The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 6, 1923, Page 8

PAGE 8 — THE SEAT" TLE STAR Pubbian Vee Seattle Star *¢ on and United Press Service Br re e iidg.s New Tork effics f i t “ 2 2 \. The “U. P.” Triumphs Again Th commenting upon the newspaper situation of the country, which it has been discussing in a series of articles during the last year, The Nation recently remarked edi torially day for American journalism if there were only one such press association (as the Associ ated Press) covering the country and the world with its re Porters and correspondents. "In recent years the United Press has given the Asso- ciated Press the keenest kind of competition, It has been a livelier, quicker, brighter organization, and it has fre- quently been fairer-minded. Its treatment of labor di putes has ranked it far »ve its elder sister.” The United Press wires serve The Star, During the war it notably beat the Associated Press month after month. This last week, in the case of the Japanese catastrophe, it has again strikingly excelled the older organization in A ed, accuracy and readable description. Differeni@e-between lunch and tuncheon Is lunch may be food and luncheon may be a salad. Place an asbestos guard over your thumb and you can stick it in the Bravy with comfort. From Minnesota to Maine Dollar wheat, excessive railroad rates, and farmer dis- tress upset the normally overwhelmingly republican state of Minnesota. The United States department of agricul- | ture officials are busy issuing statements designed to show | that the condition of the farmers in the Northwest is | exceptional, and anyhow things are looking up for the farmers. So is the United States Chamber of Commerce. So is the Guarantee Trust Co, of New York. So are other organizations. And while these delightful reassurances are handed out to the horny-handed sons of toil, the department of agri- culture contradicts itself. It’s some distance from Maine to Minnesota. But what has happened to Minnesota wheat farmers has happened also to Maine potato growers, according to a special report just completed by Frank E. Manning, agriculture depart- ment investigator. Maine is the greatest potato-growing district in the United States. Maine potatoes used to be a very profit- | able crop. They used to be shipped as far south as Balti- ' more and Washington, and as far west as Pittsburg. | Maine seed potatoes—among the finest in the country— used to go as far south and west as Texas. But not any more. The freight rate on Maine potatoes from the center of the growing area to Boston, used to be around 30 cents @ hundred pounds. In 1920 the Boston & Aroostook raised the freight rate to 44 cen Now the Maine farmer's po- tatoes can only get as far as Boston. Unfortunately, the agricultural department’s investigation does not follow the ‘Potato to the consumer's table, but based on the retail “g in Boston, it is obvious that the railroad gentlemen e between and 20 per cent of every dollar the con- _ Sumer pays for potatoes. The report shows that the Maine farmers got $1.24 a undred pounds for his potatoes in 1921-22, and that this " price was below the actual cost of production to him. i The conclusion from this report is obvious: The Maine are losing out because they are being asked to oduce potatoes at less than cost; the potato consumer is osing out because potatoes cannot be shipped out of New ngland at the present prohibitive railroad freight rates. Maine farmers are traditional republicans. So were | Minnesota farmers. What happened in Minnesota may happen in Maine. And a few million consumers, who are it the other end of the line from the farmer, with the rail- and middlemen in between, may help out the gen- revolt. There may be as much political dynamite in jtatoes as in wheat. ; Just after he had been sued for 30 cents, Senator Brookhart franti- ‘cally wired President Coolidge that “only quick government action will farmers Henry Ford is trying to make coal burn twice, but most of us will De satisfied If we ave permitted to do it once. When hubby cooks supper, invite.the doctor and the dentist. Before corn on the cob all table manners hesitate and are lost. ‘ And So On—Forever - Down in Yucatan, Southern Mexico, an army of Indians “under the direction of scientists, is digging up the pal- aces and temples of ancient civilization of the Maya people. They lived more than two thousand years ago and were ' sufficiently advanced to produce a race of artists. The Indians have several years of digging ahead of them. Discoveries fascinating, possibly sensational, will be made. You'll read a lot about this digging job in the news between now and 1926. '_ Chichen Itsa, chief city of the Mayas, was as large as _ Chicago is today. Thousands of years from now, future Scientists may be digging out of mud and sand the re- mains of Chicago. Over in England, Queen Mary finishes her famous doll’s house. It’s only eight feet high. But the greatest English architects designed it. English artists painted tiny pictures to hang on its walls. Barrie and other writers _ wrote miniature books for its library. ‘The