The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 1, 1920, Page 6

The Seattle Star Fr, $5.00, in the side the state, “a aed | | By mail, out of city, § 15 € months, § State of Washingt The per month, $1.5 By carrier, city, per year THE SEATTLE STAR ood Move, Mr. Mayor Yaldwell is proceeding in a businesslike manner to Be the trattic division established in Seattle, Consultation % with Chief Warren and Lieutenant Carr, who is rated as 4 the best-posted traffic officer in Seattle, promises quick ¥ isive action, : Th Site is too large a city, and Bagg “q _ ee is question remain unsettled much longer. ne bier is only too glad to assure the mayor its ready support in this matter. It is no new question to this paper. The Star, it will be remembered, received a good many hundreds of letters dealing with the traffic problem, which it turned over to the public safety committee of the coun- - il. Perhaps thesd, if they are still intact, may prove of} | gervice to the mayor, They served to confirm The Star's idea that a traffic division is essential—and The Star has - _ been advocating it for a good, long time. The unusual output of Russia's official Chinese killers leads to the supposition that they are paid on a piece- work basis. q knows when and where to economize, It is true ‘ that the nation faces such a staggering and stupendous - @utlay for this and next year, that nobody knows where | | the money it to come from. And so, congressional leaders have decided on “economy.” And they know just where fy have not reduced the number of idle political | who, on the yrolls of congress, pose as/ “messengers,” “clerks,” “elevator operators,” ete. while do political work for congressmen and senators. op hE won't enact a budget bill that will make pos- a balancing of income and outgo. : But, after all, it does know where to economize. Last week the house passed the legislative and executive! Congress Knows labor statistics. Commissioner Meeler, of the bureau, commenting on this action, says: congress refutes the ir io * bureau of labor statistics vied eutting py Tinase tres g Pago Bavgpiry which the bureau) ‘@perated in the fiscal year 1920, which Is a cat of $64,180 from the regular) ‘Qppropriation of this current fiseal year, it will be impossible for the) Pureau of Inbor statistics to continue the cost of living surveys, much Yess to expand this work." ‘i the past few years these cost of living statistics have widely used in labor disputes. Employers have found) could not get back of these figures in a wage con- y. The “cost of living” figures of the bureau have very inconvenient to gentlemen, like Attorney Gen- eral Palmer, engaged in Rabe om the cost * — They very annoying facts to have lying around loose. _ a) so Somatens, by cutting off a miserable $78,430 ap-| propriation, will proceed to stop the collection of such fig-| This is economy with a vengeance! _In ‘deen they i Lane says that Washington is full of side-steppers. It @ pleasure to learn that somebody there can get action some direction. the golden age of the rooming house keeper. it by the scarcity of houses, more and more i we been forced to seek shelter under the roofs $ a Census supervisors declare that the populations of many show surprising increases in comparison to the) fn number of houses. | cost of living has played its part in this condition by | many persons to open their houses to roomers as) an additional source of revenue. This isn’t a healthy or normal condition of affairs. It! luces overcrowding, discontent and reduced standards} ‘of living. Two families in one house can’t be as indepen- dent and happy as two families in two houses. People aren't cheerful when their home conditions are} unsatisfactory. Workers aren't contented, even under fav-| orable conditions of employment, when they can’t find the kind of homes they desire. | It is a condition which calls for immediate government) consideration—altho it is one of the many thingsewhich are} , but are unheard by congress. The matter of homes | - a hly important part.ef the question of public wel-| ‘And public welfare should be the supreme law. Congress should follow Canada’s example at gnce and ide a system of long-time government loans for the of houses. Home-owners are stable and contented citizens. Home- seekers aren't. Crowded houses are bad. I No man can serve two masters, but Attorney General could serve himbelf fully as well by serving the people better. Curious Diplomacy | Having fought the