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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-11-30

T0DAY'S DEFINITION
Zebra: A. sporfs.mo<iel iaclsass


All during his early days In school
he wanted 10 rise 20 the lofty heights
Ito get up in the world-to do some
thing that would place him far above
hts fellow men.
So he got job as steeplcjack.
He ,cent 70 call
On Sadie Jones.
And noip he's broke
She rolled the bones.
Since the Portland city council has
banned n nude statue on a building.
motorists down there have been
afraid to strip even their gears.
This Is nothing. OF course. In Sc
nttls city officials are afraid even 10
expose bare facts.
The war department has decided
10 give each doughboy made to
measure suit Of khaki. Newspaper.
Well the suit OF khaki we got In
the late war was made-to-measure
Only II was made.to. measure another
guy.
We're glad 20 see the army r. go
Ing TO doll up the bucks. Hitherto
fore the procedure was. 'H'ain't got
no No. Is; take pair OF No. lis"
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-11-30
Suicide Effect of
Music Denied by
Mrs. Cornish

There n no music written, Ger.
talnly not that OF Bach or Bee.
thoven. which would create n desire
in a highly emotional person to
commit suicide" declared Miss Nellie
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-11-30

larry TO the statements by Rev. j.
E. Crowther. rector of the University
Methodist Episcopal church. in which
the rector blamed the police depart
ment for conditions that make IL
unsafe for a young girl TO walk our
streets at night"
CLEARS UP ONE OF
MOST DIFFICULT MYSTERIES
The discovery OF Miss Austin In
Canada clears up one of the most
difficult mysteries of the year. The
girl disappeared last Sunday night.
Tuesday and Wednesday the po-
lice were swamped by n great mass
of clues that came from everywhere
In the state.
On Wednesday Severyns obtained
the story OF r. f. Barnett that he
had been stopped by a girl walker
ON the Bothell highway and had
given her lift as far as Silver
Lake. Tho girl was dressed In hilk.
ing clothes, Barnett said.
severyns dispatched Carr and Jcn.
ings to run down the clue. and the
pair traced the girl to Blaine. Then
the trail led to New Westminster
and to the Vancouver hospital.
The chief praised the work OF
Sergt. w r. Carr and Patrolman
Jennings In tracing the girl to Van.
oouver and Identifying her in the
hospital there He said that the
men had. by their work. earned tho
reward posted for the girls recov.
cry
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-11-30
DISSATISFIED WITH
CONDITIONS, HE SAYS

II was told that Miss Austin had
been dissatisfied with her condition
here for some time. She did not like
her surroundings and did not care
for teaching. with these facts IL was
largely a matter OF locating her. as
we were convinced she had not met
with foul play"
severyns deplored the facility with
which Seattle ministers rush into
print with criticisms OF tho Seattle
police department, referring particu.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-11-30


G. Cornish. head
OF the Cornish
School Of Music.
Friday, remarklng
on the reported
suicide OF DIR. A.
+. Mattiee. follow
ing the hearing OF
Bach's Largo
played by his host.
DR.. r. u. Whit
ing. at a Thanks
giving D n t y
Thursday after.
noon.
Don't condemn
the work Of such
masters because n
man chooses that
particular moment
for killing him.
SELF"
Miss Cornish
said that her
study Of the psy.
choIogy Of the Of.
feet Of music on
the emotions con-
WINGED her that
every selection
and every class OF
music has some
Influence on the
Q m otIons and
moods OF every.
one. on highly
..aa.arNNs..N .....
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-11-30
ANNUAL MENU

And next Thursday yon'll let out a
wild cheer when you so in TO dinner.
For there on the table win be some
good old Muliisan stewl
Ed Clayton. fruit dealer. shot Gus
Nelson. logger. when the latter
sang. Yes. We Have No Bananas.
Clayton hasn't been apprehended
set. but we predict that II no is ever
tried the Jury viii free him and give
him vote u thanks.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-11-30

