The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 18, 1924, Page 8

PAGE 8 fHE SEATTLE STAR The Seattle Star 1807 Seventh Ave, Phone ited Press Service. By ihe $2.00, year 0888, Published Datly by The Publishing Co. ® MA in-0609, Newspaper Smoked Out NOUGH evidence has been smoked out by Senator Walsh of Montana on this Teapot Dome scandal to make the duty of the senate committee investigating that deal perfectly clear: FIRST, it is the duty of the committee to ferret out relentlessly all facts, large and small, bearing on the delivery of the naval oil reserves by Fall to Harry F, Sinclair and others. SECOND, the committee should advise the senate to initiate proceedings at once for the recovery of those naval oil reserves before the private exploiters have drained them. THIRD, the senate committee should see to it that the proper government agencies are set to work to punish guilt wherever found, high or low, official or civilian. All this is perfectly clear to any citizen who has fol- Towed closely the trail of the Senate Teapot Dome com- mittee from Washington to E] Paso and Palm Beach, and back again, The facts, so far developed, are these: Former Secretary Fall turned the Teapot Dome naval oil reserve over to Harry F. Sinclair, oil magnate, after a private deal had been concluded at Fall's ranch in New Mexico, without public notice or bids. Fall soon thereafter resigned as secretary of the in- terior, to look after private interests, he explained. Fall, who had been hard-up for funds up to this time, suddenly came by sums of money sufficiently large to make lavish improvements on his ranch and to add large tracts to his New Mexico holdings. At the same time, he received blooded stock from Sinclair. Asked to come before the senate committee in Wash- ington and explain this sudden affluence, Fall suddenly became sick in New York city, on the “way” from New Mexico to Washington. He wrote a letter to the senate committee, saying he had borrowed a sum, $100,000, from E. B. McLean, publisher, without security. Also that he Teceived a similar sum from the E. B. Thatcher estate of Colorado. The senate committee asked McLean to come before it and furnish facts about the loan to Fall. McLean, too, suddenly beeame ill, at Palm Beach, Florida, but he had his attorney present the senators with a letter, admitting the loan to Fall. Senator Walsh, still unsatisfied, went to Palm Beach to take testimony from McLean, who appeared in golf clothes, bronzed and apparently in good health. McLean not only repudiated his earlier statement that he had furnished Fall with the $100,000, but furnished a letter from Fall, who happened to be in Palm Beach, but who could be reached by Walsh only thru McLean, saying that the checks had been returned to McLean uncashed. The question still is, where did Fall get the money? Fall has repudiated his earlier testimony categorically. That justifies the senate committee in refusing to accept, without ample proof, any of Fall's evidence relating to ' Teapot Dome. It justifies the public in demanding that | the senate see that the Teapot Dome deal with Sinclair ag be abrogated. _ Finally, the public has the right to expect that what- " ever guilt there may be on the part of either of.icials or civilians in connection with the Teapot Dome case shall be punished to the extent of the law. Four Mexican generals, accompanied by one soldier, have taken to the hills and declared a revolution near Monterey, says a dispatch. Surely an erroneous report—it usually takes at least 10 Mexican generals to command one soldier. Who's Going to Die Next? URING the coming year 2,500 of us will lose our lives ie at railroad crossings. - Another 6,000 of us will be injured in the same man- ner. That is an average of 200 persons a month killed, and 500 a month hurt. The estimate is made by the American Railway asso- _ ciation based on past accidents and the estimated increase in use of automobiles. Tn 192 the railroads eliminated 706 crossings at a cost of $70,00.,000. At that rate, it would take the railroads 363 years to eliminate all the 256,362 grade crossings in the ‘country. _ Apparently we'll have to be careful for some 300 years more. Might as well acquire the habit now! ___ Forty thousand more automobiles in Kansas than a year ago Is the ' feport. Those wheat farmers certainly do love trouble, Charity Suffers MERICANS gave 2,250 million dollars to charity and education last year, not counting