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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-04-30
MUMMEY DEATH
CASE MAY 8
Carl Ryberg Pleads insanity
10 Escape Penalty
HOME WAS FIRED
Ak and Shotgun Weapons in
Brutal Rural Crime

Carl RyhfrE Mill facr a jury In
superior court tn Everett May :
ON a ohsrgo % numbering Mira
Joshua Mummey las; February In
a combined shotgun and az attack.
after which he burned the Mumme,
home Al seattle Heights HybcrE.
VINO Is alleged 90 have confessed ~
the time % his arrest by snohomish
county authorities. has entered a
plea % insanity lie is held in
Jail
Rybcrs. with his brother. r. l.
RyherE. 81 Seattle. appeared la su,
pcuor court Wednesday morning
and asked that an attorney be ap.
pointed 90 represent him John
sandige, OF Everett was named a.
tho prisoners counsel
Despite the fact that circum-
siantiai evidence i against him and
that Prosecuting Attorney Roscos
holds his signed confession. Rybcrg
and his counsel have thus FAR given
every indication publicly that they
viii fight Tho murder charges RIOS.
coe told The Star "Wednesday that
h. believes Ryberg win plead guilty
az the last moment. tho hc could
not diYulgr the conditions on which
he based bis theory
Joshua Mummey. aRrd yet sturdy
husband Of the woman whose
eharred remains were found In the
smoking ruins Of the country home.
Is SIN taking daily treatment a.
Nirsinia Mason hospital herr. ar-
cording 20 Information from pr. >.
Tate Mason, Mummcy's head hears
a liyid scar where be was knocked
IN the head BY an AZ. claimed 20
have bsen welded by RyberE. A
piece Of bone. the siro of a mans
hand. Was removed by pr Mason
when Il was discovered pressing on
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-20
CHANcEs FoR FORD oFFER

Senator Underwood expresses optimism over the chances of the Ford offer to sue ceed at this session of congress, and gives some good reasons for that optimism. For example, he says that the issue is between the power trust on the one side and the farm CTS on the other, so that the majority of Democrats in the senate would naturally vote in behalf of the farmers. The same req soning should appeal also to the Republican members of the farm bloc. From the stand point of Republican politics also, according to Mr. Underwood, defeat for the Ford offer would be e needless blow at the Coolidge prestige, and one that the Republicans would scarcely deliver if they take due thought Alabama's senior senator perceives several different ways in which the president can accomplish the success of the Ford offer at this session. It is hoped that the president also perceives them, and that he will not hes ftate to follow them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-20
"Listen-In"

Let us close our ears to commerce and the ceaseless roll and whir And 'Iisten-in' to songs of birds-a sym phony, as it were, From Gods own orchestra, where minor notes are strong though plaint; They tell of hope and love and scenes no ar tist's brush could paint The morning chant is lon the air" and, like a tuneful Tyre, It lifts the mind from ssordid thoughts to Natures Master Choir. No radiola do we need to hear this melody Nor sending station to broadcast this match less rhapsody. Again the monday song is heard re-echoing far away, The notes proclaim supremest joy. 'Tis bird lands classic lay Now evening carols are begun, much like re- gret they sound, That day should pass into night, though magic peace is found Gods radiograms are heard by all who have the listening ear.' Nor time nor space can keep them out when we have conquered fear, Fear not, oh, man, lifes harmony is close within your soul, "Tune in" and ear His symphony, though boisterous pillows roll
 --LOs Angeles Times.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-20
THE TEMPORARY CHAPMAN

