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the American wheat growers have been
getting just % per cent less for their
commodity than true economic condi-
tons justified.
1t may be said, OF course, that no one
could foresee the. weather conditions
which adversely affected the condition
of the American crop. That is true; but
it is also a consideration which might
well have commended itself to the "eX-
perts" before they made SO, much of
the prospective heavy yield in Europe.
So many natural factors might easily
intervene between the estimating of the
European crop and the marketing OF the
American crop that the importance of
the former was exaggerated.
Thus has the crop-estimating func-
ton of thc Department of Agriculture,
originally designed to prevent sudden
fluctuations, come to produce that very
effect. The prices of both cotton and
wheat, this country's most important
agricultural products, have been sud-
denly depressed and as suddenly in
creased by men who do not seem to
know what they are doing. Or sus-
picious person might think that if men
should set out to manipulate prices
through nominal performance OF Off
cial functions, they would do just about
what the governments experts" have
done in the cases of cotton and wheat.
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were worth, either as landscape or fol
fuel or furniture is not indicated in the
dispatches which describe the process
whereby the owner of their erstwhilc
site turned his ruined possession into a
fortune. He sold name, and that
name is embellished with traditions
Belleau Wood.
Now, some Americans, reviewing this
real estate deal, are indignant. What
had given the land the comparatively
small intrinsic value it possessed was
destroyed in the war, they complain
and the Frenchman who owned what
was once Belleau Wood sold a lot OF
fire-blackened and shel-riven stumps to
citi5 ems of the United States for a highly
exorbitant sum. The purchasers were
the members of the Belleau Wood Me-
mortal Association.
Nor was that sum the only compen-
sation the Frenchman received for his
barren land. He had filed with the
French government a heavy claim for
war reparations. and the claim was
added to the bill against Germany. So,
he gets double payment, and on the
basis of exorbitance in each case.
If the land had been situated in the
United States, instead, and patriotic
French organization, wishing to memoir
ialize brave poilus, had sought to pur-
chase it, of course the owner, being an
American, would have lost all the &C
quisitive instinct he ever had, and priced
the land at figure ridiculously below
its real value Yes, he would-not!
The acquisitiveness of the Frenchman
who sold Belleau Wood, in its intrinsi-
cally worthless condition, for sum
several times greater than its pre-war
value, may not be listed as a transcen-
dent virtue. But lot OF Americans,
it is to be noticed even by blind man,
are strangely addicted to the habit of
appraising their land, for sale purposes,
in accordance with the uses to which
prospective purchasers would put it
and of course those uses are governed
largely by the financial capacity of the
buyers.
Moreover, not in all cases is exorbi-
family priced American land put to pa
triotic Use by the hold-up victims, its
purchasers.
What the Frenchman sold to the Bel
leau Wood Memorial Association was
a shrine, or, rather, place properly
subject to conversion into shrine. If
every American war-profiteer could
claim such an eytenuating cir
there would be far less cause
for complaint by those who pay the bills
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Poets Corner
THOUGHT.

u
Thought! How sweetly solemn is
your peace.
No tongue can quote your love, nor
bid it cease.
No earthly eye has power to pierce
your walls,
You do not echo as in empty halls.
What wonderous happiness at your
command,
Your power to take me to some dis.
tant land.
Where none can enter, would keep
away, d.
Where none but those 1 wish to, dare
to stay.
The pretty things that alone can see.
The gifts of love that are alone for me.
Where can choose the one that 1
would own,
And dwell in beauteous gardens all
alone.
And add, or take away, just as 1
choose;
No matter what 1 ask, you don't re-
fuse.
If l desire cottage by the sea.
With fairy gardens for my love and
With all the things that make a para
disc,
Kind thought appears, and 10, befors
my eyes
/ have the land wish for at my feet,
l need not open my eyes, nor even
speak.
And l can have a castle built of gold,
Or glass, or stone; and have it new or
old,
What thought has given, none can take
away,
It's yours, to mediate with as you
may.
Thought is like the sky at eventide,
Dissolving into space, as though
t'would hide
Some glorious secret from all human
eyes;
A glorious something that it seems to
prize.
What tranquil beauty we can fling in
thought,
And thinking is sense that can't be
thought.
4 lad may bring his ideal to his side,
A lass may choose, and lay away false
pride.
And hold a blushing face up to her
beaus,
And whisper all her heartaches and
her woes.
And yet feel sure that no one knows
her bliss,
That none but she was witness to the
kiss.
How often do we sit, to think these
things,
And seek the quiet that our thinking
brings.
The peaceful quiet that we all have
sought;
Thought, that sweetly, sweetly solemn
thought.
BY C. o. B.
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ENRICHED THROUGH RUIN

