The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 3, 1923, Page 6

THE SEATTLE STAR FRIDAY St eattle Star The S Franctece York effion What Is Biggest Family in State? The Ormsby quadruplets, who became nationally famous as dime museum attractions in 1902, still are livin It is said by authorities that this is the only case of all four members of a quadruplet birth surviving into ma- turity. (Do you know of any othe Their mother, Mrs. Josephine K. Ormsby, is farming at the outskirts of Chicago. She was 26 years old when she married Charles Orms- by, plumber, in 1894. Her children came as follows: S 1895—A boy. i 1896—T wins. i 1897—A girl. \ 1898—Twins. i 1899—Triplets & 1900—A boy. : 1901—Quadruplets. Fourteen children in seven years! The quadruplets : consisted of three sons and a daughter. They packed the 3 ’ dime museums for a couple of years and thereby brought $ y considerable wealth to their mother, J, Barton of mother of 20 ry The birth of a baby girl to Mrs. Ma y made her the children at the age of 4 You don’t often hear of such big families in our gen- eration. (What, by the wa: the biggest family in this State?) In grandfather's day, a family of 20 children would not have attracted much attention, for a perusal of the average family Bible will disclose that five or six chil- @ren were considered a small family in civil war times und, while offspring totaled 20 only occasionally, 12 to 17 Phildren were not at all uncommon, Big families are getting fewer as the years slip by. The mother of 20 children is almost as much of a curios- ity in 1923 as the Ormsby quadruplets were in 1901. There'd be plenty of 20-children families, however, if the economic pinch were not quite so tight, tho Lemuel R. Barton, farmer-father of the big New England family, Says he finds it as easy to take care of 20 as of 5. Proudly he points out that if every family had 20 chil- our communities would have a great mMmerease in pop- ulation. They certainly would. There are about 70,000 families in Seattle, and if each had 20 children our popu- lation would be around 1,540,000. However, we'll have that population, and more, in time. ° Cheerfulness is like money well expended in charity; the more we dis. pense of it, the greater our possession.—Victor Hugo. There is nothing keeps longer than a middling fortune, and nothing Melts away sooner than a great one—Bruyere, wld die» bachelor, I did not think I should live till akespeare. When I said I w TD were married.—s One might even say about the president's job these candidates don’t Want nothing else but. Alaska wants to be a state, but doesn’t owe enough money yet Why Folks Weary of Courts Official sanction of the disfranchising of hundreds of | Spokane county voters has been handed down by the su- Higa court, which decided in Olympia that absentee bal- ' counted in Lincoln county for Charles Myers, con- @ressional candidate, were legal. The court took no cognizance of the fact that in other counties of the Fourth congressional district such votes Were refused in accordance with the opinion of Attorney General Dunbar. Henceforth the rule is set in this state that absentees # may vote by mail at special as well as at general ejections. | The supreme court thus, in a general way, takes a broad View rather than a narrow view of the ambiguous law. Tt is quite accidental, of course, that the questioned Votes are ruled legal in a reactionary stronghold, Lincoln county, while the refusal of similar votes in a progressive community, Spokane, is passed over without comment. The whole affair illustrates afresh the failure of the courts to keep abreast of modern problems. The supreme #@ court of Washington is able to take a broad view in the tase of Myers’ ten votes, but is compelled by precedent to | take a narrow view in the case of Corkery’s hundreds! | Myers’ ten were legal; Corkery’s hundreds also would ‘have been legal, but altho they were wrongfully withheld from the ballot box, it is too late now to do anything | about it! | That is the law as interpreted. 