The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 23, 1920, Page 6

STAR THE SEATTLE cities; sent a two-year-old tot 6,000 miles in the care of people who guarded the secret of his identity des- perately; brought a brilliant society girl with power- ful friends perilously near prison gates; threatened | WALT _ r q won at: * o, wires t W. WEEDIN Weill, 1 should LAS TRACI No more W) ii i call salow A ?, Sete NANO I'M GOING TO : 1°"5.'C. WARD, 14th ave. 8. and Bay- half a dozen homes with unpleasant publicity; caused E> \cet tT StRiKE Your— iach oy mates tele Wine tame) a score of smaller, incidental flashes of jealousy and |}g eC THS ack nguin, but nothing doing on the WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT - Trev Tt tt rage ; cost many thousands of dollars; sent a brilliant | Wieht more days for your Leap Young writer of good family to the penitentiary; and} Year popping, goils, and Dr. Mitchell }—Wrung a mother’s heart. | M. Kessler, the dentist, has no one! eo ee = TITURSDAY, DOCH 25, 1920, 2 ont immediately, Yooking up | EVERETT TRUE By CONDO | Inquiring Reporter:| One Object | payne hfe a ore So | * . faithful creature, ne erit i The Seattle Sta Vie Sees ee . ST WEEK, MISTER SMITHCEY, )in View me / e e r PURCHASED M4 POW ARTICLE-6" BY KOGER W. BABSON Pee ton tinsel o eithen v | ught of his object, ; * Setstae “aie, te (por teenie WHICH I SAW DESCRIBED IN AN A man donsded @ ath6eh Mame MS acting vias ornte sxc aliterendl fa AD. OF Youve s. SINCE THGN Gos ve - : ad bs n with him con : | when another dog ran up and tried art res d TODAYS QUESTION \to cart a fight ps third dog has one object ll Human Drama Rh ng ON Ea ER vote the siloon buck again? lias other dee mitinued to fe To wucceed we must do one th ANSWERS low the car that his master was In,\at @ time and stick to the chi BY R. J. B. THOMAS K. WESTON, 2010 E.| paying no attention to anything but work as faithfully as the dog Moa: : . Harrison ot Well, there tent much | Uh ar to his master HAT A TEMPEST of indignation was caused by the kidnaping of Baby } | use of hiahiteg! abens thek.:, ANd | His one object was to follow hig) — eee : Bobby Stagg! What a whirl of dramatic situations followed! What a é |ay. it seen to me wo're getting |muster, and this he did. || | The income of » chet pelty of t human drama—a drama of commonplace, every-day life! One act still | A. UNDERWOOD, 2506 1, Jef. | ter alighted, there was the al- month : St der is needed to round out the dramatic structure and make it stand complete as fernn oti “Late ns Neve beret Lh 2h one of the most sensational series of events in many years. enti emphatically. 1 may this in| ' : One thoughtless, impetuous action rocked four mite of the fact that T once liked a | ¢ t© extract his income painleasty see Chap named Smith, living in the Phubarts near Denver, has an idea Ghat you can get the young fellows Back on the farm by giving ‘em free fand and a couple of wives each That'll fetch ‘em all right, but will ft keep ‘em anchored when the @oubletarreled bills come int eee If girts popped as often as Seattle aa even Hank Clay wouldn't re main a bachelor long eee Woman mistook gas company’s at- torney at public service hearing for erdinary bill collector. Hill collector ill probably avenge himself by mis reading the ys ae ’ Summed up, it appears the gas & public hearing than in any gus range. oe “TIS NO USE Joe Smith has been Ben. Ed Palmer in the : . Goria) district. This ts the ‘steenth time Joe has run for office. If he should ever win an election, he'd probably pass away with surprise Flow’! he over be able to hold office aad ee GIVE YOU THREE GUERSSES en) DISCOVER WHO DOES KNOW HOW “Mayor Caldwell is doing the best he knows how; Superintendent Hen is doing the best HE knows but the trouble is neither KNOWS how."