There may or may not be special political significance in the selection of a Southern Democrat, Senator B. Pat Harrison, to act as temporary chairman of the national con vention and to deliver the keynote speech Is his selection recognition of the South's claim on national attention? Or is it sop 10 Southern sentiment preliminary to a fight against the South's candidate for the nom ination, Oscar Underwood? Inasmuch as there is almost entire unanimity of approval -of Mr. Harrison for this distinction, perhaps the choice savers of both motives. To be sure, Mr. Underwood will have a fight to win the nomination, but Mir. Underwood and his supporters are prepared to fight. In such a case Mir. Harrison's position will be an asset to the South's effort to place it's lead ling statesman in nomination.
 Senator Harrison is a gifted orator and a man of wide vision and intelligence. He has been the vigorous opponent of Repub- -1ican efforts to enact legislation of partisan or unwise nature, and has been unceasing in his diligence as defender of the party rec ord and the public welfare. On the basis of merit and party service alone, the convention could have made no more logical or deserved selection. As to the keynote, doubtless there will be found no better thesis than the Re publican record, a topic on which the chair man is exceptionally well informed. There will probably be fireworks in the Harrison effort, but there will also be some real dy- uarnite set off under the tottering Repub- lican structure.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-20
Forum Of The People
In Defense of 0FIappers''

To the Editor of The Age Herald:
 I was asked the other day the question |: What does the word flapper mean?" My reply was "I don't know, unless it is a way some poor brute has of slandering the sweet little innocent girls who are putting forth every effort these (the swift days of fashion and society," to keep up with style. '"
 Why anyone would use the word flapper in a way of islander on the young girls I cam not comprehend. The human beings who are responsible for all lives. If it were not for girls, who, in time, grow up and become mothers, there would be no children to bless our homes. There would be no new genera tions there would be no need for the nation to choose a day for observance of Mothers Day-mother, the being who gives life, the guide who directs our steps. The one who cares for us, loves us and is responsible for our success in life and prays for us when we are thoughtless and unmindful of evil dangers.
 Why, oh, why, do we sit silent and read the papers each day which are filled with the word flapper to slam the innocent girls just because they bob their hair, wear sport clothes and work and are independent The last statement which I read was this '"They say the flappers have quit Tapping. They are looking for more thrilling sports" Just what this means don't know, but l do think we mothers who were once gay girls keeping up with society and style, seeking pleasures and working in shops to be inde- pendent, should try in some way to appeal to the publishers in sympathy with our girls who are being chased as flappers
 A MOTHER.
 Favette. Ala
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-20
ThesUse Of Beauty
By DIR. FRANK CRANE

Of what use is beauty?
 Why develop an appreciation for it?
 When old man Hicks sees his son wanting to study the violin he is disgusted Why be one of "them fiddlin' fellers?"
 There are great many who secretly share the Hicks point of view. They have no use for classical concert. They prefer to go to a ball game.
 The Ninth Symphony of Beethoven is to them lot of caterwauling and Tristan und Isolde" is a two-inch bore. The picture gal lery gives them disgust. They see no sense in spending money to make the city hall a thing of beauty, and prefer to have 1t look like stone barn. And why parks, statues and landscape gardening?
 Instead of pooh-poohing those who feel thus, will try to show them what their mis- take is, for they are honest people.
 Their error is that they do not see how training a man to see and understand the beautiful really promotes his happiness and makes him more of man every way.
 Perfect happiness and perfect greatness come by perfect self-expression.
 The art of life is to develop all the forces that are in you.
 Now the world of music, for instance, is a wide, wide world full of thousand pleas ant sensations, subtle stimulations and feel ings that expand and deepen one's scope of life. Take person young enough and teach him how to enjoy music, and how to under stand those kinds of music which are lasting, and you have simply added a great room tO his house of life.
 Teach him what pictures mean and how to love them, and how a good statue or al noble building should appeal to the soul, and you have put on another wing to his house of life
 Train his capacity to enjoy poetry, show him the difference between real and imita- tion literature, open up to him the delights of literature, and you have spread around his house a noble park.
 A man may be mean and evfl in spite of everything, but in proportion as his inter- ests and tastes are widened his chances of becoming so are decreased.
 We are put in this world to enjoy 1t. Whatever opens your eyes and mstops your ears to enjoy more of it, in ways that do not debase you, is worth while.
 Making money is only worth while as it enables you to increase your appreciation of beauty. If you do nothing but make money you are like a boy who goes to make run and jump, and runs so far he can't jump.
 The enemy of life is pettiness, narrowness, and selfiShness. To develop the moral sense is not sufficient to cure these diseases. onel must develop ones whole nature. It is not morality, it is life including morality, we, need
 lis life of which our nerves are scant More life and fuller that we want
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-20
The Right Word
A CLEAR ANALYSIS
By CURTIS NICHOLSON

