The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 29, 1920, Page 6

The Seattle Star (z=: owt of catty, ite per month: & ‘Weshington, * Tees, ya the ane Deny Ce. $1.60; @ montha, 62.70 year Pees ain ¥ Bate of of the state The moat * per ter ¢ modtha or $9.09 per year, By enrrier, city, 130 per A Place to Live What can be done about a place to live? Five million is the figure placed by pr ts as the number of houses America is short of ety to house its population ficiently. Because it is thus short, rents rise and rise, amilies crowd into small- rs, roomers and boarders become more numerous, the young people just live with pa and ma, for babies—the whole etters to the ditor— wide of paper only. your name FALLACIES OF CARLYON BILL The Star; The proposal to the state for $30,000,000 as pro- in the Carlyon bill, to be known jum No, 1 at the general November 2, contains pro- and omissions of grave dan- ® to the orderly, economical can- of state highways. The set forth in the bill is a ‘and cannot be fulfilled. ‘the parable, where Jesus was of the devil, we read: “Again ‘dev taketh Him up unto an . high mountain, and show “all the kingdoms of the a ane the glory of them; and unto him, all these things f 1 give Thee if Thou wilt fall) and worship me.” 4 is with the provisions of th bill. They have set up on & the promise to hard surface miles of state highway, to he electorate November 2, ‘as a matter of fact known to could not be more than half mileage hard surfaced for $30,- 000, ax provided in the bill, and the promise could not be ful- Oo more than Satan's promise) M the kingdoms of the earth,” Hi seeagte 2 iilustrate the absurdity of this of legislative contract, voters be reminded of one incident * uction of six miles of road /the socalled Meleilan Pass, years ago, at a cost of $80,090, ‘ever bas a wheel been turned it, and never will be, and in Jun instead of building their own nest, there is no room social life of the people is dangerously affected. The New York state legislature has been called in ial session to try to enact additional laws to solve the problem. It passed a whole raft of special laws last year, which did not solve it. A half-dozen states have played around the edges of the problem. — rent commissions, city housing associations, city wel- fare leagues and other organizations too numerous to mention, have debated, resoluted, talked, held meet- ings, agitated, conferenced and co-operated—but the shortage of houses is more acute than ever. The truth of the matter is that the only way to relieve a housing shortage is to build houses. And the further fact is patent that private capital will no longer engage on a large scale in providing housing. Any number of- rea- sons exist for this attitude. The prices of building ma- terials are sky high. The cost of labor, ‘so it is said, is pro- hibitive. Land values have risen enormously. The banks will not provide the necessary credit. And so on. When private capital fails to meet a common need, what can be done? Public capital can be substituted. It was done during the war. Canada is doing it now. North Dakota is doing it. Australia and New Zealand are doing it. Great Britaip is doing it in a limited way. For four years, public officials have muddled with the problem of housing. In the end they must discover that the way to get houses built is to build houses. The Jitney Case Action of the city council in attempting to reach a compromine work: ing agreement with the jitney interests is a step that should have been taken months ago. If it ts possible that the jitneys can be made to work In conjunction with the city railway system, rather than {in opposition to it, the public should know the fact. And the council should endeavor to try out the experiment. Jo handling the jitney problem tn the past, the conncil has resembled @ novice on skates—there has been much motion but no speed, many groans but no results, After months of false starting, halting and backing, the council has | at last determined to effect a compromise en the jitney question, to try if the Jitmey cannot be made to fit into the scheme of municipal affairs. Whatever be the outcome of the council's latest project, it at least has the merit of being @ constructive attempt to reach a definite solution of a perplexing problem—if the council acts in good faith. ° Millerand ‘When European premiers have accomplished a national purpese by means of ruthless diplomacy, It.ts the custom to replace them by more we statesmen. M. Millerand’s elevation to the presidency of France never so impossible without work as now. Great Britain ts indifferent to