The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 25, 1923, Page 6

} 4 i — PAGE 6 star tftce, Mona Canadian Pa Judicial Abuse of Prisoners Tt has come to be a customary, if not popular, practice courts to visit abuse upon persons called to bar for one lense or another. From the vantage point of the en hed bench, they very often—too often—send forth ipon the helpless persons before them a flood of anath- ima that they would not dare to utter elsewhere than in a carefully-guarded court. Such abuse of power was employed in the libel case of earl Magee, the editor in New Mexico who is battling for Pm clean judiciary as well as free speech and a free press he trial judge, plainly showing his venom, denounced @ editor at length as a greater menace than a thief is denunciation was entirely the judge’s personal view had no relationship with the charge or evidence in the Where do judges find authority for this sort of action? “By what right do they assume to administer any punish fent—and personal abuse is punishment—beyond that ; tinctly and definitely fixed by law? # iH They have no such authority, no such right. They efully abuse the dignity and power of the high places fthey occupy when they stoop to personal and vindictive Mattacks on those unfortunates haled before them, More than that, they have resort to the height of cowardice hen, securely protected and hedged as the judicial bench jplways is, they launch assaults on those who, because of Pmhe grip of the red-eyed law, are helpless and dumb. = There is nothing anywhere, in any law, that authorizes judge of any station to go one jot or tittle beyond that '§ provisions. He may have his personal like or dis- for a prisoner, he may personally approve or disap- we of the prisoner’s conduct and characteristics, but has no right whatever to intrude those personal views 1 the adjudication of a case he is trying. He breeds mtempt when he does so. PITY POOR M (Editorial in The W Citizen) have been asked to do something for men—or at least to try. We told that the remody for a great ovil from which they suffer im women’s hands, and that any woman who has access to ‘of her sisters and at the same time turns a deaf ear @f her own men’s woe, is hard hearted. That woe is the bondage of warm for men summer; stiff collars such as we woulda’ wear in @ead of winter—and, for relief, soft clinging ones that are worse ‘our worst for a decade; close-fitting encasements for their legs; of a weight, at the lightest (except for the exceptional palm beach that would serve us nicely for spring or fall wrap. Tho imprison. ‘of the corset by no means offsets these horrors. For one thing, it by any means always present, and for another it doesn't apply so ly to the person. there are men’s stern conventions—that hablt of keeping coats Save in the informality of regular office hours or at home, So much the poor creatures achieved for themselves; but how far from they are in claiming their obvious privileges. How Iktle provoca- sends the average man scuttling into bis coat, with what pitiful t his braver brother stays out of his! DAnd now one of the sex says that # is up to us women—that the ite we collectively tell them they may come out of bondage, they'll We doubt whether it is as easy as that—they have probably sold es thoroly on the idea of their strange clothes, so that they resist. And they are so deeply conventional. But if there fs any ty that the power to effect this deliverance is in our hands—It » one man we quote is perhaps a prophet—well, we can't tako the Sponsibility of silence. Mother Hubbard and the Banks he plan to have a commission of experts decide how ch Germany can pay on reparations seems about to out. he suggestion comes from London that J. Pierpont ran and other international bankers should be on the mmission. P iit should not be left to bankers to say how much Ger- my can pay. They are interested parties. — : ‘The proper expert is the cold, weighing kind, like the m, searching, United States-bank examiner, who goes pund adding up figures and makes his report, let the hier turn out an embezzler or not as he may. His not make a good casé or a bad one for the bank. His sim- pls to find out its exact standing. ® This the banker could not do for Germany. The ideal ig, from an international banker’s point of view, uld be to see the whole reparations debt wiped off the and let Germany go scot-free. For Germany, you see, is potentially the most promis- customer in the world today from the money-lender’s ndpoint. The only obstacle is reparations. A loan feeds sesurity and if all the security goes to back rep- rations aims, there would be none ieft for loans. TLike Old Mother Hubbard, when the international banker got there, the German cupboard would be bare. Phere’d be nothing and he'd get it. Work out your own equation. The smaller the amount many is let off with, the larger her borrowing ca- acity will be and the more the Wall Streets of tlie world all prosper. Indeed, banks would lose nothing if all the war debts of he world were wiped out. The people own the bonds. Whe people would be the losers. The only thing the banks to do with bonds is to handle them at a profit, just a department store handles pots and pans. They should have real experts, experts who have noth- personal to gain and with only the peace of the world serve, to tackle Germany’s ability to pay. he ear aa —— 3 ‘The world gets faster. A man can get married In two minutes or himself to death in one. 4 SS EE aH ‘The first time a man slaps