The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 16, 1911, Page 4

cei ab woul oa acquainted before they get married a Whings they should think of t Fwomen, at the most importa ‘Brive capital where it does not want to go. System you would offer an inducement to capital to go in.” ‘believes that to be the most important thing on earth “Sdea that the people are all capitalists, with the most precious, | “grandest investments ever permitted man by the Creator, never > ital THE SEA ATTLE STAR | Pubiiching Go Value of Seattle real estate increased $30,000,000 the last five years. made the increase? The new population that came here to live and Who gets it? About 5 per cent of the inhabitants, who own the Who pays it? About 95 per cent of the inhabitants, who rent the s pays the taxes on the increased valuation? The people, who are the “ultimate consumers.” If the city gets bigger and bigger, the property more and more valuable, the rents and taxes higher ‘and higher, the 5 per cent richer and richer, the 95 per cent poorer and poorer—what then? Well, it is to be hoped that the plain people will get wiser and wiser. It’s that or “bust.” The single tax—that is, a tax only on land—is the remedy, according to Henry George, Jr. A city is like a big tree—it must have strong, firmly im- Hedded roots if it is to grow and prosper, Some of Seattle's foots have been cut by the greed of her street car monopoly, and Seattle's growth has been retarded as a result No city can be prosperous unless her great body of aver age citizens are prosperous. Millionaires have never yet built & city, and millionaires will never maintain a city, Some of Seattle's “big business” highbinders, however, will never see this point. They believe the average people were put on earth for the sole purpose of being plundered, and they be- ieve the supply will never diminis The “Sparking” Parlor * “If some one will give me $5,000, or even $2,000, I will equip for Hoboken a resort for lovers which will insure the ung people here against divorce and render their married dees happy and content—something that 50 per cent of the Marriages now performed are not.” So says Rev. Joseph D. Peters. It is to be hoped that he will get the money. It is an interesting social experiment. But what does he expect to do? He expects to give young people who now meet only in dirty tenements, among squalling children, at picture shows, in dark streets and dimly lighted parks, a chance to meet in comfortable parlors, and thus to give them an opportunity to He expects, also, to living conditions and other re taking out a marriage license erely that young men and It have fhe advantages of a home. It is her startling to be told that eat numbers of young people practically homeless, isn’t ? It isa fact, however—a fact growing out of congested city milation and the conditions of modern industry We are paying a high for our prosperity Ik to them about temperament + What Mr. Peters proposes is ve of their lives. Wiages, about balf of which end in divorce. Consin Bill Taft is still worrying about capital, aking Alaska in Tacoma, he said he saw no more réason for gov ment ownership there than elsewhere, and he favored leas- ig. “What you want,” said Bill, “is a condition of ownership at will attract capital. Some people have an idea that you can Under a leasing It is wonderful what a grasp of things our present presi- dent hasn't got. You'd think he would remember that glorious exhibition of government work and ownership, the t na canal, but he didn’t, for his mind was laboring on private capi tal. And you'd think he would know that there's or capital that can be driven anywhere vernment cap kind of but his heart is so tender toward corporation capital that it cannot el for any other sort. Poor Bill! He can't help it. He was born that way, raised t way and is “sot” that way. All his life he has been slosh- ig around with the cohorts of private capital, and he naturally The ‘entefs Bill's head. Government landlordism looks more cap- ic to him, and he'll be backed in his leasing policy by the ¢aptains of finance, gentlemen to whom he’s been giving just “what they want. Of course, Bill's right in saying that private capital cannot te driven where it does not want to go. And before it can be Alaska coal, William. IT'S early for winter, but New England has seen snow and Montana @ rea! biizzard. e 0 6 “ REDMOND invites Great Britain to make ber supremacy as com- plete as possible, so Ireland gets bome rule in local affairs. ° will marry a certain princess of That's the stuff, boy! o °o MARQUIS OF STAFFORD says he India, whether anybody likes it or not + eR | MASSACHUSETTS banker died of biood poisoning contracted from bank notes. Don't expose yourself to such perils, young man PARIS says queens are not good dressers—that the young ones dress too old, the old ones too young. And Paris knows what's what KEEP your head level on the McNamara trial at Los A for the facts. And remember that nobody has been convic C. 7-9 PRESIDENT ELIOT sails Nov. 7th for an eight months’ tour of the World. Bet he will have a lot of interesting things to say when he comes back. a 9-1 6 JOHN BURNS refased $1,000 for the straw hat he wore in the dock strike, 22 years ago. We can supply an ancient straw for half the money, or even less, ° ° ° ENGLISH folk sorrowfully admit that at last Alexandra, queen mother, is beginning to show her age. Her youthfulness has been the wonder of a generation. s. Walt d yet, take BRET HARTE said that California in early days was “a land of magic and madness.” Just what some distinguished and plutocratic gen- tlemen thought when California voted for recall of Judges. o 0 oOo THERE 1s much joy in the Duwamish valley today. That joy ts ‘measured by the difference between the old robber rates charged by the Stone-Webster monopoly and the new rates which went into effect Sat- urday, In the first edition of The Star each day now a free elp Wanted” department is being printed. It is pri- ly for the benefit of men and women who are looking for work. But it helps the employer, who can insert an ad, free of cost, and the department is of real interest to all readers. eae free help wanted ads run exclusively in the first edition of The Star, ON THE STREETS AT 11 O'CLOCK. Buy a Noon Edition and watch the ads. A part of} the price, according to Mr. Peters, is hasty, ill-conditioned mar coaxed into Alaska, it will have to be given a cinch on that) ME RESULT, ‘ve tota| “Did you learn to milk the cow I hope! while you were in the country, Ma e Mra, Henry Peck —Ther you what I think of you I've made myself plain. nt Mr. Henry Peck—Made yourself! Yo, but I learned how to appre plain! I thought you were born ciate the old masters and run a that way, leixecylinder automobih THE BETTER JOB The Impulsive Guest—1 suppose, now, you would like to get a Job in @ restaurant patron! by millionaires, where you'd get big Upat The Obsequious Waiter air. I'd rather have @ job in a restaur ant where fourflushers on $ week salaries bring the girls they are trying to make @ hit with.-Toledo Made. LONGING “If there ever was a man who really ber, “it is the one on bis first trip on an ocean liner,” Browning's Magazine. FROM DIANA’S DIARY As a Camera Lady on the “Dally Squeeze,” Miss Dilipickies Becomes Tangled Up in a Romance of the Frivolous Rich BY FREDO SCHAEFER j | | r | | i | | es sammie — | \ 1 While waiting on the upper crust’s marble steps, Bessie Biff gave me the inside dope on the Van Svelte-Scadsborough nuptials. it keep on unearning. Hence be Aw camera lady on the Dally hr =< spotted as a good cateh. | ene . jut he must have a cork center, for Sneere ‘apt pretty be . neese I'm kept pretty busy nap- 1. was tno iively for some of the ping the upper crust of society. By girts, and they muffed him. The this I mean the dollar mark brand low down on it is that he ‘ran out’ of sock ‘The other kind ts get- on them. Finally Gladys Van Svelte ting weareer all the time. It's Incky nailed him just as he was about ripe to be called iddle class” now. for a sanitarium. Gladys jan't fabu- | The main event under the big | lously rich, Sho's only near rich. canvas just now Is the impending She has « couple of million, but it's couplingup of Lancelot Scadbor. o# much of a holst for her to marry jough. 