The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-10-18


It's Pitch just the Same
Uncle John ID. Rockefeller recently told Cleve-
land chum how to become wealthy without wicked
ness. The recipe is simple taken from his ex-
perience.
tSee that tract of land there, he asked, pointing
10 part of his Forest Hill estate. sAll did was to
N0OOO.'
Suppose we look into this transaction and see
whether it is wicked or not.
Lawful9 Oh, yes in which it, different from some
"a the stirring adventures of Uncle Johns earlier
days those days when he ddn hesitate to put spies
On competitor dig pitfalls in the form of rebates
Then he dared; and though stern moralists don't APP
prove of the ethics of what he did, there at least
The element Of human hazard in it-he up, out
and doing.
But this scing off of vacant land in the path of
ctys growth, to put it in speculative pickle while
values pile up because of the toll of otherswhat is
but spiders game; the game of sure thing
! gambler dealing marked cards?
No Wickedness to reap where you haven't sowed;
" make off with the fruits of the patient labor Of
othersf Well, that's coming to be matter of di
v1ded opinion, with growing number of plain folks
inclining to take the other side
The good book puts it as one of the commands of
the Lord that in the sweat of their brows should
tails eat bread. Isn't it, them little mpious that
Uncle John any other chap who reads that book
with the eye of professed belief, should count III
cute to be able to eat not only bread but also cake
steak and terrapin in the sweat of other mems brows
meanwhile doing nothing himself9
Now don't think we're trying to stretch case
against John because he happens to be popular tar
8et. The is precisely the same against every
other pocketer of the increment he hasn't earned;
and the fact that we've all been in tried to get In
On that kind of graft doesn't alter the fine points
Is When man in seven years, by doing nothing, can
lift 5000 value to $40 000 you may take it from
that other men somewhere have been getting stung.
Man in San Diego beat his wife and tore her
clothes because she refused to take ring and
money he offered her. When wife refuses money,
fellow g liable to lose his control
Baseball fan in New York dropped dead when
Mathewson made hit in the tenth inning of the
second game of the series. Another fell dead in
Philadelphia when Home Rum Baker struck out
"A the same game. But we didn't. There wasn't
room enough to fall in the crowd that helped us
watch the score board.
No one will be sorry if the waters Of the Atlantic
and Pacific don't mingle in the Panama canal, just
- long as the boats can go through.
Well, women haven't got much on men, these days
DO you know the plutes wearing white sox with
trousers reaching just below their ankles, at the
dancesf
The cost Of dying has gone down in Duluth. Three
hundred dollar funeral bill was rejected by the pro-
bate court because not more than 800 be taken
from mans estate under the workngmen's COM
penBaton act But the cost of living still goes up
How they've got the tango and bunny hug beaten
6e latest is called the Maxine and you've got to lift
4 4onr partner with your knee. Pity the guy with a
Vienna scientist says q woman's love for dogs is
disease OF the nerves They're blaming every
thing on the poor old nerves nowadays.
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