The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 11, 1920, Page 6

By matt, out of of $8.08, 14.00 for € mm Letters to the! = Tt ts a widee Delief that nervousness is 4| of disease directly trans | by inheritance from one gen: | rat to another. And there can/ no doubt that the children of who have had a@ nervous are themselves prone to from nervous breakdown or late, ! But it by no means follows that) children directly inherit the disorders of the parents. | possibility of such direct inher is, uldeed, denied by the con- of expert opinion among neurologists. In tim words @f one authority: “Inherited weakness of the tissuce| ‘gomposing the brain is certainly a) hhighly important predisposing cause ef all kinds of nervous derange “ment. Nevertheless, it is wrong to gay that neurasthenia is inherited, a@ delicate nervous sys- tem will not break down unless overbearing strain is placed it. eas 4 | strain may be of a kind stronger people would regard as negligible, yet be stress enough for the predisposed person. It is ot the disease which is inherited, “But the tendency to tt. | Whe same authority tinues: “Tt is well that te should be fuliy understood, as there is no! More lamentable sight than that of the person who sits down crushed with the weight of a supposedly in evitable inheritance of nerve trou- ble. rightly con- | “The man who knows of his in herent nerve weakness should use| the knowledge to protect himself against its becoming an inconven fence to him. Certainly he should not assume the inevitability of a| breakdown.” | ‘The situation with regard Hervous disease is, in other words, | percisely that with regard to tuber. | culosis or other bodily disease for merly thought to be directly inher ited. Everybody today knows that one Goes not inherit dis of tt Tungs, but may inherit a weakness of the lungs predisposing to tuber | culosis. This predisposition, how-| ever, may be offset by measures | @esigned to increase lung vigor and| Buard against tubercular infection. | So with persons of an inberited| Berve weakness. | They are more likely than other| Persons ot develop some trouble. But they ally | be safeguarded against this by train. | ing to increase the powers of emo yilonal control, by body bullding thru Miet, exercise, etc., and by the « ance of unnecessary excitermnen excesses. If these precautionary are taken—and especially if @re taken in the plastic, formative years of childhood—the danger of a meryous breakdown may be definite-| ly averted even from those who have inherited a tendency to break down { A happy instead of a wretched) | existence, a career of abundant a complishment, will then be assured. | The future will hold a richnesq .of promise forever withheld from those who supinely surrender to the faine | measures | f the doctrine of an unescapable inherit.! ed doom he Certain industrial associations urge the creation of a new national department of public works, to ab @orb the present department of the The Seatt tn the Rtate of Published Datty r year, month, wool. le Sta ty, Ste per ha, athe OF The neighbor’s children are numerous. They have dis- covered a good thing. It’s the Pacific Coast, and they are “riding” it for all it is worth. On every hand you see them. The Japs are literally crowding the whites off the farms and in many industries. They have taken over many fields of work and businass in Seattle, in Tacoma, in Everett, in Spokane, in every part of the state. ad Their “peaceful penetration” is quite evident. What will be the final solution? In the interests of peace, the final solution MUST be in |congress—in the house of representatives and in the U. S. senate, It is imperative, therefore, that there shall be in con- gress only such men who are absolutely free to do justice to the Pacific Coast, to the State of Washington, to Seattle, to Tacoma, to Spokane, and every other city and every farming community as well. Can Senator Wesley L. Jones, now seeking renomination at the hands of the republicans next Tuesday, give the required service? Is he free? Does he test 100 per cent on the subject? You can judge that yourself. U. S. Senator Jones is father of a young lawyer who owns Jap bank stock in Seattle. The senator’s son holds financial interests that are Jap interests. We don’t want to condemn a father for the errors of a pote if they are only the son's errors. But what are the acts? Young Jones is practically a newcomer in Seattle. Under jordinary circumstances, the big Jap interests wouldn't know him from Adam. But when he came here to begin his law practice, a short time ago, he wasn’t hiding the fact that his father is U. 8. senator. His father, in fact, may be said to have counte his prestige as an asset in his boy’s law busin suddenly, we learn that Sen. Jones has become a d upon For, resident” of Seattle, tho his “home” had been in Yakima for a quarter of a century, and tho he spent most of his time in the east. Very well! The young lawyer opens his office. In a comparatively short time he is allied with Jap bankers. What is the explanation? It didn't come about in ordinary business channels. Use your own imagination and intelli- gence and answer for yourself whether or not this Jap connection was accomplished because of the fact that young Jones is the son of a United States senator. Think it over—and REMEMBER JONI “Vote for Me; I’m From Tacoma” Governor Hart is making an appeal to Tacoma voters on e ground of local residence. “Vote for me because I live in Tacoma,” is his appeal, Does it need any argument to prove the shallowness of such an appeal? z If a man’s mere place of residence is a reason for his| being governor, then George Lamping would be getting! the votes in Seattle. Spokane voters would, under such! conditions, all be voting for Senator Coman, and Wenatchee would all be voting for John Gellatly, etc., ete, But it is in entire keeping with the general size of Gover- nor Hart to make a mere local appeal. His official record, could hardly be an inducement for an independent voter to! cast a ballot for him. th THE SEATT | EVERETT TRUE —ANP HERE'S A LU MORS BUTTER, BR ITS JOST OFF THES LE STAR By CONDO TITUS \ \ce. Do YOU WISH FoR Somne Yes, I “WISH POR SOME” HAM AND GG63 GRAHAM BREAD, STSWED PRUNGS, Piece oF ANGEL CAKE AND A MUG OF YAVA IU IF XouU WANT TO MOTHER. THAT Geek INTO GIVING Nouv A TIP, DO (v AFTER XOU'VG TRANSPORTED MY CHow Writes for The BY DR. JAMES L VANCE Which would You rather have for your preacher, a man who ts so good that he scares you, or one like Simon Peter, who is so human that you can go fishing with him? The old name for a minister of the | pel, *was “divine.” People were! waye comfortable in his pres | They renpected him, but he! seemed to dwell apart from common’ life. He was the frontiaplece of a religion whone chief mission was to prepare people to die, | But our ideas have changed. The religion which appeals to us today | ie not that which prepares for death, | but for life. The world is not after hermits who dwell in holy caves, and by a fe of penance try to merit heaven. It seeks servanta who lend & hand and minister to human need. A preacher does not peed to be any Reet A new hat never hid a whiney nose. Today's Bet: Tobacco users shiver when they hear talk of @ 20th amendment, ee Sign on the jail door at Pasca gonda, Miss “Keep Out” . Watchman 8. P.. Ober took pride in exhibiting Puget Sound to a stranger from iniand whom he en countered at Point Defiance. “I never an® euch @ lot of water | | befor sald the stranger “y mid Ober, “and remember! You « see what there is on the tor oma ‘Timen Onty $15,000 of Pon: be found. His sympathy, i's aneets can lawyers have our . Tt ts easy to wee thru people who make spectacles of themselves, Amy has a brand-new car And it annoys her so That, tho she starts and starts and star The old thing will not go But oftentimes when she is stated! A friend, by eh will pass, And show her it will go all right If she will give s. | UNFIN cD BUSINESS Sambo—Say, Doc, what was that you gave me? I dreamed I was chasin' a large chicken and just as I was about to grab ‘im I woke up. Doctor—Why, that was a quarter! of @ grain of morphine i Sambo—Please squirt 20 more &rains in me—I wantah ketch that chicken. REV. M. A. MATTHEWS will deliver a sermon Sunday morning entitled, THE CHURCH’S That “Prestige” Argument Did you ever notice that wher didate for United Sta * senator or representative pretty poor timber, how hiv supporters ays fall back on the ar the state will lose its prestige “atrategic nce" and the like accruing from his “seniority” if he is not 1” Of course you have. And did it ever occur to you that it Is character and ability that bulld real prestige and real importance, and not merely being around for a period of year Sure ‘ou have This state will be better off in every way with a William Inglis, new at the game but respected, energetic and of right decision: in the senate than it will be with @ returned Wesley Lusitania Jones there--a Jones who invariably votes wrong when a great issue sud denly confronts him. “Home is where the heart is,” sang the poet. the lease ts. Raisin ple won't account for the 1,400 per cent increase in imports of Spanish raintus. TT " r 7 | The announcement that General Tang 4s hailed as the “George Waah-| ington of China” haa @ familiar tang. Nowadays home ts wherey RESPONSIBILITY In the evening he will discuss the subject, SEATTLE’S ONE WAY OUT Programs of Good Music, You are invited to our services. FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Seventh and Spring Dr. James I. Vance A Divine or A Human Star Today on lonn divine, but he does need to be intensely human. He