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Evening star., 1924-03-08
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILAEDER JOHNSON.
HlTimed FrivOIity.

IllTimed FrivOIity.
The early robin used to claim
Polite consideration
OF wintry demonstration.
But when he visits us this year
With a melodious caper,
His joy will only make it clear
He doesn't read the paper.
When he lifts up his happy tune.
Disdaining all the sorrow
That greets us in the afternoon
With more upon the morrow,
1t will be plain he hasn't heard
OF friends now being roasted.
He'll only seem a jazzy bird
Who doesn't keep we'll posted.
Evening star., 1924-03-08

Senators insist that earnest indigna-
tion is not incompatible with dignity.
Evening star., 1924-03-08
Unavailins Opulenc,
Bygone Days.

Bygone Days.
do you remember when it was
customary in Crimson Gulch for
everybody to order straight whisky?"
YES" replied Cactus Joe. There
isn't any straight whisky any more.
It's all crooked"
Evening star., 1924-03-08
Intellectual Occupation.

Intellectual Occupation.
What's your boy Josh doing now?"
Mostly brainwork," answered
Farmer Corntossel.
"Of what description"
Mostly thinkin' up ways of dodgin'
regular employment"
Evening star., 1924-03-08

TITS wrong to put temptation in de
way OF yoh fellow man. said Uncle
Eben. "Foh dat reason, son, it's yoh
moral duty to avoid bein' an easy
mark
Evening star., 1924-03-08
Opportunities.

OPYOI
"A man ought to improve his op-
portunities."
THE merit of so doing" answered
Senator Sorghum, depends on the
kind Of man. Improving his opportuni.
ties is what a shell-game performer at
a country fair depends on"
Jud Tunkins says he knows the
country is perfectly safe because none
Of his relatives have as yet lost their
government jobs.
Unavailing Opulence.
Wealth won't bring happiness. they
say.
The rule is now well tested
The bootleg magnate Of today
Tomorrow gets arrested.
Evening star., 1924-03-08

How they did things in those days!
G. Stanley Hall in his autobiography,
Life and Confessions of a Psychol-
ogist," says that when he joined
Henry Ward Beecher's church, Beech
er catechized him as he did all candi-
dates and asked whether my theo-
logical studies had made me more OF
less devout." Fall replied less" but
Beecher "pasoe1". him with Q COM
mendation for his honesty s....., -
Evening star., 1924-03-08
THEODORE w. MOVES. Editor 7
The Evening Star Newspaper Conpan

Business Office. 1lth st. and Pennsy lvania Ave
New York Office: 110 East 42nd st.
Chicago Office. Tower Building.
European Office: l6 he mt St. London, EAgla D
Evening star., 1924-03-08

Brig. Gen. Frank T. Hines, director
Of the Veterans Bureau, intended to
Quit that fob Mt the expiration Of his
Evening star., 1924-03-08

Harrington Earned $3.50 in Five
Years.
Evening star., 1924-03-08

@. How long has gasoline been
known?-H. w.
A. There were some materials like
our preseLt gasoline used as far bacEl
as the second century. but the name
gasoline was coined within the las
twenty or thirty years.
Evening star., 1924-03-08

@. Why was Maiden Lane, London,
so called?-C. G. II.
A. The name is said to have been
given from an image of the Virgin
which stood on this street.
Evening star., 1924-03-08

@. How much does the government
collect in the way of tax on movie
and other theaters-I. NJ. c.
a. In 1923 the government reve-
nues from the tax on admission to
places Of amusement or entertainment
amounted to S70,14S,4S0.
q Which is more elastic. steel or
Evening star., 1924-03-08


animae meae).
X j. X +
Prof. Arthur Hobson Quinn of the
University of Pennsylvania, in his
"History Of the American Drama From
the Beginning of the Civil War;" has
done a laborious piece of spade work
and at the same time has produced an
interesting and readable book. The
author has considered the drama
throughout his book as living thing;
that is, he has not treated the unacted
drama except incidentally, but has con-
centrated his attention on plays which
actually reached the stage. The au-
thor has included chapters on George
Henry Boxer and Dion Boucicault,
though their careers overlapped the
civil war period, since they really be-
Ionged as types in the earlier period.
The value of this authoritative history
is greatly increased by the addition of
an extensive alphabetical list of early
American plays, photography and an
index. The author promises second
volume, recording the history of the
american drama from the civil war to
the present.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-01-18
oUNTY, WASHINGTON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 1924
Washington News

