The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 15, 1923, Page 6

aes The Seattle Star Dally by The Star Pubiiening Co Phone Main 0000. Asmoctation « By mail. ea Micetl & Ruthman, Kpe: Bids; Crleage offies, Pacific bide Rosen office 24 Cents or $2? ast week's agitation in the legislature over excessive state printing ms this question pertinent: IS THE STATE PRINTER GIVEN THE JOB ING RETURN CARDS ON THE STAMPED OPES THE STATE USES? ® postoffice department does this work at the rate Feents a thousand. Instead of availing itself of this the state departments turn the work over to the inter and pay him $2 a thousand! it is understood that hundreds of thousands of early, the practice is seen to agance. bide: New Fork effios, Tremont bide Ey ei Ay we he quite a serious extr @uty of every man in the world ts that of subduing fear; he not act at all until then; his acts are slavish; the landlord collecting the rent. of haircuts has gene up in Chicago, but It is too cold there anyway. ‘are great things. They show you someone you can trust, m Line With Grand Jury's Report ous it is to see and consider how some kinds of did grow and break forth in a land where the )s0 much witnessed against and so severely pun- cially drunkenness and uncleanness and other ful to mention.” saw a man rob a Los Angelos bank, so they may have THE SEATTLE ‘Cham pion Runaway Back! LETTER FROM \V RIDGE MANN Dear Folk Bill Tilden, #o the papers may, #ttlt leads the tennis» camp; once more, of all the U. 8. A., he's fated tennis champ. Tho he'v a bird he's still @ friend of mina. I've read about him at the net, and think he's pretty fine Ril) Tilden hurt his hand, ['ve read—his tennta hand, you know “You'll lone a finger,” doctors sald, “you'll have to let ft go" “I'll try to keep it Just the same,” thought Bill, “and you can bet I'm out to Might, for here's 6 that tan't finished yet ight my, “Oh, t I've never met under! What's the the score to m ‘Tilden lot; and when at © mame was And was Bill ‘Tiden Not mubh! This fighting tennis scout be , with many other men, I really hope to see BIll Tu now pion again in 19 Bill Tiden'’s playtng lets us know, when any game begins, no matter how the luck may go, the fighting spirit wins, And fo. when life all uphill, and things seem far trom right, let's take @ little tip from Bill, and keep our spirit rirht! Crritge Yonn LETTERS EDITOR The Story of a Miraculous Cow | GPadle of the Bovine Called Public | regions. vulty) Bhe appreciated the well thinking |Eattor The Star of the natives, but yearned for more | Tr once thrived in @ barren | substantial diet. They od to leou eulous cow, ‘The | praise ber, but brought her no | is animal was that ashe gave milk) As time passed, tn sue and of such quaitty, |crept into her m om, and in the that entire provinces were supplied |alwence of « oud, she hewed her by her bounty. tongue and thought bt thoughts ‘The natives worshipped her as a of the thanklens inhabitanta Finally cont! properties w fodder ‘ miraculous, wistful “look bh qu STAR Wanders in West 57 Years AUBURN, N, ¥. Jan, 16—/This te the true story of America’s champion boy runaway He ran away to the Weat to fight the Indians 67 years ago, He fought ntent, and now, o hin ‘em to his hear at 76, he's come back home Mrs, Mary A. Kilburn, 18 years ago gave him up for dead Greer was born tn Aurelius, N.Y, im 1848, At 16 he joined the Union army and fought until he was put out of action by # wound at Gettys | burs | In 1866 the “prodigal son” spirtt | eelzed = him, od he took Horace Grecley's advice to go Went. He! landed at Leavenworth, Kan, then an outpost of civil He began iriving an Ox team hauling freight te Deaver. When thie lost tte thrill, Greer! pusher further w . and took up ox teaming between Fort Laramie and Port now tn Wyoming, but then part of the territory of the Da- kotas. Just then the Fenian movement was at Ite height. Iriah patriots in A jon planned to force Irish free mh armed march on Canada nited States, Greer joined the movement He came back to New York state to await orders to partictpate in the “invasion.” but the movement col lapsed fo In 1867 Greer returned Weet and went back to freight hauling went to Cheyenna, and | Take City. Then he pushed on to San Diego, Cal. | Just then Motana “ opening up. Creer went up there. He hauled tim ber across territory populated by the alnter, ation, MONDAY, JANUARY 15, 1928. ADVENTURERS By Berton Braley AILY they go forth to 40 thelr work, Upheralded, unlaureled, and unsung; They penetrate the coal m They climb the gaunt mt Against the sky; beneath ‘They dri the tunnels w! They cut down mountains Ia theirs to feed, they They They string the wires tha Gteady and calm by day @ They do their work and Yorever daring, ever Keeping the world's mach Plain humdrum men of No pioneer, no soldier of Than these who ever batt Adventurers who bt, 1) wield the locomotive’s maarive ‘Their hammern beat upon the vessel's kool, nine’s musty murk, oo| girders they have Sung the river mud here the trains shall run, and they dam the flood, Doing the job that must be bravely done, TTD hot blast furnace, belching gas and fiama, forge the glowing steal, ane t bring @ city light, Down to the sea in ships they take their way, nd thru the night earn their meed of pay. PATH lurks bewide them, but they éo thetr job, unafraid, inery athrob, every craft and trafng romance Has greater need of