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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-02-18

XIX.
Maud Muller's case is one
which shows the insight of the
poet. In one couplet Whittier
congresses the whole philosophy
of population.
"She married a man unlearn'd
and poor,
And Many children played round
her door"
This is more comprehensive
than the maxim, "A poor man
for children; for small families
are the rule in many communi-
ties among the poor as well as
the rich. But where the people
are both ignorant-or "un-
learn 'd''-and poor, large fami-
lies abound. The Beers are
well-to-do, but they are very il
literate and unprogressive-and
prolific. The French Canadians
are not poor in the slum sense,
perhaps, but they are not strivers
after wealth as a race, still main
tdlHIuB -lht hippy -5o-luNhy pI
titude toward the rearing of chill
dren which We Yankees main
tanned when we had, as they
have, a wilderness at our doors
in which we might freely live.
They are illiterate, and very pro-
life. The Russians and the
Central European peasantry gen.
orally, are both poor and ignor-
ant.
The rule is this. The simple
life produces large families. The
complex life cuts down the birth
rate. AS the Good Ship Earth
spins forever down the ringing
grooves of change" If human be-
ings are not to make their lives
on her decks hell through the
miseries of poverty, they must
live more and more the complex
life, and less and less the sim
pie life. This is the solution of
the riddle of population.
There must be no poverty.
Some way must be found to elm
mate the injustices which make
the inequalities that doom so
many millions even in our
sparsely-peopled land, to lives of
simple, stark, dead struggle for
existence. Such a state of free
dom from poverty is possible in
the western world for ages to
come, and il attained before the
people are ground down into 1.-The
simple life," will forever save us
from a swarming existence of
poverty from which once COM
pletely plunged into it We shall
have no way of escapin g-ful-
filling the sordid law of Nal
thus, and carrying us down into
that "Amorphous gulf" that
gulf of Anarchy whose pit is
He'll" There must be a way
found through which all men may
escape from poverty.
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The case of the Simple Life
VS.. the Complex Life is another
way of stating the old struggle
which Spencer describes of Indi-
valuation VS.. Genesis. The COM
plete, perfect, and complex In
dividual does not multiply as
does the simple, small, and lin
tied individual. The housefly is
credited with the power to pro-
duce 1919, 000,000,000, 1000 of
young in a season, If all her eggs
hatch, and all her young go
"unswatted. The very fact of
size carries with it the gift of
more complex life. The elephant
is committed by his very weight
to a struggle with gravity-he
cannot carry about such a body
and keep it nourished, and still
have left the vital force to null
tiply like the housefly. So the
birth rate of the elephant is low
and that of the housefly high,
just as the one lives on a high
plane, and the other on a low
one.
Small birds breed faster than
large ones of the same genus.
The golden eagle has fewer
young than, does the sparrow
hawk. The tapir is slow
breeder, while the peccary
Swarms.
But no merely brute life COM
pares in it's capacity for becom-
ing complex with human life.
The Bushman lives a simple life
for a man, but the gorilla re-
duces existence to still lower
terms.
Let us contrast the simple life
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ION Board the Good Ship Earth"
The Perils Which Lie In the Simple Life
By
Herbert
Quick

Ching, living the simple life,
couch in a howell with their par
ents and relatives; Willie and
Gladys have to have a home of
their own. Gladys mother in
sists that her daughter shall
have few years of just being a
girl; the mother OF Tzi hands
her over to the father of TIL to
give away to a husband who has
never seen THIS face.
And when Willie and Gladys
work, their church work, and
their clubs and societies to take
care Of but TIL and Ching have
babies only-babies and awful,
grinding work. Willie and Gladys
must have piano; TZi and
Ching have babies. Willie and
Gladys must have rugs and bath
rooms and a bungalow at some
lake. TIL and Ching know moth
ing but work and babies. Willie
and Gladys want to know some
thing about this great universe of
ours, they reach out after the
stars, they delve into the myster-
les of knowledge; but as for TIL
and Ching,
"Slaves of the wheel of labor,
what to them
Are Plato and the swing of
Pleiades?
What the long reaches of the
peaks of song,
The rift of dawn, the reddening
| of the rose?"
Ross says of TIL and Ching's
country, stripped to the bare ma
chinery of production as it is:
1.-THE founts of inspiration and
poetry dry up, and life sinks to
a dull sordid round of food-get-
ting and begetting."
Jesus came to earth that we
might have life, and that more
abundantly. This must mean a
more complex life, more needs,
more qualifications, more desires
Like the daughters of the horse
leech we cry give, give!" to
nature and to life. And this is
| right. Give us a more complex
life, not a simpler one; better
children, even though they be
| fewer; and women with unbound
feet, unbound minds, and the
freedom to develop in other ways
which will make their children
great, whether they be many OF
not. Thus will the ship be
saved from overpeopling.
See tomorrow's Times for an.
nouncement of the next article
i'm this great series.
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of the Chinese peasant with that
of a struggling American family.
The American boy goes to school,
the Chinese boy works bowed
down to serve the rice. The
American boy goes to high
school; the Chinese boy at the
same age takes a wife, and be-
comes a father. He is repeated
ly becoming a father, while the
American boy goes to college, or
spends years becoming liable to
marry" Out of thousand
American boys a great many will
take up studies or apprentice
ships or other complexities of
life which will defer their mar
riages-and if they do not, their
sort in China in one case in a
hundred thouSand.
The difference between Gladys
and Tzi is even greater. TIL has
her feet bound and suffers the
tortures of hell for years, and
this is the only completely en-
tering in her life. At last it only
makes life simpler and confines
her more closely to her sole bust
ness of motherhood as it keeps
her negotiating in the hovel she
calls home. At thirteen she is
given in marriage, and while
Gladys is working through the
grades, TIL is having babies. If
her husband is able he hires a
wet nurse for the babies, so that
Tzi may become mother oftener.
Tzi and Ching marry in their
early teens; Willie and Gladys
wait-and in waiting maybe
change their minds. TIL and
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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-02-18

