The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 27, 1921, Page 6

Newspaper Ra terprise Assn. and United Press Servica $5.06. tm the Sport participants rather than merely, sport spectators! BY Mall, out of city, 806 per month: # month $4.58 for € montha or $9.00 por year. Athletics for Everybody Seattle ¢ of Washington Publiohed Datiy by The Sta Pubi ri Star That for a considerable time past has been the consistent aim of The Star in the conduct of its sports de- partment. This afternoon at the Star city swimming meet is Lake Washington canal the finals of the second annual being held. The entry list includes. more than 100 names of Seattle swimmers. It will be the biggest field of entries of any registered meet to be held in this section of the country this season. Two years ago or more The Star began emphazinzing its program of amateur sport organization for Seattle men and women and boys and girls. In that time The Star has staged two junior baseball leagues, two big tennis tournaments at Woodland park a basketball league, two big ice races at the Arent, a bicycle race and two swimming meets. And now plans are being laid for the coming winter which include a soccer league, ice races, perhaps another basketball league, a handball tournament and an indoor baseball league if enough interest is manifested by Seattle players. For years the majority of American sport “fans” have been too content to sit down and watch teams of professional baseball players play for two hours or more at a time. Or else merely follow the careers of the stars thru the columns of the newspapers. The Chicago Tribune, one of the large and thoughtful newspapers of the world, has adopted a new policy toward professional baseball, in that it has decided to cut the space alloted to home games to a half a column and news of other games to sta- tistical reports. The Tribune states in its announcement: “Sitting two or three hours in a ball park does not take anything off the waistline of the spectators or add any- thing to chest measurement.” Baseball is becoming too commercialized to be considered other than as a gigantic business. Take the San Francisco Coast league team, for example. According to press stories there day after day, members of the San Francisco Seals are certain to sell for $40,000 to $75,000 each at the end of the season. One scribe goes as far as to say one player is worth his weight in gold. The Chicago White Sox scandal took some of the edge off of professional baseball. There never will be quite the same element of sport in the game that there was F So, in an effort that Seattle Star readers may become sport participants instead of merely sport spectators, The Star long since inaugurated its big program of ama- teur organized athletics, and it will continue to direct it as long as the present interest and need are manifested. The minority report takes the position that the fycts were as stated, but that the peoples of the And can you refate the minor- ky report? "AN the past things are past and wer, Tasks are done and the tea e shed, Vesterdoy's errors let yesterday cover; Yesterday's wounds, which smarted and died, Are heated with the healing which night has shed.” —Barah Chauncey Woolsey. Jud Tunkina says the only reti- able remedy for insufficient bath- ing suits ia cold weather. Our iva of latk is to have con- areas unable to return from its va- «ation because of railroad rates. There has been too much bull in the China shop. Cheer up. The price of laughing Pos has dropped. _— tet Epehins A Woman. kward Why Not? It is in the year 3000 A. D. There is point to the sugges A scholat ts mousing about in tion that a woman be made a the history of 1921- A. D. member of the American disarm- He finds that while people in ament commission. aah re sectn-shd. sahet Tn the first place, the commis- while bread were form sion should contain ne pefron ing im the United States, that who gees not believe in disarme a ‘ public utilliy cer cnongh ef the efforts of pablic , Were, aervants to manage. enterprises pur in which they did not believe. Railroad administration. Ship that these ping beard. Others. the use of = there are few omen in exlet In those America who do not believe in world that were Gisarmament; there are fewer at the same time. srothers who do not. All in all, su nayite egy pte there are so few that the presi- semmge dent would be unlikely to name in 1921 to other any woman who would not keep the ‘savante of her mind steadily on the great sive © verdict 0m te aim of the coming conference ‘There are majeRy snd whe padioderderlogel cher Dy accumulating technical calle at- details and minor irritations grow- fact that in 1921 ing out of national issues, > -athguesanggihen It is hard to imagine any auecewio That sucn Woman becoming 6 impressed with her personal part in the de co ral ad Liberations as te lose sight of the edb, fact that she was only the rep- — said they resentative of the nation. Invet- » “would erate politicians often do lose the power 10 sight of a fact like this. The ne ee ne gotiations between Lioyd