The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 18, 1925, Page 8

PAGE 8 Gilman, Meet @ Ruthman. etficn, t8T Mew York effien. te West 44: By mall, owt of tty, voor 1200 By carrier, The Mystery of the Red Box d one of those highly ve stor of interna tional diplomacy, intrigue and what-not? If so, you already have some idea of hew secret state documents are hurried from one capital to another When the London foreign office wishes to send an especially important memoran dum to some cabinet member, it comes pretty nearly living up to your favorite novelist’s imaginings. The foreign min ister locks the paper in a little red box to which only two keys exist—one in the hands of the foreign minister, the other in the hands of the cabinet official receiv ing the box. When the mysterious red cas ar rives, under elaborate, if secret, guard, the official opens it, reads its contents, locks it up again and returns it precisely as it came. It’s all very, very secr One such document, however, the } York World tells us, has just gone astray For once the little red box has leaked Thus we read in a copyrighted world cable from London what purports to be the British foreign office's secret report on the European situation. “One-half of Europe is dangerously angry,” says this secvet memorandum, drafted by the foreign office for the guid- ew arfée of the British cabinet, and “the other half is dangerously afraid.” Such is the gist of the document. Aus- ten Chamberlain, the British foreign sec- retary, has been saying this to those who can read between the lines ever since he came into office, warning Britain, Europe and the world as far as he openly dared Now, it seems, the uncamouflaged truth is out—out of the little red box. Germany, the document says, intends to change her Polish frontier and recover Silesia; France intends to hold the Rhine until she no longer fears for her secur- ity: Russia “is the most menacing of our uncertainties,” and the league of nations is not strong enough to stop a war should one start between the great powers All of which is far from reassuring. Kings used to put to death couriers who brought bad news from the battlefields But the corollary to that is, no ostrich has ever yet staved off disaster from himself or from anybody else by burying his head in the sand. The day of world peace still seems far off. Such is the unwelcome message of the little red box. Bundle Day! Saat hay is asked by the Near East Relief to give ita old clothing for May 20 the benefit of poor Europeans. has been set as “Near East Bundle day. In connection with the drive the Near East Relief makes these assertions: There is great need in the Near East for something to cover human bodies and provide warmth. The Relief is operating a great child welfare system, maintaining a city of or- phaned children at Alexandropol, Russia. It is helping 3,000,000 persons said to be homeless in Greece. More than 2,000,000 persons were clothed last year by reason of American generosity. The Relief organization says that “an old garment will do more good on the back of some half-naked Armenian or Greek than it will do collecting moths in a Seattle attic.” Citizens who feel that there is a greater need for clothing in Armenia and Greece next winter than there will be in Seattle and the Pacific Northwest should give their second-hand clothing to the relief organization. The Seattle Star E Ipeelel Cnieage effien, 219 N 4) Boeten offices, TH Tre: Pubilened (Deity o months 01.50, € monthe O80% um Ocores Still Settling I the department justice were al Ways as Vigilant as it is in the case of Gaston B, Means, United States would be a sorry land for law-breaker In the brief year since Mear aw fit to volun- @ teer curtain unhappy facts concerning At torney Gene D@ugherty to the senate investigasing committee, ee hak been brought to trial on half a dozen charges He is now under sentence to Atlanta penitentiary for participation in a New York’ rum ring. This week he goea on trial in Washington on a charge of forg- ing the signature of Senator Brookhart to a letter addressed to himself We hold no brief for Mean If he is guilty of any crimes, let b be punished We have a feeling, however, that had Means not appeared before the senate committee, he would till be out of | trouble. A former intimate of Daugherty, of Jess Smith, of William J. Burns, and a former special investigator for President Harding, Means i attained the reputa tion of the super-detec tive.” government's He got to a point where he knew too much. Apparently, his record was such that criminal prosecution waa possible whenever the proper time arrived. The time came awiftly when Means broadcast unsavory information about the depart- ment of justice. The department's prosecution ¢ who have been connected with the senate men investigation would be lesa striking if other cases, usually much more import- ant, but without an element of personal animosity, were brought to trial with equal