The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 9, 1923, Page 8

ar Publie’ 4 tha 8160 ng Co. Phone Main #900 Press Service, 4 month, $8.06; year, 248. joage office, Tribune bidg.; Bosten office, Tremont bids. fam Pacific bids Address Your Letters Correctly r ly commends the Digest’s efforts. > Some of the rules suggested are: “Place the stamp in the upper right-hand corner. P Write plainty and fully (1) the name of the person addressed Do not abbreviate, “and the stato ithe stamp canceled no portion of the address will be blotted out of your rural route) and the city and state or typewriter should be used in addressing envelopes. a addressing and number of the person in whose care the letter Is sent Bddress a letter tn care of “General Delivery” unk for his mall. publicspirited pross, with trained intelligence te foes ‘erations. —Joseph Pulitzer. ‘Washington f, wife's mother. Maybe Tut originated the motherin-law jokes, whi is almost as bad as living on taploca pudding. Ee Intercollegiate | which ts a well known Limit. Your Own Judgment nortalized the Light Brigade. nt ennyson put it: “Forward, the Light Brigade!” Was there a man dismayed? Not tho the soldier knew Some one had blundered: ‘Theirs not to make reply, ‘Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die: Into the Valley of Death Rode the stx hundred. aha Hoo-ray-y-y! manda for in eritance from emperialism. ff that was drummed into slaves by their masters. oyers admit this—and gladly welcome suggestions, ‘goes when you are Iate to work. of milk in 12 months. ands should be taught te recognize the tread on the different of auto tires. phate to get up, _ Veterans’ Bureau Investigation rains edly for the benefit of former soldiers. > bureau chiefs. es and replies, d elsewhere over the land. endous responsibility. tice must be done to the ex-soldiers, r out of politics, hip, rather than party politics, these senators will rise to the occasion. know. next thing to perpetual motion Is a flapper wanting clothes, ies he Four Horsemen” ndo the Palace theater, fevious record there was held by “Way Down East.” 80 are the people. can afford it, , ) 25,000 tons of steel yearly, ed woman in Prescott, Ariz, stole three horses. The Seattle Star New By mail, out of Special Representatives. Ban Francisce ef- New York office, Literary Digest is conducting a vigorous campaign for correct addressing of letters. “Families have been sepa- fated, love has been slain, human tragedies without num- have swept innocent lives to destruction, because leters been wrongly addressed and have not come,” declares Weekly in its current issue. The Star conducted a Similar campaign of education in Seattle, last year, and (2) the it Gnd the number (or the number of the rural route) and (3) the city Sddress should be written in the center of the envelope, with pt margin below the stamp so that when the letter is postmarked "Always place a return card in the upper left-hand corner of the face of Buvelope, being careful to give your name, street and number (or the Never write letter In care of another person, be sure to use the = you know $ person so addressed is in the habit of calling at the general delivery Maur republic and Its press will rise or fall together, An able, disinter know the ri courage to do ft, can preserve the public virtue without which popu- ar government is » sham and mockery, A cynical, mercenary, demogogio ‘Will produce in time a people as base as itself. The power to mould future republic will be In the hands of the journalist of future gen- archeologist claims King Tut was worried to death by his ly of nine was found living on carrots in the Adirondacks, Rowing association has set a boat race at three miles, ‘An old man of great historic interest—Thomas W. Shaw dies at 91, victim of bronchitis, in a hospital at London, lada. The telegraph wires describe him as the last sur- or of the famous Light Brigad2 which charged the Rus- lan cannon at Balaklava in 1854 during the Crimean war. As a child you probably recited Tennyson’s poem which ost important part of the charge by the “valiant 600” that they willingly went to almost certain death, ing that their orders had been stupidly balled up. As Oh, that poem of Tennyson’s was great the war god. Many a young man has shed ly to embrace