1 was detailed to go with Lancelot as It would be for you to | Bosate Biff, the live wire society | marry a plumber.” epectal of the Daily Sneeze, to get) At this point they let us in to pictures of people concerned in the photograph the prospective bride in jbig doings. While waiting on the her troussean, Probably because jupper crust’s marble steps Beasic she was golng to marry a multt Biff gave the inside dope on the millionaire she pulled a good deal |} Van SvelteSeadsborough nuptinis, of the stuff called hauteur, but I ‘The heart interest in this story is wasn't much impressed. It's re that Lancelot is going to settle markable what a difference it down, not so much that he fs going makes when people haven't got to marry anybody,” chirped Bessie, as much money as you thought they He inherited a mint of unearned had. disposition to let | | (Continued.) ONE OF MANY. | | | | “Your thermometer is wholly in-| correct. It registers 10 degrees leas} |than the actual temperature,” “That's why I ike it. I dread |these fearfully candid friends.” “Then you think you won permanent. place in ber heart?” ‘I'm just a notch on her parasol hantle; that is all.” no COLLECTING AN OUTFIT “Why does your daughter always wait until September to go away?” Better chance to borrow dresses, parasols, wraps, ribbons and so on.” UNPOPULARITY DEMANDED frien “We didn’t want a man who makes friend: tossel, “as much as on watchdog of the treasury, replied Farmer Corn- who don't object to enemies, We wanted a MADE IT UNANIMOUS An African Methodist revival was in progress at Buxton, Ia, Brother Johnson had “wrestled” long and hard In an offort to get “religion.” At last the minister rose wearily, “Ladies and gentiomen,” he said, “I move you that Br’er Johnsing’s | sins be forgiven him.” | “TL second dat motion,” came simultaneously from a dozen husky throats, And his sins were unanimously forgiven.—Success Magazine, ONLY A SHORT TIME “What's the reason Grisby doesn’t apply for divorce?” “Why, bis wife has taken t laning, an wlihye hls o monoplaning, and he thinks he might ted the earth,” said the milk a igive be | Dutch | phia Record. “How did you come to elect that man? He never seemed to make - 16, 1914 WHY NOT SMILE. AWHILE? |FOURTEEN WAS® SURE, “George said he loved me the minute he saw me,” “How's that?” “He said 1 was almost the oppo- site of bis first wife, and t Just the kind of a girl I been looking for.” AOsST ANYTHING aera * WATCH FOR IT} The Star has secured the services of BK. 8. Smashey to edit the Weekly Wasp, which will appear in The Star weok- ly beginning tomorrow, Mr. Smashey is best known for his work on the Atchison Globe, for whieh paper he wrote the famous “Globe Sights,” which ® attracted attention every: # where and were widely quoted. CEE RHEE eS HER HOLD. “So he married a manicurist?’ “You. he happy?” | m afraid not, He complains that ebe has quit holding bis hand and wants to confine herself ex clustvely to holding the pocket book Chieago Record Herald. = * * * o a * * eeeeeeeseeeee® NOTHING LIKE THAT? “Charh dear,” said youn: Torkina, “what is # jackpot? “Why-—er—a jackpot Is a gen- @ral contribution for purposes of charitable donation.” “Oh! Do you know I was afraid it bad something to do with the wickedness of politics! ashing fon Evening Star. BEATS THE DUTCH. DAuber—Your daughter paints in the Dutch school, does she not? Mra. Nowrlch--Not much, she don't. W quarter to} school, indeed!~-Philadel-| | HOW MUCH IN DOLLARS? Mra. Breathiess—Why don't you consult the great Engitah spectaliat. {Dr. Starver? He claims that his |pattenta have lost ten pounds a week under his treatment. Mrs. Woodby-Silmmer—That was when he was cticiag In Eng land QUESTION FOR QUESTION. Gibbe—What an aggravating habit Jones has of answering a question by asking another. Dibbs—Yes; I've noticed that Last night I asked him if he'd lend me $6, and replied by asking Boston Transcript. THE TOURIST. “L wouldn't for worlds.” “Lam glad to see somebody in | terested in research.” “It tan't ti 1 want to have my photograph taken standing in front of the main dump.’ COMFORTABLE. “That fellow looks rather com: fortable in spite of the weathe: You, he takes things oasy, He's £ pickpocket, you know. ‘ork Times. | Those Buried Treasures _ “My speech was rather lengthy, am afraid,” said the young states: pan, “but I assure you that it con- ins numerous gems of thought,” “Perhaps,” replied Mr. Groweh r, “but I have never allowed my- if to take the theso res.” —Wasbington Star. Violent Language First Deaf Mute—So when rd the report he got About It. he furious | Second Deaf Mute—Furious! Why, he was so mad that the words he used biletered his fin gers,—Exchange. Curloue Mayme—Sure I used to go with him, Did you tell him I was going to be married? Grayoe--I sure did, Mayme—Did he ask how soon? Grayce—-No; he asked how long ~-Toledo Blade, A Privilege Usurped. “t understand Ca y, the con tractor, is having trouble with his wife.” said Mr. Rafferty. “What about?” inquired Mr, Dolan “L think it's a kind of jealousy, Casey came around with a black ig that sho didn't give him."