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

PAGE 6 The Seattle Sta Published Dalty ty The Star Publishing Co. Phene Main 0400. Mew Paper Boterprise Association aad Uslted Freee Merrioe mail, out of ity, Hee per month; # mentha, EL80, € months, $2.76) rear , to ene Wate of Washington, Outside of the ste per month, $4.68 Cor montha, or $9.00 per year, My carrie month, a @timan, NI & Ruthman, Rpecial ee fan Francieos fice, Monadnock bide; Chicage office, une bide. New York efficn, Canadian Pacific bidg.; Boson office, Tremont bide Two Real Shipping Handicaps The plea for ship subsidy is almost wholly based on the claim that wages and conditions imposed by the seamen’s Jaw handicap American shipowners as against foreign owners. The Star will discuss that phase at a later time, but, in the meantime, two real handicaps may be pointed out. Every nation requires that a ship's hull and its boilers and engines be inspected once a year. It is the practice of foreign nations to provide for this inspection in a way that will not hold ships idle and so cause loss of earning time. A British ship coming into a British port can notify the inspectors of boilers and the inspectors of hulls, by wire- less. They will have men ready as soon as the ship comes in and they will inspect just as much as they can while the ship is discharging cargo and taking on new cargo. But the moment the ship is ready to sail, it is given a certificate for such part of the inspection as has been completed and is allowed to proceed. This is repeated in various ports, and is acceptable if the entire inspection is completed in the course of the year. The American system of inspection requires the inspec- tion to take place all at once, which means the drawing of the fires under all the boilers. The boiler inspector does his work when and as he pleases and the hull inspector may or may not be working at the same time. The effect, in practice, is that the foreign ships do not lose an hour of possible working time for the purpose of inspection, while American ships lose about a month a ar out of their earning time. It is this loss of time | seat by arbitrary, bureaucratic rules under executive sanction that handicaps American ship owners to the extent of nearly 10 per cent of their earning possibility, Again, all the other ships in the world have a formula for measurement of tonnage which is different from the American measurement. Every time a ship goes into port it must pay fees and dues of many sorts based on tonnage; every time a ship goes thru the Panama or Suez canal it must pay tolls based on tonnage. The American method of measurement rates an Amer. jean ship, which may be exactly like a foreign ship, at from 20 per cent to 30 per cent greater deadweight ton- nage than a foreign ship is rated. That means that it must pay in all sorts of dockage, towage, clearance and other fees, as well as all canal tolls, from 20 to 30 pér cent more than the foreign competing ship has to pay. The excess tolls and charges are paid to foreign govern- ments and foreign officials, and are in the nature of a Penalty imposed by this government unnecessarily and without reason upon ships owned by Americans. Here are two handicaps, which if the friends of subsidy are correct in their statement of its amount, would, alone, if removed, make subsidy unnecessary. And the beauty of it is that the benefits would go, at to all American ship owners instead of the favored few who would get subsidy. Indian canoes down to the Island, Ontario. He brings a the Far North who has tamed The incident, however, mendous amount of work that man has passed off on do- mesticated animals. He has made slaves of horses, cat- chickens, Eskimo dogs, camels, elephants and a host sets you thinking about the tre- Of all these, horses are the most intelligent. Elephants In India they are trained to work all day as and piling logs. when farmers used dogs, running , to churn butter. Horses were similarly machines, > ushered in a new era of power. are shifting our position. The auto is re- horse. are railroads and flying machines. of food being produced synthetically in laboratories instead of by growing and killing plant life. Where we once preyed exclusively on trees, a form of plant life, for our dwellings, we now turn to brick, con- grt goog itudied about in , you s al the three kingdoms of na- a —- and mineral. 5k rose i t state by being a parasite on the animal and vexetabie Kingdom. Slowly but surely he is relaxing his grip on these and fastening himself as a parasite on the mineral kingdom. A good illustration is taking oil out of the ground instead of getting it by killing whales and hogs. A curtous coincidence is the fact that cotton stockin gone since the longer skirt decree. rere 26 Our idea of a fine business ts being an ice man in summer dealer in the winter. * pene It Is never too early to in the Ni ape begin practice on jew Year resolutions you Be careful with the man who Is too glad to meet you. Ho is an agent. The Effect of Color on You A young soldier, mentally wrecked by shell-shock, was experimented on by doctors. Taken to a room where everything was a vivid red, he shrieked in agony. Then they led him to a primrose-yellow room. He sighed happily, drifted into deep sleep. Kept in this room he idly recovered to normal. 