The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 20, 1922, Page 6

PAGE 6 Newspaper Re Pebiioned Datty Press Service A few Spokane people and some Spokane newspapers, notably the Spokesman-Re- view, persist in mis-stating Seattle's position regarding the Columbia Basin project. The attitude taken by the Chamber of Commerce here, which probably represents quite faithfully the viewpoint of Seattleites generally who have given the Columbia Basin scheme any thought, is simple, understandable. It is this: Seattle favors the development, at as early a date as practicable, of the Columbia Basin project. Seattle realizes the magnitade of the undertaking (greater than anything similar ever done by mankind) and proposes that it be entered into when due study of the problem has been made to insure its success. To this end, and to centralize the attention and co-ordinate the efforts of the whole state, Seattle has suggested the convening of a statewide conference. In the meantime, Seafile stands for the early completion of the smaller irrigation s that are already studied out and can be commenced as soon as money is . Seattle does not believe undue haste in pushing an unripe Columbia Basin “gcheme should imperil these other valuable state undertakings. Seattle is as earnestly for the Columbia Basin development as is any community within its bounds, as is Spokane or Tacoma or Portland. But Seattle does not ap- Me in the best development of the Central Washington possibilities, and which at same time might delay for many years the other reclamation undertakings it mean a great future for Washington. Perhaps business docsn't come back “because it hasn't the railroad fare. Some men expect a girl to buy $5 stockings and wear long skirts. round.” It’s like liquor—the last drink brings the Jag. Don't chuckle too loudly, con- sumers. The gambiers have a system of doing it all over again, te recoup their losses, As a gambling device, the deck of cards and the putand-take top are pin- heads alongside the humble A doctor says he “knows” every |teoman in Philadelphia is knock~ |keneed. Keveral husbands are hunt- jing Aim. been ratified to New- by five votes, Hiram goes his home whence, a day later, iebuecd a restatement of his The bones of a dasilosaurus have deen found klahoma. Welk bet jhe couldn't spell his name, |_ The flapper thinks she ought to [de wier, She passes am exan I ton every time she meets ¢ | AReotter from AIVRIDGE MANN Editor The Star: Dear Sir, I hardly need repeat Newberry still retains his seat; and that, in spite of all the row, he's mafely in the senate now; and we must call him, once again, “The Honorable Truman N.” He keeps the prize, if such it be, but yet I think, if I were he I wouldn't care for private gain that made my native land contain « senath Gat with this device—Two hundred thousand was the Price. But even so, we try in vain to read another (ellow’s br: what, to me, seems bare and grim, may seem a king! him; so let him Uve his Uttle day, and get what re may It len't he that got my goat, but how the senate cast ity vote each Pemocratic geezer thought the seat was most corruptly bought, while on the other side we see a nearly solid G. 0. P It seems to me the Ship of State is in a very sorry fate when party lines must mark the fight between inherent wrong and right, and scales of justice ever away to what the party leaders say For now, when they investigate corruption in affaires of state, the only thing they ever try is simply, “Was the guilty guy Republican or Democrat"—and let the verdict rest on that. and crown to pmpense he It is said “No man can obey masters.” Hiram did it. ‘Hiram did not know that Willis was to weaken on promise of sup- port for his “censure” resolution; not know that Poindexter sive in under pressure Bach and Bourne; he did now that Pepper would rep- Pennsylvania and give his knew c # CRAD COMPENSATION William Jennings Bryan tells a ory which seems to fit the case. An old negro was hoeing cotton THE SEATTLE STAR ‘Elsa @r9n by Lite Brown (Continued Prom Yesterlay) The next instant wan one of drama Jof incredible #tress and movement ‘or all his mortal wounds, dintance between the bear I girl seemed to rec with | awittn The animal's cries }thru the allent for near and far the wild creatures paused in thelr ccoupations to tate Virginia aise | stood her ground. ‘There wan no une yes gazing along her pistol barrel firing shot after shot mal's head, Heeause it was an auto matic, she was able to send home the loads in rapid succession. But they were Hitt with never the shocking power stop that blasting charge. Her safety still lay im that in which had Siways trusted, the same that bad been her fort and her stronghold tn all their past adventures. Hill saw the grisly change in direction; bis Tesponse was instinctive and instan He came leaping thru the snow an if @ great hand had hurled him, all of his mus contracting in response to the ewift, jomutable command of bis will, For all the burden of his snowshoes and the