The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 5, 1924, Page 8

PAGE 8 The Seattle Star Pudliahed Daily hy ‘The Star Publishing Co, 1207 Beventh Ave, Phone MA {n-0600 Newspaper Enterprive Association and United Preas Servic: Mall, out of eity, 606 per month, ¥ months $1.60, € montha 4208, year Ry carrier, city, $00 @ month. Gliman, Nicoll & Rothman, office, Monadnock Mag. Canadian Pacific Bide.; y 50, Bpectat flan Francteco lenge office, Tribu joaton office, Tremont Kels Points the HEY hanged Alex Kels yesterday. A few short months ago Kels was a leading busi- ness man in his home town, highly spoken of and re- spected. But he committed murder—deliberately, pre- meditatedly. The law punishes premeditated murder by death, For murder where no premeditation can be shown, a lesser penalty is provided. Every man in Seattle who drives an automobile reck- lessly, or drunkenly, or in excess of the speed limit set by law, is a POTENTIAL, PREMEDITATING MURDERER! This applies equally to the butcher’s boy in Ballard and the banker of Second avenue. Both know that innocent lives are endangered by their violation of the law. Yet they continue until tragedy occurs. Judge John B. Gordon, before whom Seattle's traffic offenders are tried, says jail is too severe a penalty for most of the speeders brought up for trial, He favors more leniency, because “most of them are married, have families and are in poor circumstances.” And what of the victims? What of the 50 who met death in traffic accidents here in 1923? What of those who will die under the wheels of autos this year? They, too, are married. They, too, have families. Wiping out of a husband, by some reckless fool in an auto, too often leaves a family destitute and helpless. Have you thought about that, judge? Forget this mawkish sentiment. Every man convicted before you of willful violation of the traffic laws is a potential murderer. That he has not yet Killed someone is just a matter of luck. He has been trying his best. There is only one place for such a man, AND THAT PLACE IS IN JAIL! Fate—or Luck? BOY, 17, fell off a fire escape and dropped seven stories in New York city. He lives, a broken ankle his only injury, because his fall was checked repeatedly on the way down by many clotheslines. A fatalist will comment: “His time hadn't come. If it had, a fall of 10 feet would have killed him.” Not all are fatalists. Others will attribute his escape to chance—luck, which nearly everyone believes in ex- cept when talking platitudes. ativen, Intelligence is not a requisite to business success, the American Psycho- logical associntion has been told. Now let’s have a report as to its part in political success. . Europe Buckles Down NLY 2,000,000 people in continental Europe are un- employed, reports the Bankers’ Trust company after an extensive check-up. Its foreign information service estimates less than 13,000 Belgians are jobless. It claims the French are exceptionally busy, fewer than 2,000 idle. Italy has about 232,000 jobless, Germany 660,000. Authorities do not agree on exact figures. But Europe undoubtedly is buckling down to hard work to restore normal times—to a surprising extent, considering the po- litical situation. Bananas imported iast year were worth approximately $20,000,000, commeree department reports. That's nearly as much ay Broadway says the chap who claimed we didn’t have any made out of his song. The Cleavage Clear ‘O far as the dominant republican party is concerned, there seems to-be a clear alignment of “the regulars” as to the issues, which is a good thing for everybody, and said issues may be presented thus: Participation in some sort of a world’s court. Rejection of the league of nations. Non-recognition of Russia. Mellon’s tax-reduction plan. No soldiers’ bonus act. Enforcement under thé Volstead act as it is. The present methods of handling the railroads “industrial disturbances.” Preservation of the Es The tariff act as it is. No curbing of the judicial oligarchy. Private exploitation of federal r No special relief for the farmers. We present all this merely for the information of our republican friends. It is of the highest importance that the voters know for what they vote. So