The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 17, 1920, Page 6

Publiahed Datly e Sea sea Bat Publ . By mati, out of elty, Sle per month; § montha, $1.50) # months, #275; year, Phon Te 08 he Btate of Washington, Outside of the stat per month, | $4.60 for @ montha or $9.00 per year, Hy carrier, city per week, - ' The two big issues of the 1920 camy tandidate for governor, are high taxes the Young Men’s Business club, he deel © by two methods: First, economical admi ay g of all classes of property that nc | The burden of taxation at pen fal © taxes hits him every time. The man wt county. Money escapes, ‘homes pay. It sor Hull, of King county, has repeat " Yet taxes have a direct bearing upon ‘ing recognizes this—and it would be we candidates to recognize it. vant hive . There will be a lot of pratth uch a about syndicalism and the 7 the other. These have not nearly t and prosperity of the people ang nes s to the utmost possibilities. DOS ting the capdidater for a moment, let us to one Bryan. Jennings Bryan. Bryan. rolled Bryan in San Francisco. certainjy did. bludgeoned him and they buried him. splintered his dry plank, his profiteering his militarism plank. ts dead, defunct, deceased and buried. very well! what of it. j % has built himself several marble mansions of the tombstones erected to his memory. } porte-cochere is a catafalque. sleeping porch is a Taj Mahal of the walks thru his estate are it ‘to ingots, at the same time delivering funeral oration. ie time he is scourged with thistles and nettles, from them a revivifying grape juice. quarter of s century Bryan bas been the office, without patronage, without ma- power to punish or reward, Bryan has held empty hands. people have grasped them. capital is his courage, his cagdor, h& charncter, this trinity, the people forgive him everything ae — from him as much as you please (and you ty .do) but— ‘As you are a good sport, take off your hat to him. He is a Great American. ; the prohibitionists could prevail upon 2, ggers to drink some of their own brand | soon be rid of bootleggers. ty James A. Patten, former “king of the grain pit.” ! $ that flour, potatotes and foodstuffs gen- ly will come down by next winter and asserts | the reduction in clothing prices has come to | Says the talk of farm labor shortage is ex- fated and, all in all, takes a view of the future is pleasant for the housewife and the man on payroll to contemplate. stten is just voicing his own opinions. What they worth? Is he right or is he wrong? “Well, Patten is 68 years of age and has reached Period of life when he carefully weighs what says. f er, Patten is a wealthy man and he made = Money by bye able to outguens bis fellow 4 man on the very thing on which he is talking, Bamely, food prices. “Patten achieved fame as a Wheat speculator on the Chicago board of trade. | ‘He backed his guesses’ time and again with his Money, and won. ‘His predictions should look good Evidently the omnibus carrying up prices hasn't @ reverse gear. Ttaly apparently intends to continue in the shoe business. | ‘From a comparatively small beginning the Italian | | government has increased the number of factories | | Working for its account until national shoes now ) constitute nearly 50 per cerft of the total domestic | Production. There are at present 64 firms, about "$0 per cent of whose production, or 37,050 pairs per day, is for the account of the Italian govern- it.» ‘ The government factory prices for these shoes —theresare seven grades—run from 17 lire for girls’ high Blucher shoes, up ta 34 lire for men's high shoes, with boys’ and women's shoes coming in between. The price to the of these same two grades are $3.86 and Fespectively. For the distribution of the national shoes, a sys- | of warehouses has been established thruout Italy. receive the shoes from the factories, Amspect them to’ see that they conform to the Specifications issued by the government, and dis tribute them to the retailers authorized to sell to | public. An order to insure distribution to those most in ‘eed and least able to pay large prices, and to fent speculation, the national shoes are delivered im exchange for a ticket good for one pair of | B specified type. Theap tickets are issued by the | Becal prefecturts and are valid only for a limited | period. In authorized shops a list of the various pes and prices of national shoes must be displayed | t alk times, and under no circumstances can any (greater price be demanded. public $7.43 | Ee has it lying in the bank, drawing interest, classes of property that do not pay their just share of tax i ~ Not only does Senator Lamping call this to public attention, but County As- if the state should secure such officials it will have reason to congratulate If. There IS work to be done against the profiteer. ¢ “But no pussyfooting officials, or candidates, can get the needed results. No who will dodge the tax issue and the high costs issue will do. % paign, according to George B. Lamping, and high cost of pine Addressing ared himself for the reduc nistration, the consolidation, of city and| on governments, the budget system, and