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The new secretary of agriculture ha 3 got a $50,000 appropriation and named an expert to make a study of market ing conditions from the federal standpoint. And Wisconsin is considering the establishment of a market commission with broad powers not only to cut the snarls between producer and consumer, but also to put the aid of the state behind well-organized plans of co-operative marketing. In your block, tomorrow morning, watch the number of delivery wagons darting about at random, doubling on each other's trail and employing in the service of your neighborhood a great excess of machinery and labor. So far as we know, there has never, in any American city, been a thorough survey to determine how much this waste amounts to. In the matter of milk delivery alone a section of the city of Rochester was once charted and checked up, with the astounding discovery that more than two-thirds of the service was in duplicate and therefore unnecessary. Spread that measure over the cities of the nation and over the many forms of delivery to which consumers are accustomed and it becomes plain that we have here one large and growing factor in the high cost of living. Perhaps we need more precise information as to just what this waste is before we shall be ready, in any large way, to move toward correction. It is, of course, only one of a number of factors which must eventually be taken into our reckoning. But it is so very obvious, so clearly before the daily observation and experience of all of us, that it would seem to be an excellent starting point. Wisconsin has led proudly in many advances of democracy. If its proposed market commission shall point the way to an avoidance of some of the present uneconomic duplication of deliveries, the service may come to be as valuable as any in the past. The Abatement Law Next month the new red light abatement law will go into effect in this state and the friends of the law are preparing to wage a relentless campaign under this statute against the property owners who permit their real estate to be used for vice resorts. The latest development in the consideration of the vice question is the almost universal condemnation of the vice district. Restriction has been shown not to restrict and segregation does not segregate. The special committee of the city council of Chicago appointed to study the problem has just filed its report absolutely denouncing the idea of segregation as a solution to the problem and declaring that the only course is unmitigated warfare against the whole vice regime. Every vice commission in the last five years that has studied the question has declared against the restricted district. This is remarkable in view of the fact that practically every police department in the country is continually lauding the vice preserve as the "only plan." The fact that so many of the police departments have been shown to be drawing fortunes in graft from these protected red light districts has utterly discredited anything police departments may offer on this subject. The investigation at present is taking a new turn and is studying the causes as well as remedies. The Chicago committee says the double standard of morals, lack of proper home training, hasty marriages, immoral resorts and starvation wages are prominent causes of commercial vice. If Your Daughter Had To Travel Alone Suppose it became necessary for your young daughter to travel to one of the large cities and you found it impossible to go with her and knew no one whom you could persuade to look after her. Wouldn't her going be a torture to you and wouldn't you rejoice when word came that she had braved the perils safely? This hazard has to be taken by many parents every day. And, though our cities are safer than they used to be, now that we've begun frankly to face the problems of sex and society, the chances for the disappearance of a Dorothy Arnold continue to be ominous. The unattended maiden in a big city is as a lamb amidst wolves. A movement recently discussed at the Southern Sociological Congress to organize a National Travelers' Aid Association, with careful agents to meet all trains and to see that traveling girls are properly cared for, looks good and timely. In every city there are motherly women connected with churches or women's clubs who would be glad to give time and service in such a cause. The only things needed are organization and leadership. Maybe this is YOUR CHANCE, mother. They Could Be Grabbed And now we have a shriek from representative Filipinos to this effect: "Japan could grab us easily." Uncle Sam grabbed those Filipinos easily, but, later on, he's going to have an awful time letting go of them. Once upon a time, there was a man who saw a bear beginning to climb a tree and he thought it would be a lot of fun to grab the bear's paws which were showing, in a cute way, around the trunk of the tree. So, he grabbed hold of the paws, which made