The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 19, 1923, Page 8

rAGE 8 The Seattle Star 100T Seventh Ava Phone Hervice, By year $8.80, 4 Deily by The Star Publishing Ov ementatives fan Francisoo | New York offies, Form Letter Very Ancient You know what a form letter is—the kind sent to thou- sands of people, all the letters identically alike except that the names of the recipients are carefully filled in to make each letter seem personal, The form letter is claimed by modern advertisers as one of their inventions. But form letters were used by the Hebrews far back as 500 years ago. Samples of these ancient missives are discovered among the rare manu- scripts of the Elkan Nathan Adler library, One of the 15th century form letters was designed to be sent by fathers to sons who were neglecting their work at college. Quotation: “I heard a report today that made me tremble and my ears tingle; a report that you have relinquished your studies for the pursuit of pleasure and the follies of the world.” And so on. Another old-time letter was for dunning deadbeats, It apparently was the familiar No. 17 of a series: “I have your letter and have read your words, but they have passed into my ears as liquid that is poured into a funnel, entering at one end and leaving at the other. Your ex- cuses do not please me. Do not suppose that you will succeed in concealing your designs.” And so on. The Adler collection of 500-year-old form letters is al- most startling in the way it discloses that ancient people had much the same problems as we have today—dead- beats, wayward sons, etc. The collection gives forms of use in congratulating, borrowing money, proposing mar- riage, renewing old friendships—in short, practically everything covered by a Model Letter Writer book such as was in common use a generation ago. Powder sprinkled on her partner's neck will keep a girl's nose from getting shiny at a dance. Tomatoes once were called love apples, This may be why they are best taken with a grain of salt. What this country needs most is a law requiring all bills to be sent anonymously, How Are Your Surtaxes? It seemed assured that Millionaire Secretary of the Treatury Mellon, backed by his galaxy of tax experts, will descend upon congress with his proposition to reduce the higher surtaxes from a maximum of 50 to 25 per cent. The chief argument will be that, under the reduction, considerable less of the money of the wealthy will go into non-taxable securities, and, hence, the total taxes collected will be greater, year by r. “The human equation” never seems to get much con- sideration. Given a choice of paying something or pay- ing nothing, what will any individual, of big or little wealth, do? You've guessed it. Patriotism? Good Lord! Aren't all of us listing our Possessions for taxation purposes at about one-third of what we would sell them for? It would be right interesting to learn just what his re- duction of surtaxes would save Andy Mellon, personally, and his clique of Pennsylvania capitalists. Edna De Lima hastens to Inform us that she gets her name from her old home town of Lima, Ohio, and that relieves the well known bean from any responsibility in the matter, This is a country of great opportunity. Nothing stands between a man and great riches except Jack Dempsey. Prize fighting is healthy. Think of the exercise the fighters get counting their money, September Is a sad month for the oyster and summer vacationist, They Died for Vanity New York's annual fur auction will take place, rain or shine, on September 24. In all, there will be 2,475,000 furs offered for sale, among them being 23 polar bear pelts, 470,000 squirrels, 800,000 muskrats, 245,000 moles, and so on. From all parts of the world have come the pelage of animals to contribute to the success of this sale. In addition, there will be sundries in the shape of ermine tails, lynx paws, plucked badger, mink tails, fox tails, fly- ing squirrels, gazelles, goats, etc., etc. These furs will be made up into garments and deco- rative pieces for gentle women. Each animal died, in many cases horribly, at the behest of fashion. Nearly three million animal lives were snuffed out because women. willed it so. Now their hides are placed on sale as mute evidence that the heart of vanity is hard and cruel and relentless, Civilization? Today is ours; what do we fear? Today is ours; we have it he Let's treat it kindly, that it may Wish, at least, with us to stay. —COWLEY. Wayne Wheeler says Europe is going dry, which means, probably, that they have shipped almost their entire supply over here. THE ENGLA SEAT" \ NEW D TRADER TLE STAR Kasy to E WEDNESDAY lect He nry Ford BY LOWELL MELLETT SEPTEMBER 19, 1% = | & If I wanted to take the trou pla, 1 could elect Henry Vord president, It would be one of the easiest th How? ¥ ting the P the Pullman v “1 ever did. hat's of age RIEDA’S OLLIES I never knew a label on a frock or hat To moan more than It did to her The Did not figure Bho was a tasteless creature, fact that it was unbecoming with her at all With @ oelf-satistied And alw | Where and from whom each pur ® rubbed in chase | Was made. Bho looked at me with such an 4 inquired ow, who would you say turned out This new frock of mine? I did not mins my ¢ An 1 answered, “Your mother portunity, OVER HUNDRED MILES LONDON, Sept, 19.