The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 23, 1920, Page 6

PAGE 6 The Seattle Star By mail, out of efty, 500 per month: 3 1.6 oath, a 50 for € montha, of rier, ely, 12¢ per week. | Capitol Commission Must Speak Up | as said in the state senate Monday to ri a i ‘ ror the state capitol commission to craw it highly important for the state capitol cor ‘aw out of its shell and tell the people of this state the exact ondition of its finances. : ’ Ts it true that it has approximately $2,000,000 for Lari ing purposes, not actually needed at this moment, A vbag = educational institutions are starving for funds? Tf this ” true, then it is a high crime to raise the tax levy a single red penny. Senate Enough w leaders—organization spokesmen—were diffident about calling the capitol commission to answer questions of insurgent senators. The chairman of the senate appropria- tion committee even admitted that the capitol commission funds were not even considered as a possible means of meet- ing the educational problems, for w hich the special session was called. ; It is practically certain that at least money is unexpended and uncontracted. Why not use such funds as are available rather than keep adding to the taxpayers’ load? nee Judged wholly by the attitude of the organization men $200,000 of armory MARCH 28, 1920 smo versatile | mm ¢ JOYS OF AN IM ee } Th’ Lord lqveth th’ cheerful giver an’ also th’ cheerful liver. Turkish women are abandoning the custom of wearing @ veil. Let us hope that in time they fall into the | ways of civilization and use paint as! @ submitute | eee | Senator Hi Johnson is still going | around the country delivering a| EVERETT TRUE [ OH, X BEG PARDON FOR BUMEeING intra , SIRE : spent a few weeks. gave upon the main street of the town. There all day long, up and down, in to} market, and back home, came the peasants, vith their little asses laden heavily. shaggy, sad-faced, long-eared, solemn pic- | tures of servitude imaginable. ambled along, with a huge pack basket slung on each side, and a countryman be- hind beating them with a club, they seemed | to typify the world’s burden bearers. When first you hear the ass bray you | are inclined to laugh. could conceive a sdund so absurd. masterpiece of discard, a triumph of the grotesque, to be irritating. insulting you. (Copyriaht, 1 At Tivoli once, just outside of Rome, 1} My chamber window | These asses were the most doleful, As they No It is a Then it ceases to be funny and begins You feel that nature is Such dreadful noise ought imagination | The Bray of the Ass BY DK. FRANK CRANE 20, by Frank ( On the Issue of Americanism There Can &e No Compromise ant swarm that erected the Parthenon the Cathedrals and laid out the gardens of Hadrian’s villa; of all those song of Han laboring with blistered backs in tropie collecting ivory, digging diamonds and of the ae shen multitude that coal into furnaces and hew the draw the water that their pis brothers may laugh and grow fat; myriad who have nothing to sell but flesh and blood. Always the superstructure of the earthy magnificence has rested upon the founds tion of misery, our silks and satins ang champagne have flowered with Toots dey in human sweat and toil. And lest humanity should forget den agony of the many, God put ae mouth of the meekest of his creatures thig misshapen song, this thunderous, twisted dissonance of the cosmic woe, & in the senate yesterday—and by asthing sine-—thare appears 3 e 2 ly rotten somewhere. speech in which he saya, “1 cannot} to be something decided 3 i apesch in which be maga, “1, cannot Fead his speech so. many tines we | lare beginning to believe him, | . . NOT VERY COMFORTABLE WHEN THERE'S A GAS OR COAL England won't sell any ac ises that Lloyd George promises ee ck oval oan | islands to America, Not while sober. =— N akota was thé only state in the union that solved! 4 senatorial committee ts to In Eytan raised by the coal strike. Governor Lynn vestigate the high rice of sno. | Frazier took over the mines and pperated them, in spite of eee ae Stee eo efforts of the mine owners to block such action Ly COUrt| Iivecuents te the people whe best order, in the faceo f the worst blizzard which had struck | shoes. | North Dakota in years and with the know ledge that intense | iffering would result. | . Soasler had served notice on both operators and miners that he would take over the mines and pperate them if |" the differences were not adjusted. The strike was called © llovember 1. November 12 the governor took over the mines, appointing J. W. Deemy—a practical coal operator end mine-owner of long experience—as director. Deemy’s report, just made, shows that state operation of the mines prevented suffering and resultant deaths, saved the miners $100,000 in wages that otherwise would} ‘ave been lost, saved the operators thousands of dollars n royalties and in maintenance work that would have been, scessary had the mines lain idle, prevented profiteering in| vetail coal sales. The governor paid normal miners’ wages, and allowed the mine-owners the maximum royalty prom- ised, 25 cents a ton. Besides paying Mapes itemf, and operation left a net surplus of $5,318.75 for the’sta' But the experiment resulted in a lot of other things. Deemy discovered that private operation has been extremely inefficient, Seventy-five per cent of the mines were not properly equipped to produce coal. If they were, the cost of coal would have been