The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 28, 1922, Page 6

mail, out of ett 09, in the atac jontha, or ov (An editorial contributed by a friend of The Star.) + For years I have been yearning to visit General Sher- oman; that giant redwood up in the clouds of sequoia, ; I wanted to meditate in the shade and purple dusky dows of “the oldest and biggest living thing.” T have visited General Sherman and I haven't much to for him. He is as dead as his illustrious namesake; has no top, he has a cave burned in his tummy, he is intly gasping his last, feeble whisper, and he is beyond lief ugly and dour. But I still had the thrill of seeing the oldest and biggest ing thing in the world, on the word of Uncle Sam, who ote the signs in the park, until I talked with a botanist Who knows the trees of the world, And this arboreal '’ told me that there was an oak in England that was 9 and a half times as big around as General Sherman; told me that in the Orient there was a dragon blood that was at least 15,000 years old, five times the age this Sherman adolescent, and that in Araby there was a tree with a spread of shade so great that an entire town P beneath it. So besides being the ugliest tree on this continent, this leneral Sherman bush is neither the oldest, nor the big- in girth, nor the widest in reach of branches of the | So when I consider those three $50 tires I burned up anting those rocky grades to the giant-redwoods, I feel timized, and I have a mind to prosecute Uncle Sam for q representation of inferior goods. * This I must admit—the vista you get on the road to the where you approach Moro Rock and see the giant nite battlements heaped up line upon line and mile n mile is a vista that gets something elemental way deep to arise and sing. But don’t let ‘em tell you there is any fishing in Se- ja; I caught the last fish there was and brought him and they couldn't find him for two days, and then d him in my vest pocket buried in a dozen Who jndzeth well, well God them send; Who judgeth evil, God them amend. —Sie Thomas Wyatt. | Stick your nose in other people's business and you lose by s nose, 3,800 of Us Are Dying Today " Today.3,800 Americans die. That is the average num- that daily go to join the billions who have passed into is year nearly 1,400,000 Americans will die. they all met death at the same time and tn the same mnity—for instance, by earthquake or battle—the would be talked about for centuries. a I wonder where I came going.’ today, 6,500 babies give their first cry America. As nearly as can be accurately about 2,400,000 babies will be born this year in exceed deaths by about 1,000,000 a year. to make room for the newcomers. igures seem big. But to get the total of deaths for the whole world, you have to multiply the rican figures by at least 20. pretty big organization is humanity, 28,000,000 dying 48,000,000 born each year. who can grasp such big figures {s not apt to be- conceited about his individual “importance.” walketh uprightly shall be saved: but he that {s perverse In hiy shall fall at once.—Proverbs 28:18. ‘who long for the good old days would hate to ride bicycles. If the Apple Crop Is Blocked With the railway tie-up coinciding with the promise of the country’s hugest apple crop this fall, we offer a word ff advice to the back country farmer and another to the Tan. fo the farmer: “Don’t let your apples rot on tree or und when you hear they are selling for nearly nothing e city. The “nearly nothing” kind in the groceries ire always nothing but alleged apples—scrawny, bruised, d, worm-tunneled. Pick your apples, get boxes d then put a modest little ad in the best circulated wspaper in the nearby town. Say something like this, ith your own trimmings: “From my orchard to your lar. Rich, red, juicy apples. My apples are hand-picked d will ” Quote a fair price that will give you a ir profit. You'll sell your whole crop if you'll keep the ’ g awhile. et the city man: Get your share of this year’s big p aes Every apple eaten in your house is so much health erybody should eat ten times as many apples he does. Farmers now advertise occasionally. Watch an apple farmer’s ad and buy health. Seventeen Eskimos arrived in this be Janitors back fri country may be janitors om “f {, One might say resuming miner operation was a major operation. | We saw 2 poor fish having a whale of « time, Business Moves Briskly Information that will soon affect your pocketbook: In week ended Aug. 5, the railroads loaded 851,351 cars freight. That’s only 20,722 cars less than in the cor- ponding week of 1919, when business was going so it threatened to burst a blood vessel. (It did, later.) This big recent showing was made in the face of ab- lly small coal shipments from mines. The outlook good. Steel mills have slowed down to 55 per cent of y, but that’s due mostly to fuel situation, hence ly only temporary. —_———_—___ When two countries decide to bi their differe Bi Bight ; ary erences, each wants them | Clog dancer wants $20,000 for broken foot. Hoe claims the Sig Is up. “Mf every cloud has a sliver lining isn’t tho future bright, though? at A movie star arrested for speeding had his own wife with him. hint; Shut up! i SS I EL TT I TTI Ee THE SEATTLE STA Suggests Elimination Lottery Editor The Star; Are the candidates for U. 8. senw tor honest? They tell us all they want