The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 21, 1922, Page 6

The SeattleS Published Daily by T ar Publianing Co, Phone Ma gener, Lerneiae Ansoc! ‘aud United Press Bervic fe sd month; = the, 6) he, OR Te ‘ef Waehington, Outside monthe, or $9.09 per year, By car The Busy Little Fortune Teller ou kerage offices and bucket-shops. Tt seams that the sad news doesn’t come fast enough. On a busy day the ticker sometimes runs a quarter of an hour or more behind prices on the floor of the stock rs will welcome a faster-geared ticker, _ The stock ticker was invented by a preacher, Dr. Samuel S. Law, back in civil war days. i t the price of gold at regular intervals, thus letting teers can other business men know what their paper money was worth on a gold basis, f A board of trustees met each morning. As they emerged from conference, hundreds of messenger boys meed on them, eager to rush the gold price to bankers, Brokers and merchants. The trustees, by the time the messengers got thru mobbing them, sometimes had to buy lothes. Ties they jumped at the chance when Preacher Laws showed them sketches for the first electrical ticker ma- chine. “Young Thomas .A. Edison had charge of the “4% ing service. ie Trot tec tickers, of course, were crude compared with the machines in glass cages that spit out quotation- ribbon today. More than 7,000 tape tickers are now in use, four- fifths of them recording the price waves of stocks and What a story the ticker could tell, if it could talk! In the main, Cagle Slanted hopes, exploded dreams, thefts, a terms, lost fortunes and suicides. The brighter aa story of lucky strikes—is the flame that lures moths. glory of life—Hugh Black. ‘Caution Is a great asset in fishing, especially If you are the fish. “Country cousins will soon get even for city cousins’ vacations, Perhaps you have a flivver. Or a near flivver. Or gome pra kind of motor-driven vehicle. Or tractor. You remember, no doubt, the boosts in gasoline prices early summer. te spite of the fact that crude oil was lower than ft had been in a long time and reserve stocks of gasoline iter. tyen. the other day eater Oil began cutting melons began to pass out the profits. Stock divitends to the tune of $750,000,000 were handed wut by the directors of three of the many Standard Oil “foncerns. Others are yet to be heard from. stock for each share he holds. ‘extra shares of stock for each one he holds, Standard Oi of N Jersey —$500,000,000—or about 400 previous capitalization, giving every stockholder FOUR Now here’s the final kick. Uncle Sam gets nothing of this by way of income tax. Your own little salary b= be taxed none the less heavily. You see, instead of CASH dividends, they paid the in STOCK. And the supreme court recently ruled dividends are non-taxable. Be che moose part polse—Shakespeare, Russia has a big standing army. Greece has s big running army. "The annual turkey shortage has just been announced. A Sanity Commission Needed (From the Lynden Tribune) Governor Hart, the state highway commission, or who- is making surveys and planning to spend three or hundred thousand dollars on a new paved road be- Bellingham and Blaine, might well be sent to Sedro- Woolley or Steilacoom for observation and treatment. The present road, with a little spent for repairs and , is entirely adequate, and will serve for a decade or more. It is not laid out on a speedway plan, _ but traverses the country that needs the highway and san use it. a State officials have surveyed a bee-line race-course for the proposed new highway, not even curving for the brick bank building at Custer, which will be condemned if the Toad goes thru. And it begins to look as if nothing but a sanity com- mission will hold it up. bad downtown for lunch? Ex-kaiser’s bride will be “Queen of Prussia,” but won't work at it. “How do you eat olives?” asks etiquet hint. One at a time, Stabilizing the Wheat Price Price of wheat never would fall below $1.25 a bushel or rise above $1.50 if the grain market were stabilized a government fund of $100,000,000. So claims Arthur Roberts, commission broker, member of the Chicago board of trade. The fund, according to Roberts’ suggestion, would be used to buy up grdin surplus at seasonable times. Worth considering. A hundred million dollars, suddenly taking @ hand in the situation, should be powerful enough to stabilize pretty nearly any market. things in his pockets, Pola Negri says she likes Charlie Chaplin, Run, Charlie, run, The spice of life palls when it is all spice, a Those Valentino Pants F We heartily approve the new style pants for men— those laced-up, flare-bottomed, Spanish, wide silk sash, Rodolph Valentino effects which seems to be the dernier git men’s frausere. . Pessimists have been saying our race is growing soft, that the pioneer spirit in us is dead. The iti ete, prove them wrong. Those who wear them have the courage of an Indian fighter and the rest of r full share of stolid restraint. wh ck tml ‘Tho best alarm clock is ham and eggs cooking in the kitchen, i $<. , Auto shows are being held. Pedestrians have no show, % The New York stock exchange will soon bring out a gtock ticker running about a fifth faster than the model that now brings the sad news to the gentlemen who their days in chairs before the