The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 16, 1920, Page 6

put of etty, 500 per mont € months, $2.78; year, of Washi mn’ Ou Mexico Moves Up | news from Mexico is not all blood, thunder and} . Comparative peace is permitting the Mexicans a new decade in a way that leads to better things) way of civilization and prosperity. ee me facts and figures for the year 1919 are beginning } come thru from the land of the Montezumas, For in- Mexico is a land of silver. Its soil is full of the ite metal and a good deal more digging was done last than for many years’ previc y, with the result that ts of silver to the United States for the 12 months| $10,000,000 more than the previous year. he crops of Mexico in 1919 were the best in years and u sold, when shipped out of the country, for the figure on record. The abundant yield made food atiful and cheap, far cheaper than in the United States. ind after all is said about the wonderful mineral re- es of Mexico, they are nothing to what that great can be made agriculturally. Her future is in farm- =. But the prime necessity for successful farming in of her states is irrigation, and it is interesting to that the government has worked ou! a great irriga- and is already spending money to carry it out. h reasonable scientific education and management the tu possibilities of Mexico startle belief. No other in the world has such a variety of soil and climate; its territory can be grown every product useful to d. Every one of its 30 states is highly productive. d American agricultural expert, after a visit to all states, ventured the opinion that, given even a half- d effort to extend the neglected farming industry, » by 1950 will be one of the first countries of the in the volume of its agricultural products. rity of Mexico is linked with that of the tes. The American people cannot but feel the ing weight of a pauper nation next door to them; ily they cannot but feel a beneficial effect from a pus nation next door. Fis to be sincerely hoped that the troubles in Mexic« /keep on dwindling, and that she will #on start on her a career. i, *. a “Marshall thinks the country wouldn't suffer much if senators should lose their jaws. Not unless some finds them. ae Ried old documents have been recently discovered in the of one of the museums of Genoa, Italy. From these discovered, that the entire operating expense, including 3 of equipment, of discovering America was about ! The entire value of Columbus’ three ships was bout as much, as two light capacity motor trucks. bus himself received a princely salary amounting to ) a year, while his two captains received a salary @ year each. The members of the crew, according his record, were paid $2.50 a month. 0 bus did a pretty cheap job, considering the results. little pigs went to market, and their owners took $10,000. The market was a sale of blooded Poland hogs at Champaign, Ill. We don’t want a slice of from any of t quartet. wissippi school teachers have been forbidden to during a term. The idea is to keep them in a of Miss. : bby bugs” are reported to be eating up the station- ry in the house of representatives, but the Congressional continues to be too “dry” for 'em. ce Sess had self-determination. They had the taking what was offered them and taking Willard got. SCOTT'S EMULSION Let it help turn your daily tasks | from a burden to pleasure. | | new aid to diges- on—as pleasant Scott’s Emalsion is abundant | —— AND NOW REMEMBER ABOUT THAT DAWSON THING —% HOPS You DIDN'T Cet IT MUreD V1; OH, HELLO, MISTER “TRUE } SAY, BY JINGO, I'M AWRULLY BUSY RIGHT NOw, AND If v OU'RE R OFFICE THEIR ORDE A CHANCE “WW ONLY INTER: Force? Berore, RRY COME INTO KOUR PRIVATE GS AND TALK REAL eusine se (i! | w whether the heart oon broken or not but its pocketbook bas been badly cracked. eee Come Early, Stand in Line, Don’t Shove 1 have instructed thousands of ladt ot to rub, brush or sweep the wall paper or freecoing, Merely flirt 4 cloth over It to fan off the loose dust and cobwebs. Now I don't like to have people wait weeks and months for moe, but my trade ix no large that I am absolutely powerless to help it. If you pile the work on me ten times faster than T can do }it, why, @ great many will be dis appointed and that iw all there is to | it jtime, Now, my advice to you is to have your work done early, And I must insiet on your having a atep- ladder, ‘There will be between 600 and 1,000 Indies that will want my work this spring, se take my advice jand get your work done early-—-E. Sunderlin,—Kalamazoo (Mich) Ga notte, ee We'll Bite; What Did You Lose, Hen? LOST—On jit dtney at Bank And fiycamore ata Finder will kmdly address Henry Grille—Adver- tiement in 1% we (iL) Index, eee | “E have heard of a fow good ones | the atenog sent thru,” postcards F.C. ML, “but yenterday I heard of this line This is but an infinitive decimal part of the whole.’ ” eee Henry Ford may not Mave known anything about Henedict Arnold, but he knew enough to obey the election lawa remurding the expenditure of money in & campaign. re ig | _ Federal officiate have decided walt or must put tips in their income tax returns. This ought to enable I can’t be in two places at one! The Fourth | One of the most helpful little publications that finds its way to my desk every few years is Zero on one side and Orez on the | other, Orez looks like it is—just Zero spelled backward. But it is more than that. You should keep your eye peeled for eryptic meanings these days When Lodge, Doyle, Maeterlinck and Co. are getting wireless news from the spirit world right along, and | every theatrical manager on Broadway is rehearsing a spook play. Really and truly, when you get the eso- teric idea, Orez is The Fourth Dimension. Maybe you don’t know what that is? This the Fourth Dimension is the characteristic of identity ; concretely, it is specific grav- ity.” me again, Zero seems to have been suspended dar- \ing the war. The editor explains that this ‘is due to “such straits of hesitancy in- grained or imposed as intensify or subdue |determination to self-assertion.” In other words, shell shock. | It is stated that “Zero enters existence possessed of nothing but inherent poten- |tiality. It has no assets, contributors, read- ers or editors.” If it don’t watch out, some }one will buy it. | The present issue is in four sheets of jfour separate colors. The first is kinda yellowish, and contains, besides news of Fourth Dimension happenings, a_ picture called “Evolution.” It is considerably mixed, this picture, but 1s not original. I saw [—] the gtvernment to take up at least’ the game thing once when Charlie Kelley Conducted Under Direction of Dr. Rupert Buc, U. &. Public Health Service NEGLECTED TEETH CAUSE SERIOUS ray photography, particularly the celluloid film, which has made the making of X-ray pictures of the teeth mont convenient, has shown infected | (roots of) teeth to be the cause of many obscure “rheumatic” and other Joint troubles. All modern up-to-date dentixta now make use of X-ray pictures whenever the yeuspect any trouble with the roots of the tteeth. Not only the dentist but the physician as well has been astonished at what these pic tures have revealed to him. Often they show that pus ts pree ent about the neck of the tooth, and that there are pockets, extending down toward the roots, which hold large quantities of putric material. The discharge of poison and germs from these hidden abscesses at the roots of the teotg and the conne- quent absorption from these an@ other local foct—as from dineaned tonsile—show @ very strong causa- tive relation, if not the real causa, of many hitherto obscure, {l)-defined fl 1. & White: | Kindly send your correct address to Information Bureau, United tates Public Health Service, Wash- ington, D. C., as in your letter you failed to indicate the name of your city. epenking, no érugin- equivalent to nat- relatively one issue of Liberty Bonds. one THE WORLD 18 FULL OF ‘EM In addition to the compelltig force of her art, Miss Huegger pomesses @/ Beatrice Irwin, “who contributed tints of | about this. magnetic personality and a manner that ts at once entirely free from any trace of Minn., Herald. eee “A Perry, Ta. girl.” anys the | Motnes Caltal, “made nearly $1 on a enlf.” Ziegfeld? 00 eee NOTICE WILT, BE GIVEN OF CHANGE OF ADDRESS IN CASE WE MOVE Uncle John Fleming was a wel come visitor at the News office last | 5 gets a giad hand when he comes to the News office, but this time he was particularly welcome because he was armed with « lot of spare ribs which be presented to the editor, Uncle John, we thank you, and you will find us right bere in the mme old | place next year at hog-killing time. no organic trouble tn found by phy- fician a thoroly competent spectaliet in nervoun diseases should be con- sulted. Q Is the present outhresk of disease Srippe or tm it influenes? A. Some writers have attempted to make out that these are two different dincases, As a matter of fact, they are merely different names for the same disease, All the evidence at hand indicates that the present dis ease is the same infection which caused #9 much havor a year or more . ysician’s Duty to Tell of Malady LONDON, Feb, 16.