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

oom and United ‘Press Service onthe of $9.00 per year, to per month; # montha, $1.60; @ months, $2.78; year, ‘of Washington, Outside of the stata Tho per monty By carrier, city, 130 per w and desolation. in powde: ice to ri If punishment reach- | | es not the mind and makes the will supple, it — the offender. ke. Ms e iG JONES' ALIBI JAP BANK STOCK Bilitor Seattle Star; The primary is over, You have been itted, without protest, to do injury you could to Senator by innuendo and false state-| because Mr. Jones said to pay) © Attention to your statements. I propose, now, however, to give! @ chance to correct the false) you may have made upon of your readers. I doubt if have the courage or the sense that will induce you to this letter, but 1 hope you y that gon of Senator Jones, was a in the Sumitomo Bank with the innuendo that nt lawyer and close personal of mine, Mr. Marcel E. Cerf, office is in the Mills building, the incorporators re- d me from my agreement, and d him in my stead. He pur- the ten shares of stock re- by law to be held by a direct- paying in cash therefor par, plus per cent. His connection with bank has, for the last eight been a matter of public rec and has repeatedly appeared in published statements and adver. of the bank. ; that the connection of Mr. EL B. Jones therewith is entirely by of his association with me, t it is a matter with which | Benator Jones has absolutely no con- hection in any way, shape or form ‘ 1 earnestly request, in letter In your next issue, giving the truth the same prominence é: you have given to your false statement about the matter. g IRA BRONSON. First Poet—They had quite a fire 3 in the Gazeteer’s editorial Becond Poet—Goof heavens! My Ite poems probably have been de- troyed. . First Poet—No, the waste baskets Y Mistress—Mercy, Hilda! You _ W™iustn’t clean the plates with your An Empire in the Making _ Thru the dust, and the sagebrush, and the loneliness, you go on—mile after “mile, mile after mile! Nota tree, not a green thing. Nothing but prairie dogs Millions of acres, parched gray under the boiling, relentless sun! i |) of human life save here and there the wreck of a shack, half buried in the shift- ‘ dust—mute monument to some hardy pioneer who had flung his ature—and lost! No sign A picture of the Sahara? No. A picture of Eastern Washington, Eastern Oregon and Northern Idaho—a night’s ride from Seattle. And under the dust lie millions of acres of soil as rich as that of the Nile valley. Millions of acres _ would bear food enough to feed the nation, —If there were water on it! And America and the world are short of food. The picture is not peculiar to the Northwest. There are other vast reaches in the United States where dust and desolation reign because there is no water. It was for the purpose of changing this desolation into productivity that the Northwestern Reclamation League was formed last week in Seattle. Seattle and the West realize how vital is the necessity of | getting water to America’s deserts with all speed. But neither the people of the East nor the men who con- trol the needed capital have had the idea “sold” to them, as yet. Until they are made to see that their future pros- perity depends largely on irrigation, the thing can not be “put across.” The new league proposes to “sell” them and to “sell” con- |' gress, already partially converted to the idea but disposed .| to dilly-dally in its characteristi¢ way. Irrigation, as now contemplated, is a greater undertaking |than was the Panama canal. And it is fully as important to the nation, Wherefore the Northwestern Reclamation League has undertaken a hefty job. The league has gone about its job in @ business-like way, however, and it will, no doubt, be a vital factor in stirring the nation to action. The Star wishes it well! ° ° Speeding the Mail Service The Star certainly appluuds the efforts of railway mail officials to jeg up mall service between here and San Francisco. It needs speed ing Up. But why, Particularty, San Francisco? ‘Why not speed it up between here and Tacoma and between here and Spokane? Seattle might as well be in Alaska as far as*mall communication with these two neighbors is concerned. Often it is from three days to a week from the time a piece of mail starts from Spokane until it arrives here. And the lapse is almost as bad between here and Tacoma. Mr. Burleson’s department certainly has bogged down badly tn these parts! * * Brains and “Intelligence,” “brains” of .