The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 31, 1923, Page 8

TH SHATTLE FRIDAY, RIEDA’S OLLIES 10 night with @ The Seattle Sta Published Dally by Beventh Ava Phone 4 oe y ; jh th fon ¥ 5 4 tery Star Publishthe Co, 1407 hould have been ar On Vacation a Dear Folkeas Went down to Dean Burkheimer's last night and found-hia engaged in the eport that Op built the West, The pic- fi separ a ‘at ture shows him with an ax aigal pig hel aba in hie hand, but many men, knowing ous in a Janae nothing about such thinge, will think it's a golf club, No, Rodolph, "chop wood" ia not American for "chop suey", Piayed tag a while with the kide, It's a great game - if you are as long-winded as some people epee I have met, D) are in 1 quo, that ts, no- Story of a Ton of Coal 4 Mrs. Keanie Parker, of Boston, ordered coal, several : ionths ago. After wearying effort, she succeeded in tobtaining agreement that the first ton would be delivered io her on August 10, and she became hopeful. August 10 me. It was Harding's funeral day. No Nicliveries of coal. Promise made for the next day. Mrs, ‘Parker worried. Next day dawned, Drivers given holiday on funeral da) Mrs. Parker more worried. Long and tedious and trying effort dis drivers who agreed to deliver the coal. Mrs ful but dubious The ton of ¢ reached M Parker's street. Latter full of parked automobiles. Her front curb could not be Yeached by the coal truck. Drivers refused to carry the Coal and said it could not be delivered. Mrs, Parker wor- Tied and mad as a damp pullet. Mrs. Parker called the police. ohibitionist ted her secret on strike because, while they were allowed no pay, I HAD certain have turned in @ ‘overed two Parker hope- Walked home with the nore mercly: Han Latter turned out ‘in wife in the moonlight,It's , down haat see e » m0 "6 and 0 on. But force and began to clear street of automobiles. Long job, : ‘ funny how the moon gete a cog po Dut finally finished. Mrs. Par anxious, ‘ eee # ‘ fellow ~ even with hi 6 om wife Steering euaite Drivers recalled, after more effort. Coal delivered. Affectionutely youre, 11 not nolve them? Mrs. Parker had aged perceptibly. Bee 5 solved we will merely consider because Tsn't civilization truly wonderful? Mrs, Parker, being j | i; ¢ y yf in the very midst of it, will say yes. | i . Woks) “ . ‘ he v | LETTERS 5° EDITOR Settling Our Big Problems fe D. Real Estate Loans Lowest Rates No Commission We Make Monthly Payment Loans Annual, Semi-annual Payments and Straight Loans —whichever one suits your needs, First sign of fall is when the frost is on the pumphia and the shock Y in the price. Hot weather kickers will be cold weather kickers in a fow weeks. Wheat prices are so low the grower has his bushels of trouble. To Paste in Your Hat LOCA As this coal strike gets more and more confused here \ MyM ! fis one thing at least that can be remembered as a sort of | \Wi| ' poe \\\\ Mass . Jandmark. | Samuel Warriner, spokesman for the anthracite mine sOwnrrs, says that to grant the wage demands of the miners would add $90,000,000 a year to the labor cost of emining. Warriner also that if the wage increase is granted it will be nece: y to pass the expense on to the public by adding $2 a ton to the cansumers’ price. The U. S. coal commission finds that the annual out- put of anthracite is between 80 and 90 million tons a ‘year. 1 00. This Adding $2 a ton would add -between $160,000,000 and f $180,000,000 to the public bills. Of this the miners would get $90,000,000 and Mr. Warriner and others in the coal businéss would keep the remaining $70,000,000 or $90,000,000. d . Mr. Warrin warning that “the public must pay the was written be | been bi nee ¢ « inal cost of |¢ E 5 c t e Washington thigh wages” is intended to incline public opinion against ¢ a5 «much contro. ch prices a ° 4 d ort on the |afe now explol! ut | farther fro s the miners, but when it appears that an advance in meant , © the § 100 Mutual Savings wages of $1 is to be used to club the public for an ad- ties = Race teat * ;. Sif te, Serhan fal Nott thet hig meniewet a psa ditional dollar, well that is passing on labor cost with Bank 1101 Second Avenue lame=‘at problem, would the sane thing to do 1 be to take on no adj lems until we had settled Jon of |those already upon us. B and | USer ever falter nit c | ing the univers The Cost of the Railways SS ie So aot os | re Sw sas BY HERBERT QUICK | the average North Scores of thousands of new laws | 44d to our burden each year the fon over, and each we trun. ute books butt very largely on don m is 0X with former laws which we for “5 than the and the gifts were Nberall: nm; that we haven't while we play with the n ‘ce commis» capitalized in Mr. Adams’ fig. 4 it, and that our ow But all the these moun ray that ures, d rn problems are being t of ancl best » two. generations later, discovering We give you the most liberal repayment priy- ileges known in the West. The members measurat to be accept years ago, Adams un. | of economic | bi! q amite with t vengeance. course; the imm Silence Is silver. Many a small brother gets a dime for koeping his mouth shut. Ford will leave some footprints on the sands of time, footprints and + auto tracks, also. nim ist xed Almost time for the friend to return the lawomower and start borrow. ing coal. 31 Years Added to Average Life The average American now lives to the age of 56, mpared with 41 back in 1870. But, by 1950, people ; will have a life span of 70 years, predicts Dr. George }Martin Kober of Georgetown University Medical school. His prediction, of course, is based on a supposition ithat people will increasingly live more sensibly and | correctly. 