The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 23, 1924, Page 6

PAGE 6 THE SEATT LE § TAR WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23, , Toza, sn The star Newapaper Bnterpr Let's Make it Snappy ETTLEMENT of the fight over the legality of city HH bonds issued to finance the building of the Montlake {Stadium and the West Spokane st. bridges clears the way Hor construction to proceed, Get the work started at once. These two bridges will relieve, to a great extent, the traffic congestion at two bad “bottlenecks” in the city’s traffic arteries, and in so doing will help materially to educe the death and injury in Seattle's traffic tragedy. Please make it snappy! Tt’s all right for the United States government to place an embargo Around the Huertistas, but when Huerta puts an embargo on Tampleo, ‘ he controls, that’s all wrong. It calls for American battleships to warn” tho Huertistas, That's what started the war with Spain, A Pretty Good Old Town AY, neighbor, when you craw! out of bed these morn- ings, and with bare ankles stretching out below your ort bathrobe, stumble down the back stairs to the Rogahct outside for a few sticks for the stove— " ‘And you step out into the balmy breeze that’s blowing am from the sound or one of the lakes, and you see the rising behind the Cascades or reflected on the summit fof the Olympics, and you hear the robins—yes, they're there—chirping, and see the buds beginning to show on the trees. And then, over your coffee, you pick up the paper and tice where the East and South is in the grip of below- mzero weather or shoveling its way out of a record bliz- ; Doesn't it make you, too, often voice the remark: “There’s lots of towns, but you're welcome to the rest’? Tt fs predicted that this will be the banner year In the production of Butomobiles and cigarets. In life we are in the midst of death, It Sticks a Fellow [A7E just don’t understand money, We've had one or two pleasant opportunities to look money in the face Pand study its features, size, shape and possibilities but it doesn’t stand still long enough to clearly post us. : Here’s President Coolidge declaring that, if income are reduced, the poor man’s doliar will be more uable. Then, just as we go to fondling our large ‘sil dollar, comes news from London that, because ‘Poincare is going to sock 20 per cent. more of taxation on France, all European moneys rise in value to beat the id Maybe it’s politics, maybe just gambling. Anyway, awful not to know where between 60 cents and 100 dollar is located, after you've worked about 150 peents’ worth getting it. | Gudging by the speeches before the democrats selected New York for eortoten eb idea of holding a democratic convention was nominate a candidate for president, but to give the women dele a chance to do some big league shopping on Fifth ave. et Book Keeping A NTHONY N. BRADY left an estate of 75 million dol- lars. In life he kept. most of his books “in his head,” it cost him only $11,000 a year to look after his property, his son testifies in court. The son.seeks relief, aiming the requirements of the law have increased is cost to over eek poate bape ger kkeeping, origi intended as a device to cut ex- in ate ye fas become a major factor in the of living. There isn’t enough money in the world to for a “complete” bookkeeping system. The ancient eeper who kept his records in a nail keg was wiser is generally conceded. Harvard astrologers have gone and discovered another universe, just Checking Your Hat CHINESE restaurant in New York city leases its hat-checking privilege for $12,600 a year. At that, siders say the concession will pay profits of $10,000 a A ‘The usual system is to make the check girls wear tight oilars so they can’t hide their tips. which usually have be turned in. ‘The tipping system is undemocratic, a hangover from days, and it will pass out as soon as the public : iks. A traveling man estimated that each hat cost him 4/$50 before he wore it out, counting tips. Trotsky bas been ordered to “a warmer climate.” “Was less short and ugly than that. . What Is Success? 4 FORMER child prodigy now 26, who graduated from ) 4% Harvard when he was 16, recently was discovered ‘working for $23 a week. This has attracted a lot of Jattention and comment. But the chief thing it shows that Americans measure success by dollars. That is a wrong notion. Steinmetz didn’t leave much, But Be was one of the 10 most successful men of his . neration, Secretary Hughes And just as the Japs rot to talking about barring Americans from land ownership their land goes to quaking so that they can hardly stay on it elves. Comfort for Collectors W HEN we were a boy, with galloping stys on both YY eyes, it was always conducive to mental comfort 0 gaze forth, as much as possible, upon the purple ‘Stone bruises upon both heels of some other boy. This information is presented for the benefit of certain ell-meaning and necessary workers known as bill collect- fs, whose fate it is to be “stood off” to beat the band, in this season of yearly, monthly, Christmas and other pill: Let them consider Mr. Charles Hughes and be omforted. As United States secretary of state, Mr. Hughes is cing great moral effort to collect some $185,000,000 Russia, advanced when Kerensky looked like the best