promptitude. Cutting Out the Dead Wood is no question but one trouble Bygone with European nations ix the top- heaviness of n the support of armies of ur It is certain that our + people will ploye commend President Coolidge pe wi uch par ton and in his other go mie: But from these things there has sprung at now is for every pinch. And this ia wre A lesson on the evils of waste might | be h t nd at every breakfast ta vantage, but the differen reckless waste and wise econon s that between mourn tain and mole-h Thrift, overdone, be- comes miserline Close hoarding of money, brains or anything else, investment of which means human comfort, happiness and progress means stagnation as to such desirables. Senator Couzens well says “We can all greatly reduce our stand- ard of living and thereby greatly econo- mize, but policy of this kind is so i woven with the economic forces of the country that an ill-advised curtailment of buying on the part of our citizens would quickly change the present prosperous air into one of actual hard times.” American grain cropa w promising. American r an unprecedented bus Cotton ia profitable to the grower. The iron and steel manufacturers are prepared to meet “the dull summer months” with confi- dence. Most national political bugaboos have gone into their holes. The prospects of war are largely the mixings and bak- ings of elements that profit from war. Reduction in federal taxation is certain, Pwesident Coolidge’s example in cutting out the waste may be a fine one for every man and every business concern to follow, now, or at any other time, but present conditions and prospects furnish not the slightest grounds for “a buyers’ strike.” ? 2? Answers to Your Questions >? ? Q Is “Giorta Swanson” the Or stage mame of the movie actress?) A. It is her cet sont | real| Q In the bat » bird or an animait! | te Star Question Editor. 1223 A. Aw animal; a mammal with a wing membrane extending from the enormously elongated bones and fingers of the forelegs to the short Mand limbs, see Q What in a “buffer state"? A. A country or atate which in- Fou — = Tae bovines. “Neat” t¢ derived from get an answer ' * meaning uses In the carly} any question of fact or | Metory of tha teow there were “col © | formation by writing The Sea’ tle of the flocks” and “cattle of the herds.” The former ‘ere “on | Kew York ave, Washington, | | (nints, such as sheep. and. ate| | D. C,, and inclosing 2 conte 19} | iis tne fatter sere bovine « | loose stamps for reply. No] | 1 Fa gerbe plas (Pe |e s known to us a9 “cattle.” These Ber Personal replies, cont: bovine animale were the onca moat | tattle rr tebtaee must be | |2encrally wacd, both as beasts of i burton and for meat and milk, tchich probably ia the reason they were called “neat cattle,” tervenes geographically between\twhich may be deauttfully colored, larger states and lessens the danger|\s usually made in sheets or rods of rupture from immediate contacts| From theac various articles, euch a4) hy the Ferltinh and Amorieana in the of their unfriendly elements. Q. Aro billiard balls ever made of milk? A. By treating casein, cipal protein of mith, hyae, the prin- same way aa ivory, celluloid, hard rubber and bakelite. Thia product, | combs, with formalde: | a hard substance is formed) tohich can be cut or turned in the} knife handles, billiard balls, ete, are made, Q What Is the largest of the Mexican pyramida? A. Choluiu, which has a base 1170 feet, and a heloht of 177 feet. CHAAMEN, | Fe of | change see Q. How many pHaonera wore held utionary war, and how were they exchanged? 4, The British held chout 5,000) prisonera and the 4,000, There had been a partial ex early in 1777. Finally, by an act of congre 4 large exchange Q What meant by the term| took place “neat cattle re A. Animals of the genus bos, or) Q. 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From the name of the inventor of the proc Daguerre, p ibid tert ao BA | DOC--By HyGage| a | STRANGE! YOUR HEART WAS PER FECT BUT vUST BLOOEY AGAIN! Americana about} (our ou R WAY | | | | ni THE SEAT! a eTAR MONA’ MAY 1h 4 Chber ful Summer Outlog BY HERBERT ER ae | HOOV “BY WIL L IAMS | Cheer | en SLT 3) wes —- ' \\/ COME ON LUKOUT!LUKOUT! 16 That Written Expressly for The Star) / GET OvT! IM NO DIATY DISH LAOW LIVE \ eat te ee y | MY COMPAMM T BE DUMPED IND ELLA? Wry | ET is ieaean 04 + biidtag mal HI Wit Be HERE TAY KetHen AFTER = =\ | Dorr You for m . s the coma pu ANY MINUTE SUPE T: e —_—— ‘ farmers, pA rg UPPER EVERY NIGHT TALK nice ; ant « pe ore of at I / NOW. YOURE LUKOUT, FORE L FERGIT \ -O your j business borize ‘ *ving a cee # | Mi Ih NO Decorantons IM A GENELMUN! L | \ BrotieR? / el) be a time when oome pas at a Ta £ WW) No ANY PARLOR . SIT OUT IN NO KITCHIN ed of thin sient working ff y of pA: ' f Fer NO SHEIK, ass, / A ths chine eam not righty a s FINAL ; " be the millenium. More . tl of oar e ove s only nix years nince re wong "bool they y4 ° were fo mon store ory a ‘ histor ep sit t while ae * ' € a cae pee ‘. x . adily; wy be clothing, shelter, and mot peo. | * ys like three-quarters of « our te families have sn automobile te g and taxation 1 should expect our indy to prod more goods in 1 dur WHY MOTHERS GET GRAW - THE SQUATTER. Mr. Fixit of The Stg Undertakes Here to Remedy Your if of Public Interest What Mr, Fixit should be This ts very deagreeaite dren live in a if 0 it oh hitter ent mi that whieh we knew when were very young “y Wave rare opportunities fivileges when compared { ome we pienenetd We can the fact that ot a6 hundred ie hetween the 11h en aurrounded by many miractes. The telephone i airplane, moving fires, autemob he water es welloleh mages We ever with them beck inte bat we are often prote to mis +9 ag done in @ case thie |: pretnhed ote TR Llanes have money Ws @ bonk thet ie | a 4G, 0188s oy tA Sen, mc past duc, for wine months. 1 | There are many Dermons sent them the deposit slip eet ; ty wh Tu Burry op gage! eral months ¢ but have had overlook Pier ‘ whe. W con 0 returns (hs. WM. OW | eft meee clear just what your trouble te pe i febooe There jant al BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON If you have money on deposit can be Gone except te in & bank, you are supposed to and educate, draw a check for the amount > oom and security and enflooding hap With so many new thingy to and present It to the ¥ eva which my heart expert- | make them sophisticated, with bank, if the bank is in | ar, Fist: 1 wih te enced when I wae tucked to bed | the marvelous becoming city, If in another city der | _ ‘or the prompt action in the big family sitting room and them each day mere come a al bank for the | from the street cap Arified to sleep with a vision of | place, can they ever feel the mount, and it willbe collected concerning the Father and Mother close, while | same keen rapture which th for you, if the bank in whick cried when 1 dropped ight from the crackling loge | simplest pleasures gave to ua? ye ur money in sol rion token in the fora o big fireplace petormed | le it plensanter and happier tent received a mice poh} the crude room into a picture of | to five in the midet of a Fairy eer ‘pt. Henderson end. _ gilmmering loveliness which my | ‘Tale than to dream of the glor Mw give th cas refunded. Herds aleepy eyes carried off to dream es et one? 3 wonee ; the com- | ‘cress MPA. BM and | are any that has charge of the de rom a strict fi . Will they ever capture the | oclopment of the Priest Rapids of Supt. Henderson's tt ner over sntare (SMOKING ROOM || Sacre. at fe |. citer coe hat « new mo ay t me nls . " the ahineten Irrt in “pefnat to ; a wie ae enti : TORIES J tor & aa . ; ae Os: oe | but it ae thee Basses. ‘ A bor ¥ come by ae they b nee aaalaliaiacletiinn White b a | he t that interested new | (YONTROL of the automobile too Henderson. He ts very w hey ¢ experience | C as ina eee cael ar, Fualt: aly fatnee hes} that employes of the ex an the sheer de- | mur wae the mubject of 4 deen missing for 18 years, As | Db? SOUrteous to patrons ame thru the seaion the smoker g 4% y 49 years olg | “mee “ fiand | Weer Its a big problem . * © veoltered | © 05% white road followed | said the devotee of the pipe in O er. Can you ad Mr. Fist: How i @& is own wandering fancies and | from st. Louis, “but It vie I can write and | several of our lerge playe Je and seck with fteeif settied amd settled right very / out U he did 00 tecleter? Sulidlsigs ‘con Aa thru the mane of trees? soon. So far, however, the au READER. the sidewalk for steirwey Will they ever feel the myat thorities have comp i Write to both the secretary poses? ‘There is @ goat besuty of a golden sunset while | in their efforts in of war and the secretary of the ple of this on Chery a4 perched in the boughs of an an tien, They have cither made navy, Washington, D. C, and | tween Second end Thies cient © tree? matters worse or more ridicu you will be put Im touch with | WAo permite them te amMimes Wit they ever comprehend lous than formerly. Take that the proper place to learn if | Using sidewalk the hidden loveliness of he: y | taw adopted in K an City as your father was registered for | stairways to basement a] SEZ KITCHEL PIXLEY Rage of the Otymples SEEN Homer tryin to inerashiate himeett with women he perhaps haen't that Firew is stood high with by inainuntion wid he a Step. and «a Motherin awe’ day, and yours truly can see komme reason for it Indeed, there's more ground for if, in some reapect, than for a special day for first hand mothers ‘a day should be ev. day to own mothers, but there's an evil aroma, pretty much cooked up by newspaper Jokers, about stepmothers and mothers In-laws that should be squetched ly some special celebration of their value, Doesn't a woman who takes a doxen or so of an other woman's children and makes good citizens of them de f little bit more applause than their original mother? There was old Abe Lincoln, for Instance, who said all he was hin stepmothes made him, and thouminds of married