The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 14, 1923, Page 10

Dally dy The Star Publieht Baterprise Assoc red Press Berv’ ¢ months, #2 Ruthman, Specks & bidg.; Chicage office, Pacific bidg.; Bosvon office, ‘Trem Adulterating Our Blood the mountains of southeastern New York, the other s two policemen found two men, a woman and six chil- bn living in a hovel worse than the ordinary hog-house, eating raw carrots. The woman was the mother of of the children, and said that one of the men, who vas the father of the other two, was also the father a They were not married. Her children could not but “chattered like monkeys.” Statement that she appeared weak-minded is super- All of them were morons, fact that they were found living like beasts in a tain hut and living on roots makes the story dra- That is why it has been so widely published. it there are to be found individual morons and fami- ‘of morons in Seattle and every other community, who, they have not fallen into such a state of repulsive- esque squalor, attract no such notice. are feeble-minded. They have small power of The men among them cannot win wives normal women, and so morons tend to mate among They nearly always have large families. And of two morons are always morons. If only on is a moron, a certain percentage of their chil- 8 sure to be morons, ght not society to do something to keep itself from @ing poisoned by the spawning of these subnormal minded ple? They cannot control themselves. "Anyone can see that those nine people in that Sullivan ty shack represents hundreds and hundreds a few dec- des hence, while nine people of the cultivated classes iy show only a very xmall increase in a century. We allow the unfit to live; but should we allow the Ea lly-diseased to multiply thus? it is a real peri! to our future. In olden times they would not have been allowed to live. We recognize their m to life; but we should not leave to them the power terate the blood of the race with an increasing tion of poison. 7 # to be hoped that Attorney General Daugherty will return from his pee enough to resume his old Job of putting the war are natural born complainers, Now they're kicking back the coal they're getting 1s both smokeless and fircless, ‘Telephone Interests propose to increase their capitalization to dollars. We still don’t get the connection. runner” of yesterday ts the “rum-baron” of today, provided out of Jali, he recent cabinet changes mean new work for both New and Work. Baa! Baa! Black Sheep! the hundred and ten million people in the United s, one hundred and ten million individuals use wool wool products in some form in some quantity letin just issued by the United States department ce shows that 88 per cent of the world’s wool is grown outside the United States, Australia Zealand produce three times eur annual wool little Spain produces more than half as much as we atine far surpasses us, British South Africa pro- more than half our supply. ; the United States is by no means one of the "S greatest wool producers, even after many years ! most artificial protection, et one of the “glorious achievements” of the retiring was the levying of a tax upon every wool user hole 110 million of us to protect the wool grow- f Idaho, Montana, and a few other mountain states! iis isn’t class legislation, we'd like to have a definition ee —_— successful Detroit husband-shooter says ft seems like a dream, bet hubby thought {t was a nightmare. sae ‘ Siscoveries indicate the Indians built up = great elviltzatton wasn’t any use. admits he pald $1,000 to into Payor) $1, get smuggled America, and we always visits a few times befor coming to stay. isn’t scarce, It Just isn’t being used much. Alkali Al’s Parting Shot u've got to hand it to Al Fall. Just as he goes out he feels a twinge of remorse over the giving f the great naval oil reserve in Wyoming, which en handed one Sinclair of Wall Street, and which calmly invoiced at $100,000,000! he gets his friend, Mr. Harding, to “set aside” 000 ere miles, of territory for another “naval oil of it! Thirty-five thousand miles! True, Al § us in his announcement that this vast area consists lly of “flat, frozen, grassy tundra, devoid of vegeta- © and entirely within the Arctic circle,” for we forgot ll you that this new naval ojl reserve which Al and ding have granted us, is just a few blocks south e polar ice barrier, on the north coast of Alaska!” ot a blamed thing but a few musk oxen can live on D a and fur-bearing seals and walruses in the waters “Aan ag ut Al has a sense of humor. He concludes as follows: Teservation is for oil and gas only and will not inter- s with other use of lands within the areal” jo banana orchardists need apply. sign of spring in Northvill 7 le, Mich., was when a divorced man of hie would marry again, to the surprise of onlookers breaking anything else. careful while spring cleaning. to grow out again. a Frenchman broke the gliding record Be It