The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 11, 1919, Page 6

steainsieoneecinegie mane PAGE & Zhe Seattle Star $9.00 onth out ¢ y nth, $4 By carrier, city, One of the hardest jobs on this tough old earth is to get the truth and publish it. Some people imagine that newspapers dodge around the corner when they truth coming down the street, but the fact is that every newspaper worthy the name exerts its best energies to get the truth. And every newspaper, in the rush and routine of the day, occasionally finds it im- possible to publish the truth because it is not to be had; instead rumor and report are all that come up in the net, and rumor and report, on matters of importance, become news when nothing better offers. Take this recent editorial story in The Star, regarding the dumping of 600 tons of foodstuffs and grains. Immediately on seeing this story Collector of Customs Roscoe M. Drumheller hove into view. y Mr. Drumheller was courteous but firm, very. He didn’t care whether we corrected the thing or not but here were the facts: The customs office had not refused an offer for this damaged cargo. There was no customs duty on this cargo. No offer could be accepted by the govern- see ment because this shipment was in the hands of the underwriters. Indeed, the whole thing was wrong, abso- lutely. Now that was too bad. The Star merely tried to get at the truth; it was endeavoring to prevent future dam- ‘aged cargoes from going into the bay in- stead of into the slop bucket, for the benefit of the hogs of the vicinity, and, in time, for the benefit of the lovers of bacon and picnic hams. So we wrote the Pacific Meat Co. the source of our original information, thusly: Mr. I. W. Ringer, Pacific Meat Co. Dear Sir: Taking your letter of Sept. 3rd as author- ity I set forth in The Star the alleged facts relating to the condemned shipment of 600 tons of grain. The Star published this in the public in- terest and presumed that you spoke with full knowledge of your subject. We are advised by the Inspector of Cus- | toms that this shipment was the property of W. T. Isted Co., underwriters. We are informed that there is no customs | duty on these goods and that the depart- ment neither refused their sale, nor im- peded the offer of yours in any w: The customs officials state that this ship- ment was not federal property nor subject to any rules and customs had there been ¥e I would be glad to have your statement of the case and such explanation of your seeming misunderstanding of the facts as you may see fit to give. The Star desires to aid in cutting the high cost of living. But it desires to have facts to work with instead of dreams. Very truly, EDITOR THE STAR. Within 24 hours we received this reply from the Pacific Meat Company: Editor The Star: Dear Sir:—Your letter in answer to mine of Sept. 3rd at hand this morning. I have been out of town for the past two or three days and I read with a great deal of interest your editorial of Sept. 6th. You deserve to be congratulated, for every word in that article was true. We admit the first part of their state- | ment, that the shipment was the property of W. T. Isted, Underwriters, and we ne- gotiated with them and they were willing to sell to us on any kind of a proposition | public benefit. THE SEATTLE STAR—1 HURSDAY, SEPT, 11, 1919, as far as the Underwriters were concerned. | Secondly, if the Customs Office said that there was no duty on these goods, they| have misinformed you. A Mr. Wilkenson,| of the Customs Office, told me personally, our manager, that the full amount of the customs on the peanuts was $15.00 ton the beans, c per bushel. The corn, being the smaller per centage of the cargo, had no duty, but the also office and on per articles were mixed to tent that it would have been im; » to try to sort the corn from the s and peanuts and it would have been necessary to take the full cargo. I asked Mr. Wilkenson if it were not pos-| sible to get to a man of higher authority} than himself, and he said “not on this sid | Washington, D. C. I told him that; ton wasn't so very far ; fur- thermore I told him that we would pay $5,000.00 for the cargo and he said that nothing less than the full amount of the customs would be considered. All that Mr. Isted asked us to do was to satisfy the In spector of Customs and submit him a bid on the rest. I notice another item in the Seattle Times where the Customs Office said that no such tender was made and in event, could not have been accepted. admit that we We | did not put the tender in writing, but we }only had about three hours to make our decision; the Health Department called us and said that the stuff was about to be dumped, so we had to do most of our work by phone. Mr. Wilkenson canhot deny this, because I made this offer in the presence of witnesses, over the phone. They do not deny that the stuff was dumped, do they? Nor can they