The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 21, 1921, Page 6

Seattle Star By malt. cet of city. yo per month: 2 1.78 s carter, efty, 130 per week. Baterprise Assoctation Tree Service by The Star Pubish- Phone Main ¢¢0, Home Brew OUR DAILY FICTION — Once upon a time a man made a date with his wife to moet her in front of Frederick & Nelson's at 6:30 p.m. At 5:25, | when he got there, she badn't arrived, but when the hands of the clock turned to 6:20, she ‘was there on the dot. “You're always on time, my he said, sweetly, eee “There's nothing so hart to ride a8 a young broncho,” said the cow Puncher. ' “Oh, I don’t know,” replied the ity chap. “Did you ever try the ‘Water wagon? eee A tallor’s sign on Washington st. We can give you fits, ladiea or| gentlemen. Dia j GARDEN TIME ‘The amateur should not bother) ting bird seed. to buy a ready.grown bird eee Smith had a lovely baby girl, ‘The stork left her with a Mutter; Bmith named her Oleomargerine, For he hadn't any but her. | « eee NEVER SATISFIED Many a man clamors for fustice who wouldn’ it if he got ft eee IN THE. SAME OLD WAY T used to think when hogs went down, hat ther'd be cheaper pork tn town, Ané cheaper hams and bacon; flow I find to my dismay things don't always work that In theory I've heard !t maid ‘That cheaper wheat meant cheaper But that’s an idle rumor; [bri Speaking of the whirigig of time The Progress of an Art Compare “Way Down East” With the First Movie You Ever Saw vaudeville s |" TPWENTY YEARS AGO a novelty in minstrel and ows was the white screen on which “moving pictures” were shown, The pictures were | crude. They resembled the present-day films much | as the rude bark and rock pictures of the Chinook jand the Siw: /Gustin and Ambrose sh resemble the best work of Paul -atterson. You saw them in silhouette only. Generally there was a reproduction of the battle of Manila bay, remarkable in that the ships moved always |straight lines, and all the shots were fired directly to the front or rear. in With mingled awe and enthusiasm you watched |great explosion scene. ure from the black and white of silhouette. |was a flash of fiery red, as if somebody had touched joff a photographer’s magnesium sheet;~and you }wondered whether perhaps a box of matches had jthe Spanish flagship lose its masts, which lay rak- » ishly fore and aft along the deck. Then came the For once there was a depart- There been lighted behind the screen. THE SEATTLE STAR TW best bluff in one we ain't afraid ' have called. Th’ fel lor who is kicked out av a job ls often kicked up. Democrat papers please copy, * * * #2 HE SILHOUETTES were merely the forerun-| Letters to the ners of the actual motion picture. Next came instantaneous photography, with its jumpy flicker as the pictures were flashed on a screen from in front, in much the same manner as they are today One of the first of these you may _regall. It was that well known picture of the Black Diamond Express on the Lehigh Valley railroad, rounding Horseshoe curve, near Mauch Chunk, Pa. That was_a thriller, sure! It is quicker an¢|day Bill Harts and Tom Mixes, three-gun men or |locomotive-jumping airplanists furnish the tense- None of your present- ness that the small boy of 1903 or thereabout felt as he watched that train appear around the moun- |tain spur, grow ever nearer (while the snare drum- mer increased his din) and finally dash off the lower right-hand corner of the screen as if to kill a quarter of the audience. Watching “Way Down East” at the Met the other! ,,.¥%, tt Sadermimnes. sach being night, we fell to wondering what a person’s impres- that Miriam Rubin, § years of age, sions would be if he had never seen a motion pic- ture between the old Black Diamond and Griffith's «as, iu, recently became affiicted modern masterpiece. “Movie stars” were undreamed-of then. | till about 1909 that the word “movie” was invented. |My. “anys, Laboriously one referred to the “kinematoscope”’ It wasn’t and the “motophotograph.” And the hall where these were shown was merely a store building where some ‘amity physician, was called t young man had closed out his stock of cigars’ or shoes and put in seats and the side of a tent. there were “illustrated songs” before or General! after the nematoscope program. A yellow-haired girl warbled “Just Across the Bridge of Gold,” or a youth with wavy jet locks and an appropriate trem- olo sobbed his way thru “In the Baggage Car Ahead.” Admission? If the fare was a dime they had to add an act or |e'Uter any molution or comedy tor One nickel. And no war tax. two of what those days passed for vaudeville. East” can be produced. The cost probably exceeds |o™*_ chiropractor the entire investment of the first five years of the | touna fod ts way ot brinetng on revenems | T ou will note that whereas the In @ians used to scalp us, we now skin them —Indlanapolls News. eee LOCATION Kansas has a street caned |New art. eight days without drinking tin his life.” “I know, but he frequentty drinks enough. in one day te last an ordin- ary man eight days.” -—Houston Post. eee As Gene Levy would say it | poll tax is as popular as a set of warts on a nature dancer's tootates.” eee MUSIC An upright plano is one that keeps fge0d company. The opera, “Carmen,” has @ ¢on | ductor, but no motorman. | A pipe organist is ope who prefers | @ meerschaum to a cigaret. _ When amateur singers come to the Fefrain, they should. A brass band may be worn either @m the second or third finger. eee ‘There was an old fellow named Kidder, | ‘Who went out to walk with a widder. | “Will you wed me?” she sighed; And the old guy replied: H “T'a sooner take time to consider.”