The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 6, 1924, Page 8

*AC THE SEATILE STAR report of Admiral Coontz, commander TH E the fleet, on the hl maneuvers, ld or challenge the attention everyone. It would be difficult to imagine 4 more unsat- It is not a question of Nor of naval com- It is a question isfactory state of affairs. big navy against small navy. petition against naval limitation. of ordinary common sense and economy. Under the naval limitations agreement ed States, Great Britain and Japan. That means a fleet equal to Great Britain and two-thirds greater than Japan. And what does Admiral Coontz find that we have? results of the winter na of the United States agreed to keep within a ratio of 5-5-3 as regards the fighting tonnage of the Unit- A fleet that is not a which we are spending t dollars per day and that True, there are the ag of battleships. But tha impotent if opposed to ers of the battleships ca pressure say nothing of nor by colliers; nor supp The airplanes have n The destroyers, whick other nations because of lack of range. The battleships are 1 by cruisers; nor by submarines; nor b JUNK THE PAPER SHIPS! OUR NAVY’S AN IN fleet at all. A fleet upon hree-quarters of a million is not a navy at all reed number and tonnage tis all. The guns of the battleships have obsolete elevation and would be the same caliber guns of The boil- nnot stand practice steam battle pressure. 10t adequately supported alreraft; ly ships; nor repair ships. ot adequate carrier-ships. The submarines have not tenders. h, as units, perform well, VITATION TO WAR! - could not support the fleet for lack of ip] ed auxiliar rvices ships Congress ¥ be « ni r € The matter of drydocks, fueling stations and not authorize a d supr supply depots is even more discouraging. So as t for a perfect nav . fk le-sSwet mine-layers and mir pers. So it goes. It would seem that the reduction in our size has been made by cutting out essenti of service tending to leave the remainder } and useless. It seems certain that whether a big navy or a little one, we should have an ef- ficient one. The smaller it is, the more need that every ton and every gun should be of the most effective type and that every battleship should be backed up by the finest possible and best organ- navy | arm 1elpless we are to have And the navy department will be criminally negligent if that machine not Kept in absolute tip-top condition, It would be murder to send eships to sea ipsupported by all the th ake ¢ dern What the countr pa} for and w t has the right to expect and demand navy but a battle fleet. paper A paper navy is an invitation to war; fieet is insurance against war. a battle The Seattle Star ishing Co, 1807 Seventh Ave, Phene on and United Prese Service By 48, @ mouths $2.08, year 08.68. Published Daily by Main 0600, Ne mall, eut ef etty By carrier, city 2 menths Sto @ month Nicoll & Ruthman, Special Representatives fan Franciese ock Bide longo office, Tribune Bidg.; New York office, Bide; Bosion office, Tremont Bids No Need in Worrying AMIFICATIONS of the veiled influence of the Japa- nese government in this country are shown in the charges of Senator Shortridge, demanding an investiga- tion of the Radio Corporation of America. The California senator charges that he and other Cali- fornia congressmen were denied the right to broadcast ex- clusion speeches from the corporation's Washington sta- tion unless they would submit their speeches in advance for censorship. This resulted from an exclusive contract the corpora- tion has with Japan, Shortridge says, under which it handles all radio messages to and from Japan, at a rate of 27 cents a word, compared with five cents to Honolulu and six cents to Manila, a distance almost equally as preat, This fat contract, Shortridge claims, was the club used by the Japs to demand the right to censor anti-Japanese speeches made from the stations here. It is only one of a number of hidden methods the Japa- nese government has taken in its fight to prevent its subjects from being classed by this nation in the same category as other Orientals and excluded in the new im- migration - bill. These included the hiring of former Attorney General Wickersham, fresh from the cabinet, to fight the battle of the Japs in Washington. They included the organiza- tion of peace societies, financed by Japan, and primarily intended to disseminate Jap propaganda. Into these, under the lure of titles and medals, many Americans of standing Avere enrolled, and now they are shouting the cause of the Japs. ‘ There is no injustice in the action this government contemplates. We exclude all aliens that we cannot assimilate. The Japs are among them- We gave them, in the “gentlemen's agreement,” a digni- fied way out, a chance to save their face. Instead they violated the agreement by dumping more than 100,000 of their subjects on our shores. Why werry longer, then, about embar' ssing the Japs? Some Antics! “*\XTOTHING is more interesting than the antics of Britain’s labor government,” cables a London cor- respondent. Sure thing! We note three “antics” in one recent day’s report. A cut in the