The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 17, 1923, Page 8

THE SEATT LE STAR SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 192s. Can the Port of Seattle Be Part Public anc Part Private? S THE STAR forecast last spring when a port commissioner was being elected, the Port of Seattle, one of the gr tors in this community’s busin is under vicious attack. Its enemies, private companies with selfish motives, would destroy it utterly, if they could. They are forcing the issue whether we shall have in the future a 100 per cent publicly owned port or a 100 per cent privately owned port. That is not what they are ostensibly urging. Instead they are talking about a compromise arrangement whereby the Port would continue to operate its present properties, and perhaps add a few more, with the idea onlyof regulat- ing the business, and leave all the rest in the hands of private corporations. The fight has begun in various quarter The legislature is cluttered up with special atest single fac- ess advancement, Published Daily by The Star Publishing Co. Phone Main 0400. Paper Enterprise Association and United Press ter eity, S00 per month; 3 months, $1.00; ¢ months, farrier, city, Sc a month Gitman, Nicoll @ Rut fice, Monadnock bids Canadian Pacific bids Ohio “Radical and Socialistic”> Representative J. A. Frear of Wisconsin has replied to "Old Guard leaders who have branded amendments to the Constitution limiting the power of the supreme court as / “too radical and socialistic.” The amendments, offered by Senator LaFollette, pro- Wide for removal of federal judges, and they would pre- ‘vent the supreme court from declaring laws unconstitu- unless all the justices concurred. Reactionaries are denouncing these measures. Frear calls attention to the fact that they have been in effect in Ohio for 74 years. | Ohio happens to be the home state not only of the sent president, but also of Chief Justice Taft, and ous other administration lights who view with m the progressives’ scheme to curtail the dictatorial ers of the court. Not only that, as Frear points out, but in Ohio judges appointed for six-year terms, during which their ds are subject to review by the people of the state. year, 12.00 Ban Franciece of New York office. Boston office, Treinost bie _ Successfully divoreed, Mrs, James A. Stillman is going in for whole Sale millinery. If the lady has the usual “goneness” on hats, there will ‘Be some compensation for old Jim in paying his alimony at long distance. “Geraldine Farrar names two vaudeville actresses in her divores caso ast Lou Tellegen. What a life! Just one blamed actress after her. Secretary Weeks issues glorious praise for the soldiers returning from , including the boys bringing back wives. ify yourself with moderation; for this is an impregnable fortress. “Motormeters are nice things. Frequently they are all that is missing. Are You an Inventor? Ever try to invent anything? Or dream you invented something that made the dollar bills come. down like per snow in an old-time Lincoln J. Carter melodrama? Well, then, you would find it interesting to attend the @hternationa) exposition of inventions to open in New fork city at the Grand Central Palace today. "Advance notices of the unique devices that will be ex~- ited make us marvel at the resourcefulness of the an mind. One inventor has an automatic typewriter er. Another has a mechanical chimney-sweep. About rerything possible seems to have been attempted by the ibito: One fellow promises to bring an “airplane e’—if there’s a big enough door to get it into the ding. Mexico's national railroads are paying a profi. The United States ‘Congress ought to take a junket down to see Obregon. ul? Philadelphia couple may have been married 72 years without a quarrel; yway, they say they have.. Fine thing about getting into the movies Is after being in one picture are a movie star. | We can’t think up anything mere useless than cut gtasa. . With Flies in It © Those acheologists have discovered that when the Egyp- G s came to entomb that Pharaoh, they laid away be- ide him fly-swatters of a quite modern pattern. The find is quite interesting as indicating that the ncient Egyptians had a very novel conception of the "hereafter, something outside the present understanding = of Egyptian beliefs. They could hardly believe in a hell | not hot enough to bar flies, or in a heaven harried by the insects. Yet, they start their Pharaoh on his long journey with swatters handy. A hereafter full of flies doesn’t appear reasonable or But every period of mankind’s history has peculiarities. For several centuries the master artists, for instance, picture God witha Van Dyke beard. | Lancaster, Pa., postoffice