The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 24, 1914, Page 4

4 ‘The Virgins # 4 Why Is a Ween Pretty? T HE case of Leo Frank, convicted in Georgia of murder, which now comes before the United States supreme court in the shape of habeas corpus proceedings, comes pretty near being a trial of the constitution of the United States, with the highest court divided against itself as to power to render complete justice. On previous appearance before the United States supreme court, the latter refused to interfere with the action of the lower courts, although Jus- THE SEATTLE STAR MIPTS NONTHWEST LEAGUE OF NEW Entered at Seattic, Wash. Postoffice as Second-Clase Matter, By mati, out of elty, $e per month up to ¢ moa. year $8.25 city 280 a 8 «mon. # B rr h. | | | | Wain 900. Private] STAR—THURSDAY, DEC. &, 1914 PAGE 4 It Isn’t Leo M. Frank Who Is on Trial, but the U. S. Constitution tice Holmes took occasion to remark that Frank had evidently been convicted without “due process of law.” In other words, it is all right to hang Frank in defiance of his constitutional rights. And the court in whose especial care the constitution is ‘supposed to rest is powerless to interfere. There is no honest court on God's earth but will decide that Frank did not have a fair trial. It is not disputed that the trial judge and the jury were in a state of terror lest the verdict should not be guilty of murder in the first degree. Frank was hated because he was a successful Jew and the atrocity of the crime aroused public clamor for bloody vengeance. All the circumstances have a Russian odor. While this case has aroused universal interest, the guilt ov innocence of Frank is no longer the main question. On one hand we have public clamor for a Thon War Was Declared Briggs-—We are coming around to} The Crime of Crimes T isn’t consoling, around Christmas time, to think of any man having to go to jail. But there are one or two points about the case of that Cleveland school superintendent, Fred erich, whom the Ohio supreme court has said must serve his sentence, which temper the ordeal Frederich, backed by a bong-head board, for years has fought to hold his teaching body under vise-like discipline He fought the teachers’ right to have a say in the business side} of their work. They were to do as they were told, to take) what they were given and be grateful. | When they formed a union to give strength in a battle} they couldn't win separately, he deliberately broke the law by) marking the leaders for dismissal, though in point of compe- tence they were among the best teachers on the staff Not only so; but after a judge, by injunction, had revealed to him the law’s intent, he still defied it and flouted the court, as well. Conduct like this forbids sympathy and requires drastic | action. The use of official power to tyrannize over the weak | is the crime of crimes among a people who value freedom. | | Court Government BSERVE this lovely demonstration of the beauties of gov- ernment by the judiciary: | In 1905, the California legislature passed a law requiring | foreign corporations to pay special license fees and taxes. | In 1912, the California supreme court declared that law to} be unconstitutional In 1913, the legislature repealed the law because the state supreme court had declared it to be unconstitutional. | Early in 1914, the U. S. supreme court ruled that the state Supreme court had wrongly ruled as to the unconstitutionality | of that law. i This week, the state supreme court reverses its own de- _ cision of 1912. | What's the use _ anyhow, doesn’t it? Why, it makes business for lawyers,| y HE most welcome thing in print is the picture of a prett: woman or a picture which suggests one. To be sure, in the eyes of gallantry, all women are beau- tiful; only some are very much more so | It’s the pictures of the more-sos that please the men.| Even when they know the pictures are retouched until largely | bogus, they still are touched; which, come to think of it, is} odd. } For we don’t gaze with rapture on counterfeit money—at/ least, not if we've parted with good money to get it. Yet we stare and stare and sometimes thrill over the picture of a woman when, if we saw the original, the ehances are she'd not command a second glance. | The reaso: Oh, probably because every fellow likes to give his imagination something to do ; With a picture the imagination can go as far as it likes Whereas, when you view the living original you may soon perceive things that throw the imagination off the track maybe a wart, a sallow complexion, a birth mark; something that the photographer has mercifully ignored. Anyhow, what is it that makes a woman pretty? You may think you know; but can you put it in en | | words? If you can, you're to be congratulated. We can’t | appeared tn state to you that there never was an officer by that name and title Cost of Victory FTER four years of bitter conflict the Colorado mine} A strike has been settled, the main feature of the settle- ment being a 10 per cent reduction in wages. | It is a victory for the operators, their gunmen, their mur-| derous militia and their gang politics, although the unionists} were probably wise in calling off the strike | But isn’t this victory a good deal like the victory of the British at Bunker Hill? Surely, it leaves in the hearts of} thousands of men more hatred of the law, more envy of the| fich, more scorn of society, more determination to combat} force with force when a better opportunity arises | Society does not strengthen itself by crushing men.