The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 10, 1921, Page 6

{ | | ‘The war department reports that the army is short 2,585 second leu tenanta. Now ts the time to enlist, bays! Railroads in Utah have been or dered by the interstate commerce commission to raise fares. And gosh, how they hate t do it! catch has been arrested in New York for stealing two automobiles eee ANSWERED Please tell me what member of a theatrical stock company is never Jate.—R. M. B. Probably the first man whe ewned e My son, who je an dectrictan, was prohibition Aw. What do you suppose will be done with him?— Z im they will a dry cell. De brokers prefer to ride en spe Thomas A. Edison is said to be working on a nutmeg grater to be operated by electricity. Canton flannel tablecioths are the latest fad in society down Exst. Doughnuts can be preserved by keeping them in a jar in which there is enough watergiass to cover them. A parsnip that is too hard can be softened by pinching it with a nut cracker. Moths wil not eat fried onions that have been cooked with gartic AFRAID HELI. LOSE BOTH OF THEM Wanted—Woman to take care of my wife and cook.—Advertinement in Benton Harbor (Mich.) News-Palla- dium. ‘ democracy."——-Dr. Roseell H. Com well, Philadelphia lecturer, ee “The Moorish turban effect is the latest thing in hata in Paris.°— Charles Kurzman, fashion authority, Fifth ave., New York. cee “T am planning to introduce mov- ing pictures into my church work.” —Rev. Dr. Dixon, Hyannis, Maas, oe “My tather’s estate has never reached $1,000,000,000, and has been materially reduced by the gifts he has made.”—John 1D. Rockfeller, jr. | “ee “We are going to have a pertod of from 10 to 20 years, in which there will be normal prosperity.”.—John Moody, president Moody's Investor's Service. The Legislature As Usual, the End of the Session Is Not to Be Regretted OFFICIALLY, the legislature will end its sessions at midnight. There never is any great regret lover the closing of the legislature—and there won't |be any tears shed this time over its passing. : This legislature will pass into history, much like jits predecessors, with some things well done; others that would have been better undone. In the house, |Speaker Guie has been a good influence in the direc- tion of getting action on bills by the membershi whereas in the past many bills have been allowed to die in committee. \Lieut. Gov. “Wee” Coyle has, also taken a forward-lvoking view of this matter. Whatever responsibility there is for the p: or the defeat of bills, it properly belongs to |tire membership this time. However, at its best, the legislative system is jhardly one that is calculated to perform on efficient \lines. Here we have a house membership of 97, most ie en- “!\of whom had never seen each other before, many of |whom. have never had an opportunity to even greet jeach other during the entire term. And there is the |senate with 42: members, who happen to be a bit better acquainted, but not enough so, and who have = a little more time, it appears, to deliberate on legislation. These 139 men in the house and senate are d to transact the business of the state in |60 days to last over a period of two years. The job naturally is impossible. No big business institution would attempt to do business in that way. Yet the legislature is vested with more important powers than any other division in the state. The members can make new laws and kill old ones; they can sub- mit to the — changes in the fundamental laws of the state; yan enact better direct primary laws or they can kill them; they can permit munici- pal ownership or kill it; they can raise taxes and possibly lower them. But in the nature of things, they are not in a position to give much study to anything. No set of 139 men can be plunged into two separate bodies and made to do the business the legislature is called upon to do in 60 days and perform an efficient job. It’s not in the are. Individual legislators have much to answer for. But the system is much more to blame. In the opinion of The Star, a small body of 25 leg- islators, with more time to consider measures, can |do much more efficient work for the state. This | would require a constitutional amendment. It would also require many politicians giving up the oppor- tunity for