The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 1, 1922, Page 6

it to i I a ite HH i ifr hin ‘ i i of F z | i 1 § 5 t ' fig? ; ! il | ? i 3kF ° t = td HTH 2 K Kelly (2), a-Up mn get public ®, eprout wings, werthip techni ts 3. Grant Hinkin, H I e | ag E il +H i Hoe aay lt f Es ne W i Hi rE FREER f ' ut iff PE z i = bi F & F Aut i ! z z | a2 &s i +f p ; ut }F tes eSe BY man, out of 08, tm the state of Washtuaton, 4.80 for ¢ montha or $9.00 per year. Using the Drops of Water that a drop of water on the sand of the Columbia Basin is worth more ‘times as much as a drop utilized on the water wheel, Ivan Goodner, chief en- for the Columbia Basin project, makes a stirring appeal to the Columbia river Protect the great irrigation plan which would “turn a desert into a garden.” : a written report to the board, setting forth the basin committee’s to claims on water power sites in the Columbia and its tributaries. : development of the Spokane river at the little falls is 159,350 horse- } says. “Has Spokane a million population? Has Spokane five billions of 2 Does Spokane produce $500,000,000 of new wealth every year?” amount of water used in our power development would accomplish these Pebtianed Datty by The tar Publishing Os, Phone Mais e600 attle Star month; # menthe, 6.4 rmrontha, $2.75) youn Oditaide ef the state, He per month, month Ry carrier, city, © We could have quite a parade today, the Lynden Tribune observes, if everybody in town who bought hi gg? stocks in the last year would get in ine. Gov, Hart, who vetoed the blue sky bill, should head the procession. Wouldn’t it be awful if married life was as bad as they say it is? Ex-kaiser is writing a book on ruins. Must be a biography. Movie Wrinkle People get in 9 rut and their Alas! every sup brings some vision travels along the rut. thing new and awful in the ‘This nation allowed the mew scrambling of domestic relations, ing picture to become an adjunct Here's a perfectly good citizen showing ef theatrical pictures for riage.” profit, Haven't bad “jactitation” tn ‘The future valne of the movie your daily vocabulary, have you? will be entirely apart from the Woil, it means “vain boasting.” amusement field, and when the This Lendon gent is Injured in American public demands the feelings, business and moral stand moving picture in its home, 8 ing by an able-bodied female who it today demands the phono is running around boasting that graph, there will be bome movie she's his wife, when she isn't eutfita, and circulating libraries and, what's more, never has been. of films, at a price the average Divorce ts tough and comes family can afford. This will not high but just think of having to mecessarily destroy the theatrical hire lawyers to unhiteh you from movie; it may, indeed, greatly » woman to whom you arra't increase its audience, but it will married. change Its character utterty. Tomerrow the movie and the We are confronted by the curt. Fadiophone will bring the news, we ptonen ang — capt gist and the markets, and the music, bean. “ oe me opposing this agreement (fourpow- and the art, and the adventure oy treaty) because it differs from of the world inte every American the league of nations, and that the heme, and the farmer will no oponents of the league of nage are opposing ut because they alicge langer be = rubs af the mercy 14, the same 02 the league of no- See ait ber 9 oe Hone, —Aenater Poindexter (i), dren advantage urban = Wash child has ‘The werld of temorrew wil be Thas satth the Lord, thy Re- es different, 2s much better, pers glad agg oe us yy from the world of today as (© nich Inadeth thee by the way that Gay's) world §=ts «better §=«than = thou shouldst go. — Isaiah sivili: Caesar's and when tomorrow is = /7. said that is meant almost literal ‘inte Sade ol ere no persion w! a ty; the ext five years tg Boot into the heart more imperceptibly, close a greater change in Amer ong covers itself under more dis- fean life than did the preceeding guises, than pride—Joseph Addi- generation. son, And nobody is gong to charge us for the use of the air even _ TA fear of the Lord ts te hate evil: pride, and efrogancy, and the if we did give the railroads the 4; way, and the forward mouth land, and the power trusts the do I hate.—Proverbs vith :12, water, and the mining barons the EOP — coal, and Jawn Dee the oil, We | 4 man paid $6000 for am old toatch; but that's nothing, the have the air left and we are cick om the Rhine cost $240 going to use it for the good of 900,400. all of us. Adding ap reports of expenses out we find ovr government ta run- ee er ee ee. ning on $5,000,000 lese than noth~ There is one direct in eohic! tng. space ts open to him. He has fac- ulties silently inviting him thither te endicss exertion. He is like @ ahip in @ river; he runs eoainst obstructions on every ride but one; Bctenttst says pretty women have drains, but a scientist will say any- thing for publicity. When @ woman orts o now spring outfit she goes to visit someone she doesn’t like, ‘This new machine for measuring the thrill of a kiss had better be made out of asbeston He that believeth shall not make haste.