The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 19, 1922, Page 6

PAGE 6 Two can live cheaper than one, but not so fast. 25. @ Sometimes all the early bird gets is up. Newapaper Bn terprive Assn end United Presse Services | Ry matt, oui of city, per month: op ba $1.00) @ months, 628.78) your, 94.00 in t te ot W . Outside of th fc per mouth, $4.50 for @ cD months, of $9.00 per year. By cerrier, city, be & month The Cracker Barrel Is the old-time country store doomed to disappear? Traveling salesmen who “make” ‘ew England, report that the chain store is crowding out the country store in that _ bection. : This may be progress and an inevitable part of the system and efficiency that are “rapidly making life as mechanical as an automatic machine. ; But the passing of the old-time country store would belong with such horrible events as the shooting of Santa Claus. _ The country store was an important social institution in the early days of our On cracker barrels around its famed box stove, grandpa met at the crossroads with minds of the community. It was around that stove in winter, or tilted back in ane chairs out front in summer, that all important problems finally were “settled.” ' That is, grandpa and his pals supposed the problems were settled. The proverbial “eracker-barrel philosophers argued and harangued about the tariff, the money system, and the Russians fear he will recover. We saw a man wearing a vest laugh at a wom- an's summer furs. the consumers could work at it only eight hours a day? ; cards back. @ Most of these men longing for the good old days, kick when they wait 10 minutes for a car. ; is she refuses to act like the girl of yesterday. @“Only way to live long is by keeping busy,” says a centenarian. We know a boy who will never see Se ERS ie EDITOR Bouncers Needed for Wayfarer Grensed. Not that anybody cares; but Lenin is sick again THE Editor The Star Just a few lines to suggest some. | thing to your paper which I think may be of use to your paper when “Wayfarer” week arrives. | Last year The Star generously as. sisted shating spectacie, again, Now, everything was happy and thoroughly enjoy to the dinabled on the night of their attendance, ev. cept for an impudent minority (the kind that elbows his ways tn a! crowd), They got In front of invalid | coaches, bbscuring the view. They | turned on the occupants and were so | rude as to say: “People tn their con. | dition had no business there." ‘This ts an actual case in which a man with « broken back was «#0 ad | to wee the beautiful | I believe you will do #o Editor The Star: It is an easy conception, for a savage, to believe that a big man made the world in six dayai it is well nigh tmpossible for the savage, whether he wear a grass loin cloth or @ plug hat, to conceive of the eternal working ef a divine purpose | thru millions of aeons. | It ts easy for me to'tell ~y child that the moon ts mace green cheese, and easy for my child to be | Heve the statement; it ie difficult for | te t6 show my child the crevasses land mountains on the moon, and to| } met him to etretch his mind to the/ polnt Where he can grasp the real size and condition of this planet thru the ages, haw largely jalways been eager to crucify any Measiah that preached a now gospel ‘The gowpel 2,000 years ago was one of hate, of contempt for the Gentile, & gospel of awe before n wrathful and jealous Ged, a God who delighted |tn burnt sacrifice and in the butch. ery of the first bora. Then there came to earth a Mee sinh who said this was all wrong and that love wag the goodness: and | the real Godhead. Of course they (An open letter to Dr. Brown) “Open letters" tn Gays not long ago were a favorite practice with you, Dr. Edwin J. eo let's ece how 8a open letten from one of your strongest boosters will look tn print. You were slecte? on « platform in which the Scent fare was not the weakest plank, but second tn tm- portance only to the famous “House Cleaning the City Hall” slogan. “How biindly and confidently we voted for you and cheered ourselves hoarse as the returns came in and BATTLE |more than one Does Man Justify His Existence? Mayor Brown and the Nickel Fare TAR @ Health hint: If you have a weak heart don’t read the new tariff. @ Wouldn't it be great if There is always a bright side. If the trains stop running, vacationists can’t send PPLE / Now, I wish The Star would take occasion to baw} out that clase this year. 1 don’t know « paper that could handle it better. 