The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 16, 1922, Page 6

Enterpris He per month; § montha, ‘Ashington Outside 9.00 per Fear, By oa! & Ruthmen, ity, mate ian Pacific A Chance for Bill Gaines ‘Apparently the question whether the county welfare tment is going to be made again a football of ward ities or whether it will be kept on a basis of efficlency economy rests with Wm. Gaines, incoming commis- vide Ei Frank H. Paul, the other new member-elect, seems termined to dispense with the services of Josiah Collins, has made an enviable record, and Tom Dobson, hold- member, is equally set on retaining Collins. Gaines is reported as undecided. The Star suggests he will make a hit with taxpayers if he joins with on in urging Mr. Collins to stay on the job. Paul it is likely, will have his way about reintroducing Hamilton to the county payroll, and that is enough ion to Hundred Per Cent Politics for ‘the King ty public to swallow at one dose, grand lama of Tibet says he sent bis astral bedy to climb Mount ‘and the feat was easy and instantaneous. Journeys by astral will be the next novelty for speed hounds after the novelty of at 1,000 miles an hour has worn off. Phe entrance fee to the United States senate club ts coming down i &. Frazier only $172 to be elected from North Dakota. tens of cranberries were burned in a New York fire, Cooking » it would take 100 brides twe weeks to burn this many. microscopist reports breathlessly that paper money simply reeks hh germs, Teli it to Germans and Russians. read so many dress hints and then Just hint at dressing. Turia’s Clever Work of the most important finds {n Roman history has only is it historically “important, but it tells an story of a remarkable woman. a marble slab on which is a history of events by Quintus Lucretius Vispullo, one of the pro- bed of the second triumvirate. This means that he ‘one of a number ordered put to death and their prop- eated by the victorious generals, Antony, te Octavian. was hidden by his wife Turia. Later she ited political matters so that Augustus Caesar name off the death list. 2 he marble slab tells the story in the form of a me- al to the virtues of his wife, at the time of her death, Denby’s demand for an American navy “second to none” & voice from the grave. That matter was supposed to have at the Washington arms limitation conference. Turks want to trade with us. Wo could sell them Turkish cigarets, towels and Turkish baths. they may be false. 180,009 francs for plans for a moving sidewalk. Our sug: drink hard cider. ° no fury like a woman when you track mud in her house. The Out-Go and the In-Come should be pea green with envy. Secretary Mel- disburse, in cash or securities, $700,000,000 to notes, $200,000,000 to redeem treasury and $100,000,000 in interest on the public - Your Uncle Sam is the nice old moneyed party. ident: ls speaking, Secretary Mellon will sell $700,- of new treasury notes and certificates and 000,000 from income taxation. Oh Lord! if little individual fellows could keep our bank up to the notch by borrowing. x » few days and will be 1922 fen to che we writing by mistake and 3 ° new and then about the ‘bill uh em grocery andé think University ts trying to pick its most beautiful man and we hope the winner. fm o name? In North Carolina a town named Newbern did with a man who is « wonder at talking is wonders never cease. Enough Is Plenty of. John P. Tiernan of South Bend, Ind., came out seclusion today to make positively his last state” ,” say the telegrams. Tiernan has made positively her last statement. low Poulin has made positively his last statement. | thing is complete. And the next time any one of } trio comes forward with a statement, let somebody your woodland, your wild la Your own land unless Jou lived on i?~senator story: “If you kids open those bundles I will spank you.” George After Pointers? his entertainment of the visiting premiers at Buck- im palace, King George paid particular attention to Italy’s “black-shirt” premier, conversing with a gol og There’s a reason. 0 m a most interesting personage to an; Mussolini is one of the few statesmen who can pull revolution and make the king like it. ou TELL ir TO THE PEOPLE necessary put over a job, no matter how harefaced the of the oT pe er story: “Mamma, what did that man bring, all wrapped up?” strange, but when a man sows his wild onts he raises cain. BOILED PUDDING ini ‘water in the pot must be boiling when the pudding t# put in, away, alwaye replenish with boiling water, By Bertha E. Shapleigh Of Columbia University to be gag a brad have the cloth souked thoroly wrung G coo! Dredge cloth on wk ‘ee with flour that ‘continue boiling the entire time, otherwise the water would soak the cloth, or the steam condense into water, and make the pud- » kettle, we that will make the pudding heavy, \\ LN. N 'Ask Henderson, | Russell or Brown Etitor The star LETTER FROM ‘The Cowen Park car that I came downtown on this morning was not Dear Folks: heated, and I wondered why, WHY, Tas cthir hw t oud ‘ pe 1a te WHY? Can you answer? Yours we other day I ught my