The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 9, 1924, Page 8

THE SEATTLE SATURDAY, AUGUST 9. STAR 1924 BUTLER CLEANS HOUSE! BY RUTH FINNEY wate three @ on the Buch 3 LITTLE BIOGRAPHIES -|Why La Follette| | | Fights Railroads |" Who Broadcast First? Two Men Claim Honor The Seattle Star ng Co, 1801 Seventh Ave, Phe! erprise Association and United Prese Service, n. B months $1.60, # menthe $2.00, yen Published Daily by The Star Publis! Main © News, Mall, out of ct! = How Coolidge|_| What Made Davis’ | ™~|Got That “Cool” | |Hair Turn Gray : ee cd Speclal Represent, Mere | Mew York effiog ‘effies, Tribune B m office, Tremont Bidg Bids Canadian Pacific Bids He Knows, But Will He? SéTT IS a wise 1 ho knows when to stop work,” says Rev. James jerson, of Syracuse It is a wiser man who stops upon knowing when, The country is full of men who are fagged out by the daily grind, who know it, and yet, with one excuse or another, don’t stop. They can’t afford it, they think, and yet a good rest $s a money-making enterprise, in the long run Or, the old shop or office wouldn't get along, if they Jaid off; and so, the rising young lieutenants in the busi- hess get no chance to show the managerial stuff that’s in them, and, because they haven't been tested or given A chance at experience, the business does break down When death or disease compels “the old man’s” vacation. The business that is dependent upon No, 1, @ay after day, is in a shaky condition, in these times, and the best way to teach No. 2 how to swim is to take him by the hind leg and throw him into seven or eight e feet of water; that is, get out and give him a chance to \ - . Show what is in him. a rpg pa Divernon : ; s +s A good vacation is medicine and a profitable business father always enterprise, and every fellow whose nose is on the grind- Stone of hard work is entitled to it. This sounds just like a doctor coming in and saying *You're sick,” and letting it go at that, with no attempt at welief. So, we'll add a prescription: Take a fish rod, or a gun, or a put-stick, or the old “Lizzie,” and go ‘way off somewhere where telegrams e and other worldly affairs, save perhaps mos- @uitoes, can't get at you. A of the most cote of American solely There is no no boastful is the odd sin | ts obviously more surprised at the uproar bh an created. Tam ¢ a I would do,” ing what I said he remarks, “and it 2 is what they sald they wanted yi , and was to take the police artment out “Fighting B of politics and that is what I am even now, doing * will get w fig’ There you have the keynote to Vw ; th lage gr as that, call- Golf and tennis were mo early 4 Verme early days r i. » The grindstone will go ’round and ‘round as usual and fome bright young lieutenant will be sharpening his Wits on it, for the good of the busines Living Longer ATH now does not come to the average American Z/ until he is nearly 58 years old. So claims the statis- tician of a large insurance company. Butler. Butler says he knows nothing of politics and cares leas, His enemies are not so sure, For he has out-foxed the fox and has behind him the solid support of the pec and every newspaper in the clty. Undoubtedly the sporting ele- ment of the thing—one man against the whole machine— makes a strong appeal to: the He means what he says. * be w Y ob over a on th ch w ing ayn being about two centuries hind the age, but as & popular o sport. ou put a toad on one end of a ingle, balanced t shingle log and hit the ot nd of the shingle with an ax, ne toad ge sky-high with « Irp of mu se. Yourlg Calvin as an adept at this sport. Be- cool and lucky, he could ons in the regulation knee no, Bob, has always had arge following. When but 10 years of age he had an it whose fame for making “sneck- en” was statewide, and it was habit to go over to Aunt on her baking days, . and get a hatful of Then he would go st. eating the deli- h a large following of later visit to Lon- Davis’ hair opprobrium of always find a toad and he never vil ze boys. And today, while it is not known what he has in his hat, a lot of folks are still following him. A Thought | Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall. |—1 Cor. 10:12. When the civil war started, the average duration of life was only about 40 years. In George Washington's day it was around 30. ~ Mark, these are AVERAGE figures. The gain has made chiefly by cutting the death rate among your Children, especially babies. People who reach maturity S don’t live any longer than formerly, if as long. Fewer “because §€ cour | die in early youth, that’s all. a peace times.” There's one of h quotes ¢ people “The whole secret of the thing the fact that al aspirations,” in the way of the ax. Phe whiteness hair-is acc 1 for in but x of them worth more than pass tion h as the over-str of his hai out what of Mr. Davis’ I have no says But- other Smoking Room Stories ways, are men- n oe Butler took this Phila | Who gets credit for the first broadcasting station—Frank » trom | the | Conrad (upper right), who twas on the air from his Wilkins- |burg (Pa.) garage (also above) aa early as October 17, 1919, or Harold J, Power (lower left), who started station GatWicn iho aide oe |1XE, later WGI (below), in December, 1916? | thats Heutenants which | girt MAN tn ed as tho y the 23rd Pi then not be any told the one about the smoker, who look- he might be ab m backward religtc his corpa, interesting fa dull in ted my too Mth eee Improved Corn tae | [GXARMERS, who suffer heavy money losses from frosts, i will appreciate the importance of this news: A “cold "weather corn” that grows on South American mountains as high as 12,500 feet above sea-level (where it’s never "any too warm) is being introduced into the United States. The ears are small and imperfectly formed, by Ameri- 1 tan standards, but maybe our norHenltusal scientists Cos neces ‘‘mprove them by cross-breeding—and produce a corn less easily killed by frost, That would help cut the cost of What Folks en Are Sayi eyelet q Saying Q How can one destroy angle stions in the hlatory of rad What of This? REV. CHARLES R. JOY: “English | Worms in flower pots? Pr erg ide leper ae al d to be colored ‘ ¥ had its h in religion and| 4- By watering the plant with a! ry 4, FY s ways co . lo about o: ou J E ARE a sickly, feeble nation when it comes to get- spay = dof jteioes os d eeletlag. of. Hens heat ane oan of g a liquor prescription from the doctor. Enough Sa ahh aap tee earl | Pe gry | child, facta produced by the hisky to fill nearly 11 million half-pint bottles was sold EDWARD 8. MARTIN, writer:| ay Ga a a awe aay porn tysaced tacit ikl sibasesela this i “The impo hing ¢ an gel = 0 yea petwee: i way in the 12 months ended June 50. rs Werteatt tony carecaiar Mmun.| | + question of fact or informa dates broadcasting’s Tt was not quite enough to furnish a half pint for Jaane creation gets ahead from thy| | tion by wri The Question birth. Vevery 10 Americans during a whole year. But it added [dog and the horse and the monkey | | Editor, 1322 New York ave. According to age 20 million dollars to the medical profession's in- io le, e glowy Washington, D. C., and enclosing casting started “strseapaln test Gam.” we ‘he slowworm and the! | (00 cents th:foossstampetorre || 1916, under his The cost of living is high at every quarter. pay \ pty. No thedioll, “legal or marttal CALVIN Personal replies, confl- Medford Hillside. cording to Davis, do not ach All letters must ea tribute, cy DMONITION dew a told her mother that she must descend, as m the tnder herb, ® melting flakes of snow; the it falls, the longer it dwells upon and the deeper it sinks into WO men claim Questions Po) Fin ot ting ¢ Answered * the the father of distine- con to neo pa til ask-| One of pen ain! next.” that’s not the real reason. truth of the matter fs that Butler never yet quit un. der fire and hasn't the slightest idea that such a thing is even ff he knew father and tions of modern times is a smooth|s and the next night|"o8d surface that will not Rex was tick-|Pery in wet weather. 4 I asked God | F Harold J. Power, | American | was no answer search corporation, o I was pray Q. What will the earth's dis 4 Hilleide, Mass, and HL | ling mo in the foc |from Mara be on Augu , to him stop. There was no | A. 34680000 » nu | answer, I had to take the mat-| . ett = 7 ter into my own Bo last Q. How many deaths in the U. |night when I said my prayers, for| were there from cyclones and torn: |the tast time I said, “God, please} does in 19227 excuso me, but you must have a/ A. One hundred and thirty-three.| |iot of other children to IMaten to,| V ° ve, are the be slip FABLES ON HEALTH FIRST AID HINTS | Mann of any town|a specially prepared cauterizing out ted on his vacation tn his | fit, which is a great {niprovement on carried in his pocket a|the more primitive remedies. of firstald hints, whic patient Into the eded in an emergency ing apply cold wa- Some of these were: Snake bite—Tie a cord ve the wound; suck it rene ») | jand elther cut adjoin resiaen awes © hot fron at once. a solution of salt-water or weak am- . some parts of the West snake- | monia is used. President Bryan? M*® Th victims have been known to| Burns—Cover with cooking soda, stash bitten section, inject gunpow- | placing wet cloths over it. Also olive of the vice presidential can: being the next president der and ignite it. oil and soda, or olive oll and white However, {t is now possible to buy |of egg. there has been since the modern od of was put in fo Why? If you want the detailed ex- planation of how this might hap- pen, with the biographies of the three vice presidential candidates, {ill out the coupon below and mail to our Washington bureau: make hands. in of br Practically unnoticed. HE sta ver, to |Short Miss | Might be Ponf. } and now that the radio is in you won't mind if prayers any more.” And God sa me, ay don't mention it, Agatha Brooks.” I don’t say my| Sun-stroke Despite the wrangle over