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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-10-05
THE JAIL'S FINE
Human Derelicts Are More Human
Than Derelict

, what one or tho girls called IL, She
was a confirmed addict. awaiting
trial II those who have not yet
embarked on the white lrail could
only see the suffering ~ those try.
INK 10 overcome the curse there
would be fewer nddlcts. I know,
Well we played the Vlctrola.
which u a dandy. tho the girls are
badly in need Of late jazz records.
and there - really fine plano up
there tbut no late music, with a
large bunch OF flowers atop. wired
up from Frisco from somebody's
husband, l played that piano a hair
hour while a couple OF the girls sang
really fine voices enjoyed n
maybe more than they did. While
you couldn't call that iail room home
exactly. yet rs entirely liyable; the
Girls can stay up and enjoy them
selves untll $40 y. m. lights out az
TO- see their friends ia the mairon'a
paFior adjoining, aitho the uddiets
are not permitted contact talking
THRU a fine mesh screen.
Yes, I'm going back up there short.
y. with a flour sitter Tor The cook.
salt and pepper shakers. a long fork
ana tea ntrainer-Rnd records and
for goodness sake. folks. hasn't tho
hint been broad enough how about
fewf ia take u as personal
favor and you'll find me az Tho star.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-10-05
TELLS DYSPEPT|CS
WHAT To EAT
Avoid Indigestion. Sour Arid Siom.
acil. Heartburn. Gas On
Stomach. Etc.

Indigestion and practically all
forms OF afomach trouble. sny Hiedi-
cal authorities, are due nine times
out Of ten 70 an excess Of hydrochlo-
rlc acid In the stomach; chronic
acid stomach" IL exceedingly dan
aerous and sufferers should do
either one OF two things.
Either they can 10 on limited
aud often disagrccnblo diet. avoid
ing foods that disagree with them.
that irritate the stomach and lead
10 excess acid secretion or they can
eat aa they please in reason and
make II a practice 20 counterfeit the
effect OF the harmful acid and pre-
vent the formation or gaa. HOurneEa
or premature fermentation by. tho
uae Of a little Bisurated Magnesia
at their meals.
There is-probabiy no better. safer
or more reliable stomach antiacld
than Bisurnted MnRneaia and 10 In
widely used for this purpose IL has
no direct action on the stomach and
Is not digeatent But n tcaspoon-
full Of the powder or couple of five
grain tablets taken Ia a little water
with the food will neiItralizc the OK
cess acidity which may he present
and prevent its further formation.
This removes the whole cause Of the
trouble and the meal dlgests nat
uraliy and hcelthfully without need
OF pepsin pills or artificial digest
ents.
Get few ounces OF Bisurated
MagneHia from any reliable drug.
glst. Ask for either powder or tab
lets. IL never comes aa q liuuid
milk or citrate and In tho bIaurated
form II not laxative. Try this
plan and eat what you want AZ your
next meal and see " this Isn't the
best advice you ever had on what
TO eat.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-10-05
ny q. LUCILLE HITLER

Coolies % good food, clean com
Portable beds, air. light music and
laughter Aud somebody who might
boz YOUR own sweet mother Tor 4
mntrop. And that, my dcars. IL the
Klng county iail-as FAR AZ the wom
en- are concerned, anyway
( Far be Il from me 10 head run
on the county jail but honestly. Il
seems like a darn fine place To rest
up could set fat up there. and
! have a lovely chance TO brush up on
my muslcl
| just had 10 get that out OF my
syHtem and now 20 commence at the
beginning. ! went up 10 the Jail 10
Z pay q cail-~not on any OF my friends.
tho YOU never can tell nowadays,
what with speeding and Tinker
but Just call. collectively an Il were.
Well that call developed. uwelled and
spread until /, became a full Pledged
Wait almost stopover. Can you
imagine it-l simply hated 20 leave.
but ! mustn't make you jealous.
SOUND on JAZZ
WAS HEARD IN AIR
As | stepped into the courtyard u
the county jail the sound OF jazz IN.
tered thru nm upstairs window. &C.
companled by the tap tap % dane.
ling foot. Later after being pad.
locked and unpadipcked thru several
doors ! found myself In the presence
~ Matroi H. A uollar--a quiet lady.
who was paying lanky individual
with pleasant squint for an assert,
meni Of packages which. l learned.
were things ordered BY The girls and
paid for. Of course, out OF their pti,
waite funds, Let's see fancy soap for
Marg'rct. lemons for Ann. face pow.
der for Betty and Gigs for well ms
not ms business and I'm not going
TO tell- maybe her mother does not
let her sInnkel
And then and THEN MR,fon
HoIlar ushefed me thru tho barred
door and into large. airy room
! had arrived Eight or 10 girls.
mostly lying On their cots. and not
a pair % red shoes In sight Most
Of them drcssed nicely and quietly.
all clean and well gronmed Did l
feel like Daniel ia he Hons dem
did not toured the kitchen.
where The girls prepare their own
food. their laundry, wash room. etc,
and faFtrnHd ~ the living rQsDud
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-10-05
Prepare Now for
Influx of Refugees