|and the unsuspecting public. —Kit-Sap. oe UNANSWERED j Does the tongue of @ wagon have Anything to do with the spoke of a wheel?—D. B. | Is a guitar player ever worried by the instrument's fret?—H. B. H. Please tell me if the haze ever @Holls the view at college —G. MR. Which would be better to lay in my driveway, bricks or jackstones? —M. R. 8. } Kindly inform me if the jelly| Blasses in my fruit closet would rack from a mason jar—Mrs. J. H. eee Be that as it may, the secretary of | the interior will be the fall guy of the new cabinet. And a photoplay such as Griffith’s latest isn’t|one of which pinched the nerve af * * * HE PHOTOPLAY ART has traveled a long dis- tance when such super-films as “Way Down something at which the auditors look in detachment. It is reah—more real than a stage performance. is life. It No small part of it is the ovchestral music that accompanies the screening, and with something like wizar seems to put words into the mouths of the filmed characters—unheard words that some- how convey a more vivid impression of reality than did the words actually spoken by the actors when “Way Down East” was a popular drawing-card on the stage. Vetoing a Good Measure What was the matter with the “blue sky” law that the | name governor vetoed? It is estimated that such a law would save the people of |A*P!"» Preseribed by physicians f the state more money every year than the entire cost of the soldiers’ bonus. | The “best minds” on blue sky legislation drew the bill, Hesdache, Neuralgia, Fheurnatism, |g and while it was thought best to amend it so as to lessen the opposition, the bill, as finally passed, nevertheless put a check upon the “blacklegs” who live upon widows, orphans Similar measures to the one vetoed are working satisfac- torily in some forty states. a good start for a worthy cause, the governor claims, could have been much In any event it would have been even if defective, as more easily amended later on than it will be to pass an entirely new act. Two years ago a blue sky bill was passed in the house, and before it reached the senate committee it had been so mutilated that it failed. The fact remains that those who do not believe in blue | sky laws and those who deal in blue sky have been able thus far to prevent legislation that protects the public against the crook. It is the opinion of many that the only piece of legislation worthy of the name passed by the last legislature was the} blue sky measure. And the governor vetoed it! THE SWEPT HOUSE BY DR. WILLIAM E. BARTON The age in which we live has great faith tn legis lation. There was a time when we men from drunkards’ graves by mo: we have a prohibitory gmendment. ment I thank God. can know the curse of strong drini fanatic in his opposition to It in all laws that will make it easy difficult to do wrong. But I know very well that no such @olve our problems nent way to make men sober is to moral nature body good All the legislation since Hammu Will not make a man good; it can I am not I am almost sinfully reasonable about it. sought to save | ral suasion; now For that amend. I do not see how any sane man k and not be a a fanatic; I believe to do right and law will in itaelf The only effectual and perma strengthen their That is the only way to make any- rabi and Moses only make it a littfe harder for him to be bad, and a little safer for his_ neighbor. When we have passed our good laws, we have only | duty begun our We have still to educate and strengthen and help to create a moral purpose and a righteous standard of living. There ts an odd parable in the New Testament about Editor— AFFIDAVIT CITED BY CHIROPRACTOR Editor The Star: An article on “talking sickness” of the now famous Miriam Rubin case appeared on your editorial page of March 1, and I am sorry to may, contained a groas mis statement of facta, to the discredit | of chiropractte. | Being « chiropractor in Beattie and & conscientious believer tn chiroprac tie, an @ science worthy of inventiia. tion, I write to ask that credit be given where credit is earned and due, and in refutation of the mitrtate ments made tn the article referred to, I personally wiah to quote the affidavit of the parents