The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 26, 1924, Page 8

AA eS gs ore PAGE 8 Star ul é: hullabalog raised gration ban, now It Can’t Be COOLIDGE, od over the nodify” the odify” | greeny oo T by Japan proposes to * You c Either ntals or she doesn’t, It's a pl shut proposition. One might just as well talk about “modifying” the Harrison act to so much opium and morphine to be sold over drug store counters. What the president means is that he wants the ban fted. The law is passed, and it should stay )assed as it is; and for two reasons: (1) How much will American prestige be worth in the Orient if the 500 million Orientals there are allowed to view the spectacle of America truckling to and taking orders from a small section of the Japanese people? (2) The law is the expressed wish of yractically every white man west of the Mississippi. This sentiment ought to hold greater weight than that of the Japanese govern- ment, regardless of anything else “MODIFICATION” IS J HOCUS-POCUS. WEST WANTS NONE OF IT. THE Now the diggers claim to have discovered the lost city of Troy, having probably identified it by the collar factories. Home-Made Political Gospel GROUP of American voters—all women—have for- mulated a little code of political principles. The group calls itself the Woman's Committee for Political Action and, after meeting in Washington and formu- lating their ideas, they are now spreading their gospel among their fellow voters, male and female. This code is put together with all the simplicity and appeal of a home-made pie. It is hard to imagine it disagreeing with any healthy person or any healthy per- son disagreeing with it. Here it is: 1. Public control and conservation of natural resources, secured by taxation on all land values. 2. Public ownership with democratic control of all means of communication and transportation. ; 3. Public control of the nation’s money and credit. 1. Abolition of all political patronage. 5. Government revenue to be raised not by tariffs but by: (a) taxes on large incomes and inheritances, and (b) on land values; (c) profits on government banking; (d) savings from reduction of armament. 6. Restoration of civil rights and guarantee to all citizens of full economic, legal and political rights, includ- ing: (a) right of childhood to natural development; (b) right of workers to organize; (c) right of minorities to proportional representation. : 7. Legislation to prevent. courts from nullifying acts of legislatures, and to correct other judicial abuses. 8. Progressive reduction of armament by international agreement, judicial settlement of disputes, and a demo- cratically-controlled world organization. There were only 29 lynchings In 1922, the smallest number of any year since records have been kept. It would look better had not individual violence so largely taken the place of mass activities of that kind. What About Your Child? AARENTAL. production does not cease at the birth of the child. So many parents contract children as they would a business block, but there their attention wavers. If you do not fill the building with good tenants, the building will not prove profitable. It is equally true that if you do not fill a child’s mind with good tenants, its selections at an age of indiscretion may not be to your liking. And the fault for which you punish the child is your own shortsightedness. Heredity is a mat- ter of capacity, room space. Environment is a matter of proper or improper tenants. If men and women would give one-tenth of their time to the tenants of their child’s brain that they give to the tenants of their brick and mortar business or residential sections, it might spare the rod and not spoil the child. Colonel Harvey says that if the republicans cannot elect Coolidge, they cannot elect anybody, showing that he still retains the diplomat’s faculty for saying nothing very nicely. Can’t Escape Work 11 Pos Serra illusion is destroyed. We'd always envied prehistoric people, believing they had an easy time of it. But they had to work 25,000 years ago. This is disclosed by discovery of tools of labor near the petrified human skeletons found in California. The tools were a bone awl and a rock ax. The ax may have been used in hunting, but the awl in- dicates sewing, one of the earliest forms of work. Man has to toil for his bread, no matter in what part of the world he lives or in what period of history. The few who escape work are supported by the toil of others. You never can tell about children. infant industries have