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e — F TT f 1008 10 THE SEATTLE TAR FRIDA 25, epee! 4 four OUR WAY BY WILLIAM \/ a | 2) 2 ? | The Seattle Star (e-e"|| < | City Manager Experience, | Y * 18 Weet 4 | . . 27 ‘eo 0609 | - 4 ~L > 4 ™ J 4 7” ‘ Y eat 3 Pa woathe § — Ms \ | BN 7H Time WANT ee acer tna | “8 ’ .\ =Tos WALK AFTER | | ein AG, BE | paetleng ? | |th t g f fp 2° oho 2 \ -<me BaLL-wor / \ 00 FAGGED OuT Sen re ad he f i Elect Landes, Erickson, Blaine! Negras Are ee RNR oY | rem nyo ee REE Ea 2 cl al ee ee The t ‘ t f NEX l Tuesday we vote, and there has not been a more important election owd be f ‘ . \s 1 ° ger a z in Seattle in years. We re not only to determine if we are to have a 1 FACT rh g business manager, or to continue to run on the old political boss plan, but ne aper edit we are to elect three councilmen, who, if the city manager amendment car- rat It s a ries, will have a great deal to say as to whé shall be the manager. ters from day to day ney : P After weeks of carefully going over at close range the six candidates up ( Norfolk, Va. | cme for the council, it is evident that the voters at the primary made the wise \ ha J third choice, and the three leading candidates chosen then are the ones who | % should be elected Tuesday. D ATCH 2 " They have ability and they have experience in handling the affairs of ‘ lg se ——. ie the city. They also have the confidence of the people, and they should go in execute thing ‘ iagara Falls, N.Y, « with a vote that will leave no doubt in their minds that they have this con- 4 ae a — ie fidence. e Ps 8 on e Next Tuesday I shall vote for Landes, Erickson and Blaine. city | ow y {the I recommend that you do the same. ‘f the ee Super Salesmar ngton wants you to celebr Anges ate 2 wr: e DREIGN trade of the United States, a op Perce Catan case people a world’s super-ss 2, amountec se pans housands of new mem- he sys J $$8,200,000,000 “in 1924, an increase ae ath oh ee wait ae eee t for ett. | of *$240,000,000 over 1923. Behar pet ant stenm Etter iend onl hs ' tt of ove, (a Exports jncreased; imports d Fe el pap ltr da a anise sae : Peed exon ga r of thines ae favorable bala of trade, so ca ew tree-planting suggestions and a peg: ay . } 4 F t tho | ps $600,000,000 larger. program. It is an army all might well | ‘ he a Loe You learn that Great Britain, instead of aay ania, ae q *Canada, is now our biggest customer, altho . : | t of governeii ‘we get most of our imports from Canada. Historical Heroes oe piset WO. SER. O° |) | merely provides a more workalaal ME ‘Listing the customers, in order of, their | ISTORY enthrines too many Alexan- ee — n the lest scaea eRe they are at Britain, Cs ders, Napoleons, Caesars and Welling t *_* | ’ tines - Pr s tada, Germany, France, Japan, Cuba, Ita | tons and too few ot our great humani- D h FE H H da Off l 1s and Holland. tarians. Take, for instance, the long list ea ays eavy an on cla Ss | es Countries from which we import chiefl are, in order, Canada, Great Britain, Cub: +Japan, Brazil, Mexico, Straits Settlements, France and Germany. »f medical heroes. How many know that Edward Jenner discovered the value of cowpox vaccine in preventing smallpox? Louis Pasteur laid the foundation for | modern bacteriology and showed how rabies can be prev 4 Emil von Behring discovered the ,anti- toxin of diphtheria? Charles Louis Alphons Laveran discov- ered the parasite of malaria? Who contributed most to mankind—the warriors or the “medics”? Doctor Bills : Getting Safer +7 OS ANGELES reports 12 traffic deaths in January of this year as opposed to 123 in January, 1924. : This decline is believed due in large part to observance of the jay-walking and traf- ‘fiic ordinances, which is encouraging news. That’s what we're trying now to do in : Seattle. | nte American doctors give away about 1,000,000 worth of service every day in the year to the indigent and to those | who don’t pay their bills. When the pl i s acquire a bank roll, he usually Traffic is the most serious problem of | = i et .our big cities—traffic and human safety. | D‘ begrudge the doctor his pee, ‘It is a problem that cannot be solved by when he does accun ulate .