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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-03-12
Sn,oot---Lenroot---FaU

TT has become known that Senators enroot of Wisconsin
i and Smoot of Utah paid secret visit to FALL last De-
ceber to discuss the atter evidence before the Walsh
committee The visit took place about three days before
the committee received written communication from
Fall explaining that he got that 100000 from Edward
B. Mclean of the Washington Post This letter Fall
afterward admitted to be le and Doheny proved it to
be Lenroot says there nothing unusual about
their visit to Fall and adds that he and Smoot went there
to urge Fall to confess"
The public will not agree with Lenroo That visit was
just improper would have been visit by the Judge
trying case to wealthy defendant. Members of this
committee sitting in judicial capacity, supposedly
investigating publicly matter of great public interest
No single member any two members of the committee
had right to visit the accused to consult the lat
ters defense, confession abi. AS matter of fact
the public has confidence in Smoo He is self-con-
fessed defendant of everything reaconary. The public
used to believe in Lenroo but has rapidly lost confidence
in him. During the early days of the oil inquiry Len
root acted obstructonst and defender of the ac-
cused. Only after the satchefu of money and bribery
scandal out to shock the public did enroo change his
tactics and pretend to help Senator Walsh in prosecuting
the inquiry.
The Walsh committee has had its own internal troubles
all thru this investigation AS the Mclean kilograms
show not only exAttoney General Mitchell Palmer but
other Influences brought TO bear on Walsh and
other members of the committee in the hope of dverng
the investigation.
judging by Walsh
Doughheeny must have taken Walsh another sucker.
well cabinet shaken before
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-03-12
Telling 1t
to Congress
WHAT CHEWING COSTS US
Excerpts from the Congressional
Record

Tho wrigley Co. manufactures
most OF tho chewing gum in the
United States. Hero is what Mr..
Wriglcy claims for his two factories.
one In Chicago and one in Brooklyn.
His plants have n daily capacity OF
100000 packages OF gum. These
two plants turn out n product which
sells 10 the ultimate consumers OF
tho United States for ts5o.ooo every
day In the ycar-Rep. Rainley Cd,
Ill.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-03-12

MODERN lifo has given MS
Nl many things which arc
conducive 10 longer years cas-
ier work and greater pleasure.
Nye have automobiles and tcle-
phones. electricity and radios.
good roads and tho movies. 20
aay nothing Of tho floods OF
hooks and magazines and ma
chimes for the making Of music.
But We have lost one thing
which no gift can ever replace
Tho art or being friends
Modern life II 70 hectic. and
No arc al 20 busy enjoying tho
conyenienccH which surround
us. that We cannot find the
TINS 70 cultivate friendship.
Oceans Of acquhintanccA may 30
ours. men and women With
whom We enjoy a fitful visit,
whose opinions VIC cherish. and
whose accomplishments we nd
mire. but wo seldom seek out
nnw friends. or what Is sndder
siill, never spend a day with
those old companions Of our
youth who have stood the test
OF time and circumstances and
upon whom wo know we can
rely when trouble comes
Every woman whose life Is
full Of duties and diversions
has n few persons outside her
Immediate family circle upon
whom she Is sure she can ever
depend. but how many give 10
them an hour Of time. or show
any evidence Of affection to-
wards them? we may speak
Of them with longing and think
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-03-12

and clothes 10 sell. would hold on
10 them for want Of anything re-
motsly representing money.
There ia already considerable IN.
rest in the land. But people are
managing 20 scrape along. They
are hoping-nay. expecting-to see
q settlement come out Of the reports
Of tho Dawes and McKenna com.
nitteeA. Take that hope away from
them and substitute the chaos which
"A new collapse Of German finances
would mean. and Germany would
fan 20 pieces.
There would almost surely be a
revolution OF Eorts. perhaps far
more bloody than the ho-caiied rsYo-
luton which followed the flight Of
tho kaiser 20 Holland. There has
really been no revolution in Ger.
many 10 date. Just coups With
very little shooting or bioodEhsd.
Tho most likely thing is that the
country viii fall apart into virtual.
~ autonomous units, as II was
prior TO the federation. The peo-
pie do not take too kindly 10 the
present system OF centralized gov.
eminent. anyway, for II Is far more
centralized now than under the
kniser."
well" I said, ~ what Franee'e
enemies are saying is true. and she
Is really seeking the dismember-
meat OF Germany. now would seem
20 be the Psychological moment.
would Il mott"
NO" said the official dryiy. "A
dLsmembered Germany would never
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-03-12
Talking bout Fiction

