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

y The Star Publish 1 Ameooka: rementatives. dg.| Mew Terk effios If Loeb and Leopold Hang— HE Leopold-Loeb case is the supreme punishment. If any two murderers should hang, those two should. In their case, there is no clouding of the issue of senti- ment. There is no contention even on the part of t defense counsels of insanity. There is no plea that the boys are too young to hang, nor that their home sur- roundings deprived them of a fair chance in life. Tn this es or falls alone, and the decision of Justice whether or not Leopold and Loeb shall decision on that principle. test of cap ang will be a As between Clem Shaver and Bascom Slemp, it ought te be easy to tart one of those old-fashioned Southern feuds that Opie Read tells about. Fortune Fakirs } HE WITCH doctor beat his tom-toms. The Greek oracles examined sacrifi beth had his Three Fates. And modern man, his instincts all unchanged, has his Clairvoyants and spiritualists and psycho-analysts. Nearly as persistent as the craving for food and water, for love and immortality, is the craving To Know. Man realizes his judgment is fallible, his success de- dent on the whim of chance, his course blocked by iny obstacles, harmless if foreseen. And*he longs to know what he should do. The weaker the man, the stronger the longing. * Clairvoyants feed on this weakness. Thousands of persons who can ill afford it pour their ‘money into the hands of these fakirs to learn their “lucky day,” to learn that they should beware of a dark man, that they must be careful not to fall down stairs. They pay for “psychic treatments that will unite parted lovers,” for mental spells to arouse the indifferent one. ’ Most gullible of the suckers can be led to invest money ‘on the advice of the “sage,” can be guided to certain de- Graded professional men willing to pay a commission for ‘patients thus received, can be made to reveal information a it is used by the unscrupulous fortune teller for black- ‘mail or for worse objects. There is a social menace in this fact. | The “confidence man” and fraudulent financier are not tolerated in the community. ' These more dangerous fakirs should be mercilessly ‘prosecuted and driven out of their nefarious business. ‘The campaign will open in carly September and then truth will begin ‘fits laborious and repeated efforts to rise again. Owner of Other Men’s Jobs fs EN Henry Ford adopted the suggestion of James Be Couzens that a minimum wage of $5 be established - in the Ford plant, Henry assumed some responsibility for the moral and mental well-being of his employes, thus loaded down with sudden and unexpected wealth. _ Henry wanted to know what his workmen were going ‘to do with that $5 a day; and if they didn’t spend it as _ ‘Henry.thought it ought to be spent, Henry simply didn’t "want such workmen around his plant. : Now the great manufacturer goes a step further. So far as his employes are concerned, Ford assumes respon- _ sibility for strict enforcement of the 18th amendment and the accompanying Volstead act. Of curse, Henry isn’t a prohibition enforcement officer. But Henry is an employer. And he likes the 18th amend- ment and the Volstead act; and while he can’t arrest an employe caught with the smell of beer, wine or liquor on his breath, or on his person or in his home, he can fire And Henry Ford knows his power. He knows that fir- ing an employe from a good job is tough on the employe _ —and maybe tougher still on the employe’s wife and chil- dren, if he has a family. Tt is possible, also, that Ford has his own private no- tions as to how all people ought to live. Having the _ power of life or death over an employe’s job, Ford is in Position to regulate the lives of his employes. Tt would be the same if Henry should take a notion that he didn’t like the smell of tobacco, or thought his employes would be better off if they didn’t smoke. While there is no federal or state law prohibiting the use of to , Ford can make a law of his own; and make it effective by firing employes who don’t obey Ford laws. _ Being the owner of another man’s job carries with it tt power over that man’s life; and when one man is owner of many thousands of jobs, he is autocrat of a m, with far greater power than any ruler of a lized nation: al livers. Mac- Ens, ‘If the scientists do succeed in making gold of mercury, it is safe to that it will have wings on its heels, as usual. Who’s Looney Now? NE OUT of every 25 people in Massachusetts is crazy, O says Dr. William A. Bryan, head of the Worcester state hospital. He says a 25th of the population of that state “spends some portions of its life in a hospital