The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 10, 1924, Page 6

Sounds Like Seattle t A SPEAKER quoted in the Cleveland Plain Dealer r : have been listening on some radio wave flos jout of Seattle. For what he says about civil service ‘Cleve! sounds str liar to Seattle fol +Listen } “I cannot refrain from saying just a word about civil tservice and the way it is conducted. Like a lot of other tthings, in theory it’s a fine thing, but when a theor teollides head-on with political expedience and manipula ition, theory gets bumped off the face of the earth. * “And that is what has happened to civil service, as tis conducted in Cleveland. Consequently, it is a fF twaste of money and it does more harm than good. Th ispectacle of the civil service commission, after upholding ‘the dismissal of drunken policemen, reversing themselves tand reinstating them, is not only a difficult thing to talk labout but a harder thing to explain. | “Let’s have honest civil service, not political, bootlick- ing civil service, such as Cleveland has had for a number ‘of years. Cleveland civil service as it is administered is ta glaring example of what happens to any honest govern imental function when political manipulators step in.” “President Coolidge practices what he preaches,” shouts the Boston Transcript. And, also, since he has made it a practice not to preach, [he is somewhat shy of anything to practice A Boost From the East NR tourists to the Puget Sound country say that } the difference between Easterners and Westerners is that the latter have time to help the visitor; the former aven't. The old spirit of the West—a helping hand for an) who needs it—isn’t dead yet. Let us hope, as we grow up and become conventionalized, we never lose touch with the old tradition. Let us never be too busy to help the stranger along the way. By and large, our problem is to sell this Western won- derland to the If all of us are courteous and help- ul—and doggone it, most of us ARE—we'll sell it that quicker. ;mu Spring fever note: Wear rubber heels during spring fever; they don't seratch the desk top so easily. Spring is when nature says it with flowers. Too Simple to Be True? . AND MRS. WILCOX, out at Sunnydale, having lived a happy married life for 50 years, advise young folks to keep busy and they'll be content, too. Good advice. Not generally believed, because it’s so ple. That's the trouble with a lot of rules of life. People tt on regarding existence as a vastly complicated . Then they shoot off at a tangent, trying to under- it. There’s nothing hard to understand about it. Keep busy; don’t worry yourself about complications tt don’t exist—and you'll be happy, too. Bergdoll ‘would Ike to return to face the music if he could be sure it be a brass band reception. Nine coaches ran wild In Indiana, Just like a baseball team. Let’s Hear ’Em, Anyway ‘(OHN B. FORD, Pullman porter, recently lectured be- fore the transportation class in Dartmouth college. JAnd, doubtless, it got just as practical a talk from him Jas it would have from some “statistical expert.” We wouldn't be a bit surprised if the Seattle Chamber Commerce, at a weekly luncheon, could learn some- about the lumber problem from a lumberjack, or the ocean shipping game from a stevedore. Anyway, the experiment would be worth trying. First thing you know !{t will be so hot underwear will feel like an A bigamist is a man who took his divorce for granted. A Lesson for Seattle NEAPOLIS flour mills are likely to move to Buf- falo, to save freight rates and to be closer to export markets. . Some day, when Russia is opened up to American com- “merce, the same reason will move Eastern factories to Seattle. Then people will wonder why millions of dollars’ worth of silk, landed in Seattle every year, went East at ex- _ pensive rates to be manufactured, and came back, at ex- pensive rates, for sale in the West. Sooner or later, factories have GOT TO come here. Even tho he hasn’t made much business for them yet, 40 Argentine doctors urge Firpo to stay in the ring. It May Solve Itself _ | F traffic congestion goes on as it has been going, Seattle streets will be impassable in five years. Various solutions are offered: Double-decked streets; er airplanes; a general speeding up. Probably the situation will provide its own cure. When a motorist learns that he’s losing time and money by driving downtown, he'll stop. When enough of them learn it, congestion will be ended. _ Half-way solutions—palliatives merely—probably do more harm than good, in the long run, Summer resorts may be 2 place where they resort to high prices. LETTER FROM VRIDGE MANN April 10, 1924, Dear Folks: Let politicians rave and roar, and keep Investigating! I never mind them any more, no matter what