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: | | ; ‘ ; | IN . t q a ewes dsee dene senate: t t Newspaper Ee- Aw Nobody Likes It HAT correspondent who writes that I “the principal countries have out- lawed poison gas in war" is simply hopeful, and everybody should be with him in his hope, notwithstanding that there some expert testimony to the effect that gas is more merciful than gunpowder. However, granted that the nations will not use gas, civilization still has left is : enough devilish means of warfare, such as submarine and aerial bombs, to promote the art of human slaughter. It is now of record that gas is distasteful to bru- tality. That's about all. “A beautiful wedding in the tha society editor of a con) je world,” tion of says stars at Los Angeles, Somewhat remarkable wedding, too, the bride having previously had only one hus band and the groom only three wives. A Deadly Blow ISSIBLY aiming to tear while the tearing is good, Bishop Hughes, of Chicago M. E. Church, deliver blow at the old-fashioned concept of heaven as a place of rest. There is no Biblical warrant for such a heaven, advi: the bishop. Tt is a blow at the vitals of the Bible and the blessed old-fashioned faith therein. The majority of believers may not be particularly aroused by the going attempt |The Seattle Star. THI aR ene EERE ATTLE R A * by The Publishing Co. Gilman. Nicoll @ Ruthman, pecial Representatives san Phone Mela | 0 NOT Montgomery St jeago office, 418 Nerth Mich ik offies,, 19 Weat or) bo mail, out of elty d $3.00, By carrter ness, such as the organized’ business of furnishing #tmed_ strike-breakers, Put a bit more of hard thinking on your stem,”” Mr, Secretary The Landing Place EPARTMENT of labor announces that wholesale prices 54 per are cent higher than a year ago, But, the pay envelope needn't think that 54% per cent covers the situation, The middle- man puts on a little bit more, in order to be safe. The retailer follows suit. The buck always finally rests comfort- ably on the innocent pay envelope. Jewry of Palestine fighting over wom: rights doesn’t sound much like “Palestine rest ‘+ political ed.” Class A Efficiency LD-FASHIONED folks, like Jupiter, Nero, Caligula, Alexander and N poleon, should pause in whatever they are at to admire the thoro efficiency of Mr. Mussolini, Premier Mussolini has not only appropriated fou¥ chairs in | own cabinet, but has just enacted two measures in the Italian chamber of dep- that are enough to make any world past or present, squeal with envy. One of these measures provides that any civil servant who differs with Mr. Mus- solini in political opinion shall get out. The other measure enable. hope in these words: “Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy-laden and I will give you rest.” » to pull down Adam and erect the spon- taneous generation theory, but millions have died in hope and millions live in brain work, not at all by divine right to s prefects of provinces to squelch papers that | differ with Mr. Mussoli } Mr. Mussolini is administration, con- | ig , courts and constitution. ll by ~Vby the American Rose society. 4 t Hindu Knowledge | _~ the ancint Hindus had a vast +» nomical. This belief had a great Ch ee iS « Vey of India, prove this to be Man has got to have such a hope, Bible or no Bible. If man has got to pass on eternally heavy-laden, there is no logic, Morality or courage in carrying the bur- den now. Patrolman Jokn Rustig, of Oakland, Cal, has to have a shoe 1414 inches tong. It's unusual, but the climate has nothing to do with it, Still, It May Be a System ABOR SECRETARY DAVIS seems to be full of reform of immigration licy, his particular hobby being what e calls “a selective system.” Under this system, Mr. Blank, an employer in Seattle who needs “skilled artisans,” would be able to write Mr. Davis, who would notify American consular officers in foreign parts to send over said artisans to Mr. Blank. We predict that Mr. Davis will meet some real opposition before he gets ‘is “selective system” thru congress. In the first place, organized American Jabor will object, strenuously. In the second place, such a “system” would have a tendency to hurt American busi- eagle is often used to sent the United States. What it some of the other large coun-} | tries. of