The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 4, 1924, Page 6

SM OMe on Aw we te oe le —, PAGE 6 THE EBA TTLE STAR ESDAY, MAI 1924, Canadian Paottte The Ways of Invisible Government XPOSURE of the contents of the telegrams that passed between Edward B. McLean and A, B, Fall at Palm Beach, and officials, lawye d lobbyists at Wash ington, as brought out before the Teapot Dome commit tee, reveals the strenuous efforts that were being made by people “in the know” to keep the truth hidden People were “working on Walsh” to keep the truth from being brought out. A private wire was needed to “insure quick and ready access to the White House ee. letter from McLean would “end the committee's investi gation.” These and similar phrases run thru the tele grams. And then comes the ray of sunshine. Walsh had “his jaw set.” He couldn't be “reached.” He was “fighting mad.” Because one man, Senator Walsh, refused to be a party to the conspiracy to keep forever hidden the lies of former Secretary Fall, Edward B. McLean and others high in the official and semi-official life of the nation, the truth was revealed. The Old Guard members of the investigating committee itself and other high officials sought to hush up the investigation. These telegrams reveal the extent to which invisible government was ready to go to defeat honest government And “invisible government” reachéd to the heart of our government. Yet these men and others of their ilk are attempting to “play down” the importance of the Teapot Dome revela- tions on the ground that “the public's confidence must not be shaken.” Why should it not be shaken? Has not the public been betrayed? If ever there was a time when the public had a right to demand a complete house-cleaning and thoro exposure of all the hidden influences that go to make up “invisible government,” that time is now. The campaign to discredit Walsh and others who have brought about the present exposure will continue with re- newed vigor. The crooks have been driven into a corner, and naturally are fighting desperately—otherwise “invis- ible government” will be no more. : ; Let the public not be deceived. There is rottenness in the national government. And the present exposure Is a sorely needed surgical operation. Ex-Goy. Jimmie Cox tells ex-Gov, Jimmie Campbell that he will con sent to be a presidential candidate if anyone desires him to do so A door-mat could have been no more enthusiastic, We're Getting Larger EN are much larger and stronger now than 400 years ago. A check-up of the armor worn by knights of the 16th century shows that fighting men in those days averaged only 130 pounds in weight, had a waist 30 inches around, and wore a size 6 shoe. All this is a part of the system of gradual evolution. Tt makes one wonder what people 400 years from now will look like. Physically we apparently are becoming larger. But the sedentary life of modern times may turn the tide the other way. Inactivity inevitably causes weakness and deterioration. Even the brain has to be exercised constantly to keep it in trim. Men are such funny animals. Here we have Eddie Mclean and Al Fall patting in an expensive leased wire in order that they might recelve all the bad news promptly. Sensible Diet N the last year Americans ate more meat than ever be- fore, according to the packers’ national organization. Medical examiners for insurance companies accordingly will be instructed to watch more closely for high blood pressure. The secret of sensible diet is moderation. Too much is as bad as not enough, in the matter of food, possibly worse. When it snows in Boston, the Globe says “the February winds fill the air with myriad hexagonal crystals.” Ain‘t culture fine? As an algebraic proposition, “ex” equals one or more cabinet members. The Power of “White Coal’ HE new electricity generator at Niagara Falls—70,000 horsepower—does work that otherwise would re- quire 700,000 tons of coal a year. Multiply this by 10 and you have the coal saved by all power plants at Niagara. The force of falling water, nicknamed “white coal,” is destined to play a tremendously important role in America’s future. There’s a strong tendency to allow private interests to get possession of water power. This tendency is dangerous and