The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 26, 1924, Page 8

PAGE 8 ag0 an, Sper office et By ° fan Francisee Representatives New Tork effion une Bide at Bids Vote Slackers NJEARLY half of the c i ens who were entitled to vote in the 1920 presidential election didn’t vote all. away from the polls. For every 100 who voted, 96 stayed This was figured out recent- ly by Simon Michelet, Washington lawyer, who ser ed several years as secretary of the late Sena- tor Knute Nelson, of Minnesota. : . The same thing probably will happen this year. Michelet claims that the “stay-at-home vote” could elect or defeat any candidate for president. He's ght. That’s obvious. Michelet’s analysis showed that over 25,000,000 citizens, eligible to vote in 1920, failed to go to the polls, The people who did vote totaled 26,715 totaling votes cast for all candidates. : And the vote-slackers yell the loudest when any- thing goes wrong in W hington. NEARLY 30,000,000 Germans voted in their na- tional election in May. That’s more than vote for president in the United States. And yet we have nearly twice as many popula- tion as Germany. They take their government seriously over there. They go to the polls and get what they want—in- stead of staying away and grumbling when govern- ment fails to please. HE ballot is the foundation of democratic gov- ernment, Here in America, citizens by their ballots have virtually unlimited power to make any change they want and bring about any reform or condition they desire—simply by using their bal- lots intelligently. Now, if Americans were paid $5 apiece for vot- ing, how many would stay away from the polls? And yet failure to vote may cost a citizen a good many times $5—in the form of inefficient govern- ment, high taxes and waste of public funds. If you stay away from the polls this fall, you sig- nify indifference as to what kind of government you live under and what is done with this America of which you are part owner. + Seattle Likes Clean Drama NE of the interesting observations of things theatri- cal is the second week's run of a play at the Metropoli- tan this week. Ordinary productions—and some so-called extraordinary ones—usually figure Seattle as a one-week" town even during the winter months, when one naturally turns to the theater for diversion. But here is a play—“Lightnin’ —that has managed to hold the attention of Seattle for two weeks just at a time when we are thinking most of outdoor pleasures, when the evenings are long and the roads call. Why? Well, because the world isn’t so bad after all. Because “Lightnin’ ” is a convincing missionary in behalf of clean drama. Playwrights and producers—principally the lat- ter—have pleaded that they give the American public what it wants from behind the footlights. This is their excuse for the risque; for stories that make heroes out of vicious characters; that make folks tolerate indecent sug- gestions. “Lightnin’” has none of this—none of the salacious, none of the loose talk that even modern society sometimes permits in mixed company. The play depends not one whit for its success and its appeal on the miserable mess the producers say is necessary to swell box office receipts. It is cleverly clean, whoiesome and so completely filled with gripping lines and situations that one wonders if it will not serve as a permanent challenge to the wisdom of those producers who insist on flatnting before us the vibald stuff we are supposed to like. passenger cars and trucks, The Principle 01 Success HENEY FORD sails serenely even during a business slump. In May, when the steel industry was sagging to 50 per cent capacity and the auto industry in general was inspecting its life preservers, Ford sold 209,601 million a year. Many wonder at Ford's, success. That's about two and a half And yet it’s all based ona very simple principle—selecting a useful device. that everybody needs and wants, and then manufacturing it at a popular price. Ford isn’t the only one who has cleaned up millions this way. The Tax Menace HECK-UP shows that national, state and local taxes in 1922 cost the American people over 7,750 milion dollars. That’s over $70 a year for every man, woman and child—$350 for a man and wife with three children. Uncle sam gets most of the blame, tho the war and its debt is his alibi. A far greater menace is reckless spend- ing by states, counties and cities. The public