The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 13, 1923, Page 8

THE THE MOUNTAIN COMES SSS SEATTLE lO MAHOMET STAR bi. DAY, JULY 18, 1923. THE OWL DRUG CO: fan Franciece office, Monadno New Tork offica, Canadian Paciti * une Bide Tremont Bide. Complete Natches Pass Highway One of the immediate aims at which a determined and wnited drive should be made by all the Western and Cen- tral Washington communities is for the completion of | the Natches pass highway. This will require federal money. United States funds no doubt can be obtained if the importance of the project is presented in its true light to the proper authorities P and sufficient insistence is manifest. | All the commercial and civic forces of Seattle should stand ready to co-operate for the early construction of this additional mountain crossing. Half Price Sale —Friday and Saturday Boyle's arena has 30 acres, When tho Firpo-Willard fight is over it Will have two more achers. Teeth are nice things. @ collector comes? If you had ne teeth what would you grit when Not the Time to Interfere France and England are glaring at each other, danger- Ously close to permanent rupture over reparations, B ain, it appears, hopes to call an international conference, France willing or not, to decide how mych Germany can pay, and she wants Uncle Sam to act as umpire. a Nothing doing! From the armistice to the day France decided to occupy the Ruhr America could have played The decisive role as peacemaker of the world. But she » didn’t do it. Now the trouble she might have avoided has come to a mead. Britain and France stand face to face, almost ene- Mies. This is certainly no time to rush in, wanted by nly one side, and attempt to do what we ran away from When the trouble was in its incipiency and when both Sides were begging us to help. This country, potentially ' the greatest on earth, should leave no stone unturned to help restore world peace. It is a sacred duty, but there times and times, and this is not one of them. We puffed our first chance; now we must wait until another our way. _ Any decision as between Britain and France at this me would perforce help one country and hurt the other; Teast the “losing” country would so construe it. The of world peace, our only excuse for interfering, Ould not be advanced one jot; to the contrary, one more inimosity would be kindled, che more sore spot added to already sore world. When we do take part in world irs again, as we must if war is ever to be curbed, , | - "even partially, let us do it when the broad principle of \ ‘world peace shall stand out like a house afire and not be ed by any charge that we are serving the particu- Tar interests of any particular powers, Churchill Antiseptic Skin Soap 2 Cakes for 15c. Thousands and thousands of Owl Drug Store customers have adopted this as their favorite toilet soap because of its marked anti- septic qualities. They will welcome this half price opportunity, as should you. The regular price is now 15c a cake, and until recently it sold at 19¢ a cake. Friday and Saturday we will sell TWO cakes for 15c. Chinon OR OR you can buy it by the box, 3 cakes for 22c. How Britain Helped the Kaiser BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Let Our Experts Do Your Kodak Work The Owl Drug Co Mall Orders Receive Prompt Attention Westlake and Third and Pike Elliott 6335 Pine mes A book entitled “The Triumph of Unarmed Forces” by Rear Admiral Consett, British naval attache in | Scandinavia during the war, has stood John Bull on his ear. thit book, privately sent over from Engtand, have reached Washington. and officials are falling over one | wll another to get “me next” of these rare coples to read where The first two or three copies of! Rear Admiral © openly | Britain n - At the same LETTER FROM charges the British government with having allowed British merchants to war knowing these straight into Germany, used againat us materiain, on one |were going they wer ott allion | time Great Britain was loudly protesting against the | United States carrying on trade with neutral countries bordering on Germany, on the ground that Ger many wae profiti thereby Consett charges that while Lon First and Pike i to investigate the very things he writes of and report them ‘to his government. Which he did. aint the abip-|by the blind-n-one-eye attitude of these border |the British government, He made themselves |!t the subject of a number of very hot protests. don was protesting a of British ng cotton 1 Sweden wit ment cotton states A summer tourist stopped long enough to tell us our roads should be © _ made wider and shorter. pn the burden of carrying on this organization few But we believe Denmark, the kno’ were Norws So deeply did Prealden’ jue |edge and ¢ feel the fatter that among the|ment. From these countries the|about him felt that but for the| cotton went immediately to Ger. | tremendous moral issues Involved in} many it was manufactured |the war, and the danger of turning | into high explosives and other war |the sc: inst the moral side, he would have summarily called a In the same way, no says; ofix |halt, whatever the conxequences. and fata, copper, tin zinc, nickel, ) fodder and lubricants were sold into | President Wilson, joined by France, Germany by the British. |in further heated representations, Had Britain | partially succeeded in curtatling the traffic, Consett declares, Germany | trade. could have beaten her| The surprim the book caused at knees long befe He dubs | Washington was not for the facts the incident “th blunder /that it contains, for they were at greatent partially known, but that it 1t ts ed that President Wil-|should have been the work of 4| her again. Then, not at all daunted, son was fully informed of what was | British officer of high rank. It was | she got a hoe and hacked the snake's going on and was openly angered|the duty of Rear Admiral Consett | head off. Oh Boy! has fallen on @ very ne Wilson those | Married bail players seldom argue with umpires, They have forgotten how to argue. | The eternal triangle is tragic in baseball when the star strikes out and thru a big ¢ three on base. mingled mirth, and ie again the birth of old It wasn't very long ago the early settlers came; we young, an cities go, altho we've made a name. And so Sea appears, the way the facts are shown, the biggest town of equal years the world has ever known! A lifetime—three score years and ten—since first she made her bow; and two who saw the paths of Then atill ne Streets of Now. Two friends of ours we can’t forget ¢ watched us while we grew; Loulea Frye is with ux yet. and Roland Denny What changes, thru the passing years, h come before their eyes!’ From deep within a forest haze, they saw They came to find primeval Jand, where Nature's they stayed to * the magic hand of Hope and Fa From ‘61 to "23—~a lifetime, © or le a tiny be The Seaport of Success A shall another lifetime great and grand a fact? 1 only know the way we'll grow depends on how we act! this is largely sa rr: over are having quite a show—recalling to & tack Ot knowledge ays of long ago. With sober thought and nes swooping down, they call to mind From Rattlesnake YUBA CITY, July 13—Not that the skirt 1s any different from any other, to the ordinary eye, but Mrs. ‘Byron Scofleld wouldn't part with It \for money. Just an ordinary skirt, but it saved her life 1a a blackberry |patch here. She felt something tug- ging at the skirt, much as tho a | briar had caught the skirt and looked |down. It was a rattlesnake, Its |fangs had caught in the skirt. Mrs. Scofield shook the snake loose and jumped for safety as it struck at people an to the aims and purposes of this organization. Therefore we appealing to each as a citizen of this community and as a neigh ‘bor to come and join ua in work. It offers an opportunity to be of great service to your city, to your community and to yourself, And you will find pleamure in the thought that you are doing a duty And we fear that if we do not get the support of the entire com munity, which ta so exscntial to the success of an organization of this |kind, that we will be compelled to |dinorganize and allow com. munity to fall behind. We very and con meeting place, with piano, at Demick’s dining car, at 6551 14th ave, N, W., where we have frea and onte as our bust. where What an Old Sergeant Has Learned ' At the ripe age of 80, Sergeant Fred Binder, a civil War veteran, living on the outskirts of Washington, has earned life’s great lesson that it doesn’t pay to worry. | _ Awakened the other night by fire, the venerable gray- | beard calmly dragged his easy chair to the front-porch of | @ neighbor, lighted his corncob pipe and, between easy ‘puffs, sat and watched the firemen while his little cottage went up in smoke. » “These things will happen,” drawled the soldier-phil- Osopher to a newspaper reporter. “But it don’t matter Mich, as I was figuring on moving down to Old Point Comfort soon, anyhow. No, sonny, there ain’t any loss, the house is covered by insurance. “I’m kinda sorry to lose my clothes and things. There Was a lot o’ pictures and papers about the civil war, when | I was a member of the Pennsylvania ‘Riding Seventh,’ that I wanted to keep. But that’s all right. - “My pension check just came yesterday, and that’s be- ing burned up, too. But I guess I won’t have much trou- Die in getting another from the government. The fire tertainly lights up the sky pretty, don’t it? No, I won't be homeless, and I’ve got money in two different banks. Im thankful that I didn’t burn up in my bed. No, I won’t = much sleep—I was going to get up early this morn- ig, anyhow.” it Bellingham a strong protest | © With 80 full years of life behind him, Sergeant Binder | Vos made uaninst 1 W. W. propa.| has apparently found that worry is not only futile of re- are materials. > this When America camo into the war seo th put a stop to t bee to a town she was glories greatest and Work! bin Krew to or the crime in history.” | least m our show 90 a cory ati? ee parties ness meetings. In order to help defray the small to expenses, rent of hall and piano, etc, Wo ask & payment of dues of LETT: yy) +t) QI7 Pp S cents per month for each family. », again, we ask you to join us. Give us your name and 25 cents| and be one of um | | ~ ( \\hAae Be a booster! | x 7 U) \\ AW as ° A WS If you live within three or four| — W \ eee The I. W. W. and the Vote blocks ot Math ave: NeW, you N Y Editor The Star I was giad to} tional methods of reform. And allishould be a member of this club. | . VA see that at the present labor conven-/ th foolish, and often criminal, talk Yours respectfully. | fi of direct action makes a strong ap-|14TH AVE. N. W. COMMUNITY 2 Wie 4 at, peal to his reason some years since, several hundred I saw in Chicago,| CLUB. ganda among union men ‘Sults, but a cruel, slave-driving master of its victim. constantly keeping the bright side of things before By him, he has reversed the tendency of a lot of folks who go out and hunt for the dark side just to have something to fret | about. 