The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 8, 1921, Page 6

Newepaper En- terprise Aven. And United Presa Gervica The #6 Pebttened Datty by The st Pounit r Seattle Star By mati, cut of city, 00 per month; # Menthe, #1.6¢—@ mentha, #2.7H: rear i Washington per year Outaide of ths * state, 0c per month, Ry carrier, ctty, & month. The Star, aided by many far-sighted Seattle citizens, fought a hard battle last winter ‘to save Roy Wolff from the hangman's noose. _ ‘This newspaper believed then, as it believes now, that capital punishment sion, not a solution, of the crime problem. Roy Wolff's aged parents in Yakima, quiet, respectadle people, erated on | declared that the boy had always “been queer.” His brutal muf- Marderer t Be Op s / is an eva- For Brain Cancer der of Elmer Greer, taxicab driver, near Bakersfield, California, * Wee was not certainly the act of a sane boy. The Star led a campaign to induce Governor Stephens to com- It was successful. | Now comes news from San Quentin prison that Roy Wolff is to be operated upon for cancer of the brain. Only a recent medical " examination disclosed the boy’s ailment. Unless the operation “s he can live but a short time. Was Roy Wolff responsible for an act that proceeded out of a diseased head? Would je sovereign state of California have bech justified in hanging a young boy with eaten by insidious cancer? Humanity has but one answer. Hanging would been a ghastly blunder. gPg a if risie } Nai q | ie HiT of : i ah i 4} Fz H 3 E z , tt named before the as “If you want to be happy, try to make others happy; if you have never lived this way, try it— begin today.”—Henry M--Hagken. An English duke has married a blacksmith’s daughter. Watch her forge ahead, Arbuckle has become one of those stars you can’t see. Three and a Half Miles a Minute Blowing Out the Moral Lights Galesburg, M., celebrated yes terday the 63¢ anniversary of the debate that took place there be ord, but it doren’t excite much itamous conduct, but—what would | their tru attention, because it soon will be | have been the attitude of most of the | taded. « While the powers that be of Beattie ate and finance the street ear system, firdt the system has to be paid for by the people. We find the old al ways fights the new. The fitney ts the new In the street car problem and there are a goodly number of people that desiro to use the new for bust ness or pleasure, They can often get home tn one-half the time from work by jitney than by the street car, ‘Then there are a lot of people that have no Jitney of thetr own, and they the new. Again, there are three or four hundred jitney drivers with families to support. By putting them BAltor The Star; Having read the articles relative [to conditions said to exist in the ant, also at the present time, in the Western state hospitals, the writer ig moved to discuss the matter from a different viewpoint. For instance, how many are there among a thou ‘sand employers who show enough tr terest In aman to employ him, If for | nome reason he ts only 60, 70 or 80 per cent effictent, grade him accord. ingly, and pay him acoording to that | scale? Must everything tn the social structure be sacrificed to efficiency, system and profits? Mugt there be! Editor The Star: ' How will the proposed new eteeet | car fare help those who are obliged) to use transfers? class? Why will we have to pay, for transfers now when we never | have before? [bear the largest part of the street) | car burden? Why do we never have) are necking the better way to oper: | Giving the Under Dog a Chance ple. Why are thor?! wig use tranefors are working peo-|#tch Ideas to the domain of the fancl- | the Lord.” Suggestion on Street Car Finance Baitor The Star: | oft the streets they must shove some. | one else out of a job, besides denying | the people the satisfaction tn life they | dentre. Let the efty Moense the fitney| drivers to take car tickets, one from | each passenger, and ca the ticket! when taken, Then collect a tare from each passenger, By this meth od the olty would get ail the fares to finance the «treet car system and give the people the pleasure and satisfaction of riding in the jitneys. | Then tt would relieve the congested condition of the street cars spoken of in the paper in the past. In writing | this I have no financial Interests in ithe jitneya A. F. BIGFPORD. | } | | | no sympathy or consideration given to the other fellow, to give him halt, a chance to make good? The writer | bas @ relative in one of the institu tions in question. Bhe could secure his release were it ponnible to find he one who would manifest enough human fnterest fn the man to employ him and give this relative | ie good. At this institution she wa 4 that up on this very same basis 60 per cent! of the inmates could be released, If} civilization ever crumbles, it will be| decause of und ight at the top. | The “under dog” ten't given half a) chance, A FP CADER. Making a Charge for Transfers a friend tn the council except at election time? By we I mean the working peo Seventy five per cent of those who use the cable lines a preferred) ple and must use them to get to ful and Utopian te to condemn labor | the! torm| and from their work, proposed bill in Passe ite present Why do we have to|and you insure the success of ¢he| ton of fraternity as eo weak and » Erickson bill at the next election A WORKER. Ashamed of Her Own Sex Editor The Star: Tam eure I don't know what our country is coming to, I do not uphold “Fatty*, in his tn- [aw chet men folks if Mins Rappe had come to/ “art.” you cry, Bah!