local honors which come to legislators elected from small areas. Such a chan refore, is always combated—and comba ee. Some day we may view the legislature the viewpoint and the change will be made. But that day is not yet in sight. Some Useless Comment The “controlled” vote of the selfish interests played little part in the election. Honest conservatives naturally were for Carroll and Cohen, but they couldn’t swallow Cotterill. Fitzgerald got most of ’em. Independent voters inevitably were for Fitzgerald, for the same reason that The Star, an independent newspaper, in- evitably was for Fitzgerald—who ought to be mayor now. Most independents also were for Bolton. Among the other candidates, they supported Carroll if they took The Star’s advice, and the returns indicate they did. | Liberal voters (including “conservative labor”) were nor- |mally supporters of Bolton, might have been for Cotterill | but for his reactionary backing; couldn’t swallow Doyle, and voted generally for Fitzgerald, with some votes going to Cohen and Carroll. The radicals, of course, backed Doyle to the limit. They also went for Cotterill, and they might have been expected to rt Bolton, former president of the Central Labor |Council. But Bolton, with more courage than judgment, (assuming that he wanted to be elected), jumped all over Doyle, called him a “red,” told some bitter truths when they couldn’t conceivably do him any good—and alienated the radical vote. The radicals hate Fitzgerald. They don’t like Carroll. They voted for Cohen. This is no reflection on Cohen, of course. It isn’t his fault that a radical bloc, plus his normal conservative strength, put him in the council. Lesson for politicians: Tell the truth, but don’t tell too ;much of it unless ypu want somebody to lay for you with a sharp political dirk in a dark ballot box alley. In the spring a married man's thoughts turn not lightly to the ashes he | ought to have carried out during the winter. True charity is not casting crumbs upon the waters to get loaves back later on. Rhyming with Jap is as far as Yap will get if Uncle Bam has anything to say about it, Maybe there's nothing tm @ mame, but the Rev) F. W. Bible is a Bible mission official at the Bible House, New York. | Tenneaser secs littic to boast about m her average salary to rural school teachers, $258 @ year. | It wont be a kitchen cadiuct, or a tennis cabinet—Harding likes golf too | wel, And now we'll have to solve the annual pennant problem all ever again. THE BLUE LAWS BY DR. WILLIAM E. BARTON Just now there is frequent reference to the “Blue These references are often accompanied by the amertion Puritanical Connecticut, and perhaps in colonies under the Purt tan regime, it laws.” penal day either lely upon a Con It is been @ part of the original law of Connecticut im 163%. to kiss his wife on Sun- wife in public upon the Sabbath; of laws which made it an offense for It is safe to my that no one who makes these af. firmations or allusions has ever done the very simple thing of looking in the nearest general law Ubrary to discover whether there ever were any such laws. There were no such laws, The so-called “Blue Laws of Connecticut” were first published, not in New Haven in 1639, but in London, 142 years later. We know the name of the Mar who invented the so-called “Blue Laws.” statutes were: that in other was @ offense for aman Among his 45 ‘There is, indeed, a “18, No one ehall run on the Sabbath day, or record in the Massa walk in the garden or elsewhere, exoept reverent chusetts courts of a ly, to and from worship. man’s having been ac- “19. No one shall travel, cook victuals, make cused of kissing his beds, sweep houses, cut hair, or shave on the Sabbath-day. “20. No woman shall kiss her child on the Sabbath or fasting day.” but the code a man There was more of this sort, and there were people privately or pub- | in London in 1781 so devoid of a sense of humor that to kins his wife | they believed this nonsense to have been genuine the, Sabbath is | Puritan legislation. supposed to have heen The colonial jaws were admittedly severe, and the mmecticut creation. | Sabbath as there observed wan rigid; but the “Blue assumed to have | Laws” owe their origin to malicious falsehood, and ignarauce. their preservation to umpardonable