The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 27, 1923, Page 6

‘The SeattleStar Beterprise Association and United Prem Merviog Py ’ # mowtha, E816) year, Giiman, Wioet! a Roun Ape. a Representatives, Monadnock bide) Cnics The Birth-Control Measure ‘Some intelligent people have large families. But when y do, it is usually because they have deliberately made "ap their minds to that end. Generally speaking, people ' are highly intelligent, rich or poor, have few chil- id fn. They marry late, they have many other things to “te ) do, and they consciously limit progeny. This is a fact immense importance. | The Anthony Comstock law, under which anybody who geeks by voice or pen to teach people how to limit the size ‘their families can be arrested, jailed or silenced, will be amended if a bill placed before congress by Represen- § Kissell and Senator Cummins is passed. law now works to prevent the poor, the {gnorant, "the downtrodden from cutting down the number of children born to penury and want, and hereditary tal right. It does not give us more of the children [the educated and intelligent. They find out all about th-control in spite of the law. Therefore, it works the end that society shall be composed from generation tion of the children who have the poorest chance n Is that a good thing or not? If it is, the Cum Kissell bill should be killed. If it is not, the bill pass. ma knew how bic a cinder In your eye fools? mee men in the public aye feel je honeymoon is over when he thinks she Is skinny instead of slender. Desketball players make better speed in stockings because stock: the runs tn them. Greases don't go far becamse they haven't much backing. must be as busy as a bee to keop from getting stung. te a burden—casily dropped. “Who Killed Cock Robin>” farther Senator La Follette’s committee delves into & g » Bs ie Well, that ts how big clair admits that the lease he got from Secretary | ig worth “considerably more than a hundred million La f course, Sinclair says he has had to spend a lot of yy to develop the field. Naturally, Uncle Sam very well do that for him, even with the com- it Mr. Fall on the job. why did Fall make this lease? Isn't ft up to Fall laining and testifying himself? True, he med office “to look after his private affairs.” people of this country who have been relieved 0,000,000 assets, according to the chief beneficiary, like to know who killed Cock Robin. They don’t and it is Fall’s duty to go before the La Follette to make a clean breast of himself and his it Qua @ the market ts not o drug en the markrt ff 8 —_—_ nase te Hive on the meen and have te stay out all night, . Tileen tavented the phonograph ty sccidcet. enly tovertte uplifier is the clevater bey. ‘niece never strikes fea golden, © t piatinem _ Black Gold, Hooray! Hooray! h ttle old United States isn’t all discovered yet. Not can still find the richest sort of gold mines ‘way Pennsylvania. Prospecting just the other day, they of the gold-like stuff called anthracite that ca ig nobody knows how many mil- vein is so close to the surface that all remove the dirt, chuck in shots of shovel the resulting debris in off to market with it. Pottsville, a second vein, even fer, has been found by the Philadelphia & Reading Co. no’ case of easy, inexpensive quarrying. f all this means cheaper hard coal for the furnaces, doesn’t it? yes, when water runs uphill! like to drens aa boys, but don’t like to deca ote a boys 0 to dress a6 girls use tb 2 place where you can go and raise cain because things went Bt the office, ais ' New York a cirl wae canght robbing « stor. Just » slip of a girk Tie leading figure in « show often has » misleading figure. ies thie head that Yes. What's Wrong With the State? 0 we want to cut expenses down and reduce ,, but, you know, each of. us wants a little some b a member of the state legislature talking—not der, but a plain fellow from the eastern part of the t He said in a few words exactly what is the matter ith the legislature. Everybody wants a little something and el three hundred “little somethings” make a One of these days the folks of this state are going to p ise as they have in other states, kick all of the politicians of the legislature and out of the state adminjstration, ‘prune and slash taxes to the bone. Speed the day! _ A dog lover advises un to the iy het deus, keep dogs warm, but doesn’t say to turn 1 has 30,000,000 men mad enough to fight about anything. > Only 2 fow more weeks in which to wish lt was spring. Decently Made Products ‘Here is another reason for using Pacific Northwest (if one were necessary). They are decently : products. Various manufacturers of food, clothing and other in certain other states still persist in employing labor. Despite a long history of