The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 4, 1925, Page 6

Newspaper En- terprive Asan, aod United Prose Bervioe, office, oT M York office, By mall, year $8.00, What hi York he ory lies on enough recovery the lineup within a week emerges from an operation with prospects of being idle for a month or more, But what the public can’t understand is—why all the secrecy surrounding the Babe's condition and why all the efforts to belittle the seriousness of his illness? If he is really a sick n > BAY SO. Economy That Cuts AILLAUX is to imi economy. So many government employes have been sent home to their folks by Coolidge economy that those still holding on are not spending their money in the stores, for fear that it may be their turn next. Caillaux publicly notifies employes that he is after real mad, he is a terror. Of course, there is government positions. chasing power. As Between Conservatives AYS one conservative to another, “Let us be conservative! The late labor, or unconservative, gov- ernment of England repealed the Kenna duties, whereupon conservative U. S. clocks, musical instruments, filz tomobiles and certain other iuxuries be- gan doing a very pleasant business thru- out England. Comes ment of England clocks, etc. The British conservatives seem to feel that what fattens the gander will fatten And, if the experiment proves to be a success, there’s no reason why every foreign goose shouldn’t be eating the goose. out of Uncle Sam's dish. PP Answers to Your Questions >? > Gilman, Ni solid The Se a out of city, My carrier, city, About Ruth? HE greatest “slugger” in all baseball's sick bed in a New ital, while all fandom mourns the absence of his powerful bat and his equally powerful and colorful personality, Babe Ruth, at first reported to be near to resume his place in or lan e Coolidge as to | all them, and the Paris merchants already note slack busi- ness, and when the Parisian retailer gets now the conservative govern- with notice July 1, the McKenna duties will be re- stored, which means 3314 per cent ad valorem duties on conservative U, S. auto- mobiles and other heavy duties on films, ground for economy thru elimination of superfluous But, nevertheless, cutting off the purchasing power of thou- sands, for any reason, must affect those who do business because of such pur- The folks, quite gener- ally, seem to be thinking on economy. Too bad that the feeling didn’t possess them right after the war, when a period of unprecedented splurging set in. Ruth at © duh Mt, be bh, g months month, , popular ade tells r was a also be t Most man’s phases, porary lite was the ac time, so, now evils, why not passes most come: “useless” The was ex-kalser erick as anything. visions liquor for all. I Bry: Mc- $, au- tive” ship. that, on with great Mr. Bryan the fruit. tar vils That Perish Sherr of the filth in seemingly s of the Pittsburg Press: “The | obscenity of a large portion of even the highest society of Queen Elizabeth's time assing phi ansient,’ save physical The craving for filth in contem- ature pted indecency of Elizabeth's | A septic tank will dry up thru the feeding upon each other of its own germs. Evils finally suicide. quickly which soonest common, erature is to be followed by a flood of popular demand for good literature, man looks upward, always steps a little farther away from the beast. A Pleasant Family Affair “TP WO features of the ex-kaiser celebration of Von Hindenburg elec- tion stand forth. servants were allowed a generous portion of the wine. tion of Hohenzollern trend tov ing the family safe for democ Secondly, the consensus of sentiment that the celebration was less for the arsonally than for Prince Fred- e coming “war lord.” tonishing honor to Fred coming from a warlike family, since, in his recent trial for responsibility for the last war, his defense was, largely, that he wasn’t near enough to the war to be responsible for Still, it was a fine family celebration, according to European estimates—happy for everybody An Opening for Wm. you cannot get into the game thru door or window, try the keyhole. Mr. yan was an “accidental” candidate in 1896; two or three times a steam-roller | candidate, later on, and now is a candidate for the Florida senator- Mr. Bryan’s platform will be awaited interest, doesn't seem to be much virtue left in a 16-to-1 plank and, since “unearned incre- ment” on Florida real estate has made very ross of thorn ever, a platform giving a thoro roasting to the gorilla and Al Smith may suffice. Or, indeed, a mere wants to get into the senate to be ruled by Hellanmaria Dawes might bring down Pupilshed Dally by The Star Rudlishing Oo, Phone Main 0409, Franolaoo terature, Frank Harper Today's filth will se, those appetites, sprung from are passing is mental lesion, as jous phase be- A tidal wave of bad lit- That