To many French landowners the
world war meant ruin. Not the after
effects OF the conflict; properticd classes
in the devastated parts of France could
not pay such heavy taxes as those that
have been imposed upon English land
lords, even if the French government
had seen any merits in taxation as a
source of revenue for paying its debts.
1t was the war itself-the actual fight
ing-that pauperized many Frenchmen.
But there is at least one Frenchman
who has made money out of the war
the war in the same direct sense as that
applied to those whose land was ripped
up and down, and grievously gouged
full of holes and pits, until it was worth
less for productive purposes. This par
ticular Frcnchman has received far
more for his physically despoilcd land
than he could possibly have sold it for
in the hey-day of its pre-war worth.
Upon his land, or upon a part of it.
grew more or less stately trees. The
place was probably never highly pro
ductive, agriculturally. What the trees
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Will Blake, Boots" at the Duchy
Hotel, was waiting to extinguish the
lights, and seeing Brendon he said:
There's something in your line hap
pened, master, by the look of it. A
pretty Robbery tomorrow"
"A convict escaped, WHIP asked
the detective, yawning and longing for
bed. That's about the only fun you
get up here, isn't it?'
Convict escaped? No--a man
done in seemingly. Mr.. Pendean's
uncle-in;law have slaughtered Mr..
Pendean by the looks Of it."
And who is Mr.. PendeanT'
"The gentleman what's building the
bungalow down to Foggintor."
Mark started. The big red man
flashed to his mind complete in every
physical feature. He described him
and VIII Blake replied:
That's the chap that's done it.
That's the gentleman's uncle-in-law r
Brendon went TO bed and slept no
worse for the tragedy. Nor, when
morning came and every maid ard
man desired to tell him all they knew,
did he show the least interest.
He was just slipping on a raincoat
anu dDouJ 10 leave lne HDtci WHeIl
Will Blake appeared AMI handed bIn
a letter. He felt curious and, not as
sociating the incident with the rumored
crime, set down his rod and creel,
opened the note, and read what was
written:
SO Station Cottages. princetown.
'.Dear Sir: The police have told me
that you are in Princetown, and it
seems as though Providence had sent
you. l fear that nave M RICH: to
seek your services di.ectly, but if you
can answer the prayer of heart
broken woman and give hrf the bene-
fit of your genius in this dark mo-
ment. she would be unspcakahly
thankful. Faithfully yours,
''Jenny Pendean."
Mark Brendon mu-nurcd damn"
gently under his breath. Then be
turned to Will.
where is Mrs. Pendcar's house:"
he asked.
in Stat.pn Cottages, just tdore
you come to the prison w.h,ds. slr.'
Run ovc-. then, and say II call in
half an hour"
CONTINUE in Oar Next I,sue.)
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A PROBLEM TRANSPLANTED

