The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 23, 1915, Page 4

Member of the Sertpps Northwest League of Newspapers Pabiiahed Dally by The Star Publishing Co Phone Main 9400 THE CHIEF AND CAESAR’S WIFE isQnH C episode and its QUESTIONABLE SEQUEL reflects upon his judgment and discretion certainly, if not upon his CHARACTER.”—The Post-Intelli- gencer in editorial Sunday. : There you have it—the disreputable case of Chief Lang even as his official apologist, the Post- Intelligencer, is forced to view it. “Questionable sequel!” “Reflects on his discretion * * * his charac- ter!” Even while seeking to minimize and condone the chief’s disgraceful conduct, the P.-L. is forced to speak of his acts, and even of his character, as open to question. It matters little that the P.-I. then tries to make it appear that it’s a crime—a heinous offense—tor .. a police officer to exhibit enough curiosity to trail a chief of police to a cabaret girl's room in a down- town hotel at 2 o’clock in the morning. It is im- material why the Post-Intelligencer, which ‘“‘ques- tions” even the character of the chief of police and advises him to quit being a “rounder,” should be apologizing for him. Maybe it is politics. Maybe it is done just as spite work against The Star. But facts are facts. The P.-I. is forced to cross its fingers in accepting the silly “hide-and- seek” explanation of the chief, and thus it advises Lang: tiaines is not to be had in the role of a rounder or good fellow.” The P.-l. is right. A cafe roysterer cannot be a successful chief of police. He is a menace to the public. “He must hew to the straight line of coura- Outbursts of Everett True] WOULD You Do M6 A LITTLE FAVOR WHILE You'Re DOwn THIS IS GETTING To Ge Too REGuLAR M AT THE FRONT A party of recruits were taken to the shooting range for the first time. The men first fired at a tar- get 500 yards away, and not one hit it. They were next tried at a target 200 yards away, and still every one missed. They were at last tried at ‘one just 100 yards away, but no ‘one hit it. “Attention!” thundered the drill sergeant. “Fix bayonets! Charge! It’s your only chance!” . IMPOSSIBLE GREAT IDEA A small boy, seated on the curb by a telegraph pole, with a tin can by his side, attracted the attention of an old gentle- man who happened to be pass- ing. “Going fishing?” he inquired, good-naturedly. “No,” the youngster replied; “take a peep in there.” An investigation showed the can nearly filled with caterpil- lars. “What in the world are you going to do with them?” asked the old gent. “They crawl up trees and eat the leaves off, don’t they?” asked the boy. “So I understand,” the old gent. “Well,” said the boy, “I'm fooling a few of them.” “How?” asked the old gent. “I'm going to send them up this telegraph pole,” answered the boy, replied ee THE WORST 1 deem the most obnoxious guy | | ir met, who wants to tell yod why you lost your bet. ~—Kansas City Journal. | | | But how about the guy who strikes! this blow, | (When you have played the fool and lost your dough), He saunters In agrinning — and aglow, And hands out these words, “I told you so?” . THE WASTED HINT Sixth Grader—What's the matte: SPINNING’S QUITTING SALE ee nee a LAST 1415 FOURTH AVENUE She—I had a 70-mile drive yester- Gay. Golf Bug—There ain't any such thing! IEF LANG'S explanation of the recent cafe : STAR—MONDAY, AUGUST 23, 1915. EDITORIAL PAGE OF THE SEATTLE STAR geous duty doing,’S says the P.-I. Right again. And the chief's duties do not include wine parties, or violating cafe rules to get cabaret singers at the chief’s table, or visits to a girl’s rooms in the wee hours of the morning. “In his personal deportment, like Caesar's wife, he must keep himself above suspicion,” continues the advice of the P.-I. to Chief Lang. It would look like sixty if Caesar's wife had taken the chief of police of Rome to his hotel at > a. m, after a wine night in one of the Roman grottos, “Thus, and thus only, will he command the full respect and co-operation of his force and win and hold the confidence of the community,” says the P.