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THE SEATTLE POLICE
The chief of police of Seattle has seen fit to rep
rimand two police officers because they allowed a
a gang of bandits to escape after they had attempt
ed to rob an oil station.* Three officers were de
tailed to “get” the bandits. They were stationed
at the scene of the intended holdup as the result
of a “tip” received by the chief. One officer vio
lated his instructions by going back to police head
quarters to return another officer’s auto. Another
policeman, for some reason, was locked in the oil
station. The third opened fire when the bandits ar
rived, but they escaped unscathed.
In other words, although the police chief knew
of the intended robbery and three officers were as
signed to prevent it and capture the bandits, the
whole prearranged plan was a complete fiasco thru
neglect of duty and violations of instructions.
The incident only adds evidence as to the appar
ent ineptitude of the Seattle police department. In
fact, the department is accused of being more than
inept, for it has earned its reputation as being a
place where criminals are schooled. Undoubtedly
most of the officers are conscientious and honest, but
so many of them have been involved in flagrant
criminal activities that the public looks on with
amazement.
A short time ago forty names were listed at Se
attle in a review of bootlegging, hijacking and hold
up activities of Seattle policemen and former police
men in the last four years. As a result of the activ
ities of officers formerly connected with the Seattle
department, provincial police of British Columbia
have announced their intention to spend unlimited
money to extirpate “the Seattle criminal gang.” A
former patrolman, pardoned after serving more than
half of a two-year sentence for participating in a
$20,000 liquor theft from a government warehouse in
Seattle and recently convicted of violating the feder
al prohibition laws, was arrested a few days ago
as a suspect in an attempted robbery. A police
sergeant was discharged for bringing an automobile
load of liquor to Seattle from Canada. A police
lieutenant dismissed for alleged participation in a
$22,000 holdup of a big Seattle department store in
Seattle last year, now faces a charge of taking part
in a $42,000 bank robbery at Nanaimo. A former
patrolman, arrested in connection with the same
robbery, has since been sent to McNeil island for
conspiracy to violate the national prohibition law.
Two patrolman were dismissed after being charged
with the murder of a dairyman and liquor manufac
turer who is said to have resisted extortionate de
mands, and were freed pending trial. A former
police lieutenant is termed the “king of the Pacific
coast rum trade” now faces a Seattle grand jury
following a raid on his palatial home for liquor.
The record is not a savory one and reflects no
credit on the condition of affairs at Seattle. The
public’s faith in the integrity of its law enforcement
arm is shaken by such revelations of criminality and
corruption. There have been many demands for a
“cleanup” but little has come from them. Mean
while, the rest of the Northwest stands aghast that
such things should be permitted to continued indef
initely.
“AN OLD MAN”
“This is my fiftieth birthday—now I am an
old man!”
Thus said a friend a few days ago, and he ap
peared to believe that in reaching his half-century
mark he must be considered as entering the evening
of life.
Not many years ago the average man of 50 was
“old.”
Times have changed. The average span of life
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“ANNA CHRISTIE
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A play of tremendous power and
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A play that took New York and
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pathos and sheer beauty of the
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Have you the courage to bare your
past to the man you love? Anna
Christie did in a drama that will hold
you enthralled.
ANITA SPAULDING
at the piano
Liberty Theatre
has lengthened. Science has done much to add to
one’s expectancy. People live in more comfortable
homes. They eat better food. They wear more
healthful clothing. They drink purer water. Some
diseases that had heavy harvests are now very rare.
Surgery is a greater success than it used to be. Doc
tors do not use the same kinds of drugs and as great
a quantity of drugs as they did forty or fifty years
ago. They do not spread as many diseases. They
do not allow disease to gain the headway it used to
gain before it is skillfully attacked and vanquished.
People look after their teeth mose carefully. The
X-ray has worked wonders in locating sources of
danger where disease and death linger.
More persons go out into the great open places
and come more intimately in touch with nature.
Pure air gives strength and health. More atten
tion is given to the child in the schoolroom. More
diseases are early detected and given intelligent at
tention.
People live longer. The man of 50, as an aver
age, is merely in the acme of his mental and physical
power at that age. He knows better how to live at
50. lie is better poised, sounder in judgment, set
tled in his habits at 50. He works just as hard,
sleeps as sound, takes things which vex the youth
more philosophically. The work he does counts
more than in younger years.
Millions of boys and girls of school age today
will live to be from 75 to 100. Their bodies are
being rendered immune to disease that sent their
grandparents to premature graves. And this im
munity will increase until few will die from pre
vailing diseases.
The man of 50 is younger than his father was
as 45. The man of 60 is not much older than his
grandfather was at 50. There are exceptions, of
course, but the rule supports this statement. After
another half century has come the evening of life
will not begin until three-score-and-ten-and-five will
have been attained. It is really ten years earlier
today.
COOLIDGE KNOWS PROBLEMS
OF AVERAGE MAN.
President Coolidge lias aroused the ire of land
lords and real estate men in Washington, D. C., by
seeking legislation for the regulation of rentals in
the interest of federal employes. The president
has been a public official for a quarter of a century
and he knows from personal experience that salar
ies paid by the public do not average large enough
to warrant the payment of high rents. lie is re
quired to pay no rent at the White House, but he
maintains his residence at Northampton, Mass.,
where he pays $32 a month for half of a duplex
house. Mr. Coolidge always has lived modestly, pos
sibly for two reasons—because he is imbued with the
New England idea of thrift, and because he has had
to do so for pecuniary reasons. He is rated as a
comparatively poor man today, and he is receiv
ing many times as large a salary as president as he
ever received before. He knows the problems of
the “average man” because he always has been one.
NO ENGLISH STAGE JOKES
ALLOWED ABOUT "MR. A”
LONDON, Jan. 19.—“Wise cracks”
on the “Mr. A.” blackmailing case,
in which Sir Hari Singh, an India
prince, paid $750,000 as the price of
his relations with the wife of an
English bookmaker, are not allowed
on the English stage.
That’s the ruling of the lord cham
berlain, official stage censor o(
Britain.
Nevertheless the comedians, while
not mentioning “Mr. A” are having
the time of their lives.
Here’s the favorite reference to the
case, sung nightly by two female
entertainers in “The Punch Bowl:
“I shan’t go away for Christmas—
In London I shall wait;
But I am going to Paris with
An eastern potentate.”
TACOMA CONTRACTOR NOW
HAS NEW CHURCH ALL TO
HIMSELF ON WRONG LOTS
(By Associated Press)
TACOMA, Jan. 20.—A new brick,
church edifice costing about $11,000
fa
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| today came into the possession of P.
C. Walesby, a contractor when the
church was auctioned to the highest
bidder by the county sheriff. The
church was erected by the congrega
tion of the National Polish Independ
ent church, and its sale at auction
was the result of much litigation in
the county courts. The law suits re
sulted from the fact that the congre
gation bought two lots for the church
and then by mistake designated two
i other lots across the street as the
| site on which the contractor should
build the structure. The church was
completed before the mistake was
discovered.
The purchaser was the contractor
I on the work, who had a claim of
; $5,000 against it, and he is now try
i ing to find a buyer for an entirely
j new church, with a big steeple and
! all the other extras—but on the
I wrong lots.
The Army and Navy may mean
! many things, but politics isn’t one
! of them.
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today!
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