The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 1, 1921, Page 6

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1971. |ned murder, The taxi @ttver was ning for anybody who intends to|get the murderer acquitted on rf vilely murdered, shot tn the back, | follow Isom White's example |count of a comma = ee Capital Punishment AS OTHERS SEE THE WORLD given no chance for hin life, I order| And while the Bible he indictment, Valter tabs pe [mother’s second cousin wan N aggravated cases, the bleod lust will predominate in and Comments Reprinted From Vertous Newspapers to rob him of his automobile. fom | “Thou shalt not kill!” why leave out poeple: ic ts op to a, a the best of us. The veneer of civilization is thin. a White fs 19a man—not a baby in| the balance: “Whoroe®br sheds man's |i; to cry him free. Therefore get Seratch the surface and barbaric instincts will assert them- THE OUTSIDER’S STATUS as we were almost pernunded | blood ty man #hall ite vieod be shed, |rendy the sob brigade, MRS. C. de : r i e es ' or God creat f page”? _ selves.. We are now demanding the death penalty in all (From the Ban Diego Bun) eve. Hoe knew the v reated man in His imag nee uences « z If that in not a command to execute! An Austrian mining engineer has Thos vill resi » calle That nih fe her went Into the world war and) quences of hin act, but Hke all erimt : n “souniesg cntten gr I ho will resist this will be called Bm on vasete cashes won tw béthe scttiod at Parts, and America nals he believed, and with good rea- murderers, what i it, then? Bothlinvented « singing flame merely sentimental fools, lamp eo hen 00 t json, that he would be able to get divine and human lawn call fer the | detect gases in mine, 4 : . F ae laway with ft. And all kinds of pity @eath penalty for murder, and din-| PUNEAGpEPTEE Did not a thug kill three policemen In cold blood? Whatever conception of other ideals some of our boye may have had, or wll teal diene shen vega at ties lade Welk canned] id eee a de, willie, He did. And he is condemned to die—to hang by the]'t wa neck till he is dead, He is a murderer, Tmontha or #808 per 6 purpose and endeavor to put the Hun out of . car pe .|belng sorry for hin victim or his vio lynchings. only 22 pounds, is the latest produét the war business, permanently, It was @ purpose in behalf of all man seri ait oor miandees |” aks Ae sho Sinibiaie hai hidden’ Maa ach ke pur week, It is futile to argue against capital punishment in Assoctattes |; his case. kind, & purpose easily grasped and one to arouse the manhood of al)! “hs family. ro any, red-blooded men, and our boys were willing to fight, euffer and, If needs ° scpanns But before evening, there may be one of the red-blooded, ~~ mar reem™| two-fisted fellows who has been shouting for the death os i ry be, die for it. The nation that could, in pursuance of the tufamous Main 8, 4 . . : penalty looking for a “sneaking cur” who insulted his (h is quoted: |t conse. 10 per ment doctrine that any me justifies the end, resort to the hellish work of wan and av arine atta or any other sort of brutality conceivable, must be made powerless to exMoclxe tts horrid Ingenuity upof etvilization wife. He finds him. And being red-blooded enough to demand the good old death penalty, he is_red-blooded enough to avenge his wrongs—perhaps fancied—with a That was the bull'’®eye at which our exfeditionary forces aimed. It was the purpore that aroused the epirita and filled the determination of every ix-shooter, instead of holding a debate on the subject. He, too, is a murderer. : American who got to France or who really wanted to get there. And, today, more than two years after the bloody business ceased, we 4 Shall sentiment prevail in his case? Or shall he suffer the death penalty? find that American purpose defeated. Today the higher-up diplomats of Great Britain, France, Tftaly, Bel | If capital punishment fs made compulsory in murder isn’t there a chance that juries will acquit many sium and Japan are meeting in Paria to consider ways and means to s rather than send them to the gallows? Tt is a make Germany disarm, France is «til! afraid of the Hun. The threaten Indeed, that has been true in many instances. ing westward trend of bolsheviam, very likely involving Germany, maker | cases, fact also that there were as few or fewer murders in A WORD FROM JOSH WISE Evirybedy sees th’ .rocket goin’} but you never try ¢' see th’ oan Teed, comin’ down, sHills Bros RedCan C Es N different the world nature on | praca pe ne qualities above the average. For eee A. W. Mellon, of Pittsburg, tw said de Harding's choice for secre of the treasury. You'll have admit his name is one that t* Deld in igh regard tn financial eee IDENTLY BARTLETT DOES NOT PLAY GOLF all western Burope afraid of the Hun end his devilich ingenuity. And Lieyd George, Briand and the other higherup diplomats, will probably this state between 1913 and 1919, when the death penalty TXear, Excellencies, Lieyd George, M. Briand 4 al, Parte— was abolished, than there have been of late, when it again Tae Watt: bb cendentils. te Aaemien huandd. wen Guna Gibaibiite: at eae and, very likely, be understood by both Huns and diplomats, to impose either the death penalty or life imprisonment. ‘. > wy uta In the Editgr’s Mail Fair Weather Verse agree to offer Germany a few kind words on disarmament, We have no part tn this latest talk fest at Paris, and the blood of our prevails Srming, Germany over te Foch, with power to ge the limit and with the ails. ching oF eamoclated powers. 