The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 24, 1922, Page 6

of Washington. Outside o (ha oF 19.00 per osar ‘the sta By carrier, oft Dejected, pathetic, a drooping little unfortunate, she pa the fate of the waitresses in his flabby hands. there amid the grandeur. ‘The girl smiled, tho her lower lip quivered a bit; she ma brutally? If you have you know just how the eyes of r that fall to the ground in Seattle. This sort of a thing shouldn’t be. 1921, have accepted. footsteps! hit her with a hammer. are getting! é The Seattle Sta By mail, owt of etty, Ho per month; B mentha F1.keee months O78) reen Pepitened Datty by The Star Under her arm was a pathetic little bundle, her waitress “uniform.” used a minute to speak to ornate, fat, blase person who presided at the cash register, and who evidently cashier was chiefly interested in getting rid of the pathetic kid, standing droop- de a desperate, plucky fight _ to seem unconcerned, but her big, mournful eyes told the story; she had no job, and had no money, and she hadn't a soul in the world who cared. Did you ever look deep into the brown eyes of a collie when his master had abused this girl looked that night. And then she slipped away into the night, out onto heedless Second ave., to what only knows, and sometimes we think maybe He doesn’t, for there are a lot of The Garland brothers, who refused a million in Normalcy, we hear your Pittsburg woman shot her husband because he How touchy the women Many Dodge Poll Tax (Rrom the Bellingham Herald) Undoubtedly the poll tax law is the least popular law in Wash- it in Rooseveltian style. @ fiery telegram to Senator y L. Jones. And Jones vot- Somebody asked Paulhamus why fhe did not also wire Poindexter, hls reply was that he regar Miles as 8 mere “sage hen” it is useless to “waste ” He believed Poin- ments in favor of the law was that it would tax the man who pays no taxes—the floater, Last year it brought into the state and counties where it was collected fect of the law and the interpreta tions placed upon it, according te its opponents, is that the tax can community property—end from employers. The tax not only is ® lien on property but employers are held liable for the tax of persons on ‘their payrolls. The employes may possibly be able to escape legally and the penalty at- taches, not to the evader, but to his employer. When Governor Hart made his fag booths and to pay actual er- Penecs. — Senator Mclean (RK), Conn, Men can be a2 original now as ever, if they had but the courage, even the insight. Heroic souls in | eld times had no more opportuni- tes than we have; but they used them.—Charles Kingsley. | Students at the state university made s geod suggestion in a res- elution that was adopted at an as- sembly last week when they went on reeord for calling the proposed bridge across the Lake Washing- ton canal, at the campus, “Sta @ium Bridge” instead of “Montlake Bridge.” Stadium Bridge is more deserip- tive. It makes clear where the structure would stand. Montlake is not a particularly besutiful coinage and not especial- ly appropriate there. | The Star would like to see the city council grant the students’ re- quest. And after adopting the name, why not revive the bridge project, and get construction started? LEARN A WORD So that is why, the other da: about @ modern Yankee sport court; and with its wit and ne money's worth, and then the words that met married guy—“He must be bra off,” eaid the king. And then the king went out nized; he found that kingly po cast aside; b common man! true?” monarchy—and yet, 1 think, folks than kings the soul; and modern royal robes of ago; and vapid knaves usurp th by unknown, EVERY DAY Today's word is DEMOTE, It’s pronounced—de moat, with ac. cent on the last syllable. It means—to reduce to a lower rank, grade or standing It comes from—Latin, “de,” down and “movere,” to move. | It's used like this—“The officer] Was demoted from the rank of major te that of captain.” | WESTEICDAY Ss ANSWER. I saw A medineval fight, in which the eft of money, class and clan, GEOGRAPHIC PUZZLE plea for a poll tax it was given out that it was needed to pay the soldier bonus which had been approved by the people, Yet » direct tax of one mill to cover this expenditure was made by the Iegisiature, and according to re port, the state officers are eredit- ing the poll tax revenues to other funds so that the government can make » show of economy in re gard to direct taxes, Grade Crossing Doomed Announcement by the