similar undertakings; secondly, the yw escape taxation, Is on the homeowner. } 10 has his money invested in bonds, or n't fair. Similarly, there are other edly done so. Attempts by various leg- tors to introduce a more equitable system of taxation has met with failure seause gubernatorial support has been withheld. the high cost of living. Senator Lamp- ‘ll for all the gubernatorial and legis- High taxes and high costs ARE the most important issues in the coming le about other things. There will be ortation of aliens, and this, and that, ne direct bearing upon the continued of this state as taxes and high costs. _A legislature and a governor CAN accomplish real benefits for the people if) / want to. They must have the disposition, the ability to carry out their Taxation ‘The war brought radical changes tn taxation, yet the old, and to date there ixn't eve stantial movement on foot for a change. the heaviest burden of taxation Before the war, was imposed by cities, counties and states. The average city dweller paid his city about a year, his county and state about $$ a year and Uncle Sam bout $10 a year, The rural dweller paid his county and state about $8 a year and Uricle Sam $1. But the average to Uncle Sam for the sober man of beth the city Mind country was about $5 and® the other $1 per capita was paid by the drinkers thru taggs on Nquor. But since the war city, county and state taxes “re insignificant compared to thosé ‘of the federal government. The average to every man, woman and child, demanded by the Washington govern ment, is $60 a year, tn itself nearly twice as much ag ieny city dweller ever paid before the war to all governments and nearly four times what the rural man paid, Heavy taxation brought on by the war hasn't touched the national wealth. It ts being leveled against production and consumption, where it will do most to Incrense. living costs and nothing to emancipate the natural resources end break up land monopolica, Men who try laying down the law to their wives probably wonder how Solomon lived so|der the jower sh long. Getting Attention | Many is the husband who Is so concerned with thoughts of his own-that be leaves unanswered thelis often wife's questions. And many more—the wiser ones—have trained themselves skillfully to stand at attention when/that can be laundered and she should; their better halves speak, and to have “Yes, or “Uh-huh, dear for feminine commands. That is why few of these highly trained hushands dear,” upon the tip of the tongue ever break into the divorce court, or the hospital But it was not so with Mr, Charles Cleek of Chicago. According to his testimony.in the court of domestic relations, he was so absent-minded, #0 concerned with his own thought. that often he didn't reply when his wife spoke to him. She, it appears, required the full attention of her husband when she addressed a remark in his direction. And, aguin reverting to the evidence in the case, when Practice to “bean him with a poker or alarm clock, or whatever happened to be handy.” That isn't a nice practice for wives. Jt Is in Jurious to alarm clocks, and “misplaces pokers needed for winter fires, In .the Cleek case it got the husband into the hospital and divorce court. The judge thought a better method of attracting one's husbend’s attention would be to kiss bim, or prepare a fine dinner for him, or wear one's prettiest frock, or something equally pleasant. That sounds easonable ‘enough, doesn’t it? p advice isn't copy@ghted, or patented, or nailed down, © go ahead and use it, Mrs, Wife. You know, it is worth while trying anything once! One-piece bathing suits have been passed by censorship.. And now the opticians’ busi- ness will be overworked. The Sinn Fein Flag Consider the Sinn Fein flagt Perhaps you believe that the Irish Isle ts an independent republic, or ought to be. Perhaps you believe that Ireland is a constituent part of the British Empire, entitled to every right except secession. i . The first position is consistent with “self determina. tion.” The second ts sustained by “Union forever, one and indivisible.” The first looks upon the Irish as aw distirict and non-assimilable people, The gcond accords them the ddtminion, or New York, in the Union, Whichever side you take, flag. Have you seen it? It consists of three brond stripes, green, white, orange, Get that, please! Green and orange on the BAME FLAG, Whoever designed that symbol had courage, vision faith When before, in Irish history, have the green and the orange flown together, even symbolically? Surely, whatever else Ireland needs, whether in. dependence & home rule, pacificati the place of Quebec in Wisconsin, or California consider the Sinn Fein \ OF separation, it needs the green and the orange “on the same flag.” Seeing which, one may at least hofe that the age-old difference isn't irreconcilable tion of taxes | The increase of! is NOT taxed by city, state, or’) He CAN be reached. | obsolete taxing machinery ts still in yorue, | a tangible and sub} \EV | tf MISTER SMITH HAS THE FLOooR— SO HAVS You Ill THE SEATTLE STAR ‘ERETT TRU. MI3sTER CHAIR MA — Down! BY EDMUND ) Consider the