The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 28, 1921, Page 6

Ry mail, owt of ctty, Se per month; 3 months, $1.50) # $5.00, In the stale of Washington, 34.00 for € mentha or $200 per year DITOR THE STAR: An occasional notice appears in the paper, as tho inspired by city authorities, warn- ple to destroy the tent caterpil- eee ineit premises. I wonder if the le of the city generally realize | what a menace they are becoming here, | | or that the city itself is, to a great ex- le does not lie with the _ 7. the people with improved lots. The few ody hey can destroy inside their own borders, while a necessary duty, is ch in the nature of dipping the river ry with a teaspoon, so far as its effect on the sum total of the hordes is con- cerned. There are acres and acres of unim- ed land in the city, all grown up to and young trees, and other acres acres of streets belonging to the which have never been improved, are in the same condition. The city does nothing to remedy its own nvi- , and apparently has no power to owners of unimproved property remedy theirs. _Each year the pest increases. e, a few years ago, I found one or wo nests on my aes and there are now dozens, and for the pusands of worms I have destroyed, e are, literally, tens of thousands in right around in the uncleaned city within half a block. You can fig- what the total must be all around. next year each of these unde- troyed worms will add its myriads. Two or three years ago, before which pest did not seem so noticeably bad, | result. Outaide of the st By carrier, otty up with the city, first with the council, afterward with the mayor's office, try- ing to get something done, but with no As we understood it, there was neither an appropriation for the city to fight the pest, nor any authority to force owners of such land to do so. Since that year the trouble has greatly one of the worst offenders. The | increased in a: district extending: for miles around the location mentioned, and is being given no more attention. Last year I noticed, during a trip East, how different the attitude of the large cities there is in regard to such matters. Such a condition would not be tolerated there. The city cares for all the shade trees along the streets, pruning them, spraying them, and even putting a band of “tanglefoot” around the trunks, cuts down brush and weeds, and forces owners of unoccupied lots to pay for the work necessary to keep such uncared-for land from becoming a nui- sance to that which is cared for. The Star takes up so many good fights, I think this is one worthy of its good services, to rouse people to the point of demanding such ordinances as will permit such pests to be taken care of—an appropriation for such work as is necessary to take care of the city’s own part and a law authorizing the tax- ing of uncared-for land for the expense of what the city is obliged to do to pro- tect those owners who try to care for their own. It is most discouraging to those who are trying to make good homes in less settled districts, so im- roving that district, and increasing fand values for the absentees, to have _— THE SEATTLE STAR Letters to the Editor— DOCTORS “ALTRU NOT 80, SAYS WHITER Kditor the Star; 1 have noticed your ¢éditorial on the compulnory medical inspection bill, You speak 3 } of the doctors’ and nurses’ activition ‘ for a few hours in one afternoon, se curing signatures, as an “altrulwtic » spirit unexampled in other business \ and profemmonal pursuits.” < <> | There in absolutely nothing what ever altruistic about it. It is merely - : & matter of advertising and a bid ‘ | for trade such a» all commercial . bodies employ, in some phase or other we their own profits The medical however, dif fers from the uni vertinement of goods in that ne case perfect freedom = in ded the pros pective customer, while in the other | cane all other petitors and rivals are not enly ignored but matters so - | arranged that the physical care of Ml children should be compelled to lie in allopathic hand alone | Seattle bas many thousand kinder fartners, grade and high school thing ‘bout Barnyard Golf, you | pupils. Practically none of these ry evér come to school sick. Yet it| 2 Always find th’ hose shoes. | senate bill 180 falls, these children must be at frequent intervals in UNTIL THE DAY spected and treated, one by one! Once upon a time a litle family After a country carpenter has been out 0’ work fer three months he usually puts in ty first day filin' his saws, One Doctors and nurses have no inten tion of giving their time and mater lale free, Somebody must foot the bill, Not only ts it a personal gain for them in mone; but 4 persona! advertinement and an advertinement came to the Coast to buy a business | of thetr alumnus afd their medical |in Seattic, which was to them the ideals, What in guined over schoo! wonderland of opportunity fem eae |“When « jury once brought in TODAY'S QUESTION What was the most lonesome mo ment of your lite? ANSWERS SMALL, 217 B. Thomaa at 1 got caught in the center of & crowd that was pushing in four di rections.” C. B. WHITH, 1642 30th ave, 8. ver dict against my client when I had bet the other way.” REUBEN ALLIE, Renton: “When whe left me at t ition, yea, bo.” CLAUDE A, ESTOS, 1212 2nd ave. “I haven't kept @ record and conse quently 1 can't prove | was ever lonesome.” KB. SMYTHE. 