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The Seattle Star Peviienea D paper Enterp eity by The Star Pub! hing Co Phone Main f Now. iy ativan Bam Francisco of 1 New Terk office, College Folks’ Religion > “Why is the church unable to interest college-bred Pyoung people?” | This was one of the chief themes of discussion at the | Fecent Congregational Mid-Atlantic conference. The ques- | tion was ably debated by the great doctors of that denomi- = nation, who finally arrived at the following conclusion: | “Because college-bred young people are not interested tim the church,” + It reminds us of the heartless eritic who wrote of the Tecital given in New York by the village songbird who had = come to the big town to try her notes: 4 “To those who like that kind of a voice, that is the kind of a voice they will like!” Yet the answer is really very different. The facts are that if college young people are not interested in the thurch, so much the worse for the young people. Religion of one sort and another has been “carrying on” for several thousand yéars, sometimes with the con- ‘sent of “college-bred young people” and sometimes with- t. & The institution of the church is, despite its frequently timid apologists, quite able to maintain itself, even in this vamregenerate age, and doubtless has today quite as much influence on the world at large as even the young college 7 persons who are uninterested. It’s extraordinary how we go thru life with eyes half shut, with dull @ars, with dormant thoughts Perhaps it’s just as well; and it may be that it ts this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority #0 supportable and so welcome. jevertheless, there can be but few of Us who have never known one of these rare moments of awakening. when We see, hear, understand ever so much—<« thing a flash, before we fall back again into our agreeable som nce.—Joseph Conrad, Trouble with the world is not enough trouble Is being prevented, When a man isn’t sure of himself, nobody else ts. ’Nother Bed Time Editorial » See the big, fat gen’ral! " What's his hurry, anyway? ' Well, it’s getting too hot for him. He’s been storming ' Sugar Heights. He thought it would be just like taking = candy away from the baby. In fact, that’s exactly what i)» he set out to do! | Y’see, this is Gen’ral Gougem, himself. He thought was holding the fort but Gen'ral Daugherty, and said to himself, “Us gen'rals mustn’t hurt each other.” _ But that’s just where he made his great mistake! = Just as Gen’ral Gougem got up where they could see ‘the whites of his eyes, the housewives popped up from be- hind the ramparts and opened up with a double-barreled ’ and > * *. (To be continued some other evening.) Many people with nothing to do make the mistake of doing it. | Aman can’t get by a railroad crossing on his good looks ‘You don’t have to be liberal to give yourself away. body ' boyco Austria’s Forward Step Austria will do away entirely with its ministry of war. p state has ever gone as far as this along the peace d. The 30,000 soldiers, permitted to Austria under e peace treaty, will be taken over by another branch of @ government and transformed into a police force. How many years until the big world powers become nsible enough to follow Austria’s lead? It will take irs, probably generations, but it will come in time, As ng as a carry guns, someone is certain to start a ‘The average man has a better average than the average man thinks. ‘Perhaps wild flowers are wild because everybody’s after them. A clean apron is a thing slipped on to hide a dirty dress: Socks are wearing apparel, usually with holes in both ends. Bad, Bad Prohibition! “Prohibition is held responsible for a marked falling of the American appetite for the more wholesome articles food,” claims Capt. W. H. Stayton, executive head of Association Against the Prohibition Amendment. Thanks, Cap, you've not only earned a day’s pay from liquor folks, but you’ve settled for us the long-stand- family problem of why our Johnny refuses to sub- meat gravy for strawberry jam. It costs seven cents to marry in Germany, but is worth it, If ignorance was bliss all the grouches would be happy. Compliments don’t last long unless you return them. ‘The buds are having s swell time. THE INTERLOPER By Berton Braley DN Gleed got it all planned what you do with your life, How, singly, you'll plunge in the heat of the strife Without being “hampered or bound by a wife,” And wrest your success from the midst of the throng, And then—then a girl comes along! A girl comes along! And your heart sings a sone. ‘Without her you feel that the world would go wrong; ‘You'll know how it is when a girl comes along! ‘OU'VE wanted to travel, to rove and to roam By mountain and valley and over the foam Without any family waiting at home, And marriage, you think, is “a chain and a thong,” And then—then a girl comes along! A girl comes along! Oh, her magic {s strong. And you'll settle down with the home-keeping throng, For that’s how it 1s when a girl comes along! ‘feted sore and discouraged, you're down on your luck, You've lost all your pep and your vim and your pluck, The crowd seems to trample you deep in the muck; You cannot stand up at the clang of the gong, And then—then a girl comes along! A girl comes aiong! Just a girl from the throng, And courage comes back to you, vibrant and strong. ‘fou rise up again, a man among men, For that’s how it is when a girl comes alongt (Copyright, 1923, The Seattle Star) A Good Thing—DON'T MISS IT, Are You A Send your name and address plain- WORM? I¥ written, {and this al Ysmh Do you lack the Awe punch and vigor of ‘2. strong manhoA? Do not remain in this d Bee our Specialist ree and have him TALL | YOU HOW TO GET WULL, _ Hours: 10-12, 2-6, only 3 ¢ mise it---Advertisement, FL THE Y SWATTING T SEATTLE IME STAR LETTER FROM VRIDG At noon I felt a trifle thin, an Tommy Gowman's inn and aski told me, you mean the