THE Our needs are regulated by the size uv our bank roll, Speakin’ o° hay, « dish full o° cheap cigaret batts smells like » burnt barn the mornin’ after. Reporter: TODAY'S QUESTION Who was William Howard ‘Tat¥s| running amte in 1908? ANSWERS 8 R BATTENFIELD, 2413 Jack gon st: “Now, you're asking foolish questions.” BEN C. LEVY, 2816 10th ave No “I haven't time to think it up now.” CAL STEWART, 726 34th et: “1 forget now, It's been #o long ago.” HENRY SHEEHAN, 9267 Sind a. §: “I don't know, just now.” KING DYKEMAN, superior court judge: “Let's see now—oh, Hobart, or who was he? Yea, yes, you're right-—Sherman.” @. &—Ile was James & Sherman) ‘Yat Pneumonia te spread both dtrectty and indirectly from person to per- on ‘The germ w probabty carried Most frequently from the lung, nome and mouth of those who have the disrasa In caring for a patient the pre vention of the spread of the disease to others is important. No one should be allowed to asleep in the mime room with the patient. In fact, no one but the nuree should be allowed in the room. Care should be taken that af éis- charges from the lungs, mouth and the nose are collected on bits of faune of rag, or paper napkina, and burned. If the patient complains of head ache and fever, he should be given water to @rink, and a cold com- preas to the forehead. Only such medicine should be given as is pre scribed by the doctor. If the patient is so situated that he can be attended only by some one who must also look after others in the family, it is advisable that jfuch attendant wear a wrapper, Cai Be Bee GS SEATTLE STAR (SETH TANNER) || Secretary of War Is || Farms and Finances He Is Big BOSTON, Mas, March 10/ Here's a tip for those who will have business with John W. Weeks, see retary of war under Harding: if you want to put | genial mood, open your him in a converma or finance. ‘They're his two chief hobbien Weeks “arrived” 62 years ago on a farm at Lancaster, N. HL The first 17 years of hin life were went in milking the cows, and doing the many other chores on his father’s place. : Tiring then of the dreary life in the hills. Weeks got up his “gumption.” packed his scanty be longings tn tag, and fared forth lin search of bidger worlds to con quer. uated tn 1881 navy as a midshipman were suffi cient to show him that he could Never enthuse over seq service, and he resigned. Shortly after he had married Mie Martha Smelair, in 1885, he was made anristant land commissioner for the Florida Southern railroad, and in 1888 became a member of the firm of Hornblower & Weeks, bankers and brokers of Boston. It was not until 1900 that Week» }beran the active political that has engaged him ever since. A resident of Newton, Mass, at that Ume, he campaigned for alder man end was elected. In 1903 he was @mode mayor of the town Rapid strides up the republican political ladder followed. He went to congress in 1905 and }made a name for himeelf as a Jeginintor talented in finance and with a fine mind for details. In 1912 be was sent from the houne to the senate, where he served nti] replaced recently by | David 1. Walsh, democrat. In’ the jnenate he took a prominent part in the debate on the Gias-Owen currency act and on other import ant finance measures, He was long & member of the committee on mi)- itary affaten, Piuecyed, big mentally and Drrynically, with MNeht hatr and square shoulders, Weeks f a man of his own convictions. He has a hankering for the okt farm life and owns a “Were farm tin the New Hampshire hills near the place where he was bern. Muct of bis time (n summer ts there and he ifkes nothing better than to take bis visitors into the fields and give them practical les epent |sons in farming “as it's done in the hil” The secretary ef war ani Mra Weeks have two children, a son and a daughter. Charies Sinciair Weeks, the son, served an & cap tain in the Yankee divixton in Franca. Ho's employed tn a Boston bank. Weeks bas the reputation of betng a plosrer, @ bard worker, quiet, eary-coing, never spectacular worker, But, deepite the fact that [he never becomes ruffied, he has | the ability to “put thingy across.” He was the genera! of the repubii lean forces in New England | Weeks maintains a home in | Washington, and a legal residence in Newton, Mase. Os |apron or gown over the ordinary