has a dog named “Stamp.” Maybe they have fo lick him before he goes aw A Cleveland man who stole an auto for a joke was found in a diteh ith the joke on him. - Bome build hot air castles. Henry the Cinch- Breaker There’s got to be a constitutional amendment, a Daugherty injunction, a supreme court decision, or some- ing to hold down Henry Ford, who is sure puncturing ragged holes in Mr. Harding’s normalcy. Henry’s latest is to consolidate all his coal properties in Kentucky and West Virginia, under $15,000,000 capitalization. Consolidation ‘is normal, but Henry proposes to sell coal to the publi: it prices way below what the Wall st. controlled operators are grabbing, a blow at normalcy that disgusts every ‘interest in the country that exploits a cinch. _ Whats to be done with Henry? Day by day, in every lay, he’s becoming richer and richer and more un-normal in using his money. Jess Willard, ex-heavyweight champ, is guaranteed $25,000 for a 15+ Tound fight for benefit of the New York milk fund. Maybe Jess can ¢lean ‘em up in the milk-weight class. Steamer Mauretania sails for a Mediter 547 millionaires at $1,350,000. Gosh! ship goes down. ‘anean trip especially chartered What a feast for lawyers if ‘The sad thing about having a wife is she always wants her husband to belng 90 foolish, Our kick against sleeping is it takes one Py Jong to do it, | beautify interest bills designed to cripple the Port. One of these bills would take from the Port its present unquestioned right to control the harbor areas as the old leases to private com- panies expire, Another would “consolidate” the Port of Seattle and the County of King—in other words, submerge the present well-man- aged Port in the badly-managed, extravagant, polities-ridden county morass. Another fight is raging over the future dis- position of some lands now held by the U. S§. shipping board. A private company, backed by the Chamber of Commerce, is lined up to fight the Port’s plans for development of the tract. One fact is certain: This community will never go back, by consent of a majority of its voters, to an all-private port arrangement; the advantages that have come to Seattle thru the possession of its public terminals are too obvi- LETER FROM | AV RIDGE MANN | Deo: Folk I herewith submit following ditty with all due apo entitled Klien to Alfred Tennyson, the SLs Slush, On th And This weather ts hard to bea lush wet streets, O feet warble to all creation O well for the guy with a car With its wheels all covered with chains! But {t's hell for the bird that walks, When It snows two days and then rains! And the slushy muss stays on Ax the day goes dragging out But O, for the touch of a dusty road, And the weather we brag about! Slush! Slush! Slush!!! n thy watersoaked sox, O foet! While I think of the numerous times I have said, ‘Our climate is hand to beat! Giritge Tomn LETTERS EDITOR Flower Committee Enthusiastic Editor ‘The Star: } possibilities and may be developed Permit the flower committee of the | from apparently hopeless conditions Chamber of Commerce to thank Mr,|{!nto beautiful places in which the owner may rightly have pride and Johns, thru your paper, for his kind | DOS" UAY vel as adding value to words. Praise like that js what we| n ‘4 r) r Abe his property, all need and aids us tn our work of | r the flo - helping beautify the city, With this in mnd, the flower com. ‘There seems to be a general move- mittee of the Chamber of Commerce ment sweeping over this country to| Wi#he# to make Seattle more beauti- home surroundings. The|‘t! for our own people and also for smallest area and tle tnost hopeless | th thousands of tourists who viatt landscape are capable of improve-|"%* Cordially yours, ment. Bare city yards, suburban MARY E property or rural districts all offer | Qtrs. George H guy Guy), Gov. Hart’s Entertainment Fund (Copy) Klemgard, jit you please. | Mr I wish while you have Hon. J. N Representative, Whitman County, Olympia, Washington Dear Sir: | In reading the papers lately I see where Representative Ed Sims paid| $11.20 for the stenographic copy of Representative Helghton's speech made in Seattle, before the Demo- cratic club. I wish you would get me a copy of that apecch arid send It to me. Now, John, you know I have been acquainted with you for some time, so I am going to ask a favor of you | investigating committee determine if |Governor Hart has vouchers which are required by law for the $15,000 his entertainment fund, or if Ahis money ts pald out to him tn equal monthly paymenta. If you will look into this matter for me, 1 will appreciate it, as I may | be misinformed as to how this money has been expended. Your friend, AL. TERRY, 6316-10th