thinks it needs more public improvements than it can afford, Mort- gaging the future by bonds, to dodge immediate taxes, is just putting off the fearful day of reckoning. LETTER VRIDGE VACATION DITTY FROM MANN Sing a song of bumming on a summer's day; wheels of lubor humming many miles away; loafing thru the hours where the shadows lurk—storing up your powers for « year of work! Sing a wong of snoozing until 9 or 10; drowsing while you're musing, “Shall I get up" then, No ala rm is ring: ing mucous in your ears—all the world is singing, every prospect cheers! Sing a song of going anywhere you please—swim- ming, hiking, rowing; just a life of ease, Not a single worry; not a Job in sight—how the moments hurry till they bring the night! Sing of recreation—pleasure, rest and fun; these are what, vacation meang to every one, Duty ceases woo- ing nt vaention's call—so we sing of doing nothing much at all! by! Uiridge Tamm | \ THE EATTLE STAR et <a] Seems as if Everybody on a Political Machine Wants to Blow the Hor |; Now to Select the Right Club If a Merger With Canada Is to Come..|}] EREDS ET ; E ] . a , BY HERBERT QUICK : . fe . / many Canaan exec ental Are Saying) i sic"sicr ia Sa Co es ae ee ee KACHEL CROTHERS, playwright: ¢ ted ies | expected to better ou REV. E. B, SHIVELY, Kansas | sage i i |Palestine now? 110,000 Jews have been entering | Palestine annually, | Pitcher in the big leagues today? opinion. the Cincinnatl club, National league, haa the title of leading pitcher for 1928, 1.93 runa carned per game, the lowest figure wince 1920, when Grover Alexander had an average of 1941, percentage of gamea won and toat, |with 27 victories and 8 defeats, for \o pitehing percentage of 771, onasre Q What in the percentage of| males to females in the United! | States? 100 females, Japan the, leading noaring stateamen. brought to a cata: D.C. inctosin all the continents? level, the Death valley, California. nea level.and the Dead Sea 4s 1,290) feet velow. the world in a year, 200,000,000 tong (metric) tons. normal world output is slightly un-| der which the United States contributes | from 35 to 45 per cent. jbarley and rye aré ‘produced in the world each year? | | $,850,413,000 Bushcls of corn; 3,085) 1841,000 bushels of wheat; 3,179,118,-! 000 busicls of oats; 986,685,000) bushels of barley, and 799,994,000 bushels of rye. | TT) ¥ dhother write « tragedy In which na Shakespeare should rather than individuals, he actors, hg would make haracter. Japan today ia the tragic, piti tions, wer ful, thwarted figure among the powers of modern times. Judged the standards of tory, Japan in almost great most first-class power, al most successful in achieving the | ambitions of her elder | ‘Tragedy is that situation in which the leading character lis by some ‘‘passion or limitation rophe."" The tragic motive is "the enforce ment of thé lesson that it is pre. sumptuous to overstep natural constraints." Japan's tragedy arises from the fact that she was mm” too late. When Commodore Perry in 1953 made bis visit which result ed in her opening her doors to intercourse with the Western the vacant linds of had already been -QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ‘OU can cet an anbwer to any [| question of fact or Informa- to The Question Washington Bu- ave, Washington, 2 cents in stamps jedical, legal and vice cannot be giv for Q. How fast can swallows fly? A. Ordinarily about 38 miles an hour, but there {s a record of a| \avallow flying 106 miles ta an | hour. | eee | | | Q. What are the highest points on A. North America, Mount McKin-| ley, Alaska, 20,300 feet high; South) America, Mount Avoncagua, Chili- Argentina, 23,080; Europe, Mount £1 Druz, Caucasus, 18,465; Africa, Kibo Peak (Kilmanjaro) Pritiah) Kast Africa, 19,456; Australia, Mount | Kosciusko (New South Watea),| 1177; China, 29,141. Asia, Mount Everest, Indo- eee Q Which 1s the lowest below sea Dead Sea in Palestine, or ‘A, Death valley ia-276 feet below! | Q. How much coal is produced tn A, The estimate for 1922 was 1,-} The 1,500,600,000 metric tons, of Cea SS | | Q. How much corn, wheat, ons, A. The estimates for 1922 show) Q. How many Jews are going to A. For the past tiree years about)! eee Q Who is the greatest baseball A. This {4 largely a matter of However, Adolfo Laque, of with the lowest average of Tita ts Luque also leads in. the A, There are 104 males to every claimed and