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Published Daily by The Star Peblishing Ox Phone Veper Baterprise Association and United Press Bervion LE) € mootha, SETH) rear of the wate, the par month 14.00 for ¢ carrier, city, S86 @ menth. & Ruthman, Special Representatives Sam Francisce of- office, Tribune didg.; New York offies, Write Again, Mrs. Poindexter Tell us some more, Mrs. Poindexter. Your comments on Washington life so far have been pat and readable and sound like the truth. ey may have raised hob with your own social future #o far as part of Washington's “400” is concerned, and they probably have put an awful crimp in your distin- hed (or extinguished) husband's “lame duck” possi- 5 ities. But you apparently didn’t care much for the 400 anyhow, and maybe Miles would have lost out in any i ease. Besides, if he were the same old Miles he used to be "he'd not care what the “400” said or did. So weep not over spilled milk. But spill some more. IT'S A WILD RIVER The senator from Utah ts familiar with but one river, which clos Phere nobody knows and ends where nobody cares, and he naturally is thai » river is without use Lecause the only river he has in This state rises somewhere and ends somewhere, but goes nowhere, and water in tt contains so much salt that one cannot drink It, altho, of Course, that does not Interfere with its use, and fish cannot be put tn It Decause they would get pickled before they could be taken out, It Is not navigable, because it Is like some of the speeches in the senate, tt ls Wery long but yery shallow, and therefore not subject to be improved. — Senator Caraway (D), Ark. THE NATION'S HOME OWNERS In the matter of homes owned, Des Moines leads the country with a Percentage of 51.1, with Grand Rapids, Mich., second, percentage 50.2, ‘while New York city draws the cellar championship with 12.7 per cont-— “Representative Ketcham (R), Mich. Equal Shots at Each Other For six million dollars, the price of a small gunboat, navy is to be brought up to the fighting standards Great Britain and Japan, in accordance with the Wash- ington Brotherly Love conference which resulted in what known as the “five-five-three” agreement. Our biggest guns at present will shoot only 12 miles, "because we can elevate but 15 degrees from the decks of Our battleships. But with these trifling six million bucks, will arrange to elevate them to 30 degrees and then, the aid of the new fire control apparatus on the nes overhead, we can shoot out into space and anything afloat at a distance of 16 miles. That is, we can-do it if the other fellow doesn’t draw #, for the British and Japanese dreadnoughts can just as far as we can and also can sail “a leetle faster.” But, as we understand it, the British and Japanese 8 agreed, in accordance with the aforesaid “brotherly hands across the sea” agreement, not to elevate their any higher or make ‘em any bigger or build any er ships without letting us know about it. So now we'll be all equal soon—“scratch men,” so to Describing a triangle un the sea, the British, nese and American navies can take up positions 16 from each other and fire away. It will then be @ question of marksmanship and the five-fivethree didn’t make any stipulations on that point! fact, it is now generally believed that if we can some excuse for killing each other, a little thing like itive marksmanship will not be allowed to stand in the iy, 80 long as we can all shoot the same distance. LIFETIME ACCOMPLISHMENT highest compensation I could get (In the cust & year, which I got. It took me 30 yrars “0 ‘There was no possibility of promotion beyond that point—George customs attorney, before senate committee on finance. output of peace doesn’t supply the demand. Four Scientific Achievements new stumping powder made of sawdust and chemi- has been discovered by Professor Dehn in the chem- department at the University of Washington. The powder is cheaper and better for clearing land, than ie hydraulics department at the U. of W. is conduct- ig tests to find what materials are cheapest and best carrying water. A new material for water pipes may discovered. The college of mines at the U. of W. has evolved a machine for measuring specific gravity of coal. It certain to be a boon to coal miners. Waldo Semon, chemistry student, also at the university, found by experiments a new process that will re e the cost of high-grade soap. four scientific discoveries which may be of immense That is just a part of the useful work that the ity is doing. It is intensely practical and of great mic value. In face of actual results, it is hard’to nd the mental processes of the knocker who ham- the university. great mystery of time, were there no others; the IIimitabie, never-resting