The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 24, 1920, Page 6

: [ Bestowing Brains ‘Two hundred years ago John Locke said that God did not make man a two-legged creature and leave it to the logician Aristotle to make him rational. Yet friendly critics of the schools continually complain that they do not teach F pupils to think—to be alert and to deal successfully with all kinds of new situations. The charge is true, but absurd. For all the schooling in Ty cannot create brains in a creature born without or add a single ounce to what is already there, any more than training can improve a stunted breed of cattle If it could, intelligence would not run in families, and there Would be no serious problem of the feeble-minded. The function of a school is not to teach pupils to think to give them something worth ies about. It is to make them alert and enterprising; but to see that alertness and enterprise which they already lave car- them into some decent place in society and not into the gutter. _ A school cannot teach any one to do entirely new things ®uccessfully. That is a matter of brains and tuck. But it an train its pupils beforehand in the doing of many things that life is likely to demand of them; so that when the time for action comes they will flounder less than they otherwise would have. To its brighter pupils the school can teach general princi ples which give meaning to the routine of later work, It can help them all to find their level far, far more ‘easily than they could without it. It is not surprising that doughboys increased in height’ inches while in France. Everything else went up in meantime. Venus Of all the members of the solar system beside the Earth, on the surface, appears to have the best chance of inhabited. Venus is more like the Earth in every re- than any other planet and hence is in as a po at least, to contain organic life, as this one. Earth is 7,913 miles in diameter; Venus 7,726 miles. us is only 67,200,000 miles from the sun compared to 's 92,900,000. An Earth year contains 12 months; us has only seven months. Venus has an atmosphere comparable in volume to that ing Earth. Venus receives per unit area about as much light and heat from the sun as does Earth. ag Sar of the day is unknown, but ft is reasonable to t is about the same as on Earth. Tt is argued that because the average temperature on us is 150 degrees while on Earth it is only 60 degrees, on the former planet would be diffioult because of the heat. But it is known that a dense atmospheric ig surrounds Venus, which in fact makes observations ifficult, and which might tend to neutralize the difference in distance from the sun. _Thereeis no reason for doubting that Venus is inhab The only question is, when will some one come a discover something that will permit communi- . Sonora republic thanks Jim Burleson for permit to veceive mail thru Agua Prieta. S’all right, but those bloomin’ Mez. had better wait till Jim delivers the mail. The other day in Chicago a judge of the superior court Tesigned. He said he was sick and tired of hearing divorce That was his reason. He didn’t say much about men who seek divorce. But as to the women, he gave out that idle women and women seeking excitement were ones who most frequently appeared asking divorces. Somewhere they have told that the devil always finds of work for idle hands to do. Perhaps the devil is especially after the idle woman who wants “excite- Sane, healthy, normal women need seldom to be idle.| of them are. A few fairies in the home, or a couple -scarum boys, will give wives so much to think about, and to do, that idleness would be banned. The same causes would supply plenty of excitement, too. Depend og that. One can hardly blame a judge for being tired of listening to those thousands of tales of marital woe. But one cannot agree with the statement he made. This is it: “Marriage does not mean anything any more.” Yes, Marriage docs mean something. It means as much as it ever did. It means, by right, love, and home, and children, and human happiness. It has always meant that! + The American Museum of Natural History says the eagle is about to become extinct. That one on the dollar has lost his old time vigor. Gloom! Gloom! Bothing is sacred. fornia they raise millions of watermelons, so luscious that J that’s her share at the table. These melons are now nearly ripe and ready for shipment to our Pacific coast folks but the Sonora revolution is moving upon those melon Patches, with intent to absorb and consume, and our little age domestic melons are putting on financial airs over Promise of absence of competition by the cheap foreign Peiite is, 4 dream, ith the phil le ut a » Sai