The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 12, 1924, Page 8

PAGE & ci The Seattle St write 068 ar Ave eas Service. By 0, year $3.60 Newepaper B Fras Ave. Will We Stop Laughing? oA DREARY predic philosophy } point that w People ce Comedi future, the * h audiences are becor more solemn, with Da ou “© to make me smile” attitude t This is due partly to the war, which took most of the ® joy out of life shocked people into serious attitude i 10 s a result of publicity. In former gen j jokes traveled slowly, were carried about by } theatrical troupers and drun Today the new joke wn Broadway is carried by papers, vaudeville and Yadio all over the country kly, Naturally, with such fast circulation, the life of a joke fs shorter. Then, too, humor has become a scientific business. Hur nd column conduct are 2 old ones have been cla. dreds of clever co on the alert for r t Ww Bified, rehashed, disguised, served time and ag Ever one knows them—except the rising generation, But scientific distribution of available humor is not what Shaw has in mind when he predicts a future without laughs. Primitive man, he didn’t know enough to Jaugh, since wit involves a certain amount of intelligence “The men of the future will know too much to laugh ft anything. We laugh at what we do not understand, or at what seems inferior to us. In both cases, our pride in- duces us to assume an exalted position and haughty air. Men used to laugh at Columbus and Galileo. Now they try to joke about Einstein. “On the social side we are prone to laugh at people | Svho appear inferior or who are forced to assume degrad- Gng positions. The prince laughs at the pauper. The city person snickers at the rustic. The native citizen smiles lat the immigrant. But these are only the signs of in- Congruities and inequalities which the future will remove. Laughter, as Shaw views it, is a characteristic of man in his present stage of mental development. When men me more intelligent, he expects, they'll laugh less. » How often do you see a scientist or highbrow laugh? However, if the future has nothing in its existence to | grin about, it can always look back and laugh at us. The Real Use ‘RENCH inventors claim they have perfected a “ghost PL ( plane’—airplane without crew, piloted by wireless, Siierying explosives to be dropped on enemy armies by Zadio control. This is about the one-hundredth time such - @n invention has been announced. Of course, it’s quite E ible. More than that, inevitable. ‘ou’ll notice the @aim for this uncanny plane is that St can’ deal out death. No boasting about economies in transporting mail or express to far distant or hard-to-get- es. le airplane, to date says, is primarily a war device. How ’Bout Your Hat? MAN reveals his real self by the way he wears his ag claims Dr, C..W. Kimmins of University of n. Says a hat well down over the forehead indicates @ thoughtful, solemn wearer. Pushed to the back of the head, it advertises happy-go-luck Tilted on the right the owner is usually a rowdy. Slouched on the left, j the customary position of a mental deficient. Women are intuitively wise when they fuss about get- pg their hats on at just the right angle. It’s the most 7 et trick of make-up. Maybe the best way for a to play safe is to wear none at all. Our Invisible Slaves 'ARNESSING the internal heat of the earth—this is urged by E. W. Rice, Jr. He's not an impracticable dreamer. He's an executive of General Electric Co. | Rice refrs to Italy, which alrady is obtaining power heat that comes up thru holes bored into the ground in volcanic regions. Rice champions the suggestion made in 1919 by Sir q les Parsons, English scientist, of boring a hole 12 | Miles into the earth to tap the terrific heat that exists under our feet. Parsons overlooked the fact that a hole cannot be drilled that deep, because the cable holding the drilling tools ould bréak of its own weight. Maybe inventors will perfect suitable cables. In the meantime, man is overlooking several other in ible slaves. For instance, we have barely begun to | Rarness our waterpower. The day will come when every ‘reek and rivulet will be dammed up by farmers to furnish electric current for their needs. The ancients recognized the gigantic power of the Wind. They invented the windmill. Since then, no prog- Tess. Here we are, searching for power, while we watch | wind uproot trees and tear down buildings in a twinkling _=—work that would take man days. The ocean tides will be harnessed in time. Everywhere, men toiling to create power. | power going to waste in nature. Everywhere, The Merger Experiment HE Von Sweringens seem to have accomplished their “Nickel Plate Merger’’—consolidation of the N. Y., C. | & St. L., Perz Marquette, Erie, Hocking Valley and Chesa- peake & Ohio railroad systems. While the interstate commerce commission has been " Fecommending such giant mergers, or groupings, for some time, results of such wholesale elimination of competition | are yet to be demonstrated. Economy of operation, thru the wiping out of duplications in expenditures, will, un- “doubtedly, come, but, in most cases, consolidation of sys- tems has resulted in merciless monopoly and extortion. It will be somewhat remarkable if this “Nickel Plate Merger” © doesn’t furnish more strong argument for government ‘ownership. a T'S really uncanny how conts get his nanny; just shirt sleeves are better, Says he. And brushes and combs were not made for men’s domes ‘cause they're feminine-like as can be His tie may be tied in the regular place, but it's never a thought that he Bives it. His styles have a real independent-like trace. It's HIS Iife—so "he honest® lives it. | Phe fashions that come and the fashions that go never bother this fellow Sat all. He wears what he pleases; the world can all know that he scoffs @t the dress-parade call. Suspenders hang out where all people may see and they're never old. Fashioned to him. He feeis from the pressure of belts he s free; just THE SE TLE STAR [ Another Delilah ( =e BUT DAGAAB IT, =) | | 1ausT AAD Wh Aare BOBBED KOT LONG AGO | BY The WASAINGION DSARMAMEAT CONFERENCE Europeans See Japs Engineering), World Coalition Against U. S.|' BY WM. PHIL rity Smoking 66 AW, close up! back and I elt, was poor piece of chees: clate a lau other | | | | | jing p long at one time? “‘And what n grin. “You should b roar as he rejoined, mouth’ ” one way Stories said one pol to another jn the smoker if [ can’t appre ul epe expect to get that wa you can do or ever ha rough-house it under the you've ever been able to speak for} roof is that, 7 LT asked back with a broad|these is charity—1 Cor, 13:13. 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One Chicago sold his self to walk to the It would do them had to get out zywhere you go, you ‘ump in And it the ems little doubt that the auto has made thousands of people They become #o used to phys in order to force him: too much on and| director told | 4 gtreet car.” that they pel- iclan recently homes of his |live sufficiently car's in| | —$__ patients and thus get the necessary walking. There are innumerable men who to their place of work to make walking to the lob possible. It merely requires | waking up half an hour earlier and the exercise secured would than compensate for the amount of sleep lost More more short business men, particularly those who have the auto bug or are office should arrange their habits hat they do more walking in connection with their daily lives. |body of pat W hat Folks ABRAHAM M nitarian: “The } RINB HENRY FORD: “If the truth were known al the Ku Klux Klan, it sked upon as 4 CHALIF, Lous Amer H an Society naughty, lovey the waltz ts HARRY A DARDEN, rity of the co. GEOF r and play business of the fig more wright | stage intellig s than t¢ 1 be In t other means yo made intelligible to the This is an age of specialists And in keeping with the times, this is a store of specialists—specialists in photography. The fact is very evi- - dent in the superior de- veloping, printing and enlarging that our finish- ing department turns out. Bring in your films and see for yourself. gnother original whim. 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