The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 13, 1924, Page 6

The Seatt] Star fan Franciece ; New York office Freedom for Philippines HE Filipinos are at last within reach of independence Within 21 years it is more than likely that the Philippine islands will become a republic. A bill to this effect, introduced by Representative Fi field, republican, of Indiana, has been favorably reported by the house insular affairs committee at Washington, and every effort is being made to bring it to a vote in congress before adjournment in June. If the measure does not pass at this session, the next Congress is almost certain to pass it. Both big parties now seem to realize that the United States, having offi- cially promised to free the Philippines as soon as they can govern themselv must make good. The Fairfield bill provides for a “commonwealth of the Philippines” under the American flag, but with a native governor, congress and constitution of its own, this regime to last 20 years. Filipinos would owe allegiance to the United States during this period and an American com- missioner—not an army or naval officer—instead of governor general, would represent the United States in the new commonwealth. Nor would he have the power of veto. Only the president of the United States would have this right. Similarly, a Filipino commissioner would reside in Washington, At the end of 20 years from the date of inauguration of the commonwealth, the islands would automatically become a sovereign power. It’s a long step in the right direction, Ned Denby ts golng about and telling his story to the people of Michi gan just as tho they were marines. 4 SEATTLE STAR They Don’t Mix! WHI/AN| | TUESDAY, MAY THE GATEWAY AMENDMENT Would Make U. S. Real Democracy--Quick bad amendments ERBERT QUICK pe for puttir may seem if we of it and fons want is it If it unamen: ° jo are help 8. courts are itution except overyt on and the t als ia the exactly such a ¢ the ourts, y of amending constitut But it is a hard way, is by a constitutional tion. We ha never been able to use thls me The other One way kout for a Tw gress difficult discovered. William J way is almost as thirds of must vote to submit th ne house of « ment epart mit it, Then state n must not only make up thelr minds to vote to ratify it, but must actually vote on it 4 it is not adopted until three of the legislatures haye v of it the constitution was neralities which ves in few ways, comm 5 app entire plan ted in favor bad; but now our rnment has become #0 cen 4 that the federal govern Fingerprints JASHINGTON y 18 madcasting finge murderer or ne angerous crimina} within tie two hours after a crime ha, be Burns, former head of the bureau of invest tion of it of Justi 4 the pl opriation fe 5 an expert working out merly locate w Frieda’s Follies |! rints of for Just as soon as a code is work it will be possible for ev department in the cour a been s the r market repe By the time the con ering the has b What Folks put the Here's b by Radio Now! egram will y Are Saying MRS, MABEL WILLEBRANDT, ant attorney general “Prone cution is only a negative form of re- straint; observance of law is a post. tive restraint on lawlessness.” | And we were playing for high stakes. eee PHILIP CABOT, Massachusetts: | tenc are c And she had again failed to line up t men -having conecience are ca- pable of conversion, and conversion is |Pairs, with the tiles or the man, “ Hi the acid test of faith.” I said to her in an aside Nig, wha regen’ tigodlne dear, luck was 20 against | FLETCHER HARPER SWIFT, or University of Minnesota: “Some 5, My eyes ary a, 000,000 children in the United States epee would-be victim, are not now in school, and hundreds And then st the tiles, of thousands of those who are might All you caught tonight, better be chasing rabbits than spend- | Was your breath. ing their time under the tutelage of ——_—_—_—_—_—_——""}| underpaid and inefficient teachers.” it A THOUGHT BERTRAND RUSSEL, English take. | radical; “Of the European natio ‘Thirty years or so ago there | He that bideth hatred with lying| ¥t#N¢¢ 's the most civilized. It hon- was put forward in Iowa a pro- | lips, and he that uttereth a» slander, |" the artist, a sufficient test of posal that we adopt an amend. jis a fool. | civilization a reree ment to the amending clause of aiid the constitution, so as to make [pene fs no slander in an al EDITH