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THE SEATTLE STAR ype Je campaign. T had a paper I would sup- Ford for president against @ther candidate I can call to @2 @ possible nominea ‘Would not support Ford be I thought he was a states fam, nor because I would hope lat he would lead us out of but I would like to see for once a shrewd, successful “i Every Fourth of July we take a some people take a few But after 146 years practice in eelebrating we are gradually learn ing better ways. AN of the city people go to the country and all the country people ome to town. Fourth of July ploknickers al- ways make the country mosquitoes “put in their bills for overtime, Country ants that have never @aten a human find great feasta tn More for them. | Birds that have never had a rock ‘thrown at them won't be able to tay the same tomorrow, And the country folk tn town are ‘Wearing the edges off the buildings looking at them. Many a pair of shoes were sur prised today when they saw their a words to our national anthem ; We favor a safe and sane Fourth ef July. There are 365 days tn p year. Why not have one of $65 safe and sanef ‘The Lord by wisdom founded the : tee by understanding, he estab- “ o the heavens.—Proverbs ii.: SP HNNNT VamA 0m The Seattle Sta OF eee, ae St Oe, ae 48.00, tm tat: 14.80 fur ¢ mont! ERE is how Hendrik Van Loon, historian, describes Eternity: “High up in th ii dred miles high and a hundred miles wide. Once every thousand years a | has thus been worn away, then a single day of eternity will have gone by.” month; § months $1.00; ¢ montha, $2.18; roan, jaahington, Outside ef the tate, 800 per month, ha, OF 99.00 per yean iy carrier, city, $e « month Pebitened Deny pevtiont Co, ‘Phone stale eset. a Henry Ford for President ¥ “They are getting very much excited in some quarters over the possibility that Henry may run for president. : “Most of the worrying about. Henry seems to come from William R. Hearst, who 1s d with desiring the democratic nomination himself in 1924. Hearst’s Interna- Magazine, now edited by the brilliant Norman Hapgood, has begun publication ‘an “exposure” of the methods by which the flivver king was led into his anti- ‘But Ford has a magazine on his side, in addition to his own weekly. McClure’s, now again by S. S. McClure, is running the story of Ford as Ford wants {t told. This fitten by Samuel Crowther. here between the virulent attacks of the International and the sumptuous tration of McClure’s, you will find the truth about Ford. _ A friend of The Star, suggesting an editorial about Ford, writes as follows: and the combined money Interests and made # hundred million ta the new ideas he would put Into nay , year from = wreck; Ford the minds of the people, and for has the Hardi gue * the hell he would cause the age be sh pag old machine at Washington. BMtecle Shoals “This country ts darn good an@ sFam, with enly limited news ready to kick every regumr poll paper support, and Henry Ford is ticlan out Into the street, and ft the only candidate who can com- might do worse than Ford at that, bine the majority of the farmer ‘and labor vote, the nation over.” ti as is nearly everything that this friend writes. ut isn’t Ford, a mechanical genius, an expert at quantity production and a busi- man with nerve, initiative and bulldog courage, taken seriously as a presiden- candidate merely because people are tired of disappointments, tired of two-faced tired of progressives who turn reactionary when they get into office, dis- with trimmers and straddlers and sidesteppers? trouble with Ford isn’t that his ideas are wrong, but that he doesn’t know his j mind. Any nimble-tongued nut with a new panacea for the world’s woes can sell notion to Ford if he gets to him fixst. ta Schwimmer “sold” him the peace ship. ezarist pogrom-maker “sold” him the anti-Jewish mania. unidentified enthusiast has “sold” him the fiat money scheme—which might ‘be so bad if you could get some conception of what {t is Ford thinks he wants. Ford in the presidential chair, no telling when somebody might get him to on the abolition of tomatoes, national regulation of hairdreasing, or a block- BY BERTON BRALEY OF JULT! It's « day inspirational Which we can Bannere and cannon and speeches sensational Serve to express only part of our thrill! ‘Though we may show @ bombastic proclivity, We have « reason, you cannot dens; ‘Tats is the day of @ nation's nativity, Fourth of July! ie boud as we will, COAST? Why, of course, wo dot Bhout th! we're hoerve, we do. Turn out In force, we do, Lift up your voice « yt Deo not be shy; @OME COUNTRT! ky xm ‘Tell ‘em the way it YOU know what Gay\st »_ Fourth of Joly! (Sonreiast. 