The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 22, 1925, Page 8

1a fi i Fi a 2 al is just as if you were cooking cornmeal ‘mush. You put a lot of corn meal in a ‘kettle, with a little water, and pretty soon hot meal. If all those little puffs were of combining. ay) house of an Ohio town. She was =e» | The Se cet me out of city, 800 per month, § months $1.49, ¢ monthe By camer, city, be & month #4 a8 second clase matter at Beattie, Wr. under act of Marek & Podiishing © Pranciece Mt Avis New Service Rewarded | On the Face of It OY ©. LYLE, prohibition director for | ** ANY Chicago beggars make $10 Washington state, becomes prohibi- per day, tion director for all Washington, Oregon Chicago, “Capital City of Crime,” some and Alaska call it i And thereby Uncle Sam gives the lie Old Abe Lincoln had a homely face, but with it the greatest heart, if not the greatest mind, in modern history, May it not be so, in large degree, with a city? Ten dollars per day for many a beggar means that thousands of Chicagoans, daily, drop pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters into the hats or hands of beggars. What does the reader think when he or she is before the proffered hat of a beggar? Doesn't thought run very much thus: “I don’t know whether this legless, or to critics who claim he seldom recognizes faithful service. “Roy” has been faithful, hard-working, sincere and honest in his local battles Against liquor trafficking, The Star be- lieves, Therefore it congratulates him for his achievement and congratulates | the region over which he gains supervis- jon on keeping Lyle out here in the West. He's done a lot of work of which the public hasn't heard a whisper; he's had uphill work and stumbling blocks never | jing, fellow is really suffering, or deserv- hinted to the citizenry at large. And ing. Maybe he has enough money. But he’s gained respect—maybe a bit grudg- | | will not risk the one chance in 10, per- ingly given at first—of a lot of his haps, that he really needs my help, Any- 3 | 4 : enemies. 4 ; way, a fellow so crippled, or sightless, has The Star congratulates him on his | hard enough lines, no matter what money promotion. he has!” Then, reader, you drop in a mig nickel or dime and go your way feeling Water level in Lake Eric is said to be 18 inches better, regardless of, possibly, needlessly below that of last year, Probably due to rigid Vol iitevartelow hele stead enforcement at Cleveland and Toledo, we don't aiding a fellow being. — we ; Thousands of people in the “Capital City Bees of Crime” have been doing and thinking C something like that, daily. They are not me Slang Pe és of the class who give large sums to com- OMETIMES slang impoverishes rather munity chests. They are “the average than enriches the language. people,” individuals representing the great Take the word “dumb,” for instance, mass. They are the generous; feeling heart which you'll hear frequent n Seattle, of a great city that should not be judged on, an a ara tal fen wholly upon its jail misery and the blood viously it is the German w' upon its police dockets, “dumm.” It is more vivid and pictur- The face may be ugly and scarred and esque than “stupid” and would be. an still, underneath, be the mass struggle and improvement except that it leaves us | suffering that make all humanity kin, Without any colloquial word meaning The publicity of crime roars until the “mute.” ; : ,, | World is shocked, but, always, back of it If we are going-to import “dumm, ave working generosity, hope and a multi- then we should import stumm” also. Let tude of good deeds quietly done. The one who can not think be “dumb and | crime-distorted face of a people may be one who can not speak be “stumb. but a mask and tell much less truth of Otherwise we may soon find our col- | them than do the nickels in a beggar’s loquial speech incapable of expressing the hat. state of inability to vocalize. BS Me STERIL AS ~ And just think! Ponce de Leon monkeyed around Cy, Florida for a fo F : fie Simple Enough __ | realeatate yelling for subdivintons MES forward Dr. William Bowie, of rae om GDN the United States geodetic survey, It Isn’t Done with good cheer in the shape of opinion that, with a few exceptions, earthquakes are a fine and necessary performance. Every year 8,000 to 10,000 earthquakes are recorded in various parts of the world and probably three times as many are not recorded. The pressure and strain upon the earth are being gradually relieved. It HERE is a Washington dispatch to the effect that the president and Secre- tary Kellogg propose to reorganize the diplomatic corps, with a view to taking the diplomatic service out of politics, which dispatch may be taken as pure “bunk,” put