The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 23, 1922, Page 6

Hiram Bames with infamy. Your anger over the Newberry whitewash is directed principally against ail dexter, senator from this state, who voted to confirm the unspeakable Michigander’s possession of his purchased seat. But other states, too, have their “lost leaders, "statesmen who succumbed to the money power in this crucial test and covered their _ Medill McCormick’s status as a progressive is not quite clear, Harvester trust and Chicago Tribune family, which backed Roosevelt and the pro- party in 1912, and which is credited with influencing Roosevelt to abandon third-party. effort four years later. ~ Cummins has been a wishy-washy progressive for some years. The people of Iowa may safely be depended upon to deal with him. France of Maryland seems to have been a false-alarm. McCumber is merely a Main Street instead of a Wall Street conservative. McNary of Oregon says he was “browbeaten” into his vote. Oregon probably will ““browbeat” him into retirement. ~ - That about exhausts the list of pseudo-progressives in the Newberry column. “But let us not forget Hi Johnson. Johnson’s Balloon Punctured s Poin- * their progressive or past-progressive . ° He is one of the Johnson, of California, ran for president with Roosevelt on the progressive ticket in ) He was as Bull-Moosey as they made ‘em. Hiram was afraid of NOTHING. ts. And Hiram made most of us believe him. ji Bat you look in vain for Hiram Johnson's name among those of the nine repub- Hiram was ever ready to battle in the public's George Pepper is now a senator and a hot time THE SEATTLE STAR AE etter from AIWRIDGE MANN Dear Folks We've had our day for paytng bills, and now's the day for mak ing Will»—a Job we have to do, you know, because the lawyers need the dough; so I've made mine, and here it is; to-wit, as follows namely, Vix 1 will the winter fee and snow to hot and sultry Mexico; I will oma, free and clear, the sight of naming Mt. Rainier; and f queath to Wi Maya the art of king decent plays. penni tien I will our legislative birds Maxim miencer of words, the energy to ume their braing, an abstinence of private gains, a mind that knows, a heart that sees, humanity's n T will the kids, from shore to shore, a universal Open Door y enter, full and free, to Equal Opportunity, that cease to know @ gulf between the high and low 1 will the world a coming day when poverty has passed away, when each will do his daily part with friendly mind and open heart, when no one knows a worldly care, and mea are brothers everywhere. The residue of my extate (I think a dolar sixtycight) IT gtve, devine, bequeath my wife the income from it during life; and hope, in deference to me, she doesn't blow It foolishly, Girritge Nam LETTERS TO EDITOR The Japs and the Digest Leaditor The Star: come to America and go into the 1 would like to comment on C. R.| Carolina hills and take the pictures Hooper's letter that was published in |of these backward people and exhibit The Star of January 20. in their country and all over Europe in the first place I'd ike to know |as natives of America would you like if he ts so interested in a magazine it? No, you want them to know the book stores to buy it, I don't be |mme way with the Japanese eve phat he did. Here I have proved to you that I sfent seven years In Japan and|we Americans were being fed with T think 1 understand Japanese peo-| lies, Japan is civilized and don't ple more than Mr. Hooper, and T\you forget it Japan wants th have alm seen their advancement | propaganda that they are civilized “* a nation since Admiral Perry |#pread. No real true Japanese would opened their porta for world trade.|try to stop this truth from spread The Japanese are proud of their ad-|ing. What good does it do to there vanoement, 80 the real idea of the Japanese to buy a few copies if Japanese is not trying to stop the |they really wanted to stop this Americang from reading periodicals | magazine from spreading. They are and learning about her, not fools, They would go to the pub- that he would go to 60 different |truth, wouldn't you? Of course. The| seni agin deo gait a ae te ilas: Enterprising _ Lose Money in Deflation ws: sigwshoe.h 4 ® ail ee the tate | BY AMATEUR ECONOMIST : vive hand ‘Two years ako a young man re in Mouth Dakota bought a farm week on for $25,000. He paid down $10, ton camp 000, givin & mortmare for the ms ne remainder, which he