The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 26, 1922, Page 6

A Little Sermon on Harold “ff a man die shall he live again?” That query caused men to fret and fuss for a long, while, but modern man has improved on the interrogation, “Tf a man be half dead shall he live and love again?” : To such worn-out doddlers, whimpering In their senility, whining in their sterility, comes the new Messiah from the laboratory and preaches glad tidings of goat glands. The new religion, a typical one, evolved from the desires, the dollars and the dupes of an erotic but erudite complexity. We see where Harold McCormick has gone and borrowed the glands of either a husky young fellow, or else of some unconsulted monkey, and soon Harold will frisk and frolic like the March hare or the mad hatter, and the little hills will shout together for joy. Now it is: Harold is 50 and a year, but he needs new glands; Abra- ham was somewhat more elderly when he rejuvenated him- self, but Harold holds to the more modern faith that money encompasses all, So the young man gets $500, so they say, and Harold takes up his bed and walks, and the eminent gland shifter Editor The Star Youterday I overheard two men, evidently motorists, talking about the “ill natured farmers” in Wash | ington, I wonder if he ever lived on a ranch where one gets up at daybreak i tired out because of lack of sleep caused by a lot of fool motorints Editor The Star: | Harold F. MeCormick the harvest: | er king, feeling po advised by «| | physician to undergo an operation, | rents an entire floor in a hospital | nd employs five nurses and three ors to patch up his poor old car- CANS. The surgeon who performed the operation wag Dr. Victor D, Leap! naez, the goatgland epecialint. If hospitals in Chicago are as crowded as they are in Tacoma, and most likely they are, what right, I'd lke to know, has one man to monop- Ealtor The Star: The King County Humane Boctety wishes the courtesy of your columns to reply to the letter of Eileen Arm- strong in your issue of June 22. ‘The Humane Society ts criticized Decause it did not come after a nick eat immediately, Anyone familiar | ERS ek “Jay Riders” Peeve This Farmer Monopolizing the Hospital Space THE SEATTLE STAR tearing by with thetr mufflers cut out? Why do some city people belleve that there ts no law outside the city limits, and eall us rubes? Which, I ask you, shows more ignorance? Is there not some way of getting at these “Jay riders?” RANCHER. olige so much hospital space and so much skill? I wonder how many people died while McCormick was in the repair shop, I say honpitals should refuse to give anyone more in eervice than the case demands, I say, too, that rall- roads should be prohibited by lw when travel is heavy, from sellin nection to one person, unless that person be old or tll There are some things which money has no right to buy. D K, M. Humane Society and Injured Cats to the amount of humane work that our society does tn Seattle and King County, In the past nine days our officer has answered emergency calls for 16 Injured dogs and 20 In jured cats. Many a time in the past year he has gone out after § or 9 o'clock at night from his own home, because of some very prensing cas (Starts on Page 1) whether you did or you don't dy thet lives out her’d try to make Haxard Pans for th’ first time im th’ middle o’ May.” “I don't see" “Look up there.” The old man pointed to the spotches of white, thousands of feet above, the awirling clouds which drifted from the tey breast of Mount Taluchen, the mints and fogs which caressed the prec: pices and rolled through the valleys crented by the lesser peaks, “It may be spring down here, boy, but it’s January up there, They's only been two cars over Hazard since Novem- ber and they come through Inst week. Both of ‘em was old stagers; they've been crossin’ th’ range for th’ last noc, 1 know— their money’s worth, and then som human nature likes to see fair play And you newspapers have the nerve to boast about Seattle spirit! This ts a great town; but it will be a darn sight greater when you “mold ers of public opinion” (bosh! public opinion can do its own molding) give more support to education, enlighten- Real Salary Cut $90, Not $150 FAlitor The Star No wonder it fs hard to get @ ten year. Both of ‘em came through | |nere lookin’ Ike icicles an’ swearing | t’ beat four o’ @ kind, They’s moun tains an’ mountains; kid, Them up| there’s th’ professional kind A plight, puzzled frown crossed the | face of Barry Houston. | “put how am I going to get to the other side of the range? I'm going) to Tabernacle.” | “They's « train runs from Denver. | over Crestline, Look up there—-jest ‘0 the right of Mount Taluchen, See that there little puff 0’ emoke? That's | it.” “fut that'd mean—.” “yor you t’ turn around, go back to Denver, leave that there chariot o’ your’n in some garage and take the train tomorrow mornin’, ra | ment, better thinking and better Iiv- ing, and get some of the “Do unto others into your warped) souls. You have to search for some) | souls with a microscope. Yours very sincerely, EDWARD ©. HALI, 6444 16th Ave, N. B. (Not the contractor) and the great