The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 22, 1924, Page 8

The Seattle Star Published Dally by The Star Publianing Co,, 1907 Seventh Ave. Phone MA in-0400, Newspaper Enterprise Association and United Press Service. By all, Out of city, Boe per m ba HLe @ monthe $9.00, yaar $2.00 Franoieco New York A Political Peril 1 lpeere the caption, “Shall Private Power Interests Control Both State Conventions?” the “Washington Democracy,” state organ of the democratic party, in its issue published Saturday, calls attention to a “question that we believe will be a dominant issue and of primary importance in the coming campaign.” Pointing out that Washington ranks first among all states in water power resources, it says that this ques- tion is whether the people have the right to develop these power resources for their own benefit and comfort or whether the resources shall be gobbled up by selfish and exploiting power interests with the ultimate object in view of creating a monopoly for the enrichment of a privileged few. It then points out the peril: ae “Tn order to encompass the defeat of the princi- ple of public ownership, the private power inter- ests are now actively at work with the end in view of controlling both the democratic and republican conventions. By the means of subtle propaganda, cleverly and cunningly designed to mislead the misinformed and to align citizens of city and coun- try into hostile groups, it is hoped by these inter- ests to gain control of both major political parties in the state. Democratic lawyers and men having influence within the party in other walks of life have been approached, promised political support, placed onthe payroll or infleunced in other ways to take a ‘safe and sane attitude’ in the party coun- cils with respect to this important power Issue. Attemptsshave been made to purchase the silence or support of democratic newspapers, and careful- ly worded ‘canned editorials’ have been sent broadcast to country papers thruout the state. | “Tn view of these significant facts and the vital issues involved, democrats are warned to be on their guard and to see to it that men and women are chosen as delegates to the state convention who are known to be in sympathy with the develop- ment and conservation of our power resources by the public for the public welfare. The democrat- ic party cannot afford to take an evasive or equiv- ocal stand on this matter. Nothing but a clean-cut, forward-looking, positive stand in behalf of this great principle will suffice.” : ; The Star doesn’t believe any comment is needed on this excellent piece of sound advice. Unless it be that re- publicans can and should take it just as much to heart as the democrats. Raising a Royal Boy OTHERING the Prince of Wales must be a mighty trying job. When the ordinary mother’s son son takes to horse- back riding and is brought home on a shutter, figura- tively speaking, about every time he straddles a horse, er can say something like, “Eddie, the next time I hear of your getting on a horse I'll turn you over to your father for a basting.” It is, usually, a veto that is not over-ridden. But with the mother of a future king it is different. The royal dignity is to ve preserved. A king- let must practice up on having his own way. Then, too, there are instances, notably that of the late king of Prussia, wherein kingly son has met mother’s interfer- ence by locking her up in a dank, distant, haunted castle, or something equally as good. The best that we can offer the suffering mother of Prince Edward is to advise that she have him tied se- curely on the horse, when he mounts one. Edward's feet might be firmly fastened together beneath the animal's belly and there might be loops of strap running from the boy’s neck to the horse’s tail and bits. Whatever then happened, mother’s dear boy would still be on the horse. There wouldn’t be so much wear on the boy, anyway. Quiet but Valuable REST rangers of the Northwest met this week in Seattle. Men from many of the national reserves were in attendance, discussing the many and difficult problems that fall to the lot of a forestry service man. The forest ranger does no extensive advertising, but he is one of the most valuable citizens of our great out- doors. May his tribe increase. More power and more pay to him! Are Jurors at Fault? ; ‘ANY judgés and lawyers complain that among the chief causes of lax law enforcement is the fact that many jurors do not regard their oath seriously. That, in many cases, where both the law and the evidence point conclusively to guilt, the jury will arbitrarily bring in a verdict of innocent. That fact is all the more reason that Seattle and King county courts should guard against the “professional juror,” the “repeater” who tries to get himself on jury after jury because he