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Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1927-01-28
WHY NoT2
Southern Heights,
Jan % 1927

Southern Heights,
Jan. % 1921
Dear Mr. Editor;
II is the morning after Burns
Night and we are full Of pleasant
memories and appropriations.
Burns Might would NOT be Burns
Night without the Highland Fling,
but q Is not often we get the Irish
1ig
This reminds me of something /
have been often minded to ask
that S Why can't we have ana
Irish niehtf Are YOU sure some
Of those Mae who were there last
night were moi Nest ! ann not Of
that number having little but Eng
fish blood and no one would ever
expect an English night, tho ] live
10 hopes sometime Of hearing a
real qunrtette sing Crossing the
Bar" bnt Irish blood is prevalent
among our people, and their
friends are legion.
Does not the sweet singer who
oaYe us Alton Water know Kill
afnfy2 ! would do without ban.
met if could hear Mrs RIOS. sing
kathleen Mayourneon and / want
io stipulate right here chat the
Irish Emigraui Lament be h't
1ui of fhc program itre aie too
many tears IN it for happy night
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1927-01-28
ess.asRs
j. Frank Norris

The jury that tried j, Frank
Norris, the Texas fundamentals,
made short work of it after The
case was submitted to it. In a few
moments they acquitted him. We
have heard one or two men eriti.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1927-01-28

A Mr. Samuel Burleigh Milton
"a member of the United Daughter
of the Confederacy and q life say
er has been photographed lwiil
her medals and cups IN swimming
costume la her home That's ri
right, but She allowed her picture
to be put in the papers, and III,
members of her society are sean
dalized Good grief, don't we sel
chem every day ia the pictures ane
on the beach 10 ne sunmer BIZ
flis lady is unfortunately mniro
of 40 aud stout instead 0f 20 ans
slim and, viola Ia difference
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1927-01-28

The least said about this Jew tho
better,
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1927-01-28
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COVE COMMENTS
: &C. A. Renouf) >
. Sss 80 sc .

As for as ! have read the
nnights OF Columbus side of the
Mexican trouble, it consists mainly
Of opinions delivered by various
individuals editors and others ON
the side of the Catholic Church and
the main contention is theat the
Mexican Government is Bolsheyis-
tie. Secretary Fall is also aiIliet-
ed by the Bolsheyist complex
which seems TO be the bottom OF
our government scare IN the mat
Ter, but | don t see why we should
worry if the Mexican people want
"a government of Liberal or shall
we call it Socialistic leanings, that
IS their business and does not cad
lor our interference even to the
promotion of possible warfare. We
as a nation are too prosperous to
entertain the remotest idea of go-
ing Socialist, not to speak OF Boil
shevist. Some of our government
heads are too easily scared by the
Bolsheyic bogy,
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1927-01-28
Vashon Island
$4,000 inhabitants by-it s up t.
you, WHEE!
assSsSSA
Paul-sparknan

If You want the news, read the
Pr. or Times, But if you want
the facts read the News-Record.
These two big city papers both an
nounced the Superior Judges re-
fused to pass on the application OF
Commissioners Paul and Sparkman
Tor an outside attorney to rep
resent them. when Brother Colvin
vas supposed to represent the
board, while the commissioner
represent that Colvin misrepre
gents 'en. Just forget about this
represent word and hear the
facts. The editor Of the News-ke-
cord saw the order, signed by
Judge Moriarty, secretary of the
Superior Court Bench, passed by
the Judges of tie Bench, autboriz
ing the Commissioners TO appoin,
John b. Shorrett to represent them
in the court action in re the Sparl-
ing case, and in re the Insurance
Ease. Just a little different than the
Two big dailies' told you, ism I
i Vashon islanders?
e&sRss#s
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1927-01-28

