The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 10, 1912, Page 4

THE SEATTLE STAR _ i WHST LEA i lensed wire mows wecvice o aan Matter = $1.80 Kachange Wala # postoffice aw mecond -« moe; atx 1 year Phones hed Daily by The Star Publishing Go. ae . New Police Bull Deserves Fair Trial Whatever ully be the practical results of the Griffiths police the nance ep intent, namely, b police Whateve may event the mayor's veto, ordi ht direction exercise of authority by the bill, passed the ri in its main in the is a te ary the bill may invite, as pointed dire calami THE STAR—TUESDAY, out by M ring the doors wide in Seattle to certain The bill is not calculated to remain an impregnable rock of Gib ayor Cotterill, in o classes of criminals, can only be temporary. unassailable, unche able, unamendable It is quite possible that Mayor Cotterill’s fears and ap- prehensions may be well grounded. But if the bill ductive of even a small fraction of the incalculable damage it be taltar, is pro- describes, can easily which the mayor graphically amended, ar No councilman, no police chief, and no mayor, will stand fn the way for one moment in giving the residents of Seattle proper protection from plug-uglies, crooks and undesirables generally. Certainly the present council and the present city administration will prove no such stumbling block, But the curtailing of police abuse is not so easy a mat- ter. The Griffiths ordinance is the first step in that direc- tion. If it has, it should be changed and will be amended as soon as its impracticability in any direction has been demonstrated. will be amended It may have gone to an extreme. much worse form other Cotterill ordinance Police abuse has existed in administrations than under Mayor question about that. The Griffiths not sarily a reflection on the present administration. It the Seattle is going in There is no is neces- is in keeping with movement. ahead. progressive This Star attle proposes to humanize its police department. The is the main purpose of the Griffiths ordinance. believes To that end, it deserves a faie trial, The Horse “Comes Back’’ Not so many years ago “They keep their horse and car- riage” was the mark of wealth and fashion Then came the automobile. The peopie with horses and Carriages were back numbers. Really swell folks had their “cars.” On a recent fair Sunday the benches along the drives in New York's Central park were filled with people watching} the automobiles go by. Touring tars, limousines, runabouts, taxicabs, silently, swiftly they scooted along. The watchers on the benches turned on even the most luxurious and costly a bored gaze Suddenly the spectators to “Look!” said one to another. “Aren't they beauties! certainly is some swell turn-out!” Along the drive there passed a handsome victoria, drawn by a pair of beautifully groomed bays. The harness was silver-plated; it shone and glanked. The coachman and foot- man were in livery. An elderly man and woman occupied the carriage—a well-dressed, dignified couple, who looked Meither to the right nor the left. Automobiles have become common. Your milkman takes his family out in his car, The people on the benches in the park knew that many of the passing automobiles were oc-| cupied by folk of no better social standing than themselves. But the victoria—its clinking, gleaming trappings, its high stepping steeds—there was unmistakable aristocracy. The horse, and not the automobile, is again the ‘of fashionable distinction, even as it was before the line car was ever built Why Resist Strikes? One of the conundrums that is mighty hard for the average citizen to answer these days is this: Why does any big corporation or combine approaching the power of monopoly | make any effort to resist a strike or even resist the sugges- tion of a strike on the part of its workmen? In order to make the answer almost impossible, take a look at the immediate results to the anthracite coal trust following a short strike of its miners about a year ago. After the men had been out long enough to allow for the tleaning up of accumulated supplies, the managers of the trust, of whom George F. Baer is the big. boss, threw up horrified eyes and hands made horny, in spots, by clipping coupons, and said: “You win.” Thereupon there was an increase in the anthracite miners’ pay roll aggregating $6,440,000 annually. . _ But, also, thereupon, those calloused-fingered financiers, fapidly recovering from the shock of being held up by the miners, proceeded to recoup by adding 25 cents a ton to the price the .public was compelled to pay for anthractie coal. The annual output of the trust mines is about sixty million tons So the tabulated account for that strike stands thus: Nothing but automobiles attention That were roused mark first gaso- Higher pay to miners..........