The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 18, 1922, Page 9

ee 1 How Would You Handle | the Clara Skarin Case? ‘That is What Star Editor Asked Read- ers; Here Is What Some of Them Answer; If You Were in Charge of ae. Columns, What Would Be Your ‘olicy? We Want the Facts,” Says This Man GIVE US THE UNBIASED TRUTH IN TH FUTURE AS You (VE GIVEN IT TO US IN THE Past. Tf there ts need of suppression of tacts regarding current human ts, then the pertod of revolution i at hand, not only tn the news rs, but In every line of human endeavor, These disturbed ladies might first of all take themsstves tn hand see to the welfare and upbringing of thetr own wild offspring, who in need of Individual Instruction and personal attention more than abstract “yotnger generation” they mention so generally, when- given a chance to break into print “tor the good of humanity.” neration commences at home. Space limite the suggestions one ht mention for them to worry about rather than your newspaper, | WE WANT THE FACTS AND IF THEY ARB, IN TRUTH, MOR ARID) AND SENSATIONAL, TE THATS WHAT WE'RE AFTER. ck to your past policy and we're with you to the finish, A BUSY WOMAN, intial Jurors Likely to Be Influenced or The Star: T.welcome your Invitation to express my views regarding the way — should handle a Clara Skarin case, especially when it Inasmuch as the fury will be @ local one, which may become preju- one way or another before being drawn for jury duty by reading rifled accounts of the crime, I would say that all special writers’ cl sob stuff, character defamation or glorification be eliminated, contrary to & prospective juror’s avowal that he thinks himself udiced, it is my sincere belief that 10 out of every 12 jurors sit In judgment of an accused felon have secretly and without Mhelr own knowledge formulated opinions that require a certain amount “M evidence to remove. | The function of the prem: is to give news and tn dotng so ft moulds 5 opinion, therefore all news of a crime as serious as murder d be limited to actual and undisputable facts in the case, such the nature of the crime, the suspect's apprehension, supposed ete, and In no case should exceed a quartercolumn. After the jury is drawn and the trial proceeds, a paragraph a day plenty, announcing to the public the progress of the trial, touching on the high spots of the evidence, totally eliminating anything of a nature, as it has been my observation that that usually creeps such cases and seldom ever to my way of thinking has any bear. ‘on, the case. A man’s or woman's depravity is not being tried, the question fs, are they guilty of some erime, and are any extenuating circumstances? Just tell the public that as {t is ght out at the trial, in as few words as possible. f Very respectfully yours, 8. 8 SLAUGHTER, 3007 20th ave, W. Sees No Cause for Protest Baitor The Star: Tam a reader of The Star for the past eight years. I always have fead The Star, which first gives us all the decent detafls and pictures any interesting case. an see absolutely no cause for protest from the Seattle Federa- of Women's clubs against The Star's handling of the Clara case. And I can see absolutely no way that what The Star wrote about Cura Skarin’s case could injure our young people. remain, as ever, @ reader of The Star, w.ss8. ingle Standard” Lost to View The Star; € ‘t it remarkable how the “single standard of morals” and “wom ‘s equality” ideas get completely lost from view when it becomes to try a woman for murder? if the woman In question ts at all attractive, It’s not hard to Imagine what would be happening to Clara Skarin’s Clara, | We don't believe the newspapers would have cluttered thetr front up with his smirking Mkenesses or published lengthy articles ing the glamour of romance over his crime, and dwelling fondly his philosophy of life. Very itkely our worthy frien@, Matt Starwich, would have been ed to keep the public from lynching him when he came to town. Fresh in our minds are the cases of murderesseg whose Instruments death have been hammers, axes, poison and pistols. We