The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 26, 1914, Page 4

Why have certain subsidized newspapers been hammering zealously of late against both the mu- nicipal water and light plants? Don’t imagine, as they pretend to you, that they are worried because municipal ownership has proved a failure. For city ownership has proved eminently successful in both these plants, as they well know. afraid of. It’s success they fear. Puget Sound Traction, Light & Power Co. It means lower rates. It means a reduction of rates not only in Seattle but in nearby communities. It the gradual curbing of the power exercised 4q | THE SEATTLE STAR ) year @8.36 mall, out of city, 3c per month up to @ mos By carrier, sity the mon Publiobing Co. Phose comeccting all departme: A restaurant two business men were discussing a third “He's only a Piker,” said one. “Would you mind explaining just what you mean?” asked the other. “What I mean,” the first replied, and is content to potter around with little details instead of ) feaching out for the big prizes.” Now suppose he had chosen the other course; for the big prizes and had won / = Would he have been better off? To be sure, instead of hiring a few workers and passing fis business hours in happy comradeship among them, he could have directed an army of strangers from behind a ma- ogany desk in a swell office far away. He could have ex- "changed his modest home for a palace on the avenue. He) ould have ridden behind a chauffeur while his wife wore dia-| ‘monds in an electric. And he could have headed charity lists! r eat business machine ut that doesn’t answer our question better off—a better husband or father; }.a more upright or useful citizen; a happier man? "Tt seems to us that, instead of being a term of reproach, term “piker” implies a tribute to good sense This country was made by pikers. The bulk of its se- , if not of its material wealth, is in the hands of pikers of the men and women who, perhaps, don’t aspire even high. Tip for Sunday has been reckoned, about $2 for each person who attends. Lots of folks gladly give $2 a seat in a theatre and go very much more frequently than they go to church. Yet in church, when the deacons pass the plate, they feel ontent to measure their appreciation by a penny or a nickel Religion may be free, but running a church these days s money. So, if you go to church at all—as, of course, you should— a sport. Chip into the game. ell Have to Be Invited EWSPAPERS in Germany, some of them pretty cial,” seem to have, suddenly and collectively, taken pains '& present the “impossibility of America’s playing an important in the conclusion of peace,” and they decide that Germany just in a friendly but firm manner reject America as an arbitrator.” ' That's all right. There’s plenty of time for the German SS to get to feeling better, and we cannot conceive of Uncle am forcing himself upon unwilling parties as arbitrator at any time. ' “Blessed is the peace-maker,” but the instances are rare in} hich he isn’t somewhat cussed, too, while there is almost no} at issue isn’t wise in keeping one hand on his Colt’s auto. atic, if that’s the make he wears ‘Hardly Dead Yet HE shows for the year ending June 30th, 316,909 corporations, with $64,071,319,185 capital stock and bonded and other in- debtedness $37,136,215,096. per cent on the capital. Moreover, the gain in net income, over the previous year, was over a hali-billion dollars. We guess that the country has not yet “gone to the dogs.” * % MAYOR MITCHEL has warned the unemployed from New York. ow let ali other mayors do the same and starving Belgium's horrors ‘Won't be a marker. THE FIGHTING nations having cut out the vodka, schnapps and absinthe, we trust they will soon recover from the delirium tremens. NIAGARA FALLS will be dry in 1,000 years, says a Pittsburg pro- fessor. That's all right; we know where we can get a drink in Buffalo. ALBANIA WANTS a new king—with money. So far as we are con- cerned, they can take John D. Rockefeller, jr, and be welcome. visional president for Mexico. Four of them! The plot thickens. FACTORY INVESTIGATING committee reports that half the wage- earners throughout New York state get less than $8 per week. MOST DELICIOUS WAFFLES With Syrup and Plenty of Butter. SPECIAL DINNERS Served from $ to # p.m. Bring the family and save mone: SUNDAY CHICKEN DINNER From 12 noon to 8 p. m HOLLYWOOD LUNCH 212 PIKE STREET cleanliness, comfort the least money. Weekly, $1.60 to 94. It’s not failure of municipal ownership they're Success means active competition with the ee00, Private “is that he started small) had dared) fo salve some of the wounds caused by the ruthlessness of} Would he have! a kinder neigh-| HE average church service in the United States costs, it| a “offi- ince in which the arbitrator who really decides the mat-| compilation of returns on the income tax collections! The net incomes were nearly 7| MR. ZAPATA, having an army, also comes forward with his pro- STAR—SATURDAY, DEC. 26, by the public utility corporations all over the state, and in a large measure, also, all over the country. Therefore, the success of the city light and water plants must be fought. How? The present management has been too faithful. The scheme therefore is to under- mine the faith of the people in the present man- agement and to place the city light and water plants under new supervision. Two years ago, the scheme was tried and it failed. There was a bill introduced in the legie- lature to put the city light and water