The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 28, 1923, Page 8

« PAGE 8 ott ott Gtiman, 'N The Seattle Star 1207 Beventh Ave, Phone By Daily by ‘Th Newspaper Knterprise Association and Untted Press Bervice, offic, Monadnock Bidg.; Chicago oftic Canadian Pacttio Bide; Star Publishing Co. y, 800 per month, 8 months 1,60, ®xmonthe $3.00, year y. 600 & Month oll & Ruthman, Special Representatives, San Francisco ‘Tribune Bide; New York ofticg, Tremont Bide. Boston office, WwW EN you meet someone on the sidewalk, why do you pass to the right instead of the left? Because you learned in chi Idhood that such is the custom. But why is it the custom? The artist answers, in the accompanying pen-picture. Two prehistoric cave men have met on a trail thru the jungle. They are suspicious of each other, watching for the first sign of a possible attack. The path is nar- row. Each ki carrying the eeps to the right, so that the right hand— war club—will be where the stranger has least opportunity for grabbing it preparatory to swinging his own murdi lerous club. So, too, came the custom of extending the right hand in greeting, for a handshake. The offering of the right hand, without its weapon, signified trust, Ancient days are forgotten. But their customs live on. Scientists insis' t that “Mr. and Mrs. Barberinsus,” the couple whose skeletons were recently unearthed at Santa Barbara, lived and died nat- ural deaths some 25,000 years ago, Were no automo! We can understand that, There les In those days. The Home of Easy Marks A New York cit EW days ago a couple of very affable and appeal- ing gentlemen appeared in the Bronx district of y. They had a beautiful collection of “Ger- man canary birds’—real Hartz mountain trillers and warblers—which they offered to the good people there- about at very sold a thousa low prices “to close out their stock.” They nd of the birds and a thousand households were happy because of their new and cheery possessions. That is, they canaries their evening baths. Then sorrow came. were happy until they gave their respective The moment the birds touched the water so kindly provided for them, the glistening canary yellow of their feathers began to ooze away. In a few brief, sad moments, the thousand purchasers of the “trillers” discovered that they had nothing nearer to the Hartz mountain songsters than a lot of common, English sparrows that had been sub- jected to deft coloring processes. Not much to the story, is there? No, not much, ex- cept that it once again accentuates the fact that, if there be a flim-flammer, a gold-brick dealer, a frenzied finan- cier, or any of that ilk with an ambition to get away with his particular kind of shady deal, he can find no safer or more fruitful field of operations than our most popu- lous community. Saturated with the idea that, because of their numbers, they are thoroly sophisticated, the big city people are really the most unsophisticated in fhe world. They are easy marks of the easiest kind. Responding to roar of public disapproval, Secretary Work announces open sessions of his “fact finding commission,” after. His evident purpose is to establish the “plenary session” idea and to be held weekly here- give the public what it ought to have, instead of the facts, As to Isolation EORGE WASHINGTON’S voice rings thru the years. | Just before he was elected first president of the United States of America, considerable over a century ago, he said: “IT hope the United States of America will be able to keep disengaged from the labyrinth of Euro- pean politics and wars. It should be the policy of the United States to administer to their wants without being engaged in their quarrels.” Bitter experience had just given to Washington’s mind greater power to measure affairs and to penetrate far into the years ahead. ; The other day, somewhere in the East, Richard Wash- burn Child, our ambassador to Italy, made a speech in which he said: of dollars to Europe since the war. salvation to Russia, to Asia, to the Near pay other nations.” s have carried the interest on the “We have contributed billions on billions We | ve extended t. Our tax- ndebtedness of That seems to meet the expressed hope of Washington. If it be isolation, then Webster never knew the meaning of the word. Target practice for girls is being Introduced into schools, as if they were not good enough shots already. Telling It to Gifford AYS the governor of Nebraska to the governor of Pennsylvania: “I am selling coal at a saving of $3.50 per ton to con- sumers. conference. Gav ernor of Penr Ivania: I am not particularly interested in your coal the governor of Massachusetts, discussing the gov- “The truth is that the governor of Pennsylvania by action in h of which y own state can remedy most of the coal evils » have just cause for complaint.” There ought to be a neat hint in these to a nice pro- gressive like Gifford