The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 19, 1925, Page 6

PAGE 6 THE SEATTLE STAR oo terpriee Aven rviee, | York office, 18 Weet deur at | The Seattle Star | 1807.09 Seventh Ave., Seattle, Wash, Bpectal tatives, Published Daily by The Star Publishing Ce, Phone Main 0000 Wolered aa second class matter at Seatthe, Wn. under act of March §, 1879 \ Two-Story Streets Soon? oy ATTLE, worrying already about traf } fie congestion, will watch with inte est Chi ‘s experiment of “two-story streets.” The Mid-West city is building two of them, as an experiment. If we ever have them in Seattle the task of getting up to the top floor will be easy downtown, where the streets run in tiers up from the waterfront, The idea will, of course, relieve the situ- ation a little. Three-story and then four-story streets - will relieve it still more. We shall have = them all. * But even 10-story streets will not be ‘enough if we persist in erecting 10-story - buildings. Even American “individual rights” can- * not buck the laws of mathematics, It may be the “right” of every land- owner to build as high as he finds indi- Vidually profitable, and of each of his ten- + ants to drive his individual automobile to } work, and park it in front of his office. * But the multiplication table cares noth- ing for “rights.” It is interested only in Possibilities and necessities. A certain number of square feet of space * will go around to a certain number of peo- ple and machines, and no more. When that point is reached individual “rights” ai give way to public necessity. There are considerations more impor- an increasing the rental value of s corner lots. it Hes eS ANN SN Ee TUS Ment Mia en Digesting Gas Prices HE slight drop in gasoline prices here and there in the country during the S last few days, joyfully noted by all flivver engineers, has brought forth a _ Volume of worried inquiries from owners __ of oil company stoc + Replying to some of these, a New York financial writer , advises against any alarm. The drop is only temporary, he ‘says. The present recession is mere! an indication that the oil industry is “digesting” the price boosts. 4 This process of digestion is described somewhat as follows: Gasoline prices advanced so rapidly that independent re- finers who had stocks of crude oil were able to undersell the large companies. These latter have now dropped back to meet this competition. Z The independent refiners, however, Must purchase their crude oil from these same large companies. Crude oil prices, thich kept pace with the advance in line, are not being cut. So it won't long, this financial expert says, before Yall the cheap gasoline will be used up, “the refiners will have to pay high for re- wed oil stocks, and the market will ve “digested” the price advance and be | prepared to take another bite. Others Merely Ewist “AYBE Florida can raise pretty fair grapefruit, and has a climate that’s “pretty good for about three months in 3 “the year, and is enjoying a real man-size “yeal estate boom, and maybe she is grow- Pare olay na sordid, materialistic Ser =But she hasn’t got everything, by a jug- z No less a personage than Dr. Arthur "Holmes, dean of psychology of the Uni- Tyersity of Pennsylvania, after careful Fe 2? 2? Answers to Your Questions ? @ What is meant by “a baker's | id 1 This phrase goes vack to the| | y concerning short weight Ke r read. The city of London made| |New, York provision that an extra | of bread be given after that there would be| Epleces of bread, with one extra} Be etice to prevent inaufficient sceight,| 5 “DCA " Beame to be known familiarly as the @ What was the occasion of the 'gyriting, by Oliver Wendell Holmes, | Sef his poem on the old American y jon called “Old I - igate Constitution call ron |e atllshed én A. In 1825 a proposal was made} break up the old ship, This’), large is it? © president Master Barbers’ As- | incos of the ment.” head and cabinet ministers exercise |may drive down tt in a carriage, | eee executive powers. The capital ta| "Vy 4 ey og a he blic a or de\ 7 LENORE IC, actress: | Tallinn (Reval). Tho area 4s 16,956 rh Hi Ht hbed odes USM: dita ge youth admires a |4quare miles and the population 1,-| Niners | girl who is physically fit,” 110,598. iE j DR. J. $. McLEAN London, scientist, visitor; “Pro. | @Q. What is fetishism? Se hibition is a form of oppression A. A fetish is simply wme ma-| TH Zam surprised that America | terial object in which a vod or al Bhould tolerate such legi gettin’ on fine? Just a week, or a month stem of writing was bad. to hear from their kin, How little it takes, they're pleased when the Ictters roll in, You plan, day by day, thy u'll start ®ut after \ © go's to head off their sorrow, Then something turn 2 much rather do and you put off the task wii tomorrow n you've left them A person can do Your mother and dad get to frettin’ ’ and started to roam, It seems that the fs to keep up the