The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 26, 1922, Page 6

PAGE 6 The Seatt Published Dally by The Mar Publishing Co Roterprise Association and ( Press fe _ Hate of Wasdington, Out Months, or $9.00 per year, iy Gilman, Nicoll & Nuthman, # Monadneck bide Wan Pacific bide i i i ie & month. a) Representatives Ban Francisce of- Tribune bidg.; New York office, office, Trement didg. Mo. How Civilizations Fall Ht is hard to understand what the fall of a great civ means. How can modern life cease to be? The appear ridiculous, It seems as if a civilization’s ine must be by an earthquake or some other physical itrophe obliterating buildings and railways and other } things of value. There are no barbarians any in the world who can sweep civilization to de- as the Roman Empire was destroyed. Why about the scarcely possible appearance of a world- wic plague or holocaust? If nature destines it, we can- stop it, anyway. | But civilizations itio ‘do not vanish simply thru physical There are moral reasons always at work. The rance of modern civilization under the break- of moral restraints would not mean the fall of C skyscrapers, nor the stoppage of limited rail- trains. There would be no return to primitive con- of living. What would disappear would be the of brotherhood. The co-operation of souls who feel on basis of humanitarianism would cease to exist. k new civilization of ruthless strength and cunning d be implanted on the old. Those most adapted to italities of life would attain the highest positions. s Sensitive spiritual temperament would expire. High- dings and faster trains might be produced; but the of life would be obliterated. is the danger confronting the world today. It vividly seen during the days of the world war when je cause of the mailed fist seemed to be winning. It is irgotten now, because the influence is more insidious so brutally apparent. But, the peril is here and America as it does Europe. ETERNAL JUSTICE one decision of the celebrated Justice of the peace, Roy B, where a Chinaman fell off the Pecos bridge. He had $50 in his besides carried a sixshooter. Judge Bean had his body brought re him and fined him $50 for carrying a gun.—Representative Had Texas. thought they were going to bring impeachment proceedings General Daugherty, bot now we w that this comic the house judiciary committee is merely « publicity stunt ry some free advertising. American harvester king, buys his Pollsh bride an opera Who's reaping the harvest now? The Matter With Prohibition fhole flood of interesting sidelights on what is the with prohibition is thrown by a little item appear- ‘the Bellingham Herald. It is an explanation as to city of Bellingham spent $9.60 for a bottle of last summer. It says: nciln George Cole hastened to explain that the | was purchased by the city council to treat the | of the U. S. S. Tennessee while it was in the har | eho ye wc was entertained on e officers expressed a at Blaine. We took them necessary to buy a bottle with which to treat we known this was coming up, we could have A State Income Tax iting a state income tax, the State Tax league ig the only real plan for tax reform that has ht forward yet. Cutting down state expenses its; a new source of revenue must be found. tate income tax will reach out to the millions fe escaping the assessor, and will lift the burden rms and homes of Washington.—Lynden Tribune. NEWBERRYISM COSTLY fies are paid every time there is a contest In the senate. A \ may be unseated draws his salary up to the hour he is and the senator who is seated draws his salary back to the @f the term—Senator Underwood (D.), Ala. of our day dreams came true they would be nightmares. cheap fountain pen signs « big check. _ Catch Fish Close to Home is Ackerman, only man in the world able to make “pay him for gcing fishing, says: “People tell me in lakes are fished out. I go to the same lakes ind all the fish I can carry. The fish are there. is, folks don’t know how to catch them.” e e seen an angler bring in a beautiful string of Lake Washington in the last few months when fishermen were going into the far mountain can- then not half filling their creels, tunity is here at home, not beyond the horizon. leveled by an earthquake would seem a hope- for opportunities, to most of us. A few would laying the foundation of a fortune by salvaging LET'S TRY IT would place $100 out at 4 per cent interest and somebody would that every six months and add it to the $100 and keep it up irs, he would have an amount of money that would scare him if he could live that iB to see It-—Senator Norris (K.), Neb. ser is boesed by his wife,” says a dispatch from Doorn. Pretty ‘when an ex-kalver has to depend on anything as trite as that the headlines. ors ‘ fs so rare as 4 hot day in winter? Fhose Over-Touted Movie Salaries ing picture industry employed about 11,000, paid ly 38 million dollars in wages and turned out