The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 29, 1923, Page 8

The Seattle Star ar Publishing Co, 180T Beventh Ava Phone nd United Preae Bervi Ban Fra Chman, Special Representatives nel soe New York offices, {_Chteage office, Tribune Bid * Canadian Pacific Midg.; Moston office, Tremont Midi Penalty to Fit the Offense ‘HERE’S something wrong with the laws that govern the duties of county commissioners in the state of Washington. Something so radically wrong that Kin county citizens are apt to awake some future aay ani find the commissioners have sold the courthouse, leased the highways to private individuals or granted a monop- on the use of oxygen, other words, the commissioners have power to do about what they please under the laws that éxist. And they have still wider powers outside of the law with per- fect freedom from prosecution, Because the laws have no teeth’in them. Witness the anfazing condition that exists in the con- duct of King county highways. Both Commissioners Tom Dobson and Frank Paul are charged by the state examiners with flagrant, repeated and gross violation of the law in building roads, letting contracts and in spend- ing highway funds. ; examiners’ report details a long list of law viola- tions committed by both commissioners. And they are immune from prosecution because the legislature which framed the bill, by intent or otherwise, neglected to pro- *vide any penalty for violations of the law governing the conduct of county boards. This condition is revealed at periodic intervals, almost with each new board. And still nothing is done. The Jaws that do exist are little more than commandments not to do so and so and that’s all. It’s about time Washington voters took some action to protect themselves, Law-breaking public officials de- serve jail terms like other offenders get, when their offenses warrant such a penalty. State-owned railways in the Argentine are showing a profit, These Hines, says the department of commerce, “were built primarily for the development of new sections of count! Ours, on the other hand, were built for the development of new millionaires, After the Filipinos get independence for themselves, why not invite ‘em over here to shew us how to do it? Speed Craze SAFETY FIRST enthusiast writes: “Why was so much attention paid to the wreck of the Twentieth Century Limited, killing nine, when at least five times that many were killed the same day by autos here in America alone? The answer is, the big train wreck was spectacular. It was the wreck of the train, rather than the actual loss of life, that appealed to popular imagination. The Twentieth Century wreck was an international story, for this train symbolizes the Speed Idol, so widely worshipped in our generation. This train is famous all over the world—principally for its speed, since the aver- age person gives secondary attention to the train’s com- forts and the services it renders. eee Ours is a nervous generation, impatient, restless, eager to be up and moving. Many individuals are about as speedy as molasses in zero weather. But the national tendency is toward speed. People rush their eating, gulp their meals. They may move-deliberately, but in the main they are ever on the lookout for shert-cuts of methods and mechanism that will hurry their work.. They even rush their entertainment —-start leaving the theater before the final curtainjens-ife~ getting to the exit ahead of their neighbors were a life- and-death matter. All this worried rush, of course, is an indication of diseased nerves rather than impulsive industriousness or desire to accomplish. ; Frequently we are reminded, by a catastrophe like the Twentieth Century wreck or one of our many Seattle auto crashes, that speed has its price. The real and | | | | | | } praaomaee only a few of the cee THE SEATTLE NE CAPTAIN KIDD; “MAKE IT SNAPPY!” STAR Why Congress Does Nothing ABSHINGTON, Dec, 29.— What's wrong with Breas? con: Old guard members of the housp and senate (who are now back home) will answer nothing, that its present difficulty ts the work of insurgents. Insurgent republicans will tell you it is the old guard and dem- ccrats who refuse fo heed the will of the people. Democrats will tell you the en- tire difficulty -in?that there are too many factions within the re publican party Rarely will you find a member of either house who will say the Ereatest evil ts the system And yet it is the system that is the trouble with congress, The system, of course, ts the child of the old guard and the reactionary democrats, who planned it and now operate it for potitjen! ‘reasons It {a.a: political system, And na. Congress should have as Its first consideration, always, the consideration of public questions and the remedy for any evils that may develop in the government Now congress is a political training table for the approach. ing presidential election. It was so in 1918, the famous republican do-nothing congress. BY JOHN CARSON public should be informed. The third answer ts t usu