The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 8, 1924, Page 8

y “It will bring them good luck. Do not bri The Seattle Star Published Daily by The Star Publishing Co, 1307 fe MA 10-0600, Newspaper Knterprise Association and United Pree Mall, out of city, 80 2 months 41,66, @ months 62,09, By carrier, olty, 800 a month. Gliman, 'N & Ruthman, ottice, Mor k Bide Canadian Pacific Bide th Aye, Phone # Bervion My per month, year $6.60. fan Francteco New York offices Representatives orton . Tremont Bide Do It Now STNCOME taxes are going to be reduced, That's assured. L Republicans, democrats and progressives all favor it. Fine. But With a $3,000,000,000 surplus in the treasury, why wait ‘until 1925? The house ways and means committee, now ‘considering the Mellon tax bill, “thinks it might be pos- Isible to mike the reductions this year.” ? The Star says: “Do it!” Most income tax payers stretch out their payments ‘over the four quarters of the year, so that an adjustment ‘of the tax would entail little cash return, It could be done without confusion. + Citizens unprotestingly have paid and paid as long as ythe money was needed. Now that the treas is “over ‘the top,” it is an imposition to make them for an- ‘other year before the burden is lightened, } + Harry Daugherty says ho went to Florida to play, That's clever Going there at this time certainly was playing politics, ‘ A Notice to Mr. Jinx » A NOTHER chain letter in the morning's mail. ‘ “Copy and send to nine friends,” read the drivel. k the chain, ‘for whoever does this will have bad luck The chain ‘was started by an American officer and should go three ‘times around the world.” Tf Old Man Jinx has any bad luck, let him bring it on. ‘For the chain is broken, here and now. | If Seattle citizens think no more of their own time sthan to spend it in copying and mailing such foolish twaddle, at least they should spare the overworked letter fearriers from distributing them and their more sensible friends from receiving them. > Wilstorian thinks Abraham Lincoln will have been forgotten in 2,000 years. Republicans are praying that Albert Fall will be forgotten In 3,000 hours. Back From the Dead IQIFTY thousand volts of electricity passed thru an em- ‘& ploye of General Electric Co., at Schenectady. His heart and breathing stopped for several minutes. Then revived. Alive now. _A current of 2,000 to 5,000 volts would have killed . An overdose of electricity is like an overdose f a certain poison that is fatal in small quantities. Electricity is the Supreme Mystery, barring iritual. Democrats having selected a teapot as their campaign emblem, repub- {leans will probably choose a Mellon as their symbol. Not Like Teddy ‘HE Roosevelt tradition is not particularly well served "4 by the eleventh-hour scuttling of the sons in this jatter of the Teapot Dome scandal. With the charge of bribery and corruption openly made the U. S. senate, young Mr. Archibald Roosevelt the committee room where the investigation is progress and dramatically withdraws from the Sin- Oil company, Big Brother Theodore sort of bringing n along by the arm and telling the committee he nks it is the best thing for Archie to do. he tradition of Roosevelt integrity would have been ter served had Theodore Junior used his position as stant secretary of the navy to prevent the transfer the naval oil reserves to Secretary of Interior Fall's partment, raising a voice against such transfer and re- in protest when it was made. Because, as a er of fact, everybody knew the purpose of the trans- It was to loot the reserves, 1 am thru with politics for good,” says Fall. “For good” are deserip- words and well chosen. rtain the ters ‘in FRIDAY, SRUARY 8, 1924. Tom Sims’ NEWS PAPER ps ($ ALL GOLD NOT IN TEETH Common Belief Is Mistake There ehildren 12 y who have never | copt thelr But * import That ts enough money | quart of 40-year-old booxe. you get without will not reach the 11964 What gold? nen are rings. are 8 ol laughed statiation $16,000,000 1 1 in one month to buy The stu this pric when parent show ying with so) muc and th do we do This ts leap year on the Jump That may } wo | din | tion, | GEE WHIZ The governor rupt, according to a report by master of chancery Th j proves our lifelong contention the jit 1s possible for a governor to t honest | A dishonest governor may the state to go krupt, but ft next to impossible for him j broke in perton. | POLITICAL } What's in a name? Aidn't let them carry away | FOREIGN NEWS | MacDonald says the pire ta all right. Of course it & Didn't tt choose MacDo: ir SPORTS ey had a t NEWS York enter