doll’s house is to be passed on to future genera- tions as a perfect record of a fine English home in 1923. Tt has modern plumbing, electrical fittings, a garage hous- wee autos perfect to the last detail—even a wine cel- Tar with real “hooch” in small bottles. No matter \ hat may be dug up in the Maya ruins of Yucaian, it will seem crude alongside the devices of mod- ern times. A lot of changes come in two thousand years. And after another two thousand years the doll’s house of Queen Mary will seem as crude as Maya ruins seem today. ‘These aviators are absolutely ruthless in their demands that old tempus get out of the way and let someone fugit who can fugit, Great Britain insists the occupation of the Ruhr by France is illegal, what does Poincare? As to the automobile at the grade crossing, “Fools rush in,” ete. Nature’s Checks and Balances ‘The Knights of the Blazing Ring, which announces itself “against all clans and klans,” claims that its membership ig growing like wildfire. junds reasonable. As soon as a society-for becomes erful, up rises a society-against to cut it down. Nature BE oleanic upheaval creates a mountain, then instantly “starts destroying it by erosion. This three-dimensional universe of ours has an inexorable system of checks and balances. Just a matter of time. Keep a cat in the kitchen, When you spill something, Kieking the cat helps wonderfully. It makas the hair grow, Cook with olive olf instend of lard, 4 ‘The proof of the pudding Is in digestion, or indigestion, Rhodes ia’s Romantic BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS : Ty History | —— = a = = c"r te " P fam © f d at the ho in 1 ) day a th “ T ‘te are broad ! t a | t te and N “ne than ) tence v i re, " roma tor th ort ir w nh of the t 8. coa ormin head from ar oft sights of the n figures in i He was ser \ And he was Th m ¢ : a ail b wewed ” be a 1 4. | monthly pension to the old chief the rapids below the falls and so the Geograph 1,000 rifle und some ammunl. clos they catch the epra ther Kans Tra ed Rho. F all red” route from Cape to Britain's fairest possessions. that re le’n ¢ jon north becoming United Sh ne ut ward. De. Leander Starr Jame tate f | Dust LETTER FROM ag ig i Auto Fuel Sa steaees e 10 olize the majority of the practical they a all thelr would seem to necessitate new in ft is ty pleans ventions and in of eco. And when I wander home at consuming tons and tons of coal the blox my heart is lght He makes mo think about the gotten ashes, slate and soot, he makes me now remember ne bird that put the * wee and p I'm feeling fine and happy my bean ts clear my atep im quick I'm feeling great, I tell ie wife. I'm getting young this Puget Sound September life ts lke a shot of whi I look aro’ and find th i start to hustle thru t's bills, 1 quail, nor ¢ ne to rue it. My dispo: a way, Ww a bit uncar ‘There's nothing, now,” I pause to may get nr n But in the bunch my peepers pon a little letter, It asks me, HAVE YOU ORDERED COAL? And adds, “IF NOT, you'd BET TER And right away my joy has died—that Mttle letter crabbed it. I kep goat securely tled ut still the coal man grabbed it! roll that soon will be depleted to keop my mansion heated. For for he's ‘ember in September! Anton and others interested I will say I have not observed anyone boosting pasteurized milk except thoas connected with the business. Dr, Reed has finally been amoked out and ls now showing his fing band, ae I knew be would be, Pasteurteation in a delicate process gnd must be done accurately or the food value of the miix is impaired. There ts only @ small part of the milk sold in Se attle properly pasteurized. Why docs nearly every milk advertixement may, with emphanis, properly pasteurized? when blowing their own horn? The pasteurizing plants have recently conducted a campaign of advertising, ostensibly to educate the public to |the value of pasteurized milk—and fool, frighten and bluff them from ated it. Now in order to get this price of pasteurized (7) milk. No, Mr. Anton, you cannot improve milk as nature made it. Dr. Reed to the contrary notwithstanding. Once let the milk trust get the small dairies and we will all pay 15 cents per quart for milk. Shall we sit neutral until this happens and then com plain? It would be very interesting to know {if Dr. Reed ts acting as sales man for milk-pasteurizing plants. 1 am not Interested in the milk bust ness in Seattle. I do not know per- sonally any milk producers, distribu- tors, or handlers in Seattie, but I do know milk. I drink two and a half quarts dally Total Deaths Now Estimated at 40,000 OSAKA, Sopt. 6.—The total of dead in Tokyo and Yokohama, as a result of Saturday's earthquake, is ofticlally estimated at between 30, 000 and 40,000. The number of houses destroyed is estimated at 250,000 Most of these were burned in the humerous fires that broke out after the first quakes, One of the most serious individual instances of property destruction was the burning of the Imperial unt- versity, which contained half a mil- lion invaluable books. Newspaper Men Are Safe, They Cable COLUMBIA, Mo., Sept. 6.