they're stating. How trivial they all appear, these stings that once have smarted! A bigger, better thing is here—the baseball season's started! ‘Tho brazen bandits bust a bank, and grab a gob of money; tho state affairs are rather rank, and children's noses runny— they all are petty things, indeed, including even treason: I’ve more important stuff to read—for here's the baseball season. So what's the use of all the stuff they print in all the papers? Who wants to read a lot of guff of crimes and crazy capers? For many moresmportant ones have made thelr great beginnings» — the errors, outs and hits and runs, assists and games and innings, And soon we all can go and get our favored recreation, We'll talk to men we've never met, and feel exhilaration, And while the batters line ‘em out, we'll be supremely tickled—we'll jump around and yell and shout as {f we all were pickled, For baseball always brings us much a wenry world Jn needing: it gives us all a common touch, in spite of wealth or brooding, It makes us feel, for just a while, that cares are only bubbles: it makes men equal, brings a smile, and shoves aside our troubien! THE SEATTLE STAR { A Suggestion weit | GUESS THEYLL ALL COME If You Let Hubby Do the Talking By Mrs. Walter Ferguson Wo have just finished reading telling nga women sho do not sbands, nversation this with red by the man they about d is what alls three which he uses tn his grudg t no on gainst the world, and t 1 Sho much bet- id run the business you want to talk about ‘our hus- won whi neo the pes is right have to win the FABLES ON HPALTH CLEAN MEDICINE CHEST contents of Johnny 3} offered invariable year; ial uplift, he en to the re- manner In which he no-trump hand; if | | | if you are unt! t most of dicines have been lying around the ches 1 the possessor monologue all but 2 what they are) nese. for. | A husband will talk all eve- Unless your physician has order- certain medicines E our YOUR ST. Thero ts little reason any chest need contain anything] more than a little baking soda, a garglo or mouth wash, somo light ‘Not one thing/cathartic salts and a Iittle eye touched!” water—that is, If a drug storo is he would protest, “you} handy. | hat you may ved. | event take tha polsonous iptions that cost us| disinfectants out of the medicine lease, particularly if there are chil-| dren in the family. | knives, dirt-la ed ng and whatnot. cL when Mra. Mann, tn the) CHEST. |midst of her spring cleaning, asked Mann about cleaning out the dicine chest he t ver the aalo of a balloon tire, but will feel mar- tyred if his wif recounts any Gomestio happening. © surest way to y will hever bore your husband ia to let him o subject of conversa- d then Usten while ho does all tho talking. There's p good money Which raises the question. What |. 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Antioch’s latest addition to its co-operative system, of pro- viding work for y students, will be a shoe factory or campus, Thi y will enable students to work their ay thru college Also the factor tudent-worker money, Fellowship ot Daily will be a practical univer: of bi ill learn production, manage nt Lenten manship. ¢ the Chureb: of Christ in America. THURSDAY The Price of Immortality ambition of the average institution of ning seems to be to have as many monu-| mental buildings as students. Much outside i naturally | is required. It might be better to spend the money on the] students’ education and do the teaching in wooden barracks like the a training camps. After all, a college is a|t knowledge factory. As in all other production systems, the thing that counts most is the product rather than the vhere it-is made. Athepians developed “pure intellectualism” to a higher degree than ever before or since. Socrates and his satellites and brother-planets exchanged ideas and educated the young. They did it outdoors, in public—didn’t think they needed a millitn-dollar building. “THE ultima higher discomfort have posse: | MEDITATIO? |no illusion as to th FE are not opposed to fine college and university build-|the allegianc ings. Decidedly, not. But the system is out of bal-|/'™ He of when the ambitious poor student cannot afford a col- ‘course unless he goes in debt or waits on table or sells in spare time. The millions that are theoretically con-| \tributed to help him reach him only feebly and indirectly. c Colleges, fortunately, are awakening to the need of provid- | pest ing work for students who haven't enough money to pay} expenses. eget pina | The goal of every college should be sufficient fine build-} lings for instruction and a comprehensive system of factories |or « or farms for helping the worthy student earn enough to} PE pay his way. 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