The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 12, 1923, Page 8

ROE aii LAREN The Seattle Star Published Dally by ‘The Star Publishing Co, 180T Beventh Ave, Phone Main 0600, Newspaper Raterpriae Assoctation and United Press Service ail, out of elty, 60e per month, 2 months $1.60, € monthe $2.00, year 8 By cartier, clty, be & month, Gliman, ‘Nicoll & Ruthman, offica, Monadnock Hite.) Chicago of Canadian Pacific Bldg; Boston office, on Ran Francisco Wada.) New York office, Wide: Saving Trial by Juries Soo Kk, D, McKELLAR, of Tennessee, proposes | two important amendments to the which will be eagerly watched by those checking the growing assumption of summary proce: judges. One proposes trial by jury in indirect contempt case The other seeks to guarantee that jury trial, when se- cured, shall be what its name implies and not simply farce; in other words, that the jury, and not the judge, shall decide the guilt or innocence of the defendant. It is high time that such amendments as McKellar pro- poses were written into the law. interested in s by 8, shipping board to Secretary of the Navy federal code | BY JOUN CARSON Deo, 12.—The collect this ASHINGTON, rallroads will (The The Filling Station Is Now Open for Bus yin freight sen approximately $6,000, than 8p and each person in the United Staten would pay The They want to give the U. 8, Denby, but he doesn’t want it, or to $ merce Hoover, but he doesn’t want it, Looks like the mereh: to be, Slipping OMEN rapidly are becoming the dominant sex and $ man will be a timid, shrinking creature of the fire- side and boudoir. Joke-writers began telling us this, long they’re backed by the German scientists, Mathilde Vaerting, whose book on the subject has translated for publication in English. We disagree. Men are slipping admittedly, but any de- terioration that is taking place is attacking both sexes ago. Now Mathias and ; been equally. Women average a 50-50 say. They always have and always will. ei Thieves robbed an Indiana farmer of 75 home the bacon, and they did it, you see. Killers Before the Law the very center of the great traffic tide of St. Louis, where the north-and-south flow cuts thru t from the east and west, a monument has just been erected, On this monument is this inscription: pigs. They were out to bring } In Memory 4 F Of Child Life Sacrificed On the Altar of RECKLESSNESS It is a monumental memorial to the 32 little children killed by automobiles in that city so far during 19% a pathetic reminder to those who drive carefull at the same time, is a terrible indictment of those who ride and drive regardless of life or limb. Following close on the erection of this monument, St Louis had a “safety week It was a record-breaker. That is, it broke all records of deaths under auto wheels during y single week of the city’s history. Despite all @fforts and appeals for safety, nine persons were run down and killed by reckless drivers in that very brief time. St. Louis is not different from Seattle or any other city. The reckless, death-dealing autoist is everywhere. Never, until he stands before the law exactly as do kill- ers of all other kinds, will the fool disappear from the q steering wheel and driver's seat. A Texas aviator has just been arrested for driving his plane while in. toxicated. He knocked down the only iree in the state. Mr. Ford might, at least, sound hi: : The Law as a Job ‘ T’S a big job, this making men good by law and writ- ing signboards of supposedly high moral tone that tell everybody where to head in. Justice R. A. Burch, of the Kansas supreme court, has dug up a few facts on the subject. In the five years preceding 1914, tive acts were written on the books. In 1917 some 17,000 volumes of printed. In the most recent annual compilation of statistics on law books, 175,000 pages were printed in one year. Qn_top of all this are the thousands of pages of rul- ings handed down by various boards and bureaus, with semi-judicial powers, all of which have a bearing on le- gal practice. What is the result of all this lawing? Alv been the accepted theory that ignorance of the law is no excuse for the commission of a wrong. Now it is a good excuse in fact if not in law. ven the lawyers do not, and cannot, know the law. Judge Burch hi f admits that “lawyers cannot advise their clients sz nd the courts are hampered by the present state of the common law and its conflicting view What a blessing it would be to the country if legisla- tive bodies could, for