The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 31, 1924, Page 8

The Seat Published Dai Star Seventh Ave led Press Service, By mihe $2.00, year 1.88 a) Representatives fee, Tribune Bidg.; 0, Tremont Bids. Ban Frencieve New Tork Chong Boston off Mental Junk! Do YOU Know What It I's? ‘ ENTAL Junk”—What is it? ; Material junk, we understand. It is any of a wide variety of things that, useful once, are now worn out or displaced by more modern improvements. There is undoubtedly much “mental junk,” as well—old ideas that survive from the past, but which have been worn out by learning or displaced by progress History is full of mental junk—old ideas long since @isplaced. The ideas that the world was flat, that the gods were glorified humans who disported themselves on Mount Olympus, that kings ruled by divine right and that | Women were high-class chattels. é H The present, too, is undoubtedly full of mental junk ‘old ideas that all, or some of us, cleave to because we were taught it in our youth, as an inheritance from genera- tions that have gone before. In these days of rapid changes, when old things are constantly displacing the new, how much junk is in our mental make-up’ “Fundamentalists” in religion are clashing with “mod- ernists”; a rising generation is straining at the leash of long-fixed conventions; science is clashing with material- ism and Einstein is worrying the three dimensions, With all these newer things, how much of our present beliefs should be thrown into the junk pile? What, in your opinion, is an item of “mental junk” to which some of us still cling? 35 Suicides Today "EVERY day at least 85 Americans commit suicide. Last year there were 12,948 who killed themselves, reports the Save-a-Life league after a check-up. These are the known cases. Many others—probably thousands—did away with themselves, never to be discovered. The league estimates that a third of the suicides are due to insanity. As a matter of fact, all suicides are temporarily unbalanced mentally. That is why the per- son, depressed and tempted to take his own life, should "wait at least 24 hours. A delay almost alw changes the decision from self- ‘destruction to the normal desire for self-preservation, And tomorrow may bring better things. It is always Diackest just before dawn. Poverty, remorse, sickness and loneliness are the princi- “pal reasons for suicide. At least two of them can be mastered—poverty and loneliness. Sickness, too, usually ‘is not hopeless. Remorse, of course, cannot be escaped | 7 except by atonement. Hesitate, you who are so melancholy and depressed that you are on the borderline of mental instability. Tomor- Yow will be a brighter day. Sunshine follows every storm. And the commandment, “Thou shalt not kill,” applies as much to self-destruction as to the killing of others. bie FY Before the Horse Is Stolen | ‘AR Yeader writes in a suggestion that strikes the editor as being not only to the point,'but also timely. Says this reader: , _ It has just occurred to me that about two years or so from now _« the newspapers will be eliminating more regular news from their | columns so that they may carry greater detalls of the big bonus | Scandal in Washington, exposing the waste of money in administer- ing the bonus. We will hear how thousands of veterans are yet to . feceive their policies after two years have elapsed since they Were due. It will ‘be disclosed how another Jesse Smith and some state gang arranged a plan whereby millions in insurance policies were issued to men who never saw a day of service, and how these men got way with money borrowed on the policies. It will be shown how the nimble fingers of unscrupulous employes got into the insurance pot, and there will be the usual story of political inefficiency, waste ‘and graft. Why can't the newspapers start right now to head this off? By Gevoting a little space to what {s happening when it ts happening they can save not only much space, but they can see that the soldiers get the bonus that was intended for them. Of course, it would be running against all the standing tules for the conduct of national scandals to lock the door fefore the horse is stolen. Folks might not like their scandals handled that way! But in this case, where the principal victim of the scandal, if it grew in the normal way, would be war ' veterans who risked their lives for the sake of their country, it seems as tho the country ought to be willing to make some ‘concessions. Let’s forget our national customs and political tradi- tions and all that, and make this one big public enter- prise, conducted entirely in the open, by honest, efficient officials, with the benefits going where the benefits were intended to go when the bonus bill was passed. That might make just as big news as scandal. knows? i What Would You Do? ‘QYLVIO EVANGELISTO, 7 years old, has run away from his home in Ohio 15 times in two months. He wants to be a motorman, so he rides the street cars, sometimes nearly all night. What would you do with such a boy? What would you do with any runaway boy? Sylvio is just an extreme case. There are hundreds of runaway boy cases in Se- attle, and other hundreds of boys who want to run away, _ or