The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 16, 1923, Page 8

PAGE 8 The Seattle Star Dally by The star Publishing OT Reventh Ava Phone Newapaper Baterprine Aswootatto nited Press rviee, wy Oo per month, & monthe $1.60, € months $2.00, year $8.60, i Tepresentatives Gan Franolsoe tien, Trine. Ddet New work oftlow ot Bide, i age office, Tr’ on office, ‘ren “If I Were a Crook—” “Tf I were a crook, when Searing, Bannick, Hans Damm and Carr were sent to the outskirts, I would think it a good time to go into business downtown.” Here is a statement made by Councilman Oliver T, Erickson to J. R. Justice and passed on by Justice in his » political articles that are appearing in The Star, It is a statement that immediately brings forth the question: “Why were these four policemen—possibly the best four men that the Seattle force has—buried in outlying stations when Mayor Brown took over the reigns of the department?” It is a question for Chief Severyns to answer. In our business sections we are daily having safe rob- beries, safe stealing, holdups, sluggings and other depre- dations. And why are these four good men kept away from the scene of activities? The public demands an answer, Chief, Why? THE BENEFIT OF WHISKY TOPING With few exceptions everyone who goes to perdition by the alcohol route would reach that destination by some other highway if the alcohol Line were not running, Every man whose sloth or Improvidence bas brought himself and his family to beggary, every thieving tramp upon the highways, every rascal in the penitentiary, every murderer upon the gallows hastens to plead “Whisky brought mo to this!" because he knows that such a plea will bring him a gush of sloppy sympathy unobtalnable by other means, Whisky makes no man lazy, shiftless, dishonest, false, cowardly or brutal. These must be original qualities with him. If he has them ho will probably take to whisky—tho not Inevitably—which then does the community the splendid service of hurrying him along to destruction and of abridging his infliction upon the public—John McElroy in “The Economie Functions of Vice.” A Georgia farmer who wondered {f robbers would got $600 out of his coffee pot found they would. A policeman shot a burglar in New-York. Perhaps ho will claim he didn't know it was loaded. This Judge Is Right (From the Tacoma Times) Refusing to grant the proprietors of 28 so-called social clubs an injunction that would prohibit police interfer- ence, Judge Askren points out that these clubs all sprung up within a remarkably short time and says that it is evident their purpose was to violate the law. What a travesty it would be to enjoin the police from entering these clubs! What an idiotic piece of legal fool- ishness it would be to interpose the much-abused in- junction to defeat the officers of the law in this case! Judge Askren is plainly right! Regardless of what the supreme court does with this case, if it is appealed, this fact stands out: If the police can be stopped by court injunction from enforcing a sthte law and an act of the city council in- tended to uphold the law, then the state and federal pro- hibition acts and the 18th amendment to the constitution aoe United States will be made ridiculous and of no ect. Judges and courts In the past have been mighty free in handing out injunctions. It is apparent that the local couyt, however, is not to be bluffed by long-winded legal pefsiflage. Other judges would do mighty well to fol- il this lead. We want no government by injunction ere. Many a man keeps his nose to the grindstone so his wife can turn hers up at the neighbors. Paddle your own canoe and it goes further. Paddling your own kids will have the same effect. While s great deal of money is spent every year Just for ftin, some never seem to have any. Passenger train hit » car of dynamite near Joplin, Mo, without » but don’t you try it, oe pest Ohio state offices almost burned. Probably started by some fie political speech, af i, oe Is “Talent” All a Myth? Anna Pavlowa, probably the world’s most artistic dancer, says that no child has “talent.” She adds that at 8 years she had ambition but no talent. The talent was developed by hard work and intense study. Physical exercise, especially fencing, was among the factors that CREATED ABILITY. Ability, after all, is the desire to do and the willingness to labor to learn how. Exceptions are rare, There are exceptions, tho Pavlowa, speaking glibly avers not. She herself is one, A divorce in time saves murder. And a murder In the saves divorce, But neither save a reputation. The sad part about these one-piece bathing sults Is tl t bi; enough for winter underwear. ne ewes France thinks Germany should pay in full. She wants to get madder when Germany doesn’t pay. Troubles are nice things to have around. Many men couldn't carry on & conversation without them. Movie stars are going to the speaking stage. This ts too bad. will have to learn English, ad. Many Changes in Soviet Russia ia is sitting pretty quiet and tight, but, really, some remarkable happenings are transpiring in her midst. The government is seriously considering the issue of patents. There isn’t much communism in patents, In- deed, “‘patent rights” are the seeds of capitalism. Also, at the great all-Russian agricultural exposition Jews had a fine pavilion of their own and a creditable of their agricultural products, Mr. Esther, repre- sentative of the Jewish exhibitors, said, amongst other » significance of this pavilion is great in that it the historical turning point of the Jewish masses.” not only the former policy of Rus to rigidly cher Jews from agriculture but it is observable that here in their wanderings have Jews taken to agricul- » to at extent. Shepherds in Biblical times, ave been flocking to the cities, in later y is an historical turning-point, if they are » agriculture in Russia, now, and there is much promise in it. Things are quite lively in Boston. A man was arrested there for claiming a razor beat four aces, Idaho man wants divorce because his wife would coo! id cook not eggs. She just egged him on ara li Trouble with eieeting the wron, money back if not satisfied. i man to office is you can’t get your The measles microbe has been discovered 1 6 to brought this all on itself. reapthedeel adie! doa te Plasterers In Chicago aro reeelving $25 day. We it on pretty thick. € $25 a day. We think this is laying } around THE YM SEATTLE STAR NOW FOR A CLEAN- UP. LETTER FROM VRIDGE MANN November 