M'CLURE PATTERSON, future amendments easier and | lowed fool, tho he do nothing| Dayton, Ohio: “Home-making is the to make It possible to get rid of | but rail—Shakespeare. largest single industry in the world.” |The way she flirted with him verns us more tha It gov. |At mah Jongg. } And all evening, and~ | It governs labor, In Which We Pay Ourselves HERE is trouble in the cotton industry. Mills are i] closing down, men are being thrown out of work and the Eastern and Southern manufacturers are sending forth a wail for help. It all comes about because the blawsted English manufacturers, taking advantage of a low tariff, have flooded sn hh prnt with cotton goods at prices that cannot be met by domestic mills because of re our high cost of production. The wail, therefore, is for W W application of the elastic section of the tariff law in such hen omen Need to Have Hobbies & way as will block the English invasion. , 2 Ww mP PERCTISON Beyond the tariff feature of the case, there is raised a | BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON point that is decidedly interesting, if true. Abraham I RAN Pa Tare Binns, president of the New Bedford textile council, repre- fase Vand sai ence, sa?’ th senting 41,000 operatives, tells about it. “It is a plain number of women who have case,” he says, “of wholesale dumping cf English-made worked hard, reared families and cotton goods into this country, peobably for the purpose rier rap = of establishing a large credit in United States funds to a cover the British payment to America on the English war debt. But why should the textile industry be made to bear practically alone the burden of the British debt payments?” And echo answers, “Why?” Binns’ conclusion 1s shared by leading manufacturers © cotton and by their industrial organs. All insist that |To no avail. a Besides, her luck, too, her, And the United States govern ment is the constitution plus the matter that has been construed into it and out of it by the courts, We have all that hard road to travel if we, the people, try to amend it; but the courts are working at it all the time And the courts are in the hands of corporation lawyers, in the main, who hold office for life and are | apppotnted, not elected. It ts undemocratic to be gov- erned by such @ constitution It accounts for most of the fall ure of our Institutions to con form to the popular will, It is too hard to amend. It in too hard to get a bad amendment out of it when we make a mis- was against As the evening neared its close, which ts about us has been = | short-sighted policy | tes of that slogan, | ¢ Is in the home Give your girls a profession as you do your boys. If they do not marry, they must have it to sup wh ‘maw dane who nent port themselves, and if they do their } marry, the day may come when Work ts the only antidote for Wied them | loneliness and sorrow, Your hus nocent instigat band may dio or desert you, your children may move away and for get you, your friends may neglect but the task that you love © doing will never fall you. arried m t ppor thi The homemaking woman—she od it desperately about whom the press raves, the song writers sob and the preact shout—is the one who gets ne hardest wallop from Fate Thousands of her kind sit to day with empty hands and break ing hearts, only waiting to die Their family life is over, their n which has bro much misery to many women. Old age is tolerable only when woe have somo sort of work to keep our souls and bodies alert for England is not only putting a cash job over on this coun- try, but it will force thousands of workingmen into idle- ness unless something is done with the tariff to pre vent. The general public may note that the Binns’ exposition of the matter dovetails closely with the predictions made @ year or more ago by financiers—predictions that if we did not cancel all war debts, we would pay a high price for their collection. We scoffed at those predictions then, and they still look dubious. But if Binns and his fellows are right, here we are directly up against the proposition, in effect, of paying ourselves for the debt Great Britain owes us. Jolting, isn’t it? Our Modern Prodigals ‘HE modern prodigal son, we are coming to learn, i meets no fatted calf on his return to the family roof. On the contrary, his is a fat chance of being handed a greeting that is far and away more disastrous than the slings