The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 21, 1924, Page 8

Lar year $8.60, n Pranciace thie. in New York office Bpecial Roprese Seo office, Boston office, 4 It’s Counterfeit HE landlord fainted when the judge ordered him to produce a record of his profits.—New York item. We don't believe it. He may have gone to sleep sud- denly, Tickle the soles of his feet or put snuff in his Mostrils!’ The square landlord isn’t ashamed of his profits. The crooked one hasn't emotions enough to cause a fain’. u flaxers hold national convention in New York February 9% We nominate Alkali Al Fall for president. What Al doesn't know about what to do to other folks’ land nobody does, The Changes of Time AYS when railroad coaches were lighted by candles, days when conductors had to carry lanterns at night to see the tickets—these are recalled by William F. Sulli- ® yan, He's a conductor on the Boston & Albany, Will re- of service, Tn all those years, Sullivan says, the only change he noticed in people is their clothes, Styles come and $9, So do people. Human nature rolls along, unchanged. > Announced that Vassar college teachers are to have complete freedom ‘BT speech. Yes, sir, re going to turn out into the world a lot of Girl graduates—women, mind you—who will feel that they have a right js to Say what they please. Old stuff, formally announced. i New Ideas the early days of the telephone, an old-timer rem- f inisces in the Wall Street Journal, the Western Union F installed phones in business offices for demonstration 8. day Gould tried the new invention, then ordered it re- moved. He predicted it never would be of commercial Value, never get beyond the toy stage. It reminds you of ‘old man Vanderbilt, who ridiculed the elevated railroad en it was first proposed. ' Only within the last 15 years has it become relatively to get a new idea across—to induce people to adopt devices without years of education and pleading. ' Geet Sovict Russia offers Sinclair an oll concession for $250,000,000 ‘and makes no mention of a thorobred bull, two grade cows and a select of prize hogs. “Modern Improvements” Kansas they discover a great engineering job by Primitive men—an irrigation system, including a canal im a huge dam that stored up the waters of Four fle creek. You picture those ancients, digging with one and stone shovels, carrying away the earth in hide sacks. A modern steam shovel would duplicate the job in a "matter of days. Yet our greatest engineering uchieve- "ments may seem as crude and primitive, io people 2,000 “years from now, as the work of the primitive Kansans to us today. However, the defeated candidates will be able to find solace tn the that the White House is a ramshackle old affair, and will need worth of repairs before it is habitable. Progress is slow, but certain. Chinaman's Devils UITE a task, introducing movies to China. The Chi- Nese were afraid of dark theaters, fearful of attacks ‘enemies and devils. Soa wise Yank perfected a screen 3 is “invention will soon take the place of the stock + Wall Street believes. On a screen above the quo- ; the movie machine will flash prices in let- Good News FJAILROADS this year will spend about a billion dol- _lars for new equipment, according to estimates by y Age. Good news for the steel industry, barom- r of general business conditions, for nearly a third of produced in American mills relies on the rail- for its market. steel ingots were produced in 1923 than in any ous year except 1917—which, however, led 1923 by @ very small fraction. Forty-three tons of steel were made last year, for every 30 tons in 1913. in Towa man has just died while playing chee\ers. Heretofore that me has made men grow old rapidly, but was not considered dangerous It Hath Strong Virtue fOSCOW’S most reliable correspondents proclaim that the Third Internationale, which has got Secretary thes scared stiff, is merely an institution whereby Rus- m politicians can “blow off steam.” ‘Say, we never have been able to understand that hird Internationale, but we get it now, and we're for it. it America needs, right now, is an institution, def- aite organized, circumscribed and compulsory, wherein ur politicians can blow off steam. Pass the Third Inter- ationale, safety-valve feature this way. Many of our is are already nigh busting with steam, and, ng about dog