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

The Seattle Star Ane Washington First! COMMITTEE ralifornians is to appear Monda night before a meeting of the dairyr 1 livestox Specialists here and plead for a modification of the quar antine bar that been thrown up ag st California ucts owihg oof and mouth d epidemic ere. to the | CASE } They might as well their breatl no letting down of fences to } Wa: ‘ m the way to the ravages of this terrible plague that is iow costing Ca nia more an $1,000,000 daily and fom more deadly every week. ? It is hard on Cali in this most fruitful of seasons, fo be cut off from the outside world and to have its busi Ress paralyzed, but California brought it upon herself. | Had prompt and proper action been taken fol'owir rst outbreak of the epidemic, it would not have attained is present disastrous proportions. | Washington must look to its own knitting. It must Beep its own herds clean from infection. And it must every human precaution in doing so, even at the ex mse of California. } There's one thing the California delegation CAN do that will please the people of Washington. And that is, to stop to be disinfected at the border when they come North t make their proposal. the | After examining 500 of them, a scientist has discovered that earth forms have brains distributed over thelr abdornens, right where they can fet the point of the fish hook easily, It's wonderful. A Roll of Honor ‘The Standard OU Co, of Call B. F. Goodrich Tire Co. Sun Oi Co. Hood Rubber Co. Ajax Rubber Co. Ward Baking Co, Dodge Brothers. Ii Refining Co, chmann Yeast Co, The Standard Oil Co, of New York. | Kelly Springfield Tire Co. Flour Mills. | Washburn-Crosby Co. 6 Champion Spark Plug Co Fle E SALUTE the corporations whose names are listed | above. They are pioneers of “America the Beau- | These corporations have pledged themselves not to ad- Vertise on billboards in the country where the billboards $poil the natura! scenery. + And to the list of corporations we add the name of Flo jegfeld, judge of beauty and of “Follies” fame, who has tt announced he will tear down his enormous electric at Times Square, New York, and spend the $50,000 that it cost to run and the money that his billboards cost oad year, in forms of advertising that do not mar the uty of our scenery. » The rapid spread of the billboard threatened to doom the beauty of outdoor America. But now it is the high- > way billtoard which is doomed. Where these corpora- tons have led, others will follow. > Of what avail were the rocks and rills of America if a barred the view? Of what dignity a templed } hit if a lurid advertisement screamed from its side? What profit it if the woodsman spared the tree, if the | advertising man came along and tacked a sign on it? The billboard has a place, an important place, in Amer- life. But that place is in the city and town, A d in a city or town not only screens unsightly | Vacant lots, but often it is itself attractive. It is an effective means of advertising, just as newspaper adver- tising is. But the billboard has absolutely no place in country. There is no landscape, wild or cultivated, _ a8 newspapers, useful in their place, litter up the woods if | ic parties are so thoughtless as to leave them be- | The corporations named above have led the way. Doubt- | Sarai will quickly follow. But this matter should not | be wholly to voluntary action, for there probably ‘would always be some callous concern which would con- | tinue to deface the landscape. The rural billboard should be abolished by federal action—by placing a prohibitive | tax on them. | _ An evangelist, in defense, says what Mr. Bryan is trying to do fs to “put religion on Its feet.” Instead of its tail, of course. The Kind We Need WN OLD lady leaves $250,000 to a former actor as “a token of my appreciation for his friendship at a time when most needed.” millon over to the old lady’s sons. : _ That is real honesty, justice and decency of the finest He turned the quarter id. Interviewed, he refuses to discuss-the matter. He's the sort that should be down in Washington helping run the government. ~ Or in control of an industry with a corner on necessities. ‘One of these inane statisticians has discovered that college professors __ live longer than blacksmiths, but he overlooks the kick the latter get out e of their stay here. Anna Gets the Title BVIOUSLY, Princess de Sagan, nee Anna Gould, isn’t going to be wholly cheated. They’re selling: Sagan’s | ites but cannot sell the title, and so Anna’s boy will be @ princelet, just the same. In short, while Miss Gould | May have got a poor imitation of a husband, she acquired | | of what she went after at the altar. » Of course, nowadays, a royal title is a poor, miserable, anemic thing. In these times, call a fellow “Mr.” and he feels a bit honored, while if you call him “Prince,” he sus- pects that you are going to kick him. | i LETTER, FROM VEIDGE MANN “Dear Folks: April 24, 1924, “An island ruled by ladies,” says the story, “Beacon Hill,” inferring that it's hades—really quite