The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 30, 1920, Page 6

The Seattle Sta By mati, out of ctty, 860 per month; § montha, #1 ' to the State of Washington, for € moutha oF $9.00 per year, Saving $1,000,000 olidation of city and county governments here would save $1,000,000 a it is estimated by Homer M. Hill, secretary of the taxpayers’ league. would suppose that a proposition entailing the possibilities of such a savings would be eagerly seized upon by members of the state legislature other officials. The history of the movement, however, betrays no such us) sm. effect consolidation of city and county government it is necessary to the state constitution. It will undoubtedly be presented tosthe next leg- re. If the legislature is so disposed, it will pass the necessary enactment} Mmitting the amendment to the votes of the people at an election to be held | the fall of 1922. any ‘Thus it will be practically three years before regs conacaiaaen Seale take iplace. It is, at best, a slow process. But if the legis- prs to the area runs true to old form it will be even a slower process. itor— : The fate of similar measures in the past has been} dink or typewriter. | wholly unworthy of men who sincerely seek to serve Be side of paper only. the community. Legislators are supposedly elected - |because of a desire to serve the public. ¥et time! jafter time, when the consolidation measure came up, ithe measure would be buried in committee. It would I wish to take} ul hed of shaking hands with Slumber in the pocket of some pompous solon and! the leading editorial in The/ allowed to die without any vote being recorded) July 27th. It expressed so} : my own views in regard to) Upon it. 5 as Al punishment that I wish to| The reason is obvious. Consolidation means the elimina- eas my approval. tion of many political jobs. Political influence, therefore, ot on pont lige od | been’ exerted to retain the old and to experiment with) ria is case oy Isom White—| nothing new, however much of a saving it would be to tax- for any serious-thinking | payers. in to condemn the Inws enacted! Jt would be well for the voters to challenge the candi- i last session of iciment. | dates for the legislature this fall on this question. It would| Fate resurded the pun-| be Well to ascertain how they stand upon it. Taxes have mounted at a fast pace in city, county, school district and state. Much of the higher taxation has been| unavoidable. Some has been avoidable. Duplication of | Pubtianed Datty by The Star Hy carrier, ¥s the correct method. Life tm ar would likely be consid: desirable than death oy 4 criminal as he thinks Jong years of hard labor other hand it gives for a complete re then, too, there is mistake, as shown of the more heinous crimes | nent for life as being, rather paradoxical but alto- offices in city and county is responsible for a large amount of unnecessary taxation. The voters can make our legislators come to time. Car Shortage and the Food Crop ‘The American food crop for 1920 will be good. This is the verdict of the U. 8. department of agriculture, based upon its crop Investigations to and including the first week of July. The yield of all crops will be greater than the fiveyear average Larger crops than last year are forecast for spring wheat, oats, barley, potatoes, tobacco, flax, rice and apples. While it is early to set an exact Oigure on the corn crop, it is estimated tie yield will be several million bushels greater than the fiveyear average. All of which is promising. It bespeaks plenty of food to eat. Pleasant for the producer to contemplate—and for the consumer, too. means more money for the farmer, and more food for city folk. But there ts this fear developing in some minds: “There won't be enough cars to move. the crops." There are dire predictions of food rotting in fields, of cities unable to get food thru railroad channels. And, the frightful scarecrow of “unheardof prices” is rained. There never has been a summer of good crop prospects that agricultural folk haven't experienced the nightmare of car-shortage. And yet, always, the food got hauled to market. It got to the crowded city, to the con- sumer’s backdoor, to the seaboard, to Liverpool. Those frightened soula who profess to see mountains of food rotting decause cars are unobtainable are merely alarmista. They see a field of yellowing grain and no cars on the sidetrack nearby. They forget there is time to get the cars there after the