The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 24, 1924, Page 6

| menine @ rue ’ fan Franejece New Terk offics, Good Work, Council! ends of the Skagit ‘ W « t 3 action of the city ¢ 1 on work on the Skagit » much mystery about the Ska it have that easy fee we s ave wher i money in the of adequate 1 Phe as a right to know t what it i et for ons that have been sun} that pr So fa }nobody has been able to tell u A number of things have happened during the past days which serve further to emphasize the advisability of going slowly with further light department develop ments. A job like the Skagit affords great opportunity for special favors and the people who pay the bills not asking too much when they demand that an inventory be taken before further merchandise is purchased Take the mayor's telegram to George for ‘instance. Brown wired Russell to try to block the council in its determination to stop the expenditure of furthe: sums on the Skagit at this time. At the same time the * mayor wired to the council, insisting that the bid of one ‘clique of bond buyers for light department bonds be i accepted, in spite of the fact that its acceptance over its ‘ competitor would mean a loss of about $25,000 to the city. Why the mayor is so intensely interested in serving this particular group of bond buyers is something nobody at the city hall has been able to explain. Further Skagit construction would mean more bond issues. Other bonds have been sold by the light department at figures highly profitable to the buyers, but very expensive to the city, + William Hickman Moore insisted the council should fl accede to the mayor’s demand that Skagit construction ‘ work be continued and Mr. Uhden retained. Mr. Moore's son has held a rather well paid position under Mr. Uhden. are Russell, } Mr. Moore could see no reason why work should be ! stopped or Mr. Uhden retired. And so it is with considerable satisfaction that we +say: Finish the Gorge unit and don’t go any further | until we know what we've got for the money that’s been {spent. A proper investigation might lead us to the con- + clusion that the council's action Monday, instead of being t hasty, was long overdue. ‘ baie ‘ ‘ Loose Justice : T ONE swoop, the California state prison directors i have paroled—turned loose upon society—11 life- } termers from Folsom penitentiary—nearly a dozen mur- ‘derers given release from an institution which doesn't } reform but represents vengeance. ! so long as such things are done by the state, California, j will have capital punishment on her statute books. She {wil also have disrespect of courts and laws, and mobs that undertake to execute laws. ‘ It is difficult to determine why those prison directors didn’t make it an even dozen, for there was a 12th appli- cation. In 1907, Ernest G. Stackpole fell in love with a Los Angeles married woman and removed the impedi- ment, in the shape of her husband, by shooting him. Stack- pole’s application was in the form of a poem. It was rejected by the same directors who turned loose 11 other “butchers, some of them so low-down as to have attacked -little’ girls: The most reasonable conclusion seems to be that those directors held a poetic murderer to be super- dangerous to society, which ought to convey somewhat of a warning to poets in general. No Slur on Silas I ntended *; ITH great glee, in behalf of their climate, their ;hootch, or something, Ohio papers are passing .around this item: “Silas German, of Birmingham, O., celebrated his 91st birthday by walking a mile to get his paper.” The item is uninteresting, incomplete, very ordinary and -any Pacific coast editor who would publ it would promptly be put under an “intelligence test” by his stock- holders. In the hinter-Rockies a 91-year-old who doesn’t ‘walk 10 miles on his birthday is subject to X-ray examina- tion for fatty degeneration of the heart. The! positively =nothing remarkable about Mr. Silas German's feat. Signs of Prosperity | QOUTH AFRICAN diamond mines are working again after being almost entirely shut down for several years. This means that the world is steadily recovering from {the business depression caused by the war. When people } begin to sport diamonds, they have money to spare. Diamond headquarters in Kimberley reports that the revival of the diamond industry is chiefly due to demand ‘ for the cheaper or medium-grade stones. Indicating pros- | perity at the base. We're Growing Up ELEBRATED wonder-child, Adele Aarons, of Phildel- phia, continues to amaze scientists. She began to walk at three months. At a year old, had the intelligence * of.an 8-year-old child, and said to a visitor: “T am annoyed, you see. I’m cutting my teeth. I have 4 never had molars before, you know. The pain is excru- 4 ciating.” There are hundreds of thousands of grown-ups who will have to look in the dictionary for the meaning of “excruciating.” Maybe these rare wonder-children are forerunners of a super-race of the distant future. The boy of 10 today knows more than graybeards of 5,000 years ago. Knowl- edge and wisdom are not the same, however. LETTER FROM | AVRIDGE MANN June 24, 1924. Dear Folks: It isn't my intention, as I take my pen today, to boost the Dem convention that in getting under way. However, I remember, when my early youth began, that ancient first November William Jen« hinge Bryan ran. For half u generation, in the presidential years, at every nomi- nation, William Jennings’ name appen soemed to be thelr vafest bet; and here’ with us even yet! The platforms Bryan gave us—I have Jost them in the haze, 1 know he tried to save us in a half a dozen ways. That used.to-be campaigning, seems to me, was full waning—-like “free sliver or free lunch!” He'd run and get defeated; we'd forget him, maybe, then after he'd retreated, he'd be bobbing