kE1uu glO EErOE 10AS ATBlCIol
 The following letter, self-explanatory and endorsing a position, which '"The Right Word" has already taken, has been received from J. W. Hutchinson of Spokane, Wash. {:
 Happening to glance again at your Right Word test, notice what appears to me to be an error, which escaped my observation on my first reading. It is in the sentence, The whole office ridicuIes my saying, etc
 Now, the word office is a noun in the singular usually, and the verb of which 1t Is the subject should have the singular form to agree with it. However, in the sense in which it is used in the test, the word office is not used in reference to the room in a building in which business is transacted, but to the clerks or other employees working there in; as The whole office ridicules my say ing as the correspondent expressed it. In this sense, the word has a plural significa- tion, and the verb following should be plural --or, in short, ridicule."
 Note the following excerpt from the cor respondents letter: "I notice what appears to me to be an error, which escaped my ob- servation on my first reading" There should be no comma after error, and the word which should be changed to that. Furthermore, the word employees should be spelled with two ee'S.
 The correspondent has analysed the use of a plural verb with collective noun, and has explained clearly why singular verb would be inappropriate in the sentence under dis cussion. "The Right Word' made the cor rection the day following the appearance of the error
 Yesterdays Error
 Wrong: Like it is correct to say
 Right: As it is correct to say ...
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-20
Bide DudIey's Rhymes
The WOndhOx

Sitting here tonight, I'm thinking of home used to know. Sort O starts my heart to sinklng-that old scene of long ago. In a kitchen now I'm looking, in a farm house in a grove. see mother busy cooking and the woodbox. near the stove. Recollect it. don't you, Mister? You can see it same as me. Member how your hands would blis- ter now and thenl And splinters-gee See the chips and bark it's holding? Not sin gle stick of wood. Cant you hear your mother scolding-telling you to fill it good?" Used to seem that box, you member, hardly gave you time to play. Kept you mad clear from September till warm weather came in May. Seemed as though 'twOuld kill you, still it didn't, Now I'll tell you true-for the chance I'd gladly fill it. Bet yer life And you would, too.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-20
Brief Nature Studies
By .. OTIS SWIFT

T live in the valley of Norman's Kill, which is described by Longfellow's In the Valley of Tawasentha,' and I have heard Tawasentha always interpreted as "A Peace ful Valley writes Henry Egmohd ChristnRn of Delanson, N. Y. "Norman's Kill draws its waters from hills about Dickinson. In your 'Woolly Bear Caterpillar article lately you give the definition as 'The Place of Many Dead"
 -wa-sen-tha, the Indian name of Nor mans Kill, seems to have been wrongly de- fined by SchOolcrnft as "Place of, Many Dead" for really it meant a waterfall. But poetically the aborigines might have referred to burying place as Tawasentha, signifying the shedding of tears or lamenting, because of the spray and the moaning of waters. Tn Bolton's History of Westchester the old In dian burying place in Sprain Valley is called Tawasentha.
 Schoolcrafts translation is said to have been followed by Dr. Yates. 0allAtin mis- took the word for an abbreviation. In the Colonial Laws of New York it appears as Tawalsontha, form used by Rutenber Washinta, the falls of the Susquehanna is . contraction of the Mohawk word Tawasen- tha, waterfall
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-20
SCIENTIFIC sWINDLING

