The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 22, 1925, Page 10

PAGE \ The Se terprite Asan. end United Nicoll & Ruth | Press Servic, office, 801 Montgomery St York office, By mail. year $5.00 eut of eit By carrie r Now, Mr, Trotsk apital rope today ask at Russia 1 do next sten British forei secretary, Durope’s most menacing un- t. And now Leon Trotsky, deposed head of ithe soviet army, is back from his exile in a year as been in in ient for his ared to criticise certain of the Caucasus. For Seclusion as ¥ #1917," which ¢ ithe, communist leaders : 1e question uppermost now is, has *Trotsky come back victer or vanquished? iHas the.communist party decided it can :not do without him, or has Trotsky taken jhis spanking, dried his tears and promised sto be good from now on? + The comnitnist party numbers scarcely fover a million, members. There are 130,- $000,000, people in soviet Russia, The mil- tlion, therefore, run the nundred and thirty jmillion. That is because the masses are j unbelievably ignorant and have precisely tthe ox’s indifference as to whose yoke they t wear. So far as they are yoke's ‘a yoke. | The million communists are bossed by 40 men—the central committee—and over he 40 are a final seven—the political bu- reau. It is this little group that now rules +Russia—Zinoviev, Stalin, Kamanev, Buk- *harin, Rykov, Tomsky and, once more, Trotsk) Trotsky was deposed by the Big Three ‘—Zinoviev, president of the Third in- rnational; Stalin, secretary, and Kama- tnev, vice premier and president of the ‘eouncil of labor and defense—at a time jwhen the leader's were man-uvering to grab the power from the dead hands of iLenin. It looked for a time as if Trotsky imight win. Then, swish, and he was gone. + Thus the Russian triumvirate of today ‘has either lost all fear of Trotsky and al- tlowed him to come back for whatever his jname may be worth to the party, else they ineed his advice and have backed water ithemselves. + Only the future can tell which. book concerned Application! OUGLAS MOORE breaks right arm : while directing choir at Amasa Stone schapel.” * That's all a Cleveland paper told. ichallenges interest. What interest Douglas must have in his jwork. Keep your eye on him. + A 100 per cent case of American go- igettum is the diagnosis suggested by the tmeager three-line item. H gat same { What’s Coming? F you believe in evolution, expect Amer- ica to go to blazes fast. ‘- A number of years ago the proportion sof persons doing office work was small. Vigorous outdoor lives were led. °. i Today 30 per cent of the workers work tindoors. The percentage is rapidly mount- ing. The average indoor worker gets too slittle exercise, eats too much and rests too Hitt. What's coming? But it Q@.Where did the te? | fA. Some 500 years ago the Hun-| foarians had a custom by which a fman couldn't tocar a feather in his {The expression has come to mean| fa personal triumph in something | faccomplished. | $274) i Q Where was the itavern"? “Mermaid| A. A tavern on Bread st., London, is every nature against the laws of the meeting | the United States? . The president which is) States has the power to pardon all| decision battles with Jack fascribed to Sir Walter Raleigh. Its\ offenses of every aroha A scrdp lh tepatocmdtadatidindeg yEngland, which was iplace of the Mermaid club, a famous| 4 felud, the foundation of |members included Ben *Beaumont, Fletcher, etc. a also, is said to have belong- to it, see Q. What can be done to keep the fwhite butterfly from cabbage (plants? he A. There is no way to keep them from the plants, but the eggs can be killed by dusting the plants with '@ mixture of air-slaked lime and ar- ‘senate of leail (one tablespoon of ar- senate of lead to one and one-half ‘or two quarts of slaked lime.) 4 . * Q What was the first large secret Order to appear in the United States After the introduction of the Masonic “order? » A. “The Sons of Liberty.” It Started as a political organization about 1764, beginning among men in ‘England who favored the cause of the colonies. Paul Revere was a Teader in this country. The society had an important part in the calling Of a continental congress in 1774. After the revolution it died out,| pride. many of the members joining the| sult ‘new Tammany societics. owe Q. Has the president of the United | _Biates es power to pardon all offen st —before are fathers, teac bhe; rs, eee Cochyoan | Sometimes, Mr, Editor, you GTO | get too darned much news into POEM your paper. Mra, Pixley reada how anyone with $115 can get a ND now comes the season wher mailmen have low neath their pack. send picture postal cards back, The reason may be, just between you and me, that vacationers dislike to Write. It isn’t so hard Just to write out a card, but to mailmen it's really a fright. We go on a trip and we don't give play, Yet, somehow, pend postals away. "Your friends never need ‘em—yet, maybe they Ate simply, “I wish you were here.” But mailmen, no doubt, wish the fad would wear out, whenever we roam, we'd all hurry up and come home. attle Star ity, Hee month . expression, UN7OR GRE dhl acaaE to “That's a feather in his cap” orig- U can get an answer to any question of fact or