3 / Four hundred years ago the average length of human {life was somewhere between 18 and 20 years. And it ‘was only 25 years, as late as 1800. There has been a gain of 31 yea span, since 1800. People live longest in New Zealand, averaging 60 years tat death. In India the average age of death is before 25. These “average” figures, however, a arrived at by | j adding up and striking an average of all deaths, includ- ] ing babies. The gain has been mostly in cutting down | | | femme FOR EVERYONE IN SEATTLE 3 in the average life The Seattle Star has purchased 2,000 tickets for the Palace Hip Theatre and will give two to every boy or girl securing one new subscription to this paper! HOW TO GET THEM Just have anyone who {s not having The Star delivered to their home agree to take WHAT YOU'LL SEE The Palace Hip Theatre {s operated by j the death rate among children, especially babies. This has raised the average. It is doubtful whether there are ; any more people’living to “‘a ripe old age” than formerly, }Or even as many, in this country, for that matter, Greenland, * '~ As far back as 1908, experts estimated that three mil- jlion Americans were constantly on the sick-list, and that '42 out of every 100 of these illnesses were preventable. Similar situation today. When people succumb to preventable diseases, they generally are victims of their own carelessness. This carelessness in many cases results from underestimating + their personal value in cold dollars and cents, For instance, take a man with an income of $3,000 a year. Now, $3,000 is 6 per cent interest on an invest- “ms of $50,000. If the $3,000-a-year man had an auto or any other machine worth $50,000 he would insure it | against every possibility of disas and he would care | for it as if it were a priceless pos: ion. You can’t jimagine a radio bug neglecting a ,000 receiving station. On the other hand, the $3,000-a-year man often jneglects his $50,000 body as if it were an old bit of junk. Give your body a square deal. Treat it with the con- jSideration and care that its high value deserves, Fall fashions say germs must jump higher than ever to grab the [hem of a skirt. Soon be time to take down the sereens and let the flies ont of the ‘house for winter. ‘ It often looks as if talk Is the best policy and honesty is cheap, A® a man thinks, so is he. As a woman dresses, so is she, The Value of Competition Twenty tank cars of gasoline, offered at 16 cents a gallon by a single filling station in South Dakota, smashed the gasoline market in that state and started price-cutting in nearly every part of the nation, This teaches us more about the benefits of keeping competition alive than a dozen economists could get into as many textbooks. It also teaches that everything is extremely susceptible }to destruction. A small ax speedily cuts down a tree | that has taken generations to grow. A lone match can cause a big fire. A braye man thinks no one his superior who does him j fer he has it then in his power to make himself superior to | by forgiving it—Pope, an injury; the other Hf thie enemy hung , feed him rst, give him drink: | fo doing thou shalt he for in » coals of fire on his hes j Many of the light summer suits have shrunk until they are almost @ vest and knee trousers, The Biggest Glacier. Building Ever Higher. What Is Limit to Be? || Two Swiss scientific expeditions | have r |to west and from their r is no doubt pus ice. In fact, the Sweitze: 000 square miles, 714,000 square | pund that of this great tle consisted of one stupen fous | chunk of ice, the hugest glacier tn |the world many times over. And| growing every year! plorers, in thelr report, just | hat ho heat of July surface snow that foll 18 10 or 11 months, Jakes on top of the astonal rain falls during , and adds somewhat to {the Jakes, By Septem. sins are frozen eolid and to act as foundations for the of another 10 months, ‘This ess is repeated year after year, lowly buflding up. ot, a tower of Babel s own—of solid Ice. Will nature ha than the Babylon? The top of this gigantic glacter, an plateau many miles wide, is about | 00 feet high at this t {sland | forming 8 jee, An » more succes enterprising citizens of the altitude er will be six or seven ff nothing happens in the meantime, But—ls ice strong enough to bulld itself five or six miles toward heav. en? Won't the time come when the tremendous pressure from the enor. ght above will produce a certain argount of heat that pressure | exerts, and with its help, split | ush and crumble the {ce be-| And, too, with such terrific sr as to throw blocks weighing milliong ¢¢ tons right and left, and perhaps sevres of miles into the At Jantic in the east and into Baffin's bay in the wé In walch case, tidal waves and | grea flecks of feeberga to still fur. ther agitate our esteeemed—but not too much esteemed—Atlantic ocean? You can quickly find someone to ialsomine your room if you turn to the Want Ada Columns, the paper for three months. 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