The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 2, 1925, Page 8

: by The Star | ot * 8209, \ The Question of Intelligence x thru the streets of Washington a F at 60 miles an hour is jeopardizing OME of the tig resice ny x the lives of entirely innocent citizens, in the great state of nessee object order to capture lawless bootlegger to such of the va eras on the: evolution The other argument was that if the trial as assumes that Re nenpis cine police car hadn't chased the bootlegge: state would rate as subnormal in jntelli at high speed the law violators would gence tests of Tennessee are being their legislature, raising the a that umption the average intelligence of legislators is representative of the intelligence of the entire population Theoretically, that would be a fair assumption—on the ground that Tennes- see has a representative form of govern- ment and the legislators are elected by sthe people. Practically, however, the assumption is not fair. Legislators in Tennessee are not chosen on intelligence tests any more than they are in any other state in the Union. They are elected because they are either Democrats or Republicans, which, as a rule, has nothing whatever to ‘do with intelligence. But that is true as well of Washington, New York, Ohio or any other state There is no educational qualification ‘for membership in legislative bodies in ‘any of the states. A citizen who can {neither read nor write can be just as ‘good a Democrat, or Republican, as the +Wisest college professor or the most ‘learned scientist. In fact, the less one knows the more orthodox his partisan ‘politics is apt to be. * Of course there are just as cultured sand intelligent people in Tennessee as there are in any other state, but their beliefs, opinions and convictions are less likely to be represented in a legislature than th of the larger number who are ignorant. Education alone will cure ignorance; and the education of the mass of any people anywhere is a long, slow, laborious evolutionary process. Evolution means change, and even those who hope for a thereafter in heaven with harps and haloes and golden streets are evolutionists, in that they hope to evolve from humans to angels. Which Is Better? ERE’S an_ interesting pu might try on your intellect: A police auto v chasing a bootleg- ger’s automobile in the city of Washing- ton the other day. The bootleggers wanted to escape. They stepped on the gas and tore thru Washington streets at terrific speed. The police car was right ‘behind them, with the cops also stepping on the gas. : The rum car ran into another auto in which were two innocent sisters of mercy ,attached to one of the hospitals. One of the sisters was killed. Thereupon two arguments were made. One was that the police had no right to ‘violate one law in order to enforce an- other; that there was-no justification for a zie you ‘? ? Answers to Your Questions > have escaped; and the killing of an inno. cent sister of merey but still the be enforced was deplorable, of Volstead course, Act mu. A similar argument occurred some time vhen officers of the law, chasing fired at the bootleggers, hit a United States senator instead and sent him to the hospital for several months But that argument wasn't ettled Probably this one won't be It is an ordinary thing for policemen to shoot and kill offenders who are trying to escape, when even if captured the worst that the law could to put the of fenders months. Th« policeman applied capital punishment But in th have done was in prison for a fev Washington case an entirely woman was killed. What's the Is it better that an innocent bystander be killed than a worthless boot legger escape prison? Or is it better that 10 boo cape than that o life b innocent answer? sacrificed? Happiness fi Ps declaration of independence se forth that every human being is ¢ titled to “life, liberty and the happiness.’ xcellent. Only don’t confused with pleasure. Right now our young people—and some of the older ones—are pursuing pleasure, instead of happiness. That is all right, too. Only when ples ure is pursued too ardently early in life, one often sacrifices his chances for hap- piness later on. Pleasure at the start is good, but piness at the end is better pursuit of get happiness hap- Rotary LITTLE group of men in the city of Cleveland paid the members of Ro- International a high compliment the tary other day. Rotary had just ther held its convention , with some 14,000 in attendance hese Clevelanders were bootleggers. had laid in extra supplies preparing for a rushing business. But they were sorely disappointed. Most conventions mean heavy profits for the bootleggers. They have learned that when a lot of men foregather in a strange city they usually call loudly for drinks. * But with Rotary it was different. Sales absolutely were not above normal. Hard- ly a single delegate bought a drink. “These guys must take their ideals "complained one of the boot- That's just it. the name country. ; They do. That's why totary is honored thruout the —$— 1. Q How many vice presidents of | the United States have served) | YOU can get an answer Pocried aR kai under two presidents? i any quertion of fact or in- | ée Auk rae ‘oO . ge he A. Only (ico: Clinton under Jeffer-| | tormation by writing The Seat | )°° (00 raysy son and Madison and Ca sb under| 1 t!@ Star Question or, 1323 | | oe Of discase by John Quincy Adams and Jackson.| |New York ave, Washington, | | | - the an the 9. A8 1D. C.,, and Inclosing 2 cents in | | ‘Pe direct y . | Joose stampa for reply. No | | fr¢atment docs not seem . For how long has the use of > bi hdr jot soem“ ‘eke hit ine! Genk obauncuT | medical, egal or marital ad. | °c“! he rays com ‘A. The common use of individual! | Vice. Personal replies, confl- | | 95% Be Pe table forks is European and com- Peale All letters t eel fais. paratively modern. The Chinese and | g SENEO- Lt 2 Can you give the hames Japanese cat with chopsticks, pencil- shaped objects that they hold in one hand and wield with a pair of tongs. The Greeks and the Romans ate with their fingers, as primitive ana! ™! half-civilized peoples still do, Dur-| ¥°T® city. f ing the periods of transition trom | fingers to forks, knives were used| @ Can one for cating as well as cutting and| atill are by the lower classes. Ac-| vording to the Italian priest and| acholar, Peter Damiani, who lived tn the 11th century, individual table) forks were first introduced into} Venice by a Byzantine princess, and | his skeleton ta ling a railroad track. \form is now at Tuft's college, while) A in the | Museum of Natural History in New| Co., Cloquet, Minn.; Great Southern Ket jfrom the sun's rays thru a window By san to | | PARE or do y Hig mounted | ies in the United States? Long Bell Lumber Co., American Mo.; Weyerhauser City, | Lumber Co., Bogalusa, La The theu some of the largest lumber compan Kansas} Lumber i Bt. Paul) . |¢ Tacoma Lumber Co., Tacoma,| As good results| Wash. and Pacific Lumber Co.,| [gaa Francisco, Cat. New Hero of Evolution BY RUTH FINNEY from Venice spread thru the rest of Italy. In France table forks ap-| Bedel for tha firat-toha 4h ah tns| NEW hero of revolutionary | 1783, wrot Si tattod ventory of Charles V., dated 1379,\ days, pronounced such by "Your early to the and as late as the 16th century| the court use of forks to eat with was satirized as a novelty. in| “ocuments none other than George ing, has just come to light thru presented to the ti Wash- enuse of this exertions relieving the distreases of such of our fellow nd your citizens French and Scottish convents forks| raty of congress by Berthon were so unfortunate as to be were forbidden as sinful. Into Eng-| Parker Harv of Cork, Ire- Prisoners in Ireland, claim the land forks are said to have been| and Tegard of every American, and introduced by Thomas Coryate, who! ‘The hero was Reuben Harvey, will always entitle you to my vidted Italy in 1608, but as late| merchant, and yice-congul for particular esteem. 