The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 11, 1922, Page 6

Me Seattle Star Prone Main 0400 Published Dally by The Btar Publishing Oe Newapaper Katerprise Association and United Frese Servieg $0; @ month, 69.78) city, $00 per month; § monthe Ot Pr 4 ry sy state of Washington, Outside of ee ea. Months of $9.00 per year, By carrier, Daugherty Not Omnipotent Attorn Daugherty, says the New York omy —_ lente regard himself as the heroic pion of the open shop and has muddled the entire road situation in an endeavor to give to his personal omic theories the force of the law.” fy the attorney general's own admissions, one of the in objects of the Daugherty injunction is to maintain open shop, In his address to the court, Mr. Daugh- 4 But it may be understood that so long and to the ; nt that IT can speak for the government of the Inited States I will use the power of the government jo prevent the labor unions of the country from destroy- the open shop.” . Daugherty might with equal authority of the con- bution have said that to the extent he could speak for ernment of the United States no flapper would idowed to wear skirts that were more than six inches It is none of Mr. Daugherty’s business ‘4 5 be n the floor. ‘as attorney general whether shops are open or closed. - It is none of his business whether industry is carried exclusively by members of trades unions or exclusively people who do not belong to trades unions. ‘As far as labor unions are concerned, the right of or- zation has been formally declared by congress in the on act. As far as the unions are concerned in the road strike, the transportation act, which was passed @ republican congress, specifically recognized them ‘one of the agencies thru which the government must in helping to determine the rate of wages. Why attorney general should have dragged his open shop ies into this controversy is one of the mysteries of “best minds” which the ordinary intellect is incapable pme day Dr. Daugherty ought to take an hour or two read the constitution of the United States. If he it carefully he would discover that the federal gov- ent is not omnipotent, that it was never intended ‘be omnipotent, and that by inference the attorney of the United States is not omnipotent. marvelous for the + all is divine for the saint; all is great ed Ir te wretched, miscrable, ugly, and bad for the base and bad man creates around him a pandemonium, the artixt sna Tag Remember the State University ws should remember the interests of the state uni- ty when they corne to a upon the legislative can- in the primary. university, because of its phenomenal growth, is at point in its development. It needs money, careful needs ritic: it some measure of 912, which is 109,274, according to the 1920 United Marcel’s Anniversary aged Frenchman, celebrates the 50th anniver- of his invention of the Marcel wave. : anything to magnify the beauty of woman, id you have a short-cut to fame and wealth. Marcel, ice poor, is a millionaire. Come back to earth 1,000 from now and “Marcel wave” doubtless will be part all for the best. The beauty of woman, in nature’s of things, is more important than science and ring. Reproduction of life is nature’s first con- As a sideline, she lets us erect perishable building s and invent false philosophies. Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-controt, ‘These three alone lead life to sovereign power. Yet not for power (power itself Would come uncalled for) but to lve by law, ‘ Acting the law we live by without fear, ii And because right is right, to follow right, Were wisdom in the scorn of consequence. Alfred Tennyson. fs always someone to smile at, somebody to give your chair to, i ae ee ee Pe Get These Men Together Congressman Hull, Iowa, told the house naval affairs whittee in Washington that “when we went into the we had to go to the Bethlehem Steel Co. and to the in Locomotive Works and buy at a cost of $50 we rifles that could have been made at a cost of $13, or $15 apiece. | Senator Capper, in the other end of the capitol building, it the same time, was asking why big business con- which made lots of money out of the war are not 4 made to pay the soldier bonus. | Somebody ought to bring these two gentlemen together. © Three Germans are born for every Frenchman. The alarming part ts hat it takes more nerve to be born in Germany. star usually keeps a diary, Then she can look back and tell husbands were. A wise man never sleeps on a railroad track or on the job. Building Houses to Endure Rufus H. Gray has lived in the same house for 73 years, the heart of Boston, They “built to last” in those days. , How many modern houses will hang together 78 years? "You have heard of the new Seattle house that collapsed cause they took down the scaffolding before putting on wall paper. ‘There t no better guaranty against militarism than to require the who profit out of war to pay for it. . . Profiteering during the war one American millionaire for every three American soldiers in France—Senator Capper (R.), Kan. When it comes to history, the average schoolboy ts willing to let ? be bygones. 