$.6,440,000 Higher cost of coal .. 15,000,000 Higher profits for trust 8,560,000 Now, why should a monopoly resist a strike gonundrum. That's the Obser vations NOW that the Griffiths or-jhave taken to wearing canes @inance keeps the police from) and tight shoes. The our homes, we'd be awfully) of civilization is just obliged if some wizard city dad would work out a scheme to keep the burglars out like wise. march spoiling some mighty fine heathen, “AND I say you're a first $ replied Ma “Well,” Pa, “with first [class hogs worth $4.85 per 100 on the hooi, your gentle an- hog!” said ANYHOW, no matter how gmart a lawyer may be, he can’t tell Judge Clinton W. Howard of a joker in any law that the judge didn’t see first swer wrath,” sure turneth away “GOOD cooks are more nec jessary than governors,” says Hon. Tom Marshall. Nice vice president, a fellow who doesn’t know that cooks are governors! JUDGE HOWARD wants the lawyers to hurry up with their cases. Sure, Recess ap- pointments don’t last forever, you know. “MANY, many good men and women I know labor for others,” says Carnegie. Hoot! Andy’s the boy for knowing that well. MANCHURIAN SOME of those eastern gold-bug democrats are sitting up nights to worry about Bryan’s being too big for Wil- Chinese] son’s cabinet. % Wee iP You'Re Nothing Serious | <i wens NERVOUS TO SIT DOWN, Lig DOWNS — SSD junior offis boy tels what a diffrunce a sunday face makes n. ¥., dec 10,—all their frends is havin a good laff at sam blake and bill willard, 2 sitazens of yonkers, sam and bill ha lived in yon- gers all their Ives, and they are pardpers in a stoar. cuppel of mornings ago bill was selling a yonkers lady « slab of oll cloth to put under her kitchen stove when a feller walked in and said, hello, mr. willard hello, says mr. willard, and went on sellin he bimeby when he was through the | willard, | gees) says well, mr. you dont know me mr. willard looked at him very careful, and then he says, you are a good gesser, my frend guy the man he smiled, and he said,| well, well, aint that strange he was a nice looking, big chap, with a brown suit and a soft hat and he had a can of gollof sticks on his arm nuthin so durn strange, says bill willard, there's a pile of drum- mers comes into this stoar, my frend, how do you think { can re member you all ha, ha, says the man, deed a good goak glad you are injoying it so mutch ways bill, but if you're here on bis nise, git busy, where is your sam ples this {a all { carry, ses the feller, holding up his golluf sticks don't keep golluf supplys, says bill, good mornin but the man dident go he says, i carry anuther line of samples, and lve showed them to you a good many times in the last 6 months, and you seemed to like them pretty well gosh all fish hooks, man, hollera bill, what are you talkin about, f aint never saw you in my life be- foar go call your pardner, mr. blake, says the man, maby he might know me, he h en me at least onct a this is tn SKYGACK FRO | week for a good many months | #0 bill went and told sam there was a crazy feller out there that said he knew them, and for him to come take a look at him same he come out of the offis, jand he shook his head, and he said my frend, i don't know you from a |batl of hay then the guy he laffed and laffed, jand he says, ime the rev. james | stevens, pastor of the church you |gentiomen is both members of ive seen you settin In your pews evry sundy, and being on my way to play a game of golluf, 1 thot | would stop in for a little chat by golly, says bill, wot do you know about that well, says sam, when you take off lyour sundy face and put on your golluf clothes, you sure do look diffrent, parson, but, say, dont tell nobody about this, will you of course the parson didn't johny SEER NN MRE HE ZY * Rte Sreh cobR * Brotherhood League & 51114 King St. * Main 2496, * Positions wanted for one ® stenographer, one stationary * engineer, one electrician and ‘& laborers. * SERENE EERE Ee invented Lancashire atter his * * * * The spinning Jenny w by Thomas Highs, a jman, who named it daughter Jenny. The minimum pay of women jachool teachers in France is $240 a year, the maximum $470. New York has 2489 bekerfes, most of which are in cellars. Golden pheasants are so numer- ous In parts of Massachuse(ts that they are a nulsance to farmers, who say they are worse than crows, M MARS HAVE BEEN ATTEMPTING 7O TATHON NOTIVES OF CERTAIN WANDERING EARTH BEING ~~ ——— SOLE AIM WY LIFE SEENS TO BE it