majority of American clties—for $8 a month, now is the draws down $75,000 for his services. Some $500 for the and $75,000 for transplanting ‘em seems a bit lopsided, but maybe the $500 is th more to the young chap than either the glands will be to Harold or the $75,000 the eminent M. D.; we hope so. i guess would be that he needed a job of hard work at about 14 bucks a week. in the little hills and valleys away from Seattle you can discover bright- unwrinkled, red-cheeked, vigorous boys of from 65 to 90, who can do a man's fn the field every day, and who will not need any borrowed goat, monkey or hu- glands for another generation or two; but they weren't born heir to millions of y and to utter idleness. this gland thing ever really works, the last natural penalty for the sins of man, animal, will have been removed; doubting the approach of that sad, dissolute day, with a public organization lke our | rhe only reason that we do not take society knows that we must recetve| care of more suffering animals ts numerous telephone reports of every | the financial one; we haven't funds sort; in fact our cally average 30 to) enough to hire more help. © « day. Our financial resources | We ask every fair-minded citizen are very limited; consequently We | to learn the facts of all the work we have only one man, cur eld officer, | accomplish and then pass judgment who can handie all the requests that | on it, We invite everyone in Seattle come to us to care for injured ant-| interested in caring humanely for mala, It t# obvious that this one) qumb antmals who ai {fering or |mam cannot go immediately when | heing abused to become a member of thene requests come over the tele! our wociety and contribute to its phone, because he usually ts out | aupport, for it ts only by greatly In answertng several calls of the same | creasing our income that the field of nature, our activities can be enlarged. The fact that our Ford car cover. CHARLES M. FARRER, ed nearly 10,000 miles in the past President, King County Humane five mouths is eloquent testimony Society, The Nuisance of Dogs in the City Editor ‘The Star: | many dogs in this city whose own I feel that a few lines on above | ers do not pay taxea, good man to run for pubite office.) time to find it out and get teachers/ Look at the timade of abuse an4/ whose attitude towards our children misrepresentation huried againstiand our institutions is not dete Sepool Director Taylor because he! mined by a dispute over $90 a year.| voted to have the schools keep! Jf the teachers can do better in within the maximum income they / other cities, why should they fight? can get under the law. ‘The truth is that salaries and work- He found the schools bad spent! ing conditions and living conditions| a half million more than they ba4./are so much more favorable here! He asked members of the board t©|than elsewhere they do not want make cuts, other than teachers’ #&l-'to go away. With the $90a-year artes, to have the school expenses; cut many teachers will get mor come within the school income./than many men who have families When they would not make any/to support. cuts and passed “the buck” for am) Mr, Taylor and the other mem-/ other year Taylor did the only) bers who voted to keep the school! thing any sensible man would do—/expenses within the income didn’t} cut salaries, violate any public trust; they have Everybody else has been deflated. | not outraged any sense of fair play. | The teachers say their salary was|They did what any family or busi-| cut $150 a year, but the cut is only|ness would do if it had overspent $90, for there ts an automatic salary/and couldn't beg, borrow or «teal! bonus of $60 paid each teacher each|any more money—namely, cut dow®| p aver that Harold has been stung. subject might not be out of place, | and that it mighf result in sone Tying up & dog ts a good way to make it viclous; lack of food will tn- year after the first year, Now the expenses, For the last 10 years our! “When would I get thereat fay could make the Pass all right?" “In about five hours. It's onig fourteen mile from th But 7 “And you may two other cars have gone through?” "Yop. But every crook &n’ turn For a long moment, the young man made no reply. His even were again on the hills and gh a sudden fascination. above, they seemed to ca to taunt him with thelr imperious. ness, to challenge him and the low. slung high-powered car to the com» bat of gravitation and the The bleak walls of granite appe to glower at him, as though him to attempt thelr conquest, smooth stretches of pines wey luring things, promising peace ang quiet and contentment,—vwillo-the: winps, which spoke only their beauty, and which said nothing of the atretches of gravelly mire and dies, resultant from the slowly ing enows, The swirling clouds, mista, the rifting fogs all app to await him, like the gathered h of some mighty army, suddeniy peaceful until the call of combat, thrill shot through Parry How Hin life had been that of the m spaces, of the easy ascent of well paved grades, of streets ahd comforts and of luxuries. The very ness of the thing before him lured — him and drew him on. He turned, he smiled, with a quiet, determined expression of anticipation, yet of — grimnesa. 