The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 8, 1923, Page 6

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Curing the Mistrial Evil Backed, largely, by bar associations, a movement is ining headway in ifornia to strike at the rights of thru constitutional amendments under which a th: fourths vote of jurors in criminal cases would mean definite verdict and judges be permitted to comment as , pleased on the facts in a case. movement grows out of the disgust over the re- d mistrials in such as the Arbuckle and Hollywood cases but the proposed remedy is worse than the ly an accused is not guilty “beyond a reasonable wher convicted by a three-fourths vote of the ry and surely judges already possess or are assuming the powers that the American conception of impar- ity and justice can stand. ponents of the propositions argue that the three- rths rule already prevails in civil cases and that jurors @re often confused as to the facts or stupid in under- anding of them. Justice has hardly, yet, got down to ognizing no difference between an issue as to whether Doe has or has not full title to a hog and an issue in h the life of a human being is at stake, and if juries re not to determine the facts of, by and for themselves, e no sense whatever in having juries. The trouble lies in the make-up of juries. At a rule, ith mighty few exceptions, juries are largely made up [folks who don’t read the newspapers, don't have con- tions of any sort and don’t have any experience in deal- ng with questionable facts. Most any fellow who doesn’t te to make any sacrifice for a juror’s pay can avoid u ity thru “pull” on court officials or thru manu- excuses. To try a capitalist, the prosecution ts for a jury of near-L W. W.’s. To try a farmer, defense fights for a jury of farmers. The effort is out the intelligence and work in the bias, and the # is juries that get nowhere. situation is bad and needs reforming, but we are ping to arrive closer to justice by abandoning the that the accused is innocent until proved guilty & reasonable doubt before a jury of his peers. ‘THE REASON FOR SOME LAWS Augustus, per cent Am It has camouflaged ght in the testimony before legislative committee inquiring into the mob Se eae ane Molt ase of ngie igh-sounding catch-phrase, a group were able to delude a mob of citizens them to drive other citizens from their homes, and lynch at least one. ‘in the name of being “100 per cent American!” the only place where this hocus Is There Literally a Hell? pulpit at the Church of the Ascension on fashion- ifth ave. in New York, Dr. Percy Stickney Grant; Episcopalian rector, voices his disbelief and in the apostolic succession, the immaculate con- and virgin birth of Christ, in salvation thru the atonement, a literal devil, hell, and in the literal tation of the scriptures and the infallibility of AG mH another equally distinguished pulpit, Dr. Harry Fosdick, Presbyterian minister, goes Dr. Grant tter by declaring that disbelief in dogmas is unimportant, and allows that a man lieve all of them and still be a good Christian. zat hundreds of strictly orthodox ministers and of good people are sorely disturbed, fearful es church is going to the bow-wows and religion same alleged heresies ly disturbed the ox church of Ur of the Chaldees when Abraham ded to quit manufacturing idols and obeyed that e to go into a land into which he believed God sending him. he professional theologians of the time of Micah were ess wrought to a fine frenzy when that great called down anathema upon them for their dy sacrifices and long-winded prayers, and a few gen- ; es, lite isc feaenes the orthodox church i y the theologians , CONS) with - ed ae y. pired politi. je struggles along thru the a: Even ogy, with all its blunders and halts, is dgnantie than static, It goes forward, like and with science, many a stumble, but nevertheless forward. we have practically ceased to kill folks for their and even trials for heresy, such as that which ns Dr. Grant, are less popular and frequent than tion a; za Wee eee a He idea Ws the old church- ; le Ages debating on how many an; dance kes bald ee t er needle at once, pee ind we, theors ly at least, are coming more to believe in that broader theology, vyhstboavig ve d that men should do to you, do ye even go to them.” (<TR aie Miles Poindexter says she got onto “n decidedly on tife” which she might write about if she us the angle! They can’t hang you for tt, Authorities propose to “hunt down” all coal profiteers. What ¥ Y, put ‘em in jail to keep the war profiteers company! Hah! wind Chartle Chaplin ts getting married, It al jman on 4 work hurd and earn moro money ta bo 8 goed provides Mifferent angle dared. 