GETTWG RID OF PICK-BURDEN BY GIVING AWAY CONTENTS ~ YET DAILY HE RERPPLEARS TO DOT OVER WITH THE SUPPLY UNDIM/N/SHED. DECEMBER 10, 1912. Carnegie has decided to reserve 100,000 of his fortune, Which enough to keep the gas man door, if not the wolf, 8 will from the A Great Many of Them Ari CANDYMAKEIC--Particularly ous for the services of hard boiled candymaker ment in Chicago (I1.) Tribune. Marivatchin, in Russia, near the Asia border, has no women among its residents. They are forbidden to live In the elty and even the territory, Misdirected energy — Reading magazine poetry. rving @ table for New Yoar eve when you have « home. Hanging pictures to please your Hing a man smoking is injur- The United States exported 166, 000,000 gallons of mineral oil to Great Britain in the fiscal your 1912. In spite of the fact that the big fur be are becoming extinct in this country more money is being paid to trappers for skins than ever before, It is paid prin- clpally for skunk, fox, mink and muskrat. Forty [linots towns with a popu lation of A400 to 600 are without a ohurch. Wilson and Roosevelt vided California. Of course, know how, have dl you Nolther do we, Coal tls being dug from a Penn- syivania anthracite mine with steam shovels. A Yale professor proposes that the gold dollar be made heavier, to restore some of its lost purchas ing power. Good boy, prof. And while you're making it heavier, make it @ little more frequent. Most of Them Are SITUATION Wanted—As house- keeper by o firstclass widow.-Ad- vertinement in Chicago (Hl) Trib- une. nearly all Marks’ help entertain money chorus “You, to never would have suspected it. He was always such a steady jsort of a fellow. I had no idea | he ran around with chorus iris,” “Oh, he didn't. He bought stock in a gold mine and the promoters entertained the chorus girls.” The Kansas City health board has issued a bulletin saying pro pristors of stores and other pub He places should see that the tele phone transmitter is disinfected at least twice a day. The Pied Piper. Piper came ns Saturday and we trouble with his law and o stable Herma JOSH WISE SAYS: “After a couple has been married| five years it mighty hard t make them. en- thuse over a wed-| din’ invitation.” ! Up to date Uncle Sam has spent} $285,671,514 on the Panama canal, California has about 3,000,000 acres of land under trrigation, and 12,000,000 more that can be irri gated What has become of the old- fashioned man who used to put on wristlets about this time of the year? Misdirected energy Winding a cuckoo clock. Taking a course {n elocution Ditto iw clasale dances. Coloring a meerschaum pipe. Why Not Pipe It? « The volume of water discharged by the Mississipp! is greater than that of all the rivers of Europe combined, omitting the Volga World's in a From “Biographies of the Greatest Men and Women.” kidney pill almanac Anderson, Hans Christian (1805 The son of a Danish shoe maker, was educated by generous patrons and then employed by the state to make several continental tours, Anne, queen of 1714)--Traveling as fast as pos sible, needed one day in summer and two in winter to go 46 miles Antonius, Marcus (about 83 B. Was the famous Mark Antony Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685 1750)—-Begine the list of great mu aleal composers for the long period ending 1684 Cleopatra (68-30 B. C.)—Was the clever but wicked lady who incited Julius Caesar to fight her own brother and after Caesa death make Mark Antony her slave te his undoing, but killed herself with the bite of an asp when she failed |to fascinate Augustus. England (1702 CG) The new steamer Aquitania, be ing built on the Clyde, is so large that the river channel must be widened and deepened tn placer 80 the boat can get to the sea, It will be launched in March, 1913. and be ready to sail o year later. England, estimates dealer in London, stamp collectors, five years 3000 a stamp has 500,000 Within the past books on oxtamp collecting have been published One London dealer bag. hF9,000 invested In stamps. «|back further query. asia D. FROHMAN PLANNING TO KE} P WORLD'S GREAT ACTORS ALIVE IN MOVING PICTUR | Some of the Noted Players Who Are to Act in Moving Pictures Henry E. Dixie, Viola Allen, Sara Bernhardt and James K BY GERTRUDE M. PRICE, Ages,” Webber and Fields in “A The Star's Moving Picture Expert. Trip Around the World Mrs NEW YORK, Dec. 10.