harvest. All the food must not be hauled in a day, nor 4 week, nor even a month. Crops as large, and even larger, have been hauled in former years, and with no more cars. They will get to market this year, Don’t worry needlessly, Man Is a Guest in His Own Home Real homes are arranged so as to make all real men really happy. The women folks run the machinery, and the men folka, when they come home, are visitors, guests. And the machinery frequently stops until they go om about their business again. One knows how it is. .Woman knows. Let the bread winner leave, and the dust begins to fy. Washing, mending, sweeping, cleaning, bed-making, and all the household routine goes on with the precision of a property olled machine. But the stage is always set for “him,” if it is @ real home. And when he comes, the machinery stops for the welcpme guest. It is then a case of love and laughter. Fine that it is. It's a good thing, maybe, that man isn't around the house very much. Or truly woman's work would never end. But at that, as a chuckling old gentieman asnerta, there are many houses without men, but few homes without them. “Every honest front door is giad to see man's departure in the morning, but i§ more than happy to see him return at night.” “Embarrassments” in Business ‘ashington I I considered vance of te It ot general assembly and It capital punishment and expect that I shall not personally by eitfler law that Washington took a step by this action of its 1. ROY HASTINGS. Eastern commercial newspapers are beginning to run @ headline not) seen for many a long day in American periodicals, It is a standing headline devoted to business otherwise petitions in bankruptcy. An interesting sign of the times Is mot only the resumption of bust- “embarrassments,” ness failures as regular routine news, but more particularly an analysis, of the firms in trouble. In one day are listed two fur dealers, one manufacturer of watch cases and jewelry, one hardware merchant and two real estate specu- lators. Nothing very serious about this list, but a couple of straws showing, first that the wind is blowing, and second, that it Is blowing in the direction which points to more careful spending by the American people. It is suggested the next cup races be run off in the U. 8. senate. There's always plenty of wind there. Earthquake in Los Angeles opened two ofl wells. Might have expected those Southerners to turn the temblors into @ picce of advertising. County Treasurer Gaines’ estimate of expenses for 1981 is $2,662 under the 1920 figures. “Gain with Gaines’ must be his motto. honorable and ancient art. Even r days of printing the poets to read places.” the Popular Lyric Writer: “That's Way it should be now. Then a ly could read the long lines fast slow up on the short ones and em come out about even.” The Highbrow: “80 you're a poet? jefore the their works aloud in Seattle folks are warned against one-dollar and two-dollar notes that have been raised to tena and twenties. Probably the work of some persiat- ent chap who is determined to get a dollar's worth for a dollar, and two dollar’ worth for two dollars. seeele &M ETHICAL DENTISTS ts in Vp formef themselves at it woyll not be nec- opera other than Mination represents work is done by ence—“Every Pa- bsolutely Satis- PS THE SEATTLE STAR , EVERETT TRUE— Doctor Frank CRANE’S Daily Article The Roorback. Cow and the War. Harding and T. R. The Blaine Case. i920) (Copyrtent ‘The Roorback in suppored to get] its name from Baron Roorback, @| gentleman of small reputation for veracity, It is a wtory circulated with tn-| | tent to injure the chances of a) candidate for election. In is usually malicious, times scandalous, and not always| some | untrua, [YoulR® ALWAYS SAYING In fact it is more effective if it th t make it nd if it containa enough AND TALK awkward to ex ries with it) dam probability Roorbacks have started already in the present political campaign, altho it is entirely too early in the season for them to thrive, The Vietim has long a time to prepare his answer, Besides, peo- ple forget before election day, July is a bad month for roorbacks, Oc tober In better, Aa to Cox, up some editorials that in his paper early in the war, fore this country entered, which editorials are construed to be «ym pathetic toward the Germana, Cox has mado the mistake of trying to answer and explain, It} is not necessary. His record ax|| war governor of Ohio is answer) and explanation enough, No fair minded republictn really imagines for @ moment that he is in the slightest degred tainted with dis loyalty. Industrious probers have also set DOWN HERE |lWHETHGR You'Re SORRY too some one has dug appeared "TAX PAYER"!