a bitter pill. And so they go and spout it, and a lot of words are hurled—but what is odd about it? Women rule the blooming world! ‘They first began to rule us when we etill were small and new. As baby boys they school us on the things we ought to do. ‘They rock us, kiss us, shake us, or they wake us up at night— before we talk they make us think a woman's always right. And later, when we're nearing boyhood’s active age of ten, {t's “Hold ‘er, Newt, she’s rarin’” more than ever even the With “Stop that awful yelling!” or her “Wash behind your ears! she always tries compelling us to act as “little dears.” And later, when we're older, and we break away from home, we think we're getting bolder, ae we're starting out to roam. But soon we stop our straying, when the preacher's deed {s dono; “You two are one,” he's saying—but he's thinking, “SHE'S the ‘one’! Again we take our station tn the lower rank of life; we make our abdication as we say, “I'll ask the wife.” The game—the women run It; it's the queen that takes the tricks; thru all the years they've done it—who the devil ever kicks? paratus and road, particularly such aa moves on| the road, that 4s, engines, cars, tend- era, coaches and trucks, hin — SCIENCE Carit&ge, omnes THE SEATTLE BY HERBERT QUICK ‘T°HE protests of Rumania and Japan against our new nmigration bill ra the vital quest our right to choose our own immigrant Thru most of our tory we held the door wide oper to everybody. We have We are a d our children's c yocracy, ildren t quit that, and are nc them over before letting them in. Haven't we a right to do that? The de the sort of people we have. STAR WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 1924 ww looking tiny of our children and end of time depends on Haven't we a right to keep the out those not likely to gle with our present popu tion and work with us? Democracy is team-work among voters To say that ar foreign goverr nt has the right to object if we keep out those with whom we feel that we cannot do team-work is to attack our ver dependence as a natior It’s Time Now for a New Declaration of Inde The present bill may or may not be a good t t the America’s busine It our best try t olution of a question that is our problen We | the right to fail on it; but we have no right to let an other nation dict to us as to the rer Who a come to America is an American question t to discrimin. If we believe any race does nc vell in our democracy, we must so discriminate c » are false cowards. When any body of people alread I a row because we keep out others of the race, they prove the case for exclusion. If there we more of them here, they would make more trouble No weight should be given to any foreign goverr ment’s protest QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS yr can get an answer to any tion of fact or Informa- riting to The Queation Stars Washington Bu- N.Y. . Washington, ng 2 cents in # reply. Medical, legal marital advice cannot be given. nor can extended resei fertaken. Unsigned requa: not be answered EDITOR. for Q. Name three great French painters of the 19th century. A. Jean Francois Millet (181j- 1875); Jean Baptiste Corot (1796- 18 Pierre Ettienne Rousseau (1812-18967). Q What doe A. The vivisection mean? ion of a living ant- | mal for the purpose of investiga- tion, eee Q Is there anything that will keep gasoline from forming rings around spots cleaned? A. Bome absorbent substance, auch as cotton, or blotting paper, should be placed under the spot, and the | addition of common salt at the rate of @ teaspoonful to each quart will help prevent the rings. eee Q What prominent Americans were lost on the Lusitania? A. Alfred G. Vanderbilt, Juatus Miles Forman, Elbert Hubbard and Oharles Frohman. eee Q What is rolling stock? A. The portable or movable ap- machinery of a rail- see Q. Where did the stones used to build the Pyramids of Egypt come from? A. They were cut from the Mo- kattam and Tura jMlls on the op-| posite side of the Nile, | the road by which the stones tcere| Traces of brought down are stilt visible, Q What is a good formula for !n- cense? see Q, What Is the highest mountain Africa? A. Ruwencgori, 20,150 feet. WHICH MUSCLES ARE STRONGEST? Tho strongest muscles In the body —which are they? The jaw muscles, Tho bite of the jaw is stronger than the clasp of the hand, the pressure | of one hand against the other or the stip of the knees. Experiments show that {t requires | a force of 80 to 60 pounds for broiled | ham and 70 to 90 pounds for the toughest beef. | The average human jaw possesses a biting strength of 171 pounds, Many persons can bite as much as 300 pounds. muscles {n the attempt. Experiment shows that the strength of the bite depends not so much upon the mus- cular power as upon the condition of the teeth, The dean of the North. western university dental school warns against soft food and says the teeth will not bo hurt by bones or stones in the food, as they romist stronger pressure than metals which seem to man much harder than his tocth. This is more than the greatest welght which