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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-12-09
Mosquitoes

Editor Tho star.
What does a mosquito look lIkcr
SO Ions since I sgw one. I have for.
gotten.
Next time anyone asks you Uch
Ia question, as how far north maa.
puitocs breed. tell them that there Is
a beautiful paradise on tho Strait Of
San Juan and Admiralty Inlet. called
Port Townsend. where the festive
mosquito is unknown. where the nil
Re always balmy, where peaches and
fgs grow outdoors and tho girls have
such beautiful compilations. the drug
stores arc going broke M we'll as the
doctors,
Come over and re, "a homo in Gods
country.
JIM FULLERTON,
Mayor. Port Townsend.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-12-09

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from England 90
show American
golfers how 20 go
around - holes
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single cures. IN the
rough OF out Of o.
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on "a Bronrlo or
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of aIkarl duH Iu
his he Neither
has be played tho
roIo Of bad man 300
the jumping flick
ere. but when lIr
arrived lu these
United States DEE
wore "a I9,Eallon
bat that rivals
Tom AilEa.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-12-09
---- FABLES ON HEALTH ---
EXERCISE FOR TEETH

no YOU give your mouth the
~ right kind OF oScrCIso2
Mr. Mann stared Mt tho dentist
who propoundcd tho question,
Active use Of tooth brush Is an
excellent stimulnnt for the mouth,
but careful mastlcntion Of the food
rs MS much nm exercise MS walking
or rowing but II affects the teeth
alone.
Thmu nhnNlmm hnrn nlnlula Of
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-12-09
Letters SIAN STAR READERS

Let this be the verde, IN the Gar
rsson case. Go ard sin no more.
DIR. GEORGE 4. MOFFETT.
SkykomAh. Wash.
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at hand that you purchased for lcttcrs
ana such, but 1t seems that you never
can quite understand why you seldom
are using II much.
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news OF tho day But, at postponlng
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them 10 always be " s'
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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-12-09

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Wv nrIL-n var ncol. HulrILnE Tho only Amercnn
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-12-09

Q. win silver dollar, IL dropped
into body OF water, sink to the
bottom. regardless Of the depth?
4. Yes.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-12-09

JIM FULLERTON,
Mayor. Port Townsend.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-16
THE PEOPLE SPEAK FOR FORD

Popular referendum on the comparative merits of the power companies bid and the Ford bid for Muscle Shoals reveals an as- tonishing unanimity of public sentiment in behalf of the manufacturer. The Mobile Register found that the people in that com munity stood about in the ratio of twelve thousand to seventeen for the Ford offer. The Nashville Banner found that the ratio in that city stood about 56,O00 to forty-nine, with sixteen votes for government operation. Now the Montgomery Journal, to offset any hint that the people of that community are not favorable to the Ford offer, publishes re- suits of balloting to show Ford sentiment in the ratio of more than thousand for to twelve against, with two votes for government op- eration. Naturally, there are some who dis like this form of discovering public sentiment but it must be evident to even the most casual observation that such persons are in an extreme minority.
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PROPOSES TO AID FARMERS BY sTAPERINGOFF' PROCESS

this country, when men shall bfH for it, knowing there will be no surplus, but that all will be required for immediate consump. tion, then prices received by the farmer for his products will be enhanced. The European situation reveals a demand for the surplus farm products of America if there we're soma way in which their sale could be financed. As permanent policy, would be oppdsed to the government assisting business and pro- viding intoxicants to any industry, either for the purpose of making it feel good for a time, or with view to restoration to health: But the ancient doctrine of tapering off might properly be applied in the. case of agricul- ture. .t1 .;s sse .ss.4's
 Why nSt listen to the modest redGest of. the agriculturists of America Why may not the government advance the money for a farmers exporte financing commission to sell our. surplus farm products upon credit in European markets where they are ,sorely needed? The farmer with his modesty and high sense of patriotism. is not asking that the government shall give to him any sum of money. He is, willing, if the money shall be advanced to finance the exportatiou of his surplus crops, that all losses which may be sustained, shall be made good to the govern ment by beneficiaries of the exporting plan. Persons who are, wise enough economically usually to know what they are taikinga about say that this plan would bring increased values to farm products and wouldtameas- urably restore agricultural classes to sound financial basis. o>t. ss
 It is what would call tapering-oh proc ess. Experimentation for two or three years would disclose either that the plan was falla- cious or sufficiently beneficial thatsthe' 'rarm- CTS themselves should take charge and dis miss the government from further activity. Although opposed to the whole system Of government aid to business, feel that iustic' demands that our government, which hai done much for other industries, should dc this much for agrieulture.g, The industry must be restored to a normal condition! Farm. CTS must be returned to a contefted state of mind. ttn + 'f'%
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-16
RUSSIA AND WOLVES

