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EDITORIAL PAGE THE TACOMA TIMES
State Grange Backing Bills Which Ought to Be of Interest to City Folks, Too
Two of the progressive campaigns of the
Washington State Orange are being carried on
by C. R. Cottrell, with an office in Kent.
He is getting out a great deal of interesting
information on the kind of rural credits bill,
which the farmers desire passed at the next ses
CREAM FOR THE INFANTS
Secretary of Commerce Redfield is washing the good old
reliable nursing bottle, intends to fill it with cream and start
fostering a new brood of infant industries, as soon as the war
ends.
The war has cut off certain imports, dyestuffs for in
stance, and certain American manufacturers have had to
make things which they formerly imported.
These infant industries are likely to die of colic or ane
mia, when peace enables the foreign makers to get busy
again, and so Redfield is considering specifications for a wall
that will bar out the foreign rejuvenated pauper infants.
Being a democrat in high office on a low tariff platform,
Redfield feels that he can't consistently resort to a high pro
tection wall, and so he's crying aloud to "practical commer
cial men" for suggestions.
But we think he's too sensitive on this point. The old
fashion fostering of the infants was largely open and above
board, a sort of honorable gougery, as it were, and it will
smell as strong however disguised. Nobody, nowadays, is
fooled by the claim that "the foreigner pays the tax" but all
see that the fostering business is that of making all of us
American consumers pay so that we can have a new infant in
our midst.
Why such brain-work to conceal the identity of the cows
who will sorely furnish the cream for these conring infants?
Why not the good old fashioned Mark Hanna spirit, instead
of an effort to disguise, cover up, fool somebody? Mark never
resorted to the low-down, sneaking process of picking pock
ets. Mark just courageously and frankly put a gun to your
nose and took what you had with such skill, directness and
manliness that it was almost a pica-sure to be robbed.
The king has fallen! Ty Cobb has been put out while
trying to steal a base already occupied. Bonehead! Ivory!
Busher! E -yah!
Cleveland court has given a man 30 days because every
time he saw a policeman, he swoit or started a fight. Strange
effect those Cleveland policemen have on folks!
CONFESSIONS
OF A WIFE
(topjrlgLl. 1013, 1,, HrwiHHl
EalrriirUe \ ■■di-Ikllob. i
I did not find Dick at the office
•and Mr. Selwin seemed much sur
prised to sea me there, as I do not
believe I have entered Dick's place
of business more than a half a
dozen times since we have been
married.
"is there anything particular
jrou want to see Richard about,
Margaret?' he asked.
"Nothing, Mr. Selwin, except
that I have what I consider a
splendid opportunity to invest a
p\it of that ten thousand dollars
that Aunt Mary left me and I
wanted to know if the money
would be available, today."
Mr. Selwin smiled.
"You perhaps don't under
stand, Mr. Selwin, that th* part
of the estate left to me was most
ly money In the savings bank. As
1 understand it six thousand dol
lars was in the savings bank and
the other four was In government
bonds."
"Why don't you leave your
money in the savings bank, Mar
garet? I have always thought
that one of the safest places for
• woman's money."
"Because I can only get four
per cent on savings at the bank
ami I am able today to buy some
municipal bonds that pay five and
*» half at so much below par that
PANTAGES
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"NEAL OF THE NAVY," NO. 2
—I—OTHER IIIG ACTS— I —
1
MRS. ZAMORA C. CAWFMAN
tto lecture at
the
Tacoma
Hotel
Parlors
TO WOMEN
ONLY
Thursday aft
ernoon and
evening a t
2:SOp. in. and
H p. m.
M'WMT — AFTERNOON:
FAOB, SCALP AND NECK.
EVENING—HAIH m EN.
Scalp Treatment, Superfluous
Hair, cause and cure. All sub
jects known to modern Derma
tology will b« discussed, and
tbe nse and abuse of Cosmetic
I >"<gs explalmd.
they will pay me nearly six and
a half per cent until they mature
ten years distant."
"Dick told me the other day
that he thought you would want
to buy some more stock in tbe
book concern."
