The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 30, 1923, Page 8

tives fan Francisco Bide.; New York offion toazo } Moaten offi A Lesson in Politics A nice little lesson in politics it is that Hiram Johnson teaches in two short paragraphs of that embarrassing ivate letter published, to his anger, recently. Said Rinson: 4 “We lost California principally because we compro- F mised with those who compromised because they feared we would whip them and who remained as conserva- tive and reactionary as ever, but who bided their time to strike. We destroyed the morale of progress, and con- vinced the ordinary individual that we are no different from our opponents, that both sought political success only. “My strength while I was governor was in never yielding to the old rotten crew, standing always the Same. My weakness today is that I have yielded and given power, position and political strength to the very men I so often formerly denounced. The past is past, and I have referred to it only as instructive for the - future.” | Johnson, California’s most popular governor, exposer ' of graft, corruption, and ouster of private interests! Leader of the popular uprising against the worst political machine in the West! Champion of the initiative, refer- endum, the recall and other progressive, popular causes! He “wore no man’s collar! Hiram Johnson, United States senator! Compromises on the Newberry and other issues. Permitted the old “crowd to slip back into office in Californ Became lost in the maze of inter-nation aff: a topic he never understood adequately. Made alliances with the Hearst and Lasker crowd for political support ngitionally. Then he “wore a collar.” *“T have only referred to it as instructive for the fu- ture,” said Johnson. Maybe the future is too late for Hiram Johnson. Maybe not. Certainly not, for the coming generation. It’s a wonde> they don't catch cold changing from a summer dress into a hot bathing suit. A rolling stone gathers no moss, but a man who keeps his nose too close to one does. The female of the species dresses cooler than the male, Pancho Villa’s Wives Some men can get by with anything with women, if they will but be kind to children. and generous with Money. For examy;'e, look at the fierce Pancho Villa, of Mexico. Now after his death one after another of his Wives, with her children, comes forth to tell of her love for Villa. These wives, in many cases beautiful, well-educated and charming, tell thrilling tales of their romances. Whom- ever Villa fancied, he seized, carried to a church and mar- tied. Superstitiously he insisted upon this formality, par- ticularly if the girl was young. * Dona Luz, the golden-haired, blue-eyed beauty, now about 36, seems to have held him the longest. She lived on his ranch for years, and took care of some of his chil- dren by other wives. She would not allow him to bring another wife to the house. That resulted in sending away the sad little Esther Cardona as far.as Chihuahua. But Esther says Villa visited her frequently, and was very kind to their twin children, now 2 years old, 9 Austaberta Renteria displaced Dona Luz, and was liv- ing at the ranch with her son and some of Villa’s other children at the time Villa was killed. The beautiful Juana Torres died in Los Angeles around 1918. She was a girl of pure Spanish stock. Villa was willing to marry her, and in his way took rather good care of her. Her child is said to beat Canutillo today. Paula Alamillo de Villa was only 14 years old when Villa married her in 1914. She says he gave her $5,000 before the ceremony with which to buy clothes. He lived with her for a year in Torreon and during that time gave her 500 pesos a month for expenses. She is only 23 now, and has a daughter 8 years old, whom Villa adored, and hamed “Evangelina.” All Villa’s wives recall his kindness and his love for the children. Even Dona Luz says Villa never found fault with her except to say that she was extravagant. This she admits was the truth. Is all this display of affection prompted because the wives think Villa left lots of money, and each wants her share? [If so, his wives deserve all they can get and here’s hoping the Mexican cave man left Many, many pesos! i Save your fly swatiers. Very handy for spanking the children on lonely winter afternoons. The world owes you a living. hands of an agency. You can't put the collecting in the China recently shot 750 bandits, Whish! Goes Another Legend Oh, dear! Alexander didn’t weep because there were no more people to cut up. Freedom didn’t slash that cherry tree. And Coolidge didn’t crush that Boston strike. Doggone the historical detectives, anyhow! If ever a man got there thru being credited ‘with a big stroke, Calvin Coolidge, president, is the man. Now comes The Nation with terrific evidence, in