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The Washington times., 1923-02-08
BURNING THE BOAT
ITSELF TO MAKE
IT GO FASTER
By HERBERT KAUFMAN.

BY HERBERT KAUFMAN.
GIANTS Peter-Pauls who steal their own vitality
r to produce abnormal growth.
Sir Mackey Edgar of giantism, an
economic well human disease
He informs London that Americas reckless industrial
send the material basket shopping abroad.
We the supreme spendhrifts of history No nation
dsspaed greater natural inheritance years
Mark Requa late Federal oil administrator largely agrees
with him. Ever the war, Requa picuring
Columbia very Foolish Virgin. Within decade
be compelled to fill not only fguratve lamps but actual
motor tanks locomotive tenders and marine furnaces from
foreign fields
exactly how much petroleum still in the family cellar
New wells simply tap these old pools The pools fast
running dry. @se
Expect gasoline cost you every year.
The President Explains Lumber Prices.
ND lumber, too Most of the shingles and beams and
n studdng required for $5,OOoOOO,OoO building
program viii out of the Pacific northwest And
lots of it from British Columbia.
The price of southern and byroducts has than
trebled in generation.
President Harding tells you why.
We've destroyed main forests left oafng ground
behind Carelessness and neglect bonfires
which annually burn billiondollar holes in the common
pocket. t ss
If Sir Mackey Edgar rode through montana last month
he passed mornngful of mountains furred the dim
NEST horizon with black bristles Those brs charred
timber strands tstssi.
The great forests Of the nation gone they
brought back there's faint hope Of cheaper homes and
President that go per cent Of our lumber
is wiped out Onefourth of Government land and
He is for the Clark BILL Everybody should be behind it,
China Warns Us To Act Promptly.
7SHE Clark bill asks Congress for $3,SO0O00 This
money will be apportioned among the several States
Each must match Federal grants, dollar for dollar
Barrens to be brought back to bearing. Miles and
miles Of useless will phoenxke, rise from their
ashes. aH@
Ranger stations will be established throughout the
continent.
Ftyeght per cent of the national loss from forest
conflagraons belongs southern States and just
Of them has sort of fire control Observe how the vel
affected S
Senaorelec Copeland when health officer of New York
couldn't interest Congressman Good in appropriation
lock European plaques until he him that
was much in danger Manhattan.
This ism It sectional situation, either It's general
costofving problem 1t taxes the very In which
food and shoes shipped It matches tooth
picks and stove wood and hammer handles Expresses
every wage hundred times than the maximum
pense of safeguards and reforestation.
hundred Muscle Shoals won't furnish enough fertilizer
America doesn't keep her precious top soil locked and
enriched with tree roots and leaf rot
And that's another very important phase to consider
China has bread box today because she stripped her
hills and let rain and flood nurng earth surfaces
to
Ind A nrokskn AIoo 4Lo Dn1H Uno,.sDo
The Nenana news., 1923-05-12
YUKON BREAKS AT DAWSON
 RUN OF ICE VERY HEAVY

DAWSON, May 12-Millions of tons of ice swept past Dawson yes terday, following the spring break up. The ice floes were the heaviest in years but they moved down the river without causing any damage locally.
 A feature of the breakup was the appearance of three caribou mar ooned on the ice in the middle of the current, down which they were carried swiftly to their doom in an ice jam a short distance below the town.
 Several hundred caribou swan the river as soon as the river had cleared of ice.
 When last heard from, the river at Circle was rising rapidly but lacked about 12 feet of the break ing point, the anchor ice not then being covered. Reports from the upper Yukon indicate the ice in motion at all points. The ice moved at Eagle two days ago.
The Nenana news., 1923-05-12
SCHOOL CHILDREN PREPARE
 FOR END.oF-TERM PLAYLET

The pupils of Franklin K. Lane school will have their annual enter tainment at Union hall on the ev- ening of May 19. The children of Mrs. Phillips room will play Cinder- ella, with Dorothy Smith taking the part of Cinderella and Fred Clark that of the Prince
 The children of Miss McMahan's room will furnish a solo and a read ing. and the High School pupils will have a debate, the subject being Resolved, that all ex-service men and women should have a bonus y Hazel Teeland and Wilfred Stump will uphold the affirmative and Jes- sic Motschman and Winnie Cameron will take the negative.
 There will be no charge for ad- mission for the entertainment, but a dance will be given afterwards and those who wish to stay for the dance will be charged the usual amount
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The Nenana news., 1923-05-12
ELKS ATTENTION