expected to and hear PAY out of the proceeds of the cach pa farm. Wiguring agricultural re paper, OF turns on & basin of two years earth and whose justice lies in myx at the ¢ ago, the farm was easily worth | Bie deductions followed wit He balances beyond the wight of men, neal | the cont; fieuring on present day |iy and remorseless certainty. He|has it not been written that the sma et returns, the farm isn't worth knew now why Harold Lounsbury|of the father shall be visited upon Fe y? half that nt had come into Clearwater, Virginia|the son? It wasn’t too late yet to Behoo! In other words the young, |had told Bill that her lover had| command some measure of payment. sity, pore energetic farmer has lost every: | seemed to have some definite place|In Virginia's own city lived the of publ thing that he owned in the |in view for his prospecting: he had|Lounsburys—a proud and wealthy —— | world; the man who sold the [simply come to search for the same | family, moving in the most haughty farm will get the farm back. |lost mine that Bill had discovered |cireles, patronizing the humble, flat He already has the $10,000 the previous day. He knew now why | tered and honored and exalted. But | To @ largp extent this case | Kenly Lounsbury had been willmg| oh. he could break them down! He | Mustrates the situation today, |to finance Virginia's trip into coe Sr ohh her bas x; tor ak ae Phe energetic, enter; an |North—not in hopes of finding e ¢ not pay ‘ee Servewed trod: fone lout nephew, but to find the mine of |tooth for tooth, because Rutheford on hin business has been the | Which he also had some knowledge | was likely already dead. He could | @hief loser. In fact, to a large tent the mortgage and bond holders actually are much bet ter off today than they were two years ago. In the example given above the mortgage holder two years ago only owned about one half of the farm, while now he owns it all, And after all a) wealth is farma, buildings, goods, etc 5 nly too well he knew the truth.|of «now, he was simply the clanw The contention that the mort. | Harold Lounsbury was Rutheford's|man—the feudist—the primitive gaxe holder is actually better | son—the son of his father's mur-|avenger. Virginia too should know off than be was is borne out by | derer, Kenly Lounsbury was Ruthe-|the crime, and the haunting sight of the fact that he can now buy far more with his interest than he could. | If it in so that the greatest Jonson were suffered by the more enterprising class, it ls also true that they are the class which | can make its losses back in the | least time. If the above illustration cov. ered the whole field there ‘wouldn't te so much to worry about. In Seattle four years ago a | Man spent his all in making a | Payment on a home purchaned; | since then he has paid every cent he bas been able to spare and thus repair the broken remnants of his fortune. In the same sweep of realization he knew why Harold Lounsbury's face had always haunt ed him and filled him with hazy, un- certain mgmoriens. He had never seen Harold before; but he had seen this photograph in hin own boyhood, and Harold's face had so resembled the one in the picture that it had haunt- ed and disturbed him. fora’s brother, Both had come to Clearwater to repair thelr broken fortunes from the mine of which they beth had knowledge. Whether it waa guilty knowledge or not no man could tell. Buch directions as Rutheford had given hys von had been unavailing because of the snowslide that had changed the contour of the little val- ley where the mine lay, He under- stood now Harold's disappointment and emotion when Bill had discov. ered the mine. Likely his own name was Harold Ruthetord, or else Ruthe ford’s true name had been Louns bury. Bill stood shivering all over with rage and hate. not pay for his father’s murder by striking down bis murderer. But he could make Harold pay for bis own wrongs. He could make him atone for the bitter moments of his youth and manhood, the irremediable ions of his boyhood, If Rutheford had [left a widow he could make her pay \for hiy own mother’s sufferings. As he stood in that bleak and lone ly cabin, lost in the desolate wastes those pitiful bones in the dark cay- ern would rise before her eyes when- ever she sought Herold’s arma. He would show her the picture; ahe could see the murderer's face in her own lover's, She could never yield to bim then— Virginia! Soft above the wall and complaint of the