The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 31, 1922, Page 6

THE SEATTLE STAR Some towns have all the luck. Lightning hit a Boston book agent. who live in rented houses should not throw stones. dancing masters say there will be no jazz steps this winter. When a man can’t make out the menu he orders ham and eggs. ; @ Life is too short to go thru it in tight shoes. @ Idle rumors don’t travel any faster @ Louisiana wins the prize for first game warden shot this year. People (@ First sign of fall is when than idle roomers. @ Firm that made Lincoln’s boots is making Harding’s. All he has to do is fill them. he Seattle Star Puvished Daily by The Star Publishing Oe, Phone Main e400 Newspaper Enterprise Assoctation and United Prese Lag out at city, B00 per month; # montha $1.60; ¢ montha Pater tm the state of Washington, Outside of the state, ee Raga @ months, of $9.00 per year, By carrier, city, tte & men The President’s Fool Friends Dne of the hardships of the presidency - pr — ally amateur—politicians are everlastingly - Tee cinvinistration on trial” in purely local fights. Galifornia is the latest case in point. Hiram Johnson, ing in a state primary for renomination to the United States senate, meets opposition. ’ The opposition selects the issues upon which {t will ; t the senator. It chooses two: First, that Johnson a loyal to the party in the Hughes campaign and, nd, that he has been “in habitual opposition to Presi- Harding's policies.” Thus while the president is iggling with the coal and rail tieups and while he is ding some way to avert a national disaster next winter he is put on trial in an important and somewhat pivotal Johnson cheerfully accepted the issue and won, down. Thus the president’s friends engineer a at the president more direct than that of any pre- state primary. ¢ hich can confront any country ts unemploy- ie moet cvrtee Wenitectiarice, the sayiums, and the graves—Ses. (R) Idaho. His Reason—“Me Like” id crimes were committed in Oregon Sunday, oaperen the other at The Dalles. They were iden- in one respect—they were crimes of callous indiffer- ence ight and justice. "Nick Delten, annatureiised alien, Miterate, bestial, shot killed George Gramatti in a North End rooming Doltes had run away with Gramatti’s wife and ight her and her child from Unalaska to Portland. natti followed the guilty pair. He got in Doltes’ way Doltes killed him. red why he ran away with his friend’s wife, he said: like.” i Dalles, Frank Gilchrist, of Pasadena, Cal.; and AN Pullin, of Carmel, Cal., traveling at high speed the Columbia River highway, overtook Edward M. blacksmith of Dufur, driving a Ford. With Hill were is wife and four children. christ and Pullin drove a high-powered and expen- roadster. Perhaps it annoyed them that their swift fond was | ‘way ‘was Zhe biacksmith’s flivver got in the way of a ‘bw ; 0! va yeoeey ee. Gfichrist and Pullin at the will go for y hrist and have educa’ wealth and culture. can not read or write. If Doltes had been at the of the death car, he would have ie “Why did, you do it’ ” nc} % lin like , a8 it grows In years, The tore extravagant appear, Samuel Butler. Don’t Forget the.Jap Question ilip Tindall and Paul W. Houser are two primary can- who are entitled to commendation pt ener the n issue clearly into the campaign. It is important the continuing aggression of the Japs in this state pt pro ently before the public. ‘Tindall is a candidate for congress. Whether or not he far in his contest against the incumbent, John F. r, he is doing useful work in bringing out the need drastic federal legislation to curb the Oriental menace. other principal ent, James W. Bryan, former pressman, has j in declaring for tighter exclusion. user is seeking the state senate seat in the 31st dis- As a member of the last lower house he was an participant in the fight for the alien land bill and relied upon, if elected to the senate, to be the spokes- in and leader there of the anti-Jap forces. thos shouldest bray » fool in » mortar among wheat with o yet will not his foolishness dupart from him.