Pinchot. Luxor, Egypt, dispatches say King Tut's mystery is soon to be solved, Looks like they're trying to solye Tut's mystery before our own foreign affairs policy mystery, almost as archaic, is solved. Power of Advertising HIS’LL surprise you: American women spend $150,- 000,000 a year for hair nets. For scented soaps the nation’s bill i 100,000 a year, for cosmetics $63,000,000, for chewing gum $100,000,000. America spends $750,000,000 a year for toilet prepara- tions, including talcum powder, cold cream, rouge lip- sticks, All of which sho many things, chief of whict yes é 1 , chief of which is the POWER OF AD 3, the mighty force that has done more than any other to make our standard of living the highest in the world. Speaking of rapid transit, it now seems to be all up in the air, | | | } | | Everybody BE THANKFUL THAT: You don't smoke—it's a bad habit, or ure You don't drink —makes you | You drink—it drunk, or | bles, You have bair on Your head | Your head ts t looks nice, or ing You went to college—lt's a. great Asset, or You aren't the mayor—every- body's Jumping on him, or You have a home-it’s an enjoy- able place, or You can sing—for alngers aro al- ways welcome, or You are married—for that ts real great anset, You are jump on ever: You haven't too high. You can't sin, BE THANKFUL HERE You didn’t go to college THE 1s HOW: BE THANKFUL THAT: You smoko—it's a lot of pleas: ,Arowns your trou pald—It saves comb ita a the mayor—you can ybody elne, n home—taxes are g—for singers al- ways are posta, You are single—for that 1s real happiness, or happiness. All girls aro not blondes—for Some girls are — blondos—for blondes are dixsy, or blondes are dizay, You have an asuto—they’re a You have no auto—they're a great convenience, or sreab,puisance, DALE WINTER She came on the stag: brave little, weary “Irene.” She told us of wor home, of tenement lfe—a perpetual gloam, radiant, Alice blue gown. She sang of @ wonderful dress of the Past! gave it to coax it to last away from a life that necessitates cloy. Tt her the brightness of life, released from the ai and strife... .. twoho long for the touch of an Alice blue gown it gladdened, the moments it blessed. The drea ing to gladden the heart. How many, I wor town, look back on the days of an scintillant queen. The sktes of her Hfe deca —her dreams of a light in the dark had come t had sustained her thru bitterest days, thru tri and tedious ways. . teema, wear Alice blue gowona in the Garden of LETTER, FROM V RIDGE MANN in the opening scene, a drab little, She told of the trials that poverty brings, of longing and yearning for happler things. » She sang of her memory's happiest crown—a beautiful, It lifted her up into heavens of joy, daintiness brought I thought of the many whose fortunes are down, But gone was treasure she once hod posseased, the daya that ened and lightened her brow, waa only existing in memory now. But there it waa living and doing (ts part—a dream and a long- Alice Blue gown? But fortune waa good to the little Irene; it made her a radiant, .» How many, I thought, where the populace tae k, of a mother ot the care that she hadow of atruggle fi is that had bright- ndered, in city and me luminous blue rue! And dreama lala and hardships Dreams! Compares Conditions Editor The Star ago. You can nee them playing Last week one day I visited about | rummy or freeze-out an of ol. 10 poolhalla, In some of them I tried] L.believe that Mayor Brown ts do-| to buy liquor. They told me there|ing very well under the circum was nothing doing. noes, Respectful I did not seo any difference in the EDDIE HARDY pool halls now and those four years 3833 Fifth Ave, N. E. Raps Rotten Dancing SEATTLE STAR Neighbors ; Neighbors are people who live near you, You wish some would move and some wish you would move, Nolghbors are nice people who bring you chicken when they can't oat another bite of it, Nolghbors aro sarcaatic people who smile gently when you say you never fight with your wife, Neighbors are crazy people who tond to your business and fine people who tend to their business, Nelghbors are people who cook cabbage with the windows open when you are going to have company. Neighbors are funny people who come over when you aro sick and tell you how sick they used to be. Neighbor women are people with their hair in papers who come over Tenant Farmers, Quick Finds EDITOWS NOTH: Thin ta the wixth of a merieon of articles by rhert Quick, whe han been apectaileing In farm economies ing how the fui BY HERBERT QUICK Mo of the advice given the farmers by the experts and others is baned on the erroneous assumption that the people in the deepest trouble own their own farms, ‘That ix not the case. Ono of the mont serious aspects of the farm question {# the increase in tenantry. Rising land values operate to wpread the blight of farm ten: antry. ‘When & man who has to borrow a cup of sugar. Neighbor