in- | formation by writing The Seat- | te Star Question Editor. |New York ave. fcap unless he had Killed a Turk. ie C., and inclosing 2 cents in | a loose stamps for reply. oy medical, vice, dential. signed. legal or marital ad- Personal All letters must be Johnson,| the United States, but he may not| Dempse Shakes-) (1) pardon an offense against the|over him. It used to be the fashion to have son fol- low father's trade, pretty consider- able as a mat- ter of family One re was that el v4 lization had to endure a poor tailors, carpenters, ministers, etc., reason to stoop kinda For folks, on vacations, remember relations and | rip about anything else but our it’s fun, when vacation’s begun, just to write and read that they'll come every year. The message that's sent very likely js meant., this: (Copyright, 1925, for The Star) Published Dally by The Bier Rydlishing Oa, Phone Mais 0600.5 Tremont he $1.60 *“ounting Taxes ( NE hundred. years ago Henry ay arose in the United States senate and made a few remarks on the tariff don the general subject of governmental ex penses, In the course of his remarks he pointed with alarm to the fact that this country was ing $4,500,000 a year to run, and that this v too heavy a burden on it 10,000,000 people, The cost of conducting government of the city of Los Angeles last year was something more_ than .000,000, and it will hardly be con tended by the most ardent upholder of the city’s greatness that it contains 10,000, 000 people, It is not probable that Los Angeles costs more per capita to govern than any other American city. It is a nation-wide disease, this reckless heaping up of the tax burden in every nook and corner of the land, but it is worth consideration that it costs more than five times as much to govern Los Angeles today as it did to govern the entire nation 100 years ago. One hundred years ago it cost $2.25 per capita to conduct the federal government; no man can even guess what it costs per capita to to conduct our government, but it is nearer $100 per capita than it the municipal Encourage *Em N AUTOMOBILE motor is being ex- perimented upon which it is said will run 50 miles on a gallon of gasoline. It can’t be done, many will say, But there were also those who laughed at the first steamboat, steam train, automobile and airplane. Everything is possible. Minds intent upon finding a motor that will run 50 miles on a gallon of gasoline may surprise them- selves to find that the motor will go miles. Such minds should be encouraged, Neighborliness EIGHBORLINESS passes growth of large cities. “Why should T become a friend of the person next door? Perhaps she is not of my class,” is the query. A narrow point of view. If your neighbor has a better code of morals and a better philosophy than you, you will be gainer thru association. If your neighbor gets less from life than you, with the | your association may be an investment in happiness that comes from inspiring oth- ers. Food and Revolt HE prime reason behind the uprising of the Riffs against the French and Spanish is crop failures in the native re- gions. Famine spurred the French revolution. Famine put over the Russian revolution. If Wilhelm could have kept his subjects well fed, he'd still be emperor of Germany. A well-fed populace seldom revolts. 2 ? Answers to Your Questions ?P ? state law or (2) abilities ment remove th incurred by an, impe Congress « effect of a from the class of annot pardon or 1422 Washington, | | offenders. The a fine, may remit | or free the of replies, confl- conviction, ed before a pardon may be or during a trial. Billy over Billy Miske Jack Miske Q Dia ever decision United) A Dempsey? of the nature against|and was once Kitchel Pixley, Sage of the Olympics, Sez: “I Seen by th’ Papers—” BY KITCHEL PIXLEY Ul bin K DEMPSEY newspapers that ‘‘no son of mine will ever be a prizefighter,”* as and he's talk. in like a lot of other men do they would have made world uplift as tells. the potato-raisers or coal-he Son may inherit father’s I nose, burglars’ ears wome of his natural but It is rare that son gets fath er’s particular knack at his par ticular calling, and, without such, in these times, son is bound to be just one of the also-rans in a mighty big field of horses, Father's world of today isn't going fo be grown-up son's world, and the father who under. takes to force son to be this or to be not that, is sure sowin a | crop of sackeloth and ashes for | his own future bald head. | Anyhow, Mr. Dempsey should walt long enough to see if it ain't goin to be a girl Rearin a son in the second or third quar ter of the honeymoon is too al. man and even sumption, Pletey lot of darned lawyers, who mighty prematoor, general experience according to live buffalo, ready crated for shipment at a 80, Dakota point and, havin a bargain-counter heart, she orders a young bull, Dang the luck! We're Hein in one of these here kitchenet flats. Old Melancton Sweet, our worthy town philosopher, gets off fhe feller who says he has a load on his mind can usu ally get it off with a toothpick.” ‘om, They know for they suffer And, while we're out fishin,’ I'll bet they are wishin’ wae, 6 I seen in a Cincinnati paper that