The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 4, 1925, Page 6

THE SEATTLE §'1 PAGE 6 oo Newspaper = The terprise Asen 07.00 Beventh and United Nicoll @ an, 8 Press Serv | Sore ot M Bes . , a0 oe atter a Keep “The Wayfarer” Here HE Wayfarer belongs to Seattle! Let it elsewhere. Even farming it out to ou neighbors is not proper fittir d. should be discontinued as soon as present Agreements are carried out This is not elfish spir but because of conditions How much of an attraction would Europe's passion play be if from Oberammergau and put on it was moved the night stand” basis up and down country ? The author of The Wayfarer belongs to Seattle. The producer belongs to Se attle. The business manager, who made The Wayfarer show a handsome profit While other attractions show a loss, be longs to Seattle. The Wayfare self and Understanding belong he And last but not holy the thousands of loyal men and women of cast who have tgiven days and ciphiae without pay, be *long here. It has taken a number perfect the organization and it ful if another such could be @ogether in any other city. And Where would it be possible to find Setting that the stadium, the balmy is doubt- gathered no- the eve- Nings, the lake beyond and the canopy of ‘sky and stars afford. If properly and permanently staged ‘every other year this great pageant would prove, next to the Mountain, our greatest ‘attraction, and would bring thousands of stourists and dollars here that would not ‘otherwise come this way. Of course, it will mean that The Way- farer be permanently underwritten by a responsible organization, but Seattle has ‘underwritten bigger accounts than this that paid less dividends. For the pleasure and profit of Seattle, and the preservation of The Wayf let’s nail down for once and all “matchless pageant play. No “Dog Days” ACK East they're thanking rer, this Here the that the “dog days” are over. If you've never lived East, dog days are those hot, sultry, not-a-breath-of-air-stir- ‘ring days when everyone takes to electric fans and quarts of ice water. But what are dog days to Puget Sound- ers? Nothing at all! That cheery old sea ‘breeze knocks ‘em cold. Why, bless your heart, it’s getting diffi- cult to make spring fever an excuse for Joafing out here any more. Seattle Star |= | wblished Dally © Blar Ave, Seattle, Wash P@iching Ov. | oolad, Representa Phone MAim * 73 0400. | : 2 $602, & months 92.00, ae dues Seattle, Wo, pier act of March 8, 1879 A Vacation Tip if, YOU attleite surrounded cc tinuously by natural beautic till are worrying about where to spend your vaca tic y not try ska? One of the most utiful trips in the world that iside passage voya from Seattle or Vancouver, up to old-world Sitka. For ye Alaska has been pouring her wealth into Seattle And for years the movies have been paint our northern ne ignbor as a land of snowy wastes, peopled only by huskies and Eskimos. It’s not. Man, you ought | to see the dahl in Skagway. And the spuds and strawberries they raise up there. 3 more than anythin g, you ought to » some of nature’s finest scenery—right | your door Try Alaska once. You won't regret it Good—While It Lasted AST session of the state legislature passed very few laws. Since then the state seems to have been doing fair to middlin’. Some optimists even claim that the absence of forty-‘leven laws has | never been noticed. But it begins to look as if the November session would repair the breach in the wall and pass enough laws. to make up for the omissions of the spring term, Already there are rumblings and heavings among the legislators, each with a pet dozen new acts to save the state Anyway, it was good while it lasted Ssssh! Ww DON’T know if the tourist bureau and the Chamber of Commerce will approve of this: But, Seattle is one of the nearest cities in the world, airline, to the MacMillan Arctic expedition, now seek- ing new continents in the Arctic. Now, supposing MacMillan does discover a new continent, rich in minerals. And suppose air freighters become popular. new Ssssh! Well, of course, that’s all fantastic, isn’t it? Let's talk about the weather. Too Bad, of Course, but OO bad all those fine decorations downtown had to come down. They ude wonderful lanes of color, gave you hat up-and-coming feeling and cast a mantle of gaiety over the city. But, as our wife said, they would have | gathered an awful lot of dust. | Trust a woman to discover the disad- vantages of anything. — P P Answers to Your Questions ? ? should hi in uage of | cracker, not be a nut to vas oe} Q What are the oldest records hr 7 RSET : | good. Cadets ere allowed the same the use of petroleum, and what| | Bot an answer to! | pay