The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 18, 1924, Page 8

19 phd A tat Toa anaes seem .S ee THE SEATTLE | Published Da be Star Publieh | Main 0609) Newspaper Enterprise Association and United Press By | Bete Sel oe sity 480 per month, a months $1.60, « monthe G00, year O8.88 # x Bpectal Represe Ban Francine | ad New Terk officg Canadian Pacit Stepping on Sore 1 AS: RY time The Star exposes a 4 city administration several p e Corns rsons call the edit to tell him how much he injuring the fair name ¢ Seattle We don't know how well these complaining few are paid. Usually we don’t know who they are Very few of them will tell us their name We're beginning to know their voices, howeve They are faithful to whoever are worki And our guess is they are work for Doe B They talk Doc’s language Sincere, thoughtful folks know neither Seattle nor ar other community, individual or thing, can ever suffe harm by purging itself of a condition that bringing about or prolonging ill health, physical, mental, moral or financial ill health. * 8 8 ‘7 T’LL smart for a second,” says the doctor as he pour a cleansing fluid over a festered sore, “but it wil prevent blood poison.” So it is with some of the affairs. The man who is responsible for bad government and incompetence doesn’t want the truth known. He isn't worried so much about how it will hurt Seattle as he is about how it will hurt him. The Star has no time for petty quibbling and cat clawing such as have marked the recent city hall fight but it will carry on and back every expose and shake-up that has a real constructive purpose back of it. And it doesn’t care a rap where political corns are stepped on if the people as a whole are served. nedicine applied to public What makes a skinny girl madder than a bathing party? Grain Speculation SPECULATOR who claims to be a “dirt farmer” makes close to $2,000,000 on grain futures on the board of trade, Frenzy grips “pit” traders as grain prices fluctuate and then soar again. Hundreds of thou- sands of dollars are made or lost in a fraction of a minute, depending on one’s nerve and ability to “guess the market.” But the REAL “dirt farmers,” those hard-pressed fellows here in the Northwest, who are putting their grain on the market aren't going to be frenzied by any sudden soaring of prices. It sounds big on the “board of trade” but when it comes to getting wealthy from the actual crop, the gambler, the speculator and the investor always to be better bhyers and sellers than the man who the crop or his cousin who eats it. No woman is as bad as she looks when you tell her age. Mister Driver, It’s Up to You NALLY all this automobile fury will have to be set- tled by the individual driver and no matter how many laws are enacted, how many jails are jammed full of protesting drivers nor how many speed cops are hidden behind wayside hedges, until the average automobile driver learns his lesson there will be no safety on streets nor on boulevards. You cannot eternally coddle and protect children. Finally the baby has to discover for himself that fire burns, that knives cut, that gravity always works. The childish driver, and most drivers with their first auto are child-minded, must discover that it is not smart to hog the road; he must learn for himself the costli- ness of carelessness, of inattention. Until drivers keep before their minds the vision of a little child mangled beneath the wheels; until drivers feel a little of the cold horror that comes when they pick up a screaming child from under their car and carry its tortured, agonizing body to the murderous-eyed mother, a certain per cent of drivers will burst thru by-streets full of playing chil- dren, and will roll a mean chariot past school grounds at recess periods. o:; o74e BOUT 2 per cent of the accidents in this country today come from defective mechanism. About 2 per cent come from drunken drivers. The vast majority of auto accidents come because drivers and pedestrians are ; careless, heedless, because they expect the other fellow to get out of the road. Ninety per cent of the accidents come to cars driven at moderate speeds. There is no legal speed, no safe speed, for the indifferent, slack- minded, hard-boiled driver. There are thousands of drivers who have driven for years and never had an accident. There are thousands on thousands of drivers in this state that have not ex- ceeded the speed limit, nor been frowned on by an offi- cer, in years of daily driving. In time, most drivers who continue driving will come to this sort of sober, conscientious efficiency. The irreducible minimum of maniacs, of the indifferent, the reckless, and the rash will always be with us to give an excuse for the blind law to heap up useless mandates and for blinder judges to make