days, we'll sure get the bustings. / ticia Ex-Vice President Marshall says Mexico bas a good constitution. It have or it would be unable to withstand so many revolutions, Will It Be Precedent? [SVEN the Japs don’t like our United States supreme 44 court decisions and they are now going in for retalia- They propose to bar Americans from owning or ng land in Japan, and they are justified in doing it. Vill Japan create a precedent of retaliation that will followed by other nations? We have built a tariff ll against the world, on the ground that it is necessary national prosperity. If we demonstrate the efficacy policy, we must strengthen the tariff wall senti- in England, already strong, tho not dominant. We barred our part of the big wine business of France, and Spain and thus promoted a spirit of retaliation. we gobbled up and are holding most of the world’s ‘the basis of successful business. We follow the of isolation, We're fat and all the others lean, ondition nuturaliy conducive to ugliness. erily, if that Jap precedent is followed, we are likely , all the retaliation and isolation we can take care of. These observations are not presented as a brief against c it governmental policies, only as a presentation facts and cunditions. Jim Ham Lewls says China, Japan and Russia are in league to y the United States. Pink whiskers certainly do make a man talk a | THE SEATT Tom THE NEW POLITICAL FOOTBALL LE STAR ee “\ Sims’ ||* 2. NEWS | | \($ PAPER Button! Button! He Keeps It ider than a stenographer's gum. button old 1 its way man years old. | | | i | | | | enough to vote home from iry without asking. If ged buttons talked, this would say, “I never smoke, drink, or sleep under dressers,” MARKETS Leap Year is influencing the bond market, matrimony preferred causing quite a furry, EDITORIAL Naples has shipped to the United States a cheese weighing This, however, ts not et cheese tn the world. © in the world ts the » Who thinks he is the whole one COMICS My h ru FICTION “Making out the incomo tax is fun,” sald a harassed taxpayer, SPORTS We wish to deny the 180-pound chee: ported from N Jack Dempaey be strong, but be cheese, Itty too ¢ Coolidge: Hi Johns 'a in the ring. ep on it, rumor that recently im- wants to fight The cheese may 4 Provolone BEDTIME STORY *Une.your will uso tt oothbrush or mother hairbrush.” BEAUTY SECRETS New York broker's wife ts be- ing sued for $888 laundry bill. ADVERTISING Reducing exercises, By ex ¢reising Judgment a man can reduce his fut head. Reduce expenses by exercising cau tion. Anything can be reduced, except maybe taxes. BY LOWELL, MELL HIILADELPHIA, Ju The night after ler’s first clean-up of Philadel phia, two outoftown corre. epondent thetr dinner tn the Pekin cafe, The Pekin is listed an one of the ¢ 's livety places Around the dancing foot more 200 diners accommo- ed on a fairly busy nigh! It was 9 p, m orchestra waa tuning up. The two cor- respondents were the o: cus tomers. Ono of the entertainers poked her head thru the door and spoke In a husky voice: “So this ig the on-som-bull! My Gawd! What's the show FOREIGN NEWS English doctor has a germ 20 years old. Het it wears sideburns and uses a cigaret holder New Yorker was worried about his missing wife, but found her in Jersey safely married again. Big tobaceo crop in Turkey this year. You can put that in your pipe and smoke it ETIQUETTE Minneapolis man bit off his wife’ ear. This is considered Ill bred in select circles, WEEKLY RADIO PAGE Changing a tickler coll rege erative set to a loop net in stmp tf you keep your whirt on. Re- ems comin’ to?’ move condenser, vario-coupler, Cleaning up Philadelphia ap- stigma, esophagus and glyptodon. parently was an simple as that. Next, remove your hands, Pour But that {* only the apparent in one cup of molasses, two eggs phase, Tho fob ham't been and more lasses. Do not stir until done, If Gen, Butler lasts out cops arrive, the year for which he has been employed, he may stil! have a HEALTH HINTS Job tho Inst week. For a ten. Boston barber says dentlst | derioin that may be as demure pulled out his mustache. This es @ Quaker maid one night can may be fun, but it isn’t healthy. be as wild and wicked ‘an a SOCIETY Parts Apache the next. Representative of the spirit Joy reigns supreme at Mr. that is hard to break is anoth- John’s house. Hl» skinny daugh- er