funds raised by taxation and bond issues. Some editors think this reflects stupendous generosity. Well, it was larger than in any previous year. But it represents only $1 out of every $155 spent by the public. That's considerably less than a cent on the dollar. Charity _ lone should get 10 times as much. A correspondent says the Mexicans have no well defined alm in poll a] ee will have to admit that it doesn’t deter them from taking a at it. How Much Did You Give MERICAN churches in 1923 received 550 million dol- lars from their comgregations. That was about 10 cents a week for every :an, woman and child in the na- tion. Mighty small, for a prosperous country. Americans spent a total of 350 billion dollars last year. One dollar in every 636 went to the church. A very ma- terial nation, with little thought of things spiritual. King George must be feeling like common folks by this time. An automobile has hit him. Also, congress seems to have President Cal on its nerve. A Rocket to the Moon agp lon mee Goddard again is busy on his plan to fire a rocket to the moon, with a man inside. Twenty or More have volunteered to make the trip. Goddard says that a speed of six miles a second would free the rocket from the earth’s gravitational attraction. _ Then it would travel on until it entered the moon’s sphere of gravity. We hope Goddard doesn’t shoot at Mars. The Martians might, consider it the opening gun of a war of the worlds and fire back. Group of friends offer John W. Davis, of West Virginia, the presl- dency, and he accepts the high honor. Now let’s see John get what his friends undertook to give him. France says Uncle Sam deserted her, thus explaining her entrance on 8 life of crime. Discoveries indicate that King Tut died regardless of expense, Damon and Pythias BY LOWELL MELLETT HILADELPHIA, Jan. 18— For 20 years this Quaker town wore the label, “Philadel phia, Corrupt and Contente and didn't seem to mind it. Now, if Lincoln Steffens were nicknaming {t again, he'd have to make It “Philadelphia, Cor- rupt and Confused." For Phil adelphia Is a stirred-up place. One brigadier general of the United States marines has set the old town’s head spinning. It never has been so shaken up and whirled around since the continental congress lifted up {te skirts and dusted out, sev eral jumps ahead of the British redcoata, back in seventeen-rev- enty-something. Philadelphia has been invaded amain, thle time by a one-man army, entitled Smedley D, But- ler, first-class fighting marine, on leave of absence by permis. sion of President Coolidge and by Invitation of Mayor Ken- drick, Butler was appointed di- rector of public safety for one year and told to go to It. It ts the way he haa gone to It that has rendered Philadelphia dizzy. THIS WAS A NEW KIND OF REFORM Philadelphia has had reform administrations before. It thought It knew all about them. Bosh Matthew Quay used to have a reform ticket elected every #0 often, just to make things look right and keep the organization in hand. When Hons Holes Penrose succeeded Quay, he kept up the practice. 80 Philadelphia failed to take the word sertousty, Especially did the town disregard the storm warnings holsted by W. Freeland Kendrick, the new mayor, Kendrick was listed “organization man in clty poll- tica. The “organization” elected him. True, he promined to rid the clty of vice if elected, but all candidates promise that Now, the organization men Are wondering what has hap. pened to Kendrick. The best an- @wer seems to be that the thing which has happened to Kendrick i Butler. There Is nothing quite Ifke the marine corps, and tn the marine corps there is nobody qutte like Gen. Butler, Butler is & terribly literal-minded person, He accepted this Philadelphia A THOUGHT an an Refuse profane and old wives’ fables, and exerciwe thyvell rather unto godiiness—1 Tim. 4:7. . . . GIN by yougwill end by believing in God. —Dr. Arnold. LETTER FRon | V RIDGE MANN January 17, 1924. “Where do they get the rain for the storm scenes filmed at Los Angelos? H. L. in The Chicago Tribune Dear R. H. Let I know you know an awful But here's a bum idea you've got about Seatth It 1s shipped there by express from Seattle.”