The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 9, 1924, Page 8

Published Datly by The Star Publish MA tn-0400, Newapaper Bnterprise Aasool mall, out of city, per month, # montha $1.60, ¢ monthe By carrier, city, month, Giiman, | Nicoll Ruthman, Special Representatives San Franoisoe ofticn, anook Di Chicago offica Tribune Ida) New York offios Canadian Pacific Bide; Boston office, Tremont Bids, 0, year $8.60, Uncle Sam Falls Down { ‘ORE than 700,000 gallons of wood alcohol (meth- ¥ anol) are being manufactured each month, reports _the government. » Wood alcohol is a deadly poison—and the only ony ‘poison that is sold openly, without restrictions, to all “comers. Sales of all other virulent poisons are safe- guarded by istration. __ The public should be protected from unscrupulous boot- leggers/ Government is extremely negligent in not fur- nishing that protection by some method such as coloring wood alcohol a permanent red. No doubt about H. G, Wells being a man of discernment, He looked at tho yoto cast for him in the mentary elections and at once an nounced he was out of politics, That was tho very idea the voters tried to convey to him, : $500 Memo Pads (CENIUS is forever busy devising ways to extract money from the wealthy, Stores display a leather case, holding a dozen clothes-pins of solid ivory. The price is $300. The nearest approach to this we ever saw was a $500 - pocket memo pad in a jewel-crusted gold case, We won- ' dered at the time if the ultimate owner would have over _ 85 cents worth of thoughts to jot down. An expert says that $5,000,000 can be annually saved by pitching loco- «| ‘ motive whistles higher, but pitching them into the river would attain even Detter results. The situation is softened by the fact that all the presidential possibill- ties are not probabilities, ‘The Price of Movies ; HE public that made life enjoyable for P. T. Barnum spends $730,000,000 a year for movies, according to conservative estimates. . A big figure, but we mustn’t forget that it’s for a big country. The movies appear to collect about $7 a year for every man, woman and child. That's letting us off cheaply, considering what they give in return. President Nicholas Murray Butler, of Columbia college, has Joined the _ bricklayers’ union. That old get-rich-quick iden gets us all, soon or late, : . Senator Lenroot doesn't like these blocs in legislation and ho proceeds to rough hew them with cutting language. : All Resolutions in One : ‘HE “Funny Column” feltow of a big daily newspaper 4 produces this, on New Year's day: » “Further resolved, that in place of resolutions we try : to do the best we can during 1924; and further, that it ; will be impossible for us to do any better than the best * There’s more than humor in this; there's life-philoso- phy, and the fellow who sticks by this resolution need not } worry about others, for it covers the whole scheme. Now that we've read about Osborne Wood, the boy speculator who made a million in Wall Street, let's hear from the million suckers who lost 8 few hundred aplece in Wall Street last year, If there was no Adam or Eve, as tho scientists now assert, who was ft that began the business of raising Cain? Mr. Hoover Deprecates saa HERBERT HOOVER deprecates “tho epidemic of dictatorships that seems to have in- fected Many European democracies,” and he notes “a slight infection” of the disease in America. The two- Slight in ion?” underation! It’s a raging epi- demic, Herbert, and maybe there ought to be 4 LW against it, right away. There’s an “irreconcilable” bloc in our senate, a farm bloc in our house and another sort of bloc in our U. S. supreme court and a dozen formally organized political parties thruout the land. Two par- ties? Why, the only fellow sure of his party is he who belongs to a certain party just because his father, grand- father, and other ancestors back to the Pilgrim fathers belonged to it. You see, Herbert, a good many of the folks have observed that sending democrats and repub- licans, as such, to congress very often results in their standing together as twin brothers when the folks are to be skinned, and so the folks have been breaking out with labor, farmer, non-partisan, single-tax, 48er, light beer and other “infections.” Their idea has been to make the world safe for democracy by being democratic. It is a | growing disorder, Herbert, and if they cannot be cured by a law born of two-party system, some federal judge should jail ’em for contempt, a proceeding that sniffs at law, but does the