The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 15, 1924, Page 8

THURSDAY, MAY months 1-60, 6 mowthe § at effice. Monadnock Canadian Pa fan Francisce New Terk offics, enentatives * Bide y : 4 _ North Carolina Knows ORTH CAROLINA does not have>to guess at the fect of income tax public It knows by exper fence, and North Carolina’s experience should be of to the citizens of other states Editor Josephus Daniels, in his R Server, tells the story thus: Bomething ke eo North Carolina, t = Biven in by the the income | ft taxation What happened the A pe Making it a violation of the taeome listed for taxation It was slipped thr payers. What happened? The amount of in > | With secrecy in income tax returns as well as in in- come tax refunds and settlements and with presidential campaigns costing from five to.eight million dollars, every “possible facility is offered both for corrupting the public sservice, corrupting the political parties and corrupting >; the taxpayers themselves. * Publicity of tax returns will dry up at least one source : lof campaign boodle. Hence, perhaps, the wails from the eee professional politicians, | when the subject is mentioned. ‘ ; t ‘ { al | ‘stall, the finest of bran mash and oats—in short, ever: thing to make him the envy of less fortunate old horses. 4dockey club of New York pensioned him. The oldest horse in the world—only 3 “Clover was a youngster,” will say the elephant, who usually lives to 150 or 200 years. Emphatic nods of ap- ‘Yproval from the parrot, eagle, tortoise, crocodile and raven —all of whom have a century as their life-span. But Clover will be envied by the proud peacock, which es only 24 years at most, about the same longevity the toad. Beavers frequently live 50 years, lions 60, cats 18. But it’s a lucky horse that lasts 25 or 30 years, so Clover was real exception. He is like a man living 200 years. The average monkey, in his natural jungle state, lives to 20 years. Man, his cousin, now lives an average of years in our country. We are a healthy race, not far hind the New Zealanders. They are the longest-lived all nations, rounding out 60 years on the average, fore death intervenes. In 1870, according to medical statisticians, Americans dat an average age of 41, compared with 56 now. Ma- people, however, die at about the same age as in e past. The AVERAGE of human life has been raised iefly by cutting down the death rate among babies and m in early youth, ‘We live swiftly—cram into one year as much actual ing as our ancestors in several. Not how long you live, at how much and how usefullly—that’s the important f « value igh News and Ob- when the in reased. me tax de Sky Flivvering FLYING flivver will be placed on the market by the Dietrich firm in Germany. Tae price, it’s said, Will be less than a motoreycle with side car. The speed will be 70 miles an hour, gasoline a cent a mile. Comparatively safe flying flivvers probably will be for sale. Inventing and manufacturing will not be dif- ficult, But inducing people to buy and ride will not be as easy. It’s 100 times as hard to get people to adopt a mew device or idea as it is to create it. However, you may yet have your own airplane, and years sooner than you think possible. soon Your Years of Life LOVER, claimed to be the oldest horse in the world, died the other day. He was well cared for in his old by his owner, a retired clergyman. In a stable at Ci Jatawissa, Pa., Clover had a double blanket and insulated Why We Need Reforestation ‘HINESE, working seven days a week, are beginning to form labor unions. The long working hours in China are due to poverty. nd that poverty is chiefly the result of cutting down China’s forests, as we're now destroying ours in America. With forests gone, the rich top-soil washes away to the sea and the cost of housing impoverishingly high. Then making a living becomes increasingly difficult. Yes, It’s Different N ELECTION in Japan has its interesting features, ‘& it seems. The one of the present is no. exception. ur foreign editor, William Philip Simms, illustrates the ituation for us in order that we may see quite plainly. ‘Passing lightly over the causes of the election and other features he comes down to the “hints” the govern- ment gives the voters as to their conduct during the cam- ign. Here are a few of them: “You shall receive no gifts of money, goods or promis- notes from candidates or their agents. “You shall not canvass for any candidates in exchange for promises of public or private positions. ‘+ “You shall not ride in vehicles supplied by candidates their agents, nor shall you réceive money to pay for icles, hotel charges, or tips. “You shall not circulate false reports about candidates ith a view of preventing their election. “You shall’ not gather in large numbers for riots or erwise create disturbance.” All of which leads us to the conclusion that Roosevelt quite right. Japan’s is a civilization