The Standard Oil Company of Cali,
fornia plans establishing wholesale
distributing station in Longview. The
plant will be on the same order as
that operated by the company in
Portland.
DR.. Suzzallo, president of the Uni
yersity of Washington, delivered the
principal address recently at the ded-
ication of the new Irene S. Reed High
School at Shelton. Many prominent
educators and citizens were present.
County Attorney Hite linus issued
an order this week banning all punch
boards, slot machines and similar de-
vices from Cowlitz County. The sher-
IFS office has been notified to see
that this order is enforced.
The owners of the Kelso Creamery
Company, Joseph Cyr and his three
sons, lately sold the business and
plant to Frank r. Weighill and F. T..
Hart of Vancouver, B. c., who will
erect a cold storage and milk han
ding plant in Longyiew.
During the 1923 Christmas season
at Ridgefield the business at the
postoffice was 10 per cent greater
than during the corresponding period
in 1922. Local merchants also report
the best busines in the history of the
city.
Ryderwood, terminus of the Long
view, Portland & Northern Railway,
and future center Of the Long-Bell
Lumber Company's logging activities,
is developing rapidly. Ninety modern
residences are completed and work is
starting on twenty-six more.
Explosion of hot-water heater in
the Bon Ton barber shop on Main ST.,
Walia Walla, recently blew out the
plate glass windows in the front Of
the building, ripped a section of the
flooring in the shop, and caused con-
siderable damage to the interior of
the building. A frozen water pipe is
blamed for the explosion Seven
inches Of snowfall fell in one night,
making total of eleven inches dur
ing the storm.
The regular passenger service from
Seattle to New York was started on
January 8 by the Luckenbach steam
ship lines. The trip is scheduled to
take 2S days. Calls will be made at
San Francisco, Los Angeles, Panama
Canal and Philadelphia. The steam
er was the Jacob Luckenbach, Cap
tain Coonan. She has luxurious ac-
commodations for As cabin guests.
Skagit County is in very prosper
Gus condition numbering, which is
one OF the countys biggest assets, is
now providing one of the biggest pay
rolls in the county's history. Dairy
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-01-18

farmers are receiving good prices for
milk. The new county courthouse un-
der construction at Mt. Vernon is pro-
crossing rapidly, the building to cost
in the neighborhood of 100000.
| Construction of modern brick
apartment building in Kelso at the
corner of Eighth and Church Sts., has
been started for Martin Klein by e.
G. Arnett and ]. F. Boncutter, con-
tractors. This building will contain
four modern four-room apartments,
having a full basement, hardwood
floors. modern heating and hot-water
system.
Governor Hart recently honored the
requisition OF the governor of Cali
fornia for the return to that state of
Edward Aason, known also as J. e.
Swanson, who is wanted in Los An
geles for the crime of robbery. Aason
is under arrest in Mount Vernon.
Judge S. G. Griffith OF Hiawatha
Valley, who was brought to Wen
atchee to local hospital from Ephra-
ia in critical condition, died late
yesterday. Judge Griffith has been
Ill for some time, and on Tuesday
night. while delirious, stepped out of
the house clad in his nightshirt when
those attending him had dropped
asleep. He was not missed until an
hour later, and was found about
mile from his house, unconscious in
the snow. His legs and arms were
frozen
Alleging the train on which he
made shipment of cattle from Sc
vile, Mont, was operated at such an
excessive rate of speed the cattle
could not remain on their feet and
were bruised and otherwise injured,
Herbert Schroeder filed suit In the
King County superior court recently
against the Great Northern Railway
Company. Damages in the amount of
S6S6.70 are asked. Schroeder alleges
that this, together with unnecessary
delays at way points, caused a shrink
age in the market value of the cattle
upon arrival at destination.
Checking on fertilization demon
stration conducted by County Agent
Cowan of Grays Harbor County, an
increase of four tons per acre of beets
was made by adding 100 pounds of
potash and 200 pounds of phosphate
per acre together with manure. The
check was made with the same kind
of land which had been treated with
potash and phosphate.
The Ukrainian National Chorus,
brought to the United States a year
ago by Max Rabinoff, was on it's first
tour of the Northwest this month. AL
exander Koshetz, conductor of the
chorus, is minister of fine arts and
music of the Ukrainian republic. and
in the chorus are stars from the ma
tional theatres in Moscow and Petro-
grad.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-01-18
5or .a,. A,
Health
PUBLIC HEALTH IS PUBLIC WEALTH
COMPILED BY THE
PUBLIC HEALTH LEAGUE
OF WA HING TON
THE ILLS OF ApENolps

