•eriodical Department Seattle ruuiic Ulan rier Every Seattle, Saturday U.S. A. Roy Byford as Falstaff Dorothy Massingham as Mistress Pago Mary Holder as Mistress Ford t In the Stratford-upon-Avon Festival Company's production of Shakespeare's comedy, "The Merry Wives of Windsor." The com­ pany is to be the attraction at the Metropolitan next week. VOL. XXIII., NO. 48 DECEMBER 1, 1928 PRICE TEN CENTS aiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiw JUST AS FRESH AS WHEN YOU WENT AWAY! . that's the story when you open the doora of your Copeland ELECTRIC REFRIGERATOR . after three, four, five or six days' absence— butter, milk, vegetables and fruits just as sweet and fresh . just as wholesomely appetizing ... as when you first entrusted them to The Copeland's care! 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WALLACE FISHER Mr. Fisher has just retired to private life again at the conclusion of his term as president of the Broadmoor Golf and Country Club and may now devote his entire attention to radio stations, flouring mills and such other trifles as engage the interest of the Fisher family. For in private life he is the youngest of the four brothers who are one of the largest factors in the financial and business affairs of Seattle, and indeed of the entire Northwest. He is treasurer and assistant general manager of the Fisher Flouring Mdls Company, whose great pbnt on Harbor Island lays confident claim to the title of "America's Finest Flouring Mills." And he is president of Fisher's Blend Station, Inc.. which is the corporation that operates KOMO. one of the outstanding broadcasting stations of the Western half of the United States. Harking back to his divot digging activities he is said to be the best golfer in the family, although this statement is made on unconfirmed report and is subject to contradiction by O. D., Will or Dan. J? fo THE TOWN CRIER DECEMBER 1, 1928 irresponsible genius. But in his works he will program would be carried through, regardless probably keep more than one centenary still of objections and protests, without deviation to come, for the verdict of Mr. Johnson, if it except as change was warranted by new facts be over-generous, is not all untrue: "He was and necessities as they developed. And these a very great man." would be determined and appraised just as HERBERT H. GOWEN. definitely and carefully as were those on which the original program was based. Seattle, U.SJ\.. Still Indefinite The city does nothing of the kind. There is Doubt has heretofore been intimated in neither the accurate determination of facts A meekly journal of comment reflecting the intellectual these columns as to the ultimate result of Mr. and necessities nor the definite formulation of and artistic life of Seattle. Avery's ambition to reform the city's street a program, to which the entire city govern­ car system. Quite regardless of any opinion ment is committed. There is instead an Published every Saturday at 2100 Fifth Avenue, Seattle. as to the soundness of his program, the most amiable drift ing, and much valueless dis­ E. L. REBER and W. II. SEIFERT Publishers C. B. RATHBUN Editor casual observer will recognize that develop­ cussion punctuated with foolish experiments ADELE M. BALLARD Associate Editor W. H. SEIFERT Business Manager ments of the last week or so go a long way with reduced fares and occasional efforts to ENTERED aa second class matter September 24, 1910, toward justification of such misgivings. introduce efficiencies and economies of one at the Post Office of Seattle, Washington, under the act of March 3, 1879. Por example, the modification of the pro­ kind and another. All of which, up to date, SUBSCRIPTIONS $4.00 per year, payable in advance. posed new parking regulations, upon the pro­ have come to naught. It is no reflection on In all foreign countries within the Postal Union, sub­ scriptions $5.00 per year. Single copies, 10c. Sample test of downtown merchants and the council's Mr. Avery if the prospects for the success of copies free. decision to extend the Beacon Hill car line, his endeavors arc as yet more of a hope than IN LONDON The Town Crier may be had at The In­ ternational News Company, Limited, 5 Breams Build­ against the wishes and judgment of Mr. an expectation. It could hardly be otherwise ings, and at Daw's American News Agency, 4 Leicester Avery, are illuminating. They point to the except with agreement and cooperation by all Street, Leicester Square, W. C. 2. MAKE CHECKS, drafts and money orders payable to fundamental reason why the street car sys­ concerned with the street car problem. And "The Town Crier." tem is not likely to be placed upon a sound the only phase of the matter on which there ADDRESS, 21.00 Fifth Ave., Seattle, U. S. A. Main 6302. basis, which is, indeed, the reason why it is seems to be entire agreement is the belief ADVERTISING RATES upon request. not upon a sound basis at the present time. that "something ought to be done about it." It is that, under municipal ownership, it # # # seems to be virtually impossible to formulate Oliver Goldsmith and carry out a public utilities program dic­ The Election and Prohibition tated by engineering and business judgment Prohibition organizations, as has been pre­ Another centenary (or in this case a bi-cen- alone, without regard to the special interests viously noted, are making haste to attach an tenary) note for 1928 will, I am sure, be par­ of any particular groups or localities. utterly unwarranted significance to the elec­ doned, since it concerns one who has engaged This is not to endorse or even to express an tion of Mr. Hoover. As for instance the the affections of men in a peculiar way and Women's National Committee for Law En­ since this one, Oliver Goldsmith, has recently opinion as to the merits of Mr. Avery's pro­ gram, or of the parking regulations or the forcement : received the attentions of two American "The election of Mr. Hoover is the answer writers. Beacon Hill extension. It is merely to remark that the program was upset by the influence to the cry for a referendum on the Eight­ It is not absolutely certain that Oliver was of special interests upon city officials, that eenth Amendment. The voters have declared born in 1728, but the date is generally given there is no definite and certain program for that they want more, not less, prohibition; as on November 10 of that year, so that we the street railways or any of the other muni­ more, not less, enforcement of the Eighteenth may accept it for want of a better. It has cipally owned utilities, nor is there likely to Amendment. His election, the crowning been said that Oliver Goldsmith "was an be any, for the same reason that Mr. Avery's achievement ol' the enfranchised women of essayist, a critic, a story-teller, a poet, a comic program has been altered and that previous America, will be regarded throughout the en-' dramatist and a literary drudge; the last all attacks on the street railway problem have tire world as a triumph for Ihe prohibition the time, the others between whiles." Yet come to naught. policy and a protest against the return of the legalized liquor traffic." even the hack work is far from despicable and A competent board of engineers could make the "between-whiles" achievements make him the necessary surveys and formulate a sound This, of course, is not at all an accurate ap­ one of the notable figures of eighteenth cen­ program for the street car system within a praisal of the voting or its result. The elee-' tury literature. Who is ever likely to forget period of a few weeks, and could have done so tion was not, to any significant degree, a re­ three works of such entirely different genre at any time in the last ten years. Greater ferendum upon the Eighteenth Amendment. as "The Vicar of Wakefield," "The Deserted problems are solved for private corporations The prohibition question was a slight factor, Village" and "She Stoops to Conquer"? every month in the year. It would doubtless the least important of all those that had a real Probably Oliver Goldsmith has lived for the involve changes in parking regulations, which, influence on the result. Of these those that majority of men too much against the back­ however, are not a factor in the street car were of greatest effect were party allegiance, ground of Dr. Johnson's Olympian presence.