The Tacoma times. [volume], July 24, 1911, Page 4, Image 4

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OFFICE—76B Commerce Bt.
As to Quitting'
.■;"■■ He's In ho seventies, wrinkled and gray, la Phil Fall, tele
graph operator at Houston, T«x., and of the million employes of the
Western Union Co. scattered through the world Is oldest In point of
•ervlce. For more than 51 years Phil has been "at the key", and;
' recently, they offered him a pension and case for the rent of his life
He said: "I'd die if I quit. I've lived so long in a telegraph office
that I've got to have it now."
It sometimes strikes us that about the only fellow who oar.
really quit is the farmer. „ '
, ■',; 4 The gray haired old lawyer goes upon the bench as an honor-
P able way to retire from practice, and when he comes off, Is crazy
until he gets his first case. "The editor In his dotage' writes and
■writes and thinks he moves public thought as he had In days 40
years past. The feeble old preacher can still put his soul Into prayer
or sermon confident that he's still plowing tha vineyard soil two
feet deep. The printer sticks to his type until he Is Just a loyal
I machine. The telegraph operator sticks to the key until the wires
and poles and instruments are all part of him. They'd all die If
they quit and it is indubitable that some of thorn actually do die
because they quit. It is not all loyalty. There Is no novelty to at
tract. Simply, "the grind" has become part of them. They've been
at It so long that they've got to have it. It.becomes, actually, a
physical, a hygenic necessity.
But perhaps It is a bit different with the farmer, Ilia has been
| a life of watching things grow, of changes, of combat with every
varying conditions. He has been close to the Creator. His work
has. been subject to few set rules and his accountability has been
pretty much to God alone. The spring has como with its birds and
apple blossoms. The summer breezes have chased waives of shadow
across the ripening grain. The shocks of corn have glistened like
armored soldiers in the autumn moonlight. Even grim old winter
has been crowded with new things to be done. Changes, the growing
of things, the life out of doors, the feeling that he is creating, orig
inating, have become part of the soul of the old farmer. The true
I farmer farms with his soul and, co long as he has eyes to Bee and
. legs to carry him out of the house, he never quits 'though his hands
can no longer guide the plow nor lift the fork. In fact, he does not
: - quit. He quits "the grind" but his !.oul goes happily farming on to
the end.
Look at the millions of young men and girls at the linotypes,
the typewriters, the store counters, the account books, the telegra
phers' keys! Soon they will say, as does Phil Fall: "I've lived bo
long at it I've got to have it now!" But they must quit, die or no
die. Ground up by "the grind".
" KAISER WILLIAM sure did treat our navy fine at Kiel. Kept
10 beds in readiness In a hotel for that part of our navy that got
too drunk to walk. And, glory be, they never filled 'em—the beds.
, Do You See It?
■ In that Henwood murder case, over at Denver, wherein Hen
wood was convicted for shooting an Innocent bystander while trying
to murder S. L. yon Phul. the defense presents 91 reasons for a new
trial, most of them charging injustice.
The petition accuses the Judge and other officials of bias and
• prejudice and alleges that In another case Judge Whit ford rebuked a
Jury for bringing In a verdict displeasing to him and this, being
■-• known to the Henwood jury, caused It to declare Hen-wood guilty of
murder.
This petition denouncing the judge as corrupted, unfair and
Incompetent is, clearly enough. insulting. But it is an ordinary and
legitimate part of legal procedure.
You may hire a lawyer to insult the court to its face with im
punity and In about any terms short of billingsgate. But to em
power a majority of the people who create a court to recall that
court Is an attack on the dignity of courts. You see the difference,
don't you?
AND if Mr. Taft should take the Declaration of Independence
from the safe, that would probably get lost, too, should congress
■tart to investigate It.
An Open Letter
Wm. Howard Taft, Pres. of the V. S.
Dear Sir: Some reasonably safe and sane folks here Jn Moga
dore is whooping it up for your reciprocity and arbitration crusades,
but dinged lf#l kin git my bearings and so I wish you'd answer the
following questions which has bin keepln' me so wakeful nights that
mother says she'd rather sleep with a she bear with three cubs:
II reciprocity wouldn't reduce the cost of living, what's in it to
go to glorifying about
: Will arbitration cause England and us to cease supporting big
navies and armies? If not, what's in it for to go to feelin' peaceful
about?
It does seem to me that you've bin shaktn' some trees what
ain't got any fruit In it for us common critters what-somever, and
you'll oblige by eettin' me right. Yours truly,
i%'T' v.-;, KITCHEL PIXLEY.
WITH all those domestic relations, Prophet Joseph F. Smith
was perfectly justified in getting into the Sugar trust early.
< Fine Crop of Indictments
The latest is indictment of the Wire Trust. But, don't get ex-
Sited. There's the U. S. supreme court, you know.
Indictment of trust magnates are all right. They hurt nobody.
