The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 16, 1922, Page 6

and United Press Service. BY mall, out of city, He per moni 6 the ot Wasnt at 44.58 for € montha or 88.00 Into the Hereafter A Chippewa Indian, reputed to be 137 years old, dies at Cass Lake, Minn, Was he the | American? Probably. mame was Ga-Be-Nah-Gewn-Wonce. Translated, Wrinkled Meat. Would you trade your life for his? He lived simply, close to nature. a trip to Minneapolis, St. Paul and Chicago. People who like jazz, folding beds, starched collars, landlords and time clocks will : “Shucks! We live more in a year than old Wrinkled ‘Wrinkled Meat, remembering the joys of outdoor life, would smile wisely. Meat had been married eight times, But he never had a child. Finally, “adopted one. The paternal instinct can’t be downed. He knew the dull monotony ‘an old age without children. he could have had an heir, he undoubtedly would have traded 75 years of his life. led Meat never knew real life. All life is a preface until we have children. Emerson, greatest American philoso- jer, said that. It is true. Wrinkled Meat lived to see his peopie, the real Indians, lose the vast country The Seattle Star ==| Never visited a city until he was 133. THE SEATTLE STAR Editor The Star The letter of “A. T. Axpayer” tn |The Star of the 11th, deseribes the | mayor of Seattle from the standpoink of one who pays his full share of taxes. We have had far too much of the politicians and polition, and the soon. er we give them @ good excuse to fo olwewhere, the better it will be for this elty, Before public expense ix | reduced to normal, we must send the cloctive officers of the city and cour: ty home, and thelr henchmen with } therm, | ©A little knowledge ts a dangerous | thing,” and when that knowledge ia | mained from experience in politica, it | becomes fatal to public good, so new |men are desirable for every office and every job. Judging from the past, It would ap pear that when a man fajled to make Then he Meat lived in his 137.” Editor The Star; The foourth of March fe nearing, the day on which @ member of | President Harding's cabinet will end | his services for the nation aa a nec: |retary of post, Will this bring al bad effect on our government and our people? 1 verily believe, you for service, one being a favorite cor |poration and the other a govern ment, must @ man better offer hin e% to the former rather than the latter while be is under the pro tection of the same? No wonder it LETTERS 32 EDITOR The Type of Mayor Seattle Needs qualifications of the man needed for | When two bugles sound the call) | 00d in his own business he becomen & candidate for public offices, and | often, out of pity or expert manage ment of his creditors, he gets elected, and the public pays, His mental con | dition Is “Get the money,” and that, coupled with the cause of his past failures, makes him an expensive luxury, a» far as the taxpayer is concerned. Among the candidates for mayor, Cunningham is the only one to be nnidered, He haw had no expert. ence in polities, He haa, by sane, honest, intelligent industry, built ap & succensful business, and will, when | eleoted mayor, une the same method | in conducting the affairs of that of fies. Aa The Star appears to be the only paper that tries to serve the people, I hope you will give this space, Cc. ALMER LIMAN, 1606 S0th Ave, When Will Hays Steps Out find better positions unde private corporations regardless of what their services would mean to their coun- try, and the government be left un der the administration of the un- able and corrupt official? shail we find it better administered or our lives in danger and all our secured liberties trampled by misconduct? Certainly we must expect the worst of it, When President Harding appoint. jed Mr. Haye as a secretary of post, whose character revealed him to | be the right man for the position, once controlled from coast to coast. iA Providence gave the Indians a chance, then shoved them off the stage to make m for a civilization of production which, now solving slowly the problem of making im a few hours a day, oe te the cheerful note. hold on the cord of laughter’s bell, aloof from the moana that mar: side of 0 Ho dont carry the lilt of @lauoh rings far. Strickland W. Gillan. are the requisite qualift- of an appointment clerk? ‘he must understand the rules service commission, and fe enough to drive anybody en ordinary period of time. 2 Why, he must be the Har on earth, able to twen ckly that even senators @nd 2 and heads of departvernts catch him.