The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 8, 1924, Page 8

THE FRIDA’ Star Phone Seventh Ave The Seattle Tremont Diag Be Square! FORBUSH has 88-cent hed publ ttle but and pregnant publication BYRON recently ook. It is a li ts cant s of ILLIAM one of the m this mo The the price. Its i Stock frauds, land frau Us, each year, Mr. Forbush s) and theft 5,000,000, $125,000,000, graft and looting of pub $ 000, fraudulent bankruptcy and credit swindles $100,000,- 000, bad debts owing merchants $150,000,000, forgery and worthless checks $125,000,000, piracy and seaport robber $75,000,000—a grand total of $3,300,- 000,000. ‘Add to this the $5,000,000,000 we pay for police, courts, jails, prisons, etc., and we know that dishonesty costs us $8,300,000,000 a year, a sum sufficient to pay the current expenses of any three »vernments—enough to thoroly educate every child in the country. Appalling figures, but they do not tell the whole story éven at that. Dishonesty is increasing Before the war the insurance companies estimated that there were three burglaries to one fire; today there are Seven. In 10 years, the ratio of automobile thefts to the total valuation has increased over five times. Surety companies today are paying six times as much for embezzlements and 12 times as much for burglaries @s was true 10 years ago. And, think of the worthless goods sold, the thousands of articles lost and found that are never returned, the cheating in examinations at schools and colleges, the vast, "Yast number of petty deceptions that are practiced in all the walks of life and which are not tabulated! Depressing? Yes. Depressing enough to invite reaction —to challenge men and women and children to revolt and battle for right. Back of every offense, shortcoming, crime, one or all, there are human beings. “Aftermath of war,” “movies, “prohibition,” and all the other stock explanations for evil Movements and conditions are piffle. They are resorts, not causes. There is sorrow, of course, and charity, but there is no mjtigation for dis- honesty, no extenuation for being a cheat. The easiest, most natural and very finest answer to all the demands and problems of life—the answer that best Meets all moral questions of humanity—is, “Be Square.” nd plot of the book is dishonesty and its wal is its title, “Be Square.” ds and confidence games cost ows, $2,000,090,000, burglar ent and defalcations, lic domain $200,000, gloomy Help for Poor Authors TTENTION of Mr. Bok, Mr. Ford, the Pulitzer com- “ mittee and others with prize money to promote popu- Tar enterprise is called to the fact that Paris has a society Which awards a prize for the worst book of the year. | At first thought, it would appear that the author of | the worst book would sue for libel. Not so, however. The lic has been so thoroly fooled on “the best book” | that it would buy and buy the book authoritatively desig- “e as the worst, prompted by curidsity and a strong ire to possess a worse book than had hitherto been npn In short, the worst book would become the t seller, filling its author’s purse. 50,000 Million Dollars ALL STREET JOURNAL estimates that 50,000 mil- : lion dollars are on deposit in American banks, _ That is a figure almost beyond human imagination. '| And yet it’s only about $450 for every man, woman and child in the United States. None of us has more than a faint conception of the Size, wealth and potential powers of our country. “United States” represents something greater than the brain can ‘grasp. Devoting a whole lifetime to travel and inspec- tion, you’d wind up having seen only a tiny fraction of the whole. Alchemy TDANKERS are a bit worried about the German engineer LD» who is believed to have discovered how to turn quick- silver into gold. His process costs over two million dollars ‘a pound, but it is not impossible that the cost could be Teduced to a matter of cents, Gold is worth $331 a pound, quicksilver less than $1 a pound. You picture a German chemist. taking tons of “Mercury, magically turning it into gold and paying the indemnity in a lump. This in not as “impossible” as the airplane was 50 years ago. We're Stumped by This _ A BSOLUTE honesty, integrity and safety are only found in Mexico City,” says Samuel M. Vauclain, ident of Baldwin Locomotive Works. ‘Mexico City one of the most moral, law-abiding and safe cities I have visited in the last five years. You can walk thru the streets and you will find young men and even old ‘men and boys carrying bags of silver or gold unattended. They carry their treasure without any guard, without armored vans.” This stumps us. The only possible explanation that occurs to us is that the Mexicans may be too lazy to steal _ the treasure. But you can imagine what would happen _ under similar circumstances in any American city. [} LETER ERO \V RIDGE MANN August 8 1924, Dear Folks: Back to the corner we come again, now that we've ceased to roam. Out with the news for a while, and then—back in the old, old homet Back in the page where I like to be; back with the features I like to see; here ts a cozter place for me—back in the old, old home! Out in the world we must often stay, meshed in ita joys and cares. Out in the world, but at close of day—corners and c chairs! Corners in rooma where the lights are low; corners where hearts may ve made to glow; these are the happlest things we know-—corners and cozy chatrat Tho we may stray till we're