The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 6, 1923, Page 8

Mt ota > RR PAGE 8 The Seattle Star Published Daily dy The Star Publishing Co, 1207 Beventh Ave, Phone Mat Newspaper Bnterprise Association and United Press Servi ut ef city, G60 per month, 2 months $1.60, € months 02,00, year f By carrier, city, $00 a month, : Gilman, ‘Nicoll & Ruthman, Spectal Representatives. San Franciece eftte dnook Bl; 5 0 ofticn, Tribune Bidg.; New York office, Canadian Pacific Bide.) Boston office, Tremont Nida. A Judge Who Sees « INGRATULATIONS. Your imprisonment will do more than,a million tongues or pens to end ju- dicial tyranny.” When Comptroller Charles L, Craig, New York city, was sentenced to 60 days in jail by the federal court of his district, he received a vast number of letters and tele- grams of sympathy and commiseration. Only one—the one quoted above—was congratulatory. The author of it, strange to relate, was Justice John Ford, of the New York supreme court. Wise and fair judges are not blind to the judicial tyranny that, of late years, has been set up in this coun- try. They are not blind to the damage that is being done to the whole judicial structure, by these arrogant and self-constituted czars of the bench. They realize that re- spect for the law and all its agencies must suffer irrepar- able injury as a result of the arbitrary exercise of this assumed right to control the thoughts, voices and bodies of the bone and sinew of law and government—the people. Judge Ford, of the New York supreme court, is one of those wise and fair judges, and his is a potent voice, employed at the right moment. “Every Interest and element is represented at Washington except the People,” says a Middle West paper. That's a slam on congress, we'll say, There's one similarity between English and Aunerican politles—the Outs never speak well of the Ins. Jail News OW would you like to live in a city entirely enclosed in glass walls and glass roof—like a gigantic flor- ist’s greenhouse? Architects, engineers and health au- thorities are beginning to discuss this subject seriously. Many novel advantages are claimed for the scheme. First of all, the glass-enclosed city would be smokeless, for all chimneys would go up thru the roof. This roof would keep heat inside Glasstown, and a summer tem- perature could be maintained in the coldest climate. Naturally, cost of heating homes and so on would be less. It’s even claimed that the coal saving would pay interest charges and provide sinking fund for the original cost of putting the city under glass. On the streets and yards inside the glass-enclosed city, theré’d be vegetable life to purify the air. Furthermore, the air would be constantly replenished by mighty ven- tilating fans and periodically purified by artificial rain from roof “shower baths.” No one as yet has figured out how to dispose of the poison gas from auto exhaust. An area of half a square mile could bg enclosed in glass, for about $17,000,000 for each 100 feet height, ac- cording to builders. This is enough space to house 65,000 people in large apartment houses or 15,000 in two and three-story houses. The glass-enclosed idea is suggested mainly for the shopping “sections of cities, tho some enthusiasts would extend it into the residential districts. Nearly every city has*the idea worked out in minature, in an “arcade.” These plans to remodel the jail undoubtedly would in- terest the prisoners. If our good friends, the doctors, should be afflicted with writers’ cramp, who would there be te battle with thirst, that terrible epidemic disease? The trouble with that committee of 48 seems to be that {t Is unable to get itself committed. When You Plan, Plan Big! 4 E used to think 10 telephones to every 100 persons ! in the population was the saturation point or limit. Now there is an average of 14 phones to 100 popu- lation, in some places 25, and we have stopped trying to figure on the saturation point.” (Quoting Charles G. Du- bois, president of Western Electric Co.) Business men needn't worry about planning on too big a scale. Over-expansion is a chimera, in the matter of necessities. And the luxuries of today are the necessities of tomorrow. Average standard of living will advance faster in the coming decade than any one now realizes, An Eastern paper says “Goy. Pinchot has many frons in the fire,” but they look like chestnuts from this Oklahoma Jack Walton says his enemies are rats, Probably. Anyway, they got into the house that Jack by What A bout It, Hi? H*: Hiram’s platform has arrived. Keep Uncle Sam’s nose out of Europe. That’s Hiram’s invention, bearing his personal patent mark, Soldiers’ bonus and income tax reduction. Hurrah! The farmers are entitled to government’s sympathetic consideration, with lower freight rates and government interest in co-operative marketing. Saved, by heck! Child labor law and women’s minimum wage by con- stitutional amendment. The dear man! But, Hiram, there’s a board out in your platform. What Brot light wine and beer? What about light wine and er? That Baltimore telephone man who has just become the father of quadruplets, now knows how annoying it is to get the “wrong number.” Waste Is Growing OTELS report travelers are becoming more wasteful. One manager says many guests, when they recently discarded summer underwear, just threw it in the wast baskets of their hotel rooms, rather than bother to carry it away and store it until next year. Also, guests are steadily more