1618 Fourth ave; “Ite been forever coming, but has never arrived.” 4 Hank Klay remarked to an the other day Uhat the most imponsible thing i for a camel to pass thru him ano hasten to volunteer the in- formation that next comes a fat woman trying to get a weat on a Broadway jitney during the hour rush SATURDAY, MAY 28, 1921. | feprcconding toFinstein} This recent Kinstein theory concerning Relativity * In actually simple If you ponness the You'll quickly get the a in your brain, You take line, for instance, and extend it horizormtally Away into infinity and then You chase it thru the univers persistently and jauntily And meet yourself on getting back again! Or take a common ray of light refracted by polarity And bend it in the middie, just a bit, And tle it to a comet; you'll observe « slight dieparity That maken it rather difficult to fit ‘The tangents of its radius revolving correlatedly With segments of the apex of a cone Will set the larger molecules in motion syncopatedly A fact which is not generally known, Take any kind of parallel—you needn't be particular And run it thru the orbit of @ etar You get 4 parabolic curve that's slightly perpendicular You mark it on the chart—and there you are! So that is Relativity in all of ite simplicity ‘And thus my little dissertation ends— And now I hope that all of you may find a true felicity By lecturing on Binstein to your frends! yy, children by compulsion, may ponalbly extend to older children and parents Presently they will want the right to inspect, vaccinate, ete. all city of fietals, government employes, street oar motormep and conductors, bank | tellers, eto. hy stop anywhere at all, if it's a good ping? If any of un object, It can moat “altrulstically” | be rammed down our necks. Who are we to say our neck’s our nm? Any one with any age or chi After a «hort search they found nomething which seemed made for) them. To be sure there was a Jap near by in the same business, but when they rearranged thelr stock, cut their prices and had a general) chan-up people would patrontse them instead of the Jap. Bo they bustied about and fixed things up, but strange to may the customers failed to come in as they expected. And they moon stood in of observation or sound thinking their empty store and mw the Jap! power knows very well that patients busy with the trade They knew) with any money have their ailments their prices were as low as his and mysteriously prolonged. They know | their stock ay good. A great won | that after @ “dull season.” from | der filled their hearts, Had the Japs! medical standpoint, an unexplain |more patriotiem than the Ameri able epidemic of some sort or other cans? Wor no Jap buys from a white = ‘ = sweeps the country. Even when no man if there is & Jap merchant near. actual wrongdoing can be laid to! Little lines of worry appeared in| thelr door, they literally neare people their faces and, little by little, hatred | == = Then, one morning they heard a= Given thump, thump in the street and a/& the chance to inflict dinense and fear ira:her shrill voice singing “Tum, |= into their graves, an in the case Of /of Keattie and ite people crept in. fu, with their tnoeamnt warnings. | inceulations and face masks Of disease upon children, it is natural tym, te ta” to the tune of “Marching to muppose that they will use that |Through Georgia.” power, A cat may chane @ mouse dren, they thought. But the thump | and catch It, but It doesn’t sound|oame nearer and looking ap they |= More noisy chil 5 A Lawsuit for the Recovery of Twenty-Two Pearls Why should the beautiful French actress, Jacqueline Campbelle, insist upon conducting a lawsuit for the recovery of twenty-two pearls when, in their stead, she was offered a pearl necklace valued at 150,000 francs? Mile. Jacqueline Threw Away area of a good many ed alder growth land n with the hideous, crawling ms. Afterward every leaf in the en- area was eaten as clean as if fire iad run over it. At thbors and myself k the matter their fight so. wag wena oy It may be too late for this year, with bushes and branches everywhere fairl bending under the weight of the crawl- ee a hordes, but it is a time, while the public has an object lesson before it, to excite the public to demand means of action in future. L. E. W. | Observations aes | So this is normaley?