The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 18, 1919, Page 6

months, $2.78; . of Washington Outside t month, $4.50 for & months, or $9.00 Per year. By carrier, city, S00 per month Editor The Star: ayere almost every evening after the rent hogs in Seattle. gee for themselves. The only way rents will be reduced in Seattle will be for renters to learn to take of property, the same as if they owned the buildings and lawns, should publish both sides of this story. CHAS. TENNIS, 64% fo We are glad to publish both sides. The only reason we | not given the landlord’s side of it more often has been} few landlords have written in. A few have indulged} ir good pen hands and exercised their vocabulary mning The Star for saying. anything about high rents the woes of tenants, but they have not given facts. > It is true that some tenants are a luxury, no matter what ‘ ey pay. F It is also true that good tenants frequently are no, Mn any consideration for the work they do on the land-| d’s property. | A tenant who cares for the property as he would his | '##!* “e hook.” and who keeps up the place, should be given con-| if the owner is likely to boost the rent $15 a month, | a let in some careless tenant who will destroy five { what he pays in increased rent? | When the landlord makes it an inducement for the tenant keep up the place; when he picks that sort of tenants) no other sort; when he prefers a family that will pay the high rent but that will tear down the fence } start the fire, both parties to the contract will profit. | As a landlord, you select your tenants. There are} ity of families that will treat your houses as their | Guaranteed a fair rent, there are many families who 10 days’ notice of a 20 per cent rental boost, they not worry much about the landlord’s property. ' Pick a reliable family, give them a house at $5 under the rate. Try them for a year and see if you don’t save If there is no other way to decide great questions, call tion: Experts aré biased and senators have their in mind, but you can always trust the common sense of the people. ‘There is not much resentment left in the world against aristocracies for the simple reason that idle aristocracies on the way to oblivion. if lly; in Germany the aristocrat is pawning the last of family plate and looking for a job; in England, after a lant war record, the aristocracy is packing up to leave. Old British families, frightened by “the insecurity of! legislation,” are removing to East Africa and Canada. May thrive in these places, but not as aristocrats. United States never supported, openly, a class of rich It always has been unfashionable in this country to a do-nothing. Like marrying for money, habitual loafing been frowned on among men. | A few centuries ago only the lower classes were pro- ers. To work at anything, save war, hunting and gal- , was humiliating. But not any more. The tradition of aristocracy has died hard in England, ut die it must before the pressure of economic change. It cannot be denied that certain arts and graces have been pstered by aristocracy, but the true aristocratic ideals of nity, self-control and appreciation of art will not perish that day when everyone must earn his living. Since we let Japan outbluff us on the Shantung mat- ter, what reason is there to believe that we can be trusted to live up to a “moral obligation” in the future? Two American refrigerator ships ply between North American and South American ports, and frequently their Voyages, laden with frozen beef from Argentine, have as their destination, ports in Europe. President Wilson has taken action on the decreasing ineat supply in the United States, and beef prices are noth- ng less than alarming. The Big Five of American packers are strongly entrenched in South America, busily engaged in SENDING BEEF TO EUROPE! The freight rate to England is only half a cent more a pound than to New York and ships chartered by the British ‘government have been carrying beef to Liverpool at HALF "HE RATE TO NEW YORK! | The federal shipping board has said that the United 4 i government could bring cheap meat to our ports by rs same method England has adopted. Independent packers have complained that “something yas wrong.” American consumers know that “something is wrong.” Argentine must export a large part of its beef output, md Argentine needs American manufactured products. | Why, in the name of common sense, isn’t there a healthy | | (xchange between the United States and the South Amer- van republic? ~ ) Why should England, rather than America, get the bene- of the grazing herds of the pampas? No man can tell how radical congress would be if each “representative drew but four dollars a day and had nine youngsters to feed and buy shoes for. In Europe a man’s point of view is fixed at birth. here it varies