The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 20, 1913, Page 4

Norrnwrerr . Telegraph News Amoctation MEMBER OF THR Aci LEAGUB OF NEWarar Bervice of the Uniled FP vs Rntered at the postoffios, Seattle, Wash. ne seoond Publi A by The ft except | DAILY HEALTHOGRAM ne Pobtiehiag Any i | COLDS ARR SHOWN to be infectious by the fact that thoy are ‘usually, sometimes highly, give it to others ‘contagious. When we have a revere cold we can Mwho aro susceptible, r _ A National Telephone Monopoly N elaborate defense of the Bell telephone system, by its } president, Theo, N. Vail, appeared in the advertising | columns a few days ago. The pith thereof is the contention that the telephone is fa natural monopoly, that private ownership is better than | governmental ownership, and that monopoly and private) hownership make for efficiency. Do monopoly and private ow and is efficiency the only thing ‘to be considered? nership make for efficiency The New Haven railroad system is an answer. It rep- resents a monopoly of the transportation business of New England. It is an example, also, of private ownership, Not content with its own large railroad business, the New Haven system absorsbed all other railroads in New England and bargained to keep out the Grand Trunk, a pos- sible competitor from Canada. 1k lay Gone Wa deals The New Haven also took over the steamship and trolley, wo piace to live Int dines. | There's no one on the square ceived and executed by tyros or And people everywhere The plan was not conc y ty perc de tah Anton The world’s a rotten hole, weaklings. Pierpont Morgan, Mellen and their associates |} havent any vim or real ambition represented the best brains of the financial and Big Business And gE plane are going to rdition world. The weather’s on the bum, What more lamentable failure? The New Haven proved itself wasteful of both life and And, as is/|A pail of gloom descends, The future's looking glum, Fate crowds and shoves me, j ‘capital. It has been inefficient and expensive. T event aay todos » always the case with monopoly sooner or later, it became) Nobody loves me. : Hindifferent to public opinion and to the performance of its|'* ae nctay Cheer opel, | ‘public duties. And grab a heavy bludgeon—and 4 The recent disclosures and occurrences are merely the Vd slay himt | bursting of the boil which has been coming to a head for a! The cheerfulest of men Mong time. sore pi oeslae foctod “aa then, And the same tendencies are apparent in the Bell tele-| When life just makes him sore, phone system, one he will kick and roar Not content with absorbing independent telephone lines, | fit has reached out in other directions. | It went into the business of manufacturing telephone and) lectrical supplies. The Western Electric Company is one | yof its subsidiaries. And, if you want to have a modern instance of the aim jand methods of monopoly, study how it sought to put an) lend to the competition of the Kellogg Switchboard Company, | has disclosed in the litigation in Illinois. Then the Bell system cast covetous eyes on the tele-/ h business and took over the Western Union Telegraph But the most vital thing is the fact that private monopoly! A Sea lo man says he always * *, + ; ; su that a chicken had but is not content with managing business—it also insists upon | (00) 0") he started tn ore “managing the government. The trusts reached out and se-| ing chicken plo in restaurants, cured control of the republican party. Why Ie it, somebody, that Tammany in New York and Quay and Penrose in Penn- divorce 1s the cause of #0 ‘sylvania are illustrations of monopolistic control of public pein iit org yi we Geniva Is a fine sideline if you have a steady meal ticket. affairs. The Southern Pacific railway became the government of “eed Our first we the jt f In many cities we see utilities which ought to be regu- Page ity Wire aiiedee 4 pg Ohad ‘lated by the government seeking to control the government. And the Bell telephone system is not free from attempt- ing to control government. Judge Ben Lindsey, in his bat- tles with the “Beast” in Denver, found E, B. Field (president of the Bell telephone system's Colorado subsidiary), the head jand front of the forces that preyed upon the public and made ‘representative government a farce. Public ownership and operation may not at once | plano a nt out |then ca upon the fire 4 . | When an old man marries