The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 8, 1921, Page 6

- aécording to Will Newspaper Tn- terprise Asm and United Prem Servion Staten Island, New York. By mall, ent of ctty. 06, tm the state of Washington. 44.50 for € menthe, of $2.00 per year, My carrier, city, 660 « mamth. The Seattle Star See per month; 2 montha $1.50) ¢ months, S276) rear, Outside of the state, 806 Grandpa Gasps A street car that runs on auto tires instead of steel tracks ts being Unlike motor busses, it has a trolley;pole that takes electric Published Datty by The Publishing Co, Malo per mouth, installed on power from overhead wires. It is expected to develop cheaper, swifter, more elastic transportation. Are we on the verge of a day when street car tracks in Seattle will be torn up and the rubber tire take the place of steel tracks? Fifteen years ago, you'd have laughed at the idea. Now you say, “Well, why not?” * * * * * * * * In the days when Coal Oil Johnny was flinging his fortune to the four winds, all oil tanks were sunk in the ground like cisterns. Oil was poured in and pumped out when needed. A bright young man working for the Standard Oil Co. at the now extinct Pit Hole, Pa., suggested building tanks above ground, on stilts. “Then,” he proposed, “we can build a slanting bank of earth alongside the tank. A Wagon can drive up and dump its barrels of oil. We'll tap a hole and draw out the oil at the bottom of the tank by the force of gravity. That'll save pumping it out of the buried tanks now used.” _ An uproar started: “Whoever heard of a cistern being built above ground?” The young man got his idea across, but he learned that it's hard to teach an old dog new tricks. * * *# * * * Most of us find it difficult to imagine anything new. ways and are suspicious of new methods, particularly ones inwolving revolutionary changes in the way of doing the common things of life. That's why the first railroad passenger coaches looked like stage coaches. * * * That’s why we cling to old Even the inventor, despite his vision, couldn't get tke stage coach idea, the old way, en- tirely out of his head. The first phonographs were rigged up with large horns, because folks were accus- tomed to using a megaphone to make small voices sound loud. In the patent office you'll see one of the pioneer typewriters, patented in 1868. __keyboard looks like the keys of a piano, even to the short black keys and long white Its nes. The inventor had seen pianos, and the old-time way of making a keyboard re- fused to get out of his brain cells. Elias Howe almost failed at inventing the sewing machine because he couldn't con- ceive a needle with the eye at the point. His wife had more vision, told him to put the eye at the sharp end, and he got his patent in 1846. * * Times are different now. ; Living in an age of constant changés in which each year brings revoluti ideas and ways of doing things, some of the old dogs are eager to try every * * * zx & & new trick That’s why we move faster than our ancestors—and get further. That’s why the Staten Island people don’t throw a fit at their new street car and ; i vig ght Hdl Hey j | Financing Corporation Act of 1921,” which will do this. It is proposed in this act that ® corporaion be set up, as was the United States Grain Corpora tion, with $100,000,000 of govern- ment money, on which interest will be paid, and the principal re- turned. Incidentally, the govern- ment made nearly $100,000,000 out of the Grain Corporation. It might Bse those profits for this one. Such men as Mr, Hoover say that the hungry, naked, perishing people of the world, either by liens on the stuff sold, or by action of Meir governments, could amply secured debts coming due a year hence for the cotton, wool, grain, meats and other farm products they are dying for the lack of. Vet the Norris bill goes to the committee on agriculture, and is held up. Under it, deferred payment pa per could be taken, and deben- tures issued up to a billion dot lars. It would operate at oner. It ought to be in operation this fall. But we hear nothing from tne president or any others in power which promises us. anything but delay. lay in forming other agencies. if the Norris bill could be trought to a vote, it would pass. M the demand from the people is strong2enough, it will.come to = vote. “Why not a letteg.from every farmer in this to mem- bers of the Washin, Delay in congress; de- Harrah for Jigadier Banker! Ge to, tt, Charile Gee Dawes! You may lose every friend you've get in Washington before you