All Elks are requested to meet at the office of Commissioner c. D. Leckie on Sunday afternoon to consider matters of importance to the organization.
The Nenana news., 1923-05-12
MOTHERS DAY

''In honor of the Best Mother that ever hved-your Mother"
 All are cordially invited to attend this service at II a. m., Sunday, May 13, at Grace Presbyterian Church.
The Nenana news., 1923-05-12

Carl Schmidt returned to the coast yesterday and will leave for the States in the near future. to To- cate permanently.
The Nenana news., 1923-05-12

Mrs. Thaggart Buchholz left for the States on the Friday train for an extended visit with relatives.
The Nenana news., 1923-05-12

Fresh crisp lettuce at Majors.
The Nenana news., 1923-05-12

l Bigelow-Winton Velvet Rug Seamless, size 9x12-Price $40
 Worth Today S60
Evening star., 1923-11-16
Police Court B0ndsn,en Curb
Result of 'sKeen Rivalry''I
Scouting and ''Johrny-on-the-Job" De.
Uices Barred by Inquiry Leading
to Ne,U Ruling. ;.

ing the. bonding professionals recog-
nized by the court. Explanatory of
this, the situation was reviewed to-
day by a person familiar with Police
Court procedure and equally familiar
with bonds and their placement.
Formerly No Soliciting.
Years ago, it is said, when raids
were disgraceful and rare. bondsmen
sat back contentedly and let business
come to them as 1t would. In those
days the bondsman could placidly
stride about befriending those need
ing help, and needing it quickly, un-
less they were to make a night in a
cell.
Today all this is changed. Hot.
keen. speedy work has supplanted
placidity. Bondsmen have adopted
scouting and 'johnny-c n the-spot
devices which have become items OF
amazement to the police. The result
is that when a raid is made, through
some unknown method bondsmen are
congregating in front of the police
precinct to which prisoners are taken
almost before the patrol wagon has
started homeward. It's up to one
bondsman to know when business is
ready for a harvest or ano other will
gather in the fruits of alertnesS.
All these items We're contributors
to the ruling of the court, it was as
certatned today, but the thing proba- =
bly, most Importantly contributory to
these items was the NolStead act.
Prohibition brought with it oppor-
Evening star., 1923-11-16
is struck in the following item in the

is struck in the following item in the
new rule:
of it shall appear to the court that
hereafter any bondsman has procured,
or assisted In procuring. or has at
tempted to procure the retention or
employment Of any attorney to rep
resent any person charged with an
offense cognizable in Police Court, or
has solicited, received or agreed to
receive any fee, commission. money,
property or other thing Of value for
procuring or assisting or attempting
to procure the retention or employ
ment of any attorney, such bondsman
shall be suspended until the further
order of the court from executing
other or further bonds in the said
Police Court"
Buxinesslike Basis.
Placement of the regulations for OBJ
tanning bond on an~even more busi-
nesslike and efficiency basis is recog-
nized in another item Of the rule an
nouncing that bond may be given at
Police Court between 8 and daily,
except Sundays and legal holidays, or
is after 4 o'clock. In addition bond
may be given from to IL o'clock at
night in the clerks office. except Sun
days and holidays. This regulation
goes into effect on next Monday
Bondsmen are openly critical of the
conditions which may be developed
from them. Pictures of swarming
police precinct cells and overcrowded
docks were being painted by them,
because the ruling virtually precludes
practically all of them from UNDER
writing any bonds for a year at least,
until their liabilities. which are near
the limit, are reduced more than one
third.
Bond, however, can be provided by
responsible persons anywhere in the
District who are owners of real es-
Of the bond required. Cash bond will
continue to be accepted
Evening star., 1923-11-16

Keen competition among profess
sional Police Court bondsmen. which
has brought in it's wake various criti-
cisms as to the ethics of their pro-
cedure and practice, was among the
principal causes for the new ruling
limiting their activities handed down
by the Police Court yesterday, it was
learned today.
Changing conditions concerning
crime. the ever-accelerating pace set
by bondsmen in competitions; COM
plants that bondsmen paid more and
more attention as time went on to
getting prisoners out of cells and less
and less attention to getting them in
courk when needed: complaints that
police precinct stations were being
used as hunting, grounds" by scouts
for bondsmen for new business and
that prisoners were being given legal
advice and directions by certain
bondsmen-al were contributing
causes to the action of the Police
Court. It was stated today.
Since last December. when Judges
McMahon and Hardison conducted a
hearing on the activities of bonds
men, at which many insinuatiOns were
made. but no serious charges substan-
tiated. attention of the Police Court
was centered on conditions surround
Evening star., 1923-11-16

