The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 7, 1922, Page 7

nice alarm clocks. IS S$ Here Is a Real Confession BY AN EDITORIAL WRITER I think the wife, behind my back, is trying to make a writer out of my son, Every time I catch her at it there is a fight, but ju the same I suspect that she wants him to follow his dad I thrill to the tribute, but I shudder at the prospect because I know what writing means as a livelihood, Probably I know more about this than the majority writing men because I have done other things, succes fully, too, for a living. A writer, a lawyer, a preacher, a doctor and a born pol. tician have this great curse put upon them from thr start: They can never cease working at jobs. When I plow a field of tough sod, and conquer mayb a team of hard-bitted, temperamental mules, I can quit at the end of the day. When I cut down a tree, or build a pig pen, or pack : box of apples that task passes from my mind; I am fre: until the next tree, pen or box. But when I write an opinion I not only squeeze out a the juice of living that I have stored up in the last month but immediately I begin to think and scheme and worry about the next opinion. I see in my wife copy; I view my children as puppets in the show of journalism; I look ahead to the dark, hateful hour when my best friends will die and set up phrases and climaxes on their biers. Never do I live an hour to myself; on a vacation I make copy of the trout I didn’t catch, and when my son comes home with new cuss words I do not chide him, I hasten and write an opinion. Damn and doubly damn such a job. It makes an in- human, mechanical, emotion chewing parasite of the best of us. Also we'd die if we couldn't write what we know and feel; and that’s another personal curse, but the salva- tion of the dumb human cattle that throng about the feeding, and the breeding, and the butchering pens. What I write of the writer is as true of the actor, the preacher, the doctor, the surgeon, the lawyer, the poli- tician; the so-called parasites on the body politic. Believe muh, I'd rather be a Cousin Jack than a cootie any time. Dr. Irving Fisher, distinguished head of the Yale economic depart- ment, says the Fordney-McCumber tariff will Increase the cost of living, make it impossible to collect foreign debts, and wallop our commerce amidships. Yet Senators McCormick, Brandegee, Colt, Wadsworth and Newberry, all distinguished sons of Yale, voted for this tariff. A pat on the back often unduly swells the chest, while » kick in the pants sometimes restores mental » So let Clemenceau go the Mmit in criticism of Uncle Sam. Then let's think it over and tee how much of it is just. Unele John, of Atlanta, Mo., ts 103 years old, so Unele John can remember when the bonus bill was introduced. Blaine Should Get Facts Straight (From the Tacoma Times) Councilman Blaine, of Seattle, reading from the report of Seattle’s municipal street car superintendent, declared that the number of street car riders in Tacoma has de- creased since the weekly pass system was started. Blaine and his city street car manager must have gotten their figures out of an old almanac. Street car riding in Tacoma has been more popular since the inauguration of the weekly pass than ever before. There has been a big increase in the number of passengers. The average fare paid by the pass users is "way under five cents. Unquestionably the public has = immensely, and the T. R. & P. Co. hasn't been urt. When. Seattle folks, Seattle officials, publish figures purporting to come from Tacoma we insist that they get the right figures, and the facts. Tacoma likes the weekly pass system; the pass has been a success here for the people who ride the cars, and the pass would win out in Seattle unless Seattle’s city hall politicians deliberately forced it to fail. vote, Senator Hitcheock orating on colored troops on Rhine, negro interrupting senators from gallery and Dyer anti-lynching bill up. Speaking of ship subsidy and soldiers’ bonus, we rise to remark that “to him that hath shall be given, and from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.” Bill Hays says motion pictures promote culture, vo do you mind if we call them promotion pictures? Motorists will be glad to learn an auto derailed a train in Tilinois, To Cut Taxes— Double “Gas” Levy! Governor Hart goes to California to confer with other governors about ways and means to cut tixes. And he discovers the cute little idea of doubling the tax on gasoline. People of this state who use gasoline pay one cent a gallon tax on it now. It’s hard to understand the work- ings of a mind that figures