The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 18, 1922, Page 7

Now out of tm the Published Daity by The Star Publient jon and Ur Kansas’ Medieval Justice "Bditor White, of the Emporia Gazette, found himself arrest one day about three months ago because he d in the window of his print shop a placard ex- ; his sympathy with the striking coal miners of White's only crime was that he sympathized in print. with a number of other Kansas citizens who sym out loud, he was arrested on the governor's , charged with violating an injunction aimed to pre- anyone from aiding or comforting the strikers. aths went by with White under arrest but out on Patiently waiting his turn in court, when the charges him could be heard, with his reply, and when he be adjudged innocent or guilty comes the court at Emporia with a “ismissal of le case, offering no explanation, granting White no ver- %. Other cases have been disposed of, but White, after three times before the court, seeking trial, i in d it. brand of justice which they dole out in Kansas have come as no surprise from some divine right of Europe back in the Dark Ages, when it was pted thing for kings to jail subjects who thought ndent ideas, denying them hearing and verdicts | such time as the king chose to relent. it hard-boiled method of smothering opposition has in democratic America, even when administered guise of public policy by Gov. Allen of Kansas, his attorney general. Editor White is right in rerus- Pte tolerate this feudal justice. he Star has had occasion frequently to speak of Rus. of the press. It does that because freedom of the can be denied only after freedom of speech has ed. Editor White’s fight in Emporia is just Fyhsee in the lasting struggle for the rights of free- Of expression, necessary to democracy. ENOGRAPHERS ie reporter is a stenographer who ts able to report the “in the court verbatim, while a stenographer may be merely whe can take, perhaps, 75 or 100 words & minute. Tanner, clerk of court of claims, before house committee on ss Penelope Papanastasopoulos has won a $15,000 damage verdict a Detroit merchant named Zissis Zissis, Jost think of a woman | because she couldn't sign her Christmas cards “Merry Christmas Penelope Pap-ete. Zissis”! @ McCoy, who has married cight thmes, is bankrupt Two may live as one, but nine can't. * motto seems to be, “Don't give up the ship subsidy.” Legalized Slavery Proposed ent Harding’s proposed solution of the railway is no solution at all. It won't work. down, it amounts to this: Four men appointed shall have power to fix wages for rail- and enforce their decision. president suggests labor division of the inter- commission “to hear and decide disputes to wages and working conditions which have by Proper committees created by bes ne “The lawful 3 ions is necessary to n the majesty oer gro government and to administer to lic welfare.” another significant extract from the message: ly, a fair and living wage must be de- — from the employers’ earning capac- in practice, in the railway service, they are in- on a railroad that isn’t eArning enough to m tho frenzied finance and rotten management ible for the road’s inability to pay. by the president could fix and living wage, and compel what is proposed is legalized slavery. And an American solution of the railway wage prob- o really American congress would ever pass such needs bolstering up, here and there, to save the ging and profiteering and prevent strikes. have jumped to three crying spells higher than they Indigestion and Fool Ideas this: “I never knew a theorist who wasn’t a sick n,” writes James J. Davis, secretary of labor, in “The uddler. it a step further: A g many unbalanced ils curse economic conditions and life in general when ‘Teal trouble is in their livers, Life is reasonably pceost as much so as we can expect, when we Moonshine captured “assayed 117 per cent alcohol and vast of fusel oil, vermin, maggots, ete.,” warn a prohibition official, to seare boys away from drink. Many an old soak has seen things in booze, yet died a drunkerd, ryin n Couzens, new Michigan senator, says he hopes to die poor, That ht to be easy now. What's a mere $1,500,000 income compared to the fine furnished apariment in Washington, D. ©. THE COAST GUARD coast guard service is the fire depart) it of the sea.