The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 1, 1924, Page 8

PAGE 8 Published Dally by 0600. Newapa: The Btar Publidhing Go, orprise Amsoociation aus 80, @ monthe 42. * Ban Francisoe Representat! New York offion, “The Whole Truth” yr. the grand jury has recessed, Cost around $10,000. Took up 11 weeks of valu- able time, Didn’t indict anybody much, Only somo of tho small fry. Ran pretty well to the form predicted for it. Only one exception. Things had seemed pretty well lined up, according to “leaks” from the jury, to forget indictments and to salve things over with a report on vice and crime conditions generally in Seattle, as the jurors found them. That would have let everybody down easy and the jurors could have washed their hands and gone home, And then, on the very eve of the jury’s report, Mayor Brown felt it his official duty to go to the grand jury and to point out to James McCabe, its foreman, that it would be illegal for the jury to make any such statement, altho Prosecutor Douglas pointed out that such reports had been customary with grand juries for years, ‘Asked why he went, the mayor said he thought it was his duty to “head off any slanderous or derogatory state- ment about the city.” ~ Seattle wanted to see such a report as the jury is sup- posed to have contemplated. Ugly stories of “protection money” and “grease pots” have persisted too long in the downtown section. Whether or not there was sufficient evidence for in- dictments, Seattle should have had the truth about vice conditions here. It should have heard in detail just what the jury heard so it could have judged for itself. ‘Lady mummies found near King Tut's tomb after 2,610 years were garbed like women of today, says story. Now watch tho wives all get out and wear last year’s dresses. Anyway, Mexico is having a bang-up political campaign. Atta Boy, Tindall UNCILMAN TINDALL, new head of the council's utilities committee, which has supervision over the Skagit power project, says it will be his first job to hold up transfer of any more funds into Engineer Uhden’s hands until he finds out where the money is going. _ “I wrote Mr. Uhden some time ago, asking him for the facts,” says Tindall, ‘‘and I have received no reply.” Atta boy, Tindall! Lots of the rest of us have tried to get some facts, too. And with equally satisfactory results. If you, in your new position of power, can turn any eet on the Skagit mystery, Seattle will thank you. _ You've put the right foot front. Representative Langley, of Kentucky, protests that {mpure air In ‘congress Is killing off members of congress. Maybe if they would tall Jess and act niore the air would be better, So far, congress looks like a reunion of the Doolittle family, How ’Bout It, Marshal? ARSHAL FOCH made the decision not to keep the Germans on the run and invade Berlin in 1918, ac- to Maj. Gen. Henry T. Allen, former commander ‘the American army of occupation. Pershing and other ail heads left the decision to Foch. Foch apparently thought the invasion of Berlin would make too much territory to police. It was one of the most important decisions in history. We wonder if Foch regretted it. Sanon Aitkin, of Engiand, has preached more than 22,000 sermons. | be a job for the canon to remember how to practice all ho has ft ts has erected 50,000 war memorials, but none fs more than Safety First PAWENTY-ONE THOUSAND Americans will be killed by accidents this year while on industrial jobs, warns e National Industrial Conference board. An additional 000 employers and self-employed people will be killed. ‘Whether or not your name will be included on this list ma} depend largely on your personal caution. Safety ap- Dliances help a lot. But constant personal caution is the best safety device. Be as careful, when working around “danger, as when driving an auto past a school house. when we thought the coal question had been settled by Giff along comes news of preparations for a new strike. And It's coal world we live in today. "President Rea, of the Pennsylvania Hines, says the railways need income. Who said the railways are not human? “The Finishing Touches” NERMANY used to be the chief magnet for students AJ who wanted to “get the final polish abroad.” But the United States now is “finishing headquarters” for the world, 10,000 students a year arriving here from Europe, Asia, Africa and South America. So reports Dr. Stephen P. Dugan, director of the Institute of Interna- tional Education. They come here from the far corners of the earth. Boys, ze want to quit school and go to work, should ponder Don’t know exactly how to pronounce the name of Mr. Doheny, the California oil millionaire, but the accent is on the first syllable, as in Going—W here? YOUNG man writes, protesting at the older genera- tion’s notion that the younger generation is “going to the dogs.” We says truthfully that “40 cannot judge 20.” And he adds the key of the whole situation: “If we do want to enjoy ourselves, it is because we know _ only too soon we will marry, and marriage nowadays has not much glamour about it. Jobs are too hard to get and keep, and there is