8. T. Ballinger of New York tells this remarkable story at a convention of paint and varnish makers. Ballinger says scientists have discovered that a room furnished in a dark color tends to cause melancholia and an aversion to work. A red room temporarily stimulates, then reacts in nervous headache. Blue induces calm. Green seems to impart happiness and vitality. Yellow makes people amiable, contented, soothed, A good tip, when you redecorate the home. monotony, use combinations, not one color alone. Many a married man can # cigar in his its being . carry gar in vest pocket for months To avoid Vidcaely nel, or Abbreviation for Standard Oil stock means nothing Nothing makes a defeated candidate madder than going back to work. Mealth hints Few good plano players amount to much in the kitchen, THE SFAT NO REST FOR THE WEARY TLE STAR Realit Towar Broth Like | Each With cal evils of nex of booze, tobac of irrational if rioation of pc would have a | | | i LETTER FROM ‘VV RIDGE PMIANN Dear Folks: I told the wife, a day ago, I'd clean the furnace out; perhaps the statement ought to go the other way about; It waen't I who told the wife-—he told me what to do; and #0 to save a family strife, I had to see it shru. For when I'm told to come acrone with euch a job of work, I know the little dear ts bows, and vo I daren't shirk. It seema that when, in days gone by, we said our fatal say, It waan't she, but it was I, who promised to obey! But running strictly true to rule, I hed to pause to state, “My dear, today ts pretty cool—perhaps I'd better wait! fhe gave « grunt—you know the kind—{t means, “You lazy prune,” and said “It's been ‘too cold,’ I find, since just the first of June.” And eo I started then and there to clean the colle of crust; and in the place they heat the alr I got a ton of dust. From firebox to chimney fue I gathered goory soot; the furnace, when the job was thru, was clean from head to foot, And id she tell me, “That's the stuff? Emphatically not Bhe stood and laughed, “You're black enough to join a minstrel show! Your face ls like « funny mask—it beats the comio sheet And eo I meskly rise to ark, “Aint women hard te beat? Grrige None, LETTERS ce EDITOR The City Garbage Dump Editor The Star: | the boys will econ have to quit play- The city is dumping garbage at ‘ne a» the gulls have spread #0 many bones around that their soo Sist and EB. Madison against the cor ball gets punct and when Protest of dozens of taxpayers. This 4 Kid falin he ts sure to cut himself. summer we could not get a breath Everytime a wagon t# dumped « of fresh alr and the rats are #0 cloud of ashes and stench fille the thick that we can’t buy apples and jungs of our coming athietes. The potatoes fast enough for them to sidewalk on the bridge three feet ruin, | Wide and below the roadway Is a To make matters worse the sea dingrace. A woman ts out of luck gulls two miles from water are on a rainy day; every machine that droping bones on our roofs, plug- passes throws mud in her face and ging up the drain pipes and peck- over her clothes. ing off the shingles. The ball W. H. LINDBERG, srounds is next to the dump and 637 Bist Ave. N. Praises Hurst’s “The Locusts” EAitor The Star: Mr. Huret’s story is no exaggera- I would like to say @ few words In tion. In California there are already wide areas that answer to hin de praise of the Intent of the mOrT | cription of the Columbia basin 35 which you printed a short time 4@0 | yeary in the future, tho there were called *The Locusta.” This etory has | hardly any Japs worth mentioning in Gone a great amount of good in mak California 25 years ago, Ten years ing people see that the Jap question ago there were hardly any Japs on must be looked at from the point of the land between Seattle and Taco- view of what the condition will be 26 | ma, and euch @ thing aga Jap in the years from now. Some people are) Yakima valley was unknown, but always telling us we ought to show some people seem to be ablo to shut fair play to the Japs. I wonder | their eyes to what haw happened in what these Jap defenders will say | those ten years and make believe about fair play when the Japs have! they see no danger of the Japs ever fettiod up, not alone the Columbia | getting control of this country. river basin, but the Wenatchee val-| The story about the Columbia ley and the Skagit flats, in addition | basin answern a lot of Jap lovers who to the Yakima valley and all the have lately been shouting for @ land between and around Seattle and | square deal for the Japs. Tacoma, P. T. FAGRIB, That $195 Elevator Inspector Editor The Star; | now would be a plain violation of the I am very much tnclined to agree budget law, and as for increasing the with Miss Alice Robertson that wom. |2U™ber of Inepectors of anything— the city hall is so full of inspectors on are not yet ready for