The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 18, 1924, Page 8

eae 1 Star year tat The Seattle : e oy be $2.08 Too Let Work Go, dent Val Davis and Du of the i all » ings retary toward and hol indicat are out to g His attitude toward th of the Colorado river seemed to favor gove later, he signed a report that e¢ approved private o ntrol His Mificant act against the best in the reclamation service, however ing of Arthur Powell Davis, note torship of that highly important . Eng did not favor private control of w powers Work would not be missed, if he were to drop out of the cabinet. On the contrary, ! yval would be of ir estimable benefit to the reclamat vi berate oust the direc neer Davis Back East a summer resort is a place where the mosquitoes start In about dark, just when the files quit work Fairy HE famed Hollinger gold mine in Cs more than $24,000,000 profit. A fourth interest in the mine was sold for $55 six weeks before the discovery of ore. Reads like a fairy tale. It fires the imagination, appeals to the desire to get some- thing for little or nothing. : But investors should not forget the thousands of mines that have never paid back even $55 in profits. It seems to be human nature to base broad, sweeping conclusions on isolated individual instances which are exceptions. da has now paid Haircuts are so high now {t almost pays to be a musician or a poet Strange GGHTEEN thousand volts of electricity mean certain death. Yet 900,000 volts passed thru J. .V. Alfriend, Gr., and he’s still alive. This happened at Johns Hopkins University. No one can satisfactorily explain why an overdose of “juice” may on occasion be harmless compared with.a few thousand volts. Electricity is as mysterious as life, with which it seems to have some very close relation. Escapes like Alfriend’s are exceptional. Young experi- ‘menters should be extremely cautious. Even the ordinary ‘electric light socket is apt to kill, if the victim is grounded, especially in cases of weak hearts. ‘There is a big crop of fried chicken this spring j The Presidency if IS not infrequently that a pregnant thought, couched . in simplest diction, drips from Henry Ford’s none- too-garrulous lips. For instance, this from a recent ‘interview: | “The president of the United States has no partisan duties. His oath is registered in heaven to serve the Nation—not to serve a party.” It is the gospel truth. Yet always we are reminded by the politicians that the president in office is “the Jeader of his party,” and it is his party to whom he is to and does pay an over-abundance of official tribute. Few presidents, in the general run of executive busi- mess, have been able to free themselves entirely of parti- anship and invariably place the nation first and above party. Few have we had who were capable of measur- ing their oaths to the full and giving practical effect to the proposition that he who serves the nation best serves his party most. | We weren't really sure about spring until today, when we saw two women hikers, in knickerbockers, tramping out the North Trunk road. Do YOU Appreciate It? AT the age of 102 James Kirkley, of Chicago, says that one of the rules for living long is to play regularly. _ Good advice, of course, but most people are too busy making money to pay attention to it. About 98 per cent of us never learn that money-making is. the world’s champion boob stunt. The main object of life is to have a good time. We live here in the midst of the world’s playground and, like the girl in the candy store who never eats candy, never learn to play. This country was built to play in. Why not use it? Back East, Philip Speyer has devoted a lifetime to making 200 million gallons of paint. The job, it seems to us, must be almost as monotonous as Mayor Brown’s, devoted exclusively to “making Seuttle a better city.” One Fellow We Pity N ex-judge in the East has been receiving about $100,000 a year from a legacy held in trust. Now he petitions the courts to increase his fees on the ground that he “cannot support his family according to the standard of living they have been accustomed to.” He has our deepest pity. If somebody will stake us to $100 a month for life we will take our family out to some secluded spot in the ‘Charmed Land and guarantee to live like a king for the rest of our natural. Yes, Brother—we mean it! Foes of the drug traffic think it can be st the manufacture of opium, heroin, morphi J so forth, You remem- her, of course, the success of the prohibition law, which forbids the manufacture of whisky, beer, gin, rum and so forth. mped out by forbidding For I nvestors in Marks ITH the idea that “marks will come back to pre- war value,” many Seattle folks purchased them at low rates. Recently marks have “come