The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 29, 1921, Page 6

= es The Deadliest Disease €ancer is the greatest ally of death. One woman in nine and one man in 13 dies with cancer. Five other diseases have heavier death tolls, The reason medical men consider can- cer the deadliest disease is because science knows next to nothing about it. Progress is slow, tho Dr. Franz Kopsch, German scientist, recently has made startling discoveries which, he argues, prove that cancer is transmitted from a larvae of the earth, carried by angle worms. This may prove to be a red-letter discovery, but development toward a cure or pre- ventive is bound to be slow. Meantime, we must increase our vigilance. Cancer is with us all the time, eating steadily into the human race, as it eats steadily into the inatvidual. Dr. William T. Mayo calls it “the arch’ enemy of middle life and beyond.” The Week beginning October 30 is National Cancer Week. During that week, Seattle doctors advise The Star, the public should write these four facts down in their brains with indelible pencil: ONE: Cancer, if discovered n its very early stages, is curable. TWO: Cancer is not contagious. THREE: Cancer is not hereditary. FOUR: Cancer is nearly always due to chronic irritation. cers are in the stomach, the result of irritation. Keep your general health good. Have a competent doctor examine you periodically. Danger of cancer then will be remote. Strike Cloud Rolls Past The nation-wide railroad strike “off.* It isn’t going to happen. Well, few persons ever expected it would. The news couies ax no By malt, out of city, bo per month; & menthe, $ in the state of Washing a for ¢ montha vf $9.00 per year, The Seatt] Thirty per cent of can- of prohibition direct their enor- sics against the constitutional amendment and fight for a frank- ly wet country, “Left-handed” prohibition will never get us any- where, In the Interests of Accuracy , “The people made the law them- selves. If the people want it amended, let them amend it.” That was the comment made by E. Heister Guie, state representa- tive from the 37th district, on the possibility of the state legisiat- ure’s amending the Washington Proposal Should ; Be Accepted Relief is at last in sight for the long-suffering residents of Cowen launched under an unlucky star prohibition law so as to conform Park, wee ba¥® been felt without Sais pclae asa wm soy wale car bana i iy transportation ever since the jit- apathy without x + ’ at os for labor, organized and unorgan- A correspondent, in 8 letter to ved ; ized, it was not a unit as regards the editor, points out that Mr. On November 21 the city coun- cll is to consider the proposal of the Auto Drivers’ anion to restore jitney service to this one section. And, with Mayor Caldweil Gule is mistaken in this statement And the city council should al low nothing to delay a restoration Whether the cars pay 3 per cent or $10 a month— oF nothing at all—the council must Provide the community with some means of transportation. portunity for Conspicuous and Hero- te Deeds? Now this is my message unto all If thou hast lighted the lamp of hope in the humbiest life; if thou child that he might down the path of temptation; thou hast set in the window thine own soul, where it Is visible unto men, & candice lighted by a spark of thine own conviction or experience, so that any life hath been guided aright; if thou hast kin- died into new warmth the flame of JOU RNEYED,)matchwood and kindling by the and I came into/exigencies, of the daily demand» a great Forest of} upon my strength and time. Tall Pine Trees.; Yea, what is this Parable but a And men wereat) Splinter, with the end dipped a Nttle | love within the hearth of any cold work cutting/space into the Personality of him|and troubled home; if thou hast them down. And) who writeth it, that peradventure it| warmed the milk of human kind. not far away|may kindle a kindred glow.‘tm the} ness in the cup of any human be- was a Sawmill/ heart of some one else who hath|ing, then thank God that He hath that sawed the/seemed to himself to fritter away | permitted thee to be cut up into trees into Lum-| his life in trivial duties, with no op-| matches. ber. - B And they sawed down & Pine, and it fell with a mighty t that woke the echoes of the it Poem s for canbe, HALLOWEEN BY BERTON BRALEY When forests glow with a hundred things Of brown and yellow and scarlet bright, When gates go wandering from their hinges And Jack-o-Lanterns are seen at night; When tle-tacs on the window glasses And cows in belfreys are sometimes seen, And lads claim forfeits from blushing lasses At merry parties, it's Hallowe'en! I said, I am a lover of trees, ‘and I could almost as easily murder my father as cut down a tree #0 | fine and tall as that. Yet I know t be done; and it may that it mus’ 1 be cut into or LV Home. And the Foreman spake unto me, . This tree will be cut up for ing of Matche 1 said, Thou mightest make es out of the chips