The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 27, 1915, Page 4

PE olen Newspapers | tered at Seattie, Wash | * 1 vase] The Seattle Star |e: 0; #montha, $1.90 Postoffice Pubitent st th up to rh per month moa second-class matter ty, 98e © month heal If Flies Were as Big as They Are Dangerous ELEPHANT HoOvVse PLY T° FLIES were as big as they are danger ous they would be larger than mammoths, the huge beasts that roamed this earth in prehistoric times, destroying everything that came within their path You would not let a man-eating tiger have free access to your house—not if you could help it, you wouldn't. Nor would you let lions or elephants come charging from their jungle lairs into your kitchen or baby's bed room ‘and then merely shoo them ing: “Oh, they are such a bother! Yet the common house-fly is more danger- ous than these most dreaded wild beasts is, in fact, the most dangerous animal on earth. Flies slay more people than the most fero cious denizens of the jungles—because they Why Not Do It Ourselves: HE contract method of doing city and ay, Say county work has proved a failure in many ways. The contractor is entitled to a legitimate profit on his enterprise, but is seldom con tent with a legitimate profit When contract jobs are widely scattered, the honest inspector has to skip from one to another, and the greedy contractor i ven his opportunity to skimp on mat Seattle has been exceptionally dishonest inspectors, but it frequer pens ‘that the inspector and the or his foreman, are friend contractor says according to specificati being of a trusting na to take his word for it The contractor, of whom Pat McHugh a type, employs the cheapest labor he can find. This is generally alien labor. The “wop” is happy amid camp conditions which no self-respecting American would endure The “wop” sends his money back to the Old Country to the wife who is waiting for him there and who, is. saving it the time when she shall live and ire and busy oon hoes How to Blow Wau Nose after-effects of colds which have From the health standpoint, there is even a right and a wrong Way to blow the nose. When ® mother tight! grips a child's nose in a hand Kerchief and tells the child to “blow hard,” she unconsciously is paving the way for the child to become deaf at an early age Where the back of the nose and the mouth join there is one opening of a small tube and the other opening of that tube is in the middle ear back of the drum. Colds as a rule Spread from the no to the throat, then to the vocal cords and then to the bronchial tubes. Generally they show a disposition to skip the tube running to the ear except when germs and pus are blown up to the ears. Thus when a person nose hard, pinching trils as a great man and then “blow hard Even when is| picture on left held HON WO WeoOoX< NOG Money Tre The Eve dome atisf Coke te ihe Mode nH _with co-operation of American Medical Association be lows kerchief held under nose. Chance to Save -LION - LEOPARD - RHINO BEAR Jcarry disease breeding germs from sick peo ple to well people, from impure and decayed | food to pure fe } And when they do this the welt persor j turns sick and in many cases dies, and pure | food begins to decay, and then, when eater }.by people, it makes them sick and often ills them | The fly is born in filth and grows up t be nature's scavenger and a messenger “ law eacl feet is supplied with sticky pads, D a and when the fly walks over your hand or face, or the face ¢ f ye ur baby a trail | leadly disease germs is left on the skin | That is why you should ' SWAT THE FLY! } Se attle or King county Even the “wop” may be stirred to rebell strikes and costly delay ar believes at the contract systen has failed absolutely How much better it would be if the city and county would do their own work! It would cost less, BECAUSE THE PUBLIC WOULD SAVE THE CONTRACTOR'S PROFITS. The work would be better done BECAUSE THERE WOULD BE NO TEMPTATION FOR THE CITY OR COUNTY TO CHEAT ITSE LF ilar sent out of the by alien leaves the community exact ed afford to pay resident vorers — the t to pa for the money would then stay in ney with the Seattle merchant The Se tle landlords, Sea res, and so on LET US DO OUR OWN WORK, GET! modest comfort on the od| BETTER RESULTS, SAVE MONEY—| American dollars | AND KEEP SEATTLE DOLLARS AT He spends mighty little of his wage in’ HOME, hard there is a great chance that when one learns that become deaf tr are gen & from the trave from the nose t There are smal the ear ly blow infection into the ears The wrong way to blow the nose, pinching it as shown In the| The right way shown in picture to the right. Hand from #0 then the hearing becomes poor r own accord, it ts only neces ON COKE DURING MAY te the none Knot te arp Ay ane then- blow lightly Probably half the deaths that do not come from old age are due to ignorance. It is knowledge organized Into sanitation, diet rules, medi cine and surgery that has 60 wonderfully reduced those terrible death rates of ma diaeval times and will reduce them atill more In the days that are to come—The Out look The Sort of Home the Fly Likes Files cannot breed in dry places; they cannot breed in clean places, But they do thrive In stables, cow barns, pig pene Sta SEATTLE LIGHTING COMPANY Pesutabing: eal ehatconeaen articl Phone Main 6767. Stuart cheese, dead animals, rotting straw, pa per and rags, are the things flies like best. Building. STAR—TUESDAY, APRIL 27, 1915. (@ [PEOPLE MUST O A Trespasser in Booze Gulch "OM! WHAT DID You DO FoR A BACK@ROUNDS * "WE JUST FILMED A Good SLUM “LOTS OF LOCAL COLOR, WHATI! “YER, YOu PICKED A GOOD SETTING? “TTHE NERVE OF You! THAT'S MY HOUSE OUT AND CHOSE germs by the thousands stick to these ‘e Tradition Shattered HEY! Come Back HERE! I WANT TO TELL YOU SOMETHING! i-hearted city Mai first assigniner |tended westward thru the central! tourists who alr ‘and I found liy 3,0 : bank cashier