deny that it would have made first-class nog feed, got the op- portunity to use it for such. Furthermore, I want to tell you that this is no dream. I expected a denial such as this by the Federal Authorities, someone | trying to shift the blame onto someone else. We took precautions to cover up every loop- hole and I.am ready to face this with proof. We have been up against this deal before and have been informed by the authorities that all goods landing on American soil,| damaged or otherwise, must have the duty} paid. We are feeding now the latter part jof a damaged cargo of rice that arrived here last May and have a few hundred sacks left. On this cargo we paid the full amount jof the duty, $20.00 per ton; the Under- writers were satisfied with $5.00 per ton, while the Government demanded the full amount of the duty, $20.00, or four times the amount that the owners received for the cargo. I trust that this statement will help clear the matter up to your satisfaction. Thank- ing you for your consideration in this, I beg to remain, Yours truly I. W. RIN * Now what do you know about that? As we said before, getting the truth is some chore. | The fact remains that this 600 tons was | dumped into the bay when it should have | been used as hog feed. It was wasted instead of aiding to cut the | cost of living. , Apparently the Pacific Meat Company did) all it could in the matter. | Evidently the customs authorities differ) considerably in the conception of the law and of their duties. The Star has no quarrel with anybody, nor does it seek an argument with anybody bcc ar still insists that it is bad! business for foodstuffs to be dumped in-| | stead of being used as feed, and every e | such a case comes to its attention it will | publish the facts, as it finds them, for the} SHAW ON PRISONS BY DR. FRANK CRANE (Co 1919, pyright by Frank Crane) | George Bernard Shaw is a bundle of fire- works. His mind functions in sky-rockets and pin-wheels. He is the original corus- cator. No man, except it be Gilbert Chesterton, can equal him in the fine art of turning an old idea over, which has lain long in the sun of belief, and watching the little whi bloodless insects scamper, that long have lived under its darkness. At the core of his wit is very rich wisdom éftentimes, though he says many striking things just for practice. He has recently been talking on Jails, and for the eyes of the elect we subjoin a few of his scintillations. Few subjects are more deeply buried under tradition and stupidity than the subject of punishment, and good it is to see Mr. Shaw throw the spot-light of his penetrating mind upon it. One thing he holds is that there ought to be lawyers and detectives employed to prove that people didn’t commit crime, instead of that they did. There ought to be another Scotland Yard, not to detect crime, but to detect the weakness of the evidence fur- nished by the police. (Mr. Shaw ought to read Mayer Goldman’s book on The Public Defender.) “Most of our judge man, “are far too sentimental. When a man gets to forty he is guided by his passions, which get worse as he gets older. is a purity of intellect and a passion for jus- tice about youth. No man over thirty-five says the wild Irish- | Sut there | should be allowed on the bench. After that | age he should come down to the bar where he can give free vent to his temper.” “Our prison system,” he continued, “is} horribly wicked. It leaves every man who] | touches it worse than it found him. It is hideous and stupidly cruel.” Speaking of Conscientious Objectors, Mr. | She d: “Mrs. Stephen Hobhouse told aking to the Lord Chief ect of her son, wh objector. He wa | ingly’sorry when he heard it, and expresse a hope that she was able to write to him and send him food. “Then she replied, ‘Do you mean to say } you have been practicir and sentencing men to prison all your life and yet are not aware that I cannot send him anything, that he can only write to me once a month, and that I may only see him with the bars be- tween us?’” (Mr. Shaw might have been describing American prisons “The Lord Chief Justic id Mr. Shaw “knew nothing of this. E magistrate, every judge, every lord chief justi and every man in this country concerned in sending men to prison ought to do three months’ imprisonment in order to learn what |} it does mean.” The whole business of dealing with crime is fouled by the false idea that evil doers are enemies of soc and to be punished. | There will be no reform until we come to see the truth that evil doers are not so, but are diseased members of society and conse- quently to be healed, ‘< FUL TA I Be ver iT SKS! WE ALL LOOK FORWARD TO THE COMING YEAR WITH EAGER ANTICIPATION PeT THIS YEAR? ’ en Apple Pie = BY EDMUND VANCE COOKE I ponder on the long Of ore sprayed Of pruning hopes and Before your boughs were decorated. I think of all the «wea Of brown arms on the Before where