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

STAR—WEDNESDAY, NOV. 18, 1914, PAGE 4, “OH, Do RECITS SOMETHING FOR Me, RuDDY, PLE@-ASE. JUST DOTS ON THE WEIRD CRANDCUR or YouR CUBIST Poerry, 1 Dillpickles. { Rudyard Rhubarb Spills a | Spiel A 4-Ree) ‘Screecher’ | Film PONTO, THE PURP HEAD OFF WW DER STABLE. OSURRY PRECEDES Ie REQUEST FoR BP LOAM ) @ WARM HBUD SHAKE | | CUE ION A boy who was spending his vaca. fon in the country wrote home the following expressive letter: | “We are having a dandy time. We @ug a woodchuck out of his hole yesterday; it was a skunk. We rlept the barn last night.”—Harper's A Vacation Event |LOOKING A GIFT HORSE IN THE MOUTH on SAY, ADOLPH, 1 DINK 1 HAF BEBN STUNG! EVER SINCE I've BREEN MY OWN HORSE LVE BEEN GATING MY BY THe SAD SCAT ROAM, IN THE DAMP AND MOIST SACT GLOAMY SKY O'ERHEAD A DULL ZINC DOME, *% TAT MY MICK-WHITS Peer THe Faam MURMURS WHILE LT WRITS THIS POME MURMURS TO MS — “NOBODY HOME!" a ~ \ 1 ATMIT 'T, ADOLPH. So J HAF DECIDET 1 GET RID OF MYSELF, TO BE KIND TD MYSELF, — a YOU CAN HAF ME EF YOu BRomisE jagacine. The Star’s idea of nothing at all to do is to start a debate on the wisdom of municipal ownership. Municipal ownership is no longer a subject for debate. It is here, an actual, living, thriving, grow- ing condition. It is no longer a theory. Its enemies doubtless harbor the delusion that municipal ownership may yet be overthrown in some manner, and that all public utilities will re- vert to private hands and control. But it’s only a . They may as well pray for a return to horse cars in place of the electric system. They may as well cry out against the construc- tion of fireproof buildings in place of the fire traps of a former day. “i Enemies of municipal ownership will unques- MEMBER OF SChIPYS NORTHWEST ‘Telegraph News Service of the U By mail, out of city, 35e per month u By carrier, city 2c a month _An Old, Old Theory “cc BUSIN ter how profitable,” says a New York paper This idea is not a new one. It originated back among the cave-dwellers and you'll find it a favorite doctrine, today, among the barbarians of Central Africa as well as in New York city. Profit—that’s the thing, that’s the justification, regard- Jess of effects on the present generation or on posterity. And the bigger the business and the profit, the more elastic the justification Why is it that the fellow who dynamites a bank safe gets| 20 years in prison, with neatness and dispatch, while the fel-| low who steals the bank entire gets a short term, and that usually curtailed by pardon? , big or little, has a right to live, no mat- It’s because one is a little fellow in little business and the other a big fellow in big business But, the theory that the public is not concerned in the profits of the little or big business is about played out. It is seen that big profits are simply public tribute and more than half the world is yelling for arbitrary division Indeed, in most of our own states, there is already law| against big profits, in respect of the legal rate of interest, for} instance, and the trend of popular sentiment is strongly toward | further legislation along this line. Muckrakers, visionary reformers and rabid economists are not responsible for this| trend Abnormally profitable business must curb its frenzy if it would continue to live Just at the Beginning Rare ROM the interesting articles on the resources of the| | Bree warring nations, furnished this paper by Mr. Roger| ood | "ge | Babson, it is to be gathered that, while the allies can prac tically draw upon the whole world for supplies and gold many is able to live for a long time “within herself.” In short, Germany is very largely self-supporting, fi nancially and otherwise FAKE JEWELERS WHAT WE WANT IS MORE OF IT! tionably discover ere long that they are butting into a stone wall when they seek to undermine municipal ownership. It cannot be done. It is a movement that is as irresistible in the natural evolution of governmental functions as has been the right of citizens to vote. It is bound to broaden in its scope instead of diminish. It will grow in proportion to the evils of private owner- ship which it purposes to correct. In Seattle, particularly, enemies of municipal ownership are in futile business. Here the public ownership idea can under no stretch of the imagination be regarded as experi- mental. Public ownership in Seattle is in an exceeding- ly prosperous