office—w®| that they fall over ench other to have an example of it right here in keep out of people's way, and there Seattle, when one of the new councll-|{s no job about inapecting—it ts women offers a bill to increase the | only a sinecure, so that It fe a pity number of employes in the county: | that there should be any effort made lthe 20 years peeudo rejuvenation? Not the men and women who have itved cleanly, | sensibly, bringing dignity and worth, unselfishness, sweetness and charm to maturtty and still older years; not the ones who have given staunchly of thetr best, and expect to give. It te claimed rather by | wastrels, worn out by their various | boxes of fruit; | vices, and they wish it not aa ajand I came to means to redeem themselves but as|money to kep an ald to further sinning. | If phystetans had the character! It was propo: ture authority 1 backed my and stamina to drop this and similar Henry in @ vacant space near a big jaquackery, be honest men whom we market, and could and would heartily respect and formed, sassy honor; if they vigorously, relentlers- story bull of ly, consclensly showed up the physi Even the Orient’ Frost-born, adds faintly sad allure. aring, industrial diseases, ete, we | Editor The Star ' At the meeting of the senate, last year, at Olympla, the submiasion of & constitutional amendment to the | voters at the November election, just pansed, was proposed It promised a monthly pension for life for residents of this state during taining the age of 65. dren inside and out of the wet. beck In ahead of me and yelled: MOND MORNING IN OCTOBER BY MARY W. PEYTON Outward upon restored intimate things, Miraculous, a great door swings— y, that tamaracks sway their fringe d me, and beckons a far wood whose tinge, Sped by the sun, ers of mine, little red squirrels, run leaping flames—run joyfully with me. leaf and I fal] softly ‘gainst the mother-tree Before our whirling rapture in gold air, | Our rapturous dance on earth. Me on. their Southward trail. An old horse clumps the road—my heart inside The beast throbs with his own. In clouds I touch, the foxes’ hole, in green sea-foam, moles and miners and high kings of earth . . .| O amazing universe wherein I have rebirth! The wild geese bear Now glorified, I seek a home | misconduct, the abune | sound and a body of medical men we co and dope, the tlis|could revere and not, as now, « ving, the physical de-| greedy, unscrupulous group who #it pverty, excessive child: | with an animal's slimy glands in one hand and the other held out forever for your coin, L, M. CLARKE. population physleally Monthly Pension Plan tation tax on all residents of the state between the ages of 21 and 60 to pr vide funds for the payment of the pension. For some reason this laudable mat ter was forgotten at the recent wen sion. Perhaps no bill was ever in troduced that contained a better pur. pose than providing for the aged citizens who have lived here so long, many of them having lost their all tn the speculation and struggle of busi News activition. B. KIDD. previous to thelr at ned to give the lewisia- to levy & poll or capt Why He Doesn’t Like the City Last Saturday T came to your city the| with a dog, two calves, and a few get that heap of junk otta muh way” and all the curb smart alecks he- hawed fit to kill. I thought maybe it was the mayor's car, but I heard & loafer say It was belonging to the leading bootlegger of your city. I had @ good mind to wrap that bog carcass around the neck of that wmart aleck, but I coyldn't afford a lemon colored, uni-| fine, and I knew I couldn't have a driver in a big two-| chance in court with a real bootlegger ® machine tried to| anyway “Ya Well, IT went around trying to sell they were all I had well them for enough the toes of the chil- battered ‘14 Grandpa Now brushes teeth this new way In this enlightened country, every home ehould find out what this method means. It combats the film ‘This new method combats film on teeth Film clings to teeth, enters crevices and stays. No ordinary tooth paste effectively combats it. Food stains, etc., discolor it, Now a new dental era Dental eclence has now found two ways to fight that film. One acts to curdle film, one to remove it, without any harm- ful scouring. Able authorities have proved these ways efficient. Nom. te wort over, careful People are the: di tal advice. ee ee A new-type tooth paste has been cre- ated, based on modern research. It brings five effects now regarded essential It avoids some old mistakes. Those two great film combatants are embodied in it. The name of that tooth paste is Pepso- nt. alag tyes baeetoar oo ev enemies of tooth —S land one of them stopped and ,. | Tee! loud and sald:: “My catia Look in one week The way to know what Pepsodent does fs to make this ten-day test. Look in 0n8 — week, and judge the benefits by what you city bullding—to provide for an ele- | vator inspector at $106 @ month. That matter was fully considered before the budget was passed, To increase the number of employes to establish that office, The effort should be directed toward