The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 28, 1925, Page 4

mae | John D., Jr.,and War D. Rockefeller, good line. Talk- ces all classes in war-time, “HE ot John abou er day I g tt great sacrif society seem glad to mak d “If men would be willing to make one- hundredth part of the sacrifices to main- tain peace, then never again would there be war in any land.” And then he added “T can i gine no greater contribution the country and the world than for each man here to be ready to make his sacrifices so that peace may come and be maintained.” The son of John D. was talking to his Bible class when he said that. But it goes for all of us. In the piping times thinks very much about how to keep a new war from coming on. Governments least of all iggest a world peace proj- ect and instantly a host of politicians will rise up to say it’s impossible, imprac- ticable, visionary, the rosy dream of an idealist. In war, however, nothing is impossible. Anything and everything is done to win. No sacrifice is too great to make, It’s a very fine human quality, of course, this thing of standing by one’s country to the death when that country is in dange But it is also fine to make such a sac- rifice to prevent war ever coming on. President Wilson gave mankind its best example of just such fineness by sacrific- ing his life to advance, not war, but a lasting peace. This is not pacifist talk, either. We have no patience with those who belittle our country’s defenders and prate about scrapping our army and navy as a means to world peace. Peace will not come that way. What we do say is that if we foug hard to prevent war as we do to win a war, world peace would not be a mere dream. to of peace nobody ht as Substitutes ‘OU learn, thru the American Chemical society, of development by German scientists of a non-poisonous, non-habit- forming drug called tutokain. It is to be used as a substitute for cocaine. The drug was isolated in the course of researches among products obtained in development of artificia! rubber. “Substitutes” usually are inferior to the articles they imitate. In this case, how- ever, if the virtues of cocaine, with none of its evils, can be obtained from the new drug, the world will welcome tutokain. Tt would be equivalent to taking the nar- cotic, habit-forming qualities out of one of our most necessary anesthetic—and most cursed drugs. etal he Seattle Star Published Dally wy 7 Pubite! Represe | What We Waste F SOMEONE can solve our distribution problem the high cost of living will come down—no doubt about it | Economists agree that one of industry's biggest problems is reduction of distribu- tion cost. You get an idea of the magni- tude of the problem when you learn that the workers engaged in distribution increased eight times as fast from 1910 to 1920 as those directly concerned in pro- juction. Herbert Hoover says there’s too much waste in our distribution system too many “links in the chain and an excess- ive number of chains,” Some of these wastes are business | booms: —and their reactions; seasonal vari- }ations in production; lack of proper stand- ards; inadequate transportation National Wealth Newer eh wealth of the United States increased from a_ little less than $187,000,000,000 in 1912 to nearly $321,- 000,000,000 in 1922. This last figure, says our census bureau, represents just about what the “total mass of goods in the | United States would have cost if bought | Piecemeal on December 31, 1922.” } On the surface this looks like an increase of 72 per cent. However, several factors enter, chief among them the depreciation | of the dollar since 1912. The census bureau j concludes that the actual increase in physi- }cal wealth was nearer 11 per cent. | Our increase in riches, therefore, shows little tendency to outrun population } growth. Germs and War | ERMS are discounted as the weapon of our next great war by Dr. Wil- }liam H. Park, chief bacteriologist of New York’s department of health. Annihiiation of millions by disease germs might sound simple to the layman, but Dr. Parks thinks execution of such a }plan would be very difficult. For one thing, he points out, healthy persons are continuously resisting disease attacks and many adults are immune. For another, there would be quite a problem to scatter them. If by explosive | bombs, the heat of the explosion would |make them sterile. If released by air- planes, much time would elapse before they reached the earth, and the air and sunlight very likely would make them inert. Then, too, an enemy would have to pre- pare himself against whatev bacteria he planned to use. Al! his forces would have to be immunized. | Jt might even be that an entirely new | disease would have to be discovered, such jis the resistance we have built up against most of the known ills, EON ? ? Answers t the phrase, “Vox! ® Q. What