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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-10-26

There arc streets that flaunt tho
one who enters them. and there are
streets that fawn upon him, exposing
their infirmities. like beggars, There
aro streets. like Broadway. that
hrazenly thrust an arm thru his and
shrlll. ''come on. kid How much
you got to spend on mo tonightr'
There arc streets and strests--and
there Is Fifth ave.
The Fifth ave, old ladies used 10
call it--old ladies' who used 10 stand
behind long lace curtains and look
out OF the hrownstono houses at
tDelr friends riding past In hrough-
aims.
The ole ladies' are dead long since,
but the hroushams are stlll there.
;litteFing black. lined with mulberry
u purple. Coachmen IN short silk
lilies holding the reins above the
shining chestnut backs OF horses that
pick their way haughtily thru the
press Of motor cars.
Horses and carriage are n tradl.
ton Of Fifth ave. And this street
Is one OF the few remaining which
preserve traditions,
Firth ave. has contrlved 20 grow
rich in trade without becoming vul-
gar. Instead OF being led aside by
the shops. she has absorbed them
into her own cool dignity.
They came. seeking the prestige OF
an exclusive residence street. They
remained to grow in pride. in calm.
ness, in tho courtesy that bespeaks a
balanced life.
The latest. the most vulgar OF the
tribe--the woolworth Five and Ten.
blinks rcd.lidded eyes nj the avenue
the same red.lidded eyes OF its sis
tiers in Scranton. Pennsylvania. and
IN Ogden. Utah. But even this hoy
den is undergoing Transformation
She IS gradually growing respectable
And eventually we may expect TO see
her red eyes blinking less wildly be
hind larEuette.
Thus does the avenue demonstrate
power above the power or those whC
seek 10 use her.
When the blue dusk descends over
Fifth ave there is deal OF witchery
abroad. II can be sensed by thoss
who choose TO ride on the top OF 4
y On the top OF a Fifth ave. bus ons
swtms nysteriousiy thru the uppel
layer OF dusk while below lines ol
motors roll smoothly By and shoal,
OF PEDESTRIANS like minnows III
along the sidewalks. Relieved OF tn.
sght OF locornotlon. which occupies
the attention when riding in an or
binary automobile. the Traveller OF
the bus can take disernbodied pleas
ure In the sights OF the avenue.
A cool shadow has fallen acres.
this long. straight lane. between tn,
rows OF tall silent buildings. Tbs
buildings - old and Eew - preservs
their own passive dignity. and ;heJ
display a whimsical elegance wher,
they blossom discfeetiy in stone.
81. Thomas and ST. Patrick fac,
each other across the way. like tn
pale ecclesiastics they are. Building
after the Flernish-after the Tudor
buildings uniting harInonles OF colo
and OF line In endless variety. a.
women in elegant coIffures VIII
stand arrn-to-arm In ballroom.
The whistle OF the traffic police
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-10-26

BARRIERS and entertainers Thursday
night. Mcleod and bis BARRIERS fur.
nished high class musical ana fun
numbers for the Riddles. too, They're
thinking OF starting hair mattress
factory at the Itythor home, because
OF the monthly visits OF the Mcleod
clan.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-10-26

The whistle o. the traffic police
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-10-26
Realtors Deplore
Halloween Franks

Scatth realtors have forgotten
tho days when they were Kids Ab'
solute proof OF this developed Thurs
day when the association appointed
a committee OF flsv 20 confer with
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-10-26
wIFEY's FIRST PIE

Good gracious, dear. what a long
piei It Is surely too big for just
two"
I'm sorry. Cecil. but 1 couldn't
get any shorter rhubarb anywhere"
Passing Show.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-10-26
A Great Display

Now get this! Men who know market
conditions are literally amazed at Fahey-Brock-
mans great display of the latest styles in suits
and overcoats. They naturally expected won
derful array of authentic Fall and Winter
Models. They knew the fabrics would be select.
They realized that the workmanship would be
American Tailoring at its best. The Fahey-
Brockman Label guaranteed all that But-they
did not think that we could beat our own high
records for supreme values on a rising market
yet, that's precisely what we've done.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-10-26
BARRIERS Work on
Ryther Home Kids

SCISSORS clicked ana clippers
clipped and the little boys and girls
az the Mother Ryther home had
their locks shorn beautifully by
Glen Mcleod and his corps OF
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-10-26

QUEBEC, Oct. 2s.--Quebec win
lead the provinces In potato produc.
ton this year with an estimated yield
OF 1876 centals 600 pounds
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-10-26
PAGES Is TO %
Mrs. sERErTA AGNEs MELLs.