and arrows that beset him on his wanderings. Chicago is responsible for the new style. There the prodi- gal son of this day and age has no chance at all. A few days ago, one of these wanderers returned to the old home door and his father rushed out and—shot him dead. Still later, another Chicago prodigal, after years of wandering, reached the domicile that once gladly housed him, and appealed to his father for help. Father sternly refused. The prodigal promptly killed himself. Eyen then the father was stern and he advised the au- thorities to “Throw my son in the lake. He was no good alive and is less good dead.” So much for Chicago. Ovor in Detroit, another prodi- gal sped forth. He returned recently. The home door was slammed in his face because it had been learned that, among other prodigalities, he had included love, and had married a girl whom the parents abhorred. In New York, still another prodigal was faced about by an unyielding papa, kicked clean beyond the sidewalk and otherwise im- pressed with the new and the violent revelation that the sweet Biblical story is entirely in the discard. There are other cases in point, but these are enough to reach a revised moral. Those sons who feel the urge of prodigality nowadays must recognize and consider the peril, which recent history has proved to be great. It is not difficult to wander, but the return—there is the hard tub. While the son who does it may find a fatted calf all right, there is also likelihood of his making the un- happy and unwelcome discovery that he is it.. So the | telescopes. children have gone, their hus bands are etiher dead or still working hard, while they, whose lives have been so ful must spend their days in an idie round of social pleasures or must move about in empty rooms which echo forever with the volces of thelr bables of yesterday. At best, Ititle more than 25 years of a woman's life can be occupied with the task of raising a family. After that, the boys dnd girls flit into the business world or into homes of their own. When that time comes the home. maker's task is ended, and when your work {s done in this world, what is there left for you? This tragedy of empty lves SCIENCE ) STAR GAZING Some of the most curious inven. tions of man In existence are ancient| youre, held jinstruments used by early Chineso . star-gazers. Photography, which was Invented less than a century ago, made mod: ern astronomy possible, that the telescope aldéd greatly in the study of the stars. But, without either of these aids, ancient Chinese and early Egyptian and European scientists learned tho fundamental |#¢ he Only a few} facts about astronomy. thousand stars aro visible to the naked eye, but study of these showed to the ancient scholars the true posi. | Biture polish? tion of the world in the untverse and | the facts about the solar system. The struments to point at a star and re. cord its relative position with the ald of a quadrant remilted In astrology, now an explod ed science. However, astrology was the forerunner of astronomy, which has made remarkable strides in the last few years, Astronomers no longer base thelr chief findings upon observation thru The great modern tole scopes are used more for making photographs than for the less nc curate method of personal obser | tort. Houston, The woman who in her youth could paint, or write, or sew, or keep books or sell things snccens fully, may count herself blessed that she may have her work to turn to when the sad days come upon her, as they come inevitably to us all, QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS yor can get an answer to any Question of fact or Informa- tion by writing to The Question Editor, ‘s Washington Bu- reply. marital advice cannot be given. nh extended research be un- on. Unsigned requests can- not be answered. —EDITOR. Q. What Is the roller skating dis-| tance record? A. The non-stop record ts 8) by Leo Howard, of Tezas, The record, with | stops, 4a 144 hours, during which Previous to Study of the stars | gloves? 1100 miles were covered, Ht, Bnowden, of Devver, Colo, | war under Jackson? 1 1820 to 1829. thru the varnish to the wood, ruin- observers of centuries ago used in.