cafe, called the Venetian. ter is getting plump. It was first Raided, it reopened. Raided noticed last night when her el- bows didn’t tear the tablecloth, again, It reopened again, Twice more this was repeated. The “She's gaining," sald Mr, John to a man who called to put a new SCIENCE tor ts beginning to think. He Earth’s Heat | had boasted that his place The common {dea ts that heat Is couldn't tt closed. Gov. Pin- chot, Philadelphians —_ relate, transmitted directly from tie sun to the earth. It ia true that the sun ts failed in his desire to close it. But the reason for that was that Gov. Pinchot did not have the police departmont with him. Tho police felt that ths poll- hot and that all life on the earth Is dependent upon this fact, but strictly speaking, the earth does not get any heat at all from the sun. 1 In inter-stallar space there is ab- ticlans of Philadelphia would have power to punish, regardless solute zero, Between the earth and the sun and. in the very path of the of the governor. Gen. Butlor got around this difficulty by making {t Imponsible for the pol- iticlana to punish while he ro- maine here and at the same time making it almost impossible for the politicians to get rid of him. It was when the police realized this that the process of raiding find reraiding the Venetian be- gan. sunbeams, there is dead coldness. The marine general seems What the earth gets from the sun| Wkely to make Philadelphia ts energy. The waves of energy that) comparatively dry and compara- come from the sun cause motion| tively virtuous. Such gambling among particles of matter when they| as occurs will doubtless be well come in contact with them, This generates heat. The action of caus-| ing beat begins when the waves of} energy enter the earth's atmosphere. | This blanket of air is about 60 miles in thickness—a very thin covering. as distances go, In astronomy, and! Do they not err that devise evil? which absorbs very little of the en-|But mercy and truth shall be to ergy of the waves. Consequently, them that deviso good.—Prov. 14:22, while the waves aro themselyen heat- one less, they set up motion as soon as|T[YRROR, when she retraces her they enter the realm of matter and|IUsteps, has farther to go before generate the heat that is essential to|sho can arrive at truth than ig: the life of the earth. norance.—Colton. LETTER FROM V RIDGE MANN January 21, 1923, hidden. Drinking is likely to A THOUGHT Dear Folks: We motored out one day last week; our Liz was running like 9 streak; I thought we were in clover. Gut something struck a front wheel spoke; the jimcrack on the steer-rod broke, and darned near turned us oyer. ‘Th old tub gave a final twiteh, and landed squarely in the ditch. We then began to view the wreck; it looked like trouble by the peck; the boat was badly busted. The top was all skiwashed around; the horn refused to make a sound; the clutch was disadjustea. The windshield glass was broke in two; the doodad just refused to “do.” Tho radiator had run dry, and half the car was bent awry, the carburetor leaky. The fenders all were warped and bent; the hood had got an awful dent, and both tho seats were squeaky. The whole shebang appeared so punk, it wouldn't pasa for first-class junk. T couldn't see what we could do; I sure was in an awful it seemed a hopeless battle. But when Dad went and he crank, and gave it one good hefty yank, you shoul ho heard it rattle! Ho grabbed the wheel, yelled “All aboard’—and we rode home in that durned Ford! (Written by Mra. T, R, Holland, Seattle.) General Butler and Philadelphi: Why Quaker City Cleanup Has Chance THIRD OF A SERIES ON WHAT’S BACK OF BUTLER Criminals ‘have flocked tn their the heads of the surprised populace, The reform mayor mi, finish out his term without knowing what had hap- ened to him, but it was simple enough. The police in other cit- fem had quietly unloaded some of their favorite crooks upon the reform town, just to “teach a lesson.” Philadelphia probably will es cape this “lesson,” because the Philadelphia police are going along with Butler. They are ready to make thelr colleagues in other cities understand that this is the real thing. LETTERS ,79 EDITOR SAYS THE STAR WAS WRONG FAdltor The Star: | suffice until I could run into 2 garage In tho January 18th fnsue of The|on Westlake ave. and have my left Star I notieed this tem, which ap-| headlight fixed. But before reaching peared on tho first page and also| the garage I wan stopped by a traffic the seventh page: officer and tagged for driving with “VERY DANGEROUS” jonly one headlight. 