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

TUESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1921. 3 | ne wore, and for his #hare in frame dewpicable business ts held | honor. It neers a rather thin line BY DK. WILLIAM FE. BARTON tween honor and dishonor, t. T 18 Instruetive basin of loyalty fol to go back a) > q hundred years,| And #0, a hundred years ago tal and to rémem-| morrow, the government that t } ber that just| hanged John Andre, exhumed ttle Star 3 mw Newspaper Bn a os nit | Phone Mat Service ‘The Sea | ale 6 months, & you 0600 ROO per month onthe, $1.80 of the #tate carrier, ety, 606 My matt, $6.00, in the atate $4.60 for @ month, eh mf we present day mtylen are mest sensible and attractive have ever had—Dr. Jenette Bolles of Denver, Colo. . x that long ago) body, gave it over to the acer James Monroe representatives of the British | 4 had been presl-| ernment, saw it safely aboard a dent just as long ish ship of war, and saluted ag as Mr. Harding sailed away to be buried in W now hog been on| minster abbey, the job, and that| Getting one’s self hanged is prices were be sure way to fame, but several ont properous of the other side. veland merchant, | ‘ hi Congress is now trying to break down a practice of the justice department that THE HARBOR neently returned from trip abroad. | has long mystified the public. That is the habit of shrouding in darkest secrecy BY LEO H, LASSEN Housing conta munt decline, either | all petitions for federal pardon. A particularly flagrant instance of this seems to have aroused congress, A Ne- braska man who participated in transactions whieh wrecked a national bank was re- leased from Leavenworth after having served only 36 days of his sentence. How his release came about is hard to tell, but & petition of Nebraska folk figured in it. Whose names were on the petition, the justice department refused to, reveal. Mem- bers of congress asked, but were not informed. . In the interest of an accused man the constitution guarantees a speedy and public trial. ment appears to guarantee a speedy and private retrial. Public interest requires that the privacy surrounding pardon proceedings give way to publicity. In his further interest—and against the public interest—the justice depart- In an insane asylum at Armentieres, France, is a blind young man with one of the world’s most amazing brains. Scientists have watched an@ written about his case for years. He is a genius at figures—one of the greatest lightning calculators on record, tho his brain faculties are subnormal, inferior. a All his mathematical calculations are performed in his head. He never figures with pencil. InveStigators recently asked him to give the cube root of 465,484,375. _ flor 13 seconds—and gave the correct answer. This question was put to him: “How many grains of corn would be in 64 boxes if | the first box had one grain, the second two grains, the third four, the fourth eight, the eighth 16, and so on in succession? } In 45 seconds, the wizard announced the sum total—18,446,734,073,709,552,615. Take a day off some time and try that on paper. x * * * * The Port of Ete Love guards the glorious, gateway; Faith the lighthouse keeps; Hope—celestial beacon. Flames the way Within this sacred shelter The weary may When all the ships are anchored And ended is the quest. Windewept the Sail on! Sail on! AN OPTIMISTIC MAN It my jadgment that some of | these ships (contracts for which are held by the New York Shipbuilding Co) may never be completed, for I feel as a living man we have voted thru here the last darge naval ap- propriation bill, I have confidence in the confidence of the nations, and I believe an agreement will be! reached, that will relieve us of the large burden We now have wpon us in the way of preparing @ gavai arm He thought ° * * * Wherever you find one faculty of the brain abnormally developed, other faculties _ asually suffer. ‘ It’s like a man with his left arm cut off and the strerfgth of both arms concentrated in his right. _ Nature gives us certain powers and so balances them _ that their total averages about the same. Looks as if she does’nt want us to learn too much too rapidly. Multiply our present intelligence by 100 and we'd do a lot of foolish things. Sjow progress keeps ‘balance. : ; & = ie iat ae be developed to almost any extent without slowing down the others. Amazing memory feats have been performed by men with brilliant, well-balanced brains. ee Robert Robinson, California evangelist, a few years " ago.created a scientific sensation by proving that he had “memorized half of the Bible, which has 773,693 words... Caesar knew tens of thousands of his soldiers by their ‘Professor Asa Gray could name 25,000 different plants. Many Brahmins can repeat, word for word, the 10,000 of the Rig-Veda. * * * ’ . _ Whil man’s intelligence increases slowly, the day may when every one will have the same mathematical brilliance as the young Frenchman, with all other facul- ties equally developed. Mentally, man has barely emerged from barbarism. Eventually his brain, compared with ours, may be stu- pendous in its powers _Is the young French mathematical genius the forerun- mer of a race of super-brainmen? r “ Money Down the Rat-Hole The shipping board, by its hos tile attitude toward labor, pre Cpitated a strike which cost the People millions, The saving thru the 15 per cent wage reduction will not equal the losses thru ship lay-up within five years. Private operators have said Wages constitute eight to 10 per cent’ of operating costs. The shipping board has said 15 per cent. Even so, when wages were forced down 15 per cent, but two and a quarter per cent of the whole operating cost, $2.25 out of every $100 axoaa: Was saved. The morale of the seaman was