The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 27, 1925, Page 6

ee ee aa The Seattle Star THE Kind Words club is goitig to hold its nual banquet at the Olympic hotel Saturday night Politicians others who have figured prominently in the news during the past will placed on the pan of sat tured ridicule. C. B. F White-Henry-Stuart building, that most everybody of importance purchased a ticket to get in on the fun With all the jollity, ness of purpose about the Kind Words club that cannot be overlooked, We don't know of any better way to express it than by reprinting the article that ran in a Portland newspaper after the last annual banquet. It said: “If the idea should inoculate other cit- jes, as it has inoculated Seattle, one per- ceives a great mission for the Kind Words club. It would march on and on, overwhelming prejudice and antipathy by ridicule and smiting enmity and folly with the stuffed bludgeon of satire. For such is the curious purpose of the Seattle organization that recently, at a dinner at- tended by many public officials and prominent citizens, wakened gusts of laughter over what were but yesterday very grave and serious matters of dis- pute. “When a man laughs with you or you with him, it is the most difficult busine in all the world to return to your qua rel. When some pretentious foible of ‘yours has been made the football of your ‘friends, in broad yet kindly merriment ‘you aren't quite so apt to pick it up again. So, as we say, there is a mission for the Kind Words club, a mission to ‘teach us not to take ourselves too seri- and year » and good zgerald, anne there is serious- Very singular it is, however, to ob- iserve that it is the method and not the ‘substance which effects the wincing tar- -get of any truth. Had the newspapers tmade such sport of the pet and private ‘feuds of certain of Seattle's citizens you ‘may well believe that strident protests ‘would have arisen, even tho the narration ‘of the stories had been in the line of ‘duty, as news. But the Kind Words club rought harmony where had been dis- msion and even quelled a slander suit. You see they had laughed together, and o laugh together is much the same as breaking bread with an Arab. Thereafter there can be no strife. It appears that the newspapers and the Kind Words clubs would have an identity of interests—the former to discover the facts, the latter to ‘allay them, by mirth and ridicule. * * * -Any organization which has for its pur- ‘pose the laughing away of such delusions -is engaged in a lofty and humanitarian - project and ought to be encouraged by all good citizens. We commend the notion to Governor Pierce for executive action.” Uncle Sam, Salesman NCLE SAM is a great salesman. His purchases from foreign. countries in 1924 were $181,000,000 less than in 1923. His sales, however, were $420,000,000 greater than in 1923. . i And last year his exports exceeded im- ports by 1,100 million. : Small wonder that the United States is the Croesus among nations. Still Miracles HE age of miracles is not past. The people of Brooklyn, N. Y., will save more than a million dollars a year by VOLUNTARY reduction in rates by the corporation that supplies them with elec- tricity. The company’s announcement says: “We are able to make this reduction be- cause of lower manufacturing costs and | child? | growth. Jolted From Jazzland T MAY be, as Emerson says, t ] every evil there is a compense Little Kans 18, and large for her age, seemed to let “her feet hold on hell.” was quite unmanageable at hor fights me when I reprove her, tearful mother, “I can't do a thing ” said the father. She repelled parent- ndness, she disobeyed, she refused to piano lessons, wash th shes or “run errands.” Finally she disappeared and the police notified. Officers found her in a room with companions before she had gone downward further than to bob her hair, rouge her cheeks, paint her lips and arrange “love affairs.” Bernice Wilson, of take were At the police station she was sullen and obstinate. She was tired of the monotony of home life, tired of going to school and church, tired of parental restraint and early-to-bed admonitions. “I want to be free to go out with the boys,” she told her parents and the off “T want to have a good time—no one can stop me.” A good time! Adolescence visions ruin like that! “Sit up closer, Bernice, said Police Lieu- tenant Williams, sadly and desperately; “I want to read something to you.” Slowly, and with values, for pathos, ers. regard for dramatic for the whispering tones of appeal that touch the heart, Lieutenant Williams read. Bernice lis- tened. She became nervous. Tears trickled down her now-softened face. Suddenly