The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 6, 1923, Page 8

P reas Berv @ months, 12.00; year, 0 Baw Francisco of- ude! cnieage” t New Terk eftion fice, ock Chicage office, Tribune bide Damadicn Pacitts diag.) Boston offies, Trement bhig He’s Making Forests Now Mr. Ford, according to well-founded reports, is manu- } facturing automobiles, and,f rom what we've seen of s0- ; Called wrecks thereof, it is evident that his product is ' made of metal, wood and leather, very largely. Wery good. Mr. Ford gets a big interest in a steel Cheaper hoods, corsets, tanks and such for He gets coal mines, Cheaper fuel for his fac- le gets railroads. Cheaper transportation for rial. And now, on his 165,000 acres of coal land im Kentucky, Henry has got a big gang of men at work ting trees. Cheaper wood for “l ‘s” furniture, s copy book, "way back in his red school house Henry must have memorized some such motto as: ig sales, quick sales and reasonable profit on some- thing that the people can afford to buy.” Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it; if MAN would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned—Solomon viil:7 The Lord rewardeth me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.—IL, Samuel xxil:21 Welcome, Oh, “Hokum” “Hokum” has arrived. It’s now listed in the newest @ictionaries. That’s just as much a debut for a word as Whos Who for a person. And, at that, hokum beat “normalcy” to the great goal of words. » Useful word, hokum! Invaluable with a great na- tional political campaign coming on. Listen to the speech, Mutter “Hokum!” and forget it. Fine for the social - stuff. ting guests, pretty speeches, wish they'd go, kum!” under your breath. It’s a relief. ‘ it on the agents. Try it on the wife. Or husband, if a wife. Try it when you're tempted to believe that ain't. | | Save Russia, Now isn’t that the limit of tough luck? . by heck! California, Texas and Lousiana promise to raise bushels of onions this year. Good for Francis E.! ! =) Massachusetts offered a prize for the state champion- ‘Ship in bread baking. Francis E. Da 16, high school ni wins the prize. How did he beat out the girls? iy experimentally baking 436 loaves of bread, until he Mduced the prize winner. most interesting angle of this story is the picture He’s a husky chap, looks more like a football than a chef. Read this to son if he fears he'd yy to help mother with the dishes, window wash- other house chores. There isn't much manhood hap who lets ma do the heavy work and dodges ng her on lighter tasks. Lenin, Trotsky and other high soviet officials draw a salary ‘Per month. No wondtr Russia has no such national joys as campaigns, El Centro, Cal, Jury gives one demonstration of the Intelligence ry Jury. It renders a verdict of conviction and fails to crime. On Matters of Opinion wre are folks who just love to unsheath their per- al views, whet them up a bit and go forth to censor gS, always, of course, things on which other folks fe other personal views. This practice has become so in the Northwest that the Spokane Press man to longer silently submit to it, even when the ig is done officially. Hear him censor censorship, @ men went to the Auditorium theater Friday and d at a picture. 9 of the men were mediocre lawyers. One was an e it operator. Another was a physician; the Was a good rough carpenter. The mere opinion of this quintet could have prevented 900 people in Spokane from seeing the picture in The picture was about Russia and may or may have depicted the truth. In any case the five men Rothing whatever about conditions in Russia. The morals of the picture were not in question and, re being no bare legs or passionate passages, the five hen had nothing to do but sit in solemn judgment Something of which they were totally ignorant. And ‘Sat there, with perfectly straight faces, and did it. ever there was a fatheaded farce, it is censorship.” THE LATE LAMENTED LEGISLATURE uch occupation authorities have suppressed 485 of the 1450 news- Published in the Rhineland and the Rubr, according to seml- German figures. Prison sentences running as high as 18 months €3 of as much-as 1,000,000 marks have been meted out to 82 and publishers, Eighteen editors and nine publishers have been with their families. The periods of suspension Imposhd on the papers range from three days to several months. In the Rhine- | 298 newspapers were suspended. Forty-three of the Journals have ‘than once been forbidden to publish, while 63 newspapers printed of these areas have been denied the right to circulate in occupied —Fourth Estate, Hush! Hush! Hush! Hush! month ago statements ringing with promises flooded country telling how a senate committee was going to dig to the depths of the Veterans’ bureau muddle and + ah us that the new management was going to flood lé Works with daylight. ‘olks everywhere cheered and said, “It’s about time.” fen the retiring director of the bureau joined in the us and said he wanted an exhaustive investigation, to clear his own name of mean charges that had nh hurled at the bureau and its chiefs, chairman of the senate committee and the new or both issued statements saying that the fire- ks would start as soon as congress adjourned. They’d out whether or not those accusations were true, and would know for the first time what became $500,000,000 per year, a sum far greater than that by the army or the navy or any other department, Just what h as happened since