not much money to be easily made.” " Back in 1920 the G. 0. P. was shouting, “Let’s be done with wig: and wobble.” But now look at Albert B. Fall wiggle and a lot of pies republicans wobble. = Growing Up to H.C. L. pep ore get used to anything, in time. The ab- normally high cost of living is getting to be the mow . A new generation is growing up, and the low prices of pre-war days are hardly remembered by them. ll around, people are becoming so accustomed to high st of living that they forget they ever had anything + John Moody, able economist, comments along thes lines. He believes it extremely unlikely that tHe will back to the pre-war level, at least in this generation. e The precedent of the “50 years cycle” would, if re- | peated, restore pre-war prices about the year 1950, The tendency is down for 30 years, then up for 20, reaching the peak. roughly every 50 years. x _ There are 26 candidates for president in Nicaragua, which should insure that vest-pocket country with sufficient revolutions to suit the most exacting. er le LL THE SEATTLE STAR Alkali Al and Montana Tom 4 PAPER | EWSPAPERS aanounce a radio device for curling hatr, All right, girls,’ tune in on a marcel wave. You can expect some local inter. ference if bobbing for the first time. Dad and ma will provide loud speak- ora, ‘As transformers, try putting the ewitch on and off. No need to tell you to avold fre quency or statio.in style. Station FAD signing oft, DAILY SKOFF SKOFFCAR—A bird that gives your fiiwer tho laugh. SKOFFDATE—A dame that turns down your movie invitation for a dinner bid. SKOFFTOMB—A guy that runs in front of autos and street cars on slippery street. SKOFFPRUNES—victim either of @ boarding house or the ancient Joke concerning !t. EDITORIAL SHORTS This time it was the ofl that troubled the waters. People who work In gas stations shouldn't throw matches. When it gets too cold to swear— ‘well, it's time to go to Florida. Visitors who tell us thelr troubles are welcome every February 29, COURT NEWS New York tawyers asked an allenist s 20,000-word hypothetical question. Didn't bother him at all. He has a small boy at home, ADVERTISING Our want ads bring reaults, Recently wo advertised the mystertous disappearance of our pipe, Gumshoo. We haven't been able to locate our own pipe, but scores of people have brought In pipes they found and suspected of being ours. We not only have future Christmas presents but far bet- ter pipes than the one we lost. LEGAL NOTICE Some lawyers you hire, and some you support for the rest of thelr llves. FASHIONS Announcement that derbies are to be all the style again will put a lot of mothballs out of jobs, Which raises tho delicate ques- tion: What would mothballs do for a living if trunks hadn't been in- vented. MUSIO P, Liguattarri, trombonist extraor- dinary, received a distinguished delo- gation at his hotel last week. They asked him to rehearse in the theater hereafter, ART Rumor has it that La Drauxo sold a painting last week. He pald his board bill . SCIENCE Experiments made on the latest thing in mouse traps indicate that they pinch the fingers just as hard as the ancient varieties. SCIENCE| The Air Pump | ‘The air pump, at first a ourlosity and scientific toy, {s now one of the | most necessary tools of civilized life. | It is a machine for producing a par. | tial vacuum, Without {t, ordinary electric lights could not exist, for, if | air is not practically eliminated, the | filament will burn up in a flash. All the tubes used in radio tel- ephony are made possible by the alr pump, also the X-ray tube, so neces- sary to the surgeon. Many important {idustries are de- pendent upon the alr pump. The condensed milk business, the season- ing of lumber and the manufacture | of chemicals depend largely upon | thia tool. | The alr pump. generally consid. ered a modern invention, in realfty was Invented by Otto Von Guericke, in 1650, It was uned at first merely to experiment with scientific theo- ties of whether a vacuum gould be caused. It was gradually improved until today, while, altho # total vac- unm attll is unknown, {t can produce | @ condition that is very close to it. | 4 lh Y, MEET SEN. WALSH The Man Behind the Fall Probe 1823 New Xork Ave. ASHINGTON, Feb, 1-—Moet Thomas J, Walsh, demo- cratic senator from Montana, man of the hour in Washington. Blight, soft-spoken, almost white-halred, this 64-year-old lawyer from Helena, Montana, ls the man who has given the Re- publicans the worst scare they have had in 12 years. Ho is the man who hae gathered, almost alons, evidence of dishonesty and iilegally in the making of the Teapot Dome oll reserve leans. Long before the present sense tlonal developments placed the Teapot Dome story on the front pages of the nation’s newspapers, Walsh was weaving \the web which now is slowly closing about the culprits. As a member of the senate public lands committee—the com mittee instructed by the senate to investigate former Secretary Fall's activities in lawing the navy’s olf lands—it devolved upon Walsh to Go the investl gating. ‘The chairman of the committes was formerly Reed Smoot, reac