at least 40 cents per ton less than It Worked eee | OH, WELL: HE MAY NOT HAVE MEANT THAT lady could have listened (ia) Sentinel eee You can't get the “cheaper cuts” at & meat market. Try an engray ing company and a barber shop. eee A lot of the fellows who say they are “receptive” candidates are telling the truth, but mont of them would be telling more truth if they said they were “deceytive” candidates. eee CONVERSATION IN 1971 “Oh, yea; Harry was a good boy. Hobum? eee But, ae the telegraph operator re marked, “This is the key to the aitu: ation.” it was. Operating costs under private operation were out eee of al! .roportion as compared with tonnage produced. King setts: i B weerteg renee As a result North Dakota is planning to take over all the coal mines and run them for the benefit of the people. ee oe ee et ee would become of that crease If you happened to get @ seat in a wtreet car on the Bastlake line. There may be some doubt concerning Hoover's poli- tics, but everybody understands what he thinks of poli- | ticians. b | The Reason | The reason the soft coal miners put forward their de-| mand for a 30-hour work week—a demand which seemed at first glance so preposterous—has been explained by the | Tie most director of the United States geological survey. } ing sta orn coughs. It is heap In his address before the ae Pog of rg | pnd "Under ite Healing, woothin oa and Metallurgical Engineers, Director Sm: poin out | fluence, soreness goes, phiegm the Tact that on the average, during the past 30 years, | tieafing em § on oe the, mines have been idle 93 working days in each year. Of this loss, general business conditions caused annual fluc-| tuations of about 15 days in the annual lost time, but the! remaining 78 days are lost because of fluctuation in car and he. labor supply; but mostly by the summer slump in demand. | To make this trlendid cough syrup, At best, the difference between winter and summer buy-| forlic Gnd’ hil’ the bottle : ing of coal makes inevitable a period in which the capital | granu! Here is a home-made syrup which millions of people have found to adable means of a «# leep. usual throat and chest colds are con- ered by it in 24 hours or less. ‘othing better for bronchitis, hoarse- ness, croup, throat tickle, bronchial aesthma or winter 3 and labor engaged in coal mining cannot work more than) feq' welsJvea, Mg vTap, 30 hours of the 48-hour work week. | maatend 6 9 gan ee poy, gpl, The 30-hour work week, therefore, is not a thing which} wot mnah ether quack. ayrep ‘than the miners want—it is a thing which now exists. It is| you could pe gl my ob the “spring Toapee rp the Lagiestinte Lg Ronee at and children love’ Pleasant taate. miners simply said that if they couldn’t jowed to work} pd highly con- more than 30 hours, they wanted to be paid enough for| pet “mitacte ig SRL 80 hours’ work per week to make up a standard week’s| over, [ir its, prompt healing effect wage. To avoid disappointment ask your It is a grave charge against operation of the nation’s) drugeist for “2's ounces of Pinex? mining that three great interests—labor, capital and rail-| % ee re caked sa" aiee roads—should suffer annually because of inefficient hand-| sbse! Cd bo i ling of the nation’s coal supply. And it is a graver thing, i ike aaa that the public—as usual—must foot the bill for these idle men, and those idle dollars tied up in excess coal supply. Cardinal O’Connell says a married man should ‘be the + absolute head of the house. It’s perfectly safe for a single man to talk that way. Sensitive Noses | An underpaid school teacher began raising porkers in her spare time. She kept the pen neat as a school. But a neighbor remembered that a village ordinance prohibited | the keeping of pigs within the corporation limits. So she| had to quit. | _Europe? That’s different. Noses there may be less sen- sitive. At any rate, few villages have a ban on pigs or chickens, and a steaming compost heap is a fixture in many | village dooryards in France. But not in the United States. Critics of this republic frequently assert that its citizens! care only for material prosperity. They must be mistaken. For this is one of the few nations where the material vil- lage pig is sacrificed to an esthetic village bouquet. Benefits of a sweet atmosphere should not be forgot when one complains of market bills. The price paid for keeping residence districts innocent of pigs is high! i Is it too high? Persons with plenty of money and sensi- tive noses are sure it isn’t. But that school teacher has DK. J. h BINYON Free Examination BEST $2.50 GLASSES on Earth We are one of the few stores in the Northwest tha: a thin purse. Ant a good appetite. She is not so certain| nas Ware the only one in’? about it! She thinks that the cost of keeping a sqmmmunity | SKATTLE—ON FIRST AVE, Pigless may be too great! nination ft by graduate Bx tometrist. Glas n unless absolutely necessary. The job of abolishing the divine right of ki BINYON OPTICAL not be com fete until the divine right of Fi Besa oly 3 1116 FIRST AVENUE ~ firmly established. Betw ing and Seneca Main 1500 + jand | trietty Conducted Under Direction of Dr. Rupert Blue, U. &. Public Health Beretes DISHES AND GLASSES | Health authorities now ares that drinking glasses, knives, forks, spoons and dishes play an import ant part in the spread of dincase, & fact that has been established not only as @ result of laboratory studies Of dishes, eta, from which