The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 14, 1924, Page 8

The Seattle Star Bpeota Only One Answer Will Do M* FITZGERALD, dent of the i } told his fellow councilmen that Mystery in the Skagit” and that e could ar Skagit question within 48 hours,” has given his answers to the 20 Skagit questions put to him by The Star. These answers, undoubtedly obt d from the responsi- ble heads of the Skagit work, bear out The Star’s conten- tion that, in the interest of public ownership, there should be an investigation of Skagit procedure and expenditure to see just what the city is building on the Skagit, and how. Mr, Fitzgerald's replies show that he is among the folks Who figure on proceeding at once with the construction of additional units of the Skagit development More extensions must be built, say these folks, to give efficiency to that part of the project already completed. This will cost more millions—$5,000,000 for the perma- nent Gorge dam, 00,000 for the Ruby dam, and other expense bringing the total cost of the completed Gorge plants up to $30,000,000. Who would do the job? Engineer Uhden, of course So clo-ely are the progressive units dovetailed, so nicely foes o: . unit lean upon and blend with what has gone before, that it would be illogical to assume that Mr. Uhden would be pulled off his engineering horse in midstream and the job given to another. Seattle will not plunge into this new expenditure of millions without precaution, Tt wants to know, first, exactly what happened with the $11,000,000 it already has paid into the Skagit project. Tt wants to know why cost of the first unit has mount- ed so far above the engineers’ estimates. It wants to know the why of the long delay. It wants to discover whether those in charge of the Skagit are fully competent and capable, before it turns over to them more millions to spend. Tt doesn’t want a councilman’s word for it., It doesn’t want Uhden’s word, or the word of anyone who has fig- ured directly in the Skagit job. The only report that will satisfy Seattle on what has been going on is the report of an unbiased, disinterested committee of outside men, capable of getting at and _ digesting both the engineering and the financial facts. wer any Perhaps Conan Doyle, interested in spirit manifestations, will be glad _to know that our well known medium of exchange made the ghost walk in the cabinet at Washington. Her Valentine HE greatest collection of valentines in the world is owned by Jonathan King of London, England. His Valentines fill 2,000 scrap books. No two specimens are alike. King is very proud of his collection. He has devoted » his life to gathering it from all parts of the world. And yet his 2,000 volumes of valentines do not.mean as much to him as the one valentine from her sweetheart ‘Means to any girl or young woman. Real wealth is not in material possessions. Love is the greatest form of riches. Small wonder, Valentine day Promoters and advocates of the Shendandoah's Arete trip seem to Dias some other nation will be the first to hang a gasoline sign on og North Pole. if If it were not for the people you know you would be a stranger to | everyone, and that would be awful. | Human Furnace Fuel Crosby, Minnesota—t? lives. Shanktown, Pennsylvania—37 Ives. Johnson City, Iinois—3 lives. HHREE weeks’ toll in the American mining industry. One hundred and thirteen miners killed in three major its. How many were killed by ones or twos or s in minor accidents has not been told; nor how " Many more have been maimed. The average citizen is slowly beginning to awaken “to the fact that the public has an interest in coal mining. ‘ interest now is chiefly in prices charged for coal. ~ Hasn’t the public also a responsibility? - Or can the public say, “I am not my brother’s keeper. owe nothing to the men who go down into the earth to the fuel that keeps me warm. And blood-stained coal fights the hearth with as warm a glow as any other d” Ohio's wealth is said to be $18,000,000,000, which may be enough to take care of its political liabilities. _ In London a man was arrested for cussing in a show. We think wo have seen that same