she ran wailingly to her mother’s arms as the police officer impressively askec “Bernice, do you want to grow up like that girl?” 0, no!” my mother. me home. sorry!” Mother, father and the child went home. Lieutenant Williams laid aside the paper he had been reading with a sigh. “It may save her,” he said. What was the the child screamed. “I love Please—please, mother, take I will be good. I am sorry— story he read to the It was one that told of Dorothy Ellingson, the San Francisco jazz-child, who had gone so far along the pathway Bernice sought that she was in prison for killing her mother! Greed ECTIONS where timber once stood must now pay high freight rates to get lumber from sections where timber still stands. So points out the American Tree asso- ciation. As a result of someone's short-sighted- the states forced to pay this cost are burdened with hundreds of thousands of acres fitted for nothing else save tree Uncle Sam has 81,000,000 acres of such idle land. Our forests are being depleted at a rate four times faster than their growth. Greed such as this is often the fore- runner of famine. Our Brains HA of our population are morons— some 50,000,000 of them, and an ad- ditional 30,000,000 have intelligence no higher than a normal child of 12 years. So assert experts, quoted in the Illinois Medical Journal, It is a sorry picture. And it is a false one. The standard of intelligence of the common people is several times as high as some of the “experts” believe. Any one who has mixed with the public knows this is true. Trouble is that intelligence tests usually grade people according to ability to think fast rather than soundly. —)|JOHN BULL BA ‘Washington, Inc. H olds a Meeting ‘Oi MPIA, Jan. 27- busin } put the rinciples now. ‘government.’ ” Washington state’s being run on The new motto is: “We Watch out for the fall bargain sales in auto license plates. Three plates for extra one home and ma State insurance for sale, ‘ If you're a politician, break a we give 1,000 votes for every one how we treat you. campaign pledge fractured, the r a foot-scraper out of it, price of two, Take the Break a leg and see . Roland H. Hartley, general manager, is looking over the stock, Dead lines, like legislatures of the 1781 model, have been junked, Four thousand new laws, which the legislature was to pass, but won't, for sale at waste- paper prices ee | Some folks want to fire the new manager already. Bill Short, of the State Labor Feder If anyone has a typewriter, Bill his Olive | him for a typewriter. | will give him a Roland for ee | Hartley backers got up and chee Now abolished the legislature. tion, wants to trade ed when the colonel they want to change Washington's name to “The Evergrin State.” . Ps . More than 400 pusillanimous blatherskites will be knocked down to the lowest bidder this summer. Pusillanimous — is five-vertical, meaning faint- hearted; blatherskite is seven-horizontal, meaning somebody the cunnel doesn’t like. Future meetings of the board of directors of Wash- ington, Inc,, will start with a pep rally. boys Mark Reed and Dan Landon will sing a duet: “We don't know where we're going, but we're on our manager will lead the Rollo.” way.” *- And a man don’t . March 1, zine space in advertising. ° pardons. Rotary club, Jan. 27, “Congress is no place for & poor man," mournfully ob- served a Western representa- tive, who, without being at all general in singing “Follow your First thing the new G. M. did was to give the legis- lature the new “10 commandment commandments after eating a soft-boiled egg at 3 a. m. Estimators shudder to estimate what he might have done on a couple of six-minute * He framed the eggs. . | Now the insurgents are singing: Put me somewheres east of the stateline Where the legislatures lurk, Where there ain't no 10 commandments have to work. Eastern states will open Washington's bids on tourists Pennsylvania will send us a job lot of 4,500 at $4.81 each, 10 per cent off for cash. cost 16 cents less and bring their own liquor. The sy: tem’s much more efficient than using up a lot of maga- New Yorkers . One thing that’s gotta stop is the distribution of free 'Tain’t businesslike. breaks. Any jail would go broke under that system. se 8 No wonder we have jail- But the only change you'll notice at Olympia is that they'll put in a golf course and enlarge the eporty, does try to keep up with good society, entertain a little, dress himself and his wife row sonably well and drive a toler- ably spruce automobile, “just for the look of the thing,” as he ex- presses it | JF the business man who complains of bootleggers, im- moral and disorderly persons hurting business on a -|certain street in