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The Seattle Star piper en ree Dee eh fod Waahingted. | Outside: at the ‘state, Ube por month, #al0 fers tha oF 42.00 per yean By carrier, city, He @ month, Tariff Tinkering and TNT ‘From one end of the country to the other campaign i are now hurling verbal brickbats or bouquets at new high tariff law. And behind all this boosting and knocking there ts an rmous amount of unuttered dread and vast quantities sf less silent hope—republican dread and democratic > that history may repeat itself and make the ro- ponsible party pay dearly for monkeying with the iff. In the past it has been more dangerous than TNT or business end of a Missouri mule. There have been six tariff laws in the past 82 years. the record: ' nthe McKinley law, enacted in 1890. Cost the blicans the house that year and two years later the s and the presidency, cond.—The Gorman-Wilson law passed by the demo- ts in 1894 to replace the McKinley law. Cost the nocrats the house and subsequently congress and the F * Third.—The Dingley law, enacted in 1897 by republt- ' This was an caption, It stood until 1909 when was replaced by the Payne-Aldrich law, also a repub- measure. ith.—The Payne-Aldrich law, enacted in 1909, Cost ai republicans the house in 1910 and two years later wth the congress and the presidency. Fifth—The Underwood law, enacted by democrats in } Five years later the democrats lost the house and after that republicans a to com- control of the federal governmen pw comes the Fordney-McCumber law. What will ft and when and whom, ask politicians? League Thru Non-Political Eyes have never taken a cool, calm look at the of nations. The image in their eyes has always darkened, dimmed or haloed by partisanship. Sir Robert Borden of Canada spoke on the league the rf day at Toronto, giving the view of a nation which in the league and knows from experience something its workings. The league, he said, is the most effec- ive human agency for “preventing war and establishing who have scoffed at the it has functioned it has lems which had stumped the old solemnly, “assume too readily the civilization itself. It is permanent character and ideals of its people are because of material Sim ple? Simplicity Itself _ The American Steamship Owners’ association makes i folks an offer. It announces that it will peacefully ply with Attorney General Daugherty’s ruling as to on American steamships, if the prohibitionists as a reward, support the ship subsidy bill now before It is a rather extraordinary offer, for a public one, nsisting, as it does, of bribery, contempt of law and 'y with one element to pluck all the rest of the i gee is prompted by conditions which may be de- } People who can afford to tour Europe are patronizing F ships because they cannot get liquor on American ps. The loss can be made up by all of us paying many illions to the American steamship owners, annually. 3 than 1 per cent of our people can afford to travel “to Europe. To make the loss of patronage of these few rich folks to a privately-owned business, all of us are pay. If John Jones, grocer, cannot supply patrons with milk, r instance, and Bill Smith, grocer, can, we pay John mith so that he can continue business without milk. _ It looks like a very simple business proposition. It is. At is as clear and simple as daylight robbery. ‘The authentic history of Japan dates back to only 600-600 A.D. Price to that we are lost in a maze of legends, traditions, and myths. And even that comparatively late period and until recent days the history of 4 fs filled with legendary accounts and myths that have been most to some historians —Rep. Ourry (Cal) in house committee on Only reliable thing about some people ts thetr unrelinbility. | The Alcohol Twins, Ethyl and Methy] By Berton Braley E easiag {9 », charmer who makes your blood run warmen, She's quite intoxicating tn her spiritual way; Too much of her society means constant inebristy, At times she makes you happy—but you pay for ft next day, Ethyl ts perfidious, altho her work's insidious; She doesn't wreck you quickly, but she gets you just the came, She vamps you very slowly, but in time she owns you wholly, And she leads you down to poverty and beastiiness and shame 'YL 1s @ villain who's out to “make « killin’,” He's nothing less than poison of the very rankest kind; You cannot toy with Methyl, for his slightest little breath’ll Upset your inner workin’s and quite often make you biind. Besiden, it’s true that Methyl so much resembles Ethyl That only to # pharmacist ts any diffrence known; (And either one may frolic in a potion aleoholio, @o—anjone who's wapient will leave them both alonat Moprright, 194%, Beattio Stary H THE GREAT AMERICAN HOME > / BADY THINKS THE New Editer The Star: Some more medical experimenta- tion ts headed this way and, as usual, the defenseless school children are to be the victima Now comes the Schick test, which ts alleged to determine the immunity of the child from diphtheria. The test ts very similar to the tubereu- losis test, which was found to be worthless and harmful. This test is fection tn the skin of the arm and then watching for a red spot to ap- Dear a few days later; by the pres ence or absence of this