The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 9, 1922, Page 6

The Seattle Star United athe, $1.00) € mm, Outside of the atace, Months, or $9.00 per year Gilman, Nicol! & M: Franctsos ef York effics, The Progressive Bloc Republicans, democrats and nonpartisans of an_ inde dent turn of mind, rallied by Senator Robert M. La lette, have banded together in a new “progressive ” which sets for itself the task of “driving special Wilege out of control of the government, and restoring to the people.” The new bloc undertakes to foster constructive legisla tion dealing with agriculture, labor, railroads, shipping, Natural resources, credits and taxation. It champions the “direct primary system of election, and demands a_cor Tupt practices act which will permanently strangle New __ berryism. i Repeatedly in our history leaders have assembled new partie in caucus for the purpose of “restoring the gov- mt to the people.” Repeatedly, after glittering Campaign promises, these popular phrases have been for by politicians in power. movement in Washington appears to have a dif mt beginning. La Follette and his associates fore thered not before election when they needed votes, but one, in which they were overwhelmingly victorious. hey founded not a new party, but merely a new bloc Congress. Old hands at the legislative game, they to fight reaction on its own ground. With their g, they can bore from within the old parties. If suc- attends their efforts in the measure of that of the bloc, they may achieve in months what it ordina- takes years for a new political party to accomplish. ¥ development gives Washington's senator-elect, BC. Dill, an opportunity for increased usefulness, By Hing with the progressive bloc when its program is he can register an important influence, just as he > can by voting with the farm bloe when it is right. a congress which has milled around indefinitely for than two years, it may be that aggressive leader- has come at last in the form of a people's bloc, nized for the purpose of championing the cause of the unorganized majority of American citizens. Tt strikes The Spokesman-Review as a coarse affront to the intelli ef the people of Washington for the mayor of Seattle to in that the fine bedy of young womanhood at the state university etl itself on a plane lower than that of the low dance halls Jowest part of Genttia-Spshane Spokesman-Review. A “MIGHTY RIVER St. Lawrence drains one-fourth of the American continent north of i border and in Its course falls 224 feet and Is capable of detiv Mf more than 5,500,000 continuous horsepower. This is equal to the y created by the burning of 60,000,000 tons of coal in the most steam plant.—Kepresentative Chalmers (K.), Ohio. fe Gifference between Morse and the political prisoners in federal ts that Morse had money enough to hire an influential is worse than learning you hunted all day with blank shells? “Goodbye, Forever” A beautiful young lady, after exploring this life for 23 She leaves this note in her room: One: When you look on my cold, dead face you realize. Your Little Chum.” n three words, “cold, dead face,” she says more than professional writer could say in a chapter. it give her joy, this thought that her “loved one” ‘experience acute mental when he looked on dead face’? Apparently. you ever contemplated suicide? Nearly every at some time or other. | temptation to destroy one’s self is always a visita- | temporary insanity. Fortunately the morbid sub- A Most cases regains normal mental control before committing suicide. : the suicide list is heavy. In leading cities it | from 12 to 21 a year for each 100,000 population—or to 23,000 a year for the entire nation. cides are due to self-pity, which is just another e for exaggerated estimate of the individual’s impor- has two purposes: : To escape from an uncomfortable situation. To inflict misery on others. who are tempted to do away with themselves, Oe geal the impulse, never look back to their @ should never lose sight of the truth that, while may look black now, with apparently no escape iconite, there IS an escape from every trouble, and ALWAYS comes a turn for the better. are cowardly. And all are futile. instead of trying to run away from 's always a solution. VALUABLE REAL ESTATE \woodinangtagr esd soae one entdeonersge If $33,000,000,000 yeaa io pay France) represents the value of that 5 the value of France would be $660,000,000,000, which, I much larger than anyone has ever estimated it to be.