The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 7, 1923, Page 8

The Seattle Star by The Mtar Publishing Co Phone Main 0600. Ipatarprise’ Association and U Press Service, By mail, out of mth; 2 mentha $1.60; € months, $5.00; year, 1000, BF am tatives, Ban Frenctoce of- joel & rock bidg.; . Tribune dide.| New Tork effies, Pecific bidg.: Contempt of Court On February 1920, the supreme court of the Dis- itriet of Columbia, in a proceeding under the Sherman ti-trust law, perpetualiy enjoined certain corporations and individuals, among them Armour & Co. and Morris & Co., “from jointly or severally * * * combining = * * with each other * * to monopolize any 5 of such (meat packer’s) trade or commerce.” ‘That court decree has not been modified. . | Now Morris & Co. and Armour & Co, have “merged.” two concerns are combined, Armour & Co, monop- all of Morris & Co.'s trade and commerce. int that a violation of the court decree? Isn't it a con- of court? : Tt is the duty of the United States department of jus- ice to enforce decrees obtained by it and to seek punish- ‘ment for contempt. | It is the duty of the federal trade commission to ex- and report how any final decree under the anti- laws is being carried out and to report its findings 4) / to the attorney general and to the public, in its discretion. | The attorney general has been quite vocal about the en- Torcement of court orders. ©) The federal trade commission has quite a record for Vigilance in the public service. Well? the tax other states, Furthermore, it knew conditions were died immediate remedies, But practically nothing was done to give taxpayers any substantial-relief, and the really constructive advanced to help thelr position were cither voted down or the governor, The leaders in both houses have nothing to be in the record of the 1923 legislature. They only demonstrated block progress rather than ability to do the work necessary, ‘There is no use crying over spilled milk, but we must remember the men have left the taxpayers without help. Once mere has been illustrated Necessity of sending to our legislature men of vision broad enough to the state as a whole and to act for the best interests of all, men of ctive ability, not log-rolling politicians. We must look forward to and Novernter of 1924 and prepare then to pat into office more unselfish, efficient and publicspirited men.—Voters’ Information Bulletin. “On tLe island of Formosa 4,300 houses burned, but It Is warm enough to flee scantily clad. crumbs in bed make us almost as mad as coffee grounds in Fee rece a broom factory in Pittsburg. : Aboard the Sucker List ‘One hundred thousand dollars a day is swindled out of y-marks and boobs on the great American sucker list, scording’ to an estimate of the United States department justic, which is making an investigation of fake oil ik tricks engineered from Texas. | Not $100,000 a month, or week, mind you, but 100,000 har ned berries a day fall into the hands of the ing-for-something promoters. ticles repeatedly published in The Star have proved ond a doubt that the loss sustained annually by the easy-marks of the country is a perfectly astound- ral agents are now concentrating their attention the nest of fake stock promoters down in Texas, they specialize in brilliant promises of easy riches oil wells, which are never dug, or which were dry they fell into the hands of the swindlers. The authorities promise to clean out this nest of ut the curious aspect of this great American sucker is the way the boobs shell out their earnings year ‘year to strange promoters lacking credentials mere- pon the promise of fabulous rewards, which anybody @ boob knows the promoter would keep for himself, he had anything. You'd think the suckers would earn better, wouldn't you. But they don’t, and the num- “of names on the sucker list grows each year. A boob on the sucker list is an awful thing! man was fined $50 for trying to kiss his stenographer, $ would report we could pay our national debt. destrored six buildings at Camp Lee. Is this an official meve to ty the vets who have received no bonus? If all the men married the same nurse In New Jersey. They both need one. movie kiss is only « few feet long unless {t is in the audience. Would You License Radio Sets? ery owner of a radio receiving set should pay a tax or of, say, $5, to cover the cost of broadcasting con- and to cornpensate music publishers and song writers work is used. You don’t agree. Neither does The , The suggestion comes from J. C. Rosenthal, repre- ting the music industry, which finds its income reduced radio. The sales of sheet music and phonograph records are falling off heavily. osenthal would have the national government collect e tax. That would put radio in politics and ppaovanly ake the concerts low grade. The cost of radio should be by makers of radio apparatus and by organizations broadcasting stations for advertising