foolish. Gov. Al Smith says he fs a candidate for nothing and who Is there to say he is not fully equipped for it? Digging Graves With Teeth ‘VERY lovers’ quarrel, every spat between husband and wife, begins in the stew pot or the oven, says a celebrated English surgeon. Most of us have noticed a tendency to become irritable when our digestion is out of order. The London surgeon even believes that character is considerably regulated by what goes into the stomach. He’s reasoning along the same lines as feeding raw meat to a prizefighter to make him ferocious or candy to a girl to make her amiable. Sir William Osler once said: “For some reason the brain and the stomach have never been friends, and the cleverest men I know treat their stomachs like dogs.” A big insurance company claims that nearly half of the illnesses of its policy holders originate in indigestion. You recall the old saying, that most people dig their graves with their teeth. Good cooks cause more indigestion than bad cooks, for tasty victuals entice people to over-eat. Most folks, when the stomach is upset, blame it on some particular thing they have eaten. As a rule, tho, indigestion is caused by eating too much—or too fast, as is the tendency in this madhouse age when everyone imagines he’s in a hurry. An old country doctor says it’s a good rule always to go away from the table a bit hungry. The stomach can easily be the gateway to the cemetery. One New Hampshire blacksmith reports that he shod 1,960 horses in 19%, showing that that state hasn't yet attained a past, Where Will It Go? ALIFORNIA is threatened with a surplus of about $14,000,000 for 1925, and the folks are talking to beat the band. : You see, the issue is as to whether the millions shall be returned to the common tax Ts or go as refund to the taxed railroads and other corporations. Neat issue, isn’t it? We'll give an award of $.000,001 for the best answer to who'll get the surplus. 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Also use the following words In a sentence: Work, joney, men.” ¢ three words that rhyme with each of the following words: day, mill and spring.” Aur 0 store How much change should you get?” out of fifteen esate; the following four figures backward: 652-8; 485-3; reserved by Bclence Services. '| Telling It to Congress (Excerpts from the Congressional Record) [mene SOI Inside the Earth $$ $$ / | | The argument as to what ts In- side the earth now seems to be nearly settled. Believers tn WHAT HE REPRESENTS T hate to take the time of the sen. but self-preservation demands that I make a public declaration pretty soon on tax exemption and have lost, | The findin Ibeen presented to tho Washington |Academy of Sciences by scientists /the bonus of the Carnegie institution. Accord. |S¢nts one-tenth of the population of ing to thelr investigatios nd con 0 United States, and senators can leequent deductions, the center of |Feadily bélieve that my mail ir great the éarth {s platinum, or gold, or |!¥ burdened.—Senator Copeland (), liron, ‘Tho rest of the earth ix in| New York three layers—first {ron and rock, | jthen rock, then the surface crust. | For many years the “molten Iman” {dea was accepted by acien |tists, It was evolved from the the. lo called the nebular hypothesis, I ntly a few scientists advanced ; lthe planetesmal theory, which | lapread rapidly in scientific circles. ‘This contradicted the former and ax sumed that the interior of the earth wag heavy and solld, Experiments | in weighing the earth and verifying what {s known as the “Cavendish gs in this case have SMALL-TOWN MEN Patrick Henry probably never saw }a town as big as Canton, Ohio. rgo Washington might have been referred to by a certain clans of critics as nothing but a farmer; they might, indeed, have ealled him a nger. Robert EyLee, who ts rec ized as tho military genius of hi , Was not the inhabitant of a arge town.