0, dear fHE SEATTLE STAR REFUSING THE HURDLE THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8, THE OLD FEATHER-BED By William D. Totten ‘The old feather-bed, downy, corpulent and long, Retains « place in memory and moves the soul to song And baci to golden days again we go, by Fancy led, ‘To sweetly rest and slumber tn the old feather-bed ‘The old featherbed—I arm tn ft mug and warmy I Masten to the howling of the cold, wintry storm, Reporting on my pillow there without @ thought of @resA, Amid the soothing billows of the old feather-bed. ‘The old teather-bed—we can see the plumage fy Of honking goose and gander tn the happy days gone bri Our goed old mother, plucking them with fingers rough and red, With kindly heart «planning for the old featherbed. ‘That old feather-bed te without « fault or flaw; It pute to shame the lumpy tick of husks or common straw, We're thinking of it kindly and until our days are fed We will be fondly thinking of the old teather-bed. ‘The old featherbed is « souventr of joy, Ot sweeteat dreams and beautiful that blessed @ ttle bays It oannot be forgotten, but ts glorified instead, Reminder of ® mother’s love, the old feather-bed. ‘That olf feather-bed ts a poem and « dream, ‘The un of solid comfort’s most exhilarating beam, And if we go to fatrer worlds we hope {t may be sald ‘The angels bore us hither on the old feather-bea. KATE WAND, widow of D. LETTER FROM \V RIDGE MANN Dear Avridge Mann: ‘Will you kindly write & paragraph about people who are CON- STANTLY stealing papers and money from newsboys, I have had atx or seven locks on my paper box before I could get one that the people could not break. A few days ago I bought the higheat priced lock on the market and put !t on my box. People have attempted to break this lock, but could not. I will thank you very much if you will write a paragraph on this subject. Sincerely yours, HARVEY MIELENZ Dear Harvey: T'd have to take at least a day, or maybe even two, to mention all I'd like to say of those who steal from you. For such « good: for-nothing gink, to make it very brief, i» really quite the worst, I think, of any kind of thief. If “everybody has « price.” then his ls mighty low; ft's such « penny-ante vice to swipe a newsy’s dough. The meanest guy I'd hope to moet—the very lowest, jay—te he who takes a dally sheet, and then “forgeta” to pay. For when you leave your papers there, upon your paper stall, your act implies you think us equare and you can trust us all ‘And fo It's not alone your cash they take from out your can—for, ‘worst of all, they help to smash our confidence tn man! Giritze Nom LETTERS ce EDITOR The Cost of Education Editor The Star; ~One of the results predicted last year, when !t was reported that the teaching body would investigate the tax situation, has come to pam, It wan that the figures and bases of computation would be taken in such & manner that {f It were swallowed whole the taxpayers would feel no pain. It {s regular Dr. Coue treat. ment, but all the victims are not hypnotized to the extent that they lieve this painiess process is ahy- thing but @ narcotic. Prot. Dio Rishardeon, tn @ paper given before the Geattle Princip»is’ association, gives us the soothing sirup {n a comparison between San Francisco and Seattle’n garbage, ' “Why, our schools are not costing much, only $1240 per capita.” ‘Twelve dollary and 40 cents per capt ta im a very high percentage per citizen, and when It ts potated out that the oomt per capita pupil i $120.991, which the teaching body very carefully lets alone, ane cannot refrain from referring to an article printed some years ago in the “Um popular Review," entitled “Lies, Damned Lins and Statistics,” and wonder which this ts? It ts certainly very kind of the teaching body to take such pains to Jet us know that our education te not costing ua very much, and so eany to prove by comparison with figures elsewhere, but we taxpayers have come to the conclusion that woe don’t care what other people are paying—that doesn’t help us pay our taxes. Wo want “value received” for our money and we know that we are not getting It If the teachers want to match thelr dollars with those of other cities and states they are at perfect Uberty to do so; but they can no longer match the taxpayers’ dollars, MRS. BE, STEWART. What a Pitiful Spectacle! Wéitor The Star: ‘What a pitiful spectacts tt ts to #00 @ big daily paper having to plead with tts readers to plead with their logisintors to keep thetr word. To be Just plain decent and honost, morally. Will you please comment edito- rally? OG. J. CLARK, Calls Bachelor Tax Freak Plan Eéitor The Star: ‘We are now confronte¢ with more freak legislation, in the form of a bachelor tax, advocated by a new member of the legislature, and, curt. ously enough, by one who used as his slogan “We need new blood in the state legislature.” On the strength of his campaign promise to force economy and fight the extravagant “Hart machine,” Mr. Heighton wag elected, and what have we got thus far in the way of resulta? A threatened bachelor tax. Puro clasa legisiation, The people at the polls overwhelmingly defeat. 