The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 4, 1924, Page 6

1.64, € months Ot fan Franciece New Yerk offices an, Special Representatives ano effics, Thee West Seattle Water YA7EST SEATTLE, one of the fastest. growing ** communities in Seattle, has a grievance— one that should hold the attention of city officials until relief is provided. Just when water is the most desirable thing in the universe, and when West Seattle lawns need it badly, along comes the city water department and curtails the supply. Water users there are restricted to one hour a day to do their sprinkling. Thousands of people are making their homes in West Seattle. Many of them recently have estab- lished pretentious pl: Solid, home-owning kind “of folk which any city is proud of have moved across the bay where they enjoy the invigorating sea breezes and feast their eyes on the glow of wonderous sunsets behind the Olympics. But the city water department seems to have overlooked these facts. The water department will reply, of course, that it holds no grudge against West Seattle; that it isn’t shutting down the water supply just for fun. West Seattle, George Russell likely will say, has grown so fast as to upset the plans of the most sanguine and that it will have to worry thru until rovision is made for greater storage facilities and larger mains. Mr. Russell’s department “has under consid- eration” several plans to take care of the situation, but no plan, as far as The Star has been able to find out, has gone past the “consideration” stage. It seems that Mr. Russell has one plan and the city engineer’s office has another. While they are fighting over who's is the best, West Seattle is yelling for a drink. West Seattle has been the victim of more than one instance of inefficiency, if not disregard, on the part of city officials. Sometimes it has been accused of provincialism, of too much regard for itself and all that sort of thing. But West Seattle knows it has to fight its own battles if it is ever to obtain the recognition to which it is entitled. With our wondrous water supply we ought to regard it as a public disgrace if any section of Seattle is allowed to experience even the faintest suggestion of a water shortage. Let’s have action in behalf of West Seattle— NOW. Those European cabinets have Niagara beaten for falls The Fourth—and Safety DAY’S the “Glorious Fourth!” But let’s forget that for a moment. Let’s think of July 5th! Will you and your children be safe and uninjured when tomorrow dawns—or will you fool illegally with fire- works? Will your home be still standing when tomorrow dawns—or will some illegally touched-off skyrocket start the fire on the roof that-spells disaster? Gloomy? Yes! But those things happen. periences prove it. Lots of enjoyable ways of spending the Fourth for you and the children and still staying within the law. Why not try ’em? Past ex- If the farmer now works hard he can save—daylight. Ignorance Isn’t Bliss M OST of the old proverbs and sayings are wrong, when you come to check up on them. Take: “Ignorance is bliss.” : Thousands of people live in swelteringly hot and un- mercifully cold Eastern cities, prey to cyclones, blizzards, tornadoes, floods, droughts and other natural disturb- ances. They live there, presumably, because they are ignorant of Puget Sound climate. If you can prove that ignorance is bliss in that case you’re smarter than we are. What’s Wrong? LONG dry spell, with people praying for rain, is pre- A dicted by the aged weather prophet, George B. M. Potter of Middletown, N. Y. He says the weather is more upset and out of gear than he can remember for 88 years back. A few scientists think the earth is getting ready for another Ice Age, with the glaciers to creep down from the North. The majority claims we're simply having a freak weather cycle. Something, however, is very def- initely wrong with our master, the sun, which rules us in nine-tenths of our activities. LETTER FROM VV RADGL PANN Fourth of Juiy Dear Polke: It's Fourth of July end I have to laugh as I sit here having a holiday while Ray, Jim, Art, John, Pete, Leland, Leo and Cetera are hard at work getting out the paper, £lk refusing a drink / We're etill at Longmire, There are a lot of elka here, Not like the Eiks you see in Seattle; these are not wild, The baby elke fol- low you around like a chicken follows a ten dollar bill. Tonight we plan to climb a tree and watch the fireworks in the U. of W, Stadium, Carita Uiomn Night Scere Golf Will Never Take the Place of Baseball Until They Give Y ou Three Strikes Declaration of Ind that the artis might well have face tc In face of Arabs, for Smoking Room Stories The fellow with the corncob pipe; had not said a word during a hot political ar on in the smoker, wh id it was ath s task speaking to the public at the b he sald he was parti when, tho he had been put d speak first on tho list of speakers, the chairman kept calling on the other people on the lst and Blackwood will now give his address." Whereupon I arose and said and gentlemen, my addre: Park ave. Good night!” What Folks Are Saying LEMUEL T. BAKER, retired busi- ness man, St. Louis: “I worked too hard, not hard enough to kill me or wear me out, but too hard to form a taste for the best things that money can buy. I am not having asx much fun out of being what you'd call