The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 20, 1922, Page 6

bage. autos. Money makes the mare go. stations were erected in Seattle. Dat! ‘The Star Pubdliening Co seg re aay FR end United Presse Berrios B th; & monthe, 81.60, ¢ monthe SRT8) yea atives. fan Franciece of New Terk office, Otiman, Nicet! & Nuthman, Mpectal Repr o Momadn is) Chicage office, Tribune bidg.: Pacific bide Try McCleary Case Out | Two delays, then a forfeiture of bail. A rich man’s ’ of escaping’a jail term! k McCleary, of McCleary, Wash., son of a wealthy n, chose to drop $700 bail to standing trial at on a charge of driving an automobile while in- Rosen office, Tremont es basCoeary’s drink-benumbed hands that held the 1 of the big Lincoln car when it swerved clear across width of a street to crash into the Ford car of Rev. V. Morgan on October 22, wrecking the machine causing injuries that nearly proved fatal to Dr. Mor- 's young son. : ’ An outraged citizenry demanded an immediate trial. clever lawyers obtained delays. Trial was set for t Thu . Then, did Mr, McCleary appear in court? much. He forfeited bail. He dared not risk convic- on and a possible jai! sentence. A poor man could not have afforded to forfeit that ch bail. ' The Pierce county prosecutor has asked Judge Linck a bench warrant. The court has the matter under ement. He says he'll take MeCleary’s driver's e away from him. Bail money is put up to guarantee a defendant's ap- nce in court. It should not be used as a means of ixing a maximum fine. Too many escape jail that way. McCleary should be made to appear in court and stand OLD-FASHIONED believe with Jefferson that the whole art of government in the art of being honest, 1 still betieve with Cleveland that . believe with Old Hickory Jackson that Tesponsible position should be held to the peopla—Senator Heflin (1D), Als, Too Much Jumping on the Big X A whole lot of smart American editors are jumpin’ on of Prussia, etc., because he’s lan queenship and has ap- inary reception in the uniform of a high of the German navy, and it ain’t right, it ain't even X is down and out. There ain’t ever any cour- or sense in jumpin’ on such with both feet, cially it’s a fellow who has fell from the highest landed nose down in the ditch. the Big X deserves editorial contumely, but you that a man who has lost all the place, power and marks that Bill has ain't feelin’ hit very hard by raisin’ Wilhelmina Reuss to a ian queen- there ain’t any such thing and w: ’ a German when there ain’t any German navy looks 's darned near all the amusement that’s left ’s no humaneness in everlastingly jumpin’ lonesome, exiled has-been for playin’ with that are meanin’less and innocent, like ’ horse and tin sword. as I understand {t, old Bill has gone and mar- a young and spritely widow, many years his junior. y man of his years who raises a dashin’ young widow, any other brand of female, for that matter, to a queen- ship and then marries her should interest the sympathy of all in this vale of tears, pretty regardless of his load of sins. The rigors of exile in old age is likely to appear m and soothin’ to a fellow who plunges into therm risks, KITCHEL PIXLEY. Reader writes us he visited New York without seeing any shooting. He should have demanded his money back. Senator McKiniey says we will have » new world war. Most of us favor making the old one last awhile longer. A goose never acts like an owl when he goes out for a lark. Bad, Maybe, but Hard to Give Up i The League Against Hand-Shaking winds up its annual _ Meeting by the members absentmindedly shaking hands with each other as they part. That’s force of habit, inherited thru the centuries from the days when a man extended his fighting hand to convince a friend that he didn’t intend braining him. This peculiar roy seule that shaking hands is a 8 practice, frequently responsible for the spread _ of contagious diseases, " |. A fine way to get up is put the alarm clock under the bed | have to erawl to get It. tla a tN i me a ts Modern politeness consists of a man offering his seat to a |: _ he gets off the car. ied ae ae A wise man never throws rocks at a policeman laughs i Mg ag pol nor laughs when his Nights are long enough now for robbers to make two trips. The World’s Largest Bass A large-mouth bass weighing 18 pounds 8 ounces was caught by 0. C. Donehey, in Lake Serpentine, Fla. Largest ‘is may not seem important to you, but to at least 2,- 000,000 Americans it is the most interesting happening for _ months. A chronic angler would trade a few years of his ode catch a bass of that size, particularly a smali-mouth- “a Considering the different things that different people ____&re interested in, it’s easy to understand why it’s so diffi- - cult to get a general agreement on anything. Profiteers were charging so hard when the ist haven't been able to stop yet. Pe ee ae The stinglest man again has some Red Cross seals he took off of his packages last year, } pe 5 We can all be thankful this hong Thanksgiving that moths don’t eat as 4 lelaimed to be “honorable” | seeking to get on the, payroll roll was all It amounted to. The can- | | didate who got the greatest major. | ity ever given a councilman in this | city spoke at a meeting at which I Money isn’t everything, but it is very useful in paying bills. dyai ( the earthquake. @] Too many wives want to share half of their husbands’ winnings and none of their husbands’ losses. @ Do your Christmas mailing early and avoid the pickpockets. Mayor Brown says he is going to give us a five-cent carfare. What, again? s to vie the hospital. Why not a law to permit victims to view speeders—in jail? @[ The Community Chest remains a hope chest. Let's fill it. tels ask to serve mince pie with brandy this Thanksgiving. Some even want to leave out the pie. @ Three men who tried to organize the League of Henpecked Husbands are still at large. @J “High noses,” says Dr. Wood, “indicate brains.” We say they may indicate the neighbors are cooking cab- Gradyaneskschovitsky, Galicia, has had an earthquake, and you can’t blame THE SEATTLE STAR A. A. Denny’s cow used to roam up and down First Ave. It.couldn’t now. | THIS BIRD SHOV — VS SIG weaee we'o BeTTeR wusT ope A CAN OF SARDINES FoR OUR JRANKSGIVING DINNER Dear Folks ‘The time of year has come around fer weather prophet Gope, and tm the woods the signa are found to bring us lots of hope They*ve gone and watched the squirrels there, whose