and hon hers of it, but the tree itself Wopld make matches enough to , “gedthp world on fire. Japa he said, All the lumber which | at the mill, and all the that are beside the mill, ‘the trees that these men are yea, and every tree in this forest is for the making of fg » When the air {s crisp and growing crisper, When stars are gleaming in clear cold skies, When children plot in a joyous whisper The japes and whimsles that youngsters prize, When popcorn pops ag the firelight dapples The living-room with a golden sheen, And we roast marshmallows and bob for apples And drink fresh cider—it’s Hallowe'en! n was I sad to think of those hs of the forest casting m~ their crowns and tumbling} their thrones to light cigarets.) But I considered that there be ‘ether and more honorable uses of} Matches, and that so great a tree} ‘would not give its life without serv-| ing many noble purposes. For it| would light the evening lamp ‘n| | many a home, and kindle a glow Pon many a hearthstone, and set ablaze the fires of Indusyry and Productive Toil. And I began to think less unkind ly of this match business. _ And I thought of my own life "nd ot the lives of other men, into how many splinters they are divided.| And I said within myself that 1! ad never been able to make of my| one single, solid, undivided com) to any heroic achievernent That it had been cut up into When bonfires gleam and the tin cans clatter, And sheeted figures glide to and fro, When weird wild noises the eardrum shatter, And eyes are bright and the pulses glow; When folks, no matter how sad and sober, Get out and frolic with relish keen, And say “Goodbye to you, blithe October, Hello November,” it's Hallowe'en. (Copyright, 1921, Seattle Star) A ° A Try This on Your Wise Friend Instead of complaining when it rains, what ig an easier and wiser course to take? Answer to yesterday's: None but the brave deserve the fair. " e bt hast put @ torch into the hand of a/ walk aright) of) THE SEATTI 4E STAR | (LETTERS To EDITOR | A FITTING CASE FOR STATE PARDON BOARD TO PASS ON Editor The Star: About a year ago I read in the newspapers of a man holding up another after getting only 50 cent, long enough in canversati him he was sorry he had t of work and was starving. It strikes me, if he was this crime alone, that the man in Walla Walla, and s for his trouble, engaged nm with his victim to tell 0 do this—-that he was out The victim, just then probably with the gun in his ribs, told him if he would eall aroung at his shop the next day he would give him a job and thus enable him to get along without working as a highwayman. At any rate, if I remember correctly, the man showed up at the shop next morning and the victim, instead of helping him out, turned him over to the police; and a few days later I was amazed to read that he had been sentenced to five years in the peni- tentiary for the 50-cent holdup. sent up for five years for wrong man may be in and if it isn’t asking too much, could you not interest yourself sufficiently to find out if this is so. so, surely that man had his faith in mankind shaken awfully when he was turned over to the police. 1 often think of this case, and if there is a man in Walla Walla doing five years for a 50-cent robbery, it looks like a good case to put before the pardon board. If it is Respectfully, M. Rep. Guie Wrong, Says Citizen Editor The Star: Permit me to call one FE. Helster Guile, state representative from 37th district, on the following statements re prohibition legislation in The Star October 25, 1921: “The people made the law them selves,” he said. “If the people want it amended, let them amend it. I believe the state is overwhelmingly prohibition, particularly the Bastern part The legistature shy 4 not take the responsibility of tampering with the prohibition law that the people themselves enacted.” The above statement, made at random, tx evidently inténded to back up Hon, Mr. Gule’s personal opinion as pertains to the lquor question, which opinion may be very commendable, However, as the statement does not bear out the facts, it would appear that our esteemed Iegislator is ether grossly misrepresenting the issue or lw poorly informed. The present state prohibition (bonedry) law i# not an act of the people, The people did not enact such a law, The measure I voted for and a majority of 14,600 other people voted for, has in effect b repealed by an act of the state leg islature. The original initiative measure adopted by vote of the people, while knocking out the sa Are Pool Halls Degrading? Editor The Star: . Is it permissible for non-test- dent of Seattle to make a few re marks regarding the poolroom hear- Ing scheduled for next Monday? Up to the time we were so busy winning the war, I had considered & poolroom the last word in degra dation. My views have changed to such an extent that I can now see where & pooircom, if properly conducted, could be an ideal poor man’s club, There is many @ man who cannot afford to belong