The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 10, 1923, Page 8

y The Star Publishing Co, 1807 Beventh Ava Phone oe Roterprise Assoctation and United Prese Bervice, Dy Out of city, BOO Per month, F monthe $1.60, € months $2.00, year O8.88, city, 68 & month Nicoll & Ruthman, 8p Bidg,; Chicago o x; Moston etflc Our Cherished Barbarity The American Legion has undertaken the job of looking out for all world war veterans and it is doing some things that have sadly needed doing for the citizenry and nation over. The legion investigated the mental condition of vet- erans serving time in federal penitentiaries and found that 60 per cent of these prisoners were abnormal mentally and should never have been placed in penal cells, but should have been sent to hospitals, to asylums, to sani- tariums, to outdoor resorts, and that many of them needed healthful directed exercise, but that few required guards and shotguns. The attorney general says he will direct that these mentally difficient, or mentally unbalanced, prisoners be transferred to asylums as soon as funds are provided, Now if 60 per cent of the veterans belong in asylums and net in penitentiaries, it is probable that 60 per cent of non-veteran prisoners are also in the wrong place. But — our brave Christian civilization doesn't know enough as » yet to distinguish between the hapless and the hopeless, between those who err because they can't help it, and those Who are ornery thru malice aforethought. All society knovy when it catches a culprit banging up one of its 10,000,000 laws, to put the rascal in a cell for a certain period; indeed society puts men and women in cells be- fore they are proved guilty and frequently forgets them for months at a time, as witness a current Seattle dis- closure. Our penal system is all wrong, our jail methods are barbarous, we manufacture more criminals in our peni- | tentiaries and our reformatories, our jails and our work- » houses, than we manufacture thru dope, thru poverty, > thru heredity, or thru economic injustice, and yet such institutions are entirely under our control and we could Yedeem men instead of damn them if we had any interest in humanity, or in our own posterity. We will feed 10,000,000 starving Russian children for 18 months and expect not even a thank you; we will not = divorce our penal system from politics long enough to @ive tardy justice to even one abused hapless convict. Franeleco Representatives. Baa New York offices 4, Tribune Bid Tremont 2 Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there ts - ne work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom in the grave, whither thou goest.—Ecel. ix.:10. Toil, feel, think, hope; you will be sure to dream enough before you die, without arr: cing for it—J, Sterling. Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the Lord delivereth him out of them all.—Psalms xxxix.:19. Summer passed, leaving too many spring poets unsung and unhung. All Sullied and Soiled Something very serious has happened at Norfolk, Ne- The impeccancy of the justly-famous prize ring j $ been sacrificed to sully and soil. We chronicle the id with the most poignant sorrow. Tt seems that Mr. Andy Schmader and Mr. Jerry Vohac had been matched, in a regular w: for a regular prize- t or, as the sporting editors say, boxing match. Once | the ring,.they lost their usually sweet tempers and in- dulged in a real, for-sure fight. They gouged and kicked, d bit and scratched, disregarding every rule of Hoyle, ls etiquette and Cushing’s parliamentary manual. hen the referee gently admonished them, Mr. Schmader lisengaged his deft right hand from Mr. Vohac’s left eye nd ear and placed it against the said referee’s jaw with uch emphasis that the subsequent proceedings interested | that official not ‘a little bit. Only after the arrival of an army of constables were the irritated gentlemen induced to calm themselves. _ Report that there had been a real fight in the Norfolk | Ying reached Mr. George Koster, state boxing commis- oner, and he was very properly horrified. More than that, he was keenly apprehensive of its effect on a dis- ‘riminating public that had come to understand the prize- it ring was no place for a fight. The whole thing ‘Was uncultured, undignified and coarse, and he must re- buke it for the good of the cause he had the honor to resent. So he suspended the battling gentlemen, but from the gallows they had so richly earned. | Whether or not the prize-ring has suffered irreparable ‘injury no one in Norfolk feels competent to say. Gravely, ie populace assuage their fears with hope. But they ire all confident that Messrs. Schmader and Vohac have been made to understand, when they fight in future, they “must do so with sweet reasonableness and in conformity with the best and gentlest traditions of social intercourse. Mishawaka, Ind., maiden sisters, ages 60 and 70, married same day. ‘Live and hope, girls. "After being single 98 years, Bluefield, W. Va, girl got a hubby at ast, thank goodness. Boston man of 60 swam 14 miles. We don't know if an old mald was after him or not. Chicago woran lost a $14,000 necklace in Paris. Could have lost more than that at home. Our Disgrace at Law “The administration of criminal law in the United ‘States is a disgrace to civilization,” Chief Justice Taft’s | committee told the American Bar association. “The trial of a criminal seems like a garne of chance, with all the _ chances in favor of the criminal, and, if he escapes, he ‘seems to have the sympathy of the sporting public.” It is a disgrace, judge—a crying shame. It has its funny side, however, as you will have to admit. The law- yers of the country work assiduously, for 51 weeks out of _@ year, at making it as disgraceful as possible. The re- _ Maihing one week they meet in solemn session to de- Mounce the disgrace they have so enthusiastically em- loyed themselves in bringing about. But all criminals do not have the sympathy of “the ing public’—not at all. Your own report, judge, oves that, where it flippantly points to the fact that “we juccessfully put over 83 largely-attended lynchings” the _past year. Lynchings grow out of lax administration of the crim- nal laws, largely. It is the easiest thing in the world to ecure the services of lawyers who will do their level best 0 accomplish that lax administration. In some cases, “the sporting public” rebels and injects itself where the Taw alone should reign. Then the lynchers, if appre- ded, can find more lawyers to aid them in further ‘disgrace of the administration of criminal law. Seven Ohioans held a pienic up in a balloon, whieh | e hings out of the lunch. sities ha ag Yoliva thinks the earth is flat. He says the sun doesn’t rise, should get up earlier. peat Man in Santa Rosa, Cal., cussed a telephone, worth $20 to him. Fined $10. Probably ‘Printers will hold their next ‘convention in Canada, much to their _ Wives’ suspicions, news for horses, Italy has decided cavalry is uscloas. would be popular in |hatred of the Greeks runs high," | paper: |easy victory, ax Greece ts bankrupt | | PICTURE TURNS THE SEATTLE STAR Recent Psychic Evidence | BY A. CONAN DOYLE, IN NEW YORK TIMES | ————) You h me to use your columns in order to keep the American public in formed as to the progress which is being made in Europe upon the mportant subject of pay chic evidence, Upon the last oc on gave some dexcription of allowed Dr ments with Willy at Munich ave oocastonally Schrenck-Notaing’s exper! and I told how he had demonstrated that mysterious substance ecto: incredulous men of n to 10 solenc cluding 26 profeysors of universitien, and that all with LETER FRO V RIDGE MANN September 10, 1924 both barred from “umb reat of “Lit ¢ thia con' and Avridge Mann says Mr, Dud. “They y it would not be fair to the Dud's column. own little column, and so we too many things," he explained, the clty."-—From Dumbbell Oh, well! We have dedicate this nice bo et to DUMBBELL DUD Dumbbell Dud has h nead held high. (He's so proud bec above ast that he's mighty Hut here's his low the crowd. you want to know but his brow tx for neven inche his bra ure the fact, If head is high ho fant aune ba . How's Here! whi iran after t skims hin mi nd when it's scum he while and he s to think, and mur murs, “Here a wicked drink It's Just like hootch—tts effect is I can't get stewed to stew! tumb he tok with only is true—T } a wooden i aven't any bre LETTERS Se LWITOR Editor The Star "War between clas, an act neither desired, approved Greece where and Italy Italy nor condoned by the Greck govern ment writes William Philip Simms, in your “It would be regarded as an|was and is committed to its support ninistration. rejected it Mussolini ig He rushed his down a hundred or and fresh from defeat at the hands| of the Turks. A short, victorious! war would lift Mussolini and his fascisti to dizzy heights, And they know It." Politics—plain, cheap, curb politics, you see Irresponsible warships to # even indirectly connected with the crime against the Italians. Ho nelzed property and committed an act of war, If Mussolini ance | | | Greeks committed a Italian offt RIEDA’S OLLIES A body of women Called one day. I was in the garden. I felt that forectul unison Between them As they atood Arrayed for battle. I could tell at a glance That their call was not social I always take advantage Of an opening. This time it was In tho fence. the Jeague of nations, he would have risen, on the instant, to of all civilization. More than that, jhe world have exemplified and ex alted the needed rule of reason above the rule of powder and shot and wanton murder. He would have done the biggest thing possible for world peace, at the paychological moment But he didn't do it. He let the great |chance slip. Heresorted tothe small- jest kind of narrow, home politics, He played even the lives of innocent |women and children Into the gamo that he might solidify and increase his weakening political support at home. Ho preferred the empty ap. | plause of his partisans to the sincere |approval and gratitude of a civilized | world Mussolin! played small because he {s a small man. > Oh 2 “Covered Wagon” Theme Makes It a Masterpiece | Picture Presents the Struggles That Early Pioneers Experienced