The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 3, 1923, Page 8

<Not nto rcent ana pear ameegret- eeetnete — ee The Seattle Star The Star Publishing Oe, 1207 Beventh Ave, Phone Baterprise Association and Untied Presse Bervice, By month, # monthe @1. woonthe $2.00, year §8,66, Ry’ carrier, ct Otiman, 'd eftic ok Bid Canadian Pacific Bite. The Auto: the Lowest Priced of Commodities Tt was an interesting dispatch that came to The Star ome day this week from Washington, D. C., about the Automobile industry. It told how cars are now selling, on the average, at prices actually lower than in 1918, according to govern- Ment experts. This in spite of the fact that wage scales Are much higher and the cost of materials going into the machines is 69 per cent above the '18 figures. Thus the automobile takes rank one of the few articles of commerce that is being retailed at better than pre-war prices. No wonder their use is multiplying! No wonder that nearly every Seattle family is either rid- ing in one or laying its plans for doing so at an early date! The big reason, of course, for the low cost Is the great volume in which the motors are built. “Simplification and Standardization” are mentioned by the government men as causes that are steadily bringing down the price. Then, as the article pointed out, there is real compe- tition in the automobile business. No trust has been able to monopolize it. A shopping call along Seattle’s auto row will demonstrate in a few minutes to anybody how keen this competition is. From the big business chiefs who are energetically pushing the production end down thru the industry to the Salesmen who sign you on the dotted line for this fall's shiniest model, the whole auto business is entitled to the *s fervent thanks for a real manufac- ultimate consumer's turing and merchandising service of the first order. bee @ month, Ruthrian, Special Representatives, Gan Franciece dg.) Chicege offs Tribune Bids.) New Tork offios, Boston office, Tremont Bids, Recently the Bowling Green Neighborhood association of New York announced an offer of five cents apiece for every stray eat brought Into its headquarters. As a result, press reports have it, the children of lower New York engaged in the “greatest cat hunt in history,” and a large mumber of cats were captured and subsequently destroyed. It now appears that there were included among these many pets and pedigreed Animals. Aside altogether from this phase of the question, however, and granting that, if the authorities deem it wise to conduct a campaign Against the stray cats of New York, this is thelr own affair, it should Still be obvious that some better method can be discovered than one Inciting children to such degrading activities —Christian Science Monitor. Youngstown, Ohio, robbers found only $7 on a taxi driver, so’ all of them are not bootleggers. New York woman shot her landlord for a robber. The mistake seems one quite easily made. Autes are diminishing our leather supply, and pedestrian sup) Coyle’s Dobie Stories BY THE EDITOR My favorite Star author, these days, is “Wee” Coyle. His series of reminiscences, on*the sports page, cannot help but be read with the keenest of zest by every old Washington alumnus, every person who ever saw a Dobie team play, and every other football fan. Gilmour Dobie was one of the most interesting person- alities who ever lived, in Seattle, and Coyle, as a great quarterback on four of his championship teams, was, naturally; in the closest touch with the gloomy Scot. Coyle’s stories of the tall gridiron teacher’s methods also disclose the lieutenant governor in a rolé that may sur- prise some of his frignds—that of a reporter who ob- sérves closely and who writes an interesting tale. ‘The famous elm tree at Cambridge, Mass., under which George Wash- ington took command of the Continental army, has fallen. In spite of ‘unstinted efforts to prolong further the life of the historic elm, old age prevailed at last. A permanent marker will be erected on the site. Not a single Californian reported a million-dollar income in ‘21. Yet Charley, Doug and Mary have solemnly testified to several times that amount annual net receipts. How the income shrinks when the tax man a comes! “I have no presidential aspirations. I guess I'm the only senator who hasn't,” says Jim Couzens, of Michigan. “You see,” he adds with a twinkle, “I was born in Canada.” Baroness Popper, » Metropolitan opera star, is back from Europe looking more like a sweet mamma. 