garnered The kernels destined long years and cultivated, blighting fears, t and toll sun-soaked acres, from the soil for your bakers, faces brighten; I hear songs in the sweetened cane And watch the darkeys’ I ee t g vate ad Until the simmering I think how ships and For just that tc h think of how t To filch the fire I I think of all that won sirups whiten, sailors fared of sp you favor; eus dared blend your flavor, drous art Wr king womankind ts rich tn, B tions set apart FY vice In the scorching kitchen. I touch » T taste y ur filler euge ur cover f 4, and wheaten; A lak And what the ages have produced In one swift gulp of joy—is eaten! ene 4 Unele Ichabod «a job he knows of is countin' popularity vote for B pyright, BY REV, CHARLES STELZLE Staff Writer on Religious Topics for The Star “By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should celve for an inheritance, and he went out, not kn whither he went “By faith land of pr country (awe 1 nacies with Isaac and Jacob, the bh with him of the same promise) “For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and K is God, bee ba Be ew it without faith it ts tm ase Him; for he God must be and that He em that dili land, Abraham honored by the country. heirs, to dream ab erent ut the that they were to bulld the cities of tem and which were to become ing to all mankind. But while Abraham dreamed of cities, he 1 in tents. Tt was sk to lay foun datio: that his own dream might be made possible thru others yet unborn He was the father of a race— a race which the persecution of thousands of years has but strengthened “The children of Abraham’ can hold thelr own tn eve land—wherever they are given a fair chance. They ask no special favors of any kind—and they ne are shown any. They # spite of every obsta humiliation, every radation, This is true “heirs of the pr Abraham 4000 veara they are the easiest 1919, N. EB. A) | “By faith And ry. | His name has become” Abraham his tells the ete eyno* nym for faith—"'F ad and | “Abraham” have come to mean Ing the promise | ame heir to better city which 1 no oth foundatior er kind has # but that | which is bullt by God | Ninevah, Tyre, Raby Jeru | ealem—where are t and | what has become of thelr glory? There's a reference In serip ture to the high p! 6 a in the eternal ctty y Abraham. | He dwelt in tents while on earth so that he might live in @ palace in the glory-land. By faith, Ab And “without is {m- possible to please Rut “He is the rewarder of them that diligently Him." the Cocoanut Oil Fine for Washing Hair I | rood condition, be | Wash it with. | Most and prepared sham poos contain too much alkall |ries the scalp, makes the hair brit tle, and is very harmful soaps and entirely greaseless) is much bet |ter than anything else you can use <, as this can't possibly | for-*shampooing fo ure the hair, Simply moisten your hair with wa ter and rub it in. 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If you do not! object tuce have I your grocer 2002-4 ARCADE BUILDING like Grand Rapids, wet & supply very quickly, and by | houseworker making one or to ¢he loose-leaf kind of let-| you can| two sowings will! lettuce of your own long after neighbors find themselves depend upon the green THE BEST OF OPTICAL SERVICE At reasonable prices. Established 1908, Y OPTICAL CO. Byestaht Spectaliste ‘Third Floor fous congress ’ healthier.—Mrs. | WE'LL SAY SO | lashes. Bcc | What puzzies us ts how Admira Hugh Rodman makes ends me His salary, allowed by a penur in a mere $10,000. ry year ‘The admiral doesn't eve wn a automobile see But it must be comforting te that Uncle Sam isn't going t your rent see We don't kn w whether or of 5 Wales is eny Canad of their liv rince but the ¢ having the time ANSWERED Please describe for me the game called Saratoga poker —Asa Hartz. Saratoga poker is just plain, or American poker in which > chips are used. Forre tell me why a photogra Lner ts» like @ magasine inuckisk er—Ii. I Because they both make a great many exposures Why is it a football team seldom travels in a siteping car?—J, 8. T. yers generally like article on the be read before 1 am wri rubber indu: to the Hibrows Can you give me any suggestions?—Mra, Rice- Puddin, Make it snappy. Make it short.| Don't stretch it What is the color of most of the good books?-——H. A. D. Most of them are read. Position Is the Word Young woman wishes position as no washing, troning, cleaning or other hard Call or write, cooking, work st Y) Eagle eee The jail building commission has returned from a junket to the quar- ries that will furnish the stone While we have no inside information on the subject we have been tipped that the commission found the stone was hard. eee How to Cut H.C. L, Dear Editor: ple much less if they would buy cheaper cuts of meat. the most expensive but now I buy th and the like. money, but we Price Cutter. 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