The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 16, 1924, Page 6

We Can't Point With Pride to think of London as a fog slummy in comparison ry New Yor} the bitter truth 60 out of every last year In New Yor} Taking England a 69 out of a 1,000, and ir a thousand f babies are id with But Only s th 1,000 babies born in London died 67 out of every 1,000 died. the infant death rate was United States it was 77 out a whole the concerned, in their first struggle is the land of opportunity. ica could bette afford to compare gland in trade, in gold, in armaments, behind her or any other country, safety of her babies, unfavorably than to be when it comes to the pre-historic Some tele; They've found in Italy a crouched over a stone table. ls of a democ cave containing h operator, ‘w ion and perished 1 a skeleton back, tried to take the det jserably Ladies and Chewing Tobacco A MOKING car for women is attached to one of the t Chicago-St, Louis trains on the Illinois Central. It'll be there permanently. Traffic demanded it Times certainly are changing. Maybe you'll live to see women smoking pipes on th¢ street—some of them even chewing tobacco. Among the latest expeditions is that of the Boston newspaper man who, trusting in Providence, has Just left to study wild life in Rhode Island. Sports and Americans LD fogies, observing the tremendous crowds at base- ball games, often comment that the country has gone crazy on sports. The ancient Olympic games in Greece were held in a Stadium that seated 40,000 spectators. The Greeks, however, held their athletic meets only once every four years, in August. They wanted time to devote to improving their brains. Here we have baseball half the year and other sports the other half, with mil- lions of people more interested in sports than anything else. Americans do everything to excess. Silk and Nature ANKEE ingenuity improves everything it encounters. For thousands of years—ever since invented by the wife of a Chinese emperor—the Oriental silkworm indus- try has continued almost unchanged. Americans are in- stalling cold storage plants in China, where silkworm eggs will be kept at a scientific temperature and incubated at any season of the year desired. That’s improving on nature, which philosophers say can't be done. ‘ Telephones for the Deaf TALKLESS phone for deaf mutes is invented by Wil- liam E, Shaw of Cambridge, Mass. It’s worked by a typewriter at one end of the line making lamps light at the other end. There's an electric bulb for every letter of the alphabet. When two people, who can neither speak nor hear, can communicate by “phone,” it’s time to repeat that nothing is impossible. Also that there's no obstacle that can’t be overcome, no problem or predicament that can’t be solved. Rain and Insurance OTHING i is as uncertain as the weather. Despite this, various insurance companies write policies against rain interfering with such things as ball games, street fairs and circuses. They thought they had the rates figured out on a definite and permanent scientific basis by the law of averages. But the freak weather of the last few years causes unexpected losses to underwriters. Rates prob- ably will be revised. It’s odd that individual gamblers, who'll take a chance on anything, don’t bet on the weather, Radio Bugs Fen keeps many potentially bad boys good. The number of juvenile court cases in America dropped almost 42 per cent in the past year. large portion of the credit. It diverts youthful energy into placid channels. Crime, after all, is to considerable extent just a matter of misdirected energy. Many professional criminals would become good citizens if shown that they’d make more money if they’d apply to legitimate work the energy, time, brains and scheming they devote to trying to get some- thing for nothing. Radio deserves a Drifting Farmers ISCONTENTED Middle Western farmers used to drift from state to state, then into Canada, as if drawn like the compass needle. The lure of Western Canada, is on the wane, Canadian government closes a number of land offices it maintained for a quarter of a century in our Western states to en- tice farmers north. One of these, in Omaha, closes its doors after sending 50,000 farmers ‘across the border. They took $54,000,000 with them. Where do the drifting farmers land now? parently, [ETE 'V RIDGE MANN July 16, 1924. Cities, ap- Dear Folks: I went to see the Sportsmen's show, Of course, I took the kid along—I wanted him to learn to know the mallard’s ilver-throated song. For I'm a nature-loving guy, and that's a place to teach a child; I even thought I'd go and try to learn what makes the wildcat wild. They showed me every kind of fish 4 Western fellow ever meety—tho kind you serve upon a dish, and not the fish that walle the streets. A lot of birds were also there—of course I mean the feathered kind; the denizens of sky and air of every sort you ever find. They jort of Western zoo; it brought to sight a hunter's dream; with ducks and deer and grouse to view, and beavers swimming ‘round # stream, And then the youngster got my goat with all the things that caught his eye~-a fishing rod and gun and boat were just a fow he'd like to buy I walked around. had At every turn, and down the length of ever le, I found a Jot of things to learn, and one could tarry quite a while, should you haye the mo ments free to study things you ‘ought to know, to recognize the birds you sec—go down to view the Sportamen's show! Givritye Yann, John W. Davis, Typical Product of Main Street ng them how to ‘ it be noted that the owed directions exp s as well k sburg ds take the liber i to her ne, howev ws her brother, and of refer Emma K." N , has heard her Ned to her face. e-ee HERE js « striking ar between the background of Coolidge and John W Both are from families Calvin Davis Dus convictions ifather of the Sunday evenings at ¢ and lead them and his £ His religious seal was passed on to J J. Davis, his son, was largest co the Central Prest in Clarkaburg. He wa: its founding, and his financial aid so great, It ts sometimes re ferred to as the the ntributor to terian church BO acti “Davis chapel ? - vi OHN W, ‘ very DAVIS’ parents were as strict Friend tell once told him to go down to the postoffice to get the mail John, then but a little fellow replied “I would go, mother am afraid it would spoi vant His mother ‘ how his mother | Miss Emma K. Davis, a lot to say about how his ca conducted in his home town, ( but 1 1 the ser replied that have all her ser vants spoiled than to have her son shirk work Davis took warning and got the mail His mother gave Davi ‘ally she would rather pra all of his gramma i