depths of the drifts, his leap was al most as fast as the grizsly’s own } He had but one realization: that the j iets tender flesh must never know those rending claws and fangs, He }leaped to intercept the charge with hin own body But his hand had found the shell by now, dropped it into the gun, and as 4 last instinctive effort, pulled back the lever that slide the cartridge into the barrel, There was no time to raise the gun to his shoulder, He pointed it instinctively toward the gray throat, And the end of the bar rel was against the bear's flesh as he | pressed the trigger No human nuld follow the [lightning events of the next fraction [of a second. All that occurred was over and done in the duration of one into the ant taneoun eye heart beat—-before the shudder and | the explosion in the air from the rifle’s report had passed sway, One | instant. and the three figures seemed ether: Will crouched with rifle pointed in his arms, Virginia jbebind him, the grizaly full upon them both. The next, and H. 1 stood alone in the snow and the si lence awed. terrified. and stranged as if in a dream Except for three and « forms that still, half-burie nenaled drifes, it w chad hea and # rifle report pd the grisaty's There was no movement, neem ingly no life—onty the drifts and the winter forest and the futile sun, shin ing dwn between the snowladen trees roar curred. The bullet had gone true. It had plerced the animal's neck, break en J pened ac ing the vertebrae of the spinal col-| umn, and life had gone out of him as a flame goes out in the wind. But it had come too late to destroy the full foree of his charge. Ti) had been struck with some portion of the bear's body as he fell a hed been buried like af aa doll the drifts, Virginia, too, had received some echo of that shock, probably from Bill's body he shattered fown, Now all three jay half-hidden in the snow, Which of them lived and which were dead Harold dared not gu But he had no time to go forward and investigate before Bill } sprung to his fect. He had received only a glancing t the drifts into which he had fallen were soft ax pil Im reality be had never even ates to uught that had guided and bie actions thruout the ad. ture, he crawled over to Virginia's lows lot the one th conneld shaped wide an had ever seen his as it was now, His jeyen were wide with the image of | horror jthe dying bear might have inflicted jon the girl There was no rend in [her white flesh, and his eye kindled and his face blazed when [he saw that ahe yet lived | He didn’t waste even a small part his energies by futile pleadings her to waken. He eeized her shoulders and shook her ge Instantly her jfull_consciow | with a rushy te however of for her eyes Her an returned her ¢ was not scratched. scked by the fall a openes even # he didn’t know what wounds | | | }at them in dumb amazement line: brelting ie ts Adios. | BY CHARLOTTE BECKER in New York Herald jhe reached up quickly for Bill's hot ’ " A titie- way Lo aiked ‘s hands. And instantly th a laugh Looking up into the face of the ad ieee lod tne tiporaks peat ~ } I had not recked what joy might be jon her lips, she sprang to her feet. Dlistering sun he said: | Till I had known his comradeship, You killed him?" she asked. “Whar was you las’ December And thrilled to every word and quip |_ It was the first breath she had when we needed you?” As if it voiced some memory | Wasted, and no man might hold Bi: “eae 2 ) Sain her. She had only to joc " ager Of loveliness he made me free at the huge gray form in the drifts | 4 we should fail—twe fait I hold the whole wide world in fee |to know her answer. Bill, because dl pee gow courage to the | reach the stars wag but to trip |he waa a woodsman first, last, and Wicking place, i tle way. | always, slipped additional shells into} 4 And we'll not fail. Shakespeare. | Harold's rifle; then walked over to i eg And, tho the wise ones made their ph the bear, He gazed down at its film a, hatin Ba she has no | Love would not bide; I could not nee Jing eyes, i cha | Until I heard the knowledge slip Bear's all dead,” he answered erie 44 So carele from Love's own lip |cheerfully. And Virginia's heart The w Yet: Love once kept me comp |raced and thrilled, and a delici E ie A little wa 5 ation swept thru her, when #h Py ig chinnnei down at this woodsman's _ Egg Prices Se nas atone eee . Egg prices tumble. Housewives was not a tremor in their | thuckle. Much moaning from eng x speculators, who lose $900,000 in Pos eg of ts ronane sir ond and superlative astonis Some one week in Chicago alone. And one was peakin “ora three, me ne from farmers, innocent in-between | was asking them if they were both Wietims of a vicious system, Jal right. It was a strange voice The egg horde piled up so big — TF ase iris Bh tosip remembered / that it toppled over of its own - + But they saw at once the apeaker | a weight. | Was Harold, He had come with them é The egg speculator is like afl | today, quite true. Both of them had | 4 gamblers: He rarely recognizes the