—Dean Walter Williams of the University jof Missourl Journalism School today received a cable from Duke N. Parry, correspondent In Tokyo for an American news service, that he and five other graduates of the School working on the Japanese Ad- vertiver, were wafe, The five are: K, G, Eager, Cen- tralia, 11; EB. B, Smith, Red Oak, Towa; Jolin R. Morris, Lancaster, Mo.; Cliber R. Lane, Kenosho, Mo,, and Morris Harris, Joplin, Mo. Sees Movement for Higher Rail Wages CHICAGO, Sept. 6.—A movement for new wage increases on all classes of railroad work “lies just around the corner,” David Robinson, president of the Brotherhood of Railway Firemen and Inginemen, declared today, Three hundred and fifty general chairmen of the organization went {nto executive sexsion here today to decide whether or not to launch the Movement at thig time, uticura Soap pemplexions Are Healthy Uiitasn Selbaia chor storee Bape k Wildcat Pasteurized Milk clean, pure, raw milk, as nature cro | money back they have raised the| LETTERS 52 EDITOR J of pure, col milk, from healthy ‘The Star of Au-| cows, state inspected, gust 30, by 3 on which he Hincerely, NO FLW seemed honestly doubt regarding the use of pa zed milk, To Mr Bellingham Youths | Make Jail Delivery morning In hope of intercepting three desperate youths who sawed | their way out of the Bellingham jail | somo time Wednesday night or | Thursday morning. | The three are Frank Laws, 20, a notorious automobile thief, wanted in | Bellingham for grand larceny; H. H | Pollock, 21, a booze runner, and R. J. Devoir, another booze runner, wanted In Bellingham for liquor law violations. | Some time during the night a large automobile with two spare tires on the rear wan stolen from a down town street in Bellingham and it ts believed the three youths made their jescape in this machine, | Scripps Party ib | Back From Orient | SAN DIEGO, Sept. 6.—The yacht | Ohio, owned by E. W. Scripps, news: | paper publisher, arrived in port to |day from the Orient. On board, be. sides Scripps, were Robert P. | Scripps, hia son, and other members of the party which has been tour. ing in the Far East. WASHINGTON, Sept. 6,—Tho American Red Cross executive com mittee today set next Monday as the time limit for raising the $5,260,000 | Japanese relief fund. The committee hopes greatly tc | oversubscribe that amount, | The American relief administra |tion purchasing department, taken jover by the Red Cross, has already made considerable purchases of food, it was announced. The Jowish wel- fare board, in a telegram to the Red Cross today, pledges intensive co-op eration in the campaign for funds. Deputy sheriffs were guarding all | roads leading into Seattle ‘Thursday | nomic flentimes the |most wonderfully finished products in the mechanical world have evol ved from the brain of some quiet, | far from th ot observing The woods and nature lover, the whit ne wilde of na | about 4 most remote retreats often © brillant ideas, which, If con verted into material shape and form, bring blessings to mankind, no mat ter In what corner of the earth he| chances to set up his home and shop. These thoughts were brought to mind in a recent conversation with Jan old-time resident of this state, | one arr 4 him a lift Frieda,” he ed With superiorit | “What do the folk Now that Iam in the 1 looked at him witheringly | As I responded, Nothing They just laugh,” | |eessity, but an inventor by cholce, ees something worth while in a ap of iron, & curious plece of | Wood, a bolt or a bar, that an un jobservant person would kick out of [his path, To hls notion there are | possibilities in the refuse of much iP it wasted material, He has |wtudied out devices for mechanical jaaving, such 4% appliances for ro |tary engines, improvements for hloading rifles and locomotive crosshead pumps, and makes an eo peclal study of engines and all me chanieal work brea With the present war on gasoline srices, the immense number of uses | for it, and the general demand for economy along all lines, he has a theory taking shape for the use of oul dust instead of gasoline. Every: | one knows, by reading, of the hor- rors of gas explosions in coal mines, that it is explosive, and he is now | working along this line of perfect ing an {dea wherby this same de structive agent may be harnessed to | be « useful, harmless commodity, to used in nternal combuaion en. mainly for heavy draft duty, marines, trucks, etc, Could also be used in automobiles and utilized at one-fourth the present cost | of power. Anthracite coal ts preferable, for the reason that it contains more gna | and less carbon, Tho use of coal dust would elimi nate lons by leakage, also danger of fire. An apparatus for {ts use could be adjusted to any ordinary ne, Tha heat ag {engine would take up less space, Whose home ts near the head of | could be stored anywhere, and th North bay (Cone inlet), meroka £r0m | cost would be materially leas than the small but somewhat ancient vil! tne present mode of construction, he Inge of While he goes about | tytnke y garnering ° les | a quietly sar fine | veastables | “tn France the cost of fuel in #0 and lus « loganberries from his ex beautiful ttle place on the water: | oe ete front, with the tall evergreens mak Jing an impremnive background, his } ing mind is working out new {dens and appliances, with the |help of & numberous quantity of |mysterious looking whereby |the mechanteal world may be bene quentl ‘PORTLAND HAS QUOTA RAISED PORTLAND, Sept. 6—Within from Red Cros headquarters that: Portland's quota of the national | $5,000,000 relinf fund was $45,260, the amount was underwritten and/ telegraphed to San Francisco, The) campaign will not stop there.