1 drove into a CAS FINE IS $3 | warage just one block distant from pi ie the place where I was tagged, and Very dangerous,” eald Judge | much to my surprise, discovered that Gordon, after A. A. Rodarmel | qi that waa necessary to fix my head. bad sald “guilty” to driving with | ent was to wipe off a wet terminal only one light A threedollar | and jar the headlight. fine. It is my belief that an Incident of In view of the fact that I am @/ this nature might befall any law- subscriber to The Btar, and also to/ hiding motorist, and I do not believe the fact that I am in accord with {ts/ that the offense Justified the state- policy as m wholo with reference to} ment as indicated in The Star. Would tho matter of curbing reckless drivers) further state that, as I recall, Judge and confirmed traffic rule violators, | Gordon did not say that {t was a very I wish to take exception to the state- | dangerous case, but stated that it ment above. was very dangerous to drive with one On Thursday evening, January 10,| headlight, or two lights on one side, about 9:30, I left the office and) which would make tho car resemble sterted home in my machine. Before! a motorcycle, leaving I turned on my lights, and) Inasmuch as The Star ts In tho am certain that both my headlights | habit of requesting constructive criti. were on. Before I had gone more cism from its patrons, I would be than half a block, I noticed that my | pleased to have you print this letter loft ight had gone out. I immediate-}in an early tssue, as I feel that I ly turned on my spotiight, which, by| have a just grievance. the way, is on the right aide, and A. A. RODARMEL, believed that the two lights would 759% N, 74th St. COMPENSATION $11.30 for ono month's compensation to keep my family on, Is there no way in which the men at Olympia can be made to sit up and take no- tice? K, C. HALL, 7645 Tatt St. stop in the clubs of the well-to- do, Gen. Butler squarely up to the hi mittees, aspipes on oe comme gaspipy giving them the first opportunity to put themselves on a par with the “poor man's clubs.” on py ty of being treated exactly as the latter, if th fall, What about banditry? More than one well-meaning reform mayor han been aatonished by the sudden outbreak of banditry in this city just when he was getting his reform well under way. That has been because the police were cleaning up with thelr tongues in thelr cheeks, Editor The Star: Tam a married man with a fam. ly an@ have been hurt tn one of | Seattle's eawmills and have been out of work for a month. I received BOOSTS COUNCILMAN Editor The Star: money that paid for some of tH. I wish to give the public recogn!-} The entertainmont given the tour- tlon due to a faithful publlo serv-/ ists at the park was considered to ant, Johnnie Carroll, our council. | be the chief factor in our acknowl- man, edged success last season, and f. for Ho was chairman of the entertain. | one, do not believe in paying tribute ment committee of the Chamber of |@fter a man is dead, but all who Commerce which provided all the |Row Johnato know that what he undertakes vi entertainment at the Auto park for | heart, ERANE Caray, Es the last season, and, altho ft ts not Manager Seattle Auto Park. generally known, it was his perronal Sure Way to Get Rid of Dandruff ‘There is one sure way that never fails to remove dandruff completely, and that is to dissolve it. This de- stroys it entirely, To do this, just get about four ounces of plain, or- dinary liquid arvon; apply it at night when retiring; use enough to moisten the scalp and rub it in gently with the finger tips, By morning, most if not all, of your dandruff will be gone, and two or three more applications will com- pletely dissolve and entirely destroy every single sign and trace of it, no matter how much dandruff you may have. You will find, too, that all iteh. ing and digging of the scalp will stop instantly, and your halr will be fluffy, lustrous, glossy, silky and soft, and look and feel a hundred times better. You can get liquid arvon at any drug store and four ounces is all you will need, This simple remedy never been known to