wind, he spoke her name. His star, his universe, the gracious, beautiful girl whose happl- ness had been his one aim! And could he change that aim now? The wind wept, the snow was swept before it in great, unearthiy clouds of white, the fire crackled and leaped at the opening in the cab- : i in door. The northern winter night ef Newberry. Hiram is expected. In reward to the Literary Digest! tishers and might try bribing the! im making payments, Today he Now he knew the road of ven-| -1oned down, ever deeper, ever dark: on didn’t vote. —— é of January 7, the Japanese have aleditors and the owner of the maga-| still ewes a rich money lender | veance! He had only to trace Harold | or ever more fraught with those The fla says she only acts like an old maid — {true triend in’ thin maguaine for they |xine not to print It & mortange equal to the market | Lounsbury back to his city—there to) mighty passions and lusts that are Progressive, she pper wanted the truth as it was printed| Of what I know of them, I will! price of the houm find his father's murderer. His eyes |the-deepest impulses of the human by the people of = thinks, in this magasine. For so far in al-|try to explain why these Japanese| The man who sold the house |were glittering and terrible to see at! sou, But he responded no more to eran scorn —eeeeeepementyneeemne most all American books and periodi-|bought extra copies, They bought it| has the two or three thoumnd | the potentialities of that finding. Yet|tne wild music of the wind. The @ h Hint: Never laugh at your wife when cals they show how uncivilized they |because many of them came to this| dollars paid; also the house |i an inmant be knew that death | wiiterness passiona no longer found qutraged ditions of Health Hint: ever (aug! y |are and even in the present-day |country from 10 to 20 years ago and! ‘To him that hath it shall be [had lkely already claimed the elder | Sn echo In his own heart. He bad condemning Poindexter. § 2) 6 cries, moving pictures they only show the ‘they themselves want to know how| added unto and to him that |Hutheford. Otherwise he himeelf | uadenly remembered Virginia, what one outstanding places where the civilization has not|much their country has advanced| hath not even that which he weesvert te alee ea ae His face was like clay in the dane the Los Angeles S reached. Even in filming this kind and want to know more about their] hath shall be taken away.” i ert the exnealiiall tne ra ing light. His eyes were sunken and says about Hiram John- No Special The trongest jof plotures, the cameramen would |own country. I received a copy from |— -—- rg: wn bare . han | were dark as night. He knew. sem an a . have to go ‘way into the Interior of one of my Japanese friends, there tate, ait 4 — where his course wou! Election Required Light Beam |that country to film it. "If the eam [fore know. Bincerety yours ever made by the Watom ta intivence | thant ant Btnen old law. the law | Once he knew by a knowledge true JOHNSON—DESERTER A curious perversion of fact is Atight that ‘can be seen 10 [eramen from Great Britain should! RALPH SMITH OAKMAN. Jit, members one way or another nitbcgetacdSvesteoiaal M rerecad ld pt op Lio hesligratn alin, Sn fs thra. His balloon exploited and reiterated by the mites away is perfected by Elmer ‘“ ee The legion docs not attempt to dic-| mote peace and good will on arf; | He ‘could ‘oot wrest vengeance toga tattered and Port Angeles Herald. This is in 4 Sperry, wizard of illamina- ion Answers estions |tate to tte members that they can- |to mfeguard and transmit to poster-|upon the man Virginia loved, He nyo hy not join political organizations or lity the principles of justice, freedom | could not take ment from her. the tidal cose, regard to the poll tial tion, Its straight upward pene editor The Star } WD referance to question wel clubs as they me fit and proper. and democracy; to consecrate and The same law that had governed him his feet ts crushed The Herald for some reason tration ix 30 miles. | Replying to the letter of David cannot help tut feel that the ques | The principles that guide the | sanctify our comradeship by our de-| before was still the immutable voice he may nevermore keeps talking about the measure Lighthouses don't need such | E. Wallbom, 1546 Weet 4th st, this|tioner in mistaken in his statement | Amertoan Legion are set forth tp the votion to mutual helpfulness.” of his being, the basic and