The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 24, 1920, Page 13

Be ge PLANES T0 ANNIHILATE DISTANCES Monster Machines to Travel 250 Miles an Hour; Cross U. S. in 20 Hours SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. %4— _ Monster monoplanes with wings six feet thick, and a speed of 250 miles @n hour night and day, will soon over the United States in a net work of aerial mail routes, reaching every city and hamlet. Mails will cross the continent in Jess than 20 hours where it now takes five days or more. _ Railway mail cars will be scrap Bed, and slow mat) steamers will way to air cruisers crossing “the Atlantic in a few hours. Aerial ‘mail routes will be established from _ the United States to to Europe and South America. ES People living in San Francisco will receive mail from London in q ~ Sambed days where now it takes three weeks. & COME IN ‘TE FUTURE ‘This is the studied and confident Prediction of Colonel John A. Jor- } dan, superintendent of United States mail, based on developments made in the recently transcontinental sky post And it is due in the immediate | - future, practical, certain, says Col Jordan. Representatives of the U. S. post the Orient, | | | being sent to Europe to/ Gordon Bennett cup race. 250 miles an hour is ex » and the best features h plane will be embodied in a es to carry Uncle Sam's ich planes, he says, will never night or day, in any weather thousands of planes will be em-/ Perhaps not for five years will the, plans of Colo: associates be fully realized. But already plans are completed to have Steamers leaving New York for Ev Fope om one day reach port with tH aoes ‘mail leaving America two days after) “sailing, in planes with enormous cruising radius, They will | alongside and transfer mail the steamer is under way. Gigantic air cruisers will traverse the United States with safety and) | mpeed as yet undreamed of by any but the initiated while “As yet we have only scratched | the surface,” says Jordan. “But we ave vision. We'll batter away enough to show what can be done, then the youngsters of 21 whom we are training will carry on our work. ) We'll impart to them what we know 7 and will save them years. We're only pioneers. “To us will go only the eatisfac- tion of having pointed the way.” Plays Golf; Then. Dies; Heart Fails Marcus E. Wells, prominent Seat- clubman, was stricken with trouble while driving home @ game of golf at the Country} | dub yesterday afternoon and died | before a doctor could be reached. He / was 50 years old and had showr no * symptoms of the disease. He survived by bis widow, Mra. Anna 1227 Bellevue court, and , in Denver. The body is iy the Butterworth undertaking es- it. t Men to Fight High Taxes The Apartment House Owners and Managers’ association of Seattle will © enlist the aid of their tenants to re. ) uce the rate of taxation here, it was decided at a meeting held at the “Chamber of Commerce Thursday eve-| ning. A committee fram tbe associa- will attend the budget hearing J of the city council Friday in the in re _ of lower taxation. "And Don’t Take Any Souvenirs LONDON, Sept. 24.—The following " notice to visitors has been placed on the porch of Friston church, near| Rcsthource: “In leaving open this fancient church, it is requested visit ‘ors should treat it with reverence. It js not a place for smoking, deposit- fng cigaret ends and patches, pic nicking, impromptu concerts, or noisy conversation.” I | Hey, Kids! BY JACK CARBERRY GLEN ROSE, Tex., “— yw does that boy of yours like his sher by this time? x he lives in Somerville county, ‘exas, he'll, say! jee, dad, but it's 4 to go to school If hie tives anywhere elxe—but that ian’t the story For in Somerville county, Texas, lives the only teacher beloved by ev ery pupil. He's Judge William A ‘Muse, county superintendent of pub- “Wie instruction. Among the things he does for his pupils are: Gives every school in the county plete basketball outfits for the and full football and baseball ) outfits for the boys. Sept Jordan and his| ride | j } boy who can beat his record? ASHBURNHAM, Mass, Sept. —This New England village boasts of having “the best boy in Amer-| ica.” | He is Wesley Sheldon, 12 years |old, who lives with his parents on| | farm at the edge of town. Wesley has just beaten all the of Worcester county making