turned out to be. T couraged he would be fo optimistic have stared us in the face had we THE SEATTLE STAR APetter from AIVRIDGE MANN Star Headline QUERY: “Where Is That Boone Editor The Star bateh Dear Ed—You say you want the news about the mining sand you will never be content until you publish wher for news of boose, beyond @ doubt, thé™public ikea t You mine, tf T come terom with dope about the laquer lows, you'll be as ailent ax a clam concerning where or who I am and tho it seems @ bit absurd, I'm game to take you at your word My «tock was always pretty short; In fact, T only had a auart body ought to know hoW far a quart of boose would #0 4 ar in treating friends who seem to claim Mahara for their. middie name And so T thought Td keep it dark and not become an easy mark; I bid it carefully away, and when my visitors would say, “By gosh, old top, I'm awful dry! 1 biandly anewered, “Bo am 1.” At last I thought it wasn't right for me to be so bankish tight, and like an addle-pated gink, I let a neighbor have a drink; Paul Revere would hang hia head to see how quick the news was xpread Most every guy I'd ever met came tn to ae what he could get. and #0, before the close of day, my stock of hootch had passed away—and now I'm arid, sad and blue; 1 haven't got @ drop have you? Where the Credit Belongs forth aa to let I want to thank you for the kindly |Poultrymen realize what Seattle pe | Virginia and Bill next year, #0 pers did for us The Chamber of Commerce us ite backing, which help, ention you made about the writer your Saturday's paper, but feel I should not take any of the urela away from the hard workers ade the show the er ho have n all over the mate. en Who made this show @ big sue | 4.4, wu did it by @ superhuman effort The time was so short when the ow was begun, that I felt we coul yt put it over, but Secretary Rh. C mpson was one of that kind of en who do net know the meaning and whea we carry on. Senator W the Alderwood Manor let us bi tall,” were die "lay down.” Preat ¢ of thove men i he was an mt we ex nt A ho ¢ * A big © publicity given and we feel that even with of our bard work, failure would wld © Hollings \s big things a on to the whole fair for 18 years. help to um in on such short To quit wi hibitors who show ntioe out thanking the came and made factor in our success was the by Beattio with Hamlet left out. Wi hibitors no show could be a my and we feel that they will go aw from Reattle so well pleased ¢ wil had your splendid support. This just @ beginning of what we hope do another yea ar papers to give us the f t were used dut at we can imue @ booklet to send and we shall ask | they bers another year. HARRY H. COLLIER ng the week so Good Wishes for Company ay and it« publicity department carried the news to the poultrymen | ¢ The millers did thelr part eplen let us have the Puyallup coops after wo had failed in Ban Francisco, and|trees they - our would be like playing Hamlet ox hat come back in larger num South Tacoma, Wash. titer The Star ! Expenses are probably fo What's the matter with Seattle? | they can't afford to cut t Che Witnnen thiatins tant © of the ticketa, Hut if they I went by cht and mw a & » ly can, I tw dea to sl have a FULL HOUSE ALL | TIME, instead of wen tating that a uld be a gc npany would re operative stock on the theatre TI ‘That sign spoke volumes to ma Dod the prices more and te her prices and ler housea. To my mind, that only pays $2 a day how can a It means that the Wilkes Stock | would be a better way to pull thru plain, private citizen, who has te [company lost so mush money it had present depression. Seattle is make his mohey instead of ciub- |t° close. It means the actors, in or of unemployed and everybody tn der to rat, are compelled to struggle too poor to pay high prices for sto bing it out of eh Ren odly wd : a afford te | aiong on a co-operative basia, making | production right now. ‘The company pay so much? an effort to pull thru the crisis some ought to pocket their pride, and in And, with the notable exception [how. Just such @ situation at the ornfer to continue playing at all, of Ford, who, by general consensus |W i!kee } nm used by many aicharge lems for admission. They parte sets Riba wat noveliet to wring sym etic tears wouldn't lose money by it in the er man opinion, be just ® lpm hin readers and it has|'They would gain, not only in money plain put, nobody cares to rae (een used as & joke by many abut In friends the federal ante, |vaudevilie set. Bu no joke to] Here's luck to the brave little Co The obvious answer is, don't get (the members of the mpany who | oper © Stock company at the 3 P jare batt for their very existence. Wilkes, Hope they pull thru married; or, if ™ are ba rt koa. . wr a yeu de, fof the love ['s see they have eliminated the war] JESSIE P. MOSTER, of decency, avoid children and get jtax and tried to cut the prices a tew! 1934 Sixth Ave your wife a job. Women aoree that the man who sid women never agree, was wrong, | <eenfiomneensnitiltineciant | m No groom fits the collar ade—no | bride the stocking ads. | [What About _ | Allied Debt |. to the U. S.?. | BY AMATEUR ECONOMIST Are we com gradually to reallso |that it ls an impossibility tor Europe to pay her debt to us without wrecking our industries? } Do our economists and financiers | now realize this to be a'fact? = | Are those who know afraid | break the news to the dear people? | Ia it true that the debt be paid in gold, and that if it could be paid in gold that the gold would do Us any good? | | | to Is it true that any real attempt on the part of Europe to pay the debt would 6 exchange to drop| to the point where our exporta| would cease? If our exports become practically zero will it cause still harder times in the United States? | | Are we on the road to real busi hess recovery, or not? | | Have we a lot of adjustment yet |to go thru before we arrive on the road to prosperity? | | Are our politic leaders mup plied with the brains to pilot the United States out of the present] difficulties, or will the people have} to give these questions thelr per |*onal attention, formulate their own | policies and compel congress to car them out? he United States has never be. ® given the questions of forel fe and industrial organization very clowe study, The United | States has just “growed” like Topsy for tr any |} did. Is our ignorance of | thers things going to be a tremendous lhandicap now? “YESTERDAYS ANSwir 1+ CELL—L+AND == ICELAND. ! Kaiser Engaged to Remarry or The Star: y I'm eure the wives of the sold n rl THE OLD VIOLIN BY MAURICE FRANCIS BGAN Tho tuneless, stringeless, it lies there in the dust, Like some great thought on a forgotten page; The soul of mysie cannot fade or rust— The within it stronger grows with age; strings and bow are only trifling things— A master-touch! its sweet soul wakes and sings. voice Its | So the kaiser is engaged to re | With living arry. How lovely! boys sick T am sur «of the mi | - Be yp ae! nch, Erfgiish,|@*Palr and degenetate thoughts \Goundtes , and Amer. |*%4 habits—all feol that wie majesty, ican bevs who were #aughtered for|t® emperor, deserves true happl jhis pleasure party at Paris (which | °°" !7 his marrt |never came off) are all de “ 1 oo it i | I'm sure of nothing until the |, tm sure the goldstar mothers | “cannon fodder” of the world wakes feel a glow of Joy at the prospect | us ate that guy and all others | hin wedding hk every country in the Iam sure the wives of the dead | we he belongs—in the re wish him | bottom ocean! iP. M j | | feeble voles of his eo y himeett eut wood to mai it blaze high. They made thete foe and cooked an abundant meal, t he «low f 1 srowne tions as the Red ¢ pour n the unworthy (Turn to Page 11, Column “for something tasty rve Nald French Pastr Advertine men t BILL BRONSON’ tathor, Far North was murdered by Thorou ine Pol his partner, Mutheford, who stole the gold they had dug from their mine in the Clearwater. Hill as @ child vowed he would find Kutheford and the lost “haracterizes our methods mine, He ts hired to guide every tran VIRGINIA TREMONT and *_ {4 omens see Dearie SO VHEEE ce a ied taba thn Clibcweter'te Aeoet On teny consistent with sound bushes HAROLD LOUNABURY, Virginia's fiance and Kenly's nephew, lont in the | es Sdement. region six years before. Kenly, a “poor sport,” soon tires of the hardship ba of the trip and suggests turning back. He in supported in thin by % ” VORPER, the cook, but Virginia insists that they tinue, Delayed by = a #torm, they do not come to Grinsly river, which they are forced to crons until dark, and the stream is so high that Dill is dubious about attempting Pate on Savings Accounts ” it. Kenly persuades him to try, however, and Virginia, angered by the | accounts Bubject to Check Are by Kasterner’s lack of consideration, starts to crons after him, Bhe is swept athe are A ra ° ey » on wit the a#trens after the Lounsberry to test the steel made, Thin was strength and course, and ali things else, But only the little folk as wat from ite bank, dinaster and Vorper had a chance forest creatures, nd Bill saves her h the story of that first hour of the river, of which they were the time for inner beyond elf discipline for nuch ch with beady eyes the coverts all the drama of the wilderness, beheld how they stood that tent For the first few seconds Louns bury sat upon h @tared in ute is horse and simply horror. Then he half-climbed, half-fell from the ead die, and followed by Voaper, started running down the river bank thereafter the oe + | 8% inte his «piri “They're jont, erted. “There's th to get ‘om The ches t fel) sprawling in They furnished us with badly|uy and hastened on. needed money that we must have to! thews H Paulhamus Immediately, he lont sight of Almost at once id and the darkness t and appalled him. they're lost,” he not & chance on out.” ripped him and he the snow. He got Vosper, his turning to mushroom stalks within him, could only follow, swear ing hoarsely could not dencend & death trip,” L “And