The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 29, 1924, Page 8

PAGE 8 A" TTLE STAR SAT Our National F aith: Why It’s Weak! URDAY, MARCH 29, 1924 ONEST men there are a-plenty to fill and successfully conduct our official affairs, but they are not pap-suckers or crib-feeders and they have no pull. Politics does not seek honesty, and it concerns itself not at all with integrity. It simply at- tempts to pay its party debts at pub- lic expense and lets conscience and trustworthiness go hang. That’s why we have such orgies of rotten- hess as are now being uncovered in _ Washington. The Seattle Star Daily by The Star Publishing Go, 1907 Seventh Ave Phone ‘MA tn-0400. Newapaper Enterprise Association and United Preas Basil, ont of city, bc per menth, 3 months $1.50, # months §2.09, year By sarrier, city. | Representatives fan Francises What's Back of It? ) DENT COOLIDGE has now gotten rid of both -* Denby and Daugherty. The effect is good. He “should have fired them long before he did, But— _ Has Coolidge really strengthened himself in the minds of the really intelligent people of the country? Looking back on the two incidents, we cannot help Seeing these facts standing out above the political storm: 1—Coolidge should have fired Denby because Denby Was unfit by reason of his connection with the oil leasing. 2—Coolidge let it be understood that he fired Denby because he objected to the Shenandoah North vole trip Which Denby planned. ' | 8—Coolidge actually fired Denby for political reasons— pressure of politicians became too strong. Now let’s look at the Daugherty case. Analyze it, and you find: 1—Coolidge should have fired Daugherty because he ‘Was unfit ever to hold the job of attorney general. 2—Coolidge let it be known that he fired Daugherty | because of highly technical reasons and not for unfitness hold office. 3—Coolidge actually fired Daugherty for political rea- ressure of politicians became too great. In neither irlstance did Coolidge act on the facts. both cases he gave in after clamor became too great. Neither act was courageous. + The American people love a man who Nits straight from the shoulder. Is Coolidge that kind of aman? Has i proved it in the Denby and Daugherty affairs? We link not. * From all indications Coolidge’s efforts to date have m centered more on building political fences for him- if thai on giving the public an energetic, frank and unbiased expose of the rotten Washington disclosures. The Power Fight ‘HE POWER fight that will come before the voters of the state in the fall election has resolved itself nto a clear cut issue between the Bone and Reed power | bills, due to the fact that Oliver T. Erickson has with- _ drawn his super-power measure from the running. Erickson’s move simplifies the situation. The Bone provides that cities may sell power outside their cor- limits tax-free. Reed's measure imposes a 5 per tent tax on the power sold. The super-power measure had more or less of a confusing effect on the situation. Erickson has not dropped his idea. He has merely postponed it to clear the field for the free-power bill. The ‘tonservation idea contained in his plan looms as the next Step after the cities have won their fight to sell surplus power outside their corporate limits, tax-free. 3 Paderewski’s Silence GNACE JAN PADEREWSKI, veteran pianist and some- times politician, who has been in Seattle this week, has Mastered the art of advertising along with his other ac- complishments. And like all great men, he employs very simple methods. He refuses to be interviewed. This Means that all of the would-be interviewers begin to tell how difficult he is. And along with this they are forced to print what his secretary says about him; what his Valet thinks of him, and how the porter is impressed, All of which makes good reading and good advertising. And Mr. Paderewski has nothing to affirm or deny. What Is the Matter? OCO FERNANDEZ, Tony Pietro, Charles Diamond, “ Frank Melfi, Mike Arden, Andy Spanola, Buck O'Neill, John Fernando, Bert Vadnais. Just a casual glance at the paper of one day discovers those names in connection with violent or other offenses against the law. And one day’s report is not far differ- ent from all the others. Is the melting pot a failure? Si We're Living High ‘CO few of us fully appreciate the wealth and high stand- ard of living in America, it’s worth while to com- pare occasionally. The British now have only one auto for every 43 in- bitants. In our country there’s one auto for every seven people. Britain in the whole of 1923 manufactured ly 65,000 autos. You have to multiply that figure by e than five to have American auto output for one ith only, February, 1924. 