and there isn’t a cent of it in sight. On top of this, ding to late dispatches, is piled worry over $277,- 00,000, lent Europe by Uncle Sam as relief money, on urities. It seems that France has been loaning little tions of Western Europe millions for armament for other war, and Mr. Hughes has strong suspicion that seni in hand are just like pawn tickets on pawn ets, ~ Verily, any ordinarily honest bill-collector, of whom F- there seems to be flocks and flocks, can get solace for delay on last month’s milk bill or that for little Willie's winter shoes, by considering Mr. Hughes’ scrape, “Scofflaws"—that’s what they're going to call boozers who break the Taw. Anti-Saloon league gave $200 prize for the name, Try it on friends, when you see them drinking. AntiSaloon leaguers say wither them with shame and dry them up, Maybe; maybe not! ae aS i Sims’ #. NEWS \(¥ PAPER Debt Can Paid |National | Be al announced at s ls more Save these cuss words you use on winter, You can use most of chem on summer s WEEKLY BOOK REVIEW Among books recelyed this week |which will be reviewed later are The The Wank Book, {Tho Calendar, The Dictionary, The Spelling Book and The Encyclopedia All of them are bum MARKETS Cops are causing activity among the Washington booticggers, | COMICS Bryan has picked a candidate, ‘The candidate isn't Bryan, TAX NOTICE No Sing Sing inmates owe Income | tax this year, Only one pald last | year, Clouds have silk insides. EDITORIAL | Mexk i Seed Catalog, rouble. ¢ regon got | t th RADIO NOTES A fan in Chile got New York. This may stop the one about opening the window and getting Chile. | ADVERTISING Go to church and get your New Year resolu r while you walt. Old ones made lke M even days Some last aired now. SPORT i's champton base. | got fined $70 for speed-| is too bad. Babe ts a big man now, but some day, if he keeps on speeding, ho will be big enough to cover a few acres. HEALTH HINTS Apparently harmless tattoo marks led to a Texas man's capture, so never get tattooed. MOTOR NOTES Isvillo” ac | HOME HELPS | Large box placed in the middie of |the floor is considered fine for burg lars to stumble over. SOCIETY Mr. Bondklipper, who broke his foot kicking a collector out the door, broke his other foot kicking a chair when he got the doctor’s bill yester. day. His many friends and enemies wilt be sorry to learn he has only two feet to break. BEAUTY SECRET Poking tho nose in other people's business may make it flat. BEDTIME STORY “I got the bed warm last night, It is your turn tonight." | What Folks Are Saying MRS, AUGUSTA R, McDONALD, | Evanston, Ill, who is going to col- lege despite her four grown children in similar institutions: “A mother should keep abreast of her daugh- ters, who are apt to look upon their schooling with an air of superiority.” | JUL HARRY KEIDAN, De-| troit: "The youth of today knows} more of the adult than the adult of} today knows of the youth.” SECRETARY OF LABOR DAVIS: “A civilization rises when the beaver men outnumber the rat men When} the rat men get the upper hand, the| civilization falls, Then the rats turn and eat one another, and that 1s tha end. Beware of breeding rats in America.” GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, English author: “Nine-tenths of our people are wasting thoir lives in a hopeless attempt to acquire more property than they need, and the ro- maining tenth waste theira in look- ing after and increasing the super. fluous property they already pos. | | LOUIS BRUCE, Mohawk “It self-reliance, pride ambition and a religious re. sponsibility could be instilled in the young, and tn their elders, the In- dian, instead of slowly passing away thru death or ints arriage, would increase and multip You Love to Touch?” Why Courts Should Be Curbed IPE average reader han read & great deal about the so- called abuse of power by the courts, in the arrest of persons for contempt of court. It would not be strange If some readers have imbibed the idea that every exercise of the power to arrest and punish for contempt is tyranny, ‘This ls not true. The power to punish in necemsary to court court miu | ultous practices funetion without such p It must have tho power to punish for contempt sheriffs, ballitfs, clerks and other officers of its own to prevent culpable neglect of duty, shady deals with parties, Oppression or extortion. The court's power to punish for contempt does not end here It must extend to other persons who have this same power to disturb. If a man were to play ® calliope, for instance, under the courtholise windows, the court could hardly tran’ business, The judge would have to stop it. If it continued, he could bring the player before him for contempt. And here arises a mighty bas- fe fact in contempt. If the cal- lope player #xhould declare that he did the playing with no de sire to disturb tho court, he would “purge himself of the con- tempt,” as the law says, and unless the favts showed that he was lying, the court would have to let him go, The intention is what governs, It is @ trait In human naturo that all men love power. And the present state of the practice of courts In contempt cases has grown out of that weakness in judges, They are pushing out farther and farther over tho field of jurisdiction like absolute Frieda’s Follies THE WAY parents go on about their children! THIS boy was a perfect question box. THE mother looked at him dot- ingly, AS HE plied the cleven-hundredth question to me, WITHIN the hour, “DOESN'T he look like a student, AT THE feet of one of the old philosophers?” 