he BRO, To clean cclling your head on a table and }as you would scrub the floor, usband. TOMS KITCHEN Lost Somewhere between m and Dome al oll reserve, several repu tations in fairly good shape Finder please return at once. y—_—— Ki TEAPOT NEWS Washington ta no qv |wcandal you can hear a fight tw | blocks away. | BEDTIME STORY ‘Teapot id soon real gold ex a tf © of 40 before h wed the solu: f Indiana is bank- fed, in at cause is to go} Caraway British em: | Jog show in New | woman tried to | st ahout the | Chieago woman asks divores be. |cause he made her }morning and build don't blame her. JAIL, NEWS Detectives at work on |suspect Senator Walsh of makin get the fire, up ever away with Al Fall's peace of mind. } | WEATHER | They hanged two Eskimos. Mayt |they can hang the man our furnace. kimo. | EDITORIAL ashe demanded money. BEAUTY SECRET Hunting a nickel on will reduce your bay window. ¥ We the case < | be | who fires He must be an Ew A Cleveland girl robs drug store. | It's a wonder the clerk didn't offer | |her something just as good when | the floor | The height of fashion ts always | | | FASHIONS | ound in the price. | QUESTIONS AND | ANSWERS ‘OU can get an answer to any Question of fact or informa- tion by writing to The Question Editor, Star's Washington Bu- reau, 1322 N. Y. Ave. Washing- ton, D. C., enclosing tw stamps for and marit given, nor be undertaken, quests cannot EDITOR. Unsigned be answere | stand on| scrub | na * ifs ool Tne SHE WAS Serving SOMETHING From SOME OF These DISAES How Europe Today Is Helping Itself BY HON. Chairman. (DIG BUSINESS” the world over has become inter. nationalized. The nationals of country are entering Into contracts with those of another are spreading their distri- buting organizations over other Some have gone so far as to divide up the world's ter ritory. Gradually one or Janda. over Europe the consum co-operative organ zations of the cities on the one hand and the farmers’ purchas organizations on the other are forming international buy: ing organizations to combat monopolies, Every year at thelr interna. tional meetings the question of international buying of raw ma- terials is the uppermont. These discussions are expanding into action. As soon as the mone- tary situation among the na- tions is stabilized, international purchasing. by. these a: Uons will be tremendous erated. To one observing this great. est economic movement in the What Folks Are Saying Prof, I. H. Stoughton Holborn, Federal Trade world's battle of difficult to bring about if a stabilized peace can be maintained for a few years, Instead of battle of arms, the future will see a bat tle of economics, in which the national co-operative organi ona will combat the inter al monopoly history, a arms will be very The co-operative city consum. ers as well as farmers’ gr providing the greatest won tn economy that the world has ever seen. Thru. their agencies over 125 million peo of Europe are purcbasing for human life or the materials required for pro: ducing farm crops, They doing this up on @ cash basis, paying an they go, In this re are probably the Greatest single force for recon- struction in Europe. AMERICA TWO YEARS BEHIND EUROPE In America we are paralleling the economic situation in Europe, but we are about two years behind. The reaction from the insistent price-fixing and monopoly that in going on in this country as much as in any period of our history is driving the ultimate consumer of tho city and the farmers into their respective co-operative organiza- tions as in Europe. In practically every Instance where the farmers or artisans Neceasaries HUSTON THOMPSON Comminsior have been oppressed by “price. fixing’ they or monopoly have gone into the busl- ness of purchasing ani om of neceararies abroad, distribu. the farm vidual They ve manufacturers monopolized or by pricefixing schemes. Once they have star to manufacture thru their have controled instances they nihilated the mon- caused thelr bi a HAVE OWN CREDIT ORGANIZATIONS There the “farmers finance themsclves thru thelr own credit organizations. Each mem- of ansociation assumes unlimited liability for the loans made by his society to his fel- low farmers, This eliminates the great landowner from the ciation, m for small, com- pact groups who act with ex treme care. This system acts as a restraint upon land specula- tion and dincourages land ten- ancy. The farmer who is a chronic tenant cannot be one of thelr group. When these small groups have pooled thelr resources into t central organization ‘awe its funds from th the farmer has become pp tleally independent