political capital thru seasonal drives on luckless autoists. Nothing Is Fool Proof HE MOST dangerous hand tool is the ax, safety ex- perts find by check-up. Now, an ax is a dormant object. It doesn’t jump up and take a slice at a man. Handled properly, it is safe as a foot of cotton thread. Demonstrating that prevention of accidents is largely a matter of personal caution. Another proof is in the fact that slipping ladders cause more accidents and kill more people than any other thing. This will never be a fool-proof world. LETTER FROM AININ VRIDGE MAN July 18, 1924, Dear Folks: Wheneyer any kid of mine has teeth that start to ache, 1 sternly tell him, “Do not whine! Be brave, for heaven's sake! You've got to take it like a man,” [ tactfully explain. “Be like your father if you can--and bravely stand the paint”... Hut when a toothache comes to me, forgetting all I've said, I holler, “Heavens! Can't you see I'm nearly dead!” And when the wife has had to go to get the dentist's care, T tell her bravely, “Don't you show a bit of weakness there! Go show him you possesy a will, no matter what he does! You know @ dentist cannot kill with little tools that buzz!" ... But when the dentist tackles me, my blood begins to freeze; It seems he wants to see me die by slow degrees! He puts me in the torture ch his probe he then Inserts He murmurs, blithe and debona ‘ou tell me if it hurts.” He hite a nerve; 1 give a yowl; 1 gurgel, writhe and jerk t still, no matter how I howl, he calmly does his work! ... For thus ‘t is we all are brave in pains of othermen—when we are hurt how we behave is something else again! h Girritge Tamms as if | | Kid Yua BEAT WaT? Fes OLD BIRD Says He WorKs Here HARA | QUESTIONS AND 4 ANSWERS JERHAPS you saw where some tists had emerged from the South American w with a few white “Indians,” i nens of the race, and y worried about ) years ago there 1 the a strange. white race it originated on the n of Axia, nto Africa, | mysterious bow great plateau into Jent y Pgh ental br Q. What are the largest steel pro-; adel" A mirion | ducing ¢ n the world? refuge from the a¢ | A. Pittabusg and Chicago. al chill in the h * ae the Amazon count Q What are “field employes” of The people of Cro-Magnon the government were white. They were of equal Those not employed in the |oovernment de; n capacity with They had a had artistic y reached a far higher stago pment, by the highest rimenta in Wash ington but who are stationed in and |vartous branches of the service thruout the United States. | pig edt he andards, than did any Q. What Is the official name for} race for 10,000 years after thelr jan X-ray operative in the govern-| extinction | ment? see A, Laboratorian roentgenology, efore history was, way see e the earliest Egyptian Q. Who have been the poet lau reates of England? A. John Dryden, well, Nahum Tag Thomas 8had- . Nicholas Rowe Laurence Busden, Colley Cidber, Wm. Whitehead, Th Henry James Py mas Warton and entirely capable R hing the highest state of Wm, Wadsworth, Alfred Tennyson,| civilized advance. But they were Alfred Austin, Robert Bridges | wiped out, they wero replaced | FROM | Letters E20" Readers All letters to The Star must have name and address. Defends Vets | Skagit Delay Editor The Star | Editor The | In a recent issue of The Star a) In a news articl letter appeared signed Dr. Harry W epee Deegun, Shelton, Wash., criticizing! skagit contrac |the veterans’ bureau in regard to treatment of disabled veterans in this | powers" and all districts in the U. 8. and Ito reveal ¢ wish to answer same. Mr. Deegan| ing (he cor |did you ever se bert Southey,| of r Star a tremendous un-|of tho § jdertaking the size of the veterans’ jbureau without mistakes being made? | | Never. | “added cemen take when he appointed Mr, Jesseph |call upon certain city officials, ask never yet been received in any other | reasons way but as a gentleman. | tht. aim against the city, employes of |mess of what you call red tape, and | Horner, Miss Lucy Case and the writ | who was it that untangled it free of |@- Our cha but one of the officials at} Prompt action by Comptre the veterans’ bureau. If they are poll. !