1 shall al- as the revolution of 1688 few Eng-| Prussia, Sweden, Norway, Portu- | Ways be happy in rendering you sh noblemen owned more than a| gal, Brazil, and Mecklenburg | very service in my power." dozen, hwerin at A Q. What was the largest elephant on record? A, Jumbo. He was killed in Can- ada in Saptember, 1885, while cross- B SIT us down at supper time and everything looks right. We fecl a real enjoyment ‘cause we got an appetite table, as a portion of the meal, why of the “heel” We play a game of cards or two; then have a out to the Kitehen for a bit of food to munch slices and It seems we alway “heel” is le{t behind. The little folks coming fearin’ in the house, fon yell for bread and butter in the middle of the day. Just a bite, no's not to spoll a meal, They've tickled except when it's the “heel.” Why Js it that we all avold the taking of the crust? | Perhaps it's ‘cause we're lazy, if | and lonely “heel’’ is treated far from just. the quiz were answered true. blamed hard to chew for The Star) ork. days of the revolutionary war he befriended a number ns held prisoners by the Brit So George Washington, in When bread’a put on the is it many people dodge the taking midnight Jungh There's broad that’s cut # find that even tho the full loaf's used, the ‘tired from pla Perhaps they're given with a plece of bread, We'll all admit 1t may be good Hikithaisasly Washington then submitted a record of Harvey'n benevolences of to congress, and July 18, 1783, that body passed the following resolution Ameri- "Resolved, That his exceliency, the commander-in-chief, be re quested to transmit the thanks of congress to Mr. Reuben Har vey, merchant in Cork, in the Kingdom of Ireland, and express tho Just sense congress enter- tains of the services he had ren- dered during tho late war to American prisoners." Washington fulfilled thin com- mand In the following letter Sir: Tam honored with the are of transmitting to you the d resolution of congress, sing the sense which that body entertains of your to American prisoner 8 Lam, with sen (iments of gratitude to you for this expression of your benevo. lonce, T feel a partloul gratification in conveying We hie goodne “Impressed vory It seorms the poor you the thanks of the sovereign but's too| power of the United States America, on an occasion of which, while it does honor fo humanity, alamps f particular mark of dis Unetion on you “Wishing you the enjoyment of vith every attendant 1 beg you to be per suaded that Tam, with every par | fleular respect and regard, your most obedient servant, “G, WASHINGTON," sY C. A. May Gok Naw Tia wot Dame Trial wee: Ok eS ‘Ol i aaa —e BY WILLIAMS i LOU. OUR: We ido ies ee | Forty-Niners Going; 8 WOU MiDe a || Are Left in California {\T WAS Too EARLY! ¥ 7 BS COUN ee | BY MAX S'®ERN ’ BUT NO-You Know ae ees ay — . ~ = YY ALL! MusThink IM} at PRAC e f == ro, ANC \ : AN OWL! COULDA HAD | { AS Mise SEE ni +2 The are £ COUPLE MORE HOURS SLEEP, / Cd cate in. 709 by j 4 i} relat ji { me To HL . ‘ c at H . ¢ 1 was + f And f cd (SMOKING ROOM Ye Pp ae ; STORIES 7 Bj Pia Bee | 1 I a ag on, ‘Those who were children AOMENTS WE'D LIKE “TO LIVE OVER- TRwillamns oun REVIVE tates THE EARLY BIRDS © sa28 ey mea semnce, INC. pi _ ee cee is " . : . fe : , ys tha ie i] eet pcan nearly i (What Folks nd fire HINGTON, J A quake of 190 RANDAL 4 Ire of aeertie Bt nepal vasiiseng i Ares Pulibueiv, the demand! j! gubslicn dup aetna wi se niin re naying be dis The grar idren WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE, h ; All but one of the surviving Kansas editor It in} ard for ‘ eight came to California in ‘49 > understand the Samuel Bi r ude towards e¢on- . ; ent t 5 eco is ate ; came fs remorsefulness, It and 46 Brennan ! for extravagance, Mormon elder w ¢ economy is a re became a land capital: a5 ple.” tillery owner of Ca .. trial, st appe fina retired to Mex T, chairman Pacifie pend esther ’ xs eight bul in T. Co. “Girl oper- : Falling con *-poth’. theses te qu ¢ | ators are doomed for two reasons, points, the case will be carried silip’ ‘ot tha’ wil | First, tts lorposalble to eet iea , i t, where § supported the | number to meet ment I and, see Mr. Fixit of The Star Undertakes Here to Remedy Your Troubles lf of Public Interest ing th off already, in vari this be ANXIO away, pomnen in t ty | pplien to t pistols ot Fourth July 1 producers that con stitute a fire hazard: The chief of police has just tasued an or insiat- force