The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 11, 1924, Page 6

The Seattle Star Seventh Are. uh Newspaper Enterprise Association and United Press Servirs. B pe ’ at ® au ar O88 a an, Gpectal Re - San Fre x E as ° dg.) New York off What Did You Inherit? HAT ave you It erited from our a n the on? Lundborg, Swed physician, sa researcl show him that a craving to travel, a i agina vivic and a keen sense of locality are handed dc ; eration to eneratior When pec feel “two natures” struggling w n them, the self that seems alien or enemy is represents the thousands of ancestors who ‘preceded us Each one of these, in many ways, still lives in people who walk the earth today and wonder what it’s about ust now explain to the senate Teapot sent to Wash Alkali ‘Chase National bank officials Dome commitice how many bundles of banknotes the } ington. His former colleagues in the senate just won't believe Al was satisfied with a mere $125,000. Getting Soft TEFANSSON, famous polar explorer, says he will make no more journeys into the unknown regions. | Exploring, he laments, has lost its thrill. The flying ma- chine, radio and modern inventions have largely taken the Uncertainty out of exploring, and have brought ease and hips and suffering. student of humanity. f any of s tends to w No streng Life increasingly becomes biology knows that all ; No muscles without exerc : without obstacles to over } civilization the same ‘ . 8 | & in place of old-time har¢ sort Methodist church clip sheet reprints invitation to American diplomatic Juncheon in Cuba which closes with these words: “First cocktail will be served at 12:30 sharp.” That's one way to get prompt attendance, What Is Success? (OME people certainly are willing to deprive themselves to own an auto. John F. Griffin, motor vehicle com- missioner in Manchester, N. H., tells of a shiftless man Wwho somehow scraped together enough to buy a car. That took his last dollar. And he couldn't get gasoline for his auto, not having credit at any garage. So his wife, a steady worker with credit at a store, bought two dozen eggs, walked four miles to another town and sold them, getting enough money to buy four gallons of gaso- faybe this was the shiftless man’s conception of Success. |The pork barrel? Old stuff. Yenture to say, oozier. Tho ofl barrel Is easier and, we might The Mexican revolution bas failed again, but not yet The ire of Money ING SING has a prisoner, serving a life sentence, who has a fortune of about $160,000. Like the man all dressed up and no place to go. ‘However, the money does this “lifer” about as much PS good as in the case of the average person of great wealth after their riches pass a certain point. When wealth ex- ceeds $300,000, it begins to be a nuisance. At least, we * imagine so—never having had the money to try out the iting an issue of “baby bonds” the Irish Free State government 4 whole works to the public, entirely relieving the bank under- writers. Takes the Irish to beat the bankers. Who’s to Blame for Tips? HEAD waiter at Palm Beach, it's claimed, makes & $40,000 tips in the season of 10 weeks, At other _ times he works elsewhere. His income is estimated at 000 a year, and he drives a Rolls-Royce. His Palm cl headquarters is a “swell hotel,” and he is quoted as saying his average tip is $5. People rave a lot at the tipping system. But most of them like to pay the tips, after all. It’s a manifestation “of “pecuniary honorific’—displaying the ability to pay. Exactly 1,400,614 gallons of liquor were sold on doctors’ prescriptions “year, Says announcement. The amount of sickness in this country » isn’t it? _A Race of Magicians AN in scientific fields is winmng control over nature on an astonishingly wide scale. The General Elec- company displays the largest electric light bulb ever “made—150,000 candlepower. Alongside it is the smallest ectric light, a bulb the size of a grain of rice, used in icate surgical operations, such as that recent removal ‘of a tack from a baby’s lungs. - By ancient