The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 13, 1920, Page 13

BABIES ARE | SCARCE IN | MOSCOW! ‘Disease and Low Birth Rate Are Fast Wiping Out Russian People BY J. H. DUCKWORTH LONDON.—(By mail.)—One of the first things I noticed, after I had Deen in Moscow « few days, was the| almost total absence of babies and! Uttle children. There must de some | tm Moscow, but they are apparently | too weak and sickly to want to go out ©M the streets to play. I have just received from a Rus sian source the following health sta. tistics issudd by the commissariat of people's health No. of deaths No. af births tn every 1,000 tnha- “2 tan 1921 (Before the Bolshe- >. vist regime)........ ne 1918 (durin, : a ‘ hevik figures con Gustvely prove, surely, that disease, + starvation and a low birth rate under 1 the Bolshevik regime, are fast wiping | @ut the Russian peopia, DE MESS OF (SING PROBLEM” ‘ & é ‘Moscow of the way the Russian com- have of almost everything have meddied with. in which to sleep. But what is furniture, and nothing first came i i : i i fl and go to 5 poor people of the poorer have been moved into the | Bigh-class apartments. At first the proletariat ved in a state of luxury of a sort, for the J ewners of apartments were forbid- |, den to take their furniture or belong: , ings away with them when they l were turned out. But unemploy- ment and starvation soon forced the few tenants to barter pictures, car- _ the country. Now, in this topeyturvy capital of the Bolsheviks, one can see ragged ‘and starving and miserable looking people inhabiting the former homes of the bourgeoisie. Sanitary conditions in these big Dlocks of apartments are worse, if anything, than those at the farms of the peasants. All piping and sewers Great care is supposed to be taken of the children of Red Russia. Yet the Bolshevik organ, Pravda, one day published a complaint that more than three hunrded boys and girls onment for trifling offenses, such @s stealing bread. Infant Is Burned A in Store Blowup May Blackburn, 18 months old, was of] stove in a houseboat belonging to George Black, on the Willamette river here, exploded. Mrs, Blackburn was endeavoring to start the fire when the explo sion occurred. She was unable to save the baby, who was lying on a Nearby cot, because of the rapidity ‘with which the flames epread. The houseboat, built at a cost of $2,000, was a total loss. Mrs. Blackburn escaped infary. Breaks His Neck in Fall of 30 Inches VANCOUVER, B. C., Aug. Slipping from a staging only inches from the ground, J. D: a bolter working at the Wa shipyards, fell and broke his neck He died instantly F. N. Rhodes Files for Commissioner ¥. N. Rhodes, for 10 years state horticultural inspector in the King unty district, filed his candidacy ursday for county commissioner for the Third district, America’s output of incandescent amps this year is entimated to ex- @eed the value of $105,000,000, 13 20 80) | | From what I saw and heard In have long since gone out of repair. | ‘were in the prisons of Moscow, many | eenéemned to long terms of impris-| PORTLAND, Ang. 13——Little Karl) burned to death yesterday when an! TheSe —$$ DEATHS OUTNUMBER BIRTHS 3 TO 1 IN RED RUSSIA ON HONEYMOON, GETS MILLIO How would you like to come tan dollars “cold turkey”? A Toledo girl, recently a war worker ay | in France, has done just that. She is Mrs. Margaret Ashley al | Paddock; daughter of Henry W. Ashley, and granddaughter of Wellington R. Burt, multimillionaire raiheay magnate of Saginaw, Mich., whose estate Paddock, whose mother is dead, gets $953,333.33, one-sizth of the estate. Maid of BY MABEL ABBOTT LONG'S PEAK, Colo.—4By mafl)— Here's a brand new profession for women! iris! Learn to be nature guides, It's fun, it's worth while, op just beginning to en't overcrowded, ac Elizabeth F. Burnell is now the wife of Know. A. Mills, Naturalist and aguthor, are mid to be the first women licensed to guide @ national park. IDES P§RTIES OF TOURISTS The day I talked with Miss Bur nell she was in climbing costume. | She guides parties of tourists all over Rocky’ Mountain National park. On leach of the three days before I sw |her, she had climbed Long’s Peak | She intended to go again next day ‘The trip is over one of the “sky line” trails, Long’s Peak ts 14,255 feet above sea level and 5,000 feet above the valley. a row of window ledges on a sky | scraper. Miss Burnell ts a Bryn Mawr grad- uate, has a degree from the Uni vernity of Michigan and looks stud! ‘SHOPPING’ VIA No Longer: Any Thrill in It for Blase New York | NEW YORK, Aug. 13.