Cities of the North are beginning to
get acquainted with a kind of trouble
which had been foreign to them, and
which they could not understand, be-
fore they became crowded with negroes
who were dissatisfied with their lot in
the South. In some of those cities this
strange new trouble has been of seri-
OTIS nature. For example, Philadelphia
recently experienced race riot.
There the jobs which the newly ar
rived negroes coming in thousands, un-
dcrtook to get were held largely by
Italians. Whether the Italians were
comparatively competent workers is
somewhat beside the mark The point
for consideration is that the influx of
negroes from the South created fric-
ton, and that in various ways.
1t was not merely matter of COM
petition for jobs, although that might
| have been sufficient to cause a riot.
Economic conditions generally were dis
rupted. Members of the two races
day laborers in both cases, of course
became rival applicants for tencments
and small dwellings. Consequently
rents scared. There were other phases
of the sociological problem. One thing
led on to another, until feeling reached
the flood tide and broke bounds.
Perhaps the Philadelphians, Nike the
residents of many another Northern city
had thought that they understood the
negroes far better than the people OF
the South did. At any rate, Northerners
have long been inclined to criticise the
South for its sociological customs and
practices. That attitude has been re-
Elected not infrequently in Congress
where bills have been introduced to
solve" some of the problems heretofore
peculiar to this section of the country
Now it cannot truthfully be said o
the South that it is gratified by the
new experience of the Northern cities
to which hundreds of thousands o.
Southern negroes have migrated The
South is not built that way. 1t can
not but deplore the grievous incident;
that Fate has imposed upon the former
critics of this section. 1t can only hope
that such incidents will give thos,
critics. in actually, some measure o
the understanding which they hav,
been protesting for many. many years
/ And if, by the test. Of ultimate conse
|. quences, the North should evolve bet
ter way of dealing with this sociology
cal problem than the South has bee
r able to devise, then the South will b
sincerely "much obliged"
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BACK OF COTTONS COMEBACK

american farmers VIII not SrleVe over
the sudden advance in the price of cot
ton. Rather will they be greatly elatcd
because the market is coming their
way The ones whose eyes are filling
with salty modification are the gamblers
the bears who sold Short" in the
expectation that cotton would 60 the
way of wheat.
These statements are obvious, OF
course. But they may serve as an in
PRODUCTION to a more broadly important
matter than specific case of sudden
tluctuation in the price of staple agri-
cultural commodity. Although it is only
natural for the cotton growers to toss
up their hats and whoop at this turn of
the market, wouldn't it be we'll for them
to consider, at the same time, earlier
events upon which this fluctuation was
predicated-the factors which depressed
the price to such an extent that so sud-
den rise was possible
The immediate cause of the recent
rapid increase in the price of cotton
SIG bale in four days-was the federal
governments report showing decreased
acreage, in general, and the poor condi-
ton OF the crop in Texas. 1t was the
proper function of the government to
issue such report, if, as is doubtless
true, the government was in possession
OF actual facts.
But this report failed signally to con-
firm ar earlier one issued from the same
source. 1t may be recalled that The
LIGHT questioned the serviceability from
the farmers standpoint, of the cotton
crop estimate made by the experts
of the Department OF Agriculture sew
eral months ago. They undertook to
measure the total yield before they could
possibly have come into possession Of
facts warranting such an estimate, for
this report was issued before the farmers
had completed their planting.
Thus was laid predicate for Just
such sensational fluctuations as the re-
cent one which put money into the
farmers pockets and imposed heavy
losses upon the short" gamblers. For
the gamblers there can be no legiti-
mate sympathy. The point to be con-
sidered is that there would have been
no such occasion for a great fluctuaton
if the price of cotton had not previously
been depressed-and that the direct fac
tor in that depression was a gratuitous
government estimate which was unwar-
ranted by genuine information of the
kind to which the experts" should limit
themselves in making their forecasts.
Under the careless methods practiced
by the government experts" precipitous
fluctuations are invited, whereas such
disturbances would be largely precluded
ii the estimators performed their func-
ton responsibility. First it is the farmers
who suffer; next the SPECTATORS come
to grief. Every dog has his day; but
think of the "off days!
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A Puzzle a Day

Two men shot at the peculiar tar
get shown above. AS hits are indi-
Gated by the letter "z'; BIS by the
letter tx" The value of each diyi-
|sion is indicated by the number on it.
A apparently scored $40. and B 376.
A, however, claimed his score should
have been $50. How did he prove
his assertion?
Yesterdays answer:
If seven men came to a restaurant,
the first every day, the second every
other day.. the third every third day.
ETC.. il would be. 400 days before they
would all arrive at the same time. 400
is the least common multiple of /, .,
5, 4. 5, 6. and Z. de, the smallest
number into which each of those num-
bers may be evenly divided.)
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NIL DESPERANDUM.