“ability” must be @istingtiished from in formation, knowledge or ing. Indeed, some one has defined « Pedant as one who “has got rid of his brains to make room for his learning. * Ordinarily, school examinations test information along particular Iinea. But the “intelligence tests” which Reychologivts invent are intended to Measure brains—not learning so much as the capacity to learn. And if they include questions about authors, this is simply because ft has been found that bright people pick up more general information than dull ones. General information, however, is only one of several indica- tions of intelligence which such lists measure and tn the tests it is not Valued for itself but only as a sien of intelligence. Since intelligence or brains is different from information, t in mis. leading to talk of the, “intelligent” classes when one means the educated classes, or, perhaps, ‘even only the prosperous clases, for tho it usually takes brains to get an education or to make a fortune, bad luck may keep a brainy person out of either. It ts the business of a college to give an education to thom who are fitted to receive it, regardless of class But certain kinds of educa- tion demand preliminary knowledge. One cannot study engineering without mathematics, and so a certain! amount of Greek, Latin and mathematics was neceamary for those who would enter an engineering collefe; and in the same way a certain amount of Greek, Latin and matematics was necessary for those who entered a college in which these were the main subjects taught. But there are many subjects taught In the colleges today which do not require such preliminaries | One can learn much about biology, chemistry, sociology, and pxycholory without special training along any given We if he only has the brains And so various colleges are beginning to admit students to their work without a high school training at all, if they can pans the mental tests that show that they really have the brains, even tho they have not done the conventional work that high schools demand. This is sensible and democratic. Must Snakes Live? Humane officer in Winnipeg, Canada, complained because the owner of a boa constrictor was feeding live chickens to the snake Reptile’s owner sald boa constrictor wouldn't eat dead chicken, so must have living dinners. Judge dismissed the complaint. Boa gets live chickens. It seems very important, in Winnipeg, that snakes be coddied and catered to. Wherein Winnipeg ts all wrong. If boa constrictors won't eat dead chicken, why not cut up the snake and let live chickens eat it? Why worry about t a spake likes or disiikes. One live chicken (of fried, for that matter) is worth a million snakes. Hardware Down in West Virginia, where the coal barons reign, there has been considerable trouble. People have been killed, miniature war, so to speak. In one coal mining district the chief of police came upon a stranger. | For a stranger may be an outside; Of strangers they are suspicious. labor organizer (disliked by the mine bosses) or a combination of private detective and gunman (disliked by the mine workers), So they question strangers. . “What might your business be?” inquired the chief of police. “I'm @ traveling man,” replied the stranger. “And what does your firm deal in?” “In hardware,” grimly «miled the stranger, “And what is your firm's name?” “Baldwin-Feltz.” The hardware in which Baldwin-Feltz men deal is the sort that spits fire and bullets in labor strikes, and often adds to labor troubles that crimson dye humans call blood. But there is this to say im behalf of the Baldwin-Felz men: They wouldn't deal in such hardware if the coal barons were not. well paying The H. C. of Lumber Present prices of lumber, declares the United States forest service, are “ufjustified by production and distribution.” These prices, in March, 9920, had increased 300 per cent at lumber mills over the prices of 1914. Retail prices, during the same period, went up nearly 200 per cent, Evidently the lumber mills and dealers took full advantage of the house shortage and the nation's efforts to catch up