The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 19, 1922, Page 6

i i F i! i li i : i al Fy a i aH f 1 . it ie i ! i | Of have been put In the God Almighty for the mankind, and are we go- alent here and allow a ‘men in this country to organ- and profiteer upon the people ‘Of America until they suffer and | freeze and die because of the greed Of profiteers? — Senator Overman (DJ, N. 0. Files keep a lot of people from Morrying about something else. | These are the good old days we wish for in a few years. _ La Follette’s _ Carb for Courts ‘The gradual but persistent en- @rouchment of the federal courts Upon the powers of the legislative branch of government has been slowly followed by = growing dis- Satisfaction with the courts on the part of the people. ‘The feeling has crystallized that the courts have gone clear beyond their legitimate function of inter- Preting laws enacted by congress ‘me to their constitutionality, until the judicial branch of government has presumed to write into the Jaws s meaning not only never in- tended by the legislative branch, bat quite contrary to the known Intention of congress. _ At various times in the past 4 there have been proposed reme- % @ies for this usurpation of power. > Among them was the recall of Judges. That was followed by a Suggestion of the recall of judicial Gecisions. None of these gained Strength enough to take the form ‘of amendments to the coastitution. Now, however, Senator La Fo!- lette presents a plan for curbing the power of federal courts which fe workable. It comes at a time When the people are ready for it. ‘There is nothing revolutionary or @angerously radical about it. It Merely proposes to put the federal Judiciary where it belongs, as one of the three co-ordinate branches of government—instead of the whole thing. There will be litte objection on 3 The SeattleS BY wali, eet of etty, See The Moving Shadow ar month: BF montha $1.60) ¢ montha 42.76) rear, ahington, Outside ef the state, per month 49.50 per year, Dy carrier, city, be & month THE SEATTLE STAR LETTERS 2 EDITOR The Ants and Their Poison Editor The Star: dope and carry off the can; there's Ge to the ant, thou sluggard, and |too many ants to kill with mere learn his waye pinch of poison. fo We | But the ant jaoner was right; ‘© have been having quite « time x rt with ants out at our house lately, there t# not an ant In the house day, there wann't an ant in the house |I discovered « lot of things studying “ | | ore won't be those tiny pests. the next morning, and thi an ant in the house for some time Man calls anything @ pest that I | we nave put a few dabs of this on hie eatablished civilized | poisoned aweet about the pantry routing; the most of what we call snelves; the ante devoured it greed | have as definite @ piace, and iiiy, for maybe 10 minutes; lines of &re aa neoeanary « cog in this MUM |aeng ants bordered the poison, Then {dane routine, as man. |1 noticed that the ants didn't feed Anyway, we had ants by the thou-/on the poison any more; instead, they sand; they invaded the bread box and!came in long Mnes and looked over At last the Old Guard is astir. >> G. O. P. leaders from the president down realize something is wrong and from now LP ESA AAR ea STEN eome and candidates at Washington know there is a lesson for them in Towa, and Pennsylvania, if they can but read it right,” says the Philadelphia Public J. Stanley Webster, our own congressman, has been appointed on a congressional committee, and only yesterday our canary laid an egg. A surpris- ing week!—Spokane Press. About the only thing scarcer than hens’ teeth are pretty girls who don't know it. Bulletin: During recent attacks in congress our army lost several thousand men. Never count your chickens before they return from a friend’s garden. long lines from nowher on our stray forage. jArive ants away and they sold her Jamal package of guaranteed dop: |that was posttively certain to kill every ant in the county in a day |T looked at the long line of ants that | street, and I said [Editor The Star I note tn one of your tarues last |month a letter written by Mra KE. Davis, secre Washington Boule jward W. C. + on the prohibition tame. It ts « typical letter, showing the | manifest ignorance of the “drys” of | national conditions. By this I mean! the followers of that astute close cor. |poration of seven men known as the/ AntiSaloon league, For years thetr | chief boast has been that they have no members, but only adherents and these montly in the churches, and lthat, having no vote, these adherents cannot demand any report on finan } expenditures or methods of op ration, No «mall bedy of men tn the world's history ever pulled the lwool over the eyes of a nation as effectively as they have done. | It was unfortunate that Mra, Davis should have mentioned the American Metical association In her letter and }the questionnaire. It te quite true | that a tricky questionnaire was sent out two years ago asking if beer, lwine and whisky were “eavential.” | Even tho these were sent to a picked group, even then 60 per cent were in favor of these as medicinal agente. Fifty per cent, however, voted “no” because when you use the word “ee sential” you ere getting down to nar row limitations, Food, drink, cloth. ing and shelter are the only things essential, and very little of these. For instance, how would you answer the question, “Are pork chops es sential?” Immediately after this another j tT they intruded on the ayrup pitcher; )their dead and went away they mingled with the toast, and | we visited the pantry the next morn cavorted in the cream; they came tn ing we found no ants And fensted jants had been taken away, and out- ‘The wife went to the drug store had before streamed and arked for something that would hole, only a few shriveled corpecg marked where the outposts had tacked the polson amears. When n the dead de the house, where the ant armies thru « knot | An ant bas sense enough to go) Are Ignorant Nobody but « fool or one willfully | the elty would save from $250,000 to| chants of approximately $190,000 per fenorant would subscribe to the Vol- | $350,000 a year on tte own wear and | year. | stead definition of an tntoxfeating| tr 1p building tresties and elevated | roadn, beverage — one-half teaspoonful of alcoho! tn 09% teaspoonfuls of water, You could not give away a case of ft to anybody. All nature laughe at Volstead. Homemade root beer do velops over 2 per cant of alcohol om the pantry shelf tn 11 days. We all know what cider does. Rum has killed tte thousands, but prohibition ts «laying its tens of thousands, The bootlegger Is king. Farmers are talking of 20 gallons to the acre, Graft reigns among the pro- | hibition forees on land and sem ‘There ts not a man or woman in the United States who ts not vio- lating the Voletead act or condoning the violation of the Volstead act, the W. C. T. U, tncluded. By thie last statement, I mean that all of us know some friend who ts violating tt or some acquaintance of a friend and we are not willing enough and cour agecus enough to have them brought inte court for punishment. Why? Either because we do not be Neve in the law itself or because we are cowards and hypocrites. In our at this moment, within four blocks of my office, there are men and women drinking beer, wine and whisky at tables tn « so-called re. apectable place, We all know that Nevertheless, the reformers, lying de Uherately, say “AN ts well, Prohibt-. tion ts winning out. Gtve ft time.” But not a corporal’s guard of the W. C TU. of Y. W. C A. or from any Christian church t willing to ge down and shut tie place up as i i medical group and I have all the re-| ey onn do any time with full con- The man with a line of talk is usually fishing turns th ty possession. In which the | sent and support of for something. word “oasential” was replaced by the | Passers and tour-fushers word “valuable.” Lo and behold, the “nd I do not believe that mame people who answered “no” to|has the slightest resprot the part of the people to the plan rate af 15 per cent, Is simply the first, anwwered “yee” to the| Carrie Nation, thoro fanatic as of taking away from the inferior didn’t dare to 40 more. But the | second. I publicly challenged the|¥"& at least courte the right to declare Inws senate committee, ied by Mo | Anti-faloon league tn Chicago the | She carried on without fear. enacted by congress unconstitu: Cumber, doubled this rate and ether Oa7 oo mepetinn Shame enewers | Se wee ieee commis eb de eee 8,000 ph . tional. That right ts confined made it 30 per cent, an increase te Maer P goo mgood but no one|the old-time all-theyearround poll- te the U. 5. supreme ‘court. But of 150 per cent. wanted to look, I had and still have ing place for