The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 13, 1923, Page 8

PAGE 8 The Seattle paper Bity, $0 carrer Gilme Bee, Mon Danadtac Let Convicts Clear Land According to figures prepared hy State Land Commis Sioner Savidge, the state of Washington owns 114,774 meres of logged-off lan Other state figures show that ) About half the cut-over acreage in Washington is suitable for agricultural purposes, the remainder being divided be- | tween grazing and reforesting possibilities. Tt would look, then, as if we already owned more than 50,000 acres of logged-off lands that could profitably be Used, when cleared, for farming. ; What a field for endeavor this presents our prison au ities! Work of clearing 50,000 acres of stump land furnish, say, 400 convicts employment for a long While to come. The land, once cleared, could readily be ‘ of in small tracts to dirt farmers on long-time and thus be gotten onto the tax rolls, And the Meed for building up an expensive, intricate industrial m in the state institutions which would compete with the establishe? industries and with free labor would | then be over. e . . Incidentally, why is the legislature considering a bill to buy a large tract of logged-off land for the Monroe re- - ry men to work on when the state already owns $0 much available acreage? E VERSE OR WORSE! Without any intention whatever of comparing the committee (Judio- Tary) to frogs, still its conduct (In Daugherty Investigation) sometimes Feminded me of a doggerel about those creatures— What a wonderful bird the frog are! When he sit be stand almost, When he hop he fly almost; He aint got no tail hardly, elther; When he sit, he sit on what he ain't got almost. —Rep. Thomas (D), Ky. “dust a few more weeks until gardeners will be making two weeds grow only one grew before. Hant the brighter side. Less than a month before congress adjourns. Ba life insurance agent doesn't sell you he worries you to death Climax and Anti-Climax President Harding’s address to congress, asking that to accept at the earliest possible date the agree- nt reached by the debt funding commission for settle- of the British debt to the United States, strikes us ‘one of the ablest pieces of rhetoric the president has Mr. Harding had a good case, and his arguments on the lebt were clear, cogent, well-arrayed and convincing. He it straight to the point, when he said of the British “Here is kept faith—willingly kept, let it be recorded and a covenant of peace no less effective than it would | if joint British and American opposition to war were xpressly agreed upon. ft is an example of encouragement and inspiration, n the world is staggering in discouragement and d with the sorrows of wars that were and fears of "Wars which humanity is praying may be avoided.” a ow that was fine. With the power of public opinion ehind him he had stated the whole situation in a way could not be mistaken. then, like the preacher so touchingly referred to Twain, he could not leave well enough alone, but d to tack onto this supremely important propo- n a plea for action on the ship subsidy bill as of equal nportance with the salvation of the world! ff all recorded anti-climaxes, this surely was among the com: Putting them side by side, he solemnly : “Either is fit to be recorded a chapter in great mt; both will mark a signal triumph. Both are bly related to our good fortunes at home and our place in the world.” was as if a captain leading his men over the top at were to exclaim: “Strike for your altars and fires—and save your uniforms as much as you can.” 9 compare the tremendous importance of the settle- it of the British debt with the passage of the ship bsidy bill could occur only to one obsessed with an idea, id it is a safe bet that whatever good it may have done the debt agreement, the presidential pulmotor will e failed to restore the subsidy to life. WHATEVER THAT IS! officials accept presents of great value they dissolve the pearl co in the vinegar of obligation—Sen. Ashurst (D.) Arizona. e o of red-headed but : or ee, girls, some people think | Haman natare is what makes ws all hate autoists while walking and te pedestrians while driving. sad thing about having a wife is she ts liable to want the baby after some movie actor. sy matter what you do, someone always knew you would. _An End of an Era Near at Hand Phirty million animals a year are being killed thruout . world to get enough furs to meet public demand. he modern girl is more destructive of fur-bearing ani- than was the caveman of 400,000 years ago, says LE. Anthony, of American Museum of Natural History. The big animals are nearly all exterminated. And ughter of the smaller ones is increasing by leaps and Fashion and vanity are rapidly bringing to an id the age of mammals which began (according to sci- }) three million years ago. Tennessee mountaineer has lived 120 