The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 28, 1924, Page 6

The Seattle Star ed Dally by Pubiten eu spaper Kate The Star ng Oo 1001 Beventh Ave. Phone ine Association and United Prese Service e per me S monthe $1.60, € menthe $2.00, year ate , am, Special Representatives Sen Franciaee xP ae Tribune Mew Tork offics Your Power Market ayo citizen of Seattle, are engaged ir ring and sell ectric power, It is part business, just as selling canned goods or silks ¢ or shoes or fresh tomatoes Ravensdale wants to buy some of your power, ( poration Counsel Tom Kenned in an opinion a Ravensdale can’t buy it and you can't sell it. Ravensdal is outside the city limits If the courts told you you couldn't sell your canned goods or fish or machinery outside the city limits you'd be up in arms—and rightly so The reason you can’t sell Ravensdale the volts that it wants is that court decisions say you can’t. The decision are designed for the protection and advancement of pri vate power corporations, who charge more for power than you do. It is a monstrous thing that American courts should be used for the protection of private business to the detri- ment of the people's business. The city can and should sell anywhere it wants to, and defy to stop it. The city runs an asphalt plant in flagrant defiance of the state law—and no judge dares to stop it. If it can run an asphalt plant it can run an electric plant and sell its product as freely as a private plant, even tho the latter operates directly under divine and the servile protection of state courts You'll never win the right to sell your electricity freely to anyone who wants it unless you get up and fight for that right. And the time to fight is NOW. Biceps Over Brow OME 1,200 graduating students, in caps and gowns and with joyous faces, marched before their president the other day to receive their diplomas at the University of Minnesota. J. Ward Ruckman was not among them. He stood on the sidelines and sadly watched the significant procession on its course to its big goal. And yet he had been one of the star students of the university. In his first year, Ruckman engaged in extra-curricular work, kept ahead of his studies and edited the college papers. In his junior year he was president of his class and he accumulated scholastic honors in every subject he selected. In his senior year he was made a member of Phi Beta Kappa, the honorary scholastic society, and was scheduled to receive his degree with high honor. In his four years as a successful student he played ten- nis, hiked and indulged in a dozen other sports of the college. Last summer he paddled a canoe from Minneap- olis to St. Louis, landed a job on a river boat as a laborer, and worked his way to New Orleans and back to Min- neapolis. Physically and mentally he showed himself to be of the right stuff and a real credit to the educational insti- tution he attended. What was the matter with Ruckman? Why was he denied his graduation papers and honors? This and nothing more: He had failed to take the freshman course in the college gymnasium! Higher education is a queer thing in these days, as Ruckman has discovered to his sorrow. It isn’t so much ' a matter of brains as it is of brawn—not so much a mat- ter of brow as it is of biceps. A people are taxed to support a college that lives by that rigid and inane rule. Don’t Worry About It HE FINNS astonished the world, at least the sporting part of it, by carrying off about all the honors in the * endurance tests, which leads a newspaper to deprecate the fact that America’s immigration law permits the ingress of only 160,000 Finns per year, while— “Every great civilization of the past—Egyptian, Greek, Roman—has gone down because it neglected to strengthen its blood with the huskier strain of other races.” It is so. Cross-breed, or you finally get weaklings, un- progressives. It is a biological law that has been oper- ating ever since the brunette primordial germ cast goo-goo eyes from his particular puddle upon the fair lady germ in a distant puddle. It applies to plant, bird, fish and _ humans. But we needn't go back to ancient Egypt or Rome for demonstration. The American aborigine is about gone. He took the white man’s whisky instead of his women. However, limitation of the husky Finnish immigration _ to 160,000 annually isn’t going to destroy America’s op- portunity to cross-breed. All history shows no country with half of America’s chance to scramble the races. She has the pick of the strength of all races, and, right now, it is becoming quite a job to concentrate in a big crowd what might be called “original stock.” all any the judge power it in the wants land guidance Always the Same HE thermometer runs up to 149 degrees during ‘a heat wave in Algiers, northern Africa. You'd think the people there would pack up and leave for good. Not so. __ Voleanoes erupt and rivers flood regularly, but families living nearby stay on. They flee when disaster comes, but always return to the scene of periodic trouble. This peculiar weakness explains why the same poli- ticians bunk the populace over and over. LETTER FROM VRIDGE MANN July 28, 1924. To Prohibition sitste: Roy Lyle: 1 understand that, on your force, are “under cover men.” help you in your steady course of filling up the “pen.” They got the evidence, I hear, on which you make arrests, by spotting all the booze and beer for governmental tests, They ‘These fellows don't appear in court to prosecute a case spot a guy and then report on where he runs his place, they do is go around and buy a bunch of drinks detective-hound, the lucky, lucky ginks! ‘They And all to act ax booze By golly, Roy, IT jt to say that I've a tip for you- mighty foolish if you pay those men for what they do! bunch who'd like the work, and gladly do it tree that wouldn't shirk—perhaps including me! you're I know a a bunch of men For such a job Js free of flaws; it never violate the laws in any hooch they name Remorse, nor blink a guilty ey help enforce the laws that keep us dry! useful tho it's wet. ‘They ket. They never know the they've got to drink to Ko here's the way St seems to me, since hooze is under ban 1 must drink, I ought to be an “under cover man,” 1 know L ought to leave the stuff alone be taught to break the laws we own! It For, if I'm not, © growing children won't THE SEATTLE STAR MONDAY, JULY HIGH SPOTS IN THE THREE POLITICAL PLATFORMS), W ASHINGTON, July 28.