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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-04-15
Merchants Defeat
Art in Elections

CARMEL BY THE SEA. Cal,
April i5.-Groceries stood triumphant
today over art in Carmel by the Sea.
In the city election held yesterday
the artists and the poets pltted their
strength against the dealers in pota.
toes, hot dogs and rcas estate, and
art lost.
BY a margin Of two votes an ordi.
nance was adopted permitting such
things as grocery stores, soda foun.
tains and lunch counters to run ram.
pant over Carmel's sacred landscape.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-04-15
Make Big Haul in
Distillery Raid

Forty gallons OF moonshine liquor.
10 barrels OF mash. two sacks OF
sugar. a large tent and 5o.gallon
still were seized by Sheriff Matt
Starwlchs raiders, one.half mile
north OF Inglewood, Monday night.
Tho proprietor of the distillery
could not be located.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-04-15

CONVICTION, Ky, April 49,
John w Langley republican con.
grcssman from tho 18th Kentucky
district pleaded not guilty in fed.
eral court here today TO conspiracy
to violate the national prohibition
law. NJ. y. HUH and Walter u.
Carey OF Canton, o., accused In the
same case, entered similar pleas.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-04-15

are residents q san Francisco,
The probe ordinance viii be taken
up by the utilities COMMITTEES AZ IA
meeting Thursday and the finance
committee Friday when tho pewon.
mel q the board viii b. decided
upon
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-04-15
Held for Charges

a. Johnson was arrested by deputy
sheriffs on Monday night In Sc.
attic hotel and Is being held for the
sheriff OF Bellingham. where he is
wanted on u grand larceny charge.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-08-07
City Employees Pay

no YOU know that with the money that would be saved
II by consolidation Of city and county governments,
every of the 1902 permanent city employees could be
given average wage increase of SlS5 year?
Council now is laying out its annual budget and is hear
ing applications Of the employees Of various city depart
ments for wage advances
The Star believes in adequate pay for public employees
because is only by offering sufficient financial induce
ment that can get adequately fitted TO run our
government. And government, tho It Is seldom so
considered of the biggest enterprises that We have
The Star believes that the salaries Of many public Off
insufficient 1t believes that the council should
move carefully; that it should consider wisely; that it
should grant increases where increases due; that
EVERY city employee is entitled TO a living wage.
II believes that too little is taken in approprang
large for projects that the appropriations understand
little about and that too often pennywise andpound
foolish" attitude is taken such subjects whether
not city employee is to have enough in the house to eat
The joint committee of police and fremen which has
been before the committee along with representatives of
other departments has prepared excellent brief Of their
case, which is typical of the ease of many others.
An elaborate collection Of facts and figures which has
necessitaed much research shows, according to their
brief:
THAT the fremen and policemen of Seattle entitled
TO flat increase of S25 month for all classes. This
figure Is conservative estimate and would still place
them below living standard.
THAT the responsibility of Seattles remen and police
great that of the in the largest cities
that their efficiency ranks with the highest that their
compensation is below American standard; and lower
than the pay in other cities of the same class and that
of cities of less population that their compensation
in its with the cost of living has been hopeessy
outdone and that it is unreasonable expect them to
maintain AL force salaries that are so obviously
inadequate to attract the caber of personnel necessary
to maintain the departments"
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-08-07
-sCIENCE -
DEADLY RAYS

Announcement of.tho invention Of
the Matthews ray seems TO be respon.
sible for many stories Of mysterious
rays coming from many parts OF tho
world In the last few months.
These stories arc oil along tho
same line-deadIy rays that can
bring down airplanes. stop auto.
mobiles and kill people Mt distance.
There lis nothing decidedly new i'm
the invention OF such rays that ls.
rays that appear TO be capable Of do.
vclopment to tho point where they
can do such things. There are d mum.
Der OF known inventors who can
demonstrate that IT II reasonable TO
believe such things can be done. But
thus far none Of them actually have
been done except In q very limited
way. For instance. Grindcll Mint.
thews. inventor Of the best known
ray can stop a motorcycle engine by
turning his ray on the magnetic sys.
tenn; he can explode gunpowder at the
other end OF the room and he can
XIII q mouse with his ray, several
feet away.
II has been proved that n rny can
be shot out for short distances.
Whether II can DO developed into n
deadly agency In warfare has not vet
been proved.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-08-07
Lloyd George Urges Government
Control of British Coal Mines
BY WILLIAM PHILIP sIMMs

