The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 17, 1916, Page 4

The Se Rot By mail, out of A at Reattia Wash, P ty, one Year, #8 By on Newepapors ity, Why City Can’t Bid on Seattle, Renton & Southern. I T now seems certain the city unable to bid on the Seattle, Ren- ton & Southern line at the court sale May 1. The court has barred the city from being a bidder—not directly, but in gen- eral effect of the order, This order provides that the purchaser must take Over a 10-year contratt to buy electric power from the Puget Sound Traction company. While other creditors of the Seattle, Renton & Southern stand a fair chance ‘of losing their accounts, to a greater or Tess extent, this provision protects the q te electric company even for 10 in the future. As the city has a t of its own, it would, of course, an outrageous procedure if the city ht juice for its own railway else- will be Therefore, even if all other conditions | were satisfactory, this one alone is P*enough to prevent the city’s purchase @f the S, R.& S _ Preparedness Progresses HERE has been a great deal of bluff and guff at Washington over pre- yer Yet in spite of it all, it is be noticed that the net result of con- » work is a steady progress towards uate military defense, and defense e right basis, at that. ‘The latest skirmish occurred in the sen- over an amendment to the Cham- in army bill making an appropria- | tion of $15,000,000 for a government- ‘owned nitrate plant. "This is second in importance to the gov- | ernment armor plate works. _ There was the usual partisan vote ; inst the amendment, but it carrif oe the same, 43 to 22. _- PEOPLE OF WASHINGTON WILL P BE INTERESTED TO NOTE THAT P WESLEY LORIMER JONES WAS E OF THE 22 AND THAT POIN- TER WAS AMONG THE SANE D PATRIOTIC 43. A Good Change E are strong for Secretary Daniels’ i policy in at least one respect, which his desire to change the system of navy Daniels says that he burned a bushel “indecent” recruiting literature show- men going to the tropics and also Daniels is right. Judging from the ; ers, staring us the face _ from every billboard, life in the navy is ‘one protracted maritime joyride. We are not convinced that the class of attracted by such advertising “matter as four-colored lithographs of outh Sea maidens attired in a string of ral and a luring smile would make ac- te gun pointers in a pinch. he best part, the formative period, of life of a youth who enlists in the 4s States navy, is spent in the Uncle Sam assumes a responsibility, when he accepts these American boys’ which cannot be satisfied by ly showing them a good time for years. An education and vocational training are due them, so that when the term of enlistment expires they are not turned | out confirmed vagabonds and roisterers. ttl eftic # monthe, . he The Colonel’s Watchful Waiting VENTS indicate that Col going to make the stand-pat bosses take him without any teaspoon ful of lemon juice, sugar or other nice thing to take that horrid taste out of their mouths, n every instance, the colonel ts declin- ing to let his name go on the primary ballot. If the bosses decide at Chicago that they can't possibly win without him, they'll have to take him in the raw. If they nominate some one else and get beaten at the polls, it will be they and not the colonel who “wrecked the G OF.” Thousand Dollar Profit Per Man HE Bethlehem Steel company made more than $1,000 net profit last year on each man employed, as shown by the annual report just issued, With 22,064 employes, the Bethlehem Steel company had net earnings for the year 1915 of 672,000. Its income ap- plicable téNlivjdends was equal to 112.5 per cent on the common stock. The net profit of $1,077 per man sets a new figure in American industry, but it is worth noting that the profit per man in Bethlehem has always been large and has been constantly increasing. Here are the figures for the past five years: Roosevelt is * Net Manufacturing Protit, per Man. $1,077 ool 566 Number of Man Employed 1915. eceneces 22,064 1914. eeseceee 15,886 1913. casecece 15,052 1912. .ecceecee 11,965 405 Wii seveuse.s LIB 390 The company has unfilled orders which guarantee the continuance of this rate of profit for at least two years Railroaders Uneasy AUTHORITATIVE and disquiet