The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 5, 1924, Page 6

PAGE 6 THE SEATTLE STAR ) Provisions of Plans Now in Limelight ng Out Figurir Your Taxes! ax certain apec How You Can Help to Put Over Bone Bill ie ‘THE Bone Power Bill campaign committee needs | help. | If sufficient signatures are to be acquired to in- AE Mask a ™ revived the bli in the | | itiate the measure and to place it on the ballot this rege oe ag apper BEone es oe | ‘fall, the committee must have volunteer petition peessnted on cece on the Metien | circulators. And it must have money. maue bad bean wate Gewe The measure needs 39,999 signatures. The com- stituted for the Mellon rates? : / panine, be be safeguarded, wants 60,000 to turn in Teas 0 Sb0 tenpertanh quan i) =©6WJune 15th. 4 ; } Two thousand dollars is needed, to cover the tet Gamers pronent te : 1) ost of office rent, postage, printing, ete. per gent on small incomes and | the ily 43 ; If you are willing to circulate a petition, call at DHANEE path dan Rap meade gh oo mee YY | paying 4 per cent on the mest ; ithe Committee Headquarters at 402 Railway Ex- apo: and over, Meli have 2.490 09 at presents, be be normal | Ichange building. | | | | | | | 1 on the the amount $50 But ig i i If you want to contribute to the campaign, send , Sh etree tclens = | “areae bat alheeed a on na your contribution to J. D. Ross, Seattle city light publi wew is te Seid r the extent to which these |r jon of taxes on earned ta- ‘department. Hs is chairman of the executive com- the democrate as close to the | Surtaxes are to be allowed to | comes payment tf. Sona i : ‘ PW i ates an they ca . . ayme i mittee of the State Power Conference of Washing- | n rates as th | Oe 06s “ete! ge of $60, or $87.50, . . vey > » sure at- small mean, he It remains for th ate iton, and the Super Power league. Be sure to at- | } Mem aplemerr ppb Pr ethane Aga ere itach name and address to all contributions. } | earned incomes are to be grante Pic RE | | A married man with a net ed this 25 per cent réduction, | ° ° The house approved the redyg- is The Sting of Poison PRE Fe tion up 10 $20,000. ‘The senate | SPREADING | finance committee cut this down 1 AS THE essayist intimated, the greatest study of man- ; { kind is man. In a little town was a young man of appealing per- GOOD CHEER KAN to $10,000. The origina! Mellen plan provided for @ 26 per cent reduction on all earned incomes ‘sonality, fine fiber, upstanding addres nd gray matter | the Mellon rates } an Bpee . - . ‘under his thatch of neatly-parted hair, Written in his | cratic rates prop od hy 3 } mai ote.’ tae tn Frieda’s Follies jpleasant face was promise. He knew soil at a glance, | wit is. generaliy, believed that |] S2Ptads the eptrit that’s likely to ‘bought and sold it and made few mistakes, if any. He | the final bill that will emerge rr Bm everztety in step. || te was one of these Beat and Gap ‘knew all the fine points of blooded stock, bought and sold from the senate will be net un- re's something that's real in || Newspaper men. lap on the back (that ts, if slap's not too bard). The man 1, he's got the I never from friend like the Longworth measure in that the maximum syrtax rates will probably run up to 37 or 40 per ce . but a considerable readjustment will be made in the scale of anvosaments, The bill onsored by the Gemocrats in the senate affords the greatest relief for the man | of small means This bjll stands | am exeelient opportunity of adoption for one reason only, | It has the support of the in- Neat about his person, But was the best dirtgatherer jp business That | ever saw. He had roasted me once, Co ae papers, /nfortuna' there was no scan) haa Ped have forgives him that. e way he tidied things adogt | my house be | When he called. It was too much the dayet had beep sit successfully and bred and raised it until affluence came jto him easily. His name and fame as a stock farmer of ‘integrity, wide vision and attainment were known all over the country and his yearly sales of high-born cattle at- -tracted buyers from every section of North America. ;Soon he reached out from the farm and became a banker ‘—a millionaire. Life looked and was good to him and everywhere he was held in highest respect and