The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 1, 1924, Page 8

fe : rE et oa 1 a TUESDAY, JANUARY 1 MODERNIZING OUR GOD PAG , 1924 Tih STL STAR | More Traffic Problems DEA ne me use is a SY SA The Seattle Star Published Daily by The Star Pudliahing Co, 1207 Reventh Ava Phone 6 MA (0-0600. Newepaper Enterprise Assootation and United I mail, out © per month, 3 months $1.00, 6 months § $00 & month, & Rath pec wk Hide.) Chiesgo oft 1° Widg.; oaton offic We Need a Big One HHILADELPHIA has found it necessary to draw on the war department for aid in a vice and crime cleanup. The fathers of the City of Brotherly Love have re- quested that Brig, Gen, Smedley Butler, of the marines, be given a year’s leave of absence, during which time he wil take charge of the Philadelphia police department and “clean house.” Now if someone in Seattle would only put in a request for Gen, Pershing! year #2. fan Franet is; New York offic Mrs, Ford, too, is for Coolidge. Is there any need of going further with the campaign? Or shall we wait for Edsel? If only « back-to-the-farm movement would interest members of con- Maybe It’s Precedent ‘APPY in the new slippers and red necktie handed us from the sparkling tree, we are made still more joy- ous by news of a darned fine mother-in-law, who is worth having. There are a lot of them worth having, but there $s one worthy of public acclaim. She is Marie, queen of Rumania, The people of Greece invited King George to go over into Rumania and sojourn with his mother-in-law, permanently. Marie, the mother-in-law, shrieks in protest. She even thinks of taking her little handful of an army and putting George back on his throne to stick there. She may start a-Bal- kan-war-that-starts-a-world-war, but she isn’t going to sit quiet and be a mother-in-law that’s lived with. Ts there’a Son-in-law within reach of our voice whose Christmas season cheer is not heightened by Marie? Lot in the papers these days about 100 per cent babies. Are there other kinds? Dr. Sun, of China, continues doing his best to avoid a permanent set- ting. You in 1924 ‘OW it comes to pass that 1924 is a leap year. What are you going to do with the extra day? A face- tious question, perhaps, but well worth asking—for the extra day emphasizes the importance of time in our lives, which are all too short. It’s wise to round up good intentions and ambitions and start afresh with New Year resolutions. Wiser, still, to realize that EVERY DAY has to be New Year day unless we want to fall behind the procession. The fine resolutions should be renewed, the high ambitions enlarged, every morning without exception. January 1 is the time to start. All start. Few finish. The ripping and rending sounds indicate that the political fences are all constructed of barb-wire. Over the Snow LOT of us old-timers wouldn’t take a good many hundred dollars for our memories of sleigh-ride days in the past. We feel sorry for the young people who are denied the joys of snow vehicles in this genera- tion of motor cars. Sorrier still for the people who, liv- ing in delightfully warm, snowless climates, haven't even the memories of sleigh-rides. *Twas a great sport, with a peculiar thrill for which there is no substitute. We watch modern youths, stand- ing at the roadside, begging rides from passing autos. And we feel sorry for them as we recall the good old days when boys “hooked on” their sleds to passing selighs and bob-sleds. The world wasn’t in such a ner- vous hurry then, and it was a rare driver who was too ill-natured and impatient to stop his horse while the lads “hooked on.” More thrilling, tho dangerous, was to “hop” a swift- moving bob-sled, grabbing it as it went by, in peril of falling under the heavy runners. Mothers must have dreaded sleighing weather. Sleigh-riding was a sport for all ages. In the crisp frosty air and mellow moonlight, you'd find three generations dragging their sleds to the hilltop for a coast at breakneck speed. When pa courted ma, they rode in a fast cutter, gliding along as easily as on skates, the frost tingling their cece and noses, with warm fur robes pulled up to the nec! For social gatherings, there was the huge hob-sled, carrying as many as 20, with a symphony of shouting and glad cries, feet kept warm in a deep flooring of straw. Back of it all, the music of sleigh-bells, with forests and farm buildings and lone trees outlined in the moon- light like stage scenery, the vehicle stopping occasionally to pick up some one who'd fallen off. Progress certainly has its price. Is it the idea to take the red out of the eyes of the driver and put it in the gasoline or merely extend the color scheme thru the whole works? The Other Wife’s Husband HERE may be a terrible suggestion in the remarks of Mrs. Walter Ferguson, given below, but