blackboards in Since the market can do a lot of shifting in 5 minutes, “A gold exchange had been established in New York, to - strong hand In the dark to another in the time of need, to be = to detent soul ‘in a crisis of weakness, Is to know lare being taxed to the limit in edu jeating the Jap and Chinene chil “No More War,” Urges Woman To the Orpheum Clroult ing a birthday on the coast! we've listened to bunch are Apont! ot Joy we a the bill than any before! tor The Star anset to the nation and the taxpay ors foot all the bills. white American, The white peopl Editor The Star “How do you feel about It?" inthe question you put up to your readers and I am answering it by & loud “No more wart Can there be any bigger dh the government decides the war, but who has got to fight, who has got hui wives and fathers of children, What i» the result of a wart Bigger taxes, more macrifices and harder times for the people, Honore First Standard OM of California—$100,000,000. This ts 100 per t the previous capitalization, and gives every stockholder ONE of of New York—$150,000,000. This ts about he pret capitalization, and gives every stockholder It offends me to the soul to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings who capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb show and What is worse than your wife cooking the same thing for supper you Tino travels with 225 trunks, but we'll bet even then his wife sticks and laurels are all right, but there is more benefit in honorabiy avoid. ing @ war, Ask the Belgian and Northern French people how they would like another war and they all will answer as I do: “No more war! Tam « Relgian girt myself and have} been in my own country during the all war, ruled and held down by the You've brought Helen Keller, our troubles am not very great; we've seen the composer of “Mother Macree,” and laughed at Van Hoven, the wizard of glee; and now due for a comedy thrill, with Hyams and MeIntyre heading Giritge Tomn Hardly a day passes when we do |not read of rome Jap or Chinese |being arrested for violation of the liquer or narcotic jaws, And a soon an they are released they are at it again. It's @ pity this great) nation in #0 weak that it cannot ses }fit to deport these enemies of the | people who wilfully and continually Violate ite lawea. They are not an The Star is to be congratulated) for its fight in the interest of a ster? to give their lives? The sons of ede of mothery, husbands of apy oe ere er | Se EW Nas a a mmaareeneercr nis The Muses, they tell ye, are Joyful and gay they're all celebrat- y} for thirty-three years ago Orpheus amiled on iia favorite child; and down fro A bright, happy birthday—and me humble beginnings, thru days that were dark, you've climbed to the thirdefacentury mark; from one little theater making tte bow, you've grown to a hundred and eighty by now; and all the Pacific t# happy to boast that Orpheum elreult was born Parnassus the me!’ y to For thirty-three years you have shown un the trick of clean entertainment with plenty of kick Bushman and Bayne, and Trixte Friganea, and Cremy and Dayne; orn, and we've seen Eddie Foy—and all of this You've brought us Petrova, and the Victor of Fate, to tell us So now T am glad to congratulate you-Including Carl Reiter, your manager, too! We're proud of the thirty-three years you have grown; we're proud of your stare and the stan wish you a future of many years more—each le you own! We ne & bit brighter Deport Law-Breaking Orientals untaxable. And! dren who by law a the growing birthrate among the Jape will sooner or later present itmelf as a problem before Ameri can people, As evidence that the people are waking up, “one can re fer to the vote of Mr, Tindall in the} recent primary, He ran on an out andout antiJap platform and came near being nominated. It served no-| sful nominee that the people demand relief from the} | [any soctety, or individuals who, have! more by co-operation than by vitu- Keep up the good work. Only} 9®easion to call such deplorable in-| peration. ye who consider the money part] it are against The Star and all| Veterans’ bureau would accomplish Killing Chickens Cruel, Too? Eéitor The Star: It ts “ot my purpose to eriticize | fowl or killing a barnyard fowl. Now, ark for what he says about! my view tn this Rather 1 com-) wild fowl till you are hunting. You raise and We take a delight In seo- tlee on the #uc growing menace. the people, for that matter WHITE AMERICA, enemy. 1 have heard many cruet|'+ M stories that were not true, but there | Susting are hundreds of facte that the} mend him for taking @ humane view | no with the chickens American people don't know. Shut | of It. expecially when he does not un-| feed them. out from the rest of the world, with.|“¢retand the manly art, as all true)ing the little chicks grow up. Some- | A man doesn't have | times they follow us all around the yard, Then what? Mr. Clark goes out to the root at out news from your boys; afraid to) *Portamen do to be inhuman while he te hunting had; betrayed by your neighbors for}®%¥ more than when he ts cutting the head off a chicken. When he wounds a bird he doesn't/ all day tn his game talk; deprived of everything you & big sum ef moneys enduring cold and hunger, that is what have been thru besides lots of other things for four years and a baif. 1 could write page after page about things that happened during the war and people over here never dreamed «bout and that is why I say, “Don't start that nightmare over again! Keeping out of It te not a coward ly, but @ big and noble act to bene.