sick per- sons have been eating, but also by careful studies of the spread of in- fectious in camps, institu tions, a Since germs are frequently car well as by the sick, the proper cleansing of the articles we eat and drink from in of the greatest im portance, After meals the dishes should be cleaned and the remaiping food washed with hot water and soap and thoraly rinsed with boiling water, ‘Then they should be placed |in a rack and after this they should |be allowed to dry from their own heat, rather than be wiped with a/ | dish towel that may be dirty. When | the dishes have been used by one who is known to be suffering from & communicable disease it is bet- "| ter to go even further and actually to bail the dishes. For restaurants, soda fountains. other eating and drinking | places, every city should enact and enforce a law to compel the proper cleansing of glaases, dishes, knives, forks and spoons before they can, This can! be uned a second time. now be done quite easily with dish washing and sterilizing machinen, some of them operated with elec In mailer pi hand washing with soap powder, or soda. and hot water may be used. The utensils should first be thoroly washed and scoured with a brush They should then be rinsed in clean hot water. ANSWERED ‘While serving in the army in Q France l.contracted a rash, just an| I was getting well from mustard gas It is now breaking out in little red pimples at the roots of the hair! and on my chest. Please tell me what it ts an how it can be cured A It is impossible from your let ter to determine the nature of your ailment, but inasmuch as you served with the army, you are probably en titled to free medical care and treat. | ment under the provisions of the war risk act. Many ] ¢ 25% to 50% On Staple Goods Included are BOSTON BAGS K Ss TRUNKS SUIT CASES BRIEF CASES THE TRUTH: We will absolutely give you chandising FREE, 1409 FOURTH AVE. ried by apparently well persons, as PLUSH AND BEADED BAGS And Miscellaneous Leather Goods our store, The benefit of years of experience and honest mer. BEGEROW TRUNK CO. TRUNKS not to be. Then you become incredulous. It cannot be. You must be dreaming. As the Negro said, when he saw at a circus a camel for the first time, “They ain't no such anamile.” Then you understand. You penetrate into its meaning. You perceive that it is music. | In Time’s vast aratorio, listen to the musk of the ass, to which the apostle ‘Wrote the words, “For the whole creation and is in travail together until now,” One starlike soul “descended into that is, He went among the cellar of the world and spoke hope; He i, It is the crashing motif of the world’s | them, took their children upon His ine tragedy. Jt is the wild, Gargantuan,| and blessed them. So He eternally disturly hideous, gargoyled theme of creation’s| the world, and shall, until at last there is sorrow. justice “unto this last.” ; In the canticle of the ass you hear the And when the young Nazarene rode t4. umphant into Jerusalem, while spread their garments before i soul utterance of all galley slaves, of all | them that lie in prisons, of wretched life- | } i F. & flames sputtering out in stinking sweat | strewed palms, it is not without significans sis Fe | that He rode, not on a ing war hors, Here is the cry of them that built the | but “upon an ass, and upon a colt, foal of an ass.” EYES pyramids under the taskmaster’s lash, the Nearly all New England ts voting| When you begin to tell your trou- | wet these days. Almost anybody'd | bles to a man, he nearly always in- be willing to vote wet when it dosen't | terrupts to tell you his. make any difference Years It isn't a question of how mach |money you have’ made, but how | much good you have done with it IBERTY | a ts i end making glasses, ent f = a MARKET Horlick’s 4=@= The Original ghort notice at Pike amd Liberty Theater ree Kusminetion Schoonmaker H fers "ROLLE ae D OATS . | _ Malted Milk setferisne and Betcutetes diers neem not to know that they are Rind ey jentitied to such medical care and |" | Weatment. ) Q. I am troubled with « heavy, | hard feeling in my chest and the [right side of my throat. At times) this feels as if there was a ball | coming up from my right lung Into) |my throat, and gradualty getting larger as it comes up, and at such | times it nearly chokes ma This algo seems to caune terrific pains to| shoot thru my forehead, expectally | over my right eye. I have conulted several doctors, and nome may it In) nervousness, some tell me it tx! jmwollen glands, while others say it| is my heart, yet none af them see to know just what to do for it. ™ health in general is poor, altho I have never been troubled with lung or throat trouble. Can you give me any information in regard to my trouble? A. It ts entirely out of the quee- | tion to diagnose the nature of your ailment merely from such a descrip tion. That can only be done after a very careful examination by a quall-| fied physician. Symptoms much as you describe are not uncommon with | certain neurotic conditions. If your family physician is unable to help you, why not speak to him frank ly, and, perhaps, have him refer you to some reputable specialist? | Q. Tam writing you in regard to my health. I had a fever in July,’ 1918, and was discharged from the army in January, 1919. I have a pain in my right side so severe that I cannot work, Can you tell me where I can obtain treatment? G. 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