The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 27, 1922, Page 6

Y, SEPTEMBER 27, 1922. THE SEATTLE STAR extravagant. Then tl republican state . : : ¢ is tos . 1 @ The republicans of California beat Gov. Stephens on the ground that his administration has been grossly dion the eimnedl ‘convention, in its platform, lauds the economy of that administration. @ Baseball President Johnson is moving to bar pop bottl But the crazy fans will take to throwing their shoes. @ Wm. Hohenzollern’s betrothed is Princess Henri Schoenaich-Carolath. . name, but he ean call her “Hank” for short. It’s a bonus bill that wouldn’t bonus, says President Harding, and the politicians of congress 5 te get up ‘some other scheme to catch the veteran vote, before November. @ They've arrested the Memphis Press editor for contempt of fourt. There’ll be a large revival of jail building if they jug all the editors who have contempt for the courts at this period. ‘ANYHOW, WE CIVILIZED NATIONS ARE AT PRACE! oye | Upon entering the congented 4 trict of Los Angeles after passin the Broadway tunnel, tH LEARN A WORD EVERY DAY Today's word te—ACOUSTICE, It's pronounced—a-koor-tike, with accent on the second syllable, It means—the sctence of sound, | the sum of the qualities that deter. jmine the value of an euditorium dp WIth rewpect to Aletinet hearing, the science of arranging ® building | transmission of sound, es mn Tt comes from—« Greek word meaning “relating to hearing” It's used like thie—“The consia eration of acoustics ts vital to the | planning of @ lecture halL* first traffic officer erected us wit?) | wild gestures of the arms, excia / } | cure | } Mathematics Is King. Science Depends On It. Makes Research Possible Students Dig In. A tow yours ago, a “higher educs | | won ‘meant mostly a study of Greek ‘Today mathematics bs ing, “K'mon, git across.” Most p plo apprectate kindness from / iform by cooperating wi 1 in upholding traffic laws, Yo can bet we boosted Seattle all alon the pant My business ts located on the Angeles Long Beach highway. I 6 an opportunity to talk with a nui ber of tourists and take pleasure speaking of Seattle, with ite # rounding beauty and hospitality. have written the local Chamber Commerce enclosing your weloon card, together with literature tained from your chamber, This may receive no recogn! here, but as a taxpayer and vot I feel it @ duty to inform the lod body how a city like Seattle ts s $RTE) your, $5.00, S00 per month, $4.60 . Se & month, Reduce Those Phone Rates It was a highly “cheeky” demand the telephone com- ny made in seeking a 31 per cent increase in rates at in jand Latin, king Without a good working know! | edge of thin subject, Do person can | claim to be highly educated—at least, In nelence. Without trigonometry and calou- lus, one oan never know electricity, | radio, chemistry, plant breeding and jm great number of the newer | sclences, A person ean gain a general know! edge and become a good practical | worker without mathematics, but mathemation alone gives t ity to perform the analyses tinguieh the master from the me | chante, Students at the leafing universt- ties are showing greater interest tn the study of mathematics today than ever before. is time. Tho state department of public works acted sensibly in suspending the tariff for.90 days and in intimating it would suspend it for an additional 60 at the end of that vertised thru producing % Very eee re 2 A." - Ac 4 Anshetm an4 Dalay ou, Long Bench, Cat, Meanwhile the state board, with the co-operation of various city governments, should step out and col- data to be used in bringing about a decided reduction IS . , those rates. The phone companies are making money; | S Wa Abs) | 5 | ir Wall Street stock reports prove that. There is no < on why they should not get back toward pre-war Not one ret Which to discover we must travel the bill—that mo provision was made for the financing of said] of & Dill that they handed the pres | dent. r ‘Fhe permanent things are tho stars and the sun, not the clouds and dest.—Senator Hoar. | LETTE ‘Mag we call a gang stealing auto tires » rubber band? Thanks. To Hasten or Not to Hasten ‘ other Congressman Oscar E. Keller, republi- oy a. demanded the impeachment of Attor- General Harry M. Daugherty. other charges brought against Daugherty was that his Chicago injunction constitutes an intringe- Yt on every American's constitutional rights. Events followed rapidly. Congressman Volstead, chair- of the judiciary committee, quickly maneuvered the off the floor and into his committee room. ow file your charges and let's get thru with this , And make it snappy,” was the Volsteadian atti- “All t,” replied Keller. “Mr. Samuel Untermeyer, New York, will represent the American people in this ” id Mr. Unterméyer not only one of the most Jawyers in this country but a scrapper in more than “Case postponed until December,” announced Chairman