The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 26, 1922, Page 6

In the World’s Smallest Store / The smallest store in the world is closed for alterations its proprietor has gained five pounds in weight, makes it virtually impossible for him to turn around out exhaling his breath. ‘This smallest store is Milton Lubin's jewelry shop, Just Times Square, New York City, the inside it is a triangle, with a frontage of five and three and a half feet deep. ‘ it says the only place he can hang his coat {s on the have to be in constant training to be slim enough to there,” says Milt. “It is very uncomfortable after a meal. I take constant exercise and diet carefully.” itely, however, Milt's weight has soared nearly to 100 Carpenters had to be called in with thinner amazes you to learn that the world’s smallest store a business of $250,000 a year—thin watches, dia- a7 and other precious stones. has an assistant. But they have to work in relays, if the two of them are on the job at the same time room for a customer. customer can get into the store at a time. ave tried to enter, then decided to do business idewalk. for this little cubby-hole fs $6,000 a year! It be the highest rent in the world, in proportion occupied. i io, it is a monumental {llustration of the price men for swarming together in cities. PSiaybe Milton Lubin is making a lot of money out of his We don’t know. But we do know that, to any one the natural life of the great outdoors, it would take | good many millions to compensate for the physical dis- orts of working in such a cage. What a Nice Fire Costs ’s a view of the forest fire problem we never had i] John Buffelin, lumberman, gave it to a Star repre- i Suppose a careless camper sets fire to a forest and 00,000 feet of timber is destroyed. That doesn’t ruin He loses probably $2,000 a million feet, 000 on that fire. The lumberman doesn’t lose, be- he can buy logs from someone else; he doesn’t own til delivered to him. thousand feet of lumber worth $60. If the timber into lumber. It’s gone for- that? The $58 goes large- industry hum. . That $60 worth of lumber and window frames. Thus ought to get the most excited about a forest owner? Yes, he gets excited because But YOU are the heaviest loser, for Puget Sound cannot exist without the lumber or industry which has not yet been developed. who burns down a forest strikes a sharp knife prosperity, your business, your job. Park Your Auto With More Care ou own an auto—or if you ride in one fairly fre- cate set eewaey bare cusand ee eran See Sn ae ot etme, leave your car a quarter of a or 80 destination. to figure out why this condition ex- x it; you yourself, in part, anyway. ghteen inches between cars standing at right angles the curb is more than enough room for safety and con- pci you te ie rem of ons a pyre n streets where parking itted, you' in at quently a machine occupies halt ace ag much space ; necessary. _ ‘The same condition applies on the streets where cars f parked in the center—along Fifth ave., for instance, of Madison st. At least 25 per cent more cars be accommodated if their owners would only exercise le care and consideration. It’s just the old Golden Rule. fant ‘em to do to you—it pays. The Banker’s Glassy Eye _ Good joke in the Wall Street Journal. A banker with glass ner was firm in refusing a loan. Applicant was ly 5 : “Tl make you a Proposition,” the banker sug- d. “You get the loan if you tell me which eye is “That's easy. It’s your left.” - “Right. How did you know?” eg the more sympathetic of the two,” said the bor- er. How Columbia Basin Project Grows ‘A Walla Walla man, Dr. Keating, is credited with a remark that sounds sensible to The Star. Said he: “That building over there was put up brick by brick, and our Columbia basin project, like every other big con- structive piece of work, is built the same way. A word _ here, a friend made there, facts explained to one who was misinformed, all goes into the building and of this ma- terial the structure is built.” Lena’s Stein’s Good Luck Deaf and dumb for 70 years, Lena Stein suddenly re- covers the power to hear and speak. This happens in _ New York. Doctors are puzzled. They think the miracle in some mysterious way is connected with Lena’s having combination flu and pneumonia three times in suc- Do unto others as you cession. Her luck doesn’t do her much good for she is past 80, the age at which eternal silence is not far off. Good luck generally has a string attached to it. So does bad luck. = BLOSS rnE SEATT LE STA ml Oar alll BY HAZEL HALL So long as there Is April My heart is high, Lifting up its white dreams To the sky. As trees hold In a blowing My hands are My hands are = oe Blossoms id, ; All the crumbled splendours Of autumn, and the cries Of winds that I remember Cannot make me wise. Like the trees of April, Fearless and fair; My heart swings its censers Through the golden air. LETTERS EDITOR Puyallup Fair Wants Help Editor The Star; ‘The Western Washington fair needs your support and we feel that you are pleased to have an oppor tunity to render the fair such eon vice aa comes within your vision. Our