The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 7, 1923, Page 8

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Mew York Canadian Pacific Wide; UB: , Cy High Waste of Genius : HE inventive genius that is wrongly employed or go- | ing to absolute waste in this country is SrRu ne: ( Still more is it remarkable what a telling incentive and a4 to mental processes ig the moral and written “Thou not.” Published Daily by The St ie -< There was the Michigan man who employed the inner 4 eat of his auto as carriers for bootleg liquor, and got with it for months, until he had an inopportune pwout, And the Missouri man who made his household indeliers the safety depository for his illicit drinks. _ And the Eastern narcotic dealer who invented a four-in- hand necktie that carried a thousand dollars’ worth of _ prohibited drugs. And the Oregon man who conceived butt-section to a bamboo fish-rod that would carry a full and highly stimulating quart. And the Wisconsin - man who, for oyer a year, profited from the output of a _ still cunningly éoncealed in an old, abandoned fireplace in his main living room. And the Kansas man who made an imitation cigar, with gilt band and everything, that d a filler of some 836 half-grain galled tablets. And ‘that other Kansas man who bought carloads of discarded mtucky whisky barrels, at $8 apiece, and steamed from ‘each of them two gallons of whisky, whicl: he sold at $30 a gallon. And more and more of the same kind and character. 5 What might not happen of benefit to the world if Edi- ‘son, or Ford, or other wizards could corral all this now “wasted genius and set it on the right course? ‘The Oklahoma legislators, having convicted Walton, now seem Inclined to convict themselves of all that Walton charged them, Ladies of the Pill = hae last blow is struck. Culflire suffused in smoke. 4 The sacred codfish blinks its salty eyes. The his toric bean is sad and soundless. Boston—Boston, mark lecides that it has “no objection to schoolma’ams oking if they do it in a ladylike manner.” : It seems to be the Massachusetts way to do nothing ‘without reservations. Thus the guides of its aspiring youth may, vulgarly speaking, hit the pipe, but they must | not entirely discard or junk those rules of deportment that, in that section, always distinguish the lady. Parh- doxical as that sort of compromise is, it is not entirely Without approved points. : : Ladylike? No mixing of her “makin’s” in the refined decoctions of the 8A class in domestic science. No dis- ‘turbance of the biology class by the rasp of a reluctant “match. No carrying of Seg by over the ears. No spit- at in the waste-basket or the corners. No feet on the ‘table as the piquant smoke curls ceilingward. No stogies Expert Tells How to Bea Safe Driver BY FRED M. KOSSELAND Chief, Publle 7 Division, National Safety Coancll is not the fault of the auto. mobile that 100,000 people have died ax the result of auto. mobile accident#—14,000 last year alone, It's entirely the respons ¥ biltty of t adrivorns Explankw tions after the acoldent will not bring the dead to life or heal th wounds of che injured, Driving an automobile requires both hands on the steoring wheel, both "i eyes on the ROSSELAND road and one'a whole mind on the job, Safe driv. ing is tmpossible with eyes fo- cused on the sidewalk fashion parade or with one arm around a girl. For alghtseeing, take the “rub- berneck'’ wagon; for courtship, the old parlor sofa ts hard to deat, Transferring patting parties from the safe, stationary sofa, to a high-apeed gas buggy has can- celed many a wedding. Lovo ta commonly supposed to be blind, and It too often ts—at the steer. ing wheel. Increase fn automobiles and pedestrians requires additional care in driving. Emergencies may arise at any minute which require quick thinking and prompt action to avert @ coll: sion. Keep your eyes straight ahead when driving forward and look back when In reverse, Watch constantly for vehicles coming from sidestreeta. It is some. times hard to tell which vehicle Will reach the intersection first and if there is any doubt, let the other fellow pass regardless of who is supposed to have the right of way. When driving, drive, Don't de pend on the other fellow. THE BY HARRY B, HUNT ASHINGTON, Dee, T- Mountains are lighter than valleys, Submerged lands are heavier, per aroa, than the up- land plaing, Such ts the decialon of Wil am Rowle, chief of Uncle Sam's geodeny experts, whose Job it ts to study variations of gravity. It Ia the effort of old Mother Barth to adjust changing pres sures, due to these varying wolghts, that causes earth: quakes, he says. * Bowle pictures the earth's crust as a covering, approx! mately 60 miles thick, resting on & central mass which, instead of being molten, as generally be Meved, has at least the rigidity of ateel. This crust he conceives an a mass of vertical columns, com: prising respectively mountains, plateaus, coastal plains and sub- merged lands, At a given time these are in a state of perfect equilibrium, But natural changes disturb thin equilibrium, Freezing and thawing, rainfall and melting snow erode and wash away hun dreds of miliions of tons from the mountains and highlands, These are carried out Into the deposited as sediment the ocean bottom slowly forces the columns of crust downward. The compehsating movement which muat take place js an up: ward movement of the mountain column, carried thru the solid central mass, which {# plaatio, to long-continued stresses, as is steel or glass, Whenever quick shifts result, thru some weakness or fault