THE supreme court of Nebraska has handed down and
l out decision announcing that the idea that
is the head of the family is common fiction of law.
To those of us who mere hal-racks on which dis
eliminating families have draped themselves and depend
there is nothing startngly in this decision We have
been reticent about it, but knew this sad thing long
before the Nebraska court enunciated it. The
the wives and motherset know about it, delicatey
in some and rudely in others
Back in the dear dead days of the stone age the
glacial period. the cave-dweng epoch, perhaps,
tom and club made the head of the home
hole in the ground Then refinement, shortage of
fuel something caused the club to be discarded and
right there began to slip and skid. Never
he able to get back the head place He lost out
petey in the end The detailed history of the metamor
phosis poignant but it unnecessary here 1t is sad
enough to be compelled to admit that he who once was
head of the house is household utens that
may be used occasion and told where to head in always
Fiction of the law? Yes, and more and worse 1t is
family fiction, and that is where decisions
dered that superior to all law Nothing restore
but renaissance, and maybe that will not
Runor No s'6jsoss35 going today
they found another public official
frned
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-03-12
Failure Of Dawes Would Spell German Collapa
HIGH OFFICIAL TELLS
OUTLOOK OF EUROPE

Editors william Philip smms foreign Of The g.
Stars Washington home after weeks 1
conditions The Of three which ~
marl high spots European polie and economies
BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIgiMS
'SNHE collapse Of Germany is inevitable if the repon
the Dawes committee Of experts is scrapped1 4
Of the highest officials in Berlin told me-
"The first thing that would happen" he went on ov
be the final humiliation Of German currency Her ls
money the renten-mark, worth the pre-war gold n
or nearly 70 cents, would not just depreciate. vol
explode. One day it would be money. The next WORTH
paper.
1.-THE next thing would be social chaos. Their ma.
gone people could buy nothing not food There WIZ
be intense suffering. Farmers and merchants with hi
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-03-12
Stone Blind

TN turning down the Filipino plea for independence Mr.
i Coolidge got off good one, towit:
''0ne who examines the grounds which are based
the protest against the situation is forced to con-
cude that there has not been thus far full realization
of the fundamental ideals Of democraticrepubcan GOV
eminent"
We suggest that Daugherty Doheny, Sinclair, DENLY.
Fall and Ed Mclean get together in the supreme court
chambers and have laugh Filipino stupidity With
red hot example of democratic-repubican government
shining for them at Washington for % years past those
dense dark Filpinos haven't got anywhere reaza
ton of what it Heaven help theml They'll never
be fit for independence until they've struck oil.
ssy says frauds
shaving off Of hair voter mark him Only
for epeater u win be tho haIdheadd
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-03-12

Read MI. N,;9-2a Toxt n;io.
Thy Kingdom come. Thy VIII -
done. as In heaven. 70 on earth.
IL fprayerl n not the surrender
o. Individuality. on the contrary. u
would seem that true prayer devci-
ops at one and the same time q
sense Of God. Of sir. and of other
men. Coming into tho presence o.
God neccasitaies clearer con.
sclousness Of men. for men arc
Gods great concern. II gives a new
significance 10 all life"
MEDITATION: The true disciple
seeks 20 live HIS lifs In harmony
with tho life OF God. lie desires
above all else that his own will
shall b 80 under tho influence Of
the viii OF God that his ITO and
work shall 30 TO further Gods will
among men. God does not COM
mand us. but permits US 20 BE- CO.
workers with Him. Human person
ality Is vitality enriched when tho
right choice u made.
PERSONAL QUESTION; Am !
as anxious that God should have
His way with me as am that He
should control other meng
PRAYER; Almighty God. let me
realize the leading Of Thy Spirit
this day. that may do Thy viii.
Let me move IN tho way % life
with all Thy children OF good will.
May tho inspiration OF thy grace
make me strong and confident. IN
Christ's name. Amen.
Copyright. issi--F. L. Fagicy)
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-03-12
mon and their punishment