up with tho nend Of tho times.
appointed n committee 10 study
and report on the coal industry
m Britain. Lloyd George was
made Chairman Of that commit
tee.
The committee hhn made 10
report II ends and recon.
mends
l. That naturalization would
almost Inevitably lower wages.
add 70 tho price of coal. and tend
20 destroy initiative and Eff.
cheney.
. That thcro should. how
ever. bo complete unified con.
troll Of The mineral resources OF
the kingdom and their develop.
ment IN tho national interest,
3 That the government should
buy out tho 1000 royalty own.
era tthat Is. tho owners OF tho
coRl landl and that a small body
ofsroyalty commissioners ahould
be set up.
4 THAT this commission
should then grant leases for tho
working OF the mines on condl.
ton that tho miuo lc1accs pro.
vide good houses: modern. sani-
tary villages. recreation grounds.
public parks. tree planting pro.
gram. and 50 on for the benefit
OF the workers,
8. That tho miners them.
sclyea should have equal say
with mine lcsacca. in tho matter
or general policy Of tho industry.
thru representatives. Of tho work.
crg HittinE on equal terms with
their employers on pit commit.
tees. or local mines; district
boards and in. a national mining
council.
6. That once general policies
have been worked out. executive
responsibility for the actual op.
Grafton or mines remain unlm.
paired with tho lesaces.
None tho less striking was tho
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-08-07
Britain Sets Fast Pace

BOB LA TOILETTE were to urge the government
to buy up all our coal lands in private hands
and take control of the industry everybody would
set up howl which would lift the roof.
They would call him socialist communist syndicalist
bolshevik and worse
Yet David Lloyd George, former premier of Britain
leader of Englands great liberal party advocates that
the British government do that
Elsewhere on this page you can read about it, You
viii find it interesting particularly as the recommends
uons come not from the labor government of Premier
Ramsay Macdonald, who for many years has advocated
naturalization of mines, but from what might be called
the democratic party of England
For that matter the scheme is not without supporters
among the conservative party The Spectator conserva
tive organ, regrets it the liberal party rather than
the conservative which discovered it because there is
nothing in it which is inconsistent with conservative
policy"
Read the story See how progressive Conservative
Old Mother England is becoming She is setting pace
IN progressive action which America her eancipated
child, will find it hard to follow
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-08-07
PICNICKING
BY HAD COCHRAN

IT'S ono Of those rnyB when you
4 want 10 get out, cause your
nerves about worktimo are kicking.
You want TO step forth in tho open
and shout, 50 YOU plan on day of
picnlcking.
You pack up bottle OF olives and
jam: some ogga are put into tho kit.
There's salad and pickles and wien.
ers and ham. You pack while tho
kids throw fit.
Then, last, but not least. there ia
coffee TO mako and It's poured in the
old thermos bottle. You pile in the
bus. which commences to quake us
dad puts hts foot ON the throttle.
Hurrah. you arc Off on IA picnick.
ing spree! And shortly nice place
Is found. You drive TO stop meath
a big. shady tree and the lunch is
spread out on the ground.
You should be at case. but you're
not, IL you please, for tho day IL n
terrible test. Tho kids run and shout
tin they wear you all out; yet you
call 1t u wonderful rost.
Copyright. 1924. for Tic starr
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-08-07
The Worth While

