The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 23, 1911, Page 4

Member of United Press. Published Daily by The Star Publishing Co. - | A Gives a Mountain. | POMP VS Shall the City Pay Its Citizens Dividends?) .. sss" se. The New Conservation—Conservation of Municipal Resources Sain he thinks mae be user ee RIO pra providing empl ent in quarrying CIR CUMBSTANCE. to the men under the society's} \ thier BY WILLIAM DUDLEY FOULKE to the fr Mr. Fo 9 an Indians his end authority on vores . Landed! par Be “St the. United Buntne aval” i he new 1 know why you are calling here \ ‘ “ av " 1 bt after night, taking up my tim ja ai eping other nice men away,” | ot Was There Is a new kind of conservation that lies at our very doors— [4 the popular girl. “You want Pi the conservation of municipal resources, line t ou, ont yout by t Not long ago my wife said to me: A eity ought not to require |", be ghaped , } taxes from its cith It ought to be able to pay dividends on the | wt thought so. Ail right, TI af bro property it own | wit therel That seemed to be at first like a willo’thewisp, well adapted for | : q vati the feminine mind to but the Indy argued the case, and the While some men may wish they . $ I inere eho terened the convinced Her argument was an |) eee eee they might bolt application to purely cipal questions of @ theory very similar to | Wire ON f ge va an aaa a SE that forth by Henry George in “Progress and Poverty wan chute on ‘mara oot ‘ tion al She said: “Take this city, ‘The land which underlies it would | *! a deeded | carey ome ? % all tl be worth for farming purpo: 00 to $150 per acre; now it is worth, | ' 30i8 Gullbe I ave 4 : est parts of it, many thousands of dollars for a small fraction of an acre, | . you know that I descende he 5 hes Of c How did that value arin Why, it arose because the city has | “THEN IT HAPPENED” Connoden ee come, because people built houses clove to each other and started ins | ‘ ian B * ‘ tirec dustries, ‘That is the value the city give Where the city gives se Daily Olecontinued Story.) ; . ‘ has sir value, it has the right to take value—it has the right to draw ite in- | (Our of that does not impres ly q ‘q et all | come from the Increased value of the land. So that if a city were a tenath husband belongs to the A and i 4 ai ee caught young and the property of the city were conserved for the com | A sharp curve on said trestle aeieabnh dnititaae ¢ wi eee “ mon benefit would be no need of levying any other tax upon | A rapidly moving trolley ear on We're w you for | Aedeclialy vat ime sc itn citizens h a case the city simply taxes the value that ft | .siq trestle approaching sald curve, | ———— — - - anid we've all finally got t ; “4 vi aes gives; taxes nothing else | A dreamy-eyed motorman on said | E The town of Pairhope, on Mot bay, & n example to the point. | paridiy moving trolley car approach: | 2 Fairhope was settled by some p: from a. They determined to jing suid curve on sald trestle | | start the right way. They took the town young. The citizen | the land from the municipal! and built thelr cl and they ; been running It for about 15 yea They are able to carry on their ¢ ‘= : government without any taxes; to pay the state and county taxes; to ; How mean can a Fa thes ny lr onli have a free telephone system, schools, a public Nbrary and a free public THIS REPAIR DIRECTORY RUNS EVERY MONDAY, ur other affairs, tha 8 the ¢ a dock. The town is said to be prow Is YOUR AD HERE? 2 He can keep tat ® garbage can 10 oe Sugh examples are comparatively rare in this country compared | ; ete at she wastes. to those abroad. re is in Sweden town by the name of Orson ] ase a He can t the se t the week's wash clean, and} which, without any taxatior s 4 street railway for the free | Safety | " Klein’s Shoe a then comp! ala ot res he potat as thin as he| use of all, a Merary and a padite neat, and phys one tases 