The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 11, 1923, Page 6

| The Seattle Star ae tm tne per month, 1448 for ¢ ns. an, Rpecial Represen' Chicago office, Tribune didg.; New Terk offices, Aman. : | I a bide. i ian Pacific didg.. Boson office, Tremont bide : Strengthen the Inheritance Tax ois Star is glad to note that Gov. Hart has swung G d to advocate a more effective inheritance tax law. vd “We have consistently maintained in the past, a far great proportion of the public revenues should be ob- d from that source. . Hart has not been as effective as he might have h in his collection of inheritance taxes under the exist- ng law, as is shown in the case of Henry Hewitt, Tacoma multimillionaire, whose heirs to date have apparently es- all payment, where hundreds of thousands are prob- ‘due the state treasury. r, the truth of the situation is that the present Fought to be strengthened, the rates increased, the pos- ibility of evasion avoided and penalties made very severe. Al a state income tax should be adopted as a twin to the inheritance tax. Gov. Hart’s message is rly silent on that subject. & woman gets her husband up a tree she makes a monkey out % @ most expenstve thing on carth ts the upkeep on « marriage Neense. enly reliable weather forecast ws: Winter, spring, summer, fall. “Blue Sky” Vendors Doomed? ‘geems to be unanimous now. That is, except in the ks of the wild-catters. fe refer to the demand for an adequate “blue sky” law. Gov. Hart, who vetoed the bill passed by the last sl now comes in with a recommendation for “the it of a good law that will protect the innocent from the machinations of a corrupt and fraud- @nt vendor of stocks and other securities, but so safe- d as not to retard the development of our latest nor interfere with legitimate investments.” ‘9 picture of health a girl must have a guod frame Gece for a itving ts » shaky business, per cont of the men looking for trouble are atngte. Your Pair of Minds ever “get stuck” for a name, date or some- s “on the tip of the tongue” but hard to ‘out of your memory? conscious or objective mind strives to bring the ing information to the surface. All the time, accord- 'to students of thought processes, the missing infor- ba is stored away in your subconscious or subjective i ‘Your conscious mind forgets a lot. But your subcon- mind is supposed to remember—to store away— rthii ja ever encounter from cradle to grave. how, when a man is drowning, his whole life review before him in a few seconds. This means, mind simply throws its door wide open and it hidden contents. years ago Dr. Thomson Jay Hudson “The Law of Psychic Phenomena.” a theory that the subjective (sub- ) exercises complete control over the and-sensations of the body. Also, that the sub- in turn, the functions and sensa- be controlled by suggestions made or conscious mind. . readers to cure a nervous rewutt. And when the effect t @istinctty felt, the declaration should be boldly made that the pain has entirely ceased. “If any remnants of pain are felt, the fact should be ignored, and the suggestion ed in, that it has ceased. This should be followed by the declaration that there will be no return of the Symptoms; and this should be made with an air, tone and feeling Of perfect confidence.” fis, obviously, is a process of self-hypnotism. Made quite a sensation in his day. Today only book. But, after 81 years, rolls in again and the followers of Coue are sug- to their subjective (subconscious) minds similar & the month tn which you pay 30 day# rent for 28 days. people don’t care what they do, and neither does anyone else. ‘® man looks run Gown because of the bills his wife runs up. e New Jap Every 43 Seconds 's population now is 57,658,000, reports census . ters at Tokyo. This is nearly half as many peo- live in the tremendously large territory of conti- ‘United States. And Japan proper is smaller than nese tion 1s increasing one person every That is the real Yellow Peril. f& more costly than making history? ‘whe hesttates is old-fashioned. jet @ new suto tag or you're It. Writing 350 Words a Minute shorthand speed record is broken again, this time than Behrin, New York court stenographer. In il sprint he takes down 850 words