The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 25, 1915, Page 4

Member of the Seripps Northwest League of Newspapers Published Daily by The Star Publishing Co. Phone Main 9400 INITIATE NON-PARTISAN LAW OW that the referendum campaign has saved direct legislation for the people, there is work ahead. One of the worst evils in politics is prejudiced party feeling. To get rid of that effectively, non- partisanship in state and»county affairs is as de- Sirable as in city affairs. Rapidly, the cities of the United States have come to the conclusion that there is no reason why any one should be elected mayor or councilman or city treasurer or comptroller simply because he happens to be a republican, or a democrat, or a Socialist. In the cities where non-partisanship is in effect, you will find no chances for such wholesale cor- Tuption as was disclosed in Terre Haute and other places where party feeling is strong. The chances for building up political machines, of keeping at public expense scores of ward heelers, are minimized when elections are determined on the basis of the best men for the office rather than which political party should control. It is a fact that the differences between re- publicans and democrats and other parties In purely city and state affairs are entirely artificial. We elect our councilmen in Seattle, for example, with- out even knowing to what national parties they be- long. We weigh the individual candidates to see if they are fit for the office, and he who says we don’t get a better class of councilmen now, as a general rule, than when we elected them because they were republicans or democrats, is merely fly- ing in the face of established fact. SEC How ANY ONE CAN DouBr THAT WE ALL DESCENDED FROM \THE MONWEY — ESTHER— You ASk THE BEST WAY To TELL A BAD EGG. IF WE HAD ANYTHING WH _TELL A BAD EGG WE'D |} Ht" \ kk (T GENTLY. | XTION BETWEEN HUSBAND AND WIFE. “THAT IS A MONOLOGUE. A DIALOGUE IS WHERE TWO PEOPLE ARE SPEAKING. { WHEN AN ACTORS FIRED} WHAT IS HE é ACANNED "HAM?" Jare dead I don't think that 1 shall ae BIG COPPER CARGO SCALPED BY DIVE TACOMA, June 25.—Six thonsand| TOPPENISH, Wash. June 25 tons of copper will be shipped from|Ray Keen of this place was |scalped yesterday when he mis | Judged the depth of the water under the Zillah bridge while making a dive, He struck a rock with isl head. ‘Tacoma to New York in the next 20 jays. The steamers Santa Clara id Montana are already loading eir share of the cargo. was, tho fair enough, a trifle stout, ' law to rhe California legislature has passed a doing away with party lines from = governot constable, Washington should do the same. rhe legislature has failed to give us the free government in this respect that intelligent people are entitled to. LET THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE, THEREFORE, INITIATE A NON-PARTI- SAN LAW. Get ready for the campaign. The initiative petitions cannot be circulated till next year, ac cording to law. But the good work of education and organization can begin now, . . LET’S GRAB IT FOR SEATTLE DISPATCH from Washington, D. C., brings word that there is a chance some site on Puget Sound might be selected by the government for an army aviation training school. This message, it seems to us, spells 0-p-p-o-r- t-u-n-i-t-y for Seattle. Where in all the world could a better location be discovered than on Harbor Island? The government is not satisfied with the site it has been using at San Diego. The weather there is too monotonously fair to approximate war con- ditions, Seattle does not admit to anybody that Puget Sound weather is an inclement kind, but we are willing to agree that there is an occasional gusty day, rain, once in a while some fog, and various freaky trimmings which would add variety to the work of Uncle Sam's flying men. And as for topographical conditions we lack nothing. Fresh and salt water, prairie and forest, plain, vale, foothills and mountain ranges all lie —— IL. HAVE “To WUSTLE, IT's STAR—FRIDAY, JUNE 28, 1915. PACE 4 within easy flying distance of the Harbor Island Site, Early in July Lieut. Col. Samuel Reber, in command of the aviation corps, and Capt. Richard C. Marshall, of the quartermaster general’s staff, will visit the coast to study all sites suggested. If this doesn’t suggest a good line of action to the Commercial Club and Chamber of Commerce, and other Seattle promotion organizations, we'd like to know why. WASTED WARNING EDERATED Labor Union warns workingmen that “the moneyed interests of this country, led by unscrupulous Wall st. sharks,” are trying to get us into the world’s war. Our “moneyed interests’ are after just one thing—big profits. Just now the big profits lie in making things for and selling things to the bel- ligerent countries. Wall st. sharks may be pretty ravenous but they are after just ong thing—public opportunity to gamble. War