allowances as at West Point methods were used in early times) | eny question of fact or In- | | and Annapolis Se obtaining ‘it? | | forma’ by writing The Seat- | Aggie . tle eat c Editor, 1 ‘A. Among the first historic records Qu mn © 1 > Wh 74 ves | of ectiplexm is that of its use on| | New ave, Washington, | |, Rpattind a th Am rican minister the walls of Babylon and Ninevah| | D. C. Inclosing 2 centa tn | | ty caey ens MRE 28) Be 5: loose stamps for reply. No | |*@0" ut 2000 B. C., and for ages seep- > rf No | iii i lofcrude oll had been drawn on| | Medical, legal or marital ad-{|,,4° Ait Leuls Einstetn, Gad used by the people of Egypt,| | Vice. Personal ssndiahiinmi eh aaictahias ge Mesopotamia, India and China. For All le must be} | a ew many centuries hand-dug wells and) | “ened. ~| @ Who was the last person auc pits were used for the collection of |* CG TS on is gals the tetas cl petroleum, while the modern method! like bird, having an almwst stra nal? a A ta amare ‘of cable tool drilling now in use in co ed sharp-p con A.C) Toth, an American @il fields is believed to have ori pact, waterp ®-licho crossed from Cape Grienez, ated with the Chinese centuries a ravnary Sie France, to Dover in 16 hours, 5} ago, and their drilled wells have ch pedbly streams and lakes.| ninueeg yielded small quantities of oil and I molluska and on oe gas as well as of brine. Commerce d their larvae,! @ what See f MG ig Exown fo have ccteted (| which. i seeke under water, diving hye ye oHepitie! had the longest the Baku district of Russia as early) with great facility and movin ad rut 4..According to H. 0. Wi . : ut the mod-| fo hort time at the bottom of According to 7, Wells, Pepi as the 10th century, but the mod-|for a short ti t , Le haibab of Bepii, who riten: ern industry really began when the| the water. It carries ita rather| 0)" op wears cvpt, rake well was drilled near Titus-| short tail elevated after the manner gee’ i he 859 of wrens. The common European Belge sesmaied dipper is generally dark brown in|. @% What in the orfgin of foot es 4 + ea ng in ¢ ? @ Of what book ts Janice Mered-| color, with throat and upper part There had kaa: wale ie ‘ith the heroine? of breast pure white. It is found ausktag ts “ ac ‘ ee atte 2 1 le Iso. the| chie ‘a hilly or mountainous d ae Gl teal Sn! <h UP repaid . This is the title and also the| chiefly in hilly or c us dls-| the feet of female infants in China Mame of the heroine of a romance|tricts, It builds a very curious! 4 oi a dition te that Chinese published in 1900 by Paul Leicester| nest of interwoven moss, domed,and| A” old tradition (4 that a Chines Bord. Janice te the daughter of an| with the entrance in the side,|(mpreas, noted for her vice, had a 0 g to} who falls in ally in some mossy bank: close i ere 1 Becompromicing cued who fall. iy hy fea es ae pi se gett “e have different feet from the other love 1 har Fownes, a man of by a wise dd Reese el ib oT l women of the empire, and desiring gentle birth but fallen fortunes, who|under a cascade The eggs are {GROUSE Nee OLIM Aas bouatta) ‘aha has been indentured by her father| pure white. About 12 species of dip-} 7 or ie gine female infant ag one of a shipload of convicts| per are known Mitel Aatrfeet SMoNNd” Famedialaly brought over from England to New plea upon birth. Other authorittes say Brunswick, N. J. Her fidelity to Q. He are students s that the ie ies at ona time the her lover and to the American cagse|the Unit of sexual attraction, and that land her a captive first in one camp| acad ata ai alla: of Tok fattoke and then in the other, until her| how ' status is officially recognized \ by | students Ct pie Gen. Washington. Her lover, whose} course? Q. Are there any animals or birds feal name turns out to be Brereton,| A. The Coast Guard academy at\y can be maid to have a apokeri enlists under Washington, and has) New London has about 60 studenta| \.\eungy? WAS eos risen to the rank of general when| who are admitted as the result of A. By a strict interpretation 0) they are formally affianced. compettive ezaminatlons Tho course tne word “language” as defined in “Se hagas covers three years during which! standard dictionarles, no animal Q. What’ is the basis for period students train as deck Of-\oiner than man can be said to superstition that a four-leafed clover| ficers or engincers. At least a high! yay pave a spoken language. It is good luck? school course is required in order) i, an undoubted fact, however, that A. This is a very old superstition,| to pass the necessary entrance ex-\ scat birds and animale have the and its origin is lost in antiquity.