The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 11, 1923, Page 8

The Seattle ed Daily by The Star Publishing Co, 1907 N 1 th per Knterprise Assootatl A Unitt en © per month, § months $160, € months $2.00, 7 ea month. . Gilman, Ruthman, Special Representatives, San Francoise eftion, Monadnock Bide.; Chicago offic, Tribune Bidg.) New York office Canqdian Pacific Mde.; Boston office, Tremont Bide, Won't You Help? VICE. PRESIDENT of the Penn Mutual Life Insur- ance Co, predicts that 16,000 persons will be killed by automobiles during the year 1924. Startling, but true enough. Reckless boys and girls hugging each other in- stead of the steering wheel will run down men and wom- en and crash into other automobiles. Drunken speedsters will careen crazily along the high-road, not knowing whither they are going. Thoughtless children will dart in front of cars and will be stricken down. Just a little precaution will do much to increase length of life. Won't you help? . year Frank H, Hitchcock, who managed the ill-fated Charles Evans Hughes boom in 1916, now manages Hl Johnson's 1924 boot Hi wrecked Hughes’ boom because Hughes wouldn't shake hands with Hi, Wonder how Hitch: cock stands on handshaking for Hi today? Giff Pinchot”s latest coal conference Is reported as having been “a coal- baron victory,” and that may be right. At least was it barren. Anger NGER is one of the primitive passions of man, It has wrecked empires; broken men on the wheel of its degrading influences; it has been the cause of half of the suffering in the world today. First anger was when Adam remonstrated with Eve for biting into the apple in the Garden of Eden, si Anger may be governed. It is only an expensive pas- sion which makes a wild beast of a civilized man. The bull, infuriated by the red flag, is made an easy victim of the matador’s sword. The infuriated man is an easy victim for his adversary. The passion of anger is, and always will be, one of the worst forms of temporary insanity That wife who shot at her husband six times and never hit him will lose her divorce case, all right. No court will force.a man to live with such an utter failure as she has proved herself (o be, Perhaps Calvin can “get more sap out of a maple tree than any of the other boys,” as his father says, but congress is another kind of wood. Blah! 6 EN an American woman feels badly she goes out nd spends and spends, until she feels good again. ih fact, the most expensive thing the American man can buy is the American woman.” Such is the glib comment of W. L. George, British nov- elist, lecture-touring America. Not that we have any particular desire to preserve him for the future, but if we were W. L. George we'd stay east of the Mississippi and avoid the West—where woman is esteemed consider- ably higher than in England. Sex cynicism arouses less resentment in the cynical East. “They have found several cars in King Tut's tomb,” says an exchange, and that indicates that a certain salesman from Detroit got on the ground earlier than anybody had supposed. You can buy dinosaur eggs now for $24,000 a dozen and they will taste as usual, for they are only 10,000 years old. Het Dogs and History IFTY-THREE “hot dogs” were eaten by John Huine in a contest, The audience then carried him to the rear of the restauraht, covered him with a fireman's red shirt and left him to sleep. He’s the champion hot dog eater of New York’s Lower Hast Side. A thousand years from now, Huine’s giant meal will seem as important as nearly anything else happening this year in America; so don’t belittle him. On with the World Vaudeville! Further development of the radio should be controlled. It is showing signs of spreading the saxophone sobs over entirely too much territory. A scientist now has discovered that there are more little stars in the sky than large ones. Same down here. Early With the Loot (Coates started off as usual. About the first bit of law-making proposed contemplates the creation of a new official commission. Every little commission, you know, has a money meaning all its own. This new deal, if consummated, will provide a select company of experts, including two up-to-the-minute wom- en, whose duty it will be to “determine the alcoholic con- tent of intoxicating beverages.” The real idea, it is plain, is to attack the prohibition laws by establishing drinks that are not too alcoholic, but just alcoholic enough. Of course, there is now government machinery aplenty to handle matters of this kind, if they need care at all, but appeal to this machinery is not in the scope of our modern statesmanship. Not at all. The main purpose of bunk legislation of this kind is to raid the treasury. Every commission and-every bureau needs money with which to employ clerks, and egents, and experts, and inspectors, and investigators, and each of these in turn must have more money to employ as- sistants and helpers of one kind or another. So it goes. The innocent-looking legislative project develops into a rapacious, blood-sucking leech that