business in most cases of “infected” | deMocracy. New York city police report 5,000 more @runk cases for 1922, a -prohibl- tion year, than in 1918, in the wet era, That's not evidence against pro- ! hibition—merely of iax law enforcement, Nothing to Dread in Age | pees the dread of old age has eaten the happy heart out of the sound kernel of youth more than any one ghost thing, and yet the truth ig that, given health, each advancing decade brings more pleasure and + less regret to the normal mind. Youth should understand this and not waste its time s fretting about senility, No more than there is in death , anything to fear is there anything in advancing years * to shudder at, for each year brings its new joy, just as it lays aside the worn-out pleasu The averaze father has a sweeter thrill over the joy of his children at Christmas than he ever had as a boy with his gifts. The boy has a vociferous hour or two with the new drum, and then he becomes weary of bang- ing on the thing, but the father will carry a glow in his heart for a month over the joy of his boy. Daughter, with her first beau, has her hours of exalta- « tion and she also has her hours of misgiving, of suspicion, . of anguish. But the wife and mother who has traveled : with husband thru 20 years has no misgivings, she knows where his heart interest lies, and she knows that tho twain have been made one. That is what age generally brings, a sense of satisfac- ; tion, a sense of sureness, and it likewise cools down the hot frenzy of youth, and, as it deadens the zest of mera physical pleasures, enhances the spiritual and mental joys | immeasurably. 5 : Certainly there are some poor people who are so im- poverished in heart and mind that-in their mature rs they yet yearn for the delights of a weary flesh. ‘Such folk are feeble-minded, their brains quit expanding at the age of 16. They have grown up in body, but not in mind, and they should be kept in the nursery and#fod with a spoon, i But normal, growing minds will, + years, find deeper, more abiding joy strivings. with and the pa fewer ssing vain rated that crossing a railroad with advantage or success to those who Well, old 1923 very thoroly demon an automobile brought very little engaged in that sort of Burbanidug. THE SEATTLE STAR SEEMS LUKE MINE NEVER QUIETS DOWN ‘This ts the third of » series by W. ML. Porterfield, back of the present (ween fundamental and moderns. Porterfield has made It » lifelong hobby to stady religion and people BY W. 1. PORTERFIELD OGMA, form, ceremony, rit- wal, all weem to be vital to the Ifo and development of the church, and even of men's faith, and so It was not long after the time of Christ until the Christian church had taken on the most elaborate ceremonies and built up the most elaborate and compli- cated labyrinths of theological dogma imaginable. From tho very first there were those who fought bitterly against Telling It to Congress (Excerpts Taken at Random From the Congressional Record) HIS RIGHTS If the chairmanship of the various committees does not amount to any- thing, if the chairmanship of the in- terstate commerce committees does not amount to anything, then I would like to ask the distinguished senators on the other nlde of the aisle why it is that they object to the sen- ator from Wisconsin (Mr. La Follette) who should rightfully be tho chair man of thls committee?—Senator Wheeler (D,.) Montana, STANDING ARMIES Great Britain, with a much more expensive domain to protect, now has a standing army of only about 80,000 men—Setiator McKellar (D.) Ten- neanes. SMILES One New York jazz orchestra leader makes $5,000 a week, but look at the exercise ho takes! Less than 11 months before Christ- mas, Save early. ‘The new social seasons are promin- ing. Cheek-to-cheok dancing will be done by those who have the cheek. Styles for 1924 show many changes. These changes were needed to keep, old clothes from being tn style. Business outlook ts good except for those wanting something for nothing. They may get the nothing. Reliable statistics show that by hard work all Christmas bills will be paid before next Christmas, The good year 1924 will bo what you mako it. Also, what you make, Franklin’s picture {s on the new $100 bills, We know it fs, Our coal dealer told us. The days nro getting longer, no} some presidential candidate will| claim he had them changed. A presidential the dark ho candidate tells us 8 aro nightmares, Has your Leap Year prospect a mustache? Kissing a hairbrush will toughen your lps for it, WHAT FOLKS SAYING