The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 8, 1925, Page 6

Published Dally by The Star Mydlishing Oe, Newspaper Ba- ferprive Asse, end United Special Representatives San Frecciece ft ff om. o A a Ave; New FE 3 tm q 4 @ months $2.08, America in which any group of active zeal ots might enforce upon others their views of education, religion or the general busi Say It, Calvin! F President Coolidge is sincere in his policy of strict economy, his thought ee of living cannot help but have turned to the im- th ‘ are e er ee portant but costly commissions and boards He hated cant and buncombe, He hated solemn pretense and empty oratory. There | was more than simple fun behind his most famous witticism, He had been listening for many months to dreary speeches in which a succession of self-elected saviors undertook to tell what the country needed, Then it was, in irony, that he remarked: “What this country needs today is a good Which afflict the government It is quite a custom of congress, when stuck on a proposition that is more or less loaded with dangerous politics, to create a board or commission upon which to dump the responsibility, and these bodies are largely composed of “lame ducks” | Fe and others to whom a fat salary is a god- ee-cant cleat” 9 Send. . : & He was honest with himself and with by The federal trade commission, costing | others. He required others to be honest u about $70,000 annually, in salaries alone, with him. There was the time when a a 48'an instance. It has come to function | strike threatened in the stone quarries of Py only in the giving of a few kind words of Indiana, Gpvernor Marshall was appealed to for troops to protect strike-breakers | from Chicago. “If you can find stone work- ers to take the place of the strikers at the wages you offer,” he replied, “I will pro- tect them, You will not find stone work- ers in Chicago. If you bring in thuge from that city to beat up Indiana stone work- | ers, I'll send the troops you ask for—to protect the stone workers.” The wage difficulty was adjusted without the use of strike-breakers. A simple, kind, lovable man, with con- victions and courage. An old-fashioned democrat. An old-fashioned American. She’s Great Pets ordinary reader visions Texas as 1 very large, wild And woolly state, with little doing in it, save the chasing of long-horned steers over the wide, open spaces, Comes now Secretary Hoover with the jarring information that, during the past year, Texas led all the other states in | value of commodities exported to foreign | countries—$737,218,000 worth, with New | York state running second. | How many of our readers imagined | any such thing? Neither did we. | The Farm Dollar GRICULTURE is the basic industry | warning to crooked business. The tariff ission has, during its entire exist- ence, recommended but two lowerings of rates, and Mr. Coolidge has pigeon-holed both. This commission, impotent to re- lieve the gouging of the consumer thru sugar trust prices, is about ready to rec- a ommend 50 per cent in crease in tariff on butter, straw hats and cotton gloves. The railroad labor board consumes most of its time in looking grieved at the way rail- road magnates nose their thumbs and Wiggle their fingers at it. And there are others, largely functioning in drawing down the taxpayers’ money. President Coolidge hasn’t authority to Scrape off such parasites, but he can say Some hot words to congress on the matter. On Schooling YPHE U. S. supreme court decision in- ‘ validating Oregon’s law requiring children to attend the public schools, ex- clusively, comes at an opportune time. It will save the parochial and the pri- Yate non-sectarian educational institutions and will, indirectly perhaps, affect the attempts of several states to control pub- lic school teaching, as in the Tennessee case. In effect, the decision says that parents are free to send their children to " whatever school they please. It is a free- _ dom that will appear precious to parents who have their own opinions as to what shall or shall not be taught their children. That all children should attend school is matter of national concern. The ques- ~ tion of where and what to be taught is an Open one. |. The present decision is particularly happy in its denial of “any general power _ of the state to standardize its children.” Attempts to standardize brains, by edu- ¢ational institutions high or low, are al- A pedy quite a curse to the rising genera- jon. of this country and therefore it is interesting to learn what experts say as to where the dollar, farm, goes. Hundreds of farm homes were included in the cens recently taken, from which a general estimate was made. It appears that food, rent and fuel are practically the only