the after all » to refer to him pserved w more pleasing t as “well pick! . PETE TTTLC LL oe A i rane (4 * be all that its advocates expect, but its short-comings | % gut He pidn't Bite Him. will have to be very grat indeed if it does not make * ‘Well, cid he pay yout'® a better record in efficiency than private ownership | * Fe hagi eo . of public utility monopolies has made in this country. | * for a full set of false ® ——— ® teeth that he had made for ® r Imost a year before. # GEN. JESUS MORALES was sure correctly called “The Crose|* ® man almo -eyed.” He gave Huerta 600 followers last March, turned rebel, and | * Pigs Bund Sh widen he sre * |now has got killed while fighting his noble 600, But Cross-eyed Jesus) 10°. ang “5! hageoice lly hed ng (Morales isn’t the only Mexican who Is falling to look two ways at|y pgs, > dba bog a a poe bs nce and keep his head on, thess days. 1 Rsontlr acim aorh cae ag ¥ * |e eee keeeee een | . . WHY SHOULDN'T there be an alliance between the rich employ- . yers of the state and the church, as charged by Rev. O. H. McGill, at! The wortd is divided into two |Olympia Friday? Surely no one needs religion more than the em-\ classes: those who want to get ployer, and the church must have the money while there remain #0 / their pictur many un-Christianized people in foreign lands! | # in | those who want to and we may add th n each class there are those who tell the truth and those who don’t oe JOY FOR Prince Arthur of Connaught! Artie is to marry the! Duchess of Fife, who is engaged in a hot lawsult with her ma. Just! think of marrying a rich duchess, with mother-in-law effects taboo! What's the use of over other people’s troubles when | your own keep you awake? | ea tel Our Precise Artist GUESS THE fact that we have a grape Julce secretary of state ¢who can’t make both ends meet on $1,000 a month Is proof of the high cost of IIving, all right. WE WONDER If Messrs. Peirce, Goddard, Marble and Bruskevith are sul of the opinion that they must protect the people against them- selves Boston Inclined to criticise daughter of a distinguished New England house because she smoked after-dinner cigars on deck of returning @teamebip. MURDER SCHIMIDT came Just In time to relieve us of the tedious Await until activities again begin In the Thaw case. Weak, Inactive Kidneys Cause Much Trouble 2 HE WAS PROUD OF HIS & ” OWN RECORD. A surgeon recommends separate theaters for en and women. Good idea, Then perhaps a man can get ar a place to sit down without mp- a ing his knees against tho chalr- Ri ql |back in front of him, | eee Astronomical Sentiment. Backache, rheumatism and all kidney and bladder disorders are caused from weak, inactive kidneys, which fail to filter out the poisons, and keep the blood pure. The only way to pos- itively and permanently cure such troubles is to remove the “I wish I were a star,” he sighed smiling at his own poetle fancy, “[ would rather were comet,” she sald dreamily. 7 ; r “And why?" he asked tenderly, | cause. The reason why Foley Kidney Pills are the’ best|at the same time: taking her un aby medicine for kidney and bladder troubles is because they are|"¢*ist!ng little hand In his own made wholly of those healing, strengthening and restorative | qos cne (i, With & brooding ingredients that nature needs to build up and renew these| his soul, “becaitse then you wed important and vital organs. See that you get Foley Kidney| com sround only once tn fifteen | Pill for your kidney and bladder troubles. They are tonic in! ¥*#t.” ; 4 action, quick to give good results, and contain no harmful uitdais toeenlnceoite on ight drugs. For sale by Bartell Drug Stores, eTopNotch. ® moonlight | | | | BILL BIGGINS’ SAYS THE X-RAY SKIRTS ALL RIGHT - ON SOME OTHER MANS’ DAUGHTE | papers Will speak of him as “well| &et feeling right losing sleep) | | | | | i And ewear and holler; Bo let me rage and snort with tem per fearful, And when the fit Is over I'll cheerful be Beauty Notes © her cheeks—aye, red Most beautiful Red wer rosy her golden hair, And of them both ahe always took The most exacting kind of care.| Each might she washed the former off. The latter she hung on a chair. R= Could Stand It. Lady (at plano): They say you love good music, Youth Ob, that doesn't matter! Pray fo on. BEST LAXATIVE iF CONSTIPATED, BILIOUS, HEADACHY, STOMACH S80UR —CLEAN UP TONIGHT! Get a 10-cent box now. 