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

Man the Creator—and ck Man the Ape 220-Egg Hens, 27,000-Pound Milk Cows and Puny Humans | THO THE AVERAGE CITY READER hears but —? little about it, there is a great work going on, a) greater work than that of the city plants, of the mills, | | the factories, the show places and the advertised dis-| coveries and inventions. The quiet work of the breeder is revolutionizing the | world before our eyes, and as definite a new order of | creation is being evolved as tho a new Eden appeared. | | Man has in a few years so perfected the cow that | \one produces more milk than a herd did in your youth. | | Twenty-seven thousand pounds of milk from a single | :G Dr. W. EF. Waldo, osteopath, ad : @reesing Chamber of Commerce _ Meeting, tells ‘om to brighten up. ting electric treatment? eee A ctrange young woman Is Kathleen Green, She scorns to be { A movie queen. A funny cuss § Is Johnny Sapp; { Won't let his girl Sit on his lap eee Aprfl 1 was Fool's Day. But on May 1 we pay the poll tax eee ‘They're mighty hard to please, We have to cater to them all Upon our bended knees: ‘They're Mighty and inquisitive, Bexasperatin’, too; every man must find ft out, how before he's thru Teason with a suddenness, makes a feller Jump; they don't find it hard at all make him look a chump cannot give a reason for single thing they do; jump at a conclusion with valid cause in view. “re fussy and they're frtvelous; imes it seems that way; ‘re tender and they're heartless and ey're mournful and they're gay: ‘re prudish and they're reckless, and faults they all abound— git it zee v fy if enjoyed admit: were the writer thereof. ‘Then she fellow do In a case ing a fair grade of home doesn’t get neighborly pretty We will not be responsible for THUS PREVENTING ANY POS SIBILITY OF CONFTSION Howard Cunningham, from Milwaukee, was a-rested for th bight Tights, and John Kamp, a butcher, Feported that some one had stolen @ bey mare from his barn. The as mare may be identified by a on its front leg —Clnton (Wis.) Herald. e,e 8 ‘ * = & ¢ i, * i TOGETHER | Mr. Robert Dudley Longyear of "| Brookline sailed on the Lapland for | Lendon, where he will take up Mdvanced studies in diplomacy and voice training.—Boston (Mass) Herald. eee Joy, announces a famous Lond @urgeon, may cause the hu / heart literally to break. Cheer up. At may, but it probabty doesn’t. one _ _A French actress, who has been Playing in the United States for six ‘ love awkwardly, Humph! You -@ught to see them pay alimony. seription of one of the social Which is the scene of the story: BF “She discovered that conversation did not exist tions. There must be @ hired professional humorist, a in that town, Even at this affair, which brought or a social lion, Or some other imported entertainer, out the young emart set, the hunting equire set, because people have no resources within themselves i the respectable intellectual set, “in the shape of “a peculiarly optim ing the value of smiles.” one Jewish, one juvenile, and the The town did not have its jokes, a | average driving horse. Months, says the American men | Money gracefully but they | THE ART OF CONVERSATION a? BY DR. WILLIAM. E. BARTON a recent novel, severely criticizing American vil- Tage life, the following paragraph is included in a de- events of the town | financial set, they sat up with gaiety as with a ening produced five “stunts” Tembers of the village. The first waa a recitation of “An Old Sweetheart of Mine,” followed by an encore The others were, one Irish . Mark Aprtony's funeral oration It would be & blessing If we could have a neries of * The succeeding functions of the season cansed the | high-class entertainments in which {t should be an Reroine, who was new to the Village, to hear “An | nounced that there would be no cards or dancing or Old Sweetheart of Mine” nine times, one of the others | hired professional entertainment, but that intelligent seven times, and each of the others twice. Hut | people would sit down and visit around among each “when the stunts were finished, the party. instantly | other, and talk of things worth talking about. But wank back into coma.” | in what town or city could such a party be a suc ame Joke, which varied ever so little to fit the slight | cow. And man has so fixed this breeding that her | granddaughters will be greater milkers than she. | Man has taken the puny, slab-sided, wild hog and made him into a great mound of bone and flesh, until the fat hog today weighs more in his prime than the | Man hag fussed with the milk goat and in a few gen- | erations has induced it to give more milk than the av- | erage scrub cow. le has taken the hen, that averaged 60 eggs a year, and brought her up to 220 eggs, not for one hen, but for flocks of a thousand. He has created new species of hogs, and dogs, and