The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 23, 1923, Page 8

a Oo par month, # months 41,00, ¢ months $2.00, ‘® menth, Representatives, Gan Franciece Bldg.) New York office, These Deadly Mine Disasters Over in Kemmerer, Wyoming, are a hundred desolated homes. Another hundred coal miners have given up their lives for the industry. Since 1900 there have been 20 disasters in American mines in which the death list has reached 100 or more. One of these took 860 lives. An- other 289 lives. Another 260 lives, The full total of these years cannot be told. Accidents in which one or two men are killed are almost too common for newspapers to relate. Last year there was the explosion at Browns- ville, Pa.—25 killed; the explosion at Spangler, Pa.—74 killed; the explosion at Birmingham, Ala.—87 killed. That at Kemmerer this week is the second in the present year to take more than 100 lives, a coal dust explosion at Dav son, New Mexico, last February having resulted in 125 deaths. An enormous percentage of these deaths could have been avoided. H.. Foster Bains, director of the U. 5S. bureau of mines, has said: “Investigations carried on by the bureau of mines for more than 10 years have dem- onstrated beyond question of doubt that such spreading of coal dust explosions can be prevented. Responsibility for this rests with the mine managements.” Deaths, per ton of coal mined, are from twice to three times as numerous in America as in European countries. Records of mine disasters show that they seldom occur in union mines, where the organized miners are suffi- ciently powerful to force operators to provide safe work- ing conditions, and where the unian itself maintains in- spectors to protect the lives of its workers. Disasters have taken place almost invariably in states where the unions have yet to gain a sufficient foothold to enforce proper working conditions. . This is something to think about the next time the coal operators issue a deluge of propaganda assailing the miners’ demands for union recognition. The operators say that unionization is at the expense of the public. That is not true, but even if it were, the public would never ask that its pocketbook be protected at the ex- pense of men’s lives. In New York a girl got five years for stealing a nickel; a man four years for taking $2,000,900. Men are better paid. Los Angeles landlord has been arrested, charged with robbing people who were not his tenants. Postmaster of Forest City, Iowa, made a golf hole in one. That may be why the mail is late. China has shipped us 61 tons of Mab Jongg. It wasn't chop suey. Could have been worse. ‘Two houses were dynamited in Cleveland. At first they thought it a presidential boom. Winter is coming soon. Then only those with closed cars can park for a petting party. ' Mixing Thrills and a Moral ison Marshall, the writer, is a master at mixing thrills and a moral. His latest novel, “The Isle of Retri- bution,” is a thoro-going Northwestern story. It is laid on Puget Sound and in the wild, uninhabited islands of Northwestern Alaska. It moves with lightning speed, and it also brings home a good, old-fashioned lesson. The East is all excited over “The Isle of Retribution.” Sales of the book have far exceeded expectations. The Northwest can well be proud of its developing author. Beauty makers in convention say women will quit wearing hats, such good luck {s posstble. No Weeks says we may have a new war. Hope not. But if we do, we want a new sergeant, also. Roby Miller, English actress, says Americans are poor love makers. But we are practicing. Mr. and Mrs. Hoover Jones, of Delphi, Ind, have been married 60 years without a shot. Helen Martin, of Philadelphia, solves prize puzzles. Give her a place in Coolidge’s cabinet. A Brooklyn man left a will of only 83 words, the strange part being he was a lawyer. Want Recording Speedometer Sweden, determined to check auto speeders, passes a law making it compulsory for all autos to be equipped with speedometers that. will make a record showing how fast the car has been run. No arguments with the traffic cop then. Unfortunately, after passing the law, the Swedish riks- dag discovers no such speedometer has been invented, We'll have such devices in America eventually. Prohibition has been postponed a month in Constantinople, and indefi- nitely in the United States, Man In Reading, Pa., bas five wives, all redheads. Let hii e Firpo-Dempsey winner. elamadhe The corn borer, army worm, pea louse, boll weevil and low prices are destroying crops. Des Moines, Iowa, policeman who had no etiquette books arrested 13 society people. Never mind the straw vote. What will the wheat vote do? “Wife Fails to Appear.”