--It in the duty of » physician to tell his patient that his malady is incurfble, if this be the case, a coroner's jury held here in an inquest to investigate the death of Imaac Cohen, a clerk. Cohen drowned himself because a doctor naid he could never be well. * eee If you wish to join our own Im. | erick content, here's your opportun- ity. Write the fifth line for thin: The landlord te doing us well, Mis profits are certainly swell; Me raises the rent A bundred per cent Go to tt. Mebby you can hit the right word to make the rhyme. eee “Saturn Adds Her Halo of Glory to Brililant Heaven of the Month,” headlines the Cleveland Main Dealer, Venus adds IIS, too, doesn't HE? eee A Kansas City judge sentenced a 22-year-old man who had never done @ lick of work in his life, either to fo to work or to jail, and the young man decided to get a job. But we shall be surprised if he doesn't re- turn to the court in a few days and aak for the jail sentence. eee York, the hero, isn't #0 brave as he has been painted. He had an attack of ap- | Sergeant | pendicitis while in Worcester, Masw., | the other day and when a surgeon told him an operation would be | necessary, he Jumped out of bed, Gresned and caught the first train out of town. cee PROVING THAT MARRIED FOLK LIVE LONGER Mr. and Mrs. Geechke were mar ried in Germany January 17, 1770. They came to this country in 1900 Tennesnes | | hit me on the head with a baseball bat when |I was a boy. g One sheet is tinted Orange, and Miss magazine tells you, as follows: ‘Abstractly, | So there you are. Please don’t ask | On the Issue of — Americanism There Can Be No Compromise Dimension Explained BY DR. FRANK CRANE (Copyright, 1919, by Prank Crane) October, 1919,” allows that this color is “equivalent to Nervous Recuperative, cor- relating with Contentment.” Greenish Yellow, we are also informed, “is equivalent to Nervous Stimulant, correlating with penetration, whilst Violet is equivalent to Mental Recuperative, correlating with de- termination.” | Hold on, Don’t go away. There’s more, ~ Pleased subscribers testify to the they have got from reading Zero. For in- stance, Fania Romanoff writes: “Dear Zero? You are thrice and once welcome as the unit released from surfeited 3 to the re- ceptive 4. I wonder how rare are those™ who will absorb, mentally, the generous value of opportunity you present to a chaos | charged era.” I wonder, too. Now wait, Mabel. Don’t go. Here’s the whole business clearly explained in figures, and figures don’t lie. Looket: “Since 4% equals .25 and 1-12: .0833 plus, and 1-16: 0625. .0833—.0625x12: .2406, it follows | that 0 is to 1 as .2496, or more exactly .2496 plus, which is slightly less than 4, cannot | be proved by the existing system of arith- | metic to be exactly one-fourth.” (Shut the window. Don’t let those squirrels in!) I remember once in the good old days an Amherst professor of mathematics bed drunk at an initiation at the f house and said something like that. And here’s the whole gist of the matter in a nutshell, and plain as a pikestaff: “Universal principle is universal charac- teristic universally fixed in ific function universally variable in specific | versally adapted to specific rest ion, and | aniversally adequate to ordained liability.” Now it’s all explained, so run along. And I do hope you will say nothing to anybody It might get to the keeper and paper used in inserts of Zeros published in| he'd take me back to my cell. effectivencas, — Duluth, | = | Editor’s Mail || HE GETS IT CHEAPER | Editor The Star: Enclosed clipping from today’s Star says Canadian | whisky ie bringing $30 a quart in Soattie. | You certninly have been sadly mis Informed as to the price, or else you| |have been buying from some prof- | However that may be, I bave been very fortunate in getting the afore maid “Canadian” for 10 silver simo |leons and believe me it’s the genuine good old stuff, It does not make ons jory-eyed, nor dove it make one spit jeottan, nor ses moccasins, cotton | mouths, horned toads, gila monsters, lizards, sidewinders, centipedes, or scorpions. Simply warms the cockles | | of one’s heart. re I hope this will not come to the| notice of my “purveyor,” for ff tt does, then all will be off with me, | for at that price it's “good night” |and I won't be in a position to take my morning and evening constitu: | | tlonal—for that's my limit so far as | limbibing is concerned. | Can't you consistently correct this | quotation by the “typographical er ror route” so aa to read 3 for $30? | Thank you. Yours in suspense, ALMOST DRY. RAPS PRO-BRITISHERS | | wattor ‘The Star; Your correspond. | lent, “Subscriber,” says some very jhard things about Americans who | believe in the principles of the Amer: | fean government, and who, therefore, | jare in full accord with the principle | of the selfdetermination of peoples) in its application to the question of [Irish freedom, This person rants |Iike a rabid pro-Britisher or a fool, Of one thing we may be sure: It} in & person who hates every funda-| mental principle of Americaniem, It} talks about war with England, and leaves little doubt that in such an event “Subscriber” would be a pact-| fist and slacker of the most pro- nounced nd “Subscriber” ough to know, fur- thermore, that the Irish republic Joan will be subscribed in full, pos: | aibly twice over; and that numbered | among such subscribers «ill be the best and truest men in America. 