the bear ripping mad. It's a mighty good story, and the man and bear are there yet. That Tacoma business men know a good thing when they see it was indicated at the Commercial club "forum" dinner last night when the motion to endorse the $87,000 bonds for the building and operation of a municipal car line easily carried. If you want to own your own street car lines in the future, if you want good service and a possibility of a three-cent fare, vote for the municipal car line bonds Saturday. Who says Tacoma isn't on the map? Cheapest power in the world, a municipal car line in the immediate future, a great Montamara Festo coming up soon editorial page of the Caconta Citizen and a winning baseball club are just a few things we can brag about for a while. Are you sending letters to your friends about the Festo? If you do your part and everybody else does the same thing, the Festo will bring thousands of visitors to this city. Buy a Festo button, wear it, speak about it and tell your friends to buy one. Those fellows who said Joe McGinnity was a has-been and didn't know much about running a ball club are hard to find these days. THE TACOMA TICKET. A LITTLE TALK GOES A LONG WAY, BUT IT WON'T BUY AN AUTO. By the Junior Office Boy This Thursday, Thursday, and Friday, the Junior Office Boy, always saving the duty of doing things, and right before coming to a point, I can possibly be did. I know that the people in the Bronx which have a dear little boy named George, he is a little fellow, and if he doesn't get over it, I am afraid some day his pa will break his neck. Last Sunday, a young man took him to church with her, and going to keep his cute little eyes wide open all the time, when the collection box came along, he watched his ma loosen up, and he noticed just how loose she was when they got home, there was "Welters to dinner, and George's ma was telling them all about the church her and George had been to the church in the pew was dusty, she said, and the choir had voices that ought never to be used except in case of fire or shock and the preacher did not seem to have any brains and not very much lungs and altogether she did not think a whole lot of the service so then bright little George, who has its sense carefully to his ma's complaint, speaks out and says: "Yes, but I think it's a great pity that the church should be so much better off, and I'm afraid some day he will break his neck." "Might be expected for a cent (which perhaps you could get a dessert was not for a dessert), but light, thou art the blessing of the earth, thou art the blessing of the earth. Thou makest life a truly glad-thing. Thou caust little dickey bird! And giveest is moving pictures for our mirth; sometimes thou shine in a Pullman berth; thou glowest the sparkle to a diamond ring, thou glowest on the peasant's heart. Without thee we would suffer! Gloom and dearth." I love thee when with in can- HT " ifc^ descent glow, SSI g Thou shineest on the features i^Hk -^B Of my Fair; fllwlL^^B I like thy soft electric ray to flow B^^i!jE Upon the golden glory of her BfflKffiiilw^ll But in the parlor, when we whits- } 11 ', |j||j S Believe me, Light, thou are not •' (].;•' ' Cause and Effect. "I wonder what's come over Harry? Instead of being cross, as usual, he started off happy and whistling like a bird this morning." "It's my fault, mum. I got the wrong package and gave him bird seed for breakfast food."—Stray Stories. Innocent Voting Thing. "Didn't you feel pretty cheap, sitting there with a young and innocent girl at such a shocking play?" "I did. She had to explain a good many of the innoendog before I was able to get them."— Chicago Record-Herald. Knew Him. His Wife—Jerry, you're late to dinner again. What kept you? Mr. Medlar— I had some business to look after. His Wife—Oh, I know that, but whose business? —Chicago Tribune. Why Not the Umpire? "Oh, John, this account of the baseball game talks about a man dying on the base." "That's all right as long as It wasn't the umpire."—Baltimore American. Her Complaint. " So you went out motoring with that ill-tempered Jaggers? Did his temper explode? Yes, but I wouldn't have minded that if his tires hadn't, too." —Baltimore American. Railroad Courtesy. As an express train was going through a station, one of the passengers leaned too far out of the window, overbalanced and fell out. He fortunately landed on a sand heap, so that he did himself no great injury, but, with torn clothes and not a few bruises, said to a porter who was standing by: "What shall I do?" "You're all right, Mister," said the porter. "Your ticket allows you to stop off."—New York Globe. Not the Fact. Mother—Are you quite happy, Bertha? One of your neighbors said the other day he heard you and your husband quarreling awfully. Bertha — Pure fabrication, mamma. We haven't spoken to each other for a fortnight.