mon and their punishment.
They expected TO make mil.
lions and millions. Probably all
this talk about the failure OF
the oil fields TO measure up 10
the expectations is false. But IL
there were not n drop OF oil in
the ground. tho crime was the
same. The safe was blown and
the burglary committed. What
matter even II Il was cmpty7
The hypocritical plea that Il
didn't pay tho burglar or the
swordsman is made apparently
because they have no better plea.
But II does not excuse the crime
II there was one.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-03-12
A THOUGHT

Behold. 7 come quIclsly: and my
reward Is with me to give every
man according as his work shall be.
Rev. xx.:l2.
II DOUBT " hard work, steadily
L and regularly carried on, ever yet
hurt anybody.-Lord Stanley.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-03-12
NOT A GOOD PRECEDENT

The federal government under.
pays all OF It's employees. from the
members OF both houses OF congress
Up or down, IA you may have Il.
But that IL no reason why we
should not pay every man adequate.
ly when we are establishing new
depariment.-Rep. ChIndblom R).
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-03-12
IL c. OF pRnIIrnIrInN

The total payroll tof the prohibit
ton enforcement buream for the
year 1921 was s4,O29.t3o. Tho total
payroll for the year 1922 was &C..
O45.o7s. The total payroll for the
year 1923 was .5.s46.5s2.-senator
Edwards CD. New Jersey.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-03-12
What Folks
Are Sayin,

LOUIS A. COOLIDGE, us.
chuSstts-''Ws are trying 70 "a
ardizs education. That IL what 3.
many did until her peopl. rn
stepped Into one Of the creates, ~
OF history. There are thing y
you can standardize, but YOU 81
standardlze human souls"
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4
given. nor can extended research |
be undertaken. Unsigned re-
quests cannot DO answered -
y EDITOR
q. Which - The most Important
AID icidclv diFirbuicd tree "a TIE
rnncd Sfafcsf
A. The pine. There are many
kinds. some confined 20 tho EaA,
and some to the West. but every
state has Pine forests Of some Kind.
q. Whn, does the erpreas!on,
-tnfra Dig meant
A. This IN an ahbrevIAtion Of
mira dlgnitatcfn. which means he
meath ones dignity" untecoming 20
one's position.
Q. What iriH break nc Of biting
ny railsr
A. Wrap your finger tips In
bandagcs. and perhaps this win
help you 10 remember. Careful
manIcurinE viii help. for you win
certainly not care 70 destroy tho e.
feet Of prettlly manicurcd nails.
Q. Hoe should celery be oafenf
A. With the fingers. but the
stalk should not be dipped Into a
dish Of salt. A BIT OF salt IL placed
on ono side n the plate for this
purpose.
q. Hop did the czpreasi0n. ~
the mountain iciil not como 10 Ma-
hoBlcf. Mahomct must 90 70 tho
mountain" oriOiHafcf
A. Mahomct made the people
believe TINT he would call a bin 70
him, and from the top OF II offer
his prayers for the observers Of his
law. The people assembled. VIA
homet called tho hill to come 10
him. again and again; and whom
the hill stood still. he was not
abashed. but said: III the hill VIII
not como - Mahomet. Atnhomet
will go to the hill"
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-03-12

pay FI1Ht' aHy And F.r1
finances, for ysars based On 49,
payments BY Germany Of ven ~
sums % money. would Grad /.
II Germany crashes now, sas y
almost surely drag Francs -
with her"
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-03-12

j. ADAM BEDE, snnnesra !
congressman: THE world has i
ricketts,. It's body has outgror- 4
soul"
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-03-12

They've DISCOVERIES that the White
House tolcgraphcr manned the
Fali.McLoan private wire. Ia,
We demand tina, bloodhounds he
put on tho trail OF the White House
cook what was sho doing when
tho Teapot was put ont
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-03-12
GERTRUDE ATHERIox

