The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 12, 1920, Page 6

OT for the Sake of the Teachers, But for the Sake of the SCHOOLS i figures, figures! tion, misinformation, Ys about all the average citizen got young continent of white paper used up with ta for and aguinst the 6%-mill tax p to be voted on Tuesday, June 16 The two questions which everybody and which those in authority have from answering are these: ~MUCH does this, increase the school ex- ever last year? half-information. has out school wants to carefully PART of this increase goes to increased for teachers? are the approximate figures, extracted from a statement prepared by comptrotier of the school district, and in the School Bulletin: im tax levy sees for teachers sees teachers get of increase in Lou pub- $720,000 $550,000 Understand the tax levy submitted to the voters the school board, it must be borne tn mind | the legal limit is ten mills unless a hi t& sanctioned by the voters. A year ago, the WS approved an increase above the “Ileal” limit, the school levy 13% mills, or 3% mills above Umit. 3% mills has to be renewed this year and Wed by the voters in order to give the school 28 much finances as laf year. \ to this 3% mills, a further increase of “fe asked. The new 3 mills ALONE ts an over ‘last year’s rate. ) of putting two questions to the voters, ir the original 3% milla, making the revenue | ak as last year, and the second, for an adddl- 3 mills, the schoo! board combined the ) Voters must therefore approve the entire 6% Or reject the entire amount. means that, -gchools would lose, not the $730,000 additional the voters are asked to authorize, but $1,560, and Nine Makes Ten jt Wilson vetoed the budget bill, on the it was unconstitutional, with regrets. “to the chief executive the United States court, we have 10 gents with power to inter: constitution and say that the people shall | what they want as expressed by their chosen lawmakers. ttle question but the budget bill sought to | the president of appointive power expecially | to the chief executive by the constitution, iy Measure interfering with rights to fill fat i frightfully unconstitutional and gpserving and contumely, but the apparent justifi- RB of the veto in this instance is a conspicuous that there's a screw loose in the ma- of democracy. What the people demand has ‘get by a lot of powerful critica, hasn't it? that almost everybody agrees that fellow should get back to the farm. x0 ot trying out @ plan socialistic in aspect, “red” aa the decaying Russian Bol- decinion is right in that It permits the state to do what the majority is not in conflict with the fed- Seven different state elections indi- of North Dakota wanted—state- ing plants, flour mills, coal ether public utilities, and a state bank to industrial program. nation will watch with considerable stateownership experiment in North have removed restraining hands. have the legislative and executive ma- fy in their hands. They have their state bank If they fail to give the people of that ment than they had under the @ better chance to earn a living, and a Mateownership wave will subside. If Promise, and hope for, the wave We'll Say So, at . Dr. T. A. Williams, neurological | adviser to the Red Cross in France, | saya: But why only . | |to have robbed [money and clothes, Manny Alfred Levin, Washingt * IN CHICAGO Ladies and Gentle-| stirring times, while you Abner Harpingto mr, it seems highly fitting that we feork some of our exuberant spirit. & contest of this kind it. is a tht we have judges capa-| steady and competent—men of | fe capacity. I take pleasure,| ladies and gentlemen, in) nating as one judge that moun-| Of sterling manhood, that con- ir of undoubted good taste, Pluribus Maximus of the was- fb flagon (not water-wagon) for capacity I can personally of Senator) (by two. | if the levy is voted down, | people of that state win their long-desired | “The normal man can love two! | women and be true to both.” Fifteen minutes after he is alleged Judging from the speed displayed, | may be sure, Palmer had no hand in the arrest. NO, HE W. A picture concern was filming a| * I speak, ladies and gentie-|Roman spectacle and had engaged 000, which js the amount expected to be rained by the 6\-mill levy A fair question; What will happen if the 61%4-mill levy in defeated? The answer: Schools will be there will not be sufficient money tions, new temporary structures, orfppled to pro’ and becaum addi additiona hers statement has been made that, in, addition, the teachers will have to @uffer a reduction in pay THIS IS NOT TRUE. Because the schools will receive more from the state and county than they did last year, and this amount is sufficient to take of the teachers’ present pay The revenue coming from state and county be more than a million dollars. eee taxes will The Star believes that the 6%-mill levy should be | adopted—-NOT FOR THE BAKE OF THE TEACHERS, BUT FOR THE SAKE OF TH SCHOOLS. Extensions are needed. Repairs are needed. New equipment is needed. New teachers are needed in the thickly populated districts