—Fliegende Blätter. Next to Next. "What's the best thing you ever saw that bore out the old adage that cleanliness is next to godliness?" "Lemme see. Oh, yes. Back in the town where I came from the Salvation Army barracks was next door to the Chinese laundry." —Chicago Post. Divination. Seeress (mysteriously)— There is a dark something in your life which promises to give you trouble. Patron (with a sigh)—I know it. It is the runette I'm engaged to.—Baltimore American. For the Weak and Nervous. Tired-out, weak, nervous men and women would feel ambitious, energetic, full of life and always have a good appetite, if they would do the sensible thing for health—take Electric Bitters. Nothing better for the stomach, liver or kidneys. Thousands say they owe their Hives to this wonderful home remedy. Mrs. Q. Khinevault, of Vestal Center, N. V., says: "I regard Electric Bitters as one of the greatest gifts." I can never forget what it has done for me." Get a bottle yourself and see what a difference it will make in your health. Only $0.50 and $1.00. Recommended by Ryner Malstrom Drug Co., 938 Pacific ave. CORNS REMOVED DR. BOYER, "The Miser, Miser, and the Pupil" 7th and Park ave. Tel. Main 5970 Office Hours: 9:30-7:30-8:30-9:30-10:30-11:30-12:30-1:30-2:30-3:30-4:30-5:30-6:30-7:30-8:30-9:30-10:30-11:30-12:30-1:30-2:30-3:30-4:30-5:30-6:30-7:30-8:30-9:30-10:30-11:30-12:30-1:30-2:30-3:30-4:30-5:30-6:30-7:30-8:30-9:30-10:30-11:30-12:30-1:30-2:30-3:30-4:30-5:30-6:30-7:30-8:30-9:30-10:30-11:30-12:30-1:30-2:30-3:30-4:30-5:30-6:30-7:30-8:30-9:30-10:30-11:30-12:30-1:30-2:30-3:30-4:30-5:30-6:30-7:30-8:30-9:30-10:30-11:30-12:30-1:30-2:30-3:30-4:30-5:30-6:30-7:30-8:30-9:30-10:30-11:30-12:30-1:30-2:30-3:30-4:30-5:30-6:30-7:30-8:30-9:30-10:30-11:30-12:30-1:30-2:30-3:30-4:30-5:30-6:30-7:30-8:30-9:30-10:30-11:30-12:30-1:30-2:30-3:30-4:30-5:30-6:30-7:30-8:30-9:30-10:30- List of the moving picture bluebook. The is rather stout and short. There's no over-supply of hair on his head. He has a heavy black mustache and black eyes. Marcus Loew's life is like a page out of a story book. He commenced earning a living at six by selling newspapers on the street before and after school hours. When he was 9 he found a steady all-day job in a map covering establishment, and at 11 started in business for himself as one of the proprietors of the "Eastside Advertiser." From there he went to a "gents" furnishing store. At 19, believing he knew all there was to know in the business, he decided to open a store of his own—and failed. "That failure was the beginning of my success and the making of me," Mr. Loew informed me as we sat in his beautifully furnished office up over the American theater at 42nd and 6th Ave., New York. "If I hadn't failed, I had hard and I did and as soon as I did, I never should have climbed as far as I have. That experience took the conceit out of me, showed me that I didn't know it all and put me in the position of a learner once more. I went back to the firm I had been with before and began saving money to pay the debts I had incurred. "It was a terrible time in my New Daily Night Service (Through Standard Sleeping Car) will be inaugurated between TACOMA and GRAYS HARBOR over the O.-W. R. & N. Effective May 10, at 12:45 a.m., from Tacoma, On same day at 10:00 p.m. from Hoquiam Daily schedule of new train service will be as follows: GOING— Leave Tacoma Arrive Centralia 2:30 a.m. Leave Centralia 3:00 a.m. Arrive Aberdeen 6:00 a.m. Leave Aberdeen 7:00 a.m. Arrive Hoquiam, 7:15 a.m. HETURNING— Leave Hoquiam, 10:00 p.m. Leave Aberdeens, 11:15 p.m. Arrive Centralia, 1:55 a.m. Leave Centralla, 2:56 a.m. Arrive Tacoma, 4:45 a.m. Through sleeping car will be operated from Tacoma in connection with the Famous Owl, the popular night train between Tacoma and Portland. In addition to the Standard Pullman sleeper, a combination coach and baggag car will also be carried between Centralia and Hoquiam. For further information, call on or phone District Freight and Passenger Agent, National Realty Light, Tacoma. Telephone Main 38. Life. I used to slide into hallways when men whom I owed came down the street. But I kept on till I had paid every cent I owed. There never was better money spent than that which I used to square myself with the world. I didn't know it then, but it gave me the confidence of the business world. When I went into business again for myself, I was able to get credit away beyond my means, because the men knew I would pay. "Who gave you the notion of being a moving picture exhibitor, Mr. Loew?" I asked. "Why, David Warfield. He saw the fortune in movies and whispered." It is to me." PITZEN'S The next $2.50 Work Shoe in the city and Hola-Proof Hosiery. 1332 Pacific Ave. Wfflffißli CHAMBER OF COMMERCE Oth and C St. Main 809 Strs. Indianapolis and Flyer The fastest and finest department on the COSN. Leaves Tacoma from Municipal Dock at 7:00, 9:00, 11:00, a.m.; 1:00, 3:00, 5:00, 7:00. 8:00 p.m., Leave Heattle from Colman Dock, 7:00, 9:00, 11:00 a.m., 1:00, 8:00, 5:00, 7:00, 9:00 p.m. ROUND TRIP A Steamer Every Two Hours S. S. M.S. Phone Main 34-15. 