entirely dif- ent from ours—very, very different. ae WIN LETTER, \V RIDGE MAN Have you ever been over in the rhododendron fields of iN or Island counties or Hoods Canal, and have you noticed the ton neau-loads of thesé wonderful flowers that are brought back by Saturday and Sunday excursion crowds? If you have, I know that you will be glad to use your poetic ‘powers on a plea to preserve the flower from the destruction which " menaces it if the rhododendron hog continues on his way. HERBERT EVISON, Secretary, Washington Natural Parks Assn, May 15, 1924, Dear Fotks: When Vandals came to ancient Rome, they found it rich In ‘works of art, in pillared ball and gilded dome, and wealth of every _ toreign mart. They pillaged, plundered, burned, destroyed, to gat- isfy the Vandal taste; one drunken revel they enJoyed—and left bo. hind a wake of waste. Today, along the Puget Sound, the rhododendrons gaily bloom—a gift of God wherein is found a beauty that disperses gloom. But Vandals come and lay them low, to wither soon, and quickly die; and where the rhododendrons grow, a ravished field will greet the eye. Like Croesus in his thirst for gold, or like the drunken Vandal host, must we repeat the tale they told—nnd kill the thing we love the most? No! Let us keep our flowers free trom rape by selfish, thoughtless hand; and save, for summers yet to be, tho charm of Nature's Fairyland! Cirrige Tamm ———S4 T he Nature Fakir ~ Are Sayin | DR. HENRY VANDYKE: false what ii DR. MARTHA TRACY, dean ¢ Woman's Medical college of P sylvania; **When we have a pi that demands health, we shall h health ialists to meet the t we have them ne EX-SENATOR A. J. BEVERIDGE, What Folks g Indiana: ‘All things idored, it not well for an attorney to tell o client frankly that he is in the wrong and refi sists on Hithen’ that such a co nN? At least I fc ree worked well MME. YVETTE French stage “There is not }like stage fright unless it be | sickness."* | DR. LEONARD Johns Hopkins untvernity is not a narcotic; lor nicotine, will not kill a dog in ¢ to take his case if he GUILBE in mand RT, hing HIRSHBERG, "Tobacce a drop of It, tobacco 5 the }manner so often described, and an ordinary cigar used in the ordinary j Way will not wilt two flles.’* CTENCE { Great Scientists Who are the ten greatest scien jin history—and why, cent selection by Prof. F Gallleo—Father of mechanics astronomy; ity and motion, made telescopes, the sun. Isaac Newton—Discovered the of gravitation, Lavoisier—Developed law of Helmholtz—Established the servation of energy. and discovered functions of duc glands. Charles Darwin—Proved the trine of the evolution of man. Pasteur. w pons to fight them Henry Ward Beecher. Yesterday's Portrait; MBXICO science and comparative anatomy. nounced that earth revolved about Faroday—Pioneer in electricity. Claude Bernard—Made plain bodily processes of breakdown and repair | Discovered that diseases were due to organisms and prepa ; tists Here is a re Arthur Thompson, author of “The Outline | of Science'’: Aristotle-— Founded experimental and dincovered lawa of grav an law | con. servation of matter, hamed it Tahoma. If they must|California have done, “bleed the Harvey—Demonstrated blood cireu jchango its name, why not call it by/ tourist until they have got the lation. |its original name. worst name in the world. Let us con. | doc: ared { A THOUGHT For where your treasure Is, there | will your heart be also—Luke xii.34. | . e6 [designate the patrons of a ‘‘bootleg.| got with coupons and a few cents is ICHES are not an end of life, |#er.'’ The winning word, “‘scofflaw,"| of such convenient size and printed but an instrument of life —| doesn't seem to stand up, and for|so clearly that it ts a pleasure to read | i | | | PRESIDENT OBREGON OF lealled Rainier; let us leave it at that sary “punch.” It Isn't distinctive| Please accept my thanks, Yours | Jenough. It could with equal apti-| sincerely, | tude be applied to the violator of any MRS, L. J, FLAGG, law | 1119 Yakima ave, — | Here's a suggestion, While run-| Seattle. | [him that indefinable dullness, iness and laasitude that betokehed call it—as are many others. He often wondered what brought | W4¥ to @ Pleasant warmth. Spring about that “spring feoling.’