The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 29, 1922, Page 6

| town flood? thing he says—she does not. Seatt ing Co, Phone Main x oa 0 Press Serv 4 months 62.78) year, Get Newberry Issue. Clear ¢ Newberry scandal is growing day by day. t it is hurting is shown by the distribution by the blican campaign committee to newspapers of a long of Newberry written by Secretary of State hes, who was Newberry's lawyer when the U. S. su- court set aside Newberry’s conviction by the lower ‘At the time the senate voted to seat Newberry it was ossible to whip a majority into line on a straight-out Tt was only after Senator Willis of Ohio had disin- the mess that the senate, holding its nose, could the dose. What Ex-Attorney Hughes says now and what the sen- republicans said (in the Willis amendment) when berry was seated, should, be read together at this ) Mr. Hughes says: “The plain fact is that Senator Newberry was ‘wrongly and most unjustly convicted, and his convie- tion was set aside. Endeavor to establish a violation of law on the part of Senator Newberry completely failed, and accordingly he stood as a senator duly lected by the state of Michigan and entitled to his _ seat in the senate.” .. Willis’ resolution as adopted by the senate said: “The expenditure of such excessive sums in behalf a candidate, either with or without his knowledge ‘and consent, being contrary to sound public policy, harmful to the honor and dignity of the senate, and dangerous to the perpetuity of a free government, ‘guch excessive expenditures are hereby severely con- 1 and disapproved.” “Newberry issue” at this time is not whether New- erry should be in the penitentiary or in the senate. The is whether Newberry’s presence in the senate vio- “the honor and the dignity of the senate.” The said it did—and then seated him. . sir, was made by the great chemist of nature, how many years go none of us know, and in its manufacture everything that grows out ground, 1 imagine, was used, the most exquisite flowers, the balsams, the most healing plants and herbs of every kind and ‘and vast forests: of giant trees, Coal furnishes mare commodities ‘the use and health and comfort of mankind than anything I know ‘The wonderful violet and rose perfumes which our ladies use are from coal. Saccarine, which is 500 times as sweet as , Is manufactured from coal. All the beantiful dyes we admire so are manufactured from coal.—Sen. Ransdell (D.) La. They Promised Him Bread— —— are the latest cost-of-living figures as furnished re administration's own department of labor: prices of food and other commodities up to June, this year, were about 10 per cent above last TFcci and lighting materials had advanced 36% per o cent. During the lone month of July wholesale prices Tose about 314 per cent. Fuel and lighting in one month advanced 13 per cent. _ Sugar rocketed 7 cent. And the new higher-cost-of-living tariff—passed by the senate by a vote of 48 to 25—has yet to be heard from. ; The tariff is expected to become a law within a few ts. The tax it will impose upon the American people u higher prices is variously estimated at from $870,- ,000-—which would be $8 for each one of us—to $2,- ,000,000, or approximately $20 a head for each man, man and child in the land. This would be about $100 per average family of five! And the winter's coal is yet to buy. This will cost the ge American family somewhere around $70 more it did last year, Looks like a hard winter. Yea, verily. ‘The farmers destre to know when they can and when they can not drink cider. The residents of the clty are equally anxious to what kind of dandelion wine and home-made beer are legal. They ‘are entitled to know. Since April 26, 1922, I have been trying to find out from the prohibition commissioner. The correspondence forces me to _tonclude that the Volstead act is so worded that the prohibition com- Bilssioner can not interpret it—Rep. Hill (R.) Md, The Campaign Card Nuisance Candidates are busily engaged sticking cards and signs on every available fence and building. Too bad they do “not reserve some of this energy for taking them down a week from Wednesday morning. One curse of a political campaign is that some of these cards, slightly the worse for rain and wind, will still be decorating the city and country six months from now. Mr. Speaker, the casual remark of a member of this house to a friend the other day in my hearing is my apology for trespassing briefly rere the time of the house. The remark which I heard in passing was this: “1 doubt whether this bill is constitutional, but we can pass it up to the courts, and they can decide that question.”