7 : Is there any wonder that the American people are be- coming weary of the “tradition” and “precedent” that "prevents the law from coping with today’s problems as they arise today? Is there any wonder that the demand | arises for fewer laws instead of more laws, for plain laws instead of puzzling laws, for laws interpreted in the light of human justice rather than legal tradition? Maybe Europe could arrest her statesmen for disturbing the peace. Texas is fighting boll weevils with al rplanes, much to the surprise the boll weevils. lee ee Former senator is being sued for breach 0! would think, by voters. { promise, but not, as one” | Every day now more trouble is being mixed in the Rubr basin. United States uses 40 tons of postage stamps a week. Why don’t you People pay your bills? y yor Autoists Must Heed Rules It is a timely warning that the police chief has just is- sued to autoists regarding the crossing of street inters ec tions. When two cars approach an intersection at a 90-degree angle, the one on the other’s right hand has the right-of- | way. This is the city ordinance and it also common practice generally. Lately the rule has been frequently disregarded in Seattle. From now on, the police chief Warns, it is to be enforced, There is another traffic rule that also should be em- phasized. That is the regulation requiring an autoist whose car has been standing at the curb to give some Plain signal, by the holding out of his arm or otherwise, when he is about to turn into the street, This precau- | tion, too, has been flagrantly overlooked on Seattle streets Tately. _ More common sense and sanity must be enforced on the Part of drivers. The auto club has a big field of useful- hess in the way of educating motorists to a knowledge of and an observance of the rules of the road. Dealers ought to make it one of the sidelines of their business to help in the same program. And the traffic division of the police ) department should sce that the ordinance is enforced to the letter. MacMillan says he will stay in the Arctic bot of corned beef. SJ months, which is an awful ia nf |) Monday was washday once. Now it is the day we get the lst of killed i and injured. y eT Some Jung husbands are working. Others are making their homes with the parents of the bride. The Library Budget BY JACK HALL The city council, in its effort to hold taxes down, has | brary borrowers haw increased 145 per cent, the li refused the public library an additional tenth of 4 mill, | brary's book fund is 30 por cent Mer than in 1914. | 1 am sorry, and I believe if the people had a vote on BOOK FUND | the question the counell would be reversed. | 1914 5 1920 $30,000 It probably ts too late to be effective this year, but tn | 1916 00 192 24,000 | order that voters may understand the situation and | 1918 00 1923 24,000 make thelr views known next summer, I wish to cite POINT NO. 5 nine points on the present budget Numbér of Employes—The brary now has 11 fowe altho there are 2,000 employes than in 19: ‘ Tho number of assistants is now iatered borrowers not sufficient to give prompt and efficient service POLYT NO. 6 Balaries—The average Salary of all brary employes, POINT NO. 1 The library asked $291,080.40 for 1924 amount would require the same levy namely, 1.2 mills, In 19 1923 the tax levy was To raine this an for 1921 and 1 mill | | | The lbrary’s appropriation has been decreased $39. excluding en ers and janitors, but including al’ de 659.95 since 1921 partment heads, branch librarians, and all the higher . aid positions, ts onth Apprepriation, Tax Levy paid positions, in $108 a mon 1921 Pra 1.1 mills College graduates with Ibrary school training start 1922 ¥ 1.0 mills at $100 a month, Teachers with the «ame amount of | 1923 1.0 mills training start in the Seattle public schools at $120 a | Requested for 19: 1.1 mills month, Formerly the salary scale * of $10 a month until $130 was reached provided for annual in The POINT } Beattle public The high standing of th brary is se have wince been reduced to $5 a month and | shown in many ways: It ranks second among the been impoasible in many cases to make even | large cities in clreulation per capita; the spirit of | pop ala 2 | service among Ite employes is the subject of frequent POINT NO. 7 comment; {ts branch lbrary bulidings and plans of these buildings are and favorable are considered models, The American Lib | ie propriation of $1 per capita necessary for adequate in much demand elsewhere; Its Nbrarian has just been | Thy service, Beatle 18. mt i ee conte elected president of the American Library polation: | aorticnd spende 90% cen S iante Chae | in Seattle stood 11th among the cities of tho | Jand $1.07, this Beattle capita. Boston 