CONCLUDING article on the idea that women are
- outgrowing the obsesson that it is their duty to
country to bear children Mrs. Walter Ferguson writes:
II God denies you babies, you are martyr and to be
sorrowed with; if you have denied them to yourself
you are to be ped the for being short-sghted
as 10 deprive Yourself Of the sweetest thing that woman
can know"
True and we'd like to have Mrs. Fergusons beautiful
thought and popular pen tn mans side of it. God
KNOWS there plenty of who marry for other pur
poses than that of pareage-and there are other sorts
of
Not long ago the writer took ocean trip with man
Wnom ne had known for half-century. For many long
years. this man had been driven by ambition but was
now retired He had established business successful
almost beyond precedent. His estate had arrived at
S4oooo0oO or more. He had buried three fine boys
nan OF his number of children Fortune distinction and
iuxures without end his He was known as hard
headed II not hard all over, in his line of business
man not to be approached offhand, or at all known
without study. The two old fellows talked the past half
century over TO finish, and the writer said:
Wen, you certainly have worked and worried won
ana lost ana are now at the top What do you thing
Is most worth while in this great scheme called life"
Inc children he answered, without hesitation
My child is the sweetest thing that a woman can
ever know, Mrs Ferguson. What has God not denied
to man who cannot say my Boy"
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-08-07


WASHINGTON. Aug. Gov.
w eminent control of coal
mines Is now within reach In
England. according 20 lnforma.
ton IN the hands ~ tho writer.
Thus tho labor government OF
sremier Macdonald seems 90
have scored a partial victory nj
least. For while MncpouRld'H
party advocates naturalization
of mines. generally held lmpos.
aible Of realization AZ this time.
y has forced tho liberals. led by
Lloyd George. to take a very nj.
Nanecd position with regard 10
tho democratlEing OF industry
This means that while tho Ia.
Dor government may not put
thru iia maximum program. IL
should 10 able to put thru meas.
lures vastly beneficial TO tho long.
suffcfinE British laborinE class.
What happened "a this.
The liberal party. spurrcd 10
action by the necessity Of keep.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-08-07
WHAT CHANCE HAS HEs
LET BUTLER TELL YOU

just what chanco has Butler
10 survive. fighting single handed
and alone the powerful polltl.
clans Of the third largest city
In the United states?
Well" says Butler. "you see
I'm Htili here. That's something.
what ia more. l am going 10 be
here until / am fired"
lie g. right about the signifl.
cameo of btiil holding his posi-.
ton. II they had dared. tho men
behind Mayor Kendrlcl would
have had his scalp long ago.
But they didn't dare. and But
Ter has emerged from the recent
conflict more firmly cntrcnchcd
than ever In the affections Of
the people o. Philadelphia. The
people understand clearly now
that this cleanup Of their city Is
going 20 last just as long as
Butler lasts. and no longer. They
are behind him 70 an amazing de.
gree
Therefore until the tickle pub.
lie grows Tired OF it, newest idol,
smedlcy Butler il apt to keep his
position In the Philadelphia city
han AT least for tso year he Is
under contract.
This Is what Mayor Kendrick,
who appointed Butler. Is up
against.
Kendrick has been backed in
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-08-07

h.a political career by Congress.
man VIM r ware. political heir
n B0ics Penrose. and by Charles
Hall. president Of the city coun.
ell and veteran IN local polite
After his election fix months ago
on q pledge 70 take the police
department out n politics, he
asked President Coolidge 10 loan
him Cen. Butler from the ma.
rine corps 10 do this.
But Butler. once Installed,
found Hall and Ware men In the
police department obstructing
his cleanup. lie denoted those
n them who held office and
shifted others 10 new beats until
be got an organization that
would carry out his orders. Then
few days ago he started re.
dlstricting the city 20 that police
districts and wards would not
have identical boundaries
That was too much for the
startled and pained politicians.
II b.oke their power like so many
strawa. There were rumors
that Butler would be fired imme.
diateiy.
Mayor Kendrick is the one
man who can fire Butler. His
city council Is threatening. ac-
cordins TO rumor. that unless he
does 80. there viii b. ~ money
forthcoming for his construction
program. That is hard. for Con
gresham Ware. Hendricks Ma.
chlavelll. owns "A contracting
business which has always spent
"a large part OF It's time doing
construction work for the city
on the other hand. Kendrick
knows that the people remember
his sweet sounding promises for
"A clean police department and
are sold on the idea that the only
means OF attaining this is But.
Ter! And Buffers won't take
hint and depart peaccably. He'll
fight. and he'll call the people
10 his side II he's fired!
It's not a nice position for a
man said to entertain gubefna-
material aspirations.
It's apt 10 take Kendrick some
time TO figure out he can afford
10 ALLEVIATE either OF the two
warning factions. Consequently.
Philadelphia is apt 10 remain
clean at least until Buffers
year Of leave from the marine
service has expired.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-08-07
True to Form

