The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 25, 1918, Page 6

Sevemth Ave, Near Union St MEMNER OF sCHr Telemraph News Service of the United Press As Entered as Second-Class Matter May & 1899 at the P Seattic, Wa under the Act of Congress Mereh By mail, out of city per month; 3 months, $1.50; 6 month Year, $5.00, in the State of Washington, Outside the atat Month, $4.50 for 6 montha, or $9.00 per year Dy carrier, ber week one Main @80 Private partments, Published Daily by The Star “Pigs in Clover” in Taxation The senate finance committee has taken the. war nue bill as it came from the house and is considering it. When it reached them, the bill was neither fish, flesh, nor good herring. The senators, recognizing that fact, have adopted a rule of chopping off a little of the », nailing on a chunk of flesh, and decorating the herring by carving strange signs upon it. WES Here are some of the things the committee did in one day. It levied a tax of 10% on jewelry, perfumes, essences, extracts, toilet waters, cosmetics (that's paint for the cheeks of men and women), hair oils (you know how they smell), pomades (to make your mustache stick up like the kaiser’s), hair dressing, hair dyes and “aromatic cachous.” Read over that list and see if you can figure out why| there shouldn’t be a 30% instead of a 10% tax levied on such articles. People who want that kind of stuff would just as soon pay six cents more for a stick of pomade as to pay two cents more. There isn’t one single, essential thing in the whole list. These senators, however, having taxed this unneces-} sary, luxurious, and mostly objectionable stuff too low . have a happy thought—they will tax some useful, necessary | stuff too high. | “Here's a chance,” says Senator Brown. “Everybody | is being urged to take care of their teeth; so they use tooth pastes, dentifrices, mouth washes and tooth washes. Since these things are intended to improve the health of the peo- ple, let’s levy a tax of 10% on them.” | “IT admire your judgment,” says Senator Smith. “The war in France is teaching the people that they ought to wash frequently and thoroly. Now, the average person wants to use soap in washing, so I propose that we tax toilet soap and toilet powder 10%.” | This, being contrary to common sense, immediately ap-| to the senators of the finance committee, and the! was unanimously adopted. The committee then went on down the line and, after making various changes in the taxation on theatrical tickets, suddenly ran across the provision in lines 2 to 8, on page 124 of the bill, providing for a tax of 25% on opera boxes and season tickets. These things, being the especial pride and joy of the well-to-do (there is no other reason apparent), the tax was decreased from 25% to 20%. | Then the committee cheerily proceeded on thru the bill. Pipe organs had been taxed 10% by the house. This tax was wiped out. The tax on pianos and organs was re- duced from 10% to 5%. Music boxes, hand organs, grapho- phones, talking machines and records, however, remain) at 10%. | Just take the list and look at it. more absurd? reve- i 1 Could anything be The talking machine, the music box, the phonograph, are the poor man’s source of music. The pipe | organ belongs to the church and the home of the very rich. and organs cost many times as much as the music te or gays agars Ability to Pay ge mme ed point out a heavy on pipe organs, except for church purposes, a slightly smaller tax on pianos and organs, and ated much smaller tax on the poor man’s source of music, instead of which they turn this schedule upside down. INABILITY TO PAY, THEN, SEEMS TO BE THE MOTTO OF THE SENATE FINANCE COMMITTEE. That “mized commission” to supervise the evacua- tion would sure be pretty mized before the Hun officers got thru with it. Claxton Again P. P. Claxton, United States commissioner of education, sent to school districts in Ohio, and other states, a program for community celebrations of the anniversary of America’s discovery, October 12. One of these celebrations was at Mentor, O. Claxton’s printed message, a part of the program, ex- presses the hope that this war will “mark the end of tragic misunderstandings among nations.” | Claxton is one who recently advocated the continued study of German in American schools. He now reveals his utter failure to perceive why the United