The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 1, 1925, Page 6

Gliman, Nicoll & office, $01 Montgomery St York offices, By mail, eut of city, $c year 1.00. per mont “Without Prejudice or Bias” | ‘ JITHOUT prejudice with open minds,” nine farmers, two 1 rs, a blacksmith and a con- tractor, composing the county grand jury, have indicted young John T. Scopes at | Dayton, Tenn., for a high misdemeanor under the state law. The quotation as to prejudice, bias and open minds is not to be laughed at, It was perfectly possible for the 13 grand jurors to reach their conclusion that Scopes had committed an indictable of- ! fense without being guilty of bias. Thir- | teen firm believers in the theory of evo- lution could have brought in the same in- dictraent. It was merely a question of whether or not Scopes had taught the theory of evolution and whether or not + the law had made this a misdemeanor. The answer was “yes” in each case. However, the action of the grand jury completes another indictment—of the | : Tennessee legislature before the bar of public opinion. And the charge on which these legislators are thus indicted is that they legislated with prejudice and bias and without open minds. A majority of | the legislators believe certain things and they have endeavored by law to compel | others to think as they do. Only men | or bias and | * completely closed could have done this. Tt was as if these law-makers, believing as most of them probably do, in the the- ory of free trade, had decreed that that theory only should be taught in the schools, that the theory of protective tar- | iff should not be mentioned. The case in Tennessee is not so im- portant in itself as to cause the country Serious concern. In another two years it * doubtless will be repealed and in the meantime the agitation will have caused thousands to use their brains. But the case is important as a symptom of what is going on in America. It is not only in |* Tennessee that majorities are seeking to _ inflict their opinions and their prejudices _- on the minds of others and going beyond 24 om bounds of peaceable persuasion to H so. Going Outside the Law | ie is becoming increasingly difficult for one to judge his neighbors in their at- titude toward the law. \ Advocates of prohibition demand in the | name of patriotism, and the constitution, and the law, rigid enforcement of the Vol- | stead act. At the same time they will jus- tify and encourage lawlessness on the part of officials in such enforcement. At least the official conduct of the chief of police of Des Moines, lowa, and the public approval it appears to meet, Seems to indicate mixed emotions in the minds of Des Moines lovers of the consti- tution, and the law. | - Every law provides the punishment for | its violation. The Volstead act is no ex- ception. Yet in his war on bootleggers the Des Moines chief of police appears to have become a law unto himself, and has | invented new and unusual punishments not provided by national or state statutes. While the story that he intends to place | bootleggers in stocks appears to be ex- | aggerated, he admits he would like to do it if the laws of Iowa would permit. But | he now plans to ride bootleggers about | the city in a placarded patrol wagon, and has already picketed drug stores; and one : 2 is 4 . : : * 3 Q Is the slant in the Leaning) & Tower of Pisa accidental or was it| | OU built purposely with the slant? _ A. It has long been disputed Whether the slant of leaning towers is accidental, That of Pisa shows an increased height in each success- can get formation by wri gress, however, it Q. Where do dress materials, such means’ Of Milling as calico, cashmere and muslin, get their names? Redcar A, The names of a number 0; our dreas goods or fabrics owe their | the table requires . origin to the places where they|%"* _ were first used or manufactured. at = Damask, for instance, comes from) Q. Who was Phill _ Damascus; muslin from Moosul in _ Mesopotamia; calico from Calicut, @ city in India; dimity from Dami- _etta in Egypt; cashmere from the _ valley of Cashmere in Indian, and worsted from a town of that name| in England where it was first made. officer of the Unt is iriotion"’? man-of-war to another, never allow-' famous German tune “Burachen- | _A. This is the common term for|\ed to talk on national affairs, nor | led.” the motion “to lay on the table” a|to sce an American paper, nor to| 668 Tegislative proposal or other mat-|read a history of the United States,’ Q. What kind of a pine is >= ter brought to the attention of a\nor to hear the name of his coun-\Kauri pine? | HP depisiative body. Originally it wasltry, until at last, homesick and| A. A beautiful New Zealand coni-| ‘OW are you comin’ at gardening, friend? really grown? ground. Bet you remember, first ‘twas play, and then ‘ou found, Now you've completed the worst of the toll, and its to show, Why are you takin’ the fam'ly out,’ and tellin' ‘em not Go ahead, friend, do your boasting now! Your garder worth while, (Copyright, 1 ‘nt home for The Stary The Seattle