condition. | | OUTBURSTS OF EVERETT TRUE ee €verertr, Here's THIS SCREEN Door Yer! How MANY MORES TIMSS Have I GOT To A3K You To TAKE IT OFF FoR. THe WINTER Now DON'T Bs IN SUCH 4 Stew Asovur iT! GIVE A FELLOW \s 7 inn ee | : pear at the committee meeting In Beating Germany out of French and Belgian territory the council chambers, next Mon. is one thing Beating Germany in Germany will be quite Jay at 10 a. m ‘i A another. ¢ that the fight is for national preservation and the fer March tilize their soil with their blood and b before giving it up Pee DON'T TAKE CHANCES WITH The present slaughter is but the beginning real Phe Ay special committee of the cltY| THE OPINION OF A SAUGGIST horror will come with all of Germany in a state of sieg c 1 gum-shoed al First aV.| when you are sick, I have people| - Tuesday and discovered at toast) Citing upon rare Ais te e case of auc eerine of | & po every day ose SEATTLE WOMAN gets husband arrested and changes her mind| oni .00Ne | Of ml ring of! health has been ruined by drug.| one hour later. Thi one case where husbands will not find fault! ,\ 1 Mende ois etween Spring] gists—and patent slop. | with woman's ficklene: Following their report, Councit:|, 1 Will diagnose your case and| ag aR eps man Hesketh, chairman of the H.|Folsh your prescriptions COMMERCIAL CLUB gave an “optimistic” luncheon at noon today, | cor That's much better for the inner man, at least, than a “psychological” | tie luncheon. wil _— | Privileges courtesy for nse committee, declared war on| ese places, and announced steps! ’ } taken to drive them out They always develop with the| AK for the ex-Government ning of Christmas, and they | Pbystelan at the the city a black eve," he said | RIGHT DRUG CO. must go.” 169 Washington st Look for the ORANGE FRONT ersons with grievances may ap- tit To Judge Burke, A. the truth ought to become You're barking up the wrong tree, gentlemen. You're getting nowhere. You can’t stop municipal ownership any more than you can stop the sun from rising in the east. quit knocking. Bury your Get in and help these and other enterprises yield the greatest measure of good. That’s the way to help the city. You're not helping it by holding yourself aloof from the inevitable trend of munici- ownership progress. WHAT WE WANT NOW IS MORE MUNICI- PAL OWNERSHIP. WE WANT MORE CITY- OWNED POWER SITES AND MORE CITY- pal OWNED STREET CARS. VELL, 1 GoT A Pew Carers LEFT IN ME YET I! 35e Pool-Signal Service Baromete change. Also gives temperature V. Bouillon and others apparent before long. and comfort. of each one. Indications and Loose Pin Steel Butts overs You DON’T Have SPINNING’S CASH The thing to do is to One will tell you when the weather is going to temperature is necessary to preserve 2c Pair 4x4 Dull Brass or Old Copper Finish Stanley fy Viiscee rand Therometer 22¢ An even ~ your health pia directions on back ign of room. to Pay as Much at 1415 Fourth STORE 1417 Ave. hammer and help boost. BUILD BIGGEST TRANSFORMER ON THE COAST Two students of the University of Washington have undertaken the construction of what will be the largest electrical transformer on the PUBLIC PAY ON the following article John Lamb; of the olty water department, municipal ownership of » pub- 7 fundamentally more md-| vantageous to public good than private) ownership, He will follow this article up with the concrete ease of the city-owned water department in Seattle. This article te one of a series on municipal ownership written for The Star by experts on the subject. By John Lamb | The question of municipal owner. | ship, like many others, is one about which there may easily exist some honest differences of opinion. Forty years ago the idea of a city owning and doing the things which now does would have been| thought by some people wildly vis fonary, Roughly speaking, there are three classes of people in the world Those who want to go ahead; those who are content to stand still, and those who wish to go backward. The question 40 years &go was can munictpalities handle industry successfully? The question today ia, have municipalities, so far ae they have tried, handled industries successfully? There have doubtless been fail ures in the early stages of munict pal business eriments, but the failures are becoming, from year | to year, very much leas in propor tion to the number of enterprises undertaken | Men Are Better Treated In conducting public affairs in