it m be well to present it as conducive to good New Year resolutions by husbands. “Sometimes when life is at sixes and sevens, and w feel that we have more to put up with than anybody in the world, and that our children are the naughti and our husbands the most neglectful and selfish, what a fine thing it would be if we could take a little jaunt and peep into the secret lives of other women! Perhaps we would change our minds very quickly. “Sometime: feel that the husband of the woman acro: street is more devoted to her than yours is to you; he may take her to dances when yours rebels, or he may load her with presents which yours for- gets to buy, but how do you know how many and how great his faults may be? “How can you guess that else these gifts which he heaps upon his wife are the salve to a guilty conscience for un- faithfulness ; how are you to know that his beautiful pub- lic manners are mer for the public eye, and that he is in a state of perpetual grouch at home; how are you to surmise how many real heartaches his wife carries about with her to offset your fancied ones? “The very best to appreciate your husband is to go a-visiting and get a closeup of some other woman’s. And then nice and dependable and comfortable yours does seem. All his trifling faults vanish into thin air, when compared to the colossal ones of many oéther men. “Our state, we could only learn to search them, rather than the bad.” way how how our city, our homes are so wonderful, if for the good thing. about A Los imagination. It Angeles paper says the so-called harbor down there excites ure does. That is all there is to it the it a great on the part invent mal jongg. nistake of the Japs when they failed to OQ. GOWNS OF THE WHITE HOUSE Kept in Museum, and There’s Always a Crowd Around BY RUTH FI Washington Korean, 1582 New lork Ave, Jan 1.—Wom wanted to “what she wore,” and al will, and the Smithsonian A that thiw . > desire and should be grant the Smithsonian has col lected the worn by each president's wife daughter from the t ington. They aro all on display on wax models tn glass cases, There is a steady stream of vis itors past the cases, men as women. They look In! in Martha Washin tume, but they fe things Mrs, Wilson and Mrs. and Mrs. Roosawelt wore, Mod ern history, not ancient, is tho thing when It comes to clothes, Apparently there was a marked preference on the part of White House ladies for white ge Next in popularit der. Of the 97 gowns dis 21 were trimmed with real the most popular of ments. Mra. Tyler Monroe actually wo Up to the time of Mr land, curls were versally worn. Martha Wash- ington was the only one of tho distinguished company to wear earrings. She wore a cap with her costume, too, very much like the boudoir cap of tod Surely she didn’t have curlers under it! Not while wearing hor best hand- painted gown at any rate, with {ts trellines, flowers and ifisects on a very dull old rose back- ground, : Up to the time of Mra, Roose velt, every gown one was made with tight-fitting bodice, some of them drawn tighter by laces up tho back, Of all the rich satin and yel- vet creations, the ono w Ida Saxton Mek it must have be ly t is oF re all over with pearls embre on it in patterns nd b draped ropes, Thero iy a train a yard and a half on the ground longest in display. | SMILES | playwright, has Juced, hundsomest dresses Taft Hopwood, work until taxes are re I for a long loat. | ANe ed m: Hamp ried 60 year 5 coming {1 hadn't written Sher nobody ¢ ‘The Intest portrait of Padorewsh the pianist, shows he | all barber till mad New York ted. Cor man begged to be ar refused. » Such during the holiday 1 Boston Pert Ku Klux Klan | A couple recent mboat Leviathan 6 matrimon married on the al seas adge | should weather There are real lace drapes over the pearls at the side Sarah Ang Ven ninlaw o! Buren, had the Any woman wea dp gown. Iressa wot ones they wear today, Tho only trimming was a be: lace around the sho’ ha of real ders Tho plainest dress stanas right next to Sarah in the dispiay Ney succeeded her wn of the White House, nt Har. as 8 person, to. Judge um-colored vel- er best dress, white cloth The daintiest gown was worn by young Mra. Andr kaon, Jr, It was of white chiffon with lace bertha, its frail be: The first White House bride? It c wo is of pale blue taffeta with gold em Mrs. Frances gorgeous in rose vel and gold brocaded fussy ax to bodice mounted by six large 1 the shoulders, Cleveland was vet and rose satin evelt? She wore Mra, Taft pver natin sliver er 8 gow caded net and yelv handsome Mra. Hare her gowns t lection, but It ts ‘white bre and pearls. ng Wilson wore black trimmed v wore white ch’ vered with silk and trimmed ¢ has sent one be added to the col- not yet on dis Qeonuranr OV LANONR DA- VIS preached a sermon the day