The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 11, 1925, Page 8

Gilman, Nicoll & ‘Bet Montgomery Bt West 44th Bt; of city, 00 per year $4.00. By carrie y i Reaping the Benefits ARVETH WELLS, F. R. G. S., explorer i and lecturer, is now in the country telling of his six years of strange adyen- ture in the jungles of the Malay penin- Bula. There’s a fish down there, he says, that climbs trees and comes out on the beach to play. Tickle it under the tummy .and it swells up like a toy balloon and bounds up and down for joy. There's another variety of fish, says he, that winks its eye precisely like a drug- store cowboy. In fact, it’s the most ter- rible flirt. And there's a real, live Teddy Bear only 15 inches high. Also there’s a species of deer measur- ing just seven inches from hoof to horn when full grown, and a lizard that merrily flips off its tail at will just like a man cracks a whip. Lastly, there's a bird that sleeps stand- fng on its head and a monkey that washes its teeth after every meal and before ing to bed at night. Incidentally, he ps a hint to the manufacturers of pat- ent tooth brushes and mouth wash. For | this hygienic monkey now uses his right | forefinger instead of a brush, and water from the nearest stream for a gargle. Looks like an opportunity for an enter- ising salesman, tho perhaps he might we to take coocanuts in exchange, At last we are beginning to reap the benefits of prohibition. A few years ago no lecturer would have dared, but now such things can be told. | Autos Grow ‘HE number of motor vehicles in the United States increased 2,500,000 in At the end of the year there were 17,- 591,981—one to every 6.4 persons. Exact 2 : one passenger car for every 7.3 ms and one truck for every 69 per- _ Greatest increase in total registration ‘was shown in the South Atlantic states, ting the swift growth and business jon of that part of the country. Super Crooks IS doubtful whether there ever was real super-crook, fictionists from Conan Doyle on notwithstanding. There have been crooks Who have died “Unususpected. But none because of their tt skill and cunning. Rather it has the chances of fate and the blunder | detectives. _ A really great mind cannot be kept hid- en. It is almost as obvious as Siamese _Even if directed along evil lines it can- _ long conceal itself, if for no other than the contrast it offers to the Bet of us, whose minds are ordinary. j Wrangel Again ‘EP your eye on Wrangel Island. LX The Lomens of Alaska, millionaire reindeer kings, want to occupy the island for the United States. Russia claims the id and has already arrested a party Americans who attempted to colonize Great Britain has some claim to it, thru the discovery of the island by Stef- ansson. Stefansson’s rights were pur- chased by the Lomens. | Wrangel is not worth a war. Neither was the assassination of an Austrian no- © @ What fs the oldest and richest, ~ | Bank in the world? i} you | A. The oldest is the Bank of Eng-| Yand, cstadlished in 1695. Banks| teere established on the continent @f Europe, particularly in Venice and Amsterdam, about two centur- can New York the murderer of President Garfield?) The principal A. He was indicted October 1,| Black Lake a’ 1881, convicted January 25, 1882, and hanged June 30, 1882. | oes Q How many millionaires are Ahere in the United States? _A. There are mo very accurate Atatistics available, but the latest income tax figures show 16,931 per- #ons who paid taxes on incomes of from $50,900 a year upward. i soe Q. What is veloped by Dr. first tricd the when swallowed the How, is asbestos mined and} where does the principal sup- Q. What is ly from other minerals, since| to a congress The Seattle Star Ruthn@, Special in 8 te a month ? ? Answers to Your Questions any question of fact or in- | formation by writing The Seat. | | tle Star Question Editor, 1322 D. C., and inclosing 2 cents in | i | des before that, but none of them| | loose stamps for reply. No | | now crist, The largest bank in the| | Medical, legal or marital ad- | |, % me dab nthe? ier | ‘world is Barclay's Bank, Ltd., Lon-| | Vice. Personal replies, conti. | | °° "Ore" dates ralthe vith} don, England, with a total capital| | dential. ' AN letters must. be | vot tease apatite i rt ll | 2°. mer yo ee dee datae | | todine of potassium or in alcohol | a le over 24,0000 pounds,| | followed by aqua ammonia has equal to about $120,900,000. proved effective. eee no shafts are sunk and excavations Sesive _ @ What were the dates of the|are made in the open, somewhat! Q. To whom “was the Vatican conviction and hanging of Guiteau,| after the manner of a atone quarry.