crusade against mediaeval practice, national legislation to prohibit it been declared unconstitutional. Most enlightened have outlawed the practice, but more backward ites permit it to go on. Washington has no child labor problem. Its factories fe manned by mature workers. Sweatshop conditions do ot exist here. When you buy goods made locally you ly goods made decently. Too many people's idea of what ts right ty too many People’s idea of is wrong. Mf work interteres with your cussing, get » job as boss, 2 A nee NR RAST Rei THE SEATTLE STAR WOTTA LIFE! WOTTA Another Traffic Law Scheme Editor The Star: They work this in a clever way, After reading your editorial of «| cbservable to a ca Teocent date reganting the work of | P°! pend or Spe erespineonng but the young, generous cigar mer the traffic department in meting | chant merely tears these up at the out fines I wish to state that youl sng of w day were abscluely correct. By Take, for Jare |piace on Hirt ave There w 6 young man that works in « store who owns a thachine now and then he will give jiiceman on that beat « cigar or jtwo, and as a result be can park hie car on First ava ALL DAY. oman wi ample, at @ oertal wee favors would-be ared from these war} men. An coe he by the people, traffic pol examinat! kvery 3 reves! of graft Yours sincerely, READER. Richmond Beach. What’s a Landlord Entitled to? Biitor The Stan A Mr. Burton wants to know tf he fan't entitled to the 4 per cant which be nets on his investment te rental property I would my that « great many landlords have agreed that it fm perfectly proper to out my pay evera timee within the past two! years, regurdiess of the fact that this might make {t impossible for me Children Flirting Wi ith Death Réttor The Star: It is perfectly atrocious the way ‘this city allows the children to Mirt with death and accident every day. What I am compilat: manner the boys pl jot buay auto thor and the way they deliberately stand staring one in the face without moving from the road, and on skates at that, It ts) wrong of the parents and city to al- jow it, for the children’s sake. One child has aiready been killed and several more Injured in this way Today 1 was driving around the city | and I was @ nervous wreck from’ : oogs Preserving the Primitive Editor The Star: | It probably la true that the Amert | can antelope is threatened with ex | tinction. Offictals of the department of the Interior aay so, and the Amert ean Bison society and other societies Interested in the preservation of per |ishing types of came have espoused | the antslope’s cause. | Not many Americana have ever | #een an antelope, or ever will, It is jan animal of no economic, and of little game value. In this it is like the _ bison. That animal ls not half eo beautiful as a Hereford or Shorthorn steer, as « feature of the | landscape, nor eo good for beet, in the opinion of good judges. Those | who are gratified by the preservation | of the antelope and the bison will be | pleased by it—and that’s about all. | No important human interest would be mecrificed if the last of the type were to perish tomorrow, as thou vands of types have perished before them, the form. | every-which-way on skates tn the road and not caring enough even to turn out of the way. I have decided to go right ahead and not pay any attention to them if they won't to me. If they got knocked down It's not my fault. Maybe it will teauh them to stay out of the atreets It may seem cold-blooded, but Jevery motorist I've spoken to about It feels the mune way Something must be done. Indignantly yours, MISS GERTRUDE OWENS, 2112 17th Ave, ‘The measures taken to p the great redwood forests of Califor- nia are quite another matter. These should be preserved, beth for thelr beauty and for thelr utility, Moun- tain slopes should be reforested, both for beauty, for timber, and to pre vent our forested slopes from being eroded into the rivers. making a dev- astated interior China of) North America. In these things the primi tive is the beneficial and should be preserved Ningnra falls tv grand and beautl. ful. We confess to a feeling of re gret at the diminution of the cata ract, owing to the use of the water for electricat purposes, But such re grot It not really creditable. Electricity takes the place of coal Rotter far that every drop of water of the falls be used to generate our rent to enlighten, clothe, feed, trans port people of Penn nylvania, Ohto, New York, New Eng land and Canada, and that the roar 10,443 COUPLES WED HERE and warm George FE. Law, Brazil (Ind.) justice of the peace, says he’e wed 10,443 couples, more than twice as many as jany other man in the world. |They, with their children, | would make up a city of more | than 50,000 inhabitants, says Law. Here's