#0d Corporation Counsel 1 ticians appointed by their superiors, *crutinizing this claim,, You say that no government de. | towed: the veterans’ bureau. If you have that idea you are either misinformed As far as graft is concerned the |™ttee being published eau will give the exservice man|Work within the the benefit of the doubt, « p|time Is costing shipping board, a D and $3,000 kovernment revenue from th ‘ou, BO you not able to make aj 'hls clty would by suing the comp |living for yourself or your family. | ‘ay'a A for $3,000 for oy | ian dead ed 4a Jory day's delay for which they ate | Of course I realize that if every responaib'o, instead of granting fur joffictal in the veterans’ bureau would liter concoasiona, subsidies or “A give away all the money Uncle Sam |, ’ had there would be no men with the fy" ae tee Cotaay |ideas you possess, I also happened to be in the hospital once, under the care of veterans’ bureau doctors, and I will forever have the highest re gard for them and T hope that not | Ja single one will leave the service except with my best wishow, if t another Hy thru} ‘Allow these “secret influence r powers’ are that are trying to save the tax | payers’ money Copies of this letter have been sent to Corporation Counsel Ken nedy, City Comptroller Carroll, council, board ef public 0 § can beter themselves financially, —lattie star, Pont Ervaliigendee ant! Respectfully yours, Union Rei CAPT, CH ord, Sincerely yours, t BROWN, J. G. UNG 1. Madison st 3208 Rainier Ave, NAMUROM ESIC HAO Buc wtCfoe CAMB TAPOESAS OC LTIY CEpoeen Png ) [ BY GOLLY ~ \ Tha's He VERY | Same Tree: PLevileo | | Te Day Before | LEFT FoR lhe new | YORK CONVENTION BY DANA med Attic y into the ocean of oblivion. ae \ \ ) | The White Indians SLEETH in is ure adver: BY JIM MAKSHALI pee EXERCISE ALTH MOTHER Smoking Room back in the divcussing the au ‘Member the st man who was weary nt into a place like that we t the cou Whadye want? ooked at them and t > I get the kind words “*sure,' Don't eat the eggs. at itt (_A THOUGHT ) It is more blessed to give than to receive.—Acts 20:35. makes us ric Stories the glacis 4 chicory about and worn have just passed, and who found a went In and dre approa ied eggs weary ™ momenta she slap wn in front of him. t her she replied with a st his world, it ts not what up, but what we ¢ Beeche o—————- SCIENCE mathematic invente Ni Flying Chariots | eee 4 he did so—most of the and models used 4 the motive f perate a as a bird ope a session of the Royal Society in the y read @ paper he descr a method of and used by M uth of Gable, tty distance.” e scientists who attended eting suggested that suct could on wo r because and the re the session says he recommended king « chariot with sprin 8 that would be able to carry one or more men.” : Sez Dumbell Dud; “Why Is a Mayor?” Asks Jim} | x mayors for for heaven's fern Heleg, ose face, if clases, 1 ships and towers of 1 it t the ships and So fur hap brings us, pleas” back to our orig. New woman, written book in which she says New England hag produced aris tocr. showing how soon is Johw Sullivan) forgotten, in the morning July 16 the R. C. Storrie Co., are reported to have charged that certain “secret | or “individuals who refuse | heir identity’’ are hamper | Mpletion of the first unit] blocking thelr pet y WV COATS and Smart boyish, mannish and novelty Suits in all the popular materials, specially pri Stripes, plaids and self ton Coats. All radically reduced—$17.50 and up. Sport Clothes warm weather comfortable than sport clothes? Sweaters, $3.95 and up. Imported Voile Blous Blouses, $1.95 and up. English Broadcloth models, Silk Blouses, $6.75 and up Skirts, $5.00 and up. I do not know at whom in particu lar this charge is hurled. However, | | Mr. Forbes made many mistakea, no Jas one of a committee of three, dele doubt, but he certainly made no mia-| sated by the Commonwealth club to the director of this district. I have | ing them to scrutinize this claim and, visited the veterans’ bureau in Seat-|if found unwarranted and illegal (as | tle on many occasions and I have) this club suspected, for various good | that they refuse to allow I have always found that all the} There has been nothing secret, in. | bureau, from the | timidating, coercive or ‘shady’ done | time you enter the door until you|by the club or its members in the} leave, are always ready and willing | handling of this matter. Merely an to do their utmost to assist you and | honest, conscientious effort to save help you. the city from $50,000 to $60,000, ‘The Only recently I got into a tangled |Committee consisted of Mr. ‘Thomas {forts were responsible for | upon let us keep thom. their recommendation {t has not been partment has functioned so poorly as}, The Commonwealth club’ action | tipon this matter was given ample publicity, not once, but several times, or your experiences with government tt various Seattle daily papers at the departments has been very limited, | me even the names of the com: | ns’ bureau is only in the kin.|. At this time, speaking for myself, | T will aay that it is my opinion that | 18, shipping board, and in regard to|fallure by the R. G, Storrio Co, to an treatment the veterans’ by.{complete thelr part of the Skagit ed contract attle between | of dd that } Ny justified in} I think this briefly relates who ity what s, $3.95 up. 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