BY JOHN W. NELSON the printed word. And to the value If all the thousands of motion |of this epic theme is added the val pictures that have been produced, | ue of accurate and artistic portrayal and all the enormous theaters that |of life in the days of '49. have been erected to show them,| ‘The outstanding character por. and all the millions of dollars that|trayals ere given to Enrest Torrence have been invested in the industry, /ax “wld BUl” Jackson and Tully were suddenly blotted from tle face| Marshall as “Gen.” Jim Bridger. of the earth, then the vast treasure | rittle John Fox ax Jed Wingate, the s0 spent would have been well In-lson of the captain of the wagon vested if only one film, “The Cov-|train, spreads humor thruout the ered Wagon,” survived to posterity.|piay, with his “chaw” and his Even if the inimitable features of | hanjo, comedy that run thruout the picture| Lois Wilson and J. Warren Kerrl- were entirely eliminated; if the «rip: |igan, aw principals in the love story ping heart interest and love story|around which the mighty events of and elaborate settings were dit-lthe Oregon trail are portrayed, pensed with, then still “The Covered |pring forth the heart appeal which Wagon” would stand pre-eminently | carries the continulty of interest as one of the greatest of all motion |inruout pictures from sheer immensity Of} ‘The picture has been running for the theme. four months in Los Angeles, and It is predicted that {t will break rec: BACK HISTORY ords at Its New York appearance. No greater exponent of the mo- tion picture has ever appeared than “The Covered Wagon," being shown at the Metropolitan theater this week, It turns back the pages of history, yes, even turns back the hand of time and brings its specta- torssto the day of the lumbering ox frain, the sweeping sombrero, the lurking redskin and to an ele- mental contact with the forces of nature, Many things have come out of Los Angeles, widely press-agented and bally-hooed to the skies. But when James Cruse, director of “The Covered Wagon,” sent forth his epic picture, le sent a messenger thruout the nation that the nation needs to show its citizens the foundation of American citizenship, ‘The struggles of the pioneers are not glorifted in the picture. ‘They are portrayed simply and without flaring titles of meaningless words, What words could portray the anxious hearts reveuled when the great wagon train plunges into the whirling depth of the Platte river? Gripping moments those, when the oxen and horses, with their car. goes of human freight, are lashed Into the stream, to pit their strength and sinew against the current; grip- ping moments when tho hostile In- diang attack the embattled wagon train, and when Jesse Wingate, In the midst of his crowd of settlers, bares his head to the Oregon skies and noses his plow Into the rich loam of Oregon territory. PICTURE 18 ALSO HISTORICAL LESSON “The Covered Wagon" is a histor. {eal lesson that every citizen of the nation should see. It simplifies and HUSBAND SLAYS HEIRESS WIFE H. P. Disher Kills Himself After Crime SCITUATE, Maas. Sept. 10.— Mrs. Elsie Cheney Disher, heiress of the Cheney silk fortune, was slain by her husband, Hiley Peter Disher, who immediately afterward committed suicide, police announced today. The tragedy occurred in the Disher home. Disher was a former army avia- tor, Disher shot his wife carly today and then turned the weapon on himself. Charles Livingston, caretaker, found Mrs, Disher dead with a bullet in her temple. Disher, still alive, lay beside the woman, blood flowing from his heaa. Livingston summoneéd the pollee. Two hours later Disher died without regaining consciousness, The Dishers had been married three years and were childless, Domestic difficulties led to the tragedy, police believe. ‘The Dish ers \quarreled frequently and Mrs, Disher planned to sue for divoroy pollee were told. Smail going businesses can be purchased thru the Want Ads, be. cause someone has been made to clarifies the vision of the struggles sacrifice them. Turn to th |. of the ploneer, feebly revealed in Saat ness Opportunities Columns, more innocent people who were not | carried his griev. world stature and gained the acclaim | | The league of nations was in! fesaion a few miles away, and Italy| | | | | out exception had be n compelled to accept idence of thelr OWN wennon stration has just been ce imilar mass demon neluded at Paris and has received far leas public attention than it Indeed, It in ¢ of this cent of the curionities versy that when « negative result is obtained, which nothing at all wildfire thru the nitive rewulte, ything, are re One tn forced to the conclusion that the human inetinct really shrinks from the idea that we do means, of {t goes like press, while t course which mean ev ceived with apathy most certainly and do our ac or public contin our existence. t certainly anwwer whether priva rhe demonstration has been carried out by Dr, Geley of the Metap Institute of Purine He assembled 34 men of distinetion in succes rated the phenomena of spiritual » medium one Jean The resulta were Il the sive nit tings demon physical lnm, using & usual perfect! and observers » The thobe of Dr acqu of the Petit Parisien; Hu of the Depeche de dozen leading ‘Toulouse etorn from. the Parisian hosp Marcel Pre vost of the French Bayle of the prefecture of pc weveral men of letter three not n Flammarion and nally great r The phenomena to which these tlemen subscribe are ot obj at a dixtance from the medium and taps received when out of reach of the medium, ‘There were, however, many other phe nomena. Their confession of faith ends with the words "We simply affirm our convic tion that the phenomen are fi to be explained by illusions and that there was no possible cheat to the fact that ma she certify fous p! fact, they answered requests and obeyed orders. 