makes his living that way. The chances are far greater that HE can be manipulated than the ordinary citizen, called for one short spell of jury ‘The ice is breaking up in the inland rivers, but, down in Washington, they are cutting it. LETTER FROM V RIDGE PANN March 22, 1924. Dear Folks: sf The flyers are here afd they soon will be startin’—omit- ting the “g” so’s to rhyme it with “Martin”—for he is the bird who ts bossing the race, and getting the bulk of the newspaper . The limelight is on him—he can't get away; he's worthy of all that a paper can aay. . But elsewhere the major is getting bouquets, so here we shall sprinkle the others with prajne. There's Smith ‘s a pilot of national fame; you know him—at least you have heard of the name! And Wade is the pilot of plane No. 3; a daredevil flyer from all 1 can see. While Nelson's a Viking, I see by The Star, whose an- cestors’ “long-ships” have traveled afar. . . . Hey, spot- ight! On Arnold 4 moment or more—a “buzzard” as good as the luckier four! ‘And, spotlight! Ptease linger on all of tho rest—the four mechaniclane—the “works” of the test! John Harding, a “looie” who doctors the spleen, and all of the “innards” of Nelson's machine; and Harvey and Turner and Ogdon, nu well, are worthy of all that a paper can tell! ‘ Ko, while we aré dealing the town's recognition, give cards to the boys who are ciessed “Mechaniclan'! QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS f fact_or informe The Question Bu stainpa for reply. Medical, legal and marital q HDITOR, Q. What is A. The fir Old Testamen’ Pentateuch? five books of ¢ marshmallow? mallow Q. What ts rau A. Marshmallow, or tall sinous, herb, found on the marshes very mu How did the'Isle of Man From Manx, Vannin or Mar jnin, meaning “the middie” ter of the I Q. What was the first newsp per published in the United States? A. “Publi first ought out Occurrences, in 1690. o WwW the Cherokee A. There and, Indians are scattered therefore, have no chief. Q. How can Ir om oO neg A. With ate of move the ime pri soda. Q. What Jerusate Jepreciation and Hee lor, a ted the out income utomobdile dedu from otal income in‘ making tax returns? A. Only if the aute purposes. If 4 partly f amou busty nobile is tus for busine partly for business a pleasure a deducted for proportio! may be the use. who worked Weaht Q. Did the clerks for the 9 during the vernment te world war bonus? A. Yer crease an emerge called a “bon still fy betng pald. Q. Should The dress of man be like that of t A. The best man d like the groom with ¢ ception slightly orate small ex boutonnlere and the groom different more elab- Q Ia tt correct to say “an his Q. What ts the proper weight for }@ woman eged 30, height 5 feet € | inches? A. She should weigh 138 pounds eee Q. Who was the firat woman to have her photograph taken? A. Wt te said Dorothy Draper (in 11840), She was a atster of John | Draper of New York university, Jand he took the picture. Fellowship of Prayer Daily Lenten jo reading and meditation ared for Commission on Evangelism of Federal Council of the Churches of Chriat in America. SATURDAY The Wayward Heart | Read Matthew xviil23-35. Text:| | xvill35. So shal] also my heavenly | Father do unto you, if ye forgive not leveryone his brother from our | hearts, | “God and man are by thelr very | natures meant for each other. A bad |man is @ man who works against, in jstead of with, a good God. He fails to fall in with God in the mighty, | subtle push of God's will for an hon: jest and friendly world. Since the | point of God's impact in in the depths of the man’s being, in his heart, it is} jin his heart that resistance ls made jand the badness centers.” MEDITATION: God has not put | upon us the responsibility of Judging | our brethren. Yet we realize that the things of men ofttimes do grieve the heart of God because they injure |some of his other children. A wrong |done one person by another brings |the deepest anguish to the human |soul. Evil deeds done to others are the results of an evil heart—a heart set at cross purposes to the loving will of God. | PERSONAL QUESTION: Am I in |different at the waywardness of an. | other? PRAYER: Almighty God, strength en us that we may be used of thy spirit to turn many into thy ways. | Let us feel the burdens and the sor | rows of thy children that we may be | intercessors at the throne of grace. | Give us power thru calm confidence | in thee, in Christ's name. Amen. | (Cipyright, 1924—F. L. Fagley) | j SCIENCE | Altitude ! | Life changes greatly with altitude. Every student knows that as a moun. tain is climbed the vegetation and animals change with increasing height. What is not so generally known is that similar changes take place as we go below tho surface of the earth into the ocean depth. The zone along the shore of the ocean teems with life