for mental disease, and 20 cents of every dollar appropriated _ by Massachusetts goes to hospitals for mental disease.” It's a rare state that can show a better record. _ And at times we're inclined to believe that the craziest ones are outside the walls of institutions. A German scientist says bees die if deprived of companonship, but Mr. McAdoo can tell him of one presidential bee that died when entirely sifrounded by companions that were doing the same thing. LETTER, FROM V RIDGE MANN They had me out in front doing the Chamber of Com- merce lunch yesterday, the results of which will be found several pages due East, Hence these premises ave vacant for today. | Mit, bale and ot gota, THE ATTLE STAR SATURDAY, AUGUST 2, 1924 The Bird That Made the Sun Come Up | Questions ¢ Answered * ROMPTLY, t NT are thrown the doors en, he en- A. What are considered the three | principal agricultural uses of land COUFEFORER, | A. Crops, pasture and forest He owe he occupled ters quietly and alone secks the chair and and he yesterday, hat All day Q What is with sumption of wool in h s in his lap States " r motionless A, About siz pounds. as 4 " 1 a face s © awful a dozen witne the exhibition of his ¢ rid of house lood on the boc hin mui ‘or stir him, A. Farmers’ Bulletin 1408, “The|| griee, nor hate, nor ex House Fly and How to Suppress nor faction’ on | his It," may be had free on application only, deter. to the Publication Division of the walt But his Department of Aoriculture. This|| eyes erything, his ears supersedes Farmers’ Bulletin 851 miss not the est syllable. eee }] A man of steel, calm, quiet, i |] immovable, with God only ics an get an answer toany | knows wh raging beneath | question of fact or informa- | es = ug ry herath oi me Tice by wilting The Question ||] SA" flee tho eruptions of th } Eattor Naw York ave raging volcano, but the earth- | Washington, D. C., and ericlosing ||} GUAKe | comes mudaealy, un | two cents in loose stamps for re heralded, upon the calmness y. o 7. i and beauty of the w d. And | ply. No medical, legal or marital | ins abbalat’ tilae lawyers adv Personal replies, confi- | Oey ae C798. os se, . bo a and spectators aro often upon [ee eee ee cee Oe Franks, whowe little boy, Bob signed. OS sendin be pall bie, was wantonly, mercilessly eee slain to merely produce “a thrill.” the per ¢ ts himae Q What does the government pub- lish on how to get fies? watt always and mination to a. Q Who fs senator? A. Benator Pat Harrison of Missis appl, bechuse of his comparative youth and youthful appearance, er known as the baby far away from this nits another father, Ho is a man along cars. His hair is thin and graying and the wrinkles of work and wor- ry at plainly on his face, He remembers the joy when his good wife gave him a son. It was a pretty baby and he Q What fs tne address of the general director of the Russell Sage Foundation? A. John M. Glenn, 130 B. New York city. 22d st., Q. Are there other schools in ad |dition to West Point, where young men can become army officers? A. Honor graduates of colleges) having a reserve officers’ training) corps are entitled to stand an ex- amination for commissioned officer in the army. Members of the regu-| BUILDING WASHING lar army and certain young men} paoe pho Star enlisted in the organized reservea| : or. in the national guard are also}. AN occurrence happening to mi leligible for this examination. No|this week, while passing by the praduates of achools other than|Lumber Exchange bullding, on Bec: Weat Point are made commissioned ae ave., prompts this communica- jon. officers without examination, | ty ag | The boys were working above the Q. Who was thy first speaker of /Sidewalk, cleaning tho bullding, with the house of representatives? ja combination of compressed air and . F. A. Muhlenberg (of Pennsyt-|Sand blast system. I register no venta) 1789-01, kick about that—rather, I would ‘oes compliment them on the thoro, rhiteto lcleanly transformation they are ac- omeere can one get a bulletin) cmplishing, but Just as T passed un- ‘A. Department — of Bulletin 608, Varieties of Cheese,| can be bought from the Superin- tendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., for 10 cents. Remittance must be made by money order. eater 6 Letters Agriculture 4 operator must have moved from one end to the other, thereby turning loose accumulated sand, and I re- ceived it down the back of my neck ja retarn to my hotel for a forced {bath and change of clothing. Q. What becomes of the house fly| But such things will happen. during the winter months? It might be a good idea, however, A. The adult flies do not usuglty| either for the boys to do voluntarily survive