secretary ef agriculture that the deadly grade crossing must go on the roads te be built thru the eper= then of the federal aid highway act, Is good news, Last year 12,000 heman beings were killed at the grade crossings in the United States. ‘This year even these appalling figures will be passed because it is impossible to train a half mib lion new amateur chauffeurs an nually under any known er um known set of rules, Moreover there are thousands of grade crossings so situated a to become veritable death traps and nothing less, on account of curving roads leading te them, and already obscured by fences, hedges or billboards, ‘The valley road between Seattle and Tacoma is a flagrant example of how bad. conditions can be made by tolerating grade cross ings. The grade crossing, like the American saloon, is a purely American institution. We invent- ed the devilish thing. It is up te as to get rid of it, not only by building no more bot, better still, by destroying those already in existence, | ALetter From | ATVRIDGE MANN | Dear Folks: ° Ly a | “Stadium Bridge E66, uot Veby oftsh be © ese 4 mpving slehice show: but now | and then the wife or kids contrive to put me on the skids, and a Good Name then I haven't got @ choice except to heed my manter‘e vine ¥, I saw an Azure Rodent play, who lived in old King Arthur's mse and mirth, I surely got my Yank unhorsed a knight; the eye proclaimed the king a ve as anything, to get @ knight dinguised, and warn't even recom wer died when royal robes were the king was just a And then, around me, quite a few began to murmur “Ain't it The only thing that they could see was just a slap at story brings @ thought for other For, even now, we net our goal at wealth of purse instead of dough supplant the bunk of long @ throne, while kings go passing ORE + GONG —G-< OREGON In one of those elegant, immaculate dining rooms where eating is a fine art, the C A ‘other night a slip of a gtrl hung on the edge of the horrible. "She was shabby; her hat, her dress, her shoes told of pinched pennies; her face told of a sunless hall bedroom—a child really, but old with the desperate struggle to THE From Lyrics of Jey (Houghton, Mittin SEATTLE STAR or your CRAP Book Ca) SECRET BY FRANK DEMPSTER SHERMAN Softly the little wind goes by, A whiaper, Some measage from Brought down to earth's green door, Fragrant and fresh But what it means, who knows? Only the butterfly, the bird, ‘The leaf, the grass and rose, Theire the divine felletty, ‘The gift of wisdom rare, The melody, the mystery, The pecret of the air. Milk Prices Editor The Star: Up to about a week ago milk was sold in the different stores and mar. kets at Various prices, tain wholesale dairy has bought out and amalgamated the small dairies, the prion of milk haa become fixed And no retailer of milk is permitted to well any milk for leas than 11 Editor The Star: The argument regarding the $2.50 & day existence In what caused me to uke my trusty pen in hand and telh the people how we solved the problem of making the shrinking Takes Issue With Ideas of Mr. Dye BY AMATEUR ECONOMIST ‘The Star on January 18 print ed « letter ulging trade with South America and telling us to forget about Europe. I certainly agree with Mr, Dye, the writer, that a great oppor. tunity exists in South America. But I do not believe that it will be easy for the United Statés to develop this opportunity at pres- ent, or, if we do try to profit by this opportunity, that we can forget about Europe for a min ula, Suppose that Seattle bankers were to make « loan to & com pany in Brasil of $25,000,000, te bulld raliroads; what would hap- pen? If the Brasilian company was to buy the materials for the rallroad on a competitive market it would probably use German goods, ‘The 25 million @oMar credit would pass from Braail to Ger many, where on the next repa ration payment it would be handed over to Engiand. Eng- land would then pass it back to the U. S. as interest on her debt to us Suppose an American goes to Brazil and buys a million dol lars’ worth of coffee, Because of cheaper prices in Germany the million goes there to pay for manufactured goods, where it ts pamed to England or France, who in turn passes it back to the U. 8 as payment 00 thelr Interest debt to um An long as the exchange rate favors the U. 8, an it does at present, it will be cheaper for the world to buy from Eurepe than it will be to buy in the U. 8, and the exchange will be greatly in our favor as long as the European countries have to