show. Were He Alive Today SPEAKING to his military aide, once on a time, Presi- dent Theodore Roosevelt said: “] have never betrayed the people yet, and I don’t pro- to do so now by default.” It was a lofty sentiment and the great American lived by it. More than that, he emphasized it in his family _ If he were alive today he would be aroused to wrath and sorrow by the knowledge that his name is coupled _ with the failure of his high teaching to penetrate, in some , beyond the skin. _ Item from the foreign press: great American emblem.” "The teapot Is replacing the stin ss the One advantage of the closed car is you get more mileage out of your cigar or cigaret. |X LETER ERO | VW RIDGE PiANN VALENTINE’S AGES When all the world 4s green and now; When tfe is gay and Lope 1s young; When pulses thrill at glances flung To speak of hearts forever true: The golden, glowing days divine Whisper, “Youre My Valentine! When shreds of silver light your hair; When Motherhood has lent its grace, And placed its mark upon your face With tiny wrinkles here and there: High noon of LAfe—vour life and mine— Whispers, “You're My Valentine!” When all the waning world ts old; When LAfe has met its sunset glow; When heads are gray and pulses slow, While soft the evening bells are tolied: The stara that herald Day's decline. Whisper, “You're My Valentine!” THURSI 190" JAY I tY 14 Unc cle Sam Switches the Fake Oil Stoc ‘k War to Los Angeles By the Way, } ( / wwe A SMOKE, AND R-R-REMEMBAK — This Is a Campai en Yeat — — No. Jatter Cleanup|————— Texas oundup TES x YOUR Your Own Third Degree CLERIC ABILITY TERN XOULD you get a job a in to complete it one fo be able Below number are If the are exactly the the: if they The foll some pair , write are different, These are the problem Busey, & HOW “CHICKEN DINNER” PLAN 18 OPERATED i ner” Answers: 1, 8; 2 (Al Telling It to Congress (Excerpts from the Congressional Record) D; 3, D; 4 Rights Reserv fs a s of bi aner they are hyp JUDGMENT »y what they do; times judged by what Jo—Senator Robinson y try to ried. (Dem), Ar | eee pd A WELL-WON PRIZE t of Claude Kitchen lay on ¢ or duced of the fr porch a barefoot 11 old boy one summer morning | with his feet upon the house wall m as to ham | year. Star Chamber Taxation R. JEFFERS of Alabama tn- | us olf m in Mr ment in Mr. & I don't know v this 1 don't know ye knows any such ¢ The income tax law keeps s0- cret the income tax+returna of BY HERBERT QUICK everyone except men like Sena interr after you have lo things In a yea on you for m . ‘T'S Leap Year now, oh, Lady Mine, (1 wish you were, And “Will you be Is not a question, Which I should ask ‘The thing should go I wish you were) my Valentine?” I aver, of you; nay, nay, the other way ‘T'S Leap Year now, and I opine It is your turn t ‘0 beg and plead With “Will you be my Valentine? To which I ought to give no heed (You've never heeded plea of mine Nor said you'd be m: y Valentine). T'S Leap Year now; your turn to cry “Oh, won't you be my Valentine?” And ‘twould be on To turn away and ly fair were I give no sign; jand multiplied five figures by five ‘figures by mental vision and no jhand work and gave the correct product and won his father’s wi which he wore thru lfe—J sentative Ward (D,), North Ci | yan SMART FELLOWS The great commercial interests always smarter than the gov- ment. We do not always read seek to wave gas lo Sam case of vid V, Cahill, special assist. attorney general, and jis M. R. Morcop, It ts done in a corner. hola and Frank LOST HOPE LAKE FLI " DOT HILLS 5S ON PAPER terri surround ntington and regions in per perators well ng board of the United States), bu Mr. Doheny and Mr. Sinclair al- ways read them. They got the bene. fit of the fact that this great board of experts had determined that the oil supply would be exhausted in 22 years and they got busy to get possession of | these oll fields (naval reserve) and they have succeeded very admirably for the time being.