The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 10, 1919, Page 6

in the case of Ruth Garrison. even have the extenuating circumstances of the Thaw mur- ‘der. The victim in the Garrison case did not even furnish the alleged provocation given by the victim in the Thaw If justice literally wore the blindfold bandage, as) ists typify it, there could have been but one verdict ru to live in. & from justice. Cold-blooded ans hardening in courts may enable judges and lawyers to do so. ments. Were that not so, it would be indeed a hard world Humanity is frail and given to error and mis-) | | Were each of us judged strictly, we should be con- Mothers are continually forgiv- ing their children for THEIR wrongs, friends overlook the} ; And so the world moves—trying to be} SEATTLE STAR—SATURDAY, MAY 10, 1919. She Seattle Star By mail, out of cit 1.80; 6 mont of Was be per month, $4.60 per year. Dy carrier, 50e per month: 3 $275 . city, Le per week. FEATU But the ordinary human being cannot detac ists may do so. Strictly speaking, it did not THEY'LL TALK ALL NIGHT —WE MIGHT AS WELL BLOW OUT FOR A WHILE — WHEN DID YOU LAST HEAR FROM BILL? you SEE © LEFT HIGH SCHOOL THE YEAR YOU ENTERED -- WHEN DID YOu LAST HEAR FROM TO THINK OF YOUR BEING RIGHT HERE ON THE NEXT FLOOR ALL THE TIME! IT'S A SMALL WORLD, C SAY h mercy Years of But the average juror yields to emotion, because it is natural for human beings to mix emotion with their judg-| ly paying penalties, done them, just, but mixing mercy with justice. ju It is easy to say that the jury in the Garrison case > should have convicted the 18-year-old girl and condemned! her to a life in the penitentiary. ‘been any fault to find if such had been the verdict. ‘would have been in accordance with exact justice. is easier to speak of such a verdict than to impose it. Ruth Garrison, if she lived the span of life allotted | to man, would have had to serve 52 years in a cell. - would have had to spend three times as many years in| prison that she had outside of it. So the jury hesitated. : Yet it does not seem altogether right that Ruth Gar- ‘ison should escape with a brief term in an asylum. Grace Storrs, her victim, survived the poisoning, and had Garrison been tried for an attempt to murder, the might readily have found her guilty, knowing that ) she would be sent to the penitentiary for a limited number of years. Grace Storrs did not survive, and so the jury had to decide whether the 18-year-old girl should be for- ever shut out of freedom—or be nominally punished. 4 ge Let us not blame the jury so much as the law, which : “ |) compelled the jurors to choose between such extremes. Belgium is dissatisfied with the peace treaty. And #0 is Germany, and Borah, and China, and Poindexter, and Italy. What was it Sherman said? Oh, ye. was about war, not peace. + If you have not planned complete relaxation Sunday, intend to seek out entertainment of some nature, why NER consider the popular concert by the Seattle Symphony | ,, jle to the public tra, in the Masonic temple auditorium? The orchestra, under John Spargur, has arranged a fram of classical numbers that are in their very nature ular. At the same time, they represent the best in ic poems to be sic. Not only are overtures and symphoni d by the orchestra, but soloists of Nor could there have 3, that It But it She Had} — WHEN YOU DISCOVER THAT THE PEOPLE IN THE APARTMENT UNDERNEATH CAME FROM THE SAME SMALL TOWN YQU DID MR. KINNAN HAD A PLEASANT TIME AT NN Will the Public Please Take Notice: Mr, to take care of the cemetery at 7 a m. and works until 6 p.m, with an hour at noon, leaving the cemetery at Ad getting back fn time to begin work at 1. He ts NOE at home during these working hours. I supposed every one knew that a working man was not supposed to be at home thru the working hours, Kinnan fs reputation will appear. This music-feast is avail-|tio™. “I* Mr. Kinnan there?" and I cannot take a average its with credentials. The first number is played at 2:30 sharp. = ‘Tomorrow is Mothers’ day. Remember: A red car- nation in your lapel if mother is living; a white carna- 4 tion if she has passed away. . Every man, woman or child who wears a shoe or eats Remember You will pay for a Victory Liberty bond whether you 2 it or not. Be that as it may, Sergeant Major has returned to | We are going to pay the cost of this war. potato is going to help pay the war bill. Every man, woman or child who buys food, pays rent goes to the movies is paying for the war now—paying it in taxes. one of us is going to continue paying for it Every ‘until the bills are al) squared. _ Vietory bonds will hasten the end of high taxes, Taxes would be higher right now were it not that the it decided to keep them down by issuing Victory | was Guiash us. He has had a nice meeting with Sir James Drummond, our league secretariat, Lord