to a club who does like to play océasional game of pool or ecards with his friends and can easily afford the small coxt, Pool in itself can't be so dam- nable or it would not be allowed tn all our best club houses, homes and even our Y. M. C. A. buildings. If all of the “U" men had plenty of Editor The Star: I wish to answer the farmer whose letter was printed tn The Star October 18, who sald a neighbor of his sent two beeves and seven large | beef hides to the Seattle market, and after he had paid expenses of ship- ping and marketing he had $2.63 net for his product and at the same time had to pay $15.50 for a pair of log ger shoes. Now he wants to know what is keeping the shoes so high, and the problem is easily solved ‘The answer is organization, The shoes were bullt from the raw hide by. organized capital and high salaried labor that was nk and the beeves and hides 4 © rained by unorganized farmers, who got nothing for their four or five years’ work raising beeves and hides, Had farmers been organized, they would get $263 for their produag, net, at the farm. Then the price of $15.50 for Editor The Star: I am glad to notice that your admirable column devoted to letters from the people some atten. thru tion is being drawn to the banks and their relation to stagnant bust ness conditions and unemployment the one naturally and of néces- sity follows the other just as a re vival of business will create “Jobs” for the unemployed and opportuni ties for the businessman, There can be no revival of bust ness unless and until, as has been pointed out by William C. Durant, George F. Richardson, the present A Letter From The Star, lead; and here is just another cas For all of us, what we'd bi beyond a doubt, Perhaps you know that I'm a and so I'l tell you, Mr. Ed, the head. I never had a bit of fear, alth first, I thought, I wonder why, no is 4 I thought, if I were strong as ¢ pay, and tell the landlord where him there, N. B.—The story's true, hat—to let it out would never do— rey appearing | writer and others, the ‘banks again on “What would you think of if you were within a lion’s reach?*— Dear Ed, no matter what we read, The Star {s always tn the by making our attention fall on questions vital to us all, pt to think in case w a situation, I would say, we might encounter any day, and think, because, a year or two ago, I met a lion ways very sure to kgow when I am lion to her, dough; and then, without a rising hair, 1 walked awa; t that; but keep this underneath your loon and liquor houses, contained a clause permitting the importation of some two quarts of rpirits or 2 quarts of beer at stated intervals, which clause instituted what be me known as the “permit sys ‘m." lature with the “bone-dry” amend} and nailed the tid down tight. | ‘ ment This upon ¢ amend voids the letter | of initiative measure No. such rights of the people while foiste uise of an nullifies and law ° pe in’ th nt fully $, and a and is admit ents, but only when there is not a local market where it can be safely und profitably employed Banks holding securities and paper of this clanm for ve credit local business er as fundy 9 employed may ‘ reasonable notice, be converted cash, which becomes immediately available for local requirements, and lif banks do not give preference to local business over foreign govern have no excuse fusing |ments and outoftown concerns, then it does not best serve the lo- cality from which its support is drawn, | The fact that the complaint against the banks by local business houses is practically unanimous is either a sad commentary upon the soundness of Seattle and ity bust hows institutions, or a sad reflec tion upon the patrlotiem of our bankers. | Money loaned in New York on call (largely for gambling in stocks, as Mr, Richardson suggests), on, say, one-third railway and two- thirds industrial security, 1# callable }on demand; and fund@ invested in seasoned bonds of initial underwrit ings of unquestioned conserv may be converted into money in a few days/at most, so that the funds the banks of Seattle, or at least many of them, now boast of! having ted up in such loans, could be made available to relieve elected. Mr. Richardson with reference the bh present pressure if the bankers #0 bacon [Dave's dig This writer does not agree with recent bedtime controversy with him | to in regard to Christian Science, socks the federal reserve for the reason|and the sewing of buttons that, in #0 far as local banks are! Vests; announced that concerned at least, the federal ro-| Wasn't going to stand his SATUR: ° ee eoce eee ; 3 : ] 2 e . H The Story of Carol Kennicott § : BY SINCLAIR LEWIS s 3 Copyright, 1920, Harcourt, Brace & Howe, Inc. ¢ H ee SOOOOSEHSOHHHOHEHHHHSEHEEHOOESESESESEES t+ (Continued From Yesterday) simply delicious angel's tood we bag VI at your house, dear.’ 7 “g| ‘“Finet We need a hostess tor She went to the Jolly Seventeen’s| |. ? um tha She had tearned| pe’snarn> of March. Would ag afternoon bridge, the