The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 12, 1924, Page 4

- x AER LSE Lage ame oe ad nl a OP RR la Ma aca) Mai ll mae anaata memmanmmaniaaeam PAGE Women’s Way in Politics OOKING around for someone on whom to cast the blame for the long deadlock in New York, those tired, downcast democrats sitting around in smoke-filled hotel bedrooms in the Garden. were blaming it on the women, “Men will listen to reason,” they said, “but these women Stick to their candidates thru thick and thin. Those pledged to McAdoo won't give up the ship, Smith's backers would rather die than give in!” One-third of the voting delegates in New York were women. Politicians looked at them hopelessly and said, “Women mustn't act like that, or they'll never get any- where in politics, Lots of people think the 19th amend- ment was a mistake, anyway. Giving the women the vote hasn't accomplished anything. It’s just doubled the volume of votes.” This reasoning is self-contradictory, of course. Women have some power or they couldn't cause a situation like that. Besides, they were not given the vote because they would do such wonders with it. They were given the franchise because as citizens—free, white and 21—they were entitled to it. Positions carrying either salaries or power in politics women have not. Their point of view was more that of the voter than of the politician. They may need time to develop their tactics which will probably be different from those employed by men. And it’s in order to rejoice that they are. Loose Change f UR hundred million dollars is hidden behind the clock, under the mattress and in other nooks by Americans who are afraid of banks. So estimates a treasury official. Bankers call this an economic menace, because hoarded money is idle instead of working to keep business active, But there is a greater American hoard—the collective result of the habit of carrying too much money in pockets. This money, too, is idle and unproductive. How much “loose change” do you keep out of circulation, on the average? Trivial USTICE BENEDICT says: “There is far too much time spent in detection of the misdeeds of the ordi- nary offender against ordinances and regulations which involve no moral wrong, and too little time devoted to catching and punishing criminals possessed of influence or wealth.” It’s a good deal like bootlegging. The nets usually are set for the minnows. A whale is caught only occasionally. It’s more dangerous to steal $1,000 than a million. High-Priced Hair Cuts O more uncertain business than catering to women’s fashions. The bobbed hair craze has almost ruined the hairnet industry in which sales used to amount to $20,000,000 a year. American women are spending several hundred millions a year for bobs and permanent waves, according to trade estimates. To have bobbed hair and renewal of “per- manent” waves costs a woman an average of $100 a year. A lot to pay for a haircut, The Weathervane OFT coal mines have been turning out an average of only 7,000,000 tons a week. Normal output is 10,- 000,000. This indicates that general business is only seven-tenths normal. Some economists believe soft coal production is the most accurate barometer of industrial conditions. Others are pig iron output, railroad freight traffic and commercial fires. Watch these four and know which way the wind’s blowing. No Shortage RIMM’S giant, who squeezed a stone until water ran out, had nothing on the Japs. They expect to solve their problem of oil supply by extracting petroleum from shale in Manchuria. Shale oil already is a big industry in Scotland. It will be, later, in America when underground pools of oil are exhausted. Oil-bearing shale exists in fabulous quantities in many of our Western states. In a pinch we could go back to taking oil from eoal as they used to—that’s how it got the name “coal oil.” Alcohol also awaits, There is no such thing as exhaustion of natural resources with modern scientists in the laboratory. The Farmer Knows Aare year’s world wheat crop may be 500,000,000 bushels less than in 1923, some of the Chicago grai experts believe. bumper crops. Nature is turning the’tide in the farmer’s direction. She balances everything, it’s just a matter of time. Farm- ers, close to nature, know it. That’s why they never curtail their planting and cultivation. As a class they seem always to be expecting short crops. Backward weather doesn’t _ brin X LETTER FROM VRIDGE MANN Paradise Inn, July 12, Dear Folks: Before I quit, I must introduce you to some of my friends up here, No, 1 48 Paul Sce asa't gen, mgr. of the park, whe knows every foot of the mountain, No, © 2 is Hans and Heinie Puhrer, the two summit guides, formerly of