careless at forgetting safety razors jewelry, spectacles and so on. 4 ; We are living in a spendthrift period. If congress isn't almighty careful it may wake @ i : p some fine mornin and find itself in jail for contempt of court. : England’s Worry NGLAND scans the sky anxiously. Mark Kerr s the Manchester Rote club that France’s air fore 10 times the size of England's. England is making frantic efforts to catch up, but it'll take eight months before her power in the air will be half as strong as France’s, on the basis of present build- ing programs. - Keep this in mind when trying to fathom European diplomacy, France has the “whip-hand in the air. Her Admiral Bainbridge Colby says the U. 8. A. is jazz crazy, and, perhaps that ac- counts for the prominence he has enjoyed. France’s Idea ‘€TSRANCE acts as if she licked Germany without any F help,” comments the Toledo Blade. : She stri us rather a ; acting as if she expects she'll have to fight Germany lone next time. Now the English women are coming over to lecture us, Just because we gave John Bull plenty of time on his debts, he thinks we will stand for anything. ‘Follies of 1928” LETTER FROM VRIDGE MANN Dec. 6, 1923. Ittent rain complain: a trifle cold a bit of stuff I'm told by n weather's here,” they say, “I'll tell the world I dread ¥, raw and cold today And I reply, “You maja it! And down tho street a block or #0, I meet another fellow. I lo to aay hello, and he begins to bellow: “The weather's you think? It keeps you feeling speedy—the air is © a drink!” I answer, “Yes indeedy™ I say goodbye and walk along; another fellow meets me He starts to sing another song, and this ia how he greets me: “Say, ain't this weather rotten luck? The rain has got me bloosy—e guy has gotta be a duck!” . . . I say, “You bet, it's dewy? Another block, another man; he greets me bright and al chatter follows out a plan that seems a bit contrary, this ralny weather slick? ho aa It's great for eps you well and heals the sick “* course I know I ought to stand upon my own cenvictions, and not agree to such a band of utter contradictions, But Life ts short, id while I know the truthful plane is higher, I'd rather Just agree o it makes mo out a Ila BY W. H. PORTERFIELD V ASHINGTON, Dec 7 Backed by representatives e of the 14 Far Western states in which most of our national parks are located, Supt. Stephen Mather is preparing to demand of Budget Director Lord not less than $2,500,000 for national park highways. At present the roads leading Into Mt. F ler in Washington and Yosemite, uola and Gen- eral Grant parks in California are w |, while conditio nser-known parks are almo During the past season more than 1,500,000 persons visited the national park systems—an Inst!. tution which has developed far beyond the dest imaginations of the founders cronsed the continent Mt ainier park during the season y to dincover that the worst roads of the entire trip were en- countered in that short section under control of the federal gov- ernment fn the park proper Tho citizens of Seattle ralsed $600,000 for a handsome hotel in Mt. Rainier. It has never paid "s profit, The state of ington gpends in interest ‘epairs §1,000,000 a y nment, on the other hand, appropriated a total ‘or the entire Mt, Rainier park, of which roads within the park got but $20,000, Fees from visiting automobiles, ranging from $1 to $5, according to the size and popularity of the park, are diverted to a fund for national park Improvement, bu' it is claimed that even this y is not used for road con. fon or repaire—at least, h part of It Large sums, ning into the millions, are spent by the depart- ment of « on ronds, but national the interior departm retary Work and lace, Ike the ancient Jews and Samaritans, “have no dealings with each other,” More than 1,409 automobiles from New York, 1,200 from Penn. sylvania and relatively as many from many other FE n ntates Potential Presidents Another of a Series of In- formal Sketches of Men Who'd Like White House Job go FEATURING THE DIVINE RIGHT OF | ‘SCIENCE Saving the Zebra. | Practically Untamable. Striped as Camouflage. | ‘The British government is endeay- COURTS Joring to save, In South Africa, the | few remaining herds of mountain 26 |bras, known to the Boers ax “wilde. paard,” or wild horses. ‘The natives always have hunted them as food, and later, white hupters killed many lof them because they were curlosl |tles. ‘They are like other zebran tn nome respects, but look more like Jdonkeya than like horses, ‘They jnever leave the mountains, and |travel over steep and rocky ground almost as easily as goats. Most zebras are practically untam- able and the mountain zebra is even wilder than other kinds, In a few cases they have been broken to drive, but this haa been done merely for purpones of exhibition, as they are not equal to the horse or mule for | working. ‘Tho peculiar markings of the zebra have been discussed ever alnce the lanimal was discovered It is now |cnown that this striping ts a protec- tion. It answers the same purpose 1s camouflage A Thought 1 know that my redeemer liveth, and that he It stand at the latter day upon the earth—Job xix.:25, Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to ita possessor.—Milton, BY MAGNUS JOHNSON U. 8. Senator From Minnesota, (writs expressed in nome quarters that people here in Washington will not be able “broken lish."