in his bank. ing operations, ber an anno. | WE H AVE NO RULER BY FRED L. BOALT things the year round. of zoology, tells of a pair of pack watermelon weeds upstairs from the | record of what man has done, brings kitchen and hid them under a pil- | the world’s career down to a very table- | recent ume. | low. spoonfuls of a vest hanging on a nail. night Jarticles from on jand corn which they jNo. 1. rat latest edition » my hand. of the put Before ter of thi pproved by thorit first parngrayp “The president of the United Slates ha» more responsibilities and greater power than any individual in this or any> other land. He ts the foremost ruler of the world.” States in NOT ruler of the world. HE ANY KIND OF A RULE He 4s sident of THEIR DOGS A DELUSION JOLICEME subject to delusions, Many police wed by a detective y, then, thi t correct the upter did 3 of the United the fore the pre even detectives, other They forces pos- a delusion to the They t s often “put hours after itted. dogs the crime it belie man has been. comn ed that will, If once given the scent of the guilty party, ow it no matter how it winds about, and jump guilty person when they find him. This is all a delusion. They have proved {t*to be a delusion in Europe where the dog mania started. A dog cannot pick out & man when given the scent, even if close by. Neither can he follow the man's trail even where it is mot crossed, if it is not perfectly fresh, and if it has been crossed, especially by 4 trail going in much the same direction, the dog is just as likely to follow the wrong trail as the right one. It is all a delusion. The dog's evidence is worth exactly noth- ing. This has been shown by hundreds of experiments. Human evidence is unreliat enough. Dog evidence ts more #0. It is not e at all “BRAIN BUSY Pack rat, much cursed pest of but not April 1 moving, Hornaday, rats that lot carried a of Then of they took two cucumber seeds up- American wilderness camps, doesn't | rob thru malice or greed, | cause he has @ passion for moving |¢nough to form fossils. but all| old as the record is that is told by doctor | fossils, it starts at a late period in orida | the history of the earth. | ich t# known Amer tle corporation w United States of has and overy adult Jer has exactly ne vo! vin it is different i Th ation 110 000,000 shareholdera, from re It happens in a private corporation a ing holds 61 er of the # hich the corporation has one-man rule But no one man can rule the Unit ates of America. We Americans are @ sovereign far from being our , the president is our ser- mployed by us at a good four-year hile frequently man cent ares, in under a con Once in our us 60 con. years. tract for another But not often, é The president Is as literally our servant as Is the mayor of our town or the policeman on the beat. The moment our president ceases being a servant and be comes a ruler, you will find me, for one, in rebellion, ‘There 1s no disrespect in what I am writing. The duties of the presidency are many and onerous, Only a good man could discharge them well. Most of our presidents hi been good men of high attainments. But that our president {s in truth our servant 1s shown by the fact that the services one president—n man named Johnson—were so unsatisfactory as to be tantamount to violation of his contract with us—and we kicked him out of office. SCIENCE Rock Records ‘The history of the earth for the please ew tho tour vo miliion of years before there is any record of man is divided into eras. The story of these different eras is told by scientific reading of the rocks. | Geologists have mage great progress in recent years in reading these rec- ords of the rocks and, as a result, have greatly increased the estimates of the age of the earth. When rock were being formed by sediments that accumulated age after age, the remains of plants and ani- | mais living at the time were buried in them and these formed the fossils | that are so keenly sought and studied | by scientists, Many ages passed before there be. | Were living creatures. with parts hard Therefore, History in the sense that It is a period, as geologists reckon This history dates from about rs and put them in the pocket | 2000 B, C. when Menes founded the they .removed 85 brought out two quarts Hornaday brain busy.’ calls the Next | first* government of Egypt of which small|there is any definite record, box to an adjoin-| known that man, in his present form ing box and went into the pantry jexisted many thousands of years of| prior to that time, but the accurate deposited in Box| record of what he has done starts pack | with this half-mythical founder of an Egyptian dynasty. It is director fine arts department, Carl }ton college: “It doean’t matter so | f much what wo have come from ax what we are growing toward. Man LETTER FROM alone can fix his goal. I have no patience with people who cry, of Tr’ 2a art | must be exercised in order that the|‘Don't worry.’ The cows Gon't iv |impacts of the rapldly-revolving| worry, and the pigs don't worry, b LANES | wheel on the vase will not shatter|and there they are. " ; lit, but 4f you take the precaution oot Wepriary 6; 3924. }to grind slowly and carefully, you | will be able to cut it down satis. | factorily. Stockings for Boys KNOW the value of a dollar—I worked for it. Too many children of the rich are mere spendthrifts. kids are going to wear cotton stockings, so they can ciate the silk ones that they will earn, later on.” hu: I. C. Herman, millionaire handkerchief manufac- irer of New York. on stockings—comfort, thrift. Silk stockings— luxury. Knowledge of the dollar’s value and pur- because earned by pr hes pa) ip Ignorance of he same and uselessness, use father worked hard. | yy dry. alla te re-chs ? difference in these decreeing the career of children. ry oie el Basins lear rie eas argon tama arog e men of wealth than are thought have a life-policy CaN avoas ee a ark oe s ng like this: pie oe Mathoniah i |. Ook: Dwight! B Davis, caulatant |, 1 owe my children the best home and the best educa- |" Five-sizths of them are Luther-| secretary of war: “There will be no | n I can give them. Maybe I owe it to them and to |ans, the remainder deing mostly roapag 2 et ek fapiters ety to leave them enough to keep them from want. |Greek Orthodoz, and Roman Cath-| war. Under a plan worked out b t is best, for them, for society, and for me, that they |°%* ‘ olllons clus und tadawiey #4 tave'l earn luxuries, as I did, if they want them.” a part. When other countries learn Immortal Abe Lincoln started in homely yarn stockings. that all these elements are aval: | might be well should every rich father of our day irae ca Sep Se spiitise ty act this boy over and consider where old Abe would tack.” | have got had he had silk stockings and a father who Cee ve | told him that a dollar was an inconsequential trifle and J: B. Dore, game werpen bn wouldn’t have to work after father died, anyway. But, epee REM ats adel eo te eos A nughter of rabbits. We should rich of our day, as a rule, stake their boys to un- Ge? Gad thaldiate take steps to preserve them. By rj ae gait ernmen the state of Tennessee ned bank accounts and make their only responsibility | cas formed. taking rabbits away from the coy- of speculating on how soon father will be dead and eee otes, we are driving the latter ant. juried. Silk stockings and all other luxuries pall on Ia the story of Robinson Crusoe|Mals to seek other food like chick- fuch boys, ss a rule, and their only persistent vision is |‘ Y4" {S's fiction but at of the fatness of dad’s estate. y decanter ens, calves and pigs.” gested by the story of one Alerander Why have these fossil hunters overlooked Washington? 150,000 Years Ago desolate island for over four years. Telling It OOKING backward: The most important delving into to Congress ¢ the unknown past in 1923 was the discovery of the cull of a man who lived 150,000 years ago in South Se Mae ee nerica. Such is the belief of one distinguished group of I am making a table lamp, How can I cut the top off a crockery vase? | By means of a medium-grained jemery wheel. Some care, of course,| WE invite you to make comparisons: of our favorable credit prices with thecash prices of the regular retailers; of our high class nation- ally advertised merchan- dise with that of the best stores; of our refined methods and our beauti- ful establishment with those of others. After that we shall be glad to welcome you as a Buy what you please P ay at your ease Ladies’ Wrist Watches Tiped hear Whee a shay year ite $laWeek — engraved case is fitted with : i Hs aS the bye ers BULOVA movement known far and wi its superior quality; has 17 Jewsle and is adjusted at the factory. Only $35 Others up to $350 on Equally active Terms On reading Thursday's Star— I see some engineers will take a slant, and Jet us hear about the Skagit plant. They want fo tell us what the city owns for having spent leven million bones; for that is quite @ tdy bit of dough, and worth a very careful double.O. .. . But tho {t earns our censure or our praise, the fact is quite the same: the public pays. I see a fellow gave a cop a tip for tearing up a little traf. fic slip. Five dollars was the wad