4 “They've got me,” came quietly, “I'm—I'm going to make the try! The villager grunted. His lips parted as though to lesue @ final | warning. Then, with a dingruntied shake of the head, he turned away. 4 “Ain't mo use arguin’ with Easterners,” came at last. “You “9 come out here an’ take one look at these here hills an’ think you can beat Ole Lady Nature when she's sit- tn’ pat with @ royal flush. But go | on—I ain't tryin’ t you. "Twouldn’t be nothin’ but «& waste o’ breath. You've got this here eon. querin’ spirit in your blood—qwon't be satisfied till you get At out, all th’ same—I've seen fell flivvers loaded down till th’ was flat, look up at them figure t’ get over an’ back im for supper. So go on—only member this: once you get of Dominion an’ start up th’ there ain't no way stations, " there ain't no telephones, ner diner ” service, ner somebody t* bring y* tht — evenin’ paper. You're buckin’ brace game when y’ go against ard Pass at a time when she top. ey knowed in a mood fr comp'ny. She N th’ cards, jis’ remember that— — an’ a few thet ain't in th’ deck. But — jis’ th’ same,” he backed away as — Barry stepped into the racer and teachers have organized to tell Se atUle people how our schools shall be run and how much we shall pay. ‘They have pooled their contracts and there is talk in some circies school system has not tried to see/ what an economical, efficient sys-/ tem we could have, but has been all but sunk In financial mire by putting on extra expense and de ‘ creane ferocity of dog. The moat Being engaged at an occupation | vicious breed of dogs can be trained which qualifies me to write upon the/to be perfectly docile, yet be ef- subject | fletent watch dogs. There are dogs in this city which| Most dogs are like some children— An easy wa paint a “No door to make a small boy bathe is to wimming” sign on the bathroom @ are chained up that are so victous| they get very little training and as fi ? i 5 its ity if a t e A "tk a i Feit | i i : i I has to dispense his poison 19 whisky and ratsin jack. The law of the land should follow eur flag wherever it goes, whether land or sea.—Representative Cooper (R.), Ohto. There are two distinguished gen- tlement in Washington who ought | to be over in Michigan helping Pat Kelley beet Townsend out of that senatorship. Hiram Johnson can clear up all _ doubt as to where he stood In the maiter of the purchase of New- berry’s seat in the senate by help- fing to keep Newberry’s lieutenant, Townsend, at home. Mf Hiram was unavoidably de- tained under the bed while the Newberry vote was taken, he can express his regrets and exhibit | his attitude toward purchase of Benate seats In no better way than by whooping ‘er up, ty his | best style, for Kelley, _ who voted for Then, there’s Willis, of Ohio, ewberry and was author of that lovely resolution @enouncing purchase of seats. A very little inquiry will convince Willis that his aforesaid resolu- tion fs being grossly outraged by the same old Newberry organiza- tion in Michigan. A great Ohio | statesman with all the beatitude 4 of that resolution In his system ought not to stand the way filthy Inere {s performing in Michigan polities at this very writing. In Constantinople they are hold- 4ng cockroach races. We often wace them, but they usually escape. Mont any irl can be as graceful @sa swan, Have you ever seen a im walker ie aviator dropped four miles sua Bnd Wwes; but it's a bad habit, We will investigate Turkish atrocities. Turks will be glad to give a demonstration. One fool bigger than a big fool is a fool who laughs at his wife’s last year dresses. Cheer up. Only one person in every 300,000 is struck by lightning. a The Our Platocratic Children Papers for Paper @y Dr. BR. Estcourt in the that were they to break loose, lives would be in jeopardy | I called at a house recently where a savage brute of a dog atteacked me. The lady of the house opened the 4oor; instend of calling off the dog she impatiently asked me what I wanted. At another house « similar Gog attacked me. 1 asked t ay of the house if the dog would bite and she replied mt would. I have frequently had to ask own- ers of Gogs if they would bite, The anawer would Inevitably be, “I never knew him to bite, but you can’t trust him.” An electric meter reader told me a few days ago that he had sev. & result make no end of trouble. A woll trained, fine bred dog has {ts place In this world and ts of great value. There are many dogs kept in this city which are well bred and harmiens and are prized very highly an pote. ‘The most lovable thing on earth ts a little babe. It would be more hu- mane and more pleasing to Goa tf women would discard thelr poodles and take a motherlers child and care for tt, and out of devotion for child would arise ties which could never be severed. If my contentions are well found. | ed, the authorities should take aco luxe items, together with adminis tration expenses which border on the misuse of public confidence. that if the old salary t# not paid the teachers will refuse to sign con- tracts or teach, which tn plain lan-| guage means to strike If our| I