—Columbia (S. C.) Record. A free Poland seems to be a free-for-all.—Brooklyn acres of un- was literally t time some i sca like the Teut’s last toot.—Norfolk Virginian- Apparently the only way to reduce navies is to have y2|another war.—New York World. chamber and solemnly assured the senate that “the nominee was some man in gold lace steps into the room of the naval affairs and whispers “Yap,” itway every member of that committee gets naval hysterics. — Ben. Pomerene (D.), Ohio. oe MORE DIFFERENTIATION The difference between a bucket shop and an exchange is about the @ame difference that did exist be- tween a common beer joint with a jase mirror and a mahogany saloon—Rep, Hudspeth (D.), FIRST AND SPRING Main 2760 1 am now devotin, my entire time t dental practice. dental work that can guarantee, and guarantee good. I do not compete with Cheap Dentists, nor do | operate on. yi cketbook or sell you conversa fon, I give two dollars worth o: nial work for waking = my wiht Open evenings till 7 and Sundays Mi12:20 for people who work.” EDWIN J. nROW Ds Seattle's Leading int 106 Columbia St. Uncle Sam finds that the Japanese Diet doesn't agree with him.—Washington Herald. John Barleycorn isn’t exactly virtuous, buf“he’s certainly chased.—Columbia (S. C.) Record. Pe Professor Einstein could tell us what we made the world safe for—Columbia (S. C.) Record. The foot that used to rock the cradle now steps on the n accelerator at street crossings.—Washington Post. Under the decision of the supreme court it is not a crime to defeat Henry Ford for office—Toledo Blade. | The man who boasts of having “an open mind” often mee a vacancy for an opening.—Columbia (S. C.) We know that a dollar goes farther than it used to, be- cause we have to go farther to get a dollar.—Columbia (8S. C.) Record. The world’s new republics appear to have all the infantile troubles except growing pains.Boston Shoe and Leather Reporter. The Germans don’t exactly claim to have won the fight, but they're trying to show that they came out of it without a mark.—Brooklyn Eagle. It is prophesied that the next war will be In the air. | It might be remembered in this connection that the present | peace also is.—Manila Bulletin: | There has been no element of mystery in the game, |“Button, button, who’s got the button?” since laundries | were established.—Utica Moxning Telegram. THE PARABLE OF THE TROUBLESOME TOOTH I had a Tooth that gave me much trouble. For the Dentist filled it, and filled it yet again; and when the Nerve within it died, then did he )treat the Root, and filled it once more. [| And there were certain yeara wherein it gave me good service, and T depénded upon it when I wanted to come down hard upon the Steak. But there came a day when the Dentist said, There is no more that 1 can do. And so far as 1 see, it doeth no harm; but the day is not far | distant when thou wilt lose it | Now it soon came to pass that the Tooth gave me trouble; but I went not again unto the Dentist, for I said, There is but one thing’ that he can do for it; and that can never be undone; now, therefore, if 1 can {Make it last a little longer, whatever service I now get is Velvet, But the feel of it was not like unto Velvet; for it gave me pain in mine | Bye, and pain in mine Kar. And there was a Sabbath Day when it burt me all the time I stood in the House of God. And on the next morning I woke early, and I was on the step of the |office of the Dentist when he came from Breakfast. And what he did to it wus @ plenty. But when I came away, I spake unto Keturah, saying, Thine husband is & man less wise than men think him; for had I shown half the good sense with which men credit me, then had I done this Two Months ago. And I thought of the way men hold onto Bad Habits, that give them discomfort and help them not at ail to deal righteously with God or Man; yet how they Anger Shivering on the Brink, and dread the feeling |of the Cold Iron | And unto all such men, I say, Vool not with the matter, nor delay; see that thou have the bad habit removed, and cast it far from thee, And tho thou feel some sense of Ache and Vacuity, yet shalt this also be for thy Comfort and Good Health, WILLIAM K. BARTON, very convincing to tell the world) that you know #he's an altruintic cat | and won't eat it—espectally if she in| nary. Excemive drinking and oking, the social vices, unlimited | child-bearing, long hours, the mainw | trition and poor