Hghtning bug, my son, Who isn't famed for a But who wins attention from every one Because of the light that he sheds behind. He brings us light and he And that, of itself, in a A coupdesomething ofie r On the part of political For their procedure is different, quite; ‘They bring us heat, but they bring no ght, So conaider the lightning-bug, my son, Who sets an example f May your fortune be, when your da: To have radiated a leh (Copyright, 1920, N. FE. A) Sam e C} CaS | windows #0 that BY UNCLE SAM, M. D. (U. 8. Public Health Service) ick room should have two it can be easily aired. A narrow, high bed ts better than a broad, dow one. The sheets should be put on without wrinkles and Aru ger w under a patient jJup to half ite width, the roll tucked should be, frequently changed. ubber sheet should be placed un et if there is dan- of soiling the mattress, hen it in desired to put a sheet it should be rolled under the patient, the latter turned over on the unrolled portion, and the sheet ¢pread out A folded sheet called a draw-aheet | under @ patient’s/ hips. » Placed ‘The nurse should wear clothes keep herself scrupulously clean, Th sponge bath dnee a day for cleantinens | and | wan acja Ce bede wru: cool the blan! the nerv' | | “There continues to be much dry comment on the wet subject. Premier Grabski of Poland is advised to change his name to “Letgoski.” lower the patient's temperature, bedelothes around him. A hot foot bath is sometimes &t) ne patient should be given a his mouth should be frequently hed with a 4 per cent solution of boric acid (five teaspoonfuls of boric ‘dissolved in @ pint of warm water! old baths are sometimes used to The lothes are thrown off and cloths ng out of cold water are applied to his body, or he may be wrapped that attention was slow in coming, it was her pleasant | 9 > een Rie out of cold water. | an may be employed to further typ patient or ice may be rubped over his skin When the temperature has been reduced drawn over the patient In some cases of kidney disease| the bedclothes are again hot pack in efficacious; a cotton ket is wrung out of hot water, patient -wrapped in it and the are immediately tucked fee. A foot tub filled with hot ‘er im put bexide the bed, add a ple of tablesp fuls of mustard fously stirred to a uniform min a cupful of hot water, place will deliver a sermon Sunday morning entitled, BELIEF FIRST— REPENTANCE NEXT In the evening he will discuss the subject, . SEATTLE’S PERFECT DEVIL Evening Song, Service 5 o'clock.” » cordially in- vited to our services. FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Seventh and Spring —By C MISTER SMITH HAS THS FLOOR. Originally clothes were inten conceal, afterwards they becan struments of di lay, Jt ie am What shame we end as a boast evolution wo begin Mists eR leaf develops into a Paris gowr SMITH opinion we adopted simply because | wy MAS The wo did not want to have our NI cee naked of any opinion we by a fight and die for, ny, at last « convietion. A clothes is protection; awhile becomes an exposure our rep ntative, The sorta the face [more truly ourself wking. mas! than our cle but of our coat and vest. 1 think of myself the image . mind is not that of my body but of my tallor-made eye never pu id be indecen aa either my brown suit or my with only a little edging of the above the collar. |dear Mr. Brown, let me prese: | friend Mr. Smith,” |dear crepe de chine gown, tri | with Ince and ribbons, let me p my friend, Scotch tweed coat, der socks and runset shoes “Know thyself,” said the knows. Nothing is so jan of a ghost. |own conviction till we find it jother. Woe doubt our own pi VANCE COOKE happiness | happiness that we think others | we have. Vogue, brilliant mind, brings no heat, won republican party is a huge b to cover ignorant souls; the cratic party a hood for vacant |To think one’s own thoughts arely . nominees, for humankind; Bm cent exposure of our ideas. t behind! ponttive beliefs in things they nothing of, are the spirits and animate fociety. oy meet a person who has not read the | the’ patient's feet in the bath and pos nag ee [keep them there about 20 minutes, | Mt bast seller, nensation tn plays The bath may be put in bed if the patient Is too sick to sit up. Hot ater bottles should never be) more than half {lied and should al. | ‘red a mind in « bathing suit ways be wrapped in a piece of flan-| | nel or blanket and never allowed to| >!