The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 14, 1915, Page 4

STAR—THURSDAY, OCT. 14, 1915. PAGE ¢. We’re for Low Taxes, But-- ROM time to time, The Star has pointed out of portunities for economy in the administration of public affairs in city, county and state. This aper is against waste or extravagance in any pub- ic office. The Star is for the lowest possible tax levy. So is Councilman Erickson. So is Mayor Gill. So is every councilman. So is every honest citizen, What is the lowest possible levy? Here where the differences of opinion occur. Suppose there were a proposition not to pay the mayor's salary of $7,500 in 1916 by levying the Mecessary tax for it, but, instead, we should go out and borrow that amount from some bank, paying the bank the regular rate of interest for the loan. WOULD THAT BE ECONOMY? Would the city be saving money? It would certainly decrease the levy by $7,500, And yet, in the long run, it would cost the tax- payers more money, because the mayor's salary would have to be paid some time. If not next year, it would have to be paid the ear after that—and in the meantime interest would piling up. By keeping the mayor’s salary out of the tax levy one year, it merely means postponing the pay- ment of a legitimate debt; it means that the year following there will be a higher tax levy, for then two years’ salary would have to be paid in one. That's the situation with one or more items over which the mayor and a majority of the coun- cil differ. The mayor wants to postpone the payment of is Ben Reaches the Limit Judge Ben Lindsey is mobilizing. raged him that he publicly declares that he proposes to protect his name with person who slanders him. That's the ticket, judge, but why wait, Just stick the scatter-gun out the window A criminal libel suit filed against him a day or so ago, so en- shotgun on the next and pull the trigger. You'll get somebody that has it*coming to him, all right. * * * * * * The Wonder Age Just a few years ago, when the theory of wireless telegraphy was first promulgated, it was jeered at by the wise ones as the dream of a visiona accept the telephone and the steamboat, it had been to announced an invention by invention is as Professor Michael 1. possible to talk by wireless with every part of the globe. The public was as slow to embrace the new generations before. Yet today by which it may be ary. Pupin, of Columbia university, cable lines beneath the seas will have lapsed into disuse. Only a foolish person will scoff at any new invention, these * * * Petroleum Dope HE oil production in the United States in 1914 set a new high record, 290,312,353 barrels, The value was about $214,000,000. 000 barrels, Oklahoma was second with 73,632,000, Illinois third with 21,920,000 and Texas he biggest single oil well in the world, the Cushing, has lately dropped from or an approximate earning capacity of $150,000 per day being produced. 20,068,000, 200,000 barrels per day, debts which fall due in 1916, The council majority wants to pay them now and avoid the necessity of going later to bankers for favors—and incidentally to avoid payment of interest. If the mayor's plan is accepted, the tax levy would be lower but the debts would still remain. If the council majority's plan is accepted, those particular debts would be forever wiped out, but the tax levy would be a bit higher. Mayor Gill's so-called lower tax levy would “A Married Man’s Troubles Z F OH, OLIVIA, COME HERE Quien — | HERE |S SOME Wews THAT WILL | FURS-1F You HANE Fox Furs | YOU SHOULD ITSAYS HERE THE LATEST FAD IS To LEAD JUST THINK OUVIA, A CUTS LITTLE Live Fox To Tas FoR ouT A WALK EVERY Day | WALT SWADOWS MYRTLE AND THE DUKE HOPING Yo LEARN TWEIR PLANS MEAN TIME - To WoRK x INTHE SHOE FACTORY Im It is only a matter of months until the days of wonder-working. _* © at the well, of 99,775,- fourth with 300,000 to California led with a production rare: He only proposes to not save the taxpayers a cent. postpone payment of legitimate debts. The Star believes in SAVING taxes to the people wherever possible. It believes in the LOW- EST T LEVY possible. But in the present argument between the mayor and the council, there is much ado about nothing. ; The mayor and the council differ in nothirfg except WHEN certain debts should be paid. By Allman | YES I DID, BUT USTEN — THIS IS A GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY, ALL RIGHT, AND ONG y NOT SOING TESTIMONY IN the Indianapolis election fraud cases is that blocks of votes were sold at 10 cents each Tammony, On reading this will realize the fortunes it has 6 wasted in the past. ‘sted LET'S HO another Austrian sassinated for a million years! Safety Razor Blades of all kinds sharpened, dozen SPINNING’S QUITTING SALE 1415 FOURTH AVENUE grand duke isn't as jas at Port and co ntlo | Teddy says he and his sons are ready to go to war. | But how about Alice? Francisco fair Jack Hogstrom, 20, 3628 Bagley ave, missing since Monday after noon, Had $100 on him when last | seen She so long as there are ne “wall flowers, Many business cause they poor bess when they | started to work for theme ves NOT COMMITTING MIMSELP The centenarian was being eagerly in rviewed by reporters, and was asked what he atiributed bis loog life and health, Vall.” the old man replied, This ts going to make it terribly convenient: The planet Uranus Iden by the moon for an Saturday ning, says fessor Boothroyd, astronomer at the university hts of Lincoln will initiate a urge class Thursday night It is proposed to transfer the in ernational money order exchange| 1 San Francisco to Seat there are more sailings from this city, Be-| i the money | Land Commissioner Sav (the Taxpayers’ lea hia office. And what} They took him up. | i ¢! yr RD MUST Me While dodging # of them patent medicine erns for = couple of weeks, but I quite decided yet.” —Argonant Victor Bolesta, 4703 30th ave. 3. jhit by auto driven by N. Jaffe, 4242 Wallingford ave., Wednesday night | Hurrah for the last