is to beat Poindexter, not personal gain. can't win. | want Three splitting the opposition vote Two-thirds of the people Potndexter defeated, but di vide that two-thirds Into three camps of two-ninths each and Poindexter goes In with « nice plurality. A Word About Sea Ask Your Meter Reader Editor The Star: ‘The tax reduction counef! has been accused of being interested only tn the educational department, but the fact is that the school budget being made up first, tt was given attention first, and {t is now proposed to give the same earnest and devoted atten- tion to detalles in the city budget. As it is not quite apparent as to who is #0 “tender of conscience” about cutting salaries, 1. ¢., whether the members of the 0 heads of departments, this little item of news may throw a different light on the matter of salaries and make us all realize that this is the time to throw the spotlight on the budget. ‘The other day I asked the young ho reads my light meter he was an inspector, He ‘o, I'm just @ cheap meter. reader at $90 per month.” I thought thie rather odd, but on asking my friends in different parts of the city the answer was the same—$90 per month, When the tentative budget was Editor The Star: We wish people had to prove their statements before they send them so broadcast you have done tn your editorial, “Wo ‘Law-Abiding’ Folk.” Your correspondent, whose word you neem to take as fact, by try- ing to account for it makes a state ment he cannot prove. He cannot show us enough people who “were normally law-abiding whom the Volstead law has made lawless” to make it the rule, In the first place, there ts no logic in it. Why should one begin to do what he knew to be @ curse just be- cause his country, to protect thone who could not or would not protect themselves, tries to remove that curse? Your explanation is that it fe the first time he ever really was tempted to break t law. We fail to neo where it 18 a temptation, We are in touch with a large com- @ number of large cities who have searched 4iligently for the people who “were normally law-abiding, who never drank alcoholfe liquors,” who have become drinking people since the liquor traffic was outlawed and up to date have not found even one. ‘There are over 80 organized liquor organs with millions of dollars back of them to put forth just such mis. leading propaganda as this you make so prominent in your editorial. Editor ‘The Star: A few days ago my attention was called to the fact that a certain city official had been seen riding in a street car, I did not believe this at first, but after investignting find it to be a fact, If there Is no ordinance prohibiting this practice, one should be passed at once, as the tax payers furnish free automobile service for most of the officials, and they should the machines and keep off the ity council or! Denies New Crop of Drinkers pany of people in weveral states and | Can This Possibly Be True? DR. go. Conon au COAL INDUSTRY.cx and spend two weeks of her pay for & new outfit. Thus you see the girl secured a new dress and my friend. the merchant, made a sale, which would not have been possible if thé car had been cleaned. These cars were painted when built, 10 or 20 cleaned them just before turning them over to the city. What more can & reasonable person ask? Also the ladies who use the cars If they are good sports, mean what they say, and don’t want to} | kill themecives politically, those | | ared exercine, and what better exer- three will put their names in & Bat. ci0 is there than climbing over the get some little child to draw one,| dozen oF #0 of men who usually block and the other two take off their! 1. entrance platforms? Would it ‘reg ace alallgeate pasa | not be @ shame to keep the entranc If they are telling the truth they| “iter and deprive the women of the Will do it; if not, woe don’t want any | "ded Kymnastics ot them. AN OLD POLITICIAN. Then, also, consider the amusement furnished by the cars. Did you never Police stand at the curb and make a bet with a friend as to whether @ certain honest ones, but tf th: certainly be « lon, car would stop on the near crowning LJ date he has ey ST?! the far crowing, or the middle of the to get any of ways net bleck? And then you both lost the bet as the trolley did not stop at all. Of course, after living In the efty for 10 or 15 years, you can guess 60 times out of a hundred where a car will stop, but newoomers certainly obtain much enjoyment from chasing trolleys up and down the street. ‘The car crews are hard working men, and certainly earn thelr pay, and we cannot credit them with the unaatisfactory conditions. The offi Gifference ts t rate ts higher for the protection. and once tn a while some poor devil that fs not particularly thrown to the wolves, peewee years ago, and the traction company | ie APetter from AWRIDGE MANN. Jour Avridgs Mann: I hope you'll give « bit of apace to bring the people face to face with quite @ job they ought to do, instend of raising such a stew on whether teachers emoke or not, and other idle tommyrot We read about our soldiers’ pleas—the shell-shocked men from overseas, who left thelr fobs and friends and all, and nobly heard their country’s call; who didn't have a word to say, but gave up all and went away. And now they avk a chances to work—they've proven that they do not abirk; it's up to un