The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 6, 1923, Page 8

PAGE 8 The Seattle Star Published Daily by The Star Publishing Oo, 180T Seventh’ Ave, Phone vapaper Be lation and United Press Bery athe $1.40, € months $2.08, year ransteee n * San New York offies, Boston And This From Real Life No moral adorns this tale, It is but a cross-section of real life that reveals a moving picture of one girl's faith- fulness, even against the righteous demands of justice and her heart. Several years ago, M Christianson lay dying in Bitely, Mich. Her mind, even in the shadows, was clear, and it turned, motherlike, to the welfare of the little fam- ily after her power for care and guidance had passed forever. She was to leave behind her daughter, Anna, her son, Peter, and her adopted son, Leo Walters, She ealled Anna to her bedside and exacted from the grieving girl a promise that she would care for and protect the adopted boy. Peter could care for himself. Then she di Tremont Bidg A year later, Leo Walters, disregarding the girl's guid- ance and influence for good, stabbed a man to death in a drunken brawl, There was no doubt about his guilt, Anna knew he had sinned grievously. But, written in- delibly across her mind, was her promise to her dying mother—the promise that she would care for and protect the boy. As between her knowledge of Leo's fatal act and her sacred promise, what should she, must she, do? Out of her mental struggle came the decision to keep faith with her mother, even tho her heart break in the doing of it. She employed lawyers for Leo. She sat with him in court, day by day, and fought grimly, loyally, for his life. She won a partial victory, for Leo was only convicted of Manslaughter. There was more she must do, however. She secured Leo's freedom on bail and carried his case to ‘the supreme court. Waiting the latter's action, she Watched over, mothered and shielded the wayward boy. A few days ago, the supreme court gave its decision ‘that Leo had been fairly tried and righteously convicted, He must go to prison. Anna had done her best. She had made a heart-break- ing fight. She had kept faith with the mother who had Bone away. The end of her obligation was now come. Alone and lonesome, she must go her way while the years and the hurts bowed her down. - But that is not all of the story—not quite. The man Whom Leo Walters stabbed to death was his foster-broth- er, the son of his benefactor, and Anna's own and only blood-brother, Peter Christianson. Those passing on the liquor rulings for ships seem to be making about 3% knots an hour. Californian woman received $100,000 for her stolen hubby, who may not have been worth « dime, Maybe an Ohio man who beat his wife was mad because he has not heen mentioned for president. Professor Moulton of Columbia says a baby is 83 per cent water, and We say nothing. Is Marriage a—What? The San Francisco News has discovered one woman ‘who ought to know whether marriage js a failure, or not. THE SEATT LE STAR a Dollar Buys More‘n Enough -) DER BUYING Power UF DER DOLLAR LETTERS 2 EDITOR The Telephone Franchise Editor The Star try May rest agsured that their In view of the public sentiment} action on this question will be prevailing in our city at thin time, | closely watehed, and thelr argument jand for nome time past, against the| abd vote used for or against them telephone company, it may be an| when they come up for reelection J opportune time to warn some of our| The peo Mt certainly be am. olty fr ply informed election and eration to the the telephone enw ample consid: time interest on their prote: against n favor of mpany instead TAXPAYER ertain seainet franchis r ris in member does em to be ng nterest, and committee an well aa the rest of the Welfare Department's Work Editor The Star: jdepartment ts doing on one of tha |pages of the paper 7 jo not dome as al Pe Fee, Oe vearre | 1 wish to thank you for this SCIENCE Arcturus, It ls a Gigantic Star. Size Measured, Surprising Figures. M feawor heleon, | ferom lameters af sture, has found the American ted the inter measures the di ai to be 20,000,000 of T | earth's ctroumference is |roughly, 24,000 miles, A railroud |train, epeeding at 60 miles an hour without stop, would cover 1,440 miles a day o travel clear around Arc: turue at the same speed would take, | therefore, 310 years. A bullet, would re MONDAY An Eight-Hour Day for Presidents BY FRANK J, TAYLOR — Do we work our presidents 0 | hard that it kills them off? Around Wash nm, fol) i hh Vresidents at Harding and have ween them col » who Wilson men ashingtan any tim ® thousands of ordi of govern nt departmetnn king to work at § o'elock, end streaming