The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 23, 1924, Page 6

PAGE Star Publishing Ca, 1801 Seventh Ave latie onthe #1 } Representatives San Franciece © office, Tribune Bidg.; New Terk offiog ton office, Tremont Bids. Pension the Law-Abiding E were rather intrigued by a letter th ne in the at car | t editor’s mail today from Edgar Thwaites of Clinton, Wash. Here it is: “Just a few w regard to AN the advice that’s giv Shout it seems ¢ tt very t 1 y f t Started right. W te at ar \ ge of 60 years n being V a $5 & month, a man who reaches 7 r € add! tion to giving t & ‘good citizen's bad i give the Poung folks a goal to sb at There's a lot of meat in Mr. Thwaites’ letter. Perhaps the idea of placing a price on honesty and morality and gen- @ral obedience to the law might grate on some, but per- Raps, on the other hand, Mr. Thwaites is getting down to One of the fundamentals of good doemcratic government— @8 it is viewed by the average citizen—to make it worth While for me and I'll do it. 7 What do you think? A Worth While Organization HE Seattle Sporstmen’s association has figured up the bills and discovered that it just about “broke even” on its big “Annual Sportsmen's Show” last week. | We're glad of that—glad that an organization that has the courage to go ahead and lay out an exhibit as educa- and instructive as this one and then invite the public come in FREE and see it, didn’t go in the hole finan- And we're glad to see that Seattle APPRECIATES the that the Seattle Sportsmen’s association is doing—an tion organized for no other purpose than the con- tion of bird and other wild life in the state of Wash- Vote Like You Kick An Editorial by Harris J. Bixler, United States Representative From Pennsylvania MERICAN citizens are responsible for the character of their government—whether it be federal, state The underlying cause of most political evils of today is e indifference of our citizens to their right of suffrage. "Even the briefest study of nomination and election fig- shows that the majority of the legal voters. are tak- no part in either their party primaries or the general ections. Less than half the citizens of the United States voted the presidential election of 1920. The percentage tak- ig part in the congressional elections of 1922 was even Bi cecnting government is not automatic. ; It is not self-supporting. © It draws not only its authority from the people, but it s its strength and vitality from them. "Unless they participate in public affairs in an active d intelligent manner their government must of neces- cease to be representative. Tail-Enders’ Day SEEMS to be the era of the tail-end politically speak- ing. There's Mr. Dawes, tail-end of the Grand Old Privilege F He indicates the real fireworks, for Mr. Coolidge will deliver merely some poised, dignified, and cool lec- : ‘There's Charlie Bryan, kicking end of the Donkey. He | ‘already declaring how he made Standard Oil and the al Barons cut their Nebraska prices thru his having is state sell gasoline and coal. And on the other end Charlie’s ticket is Davis, who has been attorney for f Street interests that fight any such socialistic mes as the Nebraska governor's. Verily, the tails may not wag the dogs, metaphorically cing, but they promise to make them sweat if they want to cut any ice. Over Doing It, George -LMOST daily, Lloyd George, Ex., issues an extremely bitter attack upon England’s labor premier, Mac- d. And the world observes that MacDonald has closer to world peace and settlement of England's problems in five months than Lloyd George did ive years. d George is, naturally, a great man. But it is not is s innings and the folks are tiring of him, as they do of fellow who sits in the bleachers and throws pop- hottles as his contribution to the game. ma Earning a Living HERE seems to he no limit to unique ways of ‘earning a living nor to the things men will do to get money. ‘Sas Valens of Belgium, now playing American vaude- ile, drinks for a living. He claims the world drinking mpionship. Downs 10 quarts of water or near-beer ‘one performance. His official record is 145 quarts in o hours 50 minutes. many would desert the greatest political gathering, see Leon “do his stuff’? We are a serious minded How d LETTER, FROM V RIDGE MANN (This story 1s told at the request