5 | Does the death penalty deter? Perhaps. It is not by fied i, OW WILAON, THE CODE A STEP with which his opponent inspired the . s BACKWARD minds of voters, R over 50 years of service the United States weather) ac ist we have a theme worthy % “weer igns.” s work, of| 4 our mettie—the code, You have! | Bartlett L. Brooks was not very | bureau has scoffed at “weather signs. It truck and bring forth no uncertain | sound, Our hearts are made glad. boys who suffered or died for a cause t was a cause, cries out against the chronle delay and impotency of foreign diplomacy. It uldn"t burt our feelings should President Wilson send @ message something like this to that Paris meocting: ene in hee Geel a * eaten te tems by hie any means a conceded fact. Does the death penalty ery Datted Staten, acting own y hie owe operate to save some murderers altogether? It does, Then] would, at any rate, be a whirlwind fintsh to Mr, Wilson's war career the safest thing, in the interests of society’s protection, is |to retain the present law, which gives a jury the discretion Powsibly it was thought “The ma chine can put the code over, and the ; re ’ r : pt be damned.* How vicious; Pleased with the climate of course, is conducted on a scientific basis, and it takes no Le pet & Sieniay ov Gat ee it being very hot in the/stock in the “goosebofie prophet” school. time and cold at night. &/ But some hundreds of years before there was a weather + Se: alldlaes bureau there were weather “forecasters,” and some of them kept over, Should it thus become a law ft ean not long endure The |code i an anachroniam It must soon be swept aside by the clash We are with you by the hundreds f thousandat We realize that there can be no congenial employment and Mine accustomed to being busy he pet .—Hilisboro (N. HL) Mes-| Rs eee | & Cornel! professor figures that owes the United States $20,- 000. It doesnt interest us} ly. But we'll sit up and take! if he'll tell us when it will) eee New York-Chicago airplane com. intends to charge its passen- much a pound. If the failways did that it wouldn't ) Jess Willard to go to New home of Mr. and Mrs. Singer, the children and grandchil- ml wrought vecetved a and and 4 i the packers. & year or two. | Riitor Home Brew: I recetved alfy.” It was the custom of the Romans to celebrate the festi- from a trust com-/| noting the length | vice presidents I have| conclusion that there | such thing as a you tell me if the vice. president ?— and asked, “Say, Bill, you made your income tax re yer eee Sing’y warden has issued an Prevents the rich prison from dolling up in silk shirts, tes and gay coats and trousers. mays they must wear piain uU We should think convicts Object to plain clothes. They i the man who arrested ‘em eee Leoking over the lst in The Star the amounts European nations Japan will spend on their and navies this year we can why the foreigner doesn't pay taxes. He's too busy paying | own, eee Philadelphia preachers cant agree retreat or retrogreasion with popular government. It may be neecesary to! repeat, only for emptiaais: Victory | must crown our efforts; @ square Jeal for labor and fair play for the voter, | As policy the code ts shortaighted, | amuming an emergency where there lg none, Its instigators are grievous ly or viciously In error, if they In- terpret the recent politicn! landslide to indicate that the people will stand for this or any such reactionary measure, Everyone knows that Harding’s majority meant a strong | put their signs in rudely constructed verse. And a great many people, while perhaps they much prefer the prognosi- tleations of the weather bureau, pay a little bit of sneaking attention to the olden-times couplets, Along about Candlemas day, February 2, these will recall: “If Candlemas is fair and clear, there'll be two winters in the year.” | And there are many other lirfes calculated to give a line on the weather if the pun is allowed. Here are some of them: “As the days lengthen so the cold strengthens ;” “A rainbow in the morning is the shepherd’s warning, but| Ofiicn tram the double-edged fear | rainbow at night is the shepherd's delight ;” “When the wind’s in the east it is good for neither man nor beast; when the wind’s in the south it’s in the rain’s I Reporter. mouth ;” : “No weather is ill if the wind be still ;” “A snow year, a rich year;” “Winter's thunder is summer’s wonder;” “The evening red, the morning gray, are certain