The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 31, 1924, Page 6

THE SEATTLE = a» STAR MONDAY,. MARCH 81, 1924 __ @ Ruthman, Special Representatives Gen Frenctece ik Bidg., Chicage effica, Union Trust ) New Tork Pacific Bidg.; Boston office, Tremont Bldg > 5 ° We're Betting on the Major HILE the British and French round-the-world fliers are hurrying away from the home base, Maj. Martin and his companions refuse to get excited. He declares jthat his purpose is not to determine who can do it first, +but who can do Which a good indication that Maj } Martin and his crew will come in on time if they are a jday or two late getting off. How to Enforce the Law OVERNOR WALTER M. PIERCE, of Oregon, has gton and Idaho vent congress to be held called upon the governors of Was! }to join Oregon in a law-enforce $in Portland June 8, 4 and 5. This is a proper and timely teffort on the part of the governor of Oregon. And The Star would like to suggest a plank for the platform, } Should one be adopted: Put law enforcers in office if you would enforce the law. The Seat of Government IV ASHIN TON, D. C., is three times as drunken as Paris and 20 times ss murderous as London, clalms { Representative Tinkham. He gets t information by }comparing police statistics. A questionable environment jfor government. * It would be a good idea to move our national capital out into the Middle West, and locate it in a village. Lo- feated in the heart of the country, closer to the people, j Uncle Sam might watch step more carefull) The Kiwanis club has proposed that dignified stone pillars with appro Priate words of welcome be substituted for the elaborate small-town arches which now extend greetings to the tourist enter ttle, And Superintendent of Streets Barkhuff heartily concurs, along with the other 399,000 inhabitants of the city, The Power of Song ING, brothers, siny. The Associated Glee clubs start. a stematic attempt to revive the interest of men in choral singing.” More power to them. Nothing buries axes and welds people together like a singing match. Patriotism, too, is at‘its best when the mob can burst into song. Trouble is, so few songs are worthwhile. Singing _} usually is an emottonal debauch. On the other hand, that’s pleasanter than setting to words and music such Worthwhile subjects as the Einstein theory, reparations and fourth dimension. i If this were 1840, the whole country would be singing parodies about Teapot Dome. i 4, Not so long ago, bootleggers stole the mayor's boorechasing boat, as lay at anchor at the city dock. Now comes a burglar and carries off Fadio set of a police officer. Next we knew some porch-climber will the annual baseball pass of the chief. ybe that would start some 5. = zag When You Tour NCLE SAM’S 146 national forest reserves were visit- ed by nearly 10,000,000 people last year, it’s an- nounced. Eight millions-came in privately owned autos. The auto is taking us back to nature. As we increas- ingly invade the forests and use them for playground Iet’s remember that fire is the most formidable agency of forest destruction and prevention of reforestation. Four-fifths of the big forest fires are started by people with campfires, matches, cigarets and other tobacco. Be cautious in the woods. Had a Rip Van Winkle attended the air cireus at the stadium Saturday ' egg he would have thought that he had sampled a queer brand of id ich. Your Shrinking Dollar + A\T the bottom of an old trunk, Roger Dolan finds a sil- ver dollar in a pair of trousers he packed away just before the war started in 1914. |_ The dollar now will buy only as much as 60 cents would thave bought in 1914. » In effect, 40 cents of the original dollar has disappeared. ‘That is, 40 per cent of its buying power has vanished, as @ result of the increased cost of living. Dolan has always been thrifty, but he is wondering if he wouldn’t have been better off if he had spent the dollar in 1914. On the other hand, 10 years have passed since then. If he had put the dollar in a bank at 4 per cent com- | pound interest, it would have increased to $2 by the year | 1982. Money at 4 per cent doubles in 17 years 246 days. This phenomenal power of compound interest, how- _ ever, has just about been canceled by depreciation of ‘buying power, due to higher prices we have to pay now. | The most pathetic sight in Germany is the aged couple who saved for years to provide for their old age, jand now find their life savings wiped out by the collapse ‘of the mark’s value. 