The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 7, 1924, Page 8

PAGE 8 REF FRIDAY MARCH 1 The Seattle Star Published © by The Star Publishing Co., Phone MA {n-0600, Newepaper Knterprise Aasociation mail, out of ety, 800 p 3 months $1.0 carrier, clty, Gilman, Nicoll & Ruthman, Special Representatives San Francisoe office, Monadnock Bidg.; Chicago office, Tribune Midg.; New York offic a Can ite Bids.; Boston office, Tremont Bldg. 1s0T Seventh 4 United @ montha $4.00, ¥ : + Business and Government N the last presidential eiection we heard much about there being an urgent need of more Business in Goy- ernment and less Government in Business, So Business organized. Organized Business decided that the way to bring about its desired end was to control the nominating convention of the republican party That was done. The campaign of 1920 was a war between what was left of the idealism of Wilson and the materialism of Big Business—this time using the republican party to accom- plish its ends. The result was an overwhelming victory for Big Business—for more Business in Government and less Government in Business. We have had, since M 4, 1921, what the people voted for, a Business administra- tion.. But our present troubles didn’t grow solely out of the fact that we got a Business administration. The right kind of a Business administratiton might easily have been a mighty good thing for the country. The trouble was that we didn’t get the right kind of a Business administration. We got more Business in Government, but it was rotten Big Business instead of honest Business. The biggest investors in the Business venture known as The Campaign of 1920 were Big Business investors whose chief interest in the republican party was feather- ing their own nests. The political bosses who finally decided upon the nomi- nees for president and vice president merely handled the political end of the Politico-Business compact. They played the politics; Big Business supplied the enormous campaign fund. And Big Business wasn’t in the game because it loved the republican party. Had the chances at the time looked better for democratic than republican success, the deal of Non-partisan Big Business would have been made with the bosses in the democratic party. The deal was made. The venture was successful. The political managers for Big Business, having delivered the goods during the campaign, quite naturally demanded that the politoicians they had helped to put in control ef the government deliver the goods when they got in. Feeding a few cabinet officers to the wolves now won't cure the ills of present-day politics. That would be merely scratching the surface. All of the political and business parties to the compact of 1920 should be dragged out into the open. All members of congress who believe in political honesty should work together to do the drag- ging. It makes not the slightest difference whether they call themselves democrats or republicans. And honest Big Business is just as much interested in a complete expose as is honest Politics. IF WE ARE TO HAVE MORE BUSINESS IN POLI- TICS IT MUST BE HONEST, NOT CROOKED, BUSI- NESS. GOVERNMENT IS THE PEOPLE’S BUSINESS. IT MUST BE HONEST BUSINESS. Senator Smoot told the Senate he had never done a thing In ail his life he was not perfectly willing “for every soul to know.” This seems to qualify Smoot to cast his first stone. Death---and Taxes HAS often been said that there is nothing surer than death and taxes. No one as yet has been found who wanted to debate this question on the negative side. However, there is a difference in the matter of settling these two accounts. When one has paid his dues to death heis thru. But after carefully scraping together all avail- able cash and liquidating the tax man’s claims, there is the knowledge that next year at about the same time the | | | ANSWERS YOU can get an answer to any question of t or informa- tion by writing to The Question Editor, Star's W gion Bu- reau, i322 N.Y. Ave. Washing- « enclosing two cents in pafor reply. Medical, | ad marital advice cannot iven, nor can extended res pe undertaken. Unsigned quests cannot be answered.— EDITOR, 2. to know your" A. This is ny grammatically form tn “How do you delighted to meet you.” eae 2 it a good form elther thmes times “Ten “Ten Should one say eight are eighty,” or cight ts eighty?” A. This depends upon whether the numbers are regarded as made | of so many separate figures or sim-[ ply as an aggregate. ee Q. Wes any state in the Union ever named Kanawha? A. This name was proposed for West Virginia. . Q. Where, when and by whom was the golden spike driven? A. On May 10, 1869, the last spike of the railroad connecting the Ia tt proper to say, “Pleased | | 1 Gosi!