The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 12, 1922, Page 6

PAGE 6 Mewapaper Re- terpriee Asm and United Prose Service $8.08, tm the ~ guecess, not a stark failure. for this view. A truly wonderful success. in the fall. “Otherwise, do all three. Who can expiain “what the peo- want"? | The advance man for “The Bird ILyearold Tully that has made its owners a was in The Star office to He was telling us something of Vagaries in popular demand his production has encoun- Produced originally in Los it has from that day to Present season been a con- ‘sistent winner in that city, as in whole West. When it went to York, soon after its Pacific premiere, it fell Mat—lost thousands. So it has done that city on the few subsequent when return engage were attempted, Im fact, the advance man said, | the show has never made a dollar “@ast of Baltimore. In Boston it feses. In Washington it's popu- "far. In Pittsburg a gold mine, bet im Scranton and other Penn- . ities a frost. In Buffalo, N. Y, a dividend Garner always; in Rochester avd @ short train ride to east, never. In Winnipeg and Toronto « 2a3- ing favorite. in Montreal a Who can expiain it? “The Lord shall preserve thy | @eing out and thy coming in from this time forth and even forever- ‘more.”—Psalms crzi.:8. ft didn't begin with askings, 1 took my job asf struck ; Amd 1 took the chance wouldn't, And now, they'r they calling it luck, Rudyard Kipling. “Auto is railroad’s greatest en- omy,” says an official. Yes, but when attacked by an auto a train wins. The 1922 directorics will soon be telling where we lived last year Ignorance of ‘the Wise Men Thru the ages the scientist and the theologian have each pro- claimed the other ignorant, mis- taken, bigoted Each has been right, mostly, in# his charge, just as he has been Generally proved wrong in his de- ductions. Science, when it gem tangled Up with a theory and tries to twist its facts accordingly, muddled as any priestly worship- er at the altars of Baal, Science just now has a fancy for the stern evolutionary doc- trine that makes all growth in arn imal intelligence a matter of acci- dent, reiterated habit, heaped up circumstance, so we find high Maturalists and philosophers say- Ing that when horse opens a barred gate he does it by accident, and that the next time he opens it he merely chances to stumble wit- lessly on the combination. But any farmer knows better. Turn a yearling calf in an orchard. After he has eaten the windfalls he will start shaking down apples by rubbing against the tree trunks. Accident, says the scientist; he just was scratchy. Piffle, says the farmer; he only rubs on the trees that have apples, never on the bare ones. Plow around a 10-acre field, stop at a certain place to rest the team. Next round that team will 4 stop at that spot to the very foot. When you milk the cow that is on pasture, feed her mill feed each evening and she will always be waiting at the pasture cate for @ months The Seattle Star‘ My mall, owt of etty 00 par month: # mentha, $1.60e6 mm: state of W tom, Outside of the vr per year, ly carrier THE SEATTLE STAR ent " Kalter ai You were all wrong, folks; you did the poll tax a horrible injustice. It is a great You have the word of no less a personage than State Treasurer Clifford L. Bab- _ The poll tax is a great success, says Babcock, because by its means something like 0,000 was raised last year. “Babcock doesn't tell how much it cost the counties and the state to collect the | He doesn’t tell how much went uncollected. He doesn’t tell how much injustice was done to widows and orphans and strug- large families and to old men because the tax assessed them on exactly the | plane as it does the millionaire. Ne couldn't; neithe He maintains the tax was a success because, he figures, 168,000 of the “floating element” who never before had paid any taxes were caught in the poll tax True, he derives this result in a manner that any school boy would see is fal- He obtains the figures merely by subtracting the number of persons who in 1920 (not those who were registered to vote) from the number of persons paid the poll tax, and calmly announces that the difference is “floating foreign mt” who never paid taxes before. Perhaps he thinks a state treasurer can get with arithmetical buffonery like that. If Treasurer Babcock’s reasoning sounds plausible and convincing to you, don't reg- this year, don't sign the poll tax initiative petitions and don’t vote on the ques- Now that a New York judge has decided 10 