The school board has provided no way these things may be provided without including the $550,000 which im to be used for Increases above the salaries already determined upon for the present teaching corps. The school board bungled fearfully in fixing thin salary raise and in so complicating it with other matters that the entire school program ix endangered. The whole system of increasing teachers’ pay ir wrong. Some day The Star will point out just exactly where and why it ts wrong. But that is not the question now. The question tx: Are the schools of Seattle to suffer thru the bungling of the school board? The Star hopes they are NOT. The Star hopes the voters of Seattle district will voto FOR the 6%-mill school levy—NOT for the mke of the teachers, but for the make of the SCHOOLS. PS Me Mn RRR Nec eee & From Hongkong in which Could Tennyson have sung the glories of “wweet wirl graduates, in their golden hair,” of mused on how the lady fair was “robed in the long night of her deep hair,” if he had read the consular reports? “Tis doubtful, Indeed. It is well that Pope, whose muse sang of “fair tresses that “man's imperial race ensnare,” had not examined the trade statistica. How fortunate that Shakespeare Import figures were invented, written— “And her sunny locks “Hang on her temples Uke a golden fleece.” Oh, man, the next time you walk down the street and turn to admire the fair treases of some beauteous maigen, remember, they may have come from Hongkong! Consul General George E. Anderson reports a greatly increased demand from béth the United States and Great Britain for human hair. The stocks of hair in Hongkong are small and prices have been advancing rather rapidly. The demand from the United Staten, he reporta, is almost ex- clusively for the longer, finer grades of while Europe’ purchases the shorter, coarser The total export of human halr from the colony in 1919 were 858,133 pounds, valued at $410,529. The United States took $225,395 worth of this, As Goethe wrote: “Beware of her fair hair, for she exrels All women in the magic of her locks; And when she winds them round a young man’s neck, She will not ever set him free again.” But—they may be from Hongkong! lived = before else bad he never An Atlantic City man is suing another for a secret formula for extracting wool from mized cloth. It is some formula if it can ez- tract wool from the average “all wool” guit. The Modern Language association has | abandoned simplified spelling, but the: great | American school boy remains loyal. When the profiteer cuts a cake he knows that customers will be ready to take a piece at any price. The Star. 7—Declare & stock dividend to escape oe tax, eee On the day the prohibition amend- ment was upheld, we were startled by @ headline referring to a “$100,- 000 still.” Second glance discloned the line underneath—“To Be Raised By ©. of ©.” Two? oe . another man of way thru the aperture which the 1920 moth is now constructing in the 1918 overcoat. jon, D. C., was in) oath SEO REN A ee If « woman is willing to listen to = man it in becausg she has no more talk to unload. asserts Squire on, that A. Mitch. ASN’'T APPI . Rey. M. A. Matthews Will Deliver a Sermon Sunday Morning Entitled THE WORD IN ACTION The Hope of America additional | The chill blast of 1921 will find its! @reathiess pause) ) Landon. (loud _ ONE OF THE BRETHREN. eee way of txplanation it might that the above letter is the “submitted to the We'll Say So since he called for nomina- for judges of the great home) contest. y object of the contest is to de who is the best basement in Seattle, and award a suita- medgal. Rules of the contest are:| 4. Samples of the basement prod-| ‘must be nent or delivered in per-| the editor of We'll Say So in| an army of supernumeraries, reports Joe Mullen. «Among: these was a Cockney, with the echoes of the fa. mous bells still fresh in his memory. It was a hot day and this chap was) sitting by the dusty road, dressed in| |@ complete and very heavy sult of jarmour, An assistant director came | along. “Hey,” he shouted to the| perspiring, weary Britisher, “are | you Appius Claudius?" “Naw,” replied the Cockney, “I’m as un-appy as ‘ell,.” cee A man tells his wife only so much;| she finds out the rest ie We The Modern Captain Kidd's Program: 1—Destre for larger profits 2—Hiding major portion of supply. 3—Bitterly bewalling the shortage. 