4 | frame of mind! A wife will notice a blonde hair on her husband's coat and won't notice _ -& button off. Folks in Shelby are digging down deeper for the fight than they did for oi). A Bill of Fuel Rights The federal coal commission’s preliminary report Officially at last what every coal consumer has thought, as the result of bitter experience, to-wit: _ How much wouldn’t you give for old Sergeant Binder’s says long : First, that in coal mining, as in railroading, banking, or supplying water, the public interest should come first and there are limits to the rights of those who own and run the industry. Second, that when operators disagree with miners over Wages and resort to industrial war, a national emergency exists in which the government should seize and op the mines. Third, that congress should establish an auth erate ority ' which could watch the coal industry, keep the public in- | formed, and protect public welfare. So far, so good. These sensible suggestions will strike home with the coal consuming public everywhere. They probably appeal to the more enlightened members of congress. ' one need hesitate to espouse the publi rights | sure supply of fuel at reasonable prices, especially _ that the conservative president’s coal commis | down our bill of fuel rights. i} ~©=—sC The menace is that the Un’ted States supreme court which has already denied ths federal government the right to dig into the affairs of the coal industry, | deny the right of congress to r gulate coal mining, The value of the commission's preliminary report will No to a now ion has laid will lies, it would seem, mainly in the fact that it has gone on _ record as agreeing with the pt blic. | Gongress how to pitch a law ov.r the plate in such a Now if it can show way | what the supreme court cannt knock it over the left Yield fence, the East may haw coal in winters to come. World's champion ple eater has se # new record. Hozen kids who can beat him, Shelby has the fight bowl left, but # 16 can't eat out of it Bet we know a ‘As their speaker was reported as | saying, “So long as citizens can ne cure reform by determined, intelli | gent activity in the primary conyen- }tions and also at the polis, and by | watching for cheating in the final }count, there is no excuse for direct action and revolution like that of | Lenin and Trotsky.” I cannot see what bolsheviam has {done for Russia, except to defeat | constitutional democracy by the des- potism of brute force. Hence such | direct action by no means makes for liberty. Rather, it ia still tyranny | Yet if one will notice the I. W. W members, one will find that so many of them are transient laborers, who, thru having no homes, are debarred from voting, One has to live in this | state a year before he can vote. And if a man works six months in Idaho, and the next six months in Oregon, and then for 20 weeks In Washing lton, naturally he loses his vote; and his interest in political and constitu | Thanks From 4th Editor The Star The Fourth of wishes to take this opportunity of July committee | expressing to you their gratitude for | the successful part which ‘The Star | took In making Seattle's 1928 Fourth of July celebration oat Your paper played a very impor tant part in giving the public the details of our celebration for the suc | Community Club Wants Help Kaitor The Star: At present there appears to be a} \strong desire among citizens to im. |prove and beautify their community n every way possible, and they are jeoming to the alization that the best and most practical way of bringing this about i4 thru organi |zation that they may be able to |bring united pressure to bear on |the proper authorities in order to secure whatever improvements that may be desired. And today there iy lwcarcely a district in Seattle that {has not got its community elub. In line with the other communi. ties, a few citizens of our district formed 4 club Known 48 the 14th Ave, N. W. Community club, in order to protect and conserve the interests of our community and its men from about the employment | offices, on election day, all ready to | vote (illegally) at the polls for a ward | boss. But they were waiting about | this voting till late in the aft to force the boas to pay them at least 50 cents’ worth of beer. kind of 4 voters’ atr There was no sect about this crookedness. But the time I| thought that if these men had «mall | | homes and the ballot they could not | be bought to vote with the machine, | and gang, as {nst their own| homes and lower taxes. | If it would be any aid to this end, | for Western Washington to separate | from the Spokane part of the state, | to form an entirely new state, Ij would like to see this division. May be, with a smaller state, we coud | get the state legislature here in Seat | tle, where we could get better and | more democratic government | | | | | | | | ¢, an it were! | at CHARLES G. FINNEY, : West Seattle. of July Committee Fourth. Your feature stories, |ten by Miss Von | Fourth of July progra valuable to this committee. Again assuring you of our hearty | appreciation for the splendid support given our committee by The Seattle Star, Tam Very sincerely yours, MERVILLE W: McINNIS, Chairman, writ on the ere very many citizens and }i apaee with the com |munitles of the city, And since we have been organized we haye been somewhat surprised and very much gratified to learn that most all the men holding a public office are not jonly willing but anxious to co-oper ate with and assist us in any renson- {able and practical way. And there fore the question arises, “Husn't it been our own fault if we haven't re. eolved the attention in the past to which we feel that we ure entitled?” | But unfortunately appears to be quite a lack of Interest among the majority of the citizens of this district, They don't appear to real ive tho importance of being organ ized for thelr own good and protec tion, And ay a result of this con. to eee that It 1 other RIEDA’S OLLIES o barn dance I was sitting in the center Of all the fun. It is fearful to be lonely In a crowd. The lights were dim And I had hopes For the best Some people just are: My back was turned To a newcomer He had threatened to kiss the first woman In his path And he was coming my way. The road had to be cleared Without my turning my face It was a simple matter. One word sufficed— “Mice."* It was SCIENCE Space Is Mysterious. Fascinating to Study. Stars Are Miles Apart. 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