tunfties galore for bondsmen. Cases
generally run up to $500 bond in
liquor law enforcement. With bond
rated at IS per 500 provided, and
bootleggers extremely desirous Of
getting out of a cell and making up
the costs Of court cases as quickly as
possible. an observer readily could
scent the attractiveness Of the propo-
sition of bonding.
Changes Made by Ruling.
The ruling aimed at the prevention
OF such alleged practice makes sew
eral important changes from the pre-
vious rules.
First of all. bondsmen are limited to
twice the value of the property they
they cannot underwrite a total OF
more than double the value of their
listed properties
Next. the basis of valuation Of the
property must include listing the as
sessed valuation as on the books of
the assessors office In the District
building. Previously the property
was evaluated by sworn statements
from experts in realty in the District.
who might or might not be acquaint-
ed with the bondsmen
Let 1t be clear that there has been
no him that anything approximating
falsity of statement of value has ever
gone forth or been received by Judges
at the Police &C urt, but 1t is recog-
nized that the most businesslike and
unbiased estimate of property value
could be obtained, from the records
on which taxes are based-wherein
no. element connected with the bond
ing business enters.
Another Prohibition Is that no prop
erty shah he sold or transferred Or
mortgaged after listing II with the
Police Court, unless the Police Court
is notified of such action.
A requirement of the new rules is
the listing of property to be used as
surety in underwriting bonds four
times year.
Limitation Of fees also Is Included
in the new ruling, ana maximum
of S5 per 800 on the. amount OF bond
ment being suspension for the Iecog-
milton of the court
A blow at any possibility of a
bondsman 'cappfng" for an attorney
Evening star., 1923-11-16
Electric.
Ranges
That Really Cook
1895 to S9.75

They are just play size,
but have burners and
ovens that really cook
and several necessary
pans come with them
Evening star., 1923-11-16

Clearance Association insisted that
the government had failed to prove
a conspiracy or combination in re-
Btraint of interstate commerce and
that grave results would follow in
the sugar trade should the exchange
be forcibly closed.
Held Prior Ruling No Precedent.
They also >contehded that the re-
cent decision of the Supreme Court
in the grain futures case brought by
the Chicago Board of Trade was not
a precedent which the government
could use in extending its supervision
over sugar exchanges.
Evening star., 1923-11-16

Collapsible go carts
that may be folded up
and carried. Finished
with black enamel.
. Large Go-carts Of
reed, with hood; strong
wheels and some with
cushions and rub b er
tires. Just like real
babies. S6.45 to $3.50.
Evening star., 1923-11-16
2,5CO TO LOSE SHOP JOBS

MILWAUKEE,, November 1s.-An-
nouncement was made that approxi-
mately $500 shop employees of the
Chicago, Milwaukee and st PAM
railway will be laid off today. The
railroad officials did not comment
other than to say the lay-off was
general. Approximately 500 shopmen
were laid off in Minneapolis yester-
day.
Evening star., 1923-11-16

Jest t be mentioned fer some
good Office is glory enough with
out takin' any further chances.
Women are tn goshdingest
things. If they ride in tn back
seat they want t drive, an if
they ride in front they want t
hug us.
Copyright National Newspaper Service.)
Evening star., 1923-11-16
ONE DIES IN CRASH.

WINDSOR, Ont. November 16.-One
person was reported killed and
eleven injured today when two
Windsor, Essex and Lake Shore cleo
trio railway cars collided outside the
city limits
Evening star., 1923-11-16

white and sugar pine forests is
threatened by the white pine blister
rust. a disease introduced into this
'country from Europe less than twenty
years ago
Evening star., 1923-11-16
Hello, Hello!

Little Wonder Tele-
phones t h a t you can
really talk over. Com
plete with wire and bell.
S1.00.
Evening star., 1923-11-16

Copyright NATIONAL Newspaper service.)
Evening star., 1923-11-16

Motor-driven vehicles in the United
states have an estimated power of
300,000.000 horses.
Evening star., 1923-11-16
us. FIGHTING DEALS
IN SUGAR FUTURES
U. S. Supreme Court Hears
Arguments in Injunction i.
Suits.

