The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 25, 1923, Page 11

ATURDAY, AUGUST x HE SEATTLE STAR GASSAWAY MILES HE TOLD ME THE NEH-| HEARD \T | MOTOR RAN SO QUIET] | IN TRAFFIC -1F IN TRAFFIC HE HAp #| / THAT WAS QUIET | TO LIFT UP THE, THEN THE BATTLE HOOD Td SEE )F IT | | OF THE ARGONNE WAS FOUGHT WITH BOXING BY STA OK MAN- THE OWNERS ‘CANARY! ALWAYS? SINGS -THE : SWEETEST— FORD TRACTOR TWO NEW SALES SHOW COMING RECORDS BROKEN Summer Months Fail Slow Up Sales Dealers of Western Wash- | to ington to Stage Show Aug. 25.—July ords to the ] 23 Fordson Industrial Ex- brought will open in Seattle on Sep- ard, continuing thruout that DETROIT, two new sales Motor company In addition to bringing retail de les of Ford cars and trucks Into mid-summer season with a new higb record for the month, July also arried # sales figures for the year past the million mark. is show is being held under the s of the Ford dealers of West- Washington and the manufac- { power equipment which ison tractor. of the Ford the ch show sites HMustrated in wh Increasing popt is most. strikingly figures just annou that from January 1 to August 1 this year #al 4 trucks by |Fora M 1,05 exhibits will be | (8 salt Fordson power. | rand is further emp! st to the Ium-/ race that sales for the ever before been | conths of the year, during which the cast, but which | riition mark was passed, were 391, sealer 796 greater than for the same period > the lumber in- r, when they totaled 659,19 i * sales mounted to 156,908, promt dene paca ae se of 36,821 over the same s two Fordson tractors) ota. year ag For 18 consecutive months, Ford sales have been well over 100 000 every month. .| Production, which, by the way, is at a higher schedule f than any mon so far, apparently continues to be the only factor limit | ing sales of Ford cara and trucks. MOTOR EXPORT GOOD IN JUNE Slight Decrease Noted Dur- ing Summer Month © majority of | industrial nature, ¢ motive ion which | 240x95 expos a huge tent totaled ates al asized in the first seven as many « shown. or tor be includl - -special dump machinery le tractor operated maintainers and exhib able a mixers boi (w graders, ditchera, scrapers) and many different types of pumps as well as air compressors | and electric welders, complete in one| unit Plans for this Fordson Power Ex position been under wa several weeks and every endeavor will be made in the handling of the ex ‘0 give every one in attend- ance a full opportunity to study thelr ry detail, Hesketh Back From Eastern Convention cone have Altho the totar value of automotive | products exported during June de creased slightly, the proportion of motor cars and trucks exported po- | mained at slightly over 8 per cent now, | THE FORD SECTION EVERY THING FOR THE ‘FORD CAR. | EQUIP YOUR FORD “™ STANDARD FOUR FLAT-TOP CORDS the thick, flat tread—the whole width of the tread takes the wear—increasing the mileage over the old round type by fully 20 per cent 12,000-MILE GUARANTEE $12.50 FORD SIZE Full 0. D, Without Deposit Over Sto 30x33 CL. $10.00 30x35 Mail Orders Shipped € PIKE STREET TIRE SHOP 0, STANDRING, Prop, Two Stores: Where Pike Street Crosses Boren GET REAL TOURING SATISFACTION FROM YOUR FORD BY INSTALLING A Mehline Trunk and Tire Carrier $25 ‘The Mehline Trunk and Tire Carrier ix recommended and for anle by every Vord dealer, It fills a long-felt want and ls a real necessity for every Ford car. YOR FURTHER INFORMATION CALL THE Independent Tourists’ Garage 25 Fourth Avenue Elliott 2402 ITIRES 30x3 Fabric $7.00 30x34 Fabric 7.50 30x34 Cord 9.00 Prices subject to change without notice MAIL ORDERS SHIPPED C, 0. D. WITHOUT DEPOSIT TRIANGLE TIRE CO., Inc. TWO STORES 125-27-31 Eastlake Ave. PHONE 2034 Westlake SAAIOTT 2372 an} Continental Commercial Bodies HARDWOOD GUARANTEED FOR FORDS Light Delivery and Truck Oh Low Priced Immediate Di Manufactured by Continental Car Co. of America, Distributed by Geo. W. Hoffman Co. 1406 10th Ave. Seattle, Wash. aleville, Ky. 0 you know that 27 of the most popular car man. ufacturers are now using eplit-skirt light alloy pistons? Kant Skore pistons provide pleasant and econom- ical travel Take advantage of ‘the manufacturer's example, TRY A SET IN YOUR CAR Our Repair Department Spec Motor Work THE WORLD'S CHAMPION