The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 16, 1923, Page 6

Make the Change Now system long-discussed demand for a new of ts in Seattle is being agitated again. matter should be settled now—once and for all. is no question about our present system being iy archaic—think of city with six different aves.! new, simplified, sensible system is needed—urgently it should be adopted at once. longer we delay making the change the more it cost—because Seattle growing every day—and @elay is also costing Seattle business men real money way of confusion because of the bad system. is ly hates a mail carrier on the first day of the month develops everything except the brain. Germany's Jiu-Jitsu Vatch out! Germany will pelt you yet!” warning was sounded by the German author of ase!” at the time of the German debacle, It foolish then. It does not sound so foolish now. ee oP board a Pacific liner, the Korea Maru, the writer saw Prof. Kano, 140-pound Japanese, almost kill a d Jap sailor, champion wrestler of the crew. stant rushed him, he suddenly seemed to yield the impact. A second later, the huge sailor had double somersault and was lying breathless on | was what Prof. Kano called it, or advanced jiu Fis the art of overcoming an opponent by momentari- way before him,” Prof. Kano explained. ddenly yielding, you throw your opponent off his and cause him actually to injure himself in direct n to his loss of self-command and the force ex- y him.” s since the Prussian army began to fall back before d hammering in 1918, German leaders have been Judoism on the world. for a single moment has Germany intended to the war. She has appeared to yield when she had this was only camouflage. randa, by manipulating troubles at home, by the value of the mark, by pleading poverty, , and ruin, and desperation, and oppression, as thrown the allies off their balance. the surface indications may be, Germany to- a strong strategic position. France is at a cor disadvantage. Germany, on her side, will in- disadvantage in every possible way—by es, by civil war and revolutions, if needs be—all these art and parcel of the art of international Judoism : d by her. ce rally, or will she, like Prof. Kano’s sailor, ly plunge headlong at her opponent and injure in proportion to the force she uses? can only wait and see. es keep an eye on the tempiation we pray never to be led into. few more months until the annual scare about siceping sicknens. Stefansson’s Service on, retiring as an explorer, has a wonderful adventure to look back to. He spent more years } polar regions than any other explorer. He added in 100,000 square miles, or previously unknown to the maps. of all, he was able to explode misinformation been accumulating since the ancient Greeks. He that airplane lines will open the Arctic circle cially, as the steam railroads opened our West. which possesses a special interest for Seattle, long-established Far North associations. & woman to make a home and a couple of them to spoil one. of every nation think they have a monopoly on trouble. Uncle, Too, Has Pride rrams are to the effect that President Harding’s of the American troops from German terri- came as a blow to French pride and sense of dent Harding will not be crucified for thus dis- ing the French. It has been common opinion, for time, in America at least, that investing millions ping American forces in Germany was_ simply to French pride, or some other unreliable senti- As to the right of the matter, if there were any reason at all for keeping a thousand American in Germany, it was because they represented a Seeking no reparations from Germany and being ee with Germany, America’s threat was a wrong an insult. America wishes the best things possible France. But, this is no reason why America should as a bully toward any other nation. the average man likes about « girl is her lips and his arms, flew men can work while in love, uriil they marry and have to. How Washington Would Yell! nd’s mayor gave his folks a Christmas present he shape of an announcement that he had run the for a year within its budget. Then, on New Year's he gave them another by announcing that he had million balance, instead of the usual two-million or Kohler “arrived” by co-ordinating departments, nating ornamental ones and kicking loose an army olitical blood-suckers from the city payrolls. Verily, an official like that man Kohler is wasted in a city like Cleveland. Set up in Washington to swing cleaver as he pleased on costly ornamentals and langers-on, he’d make the national debt look like a chip i a game of penny-ante, in no time. the worst job we can think of is being a former movie star, ORES RN ESTEE NET Bye THE SEATTLE THROUGH LETTER. FROM \V RIDGE PMIANN Dear Fotkew: I've read an awful lot about the growing use of dope—the stutt that knocks your senses out, and robe your life of hope, They say the bird who used fo use the brews of rum and wine eschews the doors and etarts to choose to chew the poppy vine With all the evil deeds I've done, it sort of gives me pride to Know that taking dope t* one I never even tried. No time of mine was ever evil scope, and so I'll have to be con ter