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PAGE FOUR
TIMES EDITORIALS'
Let the Truth Prevail!
Justice to G. O. P.
It is exceedingly unfair to the republican party to
accept statements made by \Y. M. Whitney, "hand
picked" Seattle candidate for congress, as real sen
timent of the rank and file of the republicans of this
state. Whitney is today making the clownish state
ment that nonpartisanflhip is "sexless and un-
American."
Two yean ago, Whitney, ai republican chairman
. in Kiug county, failed dismally to represent the sen
timent of the rank and file of his party when he
denied rightful assistance to "dry* 1 watchers at the
polls.
The vote for the dry law during a monster republi
eau landslide distinctly shows how utterly Whitney
was apart from the rank and file of republican vot
ers. Likewise, today, he fails to represent any one
but himself in his absurd characterisation of non
pariisansliip.
To describe nonpartiaanship as "sexless and un-
Auici ican" is to belie the republican party efforts
to secure a nonpartisau tariff board, which Whitney
himself says he favors.
Whitney apparently would have the question of
preparedness diseuHsed as a partisan matter rather
than as a nonpartisan American matter.
He would place an "un-American" stigma on our
■uperior and supreme court judges, who are already
being elected us noii|>artisans. lie would place a
"sexless, un-American" brand on our mayors, eoun*
eilinen. school boards and other city officials elected
under Donpartisanship today.
Whitney's individual views for or against nonpar
tisanship are inconsequential. They are referred to
here merely to point out that his individual opinion
is not that of the republicans—the rank and file--of
this state.
AJimi because there are n few other party "lead
ers" like him who are viewing with alarm.
The republicans helped to make our judges, may
ors, councils, and other offices nonpart isau and
they're going to extend this principle to county and
state officers for exactly \Uo same reason —to t>-et rid
of party boseism and slavery.
I'iiiilhiiil. Oi*., I*. Mitnciiili/.cd l>y (In- mysterious <ll.sn|>|M>nraii<e
of I .Mini i mils «if \miim! from the city wood pile.
I-nun in ■ hi observation <>i ihe I'ortlmul political situation, we
mf l«*l to Himnc-t dial the »hort«|tP i- caused y tlic holes left when
tJi« colored k*mils i r.iwli'il out.
John's Latest
A ikl now ■•]<! Rockefeller is after our education
for keeps. His Genera] Board of tSducatioo has is-
Mcd an attack by Abraham Flexneron our school
curriculum, and there's money to push the attack, all
right. JPlexner would strike from our present school
courses, formal grammar, dead languages and the old
classics.
The time to light this latest Rockefeller movement
is now, and here's formal notice of our opposition.
There hain't been no time since teacher first un
dertook to learn us gramntar that we hain't felt the
pressing need of it, and to send a child through
school without being learned how to yjir.se a noun or
decline a verb, and to us "mayn't" when "can't"
isn't properest would be simply treason to that child.
As to dend languages, we'd like to ask where any
body would bo at in medicine, law, horticulture, flor
iculture, even hog-raising without familiarity with
Latin or Greek. Indeed, 'most all of professional
success depends upon having a grasp of terms in de
ceased languages that will puzzle the ordinary people.
Indeed, even in the exalted profession of journal
ism, we are sometimes saved by spring a Greek or
Latin quotation or origination which we feel that no
body will understand any more clearly than we do.
No. Let the dead languages live. If Mr. Rockefal*
ler will start a war on some of the living language
that's being gradually created, we'll take pleasure in
joining in his educational roar.
FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS
Seattle*s Wetness
There is good evidence for believing that the pro
hibition law is being grossly violated in Seattle.
Since the first of the year 65 new drug stores have ,
sprung up in King county, most of them in Seattle.
Tacotnans returning from the Elliott bay metrop
olis report that the near-beer palaces are dispensing
openly a beverage from which the "near" has been
removed, and that almost any cafe will serve you
booze. At least one of the big clubs is peddling
liquor over the bar.
Now in one sense all this may be Seattle's busi
ness, and not Tacoma's. In another sense it is Taco- J
ma's business. The enforcement of the dry law will!
only be effective when it is uniform over the state.
Tacoma has an obvious right to demand that Seattle
be made to observe the law.
The people of this state voted for the prohibition
law. Ii is Utt-American not to enforce it. Not to en
force it strictly will serve to keep up an agitation
that should by this time lie definitely and forever
more settled. The state has more important affairs i
to deal with.
Does this situation carry a suggestion to G-ov.
Lister?
Some tlii>uKhl--|iii>v<>kinn mhnHmm ai'<* embodied .in .Mr.
IVter*.' i oik ludinu article on Hie Walla Walla |>eiiltentl«iry prints!
ill today* Imii-v
\\ ■• ii ■■]!•• you have reud lii.s whole .series. We urge that at
Icii-l you do not Kill to ri-nil this one.
I'rison reform In .hlmiihmji rapidly, but, a* Mr. I'eters remark*,
it <tlill hits far to «o. I.very citizen of Washington ought to liel|>
hasten it- pntCt^m at Walla Wulla.
