The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 20, 1922, Page 6

win a strike in which the operators are near defeat. The r ; ~ national security come before labor disputes. Produce coal in adequate quantities. It will produce isis of 1902. re, all would be well. Roosevelt said to the operators, in effect: it next winter's coal. tab “Go back to your mines. Open them Crush the unions, My troops and your strikebreakers.” won’t produce coal and it may bring a roops government has failed the kind of gov- the way out ts The more parties, but with : ee Fool-Killer better to Insugurate ave you ever come close te primaries, in which getting killed at » railroad cross- all varieties may en- ing? The number of deaths from elections In this cause has been cut in two choose from since 1907, But the toll still is candidates standing heavy and 76 out of 100 crossing primary. ak deaths happen to auto drivers. Termertsber party Contrary to general belief, reck- existence, and Mever tesg driving Is not the cause of oe most crossing accidents, a “thira __ F- M. Metcalfe, safety expert of has Jt the Northern Pacific, has been checking up on his road. He finds that really reckiess drivers are hae There fH. But “thousands of motor. cent of political BLOOD OR COAL? Phope Main | A The memory of President Roosevelt’s wise and courageous course in 1902 is being invoked in aid of Mr. Harding’s coal strike policy. Encouraged by the advice of such men as Senator Pepper and Governor Sproul, of Pennsylvania—who, representing United States Steel, are quite naturally advocates of the open shop thru a policy of force—President Hard- ing has “invited” the coal operators to reopen their mines. All the non-union miners in the country are now at work, so this “invita- tion” is an invitation to crush the unions and to make use of federal force to resident is absolutely right when he says that public welfare and But there is no guarantee, in - fact no possibility, that the use of strikebreakers under troop protection will hate and bloodshed. Supporters of the president have cited Theodore Roosevelt's action in the : There is no analogy between the two methods, If there “Put the strikers back to work at the old wage. Produce coal. While they ‘are working, I will, thru a commission,analyze the merits of both sides. But the essential thing is that these men go back to work immediately and get , If you don’t do that, this government will take over fhe mines and within 30 days I will be selling coal.” The men went back to work. Roosevelt’s commission made a findin to both parties WHILE THE MEN WERE WORKING. ught a peace to the anthracite fields that lasted for years unbroken. Now President Harding says, in effect, to the operators: og wt whatever labor you can he t ac- hat of Governor Sproul will war that will last for the Roosevelt precedent is to be invoked, let it be followed. was peace and coal, not war and famine, that Roosevelt brought. Men who wouldn't take a counterfeit nickel at face value are marrying artificial complexions. They call it the mighty dollar. It is mighty hard to get and mighty easy to lose. driving slowly than when specd- ‘The fact that we may be driv. Ing slowly is apt to full most of us the more careless we be can be made while desirable tn cities and dan gfrous curves, can never be ap- plied generally. ‘There are 251,939 highway cross- Ings on the principal railroads alone, They are being eliminated at a rate of 400 « year. At that rate, says Metcalfe, It would take 629 years to remove all the cross. ings, and at ® cost of $12,500, 000,000. Personal and never-lagging can- tion is the real curb for auto ac- cidents—and all others, new wife is good looking, slim and redheaded, but the end ‘te not yet. Any fellow with mil- Hons who quietly marries without ‘Word to New York society ts in it, and the career of the new Gould will be fully divalged, , mangled by the gossips, if (Continued From Yesterday) And thru--or rather over—this bleak desert went the men of the West Country, silent, frost-burned men, their lips cracked from the cut of wind, their eyes blood-red with in flammation, struggling here and there with a pack of food upon their back that they might reach some desolate home where there were | women and children; or stopping to pull and tug at a snow-strapped steer and by main effort, drag him into a barren spot where the sweep of the gale had kept the ground fairly clear of snow; at times also, to dig into a jong hours scattered Of course, if Mr! Gould wants _Fed-headed wife, it’s really no- business but his own, but “@ne of the penalties of being rich that a fellow can’t go in for ny sort of luxury without a host the welcome Aal understand the gentleman's | Mea of demagooy, it is that every time a democrat calls a republican account it is demagooy.