get ; iFEy areF *F ill ill It was a losing fight at many points. His will—his di- rect orders—were thwarted time and again by underlings who were part of the invisible defensive alliance. And the war department, in consequence, paid millions in extortionate profits for war ma- terials. It was that or delay in the prosecution of the war. Secretary Daniels had the same fight to make and made jt more successfully, perhaps, than Baker. It is possible that Darilels’ com- parative success resulted from his having bis eyes opened cpely. He had just taken office. A dinner was tendered him by the arm- chair heroes of his department, When the glow of good fellow- ship bad reached the proper pitch, & venerable and kindly gentleman of high standing among the per- manent job-holders explained to him how things were done. “You just leave it to us,” he gracious ly suggested, “and we'll see that everything runs smoothly.” Dan- jels, so the story goes, thanked his would-be guide warmly, but said he would like to have something to do with his job himself. The war dated from that dinner, Every other department head wnder Wilson iad a similar fight to fight. Likewine “@i@ Taft's eesotiog als ; Sir Olver Lodge eruptions gf the#in our sunsidne. Now, what'll decredse our lested in certatn dust like Americ me. _ gay: “Whoever heard of a street car system without tracks?” eabinet: members, Roosevelt's and #0 on back thru the years. Perhaps Dawes can do for the cabinet officials what few have But stevertheless, go to it, Hell- and-Mazia! ‘ Tip to manufacturers’ wives: In every country town there ts some fellow who scems never to do anything except sharpen an az. Bpeaking of Bims and Harvey, the Rrttish are not surprised Amer- sca diseovered talking machines, Motorists depend too much on their horns and too little on their brakes, Paul \ Potret, Paris dressmaker, says the corset is returning. Where from—the dance hall checkroom? Latest figures put German war casualties at 64848,982. That is her real indemnity Mints insane man became sane as s0om as his teeth were drawn. Bo did Germany The eoeterans wounds are bound only with red tape. One drink of home brew makes the whole world spin. Thirty is now a common age fr marryibg. It is a pity for the race. Miss Halford, secret Sritish National League for Health eee SS I think men pay less attention to womarts dress than they ever did. a Charlies L, Passmore, domestic ations court investigator,, St. Lous. eee brotight up to know cleaning house and and-saving money, marriage Unt girls something abor worki ig a ti This on Your Wise Friend common sense,oull of this: el O thee; omy: as ury.—Lady Limerick, British der. + social LETTERS TO EDITOR | Misses Public Music Waitor the Star: jfrom the East and am astounded at the seareity of music in your city Seattlo ts the first town I have ever | Visited that did not provide its eit! xene with Sunday and evening mu Iam @ visitor; sic, Your taxes high enough to warrant the Me getting sot pleasurable rettrn from same, Aw it in, 1t seoma that your high thxer are used to pay on “white elephants” such as the street car deal ‘The expenditure for Bunday music would be very wii and surely | Editor ‘The Star; Your editorial in Boesday’s issue headed, “Part the | Fool and His ‘T, N, T." was very| greatly appreciated by ma, and merited the thanks not only of those | who are charged with enforcing the city ordinances, but of everybody | else who knows of the dangerous [Practices indulged in so frequently last Monday night. This year there seemed concerted effort to override safety regulations of the city. Our| jordinance ts a r ble one and ha usually not been difficult to en. jforee, but for two or three months [there have been more assaults upon | it than ever happened before. 1 believe the fire department every of: possible to more dangerous of the fire crackern to be a the on Editor The Btar: It used to be a crime to cut a child's throat for its money, but now tt Is done every day, ‘and not only the money of the child but it# friends are robbed, so that sometimes not enough Is left for the undertaker The whole history of medication ts one everiasting succession of explod od fads, Scarcely a single practice of 50 years ago or more is not now | condemned by progressive intelli-| gence. Fifty years hence throat cut ting will be relegated to the dark ages. Not a eingle victim will ever} be wholly sound again and all lives! will be shortened. The glands of the throat are re- quired to secrete cértain alkali fiuida which