George is, keeper. and Briand over Silesia—not to Sis aud wes 0, mention any American instance— ity, te that Mall broke and threatened Ea- stan tee wera 0O* with another war because chee bale abiteed «te these two men could not divorce eth thet tm their personal equations from the controversy. Fewer women are Thkely to get inte such a frame of mind—certainty no mother. A little wholesome truth com ccrning mothers in wartime may not do any harm right here. No mother, no natural mother, ever in this age, or any other age, has given her son up to war with out bitter, anguished resentment against the institution of war liself. Their brave faces may lie, as they tried to lit in the years between 1914 and 1918, but their hearts never are reconciled to the sacrifice required by the war monster. Chairman Lasker has acrved no- tice on Congress that it must pay the shipping board's debts of 3900,- 000,900. Mr. Lasker has bern a member of the shipping board only a few weeks but he already talks like an old hand The mother of 12 boys has been struck by lightning. Néedless to say, she Will recover. Bobbed hair ts easy to comb and doesn't catch on a man’s coat but- tons. The Russian Red feels lue. j nine women. | eighteenth did each man have at first? Answer to yesterday's; Ten trains: | your trip and one for each of the five days previous, still on their way. Try This on Your Wise Friend Three men, each with # like number of roses, met Each man gave rt of his store. roses less than each of the three men. to each woman the Thus each woman had 12 How many roses One for each of the five days of Pansies and to whom life given a habit of folding h Fesignediy, but got unhappity. Dorethy went out jast the same, to the matiness with the cause he and Dorothy Uhed to have her there. But her quavering, uncertain answer made him think. It dug at his heart. It wasn't like his mother’s voice to quiver. He had Watched her, when he was just « Nittle lad, start owt for the fac tory, after his father’s funeral, and stand at the machine afl day, and come home at night and Clean and cook and mend. Her voice had never quivered then! Must be something wrong, he thought! He thought of it all day at the office. That evening at the din- Wer table he talked it qver)with Dorothy, Wad they @one any. thing at all for her—what about her days? Had Dorothy been thoughtful—or had the only at tention she received white there been the picture shows lie took her to in the evening when Dorothy refused to go with them? “Well, she’s 80 old, she wouldn't bave enjoyed the things I @o anyhow,” Dorothy defended her- self. ‘And you couldn't have enjoyed doing anything for her?” sarcas- lieally, “She's my mother, you know—and if it hadn't been that she went into » factory and worked instead of putting me there, you wouldn't have dia monds set in platingm and be carrying Hardanger handkerchiefs and wearing made-to-order sults!” bitterly. And that was the beginning of the bitterness which never ended because Dorothy felt she had married into a fainily not so good as her own, if you have observed a a letter, ing for publication, Be statement. Avoid bitter main point. sible, address. If you do not and suggest a pen name or This is your departmen Booze and the Yellow Race Editor The Star: Iu it powmibte that there can be in our land any milh who ts willing to gell his soul for the great caune of boone and the yellow race? Can any man be fo little as to wish our women and children to go hun. | ety and our streets to be filed up with girly out of employment just for the sake of booze and the dear Hite yellow man that he joves #o well? Dots this man know the laws and customs of the flowery kingdom? If he did, he surely won't write a plece for our daily paper like he did on the 20th, He spoke of an equal place for all, and of the Creator intending all men to be equal, That te afl very fine and true, But He intended for all men to be In their place and not &s that man esema to think ‘The Japs are a emart anda bright people. They are fighters; that is true. Bat when they tackle the City Streets in Rajtor The Star The accident at Beacon Avenue and Stevens at. on Tuesday, Aug. im which Hans OlseA waw killed by Rey. W. J. Thompson's automobile crushing bith agaimet the telephone pole can be blamed to just gne thing “the refunal of the cfty to pave be tween the streetcar rails Since Margina! Way has been closed to through traffic and since the new Renton Auburn Highway hax been opened a great number of south bound autos are using the Beacon Hill road to towns south of Seattle After « light rain as bad fallen Tuesday morning. and on account of the numerous slants and curves, it is very diffielt to stop short on the asphat paving of Beacon ave. wi out wkidding into the open car tracks, Mrs. de Montis’ Charge Dr. F. W. Southworth, Dr. G. M. Steete, | The Pierce County Medical Society, All of Tecoma. Gentlemen: Having recelved tv!) have been used, aod regret this, | letes of Reed College, Portland, will he gets more than that, I went to | to out alma Mater. We got the tations to cal at the office