—A young man out of work told the Scarborough magistrates recently that in order to lanswer a summons he walked from Peyrscpeys 109 miles | His case wax adjourned hin return fare pa out of the poor box LETTER FROM V RIDGE MANN Constitution Week. To the United States Constitution: We growt about you now and then, we've owe @ dit; at tin ith very many men, you've failed to make @ hit, You've heard us censure, blame or mock, and make our fool demands—but thru you've been the rock on which our freedom stands. | A human thing that ever lives, and ever greater grows, you've held an open hand that gives alike to friends an foes. Thru changing thought and changing times, you've held us ever true, and men from many lands ond climes have gathered light from you | What tho a thousand throats may roar, untempered, wild, profane-—like upon a rocky shore, thelr voice t spent in vain. What tho with selfiah, mad design, a million darts are hurled—your light will never cease to shine till Freedom rules the world! A human document, it's true, conceived by Reman mind: Dut still, a better guide than you ta mighty hard to find. For by your light you show us hote to rule a nation’s men; and proudly we salute you now, and pledge our faith egaint LETTERS 2 LI TOR Back to Moral Normalcy Editor The Star: kun-woman, with her appetite for “Death-like silence over the crowd,|human blood! Let ua now resume followed immediately by the wolf|our meditation upon the drownings, yell, the yell of human beings ecept-| beatings and hangings of masked ing blood.” |crowds. Let us now once more take 4 you quite Opposed to Sunday Close-Down Editor The Star: |men, #0 he proposed that the Chriv. It 9 no honor to George Washing: | tlans worship on the pagan holiday him | and in return he would let them live The Under |this, and the Sabbath was thrown And that is why Christian workmen rested on the sev. | business men of Seattle are not per ton that in a state namod business men are coerced Into ob: |in peace. Christians serving « holiday ce tine, the pagan emperor, the |into the discard pagan enth day of the week in acc ise betas to transact business on Sun. with God's command; day. Tho name of the state of Wash- rested on Sunday, a day not a This in the pagans for the worship of the aun. terfered with busineas, Constantine was a tactician, He knew if he killed the Christians he would lessen the number of work of Constantine tn order state's name and the state’s religion | may correspond LABETH QUI 1516 Sixth Ave, both pa, art | ington should be changed to the state | that the] Henry ld be leeping American tra in xuch n Mike tor accommodatio ns ag good us th coun Ger Ar ew Zeal. lens civilized France gentina, Australia and > and that a sleeping tle the tras That in to pay, car ticket would cler to private compartment comfortable berth, fresh nd cold running at the price paid for what the traveler gets in Amer fea with @ ¢ air and hot SCIENCE Imitation Silk Outdoes Worm’s Work. Marco Polo’s Feat. Cellulose. | impro |been made recent ements ha in the m |facture of silk by machinery. The silk worm soon may be unneces. sary, Important In 1292 Maroc Poio, great traveler of the Middle Ages, smuggled a few silk works out of Northern Chin where Kubla Khan then reign Italy, These few worms start silk industry for Christendom alre de Chardonnet, a French noble- man of recent times, studied the silk worm and observed that it sim. ply turned wood pulp into silk. He invented a process of grinding the pulp and forcing {t thru a #ma'l opening, so that jt came out a con- jtinuous fiber, For a long time this jimitation silk was considered very inferior, Of late, the process has been greatly improved. ‘The wood pulp, or, as the chemista call it, cellulose, is now treated with acetic acid, and the resulting silk van be made into a more handsome product than the finest work of the silk worm, ft is reported nu-| rw what yoy newt, 19 Sg peg tale ebur women have en in this mater 4 ullenee, tit Couldn't he | fey itor to tal gl present sleeping eap been necesnary? Wy Just about go wreck all those traveling all the Mi Escanopolises, om ait mas and,others of the names? For it never has bee nary. Nowhere else women 1 company hag this nightly outrage American people for the sake of profits, ba There is no sound tte, public service that ‘ important railroad orm country from having iy sleeping cars. I¢ ach tig tem had been ™% others in this regard uring tury, Amena sa past half ¢ have shown the world in train service ’ the progress it hag shows tomobiles. But early in its a the Pullman company may q great advantage of monopeiy it let influential radiroad A tors in on the Bame and tomy: easy to make exclusive with the railroads which men directed. Consequently, while tn oe countries sleeping cars haves perfected, step by step, weg have the abominations that sey first put on wheels shortly ie the civil war. . The Pullman Palace Car ep pany was first 1867, Since then its stock ay dends have totaled $10Mam Every so often the Pullmanes pany’s earnings have got) that it has had to issues dividend of stocks, After peray the regular cash df these steadily multiplying a] issues, it becomes —necem again and again to femye my! and more stock to ftself to cme up the enormous profits madely its miserable service, Doesn't tt