To facilitate the work Of exarnin.
Ing tho ass Russians and y Chinese
who are bound Tor Seattle from
kobc, Japan. aboard tbs $. i. prsal.
dent Madison. party OF seven i'm.
migration inspectors. two Russian
Interpreters and one Chimes inter
prefer from the local office viii 10
10 Victoria, u. c.. Sunday TO board
the vessel ~ that port and give
admitianec examinations on the irip
10 Seattle. Luther wccdin. head OF
tho Seattle office. said Friday.
Most Of these Russians. accord.
Ing 10 Information we have. arv OF
the better class. who have LEFT Rus.
sia to escape tho scourEo az bol.
shcvlsm." wecdin aaid. Those who
are found vilgible to land on INC trip
from Victoria down win be per.
mit,ed to leave the ship as soon az
!, docks. The others win be dc.
talned.'
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-10-05
VICTIMS WILL
BE ADMITTED

Despite the fact that several
foreign nations have been crowdins
their monthly quotas or Immigrants
70 tho United States. special con.
alteration Is being given refugees
from tho earthquake stricken areas
In japan. Luther Wesdln. head Of
the Seattle immigration office. AN.
nounced Friday.
According 10 tho present law. =
wesdin explained. the annual Inn
migration from each nation IL
limited 20 . per cent Of i,a repre-.
sentation In this country. according
10 the census Of 1919. and no morn
than 20 per cent u the annual
quota can be admitted In any onc
month, Hut. sincs thousands have
been reduced 70 desperate ntafs
In the Orient. special provision hs.s
been made IN many cases BY the
authorities AZ Washington. %. C."
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-10-05
New Mystery Now
Puzzling Police

new mystery was puzzllng the
police Friday.
Mrs. a. b. BEEN, 1875 Fourth ave.
N T., reported that during tho
night thug had entered the house.
taking her husbands vcs,, watch
and lodge charm. The thug left tho
prints Of his bare feet on tho porc,,
and finger prints on a dining table.
Detectives were told that BEEN
had entered the house just before
midnight They are now checking
up on the toe prints and finger
prints TO determine by whom they
were made.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-10-05
QUIET LITTLE WOMAN
WAS FIGHTING DOPE

Picture one quiet little woman.
with paihos in her eyes, and grit
In her soul. making her desperate
fight against the dope trying 80
hard 10 conquer. And viii power
alone. and the lack 81 opportunity
10 obtain the stuff rs the only medi.
cine. .coid iron bar treatment" il
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-10-05
OPIUM RAID
NEWS LEAKS

IN spite OF efforts ~ the United
states customs office 20 keep seere,
The discovery u opium aboard the
Admiral Oriental liner preeidca,
Grant. THURSDAY. the news leaked
out and Il was admitted Friday that
.s' tins. valued at ias.bs0. had been
found under tho bathroom floor IN a
siatsroom suite. A disturbed Tie al.
traeied the attention OF customs In,
spectora.
No arrests were made. as the own.
era OF the drug. Il was asserted. arc
unknown. Tho stAieroom IN which
The opium had been srcrrted was un.
occupied on tho last trip from the
Orient, u wns stated.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-10-05
Engineers to Talk
Over Coal Problems

