The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 23, 1924, Page 8

e Star Seventh Ave. Phone jervice. _ The Seattl spaper F ae Publishes De Main eee. Star Pw ie Association end United per 3 months $1.60, € months 02.00, year © a ¥ an, Specks! Representatives Gan Francieve x Bag “6 . Tribene New Tork offies, Bids plas The West Coast's Debt to “Coburn of Kansas” */“OBURN of Kansas” is dead his state and country. “Coburn of Kansas” did not win fame thru military genius or service. He fathered no improved system of government, no civic reform, no sweeping religious uplift He was benefactor to Merely did Coburn successfully develop alfalfa on an alien soil. No, this is not humor, Far from it. It is big with importance. Alfalfa was known somewhat, but poorly grown in an indifferent, unprofitable way when Coburn became head of the Kansas agricultural department. He Wisioned the value of the plant as a forage crop. He Studied its culture to the very roots and in all kinds of Soil, and then he began to tell the results of his investi- gations and experiments. Out of the consistent and persistent campaign he in ‘ugurated came the great crops of the succulent nitrog enous plant that the country knows. Acres on acres ‘of what once were one-crop lands now yield three and four crops a year. Thousands on thousands of what Dut a short time ago, were either ar sagebrush deserts, today 2 green and rich with prolific promise every year, but even that is not all. The great cattle herds and dairy business of the Mid le West, Northwest and the whole Pacific coast owe their extensive development largely to the initiative of Coburn, to say nothing of the benefits he handed to iether stock like horses, sheep, pigs and poultry. This, in substance, is what Coburn did for his country His was a service far and away superior to that of other “men who gained more fame and more applause than he, or fand no mere written tribute can satisfy the debt we owe him. Roads E WALKS across the continent in 109 days—Harold ‘ L. Mackay, hiking from Los Angeles to Boston. ‘Made the trip on a bet and beat the time limit by 11 ‘days. Good roads made it possible. Fifty years ago the ‘trip would have been next to impossible except by a man ‘with an iron constitution and the ability to shoot straight ‘and fast. Roads are good now, but the trip even today ‘is no job for a weakling. Trucks for Railroads HE first. big railroad to couple its rail service with an a extensive motor truck system is the New York Cen- tral. It is already using trucks for package freight and _Tapidly increasing the mileage. A former generation of railroad men would have fought “motor truck competition by trying to strangle it. People ‘are wiser now. They keep the old and, adopt the new, “using both. Steam railroads already are inadequate for sportation needs. Before long, progressive railroads be establishing airplane routes. It’s Our Choice | 4TPHE death rate lately is quite a bit higher than a year /4 ago. An average of 4,200 Americans a day are ‘passing on into the Hereafter. i As they exit from one side of the stage of life, new- ‘born babies arrive to take their places. It’s the same iow, generation after generation. The actors and wy change, but the plot never. » Whether life is a tragedy or a comedy depends largely our mental attitude. The choice of being happy or happy is up to us. Caught HE inheritance tax was put into effect to raise rev- * enue and to curb the concentration of too much ’ wealth in a few families. We were on the road where 100 or fewer families eventually would own 95 per cent ‘of the United States. Cunning lawyers showed rich clients how to evade the “inheritance tax by giving part of their wealth to their “children before father’s death. This dodging would be effectively and properly checked by the amendment to the tax law, as proposed by Senator Walsh of Massa- chusetts. He would tax gifts increasingly up to 36 per cent on those of more than fiye million dollars. Business and Profits ‘EING in business for yourself is not all it’s “cracked up to be.” There are 1,425,000 stores in America. ‘That's a store for every 76 people, which isn’t much in the way of customers. Of course, this includes all sorts of stores and a customer trades in various kinds of shops— "food, clothing, books, etc. But, even at that, the retail merchandising field is very overcrowded. It’s a lucky “grocery that feeds more than 60 or 75 families. Out of what looks like profits at first glance, come Tent, clerk hire, lighting, heating and other expenses. Artificial Silk RTIFICIAL silk—‘made from wood,” to use a very rough description—is making rapid gains, In a year its production has increased by a half. If the boll weevil gets beyond control, some one prob- ably will discover how to produce cotton synthetically. We live in an artificial age. People