The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 26, 1923, Page 8

The Seattle Star Published Datly by ‘The Star Publishing Co, 1907 Beventh Ave, Phone MEA 10-0600, Newspaper Enterprise Association and United Press Bervi mall, out of olty, bo per month, § monthe $1.60, € months $2.00, year Ry carrier, clty, 60e\a month Gliman, Nicoll & Tuthman, Spectat offies, Monadnock Midg.; Chicago offh Canadian Pacttic Midg,; Hoaton office, Representatives, fan Franc{#oo ; New York offios, Neighborliness MERICANS now have 850 million dollars invested in industries in Canada, we're told by Sir Frederick Wil- liams-Taylor, general manager of the Bank of Montreal, ‘That's about $100 for every man, woman and child in Canada, Politically, Canada’s a part of the British empire. Indus- tually, she is closer to America, and not only geographi- cally so. A soldier has just died in an English military hospital as a result of swallowing a knife, but the dispatch doesn’t say whether it was peas or pie that caused tho blade to slip from his brave grasp, Another reason for holding national conventions in Cleveland fs that hobody will try to steal her union depot, Uncle Sam’s Ready (To relieve sufferers of the big Japanese earthquake, t Americans contributed $11,400,000, the Red Cross announces. Uncle Sam is a tight-fisted old gentlemat, foreigners often claim—but not when help is really needed. New York officials report that it is the mothers-Inlaw who cause a majority of the domestic disasters in that city, and they'll have you now if is no joke, The supreme court has adjourned to January 2 and we may expect no legislation until after that date, Worth While News TTNDIA cables that its foreign trade revival, which began in September, is gaining headway steadily. India’s a long way off, but this may be important news for America. Some economists believe that India, for reasons unknown, is the source of world economic movements. The interna- tional price crash, which brought hard times to all coun- tries several years back, started in India, spread to Japan, Lie the raw silk market collapsed, then out over the wor! The meat problem can never be soitled right until we can compel all hands to keep their thumbs off the scales. Thieves gagged a hotel clerk. Of course, they did wrong, but their Awelessness excites our envy. Trapped EARCHING newspaper files, we believe Harry Com- stock of Texas had the most terrible experience of any | American during 1923. Harry climbed a hollow tree, fell | down inside and couldn’t get out. He wa: imprisoned, | without food or water, for 10 days before a searching party | rescued him. What was the worst experience you ever had? How | does it compare with Harry's living nightmare? Judge Gary, of the steel trust, admits that he aspired, when young, to be a labor agitator. He seems to have got there. What's the matter with the old flag? The candidates do not seem to ‘De waving it as they should. Gres ° é Injun Devil” ‘HE most Sratng: and intelligent of all animals is the | carcajou—a half-wolf prowler of the Far North. Woodsmen call it the Injun Devil. aig The Injun Devil follows a few miles behind a fur trapper, Springing traps as fast as they are set. A trapper may toil a whole winter and at the end of the season have nothing to show for his labors, the Injun Devil having followed and counteracted the trapper’s work. As with the trapper in the accompanying pen-picture by Artist Satterfield. So cunning is the Injun Devil that it even holds a stick in its mouth to spring traps without injuring itself. The Injun Devil reminds us of militarists and others who forever follow the constructors and destroy. It is pg law, tho, for tearing-down to balance the build- Gosh, what a Christmas! everybody except the county We've got a merry greetings card from tax assessor, Flammarion, the astrologer, says Mars Is than we are. Can it be possible? Mostly Words : RESIDENT CAL says he is “opposed to war taxes in time of peace.” Undoubtedly. So are all of us. But how can we avoid such taxes? When, in the his- tory of the country we love, has there been a time of eace that had not its heavy proportion of war taxes? e are still being taxed for the war of 1812 and th E 2 and the Mexican war, and it was not so very long ago that we were relie Inhabited by people smaller ved of taxation for the revolution of 1776. For 100 years hence, or longer, we will be p S gTow- ing directly out of the recent world w e is no escape. War taxes will come and continue so long as there is war. Not u e : , until a world becomes sane—which it never has been wholly voided entirely can we hope to be freed of their burdens of cost. : Mr. Coolidge used words that sound good, but their only echo is a sound. ; New Orleans police claim they have a bullet-proof vest, are wives in doubt as to the right Christr And yet there present for husbands. President Obregon’s insurgents are as be lligerent as ours down in Was ington, but they lack the r oe inement of the latter. A Builder of Character and Cities | JN the recent death of William H. Lewis, Seattle lost | one of its foremost citizens, and what is more | portant, a man whose influence on the youth of the was of incalculable value to the community. A path-finder in the realm of hydraulic luicing, Mr | Lewis was largely re ponsible for the regrade work that transformed the topography of the city and made possi- ble its steady, normal growth. The majority of the great sluicing projects that worked