The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 4, 1923, Page 8

The Seattle Star Pub! ed Daily by The Star Publishing Co, 1207 Seventh Ave, Phone Main 0600, Newspaper Enterprise Association and United Proas Service, Dy Mall, out ef olty, be per month, 2 months 41,60, € montha $2.00, year 4,60, Carrier, city, % month. man, Nicoll & Ruth Monadnock Bid oltic Midge. fan Franolsoo Nopresentatives, New York offiog, Tribune Md Tremont Bid Spectal " 0 0 an Hoston office, Dr. Crippen TUNTLY JENKINS is dead—The London lawyer who defended the notorious Dr. Crippen. That was in 910. You probably remember the case. Dr, Crippen was physically timid, small and shrinking. nin Michigan, he became a wandering magical prac- For his second wife he selected Kunigunde tzki, alias Cora Turner, who promptly became a hold bull en fell in love with his secretary. They fled to nerica. Mrs. Crippen had disappeared. The gossiping ighbors weren't satisfied, They called Scotland Yard. ipector Drew tripped over a loose brick in the cellar. 4 » he found a murdered body. Crippen. was identified aboard ship at sea, by wireless id arrested. He went to the gallows, The girl? She it free. he Dr. Crippen case was the first time radio had been used to detect a fugitive criminal. Naturally, ealed to popular fancy in addition to being historical- important. ' Crippen maintained his innocence to the last, and ‘there’s still considerable argument in England as to hether he was guilty. Psychologists who watched him the trial marveled that such a meek individual could muster sufficient courage to turn on and destroy his ormentor. After the lapse of 18 years, we read of the death of lawyer who defended him, and the wireless end of the jpen case no longer eclipses the criminal angle. Ve can’t help pondering how times have changed. To- -a fugitive wouldn’t “get much of a rise” out of the , from merely being caught by radio. Thirteen ears ago, radio was Magic. Today's it’s becoming com- onplace, lads in knee pants sending messages as far as one that brought Crippen to the gallows. j - a glass of beer reached the price of a billion marks, the Germans oie Can’t Roy Haynes think of something awful to do to ‘money Giving a King the Air IKE all other occupations, the king business has been subjected to marked changes. Its jokes are not as ‘sof as once they were, but the kings are softer. The hoi polloi can now, without disarranging a collar or suffering e slightest constriction of the jugular vein, enter the Toyal presence and talk turkey to the throne-holder. Even can they give him the air and get away with it. _Look at King George of Greece and note the change. Where arrogance and arbitrary power and pomp and cir- cumstance long held the Greeks in awed subjection or adulation, there now is affability and a desire to please. ings are at sixes and sevens in Greece. Hence, some ‘of the gentle little militarists opined they could settle mat- ters much more to their satisfaction were the king to ab- sent himself. They dropped into the palace a night or two ago, and casually remarked to his kinglets, in effect: § “Now, listen, king: You’re an all right fellow and ' everything, but we have a hunch that you need a vaca- tion far from this madding crowd's ignoble strife, while we kinda settle things. So, we gently suggest—gently, yunderstand—that you take the air for about 60 days or until we tip you off that one of us has got the best of the other. Get us?” “Righto, fellers,” we imagine the king replies affably. “I get you, and it is the ambient air for me, pronto. Do _ your little old best for the Greece that is in the pan, and don’t worry for a moment. Even if there is no come- for me, just compose yourselves with the thought _ that I’m getting along finely in a shoe-shining parlor or a restaurant. So long, fellers, and happy days.” And he whistles gaily as he goes down the street to the That's all there is to it nowadays—absolutely all. And ‘it is enough to make the time-honored firing squad, or guillotine, or gibbet turn away in chagrin and sorrow, as they are no doubt doing at this very moment. But the new way is better for the country involved and it is more sanitary and healthy for those kings who are still in business. Jesse Pomeroy, lifer in a Massachusetts prison, has begun to play the stock market. They may break him but they can’t take his home away from him. A Newspaper for Jesus D of Chicago Church federation announces that he has discovered that newspapers do not print the sort of news Christ would enjoy reading, and says the church should supply suitable reading matter. We agree. We believe that if the church had been on the job these last two thousand years a redeemed world would make the unChristly news item a freak instead of the routine. An editor is