ing report comes out of San Fran cisco that the four major railroad brotherhoods—the engineers, firemen, trainmen and conductors—will demand a marked raise in pay and, in case of a refusal, will decline to arbitrate and will strike. The public has learned to regard any demand of these railway orders, particu- larly the locomotive engineers and fire- men, with respect. The major railway orders have a justly earned tion for square dealing and moderation in their demands on the rail- roads they serve. If the statements of the railroad heads are true, members of the orders involved are now receiving an average, on the Western roads, of $1,296 per man per year. The increase in pay they ask amounts to about $300 per year per man, A strike participated in and inaugurat ed by the four great orders ngmed would tie up every railroad in the West. It would be a serious proposition for the country at any time and particularly at present. The employes’ side of the question has not been presented, PUT LILIENTHAL, president of Rallways of Frisco, on the list of Pace Says his monopoly Isn't a success because of municipal Competition and offers to seli out to the city. Rockefellers family paper please copy. DRAT THAT Villa man! He must have sev- en-league boots. Maybe it would be a good idea to lay for him down around the Panama canal, -MOST ANY THING= EV TRUE SAYS: oo us going cheat either.” | ny | introduce our | lebone) plate, which is the| and strongest plate known, | not cover the roof of the MODEST ¢ and Mrs. G. . Mr. | bought | "G. 0, D.” being the +++ 83.00 | on the one, In order $16 set of teeth (whaledons) 88.00 *vicwons, the letters © $10 set of teeth + $5.00 | (indy spectaten ‘Bridge work, per tooth, gold $3.00 | ‘White crowns ...... $3.00 Senator ner oT ¥ be the Northwest. negro stori On Zeph Zeph if t tial dence was The old man ment, then sald F me knew “Well, th’ way Ab understan’s it is, circumstantial Most of our present patronage te foathahe leave by our early custom whose work is still giving good tion. Ask our customers who @ tested our work W our office, be sure you are In the Fight place. Bring this ad with you. er, was Cut - Rate ohicome OHIO Seni: 207 UNIVERSITY ST. Opposite Wraser-Paterson Co, yo We don’t like ti the Most Anythin golf on the munict day, right ah and, #a pan in the world longer to get r ‘club on @ ball, anc FOR THE MEN AT SING SING Oscar Dix have Just five-parsenger -otndexter one and Harold Preston, as wide a margin, why that’s all. He made us eat supper, darn him. salons _@ IDEA OF A OFT JOB | on the mystery of why Chi Ingham wears bangs. oo Same AIN'T NATURE WON. * DERFUL? ——— mere! 1 THE AMERICAN BULL FROG Here we have the great can Jumping bull frog This wonderful photo was taken when he jumped up on the flag a7 of the Smith bullding. e's crying because he ju so high and there tsn't pres else higher to jump on, and he doesn't know how to jump down. A funny peoullarity about the bull frog ts that he laughs when he cries, and vice versa. He lives in the postoffice pond aod other bodies of water, and na ture has provided him with a little Ameri 3. OSCAR touring car, Initials to be placed not to be too con- will be somewhat work—Terre Haute Ian a South fore he came to le knows lots of @ concerns Uncle Unele what ciroumstan. | asked hesitated a mo. evidence in the * layin’ around.” umbrella so he won't get wet when it rains The reason he doesn’t wear a necklace is because he has such a big chin he it. o find fault, but ng editor played pal course Satur: the law of us ina if there's any who can take eady to swing a i then miss it by we'll buy, head y DIANA UP TO Managereas (15), thoro accustomed to eontro Employment. Nobody has yet shed any light | wouldn't be able to see {children of all ages and for grown STAR—MONDAY, APRIL 17, 1916. PAGE 4. thin paper, No lone watts; « toll tw ment will come te you every he whir to dream Which Introduces a Lady and Two shirt walet and an equally & unit in the office force of Har Hut whi Saturday evening re her working clothes at 11 a m. the chucked the plain shirt watst normal girl of 22 delights to put Upon a certain Saturday night young inan, They stopped at the he. "Good night, Haste, Mias Wolr broke away from him place for me if I'm going to be