The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 27, 1920, Page 6

aT ink ee EER i or SE pi wits of the world and Judge nt, “4 ony. 6, Biate of Washington. monthe or $9.00 per year Looks Like a cP 00 per month; 5 mont montha, $2.76 aan ‘Outs 4 i, Tho per tat By carrier, ctty Abe per Three cheers and a tiger Borah would have Uncle S to reduce naval constructic is in the talk about reduct ‘A WORD FROM JOSH WISE A high hat’s th hardest ( keep on yer head in a high wind. “ee Constantine, picked by the Greeks fo rule them again, says that this he intends to keep close to the ‘people. Meaning, according to our| Guess, that “he intends to keep in| “touch” with ‘e } "ee | John Lefthand, an Indian, 138/ _ Years ol, of Oak Creek, Col. si ot ashes from his pipe on his Mélothes and was burned to death.) * Bad habits will get you eventually. Einstein is coming to the United Biates to explain his theory, He "t say how long he intends to Satay here, but if he stays until any Body understands it he'll never go back. AIN'T IT? ‘The motor fire wagon worked It, altho dumb and without brains, Yet appreciated the situation and Hound to do its part as it should. Chief Abbott says that there was all the time all the water that could be that the full quantity of water that could be used, was, and that was no lack of pressure at any during the fire.—Clarinda (Ia) Journal pei Voting booths in La Crosse, Wis. ‘are being used as milk stations, "Where the people can buy a quart of milk 6 cents cheaper than from the “milk dealer who delivers it, It is ertainly a pleasure to learn that ome good use can be made of a -¥oting booth. ae They're talking of Taft for chief of the supreme court. We're him. He looks well in a black eee BIG CITY STUFF give a coamopolitan favor to function a light refreshment was during the entire evening, which the joyous participants ted for their domiciles with the | Competition is the strife of trade. ‘It's a ae nee Woodrow received $40,000 for helping ‘will receive $50,000 a year for peace in commercialized ore _ BACK TO THE BLUE LAWS ttle ev'rything’s our object, _e rae ie voter lems of that; ould be merry, ut necesmary n Ul wicked shoulders to the We would end the carse of smoking vile tobacco, wicked fellown who Inhale: © the gendarmes swoop on who get and sare each coupon, the men who carry matches we would jail! We would tynch the man who bets upon elections ‘And the one who backs a racing horse to win be our golden rule, boys: thts i with golf and kelly poo, boys! ‘we classify the checker game as stn! We would he vowel young folks ‘spooning tm the And we'd ary “foe prohibition of the kiss; we'd call a man a sinner would take a girl to dinner, Or whore auto engine plainly had « “mise” We would urge = state of life intensety pure end the gayetion that are so rife; We sous take away that pleasure Which the married man dors treasure— ‘That of FIGHTING, when he wants to, with bis wife! We would haye the moving pictures do less moving; Make the films more apt to full & man to sleep; re the vamp her fool's careastng, Or is shown in Mimay dressing, ‘We'd make it wrong for movie fans to peep! ‘We would cot the scenes that show = lady's ankle; ‘We'd make the hero always wear « coat; Laegisiation we would bex, sir, *Gainst the bare piano leg, sir, And we'd bar the naughty bare head and bare throat And we'd stop all scenes that showed » bit of shooting, Bar oi knife); AnG all flights of ples of custard On our biacklist would be mustered— Pastry’ not designed for taking human life! weapons (even eating with « And we'd bar the use of motor care on Sunda: And perhaps on Monday, Tuesday, Wea- nesday, too Come, iet ev'ry legislature Change the forn Bete ber lane to dot Set os make ft quite tilegal to go walking Ret ns bar all couples strolling tm the park Why not stop the people eating? (Food is very overheating); Let's attend a fun'ral when we crave a fark! Come! Together now! platform stronger, A. thove to all the bive laws let um give; Hiatus have a law quite sappy, _ Keeping folks from being happy; This in our siogan A ChIMn FOR YOU f Well make our TO LAV i . PHILLIPS . WHAT BECAME OF THE OTHER THREE VEET? Anyone finding a young horse with one white foot please return to or notify William Treece in Rigdon Addition and receive reward.