years. What a lot of tobacco for TT ing suits will be noisy, especially spring divorce suits. Forests or Battleships? At an average price of $4.45 the acre, the National ‘orest Reservation commission has authorized the pur- of 68,566 acres more land for Eastern national s. This increases the total to 2,200,000 acres of over lands, in 12 national forests in 11 states, from Pe to “patos je total expenditure for this magnificent work of vation of an infinitesimal part of our vast national es amounts to a shade under $10,000,000, ineluding st, from the time the work was started, a decade __ This, it may be observed in passing, is just one-tenth he amount required to construct and launch a super- dnaught of the type known as capital ships in the avies of any of the three principal powers of the world! A great man is reported to have said on one oceasion: ¥ oa et fool - eh People all of the time!” _ Nevertheless, militarism seems to have come close to that accomplishment in the past. oe Gilly relinble first sign of spring Is when we see the last sign of winter, en What this country needs is for prices to be reduced 100 per cent, Very few people get on by merely trying to got by. rHEe eS LETTER FROM VRIDGE MANN Dear Folks I hesitate to may a lot about our fall of snow ‘Let's all forget that we are men,” snow we got & year or #0 ago. 1 wrote about the is what my letter told, “and just be happy kids again, as in the days of old.” I mentioned how I Iike to coast views were given quite a roast Sedro Woolley came a gem of literary bull M.—and here ft fa tn full “Our Avridge Mann, I understand, rhyming prose, as he well known, and other things they do; my least from one or two, From @ letter sent by F. O is Just a common gink will make a fellow ¢ wave advice, and tn a trice I got a Tam-o'-Mhanter and kids with winter It “Now, Avridge M nd started in. . please, if you My clothes are wet, my temper het, to see those demons grin I'll bet a cow, right here and now, snowball banter », tel] where the fun comes that when he wrote that Durham he kept his hide by the fireside, and not « thing could stir him. “He would not go himself, I know, and play he was a kid—I tried that trick, It made me sick, and that's what makes me mad!” | * * © Bo now, you see, it’s up to me to tarry by the fire, or some poor hick will throw @ brick and say I'm just « War! Gira _Zomn, i LETTERS EDITOR Ohio’s New Editor The Star: All prohibitionists and friends of the Volstead law will be interested in the new “Bender” dry law, Just passed by the Ohio state legislature. This bill provides the death penalty for the man who sells death-dealing booze; makes imprisonment, rather than fine, the penalty for liquor sell- ing; makes the one who solicits or- ders as guilty as the seller, and for- bids a judge to suapend sentence against the violators of the liquor law. Dry Law The bill was passed by @ unani- mous vote of the state houses. The friends of alcoholic beverages sup- ported it heartily, because as they said, “We do not want to be poisoned when we take a drink.” Senator Burke, of Elyria, Ohio, can give any writer a copy of this new bill. Ohio was the birthplace of the Anti-Baloon league. Sho in @ leader in temper- ance reform. WILLARD CASEY FITZPATRICK, 289 EE. Valley St. -State Movie Tax Highly Unjust Editor The Star: I trust and belteve that when tho time comes all the influence of The Star will be exerted to prevent the Passage of the proposed 10 per cent | arausement tax now under consider- ation by members of the state legis-| lature. Tt is a cruelly unjust measure in that it would be almost impossible to conceive of any tax which would weigh more directly and more heav- ily uyon Washington residents of jim ited means. In other words, upon the average family. Motion pictures supply the chief entertainment the year around of the vast majority of citizens. The gov- ernment already levies a 10 per cent amusement tax, which it expressly stipulates must be paid by the ticket purchaser and not by the theater manager, The same would be true of a state tax. The theaters would not and could not pay it. It would come out of the patrons, signifying a confiscatory tnx of 20 per cent every time one went to a picture show, Virtually this would rob many a poor family of the only amusement that It gets, Surely the time has not come when a direct and heavy tax of this sort on those least able to bear it is necessary in thin state, Yours tnily, J. W. SAYRE, Advertising Monager Greater Then- ters Company. The Heighton Episode Editor The Star: The only remarkable thing that I can see about the Heighton specch episode is the fact that any attention ‘was pald to it by the “old guard” poll- ticlans in the legislature, Mr. Helghton said nothing that has not been sald many timen before of other legislative bodies, and anyone who knows anything about the Inside working of such a body and the ac- tivities of lobbyists for spectal legis. lation of all sorts knows that Mr, Helghton has not exposed any par- teularly unusual condition if things PIN MONEY Do you want some practical suggestions on earning “pin money" in spare time at home? Would you Iike to know how hundreds of boys and girls, men and women, h added substantial suma to thelr weekly incomes by taking up sideline pursuits that have brought them In good returns for the time and labor invested? 