| award of the “Golden Rose” made? about 75 miles from Quebec. cently discovered antiseptic that is 50 times stronger than carbolic acid, yet harmless to man? A. Hexyl-resorctnol, . Veader Leonard who they showed no “lame duck congress’? A. It ig a term sometimes applied Published Dally | A Good Bill OV. AL SMITH, of New York, has signed a bill making it unlawful for any hack driver to cast any reflections on the hotel to which his passenger is being taken, unless the reflections can be proved. Which should go far toward putting an end to an evil practice, In New York it is not uncommon for drivers to be paid by certain hotels to “knock” their com- petitors and boost their own merits. As no self-respecting driver or hotel would be party to such an arrangement, the new law no doubt will be welcomed by both. The Critic DGAR SELWYN, American play pro- ducer, tells Britishers thru an inter- view in a London newspaper that “Amer- ica has suppressed the dramatic critic” and he therefore should be abolished, Which is all very well from the play produe standpoint, for American critics have fallen into the unpleasant habit of telling the truth about plays. Perhaps criticism is being overdone, but if it shortens the life of one smutty play or lengthens the run of an excellent pro- duction, it has justified itself. Divorce MBRICA leads the world in the per- centage of divorces. Yet divorce is just as easy in other countries. American's religions are more opposed to divorce than many other nation’s, America is more prosperous, and life | should be happier here. Perhaps the solution lies in mob psy- chology. | In America the nature thing, i. e: | what the member of the mob does, is to get a divorce with the first strain on the love tie. Yet the “nature thing” in other countries is to attempt to relieve the strain. Might Be Worse vee who live in apartments, and suf- fer accordingly, give a thought to Gharian in Tripoli. : The entire town is built under ground. | Additional stories to houses are dug down, not up. Even the public square is several hundred feet under ground. Live- | stock shares catacomb-like structures with human. Protection from the heat is the purpose of this structure. So next time the people next door turn on the loud speaker at 11:59, give a thought to Gharian. We Gain ETIREMENT of J. Kruttschnitt, chairman of the board of the South- ern Pacific railroad, and extension of the authority of President William Sproule to most of his duties, bring to the Pacific Coast for the first time the ex- ecutive offices of a transcontinental rail- road. President Sproule’s office is in San Francisco and will be retained there, | The Pacific Coast should benefit from this move. It. would be an excellent thing for the Pacific Coast if the executive offices of all the transcontinental lines could be brought to the West Coast, for Pacific Coast officials can better reflect Pacific Coast opinion and recognize Pacific Coast problems. 2? 2? e e SR _————$<—$<$<—$ ed sion from December to March 4th,| after an election, when a number} | of the members have been defeated | Jor re-election, and when the con- | oreas, therefore, no longer complete- ly represents public opinion. get an answer to | ave., Washington, A, The “Golden Rose” to the moat} plous queen was awarded to the queen of Spain on May £2, 1923, by the papal nuncto, Mor. Tedeschini, . . supply comes from nd Thetford, Canada, the name of the re- Q. Are the u and y sounded the same in the Latin alphabet? A, The u and » are equivalent, except that the former is given the vowel sound and the latter the consonant sound. Thus the u before It was de- substance on rats and il effects,)q vowel in the same syllable be- antiseptic himself, comes a consonant and 4s given the adi tee sound instead of the oo. the meaning of a tae Q Has the study of modern lan- guages taken the place of the study during the short sea-|of Latin in the high schools? " H HUM, in the spring, it’s the regular thing for that he'll never survive. lamp's shy of a light. ih. Mom fairly is dizzy from work, and too busy gore hash. | Right after he's eaten, some rugs must be beaten Must be burned. Betting the rest that she's earned, Bern dad says “Let's go to a cool movie show," to arrive. Hence, this is the season when father has reason to feel |. The nice comfy spot that he loafed in a lot, while perusing the paper night, has suddenly changed, for the room's disarranged, and his read: "Tis shortly detected, the meal he expected, was really a hope that was Mom does the directing and windup inspecting, whilé put of his dome when the missus Just sighs and then calmly replies, *There are pictures to move here at home.” (Copyright, 1925, for The star) A. From 1900 to 1910 about one- half of the high school students studied Latin, In 1915 the percent- age had dropped