—Just what is a voter voting for when he casts his|only the platform of the progressives is brief, contz 0 P ? ; , we I blice atforin is about 7,509 words long, cr ballot for a progressive, or for a republican, or for a democrat for presi- lhe republican platforin i , pices F 10,000 words of pledges, promises and alarms lent The average voter lacks time and energy to wade thru the long, wordy In tabloid form, here is what the three platforms promise on the m sues jatforms which contain the pledges of the various candidates This year/confronting the country in this campaign : P, 1! P, { Aare Natforn Republican: Platform Democratic Platform Progre Platform Honest Government Promises vigilance to 1. Honest Government Demands house-cle ng in 1. Honest ¢ err Pledg in a clean and honest government and to bring government departments and punishment for those cleaning of executive departments and prosecut of to justice every defiler of public trust guilty of bartering national honor, resources or admin persons participating in schemes to d pas ?, Public Domai No plank istration of the law teri 3. Railroads Affirms the government's right to 2, Public Domain: Pledges recovery of the naval o . ae Doe ae 22 egulate, supervise and control public utilities; urges reserves; favors government ownership of resources, ir 2. ublic main ‘av 1 careful and scientific rate readjustment, consolida cluding water-power, coal, iron ore and timber; favor water-power, conservation of pu resou tion of the railroads into fewer and better systems conservation of natural resource ing coal, iron ore, oil, timber and land ge r 4. Taxation; Pledges governmental economy and 3. Railroads: Favors revision of Esch-Cummin covery of the Teapot Dome and Califor oil essive tax reduction; endorses Coolidge plan for ; transportation act and reduction of freight rates on basic reserve conference of federal and state officials to devise means | ¢ poherpers aes ps ‘ ( of local tax reduction low-priced raw commoditie 3. Railroad Urge P e Ese ‘ 5. Tariff: Endorses Fordney-McCumber protective 4. Taxation: Endorses the tax bill passed by the last railroad law and revision ailroad rates on basis of tariff congress in place of the Mellon tax plan actual investment and cost of service; declares for ulti- 6. Agriculture Promises assistance for farmers . Tariff: Condemns the Fordney-McCumber tariff mate public ownership as-only final solution of railroad and reorganization of the marketing system, and gov ernment where promises | on farm products assistance nt of all laws 8. Governmental 9. Labor hour day, find job 10, Favors and more for laborers Foreign Relations opposes membership in the league of nations, Prohibition Enforcement Beform child federal employment diversification is needed; ample credits and adequate tariff protection Promises full enforce- No plank labor amendment, eight agencies to world court, and fa- Endorses the | vors another conference for limiting the use of sub- marines, poison gas, HE wiping out of the entire j family of Ralph Johnson, of Seattle, when a train at Colum: bus, Neb., hit the auto in which they were motoring across the Questions Answered * Q. What were the total receipts of the bout between Leonard and Tendler, and how much did each man get? A. Total receipts, $827,565 ard’s $121,755; $62,500 ; Leon- share, Tendler’s, eee Q. Did the word “God” appear in the original of Lincoin’s Gettys- burg address? A. No, Q. Are turties dumb, make some kind of noise? A When startled, some give a loud snake-like hiss. The males of the large Galapagos tur- tles, according to Darwin, bellow or or can they turtles roar at mating seavon. The land or mud turtle utters a piping note, particularly in the spring. Q. What causes the odor of Limburger cheese. A. Fermentations induced dur- ing ripening. & ; w | YOU can get an answer toany | | question of fact or informa- | tion by writing The Question | | Editor, 1922 New York ave, | | | Washington, D. C, and enclosing | two cents in loose stamps for re | ply: No medical, legal or marital jadvice, Personal replies, confi- | | dential. All letters must be | signed. | 1 —% Q. What is the size of a mar- ried couple's visiting card and how should it be engraved? | A. The double card is targer than | the individual card. Itis about two |and one-half inches in width and It may be engraved “Mr. and Mrs, Hamilton Smith, 2000 West Bnd Avenue | pe. Q. What can be done for severe sunburn? A. A solution of hot water of one-half pint into which is stirred |@ level tableapoonful of boric-actd powder; to which is added 20 drops of carbolic acid and well may be applied to the burn 4 pleve of cotton, ahaken, with three and one-half inches in length.