The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 9, 1921, Page 6

_ Rew shorthand record of 324 words PAGE 6 Public Seattle | per $4.80 for @ montha or $9.00 year, By carrier, city, ite per week. Mewmpaper Baterprise — Aasectacion | | end United Presse Service. Phone Main 600 | agents, of the behind it.” | Are we to hibition, but upon a time a man ma @ bet on Seattle. And the Seattle team got a run in the first inning, | while Los Angeles couldn't score | a darn. That ts, until the eighth | inning. In the eighth inning, Los Angeles scored two runs, and the @Boore was tied. Seattle then came to bat, and got another run, while | Lee Angeles coulkin't do a thing in the ninth. And Seattle won the game. cation % eee It's curious how a little thing like folks into hysterical protests. Once | upon a time the editor of Home Brew | Joined a dress reform protest. And to provide funds for the crusade, the | good women and jong-haired boys dig ball. , and so the dear matrons came fm style, with the regulation omis- ions, front and back. We were too recently said * * that night. But when we got home, our wife ‘put some clothes on and went to bed. After all, we should remember that the ankle, low down as it may be, is not to blame if dreases refuse, fail Bnd neglect to cover them. forego their The public wool alcoho! till) Was have qompulsory breakfast looking for the pret- play in the movies. | to be outdone, Home Brew | hereby announces a contest for | the prettiest man in Seattle. Who | fs he? The winner will get « brand Rew recipe or the telephone num- ber of a bogtiegger. Life is,filled with gobs of woe; Tho ‘tis warm today, tomorrow It may be 13 below. eee A stenographer recently made a AN &@ minute. Soon she should be fast enough to report the conversation of | ANCES. two ladies at a matinee. The prohibi cee | A single man has to make up his| ©XCUSE IS that Mind what he is going to do. But ft is different with a married man. eee AHA! gers. It is nearly three years since tion law went into effect. It is more than five years since state prohibition became law. can say that it has been a complete success? Might it not have been \|reached for the prohibition goal by graduated steps| “The National Crime” Opinion Blamed. But What IS the Publie’s Opinion? you READ YESTERDAY, we assume, The Star's! * detailed account of what one Star headwriter Some interesting questions are raised. These ques- tions cannot be answered or decided in an editorial |sanctum. We pass them on to our readers. | We would like to hear from the people of the North- Pettuhed Daity by The star Peanen.|| West just what they think of the bootlegging question —of the success or failure of prohibition, of the wide- spread and open defiance of the dry laws and the dry recent judicial decisions that, protecting the sanctity and inviolability of the Great American Home, also make the tasks of the prohibition officers more difficult. The generally accepted excuse for non-enforce- ment of the prohibition laws accept that as a true and valid excuse? | Or is it merely that the public opinion with which law | | enforcement officers come it contact is not behind pro-| ynsatistactory that there is another public opinion, a Was the Eighteenth amendment a mistake? Not long ago a learned minister of the gospel, whose heart had been in the prohibition movement, declared in Seattle that prohibi denly; that had it come more gradually, it would not have made a nation of criminals. | If an extreme prohibitionist feels that way, what on had come too sud- an ankle contest will excite some | do the millions of other citizens in this country feel? Another minister, almost as prominent as the first, to the the writer of these lines: “I’m; with The Star when it fights narcotic drugs, but when It was « fulldress| your efforts react against the liquor traffic, I’m not/ with you. I have home-brew in my own garret.” * * * * * * Modest to notice the state of ankles/ TT HAS LONG BEEN OUR THEORY that the op- ponents of prohibition were not as numerous as the volume of their protest would indicate. There are, we believed, millions of quiet, industri- ous, home-staying people, who believed in the prohibi- tion law, and wanted it enforced—who may have used beer or wine in the “old days,” bupreferred