—Daniel| Leslie Carter in “Zaza,” or “Du Frohman, New York theatrical | Barry,” and Viola Allen probably in manager, hae gone into the moving |“The Christian.” pieture business! The plays will produced Plain truth! He is the mana, tho big Famous Players Fiir and director of the Famous Players company plant in New York, Film Company of New York a lio with @ at unique organization composed of en completes the greatest stars of the speaking is already rehearsing “Th stage in both hemispheres. of Zen for the pictures He is the Car-| Strange to say, it often negie of the pic | examen <= ture world, hav- ing completed ar-| rangements to} supply the Unt versity of Colum bia with a “Ii brary of films” for educational | purposes —-to be! used as aids to atudents who! wish to study the work of great players in well known piays which have his torte or other ed ueational value. Daniel = Froh man says he will fill the theatres emptying them by means of the moving picture “primer.” The movie is a mission ary to the “untheatered” thousands he maintains, and will do its work in a remarkably brief time. I found Mr. Frohman, immacu lately attired in frock coat, silk hat, “starched bosom,” and patent leathers, on the threshold of his richly appointed suite in the Lyce- um theatre, looking as remote from the “store show” and the nickel theatre as the north pole from the south What do you want me to tent | you about the moving pictures,” he sald Habit started questions. “Why did you become a moving! picture producer?” “WU the pletures dr atres out of business?” “Do you believe the actor's work on the screen will perpetuate his name after he's dead?” “What's the futur ? Mr. Frohman made an almost im perceptible movement with his jong, narrow hand, as if to push} } From Left to Right, Mr Ha and kett 3 Prisot takes A BITTER BLOW DANIEL FROHMAN, instead of rescue and | with a volley of | came to my me off the the ” “I went into the moving picture | business because it seemed to me to be the thing to do.” I suppose Mr. Frohman meant he} saw 4 big thing on the horizon and| * Kditor The went out to meet it | “There isn't the slightest possi- bility of summing up or even hint ing at the future of the industry 8 urely with religious matter. Noth. ing that I know of would be mew appreciated than some goot boat and magazines, dated anywhere be tween 1899 and 1912. Referring to | “Disinterested’s” ietter in The Star last Wednesday concerning the King county hospital, I should like & to ask Miss Disinterested where The picture stage will NEVER | she got all her information. 1, who| pplant the speaking stage. In-|am an inmate of the hospital, | ead it will act as a MISSIONARY | should be very glad to escort her bringing in many converts. | through the institution and show have found that the moving/her all the “beggars” and “para- cture business may be separated | sites.” into claswes, corresponding to the| The patients are all more than 50 10-20-20, 50 and $2 classes of the | years of age. Some are peralyzed, speaking stage. The Famous Play-| others have broken limbs, and none ers Film company purposes to fill/ are able to do the lightest kind of the gap in the picture scale which work is represented in the*theatre by the After struggling all their lives $2 class, We are going to give the for wages (just enough to keep public the greatest stars in the |them alive), they had the misfor. best dramas and comedies, includ-|tune of getting injured or sick ing Shakespeare, of course.” | Don’t you think it’s the duty of the The stars who will act for the| county to do just a little for them? Famous. Players Film company| The condition of the hospital is this year include James K. Hack-|as good as the average. The fod | transformation of ett in “The Prisoner of Zenda,” | is all right, but often insutfictent.|not ears to hear nor eyes Minne Maddern Fiske in “Becky |The only magazines we get are|Do not judge your a Sharpe,” Henry Dixie in ven ‘from the missions and deal en-! \ Editor The Star: “Disinterested” had perme once more before deciding worthy and not worthy of te county’s help. “There is God and Father who is Judge.” The present fallen condition & man and society at large 4p blame that these poor, humans are driven to county's ald. be done on earth as Heaven. May that not be far away! BAKING POWDER A pure, healthful, Cream of Tartar Baking Powder When buying an article of food you are entitled to know exactly what you are buy- ing—its quality and ingredients. If this information is refused don’t buy it. Some of the low grade baking powders are advertised, but the ingredients of the powders are scrupulously concealed. A housekeeper would not use a baking powder containing alum if she knew it. It is well when buying to examine the label on the can. Unless it shows the ingredient cream of tartar, don’t buy it. Dr. Price’s baking powder is absolutely free from alum.