The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 20, 1921, Page 6

and United Press Serviow By mail, out of etty, Se per month: # montha F150; « $5.00, tm the wtate of Washington, Outside of ¢ $4.58 for @ mentha, or $9.00 per year, Trapped in the Clouds =<=| The Seattle Star By carrier, oft months, $2.18) year, tale, $06 per momtn, y, Me & month, What would you do if you were nearly a mile above ground in an airplane that sud- denly started to fall? Would you go to pieces or would your presence of mind save you? This thrilling experience happened to E. G. Leonhardt, air mail pilot. The story is safety. in every industry. '8 flood. Teal man. ‘Blyzed and helpless? Hh Fe Feeehitee E & rf HEE Fecovery is essential for America’s own recovery. We have only two Smiths left in congress, which may explain why they are so long beating the swords fnto plowshares. The shimmy was discobered by a @ fat woman walking fast and sy stopping suddenly. A Colonial Secretary? No! There comes & proposal that the governmént add to itself 8 colonia] secretary—a cabinet min- ister to handle all our relations with our outlying dependenc:cs. This can be said against the proposal: Once established, this cabinet Job would become permanent and the department would grow larger and larger. It is the inevitable way of such jobs and such de- partments. The American idea has been to administer the affairs of foreign peoples only where it becomes mecessary and for only as long as it Is necessary, We always have held out the promise of in- dependence. In the case of Cuba we have made good our promise. Once @ permanent cabinet of- fice is created in this connection, our promise would go by the boards. It is not the way of “government departments to ad- minister themselves out of their jobs. When prosperity does knock at some doors it can't be heard be- Cause of the knockers inside, The argument against autos try- ing to beat train’ over crossings ds that often the race ends on a tie. Hays says people have a billion dollars hidden in old stockings; but there isn't much hiddch in the new mtockings. ie Sugar prices no longer are un- > going the rounds among aviators. Last January, Leonhardt was flying cast thru a terrific blizzard, 4,000 feet above sea level. He was over Pennsylvania, crossing the Allegheny mountains. Suddenly the taper-pin on the elevator-control of the plane sheared off. Leonhardt was in the same predicament as you would be if you were driving a car 60 miles an hour and the steering wheel broke, The mail plane broke into a series of dives, Running wildly, like a bucking broncho, it shot up again, then dived head-on toward earth. Leonhardt’s brain worked like chain lightning. He unloosened his life belt, squirmed down to the break—and used his metal Eversharp pencil as an emergency taper-pin. Another few seconds . . . he had the mail plane under control, and was gliding to * 8 & * * & You recall the school-book story of the little Dutch boy who, finding a hole in the dike that kept out the ocean, plugged it with his finger and stood all night, preventing ' The reason we all like these stories is because it takes an emergency to bring out the * The brain, that private office that controls your body, when it is ‘emergency, ‘either goes dead or works like greased lightning. What is it that gives one man presence of mind in a pinch, while ahother is par- The Musical Financier Gen, Charles G. Dawes, who as director of the budget, has the champion headache job, has writ ten some music that has been put out this month by one of the talk- ing machine companies, It’s called, “Melody in A Major,” and it must be rather good music, for Frits Kreisler, the vielinist, con sented to play it for the phane graph record, Dawes, who once was director of the Chicage Grand Opera com pany, plays encogh musical instro- ments te substitute on any occa sion in one of those country town bands such as gave President Harding his first fame beyond the horizon. Maybe Harding and Dawes “could get out a cornet and a violin, respectively, and put a little jazz Into congress. eee on spending, bas something like music as a safety valve or hobby. Where the average financier would stick to his statistics 124 hours a day-and soon get so tan- gied up in them that he wouldn't produce much exceptunreadable re- ports, Dawes can get out his fiddle and, drifting off in melody, get better perspective on his job, All work and no play makes dack a jackass, The man who hasn't a hobby— golf or pinoche or amateur pho tography to give his brain and body recreation—is close to the advanced stages of dry rot. The late