the winter, but there is|or the city to regulate the hours evidence that house flies pass the|that this kind of work is in future winter as larvae and pupae, In tha|to be carried on, as it not only an- Southern. states, during warm|noys the tens of thousands of pedes periods in midwinter, house fties|trians who use this thorofare, but ix may emerge, and become somewhat|® lability to the surrounding nelgh- troublesome; they frequently tay|bOr merchants, who are forced to eggs on warm days. The second way| keep their doors open at this season |in which the house fly may pass|f the year, because of the sand fly- the winter is by continuous breed-|'N Into their places of business. ing. They congregate in heated| 1 Would suggest that the likely lrooms with the approach of the|time of day for this kind of work | whiter season, If’n0 food or breed- | bein done (and St is essential that ling. materials are present the y{it be done), is between the hours of eventually die, but where they have|® Pe ™ access to both food and suitable|“* ™ | audstances for egy laying they witt| Light, nowadays, 1s so easily pro: continue breeding just av they do\Cred and handled, at such reason: ouidopea dubia ithe: numer, able “cost, that I belleve the work H a ere done during such’ hours would prove | profitable, rather than a handleap to | @ Has anyone ever tried the ex-linterested contractors and certainly poriment of breeding white foxes for |i most agreeable to the public fur? | White ; © on this subject, T would like A. The experiment ta being tried|to suggest to those of the budget in Alaska at present, Quite recent-i making part of our city council, ty two permits have been issued bY} members of which have 4o suddenly the Wological survey of the United) hecome xo economical as not to want States Department of Agriculture! our public wate buliding “dolled” for the capture of 50 pairs of white|up, on account the 40-some hun fowes. One fow farm ts being catab-| dred dollars necessary cost, that per Hihed on Bhismaref dsland, the other! haps men enough in elty de at Teller, ments (perhaps in the street depart. ment) could be found, who are reg ularly in the elty employ, and can i be spared to perform this, perhaps, Columbia and Johns Hopkins? unnecessary elvic work, without the A, Yate, blue; Harvard, crimson ;| added mplained of. Princeton, orange and black; Cor-| In any avent, let's haye the build nell, carnelian and white; Columbia,| ing washed, it posulble, ght blue and white; Johna Hop- JOHN 1), DULS, Karl Hotel, 205 Wirst Ave, 8, (all night) and 9:30 or 10 eee Q. What are the college colors of Yale, ,Harvard, Princeton, Cornell, AN FROM STAR All letters to The Star must have name and address. |der one of their awing scaffokls, the | jin sufficient quantity to necessitate | \ \ Nill —Tinvre On Trial clasped wife's hand and named child Nathan Jr, after fa All that a father could give a won ho feels that he guve—a fine home, luxuries unatinted, all youthful ures, a splendid education. And now he bows his head, his tremt hand wipes the cold and from a dom ven that he has raised t wretch of y a Hitherto, he has dazed the fact wan charged with they paint for © picture of the little ed boy's bloody bedy in the drain pipe y hold be fore him the le gore. marked clothing of his son. They hi confessions. They refute all the lies that would hide the guilty. ‘They put link to Ink of a chain that may hang his boy. The awful de- tails, horrible certainty pile upon this father, and ruin all of a father’s hope. What ever his sins of omission, God help auch a father! It ts not trial. It is | | the ther | | awe his w and hears on oar been yw, murde the wholly a murder also a trial of fathers, Perhaps dewpair and misery of the father at one end of the courtroom table will soften the faco and heart of the silent, dangerous father at the other end of the table. The Lord has so arranged it that misery and loss of others usually soften us, even when wo feel hardest. Readers ~ A SERVICE FLAG Editor The Star: I mused upon a service flag, Tho flag we hold our own, Whose speckled field und border red Hold stare—the rarest ‘known, And then I saw somo brigtiter stars That gleamed and beamed out | bold, | Had I, of all the rest, missed these? I gnzed—and they wero gold. |L marveled at thelr shining light, Amid the others rare. How could they gleam so brightly there? they seemed there. | Yet most happy |That flash stara! It haunts mo all the while. Ah! ‘tls our heroes shining there, And flashing us a smile, GEORGE SHOCKEY WRIGHT, 503 Sist Ave. 8, WOMEN JURORS Editor The Star: So Dr. Matthews thinks that tt women jurors are “too sentimental By that, T