Kansas idea OF justice Neems to
me a bit off color. A married man
with wife and two childrenMThe
man is 50 years old. A family With
a pretty daughter Of some JIG years
moves into that locality, the man
fails for the gill and they elopc to
another town. The wife follows
them and demands her husband
back, the girl refuses to give him
up and he refuses 10 return. The
wife goes back and later returns
making her demand again coupled
with threat OF death fofthe girl,
is again met with a refusal and
shoots her dead. The woman IS
arrested and brought before NJ
Judge who commcnds her action
and dismisscs the case. / have al
ways understood that one OF the
foundations Of Justice was
that no individual shall take the
INV in his or her hands, that how
ever just their action might be, 81
was the perrogatiye OF the Inv
and Justice TO decide the matter.
otherwise what is the use OF having
Laws and Courts. Meanwhile the
girl is dead, the man is az liberty,
nothing seems 30 have been done
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1927-01-28

Bad news from Sedro- Wooley
where Russell Leeman was badly
sealded when the top Of a boiler in
his fathers bakery blew off. We
trust that he will pull through
without Serious injury. Our sym
pathies are with Mr.. and Mrs.
l4eeman who lived at Cove Tor sew
eral years.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1927-01-28
Hartley Recall

It's stiff and cold-peaee 10 it.
Evening star., 1927-05-05

plished much of the literary labors
which embraced more than the book
on which his chief fame rests and
which includes the biographies of sew
eral eminent men.
A group of present-day admirers of
this sage of the angle had saved the
historic cottage from being sold and
perhaps transferred to America. They
could not save it from the flames.
1t is regrettable that it had to go, for
it had been a point of pilgrimage
with thousands for many years. Wal
toms name and fame are as secure
as are those of Nimrod or Jehu or
Napoleon. The former has become
synonymous with the proper sort of
angler. A great league established in
this country for conservation pur-
poses bears his name. SO it does not
matter so much that place where
he lived and breathed and thought
and worked is gone, for there exists
on the banks Of every stream fol-
lowed by fishermen who speak his
language a memorial which they can
see very plainly.
Evening star., 1927-05-05
Gives Facts Relating
To WOmen's Memorial
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor of The Star:
I was surprised to learn that there
Is a man in Washington who thinks
that the $450,000 contributed for the
Memorial to the Heroic Women of the
World War came from funds of the
local Red Cross Chapter. AS there
may be others who have made the
same mistake, although the facts have
been printed a number of times in
the paper, I would be glad if you
would correct this misunderstanding
by the publication of this letter.
The national headquarters is lodged
in the Memorial to the Heroic Women
of the Civil War, which was provided
by an appropriation of Congress and
additional contributions of 100000
given by four individuals.
The new memorial will be to the
Heroic Women of the World War and
will be provided by the appropriation
of S150,000, together with the gift of
the site from Congress and contribu-
tions from individuals all over the
country. An additional $4,000 is
needed to complete this memorial
building fund of S500,000. Not penny
of Red Cross money goes into this
building and every dollar contributed
will be expended for it. as the ex-
pense of raising the fund is being
met by individuals. 1t commentaries
the women who sacrificed their lives
in war service, the American mothers
who lost their sons and the services
of the millions of American women
rendered all during the war.
MABEL T. BOARDMAN.
Secretary Memorial Fund Committee.
Evening star., 1927-05-05

Mississippi channel IS not adequate
in depth and width to carry so
extraordinary load as has been
imposed upon it by the protracted
rainfaIls of the past month in the
vast watershed of which 1t is the
final outlet. 1t will never be possible
to compute the volume of water that
has flowed seaward during this
period. In normal times the dis
charge from the mouth Of the Missis-
sippi is enormous. A weeks rain on
either side of the watershed, on the
eastern slope of the Rockies or on
the western slope of the Alleghenies,
will raise the demand for drainage
space to the danger point. When
the rains have fallen simultaneously
on both sides throughout practically
the entire area for not merely one
but two and three weeks something
must yield and in yielding cause
countless damage.
That is the situation today as the
crest of the flood nears the Gulf and
the waters are spread out over vast
stretches of territory and as more
than a quarter of million people
are rendered homeless, with more re-
quiring aid hourly. While nothing
can be done to stem the flood, some
thing can be done to relieve the suf-
fering caused by it. Millions Of dol
lars are needed and are being given
by the people. A highly efficient
agency is at work in the administra-
ton of this relief. Later will come
the task of rehabilitating these refu-
gees and, either from the public purse
by appropriations or from the pri-
vate purse of the people through
gifts. must and doubtless will come
the funds for this supreme necessity
Evening star., 1927-05-05
There Lived Piscator.