the world? “K.The lion for England, the dear| | Ruasia, the dragon for China,| | ¢lephant for India, the three-| | wed shamrock for Ireland, the | thistle for Scotland, the dull for Spain, the crescent for Turkey, the} Kangaroo for Australia, the beaver} for Canada, the sphinx, pyramid, or camel for Egypt and the liberty cap France. medical, vice. | dential. | signed, legal ‘A. A combination mixture for cll) Fose insects and blight is suggested It piece dated 18 fonsists of nine parts of powdered! the word “cent, are the tries? real NE of the common beliefs for centuries has been that ~ Their greatest store of knowl- * edge was supposed to be astro- © deal to do with the respect, and “Leven awe, in which Hindu * teachers have been held. Recent investigations by G. R. ~~ Kaye, of the archaeological sur. A. The Steamboat entirely mythical. The Hindus knew nothing of the existence » of planets until after Greek civilization invaded India and taught them the facts. Tho , Hindus then adopted Greek as- tronomy, but did not use ft en- . tirely correctly and added noth. ~‘ ing of value to it. The proof “Sthat this constituted — their | inspection, 1 ou can get an answer to | any quertion of fact or in- formation by writing The Seat- tle Star Question Editor, 1332 New York ave. D. C., and inclosing 2 loose stamps for reply. or marital ad- Personal replies, All letters must be the season, starting soon after the leaves first appear. of the 1883 nickel 6-cent piece: A. A United States nickel 5 3, with does not command Scandinavian coun- ‘A. The Scandinavian countries are Norway, Sweden and Denmark (in- leluding Iceland). But Norway and Sweden alone are often spoken of Q. Are government-owned steam- boats subject to the same Inspection as privately owned steam vessels? | vessels, owned and oper- ated by the United States Shipping | | Board are inspected by the U. &.| Inspection service, as privately owned vessels. owned and operated by the govern- ment departments are not aubject to but are inspected only use bullets, ax or halter. As to thrill at graduation time, the Bulgarian of 27 boy and girl university student Some Change of View NOTHER large crack in soviet com- munism, and it really indicates that, when opportunity knocks at the door, Russia is as willing as any other nation to kick exploded theory out the back window. Trotzky now favors the build- ing of Russia's large electric plants by foreign contractors—organized capitalists. “I am a supporter of socialistic prote tion of industry,” announces Trotz “but this must not develop into a block- ade of: ourselves,” t Gradually, the Russians faith in suicides as a reform policy. Actually, Trotzky promises to accomplish much good for his country—if they don’t hang him too soon. re losing Maybe the archeologists have found evidences of human existence of 12,000,000 years ago far down in Arizona soil, but how In thunder do they distinguish it from present Arizona existence? 2 ? Answers to Your Questions ? ? um | upon the request of the department | by which they are operated. Q. What word has the meaning as woman-hater? A. Misogynist same Washington, cents in | al No | Q Are titles of books always put | | 'n quotation marks? || 4. As @ rule titles of books are lenclosed in quotation marks, but files of well known books, auch \as “Paradise Lost, without quotations, confl- | Second dusting 1c hy hed | Just before the flowera come. 25 EY Ae ET eae 3 TT What will rid rose bushes of| : | et Q Is there a premium on any| What Folks cent or without} Are Saying pfs OP NE IA ba A a EES ‘sulphur and one part of powdered|a premium. j DR. BAYARD DODGE, Bel- [arsenate of lead. Dust the bushes eee | rut University president: “The ft wlth it four or five times during) Q.Is Denmark a Scandinavian, ‘deals of personal liberty and country, or do the people of the| solden opportunity in tha Unit. [eee SCIENCE country merely call it that, What] ¢4 States have come to be a legend ali around the world.” DIST. ATTY. ROTAN, of | Phil- adelphia; “The type of of- fenses committed by juveniles is growing more and more seri- : as the Scandinavian peninaula, Miva Ee eeee acttes in {Hence the confusion in using the Meee eae ee: PFE Retentine, tho sar earlier In | terms 3 .. history than modern science. e ° A Thought The instruction of fools folly.