can't seem recollect any of these cases where capital punishment or life tm- onment has been meted out. A Woman can get away with a great deal. A pretty woman can get away with anything. ) The similarity of the cases of Mahoney Clara Skarin te strile fag. The crime and the motive were apparently identical. thinking people would edvocate that justice be tempered with rey in both cases, They shun the idea of capital punishment. , if it is riggt for Mahoney to hang for his crime, why a ble hanging, with Clara Skarin om the end of the make it 2 Tll admit it sounds brutal and cold-blooded to suggest hanging one the so-called gentler sex, but why not a single code of justice as an a single code of morals, etc.? It male jurors haven't the heart to convict a pretty woman of mur why not place her case in the hands of 12 good women? smile would not warp, nor her tears wash away, their good & it. " Murderesses have two badly overworked alibis: defense of honor >. and mental trresponsibility, Evidently Clara Skarin t# planning on ‘Séopting the latter. The chances are good that she will get away ‘with it. ‘The ease with which women have evaded the consequences of such acts in the past has created a conternpt for the laws of our country among women of a certain class. They, secure in their knowledge of the laxity of the law, have apparently declared a perpetually open ‘season on rivals in love, erring husbands and whosoever else chances to cross them. Possibly the carrying out of the extreme penalty In one or two of these cases would serve to check such crimes in the future. ; G. 8. H., 512 Maritime bullding. | Compares Stories With Movies Bator The Star: By eliminating your headlines, how are your newsboyr going to sell Your papers? Staying home evenings and reading the news after home work has been done can't be any more harmful for the welfare of all considered than some parties or a movie and “lunch” afterward. You handled Arbuckle’s case so my ll-year-old boy enjoyed reading ft and I saw no harm tn letting him, but did the other papers? Ask the editors from Bellingham. JUST 21. ants “Severe Terms” Used EAitor The Star: % Just a line to express my views on the question of how the Skarin ease should be handled I believe that the case has been handled too lightly by the news Papers, and it would seem that she has been treated rather easy, to say the least, considering she is up for a charge of murder. Until such time 29 she is proved guilty or innocent, as the case may be, the case should be handied in severe terms in your newspaper, Instead of show- ing a picture of her and describing her beauty, etc., as tho she were fome fashion queen. Yours ‘truly A READER OF THE STAR. He’d Use Critics Rough BAitor The Star: Here is the way I would handle the Skarin case: The very first thing I would write Mrs, Cunningham a letter, telling her that if she @idn't like the way The Star {# edited that sho need not look at it, And then I would go ahead and handle the case to sult myself, and ‘that is just exactly the way you have handled all cases in tho past. Mr. Editor, one of our main troubles right now 1s that we let the | minority rule the majority. Some old women or old, slssified gents ‘Who are 20 or 40 years behind the times will get their heads together [and try to force their views on the rest of the community and, if Possible, the rest of the country. w have any paper at all? Why not cut them all out altogether and go back to the stone age just to satisfy a amall minority who Ought to be gathered together and shipped over to some out-of-the-way Place where they wouldn't have to look at a newspaper and could bring Up thelr children away from the naughty people of the present day? ‘That is my idea, Mr. Editor, of handling the Skarin case and all Other caves. Give us the news, That is what we buy the paper for, nd thore old-fashioned cronies that don't read the news can either Close their eyes or look the other way, THEO FOX. “Make It to the Point,” Says Woman EAitor The Star: If I were editor of The Star I do not know just how I would