lubricate all of the vart ous passages In the head, Hundreds THE SEATTLE STAR Agrees on Firecracker Stand Throat Surgery, Necessity or a Crime? jman bodies, as provided by nature, would afford more pleasure for the masses than probably any other ure, It may be, as in my ewn that visitors would derive some pleasure from music in your beaut! ful parks, On the Fourth of July, for instance, there waa not a single i concert in one of the parks. »u boost your clty for tourtets (and t without rer rll admit), but ule in your parks in necewary to entertain tourinta, Every other city 1 have ever vinttdd provides music fn the parks. Why dodge mot Seattle? J, A HOWARD, Bt, Pau! and other fireworks, and in this It received much aesistince from the police, but the tricky and schemes evade the law as to their sale, were unceasing. othing but a better public ments ment will prevent tossing fire crackers into the windows of atreet cars and throwing torpedoes on the wi ik near girls and women, and such expressions as in your paper of yesterday should do much to bring this about, When we become more enlightened, fireworks of all kinds will be prohibited al tomether, ax in now done in 1 great many cities, except in the case of large public displays under proper pupervinion HARRY W. BRINGHURST, Fire Marshal. from drying up of the ducts to the You might as well knock all of the oll cups off from your print ing press and expect to escape dry Joints and ultimate destruction. All congestions of the thront are caused by unnatural feedin: and neglect of elimination. Correct the causes, apply a proper human mag netle current and all of them can be wholly cured, where there is a fair vitality and it is not complicated by vicious diseasen ‘The mutual healing powers of hu jears have been persistently and neifixhly ignored by all healing cults. I have meen some of the worst looking throats cured in a single treatment | by wise manipulation. When will people get out of thelr hypnotized state and listen to natural law? of Seattle children will become deaf Advocates Municipal Burials Editor The Star; Secing #0 many funerals pans lately has reminded | me of the business depression of| the winter and I wondered how peo ple, unable to live decently, could) afford to be decently buried. I bave for many years past advo- cated a different burial plan and I am confident that this will be event ually adopted, expecially in large cities, Death is universal, inevitable, not greatly delayed and may be un-| expectedly swift and sudden. Hence it should be property provided for in advance. The poor cannot do this. The nearpoor are bankrupted and| thelr whole future is jeopardized by | assuming burial debts beyond their meager capacity to pay. The osten- tation and extravagance of the rich cheapens sorrow and sets false standards of expense. Let the municipality be reeponstble for all burials, at a minimum e¢: pense or absolutely free, whether the individual be rich or poor, burying with decency, simplicity and with proper regard to the yarious reli. gious faitha of the perbons involved, We have’ street cars, parks, 2008, libraries, fire department, police, postoffices, public schools. Nobody thinks of conducting any of these | affairs in an individual way. In my home town the weekly average for burials i# 389. Their proper disposal, | from a sanitary and econoric stand. point, in a public rather than an in dividual concern. With the exception &f clothing, the | chief neceanities of life are food and water, fuel, light and burial. Water and light have already been placed on a community basis, to our great benefit in the way of sanitation, ex- pense and convenience. Heat, also, at a minimum expense, could also be | supplied from a central plant, mu- nicipally owned. Food ts a vital nec- easity. Circumstances have made it more and more difficult for one to produce his owh. Distribution of it han become a problem, transporta tion a business in Itself, I anticipate the time when this need of the com. munity will be met in a communal way. Not to do fo Invites waste and want, inefficiency, expense, jmunity management. Burtals are of JOHN EB. AYER, M. V. against undertaker, hospital againat hospital, doctor against doctor. ‘There if no reason why a commun ity matter should not be under com. public concern. Let them be with: out cost, municipally conducted, a democracy of death, pending the! time when we will also be democrat. fe in life. L. M. CLARKE. ONE REMEDY BY BERTON BRALEY core loudly yelp) And there are milliong