Adenoids, an abnormal growth of
tissue back of theAnose, up behind
the palate, or between the nose and
upper part of the throat, occur most
commonly from the third to the thir-
teenth year, and are usually caused
by some form Of nose or throat irri-
tation. Some children seem more
susceptible than others, and the
growth is more apt to occur in fat
than in lean people.
Sometimes diseased tonsils may
cause adenoid growths sometim es
distractions in the nose following in
juries or falls; but perhaps the most
common form of irritant is the PERM
cious habit of sucking the thumb or
other objects; and the "pacifier"
should be condemned in the strongest
language, not only as the cause of
adenoids, but from the sanitary point
Of view. They frequently cause Sc
we're sores in the mouth, called "stom-
atitis."
Mouth-breathing particularly when
the child is sleeping or lying down, is
the most prominent symptom of ade-
noids; another symptom is frequent
and chronic colds in the head, called
"snuffles."
The complications resulting from
adenoids vary from minor ills to great
and lasting deformities. The adenoid
tissue obstructs the childs natural
breathing, interferes with the normal
development of the lungs and chest,
and this in turn interferes with nor
NAL growth and development of other
organs and parts of the body Nor
NAL development of the brain is also
retarded; the child develops a vacant
expression; the formation of the face
is not symmetrical; high arched pal
ates may be formed, with resulting
deformities and Instructions of the
nose, as well as irregular formation
OF the teeth. Last but not least, the
child with adenoids is much more
susceptible to the contagious and in
fectious diseases of childhood.
The only cure for adenoids is thor
ough removal. If diseased or enlarged
tonsils are left to act as an irritant,
new adenoids may develop
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-01-18

lacing circles of brilliants set in
silver metal hold in place the soft
drapery which is still feature of
evening gowns, or are worn as
half belt on the right side to define
the low waist line. Parisiennes
are wearing daring color combina-
tions, brilliant cerise with soft
n.auve embroidered with dull sill
yer. Many smart couturiers use
flowers or chou of ostrich fronds
as finish to their gowns. In del
icate colors these are often the only
decoration on a full skirted frock.
1t grows more and more diff
cult for the censorious to be GER
tain of their right to censor. For
several years now they have taken
comfort in the "siIly way girls
were running their health by wear
ing low shoes and silk stockings in
the winter" 1t was an actual blow
to them when wool hosiery came
into favor. But woody ribs can't
be worn with every costume and so
there are still opportunities for
shudders of disapproval. There are
going to be good many disap-
pointed disapprovers this year-if
they learn the truth. But maybe
they won't, for ankles will be more
deceptive than ever. Appearing to
be clad in sheerest silk, they may
be snugly and comfortably covered
underneath with a warm protec-,
tion of wool. The newest things
in the smart woman's winter
wardrobe are Gotham Invisibles,"
flesh-colored knitted spats that,
come just up to the knee which we
put on and draw our silk hosiery
over and which keep us warm and
somehow manage to live up to
their description of invisibility.
New red satin ribbons for tying
Christmas parcels have hair line
stripes or figures of gold. They
vary in width from one to four in
ches. Elaborately decorated French
gift boxes are square, oval, round,
oblong, diamond CIR heart shaped
They are covered with gay French
prints, or are painted with Wat
teau scenes, figures or flowers.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-01-18