with that shortage. | It was this, and similar hold-ups of other building materials, prevented the country from coming to a solution of the problem, which The campaign may warm up aa the weather gets cool, Candidates Hart and Black won't croys Bridges tf they can hemprtt, It's @ long walk from the Russian steppes to the Danzig corridor, That suggestion about Maxim silencers for corn on the cob ts a good one, Loutevitle haa the first bank run entirely by women, A real rival of the lisle bank, that’s afl right, ma'am; @ dirty ene—Karigaturen The BolahewtiA are again talking of ousting five members of the New York legislature who were elected by a majority vote of their districts, dwelling | | WHEN I GET I WANT UCH is LIFE! TODAY'S BEST BET: Brace up!) Borrow some money and be some body. ' cee PROBABLY A DARN LIK While Halveron Banka, Mt. Eria Can. was fishing, he took a nap ‘enune the fish were not biting. He woke up in the lake. Big fish had) dragged him overboard. Nope, didn't get the fish. Fish didn’t get the! man, either, eee SCHOOL HAS STARTED “fay, Ma, don't you want yard raked?” Yo, I guens that can walt until ning.” “Hadn't I better stay home and do | some work in the gurden?” “No, it looks like rain today.” cee the | ov eee ACCOMMODATING “Tm in @ great Murry,” sald the bald-headed man as be climbed into the barber's chair, “Can you cut my hair if I leave my collar on? “Sure,” replied the barber, as he glanced at the shiny dome; “even if you hixl your hat on.” eee It te not pride of ancestry, Tt is not pride of race ‘That puts a dress of haughtiness On Mra. Rowland’s face. “Tis true that at the common folk She does not even look, But well she may be proud today, She has another cook, } eee Charles Hattie, Pittsburg, Pa, te & great stickier for accuracy. The other day his wife had him tn | police court. She testified that he! hadn't worked for 14 years, “Judge, that statement ts not true,” Hattie exclaimed... “It's an insult for that woman to stand there | and say such @ thing. It has been only-—let me nee—12 years since I stopped working.” eee Sam’s tenchers think he's brainiens And bis parents quite "heres That his intellect im stainiess, No one could know leas than he. But his comrades round him sitting, Them, his cleverness intrigues, For he knows what each man't hit- ting In both the major leagues, cee WHATS THE PASSWORD? Doctor Frank CRANE’S | Daily Article (Copyright, 1990) A Dangerous Man. Says Work Is Fun. He Produces. And Doesn't Agitate. There is @ young man in this town to whom something ought to | be done. He seems to be going trom bad to worse. We can see his finish, Some day he will become a capitalist, one of | thore parasites that live on the | labors of the poor. Worse, he will be bourgeois, THe has no sympathy with the down- | trodden masses, He in too occupied jattending to his own businens | Instead of helping to reform the | world he ts busy reforming himself. | Me is working in a store and do- ing hin bert to injure his fellow| G | workers, Uecause he is always on! |hand before he is expected, does | more than he t# paid for doing, and works after hours to help his cruel ‘employer along. He has no clans consctousness. He la not feel the proletariat. The | blame fool thinks not only that he | is as good am anybody else, but that AO nw | anybody elxe in an good as he He thinks all men are fair. He i» all wrong, because he doen not think he ts oppressed. He actu jaily thinks this is a pretty good | world, and anybody can get along | if he will play the game according to the rules, | He ts so benighted that he con- |widers all this talk of capital and |!abor, with a big C and a big Ly in| |bunk. He ways he in a capitalist | | because he has $400 in Liberty | bonds, and he expects to be @ labor. er as long as he lives, In fact, the more capital he gets the more he expects to work, be-| enuse work ie fun. The fool likes it. Ho is not working toward repeal- ing the wicked and tyrannical pro-| hibition law, because he says that a» far as he can see it is a good thing. He ts pounding awny every day at improving himself. He is not satis fled with having graduated from college, but is golng on with his studies. He even talks about them when he goes to see his girl. She is as bourgeois he. Inter ented in minding her own business | and