purposes. They make better investments, Later, radio will be ed by millionaires. ever, the music industry has grounds for complaint. tenths of music broadcast by radio is said to be ine. Aas 5 Saskatchewan 15,000 muskrats were caught this season, much to 000 muskrats’ surprise and disgust. The chaste mind, like a polished plane, may admit foul thoughts with- receiving their tincture—Sterne, An Alabama couple has 22 children, _ strangers think it is « picnic. The Great of France The Great of France, who are they? Soldiers, you ould think, in a country so widely known as militaristic, och and Joffre and Clemenceau, Strange as it may seem, none of these is mentioned by 0, a leading Paris daily, in a recent discussion on the illustrious persons in the last 100 years of French Figaro names Sarah Bernhardt, artist of the + Hugo, philosopher and originator of the modern ovel, and Pasteur, pioneer in medical research and bene- actor of mankind, and says they outdistance marshalg “and prime ministers as great personuges, Dy een so every time the famlty goes out A very long jump was made by a Chicago man, who jumped bail tn and only recently landed in jail. if | _ Take awny the dross from the silver und there shall come forth _ veusel for the finer—Prov, xxv ; ip When a young lady with a comfortable partor all her own can't be w bride, she isn’t half trying. ‘But lies are breaking out all over the new dresses, reminding people of what birds of a feather do, | Quebec firemen answered a call in pajamas, Luckily, tt was a and not a false alarm, HE FEARS THE WURST : hs ATTENTION By Berton Braley ‘AN ts ever eany For the truly ol If she'll treat him Listen to him! Mearken to his Tho with boredom y: Listen to him! Man ts easy pre: And he'll nearly alw Listen to him! (Copyright, 1923, Editor The Stars As a nation we have been so busy making money that most of our piay- ing we have left out. Our national pastime ts baseball, where 18 professionals play for the | amusement — sometimes — of 11,000 citizens, So our dramatic art has become almost entirely a matter of the dol- lar, and our playing has become « matter of business to shrewd gentlo- men, who give us what they think we would like If we had the sort of mind they think we ought to have; & mythical mind, chiefly character- fazed by Its entire emptiness, Woe are changing that rapidly, and especially are the workers changing from spectators to actors, Portland, Ore., has a troupe of union players that In « few months has made more than a local reputation, and that will probably begin a tour acroas the continent to tnepire labor generally Prepare Defense in Murder Trial SAN DIEGO, Cal, April 7—~The battery of legal experts conducting the defense of Dr. Loule L. Jacobs, accused of the murder of Fritz! Mann, dancer, wae today preparing its case, When court convenes Monday, the defense will have 15 witneanos ready to take the stand, the star witness being Dr, Jacobs himself, Tho physician hopes to convince the jury, it i sald, by means of an alibi, that he was not the mys: terlous man with Fritz! at the Blue Bea cottage at La Jolla the night whe died. The prosecution has practically completed ita case, altho one or two witnesses may yet be called. She can have him at her feet What's the secret, wh Which will very subt Be he from the town or farm— ‘ANG upon his spoken word Act as the you'd never heard Such « fund of information. Still, with seeming wonder, view him Aa he babbles on and on— LD or young or great or small, For the dame who keeps him talking: Eve on Adam tried that*plan (Oh, how theroly she knew him) And it works on thodern man— LETTERS 2 EDITOR Doing Their Own Playing SCIENCE Dyeing Ancient Art. Developing in U.S. New Testing Method. Uses “Fadeometer.” meat lever woman; with acumen he charm, woo him? | Great progress ts being made by | chemists in this country in the prep. of dyes, a Gers in The aul * f immense tmpor. tance, Upon dyes and thelr allied ndustries depended many of the re sults of the world war Dyeing fs among the moat ancient of arte, It was not until 1856, how ever, that the art, aa practiced today, wan Invented, In that year the coal tar dyes were discovered by Bir Wil fam Perkin, a boy of 17 For many years the only method of testing the fastness of dye colors was by exposure to sunlight, No stand |ardization was possibile, and cloudy | weather sometimes caused faulty | tests or no tests at all, An instru ment called the “fadeometer” has Just been invented, It uses « violet ray carbon aro and enables accurate and standard teeta. former naidered conversation: ou grow wan, y for stalking, ayn fall ‘The Beattie Star) |Mayor ad Police Chief Go to Jail ROCK ISLAND, IIL, April 1.