ARE DR. RUSSELL H. BREADY, De lt M. EB. church: “Lf would cease} Ho interested enough persons, how: making belief in tho doctrine of the| ever, so that Europe began to investi. | ire birth of Christ a test of church | gate the outside world and his tray. id man m it, but does accept J m of God nd the church member nnot acce us ag tho & or of the w in did not make the @ test of be the fact In, doctrine eve iple he | | these dogmas—the virgin birth, for example, the immaculate con- ception, the nature of the Trin- ity, the nature of the Holy Ghoat, the tremendous question of trans substantiation, the question of whether Jesus was “Very God of Very God, one with the Father, indivisible and {nseparable,” or whether His divinity was that which in small portion 1s youch- sated to all sons of men. LITERAL TRANSLATION QUESTION LATER The question of the literal fn- spiration of the Scriptures did not come up till long after, for manifestly in the early days of the church there must have been thousands who knew that the Pauline and other apostolic let- ters were written by men just as mortal and just as fleshly as other writers. In time this doo- trine, too, became a part of the fundamentalist's credo, and final ly, altho the Bible was read but little in the early and middie ages, by any but the educated priest- hood, the Bible became a Holy book, utterly removed In charac. ter from any other book, a book Uterally inspired by the finger of &@ personal God. Upon every marble-topped cen- ter table, the family Bible lay to ward off trouble and mayhap dis- aster. Thus the Bible came to be & fetish, and what It contained must be accepted as the very voice of Delty If it maid that God created the world in six days and six nights, those days and nights must be of 24 hours’ duration each. If tho beautiful second story of the cre ation, told of God walking in the Garden of Eden in the cool of the day, there must be no ques. tion as to any allegorical nignifi- cancg The Bible said so and that Was All there was to it. God made man literally out of the dust of the ground, full formed and at once Therefore the doctrine of evolution from lower forms is blasphemy—no less, Therefore \the pious but mightily intellectual monk, Men- del, who first proved the theory of evolution in-plant life, must be kept silent. OTHER MODERNIST LEADERS ATTACKED Therefore, Darwin, tionist, must be att Mrs. Humphrey Ward's novel, ‘Robert Elsmere,” must be suppressed in English libra. ries and an attack on all modern thinking must be led by William B. Gladstone. Gallileo discovers a telescopo and with It worlds hitherto un known, But tho first chapter of great | | | | » him a| more efficient |a great Har. Genesis gives a different account of creation. Therefore ¢ litleo SCIENCE Marco Polo | One of the great books of all h tory Is "The Travels of Marco Polo,” Marco Polo was a Venetian and was believed by those who knew him to be a person who exaggerated, in fact, Howover, thru the stories of his travels, about the year 1200, he opened the to com: munication between Europe and Asia and {ndirec brought the great adventures of Spanish, Italian, English and French explorers, who discovered new parts of the world. It took Marco Polo nearly four years to make a trip to China. He stayed there over 16 years. Ho re- turned to Burope and his accounts of the strange country he had visited Sroused mockery. He was nicknamed “Il Milione” because he was always talking of the millions of people and millions of money in tho country of way wer responsible for introducing > Hurope many of civilization’s modern necessities. ‘These included methods of printing from paper and with blocks of type, runp warfare and ¢ mariner’s compass, Necessary Nuisances WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 194, e282 New ¥¢ ve, ASHINGTON, Jan, 9,—he wocured her divorce in tho state where her mother lived be causo she had gone home after leaving her husband. After while she married again and had , thea she and her new family moved beck into the state of her former husband, Sho was arrested as a bigamint and told her child was Sllegitl mate! Her first husband had had her divorce annulled tn his own state without her knowledge. Her life was hopelessly wrecked. Just one example of what hap- pens in this enlightened country of ours because the United States of America today has 49 different marriage and divorce laws. No two states in the Union have the same jaws, Tho District of Columbia makes the 49th patch in the crazy quilt of marital