the high talk died down? Well, the senate committee hired an attorne Washington one day, looked things oven, be ve turned to his office in New York. The new Veterans’ lireau chief slipped ‘nto office like a well-greased and all is quiet, ay the word is being passed around quietly that her probably won't be many hearings or more investi- ing this summer. Ag for this alleged mismanagement of funds, and general inefficiency and neglect pf veterans * * * aw—hush, hush, hush, hush! that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center J enjoy bright doye=Milton, 4 THE WELL, HERE WE OE SEATTLE STAR ARE AGAIN eee y NY LETTERS EDITOR | Editor The Star | that the « Here are @ few facts, tho startling. which should be brought to the at © world’s output been approx’ ‘ka In all cou urea enti Total stock of gold col D ed in sub-treasury VO HOLEH sss. Hion In the U, 8. ts purpose of iasuing federal re Balance belonging to U. 8., only.. Total stock of money in U Excess of paper money ov er gold..... | Total deposits of all U. 8, banks. Total capital and surplus Resene ies Total value of bank real estate and equipment Total resources of all U. S. banks..../7.. Tt has been estimated that the domestic bonds of our vartous governmental units, now outstanding, are over...........$29,000,000,000 I would like some of your financial) government has only $2,760,000,000 in readers to enlighten me. How can | fold? Is our dollar really worth more than 60 cents? 0, $30,000,000,000 worth of bonds, pay | Frankly, 1 will admit able in gold coin, be paid with $2,750, | stumaped.! and would 000,000 of gold, and how can the cap-| shown. — Yours truly, Ital and surplus of the banks be $7 000,000,000, when the entire U. 8 In Defense of Mrs. Stillman Editor The Btar: ]fnd admiration of the world In gen Your unfaltr article bringing In the |eral, and of wives and mothers in name of Mra, Jamon A. Stillman, pub- | particular |Ushed on the 12th Inst, caused me} One who neos the superb poise and | profound regret that I had subjected | calmness of Mra. § }the name of so wronged a woman to| aware that sho ts such coarse mention. | Ro wrong nor indignity to ever lower Mra. Stillman has bourne the bu-|her head, and will fecl that some miliation thrust upon her by her| power, that ts ever with the spiritual |loose-ltved husband, with the utmost | life, keeps ward over her. | dignity and patience. Sho ts an tnsptration to all women | All women may well learn, from Very truly yours, |her exquisite taste in bearing this MRS. A, BE, CLARK, heavy load, how to comport them-| Organizer of Woman's Party, Port- selves so as to command the respect! land, Ore. “Great Fish” Swallows Jonah Editor The Star: A few days ago I read in your pa- Der a@ letter which mentioned the story of Jonah and the whale. Now, the Bible does not state that the whale swallowed Jonah, but that the Lord prepared a gr fish to swallow Jonah (Jonah {.:17). People having in mind the whale that Uke T am to be ne who will suffer as being the greatest sea mammal immediately conclude that it mwal- lowed Jonah; but the Bible states that {t wasn No doubt was not a whalo that swal- lowed Jonah at oll. Yours respectfully, HM, 405 29th Av, N. E. Germans’ Passive Resistance Editor The Star: Members of the organization ance to the French Invasion, re-| The open letter was sent out from ferred to in the enclosed document | tho International headquarters of the haye received valuable informaiton |league at Geneva, Switzerland, and regarding the sentiment for peace in| the first copy reaching this country the world generally. Perhaps you|¥as read by Mrs. Hannah Clothior o| Would have at 0 is at once} “great fish,” wo that it} will be kind enough to give space to the article Iam sending with this, Thanking you for your courtesy, I Hull, Wednesday, at the annual con ference of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, now am, Yours sincerely, JANE GARROTT, State Chairman, W. LL. P. F., 4824 Meridian Av, THE ENCLOSURE The German workers and officials were recently praised by the Wom- en's International League for Peace and Freedom for their passive resist- being held at the Grace Dodge hotel in Washington. Tho letter follows: “The German women of the W, 1. L, P. F. have, with warm admiration and sympathy, watched the passive resistance of the men and women of the Ruhr district since the French occupation, “This attitude ts the best proof that & part of the Germans have turned TO MY LAUNDRY By Berton Braley Y collar edges saw my neck And cut me somewhat jJaggedly; My underwear comes back a wreck, My nox you launder raggedly; And tho to wear such garments hurts, I'l] stand the holes you eut in them, But kindly do not pin my shirts And kindly do not button them! MUBT remove ench pin with care Before my shirts I don agatn; Each ono I must unbutton, ere I put {t on again, Oh, starch my garments till {t hurts And pains mo to bo shut in them, But kindly do not pin my shirts And kindly do not button them! OLD them as often as you will, And doll them up exponslvely; It’n useless, but I'll pay tho bill Nor murmur too extensively, It 1m, perhaps, my Just denorts That 1 fool Niko a mutt in them, But please, oh, pleaso don't pin my shirts, And please, oh, ploase don't button them, (Copyright, 1923, Tho Seattlo Stary SCIENCE Gravitation. Its Cause Discovered? Opens Big Field. May Visit Planets! Professor T. J. J. Bee, © at Mare | he has disc astronomer