—From Speech of Ole eee HISTORY REVISED Alten Poindexter parted his man, just lke myself, reclamation and irrigation of the West require a m man in the president's cab- Gov. Dixon, like myself, under- stands reclamation and trrigation.” eid, “but why don’t you appeal for elf, John?” wrt) what did Priscilla Harding may in modern days? Ah, yes, yes, what did he? eee The Society for the Exchange of Christmas Gifts is in training for its annua! session in the shopping dis trict Dec. 27. eee It doesn’t appear to have ocenrred to anyone that reindeer steak might Be to the Christmas dinner what the turkey is to Thankssiving. eee Of course, you noticed that the girls had gfven up their half-hose ‘ Christmas came near, hobby when hristmas Santa Claus, coming from the North, will have to stand for the gearch and seizure business at the Canadian order. eee ‘The Christmas mistietoe ought to help the Leap Year Girl quite a bit that last week—if she works fast. cee and good will toward at least one fan on the merry Christmas morn- ing if you have correctly ruessed the gift that was on the missus’ mind the six weeks before Dec. 25. ee AFTER SHOPPING “Lives there a man with soul so dead?” —"Let no such man be trusted”. “Who never to himself hath said,- “I'm happy, but I'm busted!” —Edmund Vance Cooke. ee “Do we want fewer congressmen?” * the newspapers are asking. Yes— fewer of the kind we have, more of the kind we need. oe . “he Manchester, N. H., council of the United Commercial Travelers will ask the legislature to pass a bill compelling hotel keepers to put 9-| oempelling hotel keepers to put 9- foot sheets on beds, This disposes of the widespread belief that com- Mercial travelers never go to bed. HAW! HAW! Tinner—Yeaterday I fell off an 18% toot ladder. company furnishes more hot air at} “Ah, yes, yes.” replied Priscilla of | ‘There'll be more peace on earth | HE TONGUE | Edith Stagg. | She would pardon the man who stole her baby. | “He was the baby’s father,” baby’s sake.” | What a clash of emotions must have been going on within |the heart of this little woman! The dull pain of the injury done her; the bitterness she must have felt toward ber former husband, t shrinking from the publicity that inevitably followed her tragedy; the suspense of waiting for the return of her baby; baby might again be taken from hert Have these emotions driven out the last vestige of the affection she once held for the futher of her baby Edith Stagg has fought it out public opinion by urging the pardon of Stagg when he makes her certain Pickle? No, but a woman of the gabblers already have turned on he will not wreak revenge upon her mo with her; admire her After all, iw it Her friends believe in Edith & honesty and frankness, without tr | necessary to understand a woman? ee @ [FIVE STAR, from the first, felt a “family” interest tn thiv news story Betty Brainerd was the first society editor of this newspaper. Stagg, both before he went to war and after bis return from the avis |ton camps, was a reporter on dur staff. And Edith Cunningham, be |} fore George married her, was a reporter on The Star's sisterpaper, the }Tacoma Times. All threé of the chief figures in their case had close friends in this office—but The Star never for one my nt forwot public service position as a newspaper, It handled elopments ir the case in a straight news manner and tried, so far as human fallibility permitted it, to be fair to all I remember the astonishment with which the news of the kidnaping was recetved. Stage had been in our office just a few days before—biuft h a cheery quip for all his old friends. A few of the f king about George's New York success a few minutes before the Tacoma office Mashed us George Stagg kidnap. baby." What? Our George? Astonishment knew no words ETTY BRAINERD also had been in The Star office several times 1 remember “kidding” a Tacoma officer when the hint first came that Miss Brainerd might be connected with the kidnaping. Later, when deputy sheriffs began questioning various people ubout the movements of Stagg and Mise Brainerd, some of un became quite indignant. The managing editor even threatened to bar one deputy sheriff from the office because he wouldn't take the words of Star people that they didn't believe Miss Brainerd had anything to do with the case. Iam giad Miss Brainerd was not brought to trial It ts fortunate for her, and for her friends who aided in the kidnaping. For altho Mise Brainerd might not have been convicted, her suffering would have been redoubled, And I know that she has@ruffered humiliation and distress over the consequences of Stage’s foolish act—an act of which, I am sure, she had no previous knowledge and which she afterward may have abetted only thru loyalty to the friend who had assisted her in bringing her afling father home from Washington. Betty Brainerd {s big-hearted, impulsive Her greatest crime was thoughtlessness. She has paid j If she is philosophical, her experience will broaden her; give her a greater understanding; reveal to her Just who of her once great circle of friends are real friends; quench at least @ part of her impulsivencen KNOW GEORGE STAGG. I worked on the same staff with him. I think I understagd him. ° When George T. Stagg stole his baby, I thought he made a terrible mistake. I believed he would bring the baby back to Its mother when the first excitement of the kidnaping had died down. When Betty Brainerd was arrested and when she was brought back to face trial for the kidnaping, and George Stagg continued in m1 }condemned him. I was mightily disappointed in him. He was hiding behind a woman's skirte—that wae my opinion and the opinion of thou sands of others. F But when George walked into court last Saturday and took hie medicine | without a gulp, I felt he had redeemed himself. It is a mighty serious thing to accept a 10-year sentence to prison without even a fight in court. Stagg did It to save the girl who had helped him. Ae; «ympath ing to understand her, George concerned FTER ALL, he ts the baby’s father. Certainty not all the love of | 42 children is locked in the mother's breast, tho hers is the greatest claim. George Stagg ought not to go free at Snéa Hoe broke a law—a law against stealing children, Because he broke the law he must pay in | prison. But George Stagg should not serve the full 10 years. That would be as unjust, as cruel, as an immediate pardon. He should not serve more than a year at the highest maximum. I said I know George Stagg, and I do. I know that he ts paying, hae paid, will continue to pay the rest of his days, and will never atop loving | his som—not If they keep him locked up for the maximum of 15 years George is that kind. He will never again be the old impulsive, thoughtless, happy-go-lucky youth he was when I met him. Stx months in prison will punish him as | much as six years, and 60 years won't break him. It fe the spirit of the |law that when a man has paid the penalty for a crime, he ts entitled to | public confidence again. And don't worry; Stage wil! walk e#traight. When he gets out of prison, I am going to offer him my hand. I hope he takes it 7. + . NE MORE ACT is needed for the drama—the coming out of the prison gates; the Jaw paid in full, either by time or a governor's pardon, | Imagine yourself at the theatre. You were told the story of the Stagg. Brainerd case. . Act I. Introduction of the characters, beginning of the romance; the going away to war; the coming of the baby; the suspense @ war time situation affords. Act Tl. The return of the hero from war; the domestic trouble; the divorcee; the kidnaping of the baby; the search for the hero; the arrest of | the other woman; the suspense sustained by the mysterious disappearance of the hero, and the prospect of the other woman's trial, Act IIL The hero gives himeelf up after the return of the baby to |save the other woman from trinl; he ts sentenced; he goes to the peniten. tiary; the other woman spends her last cent to help him; his divorced wife asks the governor for a pardon. Epilogue—The hero pardoned, and—finish it yourselt, i . . . OU would leave the theatre believing you had been imposed upon. Too melodramatic. Too illogical. Too foolish. The hero wasn’t true to life; he wouldn’t act that’ way in real life at all. The Stagg-Brainerd case wasn’t a stage-managed affair, Charges that ‘it was “framed” to happen as it did, are ridiculous. It wouldn’t have happened that way if it had been framed, for “framers” are too wise to make the mis- take of being truthful. It was a tragic drama of the commonplace, of every- day life. It happened because of one thoughtless, impetuous act. Nothing exceeds the arrogance of the man whose hens are laving now. Harding is doing his cabinet making im the back room and not on the | front porch. Argentine must have icft the door open on leaving the league of na- tions, for Chile's feet got chilly. Senate dill in Manila provides that natives must wear trousers. This Lady—Merey! You might have | proves the Vilipinos are panting for independence. killed yourself. Tinner—Naw, it was only from the second step I dropped then the fear that the/ She t# now braving the reversion of | | she says. “It is for the . In the Editor’s Mail DON'T GIVE WEAPONS TO BOYS roR TS Editor ‘The Star: Permit me to make an appeal to parents and oth era not. to give boys alr guns for) of policemen? Would It not be cheap. Christmas, or any other weapons or|er, more sensible and give the tax toys that would incite boys to acta| Payer something of cruelty. It is much better to gtve some thing that is of constructive nature and possenins educational value. A fair of Meld gt would delight any bey, with which he could study the habits of the living birds and animals Boys are boys, and when a death: | giah if you would publish the follow- dealing weapon is placed in one's hands there is too great a temptation to shoot at birds and even cats and dogs. And there are plenty o€ cases on record where serious gecidents | going? have resulted from boys having such | ruth Garrison. weapona, Guns were made to shoot with.