elements of the game from the Sam Clarks, She played quietly and reasonably badly. She had no opin ions on anything more polemic than woolen union-suits, a topic on which Mrs, Howland discoursed for five} minutes, She smited frequently, and was the complete canary-bird in her| manner of thanking the hostess, Mrs. Dave Dyer. . Her only anxtous period was dur ing the conference on husbands The young matrons discussed the intimacies of domesticity with a frankness and a minuteness which |* | dismayed Carol, Juanita Haydock | communicated Harry's method of shaving, and his interest in deer-| shooting. Mrs. Gougerting reported | fully, with some frritation, her hus | nd’s inappreciation of liver and} Maud Dyer chronicled| itive disorders; quoted a} upon | “simply | always | serve bank hag not been called upon, Pawing girls, when he went and got for rediscou the extent that it is available, he doubts very much if the mer- chants, or the bankers for that mat ter, fully realize the functions of| 40M, 9 obviously was she at last de the federal reserve system or how|*!rous of being one of them, far it may be made to go in reliev- ing such situations as exist here to- da If they did, it seems ineon- celvable, short of a conspiracy to continue this period of depression, | an resentful. She deliberately mis not be taken advantage of. I trust that thru publicity, thru your generous columns and more outspoken opinions of .bust hessmen generally, the banks may Then along came the state legis-|that the relief guaranteed should UNderstood. the They regarded her as agreeable but | epirit and intention |>® Made to see and understand the| the inquisition, danger to themselves and to tho! Juanita, the president of the club, was an encroachment on the|C°MMunity that lurks tn the sullen! that she wanted to entertain them. attitude of many progressive men | “ODly tedly unconstitutional, inasmuch as|° Sffairs who have been made to|! 1g to anything Ike Crazy-jeaious if a man just danced ana|With her’; and rather more than sketched Dave's varieties of kisses. 80 meekly did Carol give atten. that they looked on her fondly, and en- couraged her to give such details of her honeymoon as might bé of tn. terest. She was embarrassed rather She talked of Kenni- cott's overshoes and medical ideals til they were thoroughly bored. | green, Till the end she labored to satisfy She bubbled at the said, “I don’t know that ive you any refreshments as it is in conflict with that amend-| fel the eting of repressed creait|"/0¢ ## Mrs. Dyer's salad, or that ment to the constitution providing for the initiative and referendum. However, in the face of federal ieg iwlation it matters little whether the) existing state law is constitutional or not But sponsibility on the people the very slim majority of 18.000 that initiative No, 3 passed, no such law we have now would ever have Thousands who No. 3 did so only because “permit” in it and not the | “prohibit,” Yours tr please do not hang the re-| Whh Cc. C. RUSHER, Bremerton, Wash. money it is not Ukely the poolroom io that locality would be very well patronized by them. Where | woua bave the 10, 15 or 20 cents, jor whatever it costs for a game at such @ place, it would be impes sible for them to get the necessary funds to join a club. So I can't |mee why, if it's all right for Mr. | Tiptop of Nob hill to gq to his “You! [Can't Touch Me club” | pool, billiards or cards, it's not just as all right for Mr. “U" man or Mr. Poorman to go to @ poolroom and play—paying for his diversion as he goes along: said before, the place is properly! nd play conducted. And it's pretty much up) to the police to know whether it is jor not. Sincerely, MC, S, Everett, Wash, 9 @ pair of logger shoes would not have looked so high. I read of another similar Instance | Where a wool grower from Arizona sent, on June 1, 1921, 1,017 lambs to | Chicago, and after he had Paid | | freight, feed, yardage, commission and other charges, he was out of pocket $1,445, Therefore it ts plain that if the farmers want justice, then they must organize and hold|is the root of all evil. their produce and let the buyer come | to them and say, “How much do you want for it?” not being compelled to rush their product to a commission house and ask him, “How much will | give me for it?” Neither can the farmers mix them- selves up with anything like a farm er-labor party and think that ft will end their trouble, They must organ ize a real farmer organization of their own. HENRY KRINKE, $561 Sixth Ave. 8, begin to function as banks and re- sume extending commercial credits.