—Isaiah rrvité :16. The silent drama needs an eudl- ence that way. OEMs or your CRAP Book LOVE SONG BY TED ROBINSON in The Cleveland Plain Dealer So beautiful you are to ma, In all you are or do, That I must think whene’er I see Some lovely thing, of you; All poetry brings back your voles, And flowers recall your face, All music bids my heart rejoice Over your spirit's grace. And when I see an uty sight, Or hear a piteous thing, ‘Tis not a thought of wrong or right That sets me worrying— But I would smooth it of its flaws, That it may fit into The world that is so falr because Tt is the home of you! GEOGRAPHIC PUZZLES THE A Petter from AIVRIDG Dear Ja j Old Father Time, that ancient will look at you today, my dear and then he'll serateh his wrink! thirteen, now A year ago—tt went mo noon! childhood's noon. say Ite 1 p.m, in childhood’s da Your morning, was a dandy, t |] how fast the thne has seemed }] tuttabyt |] Mapper soon! | Hut tho we hate to mee you bi know the years that end in “teen” will be the bert you've ever seon—the years that hold the w ehry sala, college days; and all the years stones to better things, 80, for your childhood's afternoon, IT) onty ask a xtmple boon— that you may keep, thru all you! hood days, nor lose, in years that are to be, your morning's sweet } simplicity. SEATTLE Thone twelve year-hours have quickly run, rine first your olock’s work was begun, and now it seems we ought to And now it's childhood'’s afternoon, and you will be a You'll tread the fragrant, dreamy the years behind, for all the days the future brings are stepping- STAR E MANN, pent, who never iver us any rent, nd chalk y » another year; jed brow and tell the world you're ! your clock struck twelve—your 4t seems a shame it had to go; to fly since Mother Goose and id good. by to being just a kid, we ondrous bliss of girlhood’s lovely ways of happy school and ahead you'll find are better than ir ways, your open heart of child. LEARN A WORD EVERY DAY Today's word in HXPUNGE. It's pronounced—eks-punj, with ao cent on the last #yliable It means—to strike out, eliminate, edit remove words or passages it comes from—Latin “expungere,” to prick with dota. It's used Ike thin—*Phere tx much divounsion as to whether motion plo ture censorw shall con‘inue to ex punge parts of dramas they do not Hike,” to cer un coal to be obtained. Te declared he could not weigh hin coal, but the clamor wan so insistent that he finally said he would deliver some fuel but would have to use the re myntem of 40 cubic feet to on. Lipsky Bros, ordered a ton, but tn transit the wagon stopped at their store and a certain amount (one sack) wap taken off at their hardware «tore, the balance being taken to their house. It looked Vike a short ton, and the weights and measure department was notified; they came out and dis covered that it weighed only a little | Editor The Star: ‘That Woast Seattle ts determined to man,” Thursday evening at a mans meet ing held tn Carpenters’ ball, called by the Federated Clubs of West Be atte, It i» all right for the people of Weet Seattle to indorse and try to elect a man to the council, It is all right to advertise @ meeting for him and let him speak before anyone who might care to hear him, BUT, ft tn not all right to get an audience out on «a rainy night under false pre- tensen, ‘The meeting tn Carpenter? hall was advertined in the evening papers as an “All-Candidate Meeting.” and they were all there “with bells on, ready to go.” Bome of the candidates were not even introduced to the audienca HUT, Mr, Mall, the Weet Seattle candidate for the council, was given The Houseboater’s Side of It FAitor The Star: A petition to foree the houseboat residents on Lake Union to evacu jate, on the grounds that the waters lof the lake are being contaminated |by refuse from the houseboats, br being cireulated by the residents of the Purhman and 12th ava N. B district. ‘This ip @intinetly unfatr, as all of the sewage from Intelaken, University district and the whole tartern shore of the lake ts dumped) into Lake Untwn—and these pd people are agitating to forces @ few houseboats to move for doing, on « far inne goals, the thing thay, too, are guilty of. I have lived on Lake Union for 72 years, I have never seen a! healthier spot than the shore of the lake. I am 72 years old, and Gan still step out and do a good day's work. In my years on the houreboat only two persona living in neighboring quarters have died and both were aged. Mr. Hall and Editor The Star: In the Went Seattle News of | March 24 appears the following ed! |torial under the heading, “Nailing a Lie" “In every polities! campaign there is more or lens mudslinging, but we |believe in truth, and are therefore j solng a le that is being ciroulated over the Weat Side con cerning our West Side candidate for council y* vilifiere are stating that Mr. Hall was once arrested w nail one’s you an a day? Dexter West Seattle’s