The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 15, 1923, Page 8

The Seattle Star tg Oo, 190T Keveath Ave . ive ond United Frese Gerciog By » 11.68, Penemta dh 08, year O8.08, Pheoe Representatives. Ban Francisoo Bide.) New Fork offen ement Bldg ats Off to These Folks! " This is a story of how red tape and routine were Smashed to smithereens by our gove nt in Washing ton— shed in service to the pec ' For days after the Japanese disaster, communications between the stricken island in the Pacific and the United States were either nil or extremely precarious Thousands of Americans on this side of the ocean were wringing their hands in suspense and fear for the fate of their loved ones. Yet they had no personal means of com municating with them. The state department, realizing this, came to the res cue. Day and night a large staff of workers, under the personal supervision of Herbert C. Hengstler, acting di rector of the consular service, stuck to the job By word of mouth, by telephone, by tele oh and by mail, they collected names of Americiis supposed to be in the earthquake zone and cabled them to government of ficials in Japan for news. Government offices in Washington close at noon during Summer, This office did not close. It worked full blast all afternoon, into the night and far into Sunday morn ing. It was open Sunday afternoon and Sunday night. Red tape had gone by the board 3 “If we can save somebody even an hour's suspense, we | feel it is up to us to do it,” was the way one of the work- ers put it. As soon as answers came back from Japan the report i) Was wired or phoned to those interested without loss of 6a minute. i The Seattle Star, co-operating with the department / sent inquiries regarding many Seattle people, As i instrumental in bringing back the first word of their } safety to their friends. This is service. This is functioning at its best. Hats off to the state department and to each individual who contributed to this fine thing. They have done the country a good turn. Tt was all right for President Cal to retain Doc Sawyer as White House physician, but why was It necessary for him to announce that he Is “never sick anyway"? “government for the people,” ae 4 Aue hit a man named Solinski in Los Angeles. Our guess would be p) «the auto thought he was a Pole. People liking turtles better than cops will enjoy learning a turtle nearly drowned a Delaware cop. 4 Thousands of auto drivers will enjoy learning a truck knocked « train off the track in New Jersey. All About a Germ s) dust as President Cal has settled himself to peaceful ® pursuit of politics and things incidental, up bobs an issue ® that may irritate a nation and upset domestic peace and | tranquility. The mothers-in-law of the country, ‘emu- Tating the lowly garden hackle, have turned. Some time ago, Mrs. Lemira Goodhue dropped the parently innocent remark, in Boston, that she would “! to See a national mother-in-law day instituted.” It | velops now that it was more than a mere remark. It was a ant thought—a germ. low we have a full-fledged mother-in-law society with fficers and funds, and tongues, and everything maternal! and militant. Its aim is to pull the teeth of the pert para- | graphers, the cartoonists and the vaudevillains who have jurtied ribald jests at that necessary but often mistaken stitution, the mother-in-law. At the moment, the so- ‘ciety, thru the medium of Mrs. C. A. Griswold, from the of the germ, is making battle in New York. As joon as she convinces that benighted village that the 'mothers-in-law will stand for no more nonsense, she will move on to Washington. There she will mount the ram- ts of government and compel capitulation to the propo- ition that the mother-in-law is the bulwark of society ‘and national life; that, without her, there wouldn’t be ‘much of anything doing in directions that are vital. Even will she and they demand a mother-in-law day and recog- nition of the right of that once-derided individual to visit "in the home-nest of her married daughter or son at least week in every year. Startling, you'll have to admit. How is President Cal interested and why may this movement cause government to totter and the White House itself to tremble in the surge of domestic uph-aval? We answer that Mrs. Lemtra Goodhue, inventor of the gei"m aforementioned, is Presiderit Cai’s mother-in-law. f the wins, she may exercise her right to visit the White for a week. ome a oe ae caper ae 3 Major General Davis claims he read 114 books in 19 days. We claim had a platoon helping him. Be. Two brothers parted 60 years met in Boston. Bet one said, “Where is _ that necktie of mine?” - Michigan vacationist was lost in (he woods 13 days. ney it saved him. dust think of the Cures for Automobilitis Detroit has just inaugurated its system for testing the bilities of those desiring to become drivers of auto- The first day’s examination found that 60 per © eent of the applicants were unfit to be awarded licenses, were rejected because of mental deficiencies, color- 3 dness, deafness, inability