products at over 77 millions. This is the census report for just announced. re it out and you find that pay received by the person engaged in the movie industry was less 500 last year. salaries for a few, small wages for the many. the gambling lure that keeps the many in line— industry. Brunson, lowa dry agent, says if they'd put bis business on o basis the country would go dry. Fines extracted from boot- Glenn pinches net Iowa about $60,000 » year. At 10 per cent ean thinks he could get more than that, making it good business both ‘the government and for himself. ae Trotsky, bolshevik war minister, says he isn't golng to have Dlaus sleighing around Russia, this Christinas, delivering Christ. + Guess Leon wants slaving a year ‘round sport in Russia. asks if a doctor's book gives the inside story. Yes. T THE GETTING UNCOMFORTABLY CROWDED es" Pulical STasies —~~~“< To Eradicate Vice Conditions Editor The Star; In regard to vice conditions In Se. attle, why not get down to frets, in- stead of insinuating. bickering, slam [ming and acting like @ bunch of cat- ty old maida? Ans long a there are cities, there will be vice to a un certain extent reed, and forcement ce does not mean having « police force of which nine out of every 10 of the men are boot legging. peddiing dope, “rolling” | drunks, accepting hush money, hop- heads themeeives, ete. I say, clean up the police forces, and we will have | cleaner cities. ‘When the authorities do make a big dope or boose arrest, how often nly are the guilty ones convicted or sen- tenced? & drug peddier, who tn the Worst menace to the public there ts, | ete & nentence of two or two and one-half years, at most, which means 18 months, to him a mere trifie, and just like paying for a license, so he can continue peddling his dope when he gets out Sentence the dope peddier to 10 years, and there won't be many to arrest or sentence, At the same time, give the bootlegger 20 days in jal with nothing to drink but his ow SEATTLE STAR — on SCIENCE Biology of Seasons. Ptarmigan Now White. Also Weasel. Winter’s Mission Far north tn the Yukon and east ward to Hudson's bay, the thermom eter has dropped to 60 below sero} and heavy winter mnows are falling Rehold nature working mysterious magic The ptarmigan’s colored plumage an sudder turned This blends into the backere ing the ptarmigan tnvé sought by preying foxes and wolves In the same country the brown wtoat or weasel siso turns white, mak when LETTER FROM 6 my pen In hand to «ay ye on Christmas day » rs no take ft all awa And now I know k forbide—when I was having lots of ought the kidw You gave us gifts on quite a reale—~your giving hand was free and yet I wish you wouldn’t mail the blooming bilis to me! But stil] with everything we get, from hell to paradise, the same refrain is always met—we have to pay the price. Bo, Santa, tho we often fuss at quite @ merry cune show the way we always ought to cone Kown you're wearing? Never | heard of him? It isn't a him It's & process. A 18,000,000-frano mili to | manufacture a new artificial silk is being formed at Lyon ee + don't worry the Inhab! tants of the Puerto Cabello district of Venexuela, Cotton drill, without regard to welght or style, is the thing, mostly made at home, for both working men and women, Al most no clothing is imported. Duty's too high. eee Siberian pine fs undermining America’s market for Douglas fir in China. Douglas fir te our North went's prise timber product. eee Foreten countries nought $10,138. 628 worth of autos and spare parts from America during October alone. Trucks showed t biegest increans. The world war » go to work, if only it could settle down a bit India wants American foods. Hatred of the ilah is one reason, | But American porters are reported | rotten Nquor during the 2° 48y% / yisiaing the expensive fur, ermine. |A# Asleep at the switch. They“re not and watch bootlegging decrease Making Taxpayer Pay Editor The Star: In last Friday's Star, I stated that | the taxpayers have been “ } out of $2,000,000" from the general) state fund for the maintenance of the state industrial insurance depart-/ ment, and in Dec. 21 issue of The Star, one J, Burton aske, “Where | doos he get those figuresT And owner and taxpayer is being mulcted |tn winter, instead of resting. That's! |general fund was $280,000; for jen and general expenses of this department, the sum of $150,000; the 1918 appropriation out of the 1916, $222,060; 1917, $290,689; |, 9408.