"I do not know why Dick
should say that, Mr. Selwin," I
said. (I hope my voice did not
express tbe heat I felt at Dick's
assumption of disposing of my
money without consulting me.)
"We have now"—
"You mean you have," inter
rupted Mr. Selwin, "the stock is
all in your name." He said this
with a great deal of emphasis, as
though to Impress me with Dick's
generosity in giving me the stock.
He did not know that all the
money that had been paid for it
was mine-—money that my motii
er had left me and that I had
earned myself—except the divi
dends from the stock which we
had applied.
"You have now," he continued,
"ten thousand dollars paid up
stock and fifty shares on which
you have paid twenty-five hun
dred dollars. I think your divi
dends during the next three years
will take care of this. You, I be
lieve, are also lending twenty-five
hundred dollars to the concern on
a call note at seven per cent."
"Let me ask you a question.
Mr. Selwin. Would you want
Mrs. Selwin to put this ten thou
sand dollars into the company if
it had been left her? Oh, I know
that the company has made and
will probably again make flftv
per cent on the investment. B.'t
if anything should happen to Dick
and to you and the business was
i carried on by strangers, you _H>e
I am a minority stockholder and I
would have nothing to say about
the policy of the company.
"Mr. Selwin, a woman has
really no business in a stock com
pany where she knows, and by
the very fact of being a womau,
can know nothing about Us af
fairs."
"I am perfectly willing to let
the 'Margaret dividends,' as you
call them, go back Into the oual
ness in the purchase of stock, but
I am not going, to use a homely
phrase, put all my eggs into on?
basket."
"You are quite a business
woman, Margaret," he
patronizingly.
"No I am not," I answered,
"very few are. in fact, you can
almost say no woman Is a busi
ness woman in a man's sense."
"What do you mean by that?"
he asked interestingly. "I thought
sion.
There were 82 such bills introduced last ses
sion, but most of them were by lawyers, profes
sional politicians, bankers, or some othjer type
of city men.
Cottrell seeks a rural credits bill that will give
DELIBERATE LONG BEFORE THOU CONSECRATE A
FRIEND, AND WHEN THY IMPORTIAL JUDGMENT CON
CLUDES HIM WORTHY OF THY BOSOM, RECEIVE HIM JOY
FULLY AND ENTERTAIN HIM WISELY; IMPART THY SE
CRETS BOLDLY AND MINGLE THY THOUGHTS WITH HIS;
HE ISJ-HY VERY SELF, AND USE HIM SO; IF THOU FIRM
LV BELIEVE HIM FAITHFUL THOU MAKEST HIM SO.
—F. QUARLES.
Four-Year-Old Likes to
Fish; Hooked Big Bass
M11.101.1l WHEELEI..
Marjorie Elizabeth is four years old, and during these 'few
years she has learned to care a whole lot for her dolls; a who 1 lot
more for her baby brother, Carl, and just oodles and oodles tore
for her dad. j •
She likes to go fishing with the latter and has to her ifedlt
the hooking of one big bass.
I
the modern woman was sure that
she knew all about business."
The modern woman lias uimh
to learn, Mr Selwin, and :<he
knows it, but the modem man has
also much to learn, and he d ten
not seem to appreciate the fact.
The more I see of business men
and business methods the more I
am filled with wonder, not that so
few men become rich as I am that
THE TAOOMA TIMES
A FRIEND
OHAINED TIGHT—IN THE LIMELIGHT
so many acquire a competency."
"Why don't you talk this to
Dick, Margaret. It would do him
a lot of good."
"Is it possible that you have
lived so long and been marriel so
many years, Mr.Selwin, wi'ho'it
knowing that a man might posnl
bly talk business with any oilier
woman but never with his wife'"
(Continued tomorrow.)
money to the farmer below the present exorbit
ant interest rates he must pay —easy money to
clear land, start first-rate herds and crops, de
velop the country.