ave. N. EB, Seattle, Wash. Where Nightie Will Be Useless Editor The Star Legislatures over the country winter are cogitating Jaws to ham-| per the growth and power of Koo Kooism. These laws range all the | alight indication of their carnestnoss way from the one making {t a misde-|in this matter, but money ts the meanor for two or more citizens to| least important constituent of this attire themselves in white nighties | fight. A night-riding, secret-fight to those making it a capital offense | ing, terror-instilling band f not to attend a lynching bee ina mask. | much of anything except another big. That's all right. Let the legisia-| ger, more leas tive tinkers have a good time; they | band, and a ity Kluxer will require will de but little harm, and certain-| considerably nore than a mask and ly no good; for there are jaws enough |a nightie and a coll of rope if he In now against lawlessness; more laws | trailed by mean nothing, so long as, In certain | of those regions, the officers are lawless But there is one little movement that is going to put the hooks to the| device known to the strike-breaking Ku Klux right where it hurts. In| hosts, including the machine guns of an unguarded moment some hooded | the militia, the shotguns of the con guys hanged a member in good | «tabulary and the pistols and clubs of standing in a union. That little con-| the private detective crews. Between tretemps furnished the proof for or-|a picket delegation from, say, the ganized labor that Koo Kooism was|Bollermakers’ union, and a corps of forninst the little guy, and now the| Ku Kluxers, the odds would be big rough and ready lads of the militant’ on the former. OYSTERS How to cook ‘em, and fix ‘em, and eat ‘em. All kinds of ways— raw, with cocktail sauce and how to make it; oyster soup and chowder; Maryland stew; oysters fricasseed, curried, ronsted, creamed, baked, deviled, panned, fried; oyster ple; oyster dumplings, in short cake, in pates, scalloped, with tomato, with rice, with spaghetti—and a lot more! If you've never eaten oysters except {n one or two ways here's your chance to get full directions for cooking them dozens of ways, The Star's Washington bureau has prepared an oyster bulletin, after consulting the bureau of fisheries and every other known source, and it's free to you for the asking, Just fill out the coupon below. this | nating on their own hook To start with, the unions are rais. ing a $3,000,000 war fund, just as a | arsret ome hard-boiled devotees unions that known as fighting unions, and that have for 40 Washington Bureau, The Seattie Star, 1322 New York Ave., Washington, D. ©. T want a copy of the bulletin, “OYS' two-cent stamp for postage, ERS,” and inclose a Street and No..., labor unions will do a little extermi- scrupulous | years battled with every trick and sus and well understood for that. It will be well if the busy gentlemen who are behind the firing lines get that idea thru their heads. The trouble with any compromise plan of part-private, part-public harbor development is that the private companies always will FIGHT the port. disposition to meet the way on disputed points, If their managers would show a fair port commission half- to “play ball” for the good of all Seattle, to supplement the port’s ac- tivities by their own, instead of to steal away the port’s business whenever possible, then a com- promise plan might be tolerated by the public. The private managers would have to under- stand, too, that the control, the final “say, . They would have to would be with the Port understand that the private dock businesses were to be allowed simply to supplement the work of the Port—not to compete against it, not to skim the cream w nals lived off skim milk. The reason that the askance now at the Ad Harbor Island plans, at t bills at Olympia, at Lau manipulations, is that t moves are HOSTILE MO lie as typified by the Por hile the public termi- general public looks miral Oriental line he Pacific Coast Co.’s rence Colman’s many he public feels these VES against the pub- t of Seattle. If these and other private individuals and concerns have a sincere and honest desir nals and to co-operate wi “e to build new termi- th the Port of Seattle in developing new business for Seattle, then let them lay their cards on the table. Let us weigh their proposals on their merits. However, if they are si mine the Port of Seattle, some of its present busin its present powers, then de mply trying to under- trying to take away ess or to sap some of the sooner we all un- tand the matter the better. | | | Heighton’s remarks under con- | | sideration, you would also have the| | | appropriated at the last session for | South African diamond mines are unusually