- 548; 1921, $606,167; 1933, 60,000 (7) estimated entire cost of maintaining department. I contend that the farmer, home again he saya, “There is no sense in| out of $200,000 a year for salaries, an article like this.” | rent and general expenses for main- | For Mr. Burton's information and | taining the state Industrial Insurance others, I wish to state that injuries | department, which is operated for sustained by workmen (in the few) extra-hazardous industries, whereas) industries protected under the indus- | this expense should be collected from trial Insurance act) are paid for by | the industries, | those industries contributing to the! Mr. Bugton must :admit that the! state industrial Insurance depart-|industrial tneurance department! ment. In other words, the act oper-| should be self-supporting, Just as the | ates for the benefit of special tndus- | light and water department of the/ tries, but the anlartes, rents and other city of Seattle. The taxpayers thru- charges for maintaining this depart- out the state should demand that the| ‘Thie little animal does not need protection as much as the plump ptarmigan. Why the white? Ne ture provides it because white fur fe en inaulator, prevents the escape ot bodily heat. Tropical people wear white because it absorbs less external heat than colors. Prof. J. arthur Thomeon, tn his j “Outline ef Science,” analyzes the | Dlology of the seasons. | Winter, he decides, comes after the great activity of summer by the pee that rest must follow toll. | j Moet humans do thelr best work because we have gradually bullt up powers to enable un to “carry on” Tegardiens of seasons, climate or | weather. We defy winter, yet during ft are conscious ‘of repeated attacks of languor and “out of sorta” feelings and moods that we cannot under.) stand. | “Winter,” writes Thomason, “te a) time of nifting—the time of severest elimination. The reat and sleep of} Winter are often the necessary con ment are paid out of the general taxation by the taxpayers and home owners who receive neith direct hor indirect benefit from the indus- trial Insurance. | The 1911 legislature appropriated | ew ingisiature change the law, so as to prevent the state Industrial in- surance department from dipping into the general fund, thereby mak- ing, a direct saving of over $200,000 a year. H. GR. | | Nine of these midgets of the ox family, the white-fronted muskoxen, have arrived in America after their capture in Greenland by Norwegian whalers, They are the onlygones in the United States and the Danish government has for- bidden the capture of others. This pair is at the Bronx Park Zoo, New York. Two are destined for Philadelphia and | two for Washington. They are about the size of a large collie! \and are tame and quiet, ¥ ‘Every Leaf Pure Cleansed by high vacuum pressure of every particle of dust and foreign matter ,,. "CALAD A" = =I A. | fe eweetl rT holesome, delici \a. & H.C. COOK, East 3363, EL 0350, Distributors. ditions of the vigor of anothe: spring, but In a deeper way it ts) |thru the alfting, winnowing, prun-| jing or elimination of ages of winters | that there has been spring after |epring of progrenstve evolution.” Mother Gets Day Off! For Christmas “Say, Bue, hae tt struck you that mother doesn't seem #0 terribly keen about this Christman dinner in| a hotel idea? 1 thought she'd be! tickled to death to go to a big hotel} with soft musto and that sort of thing because she always works herself to death cooking. I wanted | to please her when I invited the) family and I wouldn't have the din: | ner away from home for the world If she doesn’t like !t.” | “Well, Tom, to tell you the truth | I think mother would be tickled| pink if she only had the clothes, She hasn't had much of anything new except that hat for a long time and she's a bit timid, you know. | She shrinks from a lot of people it! she hasn't @ lot of confidence that| she's dressed properly.” “Well, I don't blame her. That's true with us all, I guess mother | hasn't had a lot of extra money for | clothes with all those notes coming due, Well, why don’t we aek Fred and Harriet to go in with us and ket mother a pretty coat and dress for Christmas? You say she has a new hat?” “Yes, and a beauty. Tom, you're an old sport, aren't you? We'd love to do that, but can we afford to pay out all that money right now?” “Of course, but why don’t we get them at Cherry's: at 1015 Second ave, in the Rialto Bldg.—juat over | the Pig'n Whistle? That's where buy all my clothes. I have no. ticed a women's department, joo. We could have six months to pay and the four of us could mannge it easily." Advertisement pone neucnonesene right in that lunch basket §) fuhiil | Green Chile Cheese wononencnesene { RARE AND PRECIOUS . 1504 Third Ave, corner Pike st. doing much. eee Japen going ” put « raftway tunnel under the famous “Inland Bea"—Simonoeski to Moji. Most of the work wil! be thru solid rock and will cost millions, Foreigners may be asked to ald. The “Inland Sea” te & waterway between Japanese is Janda, the scent route of transpacific Uners, China bound. eee German machetes are all the go tn | Haiti, American machetes are not in much demand. The German tool | mne ome we're mighty fond of you! work, you bring us play, you let us get and give; and thru it ali you PHILIP SIMMS -—- Good evening, ladies! 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