it is a good thing to know just where the republican “regulars” stand. and ch-Cummins act. ves. It develops that the saxophone was invented b Germany was justified in making that war, after all, That Tax-Cutting Plan HE nation-wide clamor that was stirred up and that still resounds, as a result of Secret: Mellon’s in- come tax reducing plan, shows that he has struck a re- sponsive chord. The more than 100,000 letters that have poured in upon since that time show it still stronger. s are touchy. They hit Mr. Average Citizen right where he feels it most—his pocketbook. William Herron, a Belgian. Perhaps statistics gathered in 21 states, that Americans today pay th of their income, directly and indirectly, into taxes. One day’s pay each week. The reason for this spontaneous outburst following Mellon’s announcement is that the American people de- mand a tax reduction. The reason is that 70 per cent of income tax payers pay a tax on less than $5,000 incomes—whefe the bulk of the tax reduction under the Mellon plan comes in. The reason is that the other 30 per cent also get a re- duction. We never yet ha seen a man who like: That isn’t all. The demand for redu coming from this 100 pe: at, Take any corporation. Take The Star Publishing Co. for exampl It pays an income tz Being human, it doesn’t enjoy it. Being businessl it recognizes that an income tax is an item of expense—part of the overhead. What does it do? What any corporation do? It to pay t : ed taxes isn’t all does raises the price of the commodity it has to sell—in this case advertising rates. The merchant pays more for advertising, so that we may pay our income ta Having to pay more for ad- vertising, he charges just so much more for the goods he sells—and, whang! he hits d t at you. It has long been accepted as truc ¥ econor lists that no taxpayer, as such, pays any tay only ultimate consumers that we pay t er, I pass my taxes along to you, the consumer, and you pa yours along to me, the consumer. And if you are not a taxpayer, you pay tax just the same because you've got to consume, or starve, or freeze to death. The only persons who do not pay taxes are inmates of poor houses and jails. And we pay taxes to support them Every thinking man, woman and child in the country j clamoring for a reduction in his taxe _ ” THE SEATTLE STAR Stop “Pint Pinching,” Says npenpeaniencalaspeones puipsinintgeetaerammet SMILES | Nover be too friendly with a bank cashier, No telling when he will ask you to go his bill Tells How She Would End U.S, Bootlegging ny HARRY B, HUNT ie Tmxy Einstein, Gotham'’sa demon prohibition sleuth, Nor js it “Lone Woit" Asher, whowe nose for aynthetio gin has ‘Tho clauses In the new revenue bill | which are designed to reduce taxes are regular Santa Clauses, Looe ruge are very dangerous, In Tueson, Aria, a robber tripped on one and almost got caught. eS located the lair of countioss rum Alligator bit a New Yorker during | caches, the holidays, Strange {t didn't make | It Is not even Roy Haynes, the alligator drunk, crusading prohibition commis Seastaeiaes sioner Caught a fake dentist in Brooklyn. Tho fall should be guarded heavily Against possible mobs, Loa Angeles man anks divorce be cause she doesn't eat grapefruit in- atoad of becauge she does, Instead, it's a brown-hatred, brown-cyed Hite woman of 34, who admits her age, poanowses a firm chin and abundant energy and has a head full of ideas, Her name is Mrs, Mabel Walker Willebrandt, Officially she is an fuuistant attorney general of the United States, in charge of the legal end of enforcing ihe prohi- bition and tax Jaws, Mrs, Willebrandt would be the first to disclaim the title of boot legger’s Nemesis, She'd tell you, Instead, that the prohibition law is NOT being enforced; that there is 4 steady and torrential flow of Nquor into the United States; that bootlegging has come to be ono of tho big businceses of the nation, BUT SHE'S AMPLY QUALIFIED AS NEMESIS And there, because she recog: nigen the futility of present ef- forts to enforce the law, and has ret to work to develop methods for more effective enforcement, in whore she qualifies as the rum- runner's Nemesis, For Nemesia, as you know, waa the ¢ personification of