*- r come In contact with the patient's |*omething on skin. Great care should be taken not to burs the patient. a thing which may easily happen if be is un- conscious. The annual production of coal in) the United States amounts to about aiggons for ea habitant. one who WANTED wages, paid. KEYSTONE PAPER BOX 215 Second Ave. South During the first three months of | this year about 6,000,000 pounds of | butter were imported from Denmark | | Z ~ froin 7 At first a hypocri- | Garments become We are conscious not of our cutl od-made animal %oing down the | with my white shirt and checked tie, | animal showing below the cufts and | When we say, “My we mean, juntil ft ts returned. Most of our) second hand, being the| |be inolated, more and tore separat led from one’s kind, until at last we | desert. We haven't noticed any of fare cast out and shunned for tnde- well dressed [Properly garbed in the latest isms | and ities, is as if you had encoun |drawing room. You are uncomforta- Why doesn't he go and put Columbia Colo—The new American beer—at Boldt's—Advertisement. Experienced table girls; good Aed to me in atural as e tig n. The | a mind nd by cond original intention of | this also after! From | the une as a dinguise clothes become | ab- k own When in my cover. | t; but black, tumnid | nt my “My momed resent laven age But one's self in the last thing one mysterious | We are‘afraid of our own personality We never believe our in an arson | think fa4, publie opinion are great currents of emotion or belief #>* wrote linto which we cast ourselves out of | black ink wher loneliness and perplexity. The | lanket demo- | heads te to! know . To} is not in the Co. ning bolted so did she. learn the middie name of Parley P thristensen |for president, but regret to say we or Middleton. go higher.” man doesn't win with your being black?" same color.” these desert schooners sailing over |the sand, Good, party souls, with plenty of | are at the Everette resort at Eagle River for a summer outing. |gentiemen at his palatial Main street |home Friday eventng. Today's beat bet-—when the lirht ling,” Gregor Mendel . . We have made diligent effort to ng & precaution neglected. farmer-labor candidate have fulled |to the union of two different cella, i diss the female ovule and the pollen We believe, however, that Parley | which fertilizes it thru the pistil. jis running on his first name, inwhich| xfendel removed the pollen from ¢ has just as much chance of ing our voté as elthér Gamaliel pea plant. duced velop into between H.C. L. NOTE hogs were killed If the real the two parent types, pork wouldn't be so high 7. e | COURSE HE WASN'T JOLTED OUT BY THE QUAKE In Los Angeles, where somoe- bedy has finally decided that it was an earthquake after all, o chap was sitting by a window conversing with friends when the tremor came, Hb was picked up on the lawn afterwards. * And the newspaper explained that he had langhed so hard at one of his friend's jokes that he fell out the window and broke bath legs. eee Gosh, wouldn't it be awful to have a strike in a match factory? | eee ering plants gave colored, between. showed in the show “recessive.” happened. tall or coloring plants a try to fertilize of mix Growing ® patch of peas year after year to nee the effeet of “crom founded the modern science of Heredity by taking which others had A pea, Ike any other seed, is the beginning of « new plant, and is due his flowers and fertilized the ovules with pollen from another variety of Mendel called the quality which second generation “dominant” and that which did mot! One might expect the plants pro! by such @ crossing to de something intermediate en, But they did pot. A tall variety cromued with a dwarf gave tall; white flow. crossed with colored and so with other qualities in which varieties differed the second generation showed one or the other, but not something dn { { And then another strange thing‘ When he allowed these their ovules in; the usual way, and then planted the | seeds, he found that about a quarter of the plants‘in the third geners tion were dwarts,or whiteflowered once more—the recessive quality had No, Henry, they don’t have many |returned—while the other threé/ nea plays at Levy's Orpheum, but! quarters remained tall or colored. they bave a see play every week, “Halrcuts expected to It's over our head. eee A wedding is a case where the best Headline: cestry, and kept on doing it—th original dwarfs had returned crossed. “These women remind me of a postage sfamp. They're all put on and after they're once licked they stick to the male.” First Spiritualist Church Rev. Jessie Henry, Paster K. of P. Temple, Third Avenug, near Virginia SUNDAY, JULY 15th, 8 O'CLOCK, Last Appearance ef the Neted Psychie DR. EDWARD K EARLE HELEN C. KING ‘am. Ind ndent Slate Mes- Tagen, Questions Answered, Ete. eee “Sambo, what made you black?” “Why, mah mudder wanted me #/| letter to the stork in| “But what did that have to do| “Why, de stork he answered in de | eee ‘They say that the old U. S. is now | Well! Well! The ‘colonels pa Chas, Freeman entertained a few “Im the Heart of the Financial District.” » because your bank treated me so well when I drew out my lit- tle balance.” : This depositor closed his ac- count three years ago for the reason that he was leaving the city. The amount withdrawn was $15.00. We make it a point to be equally courteous and atten tive to every depositor, regarde less of the size of their account, It’s the policy of this bank. Open an account‘and let us demonstrate it. ‘Che Seandinavian American Ban I “IN THE HEART OF THE FINANCIAL DISTRICT” Member Federal Reserve Bank Deposits Guaranteed By Washington Bank Depostors’ Guar antee Fund of the State of Washington to stay, as though they had never been ‘ Planting once more, he found that’ the recessive dwarfs and whites bred! true, in spite of their mixed an-