The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 21, 1925, Page 6

ath, # months $1.60 a mooth Judge fat g and If men YOL KF all before J York and confess« of stan from $100 each, The normal thing for under the circumstances tence the men to terms in penitentiaries This judge d He inquired 3 men, receiving $2 in the postal service, port a wife and six income, : Others, were tackling s “This is tragic,” exclai Judge Wins low. “These men are obviously not of the . criminal class and I am not going to add ‘them to that class.” The judge asked where the men found employment after leaving the government service and volunteered to see their em- ployers and try to get better jobs the postmen. - That an unusual part of a merciful judge low’s action will serve a useful function ‘in more ways than one. It put the situa- - tion of the underpaid postal employes in newspapers all over the land, It stirred up a feeling of shame on the part of the public that its own employes were so mis- + erably paid. His action may serve in a less useful way, if other postal employes, in a service where honesty is positively essential, are tempted to do what their fellows did for the sake of ekeing out livings for their families. Judge Winslow's leniency may serve the public badly in this respect. But in this case, too, the responsibility comes back to the public and the govern- ment. It is something worth thinking * about. What would you have done, if you had - been on Judge Winslow’s bench when those ‘ ‘four former postmen confessed ? ? No Advertising N eeded HERE are innocent souls in the gov- ernment who believe the Volstead law tis not respected because it is unknown. *They believe it should be advertised, and already the house appropriation commit- ‘tee has approved an apportionment of + $50,000 for that purpose. + If there is a law on the statute books, ‘or ever has been, more widely known than -the Volstead enactment, it is difficult to {recall it at the moment. There probably :never was such a law. There isn’t a nook for cranny in this country, and there are *few nook and crannies in foreign coun- tries, that is not saturated with knowl- -edge of this prohibitory ordinance. In «this country the law is either observed or + violated—it isn’t respected as it should be. ‘In foreign countries it is neither respected nor observed, Advertising isn’t likely to tchange that condition. : What the law needs is enforcement. It snever has had that—never has got at the ‘root of the evils it was designed to eradi- ‘cate. It has dabbled on the surface and ifurnished Roy Haynes with excuses for ‘giving tongue, but it hasn't prevented the testablishment and functioning of the most ‘stupendous and damnable illicit business the country ever has known. + It hasn't prevented the flooding of the scountry with the most deadly brand of ‘drink the human mind could conceive and *human hands dispense, It hasn't prevented }, from fattening enormously from ithis ill stuff that drives men blind and ae Were UR former letter carriers Ne continue as it a ju wouk that one of the a year after 24 yea was trying to children on tunate 000 sup that this country themselves, $1,800 a year, ial problems. receivi but might be petitive, purely ¢ fleet However, in statements, for nt by But is mea : seen decision on the ‘ Judge W uaa was work is ac and the of righ the kind be really the way backward, we “open door” Pacific, they up apply. ing to he McKenna, his new, life and president. Columbia to vi ous prejudice. regime h court, ‘OU can get an answer zai any question of fact or in- | | formation by writing The Seat- | | tle Star Question Hditor, 1322 |New York a Washington | | D. C, and inelosing 2.cents in loose stamps for reply. No medical, legal or marital ad. vice. Personal replies, conti dentigl. All letters must be signed, Q Where are the largest poultry ;% ‘farms in the United States? * A. The Corliss Poultry farm, Peta-| | Juma, Cal, with 25,000 laying hens,| and the Laurelton Poultry farm, slakewood, N. J., with 15,000 laying * hens, are the largest. Q What is the correct way wear a Masonic ring? * A. The grand secretary of the «Masonic order in Washington, D. v., there ia correct way of © the wearer can tirat time, as distinguished i appellate Jurisdiction, in which : court has the power to hear a@ case + @ What is the area of the anthra-| onty on appeal from a lower court ite coal fields of Pennaylyania? | es A. About 484 square miles in four tnarrow fields—the Northern, or Wyoming; the stern Middie, or| that drunkards will not inherit the} “Lehigh; the Southern, and the Mid-| kingdom of God? ‘dle Western. | A. Firat Corinthians, sith * 6 6 ter, 10th verse. + Q What ts ae oo -jurisdiction” as applied to a court? | aw is the annual A, That power of the court to|the president of France? hear and determine a case for the| A, $200,000 a year. to! no from Q. Where in the Bible does it say chap- meant by “original | salary of Raising Chickens RE you thinking of going into the chicken and egg business? Are you a chicken raiser and egg produce Do you want to start a backyard poultry flock IF 80, YOU WANT AUTHORATIVE ADVICE TION OR FAILURE MAY RESULT. Our Washington