pay us large sume in interest and principal, unless we buy Jota more than we sell to them. If the above reasoning is cor rect, U. 8. investments in South America will greatly help Ger many and other European coun- . tries to build up business and | commereg with 8. A. which in turn wil) help Germany to pay her indemnity and help France and England to pay their interest to us. But I don’t believe that it aswures @ market for Amer jean goods. Mr. Marcossen, in the Satur. day Evening Post of January 21, gives us the following fig- ures as to labor costs in the U. &, England and Germany. ‘These costs were furnished by @ firm operating drug factories in New York, London and Ham. burg. The same kind of labor that costs $14 per week in New York conte six dollars in London and only one dollar in Hamburg. As long as costs are much higher in the U, 8. than they are fn Europe we will find European goods barring the way in the farthest corner of the world when we try to market our products. Another reason why we can not at present bulld up @ great trade with S. A. is our lack of any recognized foreign policies. The truth is that we don't know enough about world eco nomics to keep our politicians from balling up everything every four years, We spend 25 billion dollars and 100,000 lives and more to Prove to the world that we are for the right and are willing to fight for the right, and a Har- vey comes along and tells the world that we were fighting from fear and not because of Principle, and the trouble is that some of us nearly believe it our selves. If we doubt ourselves, how can the world have any confidenee in ue? . The first thing for us to do ls to settle our merchant ma- rine question, then to settle our tariff question, and then to de termine what is the wisest policy to follow as regards the collection of our debts. When thewe questions are settled we have @ good chance to build up the world trade that we should have. nothing more; . the aaure sky the wonder word, Controlled? cents @ quart under threats that they will not be able to procure milk a¢ all if this price is change I therefore ask you to look into this matter as I would like to know if my opinion is right, as I believe this is @ violation of the Sbermaa anU-trust law A STAR READER. ° pay check cover our expenses. When we lived in the city it took almost every cent of my husband's |monthly check to cover house rent, | fuel, light, water, insurance, lodge dues, groceries and milk Dilla, leav- | ing & mighty little to drew and wend three children to school We found we just simply had to get out of town so my hushand hunted around | and finally found two and a half, acres of land near Pacific City, | which lies in the Puyallup valley, between Seattle and Tacoma. It wes about as tough « looking Proposition as one would want to fen. One acre partly cleared, cut up| with deep slourhs in which water) was always lying, but we got the! land on the installment plan, paying for it Uke mmall rent, and it is good jand now that it is properly ditched and drained, | The land bad no buildings of any kind on it, but we rented a little house close by, and my husband was| fortunate in securing day labor on| the Northern Pacific ratiroad. He worked every minute be could | spare on thin land and I got some chickens to belp out with the egg and meat problem. Ry dint of mm ing we got & fourroom bungalow up the first year, also got the land plowed and into garien, and partly wet out tn strawberries and raspber | ries. After the garden came on, the Uttle ones and 1 aid nome of the Ughter cultivating and I found that my grocery bills amounted to a! ridiculously amall eum, and I am never ashamed of the table T net, | ether, for always have plenty of wholesome food. last year we made a neat little mum from the sale of our berries, be sides the 400 quarts I canned for home use. I find I can buy mitk and butter cheaper here and also most kinds of meat, altho we have chickens of our own to kill most any time. We are atill paying on our house, | but none of us have ever regretted the step. we took when @e came out | here, #0 it seems that the “Little Lander” is one of the ways to bedt the H. C. of Le Piease do not think that I am doonting this valley particularly or that I have any land to eell, for I haven't. I am simply saying. that! if m person han the “pep” and stick. toltiveneas, they can make a #uc- conn of the little place, can make the) small pay check cover expenses, and have a pleasanter, more