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Part Four Drama, Music and Motors MARCH" 6, 1932. SUNDAY MORNING. 49TII YEAR. NO. 297.

St'OKANK, WASH. red MoiLab Eef rms Jurist Ha is Spoims Spokane Judge Huneke Is Father of Present Presiding Judge System Speeds Up Work of Courts Adopted Elsewhere Hopes to See Greater Unity Some Day. constant condemnation from the law profession and laymen alike. Judge Huneke is Indirectly responsible for the reforming of courts other than Spokane county's. The presiding judge system, so efficiently and satisfactorily worked out in Spokane county courts, has been adopted successfully by Seattle, Oakland and Portland and in modified form in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Birmingham, St.

Paul, St. Louis, Omaha and other cities. It was in 1907 that Judge Huneke felt the need of a change in tne then existing system and wrote a letter to Judge Miles Polndexter, Judge Henry L. Kennan and Judge E. H.

Sullivan, then superior court judges, suggesting the changes which they later adopted. DIVIDES VP WORK. "In those days," the Judge explained, "all cases of crime were allotted to one Judge, those of equity to another and those of common law to the third Judge. With such an allotment of cases one Judge would have more than he could do while another would often have too little. "I can give you an instance," the judge continued.

"I was trying common law cases and as the end of the court term neared I found myself swamped with cases. Court would adjourn the first of July and during the last week of June I had 18 cases to try. It was necessary for me to make an appeal to the governor for help and he sent another judge to As it happened, the 18 rases were disposed of by the Judge in one way and another without requiring the help of the additional judRe but It first elected to the bench of the Spokane county superior court, where he has been returned in every successive election by the people of the county. BIG CASES IN REVIEW. The courthouse that we now deplore for its modern inadequacy was a prideful thing in the city when Judge Huneke first moved into his courthouse chambers.

The legal work of the county that then required the work of but three Judges now requires five. Twenty-seven years brings many changes. And 27 years brings many cases In review before a Judge's bench. So many, that from memory Judge Huneke recalls but few of the biggest cases that have centered Interest in his court, so blended In color are they in the fabric of the past. But there have been many civil cases that involved millions of dollars, criminal cases that have sent men to long terms in the penitentiary and men to be hanged.

But the county owes another debt to Judge Huneke than that of serving ably upon the bench as one of its most honored Judges. It owes to Judge Huneke the present efficiency of its court procedure, that known as the presiding judge system. STRIVES TO END DELAYS. It is this system that has eliminated alomst as far as legally possible the matter of delays which cost the taxpayers of any county thousands of dollars and the litigants the anxiety of interminable waits delays which prevail in most of the courts of the country and which bring to courts By M. B.

It 1b nice to talk tp a Judge If you do not have to make your conversation standing up while he sits on the bench. I didn't. I sat down and talked to him, which means I wasn't In trouble. But the Judge was. "The Judge had to do all the talking, which Is contrary to tradition when a woman is present.

Superior Court Judge William A. Huneke was the judge. He sat in his chambers against yards ot law books that heap themselves from floor to celling, and talked ot his long experience on the bench. Judge Huneke Is dean of the Spokan? county Judiciary and the second oldest Judge In the state in point of service. Judge Chapman of Tacoma exceeds Judge Huneke's years of service by one term.

It is an interesting sidelight to note that George P. Walker has served Judge Huneke as bailiff during the 27 years of his Judgeship. Judge Huneke satisfies a sense ot the scholarly by having a fine shaped head and sensitive features. He Is the yt of Judge you would like to encounter In trouble because, In place of the sternness often bred of authority, you feel that he possesses "the milk of human kindness." He is easily approachable and gracious to talk to. CLOISTERED IN LAW.

As a student and a thinker, you sense in him a man almost cloistered in the law, he seems to exist so exclusively within the walls made by his law books. And posslblv this impression is a true one, for his life for 27 years has taken him between the pleasures of his home and the interests of his Judgeship. It is common conversation among leading lawyers to hear comment on his wide knowledge of the law. The Judiciary is evident in the calm and poise and thoughtfulnesa of Judge Huneke. As a judicial observer who has been responsible for decisions upon human frailties, unto the restriction of liberty and unto death itself, he is like most judges, the thinker rather than the aggresssor.