gray and old, taking what Fortune sends, happy ts he who can always hold corners in hearta of friends; Corners in hearts we have loved and known; corners where friendship hos lived and grown; there are the stattest gifts we own—corners in hearts of friends! A Busy Day in < 1 Macaroni Factory © ORMUNG HOLES IN MACARON WITH CowPressep AIR. t a. Smediey Butler, of the marines, to clean hs By RUTH FINNEY ps ADELPHIA, Aug. § 8 nts of human who contend there thing as honest law enfc look with skepticism wu: claim of Smedie Philadetphia director safety, that he has 1,600 police men who are not taking bribes and who are actually enforcing the laws. Butler has worked no amazing conversions in the rank and file of the Philadeiphia police force Nevertheless his men are doing what he tells them and this is the way he accomplished it Questions * Answered? || ———_—_—$—_$$=_—$_$— $F Q What Is the food value of far- ina? A. 1485 calories per pound. Baby Q What is dress? | A. Care Universal Pictures Cor-| poration, 1600 Broadway, New York city. Pegay's 04. ee Q What causes electric light bulbs to turn white inside? A, Ady in the bulb yoill have thts effect. | sialce | Q. What causes wilt in a tomato} plant? A. Bacteria which clog the water channels of the plant. The only| thing to do is to pull up the in-| fected plants and burn them to! prevent the spread of the infec-| tion, There ts no remedy. eee Q When did the Huguenots of thelr political power? \A. During the reign of Louts X11. of France, when Cardinal Richelieu was prime minister. siege and capture of La Rochelie,| the stronghold of | reduced them to submission, after | a gallant resistance of more than a| | vear—1628, | eee | | YOU can get an answer to any question of fact or informa- | en by writing The Question | Editor, 1322 New York ave, Washington, D. C., and enclosing | j * two cents in loose stamps for re | ply. No modical, legal or marital |advice, eee dential. signed. Q. Has Owen Moore, Mary Pick- ford's divorced husband, remarried? A. Yes, he married Katherine Perry, a Follies beauty. cee Personal replies, confi- All letters must mit Q. Where was Tom Moore, movie actor, born? A. In County Meath, Ireland. the Q. Where did the |dians live? A. They originally occupied |Appomattor basin, Virginia; about 1783 they were driven thence to the Carolinas and Georgia, where | they formed a powerful confederacy, with branches extending to Ken- tucky and Tennessee, The Chero- |kees of pure and mixed blood may number perhaps 20,000, residing in Oklahoma, besides whom some 1,00 known as the astern Band, on or adjoining a reserva-| Western North Carolina, | Cie iret | Cherokee In- the more, reside ton in Q. What can be to keep away flies? A. The following formula has been used with some success: Oil of tar, 10 parts; cottonsced oil, 10 parta; paraffin oil, 80 parte, This is mixed and sprayed on the animals, should be renewed after \ hours. ayed on cows Qn what year wae the first con- | kressional mpalgn committees to THE 8075 ForoDy H ORL HOLES IN When he took office last Janu. | y he gave orders for a “clean. up." The men thought he meant it to Just the exte decessors had mea were wrong When no resulta were forth moted men and Bt they Butler ¢ their coming, shifted didn’ beats him figured if he @ would get in did mean ¥ couldn't possibly last long, and tt was wisest to stand in with those been bones and in obey because who always ha he demoted a who wax one of Con n Varo's closest hench The man boasted he would But police men be back in a day or two, nothing of the sort happened. Then some of the men in the department began to believe But ler might survive, after all. It appeared to them a wise thin to obey this new leader. Gra ally about a third of the police force began to feel that way about {t and carried out Butler's ord orn This one-third is the back-bone of Butler's force, The other two- thirds of the men are kept mav- ing rapidly from beat to beat un: til they shall become converted, going at such a rate that they have no time to establish connec: tions and find neat and sources from which to en their incomes, Butler on nightly “surprise rounds” {9 watching the whole crowd, and by his new easy Smoking Room Stories 46] NEVER was much of a hand} for running around after folks," sald the man in the smoker | with the badge pinned under his coat, so that everyone would know France sufter the complete loss of |the he was a sheriff or some other | jhigh official. “But come times when | a follow geta so thirsty that he will | do anything for a drink. I was The \*bout to dry up and my bootlegger | Persons, had not been around for, lo! thes the Huguenots,|Many moons, 0 I goes to tho tele. | phone and calls a certain very pri- vate number, “ ‘Hello? I says after the usta} 15 minutes allotted to a telephone call. | ‘Is Mr. Fillups in? “ ‘Sure!’ was answered, would like to speak to him.’ “‘Nuthin’ doin’’ “‘But you said he was In! “Well, he'n in all right, but you | jeant’ speak to him for five years.’” \ SMILES An auto speeder discovers his mis- take by accident. see The failure waits for business to | pick up while the success gets out and picks it up. eee Neighbors should remember emall boys are no more a nuisance to them than they are to small boys, Taw ricur! (ABEL IT SPAGHETTI } y, WE LAST MACARON! TESTER, | How General Butler Is Ridding |’ Philadelphia of Booze and Vice} exploits them him is not nterest of vineed endang any man 1 have the whole secret With his Butler st vice. ce the ftir aga’ t of the year, his made me quor raids; have 1 140,000 gall ing in the here were 3 raided Alnorde: Thone are just exam from a long list ith the rusade well 1 took his next et tricting, which is desi; vorce his department from politi cal control Under the old plan tricts and wards had boundaries. Ward le wished to help a frienc had only to speak to t magis- dis. fentical aders who n trouble trate Now in cludes all or parts of at least Thus there nan magistrates in a district and an offending brother is just as apt—more #0 In fact—to be taken before a magistrate who hasn't the slightest interest in what the ward colleagues of the accused man may think of his sentence The law giving Butler power to do this has been on the statute books since 1867, but this fs the | first time it occurred to anyone to enforce it, SCIENCE ee | DEADLY RATS |} | Recent newspaper reports have of the increasing number of | principally children, who | have been attacked and bitten by | rats, in New York. N. N, Sameth,| |head of the New York organization | that wages war on rats and other |pests, says these reports will be in creasingly common, because Man Jhattan island, bounded almost whol: | ly by water, prevents emigration of | |the rodent population, The only | answer, he believes, is to make it unlawful to harbor rats, Man has lived tolerantly with | the rat for ages. Tho rat has al-| most no commercial value, as his | pelt {s worth little or nothing, con-| sequently he has not been disturbed | to any extent. Today a campaign of education {s being carried on against the rat. It is pointed out that he transmits, thru his fleas, | such deadly disease as bubonic plague and typhus. Not until this generation did man jhave any sclentific means for ex- |terminating the rat. Formerly a few were caught in traps, but now thousands are being attacked by the weapons of the chemist and biologist. each police district |told FABLES ON HEALTH LEARN HOW TO WALK ee Ten ‘W now that you have learned how to carry your self, the next hting you need to know is how to walk, 1 meanby that how to use your feet,” sald Mr. Mann's physical director. "Once you have managed to get & well poised body, you want to be} gure of well directed feet. “Such troubles as weak foot and} flat foot are more prevalent among wonen that men, It isn't altogether the arch, as many think, but a gen eral weakened condition of tho leg A. In 1866 by the republican help elect congressmen organized’? | dal of congres muscles that support the are “Faulty stading and walking can easily turn weak feet into flat feet. “A good oxercise for strengthening the leg muscles {s to rise upon the toes from 15 to 90 times each morn ing “People who too out place a U.S. Searches f BY R¢ What Folks Are Saying ————e ht single-handed » German ma ot it CAMPI By Hal Cochran D* D buys at inches tall 1, take it from me, there's room & pup nd that’s all. He promised the kids that he'd buy it that day, so they pick out a camp spot that's right. At supper time Dad gets a husky hurray and the pup” tent ia ted th Hing” th men that's as small as can be s two feet and six tent they call for ba Mom sta 1 kitch ut in the #, and she smih n door. Her youngsters are yard. There's funsin’ and excitement the galor 1s fob ha K Is make an easy ap ked full | phenc Johnny and others h the mania for DR most AUSTE: ange if ev en opping of the kind made by Archer, s given awa rd hitters?” KI operations much on th the house there's a| where |Un The t © as not for ny DELEGATE LAWSON, State Fed jon of Labor, Minnesota: “ I don't pitalistic or not, I will ut the damp 2 & noo, cent kids cal t camp! (Copyright, , for The Star) Sez Dumbell Dud: The claim that balloon tires are cush- tons for the car falls very flat on the hapless pedes- trian, ted Sta CLAR New York surgeon powerfu er, hear Does this mean t ing, MABEL WILL propose to make s © much It can’t be bh # attacked Bureau Casui writers: influence on automoble operation if|a Hon—Prov. xxv automobile owners realized tive endeavor to operate more | meant individual | lower insurance rates.” ‘It mi safely CE 4 myths. ced minor league player dom, M'WILLIAMS, cessful gland LA id 5 take e is no hobby Surety under. D badge of was signed one sel. | bar a catehin of Mason walked up company J | wounded | men on | other wounded | crying for water got him. Mason c ledo, Ohio. and He started tow ring Bresnahan before ~and Sometimes | P but| soldiers advanc y machir brought weeks.” FOLLETTE: wou 1 station kman enlisted inn. from The t f, tells Carl C venth who Belleau Wood. citation of W. 16. ‘Sergeant Carter fear! his platoon in an attac shot down by D. defend In th couraging ard two men who were a bullet me fr back ded men to a first Later he was kille (13 War Medals Wait Claimants;|# or Missing Heroes nfs courage the a for the his om To- gun fire and five ef war department rec you the story com infantry, “went west” in You'll find this in General ssly led k uritil machine gun bul let, after which he arose to his psycho! t naturally years and feet and urged his men National | The wicked Mee when no onward and then plunged forward, dead.” | A Thought man pur- have a salutary |sueth; but the righteous are bold as that a eae is the eternal IGHT Wendel! Phillips. sun; ths world cannot delay its coming. 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