The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 26, 1923, Page 8

TheS by T eat] Representatives eStar a Untied fan Frenotece New York offics, It’s Heathen Chinee all Right EDITOR: What is this new Chinese game, Mah Jongg, that’s raging in society circles? Everybody's gambling in it. A REGULAR READER, We haven't yet met Mah raging in society circles but it is probably the same as that we've seen raging in family circles. It is played with 144 little forms of ivory or paste- board shaped like dominoes. Upon these forms are de signs of different values, called “characters,” “bamboos,” “palms,” “dragons,” “winds,” etc, Each player draws 13 forms and then, in turn, draws another, the object being to gather perfect poker hand, which ends the d The favorite position is to serve as counter for playe: who don’t know how to count. Thus, you can double your hand’s values 20 times and tally the other fellow’s as simples. Likely enough, society circles are gambling on it. Now adays society circles seem disposed to gamble on every- adays, society circles seem disposed to gamble on an. thing, from bridge and golf to the number of flies that will alight on a grease spot in a minute. But, thus far, experience indicates that, in the family circle, Mah Jongg is a decided imm«c promoting marital hatred, racial hatred, sex red, envy, greed and blasphemy, and, as such, it is deserving the severest censorship. No lady can be lovingly patient who needs just one more “West wind” to complete a perfect day, or evening, rather, with husband hanging onto two such “winds” for dear life. How can the head of the family restrain his inborn blasphemy, when needing but just one more “dragon” and drawing 15 “bamboos” in ssion? And when little Willie, doing the counting, values his own layout 20 times doubled and all the others just plain 2, 4, and so forth, how is it possible for 1 as spirituality, con- cord and domestic bli preva suce : Tn our humble opinion, if our “Regular Reader” will try Mah Jongg once in his own circle, he won't care a continental what it is in society circles, or how hotly society circles are gambling in it. Still, he'll find that it pleases the children, because of what they can do to him in it. “Seven destroyers sunk off California coast.” “Destroyer rammed by battleship Arkansas off Virginia coast.” One way and another St does seem as if the navy is dead set on carrying out the naval limitation pact. No affliction nor temptation, no guilt nor power of sin, no wounded Spirit nor terrified conscience should induce us to despair of help and comfort from God.—T. Scott Working for a fixed salary would be so much nicer if the boss would let you do the fixing. Nights are so long now you can get home before daylight. How to Keep Baby Healthful All mothers will be interested in this: Babies born in tongested New York city are, as a rule, healthier than ‘babies of the average city of 10,000 or more population in New York state. This is announced by the American, Child Health asso- ciation. Along the same line, and more startling, was the dis- covery about a year ago that the death rate among babies of New York’s East Side is lower than among babies on New York state farms. Mothers reading this will wonder: What is the reason? ‘Doctors admit that babies born in New York city’s fearful congestion have tremendous odds to overcome. That they ) © win is due partly to heredity—healthy parents. The aver- age immigrant from abroad is “strong as an ox.” Counteracting this, according to physicians, is the fact that residents of the most congested sections of New York city are “reached” by a thoro system of public health education, such as medical clinics, public dispensaries, compulsory health measures, scientifically prompt collec- tion of garbage, etc. Best of all, the East Side mother as a rule is hungry for help. She seeks advice—and takes it when she gets it. Doctors have the unhealthiest environment. They live ‘and work in contact with all kinds of infectious diseases. . Nevertheless, the average health of doctors is enviable. They know what to do to protect themselves. The deduction from this is obvious: Good health is pos- sible if we devote to it the same attention we give to, for instance, our autos or radio. There seems to have been a misunderstanding. When that farmer. orator advised his Michigan friends to raise hogs, he did not mean “blind pigs.” ( A diplomat is a man who can do a Juggling act with an idea in one hand and a dictionary in the other. Magnus says “the senate needs less culture.” We guess that’s telling Henry Cabot Lodge something. Burn the dead leaves this fall, Never sell them to cigarmakers, What Could Be Easier? President Coolidge insists he will seek the co-operation of all republican leaders. He will invite all the bloc lead- ers to the White House and with their assistance prepare a program for’ congress. Tt is an easy task. Mr. Coolidge should be successful. Thru his effort he may readily gain the support of the