—Shopping | by airplane is now so commonplace jthat there is no longer any thrill jim itt What! You didn't know their | were air commuters? You're ‘way behind! One New York air commuting ser- vice, the Aero Limited, carried 700 passengers—mostly women shoppers during July—in spite of 14 -rainy days! | Air transportation has “settled down” to a sound business propo on. REGULAR AND SPEEDY SCHEDULES MAINTAINED Regular and speedy schedules are maintained between New York and necticut points. The colonies at the seaside resorts use the airplane habitually. | Hundreds of women walk non chalantly into the booking office in | the Waldort hotel and buy tickets. Among the names of the women making trips in July are found | those of Mrs, Craig Biddle, Mrs. W Goadby, Miss Barbara Loew, Mrs Shopping by alr is getting to be just another one of life's “ho-hum” affairs! “After you've taken one flight.” says $, Nicholas Reinhardt, founder of the Acro Limited Service, a your only ‘kiek'—the thrill then. After that it’s simply | practical business propostion.” “MONOTONY” IS GREATEST PROBLEM Reinhardt says the monotony of flying is the greatest problem air transportation faces, There iwn't much to see after you have been up once and seen the novelty of having the world spread out below you like a relief ma He says motoring will at fascinating because of fast driv ing, and going to queer, out of. the-way places, but that air pas senger service will be used in the fu ture by business men who are in a big hurry, woue who have impor. tant shopplrg to do wt commuters. ys be | Job for Girls, Says Some of its trails look like | AIR IS COMMON Long Island, Rhode Island and Con- | fashionable | R. Livingstone Beeckman and Mias \r hy Willard. “Great,” they say, “but it isn’t) exciting.” Pages 13 to 24 attle Star. SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, AUGUST 13, 1920. | RATS TAKE TOWN BY STORM; INHABITANTS DAREN’T GO TO BED LONDON, Eng., Aug. 13--A combined attack is now being JOHN BARLEYCORN PINCHED RIDING IN THE TOWN HEARSE SEYMOUR, Conn, Aug. 13- ‘DON'T OVERPAY.. “FOR BASIN LAND |Columbia Basin Commission — MOVIES FOR | SCHOOLS, PLAN Big Appropriations to Be TOREPORTON ZONING PLAN Maj. Jackson Back After Federal liquor agents in this vt cinity have been stopping every thing that moves on wheels in made upon the rata which have infested Abertillery, a big collier their search for tilegal liquor car. center, and expert ratters have goes, but funeral procemions come to the town with dogs and i Asked of Congress Herat ag “cation Maka ewe Portland Study ferret: Moe ale tase Saarttontty Schedules Prices } reset other day. A hearse proceeding — taken ponnension of the houses. WASHINGTON, Aug. 13.—Proqeed solemnly thru the main street Maj. Jesse A. Jackson, chief com |] One man could not go to work for |} Don’t invest your money te ing on the theory that “seeing ibe || without coaches trailing behind || Puter in the city attorney's office, || several days, as he feared to ||lumbia Basin land at prices to @ the || Who has just returned from Port-'| teave his wife alope with the rats. | Mevi the National Visual & tion association will ask congress to, appropriate $5,000,000 to help states supply moving picture machines to schools, It ly expected that the fund would expand to $20,000,000 in 2 years, B. R. Inman of the Indiana State| eiene and to use the machines for Chamber of Commeres and Charles | public purposes in the evenings, Thix A. Greathouse, former superinten:| would include aid to the Red Crom D | dent of public instruction in Indiana, | can be constructed, The Portland head the organization and similar organizations and in-| ogy win be put to a referendum| It is planned to teach children his. | *truction in matters of public health | yote this fall. | |tory, geography, physiology and hy-! and farming. Maj. Jackson declared it attracted the attention of agents, They stopped tt. Inside the hearse were several gallons of high proof whisky, ‘The driver and the man who sat beside him carrying a prayer book in his hand were arrested. ceed the following: Grazing lan $3 to $5 an acre; wheat land In seo |tions of scant rainfall, $10 to §ilg most favorably located land, $15 to $30 per acre. ‘This warning was transmitted t@s the state development bureaa of the Chamber of Commerce by’ the Columbia Basin commission, It is | !and, where he has been studying the city zoning plan just passed therd, | will make a report of hin observa} tions to A. H. Dimock, elty engineer and member of the Seattle city zon. ing comminnion, The Portland plan calls for three distinct zone classes—-manufactur ing, residential and business. The city has been mapped and each block shown just what nature of building Alderman Harris declared that people were afraid to go to bed. | feasible, but would have to be modi- | | fied to meet with conditions in Se- | attie, Smoker Gives Life to Save His Cigar LONDON, Aug. 13.