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Nippon Yusen Kaisha Seattle Lighting Company 409 COLMAN BLDG. Stuart Building Phone Main 6767 Phone Elliott 3514 Seattle, Wash. THE TOWN CRIER VOL. XIV. No. 36 SEATTLE, U.S.A., SEPTEMBER 6, 1919 PRICE TEN CENTS Photo by Curtis Studio MRS. DONALD GOODNOW GRAHAM Who until Tuesday evening was Miss Juanita Fisher. Mrs. Graham is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Oliver David Fisher and her wedding was one of the notable events of the year. THE TOWN CRIER PAGE FOUR of prominent business men, including a gentle­ THE TOWN CRIER man connected with a string of popular newspa­ pers throughout the United States. Official publication of the Seattle Fine Arts Society. Member of Washington State Press Association. With an ordinary mayor his rewards would Published every Saturday by have been no more than a general comment upon WOOD & REBER, Inc. his having done his duty and shown firmness. Suite 228 Post-Intelligencer Building, Seattle. Telephone Main 6302. But with Mr. Hanson, far from that. No sooner Entered as second-class matter at the United States post- was the strike broken than he was proclaimed office at Seattle. from one part of the country to the other. Seat­ EASTERN OFFICE: No. 209 Eagle Building, Brooklyn, N. Y. CHICAC.O OFFICE: 58 East Washington Street. tle had been saved from the torch and America SUBSCRIPTION: One year, in advance, $3.00; six months, from the Bolsheviki, by the good right arm of $1.50; three months, 76 cents; single copies, 10 cents. For­ eign subscriptions (countries in Postal Inion) $4.00 a year. the simple citizen, the loving father, the devoted For sale by all Newsdealers. husband, Hanson the model American. Payments should be made by Check, Draft, Postal Order, yayable to THE TOWN CRIER, or by Registered Letter. We ask our readers whether if Mr. Hanson Announcing For advertising Rates address Suite 228 Post-Intelligencer Building, Seattle. Inquiries within city limits of Seattle, had actually stood before a red-bannered mob de­ made by mail or by telephone to Main 6302, will be personally fending the public records and the City Hall respondend to by a representative of THE TOWN CRIER when The Daily arrival of the requested. amid blows and brickbats and had come out of it a wounded and half-dying man, he could have Fashion Centers'1 Latest and received one iota more publicity throughout this A Home View Of Mr. Hanson country than he contrived to get out of a mere Best Efforts The Town Crier endorses a recent protest at proclamation which it was in line with his sworn in .Mr. Ole Hanson's sudden renewal of an attack duty to issue? He received more notoriety than upon a certain labor union against which he had Hobson did by sinking the" Merrimac as a hair- SUITS: aired his grievances a long time ago. This pub­ rising exploit in war. He became more widely lication should be the last to be suspected of and possibly more favorably known than the for­ COATS and showing any partiality toward labor unions, but mer Tennessee squirrel shooter, Alvin York, who it is opposed to Mr. Hanson making further po­ single-handed killed more than thirty Germans, DRESSES litical capital out of his controversies with them. captured another one hundred and is scheduled Mr. Hanson has suddenly resigned as mayor of to go down in history as the greatest hero of Seattle, leaving great undertakings instituted by the world's war. him obviously untested and uncompleted. Mr. * * * Correct Apparel for Women and Misses Hanson is one of, if not the, world's greatest 1336 2nd Ave., Near Union advertisers. The manner in which he capital­ The average newspaper reader must be cogni­ ized his part in the general strike and got it be­ zant of the fact that whatever Mr. Hanson does fore the- American public is one of the achieve­ gets into the newspapers instantly in a manner exceedingly favorable to himself. There is always ments of modern advertising. Mr. Hanson is long too modest language narrating the part that he a reporter at hand whether Mr. Hanson is giving trained in the game of advertising. He was took in the saving. More recently the press re­ a chew of tobacco to a laborer, while a photog­ brought up on it and laps up publicity like rap. ported him as taking a fortnight's vacation in rapher just happens to be standing by, or whe­ He both creates and feeds upon his own atmo­ Spokane where it just happened that the State ther he has sprung out of one of his autos to sphere. He dines upon headlines; he sups on the Bar Association was meeting, and quite naturally slap somebody in Yakima, whence there come snap shot. He personally is master of the art Mr. Hanson addressed it. back press reports of his having had a successful and when he takes himself a pencil in hand pro­ It is hardly at variance with the truth to say first fight there on each of his five last visits to fessionals of the press are babes by comparison. that Mr. Hanson, who lays his illness largely to that far inland city. Can you forget his town lots for clerks and his teeth, is also somewhat troubled with his school teachers in breezy sun-kissed Suquamish, Knowing him as it does the public should have tongue, and that he wishes to devote the rest of the sylvan club house, the cool, shady pier? Then a very clear idea as to why Mr. Hanson resigned his time in the selfish field of his own to the there was Lake Forest Park, with its glades and as mayor. He works at things until it is sufficient development of new districts of public opinion bowers for the middle-classes and that suburb of for his purposes and then he gets out. He gets which he has subjugated. Auburn, the workingman's dream, home of the out while the getting is good, while everything Mr. Hanson is after state-wide or national luscious berry. Mr. Hanson loved these spots as looks well and sounds well. On the present oc­ honors, and needs time to prepare. It is prob­ he pictured them, but he took mighty good care casion he has the nerve to tell the people that ably still fresh in Mr. Hanson's memory, even never to live in any of them. Reluctantly he al two great things which he launched are now all though the public may have forgotten it, that he ways sold out at the right time. right, one being the largest purchase of street carried this city by a very small majority over a Mr. Hanson has lived in Seattle a good many car lines ever made by a city and the other a candidate who had against him nearly every years but if he was ever at the head of any municipal water power project of enormous mag­ journal in Seattle, and that when he ran for the charitable, reform or city organization, The nitude. The first of these has only been tested United States Senatorship a few years ago, he Town Crier's memory is on the wane. On the four months and the Hanson appointee in charge, came in a poor third. contrary we remember him only in connection Mr. Murphine, admits that the future of street with cheap acres turned into high priced lots and railways is a matter of national doubt and that an indefatigable pursuit of public office. We re­ the whole method of this transportation may be Platinum Jewelry member his loud street corner arguments, his vio­ superseded. It was a purchase, moreover, made lent shaking of fists, his utter lack of dignity, from a company which could hardly conceal its Cheerfully and even eagerly as the war was his continual quarrels.