Candidate have its very “ownest own council | was clearly demonstrated | Successful ARNING money is necessary but sav- ing it is vital to any- pendence is one of the chief functions of the Dexter Horton Na- tional’s Savings De- partment. May we open Savings Department National Bank ‘Second Ave. and Cherry St: SEATTLE, : as long as he desired on the pro gram, and he took the time telling the audience that if he was elected he would direct ALL bis efforts to the upbullding of West Seattle. There were several verwes to the piece be spoke, about what he was going to do for Went Seattle, but each verse ended with the refrain: “LET THE REST OF THE WOKLD Go BY.” | Am the mecretary of the Union |Ieague passed out ef the meeting. where such men as Dr, B. J. Brown and Ira D. Landy were shut out, he | wan heard to remark: “Yes, J helped to select Mr, Hall and Mr. Blaine and Mr. Com as candidates for the coun jot, And I am proud of them.” | He should ba. Ana Hall is just a pample of the jude ment of the Union league when it comes to selecting men, Here are the rest of them: Meler—Biaine— Com and Keane. MAUDE SWEBTMAN. If the lake is insanitary I have | never noticed It, And if it Im, the petitioners might dispose of their! newnge in make life a bit healthier for us who | are on the water In my life I have seen this mame question come up in other cities and the law has never been inter preted against househaat residents where sewage from other sources was dumped into the same water the boats were moored on. ov river, near Chitago, have fought |out this question time and again, and «ti? are living where they have been for generations | If thene people are so narrow and this thing to the Umit, we will give them all the fight they, want. I have seen the law, when brought to the teat, stand for the right in other cases; and I believe it will in thia instance, @igned) J. D. HOOVER. wnjest as to pw Coal Weights * for selling coal shortweight, while the facts (and the proof of the mat. ttr of record), are these: “In 1914, In the winter, there was & heavy, cold rain which tumed Into & snow-storin of about one foot, and practically everything froze up. Mr. Hall, than in the fuel business on the Weet Side, bad his scales frozen up tight, therefore unable to weigh | his coal, People were crying for fuel, children were suffering | heat, and Mr. Hall had the o success. Helping to financial inde- ccount for you to- Horton some other manner and|” the woetehts | Weather conditions of January ¥{1913, when this arrest occurred! ly. ever 1700 pounds, Calling upon Mr Hall they anked him about it, when | he explained about the quantity that bad been taken off at the store, and Ldpsky Bros, admitted that nome coal had been taken off the wagon, The representatives of the department then naid they could not do anything to Mr. Hall about the| short weight, but when they asked him direct whether he had sold coal without weighing it at all, he «tates emphatically that he had wold about & oar and @ half to people who had to have it, and explained why he had to sell it without weighing’ it, they #nid he had better go down and | nee Judge Gordon about it, am it was gainst the law to sell coal without | weighing it. He went down, not under arrest, explained the matter to the judge who told him it would cost him $20, “At the time of the bie snow, etx years ago, Mr. Hal! had practically the only coal on the West Side, and sold it at @ loss in order that the public might have fuel when they needed it so badly, when most deal ere would have put the price up,| owing to the difficulty tn delivery, whereas he wold it at the regular) price, and the increased cost of! delivery made ft tons to him. “These facts ar matter of ree ord, and doubtful voters should look cancel, | lishing department, bas been promised an eventual SATURDAY, APRIL 1, 1922. ASM Hu chinso ©1971 AGMHUTCHINGON @ MARK SABRE ts introduced to the reader by-— HAPGOOD, & garrulous London solicitor, who went to school with him ance with him. At this time—1912—~ and who has just renewed his acqu Habre is 34 and ts living with his wif MABEL BABRE, in Penny Green, an Engtish village seven miles from Tidborough, where Sabre is in business—‘seven miles by road and about seven centuries in manners and customs,” but now being “improved” by @ pushing development company. Hapgood suspects Mark and Mabel are not nylted to each other after visiting them in their home, He explains Babre, even in his childhood, was remarkably tolerant—always able to see the other fellow’s point; whereas bis pretty wife is « typical and violently opinionated gonsip. Their temperamental @ifference wns first brought out when they first went to their home, immediately after their marriage. Mabel insisted on calling Mark's room his “den,” @ word which the latter particularly detesta, while Mark aroused Mabel because be immediately nicknamed thelr serv- ants, the Jinks sisters, “High” and “Low Jinka” Mark thought it over, however, the night after, and characteristically decided