eliminat- ing a few. Very respectfully MRS. ANNE B. STEWART, 720 Nob Hill Ave Gland Transplantation Editor The Star: I was very giad to note your recent editorial on gland transplantation, 1 often wondered if the general. public is forever to be made fools of. Have they no common sense at all? You cannot go anywhere on First, Second or Third aves. without en- countering window after window ad- vertising gland operations and gland tonies, There im not # dally news: paper in Seattle but that has ite paid advertisement extolling the | virtues of the same. Men in various \cities have been sandbagged on the jstreets, kidnaped, their glands cut out to benefit Heaven knows who. ‘When will the children of the public uchools “get theirs” or “accidentally” lose the good healthy ones they hap Pen to possexs? Prisons in practl- cally every state have long been ex- perimental grounds for transplanta: tion, 1,000 being #0 arbitrarily oper. ated upon in @ years’ time in San Quentin alone, He becomen Part sheep or part donkey, often the monkey and stfll more often the goat The whole idea ts preposterous and mont repulsive. Can credulity go furthér? What a travesty on the seif-exalted human that he is #0 silly, #0 vice-ridden that he must depend on untutored ant. mals for ald to eke out his own use less life! And what g00d doem tt do? Thou. sands of animals are tortured and put to death and the human has nothing to show for tt, except, pos. aibly, a temporary bit of pep, which hin weak heart or bad kidneys or damaged lungs or stomach cannot long sustain, His last condition is hence worse than hin first. And who is it that wishes this then it forms cloudy coats. Tartar is based on film. That’s why glistening teeth were seen less often than today. Film also holds food substance which ferments and forms acids. It holds the acids in contact with the teeth to cause decay. Germs breed by millions in it. They, with tartar, are the chief cause of pyorrhea. Thus, night and day, those film-coats threatened teeth, Tooth troubles were constantly increasing. Hardly one person in fifty escaped. eo film less Those are tant to you. Cut out the coupon now. Par. 4 P ans T.OFF { Ten-Day Tubc Free moe a é I . THE PEPSODENT COMPANY U.S. Dept. F-60, 1104 8. Wabash Ave., Chicago, ML The New-Day Dentifrice Mail 10-Day Tube of Pepsodent to A hew-type tooth paste, based on modern research, to meet five new requirements. Now advised by leading dentists the world over, All druggists supply the large tubes, Starch and acids too Tt multiplies the alkalinity of the saliva. That is there to neutralize mouth acids, the cause of tooth decay, Old-time tooth pastes, based on soap and chalk, reduced these tooth protecting agents. Pepsodent, with every use, gives them manifold tos It also polishes teeth Pepsodent also multiplies the starch glisten now. You can see what Pepsodent igestant in the saliva, That is there to is doing for men and women everywhere digest starch deposits on teeth which may e otherwise ferment and form acids. Send the appear, Then look about you. Note how teetl a Note how clean the teeth feel Mark the absence of the viscous film. how teeth whiten as the film-coats The test will be a revelation to you. ‘ will point the way to life-long benefit both for you and yours. This is impo —— AY, NOVEMBER 27, 1999 SCIENCE Poroscopy. It’s a New Science, Identifies Criminals, Mapes Man’s Pores, Alrendy the fingerprint expert tas | been relegated to the past When he wan « reai one, be hi fad Krapber, and he dig ain ev by meang n of the delicate phe changeable pattern traced hy red lines of the fingertips autions saf0 blow, ves Only & fragment of an im it & enough under the new whered carbonate of leg or the article € % print, This js and enlarged os times t |, The p than | enntly shown to the jury, Each pore the lines. eli MGontity ty and their | var shape and aise. vars, triangular, pi velr combinations run ty [my veal and my hog and my tra, and got insulted by nine vartetion of alien crooks who buy all the food ep } you elty folks, and an T wag back I followed @ couple of what ix town you call flappers, but what jp the country we call cheap husatee; look at that hat,” looked and said: : whiskers? and the other “Ain't it the cat's . It's older than the fy And then I looked and they wey | potnting at my wife, who was sitting patient like in the old car waiting tp |mee if we could get money enough | for the shoes, Somehow I wanted to bust some. | body right hard then, and I'ma pe tent sort of an old fool, too, ort wouldn't be m farmer. 1 got @ real) look at my wife; a faded, bent sitting quiet Iike tn an olf looking way out at nothing im tieular; maybe at the ghost of baby that died one March night: the bridge went out and I get a doctor; maybe at all the | years of work and broken i I stood right there longside of thet shiny bootlegger’s antomoblle apd said real loud: “Damn such aworid” I wish some of you city tise had to wtarve or raise your own ft for @ while and see how smart sletk you would be, Yours respectfully, coupon for a 10-Day Tube ‘ after using