- eery Tue ) COT ONE. OFF TWO MORE GRANDPA’S BLUNDERS BY HERBERT QUICK On all the fuel used in homes and factories was wood—wood or peat. Someone discovered that a certain black stone—called stone-coal to dis. tinguish it from charcoal—was @ good fuel. But your grandpa and mine sald, ‘All this talk about stone coal amounting to anything for fuel in bosh! Wood ts the only thing for fuel! So the governments paid no at tention to the coal question and ally grew into @ state our coal supply should suddenly give out we should be lunged at once into a worse to than Russia was when her mine was at its worst, The s of our coal supply would re- duce our numbers by pestilence, starvation and probable wars to 40 million or 50, Maybe less, Coal became king. If grandpa had only k and had begun the control and conservation and niatiagement of coal then, bh h better it would have been nia, our greatest con] state, is mining coal at a raté which will exhaust it in far leas than a century. This means scarcity tn the time of mature persons now living. we grad wn ‘Then someone began to use a certain ofl that came out of the ground, which they called coal- oll. This is petroleum. But our grandpa of that day sakl scoff. ingly, “This talk about coal-oll amounting to anything Is down. right fdiocy. Coal is and must be the thing on which Industry depends. Don't talk t oll. This is my now we have reached the y when ofl jx almost as im- portant as coal. Perhaps {t is quite as important. If grandpa had known and had taken hold of of] then and conserved it, and used the gas from {t and pre vented waste, we should not now be in danger of world wars over the oll supply to drive our ma- chinery. Grandpa didn't know, After a while a man developed the spark that Franklin pulled down out of the clouds on a wire from a kite, and we found that electricity was a force in society as well as in a battery, Woe found that we could turn not only coal and oll, but water pow- er, into electricity. It is so won- Gerfully important that we seem to be entering the age of elec- da Conservation Is Preparedness AN EDITORIAL BY JOSEPHUS DANIELS FORMER SE! “P DENT CLEVELAND once declared in his administration that the time had come when public land ought no longer to be wasted, but should be given over to home-makers, It was Cleveland who first gave Pinchot his chance at conservation work. “President Roosevelt was a shining light among the champions of conservation. The conservation polic the government changed with his passing from office “From then until the advent of the Wilson adminis- tration, ‘‘Ballingerism” flourished. Coal lands, oil lands, and similar reserves went to the interests that wished to exploit them. “T had been in office only 10 days as secretary of the navy when there came up for consideration whether it should be the policy of the navy to build all oil- burning or coal-burning craft for the United States. It was seriously debated and in ¢ r to a letter to the interior department, asking : there would be enough oil to provide fuel for these ships, Secretary Lane said that there was enough oil in America to last as long as a ship was in in the papers Friday that Sin- ars. And so | clair, in as offering 1913, has to Stinnes to furnish ofl for the ng. | rman navy. Where was ho the fear that ing to get it? despolling would be scarce, pot Dome, ast aside for the to look for reserve fean navy. One day Mr. Wilson | T Dome, They. | nay they leased Teapot Dome | because the ofl would leak out if they didn't lease it commission, 20 ye every ship since then, been o! “Then, with some day ¢ wo began supplies. set aside Never has there been such @ crime against prepared. ness as the exploitation of these naval reserves, There may be I read & contingency at a time when No. 21 Your Own Third Degree TEST FOR KNOWLEDGE OF WORDS ‘OW well do you know the meaning of words? It may be more important to you to know what words mean 30-second test you can tell how much you know < of familiar words. ctlor about the mea Look underscore the word “same” if > the word Follow these d each pair of words, and quickly y mean the same or nearly tho ‘opposite’ if thelr meanings are oppo- alte or nea Have nome ono tell em . hill — va class gre delicate — tender . violent — mild you when to begin and when to stop. same — opposite same — opposite same — opposite name — opposite name — opposite same — opposite name — opposite same — opposite same — opposite samo — opposite namo — opposite same—~ opposite same — opposite same — opposite . avert - . amateur apathy — . acme — vesper — matin What ts your record? Answers: 1, Opposite. professional 2. Opposite. 3. Same, 4. Same. 4. Same. 7. Opposite. 8. Opposite. 9. Same. 10. Same. 12, ame. 13. Same, 14. Opposite, (All rights reserved, Science Service) 5. Opposite. . Opposite, RETARY OF THE N | AVY be very scarce, when {ll be so dear and precious 1 be the foan navy, that these reserves y very life of the Am and the man who Ie: had them exp ed them 4 ought to call upon the rocks and crags to fall upon him and destroy him. I am much keener about sending Mr. Fall to the penf. tentiary, 1 am strong for both, “It have been bed enough if these leases had been drawn up in the light of open Gay, but {t was done in secret ng line of precedent that there must be publicity and competition in such matters, bug the ay never @ word heard of St until some man sa arations made for the digg the wells and brought the whole matter into the open. “Such things are not done ia secret unless there {9 something rotten, The American people of all parties stand aghast at the exploitation of those re serves, or find the men whe gave them away? “Conservation of our reserves essential {f the republic i» row. Wo shall, one of these have no coal, no oll, no And there will be noth I am giad that even at the expense of a national humil fation we have been warned. It fs no matter for partisan re joicing. I pity the man whe can look upon this scandal in the hope that {t may redound to somebody's good. It's a sa tional disgrace. Jt would have been none the less « national disgrace had a democrat made the leases. Every man and woman in America has it upon his or her conscience to stand firm for the righting of this wrong. Righted {tt will be or America has lost its soul.”