The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 29, 1919, Page 6

THE SEATTLE STAR—MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1919. TSe per month, $4 ‘or 6 months, o per year, By carrier, elty, S0¢ per month. [ Co-operative Building — It is just as logical for an individual to own a floor, or a) part of a floor of a building as a lot on a street. | If this is true then why is it that there is not more co- operative building in this country ? The idea is particularly applicable to apartment houses | just now when dwelling places are sorely needed in these cities. : Around Gramerey Park, New York, there are a number of large apartment houses owned in a co-operative way by the persons who occupy them. : : The practice is quite common in Greater New York for those who would otherwise be tenants to join together and build, occupy and own a structure in common, h a) There are builders and real estate promoters in New York who erect apartment houses and sell them at com-| pletion on a cash or time plan to occupants. But we have never heard of the idea finding its way) westward to any extent. ; ye -We are told that a six-suite apartment house, including land, would represent an investment of about $42,000. i: This means that each owner-occupant would carry $7,000 as his share of the investment, or $3,500 if the property were mortgaged for 50 per cent. é The co-operators naturally form themselves into a stock company and the certificates of stock represent the owner- ship of an individual apartment as in the case of a deed | representing the ownership of a house and lot. The apartment house is becoming a very common means | of abode in America. " It is not just an economic way around the high land values | of great cities; for apartment houses are being built in} the smaller cities where land values are low. Housewives find them a solution of the domestic labor problem—all or in part. ; aie The apartment house is congestion, but scientific con- gestion—decent congestion for purposes of economy in) They are not objectionable for the bringing up of young | children when properly built and arranged with play space | in the basement for bad weather and in the yard for good weather. There are a few apartment houses over the country where persons without children are not permitted to become tenants, rather than the other way around. | Thomas E. Wilson, chairman of the Institute of Amer- ican Meat Packers, wants any future investigation of the | packing industry “divorced from politics.” Must be the packers fear they are losing control of some politicians. The Public Service Commission | Theoretically, the state public service commission is the great watchdog of the people, the guard that prevents the big public utility corporations from gouging the public. Actually, the public service commission is nothing of the The records prove the Washington public service commis- sion to be the friend of the utility corporations, the “little brother of the rich.” In the gas rate case of last year, in the phone rate case early this year, in the Tacoma and Spokane street car fare cases, and in every dispute between the public and the big corporations, the public service commission has been on the job to protect the private interests. It has not ruled for the people in a single instance. e In the phone case, which the commission decided against people in February of this year, it was admitted by the company that the Seattle company was earning at least 5 per cent. The rate increase was granted just the same, under the plea, however, that Burleson was in control and could enforce a rate boost if he desired. But, just the minute Burleson’s control glimmered, the commission noti- fied the phone company to hurry up with a petition to con- tinue the high rate. The company hurried and the com- mission made the increased rate permanent. Claims by some company agents that this surplus goes to pay ad- vances in wages for phone girls, are utterly false. There are two new members on the commission that is now hearing complaints against the Seattle phone and gas service. These are the first cases of real importance to come before the new commissioners. It remains to be seen whether they will make new history by really serving the iblic, or stick to the well-trodden paths of servility to the ig corporations, & Rumania refused to sign the treaty with Austria be- cause it required her to protect religious minorities in territory taken from the former empire. Sweet little ally we wept over, wasn’t it? Autumn for Age | Perhaps we are getting old, tho the wife says we are as foolish about a lot of things as we ever were. But we suspect we are aging, for we each year love the! autumn season more, and have less yearning for the stir-| ring saps and blossoms of spring, and less vigorous delight) in the icy sparkle of old Boreas. In autumn we feel the God of the yellow hills bending a bit nearer above us. There is a peace stealing over the valleys, these golden autumn days; a peace as unvarying and as serene as those straight rising, slender columns of blue, that lazily steal | from the chimneys of the dozing countryside. At the end of the summer the little streams have lost their tumult, and their passion. They slip away in slender, shrinking lines of orange and silver, scarcely enough of movement, or of flood, within them to float the brilliant leafy ships that come tumbling we from "pe and from beech. time of ripeness; yellow fields; dry rustling rows of fodder, whispering; floating hawks kad oun anions ite | tionless in the serenity above. A time for introspection ; of counting up the year’s har- vest, of communing with your soul; of getting acquainted with the good, warm earth, slowly sinking into her night of sleep. A golden autumn afternoon and you alone, out in the} quiet, where even the migratory birds flit silently, and the bushy tailed red fellow in the nut tree quits his saucy scolding, and stands still and erect, his pouched cheeks stuffed with a load for his pantry, We must be getting old. Mexico would soon learn to respect America if we could get over thie habit of changing the method of teaching every few weeks. Pershing will discover that national heroes must spend. @ great deal of money for postage to decline invitations. “EDITORIALS — Finding Fault With the Hired