The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 26, 1925, Page 4

THE SEATTL® STAR SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1925. — the Seattle Star <== |Only 360 U.S. Men Guard Puget Sound Forts BY WILLIANS ) and Unites Al Ne Mt] by The Bier | Pudlishing Oo, Phone MAin 7-09 Seventh Ave, Beatile, Wash Apectal Nepresentatives Other Coast Defenses Inadequate; 2 Officers and 30 Men “Defend” Columbia River Gilman, Nicoll effice, 0 Tork office, By mall, ovt ef elty, see. By Rotered as second Pranctece New (ouT OUR WAY A) =r / LET ‘IM Down! Press Service. ——— WELL GOLLY, I WATTA te & month. atthe, Wa ‘This Is the sevend of = pories by Max Siora telling with which every F wil follow @aily-—The F = stan them st resident should be familiar. Others Her. under THE CASE OF A BOY IMY GLENDON, 14 years old, of Oak- and scoldings,” drank a vial of poison on the Street, but the doctors saved him. Jimmy has quite a reputation as an “incorrigible,” but it is safe to say that, Tine times out of 10, when a boy of only 14 years of age attempts suicid “something wrong besides what is in the boy. The average boy is somewhat like a colt. The latter cannot be “broke in” by using a club on him exclusively. A judi- cious use of kindness and sympathy and Making the colt thoroly understand the lication of discipline produce a good, Persistent scoldings, “‘ever- lasting nagging” the boy calls it, will make ~ Men, as well as boys, yearn for permanent of school J land, “tired le horse. escape therefrom. Another thing. The doctors have pumped Jimmy into a continuance of this life. But what of the fellow who supplies a = 14-year-old boy with poison? Are society, the law and the shocked scolders to let him : ft away, while they raise their hands in “holy horror at the lad’s desperation? TNITED STATES DEPARTMENT of labor noti- files Battling Siki to leave the country. it worrying about a prizefighter sure sounds like a joke. A TOUGH REVIVAL ‘ANUFACTURERS, 'tis reliably re- 3 ported, are entering upon a serious campaign to revive the popularity of the -five-cent cigar, __ A revival of character is one of the most ult undertakings that can be at- ed. It is especially difficult to give 2 Q How can stecl buckles be ~¢leaned? Pan y A. By rudding with ammonia and| | water or with French chali. soe @ Do foreign countries publish her maps @ in the United States? similar to those is- tired of there is cers asked. A labor | ‘OU can get an answer to any question of fact or In- | | formation by writing The Seat- Deily weather maps, based on} phic reports, are published in civilized countries, tho nos all.| | dential. Bouth America the only country that Asewes a weather map is Ar- tle Star Question Editor, 1322 New York w# Washington, D. C., and tnelosing 2 cents In loose stamps for reply. No medical, legal or marital vice. Personal replies confi All letters signed. iy No weather maps ere is-| were gonversing in Soule’s sanctum. in Africa south of the equator. | she Thompson had just fintahed advis- ing Boule to go West and was 1s the author of the| praising the talents of the soriter. "Go West, young man, go ? The phrase is popularly at- “Why, John.” he said, “you could write an article that would be at- triduted to Horace Greely, if you ited to Horace Greely, but really! tried.” He did try, writing a column to John L. B. Soule, editor In he and Richard Thompson, : secretary of the navy, the Terre Haute Express. editorial on the subject under dis- cussion, and started in dy saying that Horace Greely could never have given a young man better Children That Are Sold By Mrs. Walter Ferguson touring the state became Short of funds and sold their lit- tle girl for two automobile tires, )>@ tank of gasoline and $1.50. ‘We all think that an inhuman thing to do. What sort of peo- ple are they, we ask ourselves, Who could so carelessly relin- quish their own child? But our world ts full of men and women like that. It ts a form of selfishness which is Mow sweeping the country. We @o not sell our chiidren after ‘We have them, perhaps, for the most of us happily develop par- ental love, but there are a lot of us who sell our children by | @enying them birth. _— And why do we do this? Be- cause we want more good | things for ourselves. A great ‘Many more people would have ‘children today if they could Make up their minds to go ‘without the new car, or three hats a season, or a second maid. But they love so much the easy life—their own comfort, do- is img as they please. The wom- en like to be care-free