spot they claim to determine which children are susceptible to diphtheria, and those susceptible to be subjected to {njections of diphtheria anti-toxin covering a period of three months. After this they clatm the child will be tmmune from diphtheria for lite As usual, the medica) profession te not @ unit on the subject. John F. Hogan, M. D., director of the bureaa of communicable Giseasea, depart ment of health, city of Baltimore, tn an article tn the A. M. A. Journal April §, 1923, states that “Performing Schick test and tmmuntsing school children with texinanthtoxin ts of littio value tn the control of diph. therla, leading to erndication. nor ts it lowering the death rates” the practice t fraught with danger fa evident by the fact that the doo Editor The Start Would tt not be « good idea for the people of Bellingham and Whatcom county to request Director French to restore the beautiful appropriate American Indian name of “Kulshan™ to the wonderful mountain which stands tn thetr dooryard and which, together wih fts sister peak, “Shuk- san,” will make Bellingham one of the greatest tourist centers In the world within « very few years? The name “Baker” {9 exceedingly com monplace, and was given by Captain Vancoaver, the Pritish navigator, because one of his sailors by the name of Baker was the first to see this mountain. Theodore Winthrop, author of “The Canoe and the Saddle,” published 60 years ago, praises the aboriginal name of this great mountain tn his book In the following words: “Fartherest awny tn the Weet, as near the western sea as mountains can stand, are the Cascades, Sallors can descry @ landmark summit firm, buttress up to 49 degrees and Fraser ver. Kulshan ts an frregular, mas- sive, round-shaped peak, worthy to| stand @ white emblem of perpetual peace, between us and our brother Britons. “Its name I got from the Lummi! LONG DRESSES ARE ALLRIGHT—~ LETTERS ie Schick Test for Diphtheria done by giving the child « tiny te-| THE SEATTLE ‘STAR On, Dorotuy! You MUSN'T Do THAT TO MoTHER's New DRESS } tors do not want to take the respon sibillty themselves, but require the | written consent of the children’s par ents, If referendum No. 18 carries tt will be a step toward the tne when much | towts will be used in our schools with- |out the consent of the children's par eats, if the examination ef schoo! chfl- dren ts to be as superficial as the chief proponent of referendum No. 13 claims (necording to his statement in The Star Friday, the 13th tnat., [why burden the people with taxes |neceasary to employ high-salarted |doctors and nurses to do the examin jing? Why not turn the work over |to the school janitor? His diagnosis would be Just as correct. Ponetrate this veneer of benevo lence spread by the League for the Conservation of Health and you will few months extract serums with market value of $75,000, and repeat | this process over and over with the wume bores, the anewer is not tar to nook. F. W. WINTER, D. 0. 417 Ete! Bullaing. “Baker” Should Change to “Kulshan”, tribe at Ite basa, after I had dipped tn gotten. Mountains should not be tn- sulted by being named after undistin- guished Dipeds nor by the profix ‘Mount.’ Mount Chimborazc’ seems aa feeble ag “Mr, Jultue Cassar,’ Capt. Robert Gray, the American Captain Vancouver reached here, and juable Information and sesistance. Other navigators of many nations— Spanish, Portuguese, Scandinavian, yours before the arrival of Captal Vancouver, eo that Vancouver w | not the discoverer of these snow-cov- ered mountains. ‘This Is now Amertoan terrftory and there does not seem any good reason jwhy the native American Indian |names which are euphontous, mean. | Ineful and rich with tradition, his. er than the clouds, a hundred miles | tory, romance and association ehould away. Kulshan, named Mount Baker | by the vulgar, ts thefr northernmost | be discarded in favor of the common: place designations honoring someone or no one because thay happened to bo bestowed upon them by a British navigntor who while profiting from the Information and assistance no corded him by the Amertonn captain, Gray, tried to cover up bia work In such a way that ft would be difficult _ MOTHER, CLEAN if billows, constipated CHILD'S BOWELS WITH “CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP” Even Cross, Feverish, Sick Children Love its Taste and it Never Fails to Empty Little Bowels Hurry, mother! A teaspoonful of, Ask your druggist for genuine “California Wig Syrup” today may|"California Mig Byrup.” prevent a sick child tomorrow. your child is constipated, bilious, fretful, has cold, colic, or if stomach ‘se sour, tongue coated, breath bad, remember a good liver and bowel|” It never If} cramps or overacts, Full directions for bables and children of all ages printed on each bottle. Say uifornia” or you may get en imi. action t# often all that is necessary. | {ation fg ayrup ‘ navigator and explorer, arrtved tn the | Northwest nearly four years before | gave Captain Vancouver much val-| ete, were tn those wnters several EMTOR | Brain Testers | Fil tm the vacant spaces with let- tere making a complete diamond of | words that read alike from left to right and from top to bottom: Bee’ se~eeee Yesterdays answer naa Ze Aeneas Sepnwe