rbite, and tive power imagination from pursuing the sub- Joct—may be answered by radium. Communication with planets that we consider have a possiblity of be. ing inhabited ts taken seriously to- | 330,218,000 | 48y by science. The possibility of a> |rhirg Fourth and F jtually traveling thru interstellar |mpace is too fantastic to get much | support at present, but the idea will | | grow, Flying in space between the plan- eta is no more weird today that the | idea of man flying several miles from | the earth's surface was a hundred years ago, away from that epirit of militarism, which has brought so much misery | to the older ¢ ny and robbed her of the sympathy of the other peoples, “Women who abhor brute force, who hate militariam, its supporters and their acts, know that more cul ture, courage, control and constancy | are needed to carry out a policy of passive resistance, such as is now be- |ing carried out in the Ruhr district, | than to resist with brutal force! And | because they know this, they take this occasion to expreas to the inhab- jitanta of the Ruhr district, who are exercising the policy of paanive re- sistance, thelr warm gratitude and to assure them of their great admira- tion; and at the same time to ox- press to them the hope that they will not be turned aside from the path they have entered, come what may, since ft Is the only right one. “Force should never be mot with force! More often it will succumb to passive resistance. “Tho women of the International League in America, England, France, Austria, Switzerland and other coun- tries have sent us word that the attl- tude of tho Inhabitants of the Ruhr district 1s belng followed abroad with | admiration, We gladly pass on thoso messages to the people of the Ruhr district and add that the protests against the occupation of the Ruhr | district in France itself, both in Paris |and in many other French cities, are |numerous and emphatic. |_ “The people of the Ruhr district, | Now exercising passive resistance will win back for the German republic the sympathy abroad, which the German | military power had rightly forfelted. Just at this time, this is of the ut- | most moral importance. “German women know thank you for this.” COUNTESS | how to The countess of Westmore- land soon will make her de- FRIDAY, APRIL 6. 1922, LETTER FROM V RIDGE MANN are who ear and nd everything is right when everything goes wrong learn And if w we'd grow to be iB DK. J. . BINYON Free Examination BEST 2.60 GLasses BeARTH © are one of the few optical on Forte * that really grind lenses from rt to figlah, — and we are the only one in SEATTLE—ON PIMST AVE Pxamination free by graduate op- tometrist Glasses not prescribed unless absolutely necessary, » need @ rain: { her on t cut er open BINYON OPTICAL CO. d to be people have garbage in Lake w to » 2 extent that ny time. real estave owners or a a Now a few 4 \agents ! end money congerion at want to o 2 the boys a to sell a nstead ling up of businers now need is a direct r to it, until What s|the Stoneway bridge, and utilize the jonly natura) , Btoneway, which of population hibits ? End, and will benefit the » the | and be a source of pleasure for dental |any of the tourists entering or leay- ing the city. Don't let us make any more mis takes, but get busy and build Seat- jtle as a w not one little section. | Let us g er and relieve Seat ‘ , |tle of the most crying needs, then Moves boost her « places. COMMITTEE OF TAXPAYERS, WANT TO KEEP BEES? Expert advice to beginners ts contained in an article in the latest bi-monthly letin of the Washington State college's Western rin station, written by B. A. Slocum, extension c Thru a special arra . with the readers of The Star may obtain a copy of this of charge, by filling out the following coupon and fling it to the seiasiia jie stauon. ow about the which ort except med and Rabe CAROLINE A. WRIGHT. to Worral Wilson A Rep oft Edjior The In answer of April 24. As examples: look at at the Hotel Washington, on’s Monuments, the | ly Mr college, ulletin, free Jamen * ave. an to the rig Everett, or the tourist en how impossible the task is to do A road emptying First, Second, ifth ave. and doing it quickly is what i» needed and a direct route to the center of population north. Your Montlake bridge won't do ft, and Mr, Wilson Western Washington Experiment Station, Puyallup, Wash. Gentlemen: Please send me as copy of your Bi-Monthly Bulletin, Vol. X., No, 6, dated March, 1923, My name Js...... Coe ANA a eee wen ee eekreee ns CEOS My address Is., the une of the community te eel ing welfish? It ts time that| the citizens in this city away with selfish motives and all get in and boost for Seattle. Boosting one locality at the expense of another and you foster the spirit which has held Seattle from coming into her do toe cece seeseset TWA renee (Please print name and address legibly.) ind then she learne the secret To her, all coffee was much the same. First she bought one kind, then another. One evening, she and her husband were at.a hotel famous for its cui sine. Coffee was served. “What wonderful coffee,” she re- marked. “J wonder whatkinditis?” “Tt’s M-J-B Coffee” the waiter an- swered. “We've been using it for eighteen years.” Then and there, she learned the se- cret of coffee goodness, Now she uses nothing but M‘J‘B Coffee. and Tree Tea is a wonderful tea, but in London as a profes sional singer, Why? 7) make a living,” she admits, cresnerncsianeoinan