The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 12, 1923, Page 8

PAGE 8 The Seattle Star Poblished Patty by The Star Publishin DADE Baterprise Associa nd 2 montha, $1.60 oe. Press ¢ months, & P oe it, out of ar, $00, By fan Franctece of New York office, “Honest Abe" f _ Again we observe the anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's il in 1809, And it occurs to many of us. that Lincoln ds steadily becoming greater with the passing of the He died in 18 only 58 years ago, which is a Short period in humanity's history—but already he is be- > ing glorified into an almost legendary character, That is use history is classifying him as a force rather than @8 a man. His philosophy of personal liberty and the oper inter-relationship of human beings is, today, a d influence. “From log cabin and obscure poverty to the presidency international fame! Lincoln towers as an indelible re- inder of what America offers to real ability, regardless Anmble origin. Surely the career of “Honest Abe” is nstant inspiration to all Americans struggling to make a better world for themselves and for others. ic! When you think the kids are noisy Just suppose you lived in Holland, they wear wooden shoes. Boston woman shot two men, so now she can't plead she mistook them = both for her husband. | a Agee a ak 4 Can you borrow enough money to pay your income tax? Pittsburg woman who wondered if the new servant would run away the silver found sho would. Just a Horrible Mistake “It was all a mistake. So the lawyers tell us now. Their bill was misunderstood. The general public got the n idea about it. It really didn’t mean what folks ought, at all. . sSenate bill No. 62 is the one we're referring to. It the measure prohibiting anybody from drawing up a yi ct or a bill of sale or any other document unless he a full-fledged lawyer. Naturally, business men all the state denounced it as designed to create an 2 “lawyer trust.” the bill has been sent back to a committee of law- for redrafting, so people can tell what it does mean; when it reappears it is expected to wear a different ni Star suggests it ought to include a paragraph anybody, lawyers or others, from drafting tive bills who can’t make them read clearly enough understood. rohibitin wie Our opinion of Europe is that we hope it Is true about the Atlantic miles wide. statistics show every ball team will win the pennant. men are lucky. Florida alligator bit off a man’s wooden leg. Not Dance in School Buildings? Star questions the wisdom of the school board in permission to the Lincoln high school Parent- association for a community dance to be held in buildi C ly, the young people, except in families which fe conscientiuos scruples against dancing, are going to € somewhere. Carefully supervised community af- under auspices of the Parent-Teachers, it seems to p buildings belong to the public and intained at ’ e public and are main Sea The why not use them for worth-while , “Quantico, Va, » our merchant ) corner of an eternal triangle usually gets knocked off. Will Legislature Break Faith? eprint from Washington Alumnus for February) ting the policy agreed upon by the governor leaders of the house of representatives and senate the state in 1915, and followed by every governor, _and senate appropriations committee since, the on state legislature has recommended a bill con- no provision for the continuance of the University fashington’s building fund plan. ch of the policy, the precedent, and the moral tion will delay the university’s building program e next two years. ring the biennium just closed, each student at the sity, following the long-established custom and paid $10 a term into the university building fund, _the expectation that the state would match that, lar for dollar, from state funds. The amount involved this year is $205,725. The ap- committees of the legislature have refused this sum, breaking faith with the 7,000 students the university each year, their families, as well ith 20.000 former students and alumni. ny of the strongest legislative leaders regard this nge of attitude as bad economy for the state, for the of 1915 provided buildings for the university, only cent of the expense of which came from the gen- fund of the state. The rest has been provided by ersity students’ tuition and trust funds. { tions committees have done another in- cable thing. The building funds from the Metropoli- ease rentals and from student tuition fees have not legally appropriated so that the university can use . ese moneys in no way affect state funds or @ taxation. They are the university's own moneys which formal or legal permission for use is asked. ehow this formal appropriation is confused with an opriation of state moneys for building purposes. The cannot be used for any other purposes, as they are funds. They will lie idle in the state treasury for Years, as the university will not be able to use them thout formal appropriation. This will leave continued mgestion at the university, delaying all relief for at least marine was selling uniforms, Maybe he thought marine. 