The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 4, 1923, Page 8

PF eourts. And the The Seattle Star Published Dally by The Star Publishing Co. Phone Main 0600, Hews Paper Koterprise Arse: 2 Doited Prem Bervien By mall, out of ity, Bde per month & 1.60; € montha, $2.00) year, Hbe BY Sarrier, city, tee & month Gliman, Nice!) & Ruihmen, # dg; Ch on fan Francteoe of New York offica, Correcting a Mistake (From the Everett Herald) ‘The announcement the latter part of last ‘eek that an @greement had been reached whereby the Lansing-Ishii it of 1917 between the United States and Japan was to @nnulled will create general satisfaction among all who pay any attention to the diplomatic problems of the Far East. This agreement, altho there was dis- te over its meaning, see d to recognize that Japan “special interests” and therefore seemed to be an indirect sanction of the special demands that Ja- had made upon China, demands which the Chinese bitterly resented, but to which they had been forced to acquiesce. This Lansing agreement was made secretly and the world knew nothing of it until it was announced at Tokyo. Just what was back of it has not been made @lear, It was entered into during the war period when } Many strange things were done for reasons that in some pases are obscure. But, at any rate, it is a good thing to have this questionable pact thrown overboard. As Wash- ington views the situation it has been replaced by the @greement entered into at Washington by all the Pacific Ws whereby equa! treatment is assured all. This is tly to be preferred over any recognition of “special terests” anywhere. SHE HAD A COLD persuaded to mount a bucking back before he was off again ever the horse's head. “What's the matter?” asked the old-timer who picked him up. WWhy, she bucked,” said the tenderfoot, “Bucked!" returned the other, “Bucked, go on! Judge, eens. ‘The extra woman in “Twogun” BI Hart's affairs declares, “I was Falsed with puritanical ideas, which seems funny to me now.” The lady Ts Fight about tho amusement part of it, It's enough make the old Puritan fathers, themselves, laugh. But Bill is doing no snickering She only coughed.”"— Married men whose wives can cook live longer than single men. Strange Doings in the World | We wonder how Sherlock Holmes would have gone tt solving this queer mystery: In England a family Teceiving a weekly registered letter without contents, a missing member. | The facts, Mr. Holmes, are these: Steven Cummings, Pauto tester, vanished last September from his home in ;London. A month later his wife received an envelope in his handwriting, thru the mails. Inside was some money, but no message. ‘Thereafter, week after week, Mrs. Cummings got the ‘fame thing. Never a message inside, but always money until the first of the year. | Then the envelopes began coming empty. They looked @s if they had been steamed open and their contents Cummings apparently doesn’t know that a third itty is intervening, stealing the money he is mailing. ‘is he really mailing it, Mr. Holmes? Maybe he is held pti * * * allowed to address the envelopes * * * : family, with income shut off, advertise that they fe “in terrible trouble.” queer case in today’s news comes from Italy. that the fascisti have decided to discontinue the ney formerly appropriated each year to the philolog- il society of Florence. This society has been working ars on a new Italian dictionary. And so far it has ched only the letter P. “At this rate,” a fascisti official points out, “another Years would be needed to finish the work, and by time the first part of the dictionary will have be- out of date.” wer eer Young people will be interested {n the courtship custom fs ins, solemn birds seen by Surgeon Levick when explored the Antarctic with Captain Scott, evick says that the male bird looks the ladies over un- ‘he makes his choiee, then carries a pebble and depos- it at her feet. This is his proposal. Rival males at- tk him as soon as he drops the pebble, If he whips m, the lady is his, see these three cases—mystery letter, futile dic- and strange bird courtship. They are not im- compared with major world events. But they have their own kind of importance, in that they onter- help us relax from headache problems. | Perhaps if a gardener tried to ralse weeds some vegetables would come : rowd them out, Toud necktie makes almost as much nolse as squeaky shoes, The Phone Rate Decision The décision of the state board of public works deny- g the telephone companies permission to boost rates is like a dasli of cold water where luke-warm soapsuds expected. Right up to the minute before the board @ public its decision and disclosed the fact that two @ members opposed the rate boost and one held ly for it, it was believed that some sort of an in- e would be granted. At least one member of tho d predicted a raise. ‘ Majority of the board decided that: The phone companies are paying too much to the mt Eastern corporation for service. pee phone companies are charging off to much to preciation. Of course the phone companies may now appeal to the u judges may reverse the board an: 4 boost. That remains to be seen, an y the telephone companies the only public utilities ng too much to Eastern parent companies and charg- ing off too much for depreciation? Probably not. Tha ‘State board has the men to find out. And it