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nan Newspaper Bo: | and United Prom pertinn, cm | mp ma me alate of scholarly men. are practically nil. economics. any further curtailing yr fei i i i : fils . not be forced into trust. —Dan- — Webster. It tan't what you think about ag much as what you Pes about fehat you think abo Ananias was the dest Mar of his day. He lived before the men who Rame our movies. The hunting season, when cows dook like deer ‘and chickens like Birds, approaches. Probably Sympathetic If the otter railway unions do £0 on strike their actions will be condemned because it will be termed a “sympathetic strike.” Sympathetic strikes are in dis- favor. They have been enjoined by courts. But on the record, the engine trainmen and switchmen who re- |The Seattle Star out of city months, or $9.00 per year It Does Its Work Well Elsewhere on this page The Star is presenting some notes regarding the library budget that deserve careful reading. STATE COLLEGE BULLETIN toe peMmncnth: # montha $1.60 Ashington, « of the etate Dy cerriey, city, ee « of its powers. @ The first thing to turn brown in the fall are straw hats. seems to think Germany is trying to beat her cross into a double cross. perfected a seedless watermelon when what we needed was a wetless shirt front. @ One day last week Europe ran out of crises. Published Datly by The #tar Punt . Ph year, sh.09 480 fo Our library, it is safe to say, is one of the most progressively and efficiently oper- ated public institutions in Seattle. Its staff understands thoroly the idea of public serv- ice and puts that idea constantly into practice. The Seattle library is regarded far and wide as one of the most satisfying institu- tions of the sort any city of this size in the country possesses, ‘editorial recently overheard a conversation carried on by a group of widely traveled, One of them, an artist, declared that he had found the Seattle li- brary’s collections in his line the most complete and up-to-date of any in the, United a States outside a little group of highly specialized metropolitan libraries. : Shelves received similar high praise from a musician. ‘tited of cities far larger than Seattle where the library facilities in these two branches The writer of this Its music In fact, numerous cases were An Eastern magazine writer and playwright testified as to the Seattle library's completeness in fiction and drama and general serious works, such as travel and A technical man spoke highly of the library's resources of benefit to his specialty its spirit of co-operation with his profession. The ‘thousands of patrons could multiply these instances. In fact, an adverse criti- ¢ is rarely heard and usually not well founded when sifted down. The Star believes Seattle, intelligent, informed, progressive-minded Seattle, is proud this important part of its cultural and educational system and would view with dis- You may think you have bad luck; but in Chi- cago, Daniel McCarthy broke his only leg. The fellow who thrusts himse lf forward often comes out behind. A wise man never laughs at a woman or shoots at a policeman, A man who leads a double life often gets thru twice as quick, cently walked out in some locall- ties are not waging « sympathetic strike. ‘They have actual and great grievances. The engines and cars have been getting out of repair since the shopmen went out. Many of the engines are admit tedly unsafe. These men were asked to handle and take out trains which are not only dan- serous to the men themselves, but to the public. SOME OF THE TRAINS ARE SUICIDE MACHINES. IF YOU WERE ASKED TO HANDLE THEM, HOW WOULD YoU FEEL? Funny things happen. One day last week cll of Hollywood's mar- ried people stayed married, Gat-Curcl, singer, ts building a $200,000 house on a mountain. She will Mt some high notes. Our only regret is that we have but one vacation to spend in our country. A road hog can't decide which half of the road he wants to wae. In Michigan 30 girls in pajamas Put out » fire. And now no house The man who wrote “Keep the Home Fires Burning” waa not a mine operator Bon goes to college to get ahead while dad uses hig at home. Straw hats are always cheap at the wrong time of the year Most of the people who can be cheerful at breakfast are not Oysters are due back from their summer vacation next month i The State college at Pullman has just issued four bulletins of a value-to farmers and others. os “The Use of Rope and Tackle” ts a collection of useful infor. Ga mation on the method of tying knots and making splices and hitches in ropes and cables. Illustrations show the steps in mak ing various knots used on the farm, in logging, in the building w trades, on shipboard, ete. Among others of interest is a descrip P. tion of the famous “diamond hitch” used by packers 7 “Well and Spring