n, died Thursday al the home Of
Mrs. J. A. Donaldson, 1912 18Th ave.
sho has resided In Seattle for 10
years. Funeral services VIII be held
at Q .. m. Friday.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-10-26

reduced the Zee for associate mem.
berBhip 10 $40 annually.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-10-26
Quick Turnover

There's the magic of 1.-THE compelling reason
why. Our swift turnover gives us a tremendous
buying advantage. But when we pool our buy
ing with the greatest retailer of mems clothes in
America then we have all local competition
backed off the map to begin with-as far as
values are concerned.
Yes, we are proud of our great display of
Fall and Winter Models. But-we are prouder
far of the great wave Of popular approval that is
sweeping this big Clothing Service on to victory
after victory.
Chasing the Pigskin" is great sport for the
boys but If they get a bigger thrill out of that
than and our customers get out of Holding
Down Prices" then we want to know about it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-02-14
BRIDGING AMERICAN GAPS

An American Association is the idea of a plan which the president of Uruguay will submit to the Pan-American congress at Santiago, Chile, next month. The associa- tion would embrace all the nations of both continents and the islands and territories de- pendent upon them, and would aim, first of all. at the building up of friendly feelings and better understandings. Principles of justice and mutual defense against dangers to the rights of any member country would have firm footing such inter- American friendship, and jealousies would disappear. There seems nothing Utopian about this plan. Why should not the countries of these two continents warm to friendship? Diff ferences of race, religion or language offer no bar to such an international fraternity. These differences exist everywhere. The people living together on this side of the world and getting more in the habit or vis- iting each other and trading with each other could easily bridge these gaps it would seem, and get together for their mutual benefit. An American association such as is planned would replace jealousy with un- derstandings; 1t would bring about respect and friendship am ong the members and re- dound greatly to their terial advantage, while any designs on territory of this hem isphere would break on coast lines mutually guarded by it's inhabitants.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-02-14
Boys Who Succeed By FREDERICK HOOK LAW
Lafcadio Hearn, the Great Author

Lefcadio Hearn, the Great Author
 Some people seem to belong to the world rather than to any par ticular country or race. Sucn a person was Lafeadio Hearn, a great literary figure. His father was Irish; his mother was Greek; he was born on an island in the Medi- terranean; he gained his early edu- cation in England; worked as a newspaper man fn the United States; married Japanese woman; became Buddhist, and is most noted for his books that interpret Japan. Surely, he was a cosmopoli- tan. His early life was a life of changes that would have ruined many boys. When he. was still under 20 he found his way to the United States and proceeded to pick up living as best he could. That living he did not find at all easy, but he was by nature a wanderer and dreamer. He liked to look at life and to think about it, and he had marked gift of expression. That one ability he used to the best advantage, and beseiged the news paper offices for work. There was little that he could do that was im- portant, and the editors put the boy off with the poorest hack work that paid him little money. He stuck to it and made constant efforts to render his writings interesting and peculiar to himself. In other words, he took the one opportunity that he had and tried to cultivate a style, even in hack work. Quaint old New Orleans interested him, and there he found rich material. He did so well that he was sent to the West Indies to write special articles.
 Now that he has made somewhat of name he gained a better op- portunity and won a place as spe- cial correspondent from Japan. The love of travel, and the oddities of life, drew him to that land. In his boyhood days he had gone for a short time to college in England, and so he had a fair degree of training from schooi, ana a much greater degree of training from the "school if hard knocks" The Japanese engaged hip to, teach English in the University of Tokio. The poetry of Japanese lire so ap- pealed to him, the beauty of form and color so drew him, and the kind liners of the Japanese so influ- enced him, that he married Japa- nese girl and became Buddhist and Japanese citizen. From Ja- pan he sent out many beautiful es- says and stories that made him im- mortal. Even a wanderer, by stick ing to his bent can make a success.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-02-14

begun to revive, during short period of what seemed to be return to reason on the part of building costs, stopped abruptly when the prices again scared. It is idle for the brick man to believe he can inject an advance in price that the slag and cement producer will not follow. The advances and the reductions in prices of building material run together. All producers should bear m mind the financial ability Of the consumer. He can stand so much and no more. It is far better to spread the structural activity over long period at reasonable profit than curtail it by policy of exacting the maxi mum price for a short period.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-02-14

vey of the city's needs. The sum is for the purpose of opening and widening streets, better lighting, a municipal auditorium, great downtown public plaza, elimination of all grade crossings, and so on. Improve ments such as these will undoubtedly be for St. Louis nationwide advertisement. The municipal auditorium and community cen ter will cost six millions. This old city, in what customers call the middle west, is set ting dazzling pace for Kansas City and Chicago, her great and younger competitors, and as a city beautiful will take high rank. Such civic pride will justify itself in in- creased prosperity and inspiration to other cities.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-02-14
BIRMINGHAM HERALD, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY IT, 1923

