The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 2, 1924, Page 8

ae more Carl F, Uhden, Skagit project engineer, has bluffed the city council into submission to his demands. Once more its members have permitted a man with section-boss methods to tell them what to do, Only one councilman, Phil Tindall, had the nerve Friday to oppose Uhden’s demand that the council appropriate the last penny in the Skagit fund to be spent, nobody knows how, on Uhden’s promise to complete .the Skagit project some time this summer. Mr. Tindall opposed the appropriation because he, like many others, wanted to know what Uhden was going to do with the money, Four weeks ago he asked Uhden to tell him what progress had been made on the job, what remaining work there was to be done, and to give { him an itemized statement of the money required to od finish each feature. It was a reasonable and business- Pa like effort to get at the facts. Uhden ignored: Tindall’s request as he has the request jee of many others for like information. Mayor Brown, at a4 the insistence of The Star, told Uhden the other day - to get out a statement. One is promised soon, It won't 3 mean much when it is out, we can be assured of that. There is only one practical way out of the Skagit mess. It is to appoint a committee of citizens, without political axes to grind or fences to keep in repair, and find out why the Skagit has cost so much more than it was bs supposed to have cost and why the delay in finishing it. “| There is only one way to make publicly-owned utilities : successful and that is to. build and operate them without % men like. Uhden and a weak-kneed council, Then and not until then will the public be freed of pouring sand into municipal’ rat ‘holes. Hughes recalls warships, from Mexico. Shows that even coolest cucum: ber among politicians sometimes weakens in the face of public pressure. Recalls also the slogan, “Boys, get the money.” Well, the boys got it, but how and where? Toy Soldiers and the Grand Jury ' E watched our child last night playing with his toy soldiers. He lined them all up, single file, with th general marching bravely in the lead, followed by tl colonels and the majors, and the eaptains and the *looeys” and a long line of plain buck privates. After he had lined them all up into a procession that stretched for: several feet across the rug, the boy tapped the rear-most private sharply. And, oh, the havoc that Tesuited. One falling private knocked the next one down and the last private bumped over the “looey” and he in turn knocked the captain, down and he the colonel, and finally the old general himself was flat on his face. ‘And we couldn’t help but wonder, reading over the re- port of how the grand jury called to probe vice and crime ‘n Seattle had seemed to concentrate all its efforts on the “small fry,” whether such a campaign of strategy might not have been in the minds of those who ran it. Whether it might not be the intention to get at’ the “captains and the colonels and generals *by giving some f the privates a push. The latest popular color for women's shoes is “Alpediley* m sort of concession to those who bark thelr shins, probably. No doubt old Ben Franklin was our greatest forefather, but we cannot forget that he invented the harmonica. 22-Pound Baby ID you read about the 22-pound baby born recently in New York city? Every woman would be interest- éd in this baby—walk blocks to see it. It’s a girl, Rosa, When she came into the world she was 26 inches tall, nearly 16 inches around the chest. A delightful baby, healthy, cooing, gurgling. If you want to break up a dry. discussion of politics, just mention this baby. _ Babies in general can’t get too much attention. They Jater will shoulder, and possibly solve, the frightful mess “Sur generation has made of the world’s affairs. It ts said the vocabulary of the average man Is now 9,000 words, a fact, no doubt, that will shock President Cal. Easier for Ma MAN’S work is from sun to sun, but a woman’s werk is never done. So runs the old saying. However, a lot of ma’s work is unnecessary, a duplication of effort. Unele Sam is busy along this line, making suggestions to farmers’ wives. One woman writes: “The new location of my wood-box saves me 400 steps in getting dinner.” In former generations, the majority of women died of overwork. A scientist says man’s origin was in Europe, showing that, even at that early date, his judgment was very defective. Counting Sheep N a contest in Australia, a man counts 19,217 sheep in an hour and 39 minutes, without a single error, and gets a prize. Remarkable accuracy of eyesight and thinking. But the thing impresses us most is that counting over 19,000 sheep didn’t put him to sleep. Hereafter we'll try another system. The brain works strange tricks. Maybe you've had the experience of counting imaginary sheep to put you to sleep, and suddenly the sheep changed into cows. Perhaps, if the labor government hangs on, our ambassador to England may find overalls all right for court occasions, instead of pink pants, LETTER FROM wy February 2, 1924. Dear Folks: I hear they’ve paid a hundred bones to get a little word—a term to use, in icy tones, to mean a drinking bird. The prd is “scoft- law,” so I hear; {t covers lawless ginks—who gurgle Scotch or gin or beer or other former drinks The liquor trade will hit the ground, and fall exceeding flat; for Who would want to go around with such a name as that? And should you offer something wet—and bonded—I'd ¢ not drink! For 1 might get that naughty, naughty nam I'd hate to think of getting caught uch an awful crime, 1 tremble at the y thought of doing I'd hate to hear the copp r then I know the judge wo’ But folks are funny—ain’t it true? 1 like to have thelr way. |” A lot of things they never do until you tell them, “Nay! And even | with a little kid, you find the common stunt: The very thing that you forbid ts what they think they want! To drink today is quite a curse, and maker us break the law: but other things are even worse, and quite a bit as raw. And tho they'te raising quite a row at liquor in the home, I'd r “gcottiaw" now, than be a “teapot dome!” her be a VRIDGE MANN | uric Boney’ (NRE THE SEATTLE STAR SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1924. tae TRUTH FOR THE JAP TORY NO, € THE LEGION’S SIDE Of the Adjusted Compensation Fight 4 } j ; : Dart that Ae a ' pes EC RESTS Daliiaes’ | ied r ae : : “ an f BY DR. 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