The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 4, 1924, Page 8

? THE SEATTLE STAR Published Delly Paone MA in-040 The Northwest Products Exposition to exaggerate the im portance to S le 4 Pacific Northwest 1 this y the fo time August 4 to 9, Seattle i ing populatic values. The Se, 1 the shell of a sound prosperity, and with them an equal development of industrial welfare. Here is where the Northwest come in. . “Get acquainted and stand together” purpose. At its booths, Seattle learns what its citizens and those of the Pacific Northwest is doing their neighbors in their patronage, knowledge of what our neighbors manufacture is all we need—and this the exposition supplies. + Attracted by the exposition and the entertainment fea- tures that go with it, thousands of merchants from the Whole Northwest and more distant points come here to get a bird's-eye view of Pacific Northwest products, and to become imbued with the spirit of mutual co-operation *Setween cities and communities of the whole district. Active work for the coming exposition has already be- gun. Scores of public-spirited business men will be giv- ing largely of their time for a bigger and better expo- ‘sition than the Pacific Coast has ever seen. They are ‘compensated only by the knowledge that what benefits the ecmmunity as a whole, benefits the individual, and there is no citizen that does not derive some benefit from the industrial growth of the city and the Northwest. Let’s all get behind it, and, if we can do nothing else, let’s boost for it. Northwest of the exposition that is to be held Bell St. dock n era of rapidly Products exposition epitomizes its Glad to stand behind 2 ” “A Thoro House Cleaning 6 HOSE scandals at Washington are destroying the confidence of the people in their government.” You'll hear something like this from many a good citi- zen, nowadays. But, really, aren’t those exposes a fine thing for the country? Along between now and the middle of May you'll see “Yevery good housewife take, or hire somebody to take, mop, hot water, soap and broom and give her house “a thorough house-cleaning.” No matter how careful and tleanly she has been day after day, she knows that there's got to be “a thorough house-cleaning.” The reader’s wife, mother and grandmother have always, in turn, felt this, The reader may have seen wife or mother working and Iding hard for cleanliness and order, day after day, hut the evening comes when he goes home to supper to ei ‘find an odor of suds and a very tired wife, who declares, y1 never saw such a dirty house!” Does she feel that it is a lost house because she has ‘found dirt? Not at all. She would be a disappointed ' ‘woman had she found no dirt, and she is happy and ae proud over having a house that’s better, It is her house, and she can make it just what she pleases. '-. The Washington government is the people’s house, and they can make it what they will. It is so dirty that it ‘smells to high heaven. This is not remarkable. The rats of privilege have nested in its cupboards. dreds of thousands of partisan cockroaches have left ‘their tracks on its ceilings. Politics has left its filth in “ every corner. Flies and ants swarm upon the food upon ‘Iwhich the household must live. Let the dirt go on ac- cumulating, and there will be a moral pestilence, the hingeless doors will hang open :to every thief, and the _\ ¥ery foundations will rot away. ee Indeed, it is well that the dirtiness of their house should be strongly impressed upon the people. Maybe, the extreme dirtiness will arouse them to “a thorough “Vhouse-cleaning.” Maybe the size of the job will con- ‘}¥ince them that they caynot trust it to any “hired help” Ahat comes along, with only promises of efficiency and recommendations from a republican or democratic party tfor whom they last worked, but that the job must be {put in the hands of reliable, experienced “help,” with records of successful house-cleaning. More power to the Washington scandals! They show that it is time for “a thorough house-cleaning.” A Sensible Change HE senate has adopted the joint resolution for a constitutional améndment to have presidents in- augurated third Monday in January and congress take of-* fice first Monday in January after election. It’s a sensible idea. Most important’ thing for the public {to keep in mind is that a political party by our present _} system is free to tinker with the laws for several months after voters have repudiated it and elected the other party to power. That's a poor way to play political base- ball. The quicker repudiated politicians are sént to the | benches, the