and foot- loose and the men do not want the extra worry that raising ® family entails, so that grad- Wally they allow all those finer ‘spiritual things within § them- a "> selves to become atrophied, and thus many children are denied | good homes and decent parents. ’ And we talk about having children or not having any More than one because {t's #0 expensive these days, and we Go not like to bring them into the world unless we can give them certain so-called advan- tages, and so salve our con- _ milences. No parent can give his child any greater advantages than a | brother or a sister. Thoryoung- sters are not #0 fine these days with their pocket flasks and ‘their racing cars and their _ money that we need boast about our system of very small fam- flies. For a lot of these things which we call advantages are ‘merely detriments. A happy ly life, the companionship | Many Children Victims of Malnutrition and love of brothers and sisters, a fair education, are tho best things children can have. Tho men and women who have had too many advantages so often turn out spineless nobodies. BY DR. HUGH S, CUMMING Surgeon General, United States Public Health Service LNUTRITION is an im- portant condition very often neglected, and when neg- lected may lead to serious con- sequences. ‘ Malnutrition may lay the foundation for poor physical development or poor health in later life or may lead to some serious disease: like tuberculosis, You should know how to recog- nize malinu- trition in children. If you find that a child is not only much below normal welght or helght but that he gains much more slowly than he should, you should at once sus pect malnu trition. At the ages from 6 to 10, when a healthy child gains four or five pounds a year, children suffering from malnutrition may gain only one or two pounds, Some do not gain at all, From 12 to 16 years, when healthy children should gain from six to 10 pounds per year, children suffering from malnu- trition may gain only two or three pounds, Dr. Cumming | CIHE’S only @ wee little bit of a thing, but whatever she wishes she i gets. to tiny Queen Bets. Her mother and father stand ready to bring real service Just four years ago since she came into power, and she's ruled round the house ever since. Her throne js a high chair where, hour after hour, her tone is the type to convince, This wee little idol of mother and dad gets treatment that’s meant for the queens. Bho'n petted and bowed to and made to feel glad— but walt till she reaches her ‘teens. ‘The chances are, strongly, « mighty surprise will come from the Kindness that’s boiled. Quite likely Queon Betwy will open their eyes § 44 the fact that thelr daugliter Is spoiled, Phe sudgment that’s used with a wee littie tot, and the way that the right things aro told hor, can build or tear down common sense ‘that she’s got. Arid it helps, or It hurts, when she's older, (Copyright, 1926, for the Seattle Star), ? ? Answers to Your Questions ? § advice than words "Go Weat, young mon.” . . name Elnora? Elinor different forms of the same name,| means loht, figures, is roughly estimated at 1,748,000,009. Allowing five to a family this would ¢ 349,609,000 families in the world. faith, and has remained a member if that denomination ever since. hree miles cat of Edinburgh, Bcot- | ale, Dunoon, Scotland. df California belong to the state? | A. All the mountains of the state dro state territory, with the excep- thon of those in Yosemite National park, government. | good new character for old broken char acter in respect of five things | a hotel, a dog, a newspaper and an article upon which is based a popular habit, And | in restoration of any of these there must be given much better character than the old one, whatever the high degree of the | same may have been, | The cheap cigar has been headed toward oblivion because of its inferior material and the resort to cigarets by disgusted smokers, The manufacturers will have to give a better than the old-time five-center. a woman, SCLENTINTS AKK pretty busy, bat will they kindly pause long enough to explain why all the flies prefer the only baldheaded man In this offloe? LET HIM IN! HE country is interested not so much | in the fate of Hon. Saklatvala as in that of plain John Johnson. Kellogg bars Saklatvala, but the attitude as to Mr. Johnson is not yet a matter of common information. John applied, at Escanaba, Mich., for American citizenship. “Of whom are you a subject?” the offi- Secretary “My wife,” promptly replied John. What America wants in her new citi- zenship is men of honor, truthful men, observing men, men who recognize and appreciate her domestic forms and cus- | toms, The Bartholdi statue ought to get down from her pedestal, take a trip to Michigan and greet John Johnson with both hands, John is the sort that fits in. AFFIDAVITS ARE required on the report that the reichstag riots made Von Hindenburg smile. Anyhow, we'll give $10 an Inch for the picture of = | smile on the Hindenburg facial landscape. 