rather hard put to get out the sort of news- ») paper that Christ would enjoy reading, provided he tells © the truth about things as they happen. Telling the exact > truth about events is supposed to be the first and final duty of the daily press. No matter how pious may be ‘the editor, no matter how zealous in the cause of the kingdom, he is divided between love for righteousness and Tove of dut Not but that the church occasionally supplies some good front page news. Just the other day there was a dandy story about the rivalry between the Kansas City and Long Beach churches as to which city could get out the most attendance at Sunday school; Long Beach ap- parently won, but Kansas City hired 20 detectives and then announced that Long Beach had padded the attend- _ ance records 50 per cent. It was a good story, and it was supplied by the churches, but whether it was the sort of a story that would delight p the Master we know not. We believe about the only © Tecorded time Jesus went to church ¥ to chase the = thieves out of the temple; and another time when he told the leading elders and Pharisees some hot truths about their know-it-all fake piety. 2 Let’s see, Preacher Sheldon ran a news © thought Jesus would run it, didn’t he? A ) it lasted nearly a week. aper like he we remember, Hi Johnson evidently doesn’t believe in walting to be dra . alting to be drafted, and so he freatest a draught of his own. eae oy Figures That Talk HERE is a very serious citizen of this community who does love to play with statistics and who s« nds in this: | yhisky dispensed on doctors’ prescription’ last year, | 52 gallons. ae “Fraudulent medical diplomas discc red, 11,§ “What do you make of these figures, Mr. Editor?” | Well, if they indicate a relation between booze con: ump- | tion and fraudulent doctors, we fashioned Speaking. bartender was a gentleman, comparatively make out that the old- |‘? | | Millions in BY JOHN CARSON Wasenerey, Dec. 1.—War came, With it came also the cry to buy bonds until it hurt. Mary and Ann Jones had saved $200. It represented nav. ings of $5 a month over almost four years—almost poverty sav: ings. It hurt, but Mary and Ann bought. The only thing they knew waa that the government would pay them back some day Mary went to work after sho hid the bonds in a chest. Ano cleaned the chest and burned the papers and Incidentally the bonds disappeared. | The evidence was complete that the bonds were burned, but Ann could not swear she knew they were burned. The govern- ment refused to pay or restore the bonds. The story 1s true with the ex- ception that the names are changed. You can get a hun- dred similar stories. Somewhere today are $56,218,- 760 of government interest-bear- Ing securities on which the tn- terest hag ceased and which will be paid on presentation, ‘These bonds may never be pre- sented — the government may never have to pay. What ator- fen would they tell if they could be brought forth? And yet— Today, the treasury depart. ment was called on to pay a bond of 1790, It presented by a bank, Its history was not ated. ach year we get nome old bonds,” said C. N. McGroarty, head of the treasury division dealing with such bonds. “They | come out, somehayrtrom an old teapot in a chimney and so on, Usually wo get them thru banks and do not get the story. “So we cannot assume the gov- ernment will not have to pay bonds outstanding. We've got to | assume the bonds will be ore | , sented.” ‘The story of Mary and Ann Jones wag related. “That's too bad,” sald Mo Groarty. “But we've got to # sume the bonds were not burned until we have proof, We hada case a few years ago where a ship went down. Everything showed the safe in the ship had certain bonds in it. We were convinced of that. Yet a few years later, the bonds started to turn up here.” It might be assumed that the United States was populated with careless savers. But Mo Groarty, with 20 years of expert- ence behind him, says it 1s not so. “Think of the number of bonds he sald. “They 1 over the coun- outstanding | are scattered Potential Presidents Another of a Series of In- formal Sketches of Men Who'd Like White House Job ‘om Alat nator, terms 1915-27 mocratic senate leader, 1920. mir er plenipotentiary | The bonus advocates seem to think Mellon is rive enough to be | cc inference, 1921, ham, Ala, né limitations Homo, Birming [he that is unjust in the least is un Lost Bonds | try, in $50 lots, maybe, If a $50 bond fs lost or misplaced, not #0 much ts heard about {t, But those $50 lost here and there count up. “If we could only get the peo- ple to register their bonds. That would be the safe course, But they do not realize it.” WHAT FOLKS ARE SAYING “GOLDEN RULE" NASH, Cin cinnat! manufacturer; “The trouble jot the world today is that men have tried to nolve the problem of 2 relationships on an animal basis, while man {s a spiritual belng. In industry, the question {s not pri marily one of wages, What the men want is to be recognized as human beings, to be told what they are try tng to do," a eee C. HOFFMAN, chief steward North German Lloyd steamship Seydlitz: “It's no use—a republic cannot suc- ceed in Germany, I hope the crisis will be reached before the long win- ter sets in. It will nerve to clear the atmosphere, anyway.’