Jend, so that {t would Me north and|{ndustrial purposes. Not onl Nearly Barefoot I hear that Jones His Ambition See ail eicahi sielaniiadl your name written on the scroll “Of course, I wouldn't object tle merchant would pass it on to Seattle| but just now I'm d rr to that, father, clerks. The Seattle clerke would pay it to Se-/ more anxious gram on a $7,000 automobile. le restaurants, Seattle} ing picture theatres, Seattle department Had No Kick YOU WAKE WITH YOUR ‘°SPECIAL BAWLING, AND WHEN | OF YOUR PAPERS THING YOU WERE SELLING EARLY 'T WON'T TAKE LONG To Pur THE CRUSHER ON THAT !! Hostess (at party)—Does your mother allow to have two ExTRA’ BUY ONE IT'S THE SAME infection will be blown into the “When You're Well, Keep Well} 55. cscs: cr siovine corm nto the ear and the co that Another article in The Star’s health campaign being condacted result is more fully i to have two IN THE DAY! understood —Hartford Times. Beate a Lantern returning at evening feticate bones dark enough A Hopeless Case YOUTA fUL OAYS 1 USED To BE | QUITE A BOXER \6oeo Ova been telling him he's § ~: DRESSWARM AND KEEP FEET DRY Take Salts and Get of Uric Acid ate two and | h SMILE aE HAPPY! TAKE CASCARETS Winter's ‘ie From Your Liver and Rheumatism ts , color or rank dangerous of human is one of the r by which sound waves are trans-| mitted from the ear drum to the nal ear, and these bones are ther with sma dell. | cate joints. When these joints becom stiff and out of order disorder of the ear, lots of pure water Enjoy Life! Bilious, Sick, Headachy and Constipated. As nature arranged to have the} ecretions in the nose run out of is the function of the kidneys to fil }ter this acid from jcast it out In the urine; of the skin are als VO. non MOUSE! THE BELT LAWOED RENT On SIDE O MY HEAD! ya means of free- f this tmpurity. |}damp and chilly, cold weather the |the kidneys to do donble y and sluggish and fail |to eliminate tls accumulating and through the system, eventually causing stiffness, called rheumatism. twinge of rheuma get from any pharmacy « of Jad Saits; ye pont in a glass of water | to eliminate urle ten blood of these ight take Cascarets to liven your Salts is {inexpensive nd Is made from the ¢ »s and lemon with lithia and is used with excel thousands of folks Here you have a pleasant, e Wake | cent lithla-water drink which over Cascarets is best and 1s beveficial to | |comes urle acid your kidneys as well PUBLIC UTILIT It’s the Only Safe and {ane Plan to Adopt,,, Adds Harrison, America’s Longest-Term: Mayor. CHICAGO, April 27.-—"PUBLIC OWNERSHIP OF B UTILITIES.” * That's the message Carter H. Harrison, five times mayop Chicago, hands on to the public on the @yg his retirement from office Harrison has served 12 yea. the longest maygralty term ever se rf by a American “Buy the utilities’ ts the text of his ff official message F “The more | sea of private ownership public utilities,” declares Mayor Hyrrisom, “i more I am convinced that there ts and sane plan for the public to ado, to set ite mind with determination apon pi ownership, and not to deviate a hair's b from the most direct course b eh it may attained. * “Private managefhent ts interes! 4d In itable operation. Economy of oper*den ang ferior service contribute unfailingly to ine 4 profits. Be of operation consists chiefly of low wages and long hours for all ployes except the higher offictals Private management, however, can be made profitable by, the devious ways and schemes known to the modern and upto financier Public ownership of public utilities is bound to come at distant date. The foundations for it must be wel! laid, hot and every fetaure well worked out and provided for if the g when given practical trial. is to be successful and enduring Promotion of municipal ownership {s still in the edneatio es Ronee? CARTER H HARRISON, stage. Private ownel ip makes profit the sole goal. Public @ ship has an eye single to the health, to the ec of eitt profits are a matter of secondary consequence. Pv ie ¢ uld turn down with a round turn the firet intimation ¢? a to the old order of things You CAN GET ANY CLIMATE YOU | WANT IN CHILI, BABSON WRITES BY ROGER W. BABSON. go snowshoeing in the Ai SANTIAGO, Chile, April 10. (By] east of the city. This va snipe wele trae A ook 3p ¥| of climate should some )—If Massachusetts were ex-| S,u'Chite Very sopular dv are call Switzerland of states to the Pacific ocean it would| it the 2 1 America about 120 miles wide and nea ~ be about 120 miles wide and neat) These varied climates ) miles long. If you ll! aiso become very valuable to @ imagine this belt of land, turned on|{n future years for egricultural south instead of eae. and west,| Ciille be able to mine and then you can understand how large Pele engpy ll mtg 2 = and its peculiar shape, goods, but her climate ts si nC fe Tt se! bare by cit | for the operation of factotHes dys not ahd ary: The mining mills. Labor cannot become ey | Clent in warm climates. typical Colorado weather | Mt | font unny days and cold nights. | chi ne oon van aera gricultural zone has splen-| r joped. aperate weather all the year bowing = aan deposits of ca around, very much like the weather | 'T® 4nd coal. ofrsouthern Cy fornia, but with a We are apt to think rainy season frum June to Septem- oooe eke aa ber. y goods of us. us The southern » a good deal| forget that some of the like parts of C ja, it having jouth America are as much rain, a short beautifol sum-| for developing their own mer and a long bleak winter. dustri; 1s we are. This Moreover, on same day, cially appl the Chi o can pick ror In the val- and is the ason for the leys surrounding Santiago and gan: “Chiafor the Ch YOU LOSE MONEY By Neglecting to Take Advantage of These Close-Outs 15¢ 31-In. Four-Pronged Hot Water Clothes Lifter ...... P Reduced 2c each week day until sold 10¢ Dover Egg Beater .... 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