Never give up, my comrade,
While sailing DER life's sea;
Cnchartered, too. may be your road
So let this motto sail with thee.
The tide will turn, someday, my
brother.
And watt you on to fame;
If you but keep your motto clear,
And never give up to shame.
Rise to the highest light within you,
And keep your courage up;
An ounce of nerve can do for YOU,
Much more than pounds of luck.
Set your aim toward something
That is really worth the while;
Then start the world a-going.
BY the rapture Of your smile.
ALVAH T. AINSWORTH.
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SISTER, LISTEN!

Sister, listen! till l tell you.
What there is in life for you;
1t will be a boon companion,
No matter what you do.
There are blessings without number,
You can count them while you go
If you're strong. and do not falter,
As you meet them to and fro.
Let a noble mind dwell in you.
And your soul be great and true;
Like the songbirds soaring skyward,
There's higher route for you.
ALVAH L. AINSWORTH.
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A whistling marathon contest resulted
in one man whistling steadily for ten
hours. Now all that is needed to make
things complete is tobacco chewing
contest and a whiting marathon.
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"Papa. is il right to say this is
government of the people. for the peo-
pie, by the people? ?" NO. my son. Cor
rectly speaking. it is a government of
the people by the office holders for the
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San Antonio VS.. Beaumont at
League Park. Game called at 4.
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Where to Go
Motion Pictures.

Motion Pictures.
Palace-"Three Wise Fools"
Empire Thomas Meighan in
Homeward Bound"
princess-Reginald Denny in "The
Abysmal Brute"
Royal-"The Birth of a Nation. :"
Rialto-Viola Dana IN "June Mad
ness"
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Musical Comedy.


Grand-Jimmie Stats Allard in
TOO Much Bees"
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JULY CIRCULATION

The paid circulation OF The San Antonio Ugh,
during the month Of July. 1923 day by day was as |
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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-02-02
SOLONS TO ASK
DILL TO SPEAK
Senato-Elect May Address
Lower House

OLYMPIA. Feb. "A resolution
Inviting United States Senator's elect
Clarence c, DIN to speak In tho
house February 7 was 20 be intro
duced Friday. This resolution Il
slated 20 pass and members OF the
legislature are looking forward 10
tho address by Senator Din.
-Four house bills wero introduced
In the lower branch OF the legis.
lature Thursday. Ali OF the four
which brings tho total 20 %. were
referred 20 oommitieea They were
House bill No. 90. sale OF timber
lands and timber for the construo.
ton Of the new state capitol build.
ings. Roth OF Whatcom
House bill No. 81, outdoor sign II.
eense fees; Joint committee on parks
and Fairgrounds.
House bin No, %, scope of iicenss
laws governing eligibility Of dentists
Thompson. OF Pierce.
House bill No. %. oiassifies De,
positors whose funds arc In savings
departments OF bankh: Behrons. OF
King.
Speaker Mark Reed again remind.
Cd tho members OF tho house %
speed up, He stated that thsre would
probably be no Saturday session. due
TO tho fact that ona OF the large
committees would DO IA session In
Seattle on that day.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-02-02
ROBBERS AGAIN
ACTIVE IN CITY

Two boidupa. q doren OF more
house robbsrses and the capture os
an alleged hotel burglar marked the
activities OF bandits and thieves
Thursday night.
Ernest Gallant. after robb,ng Tom
Pearson and Tom Hedoff In their
room a, the Shasta hotel, proceeded
10 the bathroom. where he put on
Parsons clothes and was walking
out of the lobby whom Patroimon
A. J. Conner and II. ID. Smith saw
him and put him under arrest.
Gallant 10 held on an open charge.
pending The filinS OF q burglary
charge against him.
While on his way home at D.
m. 8. =. Morgan. 1891 Sixth ave.
n. W.. was held up In Ballard by
two armed bandits. who took taB
from him.
A half-hour later. Il. II. Hoag. s2s
". 7sth st.. was hold UP In front
OF HIS homo by two bandits who
answered to the description OF the
first pair. Hoag was robbed Of
some ANAL change.
Mira Eather Bronson. lib Cherry
At. reported that while she was In
q theaier Thursday evening someone
unfAstened ss-inch strand OF pearls
about her neck and fed
Several hundred dollars In Jewels
and siiverware were STOLEN from
Mrs. George A. LAnden. 2BIz Fourth
ave. ~. by burglars who entered
tho place BY unlocking the back
door.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-02-02
9 BILLS UP
FOR READING