from 4:40 to 6, With halt for lunch, that maken Thour day. And nobody works himself, except volun ‘oun vacation } offer plenty of time for reoupera nary employes with the ferent, Mr job daily president it is Harding wan on at S o'clock, Hin donk wcked with letters and documents which must have attention st of the morning t routine matter iment beads about running the gove thru, be received ens, sometimes } he dug wooing detailx mnt, That eh day dos ndredn of vis jtors: He received them right up to 1 o'clock, his luncheon hour Each person who. sees the president has something to urge ip him That requires ot ntration, It © preside pow Even Harding at the All Un peserve his meal k ‘om t ure were arely di junch without some table for this drained on business reasons strength oT MEMbER SUGGESTION president's afternoons, with the exeeption of two « Week, when he took three hours off for golf, were jammed with conferences with department ex ecutives and details of manage ment of this huge business we THE BLUFFER BY BERTON BRALEY A’ a kid he wan scared o€ the other boys, The smaller ones and the bigger, Yet he faced ‘em all with « meming polre And fought ‘em with sturdy vigor; He was neared of the gir Of coura, and stuck And got away with it well 80 nobody ever knew ND as he grew to a He was ever with fe He was scared of people, And scared of hin dail: | But somehow or other he played the gane | And steadily battled thru it; He was scared and frigh There's nobody ever knew it! tray: | call the government, has #er muecen Not infrequently the pres lishe this work this Afice, 10, nor Roo: in was on the job daysor a in bis Hbrar re plodding away The long and of that the business of moaning the United States goverument grown to that it breaks ¢ men like Mr. Harding This problem has Wen ously discussed by the es The first one eabinet that th ery be remodelled entire responsibility the government on one In ment, sume until lofe wt night " reumbered it te a jperman rearkable execut le to forget notice any his qual ta the job, Presi at ‘Taft left hin work largely tynecretarien, and th y war « his health HH when ¢ work of his lieutenants, he hington as 1a he mo at his huge ta of energy, an n that short on & has a huge job olen strong oo aati phase ¢ wh fork jptee ponsible it member wovernment politically pot out Wilson, more than executive, ran the eroment personally, complete collapse everyone knows, recovered Prewident ny reeent whole , th fof running would not fall #0 that man no other modern goverr in one man ank@ to the accun pnnibilitie nident of and The lated) we ever wi heged the United and rew Hard many not te that an » the mapped that he fell what would inaignificant ath of President attributed b o what with hin, on t State In he te the France, dent in the government ities are formal Instaice titular head of but hb confined largely to and social affaip, he has chosen his prenter and The same |p other countries in Washington.” After cabinet member, who the president finds his nen to a if the mec es do he must act as ould attend the seaxioas of con contact between them ant cong me so often, report d ress, In other governmena, the when 4 of secretaries report directly to thr e up, it would cut the pre In the United ftater dent's work in half. the president must perwnal) Another would be to add a study what his executive & new wheel to our machinery of and must be able to eplad government, creating # premier, their work to congress. Lile prime minister, who would wise, he transmits the yvishs attend to the work of running of congress to the departnens. the government, leaving the MIGHT CREATE president free to look after mat- PRIME MINISTER ters of policy, report to the peo- All this requires an enornos ple, keep contact wih them, et amount of close study ani it all of which he might tention. No recent prewdnt in an eight-hour day. act ve strength, to hin rever immediate ordinarily ailment once be secretaries in most Not a true be done s the about {t? suggestion congrens, or If you value your wate®, let Haynes repair it. Next Liberty theater —Ady. ASPIRIN ia Dt he made but |Say “Bayer” and Insist! man’s estate ar athrob; , and scared 01 Fate, ¥ Job; ntened, but just the same H biuffed his friends and he bluffed histoes With bis glorious dissembling, And nobody guessed his endless throes Of doubt and of fear and trembling: ; hal He died with brave words on his breath, |. Unidas you see fhe “Marge. 