|aminations. Graduates are commis-| faculty of communicating certain The old legend is that Eve, upon) sioned as er is the (United aape: toda $6 cach other.) dy being ejected from Paradise, took | States coast guard at the same PAY) mang of sounds and action, which four-leafed clover with her. Be-|as a naval officer of Wke grade. Al miont bo interpreted broadly as Cause the clover was a bit of green| part’ of the training includes sUm-| reir tanguage, And parrota and Jrom the garden of Paradise, its) mer cruises on the coast guard gun-| nocping birds have a faculty of og i ae ae Rises come boat, which is used as a training | imitating hudien “lengwage) altho Ee pon as an omen of) ship. The academy ts conducted On) tne words do not communicate any good Iu pete military Vines, and dug ito the in ingaa'te than » Bhd toa are given individual attention. Each Q fter desertion from Q. What kind of a bird 1s the!applicant for entrance must be cer-|,,° roan eeend *aipper'? tified as to good al character, | ‘Ne Ge ences oy A. It is ¢ small, somewhat thrush-| and the class of loys is in general) Vl 10 ares if a ay A. In time of peace, until tuo years after the end of hs enliat | ment period. Behold, T have refined Treahile but HG evening meal ix over and the family’s ill at ease. To break the not with silver; TI have chosen spell of quiet, sister's drum & o'er the ke The old piano’s tinn | thee in the furnace of affliction, and the notes are Kinda flat, trains of Ol Virginny and the Ih —Isniah xiyliist0, sound good, at that " | Cut | Dad gets to feelin’ tuneful, as his fav'rite fo mayeds.te | {OD takes a thousand times takes his old mouth organ and he joins the ser While mother, | \X more pains with us than tho at her sewin’, now and theh suggests a song and, as they (rn to play || artist doos with his pleture, b: it, she’s hummin’ right along many touches of sorrow and by Tt isn't long till cousin starts her fiddie in to nqueak. She frankly | many colors of clroumstancen to tells them all sho hasn't practiced for a week. Then brother Bill adds bring man into the form which vigor to the rhythm of the tune by joinin’ with the fam'ly on his tenor | Js highest and noblest in hi saxophone wight.—J, Tauler The neighbors sit in silence as they lend a willing ear, There's | something quite appealing Jn the munle that they her A family Joined In 46 states children below 14 years together in a gath'ring hard to beat. Perhaps it's just that thought of #0 eannot work In factorion that makes the sourest tune seem wweet wenty yeurs ago only 18 states had (Copyright, 1925, for The Star) uch a law. | Ol UT OUR W AY BY WILLIAM: 3) oe | / BY GEORGE CURLY, | I DON'T GEE HOW You CAN READ A NEWSPAPER \ GOING AT THiS SPEED. / THETS \ \. ~ oo You Don’t Have to Be a Nut to Be a Genius Professor Terman of Stanford STANFORD UNIVE Cal, | pa Aug. 4—You 1 eax'| How Tests Were MeN Mere Made of Geniuses You need not be long and gaunt mR LEWIS M the sickly; idea your t your sho nius is more oft TM cence tents and of sounder health tt At atforial “test average A neral tr Thia much, 1 more, hae been c history found out by of Lewis M Terman, head of tho psychol¢ knowle: department of Stanford Univeraity, || of lays, games and 14 clates, A quarter of a sements million California children were can. four-page blank vassed in their research, and abot # particular inter 1,400 of the Intellectual ones studied for tr characte a record of what he read background ‘or two mor “Besides ‘having a better mental And his parents filled out a equipment than children of averag 16-page homo rmation blank, rat on traits, or ‘normal’ inte’ they are a sturdier lot ied o man reports. “In t information show no mysterious or strange ings on the traits. Their difference from the || 8@me 25 traits as reported by tho sandy-haired boys and freckle-faced |{ Parent girls who would rather play all day the back lot is largely one of a \ they aro better all along ry jaa net vy any alarming || What Folks n Pr 1 graduate studen He took it up hack research be LW sor Terman was Are Saying Stanford in 19( he si sain when came as fac: | RAY YMAN WILBUR, ulty member eight years later, Four). hit the Commonwealth fund| Stanford universit Whether id York supplied $24,800 for| We like it or not, the next prob the research. ‘To date it has cost| lem before the world Is the race $42,000. | problem | C.K. WOODBRIDGE, prest dent Associated Ad Club of the TH Work World courts are a great but it ts the bu ne that has the under tan of what can and should o 5 be done,” Bi day | RABBI L, I. NEWMAN: "8 ence, knowledgo and investiga } tion should be free. You must not tJacke c TUESDAY, AUGUST 4 maha! trait-jacket th human If #0, you are keen You have a quick brain And