of Drs. Southworth and Steele, simultan- cously, both written last Baturday, | and belleving what I have to «sy ale@ tay be of fnterest to the Pierce County Medical society, I am taking | the liberty of writing this open letter Instead of making the calls in per son. 1 Judge these Invitations to be due to the recent éxtensive publication given to my case, all over America, and 1 feel that some explanation of this {s forthcoming from me, The fatter having become one of public Mhterest, 1 dispense with privacy in this communication. I regret the necessity of this notoriety, It hb been entirely brought about by t attitude of Dr. Wm, N. Keller, perintendent of Steilacoom, and by the action of a committee of the Pierce County Medical society, which dame out in the press in @ etate ment upholding him and his admin istration at the asylum, If there be any displeasure over, or objection to the recent publicity, the medics of Pierce county alone have themselves to blame for it In October, 1916, wheh I obtained freedom from the aaylum on a habeas corpus suit, I brought about that action with the sole purpose of going to discuss conditions at the asylum with the officials there and being a free agent in so doing. I had seen a woman by the name of Mra. Leone C. Peck Mabton, most brutally killed in Steilacoom. The following week after my habeas cor pita mult, I went out to the anytum to lay the matter of this killing of Mrs, Peck before the axylim author ides, In « nice, ladyatke way. Dr Keller {naulted me gromsty for dar ing to try to talk to him wbout any thing in connection with the asylum, | and ordered me from his office, He wonld not hear what I had to say This insult was entirely unprovoked | by me, as I approached him in a re fined, gentle manner, being particu larly careful not to give offense realizing the seriousness of my charges. That brutal killing has been hushed up, but still stands a matter of absolute record which cannot be discredited, nor denied. Neverthe leas & committee of the Pierce County Medical society took it upon them selves to go out to Steilacoom and sive Keller and his administration a public coat of white-wash, as late as last year, white Dr, Keller is an open law breaker in his tenure of office, another fact which cannot be denied A protest against this action of the Pierce County Medical soctety reached "Jim Jam Jems,"“and they featured my story mm the May issue of their magazine. Knowing the article was to appear, I wrote them 1 had “no bones to pick” with ghe committing phystelans in the cuse I had certainly been sick and de lirlous at the time of my commit ment to Steilacoom. But what I did object to was the barbarous methods used by the medical. pro feesion in general in being instru mental In #ending people to the asylums without giving the accused ny knowledge of what was tran spiring and in basihg their findings on the -unrefuted testimony of wit nesses, more often than not, actu- ated by ulterior motives in getting the accused committed, and who generally reap substantial benefit themselves from such commitment I stated I held Dre. Steele and Southworth bot in high personal regard, aside from their connection with my commitment, which was only incidental. 1 fully appreciate their gentlemanly conduct in the habeas corpus and the vacating pro- Help Edit The Star to Suit Yourself If you wish to voice a public grievance, if you know a piece of news that the reporters have overlooked, should be recorded, if yo bling up irresistibly in your system—write the editor Keep it short; there are many other letters press- Write on one side of the paper, plainly. typewrite the letter. good deed that you think feel a little editorial bub- fair and tolerant in your personalities, Stick to the If pos- Sign your name and wish them printed, say 80 initials, t; edit it. Pagie, they wii find out that they are not up against poor old China or starved Kuswia, Any man who will write like that for the eyes of the public to see | should be examined by the same com innion that just gave Mahoney the over, No, Mr. Man, you are off on the wrong foot, This Ix AMISH ICA and always will be for ages to jcome, in spite of alt your wishts otherwike. For you are the only one | out of millions and, thank Ged, most ‘or thome mitt are pure, clean. home-loving Americana that fear no man or nation on earth, who will protect our women and homes to the utmost, and that will be to the last man | 1 like a drink myself. But not well enough to well My woul And man hood for it or trade the honor of the nation to the yellow rate for Yre ting of the adder, Yours traly, j C. CARPENTER. Bad Condition [and I am positive that this alone ty remponsible for the terrible accident that killed Mr, Olsen Another part of this bill that should have the immediate attention of the elty is the grading and paving | of the cot between the bridge and! the top of the bill. This is in a de j plorable condition and the way the autos take thelr run at the bottom! of this hill it is certainly surprising | that there have not been more bad | cctden ta. ¢ | 1 believe