standards, we are a race of magicians. Question and answers department, which can answer most anything, “Wants help witht this question: “How can I remove the odor of oil front # second-hand cabinet? (igned) Calvin.” Gone Are the Icicles EGARDING this discussion of whether or not the climate is changing—winters milder than formerly. you may haye observed that our generation does not see the huge icicles that used to hang from the eaves. We ‘Yecall icicles larger than baseball bats, lots of them. It great sport for a lad, in the days when Bryan was “making his first runs for the presidency, to knock down a. big icicles with a stick, then run for safety as they Tn some ways, it was as big a thrill as radio. New British amb: dor says prohibition will seem queer to him. «But it won't seem half as queer as the things it makes some Ameri- ans do. Spenders SWO-THIRDS as much money is spent for gum, by ‘4 Americans, as for insurance, according to Dr. John . Stevenson, vict president of the Equitable Life. This trikes us as about the last word in contrasts. It indi- cates that the element of fear is being eliminated in our alization, in the matter of money. We are a race of mders. Viewpoints vary, regarding this situation. However, the national income is 70 per cent “insured.” ‘ashington brokers say it would take trucks to bring their books to senate committee. Must have been a large flock of insiders in on Sinclair speculation, at that rate, Russian Exports [) USSIA announces that In 1923 she exported about one (X and a quarter million tons of grain. Roughly, a h of it went to Germany. “This doesn’t necessarily reflect a natural comeback of sia in the world grain markets. Maybe a lot of Rus- ns starved while this grain was being exported. China, ing the worst famine, always manages to export eggs. Pan and Fo lsddil we are approaching the spenilsions that the Ship of an | Sta | 1 } Waeeore A but comes from down in score Inter, Wh sas “where men ride me attorney, ho fis lions for horses and use ra' | room.fight one snakes for whip | opposing gttor Noth could more apt! | amashed an in Busts “Busted | Conn eee a Bi MERCURY DAUGHE ary OW THe Ach AT. FLORIDA *PLAYIHG™| MOTHER, MOTHER, THR TSAPOTS Boling over! —Number Four TEAPOP DOME ART GALLERY | | scribe Sehator Thaddeus H. Cara- face, as Caraway lunged for him way, of Jone o, k., stormy worries of Ex-Secret: in the Teapot Dome now raging. Are Saying Caraway uses 5 words as sll eso sbe seeming: REV. CHARLES Hl, RUESS ments than any member of the | gaytp y ut be on ta | Senate. not hard to find the wrong ef thts | . Backing up his stinging | resent prohibition law, If Christ tongue that lashes graft and | sould today seek to eet forth His | corruption lke « cat-o'-nine- talia 1s unlimited physical cour- | ang would be placed under arrest.” age and a thoro willingness to go fight it out, right here and | WINTE! ont now, with fiste, sticks, guna, | Mee & 5 WINTER, preva Knives or any other weapon [we hate illite Ww literacy, We can cure that his opponent chooses to [i yet us have no illiteracy im the eslect. 7 ” ited Stat by 1930. In his bitter fights on Attor. | Uslted Btates by 208 ney General Daugherty, Charles | gevaTon OWEN, Oklaboma: W. Morse, Secretary Fall and phe tories and commercial impert others, Caraway minces nO / alist of the world have wrecked the words. Ho calls a spade a spade | worid, and the English people ha and Albert B, Fall a traitor. lchosen Ramsay McDonald, a great, rane, human labor leader, to bring them back to pe His first de- |mand is parliamentary control of foreign affairs. and peace In a quiet voice, but In & j tone that shall not be denied. I shall support those policies here.” 7. Just what sort of a man is this ‘Thaddeus H. Caraway? The mental ploture you prob- ably have formed from reading the above is all wrong, Caraway doesn’t look like Jack Dempsey or go around with a chip on his shoulder. Hoe is 63 years oid, rather fat, somewhat bald, smiles invariably when talking with jwriter: “The Americana excel all speaks in a soft, Southern | other nations In sagacity, In appar wl and delights in a good |ent moderation, and in the skillful |use of a hypocrisy by which even In action on the senate floor, [they themselves ure deceived.” however, Caraway s vastly dif- by eh walls of the senate chamber. Twenty-five years ago he waa ® section hand on an Arkansas | raflroad and later a saw mill 1 | orer. He educated himself, taught school, practiced law, was prone. cuting attorney for his home djs- trict, served eight years in the he should not be subjected, and to take the poor devils at Lavenworth prison and subject them to the added humiliation of haying Harry MM. | Daugherty whirl the lash over their the language of the poet, more pun- ishment than they could be possibly house of representatives and then expected to bear. — Representative came to the senate four years | Woodrum (Do), Va ago. | He was born tn a dirt floor cab- WHAT DOE ’ testimony shows that Mr. |do theso things mean to the coun- jtry? ‘They mean that the whole! country is beginning to wonder of pages in the congressional di- rectory in describing their sheer noe and their rise to famo tho benefit of awe-struck for present and futuro generations, |{# clean and who carf be trusted.— but here's all Caraway has | Senator 1 Dill (Dem.), Wi ashington, written for the book: aR “Caraway, T. H. Democrat, | BLIND SNAKE CU RED Jonesboro, Ark. | Some folks say that snakes think | As a prosecuting attorney j|deeply and are wise. When King | down {n Arkansas, he hanged eight whites and seven negroes in four years and sent scores to the penitentiary. More than once tn his stormy career, Caraway has been put to the test of physical courage. While he was running for con- AN EPITAPH BY BERTON BRALEY HILE DRIVING TO A DANCE, HE TOOK A CHANCE, ING ON A CURVE. XTY MI) AN IIOUR, {AD THE NERVE, HIS MOTOR HAD THE POWER— UST SCRAPED THRU. Cobra, of New York zoo, was cap- tured In the Malaysia jungles he was totally blind. At the zoo a skillful operation removed the cat- aracts from his eyes, know what Mr. Cobra thought when he awoke and found himself in hick New York. TOOK ANOTHER CHANCE, AS PEOPLE OFTEN DO, ACROSS THI ROAD E OR TWO. ’ AND JUST SCRAPED THRU. GAIN HE TOOK A CHANCE, HE FIGURED IN HIS BRAIN THAT HE COULD BEAT A TRAIN ACROSS THE CROSSING— BUT HE WAS WRONG; BITS OF HIS CAR WENT TOSSING FOR HALY A MILE ALONG THE RAILROAD TRACK; HIS SP DY HACK WAS RUINED; YOU COULD 86H THAT AT A GLANCE, HB TOOK A CHANCH— AND NEVER REACHED THE DAN ASopyrieht, 1924), |General Federation Women's Clubs: | glory an at Cana, Hoe would bea felon, BERTRAND RUSSELL, English | Ho aaka for justice \DIl presented by members of con: {during devel |senta mentally jehild of 12 years, ferent. Hoe is something like a TOO MUCH combination between a stiletto Altho a man has been so unfor- and a cloud of poison gas an he |tunate along the highway of life as wades >» hin enemies with |to land In a federal penitentiary, yet | words that almost scorch the | there are somo humiliations to which in In a marshy section of South- The Do- | eastern Missouri and was the son |heny has had in his employ, since of a tenant farmer, | they left President Wilson's cabinet, Some sgnators use up a couple | four of his cabinet officials, What jwhother anybody can ba found who| wrseneay of none? Interesting to | | fashion. |filbert shape, with the modification |present time, backs in the making of shoes ts, in} |worked words used in conversation, | was. abbed Cara They gr and shirt were vent torn from his body, Sheriff's deputies quelled the row 5 ur honor please,” the aked Caraway addremed t after order had been ed, “counsel for the state requests that you declare a brief recess. Counsel go home and get shirt.” QUESTIONS AND AN SWERS or informa~ he Question 2, enclosing tw: amps for reply. 