bureau has prepared a bulletin from the best gov- ernment sources which covers such essential points as Poultry Houses and Fixtures, Breeds to Select, Hatching and Brooding, Feed, Fatten ing; Killing, Dressing and Packing; Marketing, and Poultry Diseases The bulletin also lists all government documents available on the sub- Ject and tells how to obtain them If you want a copy of this bulletin, fill out the coupon below and mail as directed. AND INFORMA CLIP COUPON HERB rrr Poultry Editor, Washington Bureau, The Seattle Ster, 1222 New York Ave., Washington, D. C. I want a Bulletin” cents in loose postage stamps for same and Inclose herewith: five Name. St. and No. or RLF, 5 I ama reader of The Seattle S Star 123 aveyards for stead enforcement Published Dally by The Star Publishing Co. Phone Mais ose ub its It ha accomplished not, in a fact, need advet sec will law does not first, respect and. Without these, is, and heayen help us! Credit for Coolidge RESIDENT COOLIDGE used an unf phrase opposed to competitive naval building by The “What if not to compete with other navies?” impression was created that the president visualizing not only said he was when he asked anyway The American people is a navy for a non-com- non-combative, ar and useless, American later published White House the he does sponso sonable strength “reasonable” commendable neces direction made since the beginning of the world a complete right-about-face, have Washington officialdom, policy in China and maintain- ing the integrity with the United States In a of the Philippine islands, both countries 6,000 miles away on the other appear to be do not come out flat for can navy big enough and strong enough to dominate the these American Some day some administration will have to do that, we But in the meantime President Coolidge is entitled to the greatest credit for refus- back-step announcing an More power to him! A Good Choice IDENT rted the new selected Attorney Stone to succeed Associate Justice who retires after 27 His record during the short time since | he took over the reigns of the department of justice for the purpose of cleaning up the tangled web left by the Daugherty s been one which has excited the admiration critics of that department, His promotion is a reward well earned. The president deser bringing Stone into the government serv- ice, and for promoting him to the supreme Answers to Y our Questions the| motor 1 | dog president makes it clear a policy of “adding rea- to our navy. Just what remains to be ion of ANY strength forces, the will be a definite sary first step in will be the first administration It will vor going has been This photograph, tak- from the windows of office « 25th floor _ Letters! Name and Address Must Accom: Letter That Is to Be Poblished in The Star en the Prosses add sea Strang started, once on the It by any been cherishing an Horse Races Editor The Star national horse rac 1 think can horsemen to send jto England and France and edly ne. abed re Amer horses cently, it in up to the side of the “pussy-footing” when an Ameri- this year so | Amertea car Jand tear of chang | har travel Pacific ocean and back policies where they which undow was a ap to the European horses lant weanon hope to see a return match this ch | think [British and Freneh tu G. SIMONE instead 200 Fe Ave a rd. wey Traffic Laws The St and go forv further, intention to COOLIDGE year off General certainly right when Harlan F. Joseph years on the auto te concerned, the United States supreme court bench. Both by his public record, legal experience, is Mr. Stone qualified for big job. in the prime of life, his presence will add wholesome highest court in the land. Mr. Stone was a college friend of the He joined the faculty of the | university and for 14 years was dean of that school. This experience has particularly fitted him w the law in the abstract tution, to see legal questions free of previ- and by his A robust, vigorous man atmosphere to the jon the street at Speeding law school in 1903, | Pensions for Judges Editor The Star I feel that the ing exjudges a 1 have always t | old-age and di t period of ‘ye 8 an insti- Guestion of pens hould be ope ail on in favor of an y pension, but after being fi th a why should arn w be maion than ‘a ed hard labor law was her claswen the would ily hold it unconstitutional L. MONTGOMERY If this | for | prob. propos anion even of the traditional judges | | Aerials | Editor The Star Il am prompted to write to you by |the desire to warn radio enthusiasts ninat Neamt outdoor antennae near f or where they may 2 ? fail or: be Blown, into power: lisies > ee Today, our trouble men took down jun aerial which had 1 connected direct to a primary carrying | Q. What “sang-|2,400 volts, How the man connect. froid"? jing this aerial escaped electrocution A. Calmneas of manner under the|is more than I can say. Recently moat embarrassing circumstances. jan aerial on one of the Ria buildings was loosened in the Elihu ads} « a 15 Needless to say, the radio set was New York city.