The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 29, 1912, Page 4

a sie ” @B organization which has ‘4 E SEATTLE STAR : Private Exchange Main 9400 and Independent 441. h biinhed Daily by ar Publishing Oo. aah., powtoftice asm “ atte 30 vents per month up to tx 38, lubseribers to The = at once of any fal! per, of any attempt to wubs ar, It is the desire of the manag if all, and complaints are given courte at paper tailed to arrive auy Night by 6 o'clock Kindly phone | tie rat cnce. "Main 9400 or Ind. 441. Ask for the Clreulation Dep if monthn, ttle Siar will confer a fa re to secure prompt and regul pt deliver he 2 The Beatle Lomt. service Col. Roosevelt’s latest proposal is the recall of decisions. When judges decide that legislative or executive depart- ments have exceeded their authority, then we would have the ple decide. In effect this is merely an application of the initiative and referendum. The recall of public officials, inelud- ing judges, is a wholly different thing People's power oe nizes that the people have their own business and personal af- fairs to look after and cannot make public affairs their main occupation in life. ai They must have agents or officials to act for them The recall merely means that such officials shall be agents or serv- ants of the people, and their employers, who elected them, may recall them. . 4 Has anybody formulated this Roosevelt proposal either! as a statute or constitutional amendment? How many years of discussion will be required to put this new plan into form and the nation or even one state to adopt it? irect election of United States senators has been dis- cussed for over 20 years. Public opinion is overwhelmingly for it. Yet by all sorts of chicanery and dodging the matter is delayed and tied up year after year, Recall of decisions, if provided for by a statute adopted cither by legislature or) le, would be declared unconstitutional. Some courts] would still hold it invalid as in conflict with fundamental poli-| cies of government. Then we suppose Roosevelt would tell us to recall the judges who so decided. : Roosevelt speaks of two years of discussion, embracing the proposal and enactment of a law, court decision as to its validity and a final review by the people “at a_ regular election.” Let's see. Most states have legislative sessions and regular state elections every once in two years. If you have a responsible legislature it may pass this law at the first ses- sion, but it generally means several successive legislatures be- fore an important measure is passed. In Oregon both parties had for years promised direct primaries, but the law was never passed until the people did so by initiative. Instead gf “two years,” Roosevelt's proposal means more nearly 10 years, and every lawyer knows this, It recalls a chief criticism made of Roosevelt, that he talked too much and did little. La Follette has pointed out that during Roose- velt’s seven years as president, trusts increased in number} and strength as never before in the history of our national government. No, the recall of officials, including judges, has been for- mulated in two states, Oregon and California. The recall of Officials is provided in many cities. It does its work surely and promptly, Let us not be diverted from it by Colonel Roosevelt's new, unformulated and untried experiment of re- call of decisions. After the people have secured the initiative and referendum and the recall of all officials, including judges, they may try recall of decisions, if they then deem it necessary, which is boing § Rut in the meantime, the people should get all the tools of people's power just as the people of Oregon and Cali- fornia have done. HEADED by Mrs. M. E. Garbutt, a movement has been started on the Pacific coast to have Uncle Sam build a great monument of peace instead of fortifications at the Panama canal. Argument is that women do the most suffering from war. Can you beat it? ; MRS. ANTHONY, the Muncie woman who has her shoe ought to try having her skull set HEARST promises the California democratic delegation ® Cham) Clark, ch? In which vest pocket does Willie usually carry the California democracy? | PAL PLANS COMMIS. J MARCH 5TH { One of the chief reagons for the adoption of the plan is that it will save in the future the wasteful practice of doing work over again when @mce done. The Municipal Corporations Association of Great Britain, made a study of city plansing, found, upon that in a ten-year period there had been a loss of over in the cities of England, due to the wasteful practice of rk once done and doing it over again, because the original | done according to a general plan. familiar with the haphazard way in which the streets of been platted knows that there have been hundreds of wasted tn work which would not have had to be er again if we had had a general plan to work to. | There is now pending a condemnation suit for the widening of This is one of the largest improvements ever tnati- it extends from Jackson street to the southern imi near Taylor's mill, on Lake Washington. The lineal dis- tance is eight and one-half miles, and the condemnation wil! involve 2,760 descriptions of property owned by between six and seven thousand Rainier avenue has at the present time no uniform width, the street being thirty feet wide, other parts sixty feet wide some parts sixty-five feet wide. It is now proposed to make it the The improvement will cost some several If, years ago, Seattle had had a plan, Kal- ue today would have been a continuous street of a uniform ‘Width, and this condemnation, with its great cost, would have been un-| . This is one of a great many similar examples. In fact, underlying principle of having a city plan is economy in construc- with its resultant saving to the taxpayer. THE MUNICIPAL LEAGU eo : SSS: A NEW HOYLE -Ella—Did you ever read Longfellow's “Bridge? Stella—No. Is his game different from the one we play?