The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 29, 1925, Page 6

Newspaper Ea- and Other Things Economy I ike EVER the rest of the country y ct to the president’s talk of econ- omy, the city of Washington is beginning to take the matter seriously, The Wash ington Daily News fears that a mind is being induced that may do more harm than good, Already, this newspaper government employes have been itened into going on short rations and don't buy what they want and ordinarily would feel they could afford to have. “Economy,” s The News, “is a vir- tue, parsimony is a vice, and miserliness a crime. ¢ “When people employed and feel reasonably sure of their jc life flow along in a normal way, and business is healthy. We call that prosperity. The peo- ple feel like enjoying some of the luxuries of life, which merely means feeding the mind as well as the body, “A man is a better citizen when feels safe in loosening up to buy his wife a new dress. He on a par with princes when he can blow himself for an auto. The reason we all love prosperity is that we can then do something for selves and families beyond merely keep- ing them alive. We can give them the comforts and some of the luxuries, as wel as the bare necessities of life. ; “We are strong for an efficient, nomical government. “But we can’t enthuse over a national policy of parsimony and penury that breeds unrest and fe We are a pros- perous country, with enormous resources There is no reason why we should live in continual fear of the poorhouse. “We can work hard and save without becoming misers, and without reducing life to a drab struggle to provide only food and shelter and clothing for the body, and no joy or pleasure for the soul.” Old Folks HIS story is told by State Senator Davis, of ‘Pennsylvania: Two old people walked slowly arm-in- arm up the lane that leads to the super- intendent’s office at the Berkshire county poor farm. They presented a permit to enter the “home.” The superintendent asked the man’s name. “My name is John,” the man replied. “And yours?” to the bent old lady on John’s arm. “My name is Mary,” she smiled. “John,” said the superintendent, “you go over to that building, and you, Mary, will be taken care of in that building across the road.” “What?” cried the old man. “Mary and T’ve been living under the same roof for 50 years! You're not going to separate us now?” “Yes,” replied the superintendent. “It's the rules. We never mix the sexes in these institutions.” Three days later John died, and a few days after that Mary joined him. In 1923 Gov. Gifford Pinchot signed the old age pension law, for it had been found that it would have cost no more to keep John and Mary together than to break their hearts by separating them. There are 4,000,000 Johns and Marys in the United States. A few states are awaken- ing to their debt to these citizens grown decrepit in vice and toil. The rest, including King county and Washington, continue to send them “over the hill,” Separating husbands and wives, in barren county farms. Why should the sunset of life be clouded by fear, want and disgrace, when security and self-respect can be given at the same cost? state of he feels our- eco- Q. Could a person who had lost ;% the sght of one cye qualify as a ‘OU pilot in the army air service? I any question of fact or In- | ee A, No. Perfect sight in both cyca| | formation by writing The Seat- | | ee Mean absolute requirement, | | Ue Star Question Editor, 1322 | | , «s Loe Piet : : | Q. Does the expression “pi : one | | New York ave, Washington, | | money” really pee anything pier. Q What are the comparative} | D. C., and inclosing 2 cents in | lwwith: the word «pl , heights and times of building of tho| | loose stamps for repl. No | | stand it? sc alarratabee i a Woolworth and the Singer buildings | | med legal or mari Lye RR na New York city? | | vice. Personal replies, confi- | A. When pins were first invented, A, The Woolicorth building ts 792| | dential. All letters must be | | they were so expensive that only the| Ree hee Gr aca aka| | sane. | | secalthy ladies could afford thom,| tits: ieiaie 1 Wek eal | and ft became customary, when al Has 41 stories. It took three years) ed air burning device. Get down, W2man was married, to give her a) fo build the Woolworth building,| clean to the base and remove alt\ CCT sum Of money with which} teork starting in September, 1910,| particles of pigment and. foreign| (2 °"Y Pins. This was known aa Ped ending ‘n september, 1919. The| rubstencce ictih mrtpdge her pin money. The expression has Me seising seruned Jie survived, altho it now applica to a e year ‘ und cight months to construct, | Q. What kind work beginning September 16, 1906,| pitt"? and ending May 1, 1908. } * The Seattle Star . by The ster — Publishing Oo, eng Uuitea Gilman, Nicoll & Ruthman, Special Representatives, San Fre: Phone Mats Press Bervicn, etfice, bet Montgomery St; Chicago office, 410 North Michigan Ave. : York office, LP Weat 44th Bt; Boston offies, 18 Tremont st O00, My niall, Ut of city, Be Per month, — mapMthe $1.60, ¢ wionthe 92.0%, year $2.00. By carrer, city, #0 # month 2 2 Answers to Your Questions ? ? a can get A. A soft white anti-friction alloy Published Dally Tornadoes NOTHER tornado ortunately a baby one this time—swept across Illinois and Ohio the other day, close on the heels of the monster that brought such calamity on the nation a few weeks ago. Two other tes besides Illinois and Ohio felt the fury of the new tornado, altho very few lives were lost. The country had an earthquake scare not long ago; now tornadoes seem to be getting chronic If this sort of thing keeps up a revival of the once popular cyclone cellar of the Middle West seems inevitable. Either that or a radical change in our type of architecture—some- thing that will withstand the savage on- slaughts of nature The Price of Justice PORTS AIGRT nationally known men und women have formed themselves into a committee to finance the defense of Senator Burton K. Wheeler in the sec- ond case brought against him by the department of just tried in Washington This case is to be and is expected to prove eyen more expensive than that heard in Great Falls, Mont, At the time the matter was put before the District of Columbia grand jury protests were made that it was unfair to the Senator to try him 38,000 miles from his home and com- pel him to bring witnesses, at his own expense, that distance. In any case, the action of the 48 men and women and the response they are meeting in their call for funds, reveals an interesting estimate on their part of the department of justice. They apparently | are fixed in the belief that the young senator who drove Harry M. Daugherty out of the government is being persecuted rather than prosecuted by the department which Daugherty headed. To sustain their opinion they can point to the money being spent by the government, some of it to maintain a horde of department detectives in Great Falls, in contrast to the absence of such assistance for the special prose cutors in the case against the Dohenys, Sinclair and Fall. The Doheny ind Fall represent unlimited financial resources. Senator Wheeler does not. Not a poor man—he is credited with a competence earned as a lawyer — yet the 48 citizens described above consider his means insufficient to meet the sort of attack that is being made by the government. The situation is one worth the thought of all citizens. What if Wheeler were not a lawyer himself; what if his colleague, Senator Walsh, were not willing to under- take his defense free of cost—as Senators Borah, Norris and Reed voluntered to do? What if it were only a $1,200-a-year gov- ernment clerk who had exposed conditions in the department of justice? Too Late EN, SMEDLEY D. BUTLER is an- noyed because he cannot make Philadelphia pure in two years. We are annoyed because Butler ever thought he could make any city pure. Butler began years too late. How can he, or anyone else, teach sons of Europe to abandon liquor when they learned to drink it on their father’s knees? Or how can he teach sons of America to respect the property of others when many of them were born amid conditions too poor to encourage honesty? Or how can he | teach the sons of this old world to forego | erime when ‘the taint of generations and | generations of eyvil-doing lingers with them?, ——% 1 ions are there in the Unite an answer to | | ly “bab. | OMAN’ spending money in genera of metal appropriation, quiring a special | sete edt | of tin, copper and antimony. Q. Is it necessary to remove all a Q. Who was “Peter tho ‘Wi the old paint from an atitomotiie| @. 14 Mme, Curie, the discoverer | Boy”? Wefore repainting | }of radium, still living, and, if so, A. A boy found in July, 1725, A, Yes. To make a good job of\ whore? a wood near Hamlen, in Hanove Yepainting an automobile, burn the A. Yes. Her address is 1 rue! te was walking on his hands ay old paint from the body with a) Pierre Curie, Paris, France fect, climbing up trees lke a aqui gisoline hand-burning torch o7 « reland feeding upon graas and mo. Jamp, or better still, | ellie Q with compre Naines FTER all, aren't we people a right funny lot? We're with the names that we've got. Objections we feel Yot, but wo all feel the sume as to names, like a Marie would much rather her name had been Pearl, Mt just her type of a girl. And Lilly « admit that they wish they were Gertrude » h. ‘The feelings of fellows t the with their own given name, Jie wouldn't be Ernest, but Arthur or Roy not ney're With names that are common, like Mary and Grace, the owners wish And those that are odd, like Theresa and way out of tune, fan any one tell why we make such a fuss o'er names that our parents that will earry od ones had taken their place, une, to folks who are called them, seom have handed to us? It's you, not your name, Don’t worry ‘bout WHO, but about WHAT you are, (Copyright, 1925, for The Star) How many churches of all de . if pinner If Ernest had chosen, when he was a boy, ay | of trees, in 1726 by George be taught to articulate more than Hal few syllables, and was apparently Cochyan an idiot, From 1787 