2 that contained in the Q. What ts the meaning of the A. The name, like Helen, Eleanor, and Nore, which ali | | | | | ore e efie Q. How many families are there! jin. the world? A. There are no very accurate, The population of the globa Q. Has Mra. Coolidge aiways be- to the Congregationallst | A. She was drought up in that eee Q Where was Str Henry Lauder wn, and where does he now Iive? A. He was born in Portobello, ind. He wow resides at Lauder- see Q. How many of tne mountain which belong to the federal nutrition, however, do not all behave In the same way. Some are pale, dull and rest- less, with dark rings under their eyes. They tire eaatly and have no ambition for work or play. Their work in school Is often so poor that they must fre- quently repeat their classes, Other children suffering from malnutrittiion are nervous, fret- ful, hard to please, and hard to manage, They eat and sleep badly, Still others are over- ambitious, constantly active and restleas. They find conversa- tion difficult. To grow in height and gain regularly in weight is just as much a sign of health in a boy or a gir of 9 or 10 as it is In a baby. Mothers have learned to weigh their babies. If your boys and girls were weighed regularly every month this condition of malnutrition would be discovered early and would not be allowed to go on to serious consequences. Causes of malnutrition are not difficult to find. Most im- portant’ causes are: The child does not get sufft clent food, Tho child does not get the right kind of food, He spotls his appetite for simple foods needed for growth by oxcesalve Indulgence in candy, sweets, pastries and indigestible foods. He eats irregularly. He neyer takes time enough at meals to chew his food prop- erly. He does not get enough nleep. He suffers from habitual con- stipation, He gets too many motion pic- tures and other evening enter- talnmenta, Ho plays too hard for too many hours, Ho is overworked in school or out. Malnutrition may also be caused and aggravated by de- eayed teeth, enlarged or din. eased tonsils and adenoids, In places where malaria hookworm are present trition is often the these infections, Unless mainutrition ip recog nized early and measures are taken to correct It, the effects @ this condition in childhood may last to adult tite, Investt gations show that 20 por cent of the children in many of our schools are at present suffering from malnutrition, or malnu remult of FER GOSH SAKES LET ‘ER DOWN! i “TH SADDEST SXENE LL} INH! HULL SHow AN’ LOOK AT LUTILE EVA! Good GOSH! ILS WEN PEEPULS LET GO OF UM. THIS SPOSED TBE SoBBIN, GOOD GOSH, SUCH / an A ACTOR! LAs, wirReS PINCHIN, MY CHEST, — THE FALL OF ENA. Mr. Fixit of The Star Undertakes Here to Remedy Your Troubles, if They Are of Public Interest Mr. Fisit; The other night a man in a picture show annoyed me greatly by his too familiar manner. Finally he began nudg- ing me. When I objected he Gnawered me in an obscene manner, I spoke to the man in charge and he put the of- fender out, but he returned and further insulted me. He show- ¢d some sort of a card to the usher, He then told me that he could not do anything more alout tt. He asked for my name, but I refused to pive tt, as i looked aa tf he had no intention of protecting me, What ere wncacorted women to dof MRE, C. H. M. Report this to the manager of the house, giving him full par- ticulara. Also it should be re- ported to the chief of police. ar Mr, Fixit: An old truck with last year's Hoense number $87,- 293 has been parked at Eastlake and Mercer without deing moved for almost two years. Can you have tt taken awey? M. B.D. Tho traffic dapartment has promised to investigate and re- Move this truck|if it in vio- Yating the city traffic ordinance Mr, Fizit: I understand there is an Iilinots society in Beattie. How can I get jm touch with the secretary? | J. D. E. Will the secrethry of the II- Mnols society pldase send Mr. Fixit his name and telephone number? oe Mr, Fixit: Fie years ago a book agent cam¢ to my house and insisted on gutting in a set of books. Wa then