Protection” for the farm or country home deals with the sources of pollution and illustr®es the methods of dete ticular interest to those water system the following coupon and mail tion, State College, Pullman, Wi State College, Puliman, Wash. Gentlemen: (Address) who contemplate installing some ty Engineering Experiment Station, Please mail me the { lows: “The Use of Rope and Tackle, + “Well and Spring Protection,” ‘Water Purification for the Country Home,” 4 ater Supply Systems for the Country Home,” . Yours very truly, (Name) ... abs fadinedis HegPoaues aoukiiny ing and remedying the same “Water Purification for the Country Home” of filtering and chemical treatment of impure water “Water Supply Systems for the Country Home” describes methods will be of par © of If you want one or more of these bulletins, free of charge, clip it to Engineering Experiment Sta ah, bulletins checked, as fol- | ee eee Italy's Revolution The Italian Fasecistl organiza tion has ordered its members to demobilize, Thus ends the first middle-class revolution in modern history, Fasecisti have demonstrated that in highly developed nations an anarchistic overthrow such as has developed in Russta, cannot be brought about even the the gov- eroment itself remain inactive. No more extraordinary episode of the present unprecedented pe- ried of human evolution has hap- penert than the rise of the cistl, When the Russian bol. shevikl agents succeeded in stir ting the Italian workingmen to revolt, the government of Taly feared to use either the police or the army. The workingmen were allowed to do their will, They seized mills and factories and at- tempted to establish industrial communism, Then, as spontaneously as the bolshevik revolution had begun, the Italian middke classes organ. ized & counter revolution. The government Rome favored neither side. The middie classes called themselves Fascisti. They gained the mastery be. cause the workingmen, bereft of technical experts were unable keep the wheels of industry revolving. From that beginning, the Fas. cisti grew in power, and grew, too, in irresponsibility, They oped away from the Individualis tic ideals of the bolshevik. They *tried to suppress the workers’ or. the to devel. ~, kanizations and attempted to in crease the nationalistle powers of Italian government. ‘They ged the selzure of the Ttal- fan provinces of Switzerland. Their own conservative have been their downfall, ical excesses have the bolsteviki. Now, the even excesses as rad. impoverished the Fascist! revolution ts going the way of all revolutio All revolis lend to ® new stabili zation, By putting the Fascisti in place, Italy proving the wisdom of moderation ite is The woman who says, * can't Can you keep a secret?” One day last week we saw a wearing a petticoat. girt It never takes any nerve to Join the majority If the good die die younger. young, the bad The tong skirt 19 coming shortly. Abnormalcy wants to come back to dusty throats B ais and irritated noses LUDEN'S |MENTHOL COUGH DROPE /GIVE QUICK RELIEF LTT LEE EY Prema ES re |\PUeSPO eee ‘THE SEATTLE STAR ri The height of MISS IONA FORD Portrait by Tom Colverwell Mies fona Ford, bobbed and banged takes your money at the Fiikkerfilm | picture theater, melted her the Indy of the; {s thrown tn, you ean count n colffure, who| Has be got a steady job?’ She stopped a moment to tell stout Indy that “no kid in fromen | pants ean be under 11,” stare today “CU give’ em all the atr if 1 “Say.” abe megaphoned thru the|a chance at this Wales man hole in the glass as we laid down | he'd like my style, And about & canadian quarter in exchange for) being presented at court, mister & pasteboard, “slip us a little on this Prince of Wales grab bag “Whatta we get if we get him?| 1 dont mind sayin’ that 1 know worse things than carryin’ a ‘Mre,| him work it out But aay “He's got a Job, ain't het” act like that on his wife, would “The net time my old man there, they give him 60 days Wales’ card case, but if payin’ his Inundry bills and buying tobacco | The Library Budget FIRST—The library appropriation was decreased last year by approximately $25,000. | Appropriation Tax Levy | 1921. $212,406.35 1.1 mills rf 1922 1.6 mill 1 Decrease 61 mil Amount requested for 1923, § ‘The ansexeed valuation for 1923 ts understood to be approxl- mately $10,000,000 leas than this year. If that fs true the tax levy for brary purposes would need to be increased from one mill to 1.65 mills in order to provide the same fund as for 1922. SECOND--The Hbrary ix not receiving the full amount appro priated. H Appropriation Actual Receipts Shortage 19290. $264,742.85 $262,076.56 $ 2,466 1921...... 912,406.38 286,881.71 1922 THMD—The use of the library and the demands for service are Increasing. | 7,823.04 | | | Year Circulation Increase } 1918 1,296,143 } 1919.6 1,626,132 ! 