The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 11, 1925, Page 8

} | | ~ capped by the inexperience of the Ba St ial to asta ay a a Pee SE 6 TA sO NR A aI Ah THE SEATTLE STAR Newspaper Re terprive Ags. and United Prem Service, $8.00. My carrie month e & month Published Daily ” by ‘The Publishing Yhone Main e000. menthe §2.0¢ - 3 mo Why Business Should Be Good | the surface lines uftil elevateds were in R months people have been on a : “saving jag.” Indications now are that they ,will start spending again. Spending and saving periods run in cycles. For a time folks spend freely; bank balances grow low. Balances were low at the psychological Moment President Colidge started his thritt propaganda. The two combined to start a wave of hoarding. Now the fam- ily reservoirs have been filled again; Spending seems about to start. There is more actual cash money in the Pacific Northwest now than ever before. The lumber business, quiet for months, shows signs of a revival. Crop prospects, both in wheat fruit, were never better. Record fish catches are predicted for Alaskan waters. More homes are being built than ever before; each new one calls for new furni- ture and furnishings. Half a million tourists are passing thru Seattle this summer. Some will stay for weeks. It is estimated that each tourist spends at least $10. Total: $5,000,000 in new money. There are indications of resumption of mining interest, dormant for some years. Prices have become stable. There is little chance of extensive rises or decline, _ outside seasonal fluctuations. Speak Up, Doc! 4 WASHINGTON statute makes it a crime to offer a bribe. : Another Washington statute makes it a crime to shield those guilty of crime. Edwin J. Brown, mayor of Seattle, told an interviewer in Spokane that he was of- _ fered a bribe of $50,000 a year to permit booze joints to run ‘along First ave., Se- attle. To be specific, Doc said he would be id 25 per cent of profits of about $200,- a year. It is assumed this estimate is based on profits being taken from pres- ent operations. : i Maybe the mayor was just shooting and thru his chapeau to get the echo. Then, again, maybe he was telling the truth. Tf he told the truth, then some fixer in Seattle has been guilty of a crime. Tf the mayor doesn’t tell who made the offer, then the mayor shares the guilt. ‘Speak up, Mr. Mayor! 'A Needed Improvement SHE rapid transit system for Seattle that has been devised by William Trimble and his committee of the anning commission is a step in the right ion. ' _ Surface stret car business is gradually falling off, not only in Seattle, but over the country generally. Only in those cit- jes where enterprising oficials have real- ized that they must give the car-riding public something faster than slow surface travel have the street railroads been hold- jing their own. New York’s car business slumped on —~ Q@ Who wrote the first arith-|7 ie? : “A. While the inventor or dis- of arithmetic is unknown, 4a said that it was brought from into Greece in 600 B. C. 4g the author of the oldest upon arithmetic and wrote) Q What !s the cause of a night- and does it have any effect on <eirevlation of the blood? Nightware is a sensation of » suffocation or oppression occurs during sicep and is at- by hideous dreams or indef- te feclings of terror, with a sense circulation and or in 'ASHINGTON, July 11,—~-At taxi, Jast the back seat driver is “going to get what's coming to ‘The American Automobile as- gociation has discovered that Automobile drivers are handi- machine. ons they transport and that “many accidents have thelr origin in the thoughts and actions of Membérs of the motor party. | Bo the association has set out to “motorize” the automobile pe ger. “Better passengers “autos,” is the slogan. A long list of horrible examples has been compiled. ‘There was a driver who was “requested to look at some fine he js drawn motor sense driver >? Answers to Your Questions ? ? = ‘OU can get an answer to} any quertion of fact or in- formation by writing The Seat- tle Star Question Editor, 1323 New York ave, Washington, D. C., and inclosing 2 cents in | | loose stamps for reply. fo move or cry out. asmciated with disturbances of the respiration; it ig) divinities, commonly caused by the taking of too heavy meals or indigestible food shortly before retiring. persons of a nervous temperament, those subjected A.A. A. Issues Warning _ to Back Seat Drivers the operator gives them very little