Boylston ave. NJ,
was really an &C
cident. and that
Dr. Mattice did
not intend to end
his life at all was
the theory ad.
vance d by DR..
, Clyde Matttce,
/ brother OF the
1 dead man. and DR..
+. Il. Whiting, a
close friend. Fri.
dny morning.
MY brother"
said DR.. Afatticc.
had a childish
habit of playing
with nm old "A
gun of his BY
twirting IT
around his fin.
ger. and altho I
/ told him many
times TO quit ",
] he would reply
that the gun
4 could not 20 off.
1 1T Is my be.
n
4 lief that he took
4 up DR.. Writings
.45 Smith & Yves.
4 son double &C.
1 ton pistol. not
l knowing that It
would fire so
/ easily. ! cannot
believe that II is
n suicide, for Al.
IrrN L.I ~ ..
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-11-30
CANDIDATE FOR THE POISON
Ivy GIIiH

IVY CLUB
The gink who says. We de-
cided not 10 have 3 turkey this
Tear. A roast Of lamb Is Just as
good, and the children don't make
themselves sick eating TOO much
OF IT,"
After this said Ezra Pinch.
penny to the Mrs. yesterday. In n
fit Of temper. please don't call me
20 the phone when l am in the eel.
lar. Tell them ! am not at home.
simply do not want to be interrupted
Hpgain right in the middle Of count
= ng coal"
There uas n thin maiden named
Lena,
Who bought a Heio rncaum cieand ;
But she got tn the tCdD
OF It's suction ono day.
And since then nobody has seend.
Wasp.
One good thing you can say about
Seattle bandits-you never hear Of
them shackllng reporters to their
typewriters.
Keith Preston has discovered what
has become Of the old.time toast.
masters.
They become radio announcers.
a cheer leader ought 20 make a
good radio announcer. He wouldn't
need any broadcasting apparatus.
Buffslo's chief Of police resigned
or account of crime wave. In Sc.
attic our ch'ets hang on tin they get
used 70 it.
w DIARY
November LGB
= AFTERNOON comes much eounanv
r. the house. and over orr yIsssrs !,
IDerry cordial We did lament the an
ssh's o. football game. And so N
9''' W ~ rood spirits. 7 had air
ushss ipr them, dressed by NV
VIE Hnd comm sndsd. ne indeed fL..
deserved b. everyone. tye diped Iii.
Sprat pleasure, and Z snioyed mv1sIf.
and 81 things mighty risb ana k,nd
sone about me- a great deal AZ a..
discourse. sitting almost til DART M A.
nrr' and then broke Up with great ,is.s-
ufe' especially 10 myself, the sftersyard.
NJ wife lid rsprote me t,ri,atstv ~,
ss,ing taken four Klasses Of cordial ana
~ INSIDE a fool Of myself, whisb
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-11-30

Does your turkey look like an Ar.
menlan refugee todaye So does ours.
The Pilgrim Fathers started the
custom OF eating turkey on Thanks
giving. Thank heaven they didn't
decide on crow,
The unluekiest man in Seattle was
the blmbo who lost hts false teeth
Thanksgiving morning.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-11-30

The gink who says. We de-
cided not 10 have 3 turkey this
Sear. A roast Of lamb Is just as
good, and the children don't make
themselves sick eating too much
Of IT,"
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-11-30

This Is nothing. OF course. In Sc
nttle city officials are afraid even TO
expose bare facts.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-05

and electioneers away from the polls.
A mans vote could be read as far as
he could be seen. In fact, ballots bear
ing the names of candidates would be
superfluous. All that would be neces-
sary would be the voters prescnta-
ton of his poll-tax receipt; then the
election" officials would make a mark
on the tally sheet bearing the name of
the party whose brand the citizen bore.
In short, it would not be an election.
1t would be simply counting OF noses.
If more Democrats than Republicans
appeared at the polls, the Democratic
candidates-all of then-would be de-
clared elected OF vice versa. Such
a proceeding would be travcsty upon
the term election"
If such elections" as the Davenport
bill provides for should be imposed upon
the people of Texas, the party response
bic for this measure might wake up
too late to save itself IRON the conse-
quences of its own asininity.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-05
THE WHIP" AT AUSTIN