writing back home, |; You can get an answer to | Ké any question of fact or tn- | | 7). = as ‘ich ditfi-| | formation by writing Tho Seat- =. when there was much dit" | | te Star Question Editor, 1832 {| ave., Washington, | {D. C, and inclosing 2 cents ta | for reply. No || or marital ad- | | | loose stamps medical, legal u 5 | | vice. Personal - ; fmo difficulty. Consequently 32] | Vier, all letters rouet bo | |2mon. The fetish, in other words, | a proposal was abandonea, former Russian em- 7 pociation: “I want to say that | pire in the Baltic - 7 © the elevating influence of wom- | independent republic and is ruled by @n has made the barber shop |a state assembly of 100 members,| @ center of culture and refine- elected for three years. The state supernatural power is supposed to Oun oe ‘OW long has it been since you've written a line, gives the old folks some cheer? How Jong since y always too easy to merely forget to write to your mother and ‘dad. The day's gonna come when you're sure to regret that your » You always feel sure that they have you in mind and are waitin’ anew, and you'll write, st that ACopyright, 1926, for The Star) study, has no hesitation in telling the world that, within a comparatively short time, the “Empire of Civilization” will be located on the Pacific coast, Are further remarks nece indeed, sary? No, Making Promises Last HEN James Rolph was running for re-election as mayor of San Fran- cisco in November, 1923, he made this specific pledge: “The city’s power will never be dis- posed of to any corporation so long as | am mayor.” On this pledge the people re-elected him. It was not the first time the people of San Francisco had expressed their views on the question of municipal own ership. When congress told them they might build the Hetch Hetchy dam in Yosemite Valley on condition that they keep the power for their own use, they accepted that condition. At another election they wrote into their city charter a declaration for the general policy of municipal ownership and operation of all utilities And then they elected Rolph after he had promised them to safeguard their power. Today Rolph is in Washington with a | small army of assistants, trying to get the federal government to approve his plan for turning over city power to the | Pacific Gas and Electric company. When the department of justice rules on Rolph’s Hetch Hetchy contra it should take into consideration the clearly ed will of the people as well as hnical points of law. Is it justice merely to decide whether or not a trickily worded document is tricky enough to escape the penalties of the law? | A New Function T LOOKS like a good thing, with first class potentialities everywhere, on the ground that, when woman has something on her mind, it is fine policy to get it off quickly and a-plenty. Young Mrs. Anna Cummings, of San | Francisco, having just received a divorce decree, is to give a “divorce party.”’ Plenty of tea and salads, rich table linen, beau- tiful floral decorations and everything. Her guests will be 10 other divorcees and the functioning will consist of “What we have to say about husbands,” according to the announcement. Unfortunately, Mrs. Cummings neglects to invite husbands, generally, to attend and hear some honest opinion, there being no question about the value of opinion derived from personal experience. The engagement luncheon and wedding breakfast are all right, as far as they go, but, at such, honest opinion is always largely befud- died or actually suppressed by etiquet or the reticence of modesty. The “divorce party” promises to be a function at which truth will prevail, altho somewhat late. Anyway, it will be an occasion when woman can get what's ach- ing out of her system, which will add to | her attractions, should she desire to marry again, which she probably will. \-—- {Ol JT OUR WAY I YT WAN NOW LADEEZ N GENLLMON WITH Jus IH nse MAGIC WORD I HAWILL PRODUCE OFFN My | PERSON SomETMiN ELSE! FER You. RaARBISCUS \ | > _RABISCUS! t “ ii \ MOTHER TH LITTLE Y[ CANT Grt | IM IN ER \ OUT Now} 4 P-S-S-ST } GooD GOSM! NOT Like Avo!) “TA YOUNG ONES DERN GooD F GOSH WGICHA “THINi¢ Payee AT STOve Pipe A COVERED ™ BRIDGE f\ { GOuN I-y—— Mj dwelt. As a form of worship it rep-| resents the lowest type of idolatry. fetish worshiper puts a into everything he can see, hear, | touch, taste, smell or imagine, Thia| | type of worship exists among many| savage tribes. The posse fetish is supposed to give t @ certain power over some spirit or Ww ofall e owner replies, conti- | jacts as a sort of charm worn or| |from evil influences and disease, ip dosen: | arousea much indignation in Boston, | see c+ |mear which town, town navy yard, lying. To this public feeling, Holmes, | then @ stripling of 16, gave voice in | his spirited poem, Boston newspape in the Charles- | ‘ ‘a “Rotte " ons the vessel wos) What Is “Rotten row” in Lon don, and why is it so called? A. Thia’ is