7 ‘much trouble, Well, Here We Are at Three-Quarter Post " Hatha pane nog eine ern a eH ee eer THE SEATTLE STAR Dear Fothw The miners’ ought to be. APetter from AIWVRIDGE MANN. atrike i over now, row, and all our bunch of mining men can go to digging coal again; and that’s « thing we're glad to eee, for that’s the way It SCIENCE } Einstein's Theory Revolutionizes Thought New Words Needed Not All Proved Yet | To many people the Einstein the ory merely means something the universe so difficult that only q it neems they've settled up their we had to use our con) reserve; Jone thing to a certainty, Poindexter as the republican nomi Nee to succeed himself for United States senator. The inference of & “stacked deck” is used advisedly, for whether or not |tUde to labor has been, or will be in |by a conference created by Short formly in the carburetor, and Mr. Poindexter or his adherents had | ‘PS future. Mr. Short again “deplores,” 4 a hand in the shuffling, the deal| Th® cutting down of wages in the] Mr. Short blinded with his own| combusting completely in the could not have been more to hia ad- vantage. With three opponents pit ted against him to split the oppost tion vote, himself carrying the rank and file of the Old Guard, means but that Poin- dexter will be the republican nomi- nee. That in a settied issue, Judge Griffitha believes himself strong enough to carry the field against him; Lamping is “sure” of success; Axtell feels that with the la- bor vote and the backing of the women’s clubs of the atate she can hold her own—and right there ta where all three are going up against a “pat hand in the fist of the Old Guard. Then comes the finals tn the No. vember election. Dill, nominee of the democratic party, on the one side of the triangle; James Duncan, farmer-labor candidate on the other, and Poindexter. Again a split of the Charges Woman EAéitor The Star: Funny and yet pathetic are many things that occur In American poll- tics. The double-cross of the woman candidate for the United States sen ate by an alleged labor leader 1s ope of them—funny because of the flee. jumping, mirthful anties of the dou- ble-crosser, and pathetic because of the serious effects of it» conse: auencen. The double-croasing tactics of this campaign dates back to a time prior to the convention o the Washington State Federation of Labor at Brem. erton, Let us view the activities of Wil- lam M, Short leading up to the in- dorsement of Mrs. Axtell, and finally to her repudiation by the same Indi- vidual To understand fully what has hap. pened, the reader must bear in mind that one Colonel Lamping had been promised the labor and progressive support prior to the convention of the state federation. Note the manipulations—Mr. Short connives and works to prevent inde- o o pendent political action by the work-| candidate from the gentler sex that inhi Se ona acre then ee ers. Delegates of various communt-|he would not do so if she filed. of the county-owned automobiles tes are tled to the Short program) Just about this time one of the|could be dispensed with and the cost thru caucuses, This ts followed by | afternoon papers carried a news item lof maintenance cut in two action to force thru the convention ® resolution providing for the Short program, The wext move is to ma- | endeavored to keep posted during the past two years there is no reason to doubt what the Old Guard's attl | navy yards to a point where it ts tm | Ponsible for the workers to live de cently, educate their children and }®ecome home-owners; laxity fin en. forcement of immigration laws, per-| mitting alien labor to flood the coun- |try; contempt of appeals made by {the Pacific coast for drastic action on the Japanese question; disregard |for the need and delay of a soldiers’ | bonus; laxity in passing needed child labor legisiation; permitting corpora. {tions to dictate government policies in dealing with organized labor; a general disregard for the rights of the working clas#, organized and un. organized, as American citizens