52 Years an “Incurable” WN 1872, London lung specialists advised Rebecca Winter | to make her will. They broke the news gently—she had incurable tuberculos Yet she did not die until the other day. Tor 8 she had lived suffering ror an “incurable _ She confirms Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes’ observation the way to live to a ripe old age is to contract an ble malady and nurse it. Yee (porn st Se aldrvehoneer be OOK at Fall, with his $100,000; scent the garbage can that has just been opened of justice; think in the department of the revelation that, in three brief years, some 800 trusted employes of the internal revenue department have been dis- missed for dishonesty and raw crookedness of one kind or another, to say nothing of in Seattle. * * * F SMUG officiz Itisa the stinking stuff ppalling. ~ * * * & ildom in Washing- ton imagines that these revela- “I RESIGN” tions are being considered by the country merely in their political re- lationship, they are woefully mis- taken. Back home there is a deeper concern than has to do with party gain or loss. Dishonesty, graft, crookedness in official places mean more than the mere loss of money or property; more than ruined indi- vidual reputations; more than po- litical capital. They give rise to the most dangerous and insinuating in- aa WHEN BY ALBE NSKILLED labor worke $I LOOKED BIG AS A HOUSE | cents a day in Europe in the year 1520. fluence that can tablished institu ernment cannot i OSHOUT possibly menace es- tions, and that is the fear, if not belief, that popular goy be trusted. NG bolshe | vik, noi i bombing anarchist, no rattle- brained wobbly unclean dollars. RT APPLE ed for the equivalent of 1 Times were |considered very prosperous when this wage rose to 22 cents a day in 1600. | Improvement came very slowly. States Bureau of Statistics, conducted an extensive investi-| gation of the past and found that between 1770 and 1800) the average American blacksmith worked for 71 cents a day, laborers 28 cents and carpenters 61 cents, | Even as late as 1875 the blacksmiths got only $2.31 a day, unskilled labor $1.50, and carpenters $2.46 a day. Many lines of work now pay as much an hour as was pai for a full day's work a half century ago. . . id HE cost of living was not as low as most of us imagine, back yonder in “the good old days” when a dollar looked as big as a house. Take wheat, which is a fairly accurate measure or gauge of general prices. Wheat in 1816 sold for $1.75 a bushel | here in America. The price dropped to 99 cents in 1845, | bounded to $2.85 in 1867, slumped to 58 cents in 1894, Cost of living in the old days fluctuated decidedly, for prices have always traveled in 50-year cycles, reaching about | the same high peaks every half century. One generation | has low prices. The next generation has high prices, and) |the oldtimers lean on their canes and discuss the low cost /of living of long ago. Their parents, still another generation | back, knew only high pri¢es. . * eo eas AGES in the old days were not very elastic. They were | adjusted for a period of low prices. and failed to} | keep pace with the cost of living when it climbed high. So} the man born in an old-time period of high prices was Tt (™ | cidedly out of luck. Our generation appears to be the first in history in which }wages have become elastic enough to keep in sight of sky- rocketing cost of living. Cost of living still tends to climb faster than average incomes, but the situation is much im- FABLES ON HEALTH. About 35 years ago Carrol! Wright, chief of the United |—s: want to say to him— could possibly do as great damage to this government as have the men, in or out of officiaj place, who have betrayed their trusts or citizenship by yielding to Telling It to Congress @xcerpts trom tho Congresmoss Record) SILENT CAL I want to say one thing about Mr Coolidg: ybod and | am as kind to him ag ho knows him, I sat here te with him as vice presi- years and a half. In he never sald a word He gave me the does. and I have Caraway (D) Ark eee BRAVE CALIFORNIANS Mr, Sabath (D) IL: 1 bave only five minutes. Now, the gentleraan from California, and, of course, as Californians fee] the same way, they are continuously fearful and afraid of the future of our nation. Well, I rs Mr, Lineberger (R) Callf.; I want to correct the gentleman. We are not afraid of anything, but we want to protect the nation. eee IT'S ONLY FIFTY MILLIONS What {s $50,000,000 for this great government of ours? It ts not a drop im the bucket to what we have been giving to many organizations —sen. Johnson (Farmer-Labor) Minn, one CANADA BEAT US Canada produced a surplus of 300,- 000,000. bushels of wheat last year and we produced a surplus of about 160,000,000 Dushels—Sen. McLean «ty Conn. | | | / | | | a eee WORTH MORE THAN TEAPOT What policy of