esteem. t Then some evil genius whispered into his consciousness {the one fatal word—politics. nd he'l » be barred We all have our troubles and forrows in life, but why should we constantly chatter ‘bout things that are really our personal strife, and to all other people don’t mat. ter? It's easy to play just the optl- mist's part when you're talking Stearns Has a Real Job; It’s To “HUMANIZE” THE PRESIDENT BY CHARLES P. STEWART : va A | with people that g you, Let {As in the matter of stock and land the man of fine | air It might be sald he “played a Stearns lives at the New een ene tn tun. the aur. {| cheery words come and the sad FE ag net fiber aimed high. He tried for governor, spent money in the t hunch.” . But ¢ waan't that, Willard 1. but the White ; fe Soka sn ones depart and they'll always be || "qty pargg, Look at your dirty, ‘ Beg “ M ; ax rates even higher thar ? , ithe primaries lavishly, but failed, Four years later, he ‘ either. He just LIKED Coolidge | Mouse is eadquarter thone advocated by the demo. {| Uckled to meet you PP ine tri . ay re lavishly ar s ad- . loved him, in fact, like a | Some pe i th ¢ . If you are a grouch there's a ; itried again, spent money more lavishly and won. His ad i ae Pe he Pie ME hp ary ee Bhat eee crate : tonic you need, Just follow the ||4% ™7 eve mat his be patumie ‘ministration started off auspiciously and no man was | , a tneaten’ She Na/kan’t ei omotiehs | Ate’ tmabeetile Co. tall whet on The democratic bill Me given chores . TA ‘things ect started for the door. ‘more popular in his community than he. Enthusiastic Hi 1 to be the president's father, new taueh Advice be tives, Thole’ | teh Meee Dies mistic step inte the lead and for- ‘but unwitting friends even acclaimed his as presidential stimber. : Today he is in the Atlanta federal prison for using the amails for fraudulent purposes. The fair judge who sen- stenced him said that, in all his judicial experience, he mever had known of a case in which felonies—2,500 of about the | dividuals president, the public has got to like the Idea. But mind this: The public's tdea isn't based He financed the younger man politically when he needed tt, but it wasn't for what he ex- petted to get out of it, He Just did it because he was so fond of him and wanted to help him all he could, relationship is so intimate that only they themselves know, and probably THEY don't realize it. But if Stearns, really, in any nanse, i» a “power behind the throne,” nobody ever acted lees Itke one, tthem—followed on each other’s heels so rapidly. As a Eaten chee err ge ‘farmer, the man was fine and great. As governor, he HEARS about him. “ ” e . Was a fraud, a cheat, a criminal—a disgrace to himself, | | 7he public hears about the Katsu’ Revives Dead Prince, ‘his family, his friends, his party, his office, his state. + The fine fiber in Gov. Warren T. McCray, of Indiana, ‘broke under politics. The poisonous bee that stung his tfair flesh left a livid mark of ruin that he and his family must carry to their graves. 4 It’s Mighty Dear *¢TSALK is cheap.” Don't you believe it. At this writ- ent channels, It hears about him thru the comparatively few persons who come in close per. sonal contact with him. It hears about him thru the church he attends. It hears about him thru his dog, Not that his dog says anything. Yet tho passer House tail at said by who sees the White dog wagging his Says New Story From Orient BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS NE of the welrdest tales that has come out of the Orient in a long time has just reached the writer, “life” can be restored. The science of “Katsu” ts the knowledge of how to so apply Pressure on the nerve-centers-~- ‘ Fy + 4 PY passerby thru the fron palings Tt seem that Prince Matsukata, principally the pectoral, pneumo- 4. ing the reparations commission is as Uneasy as an new the 80-year-old Genro, or “Elder gastric and auditory tairedale with 99 Sacramento fleas, and with reason s acquired, of the pres Statesman,” of Japan, the high- ters, {t appears enough. idea the dog manages est dignitary in the land under in known of the practice—that { The commission can do nothing until the allies’ diplo- mnvey to him. the mikado and prince regent, re- the heart reacts, tats finish their pourparlers. England is likely to be brief as: to pourparler but, if there’s anything a French, One of the things the public as an essential In- t in its Kien of a Iikable cently “died."