The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 6, 1924, Page 8

1 2a tat eae Se ‘The Seatfle Star || 660,000 labe at $5 a day apiece Historic Fakes Exposed famous cracked Liberty Bell was never rung » celebrate the s g of the Declara ns Prof. Henry J, Ford, of in American Mereur Liberty Bell is a myth, like et 8 early days—such as the y about George V 1ington and the cherry tree Accor to Prof Declaration wa opted July 2. Its prear adopted July 4. And all without celebrations in Philadelphia or anywhere else The Declaration, he claims, was not signed until August and the signing ot completed until the follc Je y 18—in 1 He goes on to tell how the ringing of the Liber Bell ar started 75 years later by Ge romancer, N°? MATTER how much truth is produced to back up Professor Ford's claims, Americans will continue to believe and revere the Liberty Bell story. And they should, It is absolutely necessary for a people to have thrilling traditions. The fact that these traditions may be false does no injury, as long as they » harmless. ee 6 about the bration wa rge Lippard, a fictional HRUOUT history, all great races have been spurred on by inspiring legends that had little or no basis in fact. You recall the Norse myth about Valhalla, the hall beyond the grave, where went the souls of heroes who died in battle. These ghostly warriors each morning sal- lied forth thru Valhalla’s 540 gates, to fight, and returned at night to feast with the gods. The Valhalla myth was a necessity back yonder when nature was using military organization to teach men how to co-operate in sovern- ment and in economics, It is so with other myths. fhat would childhood be without a belief in Santa Claus, Jack Frost and the Easter »bit? Certainly it vould lose much of its glamor and charm. A race that had no harmless myths would be a race without much tradition, dramatic instinct, imagination or patriotism. Happiness is intangible. The greatest things in life are illusions. We need our myths. Spare them, ye lemon-juice-blooded materialists. If there wasn't a Lib- erty Bell, there should have been. It is a symbol. Wise men know the need and power of symbolism. To Curb Drugs O CURB the drug traffic an international narcotic con- ference will be held in Switzerland in late November. Our country will send delegates. It is understood. that they will say, in effect: “The only way to curb the drug traffic is to curb the growing of plants that produce nar- cotic substances.” Opium farming, for instance, is quite common in the Orient. To stop it is easier said than done. The Real Problem f, MERICAN railroads have about 250,000 miles of tracks. 4% In eight years there was a shrinkage of over 4,000 miles. With the country growing, railroads should be extending instead of abandoning trackage. Yet even a greater transportation problem is in inadequacy of termi- nals, particularly for freight. The trouble is less in the haul than in loading and unloading and switching where traffic congests in cities. Humane Third Degree HE “truth serum” (scopolamin-apomorphia) is a suc- cess, it’s claimed at convention of Eastern Society of Anesthetists. This drug, to make people tell the truth whether they want to or not, is a humane form of third degree. After reading the list of income taxes paid by some of America’s presumably rich men we suggest that secopolamin be administered before swearing to the truthfulness of an ineome tax report. That is not beyond possibility. Too Ignorant to Vote lBeetloedal THOUSAND citizens in New York state were not allowed to vote this year. The reason? They flunked the literacy tests. New York has a state law by which a would-be voter must demonstrate that he can read and write as readily as the average child who has finished six years in school. Technically, this may not be democracy. But many think it is common sense, a protection against govern- ment by ignorance. ¥ ANCIENT democracies, politicians argued their re- spective merits before the populace assembled in the * town market-place or other open space serving as a forum, Any man who could hear and think could get all the facts. Now the politician reaches the public thru the printed columns of newspapers, magazines and circulars. A man who can’t read gets his political information second-hand, Can, such a man be trusted with the ballot? New York, deciding in the negative, 8: “No read, no vote.” Snakes and Evolution TEXAS lizard that lived 25,000,000 years ago was the “father of all snakes,” a scientist claims. He s it took 10,000,600 years for