-l, Right once more, And since the present chief of police does not hold the respect of the community, he's not fit to be chief. He's a bad, instead of a decent, example. \ CHIEF OF POLICE WHOSE ACTS AND CHARACTER ARE “QUESTIONABLE” EVEN rO HIS OFFICIAL APOLOGIZER, IS ESPECIAL- LY DANGEROUS TO BOYS AND GIRLS WHO MAY NEED POLICE PROTECTION TO KEEP THEM FROM THE EVILS THAT SOMETIMES BESET THEM IN THE CAFE LIFE OF THE CITY. A CHICKEN in the hotel is worth two in the cafe COUNT NOT that day lost in which escapes and a chicken is found a gambler CURLY HEAD, girly eyes, make stealthy spies a Lang see WHEN YOU get caught red-handed, tel! de-tec-a-tif em you're a lA Married Man’s Trouble RIGHT THES WAY — ILL GUESS YouR WEIGHT WITHIN THREE POUNDS -— VLE BET THE LADY WeiGhs More ON AN ELEPHANT GOSH, THIS LETTUCE TASTES SOMETHIN’ FIERCE 1GLESS WE GOTTA READ THE Law TO _NORA, AwRicnT. LETTUCE PAGE 4. OVERLOOKED OPPORTUNITY OME merchants of this country are overlook- ing a bet, in neglecting the use of Uncle Sam's parcel post in serving their foreign trade. To mention only one concrete instance, Chile imported thru the parcel post in 1912 goods valued at $1,982,431 and deliveries were made far more quickly than thru ordinary freight channels. The United States participated in this to the extent of but $49,000, Relatively, our parcel post trade with other foreign countries is the same. It has been found that the mails are by far the most reliable method of transporting small packages to foreign countries whose commerce is not interfered with by war. Our merchants have a great opportunity to build up a mail order business with the whole world while the war is on, if they will. THE TELEPHONE DECISION “pHe public service commission has ordered tele- phone companies of the state to refund to patrons $58,000 collected by them as $5 deposit fees from patrons. This is the result of agitation begun by The Star, which contended the deposit fee was unjust. The public service commission, in demanding the refund, also holds the fee is unfair. The phone companies assessed the fee to insure themselves, they said, against patrons cancelling their subscriptions to phones during the first year, and decamping without payment for the phone’s use, TWO IS company, three is a crowd Now WELEN, Lers MEAS URE-— | WANT “To SEE Se) SAILS F NLY. WIT HER MILLIONAIRE 1Y MAKES ME TIRED ‘SIMPLY WONT STAND FOR _UNWASKHED with the principal's eyes? Eighth Grader—They're all right as far as I know. Why? Sixth Grader—Well, I had to go and see him in his office yesterday afternoon, and he asked me twice where my hat was and it was on my head all the time.—Philadelphia Ledger. AN AMERICAN BY HERBERT QUICK The world has always busied) Itself with ‘the building up of aristocracies. “Aristocracy” 1s from two Greek words, one of which means “the best” and the other “rulership.” Therefore, “aristocracy” means “government by, or the rule of the best.” It is natural for every normal man to think his class, his family, his caste the best. Such, as a) matter of fact, ts the univers fact in the world’s history. Each nation regards Itself superior to every other nation, each class as/ soon as it reaches the level of) thinking at all regards itself as superior to every other class, and every family thinks itself better than any other family. The defi- | nition of “the best” when {t came) to building an aristocracy was) therefore a matter of some diffi- culty. | It has always turned out that} the strongest have picked them- selves out as the best. All aris. | tocracles have been self-elected. They have seized power because they were strong, and not because they were “the best’—unless we accept the theory that the mere possession of strength is evidence of superiority. As a matter of fact, strength in any nation has always been a mat- ter of luck. Nations of farmers have always been subjugated by nations of live stock men, or na- tions of sea rovers, not because pirates and nomads are any better then peasants, but because pirates ee CONSCIENTIOUS qe He-~—That ex-policeman Is too con- sclentious to be a gardener. She-—Why? He—He would arrest the growth |of a vine every time he found it climbing towards a window. | | THANK YOU | (From the Middleville, Tll., Sun) Marion Benaway has painted A. H, Bell's