Councilman R. B. Hesketh has re turned from Chicago, where he at * Cooks’ union internation and was elected a na- lent of the organiza sited a number of Jad to get {buted adver. » to the thousand-odd tion, telling Seattle is to | declined NICKEL BAR RADIATOR SHELLS FOR FORDS Vor Sate by All Ford Dealers Manufactured by EARL POLEN 5622 Californin Ave, Senttle one Went 0076 of the production, according to fig. ures compiled by the department of commerce. The total value of auto- motive exports for June amounted to $15,977,441, as compared to $17, 041 for May, a decrease of about 6 per cent One of the conspicuous features of the month's figures {s the increa of about 5 per cent In the value of | passenger cars exported, in spite of |a slight falling off in the number | While the value of trucks exported slightly, this decrease 1s much less noticeable than that of the number exported. The number of | cars exported from Canada, however, |increased approximately 35 per cent and the value increased only 14 per | cent. The increase in ‘number | value of truck exports from Canada | was approximately 42 and 44 per cont, respectively. The large increas lin the Canadian exports can be ex- | plained by the fact that exports to) New prinel | Australla, Great Britain, and | Zealand markets, which take pally Canadian made cars, shown the greatest growth. ‘An important decrease occurred in | the value and number of engines for cars and trucks which were exported | during June, as compared with May |The June exports amounted to only about 60 per cent of the previous |month. There was also a decrease in the value of parts and accessories, lexclusive of tires, ‘mounting to nearly 17 per cent. The decrease in | these two items account in a large measure for the falling off in the to tal value of automotive which occurred during June, have | and | exports | pany week onding Tuesday, tinue Jand trucks the than any domestic the Ford News announces, was 41,491 | Ford cars ¢ the ant-Skor TOMS Ask Us About Your Motor Troubles WHEATON-VAN AMBURGH INC 721 EAST PINE ST. WITH A JRUSH ADJUSTABLE BRAKE SHOE Alemite Lubricator Co. BAST 0702 1514 BROADWAY Ford Production Still Increasing EDWARDS’ Sora REPAIR SHOP), DETROIT, duction the Aug Motor and 2 turned out during Tiesday, August The total the week, | 25. Pre Ford company con to increase 3 more cars were week ending previous week production for nd trucks: Fordson tractor output ame period. 16 Lincoln division of the com:| produced 20% cars during tho| was 2,041 Only Genuine All Work Done by Ford Specialiats We Never Clone PHONE Authorized Service Station da Pa MA in 5304 in Uned al Ave, Cappy Ricks Written for The Star by Peter B, K PAGE 11 He Discourses on the Subject of Professional Joine yne—Another Coming Next Saturday “When fired him out and finally poor Homer called around to see me and wept on my shoulder, he couldn't pay his dues they and I gave him back his job.” said Cappy Ricks to the manager of the Ricks Log. & Lumbering company, “I'd bet | million dollars to a small five cent 25—| bag of cigarette tobacco that if, in stead of having your lot in life cast in the lum and shipping business had elected to be an wu ertaker, just the chap to adver. olf as a morticls Dog kinner, if your wife sent store to buy a ak man U. S. Minister to pe | Siam Returning|* ORE IN CITY, Aug. Ending a months’ leave of ab. Ore., three at his former home Brodie, United sence sper Edw B minister to leave hero 1 would be Siam, and Mra, Bros an tomorrow, returning the Oriental kingdom. Mr Awa will spend several days in Washing: | xtep-ladd ad ton before sailing for London on the return journey Seattle Seems Full of Potential Movie Actors | Many Send in Blank to The Star for a Chance | to Try Out at Moore an ¢ The pictures made eek at will thinks ow we are sure there are a lot | famous filn movie stars in Seattle w morning the boy|the Moore, and Miss | staggered into T’ r office [pick th person st | full of mail big enoug a} “screened” by and will present But it wasn't for a presi-| that person with a handsome silver niree; it was only for the|loving cup awarded The Star. or, and {t was full of en-|Other parti who Miss Love: n-|ly thinks showed talent will be con: parts y| sidered for parts in future plo take 1 be gt He ll be shown the follow jot future | Love Saturda with tor one And as for playt willing to American cov are evidently thing from an ¢r to a Romeo or Juliet is to be ic the week, a n-ups in the will be made a the Moore theater and who also w arranged rants be made ee, so if est, fill \ actu ake part phote trims to be m cor plays coming week nk supervision 0! Weight ...... r of I Color of Eyes State if you can appear at matinee. . 