budget that tickles every taxpayer, for one thing. Decision to destroy $44,000,000 worth of war material rather than to sell it to Russian agents, for another thing. And a real high-class “antic” in reduc- tion of the McKenna duties, so that the folks will get their tea and sugar cheaper. Also, a proposed “antic” which will reduce the cost of jam, which the Britisher con- siders a lift heavenward. And the labor government is perpetrating “antics” re- gardless of the yells, tears and prayers of the monopolists and war profiteers. Shortage in Homes AST year there was more building in America than ¢ ever before. The record will be smashed again in 1924, predicts the Copper and Brass Research association. It bases its estimate on what’s already erected or con- tracted for. But even at that, the end of 1924 will find us 5,000 mil- lion dollars behind our building needs, according to William J. Moore. He’s president of the American Bond and Mortgage Co. Labor shortage is the main problem in building. Thirty- five thousand skilled men in the trades die or retire each year. Their places are taken by apprentices, of whom there are too few in many communities. jiore. FROM \V RIDGE PANN May 6, 1924, Dear Folks: T see we've all commenced to rave about the overnead ex pense. It's thirty seeds to get a shave; a haircut now is sixty cents. “Oh, take us back,” we hear them sa “to barber shops of Yesterday!” For, in the days of long ago, before Gillette was in the biz, it didn’t cost a lot of dough to have a barber scrape the phiz. “Ten cents a shave,” the signs were seen; and haircuts, then, were just fifteen. And in the shops, in endless row, the private shaving mugs were stood. And each was named so one could know the names of all the neighborhood. No common soap or brush was known, for every fellow had his own. And when the barber got your soap, and had you safely buckled down, he gave you all the latest dope on all the folks around the town, You left him, in a little span, a smoother and @ wiser man. But tho he did a cheaper Job, he saved hin Jabor on the heard. ‘The whiskers on the early mob were varied, fancy, often wierd,,.. Bring back the price we used to pay—but not the beurds of Yesterday! About Embarrassment | | | | growing jsome cases, leave permanen™ benefit j Else the |the ears—not bobbed. |should always be supported by the QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Tecan get an answer te question of fact by writing t Star's Washingt B. that ts to say Q. What does FP. 0. A. Free on board, the manufacturer till shipment on the train free, mean. place the and the leonsignee is fo pay the charges} thereafter | eee Q. Did Louls XVII of France He had the title because his father Louis XVI., was executed, but the child was kept in prison and died. eee | Q. What are violin strings made| of? A, The intestines of sheep. | eee } Q. At what age does a woman be come an old ma A. There is no set ae. Formerly a wo regarded on the shelf if she was unmarried when she at tained the aye of 25. Middle age begins at about 3 ore te Q. What 1s the hardest wood known? A, Lagnum-vitae. eee Q How far it from New York) to Liverpool? A, 3,707 miles. one Q. What ts porcelain made of? A. Porcelain, the material of the highest class of ceramic ware, in|) composed of a kind of clay (kaolin) mized with feldspar and covered | with a glaze, What Folks Are Saying E. W. HOWE, writer: “T picked up }a little paper the other day printed by the convicts in a penitentiary, and it was almost entirely devoted to | xood advice.” HORACE J. BRIDGES, Chicago Ethical soclety: “We have a com mandment that tells us to honor our father and mother; we need an other about honoring children and | the unborn.” eee DR. HENRY 8. CURTIS, director | hygiene and physical education, | Missourl: “The difficulty with | present-day athletics is that they do| not benefit any large body of our citizens, nor do they, In to the players themselves.” eee JAMES OUZZINO, laborer who | became a landlord, New York: "The | Nife of a landlord is too tough for me. I was a workingman, and, what's more, I'm going back to dig- ging ditches. I prefer that to row- ing with: tenants.” . . OLIVER B. McCLINTOCK, dis. trict governor, Rotary clubs, Minne. lis: “Friendships rule the world. 1 civilized world, as stich, | have long since disap- would peared.” i see | THOMAS .A. EDISON: “T have | no conception of a God. From all | my perceptions, I'can only come to, one conclusion—that there is a Su-| preme Intelligence pervading’ and| ruling the universe."