a minute with _ read that f: speed n je can ast, or even think at a words a minute. to go slower and avoid the two errors, in every- Accuracy is a greater asset than speed. @ beautiful complexion doesn’t leave much time for washing 4% people seem te expect summer every winter and winter every ®@ whee Grinking man who marries 9 trained nurse. What a Decimal Point Can Do firm in Louisville fails. Queer story comes summer the firm ordered $300,000 worth of | oil stock, sold it to a customer at 30 cents a share, discovered later the cost was $30 a share. The firm's S was $29.70 on each of the 10,000 shares. should get grin out of the millions of stock who are nursing memories of pay- for stocks worth cents. hard thing vow showt amounting to something ix there are so many mot to do it and so few ways to do it. are entirely too many eeif. a0 widows, b early bird catches cold LETTER FROM THE SEATTLE STAR \VRIDGE MANN Dear Polls: Th Philadelphia, long ago—the town from which I came—most everybody used to know John Wanamaker’s name. And back in days that used to be, before his Journey's end, the elty seemed to feel that he was everybody's friend, Mis store John Wanamaker’s life te thru To think To try trust for constant effort bi for faith, and faith { HE’S MODEST er! — We My father An’ when he You let that boy go, right away? you 1 break ‘em plumb tn twot 1 guess he'd learn ‘em to be good ‘That's how he'd do—my father would.” An’ if they didn’t My father <I tell sryour My And If sor Why just My father lived here—t They'd run iike fun A million miles aw hert Aw, he ain't so «rand, hey found you what, tt they got ! They'd be We knew about his early start, when days were poor and ertm, and sort of felt, within our heart, the town «rew up with him. We know his store, his Sunday echool; we mw their steady growth, and learned he used the Golfen Rule to guide and govern both. ave passed it every day, « spact people came from miles away to do their ore came to town to all, and wante Independence Hall—and Wanamaker’s store! his works are with us yet; for Wanamaker used to do the things we can't forget out across the brink, we hear his spirit cry his aimple rulo of life —"To think and toll and trust and try.” to toll—two basic things that all who Itve must do. ngs the strength to ee ue thru, To ©, sustains us thru the strife, and guides our steps till we are ahown a bigger, better lite big affair; and « there, When xplore, we showed And now, from HEROES By Berton Braley Hi, I guces if he ravel yell ‘Hey, THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 1928. ARTING IN EARLY 2 al ait Md ms! j \ LY LN * i | Ws t Afraid to THINK of touchin’ mer ND thus two ordinary men Of five foot atx or eight or ten, A little soft and fat and gray, And commonplace in every way, Are by thetr children’s honest pride Herole figures, magnified. A man must be a perfect zero If to his kids he’s not # hero. (Copyright, 1998, The Featile Mary LETTERS S2EDITOR Mother Appeals for Arbuckle EAéltor The Star: May I say @ few words In reemrd t0| make good. the Arbuckle strife? 1 My reason for 90 dotng ts thie: 1) am & mother whose son had com mitted a sin very similar to Ar Arbuckie’s, And this misfortune was visited upon him in exactly the same | | manner, And, I am sorry to way, It waa womankind that was strongest | against my boy's forgiveness. } ‘My boy's atonement was sincere, which, I believe, ts also the case with Arbuckle. However, my boy 4i4 not get his chance to come back, and so, with a broken heart, he committed selfde- struction and appeared at a higher tribunal, to face a Judge who says, “Tho your sins be as crimson, I wil! wash them white as snow.” And as this unfortunate trouble with Ar buckle ts 80 very similar to my poor, broken-hearted son's, I wish to ap- peal, just as a mother would do, in behalf of “Fatty” Arbuckle’s forgive. A Safety First Suggestion Editor The Star: I live at Lake Forest park, on the new stretch of the Pacific highway, north of the city, and I have the pleasure of driving over the beautiful plece of roadway daily This is a real pleasure during nice weather, but, owing to the large number of “fills and the deep itches on elther side, this highway fa dangerous on