dream about running away. Of course, many fathers can answer this question in- stanter. “Give him a good beating,” they will say. And they will be wrong. A good beating makes the body sore. It doesn’t touch the runaway urge at all, but tends to give the boy a real excuse for feeling dis- satisfied with home. Sylvio runs away because he wants to be a motorman, and can’t wait. Here’s a prevocational hunch for Sylvio teachers. This boy’s ambition to be something could be _ used as a spur to school work. As he grows older, Sylvio _ May be taught to hitch his wagon to a star even higher than that of motormanship. The runaway urge in boys is a serious problem for ents, and one that cannot be solved by heating or scold- ing. There always is a cause, an inspiration, for the desire to run away. Hunt it out, and base your treat- Ment upon it, rather than upon the symptom. Who Your Own Magic HOTOGRAPHS are now sent successfully over tele- phone wires. It means that pictures will come never the wires along with news stories, showing you what's happening afar off. This is real magic, more so than the chimerical elixir of life or philosopher’s stone sought by ancient alchemists. You pay your money to see the stage magician pull rab- its from a4 plug hat or make Princess WaWa disappear. Yet you yourself use greater magic whenever vou tune ) the radio or turn on electricity, tLATTLE STAR SATURDAY, MAY 3 1, 1924 Wasien May 31 Everything's all fixed now for our overworked statesmen to The Con greasional Country club fs open. get’ back to nature. No longer need the harassed law-maker kk bh with the soll—at leas r than it takes to got in s hard-boiled shirt and paten her pumps and his limousine out to the club. | _ He can have an evening of the simple life, amid the lowing kine and the bullfrogs, the soft-soled walters and the brass-buttoned Bell-hops. Everything has been done to Provide surroundings that wil! give the statesmen @ real insight into the thing enlled the Farm Probjem The place chosen for this rural retreat is a simple little palace resting on a hill In Maryland. It iw hidden away among electric lights and one comes upon It un awares at a distance of five miles. Of course, if it Is one of the little informal affairs the ap- proaching visitor recetves warn ing earlier. He finds the army, the marines and the navy stretched out along the highways to guide him. > It must be understood that the club, while taking {ts name and {ts necessity from congress, ts not confined only to the law. givers. The executive branches also lend their ald to make it Just what {t ls. The war department lends the army, the navy depart- ment the sallors and marines. How well Washington appre- clates this new contribution to government efficiency, this unique agricultural experiment station, was shown the opening night. Horny-handed sons of the soll by the thousands took the three roads from town leading to the million-dollar dingle Tn their limousines and landau- lets they poured out to honor the men who had concelved thin method of relief for the farmers. They bore without complaining the hardships of the worst traf. fic Jam in, Washington's history Sez Dumbell Dud: A bigamist has been ad- judged in- sane, since there could have been no rational con- clusion. Dear Avridge Mann: ban some bright! also cash your check! hat. stick! treat ‘em rough. tvanty-four. mont’ of May! place! das alr, / don't stent avay! Svedo song! can pay for my marcels! En handsome faller, holy yee! And med das Stacomb grease his halr— yust pick out en homely yny vot LETTER FROM V RIDGE MANN MY! MY! THIS LOOKS SERIOUS! And vhen das right von comes along, vel, life All he ban say At Last the Poor Congressman Rests BY LOWELL MELLETT since the burial of the Unknown Bojdier They milled about for an hour on the hard Uled floors, point ing out to one another, Beeretary Hughes, Secretary Mellon and various senators, commenting on the beauty of the oll paint! Herbert Hoover himself, club's first president, and seek ing @ peek at President Cool | )} idee Nuimeelt. was there came away happ» 5 no almple | and unpretent was the uni | versal comment. "It ten't any | Digger than the Waldorf.As toria.” BY SAMUEL UNTERMEYER One of the Comntry's Foremost Lawyers AM OF the opinion that the qualifications required — for wuceess in the practice of the the profession of law ts now of #uch @ specialized and exacting character that ff applied to bust ness activities, they would lead to a greater measure of material auceess, It requires a rare com bination of ubility and opportu: nity for exceptional success in our profession. I would not advise a young man or woman to enter the pro- fersion without a thoro educa- tion, rare industry and a keen, analytical mind. A young man or woman with. out social or business tics influence that would secure him or her business ts not likely to earn more than a bare living for the first five years after graduation, A five years’ clerkship in « busy office fs a prerequisite to eventual success. By “event ual success’ I mean modernte success. Tho financial returna that accompany that kind of success vary greatly in the dif ferent sections of the country. In New York city, the returns vary