traffic which extends to every part of the country and is said to be drawing into its clutches even boys and girls of school age, The dope peddler and the dope smuggler are a far worse menace to society than the ordinary type of criminal whose depreda- tions are confined to comparatively few. Their victims are found in every walk of life. among young and old. It is impossible to compile accurate statistics of all the drug addicts to the United States, because of the secrecy which surrounds the habit and the illicit sale of narcotics, but most authorities agree that there are more now than ever before and their number in proportion to the population is increasing.
 Among the suggestions made to break up the drug traffic is the adoption of an inter- national agreement which would permit the right of search seizure and confiscation of drugs found illegitimately on ships, as IS now done under the sanction of interna- tional law covering contraband of war. Tkis recommendation comes from F. R. Eldridgc. chief of the Far Eastern division of the de- partment of commerce, and was published with the approval of Secretary Hoover. It is believed to be the only practical method to adopt, since it is impossible at present to control the production of crude drugs, chiefly opium.
 Most of the nations of the world signed convention at The Hague, in 1912, under which they agreed to pass laws destricting the drug trade to legitimate medical pur- poses. Many of them have carried out thelr pledges, but there are still some European and Asiatic countries, and several in South America, that have not done so. Until more drastic measures are adopted, the smuggling of drugs on large scale will continue. The profits are enormous, and the ease with which narcotics can be concealed is an ad- ditional temptation to carry on the business.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-02-14
CAUTION IN PRICE ADVANCES

The January construction record in twen- ty-seven states shows an increase of thirty one per cent. over the same month year ago. Architects. contractors and material men face an extremely promising season. It is bound to last for some time because a lot of work has been financed and is under contract. The prolongation of this struct- ural activity and the consequent benefit to those who live on it depends on the pru- dence with which the price lists are handled
 Just as soon as the public begins to hear that lumber is advancing, brick is going higher and roofing costing more, just tha. soon the man with money to place in 2 structure begins to put on ms thinking cap and ask himself whether he can afford the investment; whether it will be paying one
 That people can do without houses was proven during the excessive cost period of 1920 when residence building, which hao
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-02-14
REDUCING WORKING HOURS

Christian Science Monitor)
 So much has been written and spoken regarding the alleged ne- cessity of increasing the number of working hours per day that it is opportune to record that Charles P. Steinmetz, the world-famous electrician, has recently given it as his opinion that people have to work too long under present arrange ments. Granted that he said the six-hour day is impractical just now, but he added mat this was so because it could only come with greater efficiency and economy of industrial operation. That is the crux of the situation. Long hours make for drudgery and inefficient activity, shorter hours for a larger outlook, and thus for greater re- suits in the end.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-02-14
TEXAS HALTS BOIL WORM
 (Houston Post)

The governors. official pro- nouncement that the pink boil worm is no more in Texas brings a sense of relief to the great cotton interests of the state. They can now concentrate their ingenuity and energy on finding means for destroying the boil weevil, their veteran enemy. The wide publicity given tc the alleged presence of the pink boil worm in Texas some two or three years ago aroused con siderable alarm. Farmers were fear ful tha. another enemy even more destructive than the boil weevil was uarshalling his forces for an attack on their cotton fields, until a nearing at Austin brought out Tn the testimony of federal investiga- tors that fact that only few boil worms had leslly been found in the state. Nevertheless, the legislature promptly enacted ,egislation pro- viding for non-cotton zones as a means of preventing the pest from spreading. Apparently, the plan has worked with entire success. If it has succeeded in eradicating the pink worm in three years, nothing less may be said of it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-02-14
Transforming the Press
(Selma Times-JournaD