oecupied by other peoples, Had her ‘‘awakgning’ been a centdry or so earller, Ja pan might have moved into Aus Into some of the great de of the Pacific, or into rm America—and the his tory of the world would have been much altered But during those decades of intenre Anglo-Saxon, Portuguese and French exple tion ,and colonization, Japan alumbered in. Oriental isolation anish, Of late years abe has planned empire, builded empire, with furt oun speed, bat ever with the knowledge that time was the es sence of her success. And Time. implacable Time,’ has only mocked her. She has found Austrailia and New Zealand firmly held a white man's land, They and Canada, without argument, have rigidly dnd al. ways barred her immigranga. She hun found the islands of the Pa eifie wearing “Taken’’ signs. She has found the Asiatic mainland inhospitable to her advances. Shé has found Alaxka and all the rest of the habitable, valuable North American coast fying the Stars and Stripes. For two or three decaden ahe cherished the hope at times, the belief—that therein she might plant 1 colony which should grow into a Nipponese stronghold, # passion or limitation brought to a catastrophe.” Then congress enacted the exclusion measure. So Japan, the vigoroun, the ambitious, the almost great, tastes "bitter tragedy. For, in terms of wealth and dominion, of power and empire, she has Just missed grandeur. But there isa hapiper side ot the picture which Japan may sos 200 in offering prizen for the beat. SS prizes. BY ANNA ATTERBERRY 5157 Graham st. OLUNTEER PARK is one of the most interesting places in Seattle (reached by Capitol Hill car), where may be seen a beautiful display of flowers and shruba—a splendid assortment of those that can be, and are, ralsed in great profusion all over the city. Eternal vigilance does not have to be maintained to pro- tect them from frosts, hail and windstorms. In the tropical room of the conservatory may be seen many Plants that can only be grown where winters are mild, In the observation tower one can see for miles in every direc. tion, the, hills, lakes and moun- tains making a view unsur- passed, Also a general view of the city, and hundreds of houses and buildings can be seen, giving one an idea of the style of archi- tecture used in the Northwest. oe BY A, RICKARDS 128 Edgur St. BAUTIFUL and attractive spots In and around our city tire numerous, its scenic beauty beyond expression, There Is one particular point of interest In Seattle which ap- pealed strongly to me and T am sure will to the tourist, that ts Take Washington canal and locks, ‘The canal {x elght miles long, connecting the waters of the Pa- cifle ocean with lovely Lakes Union and Washington. Bvery- one in our city should behold and know the immensity of the locks, When we consider $5,000,- 000 was expended, and these locks can lift larger vessels than any governmont locks, excepting thove at the Panama canal, ac: commodating ships 760 foot long, TRAGIC JAPAN! pat o——— SCIENCE BY ROY D. PINKERTON when her chagrin passes and her passions are purg But there is a happier side of greatness for & nation—not the | old’ greatness of colossal domain | and boundién wealth, but a truer | greatness of world leadership in | art and thought and moral stat ure, In that damain Japan will have equal competition with every other nation. And with the high individual qualities of her people to build upon, she ought to erect a culture which Americ: and all the world would admire gpd acclaim ~| EDUCATION Seren | ME world’s most interesting «x periments in education are now being carried on ig Rusata and Mox ico, | The University of the Tolling East, | Moscow, in being interont by scientific educators fare students of every degree of edu cation and of all Asiatic races. ly educated Indians and Chinese with degrees from Oxford and Heidel lone ¢ye on the clock and his mind) EARLIER watched with Here | High: } | berg, mingle with wild mountaineers | | from the Caucasus, who can barely Among tie women }students are many who were brought j read and write |up as Mohammedans and who come | from villages where it is death for a face on’ the away | wtreet | their veils What's Your Idea? KNOW YOUR CITY! “My Favorite Spot,” by Readers of The Star your ‘ds, The Chamber of Commer: Firat prise, $25; second, $15, and th woman to expose her There have thrown In Mexico, where three-fourths of |the people are iliiternte, there has | been organized an army of honorary teachers now numbering more than 10,000 under the department of public edu: These amateur teachers, all cation, teach Illiterate adults to read and write, | Sta er ee, t The st the sight si wonderful to see and one all tourists are seeking. Come folks, take a Ballard Beach Car.