The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 30, 1922, Page 6

{ no downs how could there be ups? i} ig the - $ month, 16.60 for ¢ The Real Thanksgiving Spirit What are you thankful for this Thanksgiving day? Wait a minute. It is a failing, characteristic of Ameri- cans, to attempt to express nearly eve hing in terms of money. Or, at least, in terms of prosperity. Most of us have the notion that Thanksgiving day as a national festival was born in much the same spirit—a gratitude for good fortune. To some extent, it was. The Pilgrim Fathers were thankful for crops that in- sured them against starvation in the barren winter that lay ahead. But unquestionably their joy was not con- fined to food. They thanked the Almighty for liberty in government, freedom of worship and the simple joys of happy homes. So, this Thanksgiving day, let us not be thankful merely in proportion to our prosperity, tho times have greatly improved in the past year. Let us remember and be thankful for these more im- portant elements of life—our families, our health, our friends. Many a home that is trying to make a small chicken Serve as Thanksgiving feast for a half dozen hungry mouths has more of. genuine love and happiness to be thankful for than some of the places where butlers serve giant turkeys on silver platters. And if we are away from home, forced to dine at a blic eating place among strangers, let us be thankful ior the love of far-away home folks and friends. Such is the real Thanksgiving spirit. » Exactly as was predicted yesterday, today ts Thanksgiving. * And a shortage of things to be thankful for Is reported. ‘This shortage, however, reminds us of the ante driver. The aute driver was thankful because telephone poles only bit hin car Y self-defense. Se here bs a list of things we are thankful for this Thanksgiving ‘ou may be thankful with as. And, if you have a thanks shert « Because everybody can’t sing. —_———— | Because Banday always comes en tima, —_——_—_— Because night only comes ence = day. | Because we can’t play golf. * Beeanse all girls are net blondes. | Because all girls are not brunets, a we can't play auction bridge. { Because autos don’t eat oats. Because phonographs run down. Because we don't like gartfe. Because trains never run sideways. Because we don’t like rhubarb pie. 5 Because Christmas is a month away. ' So, after all, you see how easy it is to be thankful. If you are not thankfal because something is, you can always be thank- ful because something isn’t. And this reminds us of the man who needed shoes and was thankful because he was not a centipede. And the bald man who was thankful he never needed « haircut. Which reminds us of the man who was broke and was thankful because he bad indigestion. And the one with the wart on his finger, thankful for the finger. - And the man thankful because he had a tooth to ache. Bat above all comes tHe man who was thankful just because he bad sense enough to be thankful. And that’s that, thank goodness, The Big Place of the Ad Rubber heels now are on 60 out of each 100 pairs of shoes worn by men. But,maybe you remember back only a few years when rubber heels were unusual, What brought them into popularity? The answer is—Advertising. Three-fourths of the rubber heels sold are for men’s shoes. This is because most of the advertising has been directed at men. : One of these days some wise manufacturer of rubber heels will notice this. Then he'll call in the advertising man and his staff of writers and artists. 4 Campaigns will follow. And ‘®oon women will be wear- ing just as many rubber heels as men. It’s all a matter of advertising—the most powerful force in the sale of goods. i Our present standard of living is largely the creation i of advertising. For advertising makes people want the i thing advertised. When the lure becomes powerful { i} enough, they hustle about and get the money to obtain : what they want. + Advertising thus stimulates production—both of the | things advertised and the things that have to be done on a bigger scale to obtain money for purchasing adver- tised wares. ¥f all advertising were abruptly discontinued, the Amer- fean standard of living would quickly drop. Read the ads, They are a part of the news, telling the Intimate story of the average American's inner desires. The real history of civilization is written in ads. if you wish you were something else you can wish you were the elephant which eats 510 bananas daily. viemy We would hate to be the man who ‘won by one vote. Evers support ‘will claim he did it, hei gain So far, our course in the Turk trouble has been discourse, When woman meets woman that brings on # lot of talk. | @ A baby born in New York was five feet tall. It was a giraffe. @[Speaking of Southern chivalry, George gave his seat in the senate to Mrs. Felton on the first day. @[ We hate to mention unpleasant things, but income taxes are due again ten days before Christmas. @ Russia is making autos, When people begin to get on their feet they want to get off their feet. @J Some people find their most pleasant reflections in a mirror. heavy earrings the girls wear are artistic and besides they keep the ears from flapping. because the ground is so much larger. @ If we got everything we wanted there wouldn’t be room to put it. @ Life is ups and downs. If there were has contributed mualf of value ta Che thoughts conveyed. His sport page te typical ef a clean, high class eporteman—bdut his “Gold- en Lyre” ts the best epecial work tp your good paper. Sinoereiy, graulne in ite sentiment, and What a Horrible Place Seattle Is! [the real estate dealer, ete., will give I have read with interest Wm.