doing ber best, ‘and they will) probably have a number of children, | and thos add to the ranks of the} dangerous clasnes. He lUkes the accursed wage sys- tem, and says all that is the mat- ter with it ls that he wants more wages, He ix considered by some to be a poor fish, as be will not play poker for money, nor bet on the races, nor join the boys tn the back room over the Uterary club ts meeting quite often at Bjones, tan't it? Friend Hubby—Yes, I admit ft, but we don't disturb anybody. The/ meetings are held in the basement. eee TEN DOLLARS NEEDED Mra. Benham-—The doctor wants to try the X-raya. Réenham—He will have to wait un- ti I raise the X. eee C. Chaplin banks more each week) for tossing lemon plea than W.| Shakespeare collected for a year's) production of words that never can| die ‘There's no such thing as @ day of reat in the life of George L. Coombe. | He mys he's sure his wife spends| most o& her time each week figuring | out bow she can keep him busy all day Sunday, From the time he gets! up until he goes to bed at night it's) just one thing after another, “If I| ncaa my men at the shop half as|® bottle, The reason he givy for (meaning the! thle i» Irritating, He says he hard as my bosg.does i the! Rita on f them would be « wife) every one o es u! He te ty going to w AS IT SEEMS T0 ME DANA SLEETH Y BON, ones I was young and now I am old, but never have I seen the righteous driver imprin oned nor his friends beg ging for ball money. Thene three beware of, my son the messenger boy on a bicycle, the child on ® coaster and the beautiful woman in a hurry, The rain cometh to the just and the unjust alike, but he who puts on wkid chains lives long in the land and i buried with bins fathers, Broad in the way, and smooth, out ide the city, but 30 m. p. h. is an abundance, Ketter @ flivver that hite on all four than a twin that misses, A little driving i# a dangerous thing, and a traffic cop is a dear teacher, but many fool drivers will learn of no other. eee SUPPOSE that every citi- hundred thousand miles has passed thru about the same evolution that I have. For the firet 10,000 he hesitated, he was imposed on, he came upon the highway with a contrite spirit, and ventured upon the busy streets with trembling. And then for the next 20,000 he krew bolder and bolder; he became a “real driver,” one of those drivers that makes corners on two wheels, and climbs hills on bigh, and hog: bit more than "half the road, and) beats the crossing signal, and puts a siren whistle on the motor and shrieks over hill and dale, And then, some day, somebody doern’t give him all the road, or a rear axle breaks while doing a curve at 35, or he comes to end some dark night at 25 and avi-| ates into @ caayon, or starts the en- gine in gear some morning when he is cranking it by hand, or something, and when the last bandage is remov- ed and the last bone has knit he slowly tearns to drive all over again and becomes @ sane, courteous, care- ful driver, who does his 25,000 miles @ year without having @ cross word spoken to him by anybody and with- out his engine missing an explosion. eee HIS is almost a certain test of the driver's experience —that he stops and offers his help when you are stalled. ‘The new driver imagines that he will never be without @ spare tube, that’ bis transmission will always transmit; that he will never lack abundant gasoline and oceans of oi} and water; but the driver who has clamped bis tired hands around the drives, and who has at eventide blown ‘out his last tire, or cracked a spark plug, or developed a radiator leak, Bolshevik in leas than a week.” + eee Ty Cobb, ft may be added, has made more money playing baseball than the U. 8. A. ever paid to any president during his entire term in the White House eee Moral support ts af some people ever have to offer, and you can't hock that “Inatend of agitating be ts produc ing. 1 fe trying to make good. natured. eee “Hey! yelled Nero at his faithful) attendant, “chase out and blow seme}! wind into the tires so I can take a! him now and be done with it? In Russia. of remaking the world he|sentility to be He ts actually cheerfal and good | motorist Why not take htm out end hang | “nd late, when They manage these things better|serves honorable have bestowed, he returns it. I consider the truest test of