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seemed hh 2 Newspaper ie yer $808, By Mall @9t of city, be per month, By carrier, ety The Seattle Star wer terprive Asem pettuhing Ons end Unles Giiman, Nicil @ Ruthman, Mpecial Representatives San Frenciece Phone Mais Press Berrien. sftien 27 Mem : ave) New ‘008 York effica, 19 Weet . te @ ment § mothe 01.60, 6 meatne 1000, Pebliehet Dolly Climbing Up the Stairs | without limit, but horizons have an ugly ORKMEN were tearing do’ buildnig on Pike St, empty ground floor, top and found nowhere to go. a man laughed at her said, So she did, Too many people are like the little girl, They painfully climb up a ladder for years only to find, when they reach the top, there's nothing there, Before you start to climb the iadder of success stand off a piece and find out If you can't see anything, hunt around for another what's at the upper end. stairway. Play Safe BOUT 6,500 persons National Safety “boat rocker.” The sad part of it all is that his victim usually drowns while some well-meaning rescuer is hauling out the moron who rocked the boat. As to Horizons MERICA’S moral horizon embraces the whole world, says President Cool- idge to the national school oratorical con- testants, An expression of dubious weight, like Everybody, everywhere, who has any considerable concept of moral- ity, has a moral horizon embracing the whole world, Anybody can have a horizon, all platitudes. Q@ Is there any fish that always mvima on its back tT A. All apecica of fith meim on their backs occasionally, but there fx ua fish thet elwoys swims in| | thin way. Q Who was the first secretary of war and the first secretary of} the navy? A. Henry Knaor, ond Benjamin Stoddart, appointed ia 1784, wes the first sccretery of the navy. ee ‘Von Hindenturg of Germany? red away most of the two stories, An old stairway was left in the center of th It led nowhere. A small girl tripped up it, camegto the Down below “Now you have to turn around and come down again,” he were last year in the United States, is a reduction from 8,800 in 19; total is still appalling. This summer the council will against such fatalities via radio. But all the radio lecturers in the world won't be able to cope with situation unless parents see that their children can swim and refuse them to go riding with the 23. But the appointed in| 1189, wee the first secretary of wer, the United States, of the other United States territory? How many children has Gen.| A. Lets Michigan lice wr 2 i |uctthin the United Rtates. The other | habit of nan old Pies had horizon. drowned That campaign moving on as the approaches, and abo the college youth whom our preesi- dent addressed ever catching up with the present-day world-wide horizon, when folks start out to have visions, it is good policy to go in for big e@nes Russiagfor instance | an exception just outside Mr, Coolidge’s possessor there is some question However, Now but mabe Russia is When They Show Up KE LONG, San Francisco street sweep- er, lived a solitary, hard life. was in the gutters, and a fellow with his job doesn’t enjoy high or very many asso- clations of any sort. Ike died, last July, and the city thought that whatever he left would belong to it, as on all cases where a man seems to be without kin who love him, left $4,900 in the bank, and 20 loving heirs have turned up, No matter how low or high your voca- tion, scrape, save and pinch yourself and get 49 hundred or 49 million dollars and you get friends—when dead, His life Not so. Ike Want Some Business? NTRODUCING Unele Sam, Germans have invented a “death‘ray” The department of commerce has just put out a bulletin bearing on the business of every manufacturer and hopes to sell his product outside the United roducer who States and would welcome a little help, It compiles all the foreign inquiries received for American products. for them. Bi trective consiete of fT [two ef watch ere devoted to | world et large aa an introduc 10 wolumes to Durope, four to Agta, ‘OU can get an anewer to any question of fact or to formation by writing The Seat- te Star Question Editor, 1323 New York ave, Washington, D. C., and tnclosing 2 cents tn leone stamps for reply. No Medical, legal or marital ad vice. Personal replies, confi dential. All letters must be signed. Seattle ship Shirl A. Blalock, de room, 515 Lowman building. P P Answers to Your Questions ? ? and how such lakes te considered! @. Who was thy Chile wants salmon, hops, lubricating oil and rice, for instance. Germany would like rubber toys, radiators and overshoes, sg ae wants bicycles, carpenter tools “prams.” Sam aa the Santa Claus who will find it And they all write Uncle rs can get the list from rtment of commerce end the remaining one to Africa. 