fall—,ad. MONDAY, JANUARY 21, 1924, WOULD REBUILD U'S. Eugenist Wants New Super - Race gr each should begin keeping records of family histor’ a sort of human podigroe where eltizens wise propagation of human be. ings ultimately result perman, a race of human thora. breds “Paychologista have doter. mined that the average mont ago of citizens of the United States In about 13 or 14 years and that only 4% per cent of the people ure exceptionally tn. telligent “It iu not only impossible to develop a high clvilization with poor human stock, but an ex. cess of such humans will result in the decay of civilization that exists. gigantic task verage human nature, can wafely say that with a wise application of modern euge we could make over the hu: race in 100 years, transforming into a race of mighty intel. and physical giants.” PAUL civilization n the au is city, county can obtain in formution on the past lives of their fel low men where per sons contem plating mat y can maten urate of good stock and elimt nate thone with phy Imperfections This is the suggestion of Dr Charles ¥'. Dight of this city, ts pIGHT 4 heredity In Amert who rea our clvilization posied on the brink of ob. ion as utter as was the down- 1 of Baby! ‘To avert ruin, Dr. Dight be- eves, the present system of marriage making will have to be chunged. “Tho Uaitea States ts becom. ing populated at an alarming rate with socially unfit, ing epileptics eugenics a ca, | | | MISS ELIZABETH FIELD, famous breeder of race |horses, Lexington, Ky.: “All thoro- |bred horses have @ lot of sense and personality, Some men are os alike |ns peas, but I never knew two well- d horses to be alike. er lies to you. ‘ : lly the greatest horse the world to far produced. And ho is « erfect gentleman with {t all, in ad dition to being a man of sense,’ DAINGER- The character of man, he con- tends, Is determined largely by and no enylronment Hy alter human be- EDITOR OF EL TELEGRAPHO, | Buenos Aires: “Yes, we certainly are becoming North Americanized, | Already we have forgotten the cus- tom of dedicating a few occasional | minutes to the inner man. We dash jin nolsy haste thru the streets in | pursuit of what in the North ts the |Gollar and here the peso, Even love | has become Yankee, and thereby vanished, Today we make love by musio—dancing to the music of the Jazz band, heredity, will materi. havior. SUPERMAN POSSIBLE “{dlots,* he asserts, “cannot be transformed into intelligent human beings; nor will brains, only partly complete, rise above the Ilmits placed upon them by heredity. “As eclentific selection and breeding of plants have pro- | duced super-plants, so can the | | SOMERSET MAUGHAN, writer | “Middle age has its compensations, | You are reconciled to being what you are, and you do not much mind what people think of you. They can take you or leave you. Youth ts bound hand and foot with the shackles of ere opinion." Frieda’s Follies WE WERE playing bridge. | MY PARTNER bed trumped «| heart ‘ SHE was one of those frritables. THE THUMP of her husband's | wooden leg | AT THIS particular moment, AS HE walked across the floor, CAUSED a riot. SHE actually screamed at him TO TAKE himscif and his leg JOHN HAMMILL, ileutenant gow ernor of Iowa: “One of the best | wits and how he treats her with true |race is the advice to learn to work |in order to become independent. As |long ar one, is satisfied with his | Surroundings, he ts doomed to stay OUT of the room. |down, Ambitio: thi “AND, BESIDES,” she wheeled on|ts proms nt Sreatest uree me, | STILL exasperated, “You should) AMLIN |and lecturer: have ja lecture tour in the interior, I re. GARLAND, _ novellst “After beti ASKED ME if I had a heart, the taterton eae BEFORE tho trick was turned.” |turn each time to Manhattan as to 1 SMILED placidiy as I rejoined:/, foreign port. The people in the “THAT would have been a waste street appear mean in stature and of breath, brutal in manner. It is in the | AS EVERYONE at the table, in-/smail towns of Ohio, Indiana, Ill. cluding mynelf, nois that T°overtake the vanishing KN ‘American of my youth.’ ‘OWS that you haven't one.” FOR A TEN-DAY TUBE SEND COUPON ty Fight the film on teeth. You men and women owe urself i yo prettier, cleaner Teeth free from dingy film. Mil- lions have learned the way to at- tain them. 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