Although that is partly Incorrect, which I will explain Inter. It was in 1904 that the judge was i It was in the matter of delavs. When Judge Huneke first sat on the bench, Saturday mornings were, reserved for motions and known as motion day, when the Judges would sit together with the bar present for the purpose of hearing all demurrers and motions to pleadings. Judge Huneke's plan provided that, the Joint session be abolished and that each Judge have his own doeket. Thus today, under the judge's system, Instead of waiting his turn to be assigned to a court, each Judge now possesses his own docket.

An enormous time saving Is made. WOULD UNIFY COURTS. Judge Huneke looks into the future and hopes for a unification of the higher courts of the state. In which all Judicial power will be vested In one great court, the court naturally falling Into two divisions, trial and appellate, and with the judges chosen he hasn't visloned how they might be selected to sit wherever needed, whether in some trial court or in the appellate court. With the court thus being made more flexible, work would be equalized, as In the presiding Judge system, with sufficient judges always available to alleviate pressure in any department or court, whether trial or appellate.

Thus court proceedings would be speeded up Immeasurably. "With such a system, one judge would not be 100 cases behind, as is the present case, and it would not require a year to render a decision," the Judge commented. APPLYINO COMMON SENSE. The Journal of the American Judicature society has this to say of Judge Huneke in editorial comment: "Our first article on the 'presiding Judge system' Is probably as valuable a contribution on Judicial efll-lenry as has ever been written. In his city, and in others to which he refers, a considerable measure of efficiency a very great measure in comparison with former conditions has been attained by application of what is the mere common sense of try! business world." This record gives Judge Huneke double claim to the Interest of Spokane county; as a judge who has fulfilled his duties in the Judiciary and as a judge who has benefited the county courts as a reformer.

Twenty-seven years of valuable service! Is Tori gh Ice Ffehing Tin fOU Whitefishing, Lake Pend Oreille's Main Winter Attraction Miles of "Prospecting Ground." Emil. "Scoop" and a Good Day's Catch. JUDGE WILLIAM A. HUNEKE. He has served 27 years on the Spokane county superior court bench.

'Amateur Fishers Try Luck at Pend Oreille and Enjoy Sensation of Snagging Whitefish Through Hole in Ice. kinds of couft work. Instead of specialized, with the cases assigned by the presiding Judge, work is equalized and expedited. Once again. Judge Huneke did some thinking and studying in the matter of delays and offered suggestions that were later to be accepted by his fellow Judges and Incorporated into court procedure.

illustrates the inequality of work that left one Judge swamped while the others worked with slender dockets. Thus by the presiding Judge system, In which every Judge must do all Home-Towra Paper OH Friend Rogers Missed Them in Orient More Than Anything Else No Substitute for Local News European Papers Print Only Bad News About America. By WILL ROGERS. WELL ALL I KNOW Is Just what dldent know If he had been made speaker of the house or not. News like that meant nothing to a Chinaman, but It meant something to me.

I read In the papers and, say, uasent I glad to get back home and read some papers! I mean some papers with some news in 'em and printed In language that was about 50 per cent NOTRE DAME AND SOUTHERN California, I couldn't find out Jf It had been called off on account of rain, no attendance, or for the good of the order. Did Mayor Jimmy Walker get Mooney out? Or did Jimmy just get out of New York? All these things I couldent get head and tail of. So I would cable Mrs. Rogers. Now at $1.25 a word, naturally my news was scattering.

So If I talk about things that don't Charles Holmgren, Kootenai, Taking His Gear to the Fishing Grounds, the cultivation program is William (Bill) Zinter, who is giving the state much aid. "Bill" is said to have whitefished on the lake since Paul Bunyan and his big blue ox first plowed it out. "Scoop" Copying the Professional Manner. lng and planting programs have been adopted by the state and there is hope, particularly among the old-timers on the lake, that the supply may be restored and the commercial Industry returned. Among the leaders in Emll Anderson, Kootenai, in Ills Whitefish House.

Whitefishing, once a commercial industry oh Lake Pend Oreille, in Idaho, still offers pleasant winter outings to scores of persons. Although traffic in whitefish is outlawed, spawning, rear- mean a thing to you any more, why they mean a lot to me for I just found 'em out. So what I am getting at: Don't underestimate your paper. I dont care how small it Is and how little news you think it might have in it at that particular issue, kiss it for the news that it does bring you. "Wasn't I U4 to get back and read some papers? intelligible to me.