1 GLARED at her as I responded: “FROM the number of times 1 have had to answer him, I THINK he ts moro like a door bell.” MOTHER:- Fletcher's Castoria is especially prepared to relieve Infants in arms and Children all ages of Constipation Flatulency Diarrhea Wind Colic To Sweeten Stomach Regulate Bowels Aids in the assimilation of Food, promoting Cheerfulness, Rest. and Natural Sleep without Opiates To avoid imitations, always look for the signature of Bist ilan Proven directions on each package, Physicians everywhere recommend it, BY HERBERT QUICK monarchs, and c ing first this act and then that a contempt of court, until tt has become a se rious menace to our liberties. Most of the cases of contempt % from two sorts of proceedings — contempt cases against people who publish or ak criticlama and contempt cases for violations of injunc- tiona, ntempt of court at bottom was always kuch be ficlals of tt os to disturb the court its proceedings. But J s have always punish for contempt any utter. ance jn speech or print which merely disturbed thelr own per: sonal foclings. Proper contempt proceedings enable the court to Protect itself from disturbance in doing business. Tyranntcal contempt proceedings seek to punish people for saying what they think of thelr pubifo off cere—tho fudges. SCIENCE Paper One of the greatest accomplish-| ments of the human race for its! own advancement was the manufac: | ture of paper | Like many other great inventions, ite birthp was China. Tho Chi Rese had been making paper for sov- eral centuries when their workmen, skilled in its manufacture, sere cap. tured by Arabs about 750 A. D. The art gradually entered Europe, but the paper wan not equal to the qual. |ity of that mado by the Arabs and was not freely used until about 1300, when Italy began producing It. This | Paper was of good quality and its |Use spread rapidly until in another |} hundred years it was abundant and cheap enough so that the printing of books in large quantities was prac:-| tical. From that time on Europe began to shake off the depression of |the middle ages and to grow rapidly jin education. The knowledge of read. jing, formerly confined to a very few |persons, spread rapidly. School }books became cheap and people bo- gan to learn and to think for them- er. Telling It to Congress || G2xcerpts from the Congressional Record) © court parties, in nome | HOW TO END WAR Rich and poor, at home or fn tho army, should be under common or ders to work or fight as necessity may demand. This habit onco con- tracted) by the peoples of the earth would soon make an end to war. Everybody then would be able to see that wars do not pay and act ao cordingly. — Senator McLean (R,), Conn. o- A RIP VAN WINKLE BILL For many years there has been a real sentiment in this country for what is called the truth tn fabric bill How long has that bill been slum- bering in the committee on interstate and foreign commerce? ... To my knowledge that bill has been before that committee for the last 12 years, — Representative Woodruff (R.), Mich, one THE LAW Under the law, all men aro pro. sumed to know the law—and yet we of the legal fraternity are too often forced to admit that it is a violent presumption even as to the lawyers themselves, and it is sometimes true that a man is punished for tho viola. tion of a law of which he did not actually know and which the judge and lawyer have great difficulty in finding.—Rep, Peery (D.) Va. A 'tHOUGHT Man fs like to vanity; his days are as a shadow that passeth away.—Ps, exlivad, HERD is no limit to the vanity of this world. Each spoke in the wheel thinks tho whole strength of | the Wheel depends upon it—W, H, Shaw. - First of a Series by a swering The Star’s Ser THE CHURCH WAR Seattle -astor An- Porterfield y * pap ington wtaff, Phin in the tr REV. P. A. KLEID BY IVIESE few « be known ar between the ‘Funda. clearly a order that the truth me s to whe hind the v and and net iste’ to sonnel and y The pers ernist” is the (but not of the the father made his first appe denied the truth of the Word of God, ng rape on every door knob in the world, The person behind the “tanda- mentalist” the Lord Jesus Christ, who is the Saviour of the fundamentalist and who exposed the whole modern move. ment when he met the modern. ist and their father in his day. and as a result thas bh in jon of aN he aids peas, one til all be tule from the ia That tn 9 who had gi and gone into po addu ho still clung m but denied all the rection of the life 4, He “Ye are of your father the d the b of your father y 1 do; he A murderer from the be ning ode not in the truth, bee cause thefe was no truth in him, en ho speaketh a lie he speale and the fathe position, and in the struggle. This is the the personnel (Another story by Nev, Kicla tos morrow.) Our Wine and OurWomen Asa Visitor From New Zealand Sees Them Editor The Star: I have had quite a lot of amuse ment in your letters in The Star, and am writing one upon my ideas experiences on the eve of my re to my native Auckland, New 7 Since my