tho average man can lift from the floor with one hand, using all his arm, back and leg | | | | | | The Magician ay A, ar anna April 34 The “Jim Crow” car is in vading the North, One railroad running out of Chicago has adopted the prac. tee of making negroes sit apart from whites on all Its trains and other roads are reported about to follow mult The encroachment of this hitherto exclusively Southern social tom in the North di- Tects attention to the great ex- tent of the negro migration from the South. Starting In 1914, when labor shortage led steel men in the North to advertise for and recruit nogro labor, tho movement has continued until now nearly 4, 000,000 of the nation's 10,463,000 negroes are living In the North. Some reports would Indicate that moet of the migrating ne Kroes are flocking back to the South again. “This is not true and ts purely Propaganda,"’ says Karl F. Phil- lips, of the U. 8. department of labor, who has made official sur. veys of the negro migration, Rallroad stations in strategto cities and 273 large facto lo. cated in 18 Northern states were For Mental If your brain {s as good as your paper and pencil for doing simple problems in arithmotic, this test will be easy for you. Directions: Lay aside all pencils or pens. Counting on the fingers ts also barred. Let your gray matter do all the work. 1. 9 plus 2 equals 7 plus 4 equals 13 plus 18 equals 4 minus 2 equals 17 minus 4 equals 52 minus 9 equals 16 plu plus 27 equals 96 plus 23 plus 8 equals 27 plus 62 minus 13 equals minus 12 plus 47 equals TEST YOURSELF Washing’ used as a basis of his computa- these tins, On April 20, 19 factories were employ! | Negro workers. One year later the number was 60,421, an in- | crease of 42% per cont. Another survey was based on Gata furnished by chambers of commerce, labor boards and stat- isticlans tn the South. It showed that nearly half a million negro | emigrants forsook thelr abodes in 13 Southern states during the year September 1, 1923, to August 31, 1923 ‘The exact number was 478,700, of which threo states, Georgia, { Florida and Alabama, supplied more than 62 per cent. Within a fow weeks Phillips, himself a negro, will start an- | other survey to determine the ex. | tent of the migration since last September. In tho meantime, an Interest. ing question ts arising: “Is the North to assimilate this half-million negroes into its ranks without change in social customs, or will tho Jim Crow car and other traditional South- ern customs be extended?’ Time alone will tell. Calculation 11, Subtract: 1,675 23 12. Multipty: 632 13. Divide 2 14. Add: | 15. 264-5 minus 17.3 equals Answe! | 13; 6. 43; 7, 11. 91 27; 15, 9.5. All rights Service, 1115 . D.C) served by Sctence mnecticut ave. N. 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The endowment in fn worked out an fc Assume that a urance plan ows teran served 560 days overseas, His basic bonus, at the rate of $1.25 per day service, excluding the firnt 60 days, would be $625. Instead of receiving the $626 tn cash, he would be given an en. dowment for spproxt mately payable in 20 years, or upon his death should 6 die within the 20-year period. ——— FABLES ON HEALTH SAVE YOUR ENERGY ) HIE ‘strenuosity of daily life often caused Mr. Mann of Se ponder more than a little strain shrewd friend on how to keep healthy state of mind, as well as of| 4 body. ‘The relationship of state of mind any more reserve energy than {s| question should be ‘What Is best for to general he is a mubject that |necessary. Economize on energy. |America?’—From address of Sccre, Gils many volumes, but these few| 6—Get a combination of work and |tary of Labor Davis at Younsstown gD brief fundamentaln were prescribed for Mr. Mann: 1—Don't run away from emotions. ‘ jo to|the wellsprings of action He had} many friends who succumbed to the and sought the advice of a a days of « ve size of the ¢ policies for the 3,0 D served over The amount of insurance ts arrived at by giving to the vet eran a paid-up insurance poll equal to the amount his $4 would buy tf paid in « lump sum for a y. In a ms propones to add cent to the amount of th Whereas, the $625 wo 27 years, a 2 ry for ab 26 per buy, a man age age of the re 3,000,000 estimated . plu ) purchase for , an endowment ble in 20 whate’ nger mun the ver 60 r 60 . for an days are somewhat smaller. ng the maturity of the wment policies, veterans to be permitted to borror after the first two years, up to 90 per cent of the cash value of the polictes cash bonuses, All others a be provided with tna tificates, worked out on n outlined above, except n No casearethe first 60 days of service to be counted are The reason for this fa that | Senate democrats have Intro | when the veterans were dis | duced » bill to pay cash bonuses charged from servi they were to all “vets,” elimi is th given m cash payment of $60. insurance’ plan enti Bonus advocates agreed to con. der this payment as a bonus | | Lelling It to Congress (Excerpts from the Congressional! Record) Don't fight them. 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