The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 15, 1924, Page 8

PAGE 8 IKE SARBOSKY, a logger, not long in this country, \ decides in his small way, that he wants to change the policies and aims of the United States government. What happens when he proceeds to put his ideas into effect? Mike is promptly arrested by agents of H ’ Daugh- erty'’s: Department of Justice, turned over to the immi- gration officials and hustled back, on the first boat, to the country from which he came. Mitsui & Co., Japanese importers and exporte ternationally known and with agencies in every part of the world, decide that THEY want to put a finger into the mechanism that makes the wheels go round at Washington, Such is the testimony given by former agents of the department of justice before the senate committee investigating Daugherty. There is nothing of the crudeness of Mike Sarbosky about them. The Seattle Star by The 4 fal Mepresentatives San Franciece tien, Tribune Bidg.; New Tork o€fies Tremont Bide That Undertakers’ Meeting . AS it grim humor, or only a matter of business that called the undertakers of the Northwest together in eattle the day after election? If they only meant to be funny, that is all right. But if it was business they were looking for, it would be as well for them to know that dead candidates leave ro estates. “What would the men of 100 years ago think?” asks a New England editor. As those old fellows got their whisky at 40 cents the gallon, maybe their thinkers wouldn't work nowadays dust judging by the way he sticks to bis job, Attorney General Daugh erty would make a fine counsel for the glue trust. So “Apples” was just our old friend, two-gun Apple Cheeks Albert of New Mexico and parts, A Tax on Bill Boards HE Standard Oil Co., being a wise advertiser well as wishing to preserve the wonderful scenery of the West, has decided to stop all road sign advertising on the Pacific Coast. This should suggest to our next legislature the import- ance of prohibiting billboard advertising in all scenic districts. And it would not be out of place to add a sub- stantial tax to all road advertising in any locality. To a slight degree this would help to ease up the tax overload the automobile is now carrying. Those political observers who can see a “popular reaction to Coolidge from the olf scandal” remind one of the magle man who can subtract two from three and get four. Normualcy in’the boarding house is defeated for keeps. Burbank has get Up @ prune measuring six inches in circumference. And. just think of it—every owner of an auto is working for either Rockefeller, Doheny or Sinclair. -. Onward, Christian Taxpayers. Geaice? down into the depths of gloom-comes -e— 2 glorious ray of sunshine, for folks with $3,000 or mére income and without children enough to exempt pay- ment of taxes on it. The statesmen at Washington seem to be pretty well agreed that the proposed reduction of 25 per cent shall apply to the year 1923. Don’t put a loaded pistol to your brain, for you haven't got to wrestle with the awful fig- ures all over again. The figuring will be done by the in- ternal revenue, fellows. Simply, on your payments, this year’s, the 25 per cent reduction will be allowed. Won't it be nice? Isn’t it proof that, occasionally, a bright thought is produced at Washington? Away back in January Harry Daugherty advised Ned McLean that he (Daugherty) would soon be the center of the whole invisible government fight. What Harry lacks as attorney general he makes up for as a prophet. We don't sing enough, says the Association of Glee clubs. Alkali Al, baritone, will now sing to Sinclair, the villain, “You Made Me What L Am Today,” and other blues selections Put up the immigration bars, quick! and issued a decree giving divorced Property. Red Russia has outlawed harems wives a part of the husband's Unknown and Known Gods h H. ONKEN, editor of the “Electrical World,” writes : in a recent article: “An American electrical engineer passing along the streets of London, or, for that matter, thru any other part of Great Britain, would appre- clate the feeling of St. Paul as he walked thru the streets of Athens up to Mars Hill and found the altar with the Inscription ‘To the Un- known God.’ For it would appear, with evidence of gas lighting on all sides, that electricity js almost, but not quite, as unknown in Great Britain as the Christian God was in ancient Athens.” Perhaps it is the missionary spirit that has led the electrical barons of America to choose this gas-lighted city for their first world conference on electricity. But’ a more likely perhaps is that under the dim re- ligious gas lights of far-away London big schemes for “super-power” can be talked out, unhampered by public- ownership advocatés, prying spokesmen for American farmers and city consumers or other troublesome persons. In the name of all gods, known and unknown, why don’t they assemble under the moon of a jungle in Thibet and be done with it? Spokane’s “Bobette” club already has 117 clipped girls who swear to taboo gents with whiskers. Looks reasonable. Anybody meeting Spokane beard naturally suspects that it’s unsanitary, as the girls who have been up against it claim. LETER ERO | Jy | VRIDGE MANN To Feodor Chaliapin: I must admit, with a blush of to pronounce vour name, Nor thing from air the words that J heard you sing. But words are needless with such an art, where music talks to the human heart; and Thursday evening I sat and caught, in full, the message your singing brought. Your singing brought me a subtle thrill; it reached the heart and is living still. A potent power is his who owns the mighty magic of mellow tones. Thru words unheeded, your tones bequeath the deep emotion that Mes beneath; while every shade of its message flows from every gesture and every pose, In every gesture and pose you brought a full expression of human thought. In haughty stride, in a wave of hand, you told a tale I could understand. No words wero needed, for even I can sense the meanings that underlie; and so Vil say, as 1 think of you, ‘They call it “Grand'-~and the term js true!” shame, I don't know how could I gather a single ON | | | Gasto: Means, former Daugherty operative, tells how he collected $100,000 from a Mitsui & Co, representa tive “in connection with the Standard Aircraft Co. case,” and turned this money over to Jesse Smith, the confi dante of Daugherty, who later shot himself in Daugh erty’s Othe apartment, charges are made that George W. Wickersham, former attorney general, was put on the payroll of Mitsui & Co. to help negotiate with the government in the Standard Aircraft corporation case. This corporation was financed to the extent of $3,500,- 000" by Mitsui & Co,, according to the testimony. sman Woodruff had read into the ehrly as 1922 Congr As Congressional Record charges that the corporation had been overpaid millions of dollars on government con- tracts. Testimony before the Washington committee was that before this country got into the war, Mitsui & Co. Cut It, if You Can’t Untie It! italy Mike and Mitsui; a Story for Americans to hipped five airplane motors back to Japan and con- ducted an investigation of aircraft manufacture in this country. Other witnesses testified that Mitsui & Co wielded powerful influence in Washington, extending to mem- bers of congress. Wickersham recently sought to have eliminated from the immigration bill, now pending, the clause barring Japanese from admission to this country The Standard Aircraft corporation, charges made against it never has been prosec the in- despite sofar as the investigating committee can | z Mitsui & Co., financing the corporation, pay over to a confidante of the attorney generalin charge of such prosecution $100,000, according to the testimony. The Star wants to see no innocent man convicted in the senate’s investigation of the great black spot: in ) HOLD STILL NOW “Ti qit THIS THING Why God Made So Many Plain Women BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON AVE you to think how many plain wom: good husbands, _ nico homes and lovely. children? Accérding to our beat fiction, the thing is, of course, impos * fact remains that in it ln the homely girl who has the matr nial luck. These ing beauties arly always ome a cropper. They may have adulation and advertising, money and merriment, but un- rest and unhappiness, divorce and disaster also follow in their wake. ‘The git) who never makes a dent in the feminine landscape and is passed up by the drug store as a dead one, can usually count upon ending her career as a happy married woman with a devoted husband, several good children and a few pleces of real mahogany furniture, This is because she knows her limita tions. The unattractive girl never ex- pects to wed either an Adonis or a Croesus; she is content with the nondescript boy who grew up across the street and who docs Fellowship of Praper Bible reading and meditation prepared for Commission on Evangelism of Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, SATURDAY Prayer and Will of God ever stopped Dally Lenten Read Mt. Again xxvi36-46. Text: xxvi.t will be done. “The whole subject of prayer clears up somewhat when wo recog: bend God’s will, to persuade God to do something that he would rather jnot do, but that it is the, reverent jopening of the heart and mind to |such incoming of the feellng and thought of God as may be appropri. ate to the situation in which we find | ourselves. There is need to take ac- count, too, of human frailty and shortsightedness.” MEDITATION: How much we might be helped if we but knew tho rest of this prayer of Jesus! If we had all his words would they not but | express in other ways this same deep | life "Thy will be done?” May our | earts be brought into such