Way to Justice
Mental examinations of persons on trial are advo
cated by many reformer! as the next progressive
step iii criminology.
Additional argument* for the establishment of
psychopathic laboratories in court bouses come from
a study of lb"4 delinquent °;irls which was conducted
by the New fork probation and protective associa
tion. Only 1") of these t>iris had reached the mental
development of adolescence.
Mental deficiency is reported as the cause of way
wardness.
Inefficient girls who could not "keep their jobs"
were recently examined by an employment bureau in
an eastern City. Of the 180 cases studied, 84 per cent
were found so retarded in mental development as to
he considered deficient.
The psychopathic laboratory has proved of such
value in the Chicago courts that judges would not
hear of returning to the old ways,
"One great advantage of the examination <>f
youthful offenders is that it makes possihle the
identification of insanity before it has progressed so
far as to cause the victims to commit murder or other
serious crimes," says Harry Olson, chief justice of
the municipal court,
"Extension of the laboratory idea in connection
with the courts all over the country will in time en
able society to recognise practically all those, wlio are
suffering from mental disease, and finally to extir
pate it,"
IN THE EDITOR'S MAIL
Short Irlttra frni.i Tlnira rendrra. of itrnrral Interval und without
ii.■<..ui.i malic*, mm ■••■ printed. Write nliout anything or anybody
ynn mlah. imt <lo nnl limr in.il!.. am your motive. Many letter* «ro
■ot prluled beeaiwe tbry arr <<><> long. Keep •in abort.
WHAT IS .lOAIUMi?
Kditor The Times:
The coming <>f strange new
words goes merrily on. necessl
tatlriß periodic revision of popu
lar dictionaries, incessantly con
ulliutlug to the opulence of for
lunalo owners of this lucrative
business.
Recently appearpd In your val
ued and Influential Journal, a
word tuat the closest scrutiny of
the Standard, Webster's I'na
brldgeil, or the Century diction
tries fulls to reveal; neither can
(That Tough Kid Must Face the Boy Scouts Now!)
IHI T4#|lU TIMU' .
it be liimhl in the latent Issues of
the Hrlttanlrn or I'nlverslty en
cyclopedias; nor any other mod
ern lexicographic work that the
lienrvolence of Carnegie makes
available to the good people of
Taconia.
.lust what does "Joabing"
monnV
Can it be that you ha*e origin
ated n verb defining a self,ap
pointed censoring of what is igood
for us to look at, to write, or to
read?
A. F. WII.DT.
OUTBURSTS OF EVERETT TRUE
Many a man who is let in on
the ground floor crawls out
through the cellar door.
THE OM> TIXKS ARE BEST
We are in hopes that by the
lime the colt show comes off next
lull the band can play a lew new
pieces of music, as it is they have
played the same music since the
organization several years ago.—
The Altamount Ulo.i Times.
WHAT < OXiJHKNNFMKX AKK
FOR
Congressman VV. A. Ayers has
our thanks for several favors ex
tended ot this office recently. Mr.
Ayers seems to be alive to his
duties in Washington. -The Con
way Springs (Kan.) Star.
M'ILDfXG NOTE
Our two leading public char
acters seem to be Col. Mouse and
Veruon Caatle. —Judge.
They may be leading, but by
only a nose (or a front-porch, to
adhere strictly to formin). There
are other buildings of note.
There's Villa, for Instance, and
Henry Cabot Lodge, not to men
tion the Grand Central Depew and
Gllman Hall. And outside we en
counter P. G. Wodehouse, with
Henry Flult. If you wish to pur
sue the subject to the last ditch,
add Edward Cave, the approprt
ntely named editor of Recreation.
—Jim aud Etty.
MHBOra IT ox
The musketry instructor had
just been giving aleason on the
rifle to one particularly "green"
set of recruits. At the end he
asked: "Xow, is there any ques-
tion you want to ask?"
One dull-looking Johnny Raw
stepped forward, blushing awk
wardly.
"Yes, my man?" said the In
structor, encouragingly.
"Plhzp, sor," stammered the
sc;ir< her after knowledge, "is It
loinlit that the harder Ol pull the
trlggar-thlag the fardor the bullet
goes?"—Tll-Blts.
MO OTIIKKS. NKKI> APPLY
WANTED —A seven-inrh baker
and piKh-lnch dlshinaker. Apply
at Sali'in China company. -Adv.
In the East Liverpool (O.) He
view.
~ A SOFT SNAP ~
As Picture by Charlie
McKee, Manager of
the Tacoma'Theater.
i i
TURKS SUFFER
SEVERE DEFEAT
p
LON'DOX, April 6.—Reports
received yesterday by the war of
fice state that the Turks suffered
a severe defeat yesterday at the
liiaiils of the British troops on the
Tigris river near I'm-del-Henna.