0 Scared blue, but he wouldn't show it fedpetreicc ovine eee ol He gallantly bluffed thru life and death, | Bat: Guene tae & . : > Fie geracs : dern toreador in attempting oon eo culitite, you have giv {cline one mile a second, Bhe is Mrs. Martha Evans, of the Social Service of San |™°** : [wholesome publicity you have Biv-| cuss tive yeare to go around the A Jeg . |throw the bull when I tell you that |en this department and for the nice | it Francisco, whose duty it is to arrest deserting husbands, {1 ivays regarded ‘The Siar ax our|mention you made face SSP al epee and she handles an average of 35 smashed marriages [foremont dally newspaper and my| With best wishes ' @very day in the week. | * very artes not be argued Without heat or of Public Welfare prejudice? opinion was corroborated Thursday | Yo “Out of 100 unhappy marriages,” says Mrs. Evans, |fternoon when I found a splendid) Denartm “nagging can claim about 90 victories. “The wife nags her husband because he doesn’t make enough ; she nags him because he wants to go out at night Without her; she nags him because he whistles in the Dathtub; she nags him for this thing and that thing— imything at all. “And the husband nags his wife because dinner isn’t Teady on time; he nags her because he thinks she spends too much on her clothes; he nags because he can’t find his sox. “Eternal nagging over trivial things that don’t amount to anything make an office like mi sary.” “But I’m strong for mar ;-it’s great,” adds Mrs. Evans. “And why shouldn't I think so? I’ve had a won- derful husband for eight years now. A lady who habitually sees 35 different family scraps @ day and who has had a wonderful husband for eight _ Years ought to know something definite about marriage, niow hadn’t she? asks a Los Angeles professor, “can the modern girt do? Pref., you'd be surprised. Seattle man of 76 has married again; the spirit What's in a name? Mr. Grinsavage, of Sioux City, Lowa, has just heen arrested for nelty. Several are going after the president's job like they want it and don’t mean maybe. They Call It Justice A man, sad-eyed, bent, old before his time, stepped into the sunlight from the forbidding doorway of a Maine Prison, a day or so ago. Twenty years ago, he was given @ life sentence for murder. Now it is discovered he was and is innocent. He came forth to freedom with nothing Other than a certificate of clean character from state of- ficials. The papers mention it as “an act of justice.” ' Justice! It was “Justice” that, 20 years ago, took this man’s freedom from him; that robbed him of friends, family, home and hope; that destroyed his power to earn; that seared his soul with the red blotch of crime; that buried him from the world. Now, after 20 long years of cruelty, “Justi casually admits its monstrous wrong and turns its victim loose. Out of step, out of touch, out of vision, out of friend- Bhips, out of money, out of his best years, he now faces a world grown strange, with only an inane testimonial given him by the thief that robbed and ruined him, Justice? Yes, Justice gone grievously wrong. So far wrong that nev in his ease, can it attain the right. So far wrong that even its righteous attempts are added hurts. Chayacter it may restore in a measure, money it May refund, but never can it undo the sorrow it caused or give back the precious time it ruthlessly took from in- nocence, ‘The thing seems to be spreading. Mexico will have a presidential elec: tion next year also. Cuba's population is 3,123,000, but Americans drinking there may see twice that many. What the United States needs is a new name for flappers, That $300,000,000 Surplus Uncle Sam’s budget experts explain how came that sur- prising $300,000,000 surplus of June 80, 1928. The re- ceipts were, in round numbers, $760,000,000 more than estimated, and the expenditures $360,000,000 less. To put it in other words: They took $76,000,000 more out of us than they thought they could aud spent $360,- 000,000 less of our money than they thought they would, Cheer up! Congress won't let that surplus hurt us any, on the work tho welfare |By P, Monroe #mock, Commissioner City Taxes, Blaine and Economy Editor The Star article [the allowance “Show me how,” four nwrepe re “The horses are off our streets. are’ not needed to their manure any more. pald $4.50 per day, tho most of*them aro 60 and over and have saved thelr pile. If you must keep street sweepers, why not hire the young men? The injured war veterans, who service in France?’ Such Upton Sinel ia pure we would sowork committee sald the dad fifths he st pile or In the columns of your moat in- city “Diemina teresting and valuable paper, T read the council is now budget for 1924 that preparing alme om ‘Thene aweep up They neilman Blaine announdes tl should not be ras He to the clamor of the var heads for ene atch do: I know who sees eye ¢ our that nome to fon this tax matter. But Seattle nnot agree with In fact, I think that councilmen oppose this of « miserly economy. 