The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 4, 1922, Page 6

Ford's. - ‘The Seattle Star Published Dally by The Star Publisntng co Prene Matn 0400 — To eaper, nat ame Rervice. By mail, out o 4 Se par mowth; & months, #160. ¢ wv $2.76; year, 46.00, tm the is = ‘ef Washington. © ide of the et per month, 5450 for ¢ |i Menthe, or $9.00 per year, My carrier, city, 60 & month. Should a Minister Hang a Man? d a minister of Christ's gospel resign from the of sheriff rather than hang a murderer sentenced to death? a especially should he hang a murderer whom he he apiiey innocent of the crime for which he convicted? “These questions are causing widespread discussion as a e: of the fact that Rev. W. E. Robb, of Des Moines, ordained minister of the Church of Christ, is also riff of Polk county, Iowa. The other day he sprang the trap which sent a mur to eternity. has pot a storm of criticism from all over the i on the part of those who believe he should have ned his activities to administering spiritual comfort the doomed man and have resigned rather than to have ten the life of one of God's fellow-creatures, in viola- of scriptural injunctions. tt Sheriff Robb’s conscience, he says, is clear. He convinced that the man was guilty and says he did what he swore to do when he took the oath of He scorns the advice of those who urged him to e one of his deputies for this unpleasant duty, that not only would he not have escaped any ibility thereby, but would also have been guilty Moral cowardice. Parson-Sheriff Robb faces a more perplexing nother man awaits death at his hands, whose inno- of the crime for which he was sentenced to hang @ sheriff not only stoutly maintains, but whose acquit- i he used every means to secure. the law which he swore to observe when he took th of office does not leave a sheriff any discretion out the death sentence of a court. ough dilemma and the preacher-sheriff has not licated what he will do. would you do if you were fn his place? can% afford te pay the soldier bonus because we have get te suppart tariff. ates —— things happen. Mexice will pay the interest en her debt. man Bived tn Chicago 56 years before he got shot, “Normal” Unemployment } in the country,” says a business bulletin ber, “has become practically normal. t this last year it was estimated that approxi- ly 5,500,000 workers were out of employment. To- it is estimated that only 1,500,000 are without jobs.” it is norma! for 1,500,000 wage earners to be work- in this country of fabulous riches. Estimating only to the family, such normalcy means 4,500,000 peo- who have no income, who are destitute or y. ‘won't do. There’s certain to be altogether too much nt in a block of a million and a half idle, gloomy and several millions more undernourished, il!-clothed n and children. Let us strive to strike off one ight, anyway, in that 1,500,000. ‘will lecture on his theory in Japan. Imagine trying to under Japanese! 9 ts Fire Prevention day, but there is ne Isw against prevent- one in advance. Lit fe not too carly to wish aloud for what you want Christmas, How Interest Gallops The other day the dispatches brought news from San pse, Cal., about a man who suddenly had learned what stupendous thing interest is, This man, George T. c of San Jose, borrowed $100 in 1897 and agreed to 10 per cent a month to be compounded monthly until interest was paid. Today he owes the lender $304,- 140,33: 912,685.60—more money than there is in the Jones didn’t figure ahead. The man who made the an did. All thrifty persons who are able to enjoy the of this life, who actually get anywhere, figure d learn the value of making their savings ork for them. ’ The Star’s thrift campaign is designed to bring just that about. You're neither too old nor too young to start. fon i Make your money work for you as you work for it. the coupon in today’s Star—it’s worth 50 cents in cash—take it to the Seattle National bank and the Liberty savings bank they'll give you free. ‘ll then be traveling the trail that leads to Easy : iceeenlsenneesanantis In New York, the city of opportunity, » watch Is pawned every 45 _ Tarkey, the sick man of Europe, ts really the slick man, We Were All Excited, Until— Postmaster General Work recently said: “The annual turnover, the in and out of the business, which measures any business, is almost $3,000,000,000, _enaryened it earns and pays into the treasury of the ited States $485,000,000, and is the only earning de- partment of the government,” 4 Goodness! What a profit! | But wait a minute. The postoffice department docs gem age into the treasury every year, or about amount, BUT—— It draws it out again—for salaries, expenses and things. In other words, they aim ito break even. Which is something different. Sonnanstine ‘Theres is = big prune crop. Heaven help the boarders, Home men argue with their wives. Others are single, Ob, what fs so rare sss quict day in Ireland SAYS UNCLE KITCHE ' |} blow to family felicity, and a national association to reform the matter has got to be organized. ; rierng } parentage case at South Bend. Maybe it’s just as well. It might establish a legal precedent that would raise Old Ned in a large number of social cir. ‘eles. And, Lord knows! we've got enough law precedents a ridin’ of us now. @ Seems like Greece