death in battle, deluded by the al: OT seats of this poem. We're getting a little wiser ow, and inclined to ask a few questions before carrying ly too much fuss has been made about being duti- ‘obeying orders without question.” That’s a moron fhe individual has certain rights, as well as duties, and pepeeands that educates us to obey without question It's the same sort of e citizen has a right to question the edicts of his small of representatives who constitute the government. employe has‘a right to question his employer. Most > The private has a right to question his military superior. Ve are free agents, not slaves, despite the propaganda contrary that has been accumulating in our literature chools since imperialism began to fight for existence, pter in Ohio went 15 feet straight up, or about as high as to show what ambition will do, a New Jersey cow gave 11,793 ies show there are about 110,000,000 people in the United States ‘Ugly charges have been made in congress, and out of it, the United States Veterans’ bureau, which dis- es more than $450,000,000 a year, or two-thirds the e cost of running the government before the war, he charges preferred against Col. Forbes, retiring d of the bureau, and his associates, are serious. They ange from accusations of inefficiency and favoritism to ore serious ones which involve the personal reputations Now the senate has decided to delve into the maze of It promises a searching inquiry into the affairs of the bureau in Washington, at Seattle, 4 0 Upon this senate commit- which begins its work this week, devolves a tre- Tn the first place, the committee owes it to the men der fire to clear their names, if the charges made @gainst them are unfounded. Or, if the charges are true part or whole, and the money going astray, then greatest good this committee can do is investigate eau and its affairs so thoroly and report on it Completely and justly that the bureau can be taken But to do that will take states- The Star’s hope is PES SEES NUE ; have to live 50 or 60 years before you learn everything young ' PCa E Ea SERS A great many men flare up as if “Please Remit” were cuss words, Pretty Closely Related, After All broke all records for a film run being withdrawn After its 810th performance It surprised us to learn that the Emotions are about the same in one country as another, Janta, Ga., i to have a $2,000,000 bachelor apartment building; hair may come and bobbed hair may go, but making halrpins THE 8 PLENTY OF FISH BU SATTLE STAR NARY A NIBBLE —— FUN FOR ST. PATRICK’ If you want to know how to hold a POTAT MENT, and would like to recetve other sugges! b # and refreshments for a St. Patrick's Day party, fill out carefully the coupon below and mail it to our Washington bureau, with the required postage: | Washington Bureau, The Seattle § 1322 New York Ave., Washington, D, C, 1 want = copy of the bulletin, “St. Patrick's Day,” and inclose herewlth a twocent postage stamp for same; NMG... .cceesceccceseses Btreet and No.........seeeeeeees { 5 } { Oity.. ) State....... i eae. LETTERS LDITOR Opposes City Manager Plan fitor The Star: joept by a city |) There is a lot of talk about gettin & | only for a short Seattle a new c |manager provision. If | done it wou be the that ever happened to In the first place, a n Ich meets 9 or twice! One © o what kind this were |of a check would be kept on him wt thing | And since he handies all the city’s| jeattle, | funda It would be qu a temptation | nae of city with a city |a week. oman, =| | government is always exp ve and, | the question, | | besides, the present form is as effi | t aman who will clont as could be desired. As far as|work the marve the advocates | the chance for graft goes our present | of the mea: tt They say | antent part of find @ man ng a big govern |system ts far superior to that | Manager plan, because t r that | 1 But w system one man has absolute author-| who is exper ity and there is no check on him ex-lcity? As far the , city | that t Thisby Schwartz at the ’Cello BY JOSEPHINE VAN DE GRIFT her big brother's example and play NEW YORK, March 9—Thisby Is} the ‘cello, But cellos are big and three feet high. Tho cello ts four, Thisby was little, Teachers showed But Melzar Chaffee, director of the| her a small violin, a allver cornet, a music