The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 12, 1925, Page 8

Lerpriee Asan. and United 1807-09 Sey Press Service. | The Seattle Star Published Daily by The Publishing Co, Ave., Seattle, Wash, rr Phone MAin~ octal Repr offics, 41 Prancteco A Weak Question ESS than seven years afte the world war there are 6,055,000 men in the nding armies of 59 nations and nearly Very power in Europe and Asia is pre- ng for the next war, according to the United Press. This leads Editor Oswald Villard, of the Nation, to inquire: “Ts there any possibility of restraining this madness except to lay down arms and refuse point-blank to fight or prepare to * fight?” Sounds like a poorly considered qu tion, Mr. Villard. Did lying down ever suppress any evil? Moreover, they won't let us lie down and refuse to fight. We have chosen government by Big Business, which, in those seven years, has invested some nine billions of perfectly sound American dollars abroad, largely in those nations which are busiest in their parations for the next war. Do you cine that there will be much squeam- ishness about conscripting us, when the next war arri if we refuse to fight? Indeed, only last November, we the folks had before us a proposition under which we would be permitted to say when we would fight, and we went against it by something like 19,000,000 majority. No, Mr. Villard. The possibility of put- ting down old Mars by lying down on the job is almighty remote. It can’t be done and the powers-that-be wouldn’t let us do it, even if we could. A Tip ‘From the Arctic YOU are shut up with the same per- son long enough, in relative isolation others you come finally either to Tove or hate him. Indifference is out of the question. That is the reason why only love sancti- fies marriage. It is the reason why Ex- ‘plorer MacMillan enjoins silence on his s companions. If they let each other alone vom can endure each other thru the long ‘Isolation. If they try to be intimates they will first bore and then hate each other. +. Few of us have to face the ordeal of tic silence, but most of us are, or will married. + Moral: First, love your wife. Second, have each of you enough outside interests not to bore each other into loathing. Earwig Campaign's Cheap ETHER earwig extermination costs $15 or $15,000 is, of course, beside the question. It’s a job that must be done -and done right. aC But, as a matter of fact, it costs very + little—so little that the council’s course in failure to co-operate this year was inex- ‘Plicable. | The arrangement is that city and ‘county each subscribe $7,500 to a revoly- + ing fund. Money from this fund is used for earwig-baiting on vacant lots. Then ‘the cost is assessed against the property on the tax rolls and paid back to city + and county by the owner. __ There is, of course, some loss thru lelinquencies. But it is not much. ~ Good citizens bait their property; civic slackers don’t. The council's 1925 policy Was to let the slackers get away with it. ~The policy must not be continued. fe Q. Did the United States recognize the Obregon government of Mexico] | YOU can earlier than Great Britain? | _ A. The Obregon government was vecognized by the United States on “Beptember 3, 1923. Great Britain} |New York ave., Washington, | 7 Vhas never recognized this govern-| | D. C, and inclosing 2 cents in| | 1s the rentenmark still in clr- tment in Mezico. loose stamps for reply. No | | culation in Germany eae | medical, legal or marital | A fs is te fn circulation, Dut} vice) Bi | | doth the old rentenmark and the Q Did President Wilson ever sign | dential EAM iutiny Tevast, bo | jold paper mark have been replaced ‘the national prohibition act? ‘ | | A. President Wilson vetoed edtae ‘Volstead enforcement act, October _ £7, 1919. It was immediately pass- ed by both houses of congress over ids veto, the | England and the English h see Q Why’ are Frenchmen some- times called “frogs”? A. Back in the 16th century, when eaters,” which ed to “frogs.” Q Is sheet walls of a roc Plastering? for gypsum | type of materi day i 1 WEDNESDAY, AvuGusT 12 |?" If so, you are steadfast, fo You can be depended bn. ine on + But you are sensitive. ) And easily hurt. People ask your advice And trust your judgment. + Yet you lack confidence. - On June These ber of years. 