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Pins Ry fie aaa ‘SBA AY, DECEMBER 27, 1928. LETER FROM AVRIDGE MANN Dec, 27, 1923, Dear Folks: ‘The day after Christmas I wandered around; f talked with the follows I met, The opening lino of the chatter, I found, was asic. ing them, “What did you get? They started recounting the pres onts they got; they sang mo a wonderful song. However, I noticed with mont of the lot, were things that were hopelenaly wrong. . . . “My Christmas was splendid—my presents wero splended,” they frankly and freely admit. “But out of a barrel of wearing apparel, there's hardly a thing that'll fit!” One fellow was wearing a wonderful tle; {t shouted as loud as a horn. It baffled, enchanted and blinded the eye, like roneate hues of the morn, “It fits me,” he murmured, “but still I'm afraid, ag everyone sees It and stares, I look ike a clown in « circus parade, and sound like a saxophone blares, But still I must wear it—I really must wear it! The wife gave it to me, you see! But gonh, how I hate it! And frankly I state {t—the spectrum has nothing on me!" f “You give me a paln,” aid a bird with a frown. “Your troubles aro nothing at all! But I’m the unlucklest geezer in town—and just on account of a fall! For I got a present—the gift of a friend; before it was opened, it fell; a crash and @ gurgle-it came to an end—and all that I got was the amell! . . . For bottles are fragile; so painfully fragile! And should I recetve any more, I hope they will make ‘em so I couldn't break ‘em by dropping ‘em onto When You Hunger D° you feel gressive when you need THE SHATTLE Foe Te { The Latest Big Noise in the Political Barnyard ) SMILES TAR Tho Chinese repsblic Is 19 years old now and ts making fairly good marks at school, The Seattle Star Fublighed Dally by The Star Publi*hing Go, 1907 Beyenth Ava, Phone MA in-0600, New ir Enterpril lation and United Press Gervto; year nt, thman, Spectal Representatives Ban Chicago effiog ‘Tribune Bid Boston office, Tremont Bia Again the Wolves! ORCES within the state of Washington, are working toward the abolishment of the direct primary law. Already the keynote of such a fight has been sounded in Seattle. State Senator Robert Grass spoke before the Men’s Republican club some weeks ago, vigor- attacki! e direct primary system and urging e old convention method. Senator Grass’ suggestion can be considered only as invitation to make a step backwards in the march of ogress. He points to alleged faults in the present sys- m. And because he finds some weak spots he urges the olishment of the primary in order to return to a sys- m that is far more dangerous and far more faulty than one that we now have. The direct primary is one of the masterpieces of pro- essive legislation. It is one of the principles which ormer President Roosevelt it untiring effort to put It is one piece of eetlatinn that has clearly de- : representative government and has placed the com- ‘mon voter in a position where he may directly wield his ‘influence against wrong and for right. | Without doubt the move to abolish the direct primary, ‘if it should gain such proportions to be classed as a move, ‘will be one of the big issues of our coming election. There is no doubt but that the “wolves of our state ics” are bitter enemies of the primary. However, it take more tHan the howling of the “wolves” to per- Vrench writer says Germany lost tho peace as well as tho wor, We ee way everybody lost both, Frane! 1 New York offios, Better known candidates would be Volstead, Chaplin, Bryan, Lioyd and other famous humoriata, Caterpillars are #0 foollsh, Now they have invaded Germany, They will starve to death, They jatled four poets in Moscow, proving that even tho Russians have fun at times, A doctor leads @ hard life, Every holiday he rushes around to people who have eaten too much, Man making @ mountain out of a mole-hill thinks others aro making 4 mole-hill out of his mountain, What would you do {f you met a robber? Loudest talkers are the ones who grab for the stars, . Women are nice people, but would bo better if they didn’t mistake salads for food, Our congress adjourned for the holidays, They do it every year, It makes people happy. nl A Scottish footballer wag as bald as fh billiard ball, but managed to keep it concealed by means of a cap and wig. In one match, however, as one of his opponents took a red-hot shot at the goal, “Wiggly” got his head il] irritable and ag- er, 80 wo haven't shaken off jun. gle emotions and jungle phy- de voters to throw into their dripping mouths the off- ring of the nation’s most progressive thought. _ Relying polnters provided by Daugherty, Mr. Hughes proceeds to the stuffing out of ihe bolshevik ehost. i aag Chance and System DEV. GEORGE LAWRENCE PARKER, Unitarian, Boston: “We have applied science to every field of n life except to our mal lives. In our personal tionships, we let the delicate fabric of life get all ed up simply because we pay no attention to it. first player saw the result of hi jhe seemed thunderstruck for |ment, and then exclaimed: heavens! Argonaut, Boss—Sir, what doom this today? | tomorrow.