The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 19, 1924, Page 6

PAGE 6 | The Seattle St OT Beventh Ea A Congrats! HE STAR wants to take this opportunity to voice its appreciation of the excellent journalistic work done Saturday by the journalism class of the University of Washington, which had entire charge of the publishing of The Star Saturday. The students displayed a real knowledge of the funda mentals of newspaper work and put over their job in fine Shape. They proved that journalistic schools have progressed far beyond the theoretical stage of journalism ‘and that the graduates being turned out today are prac- tical “go-getter: The students, thrown into a strange office and up against a far faster schedule than they ever had experi- enced with their university daily, showed their versatility by adapting themselves to The Star’s style, got out every edition punctually, and wound up the day's work by scoop- ing the town on the story of the discovery of the missing Green river rancher’s body in the river. The Star thanks the boys and girls for their work Note: The fishing Saturday was fine, thank you! The Unknown—The Forgotten N A CITY of the middle country there lives an aged man. His is a distinguished air. He walks abroad with a cane, tall, erect, dignified, well-groomed. Few greet him as he passes. None stops for even a brief chat There are lines of sorrow—of pain—in his intellectual face. There is a rebellious, yet wistful, look in his heavy- browed eyes. The town has grown up about him, but he is a stranger—a stranger despite the fact that once he was known to all his neighbors and represented them in the halls of congress. A stranger, and yet once his name was known from one end of the country to the other for he was a leader of his party at Washington and the chief charac- ter on one side of a memorable battle of wits and ability there. Fame was his, but—it fled. A few doors from this man’s home lives another elderly citizen—just an ordinary citizen who still works by day, pays his taxes, keeps his sidewalks clear of snow in win- ter and contentedly dozes of an evening over his paper. He never held office, never took part in politics save as a regular voter, never belonged to a club, never gained even ordinary social or business prominence. Fame never even gave him a glance of recognition. Always—always he has been unknown beyond his little environment. But he has no regrets, no wrecked illusions, no memories that hurt. In his ruddy, round and smiling face there is pure happiness written in the sparkle of his eyes, the up-curve of his lips. Bubbling humor is his and he laughs with his family and, on occasion, rallies and cheers and jokes his dignified and sorrowful friend up the street who once sat in the seats of the mighty. The happiness of living unknown knows not how to measure the poignant, tragic pain of living forgotten. A Chronic Disease pce year, every year, i is great and glorious coun- try, there are 12,000 n vs added to those already on the statute books of the states and nation. Each year, and every year, and also in this great and «lorious country, there are 13,000 decisions handed down by appellate courts, which decisions have to do with the ambiguous, conflicting, uncertain or impossible provisions | of these laws, while other decisions destroy not a few new enactments altogether. Law-making in this country is no longer a matter of sober and careful and wise response to great public needs, but a chronic disease. When we consider the figures herein mentioned, we find no difficulty in deciding why it is so very, very many men, to say nothing of women and children, are unable to be law-abiding citizens. It is impossible for anybody to know the law. Why Prohibition? EFORE prohibition, the grape crop of our country was paying 45 million dollars a year to the growers. Now they are getting 315 million dollars a year. So claims Editor Windle of the Iconoclast. The answer is in the keg in the cellar. Soft drink manufacturers also have profited tremen- cously by prohibition. So have business men, who are getting the dollars that used to be rung up in the bar- room cash register. Powerful forces stand ready to oppose the return of anything alcoholic. Most active would be the manufac- turers whose dollars did much to bring prohibition, their purpbdse being to get more work out of their men. Prohibition came as an ECONOMIC matter, not moral. “Blocd is thieker than water,” perhaps, but not much more so than moonshine. 50-Cent Smokes O YOU ever smoke 50-cent cigars? A dealer in Provi- 4 dence, R. I., was doing such a big business in perfectos _ at half a dollar apiece, that rum sleuths sampled his wares. Inside each cigar was a glass tube filled with moonshine. Yankee ingenuity will always find a way to get liquor to the thirsty as long as it is manufactured. The same is true of narcotics and all other forbidden fruit. Education alone can enforce prohibition effectively— that and prohibitively high price. The real problem is thirst, rather than quenchers. Sousa only gets $60,000 a year from royalties and he probably sorely regrets his inability to write jazz. —_—_—__ {LETTER FROM | AVRIDGE MANN May 19, 1924, Dear Folks: Last Saturday was quite a day for all our writing mob. We didn’t have to earn our pay, or do a single job. The journalism students came to do our daily feat, and let us watch them play the game of getting out the sheet. So when I came to work I found a mighty pleasant view. Dean Spencer's bunch had brought around a bunch of beauty, too. With all the fair co-eds they had, I thought, “It’s mighty clear the paper business isn't bad—I'm mighty glad I'm here!” And all the staff that came to work to give the bunch a start observed the scene and wouldn't shirk—they didn’t have the heart. And one by one I'd hear them say, with fervor unallayed, “I guess I really ought to stay, in case they need my ald!” And so we watched the busy sight, and had a dandy time. They even had