The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 2, 1920, Page 6

The Seattle Star Sho Se Se et tre 00.00 per year, My carrier, city, 130 per week. The Criminal dent which has just occurred in one of the criminal courts in New ity, is exciting considerable comment. win D row] Aa Street hebkoes —_ — to jury impaneled and sworn on a jury to try two-boys as Wheelock learned the nature of the case he Poca gs be excused. asked, “Why do you wish to be excused from this case?” “Because, honor,” he replied; “the chief criminal is not core the bar.” " “What do you mean by ‘chief criminal’? Who is which }\the chief criminal?” asked the judge. Wheelock re- to his}|plied, “Society at large is the chief criminal, your Addison. }| honor; ety perpetuates conditions which breed tempts men to crime and rewards them if are sufficiently skillful in crime.” heard of such a thing,” replied the judge. “Do to say that if one of your clerks stole a lot of ld excuse him and charge it to society?” him guiltless,” replied the juror, “but I but for our vicious social system the clerk have no temptation to steal. If society were being _| tried hy og ay sit as a juror, but under the circum- do not to be a party to convicting these bo: of a crime.” vf g The judge exoused Wheelock from the jury and from the This would seem to have closed the incident. But Wheelock’s part has just begun. He has been receiving numerous letters from business men, reformers, authors, physicians, state prisoners, unfortunate women, and others, all commending his stand and expressing surprise that a judge of experience should “never” have heard of such a stand correct? What would happen if all men took such a stand? * How would individual crime be pun- On the other hand, has he not pointed to a con- worth attention? Is not society in large patt, at for the kind of men and women who make “ Se AY Aa uk g ag e38 Wolff, 17-year-old youth condemned to hang, tages of the average home to keep him from Has society an unquestioned moral right to kill Is it not itself derelict? wn of @ splendid day tn the fall of 1492 exact—when a sailor in the lookout seat at the slHUaE 38 i ay HF I E i al 4 4 gl i we if ‘to fl st i E { z i bi ; 8's He 8 E site ef ba & i & a i Hd times ire trouble follown. when some combination of Rot new, for Napoleon tried te entabiish ft on jut the name is new. that originated tn the fall of . Capt Boycott, tn 1880, was ih landowner. Tenants found Boycott irked them. They asked his removal. “framed” on Boycott, He was taboe. They refused to His friends “cut” him. Boycott feared ruin. The crops saved the day by cominz in and doing the tenants’ work for them. But the system grew, and Boyootting, afterwards spelied with a «mail t| letter, became « popular means of retaliation against unjust demands, And in that way the word found its way into the language. Better Halves For nearly 400 years married men have referred to their wives as their better halves. And with good reason, no doubt. But it ts interesting to know just when this colloquialiare for wife made its appearance. Bookish people declare that the phrase is found. in English literature at least in Sidney's “Arcadia.” That is @ publica- | tion of the 16th century, Here, Angus says to Parthenia: “My @eare, my better halfe, I find that I must now leave thee.” | The compliment on the part of friend husband must have made the Parting on the part of the missus less painful. But, seriously, where is the man that will gainsay what the shrewd Sidney started 80 many Your Turn Next “|They are all after him, were ripe but the tenants refused to harvest them. Men from Ulster| THE SEATT | EVERETT TRUE LE Dr. James L Vance Writes for The Star Today on The Big: Man of America BY DR. JAMES I. VANCE Can you get in? I ame@not writ- tng of dollara, but of people, of plain, everyday, commonplace people, of the ordinary run of American eiti- xene—not of the tan talent nor the five talent, but of the one talent mam Can you get into his class? He t the big man of this country, i : pile breast of the average American. Let us UM our hats te him He is not extraordinary; be te just or dinary; but he ts our chief citizen in every hamlet and city and coun It was the daring and the initiative of the enlisted man, who, on emer gency, became his own general, He ts the idol of the politicians for they know that he carries the election. bl ent, commonplace American citizen. , | A# he goes, 80 goes the nation. If 1) h@ is industrious, the nation is prow perous, If he is patriotic, the na tion is gafe. If he is moral the na tion is decent. If he does his duty, America can not fail Everybody looks to him and counts on him Thoroughnes Cherectertme cur mofheds our cus- will deliver a sermon Sunday morning entitled, THE UNHOLY ALLIANCES Cheer up, candidates, you'll get some attention some day. The baseball season can't last forever. Football doesn’t take but a! ||| few weeks. There'll be some few hours for politica dust before the nation ‘Goes its Christmas shopping early. Bed Martin's mo longer the champion. He's marrica | Here's @ slogan for Harding: “Safe, Sane ané Sanguine.” Trance docen’t som te be bothered with a vice gresident. Beoms es the John D. hadn't heard about what Henry dia. | Henry Ford ts demonstrating that tha car can go down Nil es well os up. I's « lot more discoureying to “foal Vike 80 cente” now than tt éid ten! years age. | RECE: The jam coset a the old home would make « breakfast room tn the new-fangled flat, x ot One upon @ time citlaens got real excited when aiid i grand PSs “wr rit | oe enon ste eterna trol Sp wis oes \ In