that with the amount of | traffic they carry, there two, pieces Of Beacon Hii streets should have the immediate action of the city council and work started at once on Une paving You painted the Totem Pole. Now let's gol W. P. EVERS, 3050 18th ave. 8, J ceedings th * me and honor them for this stand I find that the public records which are up at the courthouse, | { ‘tors did anything else but follow the usual routine in tnanity com: | mitments Tt t& this weual routine community. I dencunce the high handed, des potic aad autocratic methods of Dr. Keller and all concerned, who do HOt permit any complaint from the! | patients to be registered against | jenything which goes on In the |Ssylum. And I object to the action | of the Pierce County Medical So. efety in upholding bim in this po | tition. 1 wrote a polite letter to this #0. ciety Inet fall, offering to meet with them for the good of every one. They ignored my offer. What do they af expect? That 1 {retire and remain quict when I have seen murder deliberately done I shall not so remain quiet, for then 1 would consider myself to be an accensory after the fact. Few maniacs are gulty of murder against the ane, yet they are im Privoned for life. If murder by the | sane is pertmismble against them | and there is no redress, and I have not been able to find redress for the killing of Mré. Peok, altho 1 have tried diligently, then the bal. ance @f Justice is against the in- sane. If they are amendable to the statutes Of the state of Washington, why should 4 phytician who breaks our laws, like Keller, go free? Or, is there a class distinction in law and its enforcement? 1 should ike to know ft if there is, If a person’s Fight to freedom is not respected in insanity commit ments, we are no longer in the! land of the free.” If murder against the insane is permissa ble and unpunishabl, justice to the helplems does not abide were. I be lieve in Sipartial justice, 1 shall never remain gilent where I find } ingustic If to «peak the ltruth is to be insane, then 1 con sider it @ supreme distinction to be called crazy and to be different from the rest of the inhabitants of the state of Washington who permit this condition of affairs to exist. If @ word of mine might be taken into consideration, TI would advise {that the medicos of this state get | in and clean up the rotten condition prevailing in the asylums, which are run by members of the medical Profession, and see to it that there is adopted a civilized, humane pro. cedure in insanity commitments, since they commit the insane. Also that they get into office at the asylums, intelligent and worthy men who have some respect for the off. j fice and the laws of this state, ana! who know something about the! Proper care of the insane. There certainly was no proper medical supervision of the care of the in sane while I was an inmate in Steilacoom. Any layman could have Prescribed better care than that given the inmates, Clean up these places, then there FIRST PRESBYTERIAN crurcn ed AC 8100 p.m). Pate ». m|—THE PNb-eMT- NEAT SbSUee Sermons by Rev. Donnta ro, D. D, con an rr at wir, if you preter. wt m to sirable. | Réttor The Star | Up the best park we have, and where uh th My? idea would be Washington and fit i up for a hotel and give Purk. of somewhere like it on the touristy @ Owo or three days’ trip jake, where the campers could enjoy «around the Sound. boating and a view. | Yours respectfully, Park for @uto tourists and furnish’ Editor The Star: had been made by the faculty that in a dingrace upon @ civilteed | WU occasion no particular mur.| our team Went againat teams drawn | from intercollegiate | pele, Old folks sometitnes frown on from “games” an Trivolous, | body voted against participating in| int co! since I was young. P) or Ss eo a clap book THE CORN BY OSCAR WILLIAMS T have seen a full bowed field of corn, The somber congregation of the corn Pondering the question Of the food of the world Hut a wind with feet of shadow Came and shouted something, And the bowed congregation of the corn arove-— An uproar ran thru the Meld Inndmerable hands were waving— And I know that somewhere far away Sunken faces and hungry eyes Were looking out beyond a hill om Pictorial Rev THE PARABLE OF THE TABLE BY WILLIAM BK, BARTON HERE was a day And 1 said, I prefer And he seated me there when I entered) Now I understood the thoughts into @ Restau-/end intents of bis heart. For he rant. And the| was keeping thet seat by the Win Headwatter, who ddéw for Two persons, whe would be ‘was a Person of likely to give a Larger Tip than a Distine ton,’ man who was eating alone. whore name 1} So I sat at the Table by the win should probably | dow, even though I ate my morsel have found in atene, which Job thanked he had the Blue Book if not done. not in Burke's} And I looked out, and I beheld a Peerage, showed croseetction of human life. For unto me a seat! there passed the window a Child in & Table againet the Wall |e Baby-cab, and I thought a loving And I said unto him, What i the | thought for the little one and ite ter with thet Table in front of