feeds on the public u Talk about cutting down the expenses of government! Trust congress to prevent anything of that kind trans- piring. Radio boosters now want debates of congress broadcasted all over the country. Modern inventions may be wonderful, but they're not exactly merciful. If Giff Pinchot keeps on calling these conferences on coal someone is going to step forward and call a conference on Giff. LETTER FROM Sr eh Te 7] BA ABSTAY VRIDGE PANN But December 11, so down to re all of the traveler: h them e from is such an unusual sound, ion to t are ri jon is bringin; vision of riding around. z I would like to explain, it loses its charm you're meeting a train! it is that this Is the arriy neverthele inquire usual fate: friends tt lat They At quarter of 9 f arrivals and ord is ing on sched- ke it from mo, nm impe it complac tly tells you, “arrt you can the rec kept—"All trains,’ ule, except @ wearlsome time SELON THE SHALTLE CHANGE IMMIGRANT LAW,SAYS ELLIS ISLAND COMMISSIONER BY W. H. PORTERFIELD LLIS ISLAND, New York, Dec. 11.—The present imm!- gration law is fundamentally sound, but it needs amendments to enable better execution of ita provisions, according to Henry H. Curran, commissioner at Bilis Intn Curran outlined the cha in administration he thought SMILES enforcement. This would things from what they are now. Johnson 1s a Californian. dals we Yote for him. Pinchot Is strong for prohibition change| If Hi | proposes less and better movie scan- Mr. 8. Bonus in a private issue who} congress should authorize, First, he would count immigrants over- sean, before they nail for Amer fea. Second, he would allot the quotas thru American consular agents abroad. Third, he would give greater authority to the commissioner of immigration to wot in emergencies. “As a purely administrative Officer, I feel that I should ex- ercise due caution in expressing myself, and yet it seems to me that these three amendments are imperative “Aa to the first haphazard = meth everyone come who the present of can get a passport simply results in one long succession of heart-breaks and bitter misunderstandings. It ought to be almple enough to check the number at some cen- tral point in each country, so as to prevent anyone from. sailing who would be found outside the quota on arrival here, “The second amendment ta, of course, directly connected with the first. The quota allotments letting consular agents abroad, always with a sufficient margin of safety. Thun, if a certain coun- try were entitled to 1,000 Imm! grants, the allotment would be on a baxis of 150 the month for six months, say, leaving a mar: gin of 100 at the close of that period for checking purposes “Third, the commissioner at Eilts Ieland, thru which . two- thirds of our immigrants pans, is b wht directly in touch with the great, daily human problem of the men and women who are coming to our shores. It is im- for the authorities; at no matter how honest or intelligent they may be, to know the situation as we know it who are here on the ground. Whatever pobsibilities of flexibility there may Be in the law should be interpreted by the official nenrest the actual scens of operations.” . Commissioner Curran feels that too much time and red tape is spent !n making appeals from the local board of Inquiry to the ton, cultural | | | | | | | plans to do a lot of fighting thin| presidential campaign. | should be distributed among our secretary of labor at Washington. THE OUTCAST BY BERTON BRALEY GUESS I'm a musical moron For somehow or other I find classical stuff doesn't score on My bourgeots and commonplace mind; Beethoven and Mozart and most of The masters don’t thrill mo a Bit; It isn't the thing that I boast of, But something I have to admit, It took the civil war veterans 55 lyears to get their bonus. Ours say they can't afford to wait. | nes Lower Taxse la a presidential [candidate appealing to all except men too rich to pay taxesy | : I Chaplin for president would have 1 jthe kids, banana dealers a pie makers back of him. Bryan might not get elected presi fent, but seeing him run would look | the good old days. be ss VE tried to improve; I have listened To concerts, and struggled to learn Why eyes of the audience glistened With pleasure. I failed to discern Whatover it was that enchanted Their spirit, and caused them to glow; So now—TI just take it for granted I'm stupid and never will know Only happy solution is to voter have a private president. very The band wagon next year will con tinue to be the water wagon University of Chicago girls vote all men are Just the same, no home is complete without one. “s? ET when from the saxophone {ss The accents of Kern or Berlin, I find every fiber and tissue Is tingling in tune; I begin To sway to the strange xyncopation Tho classical music falls flat What, YOU'RE in the Oh, well, let's Just le (Copyright, 1 PTET EL ee ps. 