1 remember a Beattie paper that called a person who stole a newaboy’s pennies, “Beat tle’s meanest citizen.” Well, we had broad lant summer The ‘Wayfarer’ anagement might be urged to necute aggressive ushers for that occasion, Last year they were gentlemen who seated you co teousty, but they want a sprinklin of that professional type that yells “down in front,” and threatens to} eject much as doesnt’ behave himself. | the “Waytarer's” second nd whatever civic improve t {te production may effect GRACE VON NEIDA. cructfied that Measiah and they have kept on ecructfying him, the world over, ever since. I suppose it takes as much divine power to manufacture @ Caesar from an anthropoid ape as it would to make a woman from @ floating rib, or a man from dust; it bas never foomed to me of th ghtest import. ance how man got here; it has seemed of material consequence | what might be his duties, privileges! and honors here as a speck of the in-| finite plasm. Everything I eee in the cosmos seoms to have a distinct purpose; ex cept modern man, Just what scheme im creation the average man is ful- filling appeara a bit vague. And yet without there being @ final reason for man he must perish, as the sabre tooth and the. mammoth, the cave man and the Atlanteans perished whet their round was done. Civilization just now scems to be getting nowhere but out; civilization might well call @ conference to dis cover what it ts all about, for what shall it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his own soul? x. ¥.2 A tow Gaya ago you stated that we would “have to walt till fall" | before we could get « reduction, as you expect to have shown by that time that we “couldn't pay for the car lines at the present contract” and that we would then ask the P. 8. B. to rewrite the contract and reduce the price “Shades of Delshamarf’ Did any one ever hear of that Stone & Webster corporation ever reducing the price of anything or rewriting lunch, in the cellar mak- Same old problems, same old Too many auto drivers think fenders are spare Are wo getting any- parts. eee z | The modern city toy mines 2 German Parties Here tn not being sent ploddins Bankruptcy _ and in Britain thru the thick dust of Once more Germany fa threat. = “Parties In England these days to the country store. ening to declare herself bankrupt are destitute of issues and void ® farm boy walked five unless the allies reduce the of ideas. They have prejudices to that store, his heart pur- amount of the war Indemnity. and preferences, but not policies.” with the hope that the store- Sooner or later the Germans This is what one of the greatest might give him a stick of witt carry the threat into execu. Englishmen of today, Lord Robert striped candy from one of the tion if France persists in trying Cell, said recently to an inter- glass jars. to exact the full reparations pay- viewer, He gave this as the ren- smaller the lad, the grander ments. son why he has severed all party store seemed. He wondered But, the actual financial situa connections in the house of com- ® tarantula spider might be tion will not be changed in any mens, of which he is # member, 4m the bunch of bananas degree by = monetary collapse in Any man tn American politics all grown-ups will recall, Germany. might with perfect logic say tho delicacies. For practical purposes, Germany same for parfice in America, one side, the farmers’ 1, bankrupt today. Tho allies are What dors the republican party bought calico, ginghams 4, much in charge of Germany's stand for? For office-recking and alpsca. On the ether side, finances as if they were recelvers officeholding. And beyond that, husbands bartered such prod- saivaging all possible from an tm nothing! Individual interests as freah eggs. The dickering ,oivent private firm. many repubjicans do stand for; 4 ps ~~ sleetig sa Actual bankruptey might be the and most ofthese wopld be panic. | you were suc Meven tho Jokes “Fame — weginning of the true solution of stricken if anyone should publish Jeut of the Ark with Noah. Europe's economic problems. That list of them. ' We look at business today, pom i, ty say, it might compel the ab What does the democratic party its giant Industries, tts inten. 11.4 t4 fuce realities and readjast and fort Nothing different from campaigns and {ts propagan- themselves financially, to a situa- what we have stated as to the re- 42. It all looks very complicated. tion wherein Germany would pay publicans, Both of them repre- "if. Set the principle of the whole an she could, perhaps 50 cents on sent “prejudices and preferences, 4 existed back there in the ine dollar. But, it would be 59 but not policies.” store—the exchange of cents in hard money, not PAPCT Cecil says that the war amashed ee eS creams party polities in England to pieces. depending on cunning Eventually, Europe must come yn this country the war found > An old joke had it that +, this compromise. If German none to smash. Our parties were was sand in the sugar. bankruptcy can bring It about, bankrupt in principles even before 3 cally, we have the same then bankruptcy may not be an the war. ‘The senator ts so very specific he tella us that he favors ite protection.” That ts a a interesting expression and it vers a multitude of gins, It is about as explanatory as wos Phe position of the Southern con- “gressman, who, when his opponent Wasked him where he stood on the iff question, said: “When I get do Washington, and I find that the Mariff ts too high, I will lower tt; Nand when I find that it is too low, will higher it.”