The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 21, 1923, Page 8

+depended on clean ition not cur 120T Beventh Ave. Jatlon and United fier the $1.60, € menthe 02.00, year Han Franctseo New York office Represe e Wag Scared Soft Humans shudders to the very nervous marrow of nsiders how on ancient battlefields, rude, crude surgery was carried on by flickering torch light, with dull, crude implements, with no anesthetics The idea of merely sawing off a leg while the victim is Conscious causes modern man to shudder Modern woman, too, shudders as she thinks of the In dian mothers, who brought children to the light of day beside the trail, tended themselves unaided, who nursed their newborn babes, slung them on their backs and proceeded on their way, ng up with the tribal pro cession, that had not paused in the hour of the mother’s agony. : Modern civilized man is devoting mor> and more of his time to anesthetics, to completely absorbing the nerve shocks of life, and the irony of it is that the more man kind is coddled and anestt ad the more he suffers. The Indian mother by the trail did not suffer a tenth what the modern mother undergoes in a maternity ward The Goth, who saw his leg hacked off and who then arose and hobbled to the of the victory, and drank himself into a pleasin al stupor, amid the filth and the flies, did not you do when you have a molar We are becoming pendent upon material injections and dopes to relieve pain; the natural man and woman blood, sound nerves and an imagina od with weak shudderings. about the same nervous system as a man, ter a hip, and Modern man his bones when he cc who A horse but a horse can slip on a highway and shz fcan then limp on three legs to the roadside and browse ‘without apparent discomfort. tconstant medi who never know the urban craze for fussing and maternal worry, take their hurts and aches and tumbles with untroubled courage, and do not feel the bruises and cuts and bumps as do city children, who have been taught to regard a pin prick as @ serious menace to the body. Finally there is just one thing that abolishes pain, and that thing is clean blood, sound nerves, a_ healthy, courageous imagination, and an inner contempt for being considered a weakling. The old Indian philosophy worked full as well as the best injection of novocaine. Rural children, Mrs. Paine lives in St. Louls, wants the money back. Husband and money left together, She Baltimore had a daylight robbery. Nights will soon be long enough ( for rebbers to finish. + gasoline situation is the squeal of the oil men. ‘that the condition is only temporary. Our Time to Laugh, But— Aside from its price, the interesting feature of the The am- bient air is pungent with their verbal carbon dioxide. While they disagree as to the cause of the cut in prices, they are quite harmonious and positive in their predictions The public, they Say, “is enjoying a vacation at the expense of the pro- _ducers.” ‘ the price-control in Idaho, for ins One man, W. H. Gray, president of the Mid- Continent Oil company, is incensed to such a degree by ance, that he threatens to sell out and quit the business entirely. His tone is such that, no doubt, he expects the government to wobble /on its foundation when it learns how he feels about it. / and it will cost them 60 days or more of low prices. The situation is temporary, of course. The producers, in their avarice, overstepped themsely unintentionally, But (their capacity and ability to regain the upper hand are unquestionable. By controlling oil production for a brief time, they can shoot prices to the ceiling again, and then ithe well-lubricated machinery for the milking the public { will function smoothly and effectively. While it is old sand much-used machinery, its grinding and squeezing | powers are unimpaired. : tho we know we will pay dearly The public knows all about this machinery, been run thru it often. While it is idle now, laugh is with us and we will e for it owever, the ploy it raucously, even for our fun a little later, Comedian was arrested as a bank robber in Kansas City It doas sound plausible. Woman of 68 married an old Denver millionaire after many younger " women failed. Coal Company Law In some Pennsylvania countiés, the sheriff gets no salary. He gets only the fees he collect The sheriff of Somerset county made between $30,000 and $40,000 out ; of one kind of fee, in the year ending last April. Every time this sheriff appointed a coal company em- Ploye to act as deputy sheriff, the coal company paid him a fee. Sometimes a dollar. Sometimes 50 cents. When they came in big batches the smaller fee was ac- cepted. The coal operator, of course, paid the deputy sheriffs’ salaries, too. j This interesting state of affairs has been reported to the United States coal commission of inquiry on coal and civil liberties. The committee suggests that this a particularly good way to administer law, even _Miining community. © poor judge of heer, cator, We thought so, Anything can happen now. Detrolt Jury decided a policeman was a No matter how long you stay in jail, you don't get a vacation Even Heat Waves Have Benefit Everything has its good side, even a heat wave. Metro- politan Life Insurance Co. finds that the death rate de- almost a third in July, August and September. These three are not the healthiest months of the year, Their death rate is low because people take better” of themselves in summer than in winter—eat less, dress properly and get fresh air. Health is nine-tenths up to ourselves, one-tenth controlled externally. Our death rate is highest in winter. But the healthiest people in