handle Clara Skarin murder case, but feel that it would be along the same Ines as any other confessed murder case, ‘There are city and state laws for all such criminals, So if I were £ THE SEATT eople of Seattle — of this coming campaign, which will be published. As you read this report, picture to yourself the homes that have been saved, the families that have been made in- dependent, the sick who have been cared for and cured, the delinquents who have been restored to good citizenship, the homeless kiddies and the old folks who have been sheltered The Seattle Community Fund will approach you, through its army of volunteer solicitors, Sept. 23 to Oct. 5, asking for $798,848.88 for fifty-one agencies for the fiscal year, Oct. 1, 1922, to Sept. 30, 1928. Before asking you for your contribution, the Community Fund wishes to report to you how it handled the money pledged by Seattle citizens in the last campaign and paid during the year. This is a preliminary report made by A. S. Hansen & Co., Certified Public Accountants. They will issue a complete audited statement after the close of the fiscal year, Sept. 30, which will be published. They will also issue an audit SEATTLE COMMUNITY FUND (TABLE OF CONTENTS) Certificate and Comments: Statement of Recotpts and Disbursements Exhibit September 1, 1921, to August 31, 1923 + 6 A Statement of Income and Expenses + September 1, 1921, to August 31, 1972 + ¢ B Assets and Linbilities, August 31, 1992 - «+ © Loans Payable, August $1, 1972 - --+¢ D Statement of Appropriations for the Ten Months’ Period Ended Sept. 30, 1923 *-* E Statement Showing Payments to Agencies not Incladed In the Fund, as Designated by the Pledges . . . . - * * Analysts of Preliminary Organization Campaign Expenses—-1922, Fund Campaign Expenses—1923 Fund 7 (exminrr a) STATEMENT OF RECEIPTS AND DISBURSE- MENTS FROM SEPTEMBER 1, 1921, TO AUGUST 41, 1923 RECEIPTS: Collections on Pledges. . Interest on Liberty Bonds Interest on Savings Account: Loans (Money Borrowed). .... +-(Exhibit D) 39,000.00 $530,918.70 - 16.19 . 18.72 Total Cash Receipt: a ADD: Mer’ adise Recetved on Pledges and Distributed to Agencies...§ 1.208.00 «+ $570,7 TOTAL CASH AND MER- CHANDISE RECEIPTS. .. 0.60000. -$5T2,061.61 DISBURSEMENTS: Payment to Agencies Within the _STAR and fed and clothed. Picture also the boys and girls, young men and women, who have been made healthier, happier and better citizens, and homes that have been made brighter by this. YOUR money has done this. warm hearts and happy homes. Signed—BOARD OF DIRECTORS, SEATTLE COMMUNITY FUND. STATEMENT BY, CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT, September 8, 1922. BOARD OF DIRECTORS, Seattle Community Fund, 616 Central Building, Seattle, Washington. Gentlemen: In accordance with your instructions we have made a preliminary examination of the accounts of the Seattle Community Fund, for the purpose of submitting to you “statements showing the receipts, disbursements and general financial condition of the Fund as evidenced by the books, subject to a complete audit and verification. We have prepared the accompanying statements from your books and records; they are enumerated on this page. The accounts have not been audited by us, nor the Assets and Liabilities verified, but the statements prepared from your books and records and are in agreement therewith, Yours respectfully, A. 8. HANSEN & CO., Certified Public Accountants. (EXHIBIT E) STATEMENT OF APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE TEN MONTHS’ PERIOD ENDED SEPTEMBER 30, 1922 Fund ...........CBxhibtt E).§506,406.15 Payment to Agencies not Includ- Amount of Amountef Balance tee eee eae Ae casasas $ SegeroT 3.90038 nated by Pledges...(Bxhibit F) 3,241.24 1634750 14. 5 (1,634.78 Preliminary Organtention Ex- 15,000.00 13,800.00 1,500.00 Pensen..... 00+... (Exhibit G) 4510.46 14,583.93 13,124.97 1,458.36 Campaign Expenser Fauna 7,733.32 6,933.32 £00.00 pron G) s4san Florence Crittenden Home 4,166.67 3,749.94 416.73 aay ena Columbia, Conference Home for the Aged, 1,416,846 1,274.22 141.62 Campaign Expenses—1923 Fund Disabled American Veterans .... 