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

and United Press Bervion The a the again becoming popular. editor of a Spokane daily for interests. tion of controversial opinions. affairs of newspapers whose ; i are taken, alee, the Call, some straight news sc li if i i at tite fit lias claimed existing, by prevend eale of municipal bonds. fe reminiscent ef the Mbel which President Roosevelt against the New York In beth cases the pewrpapers ‘Gverstepped the beunds of fair i i i rf i gi F | if e j @ montha, or 9.0 Our Would-Be Judicial Censors The ancient pastime of trying to restrict the constitutional liberty of the press is atty, te state of Was! 0 A Chicago mayor sues the Tribune of that city for $10,000,000 for alleged libel, a federal official tries to suppress the New York Call, and a superior judge cites the contempt of court. an all three cases, as it happens, the doctrines of the paper in question are abhor- Tent to The Star. One of the papers is the hand-maiden of the international har- vester trust, one is a socialistic sheet suspected of pro-German tendencies during the war, and one is the acknowledged spokesman for a power company and other special Nevertheless, The Star must protest in no uncertain terms against any and all ef- | . forts to limit free speech, to curtail liberty of expression, and to prevent publica- } This newspaper never has brooked interference, official or otherwise, with {ts own ' right to its own views, and it objects just as strenuously to official meddling in the | views we believe to be wrong. . o a _ The most atrocious of recent attacks on newspapers is that of the District of Co- | Yumbia supreme court against the New York Call. Whether the Call was right or “wrong in opposing the war has nothing to do with the legal aspects of the case. The ‘right of people to think as they please and to discuss public questions freely is at- tacked. A new jurisdiction of courts is set up—a “right” to censure newgpapers and to create “constructive crimes” and penalize the holding of unpopular political beliefs, The New York Call ts held out of the mails, and the district court okehs the per- formance because in certain issues of the paper there were editorial expressions dis- of the course followed by the United States and Great Britain in dealing ith soviet Russia. The expressions were printed after the signing of the armistice. ‘The court does not hold the same opinions as the Call. Therefore the court upholds seattle Sta THE SEATTLE STAR [LETTERS T0 EDITOR} | Why Do Our Children Play on Busy Streets? |] Mditor ‘The Star: | Tf aelf-preservation te the first law of nature, then no one oan | diame me if I raise my votce tn a how! against « danger that |] threatens not only myself, but the child who may cnuse the dis | aster. j Every effort is betng made to avold accidents to the crowds that throng the downtown district where traffic ig most congested But what about the residence district, where children are allowed to play in the et, skate in the street, coast in the street, abandonment as tho on a country hill autos are unknown? Last week in one of the thickly mettied parts of N. Broadway we enw a amall boy ony velocipede with a little wagon attached tn which sat two small children, riding back and forth in the middie of the street, when, at the intersectidn of the four #trests, the boy turned too short and tipped over the wagon and out sprawled the two obildren full length in oppoalte directions, Just where an auto coming around any of the corners could not have avoided running ever one at least. Opposite Mt. Baker park, where there is room to play and broad Gdewalks, children coast down « long hill at the side of car tracks. | All over the city % t# the same thing | Mas Seattic no play fields, no parks, no eidewnlka, that chiidren | | |] side where street car | | | age forced to use the streets for recreation centers? Are there not auto aocidents enough from unavoidable causes that we should permit children to play in roadways and be @ source of nerveracking anziety to those who drivet Mr. Editor, if you could help to aroune public sentiment strong enough to check thie matter, and force fathers and mothers to | bear the responsibility of thelr own children, surely it would be a |] crusade worth while, Beatie ie too a olty to permit children to play tn the streets. ADELAIDE GORDON, 4607 46th Mrs. Mahoney and Her Will Titer The Star: money or jewelry. We are constant readere of The) Our woman's club believes that bir | mother and sister knew all about Star, and eince the murder of MIS.) 115 intentions of doing away with Kate Mahoney have followed every:| ner; they are in possession of her thing you have said about the case! property unlawfully. Will you kindly in your paper, Why te it, then, that) print the fact about the will in your no further mention te made of the! paper again, as we all favor The fmot, that she saw Mr. Lambuth, | Star—it brings al! the facts and the ber lawyer, and had her