ally some senator will be glad to Inform the newspaper men if a particularly scandalous caso de velops. ‘Then there ts tho sin of secrecy in conference comm Out of this séerec Esch-Cummina act of w plains Legislation ts passed tn the house. It goes to the senate. It the senate amends it, the house is saked to approve the amend. ments. If the house refuses, the legislation goe to a conference committee on which are a num ber of senators and representa. tives Invariably, tf the legistation ts Important, the senate or house refuses to concur becnuse that forces conference committes tion. The conference committee al- ways acts behind closed doors. The burdensome features of the Esch-Cummins act were put over on the public in conference —4n secret seasion. Much of the iniquity of the present tariff bill was put in conference—in secret se eee Treaties with foreign govern # are usually considered In secret anion of the senate. came the nd its evils iro Went ich the com ver men published Iater—after the wit- neanes have had a chance to cor rect, revine or strike out any- thing y Go not want the pub- lie to know Secrecy — the dark: lantern method adopted by the public's employes in the nenate and house to keep the what is bein, bile from knowing permits and creates ma the polit make congress a po! ing table. ably one of Telling It to Congress WASTED LABOR | It appears from the statistics fur. | |Rished that out of @ total of 5,810 | | prisoners tn the three federal pent. | | tontiaries cs w jth | al la inexcusable of joint sta year, there remain 4,060 who/ ho are unemployed. Estimating he@ value of each man's labor he very low figure of $1 per 4 lowing 300 working days in the/ wo have $1,218,000 worth of| going to waste annual an Jons.—Report | committee of ron to determine what bor economic ai and house Ais ASHINGTON, Deo. 29,— “Weather bureau? ‘Thin ta Dr, Blank’s dental office #penk- ing. The doctor would Uke to know how much sun we wil] have tomorrow before he arranges his appointments," Or elno this one: fishing tome going to rine Weather always wag useful when the conversation lagged, But that's not the half of {t, now- adays, ‘Weather has become one of the most important factors in hu: man life, According to Edgar B. Calvert, chief of the diviston of forecasting of the U, 8, weather bureau, there ts not an industry or an activity of mankind that does not have to come to his de partment for ald und advice, “shall I go Is the river There is the well-known work of warning against flood, storm and hot and cold waves, which often saves growers and ship. pera as much as $30,000,000 in one day But in addition, the weather bureau performs a thourand and one odd jobs, little known except to the folks who get the benefit. For instance: When word of a coming cold ppell reaches a city, con) dealers fill only partial or- ders so the supply will go around; oyster dealers lay in a largor wtock; tee factories go on half time; merchants stop adver: tising anything except fur coats and areticn; concrete work stopa; gas companies Kp up their plants; charity organizations get ready for a strenuous week, In the country, truck and frult growers are completely depend: ent for succens of thelr crops on advance warnings of cold, This wives them time to cover vere tables or put amudge pots under fruit trees; harvest potatoes and other perishables; or flood eran- berry bogs. Stockmen depend on weather forecasts to know when to kill and ship animals, Egg producers ship more briskly when the weather man says it will be cold. Photographers plan their outdoor work on weather bureau advice. Manufacturers learn from the weather bureau what tempera- ture and what humidity are necessary tn thelr plants for suc- censful production. In marketing their wares, their salesmen are gulded by weather conditions in Why Weather Man Is Busy BY RUTH FINNEY different parts of the cou Prospective settlers in fara lands write to know whether not Placer county, Calif would be a good place to prunes, And #0 on, and ™ an endless stream of Inquiry an endless stream of service, a You may joke about tho weattyes er man and say that you alway i leave your umbrella at home 9 when rain ts predicted, but jum” the same, the weather bureau fx right nine times out of ten om predictions as much as 48 hours in advance, a check over « long period shows. f A great network of obm stations in all parts of the Uni Btates, Alaska, Hawall, and om veusela at sea, enables the fore: caster to give accurate wervics, ‘Temperature, pressure, direction of wind, and clouds are all po at the stations and the data graphed to Washington, central office can then determing the direction and strength of dif turbancen, : Weather reports and foreq are telegraphed to 1,690 dally, mailed to 90,900 more are distributed stil farther ¥ ching moilliong 24 hours, Industry Joins Farmers BY LOWELL MELLETT N tho past year or two organ- ized labor has convinced many farmers that the worker in the city and the worker on the farm have a great