Cecil Roberts and other sirs and lords, and the plan for launching the league of na- Taxes will be higher if the Victory loan fails. It is the eleventh hour. Choose. Remember, too, the dead. He Assumes the Pressure equivalent to those charged by house, with half-rates to rest In the afternoon Because the phone rings and I hear, “Ie Mr. Kinnan there?" I am called queer be MUSIC] cause I am sometimes cross at there questions. But | When you | is it not enough to “queer” any one? MUST talk to MR. Kinnan, please call between 12:26 and 1245 of the noon hour—Grinnell (1a) Herald. eee “This is the best market in the world for cushion sole shoes,” writes H. T, from Kansas City. “Nearly every man I meet complains that the sidewalks are so hard they hurt his fee eee ]| H. A. D, has a letter from a friend in France, who || saye J] shing gave us the once o. Perhaps you will see it in the Pathos Weakly.” ee Lorain from France, Ida B. Stout lives in Decatur, 111 And Leaty and Ivy Branch are sisters living In Martinsville, Ind. oe WHY DIDN'T THEY C. THE CHIEF NUT AS A WITNESS? . It now develops that Ruth Garrison worked for a time at the Nut House. And maybe she'll go back there. Take that as you like, Jack Carmody got thru, When ick’s testimony eee say the dispatches How is he on bun cee A Detroit woman has been given a life sentence tn the House of Correction, She ought to be corrected by the time she serves her sentence. eee In badinage and at repartee My tailor shows Versatility: Yet, strange to relate, this prince of wits ‘Tickles me most when he gives me fits. Omaha, has produced a new corn king. ? Our Col. E. M. House has got it all planned out for fais a4 tions is perfected. e) ' 4 Col Next summer, Col. House wil work out preparatoy details at his headquarters, in London. Re tober, |. House will have a league inaugural meeting, at Wash- ¢ in the fall or winter, will iy establish the , In the fall or winter, will permanently establish the ) league at Geneva. rs Like most Texans, Col. House is courageous. He goes regardless of any possibility that the United States senate will not’ ratify the league. tribited so much toward running that country that he | evidently feels that the country will back any of his plans, “notwithstanding interference by so inconsequential an ele- Ment as the U. S. senate. » under direction of President Wilson. Mothers’ Day BY EDMUND VANCE COOKE God help us! that we have a Mothers’ day! One little day of feeble, flitting hours When we give gentle thoughts and fading flowers To her whose soul breathed breath into our clay! Today is Mothers’ day. What, to our sorrow, Shall be if Mothers’ day be not tomorrow? ‘What shall become of children, and of men, If we must wait until another May Brings us remembrance of a Mothers’ day Whereto we spur our lagging hearts again? Did ever mother dole the days to us, Or haggle lest her love gave overplus? Today is Mothers’ day. So let it be; For every dawn which streaks the East with gray Brings to the world renewal of Today. Tomorrow never is for you and me And each Today \s Mothers’, till the earth Wakes to a day which brings no babe to birth! (Copyright, 1919, N. B.A) = * Next, in October, Col. House has con- SUCH 1S FAIRMONT, W. Va FE IN W. VA. —Jonathan J. West, aged 82, of their married life he has cooked breakfast every morning and washed the dishes three times daily be cause bis wife refused to do it. That's his side of the case. Mrs. West says she refused to get breakfast and wash dishes until her husband took her to Atlantic City, as he promised to do when they were first | married A musician who can play all kinds of instruments beats the band. Don't lonf in front of a bank just because it has money in it. lclothes than bachelors Why is it that all the rogues manage to get into the other political party? A womah raves over her new Easter hat and her |husband raves over the bill for it | If Eve hadn't been forbidden to eat that apple the chances are that it wouldn't have happened. If some men’s reputations were visible they would look very much like porous plasters | Doctors used a lance to bleed their patients in olden times, Other methods are now employed, | | ee = Seerer renee | THE OLD GARDENER SAYS anette teens ef That what the is not really asparagus at all, At the same time it in a very good vegetable and one worth while plant. ing in the amateur'’s garden, It really belongs to the |marrow or the squash family, It should not be planted unt!) the ground gets fairly warm. Then three seeds may be planted in each hill. The fruit, which will come along in July, should be sliced and jeaten when not more than #ix inches long. It ien’t cooked, like asparagus, and served with cream, When the fruit gets a little old it ts worthlews, but while young is considered an excellent vegetable He goea to work | But I am called