The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 10, 1918, Page 6

THE SEATTLE STAR 1907 Seventh Ave Near Union St. 2, 1899, at the Act of Congress Mareh 3. on Basia ton. per year, By carrier, city, Second-Claas M. » Wash, under By mail, ont of city, She per mont! Fear, $5.00. im the State of Was! wonth, $4.50 for 6 months, or $9. per week. Published Dally by The Star 1, Co. Phone Main 688 Private depertments. ° ge Justice Crucified An indelible stain will be put upon our democracy and our reputation as nation whose purposes are freedom, justice and equality will exude the stenches of hypocrisy and cant, if public or private sentiment accepts and is con- tent with that shameful compromise, the commutation of Tom Mooney'’s death sentence by Governor Stephens of California. . Guilty, Mooney should hang. He says so. Organized labor declares so. Public sentiment, generally, all over this country and most of the old countries, would have it so. He did not have a fair trial. The court records prove it. The attorney general of the state asks for a new trial. The judge who tried, convicted, sentenced and refused Mooney a new trial, now has evidence that prompts him to plead that there be a new trial. The very fact of commutation of sentence to life imprisonment pleads that he was not convicted beyond that reasonable doubt to which the accused is entitled, or else the governor of California stultified him- self by commuting a merciless, bloody butcher of innocent men, women and children. What is California’s conception of justice to the law- *“, abiding as well as to the law-breaker? Is she still the lawless _ vigilante, ing before her civilized sister states with a nove on iar ares, looking for a limb from which to swing » somebody, proof or no proof, so long as somebody is hanged ? ‘ Just think of it, regardless of all the legal points, prece- : dents and procedures involved! The very judge who heard ‘all the evidence and refused a new trial, discovers there was perjury and pleads that there be a re-trial, and all the inferior and supreme courts reply that they are with- out jurisdiction. There is no remedy if the perjury that “convicted ts not discovered within 10 days of the convic- tion, they say. . 4 How extreme this California rule is may be illustrated by the case of a Dr. Bowers, convicted as long ago as 1887 of murdering his wife, and sentenced to death. Later a brother of the dead woman confessed that he alone was the murderer, but thé supreme court held that, so far as it was concerned, Bowers would hang, because the facts _ were not in the record sent up from the lower court. Mooney can be pardoned and put on trial on one of his other indictments. tee ie But justice is paralyzed. The judiciary is impotent. Innocent, Mooney must endure a living death as a victim of the political necessities or ambitions of a governor. Guilty, he can twirl his bloody fingers at law, order, justice, society ated. No, this Mooney case is not settled. American agg le te sae, aioe her maetys. begotten progeny, freedom and equality—our justice, to _impress which upon the Hun and the benighted of foreign who are tearing each other in their mob struggle ‘or justice, we send our millions of heroes, our billions of dollars, even our ident across the seas—is cringing at the feet of judicial impotence hopelessly pleading not to be hanged until dead without an honest hearing. In the status quo of this matter nothing could be more unsettled than the real issue involved. There is no moiety of justice in it for Mooney, or for the next man whose life be at stake at the bar. There is no justice in it for Eeclety which deems it necessary to keep down the red flag of elements that are clamoring against injustice. The issue is still: - Shall the average man have a fair trial for his life? Tear the eye-bandage from the statue of justice in California! She's stone blind, anyhow. And if her people do not rise to secure another and a fair trial for Mooney, she’s stone deaf, as well. Is It Good Business? Out in Oregon the government is offering for sale the entire equipment it has gathered to insure production of spruce for its airplanes. This has cost millions; it includes logging roads, rail- roads, mills, boats, cut-up plants; it forms the greatest equipment in the world today for the economical and speedy production of the fine materials needed in aircraft. It will be sold at a bargain, and probably most of its efficiency will be destroyed. If Uncle Sam is to carry mail and express, maybe sega and freight, by aircraft, and if he is going to) t he world with his aerial navies, might it not be a good business hunch to keep