1t is reported from Austin that if the
gentlemen of the Texas Senate do not
pass certain moneyraising bills Cover
nor Neff will call them back at once
just like that-and put the task before
them again. One of the correspondents
undertook to describe the prospect by
saying that the governor would prob
ably use "the whip" on the Senate in
the event that body remained stubborn
with respect to revenue measures.
lust what the Senate will do during
the remainder of the present session is
one question; what the governor will do
if the Senate refuses to enact pending
tax bills is another question. But if the
correspondents have not been utterly de-
ceived. Governor Neff seems to be in
a mood for eruption. 1t has been only
a few weeks since he called for harmony
between the legislative and the executive
branch OF the government At that time
THE LIGHT recalled that he had made
the same sort of plea before his break
with the first Legislature OF his admin
istration.
1t was on the first Legislature of his
administration that he tried to use the
whip Suffice it to say that he came
out of the encounter holding the small
end of the blacksnakc
Harmony is a product of more than
one mind. 1t takes at least two people
to cooperate, Governor Neff seems to
define both terms as though his own
attitude were of no Importance. He
wants the Lawmakers to Cooperate
with him by doing exactly what he
wishes. At least that is the impression
created by his conduct during his first
term, and it is the impression which the
public will get anew r he should at
tempt to coercc the Senate into the en-
actment Of laws contrary to its judg-
ment
AT the beginning of the present ses-
sion The LIGHT expressed the convic-
| ton that the hope of the state for pro-
lection against wild, weird legislation lay
with the Senate. Thus far that body
has opposed with admirable consistency
the most vicious bills produced by the
House, and every taxpayer in Texas
will be grateful to the members of the
upper chamber ii they continue 10 the
last their resistance to such measures
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-05

with the course of events that caused
the loss of the first eye. The bill makes
the same provision in the event one
legged man or onc-armed man is en-
ployed. In all such cases, the employer
is to be held liable for damages for the
loss of both members.
The actual result of such an unjust
bill as this will be, that instead of aiding
the crippled man, it will take from him
the majority of his chances of earning
a livelihood.
Any employer would naturally resent
being called upon to pay for an acct
dent with which he was in no way con-
nected. He would, naturally, seek to
avoid the imposition of what any sane
person would construe as radical in
Justice. However, the law is the law,
and it costs money and annoyance to
defend yourself at law, even when your
case is just Therefore, the average
employer would simply take the short
cut to avoidance of an undeserved pen
atty and refuse to employ in any ca
pacity any man who had been crippled.
The inevitable result Of such a law
would be, therefore, that there would
be no jobs waiting for the man who had
lost an eye, an arm, or leg.
The gentleman who introduced this
bill may have meant well by the Grip
pied, but he would be working them
positive injury if his bill became law.
He would simply make it impossible for
them to find work at all for it is GER
tain that no employer who is constantly
made the object of unjust attacks of
various kinds and character will take
chances OF being called upon to pay for
something for which he is not in the
most remote degree. responsible.
Had the gentleman who introduced
this bill been keen student of the work
ings of the human mind he would have
dismissed the idea of his bill the instant
he thought of it.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-05
BASKET BALL FEBRUARY 10,
1922.


l awaited the game when it came
My heart was beating fast,
/ sat on the ground and wached them
go round
And saw how the ball was passed.
The players were strong but some
thing was wrong:
A Harlandale player was sick,
He was. best on the team and so it
would seem
His rooters were crowding thick
They asked him to play and then
he would say:
I've told you a hundred times, no,
SO they left him alone with sigh
or a groan
And told him they bet he would go.
He same there to see-not so sick as
could be
This game that was watched by a
row
And he sat on the line and watched
for a sign
That an Edgewocd player might
show.
When the whistle first blew and sent
thrill through
The roOters of both Of the teams
The ball was knocked round to the
Harlandale ground
Was put in, and then came the
screams.
Now you see I cant tell such stories
so well
As those who have practiced it long,
| remember not all that was done with
the ball.
For excitement was tn me too
strong
But during the rests the players were
bless'd
BY rooters who thought il was
due:
The second one came, this was half
Of the game
And the coach had the team to talk
to.
The spirits then rose from the sick
players toes
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-05
New York Day by Day
BY o. o. M'INTYRE.