I ee that Keller stood alone in the fight seemed prepared to Who Drive Humanity Ahead you are face-to-face with a task that seems impos- consider this \VRIDGE MANN Dear Folks: It's Just « bit confusing, when you read the sporting page-—the term& you start to using haven sports are waning, as the day# are growing short, aed autumn stuff le gaining in the noble realm of sport It's really quite a mixture--everything from soup to pte; there's not a single fixture that can cateh and hold the eye; for baseball still Is playing, nor does tennis yet depart; while football starts ite straying into everybody's heast. I finish all the reading that the eporting pages show, and while I do my feeding, I display the stuff I know, chinning by remarking, like a» Tilden made his birdie shot.” “The Yanke still lead the battle, tho thelr quarterback ts raw, and Harvard beat Seattle with a clever left to jaw; but Oregon's eleven won a 20inning bout, when Molla relied a seven, and they struck Chick Evans out.” For now's the changing season, when I doen't know where I'm at; I think I've fo#t my reason, when the surmer's over, and Its LETTERS EDITOR Seattle Girls Outdo Spartan Editor The Star: In Seattle the other day the little girls had an athletic meet. They ran hurdle races, pole vaulted, eprinted, and generally conducted themeeives with all of the abandon of an intercollegiate meet. Compare these independent, self. reliant, youngsters with the chap eroned girls of 20 years ago. The restricted life, the constant “Must not,” the enforced dependency, the suppressed spirit, produced the clinging ivy and an assortment of physical {Ia. bonus, and that It was altogether } the clumslest bill ever presented to | the president for bis signature, If they were so anxious to pass this bill, why was ft presented tn such & manner? They knew, as did the whole country, that no bonus bil! | would be signed unless It carried a provision for financing sald bill |The president warned them on [several occasions, and there In ab oye no excuse for the “joke* R FROM t any steady gnuge; for summer | Editor The Star: 1 am so glad you have given us |® chance to say what we want « | newspaper to tell us. I did so want [to say something about the Ruth Garrison case, but feared you would not print what I sent 1 can fully understand the atti tude of the clean women who asked that the papers omit some details of the Clara Gkarin case, It i horrifying and sickening unto nausea to see the headlines of the newspa but Diame? We must know the evil in our country to overcome ft, and we have po way of knowing it so well as by reading the newspapers. I was brought up on « farm and I start my line of not, “It's in the seventh inning or my head is full of fat sports have xald good bye, we can Rut } | pers, are tho headlines to Beattie @ few years ago I aid not know the ways of the cities, I had to support myself so I bought & rooming house and tn less than ® year in the hotel business tn Beattie, I found that the married, Maids older and middie aged business men are using and protecting such girtn with forms of asymmetry and clasjas Ruth Garrison. The sheriff call tic minjs they laughed and strog-|tng her “a I) baby” and taking her sled, and congratulated the vietor|home with him, and the flowers with heartiness In which there was|chowered on her are only public no jealousy, no venom. It was a) demonstrations of what the old men sight to please the gods. Iiiness wna | practically unknown among this | group. | What sort of men will these per) editor The Star: | fect spectmens of humanity pro] The hero of « successful story | duce? Can they be Other than Of) starts down a mountain grade, o! the highest clase? unknown length and pitch, uatn: The athletic feld of America this service brake; It wears out an | producing a race of peopie thet! he puts on the emergency; that goes surpasse any previous race that)up in smoke, and then he tries to ever existed. ‘The whole amacks of “frame-ups,"" jand politics, Trying to “pass the buck” to the president-—the only one who had the courage of hiv convictions! No, the president i not to diame. Let us place the blame where It really belonge—to thone who drew up the bill, and jto those who were primarily against any bonus bill. : Yours truly, ¥. J. &, Winlock, Wash, are dotme all the time tn Seattic. The men are old compared to the wirle they are petting. | 1 knew ail this before the Ruth Garrison case was published, but many women did not. You told us tn detail how @ wom. an acted after she had echemed and potsoned 4 woman, because Ruth jbad had fitictt relations with the woman's husband. You also told how the men of Seattle petted her oe i each man was encouraging his own “lil baby” to poison his) wife, Now Tf think you should be furt as falr and toll us everything in the Clara Skarin case, This ts just the protect her honor, Please tell us, has the shertff taken