The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 21, 1924, Page 8

THE SEATTLE STAR |The Seattle Publishing Oo., elation and U | Representatives, San Franoteoe ee, Union Truat Wide.) New York ton offices, Tremont Bids Inspiration and Perspiration HIS is Garden week. Many an old hoe and rake has been brightened up. And many an old rheumatic joint has been limbered up. No truer word has been spoken that, as inspiration is necessary to the artist and poet, so is perspiration essen tial to the rickety human frame. And while this has been going on, the usual backyard Spud crop has been assured Precinct Caucuses HE republicans of King county held precinct caucuses this week to select delegates to the county conven tion, to be held Saturday in Seattle. Theoretically, the party caucus is the surest way for party expression. But as it usually turns out, it would be just as appropriate to call it the meeting of “The Slate Makers’ association.” The Cause of Lawlessness ; HAT’S the cause of lax law enforcement? i Addressing a meeting of religious educational wWworkers in Seattle this week, Dr. M. A. Matthews laid the blame gely on the average jury. U. S. District ‘Attorney Revelle thought that political strings on the Judges had a lot to deal with it. And Judge J. T. Ronald Said he believed lack of adequate training along that line in the schools was chiefly to blame for lawlessness and the lack of strict enforcement. Here are three men, each in a position to know, who @ive different but seemingly sane answers to the ques- tion, : What IS the cause? Phone Rate Regulations HE city council has passed a resolution favoring sub- mitting to the voters a referendum on the matter Of telephone rate regulation. The resolution goes farther; it makes provisions for cities and towns to own and Operate telephone systems. This would be a state-wide referendum and undoubt- edly would meet stiff opposition from the privately- Owned companies. But if they are wise, the private companies will begin "to make preparations to travel along the way outlined in ‘this resolution. For, in time, the cities either will have "power to make and regulate phone rates or will be in the ! telephone business. The “Diploma Mill” BSERVE the idiosyncrasies of the blind goddess, Justitia. e utcliffe obtains, from that fraudulent in Missouri, a diploma to practice medicine. ‘At Unionville, Ct., Albert Hoover, goes to “Dr.” Sutcliffe for treatment of a crushed finger. “Dr.” Sutcliffe decides pon an operation and kills Hoover by an overdose of er. _ Accidental killing, perhaps. But the fraud by which ‘ability and likelihood to kill ensued was not accidental. nd Justitia rises in her might to confine “Dr.” Sutcliffe jail for six months! The scamps who ran_ that ‘diploma mill” are as guilty of murder as if they had a hatchet and beaten in poor Hoover's skull. Going at It With Dippers nee ‘ENATOR HOWELL wants $50,000,000 for the undi- "7D versified farmers of four Northwestern states. Sena- Hor Harrison wants $25,000,000 for the cotton farmers who have boll weevil very bad. Senator Bursum wants $20,000,000 for weakened Western banks. And, since the © 7sap isn’t running well, there, likely, will be senatorial mand for some millions for the disappointed maple ‘Sugar farmers. What a godsend to the folks’ pocketbook that the sen- cannot go to it with dippers and “help-yourself” Three Cheers for It R ADMIRAL PLUNKETT, commandant of the rooklyn navy yard, testifies in a New York police case that Washington “is the wettest city in the ” Whereupon, President Coolidge calls Pro- tion Commissioner Haynes on the White House car- and says, in effect, “You go over and learn where lunkett gets his information and, if he isn’t lying, ponge up Washington. “It is the right thing to do, Mr. President. ‘The beam n the eye” of Washington certainly does beam and a serious effort to remove it would greatly facilitate the : of the “motes” in other eyes. Prohibition, like charity and other virtues, should begin at home. Going Astray ‘HE legitimate function of congress is legislation— making the laws to start new activities and regu- slate old ones. But congress is never as happy as when © it has an orgy of investigations. Now, investigating is @ proper congressional function. Carried to extremes, lowever, it encroaches on the judicial side of govern- ment, a function belonging primarily to the courts and tors. | Similarly, the courts show a tendency to encroach on the legislative, by peculiar “interpretations.” And the ‘executive branch of government for some years has had tendency to usurp legislative and judicial powers. “Government nationally is in danger of its three parts trespassing on cach other. LETTER FROM RIDGE PANN March 21, 1924 Folks: T started in to write about the flyers coming here; but then I #opped to figure out, “By golly! Spring is near!” The winter months have passed away; and, having done thelr worst, they Jeave us now because today is March the twenty-first. “Oh, Gentle Spring,” I ought to write, “with smiling skies above; you bring release from winter's night! You carry thoughts fove! We welcome you with open arms! Thy wine