The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 16, 1924, Page 8

PAGE 8 SEATTLE STAR ATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16 1924. Wh ) lavy Fought Fall’s Oil Leases Publishe MA In-0800. 92.00, year § Ban Frenciece | New Tork office, xit for the “Ex Boys” ARKET value of cabinet members and ex- cabinet members, for Big Business, has taken a decided slump. This is one big benefit the Teapot Dome investi- gation already has brought—the elevating effect on the standard of our government. Cabinet members and other high officials in the past have had no scruples about stepping from government employ directly’ into jobs made for them by Big Business, despite the fact that Big Business was purchasing, primarily, the influence they would have. Many of them did not hesitate to go to work, at high prices, for Ed Doheny, the oil millionaire, who, the investigators’ testimony shows, thought it quite within his rights to send a suitcase full of money te Interior Secretary Fall, after he was handed naval oil reserve leases for private devel- opment. The senate’s investigation has cleared up this situation wonderfully. Ed Doheny won't want cabinet and ex-cabinet members any longer. An ex-cabinet member won't get any farther in Washington, from now on, than will any other ex-somebody. Washing- ton’s going straight. Washington's afraid. Jobs with Big Business won’t be so plentiful from now on, either, for the “ex” boys, For the finger of suspicion from a public, once betrayed, is going to point for a long time to come at any public official in high office who quits to take a high-salaried job with Big Business. No, the “ex” boys have reached the exit gate. And Teapot Dome is the case. Russia is coing to buy 18,000 Ford cars a year. So, even if we can't recognize them, they will at least look familiar to us, Ford’s Hired Hands NE in every 662 Americans now is on the payroll of Henry Ford. He has about 163,000 employes. Mak- ing allowances for children, housewives and old people, not more than 30 million Americans actually work for wages or salaries or prifits. And, of these, Ford em- ploys about one in every 200. Manufactured Fog ERNBERG, Swedish engineer, invents a machine that can manufacture two and a haif million cubic yards of dense fog in a minute. Militarists are elated. They herald this artificial fog as a tremendous. defensive weapon in warfare, like a smoke screen in a naval battle. Most of the great military discoveries have to do with destruction—offense. The public, victims of militarists, ean chuckle at this fog-making device, which makes it harder to take human life in battle. WEOGEE tarcet practice? Didahioma college students killa @adiwvertan and wounded two others. Apparently, they don’t need much more prac- tice before participating in a war. Why You Should Swat MOTHER. mosquito, says a government report,emay bite 12 different people in a month. Our estimate would have been “in five minutes.” -The mosquito does not generate disease, it merely acquires it from one infected person and carries it to the next one it stings. Discovery of this fact led to the virtual extinction of yellow fever. The scientist in his laboratory sometimes makes wild-eyed observations, but frequently these lead to practical things. After the mosquito becomes extinct, nature will send some other pest to take its place. Naturé preserves the strength of the race by constantly making it fight for survival. . If Doheny keeps on testifying about men he’s hired, where’ll we find a man for public office who hasn't been connected with the Doheny payroll? The Flaw HE ability to “get along” genially with other people is absolutely essential in the battle for success. The longer you watch the careers of people you know, the more you will be impressed with the fact that the man who is hard to get along with labors under a tremendous handicap. Oceasionally you find a man with a bad temper, or oth- erwise objectionable disposition, who has somehow man- aged to become highly successful. But this man is the ex- ception. And if you wait long enough, you'll see him de- stroyed by his inability to get along with others. Such a man has succeeded in spite of his disposition. He would have progressed further if he had been more likable. ‘Life is a pretty hard game. Most people have big nat- ural handicaps—of ability, lack of powerful influence and money. But one of the greatest assets a man can have is a pleasant disposition. It costs nothing. It helps mightily. Pleasantness is not always a natural gift. It can be developed by self-control. This much may be said for congress: It is sometimes on hand to FROM oo \V RIDGE PANN February 16, 1924. Dear Folks: It's getting