The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 15, 1920, Page 6

the State of Washington, ors.—Edward Gibbon. The Seattle Star By mall, out of etty, Se per months J montha, 60° for € montha oF $9.00 per year tO montha, $9.16) year, of (he state, T f month, elty, 10 per week Outal liy carrier, Amertean ts out with « proposed roblem, a remedy that It says this state a plentiful build up @ big Tome Yakima Dally for the sugar pt Jd nail the profiteer, Insure ‘and which would, incidentally, industry in Washington. = The American's plan - ie one remgertd e teowned sugar factory tn the Yal eperated at cost Including interest on the bonds sthe creation of a sinking fund to retire them 20 to 40 yearn By such a means, It greues gh sugar could be produced here at hothe y all our needs and at about & third of the price. fs the American's argument: “The United States agricultural year ban for 1919 shows that the United States now Pp nyo Doth cane and beets, about 21 per cent the sugar consumed in this country, ‘The re is imported. Total sugar consumption people of this country amounts to basta pounds annually. There are roun ty 000 families In the United States, whieh that each family consumes 250 pounds sugar each year, This is @ complete per consumption, fncluding private familica, eating houses, canneries, candy factories, ing fair allowance for population tnergase the 1910 census, Washington now has ap Proximately 400,000 families. Based on the na- tion's average consumption, this state’s sugar Fequirements are 100,000,000 pounds annualy. “Utah, Colorado and California produce an average of 11 tons of sugar beets per acre. As. that beet land in the Yakima valley wijl ‘average as high in production, we bave an aver ‘ production of sugar content per acre of $300 Ita To meet the sugar needs of all the ‘of Washington would therefore require 90,000 acres devoted to sugar beets. 4 “Can the - phcvand valley contribute profitably 90,000 acres to sugar beet culture each year? ‘A study of the situation, and assuming @ price fo growers of $18 a ton, can give nothing but ‘an affirmative answer, With such a price, M3 Gould be difficult to keep the acreage in the ‘whole valley as low as 30,000 acres, “At the wa of 1917, R. K. Tiffany estimated the irrigated acreage under cana] systems either completed of well under way at 402000 acres, Probably 20,000 acres have been added since that Hime. Of this, fully 300,000 acres are not in fruit culture, and are adapted to forage or root * erops. Making allowances for advantageous rotw 2 tons, and for a generous percentage of farmers "© who could not be persuaded to grow beets at any ©) | price, there wot still be not less than 30,000 ‘and possibly ax much as 50,000 acres in beets each year, under a system that would assure | © growers a profit and under weieh enormous | | profits now going to profiteering monopolis ei apa Would be enjoyed by consumers. “What is a right price for beets? © company says $13 a ton.‘ Farmers contend for a | minimum of $15. Place the price at $18 a ton, and we have a raw beet cost of stx cents a pound for sugar content. Eighteen dollars a ton will return the grower an average close to $200 an acre gross, which would permit using white labor at good wages, keeping minor children ‘im school, and relieving women of the slavish _ work of weeding and thinning “What {s the factory cost of refining sugar from beets? The company is very secretive about this, The American has ver! data which is 14 years old. Growers then received $5.50 at the dump and $@ siloed. Amou « to $1.75 to $3 per 100 pounds of sugar content. Factory costs for the finished product, including raw materials | and all costs of refining, considering interest ‘on investment, depreciation, etc, then totaled $2.82—an average of about a dollar a hundred for refining ready for delivery to buyer, f. 0. b. | factory. “To be sure, all factory costs have advanced y since that time. It is also true that methods of refining and percentage of sugar ¢x- traction have tmproved. Where 200 men were % required tn 1906 to operate a 600-ton capacity ‘> mill, a mill of the same capacity can now be handied by a little more than 100 men. Per- centage of sugar recovery has also sharply In- creased with improved methods. “But assume, in spite of improved