The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 5, 1920, Page 6

city, 6c per month P asmenthe seit onths, of Washington, Month, $4.50 for By carrier, city, Traffic problems, like most questions, have two sides. Not all the ame is to be placed upon the autoist. The pedestrian has duties to erform, too. The man who will deliberately slow up his pace to 8 the autoist is not better—as the autoist who deliberately speeds up in order to e pedestrians hustle. There must be a “give and take” spirit, a aunity of interest, = following letter, eal and instructive, well worth your careful consideration: Notwithstanding the | Of sugar, we still have with andy factory, the candy ‘and those cheery, clarion. butchers in some of our @ bless ‘em. eee ¥ a yung friend. “How on intone’s worth?” we asked al “Twenty-five cents,” truthfully. eee CAN ANSWER? We'll Say So; If ‘Pan- F took a ‘Little’ ‘Liberty’ and ‘Clemmer’ to see the play at the ‘Class A’ on would the ‘Coliseum’? “GEE WHIZ.” eee arige and list. The in this column we asked if they wanted us to p our seats in the street cars, us of such desire in writ- @ate not one appeal has d Gentlemen, be eee tion now is, when will Dempsey change her in? eee ts have invented a machine handwriting on the & much better place i. wall, It's such a job wes ,° + year, utaide $ montha, or $ ide per week. ‘charged that the democratic committee is’ planning’ to , n fund of $20,000,000. } any political committee got @ that much money do’ you ft would care’ who was *| there will be accidents, even if vehicles are held down to . |If any pedestrian wants to take a gambler’s chance, break John M. Parker has been nomi- Mated for governor by the Louisiana | democrats. Do you remember John | M. Parker? Ah, we thought not. ee ‘The most popular song at the in. @uguration of the governor of New Jersey was “How Dry I Am.” Or / ‘would you call that an unpopular song? 5. the state, 9.06 a good citizen. He is in the same class—not a if we are to make Seattle streets “safe.” setting out the “motorist’s” view, appears to Editor The Star: Your articles on the solution of the ap- palling number of traffic accidents are all interesting and most of them beside the point. What the police have said is straight to the point. They recognize the fact that there are two sides to the question. What most of the others have said is bunk. A lot of folks apparently are trying to coddle themselves into the belief that the automobile is a plaything of the rich or vicious; that the average motorist takes a fiendish delight in speed- ing up his car and chasing the poor, inoffensive pedestrian clear across the sidewalk or up an alley just to try to kill or maim him. If class lines: must be drawn in this thing, remember the motor car is essentially the working man’s proposition. There are 40 times as many Fords running up and down the streets of Seattle as there are Pierce-Arrows. Remember that the police records prove 75 per cent of all auto accidents happen when the cars are going at less than 15 miles an hour. And ask Lieutenant Clarence Carr if it isn’t true that eight out of ten accidents are due in part at least to con- tributory negligence on the part of the pedestrian, and I think he will tell you they are. Let’s get down to brass tacks. of auto accidents in Seattle is jaywalking. Jaywalking in Seattle is universal. You jaywalk, I jaywalk, everybody jaywalks. And the town is too big for that sort of stuff any longer. The other day I was driving out First ave. at 15 miles an hour. I had a legal right to drive 20. A boy about 7 ran out in the middle of the block directly in front of me. I jammed on the brakes and slid down the rough car tracks sideways, tearing up four tires, to keep from hit- ting him. The little boy laughed, and his older sister, on the sidewalk, kept right on chewing gum. She should worry. If I had hit him I would have been another of those speeders who must be curbed if human life is to be held safe in our fair community. It’s going on all the time. Ask Dana Sleeth; he knows. The cause of the flood EVERETT TRUE ARE You TH] CONTRACTOR ON “THIS BVICDING HERS {$!