The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 16, 1922, Page 6

e Seattle Star sar Bare SeSRSaNS Sn Rte tt ate tert Business This Coming Winter business going to slow down this winter? Many wondering. After hard times, prosperity seems too to be true. All of the basic signs point to a continuation of the industrial revival now under way. Most encourag- of these signs is the big freight traffic being lied by the railroads. the two weeks ended September 23 (latest figures lable) the number of cars loaded with revenue-pro- freight on all railroads compared with the cor- onding period of previous years as follows: 1,727,193 cars Lie . «+ 1,999,275 cars TOLD... .nccceccssecseces +++ 1,990,892 cars You'll observe that 191 cars of freight are moving, for 199 cars in 1919 during the big boom. © Business doesn’t haul a lot of freight around the coun- ry unless it expects to use it, work it up into manufac- red ucts. That means jobs. The stage is being jet to every one busy. "A car shortage is developing in some quarters. This {s bad thing for business, but it shows there is more bus!- jess than can be handled. one recent week the railroads were asked to furnish ny freight cars on sidings that they ran short D0 the shippers needed. the same week there was a shortage of 26,000 coal At other points there was a surplus of 17,614 cars, but these couldn't be rushed to where they needed as fast as they were needed. N of this feverish activity on the raftroads looks ity comforting to any one who remembers, during de- how cars stood on side-tracks, accumulating “i If traffic statistics seem dry, here's something along ‘same line that will penetrate easily to any brain: E. M. Sheehan, president of the California Grape rs’ Exchange, says that about half of California's |. B50-000-ton wine-grape crop is in danger of destruction s the result of a shortage of cars for shipping the grapes John Doe's cellar. "Tis the most difficult of tasks to keep the soul is ent to gain. Heights which ompee we Foundation and Folks foundation is the most important thing about a but nobody ever looks at the foundation until it ts and the house begins to tip. busy housewife doesn’t hustle down tnto the base- to tap the cement with a of the house doesn’t home in afte to regard the chimney’s founda- In ease the foundation does give the family calls sets him at the job, pays bill and lets it nment is the foundation of society. fu formers are perpetually amazed that the ern ce wee Sine 8 keane pertiater Sietest government. But can the housewife run all between meals and study tax re- Pershing will write his book on Buzzards Bay island, but we like hin refuse to comment, Cengress is threatening to hold an extra session. Does Pete Show Intelligence? Pete, the raccoon in Boston zoo, likes bread. By acci- he drops a chunk of dry bread in his water tank, finds it so pleasing to his taste that now Pete soaks bread in water. Is this intelligence? To remember the soaking process memory. To know that what made one piece of tasty will have the same effect on another piece reasoning. All life is “intelligent” to some degree—even vegetable Otherwise, how does a climbing vine know enough follow a trellis built for it? | "When » man tells » girl why his wife doesn't understand him ft usually because his wife docs. Be careful shout » A Texas 16 for rats! hen raising money. man got 10 years ing | In Cincinnati, two were injured when » bee sat on an auto driver. Ford Sells Half-Price Coke In Detroit, consumers pay $15 a ton retail for coke. Phe price is $8 a ton to men working for Henry Ford. He makes his own coke and sells it wholesale to his em- ployes. This is as good as a wage bonus, Large employers will find a highly profitable field in itive buying for those on their payrolls. Helping ie employe get more for his dollar is the next best thing to giving him more dollars. ; Lenehan | Never mind where your work is. Ni whether visible Never mind whether your casas be ‘aaeieiliel oie ee yon ravi Sever we the issues of your toils. You are working for eternity. If you fee results here in the hot working day, the cool evening hours drawing near, when you may rest from your labors, and then they follow you—Alexander McLaren. of Parisian longer skirts, lots of flappers still get their stytes i ‘Vour luck may be bad, but » Florida man lost his otber eye, By Martha Haskell Clark HO has not loved a mountain Ho has not known « friend Te stand with him In hand with him Until his Journey's end. Who has not loved a mountaln, Its purple-brooding calm, The height of tt, The might of tt, Tts hemlock fingered balm; Tte cool, sweet evening breath of fern Across a fevered day, Dear Avridge Mann: Ike to see a letter that I haven’ diers’ bonus that we