Sta Ruthman, Special Weet 44th @t; Boston offices, 18 Tr: ¢ saturated with prejudice and with minds | ' | tries. any question of fact or In- tho a motion to table may be made at any time, a motion to takt from| A. The hero of E. |The Man Without a Country.” An| he is implicated in Aaron Burr and has doubly damned himself by expressing a hope that What have your efforts) @ What are shown? Now that the plantin’ is nearin’ the end, Bet you remember that spting-like day when first you at gin’ and diggin’ and turnin’ the soil, while dreamin’ of things you'd jston of the seoretion, are you showin’ ‘em all about? I'll bet it's because you're proud, Poblisned Patty by The Star } Mpbitehing On, | Phone Mais oo of his pickets searched the mayor when the latter came from a drug § Ban Francisco New vee. Michigan Av mh, & months %) ‘By carrier, city, He a month What is really more interesting than the spectacular efficiency of the police chief is what a newspaper story says is the attitude of the “better element” or “the church-going people.” It seems that when the mayor was searched by one of the chief's pickets he threatened drastic action, but did* nothing ince sentiment of church-going people seemed to be for Cavender,” who “seems to have the upper hand. Ministers in churches laud him and generally back him in his ideas. : The better element of the city seems to be for him, Temperance organizations, wom- en’s clubs and civic clubs are supporting him. The W. C. T. U. has elected him delegate to the international convention in England in June Little sympathy will be wasted on the bootleggers. The law will take care of them on conviction, There is more sig- nificance in the mental attitude of the so- called better element which backs a police chief in taking the law into his own hands, and even violating the law and constitution in his determination to en- force the law in his own we Seeking the Cellar Championship RTY years ago the United States held the highest voting record in the world. Today it is the lowest. About 50 per cent of our qualified voters get up enough pep nowadays to walk or ride to the polls and vote, In Germany’s last election, 82 per cent of the voters voted. In England 76 per cent of the British electorate voted in the 1924 election of the house of commons, whereas in the preceding election 82 per cent of the British electorate was on hand to do its duty. * Australia has a 20-year average of 75 per cent; New Zealand registers 80 per cent; Canada, 70 per cent; Belgium, Hol- land and Denmark, 75 per cent; Switzer- land, 76 per cent; France, 70 per cent or better; Norway and Sweden, 71 per cent. Even the Irish Free State, torn by in- ternal dissensions, votes 60 per cent, which is better than we do. In fact, the United States finds his light-weight vot- ing match only in Latin American coun- There is more excuse for such a situation in their cases, as Mexico, for ex- ample, has a 70 per cent illiteracy handi- cap. It is pointed out, however, that there is one American record which remains un- beaten the world over. That was in the days of Boss Tweed, when 108 per cent of the voters of New York city were can- vassed in the popular vote. They're Farmers IDDLE-WEST farmers roast Presi- dent Coolidge’s agricultural com- mission and declare that Secretary Hoover is usurping the functions of the depart- ment of agriculture. They are right about that commission, but would do well to take another think about Hoover. The agricultural commis- sion was created-as political sop to the farmers. ance to aid the farmers, and it isn’t ex- pected to. Hoover is different. He is the greatest student of government affairs | and one of the brainiest men in the cab- inet, and, if he is trying to function in aid of the farmers, they will, likely, get some aid. —# | heartsick an answer to after an exile of 55 year. iting The Seat- | | had disowned him in return, tle Star Questién Editor, 1322 esis | New York ave. D. C., and inclosing 2 cents in Washington, Q Why is copper wire used for long distance telephone lines in- {OUT OUR THE SEATTLE STAR AY MONDAY, JUNE 1, 1925. 7 ~ It can do nothing of import-> | jhe dies praying for the fatherland | which he had disowned and twhich| ive story on the leaning side, which| | loose stamps for reply. No | | stead of iron wire? | has been attributed by some to at-| | medical, legal or marital ad- | A. Because tt 49 a much better tempts of the architects to rectify} | vice. Personal replies, conf!