The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 30, 1923, Page 8

jt Beventh Ava Phone garrier, city, Eo a month, ited Press Gervi R @ months 42,00, year Oa6 Gilman, Nicoll & Ruthman, Spectal Representatives Ban Franoisoo officn Monadnock Bite,; Chicago oftica, Tribune 1 Mew York ation Banadian Pacite Midg.; Boston office, Tremont A Tip on Tips se, BORN hotel keeper can think of many ways to make money, Back in Washington, D. C., one of the Cleverest has hit upon a plan that ought to be passed Along to all his brethren. You're familiar with the hotel restaurant hat-checking em, The glare of the attendant if you passed him with your dime, and the later wrinkle of sending in ) attendant after your hat if you proved strong-willed nough to brave the wrath of the checker and carry it rith you to your table. This last seemed the complete “Scheme for extracting your ultimate dime. _ But the Washington host has found something better, what he does? He has abandoned hat and coat ss altogether. You walk right into his hotel res- it, throw your hat and coat on an empty chair at pile and it stays there all thru the meal. Wop- idea He sacrifices a good many dimes, it’s true, but his res- rant is filled and busy when waiters and check boys other restaurants of the capital, otherwise equally as bod, are hiding yawns behind their itching palms. So, they're thinking of reducing taxes, Just as we wero getting used to Sneome tax, the gasoline tax, the luxury tax, the property tax, the C tax, the road tax, the dog tax and the elty tax. But if they really nt to lift the burden, they might remove that movie tax. ‘our course, Secretary Mellon, pushing his new tax-reduction plan, doubt- Wishes to be known as the man who put the “ax” in “tax.” Stranger Than Fiction ‘WO bank messengers, in a hired taxi, guarded by a motorcycle policeman, are whirling thru downtown A bandit aute stalls the taxi. The motorcycle ‘policeman is bound with his own manacles, the thugs ize the bag of valuable securities and vanish in the ping crowds. A young American-born Italian steps in front of a ; ed neighbor and takes the knife in his own breast to save the life of his father, attacked in a quar- Fel. The boy dies of his wounds. _ Two instances of everyday news as it happened this ‘week in Seattle. Added proof that truth is stranger than DS Madrid has appropriated a huge sum of money to bulld publicly-owned Apartment houses to beat the private rent gougers. Guess we haven't erédiniaa on either gouging or progressive ideas over here in the Air It Out! } N investigation has been made of the activities of cer- A tain prohibition agents attached to the Seattle of- ice. The report on this investigation has been placed in the hands of Revenue Commissioner Blair, but, according to capital dispatches, Senator Wesley L. Jones has inter- €eded and blocked, temporarily, the publication of the document. Jones declares he believes the charges to be unfounded. Tf that is so, let the report be published and let the Matter be threshed out. The state of Washington wants to know what the spe- cial investigators found out about the Seattle agents, Tf the investigation has shown anything, the agents concerned are entitled to.the facts. And so is the public, Doe Cook, who used a fancy pen to circularize the country and clean Up millions in fake oil stock, can now testify that “the pen is mightler than the sword.” The Leavenworth pen. Why hasn't somebody suggested that the democrats run a Ford-Bryan _ ticket? Henry could furnish the car and Bill the gas. Amending the Charter CTION by the committee of Seattle citizens, called together by Mayor E. J. Brown to consider charter amendments, cleansing the movement of partisanship by ejecting summarily five changes advanced by the mayor, is indeed commendable. There has been agitation for improvements in our char- ter for many years. Some things that met the city’s needs when the charter was written have been outgrown, But this problem must be considered from an impartial Viewpoint. The political fortunes of one man or of a hundred men must not be injected into an undertaking that seeks to establish Jaws and rules under which the entire population must live, probably for many years to come. Since the scientists have satisfied themselves all that now remains to be discovered is whet alimentary. there are canals on Mars, her they are elementary or ‘Those barb-wire entanglements of war-time seem to have France's disposition, ” Into Future Is Bright SED to be a red letter day when the railroads of our country moved a million cars of freight a week, But up to the 10th of November there had been 21 such weeks this year. The railroad freight for every of last year. This plainly means that business is a busy winter. so far in 1923, have moved 437 cars of 371 cars in the corresponding period getting ready for Tt used to be the idea that work would make o effective and benefictal nothing of the