to the) national and inter-|‘pnone from my work mornings to answer the ques “We had a big turnout to greet General J. Per. | | in the League of Nations? | ted, to Germany, has sued for divorce, alleging that in the eight years | Married men always have more buttons off their | | are all summer asparagus | necessary to remove the outside, the whole fruit being PROPOUNDS QUESTIONS Editor The Star polities and in particular that of Russia, will you kindly answer the following 1-—Do you consider it criminal, Mr. Editor, to equip our youth, if not with a university education, then At least with a high school, as the Russian soviet republic declared itecif for? 2—Or is it unjust that the soviets, having nation- alized the Jand and the wealth of the country, is feed- ing the population the same food to poor and rich alike? 3—Don't you think ft right the attitude of the soviets, that no one can speculate with the land or well it? 4—Is ft an injustice that all able-bodied persons Being ignorant in international | whether rich or poor, must perform a certain amount ful work h woek? uld you consider the Stephens report of the) soviets’ nationalization of the Russian women any thing but a large take? 6—What do you think of the military intervention of ¢ tn Russia? 7—Your opinion of the soviet form of government of Russia? §—According to your opinion did the excmr de serve capital punishment? %—Should the soviet republic of Russia participate V. KORESHKAD, Lake Bay, Wash. BURLESON NOT THE MAN Editor The Star: In regard to your article enti “Burleson Must Go.” The Star has the wrong name in the petition for public signature. It should have the name of the pro>German in Paris who ap pointed Mr, Burleson ith his proGerman assistants Col, B. M. I Henry White (both German sonsin-law), is brow-beating devastated lgium into makin peace favorable and thereby grossly misrepresenting America, In other wi Mr. Burleson is the you will just put the correct name in it. The most urgent petition in one that will free our allies from the domineering presence they have had to endure ever since the peace conference met Mr. Burleson can never cause true Americans the agony they all feel when some one sgys: “America is back of me; accept my personal views | or she will withdraw her support." Send out the right petition, Mr. we will all gladly sign. Editor, and then THE PINE TREE INSIGNIA Editor The Star: Just a few lines in regard to the 91st (Wild Weet) division that just returned from overseas. We wear a pine tree on our left ghoulder— the insignia of 4he fighting 91st. Our oWn people don't know ws. They don't know their own diviston We have been asked if we belong to some spruce! outfit with that pi what makes us sore. people when they see p tree on our shoulder, ‘That’ We would like you to tell th a soldier with that on his left shoulder he is from Sist (Wild West) division— thelr own division f the Wild West boys who run the Fritz to the Rhine. “Powder river!", “Let ‘er buck! was our war ery or | that put the fear in the kaiser YOURS OF THE 91ST (WILD WEST) DIVISION. Editor The Star: Just a few lines to thank you for the several packages of cigarettes I received this week, They were distributed to our regiment, and made a big hit with officers and men The boys think they have been forgotten, but such acts as these remind them that they are still remem. bered by old friends Our work is not very exciting but very important und rome day will be considered as a big thing for American soldiers, who set a new standard and helped organize a new government in a wonderful country, which has passed thru terrible times, No one knows, or ean predict, do not advertise our virtues, are quietly obeying orders Papers in the states print a lot about the troops in Russia but not a word of Siberia, That's why the boys who have been here seven months think they forgotten Again thanking you for your kindness, I am, very truly yours, J.C. 87 ?} Becond Lt, 27th Inf, A. B. 5 P. § mp Lewis Feb, 1919, and have many pleasant recollections of Seattle. ‘Troops are well fed, warmly dressed and have dry, warm, com fortable quarters, but there is little entertainment and reading matter is scarce Khaborovek, Siberia, 500 miles north of Viadivostok, the future and we but as good soldiers Siberia, Out of evil comes good, The apple that Eve ate has given employment to thousands of tailors and dressmaker “goat.” | You will have thousands of signers to the petition it} RES | B On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise WE TWO BY DR. FRANK CRANE (Copyright, 1919, by Frank Crane) { You are sitting over there with your knit- ting and I over here with my book. With us, invisible companions, silent | ghosts, are Forty Years, their arms full of memories, their faces sweet and smiling, | yet a little sad, as all Children of the Past | jare a little sad. } Thanks to the favorable fates, we have |this room and somewhat of creature com- ‘forts. And quiet, a gift it takes old age to junderstand, All is still except the hasten- ing clock upon the mantel. | The folks have been here today, and the grandchildren, but they have gone to their homes. The clatter of racing feet, the shrill laughter, the babble of tongues have ‘ceased, and it is as if we had come into |a waveless pool after the roaring rapids. In {this pool of silence you and I alone. | We two! We two, whom destiny has made one. Long ago—is it 40 years?