The Washington times., 1923-11-22
Wide
World
BY Herbert Kaufman


e" HE Twentieth Century, :"
and "The Manhattan
Limited are peram-
bulating office buildings.
All sorts of deals are con-
summated in their little COM
partments. Likely as not a
group of Armour executives
is aboard, figuring disposal OF
surplus leather stocks.
Lasker and Wrigley may be
next door, laying preliminary
plans for Hiram Johnson's
Presidential campaign while
Judge Gary, behind another
steel panel, analyses Thomp-
son plant reports and debates
production economies with
President Farrell.
But the Northwest hasn't
yet reached the stage of de-
velopment at which desk rooms
are provided on day trains.
Therefore, these notations,
about the country between
Vancouver and Portland, must
be dictated to a Remington
portable under a barrage of
general conversation.
Try it, if you think it's easy!
81 Got More Seats Than
Brains"
THE club car porter just told
i the brakeman that he has
more seats than brains.
Washington, paraphrasing the
sentiment, might aptly state
that she has more resources
than intelligence.
Her bigger cities are shrewd
and efficient but the ma
jority of her villages are still
thriftless squatters.
Here's a town, on the main
line and along a concreted high
way, with a litter of abandoned
logs for a front yard. Great
slabs of firewood, some burnt
and charred, are rotting by the
roadside.
No one has bothered to cut and
saw them. Meanwhile, stoves
and furnaces are depicting con-
venient forest. Today we're tim
Der rich. Why bother about to-
morrow's poverty? Back East
you're paying $1,000 a cord for
kindling because Yesterday was
similarly reckless OF conse-
quences.
Lazy-Minded PrOfusion.
CMART bungalows, but with
- out tree in the yard. Yet,
a hundred yards distant, perfect
" formed evergreens may be
had for the mere trouble of
transplanting.
West Tenino next-a gangling
hamlet nesting at the foot Of
fragrant, verdant hills, and clut-
tered to north and south with
deadfaIls, criminaiiy surrendered
to the elements.
Enterprise would ship such
thoroughly seasoned fuel to
Seattle. But profusion is pro-
verbally lazy minded.
Slashed hillsides by abandoned
sawmills. No reforestation |;
brutal, regardless, ruthless
methods; take it while the go
ing's good and let the future set
tie the bill. This is new land.
You can tell. it by its squan-
derous habits.
Youth is cruelty wasteful:
By Right of Merit and
Service.
DRUSH, brush, brush, and not
ID a goat in sight!
Herds of Angoras would clear
such idle acres, support them
selves, pay taxes and yield a
neat profit. =,
Ioafing acreage that should
he covered with self-paying
hired men to prepare it for
agriculture, enrich the soil and
render a yearly tribute OF mo-
hair and, finally, meat and
pelts.
The East may no longer leave
dimes on vacant lots, come back
in few wears and find them
grown into a dollar, but the
Northwest can put horns on a
little of capital and turn it into
q fortune.
Japanese truck farmers, who
force every inch of Puget loan
to perform maximum service,
have established $500 to $1,000
per acre values through in
tensive cultivation of property
that originally cost no more
than this.
Later on, folk who'll use their
heads as we'll as their hands
will come over the Cascades
with goats, alfalfa, swine and
dairy herds and by right OF
merit and national service re.
place Stacker homesteaders.
Processes of progress are in.
evitable.
"Pop an Acorn in the
Ground"
THE vanguard, however, is
l. already on the grounds
ample, DENIED barn, and pas.
lures, clean and level as a bill.
lard table, testify. Yon's q
spacious, spic-span dwelling
with an immaculate coat OF
white lead. Trim paths, for al