The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 30, 1923, Page 4

A a a ae PAGE @ The SeattleStar Phone Main 0600. wwe Paper Boterprine Association and United Pree Bervica Dy ot ‘sity, He month; } months, $1.60; # months $2.76 ata, B00 par mali, out i year, to month, 64.1% Gilman, Micoll & Ruthman, Apec! tative Ban Mesadbeck bids; Chicase office, me didig.; New Pacitie didg.: Bosiow office, Trement bids _ Keep Project Above Suspicion The legislature ought to look closely into the charges the state administration has been stacking the cards favor of one particular scheme for constructing the bia Basin project. 5 Tt is certain that one vital document on the subject, Batcheller report, was suppressed by Director Scott, Scott only last week refused to permit a Star repre- jantative to see the report and told The Star man that Riad never made it public and was not going to make Fre! York offloe, is report is the one that takes issue with Goethals’ and that declares the Grand Coulee plan prefer- to the gravity plan favored by Spokane. is charged that a lieutenant of Scott’s sought to e Ratcheller bring in a false report. It is charged @ powerful water power company has selfish and enary reasons for desiring the gravity plan. What- the facts are, they should be dragged into the light we the whole state can see them and judge them. the legislature can and should do. The Star and every disinterested citizen wants the Columbia Basin project worked out just as speed- as is possible. But it is a gigantic enterprise and must be done right. The best of all possible sites for intake must be selected. The engineering details must Perfected. The facts must all be known and under Secrecy, intrigue and wire pulling of selfish cliques be eliminated. to A GENEROUS MAN Fletcher controlled about 3,000 acres of land adjoining Camp The government wanted to use his land. Mr, Fletcher let them It, leasing the land for a perlod of five years at s rental of $1 for full term, or 20 cents a year—Representative Swing, California, house committee on war claims, Hozse of representatives’ supply store has quit selling hip-pocket is to members at cost. Now who says the government isn't trying to drinking? your Easter shopping early and svold the rush. _ No book Is called a lar as often as 8 cook book. Turning the Other Cheek The greatest experiment in pacifism is now going on Germany that the world has ever seen, ‘An armed nation takes over a rich section of a neigh- nation and takes it over without opposition; vie- without bloodshed, war without strife, nobody ‘ered, nothing demolished, everything as it was, ex- that the revenues of the district go to the victor, e victor can collect them. er it is all done with, France will probably discover she would have been money ahead to remain at in ry conquer an adver- ere might actually be something to the funda- the Christian theology, tho heretofore no stian nation had ever accepted this truth; and Ger- oy. does so today because there is nothing else can then, it be proved that it profited a conquering n nothing, even tho it seized a rich province with- bloodshed, or a protracted campaign, certainly it has shown that war is essentially silly, and can by no chance ever profit even the victor. might easily happen that certain weak nations would Wiped out if they followed this non-resistance pro- but, if it was universally recognized that the victor uld in ‘urn only reap ruin for his brutal, ruthless car- in time nations might become sane. Not but what has already been shown times enough; go ask Spain ay what it profited her to devastate a continent of pless peoples. THE SOURCE the last 19 years newspapers of the rural communities of Washing- have made a remarkable improvement from all standpoints, the methods employed by the faculty of the School of of the University of Washington. Last week the University its annual short course for publishers, one of the most effect- It has used for sending out new Inspiration into every corner Every community has benefited by this decade of the editors —Lynden Tribune, ‘ Harding unalerably opposes acquisition of the British or West Indies islands in payment of international debts. Simul- , vice-presklent voices his enthusiastic approval of the scheme them as payment from Europe. It’s your own fault, Cal; we you that if you opened your mouth you'd be a-sayin’ somethin’. y several more weeks urtil amateur gardeners plant canned corn. of motoring are chiefly the pedestrian’s, aa Bring on the Chloroform funny little item ticked in from Olympia the other y to the effect that a legislative bill by Representative on would protect the lowly trilobite, sea anemone, and crustacean of the San Juan Islands. the opinion of The Star the bill, if passed, wouldn't so funny. It would be another unenforceable, unen- ed but irritating and foolish meagure on our statute *he measure, well intentioned no doubt, would require ly desiring to collect sea specimens in the entire pelago, with its hundreds of miles of coastline, to tain a it from the head of the University marine ition. The ostensible purpose is to protect the research rk carried on there by scientists. Every possible protection to the scientific work would equally well furnished by declaring a mile or so of the e line each way