pol educat He never hools of high to the pub! Clarksburg She was o brilliant woman She mastered Latin and Greek after the birth of her first child. Foe A short time to a private sct ed by one Bettinger. “Davis and I remember Bet tinger by one thing only, George Duncan, now a Clarks burg banker, and once boy chum of Davis. “He taught class with his feet on the desk and a long black his mouth.” a spite of his rigorous train ing, Davi a true boy, Duncan says Both probably were 1893 counterpart of the modern sheik “We didn't go joyriding in autos in those days,” Duncan says. “We owned horses and rigs. Many times Davis and I raced down Main st., to the dis may of the more staid folk. But Davis’ horse could never beat my sorrel.” Davia used to run away from the maternal apron strings to the old swimming hole with Duncan and other boys. Davis’ grand father was a saddier, His father also operated the saddlery in Main st. for a number of yea even after Davis was born, but later entered the bar and poll. ties. Da wont onduct says od always John W. Davis is unlike jnot being born in a log cab jaren't sure where he the house above into it about the time | whether it was before or afte me was the of eee un- Des entered politics knowingly against his father’s strict orders. In 1910 delegates of the fi West Vir- ginia congressional district met to choose a congressional can- didate. Hearing they ‘were almost unanimous for his son, John J, Davis sent a telegram forbidding him to accept the post. To make sure, he’ nent another telegram. Ignatius Brennan, political boss, got the telegrams first. He kept them in his pocket until after Davis accepted. He was elected and has never Chi | been defeated for any office, 4 KNOW more about Davis ; than his father,” boasts ‘ | Dr. J. W. Johnston, Davis family physician for the ‘past 25 years. But upholding professional traditions, he won't tell secrets. Dr. Johnston went to the democratic convention at his own expense to ald Davis, He claims to have swung the North and South Carolina delegations into Ine for him. see LL Clarksburg is Davis mad. Business has coased its usual quiet course since his nomination. People who haven't spoken to each other for years are talking Davis on the street corners. Visitors are inflicted by any number of self-appointed guldes who Insist on showing where |They used to race horses on Davis stood when he made his | | | | | last speech, where he ate lunch, |Main street, and Duncan} and where he first met Ellen | | i | | | “ George Duncan, banker} and the best dressed man in| Clarkesburg, W. boyhood Va., was a} chum of Davis. Bassel, his second wife. claims he always won. FABLES ON HEALTH PRE-NATAL DIET HEN Mrs. Mann of Anytown was anticipating her first baby she had « long consultation with the family doctor on diet, exercive and other questions. “Ono thing 1s certain,” the doc- tor told her, “and that ts the neces- sity of m well-balanced and mixed diet. The diet should contain a mix- ture of fats, proteids, minerals and carbohydrates, By all means, drink plenty of water. “In the early days, when nausea iv likely to be a disturbing factor, it Js best to dispense with three large meals a day and substitute a —S half-dozen small ones. The medical world has disproved the old saying | that' an expectant mother has to/ eat for two. She has to do nothing | of the sort, and eating foods that} would be likely to disturb the stom ach {9 silly, "In tho later days, when mother hood is near, red meata should be} eaten not more than once a day,| while fish, eggs and meat should not be eaten every day, due to the| protein content | “On the hand, fruits, | tablos—particularly vegetables of the leafy yaricty—help build up the} mineral gupvly which ix needed” sister of SS was born, is the place. |tised in Star Wanl Ads over |watching Star Want Ad co Rides these reasons might come up First, the driver not be direct sid want to go. He may | | v ng for a street car, Then may | John W. Davis, mpaign for the presidency ‘larkesburg, W. Va. will have y to town, as you gas and o ng out on the highway, to the auto row for some re r work. He « stop and ex- all these things to 4 you. You un resent his passing you but d rese st more his pich ou up and then dropping you again a few blocks further on Second, fou i by or driver can’t take all of he car he ma up pa plain even if he know justly or five others may ou and pick out one or two to take and leave the others, seen that tried and I've everybody pile on witho tion, even to runningboard sp A car would look like a se hand jitney in about 10 days if the driver tried that experiment Third, drivers experi dis courtesy in 1 forms from persons to whom they try to do @ good turn. I have persons in outyin ed up icts, on | requent brought them | town, only to t them | fault with me for n them as far as they wanted to go, never figuring that I had brought them down to where they could get a street car every 30 seconds. ost presidential candidates, in} in. Even his oldest friends but most of them think! The Davis family moved | his birth—folks aren’t sure| r NE white-haired old woman whom I knew would have to walt nearly 20 minutes for a car, I did my best to give a lift to, but after a long argument she finally refused to ride because I didn't happen to be going down the same avenue that her car ran on. I tried bringing men down town with these results One of them, backing out of the front seat, smashed my right wind deflector; that cost me $3.50 for a new one. Another, riding in the rear seat, in getting out, pulled him. self up by the robe rail and pulled so effectively that he Wrenched it clear off the back of the front seat; that made a repair bill of $1.50 for me, And nine men out of 10, leav- ing a car, will stand off, grit their téeth and slam the door as if they were Babe Ruth try- ing to knock out a home run. Why they do it, Heaven knows. Any car door will shut gently; try it. They wouldn't slam a door at home that way. Slamming a car door cracks the enamel, loosens the door and makes it rattle, Many a car owner is likely to ask himself why he should submit his machine to such abuse when he is trying to do a stranger a favor. see FTER that I offered lifts to women waiting for street cars and, while most of them are srateful for such a saving in time—the dread of almost every- one in the morning is being late to work—and in carfare, which Dr. J. W. Johnston has | been the Davis family phys- ician for 25 years. He wert to New York at his own ex- pense to help nominate him. Loca Stocks and. Bonds are adver. nesday and Friday. Keep p. 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