a number of years, be restricted solely to repeal work and a proper and lucid revision and condensation of such laws as should remain on the books. The present situation is an abomination in the eyes of civilization. Justice, in addition to being blind, is choked to death by the deluge of duncery and distortion that has fallen upon her. klaxon. some 62,500 legisla- legal reports were In the sad life of the pedestrian, the first minute is as bad as all the others. Sh-sh-sh-sh! HAT is Truth?” once asked Pontius Pilate with a sneer. Today hundreds of thoughtful men and women thruout the country are asking, also somewhat sneeringly, another question, “What is Secrecy? Up to within an hour of the delivery of the message of the late President Harding, not even newspaper men knew what they contained. E en greater precaution have been used by other presidents. Yet a week before President Coolidge released his first public utterance to congress, its contents were known to “folks on the inside” from Washington to New York on the Friday previous, the writer, talking casus a company of New Yor informed the wa stock and bond house on Wall Street was conversant the entire message and had actually ent out “confiden- 3 tial notices bearing on the president’s attitude on certain finantial subjects” to clic all over the country. By Saturday the entire Eastern seaboard was freels discussing the message in all its details; by Monday all congress knew just w the president as going to say” and cor of the message were cor as news- papers in corridors and offices. On Tuesday morning, confidential wire messages were received by many mem bers from their friends on the Pacific co. views on this supposed “secret” For weeks the stage had been ist, giving their mes: set and the public noti- fied with many a s-h-h-h-h-shush that presently the cur- tain would rise and this great message would be thun dered forth as an utterance of Delphic reverberation 3ut instead of the thunders of Sinai, the public has been treated to the sibilant whispers of 10,000 “insiders” who proved on investigation to be merely repeating what kn else everyone Reports say Coolidge’s managers have decided to abandon the idea of a quiet and dignified campaign, due to Hiram Johunse activities much silence doesn’t get by as wisdom Too and a billion last: year road this over average family of four per iG RIXED Wii Voy any 4 { passenger fons would pay about $240 this about $8 more than it was in with Increaned regulation by the | finance have pledged thelr mp. year 1013, government? port to the railroads, ‘They wij dollars more Some place and somewhere Hack {n 1919, the railroads In It necensary to look forward present @ solid front to the op. and somehow, ¢ ne pays collected only $44.10 for every to government operation? position in congress, They wit} the country The railroad bill certainly ta person in the United Btates, In Pee Ful’ tactal tacecrh tell this story paawed on to the consumer, In | 4917, the charge jumped to . ris a. a ores. admit conditions were nok about $59,60. just one item, your coal bill, the | gy9.4o, 4m 1919, it wow $48.90; In ament operation during the | go goog a yoar or #0 ago he, rallroad cha this year will be 1920, It was $58.40, And this | that condition resulted from war 7 your it will bo tnereased to 6 railroad executives con operations and t cemsity for $59.00, tend today that the people, an a reorganiz the: road Ineae KAILMOADS COST BACH whole, are watinfled with trans. have reorganized and they are ros See SS FAMILY OF FOUR $10 portation conditions and that repaid eet San oye | With all thin talk about “the only a few “demagogues" are hehe ae thee fener breaking | railroad problem," one of the causing trouble ‘ relat pete msl i | best ways to understand it and STORY THAT BUSED iia soada a ohastte Mirae | appreciate it in ts rebeive it own AND FINANCE WILL coe anarcrieen peal to dollars and cents and to see : i iat rie regs the cout of Within the last f nd the roads promise gery. living, ‘The realization that it organized business and o7 And it is service the people means about $240 this year from ses | each family of four persona, Is he farmer's problem ts the 1 Index to the import problem, pretty go ance At of the HAPPINESS CONCENTRATION OF t so important PEOPLE TO BLAME ent of peor a tr away, the problem is | 1918-1921 Britain, can ¥ Ellis Island Folks Find Defects in Johnson Bill BY W. 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