lived on a farm, but have} since lost all that we had, | including our health. I have fritien the com- pany my condition and asked them to take back the books, but they will fot, A collector continually hownds me. | can not pay. How gan I handla this matter? WORRIED. If you signed a contract and are earning aiything they can collect for thd books, If you are not earnitig anything they will have to Ho the worrying until such time as you can complete your} payments Mr. Fizit: |1 am the com- plaining witndss in a caso that 1 am sure ta win if tried de- fore the reoWar judges. What I fear 4s thpt the one it is coming deford will go on vaca- tion and tura it over to some inexperienced) judge who twill not properly |handle it. What can be done tn such @ case? Hy Your fear no doubt, come from anxiety} Vacation season should be oer by this time, Should your base come before a Judge that ydu think prejudiced, have it contihued or removed to another court. Your lawyer will Know the procedure bee Mr. Pixtt:| There are several lots in the $200 block on s6th ave, 8. thatlare alive with ear- wigs. Can you fir them? TAXPAYER, The city is fot making war on the earwigs this year for lack of an appropriation, Sey- eral methods haye been sug- gested, A Mberal spraying with kerosene oll, baiting with regu- lation bait, trapping with rolls of paper into which they crawl, and keeping live ducks that will devour them, see Mr, Flett: There are people ving next door to us who have a boy that collects most of the bova around here. They play in the yard, and when any of our family go out they yell at us and call ux names, Is there any way to stop this? LB. 0. There are threo ways, ‘Talk to the mother, call the police or make a friend of the boys, The Jntter is the most difficult, but in the end will get best rewulta, ies Wiwit: lota in the aldition on Mr. We bought some Greenwood Annew 7th at, sie yeara ayo. We were told that the Niath ave, N. W. carline would be extended at onee, but it hay not been dono yet. Can j | f 7} ( you tell us when that will be done, aa we wish to build os soon as transportation can be heads MES. M, DB. It was probably the agent who sold you the lots that promined the car extension. No mich extension has been au- thorized by the city council Tho matter will not be taken up until after the completion of the 16th ave, N. W. exten sion, if then. See any’ council man that you know and lay the matter before him. Or one that you do not know will do. NATURELAND ——/ At Shin Lake, Me., a summer resident built a cottage around Mreeinch birch trees the trunks of which are In the living room. Ho left a hole in the roof big enough for the trees to sway in sovere wind and attached water- proof aprons in such a way as to prevent rain from dripping thru. Wild elephants have taken a particular dislike to the pipe. line from the new ol! fields on the Island of Sumatra and have repeatedly torn up the pipe. Letters FROM STAR TRwllLams “sy Ontaw 4°36 SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER If so, you are a dreamer You write well. And have a talent for music. You are better fitted for a social life. Than for a strenuous business career, Tho you are a hard worker. You will meet MUttle success in business Your efforts inconsistent. Your love i #0 profound. That you will move the earth for your loved ones, og 26 are variable and SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 If so, you worry over trifies. Yet face adversity with a amile. You are calm and courageous in a crjals. You are quick to act on al mat- ters, Your moods are affected by your environment. You are of a sympathetic na- ture. And are casily touched by oth- ers’ troubles, Be careful in mate, Marry someone deeply affection. ate and devoted. choosing your Readers All Letters to The Btar Must Have Name and Address Editor The Star. 8 Enclosed article gives location of a booze joint at First and Spring. As we happen to be on one of these corners we have been greatly embarrassed by remarks ma over our desk regarding a dive supposedly in our hotel In other, places your Mr. Hall has visited he has been a little more definite, giving names and numbers, Knowing that The Star al. ways alms to be fair and ac- curate, we should be pleased if tho next time an article like this fs publishad so much would not be left to the Imagination of the reader. The following are located on the corner of First and Spring: Seattle Paint company, The Lang Stove com. pany, The Odd Lot Shoe store and a new building being erect- ed