—Proverbs, 16:22. teen just Ships HE instruction of the fool- ish {s a waste of knowl- edge; soap cannot wash char- coal white.-Kabir, Rudeness on the Road MRS. WALTER FERGUSON famed knowledge of astronomy OES the automobile make neighbors with a bold and Na- 4s that the ancient Hindu words | D se 2 nn? poleonfe dash, meaning horizon, diameter, tri- pice fade tals rah And tho gentlest woman, a “angle, center, etc, as well as It begins to look that way. veritable Indy in all her other _ the signs of the zodine, are The meekest man who, while contacts, will be transformed into Slightly changed Greek. Also, standing upon solid earth, never a regular virago if somebody {n- ~ the Hindu year was 18 hours intrudes upon a soul, when he trudes upon her right of way. too Jong, and they had no | climbs into his Ford and starts Men, “women and’ children _ Knowledge of tho precession of | the hand Coed, will grit his teoth scream maledictlohs at each other - the equinoxes, and skim past his haughtier as they dodge past in their cars, | rs and from being reasonably sane and polite humans they become 4 johouting, scowling, screeching a hoodiuma, each trying to pas& the other on the road and count- ing it a deadly personal insult if obliged to slow down, Perhaps the reason for this general trend toward bad man. , ners in the motor world f that S6QIALLY! Oh, Sally! Como out of that alley. Say, put down that stick] we are all alike and feel that and that dirt. I dressed you up Come here, now, you'll ruin your skii “Jimmie! Say, Jimmie! What worries you gimme. the store, Don't joaf on the way. 1 was rendin’ you for.” “Tillie! Why, Lillie, what makes you act silly? you make ail my friends think you can't.” “Hddie! “Oh, Maddie! Your supper is ready. ne‘ér ent at meal times at all.” Mother, poor mother, her call, like no other, will find where a youngster Wat. ‘The call of the child i# the call of the wild, but you can't blame poor mother, at that, (Copyright, 1925, for The Star), in. What on earth can you mean? I told you to go to Now, I'll bet you can't say what it was Be nice, now. hands with your aunt. You could be so good, if you only just would, but Say, how many timo must I call? You piece all day long and you know that it's wrong, for you most of those people in other cars Who get in our way #0 per- sistently are strangers to us, here today and gone tomorrow; perhaps the mere driving of a car infuses some bravado and swagger Into our blood which nothing else, save too much raw red liquor, @ would give us perhaps, Bhake knowing that we can run away, wo feel free to re. vert to Insolence and make no effort to shroud our natural rudeniews with a drapery of po- Monens, | etc, are written) T OUR WAY | } iene it hw BUT Tt =-\ REARED BAC AND FELL WITh é BECAUSE SMOKEY HAPPENS TO Be STANDING: IN THE DOORWAY 1S NO REASON WHY SCHOOL CANT LET OUT AS OSUAL. | — | Henry Ford Warns Big Business HMM 3 "7 DONT KNow DIONT* FEEL ONE BIT FRIGHTENED WHEN THAT HORSE Aas 4 ENRY FORD warns big busi- ness that there ts danger in assuming recent’ supreme court hare put the ld Sherman an’ on and that big bui wo an far an it likes In his Fort Dearborn Indepen dent ry nays: “Certain stu dents of pu {fining are saying that nt supreme court deci sions practically abolish the pro visions of the Sherman anti-trust law f this were ao, 9 BY witttams) AM UNDSEN’S TRIP ea, ANELL T SHORE WAS! HONEST TO GOGH, 1 WAS SO SCAIRT MY KNEBS WAS ACTOALMN KNOCKIN: “> T'GETHOH. ——ed BY N. D, COCHRAN Justify American business m going back to the abuses which brought the man law into being? Are we to be only so © in our service xs the law compels us to be? If that ts the program to be adopted by busi hes men St ertainly result in the next law being ten times stronger and not quite so easy to nullity American business should jus tify the noe of the presi der pressing all ite activities into the new era method of In Mr. Fixit of The Star Undertakes Here to Remedy Your Troubles If of Public Interest Mr, Fixit; Please find out why Mayor Brown gives a Russian dentist preference over American dentists, by making him the head denttat at his of- fice, It gets under the akin of those who wore the olive drab. B. E. The mayor's secretary reports that for a short time there was & Russian dentist working In the mayor's dental office, but that he is not there any longer, as he has gone into business for himself. A man’s nationality should not make any difference when one has a toothache. 