89 conta budget for t requested in mr 1924 is only 85% cents per United States tn the number of books circulated; in population and 11th in book etrculation. POINT NO. 3 Its standing and Its service cannot be maintained | without funds. For two years Its funds have been de eased and the of the Mbrary growing. There 000 more registered brary borrowers than but the lib is xpending $6,000 | than it spent th Instead of a former of 15 por cent in the number of books lent was only 1% per cent in 1922, ‘The year 1923 an actual loss. POINT NO. 8 Newspaper acco: have recently #aid that the elt charter limits the library tax to 1 mill. This is not true. The charter, article XIV, section 1, provides that the Mbrary fund shall re uch annual tax | the city councli may provide.” We had a 11 levy in 1921 use 10th mil! will show | gain POINT NO. 9 is an economical agency for edugation Tho attitude of the voters towards education was shown in the recent election when they authorized an increase of 3 mills in the school levy. 1 believe they are Just as rendy to support the public brary The lbrary POINT NO. 4 | Reduction in Book Fund—Altho the cost of books has | increased 39 per cent alnce 1914 and the number of I A Nation Mourns A nation mou Forgotten, 5 The hasty word, the critle’s ery; We bow before a noble life ‘That lived to serve, and served. With stified sob and heavy heart, With eyes where tears are prone to start, Hemembered but to bring a blush For him who strove alone for 00d, w, the petty strife, Who knew us all—and understood A nation mourns! to die A nation mourns! th clearer sight we see the so! & Higher Light We nee a kindly man whore goal Was seeking only Truth and Right A nation mourns! That ever sougt A nation mourns The voice of Factions petty fray Submerged beneath a solemn hush, its tones have passed away, With welling heart we sadly bow In com on grief; for now-—ah, now In atilled A pation mourns’ A | formed by long, fine gill rakers. The | RIEDA’S OLLIES prided he by long, white stripes on ite sides C Bs ite and white dots between the stripes. | Air Gliders. Contest at Berkeley. Will Be International. Being sharks, however, they are ai | tri jess as tho they belonged to| If upon tion, Yot robbed other women of theirs. | ary association considers an ap. “Harding Is Dead” AUGUST 3, FORTY STRIKE AT NAVY YARD the e goV ent plier at navy BY FIELDING LEMMON t t t trike “RESIDENT HARDING is dead!” was the tragic mes-| for « dollar « 4 108 flashed to the world Thursday night from the} * it pro. presidential suite of the Palace hotel in San Francisco. ject, whi ly 260 Thousands of miles of singing telegraph wires carried the aud news to’) men employed. thousand unandas of ked, stunned persons; hundreds of thou The carp U y. They ands of ne er extras blazened the fact to news-hungry throngs; and | have been which ig in of t nds of quivering Ips passed the word on to hundreds “ ttle, the country, and the entire world, learn of the death er of President Harding Thursday night within the space of a short few ual terminal minutes after the spirit of the nation’s leader had “crowned the bar being con the navy de. ptart a) | partment t al vVeanela, SOTA 1” The piers are ately 1,606 “PRESIDENT HARDING is dead! se An excited voice of a girl breathed the message to early evening loungers in a Seatle hotel lobby. Instantly the crowd was alert, In one corner & man dropped his newspaper and jumped to his feet. He sat down again, got up and walked acrons the room, then returned to his neat | A little old woman, with silver hatr, blue eyes, « face furrowed with pleasant wrinkles, turned to where the announcement had come. Sparkling tears trickled down her cheeks and her hands trembled, “I'm so glad I saw him when he was here,” she exclaimed to her com | panion. | @,0b 9 | “T)RESIDENT HARDING is deac A small boy ran up the street and shouted the pews to a Unerof} ons waiting to get & moving picture |water by means of a fine mesh net,| AQ ND the coming of the new day brought the real realiza- | the species that Infests Wall Street. | i BROMPTON, Eng. Aug 2—In ac- | Such women should be taught a|| Date Is Oct. 15. cordance with the Instructions of | de | ae sige | Mra. Kate Lohr as xhoewas dying, no | lesson. The cheery meadow lark, aside! vooen were permitted. at her fu. Facts meant nothing in her life | from the bob white, is the mostruse ting evi-| ful of our birds. The department of Jagriculturo tolls us that of 285 meadow lark stomachs examined, 73 per cent of the contents were in. al. Until he found tncrimt “Thirty days dence Against her | | In her deak pects and 27 per cent vegetable mat: | ” | 1 had put it there ter. The insects wero ground spe: | h h | as cles, like grasshoppers, beetles and at | ROUNDHAY, Leeds, Aug. 2.