the evening he will discuss the subject, WHO CARES— YOU OR HE, OR BOTH? Music by Quartet and Vested Choir. You are invited to our services. FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH it an your Seventh and Spring If you pay the telephone UCH i IF E! “Hey? yelled Nero at hin faithful attendant, “chase out and blow some wind into the tires se I con take a bunch of the boys to the baseball kame this afternoon. Then filvvering round te Aptus Claudius house he picked up the rang and motored out to the stadium where the Rome Togas were playing the Carthage Wildcats. Tt was coming back from that game that Nero got so peeved at the 14timers who continued cluttering up the roads with thelr chariots. “I'd like to get rid of every chariot in Rome,” he told Ap Claudius. “Burn ‘em up,” Ap suggested. “By golly! That's & good idea,” chuckled Nera, That night sharfote couldn't get Rome blazed, and out fant Jufine Caesar was another guy, who, like Nero, couldn't stand for the standpat idea of the hasbeens. One morning he grabbed the tole phone and called up a friend in ome “flay, Maisie,” he murmured, after spending three-quarters of an hour getting central to pay some ‘tention to him, “I'm coming right down from Geul. How about a little musical comedy tomorrow eveT™ “I'm on,” Maisie replied, hustling like everything down to her dress maker's, to find out whether skirts had shrunk any in the latest style books from Paria, It was to keep that date that J. Caesar made his famous = across the Rubicon. And say, folks, that olf wooden bridge nearly caused him to disappoint Maiste. But J. C. was no gouch about cor recting mistakes, He saw that it was a bum bridga And that was why he put up @ dandy new suspen. ston bridge there. Now anybody can crose the Rubicon without nearing the dickens out of every Roman. eee An4 some people still efing' to the delusion that Richard Wagner went in for the heavy stuff only. Let's get this thing straight. As Bill Shakespeare puts & oo apuy: “Dick Wagner was a regular guy. He liked nothing better on @ quict evening, when some of his pals were lapping up the suds with him, than to tickle the ukulele, “One time I remember very well. OCTOBER 2. 1970. AS IT SEEMS TO ME DANA SLEETH NCH & a while takes time and thought enough to sit down and write me a heart-warming letter, telling me how much they enjoyed something that I wrots, = * And once tn a while some other body takes pen tn hand and belabors me mightily for something I anid that didn’t jfbe with bis experience, theory or visions, It would be patently false for any writer to say that he welcomed bricks and flowers with equal joy, but I am always Interested in @ let ter of criticism, because often I find my critic ts right and that I was wrong, for no genera) writer, no matter how widely read, knows it all, and among a hundred thousand folks you will discover at least one who knows more than you possibly can about anything you may dilate upon, But chiefly ft giaddeng the writing person’s heart to have some reader say “Bully!” 1 don't think this ts exouUsm, nor is it @ weak-minded avidity for Mattery; a writing man writes in the dark. If he is worth & thin dime as @ writer, he will do his best; he will write what he hon eatly believes, and will constantly seck to learn the truth and to write it, but whether he writes in vain or to effect is largely hidden from him. ‘The writer seldom knows whether what he has written s good or bad. The masterpieces that have touched the hearts and imaginations of the world have frequently been thrown away by their authors and only gtv- en the public thru the better judg- ment of some friend or thru an acct dent. I think the honest writer, artist, dramatist, preacher, orator, is usu- ally in doubt as to the true value of his work. Only public opinion, the Ppamage of years, the verdict of countless varieties of judges can de cide, Sometimes the «implest, least con- sidered things prove to be the most vital; often the big, laborious accom- plshments are banal eee OF only does the writing man get his big thrill from * the sincere appreciation of intelligent readera, but ev- ery such appreciation of a worth-whfle work lifts the average a bit. The public has it entirely in its power to perpetuate the best things im every line of artistic endeavor, if the public will only voice its true feeling. There fe much worthless writing, much worthless art, much tawdry music and mawkish Grama and ailly' HERE’S A CHECK FOR IT “A check for ft” settles it once and for all! An impressive way to pay. Your name on a check drawn on this Bank Sr E * SEATTLE to the bill, gas bill, orany other bill: by check, get a through your bank for it. Think of the convenience to be able to mali «Chek going out in the rain and waiting in line for the cashier to take your money, UBLIC taste is not ‘The popular ballad day may be an awful the: popular play an artistic sin, popular picture may be in reality; but I woul rink the judgment of 100, newspaper readers than I board of censors, any set any corps of professors, officials, Censorship alwa; itself ridiculous, but usually preserves the stroys the minbegotten. I guarantee that if lawn, no censors, no whatever, ®& downright pinay could not make month in Seattle, or jean city. There lewd-minded people in port an indecency, any American city. be better off without the prurient minded, ness, the delvers into the from an inner vilenesa, that is beautiful with ment, While all things pure to the pure, ft is @ all things are impure a . sez Te nit! He! Heal His i § H ! 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