The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 6, 1923, Page 6

Publishing Ce Ph per year & Ruthman, bide; Chicana bide.) Bonen Your Letter to the Editor About those “Letters to the Editor.” The Star is often ted why some certain one did not appear in print Here are a few of the rules that govern us in their se- stion. Anonymous letters go automatically into the rt basket. So do illegible letters. . "Then we discard letters that carry a tone of malice or 1 ness. Those dealing with gruesome or unclean sub- sts are “killed.” Also sometimes we are obliged to hold out letters otherwise worth using that cover approximate- the same ground as had some previous letter The’ Star letter column is, as far it is possible for to make it, your open forum, rostrum which you mount and from which you may speak to the three hundred thousand people of Washington who read newspaper. rily, we must require that, if you are to use . privilege, you must have something to say that is the attention of your vast audience Rpectal Repten office, Tribu oftion, ‘Trem bide ont bide something, necessarily ponderous, but illuminating or instructive Samusing—perhaps a bit of good advice, a worth-while iemment on public affairs, an item of news, a homely of philosophy or whatnot. fou are, of course, free to differ just as sharply with Star as you wish. We want originality of thought freedom of expression in the letter column. fe do not return manuscripts of these unused letters postage and your address accompany them. of one fact you may rest assured: Whether it is ited or not, your letter is WELCOME in The Star We want your views and your news. We'll print 8 letter if we can; if we can’t, we'll return it on the terms. your department, and one of the best read depart- ‘of The Star or any other Pacific Northwest daily. it and epioy it. YANKEE INGENUITY ‘executive who is just back from Europe was extolling the virtues ‘American salesman, his initiative, his persistence and, most of all, fe Why,” be said, “in a French restaurant the other day s Yankee auto- salesman mapped his fingers xi 8 sleekly polished gentleman in ‘sult, “Gossong.’ he called out, but it developed the waiter was ‘& waiter, but a noble guest, who promptly laid his card on the table ; red the Detroiter to a duel at daybreak. 5, when the salesman learned that the incensed monsicur was theater, unabashed, he took a friend, wrote ‘Y' with a ring around it on the back of the card, presented it got, in addition to superiative courtesy, two of is often withou: honor In {ts home town. : remae Mencken’s “Prejudices” ing is extremely wrong with America. Its gov- nt is the bunk; its schools a joke; its ideals pish- its social life rubbish; its people low-grade morons ; lic men scoundrels and nincompoomps; its business rascally and basically evil; its . . . could go on forever along this line—and that's Mr. Mencken does in “Prejudices: Third » He does it with his tongue in his cheek and lots ple take him seriously and want him deported or treason. authors and essayists criticise with a bladder. m performs with meat axes, heavy artillery, iron es and disemboweling tools. He uses massed batter- 0 invective to bring down sparrows—but invariably brings down ;the sparrows. fencken has the “superiority complex”—and he has it L All the rest of us—barring a few unknown Euro- fs whose names flit generously thru Henry L.'s writ- halfwits. We compose the booboisie. We are mbeciles* who join the Elks, the Rotary club and “obscene organizations.” Barnum once enunciated ctrine that we like to be fooled; Mencken's idea is ‘we like to be bawled out, and the success of his work roof that his theory is approximately correct. judices: Third Series,” is a succession of buckets e-cold water thrown at the habits, thoughts and prac- S of the American and his native land. After the has been thrown, Prof. Mencken discharges the st, usually with accurate aim. netimes Mencken loses force by over-statement. The refuses to believe that man is a potential wife- wer because he joins the Maccabees, or that Y. M. secretaries are ALL nitwits. em Ladiow, Mo., bandits got $3,000 and overlooked $30,000, showing it pay to hurry too much. ji ERD Ht ts hard to borrow money because the people who have It have fi they will not Jend it. Our Laggard Dictionaries if one would understand how far and how fast we We come he need only study a Webster’s unabridged the year 1879. That was not long ago, but look up tricity: “Electricity, a highly subtile force, often c d the electric fluid; identical with lightning;” and hat’s all. You won't find motor, or dynamo, or battery, or cell, inductive current, or insulator, or incandescent, or arc or any other of a thousand words that today are § common as mud. You will not find bicycle. Nor will you find telephone. Get a dictionary of the late nineties and the electric i begin to appear, but nothing of the automobile lution. | The 1910 dictionary has a fair assortment of automo- terms, but nothing about aerial navigation. 