!" n PRUSECUTOR GROVE plainly evidenced discom-
"A future, Leopold and Loeb tossed back their heads
to laugh aloud says Chicago dispatch
Of course 1t was just more thrill" at the ex-
pense of law and justice To the murderers Prosecutor
Grove looked real funny standing up their sweating and
ravng for issue that could be purchased for money
Just as everything else in their lives had been The idge
didn't see the point and didn't laugh Neither did the
attorneys, nor the spectators The thrill" in it was
solely for those who didn't believe in Divine or hunan
justice To laugh aloud with the hangmans moose before
the eyes, not insanity. 1t running true to form
derdng law and flountng Justice Gods and mans Just
as when little Bobbie Franks bloody body was crowded
into the drain pipe.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-08-07
) Questions )
. AHSWered .

YOU can set an answer 20 any
i question u fact or iuforma-
ton by writing Tho Question
Editor. 1888 New York ave.
Washington. u. G.. and enclosing
two cents IN loose stamps Tor no
I ply, No medical. legal ur martial
Z advice. Personal replies conf
Dental All letters must be
signed.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-08-07
What Folks
Are Saying

REV. wM. DoREN RYAN: 1T
has como to pass that we havo "a
generation Of youth almost without
instruction IN the art OF right liv.
ing"
FRANCIS II. sIssoN. Guaranty
Trust Co. New York Good viii is
tho joint product Of good goods. good
service and good advertising"
DR. PALFREY PERKINS, Yves.
ton. Mass: Faith Is not an nrmor.
nor a chart. but rather tho compass
Tho power in the engine. tho secret
Of life that enables you to go the
whole voyage"
MRS. w. Y. MORGAN. Huichin.
son. kas.: "A newspaper can tell
the story. but it can't administer tho
law
TYRUs COBB. Georgia peach"
and premier baseballist: 1T Is hard
for me 10 say that I am going 10
bring my career TO an abrupt end.
No man likes to write tho end 10
what has been his principal LIES
work"
OSWALD GARRISON WILLARD.
editor: we cannot return 10 tho era
of small business. II We would"
REV. J. W. BRoUGllER. Los
Angeles: Everything points to a now
day when life will he on higher
plane"
MARK WOODS. Ne.-aakn. Il re.
member we'll when Gen. Dawes lived
In Lincoln. He wasn't general then.
and lao used TO 20 to tho thcntcr. and,
between acts. step down TO the or.
chestra pit, take an instrument and
Play II himself"
BERNARD ]. MUBLANY. vice.
president Peoples Gas Light Co,
Chicago. Government ownership is
the masked advance agent of com.
munlsm."
MISS HARR1ETT KENDIG, Wells
college girl, after visiting New Yorlt's
"slum" district: FOR stark realism,
tragedy and pathoa II has the real.
lists among our younger noyelists
looking like sontimentallsts"
II, n. DUNLAP, state democratic
chairman, West Virginia: John w.
Davis may be n poor golf player, but
he can beat the devil out OF you
playing poker"
G. a. YANG, ST. Louis Auto mana.
ger; we concedc the power OF the
state TO deprive any owner OF his
right to drive Il motor car where his
driving is u menace to public suftoy.
but to impound the car Ia TO effect
damnation Of the vehicle and exon.
grafton for the driver"
CHARLES MERz, writer "Wo
have too much In other worlds thnn
politics to keep our interests cager."
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-08-07
HAS GENERAL BUTLER CLEANED UP PHILADELPHIA
A Woman Says:

"C.ay In and clap Out and
London Bridge De- Failing
Down have given way 20 now
rHd more up.ro-dats R1mfs-h,.
drqphob.s and bear hugs
Why on earth a man Ia iris
aEC wants % take unto linn If
wife even "a fortune teller
can't explain Tor. after Do
acquires one. be can't DO thing
with b. EGf rEb9Iy else can.
Tho only way that ths chill.
drrn % today can hage peace
and good win nj home B. by pat.
ting shock abaOrEsn On their
parrBi-,
Ia The old days boys ussd IN
talk about what they were 20
ing 10 DO when they we're 40 Old
aa father But today they mako
uhat father did look Ike
selling platter IN an international
handicap.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-08-07