7,200.00 800.00 ° «+ Cixhibit G) 2,442.61 Educational Center of the Cow 4,871.70 Refund of Overpayments. ......+ 22.00 House of Good Shepherd. 7 e00.88 King County Humane Sooctety. Ladies of the G, A. R. Home. 4 ase Ladies’ Relief Soctety (Seattle 189.76 9.50 Lebanon Rescue Home 2,458.71 Payments on Loans. (Exhibit D) 17,400.00 Lutheran Mission .... 38,333.33 2,999.97 Lyng Home Amociation ..0+.0« 1,250.00 1,125.00 Total Cash Disbursements... Near Bast Relief .... 27,500.00 23,750.00 3,750.00 ADD: Olive Branch Misston 4 - ae. 10 ee jes P. C. Rescue and Protective Society. 233.3: 434.3: rT Mien, Distrinates to Agence Ryther Child Home .. * 16,666.67 | 14,999.94 1,066.73 Within the Fund. .(Exhibit BE) 1,183.00 Ruth School for Girls. 4,166.67 3,749.94 416.73 Mdeo. Distributed to Agencies not Salvation Army ... oo 18,750.00 18,250.00 600.00 Included Within the Fund as Scandinavian Seamen's Mission ee ” 2,250.00 350.90 Seattle Community Servic: pecans 00ue 7,499.97 823.3 Designated: ty: Fjekge.. .. 5... 2.033.33 ©23.720.97 696.64 covcvecceccecess+ CERBIDIC I) 125.00 Sent 2,250.00 250.00 “4 Seatt 5,202.44 689.23 TOTAL CASH AND MER. Beat 73 6508.45 50.88 CHANDISE DISBURSE- Seattle Jr. Home of the Seattle Pacific 2,083.33 208.36 MENTS oo cccecccs sees cevehecs SSTLT27.55 Social Welfare League . 1 anee fe 93,000.00 7,000.00 ri . “ ; St. Therena’s «2... 938,23 5,344.47 693.86 eth elma dpentnh ah della epee Bt, Vincent De Paul Socte! 4,166.67 3,749.94 416.73 National City Bank. .(Mixhibit C).§.. £49.06 Theodora Home ..... - 9.90417 «8,427.69 936.48 Petty Cash Fund....(Exhibtt C) 16.00 Travelers’ Ald Society , 4,500.00 4,050.00 450.00 Postdated Check..... (Exhibit C) 10.00 * Volunteers of America . 17,988.33 16,189.47 1,798.86 ~$ 334.08 Washington Children’s Home Soctety. 10,000.00 9,000.00 1,000.00 W. C. T. U. Americanization Department 1,000.00 900.00 100.00 2,883.33 208.36 (exnmrT p) 69,807.02 6,980.72 STATEMENT OF INCOME AND EXPENSES FROM 7000-00 ary SEPTEMBER 1, 1921, TO AUGUST 31, 1922 49,092.43 43,583.16 INCOME: $23.33 749.97 688,221.17 + 16,206.48 ++ $622,924.29 Pledges to Community Fund Less: Pledges Canceled °Net Amount of Pledges.... Interest on Liberty Bonds.... Interest on Savings Accounts. TOTAL INCOME EXPENSBS: Appropriations to Agencies for the ten (19) months’ period end- Ing Sept. 90, 1922 (exhibit E) $666,616.66 Payments to Agencies not Includ- ed Within the Fund, as Destg- nated by Pledges..(Exhibit F) 8,266.24 Preliminary Organization Ex- (Exhibit G) 4,610.46 1922 Fund + CExhibtt G) $5,458.21 : 2.60 9.50 TOTAL EXPENSES Income tn Excess of Expenses (Mxhibit C).§$ 23,800.65 *Includes Balance of Unpaid Pledges, per (Exhibit ©) ...seeserees Sd adig one en seed $ 90,720.69 SEATTLE COMMUNITY FUND ELLIOTT 6115 editor I would uphold the laws regardless of the prisoner being pretty, witty or cute, There is entirely too much space given to those things. If the servants of the people fall to do their duty, as in this Instance, “The sheriff and detective took her to lunch (showing big, city. owned car) and it was 6 o'clock when they left the ca: had I been editor of any paper, and felt I must put that in, I should have thought It belonged on the page of cod liver of] and rheumatism advertise ments. it is hard for parents trying to ratse children right to have the papers filled with pictures and articles making heroes and heroines out of persons who deliberately break the laws of our country and our Creator. Give us the news of the case, by all means, but make It to the point, leaving out the sentiment. Respectfully, MRS, BELLE ROAT, 318 N, 48th at, TOTAL AMOUNT OF APPROPRIATION.....+ TOTAL AMOU TOTAL BALANCE PAYABLE “Be a Good Neighbor” . (Exhibit B) $556,616.64 TR (exhibit A) xhibit C). 