men are people in shirt- sleeves who explain why you should have used a little more yeast. We don’t know why neighbors uct 0 foolish and neighbors don't know jwhy you act so foolish, Noyer judge neighbors by what you see hanging on thelr clothes | lines, Shake hands with a collector and invite him fn so the neighbors will not know he is a collector, ‘Treat your neighbors nice. If you didn’t have any neighbors your neighborhood would be desert Never get too mad at your nelgh- bora, Very often your enemies this week are your friends next week, Never tell the neighbors too much. Quite often your friends this week are your enemies next wesk. Rich people are neighbors who make a little more money than you. An inquisitive neighbor and her lace curtains are soon parted. You seldom seo a akinny neighbor forget te pull the shadés down, | Barly to bed and early to rise and| you hear all the player planos. | truthful he fs. ‘More European trouble. Wish the | ni . can. Teast said about neighbors the! 501. 09, 1865, | LEITER ‘ LDITOR “— __ Practiced in Boise, Idaho, since 1881 Most any man will lie about how/| Elected United States senator from} Idaho for terms 1807-1913, 1913-1919 | es and 1919-1925. Atlantic was as wide as the Pacific, ‘dence, Boise, Idaho, Potential Presidents Another of a Series of In- formal Sketches of Men | Who'd Like White | House Job | been a working farmer finds that he can rent his farm and move to town, he is inclined to do #0 —has done #0 by the million ‘This swells the population. of the villages, towns and such regions as Wiorida and the Pacific farmers’ ing ¢ fitted for city life. and not fit for {dlenexs, have small incomes in the main, and of all landlords, they must in the nature of things be the most grasping and rack-renting, RENTAL SYSTEM AS BAD AS ANY IN WORLD Our rental system is as bad as any in the world, far, far worse thon that of Ire land in the days when we wept for the Irish tenants. comparison that of Germany, or England, or Scotland, or Italy, Rack-renting t#'a word which means oppression and poverty to the farm tenant. is a system in which the land- lord has the legal right to get yond can. farm tenantry we have in Amer- foa 1s based on the severent rack- | renting principles. to amount and manner of pay- ment, and time of tenure depends on the contract made between the landlord and the tenant. The redder will be surprised WEDNE DAY, NOVEMBER 28, Law Holds Back | that any other system: ever be thought of, Yet older civilizations Sn wih fenantry was the modify rack-renting, When land high, ‘rack-renting underlying — populattyn farming regions, It te deg ours, It is driving the and cities, Coast with “retired * who, in the main, hav- ed to be farmers, are not They are idle They into the cities or out where they can hardly prosper. LEAVES ONLY Thin leaves, or tends in our best regions Our system is It is be- time compete with each worse than weale, it is filling the Rack renting living. fas much rent for his land as he |” of landlords, In many there are more rented % And yet the only system of than others. The idea fs cities and towns and The rent, as od elections. rtates recently sort of that they can, WILLIAM. E. BORAH — Repubit-| Born Fairfield, It, Admitted to bar 1589. Lawyer. Member republican | ational committee, 1908-1912. | AThought | Whosoever shall offend one of, these little ones that believe in me,| it is better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea.—Mark ix.42. IRUELTY, like every other vice, requires no motive Resl-| itweif; it only requires opportunity.— jeorge Biot, Now these people der some name or other, consciousness and yote the landlords. | win may be sound In its jes, or it may be crazy, to get before they win, outside of will discuss “Taxation.”) Jish the gun-toter. Editor The Star I notice the dance halls have been closed on Sundays. This, to my be- ef, is a move in the right direction. I mado a personal investigation of the places, and this is what I found. I am no critic or saint, for I have been all over the world and seen good, bad and indifferent, but some of those places are ag bad a# Barbary Coast used to be in our olden days. | I paid 10 cents admission, and as! soon as I entered I was approached by a gir! about 18 years of age, who put her arms around me, calling mo honey, and said, “Won't you dance?" ‘Then, “Won't you come over and sit down and buy a drink?” ‘Then another would come around, | w I would like to ask any decent | would permit their] Along ebout | nk person if they daughters to be there? midnight you could notice the Noise in the Libraries Editor The Star | The city of Seattle Is blessed with the best libraries that this country | can supply. A person may go the and get any information he may ask | for If they cannot find it them selves the librarians will look it up for them; and we cannot see why 90 many people will take