Nowadays, a fellow hasn't high standing as a general of finance until
he has been indicted a couple of times. And you are going to see a
wh^le lot of Indictments of trusts between now and the close of the
next presidential campaign. Nobody will be hurt and It will please
" 'the people, at least that part of the people than can be easily and
cheaply pleased.
Just one Indictment that would result in just one trust magnate
being Jailed would be different, but that would "hurt business".
The best that you can expect is indictments charging crime and a
supreme' judicial advisement that the crime can be safely and profit
ably perpetrated on you in a different way.
WE hope that Col. Bryan will not think us de trop In asking for 1
a name or two In his list of "other good material" for the presidency.'
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i Just Some Facts
: ', ' The awful "hot wave" filled over 600 graves in New York City,
mostly with the bodies of children, and the end ie not yet. The hos
pitals were full, the police stations were full, the saloons were full,
the roofs and the parka and the cellars were full of miserable human
beings who struggled for air, who baked and boiled, hungry, sleep
' less and exhausted. And Death took over 00 of. them.
. But the cool churches were empty. The carpeted floors, the
comfortable benches, the shady places therein were unused. '
,'--'x ; - Lady Johnstone. wife of the British minister to the Hague, says
I that had the churches been opened to the poor, very, many of these
lives would have been saved; that in Denmark, in very cold weather,
■ churches are opened to the poor and there's no reason why a church
-, • should not be used to save lives in the torrid season, since they may
.be cleaned thoroughly every morning At a nominal cost.
.■<•,■■* No, we are not going to comment on those New York churches.
They may not be made to save the poor. They may not be con
ducted to save the poor. It is none of our business. We simply
state self-evident facts when we say that those churches were not
made to be slept in, that many of New York's poor were made to die
young, and that many of the 600 would have been saved had not
the jails, saloons and hell-holes of the slums been so full and the
• churches so empty of children fighting for life. •
;■■;••* '.'": WHEN Mary Garden sailed for Europe, she took 100 pairs of
■: • «ilk stockings along. So that's what she was keeping them clean for.
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f VACATION JOYS OF THE JOY FAMILY I
' THAT NIGHXt -3CCNE. tU THg JW F/\MILY'J BEDROOM
| OBSERVATIONS •['
FRANCE, besides her military dirigibles, will have more than
100 aeroplanes next year.
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PASTORS in Spokane, Wash., donned jumpers and overalls and
helped a fellow-pastor build a church. Christianity, isn't It?
"DEAR OBSERVATIONS: Please tell who was the first woman
to enter the business field. —Pauletta C." Certainly," Pauletta. It
was Mrs. Adam. She first engaged in harvesting apples for the
manufacture of cider but soon abandoned this to engage with Mr.
Adam In the manufacture of Fig-leaf kimonas. This latter venture
was a failure, however, because they couldn't make the demand keep
up with the supply.
MAX NORDAU says that proposed laws restricting immigration
would close against Jews the grandest harbor of refuge they've had
in all history.
FIRST-AID-TO-THE-IXJURED meet will be held in Pittsburg
next fall. Rescue teams from the coal mines will compete In all
kinds of stunts. Wonder when they'll have a contest among mine
owners to see who can put in the best and safest machinery?
mam """*""" —_—_—..
THERE'S a regular business of dealing in second-hand locomo
tives. They bring about $1600 apiece and are bought by Industrial
plants.
FAMINE of guinea pigs In Pasteur Institute notwithstanding
that It keeps 3000 of them and every couple produces young in 20
days. •
SO hot In Ohio that they're turning out by thousands to hear
Rev. Billy Sunday preach hell-fire, with pleasure.
LICENSE INSPECTOR of Minneapolis has got a job that's a
corker, or, rather, an uncorker. Council directs him to pick out and
report the ten worst saloons. Of course, you can't tell how bad a
saloon is until you start something in it, and we see one continued
round of merry 4th of July for Mr. Inspector.
| OUTBURSTS OF EVERETT TRUE *
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THE T&O6MA TIMES
[ Anytkigg
• Willie: "Say, ma?"
Mamma: "What is it?"
Willie: "If they have a bread
line, why don't they hare a pie
line?"— Chicago News.
Here
You are, Willie; here's a pi
line: ,
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A Vain Search.
I've looked for the really man,
But my eyesight must be bad,
For I've looked in vain for the
man who looks
Like the man In the clothing ad.
Two Sides to It.
To whom It may concern: Re
ports having been circulated that
I deserted my wife. I wish to say
such reports are untrue, and I
was practically kicked out. O. F.
—Medina (N. V.) Journal.
Arabian desert dwellers shake
hands eight times when they
meet. Which isn't often, lucky
enough.
NKW CLOTHES PEST.
Scientists tell us the fly should
be swatted and so, too, should
this other peat. The gender of
this pest is feminine and she is
usually the wife of a man who
gives up his money painlessly.
