The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 7, 1923, Page 8

fan Franciece New Tork offics, Representatives Tribune Bids One Amendment for All Since the United States supreme court on May 15, 19 held unconstitutional the act of congress intended to pre- vent child labor, there has been an enormous increase in the number of children shunted into the mills Miss Grace Abbott, chief of the children’s bureau of the department of labor, has just made public some figures collected by the bureau. In five important cities the num- ber has been doubled. In Connecticut, the increase has been 57 per cent. In Waterbury, alone, it has been 800 per cent! Miss Abbott joins other workers in the cause of the children in the proposal that the constitution be amend- ed in such manner that the use of children in industry may be properly regulated. If children can be saved from the greed of the mill owners in other way, The Star readily agrees it is time the constitution were amended. But here is an alternative: Amend the nstitution so that the courts may not overrule the acts of congress. That is all that is necessary. Congress can protect the children, given half a chance. » It will take years to obtain the amendment in behalf of the children. It will take as long as it will to pass a general amendment putting an end to the present per- nicious practice of the federal courts. If the American people once amend the constitution so that the courts cannot override the people's wishes, as expressed thru their representatives in congress, there | mever again will be need for amending it. ; 0 Eastern cotton manufacturers announce a 50 per cent cut in produc tion. Perhaps we need a lot of cotton manufacturers on our farms, Detrolt’s population seems to be about equally divided between those who manufacture automobiles and those who steal them. The “back to the farm” movement would be all right if it did not ‘break the back. Love laughs at gunsmiths. When a President Needs a Friend Give a thought to the Herculean task confronting Calvin Coolidge, 30th president of the United States. Some folks speak of him as “born under a lucky star,” but to those who know, he is in a situation where a fellow 5} needs a friend. _ The new president takes up the biggest job in the world, unfinished where death removed his predecessor. Hard days are ahead for him, no matter what he does, no matter which way he turns. The man he succeeds as the keystone of a powerful political structure, and ig and strong tho he was, the weight of it broke him wn. President Coolidge can follow one of two courses. He attempt to carry out the policies of Mr. Harding, or can evolve his own policies. If he undertakes to carry on the Harding ideas, he will be damned by that half of the party which opposes them. Tf he originates his own platform, he will be accused of bad faith toward his departed chief. ' There is the world court idea, backbone of the Harding foreign affairs policy. Twice, just before his death, Mr. Harding pleaded for American entrance into that court +. a8 a step in the direction of permanent peace. Can Presi- » dent Coolidge refuse to continue this plea? Apparently F not. Yet his indorsement of the world court will mean Bh ig os i ' oe) ; : that he must withstand, before he is fairly established in his new work, the attacks of Senator Johnson, Chairman Adams of the republican national committee, and others in power in his own party. Just before his death, Mr. Harding made a plea for con- servation. Yet, when the new president espouses this cause, if he does, he will find men right in his cabinet who are opposed to it. President Coolidge faces a condition of insurgency and discontent in the farming districts such as few of his pre- deécessors have been called upon to meet. He has before him a railroad situation, a coal ques- tion, and many more. Whichever way he turns, he will Meet few friends, and make many enemies, To add to his troubles, the new president wll find him- self on the battlefield of one of the bitterest political fights for party control ever known in American history. “Born under a lucky star?” Mebbe. We'll see. If we get Senator Smoot accurately, that $300,000,000 surplus is going to last only until the next congress gets a whack at it. ; 4 ‘ ‘ ¥ We are getting ready for airplane traffic. to have been built for it. Many of our roads seem Sometimes a picnicker who goes in swimming just after eating gets pulled out all right. The eyes of the Jord are in every place, beholding the evil and the g00d—Prov. 15:3. ik it is a German mark, or something. North Is Death to the Negro Hundreds of thousands of negroes have migrated from the South since 1914. A few days ago the United States census bureau gave | out the vital statistics of the negro race in America for the 10 years, 1910 to 1920. Births over deaths for the country as a whole were 6 per cent, the lowest for any _ decade yet. Negro births in the South were considerably higher than