The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 5, 1922, Page 6

: Ireland. ' a the and senate on a distinct promise that, even tho Mr. Wilson would continue for two years tn the a republican con- out of the chaos of conditions and into the smooth waters of “reconstruction.” | There began the real orgy of foot on the part of the profiteers, far-time plundering wis plking comparison, | Then came 4 program of yam- mer and yaw in the halls of con- gress that has continued to this minute. | Temporary tax bills, | Temporary tariffs, Temporary legislation ports, camouflaged as gency” legislation, “Liquidation of labor.” Boaring security prices stock exchange. Soaring prices on Ife’s neces- paries. Liquidation of the farmer. Then came the flood tide of Hard-boiled confidence. “We can get away with murder,” the Old Guard boasted. Then came Newherry—enough. 'No, the North Dakota result 't a nonpartisan league re- mult, On state issues the non- of all ‘“emer- attl ington. or $9.00 per year, By Outside of oarrter, city, Remember the Maine The 25th anniversary of the Spanish-American war is approaching. Never was there & more idealistic conflict than America waged to free Cuba. Yet, bitterness against i United States is developing among the Cubans, and Cuba threatens to become a “We Refuse to Be America’s Vassal,” reads a headline in a Havana newspaper. It fg a strange reversal, after 25 years. The American people spent their money and laid down their lives for Cuba’s freedom. No American wants to make Cuba a vassal, The | Cubans, however, sullenly believe the United States {s out only for profit. Next door to Cuba, is Hayti. In that disturbed community acts have been commit- during the past years by Americans which have been disquieting to the Cuban . Simultaneously with the rule of America’s military arm in Hayti, the ) American government sent a military man to Havana, Gen, Enoch Crowder, charged "General Crowder arrived on a warship, and has made the warship his home. He ~ Hs acted suavely and with tact, nevertheless his conduct has been that of a governor- og He has forced a reorganization of the Cuban ministry, and is making Amer- hated, among patriotic Cubans. The United States wishes to stamp out corruption Th A horse ran away on Broadway in New York. It is thought that he saw another horse. The world owes us a living; but it pays on the installment plan, Who started the belief that 5 a. m., is the time to mow the lawn? partisan league was beaten, The North Dakota 4 g hott 55 aT ef fet in Fis Ht 2 na | a ity! 33? ? i is] | = ‘f =e = : i se LAtTeHt serie lath itil Walla Walla, Lewiston, Pendieton, Ontario and Burns. The area that can be Irrigated lies about equally in both states. “This is a mammoth project, In teresting and inspiring tn Its pos- sibilities. A half million acres of s new, fertile land could support on farms and In tributary towns no less than 200,000 newcomers. Such » contribution of population to these two states would vastly Increase our commercial and in- dustrial wealth. Practically every acre of such project would be (Continued From And the next morning French-Canadian lived promise. the old true to his Behind a plodding pair of they made the journey, far out across the hills end plateau flate from Tabernacle, gradualiy winding into a shallow places which’ Houston remembered trom years long gone. Beside the fond ran the rickety track which served as a spur from the main line of the railroad, five miles from camp, ~-the tles rotten, the plates loosened and the rallw but faintly free from rust; silent testimony of the fact that cars traveled but seldom toward the market, that the hopes of distant years had not been fulfilled, Ahead of them, a whitefaced peak reared it- self against the sky, as tho a sen- tinel against further progress,— Bear Mountain, three miles beyond the farthest stretch of Empire Lake. Nearer, a slight tra{l of smoke curled upward, and Ba'tiste pointed, “The mill,” he said. “Two mile yet.” “You, I remember fn « hazy sort of way.” Then he laughed shortly, “Things will have to happen and hap- pen fast if I ever live up to my con- tract, Ba'tiste.” “Bo?” in Thayer. I thought he was honest When my father died, he came back to Boston, of course, and we had a long talk. I agreed that I was not to interfere out here any more than Was necessary, spending my tune, Iv the Seattle Star 6.08, tm the sents 4.60 for € mont are looking for the 12 greatest women. Don't leave out the one who makes her own hats. horses hitched to a jolting wagon, | canon which led to| “Yes, I put too much confidence | $e & month. tributary in a trade way to Port i ever vice president of the board of trade of Saginaw, Michigan. This will be his true title to greatness, and all he will possess. He says that his tariff bill wil be his monument, Like the monument which the teredo possesses when it bores holes in a ship and sinks iti I Ddellove we will all agree that if one had to select a stand-pat, dyed-in-the-wool, hell-bent, porw- der-burnt, and Chinese-wall tariff man in the house of representatives toe would select Joe Fordney.