forth to tickle hopeful but foolish people. Calvin Coolidge has been in politics ever since early manhood and Kellogg is so tickled by what politics has done for him that he can’t stand still while the movie men get their cameras on him. The first time any department of goy- ernment is taken out of politics the reader will get a whole-page article, with nice pictures and everything. The reader is likely to get the millennium, also, at that time. ere will be a number of little spots puff- ing forth steam upon the surface of the combined, you'd get a big puff that would seatter mush all over the kitchen. Seismology is awfully simple, when you get used to it. But hang onto something when the terrestial mush shows symptoms Why Break Law ECENT figures showing the alarming manner in which the number of Chieago announces a population on July 1 of 2,995,230, a fair majority of them not yet under. grand jury indictment. crimes in America tops the number of Not Perfect crimes in other countries, such as Eng- N old woman was found in the poor- | land, have brought the country to the realization that something simply must born there, 85 years ago, and has never | be done to curb the spirit of lawless- been out of it. ness. that apparently has become an Officials of the poorhouse aren't at American institution. fault. They only did what they had to. While we're looking for cures, wouldn’t And yet this woman has been robbed of it be a good idea to ask ourselves whether something that can never be repaid to this great prevalence in crime is in any her—in this life, at least way connected with our national passion Ours is a great country. But, as long for passing all kinds of laws without as things like that can happen in it, it stopping to consider whether they are is still very far from being perfect. really needed or can be enforced? ? 2 Answers to Your Questions ? ? Q What are the dimensions !n}&—————————_—_____-% rods of a square lot containing an Ry cE can get an answer to | I Nelde; is crossed by three bridges acre of ground? | any question of fact or In- | | rie jouses are built on piles driven ‘A. A square lot with an arca of} | formation by writing Tho Seat- iB es one acre is 12.64 rods on cach sidc| | tle Star Question Editor, 1323 |) yicy5 of stone e656, rods around |New York ave, Washington, | | es | D. C, and Inclosing 2 cents in | @ What was the monoy value of| | ose stamps for reply. NO) iiahie joweled ornament in. the the maritime losses in the world| especie barrell ee world? oll Reiser lost the’ | dential. All letters must A. The Gaekwar of Baroda in In- ‘A. According to the best statistica| J Sened. Ar available, the maritime loss amount-| ed to $6,30000,000. The gross ton-|was 12, Wage of the merchant veascls sunk! Britain, Norway and France were\are sot with diamonda, It ta worth thru enemy action between Augygt|the heaviest losers. Great Britain's! several million 1, 191}, and November 11, loss being 7 59 tons; Norway! to be the most valuable jeweled el 117701 and Fronce 888,78%. Italy| ornament in the world. ene ST ¢ fourth with ~ loss of 846455 — [ A THOUGHT onde thie att Q What is considered the most e dollara and is said tons. The other cowrtries all lost| ———— SCIEN( | under 400,000 tone. t + om We Ye have been called into | FEO IL QUAKE THEORIES Hiberty: only use not liberty as | Q. How many canals are there | an occasion to the flesh, but by |in the city of Venice, Italy, and SCIENTISTS will continue for love serve one another—Gal. | how are the houses bullt so that| a long period to study, with 5:13. they will be safe? |. great interest, the recent Santa ek a A. The city of Venice is inter-| Barbara earthquake. Science is IBERTY Ss from God; liberties | sected by 150 canala over which| interested not only in this par from the devil.—Auert there are 400 bridges. The Grand| ticular earthquake, but seizes ———| upon ail earthquakes where | study of them may be made at first hand, in an attempt to find out their cause or causes, ‘Thus far, out of an enormous mass of minor facts and many theories, very little that is use ful is known. Ono of the mont interesting of recent theories that unusual activity in the HERE'S a long winding road trailing over the hill, and away to & pull Upon tho ¢ the country where everythihg’s still. Where trees are the greenest: rface, somewhat similar to the where rich js the loam. You hie down that road when you're driving | moon's pull that causes the | back home. tide and the readjusting of Awny in the distance a cottage appear It's..shidgey. ahd worn the earth to this pull makes the for it’s stood there for years, But age ne'er can put the old home earthquake, More facts nro atead to. shame returning, it looks