The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 14, 1922, Page 6

PAGE 6 Before the new board of county commissioners take seats the first of the year, The Star wants to recall for their benefit some facts in regard to King county’s public welfare work. In April, 1918, embezzlements and graft in the charity department became an open scandal, which threatened the political future of the county administration. An official was tried and convicted; a house-cleaning was agreed n. pvosiah Collins, successful business man, was asked to take charge; he accepted on the = lation that he should be entirely free from polit- jeal strings during his incumbency. Mr. Collins found 11 employes on the charity department payroll, dispensing clothing, fuel, ries, rent and shoes to the poor. He imme- ately reduced the staff to six and later to five persons. It is still five. THE The department’s budget for 1918 was $62,945. Mr. Collins actually spent $41,799, and out of this amount put $4,466 into additions and improvements on the old county almshouse. He then returned $21,145 cash to the county treasury—an unprecedented procedure! In 1919 the charity department’s budget was reduced to $44,985. The expenditures for the year were $25,144, and $19,840 was turned back to the treasury. That year and each succeeding year until 1921, the other county departments all showed budget increases of 10 to 20 per cent. In 1920 the commissioners, adhd by Mr. Collins’ record, consolidated the charitable insti- tutions, the King county home and the crematory with the charity department into a “Department of Public Welfare,” and placed Mr. Collins in charge of the whole thing. The Seattle Sta Daily by The Star Publishing Co Phone Mein 0600. Mew. ‘Aesoctation and Caled Prem Service, By rail, owt of ih; # mentha, $1.60, ¢ mowthe, 19.7%) year, 95.00. im the ington, Outside of the state, te per month $4.69 for & tenths, er 69.00 per year, ly carrier, city, Me & month. & Ruthman, Special Representatives Sam Franctece of- vide. office, Tribune bidg.; New Terk effics, Didg.| Beeton office, Trement bids. The Two Old Cronies other day an old French gentleman whom they “The Tiger,” tho he looks more like a walrus, de- to call upon a crony whom he sometimes calls Phe Saint,” tho Woeedrow Wilson Is too good a sport be a saint. in} , “The Tiger” wanted to sit by the fireside he Saint,” to talk about these glorious days when, THE SKY LINE SrRcE™ a SERS OA - Lettie Brown © Cumpany hed here at Walla Walla,” told his fellow guard, as (Starts on Page 1) tay even with his fellows, To} |d@ay Springley, the guard in first! command of the gangs, had placed | ousht to be here or not, him opposite Judy, the burly Dearo, | Criminal tase eats See 2 but the Inter was detng drm) oe puard, Hows |straight toward absolute exhaustion. Sometimes I wonder whether SEATT — ee Keep County Welfare Work Out Thus all these branches of county work were removed absolutely from the political patronage counter. The county home has especially bene- fited from the change. It and the crematory are now operated under one joint management with W. W. Finch as superintendent, and Mrs. Finch as matron of the home. A sunroom for the old women, a lounging room for the men, several dormitories and othey improvements were pro- vided. Much re-plumbing and overhauling was done. The capacity of the home was increased from 180 to 176. This work was all accom- plished out of the regular appropriations, with no additional cost to the county. Mrs. Finch has seen to it that the old people are kept warm and comfortable, the food nutri- tious and the atmosphere of the institution homelike. Sprigiey ney watched | in the underworld from the very first, the man's pick swing in the air, Look at he bann't any more of a} . scanned | hia companton's face with mock care.| head And Swanson believes that hi Yet Kinney at least knew how to #ub-| "That ain't sayin’ eo much for him," | one knows where he came from— and that's queer in itself, You know very well that his face and form are going to be remembered and noticed, | | yet he wasn't in any rogue's gallery, | in any city, Dem te crook tho he was, no one hed ever heard of | him before he showed up tn Seattle “The crooka down there called him | ow y', and were pretty well | jacared of him. #wanson, one of the| |Houtenante of the Seattis force, whom ji know well as I know you, told mol | that he was @ power, sort of a king | largely because he was afraid of| nothing, absolutely deaperate, and! willing to take any chance. He wasn't & hophead, yet they all looked at bim jas sort of queer; tho ready to follow him to the last ditch, yet some way they thought