—Ad Yertisement in Carbondale (Ill) Free Press. |it placed where Lloyd George and the mtkado would notice | r for Senator Borah’s resolution to “quit talking’! sam put up to Great Britain and Japan a proposition yn by 50 per cent, and thus show much sincerity there ion of armament, abroad and at home. Armament is a matter that should be settled at the jearliest possible moment. There is a shameful de- /gree of hypocrisy in peace confabs and institution of | internation: il courts, when every first class fighting | jnation is strapping on more pistols in expectation of ||MAW- HAW | fights. President-Elect Harding favors an American navy the jequal of any other and the people are undoubtedly with him | jin this, but the easiest, cheapest and quickest way to such | equality is thru reduction to a common level and not thru | test of ability to increase armament. r Senator Borah’s resolution is clearly a challenge to Brit- and we'd like to see ‘ain and Japan to “put up or shut up,” it pretty considerably. Driving a Car It may have been thought that when one acquired certain funda mentals of automobiling that he could drive his car, Generally people were of the opinion that, given a knowledge of the steering apparatus the handling of the clutch, the brake, and the few other things, lights switeh key, ete, ete, they might honk honk their joint and several ways hither, thither and yon. But this ts not so, Really, one should carry with him a learned lawyer, gifted in the matter of statutes duly passed, approved and finally inter preted by the higher court. This legal addition to automobile accessories is something the automo: | bile driver of the future must take into consideration, And every tool box should be equipped with all the Iatest municipal ordinances and ntate laws of the territory traversed. This will help wonderfully in keeping out of jail Fer there are more automobile laws tn existence today than the aver age motorist could read in a month of Sundays! Which ‘Yan't the wosst! ' The Nation's Business mys 5,000 new automobile measures will be In troduced in the 42 state legivlatures meeting in January. And no doubt when the legislators get into action they think up 4 lot more laws to hurt at the motorist. They alwayn do! David Jameson, president of the American Automobile Association, makes an earnest, and much needed, plea for uniform traffic laws and uniform registration fees “which will permit a man to travel anywhere in the United States without a covert feeling that somehow he ts break ing a law of some sort.” Pat laws, and better uw enforcement, are of greater importance than afother batful of new Inwn. Spirit Machine Thomas A. Edison has the habit of accomplishing what he sets out to do. When he annountes that he ty at work on a machine that is intended to make possible easy communication with the dead, one look» forward to talking to the departed if the departed are in any condition | to be talked to. Surely no ouljaboantitke contrivance will come from the Eitivon laboratory. One expects a device of cog wheetx, wires, curious dias, levers, motom, ete. What @ prospect It is! No more irritating Delphic utterances from & more or lew inspired medium; no doubt at all. Very likely getting a line to George Washington, Uncle Abealom, or any other of the departéd wil] be easter than getting a telephone connection with the corner grocery store. Any spelibinder may refer the crowd directly to the party’s hero for an opinion on the present candidate and his policies No more uncon- Vincing amertions such ac “If George Washington were alive today, one expecially | *| exchange. | this country T-WAS OuT aE THS ROAD CAST i |! WELL, THIS TREE was LTING on THES GROUND! AND SHOT AT A RABBIT BUT 1 ONLY PINKED |!HIM AND HG RAN ue’ A TREeG. NEW UNITED STATES TARIFF (From States standpoint Under these circumstances anythi goods bought by our people in the United States will be @ good thi Huge increases in United States tariff charges would have labout the most direct effect possible tn curtailing Canadian buying there. §o fr as American tariffs prevent Canddian sales, they will prevent Cana- @an purchases, A high tariff in the United States wil hasten measures for growth of ph yan dene cota in aed Fellow citizens, he would No more lost wills, no more murder mysterten. Hurry, Mr. Edison! Please hurry! Everybody's just as eager and anxious as can be to call the Astral central But stay! Suppose thru the machine it Jonathan tent where he was supposed to be? Never mind about hurrying that machine, Mr. Edison Chinese Eg The steamer Tuscan Star arrives in eee with a cargo of 128, 000,000 eggs from Hankow, China. But housewives are in no danger of having these ees pamed off on them aa the product of American hens. Chinese eggs are broken before being exported. Thfy are then frozen into a solid mass, sometimes scrambied, often with the yolks and whites separate. It would drive a retail dealer mad to explain and argue enough to sel! such a product to the canny woman with a market basket, so the Chinese exes go to bakeries and similar trades. Familyjamp philosophers will wonder why the Chinese do not export thelr eggs without breaking them, and enter into keen competition for our household patronage. The Chinese exporter explains that eggs in the shell break very easily in ocean shipment and that it would be a distressing problem if, say, 138,000,000 eggs got broken tn the hold of a transpacific freighter. But that la