in the church of hia Jhood, and as wermons go, It xooms to have been a very good one, Yet ho sald some queer things¢ because they aro so common and #o very absurd, “1 will take my religion in the old-fashioned way," said he, “Wo are becoming so modern that somo of us are, even trying to modernize God,” He meant, of course, our con: ption of God; for God Himself Be It Now Resolved— tions be adopted by the bored: Whereas, New Year day only once every year, And whereas, ing about good resolutions, Also whereas, it is the same young every year, tions weakens the will power won't power of everybdy, |. Fourth whereas, breaxing r tions destroys & man’s and his reputation. | | ttt they are worn out. | | ‘Therefore | bored. be dug up this year, be It resolved by Further resolved, resolutions we can during 1924 | And further resolved be impossible for us to ¢ ter than the best we can. Still further resolved, that |the best we can ¢’ jthan any set of r tons, And lastly resolved, ion wo will reso! | make any resolu’ | Wo net our hand this date and Woe propone the following resolu- has a blame fool habit of coming around the man who said the good file young really was talk- oid | bunch of good revolutions that die | Another whereas, breaking resolu and | alu. relf-respect LETTER FROM \V RIDGE MANN Dear Folk: Jan. 1, 1924. I wish you a Happy New Year, with all that the wish {m- plles- realize. M. nown to the glad T head. year a few true ay L a pleasant and good and its fulles stores of Time, the wealth of its truest treasure ua climb! in ¢ year, with hopes that you measure, unfold from the to brighten f tho cares and sorrows that lived in the Past, be Wher ends friends orrows that stretch, like a ver your path Is going, I wish you t joy of knowing the faith of clouds that are now behind you, stay clear from your ky; may shadows t Whatever you “Try! t come remind you the pass une wills you, of that thrill you the Joy you to pu have done your best! the world's successes? a life that I wish Ales, wit you is bor I wish you a Happy N Let others the wish 6 with things that a true year—and so, ONE YEAR OF GOOD PROGRESS Seattle in 1923—With Every Fine Prospect for 1924 TH NATIONAL CITY BANK OF SEATTLE extends to its customers, and friends, every hearty good wish for 1924. In so doing, it is not out of place to mention the fact that SEATTLE MADE GREAT PROGRESS in 1923—particularly in building operations—the greatest of record—in bank clear- ings the largest since the war boom of 1920, and showing a substantial growth every year beginning with 1921. Every vital and natural resource in Seattle and the Patific Northwest of America has felt the surge of progress along con- servative lines. Lumber manufacturing, commerce, overseas and coastwise, and retail merchandising—all have felt the satisfac- tion of substantial business and expansion, without any evidence of inflation. More people from other states of the Union and from other countries of the World have come to know something they never knew before, about Seattle and the Puget Sound country. They came here over finely paved highways from the East, the South, the Southwest—from everywhere. In all good works SEATTLE may be congratulated for the achievements of 1923 and look to 1924 with supreme confidence. THE NATIONAL CITY BANK Hl, WITHERSPOON, Vico HOTCHKISS, SATTERBERG, A OF SEATTLE a W President Cashier sistant Cash MAXWEI in LL, President BL Vice President SEWELL ENOCHSON, Ass’t Cashier OAKLEY MAXWELL, Ass't Cashier | | | } Last whereas, the same old set of | resolutions have been made over un: | the | that old resolutions will not | that in place of to do the best we | that it will any bet- doing en more scope | BY HERBERT QUICK cannot be changed, Weil, it has not been #¢ tions ain contora 4 god worshiped in groves of oak, with a priesthood exempt from taxation, who of fered up human sacrifices—the Druids, ‘They modernized God by getting the conception of Him of the Christian church of that day, MODERNIZED JEHOVAH And the Christians had a mod- ernized Johovuh, who was merely the tribal god of a Semitic tribe ot la who ran away from Egypt. Jehovah was always for the Jews and against the rest of the world, ‘Their conception of him was that he helped them kill off and drive out a race quite as g00d an they wore and nome his- torlans say better, the Philis- tines, Hoe had created Adam and Eye. But other tribes had other tribal gods and one of them seems to hi in. the Hebrew mind, created other races, from one of which, in the Land of Nod, Cain got his wife! ‘This god, Jehovah, made the world, whieh had corners, and above which the sun, moon and stars were moved by him, ‘Thin tribal god, Jehovah, t modernized ny the years went b and finally Jesus, the great mod- ernizer of our conception of