environment tf come thru poverty—all thene tend| toward broken down physiques and) to succumb to any sccident or dix eane they might encounter. The doo tors are not on the street corners, in the pulpit or press, in their own journals or colleges, or among their own members, individually or col lectivety fighting theme things, All the “altruiam™ they have you could put in your eye. But when they me that everincreasing numbers of pro- le have lost al! confidence in them and their methods, when other schools of healing ume with success saner. lens drastic measures, and die pute the allopath'y supremacy, whe there's no epidemic on hand to keep them busy and their pockets filled, then, according to The Star, a wave of “altruiam” «weeps them, and they hustle out to rope in the kids. Well, ax long as America’s of the caliber and temperament that can laugh heartily now and then, even at “altruiam,” I guens we can pull thru! ' L. M. CLARKE. eee SCHOOL CLINIC A GOOD THING Editor ‘The Star: 1 would like to say. in reply to Mr. Clarke, whowe letter appears in your columns of| May 17, that I think he has the! wrong impression of the mace by doctors and nurses of Geat- Ue Saturday. He claita this drive was to force the “allopathic” treat pt od Fe raised objections to the drive. saw in thelr doorway @ ltue old} man. The thump was made by his/ wooden ing. Over hin hin pockets were many pencile. But it war bis gripped them lace that Simi ing, eyes beaming, that man radiated the joy of living. He chatted busily while dixptaying | a= bin wares, “A beautiful day. Beemer Ike folks get a grouch on dark days, but we all must be happy on days ike theee,” They bought from him. altho they Needed nothing, and he thumped out. but he left something more than pen- els with them: a warm little glow in their hearts that dosan't burn out. And somehow, altho their business ia wtill slow and the Jap continues | == | busy, they feel that some day the people of Seattle are going to wake up and patriotiem them. Then Seattle will be the land whoulders |& [hung countless shoestrings, and in | Zs kht-hued |= Surrounded by gris |S ied bair and beard, ‘seamed with |= |thousands of wrinkles, that face was | 5 leave both body and mind in fit stateja pit of God's own sunshine. little old = will return to/& The 150,000 Franc Necklace The lawsuit and the spurning of this valuable necklace are the high lights in a story which you will find unusually interesting. It will appear next Sunday in ~“ American Weekly The American Weekly, the Greatest Magazine Issued With Any News _ Paper, Included Free Every Sunday With the qi of opportupity to Americans instead |S of the Japa. L. EN schoo! clinic and the “medicos,” who, I understand, donate their services to the clinic Suppose the taxpayer does have to pay a few cents more tax for the up- keep of such a clinic, even if a doc tor’s salary were included (but I do not think they are paid), ten’t the fu-! ture American citizen worth it? ‘There are #0 many people who still | believe in the “medico”’ that very MRS, M. E. BASS. Sunday of the Funniest Funnies Ever Four Pages in Colors Every . Printed Order Your Sunday Good apple pie; go to Boldt's:;—Ad.- |= Ment on Seattle schoo! children vertinement. I think if “Mr. Clarke” will inves | — Post-Intelligencer Today tigate, he will find that the drive was to enable the school elinte to live and) was for the good of the little child, instead of vice veraa, as stated by Mr. Clarke, I have three children! going to school, and no nurse or doc: | tor haa ever “invaded the child's pri. | vaecy of body,” To be sure, two of mine were vac: | cinated, but not without my written consent. The other child wae not at-| tending school, Hlowever, thie was not compulsory, as the children had the right to stay at home for two weeks if they or thelr parents so de sired, | Mr. Clarke may not realize it, but! in Seattie there are schools where | children have to be compelled to] bathe and have the hair washed tv. ery so often, and unless the mothers | are not positively forced to do yo, | they neglect the children to the ex tent that teachers and pupils more cleanly cannot stand the offensive! odor which arise from the little | bodies, | Does Mr, Clarke know that there are people in Seattle and elsewhere #0 poor they cannot afford to pay to| have tonsils and adenoida removed | from their “little ones? Children would have to have teeth and eyes | OUR SPECIALTY A timely examination of your eyes may save you a lot of worry and care in the future. SEE OUR SPECIAL $5 Glasses Free Examination GLOBE OPTICAL CO. 1514 WESTLAKE AVE. Between Pike and Pine Sts. | REV. M. A. 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