to read signs at a distance, : jorance of the English language and other kindred rea- _ Analysts have been at work on the automobile records ‘in Connecticut and they find that 50 per cent of the acci- ‘dents were directly caused by or involved drivers of ex- Perience and known capabilities. So, there you are. Such tests as those in Detroit, and like in Pennsylvania, as well, will not wholly pre- nt automobile accidents, but they will be of great aid. 5 icut figures prove that even the capable and enced driver is not above taking the chances that “are precarious, if not always fatal. | Correction of the dangerous and violent forms of auto- bilists can only be accomplished by heroic alteration of he mental attitude assumed by drivers the moment they their feet on their accelerators. They must be influ- ‘enced to take their responsibilities more seriously and to understand they are licensed within the law, not outside, ove and beyond it. They have no rights superior to or from those of their fellows, afoot or awheel, Road ight-of-way belongs no more to them than it does to oth- fs, and their imperious honks of impatience, arrogance F Menace are entirely without authority. Only do they pssess the privilege of operating their cars with due care full regard for the safety of themselves and those out them. With these truths borne in and exemplified, something lly and individually valuable will have been ate ined, There won’t be much problem left then except Phat created by the jay-walker. He can be cured quite asily once the rampant driver is under control.’ The Prince of Wales i» traveling incognito, That's nothing, Most of } travel that way, General March has married, Now he will learn how it feels to CAPPY RICKS He Discourses on the City Men Who Think They Are Farmers Written fo The Star by Peter B, Kyne Avother Coming Next Saturday he I w atin i , t th ‘ i ted a t ' at to a hog?” f hed | h ° i oe oh ' all well-to-d wh gossip of t tre « N by |" a & fare wr vara bi . 4 " b ; . ae I was raised a farm, so I had t ft . aw b t . tn ne | just to 5 I am no better than ot sale ea . re th pverag t t 1 I'm @ ~ ‘ — , wiaking ency! “l and if See ee Se t I've pald for & education A tus Redell, of the W mS VO BO ay 9S y the latter's ve Sow ra a . wetted bagk in his chair “ tage ag u two harmless lunatics a 4 : ' dollar in your hobbies, on ¢ . ' ‘ and give my PF the once . . ove 1 have «pent nearly half a “Th . E ™ n dollars on it. I own diamond Thereupon Cappy Tucks spoke ut jae gpa og iM Redelt all there was be walls Is plastered w told about fertilizer of all kinds, and Sen eae tacuae = “lbons Every time I breed a cow rena t that's w $2,000 I have to kill teh and hairy J b t a 1 bovine ©. soil bacteria and the nodule : ld produce on the roota of pear he etch and alfalfa, for the storing of y ee edness and trogen with which to vitaliae de - vita i r Bihpewater club — i math ! fi y . - angry! ‘ nt to pay for thelr i and education. If I valse tur poll keys for the Thankagiving market . of Thankagty t there ja nc ! ; lides from ¢ a ¢ ta. Ar “Well Mt y r 1 Almeida Cappy ¥ xeoty will 7 ‘ f Eddie, are ou hb a rmera boy “} ha an &§ ext door to Gua, Caps “wh 1 Cappy Ricks Beca we ¢ fter our nu in ly Bill Nye ake some money out t Ny & operations for pure bred stock, 1 and China hogs and Holstein an ¢ rista had to admit t made it during the lew it on automobiles and tub silk shirts and now they haven't got it." Cappy continued, “Eddie, any man who will breed Poland Ch © when statiatics prove that all hogy slaughtered in States aro Duroc-Jeraeys, to consult a phrenologist. T nakes a better mother rs and thriftier jough | Duro | Dur wrong.” Mr. Hampshire “Well, once I knew a man who Tamworths," Cappy “He crazy, too. He didn’t seem to know {ih worth is only a few generations re- |moved from the old glish wild boar, #0 he turned his Tamworths }loose on his ranch, in-the belief that they would rustle a living from acorn and ita berries. Within two years they had reverted to type and when he went to round them y killed him and ate him. ( ly, I beg of you two morons, if you must raise swine, to select a pig you jcan live with on the friendliest pos- sible terms, all city dwellers ia to confine their real estate to a residence lot or a factory site. I have passed my 70th milestone and I have known a hun- dred elty men who didn't know Egyp- tion corn from wheat, but who wer firmly ccnvinced they could uplift farmers and show them how farming could bet made to pay. Why, I even tried it myself. 