4 that monstrous fraud, the poll tax, forced on them by an unpopu- lar governor, who later meekly at- tempted to vindicate himself, but who failed miserably. But !t seems that some so-called representatives have fatled to recol lect the last election. We have got ten nowhere when our legislature can do nothing more than to propose more and more taxes on an already overburdened public. What is the matter that they cannot proposo laws that will equalize the burden? It seems that the only thing the peo- ple can do is to keep in mind these so-called legislators who are trying for all they are worth to tax more and more and more, Many members who voted for the inquitoug poll tax at Hart's com. mand were returned to the legisin- ture because the people forget so soon, but they didn't forget when tt came to voting against the poll tax itaelt. A bachelor tax would be fustified if there wore many wealthy men tn this state evading marringo, but it's exactly the opposite, as can be evi. denced by any sane person, The great majority of men cannot marry because they cannot earn enough to keep themselves, yet they want to thrust upon them a tax upon their Inability to support a wife and fam: fly. If such @ monstrons law can pass a state legisiature, lot alone bé given serious consideration, then we may af well forget all about popular representation. ; Tam mure my viewpoint {9 shared by every man In this ntate, and the women, too, Tho Star t¥ to be con- wratulated upon {ts stand in favor of the people, ‘That's why.ita clrou- lation exceeds all othér papers, and will continue to do so, A DISGUSTED BACH, Consolidate City and County Baéitor The Star: ‘Tho leading article in Monday‘s in- sue of your valued paper, “encloainiy”* a letter from Dan Landon, makes very interesting reading. ‘hero are fow men in the stute legislature who know more about what the people of this eclty and state need and want than does our Dan Landon, And they will some day realize his worth, und If they do not heed his 8, 0, 9, call in The Star, then they will have ‘Replies to no one to blame but themselves when DOROTHY. they receive thelr next tax stale ment Now, then, My, Editor, what about the newspapers and their duty-to the| people who support them? Take, for | inatanoe, the matter of consolidating | the King county and Seatfie city gov- ernments. It would be impossible to | "0 hit upon @ proposition with greater possibilities of reducing the running expenses of our city and county gov.) ernineats, and there lan't an editor tn | the city and county who will fail to/ realize this fact; yet what support) G.” bet does this worthy cause get from the) CHINATOWN ALICE, whe says Dan wes JAMES LATHAM, she will net rgd home of ber father, UNTEM THE ONE-MAN WOMAN BY RUTH AGNES ABELING CHAP. 58—THE PHOTOGRAPH HERE TODAY mouth, and eyes which iangh even the the taoe tm at rest, would be Very Mable to have « volos eternally boytan” Glancing out of the window she saw Justin, Dorothy, and Monk, the dog, making their way across the field toward the cottage. Dorothy was running ahend, with ber hand on Monk's oollar. As the watched the chili, durk- eyed, elfin, tt occurred to her that |mhe bore a slight resemblance to the jman in the photograph. He was not unlike Dan in typa A certain dar tng, the halfiaughing eyes, were very lfke Dan. The three, Dorothy, Dan and the man in the picture, BEGIN ‘AN WARD, hae a visieew, father of her ehiid, Kate is mach perturbed. Weeed by him until she Bas solved the e Dan's past. Te this ond « Allee and Dorothy \# visit her FARAON, Allon however, Goss net mention Dan again Returning to the laundry of 1oY, leaves Dorothy for « few man's photograph bearing the initials 3. D. a" GO ON WITH THE STORY Who, Kate wondered, could “J. D. Had the picture belonged to Alice? | seemed to have traits in common. It press? Now and then some paper|she questioned. Could there be, as| pumled Kate, Gisturbed her. will print « “squib” on the subject, |the woman at the boarding house| It occurred to her that Dorothy and that is the last one hears of It suggested, « man of whom Alice wan | might know the photographed faca. for months and months, when it | fond? again ls brought out and paraded / with her? before the populace for te approval, and then ls carefully tucked away in| Loy, the musty “archives” a proof of | Allos’s