1 do, I know. I own no home here, All I get from Seattle is @ city hall job. And I am for higher taxes. For how but thus can one #cure more joba for his pals and relations? 1 have scant sympathy for these rich absentee who begrudge {school taxes for, ttle’s children, |him jon the ground that investments for. |lieve that he is working for the jsake the city of TOO high taxes. |small homeowner, At And I am strictly against this ef-|think that he is working a {ficiency talk for the city hall. Just |him |yesterday I heard one hard-hearted | citizen asking a city father to cut saw ny talk an this oclalism. Keep it up and the eity hall wage. jearners cut halg force. Aw 1 feca}l it, City Father Bilal: [failed re-election because he Intro. duced an ordinance to prohibit keep: ing hens in our city. If Biaine really wishes to honestly cut taxes for the why does he not polish his elvil service law? Let about that and I will be nee to man, bachelors MAX SHANAFELT, Georgetown, Salaries of Public Servants |Editor The Star | the city The meeting held by Mo taxpay-| Blackwell, said, the of the city on Thursday, July |tle are themselves }26, was addressed by the heads of {much of the extray four departments of the city, who|they demand all the spoke of the needs of their depart-|extravagant features which can be nents and gave reasons for the|concelved, but that does not cover |demands for increases in their ap-|the whole matter | propriations | The only conclusion that can be Both the chalrma James T.| reached after the clear exposition of | Lawler, and the r, John P.|the workings of the | Hartman, emphaaiz the object of all such m Jand will be to bring the and the governmental wether that the jeconomny and expens | Junted True, as engineer people to ti for gance, because most flagrantly Mr. departments tings is |no chance to reduce the fixed charges axpayers | then there is only place where vorkers to-|there can be a reduction—which is matters of | what the taxpayers have alway con- may be ad-| tended, vin, in the salaries. Now, why can the matter of sal one LETER FROM LV RIDGE MANN August 6, 1983. Dear Foles: I've noticed an ad they're displaying on some of the signs that I view; tt constantly carries a saying—perhapa it is trite, but it's true, Its simple suggestion impela us to carry its mevsage away; for this ia the story it tells us—"It's Somebody's birthday today!” A Somebody's coming to cheer usa somebody out of the skies—to nestle confidingly near us, and watch ua with won- dering eyes. And Somebody's bringing a treasure of love that will lighten our way, and add to our joy and our pleasure—"It's Somebody's birthday today!" i And Somebody's ten or cleventhe golden and glorious age. And Somebody only ia seven, absorbed in a fairybook pay And Somebody's thirty or over—when Ufe, tho it often ts gay, haa thorna that are mixed with the clover—It's Some body's birthday today!” And Bomebody's spirit is learning that Time travels terribly fast; and Somebody's viston ix turning to all of the paths of the Past. Vor Sonobodu's birthdays are mounting, and Some body's temples are gray, and Somebody sighs at the counting “It's Somebody's birthday today!” once | present 1} ainst | Seat. | the fact that |have been given, Is that if there is| ‘The taxpayers are not asking that for but we | the ants lows | money thar public ser work other servants, | ; ‘ for the streets and |do ask that they work for the mama| the Weat Seattle bridge. | |ARE MAMNALS ~ | sume; and when we are told that by | of the also actual do get more, compari» figures, and department twice number of workers re required by a bank that does he same amount of business, the taxpayers cannot and will not be satisfied with a higher tax rate, | ‘These people who are working for us live beside us, engage in the same | pursuits, pleasures, amusements, jetc, which we indulge in, only where we must be satisfied with a modest | flivver, they can ride in nothing leas jthan 4 higtpriced car—if the tax. | payer can and must live In a more | modest way and on much less than the government worker declares he jean live upon, will the taxpayers be Saatistied with’ such conditions? We do not expect these govern. ment workers to indulge in high liv. has the that spend much time away from thelr offices, or how ean they perform the | duties they are pald for? Who does |the work? If the lowor-paid men, y well, cut out the higher-pald and let the lower-paid men run office. ‘That is the bunk—-that the higher- paid men n for efficiency. Pay & man over $2,000 and he isn't your servant; he wants