J. P. Morgan, it was said, conceived many of bis trans- portation projects in evenings when hep layed with toy trains of cars. If you haven't a hobby, you'd better get one. eee Musie is the hobby of Financier Dawes because music is nothing but a cultured form of mathemat- les. Mathematics suggests finance, so we earnestly recommend that Bud- geteer Dawes take his fiddle into senate and house and scrape off some of the classical selections that might curb congress’ spend- thrift ways. For instance, “Over the Hills to the Poorhouse.” Or, “Money Am the Root of All Evil.” Or, “When I Had Money, I Was Crazy to Spend.” If these seem to be getting in their work, switch over to: “Save Up Your Nickels and Your Dimes and Your Rocks, and You'll Al ways Have Moncy in Your Old Tobacco Box.” The man who stands around waiting for something to break usually finds he does. Most shapely girls regard bath- ing suits as dry id. Some men get enjoyment out of their home—out of it, Another thing that looks smaller going than coming is trouble, A square meat still costs a round sum, 4s @ man tinks so is his car, Some years ago, at Findlay, Ohio, an oil well was being “shot.” A long tube, filled with nitro-glycerin, was being lowered down the pipe. Suddenly the “shooter” heard a rattling. A pocket of gas had opened up down in the well and was blowing the tube of explosive into the air, It would drop to earth ‘and explode before the shooter could get away. So, with remarkable courage and presence of mind, he knelt over the hole and as ‘the tube came out, hugged it to him and fell over backward. There was no explosion. Similar stories of exceptional ‘presence of mind are told in nearly every factory and confronted by an LETTERS TO EDITOR Another Jail Experience I came to Seattle, after selling my | concrete room about 30 feet long Property and business in Tacoma, 15 feet wide, had a dirty sink with about $7,500, intending to make|a broken water faucet on it is Seattle my home. I am married and| corner and a lavatory exposed have two children. i weeks ago I 11 p. m, at my home and placed in| There were, I fudge, about 17 & cell on an open charge. * They would not kept me there until I could prove my identity, two days later, The first night was spent in « long cement room with about 25 other) men of ail types, mostly dope fiends | and drunks. I had to sleep on an |! tron-slat bed without any covers or mattress, The place was {I!.emelling | and the drinking water and lavatory were simply imponsible to use. The next morning they placed seme mush and milk, part of a loaf of bread and some cotfee on the! floor, and we had to run and grab what we wanted. The other inmates seemed to have been broken’ to it, for they rushed and grabbed all they could. I went without my breakfast. The North End Slugger Editor The Star: Just a tine of comment on our “police protection” which we on the north side outskirts | are getting. For more than a week past a young fellow has been terror. izing our women and children, Four) cases of assault, one almost fatal, | have occurred and when the police were phoned for each time ONE po-| iceman was sent out on a streét| tar, over an hour after the crime| Was reported. | Of course one man cannot very easily surround another man, so the | lonesome cop takes another street car home. | Now the other day a bank clerk | Or messenger was robbed of $25,000 and promptly, as the papers state, Editor The Star: The corps area; commander hag directed me to thank you most sincerely for your unself- ish and patriotic efforts in behalf of | the citizens’ military training camps. | Thru your assistance, we were able | to obtain all of the results possible in the city of Seattle, notwithstanding the difficulties which had to be sur- | mounted. Seattle more than dou bled its alloted quota per population, and, due to your efforts, we were Editor The Star: It ts with inter- eat we have noted the attached arti- cle upon the “Oldest Book in the United States.” We ‘e & book entitled\The World queror,” printed in Lon-| don, in 1668, which has been in our immediate family since 1780, or 141 Editor The Star: railway The pay of street employes was rained some | time , to meet the cost of living when it was at its highest, Tf this rate of wages, which, T am told, is considerably above the scale | for similar work elsewhere, is rexpon- sible {pr our high car fare, now that Editor The Star: A few days ago; there appeared a letter in your pa-| per relative to unimproved and im-| passable streets in Seattle and the cause was laid at the door of non. residents and vacant property own ers, While