courage or of nerve le cireumstance— ber and who servel SCIENCE What Makes Progress? Free Minds. Government Drags. Barbarism Flows On. It looks as if the war were going to break out again. That is one ter- rible thing, ‘The world cannot feed itself. That ts another. | ‘The peoples do not know enough \to trade freely with each other and inson points out, our minds are un- free. They are obsessed by the things we have experienced asa race | Barbarian hag flowed down thru the channel of history in government, |down to us. Down to the U. &1 When a man has new and revolu- tionary chemical ideas, we welcome him. We hear him. We give him @ chance. When he has new and revotution- ary governmental ideas, we avoid him. We put him in jail We put the secret service on his trail, and there ts a file in Washington devoted to him, And we crush him. Instead of crushing him, we should hear him, written in 1642, in good old Plymouth, and Bradford was the author! Some boys, those old Francis Greer and his sis- \ter, Mrs. Mary H. Kilourn, “I'm reaty to settle down now,” he sald, “except Td kinda like to nee Cube deity, sang parane tn her honor and |she turned her cloven toes wo the called her the Goddess of Plenty, and | moon and breathed her starved soul |from place to place, he was in the " from the fullness of their hearts al. |to the stars. | Vieinity of the Custer massacre when a line scribed In 1724: “Gin-drinking in- [lowed ner to snd pasture along | Immediately there rose thrucut the | !t took place. ‘ i Ithe wayside, where the «rans grew/kingdom « loud and discordant | The other day Grear stepped off Riass of our population with the violence of ay [ry and thick. ‘vo one wanted ty {ment, Tt was mot reasonable that |train : ape ies It is said that pray = agg Apert ~ lanyway. In the years of plenty, eh 4 should take what he had tm his | ce. The public houses are open all night Pub- was weil fed and continued in nty given | does not hold the character of any man to ife of service, Thetr milk ‘supply gone, the drunkenness !” But there camo a pertod of famine, |natives themacives became peaked {, . rt and drouth deacended m the land. | and thin, and each looked for another on said to Boswell: “I remember, sir, when [Tit ‘iiss alone the wayside burned | upon whose shoulders he could lay leery in ee got drunk every night jana the gentieeyed boyine grew |the blame. Moral: Ignorance may Ly it the worse of them.” gaunt and thin, while the pangs of |be bliss, but revelation is sure dim and Bt, Valedtings, An r | ough . . ; , entin ¥ reader interested may have @ copy of helter and raiment. | ashington wrote to his friend Benjamin Har | une emis bar m the abioning este JAMES. RITGH. || {ts paltetin trea, Will ent ond mall the coupon welew ae (Fe eeogenny || 1923 Record of pn 1782: “I should say in one word that idleness, ‘ ° | * ° te ‘ ‘ | Amyone who will read « new book, | and extravagance seem to have laid hold of Hanging of Woman a Sin |_,Anyone wno wit raa's new tork.|| Pedestrians Hit ; n, that speculation, peculation, and an insati- |yattor The star: Jment etven to prisoners Harvey Robinson, will gay the book | by Automobiles for riches seem to have gotten the better of 1 would thank you for « Mttle space err in rating with ort ate Gite neem sac ain oak nt "e tn your paper to express my disap-|on the aide of charity ject. consideration and almost every order of men. |! vor Pate cunts that were exe lence, To err Is human ie aaal : w D —Chester Ullin, 600 B. 42nd et., repeat to you that I am alarmed, and wish to t Why have men much prog- 3 . —, ' jouted in England on the orstve) reew'ia science and invention in the| wan knocked down and bruised ntry aroused. |. This is the fret past century or so? Because mind| Friday at. 42nd st. and Fifth ave. century ago the Methodist church of Delaw: re years has been free in the fields of science |: E- by an auto driven by D. P. services of a special officer to keep order [time and invention. That is all, Just | ‘Atle, 4925 Ninth ave N.E jing hanged tn th . freedom! That has given us every. | —-Hans Peterson, 2059 28th ave. may be no worse to hang a woman | nat vib thing which makes Beattle different 38: W., was severely injured tn. from Timbuctoo. Wreedom—the|ternally Saturday when « car driven than « man, but It looks « great @eal | wed world, and that the influence for worse. Capita) punishment Is a man. | evil is Inestimabla greatest thing tn the world—montal| by H. E. Mansfield, 6401 34th ave. made law, and Is not in accorfance Yours very truty, Btate. ner ne neem nm mone mene ann ne ee ne wae eee ee ee | freedom. & W.. knocked him down at Avalon & J. WATEON, | But when & comes to government/way and Hinds st. Peterson wae Everett. and international relations, Mr, Rob-|taken to the alty hospital hostile Sioux Indians, Moving about [thus keep off starvation end nake4d-| tow can we tell whether or not he ness; or to lay down their arma and | has the truth unless we do? go to work; of to stop maintaining| And se whens chemistry stands as 5 o the form of \CO™mPared with government! The hordes of paradion fa the Be | nations die thru our barbarous minds idiers who must be supported 7 | acting on governmental matte ‘and those who work. jin thelr deaths they may destroy 9% | Human society, In an age when | science too. Let us try free minds oR ‘ R S | A all along the line. We can’t do worse FEBRUARY PROGRAM |mtence