to try atone by giving bread and not stone—give them a job and they'll make good, or quit the claim of brotherhood We all could find, beyond a doubt, tn U. 8. hospitals ‘round about, & hont of lonely, helpless birds, who long for friendly, kindly words; we all must answer—everyone—"They fought for me, what have I done?” ‘This problem isn't hard to solve; a kindly thought ana quick re solve, and we can make, by act and deed, a happy day for one in need. Our wounded boys are with um yet, so start at once—lest we forget. —D, L, W., Field Director, American Red Cross. Dear D. L. Ws Altho our hearts are always true, It's hard to figure what to do, but you, perhaps, would know some men who'd like « letter now and then; and #0, if you should think it best, wend In the names—~ I'll do the rest. the firm of John Davis @ Co, end| Mr. McFarlane’s insinuation thet & member of the firm of Sparkman |i am on the pay roll ts absolutely |@ McLean served with me as mem, | ‘ise. I have not drawn @ day's pay other than on special road and |bere of the appraisal board. I havel drainage districts in the past 20 no apologies to make for my acts years, His statement that I am a ae appraiser or for county insurance | parasite on county pay rolls ts pont | buainens received by my firm. I am | tively untrue, and the facts demand well content to stand on my record|a retraction. as to any public service I have ren Very respectfully, dered in this county FRANK H. PAUL. He Ate 86 Big Eastern Clams Eéitor The Star: hit the 66 mark, the record for Nor. In 1900 (speaking of eating) I ate| rote Va. 1 couldn't look et a clam 46 big Hastern clams in Jones’ chop- | house, Norfolk, Va. My rival ate 90/%F three montha, but am in good shape now. |big Lynnhaven oysters, and quit. | After about 40 clams my stomach re belied, but I kept right on until I a he BOB PAULDING. Royal, Wash. Knocking Your Home Town | Editor The Star: depts. in our fair elty, not to men- Dear John ‘tion the police dept. which is the |” 1 am writing to call your attention | best, im point of numbers, of any jto a peice which was printed in one] city on the sound north of Tacoma. of our contemporaries this week.) We own our own st. cars, or will Mencken, editor of the New York) when we get through paying install Smart Set. Maybe you read ft—or #13 cts. per installment do you get time to read the papers, ays we are ahead of the John? Anyway, Henry said that the the country; we have a poll |U. &. ts only about % civilized, and tax here that in frequently paid. and ‘ow York (meaning his home town)/we have 2 ladies on the city counctl. |i « drunken etty. Statisticn tells us that there ts in Now, John, it seems to me some-| Seattle one bathtub for every 18 thing ought to be done about this. | people (one at @ time) and 1 Ford |Maybe Henry ts right about New }for every 11 people, in lots of six. | York. he runs the paper there and|/ By the way, John, maybe you r: ought to know. But he hasn't got no| member me, having met me at the business picking on the rest of this | | tnt in my 20 odd years as editor and printer of the Bothell Planet, I found out that it ¥ good to knock jcials in charge are entitied to all the ¢ iit, as they have the right idea which ts Never mind the service; get the tol " ‘Thin te one of the advantages of publicly owned utility, The people will put up with things they would out, I looked into the matter of |not tolerate from a private corpora- lighting and found, 14 meter-readers| tion. Very respectful A. CASH. at $125 per month. In the budget! |for last year was also the sum or! item, 14 meter-readere, $2 I then went to the lighting de - partment In the eity-county butlding/ A tnd asked how many moterreaders| ccusations owe ean ty wan told six or eight.| Editor The Star: t when I told the party why I! 1m your issue of August 22 ap- Fanted to know he declared be peared an article stating that George aia george lige agli peg but! McFarlane, candidate for the Repub- pos alba me the head of the 4@/ ican nomination for county com. missioner in the South district, was be found. ant, DAY wae not tl charging mo with having received | | salary for making appraisals in spe | what was being pald moterreaders, | Now does this mean that someons| cla! road and drainage districts and gets the Job at $125, farms it out at| i> receiving money for premiums $90 and pute $25 in his pocket? (in| county insurance. | some casoa the whole $125, as the| Some persons appear to have mis- number said to be employed in #ix| Td the plain tenor of this article | Or eight as against 14 per budget al-| "4 to have interpreted it as mean- lowance) or does the department) !ne that I was making these charges | simply keep that money tn its treas-|sainst Mr. McFarlane, jury for emergency? And if #o,| This latter interpretation I wish what in an “emergeney?” And how| You would correct. many other jobs are held down the| 1 make no specific charges against same way? Mr. McFarlane or in fact against MRS. ANNE B, STEWART. |any other one of the many candl- dates, I quote the records only, as shown in county building, and if the records hurt, that ts thelr mis. fortune and not my fault, I quote the records to show he ts an ap pointes of the present board of county commissioners and the rec: orda show he Is receiving $2,100 per year an real estate or property agent for