thought. simply fares and his idea is to get them home as quickly as pos- sible before they damage But when passengers get to fooling, in the average au- tomobile, the driver is all too con- actous of what is going on. into the hilarity. Then there is an accident, “The job of motorizing Passenger must supplement the job of motorizing the driver. It goes without saying that the man at the wheel must acquire the of safety but there has been a re- grettable tendency to overlook the hazards created by people who ait in the tonneau,” stalled, Soon business began to fall away again—and subways speded up the travel, bringing business back. Seattle is experiencing the same diffi culty, Rapid transit will bring back the lagging business, Helping the Stranger HOUSANDS of tourists enter and de- part from Seattle by boat, Many of the docks where these boats land are located at a distance from the city’s downtown hotels. They are equally distant from railroad stations, In most Eastern cities this difficulty is met by a “loop street car line’ running along the waterfront past all passenger boat docks and circling around past the railroad stations and the principal hotels. This simplifies the procedure for the tourists in a strange town. Instead of in- quiring his way about, all that is neces- sary for those who do not wish to take taxicabs to do is to get on a car and ride until their destination is reached. With the docks, stations and hotels sit- uated as they are in Seattle, it would be a simple matter to put in such a carline while repairs on Railroad ave. are going ahead. Naturally Enough ASSENGER MANAGER DARR, of the Emergency Fleet corporation, seems to be astonished at the big patronage of the United States “dry” steamers. Nothing at all remarkable about it. There are millions of people who prefer “dry” travel, “dry” hotels and other “dry” public accommodations, just as there are millions who prefer Adam to the ape, or two-piece bathing suits, or bacon and eggs to hash. And most of the millions are willing to sacrifice some other things in order to get what they particularly want. It is probable that if all the other steam- ers were “dry” the Fleet corporation steamers would not get the great patron- age that is now theirs. Business success does not wholly depend upon pleasing everybody. If you've got a real good thing, there will always be a crowd to take it. This newspaper, to illus- trate. Talking Figures OTOR statistics of California, second state in the Union as to motor vehicles, ought to be of interest every- where. During the first half of 1925, 84,420 motorists were stopped for highway law violations, in California, and it cost them $210,231. Motor cops chased 'em 1,087,- 122 miles. Of those stopped, 20,805 were speeders, meaning 20,805 motorists who were not over-particular in the matter of killing folks. If the speeders alone paid the $210,251 fines it would have cost them an average of about $11. It is up to the courts to squelch the speeders. ' ———————e— _ mental strain or overwork. Enlarged tonsils, adenoids, worms, fevers, etc., jare offen the cause in children, see Q. Who was “Nike"? A. The Greck goddess of victory } | | | No | | She was the daughter of Styx and |p, ‘ xa: <0 medical, tal ad- | | Pallas and sister of Zelos, Ctaton “about $00 B.C. The arithmetic) | Vee asectst” conttaess cote || snk Bla,, , Hociacy agaleted oun (4 f decimals began in 1482, and the) | aentiay, all letters must be | | /is combat with the Titans, she was arithmetic in English was) | gieneg, | taken fo live with him on Olympus. in 1522. X Mi sShe is usually represented with gta of utter helplessness and inabllity| tings, and bearing o wreath and Nightmare is} palm branch and is often found tn aculplure in connection sith other capecially with Athena, who is also called Nike. . “+ Jt occurs in| Q. Where ts Capo Palinuro? A. It is @ promontory on the coast of Lucarja, Italy, projecting into the Tyrrhenian sea, the entrance to the Gulf of Poli- castro. It forms a dangerous point to navigation. It was named in honor of Palinurus, the pilot of Aeneas, said to have been buried here, and here in 253 B. C. and 46 B.C. Roman flects were wrecked. oe to severe Q. How many presidents of the United States have died in office? A. Siz—three by reason of natural causes, and three by assassination. Willlam Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor and, Warren G died from natural causes, and Abra- ham