a fashionable dridte which was first wide, : | with the driveway, from which it ia ; | ae % .. | separated by a promenade fringed | { WHAT FOLKS SAY ]]|/ 0, wnere wn tne country o¢ ex. |*zsried, b,0, Promenade tend ae thonia and how js it ruled? How!) Hone displays of fashion and wealth CHESLEY B. HYPHS, vice A. Eathonta ts one of the prov-|'" London are to be acen on the| ‘on fine after. | |noona during the season and at the| | walks along its sid region. If 18 an| church parade on ‘Sundays. The} | Route de Kot, or king's drive, and POEM WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19 You are an extremist. You love ardently And hate with equal force. You are impatient e told them You chafe under all restraint rr? You are impulsive. And hard to control. ys $ut you are versatile. And sympathotic You waste your ‘RY Because you aren't sure what you want You have to be busy up that you'd? And to be in the midst of things. You are often overworked. that you know to be kind, for | carried on the body and protecting | path in Hyde park, London, 90 fect| e | tending for a mile and a} “sides”? land then circulated about the coun-|*4!f from Hyde park corner to Ken-| try. The effect was so great that|*noton gate, along the south sldc| of the Serpentine, It runs paralict| | name is supposed to be derived fr om| |the king is the only person who| RESS s that women's right | only be humilit And the coi Letters 0" Readers All Letters to The Star Must Have Name and Address Save Cartoonist Williams Editor The Star I am writing on b gang of “Out Our Way” fan We saw by last night's J. R. Williams, the cow cartoonist, in going to take fp in the rodeo at Chicago and we want him barred on the gr A that “Out Our Way" fan surprised how mi ok for Williams’ y The point I'm ge in test. It w ave be " and off the range knew an about him. But now job omaking. a neck, ‘Ten years would have worried if he had If somebody would read the riot act to him and tell him it wouldn't be «fair to the people vho like his cartoons for him to enter this contest, it might help. We might get the mayor to xend a protest to the rodeo als and have him scratched on the und that he’s too old or somet 5 else I've heard that tho president enjoys hia cartoons, Why not ask the president to call him down for risking his drawing arm in a rough riding affair? Just imagine how serious tt would be if Wil ns land hospital on his back? Hi good cartoonist but he's not good enough to d with a broken arm or a cracked shoul der blade Several of us were talking this thing over last n we concluded th must ‘be done. Star to do it © the rodeo officials and demand that Wil- liams be suspended, or canceled, or scratched, or tide down, or up, or something #0 long as ho doesn’t risk his nock, which we ask 1 come back and {s our neck, because we n wome rights over the man > drawn the funniest pictures in America, Now’n the time to act, or next thing we'll hear Williams will be in a nice white cot. He's no cowboy now—he's & cartoonist. What's hin idea anyway, in trying to com a cowboy? Jeffries pened him. F Mr. Edito: the "C Our will thank you JIM I Umo when campe ar blame for t nf t fire yiations to cover up ne of thelr offictal duty If over forests invited fires We forests have done so Go into any forest © mountains an ernment the 1 up and sub- that would hold fire re ind, even in g reservations? Do we find ground moved? We do not, Slashings, dead timber, cover the und in ten logs id fire, and every direction, that a spark-plug we everywh ne to remove the are no fire guards or open anywhere, The fact is ave done everything pos invite fires that can travel fast and far and are difficult to subdue. used to be in Canada, & companies were com pelled to burn their own brush and leave no firetraps, we would ‘actically eliminate forest de: struction, But as long as wo make tinder boxes of our for ests we may expect timber fires every year till the forests aro all gone. When that happens Washington will be a dead state, as some Eastern states have be- come thru forest noglect A. B. DOBBS, what's the une? ane | is overrun with been devised fi sation of women, hapa the worst to sit on the back to sit there speech maintain the flicted, and the right of the poor, to control, those of what do h would hold concealed fire ~ Chicago to New UYork New Federal Building? By Leo R. Sack And sadly distraught Learn to direct your energies lL To some worthy goal, ASHINGTON, Aug. 19.