thing called time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, an all-embracing oceantide, on which we and the untverse swim like xhal ns, like apparitions which are, and then are not; this is forever ry literally » miracle; a thing to strike us dumb—tor we have no word ‘Speak about it—Thomas Carlyle. gives Daugherty a clean bill,” says a newspaper headline. the senate gave Newberry a “clean bill,” but the folks back home what poor laundry work \s and so they did some cleaning of, by for themselves. Oe, The Amazing Future An uncanny invention is claimed by Belin, the French ectrical scientist. His machine, by transmitting light ‘es thru a wire, is said to enable one to see the party h whom he is talking by telephone. You look in a box, the person at the other end of the wire. Maybe Belin has the invention, maybe not. But it’s st a question of time until such a device will be in com- on use. We are projecting the voice by wire and radio, nd we'll soon project images. Coming: Wireless movies, some kind of invention by which you can see what happening at distant places. PANAMA CANAL ‘The Panama canal at its narrowest point is 800 feet wide. It divides he republic of Panama into two parts. * * * There ts absolutely no pro- inion made for the passage across the canal in the treaty of the United with Panama.—Representative Arentz (R.), Nev, izky has discarded his wife, known as “a holy terror” jt taken a buxom lady whose forte ts hats, Siall right) At saayoon hevik wants to trade a live politician for a woman “gone” on hats, it's funeral, not ours. 4 America Producing No Real Art? France bestows on an American artist, George Elmer own, its highest possible honor for a living painter. It buys another of his paintings for the Museum of Lux- mburg in Paris, ‘This should interest the irritable critics who keep Ia- wnenting that America is producing no real art, Doug Fairbanks declares that Will Hays has nothing to do with moral of the movies. Mr, Doug ecems to disagree with Mr. “Patty. | A. W. Bacot, Martyr. | expert THE SEATTLE STAR REBECCA AT THE COAL SHED SCIENCE | | LETTERS 32 EDITOR The Movies and Vaudeville Dies From Louse Bite. Contracts Typhus. did to Scientist Editor The Star tians who object to thelr children Ald Fo Ocrenuisls, | I have just been reading a letter |seclng Fatty’s pictures again, would thy aa Sa oe sup. |JUet step into one or two of the|- arthur Willem Bacot, martyr, |‘MAt You recelved from a Mr. Que i141, shows and Listen to the Mak febbalty th Calva: Savot. jtafson, and I quite agree with him| disgusting and suggestive remarks He died from the bite of a louse, |‘BAt the Arbuckle films should be) that come trom the stage, and what shown. thelr sons and daughters listen to, In my opinion the film star’n plo-|they certainly would have some. tures were absolutely absurd, but|thing to complain about. He became an |at least, THEY WERE CLEAN Yours, truty, If nome of these so-called Chris le A Substitute for Butter ar | They proclaim it more healthful the knowledge of yellow fever and T netioe that senate DI No. 64 's| than any other spread for bread. It ttm cause, the mosquito, being offered, It le entitied: “An act/is sold at £9 cante « pound, while Since 1916, In order to sotve the | retating to milk producta, te prevent riddle of typhus and atmilar diseases, | trend thereof, regulating manufac 100 per Bacot waa a clerk who spent his holidays and weekends in the ama tour study of Insects: The British government | gent him to India to mtudy the flea tn Then} he went to West Africa and added to| mattor The Bt MALLEN connection with the plague be contracted typhus| have spent vast sums of money tn one of the tnfected Insects he | telling the readers of tte virtues, carried next to his skin, and, weak-| how ft comprises the nutritious heart| the wrapper ened by previous flinems, due to ex-|of cocoanut mixed with skimmed pertments, was unable to recover. milk and other harmless ingredients. i it to WEDNESDAY, JAN JARY 31, 1923. |X LETWER FROM V RIDGE MANN Dear Folks To keep a necret, no they may, is quite w risky job; It very often gets away and reaches all the mob, For when we've something on our mind, we like to «pill the beans, and spread the pews to all mankind—like radio machines And women's tongues, the werld has said, are very seldom still; if you've @ tal~ you want to mpread—go tell ft to « Jill And #0 the quickest way we choose to spread a tale about Is let a woman know the news, and may, “Don't let it out! So when I heard about “The Bat,” and how they advertise, ‘Pleane keep the tale beneath your hat—don't tell the other guys” I thought, “The bird who runs the show is craay like # quilt—or eurely, in @ day or #0, the beans will all