* My wife was born and raised in Minnesota, Bhe was never out of the state until we moved & to Washington. She doesn’t un- derstand a word of Swedish, being of Scotch extrac tion several generations removed. She was a scnool teacher. I was a poor glass blower from Sweden only a few years before, Yet when I proposed to her in my |brand of English, she understood me and I'm mighty glad she did, be cause I've never had such good re sults from speech making in all my life, and never expect to. I used my bioken English, ap- pealingly to the farmers, laboring | men and all others who believe in a rquare deal for all classes, to vote |for me. The state is overwhelmingly re | publican. Gov, Preus, my opponent |for the senate, had been elected gov- ernor by @ tremendous majority, in 1920. Yet I defeated him for senator ‘by almost 100,000 votes. Someone Eng: JOHNSON to understand my | Love Understood His Broken English‘ He Thinks That Congress’ Should, Too f JUST FOLKS Miexve JOHNSON revels tn his humanity, He te one of the great masses and glories ia the t., The homely phitor whit In -his, has carried pied: digh pines in tne nation. It 1s primar. ily responslble for his elevation to the U. 8, senate as Minnesota’ dirt farmer choice, There in something about this man which ly recommends him to the heart, Herewith {# the first of four signed articles he has prepared especially tor The Star, Be gure to read the others. const. tute an education tn alncertty ang frankness, must have understood me and ti movement back of me in Minnesota! Now I may not be a polished ora.” tor, but in Washington I hope at least to be able to say “No” when a matter is put up that fs not in the Interest of the farmer, the ‘working. man and the honest business man, And I think I will be able to ay “Yes” wo it will be understood by all when we vote on legislation in the interest of the people generally, If a senator learns to say NO the right time and YES et the time, he may, in my opinion, big improvement over some wabbling orators that we hav of the voters generally. SMILES. Marquette university has gtven| | Bouse a degree, Hoe Is a Doctor of| |Muslc. Well, musio needs one. Binoe Boura has become a Doctor of Musio he ahould operate at once. ‘The letters M. D, may mean Doo tor of Medicine or Doctor of Music. Amon both are men of note. No matter how painful, you can't get a regular doctor for a song. Now that Sousa is a Doctor of Musto we hope he cuts out our “Yea, | wo have no bananas,” | | Looking thru the paper in winter | takes less time than in summer. | Fewer bathing girl pictures. | } | Henry Ford, who ts not « candi-| date, ts making speeches by radio. Reading (Pa.) boy went to echoo! drunk. Reading maketh « full boy. five burglaries, Working so bard will stunt his growth. In La Porte, Ind.,a boy of 15 con | | | Man was drowned in a vat of wine} in Newark, N. J., proving that some- | times wishes do come true. | 4) vcuecwmerwe’ LUSCIOUS, Seedless Let's hope they won't bring a0 many bills th: A Pana (111) woman who shucked | 84 bushels of corn in one da gle, but she shouln’t be. is sin | “Whats success?” asks tne Amer: |ican Magazine. Success Is doing what you thought you wanted to do a Here | Fire in a Ch ago echool was| cheer. | quickly extinguished, much to the! dingust of the school boyn, Nother poltt wet plank in Its jafraid of slipping party will have a form. Both are| ideal to are oranges that add to Holiday eat whole. California Oranges i Easy to peel, tender, firm, seedless— Fine for children’s lunch boxes. ~ For Frieda’s Follies | | He had been a tallor. | I dote on teasing the | _Newly-arrived. | Of course I irritated him But it was no reason for him To call me cross-eyed The cast in my eye And is a affliction. We we a dinner | is alight, | ' | When he was #0 rude. | | | | | them th I glared at this tailor He could never be to me anything els * T sald significantly, “I'd rather be cross-eyed, Than cross-logged oranges supply fresh vitamines. organic salts and acids which aid in digesting other foods, especially needed at Holiday time. Also for quick salads and desserts. Slice Also in—no tearing. Cut them easily with fork. All dealers—now—/resh from California. Buy a box for Christmas. Give every one bright-colored, luscious oranges dur- ing the holidays—a healthful gift. BY BERTON BRALEY 4A DOG's Lire” For simply belt No matter if he The cont of living ¢ i E has no clothes If he has fi Why should that expre Tho depths of human wretchedness? troubles of a dog are few: He gets his hoard and lodging too, on the spot, 8 or not n't fret him And human worrles don't bes t him. and needn't patch ‘em , Why he can scratch ‘em While woes with which OUR souls aro tried We cannot scratch, for they're Inside, content, he needn't mix In business, war or polities, And ff he happens to grow f!I, His master pays the doctor's bill ND ff he ever thinks about SAMUEL M. RALSTON. Born ember 1, 1857. Lawyer Tuscarawas county, O., De Admitted to Ind ana bar 1886. Governor of Indiana (democrat) 1913 Elected 1 senator from Indiana for term 1! He probably we How lucky ts 1 No bills to pay, A dog's Ife A man’s life must be p (Copyright, 197 Life's problems, which he does, no doubt cogitate, canine fate! no rent to meet I wleep, IT romp, I drink and eat suits me well enough tougl Tho eattlo Star) Sunkist California’s Uniformly Good Oranges Be sure to get them in the wrapper stamped “‘Sunkist’” California Fruit Growers Exchange 4 Non-profit, Co-operative Organisation of 11,000 Greeeert LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA CLIFFO GRE THEY