| | Portland business men, relying on/ | press dispatches telling of the ex [tent of the disaster, are sure the | $5,000,000 will not omre for the | destitute and hungry of Japan.| and today entered a whirlwind jcampaign for at least $250,000 to add to the relief fund. | | ‘Tho steamer Kobe Maru cleared |today for Japan, loaded with the largest cargo of wheat to be/ ahipped from here this season. The | vemsol carried 390,000 bushels of| |erain, valued at $473,000, which | will be rushed to the hungry vic-/ tims of the catastrophe. | | Four steamship companies oper-| jating between Portland and Japan| have informed the Red Cross that portions of their vessels’ holds wilt| be given over to carrying relief! supplies, Jackson Released From Relief Work | The Admiral Oriental line steamer | President Jackson, now loading | flour in Tacoma, has been released by the United States shipping board to the Ine for regular freight and | passenger service, and will sail from | Seattle September 11, according to | word recetved at the local oftice of |the line Thursday from R. Stanley Doliar, prosident, who is in JVush- ington, D. C. The Jackson wax one of the ships formerly commandeered by the ship: ping board for relief work. ¥ Winsett 9 wi. QUOTE Are you press reasonable rate, EASY TO REPAY loan. No em! Office Hours—Daily, Open Monday — OFFI W. 1. Grill, President hn TP, Braddock, Sei | If you are, and you do not have the banking conveniences, enjoyed by some, come in and talk with ‘us. We loan money to salaried people of good reputation, and we loan ata own yeti or other collateral for sucha airassing con‘litions. No un | necessary red tape, Come in today and talk with us about the helpful SURETY FINANCE COMPANY OF SEATTLE 606 UNION SPREE A. “Treas, and General Mgr, Merlin Somerville, Axst, Mer. F Y 4 S MIME ed for money? —-You do not need to “People’s” Plan, 9 A.M. to 4:80 P.M, Nights 6 to 8 CER Corrie, Vie President y. Thompson, a farmer by ne- | five minutes after being veined | THURSDAY, Dental Prices on wi Office Hours: 9 & m. to 6 p. m. daily, Evenings and Sundays by appointment. Cras For a short period of time we are going to w ‘ork at e-half our regular prices in order that the public ll get better acquainted with the wonderful work we are doing and with our new location. Think of such prices as: $8 Crown and Bridgework cut to $4 $25 Plates cut to $10 With Our Regular Fifteen-Year Guarantee These special low prices are just what we say they are—simply an inducement for you to come and see how well you can be served. You are offered the same high-class work and identically the mame class of material that we have always used. If we cannot isfy you, you can have your Money Back for the Asking Come in and ees for yourself our new modern equipped office, and let us prove to you that we are not offering you cheap work, but high-class work at greatly reduced prices. PIONEER DENTISTS Collins Bldg., Second Ave. and James St. Telephone Main 2736 Dr, #. 0. Danford, Mgr. inventors would undoubtedly be glad giad to answer any question he to welcome any suggestion that|could concerning the secret work- would help them formulate a de-|ings of his latest pet theory, as it vice for saving in this line, without| would be a boon to the business regard to material brought into use.| world, a» well ag to the pleasure Everyone on this side, as well, | seckers, if it could be perfected and should be interested in these econ-! brought tnto practical usag nomic problems which merit inves-| He reasons that its #impl tigation. jinexpensivencss in a ing would Mr. Thompson, who ts more of an Investigator than a talker, | orbitant that they as a nation of|antly admitted that he would be quarters. DON’T CONFUSE “HIGH PRICE” WITH “HIGH QUALITY” >» only. au priced solely on quality and efficiency, no oil should cost you more than good, high qual- ity Zerolene. But quality and efficiency donot determine the price of oils sold here. The dif- ference in the price of Zerolene and other oils usually goes in- to long-haul transportation and high merchandising costs, which we do not have to pay to make Zerolene available. All that you pay for Zerolene goes to buy high quality Therefore we say, ‘Jnsist on Zerolene even if it does cost less.” Ask for it by name— Zerolene, STANDARD OIL COMPANY 0” Jess CARBON %more l be a factor in ity favor, as well as shifting the money centers to new NELLIE R. KERTZ. reluct tomobile oils were (California) 20 oline mi cage a vision: MANI SAIL The Maru pier 3 stuffs, flour the Al rum 9, alsa er B ental ber 10 On dent follow freight! Orien: son relief zone,