The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 24, 1924, Page 6

M : ‘ eee Ser One ee ee te a ee Newspaper Bn- terprire Agen. and United Prees Service, office, Mon Canadien Published Dally by The star | Publishing Phoni fan New Tork offios . | DRAFT By Fred L. Boalt Beco, is to be mobilized, “not as preparation for war, but as a guar- antee against. war.” The mobilization, as Brig. Gen. Wolfe has explained to other finance reserve officers at San Francisco, already in- volves 6,000 industrial plants in the United States which have entered into the campaign with the finance reserve corps of the army to “check profiteering and prevent any return of conditions which atlowed slackers to get high wages while drafted men worked for army pay.” “The war department means,”—I quote the general—“to prevent the scandals of the old ‘cost-plus’ system of having four Standard contracts to meet various re- quirements of the seven procurement branches of the army.” This is good as far as it goes. It doesn’t go far enough. Our idea of a slacker during the world War was a workingman who got $5 a dustry. I gather he means to see to it that, during the next war, men shall earn their customary wages and capital shall reap “reasonable” profits. There is only one right way to prepare for the next war, and this way is as good as a guarantee against war, I believe, as the ingenuity of man could devise. Draft! Draft everybody and every- thing! Draft you! Dyaft me! Draft the shipyard, the shoe factory, the muni- | tions plant, and every man and every bit of material in them. I am haled beforo the recruiting ser- t," says the sergeant, ‘you couldn't fight for cold beans, You'd be a nuisance around a shipyard or a munitions pl. What can you do? Run a newspaper All right. You, run a newspaper and run it the way we tell you to. Your pay will be $30 a month.” “Private Jones," says the sergeant, ou’re the right age, sound as a nut and day before the war and $15 a day during it. Our idea of a profiteer was a man who built ships or manufactured shoes under a “cost-plus” contract and wrung fat profits from the blood and agony of the world. We see more clearly now. I, for example, was both a slacker and a profiteer. So probably were you—un- less you are an ex-service man. That is, I got my regular salary every Saturday. T am.not quite sure what the general means when he talks about mobilizing in- facture ee ee eee ee war. cratic way. Keep Streets Clear EATTLE rejoices in the fact that it is put to a bit of inconvenience by reason of obstructed streets occa- Sioned by the great building activity in progress in nearly every section of the city. But there is a limit to Our patient endurance, especially when it appears that some streets are needlessly blocked for months at a time. = The busy corner at Third and Pike has been the scene of building operations for months and the contractors have used much of the roadway at this important inter- section. Merchants, cut off from trade by the high fence, piles of material, etc., have protested time and again without relief. They were informed Saturday that three months more of the tie-up would be necessary. This is a hardship on the general public as well as on the , Merchants. Without going into tie merits of this particular case, ‘The'Star suggests that the police and building depart- ; ments exercise a strict watch over this corner and others Similarly affected and see to it that the contractors bend every effort to clear the track as soon as it is possible ' to do so. Use of the streets for building purposes is a privilege that should not be abused. The public’s inter- ests should come first. The American museum says that the bean was first cultivated In America about 1000 B. C. We suppose the “B. ©." stands for Boston Not Out of Luck “OUNCILMAN ROBERT HESKETH and Mrs. Hes- keth celebrate their 30th wedding anniversary. In this day the man who lives with one wife for 30 years may “De out of style, but he certainiy 1s not out of luck. By way of indicating that he is not averse to throwing good money ‘After bad, Doheny says he would loan Fall another $100,000 if the latter One-Way Streets RTLAND, Ore., trying out one-way traffic on cer- 4. tain streets, reports the experiment highly success- ful. The auto traffic problem of Seattle is fast becom- | ing acute. One-way traffic is one of the solutions of- fered for it. There also is a growing sentiment for turning the traf- fic problem over to a traffic commission, thus remoy- ing it entirely from politics, and removing traffic offi- cers from jurisdiction of regular police officials. A Needed Job Bd Penmeens of