® Gener. | “Yes: Jally what happens is this: Of course you are sluggish and a # likelihood that you have taken on la pounds of | ha The Rosum an’ Alum } Je ticlans are fy re m‘of leg She was th ein gst Threatening ¢ will eoid lh a T Hysteria wan her middie name election. It's a rom pleted se 4 e 600 mile vom ish nothing but an ex Zone ure miles, 4 Of very bad temper, Is a wonder ern And the w BY HERBERT QUICK ONG E ST R. sa . e E i He «a the x . did u give b ‘ . asked the doctor of the | may set a P, “I kain't give up my knowledge ered quack I ry ard sare \" the tariff on whea core od What ou take to tell me The ‘ 7 t # : Soot ut of curtosity a ° . I ¢ the Pa We aald the foc,” 1 . © eestor kain’t give ut info'mati like 2 board ¥ - pm 1 give him rosum, suh, an when he gave the dose . syste ee -#- « entimated at 19,116 families pet and hu eted within year. (AMERICA WILL) HAVE WORLD’S| It certainly pays to be unreason The Pan-Am route, over ble 10,000 miles in length, would Unreasonable and silly-pated be t line in An excuse is always offered for . *T115, 8:30, 10 the iyi ] Ky 18-Siberian ; - them, 1:15, 1:45, 3:60, 6:30, rom Leningrad (Petro. Cy Rint we * % * |ithis woman had me within the to Vladivostok is 5,600 noua miles long. It was first planned Here’s a New Idea— One-Man World Court She had tures. ro . < . . onal . ad her hair; has the quick action of OW comes Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, world court |\«some days I feel like turning on Prmasnges, Sees, fo Fert Onehard amphor, witchhazel, hydres- foe, with a plan for a world court of his own. the gas.” ; #8 mixed in Lavoptik eye The only real difference between the world court now || “Well.” 1 answered in a matter-of. Navy Yard Route One small Lavoptik functioning and the world court which Lodge proposes |/,,fct manner | Colman Dock MA in-tes2 fl y case we strained or It at least would not be a waste| [-] Aluminum eye cup free. is that he proposed the one and not the other. “races , Lodge’s trouble is that he hates the league of nations | = so he would refuse a ticket to heaven if the league had had anything to do with the printing. In effect what he suggests is that league nations get together with him in another organization and form an- other world court, Bluntly, he wants a Lodge league of nations to organize a Lodge world court, a conception as amusing as it is ridiculous and brazen, Lodge and others say the world court is under the in- fluence of the league of nations. Would the Lodge court be any the less under the Lodge league of nations—since these nations, of necessity, must be precisely the same as those now in the league? Perhaps he knows of some hitherto undiscovered, but super-civilized nations, with whose aid he can build a rival court. Or maybe thru his influence with heaven he hopes to secure the services of a set of archangels for judges. Otherwise he is merely clouding up the real issue, which is: Shall we or shall we not join THE world court? FROM Re: [otters 208 Readers All letteragto The Star must have name and address BARBER PRICES Editor The Star: After spending two years in Call- ON MOUNTAIN | | Editor The Star I wish to aay a word about the er-Tacoma question and, in-| fornia and then coming back to the dentally, teply to Will A. Robin-| place 1 lived for 40 years, it looks son's letter, good to me. But what I am get-| In the first plage who is he? He) ting at is Mr, Page's letter in The says that In the old days the moun. | star. }tain's name waa not Rainier but! Don't let the good people of Seat- Tacoma. Ho ts wrong. The Indians} tie do the mame as the people of But why change it at all? For! give the tourist a chance to come} many years the mountain has been/and see our beautifwi Seattle and| Puget Sound and treat him right, Some think that the oldi no when he goes home again he people want the mountain's name to! can say Seattle Is the most beautl- remain Rainier, but they are wrong, | ¢y1 spot on earth, but if we graft,| for I am a moder girl and I know! yo) and skin him of all he has, the many modern people, and I do not) consequences are that we will get! exaggerate when I say that nine out) a black eye like California's, of ten wish it to stay aw it is, M. F. MARIA ALICE FENDER, " 426 Cambrian st, | a ee ee Charleston, Wash. | | only A NEW SYNONYM | | Editor The Star: = desire, thru you, to thank the Sditor The Star: gement for the Bibles you Some time ago a prize was pewntty distributed. While we have awarded for the coining of a word to|other Bibles in our home, the ono I obvious reasons. It lacks the neces-| it ning thru some of my own writing, P DAD'S BOTTLE I came across the word, “bootie nose,’ where I had misspelled| “Any rags? Any old fron?” "bottlenose." That struck me as| “No; go away! There's nothing| | more pertinent and to the point, How! here for you. My wife's away.” does it appeal to you? | “Any empty bottles?” — London | L. I. BEARSCONE. | Dally Mail. ‘FABLES ON HEALTH “SPRING FEVER” OR some days Mr, tle had noticed Mann of Seat- stealing the chances are, if the winter was | cold and you stayed indoors, you | took little exercise. Comes spring, and warmer days. You have exten an excess of food, exercised but. little and then, sud. denly, the coldness of the air gives over sleep: the arrival of spring. Spring fever, he was inclined to Diying the winter nionths the appetite is a little keener; there is bit dull and lazy; you feel heavy and wooden. Good brisk Walks in the outdoors will help, Don't sit around and let “spring fever’ overtuke you. 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