-"Romance is beautiful. and a d
as ell art, would be the poore, u
out H. but, unbridled and untr-sl
II is tho curse Of modern dr.
ton
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-03-12

Anyway they took dollar Job
18th assistant suth he needed the
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-03-12
Tellotustip OF
Draper

Daily Lcnten Bible reading
and meditation prepared for
Commission on Evangelism OF
Federal Council Of the Churches
Of Christ ln America
WEDNESDAY
Kingdom Builders With God
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-03-12
THOMAS A. edison. ,,,, =. .

ventor-'Tt is not the quansiy ,
riches that counts; It's the Cur
which produces i. olnesa VIZ
that Is possible
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-03-12

You Have TO admit that the Tea.
20, Is too hot for favorito sons and
other presidential possibilities.
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QUESTIONS
AND
ANSWERS

You can get an answer 10 any
question OF fact or inforrna-
ton by writing 20 The Question
Editor. stars Washington Hu.
rebu. i12s ~ Y. Ave. Washing.
ton. n. G.. enclosing two cents In
stamps for reply. Medical. legal
and marital advice cannot BE-
given. nor can extended research
be undertaken. Unsigned re-
quests canpot bV answered -
EDITOR
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Rumor No 36sosse,35i going about Washington today
they have found another unususpced public official II
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-20