presume, he means that women are apt to be sympathetic and forgiving to the offenders, If the lowly Nazarene was here T suppose the reverend gentleman would call Him “too sentimental’ also, for did He not forgive the rob- ber on the cross? And did Ho not tell the erring woman to ‘go and sin. no more''? If Dr. Matthews and all tho rest of the ministers were following in His footsteps, would they not do like. wise, Instead of criticising those who have @ little human fecling for the erring ones? Christ said: “Love thy neighbor as thyself"; also, “Love thine ene- mies." "Do good to them that hate you, and pray for them that despite fully use you But all that seoms to be Greek to the average preacher, altho they de vote lifetime to “explaining’’ and expounding the teachings of Christ of gold among those | thousand years nhead of the modern preachers, and the people are bogin- ning to find it out ANNIE M, BURC Soon after father gots home with hs pay on Saturday night he finds he is clean for Sunday, Plenic parties believe Noah had more thin two ants in the ark, A Uniform Marriage Law Amendment RUTH FINNEY c SCIENCE COLD LIGHT parts of the nation, writte Women's club indore He appre Two thou power lamp these ed his fin) and 4 ‘ largely because of state right Thene were an Frank general of hun Smoking Room Stories rems the ide out of the sm bach greeted assing atate ker win- lor doctor in the cor- ¥ pretty girl, the platform. sigh wh rights argur: sed, All removed ‘Who is that hearings . Was @ grea ted out thi ve recognized the right ral gov turalizath t also that federal control « state commerce has been 1 nized, ‘Marriage t# not an but is a contract,” said Mra White, “It creates a civil statu That civil status should follow he pol t the lennon of fire nt, and someone asked, from ¢lectricit nent to | “There goes the only woman I A Thought ioe loved,” sajd the doctor, ms “Well, why don't you marry h Don't be #0 sad about It,” sald a | The house of the wicked shall be | overthrown; but the tabernacle of | ed the smoker. “I simply can't afford it,” rejoin- |the upright shall flourish—Prov. | patient.” | xiv. doctor. “She is my best the pair and thelr ch no see matter where they live. A mar- ried palr may change their dom! ip eile from one state to another | and preserve their citisensh | itution aye: The man who refuses to do honest CE and wickedness are far'work usually expects to do honest asunder.—Stillingfleet. workers. Bo they should be ab Neve, to take their civil status with them, States should not have the right to prescribe the | civil status of a pair that will not be recognized in every other state. “The contract of marriage In different from other contracts in | that the parties cannot terminate it at will, It must be terminated by the atate “We believe have the same power to enact Tha laws concerning the removal of the civil status of a pair from one state to another as they do oyer removal of grain and manu: Sez Dumbell Dud; The elope- ment and mar- riage of an undertaker and a deputy coroner in California, again reminds us that busi- ness is busi- ness. FABLES ON HEALTH } TRY FOR A CHANGE a ell tlie aed tes itionreereace irene | RA fess are you going for your | vacation?” a friend asked Mr. In such vacations lie psychological values that result in the greatest benefits of the vacationer. A return | plied Mr. Mann. |to the sume place year after year: “Why don't you ever change?” |a meeting of the same people—all “Too much trouble finding a new |}such samenesses leave little to the |imagination and offer few surprises. s the attitude of many vaca-|In brief, they are all right but they tioners. And it isn't a particularly |are psychologically off key. good one to adopt, if the proper re-| ‘The ideal vacation would be one in ults are to be gotten. | which all persons could go back to The fundamental purpose of a va- | boyhood simplicity of mind and play; cation ts to allow a complete change |a complete making over. of life, hablts,“surroundings and peo-| Since this is impossible to most ple. ‘There should be a change of|folks, get the next best thing: as scenery, & change of food, chunge of | complete a change as is possible each the preparation of food. year. me olf place, Salt Creek!" re- congress should Christ's teachings were at least ten | CORNER PIKE and WESTLAKE Convenient for Saving HEN placing your money for safe-keeping, convenience is an import- ant consideration. It is easier to save when you do not have to waste timo going several blocks out of your way. ‘The Seaboard Branch of the Dexter Horton National Bank is located for your convenience. 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