Seattle will give Mr. Fixit exact locations, jnames or numbers, this matter will be taken up with the |chief of police in a way that should get results. Mr. Fixit’s answers: . Mr. Fixit: Is it a fact that if 1 have my receipts and the name and | Jekyl-Hyde B With U In the 18th stuff being br ah, Port ' 1839, by in Indt ors of opturr ught time the the chief to the Chi which were purvey nese, a powerful Cantonese of ficial Lin appe Bull to disperse the * off Canton Hyde—d Lin » h brought on a war with 1, the “oplum a” defeated annexed levied a big indemnity Canton, Amoy, Foochow, Ningpo and Shanghal “treaty p which had to take British opi and whatever else was br in, whether th or not In 1 agreed thi ult cultivating this China home industry of t—she would taper off bringing !t In from India. And China put a stop to growing: Chinese however Britain to the degree China optum—for by time had made a long. Bince the revolution of 1912 the has been in the hands of cor rupt politicians and its, and in some.of the provinces growing the drug is encouraged. Bo China today is back where she wan in 1907. The opium menace now threat- ens the United States. The same ships that smuggle rum can just ax easily, and more profitably, smuggle naro drugs, and the same bootieggers, often in ca- hoots with corrupt officials, can na casily distribute it not for country Congress No Place for a Poor Man “A certain amount of front is necessary,” he con- “in order to have any influence, Without Influence I can't do anything for my dis- trict, and if I don't do anything for my district, I can't be re elected. nd I tell you I have to be re-elected “If I'd known at the start what I know now, I'd never have come here in the first place, but being here, I've got to stay “It's my only way of making a living “I was getting along all right in my law business at home the first time I was elected. I wasn't making as much as my congres- sional salary is, but it didn’t cost me anything like as much to live, absolute! tinued, itishers Refuse to Co-operate ’. Proposal to End Drug sing in Far East [ | towell’s Colump « where fp Ratanee, ta gay Co Telling It to Congress Excerpts F A BASIC travelers ax ham, (R) Mas cr | What Are Saying Giese teat | PREMIER 1 books Americ failed to cure my attacks of blues | GEORGE publisher while | ‘Yes, Haven, and I've got SECY. ANDREW nly thru sound po t to expect true progress.” WILLIAM 4 business man is sheer, dumb, in this, | Sez Dumbell Dud: most or any rom the Congressional Kecord) ——__——___—/ | INDUSTRY tal duty and atkins, (D) Ore , PEACE ean rise perhaps te tip s standard. We shalt ty having somebody next proving that the “world ip g failu ause it has wealth, circulation and infg ence. in war Hay time is tn may and the boon dation Frothing Folks Pay for Public Utility Executives A CALIFORNIA leginlator ig, troduces @ bill that np public utility offloer shall by paid any higher salary than the kovernor. It happens that the kovernor of California is rely tively well paid He has gig, 000 salary, plus a residence ang upkeep allowance, In some states this principle would rm di the salary of a President to less than that @ & locomotive engineer, But even at $10,000, the pub lic utilities would be bidding such @. bully pulpit.’ against private corporations Ppa | eager to get the same men at eq_| five times the salary. Unless publicly owned or regulated business can pay the gulag wage, it cannot get the going men You can get governors, and good ones, to work for no mb ary at all, if you think that & democratic. We do get ambans | dors on practically that base | now. We require them to ray | out thelr salaries in rent place In which to do their But when you want company executives, to compete with the factories, prices or be left overs. HERIOT, Fra Twain 1 «an author Mark ¢ never 6 | HAV PUTNAM, | Roonevelt, | ° 4 to me,| 1 ike to preac h| MELLON work, economy we have a . 418 | E, WOODWARD, re- New York: “It footed luck that of the millionaires country.”