The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 23, 1924, Page 6

PAGE 6 The $ Publishe: Ban Francisco bigan Ave; New ont Bt A Year for the Bob g a secondary period of popular- th ity. early | ne well-dressed women either hob their hair or effect a substitute. In two more months three-fourths of them will be in the bobbed ranks. So ffer, vice president of the National Per association, reports J. Schae manent Wavers' He says the general opinion that the bobbed hair rage will ls It might be a good idea for pc tion this news at gatherings of women voter Same principle that baseball or bootlegging Men's attention from polit pronto, among hairdre st about one more year tical leaders not to On th can shift ers is Farm Turnover EARLY a fifth of the nation’s farm 1922, the government learns by chee Were driven away by financial necessity. Mc hy the cities or by lands at a distance. With a fifth of the farms changing occupants in one year, farming loses much of its old-time stability. The Migratory spirit apparently stronger in the country than in cities. The readjustment of owners and tenants continues. In the long run, farming probably will be bet ter off for it. moved in up. Some e were lured We're Learning CHOOLS for feeble minded and subnormal children are steadily increasing their activities. In 1900 there Were only 29 such schools in America, with 10,127 pupils. Now there are at least 220 schools with over 65,000 pupils. Backward children in former generations were given Up as hopeless, often even ridiculed. Now we know that in many cases they require only specia! training to bring them to normal or in the immediate neighborhood. Yes, we're learning—tho slowly—about that most mysterious thing in creation, the human brain, The Real Reason IFTY per cent of the prisoners in Sing-Sing are under 25, and 87 per cent are under 30. The number of boys between 16 and 20, who are serving sentences in New York prisons, is larger today than ever before. The conditions do not reflect any sudden change in “the Younger generation” of our period. The roots of it all Were the environment and training of as far back as 80 years ago. Lawabiding adults are reaping the whirl- wind of past neglect of youth. Red Tape EATH takes Elijah Watt Sells, born 1858. He was one of the original efficiency experts. Readers with Tong memories will recall that in 1892 Sells and Haskins Tevised the bookkeeping system of the United States gov- ernment. Tf the simplified Sells-Haskins system is still in use, it’s lucky we haven't the system used prior to 1892, Especially in the income tax auditing department. Thoro checking-up is necessary. The real trouble is that the tax law is too complicated, a quite natural condition in view of its being framed by lawyer-politicians, Opportunity ILE other farmers were discouraged by a “grass- ' hopper plague,” Victor Niles of Indiana began catch- ing the hoppers to sell to fishermen for bait. He found his market unlimited, selling 800 a day at a cent apiece. Opportunity -is not found, it is made, And trouble sometimes is opportunity in disguise. Values ape bought by his father 55 years ago for $65 an acre is sold in Chicago by Julius Hohlfelder for $63,- 000 an acre. The land itself has not changed in those 55 years. The increase in value is due to the productive activities of the Swarms of people who have made the land a center of congestion. Julius gets the reward, quite proper as long as we have the present “unearned increment” system. ’ Later the public may claim for itself all values created by the public's activities. If the airplane breaks up the cities, city land values will crash. Railroad Service pe existence of a transportation company is only jus- t tified by its degree of service to the public. Who Says so? A “radical?” No. The speaker is Henry Thorn- ton, president of the Canadian National Railways. ~ Applying his theory: The primary function of a rail- toad is service to the public, not just money-making. - Thornton properly suggests that the principle applies to individuals in their relation to the public, quite as much 48 to railroads. ca ‘HEN cometh the first, there’s no doubt you are cursed with a payment p- on this or on that. Though you're up to your neck you must write out a check so the promise you made will stand pat. | The mailman will ring and a notice he'll bring; just a notice that some- thing Is due. feribble a payment or two. ‘The story's the same; it’s just part of the game. It was easy to purchase and charge. But installments that come, tho they cut down the sum, make the promise you made loom up large. Ce) | DAILY POEM It just makes you think so you get out the Ink and you! rH SEAT loran NEA Service Inc. © 1924 TODAY | ” the gue the & " at Mombasna, th British Bast Africa the railroad journe t at pon the gar fed Kapiti plains, 288 miles b Ant, With Col. Roosevelt a Kermit, and three acier * of hin staff—Maj A mund Heller and J, Allen Jible good luck comes to the * Roosevelt and Kermit © weeks of thelr |NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY) {nto the beautiful gardens that su governor, I knew that they would most probably be four “ for birds and small mammala M | diag quite correct. The we i enjoying the still hunting for new er thetr collect! Social tions bored them, but atural did not. They never allowed a to capture | them, beneath a and Col. Roosevelt —fellow sportsmen. ened by the and Loring were intently enga, upon catching some of the m fine stone building standing