healthful, and freefromworry existence. MRS. F. M. CROWN, Sumoer, Wash. Poultry Show a Success Faitor The Star: We want to extend our thanks to you for the great publicity that you gave the Seattle Poultry show dur- ing the week of January 4 to & Thru the help you gave us, we gere able to come out with a small fund, after a heavy expense, that will en- able ue to start In for a big show next winter. Again thanking you, we your truly, RC. SIMPSON, Secretary. H. H. COLLIER, Superintendent, DR. J. R. BINYON Free Examination |way along them back to the cabin? | started to follow them down. |feet, but it wan tragedy here. Once Ny \ay to the right ri than 6 hia left. He wan taking « shortep | step with hie left than with hi the same tendency that oftey makes & tried woodeman walk ing great circle—and he thus bore come stantly to the |e necensary to dre to six, then to the « Om and on, thru t | | | But the fight wn haustion and hunger, but cold most lof all, were «wiftly breaking him - |down,' He advanced with wtaggering 0m stepa re The indentations were more shah begun to break thru the snow crust, e | because of the softening enow, w 4 (Continued From Yesterday) Jeained. Yea, he thought it was stil sya Aas es og wa ; “It won't do, Bill,” told himself, | daylight, Sometimes he reemed to | Manel cue oat Uo the wing “Hold steady—-tor one minute more.” | feel the puntight on his * eae were the tracks manifest at all pruce log, the last segment of | was not cold now, and ev ot. whe Fm ions he ‘ped ‘anus comewhohe was gone from his lips and thighs. | The yr ge = up. A hin “some a few feet from his door, But he| He was mistaken in thin, however, | could no ike : Pithon. whe could Femembered it had fallen into «|The pain wtill sent ite fearful mes. |And now. like & Tithonus who could thicket of evergreen: could he find | #ages to his brain, but in his grow-|not die, Son tua bunds and Aan ft now? The log would not burn us-| fig stupor he was no longer aware| shoe tral on Bis, bende himeatt, til Jt was cut up with his ax; the ax|of them. Even hie hand Man's Lege et PS would be hard to find in the pressing nies now. Hoven if he found it, even | frozen i if he could eut kindling with his | the depressions in the drifts. It could | darkness. He wondered if it were “I'm thru! Yet always bis rouscleg wv) made one movement more Buddenly he mined the traf. Hig yet it Wee pul) senmty vain over the knife, he couldn't maintain @ blagze,| «ull grope thru the snow and find) hand groped in vain over white Building and mending a fire with | the tracks, agrten timber is @ cruel task even| with vision; and he knew as well as | #pok he knew the fact of his own life that ithout volition on forward again holly impossible to the} @7 inner man, wi tt would be wholly impo: poligem | to hear them. yet come bimd, ‘Then what was left? Only a deeper, colder darkness than this he knew now. Death was left—nothing else. | In an hour, perhaps in a baif-hour, possibly not until the night had gone and come again with its wind and ite chill, the end would be the name, There was no light to guide him home, no landmarks that he could Then his thought setzed upon an idea #0 tanta seemingly #0 im. possible of achievement, that at first he could not give it credence. His mind had flashed to those unforte nates that had sometimes lost their way in the dark chambers of an un derground cavern and thence to that method by which they guarded aguinat this danger. These men car. ried strings, unwinding them as they entered the cavern and following| them out. He had not carried @ string-end here, but he had made a trail! His snowshoe tracks probably | were not yet,obliterated under the| wind-biown mnbw. Could he feel hie} The milen were many and jong, but | he wouldn't have to creep on hands and knees all the way. Perhapr he| could walk, stooped, touching the de Dreasiona in the snow at every step. In his own soul he did pot believe that he had one chance in a hundred of making tt thru to safety, Craw ing, creeping, groping from track to track would wear him out quickly But was there any other course for him? If he didn’t try that, would he ave any alternative other than to He till and die? He waen't rure that he could even find the tracks | in the snow, but if he were able to| encircle the cabin at a radius of fifty feet he could not mine them. He groped about at the gide of the cabin for hin snowshoes. He found them in a minute, then walked straight as he could fifty feet out from the door. Once