a miracle in remoy- im- city ing Seattle’s hills e undertaken under his direction. Even more impor » perhaps, than his genius as an engineer—and he was recognized thruout the United States as one of the founder. the part that he played attle youths. Vitall t Cc. iversit of hydraulic sluicing—vy in the life of thousands of terested in the work of the Y of Washington, the Boys’ club and | similar organizations, he labored for more than 20 years to impr conditions for American boyhood, i | Mr. Lewis was essentially a builder. His work as an | engineer helped attle to grow into tk tiful, well- | red city that it is, and } s a friend and ad- viser helped thousands of to grow into 7, clean-th . Lewis i é ment beh‘nd him. § bear the impress of I an enduring monu- | citizens will long The further away from him he gets, the more certain is Mr. Firpo that | he packs the wallop that will lay Mr. Dem psey low. Distance makes the Jaw wag freer ¢ tl Poincare the most reasonable person in all Europ. Which confirms our rst suspicions Frieda’s Follies I HAD tried to get in a word edge: wise FOR hours. SHE HAD invited mo to the de- bate, nuT SHE floor. 1 WAS not the only one raging that “And He Blew, and He Blew!” TH f GZZZLLLL 4 N SIMPLY monopolized y IT HAD gone on for the last three SERIAL.” 10 one could be heard. the evolved The A BC of the Market for Presidential Candidates ASHINGTON, Deo, 26—F years detectives havo be accustomed to an” whonever a crime was com, Find the Man, Is New Slogan of Detectives Washington areas, 1am New York Ave. look for the wom | mitted | , T rose. | “Look for the man,” anys Mra, | SAT along these lines was ai | Mina C. Van Winkle, director of “I THOUGHT these wero going the Washington, D, C., bureau to be of policewomen. FRIENDLY debates,” I sald, in} Mra, Van Winkle te» a noted | parting. | New York social worker and was | “I DID not know they were going| formerly at the head of a reform to bo echool there. This ta her theory from experience w BY LOWELL MELLETT } And among others present, Everybody likes to ee his there could be named Homer 8. namo In the paper, so we print Cummings, Gov, Do: the list of presidential candl- ter Glass, Gov, § Cha datee: Evans Hughes, Senator Wad A-—Stands for ayres, 1x con- | Worth and Royal 8. Copel | | gress from Kansas Stands Ukewise for Cox | D and John E Jersey stands for first name's ex-ne is for Coolidge, Stands f ands for Bryan, and al- for Coolidge, and ands for Davis, Jonathan V ands for Edwards, New hie. | Ford, but be | nds for Gardner, whose jern science wag the di | Vitamine B. itamin B Ono of the great triumphs of mod. overy of ‘red. | This ming ts found mostly in| H—Stands for Houston, the | seeds and cereal ¢ It ts also etary jfound in very nts, It is nds for I. They all stand | nearty always n the ov native K—Standa for Knight, Charles | weed con! nda for Johnson, hisown | n. of berlbert » jcent yearn, 1 s for La Follette and | was ones th den Jepidemic afte " of McAdoo and |tem. It was ¢ I better ra pean millir en 1 N—sStands for Neff. Texas /bie, Theso censen c 1 the friends call him Pat to be polis O—Stands for Owen and his | ore the c own Oklahoma cating con for Pinchot and | tack of Vit lower-priced coal. posed Q—st for Quinn. The Le iad °, perhaps. rely 80 for Ralston and | potishings. a One of t Smith. Just call 1s for Taft, who would 10 called t again the anthr for Underwood, He | di V nda for Volstead, wen | FIND FAMOUS GRAVE be vo on his act | They have found the grave of Ww ids for Watson. Jim |Massasoit, the Wampanoag India 620, He Ph « for com white f Ma follie chusetts colonic (¥y vyomcR Crean LETTER, FROM VY RIDGE, AA WY December 26, 1923, Merry Christmas day is gone; Santa’s trip Is past. Waking. in recollec J Happ face still can mile fe was the trouble worth the while You an string, cluttered all the floor. ¢ nA. eoms s wrapping-stuff ga d , ay, wher was hurled—did the it m can tell A npu th the You can bet ¢ unning all the toys. Do you th d all the cost well are the y t bringing Life a am Hearts a SRATTLE STAR ay, Not Woman, a of delinquent women 8 lite aecents sex too raye clothes *, the mage, rho does Airectl: © nex. Ballroc more time in Viris must be educated ng. there. outdoor earn a support them: work and t some ¢ recreation under super- wld be It ‘ per for the st developed stato Pre-de m red. nhould be the churet pollee, the all Mer than ever before, Win Mra, Van places the ving picture, ates children too It is rare in her work for her to find a girl in trot & food educatt eo who has n or a trade, - ‘| A THOUGHT | In the Orient, where rice ts one of the main ar ‘ Our persecutors are swifter than the * of the heaven; they pur. sued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.