become! Fifty-Cent Dollars ‘OW much does it cost to travel? Magnus Johnson insists that $5 a day is enough expense allowance for a government employe. It depends, of course, on How much railroad fare has to be bought. Travel has become an expensive luxury. Corporations before the war figured that a high-grade salesman, mak- ing long jumps and stopping at good city hotels, couldn’t get by for less than $10 a day. It takes twice as much now, on account of lower buying power of the dollar, just as a job that isn’t paying twice as much as it paid before ie war is really paying less, We are dealing with 50-cent ollars. See what some of our one-time What the republicans have to worry about now is the finding of a keynoter who has the master key, if any. Flyless Doors OOD-BYE, screen door. A Boston firm will market a “‘doorless door.” When flies try to enter, they are blown back by a constant draft of fanned air which, however, is not powerful enough to interfere with the en- trance of customers. A‘boon for meat markets and other shops where flies enter whenever the screen door ig opened. In trying out this device in Boston, no flies were aval. able, it being winter. So the company telegraphed to Texas and had 2,000 flies rushed by express and fed on the way. Talk about civilization getting complex! Sentiment of a dead past and not the deadly present; “ food, but some brands are better than others.” splat rd | | | EATT LE The Unofficial Observer IRPLANES may be pressed into service soon to ald in stopping the smuggling of Ort entals and Mexicans into this ecuntry across the Canadian and Mexican borders, according to word from Washington on Sat urday, Albert Johnson, Washington congressman and chairman of the house immigration commit tee, will ask congress to provide such a service. Aroused by the labor depart ment reporta, showing the great amount of smuggling of inelig bie aliens that is going on across both borders,.the house commit teo unanimously voted $1,200,000 to augment the present Canadian and Mexican border patrol. Assistant Secretary of Labor Henning declare that nearly 75. 000 Mexicans have entered the United States thru regular chan: nels In the past year and that those smuggled in may reach 375,000. If the senate concurs with the house committee, the present mounted patrol of 61 men on the Mexican border can be increased to nearly 250 men, while there will be a big addition to the num ber of men on duty along the Northern Washington border, “But even this force won't be adequate to entirely stop the smugesiing—what we need ts sir. Planes,” Johnson stated, Johnson sald he Intends to Prepare legislation to combine all the present government serv- fces, such as customs, immigra- tion, prohibition, and animal and Plant inspectors, into one huge patrol, “To do this may require spe cla] congressional action, and, if it does, I am going to take steps to see that such action is taken,” Johnaon sald. | Frieda’s Follies | WE WERE discussing the mar- ket. STOCKS—not cattle. I DO adore voicing my opinion. PARTICULARLY in the presence of a man, WHO has always had ideas above yours, . THAT HAVE turned out unprot- itably SO FAR as ho is concerned. THIS man had been caught long IN a short market. I agreed with bim, ‘STOCK manipulations are certain, “AND REALLY belong, as you say, to the lower “ANIMAL kingdom. “IF YOU sell you are a bear, if you buy “YOU are a bull, un- and {f you loso—" YOU, SHOULD hay seen the magnificent look 1 GAVE him— “YOU are a shorn lamb,” Henning declared the amiggiing operations on the Mexican border, espectally, have been developed on an enormous scale and that members of the gang have been given orders to “aboot to kill” If- necessary Ho stated that four of the petrol were killed by smugglers last_year, “The smuggling {sn't confined to bringing tn peons, however, aa the gang has a per- that fect cooperative arrangement, and, if conditions aren't right for bringing in laborers, it turns its attention to Mquor or dope,” Henning stated. On @ recent border inspection trip Henning wae informed that the combined dopeliquor and peon smugglers get $500 a head for every Oriental they succeed tn getting acrons the line. U. S. Blames Orient for Hoof and Mouth Epidemic Here Star's Washingto: 1222 New ASHINGTON, April 24—The hoof and mouth disease, now causing such havoc fn Callfornia, Was carried to the United States from some Oriental country, the United States department of ag- riculture believes. ‘This disease is prevalent in the Far Bast and in a few parts of