| you the doublecroms and regard| countenance, openly jeered at, ig ‘ themacives as cleve ly t Dent's lette: ing his recent! r only to the) «! " ae srscaegaria dl ee jextent they are able to fleece you,| No and the few others, outwardly more! courtesy shown them or ever thinks notions Ae Editor The Star: visit to this city. I take off my hat to the sincerity, simplicity, tang, | — righteous Indignation of it. } I assure Mr. Dent that these In- cidenta do not happen on one day only or to him alone, They may. not have wanted to kidnap his wife, | preferring “cheap huasies,” but he} may feel lucky in getting home with | his fitvver, his calves and fruit or the value thereof, or even with the clothes on his back | I have been In Seattle two years, tn @ position to observe keenly, on! the busiest streets, 14 hours a day, and I find it « city with no respect for the aged, no chivalry for wom- en, no consideration for the poor, nothing but guffaws for physical defects and « greed so insatiate that) it would steal two copper cents from | ® dead man’s eyes. | You go to the markets and its} & matter of underweight, two to four articles leas to the bunch, two) short on the dozen, fruit fine on| top, rotten below, paying for good) grapes or. crisp lettuce and two hours thereafter skirmishing with colle, appendicitis, or the gioryland, In the cafes you eat with a fork) in one hand and your umbrella in| the other, and sit on your hat. Frail old men, blind men and a} few poverty-stricken women come) down long before daylight, in the) drenching rain, to sell enough pa-| pers to hold body and soul together, Still others sell night papers until| 1 o'clock in the morning. Others, mostly kids, work their stands for the afternoon editions, yet there is not @ newsboy in the downtown din trict, at any hour, on any corner, on any street, no matter how “high- toned” or prosperous the locality) may be, but what every selling pe riod loses in nasty, petty thieving| onefitth to one-half of all they| make, ond thetr full earnings are Meager enough, It's great sport for Beattleites to see a blind man! get excited or a woman wrathful, or a thin-faced kid in tears! If you have any money at all, the doctor, the dentist, the lawyer, | “WICK” WITH PIANO TONE ns beautiful as piano tone is ever likely to be a a S ae a s s | “DR. EDWIN J aR, BROWN’'S DENTAL OFFICES 106 Columbia St. Seattle's Leading Dentist for More Than 21 Years YOU TELL ’EM | | “he PacT ThaT t uve The Gooo 0 U.S.A. 15 WHAT tm MosT THANKFUL Foam to on the plea of “profeanional ethivs.” |B, 3% id artillery, stationed at i am not—and nev _«|Camp Lewin from September, i914, | handsome man. Also I ha |to January, 1919, please write their a aS THE SEATTLE STAR aAURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1922, ror. @ These Hitting the ground is much easier than hitting a golf bal] LETTER FROM ‘VV RIDGE PiANN Dear Volks ALIA SCIENCE Watering “Ontone, Interesting Ex eriment Planted in Drv Sol Thankagiving day will speak, again, tts word for all the rons of | men; no matter what our Joys or cares, no matter what the future Left Alone, Die. ‘ bears, no matter what our wealth or ranks, tt says, “In everything, ad . give thankel” A student of agricultural p Thank God for this, our Wertern land, which Nature made with at the University of Caltte — * : | lavieh hand; where once the feet of angels trod, and blessed tta ing some interesting experiment ty | trees and virgin sod, that hearte may hear the silent call of one onions « e reat God that guides us all “Thank God for Love! ‘The love that lives unselfishly for what prtoghenn on bs it gives; that prompts good deeds we each dispense without a Me Pe fon ame a ‘ | thought of recom and leads our growing hearts to find the val, Tet oe Ca fe | love He holds for a nkind, rabsX eee weeny branch, ant a Thank God for Joy! The joy that’s found by spreading gindneas = all around; not artificial joys Uhat stay their little hour and pass The other batch recetves bis away, but lasting, living joy that starts from bringing Joy to other dermic Injections of tap water ints if hearts. he leaves two or three times «day, Pe Thank God for Trouble! Life tn bare when hearts have never toth Che roots and the leaves rein f | known @ care; for trouble comen to make us grow, and point the reah and keep on growing, thys | way we each should go. And who could know thet day is bright wing that the plant has power to # |] unlens he first had seen the night? in tte food rerurdiews of the