* Suits with two ‘pairs of trousers are in || demand, We |} wish they|} would throw in an extra coat and vest|| The woman on the new also. [dollar Is nothing for looks, | St. Paul promt. officers | hooch in a table leg and pulled J has a fine background. Reductions The price of every dress has | been cut from 20% to 50% preparatory to reducing our stock before we begin remod- | eling this. building. Because | TER H. Ro} LKS AT STOPPING OPIUM TRADRI . SiVOsFR ERSRSES STEereserzeseeE st either. “My bank account kept get- ting fatter and fatter, and every year my income was a trifle larger than the preceding year. LAW PRACTICE Ss SHED ow look at me. I've been in congress a few term’, my law practice has gone all to pieces, and if I were kicked out, I'd have to begin again at the very beginning, broke and in debt into the bargain. jeventy-five hundred dollars a year looked pretty big to me at the start, For that matter, it really was more than it is now. That is, it went farther. “But to begin with, the pay isn’t actually $7,500. Every two years I have campaign expenses to meet—at least $1,000. That trims $500 off each year's salary, “Then there's rent. In Wash- ington they figure it at $100 monthly a furnished room in any good apartment house. I have to have a house of my own. “I must entertain those who entertain my wife and me, It's impossible to entertain fashion- able people here without serving drinks, and these times drinks an't be served, at any rate on # large scale, in a hotel dining room. Well, 1 do a bit better than $100 a room, 1 pay $300 for my five, and they're fairly comfortable. wife can't do all the ork and appear in so I have to have a servant a month, and cheap at | pick up a pedestrian along the road| Chicago address of the subscription and give him a lift in my machinc,| agency. MRS. A. M.-H. and should meet with an accident! 1¢ you will give this Information tohich he was injured that hélig tng Better Business, Bureau, {n Answers to Your Questions ? ? |:0siiet! say i ine ali as, naan ors Nf. | better results, That sort of thing has often hap-| CEs id lawyers declare that it] Mr. Firit: Would it be possible! aw. But none will say that| fo get the city to put in @ sidewalk it is not a law that should not be|on Nickerson st, between Jeasee our stock must be reduced im | mediately prices have been cut | ruthlessly. This is the oppor | tune time to buy a new dress. Dresses For Every Hour $14.50 | Dark-toned crepe dresses with long or short sleeves for the business girl or for street wear. Brightly colored frocks with smart trimmings that are particu- larly attractive to wear at the informal party. Unusual values at $14.50. Frocks For The Maid And Matron $19.50 © In this group of dresses at $19.50 there are both silk and wool dresses for both the maid and the matron. Every desired shade, all sizes and all the favorite styles are included in this group. Don’t miss these exceptional values. CREDIT GLADLY other economies in operation.” - Intelligence is more than quick wits. ie Q What kinds of chickens are = ———@} of decf, nert to known as ornamental breeds? | YOU can get an answer to | A. The Polish, Exhibition Games, \ 4 any question of fact or in- | the Iwot Linares Silkics, Sultans, Frizeles and Ban-| | formation by writing The Seat- | | oambling houses, ctc., are situated .| , tama are representative ornamental ji es Gusstion allo i928 |firat 20 applied by Police Captain | Canse OF modified. oe are dat is now pedestrians se New York ave., Washington | | 4jerande sgh sti | must 9 street, ere is ae | D. C, and inetosing 2 cents in | a aie : be Wedd of New York to! str, Fixit: In transferring at the| a bad curve at Nickerson and 18th, | loose stamps for reply. No | | ong WT "3 $4 9 W. 25rd! premont bridge, as I stood waiting ae | medical, legal or marital ud- | eters ares oom for my car to stop, two automobiles | vice. Personal replies, confi- | and a truck were approaching.) | | dential. All letters must be | When very near me the truck shot } | out from behind the cars and my | signed, France, whow public, apne ranean, | only eacape wax to stop on the car wind instrument to learn to play? @. What two states produce the| tere usually made when. mounted Seah, CRCaOrHE Sh FER OF EN Sree A. Yes, it ts one of the most diffi-| most poultry? }on horseback; hence, a military dic-| ; bi 2 jetta} Was oe . ra cult of wind instruménts. | A. lowa produces the most, tho It-| tator. eas truck drivers. at can be Lhe |linois runs her a close second. eee Roe dipped liad peg eae Q. What is the maximum amount 9 Sue Q. What is an omnibus bill? | Ae consibla ‘eat tha Surhbee oe any of cotton one person can pick in a! Q. What. woods. A. One in which a large number}. Zz D aitven fad a yt ohaie aoe aad [of individuat bills on the same sud-|\t't9 the traffic department, MA In About 500 pounds. |_ A. Maple ix most used, with India| ject are united into a single meas-| tin wna he ide vous charebe Vie ke wach Me lrosewood second best, and holly| ure. {7 10, and back up your charge. =Q. What can be done to prevent an| third, Jevery one will do this, without Béeing neck? | eee prejudice, it will remedy this evil. =A. First of all give it plenty of} Q How did the expression “ten-| mean? Mm old cream ; never sleep with the head | dertoin,” as applied to a police pre-| A. Stecet idloncas, Mr. high; massage the neck night and | cinet in New York city, orlginate?