- | | conductor than tron wire. Due to @ sinking while the tower was be-| | dential. All letters must be | [this quality, the mazimum length! fing built. Others have advanced, | signed. jy | / @ cirewit over which tt is possible arguments to show that the slant] %——— ~—“¥¥ | to talk: is about four times as great I ater td re rele oi | merely fo postpone consideration to| With copper wire as with tron wire : Seth te "la more convenient time, In oon-|0f the same size, has vecome a| Pmt a measure; for,| Q. Are poke berries polsonous? |For what are they used? A. They are poisonous, but are unanimous con-|used to some extent for medicinal | purposes, A é6 ip Noth | @ Will coat ashes fertilize the B. Hele’é story,| Sround? PUCMSDUL ANG, they, have “no. fertiiietng value, ited States navy,| eres the treason of} Q. By whom were the words and tune of “Maryland, My Maryland’ never again would he hear the| written? badd mame of the United States. He is| A. The words were written by Q What does it mean to “table| taken at his word; passed from one|/ames Ryder Randall and set to the |feroua tree, which sometimes at- | taina a heiyht of 150 feet and which : \is noted for its dark foliage, Altho C0 IX | it a often called pine, it dn not a iy MLS) | pine at. all, differing in many ea. ry sential details from the common ; | pine. 5 A e eis | One . nt cows"? what have you! A. Plant tice .are called by this jname because they exude a sweet ked the |“Noney dew” from their bodies, The ‘twas real work, |anta follow them about, and even stroke them, to hasten the expul- When the it's time for the 4p supply for the aphides faits, |the ants carry their “cows to now | food plants, and in winter both the jddult aphides and the egga are “car. grout! ‘Then |ried into the ant caverns and care- to crowd? Why n is Amile! The things that come up make it seem, somehow, Mat gard’ning |/lly attended until apring, when |they are again placed on the swett ing plant buds, Q What ave the best and most becoming colors for auburn blondy |to wear? A. Shades of greens, luca and loinpe neutral color., avoiding any shades of red, pink or orange, a i} Learning to Play Our Big Problem. BY CHESTER H, ROWELL EARNING chief problem of machinery. thought ody to play is the of the age Work was once the allwufficlent rem: the michief which Sa. tan proverb. lally finds for idle hands to do. But more! Work no lon: Ker occupies all the time of even the hualest hands. We have abo! tahed child la bor, for no and at brevinted ndubt labor, until some de degree of lols uro is the a common lot of all of us. Tho “idle hands” con- nist of everybody's hands, for an important part of every day. WHY MOTHERS TO YOU! AND 1M 2 TIRED OF DARNING STOCKINGS! ILL TAKE j | | ry IM TIRED OF TALKING) THE EDGE OFF THESE STOCKING DESTRONERS MAS ET GRAY. And Satan, notoriously, Is find. ing plenty of mischief for them to do. see HE only remedy is for ua to ket even bualer than 8a tan, finding good things to do with lelsure, in place of his mis- chiefs, The samo machinery which provided the leisure can also provide the things — libraries, parks, social centers, athletic fields and dancing halls, radio, movie and theatrical programs but the tastes, knowledge and ition to use these thing can not be made by nor bought for Thene machinery money begin with the schools, and continue thru every organ of adult education and leadership. The schools would bo omitting half their task if they prepared pupils only for the working part of life. One of thelr most useful func- must fete) MAL OO OO!! GOOD GOSH MA MOURE |} CUTTIN' “TH Quica! IF T GIT LOcKIJAW ITLL BE YOUR FAULT-OO} / tions i to teach the “uscless.” And, with everything inviting, from brothels to churches, from boore to Beethoven, this people must learn to prefer wholesome pleasures, or it will make little difference how efficiently our machines do our work Presidents Are Cheap RESIDENTS are cheap. Tho kaiser had his civil lists of millions, his allowances of mil liona more, and bin crown rey enues of other millions, Hin denburg has just had his salary rained to $45,000 a year, with free “Keep” for his house Doubtiess, if the Reich were prosperous, twice that would not be begru¢ But all the salaries of all the presidents in the world combined would scarcely keep one royal castle. Women Workers and Justice Stone D° wagon below the living standard impair the health of women workers? Can the police power of states be invoked to preyent starvation Wages to women and the conse- quent menace to the public wel- fare? These questions, answered af. firmatively by the legislatures and governors of 13 American slates, seven provinces of Can- ada and six European countries that have minimum wage laws, by 40 out of 50 Judges who have passed on the issue, and by the mass of Americans everywhere, are again up to the United States supreme court to answer. The Sardell case, attacking the minimum wage law or Ari- zona has been set for October on appeal from the federal dis. triet court. At the same tme the supreme court will hear an Appeal from an attack on the Wisconsin law. Harlan F, Stone, the nowly appointed Justice, occuples the limelight in the legal battle to come. Will Stone help to reverse BY MAX STERN tho Adkins case of 1923, decided against the women workers of tho District of Columbia by the supreme court in a 6-to-3 dect sion? The Adkins decision was ren dered by Justices Sutherland, McReynolds, Butler, McKenna and Van Devanter. Dissenting were Justices Taft, Sanford and Holmes, Because of hix connec. tion with the Oregon minimum wage caso of 1914, Justice Bran- dels did not vote. McKenna has since been succeeded by