—Senator Reed (D.), Mis. sourl, ® eee My constituency repre: | PROSECUTING ATTORNEY overcome BY GEOLOGICAL Terminology ‘AHO NOMENCLATURE "YOU AT 3AM JAW) 18947 ANSWER YES G2 = on wo! SPECIAL. PROSECUTOR, WARMING uP Bors, ALL Youve i 1! QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS YOU can get an answer to any Question of fact or informa- © Question Washington Bu- . Washing- cents fn quests cannot EDITOR. Q. How dig @ garden would it! ke to supply a family of five swith jalt their vegetables? | A. ‘This depends on the ctimate,| | soll, ete, but under ordinarily favor-| able circumstances and with inten-| | sve cultivation, a garden 16 feet by/ 60 should provide all the necessary| vogetables, eee Q. What are good plant close to the house? A. Barberry, deutzia, forsythia,| hydrangea, Japanese quince, dwarf) euonymus, lilac, privet, spirea,| snowball, cape jasmine, sweet| shrub, | shruds to Q. Who was Lucullus? | A. A Roman general (110-67 B. C.) He acquired prodigious wealth, and lived with such luxury and splendor as to make the “feast of Lucullus” proverbial. * eee | Q. Who was Cavour? | A. A great constructive states-) Italy (1810-61). |man of mo¢ern ofere Q. Where do we get the abbrevt-| ation “Messra"? Is it a form of; Met | of the French Mensteurs. | cee | Q. What docs “cruz” meant | | A. Latin for “cross.” It is used |in English to refer to a hard altua-| | tion, the essential question, the piv- jotal point. | see | A. Long’s Peak Is slightly higher than Pike's Peak, baving a height Pike's Peak is 14,110, ore Who are some of the famous A. "Messrs" 1s an abbreviation! Q. Which ts the Aighest, Pike’s\T) SUCCESSOR TO DAUGHERTY? BY LOWELL MELLETT Wau: ron ct of tember 24, 17 nited Bt worn or affirmed te > @ falt jor of his office it shall be t and conduct @ sults in the supreme which United shall be concerned, and to give his advice and opinion upon questions of law when required by the president of the United States, or when requested by: heads of th touching any may concern ments, and shall receive such compen m for his services as shall by law be provided.” Nearly everybody administration whone dut prosecute urt in the their size & nized, thelr depart . to em tration? 1 when he re remain himself to be ne pres hag been won- dering where he can find a meet person. It isn't an easy selec tion to make. With the exam: ples of Wilson and Harding fore him, nee how to g wrong kind of an attorney gen- eral, but how to pick a good one fs a different matter The difficulty les, in part, in the fact that precedent calls for Coolidge can re It's a hard r hoe, Hoe might nolve his prob- lem by reading greaa moro been done in the past Means Much to drivers sho’ a reforme Hutet A Quick Deciian ned Iq | cover cep deans of them have i lam. in the not meag cuter ana orgy who $9 toy veen led up mst effective stroke e part of the To nyold accidents, automobll uld have an eye test, samt How al breath test m (Kas) Gazette, YOU Every day, almost, some customer of Cheasty’s remarks: “I certainly like this store because your salespeople are always so frank .and seem to know what truth is.” : Now the text of this advertisement is not on our store pol- icy, although it would make a splendid theme—rather is it on Men’s and Young Men’s Overcoats. With customary frankness we want you to view this situa- | tion with us: After the largest winter overcoat business in the history of , this store, we find we have left exactly 107 Overcoats, rang- ; last Saturday we |] had determined to carry these along until next August, as we ing in price from $33.50 to $85.00. Up to sell a few each day, and then during that month put the bal- © ance remaining on sale at a low price for quick clearance. _ Furthermore, based on the prices quoted so far on overcoats for next Fall, prices are apparently going to be a trifle higher. . But last week we received practically our entire purchase of Sp Suits and Topcoats from England, as well as from Kuppenheimer, and we haven’t room or hangers to properly take care of them. So after a conference with our sales force on the clothing floor they—not the firm —decided to ask our patrons to carry these Overcoats in their own wardrobes until next winter, as from time to time in the cool evenings” they will have a chance to wear them anyway, and we will make the | our suggestions. prices so low that BIG DIVIDENDS will accrue to those that follow out | Beginning at 9 o'clock tomorrow (Wednesday) morning we offer these KUPPENHEIMER, “Society Brand” and Cheasty Overcoats at — Peak or Long's Peak? i]| jot 14,268 feet, while the height of||) teat” also bore out the