quite confusing, when you read the dally news; the papers all are using tales that bump our former views. In cur- rent information, {t is getting all the rage to find “Investigation” heading nearly every page. In every new edition, as the stories seem to show, there comes 4 new condition that deserves a double-O. Who put the “plant,” we wonder, in the city's “Skagit plant”? while Congress starts to thunder, “Price of bread deserves a slant!” And when the Senate started in about the Teapot lease, the ofl, 1% seems departed, while the other things increase, They shout of “bribing papers,” “bills of sale,” “attorney's fees,” “the other fellow’s capers"—and a tmillion such as these. And somehow, Im recalling how a parent does the thing, when baby starts to bawling for a lady's diamond ring. “Oh, seo the _ ball of cotton,” “seo the pussy cat,” they shout—until the kid's forgotten what the row was all about! But here's an observation on the way that nature acts: It helps a man or nation when they go and get the facta. Nor need _ the guilty fear it, when the fatal facts appear—for Hell is in the spirit when the conscience isn't clear! yw S&S Ne Hee - =e es oe When in Doubt--Say “TEAPOT” The Sea a a Jy We BY ADMIRAL 2. 8S. GRIFFIN Chief } au of Engineerin | Telling It to Congress (Excerpts from the Congressional Record) el FALL AND OLL examined “wats THE Vernier? | ar 9 (Teapot! First it was In the | slang. If you catch someone in an un congressional committee, | for him to explain—just holler: “Teapot.” n are up in wet weather and | down in dry | What !a the hardest knot to tet knot is about as difficult | see t true that the United States ts Yes. Aren't they long enough now? | Be In {t easy to upset a walter?—| T. E.G, | Not so difficult | ping him. Just try not tip- I met aman yesterday and extend- led my hand ip a friendly manner, j but he pretended not to sea ft.” Wé [had always been on friendly terme. | | What. do) you think of a man Ike that? —H &. 8 Mr. Dud cannot give an opinion | | without further information. Pos- | sibly he Is a slight-of-hand man. [QUESTIONS MR. j NSWER inks issue checks on C,\A. E. much does a man make | when tapping =D. D. { The rooster is the emblem of the | |democrats, but is the swallow the | emblem of the weta?—P. G. 1 Did you ever see a cobblestone | pavement in a bowling alley?—H. | M,C. | | DUD CANNOT | MR. DUD'S HOUSEHOLD HINTS | Sek that has stuck to silver spoons | jean be easily removed by rubbing it | | with heavy sandpaper. | A rubber froning board should be | washed occasionally with hot soap | suds, It Js a good idea to keep an electric fan in the kitchen in winter as well as in summer, It can be used in cooling fried eggs and other foods. A Connecticut manufacturer has it, thus making it impossible for it! to slip when it ls being carved. Tin pans will not rattle so much if covered with heavy felt, What Folks placed an ingenious platter on the market. There is a sharp steel spike | A THOUGHT in the center of the platter and poul- | try and roasts can be impaled upon | Predicting Earthquakes BY RUTH FINNEY ASHINGTON eb, 16 New York w almoat dentroyee earth many ant that Atlantic City the ocean; that a Washington will enough to tear the » and that other ur in Califo: logist pre nevere apitol in ad quakes nia, Florida ago and Mextec Hazard ant chief division of terrestrial magnetiam, and earthquake ex the United States Coast of the hich would support the pre nt, Earthquakes practically nompredictable, he says, altho shocks are more frequent In cer. tain “earthquake zones." New York is not in one of these aréas, nor is Washington, el- ther, no there is little danger on this coast, he believes. Residents. of the Southern states have been alarmed by a series of small quakes in the lant few weeks, fearing a repe- tition of the severe quake of about a hundred years ago, which created Reelfoot lake, in Tennemere, only a hundred miles or so from Memphis, Should another wuch quake oc- cur, it would @o more damage than the Japanese temblor, it is estimated, since the territory surrounding that flooded in 1821 is not thickly pofulated, But for the people of this re. gion, Hazard has the comforting Assurance that where a series of small quakes occur, there is Jesq danger of a severe shock than where the stress accumu. Jates and is then suddenly re. leased. Ho neex no danger ahend for the South, or for California, either, for ho says experience ure | It is good for a man that he bear | the yoke in his youth—Lam, fii.27. eee IVE ns long as you may, the first 20 years are the longer | half of your life.