just the Chinaman’s alibi. The real reason for shipping exes “in the knockdown” is that Chinese egmm are much smaller than those from American fowl and would not appeal to housewives, particu larly those who often wonder if it wouldn't be fairer to sell eggs by weight. The American hen has the true American spirit and Inys the bic egme. No wonder she cackles so loudly. Savor of Life ‘The spectacle of a sitting down suddenty tn the street makes early everyone laugh. doen the rare and delightul spectacle of a man who chases his derby and stepe on its crown in his excited haste to recover it, Earnest persons disparage those who do the laughing. There t& a similar disparagement of the elemental sorts of movie comedy best represented by a sudden kick planted upon the seat of the conventional buman pants. It is intimated that a truly high-toned and cultured person wouldn't laugh at anything like that. Perhaps, some day, ordinary humans will be so oppremed by those who undertake to improve them that they will no longer be moved to mirth by the loss of dignity of one of their kind. When that time comes, each might as well choose an epitaph, for most of the savor of life will have departed, The exception will be those of much cold and supertor temperament that quite naturally they greet such a spectacle with uplifted eye- brows, And one might as well be dead as like that! ts earned that Cousin . . Mythomania Most persons are familiar with the habit some children have of telling an imaginary tale of their own invention as if it were fact. Professor Dupre says this sometimes persists as the raconteurs grow older. It is a sort of intellectual immaturity, often in contrast to the rest of the mentality. He says it is a disease, this more or lems yolun- tary and conscious tendency to invent myths to be told as fact. Professor Dupre calls it mythomania. Others have given it an uglier word. But that does not change the fact, or deny that a person who tells such myths may require the attention of @ physician. It was not long ago that all insane persons were treated as criminal. Mythomania in its morbid form is characterized by a lack of finalty in the thing told, the undue prolongation of the narrative itself and its inadequacy to conygy an idea from the mind of the mythomaniac to the mind of tho fistener. That being so, the prudent person who has a story to tell, who doesn't wish to be thought a mythomaniac, tory pointed and cut It short. Mexico is such a quiet neighborhood these days that Teras ta contem- plating breaking down the door to see if the whole family has been asphyxr- sated, bad better make his Biz bottles of Scotch were stolen from the British embassy. A dally out- rage; im fact, a high-bally outrage, League of Nations can't be ruled off for trying. solve the Armenian problem. Tt has a commitee to No wonder the amateur mariners of the shipping board thought “trim- ming ship” mean something else There are many who dow't seem to object to being shelued shelf in in Harding's cabinet. provided the Plum pudding may be served with brandy from individual's supply, ac- cording to a Boston ruling, but that doesn't solve the problem for every= | and trade between the British Dominiona, Even Eastern Canadian protection lata will see the necessity of aiming at free and unrestricted trade with the West Indies and the other Hritixh Overseas Dominions Thru Other Eyes Editorials and Comments Reprinted From Various Newspapers the Vancouver Sun) | High protectionista in the United States are busy framing tariff sched ules #0 as to increase duties on Canadian products entesing the Fe Canada ts by far the best customer the United States has; and Canada buys from American manufacturers is paid for in real money plus Every condition of the tariff is satisfactory from a United and onerous from a Canadian standpoint. purchases from the United States exceed Canadian males to the United | States by several hundred million do what | Canadian are per year which will reduce the volume of | « for Wheat growers will not suffer any loss as a result of a high United States tariff on Canadian wheat. Now that coean freights are returning to normal, the wheat shut out of the Minneapolis terminal by new United Minneapolis prices, In the Editor’s Mail MURDER IS MURDER, HE DECLARES Editor The Star: Having read an editorial and an article in last even ing’s Star, I am prompted to make « fow remarks, Murder is murder—legalized or otherwise—eo 1 do not believe in capital punishment. ‘The states spend thousands of dollars annually for prisons, upkeep and criminal work, but do they justify such an act as condemning a man to life im prisonment who has been, thru acct: dent, a half-wit? We have ie «matitutions for many kinds of persons; among them in One for the insane, An operation by & surgeon of the state, qualified in mental disorder, should show whether or