kid some things I knew he'd - truly, M. F. McDONALD, & coat, a sult of clothes, a lid, a pair of skates, © bike; « sweater, gloves, « radio, a football sult and ball, a sled that steers, since we have snow; a gun—and that ts all I bought Nis sister's presents, too—a coat for winter's cold, « lavailiere with quite a few of diamonds set tn gold; a wristwatch, sweater, furs, a dress, a phonograph, a bat, « riding horwm, and quite a meas of trinkets such as that. I bought the wife « limousine-—she has the auto bug—a bedroom ect, © wash machine, an Oriental rug; a string of is, & dinner fong, « dozen diamond rings, @ Dex of howe, a awell Mah Jongg, and nameless silken things. For Homer Brew I Bought a stillh—because he seldom ts! I bought Doe Goodenough & pill--he needs ‘em tn bis Dix. Bert Rideout, my tobacco friend, I bought good cigar; and then Doo Brown I thought [4 send « five-cent trolley car And then J thought [ ought to try, if such a thing could be, to epend a wad of dough to buy « thing of two for me. But Fortune flapped a fickle wing, and left me feeling cheap-—the old alarm ~began to ring—of course I'¢ been asleep! ‘That goes with every ality of 100,000 = sham." vallave that Cake ts right ERS EDITOR A Law to Enforce Saving Btatiaticn show that of every hun- bY Week. And go he reaches middie mark from which big cities spring 4 whe start in oe preadge—sn even laying big founda-|into being. Many yeare of struggle Prag cmt ay of such « it | canes hope is at an end, and if the booms. number of failures? From know!-| tim survive his disappointment! The building of Beattie to Its pres edge and observation 1 should say|™* “rifts into @ needy old age, without hesitation, speculation and gambling. ‘Two or three dollars a week laid | by regularly would make a nice competency in old age, but the aver- age young American doesn’t bother about old age. Besides, the process of mving ts too slow for him. In- stead of building his forfune as a house is built, he would fain rush it up in a day. Henoe he te an easy viotim for the getrichquick ex- plolter. Mines, of] wells, wonderful tnven- tions, race horses, roulette and what An Invitation From Charleston Editor The Star: nomething. I will suggest that every I have been a reader of The Star| minister of the gospel be provided with @ chaperon or wet nurse when for 20-044 years. Ihave read Of) 1) cies home. Or if auch parties | many outrages that have caused M®/h» not found in Seattle, let these to be alightly warm, but what makes | ministers of the gospel now on trial my blood boll now ts this: Why ts move to Charleston. We are ali mon it that a God-forgiving minister of | here, and we will promise not to kiss the gospel i# not allowed to walk tn | Clarke’s Criticism Destructive Béitor The Btar: 1 have been an amused and very interested reader for some months of your “Letters to the Editor” column. Not the least, among the varying ansortment of toplos, In interest, was the controversy aroused by the writ ings of L. M. Clarke. Having visited in every large city of the United States, with the ex ception of the metropolia, New York, I feol that I am tm position to con sider the pro and con of his writings. Beattic le not the worst city by y means af to viee Nourishing. lopen.” Ask any man down town whoee business causes him to br much upon the atreets. Not heartless; Ia rather 0 le typloal of larger communities. all this? The laws against swind-| expense accruing to such effort ex ling or exploitation are now very | pended upon overhanging cliffs and Grnatio, so there ts hardly any use craigs, which are called hille here, Proceeding further in that direction. | must indeed have embodied Neither do I think that the multipli.| table romance. More glory cation of warnings against the dan-| people who did It. They have the ger of speculation or gambling spirit which makes a wonder spot would do much good. The popular | from the most discouraging outlook destre for riches is too deep. They had the same epirit in Lon An The only thing I can suggest ts/| goles, « city beautiful from a sand a law obliging young men to save, patch—al) artifictal, to be ure, but that Is, to give up & certain percent | nevertheless a colossal monument to age of thelr salaries every week or | advertising, boosting and no knock month, to be husbanded for them | ers. against the rainy day, CONSEIL. Mr. Clarke ts right as to your cli. mate—rotten ie the word. But he forgeta the soenery-—natural, beautt- ful, abundant. I know of no other community quite so blessed with scenery, I do not belleve that Clarke ha» yet mean the Sound and waterway facilities here, Ho hae also lost aight of the kind of eriticiam that he has handed out for Seattle to swallow diis was destructive and not con structive oriticiam. He certainly REV. C. J. HAWKINS 11. A. M. C Arlatianst y Politics 7:30 P. M. Shall We Have a Clean City? PLYMOUTH CHURCH Sixth and University them. Hoping to hear suggestions the “fields of worthy endeavor” (the |from other readers, T remain. streets) without the rude girls kissing Yours truly, and hugging him 19 times? PETER N. #K00G, When such things happen ft ts the 634 Montgomery ft, Quty of every citizen to try to do Chatiesiann; Mayor Brown and the Vice Menace | Editor The Star: parently belleve that a murderer) ‘We elected ©. J. Brown mayor of —— be slapped on the wrist and to|turned loose to murder again. Ar-| ve city council seems 2) cuments against oapital punishment | forget this and takes an apparent are many and very clever, but it is Golight in “stalemating’ him. The the same line of reasoning that) ministers are now trying to get @/absolves the rich and lets the poor, ttle free publicity by calling him man pay the “piper.” Many young | names. Do these ministers and sirls today and probably 90 per councilmen represent the people?