0 the Razor . He can kick beca) he pota s th he} government. It does this from the produc y ° ss H | te ma } and around the town | BLADES SL> ospita cannot sit on ¥ peeing Se Sonat Mr. Ockel, in the Westminster Review, mentions the fact that in | ‘ ¢ ng his sock advertising his martyrdom andj there are now » villa that are supported from the | Ber ar Gee ance warr : tcomings of his is the Judiciary draws | ft « pmmune thout taxation uped th inhabitants, and a e arper an ew Rene ee E if naiderable of these te and i . i ‘ ion handed di county, Minn. dividends to their tt This is done largely f | e ODELL “y= F WILLIAM DUDLEY FOULKE a fin © Zurich (Switz nd}, from which he mis | Mall Orders Prompt Attemtion. | i abou each | snitiiaainigaen, ‘ ] ne Of course, if the ipality has enough Jand | ers Ther is ac mnatant rie in & growing j PIPER & TAFT iseuciiee glia ee atate | . . ' ¢| to do this sort of thing, it can pay its own ¢ town at rine in the value ® ough 216 Cales 8 One reason the Canadian perthives peven te Sat, tn part at the | in tree is that hardly any of our to be city, not for th pone jot ek Third and Marton, icra ee aa expense o' the Unite Hl ona s bat its : cities were canght young encugh. hold service corporations. @ tee alue - — conspire to make the settler prosper ‘ | o! returns ought lo grow, too Their latest wrinkle is “the read made farm A tract of land is/ But a great deal can be done from ihe mere use | con 4 upon that basts BREWSTER’S | get aside for settlement a put it in shape for the new-/of the streets themselves, for there ts Just as much |), » present taxes would be greatly Comer to step Into a finished and “going” place. The “ready-made poultry | unearned increment in @ street as there ts ®| reduced. One of the very bes achieve th farm” is tn particularly ‘ong demand. jtown lot. What do we y unearned ement It ts singularly trae that the United States is about the only coun-| Merely the value added to land by the Increase in try in the world that does nothing to help its people “back to the|the number of people living on it or Boil” except to tell them the ongat to go there, is, whe posnible, to have t anicipality both the public service plants. Most of pposed to municipal own: and axon, But there is a t day © certainly getting ahead. There 1 contr us used t The streets of a growing city increase in value | with ve all the time, just as a city lot does. The street rafl- | dawning way increas s traffic as the town grows, the | is no de waterworks Increases the number of its conr *, | Th 4 of conservation that the telephone increases the number of its subserth-!own doors—the conservation of municipal our i Said the “Connecticut Yankee ° a “The citizen who thinks he sees that the commonwealth's political | « i clothes are worn out, and yet holds his peace and does not agitate STAR DUST | MME" Sr'von nee’ Uncie dom cu | Miss Dilipickie Organizes a Bench Show to Reclaim a Neighborhood | office, 91 Union st | oo If you see Uncle Sam out at the elbows and bagging at the knees, | Boneh Show 8 : a a oa G@on't hesitate to urge him to get a new Iniative coat, a pair of referen . ety ay Pann SCHAReER x snsary torial om ae @um trousers, ahd—if you suspect he really needs it—a complete new From the Cold, Cold North. |mon, studies Plato and the Bible.) atone ees -fe ve ee of constitutional un There no man with perves sii ¥ aia } There are marble quarries in the | Who has shaking, gone to| south of Spain which are 1 op 1 bed erated as they were 400 years mo. | by OOD SHO } When the sheets, like Ice, lay! TODAY'S Gi s RT ONE | o'er his form Peru has an aqueduct 360 miles | And froze him e’er be could get which beats anything in this An old darky was among those Adams county vote sellers. Judge | warm. y Blair said to him = ee, 10 eat “{'Ul impose on you a tine of $5, stx months In the workhouse, and| A Chilean coal mine extends m A