just the same | continually being learned about 1 out there by thé gate, A welcoming | the normous energy generated log burns There's something that's real in the by the sun. It pours out vast Gliwer little shack and you a # can feel that you're glad to get back, | ‘uantities of this enorgy into A porch that is sheltered, yet welcomes a breeze, is culling you, xpace, ‘The question of what Becomes this energy and whe ot that affords you a rest | its effect is upon planeta in I envy the folks who can alw return to places that give you the close elation to the sun, includ homonickness yearn, It still is a castle, tho likely forlorna—the jittle ing the earth, is involved, One old place where a fellow was born. kind of earthquakes may be (Copyright, 1925, for ‘The Seattle Star) the result, come and enjoy it, at ease. With all of the best things of natur ‘tin blest. The only real ope mud and secured by heavy 3282 DS ee | canal, two miles long and 77 yards! dia has 4 shawt of pearls, 10 fect} long and siz fect wide. This shawl! or rug literally is woven of strings 13,67 5. Of thia Great\of pearls and its center and border [our OUR WAY SAKES! TH! NERVE O' SOME DOGS! WAGGIN HIS | PANTS ON! “TAL RIGHT | GOOD GOSH IN MY FACE?) WANT T Tank HE SEATTLE STAR ____BY WILLIAMS) What Are Happy Endings? Rey SAY! oT 1277) ¢ THERE! AN aS mm HEY '! £2 sy ATHAT THREE pb subspsspppritp = ”°» Py Le . dh catered cand t thet the fiz . WORLD COURT the: right’ ps STILL. BUGABOO e rig is tor Borah girds t assur Ly f nia LAINT EVEN IN propor chiet ? with film, It is @ strange pe we it z 7 Z Z IGNOKANCE Is a “ rr ore Boson . LAST SHACKLE with € - rumentalities of mend 1 Thomas HH. Huxle ‘Th from af goods of men; the seco: he It is all @ + \TH'TENT: ONY By Chester H. Rowell eas a eo “Et le daa J ‘ 1 re WOOT AL IM bye first organized American ins tion for the unsh ts, and the third was great apostle of scientific free gaboos, but age is neces torial hysteria, of the world w ackli dom of thougt Now we hi road t autom added to the rail telegraph, telephone airplane, moving pic ture and 0; to the first lb Pepper eral church the Hberalizing move nt no more Huxley the schools, the Sow tte trial and the ye i pt Mr. Fixit of The Star || Undertakes Here to Remedy Your Troubles, if They | Are of Public Interest Uncle Joe Cannon Joins the Church |) etry iaia teint | wd nat Nee cor air UT TNCLE JOE CANNON, 89 yearn old, han just b come a church member. He taken membership in the James’ Methodist church in Danvilfe, IL, whieh he has attended regularly and in which hin wife was an active worker until her death Another An ican statesman who did not profems the Chrt tian re jon until late in 1 was He Clay. He expr ® great reverence for God an By Helena Akers on the railroad. 1 sued the who quit at 5 o'clock miss the ! road when the injury occurred 4:45 car. Can you fiz uf but lost the suit. Bince then RIDER. all religions, Protestant, Catholic | on the Sabbath and then left 1 have completely lost the eye Ragiiiateodnlt teckel and Jewish alike, but it was them free to spend the day as Is there no way I can gct | sooy into this condition and ese not until 1847, when he was they wished. | Compensation for this lons? ff m later car can be provided, 70, that he became a communt- | Washington often attended | 7.0. G | oe 6 cant of the Episcopal church. | the lwcopal church with hin | This would probably come | . Not all of America’s patriots | wife, but there in no record of | under interstate commerce, and Mr. Fixit: 1 have found 6 haye claimed church ship. bee trce in the woods, In there any law againat my cutting Mt down fo get the bees and the member- hin ever having been a member | You would have to write the of the church, He also firm Interstate Commerce Commis ntries in Geo refused to. partake of the Washington, D. C., for Entries in George Washing ly refused to 4 f th ng . linet SUBSCRIBER: ton'n diary show that he did not Communion, When rebuked pation ax to what could rou two-lasepetn Gar ee npend all of Sunday, nor ever for the bad example he net tho | be done bd died Neg tano Sunday, in religlous worship congregation by leaving the Ho read, vinited, er visitors, but required Mr. Fielt: 1 lve ta a little and the honey would belong to country town and our neigh you, but the tree being on an- © 20 fect other's land belongs to him, church just before the Com eee gets the opinion that the bees 5 his ne munion he promined was liberal and sympathetic to vants to do only cssential work that the min ould have pre have their sons an no further re © complalat. t in the street It has been 1 and you would be trespassing \! Hi ~ . Ls there for more than a year, fo cut it without his permis- i )| He kept hi # promise by Ferma | and they are now putting up a | On. Better make a deal with ng away from church there iene . FROM I} Matter on’ Coniunian. -@ 5, | "ew fence at the same place. I | the man who owns the tree, CLLETS crap Leaders |] titey os Comnnyanill: S50ay8. |”. cas om tha oppasisecataelef the: | é scoahaal rasan z street and have had my lot Mr, Fizit: Acting on your All Lettera to The Star Must Have Name end Addreas pabeisr " sth “ pi pte surveyed. Would I have to advice we got up a petition to q BEES pees pdabtes| nape 2 | move my fence back, or could have the walk on S6th ave. B, ; * * : Gahiieliién ‘ol falvn = meen they be forced to put theirs between Alaska and Edmonds On Directing Strangers | 4% exhitition ot ‘either egotism Ne reece coe ">| con aha ee " MR ¥. | ate, paved. 1 notice that they ‘ Editor The Star tel peauitiien sella: givine ove ‘omas Jefferson was another | — Notity them in writing not | are only patching the old walk % Seattle atili retains its village torical exbititinnn cut Week hovers iegntied ae & Deist, | to build ‘the fence orf thelr We have watted 15 years for : ways | TOM A: MAUZEY BC ae) CAliad, “DimaNeLE 16 MORN line, If they insist on doing so, a walk: and driveway. When a Why ia ft that Seattle takes 90 | Juneau, Alaska, | Tisllst, believing that matter is | yoy will havo to employ a do we get tt? Ee. | little trouble to help strangers aes y the basis of everything and of | jawyer, i¢ your town fs not in find thetr way around the city? a ‘ every thought. He denief the | cotporakad iets itvial ed tO. the | an Ey gor Lietlg re 4 For example: Let a stranger It Shimmied divinity of Christ, but venerated | oOrorateds it they can not yet put In a ce net out to find a certain street Editor The Star hia moral character and teach. | : Coe | ot vat . ye ens: 4 so ( or number, By inquiry he finds, We were very anxious to hear ing | a as (dae: salen ion id rm - ss hee tee 4a let us say, Third ave. and starts | tle's report on the carth- Tho Benjamin Franklin's j ao ahesN SRE erent | te val ne aia me hae how streets are numbered Here we had what I conaider liztous, tila extensive reading | “{ateruchan frock to Georec. | time 7h Ae ee q hore to find the intersecting | more than a slight tremor, The made him disbelieve many of 5, ppd yop heascp MR taal ot ities rivers 9 * 4 ott. Hoe hopes to get help | first shock occurred at 4p. m the things he w He 2 ee a as Ed hc il re : from street sig | Friday, This being the heaviest, said that he believed in on ——— ——: But there are but fow street t slid dishes, tipped o small God, and that thi, G should ‘ signa and these are #0 placed made hangings swing be worshipped by doin od B) q has to get out in the 1 loone articles dance. It came to others rather than by empty | them | with a rour Praine | Another shock occurred at 6:45 While he was just a young | | of his hou for the house number. Now, in Seattle, building numbers seem to be regarded as a dingrace or & closet nkeleton that must be hushed up and concealed from view. After looking thru tho whole block he may find one house with a visible number, even tho camouflaged with paint, that enables him, by a long pro- cosa, fir to reach the much sought location 5. DOBBS Praises the Iron Horse Editor The Star As one of the “old timers’ T attended ‘I Iron Horse” at the Seattle r-Liberty theater Pioneers’ party. It ia a great play, the best motion picture I pioneer dayx : and difficulties attending the same should see that play Yours truly, H, C. CROCKETT. Seattle eee Alaskan Pans Congress- men Editor The Star Now is the summer of our con tent. The tourist is upon us, also the congressmen, viewing the vastness of the Alaska do main and incidenté taking a nap-shot at that ie of hu manity who has been crowded from one locality to another as finally off place civilization advan landing at the Jum Alaska After the trip of a few days with a few hours spent at the regular stopping places of the steamer, the congressman has learned just enough to befog his mind sufficiently to conceal the fact that he knows less about Maska than he would had he jtayed away. He is now pre pared to legislate intelligently for the country and bring It out of tho slough of icy despond ency. Ho has Jearned just what he would find out by leaving his home town and visiting the great watch manufactories of America, spending the same time at each factory that he spends while on his trip to Alaska, He will find that a wat whooels in it, which knowledge he was In pos sousion of before the trip, But when it is in want of repair he will know that the steamer did not stop long enough for him to attempt to fix it But when it comes to Alaska, he can take it apart, clean tt, and put it in first-class running con@lion—look wine and explain the whole proposition Just as satisfactorily and with as great lo up. Another sligh King pictures on rred at 3:30 p. m. 1 have heard from Carnation and: Snoqualmie, They say it struck In both places and also at Falls City, As there was no little papers I decided to wri’ ou know we had wha consider a real earth SUBSCRIBER. — | Find Your Own Editor The Star Here's something for those hoped for immortality urging the purchase Rainier Valley lines about The New Haven railway paid cash for the West- | $900, chester Street railway and that property wil for old junk October 16, believed that it will not bring e . 