Seattle residents, flocking out to Sand Point flyirig field these days to glimpse the round- world flyers, have had an opportunity to test out this it of King county roadway. And their loud and, well, brutally frank opinions of it are not such that they could _ well be reprinted. It ee 1 Se sraltazae tel metre in cares of the flyers, = complain at it seemed a mighty long way from the field to the city. ete Somewhere, in the funds of the county commissioners, there ought to be some money that could be used for x smoothing out a road to a flying field that from now on _ will be increasingly popular. The Star is sure that the » Motorists will appreciate it if the roller. coasters are con- * fined to the amusement parks. { LETTER FROM \V RIDGE PiANN March 24, 1924. = Dear Fotks: I see “The Fool” is playing here—whoever that may be. The name 1s short, concise and clear, and makes a hit with me. And I'm a bird that's free to say that this ts sad but true: I've been a fool before today—a lot of times—have you? Of course, a married man will find, quite often, as a rule, his wife has thus expressed her mind: “You acted Ike a fool!” Pere haps he had a little drink, or thought his wit was bright—but ~ half the time I'm apt to think his wife was largely right! For all-us ordinary guys have done our foolish things. dom meet a bird so wise he hasn't singed his wings. In fact, at very many times, V © been a pack of chumps; but that’s the way a fellow climbs—by getting used to bumps! 80 when I meet a man who claims he’s never stubbed his toe. or never lost his lofty alms, or squandered any dough—tI think, "You're lying like a clock, or else your head is fat; and should you ever get a knock, the blow will lay you flat! And so I'll go and se “The Fool"—I wonder what he in Per- ‘aps Til learn a little rufo to help mein my biz. I know I'll be & fool again, in Life's absorbing game—but very many other men ‘will alzg be the same! You sel- hard as nails. pay will be $30 a month.” The sergeant merchants, all the banker: all dentists, cler body, and find work for them to do—war work—at $30 a month. make any profit. That is the right way to prepare for It is the equitable way, the demo- American people as disgruntled after the next war as they were after the last one. Get into the army. Your examine all the all the manu- awyers, doctors and tenographers, every would the s and Nobody would Any lesser way will find the || QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS YOU can get an answer to any Question of fact_or tnforma- tion by writing to The Question Editor, Stars Washington Bu- pit N » C. undertaken. Queata cansot be abswered— BDITOR. Q. Can scissors home? A. Scissors can be ground on @ regular grindstone or emery wheel. jand if not too hard may be filed | with a smooth file and rubbed w @ fine emery, or oll atone, to got razor edge. The anglo should be proximately 70 degrees. | ones | Q What ts a single action en- gine? | A. One in which work 1s done on the piston when it is traveling tn| one’ direction only. A double action | ee is one in which work ts done | i de ground at Unsigned re- | j | | on ‘the piston when traveling in both directions. eee Q. Was Alezander Dumas, Pere, @ negro? A. No, @ quadroon, his, maternal | grandmother belng a Haytian ne- | gress, } Cie, @ Q. How can grease spots be re | moved from carpets and rugs? | _A- Rub taleum into. the spote |The powder will absorb the grease jor oll Then run the vacuum} jeleaner over the powder. eee | @. What te @ coucust | A. A political meeting held to de-| | termine the will of the majority of | the party for the purpose of united }action in the face of opponents eee j Q. How many postoftices and postal routes are there in the United | States? i A. According to the 1922 statts- | tles, there are 61,947 postoffices and | 464,899 postal routes. see Q. What are palindromes? | | A. Words spelled the samo back- ward or forward. | eee Q. What proportion of the ptg- fron of the world is produced by the! United States? j ; A. In 1922, the last year for} which figures are available, it was! | 60 per cent, sae | Q. In direct current electricity there {8 a return wire. Doce any jourrent flow in this wire? If #0, | what becomes of it when it goes | back to the generator? | A. Yes, thero is electricity in the | return wire. The action of the gen- jerator {s analogous to that of al pump. It causes tho electricity to | flow around the circult, but does | Rot change {ts quantity, only its | rate of flow, or amperage. | ee | | Q. What ts a Leyden for? | A. A form. of condenser for stat. {eal electricity, consisting of a giass Jar or a cylinder, closed