midgets may ride in a taxi is waiting for some court may charge full price fo man’s hair. Some women think the only way to keep a hus- band is in hot water. Many a man looks run down because of the bills his wife runs up. Germany is prov ing that i war never pays. with a warm smile; omit the milking feed and in 48 hours she will be found at vesper time athwart the farther bill in the pasture, and gates will mean nothing in her young life, The black cat will attend your milking night and morning, so long as you give it a pan of warm milk when the milking is over; omit the pan of milk and see how long it takes the black cat to desert you and go mousing at milking time. The truth is that animals have & reason that guides them to take immediate advantage of circum stance. Animals do net blunder onto things, they do not require long generations of mischance to perceive the right course; they dictate their daily courses accord- ing to the* incidents of the day and any evolutionary doctrine that does not include present animal reason, no matter how acquired or developed, is a factiess theory Nor is there any proof that man came here all bright and beaming with a full set of brains. Maybe he acquired a lot of his boasted Teason en route just as the hunt- ing dog acquires intelligence by training, association and exper ience. Due to a shortage of underwear, lots of people's knees are cold. Rome men need hair-cuts badly and others have them that way. Longest sentence in the world is I pronounce you man and wife.” “Landlord Mistaken for Randit Ia Bhot”—headline. Sounds plausible Movie beauty is only screen deep. BY EDWIN 1 hear you Shouting aswing Shout louder still Sing to my Tis wonderful bey I'd tell it, too, if 1 coulc n soul in the ¢ Oft when the white still | Nor such a@ listener. JOE OF THE MORNING little bird, dawn Lifted the skies and pushed the hills apart, I've felt it like a glory in my heart (The world's mysterious stir) But had no throat ike yours, my bird ber abe us ut think you were to present such call If that article wa. | fine love letter, You . Dear Bir There is, or used that's the kind of # | I didn't guess that you'd be | And please, 4 nay so, after all, your gt that lett r Bir, I have r from Av just lo oor dieing APetter From | ALVRIDGE MANN Rr been a reader of The Star for many years, and policies you favor, Ho’ 1 must may ridge Mann in Friday's issue (about the New about the limit, He thinks we shouldn't worry iption, but I'll say tere are a large number of irnelvem, even tho he doesn't, One would when you allow a member of your staff us views intended as humor, then T can say thin In @ ure truly, J, C. BENEKER a & mode of epeech called “irony”; and the day my letter got your goat; to think I meant the stuff I paid. don’t swallow everything T to be tuff 1 wrot wir, 1 humbly pray, r life would be an awful crime if we were sober all the time; Hut let me make it plain as day, your letter was a billet-doux. that this ix what I meant to renate’s noble yenn iy true say: Not éven just a hint of shame should mar th ne and all of this Newberry muss is up to P r—and UB! And here's « true, undoubted fact-—we shouldn't orry,” we : j| should ACT! And while you're taking me to task, excuse me if I r could a Balzac nor a | pause to axk--have YOU done anything to show which way you | think the vote should go? But all For he re for five fares, The Star to hold that no barber r cutting a baldheaded Of this For some Giritge Bonn to no avail; turns a fro) Whieb makes you turn quite pale, | You strive f© nee the funny side | aad situation, say om fot deem it fair for the Colman, Washington every day for an hour boys of F vier achool t at all 1, Johnny Barnett, an aus . “ling the boys of Rainier Jules Verne echeot oye’ friend a Piker! What a world this will be a gen eration hence! At Los Angeles, in the labora tory of = great electrical com pany, sits one of the geniuses of the age—Dr. Robert Milliken, the man who isolated the electron, Few know Milliken intimately and fewer still know what he has done and is doing. But these who do knew say that Milliken has solved the problem of transmitting = million Volts of electricity over one wire a distance of maybe a thousand miles, in perfect safety and at a minimum of expense, the wire being laid undergrow And they say, too, that the car- rying of 10,000,000 volts for a dis- tance of 10,000 miles is only a question of time! Now just sit down and cogitate & moment. Hitherto 220,000 volts has been the maximum load