—there were many beautiful women 20 years ago | ‘e now, bug-were there as many divorces, homes ruined? Husbands who have jost interest tn wives, because they are cannot compete with the “beauties” (7. If these “beauties” SATU Are Ponderin RDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1921. re g Over tt ta down sonra, Soa ll A Letter From Avridge Mann Mias Martha Sumner, Washington Children'a Homa Deer Martha: I eoppose that you, and lots of other children, too, are out with little hearts to sell to help the home you love so well, and so I thought I'd let you know a few of @ who have the dough. Bill Boeing we can let go free, because he's married now, you woe; but change his name a little bit, and make Bill Bolen out of it, and there's @ man that I would guess, should give ten dollars, more or lens. I know Bert Fifdeout has the price—ho got It from me shaking ice; Jack Carmody has coin to blow—his business ig so good, you know; and Tom Revelle should give « lot, to celebrate the Job he got. And here and now I want to state, you've got to stick Fred Mar. ontate, because he took me out to 4 HE stuck MB and made me treat! Bo make him dig you up a five, if he would like to stay alive, Then go to Morrie Lundqutet’s store—you'll find tt on the second floor—and tell him we heave heard enough of all this “climb the stairway” stuff, so he had better leave his den, and walk down- stairs to give you ten. 4 there's a lot of other guys to whom I'd Ike to put you wise; 1 en't space to put them here, but they will pay you, never fear; for If they don't produce the dough, I'll tell their wives some things I know! AVRIDGE MANN equal division of wages or such less | narrow that it may not overstep the wage an might be agreed upon, we | line of nization. would all agree to aurvive the cata | What about the increased demand? clyam, They do not need to offer! Would it not automatically bring half a wage for they can take @ leaf |down prices, increase demand, oper. but of the book of their employers ate to lower transportation rates, tak and hire them for the least possible |ing into consideration only the moral amount they will work for. Now, it) lift and pull? that were in the realm of probability | The unstable quality of prices and or practioability, what effect would it | wages contributes to undermine con- have on business? The jobless men | fidence and crucify business, What are going in debt every Gay, thetr|is needed is stability for an appre- creditors are straining their credit | clable time at a fixed wage and price. and facing bankruptoy. To relegate | “Stand still and see the salvation of Such a policy on the part of the unions to the puriieus of # and unions would stabilize. and make {n- selfishness; to measure their conc incible their organizations. L, A. VINCENT. In Defense of Game Birds EAttor The Star: | If “Natore le cruel,” man '» far more | no. I have fust read your editorial, Before man came, quail, “Birds of the Upland.” It ts not In| pigeons, prairie chickens, curlews, harmony with the love of a square | etc, were here in hordes. They did deal we have been accuntomed to ex-| rot starve to death, and practically pectin the columns of The Star. Are | none met the mink and cat. If Seat- you merciless because hese speech | tle gunners go out to do the “kind” less leaner brothers are small and thing by the birds, I call it a kind weak, terrified and helpless, #6 that ness of a queer sort! you think the: It fs not true that “the bird has the door that night, and the “kicker” | would raise a family I imagine they had found Arbuckle lying’ on the bed, | would fade also, and would not have that you are them pain and death me: fied in causing an even break” with the gunners, because | The bird is @ bird; yourlg, the closed dead. | Miss Rappe was so “beautiful and) fully developed, will travel | #Weet” (7) that fow men would have | pay ij accused her of murder, It would time to “pose” for people to gaze at. | you get fun out of watching their! season has taught him safety. They would have something to| “death agonies as they flop miserably | bas no defense but flight. Th than which one/ the most beautiful form. If} think about other had at your feet? | } Tt l@ natural and right for every | ship, lunch, field glasses, decoys, a hes years of craft and marksman- have been the general opinion of the; women! would only behave them.| 08% to want to leave the city for gup. Whenever I see a man with a men, anyway, that he died of—oh, |salves, dress properly, act like true| “lean soll, fresh air and wide spaces | pitiful, imp, blood-stained Iittle body | | women, as God intended them to, 1| Dut I consider it a pretty poor stick | in his hand, I always want to ask going crazy over the | believe the trouble would lessen. 