ROCHESTER,. n. Y. Oct. b.-The
coal problems OF the nation will be
considered In conference here DC
tober 1919, The meeting viii be that
OF the executive board of the Amcrl.
can executive board OF the American
Engineering Council Of the Federated
American Engineering societies.
The chief Interest of the meeting
VIII be In tho discussion OF coal
storage as n solution OF fuel troublon.
Recently. Ex-Governor Sproul of
Pennsylvanin, In an interview in
England. advocated that the federal
government devote 800. 100000 Ia
providing storage facilities to pre-.
vent congestion and to insure n
steady instead Of seasonal flow OF
coal.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-10-05

rehearsing wedding said the
pastor AT Yakima and Division
! saw Ford roadster ahead with
two young men and a woman sit.
ting between them.
Il was driving only AT moderate
speed, but when decided TO pass
the little machine also increased it's
speed
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-10-05

me a slip TO report in court
There was not an unkind E'a
spoken by either OF US. did y
him to come down TO the TauS'
theater Sunday night where J @.
duct services, and that se''
show him some real speed.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-10-05
PASTOR FINED
FOR SPEEDING

TACOMA. Oct n cost Rev. C.
Oscar johnson. pastor OF tho Rirs,
Baptist church. SIS for exceeding
the speed limit here Tuesday night.
Bail OF that amount posted in
Justice Il. J. Hackett's court was
forfeited.
Rev Johnson was arrested by
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-10-05

THE light over my speedomcter
was not lighted. | don't know how
fast ! WAS going. II was 30 miles
anyway, possibly more.
AT Junett and n. sath st. the
officer halted me and asked to see
my drivers license. Later he gave
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-10-05
AND THEN THE
PARTY COMMENCED

Things came 10 head rapidly
To start with ! was warm and
tired. 20 of came the coat hat.
brushed IN the old bob. powdered
the nase. sat on a cot and swung
feet with two nice looking coloycd
girls. and the p0rty was on. what
saw IN that Kitchen looked ~
good simply begged 10 stay for
lunch. aud with permission granted,
everybody was happy. Listen. az
you're not dietinsl here's the
monu; Baked sparc-ribs tspare IN
name oniyl. mashed spuds, lettuce
and cucumber salad. white and
raisln bread. pie and wonderful
cake donated by soniebody's friend.
life. saving tea. and milk for those
who wished What u NO did have
70 pass around the only sharp
gparingl knife In tho place. and
who cared because tho salt and
pepper shakes were ex-talcnrn
eansg Nov mind you. I'm giving
the county credit. but want you
70 An4tA HtaAA htAAh AhhatAst Ntes
lunch vas personal party from
those girls 10 me. you know they
pay for extras out % their own
pockets they regretted my. abb
sonee from dinner "Wednesday
night. when chicken was served.
Nav I know why good COOKS
are searoe--ihey must be all In
Jail.
These girls we're ia from ono 10
six months charges. dope, yag-
rancy. booileREing. theft one III
tie bobhed haired woman with five
youngsters at home. another giri
With two-we took census Of
hobs. and even mine included. and
the long hairs won by q consider
able margin. 20 you can ucr for
yourself. bohbcd hHir does not In
cite 10 crime. Husbands take no
iirr1
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-10-05
stnle nIghway rolIeeman

state Highway Policeman J. l..
o'Bnen.
Riding with johnson at the time
Of his arrest WAS W. w. New.
schwander. vice president OF the
Puget Sound National bank. and
two other persons.
I'VE were on our way home after
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-10-05

From American Legion Weekly
What did Hcnlock do when hn
worked for the moving picture com.
pnny?'
His first Job was being Daniel in
The lions den, md his next was he.
Ing Daniel In the lions"
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-01-13

experimentally, just as chemical. ply
steal, and other facts i'll nature are
susceptible of demonstration.
This assumes, of course, that dehb-
crate willing is the stimulus that pro-
vokes telepathic action. But the evil
dence SO far available goes TO show that
the real stimulus comes, not from the
will, but from the emotions, and from
the emotions as experienced in the sub
conscious depths or the mind. Obvious
", TO repeat what l long ago empha-
sized in my book, "Adyenturings in the
Psychical"
"One cannot handle feelings as one
can handle chemical compound, nor
can one manipulate at will the subcon-
scious as though it were a physical sub
stance"
In other words, the evidence for tel
epathy must in the main be weighed
by the judicial rather than the ex-
detrimental method. 1t is matter chief
ly of determining the credibility of wit
nesses and substsntiating their state
ments by satisfactory documentary evil
dence-as has already been done TO an
extent, it seems to me, that is quite
convincing.
Copyright, 1929. by the Associated
Newspapers
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-01-13
A SHORTAGE OF PEARLS

