The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 10, 1924, Page 6

A np PAhEOH ll oan aah RRL Raat 62 ia Neca ind NR er AE ol THE THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 1924. SEATTLE STAR The Seattle Star Datly by The Star Publishing Co, 1807 Seventh Ava Pho: N per Bnterprise Association and United Preas Service, Jo per month, § montha $1.60, 6 months 4,00, year #8 0 & month, Ruthman, Spectal Representat! fan Francisoe .{ Chicago ofticg, Tribune Bidg,; New York offiog + Boston office, Tremont Bide. The Peril of Idleness YS ERMANY has thive and a quarter million men with- out jobs. If these men were working full time, at only $8 a day, it would mean at least $3,000,000,000 a year added to the total of German“wages. This, they claim, would to provide or abandcnment for keh A hy 9 eee of marriage and divorce, foster- | commision ot an infamous Ginday 14 yeaa Gt ibe killed chars ing a better race of citizens, and crime; these grounds to be inte solver inthe United States, And doing away with the discrepan- preted ulike for men and women; 2 iia thimbaw 49 wabioane snare cies between the 49 different no divorce to be granted for adul- Asivan to laws now existing In the various | tery when both parties are guilty. area states, | Defendant in divorce must ap- A total of 1,600 boys married | BELL INTRODUCED To | ed Ot | TEST OUT SENTIMENT with personal summons {f poss! A model proposed marriage ble, and failing this, notice must and divorce law has been intro- of last Canadian Pacific Bid death by premature | pear inscourt, must be se at the age of 15 last 4 these, 62 were divorced the same eh be published. in town year, Me 1 boys of 16 num When you ponder this big sum, in connection with Ger- man war reparations, you realize that there is nothing bered 4. ond 144 of these were divorced, j At 17, the figures were 7,699 duced by Senator Arthur Capper fo test out public opinion, altho no measure can be enacted until the states agree to a constitu. known residence, Mother's claims to children shall have first recognition. All illegitimate children to be more important in international politics than any meas- ure to keep Germany fully employed. marriages and 266 divorces; at 18, 24,944 marriages and 770 di- | vorces; and at 19, 68,999 mar: | riages and 1,827 divorces, The statistics for girls are even more startling, They show | that $4 girls married at 15 | lant year, and 499 of these were divorced, At 16, the number | reached 41,626, and at 17, 90,930, | with 1,268 and 2,792 divorces in tinal amendment permitting such legislation, Here ure the major points of Capper’s proponal: License to marry must be ap. plied for two weeks before issu. | ance; both parties present at 1s suance, No marriage, even with con- sent of parents, below 16 for girls and 18 for boys; without consent of parents, 18 for girls and 21 for boys, Forbid marriage of insane, | focble-minded, paupers, epileptica, | and those with tuberculosis or | venereal Mnease; also of first | legitimized by subsequent mar. ringe of parents; this to apply to 4ll prior cases, except that verted estates are not to be divested. Decree not to be final fora year; remarriage in this time prohibited, Divorce granted In one state to be recognized in all others. Chief opposition to the theory of a uniform law comes from ad- vocates of “state rights.” Speake ing of these, I ative Carl Hayden, Arizona, has introduced & constitutional amendment pro- viding for a uniform law, but r serving to states the right ft J Waskitn, law, New Y ON, Jan. 10. make possible a sane regulation one year, incurable insanity ‘The nerve of Representative Upshaw, telling congressmen to cut out boozing at official parties! Doesn't Mr. Upshaw understand that the Jaws are made for the people and not for congressmen? Evidently not! S It is improbable that the winner of the Bok peaco prize Is a Mexican, 25 Billion Phone Calls ‘OW often do you use the phone? Nearly 25,000,000,- 000 conversations a year pass over the telephone wires. This is about 230 calls for every man, woman and child in the country. Less than one a day. There’s a phone for