The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 28, 1911, Page 4

cements THE SEATTLE STAR lished daity by The btiahing Co Member of Uulted Press Wate at Beat Was More and more newspapers throughout the state are rea that one of the big questions before the legisiature is the ma passing a law wip ont the prin of constructive contempt that ts, the principle of sending ape and editors to jail for com Menting on courts and judges comprehensive and exhaustive treative, covering the entire of contempt, Robert Montgomery, editor of the Puyalluy Tribune, comes this conclusion Freedom of the pres: s therefore clearly seen, is indie pensable to the freedom of the people, and it seems a strained and Narrow construction of this constitutional guaranty of free speech and a free press to hold that any judge of any court can at time, in derogation of that constitutional right and guaranty, pu for constructive contempt of his court any person or paper that hy said or published something he deems to be in derogation of his di dignity. The two things are essentially inconsistent ither the court is above the constitution or the constitution is above the court. Outside of supersensitive judges, the bindin force of the constitution is generally regarded as greater than the power of any court Mr. Montgomery's editorial takes the contempt Broad way, the question of whether a judge should try when his own nality ts concerned in the decision, the of the state, quaranteeing freedom of speech and the pre Gomment of jurors on this, as necessary to right government English judges once assumed the power to punish those who com Mented on their decisions, but parliament took this power from them the editorial points out. The present Washington law is based on that Old English common law, which even England has blotted off the books Of that law the editorial i matte his own case itution udes ood and intelligence which eharacterizes the judiciary of the te—has been but once resorted to or invoked. Still, it is there, a club in the hands of any member of the state judiciary, to be used whenever he deems it proper. Let us have a modern law on the subject consistent with the con- stitutional rights of the people, and let us wipe from our statute books the present obmoxious law, which is but a relic of the judicial cone! tyranny of the English courts of bygone days. The law as it now it ie incompatible with the in stands savors of personal despotiam. Institutions and conditions of society in this state. ft is not harmony with the constitutional liberty of free speech and a fr press. With other reminders of ancient oppression and persona’ tyranny, it should be relegated to the past. ATTORNEY JOHN SHEA, New York city, won a prize offered ¥. M,C. A. for the 25 most beautiful words of the English language ” “justice” and “truth” were rejected, too, What's your most Beautiful 257 Shea won without “mothe it true that “‘self-preservation is the first law of ature”? Listen to this: ee A fearful storm swept the Dakota prairies the 7 other day. ‘Two Yankton Indian women, each with a i baby in her arms, were caught in it far from human me habitations. What did they do? Took off their blank » ets, wrapped the babies in them, crooned them to and lay down and froze to death, The babies | were found alive and well. ' No, the sordid law of self-preservation is not the | FIRST law of nature. There is another and a higher pe—the law of love. And it rules even in the breast of “the untutored savage.” MARRIED woman in Kansas City, four feet high and 12 years old, been sentenced to go to school or be spanked. _ HOW MUCH ARE YOU WORTH”? We baven't heard much about the value of human beings since was abolished in the United States, yet all men. women and bave their commercial value, just the same. person who earns $50 a month—$600 a year—is “worth” That's bis earning capacity capitalized at 6 per cent California's state board of health has figured it out that it costs bm? to raise the family baby to the age of 20 years, when he ts just $4,000 for commercial purposes, But a woman of 30 $16,000, of which $12,000 is “net profit.” merely statistics. Don't we know babies that are really of various ages whose value cannot ke us giddy even to try to figure it? “And doesn't history record the names of men who were “worth” Kinds of money to society, yet whose commercial value, measured earning capacity, was minus—they couldn't pay their wash bill Nevertheless, make yourself “worth” as much as you decently can. ears enough to accommodate the public at rush hours. There passenger is forbidden to stand. Here street railways are run in the interest of dividends, and