3 Big smokestack on a St. Louis hotel collapsed, perhaps because it “Wasn't as high as the rat Is the Contract Legal? If, as Washington advices state, Fall turned over that Teapot Dome naval oil territory to Sinclair without authorization by congress, in defiance of the law’s re- quirement for public bids on contracts, what good is Sin- _clair’s contract? A contract to violate law is invalid per se. Is a contract made in violation of law any better? Attorney General Daugherty is a lawyer. We're not. Drive carefully. Blow your horn. In Omaha, Neb., a wrec! ‘was robbed while unconscious. ” 5! es Cops in St. Louis caught an egg thief. Guess he was a hard-boil May have been a bad yogg. is rol Even if a Miami, Fla., man did break his leg takin, bath will lessen the danger. is 4 bath, practice Probably thinking it was an office-secker, the governor of Michi; hit a pig with his auto. nor of Michigan A posteard mailed in 1906 has arrived in Portland, Me. hunting season. A Man We Can Honor He never wept because his sword was hungry and no food for it was left. Yet, likely, in the deep of night, a tear would come over some great plan that failed thru lacking just the one completing link. He never crossed the Pyrenees, or Alps, no Jena, Aus- terlitz were his. But oft he crossed the world-encircling bounds of ignorance and triumps won that perish never- more. No bloody laurels, royal crown, no mighty title his. But on his shaggy head a halo shone that lightens all the world. No people grovels, sweats and mourns to give. him gold and fame. He lifted, taught, thought out great schemes that men might go ahead. > Wrecked cities, none, nor rows of graves, nor thrones mark his career. Ignorance he fought and gave his life to progress of the world. The sword is blind, strikes right, strikes wrong, in fre for power or glory. But this man thought, that e might give mankind less gloom, less work, less worry. To him who made her darkness deep the world has greatness given. Steinmetz was great. He made the world a little more like heaven. in time for the Juror who fell asleep at the Stokes scandal hearing in New York would sleep at a burlesque show. Due to a food shortage, Canadian hears are eating porcupines, without even salt or pepper. The fifth annual prediction that the federal soldier bonus will be passed is being made, ‘They will pass a federal bonus if they can't pass Jt up. AF Sane ETO ARNEL nee RNR nase RSNCPERPNRRE Hae aeepnestest eerste ene Editor The Star: | Without presuming to express an jopinion on the purely domestic que: |tlon treated upon by the lady |pondent in your tasue recently, I }thought it rather a misuse of even Jcontroversial license to make such jan unjustified and mendac' at. | |tack on the dignity and me London police force. lam ce traveler will agree that at the busy London center mentioned or, indeed, at a dozen or more other places in | London, a steady stream of inquirers | may be observed to be dealt with pa- | tlently and with unvarying courtesy by the constables on duty without any such sordid transaction aq the| exchange of four-pence and a frac tion (eight cents). It sheds some light on the psycho }togical and mental outlook of your | correspondent that the graceful salu- | tation of a uniformed official to a} lady should be interpreted into a re- jauest for fourpence and a fraction | (eight cents). Editor The Star ! I see where the prohibition di rector has gono and done a big thing to make rural life attractive. Yes, sir, Roy he went and did some- thing to lighten the rural burden, and while Hoover and Wallace and the rest were wasting their time trying to figure out some way to) keep the farmer on the farm and contented, the prohibition boss goes and does something big. Maybe you saw where Roy sald/ that it was all right for the farmer to let bis elder get hard and his fruit juices to stir them- selves aright in the old oaken keg. ‘This is tho most important opinion | thus far rendered to make Anrer-| jean farm life easy to take, You city folk aro rot allowed to let a raisin get familiar with a cake of yeast, but if the farmer desires to take 10 bushels of windfalls and make himself some nectar that's Editor The Star: Referring to the last paragraph of the editorial on the front page of your publication dated Nov. 1, 1923, | signed the “Apple Eater,” I am tak-| ing the liberty of quoting below an article which appeared in the Chicago Daily Journal, under date of July 3, 1923, which you might publish for the information and enlightenment of | the “Apple Eater” and also in justice to the railroads: “This spring the agricultural agent of the American Railway association bought