vie’ 's family Clearly an indica- rd mak- acy. An as- and plenty of recep- as usual. There well-known ng. How- rich, the may be miss statement that he | _——$—— Q. What kind of paint 1s put on|#% ‘ Bu @ holiday, or “lacy day,” for the bottom of United States navy OU can get an-answer to | | everyone—this day of rest for the vessels? , i] any question of fact or in- } | Sunday workers came to be known A. First a coat of antt-corroding| | formation by writing The Seat- jas “Blue Monday.” We atill use the paint and then a coat of anti-fouling| | tle Star Question Editor, 1322 | | phrase, but its meaning has become paint, the *latter being applied for tae York ave, Washington, | | somewhat modified. We now apeak| oe purpose of keeping off bar-| \ 2 c., prsiicay ane ed naan of “Blue Monday” when wwe wish to| nacies. cose * - mvey the tho t ue ead | medical, legal or marital ad- | |)02) Yireg meteen ae aa eel | | vice’ Personal replies, contt- | Aes 5. ARH ot al a | a > " wy, a | by ‘est, t h njoymen | @ What do the initials “V. D. B.”| | Gentian, all letters must be | |" "ther than enjoyment. which appear on the obverse side of | | signed. {| ee | & Lincoln penny mean? & see | 2 How long are the long and A. They stand for Victor D. Bren- short sessions of congresa? ner, the designer of the cotn. Q. Who was the first “native| A. The long seasion begin on the + eg born” American citizen to occupy) first Monday of December of the Q In how many states of the United States Is the term “common- wealth” used in the official title of| the state? A. In Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Kentucky. eee Q. How many banks aro there In the United States? A. On June $0, 1924, there were 28,468 state and national banks in savings) banks, and 1,664 loan and trust com- the United States; 1,603 panies. SMOKING ROOM STORIES S6O7TYHE ignorance evinced by many of the people haled into a police court makes one doubt the fairness of any legal procedure whatever against said a smoker, as ho tilted a soft felt to a more com fortable angle. ‘‘Some weeks ego, I was summoned as a wit- ness against a man who had committed a petty theft. Ques- tioning the accused, the judge asked: “Are you this isd the defendant in ‘0, sir, ‘deed not,’ came an emphatic answer, ‘I got a law- yer to do my defendin’. I'm the man what done the steal- la Q. How much of the area of the earth ed therefore, while others were busy at their tasks, these people who tcork-| ed on Sunday had a day of rest,| during rather than indulged in any pleas-| ures. Europe were decorated with blue on the first Monday before Lent—which { A Thought ] ater? | A. The total area of the carth fa} 196,940,000 square miles; 19,683,000 | being land, About area, and 57,255,000 being 71 per cent is water water ei'¢..0 | Q. Why is Monday sometimes call- “Blue Monday"? A. In carly days those whose af- to Monday, were considered entitled holiday on Monday. On which they usually lazed | Because the churches thruout| Whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment.— Matt, v.22. Sisire M ON in rage strike those that wish them best—Shakes- peare. W" CALL him a cop, just a blue-coated cop, who tells us to go, and who tells, us to stop. To us, he’s a man whom we put on the pan, and sneak by his rulings whenever we can. The wave of his paw is the rule of the law and the judgment of one who is stern at the jaw. We ch by the hour and we slur at his power. No wonder he thinks that the world has gone sour, By night and by day he is drawing his p Up alley, down street. leads h rensible wa wearisome beat, thru sun. shine and fog and thru rainstorm and slect. Protector, and yet, just what praise does he get? How many folks know that they stand in his debt? A-awi but whatever the law, you can bank, he We call him a cop, just a blue-coated « With highways pol Let's givo him the credit that's du’ him, f judgment, let's stop! (Copyright, 1 ngin his club, you may call him a dub, the hub. but ere we start passing our , wanton crime is decreased. for guiding things on in a| the presidency of the United States?| odd numbered years. A. Martin Van Buren, His prede-| mit to the length of the seasion; cessora had all been British aubjects|it may carry over until mideu in the days before the revolutionary | The war, mer. short session begins in the leven-numbered years, and must} come to an end on March 3 by rea- 407 | of the dom of Bhutan? native state having control |internat affairs (treaty of 1910), ly- ling on the southern slope of the| Himalayas between Thibet on the} | north [fairs of business occupled them on) jouty with Bikkam on the seat. | Sunday is | ture ponies dustrica. square miles, 251 ati ruler is Maharajah Sir Ugyen Wang- ch m What Folks There is no| nm of the expiration of the terms members. Q. Where and what ts the king- A. Bhutan is a semt-independent of its and British Indian on the It Their religion ia Buddh- | m of the Thibetan type. Agricul- and stock raising (sturdy especially) are the chief in- The area is adout 20,000) the population about 0,000. The capital is Punakha, a rong natural fortress. The present huk, who was chosen hereditary aharajah in 1907. Are Saying UY DR. CHAS. ELWOOD, Mis. sourt university: “Can we speak of the dominance of the Chris. tian home in American society, when America has more di- yorces in a single year in pro. portion to its population than has such a pagan country as Japan, and more than all the rest of the Christian civilized nations put together?’ PROF. R. M, BINDER, N, Y, university: “Spank ‘em in mod- eration, Spanking js a natural physical cure for the tense nervous cause and reaction of misbehavior FANNIE HURST, author and traveler; ‘‘Lenin looks exactly as he did when he died, a year ago, thru a process of embaim ing far more cunning than any. thing Egypt ever devised,” PLINU ROOT, to San Francis co Bar association: “Phe country has reached a point where it is impossible for any American lawyer to know the law," | is 190 miles bong from east to fi |and 90 miles in extreme breadth. The people are Mongolians, the or- iginal inhabitants having been sub- fugated about two centuries ago by | Thibetana, THE EATTL STAR ra [OUT OUR WAY WHAT 00 You Think OF “TH! NEW OUTFIT MA? THATS TH LatesT THinc IN BONS HATS - AN! I Gor TH Sur BIG ENUFF SoS HE WHY MOTHERS GET GRAY. CAN WEAR IT “RNO SEASONS AND HE WONT NEVER BE “TROUBLED WITH CORNS IN THEM SHOES. YOUVE GOT TO THINK AHEAD WHEN. W May 4 Economy, This word has suddenly attained unprecedented popularity cept for the ar- ticle “the,” and ponsibly the pronoun “I,"" no other word is today frequently used in Washington speeches and news dispatcher: Economy's reign took the na as tional capital so, by surprise that it is only now beginning to ask the meaning of ft all But during the past few days there has been more and more noticeable a tendency to in quire, “What is economy? The debate hasn't been net ted. Some there are who con tend that tho use of pencil stubs by President Coolidge is the acme of economy! Others will undertake to prove that it beat of economy A would be the for the government $500,000,000 In to af the construct Washing of 5 buildings in ton and other parts of the na. tion The genesis of the economy vogue In traceable directly to a BY C. A. RANDAU BUMIN' CLOTHES FOR VA MONDAY, MAY 4, 192% | What This Economy Row’s All About desire to cut taxes, or, more specifically, surtaxes on large incomes, Reduction of murtaxes still further depends largely on nening the cost of With thin as his av gram, Preside ed economy government as logan, It proved to be ex ly popu Everybody, ex a certain number of clerks wh at their jobs thereby, # plauded the move the cost of runr ment ‘The White House set the pace The prea had to 7 wornout ser because the country couldn't afford to buy him a new one. It was discov ered that 15 cents a coulk be saved by eliminating the pa sanitary drinking eups used per by the White Houne office force—and out t the cupe In leas than a week, however, this particular “economy” was given up, for the protests of anti-tuberculosis organizations | Mr. Fixit of The Star Undertakes Here to Remedy Your Troubles if of Public Interest Mr. Fixit: Saturday before Easter, an article with pictures The Star telling appeared i Alli Beach residents to get busy and paint up their signa and put new signs on their cottages. This appealed to many people If you know of some man who can paint signs, and needs work, if he will take some boards and a can of paint and some ertra names for cottages, he will find that he can accommodate a great many people by painting them signa, if he doesn’t charge too much. HARRY SOMERS, $202 Point Plape. Here ts an opportunity for a painter out of a Sob see Mr, Fizit: 1 own nearly two acres of ground with a three- room house on it, outside the city limits. I pay nearly 330 a year taxes, which I think is too high, compared to what my GERM FOES a D* RC RT C. GREEN, professor of bacteriology and jmmunology at the Univer. sity of Minnesota, announces reasons for believing that dis ease germs are preyed upon by exceedingly minute organisms in the same way disease germs prey upon man, Experiments were made by filtering bacteria cultures of typhoid, diphtheria and other infectious diseases thru stone filters, The result was a clear liquid that con- tained no disease germs. When a drop of this liquid was added to a germ culture, it k in a few hours. wtance was then diluted, but even in this stage it killed the germs, If this process proves to be efficient along the lines indicat. ed by the original experiments, it opens great possibilities for the control of certain serious