not a patient will always be mentally deranged. If he will be, then his place is (in the Isom White case) in such an institution. If an operation restores the brain to ita normal condition, then why should the patient be withheld from the world by|altho I was only a humble citizen walls of the state? Such a man might well be a credit to any state, States tariff rates can be shipped thru the port of Vancouver on terms and St prices offering actaally better results to the wheat grower than the ‘What we need is lens criminals, not More. They why not apend some ef. fort to make men mentally respon sible when possible? G. Y. EATON, 4311 Brooklyn Ave. see GREAT GOVERNORS AND OTHERS Editor The Star: In your tseue of the 20th instant I note that the gov ernor of thin great state in too bumy | to recelve a committees compored of ® number of your leading citizens and the dear old mother of the boy that ts to hang by the neck until pronounced dead. I am proud to my that I came only a few months ago from the| great state of Montana, whose great men are never too busy to listen to public opinion. I have appeared be fore the governor of Montana on matters of much less importance than the hanging of Isom White and was received with due courtesy T am sure it will pay the governor to work little overtime and count 20¢ { Fifth / dudes New YorR “110 igarettes 5¢ jclonds and | beautiful leaves on the ¢ KNOW ABOUT SEATTLE? QUESTIONS King county cow What en was the old Madison St Railway Co, incorporated? first marriage Cab a. What here? waa the (Annwers Tuenday) ‘If You Must Worry | BY ates nw ABSON young tree in orchard beg ding about the the rain and the mud It declared dolefully that the spring would ne A sturdy ly pring is coming. It always fol lows the winter. I know, because I have lived here many years. Spring ver come, old tree near by mid holds | or concerns ptr yar to eel! dias «& milk PFO! ties that | undertook thig w | that if this law ts passed by | will bar illegitimate business MONDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1926, lhe Proposed Blue Sky La publle ,#tock or bonds to the comminii brokers | 4t Olympia, the people of Washintan curt | would be shut out from these choi in. which are the quicken : To from « protect the investing joltation by agents, offerings, vestments | drafted t | te licensed brokers the committee feels that would be well pi 4, ed to have suffid ake thone deal repre t ) properly of thi for presentation to the islature in January in belle in it This measure hag been evol or weeks of careful work b: th” tor feel the uritie ir responsibilty rPRevid . | ikers, accountants inesa men forge 7 a aehebel JOUS QUESTIONS jand others farillar nvestment | ON the other hand, it is 5 a 1. KR. A. Ballinger, Seattle lawyer, | matters, At preser onmitine the committee, that conc was secretary of the interior in| points out, there ‘ x to market their own sec Taft's administration. on the statute book no difficulty The new Elks’ home was] A» a result, it is pousible for any sort ling the paper to May 21, 1914 | of stock, bonds or other securities to tand the scrutiny | 3. Princess Angeline, daughter of|be placed on the market, advertiaed |e authorities, Before the paper Chief Beatle and famous frontier and sold to an uninformed and un j offered for sale, it would b lem’ character, is buried in Lake View| suspecting publ wary that the securities commissig@ cemetery | ye en er be #atinfled ax to its stability apd It Is to provide a law will elim: | the standing of the company or indb & | Inate this condition and assure thone idua) issuing the stocks or beg he proposed law forbids the sd] tocks or bonds by any person company without the consent of ti 4 jes commiasioner » dernand for such a protective the committee declares, has been te for years, Mile « in worthless secure marketed in Wash- ington and the hard-earned savings of thousands have been lost, Be cause of the lack of proper protective measures and laws requiring that the Who have funds to invest that they will be fully informed of all phases of Jany security offered and that each | security will be scrutinized t petent authority, that the committee | rk. by m-| | law committee | insistent in thi ms of dol or com: | ties have be It is asserted the islature, no agent, brob pany handling legitin will have anything to f{ only such restrictions are or securities r, and that nned a has never failed to come, no matter Copies of the proposed law have | « public be fully informed of how long and severe the winter has! been placed in the hands of each | #!! or bonds offered for sale been why should it fail us now?| member of the legislature, so that a| It is 5 planned 4 to enlist the interest You needn't worry about spring.| careful study ean be made of the |0f every possible civic and come You had better worry about yourself!