—Senator Pomer (D.), Ohio. hat’s The Use _ President Harding declares that 4 labor board ts “an agency of it” and attributes force ‘of law to its decisions. Maybe so. But, everybody's de fying the labor board decisions, what are you going to do it, Gamaliel? With siz million things at home Phat are fine to worry about, some People keep up with the Chinese war. You seldom see a drunk bdoot- Feguer. evil. We have a law there (in New York state) that requires a certain amount of acetic acid in the cider That means that you have to hold the cider for a certain length of time to get the acetic acid. In the meantime the acetid acid turna into alcohol, and along comes the fed- eral law and says that you muat not have that alcohol in there, and the man finds that he cannot sell his cider because the state law re- quires the acetic acid and the fed- erat law forbids the alcohol —Rep- resentative Ten Byck (N. Y.) be- fore house commitice on agricul- ture. Behold, the Lord's hand ts not shortened, that He cannot save; neither is His ear heavy, that tt cannot hear.—Ezeklel lets. :1. see True herotem consists in being superior to the ills of life, in what- ever shape they may challenge him in combat.-—Napolean When the boss geta back from his vacation he finds everyone rested. A man with two cork legs could do some of these new dance steps. Be careful where you put your confidence and you won't lose it Dear Folks: me for lunch, and Centers are is on me.” m For meeting and mixing, ALetter /from- AIVRIDGE MANN. The Hundred Per Cent Club I heard were a bunch of geezers who mingled their meetings with lunch; and so I concluded I'd think It a treat to go get invited to go where they meet. I phoned to Bill Cooper and said; buy you a ating,” said he, “so come and eat with us “Show some speed and meet feed.” “The Hundred Per the treat 1 went and I learned they assembled their mob from live ones in every conceivable job; with doctors to keep them vivacious well, and preachers to keep them from going to hell. With ‘bankers to help them in « bilers to take It away, the Hundred rep for being a bunch of acumen and I thought when I left them, the Iicky galoota! ulation should be in their boots; business and trade, should all get together for mutual aid. regardless of clan, will solv problems if anything can; for co-operation, with yinnes weber would rate ali creation One Hundred Per Cen Girridge Yomn and nk their pay, and automo r Centers have gathered a pep. The whole pop- and men from all cias: es of y intent, | € favorite os Annals w about that an overwhelming ‘ever Before in the much talke@-of | dear exmayor sang for two years? lana often promised Scent fare. Did | We get it? Not so you could notice it! No, we are still spending « dime or @ token every time we ride on our famous “Municipally Owned.” | Why ave all those promises made #0 vaingloriously before election for gotten now? }a contract that was all to their ad | vantage? Don't you know, Doctor, that you are singing the same song that our you think up some thing new, Doc? At least, change either the words or music. That song was the funeral dirge of the “Old Gang” and may be sung at your polities! funeral R. D. GARDNER, 15th Ave. N, E. Why didn't ! saieheehhctiinnenpenamnianidncnesnins LEARN A WORD EVERY DAY Today's word is FACSIMILE. King County and the Legislature Editor The Star: Now that the primary filing date | han arrived, and thereby the cam-| ign for the iegisiature ts upon ws, it } bn high time that the voters of King | fore the convention, county look well to their batlote. county The republicans of King were not only completely chagrined | Counties that Sims had selected Ray jand intentionally humiliated at the | Greenwood for temporary chairman | recent state conventjon at Chi but their eyes were opened to an ob- jJect leneon that waa evident to all | W8* out of the running. One of these lobservern, that the Hart administra. | delemates whose delegation was head ile documents.” Tt comes from the Latin facere, to; make, and similis, lke. It's used ke this: | RADIO PRIMER SERIES PARALLEL SWITCH—| “It wan @ fac simile of the Declaration of Inde-| pendence ‘It's pronounced tak-simile, with | to ode has given the opportunity |@4 by « member of the Hart cabinet accent on the second syllable. The| oo” ie iding-up of a political ma-|Jaughingly maid he had been told to © is pronounced like the first @ in| ot tee at which does not exist |#UPport “whomever Ed Sims selected | event. All other vowels are short.| 1. any other state jeven if it be a Chinaman.” The con It can be uned as a noun, mean sa ia vention was packed with payroll | Jing “an exact Itkeness”; as a transi) At Chehalis Kd Sims stood ae Un doiogates of both state and federal | |tive verb, meaning “to copy pre psn nat mayan me con | officinix. Some of the smaller, or | cisely, or attributively,” as “facsim-| } 1 “cow” counties had solid | sultation with various committeemen, | had tentatively selected Major Doug las for temporary chairman, and} | Mark Reed for permanent chairman | jof the convention. By a single wave of his hand, Ed Sims, the recognized | leader of the Hart cabinet, backed by | & convention of “pay roll” delegates, |and others from the smaller counties | whose prejudices had been aroused, | easily brushed aside Hebbard’s plans and organized the convention to sult | himself. In the Inner circle of the Hart eab [legisiature in return for primary eup- | port for Poindexter, | When I arrived at the St. Molens | hotel in Chehatia on the evening be- it did not take {five mifutes to learn from each of three delegates from three outlying | and U, S Attorney Jeffry for per-| manent chairman, and that Dougias