Clara Skarin home with him? Have iy men sent flowers to | Clara Skarin? | if I were editing a newspaper 1 | Would give the readers the news of | crimes just as revolting as the deeds were done” I'd try to make people so wick that they would at least want to punish criminals. MRS, Y, K. TURNER, Bremerton, Wash Cherish Those Brake Bands of Yours should be done without the use of her brake; a wise driver will go & week and not uke his service brake a dozen times on the open highway; whenever you «mell « jdrake lining you are passing a fel low who has no business = driving an automobile, Brake tinings should | put her in low, the gears vanish, | ‘These youngsters surpassed the! FRUCE MacLELUAND, and over the bank he goes. I am last from two to four years; a lot knows who or ie ing eng _ ‘of arithmetic, and the expense wou ittle less than if market value of the whole territory of Massa- _chusetts; and which, if practicable, every person of com- mon sense knows would be as useless as a railroad from Boston to the moon.” Nevertheless, “crazy visionaries” went ahead and laid a network of railroads. Having imagination, they clairvoy- antly sensed the future in store for New York and other Men of the sort of those early railroad builders are the ces which drive humanity steadily along the road of sam They prove that virtually nothing is impossible. en the elevated railroad was first suggested, even Man Vanderbilt roared with laughter. “Impossible!” declared. “Whoever heard of a railroad on stilts?” Nevertheless, the gentlemen who refused to admit that anything might be impossible built the elevated. Wonder what Vanderbilt would have said about a proposal to bury passengers in subways? Vv tracks, s and _ The of human failure is a never-ending serial f each installment a repetition of “It’s impossible” “TI can’t do it.” The history of success is a much smaller volume. But also is a never-ending serial story, with the characters i. “Not ing is impossible” and “I'll do it : 2 g ing will power nothing can carry you thru to success. With will power you can attain what Will power can be developed, for it lies dormant in every person’s character. | Secretary Hughes might notify Great Britain and France that, if they got to fighting over that Turk matter, they'll have to do it with their money. fou can now buy seven million Russian rubles for $1. But you can fun buying seven eats for your dog to pick on. Faint heart never won fair lady, but faint light has. Alcoholidays in Volsteadland Alicante grapes, famous for their rich red wine, soar to $120 a ton at Santa Rosa, Cal. This is five times as much as the growers got before prohibition. _ The companion story comes from the other end of the continent. Federal prohibition agents make a raid in N. J., and find a genuine College for Home _ Brewers, which has been instructing bootleggers and _ “law-abiding citizens” how to make their own. Students? It had a waiting list. ‘These days they promike to love, honor and obey their impulses. Girls will be boys. Brooklyn girl sets fire to a schoolhouse, ‘What's in a name? Mr. Oyster Is Gompers’ silent secretary, Countesteit §20 bills are in circulation, Watch your chango, e a best the Spartans’ ever produced,| 3728 Rucker Ave., Everett, Wash, No hero, but I have more sense than that; ninety drivere tn a hundred have more sense than that, But since there is a heroto ten $ 2.863.80] per cent who persiat in being dumb- 16, bells on mountain grades, maybe I ean prolong at least one life by Mothers’ Fund Overdrawn Editor The Star: Over-expended for August You will please recaN my letter, |” pepsin published in the Issue of your paper | of July fist, wherein T showed, from | the county's warrant record book, | that there was an over-expenditure | #00 to the size In the mothers’ pension department |! would call your mind to the say- grade put your gears into inter of the juvenile court, under Judge| ine of Daniel Webster (I think it] ™*diate at least; if tt looks like a Dykeman . supervision, for the firat} #a"). that six months of 1922 of $10,596, hae cog Checking of the months of July| 14t u# set down to practical bust and August chow the following 10.