the shape of the Boston citizens’ committee report, to the effect that Calvin “rode the fence” and never took hold and put in his state troops until that strike was practically dead and “order had been generally restored in the city.” Geewhillikins! Before long we won’t have a reliable tradition left, save the H. Cabot Lodge whiskers. Every nation has its pleasures. Long skirts are dangerous for women. Short are dangerous for men. Only a few more shopping weeks before heavy underwear. Fashion note: Big gasoline men will wear diamonds, Cider is working. It Is working hard. Less Drinking at Sea Drinking among passengers at sea has been steadily getting less and less, for the last 20 years. T. D. Smith makes this comment. He's chief steward of the White Star liner Adriatic, and he has been 85 years in the North Atlantic service. The decline in drinking is a genuine temperance move- ment, and not because liquor costs have gone up, Smith believes. He says: “Efficiency in business—with telephones, wireless, radio, taxicabs, electrical devices and the gen- eral demand for more speed—has destroyed the old idea of doing business in the forenoon and devoting the rest of the day and night to drinking.” i That just about sums-up the prohibition movement, in the last analysis. It came as a matter of efficiency, rather than of morals. ; ‘The auto question is how many miles can you KO on credit? A wise man never tries to open a can with a pocket knife. tat the U. 8. ness is reverse gears for gas meters, | | Dear Polka: Drove over t terday and saw D, the Nat, Life Ine, ing golf. I don't Aiea EROM VRIDGE MANN | THE ALMOST ON THE ROCKS a — ) WS On Vacation o Wing Point yes- Clark, Mgr. of Co,of Vt, play- know the game, but I could see he was Playing well and 4 ging @ good hole eo time he hit the ba "He ie sure o remarked, "Yeo", repli "he plays with gre Joe Loo ‘ the brin j Joe Blac which re that she'd forgott kitten and we had Categorically your ig~ “Fore, very. a ee 11. Dees f hie ground I > ed Dec Dowling, at insurance’, ked out acros y deep and 6 k in his cat-boat minded the wife en to feed our to go home, Aurecige— LETTERS: EDITOR Editor The Star: When the plumbing combine was about to be prosecuted it— Went to District Attorney Revelle, who is employed and paid to sive his | time exclusively to the government| service. | see They went, of course, because if they went to the man who Is sup- posed to prosecute them and paid him | a fee they would avoid prosecution | one | | yell known that one of the rafts was against the school | and many people and one of | It is wort | distr \our newspapers are— Editor The Star: Whenever a radical with a bug gets to thinking abstractly he loses step with his fellow radicals and his bug |déserts him. The same thing is true ine jof the stand-patter, only the | bred, natural-born conservative ne if and never chan: frequently als into conventic al ¢ Take a radical with a bu ve ernmental ownership of the railroads To be consistent he must in season and out demand that governments everywhere run the rafiroads, and in- elst that under no possible condition could private uwnership of trans- portation prove efficient, nor public slide oh where, is J RIEDA’S OLLIES I abhor untidy children, Poor little souls, It {9 their mothers Who are to blame, One mother lived in A fitting neighborhood, There wasn't a clean child To be seen for blocks, I called one day— 1 A duty call, of course. She cold not find one of her chi! | dren. High and low she hunted, “I fear,” I said, Glancing out of the window At the dirtyfaced urchins below, "That to find your son You will have to wash Livery child's face In the: neighborhood 4 peo | The Plumbing Gouge-and Croson Demanding, that one of the first things to be Investigated by The gr school distr announced the graft of the y it Is when that soe Mr, Carl ]. Croson, a member of the school board, supposed to be rep- resenting the over-burdened taxpay- ers, has been— . Employed by the combine as asno. ted counsel to assist . District Attar fense Ile In ftw de Strange, isn't it? X. Y. Z. | - Somewhere Between Lies Truth management prove inefficient, But such @ radical, if he travels abroad, discovers that the government-owned railroads of Burope are generally far from attaining tho efficiency of pri vately-owned Amorican roads; a fact which Italy has at last recognized, {and she Ie preparing to turn her state is over to private capital for gement Now the conservative see taly nto private ownership wo ing Russia dethrone communism, im mediately howls against all forms of public ownership of utilities, and also howls agalust all federal regulation of public service corporations; both radical and consérvative are bigoted; neither is right, even half the time. Time and the manner of men deter. | time | might come when Uncle Sam should | ming methods; and tho the own and operate the coal mines, it might never come to the point where he should attempt to manage and man the railroads, Tho again federal ownership might never prove success ful as private ownership in this na tion, still there might be a public feeling aroused over lack of service, over wage strikes, over high rates, that would necessitate the govern: ment taking over tho railroads to bring peace and surety of service, even tho at the cost of billions, Generally speaking, ® man will work more efficiently for himself than for another; generally speaking, private operation {# more economical than publle operation, political opera tion, elvil service operation, No gov. ernment could ever manufacture « flivver ay well and as cheaply as doer Mr. Ford; dut Mr, Ford could not, thru private enterprise, supply the {mproved roads for his flivvers to run upon! 80 whenever you hear either a rad- teal with @ bug, or S_sgneeryative SEATTLE STAR t t S| \ \\ b \ & grouch, demanding any one ring any specific cure jonal ills, be sure that] all for each is more often wrong than he tx| f | lw | amt | but Dobbin's speed ts nearer five, If | cannot keep up with the parade, sn4 | coating. | Dent's time is worth anything, he| perhaps he isn't trying. will find horse travel expensive. right. WILLIAM CARROLL. The Fake First Avenue Sales” feat Editor The Star. For years those of us who have known and loved Seattle hed with deop regret appar of First ave table appe and gr td look of annum doc , the city fathers shook themselves from their lethurgy and Jat great, but Justified, expense gave {to us a thorofare as fine as any in | the Iand, Owners of business blocks | began responding immediately to the fresh impetus and everywhere one uildings resplendent In new paint and crews at work ainting, and generally the atmosph: must a disgusted public and th gitimate business man of Firat ave stand for the fake sale merchant who now, as in the past, maken the stree le an every bankrupt business { rise serve To the writer's personal know there is one establishment on Fi ave. which for the past 10 years hag lbeen either “foreed to the wall “forced to vacate,” or “damaged by | fire and water” on the average of once every three months. Each time lone hopes that it may be true, but always they continue to sell their shoddy morchandise and no sooner i one set of eyesores removed than an other starts to go up | I must here plead ignorance as to |the method which might be pursued, but surely there must be some agency |thru which this type of misrepre |eentation and plain swindling might |be checked, | I understand that the better bust ness bureau of the Beattle Ad club ts now soliciting funds for carrying c its wo Would it not be worth while and to the benefit of Seattic business and therefore to the city in neral if the better business bureay , | gave wome attention to this flagrant abuse of legitimate means of adver tising. A. W. COLLINS, 2387 44th Ave. 8. W. The Villu of Pasteurized Milk | Editor 7 I heard Dr. & § attle on the sub of “Food and | Body Chemistry’ in the Eastern Star | hall last Thursday evening. In the} | course of his talc he said; “Pasteur- | |ized milk 9 of equal food value to carined milk” and that spray-process dried milk is better than pasteurized | |milk, Pasteurized mille," ho said, “will cause rickets and seurvy inj bables and is not good food." Now, | in the faco of all the tall about pas-| |teurized milk being safe milk, how | jean Dr, Schilling get by with this/ jstatemant? Is he right, and if so, | where do the safe milk people get | off at? How can we accept the state ments of men who seem to know what they are talking about and yet bellove the ery of the big dalries, “Make the milk safe"? T am puzzled. C, ANTON, 4129 Arcade Bldg. ar ling of Se If you are in doubt as to Star Want Ad Results, just ask anyone who {s using Star Want Ads. | MA In-0600. SAVES BABIES, helps grown. ups, comforts aldgaly people, or cholera infontum, summer com. Plaint, weakening diarrhoea—use CHAMBERLAIN’ s ‘REMEDY SHOPA Take in a litle ing introduction of the eight-hour day in their industrial plants, the following Prior to January 1, 1917, the | In the other departments the SCI E NCE Comes Back at William Dent Editor The Star: ;worn piston rings, flet tires, loose Beet > | am Your corr declares; but they spavin, heaves and greased heel | buretor, but if Dent would equip his } ear with a vacuum depending on a g boat wouldn't get they do throw shoes and go lame, cent to tr | compression. THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 1923, | NL The Eight-Hour Day BY A BIG CORPORATION | Editor's Note-—In view of the bitterness with which many employers are still Bh article, aken from the report to