ways are wise but wild, and say the coming winter's air will be extremely mild T'm here to say I hope it willh—the mildest alr we've meet; Ive got my coal, I've got my bill haven't paid ft yet. And so I hate to contemplate my very meager store, and feel that, at a later Gate, TU have to get some more But I'm an optimistic guy, and ewallow all they my, and look for winter passing by tte semitropio way. Besides I know, from year to year, we tel) the Eastern swarm, “Come, bring your goods and settle here, where winter's always warm!” But yot I get & bit of gloom when I am attting #tiM, and neem to fool that all the room i getting rather chill saunter out at night, tt rather gets my goat to know I'm feeling far from right unlews I wear a cont. there's life there's hope,” they say, and that’s the way I feel—for ether things may fade away, but Geritge Tomas And when I Hope is always real LETTERS 2 EDITOR Approves Weekly Pass Editorial Editor The Star: I want to congratulate you on your editorial of Thursday tn regard to the handling of our transportation nyatem. It seems to me that if we | would hunt the nation over, from one end to the other, we could not) find another system handled on the | theory of “The people be 4—4," as! fa our street railway tn this ctty. It seems to be that the manage ment, or those responsible for it, have no thought or care as to the) | comfort, convenience or accommoda tion of the people who put up the wherewith, but get by, no matter how. Mayor Brown promised a 6-cent/| fare within 20 days from his taking | office, and it is now 165 days since that unfortunate event, and no re duction in sight. ‘The patrons have pald approxt mately $3,315,000 in fares and pur chase price since thoae promises were made, In face of the fact that those who made the false promises cttizens Pay was to apeak on the “Erickson plan,” but when she was thru speak- ing whe asked to be excused on the ground, “That her husband was waiting for her outside in his car, and she didn't feel itke having him walt longer.” When she got down to the council chamber she made the plea that she “did not understand the question,” and that, too, after it had been discussed, aa @ burning question, for nearly two years all over the city. Is it any wonder that municipal ownership hag a biack eye }in this city, when candidates will make all kinds of promises when running for office, and break every one into smithereens as noon as they | are elected? Ae I understand, the people tn Spokane, Tacoma, Everett and Bel. lingham have all had relief extended to them, then why in the world can not our officials do something for us? The patrons of our system are all taxpayers and I cannot, for the life of me, figure out why they should be compelled to buy a system in which al) have an interest, but which they will not own after they have pald for It. The street car deal in the greatest injustice that has | ever been heaped upon the people of this city, | Keep up your fight for equal jus tice for those who are not able to fight for themselves, Sincerely yours, R. J. WILSON, Pres, Public Ownership League. He Repents Vote for Brown Editor The Star: I have been thinking for some time now that I ought to write you and apologize for an error I made in the last municipal election, at which time the present Mayor Brown was elected. I have been a constant reader of The Star for many years, during all of which time I have had a very high regard for its judgment tn mu nicipal elections, But I must confess that on last election I, as many others that I know, fell for Brown's bunk about his ridding the eity hall| of incurables, lowering taxes, clean ing up the elty, ete, The fact im, I was induced to believe that here was a man who was a real guy, did all his own thinking and was a wonder. On the other side, 1 was Induced to believe that Landon was being con twolled by ong Thomas Murphine any that he was likely to be appointed | superintendent of public utilities and be the real bons, After Brown was elected and T saw by the papers that the worst thour- able in Seattle (George Runseli) was appointed superintendent of public utilities, T said, “Well, he won't last long with Brown,” but when Inter on T found such names as Gasaman mention for street superintendent, I made up my mind that Brown was the bunk T have since talked with hundreds | of people who were Brown's support- ors and f find them all of the same opinion, that we'd better have Mur. | phine with bis brains as mayor than | Russell with nothing to hin credit, Hereafter here's one that will Haten to The Star. CONSTANT READER NS OF RESISTING THE AX Law proposed in Seattle to compel speeders to view their victims in Believe it or not, last week only 10 gasoline mONDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1922. Chicago ho- We have most of the world’s SCIENCE “Metal Mike.” Steers Ocean Vessel. Makes No Mistakes. || Lacks Only Judgment. | An uncanny new Invention, known |e “Metal Mike,” ts perfected by El |mer A. Sperry, marine inventor | Metal Mike is an automatic ship | teoring device, It ke a atrect Hook it | to & whip's wheel and It steers atx times more accurately than the beet |buman wheelsman, The Moffett, largest tanker of the 1d Ol) feet, recently made a | car motorman’s contro! box Mike If the ocean waves twist the ship ff her ox Metal Mike Instantly from the route him before leav joally Mike whirls the steering whee) and corrects the course Metal Mike, of course, tncks fod | ment, the t important quality of ot. That i, Mike can to dontination—uniews a hum: D ship p gets in the way. Still, ft would not be impomtble to improve Mike's that, nearing cog-wheel brain #0 ner ship, he auto matically w steer away from ft This wou! just the reverse of the selenium torpedo, which auto matically pursues {te prey, no mat | ter how many twinte and turns are j toon in the attempt to escape. We recall an “automatic man” that years agé toured the country tn vaudeville housew, It walked. It bowed. It did many stunts. Its oper | ator opened ite cont, displaying a maze of machinery vistble inside thru « ine All went well until a woman, crafty in which It wae} continuously by Metal | BY LEO H. LASSEN S endless seasons come and go again I have no harvest to show of summer grain; There are no stately barns, filled to the eaves With toll of summer, bound in fragrant sheaves. 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