of tin he blew—before he found the court was charging two. And the Phe OEen ly changed his mind; he told the chief and then the cop re- signed. We hand the cop a loud and susty gibe—but what about the guy that GIVES the briby I see @ man preferred a pauper’s fate 1 wouldn't take a million buck estate. Now there's a guy that’s really very wise—ho knows it's not in wealth that pleasure lies, When money comes it's apt to sear our hearts, and oftentimes the Joy of life departs, ... Would I accept a million if I could? The plain and solemn truth ts this; I would! Frank Swinnerton, English novel- ists “Novelists do not put into books the people they meet. If the writer simply imagines a character, Faia The illustration only shows to asmall degree the beauty and ex- quisiteness of the hand-made mount- ings in our $100 Diamond Rings. Apia Bingt ae White Gold and is with a brilliant bluewhite Diamond_ ‘ $100 Only $2 Down — $2 a Week oe Was there ever a state of Frank- |i in the United States? In 1784 the East Tennessee coun- | tes endeavored to form tha state of Franklin, Congress, however, would| not recognize them as independent| of North Carolina. Later North Carolina ceded these counties and other territories to the federal gov- wo, an” ld ’ : NATIONAL ja% Dr. Richard B, Moore, former " y chief chemist, U. §, Bureau of Mines: “Enough ‘helium gas ts now available in the United States to keep filled and ready for service 200 airships of the size of the navy dirigible ‘Shenandoah.’ This country contains all the known world sup- ply o€ the gus and, as an asset in time of war, it would be invalu- able.” A THOUGHT He that hath knowledge spareth his words: and a man of understand. ing Is of an excellent spirit—Prov. xvil.:27, Dp in the true sense of the word, re- quirés a complete and efficient or- ganization founded on a basis of ac- curacy and promptness, We have many separate depart- ments to care for the varied business of our customers, Bonds and Invest- ments, Trusts, Foreign Trade, Credits, Collections, Safe Keeping, Exchange, Savings, etc., all receive our close attention, We are ready to serve you. THE UNION NATIONAL BANK OF SEATTLE Second and Cherry Illinois Watches There is no_ better Watch at this price than this 17 J. (James A. Garfield Mod- eb, 25-year Green Gold chased case; beautifully engraved dial ssscess, BOT DO $1 Down — $1 a Week Record) FISHERMEN It fs a notable fact that of the Twelve Apostles selected by Christ, four were fishermen, They were natural philosophers who made thvir living in the big wide open, who knew the stars, the tempest, the sea, the sun, the moon, the winds, and the calm. They were prepared for a campaign for men because they had first campaigned with the elements of nature. Study of nature had pre. pared them for a study of men, and their thoughts and teachings were big, like the outdoors from whence they came—Representative Hawes, (D.), Mo. jously the anthropological experts doubted that existed on the American continent earlier than 00 years ago, eople in the year 2000 may look back and classify this ‘the most valuable contribution to knowledge in 1923. SS SSSR TERRE Ree eee ‘OT only is there an art In know ing a thing, but also a certain art in teaching it.—Cicero. chilly dey In Chile. The income tax hias reached there. A Relic of the Past [ROM Ecuador come 150 specimens of the caenolestes, a mouse-sized opposum, strange relic of the past. It uld have become extinct three million years ago, sci- ‘Pniists say, like the vanished other forms of life that ex- isted ay They are gone, but the caenolestes lives on Inchanged. | Three million years of suspended development! It’s a al freak of nature, for constant and eternal change to be the purpose of the universe. Dependable Watch Repairing nstein Roast silkworm may soon be out of order. You know, the silkworm of commerce winds his gossamer web in a sealed cocooh, and, to get at the goods inside property, it is put in an oven and the bug is heated to death. Now w& silkworm has been discov. ered in Assam which leaves its little workshop open at one end except for a film of silk. Thus, the silk and the worm can both be saved, the latter to |, 0 on living and produce more of ita kind. Jewelry Made Pearls Restrung de to Order FALSE EXPECTATIONS Is the senator from Wisconsin (Mr. Lenroot) laboring under the im. pression that anybody has’ suspected the secretary of the navy of originat- ing any {dea whatsoever?—Senator Stanley (D.), Kentucky, “s 1107 3rd Ave. Between Spring and Seneca Copgrio 1901, 0. & B. (TTITITIITIsissssss TRAC eee LL7XULLCEEIriririiriYy 9 —