The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 22, 1923, Page 8

The Seattle Star Pediiahed Detly by The Star Publishing Ge, Phone Meta 0600 paper Baterpriae Association and United Press Bervies city, Sc per month; 2 menths, #1 @ months $1.00 carrier, sity, See @ month & Re New. By mail, out ef year, 1 By m, Bprcial Representatives, San Francisce of Prat: New York effies, je bids; Bose offi After Pielow—W hat? Chief of Police W, B. Severyns is to be congratulated upon his action in dismissing Sergt. Edward W. Pielow Pielow may—or may not—be as innocent as a new-born babe. But, guilty or guiltless, his presence on the police force was certainly intolerable, in view of the varied and scandalous stories about his connection with the booze in- dustry which have been in circulation ever since the Le- gate murder, more than a year ago. It would have been much better for the morale of the department if Severyns—or his predecessor—had seen fit to fire Pielow months ago. But better late than never. Severyns should not stop here, however. There are too many reports afloat about other policemen being allied with bootleggers, dope-peddlers and other criminals. As long as these conditions obtain, how can anyone hope for any real degree of law-enforcement? The ordinary citi- zen can hardly be blamed for having no particular regard for a law when he knows it is being made a travesty by the very men who are sworn to uphold it, The time is ripe—and has been for quite a spell—for a real cleanup, And Sevéryns should start it by putting his own department in order. Rollo Beck, naturalist, hunting rare birds in the South Seas, writes: “The most astounding habit observed on the island was that of the tulry tern placing Its single egg on top of a narrow limb with no trace of » nest and hatching it in that precarious position.” Page Christopher Co- luntbus! “Chinese Wine Dumped Into Ocean.”"—Headline, Poor fish. The Traffic'Jam in Congress Congress now offers a spectacle similar to that of a great unorganized mass of automobiles caught in a traffic jam with no traffic police on the job to clear a right of way. Legislation, fighting for recognition, is caught in an impasse. Calendars are filled with bills which have no chance of passage, because the constitution provides that the short session of congress automatically must end March 4. Scores of excellent prospective laws which might pass congress are getting caught in the legislative traffic jam, There is no chance for their enactment until next Decem- ber gnd then, with the national campaign but a few montis off, politics will be the first consideration. Some day the constitution will be brought up to date so that congress will operate like a business institution, and the serious consideration of laws for the government of more than 105,000,000 will not be thwarted by the question of political expediency. Talk about what's wrong with the movies. Our idea of the wrong is this nickelodian idea of running one continuous show day and night, without reserved seats. It's always our luck to see the tail end of the play first. University of Kentucky students are being asked to turn iu their pis tols. Perhaps it is exam time and the teachers are nervous. Better Times for Austria They've stopped printing paper money in Austria! Fact! True, Austria has some seven hundred trillion crowns in circulation and it takes a washtubful to buy @ pig, but what of that? They’ve stopped printing, any- how, and that means, if it means anything, a sign of re- turning sanity and ultimate stabilization of poor Austria’s currency. . . _ In fact the Austrian crown, sunk to the vanishing point, is already stabilized. It can't and won't go any lower. That’s something, isn’t it? More, the savings deposits of Austrian people have been increased in the past three months from eleven billion to eighty-six billion paper crowns. Building suburban homes and planting small tracts of land promise to break all records. i What does it all mean? Simply that the much-despised League of Nations has taken charge of the affairs of Aus- tria under the direct supervision of Dr. Zimmerman of Rotterdam and every letter and cablegram brings new hope of better things to come in this darkest corner of Central Europe. What could not have been done, had America gone in? “New York Millionaire Accused as Bootlegger."—Headline, Judgin, the description, he has been in the business at least six months. Now that the senate has settled somebody would settle our own. Congress announces it will the rest of the the British debt question, we wish wil get much-needed rest after March 4. 