The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 31, 1925, Page 6

6 TH SEATTLE ooo =..»| The Se Press Servi th Seattle Star ttle, Wash. Ave Entered as second class matter at Beattie, Wa, under act of Ma: Pupttened Daily by The Star Ne Publishing Ce, MAtne Pho 0600. ~ WE’RE WITH YOU, HONOLULU! THE HONOLULU ADVERTISER) SIGHTY years ago, Honolulu was a chief outfitting port of the Hudson Bay company, that great trading organi zation which took part in the commercial development and settlement of the Pacific Northwest. While the dis (PROM strong covery of the California gold fields in "4S switched the main trade artery to San Francisco, the earlier ties between these islands and the more northerly em pire have never been severed It is therefore with the gladness that comes in the renewal of earlier friend- Ships that all Hawaii welcomes the re- establishment by the Matson Navigation company of a direct and regular steamer line between Seattle and Honolulu, — It has beer given us because it is needed. Trade is growing. Honolulu is reaching out for the things that Seattle has to sell; Seattle wants to buy what Hawaii offers Travelers want more direct routing than “via” some other port—San Francisco or Vancouver. A BY-PRODUCT SCIENTIFIC discoveries, elimination of industrial waste and prohibition have raised our living standards to an unparalleled height, says Secretary Hoov- er, But, he adds, there is a by-product in the weakening of moral fiber, domestic looseness, youthful criminality, law-break- ing by adults and growing intolerance. Tt is very, very difficult to get Mr. Hoover's idea on straight. The highest living standard and yet abnormal general deviltry? It must be that Mr. Hoover is Viewing the condition solely from a ma- terialistic standpoint. It is true that we eat more, are better clothed and housed and have more lux- uries than ever. Above all other peoples, Ours possesses and enjoys material things. If the by-product is immorality, lawless- ness and bigotry, if we are headed down- ward, spiritually, we are headed in the very direction taken by peoples who have perished by reason of their inherent weaknesses and diseases. Does Mr. Hoover se¢k to imply that, as a people, we are decadent, moribund? MISREPRESENTING AMERICA GES the United States tremble on the verge of political upheaval, with discontent and class-hatred in the breasts _ of millions, and with fires of incipient red ‘revolution smouldering so close to the sur- face that only a breath is needed to blow them into an all-consuming conflagra- _ tion? It does not. It never did. This news- paper has investigated the situation care- fully and can assure its readers that at this writing there is no cause for alarm or a general call to arms. Is the United States a nation of dear but timid old ladies, frightened into tears at the cry of “boo,” leaping to table-tops at the scurrying of each tiny mouse, pale and breathless at the merest tale of a bad fairy or bogie man? It is not. It never was. But— that is exactly the way it has been represented to the rest of the world by its state de- ae under Secretaries Hughes and Hogg all within a period of 12 months. Hughes would not let the Hungarian ‘republican leader, Count Karolyi, come into this country to visit his sick wife without promising not to speak in public. Hughes, representing the government, acted like a child with his thumbs in his ears afraid he might hear a ghost story. - Kellogg first ordered refusal of the visa of the passport of the British Indian member of parliament, Saklatvala, who was a delegate to an interparliamentary conference at Washington, simply because Saklatvala was a communist. Second, Kellogg has ordered refusal of the visa ‘of the passport of the Countess Karolyi, who now waits to come to this country to pay a social visit, apparently simply be- cause he is afraid she might have com- munist ljeanings. In both instances Kel. logg, representing our government, acted like an hysterical and peculiarly near-sighted old lady who visualizes one Q. Is the move on the part of the Hirestone Tire & Tubber Co. to] | send # number of men to a rubber| | plantation in Africa sponsored by} the U. 8. government and where ts/ this plantation supposed to be To-| [nited States gold coins and make them into carrings and other kind of adornment or jewelry? A. No; it is, however, against the Jocean, 1,316 law to mutilate United States coins Lad of the United States and bea to the cuble foot, Allowing 60 then pass them into ciroula-| sar posucartona is 49,824 statute] pounds to the cublo foot your bin 9 miles, will hold 18,900 pounds or O45 Bagh y s iit | short tons of coal. Q. How many students are there) Q When and by whom was the CS laa) om public elementary and high city of Havana, Cuba, settled? Q. What 9 “gehools in New York city? A, In 1516 by Diego de Valea- re net 9 wsich eee iiteeutn irae opsteh, ques on the south coast of Cubas| grein trom clethingy iutomobile ee: gistne and was moved to tts present