—Missourl Showme, in the way of the ball and the wig and cap were knocked off, When the I've scalped the mon!’ Someone just called up and said you were sick and could not come to work Clork—Ha, ha! The joke’s on him. He wasn't supposed to call up until! is shot a& mo- “Guid mean? food? Most people do, especially hervous temperaments, As soon an they satisfy the cravings of the stomach, they relax and feel @t peace with the world. All this is Inherited from an- clent times when man was In the animal state or not far removed from it. Nature made animals and primitive men aggressive and wrathful when they needed food, 80 they'd be incited to go out Into the jungle and kilL Hunger appeased, they relaxed, became drowsy—nature again as- sique, Our bodies and emotions are like driving a stage-coach in an age of airplanes. That's what the highbrows mean when they claim the ma chinery and systems of civilize tion have developed faster than man’s ability to handle them, Natureland Brer Rabbit is Brer Fox's “bread and butter.” When rabbits are plen- tiful, game birds and your best rooster are reasonably safe, friendship, faith, lite’s beauty and unity, the days it pass swiftly into the years, sorrow, disappointment, “William,” said the Mrs, sleepily. “Imn’t that the baby crying?" “Well,” reported William grumpily, serting her cunning by making them want to lio down and doze, giving the stomach unrestricted blood supply to ald digestion and Knowledge of Good and Evil me, we triumph, these things are left mostly to chance. 3 truth is that these things need as scientific a method ') &s the watching of an experiment in the laboratory, and, ’ until they get this attention, our personal living is bound to be a tragic rubbish heap.” A whole lot of solid truth in your views, Dr. Parker. all the science that’s in us, we at our vocatianal 4 Propositions. We solve business problems and give the ' credit to our knowledge of how to do things. We often Tie awake nights over failures and blame the same upon lack of system, organization and applied knowledge. And, ‘Feally, life consists, largely, of battling troubles. With- ‘out mental system and organization, or metaphysical edu- cation, we undertake to promote love, friendship, faith nd unity and overcome disappointment and failure. Science and system are essential to success in deal- ing with material things. Why not these in dealing with those immaterials, or intangibles, that really make up and meah the most of this life? Missouri Insists on pushing ex-Gov. Gardner for the democratic presl- _ dential nomination, and thus, again, will it have to be shown. Cheaper Homes, and Better Ones ‘ Chicago, Mrs. Edith Rockefeller McCormick, daugh- 4 ter of John D., of Standard Oil fame, has set up a | five-million-dollar trust fund to demonstrate how to build + homes for folks of small means at prices they can afford. Those who know John D.’s daughter say that she has Much of her father’s business acumen. That being the )® case, she has found a field with no limit to her possi- bilities. One of the most striking changes in American life Within the last decade or two has been the tendency of people to pack themselves into small rooms in cities. Rich and poor alike have been moving ,into tenements, ‘ quality depending entirely upon the renter’s ability pay. The cause of all this crowding in human ant-hills has been the high cost of homes. American industrial genius has found ways to build and sell reasonably automobiles, - phonographs, cameras, radio sets and any quantity of jes, but no genius has taken the time to invent a » way of manufacturing homes so that ordinary folks can ~ afford them. Maybe this Chicago woman can solve the problem. If she can, she will have contributed even more to the bet- ~ terment of American life than her canny father, with all his coal oil for smokeless stoves and his gasoline for horseless buggies. “First Blood for Coolidge in South Dakota,” says a headline, and Promptly Hi Johnson becomes a bloodhound. The Data, Please IO and when? Specifications on these points may be reasonably * demanded of Secretary Hughes in support of his charge that the soviet government is fostering armed revolution . in our country. There is no visible