4—Increasing price because of said shortage. cries and zs {bottles must be in the hands | editor before Saturday of next! {fnot later. | ‘contest will be judged by } any Saturday, and the *) S—Bringing supply out of hiding | Nominations for judgeship! place. be addressed to the editor of ¢—Shortage ended; price up, In the Evening He Will Discuss the Subject Is the Home, the School and the Church on the Bargain Counter? This is an answer to the attack on Seat- tle's institutions. Be in your pew b; 7:45 o'clock. Rerion at 8:00 o'clock. FIRST ’ PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH SEVENTH AND SPRING “Carfare No more letters will be ac- cepted by The Star in the “car. fare solution” contest. The con- tome ends today, However, » great many very lent letters already in The Stary possession, will be pub lished during the coming week. Names of winners will be an: nounced in a fow days. The following are some of the solutions offered: | | | TAXATION INEQUITABL | Carfare Editor, Star: You ask for opinions an to the beat rolution af the present street car situation, 1 think this matter involves prin ciples that are vital to the well yeing of our city and I wish to | present some ideas that may too lonaily, be overlooked in the stress of the moment I believe it is éntirely equitable to every one concerned that a per son riding on our atreet cars should pay in full for the cost of hin trips and that po harm can come from the following of this policy, On jthe other hand I believe it ta in quitable and dangerous to follow policy under which a person rid. ing on @ street car should pay only part of the cost of his transporta tlon and the balance shall be raised by taxation, In thin latter case the small home owner living in the suburbs and using our street car m will be paying part of the t of his rides on our street car system in the form of fares and he | will also be paying for the balance lof the cost of his rides in the’ form of additional taxation, He will also be paying by taxation for part of the cost of rides of many other persons who are not property own ers. Similarly the man living down town or close to downtown, who can walk to business and as a result rarely uses the street car, will be paying, thru taxation, if he owns property, part of the cost of the rides of many persons who are not |taxpayers, Such a system, I be lieve, is thoroly inequitable and en- courages and benefits trresponsible persons, the floaters and drifters in jour city, to the detriment of the homeowner and the taxpayer. The proposal is now advanced that the fares be raised to a rate that will pay the operation charges of our street railway system, but the balance of the neceanary funds covering the pfirchase price of the system be raised by general tax ation. I*believe this ts inequitable and that the Investment costs ar well as the, operation and main tenance of our lines should be charged in the car fare rate. This in expecially true because it can be done in an equitable manner that will prorate the cost over the jong period of 22 years, It ts of course logical that a person should |contribute in some measure to the |comt or at least pay interest on the cost of an automobile or railway wyetem that furnishes means of transportation. ‘This should also Japply to transportation on our street rallway system. I would at this time eal atten: tion to the city ordinance No. 39025, known as the Pian, System and Bond Ordinance, passed by the city counctl December Sint, 191%, ap. proved by Mayor Hanson, being the ordinarice providing for the purchase of the traction syatem of the city of Seattle ax submitted to the voters of this city and approved by them. Section § of this ordinance reads | “The city of Seattle further binds) itself to establith and maintain rates for transportation upon such municipal street railway which shall provide for sufficient revenue to permit much suma being paid into) the city much special fund which has pledged to set anide semian: nually for interest and annually for principal as rein provided to be applied to the payment of principal and interest of tte bonds herein muthorized until such nde have been paid in full, and, in addition thereto, all costs of operation and maintenance, and all bonds, warrants and Indebtedness for which any reve nues of such system have héetetofore been previously pledged.” ‘The people voted on this plan of purchase ag proposed in this ordi |nance and at this time the direct instructions and the only authoriza tion from the people is in this ordinance of purchase. This ordi nance provides ant describes both the methods that shall be followed in the purchase and in the opera: thon of the street car system. It is manifestly improper for our municipal authorities to secure the authorization of the people for the purchase of @ transportation sys tem under certain stipulated terme and conditions, and, after the trans action is closed, to disregard the conditions under which the authort zation was given. Thus far I have discusned our problems from the standpoint of equity alone. I wish now to call attention to the other very im portant consideration, which is that of expediency. I am deeply of the conviction that any solution of our street car problems that will require funds to be raised for the system from general txation will be ex tremely dangerous, I would call at tention to the present txation sys tem in the city of Seattle under which the property owners here are not only paying higher taxes per unit of value than in any other city of our size in the country, but in many comparisons we find our taxation is twice as high or higher than competitive cities. We compare unfavorably with other coast cities. During the past few years un fortunately, too many concrete