1920 1.828.496 2 1921 2,097,458 15% } 1922 2.246.684 1% (1922 figures are based on first six months) FOURTH. In order to operate within its funds important serv- fees have been abandoned or curtailed. Resume of economies adopted 1, Cut book fund $6,000, 2 1 fund 3 room mornings 4. Discontinued story hours. { 5. Curtatled borrowing privileges —10 to 6 books; 28 to 14 days; Be renerven Increased non-resident fee from $1 to $3. 7. Did not fill some vacanctes; filled others with cheaper help. f. Sliding salary scale abandoned, 9. Deere number of vacation substitutes: 10. Shortgned hours and decreased number of attendants in com fort Mations. 11. Dropped all advertjsing and efforts to extend service. The quality of service has been lowered because of a ed staff, the employment of cheaper belp, and a reduced book Number of employes (in equivalent of full time) 1920-168 161 $30,000 $20,000 $24,000 Desirable projects postponed. | 1. Mervice in other hoepitala. Business branch 3. Extension of work In schools 4 nsion of municipal reference work. 5. Extension of deposit stations. | The cost of library service is not large. The American Library ansocigtion recommends $1 per capita as a proper amount for good brary service The amount available in Seattle this year ta only 83 The library's portion of the total tax ts less cents per capita, than 2 pe ‘The library is an eewential link in the city’s educational ayatem With its present income, it cannot hold the ground already gitined It should have sufficient funds to permit a normal growth and the development of new services: cent |Tobacco Tax Makes BERLIN, Aug. 18.—Smoking is de-| ROME, Aug. 18.—Wabbling ct creasing thruout Germany, owing to are a sign of decaying mentality, the heavy tax on tobacco. ding to Italian selentiate. TE, CANADIAN PACIFIC CANAUIAN “PRINCESS” STEAMSINGS PACIFIC Leave Seattle Daily RaWAY Colman Dock, Foot of Marion Street ites bay Host Daly af. scteeh i... LOO X For Vancouver, B. C., Direct, The Night Boat Dally at. Summer Tourist Fares to Mast- ern points on sale from May 25th to August Bist Returo limit October 81, 1022 | | | | | “Trans-Canada | Leaves Vancou at 8:00 p.m treal; 87 hours to Toronto, Spend Your Vacation tn the Canadinn Pacific Rocktes—Sicamo: Glacier ¥ imerald Lake, Yoho Valley, Lake Wapta, La Louine, mous Mountain Resorts with Canadian Pacific Hotels and Service, City Ticket Office, 608 Second Avenue Main 5587 KE. F. L. 8TURDEE, General Agent @ In La Porte, Ind., a baby born with two tongues YES, SAYS IONA, IF THE PRINCE HAS A JOB info | wouldn't stand for them pulling « Made Yeh, count me in Chin Wobble? Then| Germans Quit Habit) You’re Bit Balmy| s will live. No, it is folly is getting married in an airplane. FRIDAY, AUGUs £18, 1928 * i i a boy. @ Frane q@ Burbank has, A Petter “from AWRIDGE MANN. Dear Fotka h to way I don’t complain about our recent batch of rain n't dare to era 1 know, when ail the country needa it no; but here’s a fact that’s plain to see—it made a lar out Of course, I'm quite @ truthful y, and very weldom tell a lie tales bexet my dome, except when late ir or now and then, to be polite, I teli the kind they lab But when the days were hot and 4 a ne » “ sky, and heaven knows, we rain, 1 to meet a fouthern jane—a tourist of the fairer nex, a hatied from Datlas, ‘Te She spoke about the rmoky haze that days, and hoped, before she left the te s ‘ pouring down; and I replied, “No chance, my dear, it never ra na summer here 1 naid, admit, at times our weather flukew n but you « un eye the summers here are always ‘Thus, cor ned—and then, oh heck! Next day it rained Bo now when tourtste—elther sex—from Portland, Maine, or Dallas, Tex., come murmur in my local ear, “What kind of climate ha where?” I'll merely answer, “Don't ask me! it's right out nido—go out and se Girritge Yomn, or your. ef CRAP Book ket Bay, this he Yrom Flame and Bhedow (MacMillan Co.) HE COIN SARA TEASDALE I NTO my heart's treasury I slipped a coin That time cannot take, Nor a thief purloin, Oh better than the minting Of a gold-crowned king Is the safe-kept memory Of a lovely thing. LETTERS 2 How Strikes May Be Avoided Editor The Star: j absolutely necessary to reduce over. In The Star's leading editorial of | head expenses, called in the repre- | Tuesday's teeue, “Catch ‘Em Young,” | sentatives of thelr employes, laid | your editor states that “how strikes | thetr cards on the table, asked them are to be avoided The Star dors not | to lay the case before the men, and Pretend to know,” and yet a recent | incident right here in Seattle gives | the solution to this most perplexing | prot em. Strangely enough, the much-derid- ed and ‘everlastingly lampooned Btone & Webster corporation figures in thie Incident, which ts as follows The interurban people, finding it! | circumstances, This