of Mrs. FE. W. Foster.) July 23, 1924. Dear Folks: We have a shack at Fletcher bay, along the shore of Puget found; and now and then we spend the day to roam the woods or loaf around. And there we went a week ago to satisfy a passing whim—I felt a trifle dry and so I thought I'd like to have a swim. Amid the peaceful, rural fe, I'm always quite a calm galoot. I looked around and asked the wife, “Say, danin't. where's my bathing suit?” Sho started looking everywh It wasn't hanging on the line; wo ched the shack--\t wasn’t there; she ventured, “Here is one of mine.” @he brought it out. It saw the about in nineteen hundred ten. It -had a skirt that reached the knees—our bathing girls were modest then! ‘Tho faded now, it showed the signs of glory in, its early days—its stylo was chic, with flowing Ines, and flounced and frilled in many ways I had to rip it quito @ bit, with hero and there a sufety pin; and tho it made m squeezy fit, I hold my breath and wiggled in. The populace beheld the sight—L heard their laughter, wit and screams . And now I know it's never right to judge @ man by what he seems! Monte Cristo thought he owned the earth, He has many descendants. EATTL THE AR Electoral Electoral | p . t ; t of tha’ ame t Votes Votes | Vabama u t t a “ee Arkusinias _w r ali VMtorida 6 from t Georgia i“ With 1 eint | : and the bord Kentucky ., 13 : | Tm the ¢ wl 10 , | 1 |} w tates Cox & it otal , oe | t ' ry f 9 | 1 1 ‘ Texas 20 ; he bor "i . Virginia 1 45; 4; Was | r ent of 119 © res 1 safely Total 127 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Dilapidated Flivver Steers Him on Road to Millions QYAST ST, LOUIS, Il, July * | 4 Jim Cummings lost his job—and made a fortune because of It A while back he was “broke not be answered.—EDITOR. and on the verge of asking a “lift | from his neighbors | Q. What and where ts “Misti? | Cummings—perhaps he will sign A. A volcanic mountain of Peru. James Karl Cumming | see es here with his wife and A.A nd forming the north . age eastern mity of Yucat Pek | b edees orth a million and a Q Where does the famous Bowery sre beginning to n New York A. From city extend? Chatham square to the f Third and Fourth aves ‘coper Union the old family eee Jim explains. “We ow Q. What causes rickets? stomobile with a re A. Deficient nutrition, It ts char- service, but disreputable aspect jacterized by deficiency of carthy|I figured I might fix it up a bit and | matter in the bones, which rematn| sell it |soft and flez under muscular) And in the fixing operation I Jaction, producing deformity. It (s| solved a problem that has been accompanted by abnormal changes| stumping scientists these last 2,000 in spleen and liver. |years. Accidentally he discovered a BRE | process for hardening and tempering Q. Who was Arpad? |copper—lost art since the days of A. A national hero of Hungary| he old Egyptians In cle Cumm he haphaz: one of the ing the gaskets on his car ed a chemical mixture y had concocted. Now ets was bent and Jim nit. But each time » hammered the metal it flew back to its old bent position. Jim couldn't jand @ semi-mythical personage. He |led the Magyara into Hungary. He into Italy about 4 laden with booty. Arpad tives in the popular of the country; his Aistory, eve in the oldest chronicles ed up with the national also made inc | 900 and return He died in 9 and it. He pout it. The quainted with informed the perplexed » he had made an impor understa told a fellow workman being better « nies eee o ech umimin Q. When wero baskets first used? | 4. Specimens ed basketry have been dug up from near Abydos jin middie Egypt that are over 6,000) .. years old. Remants of baske | deen found in the Butas of ce . very Exhaustive (eats were mado at a ern. A check for $1,500, has been delivered him ts have ake dwell-| 3) a contract ing fe lings, and similar finds are had from ie taeuniie at sen: | the remains of prehistoric peoples in| oy ee att 2 ’ | America. 