The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 22, 1922, Page 6

The Seattle Star 06, tm the state of Waani Outside of state, He per month, for € montha, or 19.00 per rear, By carrier, city, Star This Can Be Stopped Between now and November 7, 31 perfectly good seats in the United States senate be put up on the counter. Unless congress suddenly develops a conscience, there will be absolutely noth- ing to prevent the sale of these seats to the highest bidder. Daugherty interprets the supreme court decision in the Newberry case as invali- dating the corrupt practices act so far as senatorial candidates are concerned. The strings are off the money-bags. The multi-miljonaire-with-the-price may “legitimately” dip his broad scoop into his hoard of gold and pour until sheer weight of cold cash gets him what he wants, The sky is once more the [imit. In the attorney general’s opinion, the candidate need not bother even to file with the au- thorities “any statement whatsoever” as to how or to whom the money goes. Congress can put an end to this state of affairs if it is so minded. It can do it in a few hours. So keep your eyes on congress; watch it. . NS Tea, pt be a case of CAN'T, but a case of WON'T. ‘And if it WON'T, then, of course, “there’s a reason”: It will be because the ma- y in congress sees some advantage to itself in leaving the putrid situation as it is. If congress does not call a halt, it will Prince of Wales will be made Knight of the Thistle. Sounds like something to blow about. pronounce Se th mee * we can They talk about safe robbers. Looks as if all Ales Hré robbers are too safe. For we may The cost of living is being reduced. So are the about him with §ohonccs, has just pub- 2 ee The wireless age seems to be between nine and we ore reaky feinety. ~ heard moch when Che strik: which have been we bad - resis, bape Your Move, went Into effect? Evidently the hesays, anf ep «= ‘The administration didn't @e if they are willing to be trinumed known else oommch to stop the great coal You said you'd move ff this strike, but i Indicated i would if trimming recess ence Gared @hese cider the coal companies tock advan shew ile bead, I t showing Its are dertved tage of i to boast the price of head. large tn the coal. Mr. Daugherty, ©» your move rerstbred = Well, Ghay're boosting &. When (fs eta blocks te the Grug ceraocn why, ine, Wet Viste tren o meme ttere—denghter qete enereien, large. They ought Somerset coal st $1.85. rT eat, and, more = Fighteen days later it had gone Is Machinery other factor, up to $2.50. Man’s Master? of milk. Go he same company en April tan ty being devoured by his eg epee ong caer Necpaltecabg the machines, says Ro Austin Free white, black yellow, ab for = thousand = thas just recelved = Ietter er tos masegee?” Se © had plenty of milk in trom a big coal company which nutshell, his idea is that machin. diet, they are likely to be sayy, “4S YOU KNOW, THE ery, intended to become man’s People. It is so with black 1G COAL STRIKE IS SPREAD- giave, is gaining the whiphand Africa, It is se with ING (this was on May 10th) AND ag man's master. and the Swies. THE DEMAND FOR COAL IN- = kewult: We are getting further Om tre other hand, wherever CRFASING AS BUSINESS and further from the great forces milk Giet of children ceases picks UP. of nature, contact with which they are weaned, they ap “We can offer you the splendid = kept our ancestors normal. As to be dwarfed. The only et New River steam coal at $3.50 man loses contact with natural Lo gg allenic per ton at the mines, Tim above jaws, be inclines to drift inte um the South Sea landers, orice is low under the present natural ways of fiving. weaned conditions as coal is hard to se ©The remedy? Have = hobby, cure, and others are asking 50¢ something to relax your fagged, per ton more for coal not a8 jaded brain after working hours. good, so please advise at once.” And, in spare time, keep out of Well, Mr. Daugherty, here we doors, in the country, as much as are. They are boosting the price possible. of coal BECAUSE OF THE pS A MOTE: 2 STRIKE and becanse coal Is hard There are sections tn New York to procure. where an American ts a foreigner, Ts hard for @ rounder te be square. A Letter from AIVRIDGE MANN. Dear Folks: While slowly strofiing down the street, unheeding all the crowds I'd meet, my bean absorbed in doping out a bunch of stuff to write about, somebody gave my arm a brush and greeted me with, “What's the rush?” I stopped and turned around to m4 a euy whe stood and amfled at me; and I could very plainty tel he seemed to know me pretty well; and so I tried to place the gink, but who he was I couldn't think. I thonght I'd get htm figured out as soon as he began to spout; Canned | and fruit can be shipped a | way from the Western coast to Eastern coast for 65 cents « pounds, while Kansas and Ohio and the entire Miastasippi val- ley pays $1.20—B. F. Welty before committee on appropria- i t _ The Lord ts merciful and gra- slow to anger and plenteous mercy.