/ CHICAGO.-Reductio of Americas
wheat acreage to insure against over
production is endorsed by President
Coolidge in letter made public by
the Wheat Council of the United
States. The Presidents letter, ad-
dressed to Congressman Sydney An
derson, Minnesota, president of the
Wheat Council, under date of Decem-
ber 26, expressed the conviction that
farmers would benefit by forming or
ganizations and associations through
which it would be possible for them to
deal with the underlying problems of
agriculture.
VICTORIA, B. CA five-year closed
period on all fur-bearing animals in
British Columbia probably will be ap.
proved by the provincial game conser-
walton board shortly, to give the fur
industry an opportunity to recover
from the present depletion of these
animals, according to an announce
ment made by the chairman of the
| board.
| REGINA, Sask.-The worlds rec
ord for large grain trains was shat
tered by the G. P. R. recently. One
mile in length, monster train of
125 carloads of wheat was operated
over the line between Stoughton and
Arcola; the contents of the car
weighed 1856 tons, which, with tare
of 1880 tons, made a total weight
hauled by a single engine of 7,946
tons The great string of cars con-
tanned approximately $4,000 bushels
of wheat.
Building construction estimated to
amount to 34,4O1,7 700 pounds was ap-
proved by local authorities of las cit
les and towns in Great Britain during
the first nine months Of the present
year. More than 100000 pounds,
or about two-thirds of the total
amount, represents the estimated cost
of new dwelling houses, according to
official figures of the British Labor
Ministry received by the Bankers
Trust Company from it's English In
formation Service.
The French governments payments
of interest in 1923 to holders of gov
ernment securities are officially esti-
mated at a total of 9,S13,S32, 412 |
francs, according to official treasury |
figures received by the Bankers Trust
Company from it's French Informa-
tion Service.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-01-18
Worlds News

1t is officially announced that the
general staff of the French army OF
occupation will leave Dusseldorf dur
ing January for Mayence. General
Degoutte will maintain headquarters
in Dusseldorf. Seven infantry regi
ments have already withdrawn from
the occupied territory
According to the Soviet press OF
Moscow, the British army is concen-
trated along the northwestern Indian
frontier, between Afghanistan and
India. The Afghanistan army mum
bers $4,000 infantry and 5000 caval-
ry. The British troops number 49,
900 regulars and $4,000 irregulars.
The dirigible "Dixmude," which
met destruction with presumably all
on board during the latter part of
December. has been located. The
wreck lies in about 20 fathoms with
in circle of half-mile radius, three
miles south of Cape San Marcos, Si.
cily. The airship's commander, Lieu
tenant Commander Dup1essis de
Grenadan and two other bodies have
been washed UP on the coast.
In written statement submitted
to the dicese advisory board recent
ly, Bishop H. T. Moore of the Dallas
diocese, Protestant Episcopal Church,
quashed charges of heresy against
Rev. Lee w. Heaton of Fort Worth.
In long detailed account of his de-
cisicn Bishop Moore explained his ac-
ton followed the canon clause which
gives him power to withdraw a charge
of heresy should the withdrawal be
for the benefit and welfare of the
church
Disastrous foods have inundated
Paris. many of the streets near the
River Seine being several feet under
water, which is near the crest of the
1910 fiood-the worst in the history
Of Paris. Hundreds of homes in the
suburbs have had to be evacuated.
A farmer of the Lone Butte district,
southwest of Hanna, Albert, with a
horsewhip beat his 6-year-old son
Billy into Inconsistencies. The
boy died two hours later His daugh-
ter, Mary, 10 years old, was also beat
en- into unconsciousness and is in a
serious condition, doubts being en-
tertained for her recovery.
The days of the big New Years
receptions at the executive mansion
have passed. This year less than
1000 people had shaken hands with
President and Mrs. Coolidge For
merly as many as eight to ten thou
sand people attended those recep-
tions. This years reception was equal
in impresiveness to those of previous
years; the usual brilliance attended
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-01-18

the receiving of the foreign diplomats
and the high officers of the army,
navy and marine corps.
Ernest NJ Smith, formerly of San
Francisco, has been appointed gen
eral manager of the American Auto
mobile Association, according to an
nouncement made by Thomas P.
Henry of Detroit, president of the as
sociation. The position to which
Smith has been appointed was Gre
ated at the last meeting of the exceu-
tive board Smith assumed his new
duties January 1 and will be located
at Washington, D.. c., where the ma
tional headquarters of the A. A. A. is
established.
March to 8, 1924 has been set as a
tentative date for national Canned
Foods Week." to be held under aus
pices of the National Gamers Asso-
citation, the National Wholesale Gro
GERS Association, the National Retail
Grocers' Association and the National
Food Brokers Association.
Ashton Harvey of New York died
suddenly on the Ormond Beach golf
links while playing with John d.
Rockefeller, Sr. Harvey and Rookie
feller had just started playing at the
time the former was stricken.
WASHINGTON, D. C.-San Fran
cisco, Los Angeles, Kansas City, Den
yer, ST. Louis, Chicago and Cleveland
are among the cities who have indi-
Gated they would like to entertain
delegates to the 1924 convention and
exposition of the American Bottlers
of Carbonated Beverages.
WASHINGTON, D. c. = Judging
from davance hotel reservations, the
seventeenth annual meeting of the
National Gamers Association, to be
held at Buffalo the week of January
81, will set a new record for attend
ance The Canning Machinery and
Supplies Association, and the Nation
al Food Brokers' Association will as
semble at the same time. President
James A. Anderson, of the National
Corners Association, has coined a
new slogan for the convention this
year, which is, Come Sunday, and
stay until Saturday."
White River, Ontario, reported a
temperature of AZ below zero on Jan
uary 5, the coldest point heard from.
Doucet, Quebec, was a close second
with 3S below.
The epidemic of relationships that
seems to have infected many Euro
pean deanocracies" in the opinion of
Herbert Hoover, is due to a breakup
of political party organizations and
the United States in his belief, has in
Congress now "a slight Infection of
the same disease The views of the
secretary of commerce were commu-
nicated to William Allen White, edi-
tor Of the Emporia Gazette, in let
ter made public, in which Mr. Hoover
argued strongly the retention and
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-01-18