must be able to enter into all Iie with sincere sympathy and an honest love for people He must be able to any, in every act and meamege: “Write me an one who loves his fellow-men.” This does not mean that he is to quit loving bis God; for God has identified Himaelf with people, The only way you can burt Him ts to hurt His people The greatest argument for Chrint's deity was File humanity. It was so big, #0 capacious, so cosmopolitan, wo racial, so albembracing, that Peter madd: Tr son of man ts the Son of God.” And #o that preacher is most divine who is most human. This is what Paul meant by being ‘all things to all men.” He @id not mean that he was « trimmer and Umenerver. He merely meant that be was human. ‘The rallgoads find it just as easy to fall down in time of peace as in Ume of war, (Doctor Frank CRANE’S Daily Article (Copyright, 1920) Chautauqua. The National Forum. Self-Culture. Settling Issues. of the government in the der countries institutions imponed upon the people from top down; here they are grown by| the people from the bottom up. | ‘This i iMustrated by the electoral college, a system carefully devined by lawmakers, which the people have practically cast aside; and in the polition) parties, which the framers of our governmental ma chifery never designed at all, but whieh arose naturally from the exigencies of political life. Now in a democracy discussion ts eenential, Our fathers arranged legislation and enacted where it should be carried on But this ts not enough. The peo ple, the whole people, directly inter ented in public affairs, want the op portunity to «ift things out for themselver, To meet this demand the Chav- tauqua arose, an offshoot from the camp meeting idea of a former gen eration. Originating at Chautanqua Lake, New York, from which place it gets its name, thie movement has spread thruout all the states of the Union From Maine to California, tn the groves of Minnesota and by the lakes of Florida, every season the people gather together The mort prominent leaders of every aphere of activity, scientific, educational, economic, political, re ligious, aré more than willing to de liver thelr message to the intelli- gent common citizenry that meets in their camps. Artiste and entertainers, who without this institution would be heard only in the large cities, are ‘here brought into contact with the body of our democracy It is the greatest movement for eelfculture ever manifested by a free people. After the Civil war came the lyce- um and the lecture course. The grave insues of readjustment were threshed out in the open forum of free discussion. And now, in the moral backwash of the Great War, with the tre mendous problems of industry, eco- nomics, politics and morals that are thrust upon us for solution, it ts fortunate that the Chautauqua is at hand. Tt is in the Chautauquas, scat tered all over the land, that those fateful issues which now confront civilization will be most wholesome ly discussed. What will be the final word of the people on the League of Nations, labor unions, military training, the control of public utili- es? We shall know when the Chautauquas have spoken. THE ONLY SOLUTION “I sat up two hours last with a wet towel around my head, trying to solve my servant prob- lem.” “And I stood up half an hour aft. er dinner with « towel in my hand, solving mine."—Judge. Sheffield, Eng., situated 40 miles from the nearest seaport, is petition ing the government for a deep wa- terway to the ocean. 4 States grows, it is not made. | = DANA SEE Uncle fam han looked up the figures and has announced that we drank twothirds less hard liquor last year than we did the year before All I've to say on the matter is that if Uncle Sam's figures show that a third as much bonded lMquor waa consumed in this nation in prohibition year ag in a wet year then the nation drank about ten | times as much liquor last year as it did the wettest year in its history. Prove it? Easily, Any informed person will | admit that for every drink of bonded liquor consumed in Seattle today there are at least a dozen drinks of |moonshiné, raisin ooze, grapo or | what-not—what-not ts a fine descrip | tive term for it, by the way So abundant is moonshine these dog days that the bootleggers ve created a bearish market, and jfreah corn likker is to be had for 20 loentsa a drink, and only yesterday it | was 60 cents And, moreover, at least half the bonded liquor sold today in these parts {s Canadian hooch, smuggled over the line, and that does not show on the federal chart. So, if last year this dry nation |drank @ third as much American bonded iiquor as it did the year be- | fore, then we easily consumed ten times as much booze ag we ever did jin a “wet” season. | I think any one who knows the in- ide facts will not dispute this state ment. ral ee INFORMED prohibition