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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-11-08
Sailing Date Is
Delayed One Day

Her sailing date postponed one
day. tho Nippon Yusrn KaIsha liner
suwa Maru win leave Seattle Jan
uary I. IL was announced today.
The liner Toyama Mary will call
at Vancouver on her esatcrn voy-
age. instead OF Victoria. reaching
there about Dec. 1g.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-11-08
PESS|]MISM
IN us. NOT
JUSTIFIED!
Proflteering Is Dying, Ex-
travagance Gone, Cost
OF Living Falls
BY JOHN W. hill
Financial Editor Iron Trade Review.

Much OF the pcssimism which II
spreading over the country just now
is unjustified. IL ls true That prices
have fallen faster than was expected
failures are increasing. manufactur'
ing plants are slowing down. unem,
ployfnent is growing. and buyers and
sellers continue for the moment TO
back away from each others. despite
lower prices
But the picture has n bright side.
ProfiteerinK Is DYING. Extravagance
has disappeared. Tho cost OF living
Is falling. II is again becoming pos
sihle to save. Wages and salaries
mean moro In bread and butter and
shoes. Business activity, prices and
profits are moving steadily toward a
more healthy basis.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-11-08

DENVER. Sov nscsirts
ii.oes hsad. market sio~ and use io~ss.
Steers, ssso9fsse. eo~s and kstf.r..
ts..s @3.Ts. sspcksrs and feeders. t5.:sg
~ 70. calves. tisutate.
Hoxs- Rsesipss. sec head. msrtss SIC
lover. TOP. tit. bulk Of sales. si;gft
sheep itsselpss ss.oee bead market
slo~. lambs. Sii.fs9ii.Ts. ewes. $50
tsse. fesdr lambs. tft.to0tr
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-11-08
Shipmasters' Assn.
Moves Its Offices

To get . better view OF Puget
sound the shipmastcrs' Asroc4at ion
OF the United States has moved It's
quarters from the second floor Of
the colman building to the tenth
floor OF the American Bank building
The organization expects soon TO be
merged with tho Neptune association
OF New York.
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NEW York. Nov. s-rhs foreign "a.
ehaaEs market opsnsd weak psmsbd
sterling vas ts;sN frsoss. hFsc. Oft 10
esa,imss. lire. isac. csf 7 esstifnxs.
MARKS iiss. off q esntiuaes
Toward the elass sf-rlinr snld 81 tfet.
Off DC net. francs. Asse. Oft ts e~ntlmss.
lire. AtTe. OFF 10 e~ntina~si nsyss. ttss.
Off : esntines. csnadlse dollsrs. ace
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-11-08
Used Car Show On
at New Salesrooms

An interesting used car show "a be.
ing held In the new home OF the
Great Western Motors, Inc. Broad.
way and Union. this week. The show
rooms have been beautifully decor.
ated.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-11-08

First meeting in Its new temporary
quarters on Queen Anne Hill was
held sunday by the congregation OF
the Central Baptist church. a new
$4,000 church is planned for the
near future.
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the
IN a years?
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-11-08

cargo above referred to is the first TO be
sent into this Siberian fur-trading territory
since the war. The Siberian Eskimos are
near starvation. This ship will bring them
relief and in return the company will receive
furs that wili'sell for enormous prices in
America The company also has two other
steamers, one in the Alaskan trade and an.
other along the Pacific coast
II needs more ships. and in order to pur-
chase and equip another one 1t now offers
TO the public, at 500 share,
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in connection with the IA. Sction Of
the second class In the Washington
state nautical school Saturday.
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November Str Endicott 500 miles
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Ship News
Tides in Seattle

TUESDAY
NOV. y
FIRST itiKh Tide
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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-11-08
LOWER INTEREST RATES
ARE ON THE WAY