| and for curtailing land armament. Brickbats—and Boquets The Havoc of Grade Crossings country, focuses the attention of Seattle once more upon the perils of grade crossings Do you know that last year 8,582 persons were killed or in jured at grade crossings thruout the country? That this was an increase of nearly 20 per cent over 1922? Those are the figures as com piled by the department of com- merce at Washington. Alarmed at the great increase in such accidents, the bureau of public roads has started a sur vey to learn the location of every such crossing in the coun try, Efforts will then be directed to eliminating the most danger ous crossings before the year ends and the others as rapidly as the federal Md system of roads is extended. So far upwards of 33,000 miles of the federal aid system of raids started by congress tn 1917 have been completed. The program ae Letters PORTLAND'S BRIDGE Editor The Star:—While we are dillydallying with the Spokane street bridge and while our people are go- ing to suffer from the lack of speed with which the city engineers are tackling the Montlake bridge, it is interesting to note how Portland is building its great Burnside street bridge, I read today that yesterday the contract for this Portland bridge was let with the stipulation that it must be completed within 500 days. This bridge is costing two and a quarter million,and is 2,307 feet long or about five times as long as the span of the Montlake bridge, and they are going to have a great deal of trouble putting piers in the deep river at Portland whereas the piers for the Montlake span haye been in Sez Dumbell Dud: Maybe the imm ¢ rants think they have a right to this couy- tru because it was discov= ered by a im- migrant. —eeeveeintetanioecenncns FROM STAR All letters to The Star must hy act as an aid to monopolies; advocates reduction of the tariff and urges reciprocity agreements with other na- tions, 6. Agriculture: Promises to aid the farmer by encour- aging trade with foreign nations, by tariff reduction, by | lower rail and water rates, by credits and co-operative 7. Prohibition Enforcement: Pledges “to respect and enforce the constitution and all laws.’ 8. Governmental Reform: No plank, 9. Labor: vors collective bargaining, law ing hours and conditions of labor. 10. Foreign Relations: Advocate referendum on league of nations; pledges itself to end policy of isolation; | urges agreements with nations for world disarmament. ) [ A Thought Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, regulat- when it is in the | power of thine hand to do it.—Proy i. Aled erve God we Mra creatures who serve his Norton What Folks | Are Saying |) SECRETA Y DAVIS, department & stool and eat problem. 4. Taxation: Favors reduction upon moderate in- comes, increases in the rates of inheritance taxes and urges excess profits taxe Iso publicity of all federa tax returns 5. Tariff: Urges drastic reduction of the Fordney- McCumber rate 6. Agriculture: Promises greater credits to the farmers thru the m Loan system, aid in promoting co-operative enterpris lower freight rates on agricul- tural products and upon freights needed by farmers; favors St. Lawrence-Great Lakes waterway project as a means of providing cheaper transportation to Europe. 7. Prohibition Enforcement: No plank. 8. Governmental Reform: Advocates constitutional amendment establishing congress’ superior powers over supreme court and providing for popular election of federal judges for 10-year terms; condemns law-making by court decree; favors extension of initiative and referendum to the federal government, and direct nom- ination and election of president; demands power of federal government to crush private monopolies; de- mands restoration of free speech and political liberty, 9. Labor: Favors abolishing of injunctions in labor disputes and would recognize rights of industrial workers to organize and bargain -collectively. 10. Foreign Relations: Denounces present mer- cenary foreign policy dominated by international bank- favors revision of the Versailles treaty; urges treaties with aJl nations to outlaw wars; would abolish conscription, reduce armaments and establish public referendum on peace or war. | calls for finishing the entire sys tem of 170,000 miles in 10 years In the past six years many of the most dangerous crossings have been eliminated. P. St. John | Wilson, chief engineer of the bureau, says that about 25 per | cent of the crossings have been | eliminated so far. "In many cases, however, we have simply changed the course of a road #o that it runs along. | side of the rallroad instead of crossing and recrossing it," Wil. [ son stated | } Surverys show that the total mileage of surfaced roads in the United States has now passed the 400,000 mark. In the fiscal year ended Juno | 30 the government spent. up. } wards of $79,000,000 in improving roads on the system. As the gov- ernment percentage Is only 43 per cent of the total amount it is estimated that $183,000,000 was expended on road improvement in ‘We eel! service—not in- surance policies, We study your needs and recommend the kind and amount of protection you should have. Taliit over with us any time—no charge, no obligation. Readers name and address. The reason that Portland ts able to have this great bridge bullt with in 500 days is that only one contract Was let, and under the system our engineers follow of the granting of three orfour contractors, each con tractor can pass the buck to the others jand my huheh ts that we will find this situation repeated in the building of the Montlake bridge, If we had given that contract when the people voted the bonds in March'to a private con cern, street cars would be running over the Montlake bridge -by January 1, 192 Let's watch and see how long it takes from March, whén the bonds were voted, until we use the Mont lake bridge. 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