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Leetolatures are almost always be- | sloged by lobbyists seeking to put jover laws that will benefit some one class at the expense of another, and | frequently, if mot always, there are men elected to the legislature who go there for the main purpose of serv- ing some special business interest, And others (professional politicians, asa rule) who are interested mainty| tn the building or retaining of « party machine, with plenty of jobs for de- mrving partisans, and these latter, knowing that money is ensential to carry olections, are pretty apt to favor the men or institutions who can and will furnish Juicy campaign con- tributions, If handed something now and then in the way of favorable | indation, efther laws that will ena them to profit at the expense of the public or their competitors, or that will reduce the number of their com- petitorn or place restrictions upon en- gaging in thelr particular line of | money-making, Also, these profes- |mional poiltictans are tnterested in gaining or holding the favor of or- ganizations that can deliver votes at | election time, such as union labor or- ganizations, which also want mpocial legislation of different sorts, As a matter of fact, as I view tho matter, legislation for many yearn past has been to @ large extent the passage of lawn tnapired by sctns selfish per- sonal or class ambition, rather than for “the greatest good to the greatest number,” and I see no reason to ho for any being what ft ts, with no likelihood of any change. Every member of every legislature, practically without exception, im in- terested in his own business, first and foremost, and the interests of his particular constituents next, to the exclusion of the general public, and it 1# not to be wondered at if, tn jorder to gain an advantage for him- melt or his constituency, he “trades” his votes for or against other meas- Urea that he considers do not ad- | versely affect him or hin constitu. jents He doesn't think of himself as | representing tho people of the entire state, but only as representing the particular element of rociety, or geo- graphical district, that elected him, and of coute he may have his own V. V.’s Troubles Mme. Liouboff Mouromsky Vonsiatsky (above) has ar- rived in New York ready to seek heart balm because An- astase Vonsiatskoy-Vonsiat- sky (below), who she claims as husband, married — the {wealthy Mrs. Marion Ream | Stephens of Philadelphia, hing different, human nature | TUESDAY (MAN WHO VANISHED FIVE YEARS GIVE ON HOW TO HIDE MINUS FALSE WHISKERS tina ppear nd nev Ding It's prett try and t ities you Ko nah iw ide in the towns; bu around eetir the man living fectly natura the hadi and doesn Big citic enn't know who & rap. are eany to hide aune 4 wtran, ne tention Ryan ought ¢ and the only Vvaninhe police of the the entire United States and Great Britain wore jooking for him. Government ctreulars sent broadcast, bearing his picture aud his description, and offering a rewa of $250 for information lea app And a federal indict ment hung over his head Ryan recently returned to Buffalo, after having been missing since May ng to bis | | | John T. Ryan eapecial axe to grind, or ox to protect from goring, too. Such being the case, how can we hope for much improvement? Legis- islators are human beings Bome of them strong, others weak. Man has always reacted to personal atten- tions, manifestations of friendship, flattery, ete, and « clever lobbyist uses these inetrumentalities with tell ing effect on wenk or inexperienced legislators, who would be quick to re- | sent any insinuations that they were | being unduly or corruptly influenced. |The legislature tmn’t the only place |euch methods are used to influence human action. Hence why make a fuss over it? dum, put into our constitution for the | sole purpose of preventing an unrep- KAitor The Star More than half the legislative ses- son has passed and no action han yet been taken in the Interest of bank de- | positora, yet the publican state jconvention went on record to do something to protect deporitors in | this state and: scores of Iegistators pledged thetr word to their constitu- | enta | Washington State bank depositors have suffered a not loms of at least $9,000,000 tn the part few yearn | Seven banks have failed in one coun- ty alone. There ts more money