e philosopher, Doggone i it’s but one nightmare after mnothert As a protest against the high cost of shoes, Vienna reeepies will go barefoot. That's all well enough, what about the high cost of trousers? e year 1820, while Monroe was president, the cost 1 goyernment was $21,763,024. this year the estimated expenditures of the United 8 government total the mammoth sum of $11,476,627,- Until 1899 the government had never cost as much as , a billion in any year. Yet in the face of this extraordinary advance in the : of government, nearly a hundred members of congress “propose to take vacation trips at the people's expense, dential candidate, is in hiding and p arrren. It’s darned. bigh- rican stule. ~ pe ee || On the Ieime of = |JEVERETT TRUE IT See You're WEARING GLASSES SINC® “OU LEFT our CMPLOY. WHAT ARS You DOING Now ¢ —By CON om way, rin | SELLING IN SURANCGS NOW, MISTER Teve. Ht Looks MOORS UKE You'Re SELLING BHOE STRIncs! | BRICKBATS BOUQUETS! DISCLAIMS JAPANESE STORY | strike for more pay to meet these | Editor The Star: Referring to a | telegram dated San Francisco, April | | 20, which appeared In your paper of the same date, with heading “Japan | Hires German Officers,” 1 beg to} advise you that an | part referring to Japan of the mid telegram is ab- solutely false and that the Japanese government is in any way engaging | neither German nor Swiss exarmy | or navy officers in their military or naval force, j Hoping that this Inférmation wil! be useful to you In enlightening your readers who might have been mis led by the groundless telegram, I remain, yours truly, | M. HIROTA, Consul of Japan. eee ARTICLES INFORMATIVE } Editor The Star: I desire to aay that as @ subscriber and constant reader of your paper, I have fol- lowed with no small degree of inter- eat the articles of Dr. Ghent. I be prices, you have declared their action | ii! Umed, i advised, and in every} way out of harmony with the best in teremts of the country. You hare jumped from one «ide of the political fency to the other on every political iaeue. Money talka If It didn't, you would not have print od Edwin Selvin's editorial, 1 mean the one for which he should have! been sont to the pen for life, and which you printed some time ago: | If money didn’t talk, he would prob | ably be behind the bars now, If m ey didn’t talk, Newberry woul behind the bars, but I'll bet 10 t he Will never sleep one night fn jail. | |The Kept Press, of which you seem to be one, has featured every prose: | cution of every so-called red, in order | to intimidate the balance of the or fanization Yet your tactics make for more of that order. Why don't you play fair and send your tirade against Selvin, Newberry Heve that I am only voicing the sen.|®9d all the other rich offenders, un timent of the people generally when | til public sentiment will force them I say that his articles are being read to take their medicine in jail, aa they with © great Geel of interest. should? What have you got to say | Apparently, from the facts and|Sbout the one who broke the North: | figures as detailed and analyzed by |°T? Bank and Trust Co. by embex lthe doctor, the narcotic evil in| #l¢ment—that snake in human form rpreading with great rapidity, 1|—WNo ls now enjoying his Ul.gotten waa appalled ta learn that some four | Mins in California (I beg pardon of million people are addicted to the|®!! #naker for likening such as he to I _ High cost will now hit watermelons. | Down in the few rich agricultural regions of Lower Cali-| ied in robbing your blind grandmother of the| habit of using dope, and if that ts true, giving this matter publicity | thru the press will be of great serv: leg to the community. ADAM BEELER. eee A FIGHTING PAPER Fdltor The Star: The Star ie the! only city paper that fights for the people and has no selfish motive | Long live The Star. | MRS. C. W. ROAT, 735 N. Téth cee LIKED EDITORIAL Editor The Star: I want to eom- pliment you on your reply to BE. Lh| Jacobs’ letter in your editorial of| Saturday evening’s paper. Should say Attorney General Pal- mer waa having @ wild pipe dream. The trouble with him and Senator A B. Cummings is that the president's! coat wouldn't make either of them a vest. Respectfully. | 8. B.IKERD, | $30 17th ave, City. see ROASTS THE STAR | Editor The Star: There being no} such person as Cynthia Grey, I do | not propose to address any commu-| | Nlewtion to euch @ nonentity. Why | | don't you call that column, supposed to be run by her, by its proper name? | | I'D bet 10 to 1 the letters printed are |made up in The Star office by some insignificant qerk. Yet you print them as sentiment of the public on | questions both moral and otherwise. | “Confeasions of