The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 4, 1923, Page 7

PAGE 8 The Droll Mr. Higbee The entertaining Mr. Higbee, who writes imaginative fiction on water-front subjects and publishes them in ot as campaign literature for use while he runs port commissioner, has a broad vein of humor run- thru all his works. ‘or instance, on the subject of creosoted piling, which one of his favorite topics, The mon bay terminal, p he says, is going to require NEXT YEAR (1924), the expenditure of $125,000 to replace rotted creosoted pil- The wit of this droll fellow! The Salmon bay terminal is situated in fresh water. It does not require any creo- | soted piling. It has none. It never did have any. Con- / Bequently, it will not have to be replaced, either in 1924 or at any other date, And the untreated piling in place ‘there shows no signs of decay and is good for many year /to come. And all the piling in the pier did not cost $ , , anyway. | Probably Mr. Higbee wrote his engineering treatise as m April Fool's effort. Anyway, it ranks with Home ‘Brew as among the town’s funniest humor output. GOLDEN GATE § Mrs Postmaster General New has approved an engraving taken from Coul ‘oll painting of the Golden Gate of San Francisco as the subject the new 20-cent stamp in lieu of a cut of Yosemite Falls, originally for this denomination. The color of the new stamp will be reddish The engraving was made by Louis 8, Schoffeld.—Postoffice Depart- | The mosquito has 22 teeth, which bite the hand that feeds him. _ Many parents are not on spanking terms with the children, : Neighbors’ phonographs hold the non-stop playing record. Collectors hold the non-stop coming back record. You Have a Date Next Tuesday Aside from the issue of whether the Port of Seattle all acquire the Skinner & Eddy site there has been lit- pular interest in this spring’s election. ; That is regrettable, for various important questions ire up for decision. Three councilmen, two school board mbers and one port commissioner are to be elected. is to be decided whether the city shall build the Mont- bridge and whether the schools shall embark on a two-year building program, as well as whether the veloprfient plans shall move forward. Begin NOW to think about getting out a representa- e vote. Make a date with yourself for Tuesday, and to your neighbors on the, subject. It wil! be a me to the community if vital subjects are neglected the citizens are too lazy and too indifferent to their ballots, cause 4 NEW GAS MASK of a “Universal Gas Mask,” which is considered to have widest application of any gas mask thus far devised, and which fills demand that may be reasonably made of a gas mask, is announced @ result of experimental work performed by the bureau of mines at Pittsburg station —Interior Department. ‘Sugar holds the nonstop at a reasonable price record. Rockefeller holds the non-stop making money record. ‘Naturally, the rising generation gets out of bounds. holds the non-stop being quiet record. A Dad-and-Boy Evening en a boy loses his father by death, the world feels has lost his surest guide to manhood, and pity is expressed that his upbringing is left entirely in ds of his mother. ch a loss is sad for any boy, but how much sadder fate of those who lose their fathers by life? Who id yet have them not; who are separated them, an them by the demands of business, pleasure, or in- : ; who have their fathers in flesh, but not in t is never possible for a mother to exercise the same luence over a growing boy that a father can. In the rst place she is held away from him by the gigantic il of sex; she can never hope to understand the needs developing nature as a man could. maternal instinct yearns over her man-child and heart is as wax towards him. Every growing boy a man’s guiding hand, and it is appalling how ny fathers do not seem to realize this fact. If fathers could be made to realize that the giving of h one evening every week to their boys might mean making of future great men, surely there is not one 9 would begrudge this time, and count it well spent. ur boys, after all, stay with us as boys for such a fully short time. hi le passing out pointed remarks, remember the porcupine. His y friends are other porcupines. ncing five days and nights is darn near as foolish as worrying five and nights. small boy’s idea of heaven is a place where they use ice cream ‘s for paving. holds the non-stop falling out record. it hold the non-stop selling record. Plumbers hold the non-stop a leak record. Go to It, Conan! fallelujah! Conan Doyle has suddenly discovered that in heal the ailing by laying on of hands! He's got contact with a spirit, too. he other day, Conan was visiting a Cincinnati editor, he laid his hand on the editorial liver and it disap-' Oh, no! We mean that the paiff in it disap- ed. Dating back to that awful day when Mr. Vol- d's well-known act tamed “across-the-Rhine” lager the Cincinnati editorial liver has never been what it 0 be, and Mr. Doyle could not select a better organ hich to test out his new healing power. Mr. Doyle announce with whose spirit he is in contact. If Barleycorn were dead enough in Cincinnati to it, we'd be inclined to suspect it to be John’s: entity doesn’t