almost forgotten hia existence. | Psychological moment for unload ing. “Come on, just A Stolen Jewel— A Beautiful Girl— Baffling Mystery YESTERDAYS ANSWERS . | one 1 BELI 1, plus GIANT minus ANT plus RUM minus Ris BE mere minus (hx ua hall xIx they had been Bill had always been careful In the weeks ther, futile things, | ‘ FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 1922 M sbor in willing to work for a | reasonable figure we will a” vA IKI A WOK D gi hingie EVERY DAY Rado Omen Firat will come new building IVERY D O14 buildings will be replaced by oe es new onen, ref will be made, |, 3 ’ of Activit 9] and improvements of all kinds | ay'® word In BLOC y Next will come new industrial | Tt tet need —blahk, | BY AMATEUR BCONOMIST homen; better factories, better It m kr in any political | Probably the most hopeful sign pped, For clone competition | ansemt in congrems or Z| in the lavt 20 months Is the fall na wellequipped tuctorie lature, that vote gether, in terest rates | jowilng theme come ently of par , | hen money in scarce and ow and ra nds $. | ting men to work is c or nolld piece | and mone out of work th P never to try to show Harold t9 a) in goreg saat that 1 ean has influenced bad light, It wes ly an i gh something ta going to happen the passage of many farm m € Of the inherent decency y Bef We are still a long ways from von |- — he knew that Virginia loved ss deeantew tie elit dae te be saved each 4 him, Uvat had pllehted her troth oe Povapgen d Baw yy ill “deme” lot of new settlers in thin dis to him, afd ae ke | Hut if a rea pount that thin development hei i ; dured and the « 4 of money becomes available and ut to take place oo eee Oe ee, ee would Hever try W whattor her Legere Feagperl goede cnandt it lean debt in the Bast nm , only heartbreak for her to love « somethin'=-wakened that bear out of| next five years will nee more real age fe pone pen anna wr wed a wore. hibernation. Ar is den in nome-| development than the last 10 bs : nie ose protien olind 3 [knew enouwh of ure where in thi two-hundred-yard| have neen y Sent w p some advertising * that love often Hiv ‘an Money looking for investment — apect in dead, and no good | here’n probably a cave in the| may mean new prosperity to the You'll smile, too, when you drink could come of showing the Un | rock," Harold suggested. “And I'm| Northwest, Discouraged farmers 0 5 cents —Ad a Worthiness that HA beheld in I mbre interested in the cabin and din-| in the Middle West may mean D | He had never tried to en I pres hevag- grammer * ‘ B or eh hie tor Ail bis i | “Noverthelem, I've never looked . i dignation now, hie voloe was wholly into @ den of hibernation, and I've v cheerful and friendly when he 8n-| wars wanted to know what they're P owered Vike. It will only take a minute. « "We're quite all right, thanks,” he | Come on-—tt will be worth seeing.” a waid, "The only canuaity was the) put Harold had very special and bear. A little snow on our clothen, | particular reasona why such a courne c but it will brush off. And by the|appeaied to him not at all, “Yew Pe way—" land maybe find a couple of other row < He paused, and tor all his even| bears in there, in the dark and no Harold had a sickening and|chance to fight. I'm not interested, tl ghastly fear of the sober query in| anyway. Go and look, if you like.” P « eyes, “Why did you give me “I will, if you don’t mind. Do you (@) P! maded gun and tell me it was | want to come too, Virginia? There's t full?” he went on, “Except for a|no danger—really there isn't. If this a good deal of luck there'd been a|had been an old she-bear we might amile on the face of the grizsly—| have found some cubs, but these old re) ars and no mur (Turn to Page 13, Column 1) : He thought it only just that, in arcane r spite of Virginia's presence, Harold | , explain thls grave omiasion. He felt fi F that Virginia was entitled to an ex Get one of a planation too, and Harold knew, from ‘“ her earnest eyes, that she was wait these home b ing his anewer. Ho might have been ” arrogant and insulting to Bul, but savings banks be he cared enough for Virginia's re and find out. spect to wish to justify himeelf. He “i y studied their faces; it was plain that} PA they db not accuse him, even in} Start an ac- y thelr most secret thoughts, of evil oO Ww 7" # intent in handing Bill an almont| C unt no dur y empty gun. But by the stern code | ine tits wt of the North sins of carelesnnons are | A ¥ no les damning than intentional | Te Riv S ones and Harold knew that be had| a erent dea! to answer for WEEK. “And by the way,” Bill went on, ™ as he waited for his reply, “I don’t We loan remember hearing my gun go off during the fray. "You tight explain these banks that, too.” ree rs 1 didn’t shoot because I couldn't,” | ; to Savings Harold replied earnestly, “At first epositors, you were between me and the bear— DR J. R. BINTON J then Virginia was It all hap 4 Yet he knew vaguely what had oc-| gray grizaled form in the «now “Nothing very important -—- but cog TY. veg Seattle