diseases. | | DOC--By HyGage| SCIENCE ——— J neighbors pay. Where can I find out about this? M Go to the county assessor's office in the county-clty bulld ing. If they cannot give you relief, you will have to go be- fore the equalization board, which meets in July. The as- seanor will give you the neces- sary information ore Mr. Fixit: Can a man aclt property that is mot community property without his wife's sig nature? RB. He can sell any real estate that Is not legally community property without his wife's sig- nature, but few purch would care to tawe ft that way. s0rs Mr. Fixit: Our neighbors have an old automobdile they have had for years. Every time they return from @ trip they apend hours polishing that old car, while over their yard and around the place old bores and junk are allowed to accumulate, and the grasa has not been cut this year, Can you oct them to put in a little leas time on the old machine and a little more on the lawn? CITIZEN. Perhaps your netghbor docs not own the place ‘where he lives, That makes a lot of dif ference with some people, tho every good citien should keep the place where he lives look- ing respectable, but there is no law to cover your particular complaint, eee Mr. Fixit: I ama woman of £7 and came to this country when 5 years old. My father took out his first papers, but not his second. I am now mar- ried, and my husband has taken out his first papers, Will I au- tomatically become a citizen then he takes out his last pa- pers? MRS, C. B. HW. You will have to take out pa- pers in your own name. Apply to J, 8 Smith, of the natural- ization department, in the fed- eral building. cee Mr, Piet: By dropped two tokens in the fare bor on the car. The conductor refused to refund one of them, and was very rude. Once be- fore when I had made a@ similar mistake, the conductor gave me the next token that was handed to him by @ passenger. Any re- Hable business firm would gladly refund an over-charge or make good an error, Why not our street cars? JOB, mistake I ot et Tho rule is that the conductor shall turn in your name and ad- dreas, ‘Tho amount will be re- funded at the cashier's office, in the county-clty building. Con- ductors often give out the next token to those who have over- paid, This is permitted, but not encouraged. In either case con- ductors are supposed to be de- Copyright, 1926, Publio Ledger Byadivate cont, and should be reported when they are not. were instantaeous and over- whelming Now and then other Incon. gruous incidents would develop. For instance, the question arone to travel to aboard the very flower,” when ‘ore St had it would ident & month. Publication of the president's Intention to use the “Mayflow- pr hin va ton trip caused no end of Irritation at the White House Well, after this “economy In government” slogan had made such @ jon-wide hit, it was decided to carry the thing a lit tle further "If they like it that well, let's give It to them straight,” it was ar In 1 of confining himself to ca upon department heads to trim thelr expenses, the president broadened his field and told the country to cut its domestic expenses. is precise point, the first rounds of dissent from too much were heard. Business (me announced fiatly hat they were against stressir econom economy outside the govern departments t in the status of the economy urge at the moment More developments are expected ‘I Seen by th’ Papers’ SEZ KITCHEL PIXLEY Sage of the Olympics HE kingin busmess is an aw- fu] strain in these times. There's the shootin off of half of King Boris’ mustache by that assassin, for instance. Ca- biegrams fallto state what Boris has done about it. Of course, it is a king's prerogative to wear a half = mus tache and set a style by it, and you needn't think — that such would not be a go, either. Don't you remem. the goatee and side- The style for ‘em was some _higher-up, Then, the little hairy twinkle many fellows wear un- der their nostrils today and you still see the waxed, curled-up ends, occasionally, the style the kaiser set. Talk about ber burns raged? when women's bobbed hair! A picture of what styles of hair man has worn on his face would drive a perfectly healthy Los Angeles flea to da- spair. If King Boris decides for a 50 per cent mustache, you'll fee its imitation stalkin our streets. However, let us hope for the best. Maybe Boris had the remnants shaved off, eee Judgin by what he said be- fore election, that Hindenburg has got the best chance of bein a liar of any man yours truly ever seen in polites, any time, anywhere, see Philosopher Melancton Sweet says: “Scratch the president of your Don't Worry club deep enough and you'll find a man whose money is in nontaxable bonds.” aie, ¢ Radio sharps say they will soon broadcast the roar of Ni- agara Falls. Turn her ont Can't hurt the roars we're gettin’ now. eee We hope