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They love Cascareta be cause they taste good—never gripe or sicken CUT- OHIO fate Dentists WE STAND BACK OF OUR WoRnK FOR 12 YEARS GUARANTER Amalgam Filling 50c Up Gold Crowns $3 and Up Bridgework $3 and Up ‘Full Sets Teeth $5 ¢%¢ We have thousands of Senttlo pa tients who will tell you that they never knew that plates could be fit ted no perfectly until they had us do the work. Any work that doesn't prove sat isfactory will be repatred free of charge at any. time. Come !n SOON for FRE mate 12-Year Guarantee to All Free Exatnination today, 1f you wish examination and est! 207 Universtty St, 24 and University Sty Opp. Vraser-Patggnon Co. * “CASCARETS” THE | ly mba EZE OR TWO WITH US| System Discovered Fortune Teller—You are elt {eh and of a very Jealous dispo- sition. Girl-O, I see your scheme. | When ard is spades you give ¢ ‘ , és * * is . * * ht foot fs normally * * le the left tn « bd t * yetor was called and ® * Mwcovered that the # * professor had two socks on ® & his right foot and none on ® & hin left * * tate hs TTER UA adaoee 4 ol: orman: ° wish to totro self as a veteran to congratulate erely you on queried Cohan overy 7 discovery, sir.” replied the | 7 y [P LITTLE GIRL GAN | RUN WIRELESS ON GREAT SHIPS This clever Mttle girl fs only 1 Her name ts Alice MeConaughey What 4 1 suppose she tn what di suppose she has Why, she is @ wireless operator! Sho has just received the firet LICENSE TO OPERATE A WIRELESS ON THE GREAT LAKES, under the new federal laws. She made her own wireless ap paratus and learned to run {t by When the terrible floods were arrying away homes and cattle and killing many in Ohte taughtor young & the mens ages from Alice has the on a REAL oat lakes! wireless operat to be VERY ecause they are r help to other ships " rs of VERY 16 ones have who usually t to the last in th ar ht at Met of al bank neler pe naughey R. « Me( examiner ri atios cinnat! A can A H 2 school house which he attended a CONTEST CLOSES. keenest tar Circle's Frida forty con competion 6 port of ind Harold Rutbruff, whose | address ia R. F. D. No. 3 rlington, Wash, won the grand prize, The contest w drawing r school d Ruthru sketched — th aro rl on contest was decidedly Inter ng for the est reason that many of the drawings were = ¢ Harold Ruthruffs was o ry that you made early 10 | tzed that this was his first com, tl pole at nber of the Cir veral of the # He is a new me sonK and his drawing was very merit rious, especially when it {s real ion in this kind of a contest the drawings were good, which was the cause for close competion The following boys and girls were I that there Is in the English | awarded honorable mention Joe language a rhyme to the word|tucas, Agnes McDonald, Floyd baby.’ Other song writers had al-/ Monroe, Emagine Hullen, Beatrice ways rhymed it with ‘lady'—a mont nroe, Arthur Seawell, George «sing § proceeding—until, tn Pauline Humphrey, Arnold song. 1 Guess Tl Have to leton, Donald Kensie, Ruth be ph My Baby, you made an/ Luster, Grace Seacroach, Harriet actual rhyme with ‘maybe H on, Martha Harrington, Ruth Thank you,” responded Cobh Pappin, Cecil Her Carl Simp In that all you had on your! son, Thomas Hanson, Daisy Greer cheat? well, Cecelia Green, Gladys Mun No, air,” said the veteran, “T| son. could use a $2 bill If you had one eee to spare le inane Here you are,” answered Co-| HIS REGRET. ussing over the desired cur-|@ and y deserve more than I do.” | How so? with §2." | | | Should Church Be Taxed? Editor Star I have read with t interest a communication in Star of last Friday by “Cith headed, “Churches Pay Taxes.” Now, without following his line of argument, I wish to answer the question with an un-| yes I believe that all/ nate share of taxation ception I would make would be public property It {# @ fundamental principle of yur government that church and state must be kept separate. The present polley of the state to ex empt church property from taxa I believe to be a mistake and injustice to the people. To empt church property from tax ation is an indirect way of requir Ing the people to pay the taxes of that property, or, in other words, it ja taxing the people for the sup-| port of that church. LEVI WRIGHT, $113 King St. . . She's In Some Fix [PHS E REE EE HRS REE REE EEE EE iditor The Star: IT am another California woman who {8 not al lowed to vote, owing to my. hay ing married a British subject If the constitution of the United States is still in force and every person born here {s a citizen, who| has the right to pass laws anulling the constitution? Has it been done really? Would it be possible to obtain Mrs, Mackenzie Gordon's ad- dress? I do want to write to her and encourage her, and perhaps, by other women protesting against the rank injustice, we may have justice done us, A SURSCRINER A letter addressed to Mra. Mac- kenzie Gordon, San Francisco, will reach her.