It appears that little progress is made in getting the American people to heed warn inEs against the purchase of spurious stocks. It was recently stated that more than three billion dollars have been extracted from the neople for these worthless chromes since the World War. Perhaps the readiness with which the spendthrift practice during the period after the war could be coined into good money by the swindlers multiplied the fakirs At any rate, the get-rich-quick mania following the Armistice provided rich pick ines for the fellows who take full advantage of the public gullibility at time when hys- teria is at work.
 A large part of this loss could have been avoided by the exercise of ordinary prudence in investments, even though many of the so- licitations came from acquaintanees of the victims who believed in the schemes But the fever for gain was on, and a surprisingly large number of investors did not take time to investigate until it was too late. Hence the old case of the fool and his money re- ceived additional demonstration.
 According to the district attorney of New York many of the victims bought stocks through presumably reputable brokers who operated under the laws, but so manipulated things as to escape prosecution. Thus in New York are many known swindlers who cannot be punished for robbing the public. Such a situation appears to indicate that many of the complaints against the blue sky laws on the ground that they bring hardship on legitimate plans for development are un- founded, and that on the contrary, these laws might well be strengthened on behalf of the public.
 large percentage of these swindles re- suit from the itch for gain on the part of spectators striving to get something for little
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-20
COMING TO THE FRONT

W nile the fame of Birmingham as one of
 the greatest industrial centers in the country
 Is steadily increasing, as evidenced by the
 Widespread publicity of this district in trade
 reviews in various parts of the country, cit -tzens of Birmingham one after another are contributing to this districts reputation as
 Q, producer of men and women of achieve ment and distinction. Within the last few
 days a Birmingham man was chosen vice.
 president of the International Organization
 of Civitan Clubs. Another Birmingham cit
 izen was elected vice-president of the Ma .tionaHWholesale Grocers' Association. Still another Birmingham citizen was chosen head
 of the Alabama League of Women Voters. A Birmingham high school boy won the cham : pionship in oratory not only of the state, but
 of district comprising six states.
 For distinctive achievement in various Hines, Birmingham citizens are fast coming to the front One of the highest paid writers in the United States, one whose writings are read
 by perhaps as many people as any other, is Birmingham man. Another Birminghamite !. won the first prize for the best short story
 published in this country during 1923 A Birmingham man, of whom not only the dis strict, but the state, is justly proud, has won worldwide distinction as a statesman, is one of the leading candidates for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States,
 and has a splendid chance to win the great . est honor which the American people can confer upon one of their citizens.
 These are only a few of the instances
 wherein citizens of Birmingham have distin- guished themselves in various fields of con etructive achievement, and have attracted the attention and the favorable consideration of the nation. Birmingham's reputation as an industrial center of nationwide distinction appears to afford special inspiration for her citizens to be up and doing in many lines of worthy effort. This district is taking high position in the arts as well as in the crafts, and is fast becoming known as a producer of men and women of talent and attainments.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-20
Watching The Parade
By JOHN PILGRIM

Ginger Hoffman had been going around pop-eyed lately, he 50 admires Doc Henne- berry. Yet it isn't four months since Ginger was throwing mud at Doc, so to speak. He was mean about it.
 Did you hear the latest bone that Doc pulled?" he would stop us on street corners to ask. With that silly giggle of hisF And missing the point, of eourse-
 Gingers conviction that Doc is great old boy dates from the time that Mir. and Mrs, Hoffman had a dinner engagement at the Henneberrys. Mrs Henneberry had gone away on a visit, had been unexpectedly de" tained by her mothers illness, and had al" rected Doc by mail to go on through with 1t. Meanwhile Doc had had chance to think out his social failures. ,
 "I have been trying to talk small talks he said to himself. "l cannot. It emnar- raaseu me. I say idiotic things, or try to cover an impossible silence by a soft grin, and people think am bit loose in the trans mission, Therefore, shall be myself here after. When have something to say l shall hnst right out with it. When have not, shall hand my tongue to pussy"
 So the Ginger Hoffmans were to dine with Doc on this night, as arranged by Mrs. lien neberry, and Doc telephoned them to stay away. .,
 "Tye got food and everything" said he. But am not lOuelJ' uV HNN -. anyone. am tired, want to read ne" book and smoke pipe. Do not come to- nikht I don't want you"
 Doe reformed himsek that very night When Doc speaks nowadays it is because he has something to say. He may sit silent as a rrayen image all night long. Or he may get nm and go home in the middle of the party. Yet he is not consciously impolite. He IS merely sincere.
 The funny part is that the rest of us are almost as pop-eyed as Ginger Hoffman aoous the transformed Doc. We are seeing the reAi Doc for the first time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-20
COMMENCEMENT SEAsON

