The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 5, 1923, Page 8

and Unlled Hy mail, out of elty, 60 per month, # months 91.60, @ monthe 02.09, Preas Service, flan Francisco WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS New York office, HH most daring foreign pol fey ever set up by any coun: try-—the Monroe Doctrine—Is 100 yearn old this month, On December 2, 1829, President Tha Holy Alliance, rigged up ) of only 10,000,000, the United pearance in this country until by 110,000,000, be as bola ga pen by the monaroha 6f Russia, Prin Staton did not hesitate to defy five years later, and telegraph, ident | Monroe, backed by nia and Austria, and asalsted by tho Alliance and the rest of the cables and wireless were not DY Only, France, wan out to crush the idea world along with {t to interfere dreamed of then-—not to mention of nelfgovernment, particularly with the people anywhere on this 216 milewan-hour airplanes, two hi among the new nations then just side of the water, ton bombs and 75-mile guns, souls the tron put there ty . ruins of Don't forget that South Amer. But the t States had an | cove wagons, bil he fon Wan much farther from us in welt-government, And it sine of’ want thoyg days than Hurope ts now Hundred years agin and that there were no railways ol) & Ruthman, Spectal Ri Monadnock Nidg.; Chicago ofties, Canadian Pacific Bide.; Boston office, Tremont Milde. Luke Lawless, and the Law "Sou 2183, vsiant | hang Ko nw ation LUKE, HAWLESS was lawyer in St, ‘That is still the law of the United States.| comsrem. nvept the whole Amerl- | Spal colonial poiwensony In nif 89; 4 ive 5 n +} « ean continent, from Alaska to ne Western heminp! Louis, back in 1826, One day he deliv- It has not been changed since 1881, Judges Cape Horn, under tho wings ot The Amevioan government saw ; ered his personal opinion of a decision ren- for the most part have respected it, until—| the American eagle and defied the danger, Young, poor, il-pre- and no steamships, ‘The first lo ble, even in an allen land, If it deren by Federal Judge sare H Peck. A Payee Judge ee angered hy Raed the world to lay.a finger upon It pared for war, with a population comotive did not make its np- mit ndanesr our own national St. Louis newspaper print awless’ views. hio, newspaper for criticizing the court,| —— >) ES aS rhein Wanton diet cinta Judge Peck punished Lawless. He impri fined it for contempt AND IN 1918 WAS ) 100 years go, drew a chalk oned him for 24 hours, and disbarred him, UPHELD IN HIS ACT BY THE UNITED . soo 3 9 mark around half the world and For so doing, the United States house of STATES SUPREME COURT. | : Will His Heart Stand It? dared any power or group of powers to cross it, representatives impeached Judge Peck and Federal Judge Mayer in New York city, put him on trial before the United States angered at the city comptroller for criticism senate, which is the procedure in such im- of the court, sentenced him to jail for 60 rc peachments. Appearing to prosecute Judge days for contempt AND THE SUPREME ; F | Peck was Congressman — afterward Presi- COURT UPHELD MAYER, a oy Are dent—James Buchanan, Twice in five years federal judges have Many senators, who believed Judge Peck thus arbitrarily cast aside a law they didn’t} had exceeded his powers, still believed he likes Twice in five years they have used had acted in good faith, and he was acquitted this illegal club in an attempt to stave off on January $1, 1831. The vote was 21 to 22. criticism. | To prevent the recurrence of any such If Federal Judge Hanford in 1912 had} attempt, and\in order that no other federal been armed with this new ‘law-shattering| judge would mistake his authority, congress precedent on the part of federal judges * in the same year enacted a statute on the when The Star made the campaign that \ i ela es ehan bead Ni subject of contempt of court. finally forced him off the bench, how suc- - pride; (wea eveflagtidnly right Among other things, that statute provides: cessful do you suppose that campaign would ; . > They admit this now, when, after “That said courts (federal courts) have been? How soon would a jail sentence 100 years of Monr “danger. shall have power * * * to punish, have been conjured up in an effort to > ous doctrine,” not a single war by fine or imprisonment, at the discre- block it? , i Denke Sy hile several have tion of the court, contempts of their The law is still the law! The United} authority: provided that such power to States is still strong for law and order, punish for contempts shall not be cor- but— other congress, It, too, will in strued to extend to any case except mis- Well, Luke Lawless, vindicated in his| 4 . y part deal with foreign relations, Z behavior of any person in their pres- rights a century ago, would smile, if he still Z Zak , Uf 3 ! ae hance : sae oe ABBAS ence, or so near thereto as to obstruct lived, at the progress we have made in the yerit war being forced upon hi GIFFORD PINCHOT—yo, the administration of justice.” preservation of our liberties. | Born in Simsbury, Conn., At Will President Coolidge, bac! A Sensible Method 1 10,000,007 Or how Pullman traye heat and safety taken out of had a policy—peace, by warning foreign nations not to start trou Presidents — Another of a Series of tp formal Ske us Who'd ke i Mey House Job Timid politicians—the isolation ists of those timen—were terri bly