ex- amples can be given of new indus- tries and new enterprises that have considered but rejected our city in favor of other Coast towns. This, of course, affects the prosperity and well being of every one in our city New industries and increased popu Gospel Auditorium Between Pike and Union Don't miss the opportunity to hear H. A. Ironsides’ lectures on the “BOOK OF DANIEL” Sunday at 3 p. m. ‘Tuesday and Friday at 8 p. m. He will give a gospel address on “The Stone of Salvation” Sunday at TAS p. m. You will need your bible, but not lyour pocketbook, : Letter’ Contest Ends; Names o _ Winners Will Be Announced Ne tation om ple mean continued profitable joyment and pronperity to peo now here, The lons of there in lack ok employment and hard times At this time we already have @ tax rate no hikh an ‘to dangerous, but if further jarke ad vances are to be made T am sure there ts but the resulta promire no prospect of bene fit and hold every posstbility of harm. The purchase of our way system in iteelf ir elty tw by 000, or approximately lyear, simply due to the fact that it abandoned this amount of tax money that we had been collecting from the traction company we took their property off of the tax rolls, This required that ‘his sum be rained from the remainder of the taxable property in the city \If we are to add further taxes in the amount of $800,000 per year to cover additional funds needed for | our atreet railway system, it will add nearly four milis to our tax levy or an increase of about 10 per cent over our present city rate. There & already @ tremendous obstacle to be overcome in the form of our present high taxation if new lenterprises are to be interested tn | Seattle and it ts often on account jof our tax rate that we have no question that Mreet rail reased our two mills a when re things in sure to result in due time! EVERETT TRUE —By CONDO THe NEXT SPEAKER Witt Be MISTOR J. BOSSES WORTH SMYTHLY, A MAN “WHOM “OV ALL KNOW, A CITIZEN OF THIS mething over $400.) To we NES, WS ACL KNow Him i Wwe HAVE DSR DiScvssion A STUPENDOVS ANO I FOR ONE WON'T |USTGN To (T BSING TOYED WITH BY A PoLiTICAL 2x 4 ft! leontly failed In competing with Call | | fornia cities, T feet this ts a ques |tion of gravest importance for wi to solve if we are to increase our Present tax burten. The bad cf | fects will accumulate as each year |soes by. The answer wil! that I am talking from the view point of the large downtown tax payer and this viewpoint is entirely selfish. I will try and explain why I feel that @ person owning | proved downtown real estate i in |no way concerned as to what the [tame rate may be. It is admittedly and manifestly necessary and proper for & man owning stores to make j his rates so they cover taxation and |other necessary charges. Providing |he owns @ store on which the an- nual tax amounts to $100 and the taxes are doubled, he must and in variably does raine his rental rates Nkely be made to cover this increased tax, It tn, whether his tax rate be $100 or $1,000, as he must and can add this |eharge onto his rental rate, He Is leoncerned in the question of taxes jonly so far an it affects the general prosperity and well being of our loity as a whole and this is the! therefore, largely immaterial to him/ |= SATURDAY, JUNE 12, 1920 xt Week service between 1 and 6 a. m., was entimated at $940 per day, giving a net waving of $590 per day Rainier Valley line, as long as it remainn independent, will be invited run up Third ave, and down Fourth In operating cars over First, Second, Third and Fourth avenues, in one direction only, the car on the left hand track could be used for expres wervice and make no stops, except traffic stops, between the transfer points at north and south ends. If all wehicle traffic could be routed to conform with the street carn, general traffic congestion would be greatly relieved. In connection with this car rout ing plan I suggested that a 2%-cent token be charged as fare on the loop cars without transfer, to en- courage short haul fares, and that 4 2%-cent fare be charged for all transfers on transfer. This should bring in sufficient additional rev- enue so that a general raise in carfare would not be necessary A. B. FULLER TICKETS AND DIMES Cartare Editor, Star: Here ts my, solution of the street car problem: Charge 10 cents when cash fare is paid or, when Uckets are used, sell 16 |for $1. These two should work we! | tonether. Furnish transfers free @ith each fare. Why? The steady patrons of the car Hine, such as factory workers, office work- |ers, etc, who are not making any too high wages at present, would have opportunity to ride cheaper than the occasional patron, who | would not kick at a dime if paying it would get him somewhere in a jiffy. This would include a good many auto owners, who lots of times take cars for short trips, and Yj | who would rather pay @ dime than raises living costa, which in turn Taines labor costs, which in turn carries on the circle of the price street railway system, while start- ultimate increase in our city itving expense, might be justified