loca- mh @ Who was the hero in the! tion four years later, i a ia std Pian eo toHET movie “If Winter Comes”? ' iad eatele SIAL GOON Yah ioe eee a A, Percy Marmont. Q. W@ Woodrow Wilson ever A) 71g should remove He iat binsie# % Curie momber of the Roman Catholic Ha abc Q Whiero are copyrights on book» ‘and other literary and musical pro- duetions kept? A. At the copyright office of the tibrary of congress, Washington, ¢. church? Catholia Nica is the total was an length of ? ? Answers to Your Questions ? ? ‘OU can get an answer to any question of fact or in- formation by writing The Seat- tle Star Question Editor, New York ave, D. C., and inclosing 2 cents in if 4 loose stam) ; s Cl ps for reply. No | | duce, ‘A. This is a purely private com- i ° mercial move on Mr, Firestone's en ee ee marital ad Bay. part and has no connection with 9 nal replies 8 via YE e ohatever, he} | dential AN letters must be| | ie meaning of the government work whatever. The| | sienea te aera supposed plantation is sald to be pica | : ‘ lie wee |tho sea const of the United States? bai Kd Q Is it against the law to melt A. The sea coust proper is; At-| @ How much anthracite coal |lantic ocean, 1,489 miles; Pactfic miles; feo, 1639 miles, makin coast of 4838 miles, A, Woodrow Wilson waa never at any time a@ member of ‘the Toman church, Presbyterian, son of a minister of that churol, and never left tt, elder in denomination for many years, | is as human as a legislator. in a pasture as a whole stamped ing herd of Texas longhorn and herself, a helpless creature with two wooden legs, gout in one of thém, and no man within earshot, The barring of foreigners from this country ny purely political reason whatever is serious because it is a break red cow the cntire American tradition of | free speech and a fair deal for every- body’s opinions. The serious aspect of what Hughes and Kellogg have done should not be minimized, But worse than that it is ridiculous, and makes this nation ridiculous, as a confession of a weakness in the Ameri- ean social structure which does not exist. On either or both counts no man in the hysterical state of mind which seems to characterize Secretary Kellogg should be permitted to continue to hold office and~ | misrepresent this country. BARKING UP THE WRONG TREE | EPRESENTATIVE FRANK REID, Colonel Mitchell's civilian counsel, has some funny notions. He says that the United States constitution guarantees Colonel Mitchell's right of free speech and that, if the 96th Article of War abridges that right, it is unconstitutional, Theory, dear sir, theory! There are some hundred folks in jail for taking it to be fact and they will presently add to the number Miss Whitney, unless she is saved | by that makeshift of justice called “the pardoning power.” Mr. Reid, cannot you observe that the 96th Article of War clearly makes the con- stitution unconstitutional? Hasn't the United States supreme court, recently, vir- tually decided that any state may uncon- | stitutionalize the constitution in respect of free speech rights? Really, Mr. Reid, if you can’t get up a better defense for Mitchell than the “Bill of Rights,” they'll be likely to hang him. It’s an old cheap gag that constitutional lawyers laugh at. Get Mitchell insured, if you have nothing bet- ter. SOME BOMBARDMENT | 6 AXPAYERS’ committee bombarded | the house ways and means com- | mittee today with. arguments for repeal | of the tax on,” etc., etc. | You wi ! read many Washington dis- patches like the above. Taxpayers? Like enough. But, scratch the committee and you'll find a lobby brought on, boarded and petted by some special interest seek- ing to have its own taxes cut down. ‘The ordinary taxpayer doesn’t “bombard” anybody at Washington: He sits and takes “what is handed him. But, the present “bombarding” illus- trates the manner and means by which all of your legislation is influenced. The majority of congressmen see, hear and f only what comes before them in Washington and in their home districts. NO MORE LAWS? | OWN at Olympia two attorneys are busy writing laws that Governor Hart- ley will ask the legislature to pass. And thus endeth the great “No-More- Laws” movement. It had to come, of course. The governor Everybody is in favor of fewer lav “except that there ought to be a law about’ this, that and the other. No legislator wants to have another law passed—after one or two of his pet meas- ures are written into the code. The gov- ernor doesn’t want any more laws at all —except one or two that he has up his sleeve. Multiply the governor by the number of legislators and you get the total of folks who don’t want any more laws—except maybe one or two apiece. And so the old law-making goes merrily on, until nobody can keep track of the dull legislative product and a few more unwilling lawbreakers are created for the lawyers to glean fat fees from. But the ‘“‘No-More-Laws” movement was amusing while it lasted. Denying reports of his discouragement, Gen. Andrews writes that he is full of “intestinal forti- tude.” Old Demon Rum would have used a shorter, uglier expression, i $$ Q What ts meant by "the tn law of wages? 