the Swiss Alpine Navy, No, 1 is Oharlie Pranklan@) mgr. of the Inn, and No, 2 ie me with our driver, Geo, Bolm, pronounced "balm" ae in "alimony", No, 3 is @ group of waitreossos, girls from our high schools and colleges, who bring the charm of home to the inn, And, lastly, No, 1 is the editor waiting for me to get back to work! rite Tanne THE SEATTLE STAR SATURDAY, Jt { ALL FROM THE SAME KEG ) l | mistakes, and has his real |Hellan Mariah! scruples, and must confine Letters Roy’s Troller | Editor The Star | I am a “Cape troller,” must excuse my pencil, because it’s | |so rough you can’t keep ink on a {pen, but I just wanted to remark Jabout Ray Olmated’s new 345,000! trolling (7) boat. I want to say one thing—Ray has got a lot to learn about trolling. He passed us outside the cape on his way across Swiftsure bank, end| no salmon in the Pacific could over: take that “troller.” | One thing certain—Ray won't} and you| to be on the “banks” at daybreak. | Outside the cape he reminds one a great deal of a dig jack rubbit as! he takes the rollers. | Taking everything Into considera-| tion, I'll say Ray has some trolling | boat. } One thing more; Send that re-| porter who said (he troilers were making $50 to $60 a day vut here to show some of us old-timers what | brand he drinks. Sincerely, | JOHN E. SMITH, Cape Flattery. Why So Fast? Editor The Star: Not long ago The Star printed an} article on its front page showing Seattle holds somewhere near the high score on auto killings and acct- dents. Nice record. We are spending thousands of dol- lars on literature, advertising and in- vitation, beguiling citizens from their homes all over the country to enjoy being maimed for life, or killed out- right. And it seems that most of our car drivers are determined not to lower our percentage, nor spoil our record. The tourists of today become the cltizens of tomorrow. We are rightly proud of our city, our scenery, cll- mate, possibilities and future. It should be the privilege and pride of each driver or pedestrian to make Seattle a city wherein less accidents occur than any other city of her size elsewhere. Lower our score and be able to use it as a slogan, as an add- ed attraction. It could be done. The traffic department cannot do it all, nor alone, It takes the earnest co-operation of every man, woman or child, afoot or awheel. What are you all in such a hurry for, anyway? In most cases, what are you going to do with all that extra, saved time by getting there so fast? This is not ‘sour grapes." We have @ car and enjoy it. So far have no black marks against it and hope to keep that reputation. Not by ‘fool luck,'’ but by extra caution. And tho we travel slow enough to be safe —for ourselves and others—we some- how manage to get there on time and usually enjoy ourselves. Queer, isn't it? MRS. J. O. BOVEE. Bobbed Hair Editor The Star: I would thank you for a little apace to express my views on tho latest fad, bobbing of hair, I take the nogative side, I am conscious that it ty a Most delicate subject to handle on ficcount of its popularity. I write with @ spirit of tolerance, my mo- tive for writing is to educate, not to piss condemnation on any one, “FIGHTING BOB” AND “CUSSING CHARLIE” HERE'S talk at Washington of a series of joint debates between La Follette | and Dawes, We're for it, like a boy for a five-ring circus. | If it is desirable that the folks be got out to vote in this year of Our Lord) |1924, something has got to be done to break the monotony of the ordinary} spellbinding. Vice Presidential Nominee Dawes is mixed up in oil, banking and jopposition to labor organizations, and Bob La Follette can tell him more about ;such matters than he ever dreamed of. Bob, like all great men, has made his| Picture them presented to a bi jaudience, all dressed up in his charming and ugly Rat Alley English, by ol human weaknesses. Calvin will, likely, stick to his refrigerator aspect at Washington, waiting for | victory to be brought in on a platter. The democratic nominee, if he attempts to stump, will be tongue-tied by religious, sectional and conscientious liquor seloquence largely to telling what an excellent |party his is. It is to be a situation requiring nothing less than “Fighting Bob” jand “Cussing Charlie,” going at each other hammer and tongs. Nothing like it to arouse and inform the folks. FROM STAR All letters to The Star must have name and address. ] Readers |tom being criticized and held up to ridicule is a se for suspicion. The |Most severw criticisms on this sub-| Ject have been by women. 