— St ow Eee, he Sidiete sm tho Bul other wlid-westers, however, don’t want any bull in fhe American citizen has begun to realize that wheat, potatoes, v interest and freight rates are non-partisan. oT this country needs fs shoo strings that last as long as shoes. in the Lord, and wait patiently for Him—Psalm xxxvii.:7. The Law of Hocus Pocus American Academy of Political Science held a ses- in New York to consider the plight of the farmers. conclusion of the speakers was that nobody could ‘back the law of supply and démand, and that the spent their money as fast as they made it, any- . So, why attempt to do anything for them? ‘A natural law is a perennial excuse for letting things as they are. Natural laws are made ‘by men, and uted to God. If a natural law keeps the farmers in int subservience to the wholesalers and middle men, upholds that law as eternal is going to have to e his religion, for the law is coming down. e nonsense is talked about the law of supply and d than about any other dictate of political economy. body is trying to beat the law, and most people do. is @ notorious fact that the retail prices of meats and products have not fallen in company with whole- ‘Prices. Indeed, while wholesale prices decline, retail frequently ‘advance, fact is that where organization is perfect in some and imperfect or non-existent in others, the law pply and demand can be evaded in the first cases be with varying penalties in the others. a the unfair situation which somehow must be iner says any girl can be beautiful if she has the right clothes say any clothes can be beautiful if they have the right girl. your Christmas cards early so they can be answered. ‘this country néeds ts socks guaranteed for 10,000 miles, TURDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1922 THY SEATTLE STAR ' j rc Mi ATRIMONIALL Y INCLINED LETTER FROM SCIENCE Aaablpes V RIDGE MANN || 0.0 2/.%.,. {M GETTING oe font Find Koy ” = Dear Molle an rind Key. KINDA Tikeo OF This ; A ce, Rebingen eaieiee that nicott Jolie; ne niceting, he . ; : S0-CALLEO SINGLE 7 4 LEADER. saya, impaire the health of those who emoke. He aye that ¢ Secrets Still Hidden. he w he weed In pipes, cigars or “pills,” in fact, are very often ‘The island of Crete is furnishing ss . t w A pip * P The t oka < | BLE SSEONES : musT HAVE PRES DENTAL freed from epidemio tls the sensation of the age for students | y He may be wrong, he may be right—T daren’t even guens; but ot history Fos SIGILITES here's a rule they also cite, “Don't do it to excess.” And that's « Crete ia the birthplace vf the Ores Vase ‘ little thought that brings a mighty sane alarm, because excess tn clan race, Recent discoveries show # | ‘ many thi an do « lot of harm hed « language and literature long | 2 The « sod, we must confess, is neoesnary still, yet even before Ancient Greece was founded, OBJEC = Tae Wile House 5 eating to excess cas is mighty M1. It's good to work, we Hut no man in the world fe able a all admit that le * 1 for all: but if we never rest @ bit, it read a word of these dincovertes: ‘ wouldn't do at 4 Historians hoping for the dime It's good for us to sing and pray, to hetp the Gunday's song; but covery of & second “Rosetta stone” even here, I'm ffee to say,.excess is often wrong. For there's a lot This stone, found by chance, ume of folks who give their time r and creeds, until they haven't locked the mysteries of the hierogiy= 7p time to live « life of loving htes of ancient F pt It was @ 3 And ao fn all the things there we have the best of rulen—he key.” written in Greek, Dometie of careful not te the way of fools! And wher Keyptian and hieroglyphic, With we find we eac't oderation guide, and always do our this cue & Wrendh etlentict aul part to see the other structed the method of translation. It is expected t | Crete will be solved in sor wa Anyway !t in fairly certain that it will be solved in time and am @ entir ew ancient history opened to & renen Crotlle 06 We wotation Geeta ci | Where the ‘Solicitor Is Welcomed |—the fine Kold—ts not, an yet, a ar- | editor The Star ost courtesy and graciousness which ent. There t# iittle of the volat » read of the vice conditions in| brings to mind the choice words of | Fre neb temperament to lend ¢'lan Seattle, the fight going on between! Long a & generous, quick-witted Irish strain, the council and the mayor, and to! ,, t ave of deeper soul 4 1m chivalrous, genial Bouthern type | experience the trials and tribulations| “The tidal wave of deeper souls # of a solicitor for the Community isto cur inenest oo si |} And lifts us unawares . jo, with | Chest—thene ors make one very Out of ail mateee enres.” ‘a Dresming dAdened inde But Usten | oy perpetual rains, the ley fness of There is a Garden of F right! Neturally the reader wonders as t “ ita fous. here In Geattle—for the Community | this Garden of Eden tn Seattle “ od off to the farthest corner | Chest solicitor. The heart of a humble solicitor a U. & map, it has not felt A place where they do not ofter| designates the Beatle General how he al brotherhood, the altru: xcuses for not giving—but excuse | p nr fer, the