1|0f & man who hasn't heart enough, | him why he didn’t pick on somebody well, People nything but murder. ‘Bathing Beauty” con- have come to the place where I am big alse . - PARABLE OF THE BAD TEMPER talk to me of making amends for thine outbursts of Temper. For thou spatterest over all thy friends, and splashest them with thy fury, and then thou dost have them to clean off the rage and try And I said, The best way to make amends for a’ Bad Temper is to keep thy tergper to thyself. And he said, Verily, thOw didet say of me that I had « Narrow Mind, and I will take that from no man. An4 I said, Thou wilt take it once Thou hast @ Nar. who hath a Bad a man who Ie capable of aspect of & thing, and withholding his snap may Warn the mility, but beth narrow: And he was ailent. And I went and got out the Hose, and started to wash off the Ege from the Fence. And he would not have it eo, but caught t! threw the Egg at the Back/and himself washed off the Ege and it Broke and spattered |from the Fence. And he said— the Fence, Though I be not able to produce And I said, Thou speakest of Mak-|® Plymouth Rock Rooster from that ing Amends. Gather up that Bgg| Hes. yet hath it not been wholly again, and clean off the Fence, and| wasted. put the Egg back into the Shell, and) And I am inclined to think that set an Hen upon it, and make of it| he had Learned Something that waa & Plymouth Rock Rooster. Then'worth the price of an Ess. Py =e Ol em Ss tc our Clay Book THE TRUE FRIEND BY HELEN EMMA MARING Dear is the friend who is faithful When worldly goods are gone; A pat on the back and a handshake To cheer a grayer dawn. Dear ts the friend whevts loyal ‘When men forget your worth; ‘There's nothing in life more precious, Or finer on this earth, Dear ts the friend who is happy When you have found success, Or one who willhehare your misfortune— A true friend does no less. Dear is the friend who will boost you When odds are going strong. Ho ‘s the friend who is golden, Who helps your life along. Try This on Your Wise Friend - A storekeeper had 17 bottlés of eggs. A third of this quantity were duck eggs, a third ostrich eggs and a third chicken eggs. What of eggs were " each bottle? Answer to yesterday's: 4 and 20. Nozzle from my hand/ to see who has | ashamed of my own sex. Oh, it's 4 WOMAN, _—_— Gives View on Prohibition Opposed to prohibition. A much better way would be for the goverament to eel] a pure liquor et @ price that would produce a good | revenue, and low enough to discour- ere live narrow views seem quite active. Jesus said, “Do not evil that good ag ese That would reduce taxes, and | Would probably reduce the consump may come. Retieving ae I do tn human liberty, TU think that any person who would be considered responsible if he | ton of optum in ft» various forms, bought or sold property ought to| Some quote the Bible as being op know enough to decide for himself | posed to the use of liquor. what he should eat or drink I went to Sunday school when I He may make mistakes and {n-| was young—-I had to, 6o far as my fringe on the rights of others; for| recollection goes, wine was a very that he can be punished. popular drink amongst the people in) I have known people to make mis | those days, and I do not remember |fakes in signing papers, One writer of but one man who called for water, | answering the claim that prohibition |and he was in hell. was hard to enforce and ought to be) Personally I never wag much of a repealed, said that laws against steal drinker—my taste did not run that) ing. might be repealed for the same way. reason A great many who believe in pro ‘The law against stealing wae passed hibition want a “bracer” fn the by the representatives of all the/morning, and drink very strong | people, without opposition, and is coffee or tea. |not @ prohibitory law, while nearly, |tf not quite, half of the people are Reapectfuny, HM. C. CROCKETT. The Desideratum Editor The Star: One of the early Kansas senatore— I think It was Lane—showing @ vist- tor thru the state house, pointing to the motto of the state over the speaker’a stand, “Ad astra per aspera,” said: “Them's Latin, them) 1 may, be anid to be the desi: | all . tum of labor organizations to reduce | | ‘The same may be said of the catch-| working hours to the minimum and word above, but {t In full of mean-|to increase wages to the reasonable ing and rich In development and/and just maximum. It fs pretty safe | promise and camprehende what we |to say that organized labor has today |all seek. It may be said that the un-|the lion's share of the jobs. If they employment conference represen(s| should shock the civilized world by | one among the faw things that the|each man, Jack or Jill of them, president or congress can do, but it | taking on aw understudy for a part | is to be noted that in these days of /of avery workingday shift, at an| resourceful men and women the! conference promises much when we conalder its personnel, but we are all | too prone to overlook the apparent the obvious and that—to recur to the| vernacular—"beneath our noses.” conscience enough, soul enough to 0 out Into the glories of an autumn | You justify this blood lust by say- wood without insisting