— A‘ TAX Para tL 5 IT WeR CAN'T TOKE WHETHOR YOu'R |< WANT TO KNOW How LITTLE You PRY I! FRIDAY, JOLY 99, 1920, AND S've Got A Grom RLQUT TO KicK —— VM A TAX PAYER !— Today's Beat Her to enjoy the mu . Postcard from Henry, wintering in California, say “Count day lost nding sun beneath tensive tremendous increase in the number of Quakers. Getting ready e-* Another fing old series of jokew that no longer have any foundation “- in life is the one based on what parent says to daughter when and her beau hasn't started t. whose low our feet damage Seon home . The world seems to be running over with women who have nothing |to wear and nothing to say. “- o- SIMPLY MUST SEE THIS Yonstance Talmadge to appear shortly in a in “A Pair of Silk 6 *-. we read, in Heattle the ckings.” atre A dispatch says peanuts are selling at the highest price ever known, Due, no doubt, to the increased | demand cre i by the fall campaign, oe The report of the executor of the © Fletcher, the in letcherizing,” shows he Which ts pretty good n who spent all his Ume Perhaps the mort carelons motoriat is the chauffeur who steals his bonw car for @ joy ride and runs over the bons eee DID YOU EVER MEET HIM? Julia MacSwithin De Angelo Jones) Chiefly is noted for showing her | chewing bones, j Spectators always chagrin How Julia's skeleton sticks thru her skin, Bee with THAT You're A Lets sir A PCRSON PROUD OF (T oR ANOTHGR THIN: eee A Detroit girl has written to the mayor of Niagara Falls that she ts | just crazy to go over the falls in @& |barrel. She expremes it accuracy, observe with ‘ : despair and on growing ] morone || Wish that dear Julla would put on more clothes, Julia should worry her husband be leven That thone fair arms shouldn't hide within sleeves, And the poor boob will rave right to | your face Of Julia's slender and Uly-ike grace. eee, Nowndays any poor fool can get |married, but it takes a good diplomat to stay that way. oe Carter Glass announces that this is to be a corking campaign, A’ all of the boys wanting an uneo, ing campaign, eee Marriage may be a lottery, but it is one of the games of chance that clergymen do not try to dis courage. . WATHING Fog Spokane-—A. @ | farmer, di the railway . A Topeka woman refuses to give her correct age to be registered for the vote and threatens to sue. Go jahead, madame, and give your cor- |rect age. Nobody'll believe you, No- body ever believes any woman when she's telling her age. ore “I love going a roortack for Harding's un doing, finding that he said mont bitter things about Roosevelt and Johnson at the time when these! two were at outs with their party. | Harding has wisely kept still, as he knows the public understands how to make allowances for heated utterances in campaign times. One of the mont celebrated roor backs was used against James G. Blaine. A preacher named Bur-| chard used the unfortunate alliter. | ation, “Rum, Romaniam and Te bellion,” at a public meeting where Blaine was present. Few heard it| and nobedy paid any attention to it at the time, It was not even | mentioned in the newspapers next day. Hut the eagle eye of some democrat discovered it, Blaine wns accused of indorsing it, and soon | the whole country was placarded with the fatal ery. It was a mor-| tal offense to the Irish, who are quick on the trigger. Blaine was defeated. As a matter of fact he never heard Burchard’s words, being busy at the time preparing hin own speech, and never knew about the bomb until ft was ex | ploded a few days after. But it| smashed him just the same, as it) was upon the very eve of election, and he had no time to reply. One of the mont audacious roor- backs was the Morey letter in the campaign of 1880. A letter ap-| peared purporting to be writted by | James A. Garfield, republican can-| didate for president, tn which he was represented an favoring the Chinese. It was sprung too soon, | however, to do any damage, for it wan quickly proved that the tet-| ter was a shamelean forgery, and! the forger, a New York newspaper | man, was tried and convicted | Another famous roorback was the report circulated that Roosevelt was a drunkard. This astonishing scandal traveled all thru the coun try by word of mouth. It finally printed. 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