more he went on hands and feet, groping in the fey snow, He started to make a great circle. : Fifteen feet farther he felt a break tm the even murface. The snow had been wo roft and bis shoes had sunk no deep that the powdered flakes the wind had strewn during the night had only half filled hin tracks, He He walked stooped, groping with one hand, and after an endless time bis fingers dipped into dry, warm ashen Only for a fraction of a second 4id he fail to understand. And in the darkness and the silence the man’s breath caught in what was almost a nob. He realized that he had fol lowed the tracks in the wrong dirce tion, and had traced them straight to the cabin door that he had just left. Tt was only a matter of a hundred more he started on the out-trail He soon found that he could not walk in his present stooped position. Human flesh ts not built to stand such @ strain as that. Before he had gone half a mile sharp pains be. fan to attack him, viciously, in the back and thighs. For all his mag- nificent strength—largely returned to him Mm his hours of rest—he could not progress in this position more than half a mile farther. He took another course. Me would walk ahead five ppoes, then drop down and grope again for the tracks. Sometimes he found them at once, often he had to go on his hands and feet and wtart to circle. Then, tind. ing the trail, he would mush on for five steps more, Oh, the way was cruel! He could not ee to avoid the stinging lash of the spruce needies, the cruel blows of the branches, Already the attempt began to partake of a quality of |nightmare—a blind and stumbling Advance over infinite difficulties thru the infinity of time. It was like some torment of an evil Hereafter—eter. nal, remorseless, wholly without hope. Many times he sprawled at full length, and always it was harder to force himaelf to his feet Five steps on, halting and groping, then five steps more: thus the lone figure journeyed thru the winter for- est. The seconds dragged into the minutes, the minutes into hours. The cold deepened; likely it was the bitter hour just after dawn. ‘The hand with which he groped for the tracks had lost all power of feeling. Ho could not judge distance or time, Already it seemed to him that he had been upon the journey end. less hours. Because of the faint Brayness before his eyes he judged | {t was broad daylight: Perhaps al- ready the day was giving over to darkness, He didn't know how far he had come. The only thought he had left was always to count his ter rible five steps, and count five more, Nothing else mattered. He had for the moment at least loat sight of all | other things. His thought was not | 8o clear now; it seemed to him that | the forest was no longer silent. Thero | were confused murmurings in his far, « curious confusion and perplex. ity In his brain. It was hard to re- member who he was gnd where he was going. Just to count his steps, stoop, grope and find the snowshoe trail, then journey on agnin, He tried to increase the number of steps between his gropings—first | BEST $2.60 GLASSES on Earth We are one of the fow eptical’ stores in the Northwest that really grind lenses from start to fin we are the only one in SHATTLE—ON FIRST AVM. Examination free, by graduate op- tomotriat, Glasses not. prescribed unless absolutely necessary. BINYON OPTICAL CO. 1 FIRST avn. Between Spring and Sencea six, then seven, Above seven, how. ever, the trail was so hard to find that time was lost rather than tions in the snow, The was that the motor centers of his brain had begun to be impaired by cold and exhaustion, and he could no longer walk in @ straight line, He found out, however, that the trail! At the End |eruat. He crept on a few more feet, “I can’t go ont” his voice suddenly | then as ever, began to circle. Soom “1 can't go—any more.” | his hand found an indentation in the | started to creep ‘The words seemed to come from | snow crust, and He was a little amazed| But slowly the conviction grew | Yet the time had not/ upon him that he was crawling in @ ‘The | small circle—the very circle he had a Bome way, he had missed to stop and rest, tracks still led him on. | Just made, Always, it seemed to him, he had) the snowshoe trail. He did not re to grope longer to find the indenta-| member how on his jourriey out he had once been obliged to backtrack a hundred yards and start on at « new angle, He had merely come te that point from which he had turned back. 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