The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 1, 1922, Page 6

_PAGE 6 The Seattle Star Dally by The Star Publishing Co. Phone Main 0600 Mew. a and United Press Bervice, My month) # monthe, $1.80; # mentha #816) year, ington, Outside of the state, fo per month, MONCH, oF 99.00 per year, My carrion, olty, Ho @ month. ives, Sam Francisce of- didg.; New Terk effics, ha Shall We Take Poison? Shall we open our doors for the freer admission of immigrants? Secretary Mellon, who represents says we should; labor leaders, representing the 3 fers now here, say no. | But it is not a question which should go to trial on f issue between labor and capital. It is a question as Whether we as a nation should in the interests of our 0 classes keep on taking poison into our body ih, owt of 00, in the 0 tor « immigrants we have been getting for years have 80 numerous that we have not made Americans of ly all of them. We can make Americans of people n eastern and southern Europe if they do not come } fast; but they are not so easy assimilated as those western and northern Europe. tics we do not seem to be able to assimilate at all. immigration of negroes is not limited on account of and they are allowed to be naturalized—a defect in w which cannot be defended, and which, with the India Islands swarming with blacks, is a potential We owe it to our country, to our children, and to the to work out our problems of civilization as unitedly ble. We are disunited now to the extent to which p admitted these rank outsiders in order that Gary’s and Mr. Mellon's corporations and others have cheap labor. are not even getting good immigrants, in the main, the countries from which good immigrants used to We try to sift the bad from the good, but the nations are now organized, to a great extent, to the bad and keep the good. Shall we continue world’s dump for outcasts? x seem to prove conclusively that there is arcity of labor; but what if there is? Must we en in our course of trying to keep Americanism fin order that certain industries may flood the world ? je ll be far better off industrially, if these great 0 - on with the American labor they can get, \ e human poison out of our system. yourself limp ts never as nice as being tickled stiff { costs the most after it is made Inte chicken salad. Traffic Cop Is Seldom Hurt work in the very heart of constant danger. , if ever, hear of a traffic cop being killed or ’ ck by an auto. re are two reasons for this. They are: : Every auto driver is more or less afraid of a He takes mighty care not to hit the police- charge of traffic. Because the driver is he does not run down the traffic cop. a The traffic cop, in turn, is cautious. He rules of the road—does not step suddenly into of oncoming autos. Being CAUTIOUS, he INJURY. a have the solution of the auto-accident lem. mm 11,000 Americans are killed yearly by autos hird are children ; in addition, a property loss of at billion dollars a year is piled up. this in one gigantic catastrophe—for ewe cetesyed with 11,000 killed and a billion the tastrophe bit iy: he cal comes a d out or left crippled here, a lone machine wrecked d, use the toll of auto smashes does come bit by of all together, drivers and pedestrians lose of the fearful total and lapse into thoughtlessness— to curb accidents, a campaign now the country, hundreds of suggestions are sade. Many of them will be icter traf- ons, parking rules, erection of additional safety so on. are helpful, but the toll of auto smash-ups will not—be materially reduced ps in mind this simple rule: that regulations and saf are of little help unless backed by INAL CAUTION. luck look alike because they go around together. Box Office or Stage? scenic designer, Norman Bel-Geddes, has taken fay’s breath away by proposing to theatrical mag- it they take the lead in completely overhauling the stage, in the interests of saving American drama would place his stage upon an elevator, would occupy a large corner of the house, rather usual narrow ledge along one wall. That would scene depth. of tawdry flat scenes, hastily thrown up to de- ve a far too sophisticated audience, he would use “cur- of ro emainte the imagination. When a scene the el r-stage would descend to the basement other scene, already set up, would be rolled on and without the customary intermission delay. lating Broadway may not listen tc this young he p: to minimize the luxurious box its surroundings, and to develop “the side bestos curtain,” but the scheme at least will inter- h schools, civic forums and municipal theaters all songs pass out quickly because people want a fresh alr. Conrad Stages a Failure ‘Conrad’s first play, “The Secret Agent,” is pro- London. It’s Eaclhined from his novel of any life. The play is a failure and the managers with- elist, Conrad is the equal of any in the English- . language. He gets outside his field—and fails. ter, stick to your last. When you find your field, to it. Few do. king agents say about vaudeville are Stay tng Aiea sing, aed want po dabes. And wan sing.” die Fi 1- wanted to play Hamlet. % ad check on your living expenses can always be cashed. $4,000,000 for Poor Lo Atkins, half-blood Creek Indian, wins oil lands $4,000,000 in a case decided by the national su- been unfair to the Indians, robbed them right - But we are getting fairer when a descendant nquered race can go to court, claim and get other subject people, there is nothii case should help soothe