tionary republican of Utah. Smoot gave Walsh practically ne assist- ance and attempted thruout the hearings to justify the Fall policy. With the organization of the 68th congress, Irvine L. Len- root, another regular républican, succeeded to the chairmanship. He continued the Smoot policy, Both Smoot and Lenroot tried to bring the hearings to an early close, Thwarted at almoat every turn, Walsh persisted in his work. When the tide began to turn, within the Inst few weeks, and the results of Walsh's work be- came apparent, opportunist polt- ticians of all types, republican as well an democratic, Jumped aboard and atempted to share the credit for unearthing the sordid story. In Washington, however, cred. It Is being placed where credit is due, Members of congress recom nize the value of Walsh's work, and members of the democratic party, for the most part. are looking to him for leadership tn the further prosecution of the ofl lease scarmala. What Folks Are Saying REV. ©. M. SHELDON, author of “In His Steps,” most popular of mod- ern religious works: “Owing to a de- fective copyright, I lost control of my book entirely, and it was poured from the presses of unauthorized publishers on both sides of the water. I have no way of knowing how many coples have been sold, but the Pub- Ushers’ Weekly not long ago placed the number at 22,000,000. I havo never received a cent of royalty from any publisher, outaide the orig: inal one, nor any word of any kind from any of them—not even a free copy.” —— LETTER Unexcelled ae a lawyer, Walsh has no gift for publicity, In- stead of seeking tho limelight he goes out of his way to dodge it. He prefers to work os a careful attorney who establishes the worth of his testimony before he divulges it, and who then uses it to prove his case tn court, not In the paper The proment fight ts not Walsh's first political battle. Back in 1910 when he was mak- ing his firet race for the nenate he had to fight the united ef- forta of the Anaconda Copper company, which dominates Mon- tana. Hoe failed of election, but he also folled the efforts of the copper company and a compro tise candidate was chonen. In 1912, Walsh again ran for the senate and this time was @uccessful. He was re-elected tn 1918, his second term expiring this year, Born In Two Rivers, Wiacon- ein, in 1859, Walsh recetved his early edfication In the public schools, and was Inter a teacher and principal of several Wiscon- nin nchools, He opened a law of. fice in Helena, Montana, tn 1890, and has since made the Montana capital his home. Walsh ts one of the hardest working members of the renate. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS YOU can get an answer to any Question of fact or tnforma- tion by writing to TI w he Questios Editor, 8t Sie iar whington Hu- uy Y. Ave, Washing- ton, D. C., enclosing two cents in stampa for reply. Medical, legal and marital advice cannot be iven, nor can extended research be undertaken Unsigned re- uests cannot be answered— EDITOR, ‘Was Cleopatra Mncedonian Peryptian? hor extant? Eovptian. There ta no authentlo portrait of Cleopatra extant, except her effgy upon coins, eee or Is there any portrait of Does tt thunder on the oceant If 80, what in the reason? It does thunder on the ocean, The thunder that accompantes lightning seems to be satisfactorily explained by the fact that the electric dis- charge in forcing its way thru the atmosphere heats the air and the vapor lying in its path to a very high temperature, causing a very wolent expansion along the length of the flash, The result ts a very steep compression toave, or, what ds the same thing, a notee. eee What does “anute” pited to cooking? mean as ap- To fry Ughtly in hot fat or dut-| ter, not deep enough to cover the thing cooked. . How can leather shoes be pro- tected from sulphuric acid? Coat them thoroly with melted paraffin. FROM toarm VRIDGE PiANN Dear Folks: Tho other day I wrote about the way the weather's doing. that Spring had started out a little Winter wooing. February 1, 1924, T sald I gave it quite a little praise, with not a word complaining; for who would kick, these balmy days, about a little raining? But weather, so it often seems, is quite a bit contrary. a bunch of April streams to finish January. It sent And tho we very often fay wo like the rain we're getting, the batch they gave us yester. day was pretty blooming wetting! I got it walking on the street;.I couldn't run and duck it. The drops that fell before my feet were big as any bucket. coat, but what's the use? I wore a Aside from any spoofing, It soaked a couple quarts of Juice thru all the waterproofing. I wore a hat to shield my brain; but as may be expected, t simply made a pool where rain, by gallons, was collected. It trickled to my steady tread until my neck was sloshing; and every time I bobbed my head I gave my face a washing. It didn’t last a half an hour—maybe not a quarter; for clouds, in such a sturdy shower, soon run out of water. But showers come to you and me to keep our growth progressing; and somehow, tho we cannot see, they each can be a blessing. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1924, Story No. 5. THE LEGION’S SIDE Of the Fight for Adjusted Compensation the American DJIUSs comp for the and sailors of the pI United Stat army and na during the wo |war has tion This we oppo opposition has taken many forms, It has em bracaa in its | membership many of the greatost country's leaders in | government, tn politics, in indus. try, In the profes sions and in the press. Arguments against adjusted compensation have |been devised in every convelvable form of propagandist camouflage that could be draped abo 6 real facta, from platitudes of patriotism to declarations that the themselves, as a class, are opposing the movement Veterans f JONEZ veterans nd themselves opposed now by the same men who were loudest in their promises of nomic help at the time these veter- ans left civil life to go into the service e | ‘We'll take care of you; we'll see | that the right thing ts done by you | |when you returnt’ } ‘Ths was the cry that rang from housetops thruout the country when the government found itself oon- | fronted with the necensity of find- ing or taking 4,600,000 peaceful men to fight Ita battles, ‘This, too, wan the cry that cheer 4 the soldier as he gave up every- thing that ho loved. FOUND THAT TALK OF CARE WAS JUST TALK When he returned tt did not take him long to discover that, tho! emergency over, tho big fellow who | 4id the loud talking had been and still was too Susy taking care of himself to pay any attention to the man who served. “Get on the best you can? was | the welcome the veterans recetved | from big business generally.; Voters | in a number of states were not #0 minded, with the result that within | from one to four years, 22 states of the Union did make some provision | to help stabilize the condition of the | returned war veteran. This pro-| vision took numerous cash pay: | ments, financed by bond tissues, to} land seGlement schemes helpful] only to those who were willing to| undertake agricultural activities on | reclamation land in desert trriga- tion, In 2 states no special provision whatever was made under the argu- ment carried all along that sooner or| later the federal government should} deal with the subject. Lat us see now what the federal government did do. Dering or since the world war an adjustment of compensation, tn addi. tion to regular pay, was paid to fed- eral civilian employes totaling $225, 000,000; and to the civilian help em- ployed with the army and navy, $100,000,000. ‘The government drafted the rail- roads during the war and guaran. teed them satisfactory profits, and| | to this end in 1922 settied upon them }an adjustment of compensation to- | taling $764,271,000, ADJUSTED COMPENSATION GIVEN CONTRACTORS War contractors were guaranteed and paid profits which were always fair, frequently Uberal, and some. times exorbitant. Since the war con- tractors have been paid an additional $700,000,000 in adjusted compensation and these payments are still going on. Tho returned veteran, despite his economip handicap, is now paying, and for four or five years has been paying, his share of the foregoing in addition to the other expenses of the wir. All other war debts have 3 stop it. and fever. The simple, pleasant and eff lemonade at night. Then a hot bath and bed, with plenty of warm covers. just beginning, this will check it. ‘The effectiveness of hot lemonade Try making your hot lemonade this way and see how delicious the fla- vor is. Hot Lemonade & whole Californie pour boiling w them. Allow to stand « Pow: ed, and that ever | paid out in {st AND ON MEASURE been liquidated by the ernment at ) comm uli any reply gainst b had never expense the veteran has been neglect- W eine ie ant 1 there is trenn Infled an n surplus in the nu nal the « from big business to a with the soldier becomes the loudest The pathize basis tha tax upon big business can be materi ally reduced, big business will feel better, and may, at its discretion, re duce the cost of liv and thus make life easier and better for the yeteran villan ran can tear aside all the camou 6 of opposition ar umonts and express his strength against opposition, political fac tors representative of he will continue to carry his v handicaps in civil life and in his ¢ will ring the cheerful admonishment of ble bu t on the best n* Ho will bear in mind this, haps; That in the first five y since the war the government has adjusted compensation to other elements contributing to its maintenance and operation one-ha the total amount required for adjust-| continue to make ite chi 4 compensation for the soldier over | oF uttaing the coming 20-year period. And the|\iqih coc, country is not economically HOW THE ary, ral public is asked to sym. this opposition on the now there is a surplus, the taken on the compen in us effor Unless the ve the bud o notes Aside from islation and exten onsoring all the leg: ct help that has been disabled war Legion veter- sb f effort that and helping its indi- SOLDL |to defend all ex-service m purposes have and al to unselfishly better the economically and civically of all the people of this country, If