80 country. ‘The Government Growls Just now thousands of wage-earners and little business men are receiving from the federal income tax division orders to explain their income tax returns for 1920. The insinuation is that these back returns were not correct, It matters not that the average salaried man remembers little or nothing about his 1920 return. The order calls for a statement of income again, so that a comparison can be made with the returns filed in 1920. That is sufficient to throw a scare into the average man, especially in view of the fact that the order bears on its face a threat of fine or imprisonment. le this determined drive is being made on the wage- man with a little business, earner or salaried man or the the government tax collectingsmachinery is clogged with bi aras 1917. Thousands and ig tax cases running back as millions of dollars are involved. Some estimates have been that the government will lose several hundred billions be- cause of failure to handle the 1917 cases before March 15. cases involve not pennies or a few dollars, but mil- ions, With this demand for action, this opportunity to collect millions, the government machinery potters along content with threatening and frightening the salaried man and er, gigas 4 Nie government bares its teeth and growls—at the 3. ———____ We are inclined to doubt the report that at a recent social function at - & foreign embassy in Washington, three bartenders were hired the guests; we heard it was four, ma art esiyatts Men who think they know it all do not know all they think. Ghouling, Ancient and Modern Tn Egypt a gang of gentlemen, with nothing else to do in these days when there is ny to do for living human- ity, are attracting the world’s attention quite extensively to what they are taking out of a grave that they have un- earthed. By pretty nearly every cable they and their writers be- wail the fact that ancient ghouls, Christ, robbed the grave of things that would have been a very handsome addition to their own 1928 collection, It really is durned tough to be beaten at your own game by 2,500 years or more. —$—$____. Jn Italy, if @ man doesn't voto, they give him medicine. they should give it to some who do, ee New York logislatar wants lights on baby carriages, will be keeping the mufflers on, In America, Hardest thing long before the time of , A Million Child Workers Toil in Dark Tenements Neither city nor county can claim innocence of the child labor evil. Here we have two little girls, photographed by the National Child Labor committee—one toiling in a tene- # ment sweatshop, the other in a cotton field. BY OWEN R. LOVEJOY General Secretary of the National Child Labor Committee WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.—The ex. tent to which the children of the United States are suffering from the nullifying of the federal child labor tax law of 1919, by the supreme court decision of Inst *Mey, may be measured by the fact that only 13 states meet in all particulars the standards of the federal law. Eight statos have the general brogd Provisions, but make some specific exemption. ‘Twenty-seven states are below the standards in one or more of the pro- visions, e In an anthracite coal mining dis- trict 519 boys under 14 years of age were found to have been employed in the breakers contrary to law; and, Nkewise in violaton of law,, 137 under 16 were working underground. In the interval that elapsed -be- tween the first (1916) and the sec- ond (1919) federal child labor laws, the bureau made an investigation of oyster and shrimp canneries along the gulf coast and found “more than 900 children under 14 years of ago, forme as young as 6 or 8, st work in cold, damp, drafty sheds, their hands cut by sharp oyster shells, ehrimp thorns, and the xnives which thoy ‘used in the work.” According to the census of 1910 there were 1,990,225 children 10 to 15 years employed for wage in the United States. In 1920 this number had been re duced to 1,060,858 or a decrease of 446.7 per cont. There are the thousands of children under 10 years of age of whom the census takes no count, but who nevertheless work in our fields, tenement sweatahops, streets, and in domestic service. The exact numigr of these no one knows, And it is these very industries which did not come under the juris- diction of the federal laws and for which the states make practically no Provision. But they furnish the vast majority of our child workers, In agriculture alone the’ conqus shows 61 per cent child laborers. This menna that hundreds of thou- sands of ohildren of school age are kept out of school several months a year with resultant retardation and illiteracy, An agont of the National Child Labor committes found a family of six children—17, 16, 14, 12, 9 and 6— who worked 62 acres of beets with their parents, The children have never attended school, But not only children of school Age are conscripted into farming. If they are too