with the size of his income, THE SEATTLE STAR—THURSDAY, SEPT. 18, 1919. -* TORIALS — On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise Dear Sir: Your paper is delivered at my home every evening, and I noticed that you T would like to have a little to say in regard to this, and that is:| : you send a_ reporter out w, and see at what price I should rent this?) Now, I claim that it doesn’t pay to rent houses at any price. Will cost about $300 to fix up after a tenant, or house-wrecker, as I call them. | Now, should I spend this amount and then get a poor tenant, and say I get $250) Tent from him, I would have to spend this amount over again if he moves at that time. | Will this pay? Owners say not. I say that it does not pay to rent houses at any Where are the high taxes coming from? Out of some of my house rent? to pay the taxes out of my own pocket, and I collect from about 115 places, Tam repairing three houses now, and I wish that your reporters will go with me and This certain house | 3 New York Block. | WE'LL SAY SO company given you back your nickels And It's the same But we know what to do—"just uM Ms Or ask the proprietor, or go to the tion by the landlord. Why bother to maintain 8) telephone company It's just as Manager Myers says: “No trouble at all.” intain the property as he would himself, to one that | managers to make He that as it may, Seattle's latest society fad is the Black and Tan, a colored cabaret. It is @ Uttle north of Chinatown, if they receive a square deal in return. |right in the heart of the Black Belt | As a matter of fact, Mr. Landlord, isn’t it true that|° °'y (Copyright, 1919, by Donald McKee.) Faith Greater Than Reason By REV. CHARLES STELZLE (Staff Writer on Religious Topics) “The just shall live by faith.” Perhaps you'd rather have it read: “The just #hall Ive by reason.” But if you were to open the pages of history, you wou | while reason # @ pretty good general guide, it is far from bet ie. Tteanon ald that the world was fiat, and Augustine, who at church father, declared that “there could be no men on the other side of the earth, with their feet pointing toward un.” Reason said that it was impossible to build a steamship to cross the inwisted that the earth instead of the sun moved were pronounced | “heretics.” eason waid that tt was impoestble tobuild a eteamship to cross the ocean, and iv was “rclentifically” demonstrated that it could not be done Reason said that no man could travel faster than 30 miles an bour— it would kill him—but today he travels comfortably more than 100 an hour. Reason aid that it was impossible for a man to fly through the alr, @ jbut the other day an aviator flew across the ocean. | Reason said that no man could ever travel under the water, but sub marines are now commonly used | Reason said that lightning was man's enemy, destroying his property Jand killing his body, but man has harnessed the Mghtning and made it |his servant | Reason is responsible for nearly all the things we scorn or laugh at |and reject today, for reason at one time said that they were dependable and true. But faith was the anchor and hope of every great inventor; {t was the basis of every worthy conflict; it was the foundation of every crusade that brought redemption to mankind. “Now faith is the «ubstance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen,” said the writer of Hebrews. “Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the Qi) “ify word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things U/ fp f aed which do appear, ier ly 7 “And what shall I say more? For the time would fafl me to tell of paryfp fo... Gideon and of Barak, and of Samson, and of Jephthae; of David also, Yj and Samuel, and of the prophets: Yiy “Who through faith subdued kingdorns, wrought righteousness, ob Vf ined promises, stopped the mouths of lions. | “Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the jarmies of the aliens. | “This is the victory that overcomes the world, even our faith.” | “THE JUST SHALL LIVE BY FAITH.” Figures of Speech By EDMUND VANCE COOKE Though you claim you are neither exclusive nor proud, How often you've said, as you looked at the crowd, “O, the average man! be he hobo or hero, He amounts to as much as an absolute zero.” But a zero’s « cipher, and while we are taught When it stands all alone that it represents naught, s There ts a colored Jaze orchestra, rent to the first fellow that comes along, and then/a shiny foor, and it has just that pst the rents to catch up with your repair bill, rather int of stumming so desirable in the n pick your tenant to lower the cost of your deprecia-| °°", °f the 2 fapper waiting to be VO I ING BY MAII How often you've sald, when some evil is done, BY DR. PRANK CRANE by Frank Crane) Alone by yourself, you're a poor, simple digit. And when that jars