deal in common. Tho birth of the farmer-labor patty and its successes at the polls are direct results Now the industrial aro making thelr id, “Farmer-Manufacturer conyen- tion, a national meeting to be held under the auspices of the Ilinols Manufacturers’ ansocia- tion, Congress hotel, Chicago, 14-15, 1024, Bo reads the announcement, flooding the holiday mails, The list of speak- ers, headed by the president of Armour & Co, Includes a num- ber of big manufacturers, bank- ers, politiclans and publishers— but no farmers. It is an unfortunate-tist. The only useful convention @f farm- turers, at the present would be one in which npeakers all farmers. It would be a fine thing interests January ers and manu time, ho were to gather in the largest possible number of industrial magnates and make them listen to the farmers’ view of our national economic situation. The farmer hag a lot to tell the manufactur- er. Out in the West and North- west during the past year he has been telling it with his vote, but 4t might not hurt to tell it to the manufacturer's face. Until now the manufacturer has keen no need to gather the farmer to his bosom. Instead, the big industrial Interests have confined their attention to con gress. They have got what they wanted there and the farmer has felt the effect in freight rates on what he ells and tariffs on what he buys For other h ents hh persuading ing depended upon th political policies. Labor has learned better. Labor has learned that it furnishes about generation or so, on the nd, the industrial inter- devoted much effort to labor that labor's liv same half the market for the things ft” maken. as Now the exploiters turn to the farmer, who furnishes the other half of the market. Fortunately, however, labor seems to have an- ticipated this appeal to the farm. ers, It will take more than a Chicago convention, with Mag- nus Alexander, of New York, talking on “Shall We Close Our Gates to Immigrants?” and ~ james A. Emery, of Washington, on “The Constitution and te overcome the movement of fasnier and labor into the same camp, This is not an attack on manu turers, It is merely a warn- ing that th have overlooked itcrests of the men’ ‘ket, And be- can establish the co- they now sincerely! y will have to listen 4 the farmers awhile and restrat their newly-born urge to lecturt them, Rare Scrolls of An- cient Artist Shown BYVACK HALL / most unusual new book from many standpoints which I have seen if “An O14 Chinese Garden,” a copy of which has just arrived In Seattlo from {ts American distributor, the Orientalia Shop, 32 W, 85th vew York Phe volume is described as “a three-fold masterpiece of poetry, y paint It th a famous old garden chow, where Wong and SCIENCE Bees Beekeeping, as a business, |great thinkers. jancient jand wrote about the bee. | Modern bee-keeping owes f est debt to a blind man Huber. jin 1759 | youth, and is growing rapidly ip the United States, Many books have been written on this subject and fdr centuries the | beo has attracted the Close study of Aristotle and other masters of science studied He was born in Switzerland became blind in early; Blind as he was, ho spent F A —and yet so pure. —the face ees ver’ beautiful, the hair, ye ow do you say eet?—so flat.” WHAT FOLKS ARE SAYING MME. GEORGETTE LE BLANC, rench actress: “Eet ces a shame— merica—so beautiful, so manifique Ze American.girl the eyes, yes, but otherwise— JUDGE CLARENCE A. BURNEY, | Missouri; “If the criminal laws were I be great- | Properly administered, all law would rancois |D@ rexpected more. The time is past, think, when the criminal should e given every advantago in the trial ourts, The present statutes give jhis entire life in the study of the|'©o great power to defense att bee and carried on experiments that{Neys. By exercising the challen made him the leader in aplarian sef- | the law allows them, they can dete ence. His “Observations oh Bees’ |the efforts of the prosecution to greater price is shattered nerves and existence made un- necessarily wretched and disagreeable by hurry without motive. j employment jeral prisoners ENERGY FROM OIL, Yul, an* 1 poli * In the days of the Ming retired find dix ments and The democratic leaders do not may “be. furnished. fed: | want to offer a remedi for the ev The appropriation bills are now | program in seanion of is they described in the con i the house and senate committees, | solace MORE The man with Speed Mania must be a great admirer | 4 of the inventor of the automobile hearse, which certainly is Speed Plus. “There is no sheet glass manufactured In Mexico in commercial quan- titles,” the American consul general reports. The demand, however, is mounting, he adds. It, naturally would, following a revolution. Evidently Senator Bruce, of Maryland, is willing to stick around with the democratic party so long as it doesn't do anything democratic. Con- gress is full of geographical democrats and republi We'll Get It Here Soon HE people of California have renewed their. fight to save their last water