Many believe thAt thc country -
now going thru the most painful part
OF the surgical operation necessary
to remove the noxious growth OF war
initiation. The money crisis is pass
tnx. Lowcrt interest rates are on
the way. When Il comes. this will
stimulate activity. The next lew
months may be uncertain But be
You'd this brief period. the skies ap-
pear reasonably clear. ng'headed
business men are laying their plans
for business revival. but not a
boom. next spring.
In the rest OF the world happen.
ings are more disturbing than here.
England Is torn by great strike
Cuba. Holland and some South Amer
lean countries and a number Of other
nations arc quaking In their financial
boots. Business reaction and tho de-
cline OF artificial prices arc world
wide developments. These things
are reflected in this country in lower
prices for wheat. cotton and other
commodities
FINANCIAL PANIC
N L. :. UNTHINkABI.E
with the Incompatible federal re
serve system and the vast banking
resources Of the country. a financial
panic in America is unthinkable.
Latest government figures show the
resources OF all the banks In the
United States total $4,000. o0o, eoo.
This Is greater than the combined
assets OF the banks Of ali the leading
nations Of the world
The federal reserve board has re-
fused credit to farmers for withhold
Ing crops from the markets until
prices could be forced back TO war.
time levels. The board could not
maintain prices for the grain. wool
and cotton growers and allow prices
Of all other commodities TO tumble
unchecked- Farmers losses will not
b % great as they now fear. be-
cause the purchasing power Of their
dollar win be greater.
YARsfERs ATTACK
THE GRAIN PIT
The grain pit has been the subject
u bitter attack by farmers There
ing IN graD futures. but legitimate
trading Is an economic necessity.
Cash grain buyers and -four mills
call II ''hedxinE.- n a miller or ele-
v1for dealer buys ioo.ooo bushels Of
cash whcat. he Immediately sells at
the market price the same amount
Of future wheat on the Board OF
Trade. He Is thug protected against
loss on the wheat he holds. should
the. cash price fan. without '-hcdg.
ing hundreds Of grain elevator
companies might be wiped out In a
single day by drop OF 10 cents a
bushcl on wheat Not adjustment
Of the grain pit. but regulation
against abuse. In the need.
The National Coal association has
announced that the goal OF $4,000. 900
tons OF weekly coal production has
been attained This assures the
country against a coal shortage
Prices in some sections have already
begun to tumble. They arc expected
10 fall further unless the English
coal strike creates an Unexpectedly
large foreign demand for American
fuel.
PRICE CUTTING IN
MANY LINES CONTINUES
Price cutting In many Iines contin-
ucA tho the speed OF the decline is
less pronounced Textiles and cloth.
ing are sliding. but In many in
stances are still 100 per cent above
prc-war levels. Bradstrcet's index
number for October I Is only IS per
cent above the 1913 number. Prices
Of farm products decreased 1876 per
cent In September. against II per
T. 4 n
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MONDAY
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MONDAY
NOV. =
FIRST itiEh Tide
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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-11-08
DIDN'T WORRY LITTLE
BABY JUNE; SLEEPS
IN MIDDLE OF ROAD

los ANGELES. Cal. Nov. g.
u. j. Brazelton and family fliv-
vered into Los Angeles last
night. When heads were count.
81 II developed Baby June. II
months old. was among those not
present.
Brnzeiton remembered having
hit a bump In tho road near
whittier.
The scene shifts 10 Whittier.
G. A. Casady. also motoring 10
Los Angeles. espled something In
the road ahead. Ills brakes
worked. Aiighting. he found the
object was a baby nlumbering
on all four.
Brszclton and family ratified
up shortly afterward and re-
trieyed Baby June. who was safe.
sound and unscratohed.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-23
The Best

