The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 31, 1924, Page 6

THE SEATTLE STAR THURSDAY, JULY 31, 1924 | }| {One Around-the-World Flyer Were’s Not | Do We Inherit Our Education? BY HERBERT QUICK The Seattle Star Pubitehed Daily 190T Seventh Ave Phone Kted Press Bervice, By ¢ mowthe $1.09, year 68.68, The Star Publishing Co : Ben Frencivce Representatives bs Facts EVEN homes in West Seattle have been burned wit a few weeks, due mainly to lack of residents say water pressure, The loss probably averages $3,000 in each case, Say ‘ Take er from ty w t H te . € $20,000 for the seven a fa has “ them. He » thelr food ones y Twenty thousand dollars would have gone a long way thenp gener hon t " 1 — “ .< Ba ar sybe . toward putting in a real water system for the section Brrr veg “ “2 pig fis pinay r t Las te Write your own editorial. he midst of the hig 7 ot whew temen’ 10 cantly neath », oe that the their ¥% K wing ats, you nad thelr oative ality © rat} We Don’t Care the world with geniuses, A Thought Her (Wisdom’s) ways are ways of pleasantries, and all her pathy are 2 peace —Prov. 3:17 OTWITHSTANDING that the start and finish of the American army world flight was and is to be at Seattle, Los Angeles, a town in California, still insists that she have the honor. News dispatches from Los Angeles say that, after the flyers end the flight here they will fly back to that place. Well, there's no law to stop ‘em. He times to ¢ the lat with four ated ancestor this lab: mame blood up to the time when erations n not learn | tors separated, storm t to poverty a ig he other to ride the waves aren quicker than thone the 1 from benighted, backwoods . Aphid ignorant ay Oe, Coen families of rats. We suppose they've ch of these children of > e.€ | , ; It is the same with people, | got to fly somewhere. It might as well be Los Angeles would have {the | pas Education is an acquired char ISDOM {s the health of the ywhere. else, are oF taal is ee acteristic. And acquired char soul—Victor Hugo Smoking Room Stories Why? 6 HE city is paying me $7,500 a year and I am not going to waste my time sitting in on budget hear- Mayor Brown. Well, Doc, the city was paying you $7,500 a year while you were sitting in on the democratic convention, Why all the indignation? The Unknown Rich ID YOU ever hear of William H. Moore? Men Are Awfully Messy BY. MRS,. WALTER FERGUSON A CERTAIN metropolitan ho- will read newspapers and scatter tel housekeeper is quoted as the pages about them on the floor like a miniature sea; they will smoke and filck the ashes r the furniture and carpets sling their burnt matches and cigar stubs all about; they will Htter the bedrooms with It was a #m ker from South Af. ri who hid made Rand riot, in the ¢ money on the ya in the gold told A travelut mines of Joha ‘«, who pay ng that men are the biggest in doubtely any woman who has ever had to pick up after one of them will gladly verify this state ment Indy arrived at Johnnesburg after five days’ in an ox wagon, and ordered 1 sulte of rooms. bables the world, and un- the Carlton hi during the drought trek He died She was dirty linen and put their belong- . ye 's re: i vew Y pusted and very angry when ahe If all the women were sudden- | ings all over the house. Only one “eagle sep Be wea ~ oh. : ee informed that she could not)! 1) spirited off the earth, the men in 50 ever puts away his shaving that he left an estate of more than 28 million dollars. . : y 2 have a bath, as water was so searce would soon revert to the habits | things, and even he will not And yet the public for the most part was ignorant of its that it could only be us of their primitive ape ancestors, | clean the tub. after he hag his existence. Big business leaders, bankers and attorneys pil agalerae ip y eget As Bese? aad ee mae ¥ panies mee | nee cB Gy Oe Sac i . i ve: arin! ater nea obu 0 suffer. ney may be broad | were no! vee knew him. He was a top-notch corporation lawyer. daya. However, ax she passed down |! minded, open-hearted, farsecing, | and mothers and big sisters and Getting to be quite a common event, to read of the one of the passages, she espled 1! deepthinking, efficient and wise, | maiden aunta, the men would be gin of a comparatively obscure man worth millions. @ multimillionaire is becoming such a common institu- tion that he attracts little attention. Wealth is being | gradually cornered. |tub full of clear, crystal water, and |quickly took this golden opportunity A few minutes later, half Johan nesburg was banging at the bath room door and shouting, ‘Do you know what you are doing? You are but, Jeft to themselves, they would never be any too clean. ‘The neat and orderly man, the impeccably clean man, ts rare, Indeed. Men love primitive w Uterally swamped by thelr own untidiness, They would bury themselves under an avalanche of discarded clothes and contract plagues by insanitary eating hab- Thrills? Plenty in U. S. Service of existence, cooking over cam its. : ° having a bath in the only drinking || fires, sleeping in thelr clothe Thay may be the guiding hands En lish-Wise BY F. ORR water in Johannesburg! And when || and playing the hobo generally of the nation, the arbiters | the lady opened the door, the ex | IQ irri . 