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» [ The Seattle Star ‘1 @ If better times don’t come this year let’s sue them for breach of promise. } does. @Only a few more months until bathing girls will be back on the magazine covers. The trouble with a man who knows everything is he only thinks he It is easy to figure what you should have said after it is too late to say it. @ Five paydays hath September, April, July and December. @ Henry Ford says work alone will cure the world’s ills, but others think the situation is not quite so serious. @ The greatest difference between a success and a failure is the success knew what kind of habits to pick out. rom 008. Daity by The Star Publishing Ce. Prone Main 0608. jews, Paper Enterprise Association end United Prees Berries. We ~ menth, § montha 61.60, « ogg: yD veer, Gate ‘ee Wasninaten.' Guraiae of the ‘stare, tbe. por month, Mrenthe, or $9.00 per year, My carrter, . Qitman, ti & Ruthman, Mpectal Repr: nee, Mronadusck tides Chicage wifes, Trivune, biag.; New Terk effion Peoifie bide: Boson offign, Trement dide. Seattle Must Expand (From Seattle's Business, Organ of the Chamber of Commerce) ‘Seattle has too long thought of trade territory as the te distributing territory it now serves, namely, Montana, Idaho, Oregon, Washington, British and Alaska. We have been too much concerned wondering what could be done to give us a still hold on this territory. Our domestic trade ter- ry, because we have raw materials in demand and transportation, is far larger than the area men- and it is high time we get our people to realize it. ty per cent of the people of the nation live within les of the seaboard. If our trade territory for our ured articles was extended so we get a fair share s on products which we can put into that ter- profitably, what a great city we could build here. can get into that territory and we will. We have material. We have the water route. But we need 6 vision of a larger market and progressive salesman . Just to illustrate, here are a list of articles we J to people who can be reached by rail distribu- Gulf and Atlantic ports we can ship to by water ste: Lumber and mene hago doors, furniture, columns, interior finish, portable houses, silo ma- lal, wood pipe, work tables, drain boards, ironing ards, flag staffs, etc. Grain and its products—cereals, pek food (including fish meal, a by-product of our fish- es). Fruit and vegetables—Washington’s commercial it last year was worth $54,000,000. Each year ‘4 frat tonnage is being put on the market. Je must use water routes to build up markets for our mgen salmon, halibut, sole and also for other edible seies which we now regard as scrap fish. On these me boats and in iced cars should go our eggs and poul- y great tidewater cities like Boston, Philadelphia New York. Milk and its products—there are 55,000 in Wi with 600,000 cattle. We should to this larger trade territory on the and Atlantic to take Oriental products which we wld process or partly manufacture in Seattle, the st of entry. For instance, Philippine hardwoods, fiber ni le oils, etc. We must show the Con- of making something and selling it to ident Harding’s Opportunity Bacon Fall, the intrepid two-gun secretary of has decided to abandon his political in to return to his beloved wilds of New Mexico. or we rejoice. Picturesque citizen from the st and most primeval section of the Western frontier, “was born a generation too late for public service in jidea of national forests, national coal lands, national ei and other public resources, was that they x d for the benefit of private capital, with the f of the people at large in them but a secondary reason, Fall's Intment to the cabinet was by The Star. For reason, The Star repeated- ded Fall’s resignation. For this reason, the de it of the interior has been under suspicion since inistration came into office. . low “Alkali Al” is returning to his beloved wilds, and BY eens as x ae ee eet es the appointing as 's successor a man who repre- its the very reverse of Fall's ideas, one who believes conservation of the public resources for the great- good to the greatest number. im a nutshell, Mr. Harding must choose between some @ duck” in need of a job, and an intelligent and jeere conservationist. On this decision, ly more f any other he will make, will hang Mr. Harding’s aft with the public. Will he rise to the occasion, PLAIN ENGLISH constitu:ion is a very simple human document, written tn plain ‘tive Hawes (D.), Mo. who have been to high-priced cabarets will be giad te learn a burned in Atlantic City. Must be awful to be a big town detective and have to go to work baffled all day long. eer © reat ence, re Ray Bt Sees then 0, seer ‘ear. Curiosity, Civilization Builder railroad man figures out that {t costs 24 cents to stop tht train going five miles an hour. Wear and tear overhead increase with speed of the train when are thrown, reaching $1.44 as the cost of stop- when running 15 miles an hour. off, in Sweden, Dr. Svante Arrhenius, astronomer, that our sun, 86 billion years from now, will ning on our earth as brightly and warmly as now. he human body is chained to earth, but its brain is ing the universe. Curiosity is back of it all, with ing too 1 Sa too little to be worth investigating. . your In most interested in now? PARADOXICAL man may be honorably discharged without getting an honorable A man may be discharged with a medical survey, and the ge be honorable, but he would not get an honorable te because he had not completed his enlisement, or for some reason—Admiral Latimer, U. 8. N., before senate committee on when the brand of whisky one bought was regarded as the of all ills; now it is regarded as ‘the cause of them, way of variety, why not start » rumor that Lenin Is not dying? LETTER FROM \VRIDGE MANN Dear Fotks: The other day I chanced to me a Iittle bit of wit, which—could Mt ever really be—would make a mighty hit, It mid, “To keep our