our souls © have drunk! We revel in thy subtle charms"—and all that kind | of bunk! ) But I'm an ordinary guy, and find it hard to gush mop « dewy eye, and sling poetic slush. But this, like other Phings as well, is one I shouldn't miss; I've got to do the stunt— well! IT) let it go at this: “The virdle singing tn the trees is calling to his mate! Golly! Think of B-V-D’s, and rod and hook and bait! Jets, with heaven's dew, are in the forest hase! Who | fob of worl: to do these lazy Spring days?” Bo there's a song of Gentle Spring—1 owed it to my not a soft, seductive thing to make the pulses throb. = the music in my soul is quite another tune—entitled, * } hope my coal will see me thru to June!” Cities Tamm T cannot By The vio- craves a Job, It's For all josh! 1 bled ‘in off f of Charies I’, tho he denied the ficlal Information” part ‘This gives the Daugherty com mittes a clew y by with grea one place where tho “two BY CHARLES P, STEWART the nN. A. Servies Writer probe INGTON The oll, the Di veterans’ bureau ing or expected inve Washington are ge together it's hard to which. Senator Lenroot has resigned as chairman of the olf tors—sick. sides, ho was ac cused of friendliness to some of those he was investigating—of trying to make the inquiry too easy for them’ The new chair man won't. Ho belongs to the radical bleo—Senator Ladd. Sen ator Walsh is the real prosecutor, anyway. The Daugherty committee ts stirring up conaiderable excite meant and evidence. Senator Brookhart, chairman, says it will co-operate with the ofl investiga. | doa Rl tors. HE Chicago grand jury, which indicted ex-Director Forbes the veterans’ bureay, acct: dentally unearthed evidence that certain congressmen had taken bribes to get bootleggers out of jail. In turn, this brought out a story of a big plot by bootleg: inveatigat Daugherty ir may tow March MORE offich gations in i 0 mixed whieh is E of the for Daugherty committee to sift is to the effect that the justice department, of which Daugher ty is head, ‘called off” agents who were trying to stop Ameri cans from “running guna” to the De la Huerta revolutionists tn Mexico. Oil Interests, according to this story, trying to overthrow President Obregon. Fall's, Dobeny’s and Sincigir’s names are mentioned. So here again the oll and Daugherty cas om overlap, Oll men's attempts to make trouble In Mexico are reported long before Daugherty’s time, too, charges the inveatiga were HE of! inquiry has brought ot out hints that men in gov. ernment posts have used official information to “play the mar. ket.” In fact, Attorney General Daugherty admitted that he dab. Open Labor Banks on Coast N FRANCISCO, March 21— The labor bank movement has reached the Pacific coast. Within the past few months two union cooperative banks have been organized tn Califor- nia and plans are afoot for two more. The raflroad brotherhoods have a young financial institu tion at San Bernardino and tho Bakersfield labor council is run ning one tn the heart of the San Joaquin valley Los Angeles workers are back ing up Walter F. McCaleb, who Fellowship of Prayer Bible organized the big labor bank at Cleveland, tn the formation of Tho Los Angeles People’s Bank and Trust Company.” Under McCaleb the resources Of the Cleveland bank jumped tn three years from $1,000,000 to $25,000,000, and he tw starting the Los Angeles institution on the same lines, with a million authorized capital, subscribed by shareholders limited to 100 shares each. ‘The San Francisco labor coun cil has a committee appointed to lay plans for starting the first labor bank in northern Califor. nia New York clty has four banks. There are now 25 labor banks in tho United States and the movement started less than four years ago. The majority of the banks have been organized by the railway workers Prof. John R. Commons, well known labor authority, stated re cently that labor will fail if tt seeks to compete with business the banking field, but the kers of the labor bank move. ment point to the fact that there are 65,000 workers’ and farmers’ co-operative banks operating in Europe today. Daily Lenten and meditation prepared for Commission on Evangelism of Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. FRIDAY Children of the Heavenly Father a Read Matthew xvill:1-14. Text xvlll:3. Verily I say unto you. Except ye turn, and become as little chil dren, ye shail in no wise enter Into the kingdom of heaven. “Children ask thelr parents for many things that they do not get, and they get many things that they do not ask for. This does not war: rant their concluding that it is use less ever to ask. Some things they | get only when and because they ask. | And tiiey always have their parents’ however much they may be wisely lef? to learn some things by painful experience. Prayer is no de- | vice for eliminating the necessity of | learning some things by experience in living.”