7, . . And in the house they have an of world affairs, the mainstay of IAJOTHING irritates your home-grown Englishman quite jeited Httle manager rushed in, and,|| intense aversion to picking civilization and the prop of the so much as seeing somebody do something he doesn't Workina for Uncle Sam, far | had to be big game b as | star route carriers and air mail | looking into the tub, said || things up and a positive passion family, but they never in the do. If he doesn’t do it, it simply isn’t done. from being always | well as government worker pilots probably get more thrills And vat is vorse, you have!| tor throwing them down. They | world could keep a clean kitchen. monotony and dull routine, ts often full of thrilis Hoe has Just tracked to her lair pln At present England is in a fever over the American than an: similar number of men rodeo at the Empire exhibition at Wembley, just outside London. There American cowboys daily wrestle with untamed steers, 150 pounds of human bone and brain and sinew fighting it out barehanded with 1,000 pounds of wild beast, and sometimes winning. Some fool hen. But we cannot but echo the cry of the Canadian girl two horses killed.” was right, of course. Steeplechasing is quite as thrown at hedges or dangerous ditches and water-jumps. And. polo ponies not infrequently suffer a similar fate. But the English do all these thing. So they are all right. They don’t bull-dog steers or wrestle with wild Speeding Along og JUST 25 years since newspapers devoted consjder- able space to the first successful collection of mail’ by J. J. Williams, an employe of the bureau of biological survey of the department of agriculture, located somewhefe fn the mou talnous regions of Montana has cover £5 feet at a single stride an Q. What is the “shower bouque for the bride? A. A cascade of flowers and ri lengths of ribbon and trailing flow ers which come almost to the he of the bride's gown 8 ‘OU can get an answer toany | Q. What is the death record per A. It is said that an ostrich can| nd rt" b- o- | ™ | lives of r erritory 300 miles s lant was responsible thousand lons of many OST AELY, W. 8. Beesley, who also works for the bu. the department that he has been successful. This wolf, Beesley him three more times and the last time was final Federal rve ager lenty of excitement in a get their eee FFICIALS of the postoffice department, however, think thelr Inspectors and mail clerks, emp! ment in any other govern service ne recent mail train holdup near Chicago an example of the thing for which mall clerks must be prepared. The million . worth of cattle In one week sho | holdup of a mall truck on “How dreadfully shocking!’ many English say. “It’s | stion killed 20 calves, Williams not | Leonard st., New York city, | not a sport for a sportsmanlike peopie.” Que : caly killed “Pwo, Toes" herself, | October was replete With Far be it from us to uphold cruelty to animals. Many’s ¢ Answered ¢ ees thrills from beginning to end the time we've all but wrecked the family flivver dodging After clever detective work over a period of elg the crooks were arrested and months minute In the United States? | feau of biological survey, has taken to the top floor of the ‘. a c mai by le about A. 2.5 deaths occur per minute. | been trying for the last five general postoffice in New ‘York to. hearing charges 2 centy cre people a oe | years ta Misourt-t> put “rhe | Sepe sn pmnottce, them, known er in the Wembiey grandstand, reto: an: A Q. Is an ostrich faster than a] Old Black Devil” out of commis. as “The Count,” gave the in “Nonsense! I attended the Grand National and saw |horser sion, and has juat reported to spectors a thrill by asking for a drink of water. Ams soon an their | backs were turned “The Count” * x ; vet when running at full speed, with! caught in a trap last year, but mada “a '¢ for the window, pene! as bulldogging a steer. Many s high-spirited {2yort sings outstretched, connot be| “Black Devil” gut twas lecving | [unde aaah for aay tee horse has had to be shot for a broken leg after being | out-distanced by any mammal, | ® toe behind. Beesley caught ledge. With the ald of policemen finally on a filing cabi on the he was ught perched an office