approximately every seven Amer- the two groups. Theno figures are being used by organizations now fighting to give congress the right to enact & federal marriage and divorce CAN SEE oar NOW TAAT TRIS 1S. GONNA BE A HEClic 2 : 7 *, ” j jcans. So the average phone is used about 1,600 times Circus F Fy d ’ Folli i} couninn, prohibit absolute divorce for an; a : _ H 1 Clerks who tssue license con or all causes and to limit or pro- ia | Frleda's Wolligs) |) cess cover ueres | cat cire Many now living can recall when the phone was only | a toy of the experimenters. With this precedent, it’s safe to make almost any prediction for the future of radio and airplane. | Gen, Wood's sor followed tho advice of a “Wall Street tipster” and | won. ‘That ts the astounding thing about It, f nD sons who marry contrary to law ‘The women’s organizations re- ject this as worthless. They ar gue that the 18th and 19th amendments have permanentiy established the principle of fed eral legislation to govern ques- tions of nation-wide scope. to be punished Marriage legal in the state where contracted to be legal in al] states. : Yive grounds for divorce in all 1 HAD turned down her yachting invitation, EVERYON for seasickn THE GUE the hotel veranda. : ehh VERYONKE was urging me to go, ‘ veces | Betting Other Men’s Lives BUT never dul BY HERBERT QUICK knew my propensity é mle alE ONS, _, Recs were wathered on) Get it, 19242 “Peace on earth and good will to men.” WHEN I was aboard. ONE MAN, a humorist, wht, waid, “COME ON, Frieda, the No Longer an Alibi i ERCHANTS frequently vlame poor business on the | 3 weather. J. Casin, sales manager of the Van Raalte | Co., has studied the matter and decided that in the long | ke my: yacht {sn‘t aye wit is saat | J DON’T know that our secre. and come back from the solitudes . b al, only ie th the harbor.” " vi ‘ magi ars . Sig ——s o ree eat tary of the navy Is a bet- raft. I don't believe he has any run weather has very little effect on business. Unfavor- 3 —— YES,” I rejoined with meaning, ing a eo Ne it he tien the gam- moral right to do {t. I refuse to “BUT the owner is not so par: ticular.” ‘able weather may temporarily affect sales, but there's a corresponding increase later, according to Casin. on — | Merchants, however, are like the rest of us. Every Behind This Churchman’s Wa: | person has his pet alibi, and usually it’s a delusion. | Se taes ve te eet tr a nuvats ua | Clergy More Modern in Views Than Pews |\_4 THOUGHT ‘The odds are that the Shenan- he Argus.—Arkansas Weekly Argus. subscription to the Argus. s y Wisdom ix the principal thing;| oh will be lost with all on assent to any of have the ri on a venture when nothing tm it is to be gained by suc- i where it is ten to one that they will all be lost. proposition that superior officers biing instinct, I respectfully sug: | gest that in the proposed expedl- | tion of the great dirigible, the Shenandoah, to tho polar regions next summer, he is taking long odds. the language of the gam- ‘This ic the fourth of w series by | ed was people who could read it 1 York Is drawing great audiences [therefore get wisdom; and with all) board z fraternity, {t 1s even mor “Cashing In” Te Pie creed chareh ‘war bor he original United States h his declaration that "Christ [thy getting get understanding If the secretary were betting | ¢Y¥ that the Shenandoah will be | ween fundamentaliste and moderns, Today among tho great funda. | ming very soon in 8 | Prov, ivs7. his. money against mon I lost before she even gets to her Forterfiekt has made it « lifeleog hobby to study religion and people, heaven.” i ISFORTUNE can frequently be turned to advantage. 