thése are but a few of the things | that the Old Guard has stood for in| | the past, and that Poindexter, when | jhe rides into the senate next March on the mistakes of the workers in| dividing the field against him, will] support and stand rigidly for in the future, WAGE EARNER Double-Crossed nipulate the indorsement of Short's choice thru the conferencé of #0: called progrensives. President Short could not trust the delegates to the! labor federation convention to select their own delegate. This matter must be left to the super-intelligence of its leader, #0 the resolution, drawn by himself, provided that a confer: jence committee selected by the su- per-intelligent one, should choose the }the wet, slippery pillar of Lamping til Mr, Short projected his candidate at the progressive conference. The woman candidate also refuses te withdraw; she has been asked to run egotiam had staggered Into the arena of public opinion wiidly grasping the pillar of Axtellism in one arm nd jam, in the other, and in hin frantic efforts to regain his past strength hears the ominous sound of the crashing timbers from above coming | down on his own head. | In his conspiracy to doublecross Mra, Axtell he had created a condi tion #0 favorable to Poindexter that one would almost suspect that plane were laid by the senator’s campaign manager, Can it be poasible that Mr. Short feels himself slipping with labor, and i blundering thru this meas in the hopes that he will land in a soft po Utieal berth? Let your votes tell, JEAN STOVEL, 808.309 Hoge Annex Woody Attacks County Ring Eaitor The Star: The extravagance, waste and in competency in the management of King county's affairs by past and Present county commissioners Is so amazing aa to be almost unbeliev able. The purchasing department costs the taxpayers over $7,000 a year in salaries alone, when half that amount should suffice, candidate, ‘The well prepared program having | been put over, the convention ad. ! Journed. ‘The next thing was to work | it out. Here is where the popular but slippery Mr. Short met his first Waterloo. “He found himself out. | voted in the conference and his cher. ished dream went glimmering. After participating in the conference called progressive, and while announcing | the indorsement of the woman can. | didate in @ circular letter to all af. | fillated unions, requesting funds | with whieh to conduct a vigorous! campaign, Short met with Lamping | and urged him to enter the race, al-| tho Mr. Lamping had promised the | announcing that President Short of the state federation had been advised by his physician to refrain from ac: favor of dispensing with the county There is the department of docks and railroads, with an annual pay Toll of $8,000. ‘There are five Sulit vans on this payroll, all members of the same family, The county turned & large number of its docks over to John Anderson in the ferry deal, and owns loss than a quarter of a mile of railroad spur tracks, all located down In South Seattle, and tt costs the county this sum simply to “maintain” these short pieces of track. The county garage cost tho tax Payers over $94,000 last year to oper: ate, and over $5,000 was spent for five new automobiles last year, mak The payroll of the hospital {s more than $10,000 a month. I am not tn vaporizing rapidly and uni- cylinder at the jump of the spark. That's “Red Crown.” That's quality in gasoline. Use “Red Crown” and noth- ing else, and your car will develop the maximum power that its makers designed it to give. Fill at the Red Crown sign— at Service Stations, garages, or other dealers. STANDARD OIL COMPANY (California) Mut while it lasted, I observe, satherpatica! sharks can and while the coal was hard to get, we pulled the bixgest boner only posers epee Pg fo En tots ie the Kast they blew their roll to purchase distant The truth ts, tt is = revolutions dis ‘And a0 it seems that when we fight for what we each con- pes ee ine areen ts GR 4 ceive is right, we'd rather give our dough away than meet each pose Rn me Fey ae tes macuiaal wee ther middie way—tt hurts our egotistic pride to see the other aes ‘ id chinary Soneee ode of the universe. Fe But if we should start a break on how to aplit the coin we || Every new discovery atts new Ms make by making clothes and raising feed, and all the other things || words to the language; In fact, if yoy mow! we need, it's nice to know that foreign lands can fil our coun took out of the dictionary all words the ped ag re vine dependent on the development @— vans But even #0, | wonder how they'd meet @ transportation