takes a finger nail nearly five Smoke Out the Facts A. Sutherland, Alaska’s delegate in con ‘ess, pub- s that the records of the war dagttent hin } Alaskan canning trusts sold to the war depart- 48 soldiers’ food, during the war, 760,944 cans of salmon that was putrid when put into the ssistant Secretary Houston declares Sutherland's to be “the most complete damaging bunk ever What do the records show? ‘The le hi : mow. The list of “died of disease” fr We fi in the war is an ful one. How many of our soldier boys were killed en salmon? Sutherland {s a prodigious liar, somebody ought ight PERO ea an ry claim ion gave the queen of Sheba an alrship, how rvlee Bot was, ( sig a er couple that shouldn't got a divorce I bacon and eggs. It he did, it THE SEATTLE STAR TOG, Lote ee Editor The Star: In an tesuo of your paper dated March 7th, I noticed an item ten. dered you, no doubt, by the Seattle Humane society, trying to explain to the public thelr reason for not responding to # call from residents in tho locality of 38th ave, 8. to relieve a cat that had been perched on top of a phone pole for several days, both freezing and starving to death. Their first excuse # that |they were called to the rescue at 10 o'clock at night. This is a false statement. They were called at 2p. m. Sunday, March 4th. Excuse No. 2 ts that when the re quest for relief for tho cat was phoned tn to thelr office they had & substitute on duty who did not understand that humane work con: sisted of relieving suffering dumb true, but why should a person without knowledge of the busines |be placed tn euch « poattion? Were an accountant needed in the city Auditor's office and a plumber called fn to fill the position, some one Editor The Star: Readers of The Star may be inter- ested tn reading what the Rome ape. cial correspondent of the London Daily Mat! has recently written about the fascist! and Premier Munnolin{: “For the first time on record you seo cabinet ministers working to re- @uce thetr staffs, so that they will have more work to do, One of them, the minister for the devastated re- gions, 1s laboring night and day, in the effort to abolish himself, his sal- ary and his department by next June.” Also the 16,000 faciat! of Ptancenza has taken this oath: “By the blood of our 2,000 martyts, whom we In- yoke as witnesses and judges of our action, we, the Black Shirts of Pia. cenza, swear that for one year we will not wear on our persons any gold or precious stones. And that we will work ardently without pay for the good of our country.” Also: “All Editor The Star: I notice by Saturday's papers that the school board has been prevailed upon to throw open the doors of the city’s achools for the exploitation of both achool children and teachers by some New York concern and Its n0- lected banking institution here. In view of the fact that the school board has employed star chamber methods, it Is not likely that any explanation will be forthcoming from that source of just how the business was pre- sented and handled, tho {t would seom that the parents and publlc are entitled to know just how ft was worked. Perhaps Raymond R. Fra- zier who, it seems, fontered and fur- red the scheme, will with a statement as to Just who war, paid and how much—that 1s, for the service ot the Service, Inc., New York. Educational Thrift Service, Inc., re- celved a sum approximating $25,000 for working the deal, who paid {t? In antmais. This { no doubt quite! come out) Educational Thritt| If, as the papers have {nforred, the| LETTERS 52 EDITOR The Cat on the Phone Pole ]would be out of luck; tn other words, you cannot run a depart ment store sitting on a goods box. You must thordly understand and be on duty at all times to make & #ucceas of anything—even humane work, However, this so-called substitute had been well enough coached by the society to shift as far as poe sible thelr work onto the city pound, who, when told of the |plight of poor pussy, ment on help immediately, but, climbers or firearms, was o [helpiean. So kitty had another night high up in the frost Jand cold. The pound, however. was not satisfied with Its effort jand again the next morning sent a man who, with a rifle, ended the cat's days of suffering In a most humane manner. Go to ft, Humane |have @ splendid work leave substitutes wi pertenced persons sho’ | Bincersly yours, FLORENCE M. MacPHERSON, Ti4T B8th ave. 8. owt society, You only do not re well ax: a be placed. If We Had Fascisti in Seattle classes of society are pouring in of- fers of help to the new government State employen offer extra work without pay. This includes clerks in the ministries, w «in the Nn ples arsenal, and railway employes. Army officers are contributing « per- centage of thelr amall pay; old sol ders write in to may that they are still able to earn a living with their hands, andideaire to give thetr pen- sion to ther nation. Woten offer their Jewelry.” Signor Muasolint ts described