King county, Mr, MeFarlane ts charging that T wrote fn tneurance premiums on King county property last year $15,297.78 and that I recetved from King county in 1921 the sum of $1,379.20 for services tn county ap- | praisements, which 1s absolutely falas, Tho truth ts, and the records wil! bear out this statement, that Kin- near, Paul & Co. of which firm I Sincerely yours, Cc. C. CORNWALL, ‘They have set out to hammer tnto the people that the law creates crime instead of abating it, and the pro- hibitionists themselves see it and are ready to repeal or modify, They send these misleading articles to every magazine and newspaper and spen their millions freely to try to thus fool the people. This t# thelr strong. ent pull, as the people read of the bootlegging, eto, and think maybe it is 90, I would ike to have your corre spondent show proof that the kind of people he mentions have taken up drink since the law against it was made. A gy are many homeless people Inara ae beng uf saponins oe ame member, wrote for our various nome paid agent might have inducea |; ™urance companies aince August to break the Volstond law, but never |}; 2215, 0F in the past seven yours, thage, wile Weahebeesbesntey j $15,297.78 In premfums of which our prohibition came) tiem recetved 168 per cent ae com. in were punctilious in law-obedtence, mission for ourselves, our solicitors many of them church goers.” If we did not know the editor to be |*"2 brokers, and the insurance jcompanies which we reprosent re a man of honor and principle and! thoroughly belleve in him we would | Ceved 85 per cent. That at no time wonder how much of those millions | U4 our company receive over 8 per |being #pent for such Propaganda |C*t of the county's insurance bust came into his pockets, ness and the other agencies through Why is It that thin side of the/Out the clty received the other 92 duestion is given free publicity when | Per cent. At the “present time we law is rarely mentioned? ance, At no time in the past seven Yours for juatice, years our firm's actual profit on A. V. FREEMAN, |county business was over $200 per year, and at the present time ts I submit to any fairminded tux- city officials riding on street cars?) Payer the question, “Is there any- If they ride on the cars and observe | thing Irregular tn our accepting our the Inconventences, dirt, etc., that | Pro rata distribution of the county's | they might take steps to correct the| uted generally through all agencies | troubles, and the last thing to be de.|In the city?” As to the appratsals sired 18 an efficient, clean service, on special districts, T acknowledge Just yesterday I had an example |the receipt of special improvement Ono of my stenographers wag crying | $1,979.20 during 1920, 1921 and 1922 and upon inquiry I found that she|for my services as expert real estate had ruined a new dress on one of the | appraiser and chargeable against the dirty cars, I kindly gave her an hour| several special districts and not the real benefits and victory of the| have 2% per cent of county insur $96.30 per annum, |the general public has’ to endure, |insurance business, which is distrib | of the advantage of dirty street cars, | district warrants in the eum of recess, permitting her to go down | wainet King county, A momber of iMr. Paul Answers “Red Crown” vaporizes 100 per cent. Every atom mixes with many times its volume of air and is completely consumed in the pensar a “nf on spark pl valves and cyfinder heads, That's why you get more power and mileage wr es er-running motor w! use “Red Crown.’ he Fill at the Red Crown at Standard Oil Service Stations, at garages and at other dealers, apAL lcounty Prees convention at Ballard} Today's word te—APHORIGM, It's pronounced—at-o-ris'm, gig) accent on the first syllable. 4 It means—a concive definition statement of a principle; a Dithy |rentence stating « general octrtag lor truth. | It comes from—a Greek 4 | meaning “to mark oft by bousgy ries.” “to define.” | It's used like thie—Thet tae land capital can work most |J¥ as partners ts an aphoriam It pays both sides to every strike bear in mind.’ | | | | Brain Testers Write out the nine digits tn $ jorder that the first three ght cases jone-third of the last thr jcentral three the result of jing the first three from ‘the len, Answer tomorrow. Yesterday's Solution: said the henpecked hi one I'm # cipher, A one ands cipher make 10.” : ee his country, and espectally bis ow home town. So that's why I my Henry ts oll wrong saying what he naid. It is my idea thet maybe. Henry has lots of troubles; most of his subscribers delinquent, and the price of print paper what it i sp maybe he just had to get that out of his system. But he’s sure to people down on him, and lose » let of ads, and then first thing he knows someone will start an oj paper, and then where’ll he be? You know how it ts yourself. Editor Menckin ts @ friend of this Mr. Lewis who wrote Main Street and must have made hundreds of lars just out of that one think maybe Henry hag | ing the book and getting town. If Henry ever attle I think we ought over with him and tell off of Seattle and the U. 8. even if he has to a [We can't blame him much, but |think you and me ought to have lfraterngl talk with him and show him where he's all wrong, Best wishes to your force. 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