of the child im question, on oath, as already pub lished far and wide over thin country, giving & correct statement of facts: “State of Ulinots, County of Lake, “We, the undersigned, each being daughter of Mr. and Mra A. M Rubin, of 133 Gillette ave, Wauke with @ malady referred to as ‘talk jing #icknes,’ and from the time she became il! she was talking constantly land continuously for a period of and that, during that time Miriam Hubin did not sleep, but merely continued to talk. Dr. RH T. Nesbitt, of Waukegan, I she became lL = Dr. rown, inty physician of Waukegan, was called for conmnitation, and in ad dition there were called into the case ie following physicians, from Chicago: Dr. Robert B. Prebie, 30 N. Michigan ave. Dr. Alonze C. Tenney, 25 E. Washington st, and Dr. Iaaac A. Abt, 104 8. Michigan ave. all of whom immediately made all necemary bicod tests and exam Inations, and their prognosis aid not disclose the nature of the malady. and they were anable from their ex arminations and diagnosis of the cane |the patient, and during all this time the patient continued to talk com tinuously as befor, without any nieep whatsoever. “That on the ninth day of her n- nees Dr. Pan! O. 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We the Test of Tim: Most of our present patronage in recommended by our early custo an unclean spirit cast gut which wanders about home: | none work ie still givin leas “for @ while, and then comes back and brings tion. Ask our’ cum seven worse spirits to live in the swept and garnished nave tested our work house When ‘coining to ‘our office, be sure : ou are in the right Place, B We need to fill up human Ufe with so much that| this ad with you ” — is good that there hall be less room for the spirits of evil purposes and plans. Cut-Rate Casting ont evil spirits is well enough in its way Dentists and sweeping the house is good; but after the house. cleaning there is something to be done to make life positive, strong and sweet, OHI 207 UNIVERSITY sT. Opponite FrasercPaterson Ca (SETH_TANNER) Inqutiog Reporter: y TODAY'S QUESTION Which ls botter—a sure thing or a chance on a million? ANSWERS MISS ADELAIDE LOMAN, 511 Third ave; “Sure thin: no why not take the cb ASA LIVERMORIS, st: “I've always bad @ chance, #0 I'll try my hand at @ sure thing, if you don’t mind.” 1624 11th | ave | Me up nome evening and Tl ask my wife.” MRS, RD, CLAYWOOD, 156 Lee! st ‘I'd rather have a sure chance.” ROLAND M makson, 1376 Lake F “Just let me be John D. kefelier,” nen fecting the mpeech center of the! brain. “And that on the ninth day he ad ministered two chiropractic adjust. | ments to the said patient, and that | after a lapne of ubout 12 hours, and| during the tenth day of the illnem of the patient, she showed marked and noticeable improvement, and for the first time during her Ulneas slept for brief periods, her temperature be came lower than it had been at any | time during the nine days of her it. | neaw; that the maid Dr, Paul O. Berger | contigued to adminster the chiro practic adjustments dally for about | three days, and that at the end of| three days the patient had ceased talking and the symptoma of the! malady patirely dinappeared, the pa Uent was resting and sleeping sound | ly, and that her pregent condition is nortal, “ABRAHAM M. RUBIN, “DOLLIE J, RURTN, “DR. PAUL O. BERGER, “Chiropractor “Subserfbed and sworn to before me thie 17th day of February, A.| D, 1921 ° “ALBERT McDERMOTT, “Notary Public.” ‘The foregoing ts, in my opinion, | sufficient evidence to warrant proper action on your part In setting right before your renders the question at imrue. EDITH Vv. WILLIAM EVERTS, « C. MOORE, D. C 2412 Jackson | , tion some Ainon, in thy of thy weaned. in fw weather, since weaning in summer is romotimes difficult ind dangerous. GUARANTY BANK AND TRUST CO. 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Washington, D, ©, widely field for rely from | Mexico-balter ter what may pe your the de (From the San In Henry Pileteher, joo all that England bas in Ireland MONDAY, MARCH 21, 1921 | AS OTHERS SEE THE WORLD | Editorials and Comments Reprinted From Various Newspapers BETTER THINGS FROM MEXICO Francisco News) ‘ Mexico now has a government which seems to promiae better things | lin the relations between that country and this diagnosin mm imperialism forever " ins However, what men have said when out of power is often found not © 10 }to be their guide when in power; but with Fletcher and Fall on the job, — it will be well for the American people to be on guard if they hate ag: xression and would rather see the Mexicans turbulent at thelr own the Sones forming the she *\ pense than half quiet at the expense of our own life and treasure. cauhed by rickets or lateral curvature) Hope lies in Mr. Hughes, and the people rely on him to run his o Mexican policy it right. my baby? 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