a woman wants divoree he cause her man kissed a girl 19 times, In these parts 19 is too many, Unless seattered with jus dition, and even then you're apt to get enough paint for two coats on the hen house, KP rn dis. limit the withdraw exercise of the power any president commute @ death sentence to a term of imprisonment fender altogether. Tho the usual process is to pardon after | grant win a fought two no- Dempsey, knocked out by , but never won a decision THE (our OUR WAY cae / THATS IT sTiFt of LOOK AS IF VW SAD AT LEAVIN SCENES. YOUR A FATHETIC FIG EATTLE STAR THE SUPPORTING CAST BY WILLIAMS { States? Debt: Doubling Mea he rs.Willebrandt RUTH FINNEY E- 2.2 Dinas wy mea wervice mc.) The Business of Minding Our Own wires President Cool in effect that the could be left in full « of their nat liberties, u hampered by governmental re wtrictions, if they n thoro tem of ment, he sald what 4 It would b y the people ¢ thoro tem of ment nelf- govern told in the up the had be and ha never visi of his fathers. Finally, how Ireland. Be! country od tho land er, he visited curtous as to how the cause to which hin fa ther had so long contributed, and to which he himeelt had given Iberally, jong, ht c asked quent old tad in the v BY N. D. COCHRAN | Which the young man’s fathe had been born got confidential ad in a voice almost as 1 * a whisper, replied “The police won't let uat* And that’s tho main trouble with carrying out the Coolidge plan of self-government in this country—the police and the re on't } | at isn’t the only \ about it. Another {s formers of « trouble Mr. Fixit of The Star Undertakes Here to Remedy Your Troubles if of Public Interest Mr. Fixit: I touch with the wlir to get in amali house bu- reau of the American Inatitute of Architects. I think there ta an office in Seattle, but I do not know how to loc it ¥. W. DRIVER, Charleston, Wash service bu It The small house reau of the Amer of Architects {x le Northern Life building, & Do the shop of the water Saturday aft ermoona off, on pay, and do they get 15 days’ vacation? C. G. The office force gets Saturday afternoons off from June 1 to September 1. Other employes get eight half days off during that period, to be arranged by the superintendent. All get 15 days’ vacation on pay. ute Mr, Fixit men work ing in the department get Mr. Fixit: Are corporations allowed to use public streets and keep them so blocked that property owners cannot get into their own placear =. L, ©. Unless for good reason no one is allowed to use the public streets for private purposes, and never to block them so that oth- ers cannot get in and out. If you will take this case up with the street department in the County-City building, you should get relief, Mr, Vivit: Alki point is a beautiful place to live, but we have some beachcombers who pile up their wood on the streets, making them very un- sightly. Can you fix it? FW. ‘The park board {@ now working on this problem with the aim of riving the beach and the streets at Alki a better appearance. No doubt this will remedy the par ticular trouble you complain of. Mr, Fixit; sidewalk at Can you have the Western ave. and | [You WANT Me \/ I'm THE TO TAKE YOUR BILL OUT IN TRADE. ? '5 FAIR ENOUGH. WHAT eee | |Doc-By Hy HyGage| Hattery st. repaired? On the northwest corner tt ia in a dan of a building | down, th | | account having been torn bulkhead ts caving tn MRS. L. B The street department will make investigation, and seo what | can be done to remedy the trou |. ble | Ctl BLA Mr. Fixit; Is a white person | allowed to go South and bring | back a colored girl and adopt | her, and make a servant of | her? READER. Mr, Fixit can | find ) Agninst a white a colored girl, provided the white person can show the proper qualifications. Of cour they would have to treat the child as they would any other adopted chitd, no law person adopting SC) TENCE - So (HOW TO GROW) Neen | IGHT has many peculiar ef. | fects upon health and gen | eral physical well-being. Dr, HH A. Gardner has conducted inter xperiments showing many ults of ght and color, He hus found that young ani mals grow more rapidly in rooms the walls of which are painted in bright, cheerful colors. The | conclusion to be drawn is that children are affected in the same way and that light rooms are | better for them than dark-paint | ed apartments. | Dr. Gardner's experiments | j | | Were conducted with guinea pi He put young animals in which were painted inside in va rious colors and weighed them at intervals of 40 di The over | Kept in the white and light-col | ored cages made the most rapid growth, ‘Those in black or dark colored cages were stunted, this varying in accord with the dari ness of th oring. ‘Che ones in light-colored ce led as much ay 31 per cent » most stunted ones were those in the ark red cages. These gained jess than 2 per cent, Grraem, \ SMOKING ROOM STORINS — —_——$$ 66Q\N © trip West, T had to share the same seat with Inquisitive little, old the son of some mother saying, “There was no doubt about her ultimate destination after she had passed this life, but every time the con ductor passed she asked what state sho was@. 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