which is en jtirely unlike life at a hundred fath |oms, and so on down to the greatest |depths explored by man. These deep-sea animals are much more |delicately constructed than their [relatives near the surface, | There are no seasons in the great. jer ocean depths, only endless night |and intense cold. Tempearture seems |to be the determining factor in may jing what forms of life shall exist in thewe places, Off the coast of Cali-| jfornia, where the surface water ia| warm, sub-Aretic types of sea crea. | |tures are found at dopths of 1,000 to 5,000 fathoms, THE SEA‘ i STAR ATURD Here's a Man Who Isn't Getting a Square Deal He. is a man who is not getting a square deal. There are 296 of him in Seattle. There are ap- proximately 41,000 of him in the country, He is your letter carrier. He has first claim to the title, “Old Reliable.” Rain or shine, recognizing no obstacles, he comes plodding along. Few of us appreciate his services and their im- portance in our lives. Every second, day and night, 400 letters are delivered by the carriers—about 115 a year for every man, woman and child in the country. The total is more than 12 billion pieces of mail a year. The average carrier—your mail man—who plods pa- tiently from house to house and office to office with a burden as heavy as 50 pounds in the leather pouch over a shoulder—this man walks an average of 13 miles a day. Each week he wears out three pairs of socks. Every three weeks he has to have his shoes re-soled and heeled. Daily he delivers from 1,000 to 3,000 letters. His is a difficult, laborious and unpleasant job. * The carrier's task is typical of the general postal service. 3 The carriers’ incomes, and those of all postal employ lag far behind the increased cost of living. At present, the HIGHEST salary to which a letter carrier can attain is $1,800 a year, ranging down to $1,400. And other branches of the postal service pay correspondingly low. Special senate and house sub-committees now are con- ducting hearings in Washington on the joint bills which Senator Edge of New Jersey and Congressman Kelly of Pennsylvania are urging, with a view to giving the letter carriers and their fellow workers a living wage. Under these bills pay the first year would be $2,000, the second year $2,200 and the third year and thereafter $2,400. Your letter carrier and his associates are not getting a square deal. It is the duty of congress, which appro- priates the money for public expenditures, to grant postal employes the increase long overdue. And it is your duty to see that your congressmen sup- port this bill. Write to them today. Telling It to Congress (Excerpts from the Congressiona) Record) Frieda’s Follies TALK ABOUT jabout their flesh, THEY are nothing | man. THE PROHIBITION BIBLE | 1 hold in the women to my hand what of dinner i egase |gentlemen on the prohibition sido| WANDER for long from his waist of this house ought to regard as | coat, sacrod literature, and I am going| AND his collar. to read to you the statement of] HE GOT no sympathy Federal Prohibition Commissionor | yyy, whan peneny Lissa ecagt Roy A. Haynes that all this talk monk retort Steg mupliabraas about smuggling being the great| IN every direction. source of prohibition violation is| AFTER WE had bunk, and if you belleve Rey A, | hours Haynes, all the gentlemen who) TO THE perfect thirty-eight favor thix pending bill are propa: | : gundists for the bootlegger-—Repre- |) icine. sentative Hill (R), Maryland, pags listened FAR as your neck, COULD listen to you forever. PROHIBITION We believe, some of us, that thit law is impossible of enforcement, but | ~ we are ready—at least f am—to give you every opportunity that you ask for, ahd give it a fal sentative LaGuardia ( whatever is wished on them, st guard, LETTING "GEORG maybe, of diplomatic n The coast guard has not renched|tho “Alphonse out for this new job, but being nj United States department, with a long record of fine service, they take and Gaston” the const guard finds { to do this Winslow (R.), Massachusetts, Alkali Al A THRILLING MELLERDRAMMER iN THREE ACTS Brings in a Dry Hole ALSH j | BY TWO-GUN W heeny (Curtain) “° «The Other BY tantalizing 1 urried wife dots not ur { him, They'll fall for 2» the bookn wr worrying corpulent THIS MAN never let the subject HE ONCE had, I could not resist * the fatness only extended up It has come to pass that as between the {|navy of the United States and the . after a continuation, otiations of | order, if lined up work.—Representative hat is the eastest plant to raise | aa hotel? C. P. F. fe bell hop. Did General Grant ure the tele- phone in any of bie campaigns in the Please explain to me the nee between # jail and a ac iu | A jail has cells and a schooner has sails. What musical inst : easiest for a laundress to play an in be out? Can down be t ¥. CB. Mr. Dud has no informa garding in and out. But de quently up. If ask some pillo' | Questions Mr. Dud Cannot Answer | Which is the mest difficult to} string, a fiddle, a bean or a Uv. 8. | enator?