frightened, ‘They sald such 4 doctrine would surely entangle us with forelgn peoples and in- volye ua in war with Europe, It You SURE wan too dangerous, It would | never do. Washington's fare THIS ISN'T. |) LAUGHING | ‘||! well speech was an admonition Against just such as that, It was up to us to mind our own busi ness and let the rest of the world do the same, To prove Hind-wight ty than foresight, present-da This week anotner president delivers another message to an- There Is about $54,000,000,000 of division, afterward pei exempt property in these United |ry, United States department of ay. S MILES | aE Bes | UF a F | NONTAXABLE PROPERTY| muslom 116 yeccus an “JT WON'T take it if someone comes in every day to tell me what to do.” That’s what A. S. Kerry said Tuesday afternoon when he was elected president of the Community Hotel corpo- ration. We don’t blame Kerry a bit for feeling that way about his new job. His insistence that he be given a free reign, The political pot is boiling. ‘The thing is a regular volcano, throwing oft steam and mud be 8 Never speak ill to a stranger. He may be a presidential candidate. Coolidge has appointed a new dl ates, In other words, slightly less |riculture, 1898-1910. President | than one-fifth of our national wealth, | tional Conservation association sag Or one-third of all property assessed! 1910. Appointed commissioner y under the general property tax which forms the bulwark of state and local government finance, does not pay y of tax orestry of Pennsylvania, 1939, Bas governor of Pennsylvania (dy pendent repubilean), 192%, | Milford, Pa. “- rector of the mint. Hope he makes unhampered by the whims of individual members of the , " CataMag tn board of directors, may sound a bit autocratic to some [mtn ths other one. : / LETTE ER ‘ folks and doubtless he will be criticized, but after all, Sad news from London. King : ~ s! isn’t it the sensible stand for him to take? George's nicce will marry a Scotch ye : . v ik "TS A ; Community enterprises always are fraught with diffi- bares ene 2 | Vv IDGE I culties because there are too many “Mexican generals” Jack Dempsey, the prizeboxer, in i i i i Sees : around—self-appointed and would-be leaders who make a | going to Europe.’ While there he will iss great noise and confine their efforts largely to stirring | not fisht the German army back France and how we could help te ees F ; aha F ‘appens { -operative o 6 ; mop ma ngland. ‘Now is the time for us to c, but he loves us well: he guards and protects us up dissension. The same thing happens in co-operative WH: 2 England. Now Ss the tithe for us : loves us well: h buying and selling organizations, resulting often in a The rumor that Dempsey's Euro VHAT FOLKS be purely pro-American, and, in con. io: Hes greet wi iio other aif: ait — 1 i e h: S pean trip is made to help France A RE J AY N . and true devotion is r, far, im tthe be complete: smgsh-up. ? # collect reparations {s untrur. é i SA ING | 7 A wpread Uke wildfire man folks are ae To be successful, any undertaking, large or small, must oer world, to find out first what in best 4 epnuptioa So Rie tot He's od but he likes to play—and (ist Maat! be operated on a business basi In spite of the large es t _ number of persons who have put up money to make the | He wants to visit Germany. Better] DB J. B.JACK, Chicago: Only sent 1 had all of them. until, as he romped on a street in town, the wheels of an Cormunity hotel the great, big, going project we all hope | #7 his own lunch along Ay novllcsting suraya nce Gat pote 5. MILLE, © Daneel tis Weber wend only a dog with arahattered log ‘care eames and expect it to be, somebody must have cian? op dae WN ikon grr ee ana ocs See tha tet EY nigh Sanpt i arch Sea Renate thea.” “Oh, imaster of mine,” Tcould see him bea iemieae ound ity i ions pet iss! 7 y when It war is being started.| (p80 nie Ms he modern girl's ills, She is stary RD Tie aber that aereons a ity to decide questions and meet issues promptly wher One might call {t the stormy petrol, |t2ete 8 no repair for this kind’ OC] ing herself to retain her The me well again!” He knew th R 1 saw and I understood; “Oh, God’ they arise. pa a. nor es) damage.” ared't weilnad they aten pot seek Jonal affairs cried my. heart, “If C only could ee If A. S. Kerry doesn’t prove big enough for the job it | texas turkeys are sald to be five lis nothing particularly wrong except the last positive proof, He's only a dog in a surgeon's care, where dogs that are Inj will be up to him to step out and the board of directors | pounds above the average this year should be just as frank in asking him to do so as he has __| Bet it’s all feet and neck dian: ‘The log in silken ti I tell-them that, the answer is 1a beau at last, . i ba been in insisting that he be given the right-of-way ona | oes a thing of symmetry. The naked leg | ‘t1eavens, ¢ ©, I wouldn't put on as he looked at me! clear track. xidering what in our place In the Tg exicacser, wisita tg igovviniiie or us an a count When 2 woman has a beau. t! He romps and he froiics thruout the day, unmindful of crud burg: “Malnutrition is the base of ous damage to his body tis ng knowledge of ho was well informed, { on the stago is not beautiful, but dis-| more weight for the world. Why, I| an artisti¢ turn of mind. | He's only a dog, but we miss him so—the wag of his friendly gusting, for | kes as granted that ght