— L WANS To CUSAN LP “TRIS SIDS wae Editor’s Mail | ‘Uncle Sam | | M.D. ease | Editor Star: Why do ye firing on the Japs and married wo-| men whose husbands are working ; “ and earning good money, and they HOW 1S IT SPREAD? themse holding down a job that| Bacteriologists who have studied A service man would be glad to} !Mfluenza epidemics in the past have have? The employers were just be-|f0UNd in many of the cases a very ginning to wake up when you quit,|8mall rod-shaped germ called, after and now they are sound asieep|!ts discoverer, Pfeiffer's bacillus, In again when an exsoldier asks them |Other cases of apparently the same for a job Keep it up, Star, and tell| Kind of disease there were found them—the employers of Seattle—|pneumococel, the germs of lobar that {i fil take them whatever|pneumonia. Still others have been WHAT CAUSES INFLUENZA AND So long as pedestrians BREAK THE LAW by crossing in the middle of the block—and I think they ought to be ar- rested for it just the same as a lawbreaking auto driver— 10 miles an hour. The remedy, of course, is to enforce the traffic law on = as well as drivers, with these two things under- st 8 1. The pedestrian has the right-of-way on any crosswalk. If any pedestrian is struck on any crosswalk by a vehicle EXCEEDING THE LEGAL SPEED LIMIT, let all the blame rest on the driver, no matter what the attendant circum- stances, and let him be given the limit of the law for his offense. 2. Vehicles have the right-of-way between cross walks. the law and cross in the middle of a block, let all the blame rest on the pedestrian, no matter what the attendant circumstances, There are just as many grown men and women who will step out in the middle of a block on an arterial paved street, with an umbrella close down over their heads, and looking neither to the right nor the left, as there are auto speeders in Seattle. MOTORIST. Venus, not Mars, is sending those wireless signals, says Prof. Abbot of the Smithsonian observatory. Just 9 ya beautiful girl trying to break in as a movie star! So Beware, So Beware! Have a care, folks, have a care. We are just beginning} Id, secrete, or possess any of the stuff that flows and| gurgles or foams. If, perchance, you have anything put away for a “cold” or any other alibi, we repeat, “Have a| care, have a care.” For you may not know yet just how perfectly debased you have become—oh, no! not in the eyes of admiring friends who may also be possessed of an occasional “cold,” but in the eyes of the law. But it will dawn on you ere long, if you but watch the course of events. Thus we note that the U. S. grand jury at Seattle yester-| day indicted some 10 or 12 residents on charges of smuggling) IN the 6th of February, in 1685, Charles 11, of England, died. At the time of the execution of his father, Charles I., the prince was a refugee at The Hague. He imme @iately assumed the title of king and was proclaimed in Scotland and in some parts of Ireland on Febru: ary 5, 1649. It was not until 1660 that Charles finally entered London as sovereign of England. His ca- reer and character were marked by excessive and cynical selfishness and flagrant debauchery. He died of apoplexy at the age of 55. In 1736, on the 6th of February, an earthquake shock was felt the P Jength of the New England coast. On the 6th of February, in 1756, Aaron Burr was born at Newark, N. J. Barr was a man of exceptional intelligence and brilliancy, but his career was ruined by the inordinate ‘ambition that led him to plan the formation of a new empire in Texas and Mexico. For this plot he was charged with treason, tried, and ac- quitted. Public “opinion, however, did. not acquit him, and Burr was forced to exile himself in Europe. In 1812 he returned to this country, and, as the feeling aroused by his trial had greatly diminished, he set- tled in New York and practiced law there until his death in 1836, In 1778, on the 6th of February, the Treaty of Alliance, by which France avowed and formed a de fensive alliance with It, was signed at Paris. The signers were Benja- min Franklin, first American minis- ter to France; Silas Deane, and Arthur Lee. Count de Vergennes, minister of foreign affairs under Louis XVI, ‘signed for France. opium and of making beer and “moonshine,” or having) possession of same. And we note, too, tiat said alleged smugglers of “dope” ive oa 4 the ay of $500 in coin of the realm, while| e liquor offenders and suspects are being generally held! on_ $1,000 bail. ’ Mebbe there was the day when a booze hound could have put up a respectable front, but now that Uncle Sammy vir- tually brands him worse than the “dope” trader, it is time| to rearrange our moral estimates of things. We used to think of the dope addict as a creature who had fallen pretty low down the social ladder. But, gosh! Drink a glass of beer, especially if you make it yourself, and pretty soon the “snow bird” will turn up his nose at you, or her nose, as the case may be. So beware, beware! Oh, William! Governor Edwards of New Jersey calls Bryan the undertaker of the democratic party. That man Edwards must think that Wm. Jennings should play the corpse part all the time. Mrs. Wm. B. Leeds, widow of our late tinplate king, has married Prince Chris, brother of Greece's ex. king. Some drop, from a tinplate king to a tin- plate prince! It is 100 per cent colder on Mars than on the earth. a to one those Mars folks are signaling Marconi for coal. President Wilson’s cabinet seems