possible and then only at great expense for copper wire, at great loss of pow er and over a limited distance, cashier, bu that would It is with 6 RUpery an we all the most work thin Case in Editor The Here's @ Read the But now that a new principle and Lo has been discovered, what have aa * we got? had on a Why, we ean now ribate | work day electric power from its source, say | Sunday, a1 at Muscle Shoals, the Columbia river, or Boulder canyon, for a some days husband is Editor The St 1 wonder if the man who ts kick ing about the $10 cut in his nal has’ ever walked the streets of Sea asking for work and being refused! Tam a woman of employment for five months have failed to get work of anyskind, altho I am an experienced « counternigned by all the will surely be’ LETTERS TO EDITOR “Winter The northern winter.|of the Bouth, Music is the articula One of Life’ s Tragedies t've oeon it teak toot many "tnes:| thon of the ‘soul, ans the souls o¢| of ber manufactured products There's no « © for doubt any | these men were darkened and sad. | This change in our foreigm Have you @ver been broke, Your one and best salvation more. Perhaps we can drown out|It could not be otherwise, sons of] commerce is going to have @ Without «@ single cent? | nen comes th Ume with tear|ithe sound of it—with music the wildernems as they were. great influence on our home im Your friends have left town filled eye He walked toward the battered in-| The pack song, on the hilltop in| dustries. Are we preparing for And all your money spent; | ana correwetrichéa. hearts strument. Her heart was cold with-| the winter moon, waa never a mel-| this change, or are we trusting to Your hotel bill is running up, | With measured tread and faltering|in her, and she nodded eagerly. “Yes! ody of laughter. Rather it wag the| luck as usual? : Your spirits running down | ntepe 4 little ragtime. It will be fright-| song of Mfe itself, life in the raw, | And every Ume you pass the aterk | rom your baggagé you must/fully loud in the cabin, but it's bet and the sadness and pain and the|the wilderness voices were joyouy He wears a solemn frown | part. ter than the sound of the storm.” hopeless war of existence find their | When Bill had chosen his records he You smile upon this haughty mien, | Now some say love will cause hea n glance fy But | know that's a joke: There's nothing pulls the etrir | Like just simply being broke. ~B, DORLAND. Boys Want Manual Training Editor The Star : : * Bi boys of Rainier School, do the fifth to eighth grades Arthur Gronnerud/Powell Barnett children at |C*t! Momore Amos Whiteton Jake Harth Harry MeDona and = Lesehi | Henry Shuts Frank Teuchiya wal training | Jack Davin Walter Dowse ” the Arthur Alliet Westey Gelierman Joseph Donahu o> St Dave Ralph Winship Hanry Hubn James Rows mn represent: |flennie Feldmar (Roland Nelson eche We | Eugene Long Jack Yont nd = y u are the Albert Leon Carmen Barnett a ave 0 e Signed ond Frank Hopper Ernest Grifin boys from | Rudolph Purse | Edward Handin The $90-a-Month “Kicker” ar and he t willing to pay a iving id of the rest of us who are have to put up with foalize how bard. it nothing ave been out } and is jerk and ke anything wage lke a fortune to me, and I could p some away for a “rainy day A WOMAN. He Seas Case's 8 Praise | Editor The Star h regret I read at Charles Case is to disce inion of streets and sewers, he has kn conscientious men at his) Seattle and not for the Cleveland car | city ever had. Therefore,| works. We don't need any udvice| rs, we need men like Mr./from those Ohio mu@amixera. Why ur city council I have/ not give our own Peter Witt a/ Po yt Fore is House Can Be Built Complete on no sidestepping, pussy: | B. T. MARTIN | foot mulligan. offic ntinue me the t stuff or We neokers or 5 oking: for mit up ahy t want itical flunkie: asure trips out in The Star ehi xpayers’ money been one of Again—$90 ‘a Month Star: n anawer to Ma answer of « of be a woman, lunder shamed m in and day ov a ba 1 have n't get ve on mu rk m: aw ® with the working men ineverything yo shamed of min to y*Lavene, till another ¥ moi say about my whi © in Monday's paper and you | lars you go ahead and say it. But | paying rent and sending children ehool on the little sum of $2.50 lay. lows ur own. 1|¥Ou are talking Impossible things : | Mr. Lavent | because I never expect to have to oe Never | Wear one. Better wait till you know t, including | Wethe you're answering the right ty and hug |Party next time. I happen to know | by and hus parties that