regulations. A man or woman may be le gally mdrried in ono state and legally divorced tn another, Or if he remarries, fs in danger of being a bigamist. A efffid may be legitimate in one state and in another nameless and unrecog- nized, FIGHT FOR 80 YEARS FORK UNIFORM LAW For 80 years, the American Bar association and other organiza. tions have tried without success to bring some kind of order out of this chaos. The struggle has finally resolved itself into a fight for a federal marriage and dl- voree law. + Backed by a large bloc of wom- en's organizations, Senator Ar- thur Capper and Representative Louis Fairfield of Indiana have placed before congress a const! tutional amendment giving that body power to legislate on the subject of marriage and divorce. A similar measure died in com- mittee last acesion. , This year a more vigorotis fight is being made, headed by the General Federation of Women's clubs, National League of Women Vot- ern, T, U., National Fed- must be thrown Into prison, And #0 on and #9 on. Thus the fight between the prog: es and the conserva tives has gone on thru the ages, clations, the fundamentalists falling back nomics from time to time, but always in ters of the American Revolution. good order, relinquishing the in- HOW STATE LAWS quisition only to Institute heresy ARE CONFLICTIN trials, relinquishing them jo These are the facts about mar- adopt other and newer methods riage and divorce in the United of protection of the “faith of the States today fathers." Seventeen states allow children Ww. C, eration of Business and Profes- Con jonal sional Women gress of Parent hers’ Americ: Home Ei association, and Daugh- —that This Simple in your car. do for you, You'll note an absence of vibration. yours, founded on scientific research. in distillation, tain so-called “gasolines,”’ results in sustained explosions. Upset eam Page, Se Won The U.S. Crazy Quilt of Marital Lay, of any age to marry with con wont of thelr parents, Nino states fix the age of 13 for girls and 14 for boys as the legal age for marriage with con- went of parents. ‘Threo states permit girls 16 or more marry without consent of parents, Twenty states have no penalty vanes notice before » may be Insued. Horm, Hightoon states fooble-minded to’ marr ct three states dinquality ‘sand Only 15 forbid bincks 804 Whityg to wed, When st comen to divores, gy ty stato will issue © decree on one of 14 grounds, ang for an official who Silegally 1» South Carolina, wil} net re sues a license to a minor, nize divorcé on any groundy (4 In three states no license Is re- other states, the : quired Sf bans © been ane nounced, . Only five states require both parties to apply in person for « license, Hight states require ad- grounds range all the 3 tween thes two extrewea be ‘Two ntates will divorce after months’ residence. Two pre) and the District of Columbig. quire three years’ ‘The grave result of i crepancles ts that maeyoe will not recognize ma: divorces of other states per them aside, hopeleasiy the lives of the persons atte Frieda’s Follies MORAL codes certainly change FOR RICHER and for poorer, THIS WOMAN was an ordinary thief, BUT THEY called tt kleptomanta, A DEATH had occurred tn her family, SHE WAS not the least perturbed. EVERYONE was commenting on her calm, “IT 18 not to be wondered at,” I SAID, with an eye in her direc. tion, “SHE HAS always taken things so easily.” A THOUGHT | Wrath killeth the foolish envy slayeth the silly eee man, ai] One—Joh AD temper fs {ts own pee Few things are bitterer the feel bitter. A man’s venom p himself more than his Charle& Buxton. LETTER FROM! ‘VV RIDGE PANN} GOATS : “To print a few real facts in regard to milk goats would fos real justice to a growing industry in this state. * * © If Avridgy Mann would write a letter about milk goats, it would do much ward clearing away the unfavorable impressions that are belag circulated by jokes in the press and personal remarks."—Theo, R Syphers, in Tuesday’s “Letters to the Editor” column. Dear T. R.: | It grieves me very, very much, but still I can’t deny {t—T know | I'd only get in dutch if I should even try St. I'm goatless, likes lot of folks—I've always lived without ‘em; and just the commes run of jokes is all I know about ‘em! I've heard of goats, and what you wrote {s more than merely lor very many years the goat has been the butt of humor, I know exactly how you feel; it gets your—— Oh, excuse me! 1 mean to say your peeve is real, and doesn’t Just amuse me. 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