A small Elizabethan structure in
Staffordshire. England, surpassed in
literary and human interest only
perhaps by a couple of similar build.
ings at Stratford-on-Avon, burned
down the other day. 1t stood at
Shallowford, near Stafford, and was
for long the cottage home of Izaak
Walton.
There IS hardly name in English
literature. even Of the first rank.
than that of the placid philosopher,
skilled angler and charming writer
who roamed the Dove and other Eng
lish streams and who delighted CO.
temporaries, succeeding generations
and will delight generations yet to
come with "The Compleat Angler"
Walton lived in other places, too.
He was for a time a London iron.
monger; he paid lengthy visits in the
families of eminent clergymen of the
realm; for a period made his home
with the Bishop Of Winchester at
Farnham Castle, and he spent in all
much time in the quaint little fishing
stone house which belonged to his
son-in-law and collaboration, Charles
Cotton. and which stood on the River
Dove. This and the little cottage
which recently burned down are,
however, most impressed with his
evergreen memory.
In the latter he must have accom-.
Evening star., 1927-05-05
Waterproof.

IT must have been q whimsical per-
son who gave the name Of water
proof" to a town in Louisiana located
within reach of the waters OF the
Mississippi whenever they overtioWeo
its banks. Today's dispatches say
that the inhabitants of this town are
now fleeing from the advancing tide
Perhaps they have fled before IN
other freshet years. Or it may De
that this is their first experience, the
town having been immune from
earlier visitations. One would ike 10
see the record of this community IN
respect to Mississippi moisture. And
one would like to know the reason
why that particular name was chosen
for a settlement in region notorious
ly subject to river invasion.
The naming of towns is usually an
individual action. The leading citl-
zen" in the urban nucleus may give
II his own name or express some
personal idea. Perhaps it is situated
at a crossroads, and it becomes Cen
terville" or "Middletown," unless it
is "Jonesburg" or Smiths Corners"
If established on a power stream 1t
is likely to become "Milltown." The
wise town manner, however, looks to
the future and abjures all villes and
burgs and corners and centers, which
are almost invariably rural and un-
promising.
Perhaps, whatever its record in the
past, Waterproof, La, will after this
present experience change its name.
For events have given it the lie.
Evening star., 1927-05-05
The Mighty Tide.

In seemingly endless food the
waters of the Mississippi are pouring
into the Gulf of Mexico, raging
through the greatly widened channel
OF the river and across millions of
acres Of land beyond the dikes. The
current is swift, in places swift
enough to sweep away buildings and
to scour out wide breaches in the
protecting walls of earth. But it is
not rapid enough to carry off the
enormous quantity of water that
presses on from the tributaries, seek
ing an outlet to the sea. Watchers
standing on the banks at New Or
leans, seeing the swollen, debris
laden tide go roaring past, noting its
gradual rise against the gauges. Won
der that so gigantic a stream, moving
so fast, should continue so long.
These waters have come in rains
falling for many days upon a vast
territory, as great In extent as the
whole of Europe west of the Russian
boundary. There is but one outlet
for them, through the Father of
Waters. Four great rivers, each in
itself a major drainage channel. have
contributed their floods, the Ohio, the
Missouri, the Arkansas and the Red.
ANY one of them would constitute a
mighty torrent. Combined, they put
@ pressure upon the lower Mississippi
that cannot be withstood.
Nothing man can do now will avail
to hold back these raging streams
that demand greater outlets than the
natural and artificially banked chan
neIs of the lower river. The lands
through which these waters are flow
ing are low in level, a great part OF
the area being below even the nat
ural river stage. But for the levee
system they would be inundated in
an ordinary freshet. Even when the
river breaks through the levees and
spreads as 1t now has over severa
million square miles of territory. Il
cannot move seaward fast enough tC
relieve the pressure.
AThe simple fact is that the lower
Evening star., 1927-05-05
Sees Murder Typified
In DESTROYING Trees

