The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 17, 1921, Page 2

EDUCATORS GO ON CHINA TRI Embark From Seattle to Victrola No. 80 $100 Terms $7— Monthly Several leading educators of the! United States and Great Pirttain are included in the commision which | was to leave Seattle Wednesday, aail ing from Vancouver for the Orient with members of the Rockefeller Foundation, for an extended study of the schools and colleges of China. Dr. Ernest D, Burton of the Uni veraity of Chicago, will serve as chairman of the commiamton, the sec: retaries of which will be Dr. Frank W. Padelford of New York, searetary of the board of education of the [Northern Baptist convention, and | brother of Dr. Frederick Padelford | | of the University of Washington, and | Mins Mai t K. Burton of the Na- tional ¥, W. CA | The party is sent upon the invita. ! tion of mission bodies in China, by | the China Continuation committee | OUR VICTOR SERVICE OFFERS YOU— —all styles of Victrolas to choose from. —a complete stock of Victor Records, new, unused and perfect. —quiet, comfortable demonstration booths. —courtesy and intelligent attention from Victrola —prompt and efficient mail service. Skagit County Dairymen's associa {ton opens for business, It will take —and you can pay to suit your needs, ff} :0.000 pounds of milk daily The commission will attend the dedication of the new Rockefeller | hospital in Pekin, about the middie lof September, before beginning sev. eral months’ study of educational in. stitutions thruout all but Western China. Among the members of the com mission will be President Wooley of Mt. Holyoke college, Mt Holyoke, Mass.; President Butterfield, of the | | Masmachusetta Agricultural college; | | Dean William F. Russell. of the Towa | | State university; Prof, Rodby, of the | University of Liverpool, Liverpool, | Engiand, and Bishop McConnell, of the Methodist Episcopal church, MOUNT VERNON.—-New plant of [And | 1 Study Schools i Jana the Foreign Missions conference. | ‘Says Earth Is Flat | * * * * * * * * He Proves It! Charles Bishop, who proves, to his own satisfaction, at least, that earth is flat.—Photo by Price and Carter, Star staff photographers. By Wanda von Kettler light, and that light makes heat. The $7— A MONTH purchases a $75— Victrola. and a $7— assortment of Victor Records, your ff $10— choice (total $82—). $12— GENUINE A MONTH purchases a $125— Victrola “BULL and a $10— assortment of Victor Rec- $22* DURHAM ords, your choice (total $135—). A MONTH purchases a $150— Victrola $27= tobacco makes 50 and a $12— assortment of Victor Rec- ords, your choice (total $162—), 50 A MONTH purchases a $225— Victrola and a $17.50 assortment of Victor Rec- ords, your choice (total $242.50). A MONTH purchases a $275— Victrola and a $22.50 assortment of Victor Rec- ords, your choice (total $297.50). A MONTH purchases a $350— Victrola and a $27.50 assortment of Victor Rec- ords, your choice (total $877.50). ‘There is only one way to look deat. we your clothes for YOU and do not accept them untess they are CORREC 40HN E. O'BRIEN n's Clothes 506 Union Street Sult to i? 940 to $65. Many at $40 Always 11 Years, 10 Months 6% Interest We are offering Seattle dwelling property owners a new monthly installment loan that runs for 11 years and 10 months and pays out in that time. You pay seven dollars per $1,000 per month on account of principal and one month’s interest on unpaid balance at 6%. Ona $2,000 loan your payment account of principal is $14. You are cred- ited with this amount each month and interest is charged on the un- paid balance only. You can pay part or all of principal any time. This is the best loan ever offered the home owner. Circulars mailed. on re- quest. Call Main 0780 for further information. White & : Bollar [Inc. “The Mortgage Firm” 600-604 Leary Building Un travels 1,000 miles an hour. FLAT? SURE! EVERYTHING'S STRAIGHT UP AND DOWN “I know the world ts fiat,” he gays, “because everything is mraigit Up and down, “I would like to ask any college professor how he accounts for straight up and down when a ball is turning around.” When asked how a ship nails “around” the world, Mr, Bishop traces a twig around his chart. “Just Uke going around a race track,” he ys, “all on @ fiat surface.” / jut another thing,” he reverts to colinge professor, “I must ask hint this: How can # ball be made almost entirely of water?’ Gravity, he says, is not a power of holding water, objects and people to earth. It merely supporte the living. When a tree dies, he contends, the gravity is gone and the tree crum bles to earth. “If gravity held us down,” Mr Bishop explains, “it would hold us so tightly we'd be stuck—stationary, immovable objects on the earth's wurtace.” ‘The presence of water he also uses to prove that moch more land is yet MUST BE MORE “More land necessarily exists than water,” he insists, “because water cannot be held without a basin, and the basin in this is the Iand. The land, then, must greater ia sine in order to form a basin large enough to hold the water.” These ~anly a very few princi. Where Are Your Liberty Bonds and War Savings Stamps? Are they in your home or your office, where they are in danger of being mislaid, burned or stolen? Don’t you think it would be worth while to have a Safe Deposit Box in which to keep these securities together with any other valu- able papers, such as deeds, mortgages, notes, contracts, your will, stock