the French hegemony tn Europa, be Anglo-Saxon intuition realizes the only way to help the world to its feet is to do more work. Great Britain has little thought for European alliances because she has so much thought for paying her debts. The French nation ts on a different scent. It wan started by M. Millerand. It will be followed for some Ume longer, until France | dixcovers it leads to nowhere. Then, France, too, will discard inter national intrigue and will attend to her finances. + . Blond Eskimos Capt. Jée Bernard has come back to Nome, Alaska, after spendnig | four years in the Arctic huntiig for blond Eskimos. “Onty brunets,” the half frozen captain said he found. It will be hard convincing the hardy captain that Stefanason didn't Dieach his Eskimos before bripging them to civilization. Future biond hunters in the Arctic will do well to take wit them Uberal supply of peroxide. But, anyway, why run up to the North Pole looking for blonds, when they may be found nearer home? Thess new short skirts make walking @ kneesy exercise. It ten't much of @ nation that §asn't a crisis of some sort One-fifth of the population of the United States lives in $8 cithes, which fe why the farmer rules the world. No end of comment has been caused by the news that the Soviet gov- cnment has put Emma dioldman to work, Greece and Britain are quarreling over the carving of Turkey. Maybe Greece ts afraid of bring spilled on the tadiectoth, there should not be hap- hard surfacing of any, other- squandering of public money surely follow as above noted. is up to the voters to my this, not only probable, but fesult should follow, either ‘or the other; or otherwise divert- _ the annual $3,000,000 license Into the redemption fund im- to use, and reduce construc- work to that extent for at least Yo years, and probably for @ longer of time. EZRA MEEKER, An American set a record for playing the plane continuously for 106 hours, but one Jeels sorrier far the fellow who kept tima, The government reports that food prices have éropped tm the last four weeks but the grocers still have cotton im their care—or can't read. King Alfonso has made @ great Mt among American debutantes at a ‘Rpanish resort. They say he dances the Spanish shiver and shakes @ inean epaulet. GET YOUR SEATS NOW Sherman, Clay & Co. 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I am in favor of allowipg her to do any share of the world’s work she chooses, and of paying her fairly for it I have no objection to a. woman typewriting, nursing, prac tcing law or medicine, singing or dancing or acting on the stage, plowing corn or Jumping thru circus hoops, She also should be permitted to keep house for a husband and bring up children for the United State, But af this te aside from the one great business of womankind, the busines of making herself lovabie. The bigh calling and election of every womansou) born upon this) planet le to tight the flame and keep burning the altar fire of love. Everything else ie a side iseve To do this the should make her elf attractive, She does not need to be beautiful. Strangely enough, the best loved women of history have not been beautiful. A plain girl can win from a peach: } understands the game. It ls an a Love Producer that Woman has no competitor. There she is more wonderful than Any man's masterpiece of painting or carving; more mysterious than! the stars; more moving than the! goldén sunset; eweeter than tho! dawn, and. altogether, more awful, | radiant and love-producing than any: | thing on, over or under the earth. Because she js human. In these days of Anglo-Saxon reticencea, of Puritan leanings, when | 1 that is sweet and pleasant ie still | INSIGNIFICANT Rut we know the tmpor- tance of having your lenses tight im their mountin, Even the screws we use e L SCATTLE OPTICAL Co eccerlA SKAGI By CONDO Now, for susr Al vr avkKeR, a ——.. THEN BY ALL M@ANS | HAvVe IT CHANGED TO 2 WALKER — Zz STANDS looked on with @ taint of suspicion, it ts well to remind the world of womankind that the greatest thing in the world continues to be Love. What about those to whom love never comes? What about the apple never picked, the rain that falls in the lake, the babies that never grow up and the flower thag never blooma? = They all have thetr uses, carvers and purposes; but it still remains true that the plan-of nature ie that apples are to be eaten, rain to nour inh the land, babies to grow to men, flowers to bloom and women to be loved. Jt would be wrong to oy that a woman whom no man has loved is a failure; but it ts right to any that any woman who has caught and held the love of one man, no matter