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Our hero was the common done; sort, when all is said and He worked his head off daily and was out to get the The reason for his diligence He tried to swell his salary MON. was commonplace, 'tis true; to be enough for TUE. And i ” iad be the reason that one day he lost his ea And dropping on his knees, thou he cried, “Oh, maiden, wilt WED?” He may have thought it sudden, but it seemed not so to her; She lisped a quick acceptance and said forcibly, “Yeth, THUR!” But when they went to keeping house, he thought that he would die, For oh, that modern maiden, She couldn’t run a house at , she could neither bake nor all, or even run a flat, thiy person return to England start in on the British b bd | which party represents t best But, as the junk dealer remarked, | fairest class of the British pec “I don't care much for prizefighting, | But there the friends of Ireland but I take @ great interest in a |not called cranks or pro-German, scrap.” I think “Subscriber” wouldn’t . long if the person tried it, It is Play is more important than work,|er just now to slur Americans, announces a Chicago man. Strange|even here it may be ero long Wis, Times. a it may seem, the man fs not in| people of the stripe of “Subscriber” ved to disclose their iden. | the United States senate, house of! will be fore opresentatives, legislature or city tity and establish their right to sp ouncil for America, P. H. SPAR SO 0RH eGRRReeeeeeeeee a JOHN KE. PRICE & COMPANY and WHERE SAFETY DWELLS are synonymous, as investors know who have purchased bonds from this investment banking institution * THOUSANDS Have already prepared their income tax returns. . If you need counsel or information in making out your statement you can ob- ag it from the Income Tax Department 0 OHNE.PRICES-(© por party and »ple. | are | and last | sat: but that} peak | | stock consists of: AUTOMOBILE ACCESSORIES—Tires, Spark Plugs, Bumpers, Greases, Auto Springs, Oils, Cements, Polishes, Wrenches, Ra- diator Hose, Funnels, Robe Rails, Felt, Pumps, Compressors, Air Tanks, Motormeters, Piston Rings, Spark Coils, Lamps and Bulbs, Fire Extinguishers (Pyrenes and Johns Manville), FORD PARTS, Thermoid and Johns Manville Brake Lining, Sponges, Weed Chains, Rid-o-Skids, Chains, Tire Sleeves, Reliners, Truck Chains, Electric Horns, Chamois, Air Pressure Gauges, Gasoline Safety Cana, Cable, ete, ete, ete, SPORTING GOODS—Fishing Rods, Tackle, Guns, Shela, Oart- ridges, Shot, Baseballs, Mitts, Tennis Court Supplies, Thermos Fillers, Ferrostat Bottles, Alarm Clocks, Watches, Bats, Cutlery, Flashlights, etc, ete., ete. BUILDERS’ HARDWARE — Butts and Hinges, Cupboard Catches and Turns, Transom Lifts, Sash Lifts, Locks, Night latches, Padlocks, Foot, Chaia and Barrel Bolts, Brass Ship Locks, Brass Hinges and Hasps, Screws, Bolts, Roofing Paper, Building Paper, Brads, Sash Pulleys and Cord, Barn Door Hang- ers and Tracks, Screw Eyes and Hooks, Gate Latches, Paints, eto, etc, ete, TOOLS—Housebold Goods and General Hardware—Several car. loads Bolts and Lag Screws, Nuts, Washers, Deadening Felt, Brase and Copper Sheets, Brass Bars, Wedges, Black and Galvanized Chain, Wire, Graniteware, Shovels, Forks, Packing, Hotel ware, Peavies, Lawn Mowers, Forges, Buffalo Blowers, Nails, Tacks, Sledges, Buffers, Vives, Cobbier’s Sets, Picks, Mattocks, etc., etc. Terms of sale strictly cash. A deposit of 259 will be required from each and every bidder, Deposits may be made in cash or in certified checks on banks acceptable to the Seattle Clearing House. Balance is to be paid upon delivery of goods—all deliveries to be taken within seven days after completion of the auction, This sale is under instructions from the adjusters representing the various INSURANCE COMPANIES Interested in this fire loss, The companies paid the Whiton Hardware Company in full for this stock and it will be closed out under the hammer en the date above mentioned, And so for many meal-times, in a boarding-house they SAT. This stock invoiced approximately $280,000.00, and it will be sold without limit or reserve to the highest and best bidder for cash in United States funds. SALVAGE FACTORS AND AUCTIONEERS GOVERNMENT BBO N D S wuniciPac SECOND AVE. COR.COLUMBIA, SEATTLE &]) Send today for “The Salvation of a Sucke ”” | a oppo po}opopotofopopofofofofo[ololo) : Ask hen coming to our offi his ad with you, > = © 12 tor Working People Open Sundeys From OHIO CUT-RATE DENTISTS or: Opposite Frasem-Patersen Ca, But he forgave her everything, as menhave always done, When she presented him (in course) a bouncing baby SUN. (Copyright, 1920, N. E, A.) ) Dojojpofoofofolofooyofoloyoyojo