meow os wth chee |3stng ie We Our Wiwhingtop bureau has prepared for use of school teachers ments, fails to solve the fruit of And othere tnterested suggested programa for February, covering human problems, that of men living | Lincoln's birthday, Washington's birthday, Longfellow's birthday | | together so as to have just food and Washington Bureau, The Seattle Star, 1882 New York Ave, Washington, D.C 1 would like « copy of the butletin, “February Programs,” and inclose herewith four ceri» in stamps for postage Tf we @o let tt be ad benevo (Divine to ncluston, I would say Tam « Name British mabject, and firmly believe that the recent hanging States. It | Bi 4 Was not only « blot on that woman hanged tn! since we heard of a w be Street.and No... COWHY - 5. ae ene a nm ne oe ee e+ ene Are We Acting Like Suckers ? ig Editor The Star: Where Virtue Comes From gm, good cheer, benevolence, brotherly love, do primarily thru being reborn, thru a personal [[p'hot « great amount of satisfaction, | in perusing the various wise and lever flowing screeds from market, crop and transportation experts; from reclamation officials, from bis landers and from little landers, and from the horde of jaw adept officials who spend their time and waste pob- ie money in advising the farmer what to do on Monday and the con- sumer what not to do on Tutsday. You will discover the “expert” legions are about equally divided; one-half of the official corps asserts that we need « greater production, more land settled up, more crops from the land now under plow; while the other half most logically Insists that we have far too much produc tion tn every big main crop in the country, and that if we are to save our farm population from bankrw cy (that ts, such portion of it i not already dead broke) we must de vise new market methods, create new markets, and probably errange to sell most of our surp! abroad. As things are now, this country does produce more wheat, core, rye |barley, cotton, wool, pork, beef, milk chéese, butter, eggs, fruit, fresh tand dried; nuts, potatoes, ete. ete, than the country can consunre at « living wage to the mass of the farmers. Meantime we are arranging to} spend hundreds of millions to reclaim a lot of desert and cut over forest land, and to shunt suckers onto there projects to raine some food to com pete with our present oversupply. Mind you, all the time there are hundreds of thousands of folka In our midst who never get enough to eat, nor, unless present market meth ods quickly and vastly change, will they soon get enough to eat, even tho every farmer produced at top ef. ficiency and sold at leas than the cost of production, as he is doing in many states this winter, D. 8. || SEEKS BONUS salvation, nor thru the persistent dwelling on EAT I AM IN THE GREAT THOU ART. ce doctrine to lay all the blame on the mental s; it justifies a minimum wage of $18.20 a week ee Seer ie te use =~ mi are not the ‘rom within; therefore, my dear, fireless room and be olence always comes from surplus; we are n we have an abu ce, comes from within, all right; from a full , & n skin, a happy family and a sure job. fly love ins when we quit having to fight our | or the bare bone of sustenance, and we are hope- rect proportion to our present success. fimist is the man who has made a faflure of @ who is under the impression that the future eas the has been. ition the most warm hearted, the most gen- most kindly nation the world ever saw; this s also the most prosperous, the best fed, the best he best amused, and the least burdened of any a want to tabli h a perf wan es' ish a ect, contented govern- this earth all you need do is to assure every d worker a chance to make a comfortable living imily, and then to assure him that he will be amuse himself in his off hours without being ly under the blue thumb of a meddlesome Puritan. fey pints stan that in speaking of the world war a few years from (a Teen FE 2“ sa08 biases cs oe ey oe your wagon to a star is fine, but don’t let little the rear of an auto. reed sd is a man who will advise a rest and make work to pay for the advice. ssa due? estimated very few people saved their income tax as they went Insist! 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 SAY “BAYER” when you buy Aspirin. The Typical American Man typical American man is five feet nine inches tall. ial American woman is five inches shorter, which is taller than the average of 30 years ago. can women incline to be flat-chested. As physi- in they are not as near perfection as our men. iption is furnished by Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, of the U. 8. National museum. ys the complexion of Americans {s tending to Colds fthiness, and that, as a race, we are destined to be Too che ikinned like the Latins. Thus cools the melting pot nation Neuralgia Pain, Pain 66 y siways ney’ booutul, men ‘Mey when they have their say a < a Accept only “Bayer” package which contains proper directions. | Handy “Bayer” boxes of 12 tablets—Also bottles of 24 and 100—Druggists. ve treads like auto tires, This lets them travel fast Aspirin is the trade mark of Bayer Manufacture of Monoaceticacidester of Salicylicacid Headache Neuritis Lumbago Rheumatism Sciatica Wayne Davis, Goliad (Tex.) attorney, has been made chairman of the Amer- ican Legion national legisla- tive commission. From hi. Washington headquarter: he'll direct fight for bonus,