To add to the other ills the world is
heir to, comes announcement from Paris,
London and New York that there is a
shortage of oriental or genuine pearls.
Where to augment the supply is some
thing that is worrying the buyers of these
precious jewels because the demand is in
creasing and the production is decreasing
which in the natural course of things in
d1cates rising price.
The pearl is one Of the oldest forms Of
human adornment. 1t is so ancient as to
be mentioned in the oldest manuscripts
extant. The chief source of supply IS the
Indian ocean, although pearls of beauty
and great value also come from the Per-
sian gulf, Central American waters, West
Indian waters and from the Islands of
Japan and off the coast of Australia. The
Australian industry is small as yet but
is belieYed to have great possibilities. 1t
is largely exploited by the Japanese who
are the most expert pearl divers in the
world.
At one time in the worlds history. the
pearl merchants and traders Of Bagdad
and Mesopotamia controlled the pearl
business for all lands Bagdad was the
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-01-13
Factograns
BY L. S. Curtis.
Traffic Signals.

The bureau of standards, in conjunc'
ton with the National Safety Council
and the American Association of State
Highway Officials, has undertaken a
project for the standardization of col
ors of traffic signals. This will cover
both luminous and non-luminous high
way signals and related subjects.
A committee has been formed to han
die this work. Three subcommittee
were appointed which will collect in
formation and data as to past practices
and will carry out any Investigations
that may be necessary to determine the
selection of proper cOlors and other
items for traffic signals.
Japan Withdraws From Siberia.
The Toxic Yorodzu said on December
16 last that Japan's evacuation of 81
IBERIA is now completed. Japan is re-
puted to have spent the colossal sum of
$780, 100000 in the venture in Siberia,
and TO have lost as many as 2400 Of
ficerS and men. In comparison the
Tsingtao campaign cost Japan $4,000.
900. and the Chino-Japanese war
$115.000000.
Even in connection with the Russo
japanese war Japan did not spend more
than SI00,000.000. The Siberian ex-
petition was begun in July. 1918. in
cooperation with America, for the pur-
pose Of rescuing Czech troops in that
region. the YorOdzu reminds us. and il
relates that it approved the act of the
japanese government which was done
in compliance with a proposal from
America.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-01-13
From a Seat in the Gallery
By HERBERT COREY.

every man Jack were on the floor the
,,entire salary cost would only be $531O.
OF course, this does not provide for the
upkeep of the Capitol, lights and heat,
stationary and knicknacks. On the
other hand, not more tLan quorum
could By any possibility be expected TO
be present. For that slight expenditure
Of time, which is being measured in
money for the dramatics of it, one mil
lion dollars could be saved each year.
Creole Haskins Calhoun of the Canal
Zone has told the story. Not anly does
that ruling of the former attorney gen
eral cost the United States one million
dollars annually in tolls on ships pass
ing through the canal, but by queer
uuirk it costs American ships more than
it does foreigners. Rather, American
ships pay a larger percentage of what
they should pay than the foreigners do
under the rules. They pay per cent
more tolls than do the British. 40 per
cent more than Peruvians, and 80 per
cent more than Chileans.
The trouble arose over a conflict be-
tween two methods of measuring the net
tonnage of ships. The attorney general
of 1915 cast out the Panama Canals
rules and adopted another set. Hence the
eight million dollar loss since then, and
the continuing loss Of one million dollars
a year. All Of which could be corrected
at n cost Of one hours time of each
House.
Either Senator Caraway Of Arkansas
or Mr.. Blanton of Texas takes UP more
time than that each day.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-01-13