—Repre- Garner (D.), Texas. was possible, and lighting great fires, left them, that they might melt the snows about a spot near a supply of | trea, where the famished cattle coul gather and await the next trip of th AIVRIDGE MANN. Dear Folks: About a day or two ago I had a little wad of dough; it wasn't much, as I recali—a roll of fifty bucks was all; tho | was glad to eve it then, I'm giad to say I'm broke again. For Pliny Allen butted in and asked me, “Have you any tin?” And like @ simple, trusting soul, I let him lamp my lusty roll, He grabbed it all and, as he went, he sald, “You've paid your ten per » cent.” So now, I'm very proud to tell, I partly own our new hotel; and tho I'm broke for quite a while, I'll never find it hard to «mile, because, with all the coin I've spent, for once I savvy where it went. It's bound to give us joy, I know, to stand and watch the bulld ing grow; we know the news will spread around, and advertise the Puget Sound; and, most of all, we'll think it fine to know it's ours—just yours and mine, And when Aunt Ann and cousin Jack come touring here from Hackensack I'll take thern down to my hotel and ask the ain't it swell? And best of all, I'l let you know—my fr I put up the dough!” “Really, nds and (My vacation letter contest ends today, and the judges have begun the hard job of selecting a dozen out of the many dozer Feceived. I'll be with you about a week longer, and then—ho: The space will be yours.) Giritye Qomn | they halted | aystack, and through food about for the bawling cattie;| or gathered wood, where such a thing | rescuers, bearing them sustenance. | Oftimes they stopped in vain—the | beast which they sought to succor was beyond aid—and a revolver shot |sounded, muffied in the thickness of |the storm, Then, with knives and |axes, the attack came, and strug | gling forms bore to a ranch house |the smoking portions of a newly butchered beef; food at least for one family until the relief of sun and warmth would come, It was a never jending agony of long hours and | muscle-straining work. But the men who partook—were men. And side by | with giant Ba’ | woodsmen, with ¢ ranchmen, was Barry ston. His muncles ached. is head was ablaze with the eye-strain of constant whit his body numbed with cold from the j time that he left the old cannon ball j stove of the boarding house in the | early morning until he returned to It jat night. Long ago had he lost hope |so far as personal aims and desires | were concerned, The Crestline road was tled up; it had quit completely: | Barry Houston knew that the fury of the storm in this basin country below the hills was as nothing compared | to the terror of those crag tops where altitude added to the frigidity, and | where from mountain peak to moun. tain peak the blizzard leaped with ever-increasing ferocity » with the others, with the silent angular, wiry Far out on the level stretches leading up to the| plaing of Wyoming, other men were working, struggling doggedly from |telegraph pole to telegraph pole, in jan effort to repatr the lines #o that connection might be made to Raw ling, and thence Cheyenne and Den | ver—to apprise the world that n great | section of the country had been cut off from aid, that women and chil dren were suffering from lack of |food, that every day brought the | news of a black splotch in the snow | the form of a man, arms out |atretched, face buried in the drift, | who had fought and lost. But #o far | there had been only failure. It was a truggle that made men grim and ‘wed; Barry Houston no less than © rest. He had ceased to think of simpler things of life, of the or. ry problems, the usual worries or kes and dislikes. His path led once the home of Medaine Robinette, and he clambered toward the tittle (Turn to Page 13, Column 1) house with little more of feeling than] money and truth remind me of th THE SEAT | Why Is Our City Slighted? Editor The star; I believe I am real peeved, both- ered, or, at least, mystified about something I feel I must get off my mind. During my recent trip thru the East, or, rather, Middle West, I saw and felt that the city of Seattle ia terribly slighted. know-what a wonderful city we ha ~~in tact, know wery little, if am Why Not Compulsory Voting ? Editor The Star: ‘The proposal for some form of com: pulaory voting to be embodied in the new Missouri constitution deserves | it has a great advantage over th | accent on the first syllable, careful consideration by the citizens of this state. Democracy ts based on the will of the people. If the peo pla refuse to pay attention to their obligations, ought not the state to intervene? Why fen't voting as im. portant ha serving on a jury? One of the holds of the boss ays tem ts Ite ability to get out ite fol | The Latest About Evolution Eéitor The Star: The latest word from the sup Into @ false sense of security, | Porters of evolution comes from « leas apprehensive we are of | Dr. Fielscher, who in @ recent artt ele appearing in a Seattle morning paper dated July 1th, under the heading of “Thank You, Mr. Bryan, Pronounces the dictum that “prac- Healy all organized Intelligence now takes evolution fer granted, what- ever can or eannot be proved re garding the descent or ascent of man.” Just who he means by “organized intelligence” t# not clear, but un doudtedly he tneludes himself within ite scope, an assumption, however, which cannot be verified by the foregoing statement. If he means by “organized intent gence” those “swivel chair” scien tista, whose range of observation does not extend beyond the tops of their desks, then we can agree with | him, nothwithstanding the fact that the theory has, ae Prof. Fleischman, a