Purses fat some bimbo ought to Gare to make an everlasting hat for women-folks to wear.” Now I'm a married man, you know, and Ive a litte queen who spends a tidy bit of dough to decorate her bean. And the I'm not 4 stingy mutt, I' think tt common sense to try to find a way to out the overhead expense ‘They'd make an everlasting 14 of tron, tin or xino, so not a thing the women did could put ft on the bifnk. In rain or shine or snow or hail, Crom marriage to the grave-—just think of what & wad of kale a hat like that would mye! And yet, from all the coin I've spent, I'd fudge It worth the while if someone would, instead, invent an “everlasting style.” For many, many times I've heard the little woman state: “This hat? My dear, don't be absurd—it's madly out of date! But tho we spend # lot of dough to roof thelr Iittle beans, we never lose the coin we blow to decorate our queens. Because, no matter what we pay to keep them looking nice, the little dears, I'm + free to say, are always worth the price! BY Gouy! Someta Tears me ThaT THis PLUG ANT GORNA MAKE TAe- There are no farmers around a country club and no cattle at a stock exchange. @[ When a girl straightens a bachelor’s tie it | makes him feel as if his married friends may have had a little sense. @[ Do your income tax worrying early and avoid the rush. BEGINNING TO SAG IN THE MIDDLE MARRIAGE A LA MODE At a Bohemian wedding two slices of bread are given the bride and bridegroom, the idea being that 20 long as the bread in kept the couple will not want. There in also a superatition that the one whore bread first collects mould will be first to die. ‘The bride always gives to the bridegroom a shirt sewed with #014 thread and colored milks, and & wedding ring. Good Manners j Clapping the hands t# a natural form of applause and entertainers appreciate it, But stamping, whist ling or any other unduly notsy accia- mation is bad form. Even hand clapping at the wrong time, or need- lessly prolonged, annoys entertainers and audience alike. A short, hearty round of applause at the right mo. ment is quite in place, but there it should stop. Let “Fatty” Ediiter The Star: Just « few lines tn defense of Mr. We must hate the sin, but. help the sinner and give him a chance to | redeem himaeif. He made good, and thru his own merit. If his misfortune can be @ lesson to him and to others, he has not lived to vain, and if we could see this world Editor The Star: France intends to grab Ruhr from Germany and, perhaps, to start an other world war Theodore Roosevelt and other and diplomats crit: Wilson fer not pro Germany when tl z i tt AL nT lt i i | i y{iltl Pit Fy 22 tad Yes fat it cette ti H hd it | HE Ruth Powderly, Navy league nurse, was entrusted with the care of President Wilson during his illness and has been performing the same duty for Mra, Harding. If Another War Is Starting | least ff a good shelter was put ever | jit, and it would be « great bieesing | | to the many beside myself who are | obliged to wait for the cars. The bathing beaches and such are . mighty fine, but are in use only part | . 4 of the year, while the shelter over | - eet >| | the waiting places would be « great convenience and would be apprect- Come Back as it really ls, and every man and levery woman, we would not be so/ ready to condemn only ona | He wan proved not guilty, and I| cannct see any harm in showing his | pletures. I believe In the value of humor, and our comedies piay a | large part in dispelling the gloom and |tenaion of this world. I think Mr | Arbuckle should be given another ehance to come back | HM. JOMNBON, | ated by the car-riding public for 365 | @ayn in the year. | ,,.Of course. there are benches placed | there for the people to use, but they are « bit uncomfortable in the kind of weather we are having, and will | continue to have for some time, As | it is now, it is about as pleasant wait- ing for a car as it ts seated on an iceberg in the middle of the ocean, waiting for @ steamer to come along. . Now that the carfare situation is —— | nettied, and tt will depend on the number of car riders to make it @ | success, why not make it a bit more attractive to peopl: Respect. beaches, playfields and anything elee fully, a "y. GRAHAME While walting for the car In the | they can, why not spend a bit of the rain, at Second and Yesler, I prom | money in putting roofs or some sort —— ined to write to The Star on the sub | of covering over the different places) CARDIFF, Jan. 12.—A $2,000 pin ject of “Roofs,” if I did not drown | the onr riders have to walt for their| was stolen from @ Welsh merchant before the car came. So here goer: care? who spoke here in his campeign as @ While our city dads are spending | The looks of the triangle at Becond | parliamentary He with. money on new auto parks, bathing and Yesler wouldn't be ruined in the! drew the next day. — as Wants Roof for Car Waiters Editor The Star the great commandment from God. It i» not more hatred, more de @truction—It {# not more wounds, [hands in brotherly love for the up-| more agony, more sorrow and sick |i of the human race; let us heal | nese—it in not another war and hell the millions fresh and open wounds | Europe needs, but the Gospel of jena continue to clothe and feed the| Jesus Christ. It is a Saviour the | starving people in the stricken people need, to save them from |countriea, and by all, let us not for their etna. | get to love one another for this te/ $23 Nob Hill Ave. B. O. CLAUBON IRIN SAY “BAYER” when you buy Aspirin. Unless you see the “‘Bayer Cross” on tablets, you are not getting the genuine Bayer product prescribed by physicians over 23 years and proved safe by millions for Insist! Colds Headache Rheumatism Toothache Neunttis Sciatica Neuralgia Lumbago Pain, Pain Accept only “Bayer” package which contains proper directions. Handy “‘Bayer” boxes of 12 tablets—Also bottles of 24 and 100—Druggists. 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