by the Washington Mutual Savings bank, therefore, a great many who read the article naturally take it for granted that the New Arlington hotel is the “booze joint.” Your Mr. Hall may presume that all First ave, hotels are dives, ete. We wish to correct this impression as far as our business is concerned. Very truly yours, NEW ARIANGTON HOTEL, By R. P. Kelly, 06.16 Editor The Star: Your reporter's story in your Saturday's issue in regards to bootlegging and getting lquor at the Potter hotel, 614 James st. If this was dono it was not known by me, and I declare that I have never done any bootlegging or allowed it done to my knowledge by any of my guests, In this case it must have been planned between a taxi driver and an outside boot- legger, as neither of them are guests here. I declare the above are true facta as far as I know. A. W. MeLBAN, Mar. Potter Hotel, . . Editor The St I am in bed with pleurisy, but I want to send you a line to ask why you and all tho other papers trot out tho losses, ete,, caused by enforcing prohi- bition? Ho falr, Be square, Be hon. eat, Don't abuse our law be- cause you don't like It (nor do 1), but take murder, burglary, holdups, ete, and put same oll in a row, How many are em: pioyed?: What do they cost? How many lives have been sac- rifieed to enforce other laws? How much has been added to the wealth of the poor by the enforcement. of other laws? How many billions has prohi- bition added to poor men's say- ings? How many homes have been built and furnished by money that once went for whisky, Yours for a square deal, JAMES 'T. FULLERTON. eee Editor The Star: Is {t advisable to take the following up with the lumber- men meeting’ at present in Se- attle? * To welgh the losses to the Umber by fire against the cost of using unemployed labor dur- ing winter months to clear. and burn out some of the more dan- serous places and to bulld wider and better trails thru na- tional forests that the fire haz- ard might be better handled? True, it would be slow and ex- pensive, but compare the cost of this work for the next 10 years with 60 per cent of the loss by fire in the past 10 years. I say 60 per cent, for I do be. Neve that as mitch may be saved if the work is properly done, WILBUR TEALE, 7 BCIENCB [ ENDS THEORY LAST blow to the nebular hypothesis has been dealt by Dr. Her 8, Washington, of the Geophsysical laboratory, Washington, D. C. This theory was accepted and taught for years, Part of it is that the earth was formed by the’ whirling nebulae’ in the skies, the center remaining hot and fluid and the outer crust gradually cooling. It has been attacked by modern science and has been practically discarded, In addition to the previous ar. guments and proofs against the theory, Dr. Washington says the earth's center is not a mol- ten mass, because, under such conditions the crust could not withstand the tidal pull of the sun and moon without breaking into immense cracks, Nelther could it transmit the waves from earthquakes that carry records to selsmographs’ thou. sands of miles distant, ‘The substances in the interior of the earth, says Dr. Washing. ton, must be far heavier than the rock upon the surface, This is proved thru selence's knowl edga.os the weight of the earth, 4 ™ BY MAX STERN ‘(CAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 26. The forts along Uncle Sam's 2,000 miles of waterfront facing the great and turbulent Far East are few in number, equipped with guns of the Spanish war vintage and are hope- lessly inadequate to defend the ports and cities and the valuable military and naval equipment therein. But what is considered quite as alarming is the fact that these forts are more than 30 per cent under- manned and that they are unconnected with that es- sential artillery. arm of modern defensive warfare—railroad In the 15 forts that protect the United States from Canada to Mexico are garrisons that total only 1,000 men, The barracks in some of the important posts ap- r as empty of human forms as haunted houses ere has been a steady decline in personnel since the great war, and the number of soldiers now defending the Pacific Coast are less by ‘at least 2,000 than before the war. It has always been considered necessary to have at least 1,300 officers and men to man the batteries of Ban Francisco bay's five forts. This task today is assigned to 360 officers and men! On Puget Sound, with the big Bremerton navy yard, the only yard where capital ships of the Untted States nayy can dock for repairs, and at San Diego, where