—Ke; Hawes (D.), Mo. ss , at Are Speeders All Insane? persons arrested for auto speeding in Indianapolis i be given insanity tests, announces Mayor Shank. nd will be held without bond, in padded cells, until ie lunacy commission passes on them. Tf Indianapolis goes thru with this, and other cities it up, a vast string of new insane asylums will e to be built. You see crazy drivers daily. Reckless- is a sure sign of mental unbalance. wouldn’t be a bad idea to make every motorist under- a sanity test before e giving him a driver’s license. show the avernge farmer made st is $2,000 more than they got. secmanienemsabibinisenigs of » Baluchisterium has been found ii im you miet one found in Mongolia. Remember $465 this year, but some say { LETTE ener et = ns ene an ca a en ee ee em R FROM AV RIDGE MANN litan Theater n years or more but yet th ago I can't recall its name, actors pans before No #kin was white tn first to lant; and yet, b that rage can do—trom lilting sor consummate art And, if my memory ts right then mbed t I today, And #o I'm proud to write to do, I'm glad to know you've fou held you down, to let us see that fight some day an uphil Perhaps ight divine and shale, thru that Hea within Perhaps, me day. knows your eyes tation, ralment mankind, th other man to our no you have t 4 the way | Paitor The Star | If you have anything you would 2, coo! place, Just | Mike to krep In a Editor The Star I noticed in your paper day a statement by Mr. Henderson that be te pla in care as rapidly as possible | A conductor on my carline claims he has instructions from main office not to have heat turned on in cars cing heating apparatus | Hditor The Star | I have been « resident of George town for the past 19 years, and dur jing all that time I have never yet & car on the South Seattle Georgetown run equipped with heat erm ‘The No, @ car, commonly called the | “Creeper Line,” te bad enough at ali times, slowed down as it Is by a mul titude of switches that would fur. nish metal enough to meen | Batter The Star I with to thank you for the help ‘The Star gave to the Community Fund campaign. The Fund t# «x actly iike a new business tnatitution —it han got to establish tteclf—and the firet few years of the Fund in ea where it has been tried the ofth ve been resentation and lack of understand part of @ portion of the ting on the publia. ‘The press matter which The Star ran Editor The Star: Aa The Star hag always fought for right and justice, regardless of the station In life of the oppressed, we, | the inmates of the King county | home, appeal to you at this critica! moment, when, In the twilight of our lives, the happiness and contentment that have surrounded the atmos phere of this institution are about to be taken from us and the home made @ pawn In the game of politics. We ask The Star to appeal to the good people of Seattio to neo that this great crime is averted. Why, In the name of ordinary business judg ment, should the management be changed at this time, when, under | the administration of Josiah Collins | ae welfare comminstoner, the opera- | tive expenses have been cut to such an extent that a large portion of the! Appropriation has been turned back | Editor The Star: Really, my knowledge of the mechaniam of a street car te neil. gible. The best definition I could give of one is that it is something which has « cold man in front called a motorman, and a cold man in back called a conductor, and « bunch of cold sardines in the mid die, called citizens. But, perhaps, we are not getting “the powers that be” in the heat is concerned. Possibly have wearted of perusing prosaic articles, and the Divine Muse could better appeal to their senses. Try this on your street car of- fictals= Adnshing thru the snow In a one-horse open sleteh, Hasn't « thing on us, In the Geattle Street Ratiway. In Defense of Dr. Brown Editor The Star: I see by The Star that the sky pilots have declared war Brown. An as old-timer who has been In and about Senttle for the Jast 20 years, I want to may that Doctor Brown's administration ts the cleanest ever. The churches will get the amount of protection that ts due them as a religious body, but they won't dio- Editor The Star: Our West Seattle cars contain no pretense of a heater. Four out of five of them are of a prehistoric model, with long, bench-like seats running along the sides—allee same the patrol wagon. We pay our 81-3 cents, climb tn, and for 80 minutes sit, shivering and staring face to face with a t. b. m. seated three feet away across the ainie. One inducement we had in com ing to this beautiful suburb was the splendid mountain and Sound view