15,000 ATTEND FAIR ON FRIDAY Chehalis and Centralia Have Half Holiday CHINESE TO STUDY HERE 1 to 200 arrive in jepternber aboard the Presi jacks cording to advices recajved Saturday morning by J. C. Herbsman, execu secretary of the China club of| ttle Tsing Hua on, college is sending 83 its graduates to America for ad-| SHALIS, Aug The study, who will go to 20|of Centralia and Chehalis different states to pursue their scho-| yesterday afternoon by order liastic work. They are selecting of the mayors, and residents turned leaiieaed of study jout ‘om masse to attend the |°'Nono of them are going to Har-|West Washington Fatr, with the re vard or Yale, while but one sult that a crowd of 000 per are going to nsylvania, oe ked the grounds and grand. sia, Princeton and Cornell stan : Purdue is receiving the largest] Every available foot of space number of the Chineso studenta,| Utilized in handling - the \where 11 will take agriculture and|At the afternoon races, the Jengineering, The University of Wis-| Vere area on Why id consin has the same number, ‘The| Stands. with, peraons who oh able to get b sachusetts Institute of Technol. h' pr ogy will get seven students, while|,A!! Judging is now complete and} ' the awards in the baby show were nig vill enter the Unt ity o sient el enter the Un! Y Oto ay atvalicout adage tetaae need Michigan. ou} this city, Centralia and Camp Lewis ‘ord w! ‘0 n h ive Stanford will ret f our of the five pe eneh musio all fay, students selecting California institu tion. I others will enter the att ot oe Te \k r sity of Colorado. i closed or two Colum: | was of were the un ve to work at the camp McSherry said that nine men quit the Job Thursday night and 11 left |the following day, due to the con | ditt ns Forty men working at the comp are compelled to |tents, where bunks com:|decked, MeSherry said. that) MoSherry worked three $5 a day, was wed $1 due $3.75 for ments, $1 ployment fee and a nickel for SAYS CAMP IN BAD CONDITION McSherry, Tass to The Star Saturday conditions at the construction camp of the Ne Page-McKenny Co., near Everett, on the Skagit transmission line, are unbearable, nad as a ret|pital dues. When he paid his |gult. employment agencies are reap-lup and back he was ‘almost ling a harvest in fees sending men he said, are double. laborer, days for for at fare broke, for | and mail | attle | ig and hy- California el that they es along ing two or three s and be e prominent in affairs o! és . A long, convinced lodges for professional them until they help themse nexs by joi h career, Skinner, join the t men lodge hounds nag eld. During youth and the upward nb to & good Job, the lodge sup- sa distinct social delight for the every time the . ¢ hills to the Kast ¢ for him to prepare to wrap his fingers in 2 competitor's hair and swing on him for 19 hours, this lodge eas begins to pall. The victim now knows that ff he is a wise man ly and m gth for his private affairs, e new joiners always in do the lodge gratis, and that as a sane citizen v as « 1 from the period o is up to him to make room for the eager ones. eI had working for me. me was Homer Phillpot and 1 ve him a job because his old man 1d Insist on climbing around in |my saw-mill machinery arrayed in a long den nper, All the safety appliances {n the works couldn't Homer's dad, and sure enough one day he got snagged in the main Jriving belt on the pony side and frescoed my mill until it looked Ike |a post-impressionistic painting, 7 should have known enough to steer clear of the off spring of such aman, but I didn't. Homer had managed to collect some sort of sheepskin |from a business college, so 1 stuck |him on the books. He was not a | conspicuous success and was always strik the chief clerk for a raise he hadn't earned. Finally one day he tackled me for it, so I sent for |the chief