* | MEDITATION: The supreme qual- | reading love. ity of child life is its response to} jaffection. Thru affection the life of | 4 human father comes in touch with the life of his child. However little the child may know of the perplext- ties of the father’s business and how- ever much the child may be at a loxs in his father's factory or office, | when they come together in the realm of affection each understands |the other and the father’s affection |4s an inspiring power in the child's life, | PERSONAL QUESTION: a child-like trust and faith? PRAYER: O God, our Father, help jus to reverer.e childhood every- | where, and in the beauty of a child's love see the glory of thy fatherhood. | | Guide us that we may bring happi ness in the lives of little children, and may their trust in us be not be. / Have I Here is another of the illustrated old oF sere to get Mquor from govern. ment warehouses If such a plot existed it must have included justice depart ment. Thus the Daugherty case, rans’ bureau inquiry and ompective prohibit n are linked. eee nm invents ‘ARD WOOD, JR, ts quoted as may certain oi! men offered to help his father ect the republican presidential nomination in 1920 if he'd ap. Jake Hamon of Oklahoma secretary of the interior, the Job Fall finally got. Both the oll and Daugherty committees have subpoenaed young Wood. T last the oll committes has questioned E, B. McLean, millionaire newspaper owner. who pretended to have loaned Fall $100,000 when he hadn't, in order that Fall needn't admit he got the money from Doheny, the man he leased the Elk Hills off reserve to, But McLean says he didn't know Fall's reason—or anything about the oil leases, more than everybody knows now. As his “confidential man,” John F. Major, puts it, “McLean went an far as he could for a friend and all for nothing.” a:re.e, HE «government's starting sult to knock out the Sin clair and Doheny leases. If tt fails, Sinclair and Doheny threat en damage claims. ‘There's more talk of criminal prosecutions, too, but nothing definite. SECRETARY OF THE NAVY DENBY, quitting, with his last offictal breath, declared the oll leases were a good thing for the government and no secret at all. They were no good, adda Do- heny, commenting on this state ment, that the government owes him $3,627,100 for olf righ ow. What Folks Are Saying REV. OSCAR EDWARD MAUR. ER, Congregationalist, New Haven: |“*As one religious teacher I say, let | the religious controversy come, Only let us make spirit dominate us.” REV, SAMUEL L. HAMILTON, New York Anti-Saloon league: “The final goal 1s not Jaw enforcement, but law observance.” eee R. E, SIMPSON, engineer Travel: | ers Insurance company: "Sight is the most valuable of our endowed or |natural senses for protection against bodily injury, and any tmpairment of ‘vision or reduction in*our ability to seo decreases our natural firotec- tion by Just that much. RED, RED ROSE My luve is like a red, red rose | That's newly sprung in June; | My luve is like the melodie That's sweetly play'd in tune. As fair art thou, my bonnie lass, So deep in luve am I, And I will luve thee still, my dear, Till a’ the seas gang dry. Till a’ the seas gang dry, my dear, % And the rocks melt wi’ the sun; A And | will luve thee still, my dear, Cd And fare thee well a while, And I will come again, my Luve, Tho’ 'twere ten thousand mile. —Robert Burns. poems and songs |trayed | that The Star is printing from time to time. They will make (Copyright, 1924—F, L. Fagiey) excellent clippings for your scrapbook. 1 | ——__—— FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 1924. Women Were First U.S. War Victims H, JONES BY &, LTICA, larch 21—In an obscure graye in a lonel Ohio. ometery on the edge of this lage lew wleeping the first victim of America’s forg hone war with Germar n by the government in ervice wb 1 On Sunday, May 5 days before the first detachment of American arrived in x month with Ge troops uimost first clash Mrs. Edith Work sitting in @ deck chatr Kurope, and before th man Ayres was on the steamer vas an army nur ent ‘over errand of merey With her were 64 other nurse 160 ambulance tors and oung 1 aver an pital unit No, 12, recruited © four days pre oun! American» naval the Mongolia were target practice, fittin for the duty of rep ubmarines. The atohin Buddenly the gunners man nd doctors were w gunner smusement changed to trag of the sea and, b whim of fate by the way nal cours d. It headed back towards the ship and exploded just as it approached the deck was de es until its was directly re One plece of the shell plerced the left temple of Mrs, Ayres Another en Heler 1 this ¢ tion # not 4 that dus to munition “SCIENCE [ Quinine een me effective Telling It to Congress (Excerpts from the Congressional Record) Quinine is obtained from the bark of a Per since its dis ery has waved the lives of mi ns of people. It not only saves en, Mt makes untrie n tres tropical ¢ abitable because it cures mala 1 no ray quinine ull over t upply Was inadequi from BAWL OUT FOR THE DEMS Lam get fred of seeing, even r hamber, senators profens oman Jeff ery prin vowed with Senator expe’ of the tropical now furnist orld’s su rs ago, establish a es in Burma, Tho project ently the 4. Some & by he warmth ncubator, The farm js lands nominal railroad nsportation to him rgely by federal and state boun- tlen.—Senator Bruce (D.), Maryland i. 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