* | eee | MISS MARY ALLEN, comman-| dant London women police: “My| hair is-cut short behind-and over | We don't al-| low bobbed hair on the , London} force.” | ' Money Talks, but Often It Is Blind, Says Frank Vanderlip | Financier Tells His Aims in Turning Light on Corruption BY AL HERMANN pyright, 1924, by N. } YyAsmivazon May 6 A ‘ tion of mpted A Mank of New York, to cut n his b resign come to Washington Federal Hesearch bu and undertake an expose rruption and inefficiency in fre is business aw his many directorships, found the Citizens’ reau, our government tne best revent In this exel Vander to di “Big business,” says Van derlip, “does not like the investigations that are go- ing on in Washington. What we know as big bust neas has slight, if any to the corruption which ts ‘Tha of ble busines interview, lip points out his findings pvered here. the is no! tipathy t with the uncovering ¢ ¢ true st of affairs there SCTENCE LEGS AND BRAINS How can science hold, as it does that looking at the size and shape of @ man’s skull gives little or no hint of bis brain-power, and in the next h find an accurate index to such rin the size and shape of his Why should long legs mean lega? brains? This is the hurdie science must leap if further tests bear out the re sult of an examination of more than! 300 Columbia ‘students by Dr. Sante Naccarati, well known New York nerve specialist. These tests vhowed that 76 per cent of the small-bodied, long-legged men, 40 per cent of the normal medium type, and 16 per cent of the large bodied short legged men showed high intelligence. Checking over well-known great men curiously confirms thix, ‘The most tenable ex planation ix not that the long legs cause the higher intelligence, but that both result from the same cause, marked activity of the thyroid glands, An Italian scientist, Viola, holds, however, that the long-legged short-bodied type has advanced fur. ther in the scale of evolution. JUST A SUGGESTION BY HAL COCHRAN A novel idea has surely been missed by the wall paper men of the land. And, just as a. hunch, let me give them the gist of the thing so that they'll understand, A youngster, you know, when it's crawling around and hugging the floor like a leech, creeps hither and yon with {ts knees on the ground, trying to get things placed just out of reach The paddies get soiled as they wipe up the floor and the kiddie creeps under the table, It reaches for something and then som: thing more; for spillings of jam, when it's able. And then. to the wall creeper will crawl just there and merrily coo, The in- nocent being is happily seeing svhat harm tiny paddies will do, Thus imprints are made and the wall paper men, if they'll copy the tiny tot touch, can make a design of the hand marks and then all those marks won't be noticed so much (Copyright, 1924, for The Seattle Star.) little to sit / TAKING THE FABLES ON HEALTH “ OW you carry that child—- Look out—Don’'t sit her down that way!" Mrs. Mann was constantly inter. rupting Mr, Mann's parades with the firstborn, And well she might keep a care- ful eye, for the posture of the child is most important, For several months the baby should remain lying. If it has prop- erly developed by the third month it should be able to hold the head up without afd. Its back and head person holding the child. By the end of the sixth month the child FABLES ON HEALTH FIRST STEPS should be able support, About this time the child will al ready indicate a desire to creep and, if normal, will have started doing so, By the ninth month it should be trying to stand up, and_ before the end of a year should be to take some steps. Many babies are walking within a. year, while others take up to 15 months, It is unwise to encouragé the baby to walk without some mechanical contrivance to aid while the bones are gaining their proper strength. Also the child should be allowed to assume the posture it chooses and should not be encouraged to as sume any particular position, or to walk before it shows a desire to. to sit up without ‘an economic bubonic plague, has left will come uncertainty Into the litical change altho admit- political situation, and radical | ting existing political condi peat frease ele reba tions are bad. It would opie’ Undineel nl eae a rather endure than fly to wants a continuance of the evily it Knows not of status quo. It fears Telling It to Congress & po “In assuming this attitude big business speaks, but it does not clearl not reason accurately. nee docs is vitally interested, in the reduction Capital and rightly so, (Excerpts from the Congressional of taxation; and so. capital Record) thinks 1t more important to forward the Mellon tax plan than to permit that legislation to be interfered with by a dis turbed political situation If capital reasoned accurate: and with a better understand IGNORANCE 18 BLISS There are people who lote the peace of their party so much that they we gladly put the lid down on every kind of inve ion and throw before the people the dust that would conceal the facts and luli th into a ne of security, in o that nobor might be disturbed and no political party might possibly! whosoever committeth sin, trans- suffer—Senator Reed (Dem), Mis-| creaseth also the law; for sin is the | sourt, gate |transgression of the law.—I. John, Hikel, HARD TIMES eee Tt ts as tho some blight had in IN ig a staté of-taind. not mn .outs fested the beautiful park region of |)” ward act!