from the station a preserve where ie collection of specimens would be prohibited except gat to make 1 i it to make it illegal for tourists and inhabitants to up shells and starfish in the entire San Juan archi- is—well, it’s too fishy a proposal. TIMBER LANDS Betas evose oe wed cf Ita in timber; 24 per cent contain only © partial and irregular growth of culled timber of teeta 29 per cent has been stripped clean of merchantable products, and 11% en ge of our forest area, or an aggregate of 81,000,000 has stripped of its merchantable timber, burned over, and is f rue” idle, being known as unproductive land,—Senator Marri thin country needs fs statistics showing you can't a ees cen can't show every. girls make faces at the boys while big girls make faces for the lands, Alrendy 10 j who can't grow mustiches seem to be the ones who want them, Z Linco ciedocantananenimmennanamncelapasientip ecient oe ica nme nn { BRING ME HIS EARS | By Berton Braley (Title taken from a novel of the West by Clarence Mulford) UO Tam very calm and sweet and kind, And very much Inclined to pence, There are soine guys I have tn mind Whom I would will # quick deosase; The bird who drives « motor car And at all regulations jeore— Is one 1’ like to maim and mar, “Bring mo his care.” And alice his ears 1H insolent boxoffice clerk, The room clerk at « smart hotel, Wl someone kindly take » dirk and nose as welt The ticket mpeculator, too, Please cateh him when he next appears, And when your butchery ls thru, “Bring me his oars.” NIPPON PAPERS SCORE MILITARY Siberian Invasion Brings Adverse Comment TOKYO, Jan. 30—It was @ thin day when the Japanose troops from Siberia reached home. ‘There were few “Banrals"—there was no ~varm welcome for returning heroes. Always before when Japansse soldiers came home from foreign fields the country went wild and flew flags for them. But this time Japan went calmly \about {ts business anid made no fuss at all and looked the other way when the soldiers passed. Tho Japanone occupation of Siberia war one of the most unpopular things with the Japaneses people that the government has ever done, “It cost Japan almost 1,000,000 yen ($500,000) to study Siberia. The peo- ple didn’t want the lesson and the militarists learned nothing from It. Why should we cheer the soldiers?” wan the tone of a number of nows- | papers. | SAVANT GIVES TREES ETHER BERLIN, Germany, Jan. 10-— Plants and trees show signs of mem- ory and pain. ‘This {* the announcement made by Dr. Adolph Minterberg, eminent act- entist and botanist, in a pamphlet he read before a gathering of mvante at 8 Berlin university. Plants rained by him, he declares, after receiving #un- ight certain hour dally, began opening their blossoms several min- utes before the time the rays were admitted. This proves they ponness memory, he saya In addition to this they gave indications of pain under certain experiments, In It Inhuman to negtect to cholo- form a tree Just before the fall prun- Ing? ts one of the questions arising | now. WIN the mnccvssor to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ani- mals be the Association for the Pro- hibition of Brutality to Shrubs? If a man cuts thru a field, Is he | Mable to arrest, not for trespans, but for maiming the raspberry bushes? Lethbridge, Alberts. — Tons of | chotoe, milk-fed turkeys and chickens |have been shipped ow! of Southern Alberta to Montreal, Toronto, Vancu- ver, Seattle, Spokane and Tacoma. | YOUNGEST SONG WRITER | Betty Gulick, 10-year-old New York girl, youngest song writer in the United States, is shown here with the youngest jmusic publisher, Joe Davis. Her new song, “My Mother's Lullaby,” promises to be a hit, \ Paderewski LETTER VRiIDG Dear Folka ‘The other night I had a all around t and fitted out to win the race of getting strong and well what impressed me mont 6 I mw & host of truly pre 4 for all the jo us laugh @ the prog in-betweens my pretty Firland queens who A wong by Mins tive, till she was thry “1 wish I knew the one with g Doc Stith said, “Av, I'll bring like to show you all about.” and wee tho ill—-tt’s quite @ thrill to nee your beauty Mac Diek F Denny di Virginia Bell, whone 4 I've heard them tell, of famous Robert ¥, then turned t I nald nristian work, you know; benides it gives me TUESDAY, JANUARY 380, 1928. FRO E MANN > vinit Firiand folks, with Spen- wt and tell them jokes, 1 y everywhere—for one can were surely But and why my vision whiris, in Just tty girls! he piace; the rooms 4 Buster Dougiaa sang: rafters rung. But in would fall on oi! the 4 rela ly watched the girls, and told myself, idle n Cr den “urla! u out some quiet afternoon—I'a “Let's do it soon! 1 like to go show?" OLDEST CAT IS — LAID AT REST BILLINGS, Mont, Jan, 26—Be- neath the mpot in the back yard he always lay in the shade of yhock bed on summer days, jest cat in the world, has been laid to rest by his mistress, Mrs. Grover Bample. Friends of the tamily crowded the yard. The body of Thomas, resting in @ specially made coffin, was borne out of the house by #tx pallbearers as the Victrola played “Nearer, My God, to Thee.” Funeral services were con- ducted at the grave Grover Bample, the cat's master and town constable, deltvered a eu- logy praising Thomas for his sturdy friendship and high moral qualitien. Thomas was born in