78.8 side the city limits, and the Mr. Fieit: 1 live just out- man who otons the lota in this locality haa the water franchise, Ho refusca to pipe the water fo those who do not buy lots of him. Many had bought their lots previously, and wwe do not know how to get water. This man had the old pump removed where we formerly got our water. What can be done? A READER. Not knowing all the facts, it difficult to give you any anawer, Better write to the State Public Service Commis- sion, Olympia, Wash., giving all the details The city has no Jurisdiction over the water out- side the city limite. oo Mr. Fisit: We lve on the Gatewood line, and my husband has to be at work by 6 a, m. The first car leaves here at 4:30, and the next one is aup- posed to leave at 5:30, but it is often late, and when it is not the men spend so much time turning around and getting started back that he ia often late, unless he takes the 4:30 car, Can't you fix it so the second car will get away from fhe end of the Une at 5:80 sharp? This would get him to work on time, M. M. Supt. Henderson thinks you have your schedule mixed, but promises to look Into the mat- ter and give relief if possible. ee Mr, Plait: Can you give wa any {nformation as to what has become of the negro, Mosley, toho was tried for killing Of- ficer A. J. Conner some time ago? He was found guilty and sentenced to hang January 26, but I have heard nothing more of this. The murdered officer had been on the force 12 years, and was always faithful to his duty, and many of us woul Uke to see justice done. * READER. wan apponied to the supreme court, and will probably come up in October. wares Mr. Pieit: Could you fle it no that. Seward park could have a raft with a high diver This {1 one: of the beat parks and the best beaches in the city, and haa the poorest bathing ac~ commodations. Ted. a The raft that was there was recently carried away by the wind, and is now being towed back and should be In position this week, The park board has promised to arrange for a high diving float ay soon as possible, but Just how soon the etary can not may, 8. ye This case Mr. Plott: Ia there a way to compel the wood dealera to bait for carwigs? The cracks in wood are favorite hiding places for carwiga, and severat of my friends have imported a | supply in this tway. BALLARD. There is no compulsory balt- ing this year, but many are using the balt to keep down the pests. Every wood yard should do #0. ‘I Seen by th’ Papers’ SEZ KITCHEL PIXLEY Sage of the Olympics SEEN by Tho Star that the president is off on vacation, cooks, two butlers, 42 marine guards anda full force within easy reach. Poor old Calvint It is when a vacation isn’t. About 60 + miles north of us is acleared space of about 30x30 feet, at the mouth of a little singin’ river that emp- ties into @ small, blue lake that's pocketed in big pines. You have one old time pal, one ca- noe, one side of bacon, one fry- in’ pan, one rod and reel, one sick of flour, one bag of salt, and one bolt of mosquito net- tin’. What you don’t have ts one chance to get telograms, letters, newspapers or phone calls, The sun is shootin’ golden darts between the trees across the Inke as you roll off your bed of pine twigs, all smelly with woods perfume and feelin’ free of the load of 40 past years, and with your gray- haired old pal you go driftin’ in the canoe thra the risin’ mist along the lake shore. Let's drop our line over near that big r Whoop! Struck, by Henry! before the bait could sink! Up in the air he goes four feet high, Taught with the line; he's tryin’ to shake the hook out, Under the canoe he dives and up he goes again and again, with a shower of silver drops drippin’ from his sid Now, he's down deep in the wa: ter, Sulkin’? Not on your Ife, but tryin’ to rub out that hoole on the bottom rocks. Give him the point a bit. He's off, with 10, 20, 30 yards of line, straight for deep water. Let him do tho battlin’, W, he's done. Reel in, Steady, man; no jorks ‘Ten I with three one doorman, Pixley foot away, and a last, sharp, fleree struggle, Quick