him off er of crime started © he! of Politics 9 And this all at a saving of more than $25,000 as compared with 1918. Graft, petty politics and inefficiency seem to have been thoroly elim- inated. Now, The Star is informed, the new board of commissioners is proposing to replace Mr. Col- lins so that the county institutions can once again be made political pawns. The Star does not know whether Mr. Collins wishes to con- tinue in his present position or not, but The Star does know that somebody of his caliber and of his firm determination to run the de- partment on the same basis of efficiency, hon- esty and indifference to polities SHOULD HEAD THAT DEPARTMENT. The Star counsels the incoming commissioners to think very seriously before they get away from that policy. SCIENCE Hedych ium. | Mexican Plant. May Supply Paper. Also Alcohol. j Potanical investigation t# to be} made of @ plant growing on the west coast of Mexico that may be used for paper manufacture, j The plant ts called hedychium, It grows #o thickly certain nections that it is impene It te claimed that it will have important by Product in commerctal alcohol. Growing wuneertainty about supply of paper for newspar raw materials grow less b LETTER FROM VV RIDGE PiANN “You can clothe a man from his shirt to his toes with products made from wood."—H. 6. Beets, Forest Products Laboratory, Wash- ington. Dear Folks: I do not wonder people anid that wonders never cease, for science surely goes ahead in piping days of peace. And forest producte, #0 they say, completely clothe a man-—elaborating on the way that Adam first began. It waen't any Job fot him to get a wooden eult—he'a merely pick tt off a limb and warble, “Ain't {t cute?” But now, from Adam's humble start, it's grown to beat the Dutch—it's really quite a mod ern art, with “fiber stik” and euch. Of course I've heard of wooden shoes they wear tn eunny France; and kids I know would like to use a pair of wooden pants; they'd have, to please the little chap, a solid maple seat—and then, when father got the trap, he'd find them hard to beat th another crony, David Lloyd George, they could have eid the world in the palms of their hands, if they could due and direct the pouring fountain | he ebeerved. But at once he began to evince real Interest. “I malatal , tor the pred be of his vitality and enersy jyou can't tell anything from thelr! When all the kinds of clothes there be are made from firs and pines, I have a hunch we ought to see some interesting signe—like od Beattie, not before grown up to crime Itke it hel try and Canada, and a» th oat} cornered by big interests ea it they couldn’t agree often, and usually It was Wood- Wilson with Lloyd George against the third, Clem- Often they fought it out in words, those three nies, what they would do with the world. i on spoke for a hundred million people, perhaps y most 1} group in the world, and Lloyd George ‘a still greater number, while Clemenceau, speaking smaller my ae , made up by speaking louder, longer ea the world has watched the tragedy of the three whose taste of power was such as no three men even for a brief day. The world tions, however well-meaning they jowever meritorious the ideas, and have been in the three men them- Astoria Will Be a Better City burns wood. It twists iron. It kills the body. cannot touch the spirit. C fo burned—and rose again, to become the second ty in America. Baltimore, San Francisco and Seattle ebuilt upon ashes and became great. American spirit rebounds, to lives. The old physical Astoria was a ha construction—a city of wood on piles. Astoria first, and put a foundation under itself afterward and sucked from the estuary. was this construction that made the fire so swift to and so destructive. toria will rebuild, no doubt about that. will rebuild solidly, wisely, and it will rise from its a bigger, better city than ever before. cannot touch the spirit. Aye, the spirit grows ronger under adversity. Before this calamity came bon it, it was a divided city. Now {ts citizens have a on sorrow and a common purpose. _ A secret ts what you tell someone not to tell because you promised not Most serious mistake on earth is being too serious. On Being “Done For” Hugh Walpole, the English novelist, says that while in mistic mood, he once told Arnold Bennett that he wished he could escape from all his relatives, friends and ver} familiar thing if only for half an hour. Bennett ok his head negatively, and with his charactieristic mer, answered: b-b-beeen studying life for f-f-fifty years, old fellow, and I’ve reached the e-c-conclusion that the ment » naghee b-b-born, you're done for.” , the philosophy in Arnold Bennett’s