look like great opportunity? Avoid Motor Oils containing paraffin, asphalt or any other non-lubricating sub- stance. Aristo Oil is refined by the most advanced processes, designed to remove everything in the crude which has ho lubri- tion of only one of the bloody inci engaged in under official sanction of the Empire state. There were other wolf yells, dus to the aroused blood lust of that crowd of 85,000, but the incident above described was just a bit more wolfish and blood-lusty, the 85,000 having, for some months, been deprived of the joy of smelling hu. man blood. Let us now again turn our atten tian, in sorrow, to the rise of the Editor The Star: I am coming to your paper for support, by asking you to publish my letter, having sent it to two |Rewspapers and falling to nee it in print; will axk you for humanity's sake to publish it, as it is a matter jin which many mothers are to be In: Above Ins the telegraphed descrip. | u dents of the Dempaey-Firpo brutality | such problema as the burning live of negroes at the stake! Let us now again consider Atty. Gen, Daug ‘ty's statement that the pow- jerlesaness of our whole government |to enforce law is “tragic! Let us now go out into our garden of moral endeavors and weep bitter tears be j cause our fig trees are loaded with thisties! “As ye sow, 0 shall ye reapt’ There’s no doubt about a harvest of wolf yells and bloodlust, if ye sow the right seed for it, RF. P. Gambling in Grocery Stores chines in grocery stores. What will |become of the future generations tf |we allow such degrading devices to be operated where children go évery day? ‘They will become regular {gambling flonds, Where are our law-abiding citizens? Where are our lawmakers? Are they all blind to jhumanity? Will the fathers and cating value, ome “Carbon” Cling hard and flint-like— Some Blows Out. with the exhaust terested for the protection of their| mothers say nothing to protect their children, 1 refer to the gambling | children? I think I have a right to machines that are being installed in| protest against such devices, for I grocery stores where we have to|am the mother of six children. What send our children to purchase food.|1 would like to know {s, how many I understand that there Js a state|mothers are with me on this ques-| law against the operation of gam-|tion? Are they willing to let their bling machines, and our law-nbiding |children learn to gamble in grocery Indianapolis, Ind., monkeys got drunk on chloroform. Of course they cut some monkey shines. Tt hasn't the same tendency to cling, most of it blows out with the exhaust. That which is left is soft and fluffy—softer than cylin- der walls, pistons, rings or bearings—eo cannot HERE are two kinds of carbon- aceous residue—“‘carbon.” All mo- tor oils deposit one kind or the other, as every maker of oil knows. Nashville, Tenn., sheriff runs his car on bootleg. We know a man who runs a house on it. New Yorkers Very “Easy” The greatest “grafts” involve small sums. When Ger- man marks dropped to 10 cents a million, a shrewd young man in New York went up and down Broadway with a pusheart selling 10,000-mark bank-notes for 20 cents apiece. And they sold like hotcakes. Every time he sold $20 worth, he had a profit of $19.90. If thou art wise thou knowest thine own ignorance, and thou art ignor- ant if thou knowest not thyself—Luther, Don't ovrviook the important fact that the last survivor of Wrangell island was @ woman. The boys are off for college, where many will learn for the first time what pajamas are, _ Advertising the Ford Car Ford, handing out three million dollars for newspaper advertising, is understood to be getting ready to increase his production to 10,000 cars a day, also to hold the busi- ness he already has. The Ford car has become as common an article as po- tatoes. But even potatoes would gradually disappear from the dining table if stores kept them hidden from view and they were never mentioned in print. Nothing can retain leadership and popularity without publicity. The rumor that the Firpo-Dempsey winner ‘will fight the Greek- Itallan winner is merely a rumor, Struck oil on a California floor waxer's land, so we'll just say maybe he waxed enthusiastic, Senator Smoot wants new luxury taxes, And they have heen telling us taxes were a necessity, Plague of butterflies hit New York. That town always had its share of the social variety, Wher Greek meets Greek they talk about an Italian, citizens are breaking the law every day, and nothing Is done to prevent them. They tell us that they do not let the children use them, But they do not obey the rules, We do not need gambling ma. stores? I would like to hear from other interested parents, Thanking you for your co-opera- tion and interest, very sincerely MRS, BERTHA TITUS, 6321 Russell Ave. Exemption Claim; Naturalization Editor The Star: Next November ft will be be five years since the armistice was signed, and from that time I don't believe that the war record will be considered in connection with the naturalization of aliens, So far the state examiner and some Judges have ruled that aliens who claimed ex. emptiun from military service, whether said claim was granted or not, during the war for not being citizens of this country, cannot yet become naturalized. 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