—Stooping down | charged that efforte are being to pick up a cigar, William Tague, 58| by speculators and promoters years old, was run over by a motor!tain exorbitant prices for car and killed. that section. to be into an inheritance of a million LLY " TRICITY Pane Hen Our Suits are Standard Make —at $10 less It’s easy enough to sell shoddy ‘goods cheap, but the real test of merchandising is to offer Standard Make Suits and Overcoats at $10.00 less. That’s what we do by our upstairs policy of — LOW RENT—LARGE ‘BUYING POWER— LOW COST OF DOING BUSINESS Buy here and get a Standard Make Summer Suit at $10.00 less than ordinary prices. SUITS «1 OVERCOATS * $20 %& $50 Alterations Free Fi it Guaranteed Satisfacton or Your Money Back FAHEY-BROCKMAN BLDG., Third and Pike ARCADE BLDG. (Over Rhodes Co.), Second Ave Raleigh Bldg., Portland, Oregon. hat! 1 EE Ba has just been divided. Mrs. Mountains ous rather than athietic. “Any healthy girl can qualify aa a nature Suide,” she said, “but it ts a big job. “She must have a knowledge of geology, botany, natural history and firwt aid. She must know the roads and trails of the country where she works, and should be able to manage horwes, pack them, make camp and | cook. “It should not be necessary to take a man along. I have camped abso lutely alone for a week at a tim and have wandered all around Mount Long alone at night. There is going to be less and leas demand for the mere trail guide. Trails are being |made easier and plainer wherever | people want to go, and the auto | mobile now goes where, only a little while ago, a guide would have been needed. “The whole call soon will be for the nature guide, the man or woman 0 can show people interesting ings. This guide will point out strange stratifications in the rocks land explain their cause: show what planta grow at different altitudes, and explain what the wild animals | eat, whether they live there the year laround and if not, where they go jand whether the grizly and the |mountain sheep live on friendly | terms. | SOMETHING TO SEF YWHERE IN THE WORLD Yational parks are not the only places that will want nature guides when people wake up to their value |There is something to seo every lwhere in the world. Some city parks should have them, Some mu seums already do.” Mr. Mills, who operates Long's Peak Inn, agreed with Miss Burn | “I would put on two more natur |euldes now, if I could get good jones.” he mid. “It is a good pro. feanion for women.” Political Beach Party Success The republican rally and basket lunch held last evening on Alki | beach by Alki Unit No. 1 of the | Women's King County Republican! club was attended by over 300. Va) rious candidates for nomination on! the party ticket spoke either in per son or by proxy. Thomas G. Ham mond, chairman of the Young Men's | | Republican club, introduced thd) speakers. Prominent among = AVIV VRC LSA CULL MRL LLL RELL ERROR LEO ik the guests, in addition to the candidates, | were Philip Tindall, Roy C. Ly |Mrs. Louis F. Hart and Miss EF) |Hart, Mrs. A. H. Gattis, Bert | Northrup, Charles FE. Allen and Mrs. | | Lewis G. Rogers of Buffalo, N. Y., sister of Col. RK. H. Hartley, candi date for governor, who spoke in his behalf. [Law to Improve Old | Buildings in City Corporation Counsel Walter ¥F. work Friday on the of a new ordin J | which will give city officials power |to order alterations in a number of old buildings in the city so that they y conform to the existing health 1 fire laws. ‘The course waa decided upon ata meeting held in Mayor Cald ‘5 of fice Thursday, = | MAA TT Truck and Auto Meet; One Injured Thrown to the pavement at mid | my IN night, when his truck collided with an auto driven by W, Waldron, 1044| Jackson st, at Sixth ave. 8. .and| : King st, F. H. Kamihachi, manager ° ¢ iy 8 of the K. C. W. Soap Co,, 614 Dear. i” Ch ‘y B re FOL Seo a eres nee Oprstairs Clothiers, MO UP SATS GNA SAVE ture of the left leg. i > » “Oh, give me some more of that : coffee, Jim Boldt!"—Adv.