——Rep. Garner (D.), Tex. stead, tn rounding up business. He | had been my father’s manager, and I naturally felt that he would give | every bit of his attention to my bus- iness. I didn't know that he had oth- ler schemes, and I didn’t begin to get jon to the fact until I started low ing contracts. That wasn't so long ago. Now I'm out here, and if neo- essary, I'll stay here and be every thing from manager to lumberjack, to pull thru.” “Bon! My Plerre, he would talk ike that.” Then the olf man was) jallent for @ moment. “Old Ba’'tiste, | |he has notice some things, He will show you. Golemar! Whee!” In answer to the whining call of the giant, the wolf-dog, trotting beside the lazy team, swerved and nipped at the horses’ heels. The pace be- came @ jogging trot. Soon they were in view of the long, smooth mound of sawdust leading to the squat, | rambling shed. A moment more and the bunk house, its unpainted clap- boards blackened by the rain and sun and snows, showed ahead. A half-mile, then Ba'tiate left the wag: | on and, Barry following him, walked toward the mill and {ts whining, groaning sawn, “Watch close! he ordered. “See everthing they do. Then remember. Ba'tiste tell you about {t when we come qyt."* Within they went, where bulking, strong-shouldered men were turning the loge from the piles without, along | the skidways and to the carr! the mill, thelr scant hooks -wor (Turn to Page 11, Column Q THE School Superintendents’ Salaries Eéitor The Star: I notice that the members of the tax reduction council have made the the city superintendent of achooln is out of proportion to the population of the city, As proof of this conten. tion they cite the single instance of Ban Francisco, population of 610,000, which pays its superintendent of schools $4,000. The tax reducers could have added to this the fact that educationally Ban Franctaco ranks the lowest among the large cities on the Pacific coast. But If the tax reducers believe that the salary of the superintendent of elty schools should be based on popu. lation, I herewith submit some facts which may ald them in arriving ata reasonable salary for the chief exeo- utlve of the Seattle schools, Balary of Population City #upt, o« S08008 10,600 Vo A fow hundred votes are miscount- 4 at an election and there Is an out- ery. A half million registered voters fall to record their preference and there ts scarcely a groan. Which evil defeats more the ends of good govern it? 0 olties, an @ rule, only half the eligible citizens are even register. od. Therefore, in important muniet- pal elections sometimes only one tenth the eligibles vote. The average citizen Itkes to vote, fs proud to vote, Then why don’t the total eligibles register and vote in each election? The polling place ia the trouble-——“too much troubl Voting should be @ pleasure, not a The success in some states of “Ab Editor The Star: Why was our public school man- agement #0 taaistont upon the reteh- tion of Its overhead supernumerarten, heads of ta, directorn and supervisors, 76 or more In number, Hl boring from within, Ike toredos eat- pile, fair to look at from the but full of the holes and of the internal borers, which tho entering thru rmall holes Mke the prick of @ needie, have frown and fattened on thelr borings | until they have rufned the strength and destroyed the body of the very structure which supported them and gave them nourishment. Our public school must be and wi! be rescued from the tottering state to which they have been reduced ‘The bad timber, threatening collapae, | must be removed, replaced with good | and the good timber preserved from | future attacks of wasteful destruc. tion, > of the condition tnto Which the system has fallen must be | continued. Examination, exposure, removal, renovation, replacement | and construction must take the place | of the concealment of condition of | foolish, destructive expenditure and | evasion of the plain provisions of | law which bas been and ts at present prevalent. Another management Ifke the tart past, but not to be forgotten; long to be remembered for years while we are paying its debts—would rench the black goal of death for our boast- ed public schools, There ts no eurer way to ruin anything, from a trans continental railway to a local tram- way, than by expending more than reoslving, borrowing at a high rate! of interest to continue tn the wild | waste of extravagance as hna been | the public schoo! policy in the past. | ‘The example of the prodigal son 4oes not seem to have welght with aur political public school bosses. Ta {t ponsible that since the reading of the Holy Scriptures in th LEARN A WORD EVERY DAY ‘Today's word Is FEUDALISM. It’s pronounced—fu-daliz'm, with accent on the fir lable. It mea! m which pre vailed in Europe in the Middle Ages, based upon the relationship between lord and vassal, the vassal being an inferior who placed himself under the lord's protection, accepted a grant of land from him, generally upon hereditary tenure, but ter. minable at the lord's pleasure; and who, In return for these favors, ao knowledged his supertor’s authority over him and his right to demand certain