in ex j bats which fitted hither and thither! tensive and pretty grounds. It was in the moonlit ground of Govern-| most comfortably i and ] ment it regulation e¥®-| provided exceptional my quar ning civilization madeltersy for all of the 1 [their efforts appear somewhat in Tn: between’ thé social rounds of | congruous, perhaps; but neither sct atist apy fact. }galety, Col triously on ed to be aware of the | ventures and was able K | of subu: date ural ~~ Likes “Kidding” led the Ge ernment He wn amateur per “Nalrobl Fol way Institute in the ce nd the gene always The prog was the f ’ | tainment with topical » 4 s ten by local officials of the gov bilities ment, with many humorous allusions) y to the guest of he and the} Africa's Possib: | second, a playlet entitled, “Bluebeard | Africa h had been ening, after cal dramatista Theo-! 4. oral mevelt’s hearty laugh was| y ard well above t t jer of th A perti ongs that the songs are well worth reproducing. Tho words were writ ten by Benjamin Eastwood, the | Chief auditor of the Uganda rallway,| quirements. of i ‘ a conjunction . tos that a only suitable f ns the chief secretary of the govern jand Africans. It is a matter purely of climatic condition In some areas |the whites can live and settle per . as in our own west, but t * from the titled “Felis as follows A Gay and was ‘The words we: coax nate is such that only Africa can hope | ator natives of India or | to survive.” “The government of East |has set apart the hig A lion lurked {n his lonely lair, As African lions do, For he liked to be where he could Africa belt for Bhatt white settlement ever since they ona haute Gheanlanoed’ to Invite Seastcbease’ 10 © little buck, with a stroke| i vac ey Saeki 5 ods dacs, here, in 1903,” said Hinde. of luck at Is a very wise policy.” Jexclaimed Roosevelt, as he gave point to his assertion’with a thump of his fist on the table. “There can be no possible question about Its wisdom. Every possible encourage ment should be off\red to Europeans jto come out here, take up the land }and develop it. Non-white people should be encouraged equally, but} | In our wonderful re's 200. | His large inside he nightly fed with tebra or hartebeesto instead, | “There isn't a scrap of doubt,” | sald he, | “This diet’s exccedingly good for me, “For I grow fat, fat, fatter, “What on earth docs it mat, mat, matter, “If the way that I creep on the beasts In thelr slerp, not to settle where there is any “Makes the poor things scat, scat,| Possibility for them to come into} open rivalry with the Europeans.”| On the afternoon of Sunday, May 30, Col. Roosevelt took Kermit | Dawson and myself out to visit the Roman Catholic mission at Kikuyu. | scatter”? “He hunted game in the moonlight bright, With never a thought of harm: But he got quite a fright, when} It In conducted by the French fath. there hove in sight ers, and is situated some three miles Teddy armed to the teeth with a) Outside of Parklands, suburb of knife and sheath, jatrobt. | | And a riflo beneath his arm, a ee The Colonel plugged him with al Praises Missions laugh, x- — — ——« While Kermit took his photograph,| We spent a very interesting hour | Said he, “Theso Wall Street boys| or so at the mission, and were taken | would cry— jall over tho estate and buildings by | “If they knew how near I'd been to| the good fathers in charge. There die, was a convert school attached to yh, this country’s bull, bull, bully! | the mission, and Col. Roosevelt ap- ve enjoying it full, full, fully, peared to be much interested in the ‘or {t euchres the best they can|fact that amongst the pupils—who show in the West, were the children of European set- “That's so wild and wool, wool,|tlers—were a few Pars! children woolly!” They were the only exception to the rule that {t was a school of Euro. $$ —__—____________y| pean children only. The mission also | Jokes Reporters | lowned a splendid coffee estate—they | I __________ ———¢ , had been the ploneers In coffee- Another topical song that evening| rowing in Kast Africa—the trees |had reference to the general com-|0f which were most prolific in thelr ment locally at the well-aired disap-| Yield of berries pointment of some visiting members| As we drove back to Nalrobi in| of the American press at not having|the cool of the evening, I asked been able to accompany the Roose-| Col. Roosevelt what had been his velts on thelr hunting trips. | Impressions. | This particular song was entitled “I must confess to great admira- “B. E. A. (with apologies to Rud-|tlon for the work of all missions in | yard Kipling)” and was rendered to| Africa,” he said, with conviction in| the tune of “Mantalay.” The words| his tones. “There is something very | |of the chorus follow: |fine in tho manner they all auletly | | jand unobtrusively go to work, with Yes, he shut out all the press Jout pressing their convictions and And he left them there to guess.