no longer laugh at {XX LETTER FERo VV RIDGE MANN THE HAWTHORN TREE (A Rondeau) The hawthorn tree I pasa at night ‘se gay with blossoms pink-and-white. Beside tt, in a stately row, Its taller aisters grandly grow To maasive size and stately helght, It stands among them, small and slight Its fragile branches blooming bright That we may see and learn to know The hawthorn tree, A humble tree, it brings delight To ua who tack in worldly might! As down tha lanes of Life we po, Our wearled hearts wth gladness glow On seeing Nature's cheering sight— The hawthorn tree. Tirrittge amr What Is the 40- THE SEATTLE STAR Mill Tax Levy FRIDAY, MAY 23, 19 Fight About? This Tells You GHoRN of the state in feat aioe of the lngietatere ohould the be is ns ‘. he , cee eee the tea back of an ins , t r’ : tigate § 4 74 ; 5 ‘ bn k : € i «~ ox mae na naceats iA ete "ste tect for emma nn MO Nad of money tht tl 7 the : tot y to be anseased ag property shall ' tate purposes mills ae It uggeste t eed 40 milla No provision ts made to make . hy inmepane a) “ s p the difference betw the t now raised : A b present ta vies 4 whet would be raised Le purpose w r . t ax ¢ ” > with but 40 mills, The matter t# left to the nex 1 ities and towne—15 4 ° A p. Dvd . “4 em — % = You Can Lead a Horse to Water, but—! ) . [ New Machines Harness Sun; | IE STAR recently carried a | story from the “Friends of | Educational Freedom" telling why that organtzation was formed to fight initiative school bill No. 49, which provides that all children must attend public schools at certain hours and up to certain grades. John A. Jeffrey, chairman of | the Washington Good Govern | ment League, sponsoring the bill, writes The Star now, giving the | league's arguments. | Belteving that the public ts tn. | terested in any questions that af | fect its schools, The Star ts printing the Jeffrey letter: | “It i not true, as anserted by | the Friends of Educational Free | dom, that No. 49 is proposed for ‘the destruction of private and individual liberty tn attempting to take from parents their funda | mental and inalienable right to | send their children to such | schools as they may choose.’ “No, 49 says nothing about | any school, church, tax, religious | or parental right. It requires only the time of the children between | the ages of seven and atxteen years during school hours; they may go where they please at any and all other hours. “There is no ‘fundamental and inalienable right’ or any other right of parents to send thelr children to such schools as ‘they themselves may choose.’ | “No eltizen has any ‘right’ or ‘privilege’ contrary to the will of the state as expressed thru the exercise of its police power for the public good. The state may | compel all of us to build side- walks, pavements, sewers, roads or bridges, to keep the weeds off | of our vacant lots and to do all things considered necessary for | the public health, safety or wel fare regardiess of what we may think about it. “The state may take all our property for its defense in time of war provided the taxes are Yesterday's portrait: GENDRAL PHERSHING, | | equal and uniform. It may take the lives of its citizens In its de fense In the army and navy. Is it not, then, abeurd to say that it may not do anything else neces sary to protect iteelf? “The state haa a right to re quire all its citizens to be seit supporting and support thelr families and parents. “It ts admitted by all the op- ponents of No. 49 and even by the court of Oregon decision that practically all the states have the right by law and immemorial custom to compel the education of their children and citizens and to regulate the extent of such education, If the state has such right, the manner, means, extent and al} the agencies of such edu cation are political questions to be decided by the state “These opponents of No, 49 also rely upon the Oregon dec. sion, We know that the oppon ents of the Oregon School law prepared to contest the case all the way to the supreme court before they commenced the sults in Oregon, By what pecullar Tight or duty is the Oregon deci sion now any moresacred than it would have been If the oppon- ents of the bill had lost the case in Oregon and been compelled to appeal to the supreme court of the United States? “Again, the Oregon decision Is no better than the reasons upon which it ts based. The one case {t relies upon is the Meyers caso in Nebraska. This was a private school. ‘The Meyers case is un- doubtedly good law, but tt has nothing at all to do with the {s- sue in Oregon. The Oregon court also assumes that the school law prohibits the teaching of the grammar grades in private and parochial schools; that it prohib. its private and parochial schools themselves and that, therefore, their property will be destroyed by tho operation of the law, All these assumptions are with