The first of our Western associations with Russia is wolves. Samovars and icons and anarchists all come later. Wolves following the flying sleigh--the terrified occupants throwing their mittens to them, their fur caps, their shubas and last of all, the baby does not disappOint you so far as the. wolves go. All through the winter wolves form a part of every peasants calculations, and stories of wolves are still the tales that most easily draw the old men from the. chimney corner and the children from play. They never grow stale, and it is only foreigners who disbelieye them.--Manchester Guardian
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pay it. There are comparatively few who pay income taxes. The burden lies in the direct and indirect consumption tax.H Mir. Underwood emphasizes what, Republicans refuse to see-that high tariff is a high in- come tax on the small consumer. Says Mir. Underwood: ''We are facing an anomaly in the government. We are saying to the toiler. the man in the street: We will reduce the, tax on incomes and increase the tax on the bread you eat and the clothes you. wear This is an impossible equation in American politics. When a congress increases the bur- den of taxation on the woolene clothes a la- borer must wear, an an increase of 100 per cent. at the lowest and 1S6 per cent. at the highest, can you expect final judgmentlof the people to sustain such a verdictH
 Mir. Underwood does not, as we under stand, propose to inject the tariff issue into the consideration of the income tax bill. To do so would be false step. He is merely outlining his own program on the tariff question, should he occupy the White House. Baltimore Sun. s. hs1c
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previously voted these two boards had been spent as it should have been spent. instead of as it was and is now being spent, either board could ask for and receive any amount of bonds in reason without all of these pages of reports and camOuflage and all of these nine committees.
 And what the general public wants to know now, from those two boards, is whether the same conditions are in effect now as when the Phillips High School was built and when
 the municipal market was built and the au-
 ditorium now being built-in other words, E what understanding or trade has been made { with the different labor organizations to en- list their leadership in this bond issue? Have they been assured. as before, that if the bonds are voted only men with cards will be permitted to spend this money, thereby delivering to the large property owners about sixty cents on the dellar for labor
 spent in these buildings and delivering to
 the small taxpayers the consolation that, al though he pays taxes, he cannot earn any | of his own money to provide for his own ] family, because he does not carry a union
 card, while sO-called card men are brought
 in from other towns to do this work? Or
 have taken oath to represent all of the peo I pie, come out in the open, as they should | and inform these organizations, as well as | the public, that there are no strings or F these bond issues and that no special class | of men will be favored with this work and
 that no restrictions whatsoever will be placed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-16
As To School Constructlon

To the Editor of The Age Herald:
 Regarding our contemplated bond issue, and under the heading, An Honest Statement, ? published in your valuable paper of Monday, January 2S, you say: ''Blrmingham's atten- tion has been honestly and conscientiously directed to her public schools, and the people will be asked fairly and squarely whether they will give the schools the funds necessary to make them successful and efficient"
 Now, Mir. Editor, I have taken the trouble in the last few weeks to inform myself on the real sentiment of both large and small taxpayers regarding these bond issues, and there can be no doubt but what we need the school improvements, as outlined by the board of education, also the improvements outlined by the board of commissioners of the city of Birmingham. If the public money
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around any of this work that would prevent responsible firms of contractors from pro- curing and constructing any of this work. thereby giving the taxpayer the privilege of receiving one hundred cents for every dollar spent, and it is the general supposition that when the above declaration is made in good faith that the bond issues will overwhelming ly carry, although some of the. forces now in the lead for the bond issue may find it con venient to renege. Other bond issues in con- nection with the school bonds did not de- feat the school bond issue two years ago. defeat of the entire bond issue at this time, and will defeat the present bond issue under similar conditions. .1 -nsqE
 a., CHARLES M. ALLEN.
 Birmingham, Ala. .ss..
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-16
4 NAV OF RARE COURAGE WHO DARES TO SPEAK TRUTH