just walked in a twohundred-yard circle, up the creek to where we AFFILIATED WITH THE climbed the hill, back along the hill in this direction, and then down, And y 7 ‘ * v ghaven't cromed that. eranye| Retail Credit Men’s National Association Well, what of it? | | weeks, with very little change, Do lyou mean to tell me that a lively, to-|hungry bear is going to stay ¢ The Peacoek’ By Frederic Arnold Kummer Free Examination quickly that there was noth. ne 1 cow! do I can't imagine why | can't always remember—everything BEST SAVINGS DEPARTMENT I thought I had. Thank God that it pny on didn't turn out any worse than it THe did.” We sre one of the few optical n ee stores in the Northwest that resily Hill nodded: the girl's face showed Fring lenses from start to finish, and unspeakable relia. She was glad that this lover of hers had logical | and acceptable reasons for his omis | sions. The incident was past, ue dead. They gathered about the | ¢ the only one in SEATTLE—ON FIRST AVE. Examination free, by graduate op- the tometrist. Glasses not preseribed! [unless absolutely necessary, om |BINYON OPTICAL co.| 1116 FIRST AVE. ering aad Seneca Seattle National Bank | | “Does this—help our food probi any?” Virginia asked “Kaxcept in an emergency—no, Vir ginia, you ought to try to cut that foreleg muscle.” He lifted one of the front feet of the bear in his hands. “You'd see what it would be like to try to bite it, He's an old tongh brute—worse eating than a wolf, Strong as mink and hard as rock. If we were starving, we'd cut off one of those hama in a minute but we can wait a while at least. If we don't pick up some more game during the day, I'll hike over to my ‘Twenty-three Mile cabin and get the supplion I've left over there, There's amoked caribou ham, among other, Bills Promptly Tomorrow Will Be Pay Your Bills Promptly Day of National Thrift Week Pay Your things. I'll bring back a backload. anyway.” Then his voice changed, and he looked earnestly inte Vir ginia’s eyes, “Rut you won't want HIS ADVERTISEMENT IS NOT DIRECTED TO THOSE WHO UNDERSTAND- to bunt any I forgot a sbock this experience would be to you She amiled, and the paleness about her lips was alm f “I'm get ing used to whocks, I feel a little any more today NTLY USE THEIR CREDIT, BUT RATHER TO THOSE WHO HABITUALLY AND FLAGRANTLY ABUSE IT. T If you “Service.” work for pay you are “in business for yourself.” Your stock In trade ts This you sell to your employer. As long as he continues to pay you on a shaky—but {t doesn’t amount to any ? 3 t thing. 1 want tote ob ep aed look certain date his CREDIT with you is good. But should he FAIL to PAY, you would at the caribou trail, at least.” be justified in severing Telations with him at once. Sure enough stand it or Bruin's if you feel you ran It's only up the hilt a hundred yards I'd like to take old I don't see how we ‘I believe we'd better him with all bis el in The merchant to whom you owe last month's bill neglected his PAY DAY, home mor? mercbandise? is your employe. If you have isn't he justified in declining to deliver to your sthen on, the snow. And Heaven know's I'd How ts the merchant to give YOU service on merchandise if he hasn't the money to like to find out sea the me we KEEP UP? You couldn't congnue to give service to your employer if he neglected was doing out—at a time when a YOUR PAY DAY, could you? the other bears are hibernating.” They continued on up the creek until the grade of the hill wan less, And then there is another very important point you must REMEMBER. If the then clambered slowly up. Fitty entire community is prosperous, there are more jobs, more places for you to sell your yards up the slope ‘they encountered services, In times of stress EVERY BUSIN MAN is affected by POOR BUSINESS. the old caribou trail, but none of Think It over—there is considerable food for thought—and this is the time for SERIOUS thene wilderness creatures had been Hearne recs along it in recent 4 They fol lowed it a short back In the direction they, had come and the scene of their battle with the bear “No profit here,” Bill said at } We might as well go down to creek bed and find better walking. They turned, and in an instant more came back to their own tracks And suddenly Bill stopped and stared however Insurance is the indisper to keep your CREDIT INSUR of your debts. ble protector of posterity and prosperity. SD. Tt will pay you The only premium required is the prompt discharge above CHARGE ACCOUNTS ARE DUE THE FIRST PAYABLE IN FULL BEFORE THE TENTH MAKE UP YOUR MIND TODAY THAT YOU WILL PAY YOUR BILLS PROMPTLY He looked so astonished, #0 inex preasibly baffled, that for a moment his two companions were stricken silent. Virginia's heart leaped in her thre Yet the tracks contained no se for her. “What's the matter? asked. “What do you see?” 311] caught himself and looked up. Retail Credit Men’s Association Harold “Man, this snow has been here for Jong in one pla unless he's asleep S Lye Read It in the Post- Intelligencer, Starting Next Sunday