|nes#in the conduct of the county's pone [financial affairs, when we say to| », Draken a a : {Judge Dykeman that $5,682.50 ts ail, | fF holding on grades; the service $5190-69 in the Judgment of the taxpayers, Le ie to use in traffic, tn a sud. a we can afford to pay for the help|jen,, cmermency: the emergency of needy mothers, that he does not | Pake '# to hold the car when you sock arnong. the ‘shifting mining |ee¥® it: more than nine-tenths of population in order to find more|*°Ur driving, and your stopping, mothers, and thus compel us by his “a authority to pay $8,623, and thereby increase the tax levy, as this over-expenditure of $16,688.81 | Pditor Tho Star: must necessarily go into next yeur’s| Having Just returned from a two potenti genie AB months’ camping vacation I take KATE REEVES, great pleasure in informing your paper hat myse! an amily re 1714 Madrona Drive. | ceived more courtesy in Seattle than in any other city from Mexico's bor- der to Canada, Arriving in Seattle we parked on erage over-expen- MOTE . e+e oo 3 eo} reiterating some advice that has A small eum, say you, In compart-|been given over and over again. stay there until you can see ahead far enough to know the road in nafety. ice for the year 1922. . onth «64 ms “ $9,602.81 $2000.01 : 6688.50 month .... expended tor July ance for August, ed for August ‘Total expended tor MOWED ore cows e+ 48,626.00 An Ex-service Man on the Bonus Editor The Star: tion why the president vetoed the! geo, ‘ T am an ex-service man, but I] bill. Oh, no. They don’t say that ran yi gar ae Pa am trying to look at this subjéct| the president practically had to veto purchases, About 20 minutes later from the viewpoint of a disinter- ested spectator. After all, a state. ment 1s worth the logic it contains and no more. I believe that tt has been demon- strated to the satisfaction of nearly everyone that the people of this country are in favor of giving a bonus to the exservice man. That {s the most {mportant point, It is| not for any individual or small mt- nority to say whether this bonus shall be given, The fact that the majority of the people want it| should be sufficient. The president fs elected by the majority, as are all public officials, and it seems to me that this same majority should seo that men are elected to office who will carry out the wishes of the majority of the people The people do not have to go very far to learn who was respon- sible for the veto of the bonus bill. Most of the senators who voted against the bill are already speeding toward thelr home terri: tory with their excuses—al) bunk- to feed to a gullible public, So much for them—nothing more need be sald. But the real offenders are those who drew the bonus bill! “Yen, we tried to pass the bonus, but the president defeated ust’ Thot's all we will bear for many moous to come, They don’t men- BY HAZEL HALL in The Outlook She has beauty, she has youth. What is time, what is truth? Her tread sings along the street. What are old and groaning feet? Life, a lover suave and gay, Companions her upon her way. He whispers of a tryst tomorrow. What is betrayal, what is sorrow? 2 of King county, but} When’ you start down a strange) “little leaks sink big|>8¢ grade put the car in low, and) Brakes on autos are not made! of drivers wear ‘em out in three months, You can come down from the top of Snoqualmie pass’ in a two-ton truck and not Use your brakew: — you won't snap around the |eutves at 25-miles an hour, but | neither will you ever be picked up j with & hovel off an inhospitable boulder half a mile down the can yon. ‘The more I take notice of the Passing automobile procession the |more I am convinced that no onc | should be allowed to drive an auto- | mobile who has not taken a course | of instruction, and who has not | Passed a rigid examination ag to | the expertness and leve!-headedness poasessed. | Most serious accidents happen to | shiny new cars, anJ silly new driv. ora, OLD TIMER. Has Pleasant Memories of Seattle ® mounted officer drove alongside and, to my great surprise, instead of | ‘Seeing the car for overstaying the parking time, greeted me pleasantly, | handing in @ card of welcome from the mayor, at the same time saying, “AS @ visitor you can park here as long as you like,” The following morntn, ing the city, we bung signal at an intersection, and when the officer, after stopping us, walked toward us, we fully expect. ed a “bawling out” (that’s what we were used to), but instead a pleas. ant “Good morning,” and “did you receive @ weloome card yet?” This kind of treatment costs noth. ing, but means a lot. We remained in Seattle four days, which gave us | 98 opportunity of studying the camping facilities, which cannot be excelled along the coast. Even in Portland you are greeted with “What's the name? “How long are you going to stay?” Where you get every convenience, but are packed in lke sardines, and when you mention to the attendant that it seems crowded his reply ts, “This is only half a crowd! “Ya orter been Brain Testers Can you form an English word with these letters? AAAAABBNNIIRSSTT Just as a hint, the word Is descrip. tive of a type of people who like various forms of musement, “movies” for instance, at times when prohibited by law in some communt- Ues, tho Infractions of the law are more or less winked at, Yesterday's answer: “Procrastina- ” itlon te she thet of time While see. traffic A medium-sized kiln’s output is 25 barrels an hour, and in that time 3,500 pounds of coal must be into ue HE 3 8 it, j J ¢ i f il He eff g E if z ¥ j j 1 f | PORTLAND CEMENT ASSOCIATION of National to Improve and Extend the Uses of Concrete