Honest there was times on that trip when I would have given almost any amount of money to Just have had that day's American newspaper. They don't print a bit of American news. Even the big papers in England wont have two datelines from America. Why our country newspapers have more European news in one edition than their big city ones will have of us in a month. No wonder the world dont know anything about us.

They dont get a chance to read it, and If it is in there, It is Just about Al Ca-pone, or some gangster, or anything that is in any way detrimental to our country. They keep publishing that we are going to go 'off the gold. WELL SO MANY OF US over here havent seen any gold in so long that we dont know if we are off It or on it. But, honest, It was good to get a newspaper In my mils again. A breakfast without a newspaper Is a horse without a saddle.

You are just riding bareback if you got no news for breakfast. I have just read since I been bark till I am blue in the face. Everything that has happened In three months was news to me. Why do you know that I used to send Mrs. Rogers cables from Japan and China asking her about different national events.

Here I was all hopped up over mv good friend, John Garner. Now I By "SCOOP" SHUTZ. The hardest thing about whitefishing, In a cold winter, is the ice. I knew I was about to make that discovery when I suddenly found myself in the air, my feet higher than my head. Herman Edwards, staff photographer of The Spokesman-Review, laughed long and loudly.

He'd come along to take some pictures of Lake Pend Oreille's greatest winter attraction. "Hold that pose," he said, and began opening the camera case. But I didn't. About an Inch of water overlay the Ire, whipped into minute riffles by a gusty chinook wind. It wasn't enough to cushion the fall but.

it was more than ample to provide at least half of the fisherman's proverbial luck, GETS SOME SYMPATHY. Emll Anderson, my wife's brother, who lives on the lake shore, at Kootenai, Idaho, was more solicitous, although he too got a chuckle out of the fall. "Hurt you?" he asked, then "Want to go back?" But I wasn't hurt and the day wasn't really cold enough to make wet trousers uncomfortable. I decided to leave the dampness behind me. We went on.

Edwards and I had left Spokane about 11 o'clock Saturday night, arriving at Emil's at 2 a. after a cautious drive over a snowy North and South highway, one-car wide at places between huge snowbanks and damp and slippery at several others. But the worst of the road was the long wagon brldRe over Lake Pend Oreille at Sandpolnt. It had one-car ruts in deep snow, making passing an unusual hazard, but we met no cars on it. SNOW PROVES WET.

Sunday morning Edwards, Emll and I et forth. There was a leaden sky overhead and wet, snow under foot. Following well packed fishermen's trails down the rugged bank of the lake shore, we found that a light drizzle had made the going slick. Slips to the side let our legs down, knee deep In snow, but we did not slip a great deal. As we went through the booms or the old Humbird mill at Kootenai, now being dismantled, the snow became more shallow.

A half mile out it was but an inch or two of slush. A mile from shore, the driving chinook had turned almost all of it to water, an inch deep over smooth Ice, seven or eight Inches thick. Scores of black dots cluttered the level surface of the lake. Most of them were to the south, toward Bottle bay, fottT miles across, but there were many a mile or so off the northern shore at Sunnyslde, several miles east. Frequently they could be detected sliding along the horizon.

FISH NOT HUNGRY. "The whitefish haven't been biting very good this winter," Emll said as he stepped along, gingerly, as on eggs, over the slippery surface. "But even at that there's been more than 100 fellows out here every day for weeks. Most of them haven't been working, and It helps them get along." The remark made me think of my first winter at Sandpolnt, 1909 and WHY I HAVE SEEN TIMES when I would have given $100 for the Clare-more Progress or the Claremore Mes senger, and that's just two of the the old newspaper. Then look at the difference hi the coat to us.

Then you see too we are living in such an age that we have to pick up the paper to see what countries have gone to war, what ones have had revolutions, how many billions our congress has appropriated. Never since the oldest Inhabitant was born have we lived through such exciting times. The great war was Just local. It was all In France. But today news, excitement, Is everywhere.