irrevocable the rostrums of his as if it required » special election. powerful beacons. Many people | Pf! submits the following that In controversies between labor | preamble to the constitution: The aims of the American Legion | law of his life. He could not blast ‘This, of course, ts not the case. i wonder if bt It was in February, 1919, that the and capital the American Lesion! “For God and country we amoct| pave been based on this preamble. | her happiness with such revelation wi Sperry’s prarchiig! iden of an anmociation of war voter, jhas taken the side of capital. It is |ate ourvsives together for the fol-| nor all of these aime have been ustme thie Ble boyheed Graal ata debnsen, once the redoubt- The poll tax initiative, if it re is 9 useful devien It will be, in jane had its birth. A meeting had true that immediately after the |jowing purposes: To uphold and de. | plished. A great many have. |feance would go the way of all his fighter, has fallen. Some ceives the required number of sity , few years, to help guile alr [been called im Parts to discums the conclusion of the war there SPrANE |fend the constitution of the United |». percentage of accomplishment | other dreams—like the smoke of a fhing—the lusts of the flesh or natures, will go on the ballot st pisnes swarming through black bean of forming & veterans’ }up in the ranks of Inbor « clans such | States of Amerien; to maintain law | high, expecially when it is re |Cmp fire lost in the unmeasured animation. This meeting was at-\as the I. W. W.. claiming to repre-|and order; to fonter and perpetuate ae of the forest. The shadow that next regular ciection. night by the tens of thousands, |" « 3 1 that insidious, selfish and | SPaces gauds of the eye, the savory the Nz tended by 30 mon, all of whom were | sent orranized tabor, which attack-!_ one hundred per cent American. | *ized ane) the dark woods had cast upon his of Egypt or the stinking ‘The Port Angries Herald either U. 8. officers, on February 16, 1919. ed the government and attempted to| jem: to preserve the memories and | Powerful forces have done their ut- spirit seemed to grow and deepen. of Washingten—something knows this fact, or ought to know The most important thing for @ | Them 20 officers realized they had|overthrow governmental inatitu-| incidents of our amociation in the | most to block Its Drogram. But he must act now, while his the falsehood It young man starting life is to ested {no authority to do more than start tions, It became neceasary at that| great war; to inculcate a sense of SEATTLE POST NO. 18, THE|strength was upon him. To look been teo mach for him. i. By a feartess, ducked. He is merely secking unfairty to In. +h credit--a reputation, character the ball rolling. This they did by ittme for the American Legion, com. | tndividual obligation to the commun-| AMER: N LEGION. again tnto Harold's face might cost ce sag against signing the /¢ ™ust inspire the complete con- | issuing an invitation to representa-| posed as it was of loyal American ity, state and nation; to combat the|By STEPHEN F. CHADWICK, fame te own Heneten, RES a @odged. He has trimmed. He = fluence voters fidence of others. To get on, young | tives of evary overseas organtaation | citizens, to empouse the cause of the |autoeerary of the masma; to make Post Commander. | Virginia tn his arms, ber lips against . He has skpiked tm petitions, By telling them that men should study their Dusiness |to mest again tn Parin, March 15-17, government. For that action on the {right the. master Of might: to pre.| C. W. ARDERY. Post Adjutant. to Page » run away. | bushes—while the senate per- they would be bringing upon the peigyens = “—— ae ee 1919. Nearty 1,000 delegates, half/ part of the American Legion we) - renee state the cost of an extes election 'v. and industriowsly, and save |eniinted men and half officers, at-|make no apologies, and we do not upon the people of the ne Hs ae their money. As for opportunities, | tended this preliminary caucus, | believe that the rank and file of or. ! States the crime of sest- hopes to frighten some hem there are 10 today for every one They outlined a constitution, chose | ganimd labor approved of the atti WH) PITT TT i ing the malodorous Newberry. from expressing their will. there was 60 years a90—Vokn D. |an executive committer of 100, half | tude of the I. W. W. or the bolshe AA N W } He is indicted for hiding out in Coupled with its talk about a Rockefeller. jofficers and half enlisted men, and viet. Our attitude toward the I. W. roll | mamed the baby organization THE |W. was not in apy way indeative the tall timbers when the ‘ane |AMERICAN LEGION.” On April 1.