29. ? Answers to Your Questions ? ! get an answer to|tcured from state agricultural ex-| any question of fact or tn- | |fension services or from U. 8. De-| | formation by writing Tho Seat- | partment of Agriculture | tle Star Question Editor, [| off and on for a good many years, the valor of Frenchmen, and used| g | to attribute their amall stature and|| WHAT FOLKS SAY general weakness (as they claimed) | fo the fact that they ate snails and| frogs. Hence they were called “frog-| A. “Sheet rock” is the trade name durable or results in as satisfactory !a wall as three-coat plaster work, ipl | properly erected it is an’ economical ¢ United States navy? had been in for a num- Q. Are surplus war explosives still | What's Your Hurry? | | R D traffic lights shine at intersections, | | The bell rings. Another red light shines. Do most motorists wait for the green light that permits them to go? They do | not. They charge across in the first split- second, making walkers jump for safety. Again the red light shines. Do walk- ers pay any attention to them? They do | not. They wander across the path of auto | traffic at their own sweet will, endanger- | ing themselves and others, After they get home they condemn the | traffic control system. How do they know whether it will work not? They've never given it a fair tr Most of the Seattle “traffic problem” would vanish if everybody wasn’t in such | a confounded hur There'd be some excuse for the hurry if the time saved was used to accomplish | anything. Nine thousand times out of | 9,001 it isn’t, | fou rushed to work this morning and | saved” two minutes, maybe. What did | | | | you do with the two minute Be honest, now, . . Why, certainly! Then what's your hurry? Make Them Mean Something ule AT the top of the Smith tower, | where the tourists go, signs point in various directions. To Mount Hood, to | Mount Rainier, to the Cascades, to the | Olympics. | Well, you know what the tourists say | about the signs these smoky days. Fine | advertisement for them to carry back | East, or to California, isn’t it? Apart from that, we like to look at | i | | Rainier and the Cascades aid over the water to Mount Olympus and Mount Chris- tina once in a while, ourselves. The idea that forest fires are inevitable ought to be banished. They can be stopped —at least most of them can be. And most of them should be. A lot of the smoke is caused by brush being burned illegally in sunimer. And a lot more is caused by careless campers who have not yet learned to put out their fires so they'll stay out. | It’s time to stop fooling with illegal | | brush-burners and careless campers. A few stiff jail terms might be the best’ | educational measure put into effect. Make those signs atop the Smith tower | mean something next summer, Selling in Mid-Pacific SCORE of Pacific Northwest firms again will exhibit’ Washington manu- factured products at the Hawaiian Terri- torial exposition this fall. Seattle’s best wishes go with them. The tide of trade with Hawaii slowly is turning from California ports to the Seaport of Success. And it is but right that Washington products should sail out of Seattle for mid-Pacific islands in in- creasing quantities. Former state exhibits have resulted in increased orders from the territory, May this year’s exposition have the same bene- ficial results, 2 MM cerning these shipments can be se-| 1323 | rie ary | |v the new reichmark. Renten- marks can be exchanged for reich- |marks at the rate of one renten- France were at 7 mark for one reichmark. war ad a low opinion of| DR. DAVID STARR JORDAN: “Neither laws nor, religion can retard the advance of society, | and if any churches or schools that adhere to func persist, the only re {hat the people will cease to at- tend them,” term became curtail-| rock as om as satisfactory as| used the all board. While tits} jal is perhaps not as ALEX advertising manager motion pictures, China, Visitor funny he Chinese, altho not themselves, go into par of mirth over Harold tae Chaplin and Lang Harold Lloyd's glasses Japanese are In the rage in China toda 30, 19) » there were foe ta BOLEIN C [ CRIMINALS , CRRA USES TARE aa ee A You should cultivate self-asser- | avaiiable from the United States de D* CARL MARCHANT has tion. partment of agriculture? examined the inmates of | You are emotional, 4. Yes, shipments of pyrotol in| fifteen state prisons and has And love devotedly. carload lots to groups of farmers| found that the intelligence of the Choose your mate carefully jare being made from Gibbstown,| prisoners ranks higher than that felect one who is intelligent. N. J.; Barksdale, Wis., and Dupont,; of the American people as shown And will be sympathetic, Wash. Detailed information con by the army inte is This investigation te down one of the last strongholds of eae here, World, 1 fave scored you a lot more than your share, I've felt, many times, tot—your makeup of nature and air ‘When things have gone wrong, they tenuse V'm Just a bit human, 1 gue: worth, if you know what I mean We're here for a spell with our own life to live the stage where we play, Existence in just what of the goud and the bad every day. Yea, frankly, old World, you are slighted a bit know that he's small to blame but himself. ‘The you're w pretty gvod plice, after all, have downed me I got to expectin’ that ali things Would please, and 1 bigmed you for jolts, I'll confess But, after a while, man will open his eyes and he'll see things as jought to be seen. It takes him some time ere he'll full realize your SCopyright, 1945, for The Star), cay the psychologists who claim there is something wrong, mentally, with practically all criminals. Intelligence tests are now going tho way of psycho-analy- sis, After thoro examination and use of these