The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 8, 1914, Page 4

THE Telegrap' SEATTLE STAR cAGUR OF NHWSPrArERs « s NORTHWEST & New Service of the Un Entered at Seattio, Wash. Postoffice as Seoond-Clase Ma six mos.; six mos. $1.80; year the a month Co, Phowe, Main 9400, Ht departments, mail, out of city, 36 yer mon ete ¥ Padlished Daily by The Star Pubdit exchange connect A Slap on the Wrist OLICE JUDGE GORDON yesterday assessed a fine of $100 against B. F of the © after he had decided that Ivy was guilty of having discharged Johanna Hilts, one of the laundry employes, because she had S pbeyed the summons of the Industrial Welfare Commission tO appear before them at Olympia and tell of conditions in Seattle laundries udge Gordon assessed the fine mournfully, Ivy, manager Troy laundry, | even regret fully, He mourned that an erratic law made it impossible} for him to do as he would like to have done; he regretted deeply that $100 was the maximum penalty | ‘© the judge it was like slapping Ivy on the wrist The idea of thus throttling the ends of justice went] Against Judge Gordon's grain The Star enters into mourning with the court that the crime Ivy committed was a heinous crime It feels a4 It is no joke to work long hours in a hot laundry ‘a for $10 a week, as did Johanna Hilts, It is grim a2 tragedy if such workers are to be terrorized into a3 silence concerning that work. It is a harking back to the dark ages. It is an insult to enlightened civiliza- tion. | Where Tightwads Err 'T ought to be easy to tell the difference between thrift and stinginess. But many folks don’t know it. No tight-| - ‘wad does % A THRIFTY MAN IS ALWAYS A LIBERAL MAN, though not a wasteful one. When he spends a dollar his ves he tremble with another dollar of face doesn’t show spasms of { Vavarice until his dollar fit. i vie spends intelligently and therefore willingly, and is Content to await the outcome, because he knows that in the tun he will get back from society about in proportion | gives. } : As with individuals so with communities, states, nations. | Economy doesn’t mean parsimony. It means when and how to be liberal. It means having foresight. $ For example, take the case of Wisconsin's justly famous ain nor d as PGniversity. It is costing a lot of money and the tightwads re worrying. Instead of seeing how every penny of this igutlay is bringing dollars of direct and indirect profit—direct multiplied crop yields, bettered industrial methods, more efficient citizenship, indirect in a million fine by-products—} they are plotting how to hobble the institution's growth and to extract more tuition out of students from other states Upon this issue Wisconsin's voters must soon pass whether graciously to serve the cause of freedom and erfoy ih the prestige and profits of leadership or to be narrow BR Yooks plain, doesn't it? The Throb of Brotherhood a an PROSPEROUS farmer and a battered bum drove into F a little Nebraska town the other day neither the Dleared eyes of the vagrant nor the keener ones of the farmer) the whirling maze of life | |For their hearts were full of other visions—drawn from} the dusts of a half-century by the humming of a song. | ey saw the whitewashed hut, the peat fields, the donkey | of Ireland, and they felt again the throb of boyhood| of brotherhood. } ‘ Two brothers left the Emerald Isle to try their fortunes fin America. One found his place in the broad wheat fields 5 Nebraska, where each summer's sun added to his stock of | dly goods. The other kept looking—gazing too often rough the bottom of glasses to see opportunities and ever Moving on in the hope that Fate would toss a fortune, ready- made, into his hands | No word passed between them. This year the battered Wanderer went into the harvest fields to work. No were given. But as he worked he sang—and sang #ong of other years. The song had its echo in the memory of the employer. S@nly they are no longer employer and hired hand, but Pat and Bob, as they were when they left Ireland a half-century but | names the he i The moral? There isn’t any at dll—except that the world 4s full of a number of things, and that among them are emo- | tions so changeless, memories so deeply engraved that a Song can wipe away the wealth of the prosperous and the Sears of battered failure and leave them simply “brothers.” Erastus Brainerd, an editor member of the park board MAYOR OF Montreal has gone on strike and refuses to attend offi Immediately comes the ial meetings unless his back salary Is paid. evidence a ”__ Witness the sign - AREA,” i LOSING AN ear in an accident, Baltimore man had a new one bullt | __ by grafting, which is declared a genuine work of art. HIGH PRICE OF BEEF.—Holstein bull calf at public auction sale rapa sold for $20,000, the highest price ever paid for such an animal. LARGEST FLAGPOLE in the world was raised on Panama-Pacific . ition grounds, It is an Oregon pine, 230 feet high and six feet Ee gilek at the base. ” BECAUSE THE bridegroom was late, Scranton girl promptly mar- ried the best man. SINGULAR CASE of rabies developed by a girl in York, P. rif.| terday in working out the problems teen years ago she was bitten by a dog, and she was married a week | °F # “difficult ad ago. sound of blank LITTLE NECK, L. |., folk want to change town name, Tired of be- _ ing called clams. JERSEY CITY man lost diamond ring feeding his fifty chickens He has already killed 12 to examine their crops, and the rest will nave to go In batches until he finds it. PT ! | FIRST MAN to pitch a curved ball died in Binghamton. 3 Hie name ‘was Bert Dorr. JOHN HAM, an actor, changed his name to Hammond. He consid his original name too pointed for his profession. STAR—WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 1914, “PLL TURN THE PENITENTIARY INTO HOSPITAL’ —||Blease of South Carolina, Champion Pardoning Governor, Tells Why He Lets Convicts Go by Hundreds PAGE 4 COLUMBIA, 8 C,, July &—Cole) His latest announcement ts reasons for such lavish pardoning ,PLYING THE GOLDEN RULE T, Blease, governor of South Caro-| follows for the benefit of The Star readers, |THAN HY SHOWING MERCY lina, has 1 roasted and ridi “lL am determined to clean out Tam pr that I have been|wherever I can, I belleve there euled up and down the United the penitentiary by Aug, 1 and|able to extend this merey to my | will be a reward for me in heaven States because he ts the champion pardoning governor IN THE THREE YEARS HE HAS BEEN GOVERNOR HE HAS SET AT LIBERTY OVER SOUTH CAROLINA CONVICTS! It may be all right and damn Blease, Hlease's point of vi 1,200 governor and asked turn {ft Into a hospital.” , but fellow man,” eald Gov, Mlease, to ridicule | was right that I should have de what low? two reasons alone I did it, rege Your correspondent called on the | less of consequences or results “I know of no better way of AP.'I am forced to the conclusion inev him to give hia! is|wo; it was my duty, and for these |for the merey I have shown “How any man who professes to jbe a Christian can object to my womething beyond my “it one system In comprehension and. when one does rd WHAT A GRANO THING THE ENGLISH LABUAGE MRE, FOL mouse? — — Some OF REFUMMENT For BY WAWCN TO Tia A LOUCRTED PERSON" rr BY GOSH! IE CANT KA/Ow HOW (2 GOT ALOné if I power HAVE PIY GOOO EAGLIIH TO FARA BACK CA! THATS 440 DOAK ‘HIGHBROW TALK GOES RIGHT OVER. THE BOYS’ HEADS: Mayor Gill recently appointed Thirty or forty the highbrow language ‘BUNCHES 0’ FUN CAMP ERNE! can Lake, July & lara spent the greater part heard on ail shores of the |takes made by the guardsmen dur-| ing the sham battle were out by the regulars. The men wil) break camp Friday. WE'LL HAVE King county will have a pert. Tho the conservation county. of soil RIGHT! 