cats, and fowl, and horses, and sheep; created them with a definite ideal in his mind, and attained it. The work, these last twenty years, of animal breed- ers, is by far the most wonderful work in the world. One good cow today gives as much milk as five of her granddams did, but she doesn’t eat five times as much, nor does she require to be milked ten times a day, praise goodness. And the 220-egg hen doesn’t eat much more than the 60-egg hen. But when it comes to the job of improving his own breed, man has failed utterly. There is, indeed, evidence that the Greeks knew more about art and beauty than we; that the Romans knew more of government and of law; and that the Egyptians knew more of the stars and engineering. Certainly, the mind of the cultured man of 2,000 years ago was as keen and as capable as it is today. When it comes to the breed of man, we average in the grades; there are more scrubs among us than there | are pedigreed folks, and there are more loafers and drones and lack-wits than enough. If man could only devote his best energies to him- self for a few generations, even tho he made but a tenth of the progress he has made with hogs and dogs and horses, still he would produce a race of supermen —men who would live happily, work effectively, think beautifully, reason clearly, act with certainty, move with grace and delight with their at, giant men, without deformity. Gee, but we city people are ugly. The savage of the jungle is a beautiful animal, but we of civilized towns are scrawny, leather-skinned, weak-eyed, knock- kneed, flat-footed, hollow-chested specimens that the starving New Zealander would hesitate to dump into the family pot. What is man that thou art mindful of him? What, indeed? He Was the Noisy Roomer ‘HE LANDLADY couldn’t stand it any longer, and the roomers threatened to leave unless the racket stopped. Alexander Graham Bell was the cause of the trouble. | He had rigged up a contraption in his bedroom and a-dupli- | cate in the room of his accomplice, Thomas A. Watson. A wire went out the window and connected the two machines. These machines, according to young Bell, were first models of a revolutionary invention, the telephone “T don’t care what it is,” said the landlady, “but if you |two boys don’t stop yelling your heads off, into those boxes, you'll have to pack your trunks and get ont.” “We have to yell to make ourselves. heard over the wire,” Bell protested. “That’s one of the problems I haven't worked out yet.” Resourceful young Watson hit upon a scheme to curb | the cause of the landlady’s wrath. He took the blankets off his bed and made a small tent. The telepnone was inside and there was an opening for admitting the head. This muffled the sound and the two inventors could yell to |their hearts’ content. ° Years afterward, as Watson related tn his memoirs, the blanket-tent was evolved into the sound-proof telephone x. This episode of the angry landlady happened years ago in a cheap lodging house in Boston. The Western Union Telegraph company offered Bell $100,000 for all his patents. Bell, with vision, realized | that he had a fortune within grasp and rejected the offer. |He and Watson went around the country, delivering lec- | tures, and with the proceeds financed themselves. Today there is a telephone to every nine Americans and more than 24,000,000 miles of wire in the Bell telephone lines. } Strange things come out of rooming housés, as will be testified by the tens of millions who have lodged in them. And stranger things will come. Possibly that fellow who is making such a racket in “the hall bedroom back” on the | third floor is a future Alexander Graham Bell. And isn’t the story of Bell inspiring to the rest of us, |now confined in a single room and wondering what the future has in store? changes which the monotony of life made necessary Thia absence of intelligent conversation is much to be deplored. It is one reason why people resort to the kinds of entertainment in vogue at social func and the solid When they have spoken of the weather, and passed the latest or earliest joke about Ford cars, and ex changed a little old-time banter, there is nothing left to talk about, The ability to talk intelligently and interestingly, and to listen as well as to talk, is mnch to be de sired. Equally to be desired is the right to assume you are to meet people who can both talk and Listen, give and fake. by os many istic poem regard last a parody on even; it had ite THE SHATTLE STAR SETH TANNER Speakin’ of fancy crime sur. vey, what's needed Is th’ rough once over o' som o’ these well dressed, soft headed boys play- in’ pool at 10 in the mornin’, with hone choakin’ rolls in their pockets, Th’ Lord giveth an’ th’ landlord taketh away. Letters to the Editor— THE VOLSTRAD ACT ALED Editor The The Volstead law ts one of the barriers to hinder the