tests over a period of years, scientists, in general, are about to disown them, ‘Tho scientific opinion is that they may continue to have their uses under certain conditions, but, like paycho-analynis, they will be discredited for many purposes for which they have been used. Under psycho-analyais and in tellizence tests, most Kea, I'y that it given you I tommy. with ease, persons athe. World ‘ty who were subjected to them were We take, or wo give found to be defective—a beliof still common, But the tests alsale have shoW# that business and even professional men ranked as “defective” in about the same proportion as criminals, till a mon comes to n he'll gladly admit | {our OUR WAY THE SEATTLE ATAR WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1925, WE OCNT Git TH’ BLOOD HOUNG “T’ CHASE AFTER YA, COLLDN WE HAVE TOD CARRY A BONE ER PIECE A MEAT ER SUMPN' A LET ‘TH BLOODHOUNS. SMELL (T— AN NEN- OF TH Kino! WE'LL DO NOTHINK UZzA HELPIN TH’ HOUNS T KETCH HERSELF! Good GOSH! WOTCHA “TRYIN T'D0? MAKE A COMICAL. OUTAHS SAD PLAY ? HAVIN PEERUL LAFFIN' WEN HEY SHUD BE foams’ TILL T MAKE ANOTHER WONKA, Ice, LGor A NOTHER BOX AN A NEWS WRY PLAYS ARE NENER LIKE THE BOOK. er TRvilbaus 924 BY NEA BERVICE, IC Good Enough—as Husbands Go VISITING European dame complains that man does not the Ameri can know how to make love. “Love tn its highest sense,” sayo she, “does not exist Americas Here is not that passionate, emotional, bea tiful element that we have in Europe,” Well, maybe our Letters All Lettera to The Star On Darwin’s Theory Editor The Star Anyone who reads Darwin's great theory with understanding must admit he miade but few suppositions, if any, Ha seldom uses analogy and says it may be a deceitful guide His “Origin of Uhe Species” was the work of a lifetime of study and observation, supplemented by an intimate acquaintance of the flora and fauna of many countries, notably South Amer ica and lapagoes Archipelago. As # naturalist he fitted for the ta: and, in addi tion, had the h gift of ob. servation, experi it and gener alization, with a fidelity to truth An hypothesis is demonstrated when the facts are ahown to be In accordance with it tive anatomy, biology give fi support his th Was well ghest Compara and ta which strongly embryology EDY, 15th ave. On Gas Railways Editor The Star I have a triple interest in the purchase of the Rainier line, I was for the traction purchase, now the Rainier line, fur for their continu sane operation Mr. Erickson’s suggestion to gassify the city line Is as ridic ulous ax his dream of flying. It the council to wits in competition with the “oll companies, and not in assisting them to strangle a public utility. A new will soon make its appearance on the streets of the city, propelled with a power not confined in the tanks of the gas companies, but driven by a and, ther, behooves their use car power to be found at Diablo canyon—and RADIO, Much has been sald of the Skagit development. Tt has cost the city every dollar it is worth and yet the price is little enough when you consider that the service rendered is for eter nity. In-time the falling waters of the Skagit alone will repay its development and still leave, a rich heritage for generations to follow. Should any of us live into the next century Mr, Bak er will still be there in {ts lofty grandeur, but the Standard Ojt company will long have passed out of existence. Yours for more public utili tles—and | politics, JOHN PLAYFAIR, 1 ‘airmont ave, On Evolution Menace Editor The Star: In your issue of July 2 Maynard Shipley, president of the Science League of America, in his article, “The Monaco of Fundamentalism,’+ tells only part of the story, ‘There is another side, the menace of evolution, Under our Amorican system of government, we have sopar- ated the church and tho state, and have left the teaching of religion. to the family, the church “and the private schools The doctrine of creation, as given in the Bible, ts the found ation of fundamentalism, and is recognized as a religious doc. trine, hence cannot be lawfully taught in our public schools, Kvolution, being the founda. tion of modernism, and dealir with the samo subject as the first chapter of Genosiv, is just as much « religious doctring wi the ereation ts, Heneo, it ty no more lawful to teach evolu: FROM STAR Must By Mrs. Walter Ferguson little bit slow when it comes to making love, but just look at the way they can make money, Wo’ manage to live along very contentedly with our brand of affection in this count and probably won't be ready (o trade off our American hus bands for the European type for some time yet Our males may not be quite #0 passionate nor romantic; they Readers Have Name and Address tion than {it is to teach the doctrine of creation The fundamentalists teach man's responsibility to his Cre ator, obedience to properly con stituted authority, and respect for the rights of his fellow be ings. These teachings bel the foundation of civil govern. ment and the safeguards of noclety. Evolution does away