unquestioning service under arms in time of war {s lack of pa- triotism, then I do not know what patriotism is. I do not c Jack of patriotism, or an One of the cheapest arguments against adjusted compensation for jhe veteran is that the veteran himgelf 1s not unanimously behind i. This may be answered by a few facts and figures: First, that the American Legion is the largest veterans’ organizatioa in the ory of the world; second, that 00 posts of the American Legion| ing principle of national integrity have been voting upon this question | and defense that the men who serve annually; third, that instructed delo-|in the armed forces of a country ates elected from these poste vote| seek to be recognized properly for upon the question in their de part. | that service by an adequate and rea- ment conventions, and the instruct-|#9nable compensation for the period ed delegates from the department | *rved, or to be inducted back into or state elected from these posts,| civil life with as much consideration vote upon the question at the na-|® was given them when they were tional convention; fourth, that at| ‘ducted into the fighting forces of the national convention of the| that nation. Americin Legion held in New Or-| America 1s confronted with a debt leans in 1922, the vote upon ad-|{t cannot repudiate by any cry that Justed compensation was 1,014 for! th® Service which created the debt und none opposed, and at San Fran-;¥#% lone sufficient compensation. cisco in 1928, the vote was 996 for| America has never recognized it as and one against. If that is not|eoch in its history and has thru its unanimity of opinion how in’ the|°néress always before sought ade- quately to place its soldiers back in name of common sense is one to civic life : arrive at a better test? becpicnatns dl Sata acdmdacle foe 7 ‘here is only one argument against WIEN you first suspect a Woe are making no denial of the fact that in one or two tsqjated in- stances individual posts of American Legion men have during the last five years gone on record against adjusted com} sation. Why? There might be several explanations ap- plicable to thone posts, the most probable of which would concern itself with the nature of the mem- bership in that locality; maybe the members there were economically so situated that adjusted compensa- tion would mean nothing whatever to-them, Such posts exist, ONLY ONE STATE VOTED AGAINST IT It is a further fact, however, that since the adjusted compensa- tion plan was first indorsed by the American Legion, only one state convention has voted against it. That was South Carolina, which adopted a set of resolutions in 1921 and rescinded its action before the convention ended, the resolutions being withdrawn in deference ,to the will of the majority. Bouth Carvlina every year since has been @ proponent of adjusted compen- sation. Opponents make great capital of the activities of the Ex-Service Men's Ant!-Bonus league and its motto, “For the disabled, every- thing; for the able-bodied, nothing.” This {san organization that has been proven to exist almost en- tirely on paper. It has no nu- merical strength to do anything and so far a8 its motto Is con- cerned, has never done anything for the disabled. Its only interest seems, accoriing to those best in- formed, to be the money to be ob- tained from big Interests by oppos- ing adjusted compensation. Its adjusted gcompensation that will hold water; simply this, that big busingss | does not want to spare from its war | Profits the money needed to give the world war veterans a square deal! Frieda’s Follies ONE IS not always as smart AS one thinks. I FOUND this out yeste: uty day, ata YOUTH and beauty we: Y "ihe ity were slipping THIS pate-faced child of destin . STILL she flirted outrageously, THERE ARE women like that WHO MISTAKE humor ‘for To mance, . SHE WAS 60 frivo! that reveled. ad : IN a bit of sarcasm. VB the backbone of the party, FOR tho first time diame that day I was BY THE dirty look she gave me. MY DEAR, what do you think sha said? phd that {fs better than be. THE jawbone of AND, right. | A THOUGHT Every man shall receive his o reward according tobe E Cory Hives 9 Nm MabOr) | TJEAVEN often regulat z. es H by thelr causes and Hetger! jwicked what they have deserved— Corneille. the party.” take it from me, she was Wards Off Colds Don’t Wait till Too Late cold—then is the time to Don’t wait for chills or Be p ency. jouse. Give to children after play jared for such an emer- cep lemons always in the after school on disagreeable days, It isthe best insurance against colds that anyone can use. ective way is to take a hot If the cold is the prevention or treatment of a id is due to more than its heat. Thousands depended on it during the influenza epidemics. You too can depend on it today. Take old- fashioned hot lemonade tonight if you suspect a cold. California lemons make the best lemonade. seedless, tart and heavy with acid juice. Buy them at any first-class ‘sto: They are practically Try the “hot lemonade way” fonight, “in itie ° Sunkist Uniformly Good Lemons California Fruit Growers Exchange Los Angeles, California