U. S. TROOPS LOOK
DIRTY ON MARCH
COLUMBUS, April 6.—Truck
drivers, returning from supply
trip to Col. Dorld's troops in the
Guerrero country, describe the
American troops as a nondescript
bunch; their faces bearded aud
covered with alkali dust. Many
of the troopH are wearing Mexi
can sandalys.
BY BLOSSEB
1i Hmiiiniihifii ii iitiin n i imi iii 1111 ii iM
iANSWERSi
g BY CYNTHIA GREY!"
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Q. —I am to be married next month to a man who was en
gaged once before. He gave the first girl a diamond ring and
she la •till wearing It. The ring he has gfven me is only a ruby.
Do you think he is treating me (airly? Should I speak to him
about Rt TESB.
.\.—li all depends on which you value more— tlie ring or the
man. The oilier jfirl has the ring, you have the man. Hhe probably
thinks you have the Itetter |inrt of the buifcuin. I nhoiild nut
speak ,]| it to him. I'robuhlv the ruby 1h all he cau afford at preant.
Q. —Is it proper fora young lady to wear to a leap year
danrn^lowerx which were presented to her by her gentleman
escort? la It proper for a gentleman to give her flowers when
she Han invited him to the party? FLOSS.
.\.—There are feu rules KovtM-iiiiig loap year affairs. Tin 1 |{en
i inn .-in liiin a tine sense of courtesy, and you .should appreciate it and
wear the flowers.
Q.- —Tan you tell me of anything I can put in the rinse
water besides bluing to blearh white clothes that have become
yellow? TIMKS HKADEH.
A.—.Make a solution of hup part turpentine to three of alcohol,
juhl u.se one liihlespooufiil in water used in the last rinsing.
Q- —The strings of my piano Keem to stretch and will not
stay in tune any length of time. 1 live in the basement of an
apartment. I>o you think the dampness* causes this? Also please
tell me what to do for my fern. The leaves turn brown and fall
off. R. K. L.
.A. — I'joably there are nbrupl clmnttes of leiii|K-iatiire in your
apartiiient whlcli cause the trouble with the piano. IMace it against
an liLside wall, M far Irom the luMiler v* |M>tsihle. Your fern acts «>
thouizh Hie (M is iiffectiiu; it. (iive it more wutor, Imlu and ventila
tion.
Miss Grey maintains office hours each Wednes
day from 11 a. m. to 4 p. m. when she is pleased to
meet any Times reader. On other days she replica
to questions only by mail or through her column.
SAVE 20 CENTS
ON THE DOLLAR
. BY GEO. W. PERKINS
Chairman of New York's Food Committee.
Have you ever stopped to figure how much more
you would get for your money if" you bought food by
the pound instead of by the package?
Food that is wrapped MM sold in attractive look
ing package! must of necessity <*ost more than the
same food sold in hulk, which means sold by the
pound.
Tlio box or jar containing the food and the wax
paper costs money. The printing on the wrapper
costs money. And it costs money to fill the pack
ages and seal them. Therefore, you cannot possibly
get as much food for your money when so large .1
part of your money has to pay for the box, wrapper,
printing, etc.
There are several reasons why so many foods are
put up in packages.
First, the package looks pretty, appeals to the eye,
and makes the food seem more appetising. Second,
most of the packages are air tight and dust proof,
and for sanitary reasons a great many people prefer
food in packages.
As a matter of fact, it is possible for your grocer
to keep on hand, in bulk, exactly the same foods as
the packages contain, and it is also possible for him
to keep them in bulk in a perfectly sanitary manner,
so dust and dirt cannot reach them.
Wo have looked into the matter of the relative cost
of certain articles bought in package as compared
with the same things bought loose or in bulk. The
articles referred to were purchased by our own in
vestigator, the quality was compared, and the arti
cles weighed and measured In our own office. The
following will give you some idea of the result of our
(investigation:
ROLLED WHITE OATS—A package that con
tains IMj pounds costs 10 cents. You can buy the
same article loose for 5 cents a pound. If you buy 3
pounds at a time, the 3 pounds will cost you 12 cents.
TAPIOCA —A package contains 12 ounces and
costs 10 cents. You can get 16 ounces for 5 cents if
bought loose.
VINEGAR—A quart bottle of white or cider costs
10 cents. It costs 5 cents a quart loose.
TEA—In a 10-cent package there are VU ounces.
In bulk you can get four ounces for 10 cents.
SODA CRACKERS-There are 4-4 ounces in a s
cent package; you can get 7 ounces for 5 cents loose.
GRAHAM CRACKERS-33 in a 10-cent package;
48 in 10 cents worth loose.
BACON —In a 20-cent par there are nine slices,
weighing 5 ounces; 19 slices, weighing 12 ounces, can
be bought for same money in bulk.
MACARONI —A package containing 12^-0 ounces
costs 10 cents. In bulk you can get 17 ounces for the
same amount of money.
STARCH—A 5-cent package contains 18 ounces;
16 ounces can be bought in bulk for 5 cci.v.
THE TACOMA TIMES
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