—Psalm 103 :8. He (Attorney General Daugh- erty) has put back into office the | 1 sician who helped, on a fraudu- he'd surely say a thing or two to give mo just a little clue, so I plea, to get a pardon for | could save myself the shame of saying, “I forget your name.” Morse.—B8enator Caraway (D.), | But who he waa I couldn't tell, altho we talked for quite a spell; “Ark, |] Dut tn the end it wasn't vain—-he asked about a certain Jane with whom, it seemed, I used to go—but she was one I didn’t know. 3 And wo I said, “I really think you've mixed me with another : It onlay ppd cy ebdagrentid || sink.” He gave me quite a doubleO, and mid, “I thought your gaa ae thd'deote of the White | name was Joe! Why, you and Joe could pass as twins—you're Fy. ae ree, that {a too true. He || Just as much alike as pins! er on AE Mg Gove to every So here's a chance to fool the wife and lead a gry and double -<calboney pi me Asedlal prick Ufe; for I can flash another Jane, and If she sees me, I'll expl ss SNEED carecs nd torgore- It really isn't I, you know—it’s Just a guy whose name is Joaf” tion in the countr: “tive Oldfield (D. Representa~ | ke | Fear the vengeance of Cod as Much as thou mayest! and this salt keep thee from sin: and when ‘thou thinkest of His mercy, re- member also his righteousncss.— Pythagoras. | At the movies we often wonder Dhow the naked savages got collar marks around their necks, | Our objection to work ts there @re 40 many other things to do. Wouldn't it be great 1f money @iroulated as fast as rumors? What the world needs ia a wire~ | ‘Wes hook-up for a dress, PANAMA THE SEATTLE STAR ) LETTERS 2EDTOR Doctors and Miter The Star: ‘The doctors, I think, were first to adopt ethics a» a moneymaking or saving proposition. ‘They were the culprits who put « vulgar label on advertising, and we are just beginning now to admit that advertising is permissible, provided it is first sprinkled with holy water, ‘The doctors have but one real objeo- tion to advertising, and that is the act of gotng Into the right-hand pants pocket for the money with which to buy it. You can a@vertine « doctor free in the news columna, and he will not lowe his ethical standing tn the pro- fomsion, but if he puts in a paid ad he ta a “quack,” and a “quack” ta worse than the hook.and-eye eczema, I have had quite an experience with ethics, and naturally my respect for the thing ts not deep. In a long line of years, with close observation as to how the tnatitution works out- wide the laboratory teeta ft is my solemn conclusion that 99 49-100 per cont of all the hypoortay in this world Heep tn It ta “ethical.” however, that his only concern about ethics in while some one is watching him. In private, be will cut a throat, kin a widow or garrote an orphan without changing the angle of an eyebrow or batting an eyelid. Bome years ago, one Who was very Their Ethics clone to me Iay at the point of death. ‘The doctors had systematically at tacked my bank account until it looked like the remainn of a chicken at a nigger plonie. In desperation 1) catied in a doctor who had the cae in ite early stages, but whom I had fired because I was not watiafied with EARN A WORD EVERY DAY Today's word ts PERSONAGE. It's pronounced—pureunes, with ent on the firet ayliable It means—more than the mere word “person,” implying @ person of note, dixtinetion, tmportance. It comes trom—Engtinh “person,” the origin of which is uncertain, tho possibly from Latin, “persona,” a mask. his handling of it. He came, and) i1'— used tke this—“A number of while we sat there beaide the dying innuential personages are mentioned — polly egy Rogge soar tome) connection with the charges of noua . ft . 4 and whether or not it waa “proper” pool eae tty aiaee and “dignified” for him to resume | treating the sick one, The blood) botled within me, as the delay con-| the Geatre for alcohol, which will be tinued, and 1 blurted owt: “Itlank,| perpetuated wherever alcoholics, blank your ethica, Doc! We are even wine and beer, continue to be dealing now with death, and if you | used an a beverngs don’t get tury this Instant Ill beat, The e#taternent that thousands of you an long as I have strength to lives might have bean maved by whis do som | ky during the fin epidemic ts remark ‘The octor stopped practicing abion. An ao Red Crom worker in « ethion that instant and bean to prac city with more than double the popu- tice his profeasion, with the result lation of Seattle, I worked