was done, and, after full con back that they would accept a 12 per by the company. How about it? : ‘ Promises Mayor Evidence | Ealtor The Star I am heartily In favor of this vice co. P, | which they never dreamed could ex ist Mayor Brown saya, evidence—not just talk." Weil, | give him all the evidende he want which Mayor Brown had | promised the city leleanup But it seems that Perhaps Mayor Brown would rath s the word of one of the city nen than that of Kev. Philip or ta |p 1 . | Everytt way, north of Yesler way? not two blocks from the police de- partment, on Rev jauer has ng that afraid to sign my name, either. will accept my invitation and take a walk around town with me some} A. L. GUSTOFSON, evening, I'l) show them conditions 4104 W. Raymond st | Shocked by Atlantic’s Language Editor The Star: ing. afusion di ues, par. that fs degenerat 4 to me ness of gust Atlantic may mean, Monthly, whatever it seems as tho one's last foothold was slipping: tion the and a ¢ ularly literary, Orme submit a report as to what they con- | sidered a fair cut in wages under the sideration by the men, they reported | But I keep wishing that I cent reduction, which was agreed to “I want solid rn la have to frequent! when a person brings In evidence} One does not | that vice is rampant tn the elty, the | these places to know what is going | jmayor gets cold fect and de on if he hag his eyes open. | that vice conditions in Seattle are not| Every time the officers arrest no bad someone for running a joint, it is al- ways that part of town below Yesler | How about the large hotels| __ One of these ts | of the most damnable | said is the truth. I'll back him up | dives in the city n every statement be has made, and| Call a grand jury, if necessary. if Mayor Brown and Chief Severyns | am wit to testify, and I am not/ T am quite old-fashioned, as, per I include the publications put’ out | haps; my frequent letters to T Star | by schools, and 1 thought the sup. may have indicated, and have been | pression of the Sun Dodger really often shocked, if not horrified, at the | timely. I also deluded myself into looseness of-—well, language—em- | thinking that there were really some ployed by the public preas, both ag to | “higher” publications that «corned ruction and kK There ap- | doxgerel, put this from the Au We believe in a certain caljaqutal. j LEARN A WORD EVERY DAY Totiay tt » word In VERVE “1 vurs It means—vive nounced y of imaginati expecially such Os animates a pe artist or musician, in composing @ performing; enthusiasm; aptrit, It wan borrowed into the Fa direct om the same French wopd same meaning It'« uned ike thin—“tAterature the old-fashioned ‘dime novel’ sehe ng looked down on, is beginning be recognized today as having b distinguished by ite very of Interest.” Brain Testers Hach of the following series of let. term arranged will be found form « popular proverb: acegehillmnnnooorranestt, sacesetfh hiliimnoooprrsstttts C, gaaddeefiiimmnnnoorttw. aabbddechhhbhiliinnnoe: Aadegghiiliimoorasttttt, abdeefiinnnoopprrrsssttuw, Yesterday's solution: A stiteh time saves nine. Faint heart n won fair lady. Strike while the | hot. He laughs best who laughs Hirds of « feather flock together. | Who goes a borrowing goes a ing. Children and fools speak aeor When the wine fs in, the out, pe RADIO PRIMEF FAN, OR HARP ANTENN, tenna consisting of a number wires radiating upward from a mon terminal to various points om supporting wire. The 0 wire is insulated at each end the tower or other support. tages are that there are only t sulators, so that leakage ts low, the mechanical strain to be « by the supports is comp t small, 4 ¥F. | | iam in literature, but feel that, all, there are limits. However, are very glad to print the fi poem” (?) “by a well-known becahse we like it: “Prone on my back I greet da, vy, A dny not different than the Just o'er; When I will be, to ; Considerable lke I have bored fore. (Why, then, get up? Why wash, s eat, why pray? Oh, leave me layf * “"T badn't ought to want things 4 ferent | went q From this heart-rendering dull quite away, And yet. why move? There's rent to pay, Oh, leave me lay!"* One cannot but wonder what ti limits are—and a “well-known |@r, too! What there could b “itke” about it passes understand nd how the person guilty of p | trating such an atrocity gould hope to escape “heart-rendering dull ness” also raises my curiosity. ;aill means, “Leave him lay! Lea’ | him lay!" MRS. ANNE B. STEWART, 720 Nob Hill Ave. Terms Like Rent ih and $15 per mo you the owner of eott mn Chickens, wood will h your living cost. See me for home. Easiest terms in the cll H. C, PETERS 726 Third Ave. BATTLE SHIPS Take fast steamers at Colman Dock REGULAR SCHEDULE Leaye Seattle daily *O:30 7:15 "9:00 = 1000 - 1130 am 445. 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