signs of ee Sits of Gascon, 0 ion ‘ees, te oe do not forget that other old-timer: If the groundhog sees his shadow on February 2, six weeks more of cold weathert The Shortest Month the old days when the Roman rulers had nothing else to worry about, they did something to the calendar. And February, it appears, was a victim. Originally this perfectly good month had 30 days in leap years and 29 in other years. February is from the Latin, meaning “to puri- | TODAYS QUESTION te the reccen war in any wey re sparmible for the apparent cheapennd reeard for human life at the proscns ANSWERS CHARLES C. CURTIS, Asembty hotel—Yow; I think so, ¥. C. HACKMAN, 4535 Thackeray PlL—I believe it is, I had some per sonal experience over at Camp Lew- ia, and I base my opinion on that, FRED H. LYSONS, 224 12th ave. NT don't believe i. No, sir; 1 don't think oo W. 1. GRILL, 6911 Greenwood ave. There's no question about it. The boys were broadened in some re- aspects, but some of them becdme carelens and indifferent, A. C. MacDONALD, 1827 Fifth ave W.—1 couldn't may one way or the other, You'll have to count me out on that gues MOTHERS, 0 THIS val of purification in February. Julius Caesar named July in his own honor—he saw to it there were 31 days in it. Then along came Augustus, and a month was named for him, also. But August had only |80 days. So Augustus looked around and picked on Febru- any, which had no one in particular to defend it. He just tok a day off February and added it to his own pet month. That's why February ordinarily has but 28 days, and why August has 31, in keeping with the dignity of its imperious | namesake. Movies and History Recently @ film company, specializing tn pictures of eventa, observed |ite tenth anniversary with a revival of old pictures. Tho only a few | Years have passed since the events thus fllustrated occurred, the pictures jAiready had the flavor of history and the pathos of glorious memories. | But this movie did more than merely record history. It made history | live, Before the rapt gaze of the spectators there appeared on the ecreen the living image of the dead Roosevelt. Projected on @ beam of light, he |lived again, gesturing with shoulder blows; hurtling sharp words from | snapping jaws; «miling the toothful «mila There appeared, also, the unbroken Wilson of two years ago; the strong, | youthful Wileon landing at Brest, France, to fight for the peace that is not “yet won. Thus does the movis, #t! in ite youth, already demonstrate tte tnaptring function as a teacher of history. Its value as such increases with the years, It ts banding down to posterity an accurate, Itving presentment ef eur ing cresoando with which we shall bury {ts falseness to progress. Mr. Editor, you have started « | rouning anvil chorus of the frea, So smite your anvil and you will hear us coming in on time with our an- awering stroke. Strike for freedom, progress and democracy and we will hammer out the cadence with you. Do not waver or weaken, but put to the greater strength and we will Joy ously go with you even unto the end. An Engiixhman wae aitting with some friends one evening listening to @ rendition of “Ii Trovatore.* “I left a balg of gold in me Geek,” be said to one of them. “Hl hought to ‘ave gone ‘ome and put it tn the safe.” He wae uneasy and spoke several times about the gold. When the anvil chorus @tarted, he ex claimed, “Dime the baig o° gold! Hi wouldn't goau ‘ome now to sive hit.” ‘That ts the way we'll fool when we fet into this chorus: “Dime the goid and the wand ef power that are in WILL 608 BRIGADB BB ON JOB AGAIN? Editor The Star: “Speed Up Trial of Thug Who Shot Three Officers” (Headline of Star, Jan. 23.) Obtain conviction—and then—get out the | brigade of male and female sob sis ters and swamp the governor with peytions to pardon the poor “boy' And why not? for Inom White, who has committed & cold blooded, cruel and well plan DR. J. R. 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Our despairing bretheren ere voctferous, but few. | Chicago police found @ pint bottle hootch hidden in a woran’s| sing. Nothing like that ever fm the days of long skirts t is, police never found ‘em. They're plucking panstes in Boston this month; wonder how the sun- flowers are doing at Medicine Hat? Tt works tn a circle. Fat makes you lary and laziness keeps you from getting rid of the fat. BY DR. WILLIAM E. BARTON | There tx an old Dane who comes now and then I had a hard time getting rid of him, for he wanted iBharpen the knives and scissors of our household. | to taik. He had b ji Ere eeetaa his a lo had some books in his box, and rome sharpen my scissors, written pages out of which he was Proposing to make feeing him on the &@ book of his own. He had some curious notions 7 , gies’ agrteg- i and some very vague imaginings. But after he had im. To my ; ee, gone I thought that one element tn his philosophy 1 surprise should like to pass on to others. 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