It remained, however, for Mir. Cold
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quiem," but in the practical field his influence is more extensive.
 But in iones enthusiasm for Mir. Goldmark's pedagogic eminence one must not lose sight of the fact that he is above all an American composer This fact (and it is an important one not only to MT. Goldmark himself, but to that section of the public that carries its patriotism into the. field of the seven arts) was forcibly borne home by the first performance, during the win ter of 1922-1923, given his Negro Rhapsody" an orchestral poem that whatever criticism one feels deserving was an admirably sincere and crafts manlike evocation of the popular American spirit. The unique charm of negro rhythm and melody have at tracted the attention of many and vari- ous composers, Americans and Euro peans included. Anton Dvorak, with whom Mir. Goldmark studied when a young man, used them in his symphony, From the New World" which has since become one of what NIr. Pitts Sanborne has called the daily dozen of symphonies. Among the Americans, John Powell and John Alden Carpen- ter stand out for their distinctive use of the idiom. and even Edward Mac Dowell, the father of American music, has given us music where the negro in fluence can be clearly felt.
 Concert Hall Asset
 It remained, however, for Mir. Gold
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two bars, sometimes nothing but the spirit which I found in the tune. It was more this that was aiming at :: to extract the spirit, the force. the flavor of this music-the only real folk music of America, suppose one may call it-and to get at this was a purely intuitive process. Y
 Harmonic Problem
 Being musician, you will under stand that I was also up against q very interesting harmonic problem. wanted to, indeed, I felt it necessary to preserve the distinct characteristics of this music: the minor seventh, the pentatonic scale and also the charac- teristic syncopated rhythm of negro music-the rythm from which jazz has derived its peculiar individuality. But also felt that, were to confine my selft to these obvious features the Ie- suit would be extremely monotonors. And on the other hand, to become tpo intricate and diverse-in word, tro modern-woud destroy almost entirely the true negro flavor.
 However, these are technicalities.
 'The chief thing was that I should write piece that had dignity, for I felt and still feel that there is real beauty and dignity in negro music. go it was up to me to achieve this dignity and solidity without sacrificing the in herent joviality and abandon that eE- presses itself in most music of this kind. This predominance of the hc- morously ecstatfc with an undertone O. melancholy is also distinctive of Slavic and Hungarian music"
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til 1940. The creation of a new storage dam on the Alhajuela River, which de- flyers it's waters into the Chagres, and a smaller storage reservoir near the Pa cific locks will extend this period few years, but ultimately another canal will be necessary. Moreover, third system of locks will be required at least as early as 1862 in order to care for the increasing traffic. As surveys and other preparations take time, and as construc- tion work on a new canal might require a longer period than that consumed in building the present waterway, the crisis is really more imminent than Captain Kinds dates at first indicates.
 The Nicaragua Proposal
 But advocates of the Nicaragua canal and of the so-called Panama strait are not so optimistic. By the Bryan Chamorro treaty, concluded under the Wilson administration, the United States has already paid $3,OOO,OOO and acquired the right to build canal along a route roughly indicated by the San Juan River, Lake Nicaragua and the Cult of Fonseca. Such canal might cost a billion dollars, or considerably more than twice the cost. or the Pana- ma Canal. Yet the plan is being vigor- ously pushed by not few business and public men,.
 Il What is in some ways more atrik- ing plan is that of Lieut.. Col. Philipps Bunau-Varilla, French soldier, editor and engineer, who for enghteen years has advocated sea-level canal at Pan anna. Bunau-Varilla believes that the tonnage seeking passage through the canal will reach 5O,O00,000 annually by 1884, and 1O0,O0O,OO0 by 1914, and de- clares that the only practicable means of relief will be the transformation of the existing canal into a sea-level ditch.
 To accomplish this, he estimates, it will be necessary to spend twenty years and about a billion dollars and to re- move 1,600OO0 yards of mud and rock, or about five times as much as had been removed by the French and American engineers up to the beginning of May, 1924. The bed of the Bunau-Varilla ditch would be fifty feet deep at low tide, thus giving ample draught for the
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mark to popularize in a way the negro as a concert hall asset. The Negro Rhapsody" is the most perfect, if the most obvious, of examples.
 Our first meeting with the composer was propitious; it occurred the same day during which we had received an announcement from the Philharmonic society forecasting the performance of this rhapsody at the Stadium during the present season of summer concerts.
 "So they're to play it at the Sta dium?' remarked Mr. Goldmark, mildly interested, T hadn't heard. The other day my publishers wrote me that three orchestras have procured it for per formance next season, and of course it gratifies me to learn that it has met with this much success. The idea for the rhapsody was in my mind for we'll, for over 9 years, I might say. About that time. about a quarter of a century ago I was in the west featuring on national music, and negro influences figured largely in what l had to say. I had looked up sources in the library
 in Poole's dictionary, to be exact and also found articles dealing with the subject in various magazines. What these were and the dates I have forgot ten and it's of no great importance. But number quite large number, of themes were quoted and there l found one which later became the last in my rhapsody.
 T never became a specialist in ne gro music. The subject in due time dropped out of my mind, with the ex- ception of this single theme which per sisted in remaining at the back of my head and coming to the fore occasion ally with distinct force. After about 20 years I said to myself that it must be good theme. Not many tunes, you know, have enough vitality and life to last that long, retaining their flavor and direct appeal. So I decided some- thing must be done about it; the rhap- sody, you see, was beginning to take form.
 Then 1 looked up other collections l did not go south to make any study of negro music in it's home. I got my material from books and articles on the subject. It was, in the first instance, that theme, picked up 20 years before, that was the motivating force behind the rhapsody. From my sources I ex- tracted other themes of which on occa- sion 1 would use only one or perhaps
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largest vessels, and a thousand feet wide. He would. achieve his end, with out interrupting canal traffic, by con- tinuous dredging with fifty dredges, which would dump the greater part of their load into Gamboa lake.
 Our argument for this scheme is that the present locks, being only a thousand feet long, will not safely admit vessels of more tan nine hundred feet in length. The Majestic, with her 956 feet or the Leviathan, with her $50, could not be put through the locks, and even the British cruiser Renown, with a length of 795 feet, which passed through in 1920 during the tour of the Prince of Wales, was considered a fairly tight squeeze.
 Already the question of a new canal, possibly following the Nicaragua route, has received attention at Washington It was discussed in President Harding's cabinet shortly before Mir. Hardings S death and will undoubtedly come up again before President Coolidge or his successor.
 r In the meantime the success of the present canal, despite war, slides, and other interruptions, has been demon strated. The Canal Zone, though not formally United States territory, is as characteristically American in the eco homie and political sense as any part of the Union. Here is peaceful army of more than 12,O00 men, about one-third of whom are Americans, and one-third of whom are engaged in the actual handling of ships and canal apparatus. The government of the Canal Zone maintains not only q waterway but also railway, dry docks and repair shops,