—Rep. Tucker (D.) Va, 4 “@ Domestic clouds are usually accompanied by a lot of thunder. q@ In Johnstown, the mayor @ The sad thing about ears being back is it takes more rouge.. } hon In Detroit they teach phone girls to talk pleasantly. Best way is te invite one to @ When dad sits on the porch without his shoes you know who's boss. dye increases. The old gray hair ain't what she used to be. @] Home is where the garage is. Now if We Are Only Able to Support the Thing eStar | ing his memoirs, but he may forget a lot. month, 1466 | THE SEATTLE STAR @ Health hint: lof passes during the second week |eince the Inauguration of the pass system, Tacoma’s average rate for power and light ned by ite own plant, ls one-third the rate charged by Seattle's municipal pliant, Now a private corporation furnishes trans | portation to Tacoma citizens at less TOASTED MARMALADE SANDWICHES BY BERTHA E. SHAPLEIGH Cooking Authority for Seattle Star and Columbia University Cut bread « little thicker than for an ordinary sandwich. Put « slice || together with butter and marmalade, trim off crust and just before || our municipal railway. serving toast quickly on either sida, Cut each sandwich In strips. | Any kind of filling may be used for toasted sandwiches. The secret ie to toast quickly and not allow the bread to become hard. j ticials to act promptly, te seriously (Out this ont and paste it in your cook book) | include the payment for purchase of | the Rainier Valley lines, which would tion, maintenance or necessary ¢x- amounts to meet all requirements, | said they could sell Go on home play speak, he groans, Editor The Star: “Who discovered Columbus? I dropped that one into the famfly | perhaps reached from Central Amer- circle the other evening and was met |ica to the new Britich Isles; and the | Presumed continental arch up north | that allowed European fauna to} come to this continent after the with a blank stare; | guess they think I'm a@ bit soft tn the bean. Then I had to eluctdate. |“What I mean i, who first con. |spired to hand the glory of discov. lering America to this Genoa adven- | turer? “Why, daddy, Columbus discovered America, my teacher says #0,” which in, Of course, conclusive. Before I got thru we were talking about Eric the Red and Viniand and Wineland, and A. D. $76 when Gunn- biorn was driven out of his course off Iceland and sighted American shores. We don't know who discovered than half the rate of fare charged by | America, nor, indeed, what European | discovered America. There were Nor- Failure on the part of the city of. | wegian settlements near what ts now Rhode Island 400 or 600 yearn before | handicapping the railway department j Columbus ventured forth, and along in Its efforts to furnish transporta- | about 1000 A. D. the first white child tion at reasonable cost or to provide | was born on America soll to a Norse eufficient funds for efficient opera-| colonist family, But way back before this there is tensions. Thru the operation of the | every indication that from Asta there pass system these funds will be pro. had been « repeated tmmigration to vided weekly In advance in sufficient | the Pacific shores; and before that there was @ high civilization, with cities, and temples, and shops, and trained armies, and a venal, corrupt and eaplent from South America to thé now to the present myatem. Necessity for | Canadian border. Comfort Station a Disgrace Editor The Star: Tt takes @ paper like The Star to The city should paint the walle of | ™ke our careleas city officials at tend to thelr business. | the Pike piace comfort station for) “rite station at night fe @ di«mal, | dangerous hole In the wall under the | This Is a disgrace at present— sidewalk and ought to have electric | dirty, dark walls covered with smoke and grime. signa and better lights. Yotrs truly, BEN ABLE. The Volstead Act’s Enforcement Editor The Star: decent, law-abiding, Gpd-fearing citt- In yesterday's Star Is an editorial | zens of America. on “We Law-Abiding Folks,” where- in you, in rather a fippant way, come to the conclusion that “the elti- zen who obeys the law because he likes to is @ rare bird,” referring es- pecially to the Volstead act. In the name of my own sons and daughters I want to protest against the all too- common attitude assumed by news- papers regarding the prohibition law, If you would publish the truth about the benefits of the Volstead act, even | never said about the Volstead act where the law is very poorly en-| Why? Because the liquor interest forced, you would soon creaete a de-| know that the better our prohibition mand for the law's enforcement and | laws are enforced the more popular & wholesome respect for the law/| they will become with the people. Why fall for the milastatements and bunk peddied by the light wine and beer league, et al., who are seek ing only to legalize again & business | that must depend upon the explolt- ation of the habits and weaknesses of our fellow man? There is plenty of evidence to prove that prohibition ‘a & blessing to the extent that the laws are enforced. “The best way to kill a bad law ts to enforce it" in which represents the will of the | Sincerely. A. BERGH. Tacoma and the Pass System (copy) Seattle, August 28, 1922. Honorable Mayor and City Council, tached news !tem, headed “Tacoma Fares Are Four Cents,” taken from The Seattle Star of Friday, August 26th. ‘Tacoma, with one-third the popula- tion of Seattle, in the face of strong old $8,400 worth ABABAB AES efficiency. ‘Take fast steamers at Colman Dock REGULAR SCHEDULE Leaye Seattie dail; epee toa Tio om + B45 - 5:15 pm. “Eacept Sunday urday and Sunday” 930" 0. Seorde irom Bromertoe to Saturday and Sunday 510.30 p.m AUTOMOBILE FERRY Connecting