farmers can produce the pump kins, furnish the cows and the horses, but we need manufacturing and mer. cantile organizations to help take care of w balanced fair. Our farm- era should learn what the cities are) doing. The cities should learn what the farmers are endeavoring to do. ‘We have always had excellent sup- port from the agricultural sections, dent with the proper constderation, in not urging him to participate, ‘The Western Washington fair had an attendance last year of more than 100,000. ‘The fair will be held regardless of weather conditions, rain or ashing seaxion. Tho gross receipts of the 1921 fair wore $71,000. The net profit, after paying the operating expenses, was 2,000, after allowing quite a heavy jdepreciation. The total capital of our fair in $2,650. Our surplus tn $85,877.92, every dollar of which ts |The fair association haa never paid salaries, Very truly, W. H. PAULITAMUS, President. The County Ferry Situation Editor The Star: Much has been written to your) paper relative to the merits and de merits of the King county ferries, but ft does not appear to me that the correspondents, whore desire is no doubt to enlighten your ern or yourself, have touched sufficiently on the fundamentals of the situation, It ig generally supposed that the ferries were handled by the county for the reason that this was a public utility which could better function in [public ownership. As a matter of fact, the forry system of this county was first conceived by a member of |ferry system. | cause, he foresaw the outcome of a system constantly showing a deficit and kindly passed the system on to jour county commissioners whore vision of the future was clouded by the immediate political possibilities, | A Letter from. AIVRIDGE MANN. Dear Folks: A little while ago I spled some news about a man who died. He left a little bunch of dough—say fifty thousand bucks or so, and I was just a bit surprised at how he had ft all devised. He left his wife a certain sum, to keep her thru the years to come; and then a like amount he gave, to rear, above his body's grave, @ monument whose size would strive to keep his memory alive, It struck me funny, Just @ bit, to make a fifty-fifty split be- tween the wife he left alone and such an ornamental stone—altho, the way the figures stand, supply of wives exceeds demand. Of course I know they long have oald {t's wrong to criticize the dead; and so I don't—for, as for him, he may have had the Proper whim; but as for me, I'm free to say I'd leave my dough another way, I do not care for lofty stones above my head and buried bones: but I should like my name to be engraved in kindly memory. for such @ monument will stay till human hearts have passed away, It's not a simple thing to ask—{t's really quite a husky task; for regring such a structure needs a life of friendly thoughts and deeds; and when I see the faults I own, I think I'd better buy a Girritge Yomn, stone! 37 | County commiastoners are not ferry | operators; elective officials are rarely | good operators of anything, They | were constantly badgered by requests for additional service; every budding | hamlet on the eastern shore of Lake Washington and Mercer Island was clamoring for cosmopolitan service, and elective officials are only human. Between the cries for better service and the cries for reduced fare, the ferry system went to the only place it could go-practical bankruptey. ‘Then there arose another cry of re duced taxation, In 1021 this was a lusty ery. The people of Seattle, | Kent, Auburn, and other parte of the | county, found that a very few people Jon the eastern shore of the lake were taxing them to maintain « service which could not be justified. Over one-tenth of the county expense was WE ALLEGED HUMAN BEINGS AND OUR CIVILIZATION Editor The Star: Life consists mostly of fretting and working for an ideal, then cussing the ideal when you attain it. | For some years our family lived in a small coop on an unimproved street amid arboreal nook, embroidered walks, with mud hub deep after a rain, and dust knee deep the rest of the time. So we sighed for sidewalks and we moaned for a aved street, and we pestered the neighbors to sign mprovement petitions. Finally they paved the street and lald a fine side- walk; we mortgaged the house to meet the assess- ment and prepared to enjoy good night's sleep since! In the old days our stree' no merr; rty caroled its midnight way along our pte yeni A. teails; no racuous taxi shrieked its siren || ‘* used tn listening for possibie cally — before our door at dawn; perfect peace was ours from dusk to noon, and if we wanted to sleep on the front porch without a screen that was our business. But now the world rumbles by; heavy trucks come blocks out of their way to to its very foundation; messenger boys on motorcycles howl! past, their cut-outs wide open; smoking relics makes a stench under our of the early gasoline era noses, and the tribe of the vendor, the peanut dispenser, the hot d the “anyragsbottlessackstoday” pest gather our goat hourly. I'd as soon live in my psychopathic ward as In my house since they