a Bride’ is another | insult to the readers of your paper who have enough sense to even form | an opinion of their own. I have | glanced ovér jt in several issues, just to discover’ to my own satisfaction | what the lowest grade of fiction in that a newspaper will print, Of all | | the cheap, worthloss, trashy novels | written to sell to an ignorant and de-| | praved class of people, this one ts the most worthless and trashy of all “The Life of Jesse James,” told in all | its details, would make good litera | ture compared to “Confeasions of a | Bride.” You clatm to be a friend of the peo- ple and fight their battles, What have you done in the “crusade,” no called, to lower the cost of living? You have featured every raise in the | j necessities of life, Instead of featur | ing the few drops in prices we have | had, and helping to form a public mind to ask and expect a drop with every purchase made, you have pre- pared the public mind to expect a raise each time they buy, and the dealers, knowing this, keep on giv- ing them what they expect. Every ume any workers have gone ou [the present Iam going to be con them)? But what you have to say about him is uous by its ab- eenes, . May the time come when our bit newspapers will have real men for | editore—men who do not seesaw r the almighty dollar, but who wil make a@ fight at ali times for what i right; that will stay on the one side of the line at all times, and not mas quernde as a wolf would, in sheep's clo\hing. The only way to fight fire At certain ‘times is with fire, so for temptuons enough to refase to sign my name, Just like Cyntila Grey! X. Y. %, Bremerton. P, 8—This is to the pnblic, if you have time to write some mean things About the writer of it, but, of course, you won't have time, since it is too! hear the truth to appear @n your| sheet. You won't be able to write anything mean enough to sult you, | 80, of courwe, you won't print thia, Rev. M. A. Matthews Will Deliver a Sermon Sunday Morning Entitled— “Making Real the Doctrine” In the Evening He Will Discuss the Subject— “Spiritism Below or Above, Which?” The advocates of Spiritism will be answered. Fine Programs of Music Everyone Cordially Invited FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Seventh and Spring Greetings Press reports aay the names of many of the wives of Bluebeard cannot be found tn the city directory,, Bmall wonder! Prob- ably there waan't room for ‘em all. ove Alleen Claire complaine that she has been unable to communicate for weveral nights with the spirit of Joba Partridge, who has been talk ing to her on the oulja board, wonders if he is spoofing ber we not suggest that probably Partridge bas flown? . May the . FOUND AT LAST Editor We'll Say-Ho; Found the little old bottie all right, Just where you mid. Teehee! Poar little old bottle never did any harm. Fifteen men op & dead man's jdn't find my Little old hat Usls ning. Must of left it hanging on the hydrant where I and the boys stopped to sing the song about the naughty litte pump tec-tump. Poor little Ubttle-—all gone dry. Much obliged, old thing. Teehee’ Oh, my head)—Henry eee Huge are reported to be nelling at 1S cents in many Delaware tow?s Lf this in true—and we doubt it—you may depend upon it that the reason is Une inha)itants have only 15 cents, A new play tn New York t# entled The Bonehead.” The hero must be 4 cangreasman. . . Earth to Earth, Dost to Dust, If One Doesn't Get You the Other Most The success of Dr. Young's Mowpital dt Mee M Puthrte Plumbers tur Birmingham, Ala, de mand that eapluyers provide autos and chauffeurs to take them to and trom work, Now we understand why Birmingham bas an overall club, eee Bade Ruth ways he drew 22,000 people to the Bostan ball park on Ruth day last summer and the own. er of the team gave hint a nickel igar. What we'd like to know i where a man could buy a nickel cigar last summer? ae ye Quite a number of the hats that ave been thrown in the ring are already In need of re-blocking. eee He Won't Re Loose Long ar. . An astern haberdasher killed him elf because be was arrested for profiteering. Can you understand how a man #0 sensitive as that ever got Into the haberdasher biz? eee 1 Ww ker Wabash (ind) Times oe ‘The tandiord ts killing the goose that lays the golden egg. ee Put, an the bell boy remarked, “I'm no muckraker, but I show a lot of folks wp.” Bhe | chent! } The Cause of High Prices is not some mysterious, complex thing, but is perfectly simple. In buying and selling there are two ele- ments: First, the number of things there are to sell; and, second, the amount of money there is to pay for them. If there are plenty of things and little money, things naturally will be cheap. If