on coming /ing that he has been # hunti: back with bloody hands. Hunting| mal for 600,000 years. with the camera requires far more! that too, he was skill, gives more pleasure, ts free! pot, bestial, unthin! from cruelties and inevitable re-| social thing, but that was morse, So few understand the pey-| for his always remaining #0. chology and physical makeup éf the | pecause he in that long-ago time myriad wood-creatures or the names | apart living things in orde® to and appearance of the countless! pease his hunger fy no reason wi plants, vines and trees, that to spend! Seattle men should go and do lik: “Killing time” tn really learning @/ wise, little something might mot come; what hunger they have can amine. satisfied with grains, nuts, fruits I see no soundness In any of your/and vegetables. If he hasn't yet excuses for bird slaughter, It is not| learned the ethies and science of necessary for food, for recreation, | property feeding himself, why feel so for target practice, Nor ts it any | superior? His hairy prototype killed “Kindnens to the birds"! They die} horribly, Few are “stricken instant: | ly," but many are wounded, creeping off into the underbrush, to Unger | perhaps for days in hunger and/ thirst and pain, You eay: “The quail that escapes the hunter is torn apart by mink, ir dies from th = | g & 2 5 E a i f E § 5 ry ° Feeder HH z Rey Street at Harvard ‘Telephone Capitol 0240 DEPARTMENT OF DANCING MARY ANN WELLS, Director Last Gymnastic SCHOOL OF SPOKEN WORD MARGARET PRENDERGAST AN, Director Speakin, Dramatic Reading An@ all other forms of eral expression Prtv 4 Clase Instruction The public Is invited to a Free Recital y Saturday morning at 11:30 o'clock. fair in 21 years. Sermon Topic Sunday, 745 P. M. Central Seventh- Day Adventist Church Corner Boylston Ave. and Olive St. By Paster G. W. Pettit “The Basis of Faith— True and False” A thousand voloes in a hundred tongued call for a new Gospel with all the OLD-TIMP faith in a Uteral God, eliminated. Should Christendom fall in line? This will be the last of the Sunday evening sermons for sev- oral weeks at the Central Church The church bullding is to be over- hauled, and during these im provements no Sundey services will be held, f A recent writer in the Satur called attention to the fact BAVINGS BANKS on tho Paci and one in Seattie, Washingto: The one in Seattle ond Avenue. 4 It is thirty-two yea It has 80,000 deposi During the past y opened savings aecoun Its name is— REV.M.A.MATTHEWS SAVIN will preach @ sermon Sun- day morning entitled, TUE RIGHTHOUSNESS THAT EXCEEDS THAT OF PHARISERS In the evening he will ais- cuss the subject, BACK TO GOD, THE HOLY Git INFALL Established Seventh and Spring AN IMPORTANT STATEM It has always paid withdrawals promptly. It has never failed, during its entire thirty- two years’ history, to pay a semi-annual divi- dend to depositors of at least 5% per annum. It has resources of $14,450,000.00. WASHINGTON MUTUAL 1101 Second) Avenue TRUSTEES and other noted and bands will be ENT: “Evening Post (Juty 16, 1921) t there are “only two REAL te Coast—one in San Francisco the family. | only for hungef*s sake, Seattle men kill for tun, | To me it hag seemed the height of hypocrisy for parents to teach their Jehildren kin then the moth, self with feathers and fur, and the her go “aport” of tn. flicting un ry deaths, It has neemed hyp { earth,” and then give 10 and 12-year old boys guns and let them wander afield, “practicing” on every shy qualt and helpless songster they can spy. People are shocked when hunt- ers accidentally kill) one another. They got for themselves, guilty, oniy what they intended to mete out to the tnnooent. Robert W. Service has «@ recent poem, “The Outlaw,” @ verse of which gunners might do well to re member; "And who shall love of these the | least, And who, by word or look or deed, | Shall pity show to bird or beast, By Me shall have a friend in need. Ay, tho his sin be black aa night, And tho he stand mid men alone, | He shall be softened in My sight, | Very sincerely, L. M. CLARKB. Hawaii has two of the largest voleanic craters and the largest | active voleano in the world. | The Sorbonne university in Paris was founded in 1253, The first American bethtub was inetalled tn 1842. HO NERIOUS BREMOWA Mirs. Ireland Permits us to Publish is Letter for the Benefit of Others Who Are in Her Condition [irarweaiy rt at | ay the ont pas i | Pi their andit drugs. Tomorrow Day Your final opportunity to visit the West’s Greatest Exposition. ‘made and exhibits at their best. Be. sure and see the close of the largest Awards The Famous Ralston Glee Club singers, orchestras there tomorrow af- ternoon and evening. Fun and profit for every member of ° Bring your lunch or eat at one of the located at 1101 Sec- old. ors. grounds. day. r 9,000 ople have in this fas 4 BANK Resoufees over $14,450,000.00 ¥ MES SHANNON VELLIA. v1 ot TAM HAaNun \W. WEST MB iN) . FAVRE, Spokane Tick Yakima Parlfing (with scores of good restaurants on the If you have been to the Fair once, come again—you can’t see it all in a estern ashington Fair Puyallup : Admiss{on 50¢; Children 25¢; Auto watchmen) 50c And find a pleader by My throne.” “