used to th Of course, it mightn’t help us there's lots of buddies that are In any further need of any fahtin, they are aaying, “Go to h——-." Dear Ex-Soldier I cannot pass the bonus bill, letter did the work and got the bi LETTER FROM \VRIDGE MANN just to see it In your space would thrill ue thru and thru. we're fighting for to pass the bonus bill, in Ladies’ Home Journal ‘The kindiiness ‘That bends to diese ‘The tolling valley way; Tts promise on the morning skies Of suntit tratie untrod, Bach crest-biown fir, Star touched, astir, That whispers high with Goa Who has not loved « mountain, Me has not known « friend To share with him, And bear with him Until bis journey’s end I always read your dally column—often o'er and o'er, but I'd ‘t seen before; {t's about the sol- ink we'd get, but up to date it feems to me we haven't got it yet out by what you ey or do, but I know my ehape, no doubt, who remem ber several years ago the way they used to shout. But now the war is over, everything ts fine again, they haven't @ Men; our pervice tmn't needed, tho we did our fighting well, and now we're broke and hungry, Perhaps theyll need us once again, and then we'll giadty go; we'll rally round Old Glory, and well heed the bugie’s biow; again we'll do our duty and again the trenches fillh—but here and now EX SOLDIER. no matter what I éo, and so I gladly step aside and give the space to you. And maybe, tn the years to come, when all your need tn passed, you'll find your 0 at laet! Separate Justice for Politicians? About three weeks ago one of our | county officials wrecked his car| against a wall and was arrested by & policeman and charged with driving | an automobtie while intoxicated, the | tmeny. How could this happen? Where was the policeman at the time he | commented adversety vestigute this officer's whereabouts at that particular time, or can ft be there ts onp kind of justice for polt- ticlans on the Inside and anether for the ordinary cftiean on the outside 3 z i should have been tn court, and what | terious procedure, which leads me to influence brought about his absence? | inquire, “Oh, where t our fin Did our effictent chief of police tn- ° of law and order? xY¥Z% Wants Mayor Given a Chance pointment and confirmation of a su pertntenderit of streets and eowers I believe that Mayor Brown's. position would be overwhelmingly sustained. | This deaptte the legal opinion given at the request of Mr. Finine. ‘The fact of the matter ts that the people look to the mayor to carry out) hig policies, He must work thru his} superintendents, It ts futile to ex- pect him to reduce taxation when oa | coordinate branch of our city gov.) ernment refuses to co-operate. It ta true that Mayor Brown prom feed a reduction tn carfare within a reasonable tima, but he ts not to! blame for the continuance of the/ high fare as the matter ts still being | lttgnted. With the several departments un- Ger hia Girect supervision the aitua tion ts entirely different. He promised a substantial saving stroots and sewers, asserting that he ‘will save from $25,000 to $50,000 tf this appotntment ts confirmed. Why not give him the chance to prove the truth of his assertion? Is it because the council fears that the mayor will make good? Are they unwilling to give him the chance to put his theortes Into practice? Surely the clty will not suffer and the taxpayers will not be worse off if Mr. Gaseman ts given « trial. Mat- ters cannot be worse than they are a» far as our taxes are concerned, and those who are at all familiar with Dr. Brown's way of doing things know that ff gtven half ao chance he will effect changes in this and ether departments which will re- mult im the elimination of much waste and extravagance, What Is an “Educational Toreador”? Editor The Star: | members Teddy Roosevelt. | Wilbur Winthrop rises to stick out his tongue and call names, If I were like our old) Nancy, I would take @ good long) look at Wilbur and say, “All dem tings you says ah fs, you is ‘erm. An’ mo’ too.” “Educational toreafor.” Not #0 bad at that. A toreador ts one who gives the bull the conge. There has been #0 much educational bull tn the Seattle schools that we have) long felt the need of @ toreador.| ‘Thanks for the nomination, Wilbur.) The polls are open. Now, what Wilbur, dear, really was after in the matter of calling| names was to chase the toreador to the tall timber until after the 3010 fs put evor. Wilbur thinks all folk are like herselves, 1. 