He has also a kindred measure, a national
marketing bill, which plans a blow at the present
system, which results in $5,000 autos for com-
FREE FREE FREE
One ton of coal with every Monarch
Range bought during this week
This unusual offer is good only during this week. It is decidedly worth your while to buy your Mon
arch now. Another big carload of 1915 Monarchs is here to select from. Pick out your range this
week. Pay down-$lO if you wish, and the balance at the rate of $5 a month. In this way you can
easily own a Monarch and hardly miss the money. The ton of coal is yours whether you choose to pay
cash or not. We'll order it delivered to your address whenever you wish.
Pays for itself B|l9
The reaSOnS iW«fte____^^S^^ Buy one. These terms
Those unfailing Monarch fuel-saving fffffio r m^jjaQlljj V'(>u
Those superior Monarch cooking and bak- B^«^K^&^_^ S_ 1 O
\_-_\t^_ma&_Wtl 9 iotf*9*^^_i _W ,1 71
Those Monarch fire walls last forever. Vli^ftllf^flfilLJll'i down and
That dependable Monarch air-tight con- 1
struction. _ 4 -. .. -. Stem
That exclusive common-sense Duplex Cash in on the old stove— »4»y
draft. Don't put up with it any a month hny* a
That perfect damper control. longer. It costs many times \J[ g 9
That special Monarch malleable iron. its worth in furl wasted ami vt^-XCIXCtV
Those exclusive Monarch pleasure-giving costly repairs. Buy a MON- X^BQGKIQB^
features. ARCH and the saving you
Those many exclusive Monarch labor-say- will effect will soon pay for "EASY TO PAY
ing devices. it. You can afford to throw THE STANDARD
The Monarch looks new forever—without that old stove away. We aan WAV "
polish. prove it. WAY.
We'll take the old fmWwJfiW 3fr i&M&W MG&W We Pay freight on all
ment on a i^^m_i/rWw_t_o^/:, anUJ^ %>%& Certainly term<? if
\XtjM Amur tagow*m*-ABsSAM!.s£Zr*m_+ vm?ti=L
MONARCH 927 929 BROADWAY you Wlßn'
mission men, $3,000 autos for wholesalers, j. oras
for retailers, high bills for consumers, and mort
gages for fanners.
Here are two bills that city men as well as
farmers might get behind and boost. You can
get copies from CottreU by sending to his Kent
office.
ARE YOU CARELESS WITH YOUR MAIL?
The Germans say that as a people we are mighty care
less, not to say reckless, and every once in a while something
happens to prove their charge.
The postmaster of Chicago has just issued a statement
that 43 per. cent of the mail handled in the Chicago postoffice
is improperly addressed! Get that; nearly half of the mil
lions of pieces of mail deposited every day. And the cost to
the Chicago P. O. of looking up addresses and correcting mis
takes is $85,000 a month.
Of course this condition isn't peculiar to the Chicago
postoffice. It exists in the Tacoma postoffice also, but per
haps not so seriously.
Do you always stamp your envelope?
Do you always write down the correct name of the city?
Do you write the street address legibly?
Don't be careless with your mail!
A WEAK PROPOSITION, WE AGREE
We notice quite a rising up of girls against the proposi
tion of Mrs. Charlotte Smith, of the Women>s Homestead As
sociation of Boston, to put wire cages about stenographers
so as to prevent husband employers flirting with them. It is
clearly justifiable rebellion against a foolish undertaking.
Of course, much would depend upon the size of the wire
meshes. A two-inch mesh, for instance, would let through
most fruits, all candies, ooglings, gum, kisses and other
things with which employers flirt, and certain it is that a 14
--inch mesh would let through an ordinary employer himself.
Indeed, it would seem that the reform is only possible
through adoption of a solid steel cage and even this would
have to be easily removable, in order that office business
might be prosecuted.
Think of an employer having to run and clap a steel box
over his stenographer every time he thought he heard his
good wife's footsteps.
Huh! Wo guess the whole thing is just a scheme gotton
up by the Association for Promotion of Male Stenography,
and we're with the girls for treating it with contempt and
contumely.