dors mean and who populi, Vox Dei” first used it? A. Translated it means “The of the people is the voice of God.” | ‘The phrase was first used by Simon) Mepham, archbishop of Canterbury, | as a text from which he preached a sermon after Edward II. had been} dethroned by the people and his onl Edward III. made king. | . Q. How many cigarets annually in the United States? {. The estimated figure for 1923 gives 50,900,000,000 cigarets smoked in the United States, or an average of 555 cigarets a year for every man, woman and child in the coun-| try. yo voice tle Star New York DB: Cu loose stamps medical, legat vice dential si An ened. are of its | head? 4. No. The Q Who ix the heart, the dog movies Q How does a locksmith make « key to fit a lock when the original is lost? A. A smoked Blank key is used if the lock cannot be taken apart. The blank key is put in the key- hole and turned, and where obatruc- | tiona strike the blank they rave a mark for filing. . Q How much raw wheat does it) take to make a barrel of flour and how many loaves of bread will on barrel of flour make? A, It takes approximately four| and one-half bushels of wheat to make one barrel of flour, A barrel of flour will make about 285 one- pound loaves of bread. see cago has the 40th suey. And thereby It was Chi Q. What is the comparative area of the United States and Europe? A. United States, 2,973,774 square miles ; Europe, 3,796,000 square miles, one-fourth larger than the United States, exclusive of Alaska. + along State st., Q. What was the longest speech ever made by La Follette in con- gress? A. A speech on the Aldrich-Vree- land currency bill, which lasted 18 hours and 23 minutes. o4e a Q. Is there any truth to the statement that the head of the halibut is never marketed because can get any question of fact or in formation by writing The Seat Question and inclosing Personal resemblance to the human } head | keted because of its great bulk, it | being larger than average fish of its size. A. Jane Murfin, scenarist. ere 'ASHINGTON, Feb. 28. anniversary that should have celebrated in- vention of the famous dish. For, while Chicago invented it, China reaped the benefits. Chop suey is a purely Amer- ican dish—even as the ice cream soda and the hot dog. gained vogue as a luncheon dish heard of it until America began to demand bamboo sprouts from the Orient for its making. When that happened, the farmers of Kwangtung and Kiangsi felt as Nebraska farmer would feel if acres of weeds on his land were suddenly turned to wheat. “Edible bamboo” an industry in China and Japan, o Your Questions *} answer to Q Ho mietal? w is enamel appl an The basi« of all fusible the desire arted by w The ma orless glass Ee Waakington, rea of metalt cents in for reply No or marital ad replies, confi letters must be the surfaces to be covered. whole ia then ¢ tit the enamel ta melted x! ladheres firmly to the when metal Was Francis Bacon the Slizabeth ? |. @ son 6 | Queen A is never mar- Francia Bacon was the son the head of the} of Sir Anthony Cooke, tutor of Kd | ward VI. owner of Strong-| that acts in the! see there in New Zealand? A. About 150, | Chicago Invented Chop Suey? BY RUTH FINNEY Chi ! celebrated | of chop transforming thousands of hill fust side landscapes Bamboo ix a grass, yet it pro- vides wood with more numero hangs a tale. merous t not Chicago, | uses than any tree polished, A hundred jointed stems may Brow into the air from one root They grow at the rate of two feet a day, at times, reaching a total height of something like 120 feet. A Chinese or Japanese fam ily eat Bamboo, wear it, sleep under it, sail the river on it, cut their food with it, pipe water with it, and make their bird cages of it. Western peo- ple have found even more uses for it in airplanes, flutes, hair pins, porch screens, phonograph needles, and a dozen other things, including the small American boy's fish-pole, It is when. the first tender It first and China never has become ET'S make this a sort of a friendly-like chat that is meant for just Perhaps it’s a wasted idea, at that, for this thought A mother ard dad. may be one that you've had. However, the wee little folka of today are always worth writing about, and the spirit that moves me directs that I pls bound to come out y on We older folks know what js right and what's| Wrong, 80 {t's easy for us to go right. true of the juvenile throng, so on the light. It's human, it seems, for a youngster who errs, and ofttimes refuses to mind, to do all the deviltry things that he dares when the warning he gets isn't kind. Remember that youngsters are bound to be wild in their thoughts about things they meeting. queer-working thing is the mind of a child, and it seldom responds to a beating. The reasoning habit is best in the end. When you try it, your child soon je gaining. They