no doubt they are responal- OME to run the train wi first entered the farm, and train gained upon him, his course to a parabolic curve. Ry the time the the end of the wide field, well behind, but stl running, Ho field, but fell Into it, and stood barking after the tri Then he ward, BY DR. WILLIAM BE. BARTON months ago I was riding on a fast train 7 noticed a dog TO THEM THAT HATH that ran after us] At some other time during the with menacing] present day or on some other day barks, during the debate, I intend to an The dog lived| «wer the senator from Montana (Mr. on a farm, and] Myers) as to the euffering of our the farmhouas| former soldiers and as to whether or sat some dis| not they are as much entitled to re-| taneé back. lief a8 are the railroads, to whom! The dog, began toward he altered train reached he was ran so hard he did not see the ditch at the extreme end of the ermwied .out, trudged siowly home A tow weeks later I had occasion to go again on that same train, and eo name From the Congressional ecord we are going to give $500,000,000, or the European nations, to whom we are going to give $10,000,000,000, or! the junketing trip, to which the other day gave $5,000 without a word) we have of changing the personne! of the board of public works, the body that has to do with the wretch 4 conditions prevailing in improved districts of the city, 80 thus we may have in charge of one department a man who can guiers within two-thirds of what a thing will cost when completed, that in $5,000,000 on a $15,000,000 project, and we may have some pseudo “la- bor leader” or something elee at the C. M. T. Camps a Success Has Book Printed in 1668 Wants Carmen’s Pay Reduced 1 chanced to 'be sitting on The same dog emerged and nde. Most improved city gireets today raw in the same curve and felljare worse than unpaved country into the same ditch and stood curs) roads, and as for paved country ing tho train, and then tumed and walked back home. | I have known men who de the! same thing. They consider It thetr) special prerogative to run out and bark at particular innovations, knowing, as» they must know, that it will do no particle of geod. Now, for the man whe confronts an evil and boldly makes bis pro test, even tho he be ignored or persecuted or crucified, I have only | words of praise, The future belong» ly to him. Coming generations will rise up and call bim blessed. th But there ober men who) merely run go | is home and anywhere . There is no virtue in that kind of performance, They should stop and tnquire, first, whether the train ts not mind ing its ows business, and setting them a good example; secondly, whether any amount of chasing it will do any good, and thirdly, what they would do with the train ff, per chance, they should overtake it. But that dog will run after that same train till he has rheumatism in his every senile joint; or until some day the fall into the ditch breaks his senseless neck. called a bull pen. It was o large wot it I do not know, The floor was of concrete. There were no chairs nor benches te sit upon. One must either stand or sit upon the. dirty ir. And from the condition of the floor 1 was forced to remain standing un- Ul 2 p. m that day, when I was toid I could go, my wire having been answered and identity proved. If you care to have any proof of what I have written, just run an ad in your paper and ask for Plus X and I will stand back of what I have written. I am leaving this town for Port- land in two weeks. I have had enough, Thanking you, PLUS X over 100 motor cops and auto posses are sent Qut See the difference? What 08 awful crime to rob a mes senger! ‘* what does it matter to our brave Chief Searing if our wives are slugged and assaulted? Thou sands are spent on dragging the lake for Mrs, Mahoney but nothing can *pent to protect the lives and ho of our wives, If a lady on Capitol Hill had been assaulted would Searing send one man to catch the culprit? Of course we pay taxes for police protection, but we haven't the money necessary to demand our rights and get them, Yours truly, R. D. GARDNER, $142 40th Ave, N. BL able to arouse interest and enthuedl- asm to theextent that these camps are succeeding, Inasmuch as these camps consti. tute a vital part of the war depart- ment’s plans for the reorganization of the military establishment, you have played a most important part. Sincerely yours, ‘A. R. EMERY, Major, Infantry, D, O. La Assistant Adjutant. years. This makes the book 253 years old; or 18 years older than the book re- ferred to in The Star of July 15, The book is printed in old English and is very hard to read. Very