4 Burglars stole some coats from a store in Waltham, mentalints, © of the most prom. inent js Billy ay, whose Dr. Torrey of the L« great “sawdust tratl" meotings Bible Inatitute, {9 pe point ‘of take-off for the polar trip. It is ten to one that she should not object. I do object when ho bets tho lives of a large Angeles os tho before us Nes tn Mass. The shrewd store manager advertises: “If the gentlemen who took the overcoats will bring them back we will exchange them and see that they are well-fitted. as we carry a complete line.” Troubles and mistakes can be converted into good in- 4 vestments. Mistakes usually prevent us from making 4 greater blunders later. They can't account for that staiue of a monkey in King Tut's tomb in any other way than that someone, even back that far, was trying to an- ney William Jennings Bryan. Dead or Mad VER 1,200 cases of alcoholic insanity were treated, the past year, in one psychopathic hospital in Chi- cago—one hospital, and nearly four cases of alcoholic imsanity each day of the year, mind you! It is appalling. . BY W. H. PORTERFIELD HAT tremendous good has been accomplished at times by the fundamentalists, only a very narrow partisan would deny Dw Chi the greatest ev ern times, was a fu pure and simple. W tific education or cultural back- ground, he still wrought might. fly for righteousness thruout the English speaking world and Drought millions to think of spire {tual things who had hitherto given no thought to much above the matertal It was Moody who, upon belng asked if ho could read the Bible . who from a me to be of mod go shor were the sensation of a decade ago. A pocullar feature of the pres ent war betwe the opposing forces in the church t# the re. vital of the pre-millenarta ory or belief in the tmm| ond coming of Christ This belief is as ol} tianity Itself. It was undoubt edly held by many of the apos tolic writers who expected to seo Jesus return an the temporal Lord of the Universe, even while they were still alive. ‘Thru all the years this belief has persisted more or lass, for causes which space wil not per- mit to be given here, and now ft haa broken out again with great number of human beings on the will be lost if she takes off for iB! T to know | | That which | most noted of all the pre-millen- | arlans of the country Dr prom the yoyage. life, 9 wisdom —X ability of the Shenandoah to make that yoyage over the {cs Of course, the officers and men 3 te who are schedu TER R ™M soldiers. hey do not think of! ‘Vv RIDGE PiANIN their own safety, It is therefore Jan. 10, 1924. |Ie the prin declares that with b wreak the duty of the secretary of the navy to think of It for them. The dirigible is, except under favorable conditions, an unman ageable, easily-wrecked machine. The French general, Dumont, was interviewed recently and stated that the building of the dirigible should be abandoned. s of Fort a in “the literal personal, bodily, visible, imminent return of the Lord to Dear Folks: earth.” T notice, in the papers, quite a lot of talk of Peace, Our gory martial capers, #o they may, have got to cease. For war is far from cheering, and it causes lots of woo; it fosters profiteering, and !t costs a lot of dough. . . . But worse than such recitals The loss of the Dixmude marked the end, he said. It ought to od ¢ tho . the, modergists must.be. pun | of te rare row, I find, is all the bloomin’ titles that it went and | mark the end. Ev paren ished even to the extent of - | | ship has been fost before it was ing them from their pulpite and For, t's “Major” This and “Captain” That and “Colonel” Bo- long in use. Gen. Dumont as All these men are literalists, fundamentalists, conservatives, it | you will, men who declare that Some time ago, one of the chief and aggressive advo- cates of prohibition enforcement expressed the conclu- sion that liquor drinking and liquor violations will dis- E appear when those with a craving thirst are dead or in _ the mad-house. That will be a generation or more hence. If the report from the one Chicago hospital is accurate, as it no doubt is, and if it is an indication of what is | transpiring in other communities as well, that advocate | had good reason for his sad conclusion. | Is there no pathway to common decency and sobriety | that does not lead thru the graveyard and the mad-house? virulence, from the commun! f pons! ; serted that the Shenandoah w and-So. You meet a martial title nearly everywhere you go Frank op Manning, of the New Our ordinary “misters” aren't any more the same—they've put a || Surely be lost. He did not say ke Eplacopal diocene, in at his