1 wish to quote Seripture to back up my contentions: Ist Corinthians, xi:l4-15: “Doth not Nature itself teach you that if a man have long hair it a shame unto him." “But if a woman have long hair, it ls @ glory to her.” If I understand this Scripture, en a woman is shorn she loses her No one can take exception or offense at a little girl wearing lovely have to leave Neah Bay at 1 a. m,/€Urls or @ young lady having long) -re) the court, then, how fast this| hair beautifully done up, Does bobbing of a little girl's hair make her more girlish or does it make a woman more ladylike? No, it has entirely the opposite effect It makes them more masculine. This fad has caused endless amount of trouble in families, Many a girl has lost her situation at the cost of her beautiful hair. A woman went to the police station to get ald in locating her boy who had left home. The officer asked her if she could give any reason for him leay- ing home. Her reply was that the only reason she could think of was to get her hair bobbed. Our conversation, our appearance {s an index to our lives and a testimony more valuable than one penned on paper. May our dress and appearance be an inspira. tion to those we meet, not a stum- bling block. E. J. WATSON, oe Politics Editor The Star: Your editerlal deploring the harm- ful presence of clashing religious opinions in the recent New York democratic convention was very heartily appreciated in our village. I have just come thru here from New York city, where I had tho privilege of a complimentary ticket women of the Massachusetts delega- tion were active in passing out a poem, "Gather Us In” among the other state delegates, in their feminine ef- fort to avert any dispute about K. K. K. toples. women of tho galleries were inter- ested, and I heard groups of them singing this poem to the tune of “Eventide,” or “Abide With Me." One of the delegates asked Mr. Wm. J. Bryan his opinion of the song. He replied “A fine poem! that among the Greeks, politics meant the selence of making, or multiplying, homes for citizens.” Yours for a happler world, HELEN ELIZABETH O'NEIL, Redmond. Sez Dumbell Dud: Some marry for better or worse and some for board. that she had told him she was going our dress and| to the gallery of the convention. The | Many of the) Our delegates should recall the re-| mark of John Ruskin to Giadstone, | A Wife or a Cook | By Mrs. Walter Ferguson sa t at hon w ut | perhaps, one reason wh ticised t | being er « girls who contem matrimony are distressed | | disillusioned by the t | saying, “The way to a man's | heart is thru his stomach will deny that bh bands ¢ 1 be but just why we >» one TAKE THis (/ THAT STUFF OVER THERE ¢ without 4 femmes ringing of the dy rior cul- | derstand sitting, b b r modern love lyrics. wadays the } Woman whe feeds the t ing. Most women feel it their duty ts generally We are admonished that pre | to give their families pala’ the neglected while she paring succulent dishes for hus but when it comes who makes the feed hee band is the one sure way to | ing that the love of | ts a petted and pampéred wi, “SORRY, YOURE | TOO OLD” | BY ALBERT APPLE T 18 years a boy in England has outgrow gctonr gm usefulness, according to F. Mander, British educatoy. ly. jedical, legal He says the old cry of “too old at 40” is being replaced by |} Soy tial Karice cennct Se an employers’ attitude of “too old at 18” because boys and Sortek: girls of 18 are being discharged to make room for younger | and cheaper labor. This is a logical development of child labor. The London Chronicle comments: “In recent years the| question (that of maintenance grants to keep children in school) has too often been debated as if it were purely 4) 7 py" cuttings taken te ae question of finance. We, for our part, have no doubt that the) ana grown in partial shade, | continuance of education beyond the age of 14 has become | POPS \i national necessity. Even the working man has perceived) o How is the name Le Folity QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS YOU etn, wet an anewer ty question of fact or {1 tion by waret ee bx) Stare Veshingtes 1822 N. ¥. ave, Waal f reau, D.C. 2 cents ta Q How many daily ne are there in the United States? A, £401, Q How are camellas propagates ‘that the labor market is clogged with the proffered services | pronounced? lof children whose minds are underdeveloped and whose} A. La Fol-lette with the acento futures are cramped from the outset.” the “fol. * E HAVE a tendency toward the same situation here Ly Dpto ie ad ‘Thaw shot America. About 30 years ago a man was never too OD iui Ohne 5, 190. to find a job. Then came the era of fast production in indus- ahr try. | | rt lore work could be squeezed out of young men. So old) men went from door to door, seeking a job, only to be told:| “Sorry, but we want younger