They do say clothes make the
man.
And they made two men-aw-
fully sore.
The way of 1t is this:
Oscar Schwartz went to s..
Okada, a Japanese merchant tall
or, and ordered a suit of clothes,
making a payment of $40. The
tailor made the suit, and notified
Oscar. He took the suit, and
| then
Disaster!
For, relates Schwartz, the suit
would not fit. The trousers had
the depressing boaconstrictor eff
feet of a hobble skirt, and made
an unseemly display of his calves.
The vest appeared to be neck
muffler, while the coat had the
pleasant personality of chorus
girls corset.
Take back your wares, /"
Numbered Mr.. Schwartz, handing
back the garments.
Then the heart of Okada leap
ed within him and his eyes
flashed. He hurled himself upon
the offending clothes. And for
some minutes he keen1y enjoyed
himself in dropkicking the suit
all over the shop.
Interesting as this was.
Schwartz remembered the ten
spot, and demanded either 1t or
another suit which would fit. And
he says s. Okada refused with
| great enthusiasm.
Therefore Oscar sues for his
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-02-18
S YEARS OF GUERILLA
WARFARE SHOULD U.S..
INTERVENE SAYS EXPERT

err nebulous provisions OF the
Monroe doctrine establish a pro-
tectorate by this country over all
American republics. Foreign ma
lions seeking redress for violence
against their subjects must look
to this country because in the
Monroe doctrine we have said
that no foreign nation shall land
troops on American soil or ac-
quire any hold on this contiIA~
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-02-18

A. B. Darby, charged with
stealing a watch in Ellensburg,
and William Nightgate, wanted in
Everett for grand larceny, have
been arrested in Tacoma and will
be held for officers from these
cities.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-02-18
LEAGUE PLANS
BIG SOCIAL

The Citizens Good Govern
ment league is planning to hold
a big social in the near future to
stir up interest in the movement.
At the meeting last night the
committee reported that a good
program has been made up. Miss
Ida Kugeman of Ohio spoke at
the session, commencing the
women of Washington for their.
activity in politics.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-02-18

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CONSTANTINOPLE, Feb. Is.
Fire which threatened the
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was extinguished this morning
after 1900 houses in the district
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stroyed.
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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-02-18

C. Nelson and A. Ebert were
arrested last night on suspicion
by Officer Stratton. They had
leather betting valued at $50
with them.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-02-18

The jury in the case of w. n.
Ruggles against the Northern Pa
cific Railway, in the federal
court yesterday awarded the
plaintiff $4,000 damages for per-
sonal injuries.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-02-18

Charging his wife is quarrel
some and possessed of an unrea-
sonable temper, George F. Hub
man has filed suit in superior
court against Agnes HUFFMAN for
divorce.
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Federal Judge Cushman yes
terday denied motion of the Pa
cific and Eastern Railway for a
new trial in the Lulu Dingle case,
in which the latter was awarded
$4,000 damages for the death of
her husband.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-02-18
You'll Find
1t Here

An attempt is being made at
Washington now to get par
don for John II. Bullock and c.
E. Houston, convicted here OF
coal bid frauds on the govern
ment. They have appealed their
case to the higher court.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-02-18

Perfect fitted glasses $3.50 up.
Puff, Jeweler and Optician, 1147
q st. Advertisement
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-02-18

Secretary of State Howells has
already received letters from de-
serted wives asking for relief
under the deserted mothers PEN
sion bill which has not yet been
passed by the senate.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-02-18

New shipment Milwaukee Sau-
sage now in. Duenwald's, 313 18th
Advertisement"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-02-18