—Fol- | cterpillars, Also flies, wasps and | No matter the num- | spiders were found in the stomachs. Tho vegetable matter consisted of | the secds of noxious weeds and lowing the funeral of Arthur Willey, ber, they’ reall too few in M P, who had at- vacation. Take a Kodak many jockeys, I show. Another ina paaved the rar The ine emed to melt away started in the footsteps of the two not tell. He Othera foliowed. they , “Harding ta dead.’ The streets suddenly seemed to become crowded, People moved with holiday speed, but not with holiday expressions on thelr faces, Th nation’s leader was dead, It was hard to grasp. It had come sudden, bit hard. 1 the mon gically.. First a tall man in front | Why he did so he probably could Many hurried and told others as went SSIDENT HARDING is dead!” The manager of a Seattle dance hall stopped the music long enough to cup his hands and shout the words to his patrons. Couples stopped in the middie of the fox trot, stiod facing each other, first wondering why the dance had been Interrepts!, the ring when it was going to start again, The musicians polwed awkwardly, They aid not know whether to stop| or proceed. Tho manager walked from the floor, |, maid with bright red “cupid” lips tugged viciously at a chew of gum. 816 plyoted a tos on the floor and swung her foot impatiently as the siience grew ominous. came an exclamation from some place in the roam. It broke © and started o pratile of high-pitched voices. “Why don't they go on?” was tho peevish remark of the girl with the! “cupid” lips, : | With a half guilty look the violin player swung his violin to hin shoulder | and with « swing of his body signaled to the other players to continue with | the dance. | | | | The leader of the nation had passed, but it caused Iittle riffle in this place. “he pleasure seekers had stopped for an | siant to hear the report— stopped, not to hear the report, but stopped because the music had ceased, Not a difference could be seen tn the atmosphere of the place. There was chatter everywhere, chatter about danciog, clothes, autos, persons, liquor, clgurets, everything but the great topic of the nation's executive. And the young thing with the “cupid” red lips looked up at her dancing partner from under lead-black eyelashes and smiled foolishly. Yes, sho know the president was dead. Hadn't « perfectly good dance been interrupted to tell about it? “pe ESIDENT HARDING is dead!” 4 With the penetrating power of. the radio telegraph waves the message went to the homes of the city. A city of | watchers, watchers who had been noting with infinite care each bulletin that came from the presidnt’s bedside, was turned into a city of mourners. One moment Harding was the president who had so recently visited the city; the next Instant he was a memory fn the minds of the thousands here who had seen him, heard him, and perhang shook his hand. The news came like the fog bank that engulfs the city and leaves it In m stato of awful stillness. Friends and enemies of the great man, alfke, spoke with reverence of him. Personalities were forgotten; the supreme representative of the world's | greatest nation had passed into the “great beyond.” ‘ oe of the moment, the death | | } | tion of what the great tragedy means to the nation. | whale shark is beautifully markea| BUt the telling blow was the first shock, when Seatle, the | jnation and the world heard: “President Harding is dead!” feet in length Congressman Found Bankrupt by Court WASHINGTON, Aug. 2.—Repre. sentative William Francis James, Michigan, todaf was declared in, voluntarily bankrupt In rict eu. preme court Edwin Movers, George C, Page and Charles ¥, Newman are creditors for sum# ranging from $60 Oto $1,500. Jumes admits his debts but objected to the @ricsion on the ground that he ig @ evident of Hancock, Michigun, Advertise that odd plece of furnt. ture, You.¢am sell it and get some mare Useful. Main 0600. lephone. 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