* ore ELMER 8. BRYAN, prealdent Ohio university: ‘‘We must educate or,we must perish by our own pros. perity. Not by our poverty, nor our limitations, nor our tgnorance, but by our prosperity. Poor and indigent peoples may fo on decade after de- cade and century after century, but & prosperous people cannot endure unless ft Is educated.’* SMILES Europe is so nolsy now France doesn’t even hear her*franc drop. Nowa from Wales. G ger for a mar thing tried b something. Europe is good only during thone months having a in them, New York's annual crime wave |promises to be bigger, better brighter than ever this year, and New York bandits are carrying off lots of furs, which ts regarded as a sign of a hard winter. Too many of these presidential possibilities are impossibilities, Crooks are getting so bad in New York people with gold teeth keep |thelr mouths shut The United s has about 14,.| 000,000 autos, some all paid for. — | | Somebody stole a horse in New! York. Maybe they just took it home to see what the thin, Mellon wants taxes cut. Which makes {t just about unanimous, If anybody ever succeeds in cut ting taxes he can become a movie star quicker than a husband shooter. Dancing develops the muscles. That's all settled. Now if it would only develop discretion. Nothing makes a skinny man madder on a chilly morning than seeing a fat man perspiring, A man can’t talk with hig mouth full of hairpins, but a woman can't taik. with a pipe in her mouth. Very men few of these European states. ‘ging on another war got shot at during the last war. An auto race is almost as danger ous as the human race. The United States spends more on gum than religion, This Is because Jone 1s used chiefly on Sunday verything has its une, Plant flow A Thought ] He that is faithful in that whieh is least is faithful also in much; and just also in much—Luke xvi.:10, THE’ SEATTLE STAR st as He Was Getting Somewhere— : { age ‘ BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS and snow converted Into almente-that Is the wh are going to do it in India, to feed and clothe millions: Tho other day Mir George Lioyd—not Lloyd George—iov: ernor of Bombay, started the greatest irrigation acheme the world has ever seen, when he laid the foundation at Sukkur, on the Indus river, he dam, to be called the Licyd Barrage, will be nearly a mile long and will impound water enough to frrigate 8,000,000 acres of land, an area larger than the state of Maryland and nearly twice as big ax Connecticut, Dela- ware and Rhode Island together, Egypt feeds 14,000,000 people and Imports $200,000,000 worth of products annually, Indus waters will redeem from the desert more rich land than there is under cul- tivation in all ¥ TEN TIMES 1 or COLORADO RIVE! DIEOT great Colorado river . completed, will irrigate or just a tenth as much ay that of the Indus. There are to be seven main can: ¢ alone will One of the: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 199%, carry a volume of water approxt- mately the same as that of the Kiver Thames, and three more will be considerably wider than the Suez ennal, whicli carries the dreadnaughts and ocean liners of Tho basin of the Indus i» ong of tho arid wpots. Bordering {¢ to the cast Hew the great ‘Thar or Indian desert, ‘The average rainfall for the bastn 1% lesy than 15 Inches a year, Elsewhere in all nations, India there 19 a» much as The monster barrage will bo inches a year a of masonry in the form of a dou The Indus will soon be an. ble bridge, and will cost $60,000,- other, but bigger, Vj 000, or $5,000,000 more nl Nilo, bursting | ‘with the great Avsuan dam on tho crops of .grain and cotton Nile, enough to feed and clothe tens of millions, British rule tn India has been Much eriticlwed, tin and al}, ft haw not been without its blew ings, say what you will, Au the great canals, some 25,000,000 work of the British SCIENCE Deadly Roots. Damming the Indus at Sukkur js something like damming the Misslawippl at St, Louls, It ts one of the great rivers of the world and haa one of the highest sources—16,000 feet ubove sea level. Which is where the ice and snow come in, Much of the water of the Indus Js from the melted snows of the Himalayas, tho world’s loftiest mountains, and from the glaciers of Karakoram, WILL PREVENT FAMINES THAT RAVAGE INDIA Every now and then India ts avaged