with that Jandin’ net! Land him! Dog: gone you, land him! And, oh! when he comos out of the hot bacon grease, back in camp, you haven't any ‘a on you, or home cures, Job, and there isn't any worryin’ world outalde. It is when a vacation Is, old President Calvin! Ay old Horace Greeley once sald, when partin’ with his Adi rondacks gulde: “Good-bye. 1 thank yoWfor a good time, 1 have never before felt so close to God." 1D, workin’, Poor ~| SHOWS WORLD YET FULL OF THRILLS Fe ag 'ijfZ™ | || || By Chester H. Rowell | | ODERN inventions have not destroyed adventure They have made it. Who, since Marco Polo, ha \| had such a record as Roald Amundsen ?—the South Pole | * on foot; the North Pole or practically, to || y @ by air; the North Magnetic Pole te 4M years of search, the first navigation « 7% the Northwest Passage! And after } & My, ¥4 woes MacMillan, better equipped ap ra cally, as is the American way, incider y = -4.! for the Pole, but primarily to explore fron . #7 the air the unknown lands of the Far Nortt +74 If getting to places, taking risks a a « aiff jen is adventure, th age of adventure mw. id exhausted 1 ffers a & ave Would you go far afield? Astronomers, wit ‘ Howell sandfold. Would u delve mysteries Phynicist have penetrated as for within the atom tronome the outer universe v ld you repeat the ‘ol ence has made them commonplace, And even the vain struggle of Faust, to touch the ¢ of 4 ne Nea b an does ft knowledge, in no |} t pe arvest the crop leas. Man can hurl his bod: ald th the rest o thru the air and send his mind n er thru the outer spaces. That is A greater adventure t ny pig "| Old Don’t Live Any Longer Crimes Inside, | Outside Business T 18 m good thing for the sociation of Credit Men to con. As have scare 1 spar id The chance of sur. sider means of stopping crimes g infancy and growing up is inst business costing a quar er, bi not the chance of of a bills year. But there y business cost Business has as the pro TR Millams ‘i {928 ey MEA srIice Ime. well Fraudulent stock salesmen, high-pressure promoters of wild In every venture ne has made he has proved that he knows business. noemed to care how many mil- lions he makes, dustry and commerce, wh! sists in giving the highest quality and service; and the highest consideration of the public interest, for it is only the highest and founded thin that breed: mont business Ford's achieved largely thru methods of » highest And he got pro- cat speculation, ers of quack medicine and quack psychology, boosters of bogus goods—these by their crimes in the name of | “business,” are as much enemies” of legitimate business as are any of the criminals “against” bust sh con- wages type of | has been H®: HUM! Too hot to con trate on critical analy his own, not considered orthodox Why not just take the scat- by the general run of bu tered notes of the week? All men. shocked conservatiy right! employers when ho established a Into the country | SUNDAY: minimum wage of five dollars and with us Michael Arlen’s lat- a day, But he proved that hign est, “Mayfair” (Doran). Arlen en are not Inconsistent with has taken off his “green hat” and returned to “those charming people.” Woe prefer the “charm- ing people’ mood, somehow: particularly on warm Sundays This Arlen can write most amus- ingly even when he has nothing new to say, nobody has #0 long as he Among the New Books reaching old it you do grow up. Average The wo are and two died in ctual members are The carlier gen erations showed a much larger number of little graves, but nearly as large a proportion of gray heads. The chances of liv- in are better, but not the chances’ of livkig lope: MONDAY — Stewart Edward | White must be growing old. Ho has rounded up his philosophical the abuso of the power of or- and theosophical conclusions in ganization that produced the a book “Credo” (Doubleday, Sherman law and brought on the Page). Since, he says, most peo- long fight between political and ple are bewildered by the new economic laws. The pendulum conditions of the country why swings back and forth. The not help them find out what it's farther {t swings one way, the all about? And so he proceeds farther It will swing the other to explain from his viewpoint way. how one can accept all the new pays high wages and sells his products