distinguished scientiat of E has said, “in the realms of ure not a single fact to confirm it and “ie not the result of scientific |) ch, but purely the product of the Imagination.” Dr. Flelecher presenta a new method of dealing with the subject, Delirious (A new name for an old disease) Editor The Star Certain of the Seattle school dt rectorate and superintendent having resigned and me defeated and Inpeed in the « ns under open criticlam and mnation by the electors, having involved the affairs jot the pu inextricable confusion, having per mitted the school boéks and equip. ment to deterioate in facts, truth and stability, by tens of thousands of dollars, having greatly weakened the credit and morale of the schools, a repre. |séntative of the school committer jof the Seattle Chamber of Com merce having pleaded nation of acho pert or body of experte—the Super intendent Ccoper . management, though ostensibly resigned, and the directors without the slight a compunetion, say: Here ts the | mens we have made; now you must not clean it up—but meas it up some more; do not you dare to cut our extra salaries and bonuses, or alter our f us teachings—but 48 we have done, #0, go you and do likewise, We who are engaged tn rescuing our public schools from the bad |condition, moral, mental and physi jeal, in which they have been found thru careful expert examination, say no, you must return to sanity |from a debauch of expenditure and false teaching. 80, having Magnosed the 4 Itt of e, we may, you have a bad | delirious spending and need today, we have leerious problem bef: us than the |question of the reduction of our |xchool expenditures and the rein statement of truth In teaching in our public Yet it is an one when removed from sob: |stuff hysteria, and is looked upon |from the vantage ground of com: mon sense and common decency. The problem was created by the |lack of knowledge, windom and un derstanding characterizing the ¢ er superintendency and the politt public school borses resigned, feated and lapsed. Now certain of thetr successors Jand assigns loudly cry for a con. |tinuation of expenditure and clan |destinely denounce those who would save our public school system and return ft to a safe and sane con duet These no more achools. onsy op 1 de delirious ependthrifts of who foul foreigners deliberately At Providence Hospital No one seems to | schools in seemingly | having Inflated their | pay rolls and maintainance charges | TLE STAR aro 5 | thing, about it | 1 visited all the largest cities, and even in the consbiidated ticket office | in Salt Lake City notice of spectal rates were mentioned from every city but Beattie, There must be a reason, but what is it, and who i» to blame? I would) surely lke to know. Very truly | yours, MRS. C. G. M | lowers on election day. The machine noes that every One of its voters goes | to the potia, Thru its organization | Ucket not managed by professional politictans. If voting were compul- | sory, or if failure to were heay ily penalized, then the hold of boss | politics would be weakened. | Tt ie every citizen's duty to vote. | Why shouldn't such a fundamental | obligation be enforced by law? 1 ASK TO KNOW. which t# very Interesting. Even} tho it cannot be proved, he asserts, ft must be taken for granted. Herein | fe more truth than fiction. It tn sad commentary on human wisdom, | that the hypothests te being accept |ed generally, altho the yartous/ theories on which It rests have been | rejected. Rut it not the distinguished spokesman of “organized inteltt gence” think that all “intelligence” han fallen Into this error. The | world’s ablest scientific inventiga- | tore with a few exceptions, not only do not support this theory but many of them are {te assafiants. Tt might ‘be Well to call attention |to the récent statement of Prof | Mateson, former president of the | Britinh Association for the Advance ment of Selence, and world re nowned before a recent! actentific mn, in| h he declared that ft was im-| | Powmibie for scientists any longer to | biologist of convention wh agree with Darwin's theory. N thank God, the creation th wtill stands and always wil! ten and “intelligence” still be om that back of thin wonderful universe of ours was a master hand and mind designing and fasbioning | according to His own good will Cc. B. HARRIS. their water supply and then loudly abuse the American board of health en get typhoid are ordered to | and up sooner bad the Increase tn in. flation reached a dangerous peak in j the nation than a systematic course of exploitation began in the public jschools for selfish, personal advan tage and profit at the expense of morale, Salaries were raised when requested and when not requ All this was done without any cor | responding increase in the know! edge, wisdom and understanding of ' in fact, asure par | tles, Joy rides and snow parties in | creased } with | they the scholars in geometrical progression the equandering of the tax money upon the superintendent, his | supernumertes, principals and the high paid teachers and luxurious high schoot theater edifice. Our! children’s minds were debauched [and their will weakened thru ex. | ample and teaching of extravagance, | | falsehood and ¢ | | sipation. “We all are blind