The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 13, 1923, Page 8

RL Te EP eee mre SEATT tar fan Francisoe Representatives | New York offices, The Least That Could Be Done The county commissioners did well to change their minds about forcing roadhouses to close at 1 a.m. | It is very apparent that the murder earty last Sun day morni of a Seattle citizen by a drunken girl was the ct outgrowth of an unsavory cond which has been permitted to develop along the | wi In some of these places (not all) the selling of bad liquor has flourished, and just any kind of conduct tolerated. The ety of young people requires that a stern clamp be on such operations. The least that can be done a preliminary step is to enforce the 1 o'clock closing hour. There of open about Seattle placed as very ugly rumors officis with the reign of ‘“wide-openness” resorts. The Star is glad the commissioners their skirts, at least to the extent noted county these cleared linking in have been “Lloyd George warmly welcomed,” says & headline, Sure, But it wasn’t the fault of those New York Irish republicans that it wasn’t some warmer, New Jersey dog bit 35 people. Belng crazy, the poor pup probably thought he was a mosquito, News from Holland. Only a windmill, tho, Not a gin mill. Dynamited a mill Seven women married a Des Moi s, Iowa, man, Serves him right. Making Childhood Learned Little Georgie Washington's father had no cherry tree, which was the main reason why Georgie couldn't tell a lie. There's no such thing as Santa Claus. There are no fairies, but just moths beating on the window screen to get at the electric light in the house. n't God upon the Ocean just the same as on the land?” wasn't got off by the captain’s little daughter but merely by a poetess old enough to have whiskers. The literary and_historical sharps have spoiled almost every beautiful tradition that blessed childhood, and now they're after the thing that always made our childhood bosom glow with heroism. Even some of the newspapers are today proclaiming that there's no foundation for, “The boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but him had fled.” Doggone it! they’re claiming that there never was any boy fool enough to stand alone like a stoten bottle on a blazing deck; that a natural boy would have gone over- board at least five jumps ahead of the crew, every time; that Captain Casabianca was a bachelor without any boy named Casabianca, Jr. Indeed, some are even claiming that that deck wasn’t afire at all. And, for about 15 of our earliest years, we yearned for a burning deck on which we could stand alone, while everybody else dove overboard, and hold a happy place in history and the love of children! Alas! “‘A little learning is a dangerous thing,” indeed, and the learned are robbing childhood of the beautiful visions and stuffing it with theories on the primordial germ, spontaneous generation and simian ancestry. Greenwich, Conn. has decided to Jail bootleggers. No cause for such Grastic action is given. Big tax Increase delay in Kansas City. That’s good. Most towns need tax increase delays. show one public employe to every 12 taxpayers, Figures It is better than we thought. October is all painted up and no place to go. The Travesty Judicial One of the most startling travesties on judicial pro- cedure of recent years is the infamous Stokes divorce case. For a year or more, this case smeared its filth over New York and Canada and gave its offensive odors to the whole country. At last, it was brought to an issue and decided in favor of the woman. Before the trial judge could sign the final papers in the case and dispose of it forever, he was elevated to a higher bench. Then devel- oped the astonishing, ridiculous, idiotic thing: The ele- vation of this trial judge left no one to sign the final pa- pee and the result was the same as if no trial had taken place! Because of the admitted inadequacy and impotency of the court in question, this shameful, smelly case must , now take its course of trial again. Already it has reached Chicago, fertile soil, in its ramifications. Before it is ended, the unclean efforts of a sordid old codger to save his dollars by smirching the character of a woman, his wife and mother of his children, will have nauseated the Nation. Not only has justice been defeated for the time, but both the public and the litigants have been put to great and unnecessary expense, common decency offend- ed and the records given a double dose of an abominable ess. Judicial administration of that character invites. dis- gust, if not outright contempt. Somebody has written a world series song. Perhaps you play the thing on a cash register, Perhaps a new paper-hanging machine is capable of making more mess in a shorter time. The only way to keep a cook is to marry one. And then she wants you to hire her a cook. Autos have self-starters now, but tourists still break their arms unfold- ing road maps. One Inalienable Right Left Not all is lost. Occasionally, a Daniel sits on the bench who recognizes and upholds our inalienable rights and refuses to concur with the United States supreme court in making freedom shriek. For instance BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Oct. 3.