4 marital advice piven, nor can extended re * undertaken, Unsigned quests cannot be snswered— Eprro n Q. What ts an omnfbus bill? A. A sweeping measure that cov- ere @ number of lesser bilis Intro- duced. For example, the omnibus pension bill has Incorporated in it a large number of private pension gress, Q. How long has Brooklyn been a! part of New York city? | A. Since January 1, 1898. Q. What i the meaning of the word “moron”? A. A moron fs & person whose mental capacity has been arrested pment and who repre: the condition of @ Q. Are long fingernails in good taste? A. All exaggerated modes of mant- curing the nails have gone out of The oval edge, almond or of curvature necessitated by the iape of the fingers, is used at the Q Give mo a list of some over. that I may guard agatnst their use? | A. The following words are worn) out by constant use: Awful, grand, cute, nice, sweet, stunning, mean, | lovely, good, fierce, great, eto, Q. Who was the first white man legally executed in America? A. It is believed John Dillington Ho was ono of the Pligrim Fa- |thers and jn 1630 was found gullty of murder and executed. Q. How do different birds rank in A. According to some authorities, jthe nightingale ranks first, followed, jin succession, by the linnet, titlark, | skylark and woodlark. The mock- ling bird has the greatest powerr of imitation, and the robin and gold. finch are superior in vigorous notes, Q. Is It necessary to leave any message with the servant when you call and do not find the lady at home? A. You can say, if you wish, “I am sorry not to have found Mra, Blank at home.” You must leave your card, of course, : Q. Is there such a word as “orn. ory A. This {s a corruption of the word “ordinary,” and means low, Q. Where did the “petrel” got its name? A. This small seafowl was #0 called because, {n flying, its feet frequently teuch the water, which suggested the walking of Peter on the water, Q. Where dla tho expression, to | jrunning down itm sides. Oli! | ou , EBRUARY 11, 1924 This tmmigratio ted these races er Beoa Telling It to Congress (Excerpts from the Congressional Record) 6G. 0.P. I have often wondered a. 0 nr “ie Going Ont of F ue of that party te “going ou of of} all ove ead and Old Party, and “Going Out nd a new a friend in the Great Party? ge it th ng G. O. FP. PC I have fe mean ested t means Heflin (Dem), DECIDEDLY 80! 1 and forty-seven ara in much to spend for 63 lawyers who id not tell me, after c dering the ter two years, what the word “‘non- intoxicating’ meant in section the Volstead act Hill (Rep), Maryland see WHAT HE COULD SELL! If the nec the building of docks, and to for the work in oll that from ment of the United States, then 29 of Representative of the interior had waa taken the property of the govern- would follow that he would have the) right to dispose of the capitol) frounde in the Capital City; he would have the right to dispose of any of | the public buiKtings of the United| States—Senator Norris (R) Neb. eee FUNNY, ISN'T IT? Doheny raid he loaned this man |Full the money because for 40 years they had been friends, and that Fall and lending $100,000 with another man lending But according to the statement, was brok him was La | | | Fall had been broke for 10 years, | had not been able to pay his taxes, | and Doheny lend him anything until oll reserves to lend Caraway (D.), Arkansas. A THOUGHT Fall A man that hath never felt inclined to had him.—Senator | friends must shew himself friendly; and there is a friend that sticketh closer than « | brother.—Prov. xviii :%4. see in old wife, aris Deere money-—Benjamin Franklin, MILK DIET will restore you In the quickest possible way to perfect health in all chronic allments, Rates the most reasonable tn the Northwest, COTTIN SANITORIOM Phono EA st-0071 Siz 18th Ave, Seattle, Wash, A\SC “WELLINGTON | Burns With the Drafts Closed | HOT STUFF! That's what WELLINGTON COKE IS “escapo by tho akin of one’s teeth,” originate? A, Seo tho 20th verse of the 19th chapter Of the book of Job, Bible; “T am escaped with the skin of my teeth.” Q. What ts. tho word used to a note more than one god? A. 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