better. He Has a Mean Bark als VANDERLIP says he is going to devote his life to being a watchdog over the government in Washington. Fine, if Frank isn’t one of these barking dogs that won't bite. { Taxing Unused Land A TAX of 900 million dollars a year could be realized } by putting a special levy of 1 per cent a year on the jyalue of unused land in the United States and Alaska, ‘So claims Congressman Griffen, introducing a bill for _ that purpose. ' Griffen believes that his bill would not only bring in a lot of revenue, it'd also force into use unproductive lands held for speculation. The usual objection to such a tax is ‘that it can’t be evaded by passing it on to consumers, } é About Real Furs. NCLE SAM has 20,000 genuine seal skins—and has trouble selling them. A committee of experts recom- jmends to Secretary Hoover that educational campaigns be conducted to teach women the “merits” of real geal fur. The government idea seems to be that women don’t want genuine seals, preferring “Hudson seal” —dyed muskrat. : Anyway, Al Left the Building 'ASN’T it too bad that the democrats didn’t think to j nail down to the floor in the office of the secre- ‘tary of the interior that Jacobean furniture and the rare _ Turkish rug which “Alkali Al” sold himself for his ranch i New Mexico? ~_—n Did You Ever Try to Empty a Kid’s Pockets? for THe LANOSAKes, WHAT NeXT ) “pwesTigAin? Fellowship of Prayer Dally Lenten’ Bible reading the Churcher Christ io America FRIDAY By Their Fruits ee ee a, Nead Mt the tr 12:31-37, Text: 1233. For |, is known by tts fruit, The best thing about a plece of THEY TALK ONLY “ONE WORD BY ALBERT APPLE a race of people whose language consists of only one word. This word is “Inge.” It’s used by a community of 250 savages who live on the banks of the Cauras river in Peru. Garret F. Hall, artist-explorer, re- turns to civilization and tells about them. When a crowd of these savages gets together for a talk- ‘fest, one of them says, “Inge.” Presently another savage nods and answers, “Inge.” If there is general agreement the whole crowd choruses, “Inge.” Sounds like a political meeting. How would you like to live among them? After all, think what a fine arrangement it would be for the pests who bore you with their drivéeling gab. One word and they'd be talked tout. Or, at an oil investigation, a witness wouldn't have to hem and haw or refuse to answer on advice of counsel. He'd simply say, “Inge’—and let the audience make its own! guesses at what he meant. It'd be an ideal system for newspapermen who wanted to get away to a ball game. Just send the paper to press with one word, “Inge”—thus telling everything with the utmost detail possible. Fine system for an editor cramped for | space. | H HAT word would you select if our language had to | be weeded out and singled down to one word? The }Babbitts will make such selections as “patriotism,” ‘“moth- er,” “loyalty” or “truth.” We know thirsty folk who'd select “Whisky,” in. the hope that if they said it often enough they'd finally find some kind-hearted party with a pre-war cellar. For politicians we'd recommend “Bunk.” Sufficiently re-! peated, it would make a good average political speech. |Imagine a candidate swinging around the circle and ha- lranguing his hearers: “Bunk, bunk, bunk, bunk!” The} jaudience would listen a while, nod their heads and comment | \to themselves, “I see the issues haven't changed since the} last election. The campaign is to be fought out along | regulation lines.” There are times when our radio speaks only one word: | “Eee-e-e!” | ERIOUSLY, tho, it was a great event in human history when the first word was invented.-So began speech. It must have started with one word, possibly “Ouch!” Language is our greatest invention.. Humanity is like a} baby, beginning with one word, gradually becoming fluently ressive, - iby in the cradle, then gradually growing to maturity and finally aging—this is symbolic of civilization. On this| | jthese countries Dago men or|duct of ao comparison, how old is humanity now? About two years? Test Yourself for INVENTIVENESS | | If you have inventive ability, you] Answers: 1.m uh; 3.x y Ww; 3 should be able to turn one letter} 4 nae ea Bee pit (All rights reserves iy iclence of the alphabet into another, Mervioe. «1118 i Godnentedtt, whack Try this simple test and gsee|y W., Washington, D. C) work well 4 in that tt registers itelf tn the personality of the man who does It, and he goes forward fit for a more important task than he would be fit for if he had left a slov nly plece of work behind him. Jf he does his work well he Itves udder the