learn to do right as they learn to depend on the right in parental explaining [Camepintt, 1485, thy on ues shoots of the bamboo come up thru the ground from the net: work of roots underneath that tha bambo is edible. ee ISTRANGE YOU DON'T) OH YES 00 this hunch that Is ‘That isn't #0 our duty’s to turn A | DOC--By HyGage namels ta ay 10 and opacity| r being fused together and cooled, ia reduced to a| ! fine powder, washed, and applied to| The posed in a furnace it of of Sir Nicholas Bacon by the daughter d- Q. How many species of birds are THE SEATT TLE ATURDAY — [our OUR WAY C'MERE ONCE IF NA DONT BLIEVE me. THERE HE RiGnt \S. our ON “S. Pho nc MOMENTS WE'D THE ENO OF A . HARD WINTER BY WILLIAMS } WHY OUR COU NTRY | IS THE CLEANEST BY CHESTER H. ROWEL 1 L ' SuRE mms A RoBin . \ MALCOLM ?/ 1, | } renal BRITISH writer attr €ss and sanj. tation, which are the most striking things in Amer. ica, to the large immigration of low standards of cleanliness. 3ecause some of our people would except under compulsion, we proceeded to 1 thing and everybody clean by la A better explanation would t democracy, advertising and new - Because we are democratic, all want whatever the best have. Because of adver- tising, we all know what that is. And because good plumbing is the new- est thing, because plumbers are among our best advertisers, and because we all it to bé up to date, we have transformed our- selves, in one short generation, into the most luxuriously oleanly people the world ever knew. I * THERE were some way of mak inaugural ceremonies really impressiy to the people, of the importance and dignity presidential office and of the national soveignty it symbolizes, no reasonable expense or di be too much. " atries of go gitimate part of HONEST MAL nutes the clea \ ntrie: TH not keep clean lake American of the which play would ernment | President fort unate, He But be d cool to bes not have te he does to the ) people to ent Coolidg and person. * ANTI, therefore LIKE TO LIVE OVER- TR Law Just an 1eek wr mA SOME Mm | While We Vacillate Between Planes and Ships BY WM. PHILIP SIMMS ASHINGTON, Feb. \ From British writer Jearns that wi pletion of the twe Ne 1926, ! uroen the com epoch-making n and the cngland will in handling wWarehiy Rodney in make he gether wit ing duty ¢ wi > different i the enemy in ¥ ntrusted almost entir 1 be be to 7 continue airplanes. ba ywever backbone the of the navy Thus ales ) extremes while the United States ac hopelessly between tional defense will be truste craft—Great ahead along s. Refusing exxs in one tas nx to make full use ships and planes. The commissioning of th ney and the N duce an entirely Br the navy or to Britain comm, is going none all ket, whe pl “on new factor 4 power, There two ¢ an different from the present battl¢ship as the dread. was different from t 1 war Monitor and Merrimac They are aircraft carriers, rath er than battleships, being provid ed with huge take-off decks aft | and equipment for taking care of naught Mr. Fizits Why t# it that on Ie- |oat holidays and Sundays moat of the grocery steres are compelled t chose, cignere are allowed to keep their stores open? It would scem that an American taxpayer should be al- lowed equal privileges with others in the same line. A READER An ordinance Ss being prepared, with good prospects of passing the city council, to have all grocery rtores and meat stores close on le- gal holidays and Sundays, It has the backing of the Seattle Retall Grocers’ association, the Meat Cut- ters’ union and most of the churches. . Mr. Fiwit: Is there any way to abolish that insanitary garbage dump back of the Columbia library? It has been in front of my house for eight years, and at times ia very offensive. Often I am unable to pic ARE IE Telling It to Congress Excerpts From the Congressional Record) ANSWERING QUESTIONS The Bureau of Foreign and Do. mestic commerce has answered in- quirles and requests for information from business men,at such a rate that the number handled daily has risen from about 700 in 1931 to al- most 7,000 daily at this time.—Rep, Byrns (D.), Tenn. . WORLD POWER The world power conference was the first occasion for more than 10 years at which representatives of the several] participating nations had met to discuss common prob- lems on equal terms. This was possible only thru recognition of the fact that political difference had no place in the conference and that sectentific knowledge is com- mon property to be used for the common interest of all nations — Report of the federal power com- ‘mission faa [ A Thought } ‘ ° It is good and comely for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy the | good of all his labor that he taketh under the sun all the days of his Ife, which God giveth him; for it is his portion —Keel. . ye SCATTERS enjoyment who ee Mr. Fixit of The Star