bread. Culinary experts of the Worcester county farm bureau. awarded him the prize over a large | Meld of entrants HERE'S WHAT HE DID IN THREE MONTHS | Made 58% loaves of bread girls Did 76 hours of housework. | Spent 48 hours running errands for his mother In addition to this he found time to: Deliver 124 papers nightlx Go to school. Make a cake or two and some timeg biscuits. ‘Wash dishes, Shovel snow. Play baseball. | his bicycle. | Go swimming frequently. | Despite his housewifely talents Wesley is all boy, red-headed in 19] dakings. | | “Take long rides thru the hills dal Does Best Boy in U. S. Live Here? New “England ‘Challenges Nation! Here are a few things America’s so-called “Best Boy” can and does do, mM IS AMERICA’S BEST BOY IN THIS CITY? One of the WORST boys in America has been found in Seat tle. Now let's find the BEST boy. Is your boy a better boy than Wesley Sheldon, aged 12, of Ash burnham, Mass? If you think he is, or if you know of a better boy, send his picture and the facts about him to the editor of The Star. Let's show these New Englanders a thing or two. than any of the neighborhood sand. lot bail players CELEBRATES BIRTHDAY WITH REAL ADVENTURE I met the champion br just as he was leaving ho Fitchburg, a neighboring s but the second time he there, so the trip had the spect of adventure. He waa cele brating his 12th birthday. Wesley's longer |been confined to nty seat town. peen have the journeys two trips to jfreckled and full of pep. He can | twist a curve over the platter better “The last time I went all by my self,” he said proudly. Has Seattle a Bread making, ae a boyish nc complishment did not neem strange to Wesley. “Another boy, Elsworth Prouty, of Ashburnham, wop the champion: | ship last year. [ thought if he| joould do ft, I could, So 1 had; | mother teach me.” | Wesley and the former cham pion beat all girls in their neigh | borhood in the tryout for Worces | ter “county's team. They lost in| the State contest to a team of girls | from, Franklin county. That was they hadn't practiced to | wetter enough, Wesley explained. WILL BE ENGINEER |OR MAYBE EDITOR | ery boy ought to make bread,” Wesley declared. “It's easy. Sup-| pose you had no mother. Where'd | |you get your bread then?” Wesley i» raving money to pay for four years at college. He's in | the eighth grade now at Dolly Whit- |ney Adams school and expects to enter the Cushing Academy at Ash burnham next term, | “I'm going to be an engineer.” he |told me as we reached Fitchburg. | “Altho sometimés I think I'@ like | to be an editor.” | “He's the best boy I've | known,” says Mra. Irene @¥ilcbx of the junior department of | the | Worcester County Farm Bureau. | ever Himself BY ZOE BECKLEY NEW YORK, Sept. 24.—To those returning early from the country | real bargain awaits, He is a husky youth of 22, States navy, and awaits purchasers in his modest hall rom 23 W | 37th st, | Note carefully the address, and | emi| early, for he is an unusual offer ing, sound in wind and limb, po sessed (he admits it himself), of a good disposition, a fine intelligence and an edu been absorbed in the course of much ju nd worldly experience, Jack Hardy, for that is the dashing name of the latest claimant to a place on public auction block, re ceived me ‘cordially in the top floor 9x11 in which he is ta present inten sively living. “What,” | ide: I began, “is the exact set of jacks, a rubber ball and a doll. on for Every boy gets tops, thr marbles, with four good “aggle a ball bat. 1, from which a child at- |tends school, gets six children’s books, a game of authors, a set of dominoes and a checker board. | ) school he offers athletes ( very girl gets » jumping rope, a and having a few thousand handy, a} just out of the United) ation which has mostly | | this Young Man Offers For Sale for Only $3,000 -,” die Jack, “no |e Ho nce nowadays with out he's got money. It would take me years to earn $3,000. And I've got to have At least $3,000 as a little donation to @ certain lady that was kind to me. Not that she needs it But L want to do it, that’s all.” it,” I suggest nucist than a had “But would she t ed, being leas a rom practical soul, “knowing you yourself to get it?” “Well, she wouldn't know it comes from me, would # Doesn't she read the newspa- pers?” | “Welyl, euppone she did see some: | thing about dt! She couldn't send it| | back once to her.” Hardy that he much of a ladies’ man. Thi pashed | me, as I had been thinking Mr, Har ja 1 out to thousands of my rare opportunity gor nionable hust sirla?” I protente nes is not acquirin Not fond of vd How’s This Man for a Teacher? | Twelve other prizes are offered in each school for efficiencies in actual school work. The judge of $2,000 from the county. in addition to 500 out of hi 0 children elves a yearly salary He uses an appropriation 4 own pocket, for of $1 a boy myself once, urgently, Mr. Hardy blushed. , “It's simply,” he explained, “that I've been too busy knocking round the world to pay attention to women —sertously. “This offer of myself for sale ts genuine, and anybody that meets me} 50-50 on it is going to find me| straight and honorable, and more than ready to do my share, I want | money to pay back whad regard as a mora] obligation, I don’t want noth ing for myself except food and clothes and a couple of theatres a week, and a few boxes of smokes.” Anyhow, here he ig ladies and gen tlemen, offering his capital of youth, health, amiability, honor and general capacity for returning “value re: | * far a consideration. Line forms to the left Don't crowd, And, remember, the early | checkbook catches the bi ain, |And a Good Sleep Was Had by All | CORBIN, Ky., Sept. 24.—In re-| | ma ained for Miss Ret con, Booker | fo spring something new” in’ the party She entertained with a slum-/ Anna Edlin of Blattkets were | Lillian Tay | } line. ber party for Miss New Albany, Ind a. | spres ad for Misses Edlin, lor, Josie Taylor and Mau¢ jfirst that if I could promote real SOME RECITATION! and 1 to think of school | 5,” the olme to al lomerville county any ideas when I means to prevent it my “I'm not ter in judge young nays. w any such have the “When I go from school to school on trips of inspection I never ask the boys to recite for me, What I want to see ts a ball game. to harbor | | | rville’s schools I'd be Americans out of the in Som better sport making tudents. “It has ceased to be theory now—it is fac “The pupils are all healthy. They | are interested in their work, and their schools. They learn faster than | “It was just @ theory with me at| children who do not play properly.” "EASY TERMS: GIRL GUILTY OF BURGLARY Accused of Robbing Cc. B. Hudson Home Superior Judge King Dykeman has deferred sentence in the cane of May Golden, 22, found guilty Thursday by a jury after three hours’ deliberation of burglary in the second degree, The complaint insued against the girl charged her with entering the dwelling of ©, B, Hudson, 1120 How- ell #t, on August 17, with intent to commit robbery, The state in its case brought out the fact that she was arrested about ‘a mile from the scene of the robbery When confronted by a police officer she is said to hay fled and was found & few minutes later lying in a dark Alley, She is said to have had a ring in her podsession identified aa one which had been taken from the Hud son home. E. C. Hyde, attorney for the girl, moved for an acquittal after the | state had completed tts chse. The court denied this and then the de fenne closed its case without offering & witnens, Assistant Prosecutor John Car mody conducted the prosecution, Baby Drops Into the Noodle Soup BAN FRANCISCO, Sept, 2%4.— Young Maxwell Hess, 3 years old, knows what it means to be in the soup. His father Julius threw him high into the air, and when he came down he landed in a kettle of noodle soup. His burns weren't serious, Tommies Throw Boche Guns in River LONDON, Sept. 24.—For the’ see ond time within a fortnight, ex-sol dlers in the Cheviot village of Wool- er have thrown a German gun tnto| \opinion. Soon, he says, he will tell the Tweed, in the presence of a large and cheering crowd. Frequently a man is honest be cause he in afraid to be dishonest, M. A. GOTTSTEIN FURNITURE CO. Barney Baruch Goes TOPEKA, Kan. Sept. u“— Kansans, alded and abetted by Bar- ney Baruch, are trying to find the cat that's getting the cream. In other words, the hands taking too much tol] between the producer and consumer. They want to know why so many farmers can't make @ living profit producing food which is costing city folk #o dearly. Baruch has an idea: Cat Is Licking Up the Cream?” ‘armers, too, hold to that