The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 9, 1920, Page 6

The Seattle Star out of otty, S80 per momen mm the Rtate of Washington. J monthe, 61.60) © months, $2.78: year of Ovt tase tor 8 montha ce 00.08 per year. The Maternity Bill “Every effort of the lobbying committee of the League of Women Voters at this se ssion of congress w Lace esti i is how Mrs. Maud Wood Park, chai — UCH is LIFES Today's Best Bet: Secretary Hous ton made as big a hit with bis income tax plans as a chicken im a worms’ @onveo tion! eee Dita read HL. 1. Philip “Tue Lawes” yesterday? Hore are some ore, Mebbe Phillips is kidding, but by all hemlocks and little totem polea there are some sanctimonious ents who'd like to make us quit Breathing and everything on Sunday Anyhow, here are some more of the things that Phillips sees is Likely to Bappen in the Blue old days 1. Laughing will not be counte- Banced under any circumstances he Babbath, The Blue Laws com mittee of enforcement is very self conscious and might misinterpret the | 2. No funny stories shoukt be toxt | except to the chairman of the Blue Laws governing board. } % It shall be {legal for any per gon to speak to a baseball player, actor or dancing teacher on Ss And any one found in convers with a movie picture promoter shall be sent to the ducking stool 4 No home brew shall be planned, | “etarted, completed or discussed on Sunday. But all persons having any @n hand shall call up the Blue Laws ) enforcement committee; the mem. bers carry their own cups. eee ‘Wen, gals. only 23 days more left Wor Leap Year popping, and Hank | ‘Clay is stil) unattached! eee | A word from Josh Wise: “Nobody ‘Fells Ouch? when somebody else's | orn is stepped on.” eee ‘The test popular cocktail fn Roe tom is made of sweet spirits of niter. | | | That might go in a town Like Boston, | but it would hardly go in Lexington Memphis or Atlanta, where the folk | to kick when the barkeep failed put In enough carbolic acid _ If you are lonety and desire a | Bachelor husband, 68, and will give “fe $20,000 at marriage to care for you during life, kindly reply. Your ithdeen and money if we do not sult Gambling, sys Judge Landis, has ‘Smjured the baseball sport. Even ao | 350,000 salary doesn't show the judge : is any difference between the » baseball sport apd the baseball busi nee, eee ~ ‘Untversity of Washington has bar | ‘Fed the shimmy. It's out of date, eee ‘The army te advertising for musi and the ads state that men will taken whether they can play or ‘The world is full of bands com- posed of such men. eee William A. Pinkerton blames the T Wonea and autos for crime in the | “United States, We can remember | }has all he or she wants to | band, ill be bent toward getting the Sheppard-Towner bill rman of the National League of Wo- men Voters, expressed her opinion of the importance }of the measure popularly known as the maternity bill The aim of this bill is to give medical protection to thousands of mothers and children, especially those located in rural or isolated districts, who can- not otherwise secure it. But to give immediate protection, congress must pass the | bill this year. If it is not passed before January, 1921, a great majority these mothers and babies will continue without aid for two more years. This is because the legis- latures of more than half the states in the Union hold ses- sions in January, 1921, and not again until 1923. In order to gain the benefits provided by the Sheppard-Towner bill, each state must appropriate an amount of money equal to that expended by the federal government. If the bill is passed after a state legislature has adjourned for two years, the mothers and children of that state must be deprived of aid until the legislature is able to make its appropriation at the next session. Everyone who is anxious to lend his influence to the pass- age of this bill should write to his congressman at once. Overproduction ‘The country ts undeniably in a business slump. Unemployment t srowing. Factories are going on short time, closing, curtailing, Prices in wholesale tinea have fallen materially. Retail prices, tho they have / not followed to any considerable extent, are bound follow, | Why? Why the machinery of production down, creak | and groan and fin come almost to a standstill? “Overproduction,” comes the answer. Europe cannot buy, at former rate, the products of American manufacturers, because cash and credit are exhausted; merchants in America consequently are | becoming people won't buy at high prices; retaliem are | = to high prices; therefore orders are not being re cived at therefore pending industrial distress What is Does it mean that everybody in America ke @ comfortable life? Does it mear of the things that go to make life to does slow her her | overstocked try unload at the factort “overproduction”? that