Musband/ truth. Thanking you in advance we cut out of her wil? That esems are, yours very truly, motive enough, Iam sure. He hated) H. B. LEWIS AND MEMBERS ‘A Chicago burglar posed as a landlord; of course his disguise was discovered. Some men stay out late because they are single; others because they are married. her, because she would not give him OF THE CLUB. School Board and Automobiles EAttor The Star: | This request of Mr. Cooper fp to Wil you kindly publish this prove er upon oer eh yen \ uto operation mainte test against beginning agate the G® |. ice tnerensed approximately $10, travagance indulged tn last year by 009 jast year and another ton thou. the echool board in buying automo sand was spent in the purchase of diles. | cara. And yee this early tn the school A request was made last Friday! year the mad desire in that direction at the meeting of the school board body told me to, or in @ pinch my vote will go by eenis, meenie, minis, moe. And when my candidates are dope, 1 turn to “Proposition One,” and read, “An Act to Modify Art. thirty section Vili, by changing ‘six’ te | ‘twenty-two’ *—and then I wonder | what to do. | Of course I know I am @ fool be se I do not try to rule but then 1 haven't balf a slow to get the dope and really know the tne and outs, | the right and wrong of ali the of- floe-neeking throng. And #0 I leave it up to you to tell me what I ought to do, for tn the press I always find the stuff that moulds the public mind: #0 may you | be, as best you oan, the gulding | Star of AVRIDGH MANN Why County Assessing Is High Editor The Star: In ite fesue of Sept. 2th The Star published & comparative statement of expenses in the various county offices for the year 1916 with their | empective budgets for 1922, In thie | statement the Annensor’s office nhown | an apparent increase from $78,258 to $129,799. The State Legislature since 1916 han enacted sevoral laws which have added greatly to the cont of conduct ing the Arsessor's office. Foremost amongst these is the poll tax law, | for which the 1922 budget provides | $21,900. The law was enacted in 1921, and hence was not included tn | jany previous budget. The entire ex- | ponse of the administration of this law in more than realized from King jcounty apportionment of collected taxes. | P) Poem g for pO Sy | It also enacted @ law compelling the Assessor to lixt all dogs in the county outside of the city of Seattle, | __eumminne this duty In the city betng impored | laws are more or less farcical cannot; we ever have a law to that y upon the City Comptroller, with this | be urged by him or others as a suf-| expenses of all these various exception—that owners of dogs with: | ficient reason for their nonenforce- | isaues ard isms will have te be | in the elty limite must go to the| ment, as county officials must not | by some other department, take unto themaelves the powers of loginiative, Judicial or executive au- I think the| These facts are submitted for dutien of the Assessor ahould be con. | consideration, entirely to the appraisal of Very truly yours, property for taxation purposes. If ¥. | Comptrotier and obtain their Icenses while in the county the Ansessor must go to every nook and corner of | | the county, including such towns as Auburn, Kent, Renton, eto, and lat ) all dogs, detaiting such statistical in formation as size, color, breed and than $4,000, The lant legisiature also parsed a law requiring the Assessor to list all persons subject to jury service in the county, stating age, sex, when natu- falized, if not native born oftizens, | this data the Assessor has to compt this let and furnish same to th | County Clerk, The additional « office approximates $4,500. There | fore, in all frankness, the cot of the Poll tax . +e | Dog listing Hoenses Jury Ust services. | Should be deducted from the total budget of $129,799, leaving $99,299. present cont of operation to be about 20 per cent more than during the| year 1918. That being the case, this office is under the 20 per cent, which jin round numbers figures 27 per cent. | ‘The duties of the County Asnessor | | are mandatory. power to enforce certain laws per- | taining to hie office and ignore) others, The fnet that some of these hie nerve. + these Gaye. for another aytomobile for the at-| Thanking you for the wonderful “Contempt ef court” ts a con It's about time to abandon the [tendance de! ft, © department! publicity your paper is giving mat venient phrase to cover almost “contempt of court” feofishness, Soe eee cet ae teen 1 ee t menarens 09 -tho tamparers, f the examplea increase in| am, cordially yours, pul sere Si raping OS ee ae costs and no increase tm efficiency. A.M. CLARKE. 7 reverence for Judictal digulty, . pe ¥s A Letter From Avridge Mann Editor The Star: & ruler, great or email; I don't rule ite natural conctaston tt would be Fl ly Sa ayy aghyroneroes go Dear Mir; I enw, Qhe other day.