up again! dazzien, lie was leader of their lines—-until t the “Vote for Bryan” signa! And tho he runs no longer in the prosidential race perhaps, is stronger, and he's found a useful place. § convention will be ever quite the same mention William Jennings Bryan's name! Uiritge Uomn, s. Perennial selection new election, and he's punch; with issues never But With energy that his hand, No Democrats’ when the papers cease to Y wore to frazzles all. He Is Keynoting tor Democrats Today! Who Is He} Here’s of Story a Newsboy AS A AS A ott AS A AS A AS A i t t Un ‘ ‘ Li F Marr rm Germany fn t land and France held | the True What's Your Idea? fHE EATT h shows what do per: KNOW YOUR CITY! “My Favorite Spot,’ by Readers of The Star al spot Im Seattle that yor w im whieh you believe th BY ISABEL SAINSBURY 7318 Lith Ave. there is cer Jace in Keattle where full view am well as end of Beacon hill Here ere fg offered the most wene. In the morning one can view at close range the harbor and the many boats, 4 are made to realize that Sea in THE great commercial city of the world nd see the high bultdi o city and turning cust i-kept truck gardens where Seattle produce is grown Or one might the evening and see the beautiful sunset on the sound. The many hues reflecting on the water and the brilliant rays of the sun giv- ing the rugged Olympics a fringe of gold. And southeast the golden peak of Mt. Rainier Then at night the brilliantly lighted downtown buildings and the well lighted streets of our city. Then I'm the visitors would be very interested in see ing the large streams of water removing the rolling hills, Surely this is a spot to show tourists— that in, if you want them to re main in the CHARMED LAND. of the v pass there in t sure BY A. 2. WILLIAMS 9201 Pacific Ave., Tacoma $ years when 1 pee a) came an sterner, fascinated by this Western coun: try, there wax one trip which charmed me more than any other, and which has been re- peated many times since. It should have the same appgsl to Easterners now, and increas. ingly #0 as this country settles. ‘Take the Alki car and get off at Schmitz boulevard, follow the boulevard to the left towards the blufé and you reach the lower en- trance of a 40-nere park which wan given to the city on the con- dition that it remain unspoiled by the usual park concessions and artifical improvements. Schmitz park has wonderful paths, natural bridges over fallen loge, a atroam, and a glimpse of the giants of the forest which have now disappeared near cities, except for this one spot, A tourist can get a better insight here into the fascination of this region without a long trip into the country, than from any other place, ‘The size of trees, shrubs, flowéring plants, the stillness, almout unbroken by songs of birds, make an impress: jon never forgotten, After following the patha to the top of the hill, it Is only a fow blocks to the Wont Scuttle otrest car. This upper entrance | | | | | | | and exit, by the way better marked for the stranger BY JUNE BYERS 25 16th Ave. 8. W. motor to Leschi take Ferry For tuna, ferry for 15 minutes across beautitul Lake Washington (me wonderful lake in the United States) landing you at Mouhoke at the north of Mercer island. The uu will find a les most scenic rd, encircling the entire’ tal draped with overhanging follage of fir, maple, cedar and madrona. There are many tributary roads leading into the inland of the island where there are for camping, with & water, and & magnif of the lake and Mt, Rainier The island is a game preserve where birds and deer are numer ous and very tame, n here, motor across Lake Washington bridge at the cast side of the island, connecting you again with the mainland. You may motor on Scenic highway around the south end of Lake Washington, thru Kennydale « along the west side of the thru beautiful Mt. Baker 5 making horseshoo bends, after another, one terminating back into Lesehi park, place of begin ning. ‘This is one of the most wonderful drives for rea) scenery of variety, that can be taken in the vicinity of our beautiful city. ——— SCIENCE im [A NEW WORLD HZ ultra-microscope, the latest invention for the purpose of studying the invisible, has opened an entirely new world of almost un- | believable smaliness, Before the dis-| covery of the simple microscope, the smallest object that could be scen Was @ point one two-hundredth part of an Inch in. diameter. earliest microscopes non revealed small animals # . like vine- gar ecls and alga r the com pound microscope revealed the world of bacteria, some of which must be magnified 1,200 diameters in order to make them yisible The ultra-microscope opens a field in which are the germa of the smallpox, scarlet fever, the foot and mouth disease of cattle and mosaic wome of | dixease of plants, ospecially. tobacco. There is still another great world between these minute organisms and the molecules, What this space ix inhabited by we shall not know un til still more powerful instruments are invented, The! deadiicst diseases, including Bene LI THE DEMO’S TWO-THIRDS RULE What It Has Done to Swing Past Elections ¢ to the the $40. to Van Bu Richard M ASHINGTON Here's men Two experts from the depart ment of agric a survey of land in the « ley, which congr set aside for the game refuge In the Their mi ense tract of argest fish United States asic © determine ¢ 341,000 acres in agricul is how much o! the tract Our Lowest Rate of Dividend to Members Has Been Watch the Date! The time is approaching (1 to 15) when real Opportunity will present itself to you—-when you can have dollars working overtime for you. Be ready to make sure of a CASH INCOME when you need it. THE HOME SAVINGS a?@ LOAN ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 1908 1320 WESTLAKE AVE. 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