Russians without being at war with them, the allies are now preparing to associate themselves in trade with Russia without being at peace with Russia. The ways of diplomacy are devious and deep. To the man in the street the circumlocution of the allied - diplomats is silly. Fools Again BY EDMUND VANCE COOKE peers a purse upon the sidewalk, very worn, but very ts al; There is salt in all the sugar, there’s a brick in every hat, But let’s believe they’re funny! let us laugh until we burst! Forgetting formal rules again Let’s make each other fools again! “Just as we used to do on April first. | O, Wisdom needs vacation on a day in early spring, And Folly is so jolly and she needs must have her fling, And Duty is a dismal word and Dignity’s accurst; Let’s “hookey” from the schools again And make the teachers fools again! Just as we used to do on April first. Can you recollect, O women! can you resurrect, O men! _ The glory and the glamor and the joy of being ten? Gn you set ahead blood a-bubble till the years are all im- O, come! Before it cools again, Let’s all of us be fools again! ‘as we used to be on April first. tion bill, cutting in two the funds of the bureau )° | |nut butter, | added to it. Greetings! is Already 26 and hae married only two of us. By the time Sweetheart Kets Around to the last of us she'll be fairly well along in years, eee | } “And it would be just my luck,” Jaments Senator Dan Landon, “if #he loft me to walt until ahe had married the other 8,999,997," “- A poor cook neals a big gar- bage can. eee QUESTIONS ANSWERED Do you think the American girls | f= mm look like the boyst—I, M. | No, not exactly, But @ great many of them take after the boys. What te the difference between « carpenter and an aviator?—1. Y. M ‘The carpenter planes @ board and the aviator boards a plane, What kind of cloth does « dog din-| lke most?—K 8. Muaaiin’ ma f What ta a toy dealer's principal hobty?—P, T. B. } Horses. MeN CLERKS AND WAIT ON T want to order a new epring| feown and wish you would tell me what kind of cloth to select. have Nght hair and blue eyes and am 6& feet 3 inches tall and weigh 198 pounds. Please help me.--Angeline Thank you for the description. And judging from that, we believe you should have your gown made of broadcloth. | eee QUESTIONS WE CANNOT ANSWER De you think that marriage la a knotty problem?—B. H. J. My watph won't run. die that if needs @ epring tonic?—# Can a man make a German mark with @ jead pencil? —E. 1. Ie it against the prohibition law for a street car conductor to carry | his punch in his hip pocket?—¥. w. kh Peter Fahey writes: Last week somebody asked you, ‘During his stay here, where did Bir Oliver Lodge? Am surprised at auch an inquiry, when tt should have been easily ree soned that he mont naturally re mained at some “medium” priced hostelry, whose “reading” room would always be filled with (oon vivial) “aptrite”—enernity diacusaing| Well-directed feet are now consid their “board"—probably meaning the | ¢red to be quite as important to gen outa. oral health as a Well-polsed head or Buch “grave” question shoula|AM ¢rect carriage, Few people seem not be treated with levity at this | fealise that many troublesome ail “plate” day. ments are caused by Mat, or weak I make & motion that you print | feet and attribute the nervous de this correction, but 1 don't care @| Srawlon. pair in the legs and Weck - “table” gen: fatigue to some other ee aaa cause, when the feet are really at LD fault, says the U. 8. Public Health HINTS Service, Piel oo see be painted) pctual “Mat foot” te much leap Never ran 6 rotber tere «| Sm than ls ordinarily thought. On the other hand, “weak foot" is wringer after washing It, Place tt in| very common, and if not remedied a hot oven to dry. gradually leads to Mat foot. Powdered beans mixed with olly¢) pecent inventigntions have estab. off make @ fine substitute for pea-|iisned the fact that “toving out” in walking, or standing, puts an added strain on the arch of the feet. In wtead of standing and walking with | the feet forming an angle of about ‘To make an apple turnover put a 45 degrees, as formerly advocated in spoon under it and give it @ gentle| Military and athletic manuals, ex jork |perts now advocate standing and walking with the toes pointed Cream will whip more easily if a small amount of shaving soap is first eee forward. This has been found to be Sof great nesintance in remedying weak ond fiat feet, and constitutes what te known ae walking Indian A Green