should im- diately investigate. It may find that some of the i ities can and should reduce their present rates, dokinny Mitchell, son in-law of Stotesbury, richest man In Pennsylvania, As th the bosom of his wit’s family, explaining what he knew about the Murdered model, Dorothy King. We'll pay as much as 20 cents the word f Father-In-law Stotesbury's remarks, Wheso presidential booms you hear are ca pd by log-rolling. More Money for Building Labor No strike or lockout, it appears, will mark the increase tt | wages for the building trades crafts in Seattle and ~| Tacoma. ‘ He _ Folks who are inclined to object to the raise in pay f | | the building trades should take this fact into oonalties: )}tion: The average workman in the building lines gets seven months of work a year in normal times, In times he gets less. So if he gets $8 a day and can work seven months out of a year, he isn’t earning as uch in the year as the full-time worker on a consider- lower scale. th the building trades and the employers ar ‘thanked for handling this wage business witout only J Maybe some archacologist could dig up our last summer's straw hat id errpeny or ‘Leninds @ great man, Lenin has eight doctors and gots well, * aD > The Tragedy of a Great Woman NE tragedy of Sarah Bernhardt is that she lived For years before her death the world was awaiting it with morbid eagerne and tho the shallg@west of us felt that a gap had been torn in the world of mimes which could hardly be filled, the news came, nevertheless, almost as a relief. The pathetic fact was that she could not, like King Charles the Second of England, remark at the end with a smile that she “had been an unconscionably long time dying.” On the contrary, she clung to life with desperate eagerness, longing to get back to the tawdry are lights of the cinematographers which had replaced the gentle footlights of the capitals. For the world is seldom constant toward its enter- tainers and the fate of the “divine Sarah” was almost that of “the important Richard.” And as the powerful and wealthy of England fol- lowed the bier of the incomparable gesturer, Sheridan, the rulers and diplomats of France formed a pompous cortege behind the hearse of Mme. Bern- hardt, the wealthiest of them scarcely twinged by shame at the thought of the fate of the “divine trage- dienne,.” too long. [OR nearly 50 years Europe and America thrilled to the name of Sarah, kings sought her hand, but when she returned to her home, the gift of an emperor, she saw the leering sets and directors de nding that she finish her picture before death called and wasted their capital. In 1900 Sarah Bernhardt, whose fame as Camille overshadowed all living actresses, reached the pinnaclo of her art. She disregarded her 565 years and played L’Aiglon, the Eaglet, Rostand’s portrait of the young son of Napoleon the Great. The world was stilled by the news. Such acclamation followed as no actress before or since has known. It was little more than 10 years later that Mme. Bernhardt lost one leg and, pressed by creditors and a pathetic refusal to admit her decline, she played in sedentary roles such as “La Gloire,” in which she sat thru the whole performance. Then came her serious illness {n 1917, In which the world hourly expected news of her death, but the jestor of the grinning skull refused even that con- cession to the dramatic sense of men. She recovered and lived on the credit of her past until the pitiful end in the motion picture studio palace on the Boule- vard Poreire, LETTERS 2 LDITOR The Pasteurization Plan Editor The Star In reply to George W. Wilso article recently, entitled “Defon Pastourtzation Method,” I will say 1| | did not wish to start any personal | | argument, but rather votced the opin fon of many citizens who prefer to } use milk untreated. | an raw Thin ts In keeping with | Mr, Wilson says he feels it his| your surg that [ visit @ dairy duty to take issue with some of my | Suffice to all I know of nai statements {n my former letter to} milk on was not Dr, Read, Perhaps this ts because | a small Western “distributing” pl hin bread and butter ts coming out| After Mr. Wilson reminds us of t of the milk business. More property| many inspec hb cattle an speaking, out of the pasteurized milk | milk get by state and city employes ens he remt r get “germed™ in the following lan guage 1” ote treating milk haa no po upon same, can you exp Junt why, when pasteurized milk does ur, It comes out of the bottle A melted auto tube? And emelis h the same You aay the pas teurlzed p uct is exactly the same ons wh He asks whether or not I have any s for making the statement | large part of the milk sold {n | Seattle in not perfectly pasteurized | I certainly have or I should not have 0 are carclens ¥: o testa in a erinarian: making nd if cows are ¢ tested once 4 year effect | | made the statement, and it will be | the easiest kind of thing to prove | when the time comes. Mr. W | naively remarks that he would ha me know that the state and city both employ inspectora, ote. There ts no news here, Mr, W., as we have moat | |and market {nspectors, too, and yet | short weights and measnres are| | found almost dally, and “Freezum”| is used on meata. Mr. W. need not have used space! to elaborate on the pasteurization Proceas, since I suspect I knew this! prior to Mr. W, entering the