Stone. If Stone casts his vote in the new cases in favor of the wom- en, and if Brandeis, votes it seems probable that the Adkins decision will be reversed. If Brandela refuses to voto the decision might be 4 to 4, Prof. Thomas Reed Powell of Columbla Univeraity, who is a personal friend of Justice Stone, recently in the Harvard Law Review attacked the Adkins de- cision and put Justice Suther. land, who wrote it, on the grill. “As a flagrant instance of in sufficient reasons and of a judg- Mr. Fixit of The Star Undertakes Here to Remedy Your Troubles if of Public Interest Mr. Fixit: Could you locate a firm that handles simplex forging steel? IT am a_ ateel worker and wish to get some of this steel, H, MIDDLEBROOK, R. FD. Carnation, Wash, Any firm handling this kind of steel will communicate direct with Mr, Middleton. one Mr. Fizit: There is a large family of children in the north énd of the city whose welfare I think should be looked after. They have a father who is very cruel to them. They are half- starved and ragged, besides I undertsand the father beats them at times, What can be done? BE. M. If you will get in touch with Mra, Maring, of the Juvenile Detention home, she will tell you the best method to pursue. In the meantime Mr, Fixit will take up the matter with Judge Dykeman, Mrs, Maring’s tele- phone is MA in-2082. Wane Mr. Wivits Why are auto mobiles on Harvard ave. N, be~ tween Roanoke and Hastlake allowed (0 go at breakneck xpecd? Often there are thr abreast, Many young children live in that district, and thetr lives are in constant danger, There seems to be no police protection there, = BL RR. dh The) traffic department re- ports that the shortage of men greatly handicaps that depart- ment, ‘and that all available men are required in the down- town districts, If you would take the numbers of some of the speeders, and especially those who pass three abreast at Intersections, and report them to the traffic department, it would help, eee Mr, Figlt: Recently 1 got on an inbound 19th ave, car, wish- ing to go to the Lakeview cem- etery. When I offered the von- ductor on the Capitol Hin car my transfer, he refused it and became very disagreeable, was greatly embarrassed. It had never once occurred to mo that the transfer would not be good on that line, What can be done to civilize such conduc- tors? MRS, It, You should haye taken the conductor's number and report- ed it to Supt, Henderson, Ho isa great civilizer in such cases, No doubt conductors have a lot of grief during the day, but one that ix not sufficiently civilized to be decent to patrons is on the wrong Job, eae Mr, INvit: Just across the alley from my bedroom is a large apartment house whero they arise at 0 a, Mm, and there is no more sleep for me. 1 have one morning that 1 could sleep late, but these neighbors tals and laugh and make such a noise that there len't a chance. What can be done mout this? 808. There are a lot of persons who have no consideration for otters. This comes from one of two chuses: Wither they do not know any bottag or they are too nelfigh to caré. If your trouble comes from the former cause, you might find a remedy by good-naturedly telling tho nolay family how they disturb you, If it comes from the Int. ter cause, your only hope is to move, | \ ment widely regarded as an in- defensible judgment, the mini- mum-wage decision has few, if any, rivals,” Professor Powell wrote, “The decision has evoked @ more nearly unanimous chorus of disapproval than any other decision in years. Tho self-con. fidence which enabled five jJus- tices of the supreme court to disregard the preponderant judi- celal opinion which the decision opposed is quite as significant as the economic objections which they advance." FAMILY FUN “I heard a nolse and got up, made a Nght and saw a man's foot sticking out from under the bed!’ “Oh, goodness! Was it the burglar’s foot?" “No, my husband's. He heard the nolse before I did!''—Paria, HER NOSE “Gerty's nose {s like a billiard cue,” “Long and shiny?" “Uh, huh, and she Js always chalking the end."—Youngstown Telegram. THEN FATHER QUIT “Your mother never drossed the way you girls do today to catch a husband.” “No, but look what she got!" ~Judge. ————_—_—_—_—_____, SMOKING ROOM STORIES Skee ae eee ie oo HAD a@ small boy,” said a big man in the smoker “who was going thru his first spasms of puppy love. His gal had jilted him and he was go- ing to kill himself. Blow his brains out, After that threat, I knew he was safe. He came to me later and wanted 50 cents to get his hair cut, “Tf you are going to suicide son, you won't need a hair. cut.’ “But you see, dada, I do,’ 1 will be that much nearer my brains,’ | Its Han | A Thought | Yeo shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither He one to another,—Ley, xix, eee iN Ga is really beautiful but truth, and truth alone is lovely,—Bolleau, That Los Angeles policeman Who pleads that he robbed be cAUse@bis wife demanded a fur coat gets five years in whieh to get that) old appleand-Adam Htory out of his system, olaky castle on buying beautiful the Mediterranean’? Anothor distinguished — patriot @vho wasn't in revolution for his health only, y k @B ds of Marriages Y RUTH FINNEY | SHALL the church v S) ash its hands of marriage? Shall it cease to performelegally binding cere- monies ehich it has no right to dissolve, but which the civil government may end at any time? The Episcopal Synod of the Pacific Coast has gone on record favoring such action and hopes all churche in every part of the count tigm hu: H € mi blessing but The res but so far no other group given tte ay gnificant that higher on the uid tuke no part in the proper action the Northwest ulted in read de has bate of the clergy ba it divorce rate proval the Coast than in any other part of country, accor to bu figure reau of const In 1928 the of divorces per tion w 149 Bt a whole numbe the United But in the Oregon, the di r 100,000 dua division, and in Ore fornia rate ree pulation Neva¢ A populat Middle York, t of 100,000 states, New Jersey and P , showed a divorce r the lowest in the New Y « only one divorce 4 ground nized, recog: had no di only state in refuses to Carolina It is the Union which South nt divorce Every part of the country showed an increase in divorce during 1923, In that year 165,- 226 divorces were gran increase of 11 per cent. Mar- rages increased in number by 8.4 per cent in the same period. on SCIENCE | PARACHUTES J ca TENSES A bape old-time parachute jump- er at country fairs was a pioneer In a field of acience that recently has become of great Importance. Many experiments are pow being made with parachutes in order to determine thelr useful- ness in airplane accidents. It in possible that all airpiane rid ors, some day, will be equipped with workable parachutes, as ship passengers are supplied with life preservers. The U. 8. army has conduct- ed muny of these experiments. Fearless army~ aviators haye risen to great heights and then jumped. After it was demon- strated that this could be done with safety, experiments then wero made to seo what would happen if the jumper were un- able to open the parachute as he leaped into space and had to fall a considerable distance. It has been shown by experiments at Mitchell Field, N. Y., that a person may fall at least 1,500 feet, then open the parachute and alight safely. The old idea was that any person dropping from this height elther would lose consciousness or be dead before ho hit the ground. The soldiers who made the expert- ments say there ts no less of consciousness nor even dizzi- ness. A FOREIGN FLEET TAKE California? Huh! It couldn't get past the rum-runners, And they had to pull the des. perate bandit, Hall, out from under a bed! A fatal blow to the idea that there's anything like heroism in banditry. ry will follow its example. | ct As Things ) Look To J.R. JUSTICE be gia4 Mae of us should the charges aga former Governor Hart turn to be unfounded. It is not ple ant to think that a retiring ernor of the state has about peddling appolntme t me to live on in his old « The charges are direct and ¢ plicit and have to be dis proved beyond question. A mi understand or a politica frame the pos: 1 be ent the rebuil bb fort to pr Hart which was prett However it the public would like to know the facts let us go thru with it and let us get thru with it eee HAT in a pitiful story that comes from Arlin young men, aged 22 take two school girls, an the political machin badly wrecked t election 26, aged 16 and 18, for a night ride, and are gone until midnight. By their own confession they buy booze and all partake, and the party is prolonged. No doubt the girls feared to go home in the condition they found themselves in, and by a cident or in desperation, both of these girls went over an em- bankment where they had halt- ed, and one of them was Killed. When all the facts are in, the two young men should get all hat the law allows, and no one wil] be satisfied unless the man who sold them the booze gets all of his. In tho meantime, parents might be checking up to lear with whom their daughters ae) Joy-riding these nights. ILI, not some person of im- portance commit some cheerful act in this locality? For two days the writer of these lines has been looking for some deed, act or suggestion which he could pass along with words of commendation. But the current seems to run the other way, No doubt the good mothers are working awny in the homes keeping the children in school. Tho preachers are hammering away on Sunday and visiting tho sick and burying the dead thru the week. The doctors are alleviating pain and saving lives. The firemen are ready for the most difficult tasks. The policeman carries his life in his hand, and numerous other offi- clals are right on the job doing the best they can. But those getting on th front page and into the pic. tures, are all heading the other way. Who will start something in- teresting that will not leave a bad taste? ‘TIS SAID THAT THE MO- hammedan never swears, but then, he can keep on all the clothes he wears with one button. MME. 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