young to go to school FOOD FOR YOUNG CHILDREN Simple, clean, wholesome food of the right kinds fed to children in Proper quantities and combinations will go farther than almost any other single factor in assuring them normal health and sturdy evelopment. Do you know WHAT to feed YOUR children? Do you know the PROPER QUANTITIES of the various kinds of foods? Do you know which foods contain the necessary ingredients for building Unsue, muscle, blood, bone? Do you know the RIGHT COMBINA. and preparing children’s foods? NANO. 44 c0deee ends cess sense en Street and No, DY. edicserenees Btato..... TIONS of food to be fed to children? Are your boys and girls wetting just what they most need tn the way of food? Can you make up @ proper breakfast, dinner and supper menu for your children? Do you want simple but accurate recipes for cooking All these questions are answered in plain, almple language in a new bulletin prepared by food experts in the United States Rove ernment laboratories, which our Washington bureau has secured, and a copy of which will be sent you on request. Fill out care. fully and majl-the blank below to our Washington bureau. Washington Bureau, The Seattle Star, 1822 New York Ave,, Washington, D. ©. I want a copy of the bulletin, “FOOD FOR YOUNG CHIT, DREN,” and inclose herewith four conts In stamps for same, Ante tee eee me omen dey ORONO e teen emeleamy STEAM ee Oe cee aha soe eee gems HF 1 A A MO A he a 8 i jomes wm Russa / act Bi MUNTONS they can do a man's work in the cot ton fields. One of the most pernicious forms of unregulated child labor, agra vated because of ealment, tenement homework in our cities, WORK AT HOME FOR PITIFUL WAGL In dimly qasiit, il) ventilated tene ments, children play truant or work far into t cht on jewelry, em broidery, tags, powder puffs y usually make lews than five cents an hour A study of homework in Rhode Inland recently made by the Chil dren's Bureau showed that 4 per cent of the 2000 children for whom ed information was given were Ts of age. A girl of 43 was reported by a Newark (N. J.) school principal a frequently minsing school of the National Child Labor co: tee found her at 6 o'clock tn the far corner of a dimly lighted room, am bri ing on @ black dross outlined * pencil, For this dren elaborately embroidered, she receive: 90 cents, furnishing her own frame at A cost of 60 cents. It takes her two or three days to embroider a Gress, Her mother remarked, “It's 4 pity she has to go to school.” co. Bureau of Missing . Relatives san aid in finding missing wire ov friends, The department is ip |e are missing are invited te report the disappearance directiy to The plat. Readers whereabouts Other newspapers are invited | to reprodsce such lems as will interest thelr readers, eee MARGUERITE DUHAMEL, — rt this girl will correspond with The Star's Missing Relative Editor, he can furoish her with information re garding her father, A. T. Duhamel, formerly of Anyox, B, C. 1923 Record of Pedestrians Hit by Automobiles 12 seoorheng Glenn, 16, of 8738 4s ipthtave i, Moen’ B. ath wt, Tuosday, by auto driven by B. w. Cheever, 6720 15th ave, N.'E. The lad was cut about the left hand. MRcu al “Rags” is his name and he’s the mystery dog of Phila- delphia. The Kennel Club there offered a cash prize of $300 to the peraon guessing his breed. He seems to boa oross between an airedale and @ sheep dog, with a coat. like a French poodle but the size of a collie, te} An t | LEER FROM AVRIDGE MANN In early re fon days ed land ered right in wartare’s ase, where hope wag never bright. ¥ our coun a tow jeorge ireary night 4 noo the rising su nd eay, “It can be i jeft their illconcely t in two opposing Uipes; there alwe t can be he it ow, in all our atre 1 to tackle life with bf ¢ fickle whim, mn him, and learn to say with all they had to bear; the ingte was one, who sid, “We done!" with all the anguish there, when ermy, in und the man Who paused @ little ur in What he had to do, no bravely saw them thru. He went war was won; for by his deeds he with all the odds we find, we ermined mind; don’t count on but try his simple plan; let's take a little I can!” Guritge Tomns or, who has cleaned ery day since his arrival in ten, called upon Mayor “You have known h to go to work, and u to give him @ Job 4 and be @ great Editor The Star Permit me to send you a few lines of protest against senate bill No. 64 | We © been using Nucoa for years jand find that it is much better than butter. More than one pound of but ter have I bought that was rancid or had been adulterated, Nucoa re- maine clean and sweet untt} it i all used up. The difference in price be LETTERS S2 EDITOR _The Only Job in Him © and my boy te! Butter Bootleggers Next? ’at grew taller; his chest swelled “Sure, Doe, it's this way," he sald, “my