—G. S. Jennett stood in front of a local cafe, his shirt tail hanging down below his coat. Discovering It, he Btarted to tuck the shirt in as several women drove up in Patrolman Helton arrested him for disorderly conduct “Discharged,” said Judge C, E. Wilder. “A fellow has ils shirt tail in his trousers. Of course, Judge Wilder was right, but he might well have gone further and decided that Mr. Jennett had an inalienable right to wear his shirt as he darned pleased. It is only a false, manufactured mod ty that could ob- ject to Mr. Jennett’s giving visible evidence that he was Wearing a shirt, by exhibiting the southern part of it, In almost every city one can see Chinamen wearing the whole shirt outside the trousers. What many women Wear, or don’t wear in broad daylight, on the streets of Birmingham is a mighty sight more deserving of police at- tention than Mr. Jennett’s original fashion in wearing his garment. The police don’t interfere with either the Chi- nese or the women, and yet what is disorderly wearing of a garment in a Jennett is also such in a Chinaman or a denny. Immodesty is not yet a matter of persons and custom is wholly a matter of what the crowd thinks “goes.” an auto. a right to put presidential bee may be employing each shining hour, doubt about his roving it. ‘The busy little but there is some Milk prices are up in Pittsburg. Perhaps the cows aro loafing, LETER FROM VRIDGE MANN Ovteter 19 {CAPPY RICKS In Which He Discourses on the Folly of Using One’s Mouth for Disclosing Valuable Information Written for The Star by Peter B. Kyne—Auother Coming Next Saturday 5) ommand of a sawr coant Jaiving him ¢ upon n't] He wasn't (Continued From Page nnot on the Oregon abandoned. His father allowed } 00 m year, po he and of ft and hired experienced man to do hin J for him at a cost of five thousand i right t be back numbe: Of all the th a good salen at go to make at fellow had ber came thru a the mill and dis that his brilliant boy had an over draft on the mill books bigger than the national debt of a Central A erican republic sale, ‘t know what ad one character probably unprintab! ganized the bookke 1 thereafter, when ho paid « up to sell me on the at lity and the weak on the worth of the goods he had for However, he aald—it but he K ystems he make for|r the) « persis commercial wit, a five-gailon ke filled with ofl, Fifteen was to be ot] Columbia river passenger boat mill, old man Porter because ee to think sooner did he get settled w cigar in the lee of the pilot hen a drummer dropped both an orn beside bim and remarked education. E little while he nverts in experience. A number of years ago we ured to have a competitor, olf man who had a boy whom Instead of start er leaving high loose lath, hen the fac k on hin 1 to p sity old him Seattle's land New York for many years tho ff the Dexter Horton Bank, will disappear co will arise a 14 ure in which this bank will have its permanent home. ating Soon th In the meantime, ter Horton Natlonal will move one block east—corner Third Ave. and Cherry St in tho firat unit of the new Dexter Horton Building. the Dex- Monday this bank will open ita doors in these temporary quarters, where every facility for modern banking will be afforded. Remember the new location, Third Ave. and Cherry St. Resources $24,503,657.07 Established 1870 Dexter Horton National Bank Third Ave. and Cherry St. ng which the old man al-/ ew, and had never consid-| RDAY, OCTOBEE L TAR Traly, G reece and the League BY HERBERT QUICK Queer Dwellings. In Tropic Swamps. Heated Bahrin. Dive for Water. a uth Amert. tures ehow. mangrove 114 houses in lip into the under peculiar en the swamp the strangest 6 settlement of cult, Thin ty places in the no rainfall aintaina Ife by for its drinking n of the ocean, there are strong fresh water, emp. underground, dreds of miles of Orman, Get. © LETTERS! EDITOR Courtesy to Auto Tourists To b The conversation was now What it sawmill mach somewhere, he did fe and regard. he was Ignorant and bad misin. signal, he was to appear at ® wection of California ds of thousands ans, Inc., and n effort to attract ted next spring, ors will motor from le West to this that Bay was to well equipment for fectory—that mined him Automobile ything in its the visitor's stay in nt one. He fs ¢ line, given a and describing points, provided al road information and a free diges » state traffic laws, It is practically impossible for the and | visitor to absorb the many provisions | of the state law and at the same time dollars) supplementary local ordinances adopted by various muntclpalities and fornia cities and towns should follow Seattle's footsteps. It pays. ‘We hope this ts brought to the tion of the officers and citizens e s district and that we can get ities of Washington to co-operating in the proper treatment of tourists, Very tr Automobile Club of Washington, the United] D. SHELOR, Manager. tory on Yaquina broke as sure as heaven's sake. I'm what a & miser I'l low an begged ned, and afte TOMORROW Sunday at 11 A. M. Rain or Shine Absolute UCTION SALE Of Valuable Homesites in SWESTHOLME — Overlooking All Seattle This Is an Absolute Unreserved Auction Sale Every Lot Offered Will Positively Be Sold To the Highest Bidder, Regardless of Price On Easy Terms of Payment The Puget Mill Company unqualifiedly guarantees this sale to be absolutely unreserved and bona fide in every way That Means Bargains But Remember This will be a one-day sale only; That Tomorrow is the Only Opportunity You will ever have to buy at your own price So If You Have a Few Dollars, and Can Lay Aside $10 Per Month, Attend this Sale Tomorrow —AND BE ONE WHO DID BUY; not one who wished he had! There is real money, easy money and quick profits to be made if you buy well located real estate at bargain prices at a Sacrifice Auction Sale! —H BPC | ow to Get There. Drive to West Seattle via Spokane Avenue and Avalon Way. Stop at the Tent on Avalon Way. By Street Car Take West Seattle or Fauntleroy car, get off on Avalon Way or Thirty- fifth Avenue Southwest. Sale Takes Place at 11 A. M., Tomorrow (Sunday), at Avalon Way and West Genesee St. BARRY & AUSTIN (Agents for Puget Mill Co.) 220 Walker Bldg. WE st-0499