Underwood, one big fact stands out about him which Democratic managers will overlook at their peril. And that fact is that he is not afraid to proclaim what he stands for, that he has the courage to put his convictions in plain words, that he scOrns to attempt to deceive or mislead members of his own party or the independent voters of the country He may be too conservative to suit extreme pro gressives, he may be too old-fashioned to please the new 3constitutionalists, but he can not be. charged with being political "thim- ble-rigger" or bunco steerer. Considering the rarity of these qualities in the average pub lie man of the day, his attitude is one of refreshing contrast to that of those whom political Warwicks regard as ideal vote getters.
 On the question of income taxation, he will put it in his address in this city, Ire duction of the burden of taxation is not merely a question of an income tax said to fall on the wealth of the nation. The income tax finally seeps down until the toiler must
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-16
By THOMAS K. MARSHALL ! Former Vice President of the United
 GfQf


 TN the old days, before Mir. volstead, be-
 came commanding figure in American \ political and economic life, in the days when the liquor interests dominated politics and no one dreamed that men could be made good by law or sobered up by statute, there was process known as tapering off. A man who had been drinking to excess for days, weeks,s months and had travelled the route of intoxication to the forest inhabited by purple elephants, blue monkeys and red snakes, was supposed to find his sole s>sTa- tion in this process. h He WAS not suddenly deprived of intoxicants. Rather sstrong liquor was fed to him in gradually reduced quantity until he was restored to a fairly normal con dition of body and mind. Then he was urged to show sense enough to leave "it'' alone thereafter. ts.st es= sis 5s GFe
 Stimulants have much the. same effect upon the body polite that intoxicants have upon the individual. Let me illustrate: For many years now our government has been upon a financial orgy Whenever it has be- lieved it could stimulate the business of the country it has offered protection, taxation or subsidy. The body polite has absorbed so much of these intoxieants that it is beginning to see things. 9+
 In the old days of the free and unre- stricted use of liquors, beer drinkers used to gather together in a body, whisky drinkers in another, wine bibbers in still another and the cocktail crowd by themselves. Today we have the blocs of government, created, to my mind, by the intoxicants used by business The various big and little interests of America join together according to the kind of intoxi. cant which they hope the government will grant them in the belief that it will stimu- late. No one, so far as know, is hoping for 8 sudden and complete cessation of the use of these intoxicants. The utmost that any of us who do not believe that temporary stimulants ever lead to permanent health can hope for is a process of tapering off, in the hope that if it shall be restorative and cura.
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tive in the case of any one industry, it vii come into general favor.

tive in the case of any one industry, it will come into general favor.
 The only man who really produces any- thing is the farmer. Other men may by their industry, ingenuity and enterprise add to the exchange value of things already in existence, but the farmer alone is the pro- ducer who causes two blades of grass to grow where but one, grew before. He is really the only person who introduces into life any new source of wealth. Justice, there fore; demands that he have square deal, that every reasonable opportunity be given him to make a success. But it is not doing him any good in the world everlastingly to discuss academic questions. Men may not live by bread alone, and the farmer cannot live upon the reasons that are advanced for the unfortunate condition of his industry. istence of middle man for about every two, and half farmers, in order to bring about distribution of farm products to those of the American people who must purchase them or starve. Yet there is no legal way to drive commission merchants, wholesalers and re- tailers out of business. If anybody wishes to do business with any of them, it is his right.
 The railroads of this country, notwithstand- ing statements to the contrary, have shown rather cOnclusively to my mind that the charges farmer is compelled to pay for the transportation of his crops to tie market are but a small proportion of the cost to the ultimate consumer. I have yes to have brought to my attention a workable hypothe- sis by which a reduction in transportation charges would inure to the benefit of the farmer. know of no one who has agreed to execute an indemnity bond conditioned that ifgthe railroad rates on farm products were cut in two. the saving would pass into the pockets of the farmers and not into the pockets of the middlemen and consumers, or indeed that the consumer would benefit
 Manifestly, the one important thing for
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Switzerland has refused to permit the de posed Turkish caliph to reside in the little republic because he has too many wives The caliph's harem was left high and dry in Turkey and appealed to the government foI living necessities. It would seem. therefore that Switzerland is unwilling to harbor the holder of the worlds grass-widower. belt.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-16

It is interesting to note that the Wash ington government does not think the Fili- pinos are yet ready for independent self government even though there be no valuable oil lands in the Philippines to eomplicate the situation
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-16

in your columns that I have absolutely no sympathy with any contest proposition. The MusgrOve management (if there was such) had the opportunity of protecting themselves and their people; if they failed to do so, then their complaints, if any. are .uninterestins. Altogether it was somewhat of a weird cleo tion tthe labor people alone have more votes than MusgrOve received in this county), and although we may not be contented, we should be satisfied. JOHN W. ALTMAN
 Birmingham, Ala, March IA, 1924. r5
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-16

