The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 19, 1924, Page 8

nE 8 The Seattle St ar Political Faith HIS story went the riea genera- tions when the lead urties were the whigs and tories, a polit a tory proudly itical fait he answered: unced his pc Stood up and a why he was a Was one before me “And why was y “Because “Huh!” grunte father had both “A Whig,” tl the tory Political parties for Being asked ec my father father a tory ifather was,” wh “If your father ‘cools, what would you be? answertd sweetly. many were automatically perpetuated | average voter “passed on” his Political faith to his children, Boys, raised in a republi- fan home, naturally became republicans. So with demo- crats. Probably this was because politics was taken more se- riously in the old days. Voters were gullible, believed everything the platform tors told them. , worked themselves into frenz around election time Marched miles in torchlight processions, ever ready to fight with fists and br in support of their party's candidates. In this atmosphere, a republican father taught his boys that democrats were satanic, Democratic pa’s said the same of their rivals. } Politics. isn’t taken as seriously now. Average intelli- gence is higher. Voters think more for themselves, And, too, the old-time elections were somewhat in the nature of national drunken debauches, even long before General Harrison's “hard cider” campaign, when liquor was served free in thousands of log cabins specially erected all over the country by spellbinders. When women got the vote, there was much speculation as to how many would be influenced by their husbands, in balloting. way of answering this question in a broad Sense, of cx But all of us know households where husband and wife vote opposite tickets, automatically €anceling each other's vote. The interesting possibility rises, that a peculiar new Period of history is at hand, in which children will have their political faith educated into them by their mothers, Gust as fathers used to guide their sons. At any rate, ® the average mother has a lot more influence with the children than father ha A Bit of Evolution ( time is the greatest of all reformers. The United States department of agriculture, after Years of watching the co-operative farm movement, has Mecided it is not anarchistic in purpose or intent, and has ‘established a division of agricultural co-operation to as- Sist co-operatives thruout the country in -solving their problems. The decision was a foregone conclusion. The idea was Tegarded as dangerous and radical a few years ago. Now it is accepted by the party that stands for con- Servatism. | What is radical one year is conservative and “safe” and grand- years ° N se. What Do You Do Best? a camping trip, Rodger Dolan fished five days for salmon trout—and couldn’t even get a strike. He © was deep-trolling, about 190 feet down. An Indian, bribed with $5, took Dolan’ outfit, leaded the line so it ‘would sink only 75 feet. Then he cut off a minnow tail and tied it with thread in among the hooks of his “wob- ‘bler” troll—to make it look like the tail of a shiner. Pronto!—18 salmon trout took the bait in a day. © Dolan’s comment: “Well, the Indian ought to be able to catch fish. He can’t do anything else.” Specialization is what gets results. A few generations ago, when America was sparsely | populated and settlers were scattered thru the wilderness, "every man had to be more or less of a handy-man or #ack-of-all-trades except in: cities, where he could Specialization is an outgrowth of community life. It Was discovered, for instance, that one man made better ©» shoes than anyone else in town, and made them faster. "Obviously, it was foolish for him to devote his time to anything except shoe making. _ The tendency toward specialization has increased with the passing of time. We talk about ours being an “age of specialists.” And yet, in our increasingly complex “Civilization, specialization has barely started. When the lads of today mature to manhood, life will many times as specialized as now. The boy who is allowed to drift along without any definite idea of what he wants to specialize on later will strike out into the world for himself under a great handicap. But a greater handicap lurks in the danger of parents Opposing the line of work his instinct gravitates him to —trying to make a natural-born lawyer, for instance, be- come a doctor. Thrilling Along ‘HE LEOPOI.D-LOEB, the Panther-Bull and the De- { fense day thrills are past, but the baseball champion- ‘ship, election and Christmas shopping thrills are close at hand. It is a busy and not altogether unpleasant old world, With just one blamed thrill after another, but with pros- pects that, when a fellow has got tired of thrills, there’s going to be a good long rest. FOLKS did all things that they say they will do, what a wonderfu: world this would be. That sort of a stand would be something quite new, ) but it's something we never will ‘The talking we do js quite cheap, so they say, and perhaps that's the Feason we chatter. But seldom it is that we make talking pa Ukely the thing