The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 30, 1917, Page 6

The congressional way appears to put all the load on the consumer of small means; lower the income exemp tion, sell bonds at a good rate of interest, and leave 4 the men of great wealth, who chiefly profit by the federal purchases, and generally take from those who have not Band give to the House of Have That ram is going to be changed i We believe that ALL the extra expense of this war Should be met by those men and interests that profit by the war ag We would not only run a sharply graduated scale ” On incomes, but we would TAKE OVER ALL IN IN EXCESS OF ONE HUNDRED THOU COMES YSAND DOLLARS The average worker in this nation manages to worry slong, raise and educate a family, and mayhap run a flivver, on an income of less than a thousand doll rs a me should r. With the rising prices this average inc $1,800 to give the fami a square deal The average professional man lives on a_ slightly receive about $2,000 a year to the ranks of executives who better scale an From there you rise Peceive five, ten, twenty, forty, fifty thousand dollars a year. These men usually invest from half to three-tifths their incomes and find every comfort, and most of the worth-while luxuries included in their environment Now, then, you double the salary of the best paid $100,000 professional men and you jump into the class. What can a man do with $100,000 a year Can he consume $100,000 worth of food Will he and his family wear $100,000 worth of clothes ? Or does he need it for gasoline, or tires, or his sum- ter place, or his winter home, or his yacht, or his fleet coupes, roadsters and town cars? WHEN A MAN GETS A H 4 SAND DOLLARS A YEAR HE GETS MORE THAN HE CAN PERSONALLY USE WITH ANY BENE FIT TO HIMSELF OR TO HIS FELLOWS No man needs more than an income of $100,000 a ® if; no man needs more than half that income; indeed, it is a most serious question whether the nation would mot be far better off were incomes conscripted above the twenty thousand mark. . Certainly the man who receives more than $100,000 &@ year does not earn it, does not need it, and should (THE SEATTLE STAR 1987 Seventh Ave. Near Usies st. OF SCRIPPS NORTHWEST LEAGUE OF NEWsrarens Telegraph News Service of the United Press Assoctation : Batered at Seattle, Wash. ‘Mail, out of city. 25c per month up to @ mos; € moe $1.90; year $3.60 By carrier, city 28¢ a month. Dally by The Star Publishing Co. Pheae Main 680. Privete|! exchange connecting all departments. Vhere DOES John D. Live? Where does John D. Rockefeller live? Also, where does he pay taxes? The United States supreme court says he doesn’t live in Clevetand, ©., and doesn’t have to pay taxes there. This decision lets him out of paying on $311,000,000 th Cuyahoga county had expected to gather in $1,100,000 THOU- Postoffice as Second-Clase Matter, on} | " Rockefeller has been famous for shuttling his residence the map. Now that the supreme court has decided he doesn't live, it may be possible for some authority decide where he does live. IAKE DOLLA STAR—MONDAY, JULY 30, 1917. PAGF 64 This Is What $100,000 a Year W gladly return it to the government that protected him in his pastime of growing gold like turnips We would confiscate all incomes above one hundred thousand dollars during the war. That would probably “Alice i CHAPTER I lamps hanging from the roof. Down the Rabbit-Hole |, There were doors all around the Allce was beginning to get very | ball, but they were all locked; and tired of sitting by her sister on the When Alice had been all the way bank. Once or twice she had/down one side and up the other, peeped Into the book her sister was trying every door, she walked sadly reading, but it had no pictures or| down the middle, wondering how conversations in it—"And what is age eh Bette get ont again ae the use of a book.” thought Alice, iahia, ais sends of tone donee BY LEWIS CARROLL “ conversa: aur ae & | was nothing on it but @ tiny golden , her | Key And Allce’s first idea was that So she was considering tn ber tnip might belong to one of the own mind (the hot day made od feel very sleepy and stupid) | wonid not open any of them. 5 whether the pleasure of making « aa the second time abound daisy-chain would be worth the gn. came upon « low curtain she trouble of getting up and picking | haq not noticed before, and behind the daisies, when suddenly &/ i was little door about 15 inches White Rabbit ran close by her high. She tried the litte golden There was nothing so very re key tn the lock, and, to her de markable in that; nor did Alice | light, It fitted think {t #0 very much out of the) Alice opened the door and