Arguments were heard in the Su-
preme Court today in the Injunction
suit by which the federal govern
ment sought last spring to put an
end to dealings in sugar futures on
the New York Coffee and Sugar Ex-
change. The attempt failed in the
lower courts.
In its argument today the gov
ernment charged that the exchange
sis the tool of conspirators" and
that Its maintenance and opera
tions to fix the price of sugar" is
a conspiracy.
While conceding that natural
causes to some extent affect the
price of sugar, il was insisted that
the operations of the exchange con-
tribute to price fixing.
Exchange Not n Necessity,
The government further ed
that the exchange was not a neces-
sary instrumentality in the mark ct :
ing of sugar and that it should be
brought under strict governmental
supervision. should the court be un-
willing to go as far as to restrain it
from all dealings in futures.
Counsel for the exchange and for
1.-THE New York Coffee and Sugar
Evening star., 1923-11-16
Desks
$2.25 to $l8.95

Roll tops, fiat tops and
secretaries, some equip
ped with blackboards,
drawers or pigeonholes.
Evening star., 1923-11-16
Books of All Kinds

Books that are mostly pictures for
very little tots, and books with in
'terestirg stories that large boys
and girls can read for themselves.
Evening star., 1923-11-16
Doll
Furniture

Doll Beds and Cradles,
white enameled or with
a dark mahogany finish.
25c to $4.9S.
Porcelain-top r able,
with. two chairs just
!: the thing for a real tea
party. .;,H.45.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-12-27

"SEATTLE-LoNDoN LINZ
- TIED will leave Sand
Point air depot Sunday noon,
arriving in London in time
for breakfast Tuesday. In
Paris for lunch and in Rome
for dinner the same day. See
the Canadian snow-wastes,
Great Bear lake, Baffin's bay,
'Greenland's icy mountains
and Iceland from the air. All
direct liners cross the mag
netic pole, passing within
LOO miles Of the North
Pole"
Seattle Petrograd Express, via
Parry Islands and spitzbergen.
leaves same air depot overy Tues.
day evening, arriving in Potrograd
Thursday afternoon"
Air schedules like these arc like,
~ 10 become familiar TO Seattle
citizens n The navy's project Of
mapping trans.poiar air routes to
Europe, announced in Washington,
succeed.
Distances 10 European capitals.
however. will not bo cut great
deal by direct air routes. Direct
rail and ferry routes TO Europe. via
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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-12-27
PROBE ALLEGED
TRAFFIC CRAFT
Grand Jury Summons for
Hire Car Drivers

All OF the remainder OF this week
viii be devoted by the King county
grand jury to probe OF alleged en-
forcement Irregularities in the Seat.
tie police traffic department, Depu.
ty Prosecutor E. d. Co,vin said
Thursday.
a dozen witnesses, the majority OF
whom are for.hire drivers or indie.
pendent drivers, were subpoenaed
by the jury Thursday, indicating
that for the present the taxicab men
or drivers who operate meter cars
have been laid aside.
Difficulty is experienced in get
ting all of the men before the fury.
as many work night shifts and sew
eral have spent entire days waiting
outside the jury rooms.
For.hire car drivers Thursday ex-
pressed confidence in the enforce.
ment Of traffic ordinances by sergt.
Frank Fuqua. and declared that the
move inaugurated by Sam Taggart
to investigate the traffic department.
was an attempt TO force competing
concerns out of business.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-12-27
STOP RECKLESS
DRIVING, ORDER

Alarmed at the toll OF increasing
traffic accidents. police traffic off.
cials were 'scrcwing on the lid" in
holl cases OF traffic law violations.
Thursday. In one OF the most drns.
tic steps yet undertaken. Police Chief
w. u. s6veryns ordered the ontlre
police force to use their utmost cf.
forts" to stamp out speeding. reckless
driving, and lightless autos.
Special order No. II. issued
Wednesday afternoon, follows:
Attention Of officers OF this dc.
partment IS directed to Sec. IL OF
Ordinance 1895. which requires that
no person shall drive motor vehicles
with lllegible or obscurcd license
plates. All vlolators Of this section
should be given traffic slips and
made TO report TO police headquar.
ters.
"yiolators OF Sec. rs. requiring
lights on motor vehicles from a half
hour after sunset TO a half hour be.
fore sunrise should also be tagged
and sent TO headquarters. whether
or not they are driving without head.
lights, with only one headlight or no
tail light.
"tsigned) w. b. sEVERYNs,
Chief OF Police"
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-12-27
Prison OF Ren1orse for Cripple's Slayer,