to 39 per cent and in 1922 to £9 per cent. During this me all modern foreign languages showed increased numbers except- ing that German almaat dropped out of the course of study during the world war period, . the housecleaning job o. Q. Has William Gillette ever play- ed in Shakespearian roles? A. He has played Matcoltm in “Macbeth,” Benvollo in “Romeo and Jullet," Montano in “Othello” and Rosencrants in “Hamlet.” They have all been produced at the Globe the- ater in Boston. . Q. Is the temperature always the same in a cave below the surface of the earth? A, Ina deep cave, aa much aa 60 feet below the surface of the earth, the temperature would be the same the year round. see Q How many Mohammedans are there in North America? to cook anything but and rubbish and such oe but the hunch passes | oo (pUT OUR WAY A. It ds entimated that there are about £0,000, BY WILLIAMS | meiiikie nares? 1S THET THER NAME? WELL 1 DONT KNOW HAFF TH KI0S TAT COME IN FER A RIDE. MOMENTS WE'D LIKE TO LIVE OVER. THE OLD HARNESS SHOP. 2 Rw Llams © seas wy MEA sence. ime y) | Kaiser’s Son Defends Germany in Book on “Who Started the War” BY CHESTER H. ROWELL ILLIAM THE NEVER, the | Hohenzollern thought he was crown is writing a “Schuldtuege,” who once | prince, | 100k to refute the the allewed “le” that Germany started the | It isn a war tank even men well the sober work of eneration h iatorians Propaganda, on either aide, convinces on ly the con. verted, No. body denies that the re which etter might leave to a whole Rowell sponsibility for making Europe &® Powder-box was dintritmuted among many nations and thru | Many gefMerations. | The question tn who fired the Spark that net it off. The an awer must remain incomplete until all the documents are ac cesnible, and then they — will need other analysis than the crown prince or George Creel We can leave the “war gullt’ of the last war for future his | torians to apportion. Our job | ix to neo that there ta no such “guilt” for a next war Search for | Honest Man | | D" c8, more | years ago, a | lantern to mearch the Near Eant for an honest man. Evidently, the search still continues. At least, Dr. Dodge, head of an American college in Smyrna, now in this country, says: “Ask any head of government, of business or of reform, in this whole end of the world what It than ntarted with ‘will always be ‘men that can be trunted.’" Ages of despotic governmentn; of discordant races, languages | Mont needs, and the answer | | j Mr. Fixit of The Star Undertakes Here to Remedy Your Troubles if of Public Interest Mr. Piatt: Why ia {t that the city water is often contaminated with foreign substances? In the Capitol Hil district the water is + often not only unfit to drink, but not desirable to bathe in W. H, M ‘This letter, from Supt. Russell, of the water department, should explain the water situation, about which there has been much inquiry of late “The water in Cedar lake | comes from many sources, prac- tically all the water In the lake, of course, coming from snow in the mountains and the rain- falls, which run into the lake by Cedar river or Rex river, or thru the natural springs. Three precautions are taken | to prevent any pollution of the | water supply, No one ts ellowed in the watershed except under | permit from the health depart- | ment. Everyone in the water- shed is required to be inoculated for the prevention of typhoid, and such other precautionary measures are taken as are re- quired. The highest degree of vigilance is maintained in lation. to the people while they are in the watershed. In addi- tfon there js maintained at Landsburg a chlorine — plant, which chlorine gas is forced in- to the water under the direction of the health department. The amount of chlorine used being de- termined by analysis of the water, which is made every day. It in true that wo have per- mitted our watershed to get into a sorry condition. We have been endeavoring for over a year past to remedy this condi- tion and have with the consent of the mayor and the city coun- re- cll, begun a comprehensive scheme of reforestation and sanitation.” . Mr. Fielt: The contractors building the garage at First ave, and Union at. have left the stairway from Firat ave. to Post aRrehsae (Doc-By HyGage] BUT OSWALD, I SURE wE 010) BUT THISIS store that handles it? A. J. OW. Can anyone give this informa. tion to Mr, Fixit? palicioa tee Mesa ae Aa Ay SMOKING ROOM 4t., on Union, in bad condition 1 have seen people fall already, Can you fie itt DM. 7 This has been reported to the | bullding department. Also to | the street department for inves tigation. Mr. Pixt Please teil ome where I can acl original poetry, | and oblige RR. There is a poetry magazine published in Seattle called Mune