The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 22, 1920, Page 6

We Today we hear the clang « She Seattle Star mY ut of ¢ nth o By, My € mont ti ot Wast The per mor squad, whieh new (raffic department by “The elaborate Is expected to become latest development in the tende rece we ekbtime policeman wh zone and who performed all sorts from. st way horses to rounding up lost childron, will disappear * © © Phe old system, at least, had the advantage overhead charges. preparations for the a little the police craze for Al squats various lines of » danger that the of a parcel post wing rune wtirely of The Seattle Pol hen the we are apt used to enjoy al t town. the tory Wes, indeed, as the city grows, beauties and the economie York of the Ps we Ww ifie was only ck and craper ‘ay fire alarm, t} of a our necks out of t 10th a fleeting glimpse of highly efficient motor by us. » But in the days gone by—ah, in Before '89! Perhaps we were In 2 the fire alarm would clang, ] ton our hirsutical ritual before the ; tus would appear. The recollection eiteqve when we fit the Ch p Collins into the settir Col as gous, gallant, gentle And nor the rest of the department drew any towr ies. They were all volunteers and how they did r the ground in those days! When they re ky day shav calmly glorious the midst of a and we could man-drawn ap even more pic rfi those fire cordial, dian Josiah naniy always. neither weren't fight fires, they were attending to their various businesses, professions. They cut roads, they built houses, they Numerous things. They didn’t spend their time the fire hall. ) How different it is now! Gone is the old-fashioned fire Today, he is required by city laws to confine hi ts to the fire department. The volunteer system 1 e. He becomes a fire expert. arcely ever does ban make any arrests these days, but in the old days hl Mebbe the volunteer fireman may have been even ing of a town “con-sti-bule.” And, gosh, how cost a jumped! “The old system at least had the advantage small overhead charges ' And now they even propose to m le the city’s traffic. Go anything like that in ‘89, or for president, in '96. In those days the patrolman did , from catching thugs to keeping the horses running away while their drivers stopped in the cor- ‘saloon for their highbal!l and town chatter. fes, indeed, true enough, we know that New York, and p, and Detroit, and other large cities have traffic which they consider as next in importance to the division, and that Seattle is only following the & expert opinion in that direction. But, just the same, fa, isn’t it too perfectly bad that we can’t remain} town as of yore? Oh, goodness, oh, gosh! a a separate division We never used to even when Bryan first if Newberry isn’t made to pay the piper we might as list senate seats on the stock exchange. “Shamming Death” A spider, disturbed at her work, crumples up until the is gone; and it is the thing to say that she is) death.” ‘fox squeezes thru a hole in the hencoop, eats its fill coat. get out. and then when the farmer comes Mr. g lies motionless in a corner—until the way to the open is clear, when out he dashes. Another case of soars death.” at all! In neither case do psycholigists believe that | was trying to look dead. Dead spiders do not ly crumple up; and a deliberate effort to look dead far more intelligence and self-control than serious nts believe that any animal possesses. providing for the safety of her creatures, Nature little to their judgment. She simply fills them with and compels them to do one thing or the other, to away in frenzied flight, or to stay where they are in onless paralysis. man both tendencies are present, and a terrified child y either run or lie quaking where he is—under the bed- perhaps, or in the safer refuge of his mother’s arms. people take for a shamming of death is nothing nor less than the paralysis of fear. And this paralysis ly does make for safety. It is the moving creature} catches the eye. «for the fox in the hen-house, he was dominated by | ts in succession—flight when that was possible, id. paralysis when it was not. But even the foxiest fox a psychologist thinking how he will look to a farmer. Old Mother Hubbard was astonished to find her cup- d was bare. She should see some of the evening ons they wear now. Eye F; illing Beauty te ay new idea in gardening is being diveoned by persons | f wealth in many parts of the country. It is to plant wing shrubs in such quantities across rolling fie’ the spread of bloom is a part of the view. It is calle ting the landscape.” Effects of eye-filling beauty are obtained. A right selec- of shrubs will keep some part of the scene flooded h color thruout the spring, summer and fall. Lilaes are grown in such quantitie are blooming. Lilacs growing naturally look very different from the med shrub ordinarily exhibited. A bush shapes itself a floral mound, with blossoms from the ground on Ponguet! the ground on the other side. A