being comfortably fixed finan- cially as I looked forward to in my hard-working days.” as er DR. W. A. EVANS, expert; “Health is an aid to good temper, Hygiene is merely the art of right living. It talks common sense,” -——— SCIENCE ne SACRED TREE | vitor sadhvim teat ada AS Tho United States Is indebted to Chinese priests of many centuries ago for one of the most beautiful and interesting trees now growing in this country, It is the maldenhair tree, so called becajise its leaves look like those of the maidenhair fern. It is not found growing wild anywhere in the world and would now be extinct if it were }not for the action of the ancient priests. ‘These priests, struck by its beauty, made {ft sacred and planted it around their temples. This en- dorsement was responsible for keep ing it alive, while other trees and plants of that period perished, The tree dates back to remote goo- jlogical times and has marked pecu- ‘arities wherein it differs from all jother trees. It has been propa jmated largely in California and its | growth ls spreading to other sections, |thus keeping alive @ relic of a past | cra as a lesson in the evolution of all things. Tho tree is often found 1 a fossil but has no existing rela ad, Ite real name is gingko biloba. Sez Dumbell Dud; The weather is getting so warm five tocs im one shoe are be- coming one or two toes loo many. some who had not been on !t. “Tho} chairman eventually got up,” con-| tinued the smoker, “and said: ‘Mr. adies | is 978 THE for one people Did This Sculptor of Christ See Him? BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMM Letters All letters to The CHARMED LAND Editor The Star: Thin being the time of year when many tourists are coming to Seattle, I thought maybe this ttle poem would be appropriate THE JOURNEY'S END A haven I sought, 1 fo Out under the Western sky; And nature's own beauties surround it Its wonders I could not deny. Its lakes were like glittering mirrors; At sunset they all turn to gold It seemed like the playground fairies In a@ tale that bad never been told. of | The mountains all covered with whiteness Like damask all spread for a feast, up tightness Of the cities way back in the East and lingered eath from the sea, I went to its ben As I drew in The x of the He soothing sensation to me, And right in the midst of this charmed land, Which no pencil or pen can portray, Seattle extends you the glad hand: Once enter and you'll always stay. Like a child that is just from tts mother, *When you get here you just start to live, And say, of all cities no other So many blessings to you can give. A. E. WHITBY, 4620 West Willow st., Seattle, EATTLE 81 | political bands which connec- tn voith another, and 5 FROM STAR r must have name and address. Turned my thoughts to the crowded: | ves that I fingered | AR 2 lah (When in the course of human events. it becomes necessary to desolve the he cup was sculp artist, himself a con and the i eived in Hin ors, many of eon Him. description b ye seen Him | c So the Readers MORE ON McFARLANE Editor The Star Recognizing the fact that it a | difficult, as well as a presumptuow: thing, for one numan being to Judge another in a case like this, still, 1 think the verdict must be—Peter Clark McFarlane did wrong to com mit self-murder He was unable to face with cour- | and calmness the fact of hi: ng mental power, nor could he face the prospect of pity and dimin ished admirati where before he had full measure of love and praise. He seemed to forget that without him good books would still be writ ten, true words continue to be} spoken. | Unwilling to let God have the or | dering of his life and fate, he acted | | as arbiter of his own destiny, | Martyrs and saints, truth’s stand. | ard-bearers, have suffered as he, but | have, nevertheless, endured to the} j end, | I should have tried faithfully, not | J only what medical science had to of: | | fer, but including prayer, and I should have let thoughts of suicide alone, placing the outcome in God's hands, MRS. SIGNE 8, CONDIT, Southworth, Wash. (4 THOUGHT | Lat me dic the death of tho right- cous, and let my last end be like his, —Num. xxilis10, | 65 Op € { Goon men but seo death, | I the wicked taste it—Ben Jonson. in. the to prove irritating to noses and throats USTY days that follow j VY trail of summer are likely and people weurrying for | sprays of ono sort or another. At least this was the case |Seattlo and Mr. Mann | many remedies, But, like most ho was using wrong methods, Regular use of nasal douches should be avoid- send in would try people, ed. A congested condition may de- velop and become chronic, for the mucous membrane of the nose ob. FABLES ON HEALTH Beware Dust! Jects to watery substances, Only where cortain conditions have developed and tho advice of a doctor has been given should nose baths be taken regularly, | If, however, the nose becomes! clog with dust or dirt in the dry, | hot son, & wpray may bo made| from luke-warm water, containing & wenk salt solution. | But the uso of this should not bo made a regular practice, Only ox casionally should such a spray be applied | | The “Butterfly Set” and the Navy! | QUESTIONS pi AND ANSWERS _ || 2s Sees tended F ‘ inned requests cau- ‘ { BDITOR, the ship | only deserters frow y lose their cttizer Q. What are bre A. 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