|of our atutude towara organized ‘ealled and failing to vote agains! ARN A WORD 1919, at another meeting in Paris, | labor, We include in our member LE plan of organieation work in France| ship representatives of organized would not have been r | was drafted and a committee of 15 labor probably to an overwhelming: tare EV ER DAY selected to begin operations nity greater degree than we include indicted and con e falling to be the The —— A Sar yped anys ~~ - es representatives of capital We are vais, May An . 1”, ‘ 7 to leave any important ques- a . | Low not In any way interested in the con- Ser te,tacs toa wom car eat. | TNT Sort © DUNPOL. ___ |which troape im thi crusty and | toverstns tarsuen savtta! abd ier \ t's pronounced—de-spol! ac-|the nav were. epee ¥y and the organimtion does not coun. inite expectation as to what It [cent on the last syllable. |it was that the nation first had tts : and convicted for | a = ented tenance nor favor any antagonistic will do. It means—to plunder, to rob, to| #limpse of the new organization. The | jiitude towards organized labor. f out in front with the delegates came from every state. } ‘The poll tax law is BAD. The | pillage, to take away one’s belong ‘Again, as in Paris, half of then| We 4 Dot feel that there is any H|| cg nye sae ee thing to do is to kill it, The |!s* neg tl wad gpine orn Meno nalory between the actions of th: iW constagie . Girect, certain method for killing | Tt comes from Latin—"despoliare,” |“ With reference to question 2, this |!ndividual members of the American - a ft ts to sign initiative petitions |*° T° }is a matter on which there in no| Legion and the case of Senator New the power of his a Companion words—despoliation, | available data in Seattle, and will berry, Thq American Lagion is an and vote “yes” on the ballot next | 9 snowing Newberry deep fi despoiler. |be taken up further with a view to|extremely large organization. It blizzard of obliteration, as‘. It's used like this—He com-|furnishing Mr. Wallbom with the numbers over 700,000 members. No Plained that rent profiteers had de |information that he desires, We do reasonable person ean expect. that florious citizenry of this glorious state! What misrepresentation! What 2» farce! What a fall! Good-bye, Hi! And buy your @wn flowers before the funeral, It seems to me we would not dare to lay down the rule in the senate @ man may give a power of Gttorney to check against his ac- count and then not be held respon- able for what that man docs in the way of filling the coffers for the purpose of corrupting an elec- tion, That is infinitely worse than the seating of Mr. Newberry. The defense in this case, in my judo- ‘ment, 19 much worse than the original offense, because it estad- Hshes a precedent fraught with danger for all time.—Senator Borah (B.), Idaho, These combs are standard. They sell 4m 2 10-cent store for 10 cents and in the drug store for 25 cents. =F. G, Achelis, American Hard Rubber company, before senate finance committee, As for God, His way ts perfect: the word of the Lord is tried. For who is God save the Lord? or who dn a rock to save our God?—Psalma 18:20, 81. “We only work three hours a day,” says a senator, We can alk De glad they don't work siz. Amundsen will forecast tha weather a year ahead, That's easy: Winter, spring, summer, fall. The immigrants think they have @ right to this country because it a8 discovered by an immigrant. Maybe the South could sell Fora — bheir bolt weevils. Nothing ts as bad as its rumor. spoiled him ef all his money.” (— POEMS Ws or your CRAP Bo From Lyrics of Joy (Houghton-Miffiin Co.) ARBUTUS BY FRANK DEMPSTER SHERMAN Along the woods’ brown edge The wind goes wandering To find the first pink pledge The hint of Sprisg. The withered leaves around, She seatters every one, And gives to wintry ground A glimpse of sun. And to the woodland dumb And desolate so long She calls the birds to come , With happy song. Then the arbutus! This The pledge, the hint she sought, The blush, the breath, the kiss,— Spring’s very thought! GEOGRAPHIC PUZZLE | know that the lagion at tts first con vention at Minneapolia obligated |iteelf to the extent of $257,000, giv ing notes secured by the guarantees of various individual