would like to have The Star teachers will turn bolshevik and be| publish a list of comparative sal- come strikers, when their pay is) aries paid in Beattie and elsewherb. FRANK B. BARTO, Ratni Annalist) An American banker tells how recently he saw an old woman sitting on the sidewalk of a street In Warsaw, She was selling papers. On one side of her were the unsold pa pers. On the other side was another pile of paper quite as high as that of the newspapers. This seo ond pile was held down by « stone to keep it from being blown away. It was money. Paper cur- rency had become a currency of paper. The money had practically no greater value than that of the paper on which it was printed. Paper had become the standard ef value. All commodities would have to be reckoned in terms of the com- modity paper which bad auto- matically come to be substituted for precious metals as a medium of exchange. It Is true that the paper used as a medium of exchange was of a special sort, marked with words and figures to denote its accept- ability as currency, but fn actual fact it had scarcely more ex- change value than if it had not been so marked. The differenco in exchange value would probably be found to be merely the equiva- lent of the labor and printers’ Ink expended in the marking. In the exact proportion in which men are bred capable of warm af- fection, common sense and self- command, and are educated to love, to think and to endure, they be- come noble, live happily, dle calmly, are remembered with perpetual honor by their race, and for the perpetual good of It—John Ruskin. A Wall Stroet banker says that school children own the majority of Uncle Sam's $683,000,000 of “baby bonds”—thrift bonds. It ts probable that American children own’ enough “of these bonds to wipe out the entire na tonal debt of Mexleo, Financially, the children of our generation are extremely fortun ate. Deo you remember when « penny satisfied an 8-yearold boy, und a nickel looked as big to him as a wagon wheel? “Them days is gone fo sever.” In Balt Lake an Indian kilied o man named Moroocoop. He probd- ably thought if wes @ wer ory. Every time we see a lady with a lap dog we wish her mother had done the same. LEARN A WORD EVERY DAY Today's word ts REPRISAL. It's pronounced—re-prizeal, accent on the second syllable, It means--an act of retaliation, public or private; in’ international law it signifies a resort to foree, with grievances—enpecially a resort to retaliatory acts of the nature of those complained of. It comes from—French “repren- dre,” to take back, the French hav ing borrowed originally from the Latin, “reprehen It's used like this—In some quarters it 1s urged that foreign ships be forbidden to bring intoxi- canta into American waters, even under seal, but fears are enter tained that this would provoke re prisals against American shipping abroad.” AIVRIDGE MANN. Dear Folks: They say there's quite a dearth of news—of everything, includ ing booze; no longer do the papers flare with bloody battles here and there across a thrill, the world’s affairs are calm and still, and seldom put No special extras ever burst with news about the Sist; yet quite run away? of two? any news!” @ lot of fighting men are fighting harder now than then; but who would read about a fray that merely keeps the wolf away? We haven't read, for quite a while a pile; and who the deuce would give a hoot to read of tho: never scoot, but guard our money, day by day, and never try to , of bank cashiers who pbed who We read divorces, yes, indeed! But who would ever stop to rend of pairs who tried the ancient pun, that “two can live as cb: as one,” but, side by side, they see it thru, altho they're #ix instead We're surely quite a funny breed, regarding things we want to rend; tho Life, along its normal way, could tell a million tales a day, we pas them up Uke kickless booze and sigh, “There isn't eral wounds on his legs trfficted by | tion to remedy this nuisance. High- & vicious dog. Frequently we hear! er taxation would reault in doing of much cases, some of them quite | away with @ lot of uselesa mongrela, short of war, to procure redress of} sertous. A woman who had a victous dom jaald to me one day, “We need such kind of a dog to keep peddlers and agents from our doors.” A notice posted on gate or door would much more effective and leas expen sive, and would not Impenit the lives those who have a legitimate right to call at such homes. There are EAttor The Star: A large number of friends and sup. porters of our American public school system have requested me to take this carly opportunity to praise The Star for Its attitude with regard to the excessive expense of our Seattle schools. The Star ap pears to be the only newspaper tn Senttio that has had the fairness and honesty to give beth aides of the tople and to realize the neces. sity of the oceasion and where the trouble les, thus sustaining the American declaration about the freedom of the press. We sincerely hope that The Star will continue to follow this policy and continue the great service to the Seattle public, all of whom are taxpayers, that ft has so excellently pndered The public should know when