tniquitous politicians, the power of the people is saved The proposition was so outrage foods to deliver, but the drys | Canada dinpenses its beverages with- by giving to congress the final ous and indefensible that even |cannot bear first-hand evidence | out saloons ES oe a an muc ina on legislative authority, thru the some of the republicans refused | What ® blow it must have been to posse wn mule Wenln over the president's veto. It should have the same right as to supreme court veto. That places final legislative power in the hands of congress, over which the people have contro! thru election. The makers of the constitution never intended that final legisla tive power should rest In the hands of suprome judges, appoint- ed for Iife, and therefore inde- pendent of the will of the people. Omaha borer got a divorce be- cause his wife beat him. Bhe must be one of thesg clubwomen, God does not pay every week, but He pays surely at the end.—Dutch proverb, The man who can’t see detter times ought to go to an optimist. Every now and then a man loses Nha best friend by marrying her. Wish we could train moths to eat the same holes every year. Bometimes we think the cream Of society stays on ice. A pretty girl never likes to take her oton word for it. Another Hold-Up There is scarcely a tool manu factured in America more univer- sally used than the common hand saw. And when we include schedule hand, buck, cireular, mill, pit and drag saws, stecl band saws and cross-cut, we have in the & lst which actually. reaches practically every home in this country. Under the Underwood bill saws are protected at the rate of 12 per cent ad valorem. Under this tariff, the business has grown to tremendous propor- tions. Last year we manufactur ed for home consumption saws valued at $15,860,000. We ex- ported to foreign countries saws valued at $4,851,791. We actually dominate not only the trade of America but of Europe, Asia, South Amerlea and Africa into the bargain! We imported from the rest of the world only « few fancy makes, valued at $126,906! All this under a protective tariff of 12 per cent. Realizing all these things, the house of representatives fixed the And so it is being framed, this “republican tariff,” as Senator Lodge calls it. The great Amert fan family, if the schedule goes thru, will be held up for higher prices for household necessity after household necessity, and the beneficiary—as always under this vielous bill—will be the House of Have. I accownt for tt (decadence of American shipping since about the year 1860) largely, sir, in the fact that when the 13th amendment to the constitution wae adopted the status of the seamen remained, Everybody else became free to quit employment, subject, of course, to cluil damages, except the seaman. The seamen’s status remained unt the passage, substantially, of the seamen’s act, that of a serf or a slave to his master. If he absented Mmaeclf, he was drought back by force and made to labor against his will.--Andrew Furuseth before joint committee. This may be a cruel world, but not a coaled world. A Wafer usually wither he was doing tt somewhere clea. LEARN A WORD EVERY DAY } | '* word is PALPABLE. | It's pron ced—pal-pa- bl, with ao cent on the first syllable. It means—onpable of being touched or felt; perceptible to the touch; plain, distinct, obvious, readtly per- a. It comes frorn- feol, to stroke, the Latin word being derived from “palpus,” the soft palm of the hand It's used like this—"Critics of At- torney General Daugherty’, connec tion with the Morse case say that his supporters’ attempt to answer by attacking thetr motives is a palpable evasion of the issue.” ASEESESESRERESERERESTSTA ESET IET EET! |1# GRADUATION GIFTS— WEDDING |# GIFTS Are always more accept- |# able when purchased at this store. Albert Hansen JEWPLER 1518 BSHOOND AV Between Pike and Established 185 Psticsctisticctisiictriscersssstieetie rtd eee ee Latin “palpare,” to | ithe Anti-fialoon league and the W. |G. T. U. to know that in 8t. Louls| last month the American Medical as soctation passed a epecial resolution | lasking the government to give them | good whisky In 8, 16 and 22.0cunce bottles. Yet the Anti-Saloon league |secured, as they nny, some kind of a statement that the Amertoan Med foal association had declared alcohol las having no food value and né value as a therapeutic agent. How pe jeullar