& pile.” | tlegislation alone, however, but only by | emember that the ge bameg bot fred A lacveiegr a | combination of laws and education. a the physician in the United States is | The sensible way is to begin at the root pa,00V. as | ;and incorporate safety instruction in all | Upon this sum he is expected to be well | *schoo! courses. housed and well dressed, to presenta better | ° 0 appearance than the average and to run | : Forest Protection an automobile. | | 27 is ; HE week of April National Gar- | den week, set by the General Feder- | ation of Women’s clubs. It is also Forest Protéction week. The American Tree association of Wash- ysi- ? ? Answers to Your Questions ? ? | Ta Sra! HS ———#| Q Who was Agamemnon? answer to | A. The hero of a Grecian legend. of fact or tn- | | According to the when Parts Q. How many states have paid lk bonus to the men who fought tn| y2 can get the world war? | any questic story, A. Nineteen states have a0 far| | formation by writing The Seat- { | carried off Helen of Troy, Agamem paid a, bonus in cash, and five} | tle Star Question Editor, 1322 | laos traversed Greece exhorttmg states, instead of giving a cash| | New York ave. Washington, | | teaders of the people to unite in an bonus, have voted variovs measures} | D. C., and inclosing 2 cents In | |expedition against Troy, Agamem- of relief and assistance. loose stamps for reply. No] [non was appointed general-in-chief i hs Medical, legat or marital ad- | jor the united forces assembled at Q What is the president's flag? vice. Personal re confi. | | Aulis in Boootia. A. It consists of the president's dential. All letters must be | | “ee. sacal in bronze, upon a blue back- signed. i > In Washington ietpene each corner. parts of the sun's disk, which has| United States? ¢ Ege se fan angular diameter of about half| A, Yes, in all the stetes, territor | @ How many blind persons area degrec, and to the fact that in-|ics and possessions ithere in the United States and how| digo as @ color distinct from blue,| b-9/6 tmany are men and how many/and orange are likely to be ignored) @ What will remove the stain ‘women? |x separate colors, The number of} of nicotine from the fingers? , 4. The census office reports S) colors visible and the relative 4. It usually has to swear off. otal for 1920 as 52,567, of whomlamounts of apace they occupy in| The constant application of lemon 130.160 were males, and £2,407 {¢-| the bow vary considerably with the) juice end the use of bath pumice anaics. size of the raindrops im which the! iin heip ‘ a lad bow is produced. | 646. ©. } @Q How many daily newspapers é Saray | Q Will distilled water conduct are published in the United States) @ Can coyotes as well as dogs) idoty> If 90, to what extent? ‘and what three states publish the|carry rables? ARO Cheeloaliy pure cular tel Sreatest number? | A. The department of agriculture), “: 1) good ingulator. Dissolved | ; A. There are 2310 daily news-} says that this ts frequently true and) 0: acids, or other substances that fpapers published. New York leads| that in Washington, Oregon, North-| frit NS OF titer auatances inet ‘with 200; Pennsylvania has 184, and|ern California, Nevada and Utah| make it conduct electricity ‘California #81 |rabies was of widespread local oc-| ree : eee |eurrence for several years among | is th > | + Q What does the state name|Covotes and bobcats, resulting tog haat URES Gies Cee Stdaho” mean? | heavy tosses of livestock and the| a, {Pet Sa AG ENE e swords “Edah hoc” and meand “light | Peat ce thousands of times greater than Gu. thd sduntolnn™ Q. What is the amount of the ‘ “ eee | Canadian wheat crop for this year?