is goin’ to have a “bloodless” revolution. About | the first thing a feller learns in history—first grade, class A and B primary, I think it is—is that the human critt er is so made up that a “bloodless” rev- | olution has about as lastin’ effects as near-beer—but no more. Yours truly wouldn’t tackle that new Greek king’s job for a salary as big as Henry @ Relations with our next door neighbors are gettin’ strained, commercially speakin’. In the last 12 months Canada has bought $188,000,000 worth less of our goods than in the previous year, and sold us $143,000,000 worth less of hers. She’s becomin’ exclusive right fast, and what our new ‘tariff will do to us on that line will be plenty. = THE SEATTLE THAT HORRIBLE OLD PIECE AGAIN ST . Accordin’ to divorce papers, Fred Barr, of San Diego, has made a awful slip. His wife sue} ¢ because he took only six baths in seven years. Missin’ the annual bath is gettin’ to be a fatal Telephone Rates and Chadwick Editer The Stan hie firm have been the paid etter 1 eee by the papers that President/ "tye of record of the Pacific Tel- Waterhouse ef the Chamber of Com. | ‘phone & Telegraph company during all thetr eults and proceedings, both merce, has awakened after 18 years! i, court and before the commission of Increasing telephone rates and tn-/ in rate adjustments and changes, the effictont servica, and appotnted a/ findings of the committee probably committee of five to Inventigate the) will not be very useful to the rate questions of law and fact, including | payers. upon said committees Judge J. &.| TELEPHONE USERS ASSN. By P. H. WILSON, Chadwick, Executive Secretary. Inasmuch as Judge Chadwick and “Newberryism” Close at Home Eéttor The Star: lle welfare es any of thee free | While the tasue of “Newberrytam™ | spending gentlemen, and doubts ex engrosses wide attention and unt |tremely if “unalloyed patriotiam” ts versnl disapproval in our national /behind their spending. This, I te polities, would ft not be wise for the) citizens of thie estate to look “closer to home?” ltewe, te @ real fasue, and only an- other manifestation of the contro! by moneyed interests of our entire legts Take the legisiative candidates, for |iative government, national and instance. We find men spending state, county and etty, high and more than the entire salary for «| low. term, In merely attaining a nomina-| Men ere entering too much our po- tion. To any the breast, the expendi. ture of such sums renders any candi- date lable to either of two sus Pictona, or to both—first are they fi- nanced by outside parties and de cietly “interested friends”; second, do they expect to_get it back, with | interest, If elected? The writer, as a candidate, clatme as high a grade of seal for the pub litical bodies bound by “searet vows” and hidden premises, It is time the electors turned back these attacks at |the polla, The writer ie @ candidate for the office of representative, dist district, and expended a total of 43 cents in obtaining @ nomination by the farmer-labor party, CHESTER A. TAN. Answers “Educational Toreador” EAitor The Stan In her pertodic diatribe against the | high schoot teachers tn The Star of | September 24, Mra. Edgar Blair, Se | attie’s premier educational toreador, undertook to compare the wages and the length of the working day of manual laborers in the employ of} the school district with the wages and working day of the teachers, an operation in which the resultant suf. foring of the teachers was in direct proportion to the amount of spleen vented by this Intellectual bovine colonsus, While Mrs. Bialr asserts that other | employes work at least eight hours | a day, high echool teachers, she the first class and ends with the fifth period. The work of the class room teacher does not begin and end with the conduct of class recitations any more than the bank clerks work only during the hours the doors of the bank are open. Preparation of len. sons and inxpection of pupils’ papers consume many hours outside class. English teachers, with four or five clarses in English compoattion, fre. quently bave from 180 to 260 papers & week to correct, and this le done after school hours, in the evening and on Saturday. } Despite the fact that the counc!! of | English teachers in the Inland Em. avers, work only six hours a day, for| pire Teachers’ association recom- which they are pald Infinitely high- | menda that teachers of English com- | er wages, Mrs. Bilalr ts obsessed with position be given not more than 80 | the delusion common to those tgno- | pupils a day, there are today in Se- rant who know little about present: | attle high schools many teachers of day schools, and care lens, that a | Inglish composition who have from teacher's working day begins with!1265 to 149 puptis in their classes By Berton Braley ‘A BIT of the brute and a bit of the god, A bit of the #ky and a bit of the clod, A little of velvet, a little of steel, Of dross and of gold as the test may reveal; A trace of the baby, a lot of the boy, A Sigger of sorrow, a beaker of Joy, A strange contradictory puzzle to scan—~« And that is a Man, A BIT of the serpent, a bit of the dove, A bit of decelt and a great deal of lova, A wisp of the mist and a pinch of the dust, A trace of the feline—unstable to trust; A large slice of