the deaths. But in the North the deaths were much greater than Wheat's so low it must t . Bs 4 |» the births. » The lesson from these census facts is that the South- = land is congenial to the colored people as a home but that the colder North means race suicide to them. Newton Baker says war looms in two years. War looms, we add, are things that weave trouble, Laughing at a won cooking over a hot stove in August is as safe as jumping down a volcano. Lethbridge, Canada, reports hen eggs as large as hail stones, Few Cities Are Over-Built | In nearly every city you can find people who look at the new office buildings and say: “What’ll they ever do to rent the space?” But only three of our 40 leading American cities are overbuilt in the matter of office space, according to a re- port of a committee appointed by the National Association of Building Owners and Managers. The three? Clev ~ land, Detroit and Atlanta. But these three cities are grow- ing like asparagus and any overbuilt condition will be only temporary. Talking now of subjecting itomobilists to me glut the used-car market, as well as the asylums, tal tests. That should Yes, it was Angel Firpo who hit Willard, but the latter thought it was Angel Gabriel calling him. When sending a wedding gift, time and worry may be saved by saying what the darn thing is, THE SEATTLE STAR THE TROUBLE WITH EVERY VACATIO)} = j a “TA aviet CO ¢ t AOT A sorr SPor IN SIGHT We A Seattleite Says Good-bye BY MAX MILLER AX MILLER, eccentric editor last year of the University of Washington dally, and reporter during the summer for Tho Star, Is going to Australia to work on the Melbourne Herald. (Incidentally, he ts going to write some Australian articles for this newspaper.) As he embarked, Max left this message for the collegians with whom he has just put in four years on the campus, Editor. . To George, to Andy, to Pets, to Bill, to William (ho spells it that way), to Alec, to Frank, to all you fellows of 32 and 23; to all you fellows who some times love cement walks, street- cars and vaudevill, and again sometimes hate cement walks, streetcars and vaudevilles, and feo like screaming, swearing, rampaging for © change—any change—this is to you. A long, tangled sentence, but it's to you. And as you read ft I hope you're sitting in a home, your own home, and not tn a hotel room. I hope you're sitting in your own room in your own home and have a bathrobe, carpet slippers, an album, an attic of old clothes, logger boots for fishing, a rifle for grouse and more old clothes and more old clothes, all the clothes you've ever used still around and still usable. A lawn, too, must be around your home, and you must hate to mow this lawn, but yet do it each third day. I hope, too, you know most of the fellows in town, and have known them since they were kids. And I hope you never, never; never need \leave your own room in your 'own home to ait in some by I hope you never, never need to—I do hope For it im then that certain orchestra-pieces in a theater will make your jaws quiver as you Usten Memories are cruel—cruel to those who have no home, but did have a home long, lonk ago, so long ago that home could have been a part of that Big Unknown Country from which we come and to which we go. Let thet call us feministic, eh, fellows—we whose homo is Room 27, and whose mother is the landlady. Let them call us feministic, eh, fellows, because our eyes might now and then film into a Hght blue at sight of a@ family laughing and jok- ing over its dinner table. Wo know the felling, and the feel- ing {sour own secret—and no- body's else damn business. Yet we must move from city to city, country to country, never contented, never wanting to be contented, two years in one place seeming like prison. Our own fault—we're the chem. {cals in this large soda that must move and keep moving and frothing over, You who live in homes and dream of the tropics may think it is easy to go there,.to leave Seattle, to break another camp, to pitch tent somewhere else, You may think so—and you are partly right Yet the ship that the distance of 27 ocean days is not taking me away from Seatlie. There are parts of Seattle I hate too much, and there are parts of Seattle L love too much, and there are parts of Seattle. I"feel" too well ever to be taken away—olear away. even tho I do depart technically, You know this. is taking me 2 Sure Way to Get Rid of Blackheads There \s one simple, safe and sure way that never fails to get rid of blackheads, that ts to dissolve them, To do this get two ounces of calo- nite powder from an atore. aprinkle wet cloth ia briskly » parts and you will be surprised how the blacicheads have dixappen Big blackheads, little t dx, no matter where they are, simply dissolve and disappear. Diackheads are a mixture of dust and dirt and secretiona that form in t f the akin, The calonite heads so they wash right out, ng the pores free and clean and in their natural condition.