the navy has a $6,000,000 investment [n a naval base and fying Nelda, the forts are hope- leasly under-manned. Five Forts Here Manned By Only 3609 Men The five forts of the Puget found are, like San Francisco's five, garrisoned by only 360 of- ficers and men. Fort Rosecrans, at San Diego harbor has hardly a corporal's guard. It ts garrisoned by two artillery officers and between 20 and 30 men. The condition at Puget Sound fs considered a peculiar scandal from a military viewpoint, for there it has been found im: possible to lay mines in the water because of the deepnens of the stream and the swiftness of the current, The San Diego defenses are the poorest and weakest of any on the Pacific Coast. At the mouth of the Columbia river are three forts. Small as are the garrisons at Seattle, Ban Francisco and San Diego, they would appear to be ample as compared to that at Colum- bla river. The three forts have a total garrison of 21 coast ar- tillery officers and less than 50 men. The fort at San Pedro harbor, Lon Angeles, {s not only beat armed, but most highly manned. Here are 16 officers and 240 men. Coast Defense Guns No Good Against Raids When {t is considered that a raider like the heavily-armored Japanese battle crulser Kongo, with eight 14-inch guns and a speed of 27 knots, can outrange the defense guns of any fort on the Pacific Coast by at least 5,000 yards and can out-speed any of our naval battleships the helpfulness of const cities is realized. Between the five “fortified” harbors of the coast stretches a coast line in which are many advantageous landing places, Hence milftary authorities see the need of motile defense guns, or railroad artillery, Such deep aea landing spots as Santa Bar bara channel, Monterey bay, Kureka, Half Moon bay and San Lals Obispo, tn California, are typical of these unfortifi points. For years the army has been trying to secure from Washington a half-dozen 150- fon 14-inch guns mounted on railway trucks to move up and down the coast to strategio points of defense, The Southern Pacific com pany has recently made tests of its roadbeds and has found that In only one place will it be necessary to rebuild a bridge to sustain the weight of these guns. War Department Provides One Train ‘The war department, slow te realize the growing importance of the Pacific ocean and the coast that fronts it, bas at last agreed to send out one such battery. Besides the railway heavy ar tillery the army has repeatedly asked for tractor-drawn light artillery that could be used along the coast's splendid high- ways and for places inaccesst- ble to railways Col. H. B. Mathewson, ex- army engineer and student of the coast’s defense needs, thinks such railway and tractor-drawn mobile artillery one of the most pressing needs, “The Pacific Coast ia In dee perate need of three things,” said. “We need adequate air defenses. We need an up-to date naval base at San Fran- cisco, and we need flexible ar- tillery. To lack there things is foolhardy, short.sighted and mighty poor economy.” WHAT FOLKS SAY DR. EMORY JOHNSON, U. of P.: “The net profits of the railroads average barely two- thirds what they need be to in- sure the healthy development of transportation facilities.” = The Home . ribbed leases. in abundance. ful, happy. ARE. your particular need. 1307 7th Ave. Owner Has - a Constructive Aim In Life The man today who does not own his own home is little better off than the old nomads who roamed about living a little while here and a little while there—with temporary shelter to protect him from the elements. The modern nomad lives a little while here and a little while there in a rented home, moving each year in the hope of bettering his condition; paying a higher price to try out another spot, but there’s little difference. The old nomad, whose most permanent roof was the blue heaven above, had it all over the moderns, who are roofed and walled in cramped quarters, constantly sufferlord, bound by one- sided iron ribbed lord, bound by one-side iron The old nomad had the freedom of God’s health-giving fresh air and the sunshine The ideal way to live is in YOUR OWN HOME, where the atmosphere is restful, health- STOP BEING A NOMAD, SETTLE DOWN IN A HOME THAT’S YOURS. COMFORT, FREEDOM AND CONTENTMENT KNOW WHAT You can do it as others are doing it, by watching The Star Want Ad columns. homes are listed there today and every day. It’s to your own advantage to consult our Want Ads when you are ready to buy a home that suits Good The Seattle Star * Want Ad Dept. MAin-0600