band breaks sobbingly into the Dallas Blues it is Nd pet up a cash bond to insure protection of the. prop-| ike Li'l Fya's deathbed woene wet they were given a long-time lease. Straw. And when ft shimmies—why en families are shoved out in the middle of the street, |; The Traveling Men have an organization. By the exigencies of their business they are often away from home on election day, and are thus auto- matically disfranchised. They ask me if I will help advance their cause. They want the various states to/| change their laws so that absentees can vote. I will more than comply. not~only no reason why a traveling “man |should walk bodily up to the polls in order to vote, but there is no reason why any- body else should. There is one simple, common-sense solu- | tion to the whole matter. three words. t feels like four fingers of moon- shine whisky on an empty stomach— the paroxyam rattles your teeth. Outside the Black and Tan the Packards are lined up for a block. You really can't have your name in the social register unless you are acquainted with the Black and Tan. They want to vote. And you'll find that your power is expressive of ten; It would effectually check all such elec- Of hundreds! of millions! aye, thus you ‘may grow, tion evils as repeating and intimidation and If you are the “1” at the front of the row! eliminate most of the contests. ccs Saye It would safeguard the secrecy of the ballot better than the present method. oe peg mee ony cast, plays re aaa. It would insure more intelligent voting, as a onest and busy citizens it wi a godsend. the citizen could make out his ballot at his|.,Why has not Voting by Mail been adopted long ago? leisure; he would have time for reflection|Simply because we are dominated by Ghosts, not Reason. and consultation; and he would not have to|That is why the English still use their absurd pounds, walk into a stall like a horse and decide /|Shillings and pence, men keep on using six-button suspen- quickly upon the contents of a huge sheet |ers instead of two-button, all table d’hote dinners run of names and proposals he does not under-|the same course from soup to coffee, and the United States stand. Senate continues to play party politics while the world is Bodily voting belongs to a past age,|°" fire. when citizens could rarely read and write. age - In Tibet the natives hang out There is just about as much sense to it|+prayer flags” and let them flap in now as there is to the reading of long bills|the breeze, recording their prayers | viva voce in the legislature or long resolu-|t® the gods and at the same time | A chorus girl, mays Flo Ziegfeld, For there is the famous expert, needs looks first Why drag in the and then brains. MENT TO THE DANCES The Cliff Law and Order league |has declared a ban on the cheek-to Exit Aristocracy || cheek and shimmie dancing and has issued orders governing local public These rules include the fol It is expressed in We have the Postoffice. Why not use it? It would be a simple matter to register every voter, furnish him (or her) with the proper voting blanks, identify him by his signature, as is done at the bank, and frank | his voting envelope, so thaf it would not cost him even two cents. and judges could then handle the votes and | jannounce the results. This would be an immense saving. would be vastly cheaper than the present | ‘The man shall place his right hand in the middle of his partner’s back, approximately six inches above her In Russia, the aristocrat went up in smoke, sometimes | ¥™*t. tions in a convention when every member “ashe SP GeO has the matter in print before him. Spokane, Wash, is climbing to- Voting by mail is as much better than |¥*F4 rst rank as ® stockyard cen- shall be on his | shoulder, not around his neck The man's left arm shall be held straight out at the side ‘daylight zone” must be main voting by hand, as doing business by bank check is superior to paying everything in greenbacks and silver. Of course, the esteemed political Boss would not favor it. For the same reason he hates the Short Ballot. Everything that | makes the ballot confused, difficult to under- The proper clerks |tained between the dancers ted interests due to the socialistic trend of the present) city ay. st) Independent We have a hunch that this mod. ern whisky is being manufactured by somebody who haa stock in a coftin company ‘The Parisian actress who came to this country a few weeks ago her. |alded as having the most beautiful legs and ankles in the world, haa| mailed back to France, a failure. No She couldn't compete with the free street shows. THEM *WAS HAPPY DAYS Years ago T built two houses, giv- ing the plumbing contract to Mr. X Shortly after they were finished 1 went into X's shop and asked for a washer for a faucet. 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