States is at war with Germany. This war is no “misunderstanding among nations.” The allies did not misunderstand Germany. The United States is not at war thru any misunderstanding with Germany. It is at war because it came to understand, clearly and unmistakably, the German attitude toward the allied nations and toward the United States. . The German ideal, and the American ideal, each abso- lutely opposed to the other, are understood by nearly every school child. It was supposed that they were understood by every well-informed adult in the United States. Yet Claxton puts out a message for wide circulation in which he assumes that this country is not fighting for a clearly defined ideal of justice and liberty, but merely is embroiled in. a “misunderstanding among nations.” __ Commissioner Claxton demonstrates that he is not fitted for the position he holds. He should be ousted. An educator who understands why the United States is at war should be given his place at the head of the bureau of education. Breadstuffs shipments to the alltes must be in- ereased 3,600,000 tons over last year, says Herb Hoover. Back to corn for patriots! For the Supreme Court Judge W. O, Chapman, Judge William H. Pemberton, Judge John R. Mitchell. For supreme court judges, W. O. Chapman, William H. Pemberton and John R. Mitchell are well qualified to give efficient public service. They have held responsible judicial positions for many | years in their re tive counties, and Judge Mitchell has} also given service in the supreme court. Po i a for. ward-looking viewpoint, they will aid, The instead of hindering, progressive thought and legislation. These are the judges to be elected for the six-year! terms. For the four-year term, Judge Mackintosh is un- pee Judge Tolman is unopposed for the two-year] rm, | Perhaps Wilson, in failing to advocate the return of stolen Schleswig and Holstein to Denmark felt that he had to draw the line somewhere. If he took away from Germany all the territory she has stolen, there'd be no place for the Germans to call home. And. the Lord knows we don’t want them hunting new. homes all over the world, j The Germans are not only on their way but th know darn well where they're going. § i) |view in The Star says the time ts The only way we'll ever learn the truth about what's hanpening in Germany is bu breaking in. THE SEATTLE STAR—FRII an Air Mail Route ) v o +” mS 7 ~~’ | | | Map showing tentative plan for making Seattle the terminus of one | eastand-west air line and of north-and.south coast trunk We want airplane postal serv- ice for Seattle! We can get it if we pull to kether and insist upon it. Hear Admiral Robert N. Peary chairman of the aerial coast patrol commission, and member of the com mittee on maps and charts of the Aero club of America, in an inter way of the extension of air mall serv ice to every city and town in the United States is lack of necessary | airplanes: Poatplanes are of exactly the same | type ax the “advanced training” | planes bullt for the army, We have thousands of training planes and thousands of cadet airplane pilots) who need crosmcountry fying as| part of their training for army une. | If the army will cooperate with | the postoffice, a hundred or more aerial mail routes can be established at once } Admiral Peary ways that there ate | in addition plenty of wnutilized man ufacturing facilities for producing | mall phones now } The Star predicts now that when | the war end» We will see an era of tremendous development in aeronau: | thee——we will have alr all, express, | freight and passenger carrying lines all over the United States. officials are laying out air La ”" to be used by government planes exclusively } The Ttallan pariiament i already at work on a code of law to govern of airplanes and their land ing, loading, etc We don't want to be the last to be placed on an air mail line, If our business men, our congress: | men and senators will support the | demand of Seattle, we can get an| aerial mail within a short time. We | have plenty of avaliable land near th here to establish the eight great American transcontinental and const a) airwaya These eight airways mapped and charted now The postoffice department ix to use the Atlantic leg of the first of these the Woodrow Wilson alrway”-in the new New York Chicago aerial mail line, which is on the point of