America has “too muec! lvable—food, clothes, houses, amusements? Not at afl The country i* five million honsem short of enowsh foots to keep its people comfortably housed. Millions of men, womer and chikiren, if official reports are to be believed, are living the level of a decent and comfortable existence—are underfed, under clothed. Overproduction tn any real sense dors not extst. is tmability to market goods at a profit: tnability to sell back to the | men and women producers of the country the goods they have pro duced. There ts something wrong with the industrial machinery when all the people cannot get $ aattetentty fed, clothed and housed. What docs exist Discrimination The doublestandard for men and women has been enacted Into law tn at least one instance. In the case of an alien woman, ff she engages In tmmorality within three years after she lands in American, she can be deported for tmmornality. Instances have happened 2 which allen women, unmarried, have become mothers before they were here three years. In some cases the father of their child was an American; in other cases he was an alien In all canes the woman suffers, the penalty being deportation. There is no law to punish an American for his offense, nor is it ponsibie to deport the father of the allen woman's child, even tho he occupy the same legal status as the mother, One instance came to the attention of Immigration officials tn which an American, & married man, had brought « French girt to America who was soon to become a mother by him. The girl was allowed to stay here til the chiki was born and then she was deported. There wes another instance tn which a man and a woman, both aliens, were on their way to Chicago, She was detained at Ellie Island on a charge of immorality and the man was allowed to proceed to Chicago. They bad been married at sea by the captain, but the immigration officials wouldn't respect that ceremony, Finally the bur by enlisting the aid of friends in Chicaga, got his wife ad- faitied to the country. ; : Coal in the Making Peat ts not a familiar fel tn the United Staten More attention is being given to peat pow that tt is realined that coal, | gus and oil fields are not inexhaustible, | Peat is coal in the making. It In| the decaying vegetation which | E SEATT EVERETT TRL T stice LE STAR __By CONDO CONDO tn INSIST THAT at SUGHT To Be PUT, TO 8G PYT ON THO WAXS AND MEANS Comm1tes —— Sa \XouD BEA Fine: BRD! Good INCOME AND ONLY HIMNS GU AND TIGHT- WAD WIFE TO weroRrTt BROKE Begs bdo THE TAME A T BY DR JAMES L VANCK There is really not much fun tn} making yourself miserable. Why pot) be happy? not, it would certainly be more com fortable to others? ' Why «poll the day for the folks at home with your nasty growl? Why unload on your unoffending neighbors your dyspeptic moods and soured expressions of countenance? It would be a fine thing If we would always look as pleasant as we try to look when we are having our pictures taken, It would make a bet ter world. What a pity we cannot” alway be an polite and pleasant as we try to be when we are on dren parade! Even the temporary as sumption of decent moods on our) part produce an agreeable reaction on our own natures. | To laugh and look happy helps one to be happy. Then take off your | frown and throw away your grouch. | This one of the good things | about going out It compels us for/ & time, at least, to give our decent traita the right of way. | Perhaps this is one reason why we are 80 sensitive to the opinions of | others. It is one of nature's ways to keep us livable, For people are not Itrable when | they are off key. Life was not meant to be a discord, but @ har mony. Shut off the lamentation, stop and be cheerful. The world needs an occasional Jeremiah, but he was never meant to monopolize the seats of the prohpets. | Tt le not wrong to be happy. It in Just wrong not to be happy. Therefore, brighten. up, or as the Bible puta it: “Rejoice evermore.” | That means that even when our joys are “three-fourths pain,” the COMMUTT OS FOWL AR CORKECTING fering from AN® ALWATS WiTH A A a: THE pI AGNOSIS 1 nee you've been suf sutointoxtca tion. You got me wrong er I take out my car with me, h a drop then. tow mo 1 never Last year the United States pro | products. Whether it helps you or duced $667,204,000 worth of rubber | city’s combined recreation facilities? | | department. means of bringing down high rents? Why Be Discourage¢ 4 By Whit-Hadley Did You Know That— Cutting told @ friend: “Opportunity is everywhere, but men seem to ‘Oy TODAY'S QUESTION ee What would you suggest mm = BOY tn England had been run over by the curs, and the bright bled spurted from « severed artery. A crowd stood helpless watching ty die, Another boy pushed his way to the #ufferer’s took bia he kerchief out and stopped the bleeding by tying @ hard knot just above t wound ANSWERS MIS, 8. M. WILLIS, 433 12th ave. Home official committee should | The applause and praise he received Induced him to change hin mi ry be appointed to determine a reason-| from being @ cabinet maker to the study of surgery able rate, and its decision should be! Astley Cooper became the foremost surgeon of Great Irita bight years jal nforced."