-—~—R. lot—enough to make you vain. rain. For out of fifty towns or so—out West as woll as East—the Weather Bureau's figures show Seattle has tho least! I know you didn't want to lie—I mean prevaricate. Perhaps you thought our cloudy sky implies a rainy state. Woe have a “rainy season” here, with quite a bit of dew—but take It al! thruout the year, wo get less rain than you! . Perhaps you have your story mixed with other things wo nell. We have a trade arrangement fixed, and working very well, Bo Just to help you get It straight, I'll tell you how it acts—and here and now I'm glad to state the true and solemn facts:— Our winters here are never cold. From August until May, our stock of extra heat ts sold, and shipped to warm L. A. the cash returns wo reap, and Wo take Place them in a pool—and pur- chaso Arctic alr to keep our summer evenings cool! Telling It to Congress (Excerpts from the Congressional Record) WHY TREE FARMING FAILS I get letters right along from men saying, “I have a few walnut logs for sale," or “I have a fow oak logs for sale. where can I sell them?" He can't sell them. You might just as well try to nell a dozen potatoes somewhere. You can’t do It. There ign't enough for a company to send a man to look at them, unless you get some means of pooling those logs #0 that the settlers can get them to- gether, get a large enough amount in one place to pay to get someone to go and look at them. They have practically no market for them, and they get tho idea that their timber | has no value—Eugene G. Cheney, University of Minnesota, before sen-| ate select committee on reforestation. | TAXES Under tho present tax policy in Maine it is impossible to start arti- ficial reforestration, towns In Maine—~we own Intercets in towns in five counties—where | the rate of taxation has increased | up to twice what we pald for the land—J. F. Gould, before senate select committee on reforestration. | for the taxes | are constantly mounting. There are| At the House of Service HOME OF THE BEST $2.50 GLASSES ON EARTH EXAMINATIONS FREE Our experience in vision test. ing enables us to correct your eyes with scientific accuracy, We specialize In the most modern farma of spectacles and eye. glasses. Grinding in our own modern lens-grinding plant—the popular Toric and Kryptok IN. » SIBLE BIFOCAL LENSES, Always Reliable! MARCUM OPTICAL CO, DR. ©. MARCUM 917 FIRST AVENUE Near Madison MA in-3609 regarding everything from a moral point of view, and job, however, only when he had a clear understanding with the mayor as to what his orders would be. “Am I to clean out erime and vice? he asked, and the mayor said, “Yes.” “Am I to have an absolutely free hand?’ “Yes,” said the mayor, “No politic sald the mayor er and deeper “All right,” sald Butler; make that ® public announce. ment.” This was done. POLITICIANS GIVE TWO REASONS Philadelphia Htlelans why Mayor Kendrick put head into this sort of a moral noose, The best answer they can give themselves ts that he fa looking toward the govern. or’a chair, In Harrisburg, and ix willing to ditch the “organiza tion” In order to win the rest of the state, Another and leas flattering theory propounded out of the corners of thelr mouths ia the suggestion that, after all, the Inside organization men can sacrifice the perquisites of the police department so long as other departments are not inter. fered with. They have in mind Philadelphia’s big construction program, running into many millions of dollars. In the past it has been the construction pro- grams that have fattened or ganization pocketbooks, How much there is in any of these theories les between the new mayor and the people of Philadelphia. All Butler has undertaken to do ts to produce 4 truly efficient police force for the city. To do that, he must cut off the “gold stream,” as the graft from {illicit booze, gambling and other vice ls called, in Philadelphia's chaste parlance. Tho mayors agreement not to interfere enables Butler to attempt this seriously, and, sert- ously, he is attempting {t. “No polities,” getting in deep. “let's ask his Million BY DR. M. W. KAPP My YISH I had a million dol. * This are,” statement often heard. Btop and think real he you 4 do wi Could ye to what million 4 any tore than you do feel Ke uld you thi than you do no more th s true you ngs, but y better Ha m! t is happin: Monaire? W enn, anyway? to" a state of mind ms of right 1 be a million inn, then you could have @ that m physical comforts could buy and all tunities of mental culture, F if you had tho state of nd that could be happy with a m weld noy oppor ere eart phynt REAL hay ymforts thht would be r of r to ac millions are not made ‘They too often repre 4 @ of men cannot br of life ts the re dir nd general