Minnesota in 1898 and mpent many yearn traveling ageAKe Coaches between Mendan, Comes Back ES Polish Musician Is Again Supreme Paderewnki has come back—at #2! —eoorlng the greatest persona] ar hievernent of the century. supreme pianist was 56 bandoned his artistic cs. he patriotic service of his land. When he had ac All he could for his coun ided at 63 to return to his plano, But could he re his for mer glory? Wilson G. Ith, one of America’s foremost critics and composers, answers tn the following complish: try, he di Technic, the mechanical meann of expreasion, wng lort sight and bear | ing of thru the resplendent and ec \tatio «lory of his inspiration. He was a painter of moods clothed in colors glowing with iridesconce—as changeable and beautiful as the rainbow, | To the olf masters he imparted an undreamed of import, oall it in spiration tf you Ike, for it bad a subtle quality that differentiated It from all others. | He molded hig tonal phrase with |the plastic certainty of utterance} with which the deft hands of the | sculptor models his clay. | In his halcyon days Pnderewnki id more to make obvious to the public the essentials of tonal beauty 48 opponed to mere technical display tn plano playing than all the horde of petty tyrants of the keyboard before or #inoe, This was Paderewski tn his firat extate; in later years he seomed ob-! | weaned with the idea that notse—or | volume, if you Uke—was the great | perquintte. | The plano fairly xroaned and shrioked under his titanic onslaughts. But now the tale fs a different one Conctacly, It ts Paderewski redivivus, the supreme artist of hin first estate. with all his engaging charms of tonal beauty and interpretative in- spiration reincarnated and made audible. The master is himself again; thru |tragtc experiences his Inspirational atyle has become more mellowed and |Imbued with an even greater appeal end charm. Twelve thousand people obsessed by enthusiasm rose in mass to do him homage at the recital in Clevo- land where I heard him the other evening. To groune much enthustaem tn a mixed \wudience, with a severely | classleal program, means not mere virtuosity, but something more far- reaching and that ts, personality and the Intriguing charm of Inspiration. | al playing, So T make no mistake in using the term “Paderewak! redl- | vivus"—an artist supreme and yn | | approachable, Peseta een es oe THE NEW SHINGLE "Yen, Jones has just graduated and has hung out his shingle," “That 20? What's he prictloing?* “Medicine and economy,"—Rich: | mond Times-Dispatch, HOW TO DARKEN, GRAY HAIR A Cincinnatl Barber Tells How to Make a Remedy for Gray Hair A well known resident of Cincin« nati, Ohio, who has been a barber for more than forty years, recently made the following svatement: “Anyone can prepare a simple | mixture at home, at very little cont, that will darken gray hair, and make | woft and giossy. ‘To a halt: pint of water add 1 ounce bay rum, @ #mall box of Barbo Compound and ‘4 ounce glycerine, ‘These , In. wredients can be bought at any drug store at very little cost, Apply to the hair twice a week until tho de- tired shade 1 obtained. ‘This will mako @ grayhaired person look twenty years younger, It th easy to une, doen not color the mont dell: cate sealp, iv not aticky or groasy and does mot rub off,—~Advertiag: ment, N, D., and Glendive, Mont, before he Jeame to Billings*with the Samples. | No immediate relatives of Thomas were present at the ceremonts SMALL-TOWN STUFF Notice—What wan heard and re- peated about Hldea Marguis in false. K. V. Cote | A Correction—What I said about |Isano Areneau and Eldea Marguts was a mistake on my part—Wesley Chenore. Notice—What Mr. Chenore end Mia Cote said are two different stories, Mrs Sylvanus C only one to blame for whi —Eldea Marguis—In Magazine for February—Martipton, | TL, #un, | ENCHANTMENT OF DISTANCE | Bho—1 just love the farm! | the city?—New York Sun, FOR OUR ADVERTISEMENT IN THE SEATTLE STAR WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 3ist There will be an important message in it for every prospect- ive purchaser of a low-priced automobile. WAIT FOR IT— READ IT! WILLIAM 0. Authorized East Pine at Summit McKAY CO. Ford Dealers Phone East 0501 He—How long have you lived in| f CIENCE Reservair of Food. Ocean’s Resources. Could Nourish World. The Zeatera Marina. If the earth's population suddenty doubled, with pi) increase in agricul ture and stock \valsing, It still could be fod if we clutivated and harvested the avaliable sea food. mt food for fishes— id have to conserve ly If we wished to rope” of fish—le the na, or common eel It grows on almost all the ocean shores of the globe, It fe @ flowering plant and is usually grouped with certain sea-weeds and jalgae to form a zone called the bem thos. ‘The Kattegat—the body of water between Eastern Denmark and Sweden—produces about 24,000,000 tons of zostera, which feeds the fish life of the area. This area 1s about 150 miles long and 90 miles wide, and produces 6,000,000 tons of fish. Free i caeie BEST $2.60 GLASSES ON HARTH We are one of the few optical stores in the Northwest that really grind lenses from start to finiah, and we are the only one In | SEATTLE—ON FIRST AVE. Examination free by uate OD= tometrist. 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