4 But did it ever occur to you, that the same thing on a ‘smaller scale has happened right here in America? ' Hundreds of thousands of old people thought they had | saved enough to care for them in their old age. The rise “in cost of living has reduced the buying power of their ‘savings by 40 per cent. | As usual, it’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways. ‘And 60 cents saved now will be worth about $1 later, not counting any increase by interest, provided the buy- _ ‘ing power of the dollar eventually returns to normal. LETTER FROM V RIDGE PANN March 31, 1924, a { Dear Folks: I've got a lot of work to do; {t nearly makes mo dizzy. ahead and see it thru will keep mo pretty busy. To go I have to tako the ashes out; the*garden needs a grubbing; I ought to fix a leaky spout, and givo the dog a scrubbing. . . . And when I've got them all behind, the work is not abating—for then I know Til go and find a lot of others waiting! The kids have started playing ball—1 wish that I wero in it. I hear the tennis season call—I'm longing to begin it. ‘They say *n® country roads are fine for riding in a flivver—the bounces exercise the spine and stimulate the liver... . But now I'vo Got to get to work at chores that still are waiting—whilo great attractions seem to lurk in ficlds of recreating. And #0 I guess, until I'm dead, I'l bear the blooming shackle, and always find 9 job ahead I’ve got to go and tackle. The only philosoplilc pill that comes to mind and lingers, {4 “Satan finds forme mischief, still, to give to idle fingers.” ., . But tho Id much prefer tho fun, and think I wouldn't rue {t—the work is there, it must be done—I guess I'll go and do tt! Anything Can Hatch From These Eggs a Another Idol Busted ~ \. > AN VeSTGaTion Tex Rickard Goes Way of Other Tin Gods Wn LOWELL MELLET? ‘ et af the | when the simmities reli @ é | Test Yourself Stopes for smo pesmroe tt me Matching Proverbs Eli LIT \ » Fellowship ot Praper Lenten Bible reading ared for m of nurches ed as a witty tebe ot of the pudding the committee cut COST OF RUNNING A CHEAP AUTO BY ALBERT APPLE | | JT COSTS 544 cents a mile to own and operate a popular-| °°” | This is shown by an extensive check-up of jthree of the cheaper makes of cars, according to the Wall|™ I priced auto. | Street Journal. | Five and a third cents a mile is the average figure. Some |" |cost more, others less. | care devoted-to the car. | How does the record of your own bus tally with this laverage? In making comparisons, you'll note that to drive even a cheap car costs about twice as much as a trip by railroad. Street cars give much cheaper service. Depends a lot on the driver and the oh But the} auto driver has the satisfaction of ownership, privacy and| | the pleasure of going wherever he desires instead of follaw-| ling steel tracks, . | s HE AVERAGE family drives a car 5,000 miles | or about 14 miles a day, the investigators decided. It’s} out ot TP jin fa 2B Year| oy estimated that $266 a year ($5.11 a week) operates the|l- | family bus and provides money for its replacement by a new pod car at the end of seven years. In | The investigators figured gasoline at 20 cents a gallon, |20 miles to a gallon, or $50 a year. | Oil at 20 cents a quart, 250 miles to a quart, $4 a year.| 1 wy) nay Tires $60 a set for 15,000 miles, or $20 a year. | Repairs, striking a seven-year average, $50 a year. | Insurance against fire and theft. $15 a year. 9 | Depreciation is estimated as being one-seventh of the), original cost, each year, of $55. | Garage rent is entered at $72 a year. | single item of costs of operation and owners is dropping each year, the Wall Street It quotes engineers as predicting that be- fore long all cheap cars will be stored “in the open” large part of the item of garage rent climinated. | Five dollars or so a week for running a car doesn’t seem | much in these days when a dollar is worth only 60 cents in | buying power compared with what it brought before the |war. But if any one had predicted such an expenditure 20 j}years or more ago, the average person would have gazed | reflectively in the direction of the poorhouse. The “cost per mile” | Journal claims. jye QUESTIONS AND |. ANSWERS | you can get an answer to any | Question of fact_or informa- |] tign by writing to The Question Editor, Stare Washington Bu- || |] Teeu, 1922 N. ¥. Ave, Washing. || | D.C. lowing two centa in || e ‘Upderteken. quests cannot EDITOR. Q What ts a chicken snake? A. A very slender reptile, harm- leas to man. It 4s about 6 of 7 feet long, yellowish brown tn color, with a straw-colored head, tall and abdomen, and two brown stripes along each side of the body. It is fond of stealing poultry and thus derives ita name, eee arch Unsigned re- be auswered.