—Judge. & OF SEATTLE. == Maud—tI've just heard of a case where a man married a iis deathbed, so she could have his millions when he was gone. Jou love a girl like that? Jack—That's just the kind of a girl I love. Boston Transcript. girl on} Could What's her address? LITERARY VALUES Mrs. Gray—What book has been the most helpful to you? Mrs. Brown—Webster’s Dictionary, The baby sits on it at the table and it saves the price of a high-chair—Toledo Blade. CASCARETS CLEANSE TORPID LIVER AND SLUGGISH BOWELS No odds how bad your liver, stomach or bowels; how much you head aches, boy miserable Fd barge heer you are from constipation, , biliousness and sluggish intestines—; alw: - sired results with Cascarets. sei Wakanuninaie agains Don't let your stomach, liver and bowels make you miserable an- other moment; put an end to the headache, billousness, dizziness, nerv. @usness, sick, sour, gassy stomach, backache and all other distress; Gleanse your inside organs of all the poison and effete matter which is producing the misery. Take Cascarets tonight sure. 1 “CASCARETS WORK WHILE YOU SLEEP.” poor about ua, THE STAR—THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 1912 vt Morningcatl—You're looking Thad} Mr. Strongarm — More very | with your wife, oh? Why lay down the law to her? Mr, Henry Peck--1 do lay down |the law to her, and then she takes |the aw in her own hands FRIENDSHIP He know thin catastrophe has crippled you, and as one of your Mra. better than I had expected. heard that your health was poor, Mra, Nowgilt--My bealth has been impaired, but there is nothing trouble don't you oldest friends J should like to help you. ft will buy your furniture for 300 franca, She—You're very kind, but I have just sold it for 325 francs. a He—What! You allowed yourself to be robbed like that’--Pele ele, HIS HALF OF THE BARGAIN “Willie, why don’t you let your little brother have your sled part of the timer” , “I do, ma. I take it going down hill and he has it going back.”-—~ Boston Transcript. LOOKING AHEAD Renevolent Visttor-——And what are you going to be, my little man? Little Boy (after a huge dinner)—-I'm going to be—w#ick.—-Sketch. BEATS HIM TO IT ~~ AUSTERE Mise Privol—Do you think it Mra. Guahington—A hoaband and | wrong to kiss a man betore you're wife should have the same ta: @nguged to him? desire the same things. Mise Knosit-—-I set my face Mr. Peeweoo—My and IT do,/againest the practice on all occas- but she always gets ‘em, fons, MUTUAL “Does your wife regret that she married a poor man?” “Not as much as I do.”—Judge, NO OCCASION FOR ALARM Brigge—1 understand that you have hired our former cook. Griggs—Yea; but don't be alarmed. We intend to discount every- thing she tells us.—Boston Evening Transcript. DANGEROUS ENOUGH According to the Milwaukee Sentinel, “Picking the ten most beau- women is a dangerous pastime.” Yes; it's dangerons enough to pick one.—Cleveland Plain Deales DESCRIBES IT THE REASON tifal Your husband says he leads a dog's life.” Mr. Pinfeather—-Do you object to “He does—growls all day long at}me on account of my age? evecr tine and everybody on the} The Widow Wisely—No. place count of your extreme youth. es On ac- ‘ GOING UP “Hureka!” exclaimed Hiram Hoskins, who, with a lighted candle in his hand, was hunting for a leak in the gas-pipe. a A moment later Mrs. Hoskins eadly said “That's just our luck, Now bt ae to pay out more money to get the roof fixed.”—Chicago OUR PENSIONERS Knicker—Why does she want a pension? Bocker—She would have been a soldier's widow if she hadn't turned him down for another fellow.—New York Sun, DEMONSTRATED EFFICIENCY “So you think your wife ts qualified to help reform politic “Well,” replied Mr. Meekton, thoughtfully, of home rule, all right.”—Washington Star, Franc, PIARS HAL A FEBRUARY 29, 1912, PROPOSAL Horace—-Here is the newest conundrum, When is two an odd and lucky number? Natica—You know I never can gifoss conun . Horace—When two are made one, — Natica—Oh, Horace! This is so sadden, people than th’ president of th’ Nited States.” Different Complexion A stranger in Boston was once interested to discover, when dining with fri that the dessert be would have clawed as cream layer cake at home, was known in Bos ton as Washington pie. The next Ume he Imehed at a restaurant be ordered the same thing; but the waiter put before him a rather heavy-looking square of cake cov ered with chocolate. A puzzled ox pression came over hin face he sald reprovingly: “I ordered Wash. ington ple, waiter.” “That in Washington pte, sir.” “Well,” expostulated the disap- pointed man, “I did not mean Booker T. I want George.”