would mean the closing up of Wall st. gambling, first thing. We are inclined to believe that with our “moneyed interests’ and Wall st. sharks business is business, and peace means business for them IT IS A GOOD THING RITISH war policy has changed to the extent of giving captured “German submarine men “honorable treatment” as prisoners. Maybe it isn’t a great step, but we do love to chronicle anything that is a step away from the dishonorable in this war. THANK You — |. I MUST GET ASTRING ‘To HOLD MY HAT L— THE Lave. & TRYING TO GEY THE BARREL DOWNSTAIRG- NOTE DENY IN GIDE. GENERAL sTORE ) (OM EXHIBITION ay Swicr OLD Doc CooK, ACCORDING To, LATE NEWS STORIES HAS LEFT TO CLIMB MOUNT EVERES IX THE tTIMALAYAS, THEE IGHEST KHOWN MOUNTAIN IM THE WORLD. CAN THE Doc "COME BAacK*? (tHe MON" LEGACY OF P STELLA HICKS ~ 6500, AND THE SLIPPERS. STELLA KICKS, sus’ TURN FROM A TWO WEEKS vacay ION TO FIND HER JOB MOOSED. SHE sAiD Lasy NIGHT "GEE, KID, IT SOUNDS UKE A ORMAM NOt AINT GOIN’ TO STOP worn. 4 1S MY HAT ON STRAIGHT 7? CAN OLD DOBBIN COME BACK ? (-MosT First Aid “Don't you think I look dread fully pale, doctor?” | “Yen, indeed, you do, mademot selle.” | Then what do you advise me to do?” “Wipe some of the powder off your face see Mr, Sacon—When all the fools want to be alive Mrs, Bacon—Don't worry; you won't be "ee Out of Place Head Walter—What's the matter = Capt. of Detectives Tennant— with that fellow over there? Walter—I don't know. He does| What's the meanin’ 0° this? not dance, he does not care for| _ Embarrassed Young Man singing, he says he hasn't got a| Well, It’s like this, I'm taking a jdate with anybody's wife, I'm be-| Course in a correspondence ginning to think the fool actually| #¢hool, and yesterday those con came into eat founded sophomores wrote to me * 6.0 and told to h myself! His First Guess | One of the ladle dress) And there ay in fan¢ ke to her a reporter | “What did you tink It was?” i} He (describing his war expert jences)—Just then the enemy got our range. She—You poor fellow! And you j had to go without your dinner | As a | ste ly enough, He aming Into Southampton harbor, |n grimy coal-lighter floated immedi ate! Helen of Troy,” she answered. | Well,” he murmured, ungallant? | I thought you might be len of Avoirdupois!” | eee Nothing to Cook With | Naval Etiquette i™ magnificent vessel was ly in front of ft. An officer on! house last night?” | board the vessel, observing this, “That absent-minded professor shouted found a raph in the news: “Clear out of the way with that) paper upside down and tried to barge r t stand his head! ! The lighterman shouted in reply: | —— a — May I ask what character you! Pat, Are ye the captain of that ves. Kid glove dolls have just been in vented, Two fingers make legs, two others the arms, the wrist buttoned aidjor sewed up makes the body and Ihead, the face being neatly painted * answered the officer spake to yer aiquals,” Im the captain of this, “What was the racket In your | HIRAM JOHNSON has delivered a te ¢ business. Has refused to sign a bill req the of crabs caught outside of Califorr see oe UNITED STATES review Caminetti to file applicat sop upreme court | for Caminetti now onsideration n re r v be the evie va, t ite re { the reviewal! Law is—we war, yh ar the of AND NOW academy, is 4 head our nap tampering REPORTED THAT Germany is that she’s t the y people NEW YORK ha barbarism called “Debtors’ Ph v! tarved nce for work so little ‘ out” increase bre ing oe eee ust di that she has that And yet they call ered ladelphia . “TWELVE-CYLIND It's so noisele Has Arrived!” reams a head-line that folks can hear ur yel en it arrives on you FRANCIS GREENE'S book says that GEN. Germans would capture Rockefeller, Carnegie, other rich Easterners and hold them for five indemnity. Maybe the Germans could, but, we can't even catch them for service of papers uit Mlar in a law coe ee TURKEY, IT is in Rome advices, is asking Germany's consent to s a “separate” peace, which s about the brand she will get, no matter when or how it comes. Poor old Turkey bids fair to be “separated” from most erything she owns in Europe before the dove of pe again hovers over Constantinople. If the allies don’t take her European possessions, ft’s a safe wager Germany will give them away in the final settle- ment. SH, THANKNUH 1S ALL 1GOT FER CHASIN? THE SANDWICHES WERE invented by an English earl who hadn’t time to stop gambling to eat his dinner. As | @ substitute for food they almost equal water crackers, A WISCONSIN farmer put dynamite m rat holes the barn to kill the rats. He blew the parn smithereens but what's the odds, so long as ne got the rats? NOW THAT the movement to sell beers and light wines and cut out whisky has been launched, we expe _t war between Peoria and Milwaukee, in 25¢ Three-Pocket White Carpenter's Apron 21 inches long. 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