2 | The New Haven will substitute | treet rail- more than $65,000 ® bus service for the s' ystem W way company do as Haven did? Hf, ALVIN MOORE, Saturday morning, waking peo- y not let the Renton rail man, Abraham Lincoin To The Readers of The Seattle Star t tremor, | cused of being an unbelicver | the wall | because of an essay he wrote | Saturday to read before a literary society, | people at | Ho never, either then or later, | | denied this charge. It has been 1 said that he changed his views | * du Benitio’..| cngidentiiesone Levan | There is no doubt but what each one of | two here | {be Preabyteritn church with | you have used Classified Advertising at 4 1. But he never Professed Christianity nor be. | came a member of any church | Ulysses 8. Grant was con Answer sidered an nostic He be- Heved in a Supreme Being and uake, some time and for some specific purpose; also, that results have been obtained to a greater or lesser degree. | of tho : | iS cabin Frequently our Classified Advertisers write or telephone: “Please kill that ad of mine. I have sold my house or ,automo- . bile,” or whatever it happens to be. These stories of RESULTS are very gnatifying to us. \ i in 1909 ,anditis | | The Seattle Star always endeavors to give you the best of news and featutes that will be of satisfying interest to ydu. We SATURDAY, AUGUST If so, you are diplomatic, And a born fixer. You avoid trouble, the Now S16 Hina Tatar man Baha Asha dN are constantly striving to keep our Clas- | aie Because you arc clever, | sified Advertising columns CLEAN He Also Pans Campbell You manago people: In a : ae ay Editor The Star As a voter, I, too, w in a word vegarding Cc W Campbell, I note that a | OU have great confide Mrs. Edgar Blair, lauds for his stand against th declares he has been fr ward the Humane socle Kindly fashion. You know what you wont TRUTHFUL, as you expect to find them. ish to put sudolinihes | it in the sanest way pay At this time of the year, when so ‘many household changes are being made, if you intend to buy a new ear or sell you You know you will succes Campbell 1 know you will succeed © dog and fendly to ty. Like | That is the secret of your | power | You inspire trust. | ©. C. Davis, I read the articles A Ont tats estate property, we suggest that. you} use that told how Campbell hates ou are arustic to a Ilmited Ww » gj } “ ‘ar. ee eae ba ee ae | a atatee | our Want Ad Columns in helping your 9par- with him T inquired. Mrs, Blair criigucenne ley ticular needs. should inquire, too. W. T. be fes Campbell has been a detriment You love lightly. to the Humane soctety in its And escape much trouble j work and like Davis 1 wish 1 You Tike homelite. | had known hin attitude before I | ay BES VNOEY TOR 98. Chis? 5) voted for him, sae Also, | wish to reply to Mrs SUNDAY, A 4 St . air, that i whe ean do the Hu tevabs ad ea eUTCR | the lowest rate according to the num work better han is tes : . ri Daltigt done, sw SHOR? BsU: bay You want to rise rapidly, | of insertions your ad runs. and do it, They say Mrs, Blatt jes a ata hel hPa sponds all her timo trying to hurt aby | . the soclety and that Ix a pity And muko many friends. | Don’t put it off any longer—rememb th hol 1 You have great energ b 8 t since ” recognizes nergy 7 i ANd HOS Ue eel Agd physleal endurance, | that Star Want Ads are for YOUR SE ‘LYDE NAN You are quick-witted. | W abn i, ae response | - y ; You are fond of athletics. | That’s a Big Question | You excel in outdoor sports. | ‘ ‘ y0° Editor Tho Star j You will be fortunate in mar. Ti) Q IT { When in your town last T nos | riage : ha dé ost Ss ess 1 ticed u man pandering for gam- | And will be constant and do | I bling amos on Washington at voted. Mae 14 In a modulated voice he culls You lackalepth, sometimes, The Seattle Star eye out the games played And a feeling for loss fortu | | & ® What ts the matter with the nate ones, . fa D polico that they allow such open You cannot understand fall | MAin 0600 Want Ad | violation of the law? ures, H, 15, BROWN, Or people without your 6, Wash, energy,