according he particular branch of the law practiced by the person. At the criminal bar there is very lttle opportunity for material success, Replying to the inquiry as to whether I feol that the field of the law Is too crowded: 1 can only repeat the old adage that there is plenty of room at the top. in the law as in all other professions, but that the. profes sion {8 gfeatly overcrowded with mediocrities. So far ax concerns opportuni ty, there never was a time when there were greater opportunities in my profession for gifted men Med compliments you sure ban kind; but Ay see you got ax to grind. You vant for Sven and me to write, so you can loaf—you But if you ban en sport, by heck, you let us Vell, anyvay, Ay como to bat, and in das ring skall trow my For Sven ban got my temper stirred—he call me short and ugly vord. Ay yust speak softly to das hick, but also carry en big Sven try to pull das caveman stuff—"To make ‘em love you, Dose yanes kneel at your feet, by yoo!” Ay ban elbow, not das knee. You bet my life dat nowadays, it ban poor rule von't vork bode vays. Las vinter, ninteen tventy-tree, Ay tol’ Sven he vould hear from me vhen Leap Year rolled around vonee more, and it ban nineteen So Sven doan need to get #0 gay—it only ban das Vell, It still ban lots of time, you know, to give each oder double-O, Sven say he ban on homely mutt—yust vot Ay like no ting else but! Wor Ay skud vorry ‘bout his face, so long his heart ban in right is “Ay love MEI" hounds Ay givo some darn vamp ey all be von grand If Sven will name das time and place, fo Ay can seo his homely face, perhapg ve have some vedding belle—and Sven HULDA, Seattle. Advice to June Graduates—No. 3 Never More Than Now Were Gifted Men Needed in Law Samuel Untermeyer of Industry—than at present In tho city of New York there is a veritable famine of well- grounded trial lawyers, expo clally for the trial of jury cases. The flower of the bar haa been } drawn away by the temptations } of money-making from the high | profession of advocacy to be coming highly paid clerks or aids to financiers to keep the latter prayerfully within the law. To those who are familiar with the high character and | splendid attainments of the | | | | | dozen or more giants who prac ticed at the trial bar in the last generation, by comparison with the pigmies who now pass mus. ter at our bar as “leading trial lawyers,” the situation is dis. heartening. Judged by the standards set by such men as Willlam H arts, Joseph H. Choate, Willla: Fullerton, Rob- ert Seawell, Porter | at might ; be named, all of whom were contemporaries, there is not an outstanding trial la r at the | New York bar tod: Herein Hes the great opportunity for the right man. ~ Monday—Teaching. Telling It to Congress (gxcerpts from the Congressional Record) | A WARNING For you who love tho great out of doors, to hunt and fish and trap, | there is a sinister threat in the fast- jdeciining timber area, Without the forest home there can be mighty little game, and without a continuous and adequate supply of water there can be mighty few fist.—Rep. Davoy (R.), Ohio, eee | CONGRE It Is for the congress to say how much navy the country wants. If | you want those ships to be what they pretend to be, capital ships pable of enguging in fight w: sels of a same titular chare other niviey with a decent prospect of succes, then you want to fit them with protection, That is what wo put squarely before you. The Job iy yours—-Avimiral Robison, before house naval affairs ocmmittee, JOB «Now I Lay Me Down to Slee p” BY FRED L. BOALT F WE were not habituated to life on sinking from sight | this earth we would be scared out of This same island our wits. about the time of We dwell or 5,000 miles in cir- earthquakes , cumferene suspended in Alaskan glaciers are breaking up and limitle space All about it are stare lipping into the 2 and constellations, suns and moons and Note this: Fire in Hawaii—cooling flying meteors, whirl ‘round and Alaska. : ea ‘round and going at speed incredible Interesting speculati The where? of ‘fire throws off g et ’ h seek Our globe {s coated with a film of air, c#pe at the polite of le es agigarp relatively of tissue thickness: If this Prick a hollow rubber Ties r film vy wept away we could not one pin-prick Hawaii” and the “Alaska.” Press the ball on one the air hisses out of the “Hay Press on the other side and tt breathe. Our globe has an inner ball of fire, of dimensions unknown and heat inealeu- capes thru “Alaska.” lable. We are reminded, adie time to At the moment the thumb is of the presence of thi bal on “Alask and fire and lav Earthquakes destroy San Francisco and thru the far-distant pin-prick, Tokyo. A new temblor at Walla Walla. the pressure from beneath remove pressing ‘4 appear Other temblors up and down the Pacific ging to cool, an island sinks and agek coast, Also in the Mississippi valley. ice slips into the sea. Kilauea is belching lava and fire in the Fire beneath our feet! An earth sus- Hawaiian islands. A smaller island is pended in limitless space without ble erupting and villages have been wiped out. means of support! The whole whirling Jump from Honolulu to Alaska, The and flying no one knows where or why or how! Ho-hum! God made the eartt the air, and all that in them is Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes is cut- ting up strange didoes Hot springs have turned icy cold, The ground is cool- An island off the Alaskan coast is is good! ing “Now I lay me down to the sea, and God leep!" ———— “WHOOSIS!” as i last in the “Whoozit was that of Jack Demp- sey, the heavyweight champton. ( A THOUGHT Ra SH BS oo Sb Se proacheth his Maker is glad at calamities shall not be un portrait printed yester the and he that mocketh poor re punished —Prov, XVILS. 