Lincoln, James G. Garfield and Willim McKinley were assassinated, Often onsite Q. When and how should beans be planted? A, Beans are a destrable second crop to plant where carly wvege- tables have been harvested. Do not plant too deep, mot more than an inch in heavy soll nor more than two inches in any soil, Seeda are usually dropped about three inches apart in the vow. For hand culti- vation the apace between the rows should be ebout a foot and a half They are the the decency and he tried _ to answer a passenger's compli- ented question. And in one re- cent accident, a number of per- fons lost their lives because they Insisted on singing as they drove home from a picnic and the noise drowned out the warning of a bell signal at a railroad crossing. Riding at night, a passenger eried out in fright because she thought another car was coming toward her machine, and her acream nearly caused an upset, whereas the “motorized” passen- ger would have recognized the tail light on a car ahead and would not have beqm alarmed, “Any driver excl the most hardened type of taxi operator 4a more or leas rerponsive to the actions of his passengers,” says Thomas P. Henry, president of the association, "If passengers elect to be hilarious when in a ‘OM'S the kitchen, up clean, frult Inid aside all more thriilin’ at hand, You'll find her right now working out in Sho knows that there's frult to be canned, It's pleasin’ to watch, ns she turns to the toll of washin' the berries And the You know what T mean! Tho mess starts ta simmer; then. bubbles a bit an@there's nary a drop goen to waste. unlit mother will give them a taste, The household is filled with the odor of jam, aw the frult Jarn ave wet in a row, ‘The world ought to know just how happy 1 am ax down In the cellar they go, on the shelf, the jam mother put her cleanin’ and stitchin’, There's something hen they're #tigared and pus on to boll—ol, pan The kids hang around and they all throw a fit He noon will be making the wintertime trips for up herself, i (Copyrlaht, 1045, for The Stary northwest of| Harding (our OUR WAY / WELL WOICHA AT? Vi Petia ce, his THAT @ Mpow ‘BOUT | are JES | CLOWNS AINT NO DIFFRUNT ALL THEY x COMMON JOO FT \ FELLECS 7 WARGHIS T RIGHT OFF) GOSH! TH'N NO OIHER 1 Wot | PEEPUL! / —“c WELL 1 Dost | ae RET ‘ KNOW wot | ; 1 Wior. ert} GOSH § 4 TRaillaws, au 1p OY MEA SERVICE In Some Heroes Who Should Be Shot BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON H, for a good old-fashioned hero! 1 know that we grin nowadays at those honorable. aelf. cing. long suffering men who pranced thru the books of yesteryear—the Northwest Mounted Police type, who would be boiled in oll before they would sully a woman's hopor. But why n one extreme to an ° the leap other? ¥ modern fic y a moi ‘contrariwis onal hero unmitigated ¢ ene 1 have j fintahed reading new b wrilten—and in the fellow who w thre Ke—-all brilliantly n the spot light scema Co mo (o be a fit sub ject for some good reform schoo! These momen heroes don't sive a darn about their country, or their friends or thelr families They usually have but one aim in Iife—to write a book. Per- haps this is becnuse to the au- thors of thelr beings writing a book—oh, just any kind of a book—is considered the acme of human achievement. Therefore, from the time when the little lad of 10 senses something mys. terious and moving and sad in the universe—they all do it—you may be certain that he will be a blase and cynical author at the ond of the last chapter In order to write a book it seems necessary that he should exprest himself without restraint that he should taste Life with a capital L, and expe all those emotions to which men in books are subject Well. nobody would object to that. Several of our more an- cient fictional loves stumbled now and then, But this tea- hound who inhabits our 1925 edi- tions goes them one or two better. Ho thinks nothing of de- serting a foithful wife and a couple of babies. With magnifi- cent concern he flings caution to the winds, hies him to the South Seas or some other lax place, with an affinity who does noth- ing but cater to his whims and pri Mis genius We all know that mon will be men, but there seems no reason why we should allow them all these ruthless liberties in fiction, the while we are asked by thoir doting creators to regard them as something fine and exquisite and marvelous. Even a hero who goes trampling upon all the people who love him, and who is out for