No wonder John W. Farmer is in
trouble. During the war the cry went
out to all the farmers to grow more
wheat to feed the armies. They re-
sponded nobly. The call went out to
the people to eat less wheat, so the
army could be assured flour. They
also responded heroically. They even
had wheatless days. The war ended.
But no one told the farmer to stop
growing so much wheat nor the peo-
pie to start eating more wheat foods
What happened? The farmer has pro-
duced too much wheat The people
are not eating enough wheat
The per capita consumption of
wheat in the United States is consid-
erably lower than sthe per capita use
of wheat in Britain, Canada, Spain,
France, Australia, Belgium, Switzer-
land and many other countries The
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-01-18
REDUCTIONof TAXATION
ISSUE is LAID SQUARELY BEFORE PUBLIC
Copyright, 1898, by National Budget Committee

THERE can be no
1 doubt that Secretary
of the Treasury Melons
recommendation to Act
ing Chairman Green of
the House Ways and
Means Committee that
the next Congress make
a general downward re-
vision of taxes has
struck a responsive chord
throughout the country.
1t is concrete evidence,
the kind that can be un-
derstood in every Ameri-
can home, that after a
disastrous world war,
the United States have
passed the critical period
of readiustment.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-01-18

uc approach 10 nor
NAL conditions has not been OPEN
ed without a considerable effort,
however, and it will be we'll for a
citizenry, encouraged by Secretary
Melons statement, to keep this
in mind. The surplus of receipts
over expenditures which has re-
suited at the close of each year
since the war ended, was made
possible only by a program of
economy in the conduct of public
business. This program received
definition in and an impulse from
a new budgetary system which be-
came operative in 1921. Admins
=. trative requirements were reduced
to a minimum and constant pres
sure was exerted to- anticipate ten
dencies on the part of Congress to
return to the former system of ILL
considered, extravagant appropria-
tiions. Aarevolutionary change in
the attitude of administrative de-
partments toward the expenditure
OF the public moneys was affected
and Congress, on the whole, was.
hlligent in cooperation. Mr.. Mel
Ions recommendations are based
upon the assumption that this at
titude on til: part of the executive
and legislat We branches will con-
tinue.
The issue between this new
method of conducting public af-
fairs and the old system is now
laid before the people for their
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-01-18

consideration. Through
their re pre- S e n t atives
in Congress they must
now decide whether
they prefer general re-
duction in Federal tax
alton or whether they
prefer that the lid so
tightly clamped down
on Government expen-
ditures during the last
three years shall be
lifted. Either the pro-
gram of economy and
efficiency in Govern
ment affairs must be
continued or the pro-
posal to reduce taxes
to any appreciable
extent must be given
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-01-18


! foreign market is glutted and the do
mestic market is subnormal The
farmer cannot sell his wheat at a
profit. When the farmers buying
power is reduced all industry suffers
Mills and factories cannot sell so
much goods. They curtail production
and labor suffers
1t is essential to the whole prosper
ity of the nation that the farmer be
helped to his feet There is one GER
tain way it can be done. The farmer
can moderate his wheat acreage. But
more than that, as the cartoonist
points out in the above cartoon, the
American people have another patri-
otto call to duty-to restore their use
of wheat foods to what it was before
the war. By so doing they will be
contributing directly and practically
to restoration of national prosperity.