as the 16th century knight (in white spats and @ morning coat) |of the movement wns to defeat the Janarchy of bolshovisen. Its present aim and intent ts to set the nation aflame with self-sacrifice. One sometimes thinks that were a fascist! city council in power in Seat- tle, there might befall our over-bur- dened taxpayers a worse fate tharf Manhattan Apts. that. FRED R. SMITH, Who Paid the $35,000? {t a charge against the nchoo! board or did tho selected banks put it up, and if the latter { the fact, why? In | view of Mr. Frazier’s statements, it could not have been in ¢onstderation of any special benefit to his bank as ho stated he recommended tho schemo simply because he thought it & good thing for the young to be taught habits of thrift. I wonder if the Washington Mutual Savings bank has been converted into an al trulstic institution, If #0, the city of Seattle certainly owen a debt of gratt- tude to it depositors who, of course, will forego dividends to tho extent of the 'wum paid the Educational Thrift Service, Ino., In the interests of edu. cation. If, on the other hand, the Educa tional Thrift Service, Inc, were not pald $35,000, how much were they | paid and by whom? Likewise, what |for? Or aro they the altruistic tnati- |tutfon contributing to the causes of edueation “without money and with- out price bi-monthly bulletin of the Was! Washington experiment station, w specialist in aploulture, Puyallup, Wash. Gentlemen: Please send m Bulletin, Vol. X., No. 6, dated Thru a special arrangement State college, renders of Tho Star may obtain a copy of thin bulletin, free of charge, by filling out the following coupon and mailing {t to the experiment station, WANT TO KEEP BEES? Expert advice to beginners ts contained In an article in the latest hington State college's Western vritten by B, 4. Slocum, extension with the PPP PARRA PD AAR ARP ARRAN ne Weatern Washington Experiment Station, 0 & copy of your Bi-Monthly March, 1923, | Imagine the humiliation to which those children will be subjected whose parents are unable to join in | the competition programmed for the | various rooms and schools! Each room ts urged to become 100 per cent thrifty. That fs, “let no pupil go” | free, Can you Imagine the gibes and | ridicule, the narcasm and taynte that will be showered on the children of the very poor who are unable to “keep up thelr end? There is no ne that is or should be closer to us or more sacred than our public pchools and achool sys tem, If they are to be exploited we mould at least fu informed about it. There ts no reason why any part of the deals and negotia- tons leading up to them should be kept @ secret. It anybody Jn beng worked besides | °F father, let us know who It ta Can it be possible that we are to let our school board get away with this sort of thing without at least | making details publig--how much we are to be taxed, who paya the print- ing bila, who pays the fees to the Yow York promoters, etc.? Are we | content to allow one or two financial | wizards and some enterprising New |Yorker lead us biindfolded {nto a |commitment which has every ea | mark of @ pian to explott our schools for the exclusive benefit of one or | two concerns? We shall nce! | Ly IN WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 1923. LETER FROM | V RIDGE MANN Dear Fotks: Altho I think we've hed enough, with all the things we ses, this blooming Tutankhamen stuff at last bas bitten me, He may have been @ man of might, he may have been « mutt—but, anyway, I've got to write « bit about King Tut 1 don't know much shout the k think of ail the ink they sling, In sober thought and jest! the style, from bonnets down to shoes; perhaps he soon will they'll tm! Nile with Tut The Tutankhamen hat appears, ‘women soon will deck their ears with Tutankhamen rings. ‘Tutankhamen leads the way with advertising dope—I soon expoot to eee them say, “He used Palmolive soap.” Our lodges will, no doubt, emp slogans like, “Tut, Tut, my boy! And they'll soon begin to For human nature isn't deep; follow, like @ flock of sheep, the I see the way we ape and imitate the throng, I get @ thought I can't escape—that Darwin wasn't along our auto row, w! how a model “Tu-Tank ing-—~and neither do the rest; but And now nkhamen booze. and skirts and other things; and And loy the old Kgyptian style, with smile with Nile!” sare, no doubt we have to have our fads, We styletnventing lads. And when wrong! are 20 or 407 Then the money must be counted both in hand and jon the paper to see whether it) tallies, and handed oyer to the prin }eipal and {t Ie presumed receipted |for, (1 would recommend tho re for 1 have not found prin best business men in the | one collected funds for me |for the Red Cross once, and his jeheck came back N, 8. F) And |suppose there aro elght or 10 teachers? “The short and simple annals” of 16 minutes would have to be atretched some? And, of courne, the principal would have to take no time