ready weren't a ‘pore wurrkin’ gurl’ ” wurrkin’ gurl.” Miss Weir was casionally leads to loneliness, has| living expenses, and even permitted villa She had her own circle of happy, in the present—and Jack was to be a wedding, @ three weeks She gave the lie, for once, to the ng on the steps minutes before japan of half an hour got off at old Ontario woodland, an@ as such When Jack Barrow and Hazel bread and cake Into @ paper bag. «oO It took bat a short time to reach Gentlemen D plain cloth skirt, Mise Hazel trington & Buab, implement manu leased Mise Hasel Wetr from the Monday morning, quite a different and the plain skirt into the dis on, and devoted a half hour or so Miss Welr came home from an tn- front gate. “| will bo ready at 10 this time, pered, “Here's a kis laughingly, and went fn by 10 o'clock, I wish I weren't At which last conceit she laughed fairly well content with her lot- its compensations, Her ry as) her to put by a few dollars month- friends. Barrow proposed to settle her fue honeymoon, and a final settling sayipg that a woman fs never Jack appeared. They walked to th Granville park, afforded a pleasant place to loaf had finished their lunch under the Barrow said to her; “Let's the pond. Barrow suddenly; CHAPTER I. RESSED in a plain white Welr, on week days, was merely facturers, office she became, until she donned sort of @ person. In other words, card, got tnto such a dress as a to “doing ber hatr.” formal little party escorted by a “lll be here at 10 sharp,” sald Good night, dear.” on.” “Red,” she soliloguized, “is the such @ sloepyhead—or else that I sofuy Dec e, for “pore a state of affaira which, If it oo & stenographer amply covered her} ly, She had grown up tn Gran- So she was comfortable, even ture. Six months more, and there down In a little cottage. ready at the appointed time by corner and caught a car, and In the Granville park was a bit of the in the summer months trees Hazel gathered scraps of down and feed the swans.” “Look,” said . jeaning back and looking out over the pond with bored eyes. “I hope not,” Hazel returned !m- pulstvely. “Hope not!” Barrow echoed “Those people are worth a barrel of money.” “But they don't look as {f they really enjoyed tt.” “Fiddlesticks'” Rarrow smflingly “Everybody enjoys lux one should,” Hazel admit ted. ‘Look,” she murmured; |“here’s another of the plutocrats. One of my esteemed employers, If lyou please, You'll notice that he’s walking and looking at things just ike us ordinary, everyday —mor-| tals.” | Barrow saw a milddleaged man walking slowly along the path that bordered the pond. He stopped a} few yards beyond them and stood idly glancing over the smooth stretch of water. | Vresently his gaze wandere’ to | them, and the well bred stare grad- jually gave way fo a purzled ex- |preasion. He seated himself on a |bench, Miss Weir became aware that he was watching her cast the bits of bread to the swans, | “Let's walk around a little | suggested, | All right,” Barrow assented. |"“Lat's go up the vavine,” he | Their course up the ravine took |them past the gentleman on the bench. And he rose and lifted his |hat at the very slight inclination of | Mise Weir's head. | “How do you do, Mtas Wet sald he. “Quite a pleasant after. on.” To the best of Hazel’s knowledge Andrew Hush was little given Mr. LOOK AT CHILD'S _ TONGUE IF SICK CROSS, FEVERISH When Constipated or Bilious | Give “California Syrup of Figs.” | took at the tongue, mother! If coated, it is a sure sign that your little one's stomach, Hver and bow- els need a gentie, thorough cleans. | ing at once When peevirh, cross, Hatters, pale, doesn’t sieep, doesn’t eat or act naturally, or is feverish, stom. | ach sour, breath bad; has stomach ache, sore throat, diarrhoea, full of cold, give a teaspoonful of “Califor. | Inia Syrup of Pigs,” and In a few| hours all the foul, constipated | |waste, undigested food and sour |bile gently moves out of its little |bowels without griping, and you jhave a well, playful child again, | You needn't coax sick children to take this harmless “fruit laxative’; | they love its delicious taste, and it| Jalways makes them feel splendid. | Ask your druggist for a 60-cent bottle of “California Syrup of Figa,” which has directions for babies, ups plainly on the