|°"Y heat that man has succeeded in Q. How much money is A. The final estimate is ike ib alpine 00 bushels or 212,000 bushels | pbroad each year by immigrant 4990 bushels or 212,000,000 bushel | ¥ A. It had deen eatimated that the\less than the final estimate for! Tellin It to | ‘amount would cqual at least $350,-\ 1925 ig 000,909. Congress Excerpts From the Congressional Sez Dumbell Dud: Q. How many colors can be seen 4n the rainbow? ean, le Record) A. Theoretically, the rainbow con- Does higher , felne all the seven so-called primary education pay? WE NEBD ET colors of the spectrum. Actually, Not always. A Our foreign trade js one or the few people can distinguish morc West Virginia || most important matters that we, as than four, or at most, five. This ts professor of || \exisiators, are concerned about. ‘The due to the fact that there is al- Waa ey SRnBE BA APaAG; ue scays a considerable amount of 7G ROB MOV iene avenues are opened up for overlepping of the primary colors, ried @ WOMAN |\its surplus products Aapteoants as the light does not come from of 28. tive Dyer (R), Missourl. : o- a@ single point, but from the various| THE The hindquarter SE aa, c } ofa ‘allroad may be out in Towa, ut the headquarters Cochran‘ jare always back in New York.—Sen. DAILY Brookhart (RJ, Iowa. Zs POEM THE CONGRESSMAN'S JOB | Everybody knows that the job of ‘ being a congressman {s sufficient to, For the For then} taxe all the time of a real congress. Of céurse ther are some an work part of the io C penc My think-| iy just at He sod ok if he ong Percy my ICING sult a ch good anc ve. discovered what the/ioas harm than if they worked all 'Y KINGDOM for a single word that has eight letters in it the task I've started will be thru. I have a hunch I'll get the word ‘I'm seeking, any minute. Ah, yes, for cross-words I have fallen, Each night 1 board my street car and I take tr out {ng powers are quickly put to test. I never b gtunt is all about, but I've fallen for it, hard, just Ike the rest ns get Ol : ‘A man who's sitting next to me starts suggesting thiv and that, T argue| ‘0? tme-—Rep, Wingo (D) Ark. that a word he gives is wrong. We fill out many spaces—then we don't} pitta 4 Smow where we're at. Why do they make the langer words so long? BETTER HOMES man | who At last the kind conductor hollers, “Carbarns,” very loud. We finish in|, “ppl sine ¢ Jol se ith: privalal the twinkle of an eye. ‘The “Conny” te the feliow who should really tect] lepartin 3 Joined with private quite proud, for “carbarns” was the word that we were shy. He Ahetebhiax an otemeiite ie ee raee toate ates lin America’ as an organization for ed jon and public service. The lresults are to stimulate thrift for home enership, encourage wise xpenditure for household purposes ind promote local ilons of hous difficultien.—Keport of the sec retary of commerce, BY C. A. RANDAU iinano ne | Mr, Fixit of The Star | eee tmaa Ec Undertakes Here to Remedy Your Troubles "Pensaytvanier: if of Public Interest ev unusual 3) and blan. t hav to = pay 3 ese, unless It was 80 a stood at the outset. If you will give Mr, Fixit t of rose house he will look into matter { see | Mr. Firtt> Can Seattle car toke be used on the notice that upon the abted if od that de their impress r Valley t Rainier ¥ te, a the ever in such a brief per body lost so many o! un | Mr. Fieit: re 4 sometimes sell city decstirnie ielars json have to reside i they refuse to accept them as ‘Thoman E. Watson of Geor- | States and in the state defor *. Recently a friend I came in Wats ing for divorce, Would it m h had a very unpleasant ex- gia, who died in 1922, was the | 4/7) » if the riage took) | difference if th 9 ‘| perience because she tendered a city only democratic senator to be in England? 