re- tributive justice for the ringlead. ers in prohibition violation, but would neize for Unelo § lions of dollars from exta up by profits from illicit liquor sales, “We can never enforce proht bition by ‘pinching the pints,’” A Jorsey cow walked into the Okla boma City courthouss, probably at: tracted by the bull, Dr. Thorek of Chicago has a new cure for bone trouble, It could be tried on political heads, | Only 26 men are running for presl dent of Nicaragua, but then Nicara- gua is & very small place. Germany's ex-ctown prince In learning aviation. It’s time, He has jbeen up in the alr six years. Henry Ford gets 1,600 letters a day | asking for money, but that doesn't | cost Henry anything, Chicago plekpocket got caught. | Says he robbed 12 a day. He was doing his dally ‘dozen, Even singing is dangerous. A former college glee club member in jin Chicago grand opera now, Boston still blew up as copa en. jtered. What a warm reception! And the drinks were on the house, | Prof. Ward of Harvard saya ice-; she declares, “Enforcement has bergs are overestimated. This is got to start back of the r At die. |true of human ones, also. tribution. ‘The first problem is - to stop the sources of supply, St. Louis ma threw an ax at her. and th are hiefly, two; So she got a divorce. Women are Lp | nice, but no f ~ A THOUGHT | \ | Fret not thyself because of evil doers, nelther be thou envious against the workers of iniquity, For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb Ps, xxxviicl-2. pe overcome evil with to resist evil with ovil is evil. | Mohammed. | “PINT. PINCHING FUTILE WASTE OF TI the big com tle yor, operat sturbed ding in good, h amugeting, mld look to the coast | Ee 7 a | c Science “Gets BY DAVID DIFTZ ROF. J. PLAYFAIR McMUR- | i | | | RICH, former president of | the American As#ooiation for the | i 1 | which stand, Thin means that the sctentist has once for all thrown off the traditional isolation {n which he cloaked himeelf in tho past | In fact, the # t today the layman can under. Advancement of Science, in his addrena before the opening ses- sion of the association's meetin in Cincinnati, made his fellow sclenti interest laymen and that they use a the non-technical Inng: | sth | Prot. secretary of th up the opin i would Burto | Vitamine C lace value of the ora known to all pe sory ip hed ¢ more Ms But the If the great and toma ut to a wrong power lid to Now natantly. The ¢ re of Vitamine C than cnthelens know. ‘Next to the orange comes the mig Of the World, tomate lo stipply Vitamine C ia vitally necessary method t ich elt \food. Without it, death follows In a could utterly troy itse junusually terrible form, + dive 4 to lof seu whenever Vitamt The scientists want to impr C is ta ny thin vit the world. They don’t want their mjfie also ts c orbutic.| discoveries to turn out franker |If {# contained fruits and} steins but oranges and tomatoes lead WHAT'S IN A NAME? | Medical opinion believes it prob. |, Armisué he eupre jec : sed, =Rurope fish | and reac 1 v The Lo how I ar nole grain to furnish| oved One—Dear mo? You und fresh or and|oughn’t to go to all that trouble furnish Vitamine C. ANSWERED BY DUMBELL DUD | Iw it true that an Akron company 19 making rubber paving belt | they any good?—B, H. i i | Yes, it’s true. Rubber bricks are the best in the world la stretch of pavement. “- Please tell me how :t 1s possible for a letter recetved thru the ma] contain any intelligence —P. B. 8. Most natural thing imaginable. ‘The letter has been pog Can a thing be round and have corners at the same time?—B, 4 p | Certainly, Many a ball has had square dances, | ap esres 3 Do the farmers have a lot of fun in the summer?—¥. 6. R. Lots of it, Beginning early in the spring, they haye m a meadow lark. * . | Please tell me something that will make a stir at a masquerade by | Antoinette, | A spoon. } see Questions Mr. Dud Cannot Answer Please tell me where I can buy a combination egg jand ash sifter.—T. A. J, | Does a piano manufacturer {notes ?—M. W. F. | Please describe in detail the difference between a boy jmatch and a match box.—C. N. P. 4 Will you kindly give me the address of a good su I snapped my fingers yesterday.