be spilt.” But everyone who saw the play, wherever it was seen, has kept ite nqeret, no they say, and never spilt a bean. Five million folks have seen the show and, the it seems abeurd, there’s hardly anyone they know that ever told « word. Bo tho we often like to talk, and gossip spreads «bout, it still appears we often balk at letting secrete out. And tho, of courne, I'm far from blind to all the faults we've got—but taken as « whole, I find, we're quite @ decent jot, AGE SPEAKS | By Berton Braley ! eyes are burning with « lustful glow, And there is cruel purpose in tts face. With muscles tense and with « tigertsh grace, Tt gathers for & spring. Ah, well I know How strong it Is, and how its pulses flow With hot red blood that throbs and leaps apace. Not all my cunning nor my power and place Shall long avert the inevitable blow NOD, how I hate ft, as I feel Ite breath ‘That flames about me. Yet, I smile; my fear Shall not be plain, But certain as ts death I know the fact that ages have made clear, The coumioc tnescapable cold truth ‘That I shall fall before this monster—Youth! (Copyright, 1923, The Seattle Btar) Good Manners rs ls £2 ‘The moment when guests are pres. ont is not time for the mother to correct faults in her chiléren. A mild reproot may be unavoidable sometimes, but banish ment from the visitors’ presenos is the proper remedy for any grave breach of discipline, leaving punish. ment, if necessary, until later. In any event, the hostess never should show that her temper ls ruffed. the MARRIAGE A LA MODE In Thibet « marriage ceremony is not completed until the couple have lived together for three days, Wife murder, which t# common among the Thibetans, ts not « capital of. fense in thelr country, being punish able only by « fine and payment of funderal expenses. The murderer, however, may be imprisoned if he is dilatory as to these detalla To crows Australia by rafl you have to change cars six times, because the gauges don't match. Here it’s 6 feet & inches, there 4 feet 8% inchex, somewhere else 8 feet 6 inches. It le estimated that to unify the rail. way gauges would cost $278,000,000. Nevertheless the government, which now owns 28,147 miles of the total of 39,956 miles, is going to tackle | ing butter tn so many homes. | good, clean competition, and tf the | manufacturers have found a market who have tested tt and found ft a | perfect substitute for the expensive butter, | The creamery trust is trying to kill the product because It fs replec It te for It they deserve credit for bring Ing & saving into tho home that ts considerable, especially large families where there are children. Protest» | should be nent to the senate commit |tee to refuse to O. 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Mako | your ntart today, This paper pronenta the opportunity | found elsewhere, } CLIP COUPON ON PAGE 2. for senators to refuse to vote for tts passage. the job as soon as it can raise the money. ’ FAIR-MINDED CITIZEN How Cement Industry Anticipates Your Needs ~ 000,000 represents the eon the portland cement —finished and nearly fin- ished—which manufac turers had in reservestorage at their mills on April 1922, in anticipation o summer n age ice by U.S. Geological Survey, Carrying such stocks in ad- vance of actual demand means? Heavy financtng. As most po wg represent actual cash Taig chr on fered fixed investments tn stor age amounting sometii to mira than Ralf wlliea dol: lars in even a medium-sized plant—for cement is a bulky material and has to be kept dry. As things turned out, last year was a record one in the demand for cement. Government figures show 116,563,000 barrels were chipped, yet that was less than 80 per cent of the industry's produc ing capacity. And nearly 70 per cent or 80,000,000 barrels of this total was called for by cement users in the six-nonths’ period, May to October inclusive. This shows the seasonal nature of demand for cement. Most people still believe that the “building season” means six or seven months of the year instead of twelve.” Last year more than 14,000,000 barrels of cement were shipped during August and less than 3,000,000 barrels in January. Cement being a basic building ma- terial is a prime mover—in other words, the demand for cement immediately creates a demand for all other building materials. And , this comes at a time when crop and fuel movements are already overtaxing the railroad, In anticipating future demand and ¢ in educational work to lengthen the so-called building season, ce- ment menufacturers are always trying to serve your best interests, PORTLAND CEMENT ASSOCIATION of National Organization to Improve and Extend the Uses of Concrese FEES ee.

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