bottle of counterfeits sold sure you get the see that it 1s made by “Callfornia Heware To be , ask to | And a man. only does that so long, | | Also, you will find yourself unable | you'll Fig Syrup Company.” Refuse any other kind with contempt ‘North of Fifty-Three’ | NEXT WEEK—“THE to friendly recognition of lis em- ploy particularly in public, But he ed inclined to be talkative; and, she caught a alightly in quiring glance at her escort, she made the necessary introduction, fo for a minute or two the three of them stood there, Then Mr, Tush bowed and passed on, “Ho's one of the biggest guns in Granville,” Jack observed, “He started with nothin, that’s what I call \ “Oh, yes, In a business way he's Hazel responded. “Tut 1 wonder what made him thaw out no today?” UMAPTER IL Heart, Hand—and Pocketbook Mins Woelr wae unprepared for what subsequently transpired as ® result of that casual encounter with the managing partner of the firm. By the time she went to work on Monday morning she bad almost forgotten the meeting in Gran- ville pa It was, therefore, something of 4 surprine to be called Into the office of the managing partner on Tues day after Bush's private steo ographer sat at her machine tn one corner. Mr. at i “Mi you to take some letters.” Hazel took the dictation, wonder ing mildly why she should be called upon to shoulder a part of Nelly Morrison's work, Sho learned the significance of ft the next morning, however, when the office boy told her eho was wanted by Mr. Bush, This time wher she entered Nelly Morrison's place was vacant, Bush waved hor to « chair “My h~—-dictation to you yester day was fn the nature of @ tryout.) Miss Weir,” he volunteered, “Miss Morrison has asked to be trane Bush turned from his desk }a trifle ashamed } And ferred to our Midland braach. Mr. Allan recommended you. I think you will manage it very nicely if youah—have no objection to giv |ing up the more general work of the office for, this, The salary will be considerably more.” Thus her now duties began | Things moved along in routine channels for two months before Hazel became aware of a subtic change in the manner of Mr, Bush. | Tho firet symptom was flowers, | dainty bouquets of which begen to| appear on her desk. Coincident with) this, Mr. Bush evinced an tn- elination to drift thto talk on eub jJecta nowlse related to businens. S80 long as Mr, Bush confined) himaeclf to affable conversation, to sundry gifts of hothouse flowers, Hazel felt disinclined to fly from what was at worst a possibility But Mr. Bush took her breath | away at a time and in & manner) totally unexpected. Ho finished dictating s batch of letters one afternoon, and sat tapping on his desk with a pencil. “Hazel,” he said bluntly, “will “T've loved you ever since that Sun- day 1 saw you tn the park feeding the ns. I want you to be my/ wife. Will you? “I'm awfully sorry.” Hazel stam mered. “Why, you're— What she came near saying, wa You're old enough to be my father.” But| the did not finish the sentence that | way. “I don't—ob, it's simply im possible, I couldn't think of such a thing.” “Perhaps I'v fused you by impuletrence: tinued. “Seeing you @@y after day, I've had to hold myself in check and no longer. Perhaps right now | you don't feel as I do, but I can| make you love me? | Yoo couldn't.” Hazel answered | Matly. Mr. Bush was too sure of his powers, “I would have to love! a man to think of marrying him| and Ido. But you aren't the man. I appreciate the compliment of your offer, bat I can’t marry you.” His face clouded. “You are en- gaged?” “Yeu.” He got up and stood over her. ‘To some self-centered cub—some puny egotist In his twenties," he cried. “But you won't marry him 1 won't let you!” Mits Weir rose, “I think T shall go home,” she sald steadily Bush stepped past her and snap- ped the latch on the office door. ‘I shan't mit it,” he sald pas- sionately. “Girl, you don’t seem to realize what this means to me. I want you--and I'm going to have you! 1 value you above any wom an I have ever met. Most women that—" “Most women would jump at the chance,” Hazel interrupted, “Well I'm not most women. 