till his death in August, 1785, he lived on a Hert- DAILY \ POEM never quite pleased may be |fordshire farm near Berkhampatea YW Caae Nl May a all tommy- | for Pearl seems to} to the truth, A FAST GAME OF TENNIS EACH DAY WILL Kit OFF YOUR MICROBES never quite pleased you far jas pins are no longer a lucury re- Me was brought to England 1, He could never | DOC--By HyGage pn ed al, ld in nr nd Tr 34 a d., ) rm SEATTLE STAR [0 T OUR WAY {OV TH’ DARE j\ | | By wiLLiAMs|| Modernizing Congress * ee Tr’ MOST NOuP LIFES-1 \ OF INTRADUC IG \ DEFY IN’, HIGH DIVIN DORG -AY DEES N GENTULMON, \ ARE NOW RIGHT TH ACK OF GOIN’ T’ witness | IN SENSASHON OF TAKE PLEASURE OSCAR | DINUL ,DEATH HEROES ARE MADE-NOT BORN. , Is Not Complete Job hy | id Be are proposing to spend $3,000,000 for an addi | . tional office*building for the house of representa in Washington, in order that representatives, | have at least two office it is, house members “have but one room each, in to receive visitors, hold conferences, and house three or four clerks.” | tives senators, may rooms apiece, A ich There was a time, not so many years ago, when congressmen had no offices at all, and no clerks. Each congressman's reception room was his own parlor, or the parlor of his boarding house. His office was his desk, on the floor of the house of representatives chamber, where he wrote his own letters, by hand, with a pen, His business with the de- partments he conducted by tramping around to them himself, on his own feet. . And yet, there was more attention to public affairs and more reputation to be made in congress then than | Rowell now. The new offices are, of course, needed. Modern +—business methods make moderr equipment necessary. eS | newapape better than the But if half as much attention were paid to moderninz th ee methods of congress { as oP ee the physical equipment and a Prohibition Law Is sistance of congressmen for thelr Here to Stay ersonal w itm tt kaa the of: a” dowen of “ a T isto be done? That is fice buildings in le week the lawmakers to say.” the most widely read We're Making Prime of the cynics on prohibition = Minister of President T out that it is not A bine FECTIVE” and “futile.” not for the: “law This is the newest form of but for the w en Prepay Lh 5p Pe 1 the people. There i TRwiLbans, that. thé people are w ern can dg — | BY N, D, COCHRAN A Husbana’s Views on Praising Wives 224 und that he is generally heorctically make © \nas wy WEA ROME, ime: nid Aebktos mal aa F the thingy on which they ’ But it js claimed that t the powe Note—Mre, Walter In these columnn yen= Urged hushands, If they thelr wi to tell 1 aed nue ed i compliments ax ane In preventing Today terday, admired them abou to keep th if whe is y deal in the matrime wife hi it com And it is true that husbands are such dumbbells that they don't know enough to spread on the sooth ie to hi some | ing nlve when it {9 earr r punishmer hment fit the crime em take t let the punt t there husbands and just as there being 4 of tt ot | hooked their man Women of this other men just as the man try The t * on both sides of the t binds ix that t women 0 0 for our beloved. | { It in rarely tho roving ] dering husband who pecked, but rather the faithful, hen Mr. Fixit of The Star Undertakes Here to Remedy Your Troubles if of Public Intere Mr, Pisit hill and our n hdor's lot ia ai. feet lower than In levet ing his lot he has left a perpen dicular bank detioecn our bots. During the rainy weather this ke ali dow taking our roar We tive on a ah ours s and abe two feet of Doca not the law ire him to put in a retaining at his own expense Ww If your neighbor has c the natural rination © > he is r sible for the conse quences, and should put in a satisfactory retaining wall. A nelghborly talk should adju the matter. If not, you will have to consult an attorney The city does not survey pri vate lots Mr. Fixit: An old house at £229 Seventh ave. has been con- demned and the doors and win- dows boarded up. The boys have torn off some of the boarding and trampa and hobocs go in there to slecp. One small blaze has been started by smokers, and there is constant danger of fire, Please ace if you can have it torn down or removed, M. The bullding department will investigate, and if unable to handle the altuation will turn it over to the fire department. Mr. Fivit; Listening in on the broadcasting from the Washington hotel Wednesday night, I heard them tell of the beauties of North, East and South. Seattle, but nothing was st said about Weat Seattle, Mr. Fixit, bring this broadcaster over and ow him the wonders of Weat Seattle. MRS. G. D. This was poasibl. an over oversight. If it occurs again, Mr, Fixit will surely give this West #1 Mr. Fixit: Con you answer this one? I am asseased $25.97 on a 1923 car, | know a party who has the same kind of who is ansessed only $16.6 wrote the officials about t have heard nothing. J am an | old New York saloon man, and used to think Tammany used a ‘ong @rm, but not more 40 n this BI Go to the county-city butlding | and ask Mr , of the as office, whom you