| cent of all the divorced women de-| Surely not; we bet on Brown and/liberately sell themacives to tho, we are not a bunch of welchers. highest bidder, In view of the! The ministers and councilmen and/ above I cannot seo why it is so ter | all of ug should do all in our power|rible that these women sell them. to help him make good for Seattle.| selves to sundry men for a few! Why all this fuss about vice con-| hours, or we as a whole have much ditions? The same conditions will | right to condemn them. always exist under the present s~| Regarding the Community Fund, | cial system and have always exist-|I believe that C. ©. Avondale ts 4 from time immemorial. After all,/about right. As long ea money.| why should not these unfortunate| making institutions like the ¥, M.| women ply their trade? Have they CG. A. and the Y. W. ©, A are on) not aa much right to live aa you|the list the fund will have hard and 17 In most cases it ts their sledding. I did @ little collecting my- | only means or existence and solf-| self and these two institutions ratsed preservation is above man-made | the ire of nearly everyone I tackled. | lows, You and I tn the emug se- About 11 years ago financial con. | curity of our homes aneer at them | ditions forced me to apply to the! and the ministers of the gospel are|¥Y, M, CG, A. employment bureau to! busy at present “casting stones at)got a job. I had a wife and two| them.” The book they are sup-|small children, but they talked me posed to expound gives them a good|out of my last $5 and then ignored lesson on thig subject. We all have|me—they were too busy getting our own special graft (call it honest | fives from other suckers, The hu- work {f you like, but few of us are|miliating treatment I received from sbove making @ little on the eide by | this institution will be hard to for-| shady tactics.) Most of us are law) get. To mo tt seems that those two breakers for we “mooch a bottle of | institutions should cut out the) hooch” when we can. I know I do,|word “Christian” and substitute the | and the ministers were pretty clever word “dollar.” If they are out afte: hood way they worked it to get/money, fine; that is their business, | eins. but let. them be honest aj Many ministers and The Star are fot Lie Mad gap ital like the women on the street, y emalnat punishment and ap ¥ QGar A t 4 ting that the city te “wide thoughtless of others, But that, too, | Beattie has passed the township [not eat up his little surplus weak | class, 300,000, which is usually the Then tn the vast majority of to reach that mark, and then she ent ize, considering the enormous Can anything be done to remedy | engineering feats involved, and the tothe AEN DARBY, expert we and lowes his identity after returning home, Me drifts into « crimin life, but be partly recovers while he ts robbing a bank tn Seattle, Asa result he Is caught and eent to the state penitentiary at Walla Walla, | where he ts confined until LZRA MELVILLA, aged friend of his family, finds him and persuades the | | governor to parole him tn his cust NOW GO ON WI mm Th was & great housecleaning tn the dome of the heavens one mem orable night that flashed like a jowel from the murky desolation of « rainy pring. The little w troops, some from the w- loads of balsam from the great for este of the Olympic Pentneula, and some, quite tired out, from the stretching sage plains to the east, and they swept the sky of clouds as a housekeeper eweeps the ceiling of cobwebs, Not a wisp, ‘not one| | trailing streamer remained. The Seattle citizenry, for the first time In some weeks, recalled the ox |istence of the stars. These emerged |in legions and armies, all the way }from the finest diamond dust to |areat, white spheres that seemed |near enough to reach up and touch. | Little forgotten stars that had hidden laway since F in known when tn the deepest recesses of the skies came out to join tn the celebration. Aged men, half bitnd, beheld «0 many that they thought their sight was returning to them, and youths saw whole constellations that had never behold before. They con- tinued their high revels unt!) a mag: big and too bright to compete with It was not just @ crescent moon, about to fade away, or even a rain moon—one of those standing straight up in the sky eo that water can run out as out of « dipper. It was almost at ite full, large and