noir es bird: the Harold Weeks came drt then the noixe was thru Us something new—his son 80 I congr te the bunch, & fine and noble hunch, in get spirit you have shown shall not 4 qui Editor The Star; In @ recent news article on the loas sustained by a local wholesale house thru the dishonesty of two of its employes, you used the term| “drug clerks.” Inasmuch a» the parties in ques- tion were not drug clerks in the/ usual and accepted sense of that term, we feel that your use of it in connection with a crime has tended to cast an unmerited reflection upon the whole body of 500 fine men and women who are serving the public and thelr employers faithfully and well here in Seattle, Yours truly, M. A. WEED, Twenty-eixth and Jackson, President Seattle Retail Druggiate’ agsociation, composed of the em- ployer druggists of Seattle. E delight your folks. raisin bread, kind of artifictal rubber or dye stuft. But as a matter of fact, the mod- orn chemist ls very likely upon the threshold of that ancient goal the| transmutation of metals, it was rought out at the annual session of the National Academy of Sclencen Bakers Bake It For You ERE’S your old-time favorite —full-fruited raisin bread with at least eight tempting raisins to the slice—already baked for you by master bakers in your city. Simply ’phone your grocer ora neighborhood bake shop and have a fresh loaf for lunch or dinner to We've arranged with bakers in almést every town and city to bake this full-fruited Made with big, plump, tender seeded Sun-Maid Raisins The Supreme Bread Raisin Your retafler should sell ising for wot more th fn 14 ca (in 13 08. red phe. lowe (44 @.) Sun-Mald Raleins are grown and packed In California by Sum-Maid Raisin Growers, a co-operative organization Comprising 14,000 grower members, To the Young Men's Buainens Club: «i needed lots of chow. “The other half are tickers, too; they're ‘hornets’—nothing mora But should a ‘hornet’ sit on you J hope you don’t «et nore.” I told him, “Keep your mind at reat—I'm not afraid of hives; and often ‘na hornet’s nest in everybody's lives.” And then I heard an awful din; they opened wide the door; and in, amid a mighty roar jot nettied down while Harold sang mttle Town.” LEITERS ie EDITOR Were Not “Drug Clerks” | _————— E MANN May 11, 19328 I went to 4 him: “What's the row?’ He it's fellows eating grub; they're *—s0 eat your grub tn ense. A moment— id pass the word along: you had ting out the song. Tho splendid have lived In vain; we'll sing that | SCIENCE Alchemy at Hand. Discovery Accidental, |, “Make” Helium. \| Knock Electrons Out. ‘The anctent alchemist dreamed of | |the day when he would be able to change “base” metals, as he called) fron and lead, into gold, | The modern chemist doemn't dream | about that He'll tell you that he has much more Important things to do- the development of a new steel that | will enable the construction of high- er bulidiogs and longer bridges, or | the putting together of some new Change Is Declares Allbright Portland Citizen States Tanlac Proved Its Mer- it in His Case, Ending Years of Suffering From Stomach Trouble Lawrence G, Allbright, 1622 Fiske St., Portland, Oregon, js another who has found the Tanlac treat- ment a safe and sure road to health, strength and working efficiency. He says: “For several years I never felt right, had no energy to speak of and felt played out all the time. My appetite was very poor, and even Steady nerves depend on the condition of your Blood Wen know,will that! 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It's wtated very easily, you see, But | mame experiment is going to be tried at the University of Chicago, Sir Ernest Rutherford, in Engiand, 7 “tub.” By hard work and Ingenious ex-| ments differ. If there are two more| instances with certain gases—not ax| | bunch of beys—the Young Men's Business club. | ‘ pigs Taide, and trict to find a seat Teaw a |(Deriment, the chemist hes found| positive than negative electrons in| yet with metals at all. ASK for Horlick’s he anid, “Sit down and eat.” He told ma, that the atom consists of a nucleun|the nucleus, you have helium; if} Rutherford bombards the gasen The ORIGINAL Ino-half the crowd aré ‘bees.’ You won't around which electrons revolve. But| there are three more, you have lith-| with the alpha particles, the minute] | MME PTET rticlen given off by radio-active These particles move speed of 20 miles a second, He succeeded in Dr. W. D. Harkins said that the Three miles out in the ocean runs an imaginary Nne along our shores which divides the “dry” land and water of the United States from the “wet” world without. Within that line (and within similar lines around our insular posses- sions) no foreign ship, be she British, French, Italian, Portuguese, may carry, sealed or unsealed, a single drop of intoxicating liquor for beverage purposes, Outside those lines our own ships may legally serve intoxicants without limit. This recent ruling of the United States Su- haa Court, in the opinions of many editors, is ikely to arouse international complications. Some Germany’s Spurned Reparation Offer Showing What Germany Now Proposes; Previous German Offers; What the Allies Have = Demanded and Other Reparation Facts Peace Dawning in Ireland Mr. Schwab’s Business League Against Germany The Housewives’ Sugar Strike Better Times in Cuba Man-Made Daylight for Tut-Ankh-Amen’s Tomb Scientific Tests for Musical Ability Australia Is Bored Over Our Literature A Memorial for Some Americans Abroad Department of Good English Get May 12th Digest, on Sale Today—At All News-dealers—10 Cents In the Theaters—“FUN from the PRESS” js @ mark of distinction. or neas!y two generations The Literary Digest has been a symbol of refinement and taste in the literary appreciation of the American public. And a confidence so rigorously gained will never be lessened. Thero is a covenant in the name. 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