Law's “mar- riage mill” with the chairs he bo marked to facilitate splio- ing parties, 2 ADS AUER AE hundreds of other methods | [trying to dodge the children fying) LIFE! Dear Follus The presses of Germany never oan shirk, for there's where the ‘They're working by day and they printers have plenty of work working by night right ing some twenty-five billion = day. It n there ought to ba Gee, is Lontsome UP HERE 1 Wish Here were Some Chee LITTLE BOYS AgouNO —_—Y could squander away. But what are the facta? tt in valued at nothing at all wouldn't get the paper for making a mark notes, when they're duly embossed, are really turned out to the people at cost. And what ts t merely sy, “Ain't it heir to show the soul and the heart! Crritge LETER FROM VRIDGE MANN they're all making money ‘They're grinding out marks over there, so they aay, exceed ey io wealth, it ls samy to mee how wealthy the folks over Why, Wilhelm and Helnie and Gretchen and Prite should have all the ooln in the world in their mitts; for out of the presses is coming, each day, more money than congress We have econ the mark fall, ti now It's fallen so low that a mark answer? I realty oan’t tell. But here is one item the mark seeme that money's not wealth and riches that last and will never depart are only the wealth of tATURDAY, JANUARY 27, 1923. SCIENCE Acoustica, ‘ef Problems Solved. Prof. Sabine Busy. Architects Interested. Dvery science has tts period of duliness and ite time of great ao tivity Prot. Paul ©. Sabine has awakened the sclence of acourtics. In his lab oratories at he bas worked on the problem of nots. Derwin said: “Dirt ls merely mis placed matter.” Noise may be called misplaced sound. In the modern city delicacy of hearing and tone evalua tion are lost, not because of the jar of noine, but because so many noises are presented to the ear that people jget into habit of ignoring sounds. Professor Babine has called to his lala the batteries of modern eclence | tor the purpose of eliminating noise jin buildings. The attention of archh | tects the world over in focused on | this work, which is just published. and “making” te ne clyaret! And thousand Our high financiers and that wealth isn't dough; Yomns | allies might find thetr Moustlinia ary Digest the tale of the destruc | ten. 4,000 villages; 20,000 taotorien; 600,000 homes; private property sto: dewtroyed to the tune of francs, 12,484 square niles rendered unfit for habitation;| apd chaos, coal-pro-|and Trotaky would tke to see it|safely bet thet the last subject on 13 per cent of France | jucing mines dentroyed; 90 per cent gissipated! I wonder et times tt Mr. | Which Hearst imn't covertly playing their the ruined area @8me, One recalls that had he héd/heve to turn bankrupt on scoount f her steel her sugar her elec , paid bef whole taxes of France ndustry; 10 per cent of territory; 65 per cent of erny war one-fifth of the, the courage eae |1917 they would have landed him! Stroll down the street and try it ~ | But for the moet part these re on France's militarism. Just « dif-|turned soldiers are an inarticulate ference of point of view. that French army ts the one bul- wark in Europe between ofvilization lot and don’t find their opinions quoted in the column of “The Brie banalities of Arthur.” But, Mr. Bd | iter, if such an unlooked-for contin. Lenine | gency should come bout, you can To me How Messrs. there would be the least shade of doubt would be as to whether France or Germany should of bia convictions in|of the damage done to France r ut on any man you meet with the One remembers that not one foot|! © cell adjacent to that occupied | 01 / et of German territory was deatro; not a wheel in her factories; not shaft in her mines; thet her man power was service and turned to tnduatry, Yet jin the toe of that we find that! wince the armistice France has bor rowed from her own people to re |store the damage and with the promise of seouring its return as reparations from Germany, the sum | of $7,500,000,000, while in the eame| time Germany has paid a beegarly 1,250,000,000 and secks Increasingly to evade mny payments at all better afford to give much freetickets| The Hearst press continually to Zambesi, where there t « atill| harps the tune that Great Britain | greater cataract. Qa F © must pay their debts to ted Staten because “if they Gon't, the money must be « loss to the ‘dear peepul’ of the moneys they loaned the government.” Granted. Yet what @ fine scorn for consi» tency to then torn around and say “France, you must cut out Ger Tt looks good to @ lot of us who|many's debt to you, because if you have faith in the essential manli.