evidence of any such organized fos- tering in our midst, and, as a matter of common safety, the folks should be given the definite data, if any. If any foreign government is fostering revolution in our country, at present, it is as good as an act of war and there is due that government something stronger ' than mere refusal to recognize it as a de jure govern- ment. . There is justification for the senate demand for speci- fications on these points. It is possible that Mr. Hughes . has them. If so he should present them. A Fine Deadlock ET the folks get that senate deadlock straight! Wall Street is the issue. Wall Street owns and ce the railroads and, thru them, the Eastern coal fi ‘ds. \/all Street wants Senator Cummins put at the head of the interstate commerce commission. Mr. Cummins is on. of the fathers of Wall Strect’s Esch-Cummins act, which is sure to be attacked in this congre The demo- crats aided by progres republicans, have enough votes to keep that important committee out of Wall Street’s hands, but not enough votes to elect their own man because Senator Bruce, democrat, of Maryland, votes for Cummins. This deadlock is a fine thing for the folks. It clear] demonstrates two things: First, the power of Wall Street in congress; secondly, thru Bruce's action, that, when Wall Street demands things, party lines don’t fig ure and it makes no difference whether the folks hav elected a democratic or a republican senator. Verily, it is well that the folks should know who run their congress and well that they should see the folly of voting for a man simply because he poses in the hide of an elephant, or in the skin of a donkey, BY HERBERT QUICK T the immigration conference the other day, Mrs. May Ware Dennett, director of the Voluntary Parenthood league, wan interrupted from the floor and then ordered from the form by the chairman. She trying to speak on birth con- as m Means of solving the immigration problem, It was @ strango proceeding. ‘Tho excuse for it may bo ade quate, if one knew all the facts, but one would think that people gathered together to consider a social problem would be willing to hear what a birth contro! ad- Vocate might have to say. Prob- ably she wag trying to tell them that the chief danger of letting in all sorts of people from foreign countries lies in the fact that these immigra: chil. dren to one in American families. This being the case, that they will eventually control the coun- try Is as certain as that one pair of rate will In a very short time national things are now, birth control ts under full sway among some Classen. In many of the most intelligent nations It is allowed to be taught to the masses, The advocates of teaching it—not in the schools, of course, but thru private agen. clea—tnsist that if we keep the ignorant, the morons, and the Telling It to Congress HOW WAR COMES | It is of supreme international tm |portance that the world should un-| derstand the structure of these for | eign offices and what they did in [bringing about the world war. .. . | Until these methods are understood, | |the great mans pf the people who pay | taxes and die on the battlefield will omni algae pages ap oon | Neves’ he able to realize that their number a herd of 10,000 ele Jared of each other ia completely | phants. It ie just a matter of | -rcificial and a result of the ambition | Figures. The Japanese in Cal land pride of thelr leaders tn charge | fornia will one day, even if not OF . jot foreign affairs.—Senator Owen another Jap comes over, out. [tf Conslen number all the rest of the people of the Pacific states, unless their | birth-rates change. SECRETS OF SUCCESS? Now birth control may be right | By sheer luck, the accident of or it may be wrong; but why not | birth, chance opportunity, unscrupu- listen to what its advocates nay? | lous greed, or, in a few cases, by pro- |many others were described by {m-/| liar ibook dese: |how @ person supplied himself with Nobody is forced to accept it. |eminent ability, a relative fow at- wm to forget that, As jtain dominant positions of wealth, - —|power end authority——Representa- SCIENCE |tive Huddleston (D) Alabama. How Bellamy’s Pre- diction Is Realized MODEST MAN! | Yes, but, senator, the navy depart: | in Radio | During the last 26 years science | |ment Is not necessarily all comprised of mynelf—Theodore Roosevelt be |fore senate oommittes on public | lands, has made greater progress than in all previous history. Howover, it is |timo made the statement that there nearly impossible to find anything ac-|were three kinds of llars—“liars, tually new in actence, Many sclen-|damn liars, and statistics.” There in tific marvels today were done|no greater danger confronting any years azo, in some form or other, and investigation than the latter sort of THE WORST LIAR Tt {9 said that Lord Disracl{ at one of nginative writers. [commission ‘The predictions of Jules Verne are | quiry. famous. H, G. Wells, in some of his} earlier works, predicted quite accur- modern Inventions, such as the use of polson gna in war fare.’ Edward Bellamy, 60 years ago, wrote @ book that became famous, called “Looking Backward.” Th od the same results that t with the radio, It told ot gold and silver in A BIG UNDERTAKING You must realize that to build a pipe line 800 miles in length is 'a rather difficult task that takes quite | & considerable time to do, Wo will be, perhaps, a year and a half | building this pipe line, It will approximately $25,000,000. Its capacity will be about 40,000 barrels | a day—H. F. Sinclair before senate committees on public Jands and sur. veys, several > now cont e, lectures and mtertainment by turning a switch in his room. Great progress was being| made in ono or two sections of Eu-| ropo, Just before the world war, in| the use of the radio for the same | purposes described by Bellamy. After|on, at the present time, all of our the the United States too! operating costa to the consumer, but | lead. ‘Today the plans for s sood many of us are not doing it roposed new hotels call for the in-| There 19 no lack of disposition on our | I { apparatus whereby each | part—-A.-W. Cooper, Western Pine get, in his own room, a| Manufacturers’ association, Portland, program of news, music, education |Ore., re senate welect committeo and entertainment. ation. AN HONEST MANI ‘We would like very much to pass on refore Methods BY BERTON BRALEY ] ¥ way of doing things seems queer, No doubt, to But your ways in my Quite puzz And methods of some other cuss Are wholly strange to both of us, appear , too. OT I do fairly well Set out to do what I And your work—well, I can't deny You seo {t thru. king of that other one, s his labors dono, And, He also ¢ |? I tried work! I'd go a I 1 mine on your plan oh ma: bom ou ced the best and mine for m , 60 let ‘em bel pyright, 1923, NDA Service, Mey | druggist for wit anything else. absolute \ promatly would ik Want Ad columns and seo the many | bargains that aro listed there, semiinsane from practicing the control of the number of their progeny, the time must come, and ta even now tn sight, when the nation will be a nation of peo- plo of inferior me 4 moral development. And ourae, means the end of America as a There is much reason for hold- ing that Insane people, morons, and people of hereditary criminal tendencies—like the notorious Jukes fumily—ought to be steril #0 hy to prevent thelr multt n. Probably the Japanese women of California, if well edu- cated, might not bring forth no many children. That, It seems to me, would not be a bad thing. It may bo that the spread of such kr is tho eating of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil; but that prohibl- tion may be regarded as repealed when Eve tempted Adam and they did eat, The stuff was off on the knowledge of good and evil from that day, And I should mynelf like to hear Mra. Den- nett's message, knowing as I do that the very people who ought not to practice birth control are doing #0, and those who should, {t may be argued, know. nothing of ft, I might learn something. I believe the immigration confer- ence might have done so, But perhaps it was not properly on its program. That may account for what they did to Mrs, Den- nett. Frieda’s Follies THE quotation, “OH, WAD some power the «iftic sto us TO SEE oursels as {thers see us,” WAS BROUGHT back to mo the other day, WHEN A cross-eyed man, a friend of mine, HUGGED me to him, saying: “WELL, FRIEDA, the hand of “HL. A. C. Jenison before senate | the potter SLIPPED when he mado you. 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Wayne, Ind alae to bu: for a ho Turn 58 you ° the feeling tn the darkness for hi pers, “it isn't me,""—American | Weekly. |the serenading lover. water pitcher—Okiahoma Whi throw “Why the him? apotlig’ | News, PROFESSOR H. | TON, Medill |Chicago; “Next to a baby, @ F, on the planet, because it altve, so human.” eee SANER, association, R | American ik Bar fathers again, It would be convention. | Wayn | Wheeler, of the Anti-Saloon would Immediately send questionnaire asking George ever in all thelr Itves took a Sunday league, would Ben Franklin aa to whether b |flew his kite on Sunday tn jdetphia. ‘This ts the age the land of Lilliput, Instead the overwhelming numbers mediocrity and mendacity.” ee REV. JOHN McDOWELL, jbyterian Board of National M inspiration most needed today. more than any other holds the