front. It looks much better, what our cousins across the! waters are doing. | WHATEVER THEY \ARE_DO-| ING, THEY ARE NOT FIGHTID FOR THAT PRINCIP. And that principle is one which,| as Abraham Lincoln said, our later-coming immigrants and their) a ndants ‘ea right to claim) as tho they were blood of the) blood and flesh of the flesh of the ARISTOCRACY and stockmen happened to be en- gaged in a business which enabled them to use slave labor, They used the power of captives In mak- ing themselves strong, and being once strong, they elected them- selves as the aristocrats of the world, We have failed to establish an aristocracy in this country by law. The rich have acted as a govern-| ing aristocracy hitherto, by the old method of making labor cap- tive; but whether or not we shall always admit that the rich are “the best” is a question. I do not be- eve we shall, We had a fine chance to start an aristocracy when the Revolu- tion was ended and the 13 colonies were free. We might have estab- lished as a ruling class the fam. ilies of those who won that war of independence. Then all the Eng- lish, Scotch, Germans, Irish, Jews, Scandinavians, Italians and other Europeans and Asiatics who have come to this country since that time would have belonged to an inferior caste, and Americans of revolutionary ancestry would have constituted the ruling nobility. We didn’t do this. Instead we adopted as the theory of our gov- ernment the statement that all men are born equal, endowed by their Creator with certain unallen. able rights, among which are the rights to life, Iberty and the pur. sult of happiness, And we let in all the immigrants on that theory. Maybe this isn't important, but men who wrote that declaartion. AND 80 THEY ARB!" Let us not forget in our differ-| ences that the precious things we) have in common as Americans are} much more important, and are likely to be put in jeopardy un- less we continue to assay 24) s Sally—-Mr. Gayboy, are you afraid to go home in the dark? {it seems of some significance, at a time when we are so absorbed in Gayboy—No, I am more afraid to have my wife keep a light burning! mall, out of city, one your, $1.50) 6 Be per month up to @ months. By carrier, ety, 260 » month. Entered at Beattie, Wash, postotfice ae encom d-cines tm GOING AFTER US [' WOULD be clear waste of good space to into details of the United States Industrial Com- mission’s committee report on the Standard Oil strike at Bayonne, N. J. Briefly put, the committee found that the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey pays enormous profits and wages too low to maintain a family on healthful basis; that the company imported thugs from New York city and immediate! on. their arrival at Bayonne the shooting and cutting began; that the employes are not permitted to unionize or have any representation of themiselves collectively, This is Standard Oil policy everywhere, and long known to be such, but what is more import- ant is the declaration by the committee that the Standard Oil managers “announce their intention to enter the field of industrial relations with a view to widening their influence and activity, propagating” such policies. Given rope enough, the Standard will make all of us slaves, to be suppressed by hired thugs, and here’s notice that the Standard has set out to ac- complish this. £0 A MAN is judged by his deeds—a woman by her misdeeds SOMETIMES THE hardest part of a job is hold- ing it THOSE PEOPLE who tried oiling the mosquito seem to have failed; evidently they used gasoline and the skeeter is using it to develop more power and speed MEXICO CITY now is falling only four times a week, but expects to play double headers before the end of the season. NOW, LISTEN MUM. SURE ©} WASHED IY GOOD WiTH ME PERFUMED sO apartments, 318 Seneca st., Sunday, Mrs, E, Osmundsen, 40, slashed het TRIES TO END LIFE iced throat. But prompt action with & After drinking @ combination of|stomach pump saved her life. mmonia, liniment, gasoline and —_—— other beverages of like nature, inj Gov. and Mrs. Lister in Waste an effort to end her life, at her|ington, D. C., to see president. 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