novels is tic and emphasizes the interests and joys of lite. nh an optimist, therefore, eventually comes to pictur- the human race as having been “done for.” But, this p04 doesn’t imply life is a failure. Being “done for” ns, however much we strive, we never attain our ob- ve. There is always a sense of unfulfillment. We are led when we get what we want because we imme- ly begin to want something else. ‘The destiny of humanity is always to be thus “done ” In that is man’s glory and, indeed, his spirituality. or, being “done for” means we refuse to rest content th the past achievements of the race and insist on ng our own contributions to progress. —_______ wae distilled first in distilled first tn Arable, so maybe that fe why those see tat very bao” Pte outlook than this year did and this robust blows of bis pick fell with the | #0, « he men in hie gang. He didn't} enused many scientific experiments “Alder Sweaters Wear Like Hocks,” “A Walnut Shirt Endures,” or regularity of @ tireless machina plains, had been trained to draw the | plow, His great muscles moved with | marvelous precision; but for all the monotony and rythm of his motions he conveyed no image of stolidity and | akin darkly brown from exporure; his straight hair showed almost coal black pite of the fact that it bad} but recently been clipped close; bis} eyebrows were astmnilarly black; and black hatre spread down his hands) almost to the finger nails and cropped up from his chest at his open throat. | It was a mighty, deep, full chewt, the chest of a runner and a fighter, wus tained by @ strong, flat alxiomen and by powerful, sturdy lees Yet physical might and development were It] “There's nothin’ tn it was as if @ wild stallion, off the) crook, isn't het red-handed‘ “Lat me tel! you about tt interested tn the case and found out) all 1 could concerning it. He parently showed up tn Seattle some time during the summer of 1919, crook of the crooks, aa you say. not all of Ren Kinney. The tmage conveyed was never one of sheer brutality, For all their black har, the large brawny hands were well- shaped and sensitive: he hed « healthy, good-humored mouth that could evidently, on oceaston, be the seat of @ most pleasant, boyish smile He had a straight, good nose, rather high cheek bones, and a broad, brown forehead, straight rather than sloping ewiftly like that of the negro op- Posite, But none of his features, nor yet his brawny form, caught and held the attention as @i4 his vivid, dark-gray eyes. They were deeply dark, even against his deeply tanned | face, yet now and then one caught distinct surface lights, denoting the Presence of unmeasured animal aptr- Ite, and perhaps, too, the surprising health and vitality of the engine of his life. They were keon eyes, alert, fiery with a sealot’s fire: evidently the eyes of a steadfast, headstrong, Purposeful man. Some complexity of lines about them, hard to trace, Indi- cated a recklessness, too: a willing- noas to risk all that he had for his convictions. “That's the queerest case we ever LETTERS to the EDITOR |A Letter to an \Overseas Neighbor Dear Japan: In these latter times you have sent large numbers of your youth to the countries of the white man to be edu- cated. You have adopted the machines, machinery and other inventions of the white man for the upbullding of your manufacturing industries, You have built railroads, telegraph | and telephone lines, merchant ships, men-of-war, airships, all on the models of the white man, You engaged the services of the! white men to organize and train an army equipped with the munitions) of war devised by the white man, Your people are marvelous imita- tors, but have invented nothing of large world-importance, Your peo- ple are shrewd and crafty, and have | valid in their hearts, and sometimes openly, that the average white man | is a fool and can be hoodwinked. We shall see! Now some of your people perstat in invading a country discovered, nettied and improved by the white man, and unlawfully appropriating to thelr own use some of his most fertile acres, And now the white man has be- come weary of these your people fol- Jowing him about and claiming the right to share in the fruits of his discoveries, hin improvements and the markets which he alone created. And we think it would be wine if these your people would return to thelr native country and there re- main, Your people claim to be a proud people; it Is not pride, but an ego- tistic self-concelt, The justly proud man stands dignifiedly aloof from those who want not his presence. To do otherwise would create an em- barrassing situation—as it has. 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