active. The Diamond Syndicate, which controls the diamond market the world round, re ports January sales wore the largest for three yearn, , eee The Japanese are taking more and more to the plano. They are buying Increasingly large numbers of Amer. joan, British and German player planos and have even begun to |manufacture therm themselves. | Japanese player plano is called the ‘amaha.” . American sugar refinerion are sweetening the world’s coffee. Near ly 2,000,000,000 pounds were export ed during 192: almost three times pre-war amounts. | see | | Australia has just held an inter national plowing contest at Trangie, |New South Wales, between’ Amer jean, French, Italian and Australian tractors. The American machines won, hands down, . Idle ships in British ports January 1922, totaled 1,961,000 tons. On vats WILLIAM PHIL The | » OF more than twico/ the export of the previous year and | I NEED IS HIDE THE MATCHES Somehing % set iT ofr wilh SCIENCE At Earth’s Core. What Is It Like? Question Still Puzzles. Two Theories. What & in the center of the earth remains @ mystery the nebular arth is a very hot, 4. Anoth idea is the » theory, hypothesis, is molten mass, with # crust that has er, and later, scientific “planetesmal theory.” This teaches that different particles revolving around the eun were attracted by gravitation and “grew and grew” as this nucleus picked up all wtihin its reach, According to this theory, the in- side of the earth {# solid, the le- ments settling according to their atomic weight. In this case, the cen- 2 would be composed m, the heaviest substance, surrounded by thorium, then radium, bismuth, lead, thallium, mercury, gold, platinum, ete., the lighter ele ments being nearer the sruface of the earth coo = MARRIAGE A LA MODE In the Garo Hill tribes, in Indo- China, all marriage proposals are |wupposed to come from the women. Sometimes this rule ts broken, but in such cases the violation of custom must be paid for by IMberal gifts of liquor to the relatives of the woman whose hand fs sought. | Occasionally the prospective bride |groom is unwilling to marry, or jpretends to be, and runs away. | Usually he ts caught, however, and |dragged to the altar, despite his objections. |January 1, 1 only 1,010,000 tons. Idle French ships decreased by 356, 000 tons during the year, and idle Italian and Norwegian tonnage some 600,000 tons, the shipping board jowning 400,000 tons of that. Draw |Your own conclusion Cuba is very cheerful, says a gov }ernment report. She is Uquidating her debts fast. Humorists may now |supply the pun. Farmera are catching it the world over, New Zealand farmers’ co operatives last year lost $2,000,000 Normally they operate at a hand- |some profit, Trouble is, the world's | still out of joint. . ry Some 18 shops in Seville (Spain) jare carrying on a thriving business |in “antiques,” made while you wait. Americans—by far and away the most numerous tourists—are proving easy picking. . rd ‘Thero are 14 times as many sheep as children in Australia, There are $0,000,000 sheep. Teachers may ask their pupils how many children there are. labor and logged off land. Our pres- ent system of handling the unfortun- ate inm| of our penal istitutions is bad for the state, bad for public morals and destructive of whatever character the so-called criminals may still possess, | Useful employment under humane | conditions would not only do mugh to encourage and rebuild the morals of the convicts but, as you sugg could be made profitable to the s and its people. The logged off land problem is one of the greatest, if not the most important, that confronts Western Washington and indirectly the entire state, and It applies not alone to the pubtte lands, but with qual persistence and force to tho tremendous holdings of private inter- ests in this Kind of real estate, I would go further than you have suggested and apply convict labor not only to the state lands, but would make it available on a co-operative basis to the private logged off land nor, It would be perfectly foasi- to have the state's convicts cloar this land under contfhet wiih private owners, the state to receive deed in fee simple to a fixed percentage of the land it cleared which could be made available to settlers and farm ors of our state on euay Lorma—this : Approves Land Clearing Idea Editor The Star Let me comment on your splendid suggestion contained in your editorial of the 13th with reference to convict in addition to its own lands, It would be far better for private interests to own 100 acres of cleared land ready for cultivation, than to own 200 acres of stump land in the rough. The cost to the state would be little if any more ‘than it costs it at present to house