row; | electricity, the lors would seem likeg i Was we can't import from anywhere the act of moving here and there; | Calamity. ing and #0 It seems a railroad fusn ts one that’s strictly up to us. | But if Binstetn'’s theories shomg ee a* © I must admit I do not know the way the battle ought to mo; become generally accepted. it wogig— attir but still I know that what t# fair could always be determined be impossible to make one’s self an wh? there, {f they but use the proper tool—which seems to be the derstood with our present stock gm Wor Golden Rule. | Ianguage. ult You could not even speak of such heac la simple thing as @ straight ling #100 without explaining what you meant § of t by straight. There would have tobe w at least three new words. It wowg atre samnedigebaihinsinionni —_———— ——a-——wneeee | probably rend as a Euc straight, shor Riem straight or a Lob stra ing hospital, nor being stingy with it,)being affiliated with any county) 1). neine short for Euclid, eae ziin |but it should be managed in a busl-|courthouse ring, The fact that 1| chewsky and Riemann, mar Reasiike and economical manner. have been Indorsed by the Municipal) If you wanted to express the thei I have examined the records per |league is pret send I pag hig dea a ae Corre cecunts oa P. |ronally and found that the astound: | candidate there ts to 7 | Stat (etat pound), which would asap ws ing sum of $52,078.61 has been spent|change tn methods and system | with the universe standing still, out of county funds for preliminary I believe the biggest question be | Einstein has not yet made out @ ct expenres in drainage districts Nos.|fore the people of King county today | complete case, so there te hope, * 4, 9, 10 and 11, and not « mpadeful |ts that of taxation; aa ys of earth was ever turned toward ao | That @ vast saving can be made! a tual construction of any of the proj-|by harmonious and real co-operation LEARN A WORD ‘ lects. ‘This enormous sum hae gone |between the commissioners and other fi ‘for attorneys’ fees, engineering and County officers; EVERY DAY J appraisal fees. Frank Paul, one of| That « substantial reduction of the : my opponente in the race for county budget can be made by abolishing all bs commiastoner from the south dis-|sinecures and unnecessary county Today's word is—-HETEROGENE e trict, was one of the active promot | page nis tadlibtalieiads- aie lous. e © two ol ene Age schemes at a « } . peryimrsdey ie pr his serv. be made in the purchase and main-| It's pronounced—het-er-o-jenegg F ace RANE eee ices an apprainer jtenance of county automobiles and) With accent slightly upon the Org ing | The conmineoners have sunk over [the curtailment of their private use;| 40d more strongly on the fourth af pet to | PRE-PRIMARY & quarter of « million dollars in the| That there t# an enormous waste | lables. rec | DAY REMAINS Sand Point aviation field, and now |and extravagance in the purchase of| It means—differing in kind; haw nm the | ue Nations Remaeat Women ment refuses even to ae |county supplies that can be elimi | ing unlike qualities; possessing ate] : |] Voters, thru its department of nd os « gift jpated; | ferent characteristics; dissimilar, 77 oh 11 efficiency in government, says The “Willows,” the county farm at} That large sums can be snved In It comes from—a combination si pry : Redmond, ix another white elephant |the maintenance of county roads and Greek words meaning, r aa Bell N F ? j ‘Your vote “ that has been Eeisted 60 the taper ji0, the purchase and care of equip: | other and “race” or “kind.” a, levue Doesn leed } orn at a cost more nm $2 4 ., ae t erry | control the poittical | 1: "has never been self-supporting. | That all county road work shoud | 7 i gdh Y th Editor The Star: [Betlevue, and with the splendid) . The above are only a few of the|be done under the contract system. | 6° wanton tt is o nates It to to! Some years ago when King county rine ime pense ppt coe “high spots” in the amazing orgy of |and not by days’ work, as is done at | Oe wot! Yt Mt yr & United Pee anc wes hy thd coven Sene Se ware ———— extravagance, waste and incompe-| present; ‘ates, ane loas paren Poneto Datiores. ee ee ee tence that characterizes the manage-| That competent county employes | wing eee charee we ieshn aid even when they had « ferry. |tive work on account of ll-health,/ment of the present commissioners’ |should be retained, incompetent ones | 4 « ur car onto the ferry! I have been a taxpayer in KINEcurnishing an allbt for his tnactivity office, The election of Mr, Paul, Mr.