| completely ruined and it wos fortu es much credit for wire is meant by wind Q. What dress? A. 998 Fifth ave, o- is Root's nate Q Which caused the most deaths! on fire by accidents in 1923—automobiles or jthe sot rafironds? hardly A. There Ve ° sulting from We ar at have the time, they could excaped electrocution warning were real 14,412 deaths accidents caused vehicles (excluding cycles) and 7,100 deaths railroad accidents motor~ due our poles and our trounte }fast ax they Altho anyone attached using one of our Q. Do members of the house of |poles for radio !# trespassing and | ferior. we have no legal obligation in case | to|disfranchisement of the Jxpread a warning before anyope is|which you would doubtless approve. |light about me— }lords of Great Britain pay? receive any |he is injured, I am anxious No. in such @ manner J.D, Supt | hurt Q. Whero did the German police| originate? | A. The German police Alsatian, and before ROSS, of Lighting. A Protest Editor The Star e campaign lof the 20th amendment some peculiar turns. It seems ir | Possible to necure a fair discussion of the measure on fits merite. The interview with Mrs, ‘Trumbull in | your Issue of December 31 would de- \fine the farmers and all other op fia baldeshabt ponents as undesirable citizens. If | islation tn 1897, the, ¥8 not denied nm hearing en- became, on Janu-| borough of Broo of Greater New dog is an was known aa such the world war, Alsatian! the breed chosen by both the} Belgian and German police for spe- cial work was for the ratification has aay Q. Who was the first Rom Catholic bishop in the United State A. John Carroll, Pil Q When and become part of ( A. By state le city of Brookiyn ary 1, 1898, the lyn, the city York, how are to American ideals, fools or crooks Of course, jist those terms may not been used, but the m ning seem that when the American Federation of Farm reaus, representing more than a mil llion families; the National Grange with nearly as many; the sich papers as Farm and |New England Homestead, Rural New Yorker, Farm Journal, Orange Judd publications, Successful Farm ing and Washington Farmer, are unanimou® in their opposition to any measure, there must be some caver for hesitation Q. What can be done to a rubber plant that has grown too tall? A. Top it by cutting it off just above a leaf, It will bleed a little, but it will heat, oe 6 Home, Q. How mucle have the wars of the United States cost this govern« ment in pensions? A. Of course these figures change constantly, as pensions are still be- ing paid, but an eatimate beginning with 1790 and extending intogs924 places the amount at $6,836,182,860, cee this was what I received a few day ago from a man who said that no. hody opposed it except those who A. First go over the surface with| wanted their children to be slaves stiff brush; then wash with alt naked him if that was why th cloth or sponge and hot water, farmers relected it. He said; "The 4 Q. How can whitewash moved from a wooden wall? be re- _ downtown | Bu- | editors of | | A fair enmple of the answers to | | | | 00-volt line, | themselves.” that the building was not set | 79 Had anyone been operating | per cent of the ple every day | by! against attaching radio antennae to | barley, men and |and '0/linemen are taking them down as| taken | tirely, we are described as thio | narrow | look WEDNI other downtown of the L. C. ing, line Smith build- the new aky- buildings in the fore and Seattle, with the middle ground. It new Olympie Hotel and taken to illustrate the * * * *% * # S ALLER and smaller I grow from month to month. Great piles of brick, steel and mortar rear them- selves above me, s Four years ago, when I came to work in this place, I looked from the office window and thrilled at the wide perspective I had. Now 1 look from the same window only to see that I am almost completely hemmed in, with the front line of bricks creeping closer and closer to me until soon I shall have no perspective but a wall and its windows across the street. And the sky will be only a faint blur above me. It saddens me, but still I realize that it is progress I realize that it is a city come to life—a city stretch- ing up its skeleton arms of steel to ease the acuteness of its growing pains. new shows of was * REALIZE that for every new pile of steel and stone that thrusts itself skyward and obliterates another section of my mountain and sound vista, more business will come to Seattle, more dollars will roll into my em- ployer’s office, and I, in turn, will benefit financially. Busi with its cold heart, thus pays me in hard dollars for the scenic pleasure of which I am robbed. And I feel, in a way, compensated. 