the parental rights to this radio tight! Poisonous Insect stings—Carry {o- thoroly | dine swabs for use in cases where parts with |stings and wounds may become in- three of broad. bite December, direction, at Power, in broad 17, Frank Pa advice. COOLIDGE: “Doubters ¢, skeptics do not con ics do not create.” bu WILLIAM JAMES, philosopher. “One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communtcation| 4. The latest available sta of hearts than hours spent in inward | show $90,007. wrestling with the mental demon of $305 * uncharitable feeling.” eee STANTON DAVIS KIRKHAM: “A healthy mind does not know ithe meaning of ennul.” “ee COL. COURTLAND STERNESS, commissioner of Canadian northwest mounted police: “If the movies would only let us alone! No officer or man gains his praise in the press, He {a Judged by the work he does and the way he does ft.” og began on October at the home of rad {n Wilkebarre, Power says ao al ‘ondcast- ing started in 1916, from station IXE, call letters for his station before government insued the broadcasting licenses now in vogue. Concerts were sent out two and three times a week But {t was not until May 20, 1921, that Power began a r ular dally broadcast prog under tho call letters WGI Station KDKA, at East Pitts. burg, however, began. official broadcasting with election night of November 2, 1920, nearly aix months earlier, More than a year previous to this date, Frank Conrad, Westing- | | | dential. | | signed. ——————— More Energy TON of coal now is made to generate a third more electricity than five years ago, government bulletin S. At that, fully nine-tenths of the potential energy of coal ‘wasted—goes up the chimney or out in ashes. Not to ition the terrific power locked up in coal atoms, which ure generations will unprison and use. Andustrial chemistry is easily the greatest field that es before American youth. Electrical engineering and fiation science are others. Winter Building NTER building is urged by Herbert Hoover to Q. What is the Sunday school en- y . roliment in the United States? the Q. How long is a meter? A. $9.87 inches POLITICAL EDITOR, Washing- ton Bureau, The Seattle Star, 1322 New York Ave. Washing: ton, D. C. Q. When was the Southern Con- federacy actually set up? A. February 4, 1861, from siz states — South Georgia, Fiorida, Alabama, Missis- sippi and Loulsiana—met at Mont- gomery, Ala, and set up a pro- visional government with Jefferson Davis of Mississippi as president and| delegates Carolina, the bulletin BIOGRA- PHIES OF THE VICE PRESI- DENTIAL CANDIDATES, and inclose herewith 6 cents in looso T want Protecting Yourself stabilize employment and prices in the building les and construction industries. It’s certainly desir- “able, but it will be next to impossible to accomplish, even with money inducements. Man is animated by savage HOME-MADE BY HAL COCHRAN Alexander H. Stephens of Georgia as vice president, Subsequently Texas, Arkansas, Virginia, North Carolina} and Tennessee and governments rep- resenting a minority of the people house engineer, had begun ex- perimenting with radio trans mission from the garage of his home at Wilkinsburg, Pa. Ho postage stamps for same: 6 HEN you have all the machinery, tools and implements to expand fully your own broadcast concerts every Satur- day night But {t was not of 1920 that H. P. Davis, vice president of the Westinghouse company, conceived the idea of broadcasting from his plant. He moved Conrad's idea to East Pittsburg, enlarged tho plant and started regular broadcast. ing with election returns on November 2, 1920, According to Power, IXE had been doing this for almost four yoars, altho official recognition of this station as a broadcaster did not come until May 20, 1921, while KDKA got official sanction to broadcast on October 18, 1920 Officially, therefore, KDKA is tho first broadcasting station. In point of fact, Station WGI 1s tho first. ROBIN D) COLUMBIA, robin owned by died recently at the age ef 17, Miss Ziegler placed the robin in a cage when it was young and cared for it Uke a canary, ‘The bird quickly became tame and answered to its name by three chirps, uttered in duick succession. of Kentucky and Missouri applied and were admitted, and the perman-| ent constitution, modeled on that of the constitution of the United) be overplayed. Hvery timo that | States, was adopted in the autumn you may hear it, it sts a | of 1861. wholesome treat, anc no little La pees word I think of is home-made, You appreciate the foodstuffs that are purchased at the store and they satisfy the appetite, ‘tis true. But the’grub that makes you happy; makes you holler for some more, is the food that mother cooks herself for you. Apple plo that fairly savors of the finest kind of taste is the kind that makes you hungry when you're not, It's the brand that mother bakes you and no portion goes to waste, for the ple, from start to finish, hits the spot. : Home-made bread is haked at 9 ATA morning and it seldom lasts