 J. Lee Long, luminary in the leg islature from Butler county. con descends to give the newspapers of the state the benefit of his distin- guished consideration, charging that they are subsidized" and s.con- trolled by the machine" and are oth- erwise under the dominion of male volent influences conrrary to the peace and dignity of the common wealth. Brother Longs alterations constitute curious psychological phase of the mental operations on type of individual who often dis ports himself on the stage of pub lie affairs. People of admitted in- telligence, as well as those of mi- ronic brains, continually see in the attitude of the newspapers with whom they differ, evfuences of all kinds of base and condign influ- ences. Tom Heflin gave proof of this obsessiop in the senate few days ago when he turned his full minations. on the press gallery. and in storm of invectiye charged that the papers were the organs of spe- cial interests, and therefore un- worthy of public confidence. But every seasoned newspaper man knows this species of transformer and how to appraise his outgivings. The gentlemen of the press have many unpleasant experiences, but there are many comic pictures which they collect for their mental art gallaries. which contribute much un- published humor to their vocation. The Longs and Heflins are appro- nriately catalogued and indexed and their limitations and pretensions are familiar to all newspaper experts. Most members of the journalistic profession either have ;ighlv de- veloped sense of humor, CT else hide of extra thickness as a protec- tion for their feelings and the out pourings of the politicians are either treated with cs-tcalrt or else .hev provoke only a1iet cauek1cs behind the scenes in the efitreiai sancSum.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-02-14
Value of Farm Bureau (Fufaula Dailv Citizenl

The farm bureau has demonstrat- ed it's value to the farmer. Those leading in the movement have proven beyond question that in or ganization alone lies the hope of success for the agriculturist in the marketing of his crops and other matters of like Importance, and now that the drive is on for a larger membership of the organization it behooves every farmer to join the movement and help to push it on to a greater success and accomplish ment. As is universally conceded, the farmer is the bedrock of the natioa's prosperity; if he succeeds all osners succeed, hence it is to the advantage of every one to en- courage and support the farmer in every move that is for his advantage and upbuilding. That man who is an enemy to the farmer is an enemy to his country and should be frown- ed upon by all honest and right thinking people.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-02-14
Trying for a Place"
 By REV. H. C. oFFERMAN

There is not much that you can do.
 There is so much hindrance ev- anywhere, that there is very little progress.
 Oh, that there were more fore ing and more driving to the end!
 Come out and attach yourself to the eternal spirits; and leap out; you may light on landing place. There is tide in the affairs of mem
 Be there-and-then, stay there!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-02-14
ResIlts, Not Politics
Montgomery Advertiser)

montgomery AQVerLlSef1
 People ought to remember that everybody can not live on an im- proved highway, nor in the vicinity of modern school building-not, at least, until people become more prosperous than they are. But it is possible for all people in Ala bama to have the benefits of good roads and splendid schools. even though everybody can not be satis- fled with the selections of routes and sites. The consolidated school system has made fine beginning in the state, and it offers the quick est way out of the shadow of it. literacy and into the sunlight of greater prosperity. The expert superintendent who to hold his job must look to results achieved rather than to his political alignment, is a necessary adjunct of the eonsoli- dated system; and it would be harm ful in the extreme to put these schools back in politics.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-02-14
A Timely Editorial
The War Against Waste
Christian Science Monitor)


 Perhaps txe most important state ment in Henry Ford's opinion con- corning modern industriay condi- tions, given in his recently published autobiography, was the assertion that waste in manufacturing pro- cesses is the chief obstacle to the efficient production that makes for general prosperity. The problem of avoiding these wastes has been the subject of serious study by engin- eers, chemists and inventors, and great progress has been made in perfecting apparatus and methods making for the better utilization of materials and labor. To large ex- tent these investigations have been related to the manufacturing end of production. They are now being applied to what are termed the "raw materials of industry, and it is found that here there are opportu- mites for avoidance of waste equal ly as great as in the more advanced stages of manufacture.
 A recent issue of the Iron Age q for treating iron ores and coal, in which experiments have been car ried on for number of years by A. J. Moxham, former president of the Johnson and Lorain steel com ! panies. The great iron and steel interests are confronted with a steadily-decreasing rron content of most of the ore available in the United States, the percentage of iron oxide falling from sixty per cent. in 1894 to fifty per cent or less at the present time. This change has made better methods of ore concentration highly important, and this has apparently been found in what is termed the ''haloid" pro- cess, by which each of the various ingredients of the ore IS purified and separated by chemical and phy- sical reactions.
 Exhaustive researches have dem onstrated that ia treating certain low-grade ores, of winch there is a vast uspply in the eastern states, the value of the ingredients other than iron recovered is about three times as much as would be the case with the old methou Of getting out the iron oxide only. These other products, such as alumina, man. ganese, phosphorus, sulphur and zinc, are in constant demand, and their recivery in connection with the production of higher grade iron oxide will furnish much needed additional supply. Similar experi- ments with coal show the possibility of utilizing what are regarded as inferior grades. while valuable in gredients are recovered by the pur- ification process. There have been some dismal forecasts of the prob able situation when the ever-increas- ing demand for greater purity in iron and steel should outrun the possibilities for procuring high grade raw material. The develop ments in connection with the new process would indicate that inventive genius will be able to make the supply equal all requirements.