considering the editortals and reper viala in other publications that | they are and have been tnspired by those who have long been mani Editor The Stan | Along comes a man with = re: gray matter in the top of his head | (a substance unknown to some). He hands out psychological and horse sense windom to crowds of Intell! gent and progressive people, organ {zen classes of open-minded men and women who are sesking truth and | knowledge and are presumably able to do their own thinking and han die their own affairs, then this past master tn the science of practical |peychology proceeds to «i heaping-up and spiliing-over ures for thelr money. What happened? Presto Here t# a man telling things. he'll spoll the easy money. And he actually knows what he's talking about. And he's really giv ing people their money's worth think of it! This won't do, run him out! pers, fairly busting with concern the public, rush out @ raft of all sorts of funny atuff. One party in your Friday night's issue relieves his chest of a great burden when he warns the p that Doctor Miller ts selling stuff for “$10 per” that can be ned the eighth grade public schools se me a minute, Mr, Editor, I hold my sides; that's a Miller i pretty deep, I > a single-cylinder elght- grade uld have trouble assimilat g it eo the gentleman just checked it off at the point where he got be fuddied and left—it he heard any of it at all, But what's the use! Truth will be chugging on long ages after the chea claptrap has knocked itself to pieces and piled up by the road side. Many of broad guage enough ta be interested tu guining change! be) A Bouquet for The Star them | Why, | and the result munt be that fine-bred dogs would not only be tn better de- mand but would command better | prices. | ‘The most sertous thing to be con sidered im, that dogs are subject to | Infection of rabies; a bite from such | means hydrophobia and death, KE. J. WATSON, 715 Ave. |festiy engaged In wrecking our In- herited American free school sys tem for their own private profit That they show an entire Inck of that knowledge of accurate good) business acumen which Instructers of the public ought to have, and| without which teachers in economies | are frauds. That the pernicious policy pursued is that of putting a demand for dollars above the neces al of our children and demand- ing “the pound of flesh” from over the hearts of their parents, At the same time the BLUBBERING ‘ROTHERS and SOB SISTERS have held full away and monopo- lized their columns, as well as ap- pearing before the school board in apology and extenuation of the orgy and naturnalla of extravagant ex- penditure leading rapidly to, or ab ready at, BANKRUPTCY. All praise, congratulations and compliments to The Star. RICHARD MANSFIELD WHITE. i | Dr. Miller Has One Friend, Anyhow knowledge of the truths in this ol4 world, practical psychology among them, Some of us have given it | more or lean study and thought and | When a real master of the subject is recognized we are keen to hear what he has to say, And many thousands tn this etty alone have heard thetr profit. You can safely leave it to us who are pay- ing for it to worry along about our | money's worth, |. People who are concerned with the doctor's psychological wisdom jdon't care a tinker's whoop what kind of @ handle he fastens onto | his name, or whether it goes in front or behind or on the side; but your Inspired informant makes quite some furs about it. From the view point of pure knowledge alone I should say that Dr. Miller is more entitied to his degree than are hordes of “doctors” of all kinds of cults and questionable learned at. tainments who are running around losse without keepers. And nobody seems to make any stir about them. (Another one for the joke book.) I sup Dr, Miller and his staff are able to take care of their pri. vate lives without me butting in. But after seeing and hearing him and some of his staff from the plat. form every night for the past month I want to say that their clean-cut and open faces indicate that thetr better care of than those of many people to be seen on the streets of or any other large city, any of the year, I sit up in the hard-of-hearing row and observe at closequarters, and I chicken either ee We may not all indorse every idea expounded by Miller, But when an ablo man and @ human encyclopedia comes into lows and gives Lue people to day CThe Gasoline of Quality pressed « foot on the starter, “I'm wishin’ you luck. You'll need it.” “Thanks!” Houston laughed with a new exhilaration, a new spirit of de sire. “It can't do any more than me.” “Nope.” The villager wes shout (Turn to Page 11, Column 1) Makea fresh start—geta clean tankful of “Red Crown” — and then watch how your engine performs. Watch it on the hills. Every drop of “Red Crown” vaporizes rapidly and uniformly in the carburetor and burns com- pletely in the cylinders. You get a continuous stream of power —more mileage at lower cost. Fill at the Red “Red Crown” is uniform in quality — you won't need to bother with carburetor adjust- ments if you fill your tank with “Red Crown” and nothing else. Crown sign— at Service Stations, garages and other dealers.