pretty much shot to pieces, but Joe Tumulty still wi d all’ ie Ht ead y aves and all’s quiet along The former kaiser passed his 61st birthday quietly. to ai a real slant on how completely wicked one must be|~ to hol But he probably wondered where and h his 62nd ec and how he would pass time it @kes for a man to Ko from | caused by streptococe! and by other the Soldiers and Sailors’ club to| germs their place of business to get good| Several European observers, on competent help. |the basis of experiments conducted There are very few of the em-|during the last year’s pandemic, be ployers who realize that men can be |lieve that the germ of influenza is obtained to fill clerical positions,/no ordinary bacterium but that it and also a vast variety of trades jbelongs to’a class of exceedingly men and laborers, by calling up the/ small germs spoken of as “filterable employment department of the Sol-| viruses,” because they can pass thru diers #8 Sailors’ club. |the pores of unglazed porcelain fil Fe get nl gy bd get Bins Frankly, then, scientists are jnot yet agreed that the germ of in down our jobs, and tell them that we who went “over there” to fignt| "on™ ‘# really known, 0, they Wight tive ia. pence, fe No matter what particular kind of germ causes the epidemic, it is ished the job in time so that their now known that influ { r husbands and sons didn't have to" - posta lyme directly and indirectly from person go, are now being deprived of the] ( : — right to work and make an honest |‘) Person. a ee Lidge living because they who took our|oripcmnct in Giher Ginengee it is jobs when we left refuse to give!" co Pg a eb lpergaetdenal j its nature, is carried about not only them up. by those who are fil with influenza, Roast the employers who are em-|nut by persona who may be entirely ploying these women and also those ; well. Ev who prefer Jape and other foreign.|“°. Everything which increases — eee entre Catgy | Personal contact, therefore, should re tO Us. ne yews he United | be regarded as a factor in spread- States will not allow me to use the! ing influenza mails for the purpose of conveying! tt is clear that there are many pasts ey vd Japs, proc 1) attferent ways in which such germs couldn't do it without employing |may be spread from person to per- son. Thus they may be epread profanity, so I'll leave that part quite directly by being carried with entirely to you. Put up @ good scrap for Uf.!the air along with the very small of mucus expelled by "Star," and you'll be doing as much | aropiety good as we did over there. We! coughing, sneezing, forceful talking and the like, by one who already don't want charity or any of that stuff, but we do want a Job, and/nas the germs of the ‘dieeesé. To believe we are entitled to one, How) guard against this mode of spread the use of face masks has been ad about it, “Buddies”? AN EX-SOLDIER OF THE |vocated. Tho the use of suitably constructed masks will reduce the TONIGHT At 8:15 ODD FELLOWS HALL Tenth and Pine FIRST ANNUAL CONCERT APOLLO CLUB 50 MALE VOICES ADAM JARDINE, Director MRS. ROMAYN JANSEN Soprano Soloist Admission 50c Tickets on Sale at Downtown Music Stores R oes 1H pee Eve Where Are My Reading Glasses?. You never have to look for reading glasses when you wear invisible bifocals made by us. Both reading and distance seeing powers invisibly com. bined in one lens, that's the kind we make for you, Neat, perfect fitting frames that will stand wear, Our service is superior. i daily ask JOHN B. 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COR.COLUMBIA, SEATTLE Send today for “Where Safety Dwells” ooooovovofopojopofofofojofo[o[o]o} On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise New Ether Called Greatest Medical Discovery of Age Ont, Feb. the young rg sing methods, has ts recognition jc is being by the rs Co, Wi tton's wife, and protege of the dica, shares with him the honor of the triumph, insisted today, as he told the story of what his dis. | covery will do, and of the years of discouragement while it [was being developed and tested, “and | while leading medical men scoffed at its possibilities. The new ether, Dr, Cotton asserts, is really a development of ether that it quickly, almost entirely nausea and allows even major operations, such as removal of the appendix, to be performed without the patient's either feeling pain or losing consciousness. It is sald to be valuable in child- birth, relieving the mother of much suffering, tho it does not remove all sensation of pain, Perhaps its queerest effect is that when a cer tain amount is administered, the patient becomes incapable of tell- ing anything but the exact truth in answer to 4 question, ‘The most hardened criminals, it is claimed, will give up their secrets under its influence. Some methods of administering the