— Q Who was the first president of Liberia, and whero was he born? A. John Jenkins Roberts, a negro born in Virginia, waa the first president of LAberta, | Q. Is it true that a nogro con- | structed tho first clock made in the United States? | | A. Benjamin Banneker, a free negro, vorn in Baltimore county, | Md., constructed, about 1754, a clock tohich told the hours. This ts sald |to have been the first’ clock ever constructed in America, ove Q. What 19 a good formula for tollet vinegar to bo used in the bath? A. Camphor, 1-2 ounce; vit of | rosemary, 1-2 dram; oil of cloves, 1-2 dram; otf of bergamot, 1 dram; acetlo acid, 4 ounces; alcohol, 8 ounces, oe Q. What is a “hack writer"? A. A journalist who is occupted in making books instead of news-| paper articles. Very little original matertat ts used in bookmaking. | For the most part, the materiat is drawn from other books and olf magazine files. Looks made to\ order wsually originate wlth the publisher, who, as a business mah, sccs an opportunity to sell a work | on @ certain audject. | orders pare 4t. Thi hip. and a He thereupon the hack worlter to pre- SON “WELLINGTON -- PHONE CAPITOL 4 You will find in it the definition of real fuel and heat satis- faction. It is clean, sootless, smokeless, casy to handle, and requires little attention. Economical at $9.00 Per Ton at the Bunkers “Burns with the Drafts Closed” s the largest. necess © what you preach | tel h him he 46-129. Text: xxit:| 6. Tall oaks from little acorns tad x er sha © will | grow | : ¢ my Father, ho is my br and| («) Waste not, want not He was just f Y I elites (>) Practice makes perfect red-faced man, ob elling Lt ends come from smal | tng the committes 10 Co Ky would accept his theory that it ngress 1, by 2, b; 8, 0; 4, 93] waan't very wrong for him to Kacerpls from the Cougtasmoae break the law, and that, indeed, Record) sinter and bre He would| (All rights reserved by Science himself—to use his own ex. gather men about Him th such close | Ser 1116 Connecticut ave. preasion—had been bunked into COW ECONOMICS personal relationship as to share His| N v., Washington, D, C) foing ft 0 ligious experience with them. )——— ae Take, for instance, a loan on «| 2"? Fe i d | The ould feel God ase . otal : . We. wilt may that the coe | TMZ, WoUld feel Godan He ax." | FABLES ON HEALTH. . APES | MEDITATION In doing the ots $50, If It ts of a beef var world’s work wo are not to feel that wo work alone in the Father's £ but that the upward life of the will ‘od is with every unselfish work impulses of men! t cow ts fed and take will produce A WIFE’S INFL CE NE evening, shortly after a talk} end of 13 ntha, man; also the go may be called into active coopera tion by offective invitation. Wher n unite to make the best in prev a apt Father t mar And, being a wise woman, she did with his doctor, Mr. Mann, of|not back up her own mistakes with Anytown, surprised Mrs, Mann at| stubbornness, but invariably backed the dinner table by remarking: down, iy| ‘Think I'll run over to the gym-| “Papa,” she said, “you trot right »,. | nasium toni; ~ along. But tf, within a couple of rabagdenroapcaedy Fay AD canoe “What's thist weeks, you can't run the daily dozen 4 curtty ) New Mexico gasped the Mrs. 207% j San ok: tee brothortnned oF Ee. “A new excuse for getting out to a| up to 24, I'll be suspicious, JEFFERSON'S METHODS | PERSONAL QUESTION: Am I} poker game? Or is there a burlesque] “What’s more, 1 want you to le: r I do not know whether or not| "rons enough to work happlly with! show in town?” enough about exercise to pass it on 1omaa would turn ever] “attractive people Now, Mrs. Mann was not without|to the youngsters. We'll turn the ei cha a | God, may! feminine shrewdness and intuition.| bedtime story into a healthtimo vor this legis I know, how be strengthened by the} A second after she had questioned | story. romises, Let every:|her husband's 1 separate us from! gretted it be far removed and tender! ‘There was something almost wist- he le ings of Thy spir ud that we have! , pred Thal Da intentions she re} The moral’of all of which ts this: A wife can be a vital influence | in getting her husband in the ful in the expression upon his face.| exercise habit. Encourage your Me ‘ | She r ed she should have sensed} husband, wives, and then get the . Pt ‘ e (Copyright, 1924, ¥. L. Fagley) | his sincerity, and encouraged him. habit yourself. {4 THOUGHT | They that plow iniquity and sow | wickedness shall reap tho wan dob tv... or, that he bu: * with it, big ba name, TALK COSTS MONEY eee B WHO commits injustice ts ever made more wretched than he who suffe presentative The Book of All Books The sailor on the boundless main may barely know his letters, but somewhere in his kit you will find a Bible —perhaps with tear-stained inscription written with the trembling hands of old age—from his mother—next to God his best and truest friend! Seek any habitation of men in lands remote and distant—search the rude cabin of the settler—and you will find a Bible—thumbed—worn—ragged, maybe,—but loved and revered as the chiefest treasure of the little family in the clearing! y+ The Star makes this distribution for the benefit of its readers in this great movement toward encouraging Bible reading. Choose the style that you want— Style A being illustrated opposite. 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