| inything at all, and you oan safely possible to shut eff discussion of victory Mr. Bryan has few equela Oa es es ae an anyon, pee Wile T do ast oven rule my tubers Be nigh B, y | wife, nen cr oA gota “a ruled by Average Man.” It| For when I have to help select our minable lawsuit then order- Best sign to keep huntere ewey: | startied ma you can opine, to ere public men, I just “elect,” I vote for Ing contreversy te cease until the (“Picase Trespass Here.” ® name so Uke maine I'm not Jim or Bill or Hugh because some. b ~ . set nm aay Judges don't teed juries or Prosecutors te punish men for contempt, There's = queer sur vival of medieval law in our coun try that makes the judge « Iittle despot tn this particular matter. Bome 15 years older than the the younger added to equaled 87. How old BY DR. WM. F. BARTON OW comes Henry Morgenthau and tells us why he became a poll. ticlan, and why @ good many other things hap- pened or did not happen He says among ether things, that Champ Clark and not Woodrow Wilson have been nominated by the fn 1913 and elected by the people in| Hie following November if the Mis- | delegation had not wasted 55 | eo at in @ wnakedance just when | should have been bunch: ‘Weir hits, el: Chemp Clark was a popular candi- and much better known then ‘Woodrow Wilson. No one had singing about Wilson: “Every time I come to town, ‘The boys keep kickin’ my dawg aroun’; ‘Makes no diffrence if he is honn’, They gotta quit kickin’ my dog @roun’.” _ You probably remember the hound- song. Men have m nomi and elected president of the States for reasons not much better than that some such song fht be sung in their honor. But Champ Clark did not receive nomination. The democratic unlike the republican, @ two-thirds vote to nomi- Until 1913 there had been no in- since that of Stephen A. in 1860, in which a man who @ majority of votes in a demo- convention failed of the ulti- A TIME TO DANCE at the-wrong time. The tenth bal- lot gave Champ his majority, Had his followers given three cheers and forced another ballot at onee, he might have been nominated on that vote or the next. But im that fatal 86 mintztes, the chance was lost. The enemies of Clark united on Wilson, ahd the world was made more or lesa safe! for the democratic party. Solomon said there was a time to @ance and a time not to dance. There | ia @ tifne to pay the fiddler and go home. Men who have attended political conventions will agree that there is (ond —_ waste of time in sheer orseplay and not enough a to good sense. ne 5 There is a time when men ought Rot to dance. Dr. Johu H. Pugh Gradua vy Opt GLASSES $ 5 Complete FREE EXAMINATION two-thirdn. the Missouri delegation in in, $5 minutes of hilarity just GLOBE OPTICAL Co. 1514 Wentinke Ave, Between Fi 4 Vine Stn, Mr. ‘It mere Wi atayed be mi HP ij HIE NT i i E busy? JFONEY spent for BELLING culating all over the state. powder, timbers, other supplies—all products of W; ashing- ton—use up every penny. Indirectly, it’ comes back to you,’ BELLINGHAM. COAL ‘“MORE HEAT PER DOLLAR” ‘Will keep the home-fires snug and cheery! heat producer. screenings, no clinkers, no slate or bone. Don't 1 Worry; plenty of coal on hand. | BELLINGHAM COAL MINES) ., (@eavoare Building i "mone Eimets 1443) =V& COAL doesn’t travel miles _ It stays right here at home—keeps cir-' Wages, electric power and A real super: Clean, free-burning and well prepared. No| Brings furnace upkeep down. Your dealer recommends it. ‘Phone him your winter’s order NOW. We'll supply you if he cannot.) naremenlia | | | i 4 t Personally, eex, at an annual cost of not a and if they own property and are! registered voters. After obtaining | pense of thin work to the Assensor's | ‘The article in your paper admits! Tt ta not within his) make a story breathless with interest. FSMAY, SEPTEMBER 80, your Boo k Cla MERE BOYS BY BERTON BRALEY Howdy, Billy; helio there, Tim! You're lookin’ a wee bit gray, You ain't seen nothin’ of Buck an’ Jim? 1 wag hopin’ they'd come today. ‘What's that? Passed over? Why, man alive kidst-—They were kids to ma, ‘n nee, ho wan seventy-five, An’ Buck—he was seventy threet Of course, I knew they was gettin’ on A little bit stiff and bent, But I thought of them like tn days that's gene, When they marched with the regiment; They was just a couple of striplings Ges An'—J kept on thinkin’ so; But I know, of course, they was twe ol4 men An’ the olf men hae to gol ‘Well, much is life, as the feller aaya, An’ there ian't no use to fret; It's quite some time since we passed our prim But there's lots of us stickin’ yet Lota of us, atill, to ewap old tee An’ to tell olf tales of truth, An’ to bring back into our diromin’ eyes The glow an’ the gleam of youthi We're gray an’ withered, but tn our hearts, As we answer the dwindlin’ roll, We're the same young feliere who played our pasts In keepin’ thie nation whole; An’ we'll stay thet way till we take the tach That leads to some kindly stan, To the wonderful endless bivoune Where the rest of our comrades ard (Copyright, 1921, Beattie Btar) Ww. 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