There are said to be seven hundred thou, sand school teachers in the United States yet the public has never been educated to a full appreciation of their value in the ad vancement of civilization.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-16

Viewing the assortment of hitherto un- heard-off presidential candidates. one is in clined to recall the old saying that it's re- markable what you're likely to see when you haven't got your gun.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-16

0 ENATOR, UNDERWOOD may not have
 the majority. of the pledged delegates to ~ the Democratic national convention, but he has several things which should appeal to Democrats, if not to politicians. He has courage, principle and honesty Perhaps he has these qualities in too abundant measure to suit the professional president t-makers of either party. These folk look askance at a man who has decided convictions and who is so naive as to tell the people what they are, without evasion or qualification. Their con ception of an ideal candidate is a fellow who has reduced political side-stepping to a fine art, who can say nothing in masterly language, who can avoid committing himself on issues which may hurt him with this or that large group of voters.
 Underwood doesn't measure up to this type of candidate at all, and in the judgment of the slate-makers is handicapped by the very things which the plain man in the street considers a shining and essential political virtue. Whatever else may be said about
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-16
Forum Of The People

Underwood Grows ~Strsnssrs And StrongeF" To the Editor of The Age-Herald:
 If my intuition counts for anythiug. the result of the primary election March II is just forerunner of what will take place in March, 1925. deeply feel that this is the psychological time for such a man as Senator Oscar w. Underwood to become the president of these United States. His clean and honest record proves the above statement. Also bis wonderfully clean, honest and fair political campaign. The rnud-slinging quail ties which seem to be the greatest weapon with most politicians were very much kicking in this instance. agree with one, c. B, F. Stovall, who says the vote was not paftisan vote, but capital and labor, prohibitionist, men and women, were all together in express ing their choice. Since March Il feel like saying: Every day and in every way, Sena- tor Oscar w. Underwood is growing stronger and stronger" MRS. ASA. F. HULL. <
 Birmingham, Ala.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-16

courageous position of that member of the commission who has shewn the vision requi- site to espouse the highway system that will bs of permanent and wide benefit to Ala bama
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Mr. Altman Not Interested in Contest

To the EdltOr or The Age-HeraId:
 Every paper in Birmingham in the past two days has seen fit, without reason, to state that I have been in conference with Mir. Musgrove, Senator Brewer, Mir. Clark son and others relative to a contest of the Underwood -Musgrove election,q which is not true. I have not seen Mir. Musgrove for more than week. have not seen anyone who was in any sort of position of authority representing him. was not invited to con ference nor was I consulted on the matter of contest And why your paper should say that I was in a conference, lining me out with some sort of an idea of foolish contest. don't know.
 do wish that you would allow me to say
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-16

Reports that LaFollette will head q. pro- posed third party as candidate for president cf the United States will cause lot of spec iIIation about the possible name of the new organization. Whats the matter with Sane tuAry" party?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-16

Perhaps the job of reforming Philadelphia is requiring more time and effort than first estimated, because that city has long suffered from the absence of respectable political minority
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-16

Announcement that ten college glee clubs have been engaged to perform for the Repub- lican national convention suggests that the assembly needs to borrow its enthusiasm.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-16

Still. there is reason to believe that tax re- duction will become discreet and practical political reality in time to provide arguments for the G. O. P. national campaign.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-16

It may he understood that the voluminOus testimony evolved from the investigation of Mfr Daugherty's career is n no sense an autobiography.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-16
PIsa For A Larger Tolerance

lO tuc EuAtor VI LHc <ABc-x1SEdiu.s er
 Let me enter plea for larger tolerance We have great state and a great people Besides conducting meetings. all over the South, and sometimes in the North, East and West, have conducted more than thres hundred revival campaigns in Alabama alone So I think know something of the thought and life of our people. We sometimes differ in political convictions and affiliations, and we have a right to differ. We differ in our religious views. and we have right to differ Let us remember that good people sometimes differ. Peter and Paul had rather sharp divergence of opinion on one occasion. We may differ and yet be brethren.
 Every man, as he struggles upward or staggers downward beneath his load, is my brother. The banker in his counting room, the merchant in his store, the farmer in his field, the railroad man on his run, the miner exposed to the death-damp and the dust ex- plosion, the shop man in his overalls, are all my brothers. I need them all I will pray for them all. Our views may clash, but at bottom our interests are one. We are bound by indissoluble ties,
 j.. 0. HAYNES.
 Birmingham Ala Js& ffs
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-16

ChicsSos "iron ring of crime" is proving a heavy .yoke for that community