— Lam, iv.:19, —— re pression of any peopl has rarely had other effect than to fix tt deepe 1 render them I nta to with the “CAPITAL” Six-hole Range $68.00 With porcelain trim in Blue, White or Gray. Polish ix-hole top, oven-door thermometer, nch oven and duplex e for coal or wood 8.00, Best Quality Water | Coil, 3.00 FREDERICK & NELSON an United States Senator From NHR in no quention in my mind that the supreme court has usurped the power to declare an act of congress to be unconstitutional, Legislative en actments have been declared void by this great tribunal, 1 be Heve such an exorcise of power to be & dangerous usurpation of a legislative function, Universal experience hag been that power usurped In any branch of gov ernment has proved to be power dishonestly and corruptly used, In support of my belief that the exercise of this: power to de clare an act of congress to be unconstitutional 1s an unwar- ranted usurpation, tt might be well to et ome attention to the origin of our political sys tem, Prior to the apoption of the federal conatitution, it ts evi- dent that the power of the states wan supreme, sovereign and un limited, But “in order to form & more perfect Union,” they dele. gated n portion of it to the fed eral government, clearly mpec ing that whien they delegated and withholding all the rest. ‘Tho federal constitution confers upon the federal government certain powers expreasly enumerated; the constitu states contain a general grant of pow. ern not excepted or prohibited. ‘The federal constitution ts a grant of powers; the state con | stitutions are limitations of pow- | ers. In the face of there well-estab. Mshed rules of interpretation it is pretty hard to understand how the supreme court of the United Btaten could take to iteelf the right to exercise a power not ex preusly conferred by the federal conaltution. There ts no ques tion that the power is not ex pressly conferred, and it whould | be equally unquestionable that the power cannot be derived by necessary implication. It strikes | ewhat pertinent, declare an a me as being son that the power tc | of congress vold and null by rea son of ite repugnancy to the fed- | 1 | eral cons cised during the the fe was not exer- 16 3 that trol of the it was not the republicans assumed | pL of the nt that | nta had government and tha until governme FREDERICK & NELSON | WEDNES! USURPING POWER OF CC.> BY EDWIN F. LADD the federal Judges ventured to proclaim the power and exer- cine It I fear that we have been more or ons burdened with legal wis dom, Perhaps the layman's view may not tally up to all of the Gymnastic porsibilities of the le gal mothod, but It may nerve to simplify the arguments relating to the means which the people possess for the safeguarding of their rights, There has grown up in our government system a feeling of awe, amounting al- mont to fear, of agengies of gov- ernment that are supposed to be the instrumentalities of the peo- ple—and which are not, I maintain that it ts not an absolute requinite that a man be 4 lawyer to understand some of the simple language in the con- utitution, It matters not if the supreme court has usurped this power, and if they have exercined it for a long period of years, that fact does not mean that they now have the power. ‘They can only have it by the sufferance of congress. It was never intended they should have. It wag intended that the con- gress whould be the supreme branch of government, and that the congress would have to go to the people and report Any ottier con- clusion would be an assumption that th ple had willfully re linquished control of supre functions of government and placed those functions in the hands of a few men who were not directly responsible to the peo- Under the constitution, con- gress alone should determine whether or not proposed act was constitutional. As the mem- ber of the house or the senate decides on any such question that might arise, just so will his record go back to the people as his report, and they will decide whether or not they approve of his course, In this way the peo- ple can give expression every two years, This was, in my humble opin- jon, the real intent of the fram- of the constitution, Whi: ce does the citizen have to the supreme court of the The fact th: Yorth Dakota |laundry marks or radio |tiful they don’t use rouge, HAS | winds Lig | cold Wi congremh, guarde has not inslttes court functifm® tended apne j that the peop!s dave loot Tat right, and that W growing des potiem shall be enthroned, It thin congress Will pase a new Judiciary act, defining the Dow ers and rights of the aupreme court, and declare in that got that it shall not hereafter have the power to declare an act of congress unconstitutional, the people of this great tand arise and support them in puch & mensure, and the supreme | court of the United States will not dare challenge that right, 1 Should it attempt to do so, then | it would be the solemn duty of congress to proceed under the constitution to dissolve the court that attempted it and constitute another one to take its piace, After Iasi hors and ell eific for 46 sels, endan| | i SMILES Russians are the people who dance sitting down and sing Uke » house burning up. §p. m. Tuel attained a 56- LDER WE Js NOW FOR ‘The barom of a recul r the weatl more like Ey report tq stations, fy ond T! Russlan names sound Some clyim Russians throw the soap away and use the soap. bers for making speeches, Russian whiskers will hide Christmas neckties, Altho the sf elements cau shore, no loss fave accomp: “shipping. Fi “the Canadian ql vessels | tially crippled Wednes ‘Tho ferry to pieces on © BP peach, was ¢ Mexicans wear mushroom fais eg ‘anved and have mushroom government < ty Tuesd F steamboat Co. under lease mediately res fog the douh on the Dawn's ‘2 65-foot, sini SCORE OF SI CRAFT DAI Beores of 5 boats on the one dwelling Wird—but all Plate glass ‘hele ‘The Mexicans are fighting again They should call this their New Year volution. Mexicans have to read the payer dally to see who is president, : A Mexican looks like a mushroom from an airplane, but some of them are very poisonous. Some Mexican women are so beau. 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