what's the ther earth.” They short Lounsbury was very aid, distance was far in with frightened © “It ain't the taken,” Vosper to bever even found “And we w t Lounsbury rep little while in pierce the shadows. we'd better dor suppose tioned. “I don’t know “There's no cha They're gone already could live in that it's @ death trip. They haven't a however, purh on aflence, At each break of the! would clamber o itaithe water's edge and look over the splendid wire coopa; on top of it all|tumultuous waters, we had Fred A. Johnson, who has|the twilight was deeper, the snow been ruperintendent of the Puyallup |furries heavier. Me was a great|came to a steep bank which they stirring enthasiasm, an well as getting our show in shape down to and each time And soon they 4. I knew ft wae ounsbury moaned use of gong far chance on a river it it down the of the opinion ed. In reality od yards in « nce more to sta e yea at the stream. first this river's nid him. “And they their bodies," find these, now,” 1. They waited a trying to “What do you be ques. What can we dot™ noe of saving them. No swimmer stream, Why did |\we ever come—it was a wild goose ] | chase at best. they'é their way. ty wisest thing for back can find their way in if they did/ get out It was a worth | Yolce of coward speaking in Ls h 4 fo 1 expre Hie storm and the da be lost—and peema to and build a big fire was frightened If they did get out couldn't firtd me the us to do is to go hy expression! The ce that bad been sbury’s craven sou words at by the he was cold awion in rkness, and tired, and a beacon light for the two wanderers only a subterfuge whereby he might thelr retw wi justify retrapper t dimagree, a kind. It was not that their rightful cow: ly aware that could build could yards through t thicket. They kn: wat river for b ling and searc would keep ful f in the m un to camp. The nderstood, but he| They were two of they did not know Bot ch a fi only ¢ he hea ew that br r men h over dread. the night“at least g. ready to give aid in the feeble hope that the two exhausted ewimmers might come “Sure thing.” Vosper agreed be hard to make a good fire snow, and we can't build one if them pack horses has go’ #0 they | life but without their horsen | | | | by now u mean—-we'd die?” Louns eyes protruded. | “The ax is in the pack. We wouldn't have a chance.” Lounsbury turned sharply, scarce. ly able to refrain from running The pack horses, however, hadn't left their tracks. And now the brave Mulvaney had gained = the jahore and waa standing motic zing out over the troubled w: | we are the onl TTLE—ON FIRST AVE. men, e two scraping off DR. J. Free Examination BEST $2.50 GLASSES on Earth ‘We are one of the few optical stores in the N grind lenses fro SHA Wxaminatfon fr ton trist 48 absolutely BINYON O tiie ¥ Between Sp / might guess the He scarcely glanced | unpacked the animals, Glasses and the snow and BINYON rthwest that really start to finish, and ne in ee, Dy graduate op- not prescribed coasary, . AVE, and Sencea substance | by | PTICAL CO. | with difficulty. They finally make Peoples Savings Bani the aid of the keen ax and a candle | sgconu AVE. AND PIKE 8B, ub noon lighted a fire. To matinfly Honestly, we didn’t know there were so many quick-thinking folk in Seattle. When we first an- nounced our Diamond Briquet “TWO FOR ONE” offer several weeks ago, we weren’t for the scores and scores of trial orders that poured in. Also an ex- ceedingly large percentage of those who sampled, ALREADY have re- ordered by the load. ‘ The offer is still open. To eacti home sending us their address we will deliver two 100-Ib, sacks of Diamond Briquets for one dollar. Merely phone us your address and when the driver delivers your twe sacks pay him the dollar. We lose monef by selling Diamond Briquets at the rate of $10.00 a ton delivered—so please do not ask for more than the two sacks. If you already use Diamond Briquets just envy those whe are getting their first thrill of satisfaction— and leave the trial offer for tha uninitiated. We want every home to Become acquainted with the economy, con- venience and satisfaction Diamond Briquets yield. This TWO-FOR- ONE offer makes it possible for you to try them without buying a whole load. Exchange a dollar for two sacks and give Diamond Briquets a whirl in your own range, open fireplace basket, heater and furnace. Note the even, steady, lasting heat you get. Note how uniform in size and how easy ~ to handle they are. Note how odorless, dustless and they are. DON’T POKE ’EM when you burn them—let them‘ lie quietly in your fire and merely regulate the heat by the drafts. + $11.95 10.95 9.65 9.30 8.30 7.30 9.30 8.30 7.30 9.63 10.50 Black Diamond Nut is . Black Diamond Furnace is. Newcastle Lump is... Newcastle Nut is. + « Newcastle Peais . . of juah Lump is . « Imaquah Nut 6. Issaquah Peais . South Prairie Furnace is. Diamond Briquets is . . « Also Canadian, Australian and Utah Coals —but we advocate keeping the Pacific- Northwest dollar in the Pacific- Northwest.