—Senator Cope- land (D), New York. r, Jeffers’ plea for with at © folks 22 us he may in t fields of taxation just rairie nome {thas not t says the federal » haxe 35 cases reported to for investigation. ve will stay on the job until this town f cleaned up,” ho said. 0 or three already led ption, cannot tf © for the pro years, Warning has been served that oil frauds must stop, and We mean business.’ without ¢ of oO name re done Men are not always judged alone | jap #0 reports (of the naval consult-|* within our own borders | Would you make t Wi ve clerk You should rror in ONE MINUTE and 3 of vo number of cleri wor} né or ty pair S on the dotted D bet correct} write D; 6, 8; 7, D; 8, 8; 4, Belence Service) SCIENCE Ambergris oratory of great 1 Blowly the er! surely chemical auls the re. man ov poratory of Long sin hetlc chemistry, notably in {ta development of the coal-tar products, has produced not only dyes and f , but scents as wel Now thi sts are on the verge of producing ambergris, or a substi tute that will do ag well. Ambergris is used in manufacturing the more jexpensive perfumes. It is a sub- stance sometimes secreted in the in- testines of sperm whales when they are diseased, and Cirgorged by the | whole. ors sometimes find f] masses of a light, solid, opaque, ash-colored substance » marble in appearance. is fragrant when and melts like a kind of resin, ‘tude of such t sea was enough to ors fortune, Ambe) 8 been worth more than if t in gold. rge find of more than 900 fp near <Aus- tralia, sold for $135,000. na’ | A THOUGHT Better Is a little with righteous. ness, than great revenues without right.—Prov, xvi.8. Ae! ie | RicHes without Jaw are more dangerous than {s poverty with out law.—Henry Ward Beecher. im ii iM Tm agate EF j But should you ask me, { must state, You wouldn't havo too long to walt. ‘T'S Leap Year now, but I know this: i Es 4 i You will not fol You will not say, I prithes be my V iow out that line; “Oh, give me biisa, alentine.” If I should walt that word from you I'd wait and walt my whole life thru. ET I am proud, who once was mock. I put it thus, “T would be thine; It's Leap Year now, your turn to spank— But I will be your Whether you ask or This year—or any ot (Copyright, 1924, QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS YOU can get an answer to any question of fact or informa~ tlon by writing to The Question Editor, Star's Washington Bu- reau, 1322 N. ¥, Ave. Washing- ton, D. C, enclosing two cents in || stamps for reply. Medical, legal || and marital advice cannot given, nor can ext: e undertaken. quests. cannot EDITOR: be answered,— see Q. What are the areas of the| United States and Australia? A. United States, 3,026,789; tralia, 2,974,581 square miles. Seer: Aus- Q. Where are passenger pigcons| to be found in the U. &.% A. They have become extinct in the United States. ee Q. Is tt advisable to mix oil with the gasoline in a new car? It is, according to the United States bureau of standards. Mix a quart of ofl with every five gallons of gasoline, whilé breaking in a new car, eee Q. From what {s the English word “pleblectte” derived? A, It is from the Latin “ples,” the common people, plus “scitum,” decree, from “scio," to know. see Q. Is the best man always a bachelor or may he be married? A. The bridegroom chooses his best friend as his best man, re- gardiess of whether ho is married or not Valentine not, my dear, her year.” The Seattle Stary What Folks Are Saying) $$ $y M. D. Campbell, Kirkville, Mo.: “If matters go wrong in our country It f» because men will not study the vital | | | | | | | | questions that are submitted to them, and vote thelr conscientious judg. ment.” John B, Pew, city councillor, Kan- sas City: “Any system of transpor: tation that falls to realize the people will not put up with discomforts is @ failure before it begins. The fact is, there shouldn't bo any strap-hang. ers. Frieda’s Follies SHE WAS the hope of tho family, YOU KNOW what they are in Holly wood, THEY simply expect every al. rector TO JUMP at a chanco to screen them, THIS ONE had mado tho usual futile ROUNDS of the atudios, I MET her tho other day trying to get in A SLAP-STICK comedy, THIS would-be Lasky, Warner, STAR, asks, “DO YOU. think the experience of comedy WOULD be © successful thing to try?" 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