York, page the diary
photographers
guiding smile To breakfast with John Sddal
thiher to walk in Central Park.
1t sudden the lake. which did, and
call Kitchen and Mistress Dorothy Home and letter
all then
the door to hear neighbours quarrel
a forth
and Lord! TO dog and bark in high glee
j.
agreeing that ITO finest
line written. So home and to bed
of melodramas
the deaf dumb Those
attribute her unusual acting to the fact that all her youth she
mother the
home the thrill of the danng applause that echoes through
theater is denied her.
Lafayette shop skull
capped with parchmentk skin the proprietor 1t dark
cubby hole
mahe indicates
venerable the They his
has than He shortly
after when he his front week limousine
half
of
fear that would unreal the reader.
rich office
being arrested for has huge gappe desk and secretary
friend of his office and johng
what it," he inquired and
all
whk glasses and that ALL But business
usual.
Copyright 1923, by The Mcknight Syndicate, Inc)
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-05
Keep Your Eyes Open
Ry II. Addington Bruce.

The other day / received from an in
dustrial corporation a letter asking
information about young man who
had applied for employment In the
letter occurred a phrase of suggestive
significance to prospective employees
in all sorts of occupations.
What we want to GET the writer
of the letter informed me, lis young
man of the right kind TO learn tho
business. We want one who will work
hard, and keep his eyes open for
chances TO be useful. and for such Il
one there should be ultimately good
opportunity"
Now, as a matter of fact, there is
in every well-managed business firm
good opportunity for every employc
who will make it a point to keep his
eyes open for chances TO be useful
But it is precisely in this respect that
many young employees am tempted
to say the majority of young employees
fall short.
Many so far fall short that they not
only fail to be alertly on the lookout
for service-rendering opportunities,
but rebel if these are Unexpectedly Of
fered him.
what. me do that. :" is their hor-
rified exclamation. when requested to
do something other than their routine
anyway? ] wasn't hired to do that"
Or if they do accept the opportun-
ity, fearing loss of employment. they
Al 4 ~.
though to say. How badly used L
am" Then, little later, We find them
complaining bitterly:
This is no place to work in. They
don't give a man square deal. They
don't even give him chance TO show
what's in him"
The absurdity Of this would be
laughablc were il not frequently tragic
in its consequences to the complaining
one. At best he is doomed to life
of non-accomplishment and he is all
too likely to degenerate gradually into
an unemployable, man nobody wants
to hire on any terms.
Contrast the careers of those who
not merely undertake willingly work
they were not hired to do. but actual
" volunteer for such work. Contin-
ually the newspapers chronicle the ul-
innate triumphs of such men.
One day. it may be, they carry the
story of the election as head of a big
packing firm Of man who began as
checker in the mud Of the stock
yards. Another day they tell of the
progress Of a brakeman to the persi-
dency Of the railway company which
gave him his first job.
Almost every day. in detail or by
the announcement of some change in
industrial management, the ncwspa-
pers thus give testimony to the i'm
portance of mans keeping his eyes
open for chances to be useful
For always those who do rise in in
dustry are men who have done this
very thing. They have wanted to be
as useful as possible, they have proved
that they can be exceedingly useful,
and successive promotions have been
their reward.
copyright. 1928. by The Associated
NrwsDaDers
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-05
Pointed Paragraphs