rainy nights, and ex tremely no on fomry nights to thoee of us who must use it It In almost impossible to see the edge of the paving at such times, and in a number of places there ts only a foot of dirt between the paving and & six or eight-foot drop It ig my suggestion to the county commissioners that a white stripe be painted down the center of this pav ing, similar to that at our street in-| ternections and safety zones tn the efty. ‘This would be clearly vistble tn the| Ught from the headlamps under any | conditions, and would not only be a| safegard against running off the road, but would also prevent colll- | sion with automobiles going in the apposite direction Yours for greater anfety, | THEO. T. LEMAN, ake Forest Park Lindsay Crawford, Irish | consul representing the Free| State, held his desk in the New | York office and conducted of- ficial business despite the proximity of the republican consul and Sinn Fein guard in| adjoining room, In taking a taxicab, the woman enters first, asdeted by her estort, and takes the furthest seat, whether right or left. | Tr allghting, the man leads the way and helps the woman to reach the ground y. We the + ib hae double seats, - the man tak n! jace with his back Please give him @ chance to/ts the driver, unless be ie an old friend of the woman he ts acoom- A MOTIFER’s APPRAL. | panyine. LIAM PHILIP SIMMS - The sun works for the kingdom of | Danish cheese, which in 1913 amount: | Copra, ed to only 600,000 pounds, had grown | ‘Tongs, in the South Pacific. yams and breadfruit “just grow” | to 25,000,000 pounds in 1921. so there are about 265 holl- ae in every year. Naturally.) pomania’ ‘Tonga for the Tongans” ix the na-| being a 1, ix expected to make tional motto, tome outelder might | undev 1 olf field® state property. introduce work. | Uncle Sam, please notice, | eee eee new constitution, now | Bwiteerland and Germany will| Italy (s producing more and more ihave to lock to their cheese laurels. vegetable ofle—peanut, sesame, co- Your Old Dictionary Is Out of Date A New One—Just Off the Press—Authoritative—Up to Date Now Offered by the Fee game 2 reer Likes Editorials wAitor The Star I wish to express apprectation for your fine editorials on our for eign relations ar 4 our awakening sonse of responsibility to the rest of the world. very truly, HINMAN D. FOLSOM, JR. coanut and mulphur. The first thing won't be making out of our we know Italians their “imported olive of!” cotton seed ol) any more eee Of interest to American farmers Rinderpest 1s now epizootic thruout northern India and anthrax con tinues #poradically. India and Chi wentter these diseases thru world by caravans and th menta of hair, wool and hides. . . Like mi4eummer mosquitos in the | wvergiades, British experts are | swarming around the world, punctur | ing the enrth’s crust for ofl. In the Fart Indies, Car , Siberia, Arabia, Turkey, Persia, Colombia and else where they are reported feverishly | active, eee Tike Malagn grapes? Malaga’s \narvest just closing netted 1,600.0 | barrels. Of these, 1,000,000 barrels were exported, principally to Eng: land. eee | In Haiti, the lemale and retell | prices of ke are the same, | Dealers make their profit on the | cans. | | | There «re 20,000 passenger autos in | Switzerland and not a single filling station. ore Siam is buying nine new airplanes for its postal service. Siamese stu | dents will come to America to study | fying. eee Ninety-five foreign cities have asked American manufacturers to submit bids for motorized fire-fight- ing equipment, and 126 other foreign j cities have asked for 6s, 2 total of 221 responses fr 0 queries fron. our commercial attaches abroad. MARRIAGE A LA MODE Mexican marriages usually take place in the morning, sometimes be- |fore daylight. Guests always recelve two invita tions, one from the bride’s family, one from the bridegroom's. | ‘The simplest ceremony lasts two |nours, during which the bride's veil is pinned to the bridegroom's shou!- Gers. The bride always weare white, trimmed with orange blossoms. The Seattle Star Distribution Begins Tomorrow You can't keep up with the world unless you have this book in home and office. 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