idea, But none of them are quite sure what cat it is, or where the cat hides. “Thin cat gets the cream, tn fat years and lean,” Baruch and the farmers my. “If it weren't for the cat's enormous appetite, producers would get more for the food they raise, and consumers would pay less for what they eat.” Baruch got first-hand experience in the high cost of distribution as a member of the war industry board. It dawned upon him that something was getting the cream of pfoduc- tion, It wann't, he learned, the pro- ducer. Nor was it the consumer. Kansas fasmers suggested to Baruch, in Wall Street, that he come out and get on the trail of the cream-taker. ‘That's how and why Barney came to Kansas. He went up one side of the state and down the other, criss crossing between, always on the trail) of the cream-loving cat. He talked with farmers, and with) those who bought farm products at| local elevators and warehouses. He found the leak somewhere between the farm gate and the consumer's mouth, Somewhere something ts getting the cream. Farmers insist the cat is none other than the mid- dieman. Baruch hasn't given his whone cat it is and suggest methods of belling the cat so consumers and producers may know when it comes near. All Over Kansas on Still-Hunt for Cat Now the funny thing is to be noted. Everybody agrees the cat is getting the cream. has talked) with farmers, millers, elevator men, profiteers, railroad magnates, retailers, commission men and bankers, They all agree that the cat in getting the cream, and every mother’s son of them insists he isn’t the cat. Nevertheless the cream is miss ing, It is there when the product leaves the farm, as the lean profits of the farmers prove. It is gone when the product appears at the consumer's kitchen door, as the high prices prove, “I'll find that cat, if I have to spend the rest of my days on the job,"" Baruch declared to a bunch of Manhattan, Kan. farmers. When he has gathered all Kansas evidence he's going to Manhattan, N. Y., and there in Wall Street, continue on the trail of the cat. , “The technical name for this cat,” observed Baruch, “is ‘distribution,’ but ft has as many names as the feline has lives. Some call it trans portation, others marketing system, and still others refer to it as storage, speculation, etc.” Finding the cat is merely Bar- ney’s way of telling that he is mak- ing a strenuous effort to solve the nation’s food distribution problem. He's going to learn why a farmer gets $9 for the wheat in a barrel of flour, and the flour eaters pay $29; why potato eaters have to pay five and six times as much as the potato grower gets for the potatoes he digs out of his farm. Infant Hurled From Window by Father EDINBURGH, Scotland, Sept. 24. —After killing bis baby son by | throwing him from a window into the street, Samuel Fraser jumped from the window himself and dicd from his injuries. Open 9 to 6 Every Day (Closed in Daytime) Bj, ne alm oe inv Te ech EASY TERMS famous square duplex BUCK'S popular mica door or coal h lar} for blast draft 30 per cent in t 7 ers wood fuel cost, ‘Sunbeam” shape— scientific burns all gases, saving (Open at Night) Special $32.75 ($1 Down—$1 Weekly) Saturday, Sept. 25 Only Don’t Miss This Opportunity to Own An Extra Bed We are releasing this popular Couch at such an unusual special in order to permit more space in our display rooms. 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E., opened by the custodian several of the auditor's deputies, Wardall is said to have the opening of several machines, declared that the act of only the back did not, in bis tion, constitute tampering. He clared that in the past this had done before to clear up confusion: the voting. see a girl that looks like she common sense spooning a little the right kind of a fellow, I turn my head,” says Miss Kaufman, probation officer “but so few of them have good | and so few of the men are the kind. We oughta have some patrols in the parks.” Even a Lawyer W sweet DAYTON, Ohio, Sept. 34.—H, Kreitzer, attorney, is still holding breath. He returned to his car: found a not eon the steering reading as follows “Your fender is bent. Call me up at Malm 6883 and I'll fix it for you. Tt wad an accident and I haven't time wait.” Era many & woman has paid for a «? ! 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