gravely disturbed. Many Ameri- ean boys were driven ashore. What about repairs? Repair costs. amount to 37 per cent of the total operating ex- penses—$37 of every $100 expend- ed. Overcharges, slighted work, omitted items, and other vicious practices constitute 50 per cent of all repair charges, or $18.50 of every $100 operating expense. If honest practices were forced by the shipping board, a saving of $18.50 out of every $100 expended in operations would be effected and no hardship worked upon anyone. * American repair costs, however, would still be twice as high as European costs. In other words, if the $37 now going for repairs were reduéed to $18.50 the cost would still be $9.25 more per each $100 «of operating expenditure than under’ European practice. The shipping board is willing toy | at legst thought she knew, that her| eternal fame. pay this difference to encourage American repair concerns. It says “please reduce your over- charges,” to the repair concerns, while it spends $9.25 of every hundred of the people's money to encourage them, and $18.50 of each ttindred of the people's mon- ey for overcharger—a total of $27.75 of each $100 operating ex- pense, But to secure $2.25 reduction on the wage end, it is willing to cause 4 strike, lose millions, make discontented sailors, and drive Americans from the sea. Why force hardship and starva- tion upon the seamen while let- ting the big wastes go unheeded? It’s a policy to be bitterly con- demned. Anyhow the bathing suit censor who drowned himself had seen about all there is to nee. New York hovcla lose $50,000 vearly by theft, Their patrons lose more the same way. Germany gets on her feet while we get on our ear. It's women now who are asking, “mind if we amoker” . Only hens should lay around. 4 e ° » Try This on Your Wise Friend Can you arrange these letters to make a popular proverb: aabdeeeeefffhiiikmnnrrsst? Answer to yesterday's: The man went abroad nine times and back, and went around the world once. ament—Representative Butler (RJ, Pennsylvania. * eee A DISILLUSIONED BOY A young fellow in the navy was alturing!» promise@ certain things in the service, saw pletures of Ha ‘wailan girls, and he went into the navy expecting to get inte action, but he deserted when the European | war broke out and*joined the Cana dian or British forces. We are watv- ing the-charge of desertion.—Repre- sentative Butler () Pennsylvania. Little Linnie Ford, born 1896—fam- fly naw numbers 2,700,572 up to Jan. | wary 1, 1920. Total all makes of/| 32,200, LETTERS TO EDITOR Has Solution for Jitneys é Editor The Star: Tn re the jitney controversy, the slogan of the@eattle Times is abso lutely silly. Why is it that the Times ‘will not use @ little common sense, and suggest a practical remedy in- stead of the constant knock How does this suggestion appeal to you? a certain service by an ordér of peo- ple who cannot afford a private car. ‘This service cannot be furnished by the street cars. The jitneys can fur- nish it, Second, these people are entitled to this service if they are willing to pay for the same. The great body of the people cannot be served by the jitneys, therefore the jitney should not be permitted to skim the ‘eream from the street care to fur- nish @ special service for a few people, Yet thése people are en- titled to this service and should be prota | to pay a special price for this spectaj service, and the jitneys should be permitted fo render the service, ‘ fs an Mluatration, and what hap First, there is a demand for | care In U. 8. pens on one run applies to all routes. Tf tt takes @ street car 40 minutes to make the run from the depot to| 85th st. and Greenwood ave, with) numerous strap hangers at certain times of the day ever a rough steel roadway and the fare 413 ta, and & jitney makes the trip in minutes lon rubt)r tires on a smooth roadway land every one has a seat, the fare, |in justice to the city should be [162-3 cents, ax it is a special service Finat cannot be enjoyed by ali the | poopie. Those who o enjoy It or use thin | service should be willing to pay for lit, amd 20 per cent of the grom re | colpte should be turned into the city to be used for the improvement and; upkeep of the streets used. The jit neys should not be permitted to de- | moralize @ service they cannot re | place, nor should the city deny to lite residents a service they require and are willing to suppert. Yours for jistice to all, THAD G, DENNIS, * 1532 Westlake Ave, N. The Little Girl and the Angel Editor The Star: Says the Boston Globe: “A amall girl was afraid of the dark. Her mother, anxious to overcome this woaknéas, said as she waa leaving her, ‘Remember, darling, that an angel will stil) be with you when IT take the candle away,’ “‘Mummy,’ pleaded a small voice, ‘I'd much rather you\take the angel and left the candle.’" + The writer thought that he was here voicing humor, pure and simple; | he did not know that he was giving expression to a text from which a | great and mighty sermon might be | wrought. There ts an ironical «i | to it alwo, in that the child knew, or mother was lying. The mOther’s “angel” was a theoretical angy at | best—an astral Ethioptan and foth ing more, Had theré been a real | angel there, the room would have candice would have beg totally eclipsed, and the mother would have fled in fright; for angels are clothed who have reached the spiritual heights, ¥ Editor The Star: This is an answer to some of the undue criticism which the U. 8. 