The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 23, 1914, Page 4

STAR—MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1914. PAGE 4 + | L DREAD TO GO IN Ano FACS NIMe Dilipickles. wren In The Poet Outwits the Goldfish — A 4-Reel | ‘Screecher’ Film } } | | 1 || "AGAIN PATNER Bag PUY THe GOLDFISH ON lana |] wr. RHUGARB'S PEDESTAL TO HUMILLATS HiMe L NusT , GIVE HIM A pew Per, ky KI-YI! FAST LIVERS HAVEN'T TIME ] WATCH THER. |THE IRONY, LIKE ALL ELSE, WAS LOST ALLEYS HASS GoT EVERY LAST VON OF AY DiS GIGN Vii MAKE DEM REPLACE DER CHICKENS. JUST SUPPOSING THINGS ABOUT THIS WAR IN EUROPE we'll simply police the ecrth and enforce law and order. “The everlasting arming and squabbling of your foreign fellow Christians is not only leading to a raid on Christendom by the heathen, but it is costing me hundreds of millions every year and your present war shows me that I've got to suffer like the very deuce as an innocent bystander. And I'll lick the nation that doesn’t come into my peace Now comes the editor of a great French news- paper—Paris Figaro—with some suppositions point- ed at your Uncle Sam. Hearing reports of Uncle’s inadequate standing army and defective navy, he in case of her triumph in THE SEATTLE STAR| MEMBER OF SCHIFPS NORTHWEST LEAGUE OF NEWSPAPERS) od Frees Association Becond-Class Matter. Tout of city, 35¢ per month up to € mos.; 6 mom $1.80; year $3.26 By mall, out of city, Oy carrier, city 36¢ @ month. Pablished Dally by The Star Publishing Co. Phone Main 9400. Private wa 7 exchange conaceting all departments. - Remove This Death Menace “CIOME DAY soon some Seattle newspaper is going to get} what is termed by the editors “a whale of a story.” | It’s going to happen at Fifth and Seneca, and it’s going! to be one of the worst auto accidents there's been for a long time. It will not be a pleasant story. It will be all about broken bones, torn flesh, the meeting of quick but agonizing) deaths, and of burning gasoline, and twisted steel It will happen because an auto will come speeding down Seneca, and another down Fifth. The Y. W. C. A. building} will hide them from each other. When the drivers realize the| danger, it will be too late. Every day there are hair-breadth escapes at that corner. Time and again autos have grazed each other, but have man- aged to dodge. : This condition doubtless applies to ‘other parts of the city, but it is particularly noticeable at Fifth and Seneca | Some time ago Police Judge Gordon suggested informal-| ly that autos on main traffic arteries should have the right-| ofway, autos approaching from cross streets to watch their| chance to dodge across Doubtless, the plan, if made into an ordinance, would) arouse a storm of opposition. It is not a bad plan, though,| at that. The papers would probably never print that became operative ‘Telegraph News Service of the U Entered at Seattle, Wash., Postoffic story” if it! What Happened to Mr. Fleenor? HE J. T. Fleenor, a Star reader, who, in a letter published) Saturday with others under the heading, “What They Think| of The Star,” complained of “swell-headed kids” in this pa-| r’s business office who, he said, “lack business courtesy.”| If Mr. Fleenor ever telephoned, or visited, The Star of fice and was not treated courteously, we are heartily sorry.| Every employe of this paper tries, above all things, to} be courteous to those with whom he is brought into contact TAR is glad of an opportunity to apologize to Mr | by his connection with The Star | We feel that every reader, every business patron, is en titled to all consideration we can show them. The rule holds, from the reporter who collects and writes the news, to the newsboy who sells you your paper We do not know the circumstances under which Fleenor intimates he was met with a lack of courtesy We trust, however, that he will forgive us the offense, and will call on us again. eal | 60 MAY BE DEAD IN L AKE STORM DETROIT, Nov. 23—Advices received today from Lake Superior points caused the belief that more than 50 per. sons perished in the gale which swept the lake last werk. piled up on the south of Lake Superior show. and her barges, the Marvin and the Mr Yet suppositions are often interesting, and eo here goes for some. Suppose that Great Britain, France, Russia and Germany are greatly exhausted by a long war. Suppose that Uncle Sam, finding these pow- ers in this condition, says: me “ve got the guns, the men, the money and you fellows get out of mili- your battleships and disarm the food. Now, all tarism. Dismantle your navies up to the proper point of providing your quota of a composite force sufficient to pre- serve throughout the world. WN ia fa get of tag: tay 0nd sold tad pool!” This may appear to be a pretty strong tion, but it is no than that French And, as before is as good as another's. supposi- editor's. | om Jeet. BY OLIVER T. ERICKSON In articles