great law of enlarging opportu. | as thelr elders «. Bo it was on QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |, YOU can get an answer to any || question of fact_or Iinforma- tion by writing to The Question Editor, Stars Washington Bu- reau, 1322 N. Y. were bolting the MEDITATION: Some try ‘to camouflage the poverty of . thelr {spiritual life and lack of moral priné ciple by smooth talk and occasional | generous deeds, They may sucored for a time in deceiving others, but jin the long run much efforts result | Ave, ing two oe Medical, before the various Mann youngsters r breakfasts in the FABLES ON HEALTH Children are gre a matter of time ly J/“THE PEOPLE’S CHARTER” ; By Herbert Quick SET GOOD EXAMPLE Teach your children to eat proper: Get them in the right eating habit carly in life, then practice what In failure for the pretender will quests EDITOR. forget his pose and his ewn Inner fo will stand revealed in all its poverty and insincerity. But gre ness of heart and honesty of purpose | are self-revealing. PERSONAL QUESTION: Q Whom did Pocahontas marry and many children did have? A. Bhe married an Englishman named John Roe jtho best, thru the indwelling of thy jspirit. Amen. Libyans, “Dress Well—Never Miss the Money” | What © q and hed one|srowth do I detect in my personality q , child, @ son named Thomas MRolfe.jaa fruit of the spirit of Christ? * eee | PRAYER: Our Heavenly F Q What race of people were the|*e pray thet our souls may be like ‘| » Carthaginians? jell watered gardens. Give us a A. They are believed % have been | hearty will to bring forth fruit pleas. | a mixture of the Phoenicians (who|ine to thee. May we not.be con were a Bemitle people) and the| tented with the good but ever seek see Q. What 1s the Increase of the (Copyright, 1924—F, L. Fagley) STYLE WEAR VALUE tomperature of the earth as one digs down? | A. About one degree Fahrenheit) for every 00 to 80 feet of descent. | Telling It to Congress Q. When and where was George|| (xcerpts trom the Congressional Washington inaugurated? | raat A. For the firat time in New York j " h a | olty, April $0, 1789; for the second HANDWRITING ON THE WALL time in Philadelphia, Po, March 4,| Many centuries ago, on the oc-| 1798. cdsion of a great feast, the fingers \of a mysterious hand appeared and | ote the doom of a king and his Q From whom did Jefferson get | "TS the ¢ | his 14eas for the Declaration of In-| Kingdom, because when welghed In dependence? the balances that king was found | wanting. Next November not one| A, Tha American Enevolopedia '8\ nnd but countless millions of hiands pa pred abbg Soak hag 1) oe progressive and patriotic men and Fs ee | women of all parties will write ghis ladministration’s doom upon their Q. How did the expression “Dago”/tallots—Senator Neely (D.), West’ originate? | Virginia. A. This meant, ortptnally, a per-| ton speaking Spanish or Portuguese, EARNED DOLLARS by extenston—an individual of the} 1 live under the impression that) The expres-| dollars must be earned, and that even probably originated in this! thovwe start out by lending. @ dollar way: In Spanish America “San-\to the people who need the Joan, tlago," “San Diepo,” “lago" and\soaner or later that dollar must ‘be | “Deigo™ are such frequently recur-jearned and repaid. That is the only ring vocables that the “Yankee sail-| honest mode of life, and the only | ors” began to call the natwes of|sane system of finance in the ¢on- government. —Senator | Wadsworth (R.), New York. Latin or Greek race. sion Diegos, eee grt weit | | One and Two Pants particles of Nquld water or ice, a} sort of water dust. Unless born up| by @ rising ourrent, they settte| slowly thru the air, but on reach- ing a stratum of unsaturated air again evaporate. Clouds, generally speaking, are the condensation of) water vapor in the air, when near| the earth tt 4s called fog, at higher | altitudes, clouds. » eee Q. What ts agar-agar? A. Dried seaweed of several ape-| cles, much used for soups and Chi- nese dishes, | opis. t8 | Q. What catises crickets to chirp? | A. The chirping of crickets ts pro-| duced by rubbing a file-lke rldge of one, wing over.a scraping surface of the other, | Use “WELLINGTON -- PH ONE -- CAPITOL You, too, will find that this is the fuel you have been looking for! whether you can. Threo small letters can be made lout of each of the letters given | below, with or without the addition } of straight or very slightly curved | lines or change of position. The | lotters given can be placed in any | position and used any number of times. Ready! Go! 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