at low prices. His warning is timely, It wan Over-regulation of business scientific discoveries and still | finally led to too much tnterfer- cling to old religious beliefs. | ence with the natural laws of TUESDAY —Ah, South Sea | stuff! “Red Hair and Blue Sea” | (Scribner's), Intriguing title for | warm weather, Observe the hero- ine’s name: Palmyra Tree. No wonder she craved adventure and escape from her family and suit- ors, Then a “gun-browned hand was thrust from the outer dark- ness in thru the port of her aboard the yacht Rain- Then,’ on with the’ ro- mance and piracy and flight and all the ingredients of a warm evening. Incidentally it is writ- ten far better than most such business, Now, with much greater freedom, business will only in- vite another period of regulatory law-making {f it runs wild and convinces the public that it is incapable of self-government. There is nothing economically wrong about’ the bigness of big business, Organization js an orderly evolutionary process. It | was inevitable that cut-throat competition in business would lead to organization and co-op- eration, Competition is war, and war is waste, Yet the abuse of Stewart Edward White hand at things creative and send in reports. Well, it's good for one's ego, anyway! THURSDAY—Here's an odd book: “Madonna and the Stu- dent" (Huebsch), We don't like the heroine. She takes her fem- inism too seriously. The scenes and characters of Munich are good, and as the story progresses ironies rush in to save it, par- ticularly at the finish. the great power that came with tales, Stanley R. Osborn is the FRIDAY-—More “summer organization led to regulation; writer, stuff"! “Mr. Bisbee's Princess,” and, in turn, the abuse of regu- WEDNESDAY—From out of by Julian Street, and “After- latory power started the pendu- lum {n the other direction. Tho measure of freedom al- her adobe cabin in the Santa Fe, N, M., artists’ colony, Mary Aus- tin sees undiscovered genius in ward,” by Mrs. Belloc Lowndes. both published by Doubleday, Page. The former contains sey- lowed to business to follow eco- all of us. How does it come to eral tales, the first of which ts nomic law and organize will be be buried? Why do we continue pleasantly satirical and relates governed by the use ) business to hide it? How can we break to a rich Jeweler who, returning makes of that freedom. Political government will be slow to inter- fere with the economic organiza- tion and conduct of business. The best way to keep politicat gov- ernment out of business is for business to do a wholesome and reasonable job of welf-govern- ment, Scientists estimate that 12, tons of star dust falls, annu- ally, upon the earth, not count- Ing the star dust that falls at Hollywood. thru the barriers, grab our genius by the neck and drag it grandly home? All this is here, together with “testimonials” in the back of the book “Everyman's Ge. nius” (Bobbs-Merrill). The testi- monials come from such notables as Fannie Hurst, writer; Alexan- der Harvey, critic, essayist, ete.; Robert Edmund Jones, famed stage designer; Bill Robinson, buck and wing dancer and other “gonuises,”’ Miss Austin issues a blanket in- vitation to all comers to try their from the jewelers’ convention, meets upon the train the “Prin- cess Lescaboura.” But the "gos- sip" reaches his home town ¢ Then scandal, which ironically enough turns out to be good ad- : vertising. The other book is a 3 mystery story of no great mo- ment. A Wyoming man is kicking because, when he was shot thru + the leg and yelling for a doctor, his wife went out and brought in a life insurance agent. you cannot be efficient when your whole digestive system is in rebellion, Dizziness and that dreadful sense of fullness up to the end of the tongue are signs of constipation. And the result—a headache that is felt in one or both eyes; a morose, petulant sand garrulous tem- per, with the inevitable result that you cannot give to your work, or your business, the careful thought i judgment required, You cannot afford to be in this condition. You owe it to yourself to use a laxative that will relieve the cause—constipation. You can depend on that great builder of health—DR. CALDWELL'S SYRUP PEPSIN to relieve constipation, DEPEND UPON— Dr. Caldweil: SYRUP PEPSI THE FAMILY LAXATIVE