1920 list gives us the aviation vocabulary, but is largely omitted, and five years or so hence will commence to get audion, et al.; but by that time will have gone into new realms, making words,, terms phrases as we travel. Meanwhile we are losing words it as rapidly as we are adopting or inventing them. here, oh, where, are bustle and hoop skirt and horse and churn and tricycle and frock coat, derby hat d coach? Aye, and where are saloon and lees and dregs and ist” and still wines and white wines and cognac, and oo rum and the once famous iron moulder’s ere are brig and barque and barkentine and lugger wag i i til the Americans got on the job, language was w a fixed thing, and the same old orn, did noble faithful service for 500 years at a stretch. Today e travel so fast that we must seize words out of the to tell ’em about it. th silk stockings were given this year to bring shor skirts back. a great many of the New Year balls were highballs | Those $200,000 Denver mint robbers may be hunting the Julep now, taxpayer tells us he wishes New Year only came every leap year, ! ' THE LETTER FROM E MANN Dear Fe Tt © writing dow way we're acting Ind sur datew as like to take You h reaking we got a tre New Yea \ crust, that renc On New Yéar's da we'd always keep when 1 ar begins for him wh alwaye trie ot, te new; we atil 6 had the little upward t—we reach the time with we What ith of of throwing logan is, “If I break k them now and then, if we ly start Hach da #; and when we fa Coritge 1 LETTERS EDITOR Denies Viaduct add a few account says: “The | t d and It ts pow this drive at night knows, ma strange to anyo with the extreme o » the viaduct that such a should be publicly mad: I make this drive frequently an m remarked by my . because of th terrible acotdent | just at the very| t where the municipal bus went the brid If the city ts not criminally Wable for not having «| make and it see Editor The Star: I read the letter Uttle from a “Reader | girl having her about the marks | end Wheeler at warned the | Little Girl, Speak Up Well Lighted guard rail for the 10 feet from the of the serial work of the W bridge, who te? of Superintendent good, an The fer hindaight remarkably he papers say that he has now municipal bus drivers use extreme cau and has notif! a in ty employes) te on thin drive m that they abould stop at the Why have such before and teraction st been given a? The bridges are poorly Umht nds and intersections and a ever since they were of he lighting depa t lighted city amed in| America ot teelf very truly, W, 8. KEITH. 1 N. Gilat St, Bonttie. months old, If she ab give bim to th, He black and I call him Sambo eady has one 1 will ome other little, le me boy of [puppy killed, so I will give ber tree} gicy one of my dogs. I got an extra one for Christmas and I can't keep | A Plan for Parking the Autos Editor The Star; What is Seattle doing to solve the |® problem of parking automobiles?) | This is @ ques others are doing the same. All| large cities are up againat this same | problem more or leas. | T have had an idea for some time) Pwhieh I thought would help Seattle} |to overcome to a certain extent this! | diefveute, question. | The plan T had in mind was to joonstruct an elevated auto park on | Editor The Star: 1 wish re to may a few words In gard to the letter by Henry 1 Okuda of 603 Main st., which was printed in The Star of December 19. T have been on the Yakima In dian reservation for more than years off and on. The Washington Nursery company brought the first aps in here to work on the nursery that I hAv® | engineers loftimes asked myself, and I suppose /think such a plan 2 ' 2, R. No. Foster, Wash. Railroad between Yesler a Pike mn; that will be All 1 wilt say be ts feanible, the expense of constructing maintaining same a come by a small annual tax paid by auto owners What do you think? GEO. H. MAWSON, 842 EB STth at P. S—It could be used for land gg fying machines. ave at. It is unnecens eft t be 6 Mr. Okuda Slightly Mistaken and many others I could name grew by at long before the Jap arrived on laborers cantaloupes the hundreds the scene even as EATTLE 1 | These are the men that developed and created market for the Yakima cantaloupe. Then Mr. Jap comes tn and de rived the benefit, as they do in all reservation casea in which they have gained) control ef any commodity or indus with them as the teams. As @ the Yak. ma cantaloupe famous, as Mr. Oku da says, I wih to state that Richey Gilbert, Mr. Groshen, Perry Clem- ens, John Seliera, Walter Houghton try. The white men blaze the way and build the market. Then the Jap slips in and reaps the reward and starts his underhanded way of crowding the white man out. Yours for Americans first and last GEORGE W. THOMPSON, RR. No. 1, Zillah, Wash. Money Gone Forever OLLARS spent wastefully are gone forever and often draw others after them. Dollars passed savings account teller for you immediately, to a Dexter Horton begin to earn money SAVINGS DEPARTMENT OPEN SATURDAY EVENINGS 6 TO 8 O'CLOCK Dexter Horton National Bank Second Ave. and Cherry St, SEATTLE ESTABLIGMED--18670 Bos in wren nares omar STAR IT SMELLS LIKE A F SATURDAY, JANUARY 6, 1922. STATION Reviews the 30-10 q Arbuckle Editor The Star May I say a fow the Arbuckle and Wally R and will our twentieth century boys and giris. It will be the mothers, Je nm are to Mame. 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