to be your bosa; he I In the saddle and he will ride you for more and more money. There has much been sald tha workers at the head of big business recelve large salaries; as, for tn | stance, an organization doing a busi hess of a militon dollars put in a higher-priced man, giving him $50,000 land he Increased the business to | $2,000,000. | Washe worth it? Suro he was; but note, was the high-priced man asking the stockholders to put in more |money? Or was he paying them dividends? Just substitute taxpay. |for stockholders and realize the feel: ing of the taxpayers! Increase busi- | nens and wo pay a higher tax. If the heads of departments want their salaries raised, reduce the taxes and nobody cares how much they get, but increase our taxes and we will certainly demand that salaries be re- duced. ‘This {s not said In a carping spirit. The taxes are a vital matter, and certainly those who pay them have a right to say how the money should be spent, A TAXPAYER REDUCED TA} WHO WANTS A RATE. The Illumination of First Avenue Editor The Star: Will you allow space in your val ued publication for our view in re iMlumination of First ave,, from Yes. ler way to Spokano st.? Today there was a strenuous protest from many large property ownora, and Wwe realize—all of us—that Firat ave, hag in the past been hard hit with expensive assessments, But to the property qwnera on First ave, we wish to say you are about to come into your own, Forty-five thousand people from the South and West expect to use your arterial highway as our atreet to and from the business district, next year, with the completion of ing, keep Inte hours, play golf, and] A hero who didn’t kno y The i (Copyright, 1923, by w it! juct prescribed by physicians Seattie Star) | Thi street ix the main entrance | from the South; it is the gateway | from Portiand and way points; from Tacoma, and we from the We wish also to make It our gateway, #0, You First ave. property owners, be of good Where the peo- | ple travel ts where property in creases in yalue and becomes more fand more destrable i | Twenty-four years’ study of realty conditions in Seattle will prove our contention that First ave, 8. will and must come into its own. Let me predict for you this much increased travel from West and| South next year, !f your street ix ready to recelve the people, will make your holdings much desired from a rental standpotnt, and dur- ing the first six months of this travel will so enhance the value of {the property that the cost of light- ing will be reimbursed to you many |times over. Bast Marginal way, West Mar- ginal way, Fauntleroy ave., Admiral way and the Marine drive along the Sound, all depend upon your street for access to the business district. We want to use First ave., so make yourselves ready, for we are on our way. ALL THE SEATTLE. By Edwin A ‘Whom the People Cheered Editor The Star: In your issue of Tuesday there appeared a letter from a gentleman named Tompkins. After comment: ing upon the mayor's well known modesty, he asked this questio: “Why did I yote for you?* Well, Mr. Tompkins, that question is being |asked by about 10,000 other voters jand can be answered in Just one |way: ‘Your foresight was not jequal to your hindsight,” However, Mr. Tompkin's complaint as to the mayor's conduct brings to mind that of a gentleman who {8 a great admirer of our mayor, and who {s also greatly admired by the mayor himself, Ole Hanson of Los Angeles. In September, 1912, when the late Theodore Roosevelt visited Seattle, Ole Han- son, by reason of being the angel of the Bull Moose party at the time, was requested to ride in the same ear with the former pres | dont. As they were proceeding up Second ave, and the cheers came loud and enthusiastic, our friend Ole was not a bit backward in ac knowledging them until the ex-presl: dont, who was a little more gruff And less tactful than our late presi- dent was, remarked, “Why, Mr, Hanson, that is intended for me." T assume that if our honorable mayor had known of this incident he would have probably have taken {t for granted that the cheers, came from citizens of the United States desirous of showing their icepect and affection for the head of the nation, and not from deserving democrats cheering for the non: partisan (?) leader of their party in the expectation of favors to come. Yours very truly, PHILIP 'TWOROGHR, PEOPLE OF WEST Henderson. | twenty-three years and proved i Headache |by millions for Lumbago i Colds | Toothache Eaniche Rheumatism EGG LAYING? Neuralgia Pain, Pain a * | Accept “Bayer Tablets of Asfin’ jonly, Each unbroken packagrcon- |taina proper directions. 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