— (From a speech delivered in Philadelphia on February 25.) A THOUGHT The disciple is not above his mass ter, nor the servant above his lerd, —Matt, 10:24, eee ROM the king To the beggar, by graduation, alf are servants; And you must grant, th less To study to please one, than many, —Massinger, ——= and would There isa forests, very ig Get Yours Now! It would be an unworthy newspaper that would not lend its aid toward encourag- ing Bible reading, and now that the movement is well under way, everybody real- jzes that it is an overwhelming success. The present offer includes two different tax gatherer will be around again. And there is another peculiar thing about taxes. They are not only perpetual, but they seem to be progressive. The tax regulation allows a 3 per cent rebate on all real estate taxes if paid before March 15. Or you will be permitted to pay one-half by May 31 and the balance may Tun until November 30. But in this case no discount is ven. All personal taxes are net and must be paid in their entirety by March 15. Both real and personal taxes be- come delinquent if not paid as here indicated, and a 12 A. This ts an olf Hindoo custom. peteent per annum interest is added until payment is {In Sep Ferd isa moet important made. | staple an the use ot it in core- After one year a certificate of delinquency may be is- | monies was emblematic of Ife and : sued against any real estate with taxes unpaid. If this cer- [a very appropriate symbol for the| 97 Thor ahalt love. the Lora thy | i. is aster? bs oe inet of pee years, a deed conveyance of 00d wishes on the/ God with all thy heart. Thou shalt | : issue to the holder of t! certi i ate. occasion of a marriage. jlove thy neighbor as thyself. wy & all thru this Se cadtira 12 ae cent interest | °. bald op |,..“y To become a Christian ts to charge is running. Besides there are other costs, pen- tricity thru coal, ofl and water power And grandpa tn on the Job yet. “You can't electrify the rail- ways,’ says he. “And, anyhow, public ownership fs wasteful and uneconomical. Let the corpora- tions have the Colorado river and Niagara falls and the 8t. and meditation prepared for Lawrence! We'll meet the ques- Commission on Evangelism of tion of control when we reach Federal Council of the Churches it. I'm busy!" of Christ in America, But wo have reached the ques- “3 tion! Once the water power and es rhein ins the coal owners and the rail- ways and the ofl monopolies and all the rest become united, are the people strong enough to gor- ern themselves against the wishes of such mighty forces? But they are united now! And in such Issues as the Colorado river matter in congress the question is being decided as to whether or not we can govern ourselves, If you haven't looked Into the matter, perhaps you'd better, At this eventful juncture, you sre grandpa, What Folks Are Saying W. M. STEUART, chief census | man and sportsman, Washington: [ do not hunt any more, As a man Union Pacific and the Central Pa- cific was driven. It was mado of gold, The spike was first tapped |by President Leland Stanford of the Central Pacific, governor of Callfor- nia; next by Vice President T, C. | Durant of the Union Pacific, and the reat of the driving was done by the chief engineers of both roads, | | Tat ay) | peg | volumes—Style A, which is illustrated below, and Style B, which is fully as useful but less elaborately bound. Fellowship of Prayer Dally Lenten Bible reading Why ts rice thrown at a wed- ding? reduced in size, shows STYLE A Bible Coupons any 91.98 only STYLE B which contains all of the unique Special Features, 3 coupons only MAIL ORDERS FILLED See Coupon Mt, xxil:34-46, Text: xxi: | How did the gooseberry get) begin a certain wonderful way of | its name? . : : 2 4 } living that men will be glad to con- alties and complications. The ending of the story is: Get | A. ‘This berry should properly be) tinue always, even into the far ages. | _the tax man satisfied as promptly as possible. |called gorse berry, from orm, 8} "2. as thle way of living there is} 3 Saxon word meaning “rough,” re-|a glad and growing awareness o! | ferring to the thorny nature of the| working with tho will of God to cre-/ bush, jate a good world. No wonder Mr. McLean didn't have the money in the bank at tho time he wrote that $100,000 in checks for Mr. Fall. Just look at the tele- graph tolls he had fo pay. The Poison Venders Sag rag man has died in the city jail. The coroner says it was poisoned booze. Is not it strange that men will go on patronizing the bootlegger? If a criminal, known to be such, should open a drug store in the city, few of us would go to his place for our medicines. Or if a burglar of wide reputation should operate a safe deposit