|fFM® nettles and brush where we find them, and when we flush them up they are off lke a streak of lightning, They don't walk around, waiting for us to get a bend on them. The hunter has got to be ar quick as they are tf he gets a shot at them, fit the people of your country. Very nincerély yours, MES, F. CONGDON, 916 Benora St. The Ross School Furnace Fire Editor The Star: Jan carelessness, we might refer to The writer, who has worked for|Rantmyer's first campaign, in which the Seattle school district for 19/the latter declared that if he was years, has been accused by W. Ft elected he'd nee that men In char MeNeal of being “careless in the lof fires and boilers should stay con operation of th. school.” botler at the Réss|stantly on duty in the fireroome. Santmyer declared, also, that he There tn no boiler at the Rosajhad decided in favor of thin course school, but the smokestack from the|/because he had, on visiting the furnace, which emerges thru the schools, found that men in charge of coal bin, has for years been a men ace to the occupants of the school fires, boilers and pumps were com pelled to leave them to perform Bore time during the last schoo!/dutiea on the top floor of the bulld: | year coal was delivered to the act which filled the bin and surrounc Pipe amokestack, which was un covered, and a fire occurred, which fortunately I discovered in timo tolers to the danger of perishing in a| |eeething cauldron of fire or steam 1 had asked many times that this| prevent a disaster. pipe be covered with asbestos, but not until the hot pipe had ignited| the conl was anything dono to pre jafter the coal fgnited, a serioue con vent a recurrence. If this is what MeNeal refers to Praise for Vet An article appeared in your paper) bureau to have every disabled man | receive fair compensation and the} on Oct. 18, relative to the treat ment accorded disabled men by the Veterans’ bureau. The writer ts a disabled man who has had dealings! with the Veterans’ bureau for the past two years and four months, and has bad an opportunity to ob- serve the manner in which men are treated by the bureau, and cannot allow such statements to be made without contradiction Mistakes re made by the Vet trans’ bureau, perhaps many of them, but in my opinion anyone who states that employes and offt- cers of the bureau would stoop to petty methods of retaliation as men tioned in that article is far from being well informed. I have had occasion to visit the! office of the bureau many times during the past two years and I have always been treated with the|of all, but I believe that !f he utmost courtesy and consideration! would call at the office of the by all of the officers and employes with whom I have come in contact, and I have never seen anyone else treated In any other maner I believe that it f# the desire of every officer and employe of the -_— ta WINNERS By Berton Braley IF folks we call “Successes”; what's the secret that they know? What sort of magic food ts tt that makes them flourish so? There isn't any secret which you wnnot figure out, Nor any strange enchantment which is ringing them about; For when you corhe to study them the answer's quickly guessed, They worked a little harder and they planned a little botter And they dreamed a little truer ‘Than the rest. HISY weren't afraid of drudgery when drudgery was w ‘They faced the little grimy Jobs with w They didn’t like that sore of task, they didn't tind 4¢ tun But they kept grinding at it till they knew that it was done: And thus their strength and courage grew to meet each larger tent r, and they tolled a little longer And they thought a little clearer . They plugged a little har¢ ‘Than the rest, A LITTLE more of effort and a little more of stress Would often alter fatiure into glorious success, But the fatlure blames misfortune for his lack of f, He blames the times, he blames his job—but neve Yet the secret of the folks who win ia easily exp! They fight a little harder, and they uct a little quicker, And they stick a little longer Than the rest! (Copyright, 1922, Seattle star, ool ling or at th 4 | of the schoo! erans’ Bureau jfrom or fight the dinedse, 13-dc |injustice that may have been done} extremit sometimes for half an hour to an hour at a time, thus exposing the puplia and teach If the writer hadn't acted quickly in the Ross schoo! incident, and for. | tunately been on the spot shortly | occurred R PORSYTH benefits of vocational training, but} the rules under which these may be | granted are not of thelr making they were made by CONgTres: THE SEATTLE STAR RDAY, OCTORE) LETTER FROM VV RIDGE MANN [skin which changed thi |into @ soluble i] timent is on the West Side, but 1) |think it can be safely |farmers, business men and taxpayers jof the East Side that they are vir jously opposed to the 20-10 plan. Th better this measure is understood, the [more decided will be the objection | It is extravagant, inopportune | jand unnecessary Altho the advocates of the meas. | ure claim that it