in the upper crust or between two chafing welght-columna, then there is an earthquake, Nor. mally, however, the adjustment in weight proceeds slowly, plas- tically, without tremor, the re- sult being that mountain, pla- teau and plain mountain appar. ently unchanging altitudes, be- ing forced upward from below as they are worn away at the top, They are, Bowle says, simply floating én the central mass, the lighter columns floating highest, the heavier sections lower or sub- merged. Every few millions of years, SHATTLE STAR MY Moterla) below this depth poh, os it it pd wore plestte $0 long-continued eee mainten equal mages ol earth bleahy Diagrams illustrating Bowie's theory of (above) identicat | weight-columns of earth resting on a central mass, and (below) of earth shifting to keep these columns of equal weight. however, there comes a different Teadjustment, in which new con- tinents and new mountain ranges “The Himalayas, the highest mountains in the world, were once below the nea,” Bowie ex- Diaina, citing the power of such subterranean expansion. “Nearly all mountain areas were at one time areas of heavy sedimenta- tion, ‘This process of heavy sedl- mentation is now going on at the mouth of the Conf, in the Indo- Gangetic region, and about the La Plata estuary.” The recent Japanese quake, Bowie contends, was not, sclen- tiffeally speaking, of first magni- tude. are thrown up out of the ocean's depths and existing continents and mountains sink beneath the teas A submerged column, welghted Gown thru the centuries by ac- curulating sediment, nometimes as much as 20,000 or 30,000 fect in depth, preases slowly down- ward into a zone of greater heat, The expansion which resulta finally culminates in an upheaval which throws up a whole new i continent or mountain range, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1923, stn mani — Magnus Demands U.S. Fix Minimum W heat Price BY MAGNUS JOHNSON VU. 8, Senator From Minnesota, | (Written Uxprossly for ‘The Star and i. A. Berviee) of the moat important tanka that has ever come be- fore congress in to deter. mine what is the mont eftl. clent remedial Ye giniation that can be adopted in the interest of the farmer and to & Pass that leg. ‘ “ inlation as : npeedly as JOHNGON — ponaible. This 1s no time for hesitation. ‘rho tarmer must have relief and have it at once or the country Kenerally will experience a calam- ity even greater than the wheat farmern of the Northwest have already become engulfed in, I belleve that the best way to approach the difficulty In to fix & minimum price for wheat. ‘That price should be the lowest figure that the farmer can ac- cept and make a reasonable profit. Certainly the farmer is & laborer, and the laborer ts worth his hire, There are those who raise the cry of paternalism and every other kind of “ism” when the suggestion of pricefixing is made, I did not see these name peo- ple make any objection when a maximum price was placed on wheat during the war, I did not notice any particu. lar outburst of indignation from them when the government fixed railroad rates, Certainly the $80,000,000,000 of farm capital in worthy of just as much oo eration as the 12,- idone already. 900,000,000 of railroad capital, Not only the farmer has gut. fered from farm conditions of the past few years, Unless the farmer 1s prosperous, the coun. try at large suffers, Leginlation that will benefit the farmer will cause a quick. ening of business generally which, of course, means an im: provement in the Jot of the work. Ingman, I want to see the foderal ro. serve bank administered in the interest of the farmer and the workingman as it has been ad. ministered in the interest of cer. tain big interests, ‘The reserve bank was enacted with a view to preventing panies, It did provide a more elastic credit system. But power for wood { also a power for evil sometimes, The federal reserve board, tn. stead of helping us in 1920, rent out a demand that the North. west pay up $2,000,000,000 at once, I expect to do all I can in the senate to produce a better att). tude on the money and credit quention and to provide better management for the federal re serve board. I shall say “no" to the appolntment of any man on that board who ts not for keep- ing business on an even keel, | A THOUGHT Be sober, be vigilant; becaus your adversary the devil, 2s a roas ing lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour—I, Pet, y.3, yy eerr your knowledge, the eyes and ears of many will see and watch you, as they have Cicero, 4| } chewed sodden. No reeking corncobs or rampant briars. No nothing that is free and easy. Nothing that is not above reproach. , E Shades of Priscilla Mullins and all those Pilgrim | dames! Shades of the Cabots and the Bradfords and all | the rest! Look down and see that Boston, facing the ' wreck of its very finest traditions and culture, is still making a grand and brave effort to be and remain lady- ike. city to central jong em “These the pub partmen the e: In 19 used du a LETTER, FRoM | == VRIDGE MANN Dec. 7, 1923. hose light shines tg at the 2 Hears —— Dear Folks: Tt was very breezy In Seattle yesterday, and as I walked along the streets tacking against a strong wind, I was re- | minded of Tennyson's famous poem, “The Bugle.” As 1 recall it, this is NOT how it goes: eee ” THE BREEZE , The breezes fall on one and all} On hatted men and skirted ladies, They dlow im sheets along the streets, And ratee an aroful lot.of hades. Blow, breezes, diow! Bet all our hate a-racing! Go, donnets! Keep us a-running—chasiag, chasing, chasing! “4 ——_ | Coue, the better-and-better man, !s coming back. No doubt he hopes to “see a great amount of change. They all do. The Great Divide ‘UING for divorce, a Brooklyn woman says the trouble when her husband began insisting that she ks on every penny she spent. At the end of the month, she says, Ps raised the roof if she couldn’t ac- “count for every nickel and dime. Now that women have the vote, they should turn to ther Equal Right—the right to have a definite and ‘iberal “allowance” without being compelled to make an ' ‘accounting. Few women get a square deal in the division ‘of the pocketbook. A Nevada man has a bullet-proof head, and what woman would care to “Wwarry an invulnerable person like that? O, eee! 0, look! The breezes took A sudden course that quickly bares them Tt Blows and shows a pair of hose— You look and “You just knows she wears them!* Blow! Can it really be 20 very shocking? Blow! Even Santa likes a well-filled stocking! Cire Nonns Such a gift is Preferred Stock in the Puget Power & Light Company. In addition to the original Fp recipient will receive four times each year divi- payments to bring joy and genuine it. Like the electric light that sheds its beams afar, (such a gift continually sends forth its blessings—yet its. ‘substance never grows less. _ fees Fer ni, for pocther, foe the Coe a chose Future; safeguarded helped wit money brings—make your gifts of real value. Our preferred s may be t for cash or on our 10-payment a that hi | of new stockholders are finding "What more enduring expression of the Christmas) ‘spirit than the gift of an facome? ¥ Stock purchased in the next few ays will carry the dividend from October 15th. It is offered at $83.00 per share to net 714% on! \If you ‘phone Main 8000 we will gladly send a representative to help, you volve your Christmas problem—or mail us the coupon today, Paget Sound Power 6 Light Company Wleetrie Bldg. Seventh at Olive Miss Tarabai HINDU woman, said to be stronger than Sandow, is the theatrical sensation in the Orient. She is Miss Tarabai, 30 years old, born in Rajputana. One of her stunts-is to bridge herself in the air, with feet on the back of one chair and neck on another, and allow two men to pound with sledge-hammers on a 250- pound stone resting on her chest. . This is a favorite trick of hypnotists—demonstration “might be a better word than trick. " It suggests that Miss Tarabai may perform in a condi- tion of self-hypnotism—auto-hypnosis. Strength, after all, is more in the will power and im- agination than in the muscles, nerves and glands, This is yxoved trequently around insane asylums when it re- quires half a dozen men to subdue a frail little woman patient daring maniacal frenzy. In fighting our way to success, natural ability and {n- fluence are excellent helps. But they are not indis- pensable. Anyone can accomplish almost anything if he has the will and the imagination (self-hypnotism) to make himself believe he has the necessary powers. Without self-confidence, there can be no victory. That's why men of exceptional ability so often lose out. Confidence in self is fully as important as will power (determination), possibly more so. Carried to extremes, it becomes ridiculous—conceit. But self-confidence, held in bounds, is a short-cut to success. Encourage children when they talk of the tremendous things they are going to accomplish later. If they con- tinue believing, they'll probably turn imagination into fact. Ridiculing a child destroys his ambition and pow- ers of accomplishment at the roots. Your War Savings Stamps Bring Them in to Us for Exchange or Redemption Your 1919 War Savings Stamps become due January 1, 1924. They may be re- deemed for cash on that date or exchanged for Treasury Savings Certificates, VET ATLA AIFITU PR ELESTEPRSRADS PME? : KUarye Loemeacl ea is We urge and strongly recommend that you exchange your War Savings Stamps for Treasury Savings Certificates} which are backed by the credit of the United States Government and are the safest and soundest investment in the world. MA In.5000 We offer the services of this Bank in the exchange or redemption of your UNREG- ISTERED War Savings Stamps. BRING THEM IN NOW For Exchange or Redemption or to be added to your Savings Account Washington Mutual Savings Bank 1101 Second Avenue Established 34 Years It is not unlikely that the old, knock-kneed letter “k” is karrying kon- siderable more krosses than a dumb kharacter should. 7 Cal’s Small Job ‘Dee Jobnson’s Illinois splash and general grab for delegates, Coolidge boosters think all Cal needs do to win the nomination is to put Lodge and La Follette in bed together, harmonize republican congressmen, lower’ freight rates, reduce taxes, make farmers prosperous, keep labor employed, dodge the K. K. K. and pacify Eu- Tope. ‘ According to tho best information, Hi Johnson is preparing to fight somebody or something, if he isn’t already fighting. Assets $26,000,000 Give Him the Noble Prize HEMISTS have been busy and a New York firm be- gins marketing lipstic’ flavored cherry, peach, egranate and strawberry. This will make the kiss » tallow—for which blessing the inventors cer- should get one of the Nobel prizes, OFFICERS: RAYMOND R. FRAZIER President ROLIN SANFORD Vice President WILLIS §. DARROW Vice President HARRY SHELTON Secretary WALTER J. WARD Aasintant Secretary HARRY G, BALDWIN Ansintant Secretary HPRAMF up a wheat farmer the other night ry much crestfallen to find that the railways had got to him ©. BRYANT Who was the loser in that homecoming deal, the crown prince or Ger- many?