6 these facts are murely tr are faced by the question, Whone in telligence in It? In it t unconscious medium acting inde table, we pendent Is it the collective aanens of the com an outaide indep which in direct conacs Or {m it intelligence the experiment? It in only fe among the most expert chic researchers the ani their question is a varied one We have to remember that many of the best Continental minds start from a position of extreme materialinm. Sir David Brew- wter maid: “Spirit is the last thing which I would give in to,” and tho he sald it 60 years ago, ft still represents a commen phase of thought. Such men as Richet or Nortzing have converted from materialiam to a sort of super-materialiam, which needa one more step, but a very vital one, to elevate them into spiritualism. To get that step they would need, 1 think, to turn from those physical phases where they have dope such «plen did work and to examine more carefully the mental and relig jous sides of the question, with out neglegting those methods of analysis and exact thought which they have applied to the lower phenomena, No faith ts neede but simply an extension of their present experimental methods to another class of evidence. As they aro already prepared to ad admit that an ectoplasmic figure can move about a room, can talk and can claim an individuality, it would not seem a great gulf which they have to cross in ad mitting that claim to be true, and that the discarnate soul can indeed find means to manifest itaelf in this lower world of mat ter, MANUSCRIPT FROM OSCAR WILDE? An interesting mental and lit erary problem has presented ituelf lately in England by the appearance of a seript which claims to be from Gsrar Wilde. Wilde was a man with a very pe cullar quality of thought and of expression. The latter may be parodied, but the former can hardly be copied in its fullness, for to do s0 would imply that the copyist had as great a brain as the original, Yet both in thought and in expression this script rings true. There are passages in it which Wilde in his best moments has never bettered He had in life a very fine cue for colors which often manifested itself in his writings, gave them & peculiarly vivid tou Thus in a private letter to me he spoke of the “honey-colored harvest moon.” The seript shows this rare quality to a remarkable de gree. “In eternal twilight I move, but I know that in the world * * © red sunset must follow apple-green dawn,” Then again, “The rose-flushed anemones that star the woodland ways,” or again, ‘Already the May {# creep: ing like a white mist over lane and hedge now, and year after year, the hawthorne bears blood. red fruit after the white death of ite May," The other charactoristic of Wilde was his freakish, para doxical humor, ‘This algo is much in evidence in the script. "Being dead is the most loving experi. ence in life, that ts if one excepts being married or dining with a schoolmaster!” ‘Those last four words are Wilde all over, “My life waa like a candle that hady guttered at the end.” 1 defy any man of real critical instinct to read that script and doubt that it emanates from Wilde. One may imitate a man's features, one may forge his namo, but it is impossible to sus. tain a deception in a prolonged communication from a great writer, Verfly, there is no sort of proof under heaven which has not been accorded to us, and thowe beyond must despair some: times of ever penetrating our ob- tuse intelligence, ' 9 ced pe: been MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1923, PATRONIZE WASHINGTON INDUSTRIES There are over five thousand industrial plants in the state of Washington. If the products of these plants were pur- chased by Washington people to the fullest possible extent, the output would be increased in proportion, which would add to the pay roll, increase the capital investment, and promote ‘apidly increasing’ prosperity. 3uy at Home and Build the State. Pacific Northwest Products Committee UTMOST \ ae TION Vimporial CandyCo Seatile Products ¢ Union National Bank SEATTLE Over $10,000,000 Hoge Bidg. Second and Cherry Buffelen Lumber and Mfg. Co. Phone Main 1104 PF. 0. Box 1505 FIM DOORS, COLUMNS, ETC. Tacoma, Wank. “Always” Good Gold Shield Coffee Vacuum packed to retain all the original finver and strength. SCHWABACHER BROS. & CO., Ine. 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