himself and everything he can get, becomes a bit ir ritating 1am frank y nourotic, introspective men that naunter to perdition thru the | of there pages of our books. They have no manners, no morals and ver) frequently no » Personally 1 think the whole “Kit and bilin” of them should be shot at sunrise. Mr. Fixit of the Star Undertakes Here to Remedy Your Troubles If of Public Interest Mr. Fixit why there is only court at Alki playground? It ta full all the time. Jf they did not intend to fix up the court why did they take them down. THANKY, | The park department reports | that the crew of men had to bo taken off that job for nome emergency work, but that they will get back there soon and {| put the other courts in condi: | tion. Wil you tell me one tennis Mr, Fixit: Ja there any pre mium on a S0-cent piece of the date of 18337 MISE MeN. If jn good condition it in worth 55 cents according to Ye Olds Curlosity Shoppe | Is a half qollar of the date of 1863 at a premiam? It beara the old IAberty design 201 YAKIMA There is no premium on this coin, Mr, Fixit: 1 wonder if 0 thing could be done to enforce the sie-mile-an-hour regulation for boats passing thru the Lake Washington canal? Yachts, tugs, fishing boats and launches all apeed thru the canal with out slowing down. It is dan gerous to venture thru the canal with a canoe as the tweaves come at impossible an- glea as they rebound from the cement walla, The other eve- ning sie boats passed thru the | cand! as 1 was going thru in my canoe, and it was almost impossible to handle the craft. STUDENT AT U, | It you will report to Mr. Sar- gent, SUset-0051, the name of any boat that you are sure is going in excess of the six-mile regulation, giving him the date EVOLUTION— The Earliest Bones By Percy W. Cobb, B. S., M. D. FS ‘OT all almple animals formed together in long strings to make worms. | Some developed in other ways, ‘Tho jollyfish, tho star fish, sponges | and other soft and motionless or slowly moving forma were the result, Wor protection from their faster moving enemies some of those developed hard coverings, The earliest known form of armored animal is the Hix remains, found in the rocks of millions of yours ago, show that. hin hody, Ike that of the worm, is formod of sections or sogmenta It ja broader and flatter, and each sogmont show, No wonder A fellow staris amacking his lps when Ne looks at ine | have bean a pair of logs, ‘Tilobite is thought to be the ancestor of the kingeraby, ernb, living today, | trilobite, now extinot | 4 signe of what might | » OF horseshoes (Continuod Monday, and time of day he will take up with the owner Re sure of your facts Mr. Fizit: 1 was interested in the inquiry of “Student” and your reply concerning the lack of French and American views of the war in the public librartes. The one by Clemen- ceau mentioned is not a serious re- review, but I understand he haa written aubli a one which is soon to be published. The re- views by Hindenburg and other German writers make frequent references to French books that possibly have not been translated, as 1 do not find them in the Nbrary. The only complete history of the war that I find in the t- brary ia by Buchan, and from his preface he does not claim fo be unbiased. There have deen some Amer- ican reviews, none covering the entire period of the war, that I think should be in the li- brary. 1 wondering why the worthwhile French dvooks on the war have not all been translated? PROF. X. If you wilt gtvo the library a lst of the best books on the war not carried there, no doubt they will be supplied as soon as possible, Mr. Wixit is un- able to say why the French books have not been translated. ee Mr. Fixit: Will you arrange so the 40th st. bus will run to the north end of the Montlake bridge, so that we may hare more frequent service to the university? The Laurethurse bus runs only once in 30 min- tes. HRM. Superintendent Henderson of the Municipal railway has rec- ommended that this be done. It will take a little time to ar- range for it If the council orders {t. see Mr, Fixit: Why is it that the “floating” painters get the best of the jobs? J also notice that the city has a lot of paint- cra at work on public bduild- ings, while mony painters are walking the street looking for work, It swould seem that the taxpayer should be given first chance at the public jobs. Handling the “floating” work- er is a difficult problem in any line, and has not yet been solved. If you