—Headline. It seldom happens, The Bluejay Is Vindicated The bluejay, long reputed to be an habitual robber of other birds’ eggs, is vindicated by the New Jersey Au- dubon society. It analyzed the stomachs of 292 blue- jays and found traces of eggs in only three of the stom- achs. Three transgress and the other 289 are blamed, a rule that is applied by people to other people in all ramifications of life. Little, viclous minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of fprgiving their enemles.—Chesterfield. Michigan woman offered our government a three-colored eat. Why not? It buys white elephants. Tornadoes passed thru two sections of Kansas, Hither that or a couple of wheat farmers got mad. Wife in Flint, Mich, claims hubby tried to drown his troubles by push- ing her off a bridge. Bobby Hartman, a 12-year-old St. Louis golfer, made a hole in one, His father will recover, Boy of 8 robbed 20 stores in Middletown, Conn. Working so hard will stunt his growth. * A young lady tells us sho is going bathing suiting. TH LATTL STAR | Can't Someone Tell Him How to Hitch,Up a Horse? | | food Indecencies, was willing to cer-| LETTER FROM RivGh PiANN On Vacation Dear Folke: Had ewim'in the Sound today, and whatever olse it any be, you are safe in saying itiis, (1) wet, and, (2) cooling. Hero to @ moving'picture of me taking 4 running dive off the dock, and @ little sketch of mo Swimming, Notice my new Red-and- blue bathing suit, she FRCS _ Ag a ~ 8 | 4 B. Severyno waen't theré, but I put him in because Seg Ine I thought he might Shien? like to see his pic- ture in the paper. A man in office must keep in the public eye, Natatorially-youre, LETTERS: EDITOR | Baby Milk and Brown Sugar Editor The Star: | By |see that our renowned and |refiners did not touch the sugar on way ¢ plantatio sumer, Of course, the able to collect tribute from such a commissioner of health is to probe| system. To get control no that all jinto the so-termed “baby milk deal, he producers would have to send the ers.” It seems, from the article tha sugur thru tho refiners’ hands certain milk distributors of our city|{t was necessary to kill off the de-| |by thelr uprightness and depend-| mand for brown sugar jability have secured the confidence 'the demand it was neceasary to dis |of the public, to such an extent gust the people with all brown sugar |the mothers of the community are|so the appetite for It might be de- | willing to trust their word of honor | stroyed. To accomplish this they in feeding their infants raw milk | qugurated one of the most violent ad- | brought to them by these samo deal-| vertising campaigns ever witnessed ors. in America. In 1898 they were ready | In reading this there was brought | to educate the public, and educate It | to mind an article by Mr. McCann, | they did | d{eticlan of the New York World,| “Theso advertisements of the brown | who puts out a book called “Sclen-| sugar exterminatora consisted of an| tific Eating.” The article fs upon|attack upon old-fashioned brown} the use of sugar and reads as fol-|sugar. Each advertisement was ac-| lows: |companted by a picture said to be an | “America has become a nation of|enlarged photograph of a dreadful refined sugar hogs. In the year end-| looking animal described as a cross ing June 30, 1917, every man, woman | between a louso and a lizard To} and child in America consumed 81) prove that such creatures lived tn all pounds of sugar. In Germany every|brown sugar they went to Dublin man, woman and child consumed 16]and dug up a commercial chemist |pounds, in France 18 pounds and|who, Ike many other commercial Great Britain 20 pounds. chemist now earning fat foes by fur: "In the days of brown sugar the’ nishing scientific support for many | your paper of the wort it REBEL CHIEFTAIN’S SON _ | | This is Pancho Villa II, son of the famous Mewican bandit chief. The little chap isn’t a year old, but he closely re~ sembles his father, who was recently Killed near Payral, The boy is named “Panchito,” and was idolized by his famous father, | tity that this louse-lizard monster was found in all for a eonsideration brown sugar, One of the advertine- ments which I quote from the Con- | gressional Record, reads as follows:| c analyst of the| ‘Prof, Cameron, pu elty of Dublin, who examined the samples of raw sugar, states that they contain a great number of dts gusting insects which cause a dis gusting diseaso.’ The advertisers did not say what disease, It was enough for thelr purpose to may it wai gusting disease, They knew they were lieing, but the American public, long fed on advertising lies, swal lowed the statement and asked no questions, hence we have our refi white sugar, that ts causing so gre a part of the ill health of this day And I have been wondering wheth: or Seattle in gullible enough to accept the sop of the “Baby Milk Probe,” handed to them by thelr commercial chemist, and mwallow the bait, the hook, the sinker, the line and the pole of the pasteurized milk distributors. KATE REEVES, 1714 Madrona Drive. Trying to Destroy the Primaries Editor The Star Ww. W. assertion: First, that he was neither democrat nor republican, but was fr dependent; then ed tho direct of loms of prestige by the old polit al parties (demo. and repub.) saying at the only way to restore them t¢ thelr old time effectivenssa vas to enact laws abolishing the direct pri mary, which Is the vehicle made of by independent voters. (( conatat thou art a Jewel—when it does not interfere with political ambition!) Evidently the time haa come when the old-time political machines real {zn St 1s now a question between them of "My Dear Alphonse” and “My Dear Gaston” as long am the com mon enemy of organized autocracy {s the people's only medium of hav ing some say about whom they shal! elect to offic and they (the old ma chines) are ready to bury the hatchet in the face of this common enemy RIEDA’S OLLIES I was mad to go East. Tho undertaker was a friend of mine, Ho offered mo free transportation If I could pane as a relative And accompany a deceased. No one would ever know, he en couraged To kill oft} Of course, everyone T knew ‘Was on the train. I had to put on black for the ¢ casion I pretended to be surprised ‘That they had not heard of t death Of my relative. Sympathy ts a wonderful thing For once {n my life I was popular That ts, until I reached my dost nation, ; The undertaker had wired For the real relative To met the train He did It waa a Chinaman SCIENCE New, Locomotive. Cuts Fuel Bill in Half. All Inclosed. First Cost High. Mochanical sctentists are greatly interested in the new turbine engino a dis | Jermain, before the domo- | |ecratic club on August 18th, made the THUI DAY, AUGI What a Good BY FRED L. BOALT In the Portland (Oregon) News Worth Rejoice with me when I tell of higher learning where he was you that the Blodgetts have ar employed rived in Portland h But I estimate that the coming of I'm going the Blodgetts has added some- will have @ better « where $150,000 and than here.” $1,000,000 to the potential wealth Bo they fill@d his pockets with of Oregon. ters of recommendation, Who are the Blodgetts? ¥ fm an excellent don't know the Blodgetts? Wel him go. And the I didn't, either. ts came to Portland in They came here from Denver Father Blodgett, Mother Biodg ett and the seven stalwart Blodgett sons. The he = My w ance there to Or between y ntopped 10 daye at the J auto camp and looked around, Then they rented a house at Bhaver st, and called on Dr. Price, the pastor of the Pilgrim Congregational church. I could tell from the streaks of silver in Blodgett’s hair, from the wrinkles about his twinkling eyes, from his work-hardened hands, that Blodgett has ‘ed I mean he has worked hard and played wholesomely and of the house of Blodgett was well and favorably known !n Denver for many years no, not as a captain of indus try, not axa Napoleon of finance. He was known as @ good janitor. When he announced that he was quitting Denver for Port land the president and members of the faculty of the institution to organized Impertalinm. {mary laws, giving the people som | | It 4s to be hoped the “commonjyoice in their own government, | | herd” will recognize the necessity of |which it Is evidently the design of |remaining true to the democratic|the American autocrats to destroy.