The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 16, 1921, Page 6

“eo 1 ap st Sc Sek A AS Ae TA Salt Water PAGE 6 — Newspaper Wn terprise Assn. and United Press Service | The By mati, out of ot $5.00, In the $4.50 for € mo noth; J months, $1 Outside of By carrier, HE STATE owes an apology to John Schmitt, murderer. T This editorial is no defense of John Schmitt; but it has been outraged. John Schmitt was not given a square deal. policemen here last winter. Schmitt, a criminal by profession, shot them down because they were attempting to) take away from him the thing he prized most highly, his alone he would have left them alone. Seattle Star Published Datly by The Star Pudi %., h is a defense of justice which He was executed because he killed some liberty. Had they left him It is a policeman’s business to catch criminals; it is a criminal’s business to prevent policemen from catching him. Policemen know they are in a dangerous calling, with death often justsaround the corner. | me Schmitt committed murder cool, without the slightest hesitation, but also without any Prices for electricity premeditation. The jury which tried him voted for the death penalty provided in the capital punish- ment law, passed by the last, legislature, and he died on the gallows at Walla Walla. Four Camp Lewis soldiers murdered Karl A. Timbs, a taxicab driver. It was ene of the most brutal, cold-blooded and deliberately planned murders in the state’s history. The evidence against them was flawless, There were no extenuating circumstances, ex- cept, possibly, that they were very young. ce and was carried out with the consummate fiendish And yet they escaped the death penalty. ness of pirates. That is why we say the state owes John Schmitt an apology. 5 Surely, if the four Camp Lewis soldiers did not deserve hanging, then John Schmitt did gentiemen may be qualified, altho not deserve it. ‘trime the soldiers committed. There is a grim lesson to be learned from all of this. THE SEATTLE STAR Try This on Your Wise Friend If by giving a friend one dollar he would have twice as much as you, and by his giving you one dollar you would have equal amounts, how much would you each need to have to begin Answer to yesterday's: the train, is lost in each trip.) From the Congressional. Record Repege rp romeo nee SELFISH OPPOSITION Nobody has opposed it (utilizing the water power at Great Falls), ex cept the street railway companies and similar institutions charging the !people of thix city and the of the United § (R) Nebraska | eee A WE KNOWN AUTHOR I understand that the (Mr, Lasker) referred to by the Ueman from Tlinois (Mr. ( om) is the author of the phrase, “Don't wiggle and wobble," and The killing was coolly and wilfully plotted in possniy on account of that great service which he rendered in the last leampaign, as well as on account of the distinguished success that he has made in his private business, the other day stated expressly that he had no knowledge of ships, but that he proposed to surround himself with These two cases have wholly discredited the capital punishment law, They have made 4 number of ship experts who would a farce of the ghastly statute and have proved that it makes of justice a mockery and sive him the knowledge necessary to a sham. They have proved, too, that there is a growing public sentiment against the death pen- | qennesses alty. A vast majority of the people believe with The Star and its sister papers that cap- ital punishment never has cured crime and never will—that it is brutal, barbaric and a Ylot | on our modern civilization. j The action of Governor Hart in commuting the sentence murderer, to life imprisonment, is another proof of the overwhelming feeling against ital punishment. qn punishment, the case of young White. Hart simply bowed to the will of the people. papers in this state have fought against*the execution of White. came the demand that the boy, a mere child in mentality, The capital punishment law might as well be repealed, for it is evident that typical juries will not invoke its horror. Restaurant Berry For Prices Too High Graduates With “Buy, Can, Eat Strawber- We don't gnow how many thou For a year The Star and its two sister | And from thousands 6f Isom White, Everett boy | always a mistake and a crime, would have been a double crime in| be saved from the noose. How the Captain Settled It “I did not call on the Kubeys ties!” the popular slogan of the sands of graduates are just now nd discuss the matter. I do not Bay, every Scattle restaurant that starting on “the threshold of believe in controversy. 