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Every day marks new heights gained and new progress| BISHOP JAMES CANNON, Meth Birmingham, Ala.; “The last ars are the blackest in Chris- If the laws of interna neutrality force Christian men |to stand aside and watch Christian men shot and Christian women mis treated, as the American sailors were forced to do at Smyrna, the laws of international neutrality should be| changed.” | DR. HENRY OSTROM, Chicago:| “Intellectual men on every hand are} today questioning the existence of moral laws, It is a situation that | threatens home, mother, mar: | riage and all that men have held} dear thru the ages, You may ns well| try to lift air with’a lawn rake as attempt to lift the world’s sc odist, five y | tian t | tions tor love, modern philosophy.” To Wes a Kecond SFAMAN, Clinton and Middle un be made It will pay in a , as the canal is now The farmers in river| shipping the solution of their prob lems.” issippl tem ¢ Thousands of Other Articles Specially Priced for Christmas e Crporivinge sy ANDREW KAN 1121 Third Avenue OUISE LOVELY, screen star | i people in the movies don't DR. MARION L, BURTON, n ‘for 41 ave people say he is a human being [is @ conqueror pf the first order,’ Russia WENT to Munsia to get facts Facts, primarily, about agri- conditions—the the markets, transportation, the great distributing agencies. I wanted to see this mammoth experiment in work- ers’ government at work, to see what {t had done for the farmers, how quickly it was repairing the havoc of seven years of internal and external wars. Those are the facts which you can't get at long distance, nor thru the average newspaper story. It's a rare per- son in Europe even who knows the truth about Russia, I saw 2,000 milen of farms in- tensively planted and with good crops evyerywhe I talked to these peasants everywhere and found them the happlest, most contented and most hopeful peo- ple in all Burope. They are free, they vote in all the elections, thelr taxes are low, not half the rate of ours; they have the per- petual use’of their houses and farms, They have the greatest thirst for education I have ever seen, Since Russia is more than 90 per cent peasant and about 8 per cent labor, these facts are very Impressive in proving tho stability of the new government. WELL SATISFIED WITH LAND POLICY AND TAXES Russian peasants are prac tically unanimous in thelr sup- port of the soviet government and are enthusiastic about the possiblilties ofthe future. They are well pleased with the noviet land policy and are quite as well natinfied with the new system of taxation. ‘There can be no doubt that the peasants of Russia will harvest a large surplus for ex- port. In fact, they are no confident of a murplus crop that they are already selling their surplus of last year, I saw long strings of thelr ttle one-horse wagons coming into the stations loaded with sacks of grain for sale. 1 found one place In Europe where they had already sold and deliy- ered 6,000,000 bushels, I Jearned the names of 15 ships that had taken cargoes from Crimean ports and others from Odessa, In all, it was estimated that this old surplus will amount to a million tons and harvesting was ready to begin on the new crop. I found the railroads in good crops, co-operative As I Found It | BY SENATOR SMITH W. BROOKHART } (in the Locomotive Engineers’ Journal) condition and every train on time, The cars were clean, the wervice good, and the meals wat- isfactory, I saw much new work on the railroads, especially in the war districts, I was {n- formed that 90 per cent of the mileage is now in operation and that for the first time they have their own locomotive shops. This wos confirmed by American rep- resentatives of the Baldwin Lo. comotive company at Bucharest, Russia's elections are run ex- actly like the old s#tand-pat re- publican caucuses, and they Potential Presidents Another of a Series of In- formal Sketches of Men Who'd Like White House Job JAMES M. COX—Newspaper pub- lisher, Born Jacksonburg, Ohio, March 31, 1870. Reared on farm, worked in printer's office, taught country school and became newspa- per reporter. Bought Dayton Dally News in 1898 and the Springfield Press-Republic in 1903, forming the News League of Ohio. Member 61st and 62d congresses from Ohio, Gov- ernor of Ohio, 1913-15, 1917-21. Demo- cratic nominee for president in 1920. | Ours {s her wedding garment on | Residence, Dayton, Ohio. ought to be reformed, and wiy be In time, Everybody, be ‘ certain intellectuals and employ. ers of labor, These exceptiong aro an unfalr discrimination set ought to be removed, ‘ Jem nn St started ty 4 : the state-operated pao being reorganized ag tives with the @ Co-op erae government, tbe! : wrown to aix times before the revolution, As matters now stand three alternatives in Russia; present government, chaos. The soviet Be many times better than which we recognized tor uy) years. The recognition of a goy, ernment does not mean tte ap proval. If {t did I should ope it, and there are several other There fey countries whose would withdraw, one argument for the recognition of Russia. 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