| the people of the state of Washing. Then why should any intelligent par. ent or @ friend of a boy ever give him a gun? Jn so doing they are de Lberately training the boy to become callous to all the finer impulses of his nature, In time, instead of show ing mercy and protecting the weak: er creatures that cannot protect themsctves, of giving ald to a wound ¢d bird or animal, the boy will bend his energies to causing pain and suf. | or That in| fering, to destroying life one way of making « criminal, A “sate and sane” Christmas should be the slogan in regard to the appropriate Christmas gifts for the ghildren, expecially for os Ke specttully yours, ANNIE M. BURGESS, Member American Humane Associa tion, Belfair, Wash. see MORE JOBS, NOT MORE COPS Editor Tho Star: There ts a wave of crime over the city, state and the whole nation. It is equally true that hundreds of thousands of men and women are out of work. Many of these are starving. To any reason ing man it is self-evident that there Sweet, Good and Clean American Maid is quality made, always. Protected in a Sealed, Undemeath most unattractive skins is a clear, pleasing complexion—all ig needed in the proper treatment! It insurprising how often a brief use of Resinol Ointment and Resinol Soap will clear away blotches, redness and hness and Another German Coup d’Etat 4a rumored. That fellow Coun a’Etat has\M yas aim yen want it to be, ash caused more trouble abroad than you can shake a wtih at | Yoeae dior fas Reagan ce leat. | } SEATTLE? What Seattle office building erected on a cow pasture? 2. What member of the cit coun- ef} in « veteran of the civil wa & What amount of business ta handled by the municipal light and power plant? | (Answers Friday) / PREVIOUS QUESTIONS } 1 Seattle's annual rainfall te 22.7 inches; New York's is 44.6, and Boe ton’s ia 43.4. 2. Altho Seattle tx the 20th city in the U. 8. im point of population, the | Seattle Western J’nion office shows it to be the eighth cl in the coun try in volume of telegraph business. 3. The five species of the Pacific mlmon are the Coho or Silver, Chum or Keta, Humpback or Pink, King or Spring and Red or Sockeye. | Go Half Way || BY EDMUND VANCE COOKE Happiness is just abead; half way to meet it. ay your doubting dread Go half way to meet it. Lift your dull and drooping head, Stir your dull and drooping head, | Stir your wodden feet of lead; Sunshine on the path is spread; Go half way to meet it in a direct connection between un employment and crime. Seattle wRuld solve the problem by an increase in the number of poll men. Why not provide work instead for hin Merely a suggestion from a POOR STIFF. . money? RUTH GARRISON AND ISOM WHITE Editor The fol lowing the case of Inom White from the first up Would be rm Have been until data. Fortune is around the ben@ Go half way to meet it Can you buy unless you spend? Go half way to meet it. Do your part and in the end | Life shall emile on you and send Many « daily dividend; Go half way t moet it, ing question: Why are the people of Washington so anfious to hang this boy without at least giving him a chance in life to rectify his wrong: I alno followed the case of Was not her deed in murder as bad as this boy's? Yet ton allowed her to go fren Haw signed the coupon In your paper to Gov, Hart and I do hope that he will show leniency for the sake of hin mother and give the boy a chance to Live instead of taking hig life. Friendship waits you, lingering near; Go half way to meet it. Calm your hesitating fear; Go half way to meet it, Free your adul of every eneer, L. CHRISTIE. Coin your heart to songs of cheer; nes This your hour and this your year! OBESITY But—o forth to meet it! Q Can you tell me of something, (Copyright, 1920, N. B. A) rather, how I can reduce my flesh? A If you will send me your name and address I will be very glad to send you a leaflet on bewit y. 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