* “ee tn wa “that the story wan t kent for ® moment, I MRS. Rave BURDICK, “ee 11% story of Mhylock and his pound of flesh remained unknown a uninteresting until Shakespeare, thrilled by the moral of it, touch a] Jown, I'll need time to think about b dealt with a girl who, in the dir n of the Acad how to do it.” was sep life in 4 4 “Hawthorne replied to mo," maid the friend, a solution.” and unworthy of serioun effort.” Thinking intently BERTHA the Acadiana. were paying rent I'd just howl” = | MRS. A. J, BUFORD, 1526 tint MIS, EDITH HUBBARD, 622 16th AWTHORNE once dined with Longfellow, bringing = friend ogg ave: “I'm gure of one thing, and I from Balem. After dinner the friend told Longfellow he had that they ought to be brought! trying to Hawthorne to write a story bused on @ legend currel Acadia wh ated from her lover, and passed her ting and MRS, 12. Il, HYINGTON, 6034 16th | ing for him, only finding him later dying in @ hospital when both ave Kc “I haven't looked into | old. the subject and couldn't even sug 1614 | fellow turned to the friend and asked permission to weave the story & a blvd: “I do: sink I can |® poem, This was granted ne er iund wtecestion but Its| Three months later Longfellow produced Evangeline, or the Exile 00d wubject to think about. If 1 = ae Me Red ae ie pon it with his magic pen and transformed it into # realistic drama known m entire world over, a I don’t know.” S See AOR thousmnds of years people had known that any solid tmmerwed fa But they made no use of thin knowledge until Archimedes saw it and p KNOW ABOUT ceived an easy method of finding the cubical contents of objects, b irregular tn shape. He wrote an important book on the subject which SEATTLE? used to this day. is ee QUESTIONS R a thousand years people had known there was such a thing 1. Where is Cedar lake, the source | lightning. It had dazzled their ¢: and the thunder had jarred th og the city’s light and power, | cars since the days of Adam in vain attempt to call their attention situated? | the tremendous power of electricity, yet no one paid practical heed wi 2. Mow much of Seattle’s area tn-| Franklin, by # simple expertment of the lightning rod, proved that cludes water? strange heavenly light is but one manifestation of @ resisess yet a 3. What ft the acreage of the trollable force, as easily handled as air or water. (Answers Friday) eee PREVIOUS QUESTIONS 1 The city lighting department) serves more Utan 63,000 Seattle con | sumera 2. Seattle hae 10 public Mbrarien, visited anhually by more than 1,250, 000 people. 3. Seattle haw one of the mont ef- ficient fire departments in the world lThere are over 600 firemen in the Horlicks 2 Orginal Pood: ‘Braker Aitages | Rio’ RAINCOATS % OFF OVERCOATS For Men, Women and Children We had to come to 4 The public demands lower prices, and so we are actually going to cut the price right in two—no camouflage, no marking up of prices, but a genuine cut from the original prices of 50%. when the biame was put on roller| has filled a lake and turned it Into a bog. There are great peat beds | = mts, Inter bicycles, melodramas.) in this country, some of them tn Michigan and Minnesota. | = a band concerts and dime| The chief difficulty has been to devine @ machine which wil dig | Joy part should lead off. | The GOODYEAR GUARANTEE goes with each and every coat sold. E Blue Rice nearly happened to a cela organs Tuesday, when | @ heel fly bit a mule on the heel and | the mule nearly kicked Plue’s head off —Silver City (N. M.) Enterprise. eee A prisoner tn the Putnam, Conn., Jail escaped by picking five locks. ‘That's a lot of bother, but a bit cheaper than hiring a lawyer. eee Senator Shicids of Tennesnee, 2 @emocrat, is said to be slated for the | Supreme court bench as a reward for | Keeping quiet during the campaign | Whe reward should be greater. eee H. G, Wells writes that the Bol ghevik leaders are trying to teach the people not to expectorate on a/ | floor. Those fellows will go « bit too | far one of these days Middle Age BY EDMUND VANCH COOKE | pony. As it sings it is fii ae = fiddle; Bat half along, ‘Bend an answering song ‘Tht it also is fine im the middia Ne stipend, His wisdom is ripened, Tt hax reckoned all life and ite riddle; Bat we, who are yet In the turmoil und sweat, Find » work and reward in the middle. Rach to each, as we stand, And we join with them middie. (Copyright, 1970, N. EB. 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