instinctive gen-|themeaves for not making @ larger! If the rest of the good people in ¢rosities and courtesies of the older) contribution in the face of liberal! this gr city had the same spirit ommonwealths subscriptions and the same ideals as to To Beattle, greedy and vice-ridden,| ‘The solicttor te not greet Fund would be sub | the great, throbbing heart, the up- | he were a “hold-up” man r cent | Ufted woul of the are undesirable charactert | All to the hono Beattie! merely unmentionable something-or But there ts an attitude of the fin LE GEN NAIRB. sthers In the fourth dimension which — We ee es Soliciting the Working Girls to | tudes the lems,” te tt any wonder! Why be proud of thelr spiritual) paitor The Star: give what. some one at home may a ine with the grosser vices rampant, | inertia, their sel one, harshness, I would like to ask the workers be in absoltte need of. I know Hf | the leaner virtues and the niceties of | crudity and conc Why be forever! who are so vigorously soliciting fF | whereof 1 sper 4 - wn > Du ereo! k, ana I sure i the behavior should be practloally nil? without & soul-—« city that God for te Community Chest Fund if they ’ om owe © 5 | Why not face the issue squarely? wot? L. M. CLARKE. | nave thought that the majority of | People understood conditions ag they girls and women employed in down-|#re, they would keep away from town stores and factories are a4 stores and factories when seeking ° ; Bouquet for Humane Society | eee ie bins tn come Gebe Wiel Gs casks ae esc WH mplains of Light Department | , apron : sa sao tos casas Sewriaee money for any pu oe | Battor The Star thru the snow mm reach-|may find thru the means pi are here to help one another and | Editor The Star of providing another light of any) 1 have noticed tn your columns ine the animal fou mary to|by the fund? What are we working : t| shoot him and thus end hie intense| sor if not to earn enough to care| ‘here are many ways than money, Mayor Brown needs to weed out) kind. from time to time comp! * agnic f i » albany ever orn fg otge etg : 3 or instance, who more men on the city's payroll; w®| No wonder our taxes are high the Humane poctety ting that | Suffering, returning to bis home at t/ for home necessities phd one toine bins pen on have in mind now the city lgbting | when we have to support two men they did not care for aick or Injured | O'clock In the morning It seems to me the fund could be| (Dnel EIVE, MOM shout making dt | department. lto come out and cut @ wire, that/ animals. 1 would like to say a word| This is only one instance among| made up of voluntary o@erings from | *"* <¢ ne public, or helping them into @ posi- ts oneret xe at nye 0! bey eoul rt © poe h . ‘ os Here ts a concrete example: Alany ten-yearold boy 4 havelin their behalf, as | have observed tion of “eelf-support, making (al which I might mention in| those who pay $25 and more for ated for the good work which they 4o tn our elty and surrounding ter | widow has « little store on the rear! done, let alone the mean and un! thety work of the Humane society. I) hats, two or more a season, and) UD of \wel’eupport, make of her lot, tn which she burned on¢| gentlemanly act in not giving @MY| 6. pecember §, when Officer Rt. C.| have known them to apend the whole| not from those who are having more | "*? SUBSCRIBER. j40-watt light and which was con- notice Cee a eee cere atter aj maht in the interest of the work. I|than they can do to “keep the woilf| s |nected up to the house méter. Two! Perhaps if tt had been the prop-| ori. retuned to he Maus Bo Eifel that they are too little apprect | trom the door” with the present od — “ i husky men came out late one after-) erty of a man they would have had noon from the lighting department | some consideration for him, but as H.C. L. Every little helps in euch SERVICES AT St. John’s Danish homes, and when solicitors appear Lutheran mission, 24th ave. and E. recelved a call from a party living out on the Des Moines highway and sald it was against the ordi-|it was only a “helplens woman” tt | OU" 0 te name one city limita. |Mitory. Yours truly, in the shop rooms and ipsist upon! Spruce et. will be held Sunday at 11 nance to have this light connected | didn’t matter. po / A. SHISAK subscriptions, many a needy person|a, m. and & p. m. Sunday school to the house meter, and without a! We know that there are atili real| Due to the neglect of some un 2025 Fourth ave. W ‘ foreed, thru p Patieser eB. to will be at 10 Py m y, a moment's warning cut the wires|men in the world, but there eurely|*oown party, thelr horses were al teeeneati=icenaasianaeaai aan 4 fast as tt wae getting dark and time|are some unworthy of the name,| lowed to stray upon the yr vei | to turn on the light. This left hee) and such should not be paid by the | One was struck