to| beverages in the hope that some one might be benefited. opinion of the downtown streets, the cafes, the hotels, the railroad trains, epee | did not support prohibition—but how about the publ: ion of the HOMES? That was what the police, prose- cutors and prohibition agents seldom heard. That the quantity that seemed likely to support law en- ic opin- forcement, no matter how unpo the law might oot become in other reg * The remark of the minister—“I have home-brew in ‘Take ankle peeps. my own garret”—came, therefore, as something of a ther Sesan at te aan ond| After all, prohibition is like any other law; it needs| anid either * ‘*rs™ **/ public sentiment behind it. If it hasn’t got that, it is = premature. this sort of thing keeps up./ Thousands are in the bootlegging business in this! country. Add to these millions who deal with the boot-| national prohibi- ore practical to have gre than by —_ sudden oy And, what is more to the point: ONE NEVERONEY -” AN. | “WHAT SHALL BE DONE ABOUT IT? Life is filled with grief and sorrow, me oa ea oe * on * * UNENFORCED LAW is dangerous. There! is no question about that. It breeds contempt | for law and laws. lions who are not criminals. It makes lawbreakers out ef mi It brings strange all public opinion isn’t behind it.” The Star challenges that statement. It seems true enough that the most audible public opinion isn’t be- hind the prohibition law—but what about the uncon- She has a smile like sunsets glow, | sulted millions? A chagming maid is Ruth; The reason is, if you must know, She has a new gold tooth. eee * A worn From s0sn wise | A railroad train is stopped by | alr but it takes steam t’ start it. = * lo eee The “Human Fly” was injured in Minneapolis last week. He fell off a step-ladder while trying to hang a Parlor picture for his wife. eee PRESENTLY, WHY NOT IMMEDIATELY? Tho blue the sky, and bright the sun, You'd betier buy another ton eee Thomas A. Edison is quoted as say ing he never cares what time it te. Bo Edison is also the inventor of the railroad time table? navy. ated SS There were in a certain city two boys. And they both loved to fish. And there came a day when the Spring was alluring, and they listened unto the Call of the Wild. And they went, both of them, out of | the city, and sat them down by a certain Stream And they essayed to fish. Hut one of these boys, before he went, took a Tomato Can and an Hoe, and went into the Yard,’and there digged until he had a Dozen Worms and a Blister, But the other boy liked to fish and did not like to Dig Worms And it came to pase at the end of the day, that they returned home, both of them. But one of them | had a string of fish and a Sunburnt Nose, and the other had only a Sunburnt Nose And it came to pass that those two boys grew unto Manhood. And one of them before he began any New Enterprise, went into the Buck Yard of the enterprise, and did @ lot of hard digging. And the Is their lack of interest to be taken as perm flagrant law violation? Does “silence give consent”? Do the people want prohibition? have the law. Do they want the fact? ey want the statutes flouted and mocked? WHAT DO THEY WANT? The Star would like to know. The peace conference surgeons are beginning to sce that they sewed up| @ few sponges inside the patient. April showers bring May flowers sion for It is hard to explain stagnation im the copper industry, in view of the great demand for copper coils. } Dreadnought Colorado puts us one super-fighter nearer the dreadnothing and next winter's flour. To acquire a truth-telling reputation, never criticise. °. X the Sa ae aaa eee THE PARABLE OF THE FISH AND THE BAIT other just shouldered his pole and went into the mat ter, and watched his Cork placidly floating upon the Surface of the Stream, and er going under, And the history of one of these men was a Suc. cession of Successes, and the other was a Series of Sheriff's Sales And when I considered these matters, I said, Life is a Fish Pond, but it is more than that, It is also a Back Yard out of which Worms are to be digged with much Arduous Toil, And other things being equal, a man’s String of “Public opinion isn’t n law is not enforced, and the official | THE SEAT Blueness Under Kyes kee my baby girl, 18 monthe Hine has hed Could that cause tt? The