Commencement season in Alabama has be. gun, and will continue for ten days or two weeks. The several higher institutions of learning are closing their years work, while the agricultural schools, the high schools and graded schools over the state are taking in ventories of their net results. It is one of the happiest and yet one of the most serious, periods in the lives of thousands of college students, and pupils of the schools who are striving to fit themselves for the duties of life. Graduates in the professional courses and in the arts must get down 10 business
 They have had rare opportunities for prep aFation to carry on and help develop their state The younger school pupils must either choose their future work or must enter
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-20

or nothing. Goldbrick artists say that their easiest victims are usually very stingy folks who are hard to pry away from their incre- ment until they are convinced that they will make abnormally large profits. Hence that is an element which the gold-brick men go after, leaving only the question of convincing through glib talk or other trickery to com plete the deal. However that may be, the record of three billions of losses in a few years through combinations of greed and
 gullibility, suggests that scientific swindling
 is one of the important American industries.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-20
Modern Maid s MG&inlS

No woman, men say, wants the truth from a man. But how do they know, since they never give it to her, and therefore she never has a chance to find out whether she wants a change from the usual hokum?
 Loving is a glorious emotional extrava- gance. Being loved means thriftily keeping books on your lovers words and acts and wondering all the time if he's cheating you.
 Always pick benefactOr without unpleas- ant mannerisms. Otherwise your best at tempts at gratitude will be overlnid by irrita- tiOn.
 When a girl tells a young man that his mother is "wonderfal'' and that his sister is perfectly fine" it's all over but the wedding bRlls
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-20
higher courses for more complete prepare

higher courses for more complete prepara- tion.<
 The years educational work in Alabama has been notable for progress and service. Attendance upon the various colleges and schools has been larger than ever before, which indicates an increasing ambition among the youth to equip themselves for con- structive achievement. Most of the higher institutions of learning and practically all of the preparatory schools are overcrowded and more or less handicapped for the most efficient work by lack of adequate funds. What has been accomplished by the schools is the strongest argument for more liberal pol icies by the public authorities in their sup port. They are the greatest public asset, next to the public health, and they have shown that they are worthy of the heartiest cooperative support They are a business investment that insure the largest and the most permanent returns.
 The purpose of education, to teach those who attend the schools how to work more efficiently and more productively, is recog- nized more than ever before. Without eff cient educational facilities Alabama cannot hope to make the best of it's great resources and opportunities. Potentially 1t is one of the richest states in the Union, with many advantages which few other states enjoy. With proper support and development of the schools of this state, progress and prosperity will take on new and higher to undreamed advancement. Let no one in Alabama i'm agine that the people of the state cannot afford to give the schools liberal support. One of Alabama's most distinguished sons declared that the people of this state cannot afford not to educate their children as they sbould he educated He was right not only in the cultural, but in the business aspect.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-20

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-20
GOING DOWN,

Dear Reader; The best illustration of why people are poor is to be found in the fact tilat they (the poor) do very little for others. We have no hospitals, museums or parks endowed by the poor.
 The lesson you may learn from this is, if you would be wealthy, start by doing service.
 Yours truly, ALFALFA EAIIFH.