progression of this nation, Why not repeat this law and have a law in Ite wtead that will bring funds to the U. 8 treasury to pay off the Star: obligated war debt and other obliga-| tions? It has been reported that there was a shortage of income to the U. @ treasury for the your 1920 of $1,500,000,000, and the shortage is siready entimated for the present year will be $2,500.000.000, And yet it appears that every channel pf revenue that ean be conceived of is already taxed to much a degree that i will soon become unbearad Here is a plan that will bring to the U, 8 treasury more than enough eoch year to make up the deficien clee, and the Income tax law can be modified the productive indus tries can be encouraged, so the na tion can progress. The first thing to do ix to repeal the Volstead act. The next thing to do tp to pane a will place @ tax on liquors kinds and let all liquorn be Jed and controtied in the hands han of the government till they are de oe ivered to the con revenue tax on whisky at o per gallon, and allow the manufac turer $1.00 per gallon, then allow $1.50 per gallon to pay for trans portation charges, retainers, cost of distribution, ete, and make a stand ard and same price at every point in the United States, Under this plan the Kquors would be under charge of the government at all times till it was delivered to the consumer, so it would be protected under the pure food law, Government distributing stations could be establiehed at any and all places In the United States where ever required. Place no limit upon the amount of purchase to any indi vidual, becane no man ty going to purebase more than he wanta No man in going the purchase Nquor to bootleg with because there would be no incentive for profit. Tharefore, the bootiegger, under this plan, would soon be a relic of the Past ages, when citizens could ¢o to the government dispensaries and get his pure liquor for $5 a gallon. The present Volstead law has made criminals out of the majority of the population of this nation with many untold crimes that will ever remain secret. This plan would eliminate the expense of retaining a costly foree of prohibition officers at the expense of the taxpayers, and that expense could be saved to the gov ernment Thia thing they call “prohfbition™ has failed to prove iterif to be a Profitable proposition for this nation or its people, but has, without a doubt, proven Iteelf to be a humbug, and detrimental to the beet interests of this nation. It has been a apecu lative adventure pure and simpia and there will be no end of troubié and expense in sight if they still endeavor to try to maintain it. This nation needs revenue instead of @x pense, and this plan is the most reasonable and sensible way to get it It tw safe to may there ts far more money spent in this nation for bootleg booze than would be required to cover the shortage from all other sources of taxation. This plan would eliminate and remedy thie eondition, and the gov. ernment would have this income in stead of the criminal bootlogger, The best business brains that are the backbone of the nation, are not pro- hibitioniats, 4d why such a law should be maintained on the statutes to the detriment of the nation sim ply to pacify and appease the fan cles of a few cheap preachers who are not the industrial products of the nation, is worse than folly The much-talkedof “Saloon Evil" would continue to be @ relic of the Past ages under this plan, because there would be no public drinking place, Drinking would have to be done in private houses, and if peo. ple are caught on the streets drunk and disorderly they are entitled to be Jailed and fined, Under thie plan people. could make their purchases At the government dispensaries in any quantity, from a pint to a gal- jon, and take it home to do their drinking. ‘The cost to manufacture one gallon of absolutely pure 100 proof whisky will not exceed a cost of 15 cents, and under this Plan, if the manufacturer was allowed dhe dollar @ gallon he would have a net profit of 85 centy for every gallon and could pay a nice little income tax to further assist Uncle Sam in bie struggle for income, If we observe the history of the past ages we will note there is no history of any nation that has such a reeord of wonderful progression to compare with the American nation, and it hay had it# Hquor all the time with the “Saloon Bvil" to contend with be siden, ‘Therefore, if liquor ts such a men- ace and barrier and hindrance to the progression of any nation, then, we might ask, how and why this nation shown such wonderful results of progression as it has done in the past with its liquor all the wumer, time? The greatest agriculture pro. duction has been developed. ‘The If it could succeed in your town, you would do well to introduce it, wreatest manufacturing industries. The greatest inventive genius