methods, labor and sugar moving, that factory costs doubled. These costs would then amount only $2 per 100 Ibe of refined sugar. Add $2 factory cost to $6 beet cost, brings cost f. 0. b. only $% a hundred, with $18 a ton to 50 cents @ hundred pounds 100,000,000 pounds produced, brings and onehalf cents, and allows $500,000 for bettering wages and working condi- factory workers, and for experimental in cooperation with growers, with a helping growers secure bigger and more le yielda. “Add to the eight and one-half centa, one and e-half cents for distribution from factory, thru lesale and retail channels to consumers (and American is reliably advised by wholemiers y that this is a wide margin for distribution), ‘© arrive at @ price to consumer of 10 cents pound! “Washington's 100,000,000-T. consumption at 2% cents amounts to $2$,000,000, At 10 cents, the | total ts $10,000,000—a difference of $18,000,000. | And bear tn mind, this is not the only difference. “With the $10,000,000 goes $18 to growers and = higher wages and better working conditions to , factory employes; American labor in the beet | fields; elimination of child and woman labor; } better education for the young, and a group | citizenship pride tn a great cooperative state , Industry. » “Can Washington afford not to establish a beet * @ugar factory in the Yakima valley? “There is no reason why the Utah-Idaho Sugar Co. would lose its investment. The state could take it over. But there is lean reason why the People of VM shington should make a@ present of from 10 to 20 millions a year to the sugar company.” j i PE SETEEST ESSE COREE Ree weet errr eter Settee ry : rage . * * . . + . . * A lot of favortte sons have been put in the ae. LETTERS ALL MEDIUMS FAKES? Editor The Star: May I address r thru you to “Silvertip Kegan in The Star, I would like to you @ question regarding spirit. You stated that you have @ fake medium and grafter in past. Do you think that all mediums are ? If so, what are they trying fake from or imitate? Or do you ‘think there is some truth in spirit INTERESTED READER. FAéitor’s Note: An interesting bird for a yoar votes scarce threats which 2 fool, Pets, ceases TO EDITOR [didn’t see Wm. Gottstein walking the streets as free as anyone for a | year after he had been convicted af murder for the second time by a -| Jury of American citizens. Twenty-four presumably falr-mind ed, unprejudiced citizens state it as thelr opinion in @ verdict that Wm. Gottstein was guilty of a most treacherous and revolting murder, and Mr. Carmody allows hi to walk the streets of Seattle as free ns a Then The Star de. heads Mr. ceiving from crimingis. Isn't is Just too rich for any une! , We are willing to admit that Mr. Gottstein had some very rich rela- tives and seemed to have unlimited cash at his disposal, but any poor man who commits We think Mr, Carmody’s death no tiees are making that tittle stunt of Jewel and some of his colleagues whore salaries are paid by the tax- From The Porttand News > The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigat- c THE SEATTLE STAR ie <—_a i STAY AT HOME Mediod) sctence han exploded @ne eg of our pet theories in the treatment |] of tuberculosin | 4 to Get Sugar Cheaply! For Rich as For Poor | ‘The admonition to eateh the first train for some arid spot in the wont is no longer regarded ax necessary tn the treatment of the great white If somebody will circulate a petition to Preaident| pincue. Phynicians now realize that Wilson asking him to extend executive clemency to]a change of climate often in not of all political prisoners, we of The News, will aten|as much value aa the proper uno of that petitio fresh alr at home, In fact, that But we will not sign and we will not ask anybody eine.to sign a petition to keep Henry Albers out of the penitentiary. The plea ix that Albers te old, sick and gotne blind He has gur sympathy. Are innocent women and chikiren beartng the name of Albers who will suffer shame if Henry Albers geen to prison, We are worry for those women and children. ‘ Rut other stck oMf men have gone to prison for their eins before now. And when do innocent loved ones not muffer because men break the laws of pociety? Henry Albers was legnily tried and convicted. Many men and women are now im prison for crimes similar to his, If ha who