3 years. Since 1915 the attendance at the university has in- 112 per cent, while the increase of floor space hat period has only been 31 per cent. The delay is dingly serious because the remaining exposition ildings are going to pieces very rapidly, as are the naval training camp buildings, which are also in use. course wa favor tho French, but how would you ilke to have 50,000 in your front yard? What Rail Workers Actually Get opaganda has confused most of us into uncertainty er railroaders work for nothing or get $100 an hour. will help straighten the matter out in your mind: ie railroads report, thru interstate commerce commis- that the average wage of railroad employes last mber (latest reported) was 55 cents an hour on time and 79 cents an hour for overtime, THE SWA TTLE STAR ’S Funny How This Little Game Retains Its Popularity | | Editor The Star: My attention has been called to a letter written to your paper recently by John N, L. Diamond, president of the Creditors Association, Inc, rela- lve to senate bill No. 62, which is a | bill defining the practice of the law, | Diamond's letter. Mr. Diamond wrote this letter without examining the Dill carefully and has since admitted that the effect of the bill is not to prevent anyone from drawing legal instruments of any kind, whether a note, bill of sale, conditional bill of wale or other instrument, and it is unfortunate that your editorial should have been written without a careful examination of the bill. I am chairman of the legisiative committees of the State Bar amocta- tion, which was largely responsible for this bill, and it is not the tnten- tion of the legal profession, nor is It the effect of this bill, to prohibit anyone from doing the things man- tioned tn Mr. Diamond's letter and your editorial. This bill never paased the senate, but was referred to the judiciary committee at the request of Its chair- man and that committee ts changing }and also your editorial based on Mr. | or FG) BIG y The Lawyer Trust Measure the definition of the practice of law so that no one can possibly misun- others have done. ‘The substituted bill will not pro- hibit anyone from appearing before boards, comminsdons, ete, such as a public accountant, for instance, or « rate expert, and will not prohibit anyone from carrying on the collec: tion business or from acting as an assignee, trustee or receiver, and will not prohibit anyone from drawing his own legal instruments if he desires to do 0, nor from drawing legal tn- struments for anyone else, even tho he tm not « licensed attorney, as long as he does not charge therefor. legul instruments ts, of course, a legal service and t! \ttor- neys of this state feel that no one but @ Hoensed attorney should be al- lowed to do so for pay any more than anyone not « licensed physician can practice medicine for compensation. I have heard one or two critictams om the bill based on the false premise that It ts to the selfish interest of the lawyers and was introduced tn order to give all legal business to them. As a matter of fact, a great proportion of the lIitiation in the China can use Ford whoelbarrows, but until she gets some roads, Houry Ford's plan to train 100 Chinese boys with @ view to extending trade in Ford cars and trucks in the Far Bast, can’t make very much headway. ‘Three-foot paths are the only “roads” in China save In small, isolated spots along the coast. Censorship of phonograph records has been decided upon by the de- partment of education of Japan, cee The Moplah tragedy—the affair in which a number of Moslem insur- recticnists in South India were put in closed railway trucks in which the wire ventilators had been choked up with paint, and died of suffocation— hag coms to an end. Thone responsi- ble were acquitted on the ground it had not heen shown that the prison- ers mace any particular polse. “Hardly satisfactory,” the British- owned Japan Chronicle, at Kobe, de- clares, Hardly, eee A movement for national labor councils 1s sweeping Europe. Hu- mania ts the latest to take {t up, Tho {dea 1s to establish a supertor council of labor, consisting of employers, MONOGAMY workers and specialists in labor ques- tions, as an advisory body to the de- partment of labor, eee ‘There are only 2,500 movie theaters in France. Germany has 8,000, The United States? Way ahead, of course: 17,000, A lot of foreign ladies are putting thelr foot, ankles, etc., Into American ailk stockings. In 1922, over $3,268,- 000 worth were shipped abroad. To think that in 1919 «lke of all kinds exported by the United States, to 60 different countries, only totaled §2,- 400,600 worth! eee ‘Wild West movien go great in Za- greb, Kingdom of the Serbs, Cronts and Slovenes, Shelk stuff, and other strictly American films, don't go so food. German and Italian films hog the love-story market. cents, Speaking of movies, watch for these releases: Hindu legends and Tollgious stories from the Vedas, Mahabarata; etc. Distributed by “The Star of tho East Films, Ltd.” This 1s. a new company formed at Madras, India, But maybe you prefer Jackie Admission, 2 Coogan, et al. ns By Berton Braley ‘OWEVER much man may philander With women from Maine to Peru, However unstable and flokle Hoe seews to the casual view, ) S IDEN? A \\ \ \\ courts arises out of defective deeds, leases, wills and other legal instru |ments drawn by laymen, and these | Matters would never get into court | were the instrums ts drawn by an attorney, | ‘Tho bill will not prevent credit as- MONDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 14 SCIENCE Immigrant Intelligence Not Up-to Par. Prof. Young’s Tests. Laws Inadequate. ormty of Oregon, 6 Intell Tests of Certain Immigrant rot, Yo disturbing fa capa, ete, finds that iminigrant chil tons of Europe are @ great b to the future of this country cannot be “assdrollated” in the fash ion that Is gilbly argued by advo: of “easy” inarnigration Young also claims that the ‘ontrolling impigration fare Inadequate, unjust and badly a4 miniatervd, and that they merely continue the old evils on a different percenta, Changes in immigration laws are new being considered and some ot Prof. Young’s ideas may be adopted. MARRIAGE A LA MODE of throwing s from the Chinese, old Romans threw nuts and In Beotland it 1s customary to throw anall oatmeal cakes. Throw ing fruit, espoctally figs, is the corre- ponding tn Southern Europe, while in Greece the breaking f & pomegranate i cates Prot. present laws ¢ We got our custom roe at weddin, Th ceremony ond ncatterti the fa " lations from collecting accounts of thelr membera, or from giving thetr members free legal advice, or from drawing stmple legal instruments for ther members no long as they do it free of charge. The lawyers have a legitimate field | which they are entitled to protect ~|'The doctors have a license law, even the barbers Just passed one thru the legislature, and murely it t as tm portant to the» public to have the lawyern licensed as to have barbers Noonsed. Very truly yours, v. W. CLARKE, Spokane. Write a Lot of . Letters | Editor The Star: derstand it as Mr, Diamond and many | ‘The Seattle Star has many times deserved the plaudits of the oftizens of the state of Washington tn the past. But never in the history of the state has a newspaper more richly de- they are dincovered ards, because they are afraid of the light of “pitiiown pabiictty.” But let us not stop there. Let each reader They are cow. of The Star write just one letter to! Mr. Helghton, thanking him and commending his utterances. Then (Feb. 12, 1809 ABRAHAM LINCOLN April 15, 18 65.) BY BERTON BRALEY LWAYS he saw himself as but a man; A spirit moving in an earthy clod. Alw s he held himself as of the clan That hews the wood and tills the stubborn sod; He had the gift to vision and to plan Simply and truly. All the ways he trod Were humble, common ways; yet now we scan Lincoln as one hwo came close unto God. Man among men, railsplitter, servant, master, Never he lost the simple human trait; And thus he saved a nation from disaster, Faithful in small things, ruler over great! Walking by common ways at last to death, Like that poor carpenter of Nazareth. (Copyright, 1928, Seattle Star) served the gratitude of its readers! write another to Mr. Sims, who con: | than The Star in this event of tak: | femses to getting the speech by a ste- | — Ing up the people'n fight against |nographer secretly for the purpose of |1 want to tell you the trouble with “ring rule” at Olympia, Charles Hefghton exposed the ras | Rooseveltian manhood in condemn: | lying te censuring Mr. Helghton for hia the worl today 1s that it has, thru hings, lost its faith in di- cality In a apeech which we read in| ing the machine of which Mr. Sims | yine Christ, and is running after {t The Star in full Friday, But with:| out the widespread publicity afforded the speech thru The star, only a/ organized under such splendid lead-| churches well nigh handful would know of the plunder. bun thieving over in the state| capital Like all crooks, those machine poll clans hurry for cover the minute seems the main phaft, ‘The power of public opinion, when ership as The Btar, im trrestetibie. Let your opinion be made known to your legisiators if you want the will of the people enacted into laws. THOMAS JEFFERSON CASEY. Heighton for Governor Eattor The Star: Would that we had @ Heighton tn the governor's chair. A man with a consciance and backbone enough to fight for those who seated him in a place of trust. Praise the good Lord that we had the faith to send to Olympla a man— 4 he-man—who can and will show up those who go there year after year in Quest of their little two-mile strip of rond. A man with the brains and power to use ther for the people and not for the interests of outalders, this said gentleman from Boston and his Ukes. It appears to me—and I am sure to hundreds of others—that in place of impeachment and censure Represent- ative Charlos W. Heighton should be and I am mure will be indotned, com- mended and praised for his stand Let's watch this power bill. Let's nee who are for the people or the strip of road. Let's see who pay for their meals or have them bought for them. Let's see who are regulars and insurgents, Every man and woman fn this reat state, now is the time when you have a chance to get behind a man who Is for your Interests, who is fair and square, determined that right is might and Hart people to the contrary that might ts right. ‘Thank you for this opportunity to express my sentiments of a regular fellow. THOMAS C. BRUICE, McKay Apts. The Divinity of Jesus Christ Editor The Star: My blood has been made to bofl of late because of