13 THE Owe ene |{ you” Keep off this on a triangular city plot) at Third av. and Yesler way loafers about the new sign yesterday They probably did not unde! ST LISTER, National Guards men and three companies of regu SOIL EXPERT commissioners voted an appropriation of $3,500 to hire @ practical man to supervise i ‘ACCIDENT, Haven'y Yout WELL, ALT HAVS TO Sy 13 I'm Goad HOW CLote ington recorted head un animals. “Do birda “Yos, they're so fly here and Yea, and have round.” you know the year as a iterary lolled nd} Amer of yes To Skagw gell and comfort. duly 4, eau. AN pointed Yes, YoulRs THe LAD THAT TRIED TO 3CE PASS WITHOUT KILLING MC Back HERE Aout Sure! In the census office at Wash acts against the law are a such as murder, burglary, After a puzzled moment she plac ed it under the list Out Yesler Way “Princess May” 18 and August 1 steamer “Princess Alice” June 27, July 11, 25 and August 8. Do You KNow WHO You'Re TALKING To $ or ir! You @ou.p ly Recognized The candy untered into th village shop and asked, with a offensive alr Do you sell puppy Discuits f this. queer little shop?” few main ete. A Indy who was working . “ ‘- there recently ran across the Yes, sir, certainly. onl the Oh for a man who likes to wal ’ shopman euavely. “Shall | put Ob for a woman who’ ver } °. blind tige no's never Jai crime, “Running a blind tiger them In «a bag for you to take tag at |THE SEATTLE STAR’S LAUGH DEPARTMENT OUTBURSTS OF EVERETT TRUE CAUTION NEEDED these tor me look I have been told toise shell glasses make scholarly Then for goodness’ sake don take them off near people who haven't seen you without them "S IN A NAME? the child's name a priest of grandfather at the christen- ing. | “1 dunno,” the grandfather replied. And he turned to the father and whispered hoarsely “What's the lied the father. ed the grand- “Hazel,” ther. The grandfather threw up hie hands in disgust. “What | dye think uv t | the priest. “With the calen- | dar av the saints full av gurrl namee—an’ him nam- in’ hie after a nut!” repeated the fa- ° ET | ° A Give Away “What are yer goin’ ter whip lites osh ‘fer, pat Playin’ with condensed milk cans right befo all them new summer boarders. } Pure Gold! | Oh for a barber who does not talk! |) Oh foranauto that does not balk! Oh for a summer without a fly! Oh for a baby that doesn’t cry! Oh for trousers that will not bag! Ob for a job that will never fag! o Cruelty to me, or will you eat them And Then Good-Night here The Seven Ages of Man, in Re . bal 4 lation to Woman Looks Bad for Pa (1) Infaney Dependence “Ma.” Inquired Bobby, “hasn't (2) Childhood Indifference I envy the pa atiueer idea of heaven? (3) Adolescence Idealization Why do you ask that? gay and free; ““Cavee I heard him tell M Nabor that the week you spent only one bill aside seemed like heave The splendid “Princess” steamers offer every June 13, “Princess Sophia” June 20, Special sailings of the magnificent IDEAL VACATION TRIP For rates, sailings and information apply to CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY soil ex 713 Second Avenue, ttle. have | in the —- THE SHOE REPAIR MAN 216 Union St.—2 Shops—110 Madison (4) Young Manhood r. (6) Early Middle Age Disillusionment (6) Later Middle Age . Tolerance (7) Old Age .. Dependence Again DECORATING FOR POTLATCH; MORE _ MONEY NEEDED Experience n Seattle is rage today, in preparation for next | week's Potlatch this morning. Before it is finished at least 2¢ blocks in the down town section will be togged out in gay bunting. picturesque and weird totem poles. big electric signs, flags afd pen nants and signs. The money is on hand for the 20 blocks. If any further funds are forthcoming, the decorating will go on until the decorating committee goes broke IT’S UP TO JOHN A claim of $2 putting on her glad he work startec ), filed with the county commissioners by the social ist party for damages done to head: rs during the riots of last year’s Potlatch, has been referred |to Prosecutor John Murphy, | | ELIHU WRITES TO CHAMBER The Clayton anti-trust bill ex }empting certain organizations from the effect of the act contains some very bad provisions, according to a jletter from United States Senator | Elihu Root, read yesterday before the Chamber of Commerce trustees. BE CRE SITS weston pak = tat itably that he ia a deep-dyed hypo-| another drink of liquor, or in ever