are keeping a rose a day, and ing a f ly and ——— My nand Tam thousand miles to light and heat | MRS " . house, factory, church and school, ae ee ae Bee Bay rine arp, run churns, pumps and trolley [OnID men TWA Conan taht lines—and, next, the trunk-line wre ropa Nill 5 ‘with your r sf : LACKHE Uh) ¢o quick railroad itself! tion. I wouldn't } signed 1 We'll make Jules Verne a piker yet! if | hitic MARKIIAM the broken wall ong can tell it afl Jeep, still wood nd the wildest word i YESTERDAY & ANSWERS TURRET ~ RET + KEY + TURKEY, sEARN A WORD EVERY DAY Today's word is DEBACLE It's pronoun de-bah-kel, with jaceent on the « nd ayllable | It means—disruption, stampede, | rout, overthrow | _ It comes from——the French: | It's used like ‘The debacle of at any drug the German army was caused by po- | troubled with these unsight oF dimension ak Gene | ble you should eertainly try” th ple method. heart “Constant Reader should lone | his ponition and get a few of the hard ¥ | Knocks an “turn downs” that some} “Joblena” maybe he would © live on Ninety dollars a month would look | at that, political We need men | in our city council with a heart for | and if you have| on any part” o THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 1922. ‘Must Import _ More or Lose Our Interest BY AMATEUR ECONOMIST During October our imports: $51,000,000. During © re year ago imports of the same class amour t 0,000 000,000 BILL BRONBON'R father, Far rthern prospect” was murdered by hi were against partner, Mutheford, who stole the gold they had dug from their mine in. the| 090,000 @ year age Clearwater, I a hild, vowed he would find Rutheford and the lost| Ports and imports tt “ mine. He is hired about one-half what they were # VIRGINIA TREMONT and | year ago. Manufactured imports decreas 4 $17,000,000, or 2 ent Manufactured exp reas 64 $197,000,000, or 63 per cent, Taking into account the lower prices, imports of thin class in creased @ little, while exports de creased to a marked degree, In raw materials and partially manufactured goods the decrease was about the same, about 50 per cent, for both imports and ex ports We realize that the present ex conn of exports over imports cam HAROLD LOUNRBURY, Virginia's Nance and Kenly’s nephew, lost in the region six years before, Kenly poor sport,” soon tires of the hardships} of the trip and suggests turning back ted in this by VOSPET, the cook, but Virginia instate that they continue. Delayed by} # storm, they do not come to Grizzly river, which they are forced to cross, until dark, and the stream is #o high that Bill in dubious about attempting it, Kenly persuades him to try, however, and Virginia, angered by the Kanterner's lack of consideration, starts to cron after him. She ix swept |off her horse, and Bill saves her life with difficulty, They finally make the | | onite bank, but without their horses, They reach the cabin and after! they are restored by warm blankets and stimulants go out to rejoin their | party--to fin that Kenly and Voeper have deserted them. They make the} | best of the situation, and consider means of getting along on their meager | pupplies, j Now go on with the story per Virginia's eyes grew wide, She|ness man wold choose any other! pre aged ered a Soa |mensed the awe and the dread in hin ? bag future we have to imp even ahe, fresh from cities, |“i% of music than ragtime. She! nore shan we export. If we 46 knew that this foe wa: be | Was but new to the North, other-| not Europe can never pay the im despined. Bhe felt the sharp pinch |wike she would t made no such| terest on what it oes usw. of the coll on the heat escaped thru the open door, The temperature was Superficiality was no part| The above figures seem te They knew| Point the way that this shift will mistake of these northern men falling steadily; already it waw far! ie. in the raw, the tr ot xt take piace. Europe will have to below freening, Bill whut the 400F| once the pinch of the cold and the| Continue to buy our raw me jand walked back to her fury of the storm; and the music terials, to keep her industries go “What does it mean?” she akked|that they felt in their hearts was| ‘9s. She imgoing to buy less and lens of our manufactured goods breathlessly and will sell us more and more never the light-hearted dance music | Hhe didn't dream that this wilder lecho in the wailing notes, None of (Turn to Page 11, Column 1) 4 A Building “Boom” for 1922 Build Now Before I€ Starts rt a | e ut or ot! 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