the world are Eskimos, who spend most of their lives in winter. “e The hard coal situation, it is admitted, is a very hard coal situation Detroit ice man had four wiyes. Strange thing is all were his, Uncle Sam and Lausanne Some time ago, we, editorially, promise to tell you, in brief, when our ambassadors at Lausanne signed ‘the treaty with the Turks, how much apple the Turks left on the core for Uncle Sam. : ij Well, there wasn’t any core. Barring that American citizer ject to Turkish courts, things were when we stood in with the out of Europe.” in Turkey will be sub- are just about as they allies to “drive the Turks “College life's In # state of innocuous desuetude,” says California edu | An Apology That Misrepresents THE TTIN’ PURTY LETTER FROM om So. Ved al PriANN V RIDGE ° On Vacation Dear Folks: We'ro offl I wanted to go to Vancouver, but the wife said she didn't want the children to see their father in that condition, We compromised on Bain- bridge Island; it's a boat trip and the water was rough, so I got much the same effect, I drew a good sketch of the Vashon ii speeding along at 2025 yards to the knot, The eketch ion't my best, but I drew it with an important suit- case in one hand and waving good- bye with the othor, Nautically yours, ac LETTERS EDITOR happy, and an the heading of |atrative f ne in my 1 in of A} years in & c ted | cord was he sorry for were it not " of Mil- | should’ not claim t other per cent ¢ hat at v' sald » 90 per cent o letter 00 oF folk. vefore, but we nt the criticism aimed at our the sam’ 1 we lieve 80 fal 1; and whether the prea t I with ou ed or died othing the mi enum wentatic s | egotist MRS. EDGAR BLAIR, Main 5194 What Did Dr. McCallum Say? lition of orange or tomato jutce lequately P y pate ep Janger of tubercu e given by | diet in Johns poke here n In/On the othe 1 a8] clean or Pasteur: | milk 1 Milk Cause Hum infection from typhoid, and other dt It seems unfortunate that in re porting as ortant a lecture 4 this, Just the opposite of what the pas: | doctor reall printed. losis, anes udded hould be ones ye only | KKAHIN Seattle Incident as Seen in Texas Houston, Texas, August 10, 1923 C. Harper, Was! George aclo and more or Le ws of & public nuisance: 1 have before mo a Seattle paper of Sunday, July 29, of Wednesday torial referer ing's visit to 8 Souttle Deur August 1. ‘The edi to President Hard le in that Sunday was an ugly display ce that could not be ny high-minded gov. | TI presi. Citizens prize freedom of speech press—but they utterances of yer asininity, to uphold Americanism constituted authorit One way to weake of its py Influe atoly att ernment, n it in the mi for those wali of impu enemies | ul positions to intemper men high in the and especially the dent of our country thone prerogative and freedom of the do declaim against treason, newspa ‘The former js not uncommon thru the latter thru unbridled and arrogan. An oditor who browbeats the public with hig cheap ideas and gets away with it soon becomes a solf-constituted ors American at editorial, with the the front page of tho taken in the light of 1s presents a poor, cheap, ture, which cannot. but contempt of every true lover of his country We aro proud of our military men when acting in their own. proper field; they are outside of politica and have an assured social position, and thoy are placed aboye and beyond the call to syneophancy; they aro ex. eltizen. events, yellow pic ignorance; conceit SEATTLE » that paper! indorsed by | happen beside cartoon on| STAR fent, but for keep them c xeited indlg but the f Bla in fulsome C, L. SUMBARD The Freedom Ireland Enjoys r war exists highest court against them on and held that the at formality ediatel: od them it was 6 constitution, Seattle | purpose of t State It is a ernment set eland Britain's purposes'to perpetually en uve and rob the Irish people as tn adds crimes of the Valera. 4 bel for this outr tho rights of 1 country, Measured at h he js an I statesman active name used the ¢ true value and world JOHN CASEY President, ean A Irish Republica |The Horse and the Automobile The Star Editor T own a team of horses: old lonee | | for an automobile that is 6 years old, | | Every time I hitch up dither of thoes | | motive outfits I marvel at the | perlority of nature the | fons of man | When I hiteh my gy to plow I know the ai see a lot of plowing de | which {9 9 years T own what was su- | over | inven old team roing to When 1 attach myself to tho atering wheel of the 6year-old car t amt only sure | of one thin, that somathing will Kelting where I'm} | oing | It is true that you don't have to ne {usue, | feed An automobile when Ht is {dle | but I never had a horse burst a radi excite the | he | nor run down a battery Wis standing in his steal T never had a horse strip a ring gear and bust three bearings trotting wong just casual like on the high way, I never knew « horse| to get stuck on a hill and refuse to pull un. til you backed down to a level stretch and got his gas tank level with this carburetor, Nor did I ever have a | the farmer ¢ price « farmer horse has it all « fford t ver wuts RIEDA’S OLLIES The other 4. ‘The man and the woman from the car ¢ favored them, oulder xcune Caps Its as the TO PERFECTION 1g Ships to Farms HERBERT QUICK WEISFIELD & GOLDBERG Seattle's Credit Jewelers There's a Uttle “Bundle of somewhere who happler tonight i¢ omeone brought her a strand of chummy lustrous Pears, And you can get them at Weisfleld & Goldberg's tor Delight ” would be a mortgage t the bank DOWN —A— WEEK WILLIAM I SCIENCE Ancient Tortoise. 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