if there is any great material gain that will result thereby. For my part I [have heard of no real benefit that |we can expect from charging part of the cost of our street car ‘ine to taxation and I feel that no good solution can be found other than expense they are paying. This!article sufficient publicity to get| people to thinking about them. I [believe we can too easily drive our present prosperity into general stag. |inereases, The tax increases of our|nation and hard times if we in |augurate a present rystem of lavish in the amount of the $100 necessary | ing the possibility of other slight! public expenditure without due 1e- gard to where the money is coming from. Yours very truly, CHAS. F. CLISE. SUGGESTS TWO TERMINI Carfare Editor, Star: Some months jago I submitted a pian calling for |the turning back of all northend |eame viewpoint from which every | tat of charging the cost of riding|cars north of Union at. and all other good citizen in our city should be interested. 1 wish to add one word about the secalied “vicious circle.” It & usually very difficult, if not tm. ponnible, to locate the beginning of the endless chain of the vicious circle of rising high prices. How. ever, If we increase taxes in any considerable percentage to provide funds for « street railway system there increased taxes must in turn | | letores and the other businesses in our city, the grocer, the shoe shop, etc, ‘Eventually they must raise ir prices to cover the increased | Maz cS *® SECOND AVENUE ALAS Our Home Me mber #55 Ss — b SSS Ss: |to persons doing the riding. The |last system, besides avoiding the |danger attendant upon further in- lcrease in our taxes, is also, I be- Neve, absolutely fair, as no sys |tem can be devieed that can din | tribute the costs of the persons rid jing on the street cars as equitably jas the system under which the per- |son obtaining the ride pays for the cost thegeof. 1 believe the answer to your ques. tion involves considerations of the may be too easily overlooked, and I would suggest for your considera- tion the advisability of giving some of the problems presented in this } in 2947 CHERRY @ A Name Tells Something SF SN N VZZEZZZZZ Ldddddddddaddaddcdaaaaéddaaiie ka KA BLDG Bank. ederal ASS erve SE oy EE |nouth-end cars south of Yesler Way jand filling in the interval over First, Second, Third and Fourth avenues with one-way loop service. The plan was filed as inopportune at the time and so far as I know has not’ since been considered except in a plan similar which was sub- mitted by students of the University of Washington. Under my plan IT showed where 4,200 twoman car miles, costing $1,385, and 900 one-man car miles, be borne, at least in part. by our! most serious moment, but ones that|corting $145, would be saved daily on the present thru car service. The cost of installing the loop service, ranging from intervals of 30 seconds at peak time to 15-minute bother with books of tickets, Ticket books of 16 are handy and easily printed. They could be dated to insure their being used before |a certain say 30 days—had elapsed. Tom Murphine’s aluminum tokens could be used if necessary. Furthermore, I do not think the Property owners should be taxed to make up any loss caused by oper- ating the line, for taxes have al- ready reached a point where many people,1 know who intended to buy lots or build houses have been de terred from doing so by the high taxes levied. No, the socalled floating popula- tion should share in keeping up the increased costs of maintaining the line in its present state of ef ficiency, and even if every patron should buy tickets instead of paying the cash fare the receipts would still [be increased by 1% per ride, With the 6 or 7 cent fare in effect there naturally would be a great deal of delay in fishing for two or three coins and in making change, ete. So by all means 60 not put any heavier burden on the owner, for by doing o) the stride Seattle is making might be hindered. ‘The above plan ghould be put. into effect for 30, or at least 15 days, to test efficacy. . Hoping these suggestions might assist, I remain, Yours truly, A. W. CLARK. 1111% Columbia St. Main 1947 STREET mean but not everything. Take, for instance, the name of this bank—it does not include the word “National.” All national banks are required by law to become members of the Federal Reserve System. This bank became a member volun- tarily, and as a member is backed by its gold reserve of $2,200,000,000. Our name doce not include the word “Savings” and still our savings department is one of the lergest:in the state, We have a trust department that is specially equipped to handle estates or act as guar dian although nothing in our name implies that we do a trust business, Our foreign department reaches the four corners of [RRQ AWADMWI‘IwW§HAIAM{AAY . Xx easrecereesee N N SX N SS Vo Md e700) cersageeeeeet ANNI 4 Yy, the carth. Our bond department is very important also. Although our name does not say so, we are equipped to handle every kind of bank- ing bi INAVIAN. AMERICAN BANK 4 SEATTLE Bra VE at Ballard;