|ing the fintsh, \onty wear, Feathers” and why? |to Gen. tracto fussy” ant, fiona of five cards are there in a held by rag ies Q. Who was the first secretary of A. Jolin H. Eaton, of Tennessee. d been U, 8. senator from} eee Q. Can gasoline be used in a fur-! | A. No, as the gasoline would go eee Q. When do men wear white kid A. White toith kid gloves are worn strictly formal evening Q. Who was known as “Fuss and| A. This was a nickname given Winfield Scott by hie de- to intimate that he was and vain and self-import- see Q. How many possible combina-/| blue waters of Jay marine gardens of able sc mon (Agar-A\ when added to miner duces a perject remedy for com 0 pata remark: that oll pre AY WV /HEN you take druggy laxatives and ca- e thartics to relieve constipation, it is a just like whipping a tired horse. The py more exhausted the intestinal muscles Lied become, the more you must apply the whip by increasing the dose. The combination of Agar-Agar (Japanese Sea Moss) and Mineral Oil 8 ipa : Saechenical remedy to encourage intestinal action that no longer makes necessary the use of these laxatives. Mineral Oil lubricates the intestinal tract and softens waste products. Agar-Agar encourages the muscles of the colon to act by giving bulk to this waste. . Agar-Agar also corrects the tendency of min- eral oil to seepage when it is used alone. The combination called Agrilin is therefore a perfect remedy for constipation and for the many AGRILIN encourages the intestinal muscles to regular, natural action Mothers— WHEN you take Agrilin your~ self or give it to children you can be sure that it contains ppc | ee will uy diges- ion or irritate, e regular use of A, luces nor- mal action without griping. ilin can easily be given to infants because its tasteless pleasant effect is almost like milk or cream, evil results of sluggish lazy action of the intestinal tract. Nature is encouraged.” The intestinal muscles are exercised and become stronger. Nature is no longer drugged into action. Give up physics and cathartits for a time and ;. try this new way to health. Experience what it nationality of means to get rid of wastes and poisons by natural means. Sold by all druggists MADE by Lehn & Fink, Inc., New York. Makers 0; Pebeco Tooth Paste and Distributors of “Lysol, event will be ruined. b2-card pack? A, 2,598,960, *-. Congress is going to adjourn soon, which is probably the best way to broadcast it under the circumstances. coast linds, but the average width LETTER, z FROM fs about 9,000 miles. ne =, ee r Q. What 1s tho ph . Barney Oldfield? A, American, May 13, 1924, ee Dear HULDA and SVEN: ; | Q. What Is the largest office ‘Ay yust sit down med pen and ink, an’ try to write like Svedish Y | building in the world? ' gink. But me, ay doan ban Svedish man; ay yust can try so Y | A. The General Motora bullding in| gude ay can. For people say, “Ve like to read dose yingle vords y | Detroit, It has 30 acres of floor in nearly-Svede.” apace, and contains about 1,600 of- Das fallers com an’ ask me, “Vhen ve read som. more from fice rooms, and four milea of cor- Mr. Sven? An’ Hulda, she doan write, by yee, since nineteen ‘ ridora. Sets gf koe Vo vonder vhero in hell dey are—ve vish nh itd you dig ‘em up, gar!” Q. What is the gain in power of Ay got to say, “Ay vish ay knew! Ay Ilke to seo dem writing, & compound and triple sata too! Perhaps dey avit dose notes for keeps, so long ve got das engine over the simple engine? | year vot leaps. Vay back las’ year dose folks var bold—but A, The U. 8. Bureau of Standards maybe now das feet ban cold!” says, assuming that the high pres- But Hulda sald, “Ay write som more, in nineteen hoonderd sure cylinders are of the same size tvanty-four.” And Sven, he called me “writer hick”—he better and with the same steam pressure, beg my pardon qvick! For my gude friends get mad and say, revolutions, vacunm, ete. the gain “Who called dat hick a writer, hey?” 1s roughly 90 and 160 per cent, re- 80 Hulda, please, and also Sven, ay vish you both skall writs spectively. The reason that the gain! again! Ay hate to vork deso lazy dayn; besiden, ay get dose bum in power 1s not 100 and 200 per bouquete—dey say, “Das stuff dey write for you ban best of all jcent, respectively, is due to the fact! das yons you do!” that where multiple expansion ts a employed, it is necessary to release Q. What Is the width of the At- lantic ocean? A. This varies with the irregular the ateam at higher pressures from the higher pressure cylinders, than Yesterday's portrait Douglas Fair.|it 49 in the simple engine whero| but one ewpansion is employed,