| don't, we can't trade with her—what United States to read the heck do we care if YOUR people editorial in your paper|do have to lone the $7,600,000,000 rnment and coun-| thay werd foolish enough to loan the temporiaingly aloof | Kovernment because the allies prom. the reat of lined to meke Germany repay {tt ita rightful place as|A fine spirit toward « inte ally, an one of the grown-up members of the|ally who stood in the breach two years while Great Britain raised an of the cataract be stilled forever, than to have It preserved merely to delight the souls of those who have the opportunity to see it, and the ca late It We could pacity to appr ‘Poppies Grow in Flanders Fields Editor The Star: Dg on i i i i bs geet 5 i i i i t } i H ; g way int hang I . E 4 co bay for the | States has bet to the last farthing; that he himself 290.000. ‘Theee boys for the most took part in drawing up the treaty| part were obliterated suddenly in of Verssilies, the provisions of/the full tide of a fervor equalling which France is attempting to @D-/that of any religious crusader th foros; that he accepted the findings | world ever saw. Go over and wak of the allied reparations commission | those 3,000,000 chaps from their in their estimate of the damage and tell THEM you propose done to France; that his own po-|to let the Hun go free and to bank litteal chicanery fe “the cause of|rupt Frence in doing It! France's being forced to take mat! In the twinkling of an eye you tere into her own bands; that the will be blasted by the righteous rame chicanery has brought th) seorn that such « proposition merits, | jones proud British: empire to mich| And we are the same people who |® Dass that @ beggarly 200,000 bank-| used once unctuously to repeat: |rupt Turks can successfully bluff it oe temk tet, [their way back into Europe cand ‘We shall not sleep, him and the British empire—one Tho popplel grow wonders that after his amazing re| In Flanders fields. buke by the British people at the! recent elections he should have the| The Hearst sheets harp constantly ail to continue that poliay trom | ~~~ | behind the scenes. You'll exouse me if that sounds little bitter on my part, Mr, Editor but you see I happen to have spent & couple of years in France at a time when these same Germans Weren't mniveling on their coat) siseven and whining that they “oan't | | pay anything,” but were rollicking | | across the landscape with blood tn/ / He | thelr eyes and on thelr bayonets to the tune of t44t Jolly ditty “Deutsch. | land Uber Alles.” Some difference! I saw the ruined villages of France; | her tornup railwi blown-up | bridges; her mined highways; her destroyed factories; her flooded mines; her up-rooted orchards; her cut-down forests; aye, and I've been in cemeteries where every vault was | what, possibly in her own mind, s! blown open for the loot it might ay onwider its permanent short contain. All this after the retreat comings, due to financial or other from the Somme had begun in the| unavoidable reasons. She takes it early 1917, when there was smali| for granted that the visitor will ac hope of their winning the war, but|eept her hospitality as the best she when the object was to cripple|has to offer without the necessity France so that Germany might win| for reference to the fact. the peace afterward. The guest, needless to say, never Last week one read tn the Liter.! implies a criticism by word or look INSTABILITY By Berton Braley EY may catch a roving comet by its tall And reduce it to the hauling of a cart; ‘They may chain the roaring torrent and the gale, For the scientists are growing very «mart. They will doubtless train the antelope to drive In the harnes# of a buggy or a shay, But there isn’t an in © now alive Who bas found domestic servants that will stayt To & guest the well-bred hostess | may perhaps make some explanation | of a condition of momentary disorder | in her home. But she does not apologize for H, the flea in rather flighty in his style, And the butterfly in restless, so to speak, But the servant has them beaten by a mile With an errant instability unique. All the “wanderlust” the poet sings about Sends the clan—miscalled “domestics"—on thet, way, They are born of gypsy blood beyond a doubt, For you simply cannot find one who will stay. B have given them the guest room for their own, We have let them off each afternoon and night; Tho the burden of their wages m us groan, » | We have paid them with a manner all delight; But the moment that we dreaded has to come When they don their travel kit and draw thetr pay, And we hear the fearful words: “I'm leavin’, mum,” For you cannot get servant who will stay! 0": you master minds of aclence, heed our cry; Would you mitigate the woes of morta) clay? Put your brains on something useful, won't you try | To invent @ type of servant who will stay? 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