what else ahe doom, ie & ancceem. The universe owen a debt to every woman that has ever kindled pure love in @ man's heart; a double debt to any woman who has brought a child into the world. And the universe pays tte debta, SUM hats cover & mukitnds of sott heada . Herb Med. O61, Beatue. Land Titles HE buyer wants the fullest meas- ure of Title Protec- tion. That Tpeans Title Insurance, as issued by WASHINGTON TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY “Under State Supervision” Clear of Brush and Stumps BAY Clear of Stones LANDS Adjoining the Famous La Conner Fiata The Most Productive Land in the State. Going at $20 Per Acre $5 Per Acre Down-—$5 Per Acre in 90 Bays. Balancé on or Before Five $1 Per Acre Off for All Cash. SUBIRRIGATED RICH ALLUVIAL BOTT, Absolutely Level and Entirely Clear of Brush—Stumps—Stones. It will pay you to Call or Write SPARKS & DYE 1220 Second Avenue, Near Savoy Hotel ~or— MILLER & HANDL Years—6 Per" Cent Interest. investigate at onca, for Particulars, LE, 81 Front Street, AS IT SEEMS TO ME DANA SLEETH HAVM been having 0 perfectly wonderful time the lant two weeks, being ® plumber, and « painter, and a Unner, and a gae fitter, and a carpenter, and a house mover, and a mula, It was Uke this: T have been fix ing up an old house that required ev. erything done to it that k house er could require, I would take the current pay check and dicker with, may, a painter, and he would go as far as my cash let him; then he would quit and I would finish the job. Another week would rol! by, an other pay check would arrive, and I would enter into diplomatic relations with a cynical carpenter, who would bble my Bheck with @ sneer, work 4 couple of hours, and then I would finish the job, The painters and decorators pa- pered and painted the rooms, but I scraped the old kalsomine off and floora, and enameled the pantry shelves and puttied in two windows. The house movers raised the shack and put Umbering under it, but I excavated the basement, ‘The carpenters repaired the beams and stringers and laid & new floor, but I added @ skirt and an apron to the houne, The plumber unhooked and hooked up again the gas, sewer and water maing and pipes, but I put on eaves girtters, painted the roof, and put new washern in all the faucets. What the various artinang 4d looks fine! What I did jJooks like— well, it looks just Ike that, but what ya goin’ to do with one pay check Aivided between 13 varieties of lord ly qraftamen? eee UT what I started out to my was that this excursion in- to the craft mysteries has given me a wide apprecin Uon for the mental ability of plumbers, and caryeniers, and pairrters, and Unamiths, 1 always considered rain gutters as mmple affairs, but from now on I'd rather wee a good tinamith at the court of Bt. James than a corpora tion lawyer—a tinamith who can run & gutter so that It dodges chimneys, and sewer pipes, and dormer win- dows, and that will carry a slight but sufficient grade from its start to its cClimax-—that man is a mechanical marvel and a genius that can over come any obstacle, My gutters looked all right, but when it rained they discharged a food at half a dozen places along the line, none of said apota being even near an outlet And then there was the matter of & Water table and its conjunctive skirt. I tried the mpiding inside out and wrong side to, and by no combt mation could I make the dratted thing jibe, either with the rustic above. er the shiplap below, or the broad board presumably pendant be Meath it. I ambled over the neighborhood, looking over water tablea. They all! looked fine; they looked as tho they E been put together in the only | | | way possible, but none gf them weemed to be like the component parts of my water table. Finally I had @ great thought, and rushed home and turned that molding up | ide down and in#ide out at the same | time, and it fitted—that is, It came Qn Near fitting as it ever would, ‘WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1990. . You see, there was an old channel! runtic on the house—that is, tongue and-groove stuff; but the nearest I could find to match up with it war & rustic that was lapped, so when you come to fit.a molding where there two join on a pitched wall, you have something to do. Also there waa a matter of corners, and mitern without a miter box, or a proper saw; and who holds up the other end of a 20-foot board when you are doing job of siding for yourself? 