—Adver- tisement, But, please admit this, George, Andy, Pete and Bill, please admit that our lives already are a third thru, and that moat of this third haa been wasted in baby carriages and—later—class- rooms, Please admit, too, that tho Inst third by neceasity also will oe wasted bending over a cane There ts just a tny third In between when wo can £0 all around this big, strange house and neo each room, and hear the different languages in each room, without having to be carried. * We know the non of a money- dad, The son is older than you or I, yet wo know him. Ho ridea over bridges without knowing how they’re made. He orders vegetable salads over a linen tablecloth without having hoed a vegetable or bent his back over a weed. He rides thru mountain scenery on smooth rails, yet Inughs at the sweating dagoes who lay the tricks, Ho & the rose-bud atop the bush; tho rest of the bush merely supports him and flat. ters his well-fed face We have our lives out, all planned out. It is to become rich as quickly as possible, buy a yacht and have persons ride with us. Noble is our ambition, and here's a toast to our success—for it will never come true, and wo know It, The samo stars that grace ro- mantje Tahiti grace Seattle. The samo water upon which these stars reflect ls as wet as the water of Tahiti, Too, the alr of Seattle has proportionately the oxygen of Tahit!, the romantic, Then why {sn't romance as mighty bere aa there? It is. A home js a home, we pre sume, and jt mui homes that keep second generations staying in Iceland, or keep populated the hay houses under the baking equator. SCIENCE Identifying Bossy. Take Nose Prints. A la Bertillon. No Two Alike. planned be From the University-of Minnesota | condition comes a new way of identifying cows—the only absolutely certain method, It is #ald On the same principle as finger prints they take bossy's nose print Tho cow's nose has numerous fine | ridges and patterny of high lights and solid places. precisely the that identification is as positive av the Bertillon finger prints,. The cows of Minnesota are rapidly being nose-printed arranging No two cows have same nose print, so and other to establish states the are system. RIEDA’S OLLIES He was one of those effeminate creatures, His falsetto and mincing step has always irritated me. No girl could have been more coy. It was at a garden fete, I was hostess. Someone had let He n wore, Today he sald so openly, And chucked me under the chin, 1 kissed him, Where ho stood. But his lip was bleeding, Aw I danced away, voice him In. approved of anything 1 population staying in every part of the world God invented homes. Ho is clever. see George, Andy, Pete and Bill, we do not attend church except once in a lifetinm, do we? Yet, for that, wo do know as well as the rest that there ls a God, or an Allah, or a Buddha, or a Confucious, or some Big Spirit Crap-shooters know Him and try to refer to Him as “Luck.” Sailors know Him and some times use Him to cuss with, Mothers think He knows all about thelr children. Yet you and I know that whatever Ho is, HE 18, Tho ship sails tn a few min- utes. No, George, Andy, Pete and Bill, don’t bother to say good-bye, You mean it, any- way, and that's enough, . . . but the five of us xnow how in & few months I'll bo wondering: where is that little girl I left in the States—the ono not as good as my best, or maybe a little better—the one whose feelings I hurt and didn't care if I hurt because there wero so many girls there, anyway—wonder where sho is—for here I'm in & land where there are no com- pliments, a strange land, a land whero there are no friends to complifvent, but one can only work—work—work—a atoker, let's say, below decks. But if I only should suddenly seo her on a street way down here what if I should. Seattle, with your First and Second and Third aws.— Seattle, I'm carrying you in my suitcase with me. Yes, I am. bye. Throat Trouble Caused By Indigestion Re- lieved By Alvita Aftor being troubled for 50 year by a throat trouble caused by poor digestion, C, A. Mott, 1131 Bush st Oakland, California, was quickly relieved by Alvita. “Having heard of your Alvita Tablets, I came to your Long Beach store two weeks ago and bought a Good, box of 60 tablets for $1.00 and with In one week was absolutely relieved jof a long standing trouble with my Kidneys or prostate which neces: | tated my being up from four to six times during the night "I car hardly express my appre elation for the good these tablets have done for me in this regard and T want to say further that the tablets havo assisted materially in clearing my throat of a mu of 60 years’ standir caused from poor digestion. 1 a man of mature age young man today—I half dozen boxes of lets to give to my frien Alvita is the recent sclentitic dis covery which brings Mme, tron phosphates and vitamines to you in a vegetable form which can be a similated. Alvita is prepared in convenient, highly concentrated tablet form from the deep-rooted alfalfa plant which science discov ered 1s a rich storehouse of the vital mineral sajts and vitaminos No matter {f you have'tried many remedies, try this tonle of nature now, A dollar buys a box of Alvita tablets any drug store.