at one end| and coated inside and out with tin-| | foil nearly to the top. g i ore Q. What wan the first bird? The Archaeopteryx (Jurassic It was about the size of a| {t had hard teeth on both) | Jaws, clawa on the thumb, and two| fingers, and it had a tong, lizard-| like tail. But {t had feathers, prov-| ing {tself a true bird. eve Q. What were the ancestors of the door A. There is reason to believe that] the domestic dog has risen three| times, from three distinct Hines of ancestry: The wolf, the Jackal, and| the coyote. | eee Q. Please suggest a few Indian names suitable for @ canoe, giving, the English meaning? | A. Kewanueo (wild duck), Mata- wau (magician), Negaunce (first), Nesheba (gray wolf), Onawa (wide! awake), Teulhah (turtle) | SISTER HAS A LIMIT “Well, I gucen I'll have to kiss you go0d-by until tomorrow.” “No, Jack; 1 couldn't hold jbreath that Tong.”—Mereury, my | i } eye rove over them, BROOKHART BORAH eee BY ALEXANDER HERMAN (Copyright, 1924, N, B.A. Bervice, Ine.) W YORK, March 24 are Wall Stree the forthcoming pi tion, as reflected tn betting table 1, The odds are three to one against the democrats carrying Here its latest eth hasn't been affected by any of tho sen. atorial probes: 3. But the knocked Med: for the and has dow his winning It 4. The chances of a party are not yet sertounly 5. Ford the running “These view flect only Wall Judgment ry its politi ment, Jean De ¢ broker, has been handling some of the itioal bets made tn the “But they ® bie change sit I compiled the table, published In The Star four months ago, “At that time Henry Ferd was tmanditng candidate, w had a chance of beating coolidge. But since then he haa come out for Coolidge, and spiked his own boom. “But there tn a feeling along the street that he may yet got Into the running; with the odds at 12 to 1 that he doesn’t get the n of of the two major partion “Coolidge's personal prestige scandal being entirely out of of course, re reet's bett necessarily, explains tene who either dency after led to the ac: the ev s had occur. on his chano McAéoo ha on account of the drag of bis name into the oi] Investigation, and he has dropped from the leading post tion in the democratic line-up to fourth place “With the shift Underwood's and chances have {mproved. And Daniels. Baker and Senator Walsh of Montana have crept Into the first ten. “In the republican tte, La Follette and Borah have moved up from 10 to 1 shotn for the presidency to odds of 7 to 1 for the nomination. Gov. Pinchot haa dropped down, on account of seeming tnac ity In coming out for the nom- ination.” Not very me Ralaton'n, Smith's ‘h money has been bet on the election yet. The: lareest bet t's a $400 000 to $38000 wager against Ford's election. But this was, made before Ford came out for Cool, tage. “One bettor,” sayn De ener, “is ready to warer $2 000 that the next president will be Gemocratic. He ts holding out for odds of 6 to 1, but only 2 to 1 ts being offered. “With the campaign ati! months away, bettors are hold. tng back a bit, for they want to be a little more sure of wh candidates will make ac fighta. “But none of them seems to nee a third marty.” What Folks Are Saying REY. A. Z. CONRAD, Boston: “Let | there be no mental reservations in| the pulpits. A mental reservation Is ja trick of the devil! DR, FRANK P. GRAVES, com-| missioner of education, New York: “There are upwards of 200,000 of one- room schoolhouses in the United States, {lly ventilated, poorly heated and many with rickety windows, and a fair percentage of them were erected 40 years “af PROF. CARLETON J. H. HAYES, | Columbia university: Not since the discovery of Columbus has there been a first-class war in Europe in which wo were not actively involved. EORGE, founder George Junior Republic: Yith all the wis dom of our forefathers {n establish. ing constitutions, laws and prece- dents, there never was a greater fool Ithing than that which designated a youth between the ages of 18 and 21 as an infant.” | Frieda’s Follies —_—$ THEY were extremely well muted. S80 SELDOM in life does ono see that. NO ONE but myself agreed to this, AND MY OPINION was chal- lenged BY A BEVY of interested knock- rs | THE MAN tn question stun.bied | on, night before, HIS WIFE looking tke the lost copy of an EXTENCT edition, trufge4 mtser- de. ” Y eald, letting my “COULD be more « AND his hang-over, AND SHE as a left-over.” uitable than | STILL lt with the beverage of the FAVORITE MeADOY JOHNSON New Betting Odds in Wall-St. ON THE NOMINATIONS REPUBLICANS DEMOCRATS Calvin Coolidge...... Samuel M. Ralston... Hiram Johison.. 