and Mirror, box 1, University station, which can give you in- formation. You have a. very hard line to sell, but Shakes: peare had the same sort of a fob. Mr. Fixit: J realise that you can not undertake to find jobs for people, but I have in mind @ cuse where I think you could afford to make exception. A carpenter met with a serious accident several months ago while engaged in work on-a building, After siz months he is riot able to do hard work. His doctor tells him that if he could find lght employment that would keep his mind occupied, he would eventually get all right, R. J. Mr. Fixit has investigated this case and ir willing to “break the rules” in this instance. Has any one anything to offer? If #o it will be passed along to the proper place. eee Mr. Fieit: Can you furnish me the name of the manufac- turer of a preparation called “Veporine,’ or the name of a STORIES — ui Sé7PNHESE auto accidents are becoming entirely too com- mon," sald the smoker from Ta- coma, as he laid aside his newspaper. “But some of them are funny, I know a man who was hit by a speeding machine, He wasn't hurt much, but his clothing was torn and covered with mud, and he was mad—mad from atom to gudgeon, He rushed to the police station for ven, weance, ‘The auto that hit mo was number ! he bellowed, ‘It was oxeeeding the speed limit, and T want action,’ ‘CAN rigit,’ said the police. man, ‘do you want a warrant for the driver's arrest?’ “Warrant? No!’ said the be- draggiod man vohomently, ‘What good would a warrant do at the speed that guy was going?) What T want is extradi ! tion paper of the battle of have bred in and religions, force and guile, the Levant a habit of mutual distrust which may take gen- erations to outgrow The Balkanized corner of the world, made of the wrecks of the Austrian and Ottoman Pires and intervening muat endure this and ta! consequences. The real prob- lem of our generation ts to keep from Balkanizing the rest of the world by univernal na tional distrusts, Borah’s Fight on World Court 4¢]F Senator Borah succeeds in Keeping the United States out of the world court,” says the chief spokesman of the ir- reconcilables, “he ought to be elected president of the United States for that alone.” Senator Borah may be preai. dent, some day, and if he ts, his country will have one of its ablest men at {ts head. But let un hope that it will be for some constructive, and not merely de- ntructive achievement To defeat the only t policy impot on which both American partiés are agreed; to place the bulk of an inert America athwart the current of history; to commit the only people who, a continental scale, have kept the peace by submitting thelr disputes to civilized ad. jJudication, to a refusal to join in extending the same boon to the world; to defeat by Ameri. can obstruction America’s his torle world policy; to announce that America alone, of all: the nations of earth, declines any arbitrament but that of the sword—that is a crusade which may qualify for leader of the opposition, but not for chief of the republic. Nationalism and Reaction HERE ts a nationalist party in every country in the world, And. everywhere it is the organ of extreme reaction. In Germany, its defeat by more progressive groups has three times in one year saved Europe from collapse, In France it's defeat made the Dawes plan posible. In England, its tem: porary eclipse permitted the leadership under which Europe made its only rapid progress since the war, In Italy and Spain, its seizure of power re. stored order, but destroyed lib. erty In Egypt and India, it men Aces the peace of the world, In China, \t prevented unification and progress. In Japan, it is the only source of worry. In the Balkans, it is the author of all thoir plagues, In ‘Turkey, it has massacred and deporte and set a new block to the con tact of the East and the West. In America—it is a group of irreconcilable reactionaries, pos- ing in the mask of progressives, who would commit this nation to the policy which has been the bane of every other. Like the monarchist reactions after the French and American revo- lutions; like the Medinevalist re. notions that followed the Re+ naissance; like the sordid orgies of materialism which follow the exaltation of war in America, this nationalist reaction, follow. ing the world's greatest united effort, is doubtless a natural phenomenon which only anoth. , er swing of the pendulum can cure. But why boast of it? Sez Dumbell Dud: In New York, @ woman poi- soned two men, Perhaps she may come clear by claim- ing she was a bigamist. (Why Things Sometimes , Go Wrong in the Mail|™ BY RUTH FINNEY J Vy See April | H in of people pac Why do you take the trouble | , ns and laid ay to mail things if you don't