excellent intuition A small boy stood on a bridge You are secretive 1 clapped his hands vigorously *And can present a poker face #hoe watched tho western «ky, You are courageous. which was diffused with a dull, And very pe tent red glow, A near-sighted stranger Control your temper tohed him for a time It js your worst enemy “It does my heart good to seq If a man, be a military com You appreciate that cloud effect," mander, @ remarked the stranger Or an actor ‘os, alr, it'a fine," If a woman, be a designer he woul of mn poet,” sighed Or an impersonator tho str r 'Do you often " witeh su@eets, my boy?" HAD ‘EM, HELD ‘uM | "Sunset nothin’? Gee, mister “Did you have words with your that's the school house burnin’! vite lverybody "You, 1 had words, but no op portunity for using them.''—Lon French chemists have developed an don Mail artificial resin r WELL,T REcKIN CAwse T | GoT A SEAT AN YOU AINT. TRwiLLiams, © teas ey EA SERVICE Wee TRY DE) ON YOUR SIDE Abstractly, everybody Ru is for these *s and see how regards wrong when done by abor as pital and ing employer tal claims erefore, 1 representatives im without the f on d Whatever we wrong when the other does it, we will not do r we wish he would we will first do to him. ‘Try this out, on your own side of ‘your own disputes, as a test of what sort of re ligion you “got.” EINSTEIN ‘ “The evidence in favor of all three of Einstein's predictions is ngW so strong there is no good reason for regarding the substan tial correctness of his principles as any longer in doubt.”—Henry Norris Russell, Ph, D, in a re cent scientific article Similar evidences of the adop. in tion of Einstein's theories con tantly occur, A great many sclentists follow his teachings: reaching importance of adual change in matemat ical conceptions is shown by its effect upon geometry, Element has come down practically un J sciences With ac Euclidian Some other must come ary geometry from Euclid, changed. All the physic have depended upon it of Einstein, geometry 4 obsolete ceptance system of geometry into use. In it a straight line would not be, necessarily, the shortest distance between two points, and two parallel lines, if continued, might meet—which is ontrar® to Euclidian geometry he geometry of uclid is used all over the world, and trains the mind tp rigid thinking. ‘The new geometry will not be rigid, and tt will require imagination as well as figures to use it, fe I al SMOKING ROOM a nel STORIES "cstasidlpesiantestnhassssosinisistieseeieenemasi fa knew that T had so many until recently said a amoker, with a smile, "T was delayed in the clty one night and sent my wife a wite saying that I could not get home until late, Some way the wire missed fire, and wife commenced to do a Httlo wiring herself, She wired several of my friends and hers, and asked them if T were there Just as 1 walked in the door she was reading THREE wires, all of which sald, You, Ned ts here with. us,’ and then she read me mine never friends 7———_ SCIENCE yn) ue ral Tl _ Men Are BY MRS aged m gt ting e ‘ believing them ge ‘ 4 D the ce Ps rn eve at H ESDAY, Funniest Things WALTER AUGUST 4, 1925 FERGUSO be hig garding" A « : etiy Letters FROM STAR All letters to The Star must have name and address. Readers ne On Giving Rides 1 do Car they more @ car represented cripple t some motorist, | y met with some the obliging car-owner t only have been laid | up himself, could have also deprived: his family and him- | self of all he possessed fn set x a lawsult brought the man he had tried to do a kind | ness to. No one sympathizes cripple more tha | autoist who to pass him, but he responsible to others too, not take large ct here is tt nd noth > BLACK St. Paul and return over four ous power, City The OLYMPIAN electrically operated for 649 miles mountain ranges — nearly one-third the distance be- tween Puget Sound and Chicago. Electrical power means continu- means smooth running, a smooth- ness absolutely unattainable any type of steam locomotive in use on any American railroad. Service That Satisfies Ticket Office 2nd Ave. & Madison St. Phone: ELiot-6800 On Careless Autoists cer had his hands full, He man ged to stop the north and south be t go y seem to think (am e walt the while cross- as abo’ t ¢ way over when an corner, made no effort to slacken ) speed or sound a warning. I } barely customed to Jump around like a kangaroo or @ grasshopper, so I found {t cult to get out of the way H. C. CROCKETT, VISION s if I were to die nain a widow.” she would dently she thinks there ther man in the world like you.” “On the cont she says she's afraid there Is, and that it be her luck to get Continuous power | by Take The Mikvaulee— Ith Bleatrified