men.” - “Too old at 60” became a common expression. Then it became ‘Too old at 50.” ; Now 40 is getting to be the age line in many businesses. This is especially noticeable around newspaper offices, where ;men with gray hair are vanishing, displaced by youth which lean work fast and burn out its energy and enthusiasm | quickly. Q. How many bones has the sg eton of a whale? A. About 200. ’ Q. What is the speed of an tric locomotive? A. In recent tests,at Brie, Pets, an electric loconiotive attaines ¢ speed of 105 miles an hour, eee Q. Did George Washington bm |to take out naturaliaztion papieit A. No. AS @ matter of fect te | first general immigration law we not enacted until 1882, many lafter the death of Washag | which occurred in 1799, sa | eee 4 | HE pressure of modern competitive business is so intense | that nervous breakdowns are becoming common. You have noticed the increasing number of men in their thirties or early forties who suddenly go to pieces—fall out of good jobs, are unable to make new connections, pack up and van- ish—no one knows where. | This is an age of youth. | _ The sun shines only a few years for most of us, and if we don't make our hay early in the game we lose out. Recom- mended especially to youths who are idling away their time, dreaming about what they'll do later. | There is no “later.” Q. How many miles of are there in the United States?! A. 235,234. eee Q. How does Seattle A. It is the 20th lar, the United States. A THOUGHT Smoking Room Stories | “Some of these constables who} | hold up speeders on the road are |not so bad at heart,” faid the smoker who had toured. “I heard) tn. about one up in Washington who} SCIENCE \| their nests, seemingly for decora- Hs le becometh poor that | did his stuff and then tried to save tion, but probably for camouflege-| with » slack hand: but the jhis victim, but ho overdid himself. ARCHITECTS | Architects and engineers 10S] the diligent maketh pete You seo, when he was taking the| \—-———---=————==eee | have studied the work of certain in-| 0 | arrested man into town for court,| | the two became quite chummy and the constable had softened under | the benign influence of a bunch of good cigars and a ready tongue. |‘You made this arrest?’ asked the jcourt, severely and according to} form, “Yessir, replied the constable.) sects. In many branches of buiid- jing, various kinds of insects have! |been far ahead of man, and many The greatest architects live in thé South American jungles, | They are wasps which excel! of man's inventions have followed wasps in other sections because they|the patterns laid down by insects. have been able to work all the|They build with greater economy year round, due to the warmth of/than man and generally construct the climate. | much stronger dwellings. They work} One kind—the “social wasps"—live | Out building problems in a mathe- In great communities In the trees of | matically correct manner, ILIGENCE is the other oti fortune.—Carvantes. SEARCH FOR COPPER MADISON, Wis.—Two field parties, made made up of vanced students in the 7 | ES partment of the University of’ consin, will search for copper Northern Wisconsin this oy Both parties, working for the if consin geological survey, will att to determine whether the that region carry copper. | defendant was traveling.’ ‘Well yer-| jonner,’ replied the constable, as he| Colombian jungles. They bulld great | felt around in his meagre mental) dwellings, with tiers of cells, and| Why not start to raise poultry? pocket for a means of letting his/live together under a highly de-|Small chicken ranches are easy to victim down easy, ‘You see, It wan) veloped social order |buy at prices listed in the Want Ad this way. This man was going so| The “mason wasp” makes dwell-| columns, fast I did not see him until he was|ings of clay, in which its eggs are out of sight.” hatched. Many of the wasps color 4 | | | } | “Your first deposit of [- savings should be in the | bank where you have - Pierre eta: th test confidence Ye banks and braes o° bonnie Doon, in the integrity of the How can ye bloom sae fresh and fair? ney ee ts ‘at oy Hove tery Se eal ee sac © care! ) pu , Thou'l break my heat, thou warbling bind Street Journal, That wantons thro’ the flowering thom: oHltSe 1870 the Dexter Hi Thou mi ? departed j confidence of the” Pacific 7 Aft hae I toved by bonnie Doon, *aaturdey Brennas To see the rose and woodbine twines onl ei | And ilka bird sang 0’ its luve, sources And fondly saé did Io" mine; $39,749,393.66 | Wi lightsome heart I pu’d a rose, Fu’ sweet upon its thorny tree! | And my fause luver staw my rose, But ah! he left the thom wi’ me. 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