—we met as wandering motes in time’s sunbeam, be- tween us the primal affinity, within us the | selective passions. Under the June trees I kissed you first. How shy and afraid and delicious was your girlhood! | Since that day what storms, what ship- | wrecks, what partings and perils, what ad-— ‘ventures, what strife and peace, what fears, struggles, what happy hours of companion- \ship, what gladness and bitter tears, and | now—we two alone, and silence cireumam- jbient! I would rather you were here, woman, with your gray hair, than any fresh blossom | of youth. Not divine Aphrodite, not Helen of Troy, not any woman of earth or heaven, | could be to me what you are. For over us is the chrism of time, around us life has poured its full meanings. And the Ghosts are with you. O, my love! to me you have interpreted existence. You are the ever-fixed landscape | of my soul, the stars of my sky, the moun- | Where you are is , tain peaks of my valley. home. Where you are not is homesick- ness, As I look at you I realize the Wonderful Secret, known only to those that have taken |life’s 32nd degree—that there is something jgreater than Love, altho Love is the Great- est Thing in the world—it is Loyalty. Oh, I rest in you. For were I driven ‘away in shame, you would follow—of course. Were I burned in fever, your cool hand would soothe me. Were I hung to the highest tree, | I know who would stand there and weep | was an English merchant living in St | women in French history. | for the source of her influence, which drew to her and wait. Were I damned to the lowest hell, you would follow, and if they asked you, “Will you go, too?” you would answer, saying, “Of course!” I have been a long time on this globe and have seen much disappointment, but I have THERE IS NO NEED FOR ANY with ambition and energy to get a Kirkland is Seattle’s best suburb. land to Second and Pike. fruit and chickens, and keep down water, electric light and_ telephone. amassed one treasure—you. With your soul, pearl of great price, clasped in my hand, shall I pass, and take my place among the well-to-do of heaven. ‘Tis you who are my past, you alone redeem and make tolerable the insufferable eyes Of those poor Might Have Beens, Those fatuous, ineffectual Yesterdays Tis you who remajn. For you are all my future. Facing the multitudinous silences of what is to be, I should shrink, were it not for you. Not alone shall front my judgment. There, as hen shall be—we two! My soul and yours— © hand in hand let us fare forth, two shorts, Into the ghoetliness, The infinite and abounding solitudes, Beyond—O beyond—beyond! Tomorrow NN May 11, in 1778, William Pitt, the Earl of Chat<) ham, died. Lord Chatham was a brilliant stat manw ith a high regard for Mberty and 4 Pyron’s unkind epitaph, which follows, is so unfo ably clever that it will be remembered where Co eulogy of Pitt is forgotten With death doomed to grapplee, Beneath this cold slab he Who lied in the chapel Now lies in the Abbey, In 1647, on the lith of May, Peter Stuyvesant, the | Duteh governor of New York, arrived at New Amstere dam, as the city was then called. In 1812 on the 11th of May, Spencer Percival, that time prime minister of England, was shot in @ lobby of the House of Commons. The assassin, Bellingham, acted from purely personal motives. He Pet and @ request of his to have some trade injury dressed had been ignored by the government. lingham, suffering from a morbid sense of elected to make Percival, a harmless man of abilities, responsible for his wrong. He doors of the House of n and on the evening of May 11, when the prime ister entered the lobby on his way into the shot and killed him. In 1849 on the 11th of May, Mme. Recamier the age of 72. Mme. Recamier, born rancoise Juliette Adelaide Bernard, the daughter 4 simple notary, was one of the most extraordinary himeelf behind the feet the most distinguished men of her century. It seemed that her beauty alone and her charm of man- ner must account for it. French women who influenced the history of their day, she never professed any political opinions. She was not a writer nor was she remarkably witty, well born, nor licentious. Yet her conquests the most famous men of her time. 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