The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 7, 1922, Page 6

The Seatt Published Dally by The Star Publient le Star Co Phone Main 0400, Nowe. out of Franotece of York office, Aiman. renentatives, Gan Monednock ; Chieage office, Tribune bide, New Btsdes Pacific didg.; Boston office, Tremont bldg Uncle Sam Attends Another Party Suppose you gave a party at your house and invited call your neighbors, On the big night one after another rolled up, in best and tucker—that is, all save one; your very exclu- neighbor. > He sent his valet! Be “Tm not particularly interested in your party,” the ex- “Clusive one sends you word. “But I've a few investments our neighborhood and, as I've a notion you are not a regular party at all, but a ‘rough house,’ I've my invitation over to my valet with instructions attend and report to me what happens.” Be kind of miffed, wouldn't you? Well, that's something like the way Uncle Sam is treat- the rest of the world. - The Lausanne conference is about the 14th since Ver- es, and, tho invited, America has never attended any of them—save by proxy. If the nations of Europe call an economic conference, and invite us, we send regrets saying, in effect, “We “don’t think it’s going to be an economic conference at ‘all, but a political wrangle. And we don’t propose to have anything to do with it. However, we'll send an unofficial rver’ to report back what happens.” If they call a “reparations conference” we make a Similar rep! If they make it a peace conference, it is same thing. Uncle Sam sends word he won't come If, but he'll send his office boy or somebody without ‘ status, to make notes. _ Did you ever have a neighbor who was too blamed lusive to have anything to do with your neighborhood ties? The kind of chap who would turn up his at your volunteer fire department, for example, but d expect it to put out the fire in the pile of autumn which was threatening his house? You know the You know, too, how popular he is. Well, we're rapidly ming popular in much the same way, internationally | Duncan has shown those finicky Boston officials how her | is fastened on in three places, and they'll now let her resume | in public. ‘next step will probably be to make ‘em take out insurance policies their clothes coming off. But hew in thunder is modern art to flourish if every entertainer has got to show up her safety-pins, and such before the show! coats are one argument and three good crys higher this year. “When » man goes aboard ship now he Is on the water wagon Bridging the Hudson River : used to say that it was impossible to bridge Hudson river at New York city. They have changed minds. The bridge will be built. The impossibility erday is the accomplishment of tomorrow. So runs ition. new bridge will have for its “backbone” four each 12 feet in diameter. These cables will sup- the central span, 3,000 feet long, without a pier in ie water below. bridge, says one engineer, will contain 450,000 tons which is more steel than all the bridges across Mississippi, Missouri and Ohio rivers. 1940 at least 25,000,000 vehicles and 200,000,000 ni} a year will be passing over this bridge—if tations materialize. p a job, to keep New York city connected with the d States. tative Ernest Ackerman of New Jersey says bridge across the Hudson will be “the most stupen- engineering work yet undertaken, surpassing in and also in final cost the Panama canal.” e actual bridge will cost at least $100,000,000, About 000,000 additional will be required for the terminal from which the huge cables will be suspended. terminal towers will rise into the air 685 feet. strong towers required, to support 400,000 tons, the ight of the steel in the suspended section. More mil- ns required, for the approaches, It makes you wonder, is there any limit to the engi- ing powers of man, second only to the ant (in pro- on to size) as a builder. Diego Sun's lady readers have inaugurated a warm campaign for short and dignified skirt.” Most any fellow can identify the short skirt but, if The Sun has got a of a dignified and short one, the public will give three cheers publication. often think the old gray matter ain‘t what she used to ba Your Best Two Months You can figure on accompitshing a lot during the next days. Scientists, after long study, announce that the man brain does its best work in November and De- r. Cool weather is a spur to mental activity, hot weather ‘brake. You've noticed, hard to think in a hot room. comes in April, May, September and October. Pi RR NE du Peggy Joyce says that she Isn't going back to Europe, as she has her eye on « new Broadway production. Maybe Peggy has heard of some rich old Broadway dumbbell who isn't already spoken for. Pacific Ports Make Gain Exports from our Pacific Coast ports have increased 182 per cent in the last eight years. The gain at Atlantic Coast ports was only 45 per cent. | The Panama canal has a lot to do with this, cutting o transcontinental railroad hauls, | More important, our foreign trade is gradually swing- ing westward, Our export future is in the Orient, not . gurope. The only branch of the alr service that hasn't been breaking any apeed records is congress. ‘The world gets better. An inventor has a tickless clock, Another Triumph of Surgery Dr. Einar Keys of Sweden discovers how to remove | clots from an artery, by operation. Wild cheers, when he announces this in Boston at the clinical congress of American College