same floor Ano! traveling unregistered and unin- sured, fell from its place in the rack, split open, and a shower of gold coins rained over tho floor, The box was addressed to a firm of New York bankers and was r kind of thrill was ex bon, white roses, orange dloswoms,| day's work; foresters working for perienced by a clerk in a mail phe bulls in rodeos. Wherefore the sport is barbarous. p Beescnelt Eid tend ary. or steel e Bolte rtagid Logie? Abel | car bound for New York recent . F mbinations, massed together in| toe have the 5 ghting he ole rollers All the English, however, are not like that. Re conta and yoke Sthe Tadiar| toceet tres when a plain wooden box, rFORDS “leaves nothing to be desired Fords seldom work harder than they do in the fish ~ — x | auto in the United States. Buffalo was the place. The || question of fact or informa. | | 7—————SCIENCE 1 SOnMIR es US Argentine. st th by writh The Question | Hy Os | ns 4A gan’ ee July 2, 1599, : | Editor”. 1392 New "York eel } ‘| Signals to Mars at’s not so long ago. Today we have transcontinental | IR MAIL pilots Washington, D. C., and enclosing | two cents in loose stamps for re | | ply. No medical, legal or marital | look for thrills almost every day or any day in their exciting lives. air mail. tury. Tremendous progress for a quarter of a cen- It makes you wonder what the next 25 years will Newspapers all over the world are now printing articles about how fe ‘ ” ate de ludvioe, Pi 1 replies, confi- | |the earth will attempt to communl.| Carl B. Elelson, last February, ; Rays * : oe pie ; ed Shue ore pe ton Mer Wren teattaicratice enoae || ete wih the. lade; Aine, ext waa making a trial flight in business of A. Paladini, Inc., which has offices in turn: | signed. month, when Mars will be o1 Alaska, between Fairbanks and ; P i marvels will become old-fashioned. oe ee El erat hae ticmetnerivess: cn | Macraih, win thei aamne tes San Francisco, Oakland; Monterey, Eureka and Pitts- | eee Since that date there hax been| tablishing a three-hour. service burg. This company writes: ‘ Q. How tall is Richard Barthel-| great progrom in science, and the between these points to take the Railroad Recovery mess and when was he born? Possibilities of communicating with| place of the dog team service, “We have used Zerolene ‘F’ for Fords in our Ford % vs eae A. 5 feet 7 inches; born May 9,|Mars, assuming that it ig inhabited,| Which takes 16 to 18 da ys. He i pera i i AILROADS continue reporting steady gain in amount 1895. |have greatly increased Eine | was lost in the darkened: of a cars, which you know Gs ting continuously under of freight they’re hauling. Traffic has been on the Ree! If a race of reasonable beings doen| swiftly oncoming Arctic night the most ee, conditions, and hi it superior in every % qi Q. How many public school build-| exist on Mars, they are not like! and thought Old Man Trouble i) i ec ee ee tes ure tare tae Unto moa |'0 ve statr'ta tien ot ee ea | areae aaa, OM Man, Teoebe peteee to. oy, of tbe sumercoe, cis we, Tee, teed in cat , A. According to the U. 8. Bureau Ford equipment. We are glad to offer this recommenda- tion as we know that Zerolene ‘F’ for Fords leaves nothing to be desired in Ford lubrication.” Improves Gas Mileage Sez Dumbell Dad: Zerolene “F” for Fords gets to the parts requiring lubri« There is a great difference in tho season. of Education there are £71,319. atmosphere of the two bodies. A The important thing is the steady recovery. It means A “fe «© Martian would find the earth's atmos that gcod times are ahead, for freight movement is one pigyy et de. the. origin of the word | BEGG, mo: damp that he} could not | 5 “Jazz? ve in it, of the four most accurate barometers of future business A. There are many stories; one of| There is nothing unreasonable in conditions. the latest {a that given by Vincent|tho theory that human beings liv Lopez, who delieves that it origin-|0% Mars, and the question of how that night. Fortunately, in his wanderings, he was lucky and he saw the home lights burning. He escaped with a broken pro. peller and ski, : ated in Vickaburg, Miss., where a\t® communicate with them ty the e ‘ 4 . “Beating a Path---” negro “Charles (Chaz,) Washington| scientific tople of the day. Many Tablets have cation. That is why Ford owners who drain their crankcases s > J tas known for his syncopated| Pans are being proposed. Some. of been found in and start out fresh with this new oil find that their gasoline REATEST American philosopher, Ralph Waldo Emer- rhythm. It was the practice in his| these will be tried. ‘Tho first signal, M. i mileage is considerably improved and that the car runs more son, wrote that the world will beat .a new path to | band to repeat