items directly provided wholly | or in part by the farms. Twenty-six | cents of each dollar spent by the farm family goes to the clothier, dry goods man, shoe dealer and milliner. Another ‘ | 23 cents is divided between the grocer and the butcher, while auto up-keep, coal Thomas Marshall and other running expense cut out an- E CALLED himself an old-fashioned other slice of 22 cents. : democrat. In fact, he was just an A dime of each dollar spent by the old-fashioned American, for, while he farm family goes into school expense, believed quite firmly in the democratic reading matter, vacation trips, lodge and party and its principles, he believed even church support. The doctor, dentist and More firmly in democracy and its broader druggist together get 7 cents out of the p¥inciples. The humblest and the proud- dollar, while 4 cents go for household looked alike to Thomas Riley Marshall. goods, sewing, laundry supplies and can- An earnest student of life, in all its ning equipment. Health and fire insur- phases, and with positive opinions of his ance account for another 4 cents, and the own, he would have fought to defend your other 4 cents go for tobacco, candy and ‘| right to disagree with him. Freedom of haircuts. the haman spirit and mind was the most It will be observed from these figures, | Precious gift of God, in his estimation, that a generous slice of the farm dollar is and he had no mistaken urge to police spent in town. The towns are as depend- the spirit and mind of another. His loy- ent on the farms for prosperity as the _alty to America was passionate, but the farms are dependent on the towns. The America he saw was one in which every two together are a good reason why there citizen should have the full freedom guar- e : should be perfect harmony between town anteed by the Bill of Rights, not the and farm. P ? Answers to Your Questions ? >? Q. What was the date of death of % produced on the %) Q Where and what in the “Field William Frederick Cody (Buffalo hayee can get an answer to | |o¢ the Cloth of Gold? Bill)? | any question of fact or in- } lA. Thid: ions: the nade” ploeh 4 A. He died in Denver, Colo., Janu-| | formation by writing ‘The Seat. n English and French hlatory to the place of meeting and interchange of civilities between Henry Sry 10, 1917. tt tle Star Question Editor, 1322 | New York ave, Washington, | ‘ + VIII, of ~ @ How many radio broadcasting| | D. C., and inclosing 2 cents in | - Mations aro there in the United) | loose stamps for reply. No | |/noland and Francis 1. of France, States? | medical, legal or marital vad. | |/79m June 7 to June 24, 1520. It ts ‘A. More than. 600. | vice. Personal replies, conti. | |{"¢ plain between Gutsncs and Weigiie | | dential, AM letters must be | |Atdres, in the present department Q What is the average number! | signed. NB femies omnia of persons in a family in the 3 ‘United States? | branch of the service in which they| Q- When did the First Crusade) A. According to the census of|wish to serve. This preference {a take place? | 1920 there was an average of 44 | Persons to cach family in the United _ ‘Btates. A. From 1096 to 1099 A. D, 1 eae ON || SMOKING ROOM STORIES followed, provided too many do not ask for the same branch, epee | @ When did the Johnstown flood ~ @ What Is the age of Hinden-|occur and was there fire following burg, the new president of Ger-! it? many, and for how Jong has,he| A. The Johnatown flood occurred | werved in the German army? on May 31, 1889. It had rained| $6]T isn’t well not to keep A. Hindenburg was born in Posen! hard for seperal days and during somewhat posted on cur- fn 1847 and entered the German|the morning the water had been| téht’ awe, sald a: Cleveland army a5 a subaitern in 1866, Ut! steadily rising in the city until by| pi saat | the age of 19. He was captain in| o'clock in the afternoon the| banker, “I'm on my way homo whole place was under from tio to from vacation in Canada, 10 feet of water. At a few minutes | the Franco-Prussian war in 1870. up . . where newspapers, letters, even > Q Upon graduation from the past 4 o'clock in the afternoon y j 4 tel 8 couldn't get at mo. | United States Military academy at|the terrible rush of water from| ‘*lesram & | | West Point, can the graduates take|the broken dam struck the town| MY wife met me at Toronto, | "their chotce as to the branch of the| and carried all before it, That eve-' 0d, a while ago, Smith, a neighbor of ours on Buclid Helghts, came over to our seats in the Pullman back there. When I left home I knew that the doctors were insisting that Mrs, Smith, a very fat woman and nervous, should go to a higher altitude during the com: ing summer, 80, wiping the sweat oft my forehead, 1 polite. ly inquired: “How is your