hefty handle onto everybody's name! that {t will be lost if {t starts on wits Gnd to: keep tt y ! this polar trip, but the inference fs to his judgment fs plain. The Shenandoah voyage was planned before the loss of the Dixmude. ‘That sad affair should bring about a reconsideration. i The secretary of the navy has 4 this in his hands, If this vo; it's “Major” This and “Captain” That and “Colonel” So- |} age is undertaken and the ie] and-So. You mect a martial title nearly everywhere you got are lost, he will be responsible: j all the “misters” that we used to know before—and The people will applaud an aban- 1 help us if we go and get another war! donment of the trip. I should other not like to be in his place if he oodchild of New Greek,” replied that all he want- Dr don. Prince of ¥ for a trip to South A | | In the “original Hebrew and | | 9 churet id action caret. He diss ing to create the impression that he js a strict | fundamentalist, yet th: ed thousand dollars for a “plan of peace” is won; and ho it’s quite a chunk of “m: For war has modern stuff it brings—you get your fill of nd other things! And when a war ts you ean travel anywhere, and this can be depended— . of there's a bloomin' title there! rich achol WHAT FOLKS ARE SAYING los 1s. preparing ples, mud ended, know him Intimate that with } and int Kenesaw Mountain Landis: ‘‘Not | la war profiteer has ever op in Jail. A Chicago boy of who can play 'Y}a saxophone needs anking. jectual back And ¢ is imponsi Political logic is funny. As a whole machine, Henry was a power. As an accessory, he is a mere useless nut. Washington has a ¢ y of the he real crime wave, not congress eae as er, Columbia. tn is mod Cirridge has to bear the responsibility—1 ers of : : i Nhs had almost written the guilt—ot W asters All ft lov Leap ¥ t the probable tragedy, if this fool- braces—a sort of sexual boc ¢ 17 marr man of ish thing goes on “J HAD forgotten there was so much food. If only we could send back what you waste!” jOnly this need to be as people, that they are miasing a gre : 3 r : 4 a hs |deal if their » Jo not grow up. This 1924 looks like a bad year for 4 Eating his holiday meal in New York, Anton Lang, the | Great tove {s too tremendous a pas-| Celebrities, but then every year ts 4 “Christus” of the Oberammergau players, uttered this fon to be expressed in such a prit-| bad for celebrities. truthful indictment against us. Before the table of plenty, his mind turned to the cold hearths and empty cupboards ering technique.” ees: Judge Landis must decide ff a ; | 4 ‘ across the big waters, where men and women and babies | yeu Feichee Johnso “The ts parece w ife in a necenaty, Judge "| q ; +7 crease 0! e ay ol ife . & ( sf ‘ are in sore want—starving. leffected by the labora of Louis Pas ites We are wasters—probably the most excessive wasters |teur and of thosé who have learned on the earth. Food, clothing, fuel, fore: lands, words, [from him has been greater, in health, time—everything, we waste recklessly. What |*imsle seneration, 't alt Scott! got decorated for being tn Metropolitan op 5 years, It does a thus slips so easily and freely from our indifferent hands |?°*"** *° i" ce would neutralize the sufferings of millions. nk Strickland, city + | There's one nice thing about movie 4 Waste is written down a crime, but is it? The man City, Kansas: “'T dz | colebrit We are s j who wastes here and there makes employment for his of the for born, bitin 4 neighbor, for waste is one big part of consumption, and | from the Central Furopean statesare | Bus | j consumption creates demand and prosperity waits on |jjsuor Jaws Mika ted Reap sithateds: a demand. - the microbes’ fault | We astound our visitors from the pinched regions. not President W Deming, « ger : only because of our size and stupendous accomplishments | vice commission: ‘It may be that) Indications are that 1924 will be a in all directions, but because we are wasteful beyond all ‘he “vil service commissior yum dinger, except for those w! other peoples. And yet we are the most prosperous and |/1%q nencigered that manwal ae ase hac hag NE greatest country in the world—a