his wife couldn't be blamed for their apparently trivial, but irksome, differences. ‘This difference of viewpotnt, however, builds up something Ike @ bond of sympathy between Mark and “High” and “Low.” They don't understand him any more than does his wife—bat they lke his whimsical ways and they form innocent little “plots” to further what Mabel calls his “doings” Mark has an interest in the firm of Fortune, Kast and Sabre, historic deal- ers in chureh and school supplies, His grandfather had been tricked inte turning over his partnership to REV, BEBASTIAN FORTUNE, and since that time the Sabres have bad | no voles in the conduct of the firm, Mark, who is in charge of the pub- i> TWYNING ts tn & similar position, having charge of the workshops with- out being @ partner. Mark is particularly interested in @ new text-book which he is preparing—“England,” @ history written along a new and revolutionary line = Mabel utterly fails to see ft as anything but « “lesson book,” and Mark rtops mentioning tt to her, Starving for sympathy at home, be turns te vther friends for friendship, His friends are MR. FARGUS, & peculiar old fellow, much hen-pecked by Bis spinster’ | daughters, and THE PERCHEE, consisting ef young Perch, whom Mark calls “¥: Rod, Pole or Perch,” and his mother, # strong-minded woman much up in her son. Then NON A returns to Mark's life, Now go on with the story, PART TWO stationary engines, hanépropefes = barrows bumping along toy Enea, Nona gangs of men at labor with pick and CHAPTER I shovel—tmet Sabre's thoughts on this 1 June morning because he was think- Sabre, ambling his bicycle along the pleasant lanes towards Tidbor- ough one fine morning in the early summer of 1912, was met in his thoughts by observation, as he topped « rise, of the galloping prog ress of the Tight railway that was to link up the Penny Green Garden them up before deciding to vote against Hall upon those groundas.”| In reply f@ that editorial I have| written as follows to Mr. Steele! editor of the Newn: In your publication ef Priday,| March 24th, appears an editoriai| junder the caption of Nalling a | Lée.” Statements which after | janalyzing and investigating, do not| m to be facts, and ure very mis leading. You attempt to explain} away the trouble H. D. Hall had| with the welghts and measure de. partments on account of alleged short weights, Home with Tidborough and Chovens- bury. In the two years «ince Lord Tybar had, as he had said, bene ficlally exercised his ancestors in thelr graves by selling the jand on/| very which the Garden Home Develop ment was to develop, Penny Green Garden Home had sprung into being at an astonishing pace. The great thing now was the rail- ay. And the raflway’s tneightly Ind} jonas strewn across the countryside Nast heaps, excavations, noisy o You place much strees on Sebo ( f rained after midnight end conditions, and the #uffering of ehil-|‘h® lowest temperature recorded was dren en account of the snow and| 44 deerees. On January 24 it rained cold, and as an excuse for not be |! day and the lowest temperature ing able to weigh hin coal, you ad.| "corded was 39 degreea. On Jap- vanes the statement that his sonles| 77 29 ft rained at 1 & m. and were froma up tight, therefore had |°nded at 740 a m. with the lowest to adhere to the measure system of| ‘perature recorded 34 Gegreea. 40 cubic feet to the ton. Mr. Editor, wi you expiain how You also may representatives of| Mr. Hall's scales became frozen un- and measures depart-|der such weather conditions? med they could not do| It is my understanding that the nything to Mr, Hall on account of policy of the weights and measure short weight, and at the same! department is not one of haste and time you edmit Mr, Hall was fined| «nap judgment $20. The true facts of this caseand|and that when a complaint ts filed the weather conditions at that time/against merchants they tmmediate- are & matter of record, and for|ly get tn touch with the merchant your {nformation will say that the|and a warning ts issued for the police court record ment ilar case in an fol H. D. Hall,| second offense before enforcing the j See 49, 32° p. m. on January ordinance on weights and measures. 1913; married; U. S. citizen; coal] In Mr, Hall's case pressure was dealer; arrested on warrant by| brought to bear. Weights and Measure Department. | Mr. Editor, will you kindly ex- Fined $20. plain why Mr. Hall does not issue weather conditions, as record.| certified weight certificates to his od by the U, S department of agri-| patrons? culture, Hoge building, shows that] Mr. Editor, I betiewre you should the average temperature for Janu-| give this the ame publicity as your 1913, was very moderate and) editorial received under the caption altogether above the average The/of “Nailing a Lie.” Will you pub- towards merchants | 25.) Beautiful Wall Paper | lish this reply? Yours very sincere- Gigned) W. G. ZIMMER. At. selection here easy. how your room will look when finished. 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