an aaeenr unless the general . THE ‘THE NEW SENATORIAL TONS( ——_S a ANTI LA FoLLeTYe “Trim ON The Beary, misler? GET RIGHT LETTER FROM \VRIDGE MANN Dear Folks November's had its little stay, Thankegiving day i» past, and Christmas time ts on its way—December’s here at last. And now our fancy starts to see our merry Christmas cheer, which makes December seem to be the beat of all the year. We soe In all the magazines the Christmas prose and rhyme; all the ining scenes bespeak of Christmas time, They « us mot hristmas prize—a Zinkum Kitchen Sink; while bid crab, with giaddened eyes, « can of Seribbie’s Ink And now December's famous ines are due to make their bow trom day to day we'll read the signs to “Do Your Malling Now? And then the great subtracting game will daily start to pop. changing figure# all acclaim there’ nk “More Days to Shop And 80 we're getting lots of cause, from all we ese and hear, to have « hunch that Renta Claus and Christmas time are near And ebildren's thoughts begin to glow with chiidheot's cherished dreain —of stockings hanging In @ row, and Hanta’s reindeer team. Ané now It's up to you and me to hear their mute appeal, that not = kid may fall to see that Banta Claus is real fo if no kide have come your way, don't let it make you pause—adopt « kid for Christmas day, and be his Ganta Clausl Goritge Tome, Doctor Not Mauled by Kodiak Bear Editor The Star: tends to preserve a sufficient num On my return from a trip to th®/ber of these animals for propaga Alaskan peninsula I am in receipt/ tion, to the end that the specie may of a number of communications from | pot be axterminated. my friends and family in the states.| ‘The big brown bear ts a most which say The Star of an early Oo valuable asset to Alaska; it brings tober number published an articlé| many people to the territory who to the effect that I had been mauled/ have capital—and any number of by a brown bear on Kodiak island. these sportamen have invested tn An there i absolutely no truth/ Alaskan projects. in such @ report, would you kindly| Where any animal makes bimself so state in your pubileation, that | #0 obnoxious that he interferes my friends may be informed that/ with the development, the surplus the report was untrue? |ahould be destroyed, but under di It is beyond me to know where/rection of the proper officials. such @ report could originate. 1 visited the Katmai National|tion you may give this matter park and other points to the weat-| Sincerely and fraternally, ward during the past two montha | W. H. CHASE. but did no bear hunting on Kodiak.| P. 8—1 ship a great many” spect ‘The principa) reason I request the| ments of these animals to zoological correction of this statement ts that/ parks, etc. The boat that brings those who whould exterminate thie this letter will have aboard a live largest of all itving carniverous| “wolverine” that is golng to the mammals use such unjustified re-| Detroit Zoological society. ports to obstruct iegisiation which w. kh Co Word of Praise for Chest Workers Editor The Star: door tn his face. I wish to say a simple word tn Praise of the hundreds of volunteer solicitors for the Community fund. All of them are subsertbers them- welven. During the September campalgn one of them knocked on my door at 10 o'clock at night. He apologized for such a late call and said he saw the house wag Uighted up and he wanted to get a subscription for the say to him, “I don’t like this or that agency and so I won't give any: thing.” ‘This solteitor said, “I do not think those people are honest with them- there are 51 agencies in the fund and the 66, exclusive of the one they do not like, are doing the work which they would have to admit is worth Community fund. while.” I gave the man my sub: I found out that that man had|acription, I told him that if he worked all day in a machine shop|would work at night the least I and at night waa proving his good citizenship by acting as an unpaid solicitor. He told me that in a house in the same block someone slammed the could 40 was to give my money, no matter tf he called at midnight. I think Seattle ie too big a city and too great a city to fall down on the Community fund. I wag sick unto HARD CANDIES AND TAFFIES EDITOR'S NOTE: Please read instructions carefully; coupen pons be mailed to Washington bureau, NOT to The Star's Seattle oe. Another bulletin haw been prepared for you by our Washington bureau in anticipation of the Christmas season. The beat recipes for home cooking and making of hard candies and taffies have been gathered and compiled by our bureau and may be had for the ask ing. Just fil] out carefully and accurately the coupon below and mall with the required postage to our Washington bureau and the bulletin will be sent you free, Femme ee ere ee Washington Bureau, The Seattle Star, 1822 New York Ave., Washington, D. 0, I want copy of the bulletin “Hard Candies and Taffies,” and Inclose herewith four cents In stamps to cover postage and mailing. NAM. « «4400 ceevnscvecesssansscneresssseccssenacsenres Street ANd NO. ...0.nseccesscesseccesesseccesseasareccessces NY. ce rereecersseseeseee oeeee SEATTLE Thanking you for any considera-| He told me that some people would |# Much about, selves for they should realize that | STAR JRIAL ARTIST |aeath of the tag days, drives, eto. | which are done away with under the |Community fund. J cannot jany man oan refuse to give }$10 to the fund, for that ts on | canta a year