To the Editor of The Star:
1t seemed not unlike murder when
the maple trees on the west side of
Mcpherson Square were chopped
down last Saturday morning. In the
freshness of the Spring day, dozen
men were at work chopping first one
branch and then another from trees
just putting on the beautiful Spring
foliage. The street was full of the
fallen branches. l could not bear to
look at them. I turned away as one
would from the face of a dead friend.
By evening every tree had completely
vanished. The growth of 20 years or
so wiped out in a day. And why? In
order that few more automobiles
may hurtle up and down the street
going Heaven knows wherein such a
hurry, All eventually to the same
quiet place. Then why hurry so?
If willing to take a little more time,
our tree-shaded streets, the glory of
Washington, might not have to be
sacrificed.
The same evening / attended a
Forest Service lecture in the audi
torium of the National Museum
most instructive and profitable lecture
given under the auspices of the COM
mittee on CONSERVATION and Thrift"
of the District Daughters of the
American Revolution. Only a hand
full of people were present to enjoy
and be benefited by it. The lecturer
was very able and knew his subject
we'll The pictures of forests and
fields, of tumbling waters and of
mountains, of wild animal life were,
the most of them, exquisitely beautiful
and well worth the trouble Of getting
down to the Museum in the evening.
One could wish that every person in
Washington might see the pictures
and hear the lecturer tell what some
other cities and localities are doing
to preserve trees and to plant more of
them. MARY w. DURHAM.
Evening star., 1927-05-05
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN.

@. What became of the person who
exposed the English nurse to the Ger
mans as a spy?-M. B.
A. Miss CavelpS activities were re-
vealed TO German authorities by
Belgian traitor found murdered in the
street year later.
Q. How many firemen are there In
all the towns together?-H. J.
A. When the last census was taken
there were 50,771 firemen.
Q. Are postal savings banks abso-
lutely safe? What interest is paid and
when?-P. c.
A. The postal savings banks are as
safe as the United States Treasury.
Simple interest at the rate of 2 per
cent a year is paid. Deposits COM
nence to earn interest on the first
day of the month following the day
on which the deposit is made. Inter
est on certificates surrendered for pay
ment is paid on a quarterly basis. In
terest on certificates held by a de-
positor is payable on an annual basis.
A depOsitOr may at any time Withdraw
the whole or any part of the deposits
to his credit. Money can be deposited
for as short time as one day. The
minimum amount of money that can
be deposited in the postal savings
banks is 81 and the maximum 81 500.
Q. Who is Upton Close" PC. A. M.
A. Josef Washington Hall Is the
writer whose pseudonym Is Upton
Close. His publishers say that he got
Evening star., 1927-05-05