at all, to count all this chicken feed, wrap pen- nies, nickels and dimes and deposit} Wants Hugo K, Editor The Star Belleving that The Star # oon- sistent in its policy, I am wonder: | ling why 1t does not demand, as it] id when former Corpqmtion Coun: | 1 Walter Meler ran for mayor, that every office holder resign when | candidate for another office. I refer now to Hugo Kelley, the may- ors eccretary, who is running for) |the council and holding Rainier | Valley citizens up to censure by pio: | | turing them as people who pay only what they think they should pay— |not what the charges are. I refer to his announcing that he would Jonly pay a nickel for @ ride on the | Rainier Vatley It and when the conductor sald “pay your regular) fare,” he flashed a police badge and |rode an a deadhead | If you demanded that Meler re |ntgn because he was a candidate, not Kelley? | never demanded er Lamping re aign when he got @ “vacation” from |the port, according to The Star at |that time, to spend nlx weeks cam- |paigning for the U. S. senate, He jlost out and came back and bung Jonto a $3,000 a year job. If Meler [should have resigned for principle’s |make, as urged by The Star, why does not your paper, whith has a | it! And why this complacent so | ance of this extra work? The accusation has been made that parents are folsting all their | duties off onto the teachers, Well, | here is something that parents 4o| not want done for them, strange as Mt may seem; but after they b paid taxes to keep up our extravagant school system, they | prefer to keep the change in the pockets and thelr children’s and {t dos look as tho own pockets, the educational system of thie town | could find something better to do than take pennies away from chil- drent | MRS, ANNE B. STEWART, | 120 Nob Hill ave. | | | elley to Resign public salary job while they run for | another office? | KATHERINE BILVA, | Rainier Valley. More cement reputation for being fearless and Fenpecter of no man or party, not take the mame position relative to) Kelley, Lamping and other men who| are not willing to give up or take & chance on losing (pune ; Thrift, Horatio, Thrift” EAltor The Star: The new scheme of “thrift” for over on the achool board just like all the other freaks and fads of the age that have been grafted into our school system for the Inst 10 or 12 yemrn; In short, ever since the present superintendent biew Into The school board tell us they have gone Into all the “elementary prin- ciples of the plan, * * * have studied The first aim/|it thorbly and decided it ts advin.| able.” They tell us this, after istening to the spectal pleaders tn its favor |—a committee of principals and lothern who no doubt have very |Kood dnd sufficient (to them) rea- |nona for advoocating it. Why were |there no patrons of the achoo}s |added to that committes? ‘The school board was surrounded by People who would only apeak favor ably of the thing for reasons best known to themaclyes; they evident. ly heard no real criticlam adverse to the plan until they lifted tho Nid and. now, to thelr great surprine, “hear somethingt* If the idea was taken up “not yesterday, nor last week, nor Ia: |month, but the month before that, It must have been behind closed |doore—"‘star chamber seasions"—for those who attend the meetings of jthe school board regularly knew nothing about it until It was sprung on March 2nd, Surely the patrons of the schools should have been, consulted In a matter xo vitally con. cerning them in many ways, ‘The patrons of the schools have been absurdly lontent toward the fods and freaks that disrupt educa: |tion proper, and it remains to be seen whether this thing will not be tho “Inst straw that will break the camel's back"—for a good many fool {dean can bo thrust upon peo ple when they do not stop to ro allze Just what the effect will be, but when you touth the pocketbook direct, when “pupils will be urged to bring small sums of money from home * * * and students will bo strensed with the tdea that every room should be 100%, that Js, have every student ® depositor,” something Js atarted that will wake people up to the fact that school autocracy has {ts limits and the Patrons must define those lmita, Another very algnificant feature (that to mo only demonstrates the Sehool mutocracy) fs the fact that teachers are not saying anything, Now, this scheme will put a fot of extra work on tho teachers and © very disagreeable Kind of work, fo when ft Jn claimed that tt will requlre only 15 minutes oneo a week {t 49 patent that the matter has heen gone Into very “thoroly,”” tne dood, Tho recetving teacher must make two entries, one in tho child's book, and one, on a Paper lint to keop track of tho entire amount received: say there aro 20 ohildren In a room, for I doubt the 100%—leas than a minute to each does not sound Very reasonable, and when there then | ° SCIENCE Radium Cheaper. 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