1 decided prices the fruit at 40 cents a dish life.” to settle the matter at once. So I Walk right in, dear children. When you pase the threshold you will find no velvet carpets. ‘There's a long steep stairway for you t climb and you must watch your step. It ts one of those trick stair- With berries selling at $1.25 a cut the Magpole down.” That, in effect, wap Capt. B. D. Allen's statement en the witness stand, explaining why he sent his men into a neighbor's yard to re move both pole and flag because his wife had sald to him: “The Kubeys are fying that fag €rate, the cost of the quantity that ways, this that starts at the srain” enter into a restaurant order ts threshold of life. There are col- Capt. Allen settled the matter! fees than 2 nickel; often much less. lapsible steps that ‘cause you to Maybe, Nelther is tiny jug of cream so slip back unless you keep your = There have been incriminations wits. and recriminations since the af- As you go up you fair, And a lawsuit over the again. Others climb slowty, but surely. Others make it two steps at a time. , Emulate them if you haye the capacity, but have a care lest in your eagerness you make a misstep. You may go as far as you can up the stairway. There ls no end te it, and the higher you go, the more pleasing does it be- come. Good luck to you, childrenon- the-threshold-of-life. And may you have a long climb and a joyous one. Germany has 12 per cent beer. Who says statistics aren't inter- esting? Printers’ Ink and One of the unpardonable crimes @n some minds) of President Wil- gon was naming a newspaper @ditor as secretary of the navy (and “the only editor in the U. S. New York physician says young women should be congratulated on ‘ winning the battle for the short ae ee ae Some shouth—end come Paper-editor-president, makes a shouldn't Mewspaper advertising agent the head of the shipping board and Chicago music dealers say jazz matter which began Monday, con sumed all day Tuceday and Wednesday, has disrupted the peace of all parties concerned! Who can say that soft speech before the saws were used might net have turned away wrath? Every unlicensed dog ta supposed to have his day—in the pound wagon! Treasury department saye the per capita circulation June 1 was $55.43. Guess some of the land- lords didn’t collect that day. Chicago aquarium president says looking at a group of fish soothes the nerves. Not if the other feliow caught *em. We don't hear about youngsters hanging on their mothers’ skirts any more. Too short? A few more like Harvey and Sims and London will reinstate ita air attack signals, “A man should keep only enough everybody sings “Columbia the airs are giving way to old-time Gem of the Ocean.” melodies. Hope they don't revive money to Mve on comfortably,” Ho, bum. “Im the Bhade of the Old Apple says John Wanamaker. Yea—but Tree.” how, John? IN THE EDITOR’S MAIL I ride on the street cars a great VOICES COMPLAINT ABOUR MAIL CARRIERS lad canal ioe aca oApegped yo Editor The Star: May I say a bit) gusted by the “horse play” and gen- about the uncouth manner and gen eral “rough neck” actions of some of | about six to eight, usually. They are our city’s mail carriers? men who should know better, and Old Fogies: Why Not to Be One BY DR. WILLIAM E. BARTON HE dictionaries do not know where the word came from, and that is unusual Nearly every word has a pedigree. We can trace its genealogy back to Latin or Greek, and thru that to earlier languages, and can discover its kinship with words in other modern tongues. Not so with the word “fogy.” If it had come to us as we spell the various kinds of “phobla.” The word is, 60 far as we know, wholly English, and it is almost invariably accompanied by the adjective “old.” aie there any new fogies? And if so, what are they e? There are people enough, and not all of them old as years go, who are hopele ont of joint with their They are, to quote a friend of mine, “unaware of the distinctive own age marks of modern progress.” You would not be justified in speaking of them have not all lived long enough to be old whether they are50 years old or only 15 The only value in living in any particular age is that one may partici pate O% life of that age. Living in the ideals of the thirteenth cen But they are old fogies, tury, wh was a great century, but which is gone, one ive in that century; it will simply put with $he present century For better or for worse we must