doubling that tax is a method of reducing taxes. Gasoline is a commodity. It’s a necessity. Why should it be taxed any more than flour or white collars or under- shirts? Most of the folks have mighty little faith in the Hart administration’s promises to reduce taxes. We may ex- pect all of the departments at Olympia to show savings out of their appropriations, but the 1921 legislature made that possible by handing every department a lot more money than it needed—and the legislators knew they were doing just that thing, too. The people of this state went farther to reduce taxes on election day when they smashed the Hart poll tax law than any legislature we have had in a dozen years. ELECTRIFIED RAILROADS Electrification of the jicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railway has effected a reduction of 22.5 per cent in the number of trains and has cut down the time of the trains 24.5 per cent. It has so improved operating conditions that 30 per cent more tonnage be handled in 80 per cent of the time, and this means an increase of at least 5 cent in the capacity of its trains, and probably more.—J. W. Worthington before senate committee on agriculture. In London a man and woman were married twice the same day, The strange part is they married cach other both times, to buy a dress in Paris and wear it in es. Airplanes make it possib London before the style cha Oliver Mape, of Low Angel But it is a very bad habit, Yi , fell off an #-foot cliff and walked away. What ate you going to give your girl for Christma: Seotchman hunting a reasonable postoffice? itting around wondering how tired we wo THE swan oA RT RRR © i ORE RR SEB Ba NE LRT OR A Jack Dempsey says he will fight any man in the world on short notice. visiting. @ Easiest thing on earth, next to making a girl think she resembles a movie star, is rolling off a log. THE “LETTERS 52 EDITOR | Edtter The #tar | I want to thank you both for my. | Zeenes grateful to The St jeelf and for the orchestra for the | co-operation. |help you gave us in getting started| The onty way we can pay on thie 19232-1923 concert season to try to make the orchestra worthy The Seattle Civic Symphony or-| of (hat support and cooperation. chestra did Iteelf proud, but It could Very truly yours, not have done it without the help B. H. THOMAS are all you gave perronall uf ou is Fill the Community Chest Editor The Star: band held when the waves a I can’t for the life of me see why | about to over that counta. , munity Fund peor there should be any question about yf agra Fund ” subd- | ; | working on the Community ax | drive. I went out and «ot |scriptions for it last year and I am jgoing to do it again this year | If @ lot of these fellows haven't time to get out and }Uttle rustling for the ones who need [it could see some of the things I jhave seen at the Salvation Army nd-outers, the ns, and all who need have to do is go out and get them to work with ke to may to everyone who is indifferent to the orgur the money for who} 1d do a city ¥ iat ‘Go and see ne which how they work, go make up the fund nd see God's own work that they dc and the Volunteers of America and; ar then look inte your own heart down at the missions, I guess they'd and see if you can ignore the ca believe in “Merey Dollar 1 right o help any longer.” | I have drifted a good deal, and Yours truly A. L. JEFFRIES I'm here to say that its the helping Justice in the Balkans Editor The Star ys ¢ It looks as if John Bull and Uncle | Sam were going to have a chance to | hav show the world how thoro they are as democrats. | The Bulgarian courts are gotng to t to orgunize their enact thelr own 5 h such punish: 1 fit the er try, with a view of executing them that were these’? od 24 ex-ministers ‘on of thene ex. | me Ainary traitors, reve t jcabinet membe charged with | or “Reda,” “Radicals,” I. W. W }treason in putting ia into the they would hang without the | Balkan wars of Ago and | slightest protest @reis Great the other 13 with t the coun n ted at | try over to the kals n th ste i » MS | world war. And foreign diplomats |t having held great title threaten and expect that, upon exe. | or makes thé offense of thees ox cution of these men, Great Britain, | ministers the greater and more di the United States and other nation at er relations with Bulgaria it Still, ber t's the point involved? Sim-|God « on Of at hat there's one sort of justice | self-re . ne common man and wther for | heademan should be a ger eo der "higher-up"—an impossibility in| erat nt Community Fund Idea Right SEATTLE We often feel that way ourselves. a few more miles you will get some new ones for