innate stop for an hour release hole; to do this ing down at twilight; great golden books of high hea Duneh of the boys to the baseball game this afternoon.” Then flivvering round to Aptus Claudius’ house he picked up the} gang and motored out to the sta-) dium where the Rome Togas were playing the Carthage Wildcats, | It was coming back from that) fame that Nero got so peeved at the) old-tumers who continued cluttering | up the roads with their chariots, | “I'd like to get rid of every chariot in Rome," he told Ap Claudiva, | “Rurn ‘em up,” he suggerted. } | “Ry golly! That's a good idea,” | chuckled Nero. i) That night Rome blazed, and L chariots couldn't get out fast enough. | a a “Wqual rights at the potla t# but ||! half a victory,” insists Mrs, Henri-|]/ etta Blinks, who wants to know) when there'll be @ law compelling || the domineering male to leave the |) Friend Wife—It seems to me that FOR TWO WEEKS Peter Cowan, of 24131 Fourteenth Avenue, visited the Beriault Free Scalp Clinic every day except Labor Day treated with HAIR-Bitters. When he came there first on August 31, his scalp was cracked and raw from extended over one of his ears. Mrs. Keifer, the skilled operator in charge of the tion of his scalp was such that it would take time and persistent treatment, to relieve him. He came faithfully each morning the clinic was open. On September 15 he received the last treat- ment. Every trace of the His scalp was clean and in “Are you satisfied?” he was asked. “TI certainty am,” was the reply. “You can quote me any way You couldn't put It too strong. you wish. if I didn’t permit others to know for me.” This instance {lustrates the careful treatment given people who bring thelr hair troubles to the obligation, no publicity, unless, like Mr, Cowan's case, consent is freely given. If you prefer to apply HATR-Bitters at home it can be bought at leading drug stores, or your hair dresser or barber wif apply it BERIAULT'’S FREI Bartel Drug Westlake family flivver home three days a_ week. BACK OF THES GARDNER COM PANY STANDS OVER A THIRD OF A CENTURY or succeses- FUL BUSINESS and Sundays, and was a skin affliction that even clinic, told him the condi- eruption had disappeared. & normal condition, T'd be mighty selfiah what your HairBitters did Clinic, It is absolutely free—no WHO REPAIRS AN! EK SCALP CLENIC Store No. 6 and Pine RCARZ “IT SPEAKS FOR ITSELF*” CLAIMS ARE EASY TO MAKE—WE WANT YOU TO TALK TO THE GARDNER OWNER—THAT IS THE PERSON CAN TELL YOU FRANKLY ABOUT THE LOW TIRE, GASOLINE AND OIL BILLS—INFREQUENT iD SATISFACTORY SERVICE. THE GARDNER MOTOR CoO., nc? ST. Louis, U. S.A. Shields-Livengood Motor Co. q 1024 E. Pike St. Seattle, Wash. ven who has driven his| Phone East 100. But I have had total strangers 60 this for me. When in trouble, only the shiny, new care flash past with- out an offer of help. . ° LSO, I find that just as most of the true charity is given by those who them nelves are poor, so the — flivver owner usually may be depended upon to be gracious, while the aristocrats of the road, es pecially those favored ones who travel in great inclosed cars, with smartly uniformed young men at the wheel, these high-bred folks usually keep going. With the babes in the woods abroad, it is desirable that expert drivers come to the rescue, for it is amazing how many undertake long auto tips who have not the slight est conception of mechanics, Recently 1 saw a big town car stranded 20 miles from the nearest garage, because the woman driving did not know how to change a tire, and a friend visited me this summer who had driven from Southern Call- fornia, and he confessed that if the car had ever failed to start, or had suddenly stopped, his ingenuity’ would have been exhausted when he had stuck a stick in the gas tank and discovered he had gas left, That the brain of man can design & self-propelling vehicle that will | travel for days on days without hes- |Itation and without its driver having the slightest conception of what |makes the wheels go round proves | that man is a wonderful animal, A In one of the towns of Oregon, cat fish are used to help clean clogged sewers. } | | making an immediate vis- ft to us, Only by @ thorough ex- amination of your eyes can you know if you are being handicapped. 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