will make appli- cation to the various city de- partments, no doubt you will got something in time, The park board, the brary board and other public boards employ good workmen as they need them. SATURDAY, JULY 11 If so, you are idealistic And you must learn to more practical, You have extravagant dreams, But seldom realize them, You are very charming, And your disposition is excel lent a Poop impose upon you You are very loyal, Your friends can do no wrong You are devoted to your fam ily And to your obligations,. Bul you seatter your alos, You are active in ehureh, And in community lite, be oner. orient eum merge pe Ey ee _ BY WILLIAMS) New Fight to Open on } — Pullman. Surcharges BY F 6. ol alled regular charge During the last ness t areas a bill denigned to take ff thin 60 per cent charg: aned by the senate and defeated 0 the house 1 the past week a pe jon filed by the Internation Vederation of Commercia! Tra elers’ organizations with the in ters commerce commission has been turned down At the same time Congressman fcLaughlin of Nebraska an nounces that on the opening of congress in December he again introduce m bill for the re peal of the surcharge and wi fight harder than ever with the backing of the United Commer cial Travelers and the Na Council of Traveling Salesmen The arguments advanced by the railroads, which have seemed nufficiently ona plausible to the in commerce commission warrant keeping on with the terstate per cent surcharge, are some at os follows 1..1t costs the rallroads more Letters On 49 Pioneers Editor, The Star In a recent article on your editorial page you told of the early ploneers of Californit dur- ing the days of ‘49 gold rush. I noticed that you failed to mention one of the pioneers. His name is A, W. May, of San Francisco, who was in the state during the early gold rush days. He in now 96 years old. I know he deserves mention because he happens to be my husband's uncle. MRS. KARL D. MAY. ee On Trade Council Editor, The Star: I want at this time to thank you for loyal support and enthusiastic co-operation in bringing to successful the National Foreign ade Convention held here last week your con. lusion That it was a success, and an unusual one, js attested by not only the delegates themselves, but by James A. Farrell, the chairman, and O. K. Davis, the Secretary of the National For- eign Trade council, The interest in the group and general sessions was remark- able—each drawing more than full attendance up to the very last minute. Possibly this un- Usual eagerness ‘to hear the discussions was partly due to the Presence of over 100 representa- tives of 20 different nations of the world, and the participation of some of these in the program. The total registration num. bered 1600, the highest of any convention with the exception of San Francisco in 1920—thereby giving first and second honors for the 12 conventions to the Pacific Coast. I am convinced that the con- vention could not have been the success it was without the splen. did assistance rendered by your organization, and I offer now my sincerest appreciation and grati- tude, WILLIAM PIGOTT, Chairman Convention Committee, "2. On Alki Guards Editor The Star: T believe I am justified in en- tering a statement concerning our life guards at Alki beach, Sunday, July 6, a lady with two children, myself, my daugh- ter and a neighbor's little girl were about 100 feet from the life guard in the tower whero they are building the new bulkhead, There is no danger sign near there. Suddenly the youngest, 7 years old, went down in the soft sand and water at the same time the rollers from a passing boat caught us, so that we were un- able to get across to a place of safety, the wator rolled in so fast. The little one went down a second time, while the mother became frantic and jumped in, without stopping to remove any clothing, Then we had to rescue her, as the water was over her head. Now, why not string the guards along the beach, with in- structions to come to the aid of those calling for help? The little girl was nearly, drowne#, while the mother and myself received a severe shock and it is only a miracle that the tragedy was averted. MRS, W. SIMMON: 211 Queen Anne ‘Ave. eee On Mrs. Ferguson Editor The Star: T want to differ with Mr, John Reld as to his opinion on Mra, Walter Ferguson, The trouble is altogether with Mr. Reid, He is troubled with an awful bad case of the ‘su periority complex.’ 