will not increase | taxes, they admit that it will add §3,- | 760,000 to mtate taxes, but they say that district school taxes will be cor- | jrespondingly reduced. Is this likely? | |There are 2.573 school districts In |the state, each with at least three | +|school directors, many of whom are usiness men and many | Very truly yours, the attention MARRY A. HANL! which ts more shooting wild |to it. You seldom nee the chick to the | block and whacks hia head off! It is pure love for the sport that tramp all day | through the rough places where we people} have to carry i jdoes not justify the belief that this | directors will have jthe wisdom, the knowledge, or the | self-restraint to reduce district taxes | 0 #D amount equal to the increased t dead: all hunters know that Clark aske what chance a bird has with a trained markeman. if we hunters could hunt our birds out in the open fields it would be Hut we seldom get them army of school Clurk would take a band In the game would Mke it, he would see it tn a different light | Of course the bird season is over now, ‘but next year let Mr. Clark buy him- self a nice shotgun, get his license and use some big shot. vise him to get smokeless powder, so he could see the birda fall easter- then blaze away. many birds to put in his sack, why he can make a bi¢ noise anyway. GEORGE CARTY. Kast Side are not willing to run the risk, They fee] that taxes are crush. ing out their existence and that any measure which certainly adds to | state taxes, even tho it holds out the jhope of reduced district taxes, fs a menace which cannot be tolerated. For the past deeade the state of Washington bas been at an economic Population has increased but little; assesred valuations have increased only 14 per cent, while taxes have increased 167 per cent. The voice of the taxpayer ought now to be listened to. If he doesn't get to ask Mr. cari! Dr. Penrose on 30-10 Plan y tions with business men and taxzpay- ate that the 30.10 be overwhelmingly de. 1 do not know what the sen-/which threatens to increase taxeh a av ought to be looked at askance and weighed most carefully. Thirty-ten is Editor The Star: i A traveling man of wide exper jers all over the state told me last week | plan would that he believed from his conversa MOORE His condition de- the sympathy of every Any measure | trouble whose value has i | by many years of successful use,—if — | You want a treatment that thousands Yesterday's answer: TWICE DAILY—2:30-8:15 MAIN 0222 Week Commencing Tomorrow THE GREATEST EVENT IN THR EPOCH-MAKING HISTORY Can Be Dissolved, Come Artificially. Easily Removed. An interesting cure 19 reported ta ; & recent number of the Journal of the American Medical assoc A famous nkin specialist hus foung & way of curing the moth mark, @ | Well-known disfigurement of the | complexton. He cut out a plece of the akin of |& woman suffering trom th 4 | # from this blemiah Jand on distilling it found the full of globules of metallic mercury. | from a former “facial treatment,” He found that moth marks, {i of being natural blemishes, as | supposed, were due to “beauty treate | ments,” the use of certain cosmet jete, which produced the m | mercury substance in the skin, He applied a deadly poison te the substance, and, whem washed, the skin returned to healthy appearance and the moth | mark was gone. | certain to Increase our state taxes by $2,750,000. Ioven if the measure were otherwise desirable, ought such @ |risk to be run at this economig juncture? STEPHEN PF. L. PENROSE, President Whitman College, ae NAR ef Speed Up —5c Everywhere Don’t lag. Eat little raisins and speed up. Delicious when you're hun- gry. New life when you're tired. . 1560 calories of mutriment per pound 75% fruit sugar, in practically pre- digested form—therefore al- most immediately effective. Furnish food-iron also. Get little red box now and try. —Sc everywhere. Little Sun-Maids “Between-Meal” Raisi Had Your Iron Today? If you want a tyr ied skin of doctors and druggists are ascribing because the Ahnow its beta | ficial results, —you will find tin Resisal Ointment and Resinol Soap. OF THE ORPHEUM CIRCUIT THIRD OF A CENTURY ANNIVERSARY WEEK in This Historical Hurry for Seats, You Are Cordially Inv ed to Participate NO ADVANCE IN PRICES. Their duty ix probably very un Dieasant at times, anyone who has} ever had any responsibility has! always found it #0, but, fortunate.| ly, there are some men and women | left who will perform their duty,| no matter how unpleasant it may | be, rather than forsake their pro-| fession or work for more lucrative | lines Delay in heartbreaking tn cases | * as the one mentioned in your| article, the resulting mental condi. | jon making it impossible for the| unfortunate person to recuperate} T77746 Dertainly has the sympathy bureau he would be treated with courtesy and consideration, and any would certainly be remedied as soon as it was humanly poasible to do so I believe, further, that The Star, e fanted, pirit quite undaunted, © and pelf, mes himself; wned, Preventing Adversity 'HE knock of saving prevents the knock of adversity. It is easy to accumulate . funds after you start a savings account at the Dexter Horton National Bank. Savings Department open 6 to 8 p. m. 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