nolscleas typewrl The mi @isfranchise you for five years. The workhouse se ¢ is suspended.” | thaif three miles under the ocean jum dawns. = Old Mose left very much disheartened. To a friend who asked | ane | ge thinking about] That disgruntled, seedy cheerless ators, TRat's|man you know. bas elther people forge | good woman's Jove or nev “how he came out.” he answered The “I come out mighty po'ly. I gits only $2 for ma vote, an’ de jedge | direct soaks me for five, so I loses $3 on dat; den he gibs me a wukhouse|one step. St - 7 t disinfects me for five years.” ahead. | _— ee ppl cP % _ | Notseless bables would not be Treaty ratified with France to interesting supp! »bscene literatur w — OBSERVATIONS iceus ‘wad pouee soled. basy nover-| iris: $i uppriaiaté ‘the baby's bere : tats do? fem when he takes medicine on | your say-no, DEMOCRATS and insurgents stand pat with both feet on Cannon| Joe fa senator from Texas = a and the rules. who went into the senate poor AND| The old boy has reserved a very ; ee Me IS NOW RICH, opposes the tariff) hot place for wife beater MARY GARDEN’S “Salome” is certainly something awful. Seats| commission idea: Of cour } gone up to $7 per. | What a differen between one's o o ° Marie Corelli, English novelist, | company manners and common | | NO, SIR! The democratic harmony that’s christened with terra-| who is beautiful and says she hates everyday manners! | ‘ pin and sauterne doesn't sail very far beyond the launching skids ee Tee a GENERAL ESTRADA having got comfortably seated in his pr thse eer" (QUTBURST OF EVERETT TRUE) CABINET officer was bottled up in an elevator for two hours the 4 other day. But it wasn't Ballinger. Nothing ever happens to Richard DAVIS ELKINS Is the third generation of his family to sit in the | United States senate. His father left $20,000,000 and the state of West Virginia. o o THEY say the young Gould bride tobe will marry into a crowd of | Sictresses and highfliers. Anything In that to violate the family tra f ditions? . 6. w P THEY'RE seeing the “first robin” down Kast. But the early bird | Some People Call It “Dog Broadway, 5 fen't getting the worm. Worms know more than to go chirping around Sirius St reet. | fo January blizzards pit. And all the dogs ar o o o Just all of a sudden I've found I've noticed th. whe UNCLE KITCHELL PIXLEY says: “Aldrich’s central bank plan Im mission. ‘That mission is to up-|Bothood stands for row Bmells Wall streety, and I guess that’s as near as we common critters'li | git to understanding it.” }lift our at will stand for rowdy But the Real Name of It Is @ rowdy re dy children, 810 FIRST 4 AEREN Light W abinet Work Arranged to Sul soi Third Ay st STOVE LOMB Ind me, Ind. A 3425. a neigh-| dogs oat by teat Pipe Hospital Branch Third and Union Electrical Contractor | a L oth LOCK,»s:, sivecsts BUY YOUR HARNESS REPAIRING IN 1 BRANCHES. ieee Gud, cone. aon’ af © Harley Davideon M - HP. HUGHES | tor 0. K. HARNESS sHor camera shutte Electro Plater Gold, Sitver and Nicke! Plating Mliverware Repiated Ind. 914. 2 4 Unien St Men s, Boys’ ‘ ( and Ladies’ } Bicycles . | Tires. Inner Tubes. Repairing « Specialty 3 } A. L. MALL, 1111 Piet Ay. | ee NORTHW: : ‘TERN ; QUICK SHOR REPAIR stor Our Prices ‘ Boe 20 s. “ 1. Briggs Mal 13t Standard Typewriter Repair Works n | All makes repaire M7 MINCKLEY Bt 2218 First Ay., Bet, Bell and Bt sets of single ex ¥ 1 : aglngl ie rt on TONay, no! and rowdy smells.| 4b W. HIRSCH, 719 special price this me a % ° o ° | @ live in a residence part of | It's lost its grip, and is about ready _ ~ - a STUBBS of Kansas defines it thus A false and illegal indus. jtown that's gone stale. Our street |to bust up into a slum, M. TOKUYA Key and ‘ trial system.” And he calle for “rigid, plainly written laws to loc jis a fair sample. At first glance it} Now, I've been seized with a| Expert in Mending Losk * its iron grip.” That's Stubbs jlooks all right—nothing but homes, | hunch that if I could uplift the dogs | Percel#!