school settlement over on Now | bright new triangle, It was all un York's crowded Hast Side, anys that | availing; Thisby stuck to her choles, S-year-old Thisby Schwartz will somo Now she can hold the bow and hor day conquer the cello and become] plump fingers can cover three of the one of the world's accomplished mu:| strings, Teachers have supplement alclans, She has, ho says, both|ed this accomplishment with lessons talent and determination as witneas|in ear training and rhythmle dane the following indications; ing. One day, while the neighborhood] In tho meantime ‘Thisby i waiting children were busily engaged in a] to grow, game of “keeping house,” Thisby Sho Is the youngest of 850 children trundied over to tho musto achool| in tho school started nearly 40 years settlement and announced her tnten-|ago by Miss mille Wagner, who tion of becoming a musician, BAVe music lessons At 6 conte aplooe Asked what instrument sho pre-|to the musichungry children of the ferred sho stated sho would follow! Mast Sido, » Age You HAVIN’ ARY Luck ? hein SCIENCE Ectoplasm. Term Often Misused. Favorite of Mediums. Outer Cell Covering. plasm” is an ancient and hon. scientific word that is greatly prabl used, or misused, today in many ar | Ucles and books on sptritualiam. | It me outer, modified part | f the pr amm of the cell. It in| ned in bt and 200) It tn] to definite relates to a purely ubstance. listio conjurers are ulling oO Mean 4 substance that ls material except at tm: and is ctured by the spirits from the| s bod or two preudo-sctentists were Geoolved by this new trick and in an attempt to give the matter a scien title ampect they used the term ecto: plasm in writing about {t. ‘The name was immediately seized upon by the! mediums. It attracted great atten | tion for a time, Hany photographs were taken showing this supporedly mysterious substance. One method} of producing it was to use silk illu lusted with luminous paint, jon a ment or crooked officials goes, tt would only make more of them, for under this system a great many of fices aro filled by appointment and not by election; thus « manager could {ill these offices with his friends, not on @ short time, | but permanently, 1 make a clique too stron to Marken to vor populi” and could run the city in their own sweet way. Our present system is all right If wo were in a poaition to see the problema it faces. LYLE IVERS COMMUNITY TO GET TOGETHER Rainier Beach tizens will hold a get-together me Tuesday night, March 18, at which time subjects having to do with community prob- loms and community development will be discussed in a number of in spirational talks. The gathering will be held in the school house. The meeting will be open and] everybody, the Rainier Beach Com-| munity club announces, is welcome. In addition to the addresses, there will be special vocal and instrument al music and community singing. B, R. Scott, president of tho club, will make his report, giving a his tory of the club's activities up to date, ax well as an outline of plans for the future. “You believe in the future of Rain fer Beach and should know that the only Way woe shall be ablo to accom- plish anything is to pull together all the time, Let's get acquainted noxt ‘Tuesday evening, whether you be. long to the club or not,” says the president's message to Rainier Beach ors. Two Children Stricken Blind ORANGE, N. J., March 9.—Physt clans are puzzled by tho cases of two children living a mile apart who were suddenly stricken with total blindness, Ono has died, Bids Hels Reade Legal Squabbles LONDON, March 9.—Tho will of the Marquis do Villamojor, who left $480,000, forbade his helrs ever to engage in legal dispute: Sea Storm Has Three Sections CHERBOURG, March 9,— Four Atlantlo liners on arrival here re ported passing thru a terrifio/storm Which seomed to be In three sections, 3 Children Are Suffocated by Gas MIDDLWTON, Eng, March 9. Golng to the garage to cnll her three children, Mra, Mdward Blatkte found thom suffocated by gaa from the au tomobile engine, 1,250,000 RATS KILLED LONDON, March 9—In 22 youre 1,260,000 ratw have beon Killed in tho | Port of Londow bas killed the use of LETTER FROM | VRIDGE MANN Dear Folk Bome people like to raise a hov rning that or this; and when they once begin to growl, there's not « thi They