to be seen as we traveled back and forth, Well said view is denied to us, since four out of five of our cars are of the exasperating type above deseribed. Those on the west side of the car have their ” . ye and sing ore the play f Thure | construct a! attended by much minrep- | not only helpful tn stima-| County Home and Politics A Little Pome of the Cold Cars right way, so far as the matter of | they | on Doc} The West Seattle Car Ride saw a Williams Watker show foragt ‘The Inte of Bye-and-Bys.” thelr race was yours from wan thru Wo visioned what ng to solernn part they all displayed 6 play was one I can’t its saw you there that distant night ition eay your acting can't be beat for you have won yourself a place above the prejudice of you, and wish you luck tn all you wnd renown tn spite of things that splendid aight—the man that wine and mine will learn to see with a sight that pleroos thru the vell of superficial sham wealth and skin, to see the soul hearts may find a brotherhood of all or creed or clan, but meets each and when we do, we all will say that men like On the Green Lake Line wend tt for « trip In a Green Lake oar a about ¢ a.m. Yours for long | er summers, Cc. M. BUTTERS. Heat Ordered Not Used He also says if] | during rush hours any official would come into Joar with heat on he would be given 120 days: if thie le the case what's the use of baving heating apparatus? Yours truly . ANDERSON 4824 Jones Ave. N the w Georgetown Cars Always Cold } double track if melted down, but tn winter months the passengers are frozen, an well aa delayed I open cars, with bitter, ley drafts swirling down their alnlee, are the dally portion of the unfortunate residents of Georgetown Into action by The Star's editorinis, we must tence and frozen rigttity, It seems Sincerely, PHIL. F. GIBRAU, Jumbe Shoe Mfr. Co Community Fund Appreciative lating subscriptions but ft hes, I am sure, been of much educational value. It alse strengthened the handa of hundrede of publiospirited men and women who volunteered their time tn addition to their money fn getting pledges for the 81 charttable and welfare organten, tions whe look to the fund for neo ovary goo to carry on their work. | ‘ery sincerely yours, | euarrin COMMUNITY FUND. By DR. PARK WEED Be jto the county treasury, a thing un- | precedented in the history of this in-| stitution, an@eyet the Inmates pas WELL FED, CONTENTED AND HAPPY, Mr. and Mia Finch, a# superin- tendent and matron, have their hearts In the work here, and it has been greatly thru their efforts that the King county home ts free from criticinm at the present time, Now, In view of the above actual condition, we again appeal to all lov. ers of fair pinay to ase that this In- stitution Is removed for all time to comes from the miserable conditions surrounding Institutions of this character thru the pernicious game of polition, : MRS, FANNIP BUTCHER, MRS. MAE FAULK, j MIS. MARY HICKSON, Grievance Committee of Inmates of King County Home. Bella on bob-tall ring, But the half has not been told; The conductor's s'pored to ring one, too, But his hands are too darned cold Chorus: Clap, clap, stamp; Bo the chorus goen— You have to keep that stamping up, W’'re gonna freeze your toes. | Stamp, stamp, stamp; clap, clap, | clap; | Saves your fingers, too— |Say, my friends, I love to ride, In an open car, don't you? clap; stamp, stamp, Sincerely, A. M. HOPKINS, 421 FB. 62nd Bt. Vin the Meridian Car Line, tate the policy of the city adminis- tration, not while Doctor Brown 1s in the chatr. Doc ‘will be bons. | He uses his head, and will guaran- tee that every individual, from the | panhandler to the Chamber of Com- merce, will get a equare deal, That [is Doc all over—but when we stop to think of it, they eruetfied Christ. H. P. DEVLIN, R. F. D. R. 2, 889, Auburn, Wash, backs to it squarely, those on the east side must gaze at it thru a |row of weary, curiofs or resentful | faces. We are a pretty good class of home owners and citizens over here | willing to take our share of the inconveniences that are unavoidable owing to the city’s unfortunate pur- chase ot the street éar aratem, beg | DENTAL OFFICES 106 Columbia St. Seattle's Leading Dentist for More Than 21 Xeure Unt euch / time as the citly officials are epurred | compose ourselves to pa | T's A RATHER { PLEASANT BURDEN AT That ( shouldn't we in fairnere be treated 5 well at least aa the residents of the nexro the aity? I have to go thru that section every day. 1 transfer