—Representative (RJ, N thy worry? The chance of be- ig killed on a train is only one in s and of octting into the teas than that. fresh admit that Tony that his fingers lal enough to puil contest, however, make most of us yawn. fs it that makes people in- in so many different “TAnd what sort of contest inter- sts you most? sends great angels in our sore e+ vr little ones run in and out aft © dey, —Frederick Langbridge. 7 Our postal service estimates ‘ $25252,4518 in three months. does not include Will Hays. OP fecey. who led the famous army, qwanta'to buy 112 ships, 10 maybe Wwe will have 2 Corey's navy. There's a difference in “Klas and Make up” and “Kiss the make-up.” A coal strike is due in April. April strikes bring May prices. | It would be great tf some people @a well as they do loud. | Men never brag about their pay @found income taz time. Business might get better if tt qwes avainst the law. The rising generation wants to Meep until 10 o'clock. Another nickel cigar has dropped from & to 6 cents. | The only fool like an old fool is @ young one. Just after the arms limitation conference settled the Pacific an earthquake mixed it all up again. Japan ought to be satisfied. She goes to bed while we are getting up. A lot of us wouldn't be content with our lot even if it was a Jot. The interest in short skirts is more than. 8 per cent. Some Are Born to It ‘Trouble walks right up te seme people's doors, knocks, and walks in without cleaning its shom on the mat. Then, there aro alse people who take a double-barreled ening to go home to father. | the obligation of the government did he choone a man who would de- to render protection to its citizens, | cline hin services for his country and and they in turn should prefer a| engage himself for his private in- fovernment service than the other.| terest? No worthy citizen of any Let Mr. Haye ak himself, Is it more nation will ever attempt to entangle enjoyable and more dutiful to be at| himeelf with this respect. Can it the service of a private corporation | be, then, that a worthy #on of Uncle than at the wervice of a government) fam lke Mr. F which bears the protection, liberty) an erroneous pat Germans Take Steel Trade From Seattle BY AMATEUR ECONOMIST Keonomists have been telling us for some time that Germany would have to well ber goods to all the world at ® price that would be much lower than the prices of other nationa. Today men are out ef work here in Seattle because of the German indemnity, German gteel is pow offered in Beattlo for $2.20 per owt. By selling at a lows, I understand local deniers umually are keeping the local trade, But our Oriental trade la gone A year ago the ates! milla of Seattle were turning out about 10,000 tons of steel monthiy. Mort of it wan shipped to the Orient. Today they are only re ceiving email orders on rush jobs, where the element of time ‘will not allow the buyers to wait for the slower German delivery. We are told that German steel has & few cannot take care of and pro vide for all of their offspring, each of whom is ag dear to the parents as any Mra, F. I. may have, What would our beloved Theodore Roonevelt have thought of such @ ridiculous idea of not permitting im- migrants with more than three chil dren, who would not submit to this unheard-of operation, te enter our country? It so happens that I am one of 12 of a family whieh immigrated to this country from Poland Being born here, I presume I must be one of these “v in” bred in this country. Tam sure Uncie Bam has had no reason to be ashamed of any and prosperity of ite citizens? What if President Harding and all other capable men of the country should Editor The Star: Mrs. Compton, president ef the Seattle Audubon Society, has recent ly started a nation-wide campaign to free the American eagle now held In captivity, both privately and why the most freedom-loving of all birds, the king of birds, the na tional emblem—the engie—should be excepted, I do not know. The enptive