16, 1923. Dear Folkn: In making monthly balance sheets, we scan the ledger thru; wo figure out the groam receipts, accounts and items due. We total up the debts we owe, and sit and ncratch our head; wo hope the blooming thing will show we aren't “tn the red” .... We think It's quite » big event, with all the job importe—but yesterday the children went and got their school reports! We neck tho bank to make a loan—a very small demand. We tako a statement where it's shown exactly how wo stand. Woe wonder what the bank will say, and what will be the news; we stew at least a half a day, and tremble in our shoes... And that’s a Job wo always thought was really pretty bad—till yesterday the children brought their school reports to dad! Of course we have a jot of things we really hate to do; no matter what our duty brings, we have to see It thru. And tho a grown-up bften frets at tasks appearing « the ones that any youngster gets, are just as toug! and where the job, of any sort, that so attacks t like bringing home a school report! that has a coup! LETTERS EDITOR Editor The Star: Most assuredly I agree with Dr A. E. Fletcher, pastor of the First knees Cat affilcted are the worst of tholr kind. Woe should value truthfulness among our best asnets, and when healers tell jthe mick and the afflicted that they |are cured when they are not cured, and they know that they are not cured, is compounding a lle and prac |telng deception and fraud in thelr | sreed for gold | That Intelligent people should fall | for these tmpoaltions Is past all un- derstanding, but false prophets have |decelved and are deceiving many. | People are hot well or rick because |they think themnelves well or ack. |Tho trained physician should have the key to the situation. | J. L. MARBOURG, M.D, |which ts the camouflage of the mill | |teemed paper, I wish to advise that Yes, We Need No Brains Bernard Shaw comes to the front with the {dea that brains nhould be applied to government, and that the men of intelligence and ideas should do the govern ing; & revolutionary {dea and an impossible one, Probably Russia theno last five years has had a lows diluted application of Indl. vidual brains than any other country, and sev what has hap- pened to the darn nation, In every diplomatic brush Lenine and hiy associates have proved themsolves smarter than the best Giplomatic talent of Burope, or of America, and they have evolved, from nothing at all, an intricate governmental machine; just thru sheer mental applica tion, But nobody over there ap- pears elther happy or prosper- ous, despite all these brains, Government universally {9 sano mediocrity; brainy men can- not bo successful governors be- cause Immediately It becomes a question of WHOS brains are boss? That was the weaknens of Woodrow Wilson; hoe recognized no mentality other than bis own; rubber stamps und advisors wero his associates, Brains mean individuality, they require a freo field and lots of elbow room; imagine braing in a private In the rear rank! It san't done; the general staff does the thinking and the private does the dying, Imagine a clerk in a pont. office suggesting to his political superior that the force could be decreased a half if each clerk was given a living salary and al- lowed to do hin work in bis own way; no alr, the clerk's chore is to tons envelopes with simian @exterity from bag to box, and to donate to the campaign fund, Imagine the sort of political platform Mr, Shaw would write. He would attract exactly one Celebrating Armistice Day Editor The Star: Allow me to congratulate you on your Armistice day messago—"Celo- brate Armistice day by teaching your children to hate war and all that goes with it. Forget the ‘glory,’ taints.” It's a humdinger, It's puro gold. | All right. Are you ready? Let's go.) Let's help put this Boy Scout busi! ness out of the churches, and mill. tarism out of the university, Let's put this bloody war stuff out of our schoo] books, and teach our children in the world besides our own, Let can Legion that they nor any other one clique ts going to run, this coun- try. Let's be consistent. FARMER JOHN, Oak Harbor, Wash. Dance Hall Gives to Club Editor The Star: Referring to letters under the head of “Dance Halls and Sunday,” which have appeared of late’ in your es- ONLY AN AFTERTHOUGHT Gardener's Boy—Your new motor- mower’s In the lake, mum. Mistress—Good gracious, what on earth were you doing to let— Gardener's Boy—It wasn't me, mum. Tho gardenor were drivin’ and ‘e's with {t now-—-Punch, Lon- Arcade Butlding. don. AUNT Methodist Protestant church, in his |denunciation of the Kirkland self-| | styled miracle man whe calls him- self Isaiah, It is purely a commercial propos!-| tion and Kirkland was not slow to take advantage of {t. I havo been told that this same Isalah was driven out of Los Angeles. Newspapers | have shown me that he has been | traveling around the country in tho company of two giggling girls, which, if true, of itself would Inyite| m and investigation. Fino or disciples, as ho calls Sur Savior had 12 disciples and they were men. Women were| not sent out to tell man what to do.| J A Indy in Los Angeles, as I have} been told, was suffering from can-| cer and applied to this so-called | h for treatment. He not only/ pronounced, but had the cure pub-| lished in the newspapers, four days| after which time the lady in ques. tion died a horrible death, A caso in this city of which I have| personal knowledge: A. R.,” of Youngstown, owing to accidental de struction of his ear drums in child- hood, was more or less deaf, but not a mute. Isaiah not on declared that ho restored his hearing, but also power of speech, and the same Jin The Star. A woek, father told me that there sno improvement, A short time| # vious I had examined this cane | ing t absence of ear drun ‘ents that tho boy's 11d bo improved, but never restored can restore ear drums, maimed veterans go ificlal log as {t is quite as eas as the other. Of co other healers are not is kind in this d. To cure disoas it is cu d telling nd sin no more," is} carries with it the r of forgiving sin and raising the dead. The fakir's failure to do} these things is excused by reason of lack of faith in him, or that they| havo sinned, or shed blood by eating ment. How ridiculous! dvidently this old fakir selects his victims from among those of weak. d Intellect, and it fs in a great asuro thelr premature — testi monials that draw the crowds. 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