with the Creator and all the doctrines that go with His claim of this office. If there is no Creator, man is not responsible to him. If man {# the highest intelli wence there is, or hax been, and has reached his present position u the procean of evolution, n he is responsible to no but himself, and no one call him to account for his deeds. Hoe is his own standard of right, and is no more account je for his cts, let them be what they may, n is any other animal The outbursts of savagery are but an inheritance from neestors which the proc of evolution has not climinuted, consequently he is not responsible for them That this is the effect of the evolution theory, is shown by the demand that is being mado places, that crimin als, especially murderers responsible for their deeds, should not be punished in some are not hence ‘The result of this teaching ta ween in the great increase of crime, and the disregard of law. It would result in complete breakdown of governments, Pp. W. ATKD Forks, On Trust Conference Editor The Star: As chairman of the program committee and retiring secretary of the trust section of the Washington Bankers’ associa- tion, I want to express the ap preciation of not only myself, but of all the members of the section, for the very efficient manner in which the proceed- ings of the third regional trust conference held here this week were reported in The Star. Rh. W. SPRAGUE. On All-Night Movies Edit The Star: Tam glad that up to the pres: ent time the city council has sustained the all-night theater This is a great cosmopolitan city and we need no better evi dence of the need of the all night movie than the fact that it pays the company to keep open, In a city like Seattle many citizens and visitors find them selves every night in an unus ual asitiation, Perhaps a train or a boat leaves at an unearth ly hour; or there is some friend to meet. The movie house nice ly spans the time, Surely no one suspects that a the clvil NSON, Washington, person deliberately waits until the ly morning to see the pieture. The human touch so much desired by the lonely is often found on the sereen. We have had an epidemic of sui cides, Who shall say how many lonely and depressed ones have found entertainment and courage in the albnight the. ater? i Because 1 do not want to go to the motion pleture after mid night {4 no reason why any other person should be denied, MKS, PRANK J, PPTINGUR, ] | | 1 | | { go on back h are seldom adepts at the art of hand-kissing or picking up gloves, but they certainly do know how to bring the bacon, which is a pretty com fortable quality to live with. W GRANT don't know fine arts; they always little bit blank when cor by one of the’ O can't quite grasp cubist traite or free verse; antiqu not mean much in their and the majority of th 4 hazy idea that zzini is of a hair tonio, but of a few little things they are pretty good we d home you that they & lot about the look Munters; por «do lives, m have some sort outaide © that ys and of them: For these emotional, temperamental men are often very expensive luxuries, Their initial cost may not be so high, but their upkeep is generally pretty stecp. And then, too, these passionate souls are #0 likely to go off raving after somebody else all of a sudden; sometimes they are so extreme. ly temperamental that there is no living with them at all, PERHAPS our American are mighty artistic, | 0, | N men do not emote so beau f | tifully, but then, women have always been able, in spite of their dumbness, to grasp the we general idea that they try to put over, and with all their faults we love them still Anyway, right now we want to give a jt of advice to this European sister, which {s that the American man suits the American woman so well we would ju soon she would ne to Europe and husband over there. get her BY WILLIAMS] i a “Res pt., Wm. Dent” He Scents a Poison-Gas Campaign aes ad Every once in a while The out of storage from 8-cent hog: Klar receives letters from Will there are more he fam Dent, a farmer and fruit ever before grower, who seems to “know lis cowy, 5 be stuff’ We don't kaow who milked than ¢ William Dent ts, but hia letters re plenty of ca are 40 human and scem 40 and steers in the often to hit the spot that we're ou don't think so, take in» always glad to print them. They jond and ‘try to sell at the pubs interest city folks as well as shed price fariners.