—O. E. Does the conductor of an orchestra issue transfers? rer irs F Mr. Dud’s Household Hints am ever hang a fried egg on a hook. It spoils the flavor, Spaghetti makes a fine substitute for noodles, Soak spaghetti until it becomes soft, then run it thru a Jaw wringer, This will flatten it and few persons will discoy lis not noodles, Never throw away an old derby hat. Punch holes i with a knitting needle and use it as a strainer. Tinware, aluminum and graniteware pans and kettles pay cash or does he give P Copyright, Harris & Bwing Mre. Mabel Walker Willebrandt guard, the revenue service and the customs serviced. “The job can't be done by one branch of the “When the police and the pro- hibition agents have failed, a tax Investigation 1s one of the best method ack against the big | Ther must be co-ordination not violato Witlebrandt says. | ‘: ; now effective, ‘There must bean | “In these we uncover atl the {NOt rattle so much if covered with heavy felt. e of infor- man's bank deposits, his invest. hdc Wied | ments t0¢ *, mort Happy New Year | Kage r wocuritios. In heart fallure one night last week—came ml of attack; not the 4 many cases these have mounted | from work and found his landlord had painted his house and garage # disorganized effort far into the millions In a short | hid not raised his rent—not yet, anyway. Some class to William's k | now applied. | year or two.” | lord.- rove correspondence jn Willoughby (Oh{o) Republican, 4 Telling t\CAPPY RICKS “223 Written for The Star by Peter B, hyne—Auother Coming Next Saturday He Discourses on { you're going blind, so in terror you tell your wife t while it will not grow a new leg a disabled soldier, it is lable to club. | telephone for the doctor. ‘What's cate in him the notion that hop have a medal/the matter with him?’ says the|{s and always has been better t jdector, in order to get a line on| wa In t, it is difficult” been doing,| whether he shall bring you effects of mental sug prescripti nm for spiritus frument! 5 a bread pill. ‘He's going blind,’ say ‘ake for instance the case of the medium of natic ich ¢ your wife. Now, it always makes |Colonel Jenkins, who flourished |them to understand each « a doctor Aisgusted to ha ar army some years ,|tan presume to diagnose a stickler for military quette and one of his rules was tl | y case, so the doctor growls back, THE WORM WILL TURN ond: | ‘How does he know he’s go1ng)no inferior officer should enter # Thoro tn a zit, Asa re-|blind? Did a doctor teil him he | colonel’a office during business bo puitage: With px austed, My| was? ‘No, he Just thinks so.” He/ without wearing his sword. Wi : ‘free thered In ajcan't see, so -he thinks he's going ;one day a captain got as far as tl refuta- mations, 1 have had to two or threo times to make rtain. the author wasn't spoofing himself or his read To sayo my throne, I am blind. Besides » last night he had} four cocktalls made from home-| made goods,’ says your patient and long-suffering wife. | “Of course, Gus, the moment the | doctor {s armed with this informa- tion he knows you are the victim e; that Js all there oper of Western Pine Man jers’ association, before senate select committes on reforestation. 8 . | NAVAL ODL DRAINAGE i adjutant's office on his way to repo to the colonel, whose Jair was ju beyond, when he remembered he wi swordless. However, the adjutant sword was hanging on the wall, # the captain borrowed it for the 09 sion, buckled it on and was admit We (navy department) were alwagn tot he of auto psycho-therap: " to the colonel’s presence. Upon i ed to be to read the 10th time, termin: n of the Interview, the @ Haars t vistsabies | jt again and furnish a-blue- . oa it te) Whtak ein A iven' { Huckleberry print, with it,” Mr. Redell pleaded tain passed out thru the adjut office, returned the latter's with thanks and started across & parade ground. Colonel Jenkins, serving the captain from the wind noticed that the latter was not helplessiy. place, and t if tire went down for came up the first almost i te u, con auto, . g his sword and a great curio I find myself dropping. be-| yourselt, ¢8th Yourself goa’ for |ME his ewer or i. New that I've | yourself! as for instance, a vaccine |upelled him to summon the » de trom a digease germ in your | @5t “Wasn't Captain Blank sword when he called on mea own body and shot back into your | blood. Psycho, of course, refers 2 ta'tha Brahe Gainite TS minutes ago? he queried. The is derived from praise: jutant confirmed this suspicion, } T TR ro . .