biueness under the eyes is probably due to a generally poor con dition, to which her kidney trouble has doubtless been a contributing fac. tor. Perhaps her heart became af fected also. diot and general hygiene, Watch her Wolght carefully, and if she does not gain as she should, consult your physician Kelotd treated ‘The treatment of “keloid” is often In some instances fa said to have Excision ts often the use of X-rays proved of value. greater altho silent public opinion, that DOES want ‘oiiowed by « recurrence which may __.y| the dry laws enforced and that would like to see vio- | be worse than th | Have your ph iginal condition. refer you to @ |lators of the Eighteenth amendment placed in cells, | first cians dermatologist for examina no matter what their station in life, wealth or provo- tion and advice, Letters to the c WOMAN \CAN'T KEEP A SECRET" Editor The Star; 1 have heard it said that & woman cannot keep a secret, Bute few days ago | read & news Item In one of the Seattle papers concerning the identity of |John Schmitt, who was given the ldeath penalty at Walla Walla Fri jay, The sheriff, so it stated, knew who was the mother of John Schmitt, but maintained an alr of secrecy. This was as ft should have been; however, he did not go far enough in his secrecy, Why did he allow the reporters to get as much information from him as they did? | Why was it necessary for him to say Janything about It at all? “No one ele shall know," he sald, and then deliberately told of the conditions surrounding the death of |this woman's husband; told that « {certain number of years ago she left for Montana with her two children: that she had not seen her boy since that time; that she is now engaged as a cook; that her daughter is about to marry & prominent business man, eto, He might better have told them the poor heartbroken mother’s name than all of this, Didn't he realize |that the daughter, reading this ar. ticle, would immediately know that It wan her brother who was about to be hung for murder? How could any of her friends or acquaintances help but know that she was the woman to whom the article referred? Of all the idiocy! Poor, grieving mother! I’m giad it was not her son. But think—if It had been and she wanted to keep it & secret for bis memory's sake, or for the make of her daughter's happt neas, Think how ahe must have felt after having read that article. It would make the thing which she wae trying to prevent a hundred times worse than if she had made known the poor boy's name. And then they say that a woman can't keep a secret! But any woman could have kept that secret ever so much better than did the dispenser of that knowledge. He reminds me of the little boy who says, “Of course T wouldn't mention any names, but the initials spell—"* After this let's think before we speak MRS. N.C. BCK, 418 E. Northlake Ave. NO SYMPATHY FOR MRS, O'DELL Editor The Star: I with to thank ©. FL Riddle of 507 Maynard ave, for letter published in Thursday's Star with reference to the O'Delis, who are two of the most cold blooded murderers we have In our penitentiary today. 1 have followed thru her that her husband, James O'Dell, is awaiting the day of exe- ecution. And if he dies, she, too, ought to die, far less ask to com- mute her sentence. My heart goes out to her baby—to think that the up that child In jail. To my idea, it should have been taken away immediately after it waa born. MRS. MAY COLE. FONDLY DID HE HOPE; FER- v iTLY DID HE PRAY (Lake County (Ind.) News) You may have heard it, but a Creen Line passenger with a bulging hip pocket, his balance and sat down hard when the car hit one of the bumps on Hohman street last night. As he recovered himself a look of horror spread over his face. Something wet was trickling down \his leg. As he feverishly started an examination he murmured prayerful- ly: “My God, I hope that's biood.” aT COLDS Grip, Influenza, Sore Throat | Humphreys’ Homeo. Medicine Co, 166) William &t., New York, and at all Dres | ead Country Stores, Best foodstuffs for Boldt's.