the basic equipment together? We merely inquire; perhaps Washington may answer, to the satisfaction of the public. If this speedy demolition and sacrifice of all the big public industries built up for national efficiency is carried thru and the nation loses its railroad control, its ships, its authority over telegraph, cable, telephone and express com- ies, much of the public benefit the optimists saw emerg- ing from the red womb of war will prove but an aborted ing. Teamwork and Public Clocks May his cognomen be “time” honored! We refer to the gentleman who started that pretty practice of placing clocks in public places. For long years we have set our Ingerwalgin by a pub- lic clock. We caught trains on narrow margins measured by it. We missed others by the same token, made appoint- ments disappointments till our confidence in the accuracy of the clock on the steeple is wobbly and on the wane. We find that the punctuality producer so proudly perched is often at variance with other clocks. Public time-pieces, like all so-called authorities, seldom agree. If these recorders of fleeting moments could absorb the gospel of teamwork, ’twould be a boon. Clocks, like men, are known by their “works.” But let's not forget the philanthropic parties whd set up these dials. They assume a most impressive responsibility. It is moved, seconded and carried that they in future be restrained unless committed to permanent accuracy of their mentors of the people’s time. Worthy of Consideration The proposal by the delegation of Snohomish county farmers to construct a road that will divert a large per- centage of Snohomish county produce, mainly butter, milk, fruit and vegetables, to Seattle, is worthy of immediate and serious consideration by the Chamber of Commerce state development bureau, to which body it was submitted. According to the delegation, the completion of the road| will reduce the price of these products in Seattle, and open up 91,000 additional acres of land in Snohomish county for cultivation. Jt will cut down the Snohomish-Seattle haul by 20 miles. The delegation claims to represent 1,200 farmers, whose products must now come thru Everett be fore they can reach Seattle. Five hundred newspaper men en route to the peace conference! And yet some people are worried for fear tls proceedings won't receive enough publicity. TTLE STAR—TU SANTA TRAVELS FAST |Coppering High Prices Under the above head, the current issue of the Saturday Evening Post points out a lot of good, hard sense regarding dollars and cents. The article follows: “Prices, you know, have a little more than doubled since July, 1914. In a general way, then, when the government issues a thousand-dollar Liberty Bond it gets about half the goods it would have got for the same bond four years ago. It does not matter whether you say this rise in prices is primarily due to war's immense demand for s, or to inflation of currency and credit. Whatever the cause was, it will certainly not op- erate with past intensity in the future. War's demand for goods will cease. Inflation will be checked. Presently prices will fall. “If, when these bonds of the Fourth Liberty Loan mature, prices are back to the 1914 level, it will take twice as many goods to pay them off as the government received for them. Wheat is 2 a bushel. To get 500 bushels the government issues a thousand-dollar Liberty Bond. Say, when the bonds mature, wheat is worth $1 a bushel and the government taxes Farmer Smith enough to pay off one bond. Farmer Smith must sell 1,000 bushels of wheat—twice as much as the government received—to pay the bond. “But, suppose Farmer Smith, in 1918, sold 500 bushels of wheat and bought a Liberty Bond. When the bond matures the government pays him $1,000, with which he can buy twice as much wheat as he sold in 1918. “In short, if prices fall—as they quite cer- tainly will—the man who buys a government bond now and holds it will benefit in that the money he gets back will have greater pur- chasing power than the money he handed over. Of course, that applies to any investment bearing a fixed return. The obvious moral is: Save and invest now.” To which The Star would simply add that War Savings Stamps have the same reliable quality, and are as sure of greater purchasing power as time goes on, as Liberty Bonds. You really do yourself a ser- vice by putting your savings in stamps, while, at the same time, you help to fill Seattle’s quota. MILLIONS USE IT GIRLS! BEAUTIFY TO STOP A COLD YOUR HAIR AND STOP DANDRUFF Hair becomes charming, wavy, lustrous and thick in few moments | | | | | ] pach Cold Compound’ Ends Severe Colds or Grippe in Few Hours. Relief comes instantly. 