The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 17, 1923, Page 6

17, 1928. _The Weird Horror of Mer Rouge; What Is Back of It? your min@, the rime from the ertminal, “Love your enemies; do good to them that hate you” It ts hard, very hard, as Billy Sunday says, But ft ts not only good Serip- ture but the soundest kind of psychology. ‘The bootlegger, for instance, ts our “ene ” We ts ready to polson us with what THE SEATTLE STAR SDAY, JANUARY The od But to return to Mer Rouge cltizens’” Idea “bad cltheons people of America gasped in horror when they read the report of the sur who examined the bodies of the Mer vietims and found, in the cold, scien language of the medical men, the unde: evidence that a crime as cruel as any unless we can get at the cause of ft, tn order The “good cittrens” thought of themselves the den “bad citizens” be ood In our consclousness, and ft ts able to dis- It Is this that makes Intol up the Mer that and lawlessness which they and could not, lead to a erime of thelr led them to ¢ that that cause can be eliminated, and the ae auch for so long @ time that superiority to tort our minds of their muperiority to the came an obsession with them. W people think too much about holier than others they are, the the point where ft seems that anything they do to overcome the people tx right Tt was this idea, in the era of religious per secution, which Catholics to Protestants on the rack, » point where ot the As the men who made bach erance thing will not occur again. they formed a 1 168 very Rouge me ol they must see Let us see. The evidence In the case ts laws, the breaking of which, in their minds, bo the » Inferior to them. the ging hated did not once to far from all in, and final Judgment must be how m withheld, But It seems pretty certain that there were two groups in the little town— the “lawless” and the “good cittzens.” It is pretty certain that the black-hooded mob which perpetrated the torture of Daniel and Richards were not born criminals, Probably, If they were subjected to tests by altenists, they would be found to be average persons, Nay, more; the trial will probably show that the nbors of the mob belonged to the “good eltixen™ faction, It is probably just there that we will find the answer to the whole horror—that they were men who had what can paychoanatytically be called the “superiority complex.” ‘bad eltizen The was the thing that made soon get to bad, and he equal in horror the deliberate torture of mind ay they Inflieted on F, Watt Dy —« crime which they were led to commit by thelr hate of lawlessness and bootlegging Does this mean that one should not hate citizens of even . ? Not at all, But one should not lea hate for lnwleasness prey on the whieh my. Billy Sunday calls “rot-gut whisky.” But we have got to love HIM just as omuch as we hate his criminal business. Long before there were any scientists to analyze the human mind and find out the whys and wherefores of persecutions and atrocities, there was # man named Paal who went forth to teach the world some things of which he felt very sure. And he sald: “Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thoa art that Judgest; for where in thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that Judgest doest the same things.” a they had formed a mob, iden that they body whieh badd” missioned to Infilet punishment on commitied in the year of Our Lord tm this, the most enlightened country the world. | Phe operation performed on Daniel was ‘Most terrible eruelty the human mind ovine, for it combined mental and phys suffering. Both men, it appears, were While sti! altve, into a machine tn whieh bones were broken—a counterpart of Pack of the days of religious persecution. Tt will do us little good to de horrified at mwtul crime; it will do us litle good to ‘on the punishment of the perpetrators, caused them to commit @ erime no ie £ ¥ * caused put — atrocious, so unspeakable, that In thelr for ri ‘the dark ages of religous persecution had and which caused mer normal state of m they would not Protestants to burn Catholicos at the stake have even accused the It was the superiority complex whieh © ordinarily kind, good-natured become beaste in 1914, war against « world thelr tnferiors, It was the superiortty plex which caused Americans to Infllet water-cure on the Fillpines, and m atrocities on. the Haitians, concelving. Thus the law-abiding sere thelr pride tn ne of lawleasness: bor commit a deed which