spent ¢ clear; and And people fal t puts a fact that's mighty passing by; and beneath Its sway--I often we ” I wonder—yet aside trom that, I find tt quite enough to think about the human rat who peddies al! the stuff. He's in the trade and seeking prey because he's learned to know {t's much a quick and easy way to make a lot of dough. And so, with nearly every kind of evtl thing we bear, we trace ft to its source and find « love of money there, No fight will kill nor laws repeal the strength of evil's hold til) you and I shall cease to knee! before the God of Gold LETTERS ce EDITOR State Bank Legislation Needed Editor The Star In behalf of the 22,000 wronged de- positors of the Scandinavian-Amer-. fean bank, I wish to thank you for the support you gave us in the fight to obtain the late grand jury, You have, of course, observed that the jury made findings of fact of the very charges we brought against the bank officers and the state banking de- partment. The Star was very influential in nasisting ue, for without you and Judge Griffithe we would have been handicapped. You may be interested to know that 1 shall stay with this fight until IS MOLESKIN | Molewkin always has adapted Itwelf naturally to the most beautiful styles, ‘Thin season it’s more popular than ever Pictured here ig Miss Helen Lowe | Rice, the New York society girl, in an exceptionally attractive model, The w closing, but is draped to suit the wearer's whim and held in place by hand. has no visible means of | Washington has on ita statute books laws giving real protection to bank depositors, The day when bankers can do anything they want to do with depositors money has panned. ‘The people of this state are aroused on the question. We need a blue sky law for banks as much, if not wore, than for fake promoters, for during the past six years Washington state {bank depositors have lost in round | | figures at least $9,000,000, enough to make the legislature sit up seriously, | We shall not be satisfied with | makeshifts, but will demand real pro- tection. Among the things we ask for for every citizen of this state are: 1. A compulsory guaranty law; or provisions from the Callforina act 2. Removal from the influence of polities! bankers and thetr political supporters of the office of bank su-/ pervinor. 3. Making ft a felony, with a mint-| mum sentence of three years, for any bank officer or employe to mis. represent, make false entries and similar tricks to hide the bank's real | condition from its clients or state of. | officers, 4. The absolute repeat of the 1921 |guaranty acts, under which the | hanks eseaped from the burden of re. | sponsibility; this act nullified every | good feature of the 1917 guaranty law | 5. We want effective clauses placed by amendment into the 1917 | aot, in order to afford depositors real | protection. 6. Segregation of savings account deposits from commercial deposits. Your cordially, H. W. POWELL, Secretary-Treasurer Depositors’ Pro- tective Ansociation ‘Lest We Forget, | Lest We Forge Editor The Star: It is stated that our boys will not | sleep In peace whilst France goes into Ensen to collect her debt. It ts | quoted: | “If ye break faith with ms who die We shall not sleep, tho’ popptes blow In Flanders fieldn” | was written by MacRhea, | ‘That ‘The Onward Flavor and High a cee The FRENCH PaLicY Towaro German! tn « the Hun be ping “On to Part aw the Uhlans tine 1 beat from mayor down in each F town and shoot them down tike ing human; those Princess waa sw thone men who be whose numbers were again and again | | cleaned out, until they had lost seven | times the originals of their number. MacRhea wrote, ‘To you we throw the torch, "Tin yours to hold tt high. If ye bronk faith with us who dle We shall not sleep, tho poppies} blow In Flanders fields pwn from | foor to door in Belgium and tr France; or the torch of battle which Mackthea and his kind were holding | before them as they battled against the Schreckligktet (frightfulness) which was the slogan given the poor German soldier sent forth to battle for what he knew not. Yes, they shall not sleep. How can they sleep when an American paper takes pride in paying $10,000 tor the |arch-devil of them all for @ portrart of himself; and that whilst thetr liv. ing compantons die daily, one after another, unsung and uncared for by & government for which they fought? ‘We hold no brief for vengeance: but It stands to reason of anyone who goes thru our stores that the enormous quantity of German made foods te being pald for. We know that France ts prostrate; we know that the German govern- ment ts playing possum when ft states that ft cannot pay. Why shall ft not pay for restoration? It ts « food sign to see the remaining hand- ful of French suffictently courageour to stand forth to the finteh. When Clemenceau was here little wan given un of what he had to may; but whilst |we do not wish to interefere tn Torope, still we must belles that Germany shall make restoration of at least nome of the material things she destroyed. Whititesey, one of the outstanding | vietima of Germany, a true hero, committed mutcide. The papers said | his mind was affected. Was