rite. gain convicted of any erlminal of Gov. Bleane haw written his rea-|fense in the general seasions court son for pardoning each man. of this state, he shall be recommit He pardoned Samuel Way, a white man serving a term in the to penitentiary for false pre because “This unfortunate Ant weems to have had much trouble with hin wife. A more sert ous affitet to my mind, cannot be imposed upon any m cially Hving in South where you eannot get a divorce.” Another man was pardoned be-| cause he had been convicted on the} testimony of two negroes. | Another, A. lL. Pitman, white, of Greenville county, was freed when the ernor found that he had |been {mprisoned for assault and! | battery on a man who had insulted | hin wife | | “The prosecutor ought to have been pleased that he was not {killed outright,” said the governor No Swindle Frank Stone, a white man of Laurens county, swindled a neigh |bor by palming off on him a blind jorse. "There's no excuse for a man saying @ blind horse was put eff on him un he was either blind or drunk,” said the governor, freeing Stone Negroes, according to the gov ernor, have a low standa ality, and therefore he paroled Wil Ham Johnson, a negro, who killed another in a fuss over a woman The governor does not think « white man should be punished for killing a negro who curses him. He paroled Otis Hilton, a white man from Chester county, who was given a life sentence in the state penitent! for killing a negro. “My experience with detectives, or so-called detectives, who are to receive so much for each convic- tion, has been that THEY WILL SWEAR TO ANY KIND OF A LIE In order to get the $10,” is'one of the reasons given by the governor in pardoning Bud Willis, a white |man who had been convicted of selling Mquor {n Spartanburg Shows Mercy | Carrying out bis idea of Gov.Cole L. Blease parol |ing prisoners, Governor Blease has|ted to the state penitentiary to granted freedom to scores on the|serve the remainder of the sem condition that “If he ev¥er takes | tence.’ Although no official compilation is kept to show the race of the prisoner receiving clemency, the ‘ P governor himself is of the opinion is one that, assists Nature. | that over HALF OF THE MEN HB Regular and natural action of Has TURNED LOOSE ARE NE- the stomach, liver, kidneys and | “‘rhi« in a state where the negro bowels will keep you well and |‘* of no account and where a man eohven. £, has no use for the black brother, fit,and thisactionispromotedby | pro:ner BEECHAMS may FREE SOME Pi LLS | OLYMPIA, July &.—State prison board of control, in session this ‘The Bele of Any Medicine ta the World, Sli secretin A True Tonic week and next at Monroe, will hear a Qpnee, 18e., Ze. applications for clemency. THE BANK OF CALIFORNIA * National Association of San Francisco UNITED STATES DEPOSITARY STATEMENT OF CONDITION Including its Branches in Seattle, Tacoma, Portland and Virginia City, at close of business Tune 30th, 1914. ASSETS. Loans and Discounts ‘ . - -$31,022,894.30 3ank Premises San Francisco and Branches. 1,183,634.68 Other Real Estate 485,469.13 Customers’ Liability under Letters of Credit 3,635,820.47 Sundry Bonds and Stocks sees. 4,514,694.70 United States Bonds to secure Circulation. 5,019,000.00 Other United States Bonds Redemption Fund with United States Treasurer . a wonecess OOCUROD Cash and Sight Exch . 16,897,648.59 $63,294,161.87 8,266,347.60 3,770,518.77 . 47,949.93 «+ 37,709,845.57 $63,294,161.87 The Bank of California, National Association, San Francisco, and its Branches in Seattle, Tacoma, Portland and Virginia City, constitute one association under one management, and depositors at any one of the bank’s offices have the protection of the entire capital, surplus and undivided profits of the association. AGENT FOR FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF | FAIRBANKS, ALASKA. | THE BANK OF CALIFORNIA National Association. Seattle Branch, 801 Second Avenue. E. C. Wagner, Manager. Geo. T. S. White, Asst. Mgr. 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