the Delty, taught the world that there fs but one God for all men. WORD OF GOD TRUE Whatever is true must be the Word of God. If it is true, it is the Word of God just as com- pletely if it comes from the lab- oratory as from the prophet, The revelations of the Word h been for a century or so comin; thru selence instead of thru EY , prophecy. But those which are demonstra true m and God's work reject the idea of G We modognized wos found that the earth part of m system of suns « planets, It was a t atru and many men like Secretary Davis fought hard against the modernization forced by Copern! cus and Newton. They thought the whole body of religion pended on belleving, Jasper used to say that “the sun do wm GOD HIMSELY UNC NGED If God ha {zed, Secretar not been modern. Davis would now be a heathen, bowing down to wood and stone; or a believer in a tribal god; oF a al called God's Anointed; or a be- nighted rejector of the truths of modern seience—in tact, 4 rather than a secretary of God {* not changed. Our con- ception of Him must be changed to adjust it to every new revela- tion of truth, for all truth ts His Word. A completely up-to-date God is the noblest work of ms A THOUGHT They that be wise shall shine as the brightness o fthe firmament; and | they that turn many to righteousness as the stars forever and ever—Dan, wiser than other men is to honester than they; and strength of mind {s only cot re to ett, WaAteatere, Jan. 1.—The woman's lobby, known as of the m powerful and persistent to which the congress is exposed, is the most unique in its form and methods of t the capital, 4 the only lob; which is candidly and frankly a bby, It, of-all the interests en- wed in stalking senators a sentatly freely t its sole object of one is bringing pre ecinl leg It has just de other strange ste ure upon an- will study dur itaelt commission to or not the m: such as the Sheppard-Tow: and infancy bill or the dent citizenship for wom. en have had a wholesome effect. The woman's lobby, recorded ly as tho Women's Joint Congressional committee, is com- poved of 17 of the largest wom- organizations in the country y are: The American As of University Women, an Federation of American Home sociation, General ot Women's Clubs, Girls’ Friendly Society of Amer- National Congress of Moth- ers and Parent-Teacher associa tions, National Consumers’ National Council of National Education as- inal Committee for a Department of Education, Na- tional Axsociation of Business and Professional Women’s clubs, S League of Women Yot- jonal Women’s Christian Union, National le Unions leagu of the Yo Women’s Christian association. the Service Star Legion, and the National Council of Jewish Women, These organizations turn leg. islative lorgnettes n the meas- ures indorsed by any one of their number, and when it is found that five of them have put their “okeh” on one bill, a sub-com- mittee ts automatically formed, Matrimonial prbolems hold the center of attention at . Federal reg’ uniform marriage and. divorce laws, and epartment of edu- fon ¥ etary in the net are among the measures h the lobby will urge imme- fea, league, Railroad Rates and Transportation Costs Railroad Supplies Up 100% Freight Rates Passenger Fares - 32 3-10% 35 3-10% Freight rates and passenger fares on the Union Pacific System much as the incre: have advanced less than half as ase in the cost of engines, cars and other principal items of railroad expense. Corn, we find: Commodity Rail, per ton.... Freight Locomotiv Freight Car Ties, each... (brid, On nks, ete.) Coach or It » of these during the and passenger fx In 1918 we r one mile, 9.7 mills mile, 2!4c. In 19 8.035 respectively. sents a reduction of passe 3 In order chase a pint of ink, one ton of freight miles ; hand lantern, wheel, 1,117 miles; To pay for a haul one wages of day's fuel 263 miles. The lowest while payir the world. So long ton of a freight ¢ railroads of remains tion of be made Constructive freight and urge increases, same 16 seived for for hauling a these The about out 8% under to earn ones ea revenue to pur- is necessary miles; 91 miles; one freight car and one monkey wrench 97 mil day of track labor it is necessa’ freight ain crew yes of a machinist 461 miles. the United S rates and the lowest capitalization per mile, g the highest wages of any country in s the railroads’ at the present high level passenger ra stions ring pre-war prices with those of today Percent Pro-war of 30200 000.00 43.00 64,000.00 100.00 2,500.00 108% 90% 108% ght rates on the Union have increased only 6 35 3-10 per cent, auling a ton of freight passenger one rates were 1.285 and 1923 freight rate repre- 11% ee 1921 and for us to haul for a cross tie, y to a day’s For a a ton ol For 2,680 miles. 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