must brand their soul deep. There ts such « thing as thinking se much abo ns by their own virtue to the mind until ft becomes an " by think le obsensi the “good thetr mer when they went to extre is us to form a mob and commit unspeak they believed ing too much own “goodness, able nets And the danger of rolng to excess of righteousness? It is sim By hating lawlessness WITHOUT HAT: THE LAWLESS MAN, Separate, in SHIPS "se" FTE wtately Spanish gatleons were splendidly romantia, Be ch com how may one avoid the we recent ple. t evil that wo give it @ terrible power ING “FIRE! FIRE!” BY GUM! | HOPE IT DOESN'T SCIENCE Palmistry. Held Unscientific. Yet Never Tested Out. Prone Main Datly by The Star Pun! ce By mall, Association and U month: § montha, $1.60, ¢ months, $9.78) year, $5.00, tn St Washington. Outside of the state, Be per month, 64.60 fo fr $9.00 per year. By r We @ month. Nicol! @ Ruth: tatives Ban Francisco of ; > ik bide; Ch dune bidg.; New Yerk offies, e s Pacific bide. Bos S office, ‘Tremont bide. More Than One Bar Sinister subject of intermarriage between white persons has figured in several recent news articles. In the cases in question it was pointed out that of the particular match under consideration were al or above normal in intelligence and physique. ‘course, the other side of the picture was not painted items. It is, that a certain percentage of chil- n of these unions will be “throw-backs,” low children of a type reminiscent of the Jap’s bar- Sancestors of centuries . x, admit for the sake of argument that, racially the crossing of these bloods is not bad on the Should Japs and whites then intermarry? De- ymot. For there is another equally important con- ation that bars such unions. The social side. rrespondent of The Star in a letter printed on this ring: i int. Read Mrs. Rose's letter. { x oat, this point. Re a oi “ nt : |6 per cant, This was @ first mort-| for a number of years, and eventual- | d " VTH 3 \ fage on the property. However, she ly the shoo company will get free Ma WASHINGTON A M i ™“ went to @ certain banker for advice, title to both the land and building, | Goo nners Answer: The | are present time of Washtngton. pe a the ft time no such entity as the city et and what ot but Colton gets a nice payroll. ‘Bt one time, however. * * * There is now a District of _—— banker told it Summing up I say re een ee ut the very next| Our Chamber of Commerce te Gend day this nai anker made that| Our real estate agents are para- joan. This ts a fact and transpired | sites. In such a case one should leave at in your University district, and no| Our banks are worse. | each home where an indebtedness ex doubt if the lady reads this article she| And our Better Business Bureau 1s/| ists one’s visiting card, with the in- would verify my statement. bunk itiais “P. P. C." written in one cor Not so long afo an astern oon- Manufacturing ts what this city tters mean “pour prendre cern was looking for @ location on | needs, but the above organizations the Pactfic const for « ladie’s shoe | will have to change their tactics be- manufacturing plant Did they get) fore this town ever becomes @ real any encouragement from Seattle?| manufacturing center. treasure fa? across the surging main, y modern liner, smashing thru the broad Atlantia, s F me has greater wonder than the gulleons of Spain; It Could Be Done. torm an bind her as she throws the miles behind her, One of the commonest alleged th the thrust of purring turbines and the kick of spinning screws; | gsctences—one which great numbers t of stenr as she bucks the ocean surges, of persone believe—Is palmistry, mone MESS SE SE Hee Retiene gee aenapenns wp Der Oren Its chief annet ts its age, It te am exceedingly ancient form of charas ter reading, and also @ method of divination that claims to “predict.” Whi that urges TT YIN stately Spanish galleons—a flock of them beside her Would look like pleasure barges for a plonio down the bay, And looking from the upper deck the passengers who ride her It ts not considered of any value Would wonder that such cockleshells would tempt the ocean spray:|py scientists. However, scientists ‘Thone little ships have glory which is told in song and story, have, thus far, failed to apply ® it But the liner, too, is epic aa she swings from out the dock the rigid testa that would property On @ mtoady passage over from the Ambroxe Light to Dover, classify tt, On & schedule adjusted to the minute by the clock. This could