— ashington Star, at home. |@ me if [ took him for a darned foo! | miss the pyramids | ghtest interest | stories of buried treas MILES OF STREET RAILWAY WILL SOON BE OWNED BY SEATTLE Beattie will soon lu nearly 14 miles of cityowned street ratiway. Running from the extreme south city mits, below Taylor's mill, the line will extend as far north as Aalmon bay, tapping on ite way the most populous part of the city, and forming an ideal trunk line for the addition of “feeders” in the future. It is now over seven months since the people voted to bulld this line, Much red tape had to be gone | through, and many legal entangle ments, ineluding court injunctions, have beon straightened out. The ordinance contining the plans and specifications for the construction of the line probably will be passed by the counell today, Construction will then be started immediately on the north end. The condemnation of the Crawford prop orty will also begin within a very short time, Mayor Dilling has signed the condemnation ordinance and the corporation counnel's office in about to get to work, It will take about three months to com plete the work of condemnation Thus, it ts figured that the north end of the ine will be near com- pletion by the Ume it in decided whether the city will over the Crawford line or paraliel it Witt ar heme vom MUNICIPAL STREET RAILWAY 406TH (SBS HES HIS SPECIALTY The Doctor—Feeling better today? The Patient-—A little. Hut my heart still barts me. The Doctor—Oh, I can stop that, all right.-Toledo Biade. KODAK DEVELOPING 100 A ROLL Work Guaranteed Lane, the Bookman, 208 Union St. BOAS AND MUFFS We make a specialty of cleant shading ostrich an Kn gg: MODEL MILLIVERY 627 People’s Bank Bldg. PAINL DENTISTS We Are the Pike Street Bargain Dentists ok and ayed. nt dentiote rep | eta the best work for iow prices ix what inte your work work KOWN WOK | suv PLS ALBANY P. AIN LEGS ear at —About Real Estate Loan On Small Properties The poor man who sets out to own his own home knows that he has to pay a higher price for his ground than does his richer fellow citizen, because he buys a smaller area. He has the grit to overcome that handicap. He may save sor thing by doing part of the building him- self, but his materials are apt to cost him more than they would cost the man with abundant capital who buys in larger quantities. He has the grit to overcome that handicap. | Likewise, if he buys a home that happens to be on the | market, he will find that unless he can pay all cash, it will cost him a little more than it would cost the man who is ready to pay in full. He has the grit to overcome that | handicap. In borrowing money on his property, he also realizes that, no matter how well disposed toward him the lending bank or company may be, there are rules that compel con- servatism. Besides the difference ywhich may be called the quality of the security, ich usually affects the interest rate, there are items of expense that all bor- rowers, rich or poor, are required to bear; and some of these may be a little heavier on the small property in propor- tion to value. For instance, it takes as much ti as much money to bring the abstra s and perhaps costs t down to date as it would for the larger property. A legal Opinion as to the validity of the tit! time as for the larger property. Alaska Buliding, Home of the foandinavian American Baad . examination and also requires as much The expense of a Title In- surance Policy guaranteeing the lender against loss through defects of title, varies somewhat, but all policies of $2,500 and less cost approximately the same. To send appraisers takes more time because it is usually further from the center. to examine the property Thousands of Seattle home-owners have had the grit to overcome all of these handicaps, It is the policy of this bank to remove or reduce the borrowing difficulites as far as conservative banking permits. And, all things considered, we are offering and constantly making small real estate loans, as well as large ones, on a very reasonable basis.