} Men’s Friendship is not won by triumph of brute force.| Patriotism is not prompted by a victory over justice Colorado has earned repute as a commonwealth that cheapens men. It is not good for a state that is young and wants to grow. Never Say Die mi ™ pretty well burned out just now, boys, but I'll start all i Some day, volumes will be written about Edison, the great inventor, his works, life and character, but their contents| will not show him more completely than do these few words] of his, spoken as he viewed the smoking ruins of his big plant at West Orange, the other day | That man is a success who, with high ideals, rises above reverses and “starts all over tomorrow.” over tomorrow.” ison In eruption again and we are beginning to suspect | @ concession and Is planning to exhibit it at the San Francisco exposition. WE'D TAKE a chance with those 42-centimeter guns, but when we read that there are 26,000 motorcycle couriers with the allies we balk on that war thing. NOW THAT a University of Wisconsin professor has discovered | that all we need to keep warm Is a clothes pin on the nose, we expect to see some awfully cute little clothes pins on Broadway. HAVE YOU bought the cotton handkerchiefs for daddy's Christmas| present? Virginia Mt, and Fighth Av, fenttls. Use any cars via Weetlake av. Mod: elegantly furnished room: in cleanliness, comfort the least money. Transient, weekly, $2.60 to $6 Hotel BECAUSE (74 WN A Six | PBY BICYCLE AACE, | THATS wey! TENE ned. Saad articles by one V. Edelsheim, which WHAT DAY /S "lwis. | | seo you this evening ws reeer Griggs—That's right; but do me al QEAR MOUSEN | MoNnoay: | | tavor, old man, Don't let your wife | Ca 4 e + | woar her new fall sult; I don’t want} my wife to see It Just now monge Brigge—Why, man alive, just why we are com! aia Most Mir sed “So you don't lke Mlving tn the country? What do you miss most singe moving out of town? Trains. that's | . It’s Advisabie | Pompous Lady—Must I put this| stamp on m {? | Postoftice Clerk—Well, you can if you like, but {t's usual to put ft on! the letter LAND SANES! ONLY A204/~ OAY! I WAS IN MOPES (TF WAS NEXT SUNOCRY! | Properly Labeled I wonder what the meaning pleture is? The youth and on are tn a tender attitude. » don't you see? He has just asked her to marry him, How sweet! What does the artist call the picture? He (looking about)—-Oh, I see, it's written on the card at the botto: } “Sold.” | cee | Always an Earnest Inquiry “What a lot of heediess ques | tions are asked by children,” said the fatigued parent. | Yes,” replied Mise Cayenne. And there are a few of us grown ple who never seem to be sert asly seeking information except ing when they are asking ‘What's trumps? * ae Pan ae | The Inne and the Outs | |The buy-a-baleofcotton phrase” | Gtves way to one that's greater; | |The British finns have caught the| crass ] Of Firea-German-watter. . . | The Road to Success | Work. | Exercise. Sleep. | onesty. Temperance. | Ideas. | “Doctor, do | taking vacatio “Considering the practice t | brings me, I should be an tnerate |to decry the custom.”—Loutsville | Courier-Journal holteve tn people | | Inthe Editor’s Mail HE DOUBTS STORY Editor The Star: Regarding the} your let me DIANA DILLPICKLES HER CLAIRVOYANT BEAU "Dab, THIS 1S PROM Re€ve Eecer, WHO HAS THE GIFT OF SECOND SIGHT. HE CAN Do Some WONDERFUL STUNTS BUNDFOLDEDY Xes, THAT (3 TRUG, MQ. DULMICKLGS, Ae 1 CAN READILY PRoves *WELC, WHAT oBJecT is Twis ‘t AM TOUCHING * “Q@ WALKING srick *Tee-HEe, Critter) WHAT KIND OF WACKING Stick £ AN INORY« HeaDdeD Ko no | convenience—will a decent existence. man’s life, defeating a fair trial. On the other hand we have the highest court in the land power- less through technical entanglements to secure for a citizen a fair trial for his life. Mistakes of the court of final resort in arriving at justice may be unavoidable, and they may be for- given, but when that court for any reason admits that it is powerless to protect any man, Jew or Gen- tile, in his constitutional right to a fair trial for his life, the odium is smeared on the constitution. MY, MR, DeScripecer, CAN Nou ec. M& WHY IT (3 THAT SOME FECWOWS CULTIVATE THE GARMARKS OF LITERARY GENIUS APTOR WRITING A CUSS POEM OR EDITING A_, FURNITURS CATALoGcue f' WASHINGTON, Deo. 24.— The fate of women workers In the United States In the gen- already ruled against the employers. The persons bringing suit in the federal case contend that the Ore- gon minimum wage law ts a viola- tion of the fourteenth amendment to the federal constitution, which Prohibits any state from making any law “which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United StSates. The plaintiffs contend that the establishment of a minimum wage to be pald to women interferes with On its dectston—rendered at its/ their “privileges and immuaities"— depend for ajl|/to work at starvation wages. time to come (or until the court) ee changes its mind) the right of a/ state to say that an employer shall not pay less wages to a woman than are suffictent for her to maintain The United §tates supreme court has conchided