It will be agreed that both for the
good of the country and the success
of his Administratio President-elect
Harding should invite to be his Sec
retary Of State and head of his
Cabinet
A safe and mature counsellor who
by temperament, experience and
knowledge Is competent to give
sound advice concerning the larger
problems of government;
A representative and widely
known and trusted leader Of the
great party which the public over
whelmingly declared in the recent
election it desired to have return to
power;
A skilled expert in the particular
duties of the State Department, his
mind enriched by long study and
reflection;
An international statesman of es-
tablished repute who has prestige
abroad and whose presence in our
foreign office would thus make easy
many adjustments that otherwise
may be difficult.
Little division Of opinion exists as
to what American most completely
measures up to these several require
ments. 1t is in accord with the COM
mon voice to say that this American
is Elihu Root. Other men possess
one or more of the desirable quail
fiGations, but Mr.. Root has them ALL
It follows that any selection other
than him would be the choice Of q
second best-would involve unneces-
sary neglect of supreme fitness.
President-elec Harding may we'll
deem that the present time is not
opportune for a resort to substi-
tute for the best.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-23

more cash in sight than he needs
and then actually puts aside some of
it to help out a neighbor deserves a
statue in the Hall of Fame. The
Mayor had the faith which moves
mountains when he refused to an
ticipate the fruits of this policy of
self-denial by deducting a lump sum
from the budget appropriations for
other services and putting it to the
School Boards credit. He would
rather see virtue spring from the
hearts Of his subordinates than i'm
pose it on them by budget reduc-
tions.
Municipal officialdom will be in the
throes all next year of high moral
experiment. The ordeal will be
gripping and it's results will be educa-
tional. The Joint Legislative Com
mittee on Education has turned
down Mr.. Craig's suggestion that
the $27,O0O,0OO school deficit should
be made good by the Legislature.
Who is going to make it good, and
how? Of course, the schools may be
operated for part of tho year and
then closed, in order to allow tho
Mayor to dodge responsibility for an
excessive budget total. But we hope
not. Let dollar-in-the-slot econo-
mists in the departments cover them
selves with glory. They may thus
justify the Mayors colossal conf
dence and make glad the hearts Of
the taxpayers.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-23
Clearing the Albany Jungle

If government at Albany is to be-
come efficient it must be modernized
and simplified. On the executive
side there is chaos, with 1877 depart
ments, boards and offices, nearly all
Of them independent Of one another
and most Of them uncontrolled by
the Governor. On the legislative
side there is a close corporation
organization, operated from the top.
Ancient parliamentary abuses have
survived which give dictatorship to
small group Of leaders.
A special committee Of the City
Club, many of whose members, like
Ogden L. Mills, George B. Agnew,
Martin SAKE and Mark Eisner, have
a practical knowledge of conditions
in the Legislature, has recommended
changes intended to restore greater
reedom Of action. AS it is, legisla-
tion goes by favor and log-rolling,
and majority is often powerless.
The crudest device by which ma
jority control is stifled is the AS
sembly Committee on Rules, COM
monty called "the morgue." In the
closing weeks of the session the func-
tions Of all the other committees
are suspended. No measure can be
acted on until it has had the ap-
proval of the Rules Committee, Of
which the Speaker is chairman. The
latter thereby becomes "czar."
His nod determines the fate of legis-
lation. The City Club committee
suggests that the life of all the
standing committees be extended to
the end Of the session, thus reduc-
ing the Speakers power Of blockade.
1t also wants to abolish the "rapid
roll CALL" which puts voting more
or less in control of the Speakers
desk.
The Senate also has its "morgue,
known as General Orders, where
bills enter, leaving hope behind. If
this Is done away with and swap
ping votes IS checked by forbidding
the passage of any local measure
after March Is the Legislature may
be remodeled into really respon-
sible and representative body.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-23
(Laughter)