Lloyd George committees pro.
pozai Tor tho identification of
All British railways ana indus.
tries BY means Of superpowcr
stations in every coal district.
Coal could thus be consumed
AZ the plt.head and tho electricity
sent all over tho country instead
OF as ni present iaiorlously load.
Ing coal into freight cars and
dragging u long distances there
to bo unloadcd and converted
into power.
THIS IL not naturalization as
Macdonald Sees #. but that Il Ia
long step IN that direction is
everywhere conceded.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-08-07
Star Writer to Tell
Of Results in
Campaign

This is first Of series about
Gees, ~rurdirE ~, Halter nnd the
dramatic attempt ~ ts making so
rlrHn up fhlisd~iphia Ia the face Of
powerful opposition from the ritH !.
politicians. The first story estimates
bis chances foF aurFrsH. fhF second
outlines his mFthud % attack. the
third IL about Halter htmsrtT
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-08-07
~ RITH ElNNEY

DHILADELPHA, Aug. lit
L Dr. "a sad commentary On
American life that Cen. Emcdley
b. Butler rHladclphiaH fighting
public safety director should be
the corking good news ftory that
De undoubtedly is today.
n % the rare and unusual that
makes news And the story In
Gen. Butler consists of the fact
that hero BE- a man in public N.
flee who actually means what
d. fayi
Gen Butler. when invited last
January 90 "elcan Up" philidel.
phia. flid be would do r.. There
was little news iu that 10 those
who didn't know the man. Others
had rald tho same thing.
hut nov. FeyGn months later.
IN spite ~ the fact that no II
not a c1ndidate for president or
any other office in the exciting
election year. Butler iH ono ~
The most talked o. men in the
And simply because Dc b DO.
United States.
Ing u'hat be said he would DO
Philadelphia. which boasts that
e had the first bank IN tho
United States. The first mint. the
first building and loan assoeia.
iion the first thoaier, the first
public school. n apparently on
liz way 10 become the nnt Amer.
lean city 20 have n police depart
ment divorced from protection
and free Of nolHira
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-08-07
Millions Lost

LOG cholera caused a loss OF
IL more than $4,000, 600 to
the swine industry OF the United
States during the year ended
April 30, 1924, according TO a re.
cont compilation by the United
states department. Of agriculture
More than ha'f OF the total loss
occurred in the corn belt states,
where hogs nre especially numer.
Gus.
Eighty per cent OF LOSSES from
al causes arc due TO this dread
disease. Most' of this loss can
he prevented by proper santa
ton and the prcventvo.sorun
treatment.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-08-07

@ why. are tiddtsr crabs 80
Cailcdf
A. The male has ono cl1i5 Of iui-
mCHsa sisr. enc other being quite
splaH Thc big clatp Is brightly col
ofrd. and trhra ~ runs he todrcs u
ubouf as n he tocrc encrgcficuliy
bcekoHipg 0r playing some tcrv stir
riug fame on a tioiiH hence u Is
often kuotcn as q "runing crab" ar
a FIDDLER crab The Latin name Of
this species d Grllsimas. rhieh
mcaHs laRgh1blE
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-08-07
A Thought

Love the truth and pcace.--Zcch.
yiii.;l9.
n WHILE you live, tell truth. and
~ shame the devils Shakespeare.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-08-07
Q what animals biberna,e'

-, Nhnt animals hibernate
A. Bats. bears. somu aH,mais ~
ihe r1drut order, such as inc pofcas
Pine. The dofmoHsr. some squirrels
90 fhr animals belonging 10 the
classes Of umphitin and repfiiia.
such as foTipsrs. lizards. snakes.
frogs, and MANY species Of mollasks
and iRsrcfa wan frogs and amphi-
bious reptiles the dormaHt state Is
rcry common. aHi II the tcmpcru-
ture Is Kept iole bv artificial mcaHs
they may remain dormant for
vcart