Now is the time to plant Rose
Bushes. Don't wait until they
are blooming-plant them now.
We have an extra large stock of
rose bushes this year. come and
see them. Him., Florist, So. 7th
and X st. Advertisement.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-02-18

Ruberoid and Universal Rooflns
s1.40 SO. up. Get samples. Ew-
ing's Hardware, I'LL So G.
Advertisement. f"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-02-18

Carmine Grieeo has filed suit
in the superior court against
the Northern Pacific railway for
$500 for alleged personal in
juries incurred while working on
a section gang.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-02-18

Artistic floral decorations at
Watson's. Advertisement"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-02-18

About furs. See Mueller, 92l
South G. Advertisement"
BY order of Governor Lister
all national guard companies in
Washington will parade Wash
ington's birthday and be muster
ed for pay.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-02-18

Congressman-elec A Der
Johnson arrived in Washington
yesterday and will stay to get
onto the ropes by the time the
extra session assemblies in March
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-02-18

At the funeral of Mrs. It. F.
Clark, matron of the deaf and
dumb institution at Vancouver, a
double sextet of mutes sang
Nearer My God to Thee" in the
sign language.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-02-18
CLOTHES WOULDN'T FIT
SUES FOR $40 DAMAGES

hey do say clothes make the before Justice westco
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-02-18
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Remarkable Success of These Tai
ented Physicians In the Trent-
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You'll Find |
1t Here
An attempt is being made at
Washington now to get a par
don for John II. Bullock and G.
Z. Houston, convicted here OF
coal bid frauds on the govern
ment. They have appealed their
case to the higher court.
Now is the time to plant Rose
Bushes. Don't wait until they
are blooming-plant them now.
We have an extra large stock of
rose bushes this year. come and
see them. Him.. Florist, So. 7th
and X st. Advertisement"
Secretary of State Howells has
already received letters from de-
serted wives asking for relief
under the deserted mothers PEN
sion bill which has not yet been
passed by the senate.
Artistic floral decorations at
Watson's. Advertisement"
At the funeral of Mrs. T. F.
a..1z nf hA ayNI
dumb institution at Vancouver, a
double sextet of mutes sang
Nearer My God to Thee" in the
sign language.
About furs. See Mueller. 92l
South c. Advertisement"
BY order of Governor Lister
all national guard companies in
Washington will parade Wash
ington's birthday and be muster
ed for pay.
Congressman-elect A b er t
Johnson arrived in Washington
yesterday and will stay to get
onto the ropes by the time the
extra session assemblies in March.
Perfect fitted glasses $3.50 up
Puff, Jeweler and Optician, 1147
q st. Advertisement.
The jury in the case of w. n
Ruggles against the Northern Pa
cific Railway, in the federal
court yesterday awarded the
plaintiff $4,000 damages for per
sonal injuries.
Federal Judge Cushman yes
terday denied motion of the Pa
cific and Eastern Railway for a
new trial in the Lulu Dingle case
in which the latter was awarded
$4,000 damages for the death oil
her husband.
Ruberoid and Universal Roofln:
S1.40 SO. up. Get samples. Ew
ing's Hardware. I'LL So G.
Advertisement.
Carmine Grieeo has filed suit
in the superior court against
the Northern Pacific railway for
$500 for alleged personal in
juries incurred while working on
a section gang.
Charging his wife Is quarrei-
some and possessed of an unrea-
sonable temper, George F. Hub
man has filed suit in superior
court against Agnes HUFFMAN fol
divorce.
New shipment Milwaukee Sau.
sage now in. Duenwald's, 313 It'll
Advertisement"
c. Nelson and A Ebert were
arrested last night on suspicion
by Officer Stratton. They had
leather betting valued at $50
with them.
A. B. Darby, charged with
stealing watch in Ellensburg
and William Nightgate, wanted il
Everett for grand larceny, have
been arrested in Tacoma and will
be held for officers from these
cities.
II FERTILIZE
The evening world., 1913-09-29

insl and TO the end one Of the strong
est OF the boomers who sought to make
the late Mayor the compromise candi-
date at baltimore quite recently he
was IN the forward ranks Of those who
believed that Mayor Gdynor deserved
another term. lie was conspicuous IN
the Executive Committee ~ the Gaynor
Fusion League.
TIE prospective Congressional nominee
Is u lawyer, with offices at No 70 Broad
street. At ono time Mr. Cantor was
connected with Ths World. lie went
Into politics and became ~ senator and
was President pro TEN. Of the senate
As LAWYER Mr. Cantor has won for
The evening world., 1913-09-29
SENATOR LODGE |.
UNDER.THEK KNIFE:
MALADYASECRET
Operated On for Growth, Is
Reported "Well AS Can
Be Expected"