SCIENCE SEA SERPENTS? YES, THEY EXIST ‘The reason that stories of sea ner: |pents get wide publicity yearly ts because, while most of them are imagination or jokes, some of them are true and consequently all such yarns cannot be dismissed as a pas- time of the “silly season.” The Mesozolc period was the age ot reptiles. They grew to enormous size. All of them perished from the earth, but there is some reason to believe that fish life of the Mesozoic Period still exists in the ocean. F. A. Mitchell-Hedges, explorer, fisherman and acientist, contends that sea monsters of that age still live and he has spent two years in the Carfbbean in an attempt to'prove it. He believes that he has made out a good case. One of the most Interesting incidents of strange sea animals was that of a creature washed ashore off Cape May In 1921. It was a mammal and welghed as much as five elephants. It was vis- ited by many scientists, who were unable to place It, Among marine mammals in the Caribbean there are sea cows as large a» thelr namesakes on land. There are also sea-bats up to two tons in weight and sharks over 30 feet in length. A charming little bathing frock is not the proper costume to wear while sitting on broken glass, Mah Jongg may be bad, but it fs a much better craze than the non-stop dancipg fad we had last year. LETTER FROM Vv RIDGE PANN Dear Folks: I know I shouldn't do It, for it to rue it, when the fatal facts are bare. I went and told the boss, “Grandmother's dead, oh sire! now a total loss! April 26, 1924, ’ really isn't fair, Perhaps 1'll live I made myself a iar, for She ts “Sho croaked—don't let it grie® you—of the hoof and mouth disease,” I sald, “so I must'leave you for a couple hours, please," So here I am—I'm sitting, waiting for the words, “Play ball!” to start the players hitting, while t By gosh! They've started playing—Sacramento batting he hot-dog butehers call. first, "Y'r out!” the ump is saying, as the yelling starts to burst, A double play! Their inning petered out as quick ay that! The game ix Just beginning, as Seattle goes to but! Lane up, By. heck, he lined it. Brady bangs for two bags more! “Brick” Bldred fifes-—behind it Lane is running home to score! - 1v'« “Babe Ruth” Bowman coming! Our excitement grows intense! HOT DAWG! He sends it humming clear across the center fence! ‘The game—at last they're thru it; it was quite X game, at thal! I don’t know how they do It, but they swing a wicked bat! . , And now it's time I hurried back to tell the boas, “It's done! ‘They sot grandmother burledgsto the tune of nine to one!" Ceritge Tomm Burope, While all cattle and all fruits and vegetables coming Here from the Orient are ob- served for a period in quarantine and are disinfected, there is a chance that the virus of the dis- aso was contained on packing around chinaware, Ita first appearance this year was near Oakland, one of the ports on San Francisco bay. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS | ‘OU can get an answer to any question of fact or tnforma- tion by writing to The Question Editor, Stars Washington Bu- reau, 1322 N. Y, ave, Washington, D. & Inctosing 2 cent stamps |] for Preply. Medical, legal and marital advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be un- dertaken. Unsigned requests can- not be answered. —EDITOR. Q. Who was it who wes called “IAttle Mac” and why? A. “Little Mac” was a name by which Gen. George B. McClellan, federal civil war general, was en-| deared to his command. eee Q. Does the porcupine project his quills at its enemies? A. No, this is a mythical story. | The quills stick into a person when the porcupine {s touched, eee Q. What was the firet legislative assembly ever called in the Amert- can colonies? A. The first assembly in America was established in Virginia in 1619. This was held in the Ittle church in Jamestown. eee Q. How long do elephants liver A. An elephant has been known to live a century and {t seems Nkely that In the wild state they may live sometimes as long as 150 years, eee that flowa over Niagara falls? A. The normal flow pouring over the cataract of Niagara. falls is about 500,000 tons a minute. Telling It’ to Congress (Excerpts from the Congressional Record) OCCASIONAL EDUCATION | ‘The ultimate result is that the schools in the state are so con. ducted that when the tax money that is available in any district gives out the school stops. The j consequence ts that in lots of the districts in that state where the In. dians attend ‘school they do not havo over two or three months of