About the softest thing in the way
of reputation for humor is the
fame of the "funny" judge. At the
theater the audience can take the
jokes or leave them. The punning
professor may get his need Of per-
functory smokers, but he gets little
more. The judge, master of all he
surveys in the courtroom, has only
to hint at anything remotely resem-
bling joke to send clerks and the
learned counsel into Mysteries and
get a sympathetic chortle from all
present.
But the reputation ought to be
left to the oral testimony-to print
His Honor's wittcisms in bare type
is to expose his nakedness to the
winds. Witness, for example, that
earned jurist and most witty of all
British judges (by reputation), Mr..
Justice Darling, Of the Kings Bench
Division. The record before US is
from The Westminster Gazette and
the heading is "Mr. Justice Darling
and the Process of Picking Sprats."
(lold your sides, here comes ex-
cruciatingly funny stuff, is the plain
inference.) And what follows?
Well, it seems that the action was
about quantity of anchovies (trade
name for picked sprats, it appears)
supplied by one fish merchant to an
other. Counsel asked one Of the
witnesses "if he had heard of Mrs.
Beeton's process Of pickling sprats." "
If not he had the lady's book with
him and would read it. Whereupon
there follows exactly this: "His
Lordship: Who was Mrs. Beeton? {?
(Laughter)." And when counsel had
explained that she was "a great au-
thority on food preparation, my
lord" the merriment reaches It's
climax in two "(Laughtcrs)" thus:
His Lordship: Then are you going
to call Mrs. Bceton-Naughtcr) -
because don't know that Mrs. Bee
ton can be read in a court Of law as
an authority? (Laughter)."
a little more follows in which His
Lordship gets another score by OBJ
serving that an anchovy Is really "a
kind Of cmbalmed fish," and the up
roarious scene Is over. We picture
New-York tribune., 1920-12-23
Stalling

Senator Kaplan, a Hearst-Tam-
many member of the Lockwood
committee, of course knows what a
"stall' is. He does not need to be
told that he is one who seeks to dis
tract the attention of a victim while
the operating pickpocket rifles his
clothes or makes getaway.
Senator Kaplan may be assumed
not to wish to play the part Of q
STALL" and the resemblances be-
tween his recent activities and those
of a pickpocket's co-laborer are
doubtless accidental. But he must
recognize some similarity" The COM
mittee's carefully considered and in
telligently conducted labors were
approaching a climax. Thereupon
up rose Senator Kaplan to interiect
an alien matter likely to mess up
the investigation. Why did he do
it? Was it because he wished to
start wrangle, in the dust of which
the higher-ups would escape? The
Senator must be convinced that
boobishness is local characteristic
else he would be less coarse in his
work.
When the trail of graft ran In the
direction Of the City Hall and it de-
veloped that Hettrick wrote letters
which the Mayor obiigingly signed
and forwarded to a city agency that
had stone contracts under consider
atlon His Honor sought to start a
distracting backfre by ordering an
other investigation to be begun. But
the town aughed-laughed as il
now laughs at Senator Kaplan's eff
forts to appear as the fercest enemy
OF rich grafters. 1t Is doubtful if
ever there was more open attempt
to discredit an investigation and
thus bring it to naught. The under
taking Is so plainly preposterous
that even the Hearst newspapers
show little zest in backing it ND,
though they try.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-23
The Reel Enright

What is more terrifying to the
criminal heart than twenty motor
cycles driven by detectives touring
the side streets by night? The
answer is, Of course, twenty motor
cars roaring full speed about the
city, swarming with detectives BRAN
dishing Winchester rifles.
Ask any householder who heard
and saw one of these Enright en-
gines Of righteousness exploding
down his quiet thoroughfare. The
noise is as of an airplane throbbing
overhead. 1t roars it's approach for
blocks ahead. There is ample time
for the soundest sleeper to awaken,
say a prayer, find his slippers, slip
on bathrobe and get to the front
window. Then all is over in a flash.
The grim Winchesters CLEAN Sec
ond in the darkness, there is a con-
suming roar-and the street is swept
clear Of crime for the night.
Or practically clear of crime-for
here and there doubtless a particu-
larly crafty and cowardly burglar
will be found who, instead Of COM
ing out into the open to be winged by
a Winchester, will choose to skulk out
of sight as the roar approaches.
Could not an old-fashioned mounted
squad be formed to follow behind,
lasso these mean-spirited fellows
and drag them out where a pot-shot
could be taken at them?
Plainly Mr.. Enright Is on the
right track at last. But he must not
be afraid to go the limit. A few
armored cars raking the main high
ways with steady machine-gun fire
would be logical aid. Probably the
main crossroads should be bombed
from airplanes at irregular in
tervals
incidentally, the movie rights of
such a police force should bring
enough to pay for it's entire upkeep.
And if the vicissitudes which some
times beset great men should ever
separate Mr.. Enright from his job,
his successor would be ready and
waiting-Police Commissioner Will
liam S. Hart, late Sheriff of Dead
Mans Gulch.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-23
The Mayors School of Virtue