truly yours, D. BE. MARRIOTT, 618-20 E. Pine St the cost of food, clothing, eta, is lower, why not reduce operating ex penses to a point that will permit a lower fare? The present rate ts @ serious bur- den to many, particularly those who are not working. OND OF THE UNEMPLOYED. Our Impossible Streets gineering department that can bufld streets and a street department that can take care of them. Until that happy day arrives the tax and as- sessment payers of this city would do well to pasture the streets and take to traila. We have all kinds of Mamboyant ble in a great measure, I think they are’ somewhat of a Godsend at the) present momerit to put the brakes speeches by aspiring mayoralty candidates biannually as to who they will appoint chief of police or on expenditures unt we get an en-| dog catcher, but mever ~ chance do head of another department. roads there is no comparison, Right [here I wish to say it is a totally unnecessary money when the superintendent of | streets posts notices informing mo- torlets of the city limits on the va- rious highways entering the cit: less he docs it for publicity, blind man can tell when he bits’ the city’s “corduroy,” Kast Marginal W. will patient people suffer while their money is being squandered? ness sake lets close up shop. as f complaint-—Senator ia taon (D.), eee A BODY OF SOLOMONS | judiciary of the senate ever felt qualified to substitute their judg ment for the Judgment of the phyal clan as to the amount of wine that a physician might presoribe for a pa ent?Senator Spencer (1), Mo, eee A SECOND LADY GODIVA Mr, Speaker, reserving the right to Object, and T shall not object provid ed the gentleman from Maryland (Mr HUI) will accompany that editorial with the accounts of bis parade in the Baltimore American and Sun, is wue of, the fifth day of July, siving an account of hin mounted on milk white marching at the head of prohibition protestors.—-Rep. Bian ton (D), Tex REMARKABLE REMARKS Jazz music in a jazzy way is the oply thing that appeals te church- goers today-—Andrew K. Rule, Vriends University Professor, eee expenditure of public} I have in mind , & comparative: new improvement. How long Again I-say if what we have ls e best timber available, for good. | This) | Rev. AN France ts at work, and the people are looking forward to a long period of peace. —-Hugh C. Wal lace, former American ambassador to France, ere People are staying away from church because they learn nothing They hear things they sirendy know,—The Rev. Dr. Henry Sloane Coffin, New York clergyman. ‘We shall have @ crime wave as |!ong as the profiteer sets an evil/ example to the petty eriminal—The | no Ume to mince w CHAS. THE SPRECKELS “SAVAGE” TIRE FACTORY BRANCH ‘The Tyre Shep Chapman's Tire Shep Cotumbla Tire Shop clergyman. THE SPRECICELS “SAVAGE” TIRE CO. OUR GEST ASSET 1S THE SATIGFIED CUSTOMER COMPANY, - Will the senator be good enough to tell me how the committee on the Baxter Waters, Kansas oy) Poems A U minds and morals of men are changing Men are learning better to distinguish right In other words, men are progressing, for' this ress. In tune with this spicit it is not strange >( f ? or Wyoul ‘rapBook FROM THE WOUNDED BY BERTON BRALEY =; ‘We don't want cheers when we hobble past-o We never expected the cheers to last; But after the country made a fuss Concernin’ the things it would do for It kinds seems that there's somethin, . us, is wrong Or we wouldn't be waitin’ quite so long For the things they promised us long ago Say, don't you think they're @ trifle slow? ‘We Man't Unger or waft at al In jfoinin’ up at our country’s call, ww And we wasn't slow-in doin’ our stunt When we walloped the Heinies at the fronty But now that the war is over, say, It seems to us that this long delay In payin’ @ part of the promised debt Ain't just exactly what we should get? ‘We ain't expectin’ ne rousin’ cheers, But even after a couple o' years, You'd think this nation we battled for ‘Would still remember there wos a war, And after a while, perhaps, come thru With some of the help that it promised tag And in the meantime, we hope and plan And hobble along the best we can! 8A 918 East Pike Street Now Method Tire Shop 2101 Westlake ve, Probst Tire Ce. sue Sh New Universi'y Garage Cor, E. 45h and Breektys Tenth Avenue Garage Terminal Gurage 1423-25 10th Ave, ‘ Cor, Jackson St. and Western Ava, ~ Douglas & Douglas, the Tire Raracens, Bamuccton, Wass, (Copyright, 1921, by Beattie Star) Try This on Your Wise Friend Arrange the following letters to form a popular pi erb: aadegghiilllInoorssttttt. 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