a guy to write my dally bunch of rhyme. And more than that, I'm glad to tell, altho {t's quite a feat, they did our daily Iabora well, and madp a dandy sheet. And as for me, I truly hope they'll come another day; so they can write tho daily dope, while I can draw the pay—provided, when they bring the men to let us rest our heads, they let uy rest our eyes again, and bring their fair co-eds! Guritge Tamm THE SEATTLE STAR MONDAY obody Knows How Dry I If Women Understood Each Yesterday's portrait; King Alfonso | QUESTIONS ANSWERS (U can get an answer to any question of fact or informa- tion by writing to The Question Star's Wa: reau, 1322 N. Y. ave. D. C., inclosing 2 cents in stamps marital advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be un- dertaken. Unalgned requests can- not be answered—EDITOR. Q What is the average age of| pupils graduating from high school? | A, Eighteen. . Q. What 1s the population of Con-| A. Approximately 1,200,000. be Q. How much flaxseed does the United States produce? | A, Approximately cla were produced in 1925. | rer eee | Q. What is the equatorial circum-| ference of the A. £4,808 miles. | A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit Is broken—Proy, eee APPINDSS is a rare cosmetic.— G, J, W. Melville. - “Tac ovr — BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON take stock of them the be t an thelr natures At an y enjoy ournelve ers! For orne the condi down in the and our sensatic from tifferent jongg parties “What lovely things t ¢ murmur an ; d f with by usband and a is no ow rid , oes look with bobbed ha With feminine nature ever thus, argue as we may, It is ob vious that the constant effort t keep up with our more affluent neighbor ts only labor wasted. It never gets us any real satisfac tions or friendships. Even tho “There w a simple! we may have the costliest cowns and understandable pian for political! nd the most sparkling jewels, action—to declare war the crime) W® somehow know that thos that it ts” women who fawn upon us are never sincere and probably pour out the perfume of their friend ship upon the mother of the twins who lives in the small bun. galow across the street. The haughty beauty tn our even greater things for the future.”| midst is generally having her tere | morals questioned, and she who J. J. DAVIS, secretary of labor,| Wears the largest diamonds runs It should be we who should have| ‘th® greatest risk of having them the right, not some other country, to} dubbed paste ay who shall enter America.” ° | ‘If We would be sure of possess. ates ing the good wishes and affec fi se tion of our feminine acquaint R. W. M. JARDINE, Kansas ag ances, it is wisest not to strive ural college; “The American too much. learned long ago that neither If you excite not the envy of lividually nor collectively can he| your women friends, you will lift himaelf up by his boot-strapa.” never suffer from thelr malice hat Folks Are Saying JEANNETTE RANKIN, ex-con eresswoman: REV, VINCENT RAVLBOOTH, D. Ds “The only way we can dis charge our debt to the past is to greatly in the present and plan FABLES ON HEALTH NORMAL WEIGHT GAINS | THE Mann child had long since )siris, 31 pounds. Height—Boys, 26 outgrown the “baby scales,” on |inches, and girls, 2514 inches, hich the pounds and ounces were| Four years—Boys, 36 pounds, or egularly calculated slightly moro, and girls, 35 pounds But the Manns did not neglect to |Helght—Boys, 38% inches; girls, watch the growing child's weight, |°8 2-5 Inches. for this ts of considerable impor.| Five years—Roys, 41 pounds, 6 tana: ounces; girls, 41 pounds, 3 ounces Height—Hoys, about 42 inches, and kirls, 41.3. inches. These are important years in isticians, carefully charting the arious weights for the young child have arrived at the following fig ures: | At 2 years—The boy should weigh |slightly more than 28 pounds, and| the girl 27 pounds, Helght—Boys, | chiiaren, 22.1 Inches; girls, 32 Inches, Don't neglect to watch your child's Three eyars—Boys, 33 pounds, and | welght and height. AND and some, of course, grow more rapidly than others. Tho figures quoted are those of avernge normal ington Bu- ashington, Medical, legal and . | a Q. How much sugar is prone 3 $25 Plates A. Last year the production was) Cut 20,400,000 short t the estimate, " 00 short tons. to Q What is the combined annual/ 4 $8 Crown income of America? | . 4 A. The estimate is $55,000,000,000) , an | i Bridgework Cut to With Our Regular 15- Year Guaraniee earth? | Ee eae A THOUGHT ) SO NOW IS THE TIME ———____—_—_—_’ While Our Prices Are Cut in Half t doing cheap work, but at materiain obtainable, DR. H, 0. DANFORD, Mgr. Second Ave. and James St, MA In-2736 krowth, both in welght and height, | Vets Are Put on the | | Likewise the doctors on board nee in this branch of the ser A few of the service are Trail of : OGADORE, O., May 19.—The Sat Smugglers the Light Wine Beer - 88 anybody delivered his speech on t BY KENNETH WATSON of a 25 per cent kick re : First thing, the Hon, Set} ders “After the Ball” and in such a feelin’ that u and you could hear t obbin beer everywhere in the room The Le spoiled everything, the old hippocrit! Lem, you remember, was town drunk blessed heavy wine and beer da but noopin ound claimin’ he’s refor been harvestin’ dandylions at night and be that would drive a Ohio polecat out fror factory. Well, sir, Lem wants to show his ref« contrite spirit and so he gits up, durin’ the produced by them affectin’ so: and “Mister Chairman, by speci It was too much for that light blage and they went after Lem, fi unanymous. Fortunately, | in his carpet slippers and was able to outru there’s no tellin’ what public indignashun mw accomplished, KITCHEL PIXLEY wine and beer n had come to the me wants that quartet to render “The Old Oaken Bucket and boot, prompt Telling It to Congress (2xcerpts from the Congressional Fyecord) SPACE Dr. Harlow. Shapley 1d since th Yeandle million years to ¢ ? 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