being establinhed. The present aerial postal serv fee between New York and Wash- ington is a brilliant success. It is not only saving time and money for the citizens of those aml intermediate and connecting cities, but it ks paying for itself. ‘The postal charge has been reduc ed from 24 cents to 16 cents for the firmt ounce, and 6 cents for additional ounces of firetclasa mall, This in cludes special delivery from the tno: ment the letter is mailed until i¢ is delivered. The postoffice department wil! make extensions of the aerial mail service as fast as plan are avail r In a short time mail will un are being the us ing from coast to city for a landing field and serial | onst by airplane postoffice | Mail by airplane t# no longer an We want to get on the aerial experimental thing. The mail in be | mall map. ing carried now, rain, shine or storm without a -nias The only thing that stands In the What do you say, citizens? Shall we get an aerial postal service for Seattle? A WoRD lent with the kaiser. He epends mort FROM of his time in his own country for | JOSH WISE the same reason , Anybody ep NOT MANY NEED make a@ noise, ENCOURAG ENT out it takes Aw regards outdoor lighting, an im trainin’ t’ play ® portant caution is that the street june Ughting be not reduced below that | . . absolutely necessary tion of accidents and ment of footpad Electrical Rev © the preven: | he encourage- 4 highwaymen.— «an indul to take n-20-leswons by-mail” courses, and he bought her a course for @ birthday present. He's going to give her a new leason every birthday w . A. O. Haymaker is a farmer, near | Kent, 0, | Nellie Halthead is superintendent of wchools at Broadhead, Wis. | Edward Legg was arrested at Halt: | fax, N. 8., for bootlegging. | Elmer Junk is an auto agent at | Washington C. H., 0. | In spite of the dry movement, Reer | played with the Oakland, Cal. team | this year; Martini, with Beaumont, Tex., and Lush, with Dallas A. V. Goodpasture owns a dairy near Memphis. And Wyatt Bases and Gertrude Sal- The king of Bulgaria has left his mon have been married in Tampa, country for his health, Quite differ: ' Fla, Editor Starshel My favorite restaurant no longer serves toothpicks Do you suppose the proprietor intends to burn them next winter, or is he endeavoring to break the patrons of the habit of picking their teeth in public? I might add that he has so reduced the portions in #ize that picking the teeth is misdirected energy A. C.-L. , “IT have been taking Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin for constipation and find it a splen- did remedy. I recommend it to my friends and will never be without it in my home.” (From a letter to Dr. Caldwell written by Mrs. James Dills, Schenly, Pa.) A combination of simple laxative herbs with pepsin, free from opiates and narcotic drugs, pleasant to the taste, and gentle, yet positive, in its action, Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin is the recognized remedy for constipa- tion in countless homes. DR. CALDWELL’S Syrup Pepsin The Perfect Laxative } Sold by Druggists Everywhere 50 cts. (ii.) $1.00 ATRIAL BOTTLE CAN BE OBTAINED, FREE OF CHARGE, BY WRITING TO DR. W. B. CALDWELL, 459 WASHINGTON STREET, MONTICELLO, ILLINOIS | |The Business End | with the reat of the organization. | | did, thinking he would get it on his | 26th birthday Jment it in bills. | Now, he bas not recelved any let: | ters with money or any stating we ir English Beauty 3 JAY, OCTOBER 25, 1918. CONFESSIONS OF A | ‘ } A number of Star readers have called Cynthia Grey on |) her statement that four people, three adults, one of them an invalid, and a child could live nicely on an allowance of ea ee $10.20 per week for groceries, meat, and milk, permitting | ,,, vad battlnd gah ; Migs $6 for groceries, $2.80 for meat, and oe for pi F ”) Sigs In one of the letters one woman exclaims, “Why I pay | my 2 sinaet ter weather, all of the way from $3 to $4 every week for just my meat ps aan oon bs al first ‘me, { for Sunday dinner, and there are only three in our family! COME “OLD BUTY"? tart fe pon Another woman quotes butter at 70 cents per pound prom ore and eggs at 65 cents a dozen, Miss Grey must admit that \) cen teaee nk - np 9 hac that I ought she figured very closely when she gave out the above figures. connection vi seanaged nat that T didn't know halt h about Certets’ She didn’t make allowance for the most expensive cuts of Upon reft 3: cond wbdrAliad-he tibdelt gives'eca ih word ol ai meat, or the free use of the highest priced butter, eggs, ete. pant certa was consumed with curl Neither did she allow for much pastry, faney salads, ete. ne te ane Ml status at the University of ». 