be done by taking tm- | pressions of, say, 6,000 palms tn T vm tely Spanteh enflcons were playthings of the oceans, | printer's Ink, with palmists’ read : Z ; & They t 1, clowereefed and battened, when the tempest showed !ts| ings, and then putting down against ago. : J ; y . ° these impressions the mental and \ But the liner 4 physical characteristics of the own- And #iams along regardiess on her letermined course; ers, ag determined by acientific meth- She's the child Land net she’s the human mind's defiance ods of examination, Of the whirlwind and the tempest and the fog and driving snow; ‘The leaves of trees have been sub- Clean, serene, superb, gigantio—oh, to me she’s more romantic jected to @ study somewhat similar ‘Than the stately Spanish galleons that went sailing long agot to this in the study of genetles—the (Copyright, 1923, The Seattle Star) ectence of breeding. } * Gindainful of the salt sea’s gusty notions, | On leaving home for an extended stay, !t frequently happens that one owes calla it is impossible to make. was not @ ‘What case of Mrs. C. P. H. Schoclikopf, who went to a card party, York, and was robbed of $500,000 worth of jewels. Little Judgment like that will make the best of husbands cross. bo Meets Up With Civilization his name from the Mexicans, but the truth is Hy American, with all the that is d with the industry and unfearing teristic of the American who pioneers American wilderness has narrowed down al tt and altho Lobo slackened not in courage, the advance rf tion was finally too much for him. ‘wagon Lobo, the big wolf, the other day. didn’t get him crossing a pavement in th event happened far out in the gray Ari- it was one of those blamed autos that go ce and never let up for engine troubles or for to climb. that they are located in Colton, Cal | facturing, ‘The city of Colton pisced them in a nice brick building, with free taxes The Spirit Rules Us All | Waittor The star: say that the person who te satiefied I picked up your paper the other | with the way Iife is treating him and | was ever evening, and I noticed @ small para | who manages hin affairs “thru tn the clty of graph, asking “What is an intellectu | thought,” ts an intellectual person. |ed by the Rotary club Al persont™ |The person who reads and “thinks” |It read: lcountry, was patented by « Beattie | man, whe actualy pieaded for money | bere A @ concern wlarted in this city for the production of 1 did be ee any assistance? He did not Anewer, This man took It hast and it was Gnanced within #0 days To LETTER FROM They are peopl ing than taiking—people who under- who do more think- | adays read, but they do not “think.” The only trouble with the world | thoughts we think? Yours for suo a great hunter. He hunted anything, draw- at touchy grizzlies and that strange that walks with two legs. Sometimes deer, but deer have become scarce and often u only rabbits and mice. Which was no for a robust wolf with no indigestion, and per- a large and respectable family in a nearby So, by diligent search he found out 1p were plentiful and by unfaltering industry he to bag 50 fat, young: whitefaces on one ranch a single year. & lly there were ple who judged such a course rt of Lobo as destructive in our boasted scheme tion. So the state and the national government ps and poison for him and sent innumerable rifle- and dogs after him. Nothing doing. Lobo con- jed to est juicy young mutton. ly one day a U. S. biological survey man started f Lobo in a flivver. Wolves, no more than humans, pscape the speeding chauffeur. Lobo dodged and ed but the auto dodged better and ran faster and d gical man presently planted a bullet in Lobo fre it would do our hero the most harm. Lobo weighed a couple of tons of rare courage, hard muscle and bone. Dead, he weighed 78 civilization scored once more. Our Low International Morals the beginning of international relations, in the \VRIDGE MANN Dear Fotks: Ben Franklin was @ man of note, who rose to disey hatghte--he printed things, invented, wrote, and flew electric kites, He went to France and mw the king—they had tt in thelr dome that Franklin was the man to bring the side of bacon home, In days when I was just a kid I heard them #ing his pratew; they told of all the things he did tn very many ways. But atill, of all the things he gave, his most enduring gift was teaching us the need to nave, and Inarn the um of thrift, Ben Franklin, so the records show, was never close or tight; he used to