and hydro-electric’ power re- mpaign. They want presidential campaign around those ¢ tho the evidence submitted is | Frieda’s Follies THE WAY men ravo over THE EMPRESS type of woman. SUCH ISE, such carriage, SUCH fiddiesticks. WOMEN were and cunning I SHOULD know. I AM like a string bean. THIS WOMAN had my helg: BUT 1 inust admit that was all AT LEAST above tho ears. fought with the thought that the pec will rebel republican The republicans would like to correct some of the sins forg tire republican representation ac- cepts the old guard view of how corrections should be made, the old guard will refuse to permit anything to be done. The reason is the old guard wants to retain control of the party. That is why this ts a do-noth- ing congress. out gainst the dominant and to others, but unless the en. exceedingly pr te likely or meant to be cuto| ¢fficle bu oc | of br Whe @ day comes that ofl wcarce, obable th oll in the country Dp r needs it is very that we shall have de ngines to it with maximum Ys n tho Deisel engines some other form of ustion engine, It may then be| onsidered very wasteful to burn 1 under boilers, which is the only ay this fuel ofl stored In tanks suld he burned.-~Chester Wash- irne, consulting before ernal-com h tran the world It was a miniature le walks and banks, crystal-clear bubbling springs past fairyland of mons pools by and o fruits. , Five hundred years after, Wen Chen Ming, famous artist, painted its series of silken sere His work now has come light, long rs after, In the vaults of a Ithy man who lives near the ancient beauty «pot The book contains reprodue- landscape ries on aA remains the best authority. {tain a capable jury. The result is Man later became the master of |that many juries are of the lowest for when De Hruschka invented a bone: bee y extractor, enabling the honey to be the withdrawn without breaking combs, By stud commercial purposes | and care man has in- tive sel |m set of 40 y ulibre of mentality and citizenship.” ERTRUDE GOGIN, execu- etary girls’ reserve depart- W. C. A: “The younger ars ago, it is said, seemed MISS G ent, Y. duced the bee to greatly increase the |Just as jazz crazy and full of pep capacity and frultfulness of jot the |to their parents as the boys and girls today seem to thelr fathers and Man now rules the bee, but with-|Mothers. Given a reasonable amount is a mistake: times recogr jout the knowledge of the bee—for it |f education and a parental course {dea that bees some. |! character-building, the American a keeper—and he| Sil of today, as a class, excela in takes the product of her labor with- | early every way the girl of any out harming her and without caus-}Country, In any period.” ng her to become discouraged in her } HE statuesque?” tions of all these fine samples of Chinese p ng, as well as bits he artist wrote about each of the ac ple tured, uced in the as well as sources from the grasp of private exploiters. An overwhelming flood of propaganda, financed by Eastern power interests, wrought the loss of the first California water and power act in November, 1922. Un- daunted, the framers of last year’s initiative measure, including leading progressives and conservationists of the state, now have determined to re-submit to the peo- ple a similar initiative next fall. This calls for the issu- ance of state credits up to $500,000,000 to help cities and irrigation districts finance water and power develop- ment. Nine million horsepower of electric energy, the largest prize in any state in the Union except Washington, is the stake. The big California power companies, backed by powerful tern interests, are determined to seize this power in spite of public opposition. a eis tae A state senate exposure of the methods of the power not presume ti companies used to beat the initiative last year, when = | tut a thing that more than 00,000 was shown to have been spent to rapidly as does buy the support of labor leaders, club women and public i ETER FROM cornmattes on pubHe a me VRIDGE MAN? I 9) officials, has aroused public opinion. Along with committee on publ f comes the revelation of conspiracies in Los Angeles and ~ avTayY OhPEON HAGE San Francisco to wreck the municipal water and power PIANIN eae projects of these two cities. 1996 These facts have caused the power “combine” to adopt TO OUR OLD FRI hip of o pyre) > nia o 3 are being entertaine: Greetings, New Year R new tactics. Business men’s clubs are being entertained Soir ave awit You, with all Soon wi Once a senate committeo public land | GOV. GRAY of Tennessee: “Men and surveys. come to the capital to lobby for gel- fish things; women for the interests of children. One of the gress is secr sins of con “she Goen re of poetry w | mind one OF THOSE things tn the park INANIMATE, except for the water COMING out of it ie ] ine ine paid { A THOUGHT The seed of evildoers shall never be renowned—Isaiah xiv.:20. ? oe HOS cords. A suggestion of the quaint flavor of this unique work may be obtained from some of the names of bits the garden which are pictured and descrided Little } for office by nae invariably, 14 confirmed or rejected © or secret session of Men nomina the president, hese are repre inaf Chir In translation. recon: characters The whole bas been collated, edited escribed by Mrs. Kate who published the volume Shanghai Each sheet ts In re thicknesses of thin C 4 with uncut edges is a striking imperial brocaded satin inscribed in 1 and tied with heavy gold te DR. OSTROM, Chicago: “Some school men say the Bible is not sei- tific, {¥ not true, in fact. The fe, to be sure, does not attempt treatise on science. & If is largely based on hy- ‘And there Is no science to {tell us why duck eggs do not hatch canary birds."