* His soul had taken flight, #0 the strange story goes, and both Persona “dead” of shook, 4 fall, drowning, electrocution, etc., are said to be particularly susceptible : gian or Italian diplomat passionately loves, it is un- notion that the his heart and lungs had ceased to resuseltation by the “Katsu’* imited pourparlier, and if the present talk-talk continues uman. to function. Those about him method. In fact, proponents of : . ; President Coolidge may BE | had given him up for dead. tho science insist there {s no such for long, the costs of holding the Ruhr will so pile up as human—ta people whd know ‘Then was introduced into the shite ag heathy of whbeke to fix normal taxes on the first $4,000 of taxable income at 2 . On the next $4,000 of ever be spreadin’ good cheer, (Copyright, 1924, Seattle Star) aged to got out, “There's dirt on yours, teo,” I mR "9 ‘Only it doesn't show, ‘to knock out the Dawes estimates of what Germany can him well. But not many peo | room where the body lay, a na- ‘Western scientists may or may pay. ple DO know him well, tive wkilled in the all but lost hake fied wocaaahtaw 40. think Gi * : | Anybody finding any cheapness in the pourparlering Hi Sanster, Dowel, Bie. Bows, | Sry OF Mates ARS Te: Went about here, I don't know. Any: ive the children a piece of WRIGLEY'S not, so far as politics goes, have te h way, I give the story for what it is worth. ‘that’s been going on since November, 1918, must have the ‘eye-lenses of a house fly, the ears of a Missouri jackass ‘and the olfactories of a turkey buzzard. ‘ F kan Rakes ese Meac''| cer kine ee eae pe sugar Me satisfy this craving and the chew- tary Slemp is, Slemp, how- something, I'm sure I don’t H : < "DUSSIA, taxing every one heavily, will assess farm ver, is just one-man.power hu- ow what. | ing of the gum will hel digestio clear : : about 18 fay cant of their crops. ne ea wrhers Sree be wenebnty maui it was related, tho. | ANSWERS Pp mn, _ This seems scandalous to a reader in America. But if ‘you check up with a pencil, you'll find that 18 per cent of ‘total income of the public is not far from the cost of na- tional, state, county and municipal government in the United States. eee RES SES 4 requests can- : ablo little man. He's chatty, it to themselves instead of fol- |] not be answe: ja Ole { : ing--- [ He's accommodating. He's ap- lowing the Western idea, which | ___ Reaping---and Sowing Bet acommetnng, Hee tn | leit a nae clean. Why not reward them with RGENTINA rang with public rejoicing when it passed He has no official standing |- fit of such knowledge, Caen eet: ‘ its national pension law by which every one who has Svorked 25 years is entitled to quit work and retire on a full-pay pension. | To provide money for this, the law requires every one Wuring years of work to contribute five per cent of his earnings to a government pension fund. The public doesn’t a single human attribute in his makeup—provided the public ts TOLD he's human. ro are Various administra- in tha presidential group who is TWOman-power human—hu- man enough to be human for himself and also for President Coolidge. Frank P. Stearns is, Stearns is a wonderfully 1k with the administration, What his unofficial standing is nobody exactly knows — not even the politicians in closest touch with the White House. It's doubttyl if even Coolidge and Stearns themselves ever have tried to analyze the ques- prince was “brought to life.”