its hear Ings of arguments and has taken under advisement the case of Stettler vs. O'Hara, and Simpson vs. O'Hara—otherwise known as the Oregon minimum wage case. Nine states have enacted mint wago for women in the District of Salifornia, Oregon, Washington, Utah, Nebraska, Colorado, Minne 9 sota, Wisconsin and Massachusetts, on the ~| land for paper, in the German army, certainly not German general staff, as this person claims he was, I refer you to statement made a short time ago to that effect by Graft Von Bernstorff, the impertal | ambassador in Washington The article in question was un doubtedly manufactured the benefit of anti-Ger mans, Germany can't and er intended to invade this country, as us. As for Mr, Roosevelt's assertion that he had seen plans by which t big powers intended to invade New York and San Francisco, the gen eral public seems to be from Mis sourt of Inte, they have to be shown Mr. Roosevelt's “River of Doubt” isn't on the map yet, FREDERICK MUELLER KICKS ABOUT STREET Editor The Star: I am of the opinion that something should be done, and done at once, in regard 0 Western ave. At present the Ba lard Beach, Fort Lawton and } lard North cars operate on West ern ave. It is quite m risk, catching a car on Western ave. after dark. The street is very poorly lighted and ts police, Thorough jing to Western ave. are nh bett the other night I was at two thug but did not mone though, a8 a car it that time and I Robberies occur frequency along the t lone any along ab dd aboard. unusual came Either these cars should nat run along Western. ave-after dark or else ¥ rn ave. should be prop. erly lighted and better patrolled. PAUL GOBRNER. REFUTES CHARGE Editor The Star: In reply to M 1 in his statement of the 15th Kronje surrendered at Orange Free State, on Modder river, I beg differ with the writer I was serving under Gen t o Buller in Bng-| this bogus staff officer tries to tell | | running of street cars along | | on Spion Ke jed. Iam a b je when he surrender- | arer of the Victoria | Cros Holdal's assertion that |the F used women and chil dren as shields from the Be bullets {8 untrue. | JACK PORTER lis APPROVES RELIEF Editor The Star: I read in your paper the other night a critefam of the movement to ald the Belgians, Let it be remembered that at the beginning of the war the Belgians were just a peace-loving and neu tral people as we are. They were drawn into this great conflict against their will ! 1 don't believe that are pro longing the war by aiding the Bel glans, RONAELE DELL *MARVEWOUS, PRoressor, MARVE Lous t" ° | |powers under the constitution | Louts D. Brandets, appearing in behalf of the Oregon wage commis- sion, has concluded his oral argu- ment before the court, having been granted one hour in which to pre- sent his case. With his incisive, convincing logic, Brandeis swept aside the maze of technicalities and circum locution in which the opposing at torneys had enveloped the case, and brought forth the single point at issue—namely, whether the legisla- ture of the state of Oregon, knowing the terrible conditions resulting from low wages among women and girls in industry, has exceeded its of the United States in interfering with the “liberty” of helpless girls and women to contract for work at such wages as they please. The supreme court of Oregon has $1 “DISRAELI' TO OPEN FRIDAY lave and diplomacy figure in Loujs N. Parker's raell,” which opens at politan theatre Friday evening for an eight-night eng ent with mat iness on Saturdays, Wednesday and New Year's. ‘There will be no Sunday perform ance, George Arliss will play the title role, He is the only man who has enacted this role, and he brings with him such well-known players ag Margaret Dale, Mrs. Arliss, Henry Carvill, Charles Harbury and others The play shows the masterful di plomacy of the great English diplo mat which won the Suez canal and the title of Empress of India for success “Dis- | the Metro-| ja | Queen Victoria, At the same time pretty love affair is developed under the guidance of Lord Beacon field. | SEATTLE PRIEST TO SAY HIS FIRST MASS Born in Seattle, Rev. Theodc M. Ryan will celebrate his first solemn high mass at 11 o'clock Sunday at the St. James cathedral Rev. Ryan is the first boy to be ordained to the priest hood, Mrs. T. M, Ryan, 418 80th ave, 5. Born in 1890, Rey, Ryan attended the Sacred Heart school, then the Seattle college. | Last Saturday he was ordained a priest at Montreal Burglars get violin from room of | M. M. Von Dossohatan, 18164 } Westlake ave, Seattle | He is the son of Mr. and| Practical Presents for Are the best. The oftener your present is used, the more pleas- Other states have this legislation under consideratio: Congress now has before it leg- islation to establish a minimum wage or women in the District of Columbia. Four other states have such legislation pending. If the supreme court should de clare the Oregon law unconstttn- tional, this legislation would be wiped off the statute books of the other nine states, and the possfbil- of protecting the health and welfare of women by insuring them a living wage would vanish. It would take a constitutional amendment to overrule the supreme court—a task requiring a quarter of a centur: Free Delivery Christmas 5 Steinway, $237. 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