the chorus of a|Tecoknized ax such, from Mars to| i esopotamiia B age ian anda your door if you have something better for it, even an |?9?ular number and because of the| the earth, will bo the most thrilling | that tell of a smoothly and has more power, : Be htotovedmousetrap " catchiness of “Chaz's” drumming, the| °vent of all history, | race of men . L Path-beating is too slow for our generation. Take the ane souls bend ayo, pireye gt ABS | og ts) 8 88.6 Lubricates Better —Costs A huge natural garage in the hol- low of a giant boabab tree, was din: | covered recently by a motorist in| Mayo brothers, famous surgeons, made of clay |} city to practice, ath n They didn’t go to a big by a feminine but stayed in Rochester, Minn., a town of the origin of Ja Incidentally, Zerolene “F” for Fords, which represents a 15,000. So many people are beating a path to the Mayos | acinar" ? Prevent theory of Nyansaland, Africa, shortly before ree mee || an lees then OE iat Fr ; nape es ket) rai that the railroad has just added an all-steel Pullman train |’ A. Dreams are cxplaincd as the Snisipdsied hence ay eta nl Mid: Pp PAN | : i i Eel : i : . sre a your to haul Mayo customers from Minneapolis into Rochester, |svmbolic fulfilment of repressed \sheltered place. Despite its great bl : | Ole en Lane nvestrcent, bags ie: wishes or desires. All dreams are| hollow, the tree was alive, ale | vestment by proper lubrication, STANDARD OIL COMPANY (California) not repressed wishes, however, but are more or less inchoate reproduc. ‘ ", the day. Q. Can you tell me the name of the “human fly” who was killed at the Hotel Martinique in New York? | A. I. FB. Young, died March 5, 1923, in a nine-story fall from the front of the Hotel Martinique. TRAVEL HAT sort of a medicine chest should be carried on a vacation? Mr. Mann began to wonder after he had packed up his filvver and made ready for the “open spaces,” Now, most healthy people take a little moxquito salve and a little sun- MEDICINE ] have along, as immediate cleansing can be insured. There are other handy first-aid packages to be had, but one small fodine outfit ts about as good as any- thing. Also, if you are fearful of snakes, 4 “first-aid” preparation is now to be July 31, 1924. Dear Folks: The other night I took the bunch and went to Woodland park. We packed a basket full of lunch, and had an evening lark, We sat and ate in lazy ease; and when the meal was thru, we strolled among the mighty trees and went to see the zoo. Q. What order has the word “For- ; burn dintme “Don't feed the animals,” the signs were saying everywhere, Ana ||tltudint" as its motto, and what) 7) tata gt re er ack ry pal had ot drug stores and. sporting so we went and Joined the lines of folks who fed a bear, He stood ||4°t# |t mean? Tat hoe Gine chest along on an excrusion in.|k0Od8 Places. A. serum injection is erect and waved a paw ay signal to begin; and when he'd open ifr The, order of Maria ‘Theresa, |<ne chest Hon. to crusion In generally contained in this package, up his Jaw, we'd throw a peanut in, The word means “for valor’, iJ which is so small that it can be car do #0 by the doc We saw a lively kangaroo who leaped around his yard; it having nothing else to do, was exercising hard. “He's got the |! jumps,” xald I, “I fear, He never even stops.’ ‘The wife ro fled, “Like hoinemade beer, he’s simply full of hops.” RS A. By carefully brushing the aur- We watched the monkeys play a while within the’ monkey pen. ||/2°¢, Of the cellutold with glacial I really had to stop and smile—they seemed so much like men, An || 7tHe acid and allowing to dry. The even bet and nothing more, I thought, when men discuns, “Did acid should not be allowed to come man dexcend from monkeys, or—did monks descend from us?” §n contract with the akin, “Ain't nature grand!” the people say at many things they view, || Posies * And well they say it any day they spend around the zoo. With Q. How many 1-cent pleces were many things from every land the Woodland Zoo Is rife—it helps |, Coed In 1922? us faintly understand how infinite Js Life! | A. 7,160,000, ried in a vest pocket A little gauze and cotton may be taken along if desired, tho in any simple emergency a clean handker= chief will do, With the possible exception of somo mild cathartic, this is all an Average person should require, who, Q. How can from celluloid? However, there are ore or two things that may be taken along for precautionary purposes, Iodine swabs, in handy packages, may be purchased almost anywhere, In case of accidents Involving cuts, ete, these are most useful things to ratches be removed ana 6 Q. Who was the first Btates postmaster general? A, Samuel Oagood, who served ' undor Goorge Washington, United