The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 15, 1923, Page 8

THE SEATTLE STAR MONDAY, OCTOB PME PAN (foes ee | ee | ae D Ran Franciece New York effiog The Mayor Mayor Brown in a letter to The Star says, “Your editorial (used one day last week) states that bootleg whisky is sold openly in Seattle and gambling houses are unmolested by the police.” : The mayor professes to feel surprised over these remarks. Then he chides us a bit. | Bo what 8 ine ernment t eleven o'clock, whilé they Girridge Tamm rao tie ren oi “oe | Poems 10r the Scrapbook || eis cies: ting ECR LER SS aR amb git oe WORK LETTERS 82 EDITOR es Mayor Brown has made a similar retort to every citizen who has raised a voice since he took office to complain about vice, End of the World re It is time Mayor Brown understood that | ediiorial om | Plat ohat ia) n plea m #0 08 to be he and the police department are holding says, in Tonia 3 Before they begin, we are thru r have to walt Ull two! ; ' ‘ : atthew, began t ox We ought to furnish the police infor- mation about all these places, he argues; then the police would close them up. of Friday, g i i { their jobs to do exactly what he continual- ly urges laymen to do. The police are sup- posed to know about immoral conditions and to suppress them—not to go into part- nership with them. The Star had very good ground for mak- ing the statement the mayor quotes. Boot- leg whisky IS sold openly in Seattle and gambling houses ARE unmolested by the police. (Unless a very sudden reformation has again taken place.) Nevertheless, The Star has not gathered evidence that would serve in court to convict the proprietors of specific places, and does not conceive it to be its duty to do that. But The Star does insist that the police department should—and easily could— send scores of those proprietors to jail and abate their places. All dressed up and prepared to spend a happy hour, a committee of the National Chamber of Commerce called on President Cal a fow days ago. They were dismissed in six minutes, That is what is known, in polite society, as “speeding the parting guest.” Ambassador George Harvey {ts quitting his post as ambassador to London that he may help the president promote his policies. One way that George might help the president would be to accept a diplomatic appointment to the South Sea islands. Oklahoma governor gave a big barbecue after hls cleeiion. Somebody fed that man raw meat. Not Coyle’s “Frat Brother” In commenting on Lieutenant Governor Coyle’s series of unjustifiable pardons, granted while Governor Hart was out of the state, The Star a few days ago referred to Robert Chittenden, one of the pardoned, as a college fraternity brother of Coyle. This, we find, was in error. Coyle and one of Chitten- den’s brothers were members of the same college fra- ternity, but Robert Chittenden limself never went to college. Turkey has gone in for golf. Orders for golf balls, golf sticks and golf bags are pouring in on English manufacturers. Now we can see some reason for their wearing knickers. it contracts have been signed for the installation of telephones In Morocco and Tangier. Heretofore, the Moors have done most of their talking with rifles. Shipping Board Language Poor Fred Britten, congressman from Illinois, came home from Europe on the shipping board star liner Le- viathan, and didn’t know what he was going to get to eat during the whole voyage because the menu was always in phony English. Fred says that instead of calling eggs “eggs,” they called them “oeufs” and plain, everyday calves’ liver was “foie de veaux auxs fine herbes et lard,” while even the head waiters could not translate “gigot de panillac bou- langers.” Fred never did find out what that dish was in plain words which congress could understand. And so Fred has written to Chairman Farley of the shipping board to say that he thinks it would be a fine thing to have English the menu language aboard the American merchant marine. Now, after this experience, maybe Fred can under- stand the feelings of a lot of American taxpayers for a long time, about not only the comparatively trivial mat- ter of menus, but about the affairs of the U. S. mer- chant marine. Comes to public attention right now from the chair- man’s office another financial statement. It says that the merchant marine as a going concern is worth $292,- 405,200.17. Nobody knows what the final 17 cents stands for, but the following list of assets and liabilities is given: Among assets totaling $399,919,000, the statements list the following: Cash, $32,146,000; construction loan fund, $50,000,000; counts receiv. able, $122,884,000 (less doubtful items and other o aggregating $122,118,000); accounts receivable from managing agents "at recoverable Value,” $4,941,000; notes receivable, $26,186,000, les« of: and uncol- lectible notes aggregating $1 ,000; operating supplies, $11,000,000; real estate and equipment, $4,500,000, and uncompleted voyage accounts. $9,196,000 The liabilities include accounts payable, $6,948,000; accounts payable of agents, $10,061,000; charter hires, ete., $2,000,000; suspense credits, comprising partial payments and options on ships, $1,156,000; mortgage bonds p , $1,100,000; commitments, $10,000,000; insurance reserve, $8,850,000; | The last time a passing shipping board chairman told what the merchant marine was worth, it was a great deal more than Farley’s figure. And he had pared down his predecessor's estimate. We can remember the days when i shipping board fleet was spoken of in terms of bil- ions. Now, Fred, we'll lend you our French-English diction- ary to translate “oeufs” into eggs, if you'll rise in con- gress next session and ask Brother Farley the meaning of “accounts receivable less doubtful items and other off- sets,” and “accounts receivable from managing agents at recoverable value,” et cetera. Weil, well, beats all how times do change! Churches have launched a nation-wide drive to prevent fires, ‘a and Ma remember when the | churches specialized in preachers who could boom of hell's fires and ) brimstone. Ireland imports nearly 65 per cent of its prunes from the United | States. Almost the samo percentage as our imports of policemen from Ircland. } Indiana has a new variety of wheat. Oklahoma, however, has a new ( varlety of wild oats, friend and falls his kind by r What he really ech. First of ali, he makes no tion between ‘Radical, bias and revolut y ideas.” N | must be quite rent to any tt ing person that kinds of radical idea; the sam joan be sald regarding revolutionary ideas, but of “blasphemy" there ts one kind, and that in bad; so in fact, that our friend, in fail-| these distinc h an hb as much | right to express his bad idea as 1 have to express my good one.” Bad | thoughts, bad words Jaro all related, and no man has right whatsoever to tmpose the: to inflict them on me, or any other member of the community. What | man, he asks loftf.y, is wise enough | to set himself up as a judge of what ideas are good or bad? But our friend himael le, doen} diatinguish bet bad." Can we not also do no? Does a man Necessarily “set himself up aa a | Judge” because he exercises the or. |dinary use of his senses to distin. guish what is “bi {is not? Our friend remarks that the | "good idea last, while the bad idea | fades away.” Ho Is altogether wrong | jin this. His whole article proves that | he is wrong, If he were right there| would be no need for him ever to write that article. I may say in con- clusion that frea speech is “right"— it is all right, but “free blatherskite” is all wrong—it i a nuisance; par- ticularly that phase of it our friend |seoms to justify, vis: Blasphemy—tt | is offensive, crude and vulgar. | “As 4 man thinketh tn his heart, so in he,” and “out of the fullness of [his heart a man speaketh," whether }mood or bad. When a man has to | patch up his principles (or lack of m) with cheap sophistries it is not likely that anyone will ever “set |him up an a judge’ of what ideas are good, or bad. HARRY G. MONROE. SCIENC Poles of Life. || Often Close Together. || || The Prize Fight. Change Coming. | BY DR. M. W. KAPP The opposite poles of life are not as far apart as we often imagine. Pain and pleasure are but the ends of a single scale of emotions. Love and hate are very near kin. Laugh. | ing and crying ure often even blend-| ed, Genlus and degeneracy often meet on common ground. +Religion and war lusts are often associated Our Christian religion is a |of blood and crucifixion. Rell | ecstacy and physical contortions are joften related, | We all stil have a Iittle more or} |less of this primitive urge blended |with our higher urges. Women en. | | Joyed the prize fight as well as men, |for that primitive instinct of want- jing to be mastered by the most | powerful runs from the lower form of life, as I told about in the guinea-pig male fights, to the so- called higher evolvement of the be- led man, 4 bad acti phemy” and what male loves tho fight | glories In being able to with: the blows of adversary and, the winner, struts before not only | the female of hin species, but before |the admiring weaker male compan. tons, The prize fight has become « blending of the two great urges The acquiring of much food or itn Jequivalent (money) and the sexual or creative prowess, We dare not as yet tell the full truth about our primitive urges for the “pack" would turn upon and rend one of the “pack” that dared tell the truth, The time is not far away when the truths of life in all thelr purity may be freely told. The urge for something finer and higher {s growing. The mental and spiritual | jage In dawning, Men can be just a8 powerful and valiant without rending each other. Golf, tennia, every-day work can be the moans of displaying skil) as well as the prizo ring. The age of domination is slow. ¥ passing, Tho dual forces are be coming understood 4 and blended, The ir muted into the inte is the Jaw and will ¢ our taxes to # of taxation—tike the All *S—oleum”’ is not Linoleum! This is what Linoleum is F you have ever used lino- leum, you know how good a floor it makes—how smooth, how sanitary, how easily cleaned it is ; how resilient and foot- easy and noise- less it is; and how beautiful and long-wearing itis. Perhaps you do not exactly know why all The teaghaes these things are and sprisgines 80. In that case yew associate YOU should read with bettle this advertise- steppers eater ment. 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Thus linoleum, because it is made of cork, is elastic, water- proof, quiet, and extremely durable. , -g When cork is mixed with linseed oil Linoleum gets its” ‘name from linseed oil, which is produced from flaxseed. Linseed oil is the same oil that is used in paint, which, when exposed to air, turns to a tough, solid film. When powdered cork jis mixed with oxidized linseed oil, these two substances unite into a naturally 4 durable and water- proof material. And when this material is pressed into bur- lap you have linoleum. It is hard to tear. The burlap strengthens it. You are tu!d these things that you may understand why linoleum is rae an ex- traordinary flooring; also, that you may not confuse linoleum with any other floor ing or floor covering whatsoever. Step on a cork! ‘See hew resihent ) anh Burlap is made of jute. Rope is made of jute. The burlap back adds strength to linoleum In 1863, Frederick Watton noticed that lin- seed oilin a can of paint oxidized (solidified) when exposed to air The difference in “—oleums” Frederick Walton invented linoleum in 1863, He made it of cork, linseed oil, and Customer—"Ts this genuine linoleum?” Salesman—“Yes, madam, this is Armstrong's Linoleum. It is made with cork, linseed oil, and burlap. trademark is here on the burlap back.” never cold to the touch; for cork is a nonconductor o! burlap. In the last few years other floor coverings that look like linoleum, and some of them with names ending in “olin” or “‘oleum,” have been offered for sale. These are not made of cork, linseed oil, and burlap. They are not lin-o- leum. Weare telling you this to help you to buy intelligently. 7a) AN F.NZ, NS, NS, You know now the reasons why a linoleum floor is silent, easy on the feet, long-wearing, nonabsorbent. 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