nearly round, and it made the whole city. which t* rather like other cities in the daylight, seem a place of en It was so bright that ong Becond w were not even counter-attrac- tions, No living creature who saw it re mained wholly unmoved by it. Wary young men, crafty and slick an foxes, found themselves proposing to their sweethearts before they cannot expect to benefit Seattle tn that way Unfortunately, I am leaving for the time beng, but surely hope, some day, to return to the city of Beattie, the city of hills. In conclusion, allow me to add that lL. M, Clarke good, at writing You'd better “sign” him. He has some of your staff beaten RODNEY HARVEY. daman and oa they | SATURD THE SKY LINE a Q- Little, Brown & Company int, is shell-shocked in France ody TH THE BTORY joould eatel themselves; and maidens who had looked forward to some |» years yet of independent galety nd themasives aocepting. O14} tom-cats went wooing; old spinsters got out old jetters; old husbands thought to return and kiew their | wives before venturing down to old, motheaten clubs. O14 dogs, too well-bred to howl, were lost and ab- sentaninded with dreams that were than all rest of these things put together But to no one tn the city wae the influenes of the moon more potent older the than to Ben Darby, once known as Wolf’ Darby thru certain far- reading districts, and now newly come from the state capital, walk- ing BGeattie’s streets with hia ward and benefactor a Melville, No matter how faltering was hie memory in other regards, the moon, at least, | was an old acquaintance. He had known it in the nights when its |light bad probed into his barred cell; but hie intimate acquaintance |with it had begun long, long before that, Not even the n that the alienist, Forest, had spoken—the names of places and people close to |his own heart—stirred his memory nificlent moon rose in the east, too) itke the sight of the mysterious! |sphere rolling thru the empty places of the sky. It recalled, clearer than any other one thing, the time and place of his early years. | He could not put into words just how tt affected him. From first to last, even thru bis days of crime, it had been the one thing constant the unchanging aymbol—that tn any [manner connected his present with hie shadowed past Tt had served | to recal in him more than any other one thing, the fact that there was to look for—the assurance been something more than « reckless criminal tn efty slums. The love he ‘had for it was an old love, proving to him conclusively that his past life “~~ | had been intimately associated, some | way, with moonlight falling in open places, Yet the mood that was | weakened in him went m farther. [It was ap If the sight of the argent |anteliite stiewed and moved deep | buried instincts Innate tn him, in no way connected with any expert ence of his immediate life, Rather it was if his Jove for it were a |ractall ove, reaching back beyond jhis own If something inborn tn AY, DECEMBER 16, 1922. | SCIENCE Finding Radium. Easily Done. Instrwment Simple. It’s Electroscope. A careless lady who wee lereated with radium lost the precious }ittue tube and the Insurance pany had to find tt Radium & al ways heavily insured. By means of an electroscops the radium waa located in the basement in the ashes of the furnace. be con The apectroscops in #0 nensitive that it will reveal the presence of one millionth of « milligram of sub- ntance and « milligram t* only « xtyfourth part of a grain. But t ctroscope will reveal a quantit trified matter onemillion m fonth emailer Yet this instrument ts #0 simple |that any child can make one. It is jonly « bottle in which two narrow leaves of gold leaf are hung by a jwire. At the top of the wire is brass knob just above wh | wire comes thru the cork rub @ piece of sealing wax and to it to the knob the leaves will stan out from one another, If r | Present the leaves fall together him, It was a If he were rec it, not alone from his own pas | from a racial existence a thousand | thousand years before his own birth | His memory was strangely stifled but, oh, he remembered the moon Forest had spoken of stimull! The mere sight of the blue-white beams was the best possible stimulus to call him to himeeif. Bera Melville and he walked un |der it, talking lttle at first, and mostly the old, blue twinkling eyes watohed his face. Seemingly with no other purpose than to escape the bright glare of the street ligh \they walked northward along the below Queen Anne Hill, | docks, passed olf Rope Walk, thru the |nuburb of Ballard, finally emerging lon the Great Northern railroad tracks heading toward Vancouver jand the Canadian border. For all that Ben's long legs had set a fast | pace Melville kept cheerfully beside |him thru the long walk, seem- ingly without trace of fatigue. They paused at last at @ crossing, and Ben faced the open fisids. Pvi- Gently, before erime had claimed jhim, he had been deeply sensitive % nature’s beauty. Ezra saw him straighten, his dark, vivid face rise; his quiet talk died on his lips. 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