unless we ace, hat ts the human plan; Nothing is worth the making, It does not make the man.” make the public school vie y lenders with | charges and foreign it | thetr | | false history propagandists eating | jout the vitals of our public school | system There Is no short road to freedom | jfrom debt for the schools or any | other public or private corporation | or person, It i# a hard, long Jour: | ney to those wo do not know and| will not learn; and the foreign taise | | history pre andists ought to be discharged and American patriots | engaged in their stead The total additional annunt salary excess and extras recommended and acceeded to under pressure and given by the former manngement are the excess welght | which has “broken the camel's | back” as a tax burden upon the public Highly paid supernumertes busy-hodies attache tendent's office confusing frequency stroy di voluntarily and 4 to the supertin. ing orders with tended to de. aipline and morale of prins elpals, teachers and echolars, “Revelling in idleness, steeped tn ways of sin; When they see us go to achool they leer at us and grin: Slabelfed. howJlerged, long and short and tall, Directors and supervisors—the devil | By Tom Culverwell | THUR JULY OUR AVERAGE INTELLIGENCE And now come the statistics of the govern- ment, gathered from our army during the war, when for the first time we had the opportunity of testing by modern scientific methods the in- telligence of a substantial cross-section of our people. f Of the white draft—that is, the white soldiers, as opposed to negroes—30 per cent were found to be unable to read and understand newspapers SDAY 4 ‘ j or to write letters home. Forty-seven and three- |# tenths per cent of the white draft fell below the a mental age of 13 years, and only one year over [7% the maximum mental age of what are generally known as morons. Forty-seven and three-tenths per cent! Sixty-six and two-thirds per cent of the white draft tested below a percentage that marked the minimum capacity necessary to carry on the so- called paper work of the army—that is, making reports and keeping the files. Out of all those millions of drafted men, just a third had ability enough to carry on this by no means laborious type of mental work. take them allt j A venerable Scotch Irish lady, | ~ t 4 Le re with @ lively faith of rewards and sere ‘ a punishments in the world to come, | The appalling significance of these statistics ‘a with grandchildren in the public} it is impossible to escape. They cannot be ex- ol enol, @ reader and lover of Bev” || plained away. We had the best blood of Amer- hi Burns’ poetry, with laughing accents piaine + Tt eames re nuggested the above lines a» ex-|| “¢ainthe army. Those men represented certain- thy ly our average intelligence and capacity. They pressing the thoughts of the prin-| cipais, teachers and scholars who|! reflected our citizenship with substantial accu- | — are not listed aa the—Superintend |) raoy, ‘These are the people upon whom our com- ent's peta. i $47, plex life is placing its gigantic responsibilities! —Raymond D. Fosdick, in commencement address to Wellesley college graduating class of 1922, RICHARD MANSFIELD WHITE LEARN A WORD = EVERY DAY (RADIO PRIMER It's pronounced an-gwid, with the) CHANGE-OVER SWITCH —An Both the | siectrio awitch used to clnge the! and | are short radio apparatus from transmitting It means—feeble, weary or faint,| to receiving, or vice verse. It is LAXATIVE FOR CHILDREN OR ADULTSS q | Canpinp | heavy, dull, weary, sluggtsh, two-pole, double-throw switch, t OS It comes from the Latin “lan: | central points being connected to the | baba mp prod hy 3 guere.” to be faint or languid, It's used like this—“Hot summer days are apt to make one languid.” aerial and ground, one side to the receiving Instruments and the other to the transmitting apparatus. 43 ALL GOOD DBUGGISTR | owes senda Sear ece er 6 aNet wees If there is any secret about the making of a good motor of oil, it is the secret of carefulness. The uniformly high gesting of Seoclate WON ee ee a system of scrupulous testing checking gins at the well and continues until the finished prod-- Field chemists test the crude oil as ‘It comes “from”; ment for analysis. At a dozen points during distillation, so that each stage of the process may be rigidly con- « trolled. Exacting standards of.cleanliness are main-~ tained in every department. Finally, the finished oil is sub dynamometer and road tests, by which its quality and lubricating efficiency are fully, demonstrated before it is offered to _ the public. ¥ The Result — Purity and Uniformity Zerolene has always been entirely free from all objec- tionable impurities and compounds. Hence it does not “break down” under high engine temperatures, but maintains its lubricating body under all operating con- ditions. All oils when burned in the combustion chamber-pro- duce carbon, but carbon troubles are minimized when Zerolene is used. Very little carbon is deposited, and this is of a soft, flaky nature, so that most of it is blown out with the exhaust. These essential characteristics of stability, “oiliness” and purity are possessed uniformly. Rigid refinery checks maintain the quality of Zerolene and safeguard the consumer.