* sidered pad labor month of Sep: d labor received go of railroad Out of the do! ad 8 ears.” in exec the senat z of ts e for that le that tn and for appoint ht be sald ould do Irrep. Kerby } in consider ment, things against him that w arable r ‘The first answer to that ts that the presider 1 be w man for freight, r ceived 43. labor's share wa labor In 1920 9 cents, for 19 sire re ation for , The Bower for Awaiting the Frost, The Place for Listening to Pines, Peach Tree E Moun- tain Stream Among Baboos Meditation, Remote Thoug cA lity for 19 ho Iabor’s share was 47.50 ce while September nk DR, HED ‘I can guess just ROM, Chicago: bout as fast as Darwin did and I have just as mui |right to do so, Darwin used the pression, ‘we may well suppose’ mo! than 800 times in ‘The Origin of §} | cles?" formed on the character of me! he nominates for office and t wld not have a him who pr Huddleston at ldre per rry to predict the chan Chester before s Ww. nate The Open Road BY BERTON BRALEY n country, The pleasant rural scene, rare that's In the alr and keen sclence |_ THEODORE CHRISTIANSON, Dawson, Minnesota: “The challenge of the state comes with greater force to the university man because f the opportunity which has heen his, It is the challenge to refuse jto be trammeled by convention and awed by The challenge af the is to the man think his own thought ak his own words, and to act upon his own imitiath lands, W B love tho o} The ozone So brisk and clear Where one Is free as Where bri W love the open country, ring approximately A ; The trees, tho hills, a Aaa A antes! Our lungs are filled, our heart sid lel rea al As we go touring by Where nature To glad the q' has been put E love the Mammoth OI ‘The road $6,000,000 or $ But find the You know senate ¢ a sedan ¢ and > growe They now ha The a 80,000 he can be, bacco you know what f meant power. present hour to {brought $26,000,000. it is sald, $70,000,000. unorgan tion their cror ear that burle by vocal soloists accompanied by lecturers paid for by ‘The 1923 crop, the power companies; women employed by the Better America Federation, the California open-shop organi tion, are making speaking tours of women’s clubs, and newspaper advertising campaigns, having in view wide- spread sale of power company stock to the middle classes, are in full swing. E Ait ha oephal that All this sounds familiar, doesn’t it? We just pass it Unavtreamury ot along to Washingtonians so they will recognize the pro- ight ie our bets ng, drinking, ‘o.)—approximately gram when it gets under y here. iver laekadven Bodyiots ~ Just to tell u If this fundamentalist-modernist split spreads to many more churches, Clee axils sod hide Ua. bavite maybe it will occur to some of the leaders that no church has a copy will keep you"—but wo won't s right on Christianity, ‘ ll your revolution, 1 make your yearl in you como repeating Visits you have made before Soon you'll help us with our gree inquiry. Mr. 1924, . will the sk . are thrilled, senate commis! 2M, the great French cartoon! aricature will never be & power f it Is so mild. They tell me I am ruel. That may be so, but I do not try to be cruel. I try only to bé true, and truth Is not always pleas ting 1 ‘ on miles § oe le : SINCLAIR'S MONEY ji All about our inking open country, many that stretch ver than proceed: ale of oil, ha H. F, Sinclair, before mmittee on public land colved ing © should make us sneeze | - ni told that ; Don't from s been 7 BY money “Who | boyish figure | “I don't know who he was but jwhen I fell over the rail of a boat nto the water, I distinctly heard om freckles on your nose of the sailors shout, ‘Man ovt avoids that tan |board! "American Legion Week degree of certainty huts out wind that ble | Be had it w i housa 1 | you you had @ sur 8, ¢ the,open country you know, I sun shines down and tans you brown, Put WORSE THAN MAH JONGG I found that no mere ordinary hu man being turn and fee that he 1 in black Ye ou help to make It doesn’t look as if the farmers lost very much by the failure of con- gress to assemble in extra session earlier in the year. 1 doy and white! Th have faybe until New as = ws — suld make out \ any CHIEF QUAL’ Jashier your father will Ke t Masculine 1 Banker's CATH A t Mont batlave, aaite 4 Vomaah better () . 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