by an auto, dite 5 oppor i v D XPAYER. | the machine and breaking one leg 4 SS oases tameline — S cer m Jor Wi. nter Drivin use hie excitement and struggles, got In Seattle Lacks Humor, Says He the way of another machine and was severely injured the second time. Seattle mem, to pera ys unacquainted with soldiers and sall- nad pee moi oun ovaemerene Foon jors I cannot say how “hart-botled” | Upon being notified, the officer ; : immediately left his fireside, drove | — —} A leas people is about the most humor- nine , me ous thing 1 know of, and thie very | they may be, but fn war time and} Nature Chinese Herbs lack of humor is one of the things | fleet vistts since then, Uncle fam ta| Remedies that tends to make Seattle coarse | taking no chances, It’s a “clean up” | Mcaicine ‘Ge. common and unkind for the adapta-, order for Beattie | James St.. Cor, Ind bility and quickness of comprehen | Under the theory that “the greater sion that develops humor, develops | Poon — SSS also sympathetic understanding. Why this supreme self-satisfaction. ck of desire for improvement this lac! | ‘o=, a | 4 Editor The Star: | days is & long time in Boattio! My calm, impersonal statement ot} Evidently there's “something rot {uct concerning genera: conditions 19} ten in Denmark.” Being personally the inability to stand criticism, or to know the comparative standing of other cities In morals and manners” Why the destre to drive people out, rather than to ifvite In? Why the wish to retain low standards, resent- ing a call to something better? That I should touch their sacred vanity ingtantly entities me their “enemy” ahd all sorts of a villain. I have) been told, and heartily believe, that I have @ most serene and loving din- position and I'm Irish enough to my that I'll pot with lead anybody that will be afther anyin’ that I haven't! As to “Registered Nurse” and “Mra. F. W." 1 would say that unless there is some special reason, I have | & very unfavorable opinion of per-| sons too insincere or too cowardly to sign their legal names to anything they write, No, Mra, F. W., Beattle inn’t “feed- ing me.” 1 work bard an@ honor- ably for all I have and give full equivalent for every cent that comes my way. I do not “stare,” as per accusation. My work takes me among people where I can't help observant, | & mental makeup that doesn't make ft neces- | sary for me to stare fixedly for half @ day in order to grasp an idea. No one expects to be “profusedly thanked,” but I have been taught | that a courtesy important enough to be rendered is tmportant enough to| be recognized by an appreciative amile or nod. “Hard boiled” has an unpleasant algnificance, 1 resent itn being applied to my newsboy friends, A newswoman tn this city, with a sickly child to support, has a crippled arm and other allments, and is now rapidly dying of aancer of the breast She asks charity of no man. Others 1 know of are putting up as game a fight. Some of them in education, refinement and past achievements far out-class thowe who sneeringly re- | fer to them as “hard-boiled.” The little shavers mostly come from good homes where these hardly-carned TWICE DAILY—2:30-8:15 MAIN 0222 Last Performances Tonight. Bobby Folsom & Jack Denny; Dugan & my bogged Wayne & Warren; Eric Zardo and Three Ot) mecarendle eas “STARTING TOMORROW OVERTURE—CONCERT ORCHESTRA a | ARSOP’S 1 FABL .ES—TOPICS “OF DAY The Little Marvel oe |, Frank Ward and Dollies | + Present the Western Comedy, “Lonesome Land” | sat ~ Scanlon, Denno Four | In “Old Ideas Renewed” JOHN D. HYMER mas ARD COMPANY a7 Presenting “TOM WALKER IN DIXIE” A Fantastic Comedy Novelty weather—protect the pennies # lel ded, But 3 PMSA | io dae eo lon are solely neede ut no and of matter how “hard-boiled” man, wom. your engine. an, or child may be, they are en- titled to say to’ Seattle thieves, “Hands off.” Last week on Second ave. I saw a little 8-year-old leaving fin stand, put up @ placard upon which he had painstakingly scrawled “Please Pay.” If the pathos and sting of that wouldn't Jar Seattle a little, I don't knpw what would. The very day that “Nurse” com- plained about “knockers,” Rev, Haw. kins, a prominent citizen, made the public statement that he knew Seattle | and all the other large American cities and that “Seattle was the most | wide open town in the U. #, A.” Rev. | Klein dourly admite tt, but claims it's because Bro. Hawkins taught therm wrong about the blood atonement of | Christ, Rev. McClure says Seattle ta | one-sixteenth of an inch from hell. Mayor Brown says that the football ball outrivaled the dead line dance. What Police Chief Severyns thinks heaven only knows! He says hastily he's been gone four days, and four «» | WALTER C. KELLY * 10:03 THE VIRGINIA JUDGE tn Guy and Pearl Magley | »=: In “Dance Stories” 443 THE PATHE NEWS 10:38