found way to hear the Rabbit say to ft-/that it led into a small passage, self, “Ob, dear! Ob, dear! I shall not much larger than a rat hole. be too late!” But when the Rabbit She knelt down and looked along actually took a watch out of its| the passage tnto the loveliest gar- waistcoat pocket, and looked at it! den you ever saw. How ehe longed doors of the hall But, alas! ft angley Talks Gospel It is refreshing occasionally to see a congressman display | horse sense. The other day during a dreary series of | hes, John W. Langley of Kentucky, a staunch repub-| uttered this gem: “Democrat tho he is, I would rather have President tell me when and what to eat than to have the kaiser it. As between Wilson and Wilhelm I am for Wilson.” That comes pretty near being straight United States Without any mincing of words it shows that in this crisis “am the nation’s affairs, he who opposes reasonable food regu- lation as advocated by President Wilson is rendering great and comfort to the German enemy WOMEN DRIVERS of The Star for more than fifteen Editor The Star: In The star| years, and as a strap-hanger of the fou call attention to the snobbish-|traction company, I wish to state) ‘of women auto drivers because that if the traction company does do not take on tired young |not grant the striking carmen their Quite true about the men,| demands, I as one, will never ride} never pass up tired young on their cars again, even if I have p, but have you noticed they to walk all the way from 30th ave. pass by tired old women and N. W. and W. 59th st., to the city working men by the score,|car line. Even if the traction com- the moment a well-dressed pany should start street busses, | woman or girl comes in| think that the public would walk. they are all smiles and/ 1 seems to me that the railwa; Feady to crowd in closely to| companies could run a apectal train room for them. Girls are re from Ballard and Latona stations, ting that they are in no hurry | like the Illinois Central runs special street cars to start—they are service out of Chicago to its sub- ing money. Watch the women |urhs. Also boats to run from Bal- ass solar women yon are to Harbor island and way + YOU potnts. With all this transporta- Bo doubt see her stop in the | tion, and jitneys on the Job, T think block to pick up @ chappy|we could get along very nicely woman with knotted hands, | withont the traction company until it a man would never see. f ‘A WOMAN DRIVER. Lape could open up proper car FRANK 0. LONN, O NEED OF TRACTION CARS 5 2028 W. 59th St GO a pound (i602) =m 30 Fnatr pounn(B0z) FULL WEIGHT WAR Has caused an advance of from 300t0600%in one item alone--Freight. Thisis why all tea prices are higher. TREE TEA-- STILL the best for the Least money. ) ng \ end then hurried on, Alice started to get out of the dark hall, and to her feet, for {t finshed across | wander about among those beds of her mind that she had never be | bright flowers and those cool fore seen a rabbit with elther a fountains! But she could not even walatcoat pocket or a watch to/ get her head thru the doorway, take out of {t, and burning with; There seemed to be no use tn curiosity, she ran across the field| waiting by the little door, so she after {t, and was just in time to see | went back to the table, half hoping {t pop down a large rabbit-hole un- | she might find another key on it der the hedge. ‘This time she found a little bottle In another (“which certainly was not there moment down went before,” said Alice), and tied Alice after It, never once consid o ok ering how in the world she was to| found the bottle’s neck was a paper |label, with the words “DRINK get ont again. | ME” printed on it. The rabbit-hole went straight on | It was all very well to say “Drink like a tunnel for some way, and| me,” but the wise little Alice was then dipped suddenly down-—so| —__ bene d suddenly, that Alice had not a mo-| ment to think about stopping her-| $10 to $100 self before she found herself fall ing down what seemed to be a very | deep well | Furniture, Pianos, House- hold Goods, Storage Receipts, Live Stock, Etc. Fither the well was very deep, or she fell very slowly, for she had plenty of time as she went| down to look about her. First, she/ looked at the sides of the well, | pnd noticed that they were filled | with cupboards and shelves. She| took down a jar from one of the| shelves as she passed It; It was la beled “Orange Marmalade,” but, to All transactions held strictly her great disappointment, it was || confidential. If not convenient empty. She did not like to drop || to call, write or phone and our the jar for fear of killing some-|| representative will call at