3s A. It is an alleged rule in eco- nomics that wages inevitably yravi- tate to the lowest level on whtoh| @ wage earner can ive and repro-| 1322 Washington, would a bin 9x6x7 feet hold? A. A bin 9x6x7 feet containa $78 cubio feet, Anthracite coal, piled loose, weights from 60 to 67 pounds Gulf of Mex a total sea Tle total aca left too tong before trying to re. move it, ites He was raised a| Q What in the meaning of the word “vel Heatrianintioal't? A, Tihs ta the adjective form of the word and means one who rides on @ velocipede, ® ne the Presbyterian ~ { OUT OUR r— “WAY HH 4H MOMENTS WED LIKE 70 LIVE OVER - THE MORNING AFTER THE NIGHT BEFORE. dE Jat" 2d] Ww Tua») maT Oumrnt) = SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1925. a nty Rw Llams 10-31 i028 wy nets seer iC, Profaning Childhood’ By Mre. Walter Ferguson Prayer Tee have as € this year in New York « which ts tryir innova. thon of § childish prayer, ow I Iny me down to weep,” and | to got something new they have hit up ing meant! no idea of hay lothed chorus girly Yoices syncopate Lord my One lone dramatic soul to up the first night Letters and protented Editor The Star I heartily congratulate you on your front p article Let's Shake Off Our Shackles and Grow.” It surely hits the nail right on the head, and it the six points mentioned are expeditiously carried out we will have the finest city on the globe. I get delayed in traffic jams nearly every day on the Fre: mont bridge, and a new bridge at Stoneway, one that will land up on Dexter ave, on the south end and erected high above the water, is a Vital necessity. At the present rate of rense in automobiles it is going to be almost impossible for autos to get across the Fremont bridge in the next year or Such a bridge across at Stoneway should be pushed to the utmost, as wo need it now, and {t will mean #0 much to the city. Yours for continued prosper- and a greate? and finer onttle Sincerely C, A. NELSON Editor The Star Reading your ‘'millton dollar bluff’ editorial in last night's paper moved mo to write this letter, You failed to mention beautiful Denny park, ono of the beautiful little parks in the ct If anyono will look into it, they will find. {t a haven for unfor- tunate children who have to live too close in. During the summor, at noon, tho park {s filled with working people who lunch there and gain an hour of rest, to ald them in shouldering the day's work. Why not turn the whole hill into a park? There ts not so much property there at the most. Other cltieh have Central parks. “I¢ the property owners can- not improve thelr present prop- erty”—who are the property owners, Mr. Editor? Surely, none of thoso living in the ramshackle houses you speak of, It is no barrier to the Westlake traffic outlet. As for commer clal growth, take Stewart st. and those avenues that parallel it. Rist idbamll wate 2 ( WHAT FOLKS SAY } pont <2 sacken, OF Ran RRL EO Lec AS | DR. ELWOOR MEAD, com- miasioner reclamation, Washing- ton: “Opportunities for home- making on public lands of this country have been the greatest single influence in shaping our national character.” DR. JAU DON BALL, psy: chiatrist: ‘Society ts punishing {tself, not feoble-miinded erimin als, when it permits tho latter to serve intermitten jail sentences instead of permanently segregat: ing them.” DOROTHY DWAN, film star and wife of Larry Semon; 'May- be other people do not like to nee a husband and wife playing op- posite to each other, but T like it A THOUGHT | Thou hypocrite, first east the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy: brother's eye—Matt, 7:5, so 8 HERI i9 some virtue in al most avery vice except hypocrisy. ~-Mowlitt, ibaa dy daa Lae eT FROM STAR Ali Lettera to The Star Must Have Name and Addreas thi Ho sald he fault nakedr did not as, nor ¥ vulgar obscenity, but lke to rilege One man, halt call a at thank God, who 4 the cournge of his ideals and who had not forgotten his dreams, Now doubtless many people prenent felt a shudder of re morse and displeasure when they ed to those simple words they had recited at thelr mother's knee, Others ma Readers Stewart st, 9 a beautiful paved street leadin ‘0 Eastlake, the true principal outlet of the city Most of It 1s bordered with shacks such an you speak of and vacant lots. If the “regrade commit! re ‘a no worried over the commercial wrowth of the city, it seems to mo that there is yet much space to bulld without spending a for tune by slicing down the few blocks that make Denny Hill. MARGARET LEE, 2351 30th ave. 8. Editor The Star I'm peeved! peeved! peeved Do we honestly want to back to the jungle life for the stato of supremo Dlins, the Utopia, the millennium, or what over ft ia that some of us want and think we will succeed in get- ting by canceling the marriage contract? They seom to lay the mistakes of the world onto marriage. Why, the marriage