legislature! Excessive tuition fees reduce regis: tration at university from 2,872 last this year. tle, becaus en protest for foreign es, we amine u think Prices Ordinarily Charged ON ALL CASKETS . king ways landed Jack Honaao ack at Fire a and Wash 1 While| he is al ngers in and lifted | We Maintain ram's pockets nafety committee Woman's Civic club to tn estigate plan for women's deten-| home at Kent | of | armed thugs climbed] of the pockets of z, @ Ballard beach, and; tay night Sulzer, of Alaska. governor of New Mrs ka & our own private crematory. CREMATION). with Because we are funeral jour der n honor Oriental artments Henry rug expert © years in the bust self what we furnish 617 Kilbourne St. photograph of Seattle| | ene, wins prize at San to port manufacturers of caskets. we Own our oWn modern crematory &# our own building, we are enabled to give this remarkably low price on a complete BLEITZ-RAFFERTY UNDERTAKING AND CREMATION CO. Lady Attendant. land in Chisana, Alaska, geared last Ww. il Marke of Albany elected ———t AND YET THEY WoND! way rT always was a good scout. ||) THERE blew o kine at commission that one barge at Stacy of Baltimore, and st. pier was handled by non-union Og re {a sedecs! men j io it they want, bricks Don't take five-dollar bills! That)@ — — ke the hew counterfeits! Gov. Lister announces appoint ing passed in large num ment of W. El Coumbe and W. I on the Coas : a a the Coast Dimmick to succeed two of the re Adolfo Bracons, Seattle resident led count smmissioners of republic of Panama. a third, Members of U. of W. chapter of |" pie rush Delta Chi banqueted at Washington! 4), hotel Wednesday night | Cotton futures” act constitutional by Hough of New York Driving rod of engine snaps and breaks leg of Engineer Jamen Cos: tella near Elma, Wash. on N. P. line. Costella keeps his head and saves train from wreck ly James Kingston cleared in der case of Louis Schonb @ for declared un-| “8 DO - Federal Judge , given award of merit t Wilson for bravery in i m drowning. A LAWYER ALL RIGHT OAKVILLE, Wash., Oct. 14 ”, Wilson, attorney, was fined $1 and costs by Justice Pettijohn foi using his auto as a jitney without a |license. Wilson drove his machine! }to convey a party of clients to the |county seat. He then charged them for the trip Difficulty encountered in salving | liner Calchas at Port Townsend. Co-oy tive merchandising stores condemned by Miller Freeman of Seattle a( grocers’ convention at Tacoma | | | kille 19-year-old son, mistaking him for deer COLLEGES DO IT Manufacture and Our Own A COMPLETE FUNERAL $47.50 Including the use of our private parlors and the use of (NOY A PAUPER COUNTY and because We invite you to visit our establishment and see for your there some fable disguising himself in the lion's akin? | He—Yes; but the colleges do the trick with a sheepskin now, Phone North 525, They are to appoint | banquet seats at} rdeen to hear Prexy Suzzallo Fri-| McLeod, of Fort Gib-! AR. Mellis, farmer near Portland, | month, 91.90; Be per month ap to months. By carrier, city, the @ month. Ratored at Heattio, Wadh., postoffire as ponon4 cines mation For National Prohibition S EATTLE, soon to be the largest “dry” city in the United States, joins in the hope of the W. >. T. U. convention, which adjourns Thursday, that soon prohibition will be nation-wide. To be really successful, prohibition should | national in scope. Many of the alleged objctions to state prohibi- tion do not lie against national prohibition, and in bidding the W. C. T. U. godspeed as they léa\ the city, Seattle hopes that the deliberations of the convention here will hasten the day when the en tire country, instead of a few individuals states, will be dry. Consistency, Thou Art a Jewel! Dp” you hear recently how certain folks praised Reginald H. Thomson, the engineer? “He's a wonderful engineer,” they said, of the best in the country.” They were boosting him for the port com- mission, a position he did not ask, want or accept. “A great engineer,” they said. AND YET. They are the ones who are forever damning the Cedar river dam, one of Thomson’s greatest engineering accomplishments. Praise for Thomson, but knocks for Thomson's dam. Why? Because the dam is a municipal own- ership project. AND BRYAN thought that a man busy at sparking a widow couldn't be trusted to preserve peace! ‘Bulgaria’ s Entry a Good Thing, Says This Writer BY R. F. PAINE Bulgaria isin it. All the Balkans will undoubtedly have to go Into it. It Ie a good thing. The feature |of Europe requires that this war | make a thoro clean-up. yh would mean rman system and great passage be | the Mediterranean and} Black seas. | The allies’ triumph mean an end | |of the bickerings, jealousies and| | wars of the Balkans and an end of) Turkey's control of the Darda nelles, & control due to old-time }fear of each other on the part of | the great powers. If, as many fllustrous thinkers maintain, this war is finally an is- sue between autocracy * and democracy, let there be a thoro/inside pocket, Charles M. Dela- |clean-up. Most al! progress is, di-| ware, who runs a grocery store | rectly or indirectly, paid for with| at 4723 West Dawson st., lost in a [human blood or other sacrifice, | fight with three robbers Wednes- janyway. These Balkans are but|day night. the ramifications of the cancer; They entered the store with re that has long been eating Europe|volvers drawn and with handker- and an operation that did not in-|chiefs over their faces. One of clude them would be superficial! them marched Delaware to the rear jand productive of no lasting relief.|of the store while the other two | We see the peoples of both| opened the cash till {Greece and Bulgaria divided | Delaware suddenly swung on his against their kings, on the awful| guard and felled him. Then he question of war. It fs time to| reached for his revolver. snuff out the business of the set-| But it stuck, and, before he could |ting up of kings for peoples. 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