(28) an Western ave., ride out and gaze on this grand piece of man's work, surrounded by the marvelous beauty of God's work, Your heart will swell with pride, your being up- lifted by the greatness of human achievements and the grandeur of nature's handiwork, eee BY BEATRICE WATERS 5002 49th S. W. T is really hard to- express in words all the wonderful beau- Ues in our city of Seattle while driving or riding over winding roads, rambling thru woods, go- ing on foot thru the dark mys- terious woods on the outskirts of the city, etc, We, who have lived here, don't half appreciate what & wonderful and rare place it te, Tourists, after a visit in this city, can never forget the tower. ing firs in the air, the dense bed of growth at their base, and of waters glistening between the trees with the never-tobe-forgot- ten snow-covered peaks beyond, For little cost (which amounts to one token) you can stand on the heights above Lake Wash- ington and behold Mount Ral. nier, which is the most majestic peak in the United States and, undoubtedly, the most beautiful in the world. On witnessing the sunset on thie natural statue you Will notice Its deep red gradually fading toa pale pink, finally the entire color is gone, The moun. tain then stands like @ lovely sentinal guarding the surround. ing country, ‘The troubles and worrles of life drop away in Seattle and pros. perity and honn'mse* take thelr place, | | | | | {| | | | flict between the executive and Massachusetts: “Why are peopl legislative branches us has re- | ja: in prison, in the schools for the ntly been the case with us feeble-minded, in reformatories? Who ‘They have responsible govern: |i nows? Who Is trying to know? ment there rescue of the lost is an essential of Their supreme court can not {the gospel; no less is the care of the nullify the will of the people by | 90 and 9.” declaring unconstitutional laws 9i4@.."@ poe: Py Stent: pariement GEN. LEONARD WOOD, gov-| Their from of government has | ioe of Philippines: “I feel now that the house of the Filipinos is be-| ing put in order, It will not be} difficult to keep it so. They are a| S————__————————— | A THOUGHT = ctsation, but before two or three witnesses —1. Tim, v.:19. “-* BISHOP W. M. BROWN, Epis: copal, declared a heretic: “My pur- pose has been only to bring religion | IVE me good proofs of what you|to a basis where belief was & passl- | have. alleged. —Shakespeare \bility to everyone.” FABLES ON HEALTH 4 ‘ ate MORNING EXERCISES __ | The Mever-Toner Piano Co, New Address, 1321 Fourth Ave FTER Mr, Mann of Seattle had|from the mind and have a good seiner tor Rane eee been doing hix morning dozen time. If the exercises interfere with | a few weeks he did them with| catching the train or car—GET UP The results gained from| fixed on whether or not he had time|the exercises will be better than) to finish them. | the extra few minutes’ sleep. hie Shoe to |. Of course, {t ts not entirely cor-| Then he began to skip. them, oF lect that one absolutely. has to be} emotionally interested. But it 1s) This fs not uncommon with per-| tar better that the exercises please sons who take up exercises. But the/ than bore the person involved. off-and-on habit will never keep ¥OU) poredom in the exercises is not, ne however, fatal. It is more inclined Enthusiasm in exercise is as Im-|t¢ cause the person to quit. portant as the exercisg Itself. But bored or pleased, find some You should want to do them; like| means for physical recreation every td do them—dispel other thoughts| day. for he pread It Wifth- be lethargic. > serene OUSANDS of housewives no longer buy expensive double cream for coffee. They have discovered that Bor- den’s Evaporated Milk is very good indeed, and far less costly. Ithasa body and a richness that is like cream. It gives coffee the appetizing color that rich cream gives. ae More than that, it can be kept on hand. Regular cream sours very quickly. But you can al- ways have Borden’s Evaporated Milk ready for the stray guest or the extra occasion. THE BORDEN COMPANY Pacific Coast Branch San Francisco TSE