economy or conser- vation of public rights or interests can we insist Upon if we throw this (Muscle Shoals) away, and there are Possibilities there, my friends, that make Teapot Dome Jook like a bag: atelle and Mr. Doheny and Mr, Sip- clair as men whose injured innocence - should be forever vindicated —Rep_ >> Burton (R) Ohio, t Or S98 J : GET USE 8 Mr. Mann of Anytown hurried to his office, he passed an ant mal store and sighed «sympathetically at somo rab in the wi and chickens penned “Poor things, caged like that.” svertheless, he hurried to his of- 4 swore, under his breath, at ehographer when she opened @ crack of the window. He stayed edoped in the office for eight hours. That night he suspected that a cold was creeping on him. He couldn't understand it. Ho had clean food and water and his office was clean So he najled down the windows he sighed, “To be D TO AIR both In his bedroom and the chil-| dren's bedrooms, | “So much cold | They'll catch cold,” Wife, Happening to mect the family doc tor, Mr, Mann told him about it an food, water and surround not enough, ic. “Pure alr never harmed anyone. If a little cold air comes into your bedroom, pilé on some some more blankets, but for the love of Peto get a lungful of fresh alr while you sleep. Keep an eye on the ther. mometer in your office. Let steno alr {t out once in a while, » “Get used to air. Spend some time out of doors, Get fresh air.” alr comes ifn he told Friend ings the Following EST YOURSELF. Can you do what out making a mista This test will tell you whether you can or not. All you have to do is to follow the | directions and discover the word that jis hidden in the unpronounesable string of letters given below. Directions; Croxs out all the let | ters, except those preceded by u and | followed by n, The remaining letters | when written out or spelled out will form a common word, iu are told with: What Folks Are Saying Anita Loos, playwright: “The am- bition that exceeds talent iran in- sidious evil in the life of the |American woman.” | Jay BE. House, writer and weather student: “A real blizzard has {ts genests in the afternoon of a perfect day. It is compounded under a be- Test Y ourself Box Hed ....} Directions 1. nusnbdumnuenikurnjuinpucnuan 2. pueniduonjuonulnabuinrudnsu- n } en feucnabuandupnuinrxyutnion zmuln. 5 4. klumnpguanyurnabuenodifiruh | nz What are the words? | Answers: 1. america; 2. coolidge; capitol. 4, march, All rights reserved by Science Ser. 1116 Conn. Ave., N. W., Wash- nign sun spring.” | and in the breath of BE. W. ifowe, suthor and edyor; } “The plain truth is, the people are } a tough tot.” Dr. Eva Ryerson Ludgate, Con. gregational minister: “Love {is the most costly thing in the world. It is not & passive virtue, It ts easy and cheap to hate, but to love the unlovely calls forth all the powers of the mind and soul in patient un. derstanding.” said the med-| ~| God's Spirit be so manifest that the Fellowship of | : Praper : Abrams | | The entire scientific world ts greatly excited about a dead goril- }la’s foot |] Commission on Evangeliam of Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, SATURDAY The House of Prayer Ray lankester, eminent » contended that the great jhuman thumb than a human toe. Ordinarily, a gorilla’s big Loe sticks out from the others in a very no- Read Mt. xxi:12-22. Text: xxi.:13. And he saith unto them, It ts writ- ‘ten, My house nhall be called a house | of prayer. tists {s due to the following reasons: | The development and use of the |. “The church continually inspires/human thumb played an important |Its members to keep on in the Chris-| part {n the evolution ef man {Han way of living. Men and women|similarity that can be established jut of the thick of life come to the| between the great toe, or thumb, church on the Lord's Day tired and| whichever it may be called, of the discouraged and get something that | gorilla and the thumb of man, ts sends them back to their work with very interesting to scientists, new courage and resolution.” A plaster cast was taken of the MEDITATION: As a visible ex.| foot of the dead gorilla. In making perience of the spiritual brotherhood | the cast the big toe was pressed in of bellevers the church must be clear towards the others. A photograph in its ideals, unselfish tn its lite and|Of this cast shows a startling re- truo in Its worship; that in the com-|Semblance to the human foot, How- munion of soul with soul the faith of | each one may be strengthoned andthe gorilla prove Dr. Lankester is right—the gorilla's big ton Is very much like a human thumb, There. fore, the plaster cast and the mus. cular construction of the gorilla’s big toe, while at variance in somo respects, both unite in proving a close connection between the make- Up of man and that of tho gorilla. church shall be in truth the house of God. | PERSONAL QUESTION: What more can I do toward making my | | chureh tho very house of God? PRAYER: Eternal God, we pray toe of @ gorilla was more like aj ticeable fashion. Its study by scien: | Any | proved compared with former generations. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS you can get an answer to an: Guestion of fact or informa- tion by writing to The Question Editor, Star's Washington Bu: N. ‘ashing- | | | Q ) A. In Egypt. Flax {s indigenous to the Valley of the Nile, and Egyp- old have preserved linen tapestries, embroideries and fino cloths, many of them of very fine texture. eee Q. What ts the legend of the Narcissus? A. Narcissus, a beautiful youth, came to a clear pool and saw his . He fell in love with the reflection and pined away and died. His body was transformed into the flower, The legend is that he had refused all sultors, including Echo, and that thelr prayer to Nemesis for ven- igeance brought about his fate. that ‘Thy Dlessings may rest upon our church, Let ft be a house of worship where the souls of men are refreshed. May Thy house of prayer | be as a highway to our God. May! we meet Thee there and wilt Thou! | go with us into all the experiences | of our days, in Christ's name, Amen, (Copyright, 1924, 1. Fagley) | . ’, | | Gorilla’s Foot a | IT certainly delighted my soul | T0 SEE her ruining her chances | WITHT a man ve both admired, MEN have little pation 26 with gos. sips, AND KNOWING ho had a sense of | humor letters tne {I WATCHED for an opportunity © | Unheeding how | TO TURN the tuble in my direction, | THERE he sat looking his disgust, AS SHE left threadbare every repu- tation in town, | WITH a shrug he sald in an aside to mo, “I WONDER what else sho has on her chest?” T SMILED, answering, “T SHOULD say all thot {9 now left fs A LITTLE tint, trom chewing the rag.” VRIDG | { | | | } Your plane to dear In honored fligh We scarce had seen ] Seattle's friend—vowr' LETTER FROM TO MAJOR FREDERICK I, MARTIN, 55 Flight Commander of America’s World Air Squadron: A smiling, friendly man, you came; Across our sky your star was hurled— Ere we had learned to cali you friend! A patient friend—thra all the days You tarried here on tol? éntent, We claimed your time in selfish ways. } We asked too much; You gladiy gave, nor lost your smile! Forgive our failings! 48 you go Thru other skies, our hearts wilt yeoarn For that glad moment when we know Your ficet hoa made its great return, Immortal in our memory! |__Sripn E MANN Seattle's name t around tne world. your ship descend the moments went ; pot all the while " name shall be Where was linen first woven?) Uan graves from 2,000 to 4,000 years A PROPAGANDA BRIGADE | Since that great meeting in Mont- |gomery, the Alabama Power Com- | pany has marshaled in tts offices at |120 Broadway, New York city, the |forces of Wall Street, of the Fertil: jizer Trust, of the Aluminum Trust. jof the predatory interests in:an eéf- |fort to defeat the Ford offer.—Rep. | Hl (D) Ala. eee PULLMAN RAKE-OFF I call the attention of the senate to the question of the Pullman sur- charge. In my state, for instance, we have trains with no day coaches on them, and for short distances, even between some of our magnifi: cent cities, a distance of 30 miles, for example, I believe the minimum sur charge is 75 cents. The people either have to pay that surcharge or wait for somo other train, and it delays and inconveniences the transport: tion of passengers greatly,—Senator Dial (D), South Carolina. eee WIDOWS OF VETERANS I desire further to call the atten: ton of the senate to the fact that of widows of veterans of the civil war there are 483 who are 94 years of jage. There are, all told, 157,000 |widows of civil war veterans over the age of 74.—Sen. Bursum (R) New Mexico, BRITISH LOST, TOO | Tam not discouraged by reason of | the fact so often referred to, which the former shipping board shouted from the housetops, and alsost boasted about, that our ships have lost money; that they ave not being operated at a profit. I have before Ime rome pares from Fatrplay: for | February 28, 1924, wherein itis ~ |shown that with few exceptions alt | British shipping companies are los- | enator Fletcher (D), NEGLECTING THE NAVY — On the whole, it must ee piesa that America as a naval power rapidly falling behind the conference ratio, and that unless congress takes | prompt and yigorous action, the dis parity will serlously imperil our ourity.—Representative French” Idaho, We have had fathers of our fles! [which corrected us, and we sal thesa reverence; shall wo not rather be in subjection unto |Father of Spirits, and live?—Heb. xi, H™ revere; Hear Him and you have else to fear To