back” a little. But if. you’re thinking of investing, remember that ‘Germany has in circulation nearly 700 quintillion paper marks, That is 40 million marks for every man, woman and child on earth. _ In the face of those figures, if you still think you can make money by investing in marks, go ahead. But don’t say we didn’t tell you. Somebody with a depraved taste for statistics tells us that there are ‘more autos than telephones in Seattle. We don't know what deduction ‘to draw from this, If you discover the moral please enlls us up. | LATTLE STAR FRIDAY APRIT “The Spring Bliz: —y- Meer Ye > Sz Ree | Se ee I~ / «or THE FOUS Are You Lip- (MM BEGINNING B Beveve THar REALLY BO WANT Tele TAXES REDUCED Lazy? MOST OF US ARE, SAY AUTHORITIES, BERATING SLOVENLINESS OF NATIONAL SPEECH BY ALEXANDER HERMAN |. PHILADELPHIA, April 14—Lip laziness is America’s most prevalent dis Millions already have it and they are rapidly infecting others, Be. fore long the scourge will be nation: widi Yet most of Its victims do notli }ing about it | So a group of educators meeting lat the Philadelphia forum have de ided to ‘ay the inroads of this disease, by turning the spotlight of j pane ty on ite evils. Chief of this group is Mra, Bea- Forbes Robertson Hi former author and lecturer, who | herself an “English Amer | To save her children from e epidemic, she is haying them | educated abroad. | “The symptoms of this disease,” | says Mra, Hale, “vary thruout the! country. { “In New York it can be found In @ argot of the young man who ks about ‘skolt on leap yd | st! when referring to a girl on | 2ard at. | | “In New England {t ls manifest. | ed by saying ‘wuz’ when one means | “was. | “In the Middle West, by droppin | the ‘g out of the language: ‘wud do | y'wan' for ‘what do you want,’ In | recent trip thru the inland states, |I did not hear the lett Dro- nounced, except when it began ¢ | word. | “and in the Far’ West, by the constant use of such terms as ‘You | bet’ to cover ¢ y conceivable re | } | | ply to any concelvable answer, | | Selence han discovered many in-| i lteresting facts about ants and is A S |continually adding to its store of| re ayung knowledge of this Intelligent insect | ‘The queen ant, Uke the queen| KERENSKY, |bee, has no duty to perform in the| tionary leader: lcolony other than to lay eggs. She) boishevist regime will be over has a separate living apartment for|thrown. I shall not venture to pro herself and is cleaned and fed by/dict exactly when, but the collapse |the worker-ants, who also act as|{s nearer than ever. ‘The death of |nurses for the young. As soon a#/ Lenin was a very cheering and sig tho eggs are laid the workers carry | nificant event.” jthem off to tho nurseries. There eb le they are carefully watched and kept) presinENT ALLAN HOBEN, lat an even temperature, until A "Kalamazoo college: “Tho average | hatched. ‘The nurses then carry| | them out Into the afr, if the weather | olege student knows less about poll. a 4 ties than the average person of the jis fine, bringing them in again,) . Ph igay Si Pn |xame age outside that group. Some authorities bellove that,| ee eee next to man, the ant !s the most} by ry intelligent of all living creatures. Association Meets In any respects ants have solved! The Travelers’ Protective associa \soctal problems toward which man|tion of America will hold a banquet |is working, but which ho has not/gstumay evening at the Butler hotel lyet achieved. Ants work for tho| | well-being of the community and) }individual selfishness apparently | (rive. Clyde Evans {fs secretary-treas |has no place in their lives. urer of the association. (XX LETTER FROM V RIDGE PANN (Note: The Bryn Mawr scholarship for women workers in industry has been awarded to a member of the Laundry Workers’ Union, Local 24, of Seattle) POPOL PORE R RO } or . | Mrs. Beatrice Hale “With these symptoms comes the poker face—the shell behind which the American to hide his thoughts and emotions. What Folks ex-Russian revolu- "I am convinced the April 18, 1924, Dear Avridge Mann: ° I'm just so glad and happy, now, I don't know what to do! And since I know you'll understand, I'll share the Joy with you. So travel back across the years—a little college town—a quiot girl with cherished dreams to wear the cap and gown. And then the years! I often think that Fate, ‘neath changing skies, has lured me on with hopes and dreams not meant to realize, But now, @ message comes to me like fairy lore, it seems—for now the joy 1# mine to help another weave her dreams! What matters, now, the weary years or that my halr ts gray? Another girl with singing heart will live my dream today! An. other slender, brown-haired girl will tread those stately halls, and trip across the campus paths to merry college