paved the street, and as for the new sidewalk, all it is used for is a skating rink, a scooter trail and a coaster slide by That's civilization for you; man was nice and quiet and contented in his own came along and moved him into a pesky wooden hut and his troubles began. But what I most hate about this new era out my way is that the wife has insisted on a lawn where once I had potatoes. You plant hoe ‘em thrice, and dig em, LEARN A WORD EVERY DAY | Totay's word te—STULTIFY, cont on the first syllable. It means—to make @ fool of, It comes from—Latin r | foolt#h ‘a lot of trees; it was an |) foln with weeds, without side- | fying the United States by her com: | plaint concerning the killing of twe of her citizens during the mine Im bor troubles at Herrin, I.” | RADIO PRIMER] | STAND-BY CIRCUIT—Also calieg |“pick-up” elreult. One that ts com, | structed wo that it will respond t life. And we haven't had t was deserted after dark, from @ number of stations. Tuning | broad and the coupling clove. A henpecked husband with « sense of humor was asked by 6 cen. sus taker how many there were in hie family. “Ten,” said he When asked for thetr names, however, he enid that | his wife and himself made the ten |im the family. “How's that? asked the census | man. Solution tomorrow. | Yesterday's Solution: The | dener hag laid the trees out in » | cirele, so it was only 10 yards from | the first tree to the last. IWLLSON.S shake our frail habitation knife grinder, the popcorn howler, and the youth of seven blocks. cave, and then some nut potatoes once a year and and that’s that; but a darn lawn is worse than a harem; it takes attention and U courtesy and loving kindness and much hard, back il 1613 2ue AVE.— SEATTLE bending, labor morning and evening every day in the week. The wife is talking now about a rose walk and a perennial border; as for me I’ going to move out into the country and live in a tree. A PEEVED SEATTLEITE. Thorouginess our methods in payers of the county you may rest asmured that they would be trying to got it. I was tn Seattic at the ti of all this ery about the ferries. If the business had been in private hands they simply would have quit, but the commissioners were asttll listening to the lusty ery of the few who were getting the service, and in| order that they might continue to have & service they leased the ferries. | Now they are accused of bad manage | ment. Maybe the creation of et fictt was bad management, but I maintain, and the people of Seattle ought to maintain, that the greatest plece of executive sanity that our county commissioners ever evidenced was when they got rid of the ferries, ‘The demand for greater and more ex- pensive service would have continued; the constantly increasing Geficits would have continued; the ferry sys eal football for future commissioners. | | Let's thank the Lord that we have! Medina of Bellevue, and when the cont was « charge against all the tax petency of the commistsoners. ELINOR MORGAN. Claims Credit for U. S. S. Texas We hold @ day session and a night! invested in grounds and buildings. | any dividends and practically no! but have never treated the eity resi. | | our port commission who pictured to | himself a great political aaset tn a | With vision, worthy of @ better | Editor The Star: Please correct @ etatement recent-| served seven yoars and one-half on ly published in your paper. The U. & | board the good old Texas and she ix! & Texas won the red E Gunnery | still home to me, even tho at Present | | Trophy and battle efficiency pennant | I am attached to the Pennsylvania, in 1916. For 1917 the Texas won the| I remain, sincerely yours, white E Gunnery Trophy and battle A. HAMPSON, C. C. M., efficiency pennant, U. 8. 8. Pennsylvania, I am not kicking, but please give Bellingham, Wash. A “ ° The Pulpit and “Policy” Editor The Star; impetuosity. Well, good men are of. ("Tl heard a minister way last Sunday:| ten impetuous; wise, wicked men “It is always @ shortsighted policy| never. Mean men are often politic. to be malicious.” And again, “Hatred | ‘The mean man may cheat you in a fs not only an unhappy and unholy | buainens deal and make you lke It, sentiment—it is an unwise senti-| That Is being politi. If he is not ment.” malicious it is because “it dossn’t All that the reverend gentieman | pay.” } says ts true, but 1 do not like ed | The “policy” doctrine ta frequently | hear him say #0. I Go not ike his| preached by business men. It does | use of the world “policy.” To pursue | not sound well from the pulpit, Rath- & pollay ts to be “politic.” er would I hear hit say that malice | ‘The clergyman warns us against|/and hatred are wicked and displeas. the good ship Texas her due. I SHOPMEN WANTED BY THE Oregon Short Line RAILROAD COMPANY Boilermakers, Machinists, Blacksmiths, Car Repairers and Car Inspectors. For Employment at NAMPA, Idaho GLENN’S FERRY, Idaho POCATELLO, Idaho MONTPELIER, Idaho SALT LAKE CITY, Utah * At wages and under conditions established by the United States Railroad Labor Board. A strike now exists at these points. 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