contract, when entered into in the right spirit, each party realizing the sacredness and responsiblity the step and are honest enough to keep the vows and promises sworn to therein, has done more for “little old humanity” than anything else, It is tho ideal, the beautiful life when carried out in unself- ishness and dovotion. I believe the number of suo. cessful Marriages far outnumber the unhappy ones. We never hear of them in the headlines of the Gally paper, but the number of happy homes thruout the land is legion. There are mistakes In tho {n-/ dustrial, soclal and commercial world, but that doesn't signify all eocial, industrial and commer- efal life is unsound, unstable and the whole syatem wrong. t of Even tho there aro many dl- vorces {t doesn’t prove that all marriage in a failure, for those same people that cry out the loudest against it would be a failure in most any other Iino where ft called for loyalty, cour- age, honesty and unselfish love, Freedom! Say, wouldn't this be a great old world if eomo peo- ple had the opportunity of run- ning it according to thetr Inter- pretation of that sacred word? NO! Rose Pastor Stokes, America will never swallow such ® nauseating draught as you recommend for a cure-all, and we'll not become soul-bankrupt, soul-barren, not a bit of It, let mo tell you. B. B. | NATURELAND at) T F auto tourists who dash thru Yellowstone park very summer and neo a fow beara and buffaloes, probably are not aware that this is the greatest wild animal sanctuary in tho world, Bealdos the buffalo and srood-nat. ured grizzlies that lve in Yel. lowstone, there are black, brown and cinnamon bears, nearly 20,- 000 elk, several hundred moore, innumerable dger, lots of heavy. ers, antoloyes, mountain sheep, most of them keoping to tho re. moto parts of the 9,348 square miles, In addition, more than 200 species of birds reside at Yel. Jowstone and evory stream ts full of fish. ; Gophers and pocket Paice, ax Well as chipmunks, have a spe clal pocket in both cheeks in which to carry home things they want to eat Inter, t————- SCIENCE ( have been so thoughtless a» to light in a new kiok at a show Certainly that baby calls to mind other choruses and jazz moni men and women, however dis ilusioned they may have be come, it brings pictures of a mother’s face, a father’s voice, the nweet feeling vf home, of the twilight hour, of childhood’ ‘ of that o curity and peace which they never have felt n when they > repeat those simple e may be hard and ¢ and cynical, but there in abot one 4 something that must move ur still, Fooliah and trit 1 threa till haye wer t us in the twlinkling an eye into the unny past If ever words were sacred, those verses are. They stand to many of us for Love and Home. Eternity ts filled with women who lisped them after thelr mothers, and who In turn taught them to thelr own babies. That short childish prayer is a link be: tween generations of men. We may change our fashions, and our manners, but lke the women of long ago we stil! croon those words to our lit- tle ones and smile with Gelight when tho rosy lips form them after us, wo still have softened hearts when we think of those long-gone days when we, too, clasped our hands and prayed with utter childish faith. When it takes such as this to give New Yorkers a thrill, they had better come West and try the simple life aith and SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31 If s0, you have unbounded en thustasm. You aro capable in business. You are unassuming and unas- sertive, You should be more aggressive. Criticism hurts you. You are sympathetic and gentle, You will never be a success, If you permit others to impose upon you, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 1 If 0, you aro restless. And lacking in concentration. You have a love for literature. You converse fluently. And write very well You could guin famo with your writings. You mix well. And make friends enstiy. Feeble-Mindedness 7} ey N analysis of the question of feeble-mindedness his been mado by Stanley P. Davis and published by the national com: mitted for mental hygiene, Feeble-mindedness has supposed to be inherited, Many alarming statements haye been published showing-tho supposed effects of inheritanco in this re spect. Tho critical analysis made by Davis sums up the investiga. tion by saying: “It is apparent that we can be certain of only one thing at present with regard fo the mode of transmission of hereditary defects, and that 1y our uncertaint Other late studies on this. sub. Joct leave the matter entirely un. decided. These researches throw doubt upon the accepted theories of tho transmission of mental troubles. A few years ago it wag believed that not only mental but physical ila of many kinds wore inherited. Gradually, it was soon that, if all these disenses wore Inherited, the human raco could not survive, At a recent medical convention doctors Wottld not name, positively, any disease that was acquired solely through {nhoritance, been ‘Registration