ministers who are do- nying the divinity of Christ and claiming that He was nothing more than @ very good man. I have thought about 1t until I can keep still no longer, for when a man can study his Bible as a preacher is mup- pored to study it and then make such ansertions, he ts either lacking in good wens or tw deliberately trying to decetve. I want to tell you that tf Jesus Christ was not divine He was no food man, but the biggest ar who ever walked the earth and no fit ex- ample for anyone, for He plainly said, “I and my Father are one.” “He that hath seen mo hath seen the Father.” “Before Abraham was, I am.” His whole life was a testimony to His divinity and He proclaimed It constantly. At, His baptiam in Jor- dan when the Holy Spirit In the form of a dove rested upon him, God himself spoke from heaven, saying, “This is my beloved Son; hear Him,” am well pleased.” Again at tho transfiguration the same voice said, ‘Thin ts my beloved Son; hear Him," and the Scriptures do not record that ger necessary. Tho salvation of the world was then in the hands of the} Son and He himself said, “No man cometh unto the Father but by me.” From cover to cover the Bible is filled with the divinity of Christ. Without {t there would be no Bible, no God, no Savior, no heaven. Get out your Bibles, folks, wipe the dust from the covers and read for your- selves, They are also saying that the mir- acles performed by Christ were no miracles, but hypnotism. Listen! Can a hypnotist make a man who has been dead until his body ts part- ly decomposed believe he is alive and cause him to walk out of his tomb in tho full glow of health? I know strange things are done thru hypnotism, Christian Sctence, Spiritualism, ete. Go to your Biblos and you will find that woe are spe- cially warned not to be deceived by such things, for Satan always did ‘and always will imitate Christ. Turn to Exodus and read how when Moses performed miracles before Pharoah the magicians of Egypt imitated him. exactly up to a certain place, and be- yond that they could not go. Satan God ever again spoke audibly to man. Why? Because tt was no lon- {a mighty, but God is Almighty, If Jesus ts not divine thon there ts no hope for humanity anywhere, and Ae FROM VRIDGE MANN Dear Folks; | knows not what. The picture shows are crowded Sunday evenings and tho empty. Can you blame folks? No. If Christ ts not divine and there ts no power in His blood to cleanse from sin, let us tear down our expensive churches, take the money it costs to run them, have one grand good time and then die, for that's all there fs to it. There ts & possibility that such preachers are not in thelr right mind, but if they are, I want to say that In the day of Judgment I would rather be an un- ropentant murderer than such a man, 1 tell you Jesus Christ is divine. How do I know? Because He saved me from my sina, and no mere man could fo that, I don't care how good he was. If any who read this doubt His divinity let them put Him to the test and they, too, shall know, Yours for the Gospel, P.B, Clear Lake, Wash. 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Chosen by those who love French (and therefore exquisite) of You find, in despite of his falseness, The heart in his masculine breast Holds dearest one woman, One fondly loved woman, For whom he would givo all the rest! ‘ 19, whether he's fickle or faithful, And whether he's craven or brave, A Galahad, Launcelot or Arthur, A knight or a thiet or a knave; ‘Thero's one face means more than all others, One image alono and apart, ‘There's always one woman, Ono dearly loved woman, Who reigns in his innermost heart, 1H} may be a queen or a wanton, A creature of too or of flame, ‘The mate of his home and his fireside, ‘The light-o'love sharing his shame; But hers 6 the name he shall murmur When into the depths he ts hurled; ‘There's always one woman, One dearly loved womun, For whom he would give all the world! (Copyright, 192%, The Soattie atary tell et ia atti LA a en a It's Lincoln's birthday once again; again we speak his praise; for deep in all the hearts of men his living spirit stays. And thru the future's countless years we'll love him just the same, and puuse, with mingled smiles and tears, to honor Lincoln's name. Thru years to come the world will Prize his open, friendly heart; the kindly humor of his eyos, the truth bis words impart. For those are things that never die, thelr power never ends; the Past, the Future, you and I—we all are Lincoln's friends, And often, when the night ts black, and life seems cold and grim, I let my fancy wander back, and live awhile with him. I nee hie raddened, Kindly face, I neo his friendly smile; I hear him say. “Keep up the race—you'll find It worth the while. i And in his eyes Imeem to soo @ light that seems to way, “I'm glad to have you come to me for atrength to meet the fray, I've known the bitter things of life; I've tolled and suffered, too; keep up the heart to moet the strife—I'm aide by side with you" When presidential glory dies, when ends the world will still immortalize Abe Lincoln's noble heart ts with us yet, our love will never end; can’t forget Humanity's best friend! soldiers tamo, the name. His kindly Above all else, wo naual Lace Voridéme S Lavis