} As long ay they continue exporting | money while denying credit on a fair basis to local businessmen, Just 80 long will business “mark time.” There is just one thing the banks Jeannot long withstand, and that is public sentiment, and if they per- sist in their present practices, the public will resent it in no uncertain manner, It ts good banking practice to in. | vest funds that would otherwise lie idle in marketable bonds, commer: cial paper of unquestioned merit or call with New York correspond. - * Avridge Mann @ of helping out the human race, should do our bet to figure out met a lion face to face~ gink who doesn't have to stop and I know; thoughts that rambled thru my 0 the beast was very near. But » matter how I ever try, the wife hey, I'd tell the boss to raise my to go for wanting such a lot of and left AVRIDGBE MANN, I met the lion in the zoo, Providing, as Vy and the even more subtle danger arising thru the unemployment re- sultant from the banks’ Present practices, Very truly yours, THE RINGMASTER, Blood Money Editor The Star “In five years,” | “thie stupid earth spent on war, kill |!ng @nd destroying, more than three hundred thousand millions of dollars. If & man spent ten times his yearly revenue in one drunken, murderous debauch, he would have to mve and ings uni approaching the very centur, at last Wwe behold it in its true shape as a whirl-pool that will suck us down to |who want money and power more than life itself will drive us there if | possible, \they told me at Sunday school a story about the golden calf whose worship was the undoing of a chosen people, ages and today It Is become a mis- shapen monster whose Taurine grip strangies the nation, Gola, Death,” is ite ery. Its hungering ery for blood ts heard everywhere. The church may protest Ull black in the face, but this is the god we worship; a giant to slay us, and its worst name is blood. The worship of gold bas alway courted death, war and pestilence. It is, in its true shape, not bright and shining, but that black, ghostly devil that has sold man into slavery ind ignorance: and here by its sides, of old, walks Judas, the betrayer. Not without reason did those old writers say that the love of money Not money, jmark you, but the LOVE OF MONEY, forms this root. | Money iy good and useful as a ser vant of man; it is a devil when asso elated with lust, the love of power and the pride of life. The golden calf-path is a crooked one indeed. ever divorced from the straight and narrow way, W. H. SCOTT. The Musical Art Society SPARGUR STRING QUARTET Wednesday Morning, November 2, at 11 o'Clock FINE ARTS HALL The First of a Series of FIVE MORRING MUSICALES Reserve Tickets at Sherman, Clay & Co. First Presbyterian Chure Seventh ‘and Spring 11 A. M. “House to House Gospel” by REV. M. A. MATTHEWS 7:16 P.M, Song Service Led by M. D. WELLS 7:30 P.M. Great Bible Conference Bogin: 9 Subject bs “Our Time in the Light of Prophecy” It Will Be Conducted by ‘ays Brisbane, | | | | | insane destruction. Those mad fools, | When I was a small boy | That calf has lived thru the! | | REV, A. B, WINCHESTER D. D. » Everybody Welcome \ Safe Way. receive in return a sent; or this bank Safe method. Better be Safe th ‘SMILE WITH NILE AT THE SHRINE CIRCUS ARABAIN FETE AT THE OCT. 29 TO NOV. 9 (Inclusive Except Sundays) PUBLIC CORDIALLY WELCOME Safe Ways to Send Money Take no chance of losing the money you send to foreign countries—use a It is easy to deposit funds here and can cash but the person to whom it is money by post remittance—the other explain before you forward money. Foreign Department | Dexter Horton National Bank || Second Ave. and Cherry St\ » SEATTLE DAY, OCTOBER 29, 1921 be awfully original if you made tt St. Patrick's Day bridge? I'll be tickled to death to help you with {. I'm glad you've learned to play bridge, At first didn’t hardy know if you were going to like Gopher Prairie, Iwn't it dandy thag you've settled down to being hy with us? Maybe we aren't as high, brow an the cities, but we do hare the daisiest times and—oh, we go swimming in summer, and and—oh, lots of good times. If folky will just take us as we @ I thing we're a pretty good bunc “I'm sure of it. Thank much for the idea about neta St. Patrick's Day bridge.” “Oh, that's nothing. 1 think the Jolly Seventeen are 99 good at original ideas. If you knew these other towns, Wakamin ang Joralemon and ail, you'd find oyt and realize that G. P. is the liveliest, smartest town in the ‘state. Did you know that Percy Bresnahan, the ta mous auto manufacturer, came from here and Yes, I think that @ St. Patrick's Day party would bp awfully cunning and original, ang yet not too queer or freaky or any. thing.” I CHAPTER XI I She had often been Invited to the weekly meeti of the Thanatop. is, the women’s study club, but she had put it off. The Thanatop- sie was, Vida Sherwin promised, “such @ cozy group, and yet it puts you in touch with all the intellectual thoughts that are going on every. where.” Early in March Mrs. Westlake, wife of the veteran physician, marched into Carol's living-room like an amiable old pussy and sum gested, “My dear, you really must come to the Thanatopris this after. noon. Mrvw. Dawson is going to be (Continued on Page 1p ee iene Senne — si sri ltrnnssesstssenenemn % draft that no one will forward your an Sorry. Let us n ————————— BRE RES ear ol ae