from this |patrol-wagon-refrigerator into per fectly comfortable, warm, uncrowd ed cure Weat Seattio has been retarded itor The Star It seema to me that Mr. Clarke does not get the sympathy he craves |thru these columne tend mine. cause I, too, am a« sufferer in my bump of approbativeness from the smiles of a cruel world Time was when | fondly believed that when 1 went forth in all my glory, I recelved the homage suntly due to pulchritude. My disillusion. ment came about in this way I was walking down Secon ave A CO ee > and Japanese districts of | I believe the progress of | I whieh to om) Perhaps, tho, I do tt be | many years by tts wretched car ser! ful gina they made a few years ago! vies, Residents of the untvernity! Aintriot, Phinney ridie, North Queen Anne, and other places just as far from down town as we, pity us for) our jong ride, j It te like the olf joke about the life of a married man—It tmnt any longer—it Just meems so on account of Ite discomforts A.D His Face Not His Fortune | with @ friend, and as we pansed a | beautiful young lady I nudged my} friend and said, “Did you see her smile at mer “Good goshl’ sald my friend “fmile! Why, man, the first time I aaw you I laughed out loud! Cruel! Cruel! The mirror and T fought It out that night Im the prt vacy of my own chamber, and I smashed the mirror. My only wonder now, as I look back on ft, ts, how | that old «ings stood the wtrain of my | countenance for so long, Wonder. Once, after having whored all night, and without taking time to shave or otherwise beautify myself, 1 joined my relatives at Alki bathing beach, Now, if there is any garment in which a man will look like a god | or the reverse—it is in a bathing suit, I certainly did not look Dke a god, However, my little son, my niece end I had the of our young lives, Along tn the afternoon & lady, one of the mob, joined my wife in conversation, and, of course, it duly turned to poor me. This was the atranger’s chofcest contribution, from among & generous offering “An Intelligent looking child and a/ handsome girl, but Gawd never did make a homelier man.” Just think of tt! To my wifet Well, I managed to pick up a few remarks myself, which were not made about me, and by using them tn peifdefense have managed to get along pretty well aincn And that sister! I had to walt nearly a year {BER 18, 1922. SCIENCE Radio C ‘rystals. What Ie Their Secret? Calcapar. || Retaine a Charge. | Why does the orystal enable you ta mensages? It ta be city This te words meaning fi two Greek pressure electricity | If @ orystal of oaloapar ta pressed between the two dry fingers in such ner an to ona it along the biunt edges of the crystal, it becomes electrified and will retain ite charge for several days, Many crystals are being investigated and many have been found to have peculiarities In haractern with regard to the | cond yotion and generation of leo } tricity | The jyour }ty ir ir common gaiena orystal of ecelving set conducte electrict one direction better than the lother, When an ether wave comes in to the crystal, part of it is kept hack and the other part ts used to make the telephone diaphragm move. before finding something to even the score with her But, still, there is one great thing | about it ali: We do not have to see | our own ugliness “Vor beauty 1 know I'm no star, There are others more handsome by far; But my face, I don't mind ft; You nee, I'm behind tt; “Tis the fellow in front get's the jar” Since man was, there have been thoughtless people, crus! people, and, thank God, the kind, loving people. ‘They are sround un all the time. Bach tg #0 busy looking after the little group that has been given to hia special care to love, cherish and protect that he doew not seem to no- ties us. Bat his nttitude ts not care. lew indifference It is thoughtfully absorbent in the work at hand. Let some ancident, nome real need stir him, and his hand will leap out to of- | fer aseixtance, and his soul goss with ft In sympathy; the need passed, he hurries away and is lost in the crowd, “Two prisoners looked out from be hind their bars; One saw—the mud; the other—the stars.” ‘There is plenty of mud: but oh, the and beckon to call us away from the sordid; each heart has the Divine *park in it that glows and calls us from the mean and petty. Hiypersennitiveness ts generally | extreme egotiam, the twin of selfish. ness, Strangle it, or it will ruin your happiness. 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