|replaced and superfluous positions y: t pat, Tesch! and left at Medina, as did county for many years, and I think |in the woman candidate's behalf. | MeFarlane or Mr. Jones would not |abolished; what ft was for and who got ft; ‘ all the other machines, including we have plenty of ways for money Karnest talk with the colonel! final.|\mean any real change in manage That inbor should have a equare| That there are innumerable wayt ‘ orodues trueie, ote. to go without wasting any On & pUre-|,' Vinced that gentieman that his ment |dea! at ai! times, and that the work. |of cutting county expenses not mes: F The big ferry then carried aight or|ly ornamental ferry for the tiny | % Kulu. ithe Short political {n.| 1 never sold the county anything |er should not have his home confis-|tioned above, and if elected county] : ton passengers on to Bellevue, thojhamiet of Bellevue. They wouldn't | PDO ere ae ke a eure. winner,|in my life I have never worked for cated by high taxes; commtsetoner I pledge all the : & launch oF bus would have done af/ use it If they had it Here we eee the colonel, casting (the county, ha’ ver drawn a war-| That the commissioners should |and energy I possess in an effort te! ' well, and saved expense to taxpay- Very truly yours, aside his promise to Mr Short's other |rant from the poss county treasurer |cause a quarterly statement to be/put them into effect. 4 ' we grt cutee wdlereall prow ol MES. Wo NEWELL. | |Candidate, enter the race, Now |but once and that was for Jury serv. |‘esued, showing the operation of the i “leomes the real funny part of the|!ct. Nobody has ever sccused me of!county, how much money was spent, a : pathetic situation. President Short, | sceseesesssss —— Fr Woman Against Mrs. Axtell tearful that the interests of labor m Editor The Star: fice. Is that representative of ai1|™AY, be Jepordised with both of bis fe! We. are told that the women |the people? 1s Mra. Antell a Xu|Siery in ‘no uncertala mnguage an mm should vote for @ woman; that this) Kiuz Klaner? impossible condition, There are now in t women's year. As # democrat she held office In| 1 -o6 progressives, splitting the pro- 1m Every year le woman's year FOR| Washington, D. C. She ts ali thing? | gressive vate, against the “rank re- sty THE RIGHT WOMAN, at any time nocording to her pee@s.|acrionary” that Mr. Short ts pre m: +) Few womer know. why we shoyld In her pleas for votes she urges the | song to dentre to defeat. Two of yote for Mra. Aztell. She claims|use of « republican ballot to defeat |thosg candidates were brought into th the vote of the women suffragists, | Poindexter, stating that ehe will bel tne ticid by his own action—two out wi They tell us she turned them down | progressive ia much abused word) or the three. te cold years ago. when elected. ou She claima the parent-teacher! We women do not sponsor a wom-|_ * pian must be Gevieed for etimt ot vote, We have no leadership for/an because of her sex. She must|to love the field clear for Lamping is our vote, Being the one great or | have done something to demonstrate | 4.5 held Mr. Short's “I Promise-to ¥ ganization of al) women, of any re|her fitness to lend dignity to our| PO). tnecomingwenator” doe of lgion, polities or of any faith, we/sex and to our state at Washington. mentation after lamentation appears yy permit of no religion or politica in| We have yet seen nothing in alt the |), the newhpapete ta ah effart.to our work, and anyone claiming that | public cfficeseeking and holding of create a favorable atmoaphere thru vete to wafit, Mre. Axtell which would lead us t0/ sopeais to the honor, patriotism and ‘ Her manager, Masdon, holds the/| believe in her ltoyalty to progresstve geiveteied, ef w Ku Klux Klan meetings in his of MRS. EDGAR BLAIR. |ine three candidates 4 Will | 2 ti A mare * ealiet. At thle pe o. G ) expected to Editor The Star: [geeenttten. and the Old Guard sail} wilt before the burning oratory of ‘That labor, organized and wnor,|!ng thru to victory. the superdinteliigent Short and with ganized, will be the loser at the end| There are those who would make! draw from the race. But Judge Grif fF of the present primary campaign and | !t aeeeer yoebennge srg fs not an/fiths firmly refuses to be y ‘all elections, is evigenced” by the | opponent o: of. But his activities | the trap, Judge Griffiths, the first n aon in which 4 cards are be. | during the past four years have not|man to challenge Newberryiam tn Every gallon like every other t ing stacked to “slip over” Miles ae say he chon iy om tl Pee this state, was alone in the race un gallon. Every drop capable of t