—Adver tisement m but feol like am buying Alvita Tab: How You Can Make Hairs Quickly Disappear (Helps to Beauty) Even a stubborn growth of hair | will quickly vanish from the f, neck or arms after a single ment with delatone, remove hair from arms, neck or face make a stiff paste with a little powdered delatone and wa apply to hairy surface and after about two min utes rub off, wash the skin and It will be left free from hair or blemish. To avold disappointment ho quite certain you get rent dota fone and mix fresh Advortisement. ace, troat 8 wanted, ‘_ LETTER FROM August 7, Dear Fol uthful elat sheen of the o ardent de another maneuver stadium @ithat bas suddeniy attention of the mM jo where our beloved his last public ap. n at ished ean, of votion and bathing and ball and sailing and all declare leaped into the and to fishing 6 no MAN, scenery tt 4 fluent tion as the pl & trip te president mad The pearance In view of Phe fact that thru » fate, our president career in Seattle, at they should erect a monument FO his memory—~—ang but here are what fs It to [P0? A bronze statue irks! J suppose the » raised by taking up nong the school chil. selected Meacham, nikan, Alaska, to eloxe the pages off Warren Harding’s ca. reer, we would expect them to erect such a statuipe, and praise them for bu! 6 memory of the | pre I am sure either of |these towns Gould and would do that |much. But for a city the size of ge. Jattle, such @| memorial amounts al. most to @ toler I can't help ask. |ing myself: “What would San Fran. jcisco or Low Angeles do in a case |llke this?” We have done #o many big things flown there that I am ure the cithzens would not rest un- ti « rial had been erected that woul@ command the attention is character-|of the entire nation, xeteion| Now foi One of the late [most beatiful structures in Los Ane geles is Gar munictal stadium, in Bx. ark, We are proud of it, to our city praise us for stadium, if completed ac 5 queer quickly ‘euson we he oaning the line for a at closed his pute season—t scencry's Ww tizens feel t mment of frank admiration are a noble potation”-—"Hore iw the dy"—"Here Walker's a dand. thin is the » pleasant to sit fee a ae LETTERS Se LDITOR A Memorial KAltor The Star I am just completing my fifth business trip to the fio North: | y the | west from Los Angeles, I have al |ways come away from Seattle fool ling that, while 400,000 people live here, it is far from being @ I bechuse it haw so many of the char |acteristics of « small town, I find the city groaning and ft» automo bilelens citizens paying the highest carfare on the Coast, because the city contracted to buy the street car system for the enormous sum of $15,000,000. Meanwhile, San Fran |clsco is contemplating the expendi many nurely walter, two gla I am happ: A little bit more ancouver's {mbibing the one of the fund: ‘Canadian Clu came’'—"I think Job of the same!” ny seasonal fable at scenery the helr tr Harding stuff t of has to t Beatt peared in co & suggestion: vieit oe ts pres! xo tragically remem bered the stadium, in which | position ho addressed the people of Seattle. |and visit I understand that the University of |it. You Washington counts no millionaires, |cording {to the architects’ plan, or even wealthy men, among its|would #fval the beauty of ours, dumni. When the students wanted | Why cot ‘t the people of your @ stadium, they recelved no finan-|city get busy and finish your sta cla] sxsistance from the people of |dium as a Harding Memorial sta Seattle, but in a very creditable |dium, surrounding the spot where business manne: sold advance seats|he made his last public address with for attractions to be staged in the/|a structure that would win the re stadium, Chiefly thru the response | spect of the nation? Why couldn't ture of only $125,000,000 to buy up|of loyal alumni and by stretching |Seattle? Yell, that ts a question |private systems in that city, tunnel |thelr credit all they dared, the stu-|for those who feel that Seattle is a hills for the sake of rapid transit,/dents were uble to raise enough |real city to answer. and similar public enterprises, |money to build the first unit of Cc. M. BURTON, The latest example of the «mall.|their stadium. It fs this half-fin- Los Angeles. 2s a ————, rec nt, 3 WJ iN THE LONG RUN” Do you “Repeat” on your tires? Do you buy the same make of tire again? Most SILVERTOWN users do; and that’s the test of a tire. SILVERTOWN performance, of course, does it. Back of the performance is the sound manu- facturing principle of maintained quality. Skill, effort, and care are centered in SILVERTOWN. It comes out in performance, and repeats. THE B. F. GOODRICH RUBBER COMPANY ESTABLISHED 1870 Makers of the 30 x 34 Goodrich “55” Goodrich | SILVERTOWN | CORD TIRE SOLD BY GOODRICH ———— DEALERS THE WORLD OVER