1 simply don’t} care for you. Seeing that you do feel that way, it’s better that we @houldn't be thrown together as we are here, That's why I'm going.” “T think you had better recon- sider that,” he said, “unless you desire to lay yourself open to being the most-talked-of young woman in this town, where you were born, where all your friends live.” “That sounds like @ threat, Mr. Bush. What do you mean?” “LT mean just what I say, I will admit that mine is, perhaps, a self ish passton. But | never stop struggling for what I want. And I never forgive or forget.” “Well?” Hazel was beginning to see a side of Mr. Andrew Bush hitherto unsuspected “Well?” he repeated, “If you drive me to it, you will find your- self drawing the finger of gossip. to secure a position In Granville. Also, you may find yourself losing the—er—regard of this—ah—fortu- | nate individual upon whom you| have bestowed your affections; but never lose mine,” he burst out wildly, “When you get done butting your head against the wall that will mysteriously rise in your way, I'll be waiting for you. That's how I love I've never failed in anything I ever undertook, and 1 don't care how I fight, fair or foul so that T win.” “This isn't the fifteenth century,” Hazel let her indignation flare, “and U'm not at all raid of any of the things you mention. Even if 1 weren't engaged, I'd never opportunity to hurry think of marrying # man old enough to be my father, This isn't the stone age. Even if it were,” she! concluded cuttingly, “you'd stand a} poor chance of winning & woman against a man like—well-” She was thinking of Jack Barrow “Well, any young man,” With that thrust, Miss Hazel Weir turned to the rack where bung her hat and coat Bush caught her by the shoulders) before she took a second step | Wray hairs and advancing age!" | he said. “I'll show you whether) I'm the wornout specimen you seem to think I « Do you think I'll give you up Just because I've made you angry? Why, | love you the! more for it; it only makes me the | more determined tu win you.” | “You can't | disiike you more) every second, Take your hands off | me, please.” For answer, he caught her to him, and ed her; and Hazel, in Ddiind ray freed one arm, and struck him, By the grace of chance, the blow landed on bis nose, There was force enough be hind it to draw blood. He stood back and fumbled for his handker. chief, Hazel stared, aghast. She was not at all sorry; she was perba It seemed un womanly to strike She breathed a sigh of relief when she had gained the street. “He looked perfectly devilish,” she told herself. “My, 1 loathe that man! Marry him? The idea!” She knew that she must have cut him deeply in a man’s tenderest apot—his self-esteem. “I won't tell Jack,” she reflected. “He'd probably want to thrash him, | that would stir up a lot of| horrid talk.” | CHAPTER II “| Do Give and Bequeath” When Jack Barrow called that evening, Hazel told him simply that | she had left Harrington & Bush, without entering into any explana tion exoept the general one that she had found it impossible to get on with Mr. Bush in her new po sition. And Jack, being more con cerned with her than with her work, gave the matter scant considera tion. | This was on a Friday Sunday she spent with,Jack Bar. | row. They parted, as was thetr/| custom, at the door. It was still early In the evening—#:30, and at Hazel's entrance the landlady «rected her with a startling bit of pews: “Bvenin’, Miss Weir. ‘eard about Mr. Bush, man?” iteh. “Mr. him?” “"E was ‘urt shockin’ bad this/ awftnoos, Mre. Stout related. “Out ‘orseback ridin’, and “is ‘orse ran away with ‘im, and fell on ‘im. The pore man ian't expected to live. "Is back’s broke, they say.” Miss Weir voiced perfunctory sympathy, as was expected of her, seeing that she was an employe of the firm--or bad been lately, The next Gay's papers contained the obituary of Mr. Andrew Bush. Hazel felt a sense of relief. He powerless to annoy or perse her, and she could not es- the conviction that he would attempted both had he} ‘Ave you pore gentle Mrs, Stout was very Eng) Bush? No. What about ter of days. Nearly three months ere yet to elapse before her | wedding. It, seemed scarcely worth while to ik for another position, But the monotony of Iidieness irked/| her. During that day she gath-| ered together the different Gran-| ville papers, and went carefuiy) over the “want” columns. And/| in the morning she