a nelghbor's child 1s always the last time, ‘earing old clothes is all right if you know you don't have to. What this country needs is a law against men wearing coats, All Over a Single Penny Chicago has a $10,000 suit for damages, resulting from | a dispute over a penny. Passenger entered a street car, got ready to pay the 7 cents fare. He dropped a penny. Conductor picked it up. Passenger threw 6 cents in the fare box. Conductor called to him to come back and de- it the other cent. He told the conductor to do it, “Against the rules, said conductor. Dispute followed. Passenger claims the conductor ily threw the penny on the floor and told him to drop in the box or get off. Passenger got off, but decided he had experienced $10,000 worth of mental suffering d humiliation. Ts it any wonder our courts are clogged and slow mov- when disputes such as this can take the courts’ val- ble time and force the more important cases to wait? ‘Keep your temper. Alabama man broke his arm hitting a fly, Nature cares for animals. ¥ | Next to home, the worst place on earth to be Js away. never seo a goldfish fanning, we start a campaign for men's emancipation? j it you must cuss the hoss be sure he isn't around, erybody in the movies seems to be a star, ‘ " THE SEA HELL HAVE TO yu SCRATCH FOR HIMSELF SrA Dok Jor this inf Dealers Window Books in Many Languages BY BASSETT DIGBY From the Manchester y to an astonishing ox ir at books, It is not a mere relative Hteracy So far as I have bee see, Chi Mlustrations, sok are once: line page, again. always in ipying one now and and oc included Japan ts producing her books than we have ‘a h on the Huropear there are | mode showing ver Jerable tle merit In cove tration, and typograph in Japan has book r nome years now lots of them. learn play Japan has had to has } 60 years. A | the mag eritage of In eyes and cara, the y they reson! as struck by t trast with magazineless ( In Japan I found » st pecullar books They nell peues—cat seeds and pl stamps and fu v hate a bedding, cata ¢ them, ar eren al spa in the dent Greece. but uria I noticed the selling of book ta combined with the shoes n Chinese books, or the gene run nothing that little bone | ing ) a pocket. The cam by a cloth to Japan, y that slides is a Japanese t ix attached dan, g thong of book insl¢ more sectio’ nix, t in pairs, and | t top and bot- two pages at SCIENCE Animals Mis-Named. Groundhog Not Hog. Prairie Dog Not Dog. Elk Really a Deer. | In naming our birds and animals |“*¥ For a reading. I told her somethi oxen hernelf aablo stot y was palmt Reading palms ts a spec Of mine | Sho extended her hand to me on | |we have made some awful "breaks," | | A groundhog is no hog at all, but a burrowing rodent rat, Same for |‘? her, the prairie dog. This eociable ttle | And it wna not money or a check fellow doesn't resemble a dog in any| Tt aid. [way. Ho is just plain rat Tho} It waa 30 days tn jalt Jcarfbou is the common American | i ma |reindeer, Our elk is not an elk at all, but wapiti deer. The truo elk is| |}a European animal, quite different | from ours. The nighthawk is not a hawk at all, but a member of the whip-poor-will family. The sea swal low is the common tern, | black woodcock Is no pileated woodpec many misnomers, was comin Champion Mucker a 50-Year-Old Miner BUTTE, Mont, July 26— if | year-old Bob Hossfield is the wortd {champion mucker today. Hoasfield broke the world’s record at Columbia gard terday when hi | of ore into a car | onda, clipping 5b nec The male wren does not work at| mark sot by Ed Timmon nest building. The female “carries |The event waa n featur the hod," but she won't do it uniess | ers’ tleld day celebration her gentleman friend sings to her | field was loudly while she toils. As long as ho sings | victory. |she will earry str and often she! Despite his age, Hossfield ts a enough material to build | sturdy a miner as works in the loca dozens of nests, where only one {s|fields. He makes $14 dally, contract needed, ing in the copper mining district. An there | last year of the min 4 How applauded for hi | gathers LETER FROM VRiIDGL MANN July 25, 1928. Mr. W. B. McCurdy, Metropolitan Theater, Dear Mac I hear you took an Eastern trip, a month or two ago, and went around to hunt a tip on where to pick a show. The trip was plainty worth the price, for this is clearly true: You picked a winner in “The Spice of 1922." On Monday night I took the wife, and wwent to see the play. “Vartety’s the spice of life," 19 what I heard them say. And then the show began to swing, without a moment's loos, to this and that and everything a show could put across, A lot of sense, a lot of fun, a tot of acenes to view all the 31 waa worth the money, too. vealed waa clever, new and pat, Field,” to “Casey at the Bat,’ 7 silly, crazy, funny Swede, El Brendel—he'a a beaut, who twore two pants because, indeed, “It ban a two-pant auit.* In all the world of funny men, he truly takes the card—I really can’t remem- ber when I ever laughed aa hard? But every one in all the cast was really fuat aa good; they did as well, from firat to last, aa human beings could. They made tt quite the king of shows; they gave ua charming scenes; and—take tt from a@ bird who knows—the awelleat bunch of queenal and each of For every acene the show re- from Nights of “TAllies of the (England) Guardian foui tome: teen con! fou ¢ them with numbers of ting back into the nix hundreds, and some even a In one of them years ago’ a lot of y low prices. 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