father; it was too young, some Rewspapers loyalty to the too delicate, the clothing too modern. “peepul” There ls at present some Who then could tt bet sort of an effort being made at Olym pla to get this matter before the peo |siender figure she had seen with ple at the naxt or some future geo-| Alice several weeks before as she eral election, but you see precious|was entering the hotel She re- ttle about It in the press ef the called the voice she had heard at county and city, And why? . The that time and considered whether or reason le obvious—tt would reduce/not tt might belong to the man the number of county and city em at some future sisction, and so it foes at the expense of the taxpayers, | who are sick, but de not seem to understand what ails them ‘The only thing that ls needed to put the finishing touches of bank Tuptey upon the state of Washing ton ls & fow more fool laws such as the publlo service commiasion, the ip. dustrial insurance commission, the governor's code “thing,” with an army of “Inspectors,” “checkarg,” and #0 forth, following tm thelr wake. What this state, county and city needs ls efficient BUSINESS man agement, and to h—i with politics and politiciana Wake up, you sons of Adam! Bincerety, RB & PETERS, 96 Spring 8t “Ty, ? Dirt Farmer’ Eéttor The Star: | In reply to the statement of the| “Dirt Farmer,”'who seems to feel ‘that the writer is narrow-minded in opposing senate bill 64, I wish to my | that the dirt farmer is taking the narrow view. This product, which | {s partioularly designated tn a ape | cifig manner for destruction, is a| measure intended to wreck the manu- facturing and sale of a substitute for| butter, Other substitutes made with | animal fat, by-products of the pack- ing planta, and questionable in their j] purity go unchallenged tn this bill.) ij on its wrapper, making no pretense at calling itself butter, has managed to get @ national distribution for ftaelf, This success is due absolutely to the choice of the purchasers. After testing ite merit they desire to use it for. it» merit and incidentally is ‘exactly one-half the cost of its com. | petitor, butter, 1f the dirt farmers cannot make a provit in the sale of skimmed milk to the manufacturere who buy the! skimmed milk to use tn their product | and dispose of the cream in the cus-| tomary,manner there must be some- thing wrong with the system, In the entire United States the state of Washington is the only state that has shown any inclination to in- terfere in any way with @ product that seems to satisfactorily servo tts purpose, namely, making it poe sible for the massey of work: | ing people and othera who desire to know that thelr spread for thoir bread is sclentifioally pure, a vego- table fat, and devoid of animal fat, and one-half the price of butter, The immense sales of this product vindloates itself, as were it not clean: | ly and without fraud of any sort or concealment of one item of its in- gredients, it would have been a failure, No fair-minded man could wish the dostruction because of ita success in supplanting the sale of butter, to pao: ple who of their own cholo buy it for consumption and for economy. The fact that a local community in the whole country neey fit to put out) of thelr commonwealth a benefit to) humanity shows that meroenary mo- ves provide the activity against the product. It Is up to the “dirt farmers” to meet this competition in a olean, businesa way, Tho banishment of) the product from the state does not offer any promise of cheaper butter, either, VAIRMINDED CITIZHN, And, if so, why waan't be) As she opened the door for her father and the little girl, Kate had ‘the picture tn her hand. Bhe showed tt to Justin firet. “This isn't anything of yours, ts RT” she asked. Justin looked at the picture, “No,” he said. “Where @id you get It? Bomeone must have carried it im a watch or locket,” he added as he examined the circular bit of paper, ‘The picture waan’t that of Sing It couldn't have been of Buddenly Kate rememoered the have you seen this man?’ she “A man with |asked much « delicate chin, such « ourving| Aa the question left her Mpa, Kate 192% SCIENCE Study Albatross. Fine Glider. | 15-foot Wing Spread, Many Being Killed. ‘The wings of the albatronm are being studied in the interest of giid ing and aviation. The albatross, or Giomeden exutans, has @ wing spread of 16 foot and ts the best example of gliding fi t. Tt can use the «mall up-currents of sir close to the water and between waren Dn BR W. Sbutelat, who has studied the albatross, is making an effort to prevent It becoming extinct. Pasengers on vensels frequently amuse themsctves by shooting at the albatross from the deck. 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