ts rich, ts pantoned, while poorer men serve prison terma, the recruiting sergeants of discontent and revolution will reap o rich harvest In the thterest of the common weal, Henry Albers should go to the penitentiary, There must not be one law, for the rich and one fer the poor, Any carpenter can tell Governor Edwards that a wet plank makes a bum job. Oh! For an Auditorium Begttie cannot get along comfortably without « freat auditorium. Dorens of people lined up at dawn Thursday and stood atx hours waiting for a chance to buy tickets for the GallhCurel concert. Every year sees a greater throng pf people eager to enjoy the worthwhile musical offern To provide ample facilities and frequent oppor tunities for artistic joys has become a civic duty The Ladies’ Musical cluh, to Beattie, is performing noble public service, These women do not bring musicians here to make money They generally give their profita for the pubile good et the end of each year, and merely protect them selves against lom by putting their ventures on a financial basta, ‘The discouraging fact about the whole aftuation is that too few people can hear the best tn music. Seattle should have a great auditorium, with room for all who would care to go. The price then, might be kept within the reach of all Until Seattle has an adequate auditorium, we cannot attain com. plete coramunity satisfaction. Seattle should be the happlest of cftien Mach year we ought to enlarge our facilities The Stadium, the Civie Center Hotel and an ample anditortum should af be forthcoming soon—and not the least of these is the auditorium. Chicago drivers of bakery wagons threaten to loaf if not given more dough. 4 City Corruption Sir Auckland Geddes, British ambassador, myy the materialism of the modern city is the milletone around the neck of democracy. Lert Dunsany, Irish dramatist, also conéemns tn his plays, the “metropolitan cities" of prehistoric times when the gods talked with men. It has always been the same. The city weakens men's souls, Men gather together tn large commun} ties for purpores of trade and moneyanaking. The larger the community, the more opportunities there are fot acquiring wealth. The lure of the city & the lure of gold. Lord Dunsany pictures the metropolitan cities of the ancient world as centers of degeneracy, from which wen of sense fled for the freedom of the desert’s open fpace or the uncorrupted jungle Sir Auckland Geddes says the cities of toduy are dragged down by & defermined minority thru blackmail or corruption. Always the way of d city has been a descent inte evil. | But, the city has ite defenses Where masses of men come together, the primitive cunning of the race is stimulated by the «ight of centralized wealth” ‘The survival of the fittest began among those who itmelf to persevere. Cities have ever damaged men's souls that their bodies might tive. But, humanity tr slowly prégressing upward. Man ts discovering the origin of the evils of metropolitan citlea That ie the first step toward finding the cure Note: Hens fed on fermented corn will lay eggs that will hatch cocktails. | Plenty of Vacation ER SELES RRR NO PE RCT YO The United States supreme court ts far behind tn deciding cases of vast importance to the people of this country. It ‘has again postponed heartng the farm loan case, upon which rests the future of cheap leang to food producers. Probably it will be decided this fall, dispatches from Washington ansert. Again and again has the supreme court postponed {ts decision on the constitutfonality of the prohibition amendment and the enforcement act. Other easen, many of them, pagiently await the court’s attention. Yet the court takes a «pring receas the first half of May, and announces: “After the two week recess final adjournment for the summer will be taken early in June.” * Meanwhile the country, Its people and business can mark time, ‘The court must havé its vacations! Lloyd George says everyone is satisfied with what happened at San Remo. Benin papers please copy. in @ few so-called 1. W. W.'s when- ever the atink becomes #0 nayseating that even Seattle's callous and ex perienced stomach would be turned, look ike the act of a deep and subtle intellect. Seattle has been praviding these U. 8. and the world at large with her own inimitable brand of comedy for & good many years, but we don't much of an admirer of the late Mr. Hiram Gill to claim that hé was a man of entirely too much intelli. gence to ever try to pull off any of the raw, rank and rancid stuff that his successors have been putting on the boards for over two years, Respectfully, QUENTINQUIDCUMQUE. to the death Carmody is re murder is a Until 1919 cigar tobacco brought a higher price at the farm than any other type, but last year cigaret, chewing snuff and export types of in bringing great artints | think it is nedessary for one to be} ‘The plea ts made that there/tain peak, ‘These trips to special health re. | | j |manatortums where they can pay for under the right sort of home care tubereulosta responds quite as read ily in the average busy city ax in any desert, or on the, highest monn sorts, trips which are uually highly expensive, frequently work a very distinct hardahip on those so unfor- tunate ‘aa to contract tuberculosis. In addftion to this the popular no. tion regurding the peculiar virtues of climate have also very materially | retarded program in the treatment of tuderculesis by the average prc titioner. We have numerous tnstances of this, Places which are supposed to Powers a climate beneficial to tuber culowta are literally overrun with sufferers with the disease. The pa tents Mock to these places, and often tive in highly insanttary homes with hariiy enough to eat and practically no medical attention, staking thelr | hope for cure on the climate alone. Needless to say thoy are not cured ‘The only ones benefited are those with sufficient means to enter the the proper diet and treament, Some time ago the National Tuber. culosta ameciation adopted @ resolv tion favoring the establishment of tuberculosis wards in every hoepttal in every city, This recommendation was tuned on the knowledge that tuberculosis f# no more communi. cable than many other diseases which are admitted to these hoxp!- tals, and when suitable precautions are taken under proper supervision not As communicable aa rome. The average sufferer trom tuber culosis cannot afford treatment in a private sanatorium, Others do not like to go to ona What ts badly needed is a ward in city hospitals no arranged a5 to provide plenty of freah alr and sunshina These two gifts of Nature, together with whale some food, a proper proportion of rent, sleep and exercins, make up the comentials of muccensful treatment of tuberetlowin. As soon am these can be made avaliable really effective ro. suite may be expected in the war on tubereulonia, Q WIN you kindly advise me Whether it in mfs to use tin cans with patent lide for canning fruits? My wife will not use them, an she tm afraid the Gn will draw pelson by corroding. “N. 8." A. You need not frar to use the tin cans becaune of any liability of poisoning by corrosion of the metal. It t» very doubtful, however, whether mich cans would be sufficiently alr. tight to keep the cauned goods from spoiling. That is @ matter which might be overcome by subsequently eraling the cans with panyfin. wugrested that you address an tn. quiry to the department of agricul ture and ask them for pamphiots dealing with home cooking. “UNCLE SAM, M.D.” wif anewer, either in this column or by mall, questions of grneral intercat relating my & sanitation and the 1 will be for him to anewer quee- purely persenal mature, or for individual diseeses, INFORMATION FprTOn, U. & Public Health Servien, Washington, D.C, tiene of o te CAMERON, D. D. will deliver a sermon Sunday morning entitled, CAN WE KNOW WE ARE SAVED AND HOW? In the evening he will discuss the subject, AFTER SALVATION THEN WHAT? | GOOD MUSIC _ You are cordially invited to services. . FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Seventh and Spring . Vegetable, Field, Flower AND Garden Seeds (TESTED) Nursery Stock Ornamental Shrubs Fertilizers, spraying material and appliance poultry and stock sup Plies, bee supplies and warden tools. Valuable ‘Tables and Information for the Agriculturist, SATURDAY, MAY 15, 1920. |ev ERETT TRUE WHEN A DRiverR STICKS HIS HAND Ov'T \JUKGS THAT (T MANS He's GOING To STOP, OR TURN « ATER THIS, Lazy Lou } There's & state I know Where the game-Cox brow In the presidential pit, And I have a hunch That of all the bunch, I'm the one who is realty It IT am sitting square