NAtrANT. Mass. Sept. Ex-senator
Henry Cabot Lodge was operated upon
last Thursday for a growth upon the
right side. For twenty-four hours there
after his condition was considered seri-
nus nv the physicians in attendance.
nc day, II was said that the patient wa,
as comfortable as could be expected
Details o. the trouble which necessl-
lated an operation were refused at the
:Ssnat6r's homo here.
Senator Lodge returned from Wash
lnston . few days ago upon the conclu.
sion OF the night over the taril bill, and
at that time appeared to be In his usua
health. although show wing somewhat the
effects Of the strain due to the prolonged
sssaion OF Congress.
The fact Of the Senator's illness did
not become known until to-day. For
some time he has suffered from a for
"ign growth. but ne was reluctant to
submit to surgery. and yielded only upon
me tnsistence of his family, his physi-
clans and a few intimate friends who
Anew Of the trouble. II was the wish
OF Senator Lodge and his family tina
the matter be kept as private as posi-
bls Senator Lodge IL In his sixty fourth
year.
The evening world., 1913-09-29

" OF Mayor william J. Gsynor. will bs
named by Tammany tonight to sue
coed Francis Burton liar rlson. recently
appointed Governor of the Philippines
Nj Ua;r'spn's district IL the Twentieth.
which takes w = section of tho upper
east side between Nincty.oish,h and
one Hundred and Eighteenth streets
Mr. Cantor has been known ne an In
dependent Democrat While not openly
hostile to the organization. Mr.. Cantor
has not hesitated TO work along ind
vldual lines lie was one of the orig
The evening world., 1913-09-29
himself . distinguished place amons

himself . distinguished place amone
the leaders OF the lew York bar.
To succeed the late rig Tim" SUN.
van In the Thirteenth District Il was
stated to-day that former Consres.uan
Charles v Forues has the best chan -
oc being sent hack to Washington
George W. Loft. the candy man. has
made an Impressive canvass for the
place. and II may he that Mr.. Loft. who
has been , Tammnny Sachem fer years.
will nose Mr.. Fornes out Of the honor
In either case 0 nomination Is prartl.
cally equivalent 20 election.
The Republicans meet tomorrow AMI
will name candidates for Congress TO
oppose the two Tamm1ny selections
The evening world., 1913-09-29
COURT BARS CANNED"
CHARGES Of WITNESS
AFRAID TO APPEAR

Supreme Court Justice oavegan to-
DAY intimated that canned testimony"
would never take the place OF testimony
from a mans mouth-at least the init
nation applies to his court. Moving
pictures have been used In court for
the purpose OF identifying persons. bu,
the monograph or "dictaphone' was
The evening world., 1913-09-29

not. Search was made for the interpre
ter but ne was on his vacation. At this
point the Court sad he prcrc-roi to
hear the testimony from accord lb.s ir-
direct rather than TEL, tp'u = rhur D.
grlphlo record.
Milford chronicle., 1913-09-05
BARBER POLES
ARE STRIPED

How many Of our readers can tell Nc
what the stripes on the barber pole s;a
nify? You see the pole with its strinsss
and you know there is a barber s5oS
back Of the pole, but here the knowled9pp
OF the average person ceases. In r..
early days BARRIERS did the bleeding for
the community and surgeons were nov
as plentiful as now. The first th;n@
thought necessary, way down TO tbss
time Of George Washington's death
was that any patient should be bIe5
Tap him, and take a few ounces of blood
from him, no matter how weak he niobt
be. Well, the red stripes on a bar6er
pole mean the red ribbon bandages that
BARRIERS bound over wounds caused by
bleeding people. That's all. When they
got through with a plethoric man. Of
tul habit and had tapped him like a
hard maple tree in February, he was
patched up aud bandaged till his arms.
legs and trunk looked like much
gathered leg
Milford chronicle., 1913-09-05

A CRUSADE against signs which
obstruct the view, and which are
in general an annoyance by reason
Of their destroying the landscape
effect of the neighborhood, has been
started in Marshallton, near Viii
mington, and this will be a good
thing for the people generally to
help along. There are scattered
along the highways and railways
especially, hundreds Of signs ofen-
sive to the travelling public, and
which certainly do destroy the land
scape effects Of the country, and
these should be taken down. The
most fragrant offenders, are the
whiskey signs, which only raise the
antagonists to the liquor interests
to a point Of resistance which will
be difficult to combat. A few years
ago Milford, about the approaches
to the railroad depot, was afflicted
with several signs which spoiled
the landscape effect, but public sen
timent, and property owners gen.
orally combined, and they have
gone we hope never to return. Let
the towns impose an annual tax
per square foot on all sign boards,
and let the Levy Courts Go the
same on all sign boards displayed
for advertising purposes on either
private or public lands, and the
trouble Will be largely eliminated.
Marshallton has started right on
his question, now let others sup
port the movement.