de- | posited in the Seattle postoffice than |in all the postal banks in the state of | California. | ‘The guarantee law, forced thru by the bankers, has utterly collapsed, and the banks have all withdrawn from it. Distrust of banks and the FAéitor The Star: Aa no more able pen than mine has so far taken up your query im your tasue of Feiasy 7 respecting “Are | We Liars?” I will endeavor to do no. | In whatever part of the world I have been the veracity of the Amer- |ican born was questioned, I have often thought the lack of religion being instilled in the child in school had much to do with his or | her growing up to a lack of truth- fulness, You can liken \t to a tumor it grows larger and larger without |the person carrying It actually feel- jing {t'a presence until it ts too late to remedy, It Is a sad state of affairs, but nevertheless true As Judge John C. Townes of Aus- tin, Texas, truly declares, it is almost impossible to administer fair, un- | biased justice in the courts, As a | student of American law I will per- sonally say there should be only one | set of laws for the American nation. | We had # case in court a few days ago where apparently ono law sets a man free from criminal practice, that would send another man to a penal |institution for 20 years, A Seattle newspaper, in writing of the J. E. Chilberg matter, appears to take pleadure in the fact that Chil- berg has escaped conviction. Let us for a moment analyze this disastrous bank wreck, and then see if there is anything to be jubilant over from a civic standpoint. Summed up, this bank, the Scandi- Editor The Star: Mr. Helghton {s entitled to the sup- port and regpect of every right- minded citizen of the state, and The Star is to be highly commended for giving a wide distribution to his | speech. I am assured that the ple- ture he paints of conditions at Olym- pla is only too true and doubt not but that he could have sald much more. The conditions he depicts obtain not only at our state capital, but are Present in practically all of our de- partments of government — county and city—and our legisl represent in fact, not the people who sent them to Olympla, but some ape- cial interest or “client,” and once there promptly forget all pledges and Promises except those given to the Powers that control them. I don't mean that actual money passes, altho I have no doubt that ts | would answer) We have the referen- | resentative legislative body from alip- ping anything over on us, having learned from sad experience that we needed some check on our repre- sentatives “What can't be oured must be en- Gured.” Therefore, let's quit expect- ing our legislatures to be super-hu- man, and use the referendum (often |the mere threat of & referendum to they inaist on riding roughshod over the wishes of the general public Heighton ts only bucking his head against @ stone wall, so far as ac- |complishing anything in the legisla- }ture is concerned. At least, that's my opinion. Yours truly, PAUL HOLBROOK, Everett, Wash. Still no Bank Guarantee Law jatate banking ts versal. No greater crime has ever been committed than the wholesale rob- bery of depositors in this state, Two grand juries have found that the state banking department is ineffi- cient, and that dishonest bankers may do as they will with the bank's funds and escape punishment under department uni- present laws, Suicides «nd cruel pov- erty in old age have followed the crash of two large state banks in Se-| ate and Tacoma In the name of justice we ask for action After careful consideration in meet- ing assembled we have presented, and unqualifiedly indorse H. B. (our guarantee bill), DEPOBSITORS’ PROTECTIVE BOCIATION, By HENRY W. POWELL, Attorney, AS- Justice in Our Courts pavian American, from a humble start of Andrew Chilberg, drew and obtained the confidence of the hard- working Scandinavian population of the Pacific Coast. A mere accident— the discovery of the Nome gold-bear- ing sands by a few Scandinavians— brought added resources to the bank. Suddenly it became a factor in our city banking. I need not enter into the feature as to how J, E. Chilberg ousted his Un- cle Andrew out of the bank manage- ment. Sufficient to say J. E. gota foothold thru Jafet Lindeberg, one of the discoverers of Nome and now a Had their pation in wrecking the bank. Chilberg and Lindeberg used care in legitimate banking, there would have been no failure. Scores of men and women whom I come in daily contact with wonder how and by what manner of reason- ing Judge Calvin S. Hall arrived at the conclusion to dismiss Chilberg from the charge. The public would like to know how juries are drawn in this county. In the Chilberg case I was dumfounded at seeing our friend, Councilwoman Mrs. Miracle, a bosom friend of Chil- berg, on the jury, It seems to me more than a miracle. Yours respectfully, MAX JOHNSEN, 