mother. And there paswed by an Window? | Henares, and | meditated for a mo And he #aid, I will seat you there,| mant upon the dignity of sorrow and im perpetual need of comfort and be no grounds for complaint | still more publicity at present in 1 no much pubijeity as that elven | store in these mattern, I am very y case. This in the only method } sincerely yours, stop these expomes when not de- | If Lam not mintaken, there | MYRTLE DE MONTIS. s 2 Suggests Special Tourist Camp | all the accommodations that would make camping a pleasure, instead of a dark hole in the woods to stay over bight in Also buy One of the wooden ships As to tourtete’ camps, why clatter * accommodations e bent? never can be Follow Portland's idea of a special DR. A. W. KLINE, 1408 2nd ave. Reed College’s Decision | cotleny? Mental discipline, I sup- ! From this Ume on, I read, ath.| pose, from study, for one thing. But jae % do not believe these two dot [tata 80 part In interseholaatic ac. | a cortfed college. It was poor. The | to Hebt against vitien, | faculty were underpaid. The stu- | dent body numbered scarcely 100, it) But we had a football team. And Te the decision to restrict athletics student bodies numbering | thousands, Generally our team was Tut when I read that the student | beaten, in @ while it won. Bat whe or not our team won terscholmetic games, I wonder if was not impottant. The inportant ld type Mes gr if youth has changed | thing was that every student tried bt make the team, and those who What does a young man get from didn't make ft, boosted for it. And Men Outside Men ...... Inside Men ....... se eeeee of Washington’s Commercial Coal mines have relation’ with that organization have been di union. , two hours’ auto bus ride of Seattle and Tacon Professional Strike Bre Not Wanted Apply in person or by letter to ‘ Representing Phone Elliott 6242. Are Willing to Dig Coal— , Good Reliable Men Needed Who ‘Want Permanent Employment — Wages for Eight-Hour Day . $4.50 to $6.00 Contract Miners can earn ..... ..$7.00 and up Because of a strike of United Mine Workers of America most nently and the mines are beifg worked independéntly of the Good general working and living conditions, hotels, schools and houses, for men who want permanent employment, within W. E. MALTBY, 1707 L. C. Smith Building, Seattle, Washington. From the Congressional Record | WHY NOT MAKE HIM 4 i DELEGATE? Mr, President, 1 Tl not procese | turtner I merely want to express | this thought, that the distinguished jsenator from Idaho led in thig |imoverent (disarmament). More j than any other man in America he crystallized sentiment for a Smita. | tion of armaments. If there be one man in the United States above aif | others who should be selec of the delegates to t it is the distinguished Idaho (Mr, Bor and there are forces at of Washington and thru try that waft to see me ferent view on the deleg pot now and } fed by the @ re senator from Idaho. 1 cess or failure of wll depend upon the personnel of our delegation, and let hope that they be men or women whose hearts are entl cally in the that real results can be 6b If not, then the conferenes sa mere “by play.” a sham, @ pretense.—-Senator Harrison (D.) Mis. sinal ppl. repens the solemn mystery of death, And I beheld schoolboys pushing each other off the walk and laughing an they gave and took. And I be beld men going to their tabor, and rs wandering care free and ip no haste to move ahead | And there rolled before me « mey- Ing-picture show called Human fife, and I eat where I could see it as I | stirred the Sugar in my Coffee, And the more I saw, the better T felt about life. For in the main the lives of the gnen and women that | passed were of value to the world, jand their faces were not the faces Jof folk who were down and ont, | And I considered that all of them | had their bardens, but were meeting life with resolution and hope, and | none of them was free from ¢are, {nut most of ther were either happy or puting up @ good bluff, And the day was brighter for me because I had my seat at the win dow. And 1 said, Behold thus will I ever seek to sit where I cam look out on life as it passeth, with eym- pathy and respect and a friendly thought. And I considered thet among all the hundreds of men and women jwho passed by that day as I mt | before the window, there was mot jone who wished me fil, but there were many who would have Beem } kind to me had I asked if of them Now, as I was using the finger jbow!, I reminded myself thy the waiter had probably been that table for a Better Tip than I had intended to give. Therefore did I inorease my customary tip, for the peat was worth the money. our team fourht—hard! What, then did we get out of college than mental discipline? We got 3 ‘We got joy of contest. We got teamwork. The students of Reed lose than they know wh ‘they | know why they hold aloof. cause they fear the athictes other institutions of learning > Prceernts belt o-son Without wasps, fig trees would [not produce fruit. $5.25 to $6.00 perday } been idle; but now seontinued perma- na. \ akers Are the Operators,