house clothes while the sick room. and slip this off and wash and dis |infect his hands when leaving to look after the others. The patient should have reparate } dishes, and theee should be steri) ized with BOILING water after use. | Shares of the 14th century had snch long points that the tips had to be tied to the knees to keep the wearers | from stumbling over them. The discovery of silk is attributed to 4 woman. At the first chill! Fever, Stuffiness. Warning! To get Genuine A: BAYER (ox | A Take Genuine Aspirin marked with the ghe may be suf from iron ti Bayer Cross’’ to break up your Cold and relieve the Headache, SANDS OF WOMEN SUFFER FROM THE GREAT DEVITA- spirin, prescribed by physicians for In Harding Cabinet entally and Physically. || Has Reputation as a Hard Worker. President | tion by tatking about elther farms | He entered Annapolis and grad- Two years in the| career | over 19 years, you must ask for ‘“Bayer Tablets of Aspirin,’’ and look for the name ‘‘Bayer’’ on the package and on each tablet, | Always say ‘‘Bayer.’* Each ‘‘Bayer package”’ contains safe and proper directions for | the relief of Colds—also for Headache, Neuralgia, Toothache, | Earache, Rheumatism, Lumbago, Neuritis and for Pain generally. Bayer-Tablets“Aspirin Retes of 12—Bottles of 24—Bottles of 100—Also Capsules—AlN druggists Aaperie wo the trade nurk of Baer Munutactere of Menoaceticacidester of Salicyiicac td Kill That Cold With ats CASCARA 5, QUININE Colds, Coughs ROTA” ' ty Neglected Colds are Dangerous Take no chances. Keep this standard remedy handy for the first sneeze. Breaks up a cold in 24 hours — Relieves Grippe in 3 days—Excellent for Headache Quinine in this form does not affect the head—Cascara is best Tonic Lazative—No Opiate in Hill's. ALL DRUGGISTS SELL IT Al La Grippe THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1991, . — ¢ | AS OTHERS SEE THE WORLD Editorials and Comments Reprinted From Various Ne “ANTI THIS AND ANTI THAT” papery (From the St. Paul News) Dr. Robert H. Gault, famous criminologist at Northwestern Unjy has a rather mune view on “anti this and antl that” legislation ‘ Naval Graduate. Are His Hobbies. | Tho only safe and wise legislation, mynhe, aims first, lawt ang jat the protection and comfort of the whole of rociet } Lawes designed primarily to make the indiv better are wneleng foothardy and dangerous experiments, Dr. Gau nk | “Every man,” enys Dr. Gault, “has something w | ‘1 am my own boss. Nobody has the right to te! what I shall not do’ WHO WEEKS IS | “If you oppose that feeling which is fundamental, tmmediately the BIRTH—-At Lancaster, N. B, || STOW* restless and angry and he'll break your law out of sheer « April 11, 1860. om. : | EDUCATION. 4 ‘One Inw broken makes other laws easier broken. academy } “There . the fewer the laws the better and the happiest stats MARRIAGE only t for the welfare of th n him which me what I ball 4 naval really necewsary In 1885 to Mins Martha A. Sinclair Two chil “If prohibition of alechol was chiefly for the bet |] dren of society--in other words, if it aimed to protec ie HOME—Newton, Maw. jand not the drinker from himself—it will be successful,” Dr, | predicts. But many laws now suggested frankly argue making the tng “better” in spite of himaelf. These are dangerous laws, this noted criminologist says Among these dangerous laws he names legislation to contro} obmervance, the smoking of cigareta and the #howing of motion pig “They all make for lawleasnens in the long run,” he insists, CLUBS nox, ton, Republican, Metropolitan, Chevy Chase, Army and Navy ‘Letters to the | Write on only one side of paper. Letters should not be over 250 words long. Write with typewriter or with ink Bion name and address. If you de~ wire it, name will be withheld, Do not indulge in personalities. University, Brae Burn Country, New Middle HOW WOMEN AVOID SURGICAL OPERATIONS ' Some Are Extremely Necessary, Others May Not ’ LEONARD WOOD APPFKALS FOR ARMENIAN RELIEF Editor The Star: As chairman of & epecia! committee of representa |tive men and women of the country charged with placing before the |American people the desperate need of two and a half million Armenians, remnant of the oldest Christian na- tion, whose sufferings thru 16 cen turles seem to have brought them no nearer peace, Mberty