future of America keeping.” The Mich.: it were, violations of this law be reduced to a minimum, exist tion and then forgot It. needed than a mere law and | officers,” | . PROF. “Oh, will you mins me?” warbled Not if I can help it,” muttered dad an he took @ windup with the| “That barber ls a rare bird.” “Whenever he shaves himself, he can't stop until he talks himself into a haircut and a shampoo,"—Detroit WHAT FOLKS ARE SAYING HARRING school of journalism, | paper is the most interesting thing preatdent | |‘"tt would be impossible in this day |to assemble the Uke of the fore- sible to elect them to a constitu- out ington and John Marshall if they {and Dr, Harry Bowlby, of the Blue interrogate | moral and political Lilliputians and ducing Gullivers, shackles thom by “It im the church as the guide and of the nation that is institution MAYOR A. T. WRIGHT, Owosso, “Public sentiment is not be- hind the prohibition law as it Is be- hind the law against other crimes. If ts #lip- Legion riwind, ht on news. is 20] Dallas: | impos- 1 B. league, a Wash- drink, he ever Phila- of the of pro of its Pres- issions: | enurch in its would The pub- > is to blame for the conditions that Tho drys voted for prohibl. More {s a few HARRY CAMPBELL,! English sctentist: “Eve did not bite! the apple because there was |ple for Evo to bite, In the ning man ato honey, nuts, none of the later—tho there were |ilzards, frogs, and a variety of Insecta. earthworms, |Pearance for centuries and |turles that the ecience of fru jtivation gradually developed there wero apples—for dessert oes CONGRESSMAN mania among certain self-styl and economic Ills by le himed toward further cent of @ government that has ow superiority largely to Its sche local self-government 4s not checked.” a dae WITT, Cleveland: “For tho last |years the big Political p: jes kept talking about Breatest international sw world. And ditt and PETER pert, Jelection wa: 54 by fools." |57 and thing t sons pt in ac | Adam were hunters end lived on ‘The of tne kitchen did not make its ap- street’ railway no ap begin- variou | millions of people have found to be | Stains, roots, leaves, but no apples latter. of slugs art cen- turies, and ft wns during these cen: | it cul | and DALLINGER Massachusetts: “There is a positive led re. formers to correct all our political lation zation ed its mo of} I have fear | for the country if this tendency is ex fifty tho tariff. hat i and belfeved in rebuild tho exhausted cells of the body. 7 We no longer haye to go out and kill animal life with bow and arrow or spear or hand-to-hand combat, We simply go to a res- taurant or open the lunch pail— ond get what we want. If the service is slow and appetite fero- cious, we occasionally revert to Jungle type and feo! like going out and man-handling the chef and walter to rush our meal, cee Obviously, there's no longer any physical or other necessity for Irritability and aggressiveness accompanying hunger. These un- Pleasant sensations are superfiu- ous, But nature hasn't quite kept up with our rapid advancement. Jngio days are gone, but she hasn't eliminated jungle emo- tions In many other ways, civilized man has “outgrown” his physical body. We've become civilized fant. Nature's evolution is slow. A THOUGHT The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water, therefore leave off contention, before it be meddied with.—Proy. xvi IROM hence, let fierce contending nations know What dire effects from civil discord flow. —Addison. Deer are so thick on Long Island, N. Y., and need so much dinner in ~ farmers’ fields and orchards, that it's highly unpopular to arrest a man for killing a deer. Fine for the ‘pot-shoot- ers of neighboring New York city. Erosfon of soil causes land and fern tility Josses in the United States must run into hundreds of milli a year. To check this loss some’ the U. 8, department of agricult urges beaver farming whereyer won't be damaged. Beaver, with his dams, is the enemy of erosion, com trolling and conserving water flow, preventing serious floods, and he yields valuable fur. The trees he cuts up and eats are usually of little economic value. Beaver is increas ing rapidly in many places, Mra. Griscom, California woman, who has lots of quail on her farm, has posted the following on her front gate: OTIS! Tresspassers will be per secuted to the full extent of two mungrel dogs which never was overs sochible to strangers & 1 dubble bri. short gun which ain't loaded with sofa pillors. Darn if I aln’t gitting tired of this heli raisen on my place,” It's all off with the great horned owl; there’s a heavy unsupplied de mand for him, stuffed. 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