Christmas. @[ What are you going to give your husband for Christmas? Let us suggest a » Reader wishes to know if efforts to buy cheap oranges are fruitless. Yes. @ Our idea of a good time get if we were not too lazy. | | P | for your | Editor The Star: [known if it fs not supported to the T hav ntly cor fullest extent. And will not |from ¢ land, wh ‘ ‘ | nity Fund is an integ 6s: warnnrpaeatassd een owalsege leivic accomplishment, and I ¢ pt | Must be shown the benefits of suct |restrain my ame nent and surprise|an organization by concrete exam | ov ure of your Community | ples, And T have ne da of | the whole amount yc ayone who thoro! the Ineeded during the firet drive. We|Community Fu it thods | |who have lived thru a number of | who ever wanted to go back to the uccesstul years of Community Fund | older plans of raising money and ad operation, who know the tremendous | ministering it. I am an enthusiastic force not only of its institutions| supporter of Community Funds in |which fight poverty, disease an l; now that shal! live in Jerime, but of its prevention of db of your Fund in particular lease and crime and destitution, hav hiv till young enougt felt that it is only a questl people and ar or two until ommunity rT n Cleve ” the meth f « ome wa arities and philanth our hady side country. | urs ve 1 ur Fund cannot be well enough! AMELIA SURREY METCALYE Gob Defends City’s Fair Nam y e Editor The Star jter than San Francisco. Since that | I wish to say a few words about | time San Francisco ever dupli Heattle not being a “void” city At | cated, Souttle more thar the present I am a sailor and! ot 1 will, Se |am on ted ¢ in Seattle, 1 liked jwish to make my y about the| 1 elther Ban man in uniform, 1 want to class Se if | had lattle’s hospftality with the two best the latter cities 1 known cities on the coast, San Fran stayed there and would not have had |clsco and Los Angeles jto pay my own transportation to We spend most of our time at Los|come up here. The day I went on Angeles; secondly San Francisco, | leave most every who knew where and shortest at Seattle, 1 have been {I was going stated that he wished he on this coast ever since the fleet] was going with me and to tell the! jcame around bere over three years} people up there we will be coming | jago and have seen enough in these|up there again soon. There ia no afore-mentioned cities to make my|fault to find with Seattle. Perhap atement correctly. It is true San| some of these people who ave knock ancisco put out a 0d time for |ing the city have never been around us then while it wa king: 4 om} to the citles which they have heard Angeles, and Seattle made it one bet-' so much about or they must be from STAR THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 199, @ Fuel hint: You can save coal by goin If you can make your socks hold out | dozen Have you heard about the Let us suggest a five-gallon can of rouge. LETTER FROM): VRIDGE MANN | * Dear Folks that I nee another book is out, like others gone before Tho mu all the doubt about who won the war fray have been extremely vague, the latest . war war won by Haig We've read of how the atrugsle went, wil all should be t the books we owr had; and now we It varied bunch of dope und all coms with all has shown that ¢ And here's @ little bit of lore to stow or army wen the war, but everybody did. The thing that rea turned the’tide Was full COOPERATION, with everybody side b i de, of every rank and station : Nor will We ever forge ahead in piping days of peace till clash ; of clas and clan is dead, and selfish cease, For still the peg . blaze of struggle burns, and trouble never ends, till all the whole c : Prd. creation learns the art of being friends oa p f So now, with thoughts of Christm jet everybody try to Very respectfully, and be a friendly And t th the skin the hearts of ant hin selfish thoughts away I know, will find that underne close to kir who try oy JAS. W. Gray folke of every kind are pretty “= we ea try holee a& to where to go for @ pleas-|room and the only prospect was an ant time. apartment for the night, priced at In regards to the Seattlelte, W. E./ $14, Cheap, inn’t it? The same thing onkiin, not Hiking California, he has|in Seattle I could buy for a couple Things are|of dollars. We slept in @ hall on a nore expensive than here.|cot at the New Rosslyn (million dol lotels are very high and you can't|lar hotel) for a dollar and a half. 1 t a room after 10 p. m, on @ Bat-| hope this news will interest you. j irday night in Los Angeles. One of HAROLD L. HARRUS, med nights another gob U. 8. 