| aie de Biorning with cream. A. The tenderloin 4s a choice cut) @ Who originated the the porterhouse, hence a police precinct in which \6 goo. | most of Q What is the plural of “aide-de- camp"? A. The plural is “aides-de-camp,” not “aide-de-camps.” Q. Is the French horn a difficult The street department promises to |look into this and determine if any- thing can be done at this time. If it is a plank walk that you wish, |there may be some immediate re- jet. If a paved walk is desired, |that can only be brought about by petition of 60 per cent of the ad- Joining property owners. SMOKING ROOM STORIES a | all-the-|44]. AM a newspaper reporter,” said not stop the inveterate cigaret smoker in | the teachers’ pay when school is|the room dedicated to that purpose. an Dalia ba Phrase,| out? That is the rule with other|"One day in the near past my nose “The white man's burden,” and] workers. AE for news led me to a public library. ¥ what does it mean? The public school teachers are! Two old men with the library habit A. Apparently Kipting originated! paid so much per year, but the|had gotten into a row over the only the phrase in a’ poem by this title.| payments are made monthly right! ry in the place not over- Jt means the responsibility for the|thru the year. The school board with cross-word — puzzlers. moral and physical welfare of the| considers this the better method, en the police officers were puzzle a |dark races, aveording to the Brit-| noth for the board and for the |addicts. “Well, what does the puzzle G17 if you're human, you surely have dreamed of a place tar away by | {th and American imperialists, a8| teachers. They would get the samo| call tor?" =X the sea. Lost in your thoughts, such an island has seemed just as | 010%! by Kipling. | money, but tn larger monthly sums, = Sah if they received no checks for the}. = perfect a place as can be, =: You've built you a throne ‘neath the shade of the trees ‘and you've Q. How much mail do senators} summer months, Sordered your subjects around. You've amiled when they bowed and then |#"4 representatives receive cach Ce a) TAuick to their knee have suddenly dropped to the ground, day? | Mr. Pivit: Squarely in the cen-| ,. H4,ihe mind that is yours must, of course, have its fling. Ite travel to |“ Jt has been catimated that! ter of Spokane st. and partly out in| Xcus ~dream isle is swift. Oh, where is the man who has never been King when |&740r8 average 70 pieces of mail aj Heacon ave. at the interacetion, 4 whe's just let his inner thoughts drift? day and representatives 100. a large light pole, either city or Perhaps the real reason is just that desire is ‘something that makes et feed Puget Sound Power, that creates a Ife worth white. Wighing and wanting keep living afire, though wishes | 2 Who uses Jefferson Davis’ old| menace to drivers and pedestrian : desk in the senate chamber? | 2, 0; —_ | A. Senator Pat Hérrison of Misa-| The street department 1s ale A Thought J ber Eee Vinee vd aca ae ee Q. Who was known as the jon Horseback"? A. Gen. Ernest Boulanger of “Man car. are. used for Q What does “dolce far niente” Fixit: Speaking ‘of year-round schools; why ro eee <a Setar ense-eenrtaecadersencinaDoeasrs Resta anmeee “It says,’ sald both old men at the same time, ‘something not sym- phonious with mother-in-law. “My housekeeping budget is $50 a week, not counting parties, or call it $225 a month, ars ago." “Then there's the item of * the chorus asked, drinks. They go pretty fast, with a few friends dropping in most evenings, a small dinner about once a month and a good- sized party a couple of times a year. I reckon the average at a gallon a week. There goes an- other $100 monthly, “Foot that up, multiply it by 12, add my annual $500 for cam- paign expenses, and compare the $8,600 total with my $7,500 salary, “A little man advanced and said, ® me, gentlemen, but I got ord 30 What ts “PEACE: die out after while. Go on, have your dreams if they eiv " e you @ thrill and fill up spare moments with mirth. But don’t dream too long ere you take a big spill fasippl now occupies it, jaware of such a condition, but when you suddenly come back to earth | +. hue promises to give It immediate at- Q. What and where is the Pai-| tention. antine hill? eee A, The central hilt of the seven Mr, Fhait: on which ancient Rome was built,|a subscription for four years, the eee and the traditional seat of the; magaine to begin in December. TVHERE 1s a God cartiest Roman settlement, Have heard nothing from this. 1 Ovid. Our fellowship is with the Father, and with His Son, Jesus Christ,— 7 gave a young man} 1. John 1:3. within us.—