4 Oscar Underwood... William E. Borah.. Alfred Smith Charles E. Hughes. William G, McAdoo... Robert M. La Follett James M. Cox... Herbert Hoove: : John W. Davis... Frank O. Low | Josephus Daniels... William Hows Royal S. Copeland.... Gifford Pinchot Newton Baker... Leonard Wood...... Thomas J. Walsh. ON THE ELECTION REPUBLICA) | DEMOCRATS Calvin Coolidge...... 1 Oscar Underwood.... 9-) Hiram Johnson...... 8 Samuel M. Ralston... 9-1 William E.) Borah....14 | Alfred Smith........ 9-1 Charles E, Hughes...14 William G. McAdoo. . .12-1 Robert M. La Follette 14 James M. Cox....... 18-1 Herbert Hoover. .....14 John W. Davis Frank O. lowden....1 William Howard Taft. Gifford Pinchot. Leonard Wood Fellowship of Prayer Dible reading ditation prepared for Comm on (nm Evangeliam of Federal Couni! of the Churches of Christ in America, M)NDAY The Way to Happiness Josephus Daniels Royal S. Copeland... .2 Newton Baker... Thomas J. Walsh.. Lelling It 1o Congress | i | Excerpts from the Congresmona Record) Dally i and om | | Lenten FARMER AND THE RAILROADS Now, when government assistance lp requested to aid In his recovery from war and post-war emergencies t farmer Is told to look to his own resources; that there {s no help for him from & treasury that has been able fountain of benevolence | aternaliam for the railroads — Senator Sheppard (D.), Texas. eee ESCH CUMMINS SOCIALISM In passing the Esch Cummins law, which fixed the rates—minimum rates—this government took the Read Mt, vA3, Text: vit-3. And Ho taught then}, saying, Blessed are the poor t rit “In beginning the Christian Iifo a man ¢ a himself to candid in-| quiry, in a npirit of self-sacrifice and devotion, teganiing the proper pri ion of the ideals of Jesus 19 | createst step toward socialism that i phases of chodern life. jbas ever been taken in the history | od bas pull the friendly tnatinet |of the United States —Senator How. jdect down fn the soul of man. The! oi cry, Nebraska. desire to get mid «ive help wells up see in every little dhild so ready to say, HANGING BY A HAIR Msi help! |1t ts every mother’s] 1 have noticed that constitutional be Fe lawyers spénd most of thelr time MEDITATION: ‘The characteristics | spitting fine constitutional hairs, of the Christin which Jesus out-|which are no fine that they are tn- cere in the biwtitudes are alluring | visible to the ordinary tndividual who scons to a Higher life, The con-|iy not a constitutional lawyer. They | sciousness of fin unsatisfied desir® seem to think that the United States, is one of the surest indications that | with {ta 110,000,000 people, hang sus. |somewhere in |God's universe that | pended tn the alr on some Invisible destro will be satisfied if we only | constitutional hairs, and if these fine| | persevere, Until the human soul en: |strands of hair are broken by any tera into tho| blemedness of the|ordinary citizen the United States Lord It to resiless and {ll at ease, jang its people will fall into oblivion. | for In Him cijly aro we at home. |— gonat, . | PERSONAL | QUESTION: What |yinmeenta. eens Mazmerlabor), |does {t mean for me to be poor In eee spirit? ECS PRAYED Father Got, we| , BUSINESS TOO Goon pray that thot mayest control our|, 07 “ay of passing note, it might |thoughts and jour wills this day, /D° mentioned that the greatest mush. |Savo us from| taking the first en. |{00m srowth of any postoffice fell to {tein path unlens it leads to fields abril bitter iageainnr aa of greater servi May we not |Smackover. Ark. In throe months | pany maging RBar jof 1922 tts business Increased over | }look for ease, but let holy impulses | |euide us into ways of righteousness, | 1°00 Per cent, which caused the} tore Chelle Amon. |poxtmaster to wire to Washington | (Copyright, 124—¥. Ly Fagley) [the following telegram: “Office out | of my control; letters arriving 5,000 | to 7,000 a day; parcel post by the A THOUGHT jton: can not open mail any longer; t }no place to put It. accept resiena- — |tion." — Representative O'Sullivan | A ee man Is unstable |(D.), Connecticut. in all his —James 1:8, . | He ts only 4 well-made man who has a good det¢rmination —Emerson. gur HOW TO TELL A GOAT The sheep are those that got in- creases of salary under the reclassi- fication act; the goats are those who |did not, and there are a tot of them “Papa is imnjensely pleased to hear|in the goat faction—Senator Mo- you are a poet,” Kellar (D.), Tennessee, “In he? 9,40 “Ob, very—{he last of my lovers) WHAT GOD GAVE NEBRASKA he tried to Ick was a football play.) In Nebraska there is not a pound of coal underneath the surface of the DAD'S SIZE UNDERWOOD LA FOLLETTE MONDAY OF UTTE, Mont, March 4. The “interests” hero practically given up hope of