happy accord with our Father God that we shall be able to say, “Thy will be done” in our lives also, and may we have peace in following the Teadings | of His spirit. PERSONAL QUESTION; Can I say, “Thy will be dono”? PRAYE | that Thou wilt lift our souls into fel- lowship with Thee, | with Thee, Tn the. conselousness of ‘Thy approv may we find blossed thru Christ. Amen, (Copyright, 1924, F. Ly Yasky), consecration and longing of his inner + 0, our Father, we pray | May Wo labor | not have his wagon hitched to a star, but plods along hoping to carry on his dad's grocery busl- Neas, Sho iu satisfied with a small home to start with, several ploces of silver and some Madeira napkins. She is cager to be up and doing battle with the world by the side of the man whom she bas married, to economize on the cheaper cuts of meat, and do her own laundry work if neces. sary She busies hermelf day after day doing her duty, not expect- ing too much of life because sho has never had yery muca, and behold, one day sho wakes up to the fact that this husband of hers has attained riches or fame or reached the highest rung in his professional ladder, and that she—the plain, unnoticed person with neither personality nor wit —has becotne a woman of im- Telling It to Congress (Excerpts from the Congressional Record) DOUGH-HENY'S FEELING Doheny is pleading with the coun- try to stand by this administration. Of course, he does not want the ad- ministration hurt; he feels as kind- ly to the republican administration ag did the old gentleman of other days yhen he expressed his deep ap: preclation of an old tree Woodman, spare that t Touch not a single bough! In youth it sheltered me, You shall not harm it now. ~—Sen, Heflin (D), Ala. * ANOTHER MENACE! I think one of the greatest men- aces that faco the civilization of the republic today is the fact that a man can die selzed with $100,000,000, saad re Jor $30,000,000, or $500,000,000, and |nize that prayer Is not an effort tolay what with it? Leave it to a lot of spotted-vest, spatted-ankle sons, to go about over this country with some jazz girls to trot about with thom.—Rep. Quin (D,), Miss, Frieda’s Follies HE WAS an old-fashioned man, THE wage-producer of the tam. ily, AND THEY, mad with jazz and beaux, TWAS réally nervous, IT HAD never seen him or any. one AS ANGRY as ho was when his wife BLEW IN little LISPING man 1 had ever seen. I JUST quaked at the look he gave them, NERVOUSLY 1 fingered the red lamp ON the table IT wont out “TURN TP ON," screamed, with the darlingest the husband “IT 08 the only appropriate thing IN the house," | | | | | | | | | | portance in her community. The ayerage good looking girl and even her homely cousin has @ thousand chances to be happy where her beautiful sister has one, for the beauty is never sat ixfied with the men who would marry her, She is never quite so handsome considers herself, and the world never treats her as kindly as she thinks it should. She cannot bo content with the simple things of life-an ordinary husband, the glow of her own hearth fire, and a baby to rock in her arms. She must be a Helen of Troy or Cleopatra, upsetting the world, Perhaps this is the reason why God made so many plain women. He felt sorry for the men, for He knew they could never live happily with the beauties, QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS YOU can get an answer to any question of fact or informa- ahe Question as sho ad iven, nor can extended research oe undertaken. Unsigned re- quests cannot be answered. — EDITOR. Q. le {t danperous' te alloio food| to stand in aluminum veascla? A. ‘There is no more danger in allowing food to stand in aluminum than there is in letting it stand In utensils made of other materials,| Many people sttppose that cooking acid vegetables or fruit in alumi- num fs dangerous, ‘The fact that aluminum becomes discolored does! not indicate the presence of poison, Q. What indemnity did. Germany exact from France after the Franco-Prussian war, and when was it paid? A. Indemnity — of franca was exacted, between March 1, tember, 1873. { Q. What was the Gutenberg Bi- bier A. Tho cartiest book known printed from movable metal type; the Latin Bible issued by Guten-| berg at Mainz, 1462-56 A, D.; also} known as the Mazarin Bible be- cause the copy which first attracted the notice of bibliographers was first discovered in 1760 among books| of Cardinal Mazarin, | Q. Do fish sleep under water? | A. Wish sleep under water, but do not closo their eyes since they have no eyelids. Q. Is it possible to do ovat turn- ing on an ordinary wood lathe; if 40, how? fe A. No, it requires a lathe spe- cially built for {his kind: of work, with a cam attachment, A. “Continual” means renewed in regular succession; — “continuous” means prolonged without interrup- tion. Q. How many ew-presidents of the United States have their been 5,000,000,000 This was paid 