services, varying from mill- tary duty to cash or property pay- ments or montal teska. “It was chan acterized,” nays an authority on the subject, “by the merging of public and private law, #o that offloe, juris. diction, and even kingship, were forms of property.” The word had a Latin origin, but | passed thru many changes and can be attributed most conveniently to Old English, “fe,* meaning a pay- ment. Ite used like this—“The «pectal policy committes of the American Federation of Labor asserts that ‘Industrial foudaliam seems to have found g fpothold’ in this country.” | SEATTLE Interesting discovery that the walary | § ting by Mail Morale—Morality—Morals + | text, the great splendid truth, freedom, justice, love, beauty. s Oakinnd, Cal, Tale a Dear Fotka: Own “But still,” he paid, “in an "pace; #0 why not toke a turn ab In this Mat of salaries of superin- neugh tendents of city school aystens, we. lected at random, the tax reducers ean probably find a baals for the salary of Mr, Cole, Where the sal ary cannot be adjusted to the popula tion, It i» probable that the popula tion can be adjusted to the walary— that ja, home makers will be d tracted to Ban Diego, Spokane, Oak- land, and even to Bisbee, Artz, They consider the matter of schools when making @ change of residence, Yours for the schooln, FREDERICK WELLAND, Ballard what; we'll b worth the pr! can't be worner’ mine. Star, and mark it “Contest.”) sent Voting” by mall, in eptte of tts Obstructive formula, may ‘have help- od Inapine the recent spurt of interest in “entire elections by mail.” But it# real tmpulse will be found in two very divergent sources: (1) Enfran- chined women’s dislike of a polling Place; (2) exasperated “wets” casting about for a referendum medium, ‘There ts much In favor of « scien Ufie mall method. It would make ‘Yoting & pleasant, home affair, with RO lons of work or time, weather of NO account, and election costs cut In half, More effectively than compul- sory voting, it would bring into action the total eligibles and thus “bury” evil candidates and all ikely frauds, Editor The Star: Ed Clifford, appointed Btate Labor Commissioner by Governor Hart at the comfortable salary of $5,000 no longer ago than June of 1921, has for months past been listening to the buzzing of @ gubernatorial bee from the King county hive, Mr, Clifford ts @ man of deep at- lences. It has been sald that not only his moat intimate friends se!- dom know where he is, but that he wakes up in the night to cross-exam- ine himself to find out where he stands politically. fBome of his friends ere not #0 close-mouthed, however, and rumors are rife that the movement on foot to elect “Dick” Condon state chair man and retire Charles Hebbard RUSSELL THOMPSON. schools has ceased, or if never even read in Washington state, that our political public school have never heard of that parable by Jesus the Christ? When I went to public school @ portion of the Holy Berip- tures was read every morning, #0 we bad the very best there waa to tnoreane” our morale, morality and morala— principals, teachers and schotare alfke. No matter how much we might have disagreed about the translation of a few words tn the leanons of Editor The Star: ‘They had a person by the name of Hall who made his escape from the penitentiary here on June 16th, and was not discovered missing for three days, altho Capt. J. T. Burke and Chief Turnkey Lovall counted him in four times a day during that period. I would like to know if you would call that effictency and value returned for the taxpayers’ money? Every time a convict escapes there in m $50 reward, besides the traveling grandeur, duty, Rolinens and patriot jem eank Into our souls and remain: | returning from the place of capture. I beg to state right here that #inos the election of Gov. Hart that Capt. J. T. Burke has teen the real warden Rut the Holy Bertptures have been banished from our public school and It lan’t any idle feat, I've got to have a little days 1 porateh my dome, but what's the And #0 there's nothing else to do but quit t 1 told the bons I had to go and rest & week or two or #0. answered, “Should your letters cense our circulation And furthermore, 1 might suggest, your Clifford Eager to Be Governor? from polities hag back of it a well thought out plan to disrupt the Hart) forces, start # fight on Mark Reed raising an in a way, justify Clifford in splitting with his bene factor, Gov. Hart, and then announce ing himself aa a candidate for gover with them Morale, Morality and Morala, of the penitentiary altho there have APetter from | AIVRIDGE MANN. use? we've « “We'll plok the bent of all the lot and give a prize—t don’t know i ve to make it mighty nice, because for nearly anybody's verse will equal So, readers, help me save my face, and try to fill my dally space, and be accommodating guys and try to cop the boss's aren yl tho you lose, I'll think it fine to know that you're @ frien (Note: Ad@ress your “letter” to Avridge Mazin, in care of The and Guy Kelley, thus issue that will, nor. rest; thems summer Nobody's homet he job a week or two. might increase. readers neod a little rest ot to