—Sewell, jthe United States, A scour like Close-ups of Frank A. Vanderlip (A THOUGHT ) re of 450 million dob at accomplish: purpose for which the is appropriated; an@ © failure properly te r wit relieve istress of disabled oldie built up the de mand for a + bonus, T t 1 cost the county sey “The man who is interested in reducing his taxes ought t¢ | see that investigation, rather | than tax measures, is what dy | needed. The Mellon tax meay ure has much to support it But © pas: | Ing “of politi conditions It ee nie toe night ‘comple | would range itself solidly on the | to what the saving would hays side of sound unpartiean in. | been had we a sound admin vestigation. | istration of the Veterans’ bureag “There is little use at n administration both honest tempting to regula! the 1 intelligent stream that flows into a ‘The Veterans’ bureau of barrel if the staves are fers only one illustration, separated and the barrel There are others, almost as adly leaking, The staves | important, to be found in the public treasury are } the administration of the permitting a vast amount of the money which we collect in taxation to run awa Some of it is lost thru cor- ruption. That being so, cor- Bureau of Internal Revenue, the Railroad Administration, the Alien Property Cus todian, the Shipping Board, and still other bureaus. ruption must be the first Th z ‘ teak tor ates ne man who wants a fe - duction of taxes, and everyone “Vastly more important | with an economic insight shoul eaks, so far’ as the amount of wate reduction 4 money involved, come from in efficiency. to apprehend what the tte “There was collécted in the reasons are for taxés ‘being”® United States last year in high. The true reasons ate die: | municipal, county, state and honesty and inefficiency. national taxes, more than the The aim of the tizenst value of the agricultural crop. Some of that was stolen thru | Federal Research Bureau is ie Far more was lost | } corruption. eradication of corruption in gov thru inefficient government pro- ernment and a great deal to cedure. Both causes of loss constructive criticism of need investigation and correc ficient procedure in governm farms evacuated and has forced} their occupants give up their homes where they had toiled and la bored a lifetime; it has left merchants bankrupt, banks closed and a once happy people discouraged, dissatis- fied, embittered. Representative Kvale (FarmerLabor), Minnesota, eee | PENSIONS | No appropriation or expenditure of | the revenues of the federal govern-| ment goes for a more worthy pur- pose, affords more genuine relief, or contributes more to the welfare of the people thruout the nation as whole, than the money disbursed fi pensions to the veterans of our va rious wars, their widows and help. less children, — Representative Ful- bright (Dem.), Missourl, oe JUST A MISTAKE The government makes mistakes. ‘They likely did not make the mistake intentionally, but they did make a }mistake in fixing the price of wheat | Jat the actual cost of production in \1917, and then {ncreasing the cost of |production 120 per cent.—Senator Gooding (Rj, Tdaho, before Senate Committee on Agriculture. ; I could mention probably half a dozen men by name who have left the customs service and who are get ting salaries sometimes three times and sometimes four times the gov- ernment salaries that they were re- celving.—Benj, A. Levett, represent- ing Merchants’ Association of New | | York, before senate committee on ap- propriations. TIT FOR TAT WOMAN who signs herself “J.P, 8." has a new plan for solving the problem of names in the Northwest, She submits it in poctry, as follows: I'm going to write our senator; I'm going to let him hear That tho I'm sad, no more I'll fight, To keep the name “Rainier,” Tho it seems I'll sorely miss it That good and grand old name, I'll sit me down in peace and wateh Tacoma's growing fame! All you Tacoma. people, Falr-minded Ui be bound— Just give your best. attention To the case of Puget Sound. Old Peter Puget's dead and gone, Why bother with the chap? "Seattle Sound” is better far, Let's put it on the map! Food France. So welcome “Mount Tacoma” And good-bye “Mount Rainier,” Tho we shall miss dear Puget Sound “SEATTLE SOUND" is near And we shill love old Mount wo » Rainier E Whatever bo its name; T Tacoma on “Seattle Sound Will prosper Just the same! hes sates 2% THAT OUT BAKES ALL OTHER BAKING POWDER {n the big majority of the kitchens of America—on the big railroads—in leading hotels and famous restaurants Calumet is | actually out baking all other leaveners — it has won preference over hundreds of other brands. Day in and day out—for over a third | of a century — | ALUMET The Economy BAKING POWDER has proven it is unfailing—econontical and today itis the favorite leavener of the nation. Received highest awards at the World’s Pure EVERY INGREDIENT USED OFFICIALLY APPROVED BY U.S. FOOD AUTHORITIES — DS GREATEST BAX, TM Leses much as that Fane A pound can of Calumetcom tains full 16 ition, Chi lave » Paris Exposition, Paris, ¢ making — pure in the baking, Pow, } Cher, , , ton, but naturally the loas thal have atte Notable examples of both corruption and inefficleney are to be found, for in stance, in the Veterans bureau. A ect f the cor efficiency of the Veterans’ burea first, an contribute something toward the} { > .-- Seree scea ze on” taxes, ought, if he saw clearly s SS BE SRORSZ Er SRSA e sR BERZENEER SESERRBES