and feed its convicts. Furthermore, the convicts should be credited with a modest per diem wage (which would tend to instill inte them some eloments of self respect as well as to secure thelr interests) and the accumulation of the wage when their term expired could be applied at their option as a payment on ac- count of sufficient acreage to give them a start In life provided they were qualified to go into farming, or it could be paid them in cash so that they would not start out on a new life with nothing more than a suit of clothes and a mere pittance in money. The state could do this, if a plan were seriously worked out, without any burden on the tax payer and it would wo a long way toward solving one of our most serious problems, Why not pursue this further, or are all our public men elther too busy with their own affairs, or too indolent to give it time and thought? As to the “incidental,” or conclud- ing, paragraph to your editorial: The acreage In question probably velongs to the friend of a politician, Yours very truly, THI RINGMASTBR, Are We Nation of Liars | Editor The Star: ‘The Star asks are we linrs, Mr. Heighton’s experience at Olympia | has at least convinced him that there are a few left among us From the tone of Mr. Holbrook’s Jletter on the Heighton episode I | would conclude that he is of the opinion that any new set of men we might elect would not be much of an improvement. Mr. Max Johnson that the rest of the world re- guards us as a race of prevaricators, even if we have just begun to sus pect it ourselves Probably I should have sald we |have just begun to admit it to our | selves COUE CURED Otto R. Kropf BY OTTO R. KROPF CHICAGO, Feb, 17.—For the first time in more than a year I am able to use my legs—thanks to the won- derful gift of Emile Coue. 1 was a helpless invalid suffering from paralysis, T had read of Couc's Intended visit to Chicago and decided to meet him to see if he could cure me. In French he told me to say “it is passing away"—meaning the paraly- sis in my legs, T recited aa he told mo and bo- Heved that I was going to be cured. Then of a sudden something sovmed to rush thru my brain and travel with Hghtning speed into my. whole lower body. Tt seomed like an electric shock, "Wall!" Dr. Coue commanded me, And walk T did, It ts too wonderful to bo real lerled on the stage before all b those present, L was so thankful, However, there have been many wise ones among us who have been cashing in on their knowledge that we are not only liars, but dishonest. It is only because he is sure that the most of us are as dishonest as himwelf that the confidence man prospers. And he generally thrives on those of whom we most expect honesty. A certain 000 out of man bullt a city of 150,- cash registers (Dayton) because he knew that Americans. couldn't be trusted, and everybody ~ who has bought one admits the fact. And then we show-what good act- ors we are by affecting surprise when someone speaks out In publio what we all admit to ourselves is the truth, We have put so much emphasis on success and the dollar that we have led a great many to believe that honesty isn’t particularly essential. We are disgusted with failure, even when the only alternative is dishonesty, and now when dishon- esty gets beyond control we begin to plead that honesty pays. Again the dollar. We don't say it's right; only that it pays. And so I judge that if I find it doesn’t pay in my’ case I am at berty to use my own best judg ment. And, of course, if I have pe- culiar ideas of freedom of conscience I can write my own definition of honesty, and as everyone recognizes my right to interpret “Thou shalt not steal,” except the policeman, all I need is a little money and a good lawyer, And so we elect legislators to make laws and protect ourselves with a referendum and recall because we can't trust them. But the fault is ours because we do not want honesty nor justice, but privilege. We never ask, is a candk date honest, but can we use him. We only yelp for justice when. the other fellow gets the privilege, and 80 we are fast developing into a race of crooks and Watchmen, Who will have time to do the work in the future? ‘Whenever the most of us are will- ing to accept an even break, then we'll begin to get honest men. Until then, why worry? Very truly, JOHN F. MOLEY. Good Manners Without making undue haste, It ts g00d form to leave the theater, after the play is over, as soon as it can bo done conveniently. Some people show a tendency to block the aisles. or linger in the rear of the audk torium, which interferes with othors, and therefore ts oad manners, Tt te quite propor to discuss the play in leaving, but it should not be done noisily, ~ tlle NO te