that they should now make |public demand for that which fs no | good Furthermore, this same bunch liseued 627,000 preseriptions for whisky during the first four and a half months of prohibition in Chi. | cago | | The fact of the matter fs that the | “arya and reformer generally do) | net end never can understand human | |pature, I have tn this office over | 300,000 signatures of registered | voters fn TIllinols demanding an amendment of the Volstead act and thousands are coming in daily and |this mostly by volunteer effort. |simply have recetved rotten advice, activities of the bootleerer, ruining our young men and women, Fortunately, prominent men of God and some courageous Christian men and women * Mentifying them. scives with our movement, now representing a pald membership of over 209,000. We still hope to save |the churches from the devil which inaptred the madness of national pro- hibition, Pardon the length of this fetter, I am not questioning the sincerity of Mra, Davis and W. C. T. U. tn thetr belief of the truth of the statements they make, They and it is my hope that they will eo the truth tn @ very short wht Youre for sober and sane America, HARRY DE JOANNIA, Director, Tiltnots Division of Btal the National Association Opposed | 1608 Mofiroe | to Prohibition, Buflding, Inc, Chicago. West Seattle Viaduct Urged Editor The Star | We are dangling along and spend. | jing m y at a flerce rate, trying to | got transportation to Weat Seattle. Tt will be worse when the ofty starte jon the new bridge at Spokane st., un |less we have the viaduct, and that | Will save millions and give the peo- ple quick transportation to one of the finest residence districts of Seat tle The city or the taxpayers are los- ing $750,000 to $800,000 @ yoar, where, if we had a viaduct, the city and the public would save more than one million a year. The viaduct would cost between four and five millions, the ap- proaches starting from the smith building, running acroms the bay PRAY FOR IRISH SOLDIERS The Pro-Cathedral at Dublin was so crowded that many | members of the Irish Republican army kneeled in prayer out- side the church at the services held upon the first anniver sary of the burning of the Dublin customs house when many of the I. R.A. lost their lives, | laway from a polsoned spot, and to! I looked at the small package, and stay away. Men do not have-that much senm, | near the Novelty mill, and the West reached from the bread box to the |otherwise there would be no moon. | Side approaches near California and “They'll eat that |shiners in Washington. Declares “Drys” |tenchers’ salaries. APetter from | AIVRIDGE MANN. | Dear Folks T’'m not a golfer, good or bad; I never ewnt the ball; my nether limba are never clad in golfing togs at all; in fact, I've never had the hunch to join the golfing band—but often, when I go to Junch, I play it second-hand. I go to get a bit of grub, and play tt with my ear, and swing 0 visionary club, from all the talk I hear, Hugh Jennings says, “I'll take some pie, and coffee—nothing more—I had an awful rotten lie, but made the hole in four.” Chas, Mullen sits across the way, and says, “I'll take some beans; I heard another fellow say they ought to fix the my game of late ts pretty dead, I'm playing like a dub; my eye ie bad—please pass the bread—I need another club.” ‘1 take nome mashed potatoes now-—my mashie whot ts great,” onys Art Barrell while eating chow, “I shot an 84." Irv r replien at's pretty fair—about as good as mine; I'l take & steak, and make ft rare—1 shot on #9." And when 1 hear this verbal treat, I'd iike to ask the bunch: “Please tell me, is it golf you eat, or are you playing lunch?” But even so, I must admit, it doewn't try my soul; in fact, It just a bit—to play the “19th hole,” lar . , ow. viaduct. If the viaduct was built, it would save the merchants $420 per day for Gelivering purchases, not counting con!, wood or heavy materials. This would make @ saying to the mer- tempts me Admiral way The way I have ft Mmgured out, ft would pay for Iteetf In seven to etght years, but leaving out the figuring, It would pay Went Seattle proper. which are costing them and) ty owners to bufld the viaduct them- the taxpayers millions to bulld and) selves if you could get them to get thousands for upkeep. together and pledge $25 per lot, If If we had the viaduct, there would | they did, before