wife standing the heat? gervice they will enter? ning the. fire broke out, near the A. The men are given a right\stone bridge, and burned for four $0 express a preference as to the days, | sidnaedl ne Bors". we: Mister Dan Cupid, your looks, far from stupid, would indicate y something's astir. You're looking right cheerful. Say, give us an smoker, ay Smith doosn't smoke” t i et sear abana a Whe 0 | Scientific THE E (our OUR WAY ITLL SPReE ADYY Ht S GOIN TO" \ SCHOOL KID. / GOOD yyy, Yj YOCMM MY ff WHY MOTHERS. GET GRAY - THE’ BEGINNER. ayy GRACI IN “TIME. HES] HAVE BEAT. | { LOOK “TEN YEARS OLDER [eT ener tee Leal | | WITTE Ai MOUSTACHE! :DO | OF LIP. HELL | THREE ON ASIOR) | ou WANT PE OPLE "1D | | MAKE OLD TO START - LOoK / ni AA FIFTY. Wo HINDENBURG AT 1T NOW. ‘¢ THINK IM FIFT Ha, : ks \ LOOK uwe A JX WHEN IM ONLY FORTY Two? ; WS YOurt \ TF < UR williaas, 1928 we MOA SEMOCE. mC, Does Woman Have a Right to Drink? WAS startled not long since to hear a young married man say that he had cut out booze for good, This, in itself, is not such an unusual thing, perhaps, but the reason he gave made me ponder a bit Women, and maids, nee if you do not also find therein food for thought. He sald: “TI never take another drink! MRS. WALTER FERGUSON It ix quite true, no doubt, that more women drink now than have ever done before in this country T do this for various reasons. ‘They wish to be considered soctally smart; they want to ki up with bibulous husbands; they like to be good follows when they are out with the gang; they re nervous and need a stimu- lant and above all else, they consider themselves entitled to Seeing so many women and girls in this town swig liquor has done more to make me a pro hibition fan than all the cures in the country.” Which may another mod ern way of reforming the men, but oh, what a tragic remedy for us be the For vices ame rights the men have to many women only the of ¢ thought men f tmitatio inkenness im not one of the f man; it is wrongs which he has one of the 1 1 upon himself and hu- | Mr. Fixit of The Star Undertakes Here to Remedy Your Troubles if of Public Interest Mr. Firtt: The dear old lady, tohoae view has been blotted out by the dill boards, on wood ave., wishes to thank you for calling the attention of Fos ter & Kleiser to the matter, thank them their prompt and kindly action MRS. F. A. 8STEVENS. Green and to for Mr. some house. Fisit: Recently I ordered goods from a mail-order, The goods were not sat- iafactory and I returned them I have not heerd anything fur- ther from them, tho I have written three letters, They ad- vertise “money refunded, if not satisfied.” What can 1 do this? MRS. M. B. If this is @ reliable house you will get your money back. If it Is a fly-by-night concern, you have probably lost tt. If you do not get a reply soon, report the co n to the Better Buat ness bureau, in the Central building. You will be advised there. Mr. Ficit: The street on EF. Fir, between 18th and 1)th, is in bad condition, Many of the planka are loose and some are entirely out, 1} must drive over this twice daily, and it is very bad for my tires. Can you do something to get it fixed? WORKING GIRL The street Gepartment has promised to go right after that and put tho street In good con- dition. Mr. Fixit: I rented an apart- ment and moved in, making a deposit on same. I found the closets and Yurniture full of cockroaches, and am unable fo remain. The landlord will, not refund my deposit. How can I get it back? B. 0. ¥; Mr. Fixit is not uble to ndviso you unless he knew all the facts, Whether you stay or not, you should report this place to the health depart- ment, if the situation is as bad fas you say, SCIENCE ————"\ Hunters a NB of the most interesting aclentific bureaus maintained by any country is the “hunt ing” department of the United States government. While this is a federal depart- ment, there are also similar de partments maintained by many states, They cooperate in campaigns against predatory an- imals and these are carried on to such an extent that the an “Smith looked me in the eyo nual cost runs into millions, irful. What is it about to occur, but said nothing, and, thinking This federal department not You say that you're diazy from being no busy. Just what is the burden| he hadn't heard my question, | only hunts big game, such as you tote? You uct like a king, with your satisfied swing, and there's some again asked, mountain lions, bears and _ thing that’s making you gloat. “How is Mrs, Smith stand wolves, but also exterminates | Says Dan, “I've a reason, for this is my season. “Tis June and my toil} ing the heat? rats, fleld mice, gophers and all “Parts anew. All Jovers who'd marry need no longer rry. I'm ready to “Smith again stared at me and other rodent pests, Near their ‘I do.’ with a very sickly grin at the Millions of neres of federal "Bo start up the tune, #0 familiar in June, and bring on your Joy and| corner of his mouth, got up in and state lands have been ir laughter." May all of the brides, with thelr grooms at their sides, live} silence and went forward to practically cleared of pests and ery and Jong ever after,” his own seat many millions of dollara worth (Copyright, 1925, for The Stary “'My heavens, George!’ said of crops haye heen snyed, At my wife, with a fierce dig in first this was done largely by my ribs, ‘you've asked him that poluoning and trapping such ani- fool question twice and Mrs mals as gophers and ground Smith as been dead two squirrels, but recently it haw weeks,’ been found that the most ef “I've told the wife that 1 fective method is to turn pol. ride the vest of the trip in thin “won gus tito the underground burrows, jeer verre tema lei eet Mr. Fistt: policeman * if lawful for « to pound your door at midnight, and when you 90 to the door ask you what sort of a place you are run- ning? I dm conducting a re- apectabie fooming house, and there ts nd occasion for police supervision, TAXPAYER. The polict have the right to investigate Jwhere they believe 5 illegal is going there ix unusual urbance. dis But if they show actifity around your and yor are positive there is no occasign for it, take the nunjber and report it to the chief.) His telephone is MA in-7810, Letters Hits Rainier Price Editor The Stat I see by tha paper that our city council bas ted to pay what was asked for the Rainier Val- ley line Instead jf paying its ap- praised value. ‘This shows hdw much the men you elect care fpr your interests. Once “in" thely d¢ not care for the taxpayer at! all. I cannot see why the council gives the compahy so much when they say thombelves that the line has not pald even adequate dividends on thir investment Wj M. BURNS, 7502 Sunnyside Ave. Likes Hditorial Editor The Star: Your editorial| today on “With- out Prejudice oy Bias” was ex- cellent! It is Phings Ike that which make paper worth while, | Also, 1 want to commend you for having a than Ike J. KR. Justice on dil staff, His lit tle write-up, “As Things Look to in. today’s Issue, is fine, He is déing |good work for you—work which is appreciated the better |class of your readers, The public nyeds just such articles as the| two I have commended, and] you are for- warding civilization »when you furnish them, GEO, (3, COWELL, Hotel Barker, ele Says Planes Safe Editor The Star: In your issue of ter H, May 19, Chos- Rowell salys “Ono more invention to get |us about fas ter and safgr, is} the crashless airplane, When tt] starts to spin down, motor stopped and con. trols helpless, it) automatically sinvvons out its, course and lands, perhaps not gently, but leas than fatally.” The inference hore appears to bo that if an airplane's motor atops the controls hecome use. Jess, and tho pine immediately Into a spin, | Mr. Rowell’s opinions are sufficiently author itative to carry nt deal of welght with the public, but such # statement: ta hi ing, Tho tacts aro that it ts Gust | hly misleads Benne petemne nected aes ! FROM STAR All letters to The Star must have name and address. manity. And while we may feel that we are now privileged to emulate him, certainly this is one of the masculine expres- sions which we should avoid. When {it comes to common Justice, any woman has as much right to get drunk as any man—provided she wishes to be accounted a lawbreaker. but when she is foolish enough to do this, she’ harms no one half so much as herself. it In considered. the take your cocktail along with tho men folks, and to flourish your cigaret as uNnconc ly as the mance contingent, and many people think it hopelessly old-fashioned and low-brow and uncultured to harbor prudish ideas about ab- stinence for women. Just now to But, just the same, those women who have become ob- sessed with grabbing at the foolish things which men have done will be certain to lose, not only that bloom of clean loveli- ness, that finenoss of physical and moral fiber which sets our mex apart, but will also run the risk of giving up health, happiness, character and moral determination Drunkenness has never been an attribute which has added anything to man's charms,-and it detracts even more greatly from woman's. Thrice foolish ts the wife who takes to drinking In order to be fashionable; sflly is the maid who will thus try to keep in the good graces of “the crowd"; unhappy the mother who, for the sake of being up to date, will risk the happiness of her ne and family for such a “Right” as this Readers as chsy to build an that will airplane not spin as it is to It in the