0.1. | g he pase | Place in Engl token to a Rainier Valley conduc- taken by death during t pa The laws of Washington require | for. L. ALB. administration. a residence of one year before di- City tokens are not good on the the 11 Tho average age of vorce proceedings may begin. «| Rainier Valley line. The tokens you senhtors at the time of thelr | been married In England would not) see the conductors selling those, going was slightly under 68. Two | arfect the time in this state no doubt have been passed on of them, Nelson and Dillingham eee them without their knowledge. They were in their $0th year. Mc. | Mr. Figit: A lady with four chil-| would have to lowe them If they Cormick at 47, and Crow at 62, |dren who was visiting in the city|turned them in. However, this doca were the youngest of this group. These two were the only ones who had hot passed the age of 60, tho Lodge at 74 and Colt called @ taxi to take her to one Of| not justify a conductor in m king the atores. She gave the driver a)it unpleasant for a passenger who $20 dill, and he gave her back with! offers them. her change @ Spanish $10 Dill, so h hd that she did not detect & at 78, were the only ones who Degree aS wet Gelet Xi idlccn had passed 70 and not yet | unti had gi ieee are . reached 80. done to put a stop to practic rf PUZZLES CY. Z. like thia? If you will report the matter to| The disappearance of ——$_$$____/ venerable members of the tra- | eae ditional “Old Guard” has ma. {the company operating the taxi, the| oo ‘'S have writ. terially altered the legislative {driver will be investigated. If it is ten a number of articles re. situation in the senate. His. | not, report it to the police 1 cently in attempts to explain torically reggrtied as the more palin 4 } the popularity of cross.word Eo . ‘ s Mr. Fixit: The sidewalks in the} puzzles conservative of the two branches tire Block ith : * rea i of congress, & good case can |CMfire Mock on # ave. f | H. E. Jones, Ph. D., and tween Mead and Juneau sts. are} p, . now be made by those who In ~ rescott Lecky, M. A., recently 3 in a bad condition. Crossings are) went further than this. They TR ee Oe os gs AEE almost impassable when itt reine. tried . ’ | " | tried experiments at Columbia The sidewalks are two planks which ie le idewise king it very © university on groups of stu- pasbecerpaaii Pangea! v €a8V; dents. The students were given STORIES teense |for one to slide and fall. | A SUBSCRIBER. A cross-word puzzle to solve, At the end of the time limit the Tho street department will look], fi HE Coast route train was | into this and if it seema warranted,| “%°!8” were filed. ‘Then each bowling toward Los An- | will remedy the condition. studerit was given one of the tea, catia ia ee ihe Seba usual intelligence tests. It was waves of the mighty Pr cast Mr. Fixit: A month ago I rentea}| found that the students who their green.white rollers upon |a furnished apartment, for which| “°ored highest in the puzzzle the shore, The smoker with the | paid $60, I was to pay for gas| “Cored highest in the intel college professor alr rhapsodized: | and lights, and also make a $5 de-| Bence tests. Therefore cross- ‘Isn't it a wonderful sight—that | posit for Ti and d s. When| Word puzzles have since been re reat sea that touches the Far | vecating at the end of the month | 84tded in many schools and uni- East, thousands of miles away, was presented with a bill for $ versities as food intelligence with the same water that kiss to pay for cleaning rugs and bdlan tests themselves. kets. Should I be charged for these Cross-word our own shores? Yes; and thinic puzzles are not of the wonder of Balboa’s dis. | things, as it was to be a fully fur-| now, but they never have been covery! Marvelous! Romantic!” popular until recently. ‘They an't seo why you call it a | } could not have been popular pro pipe smok It's x0 { ou t the level of gene education darn big that Mr. Balboa | S———__ S| oven eo recently tak lower couldn't have missed it had he | Every way of a man is right in an at present. While the fad tried. his own eyes; but the Lord ponder- attracted some ridicule for a Sn | oth the: heart roy. xxi. time it now seems to have estab. DOC--B H G | oe 8 lished Itself as valuable train- y y age | IND puffs up empty bladders;} ing as well as a universal pas- i a| opinion, fools.—Socrates, time. BUT YOUSAID ES, BUT HES My HUSBAND CAUGHT SOME: | | FABLES ON HEALTH WAS CURED | | THING WORSE = | AND READY | | Now-—"THE | | CURE FOR BLISTERS TO GO HOME, | | CROSS-WwORD : \ 00¢! 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