some Northwest coast apples from retailers in New York city and) paid from 10 to 15 cents each for |them. He found on investigation that the grower received about 1 cent each for that quality of apples. Tho freight from tho shipping point to New York was a cent and a quar. ter, and the cost of distribution in the clty by truck about the same, With A reasonable wholesalers’ profit add. ed, the cost of such apples to the re- tailer should be about 6 cents each, “The railways present this instance as proving the injustice of the com- plaint that high prices are due to iigh freight rates—and in a wide range of articles, perhaps in alt, the railways aro right. If the apples in question had been carled free from Washington or Oregon to New York the consumer never would have known the difference. Somebody would have taken up the slack; whether wholesaler or retailer, the agent who made the investigation does not indicate. “The dealers from whom that agent bought sell many things beside fruit. They sell service and convenience. Even with those items added, the ‘spread’ between producer and con: sumer is far too great; but is not a part of the remedy, at least, In the consumer's own hands? “The average American likes to take an attitude of ‘damn the ex- pense,’ Ho wants what be wants when he wants it, and, even when be: | ing stung on smail items, counts it| beneath his dignity to haggle. Natur: | ally, he pays for this illusion of gran- deur, The primitive rule of business in to charge what the traffic will bear, and there is n considerable group of buyers who will bear any- thing. LETTERS EDITOR © The London Policeman |teay and Don’t Appreciate Cider Ruling Railroads Not Entirely to Blame THE SEAL NO STEAM? LE STAR % i — | ad of pre woll a to th antime, don’t blame the ri! everything.” ELL N. ANDERSON, 615 Pleasant Pt. hange lante advantage consumer roads PN Shocking Manners! Be ee te te te ret gh naMren | courtesy of the unif | who would protect a lady f | Editor The Star: embarrassing _consciouane I have just noties¢ rather awful faux pas by ni «| of the high school 1 graciously the munificer of | parent-teacher four-pence and a fra the she cents) for the performance Apropos. that members ion of the local AsnOC! », alarmed ae om ern of their hildren, are urging the teaching of | manners in the publi Ah} & social worker, and one in intimate/ such with educationay problerns and | © regard cour-| conditions, Tam not at all surprised from police} at the confession hy these parents! St 4 | of thelr failure to control their ehil-| and ¢ d ties that 1 | dren | should regard only their absence ax| Parents have been relieved of re-| Werth otapadlal eitnanenl sponsibility for Ore education of their to add, I have found no cauee: for} children in a general and an aca- special comment in your own admir- | demic way, and now they aro begging prargectn, to be relieved of the burden of moral ‘Tho political significance of the | 4nd religious instruction of their off. imaginary characteristics of the Brit. | pring, in onler that they may be ish policeman as expounded by your | Concerned merely with the perfunc- correspondent should, I venture to| tory duties of procreation and pravid. suggest, be treated with considerable | ng ‘bed and board"* for them. One Sigieva, step more, and we shall be dwelling Tam, Sir, yours respectfully, in the repubilc of Plato, where the BRITISH SAILOR, | children are the wards of the atate, under the caro of servants main- tained by the state, while the par. ents “the primrose path of dalliance tread." It is the duty of the schools to be rational, even if the overwrought parents can't be. A few moments’ sober reflection in the class room fluence resulted in the protibition| WH! convinces one that if parents, | amendment, that the rural contin, | Pomessing the one, two or three chil- g should be Jess hampered than | dren that it has pleased God to give you wicked townsmen, Out in the |{Pem™ cannot, in the plentitude of} country, whero all is virtuous, and |‘helr unobstructed = wisdom, bring | where long hours of illy paid toil |t%™ YP properly, teaching them the burden us down, we may be permit. | "uiiments of decency that one should | ted to squeess the gripe and press know and practice In civilized #0. GRA ous Winter caaiane olety, then, it is out a be question choly may be lightened @ bit. Roy | frm es to a6 vonnontan weet with naturally has to have one lttle| “per is one condition, and one fo leave the cider kog strictly alone, | Cousd afford to take on the additional Conthe HEREC at apna’ poking responsibilities proposed by these ighas SORA WE tie walk LENE public-spirited members of the P.