The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 18, 1914, Page 4

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DOT SATCHEL VEN You WHO'LL Yes, Judge Frater, you're quite right when you say that it should not be the policy of the Courts to continue indefinitely the receivership of the Seattle, Renton & Southern. The Star is lad to see you take steps to close up such a Seplorable receivership. The affair should have been ended a long time ago. The Renton line has been in the hands of the court for about two years. Only because it was in the hands of the court, has this line been enabled to treat the city of Seattle with that high-handed effrontery that has characterized it. Only because it was in the hands of the court, through a recelvership, could the Renton line MEMBER OF SCRIPPS NORTHWEST LEAGUE OF NE —<—<———— = THE SEATTLE STAR Telegraph News Service of the United Preas Association. Entered at Seattle, Wash. Postoffice as Second-C' Matter. mall f city, 85 per mon. up to six mos.; siz mos. $1. and santas wi By carrier. che Sc a month. biished Daily by The Star Publishing Co. Vhone. Main #400. i'r ee 7 “lachange convecting all departments. : yenr 92.25. A woman’s church, with woman officers and a wom- an minister, is to be established in Wallasey, Cheshire, England. see ee Professor Arloing, of Lyons, France, proved by ex- eriment that human perspiration is an irritant because i lly poisonous. it is actually pi . P Brae £ The Eskimo pays his doctor his fee as soon as he & d¥rives. If the patient recovers it is kept; if not, it is "returned. id “eee @ . Persia has no distilleries, breweries or public houses, © and native wine is the only intoxicating beverage ; oe eee . A man found drunk in Denmark is turned over to * the care of a doctor and the bill is sent to the proprietor § of the last saloon visited by the man . he oe One church in an Oklahoma town advertised free lemonade at its Sunday service. A rival church is ad- vertising free buttermilk The present crown of the English king was original- ly made for Queen Victoria, at her coronation, in 1838. The principal jewels were taken from older crowns “he ee sera stereeres Fire losses and the expense of fire prevention cost the United States more each year than the total value of its production of gold, silver, copper and petroleum ee ig Paraguay is the home of a giant wasp, so terrible that most native forest hunters fear it more than they do snakes, centipedes or spiders a6:6° 8/6 The Borneo islands boast of a telegraph line con- PevEVETEOETetee = structed of mahogany and ebony poles. This is no doubt ft the most valuable telegraph line in existence A ie Fee ’ According to an Italian mathematician, every person * in the world could stand comfortably in an area of 500 ® square miles, while a graveyard about the size of Colo + rado would bury all of them oe Western Australia produces more gold than any < American state, sends more pearls to Europe than any other country except Ceylon, and is said to have the rich- est belt of hardwood timber in. the world Brussels maintains a school for grave-diggers, through which men must pass to take up that occupation . se Pereereses Duke, said to be the largest horse in the world, and weighing more than 3,000 pounds, is exhibited by Charles » Miner, of Brattleboro, Vt rs ne lc positions,” that war territory must bi full of them, THE SHOE REPAIR MAN 216 Union 8t—2 Shope—110 Madison JUDGING BY the way retreating generals fall back to “more etrat- have even dared to dream the city for $1,600,000 fo The Renton receivership should be no dif- ferent than any other, Judge Frater, and you're quite right when you adopt this view. other business in the hands of a receiver, the court should order the Renton line sold to the highest bidder. In faet, the orde have reasonably been made long ago. Put up the Renton 1 who'll bid on this junk-pile railway. how much will be bid. opinion that the price bid will fall far short of $1,600,000, NO GALUTE YET. | Editor The Star: In the Sept. 9 |issue of The Star you called the lattention of the people to the fact that our government {s about to raise our taxes $1,000,000, at the same time soaking us $3,500,000 ev. ery month to keep our ar ‘navy in Mexico. The t | States has no more right in V {Cruz than the Mexicans hav occupy @ town In this count | It seemse to me that a flag salute comes pretty high, and 1 notice they haven't got it yet, either. I | will salute Old Glory as often as |the U. 8. wants at 10 cents a sa lute. GILCHRIST. | WHAT'S THE ANSWER? | Editor The Star: Free speech in |the high schools is threatened. One teacher (whose name is withheld pasons) declared that to if his opinion in writ-|* ing about the action of the school |board {n barring the single tax |from being discussed by high | school student, he probably would |lose his position The high school board, In spite lot the fact that the question was japproved by the state board of ed |ucation, and has been previonsly debated here In the high schools, says that the single tax fs an {m er subject for high school stu s to discuss. | Most of these students nitimate ly will become taxpayers. Why| |then {8 {t improper for them to study the various phases of taxa tion? DUDLEY W. WOODRIDGE. | HE'S SUSPICIOUS FAltor The Star: In an oditortal, |"Some Arithmetic,” you gave a lit tle attention to a lunatic who sug geste that {f we would each hoard up $50 a year for two years this nation could do great business in the banking line. Of course, ft ts Implied that we would deposit our $10,900,000,000 swag in banks You have figured ont the conse quences of this transaction very nicely, but you seem to have over. looked one very important phase of it, viz, there 1s tn this country (1913) a total cireulation of $3,871, 326,007. The banks (national sav- ings) already owe the people (1918) $10,680,865,601—and now they want to owe ua $10,000,000,000 | more—they may as well. But I would like to know where the parent of this insane scheme thinks that much money is com ing from? R. M, FRANCIS | ABOUT THE Y. w, | Editor The Star: In reply to the jletter in Friday's Star regarding |the new Y. W. C. A. building, I wish to say that as one who used to be a working girl, I think the writer Is correct, 0,000? WEIGHED YOURSELF !! of a scheme to hold up r its property. Like any r to sell the line could Let's see Let’s see The Star ventures the ine for sale. I visited the building once and the first thing that {mpressed me | was the magnificence of the p and the air of “society,” a setting | which girls in poor circumstances would not fit I feel certain there is muc.. truth in what the writer sald, for I know of several giris being turned away from the old building because they were unable to pay thetr rent, de manded fn advance, and where I worked the girls there sald th couldn't afford to patronize th | place. Tf this is so of the old building it muat be true of the new one, for it is much finer. A SUBSCRIBER. eee A 8AD PLIGHT Editor The Star Can you or any one else tell me what ts going |to become American laborers heir families? My hu has been out of work for over a year. Every place he goes, he says, the foreigners jare given work in preference to Americans 1 am an {nvalid, and have been for eight years. I haven't even been able to sit up in bed for two years, That makes a big expense. | |I can't send my children to school| until my husband gets work Can't # ing be done to pre vent this discrimination against American workmen? A DISCOURAGED WIFE. Pas rs A KIND GUARD Editor The Star: Recently 1| read an article which told of a cer-| tain city that gave its stockade! inmates a few dollars at the time of their release. Why wouldn't it be a good idea |to do the same thing here in our jelty and county stockades? Men| are turned loose daily without a| joent In their pockets, and have Hit-| jtle means, in these times, to Ket | work and food | It wouldn't amount to much, but| would be » whole lot to these un-| fortunate down-and-outers, The | government and the state authori. | tles help thelr prisoners when they | are turned out STOCKADE GUARD. BOYS CAPTURE 24-FOOT PYTHON |. 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