undermining Benator Thomas J. Walsh, leader in pot Dome expone, this out Walsh's rise to the p a national hero, wh on every tongue, has suddenly made him almost — tnvinctbl Itfcally in his home ate © of est men, today months ago Walsh faced a terrific struggle to maintal hin seat in the senate. The big copper and other interests hud decreed that he must be beaten at all conta. They controlled all but two newspapers he state Walsh, tho not ex lacked the me interests at tly @ poor ns to meet thelr own man, the game. Now the outlook has changed altogether. Walsh's re-election seomn cinched. Walsh hasn't changed tn the last six months, his friends point out. It’s the public, which has suddenly come to k Walsh. Walsh has alwa: a retiring and modest sort a man. It took the fight wi the oll Interests to bring out his qualities. Big financial intere: pot ceased their within Montana to “ge by all means, But many of RALSTON MARCH 24, 1924, BETTORS COOLIDGE thelr leads are turnt: be boomerangs. An home town, for th Wal: & poor mu sual abi nd m him wealthy, to relate, as his wealth his concern for the unate the masses, increased {n proportion It became his pition to de vote the use of his ability to ivens rather than accumulation of foned am. fees citizen, “The state vested interests of the prevented the legislature from gratifying this ambition. amendment to the mn was made effective the chot of the popu- His conduct since has wn a desire to use office to retaliate for His lofty ideas call for a re public in h ite citizens are equal before the law and their constitutional guarantees are ) © practice, not paper existence only.” FABLES ON HEALTH Water Keeps You Well HERE lived, in a place calied Anytown, & certain Mr. Mann. He had the idea that water was made to flow under bridges. He thought his body was a des- ert and didn't make ft acquaint- ed with water any more than was necessary, He didn't was necessary, He hadn't learned that, out in Arizona, the desert had been flooded with Irrigation systems and the desert had been made to- bloom. He gcemed to think that kid- neys were something to be served saute on toast. But what is sctentifically tm portant is thix the amount of water lost daily by he body ts from three to four pints. Much ts carried off as wast thru lungs and skin as vapor and perspiration, as well as thru action of the kidneys. It must be replaced. Many foods contain water, such as rice and beans, but to get your full quota DRINK LOTS OF WA- TER. IT WILL HELP YOU KEEP WELL. earth. Yet I am a believer in the goodness of God, Ho did not give us any coal, but Ho gave us a wonder- ful substitute, If only we might barness the waters in our wonderful rivers to generate electric energy, we might Ught and heat every home on the farms and in the cities and towns. We could have ft all at a cost so low that the people of my prairie state would not care to burn coal, even if they could get it for a dollar a ton.—Representative How- ard (D.), Nebraska, MOTHER'S NEW BUTLER “Your duty as butler will consist of taking the coats and wraps of the Have you had any exper- “Sure. I useta make the rounds of the restaurants every night."—| American Legion Weekly. Cooks in cooks in 3 to 5 minutes Makes Oats the Quickest Breakfast Your grocer now has 2 styles of Quaker Oats—Quick pate and regular Quaker Oats, the kin For a hot Quick Quaker, you've always known, akfast quick, ask for half the time of coffee — scarcely longer than simple toasted bread. Same plump oats as regular Oats. But cut before flaking, rolled very thin and partly cooked — smaller flakes that cook faster, that's the only difference. All that rare Quaker flavor, All the joy of hot breakfasts without bother or delay. Quaker Oats, too 2etyles at grocers’ now. Quick Quakerand Quaker Quaker Oats, the kind you've always known THE EASIEST WAY “Joe, this arithmetic problem of yours about the huckster and the ap- ples is all wrong. You'll have to stay after school and work !t out.” “How far wrong ts it?” “It's a dollar wrong,” replied the teacher. Little Joe drew forth a roll of bills and peeled off a dollar. “I'l just pay up, instead of working the thing lout," he eatd.—Argonaut. Is Cheap Coal Cheap? Is -{t economy to buy cheap coal for a price; that Is, coal filled with slate, stone, dirt. and other non-burning sub. stances, which all go “through” your furnace and into the ash can? Na-ocse Welli:gton is good clean coal—ALL COAL—most of which Is transformed into good heat by your furnace. range or heater. Tt costs a littie more— Worth Much More It Is Not Cheap Coat New Low Price $12.15 at the Bunkers F.C.FERRES onusioeny, pester! eaten pie