1 went in for Duroc- Jersey hogs, and whenever I'd be motoring thru the countryside and }see a farmer with scrub pigs in his | field, I'd drive in and preach the | pel of pure-bred stock to him. I re- }eall one in particular I tried to con- jvert. I reminded him that a pure- bred sow would present him with larger litters and fewer runts in the | litter; that she would raise more out jof her litter than a scrub mother, and that in seven months he would | However, my advice to| | | | | | } | } | }have a 200 pound hog ready for the | | butcher, whereas in a year the best |he couid hope to put a scrub hog | would be about a hundred and sixty |pounds. I reminded him that time The “og oney in the Then you dinner you k wise and be- you. ¥ son, b a buain about out of yo! wi hing your m tells can't do anything else, my ause you're monkeying with « you don't know anything only thrill you'll ever get farming operation is the No or a chickon-house been . tickled to in yourself in a horse would hi th to have } you get in toc TH sell mn over it to you very ap. lividend I'l ever § be the me don't you ever live there?" Eddy Cap are too gloamin amokt h queried. nany frogs there, and in the and looking wise and eritl- nation frogs talk to me. rs to learn their lingo. But eventually I began t and. only two words to the frog language on any farm—and particularly on a city man's farm? “Mo, I didn't know that, Cappy," said Eddy Smith. “What are they?” “Fed ink: Red Ink:" Cappy croak. > under. RIEDA’S OLLIES My life has not been without At least one romance. For years afterwards It cast a soft glow Over everything An hour of real love Is not much Along life's pilgrimage, But it 18 better ‘Than none at all. For one hour I knew what it was ‘To be presaed to a manly bosom, Then he diced. There were those who said That was enough to kill him. But a crooked spin Ix ike an ugly face— Each covers up @ soul. LETTE Dear Folks: R FEROM \V RIDGE MANN ‘Tho Dempsey-Firpo fight 1s past; the boys have left the rings: 80 we can settle down, at last, to think of other things. the thought occurs to me, I'll give my job tho gate, and in the future I will be a boxing heavywelght. They get a lot of exegcise, and keep in fighting trim; their muscles grow to mighty mize; they're full of pep and vim. And tho they get a lot of fame, I'm very free to say, the thing I'd like about the game is when they draw their pay, We see their pictures everywhere; we seo them fully dressed, as well ag when they frankly bare thelr arms and knees and cheat, But tho thetr facow we can seo in papers on the streets, the thing that makes a hit with me is getting gate receipts. 1 often used to hear them say, “It's braing that always count; go use your Drains and make your way—tho ladder’s there to mount!" And so I'd sort of like to get the wealth a fighter gains—and glom the coin a guy can get by utilizing brains! And while today I blindly grope at making dally bread, and much suspect the ancient dope that tells mo, "tse your head,” I wish I had a brainy pate, if what they say ts a0; for then I'd be 4 heavyweight—and get the heavy dough! September 15, 1923, But still Boys, do you know there aro / that you own « cowbarn | 4 days on your first farm. Gus, | DP, look my | uddered. “No, Eddy, there | while I'm walking around | pn any okt terms, because the | an from it} tax | cultural | fawn, Coast-to-Coast Flights to Be Duplicated t f wu « t-to-t ant alr i t Li t ( r New r During the next lay or more the postal department's experta will to seek out defects and to devise im. rh ntinued New, “we will make more tests and, Instead of a| The triumph of the first test period days and not a angle coldent alue on alr desire to make a fe the day keep even with his hobby Star junk airplane Kround STAR AIR MAILS TO GET BIG TEST on xyntem t have the benefit of certain wt like a railroad has laws ng ite right-of-way nee stand now, in most cities t have a license to drive a but anyt and get It off the ean go up and fly to his content alr mail should not be of ty ¢ wo points that are mif- y distant from each other to the service—like New York Francisco, for instance—but be of benefit to all. Resi Baltimore, Minneapolix, In or any town off the main should receive the benefits of mail service.” ed, in exact imitation of a frog, and xrasping ble tal silk back to his office, hat A ce he mmendable dollars before should be done and thus Want Ad Columns have helped find many things that have been le ly who can buy an| 1923. = = — — = —_ T | What Hoboes Are and Are Not BY IRWIN ST. JOHN TUCKER IN THE WORLD TO MORROW Seatileites read about (and o« caslonally glimpse at first hand, as they ride thru the south-of Yesler district) the unrest of the seasonal, migratory workers, It in thi at whiek the LW. W necks to express. The following article et is behind that unrest om very clearly what Whether you will agree with it all or not it contains some ideas that may caune to think along new channels. —Kditor The hob. not ' he a bum, Between ! nd the bum there is a great wulf fixed. A hobo is a migra tor rker. A tramp i* a mi eratory non-worker, A bum ts » stationary non-worker Upon the labor of the migra tory workers all of our basic in uatrien depend. He goes forth from the crowded slave ma to hew the for pair the . bull tugnel m tains and bridge ravines. + the labor tha rvesta the » in the fal the oe the winter. No railroad could maintain its train schedule for 44 hours without the constant la bor of the section gang, r of migratory © steamabip | Great Lakes w of the water « pros c houne bu for airplanes ¢ cle ur nkien with » of umber jacks in the Far ‘The tramp, on the other hand, >» box in a man who, defect in or injury t mind, drifte with pitt), him too soon and left h Per ruptured or maimed mut we perhaps, ¢ feally slattered. Perhaps as a child he worked long hours at and wo his brain in forever @ trifle askew The tramp beats hin way from place to place, mooching for a hand: getting by in any way he but without contributing to the welfare of the world thing of service to his exhausting to out, any fellow men. The bum simply stayn in the tame place, and sinks ever lower and lower in the scale. Booze wets him, He gravitates between flop and hoosegow, if at the low er end of the social acale, or be tween club and home and cafe and club again end Bums must be if at the upper abolished well to the hobo ia the foundation of industry Thero must always be a foree of mobile or migratory labor, ax there muat be a reserve force in any army, ready to be rushed to the point of greatest need. Every nort ' being enough to pay thelr way a pleasure trip. If the travel at all, they must their way, And a man who works way from town to town and to Job in @ migratory worker a hobo, It ts only the rolling stone that acquires a polish; it & Consider the two great classes of migrate workers in thin and those irummer who travel t and the hobo. drummer's 4 call upon nd of merchants in the attempt to cover the sam) market for the same class of pr As for the traveling parasite, luxury swings wide b But for the there r doors traveling producer Pullman smoking bright with nickel no obseqtious porter r him the hotel clerks do not flash their at amile, nor dixplay their choleest diamonds He rides to the harvest fields in an empty boxcar, or clings to the perilous rods, or balances on the bounding buffers. Dust and soot work themselves under his wikin. The sciesor-bill constable te on the lookout for him as the hawk for his pre grafting justice of the and the grafting sheriff make from him the fattest share of their fees, and the grafting legislature or 1 Jers him ecourged—til! he dies— | in his convict lumber-camp. | ure no compartments and glasw broad When he works his way from Oklahoma to Montana in the har Vest fields and accumulates a roll of ward of his hard, | summer's toll, every shack along the road to home i# on the lookout for him with a gat, to. | hold bim up and frisk his roll. | In the cities he is an outcast; in | the country he ts a victim; and always and everywhere he is an object of ridicule, of contempt, of Jetween those two the great b human ethics has always been fought he b is a permanent factor in our national because eve n Mikes to trave and most of our young men have t n order to see it ix that so many old men are hoboes, and »¢ many y Jung men system con many men, wt their will, to continue in uigratory ranks when they steady job and a For every such g for a > wander with out a home, there is also a wom an who is homeless, ‘The home leas and job man means a homeless woman, who must live; and the prostitute’s trade lurks ever at her heels, nnot abolish him without him @ the quest ust have along order to solv a have got to recognize of the hobo as a pro of vital importance. Ev oung should be ex t of honor, to rs in the work man at lew ranks of the hobo During the time from 18 to 21 years he should 7 put in his life as a part of the great service army. He should reclaim arid Jands, drain swamps, build roads, dig tunnels, build bridges, in the e spirit that the soldiers dig trenches and build bridges under fire. And then in days to come he can take his children and bis grand children along the roads his hands have helped to build, and show them the tunnel he helped to dig and the bridge he helped build for the service of his fel low-men, in the days of his youth, when he was found fit and worthy to be a member of the hobo army, whose proudest boast is that they serve all men equal dwell E way ery man wants to work his the count Why should he not be provided with clean camps, with good food, with honorable conditions of toll? Why should not a man who serves his country by draining its swamps, digging its canals, building its railroads, and har- vesting its crops be recognized as possessing real dignity, and worthy of praise and honor? over M, A Paramount Picture ADAPTED FROM OREGON TRAIL EVENTFUL SCENES AND INCI- DENTS OF THE DAYS OF ’48 REPRODUCED ON A GIGANTIC SCALE AT A HUGE COST EMERSON HOUGH'’S STORY OF LOVE on the JESSE L. LASKY Presents 2:30—TWICE DAILY—8:30 THE GLORIOUS DRAMA OF CIVILIZATION § Depicting the Various Epochs of American History Thousands Turned ;{ Away Last Week /| 4 BUY TICKETS IN ADVANCE and Avoid Line at Box Office This Picture Unfolds History as No° Text Book Could SUPERB SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, PLAYS MUSIC THAT ENTRANCES MATINEES ORCHESTRA ..........81.00 | ORCHESTRA ..........$1.50 3 ROWS BALCONY. ...$1.00 BALANCE . 50 | GALLERY PLUS TAX NIGHTS 8 ROWS BALCONY. . BALANCE .......... Any SW aa = ALL SEATS RESERVED 1.50 of 1.00 50 ——