his pen name through telegraphic
error"
Q. What countries belong to the
Indian Empire?-F. A. r.
A. The Indian Empire. which forms
part of the British Empire. comprises
Madras, Bombay, Bengal. United
Provinces. Punjab, Burma. Bihar and
Orissa, Central Provinces. Assam.
Baluchistan, Northwest Frontier Prov
ince, Ajmer- r-Merwara, Coorg, Anda-
mans and Nicobars.
@. What is the difference between
grinding and lapping?-O. c. r.
A. Grinding" is general term.
Tapping" is a method of grinding in
terror and exterior surfaces in a lathe
by friction of lead cylinders or clamps
supplied with oil and fine abrasive
powder. The method is used where
it is necessary to obtain an exceeding
ly smooth and polished surface, as in
the manufacture of ordnance.
The keynote Of the times Is efficient
| service. In supplying its readers 4Cith
| free Information bureau In Wash
| in0ton The EueninO Star is HUin0 np
| to this principle in deed and fact We
| are paying for this SerUicc in order
| that it may be free to the public. Sub
NIT D0ur queries to the staff Of eT-
| perts 1ChOSe services are put at gOur
| disposal. InclOse cents IN STAN ps TO
| cOUer the return postage. Address
| The EUenin0 Star Information Bu-
reGu, Frederic j. Hdskin, director,
! Washington, ID. G..
Evening star., 1927-05-05
Memorial to Heroes
Held Patriotic Duty
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor of The Star:
"a thing of beauty is Joy forever"
Keats.
Just whether Keats had in mind the
building of memorials when he wrote
those immortal words, we do not
know, but we do know that he was
thinking of the beautiful and the
sublime.
At the beginning of drive to raise
funds to erect a memorial as tribute
of love and respect to those who made
the supreme sacrifice, there, to me,
can be no better way for US to be
part in the making of this "a thing
Of beauty joy forever" than
to contribute toward it's erection.
A decade ago when armies were
being modified. nurses were being
trained and transports were facing
danger and destruction, carrying them
TO the field of carnage, they unfalter-
ingly responded to the call. some to
return unharmed, some to return
manned for life and some to give
their all in the cause of freedom. They
did not parley or ask what 1t was
about, but went with but one aim in
view, the winning Of the war.
The sacrifice was made, more than
500 brave, young men and heroic
young ladies gave all that they had
most dear to them, their lives. The
small sum asked to erect a memorial
to them is very insignificant com
pared to what they gave. At the
close of this drive, Washington should
have gone "over the top" far exceed
ing the amount asked, then it would
be small compared with what each
gave-a human life.
Let honor be given to whom honor
is due. 1t seems to me that no
greater honor, aside the memorial
could be bestowed upon them than
to have it erected at the portals of
the National Capital, the Union Sta
tion Plaza. 1t was there that they
bade a last farewell to mothers.
fathers, sisters, brothers, sweethearts
and friends, and it was there that
broken hearts received them back,
not happy soldiers returning, but only
the lifeless remains of heroic souls.
OSCAR M. MILLER.
Evening star., 1927-05-05
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

! saws, persons who, in their character
| and actions, answer questions Whlch
he has not skill to put.
| This is true of great books, too. We
read. and have both question and
answer put before us, both to become
ours.
Now we come, in this particular es-
say, to the place most readers become
weary, and no wonder, for the great
Emerson begins to wander in his
pleasant way, touching first here, now
| there, without any particular path
| through the maze of words.
The best we can do is to Gull some
particularly good sentences:
Light and darkness, heat and cold,
! hunger and food, sweet and sour,
solid liquid and gas, circle us round in
a wreath of pleasures, and by their
agreeable quarrel, beguile the day of
| life"
"The gases gather to the solid fir.
mament; the chemic lump arrives at
the plant, and grows: arrives at the
quadruped, and walks arrives at man,
and thinks"
Men are helpful through the intel
Iect and the affections. Other help,
| find false appearance.
| There--those last two-are good SEN
|
native force, if there ever was one,
who says that we are only helpful
through the use of our intellect and
affections, that other help, such as
outright gifts, he finds only false ap-
pearances.
IF you affect to give me bread and
| fire, l perceive that / pay for 1t the
full price, and at last it leaves me
as it found me, neither better nor
worse; but all mental and moral force
Is a positive good"
So speaks, of course, a well fed man.
| X X y
| Reading or hearing of personal
vigor, Emerson says, makes for fresh
resolution. I'VE are emulous of all
that man can do"
! The secret of the readers joy in
literary genius, he believes, is simply
the enjoyment Of the pleasure of full
expression. This idea is more fully
developed in the essay on History
| Shakespeare principal merit may
| be conveyed, Emerson declares, in
saying that he, of all men, best un-
derstands the English language, and
| can say what he will.
| His great men are "meditative men
of an intuitive habit of thought. Yet
we must change our hero-worship
from time to time!
"Housekeepers say of a domestic
who has been valuable. She had lived
with me long enough"
| When Nature removes great man.
the sage continues, people explore the
| horizon for successor; but none
| comes, and none will. His class is ex-
| tinguished with him."
| The power which great men com.
municate is not theirs. when we
are exalted by ideas, we do not owe
this to Plato, but to the idea, to which,
also, Plato was debtor. We have
never come at the true and best bene.
| fit of any genius, so long as we believe
him an original force. He ap
pears as an exponent Of a vaster mind
and will
| And the conclusion is simply: Great
men exist that there may be greater
men," So the circle of existence goes
on; great men come and go; life is
the thing. What time has produced
1t will produce again, only better.