in the rush hours half the are forbidden to sit. j BACK TO OLD MOTHER EARTH ___ The two worst difficulties about winning strikes, and making the “Principles of union labor “stick” in actual practice, are : The pressure of the unemployed to take jobs at any wage they ean get. The flank attack made by hunger when the strikers are out _ Sontending for their rights. _ The Building Trades Council of California plans to meet both ‘Of these difficulties by acquiring 30,000 to 50,000 acres of land and rf ing @ great union labor agricultural enterprise. They will aim to absorb the unemployed and to feed the men on strike Oh, old Mother Earth will solve a lot of problems for her children if we only give her a chance. REJECTING inheritance tax and direct primary law, Vermont writes herself down the most hopelessly stagnant and backward state In the Ugion. THE LUXURY OF A HUSBAND In New York city, among other interesting and curious. exhibits, there are 10,000 husbands who are supported by their wives, Sick? ; tired—born so. About half of them married for money, expecting to live off their Wives, and make no bones about it. The other half gradually discov- @red that their wives could support them-would, if they had to— and proceeded to let them do it. Why don’t the wives leave them? That's the strange part of it. They denounce them as worth! trash, then proceed to serub floors and take in washing to keep them in beer and tobaeco, It's a funny old world! ENGLISH lord says if he wants to marry a girl 28 years his junior and scarcely out of the kindergarten, “it’s none of the bally public's business.” And without knowing what “bally” is, we guess he’s right. OBSERVATIONS CARNEGIE says he sees a way to prevent strikes, That would &@ “peace fund” worth talking about, +0 6 oO FRANCE pays her president 0,000 a month, besides another $30,000 for expenses. At this distance we should say he isn’t worth it. o 6 0 1F THE Japs would ept jobs on our battleships, and then get blown up as often as our own poor jackies, the war cloud would vanish by a process of elimination, Ce re AIRSHIP which started from St. Louis, bound for New York, and brought up in Mississippi, reminds us that plain old railroad trains are still best if we're going anywhere in particular, ae those Wisconsin socialists are not asking much of their Only that the at shi own the milk and produce that the United States senate shail be abolished. That's . o 60 °o THEY'RE talking about a noisel be one of those lovely key-pounders who Be 4 fellow is saying things he dassent typewriter Down East. Must wear rubbers and slip tn just say before his wife at break. da the} This life te full of curious things, We count them by the score Por instance, man is mad. dust And yet he's out for more Good nature cures bad dige , IT'S not the good bille intro duced but the bills passed by legis latures that count jt ee eee ee * * Today's Good Short One. j* * In a fog, & steamer stopped * in the mouth of a river and ® an old lady asked th ptain * why delayed. He replied ® that couldn't see up the & river * “But, captain,” she argued *® “you can see the stars over |e head *® “Yes,” sald the captain, “but * until the botler busts we ain't ®agoin’ that way.”—Kvery * body's * ee ee | SLEEP. reise before retiring to sound sleep. Mild conductive in We have too many imitations of men, butter, gold watches and diamonds King cotton to in Paraguay cotton. “THEN IT HAPPENED” (Our Daily Discontinued Story.) \ Q S is have a rival Vi Mouseydear came out of his little hole in the wainscoting and frisk about the room. Such a cute lit mouseydear that it was, with roguish, beady eyes and a pert little tail that wiggled Mouseydear “ and trotted Mouseydear looking for something to eat In a corner Mouseydear found a lovely red box with wire things on it and the nicest, roundest holes in it And in each one of the holes was a tempting bit of toasted cheese. Um-yum, think of it, toast w hither as hungry and it was very and apry, too, thither ed cheene’ For a moment Mouseydear flected upon which piece of chee to take and then bit iuto the near est. re THE END. Star Dust) See eee eee eee eee eee Adolf Beliefes He Vill Enlisd jergeant, Und He Voult Lofe to Know Vot Kind of Grass Buttons to Orter BY FRED SCHAEFER But Osgar Iss Der Recruiding Say Ongar, I vish to Become a Son of Mars, 1911, Dieane ror nove AND GIRLS The Star Address All Letters to UNCLE JACK, The Sta EXTRA SPECIAL PRIZE Unele Jack has decided that we must have at least 150 new mombers this next Bo this special offer is made To the member of the Star Circle who sends in the largest list of boy and girl read f The Star (under 16 years of age) who