1 couldn't forget Our boys on our fighting vessels, transports, merchant pecs an Austrian duke af h grandee. If he ‘ 1 : ’ ther royal family, that U-boat adventure would look vaatly ships, and those in the camps and trenches drink black cof-| ditterent to me fee, and eat bread without butter, lots of times, They don't Chrys, 1 remembered, had promised to get some light on the subject have pie and cake, fresh fruit, fresh meat, etc., three meals aa ae ey tt rea " That would be amusing, at least. Once ; a “Duke of Alba’ had tavored as © control, and no queation had tea a day or three times a week. ; ; (00. tetvial for hie grace sabe So 8 Ce Oe RR Oe Despite these protests, Miss Grey consid ers it an honor, Certeis and I are such key bout Chrys’ favorite interest that she rather than an insult, for a fa mily to do without the lururics sys we discourage her “control This doubt is far from being the only of fe at this Mane thing Certeia and 1 have in common.’ We see many things from an * edd 2 identical viewpoint—which makes me like Tony more tha ever did With the prices of food soaring, there is no problem poe s\ Ve Rone when m png age ny more than I ever did be nearer the hearts of the majority of American people today I couldn't get rid of these contrad y emotions, but I was com than conservation of food. .Miss Grey believes this would | pelied to exchange them for others Albany, I met the “Queen of Smiles” upon the tr Daddy and Mother L r? Of Mayfiower descent, a lady born and bred, is Mother Lorimer, Her ancestors © fought in all the country’s wars, and today mother has no pati y woman, rich or poor, who fritters away her time, or wast or shirks her share of war work As 1 mat oppe ment, I recalled poor Benjie's pet name for her, “p us old thing Precious” she surely is to ail of us, She doesn't neem to care a bit about the Lorimer fortune for herself, but only for what it can do for her family She cares intensely for human beings—not at all for things why #he takes the war so strenuously She must have loved daddy very romantically when they were young, But now? Is she content to let “young love” become “old duty”? Sometimes I think I have read far too much modern fiction. Sex | stuff—triangle romance—does put such @ lot of uncomfortable notions |about her relatives into a girl's head. If I had missed all the college gow sip about sex, perhaps I would be happier. For, posted ax I am about Daddy Lorimer and the “Queen of Smiles,” and loving Mother Lorimer devotedly, | was certainly the most miserable young person on that train, I felt a horrible responsibility about the shaping of events before we should finish our journey (To Be Continued) be an excellent discussion to take up right now. She will be What if uld come face to face with glad to print useful and helpful suggestions from readers on how to live economically and well. Letters should be as brief as possible, and at the same time contain authentic figures, | went it. He thinks it strange we don't Can you advise ¥. | grant bia request, me what to do? MRS, There inn't any safe method of sending m . because sometiv Of Our Army Dear Mine Grey: I am anxious to know how such parts of the army as the quartermaster corps and ord department are connected 8 C That is nance you I the Red Crons. Perhaps they will send the money to your boy for you y would consult Do the men in these branches fight with the others, or what are their dutios? M,N. | There are three fighting arme of the army: Infantry, cavalry and artillery, known as “the line.” Ausinting these and mak ing it possible for them to fight Correct Use |\Of Word “Fell” Dear Mins Grey: My husband con are nine brothers, known as "the | tends that it is correct to use the staff corps and departments word “felling” in connection with : : ‘They are: General staff corps, | Umber, I say one should use “fall Ten Commandments to Fight Disease ‘ eneral'n department, | ing,” that “felling” is just a term adjutant general's par | weed by the Seeeere Honor thy country and keep its sanitary laws 1 and saw manu dhcterara Wike le right? GRC. 2, Remember thy cleaning day, and keep it wholly. It is quite correct to use the | 3. Thou shalt love thy children, and provide for them decent word “fell” in the sense of “fell. || homes and playgrounds. ing timber.” 