the lizard to become a sna by getting rid of its legs, most of its bones and a third eye on the top of its head. Evolution is very slow, whether it is political, economic or of the physical body. Many economic problems, which vex us because they persist generation after generation, despite efforts to solve them, are really phases of slow evolution. “ Is It Fear? O FAR this year, Americans have taken out an aver- age of $675,000,000 of life insurance a month. A generation ago, this would have indicated a national epi- demic or pandemic of fear. Now it reflects just good horse sense. Educational advertising and personal sales talks have made the people realize that insurance—betting you'll die sooner than the company thinks you will—is protection plus a scientific system of systematic savings, Hundreds of thousands would not save otherwise, i.e — | Alcohol, and Where Some of It Goes | -o— UCH HOPE FOR JUSTICE BY HERBERT QUICK — rr i i _| } N * Dad’s Own seware of Prominent Men’s Names on ns lane { New ¥ the chemistry and al vision of the bureau o: revenue. Practically all of this mou! dispensed to users rights to it But Dr. Dor of this quan’ 000 and 6,001 enough to mak quarts of whisky, from legitimate fell into the hand: gers. Here are somo figures pre- pared by Dr, Doran showing what became of the 8,000,000 gallons of alcohol produced ler gitimately, for the most breweries and distillers extracted it from near-beer and drinks tors permitted 10,000,000 galions to g —/f Washington Bureau, Ave. ———— SCIENCE EGE SR LES 4 animal that is that knows he is ge }have no idea of death, and tormented by the « deratands his destiny the animals, the instinct of self-pres | knowledge and fear of death. on is one of the sources of ause of mental suffering is| being decreased gro Many of the sup ually by science stitions have been » teaches that the places the instinct for life t certain to be the ca so teaches that pain at the almost unknown " in merely a figure t is also very seldc in medicines and extracts. Of any self-consciousness at the {| Writing county, a jealous wife, urg » of “best eitt the clothe ith whom her hu Oklahoma man wher embers of thi . I always do!" laws. For the gun, a kni eanon is ica," And that there is much to support his pessimistic ment no one can deny courts and juries take an attl tude toward mob criminals, * toward women criminals of ¢ sorts, which often amounts to a license to commit crime But these Maryland disturbs were indicted. And the cuting attorney tried the cases as they should have been tried, to secure conyictions, with the trials of her provocation, was given nine months in jail laughed at the {dea of anyone being punished one received a nominal , it would be the men, The woman would get thers were sent up for a yoar each pended in the cases of two, acted calmly and kave sound reasons for®his ac. howed himself worthy of hiv place on the bench, all acquitted them- # for mob violence, y as to the murders ults committed hy wom. en, we might as well have no man with a olson, the game ya open in Amer & powerful influ. ardice of mob least, and I hope in y men of their sort and against the mad beasts itals and stributed denatured goly use in fa in making paints, var nishes and for bile radiators. gal y million ft to! ‘ tions men aired under bond, From this amount the greatest quantity went for illicit liquor, estimated between 3,000,000 and 4,000,000 gallons At present are very much ec a bill offered by I Cramton or tribution of alcohol. Double Slate Tricks of Fake Mediums 7} } } — ) | BY HOWARD THURSTON | America’s Master Magician, | HEN one person visits a fraua pnt “medium,” he frequently the victim of a very ingen ious “slate test.” The visitor wri ja question on {two slates a |gwether, T his head. When he unties them, a| lengthy message is found wri between the slates—on both aides, The medium has a ederato, | 0 n question and answer on a pair of slates, which are tied together The visitor is seated in front of a en. When the medium holds the | } nined slates above the sitter’s jhend, the confederate reaches thru a secret Opening in the takes the original sta time Ipaving the duplicate pair in the medium's hand, | become ‘on | (Another article of this series will appear Lomorrow), '@ Stock Schemes; He Tells You Whyj | =a §—— = + let the Jdward A. Schwab Questions >| ee ay eres | * Answered? | rt Star Questic New York ave, Wash nd inclosing 2 cents for reply. No medical, sonal replies, éc ers must be 1. 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