1928, WEA Berries’ \ Mitor The Star: As ® long-time member of orgnn- ined labor I would Uke to correct James Hoye's statement made in en- swer to Councliman Phil Tindall’s letter wherein he says that our move- |ment has made no effort to prevent the Japanese from overrunning this country. Tho labor unions were the | firme ones to fight Japanese tmmigra- tion and, while certain persons in Organized labor seem to think we should let them come tn on the the jory of the untversai brotherhood of jman, they are in the very decided | minority, : | Only last summer the executive council of the American Federation of Labor, in its annual report, eub- mitted to the national convention held at Denver, made the following statement: “The citizens of California are jus- Ufied in viewing with alarm and ap- prehension the results of the Japa nese invacton in that'wtate. The Japa nene colonize together and have gradually driven out American citt zens from the most fertile farm land in the state. They undersell the Amertcan farmer because of their low standards of Itving. “The ‘gentleman's agreement’ has |proven to be @ failure because the |Japanene in a cunning and stealthy | manner have outwitted the intent of jthe law. This peril is not only a |nerious condition for California, but jit Is @ positive menace to our entire |nation, The American Federation of |Labor ts fully justified in taking a |firm stand to do away with the ‘gen jtleman's agreement’ and tn its place inaugurate @ definite policy calling jtor total exclusion of Japanese with | | AIVRIDG thereof.”—Liberty bell. Dear Fotks: teara, Declaration day, when Freedom’ erty to all the earth. ‘They glimpsed a coming end of happiness. What further and undivided land “Proclaim Wberty thruout the land and to all the inhabitants A hundred, #tx and forty years, with all their mingled emfles and have lived their lives and passed away since that first How thrilled they were to hear ft call, proclaiming Mberty te alll life, when buman hearts would all possess « great, have ceased to be; thru civil war we've learned to stand o But even no, the nation eaves Its children’s right to live as slaves; tho tyrant kings have passed away, a rule of wealth is And now in the course of human events it be- comes necessary for enlightened folk to celebrate. Exactly 146 years ago today Philadelphia was all excited. She hasn't been excited since. No one knows how she knew it was the Fourth. Perhaps it was because the banks were closed. On this day John Hancock wished he had a foun- tain pen to borrow instead of a goose quill. Then he scratched his “John Hancock” and Great Britain was given her independence. There were exactly. 13 states represented. This number was very unlucky for King George. We shot at George's soldiers seven years before they all got mad and went home. And ever since the British have been getting even by sending lecturers over here. After chasing George’s soldiers things seemed Tt was the same telegram that) “None nearer than the Moscript Barry Houston had received and) Place at Echo Lake.” pussled over in Boston, except for| “Then what can it be?" Suddenty | Houston frowned with presentiment. | ne address. He had beon right th ‘Thayer's been going with Medaine| monnage had not been for him; od deal, hasn't he?” Instead ft had been intended decided " creed and clase and clan in one “Oul—yen, When Ba'teese can ly not for him and it meant—what?/ think of no way to keep him from Hastily Houston crawled over the! tt.” railing, and motioning to Ba'tlate, led) “It couldn't be that he’s made some him away from the station. Around/arrangement with her—about her And #0 I think we're yet to eee the chrysalis of Liberty—e Mberty that reaches all, nor lets some stand while others fall, but merges LETTERS ve EDITOR [Fl The A. F. of L. and the Japs all other Oriental, “We should also go on record as favoring any legislation of the char. grees by the California delegation tn the senate and house of representa tiven. “Today our people are confronted not alone with the ponsibility of “renter competition with Oriental la- bor and manufacture; they ar facing the development of tend leading to the pomible dangers war. No one recognizes more tully than do the American workers the burdens and sacrifices entailed in a contest between nations. We are con fident the Japanese workers are equally desirous for continued peace as are the American wage-earners. “We feel sure that the workers of Japan would welcome whatever infiu- ence might be set at work to prevent & possible clash between the peoples of Japan and our country.” I think Mr. Hoye will agree that this recommendation of organized Ia- bor for an understanding between the workers of the two countries, de- signed to keep the two races apart in the interest of peace and friendly relations, i the most practical solu- tion of the Japanese question that has yet been offered. CHAS. HUGHES, 387 B. 77th et. DERBIES AND DERBIES e North in the land called Svithjod there stands a rock. It is little bird comes to the rock to sharpen its beak. When the rock — acter that may be presented tn con-| TUESDAY, JULY 4, 1922, a hun. | LEARN A WORD EVERY DAY Today's word is SUBSIDY. It's pronounced—sub-aldy, with ao cent on the first aylable. It meant originally, in England, » parliamentary grat to the crown of a sum raised by extraordinary taxa- tion. Later, @ eum granted by one atate to another, as to @ friently power to ald the latter in war; « gov- ernmental grant of funds or prop- jerty to # private person or corpors- tion to assist in establishing or sup- porting an enterprise deemed advan- tageous to the public; a mubvention; any gift by way of financial eid It comes from--Latin “subsidium,” the troops stationed tn reserve in the third line of battle; reserve; sup port; help, It's used Ike this ‘In ordinary usage,’ says Webster, ‘subsidy often carries a derogatory tmplication.’* ECZEMA is ONLY SKIN DEEP “That mare I just imported,” said | the miliionatre horse owner proudly, “onee won the derby.” “Hmm,” commented his friend after a close inspection of the ant mal, “English or brown?’