spend a lot of Gough—but always spent ft right. For here's a little fact he knew-—he told us what he learned, “A penny saved in equal to another penny earned.” So Franklin didn't try to pull the richgazabo stunt, nor waste his money throwing bull to keep a Jofty front. He knew the pece that he could go, and took a lot of pride in counting up his weekly dough, and putting sorhe aside. Bo here's « tip for savings banke—I give !t to them free; they owe Ben Franklin lote of thanks for teaching you and me, For thru his words about his bent of laying something by, we've learned the magic word “per cent,” that makes It multiply. LETTERS ce EDITOR The Children of Jap-White Unions day this man is one of the wealthy etand nat MRS, A, G, MORRIS. men of the country, and one of the Kastern cities bas & big payroll is jcousequence, SHATTLES LOSS | The Hoffman steam pressing ma- | chine was patented by @ Seattle man, | Could be get any assistance here? ie jcould not Answer: Financed in | Syracuse, N. YX. tn a period of 30 Gaya Today Hoffman is a wealthy | man and Seattle lost ancther plant | ‘hat would have brought Uem @ nie payroll. SKATTLES LOSS. A patent roller skate was brought out la Seattle iast year, but could get BO amistanco here Answer: Hi-| sanoed In Chicago tm 34 hours and in| & golng concern with 100 per cent| success abead. A sirest and sidewalk machine (a! toy you might call it), was patented by @ Seattle man. Seattle lost it for the want of tal Answer: Los Ang day it is a going concern. Why was it that th Soap Co. did not locate here? { Why was it the Goodyear Tire Co. | did not locate here? | Why was it the American Can Co, | | @id not locate here? | Why was it the Lang Stove Co. jeould got no assistance to increase jt | sir factory when they bad tures # advance business in their order Liste? Now for the blu me: | sky law: By all | | ally as let ua have one, altho person- 1 don’t think it will protect the | small investor, but it will protect tho re and tts laws. We might | today i the fact that they are ig-| cess, Highways Town, county or state boundaries are not the boundaries of telephone service. Stretching from each telephone to every other telephone there is a voice Its use may be had for the fly days of Egypt and Babylonia, there has been a code political morals differing from private morals. Machia- D the difference. It was not peculiar to § time. It has been the same thru all the centuries we ave record of and is as viciously influential today as ever. men commit moral offenses for their country’s Editor The Star: | And, in turn, what will be the fate | banker and the man with big mney. In connection with the discussion | of the children of these half-Jap,| Other states have found that the blue of marriages between whites an) hair white boys and giris? Will the| sky law is farce and @ fraud. You} Japanese there is a phase of the! ju5 piood eventually become can't legislate brains into the public, subject which I have not yet #860 | thinned by intermarriage with whiten}and If they want to buy stocks they mentioned, but which seems to m¢| that the descendants of this unnatu-| Will do #0. Of course the banks to be very tmportant. I refer to the rai union will finally be accepted into| want to be exempt under the biue in which the children of that they never would commit for their own, It 80 vain. Private morality thrives because of its cal results. Whoever hopes to progress by cheating sooner or later falls. No business deal in pri- @ life is satisfactorily concluded unless all sides can & profit. T common sense application of morality to good is absent in international relations. The view- still prevails that one country can progress by an- country’s downfal!l. Nations consider themselves rivals to one another, instead of one another's ners. Statesmen, with narrow vision full of peril ‘their own best interests, cannot be made to realize modern nations are business affai Good business lity is the only kind of morality that will work in al relations. ertheless, to sit back and moralize over the short- edness of others, without doing anything to help, is elf bad business. Moral precepts become hypocritical en left to themselves. This is true personally, nation- lly and internationally. The only way the personal code if morals can contro! international situations is by the ietion of those countries that realize the importance of n values. The world is floundering now because it no such leadership. natio