should seo to get relief. th Mr. Fixit Laat Friday night at 9 o'clock while on my way | home I was stopped at 14th ave. and Jefferson st. by a police car and searched. I submitted will- ingly and answered all ques- tions, but during the searching one of the pollcemen indulged in profane thnguage, and waa oth erwise disagreeable, Is this sort | of thing to be tolerated? | A. Police officers have the right to investigate those whom they may suspect, and may often be mistaken. ‘They have no right to be offensive about it, and you should report this officer's num- ber to the chief. | To Build U.S. Women’s Prison BY KENNETH WATSON * 7 Washington Bureau, 1822 New York Ave ASHINGTON, April Fedral judges inclined show leniency to convicted wom: en soon will have one leas justl- fication. The government has been with: out a federal prison for woman and, because of the red tape in- volved in making contracts with state prisons, many judges have Imposed fines instead of impris: onment, Attorney General Sargent, however, announces that the government's architect 18 work ing on plans for the federal In- dustrial prison for women to be located at Alderson, W. Va Con- aren authorized its establish ment two years ago, but falled to make appropriations until this year In appearing before a house committes in behalf of the in stitution Mra, Willebrandt, as sistant attorney general, stressed tho need of immediate action. She said the government had Wen unable to make contract with a number of stato Inatitu: tions to house women prisoners, and that in others exorbitant rates were being charged, Congress has appropriated nearly two million dollars for the prison, to bo expended over a two-year period. ‘The tlon will be of the cottag inatitu. t} type, which is regarded by prison ex ports as most conducive to the welfare and discipline of prison- ers, It In the intention to have the women do much farm work to reduce the overhead of the in- stitution and to keep them in 00d physical and mental condi. tion, | A Thought ) | Whoso stoppeth his ears at the | | ery of the poor, he also shall ery himself, but shall not be heard, Prov, 2h15. | eee POOR man sorv'd by thos, " shall mako thee riehe=Mrs, Browning, @ tual adjustment | And it coud also be demon humor. It was distinctly under. There are strated that, wince the stood that I could pay but $8 Mrx, ¥e ought to have it, the news per week. ustment of one's life ¢ to that of the other, things, and to his a T aw ere to sta | Result¥ will have to sh could not be ¢ ubst | ———_——— | whether there is foundatio t even if there were submissive, timid soul | fact for this complaint. Bu Possibility of getting lawmak | * his life and hin spirit | interesting thing is the who wished to do so. And that | oman who has taken him | tion of our’ changed | 4s Impossible, too. Most of the } In tha of com- | ward executive and ' “wet vote is concentrated, to t's about $0 per cent | responall r rity in a few 10 per cent | Definitely, + dof the | which already t bad a hen | president ! SOL ves. and we judge him, not merely t wet congress j npossib! nd it could not constitutic pass any wet | them , even re elected, made a prime minister | the hen, “nothing to ¢ | president Is there, th ‘nothing to d } eee Yes The enfore two things. ment law Bad Paper Better Than Bad Rumor A NORTH CAROLINA STORIES HERE the rest s a butcher in the and he gave a “I once hired a boy** y 1 was ashamed to give for he had that saving @ million-dollar sense of rime news back er cholic | So, since the people in demonstrated that | paper, as should pr ant it, it the business: proposition, t the news of crimes. for him, grace, news. but of mu | | people | | | as an altruistic to print Propo: ass of news is ays ly left out of the pa- dress chickens?’ bands & { pers, rumor will immediate ai say not—on $$ a“* i | take its place, And the worst week.’ wit Ye HER FRIEND KNEW— HEN women are in need of sympathy or advice they instinctively turn to some friend or neighbor for it. That is what Mrs. Mary Wilhelmy did and that is what thousands of other women have done. § Mrs. Wilhelmy was not feeling well. She was run-down from over- work and worry. She had no appetite. She could not sleep at night. Mrs. Wilhelmy followed the advice, of a neighbor in whom she had faith and confidence —but read in her own words about her experience. 4 ‘‘I was all run-down from over-work and worry, had no appetite and could not sleep at night. I did not get any strength after my last baby was born. A friend of mine said, ‘Try Lydia E, Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound as I have done. It helped me.’ So I started taking the Vegetable Compound and I noticed after the first few bottles that I fele considerably better. After taking 9 or 10 bottles I got over my fainc- ing spells, Everybody who sees me now notices the great improvementin my health. Any woman can write co me and I will answer her letter.” —Mrs, Mary Wilbelmy, 309 Duke St. MRS, MARY WILHELMY / St, Paul, Minnesota, ST. 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