In the Governor's chair In the lime-light's grateful glow; I'm the candidate Who can poli this state, And I want the world to knew— Tm frem Ohta, T'm from Ohio! Of the Candidates, as Imagined by e Edmund Vance Cooke . LISTENING TO GOVERNOR COX OF oro You can't get by thie time Without this good, old state, and I'm— I'm from Ohio, I'm from Ohiot Where the pickings always It ty |Potirfand twenty votes for Woodrow were the votes which thre, For Ohto, old Ohio, led the Wilson retinue, But he coukin't fight the Teuton There are candidates From the other states, With their platforms builded strong, An@ you'll often find ‘They are well designed And their planks are broad and long But I pass them by With @ carclens eye; I observe, but I do not heed, Yor the plank I bring Is the genuine thing; It's the only one I need— T'm from Ohio, T'm from Ohio! I'm from Ohio, I'm from Ohio! Till be got the help of Newton And I'm from Ohio, to | You can't get by this time Without this good, old state, ang 'm— Where the picking’s always prime It's the etate of Grant and Garfield and Taft and Tippecanoe, Where Hayes and Bill McKinley burst upon the public view, So the precedent is ample | * For the Dems. to ta | And I'm from Ohio, (Copyright, 1920, N. E. example, too A) ANTEBITIONIZED POE | Once upon a midnight dreary, While I pondered dry and weary [Over many a quaint and curious | Story of barroom lore, Suddenly there came a rapping Officers in the army signal corps jhave discovered that submarine ca- [bles may be replaced by bare wire |laid in the sea for the transmission of -mensages, both by telephone and And voles crying, “Have one more.” telegraph . artist who SO (3 “Today's Best Het: That wages will drop before the cont of living. cee One year ago today Ruth Garrt- son was taken to Walle Walla, ‘The | Ruth Garrison cocktail became wide ly celebrated, but is seldom served nowadays. SEATTLE ON TOP (@eored by St Pwin, mua rey eoresuy 907 DewrTe ue AiO OAL ate ; pursed ' cosjouvsa uve | ny | see Editor We'll Say So; Now that the police and coroner have decided | the body in Lake Union was that of @ wuleide, the mystery ts cleared up. The unfortunate chap, tired of liv- ing, simply got @ good heavy club, backed off a few steps and dealt himself a good lusty blow on the} head and pushed himself into the lake-—Yre, fepy., Henry, eee | Thousands of men are elamortng for beer, says the governor of New York. And naturally making a great jeal more polse than the thousands | whe are not. eee Thug. as the tenant remarked, “This | te no ball game, but I waa put out by |the landlord.” : | eee | | ‘The meat they hand you fn a ree taurant is very rare. Or should we upd iesor: oaees eee But, os the bank clerk remarked, “This bank ts ifke our government. It has @ system of chacks and bal ances.”- eee Federal officials report the cost of living has increased 95.08 per cent in five yearn, Before we place much confidence In the firures we should ike to know what the officials mean by “living.” ; One of the prominent theatrical! producers fays the dry movement in this country has helped the theatre. in a way, perhaps. It calls atten- tion to the fact that something can be as dry as thé plays. oe LIARS WE HAVE MET “I once knew an artist who paint- ed a cobweb on the ceiling and it looked so real that the maid tried her best to mweep It off.” “Huh, that's nothin’. I knew an etually painted a din- mond on his shirt front, and he had . every crook in the country {ollowing him” “Hub, you guys havent geen much. I once kfew an artist who made his living painting pictures.” Chorus: “You win! eee Bluffing is an art whereby no one knows the result. cee Senses are alwnyn jarred out of anyone before the fall eee Trying to live your life over again is second childhood. oe A person may find originality in puted him being himself. eee { A creditable achievement means ™ & magnificent struggle. eee fins usually take the, count of time, eee ol4 and aged in the wood, The 18th amendment drove back. Spirits may be @ morning “consth | tutional” that is unconstitutional, | Spirits my lie around the hduse tn | disembodied form, but the minute spirits take on “body” they are under | government ban. Spirits lie like a politician over the | Joulja board, but spirits, too, are the) great truthtellers—in vino