Rogers has cleared up the mystery as to what exSenaior New- of Michigan is doing with himself these days. “He's sitting on his porch hissing every Ford that passes,” says Will. live Upshaw’s declaration that the drinkers as well as the 7 should be jailed will cause carping critics to wonder who's to be lef to do the jailing. position white society. Or will the white such marriages will find themselves | booq be wo thinned out by intermar. when the time oomes for them t0 | riage with Japs as to become india get married. To take the case of tne Aoki fam fly, the account of which appeared in The Star some weeks ago. The pleture of the family group showed two boys and three girls, half-white, half-Japanese, Will the boys find white girls willing to risk soctal om traciam by marrying them, or will they accept Japanese girls as wives, | thus classifying themselves definitely an Japanese? Will the girls aim at finding white boys as husbands? If unsuccessful, will they elect to re main single rather than revert to the racial affiliation of their Japa nese father? Or will they resign themselves to the inevitable and marry Japanese husbands? | Unguishabie? | Are not the Japanese leaders en deavoring to bring about such mar. riages as that of Aoki and Miss Em. lory in order that the entering wedge may be driven for universal inter marriage between the two sand |the creation of a hybrid B race here on the Pacific slope? | Do we give enough thought to this | question, upon which the preserva | tion of the Causasian race on the Paciflo slope r hinge for all time? |The Star in rendering a great serv foe th making Americans ait up and think about these things. MRS. NORA ROSE, 3615 Luotle st, Stock Sellers and City Builders EAitor The Star: I am neither been reading the editorials in a cer- tain Seattle paper in reference to stock buying, and of all the bunk ever printed they are the limit That paper says that any that has a par value of leas than $50 is a fraud, and in the very next breath recommend buying Star nauto- mobile stock, which 1s selling at $15, with no par value. It then says atock stock buyer nor a| stock promoter, but recently I have | «: to a banker for advice. Next, that unless a stock ts Huted on the stock hange it is bunk and borum Yow, Mr. Editor, did you ever in all of your life hear such tall? brainless I have lHved tn Seattle fo: years and want to tell you of some of the things that this city has lost for the want of financial ass by the citizens of this comm and I know whereof I speak | The nationally known article which is used in every comptometer, | rasian | sky law, but at the same time they | are the biggest speculative proposl- tion In the country, as they take all and give practically nothing in re- jturn, If you put $1,000 in a bank hat do you get for security? The ratch of @ pen, You don't know whether you can get the money to- morrow, The answer to this is the Scandinavian American. fine for the bankers and {t's no won- der they pay from 20 to 30 per cent on their invested capital. | Has it occurred to you, Mr Editor, that the loases of the defunct banks in this state in the past three years run many mili! all of the stock luss taken place. We might classify banks as @ necessary evil. To say the least they are all more or less parasites, and should be classed with the real estate agents Any business ts speculative, and it you go to @ bank for advice pertain- ing to some particular stock, and | especially if it Is @ local stock, what do you get. Mr. Banker advises you | that the stock ts speculative and at the same time elther sells you of his own that he gets a nic commission on or tells you to oper a bank account so that you one way or another. vice for the banker, | A few months ago a certain lady | in this city had three or four thou | sand dollars which she wished to loan on a first class plece of University ever one more than » that heve ever somo he can get Good ad that any one buying stock should go! well-regulated business office im this! property, which would bring her ia highway. asking. On these highways there may be business, waiting—there may be the pleasure and comfort of friendship and affection. Long distance rates vary during the twenty-four hours of the day, and also change according to the class of service desired. The telephone directory gives full information. Every Bell telephone is a Long Dis- tance station, The Pacific Telephone | And Telegraph Company