8. Snohomish underwent during the late wreck of the W, J. Perrie. After the above named wreck took placesit was the cry of some of the shipping men along the Coasty es. pecially around the Puget Sound, that the Snohomish was not worth the amount of money it cost the public for her upkeep. They claimed she was always late. Maybe the following will give them a different idea. On Augeust 1, 1921, the Snohomish, while lying at Port Angeles, re- celved a call from the Canadian shtp, 8. S/ Canadian Exporter, which had run on the sand banks outside Willipa Harbor during a dense fog, asking for assistance. One hour Jater the Snohomish was on its way. It arrived-at the scene of the wreck in the afternoon of the 2nd, At 10 p. m. that night, it being high tide, an attempt was made, with the assistance of the Canadian salvage |ship Algerine, to pull the Exporter off the sand. After a long, steady | pull the cable between the Snohom |i*h and the Algerine broke. At {midnight the crew ‘of the Exporter was taken off, half going to the Algerine and half to the Snohomieh. On the morning of the 3rd, the Ex been so fgoded with light that the?’ ** with the solar fires, in the presence) world, of which none may stand save those} In Defense of Snohomish The coin of the child mind was more faithfully minted than that of [the mother; spe knew instinctively that the candle was kindred-to the sun, the life-giver to our entire solar system, She, in abiding faith, rec ognized light as the enemy of fear; and the eye waw her magic finger reaching forth into the abyss, aa the | @aughter of sense, to bulld her world |of reality, The first fruits of the eye in light in all it# whadings, The tree of kndwiedge finds its feeding | ground In the immeasurable field of |light. Intelligence, strength, power, faith—all are wrought by light.! Worlds come into being, conceived | } and shaped by the light of hhaven; to| | With the dying fires of lite the mind loses its gresiliency, and when | the flame of the mind goes quite out | we call the person a Junatic. And as Luna (the moon) rules the night, sea«ure Khe becomes the sym- bol of the darkened mind, which is as a but among birds that seek the deepest shadows of the nocturnal Light, tempered to man's needs, 1s the mighty lever which moves the mind of all creation's whe W. H. scorT. porter began to part in the middle, and by $1 a. m, there was a gap amidships about 10 feet wide. She was then declared a total lows. The Snohomish arrived in Victoria on the morning of the 4th, and landed the Exporter's crew, then returned to Port Angeles. That, in brief, is the routine of the cutter Snohomish, and is as much as can be expected of any one boat. ; However, if we go back as far as November 26, 1920, we find the Snohomish entering — Bremerton navy yard, when a call for help is received from the Santa Rita (which ig the ship that had the W. J. Perrie in tow), which had lost her tow off the Quilleyute river. At once the Snohomish turned around and made full speed ahead for the wreck, The approximate distance from Bremerton to the Quilleyute | is about 200 miles. The speed of the Snohomish is from 10 to J2 knots In fine weather it would take her about 17 hours to make this dis tance. But everyone knows that when the Perrie went down, it was during one of the most severe storms that took place off Cape Flattery within the period of five years, Owing to the heavy seas and fierce gale, the Snohomish could | | onty make a headway of one or two ‘There's a harbor in God's istand, Away from the storming sea, With golden sands on the golden shores— Altho life's seas are raging For He will bring thee home! | was done along the beach ghould | rnity along the deepa find rest, heaven's dome Ye Marinerst knots, It was a coast guard sta tion Job, but they were alow to real-| ize the fact, and all the credit for the #mail amount of saving that go to the weather bureau at Neah Bay and the Indians along the coast. Did it ever come under your notice that the Canadian govern” ment has five cutters like the Sno homish at Victoria, B. C.? Their duties are simply to act as revenue voluntarily or by forcible means. J. H. Tregoe, executive se National Association of Credit eee etary, Men Thin period in not materially dif ferent from other perlods in that there are many persons who are spiritually deaf and dumb.<The Rev. Raymond Gorman, Cleveland minis boats, fishery patrols and take sup plies to the wireless stations. Yet with all the five boats, none of them would go and pull a ship! off the rocks and tow her to the nearest port of wafety; that is, left entirely to the salvage companies, and they are costly, Outside light- house tending the #00ton Snohom wh does the work of those five boata, with life saving and wrecking work in addition. She is the only cutter between here and San Fran- ciseo that is ballt for the work. Is it worth “he money? Let's hope that in the future our shipping men will use a little bit of common sense, and navigators judgment be- fore they begin to run down the U. 8, coast guard. RW. Y. | having just aa | they are behaving now, Hlour had been selling at $10 to $17 « barrel) since 1817 and it fell to $5 and $6,) they were ruined. 7 There was a lot of unemployment and very yeneral complaint at re duction of wages, Everybody want ed wages to keep up and the cost of fiving to come down, and they both came down together. } But one of the most interesting things that occurred @ hundred years ago was the exhuming of the remaing of Majof Andre, He had been tried by courtmartial by com mand of George Washington and hanged as & spy, October 2, 1780. But | the American people who haye not ceased to hate Benedict Arnold for his part in the matter which result-| ed in the death of Andre, held even then the character of the latter in high respect. Arnold betrayed the trust and for the sake of gain became a traitor; | Andre, who conducted the negotia tions, was true to the country that Perhaps Your Problem Is Solved Here Q. 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