country that can waste | ceive more than a m mm Wisktins whonG Ooty wilt't enormously and still thrive sufficiently to be the Good jest not cou catia 1 new bi Pe nit fBadev Aseskltd Samaritan that succors those who pinch and cut and |¢X#mine more t a quarter mil | don't get the wrong number. — | jto fill more than 50,0 save, but still suffer from want. ) vacancies, it} ; = [is not to be expected that everybody | Sclentists decide man fn the ape's Organized womanhood will revolt, of course, against the presidential {wil} be satisfied cousin, We heard a girl say he was She never would think of throwing her hat into it. - _|the gnat's eyebrows, | AWNINGS —— Who's Married and Who Isn’t TEWTS =| SCIENCE HE United States o1 America has agreed that sale md and consumption of liquor is a national problem and should be regulated under one law in all states. It has recognized that the enfranchising of women should be dealt with by federal law. The next step, and in many respects most important of the three, is recognition of the principle that marriage A scientist says we are not far removed from the stone age, and he probably speaks phrenologically No More Stained Yellow Stained Teeth Bleached White eeth! No More Stains on Children’s Heredity Kiveryone is interested in heredity or another. Heredity is past in the pres ween How To Remove | Tobacco Stains from Teeth person and f 5 rs and between a person and divorce are national preblems and require unifor and his children N S f W. . a th national legislation. , : 1s Just what qualities are Inherit ew wate Way in Only Three Minutes Tee ; Each citizen of the country is entitled to a guarantee beets SA ite tite oe more dark, dis 1, spotted or stained No ticed now for tobace uins on teeth Nothing spoils a child's whole appearance from his government that when he marries, that mar- A. satidency:to ton, ae ls inherited, | teeth. Bleachod ‘ lent Combination bleaches aqwey,stalr quicker than’ stat dull or yellowish teeth. riage is legal in every part of the country; that when hc But ‘genius is not. Deaf mutes| f U rem nets ‘tae : pk st Me Pipe bate eaied ele . as tanta onital ere recognized everywhe he 4 person who has developed | ;, white tro 1 drops of liquid tion Instantly dissolve way teeth stains, Bigamy is not a nice sounding word. Yet under exist- ‘ Give us Fein OSG TICE Teaace HS cane, | every wniek quicker, sur td the quick rest giving dull, dingy teeth a beautiful sparklo ing conditions, any, citizen, with the best intentions in Ae on a child. And so on. | harmful, dangerot . hate bechlat e ah e' B22 pte abiiae eed het tare ct ober: 4S the world, may find himself facing punishment for this ‘AMP LEWIS Certain physical traits are known | Tens fll, Reallive tee tw ne ‘ sha eee mai heh gt he Bava tag ok het cee ee crime, committed unknowingly. WIRELESS pte be. transmitted. | Size coloring}, act only on murtace atalt i end canmncty Ae rg rp nt ; sf Rindobt pater He may find his children, legitimate in one state, are 1123 Int Ave. cor. Senecn Bl isowis. te ‘4 f A mitted inches! hod: Combination containa Hquid t ouring with old-fashioned meth ns usually disappear witlt nameless and without standing in another. yeuss Chleerniee uenhed pl But the major a n_| loosen stain coats and special past hich € Does not affect enamel as it ‘e, mild wtions of Bleachodent Comb States’ Yes, but not when their consequence corner Weatern Ave tists belleve that the evidence in wil| ReNtly removes them. I ‘ ; \ pecially combined to act ot affect enamol as its mild are apt to be so injurious to their citizen pote tiha Gant piped teainst the idea that mental char etains from forming. © to ‘ only on surf on the enamel ‘especially designed to act ; Well, the bloc and tackle fegisiators are at it again down in ingion. Wash ore are Bleachodent Combination is sold at all good deal such as Swift Drug Co., Bartell Drug Co., The Bon Marche, MacDougall-Southwick, Fraser-Paterson Co., Rhodes Co., Grote-Rankin Co., Jamieson-Doane (6 drug stores). till contend t liabls to be edity a A product of| A dirigible in the hangar secms to be worth two in the sky of environment