milk| business, Mr. Wilson, tf, as you any,! EAltor The Star: Replying to your editorial ques tion, “Were they living today, would Abraham Lincoln and Daniel Wed- ster be in prison for their Independent thoughts questioning the recent | war?” I would like to suggest a nega tive answer, Borah to tho contrary | notwithstanding, | Why? | Becauno I note that tt was the pot ‘ey of the government, thru {ta do partment of justice, to put in jail and keep in jail only those who were poor and friendless, Daniel Wobst was nelther, Lincoln was poor, but not quite friendieas. There were many people who quos. tioned the recent war and were not| Jailed, Rose Pastor Stokes becauss | sho had a rich husband, never spent a day in jail. Her original arrest and prosecution were daciared by the department of justice to have been a| “mistake.” Former United Staten | Senator Pettigrew repeated all tho how can we guarantee the raw prod uct be free from tubercular germs?” Search ma, George, Perhaps we ought to discharge our Inspecto and employ a “chemist” from a milk distributin plant union, let we may, if Dr J some “ expect to force over thin b some pasteurts g to get n a plants are mighty t landing. Better let sleeping dogs tie. W. FN, No, They Wouldn’t Be in Jail things Debs had said about the war, and defied the government to put him in jail Oswald Garrison vil. lard eald as much as ‘any LW, W. now In Leavenworth, but was never disturbed, He is a millionaire and owner of a great independent organ No, Mr. would not Editor; Daniel Wobster have gone to jail for free npeech, any more than Sam uel Untermeyer would today, That ts part of the contemptible wrongness of keoping the 63 “politi cals” In prison. They are there be | cause they are poor and, for tho most | part, friendlows, Being I. W. W's even Sam Gormpers' aristocracy of labor is phariaaical toward them Does Charles W. Morne go to jail Do you know of any man or woman worth $100,000 now In jail, or who haw boen sent to jail for even a short term? No, Mr, Editor. Free speech, like whisky, ls something the poor can no longer afford. G.G Dear Folks: In the rush and the hurry and press, there's often a bothersome away, and boys getting “copy” LETTER V RIDGE MANN FROM wrangle of getting the paper to tangle that nearly approaches a mess, With news coming over the wires, and typewriters clicking by quires, it's quite a confusing array, I think of the bustle diurnal, and here Is a fact that I cite: Not all of tho brains of the Journal belong to the follows who write. bi Wo hurry away with our copy, and send It along to be wat; at times it 1# ragged and sloppy—but typonettern take what they got, They way they aro terrible swearern; if #0, I don't blame them « bit—they straighten our clerical errora, supplying the worda we omit, Their vigilanee must bo eternal; and that Im tha reanon I cite: Not all of the brains of the journal belong to the follows whe write, Of course, It In true that they often make glaring mistakes of thelr own; tho rush and the worry would noften a head that tq noarly all bono, At times when they sot up my letter they ball up my rhythm and rhyme—a 10-year-old ehild could do better on just an oscasionnl time, But when the confuston's Infernal, the paper will show 4s again—that much of the brainy of the Journal belong to the typesetting men! hitch lili ect ie IF HENRY KEEPS IT e | David Starr Jordan | Editor The Star; Dr, Jordan were a mob or an Intel As a Stanford graduate and a] tectual poseur your familiarity might rmer student of David Starr Jor-| be nearly justified, but inasmuch a» n, L must protest agatnet your! he ts one of the most human and un etlot unfair editorial of | affected scholars America has ever “The Particulars, | produced, your filppancy ts pathetic- | | ally misplaced. | In the first place, you tse the! In the second place, you quote two cheap and offensive trick of calling | disconnected sentences from Dr. Jor ¢minent man by his given name,|dap's recent address, and proceed te 4 later by the title, “Brother,” with | an assumption that they are com ite belittling connotation. I ask you,| plete and unsupported statements as between men, who Invested you | On what co: n of fairness do with the privilege of slapping muth @/ you base such an action? Do you a ished person on the back? If|mean to inatnuate to your readers UP VESDAY, AP’ NEW ROSES FOR LITTLE CHEEKS RE your children pale und th weak are lang * tulld them up for the hot summer with Gude’s Pepto. ite gan. It will help them put an « id, plowing flesh, bring back the roses 14 their cheeks, the brightness to thei eyes, und the health, vigor and vivacity which “spring fever” have taken away, de's, 1928 ns have cflective 4, as you preter, Gude's Pepto-Mangan Tonic and Blood Enrichep plates. 360 and 0 everywhere. calling him “Chriw" in your most er, and tn of the earth. you to realize the detri mental effect of such edit the general public, the mi I ask intelligence and as | cation is difficult enough without the that Dr, Jordan has no explicit phil- osophy, or that he is a shoddy think- er? Have you read his various pub- a? If you had you would bot be capable of such a sophomoric Hahed we You take exception to his statement that the world Is in need of a new you imply that religion should not keep abreast of civilization. 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