stockholders of the Standard Oil Company of California, is par- icularly timely, This field red 12 results wore also good, altho re not so easily de any (The Standard oll worke Compan f California), be | arduous boura h When here they J of 3 the elghthour day was entut fined. In tho refinertes, for ex we a the elgbvpour . dey lished there was, with s ample, the output of a stiliman ars ite employes | change of two shifts of men t does not depend upon the man wo hours per @ But | three, an apparent inereaso in #0 much as upon the capacity on J 1917, the eight labor cost of 60 per cent, and of the «till But there were day wan adopted ax a | “filling an ofl well the cost of fewer accidenta end interrup smpany policy, Where work | ‘bor ts the largest item tlong. is continuous, as g the oll | It was found, however, For accuracy, it should be fields, pipe’ line department, and i i added that in the case of two the refineries, there are now that during the first six wildcat wells in Montana and months immediately fol- | lowing the change, the la- | bor cost per foot of hole drilled was less than be- three shifts of men where for- | | | one in Texas, which are being merly there were only two, In | | | drilled by outside contract, a few Standard Oi! employes are working in two shifts instead Extra compensation, no cash was tho rate of pay ro- duced because of lessened hours of work, T results have been . ‘ of three high beneficial to company fore. Conditions with the however, {s p and if off ts and employe aitke men showed — great im- discovered and de developed, The first remult i 4 rovement. They became the eight-hour day will be made n tn y creased efficiency, coming from better workmen, health- effective better health and spirit on the 4 jer, and more contented. In n drilling the shorter part of the worker, There has ‘ath if . ae day prevails, ana the company been « distinct improvement in atigue, before quite evi js operating on an elght-hour morale, with @ consequent goin dent toward the end of basis in the Philippines, Alaska, in output and work accom the 12-hour day, was less. | Colombia, Equador and Argen- ye Fe 1 Mag Ree a | There were fewer acci- | tina. noo} ely furn’ the | 5 most striking example of the | dents to men and ma | chinery. benefits of the elght-hour day, | Tlorne n't b v6 busted radiators, dent, Willlam Dent, do have colle, bearings, cy! the carburetor,’ 1 made a 1,000-mile trip recently, Can Be Deciphered. 4 the old boat never falt d ce, 2 "TE sad th overhaclag belete caret Photographic Plate. ed, and I saw to it that there want Light Emanation. water in the radiator, air in the tires i and oll in the motor all the time. } Raymond Davis, of the bureau of; I'mno farmer, and I cannot speak | Standards, Washington, finds that) wit authority of tractors. But I do|the written and printed matter of know that you cannot work a team | pers that have been thoroly charred, of horses, plowing, day after day. To|as, for example, by being heated in| do so would be an abuse of goodjan fron box or safe, may be deciph, Dent says it costs him 11 cents to} horsefiesh, jered by placing the charred sheet in utomotor, and not one-eleventh of a| You can work a tractor every day, | contact with a fast or medium plate vel behind a horse. jand 24 hours a day if you want to, for a week or two In the dark and I don't know where he gets his | because @ tractor doesn't get tired. [then developing «s usual. re, but his second one t#| I suspect Dent is an old-fashioned| There appears to be an emanation Time is money, Dent ean| man, bewildered and disgruntled as|that affects the plate except where miles an hour in his car.|he watches the parade go by. He|the charred ink acts as a protective r scores or dust in Charred Documents. The horas doesn't get stuck on a nill and have to back down to get tn gis tank on a level with its car blowouts, but Horses don't have He never| It is curlous that films need a will keep up if he travels behind a/much longer contact than plates, and Dent says “the horse always geta| horse, no matter how energetically |that sometimes the effect is reversed. of gan, oll, water, |he slaps the reins and shouts “Gid-! unless the film is ‘previously washed nition, loone fan beit,! dap!’ CITY MA and dried. HERE ARE THE FACTS! HOUSANDS of tests in our laboratories and on the road have shown conclusively that Zero lene, which is made from carefully selected Western Naphthenic Base Crude, transported in special pipe lines to our refineries and there re- fined by our exclusive high-vacuum process, forms less carbon, gives greater gas- oline mileage, and reduces friction and wear to a greater extent than any other automobile lubricant we have seen and tested or been able to produce. 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