| principles nelf-government and| Wil the people of these United} aquelch this ambition to istranchise | Btates allow that gre bulwark the rank and file of the people in| against extortion and oll the selecting of fit men for office,| primaries, to be wet aside? and will stand pat on the democratic | we know what we are doing. principles as expressed in the pri-! CITIZEN ESS. _ The Question of Memorials Editor The Star Jenjoy the idea of statues of them- There js much to be nald tn favor | "ely oh s asl of the sentiment in back of the pro- edn ta eaeemees rng Spy pe} it| posed Harding memorial, to be erect} statue must be erected let it bear| | ea in Woodland park, |some such quotation as: But a little thoughtful considera-| “If I can catch the conscience of tion might lead”us to suspect that | America, I will end war.” | we were applying good intentions and| But 1f we are to end war by be | valuable energy in # direction which | coming consclentious could not we do| | would not yield nearly aa much ag {t|{t in a far shorter and more direct might. way by ralsing $25,000 to save the The whole idea of expenslys mem- lives of children in Europe who, the orials 1s one which would tn all prob-| Quakers tell us, are starving and ability be deprecated by the very|perishing for lack of food and shel ones whose principles in life we | ter. : would thus preserve. Would the spirit of Harding, could Honest men, could they return, |{t return to us, condemn us for such | would tell us to use our money, or|an act—the spirit which, when atill |energy, to advance the ideals which|on earth, subscribed liberally to re- they supported and suffered for§lleve tho conditions of miserable hu- while on earth. It ts only such char-|manity in Europe? acters as are sometimes found tn ego: | tistical Napoleons and kalsers that KARL SPIESS ROBINSON. YOU WILL more than his share of loving, worrying, sacrificing and mmniling. I know he ts an old-fashioned man, because he spoke affection ately, almost reverently, of Mrs Blodgett a» “Mother,” and told me at 11 o'clock in the morning that he must hurry, as mother would be expecting him home to @inner. When I was « boy we had dinner at noon ‘Tho Blodgett boys are all ta strong and athletic hey want to go to work,” Blodgett said, “but I tell ther they must finish school—all but the oldest; he’s 19, and has been thru high.” There are tremendous poten Ualities in seven boys who are tall, strong, athletic and edu. cated Maybe one of them will in some future year compete in the Olym plo games and bring honor to Oregon. You can't tell. And later on the seven will engage in useful tasks, employing their strong bodies and trained minds to the advancement and enrich- ment of Oregon. And they will marry nice girls, who will present them with strong bables. I have said that the coming of the Blodgetts has added some- where between $150,000 and $1, 900,000 tothe potential wealth of Oregon, I mean just that, and $150,000 18 @ ridiculously low es- timate If a tall, strong, educated young man can earn $2,000 a year, he—the principal—should be worth 10 times his earning power, or $20,000. Seven sone’ times $20,000 equals $140,000, We will concede that Father Blodgett, altho an admirable jan- itor, has, because of his age, passed the crest of his useful- ness. We will put down Father Blodgett at $10,000, giving us a total of $150,000. I am not going to try to give Mother Blodgett a money value, It can't be done. “What,” I asked Blodgett, “are you going to do? Take up Jani- toring?” “No,” he replied, “I am going to buy some land and raise chickens.” FIND THIS TO BE | TRUE —that your automobile tubricated with Zerolene will run from 25% to 50% farther without needing to have its valves ground orcylindersrebored. This is so because Zerolene forms so little carbon, and that of a soft flaky nature, most of which blows out with the exhaust. —that you will get more mileage from your gasoline, because Zerolene, giving better lubrication continuous ly, permits the delivery of more en- gine power to the drive wheelson the ground. | —that Zerolene will reduce your upkeep cost, add years to the life of your car, and give you greater satis’ faction in driving. Because Zerolene compares favor’ ably in every respect with any oil made, regardless of price, we say “In- sist on Zerolene —even if it does cost less.” STANDARD OIL, COMPANY (California) locomotive which the Swedish in. | ventor, Ljungstrom, has built, In applying the principles of the well-known steamship engine, has completely inclosed the working parts of the locomotive and uses the hot draft and forced lubrication of the machinery. Haullng the same trains tn compo: tition with tho best standard loco motives of today, ho eut the fuel bill exnctly in half, ‘This is a bri} Nant success, #0 far as it moos, but the origin hat comotive is at least three times iso of & firstclass American low diva, he | coat of building his to. |