members. ‘These notes have all been paid and the legion is now on a sound finan cial basis. With reference to question 3, the | questioner ts evidently unaware of | the fact that shortly after the con | clusion of the war the question of j the army court martial manual was |taken up and considered by the war |department at the instigation of the legislative department of the United | States government and was revined |#0 as to mect-the criticism to which jit was subjected thru the period of the war Senator Watson's charges of bru tality, covered by question 4, were presented to the United States nen. ate. Immediately thereafter an tn- vestiguting committee was appointed by the senate and is now holding hearings !n Washington attempting to gather all possible evidence with reference to the charges which Sen ator Watson presented, We do not feel that it ix In the province of the American Legion, or any other or ganization, to interfere with, or to attempt to influence, the action of the United States senate. If, after the committee has completed ita in. vestigation, there is a feeling among the members of the American Le gion that it has not fully performed ita duties, that the investiration haa not been complete, or that it has not been fair, then the matter will be | taken up by the American Legion, but until that time it certainly would neither be proper nor of any avail for any organtmtion to attempt to interfere with the hear. ings of the committer, ‘The questioner has evidently been misinformed in regard to his ques. tion 6, as the St. Louis caucus did not go on record against adjusted compensation for exservice men. ‘The first national convention, which was held in Minneapolis, eapoused a plan of adjusted compensation for all who served in the war, and left with confidence to the congress of the United States the discharge of the obligation, which many felt was due them, | we can control the actions or atate- ments of all the individual members, All that we can do ts to assure the Jegitimate representatives of organ- ined labor that we have no feeling of antagoniam towaris them and that we do not take sides in their con | troversies. The best evidence of the jattitnde of the American Legion |towards organized labor is the fact that at its third convention at Kan- sas City on October 31, 1921, there was elected, as one of the vice com. manders of the national organiza tion, George L. Berry, president of the International Presamen's and Assistants’ Union, and we believe that our attitude towards orgunized labor can best be expreaned in the statement made by Mr. Berry at that time: "The federation and the le sion have much in common tn the legislative fields, in that they both are advocates of progreanive, structive, humanitarian legislation, and because they are both nonparti san in politics, seeking to promote |the interests of the state rather than the politician There ts every reason why our two organizations should maintain a contact that will be helpful to the whole of the com. munities In America.” ‘We have no knowledge of any members of the American Legion having been expelled from the or ganization for activities for or jarainat capital or labor, With regard to question 7, the constitution of the American Legion |provides that the organization shall |be absolutely non-political and shall |Partisan principles nor for the pro- motion of the candidacy of any per. #on seeking public office or prefer. |ment. No eandidate for or incum. bent of a salaried elective public office shall hold any office in the American Legion or in any depart |ment or post thereof, No letters or cireulara have ever been sent out from any American Legion post or department, and if questioner | Teceived letters purporting to be from the American Legion, such letters have never been authorized ‘The legion has no control over, nor does it care, with what party its |not be used for the dissemination of | The Telephone Instrument The telephone is a highly sensitive, delicately adjusted instrument. Think of it—without re- gard to distance, instantaneously reproducing every tone of the human voice. The quality of its service, in great measure, depends upon careful use. As with your watch, automobile or piano the more care, better results. Among the “out of order” reports received by the company, many result from the carelessness of the subscriber. 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