—Miami Herald, ne ~/from- E MANN. ‘s bell announced the birth of Ub strife, and sensed a bigger, fuller big brotherhood of man, BARTELL DRUG CO. 1906 Boren Ave. 4 BINYON OPTICAL CO, 16 FIRST AVE i the corner of the last store he| forest lands?” brought forth hia telegram and) “They are not hers yet. She does placed it in the big man's hands, not come into them until she is twen- | at's addressed to me,—but ft| ty-one.” have gone to some one else.} “But they are avaliable then? J. C. Blackburn of Chicago?"| “Oul. And they are as good en ene don't kuow. Try fin’ out. | yours,” “Practically the same thing, are n't they? How much of the Iake/ does she own?" “The east quarter, and the foreste | | that front on eet, and the east bank “Have you read that messageT The giant traced out the words, almost indectpherable in places from | creasing and handling. He looked up sharply. [ot Hawk Creek.” “Boston? You came from Boston?’| “Then there would be opportunity | “Yes. That must refer to mo. It | for ever ng, for skidways tnto the | must mean what I've been suspecting | lake, @ flume her side and « mill. | all along—that Thayer's been run-| That must be ning my mill down, to help along] “Ba’teose wo have hear of eet.” | some competitor. You'll notice that| “Surely, But Thayer might have/| he says he has me where he wants |—" me.” “Tha*teese would have hear of ect,” yes. But has he? What was| came the repetition. “No, eet is! so quiet we began shooting firecrackers, A Derby Hat and Lodge Emblem “If I were an employer I should hesitate to fill a place requiring imagination or resourcefulness with » man who habitually wears a derby hat,” writes Fred Kelly In The Nation’s Business. “I doubt if any single item of @ress can brand a man more sure ly than ao derby hat. Wouldnt a man of originality or Initiative reject a derby as uncomfortable and preposterous? If he accepts a derby hat when the hat clerk offers it to him, It ls because ho is inclined to do the conventional thing, the usual thing, no matter how absurd, without enough force of character to assert his rights. I maintain that In a democratio country every honest, freeborn yoeman is entitled not to wear a derby hat. “An employer once remarked to me: ‘Beware of hiring, for an important Job, » man who wears & too conspicuously large lodge emblem. Hither he has never amounted to much and being a member of a lodge is the only . thing In which he can feel any pride, or else he expects to gain some advantage for himself from other members of the lodge, The best lodge members are those who say iittle about it and treat it Just as an tncident in their lives rather than as the one big Inssue.’” I think when you give them doth (men and women) an equal oppor- tumty that, except for the differ- ence in sew, they are equal, only I Uke the women better than the men; that ts all—Representative Raker (D.), Col, Chew Chew and Creamo Chew Chew, » health clown, makes the rounds of New York City schools, spreading the go» pel of fresh alr, proper food and cleanliness, With him ts his Mitle dog, Creamo, whose stunts include Pawing his face as if washing when asked what he does in the morning. The schoolchildren are going wild about Chew Chew and Creamo, They are absorbing health facts, because the presenta tion {s made in an interesting way, And they will remember the health clown and what he taught, in thelr old age Making school interesting ts the greatest problem of education, People In this boresome clviliza tion remember Interesting things, forget the uninteresting. The Hohensollernd’ Crowns Kalser-adoring Germans were brought up to believe that the imperial crown of the Hohenzol- lerns was handed down from one ruler to the next. The Berliner Tageblatt discloses that this was a hoax, that sizcs In crowns varied, same an sizes in hats, Each Hohenzollern, for some generetions, had his own ¢rown, built for special occasions and taken apart afterward, ‘The trappings of royalty are « lot like “stage props” of a ma» gician. So, for that matter, are many of the symbols of demoo racy. a Tha operations, or that d Feverishness Loss oF 5) sentence |the way back? Bon jabout the ‘big thing.’ There isn't an-| andl LEEP inl n't any idea what | nothing. y the reference to start-| good.’ the deal lsomething else, She would have ask . t know. I haven't been in| Bn’teess and Ra'teess would have at I know of, yet he must|aaid, ‘No, ‘Take nothing and give! So eet ts not t (Turn to Page 11 CASTORIA For Infante and Children, Mothers Know That Genuine Castoria In Use For Over Thirty Years CASTORIA ‘THE ORNTAUR ComPARY. MEW YORK OITY, Se M'sieu Thayer, he is no You know | | Overdrafts Cash and E Real Estate Redemption Customers’ ters of Cre Capital Sto Reserve for Circulating U. S. Bds. and Treas. Certs. .:es: Other Bonds and Securities... Furniture and Fixtures.... Surplus Fund Cheese aa Depreciation Accounts Letters of Credit DEPOSITS a oie cretereememeiniee: 19,186,051.43 $21,687,696.43 REPORT. OF CONDITION —OF—~ The Dexter Horton - National Bank OF SEATTLE June 30, 1922 RESOURCES Loans and Discounts. :nsacererae:e$ 8,170,551.70 ++ 0 6 oem eer ele trem) XChange. . eee. wana Fund U.S. Treas.., Liability under Let- dit and Acceptances $2 LIABILITIES CK. sietinirementale Wewe Undivided Profits (Net) ...... Taxes, Interest and e)eleleieie Notes..... 1) 6 late Te) eleleie © ewieis eles 4,864,528.72 5,460,603.28 2,780,897.16 478.12 45,126.45 245,000.00 2,500.00 118,011.00 1,687,696.43 1,600,000.00 400,000.00 230,132.74 100,426.26 49,000.00 122,086.00