lake woman calls her hus- band “Ouija” because he always says Just what she wagts him to. chs ed fashion, ut, an the old-fashioned father re! “Toring straight” should be prac marked to bis disobedient son, “My | ticed for a little while, and it will arms are not #0 very long, but I can| come easy. Make two parallel linen reach a rod.” on the floor, about six inches apart, I know—you don’t need any- body to tell you how to spend your money, you say. But wait a minute—do you get ten dollars’ worth of food values when you spend ten dollars for food? Sort of subtle, . yes? Well, you get the anstwer in e COUNTRY GENTLEMAN What I’m leading up to—subtly—is that you should start next week to read a series of articles about—I guess I won't tell you, after all, what it’s about. Read this issue and sec! 4 OE et yes Cle ot: are to let me advise lor an le — KM. 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Public Health seretes WALK INDIAN FASHION [and walk on them with the toe and | heel touching the outside of the lin Follow this up with an exercine such lan the following: Stand with the | feet parallel, with about two inches | between the feet, and rise on the toes anywhere from 20 to 40 times each night and morning. In stand ing soquire the habit of placing the feet a few inches apart, with the same distance between heel and toes. Keep the body weight equally sup- ported on both féet. Doe not make the mistake of be Neving that fiat fect can be cured by | the shoemaRer, or by the ordinary j arch that is sold in shoe stores, The condition is one that should be treated by an experienced physician when It fail to respond to the meas ures outlined above. It is comparatively easy to remedy & tendency to weak or flat feet in children by teaching them = the | proper walking and standing pos ture. Parents would do well to | faahion. ® a | @ Is the United Btates govern }ment still carrying on a campaign for the eradication of venereal oases” A. You; the Public Health Service | is wtill conducting euch @ campaign. | with a great deal of success. In co operation with the state boards of health, clintcs have been established where ven | thruaut the United States eren! diseanen are treated free, Write |to Information Editor, care U. & tench their children to walk Indian | dis | The danger from Bolshevism lies in the East, not in the West. There is undoubtedly a movement among the R th hordes of China, success there than in the Europe and America, In the long run nations proceed in the | direction of their history. They, as well as individuals, are creatures of habit. ‘country is the matured fruit of preceding centuries, Bolshevism gets its force from several First, from unrest, irritation, envy and hate, produced by long periods of op- | sources, pression and tyranny. The Oriental countries, in this respect, |furnish better soil than the Western. America, Great Britain, and most of West- jern Europe there has been a considerable {period of comparative freedom, opportunity, and, to a greater or leas degree, self-govern- The Orient, on the contrary, has | always been more or less under the heel of tyrants of one kind and another. ment. people have been inured to autocracy. Second, Bolshevism means conspiratory uprising, violent overthrow of the govern- ment, and depends upon the willingness of the mob to follow the adventurous leader, | | The Orient is trained in this sort of thing, the Occident is not. | WILL, SUFFRAGE CHANGE IT? lant Aaturday to the female thone adultery soldier in one }the third case | you have offered your readers in affairs in which of the principals— | fecent montha. These miacious | stories all bear @ similarity ip set ting. The girl in the case is por trayed in an interesting light, Mat- | | tered in the pictures and vested | with a halo generally Rot condemned, but treated with tolerance, and if Megitimate offepring have come to pass, . that | event also is duly taken note of! | with rympathetic attention to the! minutert detail, Lastly the matter | is nyndicated and sold to @ large) number of newspapers, In the! present tnmtance the matter bears | the imprint of Underwood @ Under: | wood, purveyors, I believe, of not) only the vices, but also the hatreds, growing out of the war. For it seems that as often as buman morals gave way under the streas of the pestilential torrent of military rage, there was at hand a vampire to capitalize and coin the occur Public Health Service, Washington, | D. C., for an interesting book on this mubject, entitled, “Today's World Problem in Disease Prevention.” j “UNOLE SAM, M.D.” will amewer, ether te this cotume or by mall, | questions of gemerni interest relating enly to hygiene, sanitation and the prevedtion of diermes, bmpessibie for him te anewer quee- tere of « ey [+= mature, or te for vidual diawmeee. Radrews: | INFORMATION Fprron, U.K Public Health Servien, Washington, D. 