out any foundation. “If ‘the Friends of Educational Freedom feel that the circum stances call for organized resis. tanco’ to the circulation of these petitions for No, 49 in this state, they ought to have some reason- able basis for such conclusion. FABLES ON HEALTH ‘They say the circulation of thin bill will arouse religious feeling, malice, prejudice and Ul. will among the people of our state Why? “Thin ts a school bill, non political and non-sectarian, Its friends have no malice, preju dice or I} will against anybod If its enemies have, they should 0 home and learn a better »pirit ef citizenship and Christianity “It ‘the Oregon decision cov ered every possible point that could be raised In that state, tn our own state or any other stato’ may we ask that some of the op: ponents of No, 49 show us what ft least one of the points in? “The 14th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States guarantees the equal protection of the law, the integrity of con tracts and that no one shall be deprived of life, liberty and prop erty without due proceas uf law ‘There is not a word in the schoo! law No. 49 contrary to the equal rights of everybody In our stat “The fact that the private and parochial schools can not have the children between the ages of seven years and 16 years dur ing school hours and during the time necessary to complete the eight gTammar grades, as pro- vided in the school law, does not prevent such special schools from having any of the children, or all of them, at all other hours. “What right has any citizen or person to object to the state's requiring the education of all ebildren for from four to five hours per day? This ts all the proposed bill provides. “JOHN, A. JEFFREY, “Chairman, Good Government League.” Sez Dumbell Dud: Worry is a great thing. Many people would be idle half the time if they had nothing to worry about. TEACHING “BATH HABIT” | HE scene presented in the Mann hounshold when the ‘neckand ears’ washing ceremony was por. formed waa not materially different from that to be found wherever lusty lunged youngntern romped. ‘The appearance of a rag and brush was invariably the signal for walls and wrgmling. Yet tho lesson of cleanlinens must be taught, Parents should make every offort but It ts preferable that the young stera bo taught to enjoy tho bath for its own sake, If, as a little toddler, the baby is taught to love a clean body the task will bo made caster in later years. | Many: parents watt too long before beginning the cleanliness education. When grown-ups themselves look upon the skin as a mere covering for the body, what can be expected of youngsters? The skin is an im- to educate the children Into enjoy-| portant organ, and not a mero cov. ing thelr bath. quently unsuccessful task Js this being dealt with, Regular bathing tlmes can be as. A difficult and fre-| ering, A clean akin carries off waste mat ,oftimes when a boy In his teens tw| ter and daily bath aids in the health of tho akin. Get the growing children In the soclated with games in somo casos, bath habit, Get 15,000 Degrees of Heat BY A FREDERICK SAN FRANCISCO May 23, Old Sol turning the of one of these days Marcel Franciscan, has invented H may be wheels industry Moreau, San three machine their sun's rays, , will: Produce a ture of 15,000 Fahrenbeit Furnish power so long as the sun shines. Generate electricity and store it in storage batteries. Moreau nas his three machines completed and in operation. They are nicely balanced combin- ations of mirrors and magnifying glasses. In his heat machine he has seen diamonds bubble and disappear in gaseous form. Carbon, which is fluid at 610 de- grees, has melted with a fraction of the power his heat machine developed. He believes he can do’ s obtaining the he from which, power say tempera- degrees The solar melting machine. ture of 15,000 degrees. ble the 15,000 degrees generated by this device by further application of his principles, While Moreau has many problems to work | out, he foresees the time when power plants oper- ated by the sun’s rays will be established in dis- tricts having high tem- peratures to furnish power to entire groups of states. It has produced a tempera-~ oull Like its. Better The first taste will instantly convince you Cudéhy's pur jtan | Cooked Hams that there really isa vastdifferencein cooked hams. It’s the rich, natural flavor and ap- pealing tenderness that gives Puritan its distinction, for Puritan Hams are Before pressing and cooking, Puritan Ham is given an unhurried, natural cure. The uniform diffusion of the meats rich juices is promoted and the full flavor and tender- ness are retained. There’s none more deli- cious than Puritan Cooked Ham. Try Puritan. Order at the meat counters. “The Taste leis” The Cudahy Packing CoUSA; Makers of Puritan Hams—Bacon—Lard ' 213 JACKSON ST. Seattle, Wash, * |e