live in the short interval between the day on which we were born and the not very we are to die, That being true, to be behind one’s own time is a sin for which there is no forgiveness on earth, whatever grace may be in heaven A belated mind ix not simply an infirmity of adjustment; to any considerable degree of success or comfort I suppose that as we grow old, it becomes much less easy for us to adjust | Ourselves to changed situations | That is one reason why 1 am determined not to grow old And even if I should live to grow old, | am resolved that I shall never , be a fogy, will not really enable one out of living touch distant day on which eral silliness of a bunch of them—| from the Greek, we should be-#pelling it with a “ph"| ignorant, and they it is a bar| who have age enough to realize that the public isn't out to be entertained | by any such witless actions. They titter, and smirk and make remarks about every woman who gets on or off the car, and make pub. lic nuisances of themselves If they could only see themselves (once) as we people who have to tol erate them every day, see them, I'm sure they would take a decided brace. I am in particular referring to the actions of a bunch of carriers from Station W. Of course, one may complain to the general postoffice, | but one hates to do that. So I thought maybe if they'd see a few lines in print they'd take a hint. Quien sabe? DISGUSTED. | SETH TANNER | | A customer in a barber chair is worth two waiting—an’ whole shop full 0’ loafers, high flyer falls hardest, a th make @ valuable chairman of the shipping beard.—Rep. Byrna (D.) Of all glad words to bring content, these lat for The giaddest are | Rent.” $1.00—CHOICE RNOOMS—s1.00 New Do‘ington Hotel First oo K.P. Kelly Gill improved Ben tloman | vutomobile trips out Wf Seattle.” with? 188 miles. (One-half mile, the length of Ingulring’ Reporter: } | TODAY'S QUESTION | How are you going to spend your vacation? MRS. FRANK J. HUBER, 830 |80th ave: “I'm pretty sure we'll go jinto the country and camp out where the fishing’s good.” cw “I'm going to take a number of w UGE LAIRD, 4644 Willow st going to stick around home and JOHN KIRK, 209 23rd ave. N “Well, sir, I couldn't tell you on my life, There has been no decision.” | MRS. L. P. SLATER, 1704 Broad: | way: “Oh, I'll get about a 10-day For his crime, terrible as it was, was not so brutal or so fiendish as the the paper to which 1 referred the | vacation sentence and I'll probably | . sorve the time as quietly as I know how at home.” | (Modes of Today) A harmless, yet very effective, treatinent is here given for the quick removal of hairy «rowths: Mix h powdered delatone and water r the undesirable hairs, apply paste, and after two or three minutes remove, Wash the skin and the hairs [have vanished. One application | usually is sufficient, but to be cer. | tain of results, buy the delatone in ‘an original package, Mix fresh as wanted.—-Advertinement to ¢ KARSER, 1421 Ninth ave. | Just One Application and the Hairs Vanish THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 1921, | | America is one of the nations In When a man calls to see hi REMARKABLE the vanguard of civilization as re-!sweetie and she makes him blust gards learning and science.—Jules|he has a high blood pressure and to|a ‘ig Jusserand, French ambassador United States REMARKS aree per cent of federal in to pay for wars, Insur- A man who would spend 93 r cent of his income on insurance uid be judged incompetent t his property! Rev, Dr will P. Merrill, New York clergy man | cee | My message to Ireland is “Stand firm. Your enemy is England, | Ulster."—Archbishop Mannix, independence er " | not Irieh The World’s Great In the next war, killing will be re duced to an exact selence and whole Magpificent hotels and commodious camps poor insurance risk-—J. B. ¥ an, Des Moines insurance expem YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK est Playground and Museum of Natural Wonders 200 miles of im towns and villages will be blotted proved highways; all in the midst of matchless ecenery. Its Jout by the most devilish inventions hotels are marvelous establishments. Its camps ure pretty ever conceived.-Will Irvin, writer little tent villages, models of cleanliness, sanitation, order jand war correspondent for | . ple ures. We want to get the people out of the idea that things are constantly going lower and lower and we should | get some stability into the situation |—-W. P. 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