—Two of the most powerful men in congrens, one a senator, tho other a representative, each tho Jast word in appropriations in the senate and the house, have declared war. Thoy are differing over tho proposed construction of noce: sary buildings in’ Washington and important eities thruout the country. On the settlement of their dispute depends either a now federal building or improve. ments upon the present struct: ure in Seattle Representative Martin B, Mad. den, chairman of the appropria tions committee of the house, after a conference with Pret dent Coolidge, announced that the plan to reduce taxation will not permit construction of new foderal building Senator Reed Smoot, ranting ropublican momber of the senate appropriations committes, — re. garded as the best posted man in the senate on federal finances, says “We are going ahead N the personal following of euch in congress and the determination of congressmen and senators to sottle the pub lio buildings question, depends the outcome. Provident Coolidge, Secretary of the ‘Treasury Melfon, Post master General New, Secretary of the Interior Work, and other officialy are lined up with Smoot Smoot's fight is chiefly for the benefit of the Capital, where the government sponds $1,12e 000 annually in rent, Many im portant government — archive: ind records are housed in flim sy wooden and stucco buildingy. Most of the income tax records are filed in firetrap buildings Thruout the country an ad ditional $28,000,000 ia paid an nually In rent to house federal aectivitios, — Lv. Chicago 12:40 p.m.(C.7.] Ar, New York Pennalvania Staion 940 a.m (67) quality service the exacting de- Hudson Terminal New Union Station, Chicago WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19, 1925 a By WILLIAMS) oy rry MTX POLITICS AND PROHIBITION?|0 By Chester Rowell poutics wins! General Anderson is not to have his non-political enforcement service, organized on bi ne principles, but must submit hi political approval of the sena tates in which their districts operate And, of course, the high class executive: hom he had sought to supervise prohi bifion enforcement would not accept ap- en if they pointment on the terms, ¢ could get it, which is unlike In fact, ny of them had already told him that they would not consider the serv ice at all unless they could have the same opportunity to accomplish results that they would have in busine: that is, con trol of their own subordinates and the authority to pay them the same compensa- tions that business would pay for similar ervice. These are precisely the two things which poli tics will not permit So, if we get rid of the present corruption and ine ciency in the prohibition service, it will prob y be only to see it renewed in other 1 Political patronage monging and loyal enforcement do not mix. WY Ves hould there be this sort of “politics” in the prohibition or any other service? It does not improve the public service. Neither, generally, does it better the personal political fortunes of those who insist on it More politicians are destroyed by patronage than are made by it. We have got rid of it in the classified departments of the civil service, to everybody's benefit. But never with the willing consent of congress. Pres- ure was nys necessary, from the president and from Howell the people. Yet in those service. tem produced noth- ing worse than extravagance, inefficiency, favoritism, injustice and minor graft. In the prohibition service it has meant all these, and corruption and contempt of government besides. The announced policies of General Anderson promised improvement. Senatorial interfer- ence will make—has probably already made—that im- provement impossible. s the spoils i oa Fixit of The Star Undertakes Here to Remedy Your Troubles, if They Are of Public Interest —_—$———— ed Mr. FL it of the esta hment of with ecarwigs wh » park golf links be careful m r changing it he pests, but as t ? uv Pict Is there any pla he i b ; f - id es ; ‘ ring in Seattle? : BOBBY : There is no set rule for get- dunkea vasslation ting into that line of business. The surest way is to “li A READER, BR ol someone who is already It takes a lot of hard knocks to get into the prize ring, and only one stiff punch to get out. Mr. Fixit: Our neighborhood ats. They rob prsal Mle gens S ge Amc, Why not try something more told. Wh ic. obaad ot so rough this? R Mr. Fixit: The new pave- rnd ment at Fauntleroy has been box | completed for more than a injure month, and seems to be cil some | right cy keep the road Dlockaded,{"ynd the little tem- porary roak As becoming impas able. There is a high em- 1 there is Why not bankment near r “Beacon Hil"? danger that a car may go over re confused by | it, Can you help us get thle Can you fix it? BLM. M. The street d nt will car used to be called send a man to investigate, and 1 Hill, but was chang 1 will act as soon as he reports oI Speed and Security che Broadwa is the business man's train Fotrowing the short line route between Chicago and New Uork, the Broadway Limited daily meeis by dependable schedule and mands of business men. Broadway and Wail Street by 10 o'clock — a Broadway" feature. For reservations or further information address RB. C. District Passenger Representat ary Building, Seattle, Wash ee? Felophonet Billott so%0 Pennsylvania Railroad THE STANDARD RAILROAD OF THE worLo. ri ALUUUULELLUUUUUULLCELCLLLLLLL ULLAL TTT