residence beautiful city (about ntinuously) have met and becom quainted with many nice families 4 people, but, do you know, I do eeem to grasp or understand ur so-called prohibition, er Vol- stead law, I hear it stated time and again, “We are a prohibition state,” “We are dry,” etc, etc. Everywhere I went on New Year's or New Year's eve, liquor and drinking were in evi dence, and apparently in abundance, The publishing of criticisms ofa court does not interfere with {ts functions, It may make the judge angry, or it may humiliate him, but his court can go on just the same, And in a democratic ‘govern ment, a court peng a part of the government, it is necessary that people’s mouths be not shut up as to the Inefficiency, the un- winde x the corruption of the « A. It is not only the right, | but it may easily be the du any writer or speaker who be- eves that the courts are cor rupt or inefficient, to say 90. Since 1821 the laws of the United States have forbidden contemg® proceedings against the publishing of comments ox ding. But the judges construe these laws, and they have almost construed them away. It is time congress should act again. indeed, to explain to my friend acquaintances st home that the very many peope I have met here and I have met man paren | refined, cultured and socially at ing promizently in Seattle—elther have been or are plentifully supplied or harbor brewerles and miniature Gistilleries in thelr kitchens and homes, One very beautiful family I have tn mind ag I write, two lovely girls in thelr teens, and one boy about 12 years of age. Their parents are a most likable and esti ble couple. The lady of the house, while I was LETTER FROM \V RIDGE MANN “I can hardly believe that cate must wear license tags. Today at least elght different cats have prowled in my yard, and tho I looked long and often, I did not see one license tag. . . . For three consecutive nights I have had no restful sleep because the cat nuisance has been worse than al, Last night's cats’ debauch was terrible."—From an unsignéd letter to the editor, January 23, 1924, Dear Folks: On looking back on days of yore, as I have often done, I recoliect when “Pinafore” was having quite a run. And I recall that in the show—Iif I am not amise—they used to sing a line or so that goes about as this; “Oh, mercy me! Why what fs that”... “It is the cat! And often, when I go to bed, and ali {s calm around, there plerces thru my ‘weary head a moaning, wailing sound. A baby’s lost, beyond a douht—I know the childish ery! But still, before I hasten out, I give a sleepy sigh—‘Oh, darn the racket! What is that? + It's just a cat!’ For then I've heard another sound that pierces thru the night: a thousand voices shriek around—it seems to be a fight! They moan and yell and yow! and scream, and wail and growl and hiss; and then, before I siart to dream, I think about as this: “Hellsbells and fishes! What's tho roar? + Two cats—or more!” (fd and {t is going to be very difficult, | | calling upon her one day, in my presence, instructed her Swedish | mata how to brew beer, ete, and jupon expressing my surprise she Jaughingly explained to me, “Why | ev shborhood does cousins, “It ts 4“! Inwardly, * ”" From Baltimore, all thru your Middle | West, to the Coast and Seattle, such | hidden saloons, called bootleg jointa, |are on the Increase and doing busi. | Bess in every block, almost, of your different cities, Your people must know they are |misrepresenting conditions, or are deaf, dumb and blind—selling vile jor of the worst description at a t extortionate figure, I was not in your country during but it is a question , which {s the worst atfalra—present or past? San Francisco, Cal., to my idea, is state of with liquor and wine tn their homes |‘h¢ least hypocritical of all your cities, They claim such conditions do exist, and seem to have some control over them, and try to weed out so-called moonshine joints and let the better class of bootleggers run—if there ts such a thing es @ better—they all are bad. 1 have indirectly come in contact with different police organizations in your different cities, and from the standpoint of courtesy, appeas ance and willingness to oblige, Seat tle pollce measure up to the best of them most favorably, Do you know, I am not able to |adequately give enough praise and jo justice to your native daughters, America is truly blest, indeed, if all her womanhood measures anywhero near to Washington's native daugh tera, both as to character and ap pearance. After being among them at all times and places, and under | different conditions, I can most j truly state the greatest compliment given any young lady or girl Is, “She is @ native daughter of Wash- ington." God bless them! And to all thelr mothers I can say, “You can be proud of them.” I am secretary of two temperance organizations in Auckland, president of our Welfare league there now, but if you call the Untted States a prohibition country tn any sense of the word, we do not want any of ft, | MRS. ELIZA E. FARNSWORTH, Auckland, New Zealand, Hunters and fishermen nad a ban- quet {:. Milwaukee, but lightning didn't strike the place. If there was a physically perfect man, his interior would be built along the thermos bottle idea. 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