2545 Queen Anne Ave. Hats Off to Heighton not at all uncommon, but our “rep- resentatives” are “reached” tn other Ways and the practice of “trading” described by Mr. Heighton is prob- ably the most sinister that we have to contend with, Not alone this, but officials high in public positions of authority and trust are directly or indirectly in- fluenced to such an extent that a matter of simple Justice is no longer to be hoped for, The man or busi- ness without a “pull” or something to “trade,” or who will not stoop to such methods has an uphill fight whenever it becomes necessary for him to deal with public function- aries, I hope every man and woman in the state will receive and read a copy of Mr. Heighton's speech, for when the public is once aroused and be- comes fully alive to what ts being “slipped over” on it, the traitors to thwart them if] 53) | shirt for the bridegroom. fugitive from justice, for his partict-| brains and moneys intrusted to their | ARE YOU TOO THIN? 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Toront rianee to il of Great It is insulin, the newest remedy for Mabetts When this 4 university at ft could not clally The Renear very was made the co patented it so thet be exploited commer- ouncil is making e4- Aitional in ns in connection with maki he preparation and dis- tributing it on a large scale. It will be put out sc with the view of benefiting and with ne chance tor prof Insulin is ® hormone extracted from that part of the pancreas called the Islands of Langerhans. The pan- creas is a large gland below the stomach. Every precaution is to be taken to prevent the manufacture of substi- tutes or, in fact, anything that can be used as a commercial “Just as 00d” remedy. Good Manners It's poor form to express one’s likes and dislikes—especially the latter— very forcibly in any gathering where one is not particularly well acquaint ed. It's a good rule in general, and often there are coccasiong when its disregard may prove most embar- raseing. MARRIAGE A LA MODE In some parts of Austria the bride makes an elaborately embroidered ats He wears it on his wedding day, and then never again until he is buried tn it. The Persian bridegroom sends her wedding frock to the bride. It consists of 10 yards of white ma- terial, in which the recipient swathes herself on her marriage morn. public trusts will be driven from public fe with a whip of scorpions. Here's to Heighton! Let's keep him on the job! Yours truly, THE RINGMASTER. He Sides Against “Hamburg” Editor The Star: In your paper recently you printed one of the most logical and scholarly letters that had ever appeared in your correspondence columns. This letter was signed by William Wykes, who states plitinly he was born a British subject, has been a citizen of the United States for more than 25 years, and served two years in the late war. In his argument vindicating the position taken by the French towards German reparations, it seemed to me Mr. Wykes left nothing to be con- sidered, except perhaps its effect upon international finance and future results, which no one can foretell A week later comes one camou- flaged as “Hamburg.” He doesn't say if he is an American citizen, or whether he served in the late war, or whether he is a German and skipped into Mexico while it lasted. He attempts to offset Mr. Wykes’ splendid argument with broad end unsupported comparisons between the depredations of the Germans in the late war and the “damage done in Treland by British militarism during the last 600 years,” and with that done by the French army in Europe during the Napoleonic wars, seeking to minimize, I suppose, the case against his—shall I say country- mon? He draws the absurd parallel of the United States seizing the prov- ince of Ontario as a guarantee of the British debt to us, with the Ruhr oo cupation by the French, Hamburg logic, of course. As for his unsupported statement that the French military on the Rhine “force German officials to sup- ply German women for the French negro soldiers,” nobody believes ft, and we haven't forgotten the poor women of Belgium and France, Ham- burg. He stirs up all the antipathies he can against the British. He jabs his pen into the Irish question. He says, | “You cannot make a Britisher out of an Irishman, netther can you make an American out of a Britisher,” And following his—shall I say—Hun logic to its conclusion: You cannot make an American out of Hamburg, ‘any more than you can make liberty steak out of hamburger. No, Hamburg, we have your num- bor; wo know who you are. The blood of 100,000 of our dead boys ertes out to you to hide and to stay hid, and you know It, It is groundhog day for you, Hamburg, and the sun of righteous ness is shining, Yours sincerely, GPORGE T. THOMPSON, DR, EDWIN J. BROWN'S DENTAL OFFICES 106 Columbia St Seattle's Leading Dentist for More Than 21 Yoars