day after that the patient finally recovered. day with a physician of whom I And no two men today have more heard it said in the hospital that he reapect each for the other than this never lost @ flu case, and I know doctor and thin Bert Monsen. The doo | pouitively that neither then nor at came to see that ethica was one the curses of his profeanton, and that day to thin @ thing, and i3i Fi iH relieve the suffering. He has cast ethics Into the sewer, where it be jonas, and hig record of accomplinh- | ment i « greater glory than any/ record of “regularity.” BERT MOSES. Lesson in Recent Elections Editor The Star: The recent elections tn Pennay! vania and Indiana, tn which the old “conservative” republican organiza. tons were #0 decisively smashed, cannot fall to be instructive, and to bring hope and comfort to all right thinking, lawabiding people in America, who are muffertng from the constantly increasing cost of corrupt, “machine” government. As symp toma of the rapidly changing condi tions and sentiment among us they are of the highest significance and, when viewed in the light of history, the message they bring at this time ie full of cheer and encouragement for free. government. At Waterloo the hard-preesed French cried defiantly, “The old guard oan die, but surrender never™ Later, after our civil war, @ leading American statesman, In dis ctesing changed conditions, aid that the old tasues and many of the old loaders of that war were dead, and this country must meet and deal with “pew men, new issues and mew Umea.” Boss Botes Penrose, the acknowl edged leader of the republican organ zation in Pennsylvania for many years, bas recently died, many oth ors bave died in other states, and now the old organizations in both parties are without the leadership which has dominated the country so ‘To ignore this tp to close eur eyes deliberately to our great opportunity for relief. Do not these elections show that movernent is just now getting under way and eryrtallixing Into effective organization and action in those states? And tn these days of quick communication It can easily spread over the nation In a few montha, or even weeks. Was not the Inst repub-/ lican national victory merely a mis fortune {neurred in a determined effort by the people to rid themselves of an equally undesirable democratic the real “progressive” | they can unite, and a man etrong enough to lead them to victory? Cannot the progressive people of this wtate do thelr part to help the any previous time mn his practice aid be use whisky or any other alcohal I once exw whisky given by an amateur nurse hoping to hasten the recovery of @ flu patient who had been 14 hours without a temperature ‘The rewult was a rine tn ter; which poxied the doctor until he learned what had been given. There were four fu patients in that home: father, mother and two young chtl- dren. The children had pneumonia, bad cases, hemorrhage from mouth, nose and ears, but they recovered— without whisky. Someone in that city wrote to the department of public health in Wash. | MONDAY, MAY 22, 1922. t there by painstaking care in selecting the cofiees unceas and the modern Nquor traffic A few)! quiring him te abstain from apple years ago when we saw men reeling! pie, then I shall mot waste time in movement along, and speed the day |ington, D. C., and asked if brandy or| away from saloons, perhaps singin« | Lnting i out. when we can rid ourselves of the) professional “machine” politicians | who are now on our backs? As Pat tick Henry said, “Our brothers are already in the Meld?" Cannot we, tn our own state, fod an tane of na tonal or even local significance, upon which we can al) unite and pre sent an unbroken front to the forces | of evil In our own government? Will there ever be a better time to strike | than now? Alrendy their ranks are broken, thelr leaders dead or in dis | \repute, thelr lines are wavering, and confusion reigns within their organi-| which we can unite, and a man to) ead us Can we find » better imme than) the constitution Mteelf? As the final authority in government tt cannot willfany and openty tynored and do | fied the state constiiution thrucut the history of the stata. Does not the defense of the state constitution | present an issue upon which all the law-abiding people of the state will unite? With such an issue the man| Uahed. So Meh them. the resulta The movement will start iteelf. Once started, nothing cas stop ft. and all progressive forces will natorally and easily amalgamate maladministration, and that th mans of the people are progreestve and only await an issue upon which | state, Into one compact, effective fighting organization that will sweep the A CITIZEN, More on Prohibition and Bible Editor The Star: evils of the present day and Mr. Newspaper controverry ts very | Peterson comes along with the mune distasteful to me, but I feel impelled) claim. They both show dixinclina to come back with some comments) tion to recognize facts as presented on the latest letter of Alice M. B.