would like to Join us this week, Uncle Jack will give a small snap shot ¢ a with complete outfit for taking and developing real photographs Mate must be ‘The Star office by Thursday received at wnt ce *\* % BOOK REWARD NUMBER 1 #|# THE CA6H REWARD & Ofte for the best last line #|® Por the best drawing of « # to the nonsense limerick is %|# ploture that illustrates # awarded to Rollin Abernathy #|® saying A Stitch in eo * of 2706 4th ave. Benttle. The #|# Saves Nine” is awarded to * book has been matied #|® Anita Welsh of 1526 6th ave, * * * Beattle eee eele phi bt ag py |e ee THE UNFINIGHED LIMERICK Miss Jones was decidedly plain, So much so it gave ue @ pain To gaze for » space u r young fact Where freckies we ee eed * * BOOK REWARD NUMBER 2 * Offered for the best original # riddle is awarded to Leland T * Hampson, Northport, Wash The book has been mailed scattered “Perry vell, Adolf; but you vill haf to haf your par's consent “L haf, He tolt me to go urd fight for my country “He must want to id get licked. Vot arm of der surface do you vish to chotnt 1 don'd know pt arm ies apart? “I mean, do you vant to enter der cavallary, der infanery or der arteritiesg?" Bote.” “Ob, are you twins? I guess maybe you vill vant dopple rations, too? “Vot I vant to be ina der feller who gets der prize metals und goes among der fatlen heroes.” Ach, but you don'd get metals for going among der fallen he- roes 1 bet me I do—ef der fallen heroes iss vearing any metals ven I go among dem. ‘Lace. You vish to belong mit der hoxpital branch ? Yeuu—yeus, anydings dot has a branch—for instance a tree to be behind But the tree ies Hability to be shot avay.” Veil, by dot time | vill be avay, too. Id isu plain to my fae Of course, 1 coult "But vot you should vant use to hiss country eon kil bass led f° dot you wasn afrait of losing your life.” but blease, to hiss country v« hate efen to mixplace id to make iss a soltchler who ise of ot use ine a soltchier who “Bah, dey are yet of more use dan soltchiers who ins only voun dot’ ‘Voll, den id ina so goot Put a drop of ofl in the center of the top of your umbreila every four | weeks, ing. and prevent the ribs rust Kill a rat and you end the grue some career of a bubonic plague distributor Love you'll find is not a joke. .t keeps your heart and pocket broke. There's no learning the names of newly married She's Birdie and he's Pet given people lives from 80 to speak The dentiat mouth, hand to Flere fire inside. world; trouble outalde; Milady is an artist who arranges her hair in a carefully ner. reless man. DIANA’S DIA Prospective Purchaser—Has your farm ving water on Kh? Farmer—i guess yea. The healw officer says it's simply alive with germs, John Jacob Astor ten't only a mit- lionaire. He has also invented a bicycle brake and a pneumatic road improver When a man's forgotten how to blush, look out! — IN MANY European cities street railways are compelled to put Miss Dillpickle Organizes Lo oroge Show to Reclaim a Neighborhood Needs It. at BY FRED SCHAEFER as settled corps und I vill Kill dose soltchiers vich isa only vounde pot me in der hospital A Cook Tour. William T. Stead reported « men sage from the spirit of Sir John Franklin: “We conducted Dr. Cook nearly to the pole” Not a word about Peary usually bought in ecrookedly sold Real squares, entate is often MR. HOBSON tells us how to avoid death on battleships. We know a better way; stay off them. A small map will bold the world ‘TELE TeC eee eee ® * If Roman senators used ® anfety pine vep their togas * in place, some American sen ® ators use coin to keep theirs * in place. * eeeeeeee Wettthhetkhenne Argentina will soon have three trans-national raflroads Fortune tellers: Bradstreet and Dun. Face turned to the wall: bill poster. The “What part of speech nose?” asked the teacher. “*Taint none,” answered ungram matical Johnny “Ah, but it must be,” asserted the teacher “Maybe yourn is,” agreed John, ‘cause you taik through it. But the only part of apeech I got is me mouth,” ts the Keke hhh hhh BEEF AND BRAINS. President Taft weighs some- thing like 300 pounds. At the height of his glory Napoleon Some inhuman dastard, in a murderous moment, had slipped them aii their quietus. VL What, really, is the use of telling it! I thought I had ditched my hoo- go, but no, it even works overtime. I hopped out of bed this morning with a glad heart, knowing that this was the date for my great bench show for the pacification of Strius st barn to see how the entries had spent the night. I thought I'd hear them all yowling and barking for something to eat, s silent Monday, “Thi @ cemetery on a rainy re sleeping late, poor things,” I thought, and went