advantage of ries to be annoying, and disturbing. | And while this Is a fact, the Ii brarians are a great deal to blame.) Up at tho Yesler branch, at and! Anti-Holdup Men’s Club Editor The Star Iam a subscriber of The Star and} read the letters to the editor with in- terest. I note one which saya pur | Let us be fair on| this sub | We can pass a law to disarm the| and the honest, reliable the hold-up men a policeman us af r put us an equal f ing with the hold-up man, Let the ns get a permit to carry a six shooter, which must be carried on the beit in plain view, or else wear a license button telling the hold-up} men that this individual is prepared, Before such permits be gr the party be a resident of good char- | acter and fully familiar with the usages of the gun. Ignorance Is the| of more accidents than any od let | cause BY BERTC LOW your own horn! Speak up and tell The co ed world that you are present Tell people alive and we A little dope like that is pleasant UT do not overdo It, bo: J Or folks will only grin and snigge They'll think that all yc hat it’s using all LITTL® tooting to advert and ma But toot too much Gosh, but that bi BEAK it don't fore up and c cuff boys rallying around to take the girls home, if they were not already | dated up. | » think that our city officials would stand up and tell you they are} all right ts sure a slap in the face to our decent people of our fair city. Not a saint, but a decent citizen. B. 8. 8. JACKSON J M. LATONIUS, 2109 N. 65th * nt, told The Star Wodnes. day that a letter that appeared tn this paper Saturday, November 24, was not written by him, but wns matled by someone else who uned his signature. This letter dincussed the may- ralty situation. Yesler way, they have a big polle man, et when you go in there t wounds like a mob had turned loone, and the librarians turn a deaf | r to the noise; and the policeman, ting under lbrartans | » an effort to , but perhaps he's ac for, certainly, if u cannot do 90, as it would expec the policeman t only take a word from the librarians nd the policeman would then quiet | things down: CHARLES J.. BROWN. other thing. During the war I was a member of the Shotgun which co-operated with the city po: Owners’ association, lice, This type of an organization would be an asset to any city be cause the police could always depend on & group of citizens armed with pistols or shotguns and familiar wit! their use hey could meet once a week and ¢ . If some sportsmen would organize an anti-holdup men’s club, It would be a big asset to the city. Don't dis urm the reliable citizens and the po lice, as that gives the holdup men their own way and leave at the mercy of the thugs, who ulway armed and #- Will be JOHN W. HARRISON Gold Hit, Ore JN BRALEY pu do is t our vigor, ju, you folk a loud gazabo' ir little plece, repeat tt ARK this difference in gasolines. Some explode instantaneously—de- tonate. Union Gasoline is non-detonat- ing. The detonating gasoline deals a sledge hammer blow upon the piston, depend- ing on a single impulse to pound the pis- ton down. It has the tendency to explode prema- turely, thus limiting compression and re- ducing power and efficiency. It is frequently responsible for ‘“‘knock- ing” on the hills. And by caus- ing vibration, it increases wear and tear. The Other Kind Union Non-Detonating Gaso- line delivers a prolonged ex- plosion. It thrusts the piston through: It Doesn’t Detonate —this gasoline of surer, smoother power out the entire stroke—dgesn't crash against it. And because it does not detonate, Union Gasoline permits increased com- pression, which results in increased ef- ficiency and power. New “Lift” on Hills You'll notice a new “lift” on the hills— a steady, sustained stream of power, more speed on the level, a faster pickup and less vibration, which means less wear and tear. Also more mileage because of increased efficiency. Union Non-Detonating Gasoline is al- ways uniform. It doesn’t disintegrate, thus doesn’t deteriorate in storage. It has all the power when you use it that it has when it leaves the Union plants. This is one more reason for the use of this non-detonating gasoline. Union Oil Con i ote Union Gasoline with enterprise enough to fy into region hops to ON NATION'S BEST LAND Do to Nears, shiftless, the crushed, the ate! who accept a mere living ay reward of thelr labor, and aie) Tt ts Mealcantsing the Vali States, xf toe The tand fn the rural 4j fs passing rapidly into the that thy laboring people g mokt of them landless, them landlords—ean with the farmers and carry the ‘The results in some in the farmerlabor party some time carry the country, gram of these people when they “th pends on how miserable anf down-trodaen they are allowed (in his next artide Mr, Quick $$ fi nig a all the make this mere living ena ; with people on the peon geale Indicate they do, it will be when the ant-farmerg begin to feel