quite forget the many things that ought to ¢ » pr no matter what their fortune ks. they're never satisfied Ney grow! about the y Gays wo have on Puget Sound; you never hear them pause praise the sunny days they've found Nor do they neem t and think that this ts very clear—tt’s all our atmospheric dri at makes it healthful her We know our scenery i great, with n s tall and white but there are some who Itke state, “It's alw cht.” But hero's the point, it seems to me, that grouches never get--no other cities EVER woo the scenery WE get And that's the way it seems to go, with pesslmistic birds; you never find tb aw % gloomy words, They qui forget that what they say thers in the alr, are always carried far away, and scatter ever 80 let us try to praise the land ture richly blest. We've got 4 start on every hand—why can do the reat? No other piace Was ever set on such @ rolid to make the most of what We get, and boost instead of knock >>> SMINUTES IUdAM PHILIP SIMMS -—- Ww Did ay bpd |tertained at lun for Dr |man ambassador to London, and his | wife. This should be @ tip to some folk who don’t know the war's over. jueen of England en heon the other day Gustave Btahmer, new Ger Depreciation of the German mark sh registers get registers that country. Ci s enough figures on A| Those Jamaicans are regular “cut ragor ¢ 185,000 marks and ter such le a clerk w r up 1,000 marks 185 By Berton Braley ya a bit optimistic, been prone to aver, That people were very much better Than, frankly, I knew that they were But even the cheerfulest person ust learn—from his life or his books— That the etuff in the pastry-cook’s window Is wekiom as good as it looks! {OSE mountains of marvelous pastry, Thone structures of jellies and cream, Those fairy-like cakes and concoctions, How toothsome and aainty they seem! Beware, they are snares and delusions, Constructed by falne-hearted crooks, The stuff in the pastry-cook's window Is seldom as good as it looks! 118 ballad, of course, has a moral, A moral that's simple and blunt; You can't always judge by appearance, You can't always tell a man by his front You can't dope a chef by his menu Until you have tried what he cooks; The stuff in the pastry-cook's window In seldom as good as it looks! (Copyright, 1923, The Seattle Star) | sisting in the F Da. J. BINTON Free Examination ‘BEST $2.50 Giasses on BART one of the few optical stores ‘in the Northwest that really grind lenses from start to finish, and we are the only one in TTLE—ON FIRST AVE. by graduate op- ory not prescribed unless absolutely pecessary. |BINYON OPTICAL CO. 1116 FIRST AVE The ORIGINAL Malted Milk } } 1,030 the pocketknife buyers with dozen. ‘The government of Sweden is as electrification of its al districts by granting loans from 4 government “power transmis- sion fund.” Experts are giving con siderable study to the application of electric power to ploughing. | Engllsh lawyers have disbarred Gandhi, the Indian leader. This makes no difference to Gandhi, who disbarred himeelf long ago in accord- ance with his policy of non-co-opera- ton, ‘The Chinese legation in Tokyo re | cently thought It was being attacked by @ mob only to discover that the crowd outside consisted entirely of trate Chinese students, who had been | sent to Japan at government ex- pense to be educated and who had failed to receive their remittances on tune, Am — Glasgow, Scotland, winning out in thelr “rent strike” Thru a flaw in the notices sent out two years ago the increases in rent demanded on nearly 200,000 houses have been declared invalid by the house of lords and many tenants are |now withholding all rent as a means of recouping themselves, | DAILY EARTHQUARES | ROME, March 9, — Earthquake | shocks have been felt daily for twa | weeks at Avezzano, Aquila Provinog There was nothing out of the ordinary in the way she planned her menus. But, about her breakfasts luncheons and dinners, there 4 was a wholesomeness and that made her truly famous. : Thousands of other women have discovered her key to cessful meals—M:J‘B Coffee. The rich, tempting aroma of MJB Coffee whets the appe- tite. Its delicate, full bodied ar vor tops offany meal and makes a even thesimplest food delightful. 3 —and the most delicious tea is Tree Tea. te Na. ow one Woman hecame amous forher (Gokin a and zest suce