1871, and Sep.) BY WM. PHILIP SIMMS UTANGLAND 1s 5 stiff over FY force,” & British official v my npered into car an we sat ® watched house of Gomi The “doin at that moment. which called for t comment, were “notices of mo- tions” made by one member after another, an fast as they could rise and read them, with regard to Britain's defenses. All wanted them put in order Out of some 19 notices. had do with the wether in and lery p ment doings Hons below the of whisper seven to state of histor But Washington’ ort of evidence on re the least Daugherty can do ord again Read}, believes t the at is to resigi t i that with this The public can no longer trust him as a public seryay It sees no difference betw Sarbosky and those of Mitst the testimony. Both are fore disturb the If Mike S y try, let us also take us, a million times ov igners. Both is not f Mitsui een the aspirations of Mike ui & Co., a8 brought out by seek by unlawful means {g and integrity of our government, it to remainin in this coup. & Co ore dangerous to , than the poor misguided efforts of Sarbosky—down to the dock, dump them on a bogt and ship them back to the came, country from whenee they Internal corruption is bad enough. We want NO out. side influences added to the British air fo the navy or a Dawes be made t es ment France, tente Is door And ap there the Fr ned. st from FrancoBrit clared durable peace A split would be race in planes, subrna ers of 10,000 tons and long-< 2 e artillery, gasnes, bornbs and meany chemical warfare France and England must be friends, with a working agree- ment, or potential enemies with potential war in the offing. Before the war, French {ron and steel production amounted to 5,000,000 tons a year. Today France rmaiments ines, fast a new ir crus under, deadly of N ‘0, 28 Your Own Third Degree TEST FOR PRACTICAL JUDGMENT AVE you practical judg ment? Do you know what to Wo in emergencies? Such @ trait in a mark of in teliigence, and in one of the es sential of success in life The following test will tell You something about your abil ity in that direction. Warning: Do, not look at the answers until aller you lave finished thé test, There are five questions. You should be able to answer them correctly in TWO MINUTES. Three answers are given to each. Mark with an X the one that seems true. For ex- ample: Shoes are made of leather be- cause a. It ts tanned. b. It i tough, warm, X ¢, It can be blackened, Understand? Ready? GO! 1, If plants are dying’ for lack of rain you should Water them, Ask 2. fiorist’s advice. pliable and b. c. Put fertilizer around them. 2. If you find a man who has hanged himself, you should &. Send a notice to the paper. bi Take him home. ©. Send for a doctor or the police 3. If bitten by a rattlesnake, you should _ & Kill the snake. b. Suck the” polson.frem the wound, ¢ Take a big drink of whis- key. 4. If lost in the woods in day. time, you should a. Hurry to the nearest house you know of. b. Look for something to eat. ¢. Use the sun or a compass for a guide. 5. If a drunken man Insists on fighting you, it is better to a. Knock him ‘down, Db, Leave him alone. c, Call the police, Here are the answers: 2. 3:3, by 4,0; Bc. {All Rights Reserved by Science Service.) 1, a load. it is between seven ang® n tons @ year, At’ taal France's output ximately 11,000,606 4 making her fay greatest steel and iron peum the continent, or of Buresau So great is France's frog steel capacity, that tll tion is out of the q eee iron and steel eg elsewhere in idle, much idle equipment ig ain, with accompanying g ployment. If there is no the reparations problem the basis of the report experts investigating Germs capacity to pay, it France will not only control of the Ruhr, 4 strengthen her bold there. means still greater and steel capacity. But that ts not all,” lives on her export Prosperous, confident means trade and work for people. Because Europe is an armed camp, fearful of other war, Britain today” big deficit in her trade! —averaging about $12 month—plus an army of ployed. Obviously this can n That is why Premier MacDonald has ¢ r bring, about a ; France and Germany, on of an entehter with “France capacity payments - fr L / many, else strike out Policy of his own. This would mean German understandls perhaps Russia and J Entente. Europe, mar with certain disaster ah That is why the Dawes: mittee report must be Everyone Is Now Thoroughly Awake as to What Is Soon to Happen! you could peep behind the scenes at one time? F I here at the store and see receiving and stock rooms overflowing with new goods- —see with your own eyes such prepara- tions, enthusiasm, hustle, action and en- ergy as few stores have ever known —then you, too, would know and FEEL that a birthday and Sale unparalleled in all our 50 years is about to happen! See Sunday Papers and Monday Star for Extraor- dinary Announcements Mec)ougall-fouthwi SECOND AVENUE AT PIKE