|@llxion too persistently upon the |They raved, and growsed and|Matives of the countryin which they | grumbled, labor. | | They were left In such a mess. I like to seo them teaching the} | mation * It seems that it’s truo that some folks—maybe you—in their payments | 4nd charges grow If you let payments go its best that you know| But that’s all passed and done with, im the place you'd better pay cash. | For they were not far away; | But, in case that you charge, whether littlo or large, nend the monthly| \"4 ‘helt news '8 scattered broad. amount unafraid. Just keep at it until you can get tho real thrill when| Over all tho world today. the final installment {s paid. (Copyright, 1924, for The Mar) ‘ash. | Still he sent in news one Tuesday— It ts nice to be pollte— But the New York papers had it On the previous Sunday night. Oh! it really was a frost, And one finds it to one's cost If ono tries to balk tho press-men, One 1s very often lost! This song was as much enjoyed by the Hoosevelts as it was by the newspaper men present. The Roosevelts, father and son, natives useful arts and crafts, such 4s wo have just witnessed, ly the natives will realize that these missionaries are wise and good peo ple, and then they will be ready to follow them. Their progress must be slow, but if it 1s slow, it Is also sure. That is the most lasting form of progress.” . CHAPTER VI Pioneers of Two Continents Wo had left Nalrobl at mid-day on June n 2d by spectal train for Kijable, from whence the Rooso- velts, would start forth on their first prolonged safar! into the wilds of Africa. Wo arrived at our desti- nation just before sunset (Continued in the Next Issue) | cventual- | VITTORIO ORLANDINI, Massa I He’s “Wall Street Sphinx” and Earns Name ' BY GENE COHN N’ HUG Bept N . iT He has no He ( ph bout § ry i oom we juentions t succes | : oe did | | . If fan but pi ) wo much ag for cc rt | Ho plays a 12-hole game wit! thus gol John 1D. Rockefeller several bet ter, He la gifts, dint | $12 ) in wix ye He has given $2,000,000 for the | foundation aduate § | ot Business ation at |! tion in life to t I might gain The Street Sphinx started a week groc ery t* Ho later the org: ty houses: ays isa veil trable ailence | ea —_— Questions Ye Worth 300 Millions, but Few Have Ever Heard of Ba TUESDAY, SEPTEM ker THE WORLD'S RICHEST MEN). made a bang off the pl [not going to be pu after he had regaine Jhe calmly front of him and sa “ot Jers to come |their audience,’ ” A* Smoking Room ready (A Thought ) [ A Thought He that winneth souls is wise— j of warfare, « Pro 20, Stories fv nie Prov, xi oi oat with a retort In the po-luse of airplanes in ting, "Ie said one he smok ernat » the cur-} % “You have to be| ————— FABLES ON HEALTH ery er and course Id be the THE looked dov you —— SCIENCE Destructiveness start of the wor there were 30 4 © . Answered * || hese are, with n —_— Q. What ts the name of the in- strument used to measure the veloc- ity of the wind? A The ancmometer. Q Does a person who falls from a high altitude die before reaching the ground? > | A. It ds not kmoton, but df a0, it would be from syncope, or in plain language, heart failure induced by fright or shock . ‘OU can get an answertoany Question of fact or Intorma- tion by writing The Question Editor, 1223 New York ave, Washington, D. C.,, and enclosing two cents {n loose stamps for re ply. No medical, legal or marital jadvice. Personal replies, confi- jdential. All letters must be! | signed. ! & eee Q How did Stockton, Cal, get its name? \ 4. 1t was named for Commodore R. F. Stockton, toho participated in| the conquest of California. see Q. What can a man do to get his record corrected, if he enlisted and was discharged from the army under an assumed name? | A. Write to the adjutant general, war department, giving full infor-| on name, place, dates of enlistment and discharge and service | in the army, and ask for a correc- tion of the records, What Folks Are Saying | REV. W. E. BARTON, Isle of} Shoats ‘conference: “Nobody shall | pledge me that if war shall arise in a righteous cause, I will have no/ part in it | JOHN P. TILDEN, governor gon- | erat Mayflower Descendants: “Per: haps the most cherished trait that | we have inherited from our May- flower ancestors {s that characteris. | tle American spirit of which we are | so justly proud.” . chusetts: “What is tho use of com: ing to this country to escape from political tyranny, if we come hero | only to find the samo political, tyr. | anny in modified form?” ee aa . Sez Dumbell Dud: What a for- bidding’ world this must ap- pear to be to the horse-fly. y there PLAIN HEALTH RULES TER An) hygiene clas pwn school, litt home a “don ice can came in f ° ntilate thoro! sure to keer but one windc ome point to be emptied red | 1 If t wn fand washe se in near cellar know th x rules were enforced fa oom—Air the beds and bed thruout to room for an hour or more. Prevent g with known asp are more many as of 304 Leary Bldg. ‘——]| Builders, | Attention! Carpenters and Speculators On Saturday next, September 27th, we will sell at ABSOLUTE AUCTION SALE choice building lots at Westholme, a Puget Mill Company subdivision in West Seattle. These lots front on Avalon Way, which is paved. Fauntleroy Avenue, 35th Avenue S. W. and adjacent streets. They are magnificent view lots, all cleared and ready to build on. Streets are graded, sidewalks and water are in and paid for. The property is within easy walking distance of many of the large industrial plants, and small homes for the high salaried mechanics, superintendents and workers in these plants should sell like hot cakes. By securing your lots at this unreserved Auction, you can probably save 50% to 60% on the cost of your land and can therefore undersell the market that much, which should assure you of a ready sale and_an excellent profit on every house you build. Drop in and talk the matter over with us and if you are prepared to build any volume of houses we will endeavor to arrange specially easy terms. Don't delay. Come in tomorrow, as the sale takes place next Saturday, Barry & Austin soma teat EL iot-5667