/ frightened than hurt. lie put the
dog in the car and brushed his eyes
with a white handkerchief before he
slipped In the clutch again.
Tho reporter said There is n real
man. Ho is sad that even a dog
should have been hurt by him"
But what sort OF story can the
reporter write about n man who
runs down crippled girls and leaves
them 10 die? No sort OF a story that
can be printed. Instead, tho reporter
viii 20 out and find the man, TO in.
terview him for his paper.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-12-27
SPEEDING
TRAGEDIES
INCREASE!
Hit and- Run Fiend
Hunted; 2 Held
for Accidents;
Swale Arrested
Motor Mania

A N aged man died
"A Thursday from in
juries received early in
the morning when he
was struck by an auto
mobile while on his way
to work.
An 8-year-old girl is
lowering between life
and death in the hospi-
tai, suffering from in
juries received in a traf-
fic accident.
A hit-and-run driver,
speeding on the left side
of the street, ran down a
man on Eastlake ave-,
leaving him unconscious
in the street.
Three men are booked
at the police station as
the result of accidents.
Former State Com
mander Tom Swale of
the American Legion is
free on 5000 bail on a
charge Of driving while
drunk.
These are the high
lights of Wednesday
night and T hursda
traffic violations and ac-
cidents.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-12-27

Uptown and downtown the
~ faces flash by the reporter as
he seeks his man. but he Is not
among these. For these are honest
faces, with eyes that meet ones own
squarely, lips that curve in pleasant
smiles, brows unwrinkled by re.
morse.
Tho towards face Is not among
these, for his eyes are averted from
those Of his fellows. his lips are gray
and tightly drawn with fear, his brow
IS lined with haunting memories OF
n Earring crash and a girls scream
Of agony.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-12-27

Death lurking in the dark,
rainswept streets claimed an
other life Thursday morning. {.
when n. r. Tubbs, ", known TO
hundreds Of Seattle Riddles as
the attendant Of the Shetland
ponies In Woodland park, was
crushed under the wheels Of an
auto at Third ave. n. w. and w.
50th st. This brings the Seattle
traffic death total to IS for the
year.
Tubbs had left his home at 6i7 w
End -. about $40 a. m. He started
10 cross tho street, intent upot
a street car He saw m
auto approach and stop at the curb
lie walked in front Of Il and wa
struck by another machine passinr
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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-12-27
Like Portia of Old,
She Tenpers 1t
With Mercy
by O. LUcIIIE BUTLER

wa were speaking OF justice
"Shakcspcarc's poFtia tempered Jus
tica with mercy" said the city cdi.
tor. but that was long time ago
/ wonder II tho modern woman
would be mercifuI in her Judgment
OF wrongdoers7"
II seemed 20 me the only way 10
settle this momentous question was
to get more information. so I called
up scatilc's veteran police Judge. J.
n. Gordon. and asked his opinion.
The Judge considered. "if YOU
could hear some OF the problems
that arise In my court" said he
and that's how 4, came about that i
found myself sitting on the good
Judges icf, hand Thursday morn.
ing. with an invitation TO study the
cases on tho calendar and make my
accommodation accordingly.
Justice thru a woman's eyes. "
remarked the Judge. might present
some decided possibilities" II did.
did.
D. AHfAlf ttAiitu MI pu Nlttf,
prosecutor. Iseki was charged with
violating the building ordinance.
Fire inspectors testified hs had
nailed UP three doors leading to fire
escapes in the hotel which he oper
ates down on King st.
Isoki, a Japanese. thru an inter.
prefer informed the court that the
doors, % the swing variety we're
being blown about In Monday
nights storm, and he nailed them to
hold them against the wind Slept
late Christmas morning forgot
about them.
This in itself. was a very seri.
Gus offenso. but 1seki apparently,
did not appreciate its magnitude
He put a couple OF nails IN some
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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-12-27
BY CLARENCE puBOsE

United Press staff Correspondent
TOKYO, Dec, 27.--Prince Regent
Hlrohlto OF Japan narrowly escaped
injury this morning. when an at
tempt to assassinate Kim was made.
Viscount 1riye, lord chamberlain.
was slightly injured by broken
glass. this having given rise TO re.
ports that he had been shot.
Official announcement was made
that one bullet had struck the car
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-12-27

The reporter viii seek his man in
the Street OF Haunted Souls. where
men shamble along dragging tho
chains OF memory, that they cannot
shake Off Sometimes the men sleep
feverishly, but in their sleep the
chains clank. and they awaken, wet
proved, to hear again the CHASTITY
sounds OF their crimes, In their ears
ring the cries OF women, the hoarse
agonies Of men, the pitiful walls Of
malmed children.
In this street the reporter viii find
his man.
Here he is-the man who ran down