—Proverbs 27:22. Have You Looked at the Stars? tar hi ‘ou have been fortunate enough this SG ee etree uller a te or aioe or ir, a hemlock, a spruce, or.a redwood, and watch stars come to life in the deep blue; watch them until y seem to drop down from their remote spaces and @ float almost on the spires of the needled pyramid ove you. In town we don’t think much about stars, even the on is a weak thing contrasted with the multiplied blaze arc light and nitrogen bulb; but in the woods at night renews his kinship with the universe, and wonders more what it is all about. _ We are not conscious of the other worlds except as z] in points by night, but that by no means proves er worlds are not fully cognizant of us. The ant aware of man until his hole is invaded by a shovel, probably the ant imagines that all the earth is inded by the half acre he travels, and that he and his ( ” his rival and tribes, and an occasional fly and der, are all of life. Some scientists assert that there is no life on other because their atmosphere does not permit life ch as ours; that doesn’t indicate anything because life m Mars or Neptune or Venus might be a life evolved to the conditions there, and it might be without physical and still be individual, thinking life. Perhaps, ’way there a thousand light years away, are beings that merely rhythm, as a song is rhythm; thinking, ob- ig rhythm that can tune in with earth at Christ- and tune out away from earth when the trenches Flanders flow with bubbles of blood. : __ Human thought appears to be an actual, aye a material, : ane a wave length that may set out and impinge on the tf itive heart of a dear friend a thousand miles away; ‘we call it telepathy and many of us believe it works, but or why we know no more than we know why any Ky rhythm works as it does; light, or sound, or heat, Any mob can prove the clutch of the hate rhythm any dark night. _ Under a blanket, at the foot of a 400-year fir, brush- oad low swinging stars out of your eyes, a fellow about things like this sometimes. Kindness ts the golden chain by which society Is bound together— THE REAPER—PAST AND PRESENT In these Gnys of high taxation how do we expect to reduce taxes if we Would It not be better to elect to office a candidate who would be in a position to retain the best qualified employes and fill in the remainder ‘with qualified, efficient employes who could give the people the quality of! pel i ii fe going tn for the welfare of women and children. Here's your chance, Mrs, Landes, to start 9 real service | for children, and, incidentally, for | Protect the children, and ft shall service that tn the end will be « real reduction of taxes? In Albert B. Parish we have such @ candidate, He has proved his abil ity in office in the past. Mr. Parish has stated that he can reduce the running expenses of the county treasurer's office $35,000. If he can make this cut in the run. ning expenses of this office next year, it will be appreciated by every voter and tax payer In King county. | Yours truly, E P. MeMAHON, 1524 Fifth Ave. Condemns Untrained Dentists Editor The star: Why ft it that the state of Wash. ington, Seattle particularly, so poorly safeguards the health of tts citizens? I refer to (ue unserupu- lous, incompetent, unlicensed den tists who prey upon the poor, rob- bing them of their health, tnfitct- ing irreparable ruin upon the teeth, accepting funds for which they give nothing in return, fleectng them of | their every last cent. On one pretext or another, they extract teeth which should not be removed, make absolutely unusable false teeth, cover cavities In which are cesspoola of infection, Having no prized reputation to MAKES SHINING maintain, no elaborate fixtures and supplies to keep up, no well fur- nished, gultably located offices to | support, they ean offord to offer | cheap rates, which are an attrac tion, If not an absolute exsential, to the poor. Then, when the hoarded Pennies are gone, with nothing, or worse than nothing, to show for it, | the dentist Is gone, too, or smugly remaina, hiding behind some fig ment of law that allows him to walt, unscathed, for his next vio tim. The relation between the teeth and the general health, or any particular ailment, is a very close one, so much #0, in fact, that nearly all the states } LEARN A WORD EVERY DAY Todays word te—RAPPROCHE- MENT. It's pronounced--eoccording to Web- ster, ra-prosh-man, with the firet ayl- * |lable lightly and the second syllable more heavily accented, but tn ite original French form the lest «ytla- “| ble ts pronounced about halfway be tween “mawnt” and “mong,” with the “t” barely, if at all, touched upon, and with the syllabies equally aocent- ed, @ pronunciation lacking an exact equivalent in English. Tt means—the act or fact ef com- tng or being drawn near or to- gother; the establishment or state of | friendly relations. | Tt was “lifted” Into the Engtish language directly from the French, “rapprocher,” to cause to approach again. It's used like thie—"Some French leaders believe they have a chance to! get thelr money more quickly and; eaally by @ rapprochement with Ger. many than thru the use of force.” in the Union compel a full medical | | course, with an additional course tn | | dentistry, before granting any man a Heense to work upon teeth. If I am correctly informed, the state of Warhinton does not