that have been re- cently printed to discredit mu- nicipal ownership of public utilities, we have been regaled with a lot of assertions about the greater “efficiency” of pri- vate management This is repented so often that one might suppose efficiency a sacred cow which has been con- secrated for the use of public service corporations only. But the most cursory glance over the field of public service corporations will reveal the fact that public administration of utilities has no monopoly on of- fictency. Probably more than half the public service corporations of this country bi been in the hands of rece! at one time or another, and always on ac count of Inefficiency or corrup- tion. ‘The Yealer line of this city passed to its present owners from the hands of a recetver. jeattic, Renton & South. @ brilliant example of “efficiency.” years the people of the Rainier valley have had law sults, injunctions, riots, I NOTICE YOU JUST NOW LAID ASIDE 4 DIRTY SALIVA] SOAKED CIGAR STU. BEFORE YOU HANDLE ANY MEAT FOR ME You GO AND’ WASH ‘YOUR HANDS! tion that could be exacted, These joys have been varied by the road's going into the hands of receivers, who multi- city litigation The receivers have reins of power for upwards of two years, and how they will continue only Judge Frater ean tell. if the road had been owned and operated by the city, the people of the Rainter valley would have missed this contin- ual round of pleasure and “ef- ficiency,” but they would have had good service at the lowest possible cost, their streets im- proved, their land worth more, and the money expended In liti- gation in their pocket: When the water system of thia city was in private hands the wages paid were little more than half of what the city now pays. Under the private system water was pumped out of Lake Washington, within the city Umits, Now the city gets its water from the mountains, 30 miles away, protected by a watershed BUY YOUR BLANK BOOKS FROM Morey Stationery Co. TIM Firat Ave. Near Columbin st. ALBERT HANSEN Jeweler and Siiveremith is Now Located at His New Store 1010 Gecend Ave, Near | SAVEYOUR MONEY AND EYES im any Wy. mg Ree “en eves amtned and fitted, 1 none BEST IN THE Geattie before tor WORLD OPTICAL DEPARTMENT peeteeie 705 First Ave, Washington Bids. Dr. Edwin J. Brown Main 2640, (COUNCILMAN ERICKSON WRITES AN ARTICLE ON ALLEGED “EFFICIENCY” OF OUR PRIVATELY OWNED PUBLIC UTILITIES of 142 square miles, controlled by the city. And the rates to home owners are about one-fifth what the private company charged j San Francisto today is paying one of these “efficient” corpor- ations the rates we used to pay, and that city has voted $25,000,- 000 of bonds to build a munici- pal plant and get away from the “efficiency” it ts now getting in euch big chunks When this city was buying water from an “efficient” pri- vate company ft cost the city $72.00 DOLLARS A YEAR for each fire hydrant. NOW IT COSTS $12.00. Under private ownership a community could get water when the company was ready to serve it. Now the council can order mains and have them laid whenever the needs of a com- munity demand it. It is quite different with our “efficient” private street car company. The city has been laboring for three years to get much needed extensions in various parts of the city. In the matter of block- ing the cit) from getting there extensions this private company has been eminently “‘effictent.” The city council's efforts to get extensions in three different parts of the city have met with litigation, The people in these districts remain unserved while our law suits and petitions to the public service commission are drifting gently down the stream of time. The kind of “efficiency” the people want Is such as gives them reduced rates and better service. AND THAT IS WHAT HAS COME IN OUR LIGHT AND WATER PLANTS IN THIS cITy. It will come In our street car service, too, when given a fair trial. It 1s quite natural that our efforts to establish a street car system should meet with stub- born opposition, In San Francisco it was 10 years from the time the first election was held to take over the Geary st. ne before the first car was run by the city. During those 10 years the peo- ple had to fight every inch of the way. The people were met with hostile newspapers, InJune- tions, and public offictals who, on the stump were for municipal ownership, but in office were full of ifs and buts that helped to block progress. However, the fight was won and tho best street car service in San Francisco today Is on the muntetpal lines. In that clty the “effictency” bunk about private management has passed into the realm of Jokes, where it properly belongs, | SPINNING’S CASH STORE | WORDS BY SCHAEFER—-MUSIC BY MACDONALD YOUR MON DOES DOUBLE DUTY That Is, If You Take Advantage Now 50c Can Johnson's Floor Wax ... 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