salited forth. | Her quest ended with the first place she sought. Before 10 o'clock | Miss Hazel Weir was entered on) the payroll of a furniture manufac: turing house / Three days went by. Hazel | tended a concert with Jack the | evening of the day Mr. Andrew | Bush received ostentatious burial. | At 10 the next morning she was called to the telephone. “That you, Hazel?” She recognized the voice, Barrow's. urely Jack Doesn't tt sound like ‘© you seen the morning pa What—" ook ‘em over. Gazette.” The harsh rattle of a receiver ammed back on its hook without! en a “good-bye” from him struck | her like a siap in the face, She hung up slowly, and went back to| her work. The resentful vote in| his voloe grated on her and mysti | fied her, | The 12 to 1 intermission gave her | p the street} and buy a Gazette, Then, instead of going home to her luncheon, she | entered the nearest restaurant. She wanted a chance to read, more| than food. She did not unfold the paper until she was seated A column heading on the front) ught her eye. The caption | ‘Andrew Bush Leaves Money | Stenographer.” And under it) the subhead “Wealthy Manufac- | turer Makes Pecullar Bequest to} Mies Hazel Weir. | The story ran a full column, and} had to do with the contents of the will, made public following his in-| terment. There was a great deal of matter anent the principal ben efictaries, But that which formed | the basis of the heading was a) codicil appended to the will a few! hours before his death in which he! did “give and bequeath to Hazel} Weir, until lately in my employ the sum of $5,000 In reparation for | any wrong I may have done her.” | The Gazette had copied that por-/ tion verbatim, and used it as a peg upon which to hang some adroltly worded speculation as to what man ner of wrong Mr. Andrew Bush could have done Miss Hazel Weir. | Mr. Bush was a widower of ten years standing. He had no chu-} dren. There was plenty of room in his life for romance, And| wealthy business men who wrong pretty stenographers are not such an unfamillar type. Hazel stared at her face burned, She could under stand now why Jack Barrow had hung up his receiver with a slam. | | Particularly the the sheet, and CHAPTER IV An Explanation Demanded Hazel had just reached home’ | some pe | sweating | summe By Bertrand W, Sinclair—Copyrighted, 1914, by Little, Brown & Co LITTL@ FORTUNE”. BY ARNOLD FREDERICKS Wet, Wel, We Wok wHos veRE! WALK IN, cveretr Tat HAVE TAKEN THE | TROUBLE To COME APTER THAT BOOK You BORROWED Five WOSKS AGO, AND WHICH You PROMISED TO RETURN THE VERY NEAT DAY— —AnD WHILE 1AM HERE I WISH To EMPHASIZE mY EXTREME DISPLEASURS 27] WITH SUCH INDIFFOCRENT RE= GARD FOR THE SANCTITY OF A PRomize II! Nous cer that evening when Jack called her on the telephone. “Tl be out by 7:00," said he. “We bad better take a walk. We can't talk in the parlor.” “All right,” Hazel agreed, and hung up. Later, when she went down to meet Jack his greeting was quite perfunctory. . They walked five out a word. “Jobhnnle-boy,” Hazel said sud denly, “don't look so cross. Surely you don't blame me because Mr. Bush wills me a sum of money in @ way that makes people wonder?” “I can’t undermand it at all,” b sald slowly. “It's very peculiar— and deucedly unpleasant. Why should he word the will as he did? What wrong did he ever do yout” “None,” Hagel answered shortly. “I know what you're thinking. The Gazette hinted at rome ‘affair’ be- tween me and Mr. Bush. Haven't you any faith in me at all? I haven't done anything to be ashamed of. I've got nothing to conceal.” “Don't conceal it, then,” Barrow muttered sulkily. “I've got a right blocks with LIGHT AND POWER Ry EDWIN J. BROWN Tia First Ave. Light and power is not only of great concern to Seattle, but to the entire It is a self-evident proposition that while heredity molds us in the form of human be- ings, environment Im the mold of exp that determines what rand kind of human being we will be and whether we will be human or otherwise. The change in light and has made orresponding in the world as to what is how it is produced and how exchanged I remember tallow-dip to world charac power change roduced: it is when we had the give us then mother bought a candle mold and ndies that were wonderful Then we bought a coal of] glass