calls! , 4 80, looking back across the years, what matter heartaches past? For, in this splendid girl of ours, my dreams como true at last! And now, altho my eyes are wet, please do not think I'm # Dear Avridge Mann, I want your help to tell the world—I'm glad! JOSEPHINE EB, MILLENE, New Method Laundry, cli ai business man tries a shutting of tt to conserve energy, @ muffied speech “Women often go to the other ex treme, In an attempt to be gay, they ta them—@oreaming, screeching. The art of conversation. careful developed abroad, seems to be er tirely dend here. And the chief rea son, I think, 1s that we suffer from a lowbrow complex. It seems to be the common belief that it ts superior to be inferior, “We are afraid of belng called | high-brow, So we assume a speech. In England a man's speech marks him. No one speaks a diction that ts beneath him, so the standard of the spoken English ban been kept up to that of the written. But in America it seems to make Uttle difference how one speaks, For lp-laxiness {s getting the better of the nation.” Prof. Samuel A. King, of Bryn Mawr, a girls’ collogo, agrees with Mra. Hala, “Many American girs,” he says, “are without charm as a consequence of thelr slovenly diction and uncultt vated voloes, © teeth, and ght above the noise a They seem to forget that ft ts just as easential to please the ear as the eye. Some of them will epend years abroad perfecting their diction in Italian and French, but they never give their own tongue a thought.” | The most common defects of our speech, the professor points out, are technically known as: Sniffing naaality, Partial nasality, | Throaty constringency. ‘The cure for all this lip-tasiness? | ‘Training in proper speech from childhood on, these experts say, for it te difficult to change the speech | of adulta. | So if you want the next generation to be saved from America’s greatest epidemlo, begin training it now. ——S—S—S— “Barns With the Drafts Closed” a to mark the end of a memberhip| You'll find ita clean, smokeless, sootless, and in every way VERY . desirable fuel. Especially so for quick, warm fires these cool mornings and evenings, Order Wellington Coke Next Fuel Order $9.00 Per Ton At the Bunkers _ Fellowship ct Prayer Datiy Bible ana reading prepared tor om of burches Lenten tation mn on Evaenge Vederai Councit of the of Christ tn America FRIDAY CRUCUIXION THE (Copyright, 1924—1", L. Pagtey) “Sea-Horse” Is a Mighty Queer Fish LONG BEACH, ¢ April A t of fish is the Acanth of wt fn on ex arium on the looks as tho 4 cross between « wart in an leasure per. mn. Its colorings & phosphorus-like along its back that off a blue light, as it ts commonly called, is ten inches long. In spite of ta small size the seahorse is sald to be as dangerous as a stingaree, and feared by larger fish. TEST YOURSELF | for Ma ching ee | Frieda’s Follies | THAT REMINDS me of 1 DID not r t BUT THE way she t IN THE man's ear f1 UNFINISHED pente I JUST knew it was « BUT PEOPLE are » ma FUNNY © on IT WAS more the WHEN HE nv AND LAUGHED, how he laug “WHY DON’T you tet 3 Aged her tr ‘THEY LAUGHED ali t réer AS THEY looked ect newering “YOU ARE the funny et BY MEN Telling It to Congress (Excerpts trom the Congreasiona Record) t to call the atten bi hen we pay for his office f 9a year. We pay for cc expenses of his executive off a lump sum. We 1 « and bin © executiv for heating the mansion $11,000; care and maintenance of the greefhouse, $9,-| 900; for repair and reconstruction of | the greenhouse, $9,860; for improve. ment and maintenance of the execu tive mansion grou: $10,000; for lighting the executive ma grounds and greenhor power, installation, and so on, $8, 600; for White House police, $55,640: for thelr uniforms, $3,250. And be sides wo are paying tho salaries of | ‘178 men to man his yacht, the May use, for 4 man to hear Keel. vii5, 6. TOOLS are apt t TORS eled thru Y & in automo > the number @), Wy- WHERE DOES THE MONEY Go? An unparalleled example of gov- ernment waste and extravagance has been disclosed in the investiga- tions which have been made of the Veterans’ Bureau and its predeces- sor, the Bureau of War Risk In- surance. For every dollar the gov- ernment spends but relatively few cents reach the object for which the moneys are yoted—Senator King (D) Utah. “Dress Well—Never Miss the Money” EXCEPTIONAL VALUES IN NEW ‘2 of Striking prefer Gately Suits, ng Jiitks Desirabilit? This Handsome Suit Is one of ‘a group of many dif- ferent styles now being shown for Spring wear, Not only are these suits stylish—they are exception- ally well tailored. The materials, too, are the y g Others, This Splendid Suit Illustrates very clearly the rich distinction of the new Gately models. 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