Steen i erow=a Enmace complished. ~—Washington Star, 29,000 feet high. | TTL LL to reveal just what Captain Gray ao Mount Everest t» approximately TTT VISIT THE FORDSON INDUSTRIAL POWER SHOW ADMISSION TO ALL EXHIBITS This ts the GREATEST DEMONSTRATI Seattle or the Northwest. ION OF POWER ever held in 60 EXHIBITS—Each ono a real power dem _- thing you are interested in. st eee a ie BIG SPECIAL MOTION PICTUR! — ares gg E SHOW —all latest Ford releases a See what can be done to help you in all your power work, Building Contractors—Shippers—Lumbermen — Road Builders — Ware- houses—Docks—this big SPECIAL EXCURSION RATES ON ALL RAIL ticket agent—then come in to Seattle, SHOW GROUNDS — FOURTH at BLANCHARD Dear Folks 14 down, rooterg stood and roared. my gang won! Martin Street! LETTER VRIDGE MANN At last I'm mighty giad to ony the football.seazon’s under way; preliminary work in done, the classy games have now begun; and #0 inst Saturday I went to see the Stadium event. I went to see a mighty test between the Boward district's best; the Bhelby gang was billed to meet the bunch of guys from Martin street—two team of neighborhood renown, whose ages range from It seemed a lot of people onme a bit too soon to me the game; to entertain them while they stayed, the frosh and old St. Martin's played, and Washington and Idaho put on « half a game or #0, At Inst thoy left the Meld and then came Capt. Frank MciCeown's Men, and then their strong opponents led by Capt. Archie Simen ated. The whistle blew, the ball was paswed—the big event was on They played the game with lots of snap, and mate a fine and @andy scrap; but Archie's gridders yielded soon to Funny, Jack and Jim and Juno, for Ceall took the ball and scored, while all the ‘The whistie blew, the game wae done; the fight was feroe—but The U and Idaho came out and the ball ebout—but as for ma the biggest treat was Ghelby versus Carita Qomn FRO ished and kicked Béitor The Star: And there came a time in the his tory of man when, under #tress of war, many were the tax demands |upon the public; and « successful ‘man of business would pay much coin to iaten to paychological effi- clancy talk of short-haired women and youths of slim mind and figure; and these men of business, confused, would pay other large sums to ike youths to readjust the business which their acumen had brought to success, and the youths procesded to readjust after the manner of « emali boy “fixing” @ watch, and they per mua4ed the merchants that they | might make a law whereby the mer chant need not send goods to homes and thereby compel the mothers to shop more; and the mothers wore compelled, therefor, to fall back again upon mafl orders; so that the last condition for the merchant was worse than the first. And the teachers of the people arose, saying, “Hath not one of us reached the pinnacle of oracle for all the peoples of the earth and are we therefore not of extreme value to the public, and shall we not therefor be pala accordingly?” and they used FRAR, urging upon the mothers to protect their young: the teachers urging « tripling of taxation! and when the people begged of the teach ere to share In the general weal, ap peal was made to clase hatred, re- ligtous prejudice and like; until al! mankind looked upen his brother with enmity. ‘The young men of medicine, dare. garding advice of their seniors, elected from among their number one who should head protection of health; and there was injected Into the veins show {s for your benefit. 10 A. M. TO 10 P. M. : A Bed-Time Story for Taxpayers reports emake in West Texas that eight feet and bad 24 rattles and a button. The writer has seen a etx. foot skin in southern California. But FREE ROADS—See your local the simplicity of their fathers, and the taxes went unpaid, and the fath- ore and mothers teught their chil- dren, and the people began again to wax healthy from the simple living and freedom from serums; and the wheel having made « full revolution, | no man having taken experience from his father, as ts the way of hu- manity, history began repeating iteelf; and the taxeaters were com polled to earn a living unt!) the gen- eration should arise which knew not what had passed. Moral—Vote “No” on 20-10 No. 46. Vote “Yes" on No. 15, against bix state bealth department. MRS. EDGAR BLAIR, Main 6194. SCIENCE Rattlesnake Sizes. Reports 8-Footer. 200 in One Nest. Indians Have Legend. A Texan killing « rattles | in the winter of 1968-69, when the ;| ly will be wasteful in rer =| flavor to an extent that OCTOBER 16-21 INCLUSIVE 0 " strument for breaking fee and the resulting granulation was far from coffee making, With the advent of the Vacuum Process it became possi- ble to pack coffee ground and since that time, the public has found it pos- sible to purchase coffee with an improved gran- ulation. The experiments that’ Hills Bros. have con-; ducted over a period of years has shown that this part of coffee mane} ufacture isan exceeding’ ly important item. Cof fee, if ground too coarser sult, and if ground ex- tremely fine, will lack in it will be impossible to brew from it a perfect cup of coffee, ’ It is unnecessary to call the attention of users Bros. Coffee the uniform granulation that is consistently main nT