your body underneath, so managed to|| residence. put ft into one of the cupboards as Sanders & Company 10034 L. C. SMITH BUILDING Phone Elliott 4662. self, “a 1 shall think nothing of tumbling downstairs! How brave they'll all think me at home!” down, down! Wonld the fall never come to an end? “I wonder how n y miles by this time?” she sald r be getting somewhere near the center of the earth let me seo; that would be 4,000 miles down, I think.” Down, down, down, There was nothing else to do, so Alice soon began talking again “Dinah'll mibe me very much tonight, I should think!” (Dinah was the cat.) “I hope they'll remember her saucer of milk at teatime, Dinah, my dear, I wish you were} down here with me! There are no mice in the alr, I'm afraid, but you night catch a bat, and that's very D like a mouse, you know.—But do ENTIST cats eat bats, I wonder? Years of experience have made ; |me master of my prot And here Alice began to get rath-| you want the beat. er sleepy and went on saying to herself !n a dreamy sort of way, “Do cats eat bats? Do cats eat bate?” and sometimes, “Do bats oat eats?” when suddenly thump! thump! down she came upon a heap of sticks and dry leaves, and the fall was over, Allee jumped up onto her feet in a moment. Refore her was another long passage, and the White Rabbit | was still in sight, hurrying down it Away went Alice like the wind, and was just in time to hear it may, ag it turned a corner, “Oh, my ears WHY EXPERIMENT? js of pati sy Patients who to Inless Methods, Beigntific Work, very reasonable feon, othe wonderful change I y have ON FREK ALL WORK GUARANTERD BXAMINA' Ceylons” Japan 60% apouno 30%Hatr pounn and whiskers, how late It's get’ ting!” She was close bering t| PAINLESS AUSTIN when she turned the corner, but the| DENTIOR Rabbit was no longer to be seen; ird ke she found herself in a long, low 1804 Third Ave, ball, which was lit up by a row of Lg RS FIGHT, TOO! n Wonderland” and we would make this tax high enough so that either the land would be forced into production, or else sold to, those who would make use of it for the feeding of the nation iz to issue bonds for this It was necessary, at the star war It not at all doubtful that not another dollar in bonds need be issued if the government conscripts (i; vealth t has already con ted the muscle and NOI blood and sinew of ten million men i John D. Rockefeller would be better off if he had but $100,000 a year, if it would prevent him piling up millions in that taxation-free Foundation of his; a foun- dation that already has shown its plotting, nimble fist in several nationa | international campaigns. hoarded wealth, but the active, Great wealth, not o scheming, plotting, self-perpetuating wealth, constitutes the chief menace of this free nation As a matter of justice to the great producing and groaning mass, who will fight this war and die for this nation, this excess wealth should be conscripted, and taxation matters should be s WAR IS OVER THER! OTHER PENNY OF T/ arranged that WHEN THE SHALL NEVER BE AN- X LAID ON THE MEN 4 WHO LEFT THEIR JOBS TO FIGHT, OR ON THE FAMILIES THEY LEFT BEHIND And if we induce, by law, a few thousand of our. new made millionaires to lead the simple life, by putti their excess dollars in the trenches along with your boy brother and father and husband, we will not only be doing a deed of national justice, but we will be doing these fat, sleck, soft schemers a real service, for we may in time make real, worth-while producing citizens out of them. One hundred million folks in this nation will suffer and endure enough during this war without paying a cent of added taxes. Let the severa) hundred multi-millionaires who have the money, and who are going to keep on getting most of it, foot the bills The billions of Jawn Dee are not worth the life of the last private in the last company in France, but at least let us get them on the firing line for what they are worth. It is all the Jawn Dees have to give; make them give it. } Dib . ; Hd a {AN rm, Prat ri “e {{\ pi 4 Hi i} TL eM) Gen Ge ill Buy. Why Should He Have More? pay the bills; if not, then take half of all incomes above the twenty-five thousand mark . To this, as a matter of justice, we would add a tax on idle land; land held out of use, land held as a gamble, Mr. President, in what | have to| bombs on the women and chfldres : | - i» 9 o }jeay | have no thought of saying of London? ; Next Novel 1 IE. D. IK. iS} are anything that will erry? con. eee . wl} tribute to the pleasure, sti leas —. MORE The : “The Allison Pearls” | |! the enlightenment of the sena rg but what | have to say | wish to say because | desire on my own account | to have It constitute a part of the cree extended the BY EOWARD H. HURLBUT| | field of internal lenpansansinisiepecienslinnhansneisiaeanl { {| | COLYUM not going to do thet in a burr, Great Britain's new naval chtef| record. No Tu look first,” she. raid,| Was trained on the B. & O. railroad.