kind, v ur reclamation service Now it seems to be the truth that Work will do Zangwill says we are not half-ducated enough not to wear hair like his. When Play Pays HE mail order house that put roller skates on the clerks who fill orders in its big stock rooms nounces that much rivalry has develope: ¢ of speed. So the clerks are working harder and faster— all because their work has been made more interesting, f in the nature of a game. 4 Real efficiency begins with making work attractive, Yather than in speeding-up stunts originated by business doctors with huge tortoise-rim spectacles. Few can work enthusiastically at a dull task. , but even at that we know c an- d in the matter Mr. Wilson seems to have thought that he was selecte d to award us the ignoble prize. Our New Problem Eee DING in Britain is in its worst depression in 14 ye The world now has a total merchant marine with a tonnage of 65,000,000, compared with 49,- 000,000 before the war. Of the total, Britain owns 33 per cent, America 21 per cent. Before the war, Britain had 44 per cent, America next to nothing. Our problem used to be to get a merchant marine. Now we have it, and the problem is what to do with it. We Just can't folly that California professor who has discovered that nakes aré Wyt emotional, It is the striking characteristics they possess hold our alfention, HDITOWS NOTH: Thi eighth and last of @ sertes by Herbert that confronts him today, BY HERBERT QUICK OLITICAL upheavals come from some port of what the foctalists call “class conscious. neas"-—In our day at least, There fo little of this consciousness now &s5 betwoon farmer and farmer or farmer and landlord tn America, Some of the “blanket toters” who do tho seasonal labors on farms belong to the 1, W. W, They have a rabid con: sciousness, I think there was a tenant revolt in Iowa, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Texas and some other states in some recent elections which affected the result. ~ In the main, however, tn the United States, farm tenants and those who are losing out to thelr mortgages, while they feel de spair, hold to thelr old political ideas 90 far as they hold to any, But class consciousness {s com: ing. When it comes, look out for attack on existing conditions, and Value Readjustment First to Aid Farmers, Quick Says THE SEAT Now, the despalr of the sub: third or half in the coum try takes the form of migratior Tho burntout farmers of the droughtatricken districts of Mon tana have lost thelr farma by thousands, Many have gone to the Pacifico Coast to get work, They have joined the proletariat, FARMS TO VALUABLE FORK WORKING MEN TO OWN If you were to throw out tnto the passing crowd a handful of diamonda, most of them would be pleked up by poor people, But who would have them in a week or a month? They would pass Into the hands of people able to wear diamonds, Farms ood farming regions have become more precious than diamonds, They are not for peo ple in even moderate circum: stances as working people go, Lands on which I lived in my boyhood, and which sold for $5 an acre, have ben sold in recent years for $600 an acre, Yet I re member when young men used to buy these lands after saving thelr Wages as month handy on farms for two or three years, and equipping themselves with a TLE STAR team and wagon—buy them and in u fow years pay off the wmall mortgage, They would bo laughed at for trying this now, Rich people tn country towne and cities bid) with unvarying success against the farmers for the ownership of farms, Yarm ownership brings social distino- tion to such town dwellers, As ‘with diamonds, they like to wear & necklace of farma about thetr necks, And moreover, they can buy farms knowing that every increase {n population or prog: ress in society will make them more valuable, When the owning farmer dies it sends his children to town, in part, or plunges them Into debt, One will try to buy the farm from his brothers and be sunk in debt, and the others will be lost to farming. Or they will all re- fuse to take the farm and the land will be added to some land. lord's necklace of farma, U. 8, FARM LANDS ARE BECOMING MEXICANIZED Thus our rural life je becoming Mexfoanized—in the old Mexican wonne, Our rural dwellers be come more and more subject to our rental syatem—which ts the worst in the world. I have been telling about some of the farmers’ troubles and of some of the bunk that has been shoveled out to them as rem dies. It fe worth while to look at the minor things, For they make his case worse, For ono SKIDAY, NUVIEMBER 80, 1.4, thing, they make tt hard for him to determine just what ts the matter, If & man had dyspepsia, sinus trouble, abcessed teeth, infected gallbladder, stone in the kidney and cataract in each eye, ho might think that If he got rid of these, he would be well: But it at tho same time, ® great vam- pire bat were to be coming every night and sucking his blood, get- ting rid of these other