5 ece | Q@ What has become of the TU.) ja 8 Pr | eerapped ? i A. She hae been out of comeurds-| | 08 since 1902 and ia sew of Mare ‘Island Nowy yord, Califorate. She ts erick? Has alo not being scrapped. rer bend Cram A. The schocimaster character ia| | Weariagton Irving's “Legend of Shepy Hollow.” A. Three, two daughters end one rest Laked are regarded aa high) “ee phia" mean? means “three brothers.” a er’ Q Which of the carly presidents} Q@ What fs the greatest peach- ‘were members of the Protestant) producing state Bptscopal church? A. Washington, Madison, Monroe, Harrison, Tyler, Taylor, Pierce and arthur were members of the Church of England, which is the Protestant Byiscopal church. o* Money from moring pictures than from prize fighting? A. Por alt his important fights he probably received no more than @ total of 3950.000, while last year Ke received 31,900,009 for playing in @ series of 19 two-reet pictures, and fe now getting $2,000 per week in jestures, “*-e Q What are the largest dry docks ‘a the world? A. They are located at Kiel, Ger- many; Zamburg, Germany; Perta- mouth, England; Montreal, Canada, nd New Orleans, Louisiana. Q When was the perforated Deper roll for the plano player in- vented? A. In 1887, ore Q How many membres has the organization of the Associated Gen- eral Contractors of Americy? A. 1,500 members, Q. Can the shell of hard-shelled | trawfish be mad soft? A. This is very difficult to do, but can be done by keeping them in captivity until they moult, see Q How does the area of Pittsburg compare with that of Philadelphia? A. The arca of PAttsburg ts 25,- 629.6 acres and that of Philadelphia 4s 81,920 acres. Q How many of the Great Lakes Me wholly within the territory of ce seas, according to @ decision ef the United States supreme court. With: | Q What does the name “Triadel-|i= the three mile fmt, Write a geography? A. Strabo, who wes born about 66/ spring end carly summer; |B. C., wag the firat to attempt a| April, Q Has Jack Dempsey made morejsork on penerel geography. AnotherPresidentonEconomy ASHINGTON, May 16.—-Mar- tin L. Davey, Ohio con- Sreeaman, has written the fol- lowing letter to ‘“asi-ington Dewapaper correspondents: “On Wednesday of this week I attended the meeting of the Washington Rotary club and it 0 happened that the new pres ident, William L. Radeliffe, wan being inaugurated, and in his inaugural address he made tho following significant statement: “‘Over at the White House another president ia preaching economy. J am not going to fol- low his example, because I can’t. The hardest job those business associates of mine down at 907 18th st. have, is to keep me from spending all I earn. I believe in apending money as @ matter of principle, provided it is spent for some- thing worth while. If every: body stopa spending money, the time will soon come when no- body will have any money to spend. Hard times come when people are hoarding money, not when they are spending it. “l give you falr warning now, that Tam not going to try to save Rotary’s money. Neith- er am 1 going to see it wasted, ia the United! Removal of Stains LEOPARD may not be able to change his spots, but that’s no reason for # human animal going around with egg on hia vest. Neither need you despair if baby has emptied the ink bottle on tho bent parior rug, or painted the porticres with his new box of water polorn, Whether you have apilied cocoa down the front of your new party dress, or a passing auto has splashed lovely mud on your new coat whatever the stain or spot that has Becgseatally appeared where it feally ought not to be—you will need and w nt our Washington bureau's new bulletin on "The Removal of Stains From Clothing and Textiles,” FU out the coupon below and mail to Washington na directed, and this handy, helpful bulletin & miniature troative on the chemistry of all sorts of stains and how to conquer ‘em-—will come to you in return. POA AAALAC NAY COUPON WER Annes Btains Editor, Washington Bureau, ‘The Seattle Star, 1322 New York Ave, Washington, D. ©. I want a copy of the bulletin, “Removal of Stains,” and inclose here with five cents in looxe postage stamps for same. NAME « cerccreceeeseeriss Bt, and No. or NF. D,, City.. Atates... 125 i Am 4 reader of The Seattle Star) % J \tollo it tol"dewouck Weathoru, Q What was the longest ‘yeare to make. 1 the longest, he oe | when? A. Tornadoes occur for the moat) Q@ Who was the first person to/ port only ia the centre! pert of the They come in early | United States, May and June Hia| principal onthe. Henry Castena has been ap- pointed chairman of a budgst committes and this committee will undertake to find out how Rotary’s income from ita mem- bership fees and dues can beat be expended to bring to ita members the largest pasaible returns in’ profit, pleasure and happinens.’ “In many places and from many sources I have heard the same sentiment expremed, a se- Yere and sometimes almost bit- ter resentment concerning the president's advocacy of rigid personal economy. The people seem to rejoice in the idea of economy in government, but I hare heard many business men from Chicago to New York speak in strong resentment con. corning thia talk of personal economy. They say It te hurt ing buniness, It may or may not be true, but many business men are saying it just the same.” FAMILY FUN nent-mindednoss, went to to the utmost precision. He | forgotten, | WHEN WIFE DRIVES "Can't you stop the blamed auto ® motile?" “No, imposible i | | |thing cheap.”—smilen eee | FEMININE INS T | "Well, how do you like that now |mare you bought?" "Oh, fairly well, but I wish now sho ts always |stopping to look at herself ta tho {T'd bought a horse | puddies,”"—Hoston ‘Transeript, .* . TOMMY CERTAIN | move | ahio iC} it dot" “Tow do you know It moves? “My father in a traffic cop—he tolumes, the bees | time} ¥ lever spent on @ tingle movie pro- | United | duction ? | States ownership prevails; the same | A. Tt comes from the Greek and! t* true for Canada on the northern Tee A. “Down to the Bea in Ships” laud “Greed™ each took atext tio These were poattly | Q Where do tornadoes generally joccur im the United States and i Merch,! being the A Canadian farmer, noted for ab- n one |day and transacted his businons with arted back on his way home, however, with | the firm conviction that he had for gotten something, and three times he latopped hia horse and went care fully thru his pocketbook in a vain jendenyor to discover what he had In due course he reached home, and waa met by hiv daughter, | who exclaimed; “Why, father, where have you left mother?’—Argonaut, oe "Then for Nenven's sake hit seme “Tommy, does this world of ours THE SEF —--- ———— ee [OU ’ OUR WAY HHL /E Know WY 1M SO Late mar \ WELL 1 STARTED Home = FORE DARK, BUT L MET A KID . AN HE SEZ" I SEEN YA Down TOWN WITHt YOUR GVSTER COUPLE Bays AGO" 2) AN T SEZ wy'l AINT GOT No SISTER, @\ AT Wut MY MA, AN HE Se2"wore Yay 'AT YOUNG: GOOD LOOWN' Girt Youre MA? WY SHES “0 YouNGT’ BE NOUR MA) WELL WE ARGEED N ARGEED -AN WELL HERE 1 AM a TOO LATE FER GUODER, ro 16 ARMINGTON, May 1934, when Gaw the Daugher mittee a few about things have bad to worse for Already to Atlanta for alleged p tion in a New York rum ring, teetive Means is now to fseo the add Uonal charge of torger The department of } the fortheoming trial that Means for@ed (he eigeatur ¢ Benator Mrookhert the charge is to show that Means, a the committes certain %, aitempted to “de from ta whith would ave mubsiantiated this in thoes No detective in tory of Washing affairs enjoyed greater intimacy with the powers that te thin Meats When [President Harting, [tn 1932, had a particularily delicate investigation in mind, it was to Gaston T, Means that he turned for asalstance When Altorney € © recent hie waa to Me aki, He anel «that he turned for 4 Méans to the fob of “getting something on” t men in beth the senate and the house who were making of forts to tmpeach him. At least, sy Meana later teatified. La Follette tn tion to Investigate the leasing Teapo! Dome, it was M 8 offien to lenrn hoy much information be had. Wiliam J, Burne, then head of the bureau of Investigation. DIPLOMATS ARE MADE-NOT GORN LONG \ BY C, A. RANDAU name, orderton to the . Me onty one whe away any of the ts ef the Dawah- erty rentone, rewarded Moana aw his best man. pl the Daugherty com * and that as a While on t A before the Dmugherty cominittes, Means said ‘be was Peady at all umes to investigate anyone, provided only be was paid to make the tn. Vestigaiion. Senator Wheeler saked him, “You have never gone thru my on, have yout’ Means replied, “If somebody wel sain om 1 will do it Ten years ago Means worked for the Burns Detective Agenes Prom there he wer ploy of tie German government, inaking reports to the German eecret rervion In the period just before America went to war. hor International samdgn m: was his work for the Mex can government after the World War. He was hired to keep a watch on the activities of Mexi cane in the 1 4 Bintes who planned revolutions against Mexican government Means had lost his fob with Mr. Fixit of The Star Undertakes Here to Remedy Your Troubles if of Public Interest Mr. Pistt: My home ta in my name, but ts community property, and our bank account fa a joint accownt, [a it neces sary for my husband to make a will, and i tt necessary for me fo make @« will? How much docs it cost? MRE, LEE. To nvold any possible trouble, you and your husband should each mako a will A