get hippy,’ or ‘Why, doctor, I disappeared from ylow, | tail; the mute little ways that he let us know @ love that would we want our sensations raw and bru- | pn, faye te aa Gee - ogre ew where, Uhope and I pray that his hurts may mend; a dog, it tal. As a matter of fact, wo don’t| ankles, * | ted everything is true—but a loyal friend! want them that way. Humanity has ar | But the fact that Bass caught at Salina, Cal., weighed | struggled thru the alchemy of fire) prcenp pe | 1 had installed a radio. [48 pounds. Pity it didn't get a and blood and death for thousands! | aoe DEBS, socialist and lec-| : {80 it would weigh 100. of years to exalt its nature into a {Urer; “There in nothing more n toe SB soul. And we t the naked leg, Nailing a Plank a one were injured in a push-| thrust at us. Faugh!" | New York bandits robbed a police | man's wife and we'll bet he catches In four years and four months the combined armies of the world sue- | '* for Hot working hardes ceeded in upsetting, more or less, 8,000,000 acres of soll. One dam now | bemg built by the British government in India will reclaim over 8,000,000 acres! Wars won't stop the world. ar Want Ads will help you buy! nificent than’a thinker in overalls.” a well quickly ce eeepc Ge. aed CUMS MMM nc ml cll c ml llc lanl cll ROTHER McADOO is nailing down one of the planks | make tax collectors piay it SENATOR BROOKHART, Iowa:| = ¢ of his platform with 10-inch spikes and doesn’t seem mgincthoe “The government hay established a START A SAVINGS ACCOUNT FORA CHRISTMAS PRESENT : ‘ inatt { | Sacramento bridegroom asks di-| national banking sy based upo vg . o pa “ § ‘0 bridegroo! ska di-| natio: Ing system baved upon to care if other gents with aspirations do hear his ham- | | ver eerise sho won't kien him,|the commercial idea only. There ix mering. i but maybe he has a must not a national bank in’ the United} In regard to the bonus matter, Mr. McAdoo has wired 50.6 States that operates to mect the de Literary Digest, among other arguments, this: While there may be a d » | mands of farming. “We gave more than 500,000 civil employes of the gov- | between’ opera and comic ope ernment during the war a bonus of $240 per annum, and ie i qounte tunay fe inost people. this has continued for more than five years. Is it less | right to give the men who fought the war equal consider- | CAPT. E. L. BEACH, ex-navy oft! | “War prevention is going to be There are fewer children among} pmplished finally. by the direct 4 society because children don’t|and immediate action of the people ation?” r |r vidends firs r themselves at the ballot boxes,” True, as McAdoo says, the job-holders were considered, . sia a but there were some tens of thousands others who got | What is so cold as a nose in win-| MISS SOPHTE LOEB, president bonus, and are still getting it in the shape of abnormal | 'er? board of child welfare, w York: profits, and you'll find every last war profiteer kicking [jiu a cow pep SAL ALIN per bl ag ich Capel, no = 1 eee the bonus proposition. It is those who got rich or richer |didates and there won't be enough oti: | neeaee, aaa out of the war who are yelling loudest that the issue is no | voters to go around varie’ 0¢ the nation, aid Wille Gey. bonus or higher taxation, and right up in the van of these at ties ; |parent must be mado responsible for are Secretary Mellon and his associates. eg eae tet Bhcgees by three men |hia child, yet, failing in this, it ts f ———— _ in San rancisco. Su! hey ‘ere ithe duty of the local government to G. 0. P. leaders decide to apportion party expenses among states, | robbers, so it was not for singing. nee to it that the defenseless child “thus lifting the expense from the little group of New York men wh has what he actually needs to make have hitherto borne the burden.” Now if the G. 0. P. will just lift hi; him the citizen he ought to be. ——— | taxes, the little group of Wall Street men will be happy. | : HERBERT ADAMS GIBBONS, au |thor and lecturer: “We've been pr $10 Starts a ae rae pte Savings Account for the Children $10 KAR ARRARA Hereditary kings hold their jobs for life. The only thing in this country to compare with them is the federal judiciary, Mebbe that’s why every now and then we catch a Judge making a noise like a king. Say It With Flowers! HY do fairly intelligent men write fool letter: Many experimenita ate belng made! While he was in congress, two years ago, C. Bas- | with helicopters, and the perfection com Slemp indulged in a mild orgy of correspondence with of one of these models will mark | political friends, and this is a sample: in-fying | “Dear Ben: I have letters in regard to the collection goeanba rag eit of money for postoffices. One must be very careful about and alighty without the necessity of | this. It will bring the party into disrepute, which would | large, level field. It starts and} be bad for everyone. We must preserve our standing ese ceane i with the people and the administratic... C. Bascom One of these models. has Geen com | Slemp.” |pleted from plans drawn in 1843, You see, Bascom was in charge of federal patronage in | ™any years before the first airplane, Virginia and his chief commodity was a job lot of rural {Sd at a time when @ man who! postoffices paying from $300 the year up and not so very | * was supposed to He insane. | far up at that. 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