eagle cannot be |tamed, made happy or content. It will not mate, reproduce, or even keep in health. It merely buddies sick, miser@bie, with dulled eyes, Tt would hardly be falr te those concerned to allow Mrs. BT. her Immigration and sterilisation let ter to go unchallenged. asked by the judge if he had any- thing to muy, replied: “Nothin’, yo’ honor, onty yo" sho’ am generous wid other people's time.” Mra. BE. I. certainly tg generous A man whe tells ofl he knows | with what should be done to other docan't often tel dust think of an M. D. or D. D., of any other sort of a D., able to live a quiet, comfortable life at his own fireside but delid erately hunting up such troubles! There are temperaments that just can’t help going out and prohib- iting things. Wherefore, seeing we alse are Compassed about with 40 oreat @ cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin 1 doth so casily beset us, and let us run with patience the race set be~ fore us.—Hebrews xii. :1, eee Oh, the days gone by! days gone by! The music of the laughing lips, the luster of the eye: The childish faith in fairies, ané Aladdin's magte ring— The simple, soul-reposing, glad be~ lef in everything When life was like a story, holding neither sob nor sigh, In the golden, olden glory of the days gone by! James Whitcomb Riley. Oh, the Another difference between “president” and “vice-president” ts: Who knows Coolidge’s dog's name? The man worth while is the man who can smile when his daughter is learning a song. New bathing suits seem designed to be worn while taking a bath. All of us like to brag about how bad we were when crowing up. There are exceptions to all rules especially the British rule. Malcing friends with a policeman will help you ina pinch, LEARN A WORD EVERY DAY | Today's word 1s CORONATION. | It's pronounced — kawr-o-nay-shun, with accent on the third syllable, It means—crowning, giving one| sovereign authority, the ceremony! of raising one to high rank It comes from—Latin | “corona,” | crown. | I's uned Mke this—The corona-| tion of Cardinal Ratti as pope will take place soon.” | circumstances, submit to simila treatment? OEME or your CRAP Book From “The Poste of the Future” (The #tratford Ce) THE BLUEBIRD BY WILLIAM PRINGLE ALEXANDER One bird I know, that haunts the blineful seene Where idling Spring renews her lavish wilea, And stores her gold, and countieen tints of green To come with emerald atep, and gracious «miles Some glad fresh morn;—but ah! my bird before Her train, with full and strong, impationt wing, Will bear the tidings to my very door, And I shall hear, deep stirred with wondertngt My bird has caught the gentian-hue of skies That over-arched those orient isies he found; Has cloaked himself tn such becoming guise, And touched his breast to musk rose teeming ground; He learned the low, sweet cadence of the wind ‘That touched with unseen lip the golden reed, And in his warble audibly entwined The lingering lilt of zephyrs on the mead. ‘When March ts harsh, and blustering bends the bough Of leafless tree, with young buds still asleep, All anawares, some morning, and somehow, I know again my sluggish blood will leap, ‘When on my ear the old familiar strain Will fall, and I shall catch a flash of blue, And know the gates of Paradise again Have open swung, and let my bivebird thru. For after him will come the myriad throng Of varied joys that lead to perfect June. The upland giades, and vales a-ring with song And meadows with a mantling bloom bestrewn But oh! the gentlo warble, first to steal Into our ear, gives joy no other brings. For winter-weary, every heart must feel TF LST —T + SECD—D = TENNESSEE Would Free the Eagle on its perch, often chained there—| one In our family, all of whom have & Rood education and all successful in | business, Three of our boys volun | teered for service in the late war, lone being a chaplain and none of them had to be drafted, | Recently, in New York, one of [acter of children in their most | tnese immigrant bore, whe had been formative years. They harden adults. | in ents country only two years, won They are an economic waste. tne Peter Cooper scholarship from They lessen animal life, for af thousands of contestants, [captives there die soon and must Mra FE. I. wants to