™ , . cksmiths * ee Pg | |tolerably clean pavements and no| themselves, there'd be oral |and all 4. PIERP has “restored confidence” in another bank crash, and Jasloona of chesp flats until you get|wave sweep over Sirius st) inert the croakers say it netted him twenty millions. They don't know }around the corner—-but it has filled | would start an uplift of the human! 139 atadteon philanthropist when they see him. jup with a lot of families who are | being And the best way to do| ‘ ot Se ° ° over-partial to dogs. It's a rather | this, | think to pull off a benet * COMMANDER SIMS gets a public reprimand for that “last drop ne black and when {t comes to|show to make the doga self re shy Beans of blood” speech at the English quet. He mean’t well, but forgot | |life about 5 p. m. on a nice day | ing. YOUR HOUSE RUGS that he wasn’t the American people. jyou’d think you were in Constanti-| That's what I'm going to do. be “eye os + ae aa nople. Some people call it “Dog}have a bench show for the dogs of para ethe oe CEREMONY of Admiral Barry's lowering his pennant {s said to Broadway,” but the real name of it|Sirius st. Diana Dillpickles pa tat Method. > 4 have lacked in “spontaneous features.” But we never saw a fellow i ald po E: | is Sirius at hat's the kind of | trone ‘ 1 retire more spontaneous than Mr. Barry. EVERYBODY IN THE CAR Il - LOOK! LOOK iQ | street It is after you get to know| (Continued.) By Fa, o 0 5 pairing Our IF NAT GOODWIN were thinking of marrying us we certainly THIS FELLOW'S BEEN POSING HIS HAND 7 | Bpectalty would make him sign a nuptial contract to go cahoots in the property just as Edna did befora he got us within 10 miles of the happy bymeneal alta AROUND HIS PACE -IN SIXTEEN. DIFFERENT WAYS !!} HE'S AFRAID SOMEBODY MIGHT OVERLOOK IT!!! ARE YOU ALL DONE 2H STROLLERS’ COLUMN The bashful young man with the rocking chair habit apologized | h when he found himself sliding|a across the room, chair and all | toward the girl on th no stool |Several times durin evening |that involuntary trip across the carpet was r ted, to the evident | distress of the shy young 1. Lhe |next time he called the young man jPicked out the same animated chair, but though he rocked vigor ously, it remained rooted to that one spot. Presentlyhe bent down jand examined the rockers, Hach| [rocker had been bandaged in two} different places with wide velvet ribbon, ‘The girl on the plano stool smiled, I put those velvet bands on the rockers for your: benefit,” she said. | yi SURGEONS are going to separate those Filipino Siamese twins at New Orleans. What's the sense in using up the U. §. supreme court on that tobacco combine when we've got surgeons to burn. ° 0 Oo G. FONG, who tried to shoot Prince Tsal Heun, at Oakland last November, gets 14 years in the pen, G. was a good cook and it's awful tough on Oakland " a o 0 0 AND NOW conere promises to give us another lovely exhibit tion of statescraft in Ziving the psople direct election of United States senators indirect! ie a BY THE TIME his wife's lawyers get throngh trying to prove bad habits on him, Mr. Schenk may be willing to take the poison. °o 0 °o U. 8, CIRCUIT COURT decides ticket sealping in Colorado ti | legal. Railroads tickled and go right on with passenger scalping ° 0 oO JUST THINK of ex-King Manuel getting down to “House to let furnished,” and Ma sele ea the house, too, oo EXPRESS COMPANIES. ‘lowering rates, sive movement has a meaning of its own, ry little progres- You ean rock just as ea m on, but your ¢ ‘Ob, thanks,” said ian, but he eyed the intervening ce disapprovingly, emed doubtfal if he er efforts to make hin “SOCIETY NOTES.” air udge half an inch all evening the “pp 2 comfor ily” with | Bm manuet & Co, 1110 9m Ay, Main 712 will not young and ft recta STONES... 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