-T. Se areas A. and that would be that the par- of Roy. ents renounce every right to their Respect, children whatsoever, and to sign a contract agreeing not to interfere in any way in the supervision and care of their children by tho schools. If they will do that as a guarantee that the work of the schools will not be neutralized by the meddling of the | Parents, then some benefit might re. sult from the proposal of the PT. A. Sincerely yours, J. RALPHE, 41st and Brookiyn, (eight | at £9 im nchools haying a ne , Bir, I thé great world, I have come conniderat official his. offictal Roy. 1 regard this as a step in the right direction, It seems but Just, {ngamuch as the rural vote and in. privilege, according to the apple VM. T Ciderist and ‘T, ‘armor, “There are signs, however, that this lordly attitude is changing; indi- cations that the American buyer is growing more concerned to get the worth of his money, and more ready to resist holdup charges, Such a ULEr ih LOMUAY, Indi, PEACOCK peuuiers are not uncome| mon, This gentleman is carrying a roosting pole, and his) product are blindfolded to prevent them from flying off SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 32, 1923. FROM THE WASHINGTON NEWS ~ An Unbloodied Hero meroy has already been de rope by the distribution of relief committees in Germany speak | clothing. | with highest appreciation |supplies which have been sent inati- |tutions and societies for the caro of | sously tho mark in Germany, thone | fixed incomes *lquite unable to buy sufficient food, | much How would you like to carn your living this way? If you'll walk down of a morning probably will meet a sieed, modest, even shy with bashful eyes, walk ly to work, and just . roll to hin gait Look sharp end you'll nee the greatest hero of the 1th 8:80 mid orway's moun’ t of the time ith raging ¥ What! Ch & barrage water seven t wider » than Lake Erie? Can't be done, said the British navy, Why, even to try such an enterprise was ab. nurd, Ho they ntationed pretty nearly their whole fleet at Scapa Flow, at the top of the North sea and mat d n for years to walt for the German fleet to try an excur sion Into the At Hut when the got into the show, it wae plain we could not thke the risk of the German navy breaking thru and sinking a dozen American trans ports Something must be done, That romething was an order to Vice Admiral Strauss to shut tight that 400-mile-wide North nea, Strauss went over with a bunch of mine-laying ships and a fearsome cargo of monster mings all on trigger, Out in the raging North sea he and his crews |a- bored for months at the risk of storm, of U-boats and even of the whole German fleet which might sally out any hour and aves 6 that? E atretch of high w man, Eh brink a bit of war He accomplished the most ex traordinary military feat of Uncle Sam's part in the And not of thin American officer's men was killed, Me than that; he . elth Ho ‘8 V Strauss, U, § But let's b this skillful war cost no blood. war, one led none of the enemy Admiral Joseph the story of exploit t Yew, it wes told while the war yet raged, but in ubdued form—the mor of steol and man against man over 4 it—and Strauss would not write it Into the fame it de orved. When Europe clashed in 1914, nhadoy t they could against the German navy. But away up north was the 400-mile wide-open mouth of th t ide as an ocean A’Plea for Clothing | clothing. from the | liter The Star A wonderful Homes for orphans and old work of ein Eu othing, tutions, as well as particular famil- jes in Germany, are in great need of tthe large) Reader! Will you fully and promptly contribute not and what now act conascten you can the poor and needy families, and 95| snare to clothe the naked in Central the winter comoa on apace, more i8| Purope? Do this service as unto the needed, n ore supplies ¢ ntage and with he n bo used to| porat pful results. | Send your gifts of clothing by par On account of the depreciation of |cel post, express or freight, to Na aving | tional many cases|New York city. Yours sincerely, required 3. O. CLAUSON. “LETTER FROM V RIDGE MANN APPLES (Continued) When Eve, the apple pioneer, inaugurated Apple Day, she said to Adam, “Try it, dear—it’s just as good as people say!" He took the apple from her hand, and followed out the wifely will—obeying woman's soft command, the way the men are doing still. And then, on that primeval Fall, they ate the apple, core and all! And then, the records all attest, they left the carefree life