certificates and insurance , Papers; also jewelry, keepsakes, heirlooms, etc., where they would be secure from fire and theft and under your own per- sonal control? Our vaults are of solid steel and concrete construction of the strongest type, protected by massive doors, and guarded day and night by electrical devices. We have attractive and convenient private booths where you may take your box and inspect your valuables at any time. You are given two keys and are privileged to share the box with any one you choose without extra charge. This service costs a fraction over a cent a day. ‘The world is flat. * Charies Bishop, Woodland park's old man visitor and ama teur scientist, has challenged any college professor to prove that It Ian't. Bishop states that all hin life he has known .the truth about the world—-it has come to him as a gift —but that during the past 25 years he has studied the facta and made maps which prove his theory. Once in & while he will explain this the ory to an occasional visitor in Wood jand park. SAYS HE CAN PROVE IT, TOO Producing a chart—a circular chart on which the world ts laid out an a flat surface with the North pole designating the center-@Bishop seats himeeclf on a bench and begins enthusiastically: “You, I tell you the world is Mat, can prove anything I say.” “In the first place, the sun is only 3,000 miles away from the earth, and is not quite two miles in diameter, Measuring from the 50th latitude to the equator you will find the dis tance to be 3,000 mile, Then drop- ping a plumb Iine like @ tree angte from the sun when it stands directly over the equator, you will find like wise that this is approximately 2,000 miles. “Another mistake,” he continued, “ia the belief that the world moves. joes not. It in stationary, It in im, & ball, not of fire, but of that moves, an We Invite Your Inspection The Vaults are open from 8:30 4. m. to 5:30 p. m., except Saturday. Saturday, 8:30 a. m. to 1:00 p. m., 6:00 p. m. to 8:00 p. m. +] many opportunities for ascents, || Broken lenses CLIMBERS DROP, RISE AND WIN Reach Suiattle Pass and) Proclaim Its Beauty By Lulie Nettleton Mountaineers arrived in Sulattle | pase (G80 feet) from ugk Creek pass, | & distance of elght miles, but involv: | ing a drop of 900 feet, a climb of 1,300 fect, another drop of 1.800 feet and | a rine Of 1,100 feet. Sulattic pass is as beautiful a camping #pot as Buck | oreeck, and, like the former, there are; August 10 @ party under L. A. net. son and P, M. MacGregor made an A Paramount Pieture ascent of Sitting Bull mountain (7,700 fect). ‘Thowe in the y were: Le A. Nelson, P, M. MacGregor, Lars Loveneth, Ruth Battomley, John Pit zen, Myrtle Matthews, Charles More, A romance, gorgeous and thrilling as befits this beautiful new star of the screen. Milton Sills is leading man, COLISEUM CONCERT ORCHESTRA 34 Artixts, Arthur Kay, Conductor, playing “Coronation March,” from’ the opera “Folkunge® Vivian Strong-Hart singing “Love Song” from “Sweethearts”—Victor Herbert COMING—DOUGLAS MacLEAN in “ONE A MINUTE” ? Horning, Mary Shelton, Granger, Blea Grelle, Leo Gallagher, | 0. J. Smith, Karen Olsen, Lulle Net: | tleton, Glen Bremerman, Laurie Fra- zeur, F. Q Gorton, Ben nd | J. M, Gleason, Six of the pa the ascent of another peak distance east and made a record of three penke in a day by capturing the summit of Saddle Bow (7,900 feet), a really first-class climb, there being sume good rock work up the face of the mountain, The party con- sisted of Hen Mooers, Leo Gallagher, Brooks Horning, Glen Bremerman, Lars Loveseth and Charley Sim- mons. On Friday, August 12, the party will break camp and proceéd over Cloudy pass down to Lyman lake, where they will remain a week, The | A romance of the forests— “The Man Worth While” —with Romaine Fielding “ 100% Courtesy, Music, main features of the camp wil! be the knapsack trip to North Ster peak, « The dashing Irishman is beck! mountain which is believed un “int TOM ~ LAREDO, Tex.—Three persons die from eating bread in which poison was mistakenly used as flour. \ amma, « ples that lead to Mr, Bishop's one Im- portant theory that the world is Mat, Re in working them out continually, in hig cottage at Gist and Second | ave, N., and in his favorite haunts at Woodiand park. He will have greater things to tell the world, he says, within the next six months. Mr, Bishop has been a resident of Washington for 40 years, living the last 15 years in Seattle. He! | MOORE “Made in Heaven” The story of a quickewitted fireman whose nerve wins the pretticst member of society's inner circte! “Ty DO” A screaming satire on married life—as joyous as a heat lives alone in bis cottage on Second ave. his two children being married and living in San Francisco. Un til two years ago he worked in Seattle as a blacksmith THEORY CORRESPONDS TO THAT OF JAP In many respects his theory t* similar to that of Hiromichi Iida, Japanese scientixt of the present time, who will endeavor to prove at the coming Tokio Peace exhibi- tion that “the earth js a Mat ex- tension of land and water, there will being terra incognito beyond the Antarctic circle.” But Mr. Bishop bas not studied the investigations of the Japanese scientist. Rather, he says, he has worked out all the principles him- wolf, and is ready at any time to have “any college professor come ogainst him.” After the anow, we'll go to Boldt's. 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