matter. Any spirit able to heal torial liver has our favorable applause. para it having living on the fat of the land are living on the r the old pep all night is you may have-the old isn’t such a great teacher if you spend all of your ticw on r fly, Led come into the house mi hout wiping thelr feet, doesn’t lend any enchantment to a Se in your shoe, hel: is paved, which is why the traffic Is heavy, makes the heart grow fonder, head of hair LETTERS to the EDITOR Service in Water Department | Editor The Star: What jen can get no has it come to when a ¢ th redrems for a committed by his own city w de- | partment? When I received my water bill and found it to be 12 times higher than it should be, I forwarded the bill to the owner, who lives of the city, for instructions, but without the least sign of any notice, the water de partment tle water off and added an extra charge of $1 before it was turned on again. complaint is this: shut But my real justing a bill as far us the water de- |} partment is concerned. | the bill or the water is shut off. Try as I did, there was no one to put the question to. Surely a private monop- oly was never ax bad as this They Public Now Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin affords prompt relief in a natural way [HE public is constantly be- coming more discriminating in its choice of things. Those subject to constipation try to learn what makes them consti- * pated, and then avoid it, If con- stipation persists in spite of all their efforts they take the mildest, most easily tol- erated laxative obtainable, and not prs tetis hysic that upsets them for days" a terwards, As over 10 million bottles of Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin are sold a year, a large proportion of the le of this country must be- lieve that this mild vegetable compound is the proper remedy for them, and so it is. No need to take salt waters and powders that dry up the blood; coal-tar drugs in candy form that produce skin eruptions, or calomel that salivates. These drugs are “heroic measures”, over-effective, weak- ening and griping. The best constipation remed: is the one that moves the bowel without, shock to your system, and such a one is Dr, Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin, It is a vegetable TAKE DR. CALDWELIS Vegetable Laxatives SYRUP: PEPSIN The: family: laxative THE OF TH SEATT 0) THE CALL — Dear Folks: I wish they'd look tn the mirr face. They fix their mugs to loc ‘es a bit ne own. . . what they be better, far, to quit our fools we are! LETTER FROM VRIDGEL MANN nm the mirror. LE STAR WILD May 4, 1923. ‘or—these chickens who paint thelr ok queerer than thor # lets them view hem a@ thing or two, I cireus clown, they'd rown. take Of course, ol; but why and Ree arer to keer flection shown: i their fnoes ures all plastered with atures that try to seem an imprenion; but it would h digreasion—and dare their to be what { There seems to be no way of ad. Would at least give the consumer a few days’ grace. Not Simply pay | municipal water deparrment. Jf there | is one thing a municipally own: utility should stand for, it Is sor Why can't we get it at the city hal ' AE L Prefers ANY FAMILY MAY TRY IT FREE Thousands of parents are etking Oremseines, Where can I find a (rust worthy lazatice that anyone in Jamily ean use when condtiga fe ted? urge you to try Syrup Pepsin. ig gladly lheral’ free fe a, 15 i Dr. W. B. ‘Calcheett 5 jonticello, Lilinois, compound of Egyptian senna and pepsin with pleasant-tasting aro- matics, and has been satisfac- torily sold for 30 years. Unlike the harsher physics it does not produce a habit, and increased doses are not required; in fact, it 80 trains the stomach muscles that in time medicines of all kinds can be dispensed with. Many take a teaspoonful of Syrup Pepsin once a week as a health safeguard. Others use it only when required, as, for exam- pe. Mrs. J. W. Borroughs of Little Rock, Ark., who finds it equally valuable for herself and the children, and Mr, Enas S. 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S.S. makes you feel like yourself again no with the | Oppose Montlake Bonds Editor The Star: Permit me to register an opinion, | Which I believe to be held by many | Seattle voters und owners of prop-| Seattle erty, as to the proposed bond issue for building a bridge to connect the Montlake district directly with the jstadium and the road to Laurelhurst. | This question is perennial, and is |#ubmitted to the electorate at every jopportunity, and haw been as fre- | quently, rejected, principally for the |very good reason that it is in no| | sense a proper case for a bond inwue | to be paid for out of general funda. | | There are literally hundreds of proj- jects, each of immense local benefit and many of great general use to the | whole city, which have an equal| right to be presented as bond iasue | | Projects. None of them should be} | Passed as such at present, and few | jor none of them should ever be passed. de The city ts now bonded within less jthan 10 per cent of the legal limit. | The Tax Limit league is battling | valiantly to defeat the use of an al-| ready authorized bond issue by the Port of Seattle to purchase a prop- erty