lawyer will chargo you $5 or $10, but it is worth that to haye it correct. “ef Mr. Fhett: There is an apartment on Jackson at, where a garbage can ts kept right under our window, 40 that wet have to keep the window down. If the can was in geod condition it would not be #0 bad, Can you help ua get thie fixed? Le W. Tho attention of tho health department has been enlled to this, and the matter will bo in- veutigated, o- Mr, Fieit: Can you fiw it so the Seattle auto touriat comp will pet a new stove pipe? Hecvently wo stopped off thera and found it almost impossible to keep up a@ good fire because of the condition of the stove pine, SEDRO-WOOLLEY, The park departinent will at« tend to this, and If necessary will put up a new stove pipe Mr. leit: Kindly adviae ws if it will be necessary to pay a personal taw this year (192) faves), on @ car purchased March 16, 1024. M. Under ordinary conditions you would not be Hable for 1924 taxes if you scquired the car after March 1, 1924. But tn tho event the taxea wore not paid by tho original owner, and could not be collected from him, then there in a rule that the taxes follow tne property rer ine) Mr, Mott? la there any rea son why there cannot be a good coucrete aldewalh around the IMppotlrome at the eorner of Vth ave, and Unieoraity ap The esst sade of Fifth eve, between Union and Uni- weraity ata. and one-half of the north aide of University at. de- twern Fifth and Birth aves, 0. P. 7, Thia is on the University of Washington property, and is under the control of the Metro- Politan Butlding company, Tho company 18 supposed to look after tho improvementa of this pioperty, Take tip the matter with J. Douglas, at Fourth are, and University xt ¢— ——— SclENCE ———~, | LATEST GIANT j Ne iciciceinnnnsienntis EB live in a growing age. New things originated today de- velop faster in a month than they u to in a century. ‘Thir- ty yours ago, not one phono. graph to each city of 60,000 peo plo; now, considerably more than one phonograph to each cluster of 40 people, ‘Twenty years ago, hardly ona automobile for every thousand persons; now, In Call fornia, for example, more than one machine for each five sup: posed to make up an average family, Twenty years’ growth of tho motion pleture has been phenomenal, Yet—it took the auto 10 years, from 1896 to 1906, to attain an annual production of 25,000 cars, Now come# tho latest giant radio, Karly in 1921, tho larg ext manufacturer in the radio field estimated 26,000 sets were tho ultimate that could ever bo disposed ofthe saturation point. Within that year 2¢ tho montély. quota, ‘There are now more @ian a million sete within a radius of 100 miles from New York, Today, within threo years from ite fFAt wpurt, radio has placed itwelf In dollar volume of business equal to the automobile business an it was 17 years after ity start The entire volume of radio sales {i 1080 wos $1,600,000, In uaa thie (otal ts estimated to have ox: wooded $400,000,000, D00 wots was THAT MORE Ay WH YOU SOMETHING / T EAT / things! . OH AW AA DIO \ HE REALM Say WALTER ? WOU CAN “TELL ME mT IT } | £ 1M FIXING | } | U.S. Prosecutes Its ‘Super-Detective’ the 4 riment of justion before tts bea that he w ning down evidence prominent New York I cans who happened to be He appeared be oe Wheeler committee an a er Witness amd gare in. ) which, while epley an Lion of th about Hquor business. 4 sringin y's resignat If Means forged Mrookimrt's name to a eslfaddrensed letter nmitted 6 criminal act. Ho A been shown ¢ or any cause, suffered as a reault of this alleged action. anyone, ‘I Seen by th’ Papers SEZ KITCHEL PIXLEY Sage of the Olympics seen by the Cincinnat! Post that Hellan Martha Dawes is getn’ to prench senate reform right in the home « ales of the senato rules senators, and somebody should warn him agin = it It's the wure way to make them senators stick to thelr rules till the cows come home and Dawes will come out of it all tainted with vitupera tion, and judg. in, by Demo. cratic opinion In these parts the country can't afford to waste Dawes, T ask you, what happens when & spinster soclal worker goon into a home and tells the mother of seven children how to also children? Or, what happens when a stranger neighbor lady runs in on old Mra, Jones to tell her how to preserve peaches scien. tific? Do those clilldren hare eleanor noses or frequenter baths? Does Jones notion any improve- Mont tn the peaches set before him along in January? No sirt The lady with the master mind on raisin’ children and the one with the super-cargo of intelli. Fensia on preservin’ peaches get disappointment and vituperation, itll be similar with Dawes, He can't walk into the home circles of wenators of perhaps 20 years’ standin’ and lyin’, tell ‘em