of folks like mand cheaper help; me, ‘ve cut the wa redudea the| Who like to wander the scenery, bo ‘genina aise But cannot afford to and will not flit But trade in slack, and It 60 MMNMAING | L101 the tickets come down a bit And the raffroad managers Kfpw in- me tent |The ruftroad managers yell for ai4, Om getting a boost from the @vern-| And ali the while they are choking ment— | trade Tho it seems to me, with my feeble | With rates that shippers can hardly wit, They might try cutting theqrates a| No wonder revenues melt away! bit! But instead of seeking for public alms Oh, 1'4 like to travel about /the land,| To pad their profits and soothe their But my purse is slim and iit cannot | qualms, stand |The railroads might—should The rates one pays when heawants to) think it fit roam, Perhaps try cutting the rates a bit! And no, of courne, I remaingat home; 1921, by Seattle Star.) OLD AGE ® have been ad-|youth by those whd are old enough 5 to grow |to know better; but I maintain that they (Copyright 01d gracefully,|no man has any business to add arbi and that is good trarily to his senility, or to hasten advice for those |his own progress toward the grave who need it. |by becoming old before hig time. Meantime, down| There is in every normal man the street comes!some little fraction of boyhood left Grandma, with ,her white |hood every m cap mma flowing! He can better afford to lay aside garments, but his dignity and shock his associates with her skirts up by some foolish prank than to com- not over and incorrupt. That bit of boy n should cherish Ana as for Grandpa, behold him too willingly. to her knees. mit the greater folly of growing old yonder on the golf link, acting as| ‘The best thing is to keep the heart if he were 16 instead of 160! |from growing old. What is the world comting to? The! I recently found these fine lines present generation is growing old by John T. Trowbridge dingracefully! It may be #0, but let ms be thank ful that we have in a measure torn | away the terror and loneliness of old | I keep some portion of my earlier dream, Brokenly bright, on @ river: like moonbeams It lights my life—a far, elusive age. | gleam It is no longer necessary for *| Mover as I move, and leads me on man to begin to die 20;yeara before! forever SR the life insurance companies Buy your foods direct from the his expectancy | WHITE Farmers, Every year we can snatch away) Market, Fourth ahd Pine.—Adver- from old age and consecrate to the | tisement, normal and productive activities of | middie life js so muchgto the good. And that is not the whole of it Every te that binds the older to th: younger generation Ig-a double bless. ing. Every Interest that the father can share with his son and the mother with her daughter makes life Dieased with a durable joy. I do not advocate the aping of Umit Cuticura Soap Will Help You Clear Your Skin in Queen City} TS Piteaemes Teksretetin Sepe 8 saes ae || FRIDAY, JULY 8, 1921 From the Congressional Record MEDICAL SCIENCE Doctors try many periment much things and em After ail, t are very like the tramp who drifted inte jOne of our southern cities Just bes fore an epidemic of yellow fever, When the plague came there waa @ of doctors, and a ho he knew utely nothing of medi- cine, he thought it would be profit- uble to pretend that he was one. He determined to make notes of his learn from experience, Hin firet patient was a German, whe begged continuously and piteously for sauer kraut, so the tramp pree seribed it for him and he got well Th tramp noted in his book, “Sawegl raut will cure « Dutchman of yey low fever.” His next patient was Irishman. The tramp prenerib |sauer kraut and the patient di Then he added under his first entagg “But will kill an Irichman.”—Repape nentative Classon (I), Miss. | oe A Grafted man wag havi questionnaire filled out, and @ |friend who was assisting him can to this particular question: “Ha you any dependent relatives? jreply was: I have plenty |relatives, but you cannot put any 4 | pendence in them.”—Representatiwl Bowling (D.), Ala, Free Examination 'BINYON OPTICAL 1116 FIRST AVENUE i a ¢ 4 ; duplication, 5 Each and all of us must die. Our! bodies must be disposed of—scon— by somebody—in some way—at more or less expense. It is unkind to! make frantic with financial worry| jsome newly bereaved family. It ix| uneconomic to so burden with debt) the wage earner that he becomes vic: | tim of loan sharks, physical break. n, or his children a public charge. 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