seit Thank God for Life! Ite joys and tears. Ite struggles upward solution at its rootm, " | thru the years. For Life's the greatest game of all, and while we ‘This experiment throws light one w | heed its onward call we gather strength of soul that brings the problem of plant food supply ‘wien ts | chrysalis of greater things! may have a great effect on the map. ° | ‘i | acement of fields ri } | 2furres in Moscow honphtals = | paid 1,500,000 rubles - be | ie about $1.25. monthly, whieh : ————____, he of proffertng aid tn any little aoct- | t00, at rare Intervals, and for thene Gent or emergency. They peer into| persons we have « gratitude and ambulances and gape open-mouthed| loyalty, an admiration, a love and at the dead. |liking beyond ali reason. But Se For the lonely, the supersensitive, | attle in general is not highly intelll the unmagnetic or the weaklings,| gent. It is not moral. It ts not the phrase, “Nobody loves me.”|well-bred. It is not kindly, It has jmeanw more than just a joke on a | no noul } pleture postcard, But Seattle is the; The Christmas decorations swing-) U.S. NAVY YARD Take Past Mteamers at Colman Dock REGULAR SCHEDULE Leave Suttle Dasly town to rub it Int Are the churcher on every street are not the| M ee, Tet rt 40-30,'s49 of any earthiy*use in this respe utwerd sign of an inward grace.” ” oem & th = Assuredly not! Where in all Seattle! There ts here no inner grace. Fes.| may strangers fipd a civil greeting,| toons mean nothing. Is it any com-| to say nothing of friends and | pliment to Seattle that ite visitors) welcome? | and near neighbors can size it up I admit that the honor, courtesy, | ani way, with Brother Dent, “Damn | kindliness that we accept as @ mat-/ such « world"? ter of course elsewhere, is een here, | Call From an Old { the boys of Battery From Seattle to Saturday and Sunday, §; Wednesday, Friday, TA Sunday, 190 pm, Seattle te Bremerton Dally 726, 1120 & om, Se om Rxtra trip Sat & Sun. 9a Vaseenger Fare te Round Navy Yard Route L. M. CLARKE. 39th F. A. Buddy | Sergt. Dyer of the First infantry. 1 will write at once to any of them. Colman Dock ‘Mate aneg Address John J. Bradley, 417 Union| Poe Ave, West Haven, Conn. ! STARSHEF 121 Seneca Street Corer Second and Seneca—Basement Cheasty’s Clothing Store —__=_=_—_—_—_—_— == LAST TWO DAYS of the ONE CEN , SHOE SALE! Friday and Saturday Our store has been crowd- ed to its capacity and the public a; the val- ues they have received. es fl STAR SHOE STORE CUTS PRICES LESS THAN A ® manufacturer’s cost. GREATEST BARGAINS ever given to the shoe trade. FRIDAY and SATURDAY will be your last opportunity to shoe your entire fam- ily at a great saving. We positively can save you money. Read Ad and come. EXTRA PAIR will cost you but ONE CENT MORE! $ Ladies’ Oxfords in brown and black;$ S regular $8.00 value; NOW $5.95—$ $ Extra pair One Cent More. : Ladies’ Shoes, black kid and brown calf, military heel; reg. $6.95 value; NOW $4.95—Extra pair One Cent More. Ladies’ Shoes, Oxfords and Pumps, pat. and kid; reg. $6.00 value; NOW $2.95, Extra pair One Cent More. One lot of Ladies’ Shoes, $5.00 values; broken sizes; NOW $1.95. Extra pair One Cent More. FREE! Every person buying a pair of Shoes, $2.50 or over, from 9 to 10 A. M.—will receive « beautiful pair of Ladies’ or Children’s Slip- ticular, will may or do nothing ‘king |oM4 (top kicker) First Sergt. Jeck Bradiey for old-time’s sake? 1 am now many miles from the o4 unusual nor particularly MRS. B. Ww. tieulations, ete, and without excep- tion they have been stared out of about, audibly commented on. | one thanks a person for any RETIRING! COATS! SUITS! DRESSES! For Women—at Less Than Wholesale The final reductions on the balance of the stock are now in effect. Everything is new, and good, and beautiful. Nothing has been brought in to sell “cheap.” Everything is offered at positive and emphatic savings. Coats up to $25 are now..............$10 and $12.75 Coats up to $28.50 and $35 are now $16.75 and $21.75 Coats up to $50 and $75 are now. . .$29.75 and $39.75 = 2,800 sfTt ef AUTERTZETRERTE. z Long Coats of Nearseal, with large and shawl collars, bought to sell at $89 and $100, now marked. . . $59.75 LE gETIEE 3 Dresses of crepe, satin, silk, and of such woolen fabrics as poiret twill and tricolette—all sizes and all colors. SEE Ee Dresses up to Dresses up to Dresses up to _ $25, Now $30, Now $50, Now $10.75 | | $14.75 | | $24.75 Tailored Suits will be disposed of at two prices— Suits up to $50 at. . $19.75 | Suits up to $75 at... .$29.75 All are in this season’s newest style and many are richly trimmed with costly furs. Fixtures for sale to highest bidder. Store for rent, Sport Suits left over from the spring season will be closed out at $10. Former prices up to $50. MELVIN’S, 216 Pine Street Special in Men’s SI 300 pairs of MEN'S in Black Kid and B Calf; reg. $6.95 $3 value — NOW Men's Shoes and reg. $7.95 val. NOW Boys’ Shoes— $2 worth $4; NOW LAST TWO DAYS—FRIDAY AND SA Mail orders promptly filled; satisfaction pers FREE. Come early and get a pair—they are good Christmas presents!