that's the matter. A fellow's old mind s@ts a wonderful pace when he lets it just run as it will. It’s working and planning all over the place in a whirlwind that threatens to kill. | And then ‘king. The planning is there and the talking is, too, but the tion is lacking. *Tis well to remember, when spouting away, that talking is flighty, Uke birds. It's Jouder than words, (Copyright, 1924, for The Star) lecides on big things that he'll do, All he needs is the right} ways been true and it’s still true today, that actiong speak | What's Next on the Skagit? Gorge Dam or Ruby Dai No S ells Why Council Opposes Uhden Gorge Plan CM Ne g, ‘ IN AL ICA BY PHILIP TINDALL ‘ . a A : a8 * , = byW:Poborl loran " z | abt j © 1924 NEA Service Ine. f ie a mi “i Lt Siat'necomboct ' -aponigepes. WANT SYSTEM THAT WILL x wae BA. E., i: . hat 1 wd ) flow STANDARDIZE “PEAK LOAD" : ‘ | Now GO ON WITH THE sToRY 200" t j L Booey " 1 of 50 p t The Nethe : “ 2 lead been Roosevelt on the Natur uro waar ¢ whistle gave the “Good-bye, Teddy” jo we had been con I had ne al guard-of-honor the platform until they stood | Whit th lusty |cheers—and then a crowd on the platform joined in with spirit. “Good-bye, Teddy | good hunting!’ Those were the last words we heard, as the train gathered speed. Some enthi admirer of the great Ameri had shouted this Roosevelt—and astic n length. The Uganda rallway is the most | most interesting in the whole world tracks measure on in length; but since 1909 {t has been considerably extended, and there aro now many useful branch lines lead- ing off from the main artery road and on the lake steamers rt connection th it on the Vi Nyanza. Up 909, it had cost proximately 7,000,000 ‘There are few, if a |in the world which climb to such des as does this one, for it | high al i ches 8,300 fect at Mau Summit K Sight-seeing Marvel — the coach windows of no other raliroad in the world can one see such an extraordinary quantity of big game in their wild state, for it |traverses, between Mombasa an From ed game reserve in existence | than a natural zoological garden. As the special train laboriously snorted its way up the stiff gradie winding tort isly thru thick bu: country, to Changamwe, given a glorious view of | harbor and of Port Reitz. Port Reitz is a huge, land-locked, natural harbor, stretching three milew inland to the foot of the Shima hills and fully a half-mile wide. It bas an excellent anchorage, and there is practically no tidal stream, Further to the right was obtained a bird’s- eye view of Port Tudor, which Is only navigable by di6ws and similiar small craft. The earlier section of that strange railroad journey took Us thru almost indescribably beautiful scenery of a markedly tropical character; but at Samburu, 910 fect above the sea, we Kilindini 7 cowcatcher of hi wonderful and, at the same time, tho | p¢ | It 1s not a long system, for its main | enjoyed b: ome 584 miles) ast Africa: Wood fuel is used both on the rajl- | other raflroads | 4 | thar Nairobi, the largest and most crowd: | This | allel with y, which 4s| game reserve {s nothing more or less | MUch impressed with their complote lindifference to Sur iron steed we were | {amu THE SEATTLE STAR WHAT THE PURPOSE OF GORGE DAM WILL BE WHAT THE RUBY DAM known: ¢ a us *| WOULD DO FOR PLANT i f dam « Q be tm ed-noiled 1 tor H c ca Rhin thick ser cut up by numer or some provided suffi. obtained to insure peration thruout the ub of these huge and u! (: thing | Giraffes Are Seen | Theodore ‘ell at the top of his voice. | sure an We were soon running smoothly |seat upon u né supply of Bi Bridge—a s at h Mearns, le them to ture that links |Seious and Cruickshank as his com rement | Mombasa island with the mainiand,|panions, Kermit and the others ar and measures some 1,700 feet in|Joined me once more in our gullery ctor: seats on the roof of the train. fluctuations of nd July the r wher shed word, and { flows away in a flood even the most blase | which inundates or valley, and Is complete. Before we had traveled many | so far as the production miles out of Makindu, we all got a] of wer Is concerned. In the glorious vie of Mount Kilima-| winter the snows lie frozen in the ywed up boldly to the | railroad track, and its Aittiude of 19, g red sun. | What Folks and bathed m the ray ixing It was the lynx-oyed Kermit who first saw them. His shout and| GEORGEBERNARD SHAW, En pointing hand drew all eyes toward |! w “All aphies the group of some 20 giraffes who |ar were, cantering to the north |tell the truth about h of the track As € huge | his lifetime, volving, bull, the remainder appeared to |the truth t his be cows with hali-grown or young | frien nd colleagu nd no man calves, Is foc ell the truth to | poster nt he suppress. They could not have been more ds from us, and, as they ong unconcernedly par the track, all hamblec wo ere | | MAGNUS and enator, Minneso' Their = gait was a source of great |® dérned poor milker ent to Kermit and the oth-| 8. REP, MAY Shortly after breakfast we reached |"There are Simba station—a famous railroad |one congresswoman. 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