Officer tells us that there are 10,000 stills in this state. If he knows what he is talking about, and I surmine that he does, then there is, ‘on & conservative estimate, some 50,- 000 gallons of moonshine a day being produced in the state. And if the highly moderate price of $10 a gallon ts placed ag the valua tion of this moonshine, then Wash- ington is consuming some $500,000 worth of homemade booze a day, and probably $100,000 worth of Cana- dian hard stuff, and as much more of the various brews. I don't know what the drink bill Of the state was when it was wide open, but certainly all the old booze money is not going into the savings banks. . N eee DOUBT if the present pro- hibition act will be en- forced. I doubt that if all the dry officers in the na- tion were sent to Wash- ington for a year, if they would stop the mhnufacture and sale of moon shine: So far ag I can observe, each week sees more moonshine in circu: lation and more drunks in the town bastiles; and, believe me, the police are nowhere making a practice of jailing the drunks who can negotiate the next corner. It doesn't look at all good, you know, to have a jail Right} full of drunks in an efficiently po- liced “dry” city, I dovtt if the average regular Grinker has quit drinking. I think the average beer drinker has changed over to moonshine, and that the average moderate drinker now is prone to be an immoderate drinker when opportunity arises, And I know that a bot of Greek section hands and South-of-Europe pick-and shovel gentlemen are riding one’ the SA anty IATURDAY, SEPTEMPER 1, wt, AS IT SEEMS T0 ME SELF STARTER when it comes to going into business for yourself— —is a Savings Account which you have built up five and ten dollars at a time— —because you've built up your banker’s confidence at the same time, and that means credih is a mighty good partner; al- though a silent works for you every day, month after month. This bank pays interest on savings deposits compounded twice a year. compound when it is placed "s credit and earns interest puts in. Open Saturday Evenings Use our branch at Ballard ‘Che Scandinavian American Bank Member Federal Reserve Bank By Washington Bank Depositor® Guar Second Avenue at Cherry Street SLEETH ed {in $5,000 automobiles, and that num bers of our starved hill billy farmers are no longer agitated over the mort- | gages on thelr burned-over acres, | “ee ND would I then return to the old frank and honest days, when it was not & crime to crook the sociable elbow nor high treason to |quaff « pint of beer with your meals? | No, sir; I would not, I figure it this way: We are mak- ling no new ones, I don't think any |normal youth will ever acquire @ taste for moonshine, I don't think many girls will be led astmy with raisin brandy. ‘The fevows who are |doing the drinking today are the who got the it in a nics, |friendly bar, where the gang gath ered at the end of the day, and where jevery prospect pleased—except the prospect of going homé, | In time, our generation of @rinkers: will go to their long home, and the will no one arise to take their place. | For ten years we will drink ow secret hooch; for ten years there |be an ocean of graft in the busin ‘for ten years our prohibition law will |neom to the unthinking a mockery, and generally it will be @ jest, but fler that we will erter on a new or- The booze will be rather thoro- jly out of our system, and we will be |sober, not be ise there is no liquor to be had, but because there is no thirst for it. But until the regular drinkers are |laid away, the prohibition law will not be enforced effectively, I care not how honest or how earnest are its enforcers, Indeed, my guess is that the hard er you make it for the bootleggera, the more remance you will cast around the business, I doubt if ten men in a hundred would quaff Seattle moonshine if they had the open opportunity. The human system has too much sense for that sort of polson; but today ft is just hard enough to juire, there is just enough adventure attached to the chore of drinking, to arouse the ambitious and incite the venturous. The history of the booze era in the nation will be like the history of the boore era in Kansas, For a genera- tion after prohibition came, liq was freely—in many towns open sold in Kansas, but in time the old saloon-educated crowd passed away, and boys became men—boys who had never seen a bar nor mingled in a congenial crowd of half-soused asso clates, and those boys didn't drink, BY FORCE AND ARMS Lawyer—You say your wife at tacked you with a death-dealing weapon. What was it? Meek Little Man—A fly swatter, sir—American Legion Weekly. ha | der. _THE BEST COMPOUND INTEREST it partner, Interest is call same as the money one VINGS DEPARTMENT from 6 to 8 o'clock if more convenient w SEATTLE « Deposits Guaranteed Fund of the State of Washington