—H. | M. Shriver, mayor of Rock Istand: | Tom Cox, former chief of police, and Lawrence Pedigo today were found guilty by « jury of conspiracy to evade gambling Iawa ‘The trial was the first growing out jof a vice investigation tn the city. sy The thing of note Is that these/ digo was alleged to be chief leu. | labor troupers have produced strik-|tenant for John Looney, who fled ing and little known one-act dramas|during the investigation. Indeter- that bite into the vitale of life; the| minate sentences in prison were tm sort of thing that no American audi-| posed upon all ef the convic ence, to this time, would sit thru;|/and Cox was fined $2,000 enpecially a working-class audience. If, inatead of depending upon the Muffy, petty, maundering asininities annually offered by the New York theatrical bosses, the people, the na- tion over, formed their own local companies and produced the plays that mean something, and that are not for box office advantage chiefly, wo would begin to creep up to a con- mderably higher plane of national existence, Next will come the movie of, by! and for the people, and then indeed there will be a different aura up and down Main at. D. 8. with the new idea of producing Its own comedy and drama, ted men Tho trial Posts $1,000 Bail on Assault Charge TACOMA, April 7.—Dr. F.C. |Hufinall of Seattle was at liberty jhere today under $1,000 cash ball |following his arrest last night on Disney, of Sumner, Wash, Hufinall in accused of attacking |Mra. Disney, mother of four chil. the Tacoma hotel yoaterday. In denying the charge, he declared the woman was trying to blackmail him, Liquor Car Leaks, Town Gets Drunk! LILLE, France, April 7-—Scenes| reminiscent of the French revolution | wero enacted in the little village of| Quievre Chain, here, today when nearly everyone in town be-| came riotously drunk on quinquina, &@ French liquor, discovered leaking from a 3,000-gallon tank car, Workmen discovered the leak tn the car, which was on a@ siding. ‘Word spread thru tho village, Men, women and children came running with buckets and pans, Hundreds, rapidly intoxicated by the potent liquor, staggered thru the streets. Gondarinen arrested eight ring. leaders, but the tank car had been emptied, near methods in etion, and our cus- accorded every cour- consistent with sound busl- nese Judgment, 4% Pala on Savings Accounts Accounts Sul Cordi Peoples Savings Bank ND AVE. AND PIKE ST, Dear Folknt alwaya there to meet a bunch of And when I see them meeting near as T can estimate, the way But here's a solemn fact for ¥ bunoh, in work or play, can beat LETTER VRIDEE MANN Coach Yont of Michtgan ts here—a mighty man of fame; he tops the Western hemisphere in teaching boys the game. And every- where I've gone to eat, it doesn't matter when, Coach Yoaut was I hope ho has an appetite to match the tame he'n got; with all the meals he's had in sight, he’ Michiganders could excel in many feats—and now I know they're pretty good at slinging down the eats, And with the coach, I might remark, are all the old-time sporta; Dad Gregory and Karl 8. Stark, Hub Huebel, Bruce ©. Shorts, And Robby Robinson's around, Count Villa’s there as well; and Charlie Dvorak helps to sound the bunch's neoma that everyone 1 know has worn the Maize and Blue. to gtaduate a million boys a yeart Michigan can always boast an up-and-coming crowd, this small bouquet—with compliments of Penn! FROM EXTRACTION FREE DAILY local men, Our partial plate, which doer not cover the roof of the you have two or more tenth tf Niet'et Teeth... $5.00 4x AND .. $4,00 47 Most of our prenent patronage {9 Yeeornyaun nee, by oun early custom. éra, whone work t# till givin satinfaction, 7 mame All work guaranteed for 15 Bxamination free, ‘pia OHIO ouT natn DENTISTS ‘ns had to eat a lot. I knew that © yell, no, and neo the crowds T view, it AS the facts appear, Ann Arbor used ‘ont—-T nay It right out loud: That No college Ann Arbor's men; so please accept | | Marble Champs Will Limber| National Honor Is was tn progress more than six weeks, charge of assaulting Mra, Elizabeth |dren, in hin temporary quarters at | TS OF TIME |Put Up the FOR PRACTICE) “lag Again Up During Vacation Raturday at the playgrounds n for the week that week. Mlny lt have six ension, in mn to come—vacation Held marble champion: right m eu » they can 1 hearte’—and whole days, ickles’ — content ir re ay field are ree “practice material’ in the for the riogs and ith et cities entered In the national tournament to hold its preliminary ames and to discover its playfield Many cities of the Kast have their playfield tryouts still on jar h Bacramento, Ind, rst elimination games. cities, however, of all of us appens, was one of the hampions Cal, and In janapolia, staging thelr are ahead Aas pointed out a day Birmingham, Ala, bas al 1 ite champion Hows Bionic r BO AKO, & boy | It happens that just | Saved by Dancers new | YORK, | NEW April TA nonstop dancing record was estab Vshed here 2 Mins Muth M and Jack orld war veteran urish at « for eck a great £ 10 « tart $46 Thursday lished in Paris ot the dar of 36 min-| by the rules | ¢, however, wan a dancer | floor, it was stated hile | was absent the other danced on. | h the qualifi ere had taken ¢ ules permitted At no th t the threeminute periods were al-| lowed A band and two phonographs sur plied the mua! bandamen tired, the on and graphs when @ record was finishe were rolled other machine was started, t ie up @ keer continu rouxte ald to be a Beattle w to play in the national gamen WILL INSCRIBE PARK STATUE Plans for the placing of an inscrip. tion on the statue of former Secre tary of State William H. Seward at Volunteer park were otftlined Satur imy morning when a party of Seattle 6 leaders accompanied Julean Ar ld to the park for a view of the tatue The Inscription which will be pinced on the #tatue will be taken | from a mpeech made by Senator Sew. in 1853, It will re Pacific ocean, ite shores, its and the vast regions beyond the chief theater of the world’s great rd in congre become events ia after.” Judge Burke, Professor W. B. Henderson, A. 8. Hal C. Herbaman were in the that sccompanied Arnold here Meany party to the park Immediately following, Arnold and the party left for the 8. 8. President Grant, where a dinner wan given tn ula honor. In the afternoon he was to mpeak before the University club. St. Paul Snowfall Ties Up Traffic fT. PAUL, Minn, April 7.—The | danced for Chocolate bars, coftes, soft-bot exes and other foods the dancers. A tea wagon was placed ot were served ing the food wt each and the two picked up the they git by Alma Cummings Texan, several ina Antonio, oft days fan ago hall pours in @ To Investigate Water Projects| WASHINGTON, April 7—An in-| Ventigation of excessive overhead harges upon reclamation ler government contre projects in West wan started today by the riment intertor der Special Assistant Secretary of the Interior D. W. Davis will leave here 14 on @ tour of Inspection is three days at ea ¢ will get with | water users and farmers on irrigated h projec touch (s will projects Salt Kiver, Yuma, ma, Umatilla, § American Falla rev nite, inspect Carinba the following | Rio. Grande. wiands, Yaki- Minidoka, ofr and dam| valley, Uneom-| here and the North Piatte and the| Denver office of the reclamation| service Strawberry Mrs. Kreisler to Sail for Orient) Mra Fritz Kreisler, wife of the fi mous violin artist, is to pass thru Beattic Bunday o her way to t Orient. Mra. Kreisler was scheduled | heaviest snowfall of the year blank-|to arrive in Seattle Saturday, spend | eted the Northwest today—the 17th | the night here and then aall Sunday day of spring. morning. A change in program, | Leo PUGET SOUND STEAMER SCHEDULES SAVE MONEY Travel by Meamer TACOMA Datiy 1, 45c “BELUINGTAM, ANACOTER” Datly 16:60 p. m Fort Towneend Wall € nections and Mill Dai i HOOD CANAL POINTS Tues, Fri, 4. m. freight only NEAU WAY AND Way FORTS - 0:20 p.m BAN SUAS VATAND POTS PUGET SOUND NaviGATIONCO COLMAN DotK- FOOT Manion sr _ PHONE MAI 3995 CLUB READY TO GIVE PLAY After four months of intensive re. litan the- nights, lay go towards ed by the age Miss Harriet Calb Washin, co-ed, as ing role in the play n@ is support- ed by @ cast consisting of Miss Mary Pinch, Miss Ida Seltzick, Miss Rose Gold, Leslie Stunser, Leo Welnficld, Koeningsburg, John Lurie, Louls Kessler, Rudolph Aaronson, Dave Tipp and Eugene Stlverstone. The play is directed by Frank Price * | Giles, Jocal dramatic instructor, Women Race With Baby Carriages LONDON, April 7.—Five mothers, pushing baby buggies containing walling infants, started on a fifty mile race hers toda The contestants got running start parliament, Brighton. tous crowds, attracted by the @ spectacie, followed the con- nts through the cit away to a the house of objective is from Their un testa: Yeggs Blow Puget Sound College Safe TACOMA, April 1. — Cracksmen last night blew the safe tn the re Tall traffic was ted up an the! however, happened at the last min-|trar’s office of the College of Puget now continued. More inches fell here and morning. than nix | ute, between maldnight | Her husband will join her at/ Vancouver, and will make the trip with her. found, here, and escaped with $300 in checks and $75 In cash, it was din covered this morning. - : | The Dexter Horton National Bank . of Seattle Charter No. 9798 Overdrafts .. 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Hoffornan Dry Dock & Report of Financial Condition at Close of $10,603.796.82 4,022.66 5,072,019.79 7,097,692.48 60,000.00 2,176,337.77 61,114.50 80,055.00, 225,000.00 2,500.00 149,971.98 $25,472,510.50 $ 1,600,000.00 400,000.00 271,922.07 171,272.82 50,000.00 41,899.89 22,987,415,.72 —$$ DIRECTORS W, RR. Ivins Vice I HW, LATIMER President OH. LILLY N $25,472,510.50 Cumberland Coal Co. Pres, C,H. Lilly Co, ROH. MacMICHAR) Vice President AUS, KERRY Capltaliat H. PARSONS Vice President Wx riaorr Ww. Mm. RYED ‘loo Pres, Pacific Coast Steot Co Pres, Simpson Logging Company TH C.J. SM Proa, Central Co i M. SULLIVAN Capitaliat al Co,