boy is noy bright. He's off in the upper story and the bey». say the knot ted in bis backbone to rep- resent a hed is full of empty rooms ond if « thought ever entered those | rooms, it would become #o lonesome frightened it would turn right nd and go out again, and he aan't sense enough to clean out a wewer political job, and some dey the | people will elect him senator and ‘send him to Olympia." W. W. G. tween the two is just enough so that I can afford one, but not the other. | This means that the children are |robbe? of a spread for their bread. There is no earthly reason for prohi- bition of butter substitutes. If there certainly intend to do so, even if I must be a “butter bootlegger.” MRS. HENRY ANDERSON, | Sydney Is Alarmed © Over a Few Crimes SYDNEY, Feb, 22.—80 accustomed jis Australia to having a law.abiding | citizenry that @ total of 654 persons rged with crime in six months in| a city of 800,000-—Sydney—ta con- | sidered « crime wave, and the prem- |ler of theretate hax called a confer- lence to dea} with the problem | It will be proposed that no crime hould be made punishable by a jail tence of leas than six months. Altho all but 184 of the 654 persons arraigned were convicted or pleaded ‘elt that the judiciary ndue leniency in dealing with criminal cases. i Rubber iveniiiait Laid in England HOLBORN, Eng., Feb. 22.—A long stretch of street here ts being paved with rubber blocks, which are ex- preted to last more than 25 years. Poison Pen Writer Beaten by Victims KANBAS CITY, Mo., Feb, 22-—Ac | cusing Mrs. Rose Goodman of writing scurrilous letters, Mrs. Caroline and beat her until the police arrived, | Building Boom : On in Canada OTTAWA, Ont., Feb: 22-—Buflding jin Canada hag returned to its pre- |war acale of activity. Figures for 1922 show an Increase of nearly $90,- 000,000 over the 1921 volume and ex- pansion of operations equaling the boom days of 1913. Building contracts awarded during the year had a value of $331,843,800 an compared with $240,133,300 in | 1921 and $256,843,800 in 1920. | Ontarto led the provinces in bulld- ling, accounting for $166,628,000 of | the total contracts awarded. | you get » fu ‘The only job he tw fitted for| ig any way of breaking this law 1/| Johnaton pulled out a lot of her hair/| A_ Stubborn h Coug Loosens Right Up Pe ee a ee eee Here is » home-made syrup which millions of people have found to beat the most dependable means of breake ing up stubborn coughs and simple, but very p tion t stops restful sleep othing better for bronchitis, he toe pon throat tiki, br hms or winter cou oto make this splendid cough syrup our 24 ces of Pinex into a pint bottle and the bottle with plaig granulated ovgey syrup and thoroughly. Lf you prefer use clarir fied molasses, honey, oF corn syrup, instead of sugar syrup. 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The first part of the project which is belng worked out by the French government provides for the con- struction of a navigable canal, par alleling the Rhine from Strasbourg to Bale, Another company will construct @ navigable waterway that will link up the Rhine and the Rhone. Use will be made of the Swiss chain of lakes and rivers, while canals will be con- structed where missing Unks now exist. This company, backed by French, English and American capital, has announced the floating of a loan of 400,000,000 francs and has applied to the Swiss federal council for national support. Finally, the last great undertaking of the project, and which, as a mat- ter of fact will be the first to completed, is the construction at Marseille of g vast tunnel that will link the Rhone up with the port of Margeilie. The latter wili thus be- come the point of ergbarkation ang debarkation of @ vast trans-con- tinental traffic. The tunnel has a length of only seven kilometers, but {ts plereing re- quired the removal of over 2,500,000 cubic meters of earth, more than twicethe amount removed in the construction of the famous Simplon tunnel, Marseille will have its end of the trans-continental waterway completed next spring. event. owman & Hanford © FIRST AVENUE AND CHERRY STREET BOOK SALE A bargain-giving event of interest to lovers of books Preparatory to moving our Book Department to our new uptown, store, Third Avenue, between Pike and Pine, we are offering Thousands of. Books at Bargain Prices Hundreds of Books Ib cmiirinnicacsiccor sean 10c Each Hundreds of Books at .sunimetmivis + oieieie siete 250 Each Hundreds of Books at .rrewsrseteratetei«:*j+)+ e1ye «Oc Each Hundreds of Books at. :.:ereeieiemsitsieie Hundreds of Books at....assersiciewieiei*« +i20$1,00 Each e+» 75e Each Fiction, Travel, General Literature, Juv- enile Books—in fact, all classes of litera- ture are included. 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