Man. HE GETS MORE SHIFTLESS EVERY YEAR. [- NEVER HIRED HIM TO SET IN THE PARLOR AND LOOK AT PICTURS— How ‘BouT > THET wood?) THAT PLANNER NEEDS TUNING | BYT I DON'T S'POSE HE THIS HERE VIEW CAN DO IT OF THE 1920 ELECTIONS SURE DOES TAKE MY [') EYE —IT'S RIGHT | | Use of Trouble BY DR. FRANK CRANE (Copyright, 1919, by Frank Crane) Why are pain, sorrow and sin in the suppers till doomsday, but she can’t keep world? about as well now, in this 20th century of | superior soul. I have seen her in sorrow,| grace, as Tubal Cain or Noah could have | and I only pray that if such sorrow ever be answered it in their days. | sent to me I may prove myself half as Archbishop Whately calls this “the prob- | great and fine as she.” lem of the ages.” Most of the time our real natures are But, without claiming to be able to solve | clamped down and concealed by custom and the eternal riddle, we can at least see that | convention. But when a great emotion) there is one use of trouble, and that is to | takes us, and prudence is burned away, the | reveal the stuff we’re made of. naked beauty or ugliness of us appears. Danger is a revealer. In the hour of ship | You can sit side by side with a man in| wreck the man we thought a flippant idler | church for years, or work in his company during sunny days suddenly develops ain the routine of office, and he may remain sublime heroism that astounds us, while the | to you a bottled up, unknown quantity. | big, boasting, blustering fellow is discovered | And then in one moment, when you get a to be a poltroon. | glimpse of him in uncontrolled anger, or You can tell the composition of the sun by | terrible peril, or stress of sharp temptation, | the spectrum, and by the same means deter- | out comes the cork and in the explosion he} mine the component parts of any metal | is revealed. brought to a white heat. So when a soul For that matter, how do you know what is white hot its real nature leaps forth. you are yourself, if you have never been The hospital nurse knows people as no | hungry and cold, if you have never been one else can know them. When the fire | penniless and jobless? of anguish seizes the frame it is she that There is a club in New York calied the sees the delicate woman bear herself nobly, | Beach Combers, for which to qualify you and the strong man cringe and cry like a | must have been at some time entirely down baby. {and out. It would seem that the members A certain woman had conducted herself | of this organization must have a tie that in such a way as to shock the community. | binds much more really than is found in They were discussing her with scant charity | most clubs. at a meeting of “ladies.” Then up spoke! And possibly death, that king of terrors, one woman and said: | that last stress which brings the life of} “Nothing that any of you can say can | man to its extremest proof, and sends him ever make me believe she is not a good, | shivering and stripped into unknown ad- true, wonderful woman. I have been with | ventures—possibly death comes to us all to} her when the deepest trouble that can befall | show us our real selves, and passing thru the | a woman came to her, and I know. She | flame of dissolution we enter upon our next may smoke cigarets and go to champagne | career—self known at last. [ In the Editor’s Mail OBJECTS TO RODEO in defense of the helpless animal? fficers and members of the! Editor Star; Being an animal! The laws relating to cruelty « County Humane — soctety, lover, I am greatly grieved and|animals are fully covered by & awaken, enforce the law, otherwise | disturbed by the Wild West show,|tion 7, Rem. & Bal. Code 3 you are negligent of your duty, camouflaged — un¢ he which specifies that every perso: ards at heart, and do not de- “Rodeo,” which was n who shall cause an animal to t ° support or co-operation nor less than a vision o fought, chased, worried, or injure -abiding citizens of the slaughter arranged by any man or animal shall be tertainment committee guilty of a 3 ment for the men of the fleet at|-————— Liberty park. As examples of the disgusting brutality of the exhibitions, I cite} the following typical cases: Bull- dogging, in which the steer, chased and frightened until exhausted, was dragged back to its stall and left to suffer and to die after its horns had been pulled off, Roping—In this contest (7) the steer in trying to protect itself i! from the roper’s Insso had its lower Hii Jaw torn off and was left in its stall to starve to death, Roping—And here the steer, be- wildered and frightened, in striv- ing to protect himself against the inhuman brutes, broke his leg With his eyes protruding from the sockets and panting from fright and pain, a rope was placed around | his neck and he was Jerked aside| ji by a horse and clubbed to death. i} Think of it—Miss Seattle—this brutal spectacle staged for the amusement of our sailor boys! Shame on you, Mr, Citizen! 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Some newspapers say King Albert lof Belgium has light hair, some way | Others say he has) What is the truth?—| he has dark. Belgian hare. Hw. BH Would it be all right to serve fire-|] you cannot use, or we will call. crackers with hot chili?—8. F. | When a man is fishing, which is the better to use, letter, in dropping a line?—M. C. G. |] conditions, by our f é ‘ The plaster tn our dining room fell oor ago and last week it fell Please tell mo where 1) sticking plaster—! off off again We can answer this question just |me from looking up to her as a great, a buy WRIGL Not that it makes the slightest bit of difference, but we have gone) to the Strand a thousand timer, not) 4 #o much to see the excellent pictures, | }as you might have guessed, but to find out whether the meloncholy bang violinist ever srniles. . quite stylish in News spanker is on exhibl- » New York electrical show. | and you ha diy it will tak the slipper man who had been spanked pper and we never met one | vented a cor spanked with a|and carpet ww ANSWERED Can you tell me what it is that a/ Tet | housewife never iB Why t# it that a chicken never|® R. 8 _—_—__— Because somebody always shoes) them . What kind of clothes are most | Red ( ross | popular among business men?—H 4 . A man can express bird or sheep, or m | mala. Can he express himself?—E. 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