4, Thou shalt keep fresh air in thy house day and night. inspector general's department, Judge advocate general's depart ment, engineer corps, signal corps, medical department, quar ordnance de- termaster corps, 6. halt k bes and i orde hy alley: hy backy: partment The first four fais Re pe Saat ee eee clean and in order, thy alleys, thy backyard, branches are ap sara igible Veterans 6. Thou shalt not kill thine own nor thy neighbor's bodies, with of experienced — offic ot Exempt poisonous alr and dixeane-breeding filth other five include enlisted men ag well ax officers The quartermaster corps is the business end of the army. It feeds, clothes, pravides transpor: tation, takes charge of all funds and pays officers and men, The ordnance department resembles the quartermaster somew hat, ex. cept that the supplies it provides 7. Thou shalt not let the filthy fly live §. Thou shajt not steal thy children's happiness from them by neglecting their health 9. Thou shalt not bear filthy, Dear Mins Grey: Will you kindly inform me thru your column wheth- ler it is the intention of the govern: ment to conertpt Veterans of other | wars, if they should be of draft |age? Also if the fact of being a vet- eran would be considered as a plea | for exemption | CONSTANT READER Veterans of other warn are not decayed teeth in thy mouth nor tol erate them in the mouths of those about thee. 10, Thou shalt not spit on the sidewalks, nor on the floor, nor in the street car, nor in any public place whatsoever ALABAMA STATE BOARD OF HEALTH. uf and « anition, ve Re ‘ z silastic br exempt from service if they are Senator Thomas of Colorado, on the peace intrigue: Difference of between the ages of 18 and 46, “So stupendous a situation that it is difficult to give an | #04 are physically fit, and have off-hand opinion.” Probably the first time in history Opinion | no one dependent upon them, : Dear Miss Grey: Would you] unless they are engaged in e» that a situation became too colossal for a senator to com- please tell me if a couple should! sential war work ment on off-hand. if they are alike in tempera ment, thoughts and likewise the same in nearly everything? Or should they be the opposite? Please answer Uv. 8 Opinion varies on this subject. Pernonally I believe the couple who enjoy Mf to the greatest extent im common will find the greatest happiness. marry Money Failed to Reach Soldier Overseas Dear Miks Grey: I would Ike a little Information in regurd to send: | ing money overseas. I have a son| nd at present. He has been | tan operation. He asked} a him some money, so I and sol We all | His aister dier brother also sent some. i} | * Nurses Soldiers and the Swift “Wheel” What would you consumers think of a wheel with- out spokes? What would you think of a man who would take any or all of the spokes out of a wheel to make it run better? Swift & CompanY’s business of getting fresh meat to you is a wheel, of which the packing plant is only the hub. Retail dealers are the rim—and Swift & Company Branch Houses are the spokes. The hub wouldn’t do the wheel much good and you wouldn’t have much use for hub or rim if it weren’t for the spokes that fit them all together to make a wheel of it. Swift & Company Branch Houses are placed, after thorough investigation, in centers where they can be successfully operated and do the most good for the most people at the least possible cost. Each “spoke” is in charge of a man who knows that he is there to keep you supplied at all times with meat, sweet and fresh; and who knows that if he doesn’t do it, his competitor will. Giving up all her soctal duties, Lady Dorech Browne is nursing the boys who fall in their drive on the Hun, She ix at present on the western front in jis Day in the War Th : OCT, 25, 1911—Herlin announces How much good would the hub and the rim of the NT ay Tati etench hice bac Swift “wheel” do you if the spokes OCr Yetta bre ch defeat Bul- Keep Your Pledge were done away with? pare yolak, Make Good . M OCT. 26, 1814—Ttaly lands force | Fighting Men. 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