plants, as well as any other city institutions, under the su- pervision of the state public service commission. The city fought the measure. The Puget Sound Traction, Light & Power Co. wanted it DIANA DILLPICKLES HER CHRISTMAS LOOT “CHRISTMAS MORNING? OM 3 MUST GST UP AT Once. ] MUST 3Ge WHAT ALL MY BeEAUS SGNT MB! | | *] OUGHT TO FAR@ ull WITH SO MANY DIP. FERENT BEAUS IN EVERY KIND OF BUSINGSS IMACINABL]. IN PACT THERE OUGHT To BE A Great VARIGTY OF presents ——“ ——AND EACH PRESENT some PRICELES Veneer OF THE Giver's TRADG Of OCCUPATION. I CAN SCARCELY wait TT Feagr MY @ves on——* 5"! ss 7 _] | | | | | | GRocER 3 FANCIER | CLOTHES PINS grat. DOG BISCUITS) | NICKLE PLaTER SHELL) FAR MOR |] | (Corrs Hannes) (PUMPKIN) AUTa SALESMAN SHOE Maver (uicence puare) (3H0€ pecs) INSURANCES MAN (BUTTERS Mpa DENTIST (FAL3e TeeTH) x OPTICIAN Class ae nef LINEMAN grog DRUG CLERK ere Syrup ‘ | | —Mrs. Matilda Zwalena of Parke reburg, Pa., who were born in different counti | after which she was hurried to a child, a girl, born. gave birth to twins, | A baby boy was born at her home, | ital at Lancaster, where a second) —If you shade your eyes, you weaken your sense of hearing you sip a giass of cold water, you will increase for a short time your | The George knows the name of every! 1914, PAGE 4, Why Seattle Kept Press Is Atta acking Municipal Ownership passed. It was beaten. The same measure, or one equally as bad, or worse, will be presented again to the legislature, which convenes in a few weeks. There will be the most powerful effort put forth to have it passed. Two years ago, the company tried to sneak the measure throw: uietly and secretly. But the “joker” was ex This year, a new tack apparently has been pursued. This year the attempt is being made to discredit the city council, Superintendent Ross, and Superintendent Youngs, through the kept press. When the bill comes up in the legislature, the corporation attorneys will cry for a new man- agement. They will demand that the city plants 8 STAR COMIC | Editor Star; As a reader of |The Star, | am very much Inter. ested in the comic departments, }and I must say that I miss “Oscar Ye Faire Shoppers and Adoph” very much. My wife ts fond of shopping | Why not leave out “Diana Dil. She very seldom stops. beac yt When days are fine she's right in Hh pner yt Sarat ware met line |the best yet. I have had many | Cavorting through the laughs over him, A READER WOULD FORM GUN CLUBS | Editor The Star: During the time your paper was urging the| public to vote on the establishment | of & larger standing army and a/ |more powerful navy, I noticed an| article by a German whose name || do not remember. He said it would | | be a good idea to establish citizens’ clubs in every in America. Clubs for the shops. | And when the days are rainy, And she is ail alone, ads” she reads and then pro- ceeds To shop by telephone eee Some Dog Rufe Jones of E . ave Presse Williams two an done-haif tons of} good hay for a fine hunting do, which only three months ago so! for a mule, Jones can keep his family in meat this winter and sell! enough to buy shoes for his chil-! dren and other necessary things about the place, and also have finer sport than any man ever got out of poker or golf.—Ozark, Ark., Dem-| ocrat-Enterprise * | practice 1 agree with this plan. 1 be lieve the majority of the publi feels the same. I think the public would like that better than being compelled to join the National Guards. President Wilson says we should increase our National Guard, and urges more enlistments for the army and navy, What fair-minded man wishes to join the National Guard when he would some time he compelled to fight his striking brothers? | I should think this kind of a pro. gram would please the Anierican people more then that practiced in other countries A POTRIER. URGES CAR UNION Editor The Star: After reading | the letter published in your paper | Dec. 9, written by one of the 8. E.| company's employes, urging the| men to organize, | would ike to say that | heartily agree with him. Famous 50.50's Dum-Dum. Divt-Divi Raden-Baden | Paw-Paw Walla-Waila Gobble-Gobbie Chin-Chin. Chow-Chow Chatfield-Chatfield A Warning When Broadway amiles, to pay, the de'il's Beal ila damsels live to/T have often wondered why this Irt; large body of men don’t organize, | So keep the “straight and narrow) They have no better time than| right now to form a unton car men are the only large bods men in the elty, not organized them form a union of their and be independent EMPLOYES' FRIEND. HE WANTS QUIET Editor The Star: -1 am but one of a long suffering populace whose meditations or repose is daily and | nightly shattered by leather-lunged newsboys. There exists no more jreal need of him in this age than a town erler or any other way of ° | Vegetation {gpreading information by oral | ain't he cute | way, And shun: the straight and narrow skirt New York Mail. . The Smart Little Boy thinks that great It flavors bread deliciously; But as the cook ts obdurate He gets it syruptitiously own George maple syrup’s fruit And flower and Of every apple ravings, | He knows the apple-ation T have a studio on the top floor New York Mail. |of the Lowman building, ten! ee floors up, where during the day I Making Good jattempt to create pictures and power of vision. If you fill your mouth with water, you will greatly strengthen your sense of smell, Newedd—What's wrong with this|{hing® and in’ the evenings per pie erust? It doesn't halt cover the Piinhure’ pen thet either ch tee ple, | hat