6s alec shep ret ats Capital punishment has been abol 7 ere GYACH one wishes for his own ad: |inhed in Austria, Holland, Norway,| svagoue rRANC 4 of | Portugal, Italy, Rumanta and Swe-|thor and publicist yer than that iden FABLES ON HEALTH A CHILD'S CURIOSITY jnal human necessity.” eee ‘America jthe threshold of @ Christian re j nalwsance.”” NCE the school had been reach- child shows himself wiser than the] sted ed by the Ma « lot of 1. The grown-up may wonder,| REV. 0. H. SLETTEN, talking to is nd trouble 5 4 from/but all too rarely goes to the|Norwegian celebrants, Mi Mra. Mann to the school her trouble to find out, He dislikes to|Olis “Men who can play their But when, evening came Mr. unk questions for fear of being con-jlins, or live their lives, on a single found that he had upon his »\ sidered uneducated or stupid, The String with a sole, unfaltering pur s vertt question box, and more |Child ts URely to follow him in, pose, are ones who count.” oa etted that |Such waye—partieularly if the par ek he~ had of general | ent ts evasive, or seeks to atifle the) KATHLEEN NORRIS, author: k ake mmand, He | Young and growing imagination, “I think we ilye, here in America, fi 1 himself finding out a good) Too often the grown-up is notlin a better world than we had for many thingy that had never both-jeven curious. He becomes so ¢f-jat jeast 1,000 years.” cred him before, and it came to be| grossed in matters pertaining to} cee an much of a game for him as for| himself and his work that he shuts | ETHEL the chile “Tolerance must be The growing child ts tremendous ly eager for information about this strange and mgsterious world into which he been born ry-| children that ts healthy and fine. 4 thing presents a staggering que®| Don't refuse to answer thelr ques- tion. Why ts this and why ls that?! tons! Keep their interest aroused) And in trying to find out, the! aid help In their education! his eyes to thousands of inicresting | things about him. has [the error of indulgin, |ing the laws.” | | | was found perfectly pr | my. GREAT NORTHERN AN OLD CITIZEN The States of Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana contain more than eight hundred billion feet of standing timber. There Wero cut from this timber and shipped over the lines of the Great Northern in the year 1923 one billion three hundred million fest of lumber, and these shipments are Increasing from year to year. The Great Northern is one of your oldest citizens. The origi- nal ten miles between St. Paul and Minneapolis were built in j 1862. This was the first railroad in Minnesota. It continued What Folks Are Saying BILLY SUNDAY, sick evangelist: 1 stands pherd—I should E, French au- “I have often ;said I do not belleve war ts an eter. today on | DR. 8. D, HARKNESS, Kansas City: R. PEYSTER, writer: the basis of |family cohestveness—tolerance and Curiosity is an Indicatio: of inter- | consideration—the keynotes to est in life and things; a symptom in/in the homes and in the natlo: “We i any further in tax systems which tend only’ to |develop and perfect the art of dodg- A beetle tnousands of years old | eserved among | the wrapping of an Egyptian mum- to grow and developsnew territory as it proceeded until now it serves the Northwest with over eight thousand miles of road. It brings the whole Northwest, as far as the Pacific Coast, to world markets, and world markets to the Northwest. It provides also luxurious, modern passenger train service by which all the world may travel to the Northwest, and the Northwest may travel to the world. : 4 all The Great Northern is a desirable, dependable, pay-as-you-go citizen. It paid, in 1923, to the 36,645 men and women who were en- gaged in its service $56,270,922 in salaries and wages. It paid, in 1923, for materials and supplies $56,662,850, every dollar of was expended in Great Northern Its taxes for the year 1923 which, so far as practicable, territory to support local industry. were $9,113,226. It paid, in 1928; to its 5,766 employes in Washington, “or sal- aries and wages, $9,172,335. The assessed valuation of its property in Washin gton is $71,- 400,005. Its taxes in Washington for the year 1928 were $1,563,- 612. The Great Northern knows that your with its own. For better or worse, your community, our interests are bound it is an inseparable part Does not this great institution, a worthy citizen in every essen- and patronage, because it is tial relation, merit your confidence giving you efficient service and loyal co-operation? LOUIS W. HILL, Chairman of the Board. Talk No. 13, May, 1924. up of PROF, THOS. A. ADAMS, pollt!- cal economist, Yale university: |should protect the government from