controls are build one that will spin. not true that useless when the motor stops. On the contrary it is true that it is impossible to land a plane with full power on. In order to land at all it is necessary to throttle the motor until it ex- erts no forward thrust. Suc. cessful landing {s no more de- pendent upon motor power than is the successful parking of a car dependent upon the motor power, The writer has constructed dynamic aircraft since 1895; he began flying the motor-driven types in 1909 and he has yet to find any justification for the belief that the airplane is dan- gerous per se, That we need better airplanes none can deny, For that matter we need better automobile tires, or better shoes. But the remarkable thing is that no one seems to believe that we need more and, better landing fields. It will be found upon investi- gation that lack of adequate landing facilities is responsible for a very large percentage of fatal airplane accidents, If the United States ever is to become supreme in the air it must first become supreme n the ground, by providing landing space for alreraft, The modern motor bus, motor truck, or privately-owned car (if it existed at all) would be a drug on the market were it not for our excellent system of pub- le highways. It would be the helght of folly to build better «lrplanes in large quantities un. ti] we have sufficient landing facilities? A fleet of steamships Would be useless without ade- quate ports, (The flying boat is an evasion rather than a so lution of the problem of com. mercial aviation), In this connection it seems pertinent to ask, “What is com: morelal aylation in Seattle to do when Sand Point has been given to the navy? What would com mercial shipping do if we were to give our entire port to the navy?" 1 otter yo Muggestions, 1 merely usk th® questions, J W. MILLER, AIRCRAPT CORPORATION, ' FRE BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS ASHINGTON, June # pragua has turned down © Ame alph .N, Ell ho proposed a plan to induce he United States to begin work News of the project came as » total surprise to the state departer here. Elliot, it is explaine is net connected in any we ith the American government, either officially or unofficially, It seems that Nic aragu acting entirely n her own, some time ago engaged the services of Prof. Jeremiah W, Jenks, an American econo mist, to act as adv was an assistant A canal across Nicaragua, the war department estimates, would cont $1,000,000,000. Only one of the great powers could finance it Ultimately the ‘United States has plans to cut such a but probably not for an 20 or 40 when Part nal begins approach canal, other years, to ite maximum load. Meantime no other country will be allowed to dally with the project. Not even Nic ragua. America acquired sole rights treaty runs fr ' were on the verge of » firing on an Amertc araguan port tinh had just selzed refused {o pay port Only a British vented war Bhortly before, one of Pres dent Polk's fire-eating diplomats 4 there planned to } gus all int an American protec and fortify the region against all comers. This time an American disavowal saved the peace. ‘The row between Britain and America over Nicaragua began century ago—in ed ex becau y due disavowal pr make 4 and to purpe torate more 1815, And having acqu clusive rights there a 100 years of wrangling, it is scarce ly expected that Uncle Sam will lightly give them up now. than a Kitchel Pixley, Sage of the Olympics, Sez: “I Seen by th’ Papers—” HAT California case of am. nesla, where a young man don’t know whether he was killed in the world war or not, in remarkable, but we've got one right hereabouts that’s full as surprisin, For two days and two nights, ornery old Constable Seth Beards- ley has been missing from his daily rou- tine, but he returned, yes terday, with a case of am- nesia which sure is stir. rin’ up this Pizley Sahara - like community to its last hair. Old Seth reports that, havin’ spring fever, he takes a fish pole and sets himself on the grassy bank of far off Clear Inke, when suddenly two men springs upon him, despite his Herculean struggles, forces him to drink five drinks of liquor with A No. 1 kick in it. He forgets how long he lies on them grassy banks but when he comes to, is just able to stag- gor home. Police Chief Alwin Potts says he has investigated what he calls Seth's halitosis and that Seth is a unmitigated liar, his trouble bein’ what ails most cases of amnesia you read about | | | | in the newspapers. But, am nesia is a great mystery and a number of us leadin’ citizens are sittin’ much on Clear lake's grassy banks to see if we can't solve Seth's case. rere Survival of the fittest, by Henry! 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