that Doheny in his visit to Fall at Three Rivers raneh found those Sinclair ped: igreed’ sows in good cheer, see “Beer flows like water!” ex. cliims « Pennsylvania paper. Same here, Tastes like it, too, KP | | i ' ' ' ' ' ' 1 1 1 ' ' t As Sir A™ interesting article on gov ernment ownership lias re cently been published, wriiten by Bir Henry Worth Thornton, K. B. 1, A great many Ameri can railroaders will remember Henry Thornton, who was with the Pennsylvania for arm from 1894 to 1914-—and was once iperintendent of the Long In land rajiwa He is & Logans port, Ind,, boy, Well, he is now Sir Henry and is running the 000 miles of railway owned by the Canadian government, Me the tasue of govern- ship of railways in not dead, and there Is nothing about it to die, “It is the kind of thing which may bob up any minute," says he, “not as a pol- ley voted on, but as an emergency to be met.” ment ow The most interesung points in those in which conditions under his article tells are he the which public ownership is sure to fall and when private owner ship in doomed to disaster Public ownership must fail, ho says, when the running of the railways Ss a part of the po litical business of the govern- ment, It is pure to fall when railways are run to make votes, when railway policies are d re and fire must be with the operator and not lodged with an am in favor of govern should to run Now I ment now be study! owners! MAN bemoans the fact that altho his wife has given him reason to suspect her fidel- ity, he still loves her. He deems {t an unnatural thing that his heart should still ineline toward , by reason of his being a an, this is unusual behavior, for that quaint propensity for martyrdom has hitherto been solely a feminine trait Men find it hard to forgive us our transgressions, but con- sider it indeed for us to forgive them. ‘The husband who really loves and cherishes his wifo after sho has broken seventh met Perhaps woman's habit in this respect {s a hang-over from those long ago-days when men took unto themselves many and ed wives, Then the wom an had to be content with hay- ing a man's love today while to- morrow seeing it bestowed upon another. I wonder if men never ponder about the hearts of those wom- en in our Christian Bible who basked for one hour in the favor of the man they loved and lived out the rest of their lives upon that memory. How did the Leahs suffer while the Rachels of old were honored? Bitter indeed has been the po- which th ughters of the commandment is A Matter of Forgiveness BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON BY WILLIAMS)! Government Ownership H. W. Thornton Sees It BY HERBERT QUICK them under government ow; ship, ‘Therefore dir Hentyg | statement ts import I hes ¢ Neve ft to be x uly true, Befure we take over the raih- 4 4 plan shoul + worked © out by which thelr operation ig 9 divorced from politica, and not | an ixsue in election Bir Henry says ownership must fail that private f the eyeg of the management, or of thous who direct the management, are more firmly fixed on the atodk market than they are on the service the road is rendering” And here he touches the rail way management of the United Btates on the raw, Everyone, who is anywhere near the fre nide knows that the stock mar ket is the thing which our raib way operators are t watch all the time One reason why we shall ab most surely come to government ownership in .this country ig that we are all the time regu. lating the railways. it because of the predatory poll cles of the railways in years = s Vdeveos gone by, and wo can't stop ft, Yet thus «et, as Thornton the worst features of goy- ernment and private ownership, h the virtues of neither, ment ownership ie good service Sir * positively; but he sides between the Events, he says, al- Issuc. There havo drunk. And the men, whe 60 clothed in their arrogance, have never comprehended. They have given thelr girl children to unloved men in marriage and broken the hearts of their wives by their infidelities, and made mock of the love of good women And in turn, from the days of Abraham unto this good hour, they have demanded chas- tity and love and service from 4 sex which in matters of the heart they have so grossly mis. treated. While man was permitted numerous wives, the adulterous woman was stoned in the streets and pilloried in the stocks. While husbands went in search of more beautiful mistresses, wives were imprie oned in moated castles. The very walls of heaven must re echo with the walls of that end- less procession of women whose innocence has been defiled by rascals and whose hearts have been broken by unfaithfulness, So if today woman sometimes sins, forgive her of all those other women who for so many ages forgave and loved your cruei, thoughtless forbears. 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