If kissing is a crime it must be a
capital one.
He knows not the value of flowers
who never botany.
When might attempts to make
right it seldom gets left.
With o friend in need it usually is
q case Of touch and go.
Work by any other name would be
iust as distasteful to a lazy man.
when two women talk the subject
CT their conversation is conspicuously
absent.
p Don't expect lawyer to mind his
own business. He would soon starvc
if he did.
Some girls cultivate the art OF
pouting because they think it looks
cute.
The bonds Of matrimony are fire.
quently, broken by club-of which
the husband is a member.
If a man speaks of auburn locks
when a girl has red hair she knows
he has poetry in his soul.
A young man who speaks from ex-
perience says that it is easier to
keep company with girl than it is
to keep a wife.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-05
DEFEATING HIS OBJECT

1t is generally admitted that an ability
to successfully apply the principles Of
psychology to every day life is a Every
present help in time of trouble, To one
who is able to utilize it there is always
the certainty that his or her plumbers
from lack of tact will be lessened. There
IS one member OF the state Legislature
at Austin who might profit greatly did
ne study psychology to even a small
extent.
This gentleman has introduced a bill
mat IS intended to aid the crippled man
who Is compelled to work for his living.
he object of the bill is of course. COM
mcndable, provided that it is based on
the desire to aid the unfortunate rather
than to Soak and penalize any and
all employers of labor.
This bill provides that if, in any estab-
llShmcnt, a one-eyed man is employed
and that, in the course of his employ
men, that one-eyed man loses his second
eye, the employer is responsible for the
loss Of both eyes. This of course CON
stitutes glazing injustice to the en-
Iployer who was in no degree connected
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-05
Watching the Parade
Rv John Pilgrim.

This is neither pretty nor wise to
say, but I'll always believe that every
boy should take short course IN
draw poker before he launches his
bark. Not the sort of poker one plays
around home with mother looking on.
In that game the man who loses
four dollars loses his reputation right
along with it. And il the Bright
Heir gets as much as ninety cents
ahead at any period mother pulls his
elbow.
why don't you quit, Roy" says
she. you're ahead"
The kind of poker boys need TO fit
them for life is the sort that is
PLAYED seven hundred miles away
from home in strange town and
with all the wires down in the win
tcr's heaviest snow. That sort of
poker is played with meditation and
prayer. 1t teaches the player more
about the science of face reading.
patience. and memory. past history
and probable characteristics than
two terms in a fine old moss-grown
private school. II you win you have
merely acquired the duty of defend
ing the winnings at the next game.
IL you lose you may have to try TO
borrow money on your spare suit.
All this is because Jimmy Davis
over-played his hand the other day.
Jimmy has all there are of the more
austere virtues. He never slept a
night away from home. He never
squandered the tenth part of buff
falo nickel, he never lied or stole or
drank. He never had any but the
more improving ideas. He tried TO
start a campaign TO clean up the
| towns worst streets.
We'll make a park down there
| and widen the streets" he said,
why. do you know that those poor
| little kids"
He told me some Of the saddcst
stories ever heard about those
| poor little kids. They were so sad
that l told them TO Mrs. Pilgrim and
she, good soul. organized sorority
or something to feed and help ant
save. She found out that those
stories were not true and came bach
ON me.
/ found out that Jimmy Davis
wanted to sell to the city the lant
for a park
But if he had not over-played hi
hand he would have gotten ava!
with il.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-05
THE WHARF OF DREAMS,

Strange wares are handled on the wharves Of
sleep:
Shadows of shadows pass, and many light
Flashes signal fire across the night:
Barges depart whose voiceless steersmea keep
Their way without a star upon the deGp
And from lost ships, homing with ghostly crews
Come cries of incommunicable news,
While targoes pile the piers, mOon-wbite heap
Budgets of dream-dust, merchandise of song,
Nepenthcs gathered from a secret strand,
Fardels of heartachc. burdens of old sins,
Luggage sent down from dim ancestral inns,
And bales of fantasy from No-Man's Land.
Edwin Markham.