ailments would do him nome good, to be sure, but mainly it would only give him moro blood for the vampire, And that {Hustrates in a way the atato of the farmers aa I seo it—and I have been loking at it for « long time, LAND VALUES BIG EVIL ALWAYS OVERLOOK ED, The vampire ts land values. ‘That i» what in really the real trouble with the farmers, I have never seen in any discussion of the depression of the farmers any intelligent recognition of this on the part of any of the men who are proposing remedies for congreas or the state legisla. SCIENCE Peeping at Mare. Closest Next Year. May Settle Disputes. All scientists, astronomers in par: ticular, are waiting for August, 1924, when they expect to solve nome of the mysteries connected pith the planet Mara, At that time Mars will be nearer the earth than at any time in over @ century, and closer than it will be again for many years, Plans are being made for the most careful study of the planet, and, with mod- ern scientific equipment, it will not be surprising if many points long discussed and argued by scientists will be settled, The question of whether there ts life on Mars is an old one, and it | | | | | } | members of the U present and 95 voting when august body meets chamber about two weeks hence. BY W. H. PORTERFIELD ASHINGTON, Nov. 34—Barring the unforeseen, there will be 96 ited States senate that historic | in its Cun of lowa, being prealdent, r but will not |soul-mating between Carter Glass, } borers. of Virginia, and Tom Hoflin, of Ala bama, and the democracy of Jim Reed, of Missouri, and Joo Robinson, of Arkansas, has the same affinity as crude oil and spring water, still there aro 43 “ro red demo. * who will go on the right side bat | Where will they go? Ah, |the republicans are in the majority | jand #0, following the scriptural in-/ | Junction that “to him who hath «hall | [be given and to him that hath not |sball be taken away, even that| which he hath," Messrs, Stfipstead | M Johnson ed right in the m have speaks volumes, been | Mascus. the assumption that the “canals’ jon that planot were made by Intelll- | gent belngs, in order to preserve life, thru irrigation, in a world that is close to extinction, The theory in that thene lines are not the canals themselves, but the vegetation grow- ing alongside thin irrigation eystem. In many respects these lines bear out the theory of vegetation @ contention is that they are solide, but there ts .no known solid in the mineral world that changes an these spots do, for they darken imes and fade out in the sun it. SMILES You can always spot a man who drinks coffees out of a saucer, be- cause he spots himself. ay Be The nice thing about two autos crashing ts you often find whisky in one for the injured, “ee | rhe hubby of Princess Mary is a collector of old glass, 60 are the Jautolsts of this country, Dictionary {s what we use when/| you can’t think of what to use in place of a word you can’t spell, eee Lots of Ips just made to kiss aro made over Just afterwn oe If at first you don't succeed, take | her @ box of can ° ay. ary A college profesosr {9 a man who Oldest town in the world 1s Da-| Now guess where we treet cars. has always been based largely on | Ono} | facing the chair, And now there are two hybrids, | candidates for the ‘'Cherokes atrip,’ would be easy en H nd put 48 chairs Jdle of the G,| bought some of o * | | . |. P. section, where they will have a | | lovely opportunity to get acquainted | with the country's intelligentzin, az! Rooks can be too is designated in our best G. O, P.| ® circles. ‘Things can be too good to be true. true to be good. | Lon Angeles ix whore people go in half | Shipstead and Magnus Jol | desk ther aide, Not so. Minnesota—registered asf |. ‘The “registered republicans’ at |—— paicbeakal least number 61. Of course, there is] not much in common between Brook jhart, Lafotlette, Norris and Borah jon the one side and Warren, Cabot | Lodge, Jim Watson and Sam Short ridge, for example, on the other, but A Thought to anger, lest they be discouraged — Col. L211, nevertheless, there are registered eee " who will be placed 1G SCTI does much, but en facing the chair. ie wxement does more, En ‘hen there egistered, $f) coura after censure is as the n democrats. Iti sun after a shower.