58 8, UT, as I sit and stare across the street at the wall that towers above me, I can't help but wish that those who guide the city’s destiny could sit beside me and stare thru my window * 1 would like to know that they, too, visualize the steel and stone prison that is rapidly encroaching on Seattle's workers. I would like to know that, recognizing the danger, they are making allowance, in outlining the development of our city in years to come, fof plenty of grassy green plots where the human ants in these gigantic ant-hills can seek solace and comfort for a brief spell, away from the windows that look out only on dreary blank walls. U.S.Uncovers New Smuggling Ruses| ——_$ | getting booze into the country was the Canadian stunt of freez les of colorless gin into of and transporting into Buffalo in open wagons The Mexican ruse was de scribed today Assistant Sec of Labor BE. J. Henning jult made an inspec- tion trip along the border and held «a conference with immi gration officiais at Mexico City “Our latest worry ix caused by the smugglers stringing wires about a foot under water entire: ly across the Rio Grande and using {t for smuggling in not only whisky but aliens ax well,” Henning stated. Henning said that one wire had been found within a stone's throw of the bridge at Laredo and that several others had been found at other points along the river. “In smuggling liquor the rum runners were unusually bold, often pushing a large package of liquor across on the wire under water by pretending to be swimming,” Henning stated Often the accomplice on the American side was a man dressed up as a washerwoman who appeared to be busily en- guged in Washing clothes, but BY KENN \ EXICAN have b er e ‘ETH WATSON | runners Canadian in crime mes to de whisky gone their pirat one when ft c vising clever schemes for smug | | | ice ging into the United Staten Until their uner the border Texan, the liquor . retary Intest scheme was who has members of near Laredo, device for cleverest with the farmer i, he in #0 | between the eyes that he can drink out of a beer bottle and | intp the neck with both eyes | trouble nal Grange at the 58th | Atlantic City, N.| 1924, declared that | « now drawn is so unrestrictive and sweeping that its application could become abso: | lutely dangerous to the best interest | of the communities of the nation | and the welfare of the children | annual seasion at J, November 19, the amendment Americans are 4 per cent of the] world’s farmers, but they produce | cent of the world's corn, 60 ‘otton, 50 per cent 5 per of the | per cent of the} 15 per cent of the} 7 per cent of the potatoes, + 5 per cent of the sugar. | Yet Mrs, Trumbull says that with- out this amendment we will be {iit Inefficient and mentally in- ‘The only remedy visible, if amendment should fail, Is the| If 1 say, Surely the darkness shall armers, of |cover t even the night shall be exxxix. of the tobacco, cent oats and hay, wheat and flax, orate the H. B. CRE . rm Bureau Feder | Wash | . TERE no darkness norance.—Shakespeare, Representative F is ation, Silverda “Let There Be Light’ BY M. W. KAPP, M. D. that edict went | come gravity more and more. We every atom of life | now fly in airplanes, but there influenced most pro- | will come still easier forma of but VER since forth, has been ( A Thought J ig-| “4 DAY Ske aoe i truth of the point about steel and atone made by the office work- prison Le er who sent to the editorial printed be: lou WHAT IS NEWS? SAME HAT is news? the birth of a about the eclipse, news standard of “Acta Diurt the 1a,” older the birth of monstrosities, still. TODAY AS IT WAS IN THE DAYS OF CICERO BY C CHESTE RH. ROWELL Two dispatches, a brief one about six-legged goat and a longer one re a reminder that the most anefent all still survives. daily bill-posted newspaper of ancient Rome, and even in the much annual chronicle of the Pontiffs, two items were uniformly entered—eclipses and They In the are news Another record of that ancient newspaper further illustrates that are still the newest. the oldest things When the Roman ora- tor Cicero was proconsul in Cilicia, his Ro- man correspondent once sent him what must have been the sporting section of the d mean?” “Here you send me things éi re speak to me in Rome. There “Acta.” “What do Cicero in disgust. of which no one would you is nothing but the biographies the divorce courts.” “I would rather send you many things _ scandals of spondent replied: ly wrote of gladiators and the. To which his corre» in which you are not interested than overlook one which - concerns you. I expect you to omit much.” No better . directions for making or reading a newspaper could be» given today. Might Call. ‘Em Salesmen? IRMER GOVERNOR PAR DEE, of California, wants the word “politician” made respect able. It can't be done. You may ! who managed {o slip the con- traband liquor into the clothes basket and get away before suspicion was aroused “When aliens were smuggled in they ‘used the wire ax a guide and swam across the river with so little of themselves showing that they were about as hard to see as a submarine with only the periscope showing,” Henning ‘The ruse was discovered when the smugglers became unusual- ly bold at the wire near Laredo. Since then several more wires have been found and the river is now watched so closely that the success of the wire method of smuggling is about ended. SMOKING ROOM STORIES OOP\HEY were added, pulling off a big dance at the hotel where I stopped in St. .Louis, the other |night,” said the smoker with the jshell-rimmed glasses, “and 1 had a |chance to look fn on the dani |Believe me, 1 had not, until then, known how far the gentle ladies at these functions could go in the way Jof discarding wearing apparel and | get away with it. Some of them did not have enough on to wad a gun. It made me think of the story jof the young man who invited his |sweetie to go to a full-dress ball jwith him. ‘I simply can't go, Bob— 1 have nothing to wear.’ “ ‘Well!’ replied the resourceful (Bob, ‘I'll get a closed car.’” 7 —— SCIENCE 7} |THE EARL of Dunlaven has pub- j 4 lished a book about the expert jences of D, D. Home, the most jfamous — spiritualistic medium of} |modern days, An introduction to/ the work is written Sir Oliver make politics and politidans re” spectable; but not the word Even in Shakespeare's’ time it was the “scurvy politician,” and always the word denotihg-the n important of hainal slew? pations tx a term of réptoathi- It is difficult-to restore Wet to good society. “Knave" onee* meant nothing worse than “boy?” and “villain” was a peasalie “Knight” in German now mei @ servant or bondman. Was once a clergyman} now & scrivener or silesman. | haps the best we can do: our, politicians is to them as “statesmen. can hardly “get by” cee Dry Question —__ Historic Now HE Volstead act is five old, and the anniversary with been celebrated by the usual bate on both sides of a which, does not exist. That que) tion, the debaters seem to think,” ix “Shall we adopt prohibition” | As wel! inquire whether we shall) sail Westward on the unknow® | seas to discover America. Both questions are historic. ‘The galt) actual question is this: 4 nizing that prohibition, 60 fates | law is concerned, ig 4 shall we enforce ; all we ignore and t at law? ‘The only relevant at gument is on one side or the} other of that question. Bxcert speculatively and _ historleally, there is no other, eee Our Customers Will Go Broke HOSE who do not like tht idea that America needs #82. “unfavorable” balance. of trade are pointing out that our fo) is not sucking the world dry of gold. "The excess which we make on trade we return, in the @& penditures of our tour remittances of immigrants and in the freights we pay eign ships. All this is quite tne indeed, the only reason we mane age to survive our cs balance” at all, But, im place, our whole nation is bent on stopping at le of these outlets, We ant the people for the deficit tom up our own merchant mill and we are limiting immig so that newcomers recent still to have dependents al to whom they remit money soon be few, The “see foundly by light. There is no greater force, unless it should be gravity. Light ia ever drawing upward, while gravity is drawing down- ward. In the evolyement of life, the seeing and brain part of Iife has ever been approaching n er the Heht It is not an accident that the head, which ix the Drain and see- ing receptacle or container, is at the top of the body instead the lower, or fect part Life is ever seeking more light. The higher the intelligence of the animal life, the more erect it by nes, The worm crawls on the level of the earth. It is the low: est expression of fe in evolve- ment. The lizard is a little hight r and® begins to hold-up tts head. So volvement Bues on, ever reaching upward toward the light and the body becoming more and more erect until man is reached, As evolvement goes on, we ove! of overcoming gravity and reaching upward, Light is now having its inning in the cure of the human and animal ills, There are lights that have three times the actinic or chemical rays of the sun. Mod inventions have helped this. One is the discovery of a quartz glass that will allow the actinic rays to pass. The ordl- hary glass will not allow these to pass. This quartz makes it Possible to treat tuberculosis, skin troubles, chemical insuffi clencies, and many of the past incurable conditions. Rickets of children has been proven to be due to lack of light. Light causes a better lime or ealglum content of the body. Soon rooms will be provided for in the play region of the tene- ment districts so children can be in the Ught when the sun cannot be gotten to. A light bath will become as common as a water bath, $$ $$ ly by first” crusade ts an attempt et to limit the tourists. the second place, these ‘ imports"—meaning the export) Money without visible retary goods —are not separate at Dut a part of, the pi balance. The balance will not! “favorable” until it exceeds counter-currents. If that happens we will discover have bankrupted our ¢U and depreciated our |Lodge, also a spiritualist This book telis of what happened jat 78 seances. Altho the book has just been publishéd, the seances |took place in 18 Among the strange feats attributed to Home was that of having his body carried iby Invisible forces ovt of a third story window and into another win. |aow. A score or more of jfersons {claimed to have witnessed this. | Stories of spectacular feats of this Kind were rather common in thee late sixties and early seventies. It is probable that the civil war was That is not good business — |responsible for this growth of belief in “materialization” and other sup- Def posed psychic phenomena, It was Sez Dambell also a great period for ouija and ‘4 planchette boards, thru which people Money were supposed to conver with the wD s very impo oe departed. ry The strange part of the earl of Dunraven's book is that ordinary |mediumistic feats that are now known to be either self-deception or trickery are taken seriously,