—Ad the least at Attend carefully to her | their case in your paper, and T think it a dingrace to ask a re |prieve for Peart O'Dell. It was! authorities would allow her to bring| TLE | STAR nals? | JOUN ¥ Nw. Ms: “Tt It would ave | thing. do ft. What's become of the old- farmer what used t' git nfad in a city shoe store because he thought they wus puftin’ chlor. Ide 0’ lime on hin socks out uv a box? =The bs dint filled with good checker an’ time ° F. P. BREWE “Ry Jove! THEATREGOING IN MOSCOW (From the Kansas City Star) From Ume to Ume tt hak been urged by upholders of the bolshevist regime in Russia that the country might be short of food and clothing, Partioularly were the theatres supported in which represented the unrepressed striving of the human spirit after higher things, free from all money but it was long on art magnificence by the new regime, considerations. Moscow of Russia. one, a review and an opera house lotto, box disturbt enees ar farcen, and socialistic pamphlets. comfort of any sort fields reported: have established the communistic principle.” REMARKS = | | “Deaths from heart trouble at the |preeent time are higher than those from tuberculonis. Heart troubles | are increasing all the time.”-—Dr.| | Loula Faugeres Bishop, New York heart specialist. j eee | “What was borrowed (oy England | from the United States) was bor | rowed with the fullest intent to re | pay, Just ae in any business loan,”— | | H. Gordon Selfridge, London depart ment store head. (American born) eee “When anyone speaks I! of me, | that ts all right. It is only when| one speaks g@04 of me that I begin te worry."—Ex-Premier Clemenceau of France. eee “Americana read fiction with com: piteated plots and cali it good. They read simple, good books and reject | them as = ‘high-brows’.” — Sinclair Lewis, author of “Main Street.” eee “Women have made good as Jur orn."——Wilson Senseman, jury com missioner of Atlantic county, New Jersey. When the balmy, eee “Socialiam {ts fighting to destroy everything that the great prophets and leaders of both parties hav bored for generations to upbulld.” David Lieyd George. eee “We do not need the revenue brought In by excess profits tax, if we reduce our appropriations.”— Representative James W. Good, chairman appropriations committee ee “The ‘frozen north’ is largely a myth. The Aretic regions are a coming empire that within 60 years will be supplying most of the world's meat."—-Vihijalmur Stefansson, Are. tle explorer. Rev. M ee “In America there can be no place for those who, enjoying equal privi lees under our flag, continue thelr |allegiance to a foreign country.” General Pershing. eee “The rafiroads have touched bot- tom. We cannot expect a boom but we can expect a steadily increased traffic as the season opens up."—T. De Witt Cuyler, chairman, Associa- tion of Railway Executives. eee "There is no such thing as sur- plus wealth as long as there is hunger or weet in a country.”— Frederick C, Howe, New York author and economist, LAND AND SKY TAXI SERVICE Did you see “MAIN 6800” flying over the city today? It war painted on the wings of the great Curtiag Sea Gull flyin, boat. This air Taxi in operated by the Puget Bound Airway Com- pany with « hangar at Madison Park, on Lake Washington. If you want a combination of land and sky taxi ride, call MAIN 6500, and we will take you to and from the han, from any part of. the busin section of the elty. Rates, including both LAND and SKY trip are: For one passencer rn deateable trienda—I eni ® wood dancer of you! Fish is proportioned unto the Size of his Tin Can of Balt, and the number of blisters in his hands that were made by the Hoe Handle For while the Hoe Handle 1s less pleasant to the hand than the Fithing Pole, it is an fmportant Ele ment in the successful catching of Fish, WILLIAM E. BARTON, MISS BIUGHT 1004 Fourth, cor. Pine. jn my be class, 7 p.m. Priv: leasons al SS e mn make Inners’ day. TODAY'S QUESTION What do you think of the idea of reestablishing the whipping post as| & method of punishment for - ANSWERS DORE, 1902 Smith Bidi.: “Thay ought to whip anybody who | it, The chances are his own | tory wouldn't bear looking FRANK ANDERSON, wor wave the county money on prisoners’ keep.” BERT C. ROBS, Seahuret: Some criminals would rather take that than pay their attorneys.” R, “While I think many criminals need it, yet the whipping post wouldn't be to the credit of society.” E. C. WILCOX, 4908 42nd ave. 8.: For some criminals It's Just about the right thing.” AS OTHERS SEE THE WORLD E4itorials and