clerk and asked him what |rearon, if any, existed why Homer | should not get @ raise. | “Well, Skinner, it appears there |were reasons enough. Altho Homer to you and you wi ta Rotary club| was far from being a dull boy—altho Jun The following day I dis-/he wrote a beautiful hand and was covered, quite.by accident, that you | fast and accurate at figures, and had wer master or something @t/a pleasing personality, he was dead ular weekly luncheon of the|on his feet. He was late to Work ing club, and what I want to|eyery morning and always the first is what a man in the lumber |to hear the 5 o'clock whistié; he was | always overdrawn on his salary and g to an Advertising club for?|he didn’t have any time for posting y night I called up your | into his ledger because somebody Was to get you to come over and | always ringing him up on some lodge t five games of cribbage | business. Upon inquiry I discovered your wife informed me that you|that Homer was a professional join- were at the annual banquet of theler, He belonged to the Native Soma tetall Credit Men's as ation. On the Golden West and was engaged huraday between 12 and 2 you were | jn the job of “going thru the chairs” 1d man ‘Lawrence of the | In would be a worthy pash nel Line talk to the Ki- . 80 for the present he sim- club about foreign trade. He | wax screaming for an American mer- |cantile marine and weeping because | we can never have it, on account of |the legal inhibitions placed on Am- erican shipping by a fool congress, And yet you didn't have courage enough to rise in your wrath and point out that {f old man Lawrence had ever operated a Green Funnel boat under anything but the Union Jack, nobody In the American Mer- |cantile Marine had ever heard of it On Friday you sat at the head of the table at the regular weekly lunch, on of the Optimists’ club. Yes, sir, uu sat there (I saw you myself) grinning like the head of an old fid- dle and getting some sort of strange kick out of all the punk food and punker oratory.” “I'm sure it {s not a crime for a siness man to go to business lun- a8, Mr, Ricks.” It is—in this office, my dear Skin- I have been watching you nar. begins t sun 7 it ts tin | manded in hurt tones, “what have I been doing now to bring this out- burst down upon my defenseless| f your head in defenseless it has | usiness to be,” Cappy complain- “You've been doing enough. At >. m. last Monday 1 wanted to talk no b ply nights. a wooden ax on the Wood: | needa’ On Tuesday: he drilled with drill team of the en of the World and on Wed- night he drilled with a gum n the national guard. On Thursday night he buckled on a sword and drilled ‘with the drill team of the B P. O. E. and on Friday night the Odd Fellows claimed him. night he generally . worked amateur on Sunday he posted up the books of the Eagles, he being financial sec= retary of that order. So as soon as to keep pace with his lodge dues and. assessment, I canned him without @ reference, for the good of his inte mortal soul. He was out of a job so |long that he managed to get an Ui obstructed view of friendship, loyalty and fraternity, his lodges had been fotnded. When he couldn't p: him out and finally poor Homer of late and I swear, Skinner, /ed around to se¢ me and wepton boy, that the older ‘you grow| shoulder and I gave him*back the more hk axe you require to|job. The way he ate it up was a given subject.” Cappy slid| marvel, so, ‘seeing that he had am he edge of his chair, glared| humble and contrite heart,, I pros” at the unhappy Skinner over the | ceeded to make a real lumbelman out rims of Mls spectacles and fairly of him yelled: “Skinner, you got a notion|and I made him manager of a retail” you're sort of funny yard owned by a competitor of ours” | “No, |My competitor took “him on my, “I'm glad of It. You're not. Prove| hearty recommendation. it. Hereafter do not attempt while| “Well, acting asa toastmaster to tell a story | natty | you can't remember and the point of/ me to put in a retail yard in that which never was quite clear to you. | . lTake a tip from me and don't be|fame town. I had forgotten all about: modern in your story telling. Hark| Homer by this time. In fact, T had jback to the ones that used to make | forgotten that Homer had ever lived: you bite your nurse