Undertakes Here to Remedy Your Troubles if of Public Interest ile Japanese and other for-, Empty Fo: HE news ¢ Coe rm f the election of ne Dawes war headline anda of the formal of counting and an nouncing the vote President a Show, But Not a Circus RESIDENT COOLIDGE # no fuss about his in but he does propose to worth mail short description ceremony sugural make t That was all election and the newspapers counted the vote the next day the electors held the election in January, in their various state and con gress counted the vote in Febru , rf Nobody ps around the coun sequainted with the peo d to let them get acquaint th him ; Britain Builds Both 50 planes ea No regular Bri alrera and-out I t ~ tar Theoretically silt to the limit « ix, of course, the best pos to bring and the president 5 & good thing under t allowed Washington, carrying th armament auns 5 4 with mated speed of 23 to the first of these sible wa the people capitals name nto persona eo . ma we ¢ P touch, and that nine ‘ But let 1 have literally dor certified is clected. The whole thing §s an empty form, and ever the form is incomplete We ast two s take warning who w ‘ killed the hour presidents by the way we “enter It is likely to remain form for a long time But some day the thing will happen which La Follette’s can didacy a time seemed to threaten last fail, Then we will wonder why the form was not made right in 1926, after the last warning. was shortened an empty thing rfield and MeKin’ sacrificed to our im n-demo accessibility of the pr were ratic ‘or erefore, wi dent Har killed xpoiled rplanes to ou was his no t physically temper was rison but gress provide: him on read of ually carry them ¥ 4 his own abip nding his ¢ cruisers and probe for able to send his own staff offi | White, Henry an the enemy, he will be thru the aid t the A fleet which and e enemy's planes from L BY WATER= un locate same time METROPOLITAN THEATRE to gain control o its plane enemy; next air, and lastly, it could He h night over the horizon and pound the other to pleces, keeping well out of range of the enemy's guns meanwhile the |ST. O-n. shots, ae am x2 in Jsleep at night on account of the odor, H. E, The health department was not ware that garbage was now being! dumped at this point, and will In | venti at o . Mr. Fixit: Would it de possible | fo impress some of the second-hand furniture dealers on First ave, thot they should keep their wares and! merchandise inside the atores and) not on the sidewalks? What can be! done? P. H. M. Report the matter to the police department, MA {n-7810. eee Stimson Bidg. UNIVERSITYc ething | Seventh | | Mr. Fixit: Can you do son about the street lights on ave. N. W., between 60th and 65th sts? They have been out for more than a week, and have been re-| ported, but nothing has been done, | RO. 8, The lighting department has no record of this having been reported but will have the matter attended to right away . The largest and most beautiful STEAMSHIP TICKET OFFICE —on the Pacific Coast Mr, Fixit: What action has been taken in regard to rebuilding the Wheeler st. bridge? Is it to be re- placed at Wheeler st. or at Gar- field at? H. T. This has been referred by the city council to the city planning commis- sion, which is not yet fully organ-| ized. And to complicate matters, some time ago, a mandamus action was brought to compel the rebuild- ing of the bridge at Wheeler st This ts now in the courts, It will probably be several months before the definite location of the bridge will be known. . Mr. Firit: A small, white fox terrier with a brown head and wearing a brown overcoat came to pur home a week ago. It evidently belongs to some child, as the blanket it wears Indicates a child's handi- work. We dislike to send it to the pound. Can you help ws locate the owner? MRS. H. 206 Florentia St. Mr, Fixit has been trying to re tire from tho cat and dog business but in tho hope that some doy or! girl may locate thelr lont dog, ho is taking one more chance. ric hnelleatdbes on Sez Dumbell Dud: A spendthrift, according to some people, is a man who buys a home when he hasn't a single auto. Keeping pace with Seattle’s March of Progress, the Admiral Lines (Pacific Steamship Company and the Admiral Oriental Line) will, on Monday next, March 2nd, open the largest and most beautiful steamship ticket office on the Pacifie Coast at 1300 FOURTH AVE. (at University Street) Conveniently located in the uptown shopping and theatre district, this new office is easily accessible from all parts of the city. Anywhere on the Pacific: San Diego Los Angeles San Francisco Alaska Kobe Yokohama Shanghai Hongkong Manila w York Panama Canal "Round the World seen eR E RIT The public is invited to inspect and take advantage of the facilities of this complete and beautiful office. 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