| Bill ought to commit that to mem- “and see whether It’s, marked If We had # boy we wished to go| Ory and use it in all his speeches. | the people. eee Qratory can be cultivated, but silence le a gift. . form will soon be sceomplished without Internal strife. As for out parliamentary system, the center © party will fully protect the q of the federal states and those the emperor.—From the poison’ or not,” for she had read into the navy, we'd let him get neveral nice little ptories about bis training against seasickness lchildren who had got burnt, and om the Yesler way cable line. eaten up by wild beasts, and other ae unpleasant things, all because they| Bill Stone, the Missourt senator, ee The new chancellor of Germany of the “brave submarin would not remember the simple Opened a speech in a senate meeting | spel rules their friends had taught them. ‘he other day with this statement: | Braver than the men who yirop the| peace resolution. | However, this bottle was not [marked “poison,” so Alice vren- tured to taste It; and, finding it very nice (it had, in fect, a dort of mixed flavor of cherry-tart, cus- tard, pineapple, roset turkey, toffy and hot buttered toast), she very soon finished tt off. | . . ° . * . “What a curious feeling!” said Alice; “I must be shutting up like a telescope.” And @o it waa, indeed! She was now onty ten inches high, and her face brightened up at the thought! that she was now tho right size for going thru the little door into that lovely garten. But alas for poor Alice! When | she got to the door she found she | jhad forgotten the little golden key, and when she went back to the table for it she found ehe| could not porsibly reach it. & |could see {t quite plainly thru the | glass, and she tried her best to climb up one of the lege of the table, but {t was too slippery; and when she had tired herself out with trying, the poor little thing o- sat down and cried —— “Come, there's no use tn crying) ~ _ like that!” sak@ Alice to hereelf,) rather sharply “I advise you to! leave off this minute!” She gen-! erally gave herself very good ad ee (tho she very seldom followed it) Soon her eye fell on @ little clase box that was lying under the table. She opened it, and found in {t m very small cake, on which ¥ A Tribute to the Lawyer the words “EAT ME” were beau- oar bass in — “Well, 1 wat ty 1d if [seo tH makes ee om: tare He argues and pleads for his client's needs | abene ane satew: emilee st noc| He cites and recites till you’re dizzy lereep under the door; so elther, He’s keen and he’s clean—that’s plain to be seen He’s brainy, he’s bright and he’s busy. Through all his long cases, tho’ trouble he faces He’s calm and he’s cool and he’s quiet Be says to feel fit there Is nothing like IT And by IT he means WRIGLEY’S—Jjust try it! WRIGLEY has won Its case — people are for it. Largest way I'll get into the garden, and I don't care which happens!” She ate a little bit, and said anxiously to herself, “Which way? Which way?” holding her hand on the top of her head, to feel which way it was grow! CHAPTER II. The Pool of Teare “Curlonser and curiouser!” cried Alice (she was so much surprised that for the moment she quite for- got how to speak good English) Now I'm opentng out Ike the larg est telescope that ever was! Good bye, feet!” (for when she looked down at her feet they seemed to be almost out of sight, they were get: ting so far off), “Oh, my poor little feet; I wonder who will put on your shoes and stockings for you now, dears? T'm eure I shan't be able! But T must be kind to them,” thought Alice, “or |perhaps they won't walk the way T want to go! Let me see: I'll rive them a new pair of boots ev- ery Christmas.” And she went on planning to herself how she would manage it “Thy mut “gp hy the carr selling gum in the world because it’s liked by seem ‘sending presenta to one’ more folks, “AFTER EVERY MEAL,” tions will look! Alico’s Right Foot, Beq., Three of a kind Hearthrug, noar the Fender, (With Alice's Love.) She fare what nonsense I'm talk. WRIGLEV'S JUICY FRU! } f Just at this moment her head ) le ¥ struck against the roof of the hall, . In fact, whe wae now rather more than nine feet high, and she at once took up the little golden key | and hurried off to tho garden door. | (Continued In Our Next | “Should singers fight?” aska a New York paper, Did you ever hear of one whe didmue