in. What a sight my eyes, Every dog in the barn, practically the whole canine population of Sirius it., Was a corpse, Some Inhuman dastard, in a murderous moment, ad slipped them all their quictus, I rushed over to old Mr. Ketch’s| ward wi but not a noise | barn, was to be noticed. The place was' there. |The finger of suspicion pointed # The entire bench show is now up to the dead animal contractor. The pen does not bathe that can describe the anguish and indig- nation of Sirims st., which took on over the havoc like it was a Slocum disaster. They were for lynching the evil doer, but there are no clues, old Mr, Ketch until he came for th an armor plate alibi. Some think it was polgon that was wed, and others think somebody turned loose a kind of gas in the but that's neither here no The mystery 1s @ mystery, And now that he has a chance to sell his real estate on this street, old Mr, Ketch sympathetically ad vises everybody to leave well enough alone. There won't be any improvement club now, but it's remarkable how elevated the atmosphere of Sirius st. seems, With no mob of dogs In it. (The End.) Bonaparte weighed about 126 pounds eeeeeeetee eeteeeeeeae ee ee eo Lovers in a sectuded nook always talk about themselves. Hence they never tire of each other, ‘There are many folk who do for get, day after day to pay a debt. Also carefully careless hold audiences spell bound. A polished gentleman ts not al- ways a slippery fellow, orators Some ambitious distinguish between fame. people fail to notoriety and) Frenchmen are forsaking horse meat for hog meat imported from Africa. Should NOT ed. of American $1,726,380, The total revenue railroads jumped fron 267 in 1902 to $2,779,246,875 in 1910, SOCIALIST VIC. When Congressman Berger rises to make a few remarks, the house will become a chamber of horrors for some safe, sane and conserva: tive gentleme’ Be Proud Then why rest contented with thin, rough hair? Ayer’s Hair Vigor gives softness, and richness to the hair,’ makes it thicker, heavier.’ ‘No change in color. Safe? Ask your doctor, Lee.ir*utz, eeeeee eee Skeet tee THE PRIZE RIDDL Why Is a kiss from a@ pretty girt like a dog in an ice box? Answer is because it is doggon using the following pre nice (dog on lee.) % Here is an amusing instance of 7 An incandescent lamp of 442 nee i candle power b been designed to pallies mee fences or aly light public places. tle lawyer. “In drawing up 5 * sama me) the pmulated _polecs in connection with an estate ® blood cause rheumatic pains in the | Renessary, 1 mention eee aie - * Len Meeagparnen dt ge ae mab ring her name appeared in the = Seded aad Gaitemiteiens documents, I was in @ great rush ro ennt nongagetaht and divided the dictation between ‘s can mix them. advt MEATA SERVED. City of Rverett or Teleeraph, oer. Absolutely Pure The only baking powder made from Royal Grape Cream of Tartar edule subject to oh ‘One ounce compound syrup of Sar rUBLIsn iD SATURDAYS Circle r, Seattle, Wash: CONTESTS FOR NEXT WEEK The »1 cash reward will be paid next week to the membe who draws the best pen ink sketch that most iiustrates this old saying Will Be Boys.” “Be Book reward No. 1 awarded to the member Gives the best last line to com 1 this limerick Muffet, #0 very sedate will be “Mi Was uaually terribly late re In combing her hair *| *| Book reward No. 2 this week *| will go to the member who £ | sends in the best original riddle *|. THE GROWING FAMILY 1 *! Here are the boys and girls who | Je 4 the Star Circle up to Thurs afternoon | day William two stenographers. One a which sho . esults eve! ea ee nagrttl rewults even gil brought up in “the country. pventually restore physical vigor.| 1h@ Other was brought up in Se attle. When the various papers were laid on my desk for exami saparilia; one ounce Toris com henner |pound: half pint of high grade| tion I had ® good laugh over the whisky. This to be mixed and used | ¥*% iD wh ne terpreted the name of one of the in tablespoonful doses before each Tha tthe Rog --Gimrs meal and at bed time. The bottle to| SOW". The lt Camess Ge, A be shaken each time.” Any drug.| Understood me correctly and put sist has these ingredients or will the name down as Valley | Girl quickly get them for you. Any one| tr eae hak arom d cow's name appear. ed as ‘ Girl.’ She corrected |the mistake in the most nonchalant | way, as though there was nothing |at all extraordinary in her version lof the name.” No Alum, No Lime Phosphate Economically inclined stead of economizing. the purchase ts lacking in mer’ the price you pay, but the Lomp, $5.50—Nut, Distril Prices Select Lump, $4.50. Nut MAIN OFFICE 40! 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