Washington, ID. C., Jan. 13.-Woulo
you-being an ordinary business teller
spend $1,000 TO make million: Or
would YOU buy q million dollars for
$1,000? Or if you would not go that
high, would you consent TO take the
million dollars if the rate were shaved
say 10 $4,000! ,
Well, Congress will not. Millions
are nothing in its life. At any rate,
this particular million seems not to
be. There are other times when con-
gress is painfully careful of its small
change. At any rate, here is the
story: In 1915 the ruling of the then
attorney general of the United States
imposed a loss of one mollion dollars
year in revenues upon the Panama
Canal.
Eight years have passed. Eight mil
lion dollars have been lost.
The loss could be stopped at the
cost of a ten-line law by Congress. .
The Dyer bill filibuster demonstrated
that the bushes can be beaten in the
cIokroOm, lurking statesmen can be
driven on the floor and made to answer
TO their names in approximately half an
hour. Add another half hour for the
explanation of the measure and you
have an hour in each House, or two
hours in all. If the four-hour lesisla-
tive days of the congressman brings each
$40 in salary, which computation Is
sufficiently correct. then each would
have devoted ten dollars worth OF time
to this project. There are 5S1 sena:
tors and congressman in all, and If
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-01-13
Science and Telepathy
BY II. AddingtOn Bruce.

The longer l study the problem OF
thought transference or telepathy, the
stranger seems the attitude OF most mel
of science toward it.
Even those to whom it ought to be
of special interest, physicists and psy'
biologists, are not merely resolutely
skeptical. They also are contemptu'
ously indifferent, and on various
grounds refuse to give the shghtest
consideration to the evidence that may
be adduced in telepathy's behalf.
1T is all very fine" is one argu'
ment they offer TO eXtenuate the really
unscientific stand they take, 1T is all
very fine for believers in telepathy to
cnumerate instances of COincidental
dreams and Authorizations correspond
ing TO the death or illness or INJURY
of some absent friend. Such instances
sound much more impressive than they
actually are.
People are all the time having
dreams of death, illness, or injury oil
absent friends when nothing Is the
matter with these friends. The non.
coincidental dreams are forgotten. III
they were taken properly into account
it would soon be apparent that mere
chance explains the condolences which
do occur"
This is a stock argument, but a fall
lacious one. For it is not a question
simply of dreams and Authorizations
vaguely conveying an lntimation OF
death, illness, or injury. 1t is n ques-,
ton, again and again, Of dreams and
Authorizations in which the details oil
q distant scene are correctly pictured.
Thus. to cite one well-attested case,
a young woman dreams that her father
and brother, on sledge journey III
Norway. are in imminent peril OF los
ing their lives through collision with
the sledge of another traveller, coming
unexpectedly out of a crossroad. She
has a vivid, detailed vision of the ac-
cident and the narrow escape.
What she saw in her dream CORE
spends precisely with what happened.
as she learns from her brother on his
return. Now, clearly, it is difficult TO
extend the theory of chance coincidence
to cover all the facts involved. Ordi-
nary common sense revolts ut the idea
that by chance alone the dreamer S
mind constructed all the cOincidental
imagery of her dream and that by
chance alone it constructed this at the
very time the accident it depicted was
occurring. ........ ..
As Henri Bergson has tcrssly put it.
such a chance coincidence is mathe'
NAUTICAL impossibility. Nor are scien'
lists on safer ground when they de-
fpnd their indifference to telepathy on
the plea that its phenomena do not
seem to be reproduciblc Mt will.
"If telepathy be- fact in nature.
rrns this second OhieTiion "thpn il
ought TO be possible to demonstrate this
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-01-13

confronted with dire poverty, unrest, an
archy and mis-government. The unem-
ployment problem in even such countries
as England, noted for centuries as great
industrial nation, is so serious that armies
of unemployed are parading as they de-
mand succor.
America may have her faults and the
American methods at times, may be open
to criticism but there is no place in the
world today that is better. Once again as
in by-gone years, the povery-stricken
people of all lands, look longingly to this
country for opportunity. How many of
US realize the favored position we hold
and the comforts and luxuries that we
hayeo