| measure before the session is called | nercial organization tn the ie. it Why don’t you straighten the crook | to order in not con 4d by the committee in your trunk before you start wor rying about something that will never | happen!” A larva was grumbling about the erry trees and envying them. The cherry tree wald “You have it in your power to be beautiful, little ¢ ontented one if you let It be a cometh ust worr ng real, ‘There in an ¢ in iehneumon fly has laid on you back; if it hatches out it will kil you. That in a real worry for you.” A young girl was croms about the pay that her employer had given her and she was complaining about it An older friend mid “I think the trouble les in your | failure to become interested in your work, not in your employer, about yourself and your shortcom ou will find the employer | he names on the petitions ahd cou-| | pons, for if I am correctly informed | he is a public servant, and a little overtime will not burt him. Cc. 0. MOORE. Monohon, Wash. ere DO NOT GET V! K FORK GAS BILLS Editor The Star: I would like to say something in regard to the in ae gas and very much inflated bills. ran summer we complained about our gas bill. A man was sent to in vestigate and told us to put in a new pilot for water heater. We did thix; also began using farnace, which heats the water, but our bills go higher and higher, until we have become exasperated. We would not kick If we were getting value receiv. 4, but we absolutely are not. I think the longsuffering gas geern should demand fair treatment and not submit to these unmasked bandits any longer. If they would give un good gas while relieving us of our small change we might per- haps forgive them. BE. M. WALSH. 101 West 58th St. eee ALL. READERS SHOULD SIGN PETITIONS Editor The Star: IT am greatly pleased at the stand you are taking in the White case, I believe that all The Star readers should ask our hon orable governor to commute that sen: tence to life in prison. I also be eve that we should all petition our | honorable governor to stop all movie acts that show a murder or a rob bery scene. R. F. D. No, 5, Second Class Scout—If Germs come from Germany and Parasites come from Paris, what comes from Ire land? Tenderfoot—Search me. 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One of the features of the law ts the creation of a «tate wecurities de partment, the chief officer of which would be a commissioner of art ties, to be appointed by the governor and to hold office at the pleasure of the governor. ‘The commissioner would have his head office in Olym pia, with possible branch offices In * of Spokane, He would be em-| pred to hire deputies and clerk # May be needed for the discharge | of duties imposed by the law. Under the proposed law it would be necessary for any securities broker or agent to obtain a certificate from the comminsioner before doing busi ness in this state. A company that proposed to sell its own stocks or bonds would have to submit to the comminsioner a detailed statement of its financial affairs and copies of any secur it planned to sell, to gether with any prospectus, adver tixement or other+deseription of se curities to be used In the sales. Be- curities could not be sold lawfully until the commissioner had passed on them and issued a permit for their disponition. Altho there are many detalls of the proposed law that provide for its practical operation, its salient fea- tures are outlined above. Under this law, the committee de clares the public would be protected and assured of having an oppor- tunity to purchase the choicest se curities offered anywhere in the country. Investment authorities show how by this means there would be no restrictions on buyers in the state obtaining the choicest offerings, because agents or brokers holding certificates from the securities com- missioner would be empowerd to buy and offer for sale paper issued in Hastern centers, without submitting each issue to the commissioner for his approval. It frequently happens, according to investment men, that choice se- curities on the New York or Chicago markets are sold out in a few hours after going on sale and owing to the difference in time between the Pa- cific and Atlantic coasts, investors in this state find the issues entirely subscribed before offices open for business here, Because of this condi- tion, it is pointed out, if it were necesmry to submit all jouees of There is a shortage of 100,000 homes in Chicago. but we are com- plained to on account of overcharge from people who intended to and thought they were using our serv-| ice. been sold for a com- mission, which com- mission has to be re- To all new owners of Victrolas— Congratulations, and an invitation! ONGRATULATIONS to all new Victrola owners! A splendid possession is #3) yours—a joy that began with Christmas and will last te a year. 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