vault, not many sane persons would leave their valuables with him. But buying booze. Well, that was always a crazy man’s game. “Hurry up,” Attorney General Daugherty grinned to some photogra- phers in Chicago the other day, and said, “You can never tell how much “longer a man is going to be attorney general.” Unfortunately, that's true. eee Such a good world ts one In| lead be removed) which all kinds of men work well to- | |rether; with an invincible good-will | in their hearts. | “4. It dsm life which utilizes all| the Incentives to such work that God} has been pouring, and still is pour-| ing, into the life of man tpru the per-| sonality of Jesus Christ.” | MEDITATION: In the simple words of these commandments Jesus gave the foundation of his gospel. To be a Christian we too must are here |#TOWS older, ho loses his fondness and build on this foundation. for, Billing. | PERSONAL QUESTION; What ts/ first in my life? PRAYER: Heavenly Father, | Q. How can |from a rifle barrel? A. First remove powder-fouling |by means of sal soda solution, and |then, having closed one end of the | barrel, introduce a small amount jof mercury. With the hand over the other end of tho barrel, shake the mercury up and down, allowing} [it to come into contact with all | parts of the inner surface of the barrel. Remove tho mercury-lead alloy, and clean with a swab, wre. 6 MRS, J. BORDEN HARRIMAN, | in| woman leader, New York: “If we} whose love we find our life, we pray |could only realize the facts that we | Telling It | thea to enlarge our capacity for true|are in eternity now, and have all | living by teaching us to love theo as |the time in the world, and that any-| to Congress we should, and to look upon all thy| thing worth doing at all is worth children with thy aff Amen.|doing well, we would soon see a| (Excerpts from the Congressional j Record) (Copyright, 19 ‘agley) | metamorphosis,” | ———_—_—_— V RIDGE MANN logic of events spells organization. March 7, 1914, More Scenery for Us MOVEMENT is on foot to build an auto road from the Mount McKinley railroad station to Mount Me- Kinley National park in Alaska, a distance of 50 miles, The road, it is expected, will be completed this summer, With Mount McKinley, Mount Shasta, Mount Hood, “Mount Rainier and Mount Baker all easily accessible, and | tr. } Ss y yrains to control the markets of the | 1t be fine to write of Sprt: : with unequaled panoramas of woods and water, the Pa- | world.—sen. Smith (D) S. Caro. | now fabaithen wo strike a thing sta eee sortney bins cased _ cific Northwest ought to entertain a record-breaking How itu caiaebiy so the other day I met with one of Fortune's whacks—I thought, - number of tourists this year. RUTEGA on eeeGe BLE oo “T haven't figured, yet, the blooming income tax i cdartictcanieesi tiie ma a I went and got the little book they mark deposits !n, and took | iavest s popularly referred to in the country | : “ a aphee tedadaalan Mal terme 's Caged is that his as “Senatorial courtesy,” and I have a very careful look at how IT banked my tin. I added up the en- republic: 8 “at is his democracy is republican, been told by people outside the sen- tries there a 1923; the total made me sit and stare, and won- der, “Can it bet” ata that ther vi ie Of the antictoation tt Mes Sean T told the wife, “The figures show that this {s what we've becktia’ of panatorlal courtesy —Betl. spent. By golly, it’s a pile of dough—I wonder where it went!” Dill () Wash. Sho said, “It went for light and heat and rent and clothes and e08 and these, including stuff to eat, have knocked Jt for a WHER 18 IT NOW? * U Wheater d J sought the office where they tand up and taunt this sido when | pee tind blank department here?” “The ‘blank’ department,” said we talked about the importance of heap hint High Tk Sime et yeas (hagisdolng tattle baer end whan | So now I've got the blank to cuss, and fill Its pages thick. 1 we protested that the people would think Til ‘weite tte tite “thie—'The. Disappearing Trick.” And gue phand toe: Gale Salita te Ge the then I'll write an epitaph about the dough I've spent—"Hic jacet Income, Dust and Chaff! It came—and it has went!” fair nd just thing, how they used The radio, the telegraph, tho tele phone, our method of rapid transpor- tation of commodities have obliter- ated time and space, and mado it possible for aggregated capital and twenty thousand words. Milton of about thirteen thousand, But the whole King James’ Version of the Bible contains not over six thousand words; not a half of Milton's, nora third of Shakespeare's vocabulary. Dear Folks: Utopia f EN, how would you like to be able to buy a whole suit of clothes for $3? No, that’s not a mistake by the typesetter. Thee dollars! Before us is a copy of the Philadelphia Public Ledger of Saturday, April 27, 1861. All ads were small in those days. One of them announces: “Whole suits for $3. Oak Hall Clothing Bazaar.” Now we know why they called them “the good old days.” _ If you want to know what hard-boiled means, just now it means "boiled in oil. et internal revenue, A dozen T asked a lady there, “In taking advantage of this offer of THE STAR to stand up in pompous fashion and tell us that they had been elected by 7,000,000 majority—Sen, Heflin (D.), Alabama,