Comments Reprinted From Various Newspapers That was all right unt! an Americen happened to go to a theatre in ‘The story ts «iven by Mr. H. V. V. Pay, who recently came out Three theatres he found running last summer, an open air He went to the opera. with an orchestra of 10 pieces. The audience was not particu larly appreciative, and he found the constant conversation in the next Other operas are put on better, he thinks, and the audi- nerally better behaved. But the reported splendor of the theatres escaped him. They run, he says, on pre-war momentum. Actors and musicians are not trained under the present regim The creative work has been confined to “crude communiatic couplets,” some one-act It ts feared there is no more art in bolshevist Russia than there ts But a» the commissar who was sent to the of! “We have not been able to produce petroleum but we CRACKED! IT'S REALLY CHRONIC winds blow soft and And the day ts nice and warm, & Sunday, 7:30 P.M. A. Matthews Subject “OUR UNBURIED DEAD* You Are Welcome to Our Servicer IIs Your Bank Aleshe Buikfing. home of ‘The Scandinavian American Boas SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 1921. In Harding Cabine Secretary Davis Is Used to Initiations. He’s a Member of 18 Fraternal Lodges. Worked as Puddler in Pittsburg Mills. PITTSBURG, April. 9. — When | can Bond and Mortgage Co James John Davis, of Pittaburg,| farmer's Bank bullding here Joined the Harding cabinet trater-| navig ix married and has two nity as secretary of labor, it made) dren, James, jr., 4, and Jean, &. hin nineteenth, Davia already had undergone the V!tt#burk initiation ceremonies that made him | & member of 18 fraternal lodges, and | has taken an active part in many of| them. He bas been expectally inter. outed in the Loyal Order of Moone,| having joined the order in 1906 ax the 247th member. Better eee 4021 16th uld be a good “Don't 114% 28th ave.: During the world war Davia made two trips to France an chairman of | the Moone war relief committee, At present he is diretcor general of the, order and president of Mooseheart, the wonder town and unique voca tional school, 36 miles from Chicago. that is open only to children of dead | members of the Moose, It was large: ly the work of Davis that made the| town and insitution possible. eee Davis ts the only member of the cabinet who was born outside the United States, Wales was hig birth: | place. October 27, 1873, was the) date. With his father, mother and five | brothers and sisters, he came to America tn 1881 and at the age of 11 he went to work in the steel mills at Sharon. eee ‘The new secretary worked In Pitts- burg mills as @ puddier in 1892, and a year later went to work in the nteol mills at Elwood, Ind. Five years later ‘he was elected city clerk of Elwood, yrving until 1902. He served then for four years as county recorder of Madison county, Indiana. ° It was “Rigo Davis, while at Elwood, was elect- ed vice president of the Amalgamat- ed Association of Iron and Steel Workers, and is still an active mem- ber at Granite City, I. He also is president of the Amert- | recommend it | They have learned from treatments have been tried witt lvery thing to bring speedy from eczema or similar itching. barrassing eruptions. Its t healing action is brought about medication so as to be to the most ritated inflamed surfaces. two sizes at all druggists. When Opportunity Comes will you be able to grasp it or must you let it slip because you “haven’t the money”? The thrift habit, made easy by the convenient, helpful service of this bank’s Savings Department, will en- able you to store up resources against the day when they can help you on toward your desire. Start saving today—ask one of our savings staff to explain how we can aid you. Resources, Last Call, $23,477,962.12 The Largest Bank in Washington Account Guaranteed? Deposits in this bank are - anteed by the Washington Bank Depositors’ Guaranty Fund of the State of Washington. Our Only Branch Is at Ballard The Scandinavian American Bank ' Seattle, Washington Only Member Cabinet Born Outside U. S. | Davis and the children are living Bordens EVAPORAT I ence that no matter how many ott | success Resinol Ointment is often ti cate skins or Bolé ie 2"00c @eraeond wpe ronson pp e2eer2 —a were weance eoreweose