Nations are furnishing the news nowadays and not Just Peggy Joyce and Al Ca-pone. So let's all read and be merry for tomorrow the paper may not have enough "adds" In It to come out. (Copyright, 1932.) "Election aint far off and everybody Is up for office that can sign an application blank." NOW ALL THAT DONT SEEM much news to you. But It Is news, esprclally when you know the people and they re your own folks. So no matter how punk you might think your local paper Is getting, Just take It away from you 'and see how you feel.

The old newspaper I think is just about our biggest blessing. Course the car will strike some of you as better, but a horse and buggy wa.s a mighty fine substitute for the Ford. But there has been no substitute for smaller papers of Claremore. Take my ham away, take away my eggs, even my chill, but leave me my newspaper. Even if it Just has such purely local news as "Jim Jones came home last night unexpectedly and bloodshed ensued," or "Jesse Bushyhead, our local M.

Is having one of the best years of his career practically speaking. But they Just wont pay him when they get well." "The county seat was parked yesterday with prominent visitors from out of town, attempting to renew their notes." It had a round hole in the floor, a bottomless bucket beside it. "If there isn't enough snow to bank the sides, I drop the bucket down on the ice, through the hole in the floor, and it keeps the wind from coming tip. Emil explained. He said the lantern gave ample heat to warm the house and further said that having the light shut out enabled the fisherman to see the fish at work on the bait, without necessity of waiting for the telegraphic twitching of a line.

HOUSES ARE PROTECTION. "Anyway, the houses take the misery out of fishing through the ice in bad weather," he went on, "The worst of it is keeping up with the schools. One day about 50 or 60 of us were fishing at Bottle bay, when the school started moving down stream along the south shore. We'd race ahead, cut a hole in the ice, get two or three fish and run ahead again. We followed the school two miles and they didn't spread out more than 35 or 40 feet, traveling In an almost straight line." When we had come out on the lake, off toward the mouth of Bottle bey, 45 or 50 men and 30 or 40 "shacks" were to be seen.

The more we traveled, the farther away they seemed. "What are those fellows running away from us for?" asked Edwards. "We only want to play one hole." Pend Oreille, too, Is a place ox magnificent distances. As we were going back to Emil's, we saw the group breaking up, scattering over the ice. "They ain't biting good," said Emil.

"Everybody on the lake Is trying to find them." But we didn't fare so badly. Besides discovering the hardest thing about whitefishing. I found the easiest: Having a brother-in-law who knows how to get them. Look at the picture. ly be felt on the hook.

A line on a pole or grasped in the hand would miss the nibble entirely. It might not lose the fish but would lose an awful lot of fishing. The wet line on a cold day will soon numb the finger. Then the average tmateur, such as myself, will frequently mistake the throbbing of his pulse for nibbles and haul in barren line. The "regulars" are not often so foobd, When the lake is open, most of the whitefishermen have charcoal or oil stoves or lanterns aboard, to warm their hands.

But when it's frozen, most of them have "houses" mounted on sleds or built right onto the runners. While the three of us were digging in at our first hole one of the regulars, Charles Holmgren of Kootenai, came along, dragging with him his house and another little sled carrying a box for the fish. The top of a lantern showed in the box. We decided to take a picture of Charles. "Watch The Sunday Spokesman-Review," we told him.

"You might see your picture." GRINS FOR PICTURE. "Yumpin' Ylmmlnyl" he exclaimed, startled. "Yoo fellers don't want my picture." We assured him we did, and he grinned. "They wasn't btttn' so gude up the lake," he said. "Yesterday I tuck a lot of 'em out of a hole yust about in here and I t'ink I'll try it some more, If I can find it." As he moved off, he stopped here and there, looking for the lost hole, finally going back up the lake.

Later Edwards took a picture of Emll In his fisherman's bailiwick. The house, about four and a half feet high, was solidly built. It had a bench Inside the door and a board floor, with a lantern in one corner. 1910, when commercial whitefishing on Lake Pend Oreille was at its height. In those days, too, there were hundreds of men on the lake, in boats in open weather or perched on the ice, in the cold.

Then 200 to 300 whitefish was not an unusual catch for one man. Dealers sent an average of two tons of fish a day out of Sandpolnt, Kootenai and Hope, large amounts also going from Bayvlew and even Clark Fork, several miles up the Clark Fork river from the lake. Dover, Laclede and Priest River, too, were shipping points. "BOOTLEGGING" KILLED IT. Depletion of the supply crippled that industry to a great extent, but what eventually killed it was "bootlegging." Too many boxes held trout, a protected fish, under a top layer of whitefish.