been damphools ever since the home aluminum, wool, or oil they've been damphools ever since the home aluminum, wool, or ofl trust put them Into of. fice, and got any reform out of it. Senato rules aro the wenate’s business exclusive and thero'll be considerable change fn the human animal before stickin’ your nose Into other folks’ bual. ness becomes either healthful or reformatory Piziey eee Now comes a California wife soekin' divorcee becauso her man mado her Kiss-his foot, showin’ the ungovernable dispositions of some California marricd folks, eee A Michigan man, arrested for traffic violation, pleads that while he saw the warntn' "Stop," it didn't say where or when and *o he came near runnin’ thru the policeman, eee Sort of Insinuatin’ against womun's physical beauty, the Youngstown, ‘Telegram — editor says, “It is the spirit that at tracts.” They don't have bathin' benches at Youngstown, poor Kr Scientists say that&ho apy: ornis, & prehistoric bird, laid an ox 160 men As bie aN a hon's ews. In those old days, the lunch counter lady yelled, “One hundred and fiftieth gently afloat on w yatty’ — Seven Air Mail Routil BY WILLIAMS | — | & garage down to the gym to play ball with | the fellows.” i , | wrong with the last one you got, the jone that you declared was a poem” (OUT THE AID OFA |—Bonton Transcript. my face in raw and my neck is afire!” | | sity.” May Open This Yegp Tun new Pik . mare few 4 Bout at e Mo, to ox > ‘ ( bhenge. : «e . cd e I ® t ¢ 4 On waa gs , i sham and Montgore : ty ite ew : ‘ he exception of emt t ne ald, - ‘ (w hat Folks ; rag a Are Sayin lienderson declares that ernmfent alr om 6 t as for an gs ure ted by private cont 1 pay a large part of their au This Is doubtful, however, a 1 are that @ fight # tated in the next ¢ érees oguinat t pro RUTH COMPORT wg for pr mn of ELL, California newelial f air mail lines people of today “If private contractors can wpeaker on their fa make & profit from only 80 per the only difference cent of the revenues, then the in th government ought to make # larger profit from all of them,” Senator Kenneth. McKellar of DR. CHARLES Tennessee says, He inedet professor of upon the government operating York university: its own air mail lines. t a man % In addition to the HikoPasco | trousers that heigag route, and the w Orleans. | erbockers, I Cleveland, St. Louls-Pittaburgh of one of our and Balt Lake City-Los Angeles candidates to the routes, Colonel Henderson ex- was being $$, | graphed in 9 SMOKING ROOM |) scours STORIES er, Counell Blufts, Tag I wed a whip, mye hee-hawed, fo I battery on my di nected with wires on harhes. When I ¢ cult, the mule gets 66] T'S & shame,” said a emoker, the number of Mimey mtruc- tures that are being erected these days and rented or pold to people for homes. Dignify any kind of ergy. It's the g1 a thack by a name and you can tion of the year! unload it on homeseeker ditt s+ Passing the home of an acquaint- | THOMAS P. HENRY, — ance of mine, one day, I noticed American Automobilia: . with two or three car tion: “The automeblie! the rear *What,’ I asked, ‘is the new bullding to bet’ "Well, he anawered, ‘if T can get's tenant for it, it will be a bungalow, If I can't, it will be was never on so firm @ a basis as today.” WIFE WILLING “! avked the wife if I could ge “Roceer?” “No, she socked me."—Film Fun. WIFE'S POEM “Good Lord! another hat? What's | reer forte STALLED, LANTERN JAS 7 ARO SAGGING FACES UFTED | “It was, but not an immortal one. YOU HAVE THE oS ee S MAMETS MISTAKE | “Oh! Mame, my lips are cracked, |/ “Bathing beach?” “No. Boy from Stanford untver- 4 wht | coprrignt, 1924, Public Mental Strands Only— _ Actually Tiea Man Down The old world moves whether we do not—time ticks away at a merry clip. Kingdoms totter and nations over-ripe monarchs drop from the of time. Tidal waves kick up a fuss in the sea and wrench heaviest things from moorin| It’s just the dreamer’s dreams live on. Every dream or desire is the birth of opportunity—a silent call to all the wo “that an idea is ready to be worked o Opportunities are like the sun rise, seb and cast shadows of our behind us. A thousand opportunities we ne dream of and don’t see, play hide and dee us every day—alert, wakeful men em. No—they are not “one-man” oppo ties—but every kind for every ma are thick. Till a man can recognize an oppo! his “going” is but little improved. to work or find help, to exchange, to borrow or lend—EVERYTHING—# advertising and displaying themselves 1 great numbers through our Want Columns each day—any one of them may give Yt the power or cash to e loose some succe some benefit or some h moorings. READ THEM STUDIOUSLY EVERY DAY STAR WANT ADS Cost Less—Pay Best The Seattle Star Want Ad Dept. 1807 7th Ave,