by famine. Natives die | How Some of 7 tke flies, ‘This is because, while | Riddi CO f Them Act the country as a whole has a uding Campaign On. | greater rainfall than humid Eng. land, {t comes down in spots, Some regions are left with little or none at all, A campaign Ix unde wray to de- stroy snake root, a poisonous weed that grows principally in the Mid- die Went. a eS Dear Folks: mt | Decullarity of the disease is that it . ’ F Ili We folks who never cross the ocean—never leave our home, are || causes delirium without any rise { Wrieda's Hollies, ||... viene sinn sues aucmtmsecaane we een eet ||cemmeciee Had & most marvelous day, hallucinations—things that never are—of other people, other na- “loco" weed of the West ‘And of all places: to have it in tions, scattered near and far. A lunatic: asylum! And with the most attractive man The pains he took, too, In showing me every ward, And giving me a detailed account Of cach patient's bbsensi It ln no seldom you meet aman | Who has the milk of human kind neas | In his heart for others in distress | T think he felt that way about me | For once in my life | I did not have to make a single | advance. i often view us like a bunch of nothing to us, only dollar mari each thinks the * woo, “So This 1 how we're like ach other, dealing» Unsolicited, he took me in hi for Just tomorrow-—throw our arma— |] strife and sorrow vanish for a We were In the court yard— And called me his soul mate I didn't find out until afterward ‘That ho was one of Three HERE ARE three phases of service rendered by the Trust Department of the Union National Bank with which a great many are not acquainted :— 1. Custodian, In this, a client is relieved of details and burdens connected with the handling of secur- ities. The Trust Department of this bank collects, remits and credits the income; pre- sents bonds upon call for redemption; sub- scribes for new issues as directed; submits statements as desired of all transactions, and charges but a moderate fee, Trust Department Bond Department Branch at Georgetown [ RAVE elton 3 wn any wh erted truth in flew th 1 be trusted in matters of im portance.—Paley, LETTER Wr | AVRIDGE MANN And other nations have a vison just as bad as ours; they let 9 preconcelved decision dull thelr optic powers. And so it ts they And that's the way we view each other—English folks and we; |/ English-wpeaking brother something strange to London” tells 1 It showa us, with Its fun and laughter, what we all would find; It nails the pont it's going after: our prejudicial feelings reach a final end, we drop suspicion in our each has found a friend! And you and J—our prejudicial feelings dull the heart; while underneath the superficial, none are far apart This plant and the famous “loco” weed of the Western ranges have | been for many years a source of great danger to stock raisers and both are somewhat mysterious in their workings. Snakeroot grows In wooded pece tions. It even causes death to peo- ple who happen to drink the milk of cows polsoned by the plant. A FROM Dec. 4, 1923. | The |caumes @ peculiar form of insanity in cattle and horses that eat it. In |sovere cases the animals become there's || violently tnsane. In milder forms St shows itself in strange mental char- acteristics, For example, a horse tht has eaten the weed for a time sharks—they often think ‘ks. . freely, what fix we're 1n, and |/and then been kept on a normal ally—underneath the skin, | diet, will act in a natural manner, jexcept in certain instances, such as And when |Jumping in the alr to clear a stick lying on the ground in its path, as tho the obstruction were several |fect in height. So let's be friends | hates away, and see how much of day! Prejudice is biind. A horse in North Sterling, Conn., |chews tobacco, And what kind ts it? Why, we would say plu: | Chicago university silly girl more popul: "" No, buta Oo pular girl is more silly. ae oy} Sey. pe ae ee eA + =F weedllr f. Located on Second Avenue Phases 2. Depository. In this, the Trust Department of this bank receives and receipts for securities for corpo- tations under reorganization, acting therefore as a depository. 3. Transfer Agent. In this, the Trust Department of this bank keeps the stock books of a corporation, records all transfers of stock, keeps a complete and up-to-date list of stockholders, and at each given dividend date, from a single cor- poration check covering the total dividend amount, promptly distributes proper dividend disbursements to individual stockholders, whether they be numbered in hundreds or thousands, Foreign Department Savings Department Branch at Ballara “at Ded be pr Revell ney, 4s in of th oF the f Ingto prim ive, water, perm read acco: “Wi mend side, of th upon beca the 4 * trical Powe: try lo tutu: Tv only degret ‘suffer