'C. Head or chest— | are best treated | externally” with | VICKS VAPO! | PYOUR BODYGUARD™ = 304. 60F a. well-organized Jolshevik leaders a ‘sia to extend their propaganda amofy | Manchuria, Turkey, Persia, India, and other Oriental regions. And they have much more probability of countries of underfed, browbeaten, Bolshevism and the Orient BY DR. FRANK CRANE (Copyright, 1926, by Frank Crane) veloped social and business organizations the West. Class against another. away from Class toward democracy. much as Czarism or Kaiserism. It tarism and absolutism applied to the Each | letariat. For Asiatics to adopt it wou is quite natural, and can be done in a To pass from Lincoln or Gladstone Trotsky would take several centuries. Sixth, Western civilization has soaked for two thousand years in the In The | tured in paganism. No. of the Orient. force in It seems that the war|power annul her P. H. SPARKS, — Help Others While You Benefit Yourself Many a worthy man in building his home needs the help of a First Mortgage Loan: He can well afford to pay both interest and principal in modest monthly installments. You, who have money lying idle, need the inter- est that this man can gladly pay. But you are not a loan expert; you do not know about construction — land values and the technical side of the loan usiness, Therefore, leave your money with this Savings and Loan Association. Let us, as experts, make your dollars earn dividends for you. Fifty substantial Seattle citizens founded this association. Their Dollars will be at work along with Yours. DIME & DOLLAR SAVINGS & LOAN ASSOCIATION Housed With Title Trust Co. Second Avenue at Columbia Street SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES IN CONNECTION S80 many daily uses ‘aoe are for Karo (Blue Label)—for pan-, cakes, cooking, baking—candy-making ‘that alert housewives buy it by the dozen cans. This is practicing real economy. Ask your grocer the price per dozen, P.S. Have you ever tried Blue Label Karo on Grape Fruit? Delicicus! CORN PRODUCTS REFINING COMP 17 Battery Plece New sould tive conditions of life as found in the East, but is wholly unfitted to the highly de Fourth, Bolshevism is the revolt of one Asiatic peoples have been dominated by Class ideas for centuries. The trend of the Western world has been Fifth, Bolshevism is autocracy, quite as DisSne is mili- be merely to carry out a program with which they are familiar. The progress of Western civilization, on the contrary, has been not that of one Class revolting against another, but away from tyranny by any Class at all. To pass from Wilhelm or Abdul to Trotsky The danger of the rabies of Russia is not in such piffling efforts as those of Emma Goldman and the amateur revolu- tionists of America and England, but lies in the peculiar adaptability of this combina- tion of ignorance, fanaticism, hot envy, and | cold. cruelty to the psychological condition Third, Bolshevism is suited to the primi- | IN THE EDITOR’S MAIL I do not intend to challenge your, preme, individually and nationally. Eaitor The Star: In your issue of! judgment in publighing articles of|And I am only wondering what the you guve publicity! this kind, for I have no doubt | new offender in one of that you are giving your readers | franchised woman, is thinking, or | just what they want and demand.4 going to do, about-it. Will woman In fact, 1 have yet to hear or Lipaat | of this kind which! a word of protest aguinst the maas| of like matter emanating froth preas | public phase and stage. | has ushered in a new dispensation | in which the conventionalities have Passed with the old, and human de-| founded? sire has come to be the law su The man is | —___ oan public fe, em suffrage redeem the troad and lofty Promises made for it, or will the of woman's growing rentle influence in the home and social sphere and leave the commonweal worse con- 1614 12th ave, Seattle, been ideals of Christianity, wholly unfavorable to the culture of the Bolshevist germ. The utterly materialistic theory of Bolshevism, however, finds favorable soil in minds bred and nur- | | | | | } |