it? No, he stood at the bier of the Unknown Solfier, his comrade, and when he Uatened to the prattiing of those Profiteers with crocodile tears, his heart was so full for the crippled, uncared-for living comrades that he could not bear the burden of the thoughts, We are pouring money tnto Ger- many, as anyone going thru stores well knows, We revere courageous France whtch will make them pay a little of their debt. MRS. EDGAR BLATR, Main 6194. Editor ‘The Star: What in the matter with the peo plo these nye? Are they looking to the future? No! It is only pleasure, ‘The dark cloud will come over them sooner or Inter and bring with {t some awful things they [never thought of or expected—un- |employment, sickness, starvation, | divorces, inability to care for the little ones they Drought into the world Building activities are dull, and {rent ts up to the highest notch. What can people expect when near- ly half of their earnings go to auto- mobile factories instead of building homes for themselves? Is it any wonder that taxes are climbing ‘higher every year? Because valua brenong of property is getting higher, the poor renter who hasn't ot @ |home and has to pay rent ts the Jone who han to suffer. It ts they who pay for new roads and the taxes, Why owners think @ little of your neigh: She Onward Brees "SALADA" = TEA. into every home in the United pau isa silent Sigh Oost = its Delicions uality. BLACK (Orange Pokes Bleed) MIXED or GREEN ~—SEALED PACKETS ONLY. R.& H. C. COOK, East 33983, Ell. 0350, Distributors v { NON-PRODUCERS By Berton Braley pootaliste get all het up about the lefnure clans [rere Which doesn't do a lek of wor That little band of idle rich supported Which has to tof for livetthood on But It The actual The people working hard at things that are not worth the doing? er washroom boys; the checkroom The hattere making der Tho men who want to watch y Who make | The business hate th ur oar an after-dinner #p me Or write dull books about thelr lives The o% By printing congressmen’s remark <a At | Ana y The li world would Were (stil! | itn red at | opyri«ht |- i | er-driven printer-folk with livell ng wholly useless things tha they're working hard enough, a better place if a witehed to labor worth the ond I might euddenty nything tha bor brothers and alsters no they can | and not give all us money to thone mi? ling is going on? getting shabby looking you support men that have }live ke hum of thelr sur ona we when no t more than they need 1a heard men may, “Why shall one have millions and we have * It ts you with your auto: | way 1923 Record of Pedestrians Hit by Automobiles identified man at Western ave. and Beli st., faturday, reported that he received a wonderfully worded “baw!- | ing out” from the man, who threat janed to “get even with him” if it took two years. 4 Hirtel West, 8, of 1128 Lake 0 was probably fatally * injured Sunday afternoon at Lake | view bivd. and E. Prospect st. w jhe was crushed ander an auto dri Merle Stapleford, 3861 ler skating is in the ¢ Wiliasn 1026 Dono. view bivd. | '41 Mra. Florence Foley, 1208 N.} j 38th st, was badly cut and| bruised Bunday when a car driven by H. B. Spencer, 1483 Broadway, struck ber at Stone way and N. 28th ot. 42-4 Bint aves aad her sal Sunday when Stowe coun are Yellam, 1719 20th ave. 6. relensed ite brakes as it stood at EB. Fir st. and 1¢th ave. er much what wasteful bunch of non-pro who fill their time with conferences vain | KE are a few of myriads who toll and scheme and sweat use a lot of energy and make a ni be looking for 1938, The Seattle Star) TUESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1928. SCIENCE Mental Telepathy. || Often Believed In. Denied by Science. Doesn't Test Out. ot # truth in unearned riches, by the mass farms, in shops and ditchen; Itemm ntal B. ut om WwW. Ht ery few and far, | To the Haitor aims they are pursuing, What is the abo | - ducers are | telepathy? transference, or mental Pa written sbout ‘Tho telepathy and argued abo Certain happen explainable only ntly lead persons of high m nts to believe tn it However, such @ belief t# merely opinion. Science has decided that mental telepathy simply does not There have been many tents conditions ght girls; the doormen in the stores; ruout this mighty nation; the long, lon, Jed bores Aull liver tho somewhat checkered: hoods to gain s—“extended in the Record.” ory je recorded case haw been hought transference effected, fe ° tr they hustle and they fret, lly do not matter, presumes that supposed nees, dedue y clatter bus canes have been coineid mob tions or the reading of emotions as 4 by the ‘The supposed particularly comme who are intimately M1 this while, to delving and to hewing. a job t wasn't worth the doing.) portra face } tw persons acquainted F EBRUARY PROGRAMS Our Washington bureau ured for use of school teachers ted wuKe pre Washington's bi Any reader interested ma Fill out and mall the coupon below be A ninco ow's birth entine have @ copy n free The Seattle Star, Washington, D. ©. 1 would like # copy of the bulletin, “February Programs,” and inclose herewith four ceri in stamps for postage. 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