—L, R | Is it possible for college boys ot y?—W. T. M © tell me how to keep a cold chisel warm.—P. 8. What kind of soil is best for rals- ng gun cotton?—H. R. B, Dons a concrete tile make a good) hat for,summer wear?—C. O. D. Mr. Dud's Household Hints An umbrella will keep its shape better if pressed with a hot iron af-) ter it has been used. A California gardner has succeeded in growing blue lettuce, It can be} used effectively In decorating a din-| ner table. | A rubber plant will look fresher if vulcanized every two or three years. Moths will not eat cocoanuts. A Cincinnati inventor has applied | for a patent on a combination carpet | sweeper and can opener. What Folks Are Saying NAZIMOVA: “My experience has been that what does not call for } really strenuouy endeavor is not) worth doing.” / , secretary "Grenter progress is medical education has taken place in America than in other countries during the past 15 years. Weak schools in all sections of the jcountry have been almost wholly oll _ } soe | REV. LYNDON W. HARPER, Kansas City: “Life ts made up of | Just one choice after another.” for eee W. SOMERSET MAUGHAN, Eng: | lish novelist; “The wise man mar- {ries for love.” FANN HURST, author: “A; house party can be little more than [a device for the prevention of hu- man beings enjoying one another.” | vee | SAM WOOD, motion picture direc: or: “Atmosphere is the most. im- portant thing In transferring a story |to the screen.” | VICTOR composer operatic loa is the only #0. called modern civilized country which spends absolutely nothing for music, Man” Stuff Is the Bunk MRS. WALTER FERGUSON @ child or juickest way Will Bare Indian American raves in | excited tt krens her body. when. her pressed upon an ink, pad an impression madé from it on an alleged will which was later offered for probate. In another case, it is declared, 4 woman who had been dead four Ts “was resurrected as @ man and able to sign a lease all attested by witnesses and a notary public.” With penses, $25,000 avaliable for a’ vongress! ang tee is noon to begin gation of charges th wards of the govern Oktahoma are being pil 4 on a wholesale scale. se are only two of the ex- amples cited. Professional and the In of “Divorce is round ns and drum- and of ming up cases for thelr attor: dema! ney friends for the fees to be. are 1 in F 1. Even the bobbed-hair- | ed flapper is accused of being wealthy by the discovery of oil an instrument of the grafters. on their lands | “Some attorneys,” it is de A high clared, “co-operate with “fap per cent of the amoun pers’ to ensnare wealthy young involved have been collected, it Indian men into matrimony, in nsserted. by aking free use of bootleg whisky an aid. Soon there- after a dtyvorce usually follows and the court allows liberal alt: mony to the flappers wife, which she shares with the at- torney.” A THOUGHT Thine own friend, and thy father's ‘friend, forsake not.—Proy, xxvil.:10, aay al courts blamed ch dian ights association Philadelphie whi The dians have h have victim: who as In on order of the court, an who never court was ward's estate services.” “Many of the county courts are Influenced by political con- sideration: ccording to the charges, “and ships tributed to the faithful friends of the judges as a reward for their support at the polls. /. . When oil is ‘struck’ an In- dian’s property, it is usually considered prima facie evidence that he is incompetent and in ttorney ared in from a for extraordinar: on | FRIEND may well be reckoned | £4 the masterpiece of nature —Em- lerson. “Every Member of My Family Has an Account in Your Bank” CUSTOMERS very often come into our bank and make the foregoing statement. There are three reasons for the growing popularity of this institution, which may be summed up in three words: Safety, Profit and Convenience. Why Safety? Because it operates under the Mutual Savings Bank Law of the State of Wash- ington which authorities claim to be the strictest law of its kind in the country, and maintains a Guaranty Fund of over a Half Million Dollars to protect its securities against any possible de- crease in market value. Not a dollar is loaned without security. Why Profitable? Because it divides all earn- ings among depositors and has never paid less than Five Per Cent on Savings compounded semi- annually and computed on monthly balances. Why Convenient? Because it is open from 9 to 4p. m. daily (except Saturday, when it is open from 9 to 1 p. m. and 6 to 8 p. m.), and for over thirty-four years, through wars and panics, it has paid ALL withdrawals promptly. 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