have other continvally be. replaced. Almost | readers’ opinions—here is mine, Mrs. | none of them ever reproduce. Their» L.: Keep such ideas to yourvelf, life im loneliness, discomfort, (nest, | as they are unfit for publicatio: death, and all to no purpose except 4. D. to gratify the vanity and idie our. | osity of @ crowd of sightseers who | have no interest in thetr welfare, |no pity for their distress, no com | prehension of the creatures’ | intelligence or beauty or worth or just rights, The soo must ge and a good way to atart it is to free the engie—tet Yours truty, A. A. PALACTO, First ave. | ali you have ag EF Lip will call children of any denomina- tion “vermin.* 1 would tke Mra. H. Ia to reflect | Tt for one moment upon an article ap-| stone throat tickle and pearing in a European or Astatic pa: | Tent cke "auras Ged bronch uch |Per, asking Americans to “breed. with Papin, their vermin” in America, ng A aes and Mrs. He. I. tands to shatter the centrated compoun | gir. fabric of our Declaration of In-| Way Pine extract, and is jependence, in which it was decreed peed tebeek on that every b ros | ihe Sane seed | ¥ human being was created | "There many worth! free and equal, no matter where or! ixture, T inder what circumstances born. —_| appo Do we hold that only Americans! Pihex oave ® right to breathe the air of accept a1 fi reedom of the Western hemisphere?| #¥¢ 8 Reve Did the good Tord stamp it “For! Wares’ lod | Americans only; Kuropeans and Asi- Atice keep off"? It geome selfiah for | | food people to call those from for. eign lands who seek religious and| | Political freedom “vermin,” and made to mndergo unheard-of tyranny before they are ailowed to have the same sun shine upon them. | Why not brand them | foreheads with a mark of Gries be |cRuse they were not born in this spear Cut Prices in Shoe Repairing Our New Price List Ladies’ Price List | Soler sos as.s... $1.00 Latier Leather Heeis ..30C and 35c Tadiew Rubber ..40c Men's Full Fiber : $2 -00 Soles and Heels... ALL BOYS’ AND CHILDREN’S REPAIRING REDUCED 20% We Guarantee Our Work! Nothing but Oak Tan Leather Used in Our Shop. TWO STORES Store No. 1 Store No. 2 The Eclipse | Lang’s Shoe Shoe Repair | Repair Works 104 Pike Street 111 University St. 3 Ea 8 mton moning ine Nor- Mprobably the _ 3 imita- avoid dis- inces Men’s Price List Men's Panco : $1 25 40c Men's Rubber BEBO. oss ovecdecnces Men's Leather Ladies’ Full Neotin Soles and Heels. . THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1 APetter from | AIVRIDGE MANN Kéitor, The Star: That Avridge Mann should make « roar on weather Bars’ dope, is not at all surprising to « guy fed up on hope, that seemetime there will come a day, at least a tiny spell, to correspond in some degrees with what the lars tell We'll have @ balmy winter free from overcoats and care; men's shirts sleeves are the fashion, and the ladies’ knees are bare; ne sloppy, chilly pavements, air with sun and beauty kist; delightful rainy weather—not rain, but just a mist. We'll have a gorgeous summer, tempered just to euft an alt; not a break in true perfection, early spring to tardy fall; the ple tures they have painted, mortal words can never telh—compared with what we ought to bave, this winter has been—well, name it yourself! Cc B.C, Seattle Dear C. B. Cz Your meter, 1 would really tke to my, is not the kind ¥ peddle in my letters day by day; but even so, I’ll try it, as I've alweye Ho geased that now and then, in everything, & change ts pretty g004. Yor instance, you suggest a change that wouldnt be se bad— and that’s to change the winters from the kind that we have hag; but winter's nearly over, as the ground-hog seemed to my; and Spring, ways Homer Brew, is just three tons of coal away? since taxt summer, We are told that our steel mills have lost their foreign trade, in spite of the fact that they have been op erating at & lone, It looks as if the qneation of the German indemnity is ne longer merely academic, Theory hag turned to fact, for ur own ste] mili is only one of many in- dustrien that are at a standstill | fe su: ‘orcloch Tea the Con- itinent wide “SALADA” & A. C. COOK, TEL ELLIOTT 0356, BISTRIBUTORS SAVING. Don’t think prof- ligacy. 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