the first time| and been in the Ricks employ. When jyou heard them, and you'll get by at/7 14 the profit and loss account Oe these weekly business luncheon! clubs. And pipe down on the lan-|that new yard of mine the secont guage. You're getting rotund and| year, however, I just naturally had | prosy, from hearing all the stodgy | the manager up and asked him how jorators in the city practice oratory | at the expenso of men whose nerves|t happened that the business he was should not be subjected to any more | managing favored so much red inks | additional wear and tear than they| “‘Mr. Ricks, he replied, ‘there is to stand for in thelr offices.|hut one reason, and its. name Skinner, ao. you belong to any fra-)iiomer Phillpot. He's too fast ft I ates Stoes ey lisa: sk eanape get my share. of the Mr. Skinner namitted. |business, because Homer, ‘Phillpot go to lodge twice @/ wants it all and somehow he just) gets most of it! f ner. rowly dear sir.” have | “Two,” “Do you week?" now for a lodge benefit and | upon which most of | hig-dues they fired ” He graduated in five years = Skinner, years passed and | me bright day it occurred t> | had to go to lodge on Monday 9 On Saturday © I discovered that he needed a raise 7 were | South- | leep in five} union | om: | hos: | | Cappy eyed him balefully. |you sure you go to lodge, or fs that just what your wife thinks? Skinner, | you devil!” This inquisition is | tasteful, Mr. Ricks. | “Well, how can I find things out} about you, Skinner, if I do not or- |ganize an inquisition? My Interest Jin your welfare and my own ts suf- ficient excuse for my action. Skin- ner, with very little encouragement |you would nerate into a pro- |fessional joiner, and since being a | joiner is small town, small time stuft Jand much too small for a big town, |big time, big man, T feel that I must exercise my authority here to preach |you a muchly deserved sermon. |" "Skinner, what under Heaven | moves you to go to lodge and sit and listen to the reading of the reports of | previous minutes just as Inocuous as |the present one, to ‘harken to a |brother, halting and embarrassed in his speech, report on the case | Brother Simmons who has been 1 |up with erysipelas, and who ts just- |ly entitled to the customary lodge benefits of $10 per-week? Does It |thrill you to be on a funeral com- | mittee for one year and pin on a | black badge or a stole and march be- | hind the mortal remains of some bird |the butcher wouldn't trust for a nickel's worth of cat meat—even tho the butcher might belong to the same lodge?” Skinner flushed, he had gradually been acquiring a conviction that he was much too busy a man to weary himself with the puny affairs of a lodge, and. that sir.” getting dis- For a long time “Are | | “Well, sir, I remembered Homer | |then. But I also remembered his” |weakness, It was latent, but T as= sumed he still had it, so I told my J | manager how to take advantage of @ Homer. Skinner, my recipe worked, |tike a charm, The first thing I knew. |my yard manager had gotten behind Homer's campaign to be pyres the local Chamber of Commerom Homer was elected and some! whenever a committee on civic af” fairs was to be appointed we saw to | it that Homer's name appeared if the local paper and that the dear people clamored to have Homer head the committee. We kept that bird | swelled up with his own importance and gave him a world of boost and publicity and had him wearing. him self out on civic affairs instead of | devoting all of his energy to man: aging the lumber yard he was’ paid to manage. We were always shoving him forward, appealing to his. ef | pride and superior ability and Kee} ing his mind off his job. The first | thing he knew we had underminea | him and the last thing I remember, Homer was mayor of that town and had quit the lumber business for politics. And If you ask me who doe: the lumber trade of that town Tl” tell you. It's the Ricks yard and it’s the only one In town becauso wa J swallowed our competitor! And the moral Skinner, dear boy, that — while a Pomeranian pup looks im= posing in the window of a Hmousing, a stump-tailed yellow dog is the b for coons.” (All Rights Reserved, Rep tion Prohibited. Copyright by od Feature Syndicated a Sekayimgt «otras ener eR amapR = manner rina