The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 30, 1921, Page 6

Pretty? ” Yea A child? Just a child; surely not more than 17. Who is she? Well, she is Bernice Evans, the “girl in the ease” of Police Chief Frank Reynolds, Brem- erton’s alleged graft- ing church deacon. And here she is, sweet in feature tho perhaps a bit lacking in indicated strength of character; at an age when she should be ripening into a rich young womanhood, dragged into the pub- lie gaze as a central figure in a sordid ex- posure of underworld strife. ‘Now she is charged by the prosecutors with double-crossing them and falsifying; it ‘Ms hinted she herself may face accusations of perjury and other wrongdoing, And Bernice is pretty and seventeen! _ There are tragedies that startle the public, as when a ship goes down or a beloved Gitizen is assassinated; there are tragedies that wring the heart, as when a happy, pre- @ecious child is driven insane by the senseless scare-tale of some adult; there are ‘tragedies that horrify and sicken the beholder, as an aged woman being crushed down by a railroad train. Here is a tragedy that does not startle, but which ought to bring a moment of deep- Ty serious thought to every parent, to every girl of Bernice’s age and thereabouts. It is the simple, oft-encountered, age-old tragedy of young womanhood sollea. Whose the fault, in this particular ease, The Star does not know. Whose the re store's stock ts always an au- Bhority on baseball, the people of Kentucky, “I am that the mistake will be To err ts human, to admit error fs manly—and for public officers almost heroic, “Twas a hard winter. Some of thé young people haven't quit Worry. Here's a suggestion for a system to heat bim; Bach day make a written Mist of all your worties, ‘Thirty days later thru the medium of your paper to thank those who were instrumental | in having the sentence of Isom White commuted to life imprison ment. We eapecially wieh to thank Lieutehant Governor le = for granting a stay of execution for 30 days in order that physicians might make @ thoro examination of his To Joseph H. Smith, attorney defense, who worked untiringly day and night practically without money and without price, our prayers for his gucceas go out to the Supreme Judge of the universe. MR. AND MRS. D. A. WHITE AND SISTERS, Stanwood, Wash, Boys of 16 and Training Camp Editor The Star: Will you kindly sive publicity to the enclosed letter? 4374 Meridian Ave. Seattle June 27, 1921 Board of Education, Seattle, Wash. Gentlemen: One of our newspapers estates that you have permitted military authorities to send out propaganda letters to our high school boys in an effort to get youths of 16 or over to enter the state military camp. There are thousands of mothers tn the city who object to this action on your part. We see tn this propa ganda & principle very similar to Prussian militartem. ‘The inducements offered appeal to the vanity of boys. They are led to hope that they wiM tn time be | come officern The tree amusements outlined as among the camp activi- ties will doubtless attract many youths, We are given to understand that these inducements are offered to the lads of 16 because it ts imposs+ ble to «pt boys of more mature Judgment to fill up the ranks, The question naturally suggest itself: Ig this treating the boys quite fairly? A MOTHE A Medicine With a “Kick” Editor The Star: I wish to call your attention to the fact that a certain patent medicine is being shipped in carload lots all over the United States and sold by every druggist or by any other line of cines shall state on each and every package what it is composed of. All it mays on the bottle of this medi- cine is that It contains 18 per cent alcohol There is no doubt in my mind | that 90 per cent of all those who business who wish to handle it, not-|are using it are buying it only for withstanding the national and state prohibition lawa, The pure food and drug act re quiries that all proprietary medj- the kick there is in it Yours truty, N. 401 American Dank Bldg. Why Salmon Are Vanishing FAltor The Star: I see in the pa-| pers very much agitation concerning the salmon fishing industry in Puget sound waters, and I think the cause for extinction of the salmon is due as much to the shutting off of the| spawning ground as to the methods of fishing now in use. Will mention one instance that has high that no salmon can get over ft, even when the gates are open and the dam is empty. This stops count. lesg thousands of salmon from reach