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Be sure you getthe genuine. | STOCKS BONDS LIBERTY BONDS ANY AMOUNT—ANY ISSUK BOUGHT—SOLD—QUOTED MACFARLANE & HALA Elliott 1324 = 505 Lowman Bldg, GRAIN COTTON RABY TAILORING CO. Headquarters for Suits, Coats and One-Piece Dresses 425 Union Street on Soil at seins | vere cold, either in the head, chest,|Every bit of dandruff dis- rl ikes it , | returned, 1 || another daughter to give as a sub JESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1918. TODAY ‘Love's Labor Lost?| Well, It Was a Bit ? ;Misspent, Anyhow nnn nnn On the Way The Schooimaster is on the rea; Hix mission's pedagogical, Altho his teaching may not be Quite Henry Cabot Lodge-ical He's taught the young idea to shoot, Likewine to cease its firing, So let's stand up and give nulute With ail the world admiring Garden air is sweet with rose! Mountain air is piny! Sait air whistles thru the nose Of Wilwon on the briny Woodin Thanksgiving night And a hula 8ancer won the prize, Could she hula? She was just too sweet for any. thing. Half the men at the dance had & masquerade ban We've robed him (Sik hats bees He s our Priest of Peace anonical). that was Greece” think fronteal). | Yea, Moses’ Ten mmandments are | Tried to « waltz (in all their pacts articles) Or « one Outnumbered and ou far Or « tox By Wilson's Four iclen Or any other dance Haker comes from O-ho-ho, With her Danlels North Ca'liny ey whi ¥ Wilson's on the go-go-f0 Ky “ai comet ee, ae Wilwon's on the briny And when the judges picked the SPEED IS HIS MIDDLE NAME! Columbia's stars shine on his brow! | (Of course that's metaphorical); Hin Eagle's voice is screaming now! (le Mkewise allegorical), But still let's pledge him, raising high The bubbling wine or Pilsener, | Unlews we all go extra dry | Believing water's Wilsoner | little hula dancer Wan the first one chosen | Ant four of the five judges j Asked to call on her-— The fifth judge was a woman. Then the dancer unmasked And the hula dancer's name is Henry Ellis— Senate's mad, and house is too s 1 Tut to aan the chinr! He lives at Ballard. Wileon waves ‘em tra-la-too; — Wilson's on the briny! (Copyright, 1918, N. E. A) 4 . The Kings Kickla| | BY CHARLES B. DRISCOLL, The kings now plod thelr weary wy To where the daisies bloom; For every dog must have bis day, And then his night of doom. STARSHELLS The kings are quite as out-of-date | building of Dr. Lacey's that is used int 7 ” As Julius Caesar's pants; A WORD FROM as a « «© by Clee C. Hale, Had | Yet, ax he quits the stage of stat, JOSH WISE (Mr. Hale not noticed these broken) Each monarch loudly rants, Editor's Mail ors SCORES CAR SERVICE | FAitor The Star: I am writing to bits of glass before he drove his car | over them he would probably have cut his rubber tires to pieces. Not knowing, we are unable to say who Nobody cares fer th’ neck after he’s tried th’ see- The royal night, The piper seeks his pay, boobs have danced a | ; ‘. perpetrated this heinous and ma-| Now that the East is growing light The Star, an it weens every one is ond join Helous trick, but it beyond hu-| With promise of The Day, afraid to my anything. It looks as cee hyperbole to bh tho the city cannot ¢ » to an T. Roonevelt a he is going te 1 have such an Nick Romanoff has paid hts bill, terms about the street cars. Lota of|France. Humph, He eaid that the 1 deliberately And gently atepped aside; : aya Sas 1) day war w f red. malice aforethought dei Franz Josef danced right well until young girl myself Gon't se . . © another's property in such a| He very kindly died thru work until 9 p.m. Then we) > Nevertheleas,._Ebble. Wind is on scheme. as- this.~—Hopkins have to go to Western ave. and wait the Ohio State L rxity’s cross | Ville (Ky.) New Era. |The late lamented Constantine country tea And Lassie Stewart is a doughboy ANSWERED BY MR. C. GREY Held tightly to his crown, Until a kick beneath his spine for a car from 30 to 40 minutes. The street is ans dark Ss pitch, and we in France. =e “f have to encounter all kinds of men eee , ny a are fringed at the The royal house brought down. and it is a dangerous place for any | OBJECT MATRIMONY? neat and Kneon and they are tome (The canny, queer, unsaved Chines woman. Since they have taken Off) prospective middie aged widow . ONS | Bow down no more to kings, Ought I to wear them any longer? O. Coates the Ballard Beach and Ballard North wants position as housekeeper. Good cars, it is worne than ever, How long | And eke the doughty Portuguese must we put up with this sort of tn vgealltaae Nag og rig Po It is aitfioutt to answer this ques.