fer each one of the charitable organisations Under the old plan you used to get panhandled most every day and the sum total of what you would give was a lot more than $10. Let's fill the cheat HENRY NYDEGGER Short Skirts Have a Champion Editor The Star Girls and women of the grand and |alorious U. 8. A. what are we go jing to do about it? | Hite here! Paree, bad cess to ber, has Georeed the short skirt must go | the way of all the earth, and unless milndy chooses to be democratic, in @ependent, libertyloving and stand jon both feet in the face of corns and |buntons and courageous to a Hun- |wartan goulash, then ite the tall tim- [ber for her, if her dress isn't down to her heein, her limbe manacied, , hobbled, @wathed tn folds of cloth with long, tight ines to follow that | @tves one the grace and freedom of an olf string-halt mare on « winter straw feed, to be correctly gowned and hit the high apote of conven. ional dress reform to the giory of fashion commercialinm. | Geely-ferdad, wimmim, of all the |places on the earth where short akirte should prevail it’s tn lil ol | Beattie How are we ever going fo mar jket and carry an umbrella, puree, market bag, baby and other things too numerous to mention and mount the trolly buses and hang onto a |atrap with baby upside down and jlong, tight skirte welghing us down? We'll have to be inbeled whether we are coming or going, besides ruin. ing the motorman’s chances for heaven in getting on and off of said car. Seattle men are unantmous itn favor of the short skirt, and Seattle mon are the best connoisseurs of art jand beauty on the map, for nowhere | | | [has nature decreed that the perfect development of the “woman beautl. ful" have precedence more than right here in the three-mile limit of bill \ climbing. Tt will also mean more thought and [expense for the hitherto neglected hat. We must rise to the occasion, up or down. Cummon! Seattle wimmin! Let's knock a Hornsby at the long skirt and let the rest of the world go hang In the good old cave days we read men wore whiskers and long robes, but should Paria or Vancouver ever de @ return to same; well, robes may come and robes may go, but pants go on forever. So be tt! Cummon, Seattle! of, anyway? true Whatcha ‘fraid Step out now and be ports to a flea's whinkers and DK, J. BR. 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VAUGHN short period in the federal congress RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec 1 and then the ¢ ship of his From clerk in a general country | state from 1918 to 1 FE ‘ el ‘ store to president of Brazil—that ts | The candidacy of Bernardes for the His Majesty's Opposition’ i brief history of Dr. Arthur Bernardes,| presidency of the republic was besea|in the house of commons will who has just assumed the presidency |largely upon his success as a financial | be led by Ramsay MacDonald, of the republic | adrnind British labor leader, who haa Bernardes is @ real welfmade man.| Dr the retiring president,| been foremost in promoting Born in the township of Vicoa, state|has already booked pasmge tor) radical legislation and who of Minas Gernaes, Aug. §, 1876, he| Burope and probably will depart from| now gains power by the sue- loft school when {3 years old to sell! Rio de Janeiro next Saturday aboard | cess of the labor group in fe beans and rice in the general store in | the Italian liner “Giullo Cesare.” It! »ecent elections. his home town, la expected that the retiring prea = - -————— | A tow years later the clerk wnas|dent, with his family, will take up pirés, ana: bane anki manager and still looking for new | residence at Rome. tet « capable of filght, flying canes Dee tant fob Was beotansetns |squirrels, lizards, snakes, fish and for Adriano Telles and Company In| A torpedo takes four minutes to|lemurs moving thru the afr by the town of Rio Branco, Jreach target 6,600 yards away. | great swooping leaps. With his savings from this work |. A ten Ria let ernardes moved to Ouro Preto and began the study of law, supporting | himaelf by reading proof on the town | newspapers. A year later he went to Ka lo, entering the public exam inat for the chair of Portuguese and Latin in the Institute of Belence | and Latters | OPENS LAW OFFICE AT VICOBA The life of a p @4 not « clerk, and | course, he his law | open- | ing @ law office. In 1901, Bernardes [married the daughter of « famous! local politictan. The real entry tnto| rt | polition we 1904, when Bernardes | became president of the munictpal | counct! of Vicosa, holding down the insisting on Mifflin Alkohol job so well that he wan elected to! the state Iegistature, In the legtala-| ture the young lawyer immediately | 4intinguished himeelf, and was en-| trusted by the governor, Joao Pin hetro Stiva, with the task of prepar- | ing new statistion! maps for the tax Gepartment This wan Rernardes real felt—subd- | Nhe finance, and he made good, laying the basis for his future work tn re-/ habtittating the finances of the mtate } |SUCOKEDS AS |HEAD OF FINANCE | He was next elected congressman from Minas Geraes, but gave up his) seat after a few months to become secretary of finance for his state gov- ernment. The state finanoss of Minas Gernes, tke thome of many other rtaten tn Fraril at that time. were tn anything but @ satisfactory condition and Rernartes tmmefatety ret out to balance the budget by remofeling the entire tax program. 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