1 could have used either my astral body or my subconscious self nicely just then. eee ECHANICS wages seem high these days, but you go and do it, and woo what you waved $5 by taking the old kalsomine off my kitchen wall, and I worked nine hours at it, and was bathed in kalsomine water, had it ground into my hair and hide; every joint ached and I've had « crick tn my neck that won't come out for two weeks, if ever. This thing of stand ing on @ cracker box and sloshing hot water on a@ ceiling overhead, and then standing on Uptoe and acratch- ing with a putty knife by the hour— that's no Way to save money, Ili ad- vine anybody, I think the average carpenter, plumber, tinsmith, house mover, painter, decorator, Mason and hod carrier or pick and shovel fellow has to use more ingenuity, executive abil- ity and brilliant initiative in solving the problems of his daily work than the average captain of industry, oF the average writer of editorials. Ana the only reason I wouldn't gladly pay $10 an hour for such men of genius to do my work in becaune I'm not enough of a genius to be able to foot their bills, The Roard of Directors of the Dictogragh Profucts Corporation have this day de- claread_& quarteriy dividend of 2% on the odtstanding preferred stock of thir company, payable October 16, 1996, to the stockholders of record September 30, 1920, Stock booke will remain open. Dictograph Products Corporation, Haat 4 KM DELANOIE, September 17, 1928, FS Imported Pom Olive Oil world’s finest olive oil \ | | To dance or not Gancet see. =I? UCH is LIFE? Squire Abner Harpington éropped in today. He trusted tts weight to the twe rear legs of our other chair, One foot he rested by the hert on the edge of our denk and the other foot he consigned to our waste basket. “I obmerve in the daily prints,” be orated, “that there is a distinctly observable tendency in the money | marts toward the reduction of Inbor’s share of the laudable profits of im dustry.” “Hub-buh,” said we, “what are you going to 40 about it?” bd “I mean to may,” declared the Squire with dignity, “that they're wtryin’ to cut wages. “Hardly im the body politic fully recovered from the serious {lls of war; hardly has the new skin cow. ered the gaping wound and the sick world tottered from its bed of illness, before they begin to down the works in’ man, “Reminds me of old Squire Hark+ ness, down Louyville way. Squire had the biggest mill in the parte, Never could get the squire to raise wages a picayune, Well, one day the squire gets @ letter out of his box at the postoffice that says his son up at William and Mary college has married Cherry What's Her Name of the Black Crook theaytrical company and the squire turns up his toes and looks undignified for the first time in his life, Appolplexy, says the dow torn. “He Vea tn the spare bedroom for about six weeks, unconscious. One day the doctor mys he will be com scious that afternoon and summons the family to observe the phe nomena. “Squire Harkness opens one eyes. Uttle ways, Then he closes it and opens t'other and then he opens beth of ‘em a little ways and wiggles bis Ups a ittle, 7 “They could see as how he was atryin’ to say something important and the nurse bends over. “Cut the wages,’ he whispered, “‘eut the wages.’” eee THE INSANITARY BOLSH “One thing certain.” “What? “The song ‘I'm Forever Blowing | Bubbles’ wasn't wr@en by a Bok shevik.” “Not : “No, indeed—a Bolshevik never gets even that near to soap,"— Florida Times-Union. ra eee , SUCH IS LIFE “You can’t know it all” “Nor” “Even if you read the Dedia, by the time you reach end you've forgotten « lot you wicked up at the other.”—) ville Courier-Journal. to ‘Theat ts NOT the question! Of couree, every man, woman ané child with feet should twe goed be able t ihe best way to get most eat out ef life. The oct ify *- pile my jor pa Private —, . ‘ Not only is it the thief of time, but as well of comfort and happiness. For if you put off too long the ordering of Coal, you may not only have to endure cold. hours, but who wants to stand at the end of the line during the big rush? Wise men need only a word of advice—so take down your telephone receiver now and start the Coal traveling toward your base- ment. For yourself it may not matter so much, but don’t make others suffer for that humble trait of procrastination that inhabits the soul of all of us. Speak up boldly and say, “I want Issaquah Lump-Nut,” or “I want Issaquah Pea Coal.” The former costs you $9.75.at the bunkers and the latter $7.35. Or maybe you would prefer Diamond Briquets at $10.90. South Prairie mixes fine with Order from us either Issaquah Ve or from any Pa- or Briquets. It °° cific Coast Coal is $9.75 at the f= |} company deal- bunkers. er. PACIFIC COAS COAL COMPAR The Pioneer Company Wylie Hemphill, General Sales Manager 563 Railroad Ave. S: *