payrolls present who were there to do as the lender sald. Only once did wise olf Ed Sims show himself on the surface and that | was when Chairman Greenwood | spoke of adjourning the forenoon | seasion, he was reminded by Sima nat there Were “some Hats of com. mittees on your desk.” The packed payroll convention wed itself thoroly when Senator Lamping arose to speak by cat-call ing and ragaing him showing their | intense prejudice against any oppo. j An electrical switch which keeps | inet it is conceded that Ed Sims has) sition to the Hart machine. | part of a circuit in series while In| ¢inal say. he | : | hal say, and when he speaks it is] It was freely told arou: i 4 | we ely told nd Che! lone position, or by a turn into an | authority talking. At Chehalls the|that Governor Hart twice Presscaarged| other contact places the same part/Hart and Poindexter “pay rolis|to reach Chehalis to attend the cen | |!” parallel with the rest of the clr j itinas in an alliance of offensive and | vention, but at Centralla was told to| { cult defensive. © why should I weep because men weep! For me fierce winds are singing; And past the mists and the veils of rain A blythesome Soul I'm winging. THE WANDERER’S SQUL By Anita Fitch in McClure’s Magazine | | | And past the moon with her pool of dreams And her ruined hills forlorn, I neck the tale she has long forgot And I hear Orion's horn, Orion hunts with the laughing Dead, And, down the thundering skies, They point my little grave to me Where wet in the field it les. sign « letter for use at the conven tion and go back home to Olympia | Undoubtedly this was good advice as the letter rather got Hart out of an awkward position on the poll tax law, [and other measures that had drawn criticiam. | The Kink county delegation was | composed of many payrool delegates jbut the vast majority were republl- | cans interested in the welfare of the | party and without leadership or any | } particular political ax to grind. These | were the ones who were singled out | | by the Hart-Poindexte yroll ma. | [chine for insult and humiliation, Under the leadership of Ed Bims | the Hart cabinet intend to nominate jand elect a suppliant legislature | They intend to go into every ocunty [including King county and elect members who will take their orders this winter from Ed Sims at Olympia when the legislature convenes. W hile preaching and publishing figures showing @ great reduction of the costs of government under the code, ® real dominating politicn! machine has been built up to control the atate in the election of two years hence, What a wonderful thing it would be to abolish the primary law, and g0 back to the convention system of nominat officials with this code working so amoothly! All that would be necessary would be to convene the Hart cabinet at Olympia and let Ed Sims name the state ticket without | going thru the formality of a con WEDNESDAY, JULY 19, 1 — ; post The main trouble with the girl of today AAR " vention, Everybody Ukes Kd Sims|King county and not the Hart cab-| ' © he is & woud, affable fellow, | inet. ly unite on some other om The fact that he represents the fish. | tor | From now until the prima: 4 | 4 tative or wenator | ry election ing, timber and électrical power tn: |, ot ch com arpa ep tee brought | September will determine or ‘ tr or not King count fi terests may be overlooked by the vot po by the Hart machine under the r not King county wit have & my the com. ing public when it ts consoled by Gov . their |" the next legislature, of ernor Hart's political mpesches show: | leadership of Sims thru some of nel [OF not the laws enacted at local agents in the hope ing legislature will be machine-gmags WILLIAM A. GILMORE NA nnn nennnnans, lendid time for the votes will be « ing such tremendous reduc i such ndous reductions in | (oe Ae be lected or reelected 90 | the costs of government . that King county's delegation will be| .., 1 After the object lesson learned at | , it and thereby the is by the King county republi. | hopelessly | #p! he legisla. | cans, and the insulting and humiliat. | Power for rg qounty f= the leg! } The Great atter-Fiu Tote Ing treatment received by the splen-|ture curtailed. | did men and women who represented |” Tt will be very easy to determine | HEAMOTONE who the Hart cabinet candidates are| Makes red biood, builds up the in the respective districts. All that | nerves, and restores strength ute will be necessary will be to watch and (ly. $1.00 and $2.00, at all rug stores, ‘ see who the payroll voters are sup-|or sent, p. p., by Joyner Drug Ce, porting, When this In,discovered, it | Spokane.—Advertisement, this county at the convention, it be hooves the people of Seattle and King county to ee that representatives and senators nominated and elected this fall who will represent fine flavor of FOLGERS Golden GateTEA ‘VOR INSURANCE! That's the apes tendered by the new round tin which brings you Folger’s Golden Gate Vacoune Packed Tea, We are glad to be the first to offer you tea in a vacuum tin, for it is not only a progressive step in tea pack- ing;—it means that you now can have better tea. Ie means that Tea can now reach your table absolutely fresh. 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