republicans of all shades and very easily become the next republican candidate. For instance, the following recipe could not but win the support of the progressive: Call Senator La Follette and assure him the president ‘will demand an investigatiton of the sugar gouge and the punishment of those who robbed consumers of $250,000,- 000 thru excessive prices. Assure the progressives the president will force an in- vestigation of the Teapot Dome scandal and demand the indictment of any one who may be guilty of fraud in connection with the deal in oil leases. Assure the progressives the profiteers’ tariff bill will be repealed and an honest tariff substituted. Assure the progressives that the income tax will be amended to halt the tax-dodgers; that the surtax rates will be increased for the great incomes and the taxes lessened for the small incomes, and that a heavy inherit- ance tax will be levied. Assure the progressives that the Esch-Cummins trans- rtation act will be repealed; that an effort will be made rmediately to fix what was “prudently and honestly in- ted” in the railroads and that railroad rates will be ‘ered to give the roads a fair return on this investment. With these promises made and faithfully complied with, Mr. Coolidge may be assured of the hearty support of progressives. We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed—IT. Cor, hy.:8-9. Never bellow lie a cow while out hunting, Some Kunter may take you for « cow and shoot you. In spite of the many shooting scrapes in New York recently the place Js still too crowded. ks ——— Lili fle oe 1 fen -(M AN | COULD WORK IT OLD HAND AT Pus OUT M HALF // Game, | coup / Ke Time SOLVE iT IN RON ~ mea / | | \ AwReY, / | ; { Yo > SHOULD Do e \T THe her way UNCLE SAM’S JIG-SAW PUZZLE ust me worK iT ) He ouGHT To‘ our / | Second Avenue, After 25 Years BY 8. B. H. HURST | ‘Twilight and the haze of evening, purpiing of the brooding bills, Footfalls of #0 many atrangers waking memory that fills ‘Tired eyes with faces vanisht, ghowts who amile thru unshed While the back thru five and twenty years! old town takes me gentl Hopes and dreams and aspirations buried in the tomb of Time BUN Mike w coral insects help Beattie in her el | Tho the men who loved her greatiy Long have past toward the sunset thru the one-way-oping gate mb, gaye their lives to make her great | Others fatled and, blind and feeble, down the old street tiredly crawl, Whining yet content to die here—turn their faces to the wall; Yet, dear God, where doen it jead to?—man, the planner, hopes and tries ho walt? Till the hasting years engulf him and his feeb And benide the silent faces out beyond the city ¢ He recelvex his final payment. Is he done or do You have grown and, somehow clinging, is » certain sacred light~ May it spread Into a halo guarding you from height to height With the good Beattle spirit seeded in the memort ar Yet that strong Seattle spirit didn't quite make Mount Rainier In your pride a thing to weep at? Hardly, like a children’s game | You have played 1 loved your playing, breeding out a mighty name. | Yet the days are not all sunshine, and the pathos and the tears | Ghost-like stalk from Pike to Yealer after five and twenty yearn LETTER FROM V RIDGE MANN September £6, 1925 Dear Folks The Indians may have been savage; they may have de. lighted in war; they may have been eager to ravage the fields of the settlers of yore, They may have been heathen and sordid, and never attended a chyrch—but History hasn't recorded an Indian left in the lurch! They may have delighted in killing; and running the often have read of them filling the gauntlet was play; we SO SAY TWO SCIENTISTS Caused animals to be given | fo outside the body of the fe | le parent, without any ald | from a male parent | In the course of the expert. | ments, which occupled, several | i m cal reactions.” To the layman a fantastic vinta im opened up by the ex- periments of Loeb and Porter— a vista of a time, generations ered, together—the strong looking out for the weak! = The Indians weren't religious—perhaps they are roasting ry of birth has en frogs, fatheriesa except for | experiment, however Porter in hell; but tho they were sinners prodigious, they treated th akers and teat tubes of eoka simply to study life and their weaker ones well! Bo let us, that civilization may re the study of bi th rate but physically is. poten ethioee id: Kea maunaeaen en measure the primitive test, consider the tribal relation—and man has r ne way, ¥ the he « this help the Community Cheat! the origin of | ‘ result 4 : A ven of the frogs lyed ntually, he __ believes, Cirridge % " \ © will be able to duplicate PUR men, working at mr 1 a Year, some longer r every process, as it has dupli of California, Berk ere remains but a step to | cated this | . J myn nm may sald to be = = ture one genuine orphans may be born; animals with ha neit fathers nor mothers boratory Tho “magic” substance of the o with ower labe ory which aubstitutes entists an a . . f acid, an ¥ human beings. d in both ani Ch We Doltek ‘sesareh . ohare, nt life. Butyrie the University of ib ida are almost as and Jacques Loeb, for and = eren h the university, and impure and now ¢ ted with the Rocke which is the ¥ feller Foundation, New York lining table—will work are the men who havé accom under fayorable con s plished this feat Artificial parthenogenesis the | Porter describes the expert tists call thia apparent | ments in & newly-published | miracie-—but it Is not a miracle, book, “Carbon Compounds,” Porter asserts. Ginn & Co,, Boston, "There is nothing’ supernat- Ternely stated, these men | ural about birth,” ho sald have: } “That is ono of the things we | —— 4 “ Duplicated the reproduction have definitely proved. Like | e A of ape by loping live, breathing, digestion, reflex ac | normal frogs and sea urchins tion and other life processes . i from eggs fertilized artificial perhaps even consciousness ly in the laborato: } ftaelf—birth is due simply to it | an orderly sequence of cheml | | | rs, unfertilized eggs were hence, when the human being from female organisms, may be developed in the labor. | filzed by chemical treat atory, relieving the race of the | ment in the laboratory, and de necessity of reproduction. veloped thru the embyro A race entirely female might to live animals. be developed, with the necessity Frogs and sea urchins were the objects of the experiments Dozens of sea ur for the male in reproduction ro- moved. stage | ' "No wuch idea is back of the ing and sev LETTERS 32 EDITOR Are Our Boys Safe on Streets? | Editor The Star To answer this question of something that actually in Seattle the past week A boy, barely 15 years of age, started to Broadway high school. He was seen by some soldier, reading a sign about “seeing the world,” and “let's go," “earn money while travel- ing” (you all know the kind), The poldier asked him if he wanted to Join the army and then talked to him for some time, As to the outcome of it, the next day when his widowed mother re- turned from work she found a note saying her boy had joined the army and was to be sent to Wyoming im mediately, but not to look for him, as he had joined under an assumed name, She and a neighbor went to police headquarters and tho police promised to do what they could on|town on errands? the morrow A °) ‘The next day the mother went to tho recruiting station on First ave, and Yesler way, and was told that he | was at Fort Lawton. She got an or. | der to seo him and went out to the| fort.. The officer there told her that | |the boy could not be given up with: | out serving two years in Jail for swearing to a Iie about his age, The officer talked the frightened little mother into postponing taking the} boy home and promised to let him come home the next day to see her Needless to say, he did not show up then, and has not yet. A week or more has passed and no word from him. Who signed the papers for him to enlist and swore to his age? A bum from the street, 1 ask you—if such things can oc- cur on our atreeta—ia it safe to let our boys go to school alone or to I will tell took place SHOWMAN, Seattle, Approves of Writers’ Views Editor The § It fs with much pleasure I read the two letters in The Star, one by Bliza- beth Quigley and the other by Mra Bertha Titus, Both are timely for the moral build-up of the city, Es pecially the Sunday question, which by “Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy.”—Exodus xx.:8-11, Tho Sabbath was kept by Christ and His apostles, and in the sermon on the mount, our gaylor said he| did not come to destroy the law or prophets, but to fulfill, ‘Therefore, as good Christians, we follow His ex- ample, Sunday is not the Sabbath or Lord's day. (Read tho fourth com. mandment.) In regard to gambling in the gro- cery stores, it ought to be stopped It gives our young men and women a lust to gamble, which is forbidden by law. Seattio parents, do you want your ehildren to be gamblers? While it 18 gambling in a small way, tt paves the way for bigger stakes, Stop ft by all means. Respectfully, 8. 'T. OLSEN, 1766 35th Ave, Ss. W. is pagan and not Christian. Xt is a wonder to the writer that Protestant ministers can stand fn their pulpits and preach from the Bible and uphold Sunday as a “holy day” for which there is no Scriptural authority, Only a pagan day, the Seventh Day Sabbath ts a part of God's creative work, sanctified at the end of creation week by the Lord for man to remember the Creator, who rested on it Himself and made it holy. The Lord looked down the stream of time and saw that they would for. got their Creator, Therefore, he em phasized the fourth commandment Mystery of Birth Solved? Puritan soul with dismay. The Christian religion had never a place in their primitive head—the records are silent, how- of Indians begging for bread! war-whoopa have carried their terror, and arrows tly flown, they never committed the error of fail ing to care for their own. 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