has been displayed and developed, and the most useful commoditics for the progress of the world have bean the AS OTHERS SEE THE WORLD Editorials and Comments Reprinted, From Various Newspapers ASK THK BOOTLEGGERS (From the Chicago Blade) John Ff. Kramer, federal probibition cornmiastoner, tr being commended for hia frankness In admitting the probibition law ts not very well en forced. In mad the oe ao could have gone stronger is far as 46 tenth, .aneceniien, TODAY'S QUESTION the large cities are cor ned roa = it ee rq Commimioner Kramer intimates some of the prohibition officials have|| Bzpiene, will be answered If vet, to Did you have a great officer who got fri diy with the bootieggers of his city, but remain oe | a the piace ; any good. ‘Fhey eabeeenaal ere ther |done any good. The jon the equare, rm rts that in nine caren out of the booze they hand . : rs out qonmins 20 to 30 per cent of pure ether—“nufficient drug to eat| nnot be cured wy & hea sa witness in & court case : away the linings of the stomach.” In this community ten have | Pll medeinae en Se oe N. J. YOUNG, Lyman aptas died revently from. boete peteoning over the rupture. In infants, rup-| wasn't necessary, & followed In & Chicago sanitarium where booze vietims are treated it wae found| tures thru the eet can often be | natural bent anyway |that many of them had been knocked out by nicotine, The stuff the) Permanently cured “4 pap ay memoen JAMES ELLIOTT, Washiny |pootleggers sold them consisted montly of diluted tobacco, with a large | #ome firm support. is CUNO | tel: “If 1 did I'll read about it —— f y hese to wrap a «mall | percentage of nicotine, highly poisonous, having @ “kick” sufficient to a 7 tory a pret Be la nmall | he star.” , wreek if not to kill those who drank it . WILLIAM A. GILMORE, Then there ie a mixture of wood aloohol, ether and prone juloe that tr) THURSDAY, APRIT 21, 19 violated the law they were sworn to enforce. j die yesterday? \ If he has any doubts about this, let him ask the bootleggers. They can ANSWERS 4] tell him. ' um Naturally the bootleggers are not dotng much talking, One prohthition| Aare ruptures wrer cured by medicins| MPS. MAIUIC MILLITR, 16 Lakeside ave. 8: “Tt wouldn't in & piece of cloth, and #trap this the} has} y oves ome | bidg.: “Fle has died so many th as deadly as prussic acid. Counterfelting of revenue stampa is eo com-|"FMly over the navel. After some) NOK’ — ot ok eg mon that any one who drinks so-called whisky is gambling with his life Povo bor eg orto gly spon.n ans lem te A ok Se aa Booner or later, after the bootlegger ha» killed off enough weak ininded | hve" o bring abou’ perm: wh bore people, the fear of thin deadly booze will become such that none will buy it. This will put him out of business, if the government does not. reeult. Jor allowing thene things to fal into This nation today ts on the decline |the hands of private and profiteer and is receding instead of progrem|ing bootlegging interests? and will continue to do #0 tll) Whenever attempt in made to Jnome relief Is given the people from welt Gin deniadiien at oa ‘ s bane ears et othoray 2 athe any individual, and at the same time | ,,. According to a report of @ late HAY restrictions where purchases | m ruling of the attorney general, it have to be made thru permits, | would appear’ he has decided, or Physicians’ prescriptions and state | automatic discovered a loophole taxes, there in a tendéncy to inflate in the Voletead law, that there is a/ the price before it reaches the right #till left #0 beer can be sold|Chaser, and that in turn creates a) for medicinal purposes, Now, any-|0ondition that tempts the moonshin: | |body who har a thimbleful of gump-|¢r and bootlegger to operate for |Uon will readily see what this will Profit. Of courne, it im true, if this ‘all mean to further the bootlegging | Plan was adopted it would relieve a linterests all over the land and make |!ot of politictans and dry squad saloons out of the drug stores and|®neels from office and fat salaries |erente further trouble for the dry (that are being maintained at the ex nquad angels and the courts at a | Penne of the taxpayer, But they can further expente to the people. ‘Thia|4PDIy Uhemselves to @ more useful condition will create an incentive for Position in society by raixing corn |more new drug stores than we have OF potatoes or raisins, or producing ever dreamed of, and It is not likely | Other useful commodity, and they will confine themselves to the | thereby be benefactors to the nation jit instead of @ bill of expenne. adult, let me remind you that the | operative method of treatment ts now sults are obtained by surgeons thru out the country. make t no decay tint will apply the proper treatment After that, the teeth can probably be | kept white and clean. 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