lamp and that created such excitentent that farm cam miles to see it and some were #0 afraid that !t would and burn us all up they w come in the bh e. Father ow the family the ywhere near t can and we heard ' lamps ing up and burning peo- ple t \ Aft the lamp much manufacturing accom: pile! juring the night and a chan of thought and action had ken place. Then came the electric light and a much greater change has peen made until now, night haw been changed tnto May, and horse power knows no horse, and produc tion and exchange have again been oluttonized. CHANGE would any to coal of! and adve we re s A ReENERITT A public service maguz is pub Hahed in Chicago. It's a bear! Ite purr is to discredit public own ership and destroy t eople’s cor fidence in their owni their own inatitutior The reason is appar and plain. If the people owr own institutions and ope use ins their son or pe to create Inspiration is a Deautiful, cool, breezy, midnight # dream, but perspiratior a stern reality and at ly to the class whose pores It oozes (hrougt } ownership of the insti industry will put an end » to the m ft those wl d down to mother ean participate in The # tutions h of earth where they ' to know whatever there {s to know if I'm going to marry you. Hazel stopped short and faced him, “If you are going to marry me,” | she repeated, “you have got a right to know all there ts to know. Have I refused to explain? I haven't had much chance to explain yet. Would any reasonable explanation make an impression on you in your pres- ent frame of mind?” (Continued in Our Next Issue) FREE DOCTOR | ‘This means that any man, woman ler child may | oc 1111 First Ave. we) 169 Wash: Near Second Ave. wealth production for use and know the glory of industrial freedom. SEATTLE MADE NOTORIOUS, NOT Famous Seattle's light and power plan’ has been fought at every turn of the road by its business opponents and the people's enemies, yet it emerges from the fray a magnift- cent demonstration, manifesting the success of collective ownership even though control by its enemies. WHAT sEATT ENEMIES SAY The Public § t c "GHll, of Seat states the facts regarding Pretir: Sa ee ee lant, while Do: co Trenton, 0 Geais with fictions) Tee 868% Mr. Donnelly, mayor of who Visited ttle, has referees 48 our Nght and power plant to illu trate the success of collective o: ership and in a frantic effort to ace it Mayor Donnelly, of Trenton, ¢ Magazines quote: y the mas quotes Mayor Gill, as “To say that the Seattle ltgh plant ts a money-making concera ts wrong. Contrary to the statements Which have been made, the Seattle Neghting plant w t built with the roceeds of the plant, but was built with the proceeds of several general bond issues, none of which have ma- tured. “These bonds are a len agai: every foot of property tn cattle whether that property receives the benefit of the plant or not, “The Seattio Times, which, like Mayor Gill. is on the ground, and ought to know as much about this situation the mayor of far-off “The ‘cost of producing commer- celal Nehting is placed at 2.18 cente per kilowatt hour and the average revenue at 8.15, leaving a profit of 9% mills per Kilowatt hour, The commercial business is 87 of that handled by the city eee “In other wor ® reduction has been made in the rate for commer: cial lighting, which comprises 87 per cent of the business of the city plant, to the point where tt ts necessary to increase the rates for street light. 1n&, comprising only 18 per cent of the Sbusiness, overdraft the gene in order to wipe out of nearly $85,000 and fund a long-stand- y should the taxpayers zed in this way tr commercial Hghting sho at a cost which by sound be d be furs not war- business prao- awhile will then the deluge. Starting with less than $1,000,000, bas a city Heht ‘an plant as saved ite citt- rusands of dol- Seattle slumber now that } eds of tt cing because the gh to pay the the bonds as pecome due, r reducing orice for Hght and power to our samblere and by the ev Ry pledging th or and Mght plant, § li her public utilit them from t € edit of th pled an unt of stock if our water »wned by pric sige odie ¥. JI sliall addreos a tetter rvice Commiasio City Employment Office n and EDWIN J, BROWN, reduction tn cost dit of our city atte could i pay and