The trout fishing became poor in the lake and commercial whitefishing was stopped by law. Some "bootlegging" still persisted, as no limit was set on whitefish, but a new law, several years ago, put a crimp in that racket by fixing 50 pounds as the maximum any person might have in possession. The trout limit always had been comparatively low. About a mile and a half out Emil cut a hole in the ice. Using his tackle, I put a maggot on a hook and plunked the sinker to bottom, perhaps 20 feet.

Then I pulled the hook about a foot off bottom, ran the line over an extended index finger, in the best professional manner, and gently Jiggled the bait upward three or four feet. That covers the usual strata traveled by whitefish, from bottom up to perhaps six feet. The reason for running the line over a finger tip is that whitefish most of the time bite so gently they can hard- Seek Cm A Careless Driver Some States Compel Motorist to Carry Liability Insurance If He Has Been in Accident Massachusetts Is Making Progress Sanding City Streets. Efforts are being made over the nation, as well as in this state, to rule Irresponsible drivers off the highways that Is, drivers who are not able to pay for the damaga they may do with a motor car. Massachusetts was the first state to adopt such a measure with their compulsory insurance law.

Many states watched with considerable Interest for the results and, until last year, the results were not encouraging. Matter of Time Only. We might all be better drivers if we were as smart as the old darky who knew his limitations. When Sambo asked him how fast he could drive his new car, he said he could go two miles a minute, except for one thing. "What's dat, big boy?" said Sambo.

"Only Jest because the distance am too long for de shortness ob de time," was the answer. Make your driving distance correspond Kith your time and your accidents Kill be few and far between. Motorists over this city, particularly those who reside on the South Side, with Its hilly streets, realize the work done by the department of works tha year In sanding the streets during the Ire period. Great piles of sand stand in the curbs when the snows go oft and much labor and expense are involved before the sand can be cleared out of the streets and drains, but the streets were safe to drive over. Many times cars could be driven all about the city without the use of chains.

chusetts motorists that, in spite of millions spent on the roads, of cars excelling, ease of control, all that have preceded them, of more intensive safety education and of a special safety enforcement campaign covering a large pM of the rear, the hazard continues to increase. Motorist Is Menace. "If the Individual autnmoblllst can not be made to understand that he himself Is one of the potential menaces and that all of the trouble can not be charged up to the other fellow, then the situation Is bunk. We all make mistakes and often our greatest mistake is the refusal to admit that we have Just made one. Until we realize that the greatest cause cf accidents lies solely with the individual, nothing further can be done toward safety, except the return to the horse and buggy.

Automobile drivers fall to see or to understand the tremendous forces of energy they control when at the wheel of an automobile. Traveling at SO miles an hour, an automobile hits with the same force as though it had dropped from a 10-story building Isn't that significant? Can't Fool Energy. In speaking of airplane safety, an expert said recently that planes could be made rs safe as possible, but, "you can't fool old kinetic enerey." In other words, the human eiemnt ran not be eliminated, and as long as fools operate airplanes, accidents will occur. There Is no difference In the automobile class as tar as safety is concerned. The other statement that accidents occur when travel conditions are the best means two things too much speed and too much confidence.

We find after a careful check of figures that the most accidents happen to experienced drivers. These accidents happen on straight stret-hes of road on clear, bright days. Nothing further need be said. Fact up varans Room Clerk Does Some Fast Head work When Trained Poodle of Star Boarder Mistakes Bald Dome of Best-Paying Guests for Rolling Sphere. In this state, as veil as in a number ot others, the safety-responsibility law has been urged.

Under this hiK, the oKner is allowed to use the highways until he has an accident vhifb he can not pay for. He then must be able to show financial responsibility before he can drive again. In Massachusetts he must have compulsory state insurance before he can drive. Increased 1 Per Cent. According to figures recently released from the Travelers Insurance company, fatal accidents In Massachusetts increased but 1 per cent during the year, while in Connecticut, a was at the desk one night when in breezed one of the dizziest females I've ever seen.