ing their spawning ground each year. ‘Thig is only one example of such casey that have come under my no tice, and doubtless there are dozens of similar cases that would be found come to my notice; that is, an unusu-| if an investigation were started along al splash dam which has been used and left idle for some time in the Dosewallips river, In Jefferson coun- uly, emptying into Hood canal, The spillway on that dam ig so this line, Hoping to see something done about this matter, I am, AN INTERESTED READER, Woodinville, Wash. Try This on Your Wise Friend It is possible to subtract nine different numbers, that total 45, from the same numbers differently arranged and have a number, the digits of which total 45, left. Can you do it? Answer to yesterday's: and 64 pounds, respectively, Seven weights required, of 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32 said dlanaioniees cealaiReneRImEaEEnmnnEND teen enc potas bac aber eliconae acetal? THE SEATTLE STAR att Berton Braleys Daily Poem iversal Is to be in fashion, Bo today we find, If we wateh them clearty, With our eyes alert, Byery women, nearty, Weare « short, plaid skirt! ‘TIN thet fashion pases, Youll be helplew quitay Yor you'll find ali classes Beem to greet your sight With the same tnpression—~ It tg tmponsible to bons the Irie | people.—F, D. Acland, Britiah metn- ber of parligment, vs Modesty, not paint, ts weman's| Dest ornament—Vuiber Dagen, Lov | don priest. eee I ascribe my long service as bish-| op to being @ tectotaler and non @noker.— Bishop of London. eee AM Amarteana are courteous and hospitable, and some of them ere intelligent —G, K. Chesterton, Brit- ish writer, Coffee down again, Highest prices, 400 ang 38a, Lowest price, 200. M. A. Hansen, 40 Econonry Market, Advertisement. ead Watch for “Tarzan the Terrfite” on Saturday a pact: meena Nee ey a THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 1921. ‘TUl your eye ft hurta— Of « long procession, Made of short, plaid ekirtad Yea, the chorus cutle And the subded mmart, And the cold, proud beauty Can't be told apart; And you can't tell, brother, Any may young flirt From your own grandmother In a short, plaid skirt! Copyright, 1991, by Beattlo Mand THIS HAPPENED IN AMERICA The day after our debate, when the resolution (to investigate the atrike in West Virginia mines) was previously before the senate, a man whe killed. Here ts the story of the killing as related by two eyewit- neanea, A guard held bim up He was told to raise his hands, He raised them, The guard told him to ad vance, He advanced and got within six feet of the guard with his arma uplifted, He wea told to raise them higher, He did po, and then the guard said, “You bave got 4 minute to tive, What have you got to my?” ‘The man with his hands in the alr said, “God have mercy on my soul,” and & softmoned bullet penetrated DIZZY AND BY DR. WILIJAM F. BARTON ERUAPB Queen Vio toria was right about i, and the primrose war Lord Beacons field’n favorite fow- er. Perhaps she knew more about hin favorites than did the Landon edi tors and the editors of the Encyclopedia Dritannica, I was in Longon on Primrose Day, April 19 1902 Queen Victoria had died a year previous, on January 22, 1901, Her son, King Edward I, wae to have been crowned on June 34, but actually was crowned on August 9, 1902, the postponement Oecurring on account of his {linnes. At that time the London papers started the inquiry, “Why do we keep Primrose Day? What reason have wo to suppose that the prim rose was Disracli's favorite fower?™ ‘The answer was, of course, that Queen Vietoria sent a wreath of this very modest blossom to his odffin, | with a card that said, “Ills Favorite Flower.” HERE COMES DOUBT But when they interviewed Dis racit’s gurderier, he could only recall that Disraeli had ordered him to dig up primroses and plant some thing eam And no one had ever heard Dizzy say he Iiked primroses, so far as the newspapers could jearn; hig tastes ran, as everybody knew, to more striking colors. He was & man whose tastes in every thing went to extremes, and sought ps Pn Rr Poe irme ee + Peds ov) his body and killed bim ag ones, Not alone that, but iheoe wit nesses assert—I am not vouching for af they say, but the witnesses Qt least amert the fact—they took this man by tho heels and dragged him down tnto the village as an ob- ject lemon to others, and would not even permit his wife to go near bis remains after thus they had brutally shot him-—en. 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