7 S “I have been peste autor Q What are aurochs? Cumm They ore Il death t amen, obile and stock » say t know a lot about stocks, but I do know this old bus of ours} Jim Cummings’ wife and children. A. European son, 17 somewhat larger than the American Dison, with more compreased trunk Cummings in inset. WEDNESDAY, JULY, 23, 1924 \Seventy- ‘Seven Votes May Decide Who's Next President Shall a Married Man Take Wife’s Name? BY RUTH FINNEY po Rag : by leaving names until marriag birth to a new scheme in the name legal, tmmedial Kast which, the women say, | its p es0r, triumphantly asserts the doc- trine of equality for men and Smoking Room women and does it efficiently and in @ to please the Stories most conventional | Say t hn Brown mar- | ries Smith. On the day |46)JOBODY knows what seasick of their marriage, John's legal ness can make a fellow feel name becomes John Smithy |i. gaia the man in the 6 Browr ry’s name ‘s Mary | . je Oe Smith-Brown whose bands were tatoo The children of John and |I first went in the service of a M Smith-Brown are Anne |ship company, I used to see some Smith-Brown and Ja Oe pretty sick ones, and I would go Brown, without the hyphen, or | okey, wept nne Brown and James Brown, [Found nd cheer them up. One ; the Smith optionally, but [Might it was unusu rough and ured as the mid- a man who was evidently too sick to retire to his cabin in close lcommunication with deep sea an- |imal life. He looked as tho he |were ready to fall over the side of |the ship. 1 thought I would best \ at comes from the men dea ts expound pemodt which I did |etand by, One spasm whenever the 1 equality advocates pc |was too much for him. He lost . his balance. I grabbed him. I jhad to s weer tant | y dear man, you certs suffered |" a weak stomach.” t the business woman “ ‘Weak? Thunder! Ain't I who marries is forced to change ‘tin’ it as far as the rest of ‘em? is plenty good enough for us.” | } and less shaggy foreparts, The spe |cies is nearly extinct, but ts pre- |served in the forests of Lithuania and the Caucasus. | The Mistakes You Make eS eer Te BY ALBERT APPLE What Folks HE weatherman is right 88 times out of every 100 | ° in his predictions about weather and tempera- Are Saying |} ture. This is claimed by James H. Scarr, who has re | had charge of New York city’s weather bureau for 15 ; His claim is based on forecasts in his territory. It’s probable that the same figures hold true: for the country at large, striking an average. Uncle Sam, in fact, does not appoint a student fore- | caster to a job as official forecaster until he demon- strates that he can score 85 out of 100 accurately in | KATHLEEN NORRIS, author ia never the rich people nor the poor people who ‘talk poor’; it is always | and Inevitably the bad managers,” see | DILWORTH = LUPTON, “Hatred ts a block to] | “It REV. | Cleveland progress.” his predicitions, | | THOMAS RILEY MARSHA : re td | jexvice president: “How, I would| LL this doesn’t line up with the popular notion that pers know iruatetet pe bes . the w eatherman is usually wrong. You often hear |world is growing worse? The logic| Person say: “I see rain is predicted. I suppose that means .it’ll be bright and fair.” The weatherman’s supposed inaccuracy is one of the | Jot the present would convince the | greatest pessimist.” a original jokes—and unfairly so. JAY R. BENTON, attorney gon- + , ; j acaloabtimanbiamation she tasks | Why has he gotten a false reputation? That's easy. jto centralization became manifest | Like all the rest of us, he’s judged by his mistakes jshortly before the world war. We| rather than by his good work. People notice that he |now have an army of over 600,000 | federal employes grouped in different bureaus with vast inquisitorial pow- ers. We are threatened with a con misses an average of 12 out of 100. That makes them forget the 88-out-of-100 in the matter of ac- curacy, |aition of which our forefathers com- | adie Sd | plained. EN | AKE a star juggler in vaudeville. One blunder gets |. FRANK HARRIS, writes: “When | by. Two blunders starts a laugh. Three blunders Oscar Wilde wrote that a man could | be happy with any woman ro long | jas he was not in love with her, he uttered a very wise saying.” counteract his entire 20 minutes of accurate perform- ance. He's judged by his mistakes, rather than by his | accomplishments. | An unwise vote on a bit of legislation can wreck the can greatly reduce the death rate from the disease, If treatment {a delayed, cancer becomes incurable Dr. Harry C. Saltzstein has pob- ful articles published 1 Se ined the tonslt of cater: wearrig| A SELAGLL PROBE | siir ies saaleuel i aur Sette) | Detroit. More than 1,100 persons ap-| Editor Tho