* I do not vouch for the truth of this. It comes, however, thru ultra conservative channels. I tell it tn the hope that Western virtually unknown jn this day and age, was extensively prac: ticed among the high-placed and the rich at least two centuries before the birth of Christ. But, like every other secret of the kind, the Asiatics jealously kept Incidentally, “Katsu” would seem to explain why burials in Japan are so long delayed. “Katsu” adepts do not consider ‘a person dead merely because the breath has stopped and the heart ceased to beat. Only after other, unmistakable signs set in do they QUESTIONS ‘OU can get an answer to any question of fact or informa- tion by writing to The Question Editor, Star's Washington Bu- reau, 1322 N, Y, ave., Washington, D. C., inclosing 2 cents in stamps Medical, legal and cannot be given, id research be un~ ing June 30, 1924? A, $3,706,779,083. Q, How many federal employes are there in the District of Colum- bia? A, 66,290, after every meal. They all like something sweet after eating. WRIGLEY’S has the their teeth of food particles and actasa pleasant, antiseptic cleanser of mouth and throat. You would “give almost anything” ' if the children would keep their teeth : WRIGLEYS — articularly care for this levy. tion. admit death. Long after what pak " 4 Argentina is not the only place where people don't “see” Stearns took a tremendous Western civilization calls death, Shh SS ee Ft. " that every penny spent by government has, to be raised liking to Coolidge in the old tho “Katsu” practitioner Insists "4" necause her treaty with Eng- arter every mea ‘ days when the latter was only the nerves remain alive and that py taxes. of Massuchusetts importance. | by working upon these properly, hind when the best of the pod 4 . LER or pea Hast was threatened, ani , ; ~ | FOOD FOR THE BABY | ack zing work! Try it for a month and observe 7 O A. Masticating food to the potnt 1 ap | of putpctacton’ ‘the wane: comes results. Three cents per day per child : : i rom the theory of Horace Fletcher, i i i ‘ HEN will it start to cat?'’)48 hours and report the difference] an A fo iter, tw) i will ! By ihe fine one feria fy has Neri on Rr um. Mr. Mann would continuously | the physician, an American writer, who divocated pay the bill and make them happy! When weaning is begun at about see the eighth month, past a 7 polled nitk Is generally. suuetiruted Sees, lave aonie Soma orkut and one feeding a day of beef broth ° starts the menu. After that there, *|may be a soup of finely chopped or | of mashed vegetables, such as carrots or spinach, Toward the end of the first year, the baby should be getting about a quart of milk a day, together with a portion of vegetable soup and frult juices; crusts of bread can bo given to chew upon, but there should be no ment or eggs until the second year, ask the doctor, after the first Mann baby was born. “You just leave that up to the mother,’ the doctor would say high as lid mle ha MA Herman N. Bundesen, Chicago. May 5, 1924. wie SEALED IN ITS PURITY PACKAGE! Dear Folks: I've got a grave suspicion here's a fact we can't deny—the fly's a mathematician that can really multiply, Its mission here is shady, and its days are very few, but still it beats the lady who was living in the shoe. ‘The little fly that’s living from the fall the year before, will soon be up and giving over fifty billion more, And so we've got to swat it with a steady hand and eye; recalling, when we've got St, how they tell us, “Time does fly!" And when the summer’s coming, with {ts warm and shining sun, wo'll hear five trillion humming, where today we hear but one. And all the countless others that will Nght upon our brow—their great. great-great-grandmothers are the files we'ro hearing now! So now each fly we're killing, saves us countless others more. Wo ought to find it thrilling, as we figure up the score, And while woe do our gloating, as we watch the figures mount, we may os well be noting, “t's the little things that count!” Cinritge Tonm Q. What is the smallest gold coin the United States in use at present? A, The $2.50 gold piece, eee jer's breast is n baby’s bert meal. No attempt should be made to wean ft until at least the seventh or eighth month. If this happens to fall in the summer season, it should not then be attempted if the mother {astiil capa. {blo of supplying baby's wants, ‘The best way to tell if a baby ts getting enough millc ts to weigh the child before and after nursing for Q. What ts copra? A, This is the commercial name for tho dried kernet of tha cocoa- nut, important as the source of cocoanut oil, | A THOUGHT For it is better, if the will of G ho so, that ye suffer for well trie than for evil doing.—1. Pet, ii:t7, eee is too Inte to be on our ns HEEEEEREEH TIN) Cc When wo are in tho midst of AevileSeneca, ?