OLYMPIA. Feb. 2.--Tho $4,000. 900
appropriation bin for tho new state
capitol buildings was 20 come before
tho senate Friday morning for third
reading.
Tho BIN IA ono Of nine that are
on the senate calendar for Friday.
Tho si.67o.oOo appropriation bin for
tho Pacific highway between Cen.
tralla and Vancouver u also on the
Hat. which y aS follows:
Substitute s. II. No. IL, commit.
tee corporation fees.
8. d. No. 100. by committee. sp-
preparation for the highway between
contrRiia and Vancouver.
s. d. No. iot. COMMITTEES, sppro-
priation for uiato capitol.
8. u. No. es. majority Of taxation
committee. administration OF state
government.
g. u. No. 50. Senator HAstinrs.
actions IN bank cases.
8. b. No. 81. Senator Pnippa.
redemption or repurchaso OF real
estate sold for delinquent taxes.
$. b. No. 81. military COMMITTEES.
tho militia.
s. u. No. ps. military COMMITTEES.
issuance OF licenses to honornbly
discharged soldiers. sailors and
mnrincs.
s, ID. No. %. military COMMITTEES,
county auditors TO record. wf,hou,
charge. tho certificate OF discharr,
Of any honorably discharged veteran
OF tho spanLsh.Amorican war.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-02-02
BONE PROMISES
FIGHT ON BILL
BackerS Of Power Measure
Resolve on Stand
BY Fielding Lennon

OLYMPIA, Feb. 3,--i8aekeru OF the
Bone power bill are ready 10 fight 10
finish for the measure which would
allow cities OF tho first class 10 sell
power outside their corporate limits.
mo matter how many other bills
are introduced before this legislature,
or how many amendements are made
10 the bills already introduced. am
going 20 keep my measure Ia the
fight 20 the last" Representative Ho-
mer r. Bone said Friday.
despite the fact that the propon.
ents OF tho bill will be divided by the
many measures that have been or
will be proposed. Bones backing APP
pears 10 DO intact
The Bone bill should DO out Of
COMMITTEES and before tho house
some time merit week. and when Il
comes before that body the fireworks
OF the session will be turned loose.
II Ia believed that the bill intro
duoed In tho senate by Senator VII.
liam Bihhop viii faii by tho wayside
~ II cannot got tho support OF either
the real proponents OF municipal
ownership or tho opponents. The
members who were lined up behind
Bone are sun ready 70 20 down the
line with him and Il n declared that
II Bishops reactionAry bill IL backed
st all II will be by the senators who
favor tho private interests. voting
for I, In an effort TO cripple tho city
plants.
III 40 arc defeated In the IeTis.
lsture. az II now appears that We
viii be-" Bone said Friday. Il want
tho people 10 know that We have
just begun TO fight. We viii then
play our ACE the initiative. and
tho people themselves can say
whether or not our fight "a right"
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-02-02
LOVELY BULL COOK
FINDS CHAMPION
IN LOWER HOUSE

OLYMPIA. Feb. s.-Tho down.
" trodden 'bull- cook. handy
and Indispensable man about n
logging camp. was ohampioned
Thursday by Speaker Mark Reed
and representative Becier Of
King In the house.
Senate bill No. IS. granting
rlEht OF lien 60 camp employees.
excluded tho bull cook. Repre-.
sentative Beeler moved 10 amend
the bill to include tho bull cook.
The amendment Immediately met
with the approval OF Speaker
Reed. The bull cook splits wood
for the donkey engines.
Representative shattuck. OF
Kitsap. moved that the bull cook
subject be referred 70 tho commit.
tee on dairios and live stock.
Il think every member OF this
house should have a bull' cook. Z"
said Representative Pliny Allen.
OF King.
The amendment by Beeier was
passed and the bull cook viii at
last get his innings.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-02-02

nounoed Friday. representative Of
manufactures viii fli The structure
with exhibits OF goods u will be
known a. the Terminal sRleg bldg
A i0-story building for business Of
fees for the shafer Bros Land com
pany Il planned for a Hts at Sixth
ave. and Pine ~. az an estimated cost
Of 1870. 600.