Star; I see that Mayor : i blag ae |plled to the Detroit hospitals for ex-|Brown invites citizens, (especially jaminations. Of these, 42 had can-jengineers) to join him in another ra that they hadn't known about,|excursion to the Skagit, This may had pre-cancerous conditions, 96/make a very Interesting pleasure had stomach trouble, including ul-|trip, but no ‘accurate knowledge of |cers, while many others had chronte|the project and the proposed fur: |appendicitis or gall bladder disease. |ther development can be secured in “Cancer week” in Detroit jJustified|this way. ‘The people of Seattle, ESTHER WILLS, itself by saving 200 or 300 lives, outside of certain small groups, are} Secretary Olymple Heights club, ———° | demanding an honest-to.goodness in- PRU {A THOUGHT ] icinnstiitimitinincetaatinnmmesnate | vestigation of the whole Skagit power project. What has become THANKS THE - 4 ‘500 STAR of the proposal submitted several | The Star All letters to hs Star must have name and address. St. bridge. We feel that with your publicity the bridge will now be com: pleted without further delay, We} would like to have you publish the fact that this club protests against | the delay of the construction of the | bridge. months ago to the elty council, pro viding for a commission of three A good name Is rather to be chosen competent engineers to investigate i" | | |than great riches, and loving favor rather than silver and gold—Job xxiii. aditor the power project? Must we wait; At the close of the and school until Mr. Uhden js thru with all}association year, the shington | hibit the work on the first unit #0 that] maycation assoviatic 1 | ) LEGACY In #0 rich as honesty,|@ check-up on the. work will be} —VC2uom, association wishes to ex —Shakespeare, “‘Jrendered very difficult, if not im.| Press Its great appreciation of the} possible, 1 have been a firm be-|service of ‘The Star in support ‘atl S D b ll D Hever bh pase ‘one sh eA education and in opening its col e| [4s a citizen (shareholder), 1, anc ez umbe ud; \thousands of othern nro ontitied to| Yn to discussions of pertinent All married || 8% f« education probloms concerning. the} A. BURGH, THE women are schools. In this day the newspaper not good Is itsolf an educational “institution,” ABOUT cooks, but all erving in its own the adults | | good cooks \\ BRIDGE of our. citizenship can be mar- Kditor The Star>—The» Olympic ARTHUR, 1, MARSH, ried women, Executive Secretary Washington Id ft Hoights Improvement club wishes me to congratulate you on the wonder: ucation association, FRYE’S “DELICIOUS” is mild flavored because of the Frye method of curing which results in the appetizing appeal that is winning friends everywhere among discrim- inating housewives. ‘Next time you go marketing and Ham or Bacon has a place on your list you will get more than satisfaction if you just remember one name, Buy Hams and Bacon by this Brand Name—you will find them “EVERYTHING THE NAME IMPLIES” BRAND (CANCER WEEK | pe ot’ congressman with years of “good work” to HAM is “everything the name im- ERYE'S is credit. | ay pare ey || CANCER WEEK | A breath of slander can blast a long-established plies.” It is tender, because it is pre- MEAT GUIDE Recently thero was a “cancer| reputation. ; pared exclusively from the most care- 100 tested reci- Week” all over the United States, to One inaccuracy counteracts 100 accuracies. full lected in-fed k Sess pes on the \ prea pred feel eset See we're all judged by our mistakes rather than | ully selected grain-~ porkers—it is payee | of cancer. As other diseases have} DY Our accomplishments. The man with wisdom juicy because the natural juices are ing of Hams, decreased, cancer has grown, Today} enough to overlook the occasional error is rare. The fed he teat F Bacon, Meats. It 9 one of the greatest menaces human brain inclines to destruction rather than to preserved by the exclusive Frye pro- Seca det iclence has not yet found a ca j ; ri dy. ¢ é .c for ie: cure, but Jt will, Meanwhile, sclones| construction, primarily, cess which is the result of long years age to Solar ca cancer when it ts di: ve ny e te “a wee ary bribe L FROM R a of experience and the most modern ere tape ad 3 4 + ea : : asoohe thes rouey Se treauget zat etters STAR eaders scientific methods of preparation—it copy. _24-17