men who keep goin only be caune of their motherinlawn Also, view the flocks of chil. dren left over from divorces Some of them get new mothers foisted on them, and it might ralse the deuce should they cele mothers’ da ery Pleley there's brato thelr own mother at all And yours truly obwerves that the value of any kind of moth era day depends pretty consid. erable on what the children get out of it, A stepmother or a motherin-law day would mean a bit more of concord and un selfishness in families and what this world needs, right now, in na darned aight less ef family hair-pullin, o- An agrtoulture department sharp saya to kill dandelions mow the lawn every other day, but tt don't acom poasible that wife will have the time for tt eae Pacific Cont eritichm ia what you might eall harah, ‘There's that Mon Francisco author who win writin on "Frisco" when nomeons came in and killed him with on ax Ca aC old Constable Seth Heardsloy has been missin for three days, He probably heard about those 10) British rin Hoats lyin off a California port, Ornery A KANSAS EDITOR 18 Gut ting 10 conte a line for spring nooms published, and ita a darn mean reflection on the “Lout, Atrayed or Stolen" depart mont; that's whatt Seiahiidionteineldnstihetesndiaioaal® things—the seratching of chickens in the beauty of white n bleaching on green grass, or the poignant aweetnems of the whigssctrwill's y down the lengthening twi y door-yard, the Will they ever sense the foe! ing of family unity which came to us when, at evening, we sat st the lamp whose yellow heart of rayn glowed Whe the Home? With the rush spd hurry, HAT will become of the Brit ish empire when England exhausts ite coal aupply? This question in worrying British Stateamen, while xcientiste are being spurred on to greater ef feria in an endeavor to find something that will open the way to a mubstitute, The fuel re search board has recommended that a thoro survey of the coal situation be made and that a scientific plan be worked out for sorting, treating and handling 0 an to conserve the aupply The proxperity of England de. pends entirely upon coal, ‘There are practically no fuel forests, water power is very small and there in no oll, There is a coal supply for a period of years to come, nite quantity, with no chanoe for replenishment, and is being used up at a rapid rate, The invest gation by the fuel research board will determine exactly how long the supply will Inst and will show what methoda should be used to handle it economically, Mean while, what has been considered a acientific amusement—the hunt for some new form of power- han become a practleal problem in England What Folks Are Saying REV. C, W, DOUGLAS, Ever. green, Colo., missionary worker, back from Philippines; “General Wood ia doing a great work for amall pay and shouldering many troubles, The Filipinos do not want to see him or the American administration taken away see HARRY B. SMITH, musical man, New York: ‘The outra Koous hullabaloo of jazt in on joyed only by those who make it and are well paid for their disorderly conduct, and by «a few writers who regard it as a foundation for an American achool of muale."t see NANCY ANN PRICE, 98, Hickory Barren, Mo. “T have had more than my share of happiness and one of the nicest things about being 98, goin’ on 99, In that you don't mind kno: ing that you have to die soon euere DEAN INGE, London Mpiaeo palian: "“T belleve a restrioted birth control is Imperative be cna the Intelligent are not in croasing In sufficient numbers," | SCIENCE ———— | | England’s Coal) | but this supply is a defi. * an instance Ite purpore to at the war fice buildings is tain reform and safet y et made many side streeta Iteé } | manifested by this language | Mr. Fixit: Cam you do eny- under perntit frou fia When two care ar pproach thing to cower the pedestrians | department, and while each other at a crossing, th on our streets fo “keep to the | nuisance, is the only wapm shall both come to a full stop, right?” Ladies arem fo be the | large buildings have ef and neither shell start up un worst, and Kecond ave. seeme an outside entrance # til the other has gone be their favorite thorofare. basement Increased factory output makes possible” The savings you can make on square-tube beds will astonish yo Call on your furniture merchant. Ask to see his finest Simmons syuare-tube beds. Pick the one you like best without giving a thought to price. Then ask what it costs. The figure he names will be 0 low you will wonder how such value is possible, But the value is there. Speeding up production in the world’s largest bedding factories has made radical savings on the best square-tube beds built, Even Simmons’ masterpieces—the beds you have seen advertised in full colors in the magazines— are now brought within easy reach. Their new prices are actually below pre-war price levels. See these wonderful new values. Learn how many dollars you can save by buying now. qo Remember — % of your life is spent in be