—Goethe lal t there isn't muc z pees 1 The proportion of males to fe-| males is generally largest in the | West | Potential || Presidents || Another of a Series of In- formal Sketches of Men Who'd Like White NERVOUS WRECK’ | Tells How She Was Restored to | | Perfect Health by Lydia E.Pink- ham’s Vegetable Compound Memphis, Tenn,—“ Twoyears agol was completely run-down and my nerves were a Niwreck. I could not | sweep a room| without resting. I could not do my ‘work except a lit- | tle at a time, and the doctor’s medi- cine did not help | me. One day some one threw your lit- tle book on to my porch, and in it I | read several testi- monials of women who had been like | myself. I went right out and got me | ja ttle of Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vege- | table Compound, and before I had taken the whole of that bottle I knew | it was helping me. Itooksix bottles, — | and then in al at Se months I took iE WHARTON PEPPER—| two more. Now I am in perfect GE0nGS Ene Horn| health, I do’all of my own work and | could do more. I can truly Say that I} know Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound gave me my health,’’— n-| Mra. O, J. Hinckuey, 816 Union * | Ave., Memphis, Tenn, ea E. Pinkham’s Private! Text- Book upon ‘Ailments Peculiar to Women’? will be sent you free upon | request. Write to The Lydia BE. Pink- ed, | ham Medicine Co., Lynn, Mass. This book contains valuable information, Yopay Lawyer, lecturor and write Philadelphia, March 16, 181 mitted to Pennsylvania bar everal books Appointed T vired From the Crowd” on law fill and treatise 8. senator to (1921-27) of Be nuary, lelphity term ur 4s Penrone, Republican, Horne | PL » Advertisement | Fathers, provoke not your children | MRS, HINGKLEY a to find something to do until they | can get into the movies, | eee | | Reformers say the modern dance }looks more like a race. Wo say it) Frieda’s Follies | usually ends neck and neck, She was a wonderful conversation. | ore | ses, ‘The proof of the pudding is in| , But much « scandal monger, digestion. | ! eee No ono had a shred of reputation left, On Chicago man, probably a coal | dealer or landlord or bootlegger, paid $400,000 income on she reached town. her brilllancy of mind, Even I could not deny. | The man who plays the horses Sho questioned me one day| May find he ts the victim of horse about ft. ” | play. = eee “Your mind ts certainly ike An electric spark,” I had to agree, Sho smiled, well gatistied, For compliments with rare, Until T added; “Yes, about 60 8 Tt would bo awful ff thero was nothing for reformers to kick about It !s easy to buy a home, Al smal] payment down and tho bal ance Ike rent soon makes you a happy home owner, Turn to the Want Ads and see the easy pay ments that are being offered. LETTER FROM VRIDGE MANN November 30, 1923. me are power."” Dear Folkat Thanksgiving Day I carved the turk; T really Uke to do It. T find it quite a pleasant work, and never dread or Tue it. T Mike it. tho before I eat, the kids will start to yelping; they've * sunk their stuffing, spuds and meat, and want a second helping. T always ike to carve a turk; they needn't start to urgin'’. It brings moe all the joys that lurk in acting like a surgeon. Doe Sharples couldn't beat me there, no moro could Doctor Willls: operate a bill of fare—tho thing that comes to fill us. T like tho turkey-carving job; I like to do St standing, 1 al- ways have to serve a mob exacting and demanding, But hero's & ‘solemn, secret fact that I must bo admitting. ‘Chey say, about my carving act, I ought to do it sitting! And when I ask them what they want (t erring), ‘0 keep myself trom they pull the universal stunt of claiming no preferring. They say they haven't any cholce, and renlly, can you boat it? It makes me want to raise my volco, “Well, here's the neck-- now eat it!" 1 always like to carve the turk—I'm really tar from bluffing. But stilt I dread the risks that lurk in taking out tho stuffing. It always makes me the t Tam able , I spill it on the table! Cirite Tamn, want to for tho I use the greatest carc | | | Baby-Talk BY BERTON BRALEY He speaks, Before it learns the words, Is just as universal As the chirping of the birds. And be the baby yellow, black, Or red or brown or white, It speaks the selfeame language Of each other tiny mite, language that @ baby speaks Is made of gurgles, coos, And funny little bubbling sounds ‘That all the bables use, | And ‘mid the Babel of the world That funny baby tongue Is music loveliest of all ‘That's ever played or sung. | ibe language that a baby | speaks, When it is very small, Is language no interpreter Could ever get at all; Yet ‘round about the seven seas And in a thousand lands, ‘The language that a baby speaks Each mother understands! (Copyright, 1923, by My most dangerous | tw in love with my part. | language that a baby) tures, Thoso who know the truth dodge it, Yet no man who knows the situation can fall to wee the truti, We discuss the farmers an i¢ they were nll in the warms boat, In 4 manner they are, but In the distress and bankruptey and en. slavement of themselves and their wives and children, they ace as much separated into classes am aro the people in the cities who ride in thelr limousines and those who tramp the pave. ments; those who live on the heights and those who dwell in the slums, There wan never a time within my memory when #0 many newspapers and pertodicals were nending out #0 many writers as now to find out what the farm situation is. There is a general feeling that {t 1s Ble News, « sense of stress and anxiety. 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