She has plenty to spend and takes
time to spend It. If she isn't buy
ing a new piece of furniture for
the house she's buying new furni
ture for herself — namely, shoes,
stockings, gowns, inside and out
side clothes and all sorts of duds.
These things she always shows to
your wife as soon as they are de
livered. The result is a spirit of
envy engendered in your happy
hbme and your wife is everlasting
ly telling you she positively must
have something like Mrs. Innttt's
got. Two cures: (1) Swat Mrs.
Inuitt. (2) Divorce.
Vacation Idles.
Let's saunter to the brewery, my
love,
Where the temp'rature is 32
above.
He Is Mistaken.
He thinks he resembles Apolo
And has all the beach agog;
But lie looks a good deal less like
V Apollo
Than he does like a pollywog.
Speaking of locusts, eastern na
tions used to regard them as
avenging armies of the deity.
The Mistress—And, Mary, we'll
have that small piece of meat as
well.
The New Maid —Please'm, the
cat's eat It.
The Mistress—What cat?
The New Maid (surprised) —
Oh, lawks! Ain't there a cat? —
Sketch.
The stork brought twin black
leopards to the New York zoo last
week.
John L. Sullivan ia thinking of
running for congress.
The prince of Walei wUI visit
this country this fall.
* OUR DAILY BIRTH- *
DAY PAETY.
• m
hange and by rea
that our heroine
eschews all
"parties" and at
tends club meet
ings only, to
day's happy af
fair will have to
assume the alias
of "b 1r th da y
club." M r b.
Philip N. Moore,
president of the
f c d c r atlon of
women's clubs
America over,
has just marked
off the slate of
life one more
year, which one.
It isn't given us
to say. Mrs.
Moore believes
that a stronger
federation of all
the women unit
ed In local clubs
will greatly and beneficially in
fluence legislation concerning
women and children.
TODAY INJ ISTORY
July 24, 1864, one of the bat
tles of Winchester was fought.
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imii ing me civil
war Winchester,
Va.. became so
popular a fight
ing ground that
a real battle did
not stir the blood
of the Winches
ter small boy as
a balloon ascen
sion would. The
p a g c a ntry of
marching armies
was so common
a circus parade would have been
a welcome change. This particu
lar battle was between part of
Early* retreating army and a
union force under Cook.
A GOOD HOUSE DOG.
"If you'll marry me, I'll prom
ise never to go ont nights."
"That will t>e fitic It will give
me such a good clmnce to ••'> out
without worryttvg about the
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THUD Didn't I see you the other day with I**** whiskers on?
SLAP—Yes. I'm a detective now.
THUD What kind of a detective are yon—a dime weekly ac-
SLAP No; I get more than that. I'm a dollar a day deteotir*.
What do you think of my disguise?
THUD —Pretty punk. I knew you at once.
SLAP —.But did yon know what I waa made up to look HkeT
THUD —Of coursarnot.
SLAP —Well, then, I'd call that a pretty good disguise.
In Little Old New York"
NEW YORK, July 20. —You
might think that a girl whose
brother had been dashed to death
In an aeroplane would be about
the last girl to take up aeroplan-
Ing as a profession.
Not so with Mathilde Moisant.
There are so few women now fly
ing that she may be said to be one
of the first to go into the game.
She is taking lessons daily at Min
eola, and expects before many
weeka to be earning money as an
aviator.
Miss Moisant Is a handsome
young woman, of the dark, Span
ish type, spirited in her speech and
actions, and there seems little
doubt that she will make good.
She has all the necessary nerve,
and while she is Btill in the
"grass-cutting" stage of flying,
she is learning very rapidly to
guide and control her machine.
"My brother John always told
me," she says, "that to be a suc
cessful flyer meant to anticipate
every move of the machine, and
to ba able to take steps to meet an
emergency the Instant it occurred.
That la what I am trying con
stantly to keep in mind.
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Monday, July 24, 1911.
"After John was killed, I vowed
never to get Into an aeroplane
again, but the old longing that I
had always had, when 1 saw him
fly, came back, until I was no
longer able to resist It. My fam
ily has opposed me In every way,
but 1 am determined.
No Fear In Machine.
"I think anyone can learn to fly,
but I don't think everyone can
learn to be a really great aviator,
and that Is what I Intend to be
come. I think it is born In me. I
have no feeling of fear when I get
into a machine. I know I shall
learn to do the things John did-,
and perhaps more than he ever
did."
Although supposed to stick to
the ground, Miss Moisant made a
flight a few days ago, greatly to
the surprise of her instructor, An
drew Haupert. She pulled the
clutch without knowing it and
shifted her planes so as to send the
machine up in the air several feet.
She landed as lightly as a bird.
Miss Moisant has her brother's
famous cat, "Paris-London," and
he flies with her as he did with
the ill-fated aviator who carried
him across the channel.