real joy toward the personi good. I would rather write a ntence that w live in the ts of men to inspire a hu being to a finer ding of the forces express within himself than inherit I would rather in vent an instrument that would make for the comfort of men or the saving of life than to in- herit a million A mind that ean be content with a million dollars can be content with lens, My wish is for a mijiion beautiful thoughts. What Folks Are Saying SHERWOOD EDDY, general see retary foreign division Y. M. C. un ‘Business ethics may a few principles. tone ts common he the square deal Legitimate profit ts right, for capl- tal, for labor and for the consumer But as mankind advances from the | .|the reptiles that once overran the A} Jearth t# one of the interesting ques- seed tO! tons eclenco has not answered. brute, it will advance from the idea | ot private profit to that of public service, from the mere accumulation of profit to the development of per por from the survival of the | fittest to fight to survival of the fits ‘teat to serve. busines ethics to soclal well-being.” eee P. WITTIO, mworth, Kan. w. | Leavy | probate judge, “There must | ness, as well as in everything else. |For years and years the same old bachelors have congregated in vart- |ous places about town and gossiped Jabout everything. Before 1925— |(thia i leap. year)—there is going to be sonpo gossip going the rounds jabout them.” eee MRS. W. FE. BARNHART, Spokane Women's club: ‘he reason many girls who would build up wonderful [homes go thru life without marrying lim that they are not able to make | their love known to the right man. }In many cases, thru lack of finances or because of bashfulnoss, the right man has held back, when, if the way were mado easy or clear to him, he would joyfully welcome matrimony. Gtve the woman the right to propose marriage to the man she believes can make her happiest." And the final test of | be @ reaction in the marrying busl-| |among them that ‘were more terrible Si | ae es Be a HOT WEATHER COMING BACK Summer Says She Went ADVERTISIN( Away Because We yp beh Cussed Her JOUTH® AMERICA, Ji Heat ar here hildren Hurnidit ald whe 1 return Unite the latter par next “I n't want Unite cunne ring to leave the tates, but everybod 1 these autos something terrible ina 4 she # childre Hu now I hear they ar 1 the people want us HEALTH HINTS If you can't run or fight, never lew was interrupted call a man a liar, 6 outmldi 4 Sum. SPORTS Paddock lecture tour. wn, but spri t the ed home quickest Thero was a ¥ @ hot story. MARKE Dinosaur eggs, strictly 10,000,000 years old, are quoted at $5,000 each in New York. BAD MANNERS If girls are nice enough to use flavored lipsticks men should quit eating onions. EDITORIAL dinosaur e 10,000, wn at the man ented paper napkins, We throw another at people keep taxes up. But one wouldn't be enough to throw at people who keep taxes up, so in- stead of one egg 10,000,000 wo might use 10,000,000 eggs one year old. BEAUTY SECRETS A girl with big feet should make her face and halr look as attract- ive as possible, tarlans and browsed on trees and SCIENCE|== pra cinlenn gelieiren rg an egg 10, for sale in New York, she said she was out with an egg last night who acted older than that. eee While Miss Oldmaid has had her bobbed and bought a new sofa for the parlor, the neighbors say there isn't much hope, HOME HELPS No home is complete without a man, but every kitchen Is, years « jmains yet discovered were over a hundred feet in length. These great |reptiles had legs, which they prob- Jably used more tn swimming than in walking because it ts doubtful if thelr legs could have supported their |great welgh:. Other reptiles, large, but flercer, preyed upon ; Very few creatures resemb |thelr mesozoic ancestors exist today. It is known that the life of the great |reptiles suddenly ceased. Their ex- |termination probably was due to a severe change in climate, but there is only theory to account for their jend. Big Ones The problem of what became of The mosozolc age, early in the world's history, was the age of rep- tiles. They increased and prospered amazingly. There were reptiles that crawled, climbed, Jumped and even nome that flew. There were giants in appearance than any other later animals, The dinosaurs were tle largest. Most of these were vege- News from Egypt ts bad. Women want American clothes. They will get sunburned in many new places. 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