-Ed, MADE NO DIFFERENCE. * Two womon were mutually com. fiding their troubles “You can't think how this high cost of Hving affects us,” confessed one, “Why, my bills ‘for clothes alone are more than twice as much as they were last year,” “Mercy!” gasped the other, “I don't see how your husband can afford it!" That's the answer—he = can't,’ sald the first. “But 1 couldn't af. ford {t last year. So what's th difference?'—Pittsburg Chronicle Welegrayly h ™ u seem to have made a ing wheel and to look ty seatmate heart? ~ e They were going along the pubic ighway at a le ly rate of forty niles per hour when a decrepit hen rooster started to do the ken spectalty—cross the road ne front and hind wheels on the struck the poor, old, stiff. yinted rooster amidships and with ne equak he succumbed. Immediately the man at the steer. started to slow down about for a place to urn His solicitous wife turned to her nd sald: that just Hke his tender He won't be satisfied unless “Isn't he goes back and settles for that rooster, Ho just can't bear to feel be has injured any one or any- thing.” | know if IT had turned Then, louder to her husband she sald George, remember that appoint- ment bi We haven't any time tc go ack for anything.” neing at the clock near his and at the speedometer near , he sighed and sald “You're right, Jennie have killed that old h just as easy as 1 did the rooster!”—Maga- zine of Fun. Se ee ee ee ed SOME ROYAL FADS. Kaiser Wilhelm owns runa a porcelain factory for which he makes designs and from which he makes $50,000 annual profit. Prince of Lippe-Detmold ts a dealer in butter and eggs, while he has as a side line a busy brick factory that adds to his income. King of Wurtemberg is the proprietor of two hotels re. ported to be worth $45,000 an. nually to him, Emperor of Austria. Hung- ary, like the kaiser, operates a china faciory. This estab- Mshment, situated near the Austrian capital, employs more than one thousand skil- led workmen, King of Saxony, too, has business interests of this character. The king of Servia, in ad- dition to several shops doing general trade, is said to pro: mote the sale of a patent medicine and to run a motor car agency.—Top Notch RR at Stee EEE EEE EEE EES Main 0100. Privnie exchange feoting with all @eparimente PHON' RATES By mat, Aatiy, one month tn Bey six mom, 81.80) one pons, By carrion, in city, 250 @ month | te ee oes | e here, Peters,” she LOOKED BEFORE HE ere's no lock on my ba you know, and I must insist o LEAPED. a — ———® your kocking before you enter, 8 A young lady at Bath Beach had hasn't happened yet, but St might sxccasion to complain about one of well happen that you'd com | ca the bathhouse attendants, an old |in on me when I w undressed” fellow who, in the hurry of clear ers, with a chuckle, hastens jam ‘Hs ing up, would sometimes burst in|to reassure the young lady on thi : ipon her bathhouse without knock int x No fear of that, miss, ro! morning, after this had hap-|“No fear of that. There’ lec pe for the sixth or seventh time, |hole in the door what I alw tin the young lady took the old fellow |through before I venture in.”"—Ney we to task Orleans States. aie - —— — — —_—— sis Re SECURITY jf: me wa wne 1s the matter of first importance in selecting an institution witt Jut which to place your savings. KI Strict State supervision, combined with a board of director, eq consisting of well known bankers and business men, {nsures abso Kl lute safety when you place your money with this association, wc We have never paid jess than 6 per cent on savings ie pi OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS JH BIOBDEL, President HENRY C. EWING, Pread’t Bloedel-Donovan = Lobr. Seo'y & Treas. Calhoun, Demy ite RG REME: & Ewing. vu President th a ore ee ADOLPH F. LINDEN, Vico-Prea+ 4,2. ANDERSON, Gent and Treas, mm berman 3. .W. MAXWELL, EW. CAMPRELL, me NG Asst. 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