She was dressed in a style that would have made any self-respecting flapper throw up the sponge and buy herself pantalettes and a hoop skirt and I'll swear she wasn't a day over fifty-five. Or six. Well, she swept up to the desk and gave me the full benefit of an alluring smile. But I controlled myself and merely said in the manner I reserve for grand duchesses: "What can I do for you, madam?" "I want the best room in the hotel," she said. "Now, mind you, I said the best.

There must be cross-ventilation and a southern exposure." -IS- As it happened this was a bit of luck as our season hadn't been any too good and several of our higher-priced rooms were vacant. Here, thought is where I palm off 435. 'It just so happens, madam, that our choicest room is unoccupied," I told her. Then I added with that in ventive genius that has contributed largelv to my success in life: "Mrs. Preston Paige you kndw, of the Virginia Paiges had the room until yesterday when she was called home bv illness in her family." "Is that so!" she sniffed.

"Well, there might be germs in the room no, no, I don't care what member of her family was sick. I'm taking no chances. Not with dear Tobias." "Very well, madam. Another excellent room la vacant which I ara sure will satisfy you. Front! Boy, take madam's things to room 435." "Not so fast, young man," she snapped.

"Are there two comfortable beds in that room?" "Why. yes, there are twin beds but, but I hesitated. What did the old girl want with two beds? "Are you sure they're comfortable? Tobias is used to the best and he'll fret if he can't get his sleep," she said. Tobias? I looked at the register again to be sure that, "Evangeline (Continued on pase two, column one.) "There would be greater reason for confidence in the proposed highway safety research by the federal government agencies in the effort to abate a national scandal if it had not already been made clear that the accident hazard is greatest when the conditions for motor travel are best. The problem, being one largely of psychology, it is pertinent to suggest that with the agencies which are to cooperate in the research there should be associated a psychiatric division." The most significant tveo statements in the above Ke shall quote again in part: "The individual automobihst -5 one of the potential menace," and "the accident ha-ard is greatest uhen travel conditions are best." Other Fellow'a Fault.

This old alibi that the accident was all the other fellow's fault is pure Is a Costly Job. All that work cost money. For the most part, one class of people benefited most the class that owns and operates automobiles. The motorists, then, should pay for the sanding, and not the general public. Which brings forward again our proposition that a certain per cent ct the fund paid in by the motorists each year in license fees and gasoline taxes be returned to the city for use each vear in making the streets safe during the winter months.

It has been estimated that $10,000 would do it and $10,000 off the tax burdens of the cf Spokane Is an item well worth eliminating. Don't you think so' K.M.il. By KAY KENNEDY. I lost 15 pounds that summer I was clerking at the Falrview and every ounce marked an encounter with Wilkins. He'd spent all of his summers at the Fairview for the past hundred and fifty years or so and I suppose he did have some rights as an early settler.

There was some talk that on his first visit he'd come in a covered wagon but you don't have to believe It, if you don't want to. Anyway, he thought he owned the place. I remember he had one chair on the sun porch in the southwest corner that he considered his private property and heaven defend the one who sat therel One of the most familiar sights of the hotel was Wilkins' shining bald dome over the back of the chair while he sunned himself and dozed. New guests wouldn't always realize the enormity of the offense of sitting in Wilkins' chair, and then what an explosion! It would make a charge of T. N.

T. sound like the postman's whistle. I finally settled that difficulty by presenting him with a nice sign lettered, "Wet Paint," which he hung on the chair, except when he was in it. It worked o. k.

only the old boy got a reputation for more or less mild insanity with new guests for picking the only chair on the porch marked "Wet Paint" to sit on. But I didn't know what real trouble was until the day Evangeline Dearborn and her Tobias arrived. I "Criminals kill 11,000 Americans each year. Accidents Kith automobiles kill 33,000. Gun killers usually select their victims.

Careless drivers kill any one uho happens to be in the Kay. Motornts uho kill are three tunes as dangerous as crime-bent gunmen. I he motorics are the deadliest killers nr greatest public enemies." 'I he Satioual Safety council. neighboring state without the financial responsibility system of laws, there was an increafe of 15 per cent of fatal accidents, which the Springfield (Mass.) Republican says "Is a strong Indorsement of the financial responsibility law." "Severtheless," continues the Republican, "it is a sad commentary on the behavior cf Massa.

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