—Ev. erybody's Magazine. Mantell Is a Newlywed; Here’s Story of How He Met “Know then, ye who would, that with the selfaame certainty with which the morn in russet mantie clad, climbe o'er the dew of these many hills, every lady fair is born into this mundane sphere with the soul of a poet, with a jon for hetic and dramatic t B. Mantel! can push that high-brow Shakerpesrenn stuff with the ease that you would blow the foam off a cool stein, The Star in| terviewer had his little tetea-tete with the great tragedian, who is playing a week of repertoire at the Moore thea just after Mr, and Mre. Mantel! winded their even- ing repast. You see, the interview. er durat not call it in the language of the hol pollol, just ordinary sup- per, nor even in the sugared dia lect of soctety, dinner. Amiably ensconcing himself in one of those big upholstered leath- er chairs that grace the lobby of the Washington hotel, Robert B. Mantel!, lighting a juley, fat cigar, extolled the beauty of womankin And Mantel) can extoll some, p oling poetry lingo with more than “Chuck” Connors, nd George M. Cohan into ao language speed contest to describe a Bowery flasco, fn addition, Mantell has but re cently bied himself to the court-| house, where he deposited the requisite wherewithal, and secured & marriage license. And one can easily permit any newlywed to in- dulge bimself in praises unbounded | His Twenty THIS 18 MANTELL _ nated in marriage about three months ago, is interesting. Here is how Mantel! tells it; “Twas in the fair city of De troit, about one year ago. The un. kind elements drenched the stee Be the thingn’ things and to unmake ling with things: with the more artistle the things of beauty.” Brave -Three-Year-Old Wife I dle me to the door men akly I want to play © D | bade name tiny voice ned within her eyes j thing which nation ®, | aw the raven grit her enter ang And I heard and person and tn ty, she was, : |the part I gave her, yonder and is be and fair queen and looking 1. She ‘was ge oud droppings, bat. that ca » know id bighest iscloge ba 1 fel wees my most “Woman is Born in 0 are deal always year, Mra, now playing leading § ean roles “Woman is born an tell says. play actor sense is touched in her she dea ops much faster than mere She starts in girlhood, acts with tends to be a young mother boys are “She is instinctiogtt And when her dolties, = m & “Ce to thing, Mantel ran away from ay » = “AFTER SHOVELING COAL ALL DAY ,( LIKE To HEAR A 6000 JOKE; SIGHED Tom, “LISTEN To THIS ONE Mee UP CLAUO; “IF NOAW WAS AFRAID IN THE DARK, 01D “THE ARCLIGHT £* me field buy our Why do you|to bay a younger wife.” | sidiapein pan'y Kick iM , You've KNOCKZH HIM DOWN, NOW bE SATISFIED, Some Mourner Down in Georgia a negro, who had his life insured for several hun- mired dollars, died and left the Money to his widow, She immedi- ately bought herself a very elab- grate mourning outfit ‘ovely woman. ‘Twould be cru-jples, and all shaking thunder/old Ireland nearly 40 years Chey Indeed, to the groom fraternity, {smote the echoing hills, We, se-| crossed the Atlantle, in onder were this not permitted without any |eure from Pluvius’ fury, rehearsed) gin his professtonal career, 2 qualification whatsoever. at the theatre. A timid rap upon| Manteli, « charming young won Mantell’s romance, which culmi-ithe door startled the thespians!is about 23 years old.” ne CELESTIAL INGENUITY “ iy “L hope our dear old Dr. Wu Ting-tang 1s on the right side “Dr. Wu," be continued, “used to tell me many ilu | dotes about the Chinese character. I remember one about S “A Chinaman, the anecdote ran, found bis wife lying rf ne morning—a tiger had killed her. : “The Chinaman went home, procured some arsenic, and, a to the field, sprinkled it over the corpse. THUD: Are you making a gar “The next day the tiger's dead body Iny beside the woman's, i den this year, Stap? Chinaman sold the tiger's skin to a mandarin, and its body tos he SLAP: No, we veget-| sician, to make fear-cure powders, and with the proceeds he was jes ready made ‘ew York Tribune ask? ‘ THUD: Because I thought I saw) you planting something. | SLAP: Oh, that was a dead cat. | It was our favorite cat, She died | for the ninth time, ' THUD: Was it that yellow one you brought in from the country— the one you called Liza? SLAP: Yer—except now she's gone back to the soll and is called | fertilizer, Say, do your fotks cook! your meals on a coal stove or a} wood stove? THUD: On an tron stove. By the way, do you know that selen-| tists say alcohol makes food indi-| ? Bhowing her purchases to her| #estible? “ | friend, she was vory particular in} SLAP: Is that so? Now I know | going into det as to prices and jwhat’s the matter with the stuff my | ail incidental particulars. Her) ¥ife cooks on the chafing dish— friend wan very much impressed, |1t'® that alcol.ol lamp. | and remarked: THUD: Is that what you and! “Them sho is fine cloes, but, befo’ your wife were quarreling about) heaven, what is you goin’ to do wid |the other night? all dis black underwear?” SLAP: Yes. We couldn't agree | Tho bereaved one sighed about a little matter—I said the Makes the cake, biscuits and hot-breads of superior flaver “Chile, when | mourns I mourns.” jamp was leaking and she said it ~ Harper's Magazine. was my breath, But you didn't SAPD ET RES Sa MenAUD: Guite plat x 1D: Quite plainiy. THe MEURAZON 1g) SLAP: But you were at your Bight success(ul seasons | brother-in-law’s house, a mile away./ Be a F THUD: Sure. That's where I —o— heard you. Nee For you— climate. Of sorvive. Bold only b: Liny Co. 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