they would have to | be a saving on time of about 26 min-| pay any money out, they would be utes, it now taking 40 minuten,| selling for double what they could whereas by the viaduct tt could be | today, therefore tt wouldn't cost made in 16 minutes, The saving Wert Seattle people, for the other @ men's wages and upkeep of cars| people would be paying for the lots would be approximately 10 cents a/ and, indirectly, the viaduct. run, 20 cents for current, making a| Queen Anne, Capitol Hill, Mount saving of $1.90 per hour. Eighteen | Baker Park and University kickers hours for each car a day and 20 cars| would all be on their way to West Se- for Alki, West Seattle and Fauntle-| attle for property in West Seattle, roy, make a total loss of $256.230,| Now, get on the way and build the! which would be « gain if we had the! viaduct’. = D. R.B. SHEPHARD. | The School Teachers’ Morale | Editor The Star: the thoughts of it; and the effect it In Monday's \emue of The Star, Mr. | wil) have upon “our children”! They! Bhorrock ts taken to taxk by @ corre- | will lose so much in education. There | spondent for his part in cutting | will be a reason, now, why the chil-| I should think/dren do not pass their grades; the Mr. Shorrock would feel very much| teacher has jost her morale. Oh, ashamed of himself, after reading dear! Oh, dear! It ts all too bad. that article, How he imposed upon| Let us look at the other eide of the the poor teachers, causing them ro ln & minute. I am an ex) lowe their morale; and also causing | teacher mynelf; and I know an alto- them :to feel like golng out some-| gether different clans of teachers. where and earning money during va-| The above may be true of the Seat cation, instead of Onishing their post- | tle teachers, but I have my doubts Eraduate courses. |The kind I know, while, of cours, He says he knows 20 high school | they would not laugh {f their salaries teachers who already have lost their were cut, neither would they weep. morale, and will look for summer | They would realize the necessity of jobs. Oh, the poor things! Where keeping their public taxes within will they go to find jobs? And what | proper bounds; and if it seemed, in so can they do? In fact. I suppose, | Going, that they must suffer, they they might do many things, if they| would 60 so philosophically, They wore #0 dixposed and knew how, But! would say, individually, “I will try! arc HAL al array HU hoki tind If you want tokeep The quality of “Red Crown” is always the same, whenever and wherever ou buy it. It vaporizes Me in the carburetor. And it burns completely in the combus- tion chambers, converting all its heat units into power at the driving wheels. That meansa better average mileage, ; and a sweeter-running engine. j Fillatthe Red Crownsign —at Service Stations, garages, and other dealers, STANDARD OIL COMPANY uniformly MONDAY, JUNE 19, 1922, ] NAVY YARD ROUTE Colmes Dock Mele 3903 to get @ better-paying place, but if I can not, I will not fall down on my job, and do lens or better work: 1 will make every endeavor to get the best 4 out of my class there is init. 1 take & pride in my school and enjoy only its suceens This should be the motto of every teacher, and ia, to a large extent. If it were not #0, our schools would be in a sorry mene today. ‘There are hundreds of the bent teachers of the ntate teaching for $1,200, or lene, Money, as wages, down not make school teacher any more than It does a lawyer, or newspaper editor, Net- ther does education of the kind that is turned out at the universities, with the sole view of the high salaries they vision. All this talk about morale ané chi. dren's lone is rot. It’s all nonsense. HB. Ww, PYORRHEA DANGEROUS TO LIFE AND HEALTH Bewere of quacks, who treat y: ora stroy the cums and membrane that supp teeth, ft ie ehari Abie to neglect, can be sub- DENTAL CLINIC 106 Columbia Bt, Yor More Than Twenty Yours SRATTiE'S LEAD- | Ea Ed EY EY ES Fy FI a eee Ee Leave Seattle daily *G30 - 745 -*900 - 10:30 - 1199 0m 14S + B45 - 5:15 p.m. *Except Bu: 748 - 1130 a. em. ‘215 p.m. Batre trip Saturday and Su: 10 7300p mm. Rxtre tip Saturday and Sunday 1020 p.m. Visitors accompanied by Bremertca Chamber of Commerce Guide per- mitted in Navy Yard ot 1 & 3 p.m. Passenger fare 80c round trip. | Ei EY EY ET EY ET FZ your truck trouble- proof, feed it “Red Crown” and noth- ing else. rapidly and