—Editor, The Star fy 9°78 {DITOR, ‘Th a profit an a _ sir; 1 wide po! dmit this, but on gas campaign going on in that all this parrage was this country today to boost the thrown out by city speculators, price of life's necessities hoping to skin the ultimate con~ Ain't goin’ to be no wheat.” , sumer, that J tell b “Potatoes $6 «4 wack.” “Appl Bir, the Ame crop entirely smashed.” “Th ways raises, ev ain't no hogs no more, and we erything than havta Import whales and sealion public can consume; more than for beefsteak.” he can sell at a profit, This You try to tell the truth, when ear in no exception, and don't let Uncle Bam's cror you can get it, but you don't even ; know a darn thing about the | ded vi you into thinking mixed-up chore of raising the | ferently eats, and so you fall for the It is a cinch to raise wheat? bunk x | it is @ cinch to buy bread; it ta Listen—I'm a farmer, In the | nearly impossible to either raise midst of farming. Wheat, hogs, | Wheat at a Droits oF fe Buy milk, fruit, hay, truck; there is | bred fair pric tut that not your fault, nor mine; or Respt., we. more than enough of everything | for home consumption this year A lot of this 40-cent bacon came Mr. Fixit of The Star Undertakes Here to Remedy Your Troubles, if They Are of Public Interest is it? DENT. Mr. Fixit: The Seattle Star, the pastures aré all drying up but more especially the citizens and milk is becoming scarcer of Beattie, may well pat them- daily. Is there any way that selves on the back upon being you can fix it? the recipients of your wonder- | A. A. PAYBEE, ful work, I have been follow- Field Secretary, Dairy Council, ing your columns very closely | Mr, Fixit is on good terms from day to day and really | | with the weather man, but can get as much pleasure out of tt | get no definite promise from as I think you do whenever you | him as to immediate rain, are instrumental in helping Would suggest to all users to someone out of their difficulties, | conserve milk in every way whether it be bad streets, un- | possible until all danger of sanitary conditions or the find | shortage is past ing of a lost dog. More power | A ait to you! ¢. B. 0. D. | Mr. Fixit: Is there a smoke Thanks | ordinance requiring owners to eae | abate a smoke nuisance? There Mr. Fixit: I have a good na | is a@ bakery in our community tured Boston bull dog that has that makes it necessary at times five amall puppies. The other | jor the neighbors to close their day the man who reads the | “doors and windows to keep out soater merer,: SOhich (48 -fet: 2R6. the smoke. HOME OWNER. them roughly, when the mother | rk screen ordinance at the grabbed him by the sleeve. He | t of the fire marshal, but. gave her a vicious kick which | is no ordinance applying made her mad and she nipped to places like a bakery. Your him, He now claims that he only remedy would be for the das a right to kill the dog. neighbors to make a showing Whst coat ies to the prosecuting attorney that MRS. J. MI If your version of this is un would | conyines him that. tne binsed and the meter man's | Place constitutes a nuisance, ties do not require him to Page: come in the yard, tell him to | Mr. Fizit: Why are the keep out. He has not right | members of the Union club who to molest your dog under such conditions as you describe. Any one having a vicious dog must keep it confined erie) tcere convicted in federal court and sentenced to serve a’ ycar in jail still walking about the streets? Can you fic themp T.N. Most of them are serving thelr time. Two appealed their cases and the appeals have not yet been heard. One of them forfeited his bail, but has been found and will come to trial this fall, the U. S. prosecuting attorney's office reports. Mr, Pixtt: If a husband own- cd community property before | marriage and the wife did not have her name in the contract, has she the right to claim her half? MRS. K. E. t Only such property as ts | acquired after marriage is com- | munity property. If you had some operations with your husband before you were married the property acquired before marriage would be in the nature co-partnership prop- erty. But you could not claim any community Interest in prop- | erty your husband fore marriage business A thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night—Ps. xe.24. TIME! Time! How it brings of owned be- | Mr .Fixit: Unless you can fie forth and devours! And it so that we will have about | the roaring flood of existence three days rain there is danger | rushes on forever, forever of a serious milk famine, as | changing.—Carlyle. I N the early days of the tele phone, when the 16-mile cir- cuit from Boston to Salem wasthe longest in existence, an old lady visited the Boston exchange and asked for a connection to Chicago so she could talk with her son. ‘The need for voicing thought to far-away places began with the nation’s expanding activi- ties. Long before the telephone art permitted it, long distance service was demanded. ‘A na- tional service was, from the berinning, the beacon of the telephone’s founders, and the Demand inspiration of the scientists-and engineers whose achievements gradually overcame the obsta- cles to the transmission of human speech, These conquered, national expansion has more and more been made possible, and the uncertainties of separation have diminished. /l'oday any com- munity in America can talk with any other so promptly and satis- factorily that men have difficulty in imagining a time when uni- versal service was an ideal yet to be reached. * ‘ The Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company BELL SYSTEM One Policy - One System « Universal Service oe | A THOUGHT | e