4 Mrs, Terguson's articles are entertaining and instructive, and belong on the editorial page of The Star, CHARLES 1. GROFF, Withrop, Wash, . fy On Evolution War Editor ‘The Star: It is a most commendable act to put before your readers in simple form the teachings of evolution, Nowspaper wit, in mentioning the subject from time fo time, has given a very wrong impression as to the meaning of evolution and also “Fundamen- talist'’ and “Modernists.”’ To the general reader evolu tion means nothing but that man Was once a monkey while real evolutionists deny that evo. lution teaches any such thing, Darwin did have a “probable FROM STAR All letters to The Star must have name and address to he man ¢ man cars are t passenger is commodat per cent on 1 Fac is “fale” Thone opy ¢ have arguments, too That the railroad man cars, hence profits thereb 2That if the r nsatio man ought to get t out of the Pullman company of the passengers by hat the Pullman surcharge s put on an 4 measure igned to reduce tra while at the same time recouping the roads for losses thus incurred, and that this need for reduced travel no longer exists 4..That alleged of payment on proved by the rai Readers hypothesis” that man came thru the brute stage but the link be- tween was missing. He repu- diated that idea altogether in his later life. Thus the monkey phase really has no part or par- cel in evolution, In one of Darwin's very iast letters he wrote, “The mystery of the beginnings of all things js insoluable, therefore, I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.” Because he could not fathom all of God's workings he would not believe we couid know anything of God, What difference does it make how long orhy what process God created the body of man. There is not & particle of doubt but he scientist hes learned many of God's Jaws in his creating process. Many of them are proven facts while many still remain but hypothesis; like the vory beginning of all things, It does not behove us to sneer at the scientist because all of his hypothesis are not yet proven and many disproven, neither does it behove us to sneer at those who beileve the account of cre- ation and that science will yer prove it. So able a scientist as Huzley sald the Virgin Birth was not unsclentific. To those who be- eve that Christ was the Divine Son of God it was most unscien- Ufic to believe any other way. A human father and a human mother must have human off- spring. If Christ was the only Begotten of God he must have had a divine father and not a buman, thus Proving that love which fs an attribute of the Deity was the eternal motive for the Son of God becoming th. Son of Man. nea A. V. FREEMAN, 4323 Eighth a ‘I Seen by th’ Papers’ SEZ KITCHEL PIXLEY Sage of the Olympics A down east author of distine- tion thinks he has produced a sensation by writin “The Story of Adam" but there ain't no special sen- sation in St. Everybody has heard that Adam was Put Into Eden to name the animals and make himself generally com- fortable and that he would have been there yet, if Eve hadn't amavis come snoopin Pizley around with her infernal apple. ‘That's an old story with really no intrinsic stir in it, no matter how dressed up in literary elegance, Of course, there's a fight over it, but there always has been, If any professional author’ wants to kick up a real fierce sensation, lot Story of Eve,” Seems to yours truly that our Women's Modernist Society makes something of a point in declaring that the Bible report- ors didn’t give women, Eve espe- cially, an even show. For in- stance, you read how Adam, Jacob, Abraham, David, Solomon, Joseph and every last male ebar. acter begat, and begat without end until you get the impression that the Bible women didn't do any begattin at all, In Evo'x ease you lose her about as soon 48 she puts on the fig-leat, when what us leadin citizens want to Know is what personal liberty as to nights out, tobacco and ight wines and boer did she give her husband; and what sort of home environment did she run to keep her daughters frem bein flap- pers; and what sort of skirt and millinery did she put in style when the police got to censorin her mero fig-leaf. Adam's story has been told a million times, but there's a gilt-edged best seller in Moroceo bindin in what hasn't been told about Eve, She's heen oussed enough by men readers of Adam's story but there must have been somo almighty strong points about her to run family she aid, Khe) him give “The made of dust, the b