theory that there was something very neavy In- side of the earth. AING MORE THAN THERE IS | astronomers of this country? The par value of share securities} A. Harlow Shapley, Harvard col- |listed on the New York stock ex-|loge observatory; George Ellery change as of October 13, 1921, wan| Hale, Mt. Wilson observatory; Wil-| | These new findings of the Carne: | 915 464 295,009, from which it follows jgie institution scientists support the |tiat the volume of sales on the New | planetesmal theory and overrule the | yo+y exchanges in one year amounta | jnebular hypothesis. to two and one-half times the total) | |par value of the shares of all the| | |corporations whose capital stock is} | } A THOUGHT jlisted by the New York stock ex-/to 20 years, altho some have lived | —_—_$_$—$—$—$ Senator King (D), Utah, eee change— Neglect not the gift that is in thee.) qyreN, WHY NOT DO IT? ip amegtho ne eR In my humblo judgment, if you | ‘give publicity to these (income tax) |]T 1# an uncontrolled truth that no|returns—and they could be properly | man ever mado an iil figure who | guarded—it would result in the say- junderstood his own talents, nor aling of $50,000,000 a year to the | good one who mistook them.—Swift. |treasury.—Rep, Garner (D), Texas LETTER FROM VY RIDGE PiANN March 4, 1924, Dear Fotks: ‘The canning business, so T hear, has grown to quite a size, The batch of stuff we can each year is hard to realize. So now Seattle's canning men have started in to speak; they tell the story once again, and give us “Canned Food Week.” dinners now are planned to make tHe cooking y blooming item canned, from soup to pumpkin ra, consomme and fish, canned corn and ned nearly every kind of dish—canned music” while you eat! And always there is something now we plan to can of man or two in high affairs of uidn’t be absurd; the deed’s been done * was a dish, I've heard, that helped state. before. to win the And thus we bring the stuff we raise to nearly every man a fact that goes to show it pays to always say, “I can!" For that's the proper mental slant to get yourself ahead— the bird who always thinks, “I can't” is just as good as Gris ome lam Campbell, Mt. Hamilton, Cal.; Frank Schlesinger, Yale university.|}| . | Q. What is*the average life of a buffalo? The average weight? | A. Buffalo usually ve from 15 over 30 years. The average welght! | of a male is 1,800 pounds; of a fe-| | male, 1,200 pounds. | “ee | Q. Are corncobs good for wae as fertilizer? A. Tho ashes of burnt cobs are | good for this purpose, but the cobs are of no use as fertilizer in any) other form, eee Q. Is the tomato a fruit or a | vegetabie? | A. It ts classified by the U. 8. jdepartment of agriculture as a vegetable. Botanically {t {3 a frutt. ° * . 1 @ A. Spanish, cross.” { Frieda’s Follies | THE WAY this woman talked about What docs Vera Orus mean? meaning “true | ‘THE saving of souls. SHE HAD reached that uncertain jnge | WHERE everything turns from | them, | A MERE matter of vanity and ne. cocessity SHE HAD bored mo long enough. | 1 HAVE troubles of my ows. jknow anything about j ARE THOSE that are covered by | |your shoes.” =) I DID not fail to smile as 1 con. | cluded, “USE them." REGULAR PRICE Not a lot of “lemons,” mind you, but stylish patterned garments that will be” correct for wear next season. Practically every size is represented somewhere in this big group. 51—$33.50 Overcoats at $16.75 6—$40.00 Overcoats at $20.00 3—$45.00 Overcoats at $22.50 15—$50.00 Overcoats at $25.00 10—$55.00 Overcoats at $27.50 7—$60.00 Overcoats at $30.00 3—$65.00 Overcoats at $32.50 6—$70.00 Overcoats at $35.00 1—$75.00 Overcoats at $37.50 2—$80.00 Overcoats at $40.00 3—$85.00 Overcoats at $42.50 We naturally reserve the right to close this sale the moment the group of { coats is sold. Don’t expect to find a large show window display of these coats, as $ AND THEY turn to religion, a | “THE only souls, madam, you|}} merchandise has the right of way. Department. Signed: A Charge Account if desired Just come direct to the Second Floor heasty’ By R. E. BIGELOW, Second at Seneca i MW | Repo Wo v Sev been moi the ace Thi © troop The} force! Brera | befor howe’ state Am Tegu proted dicat ment. week on ang have now state In Ameri ia re! entire prote The sels i