till Yes ¥ oe night, tho a baker's loaf is not as | @ In it truo that a murdered per- LAININ strongly, played. Is it just that. |son may have photographed on tho ye mother makes it in a way that | retina of the eye an Impression of ; Rigen sue seems just right? What's the |the murderer which can be in turn Rie stat reason that you like it best home. | photographed so as to identify tho| “I'm stuck on crossing city streets," Miss Ethel Nelson told Gere MA nfo RiGou uilite (Wap Paaek ne ee ven paren ALU nfortunately, ng Wes 80, the} Sal Agha tines Uteta ovatae atte eee and they get the home-mado | work of our detective forces would] atin naira ites thrill! It's a trajt that in each | be much simplified, It ts true that i ee have to stop a while because of tar they spread upon living soul Is born. ‘Tho it fen't to | Prof, Kuehne of Ietdelborg and their liking, yet they'll eat thelr | Prof, Boll of Vienna, succeeded,| “Whenever days are bright and hot, the tar is soft and fullest fill, when a youngster in | using most elaborate precautions gooey. I start to cross a tarry spot, and find it mighty gluey. the family pops some corn. and very delicate apparatus in ac- And when I try to lift my feet, it's mighty hard to do jt—~ (Copyright, 1924, for The Star.) curing certain results from the) my shoes reftiso to leave tho strect because they're stick | yas % retina of the eve of a rabbit, but ing to it! } their experiments were conducted) under setentific conditions such as} could never obtain except aa a re+ sult of laboratory experimentation service, your savings should be put aside to conserve that service, to maintain yourself, your home and your business against accident, fire, change of fashion, etc.” —C. W. Barron, publish- er Wall Street Journal, Savings Department Open Saturday Evenings 6 to 8 o'clock Resources $39,749,393.66 impulses, and one of the strongest of these is to build his fest in spring and summer, ahead of the cold months. The most complex economic problems are, after all, simple natural processes. Different ‘HE “vampire murderer” is charged with committing 17 murders in Hanover, Germany. If he had been in the army and killed 17 French or | Englishmen six or so years ago, they'd be pinning iron _ crossés on him now instead of trying to hand him over to the hangman. LETTER FROM HE & magic littl word that makes a fellow want to It's a word that never can until October Q. Do eye-teeth have anything to do with the eyes? A. No, they are merely @ popu- lar name for the canine teeth, Station Q. What is a “conference commit- tee” in congress? A, When a bill is passed dy one house of congress and amended by another, and the first house re- fuses to accept the amendments of the second, the differencea are com- posed by a special committee with members from both houses, called a conference committee. ROUND TRIP Excursion Fares on sale daily to September 15 Kansas City . $ 72.00 St.Louis. 81.50 Chicago: AT V7 i 2 141,56 147.40 8 to other im- Final return imit October $i, 1924, Liberal Mtop-over privileges going and returning. A side trip to Yellow: atone at small additional cost, Call on Hi, A. LAWRENCE General Agent, Passenger Dept, 1405 Fourth Avenue Phone EL lot 6033 HM. OLIN a: Gen Froth parents have the habit United States corn exports up to June 80th were less than a fourth those of tho previous year Sez Dumbell Dud: ‘ The origin of the peach is credited to both Persia and China, but now she can be found ev- erywhere you look. Clap a sea shell to your ear and you'll hear sounds. ‘That ts because the shell is almost n perfect fonator’—a thing which magnifies sounds. ‘Tho ear is not nearly so perfect rowonator. ‘There are sounds you do not hear at all, and the shell brings them to “And if, perchance, my shoes are white~and many girly possess them—TI trike the tar and then, Good Night! How badly tar can mess them! $0 when they tar a thorofare and when I pause to view it, I always want to ‘take the alr like aviators do it,” § I must admit the case 1s sad, and worth a bit of kicking It’s apt to make a person mad to find his pedals sticking Perhaps it wouldn’t be so hard for men who have to to simply smear the tar with lard, and let us silde ag 4: Dexter Horton National Bank Third Ave. and Cherry St. ROOSTER KILLS CAT KINGSTON, N. ¢ iH war fare between a cat and a rooster at the home of Jack Howard here, ended in the death of the cat cently. How separated fighters and went into the house fclentists may that a bull doesn't become angry merely because a flag or rag is red. He becomos excited when he sees anything unusual, nol|to get firstald materials for the matter what its color, But red colorjcat. When ho returned, he found is seen quicker than anything elve,jthat the rooster had renewed the and hence he responds to it quicker. hostilities and killed the cat, re. the Second Ave. and Cherry St, (Howe Bide) Seaboard Branch—Weatinke nt Pike, Inrd—S22S Hallard Ave: Dewter Horton State Bunk, Georgetown