there are few things and much money, things will be dear. This is a natural law. Neither statutes jnor regulations of government can affect it to any great extent. In the United Stated, and all over the world, we have been doing two things: 1. We have been redwing the number of things for sale. This we have been doing jby a vast program of destruction. armies have been desolating farms, burning | villages, battering down factories and flood- ‘ing mines. They have also been taking the steel and other materials needed in building homes or making ware, putting them into cannon, shell, gunboats, and tne like, and blowing them up. Which is precisely the same as if you took the contents of your grocery and fac- |tory and the products of your farm out into \the back yard and made a bonfire of them. Besides this we have, in the war, with- drawn millions of productive workers from the business of baking, sawing, digging, and other creative work in which they were | constructing desirable goods, and set them }to murdering, robbing, stealing, burning, and loafing. And the process of reducing production Huge | Americanism Jhere Can | Be Mo Compromise | HIGH PRICES BY Di. FRANK CKANE (Copyright, 1920, by Frank Crane) did not cease when war ceased. The lust to fight and grab does not quickly die out, The laborers entered upon a glorious cam paign of Strikes. Whether Strikes be good or bad is not here under di ion. point is, they stop production of g Roger W. in the two months of last August and tember meant 11,792,000 days of idleness, © And a Strike spreads its destructive im fluence. The Strikers cease to produces thousands of other workers are forced to produce less; other thousands, engaged selling goods, are made idle; transporta' falls off; all, these persons, getting le | wages, affect the storekeepe! wholes and retai!; and the whole vicious circle evans tuates in loss of energy and efficiency, 2. Lesides this falling off in the amount of goods, there has been an increase is money. Every nation has floated huge loan Credit has been extended. Inflation has im | creased. Hence, to reduce High Prices, two | things must be done: (1) Produce | goods, and (2) quit expanding the | of money and securities. Mr. Paul Warburg stated the case ciearly: “If governments adopt a rigid policy of preventing the further issue of government securities and money to cover current de | ficiencies, prey, will take the first and most © | effective sfep in combating the decrease o | production, the rise of prices and the fi | of exchanges. If they will not or cannot | | adopt such a course they are headed for ine solvency and social and economic disrupe | tion.” | Conducted Under Direction of Dr. Rupert Mue, U. &. Public Health Service VARICOSE VEINS losis. Could the specialist have ¥ mistaken? MRS. G. BL A. You may have had tn tuberculosis and have np overcome the trouble. In any however, you wilt do well to | plenty of fresh air and good f so that you may keep well. If will send me your name and @ress I will answer the other quam tion asked in your letter, “UNCLE SAM, M.D.” wit I bave varicose veins in my a hole thru the navel, from which right leg and it Is much swollen annot Wear an elastic stocking here danger in letting a surgeon | yperate on this candition? cancer? A I there is a very offensive discharge Ist am 48 years old. Py af means go to a good! | | nan prevention of disease. | impossible for him te anewer Could this be MRS. G. W. 8. br to 3abson estimates that Strikes Fy A. Judging by your letter you do not appear to have had @ suitable elastic stocking. Some persons who cannot well wear an elastic stocking often obtain relief by the use of woven clastic bandages. If you find that this can pot be worn, a surgical operation may relieve you. There is little danger in guch an operation when performed by & com- | petent surgeon. On the other hand, even after operation the condition not infrequently returns, WRAK* HEART | Q I bave a weak heart and hare not been well for 10 years, There is Main 1941 SECOND AVENUE Ou. SCANDI | physician at once and have him give | |you'a thoro examination It may/ be that if you take the trouble in |time be can relieve you. It is tm possible merely from this description to determine the mature of your trouble, -_— INCIPIENT TUBERCULOSIS Q. Following an attack of infu enza a year ago I was told by a spe- clalist that I had incipient tubercu lois. Since then I have gained 20 |pounds and.my family physician, | | who has examined me several times, | tela me that I have not tubercu : w ne When s man wants money or & sistance the world is enough to let him keep right wanting ft. 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