| by others if they fail to correspond Meyer and alno the letter of Mr.| with their own viewpoint Pelerson, who has come to her sup In last Sunday's paper a great den) was maid about the drug evil and the A. M. B, M. enys she never read tn | bill pansed by the house and senate the Bible of Timothy having tndi-| Col L. G. Nutt, head of the govern. gestion. I sald “evidently.” When) ment narcotic control, stated that the St. Pant advised him to use @ little| use of drugs in beginning to decline wine for his stomach's sake and) and that prohibition has not atimu- spoke of his “often infirmities,” may | lated the use of drugs. I quote: “rhe wo not infer that he had indigestion? drug evil is entirely dinassociated And this is beside the point, but I} from the Manor habit * * © 1 presume that when she «peaks of St.| can «tate that in the cours of my | Paul's son she means son in the|exhaustive investigations covering whisky had been found benefic in treating the fu. The reply was: “No, not beneficial; rather harmful; ad- vined not to use it" Both letters were published in the city papers for the benefit of the public TI reckon the physicians wiM ent along with the supply obtainable As for port wine to enrich the blood, there are other things which are bet ter, The infinitesimal amount of nourtshment contained in wine may be offset by the alcohol which pro- duces a false stimulation, followed by reaction. It in used where re sation. All we need is an larue upon | peated Gones of stimulant is neces | thinks I said that the Bon of Man In fact, alcoholic liquors have! and His followers were prohibition- thelr place in the pharmacopoeia, | mary. but should not be tn the hands of in- experienced persons to treat seif- dingnored cases. Alooholie lquor be denied or contradicted. The “ma | should be given under prescription of chine” politicians in this state bave|a@ reputable physician and dispensed by one understanding the handling of potwonsa, for alcohol stands fifth on the list of deadly You, the peaimist sald “Wine maketh gad the heart of man.” an ob fashioned expreesion which became uproariously or perhaps past the reeling and singtng stage, failing into | the gutter, we did not say that they | had been tmbibing that which maketh | A pabeanpegn ven A. lL. D. GRAHAM were drunk. And i thetr wives and children had been Interviewed about that! time they would have been found to | have anything but glad hearts. Those innocent and helpless ones have right to consideration and since wom- | |en have the vote, believe me they are | ging to be considered. Mr. Peterson is worried because he DYE FADED WRAP SKIRT, DRESS IN “DIAMOND DYES” | Bach package of “Diamond Dyes” contains directions so simple any woman can dye or tint her old worn, faded things new. Even if she has never dyed before, she can put rich, fadeless color into shabby skirts, dresses, waista, coats, ings, everything. Buy Diamond Dyes —no other kind—then perfect home dyeing ts guaranteed. Just tell your druggist whether the material you wish to dye is wool or silk, or wheth- er it is linen, cotton, or mixed goods. inta. I did not use the term, tho I do not see why the thought should be disturbing. The Jews were accus tomed to prohibition. The Ten Com mandments are prohibitory and re strain the liberty of the individual All laws are arbitrary, but even Ros sin in not making a success of abob ishing laws, If Mr. Peterson does not see any difference between prohibiting the Mquor traffic which caused such sor- obeclete In the face of the ravages of the gasoline vaporizes in the car- boretor. “Red Crown” per cent. Every atom mixes with many times its volume of air and is completely consumed in the cylinders, leaving a minimum of Diamond Dyes never streak, spot, fade, or run.—Advertizement row, sin, crime and disease and re- 100 | faith. Timothy was converted under Paul's teaching while a young lad every phase of the drug traffe in | this country I have not uncovered a carbon residue on spark plugs, valves and cylinder heads. That Paul had a great affection for! single case of drugs being used as an him ts proved by the letter written about 30 years later, Titus was an- other young convert who remained 9 close friend and follower of the great preacher; and we find Paul address ing him in the same affectionate man ner: “Mine own son after the com. mon faith,” tho Titus was a Gentile, A. M. 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