legislation and industry, the wofld has always been slow to recognize the fact that the welfare of the man who makes or supplies an | article for use 18 of equal {mport ance with the welfare of the man who buys the article to use. In the operation of munici- pal ownership enterprises, one distinguishing characteristic, at | wide variance with the practice | in private enterpr! the better treatment and general- ly the better pay, of the men who perform the work. When municipalities broke away from the purely political forms of organization by tablishing the merit system in the civil service, preventing in large measure, the appointment and retention of ind viduals fn the service on account of political service or political pull, a tremendous advance was made in| the conditions for administrating | public utilities under public owner: | | ship The first impetus given to the adoption of the policy of municipal ownership was due to gross abuses which had grown up under private and corporate ownership. Forty years ago the nation was reeking with political corruption, di-! rectly due to the presence of pri- CITY-OWNED UTILITIES PUT DENT IN PRACTICE OF MAKING Pacific coast, as a thesis for a de- Dashley and John Dodds, both Se- attle men. | ready for use in the spring, will be |wurpassed in size by but two or three in the entire country, the larger ones being in testing labora- | tories of big electrical companies. | The apparatus is to be set up in the engineering building for re- search work and the testing of in- sulating materials, It will be seven feet high, four feet wide and two feet thick; will contain 300 pounds of wire; throw WATERED STOCK vate corporations manipulating public affairs for private and cor- porate gain. gree in engineering. They are Leo | The transformer, which will be ELKS WILL GIVE MINSTREL SHOW One of the features of the Elks’ county fair, which will be held im the Hippodrome November 23 to 28, is the Georgia minstrel show. William Hobson, chairman of the minstrel committee, has arranged for the best talent of the local field. ‘The setting will the old standard minstrel show set, but the songs d music will be of the up-to-date, snappy variety. Two shows will be given each evening. Special matinees will be given Thursday, Thanksgiving day, and Saturday. The show carr two full casts, operating alternately sented to submit his name only upon the insistence of many friends. been on the port It is Bridges bas commission for three years. & non-salaried position. At the present time these abuses seem to be less numerous; but when one fs unearthed, as, for in- stance, the Hartford & New Haven case, It surpasses in magnitude any thing known in the past The method by which many cor porate enterprises under private control have been launched in the past is pretty well known, A few active and adventurous in- dividuals, sometimes by fair means, sometimes by foul, succeed in get- ting ® franchise, On the strength of this franchise they borrow some money and begin construction work Sometimes this work ts complet ed and the scheme developed to the point of an income-paying proposi tion before any additional bonds are floated, and sometimes it is not; but in nearly every case the actual cash invested by the pro moters is very small In plain terms tt is designed to pay its promoters, not as an invest ment, but as @ speculation. The stock and bonds being in ex cess of the actual investment, the rates for service are so fixed that they will pay an income on more than the actual cost, sometimes double or treble that cost This is an abuse from which the publicly owned plant 1s completely relieved, and which gives it a marked advantage in fixing rates for service. RECIPE FOR BALD HEADS Well-Known Politician Nearly Bald Now Has New Growth of Hair Tells How He Did It A Western politician, well known on account of his baldness and h ready wit, surprised his friends by appearing with a new growth of hair, Many of his friends did not know him, and others thought he had a wig On being asked how he did it, he made the following statement: “I attribute the growth of my hair to the following simple recipe, which any lady or gentle. man can mix at home. To a half pint of water add 1 oz, of Bay Rum, @ small box of Barbo Compound and \% oz. of Glycerine. Apply to the scalp two or three times a week with the finger tips. 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