The Board Of Estimate and Ap-
portionment passed and the Board
OF Aldermen approved budget
carrying s27,000,000 less than will
be needed to keep the public schools
open. 1t was explained at the time
that the shortage would be made up
somehow. Comptroller Craig volun
teered the opinion that the Lepis-
latpre would supply the missing
s27o0o,ooo Mayor Hylan suggested
that part Of it could be secured
Though the sels-sacrifice Of other
city departments ard bureaus, the
heads OF the latter heroically re-
training from spending the full
amounts allotted 10 them.
The department or bureau chief
VINO - willing TO admit that he has
New-York tribune., 1920-12-23
4nti-Happiness League
If Flag Is Forced to Follow the Fa-
natic. What Chance Has Potr;o,;sn, }

II rag is FoTccd to r 0ll0w the ia
natic, What Chance Has Patriotism ,
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: If revolution should come in
this country it will not be caused by
anarchists, Socialists or Bolshevists.
1t will be caused by the Anti-Happi-
ness League, which is making a joke of
American liberty. And when it comes
it will be aided not by the lawlcss
element but by those people who have
Intelligence enough to know the intent
Of the Declaration Of independence and
the original Constitution.
The dominating thought of the Anti
Happiness League and our paid assas-
sin of peace, Wayne B. Wheeler, is
punishment. Their every statement
and interview bristles with "Donts,"
"Bewares" and "At your perils." They
have absolutely no thought for the hap
plness Of the people, and their efforts
are making Of America a nation of
sneaks.
Now comes the Church Alliance to
aid in the work Of preventing happi-
ness. Are you aware that the Church
Alliance is S8,0O0,O0O in debt and that
it must get the money somehow? If
you will look it up you will find the
real reason for this proposed Sunday
observance. None of these people has
sincere and Godlike desire to i'm
prove the world. They are as selfish as
the Board of Trade and have the same
Kind of desire to advance. And they
think that by compelling Sunday OBJ
scrvance they will get the morey that
row goes into recreation.
This desire on the part Of these va
rlcus bodies and individuals to prevent
and punish is destroying patriotism
and reverence for flag and country. If
the flag is forced to follow the fanatic
and the land Of the "free" is to become
the land of the foolish, then tho pres
ent wave of crime is logical and the
wave Will become a flood The initial
mistake has already been made. 7
hadn't had a drink in twenty-seven
years, but since the nti-Happiness
League installed this stab at nv personal
liberty l am drinking now whenever I
Get the chance, because l don't propose
that this Anti-Happincss League shall
run my personal affairs or desires.
America is too full of law and nun
ishment. 1t is working in the wrong
direction. The people at large have
more real humanity, sympathy and
actual religion than the preachers and
the Church Alliance. If you try to
compel them to 60 to church and fore
60 their Sunday recreation you will
have to build jails in every block to
house the violators of insane laws.
w. X. COCHRANE.
Chicago, H., Dec. 20, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-23

tho weakened counsel wiping the
merry tears from their eyes and en-
deavoring to go on with their argu-
ment. Another big day In tho humor
of the British bench has passed into
history.
Is this to be explained as simply
British humor at its norm? Alas,
no; for the one perfect parallel that
leaps to mind is our own Congress
sional Record. Wherever you see a
(Laughter) coming there, you can
be confident Of a particularly sad
utterance. The trouble plainly is
with all humor from on high, with
every wit who knows in advance that
however poor his jest he can be sure
Of (Laughter).