huge, rounded fects less pretentious, but no less satisfying, are within reach of all. At least, all who live in towns where is more than elbow room, or at the outer edge of a vy of a long, board fence, ‘ormed, by a or shrubs; even by a row of sunflowers! or other ugly prospect, can The “bear that walks like a man” has not yet overcome habit of walking like a crab. | tin ‘That Depends — winter, when the Lever act was called into play to striking coal miners, coal operators hurrahed. pei’ the same act furnishes the basis for prose- stio certain coal operators. Thru their attorney, for- ¢ Federal Judge W. L. Day, they protest: "The Lever act is unconstitutional.” prt of depends upon whose ox is gored, eh? spread over a hill- | that the whole neighborhood is perfumed when the |: row of hollyhocks, or other flowering °° THE SEATTLE STAR—THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 1920. |= EDITORIALS = FEATURES By CONDO -Y CERTAINGY I WAS AY THE CLUB. My WITS® HAS NOTHING TO SAVY —I'™M THE s“lBoss! ,. £ EVERETT TRUE = — WECL, DON'T BRAG AGouT (T AROUND ME rT HAvG very Deep CON VLE TIONS sutwecyT = Presidential Possibilities Unspoken Speeches of the Candidates, runs, ten as Imagined BY EDMUND VANCE COOKE “As I claim the Roosevelt mantle, it in not amiss to state That a mantel is a fixture made to ornament the grate.” Am I not great, who figured in the “Winning of the West"? For which I wear a medal on my Sunday coat and vest? Am I not great who fought the Don and would ° fought the ifunt | Was I not, too, prevented by the Spite of Washington? So, who else could wear that mantle? Well, it may be others could, But would anybody Mt it balf as snug ae Leonard would? “Let me admit some friends of mine are free and cary spenders, But how should I know what they do, or who the prime offenders? I've heard ft said that money has an utterance that's audible, But if it talks tn my behalf, I say ita mpeech i laudable, For I'm a prime investment for the patriotic reaident, And naught thay pay bim better than to nominate me president, > if you'd spend your ey for ye uotry’s future good, Who else will pay you quid pro quo as much as Leonard would? “You'll all agree the country’s MM and needs a good physician, Far more than any theorist or paltry politician; It It needs a man of skill in diagnosta, yen senates suffer from a cerebral ostonis, & congress labora long with unborn legislation, y br it forth by some Cacsartan operation. wowho w ke a case like that and do the patient good? O, hark! ©, hear! from far and near the ery comes Leonard would?* (Copyright, 1920, N. E tale SnD? Coméucted Under Direction of Dr. Rupert Biue, U. & Public Health Serve HEADACHE Headache may often be regarded for catarrh of the stomach? of underlying A The bureau has no bulletins n a local | dealing with catarrh, nor can it give n the suf Jon for the tres it a physician if catarrh of the « h Jache persists and have him arrh of the stom: ‘or to locate the seat of the | loosely used, and cases of what are ble | Hed catarrh of the stomach are of is nothing short of folly to trust t variety, and due to many dif happen to| ferent causes, You are most unwise ot This is |in seeking advice fram anyone ymptom and|oept @ physicoan who has carefully the cause, and has determined most common form of your condition. You ot t that caused by eye | are urged to discuss the matter with strain. Competent observers your family physician. tend that it a is re b over half of the headaches In this ca ous that the cause must be reme 4 and this can not be done by taking “drugs” that may relieve the pain for the time being Some forms caused by brain center. The sufferer in yle to stand the wear and tear rn life. Things get on his There in no for thi except for the person to adjust him self to changed conditiana, or to out grow the wensitivenesn Other cor hich may cause headache re nd throat affec tions, bad tee tipation eating, viole forms of rheumatiam and {aney trouble “t and sleep make up the best treatment for the nervous headache for the throbbi 1 laxative for the headache, suitable n headache. ferer should cor aap pad “UNCLE SAM, M.D." will amewer, either in this column or by mall, of general interest rel & purely personal nature, of to preseribe for individual diseases, Addrens INFORMATION EDrTOR, 5. un © of mor nerves. cure Waldorf Hotel : Seventh and Pike Rooms and apartments at very reasonable rates. ching, certain sometimes Chauncey Wright's Restaurant in connection. Absolutely Fireproof. EYES OUR SPECIALTY ( ANSWERED Q Hav any printed bute on pyorrhea? A. We have no printed butletina | on pyorrhea, but you will be glad to know that the treatment of thi | | | | Yonrs of ex- perience In fitting and making glasses, and our low operating « enable us condition is better understood than it wae some years Proper cleansing of the teeth and the re. moval of tartar’ deposits, haps dental treatment to improve | seclusion are