—Southey. Are Saying} ©. H. Butler, 1790-ncre Kansas} farmer: ‘The farmer is a slave,| comparing his condition with that of | his city brother.”” | .: | R, J. Allison, income tax expert:| “America will never again see men with the ‘private fortunes of Henry | Ford and John D. Rockefeller—not, | at least, if the present methods of taxation continue,” Rey. Charles, M. Sheldon, preacher Jand author, Topeka, Kas.: “The Bible |is too interesting a book to be bound {in undertaker colors, I am going to print one in bright colora and try an experiment in psychology. I have prepared an American version. I just took out somp unnecessary parts that are discourdging many persons from reading what they want in our standard Bibles, and will present my volume in attractive binding.” Miss Thelma Gilman, designer: “To be really successful the young wom- on must take a leaf out of man's book, She must handle herself in a big way, making her femininity aub- servient to the work in hand.” Irene Bordoni, French actress: “Women in my country are taught to look up to their husbands, give them proper respect, even to adore them, Wild French women? Poof!" DR. EDWIN J. BROWN'S DENTAL OFFICES 106 Columbia St, Seattle's Leading Dentist for More Than 31 Years REV. C. J. HAWKINS 11 A. M. “Shall We Win the Battle?” 7:30 P. M. “Private Schools AND Democracy” PLYMOUTH CHURCH Sixth—University then in the papers, the vaudeville gag—and now into ontortable predicament, if you find a friend ino situation embarrassing Ur ‘Stee shock heavy 5 Barthquakes and observa shown that after a severe orders of 1912 and ertain of them m as com- ‘om the domain of pub- s any other land trol of the navy de SCIENCE |e | Tired Metals Your Own Third Degree va ag TEST FOR RECOGNITION OF TRUTH Fam - GC) amon sight of 1 Age ren tire ust about tirele eel gets alarmed pent by the Foundation in investi-| {gue in metals | you should be a without mak ‘0 complete this intelligence test take. es of the following words. »Do | n . Then just underscore the A man} ; sentence you make {s false, or the word “true,” if It is especially dangerous knows in advance. when he is be-| tired. But he can’t tell halt | 4 ahead when an apparently ound and first-grade airplane crank shaft, or a bi truss, for exam: in going to get tired and crack, | t human life. | true true true true true true true San Fran. nother ur for uch as the « does not occ nero in are week elght a are and apples Jong thin health necessary’ camp a ts to clean special machines | work like men all cting test-specimens of steel to | tron paper made of {s filings millions of repetitions fish hunt and like boys to never " bushes trees roots have and their air the in What is the verdict? Answers: 1, f true; 3, true; 4, false; 5, false; 6, true; 7, false; 8, false; 9, false; 10, false. ee (All Rights Reserved, Sclence Service) hd out when, how and why | tire may b@ predict when experimental work nn now being car outhern Callfornia e work is be of. certain | us, stremes and shocks. Thus | e limita of endurance of se) true false true false are determined, and actentists hope y and Carnegie in. |to work out laws for guidance and | protection In This Week’s “Digest” Nearly a Million Votes IN THE RECORD-BREAKING NATIONAL POLL ON TAX REDUCTION Are Tabulated State by State Never before has such a comprehensive unofficial poll of the Nation been made. The New Haven Evening Register declares that “we are actually given the spectacle of a weekly holding an informal national election” in this nation-wide canvass of the electorate to test sentiment for or against the Mellon Plan of Tax Reduction. 886,900 ballots have so far been received and are tabulated in this week’s DIGEST. Fifteen million ballots have been mailed to voters. This represents more than fifty per cent of the number of ballots cast in the last Presidential election. They are being returned by the tens of thousands daily. The sheer size of this greatest of all referendums may be visualized when one considers that if the ballots so far returned were laid end to end they would cover a distance of seventy-five miles! Don’t miss reading THE DIGEST this week! You will probably be particularly interested in learning how your State is voting on this vital question. Other news-features of more’ than ordinary interest in the February 16th DIGEST are: Why Woodrow Wilson Belongs to Topics of the Day the Ages More Scaldings From Teapot Dome The Attack On Attorney-General Germany’s New Merchant Marine Daugherty There Are Wave Lengths in The Tie That Binds Paris and Prague Everything The Conquest of the Sahara A Chain of Opera Houses Why We L Berating the Clergy in Fiction votre aan “Five Solemn S " Presbyterian Fears of a Split Mr Bok euatore: Verse The Battle of the Bonus ‘ Ameri in the Wi ics. 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