they led. They started marching ever Weat, to bigger, better things ahead. They learned of sorrow, toll and strife; they learned of kreater, grander love; they caught a glimpse of fuller Ufe, with eyeu that learned to look above, And thru the years the Future brings their children strive for better things. And still we try, from day to day, to struggle upward thru the years; to have a bit of fun and play; to bear our bit of toll and tears, We see the many orchids grow on arid waste and desert in; and by their fruit we learn to know that Faith and Works re never vain, And thru it all we tune the soul to seek a bigger, better goal, And still the apple holds its sway in Life's absorbing, varied page ~—the joy of Childhood's happy day, the cherished, favored fruit of Age. It britige the charm of Nature's wealth to grace the open fire's giare;'it leads the way to greater health; it brings the scent of open aif; And so we pause to hear it speak upon the stage of Apple Week! are in less to purchane love and| people and other inner mission inst!- | uutheran Council, 31 Perry st., blow him and all his works to kingdom come But the German navy, as the ughed to corn the erican whd thought he id dam up 400 miles of nea. But, by the eternal, Strauss did it! He closed that gaping 400- mile mouth so that nothing could pass. And he didn’t lore a man, The Germans found about the work and decided against a dash for the Atlantic When the war ended, the first thing to do was the speedy re moval of that 400-nile Ine of death, and Strauss was ordered | to go to it “Ah,” wala | re's where the Americans lose | « lot of men. Sea water han made | thousands of mines too danger- | ous to touch.” | But Strauss took up the whole | 56,000 of ‘om in an amazingly | short time and didn't lose a man, | | | | | | the British navy, Modest? You never see Ad- miral Strauss wearing @ uniform except when he has to--oncée a month, In the office or at other places where men gather and talk, you hear him talk rarely, SCIENCE Her Weight in Eggs. A Big Gur’s Finish. The Blacksnake. Br’er Fou's Nap. Queen bee, dictator of the hive, Jcommonly lays her own weight in eggs, daily. It's a battle against de- population with her and, knowing it, |she puts in her best licks. Worker bees are all immature females and |they are so busy and work so hard jall summer that they die at about | two months of age. | ee | ture has little reverence for the } works of man. Long ago, the gor- | geous Nawabs of Bengal, India, had a | fine artillery park. The jungle came along and devoured it, Go there now and you will see a strange sight. | When the jungle invasion arrived, a tiny pipal tree seedling came up and found in its way a great gun 17 feet 6 inches long, five feet,jn circumfer- Jence and weighing seven and a halt jtons. The little pipal trunk gradual-_ |ly wrapped itself around this , | grew towards the honest sky until jtoday that gun, firmly bedded in a | great tree, hangs horizonially nearly | nine feet above the ground. see | Blacksnake, a big fellow who ranges all over Eastern United States |and whose bite has no venom, is of |® color that is supposed to be a | standard of perfect blackness. His | Personal ornament is a white dia- mond patch on his breast. Black snake is death on all rodents and will eat birds also, Pheasants simply won't run or fly from him, but will {stand and watch him, as he ap- proaches, with the tensest interest and craned necks, eee | Brother Fox rarely sleeps when abroad, but, if he feels nappy, he'll take it under a tree where crows have & nest. The caw-caw bird is his ( where new wealth comes rapidly HE Pacific Northwest— Washington, Idaho and Oregon —is Nature’s most favored spot in all the mber of est etfic Nort greater than Honey UNITED STATES = PACIPC NORTWHEST United States. wealth is produced easier and more abundantly than Here new anywhere else. Percentages of yields here Average honey ific Notthwent ater than nation’s, soil are the are greater for almost all farm products. Climate and factors that make this possible. As the Pacific Northwest develops its agricultural re- sources, its cities and its -people. will be directly bene- fited. The Dexter Horton National Bank stands ready to assist in this development with its resources and broad business experience extend- ing over half a century. ish ‘ THERE Average cash return pér acre from veretables Pacific Northweat, greater than nation's Resources $24.503,557.07 Dexter Horton National Bank © 4 (Temporary Location) Third Ave, and Cherry St, Fe LERNER ANE ster of death, and then grew andy”