with Olympic Hi; Bremerton Di building, Free Examination BEST $2.50 GLASSES on Earth one of the few optical Northwest that really from start to finish, TAS - 11:50 @. m. 315 p.m, trip Saturday and Sunday 6: Bremerton to Beatle Daily 943 a.m. 190-500 p.m, Bi We # trip Baturday and & 1030 p.m. stores in grind len and we are the only one in Visitors accompanied by Bremerton SEATTLE—ON FIRST AVE, Chamber of Commerce Guide per- mitted in Navy Yard at 1 & 3 p.m Examination free by graduate op- tometrist. Glasses not prescribed | unless absolutely necessary. BINYON OPTICAL CO. 4116 FIRST AVM . Passenger fare 80c round trip. NAVY YARD ROUTE Colman Dock Mein 3993 aA ELIE ELEC Ey Fr) BB ‘ re) LS which we moved on Au; class of bankin The Seattle National Bank, ever since its grown in strength, but has always the growth of the city. It is with distinct pleasure, therefore, that the officers and directors now place at the disposal of the public the unexcelled facilities af- forded by its new building and equipment. We invite customers and non i in which we take so mu Point out to you its many unique TUESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1922. Ciritge Tomn, economy may cause you, to cut a half! rides annually, to 20,000 individuals | million dollars from the city budget | at half the present rate, | tor he coming year. The adoption of j the pass #ysterm will not only add a/firet opportunity to consider the million and a half to the net revenue | adoption of the pass system. Will it of the railway department, but will | provide transportation to the extent | fully yours, of approximately 40,000,000 passenger | fully yours, Who Discovered Columbus? Then there ts a little matter of that lost Atlantean sometimes I glacial push here; Before you are fun with yourself. tracted from 977" priesthood, reaching watching kids at Beattle, of all cities, was given the be the last to accept it? falo, wolf and thd rest were not native American types; they tmmi- grated from north Europe wilds after the American glacia] shove had | wiped out the sabre tooth, the eohippus, the hairy mammoth and the granddaddy of the camel. fun with friends on this catch ques- tion, it will be amusing to have some “How many times can 10 be sub Tomorrow's solution will show you how to trip others on the answer, Yesterday's Solution: 219, 438, 657. beer. Remember the other Johns- @ Before marriage she believes every- dinner.. @ Lloyd George is writ- @ Figures show the use of hair PARRA ARR ET Oe aN once APetter rom AIVRIDGE MANN. Dear Folks: Our August days are fading fast, and nights are growing long: the summer's pretty nearly past, and autumn'’s coming strong, The heat is growing lens and lows, we've had a rain or two; and winter pmpblema, I confess, are pretty nearly due. Altho I still am swatting flies, and wearing B. V, D.'s, a vision floats before my eyes that doesn't bring me ease; I know that in & month or #0, I'll be a sinking soul, who has to try to raise the dough to buy « batch of coal. ‘The season isn't far away, when, tho my purse ts flat, the wife will clear her throat and say, “1 need @ winter hat; and Avvie has to have a sult, some shoes and underwear; his need of clothes ts quite acute—he's pretty nearly bare!” And then I'll sigh, ‘All right, my dear’—there’s nothing else to @ay; and saunter out to get some cheer from But trouble seems to be the rule—when Avvie starts to “I've gotta go to school in jist another week!” 80 what's the une of growing grim at what we seem to nee—his cares are just as big to him as mine appear to me; and so, if I should frown or fret, I'd simply be a fool; our children’s cares are bigger yet—they have to go to school! ! | \ Respect- B. W. PETLEY. continent that | the bear, the buf) | real policy today that th: | test between them at | mere simulacrum of an election of @ \eub norm, and the unconscious egaj/y —~ LEARN A WORD EVERY DAY Today's word ir—BIMULACRUM, It's pronounced — sim-w-la-krum, with accent on the first syllable. It means—an image, something | formed in the image of « being or thing, a phantom or shadowy Ukenegg | of something, & vague end unrea) 7] semblance, & mock appearance, @ sham, It comes from—Latin “simulare” 7 to simulate, feign or pretend. It's used like this—Many people |) consider America’s two major pollth cal parties both. so lacking In any” feel a Come polls is @ generation ago.” nomic and philosophic scholast!: 4 and mostly true of our new found patter about psycho-analysis, and the and character analysis by the way fellow epatters egg on his vest, All this wouldn't matter if @ young recognized that their facts were fables, but they close their minds, they refuse to seek the truth, 7 and they mentally rot before they © are 30. xv.Z2°@ In short, the simplest, most gen- jerally admitted statement in history is probably not true, and our youths emerge from high school, and from university, with their undiscriminat- ing minds jammed full of unrelated traditions that pass for facts. Also the same ts true of our ece- permitted to have The question ts: balance we year in whi A Greater Bank For Greater Seattle! features. 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