and secur ity, I beg your personal coopera |tion and the influence of your news. |paper to forward an appeal for a Lenten sacrifice’ offering to enable \the Near East Relief to go on with its work of mercy. Over 100,000 |little children who have been kept alive by American generosity for the past three years, are absolutely | dependent upon the support which America gives them thru the Near East Heliet, I feel that however| many and however worthy the other | appeals which are being made to the great heart of America theese! days may be, this ery. from the little chiltren of the tand where Christ gave Ife life for mankind cannot remain uanrwered. Wi you re this martyred people? | Every Woman Should Give Lydia BE. Pinkh Vegetable Compound a Trial First Chieago, Ml. — bedwitha £ inflammation and hed doctors but none of t LEONARD WOOD, Major General, U. 8. Army GUARANTY BANK AND TRUST CO. ~~ | 4% ON SAVINGS Asnintant Ca GEO. L. WI i E.’Pinkham's Private Text-Book upon “Ailments to Women” will be sent to you free upon request. to The Lydia E. Pinkbam Medicine Co., Lynn, c This book contains valuable information. YOU HAVE ONLY ONE! _MOTHER—. Today She May Be Weak and Nervous H w the iron from | Overwork, worry and the duties of Motherhood may have sa her blood and robbed her of her bodily and mental vigor —H TO HELP HER IT WAS YOUR MOTHER WHO MADE THE FIRST SAC- RIFICE THAT *YOU MIGHT LIVE, WHEN ALL OTHER FRIENDS TURN AWAY FROM YOU, YOUR MOTHER YET REMAINS, If you are ill, it is her ten- der hand that strokes your feverish brow. If financial disaster overtakes you and you lose hard earni of and all others forsake you, THERE WILL L YOUR MOTHER with words of comfort and cheer, ready to offer any sacrifice that may help you, , TODAY MAY BE YOUR OPPORTUNITY TO HELP YOUR MOTHER: LIZING WEAKNESS AND NERVOUSNESS caused by iron starvation without ever suspecting the real cause of their trouble. ‘They think that they are weak and nervous ea result of age, worry or overwork or they think that their disturbed digestion, head- achea, heart palpitation, shortness of breath, pains across the back, etc. are due to some f i serious disease, which is aften not the case ' at all — their blood has simply thinned out f } and become pale, thin and watery and te starving for iron. This is proven by the fact that when many of these same women take organic iron for a wh: strong, robust and , to! Y iron to enable your blood to change the ‘ food you eat into living cells and tissue. With- iron this change cannot be made and as ‘onsequence, nothing you eat dues you the proper amount of good—you do mot get the rota ‘ full strength out of it. Women especially need a ; iron more than men as their indoor life and ra the strain they are under, renders them more anaemic, | It is astonishing how very few women after | thirty years of age, have sufficient iron in their blood, and it 1s almost equally surprising | how many girls are afflicted in the same way. Lack of iron not only brings on a devitalizing akness ‘ut it makes a woman book old very quickly as it takes away the youthful fresh- ness from her lips and cheeks and the sparkle and life from her eyes and even i} “- her face a haggard and “drawn” look. French Academy of Medicine by the celebrated Dr. Robin, which repre- sents the principal chem- ical constituent of active living nerve force, FOR FEEDING THE NERVES, ; #0 that NUXATED IRON 4 } might be said to be both a t : ’ BLOOD and a NERVE FOOD, Nuxated Iron comes ry and have a “blood-coant” | in tablet form only, made of her red blood corpuscles and see just |Took for the letters how anaemic she may be—or if you do not} Ny. ‘want to do this, insist that she eat more spin- ach and other iron containing vegetables and take organic iron with them for a month and Ore what a difference it makes, ba Thousands of women bave surprisingty in- ereased their strength, energy and endurance in two weeks time by this simple experiment. But in making this test be sure that the iron you take is organic irom and not metallic or mineral iron which people usually take. NUXATED IRON MOTHER Think of the suffering ween your” mother passes” irom lie yox wil your mo' . le you have another. Help ber in every way while you ENRICHES THE BLOOD“GIV: YOU NEW STR NER ¢ mother has