care 1 for the year and present whether or not they reach their for next Christmas, The goverr ? | ment got the mon You don't tle up the packages | There were overalls and eve properly, You don't use heavy | ning dresne hoe strings and enough paper or string. You we accelerators and zitt don't write the address plain! er mp 6 and diamonds You don't put pour own name | cigars and f and address on the package » One old y 2 can be returned to you if it f | pairs of eyemlanse of delivery at the other end of | A hundred and ten women's the line handkerchiefs brought $6, Eight And as a result, thousands of women’s coats, antorted styles packages reach the dead letter | and sizes, sold for $460, A man office of the post office every | got three suits and three over- year coats for $17. Another bought Every six months the govern 60 shirts for $25. ment has to hold a public auction | Pitty dozen hairnets went to get rid of your mistakes, in | cheap—$7. Enough trimming order to make room for new | beads to pattern the Wash one ton monniument from top to b The Washington post office | tom went for $3. <A big wooden has just held one of its biggest box of books, #4 auctions, More than 800 lots worn shoes for $4 > 2 were sold, each of thene lots con purses for $4. A box of hair taining from 1 to 100 articles | curlers for $1.50, Twelve stee! that someone had tried to send | files for $3. Two reamers, said ) someone else to have been worth $100, for $1 But even this did not account | A bunch of fur pieces for $2. A for ali the errors, The country big box of scissors for $5. has been divided into 12 dead If postal officials could have package districts and this | their way, they’d make ever only one of 12 sales being held. | one in the countr end these That makes @ total of 24 wales a sales an an object n. The ear necessary t p the ¢ | don’t want your things, It on! ernment storehow from being means grief to them. They want " you to wrap carefully, the firmly ¢ here lasted two days, | idress plainly and start pa What Folks ——— 8CIENCE ————Y | BEISAN J) your cs properly on their way. [a aceenadione i HE hill of Betsan, in all prob | A S Abilty, will become the grost re saying ent discovery in the field of | archeology, the — scle that PRIMA DONNA ROSA PON: | treats of antiquities SELLE: “Fat is the nightmare | The treasures of King Tutank of every prima donna, But we | hamen's tomb excited great pub- + can't be too thin, or it affects He Interest, but Beisan is Hable the volume of our tone.”” to prove of much greater import- GOV. PINCHOT, Penn.; “Et ance in shedding light upon fective enforcement requires periods of history that are little known today. This section ts a large hill in | Palestine. It contains the re. mains of consecutive civilizations, piled one above the other, so that in the first 20 feet of excavations each in its sphere. The hase been, in turn, a stone a, village, Hittite, Egyptian, Scy- thian, Jewish, Philistine, Baby- lonian, Assyrian, Persian, Greek, | Roman, Arab, English Crusader, Turkish and now English. The discoveries that are being made are expégted to shove back dated history to 9300 B. C. or nearly five thounand years farther than at present. It is the best record of man, from his earliest begin. nings to the present time, that has been discovered, troit.”" in his way.—Ps, xxxvii:23. eee | BY LEO R. SACK due to the 4.4 beer law; we expect most of them to come from De- genuinely good work from na- tional, state and city authoritles, state government, however, is without power to check the flow of poi- sonous alcohol at its source.” WILLIAM M. EGAN, attor- eight civilizations have been din- ney, Windsor, Ont: “The bor- covered der cities should gain 20,000 in The place is mentioned five population in the present year, times in the Old Testament It ( A Thought ] The steps of a good man are or- dered by the Lord: and he delighteth This Country of Ours ASHINGTON, April 11.—While France {s having considerable diffi- | culty these days because the franc is worth just about one-fifth of its pre-war value, the well-known American dollar, which has become the world's monetary standard, is not what it used to be. Statistics assembled by Uncle Sam disclose that the dollar, measured by rtandard of buying power. today what $1.00 bought in 1913. Mr. and Mrs. Reade Star Want Ads Are Growing Faster Than Ever lr. The Reason Must Be Results Star Want Ads Are for Your Service “USE THEM” The Cost Is Less The Seattle Star Want Ad Dept. 1307 7th Ave, MA in-0600 food purchasing standards, is worth less than 50 cents on an 1890 Getting closer to date, it takes $1.50 to buy “yy ET no man presume to give ad- vice to others that has not first given counsel to himself—Seneca.