heaven, a wee bit of hell, Tho just which ts which ts a problem to tell; A bit of supernal, a whole lot that's human, And that ts a Woman! Granan creatures, with natures eo variegated, 7 You cannot imagine them happtly mated, SCIENCE Making Diamonds. Small and Costly. Possibilities Greater. Helium Is the Key. Diamonia have been manufactured recently ae the rewult of scientific ex perfmenta, The diamonds have been merely pin pointe in size, and the cost has been enormous, But the expert mente indicate that diamonds can be manufactured In any else if some way in found to unite three atoms of helium. Helium t @ gag used in Girigibie dalloons, It has an atomic welght of four and has the power of being sep arated from certain elementa, like radium, thorium and uranium. The diamond ls pure carbon. It has an stormie weight of 12. Gatry. Teachers of ectence, manual arts and musio know nothing of Mrs. Miair’s mythical six-hour day, as many of them ere invariably on the job til! ¢ or 7 o'clock In the evening, and then work in the buliding on Sat urday. The working day of most of the teachers i@ from nine to 11 hours, and the average working day of the high school teachers in Seattle ls considerably above eight hours. that one with Mrs. jendenay to gravitate ight ie eo uniformly mistaken In her conception of facts. WILBUR WINTHROP, Editor The Start I do not know how actentifie and orthodox Doe Wood Hutchinson ia, but aa he is one of the chief writing persons of the medical préfeasion, and ae hig statements and deductions are not questioned by his compeern, EVERY DAY Today's word is—TENTATIVE, It's pronounced—ten-ta-tiv, with |Rocent on the first ayllable, and the “a” touched but lightly. Tt means—pertaining to or based | | It comes from—Latin “tentare,” to fequiescence of the British in the most important of Kemal Pasha's demands promises a great diplomat. fo triumph+for the Turkish leader, following his military successes over the Greeks.” Brain Testers Properly read, this will be recog: nized a8 @ well-known nursery rhyme, Seogeh sreve ereh welsume vahi Tah sehs #6 otreh nos Hebdnas Regni freh nos gnires rohyer Ganoed tryd ale nifae esots sorcy Rub nabot es rohk co caed in Can you do it? Yesterviay’s answer: The two con- Yet somehow, despite all that's sald to disparage, They frequently make a success out of marriagel (Copyright, 1922, Seattle Stary some veg one another, looking up and down the road over ' ately bond one another's LEARN A WORD}! @ There ain’t goin’ to be any blood test in that Tiernan | that ft manufactures tte own LETTER FROM VRIDGE MANN Dear Fotks: Mustapha Kemal bas « name thet lends tteelf to joking, for now I nee thoy start to claim it has to do with amoking, They point to pills whoee covers beer the probibition mammal, and then they say that, over there, it meane “Must have a Camel But when Fatima heard the news her brows began to pucker; tn harem-scarum interviews she said, “Don't be @ sucker! It's just & little trick, you my rivela start devising to wean your Ups away from me by x advertising.” And Chesterfield began to stare, with eyebrow arching alightly, | drugs, and whacking the carburetor |off with a hatchet, are poor tech | nique. They ere almost getting to the place now where they can dimly, as j thro & glass Garkly, perceive «@ use for these ducts, end glands and appendices and tonsile anf sich, Until moet recently the approved | Program wag to open ap the human | machine and lop off any stray cog | or pinion or poppet valve that the | doctor didn’t know the use ef; | time we may al! agree that the wlgner end first engineer of and said, “I rebily must declare it's not translated rightly. Were | machina, called the body, knew 1 @ gamb! u Td bet they*ve come en awful cropper—tor when | much about whet it needed es you eray think of n 4 topper! the fellows who looked for Sweet Caporal’s opinion goes, ” false! But tf you doubt me understanding with a 12-power 1) simply may, ‘Ark Dad, he knows” We couldn't do without mer’ While someone else was heard to my, “It's I, the Smoker's Heavent They eall me up from day to day—iy number's One-Eleven” Bull Durham nonchalantly heard the varted line of chatter, and eaid, “The talk is quite absurd; it really doesn't matter, Whatever line of dope they pull in cigerets’ 4ominion, I merely use « bit of ‘Bu | When the last mother buys a quart _ | of milk @ Gay for the baby instead of & bottle of soothing syrup a week, | the race will bee bit nearer the high | maternal plane on whieb the Pisme | clam bas been dwelling, T en giad the medical profession ‘and roll my own opinion!’ | tetiows have been maintaining that : | the human body contained every healing balm within itself; that { muppone be ts available as a wit-) butter, plenty of mud to play in, and nese | neither drugs nor coddling, neither babe nor grandsire nrsded Recently Hutchinson wrote | The research chemist and the tn-| medicine, but only clean food, clean pretty plece about the ductless | quisitorial medico go probing and | thoughts, no fear bugs and plenty giands, and therein he «tated that prying and squinting the skeption! | of fatth in the divine powers all the baby was born with antitoxins eye at stained glass slides, and after about us. 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