usually important, A| Sioven em duplicated om ‘00d den| © ‘obabl ‘ Renal vaanoe’ good dentist can probably remove| “short notice at reduced prices, the trouble. Free Kxe ago. and per Q. Have you any information on catarrh? Or a mnerented trentment 182K Wiret Ave. Main | of tee. WE'LL SAY SO Greeting haven't join eral Hecause we ha Kecause wo haven't any buy any overalls Because don’t who has buy any o Thut the way the experts are fig the price uring it that of over rking man will be going lothen BOT GONK AGAIN Dear Editor We'll Say So your advice I looked undér the Fish M lant night for the but it your n evening er Flouring hottie I lost was not there oulja and advine. Henry Dear Henry That's outja informs me that a be mphib it t ome ye Please consult Ars ago, tuft. The y chasing the under a frog pursued the mill seven month t he me, gave n keeper oth and put a to re fina turr memory ¢ Keer elt wh he tuff was used for trte lens, ther to a fr the Anthsale wan fend who was an t know what at the waterfront an ye piling w might find it there QUESTIONS WE CAN'T ANSWER Can I buy Saratoga chips at a lum ber yard?—T, E.G Please tel me how to 1 pinced a nking the heat would dry tt Mra M. BR dry a cake piece near the but It became damper ything feet I can buy by the ut I can buy cabbage by the he by the Ie there a fen plew ott—tL I What kind of a key should T wu open my horse's fetlock?-——8, M How can thin pons no gait to bly be? my fence and st around the yard fence runs thats galt? Rut, ax the *1'm no prinef lot of money serapp Jealer remarked, ut I've made a ra surements of their turned from beer to candy that candy produces more fat than beer. But lens nolan, 4/ the | City New York tallors find from mea-| Leonsulting, : On the Issue of Americanism There Can\ Be No Compromise The Greatest City in tive World FRANK CKANE 1920, by Fre to The world moves so fast it is hard keep up with it And the United State the world. As Andrew Carnegie put of the Old World creep forward the Western Republic rushe peed of an express train. And the nose of progre is New It is the prow of the Ship of which, with a bone in its teeth, sail into the sea of the future We were brought up on London is the greatest city It's so no more. The Wes has outdistanced it. New York is the lation on the globe. Even four years York City contained while the 28 borough city government had AS17172 It is not faster. It i moves faster than the nat) ita past pa it, pace, York tate ahead that world idea the metropoli the in tern It bined . One center of tng largest popu v rh One-tenth tured in the The a of New inhabitant inder of ago five borough 5,518,752 of Lon a population ion one but New York London d tw The be nearly fif than London’ These only larger but it is the healthiest of cities. Altho some one dies in York City every seven minutes, a baby is born every three minutes. Three hundred and ninety people are added to the population every day by new arrival Some growing | a New eer item | rooms on the ground floor, all open ing off three gardens with fountains, ntations, such as enter uld be cw HOTEL p tizens of ebte palms and ornar Star we tion hall in the next floor roon and laundr When firnt-cla. of men said wome to ot wh en in the way The building ake a b ‘ fer & of a first should stand of an architect we at a dist but if ladies are on the com buildings and owing to the eplendid mittees I venture to think that such views that can be obtained the plan the ather 4: known wire-pull one nome its own from on grounds ance all other to do, will not take competition, n the center and the four wings to well known that contain dining, grill, commercial, writing and rules in, of almost double ha: paper clipping. town! ng sucker” uid get the work place and I trust that shauid be in the form of a (X) croms the plans and designs will be thrown | customers who| with the reception hall and offices open to following the for al bullding of this kind the seale should | smoking be fixed at one-ntxteenth of one-inch ————_—_—____Y idded ta another arger tant, y million pot on earth, t of the $ com in every nineteen lives in f the products manufac- York. w York all ntry in Ne that three many hotels theatr of Ne dollars many Aring. billion York are a year larger I gather from a recent news- to equal one foot, finished tn bla and on rawings all drawings to k and white, no account any per- to be lodged in colarn pect work to be went to the buflding tr without ne or address name aled envelope to number the ved and the en. are opened after the award and the comm we known architect from the uld be engaged to advise the WILLIAM BRUCE r rhage Mohammed went to the because he was tired of OLDS ‘Head or chest are best treated “externally” with | TYOUR BODYGUARD” = Sov. “COLORS AS 1T CLEANS” Use Aladdin to dye your blouses, veils, gloves, stockings, underwear, corsets, the newest, most fashionable colors. 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