| Have cut their leading-strings, thing? «= LAURA E. WINTERS. | tion without seeing the trousers. . 5 ts | Opinion Rog | But if you wish to wear them long. | P7¢bye. King Karl and Kalger Bile | se 8 jer, lengthen your suspenders. ‘The Sevil take you off Von Tirpitz has had his whiskers They won't DISLIKES BURLESON Editor The Star: As a reader of| The Star, allow me to congratulate ;cut short. A fine idea. you on the stand you have taken get tangled in the rope. against Vortnaster General Burle-| be won. In view of what American la) bor ts facing in the next two yours, | 1 4o not think It advisable or fair to labor to have a n over them who bas shown himeelf as bitter an ene my as Burleson has. L. W. BARLES. And may you never rest until | You join Nick Romanoff! |NEW MESS KIT WAS READY FOR SOLDIERS PARIS, Nov. 17.—4By Mail}-a new 1918 model of mess Kit was ie sued just prior to the end of the fighting. It created more interest along the lines of the American & peditionary forces, than the new that Germany had asked for an e& mistice. Despite possible objections from Mr. Hoover, the new mesetin Lholds_more than ever I love to hunt rabbits. Please tell me where I can be sure_to find some.—A. Gunn ss At the market house. . A cable says food prices are fall- Ing in Parix. Mebby ghe word has) gone around over there that the war is over. If you read a few clothing adver) tisements you'll begin to believe there are three kinds of men in the world, “Young men, middie aged men, and men.” A Fremont girl who has a job beings, broke some|as collector for a department store) chimneys and‘ says, “Man works from sun to sun, weway of a but my work is always dun.” ore IF YOU HEAR OF A LYNCTTING, YOULL KNOW WHY It is reported to us t st some low lifed scoundrel, that puts themselves an CHANGE STREET NAMES Private G. W. Norris, formerly of 4059 Highth ave. N. E., now with the signal corps in France, has written a letter to relatives concerning the St Mibiel drive, This is the letter “Dear Folks: We have just got thru with another big drive in what was known as the St. Mihiel salient labout which you undoubtedly have read. We did the whole business in 27 hours. As a matter of fact, we got good exercise walking, as that was «bout all there was to it The drive took piace on a V-shaped sal jent, and as we drove from both sides of the upper part of the “V," we sur rounded several thousand Germans and took them prisoner. Besides, we got a lot of snaterie! The bunch I am with got a small German pony. | and immediately put him to work carrying wire. “All the ground we captured was taken by the Germans four years ,ago, in the first month or so of the jar. All inhabitants were giad to see us, In one of the first we j took, the Germans had named the streets to s themselves, such | Hindenburg »., Wilhelmatra | Franz Josefstriase, Biss-strasse and other German names, We tore wn the German names and put up Amer ican names, such as Wilson ave “When the squarcheads evacuated the el of St. Mihiel, t took awa nale inhabit: of the city between the ages of 16 and 48. They got them away before we could | surround the town.” Ask your druggist for Lash’s Bitters —in the large, square bottle. towns ‘ Lass BITTERS is a time-tried, standard laxative that tones and cleanses without weak- ening after-effects. NEVER CAUSES nausea or dis- comfort—a gentle but promptly effective tonic to the entire digest- Ive tract. A SENSIBLE USE of Lash’s will help. you to see an end of the head- aches, biliousness, irritableness as DIRTY STREET CARS Editor of The Star: I would like to say a word about the Rainier | Valley street cars. How much long: jer do the people have to stand for this company is try 7 It 9 a shame to ride in their sweep them out instead of twice a ‘te fans cna and depression due to systemic ‘er oe Aeeia ec Wen poisoning from constipation and awful dirty in their homes, also sluggish digestive organs. were going backwards instead of ad vancing, as far as cleanliness and the thoughts of one another are con THOSE WHO take an occasional pent, oot Tn ts teem half-glass of Lash’s are rarely a ety, Meaeaune eee ee habitual users of laxatives. twice a day. and seo how he It would not cost much to do that much | and comfort of their passengers, Let them show they mean business in regard to running a street car service, and I will bet the people will give them |[) a raise i . and be on the com y's & But under the present to this company for the health litions, never. JESSE JONES. | Turkestan every we ing en » : raremer nein with the avn For more than thirty-five years Lash’s has helped girl jilts her ment gift has to be ws the parents have to preserve the Nation's health. uy sutule, ob A | .