veritaa, | golden ecg when they entice college SPIRITS | “Spirits” ts a curious woré—very | eptrite | out; the oulja board brought them OPINIONS ON THE TEACHER SHORTAGE What shall we think about the teacher shortage? Is deny menaced? Will conditions right thernselves in time? How shall we construe the present situation— teachers in droves leaving the school room to make more money else where? Here are a few anrwers to their questions, from the foremost teach |ers of the country; they were nent to Julius HM. Barnes, chairman of the I~ stitute for Public Service Rresident Mezes, College of the City of New York: A menace; means too few teachers, fll-prepared teach ers, and lower grade of industrial workers. Twelve cofege presidents favored propaganda showing need of teach ers and rewards of teaching profes sion. John H. Finley, New York state! Why not an educational Plattsburgh in every state this summer? President D&vis, Hunter college: College men and women-can be tm terested in teaching two or three years even if they do not tntend ta follow teaching for life President Seerley, Iowa State col lege: Recruiting drives started too late; even if salaries rained, it will take four years to catch up. G, Stanley Hall, Clark university Why start “drives” for more teach- ers and higter pay, and make no ef- fort to state the new spirit, methods, and aims education should have after the war? - President Hopkina, Dartmouth: Endowment @rives have offered eal ary relief with one hand, and with the other taken away self-respect more precious to mest teachers than aalary. W. O. Thompson, Ohio State unt versity: Stop drawing the line at 40 or 60 and use the supply ef com- petent older men. E. O. Wisson, University ef Man- tana Make the publie see that business meg are handling less valu- able material and less important problems than teachers, President M. L. Burton, University of Minnesota: Show industries they are killing the goose that lays the \ tMstructors into industry, instead of making it worth their while to go on training men for industry. L. G. Schurman, Cornell: Appeal to youth's idealism. | And so on. : After all is said and done, however, |our old friend, Law of Supply and | Demand, will probably hrrange mat ters. We must have teachers. The ée mand for them is constant | there is a ehartage, pay will go What councils and legislatures and agitators, with strife of a ; cannot do, Natural Law will do, as ; quietly and efficiently as it works the hydrostatic paradox. CanadianPac “THE TRANS-CANADA LIMITED” Resumed Sunday, May 2 ; 3:00 p. Dally from Vancouver Hears te Hears to Tereate To Victoria and Vancouver, B.C. “Princess” Leave Seattle Fier 1, Feet of Yesler Way ve Arrive Leave Arrive ictoria. Direct Service Daily Except Monday -|Beatti Reservations, Tickets and Full Information Apply to . Do sptrits come back? Will they, is rather the important question, money. sufficient amount. handling business quickly. conditions. How We Serve Customers By being a safe depositary for their By paying interest on deposits of By having experienced officers and trained clerks to handle business. By having modern equipment for and accurately By supplying valuable information regarding domestic and foreign trade By providing credit information that will tend to prevent. costly mistakes. SEATTLE, Estate . Teans on Association Shares. Loans on United States Libert: Real Estate Owned .... Furniture and Fixtures Bonds—Government and Due to Members ..-:--- Incomplete Loans . oe Contingent Fund and Undivided OFFICERS WILLIAM D, COMER President THOMAS 8. LIPPY Vice President EDGAR B. CUSHING Secretary JAMES B. MURPHY & WALTER FARQUHAR Counsel and Loan Association LEARY BUILDING STATEMENT OF CONDITION AT CLOSE OF BUSINESS MAY 12, 1920 RESOURCES First Mortgage Loans on Improved Real -$264,256.58 100.00 Cash on hand and in Bank......0 LIABILWIES Amount due Members May 12, 1920. Amount due Members January 1, 192 INCREASE SINCE JANUARY 1, 1920..............$112,172.33 . ON AND AFTER JULY FIRST AT OUR NEW LOCATION—GROUND FLOOR 815 SECOND AVENUE ; U. S. A. 4,504.15 50,437.59 +$272,429.09 + 41,285.67 + 6,008.66 $819, 723.32 + $272,429.09 sees 160,256.76 Profits. DIRECTORS THOMAS S. LIPPY HENRY R. KING FRANK W. SHILLESTAD GEORGE R. HANNON FERGUSON JANSEN EDGAR BE. CUSHING WILLIAM D, COMER