of Surgeons, It is news of extreme importance, for it involves the t valuable thing in the world—human life, “Dr. Key's discovery will save thousands of people a ‘year from becoming cripples. Heretofore a blood clot usually Meant gangrene and amputation of arm or leg. ts Diibaleailidacedintinsine Anibanskdor Harvey says women have tio souls and manages |e ple rly is and man: to get hess ston te months until Christmas. It ts time for father to begin | POSSIBILITIES {Motorists Live for City Dodges Light | Days on Snow Water |days without food in an automobile. They had only melted snow to drink| authorities have failed to pay for itw THE SEATTLE STAR Uncle Sam At tends Another Party (By Proxy) Whew! Tas ” my't BUT te THE a IVETE YOU'RE POPULAR ve BROVGeHT You MR SAM If WAAL RECKIN' | BETTER SCIENCE Avogadro's Law. Relates to Gases. Number of Molecules. 27,050 and 18 O's. well-known omy! Gragerott, dentint Professor now gelos, ma & difficul He w Centar all the eb of gas will have th of m inary pressure nis in a state same number LATER. THE a The quantit of a jc centimeter oes “VRE Yn —T } Jin tom than a thimbletul, ‘The num —e ’ ber of me contained in the eu bic centimeter i» 27 sextillions and | jp 60 quintiliions, That figure is writ ten as 27,060 and 18 ciphers. This is known as Avogadro's law of wasn. AIRSHIPS TO RUN T LONDON, Nov, 7 service will be extended to Australia. Definite plans have also been pre pared for the establishment of a reg ular airship line acrons the AUuiantic ‘This latter ventire has been under. taken by the General Air Service Officials of the British air min. letry state that they are prepared to offer any anvistance. Tt ts not impossible that the transoceante air way will be run in njunction with the Eritish government’s Indian nervive. DEATH RETURNS. ~ WOMAN'S VOICE LETTER FROM \VRIDGE MANN Dear Folke Dumb Wife Speaks as Another Musio Week has come to bring us lote of tunes to hum, and make us contemplate the way that music wields ite Spouse Drops Dead magic mway, and sense the charm that music has—from classic stuff to lowbrow jams, Mre, Samuel Simpson, of Bald I've heard Caruso’s golden tones, I've heard the tambourine and win, L. 1, has been in a semi-coma- bones; I've thrilled to Schubert's serenade, or simple things « tone condition for tore than « year. blind man played; and find that munlc’s art Includes an alr for Last December she test hur velo all our many moods. when she was operated upon tn a fa. Nor can {ts subtle spell be weighed by Instruments on which tile effort to stay the gradual ad- vance of creeping paralysis, Her nurse and negro maid were in the It's played—the volces from a ‘thousand throats, @ distant banjo's thrumming notes, a simple song as day departe—all speak their word to human hearts. And when I let my fancy roam to nes my distant childhood home, I hear the organ-grinders there grind out some lone forgot ten air—a simple thing that sounded sweet to all the kids that roamed the street For every kind of music brings tts ald to bieger, better thingr: and even jazz can do its share to lighten burdens everywhere, for in its syncopated sway, our troubles seem to melt away And sacred musto lends the church the eharm that troubled spirita search; we may not fall within the «pell, of what the preacher has to tell, but all our hearts can feel the plea of “Rock of Ages, Cleft For Mer Grits Tom room the other day, when the wom- 4n arouned horaei¢ and said, “Hello, | where's Sam? | Just then the telephone rang and when the nurse took down the re ceiver she was informed that Mr. / Simpson had just dropped dead while eating dinner tn a Broadway restau rant, in New York ity. When the checkup revealed the fact that Mr. Simpson had died at the exact moment when his wife found} her volee, the nurses read something | supernatural into the coincident, stores in the Northwest that really Killed When grind lenses from e#tart to finish, Train Runs Wild *4 ** #** 2° =!y one in SHATTLE—ON FINST AVE. Examination free by uate op- tometrist. Glasses not prescribed unless absolutely necessary. BINYON OPTICAL CO. 1116 FIRST AVE. BEST $2.50 GLasses ON BARTH We are one of the few optical Two BUDAPEST, Nov. 1—The Mid-| Continental express for Conatanti- nople ran wild for €0 miles when piston rod broke and pierced the botler, which exploded, blowing out the firebox. . The engineer and fire. ‘man were killed. By Berton Braley F a lapdog were big as a pachyderm, And an elephant small as a dos, ‘Twould be unusual, I affirm, And we would be all agom But after a little while, I'll bet The matter would cease to irk ua, We'd keep the elephant as « pet And send the dog to the circus F a horse should shrink to the size of a mouse, And @ mouse grow large as a horse, ‘There wouldn't be room for the mice In the house. {You follow my thought, of course), 80 we'd hitch the mice to the sulky plow They'd take to it, by degreos— And day by day we would worry how To keep the horse from the cheese Draws from actual photograph of little May Janette Martin, daughter af Mra. J. Claude Martin, 1951 Felin Ave., Memphis, Tenn. F a flea should grow to the #lze of mac And 4 man grow small ax a flea, Why, life would be on a different pian From what it used to be; For the man would hop and the man would bite, And the flea would have to chase him, Swatting the air with all his might, Endeavoring to efface him! 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