fil the blooming and let your readers help sad out? If everyone who reads your atuff will write one day, you'll we know it's | | SELECTIVITY—The ox radio transmitting o; ar. | ir recetyity to tune 's om own to @ definite tin |The abiiity to select any particigg wave lJength to the exclusion others. ae | barbed wire and wire netting on the top of the ntone wall, also within 1% foot of @ muard looking down on ¢ | But 1 understand there were ne (merke of the wire being cut so | they must have gone out the | ate, and under that conditic | euard would not know wt ne nether they were inmates or visitors. ‘The forenoon Capt, Burke called theme tron, notifying her tha he had tom two of the Inmates, and whe said 4 were all there, 90 Capt. Burke mala to count again and she then dincovep, ed she was two her. |, The next day Capt. Burke ang Guard Davis haa a trip to LaGrands Oregon, and brought back these two women. (I would like to know {f is not customary for a woman guard t© 60 and bring women Prisoners back to this institution?) lately one of these girts wae removed to a horpttal down town tor | @n operation and was removed back jto the institution on @ stretcher, | Understand that @ tax! driver herp fot $100 reward from the «tate on these two girls, Do the people of the | state want these conditions to go on? And probably you are aware of the men that have been killed by guards in the slaughter pen; that guards that did not kill were dig. minsed; that women inmates have been hit in the face by the fist of this man Burke and knocked down short aa he had tolg Another angle to this same MOV | ayrarently dead and then kicked in ment ts the sudden Intimacy that has | ths ribs, then dragged by the hale of blossomed recently between Clifford | their and William Short, well-known labor For months past they have been almost inseparable, and as Clif. ford never serves anyone, it is evt- dent that he hopes “Billy” will be of service to him in delivering him # large, fuley slice of the labor vote, lender. when he needs It. MAUDE SWEETMAN . . eae Condemns Penitentiary Conditions are only figureheads at this Inatitu- on. To illustrate, a short time age there was @ short fence to he built fn one of the corrals, but before that fence could be bullt it had to be 0. k.'d by Capt. Burke as Pace did not dare to go ahead with ft. If the records were looked up, more encapes would be found, more men shot to death in the slaughter pen, under Capt. Burke than any other man at the penitentiary. He and the chief turnkey twho sleeps tn the women's ward with his expennes of the guards going to and | wife) spend @ large part of their time there, and inst spring, two inmates of the women’s ward made thelr en cape one evening while the matron and her husband were out visiting in town until] midnight. It waa re been two wardens appointed, W. G.| ported they went over the wall by RICHARD MANSFIELD WHITE. | Potts and J. W. Pace, who were and! cutting the wires which Is four point head to the dungeon where they get no food or Grink the fir few days. These girls are some dear mother’s daughters, He also piits men tn the dungeon for little minor offenses and there with no shoes, coat or blanket, on the six cold steal walls, to break down their health, men are kept tn solitary confinement for two years or untill they go crazy. I think tt ti high time the people of this great civilized state of ours insist on this man's removal, or put in a warden who will be « warden. DON M. THOMAS, Walla Walla. MODERN DENTISTRY DR. EDWIN J. BROWN, D. D. 8. 106 Columbia St. For more than 20 years SEATTLE’S LEADING DENTIST In making high ¢! modern work, artificial teet brid, gold and porcelain crow: gol cement or alloy fillings, also an pet tn extracting teeth without ‘hioroform and gas are unn for painless extraction of teeth at DR, BROWN’S DENTAL CLINIC During the past twenty-one years we have never paid less than Y PER ANNUM DIVIDENDS the money. The fruit of saving has ripened for the thrifty who have entrusted their funds to the safe- keeping of this institution. gather the harvest-our forty-second semi- annual dividend, They will receive the earnings on the savings they have placed with us during the six { months ending June 30th—earni: rate of 5% per annum. Rigid adherence to our polity of Investing only in safe securities has assured. these earnings and at the Same time safeguarded Nothing but city, state and government bonds and first mortgages on improved property are considered for in- vestment by our Board of Directors, which is composed of responsible business.men of the Northwest, Keeping ourselves strictly within the state laws governing such institutions as this, we have maintained a proud record during our twenty-one years in business, You are invited to investigate us thoroughly and to arrange to share in future dividends, PUGET SOUND SAVINGS é20 LOAN ASSOCIATION ‘LARGEST MUTUAL SAVINGS SOCIETY IN SEATTLE A.F. ANDERSON, PRES., ADOLPH F. LINDEN, VP-TREAS., E.W. CAMPBELL,WP-SECY,, CORWIN S.SHANK, COUNSER WHERE PIKE STREET CROSSES THIRD, RESOURCES MORE THAN THREE MILLION DOLLARS Today they will ngs at the