0., fearful of public opinion. The toreador re Mr. Ford and th Editor The Start When Henry Ford shut down his factory, he put a crimp into the plans of the coal profiteers for a wholesate tooting ot the public. ‘When Mr, Ford threatened to shut | down, coal dropped from $9 to $8) and $7. On the day of the shutdown | it went to $6.50, On the following | Monday it was $5.50. On Tuesday it ‘was $4.50. A week later it was down to $3, and there are now millions of | tons that can be bought on contract | at $2.50 a ton, Of course, the domestic sftuntion ts MARRIAGE A LA MODE}| Our fashionable jewelers have made something very beautiful out of the wedding ring which was once only a sign of bondage. But it has not been changed in || all parts of the world. The tron band, which is so heavy that the woman can scarcely lift her hand, fg still presented to the bride in Madagascar, ‘ One evening when Teddy was par more | ticularly active in civil service re form: long before he became presi- dent, he came home with « grin from ear to ear, One of the men standing In the hotel lobby said, “Well, Teddy, I don't expect to see & tooth thin evening. Have you seen the papers? You surely got « Jaroming.” Teddy's grin became more pro nounced, {f possible, his arm ewung up, and as it rounded with the fist in the other hand he gurgied, “Say, boy! My stock's going up. My stock's going up. Whenever you get them to calling you names you know they have no argument in re- ply. You know you've got them on the run.” MRS, EDGAR BLAIR, 6321 Wilson Avo. e Coal Situation atill bad, because the public fs leador less and unorganized, but if Big Busl- ness does not become a friend of the householder soon, and cease to rob him, Big Business will be given a les son that it will not forget in its day and generation. The people of the United States are surely grateful to Mr. Ford for making the protest that “brought the unholy edifice of price Do not miss it— Fraser- || Paterson Co.’s 10th Anniversary Sale Continuing Tomorrow THE SEATTLE STAR HEAP STRONG INJUN MONDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1922 SCIENCE Mysterious Nature! How She Rules Trout. || Gives Them Barnacles. Makes Pa Fish Angry. | Up North, in Canafa's cold lnkea, the salmon trout are spawning. Ob serve the ¢unning of mysterious Mother Nature: } A typical salmon trout Inke te | Portage lake, mile and a half long, | nad a mile wide, 250 feet deep. It's the crater of an extinct voleano, Balmon trout are deop-water fish, usually caught there by trolling with |= copper line at least 100 feet down. | Water at that depth in a cold as the breath of some European diplomats. | Salmon eggs, of course, would not |hatch in foo water, So, to get the |aaimon nearer the surface and make them spawn in shaile aters, ne ture, about this time of year, grows ‘trout lice,” or barnacies, along their ld These barnacies are yellow, about | half-inch long, shaped Ike a man, | with the two fists glued to the sal- |mon's side. | To scrape oft these barnades, the salmon swims up, on the shoals | where it can rub against gravel. As it rubs, the eggs are laid. A very simple plan, this, for mak- ing malmon trout spawn in the warmer waters of shallows. After the egge are laid, mother sab mon returns to deep water. Pa re mains behind, near the eggs. Ne tura, in some unknown way, makes him frritable, He attacks every fish ‘that comes near, | By satiatying his desire to fet | he protects the emus until they hatch, | ‘This arrangement goes on, year |after year, automatically, Ifke the explottation tumbling about the/at once, Profi exploiters’ heads. by business methods Jones decreased cost to the public. The broken increase of cost to the pub-| takes of the Ho, with @ distreseful decrease in| East before someone gives them a service, To save itself, the coal bust. | jolt such as Mr. Tord gave to thetr| eas has got to make coal a drag on | Eastern friends. the market—make it the cheapest, as | bought in the East for $2.60, or even tt 9 the moet plentiful of all our nat-| $3, tt could be ural producta. The business ought | down for lens to be put on @ basie which would | keep tt busy trying to sel! coal looks as tho the business ty doomed, | unless modern methods are adopted trees of the people are always much ‘The coal business can be reformed smaller than profits made out of the In all progres. | lowest price that competent manage: | sive business, increased service fol-| ment can make possible, | Let us hope that the coal magnates | history of the coal business ie an un-| of the Weet will profit by the mis- How long, oh, how long, will we It stand the present coal burden? It's time to wake up. A READER OF THE STAR. itn made out of the din coal miagnates of the able to both. If coal can be shipped here and laid than $14 a ton. IF YOU ARE WELL BRED You do not introduce two peo ple to each other unless you are quite certain this will be agree- You never interrupt a conver. sation to introduce a newcomer. 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