200 'T OF PAY. $507,649.15 $48,967.49 *Overdrawn. RAISE THE FUND | | Second Annual Campaign Sept. 23 to Oct. 3 CAMPAIGN HEADQUARTERS PEACH SALAD BY BERTHA SHAPLEIGH Of Columbia University Combinations of fruits and vegetables often make delicious salads, Tomatoes and pineapple are good when served together. The follow- ing recipe is worth trying: 4 peaches 1 cup chopped beets 1 head lettuce Pare and cut peaches in halves, which have stood in weak vinegar, 1 cup celery French dressing In center of each half put beets Place peaches on lettuce, surround with celery and pour over all, the French dressing to which has been added half a teaspoon of curry powder. Club Entertains Approximately 100 new teachers, enlisted by Seattle schoo! new school year, were entertained | Jurist was well known tn Seattle. with @ weleome program by the = Lions club rooms Sunday afternoon, ing the program the teachers were further entertained at the Winter oa. In USE FOR OVER 30 YEARS Bombs dropped in London from |Alw atreraft during less than 100 pounds in weight, The cold figures mean (exmiorr ©) AND LIABILITIES AUGUST 31, 1922 ABBETS: Petty Cash Fund... (@xhibit A) § 75.00 Cash, National City Bank... .c«. 249.06 Post Dated Check. .. 00a seonme 10.00 —$ 334.08 Pledges to Community Fund. 38, 7 Less: Payments on 4 Pledges ........ 3 Pledges Canceled... 3 | pam ~ 647,500.58 7 Balance of Unpaid Pledges... 90,720.89 Office Equipment .. ++++-(Exhibit A) £69.48 DEFERRED OHARGE : Campaign Expenses—1923 Fund.......0¢ ee ee mewnm err eeenseeccee eoo-(Exhiblt G) 2,443.61 TOTAL “~- ee imeune ee ee wee. own $ 94,268.14 Loans (Moneys Borrowed)... «+ See es seceeesseres (Exhibit D) $ 21,600.08 Unpaid Appropriations to Agen- cles for the ten (10) months Period Ending September 30, 1922... (Exhibit E) 48,967.49 TOTAL LIABILITIES .ewesesdeeee SURPLUB, per Income and Expense State- ment. . (Exhibit B).$ 23,800.65 (EXHIBIT D) SEATTLE COMMUNITY FUND LOANS PAYABLE Original Amount Balance Nome Amount Paid Payable Skinner-Eddy Corp. ....$30,000.00 $16,500.00 $13,500.00 The Metropolitan Bulld- IG OO. coc cvesicisores 6,000.00 600.00 Schwabacher Bros. &Co. 2,000.00 200.00 Seeone The Rhodes Company... 2,000.00 200.00 1,800.00 —_—_— Total Amount Bor- rowed (Exhibit A) $39,000.00 Total Amount Pata eeeee (Bahtdit A) $17,400.00 Total Amount Pay- able. .(Exhibit C) $21,600.00 (2xuIBlrr F) TO AGENCIES NOT INCLUDED THE FUND AS DESIGNA’ BY PLEDGES PAYMENTS WITHIN Name Amount Children’s Orthepedio Hospital... .$ ° 1,724.90 Junior Red Cross .... 50 Lighthouse for the Bi 20.00 Medina Baby Home 41.00 Knights of Columbus .messessene 6.00 Maryknoll Day Nursery. 1.00 European Children’s Rell 6.00 Frutt and Flower Mission. 12.50 Sojourners Truth ...... 80.50 German and Austrian Relief. 6.00 Sunshine Clud ....... tenes 1.00 Booker T, Washington Home. $3.00 Millionaires’ Club .......+ 11.50 Street Carmen's Local No. 587...06 1.00 St. James School.........sseeseree 2.00 To a needy family specified by designation . +e 35.00 Young Men's Hebrew Association. 157.00 Sacred Heart Orphanage. 82650 Draper Child Home. 212.84 Montefiore Aid Society. 117.60 Scandinavian American 10.00 Siloah Mission .......... sececooe 3.00 Pentecostal Faith Mission ... -. sou 5.00 Seattle Boys’ Club.......... wen tee 12.50 TOTAL (Bxhibit A-B)...... s (EXHIBIT G) ANALYSES OF EXPENSES PRELIMINARY ORGANIZATION EXPENSE Administrative Salaries seeaeee BS 5,432.88 Clerical Salaries ° Telephone and Telegraph . Postage ». 3,366.26 Office Supplies . Rent Printing Reports . Incorporation Fee .....+ —— PRELIMINARY ORGANIZA- ~ TOTAL TION EXPENSES (Exhibit A-B).....8 4,810.46 OAMPAIGN EXPENSES-—1922 FUND Clerical . +3 6,602.00 Telephone and Telegraph . 605.21 Car Fare 43.10 Postage 426.47 Cartage and Freight 215.02 119.15 2,262.11 6,614.94 515.53 272.26 336.84 8,932.89 678.25 Advertising—-Newspapers, ete, 12,929.94 TOTAL CAMPAIGN EXPENSES—1928 FUND (Exhibit A-B) OAMPAIGN EXPENSES—1928 FUND; Salaries—Clerical Telephone and Telegraph . Advertising sees Printing Reports ..... OAMPAIGN EXPENSES—1928 FUND CEXNIDIt A-C) emrcsoreceseccosesseee eS 2,468,61 333 HENRY BUILDING / THEODORE BRANTLY, chief Justice of the Montana state supreme court, died late Saturday, according for the|t® Word reaching this city. The Seattle Teachers in the Masonite club Follow- CASTORIA For Infants and Children bears Signature the war averaged