der to th ing that the law be rigidly en- forced. Mr. Firit: On Beach drive, (Iki point, we are attempting to clean up the streets, but there are a few who insist on keeping wood and rubbish piled up in unsightly — plac What can be done about this? MRE. G. E. Call MAin-6000, ask for the park department, and report the matter to tho secretary. The park board is anxious to keep the drives along Alki in presentable condition Mr. Fieit: Is there a city ordinance congelling meat mar at 1 o'clock p. mf R. M. kets to close at ordinance requiring meat to close at 6 o'clock, Ity of a fine for vio lation, wa passed ins April The health department sees that it is enforced An markets with pe The drinking foun Ballard ave. all sum Mr, Fixit tain at 20t» and haa been out of order many thiraty people transfer at this point, it would be a fine thing if you would get mer, AS it fixed. TAXPAYER. The street department has promised to give this immedl ato attention. see Mr, Fielt: I have a large Hlac bush that 4s slowly dying: What can be done to stop this? MRS, FI The ground may be becoming sour, or the soll may bo! too poor. In the former case use fa Wttle lime, in the latter use ‘ome good fertilizer, In elther caso careful not to get too near the roots, but mix with the soll, and give plenty of water, Mr. Ielts Regarding the present water shortage, why is it that this matter ia neglected until the is upon usr Aa you may know, the Weat Seaftic district ts often without water, Can't something be done to remedy this? DIK With only twa pipe hing into the cify thi to ocenr nt extreme the department reports, As soon® as the line from Lake Youngs is completed there should be no further danger, ‘This will not shortage lines pun in Hkely low@water, are some localities tn fc, expecially in West Seat tle, where it in necessary to o many lines with c At low water this rouble there “I SEEN BY ?D high n the hills water. When the 1c inid in West Se ould be no more i} | | | BY KITCHEL PIXLEY HEN the last word 1s sald, we're all evolutionists. We are nll aimin to be angels on high, and that would be an al- mighty. evolt Pizley cloud with ution for the ma Jority of us. Really, the most aston|sh- in of evolu tlon has been the evolution of man's idea of heaven. "Way back there was the Olympus of tho Greek with Jupiter out every night and, 0 castonally, hangin Mrs Juno up to a anvils tied to her fest, to give her a good stretch. in, Then, take the Hindu who couldn't be ¢ heaven witho' widows, well quit the eart You reme Khayyam, poet and Persia, wilderness, his knee and all Nquor in St drunk greatest whose with omfortable in his ut a couple of his roasted after he'd h mber old) Omar astronomer, round scholar of heaven was the a flapper on a jug with enough for a perpetual Later, the great master artists had, a heaven composed of a throne with a full-bearded king surrounded by were Dante got was almply t florcest helt everlastingly cherubims, who trumpetin. up © heaven that he opposite of the f man ever imag fned, and In more modern times he was na ind gro} business of harps and hymns, whet? Today we a city with walls, Id streets and the eternally — playin everybody — singin ler in tune or not have a Iilinols bishop who ia sure that heaven is a place of have that heaven dom, What step in heay truly don't foems to be the theory of other big so has evoluted as physleally, hard labor, and we milllona of folks believin 4 Just Infinite Wi the next evolution en Will be know, but ® ® grounds for Ho@kol and many jentista that man spiritually as well —K.D, your there ’ PAPERS” j wax given a big Jephone is NOuNCINe Lour “A8th Semi-Annual Dividend PAID LESS THAN ince its foundation 24 years ago the Puget Sound Savings and Loan Association has never paid its members less than 5% per annum: dividends.’ Our 48th Semi-Annual Dividend marks one more profit- able period of six months for the members of this organization. 5% —with 100% safety! That's because our investments are re- stricted by state law to government, state and civic bonds, and first mortgages on improved property. 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