By J. R. Juatice © regintrat pe « the matter of y in large and uncomple data gathered, is favorably inclined plan of re-registe t t other hand; the Mun- and is not ¢ much 1 f to the fi ear reg , wif t y ° istration. A com © from hen th gue, which has been prepared in « the subject, believes in that aw large a vote, and « wide for @ cleaner one, could be had tain every ,» on the fourye lan, And he cit ramittes no of the tn a ballot opinion t it would not cost 6 will be more than the permanent a yonents of the pw ’ manent ystem admit that it would be necessary to inspect 4 the tration cards before per é the voters cattle | each election end that they are er on the registration | Would have to be revised every ke, und that only 86 percent | four years of these vote at a high-tide elec | The Municipal league commit or It im his belief that once tee believes that the new regis- ermanent registration {s com tration could be made every ib a, it 1 materially in- | four years for what it would case this vote, until we would | cost to keep the perpetual Sist fir get on a majority basis. | up to date He says that on matters ne | Jt ig not at all improbable stand, city elections always that two bills will be presented decided by a minority yote. to the legislature, and no one The John D, ockefeller will predict which, if elther, Foundation has spent a lot of will get by. Mr. Fixit of The Star Undertakes Here to Remedy Your Troubles, if They Are of Public Interest a | Mr. Fielt:; Can the wages of | the matter could be easily ar- an employe of the state be par ranged nisheed? W.dG oc ee8 A garnishee of the wages of Mr. Figtt; Can you fiz tt os 1d be the emp eof | argument 0 did not take good she that when a woman has lost an with a gentleman, will admit it? The question ‘© of his Just bills would run fs, which are more efficient in danger of losing his job. | banks, men or women? I have #) e298 | never won an argument with a Mr. Fieit: There (9 a man woman, yet. Cc. L. i. who leaves his car half days at | 1 some positions women, a time on Yesler way near Oc- ve. y near Oc- | qnd for others men are more effi- cldental Nahe eed Be Why the clent. Since the banks employ move on in an hou y the gra * e partiality? CAR OWNER. pally gerd raf to inertia a ne Ailge ae ae Pigs Shore banks consider men more effi-. tae: ps which he ‘will do in clent for more places than . - women tho future, wasn gi opire ; Mr. Fieit: There is @ woman \ it: My husband has a Left ine city, after our dtorce, | 4% Beatle who builds Nouses, T have three children. The two | Mt she does not like to pay oder ‘chew: T- Oa peer in’ oN her Wills. I would like to ask if but must find someone who a labor Men docs not come will take the little girl, who | ahead of a mortgager J. P. a only nonthe old. At If the mortgage Was -tecuiaem fist lacoxld unable to pay efore the work on the house aT gthihy: {eriiketplna karts ae was begun, the mortgage would soon as I get on my feet I hold first place. Otherwise it could, and would expect to take would not ea her back within a year. Can you find a kind family that twill Mr. Firtt: The other day I help me solve this problem? bought a shoulder of mutton et MRS. L. G | @ stall in the Pike Place mar- Here is an opportunity for | ket. When I got home and tt was cooked it turned out to be goat; and rank goat, at thet. There was no doubt about ft. fome one to do a good work and ne time enjoy a baby in | use for a year, Names | sent to Mr. Fixit will be forward- Now, what I would like to ed to this troubled mother. know is, 1s a goat mutton? see T. F. E Goat is not mutton, though there is an old joke among butchers that competitors sell goat meat, which means old, tough sheep. Markets selling goat meat must label it as such. If you are positive, report the stall to the market master. Mr. Fixit: Do you know ¢ there {8 a building company in Seattle that will buy a lot and furnish the lumber if I build the house and pay back by in- staliments? E..B. B. | Mr. Fixit knows of no such | concern. If you owned tho lot Mir. and Mrs. Reader: Are you aware of the many opportuni- ties that appear every night in the Want Ad Section of The Star? If you are ready to buy a home you can save time and trouble by shopping thru the want ads first, rather than running to all parts of town and making a day’s work of it. Seattle’s realty dealers use the Want Ads to list the many homes that are offered for sale, and to help you locate just the kind of a home you want. These men know the realty market, and can advise you of the values and districts where your investments will be most pro- ductive. Other properties, such as rentals, acre= age, farm lands, business opportunities, etc., offer this same service in the Want Ad Section of he Star. Acquaint yourself with the Want Ad Section and make it a habit of your daily reading. You will find St ally helpful. STAR WANT ADS ARE FOR YOUR SERVICE USE THEM SEATTLE STAR 1307 7th Ave, WANT AD DEPT. ar Want Ads exception- co MAin-0600