elther o! ose ; pursuits is not in any measure ald Mrs. Newedd—Why, dearest, 1|hq by the bellowings of the boy on asked your mother all about how|the corner of First-and Cherrs to make them to suit you, and she| 1 am {n favor of a ban on this! said to make the crust very short, unnecessary noise ~ Boston Transcript, GEORGE MBLL wg /EHU]EStze OY should not be run by the city, but should be under state supervision. And what would that mean? Every time a reduction in rates is attempted by the city light plant, there will be a fight against it by the Se- attle Electric Co. The state public service com- mission will have to approve the new rate. The courts will have to approve the lower rate before it can be enforced. No such interference can be had at present. Seattle enjoys home rule so far as its own plants are con THAT’S WHY THE CAMPAIGN OF MIS. INFORMATION AGAINST THE CITY LIGHT AND WATER PLANTS IS BEING SO DILI- GENTLY PURSUED BY THE KEPT PRESS. GERMANS QUOTE FROM BIBLE TO SHOW PARALLEL OF POOR BELGIUM’S PLIGHT Special Correspondence. HERLIN, Germany, Dec. 9—The German papers are now quot- ing the Iible as euthority for what the Germans have done to Bel- sium. The parallel, quoted by the Hamburger Fremdenbiatt, is in Deuteronomy xi{.: 26-35, and ts follows “And | sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kede- moth unto Gihon, king of Heshbon, with words of peace, saying, ‘Let me pass through thy land; | will go along by the highway; | will neither turn unto the right hand nor to the left. eat; and give me water for money Only | witl pase through on my feet; Esau, which dwell in Seir, and the Moa! which dwell In Ar (Luxembourg) did unto me; untii | shall pase over Jordan inte the land which the Lord our God giveth us (very consoling for France!). But Sihon, king of Heshbon, would not let us pase by him, for the Lord thy God hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that he might be de- liver him into thy hand, appeareth this day. And th. Lord said unto me: 1 have begun to give Sihon and his |and before t begin to possess, that thou mayest inherit his land. Then Sihon came out st us, he and all his people, to fight at Jahaz. And the Lord our God de- livered him before us; and we smote him, and his sons, and all his people. And we took all his cities at that time, and the Lord our God delivered all before us.” the chapter from which the above was Thou shalt sell me meat for money, that | may that 1 may drink, the children of An examination of taken shows, however, that the Hamburger Fremdenblatt has somewhat abbreviated the last sentence above, It really reads as follows in the Bibi “And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed the men, and the women, and the little ones of every city; we left none to remain. Only the cattle we took for a prey unto ourselves and the spoil of the cities which we took.” The wicked allies might say that the foregoing makes the ar allel complete! WASHINGTON, Dec. 25.—In the middle of last September the writ- er predicted that big business, in alliance with machine politica, would make a strenuous effort to eliminate from congress as many an po je of the little group of all three politica! parties who had been troublesome to ft It pointed out that effort would be made “get Rep- resentative W. J. Macdonald of Michigan, the man who had been marked for slaughter by the mine barons of upper Michigan, of the men marking thelr bal- lots.” Nothing could be simpler than that. The mine boss issues orders jto the shift foremen to have the men vote a certain Hi them to be careful to Instruct the men how to split the ticket so that the bi-partisan candidates fa- vorable to the mine companies will all be elected. We commend this {lustration to the voters of the country as an @x- ample of “efficiency” on the part of big business. a special Representative Macdonald was| And we shall watch with interest Ve | defeated the performances of Mr. W, Frank © | How he was defeated may be! James in the next congress, judged by a sample of the kind of intimidation that was practiced on the mine workers. Mr, Macdonald brought with him om his return to Washington a | mimeographed letter, signed by E L, Cullen, manager of the Newport Mining Company of Ironwood, Michigan, dated October 3ist (the Saturday before election), which was handed out to the shift bosses of the Newport company's mine, and which reads like this ] “Dear Sir: 1 would be pleas- ed to have our men support the following mentioned gen- tlemen for office in the in congress; in th and in the county lowe a list of candidates for every office to be voted for, and under “Representative in Congre Twelfth District,” appeare the name “W. Frank Jame! Mr. James was the republican candidate against tative Macdonald, and | to say, was jater, on No- vember 3. this list, the letter continues: “I trust that you will use your best forts to have oug, men co out in force for the above men- tioned gentlemen, This would entail splitting the various tickets, and | would apprecia' your calling this to the atten- tion of the various men, so that no vote will be thrown out to lack of care on the part Bargain Breeding Is Splaning's Delight Every One of the Brood Below Is an Extraordinary Bargain IF A LITTLE DIRL | put A NIGHT CAP ON A_KITTY wouLd SHE DO 1T.ON PURR® s oneteh -cUEbeads te 4S ESSUEARSCRE. GSEETEL 12° } | Striking Ohlo miners seek medi ation. ( 25c No. 165 Block Inverted \ Gas Mantle 5c Vestas atten! 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