require the preliminary medical course, and even the obligation of a purely dem | tal instruction ts not aways inatated upon. A dentist, with scarcely the | rudiments of a mere public schoo! ed- ueation, can practice around with other dentists for a while, then set up shop for himself, and the defraud. | | the state would be safe tn assucaing that their interests would be amply | | protected by their representative, |e er from, | Furthermore, Judge Grittiths te ’ only candidate opposed to Sen- |ator Potndexter who can win the | nomination. He has the support of | the majority of the progressive vot- | ers, and @ statement from your paper | will do more to unite all the progres: sive voters on Judge Griffiths than |all the elimination or other confer- | ences possible to be held. Why not }ewing the three Geattle papers al- [ready against the renomination of | Senator Poindexter to Judge Grit. | fitha, an@ thereby seve ths good | name of the state of Washington? It |! dangerous to delay, in view of the short period of time between now and the primary election, and to de | ‘ay may mean the Mfe and existence of the Ol4 Guard. | 1 trust you will give this your | earnest thought and come to the res- ous of the progressive element. Yours — | very truly, JAMES K. McDOWALL. White Bullding. AIVRIDGE MANN. To the Convention of Episcopal Bishopa: You've come to serve, with firm intent, the noble church you represent—« church that thru the years hae stood for all that’s right and true and good—withetanding theologie strife, and all the changing tiden of iife. From Bible times, thru fame and flood, thru bitter war and martyrs’ blood; thru ages when the world was dark, and light had dimmed to just « spark; thru Renaissance, to modern day, the held her upward, onward way Two thousand years have come and gone, your church still goes serenely on. What memory her soul must own! How much of life she must have known! A vision wide as ail the skies, must rest within her inner eyest So great & soul would say to you, “Reject the false—hold fast the true! Forget your theologio pride, let petty things be cast aside, and meet world’s eternal need of loving heart and friendly deed’ “Go tell the world that afl must seek religion seven days a week; that envy, malice, greed of gain, and wealth of purse are worre than vain; that ali must learn the Master's plan of one big brotherhood of man!” For thru all seasons, ages, times, al] nations, races, lands and climes, by varied creed our pathways trend to seek an all-inclusive end, & common quest that ever starts with getting God in human ! thelr calling shows delinquency or Oe nas Gere cee brings dishonor upon the group, | Bot have the faked title “Dr.” to Why, then, shiesié Wes any wus tang Races Papecar ved poner Fig ‘ . count for his unethical malpractice, euse the incompetence or rascality of |the sume as other men are held to Many dentists, or why should their | account, Professional brothers excuse them | It In the right of the pubic, and Pickpockets, bandits, sandbagger especially of the untutored and indt- and burglars are summarily dealt | gent, to know that the man to whom with. Why should some dishonor. |they intrust their health, comfort able wretch, posing ag a dentist, do and pocketbook bears proper guaran- exactly the samo thing and then be | tee that he possesses, at least in some allowed to get away with it? | Meaeure, both ability and honor. ‘Theft tp theft, and ites are ler, and L. M CLARKE. Wants Candidates to Draw Lots EAttor The Star: there is no plausibly good excuse for May I give my hearty approval| not carrying out the elimination idea. PIPELESS FURNACE NOTHING DOWN! —no payment in August! MAKE YOUR FIRST Miles Poindexter are only actin, from selfish motives in refusing t unsettied condition. foolish for three candidates to be op- | fearless and not eubject to the con- posing Senator Poindexter; the oppo- trol of private interests, It ts need- ation to the senator should be unant-| less for me to emphasize the fact Yucatan, Beeman’ and Black Jack too Flavory and mellowy ed, health-impaired public haa to pay vance, When the victim ts again able te collect an even emailer amount of cash and huntup another of the numerous ingratiating, all- she encounters the same shameless | | fraud. | These so-called dentists would not | de recognized tn other states. Else where, when scoundrels and tncompe- tants are refused a diploma and a license, they promptly come here and take advantage of pain and poverty. Other professions—lawyera, doo tors, ministers, teachers, etc. must show preparation, a diploma, @ Ii. conse. The same may be said of en. aineors, seamen, aviators, ete. 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