school in the year—Senator Har. reld (R.) Oklahoma, before senate committee on appropriations, pisitabbaichnctnttehidiiach dol TRAVEL BY STAGK Portland Dally Fare 10:15: $6.50 Information and Tic! MOTOR BUS DEPOT ATURDAY WHY G. O. P. HATES HEI SY C. A. RANDAU Q. What {s the weight of water|' 1918 ‘Third Avenue, PHONE EL 10T-1401, P. leaders the senate Heney Francis J. Heney, California at age He torney, wh Y mittee w y to help ¥ =p Cant ureau of in Btoe the b between | Heney and the republican | : y and Waters chine has added on | egein. Honey was then son why the employed by the federal trade Heney < meee. te peers Heney frst ran i national republican machine in 1910. In that year he helped young Sidney Anderson Congressman “Jim 04 guardsman, whe sented the firet Mi trict for 18 years In that bitter ca: dent Taft hin speech in Tawney's behalf in Tawney's bome town, Minn Anderson won Heney given credit for putting the vic The G. O. P. im mediate ted. Attorney General ously requested F cept ® position assistant at to prosecut Sherman anti-trust ersham withdrew the ofter tender affec packing interests that Ever Wateon bas been (A THOUGHT i" —_——— Tew ls hear paign self made a Herbert Hoover, secretary of gom, merce: “A fisherman fs by matury faith, hope and oven he would not fish oe The Lord is my helper, and I will “ not fear what all do unto Winona, |me—Heb. xiii, | ponsense of optim i . Calvin Coolldge, president: “The desire for gain has mate many cowards, but it never made @ hero* over limit; not so ro GRIEF there ts « | 4 to fear.—Bacon FABLES ON HEALTH KEEP MOUTH CLEAN king pencils up from h desk and putting them tn his mout His chidren did tt, If a pencil wasn't han sufficed as well, and if eraser !t was somethin, Buch habits are bad. First of all, the dentist shouls te Avined of teeth and ‘and careful cleaning at least twice is something everyone should re. 2 | member. hewing hard crusts and hand roepects | bread ts good exercise for the teeth of picking up s are|and gums and helps make then 064. Only food tronger. Eating of calcium fou forks and spoons and a toothbrush | particularly by children, also tiely Whould enter one’s mouth, if conta jt build strong teeth, Spinach, butter. gion is to be guarded against. milk, string beans, asparagus and Oral hygiene, or care of the mouth | carrots are among the calcium fools and teeth should be carefully | easily obtainable Less than two y Heney had « bead with “Jim Watson, tor from Indiana & delegate from the 1913 later collision now ena Heney was California to resented California on the cre dentialn committee There were two contesting delegations from Indiana. One was pledged to Taft and was headed by Watson. The other was a Roosevelt delegation un der the leadership of former Senator Beveridge. Heney sponsored ti® Bever- Sdge deleg and denounced the comm for what het called its crooked methods in seating Watson and his Taft delegates. Watson still regards Heney as a personal enemy. For Our Readers— Now on the Way From New York and Due Soon Our Large Consignment of a- Jon The Ancient and Popular Chinese Game REALIZING that there exists an ever-growing interest in the old Chinese game that is being discussed and played so generally, we have arranged for a large quantity and propose to distribute them to our readers and to the public at large at practically cost. Everyone wants to play this fascinating e, but the high price has heretofore prevented thousands in this city from the enjoyment of it. Hundreds have eagerly called upon dealers only to be informed that the sets average $25.00, while the cheapest was around $5. Our new game will, we know, fill a well-recognized need for a popular priced set and instead of $5.00, $15.00, $25.00, $100.00 or $500.00, our sets, when they arrive, will retail at (Mail Orders 10c Extra) The game will be played exactly the same as the most expensive sets. It will consist of 144 playing pieces, or tiles in 8 colors, 100 counters of wood in 2 colors, 4 gold lacquered metal racks, 2 bone dice and a book of directions, which will explain the game so simply that anyone will be able to play in one evening. ‘ The only requirement we ask is that when the games arrive, you call at our office and present with the 60c two consecutively numbered Ma Jong Coupons, which will appear daily in the paper on the arrival of the sets. WATCH THE STAR FOR AN EARLY ANNOUNCE- MENT OF THE ARRIVAL OF OUR BIG SHIPMENT. The Seattle Star Seattle Star Building ; 1307-11 SEVENTH AVENUE, BETEEN UNION & UNIVERSITY STS.. :