8. New Mexico all over the place for « Box 16, San Pedro, Cal ° y ogo s Answers Miller’s Criticism Editor The Star gurdiess, but the time has passed! 1 have been a subscriber to The | for negroes to scrape, bow and mark Star for the past 10 years and dur-|time, permitting aliens and what ing that time I have found much de |not to fill a public conveyance of Hght and interest in reading the|which they are part owner, being a many letters coming to you on dif. |taxpayer in many cases and unques ferent topics and difference of opin: |tionably a citizen with integrity and Jion of the several contributors, But | loyalty second to no one, and yet are | they |in all candor I do think that the vile |deprived of the opportunity to share stuff that Texas Miller barked up in|in the operation of the same and you people who are forever knocking | last evening's paper can only be con-/for the above reasons the sentres'y your home city, Seattle, take my ad-|strued as beamireh the ctviliza-| should show no timidity in their en. | viee and don’t let the moss grow|tion we are living 1 the laws | 4 or to secure @ seat, especially | feet, get up and go to} we do conform to r endeavor to | wh men and women are on anj| r Low Angeles and| maintain decent standarts equal footing in our country 1 Will soon wih you were back In| I absolutely believe in and recom-| Miller places niggers and high good old Seattle. 11 spent many |mend courtesy and decorum to all| schoo! students on the same level, days in all three cities and I took my | women (black, white or otherwine), re-| which ts a slap to our civilization, it the nail on the head there some backwoods place never saw a street car before. Te where Fr | Christmas give an all~year gift 4 Columbia AS without music of some kind is a pretty forlorn sort of place these days of peppy fox-trots, of new and popular song hits. And what a parody on home, home is, without music at Christmas— the big, joyous, happy time of the year, when it’s as easy to hum or cok or whistle as it is to think. So this year instead of wondering, “What will I give them for Christmas?” just say to yourself, “I'll give "em a year-round gift—an all-year source of sunshine and happiness—a Columbia Grafonola.” First—Buy a Columbia for the educational value of music in the home—valuable to the youngsters and to the older folks. Second—Buy a Columbia for the purity of its voice, its perfection of reproduction, its decorative heauty. Buy it because it has ten re- markable points of superiority that put it at the top of the list of worth-while phonographs made to-day. You can’t begin to estimate the joy and happiness a Columbia will give your folks every day in the year. You won't hesitate when we tell you Columbia Prices Have Hit Bottom. See the Columbia Dealer in your vicinity to-day and get the facts— plac: and terms—you'll be surprised and Dg ocpe at the opportunity ¢ will offer you to own the most improved phonograph at a cost you easily can afford. COLUMBIA GRAPHOPHONE CO., New York TEN reasons why you should buy a Columbia COLUMBIA CABINETS 1—Stream-line Cabinet Harmonines delightfully with your home furnishings All Anishes are beautiful and easily kept clean. 2—Automatic Record Ejector Eliminates the search for the desired rec- ord. An ideal place for your choice selec- tions, Automatically cleans them before use. 3-—Tone Control Leaves Loud of soft music as you choose—operates, on same principle as pipe-organ control. COLUMBIA TONE 5— Universal Roproducer which gives natu cause it is consi Proper, balance betwee jundamental tones. 6—Straight Tone Arm which allows the sound waves to develop fully and naturally—unimpeded by joints and reflections—from the time they are picked off the record till they emerge through the tone arm. of tone be- reproduce the ertones and r free and natural amplifica- and design are the result of 30 years’ Constant experimentation. COLUMBIA MOTOR 8—Display Motor Brake (to stop record) operates in the not on turn-table, Noiseless gears. Easy to oil or clean, Three cups for diferent type dropped into special receprach venience of needle ertion. 10—Non-Set Autom: Stop It seme the motor, without human when the record has finished playing, Below are listed Seattle’s Authorized Columbia Dealers, who at all times can SUF you with the LATEST Columbia Hits: f YOUNGSTROM & NELSON 116 Union S reet Telephone Elliott 1051 LABERTY MUSIC 1516 Wirst Ave Telep! KEMICK’S SONG & GIFT Sth Pik BUSH & LANE PIANO be . 1519 Third Ave. Tel GERKE'S MUSIC HOUSE : iott G181 | 24th Ave. & 56th St, Telephone THE MELODY SHOP, 1402 Second Ave. Telephone Main 2062 Telephone LY COMPANY Telephone Elliott 0112 1421 Third Av