which has more than a good chance of paying for ttaelf without | taxes. Sections of the city not favored by a state university, a fed- eral canal apd a federal aviation field, are honestly trying to pay their own way by local improvement bonds, and will gladly drive to the| stadium by way of Eastlake bridge | to avoid a few more tenths of a mill taxes, | ‘The crying need for the Montlake- stadium bridge exists only in the minds of the small percentage of peo- ple and real estate operators who own or control property near there, and to them there ts always open the same remedy that the rest of us have when we want something—initiate a local Improvement petition, get it ap- Proved, and pay for it from the prop erty benefited, To voters of Seattio, not within the area affected by this improvement— and this means Green Lake, Phin- ney, Ballard, Interbay, Fort Lawton, Magnolia, Queen Anne, as well as} that nearly half area of the city south of Yesler way—this presents | an excellent opportunity to vote NO! and save a few dollars’ taxes evory | year for use in your own streets and) in supporting the seaport, which ts the real reason for the existence of this city. Let local improvement bonds build this, as well as other lo- cal improvements, Respectfully, TRA DYB, How to Peel Off an Unlovely Complexion ‘The face which ix admired for ite bentity must have a #atin-smooth skin. pink and white and youthful looking, "The only. thing. known that can make such a complexion out of an aged, faded, or discolored one-—a natural, not a painted, ploxton—ts meroolized + This remarkable substance Mterally absorbs the unalghtly cu. tole, a iittle each day, the ocloar, healthy, girlish akin beneath gradu: ally peeping ort until within a week or go it In wholly in evidence, Of course uch blemishes as freckles moth patchos, liver spots and pim: lex are discarded with the old akin, f you will procure an ounce of mer. gollzed wax at the drug store, use Ike cold cream at night, waahin ey thie off mornin aatoniahicyote ea the results FRIDAY, MAY 4, 1928 heres a ifference On one street, in one block there is a row of restaurants. Fa, Meal times, you'll notice a crowd streaming into one of these restaurants. The others you'll find almost empty. Coffee—good coffee—M-J-B Coffee, that’s the reason for the crowd you find in the one. Yes, there’s a difference in coffee. A one pound can of ‘M-J-B Coffee in your home shows you what real coffee goodness is. ~—and there’s a difference in tea, use Tree Tea, the cost of the site originally would only be $850,000. Develop a Payroll for Labor Editor ‘Ine Star: | which they could use, held at pro-| Pretty good investment for the peo- In the matter of the purchase of/ hibitive figures, they go | elsewhere ple of Seattle isn’t it, especially when the former Skinner & Eddy site by/and peek other locations, notably | the Seattle port commission, {t oc-|Onkland and Los Angeles or the| ¥® consider that a payroll of this curs to me that one item of import-| other towns in their vicinity. | kind means added value to the port, a | ance has not been cAvered in any of| The Skinner & Eddy site, regard-|an increase in the entire prosperity a the letters or articles that I have/ jess of what a low figure it will cost | of the city and 1,000 families who by read on the subject, this being the/the people in taxation, opens vast| value of the properties in helping to| possibilities in the matter of rentals|‘P@T f!mdustry, mean a potential develop a payroll for labor. |by the port to manufacturers who | Wealth to the city of millions of dol- In the past and in many instarices) will increase the payroll here and in-/ lars, i the present, a manufacturer secking| directly benefit the whole city.| Let's tle the can to the Chamber of i # location for his Industry, coming to| Twenty small manufacturing con-| Screams crowd on election day and i from elsxewhere, who runs] cerns down there on the water front,| show them that they don’t own this i | against the Chamber of Screams] with a payroll of 50 men each, would | city body and soul by a Jong ways. crowd, ix taken out and shown some | mean more to Seattle than any of the denirable location at from five to ten| Chamber of Screams group, with the times its real value. Strange as it| Associated Barnacles and the Retail may sound to some of this gang, men| Trades bureau thrown in, If these from outside are able to appraise and/ employes only received on an aver-|and two penny “Post Office” Mauri- Judge of values somewhat and when | age of $1,600 annually it would mean | tius stamps on one envelope, $55,000 they find these prices for property|a payroll of $1,500,000 per year, and | was paid. ie W. R. FICK, 1503 Second Ave, W. For a matchless pair of one penny isa Pleasant Experience with i ; GRANULAR SOAP You've never known a soap that would wash clothes 80 well and so easily. White King is granulated and the small soap particles are highly concentrated: and highly effective. It will not injure delicate fabrics — cleans : \ thoroughly—freshens colors—keeps white goods white. | Just half a cupful for a family wash-—no other soap is 80 economical. LOS ANGELES SOAP COMPANY, Spohn & Russell, Representatives _