| the colonel opened his window W A ) jis the treatment of disease a HAT FOLKS the proprietor of some | water—hot baths, cold baths, hot | yelled to Captain > @ TINIG Hiseass which you are cc bottles, ice pac fence | Of cou ARE SAYING : ‘tha--tabay euto-Cnaet ence |into the adjutant’ rin the he doe. |Towed the latter's sword agriq appeared in The Presence af the said blade, The colonel grew in the face, asked him some portant question and dismissed i “Again the captain returned | sanded, you have we the some of It is leaicing | tear ducts, re is whit is fogging your So all he does is DR. ©. h Me tainly t hen why go in for a study of and Health'?* oI had not out thru your | that that vision. ment with n arg As , tell you ft) arid we ‘dis bor Sid; tanh at se sword to the adjutant and agi fort and the apr of « PeGaeigag Mere pers hae Boy saath started across the parade gt neo in ¢ y lite Increa PERERA Sheer foree of OBl¥ to be spied by Colonel Jt and the ‘ats dor extends hia ok he nitality, he |12 again. swordless state. ses, cancer incre: i perhaps you| “For the second time the 09 it ‘ crazy and that anyhow, while |Pened the window and sum! GUY GUNDAKER, tnternatior y a not be seeing as well as| Captain Blank back to his off president ¥ clubs: oO e, he is morning, you are NOT |® nk borrowed th m¢ contribut toa fforenc blind. |jutant’s sword, again Colonel orld a fo e over-¢ 1 er was hard put to it to find ve " ‘ f n over nd } su are then in a condition tol gvon, eae me pe r hapy nitien Capy ‘ ‘over the doct ad * @/ again he dismi: fees: . ponten 1 ac or a beaker of Epsom aha cas sibcable: Wuskieda weocid ‘ks ps { And T have’ to be 1 rather than take either) tant's sword with thanks r er A Moots 1 Armenian and say} tira DR. HORNELL HART, 1 Child fi 1 com ‘ \ nod e me rl aren) for the third ne te elfare ¥ * to it. T 1) saw that Captain was tod t 1 inomy'd When I wearing a sword! He summoned fn wh orkr , ten I y fect 1 I and pointed to Capit b t ur f I { ’ i te 1 i Tell me, sir,’ he ordered. will ® beer 1 1 frier religious | Captain Blank wearing a sword & to disagree | he not t } e 1 in my ote e € he not fertility of 24 2 ieeral th 1 ? treatment of dis ,’ said the adjutant, ‘Capt ee plait Hétle. felle ‘aia ‘ re 2 = a you £9) Blank is most certainly not w f ylaint d I do hope you istian | a sword.’ n of imbecti them, and as a resu i AGE a swor r Ls necntes fe a ‘ 1 t. If you are ave $10, “*You're blind kills ‘toe tocabate ‘ elf and tow your! Colonel Jenki s = 3 ar cat anks where it belongs, whereas If} sword, I cg DR. FREDERICK W. SCHULTZ, x ast § " you ¢ in error you'll) Following the Inugh that wel SA Ne at ra ia th y think the doctor hi d you and /at this illustration of Cappy’s text enture ¢ } i A nd him his check or even Augustus Redell inquired: “Cai fs highs - feel ful to him: lare you endeavoring to sell you Ae ‘ aren ividhit with chr ou really think the treat suggestion that while in point in acbaapite sta bp ni 1 friend 1 ian Scfenc Methusaleh may have a bead tak } is Grubb ae in the stretches, you're : ; V D m jt wa him on the turns? ; i creat , Cappy. “ ental dl Vell,” Cappy answered BEig OF ORGE F SHI PHERD, ip I I It, | en smmend | “8 @ man thinketh in his own bs x try ‘ , F f fr oa ois he. Me, I r laugh at ; raat ‘© mar Vd C ner, | ina 1 xf thing T do not jerstand. 1 git@ ; . < , ww. Otherw how |® try-ont first what T cat 1 fe ent wa 1a kahuna doctor In Hawaii pray | 8t@nd by to ae if » other 1 r is 0 t IM tell you n use what I car m ‘ 9 lyse ce t ! He ju iys to } r Ulysses GH “tbebyh : . t I'm ¢ te old nuts : ¢ the | to de I tt Cappy, 1 of you a ; m happy 1 t But 1 do : ee 1 kind I H to 1 10 a box of r t 1 t vi af \ Itimedintely he blames the em Unitea Feature TOUGH FOR SANDY ‘it Heate, 1 All Rie ly M 1 t I tell ara = ! "ga t " | ANXIOUSLY WAITING 1 { < n | : ) p hin \ Maude-=¥ a ! 4 kahuna] Ma I » awfully exe i ; You A 1 Jed | 1 don’t k 1 did or® i j | \ i r h 1 aid. | aie Kk andl I iExchang®