ether, Dr, Cotton says, do not differ greatly from the familiar ones, Others are as simple as the donning of a mask, A_reporter| stuck pins into a man equipped with such a mask, with no ap parent effect other than to amuse him. Experiments in developing the new ether lasted for years, and were laughed at by many of the ington, | ert singer | late Lillian Nor: | reted castle. lizes the particles of matter i snowflakes. In physics there is a law tion. that parallels this law. Builder without a plan. development, rational growth, there is no Ideal, life is but a tered stones. Ideal, music. thinker’s mind the Ideal. The Ideal precedes all thin end of all things; it is the Behind this world, floating Boston doctors trying out on a c developed by Dr. J. H. Cotton. foremost medical men. The first promising results were obtained in May, 1916, when a number of ani- mals relieved from pain with- out going to sleep. At this time it cost $80 a pound to manufacture the material, and it took three weeks to make a pound, “I offered the discovery to the Toronto general hospital and Uni- versity of Toronto, to do with as they pleased, war needs," said Dr, Cotton ble to get from them a statement whether they accepted it or not, after several months I gave the secret to the at the “new ether” discovered and to get overseas failed because the board turned me down as medi- cally unfit. We hurried the manu- facture of the ether as fast as pos- sible, and the first overseas ship- ment was made early in 1919." Dr. Cotton is the son of the late Dr. James Henry Cotton, himself a surgeon of repute. The boy was trained in surgery from the age of 14, and when he was 18 he per- formed many of his father’s op- erations. He is still in his thirties. Opposition to his discovery, he says, affected his practice seriously, but his wife stood by him in the fight, With an Ideal, rough stones rise into a cathedral, take form as beautiful statues, co- operate in a bridge-span, assemble as a tur- It is the Ideal that crystallizes them, as some hidden force in nature crystal- In the affairs of mind it is the Ideal A man without an Ideal is as a House Every day has its activities. , is made up of the net results of these activities. there is an Ideal there is growth toward a well-balanced, harmonious perfection. Life without an Ideal is noise; with an Behind all music is mathematics; behind mathematics the eternal laws of relations; behind these laws the thinker; and in the last, the Alpha and the Omega. torch in the dark, moves an Ideal. portion as men realize it, grasp it, work DuPonts, on condition that over: seas troops should benefit by it without cost. My own attempts With Ideals BY DR. FRANK CRANE (Copyright, 1919, by Frank Crane) and repeatedly kept him from giv- ing it up when his owm courage almost failed. toward it, come civilization, redemption, the Golden Age. The Ideal is everywhere, the open secret, hidden to the many, visible to them that have the inner eye, the seeing soul. For behind the Woolworth building, and the smallest home, is an Ideal. Schelling said: “Architecture is frozen music.” Belasco in his theatre, Rothapfel in his moving picture house, Wirt in his school, Pershing in his army, Lawson in his news- paper, Northcliffe in his publications, Gary in his office, Wanamaker in his store, Wil- lard in his railroad, Edison in his worksh Burbank in his garden, Barnard in studio, Howells in his study, succeed be- = perched there upon each brain is an Behind the career of Woodrow Wilson, of Lloyd George, of Edith Cavell, are dis- posing, co-ordinating, mastering Ideals. Bo 4 America’s young soldiers hovered an eal. All wars at bottom are clashing Ideals. Above the roar of guns in France there pre the true war—the conflict of leals. ‘ Behind the family is an Ideal. + Behind the church is an Ideal. 4, - Behind the nation is an Ideal. *, Behind the universe is an Ideal, “‘y For the Ideal of all Ideals is God. nto quartz or of crystalliza- Progress, When When field of scat- gs and is the first and the as a guide’s In pro- interchange of respiratory germs! thru inhalation, {t must be remem. |bered that there are many other |paths by which such germs are spread, either directly or indirectly Soiled hands, common drinking cups, improperly cleaned eating and drink ing utensils in restaurants, soda |fountains, ete. roller towels, infect ed food—these are only few of the common vehicles of germ transmis sion, The use of face masks ap pears to make people neglect these other paths of infection and there: fore such use has not been attended with the success predicted for them If we would be more successful. in combatting influenza, greater atten tion must be paid to the other fac tors just “enumerated. | ANSWERED Q. 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