The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 16, 1920, Page 6

The Seattle Star Ry bet oat of clty, 600 per month; 3 months, 61.60; @ months, #2.78) year, “ te the Mate of Washington, Outside of the state, The per month, 44.69 for ¢ montha or 9.00 per year, My carrier, city, 120 par week. Raising street car fares is NOT the solution for the MUNICIPAL railway. When the traction system was purchased by the city it was with the idea the nickel fare might be retained and that service could be improved. | If this is not possible, of what earthly good is it To find one thankful man, I will oblige many that are not so.—Sen- for the CITY to own the system? e |per cent. U € ial 1 S$ | The eight and a third-cent fare, going into effect next E ? month, will decrease the number further. That means that LIFE! A Word From Josh Wise: “It's sf Gold world, mates"—even if it is an) in the downtown district. oe Winter. | If we are to have increased fares, certainly the municipal ee railway fails of its purpose. and it means also that the business people of Seattle will Ton seeds are not to be snecned at, @epecially now that the price of Bonded stuff has come down. So, tf you have ideas for a brighter a : =. bs ag eae an 'yeer eal |service? Why should the problem of railway management fag early. Burleeon ts still post | be added to our many other city problems? | master, y’ know. ‘The contest ends} The Star does not look with favor upon the higher fares Wis week. Jimposed on car patrons. It retards instead of increases i eye | travel. The general interests of the city are better served MT Tear peoninx, "es, your when people ride frequently. ; ‘Abbrey Levy is still tree to seo his! It is possible that better management can make the rail- Brother Gene's shows at the Levy/ way a paying proposition on a nickel fare. If that is im- Orpheum as ofter as his single heart possible, the city must invest real money in the undertaking. Guaires. cw |So far it has done nothing of the kind. So far the city The unemployment question might hasn't paid one cent for the system. Be solved im Seattle if we poser aetind | It is usual, when a man buys a business, to invest some Ii tas tookiecping for the city rui-| capital in it, This capital remains with the business. If he way system, makes a legitimate return on the invested capital he gener- ally feels satisfied. The city railway was purchased for $15,000,000, But the city didn’t invest a nickel. It costs a lot more to do business on borrowed money than on your own. If the city had dug jinto its pockets and had actually paid $15,000,000 for the system, it would today be in fairly good shape, for it would be making four to five per cent on its investment. As the matter stands, however, this five per cent is being paid out in INTEREST, some $800,000 a year going for that purpose when it might otherwise be counted as profit. The city stands in the same position as a private individ- val. It can’t do business altogether on borrowed money. Sooner or later we must realize this. The sooner the bet- ter. Sooner or later we must do one of two things, either resell the line, if possible, or else raise the purchase price, the original investment, by taxation, It is not fair to the street car patron to make him pay the operation costs of the system, and a fair rate of inter- est on the investment, and also the investment itself. Not only is it not fair, but it is realy a poor policy from the business man’s standpoint. The matter deserves serious consideration. The people, in the final analysis, must be the judges. And when the March election rolls round, the city council, in all fairness, must present to the voters the various proposals. Let the people, as a whole, decide the policy that should guide the street car system. let them run it. Why should the city have this added bur- A taxidermist ts the chauffeur ‘Who skins the hide off you. A bookworm is the vermiform ap- “Pendix of a library. A profiteer is—oh, well, a burglar the gink who takes tt away from Without Keeping books. “A colyum conductor is the guy who rites a pillar of fire by day and sees @ column of smoke by night And whose chief ambition ts to (9 enough to go on smoking and & sufficient show of effort to from being fired. Business of composing with great eee zoo LYRIC “The tortoise seems to us to be A most complacent gent. landlord yet bas figured out Flattery Dieraeti believed that every man is susceptible to Mattery. ft comes to royalty,” he mid, “lay it on with a trowel” Mont persons have little opportunity to observe the effect of Mattery on royalty. But more than one who reads this has noticed that Mattary can be applied rather thick to some leas exalted humans, and lose none of its effect It has been anid that to pretend to be above flattery in, as @ rule, “merely the most delectable way of flattering one’s self.” When a man says he does not iike being flattered, often he means only that he does not like being Mattered in the presence of others whe may laugh secretly to see him fooled. Perhaps it isn’t a question of whether a man can be Mattered, but how easily can he be flattered? Just the same, people are becoming more sophinticnted, and there is reason to believe that most persons are got so easily flattered aa in the Ufetime of Disrneli. .| As for women, well, it may be ponsitle to apply flattery with a trowel. But it is enfer to avoid the obvious in compliments. At least that is the opinion of one clever woman. Four rules she formulated are quoted here for what they may seem to be worth: »| “Be intelectual with pretty women. “Be frivolous with the intellectual, “Be serious with young giria “Be saucy with old ladiea.” “And when Service a la Porter Consider the Pullman portert Lowest in position and greatest tn demand. The great train-riding public doesn't stop to think often about the comfort that wouldn't be if it weren't for Mr. Porter. The recipe for the porter that would come up to the standards de sired by Mr. Man who takes a sleeper now and then, would stack up about lke this: Take a full amount of efficiency and mix well with ag tnexhaustable share of energy. Toss in some patience and cover the combination with a coating of promptness. Service is the result! And that’s what the traveling public wanta, Does the traveling public stop to appreciate it when ft gets wt? Give that thought the once-over the next time you hop a Pullman THE VERY BEST XMAS GIFT Is a Savings Bank Book, Especially for Your Little Son or Daughter You can start with a very modest sum and as the recipient of your gift comes to learn the value of THRIFT, its worth will increase and grow with earned interest. THE STATE BANK OF SEATTLE Second Avenue at Madison Street shoes.—Marshall, Mich, depend too much upon " scolds @ prominent Eastern “Why, I can remember when ‘ father did the cobbling for his and every mother cut her ‘s hair herself.” and mother’s son can re- how his hair looked after got thru snipping at it! see A FAST PACE, EH? Ivy Pace, 18 years old, married Mrs. Ada Evers, a widow of 38, at Hartford, Ind. . Yep, . A chilly wind can (and does) do _ More toward draping the stocking- > teas leg than all the roar of male eriticism let loose since the idea “Was first conceived at Paria. Or ‘was it at Yonkers? _ WHAT DO YOU ' KNOW ABOUT QUESTIONS 1. When was the first plat of Seat- tle filed? 2, What Seattle man was decor- fated by the French government with | the Legion of Honor for his work in| behalf of the French children during the war? 3. What is the green fee over the municipal links? } (Answers Friday) | PREVIOUS QUESTIONS ] 1. The first water supply system in Seattle was installed by Henry L. Wesler, It consisted of a small tank at Third ave. and Yealer way and @f open trough conveying the water to Yesler’s mill on the site of the Present totem pole at Pioneer re, 2, Five prominent Seattle citizens ‘Judge Thomas Burke, Rev. L. A. Banks, E. M. Carr, frank Hanford and David H. Webster—were arrest- e@d on a murder charge in 1845. They wére members of the home guard,| local militia, who im the Chinese! rote of the time, fired into a mob, killing one Stewart. The charges were never prewned. 1. 4. Dr. D. 8, Maynard was the first doctor to practice in utle. He @iso established the first hospital and the first drugstore. For Infante, Invalides and OrowingChfiaren The Onginal Food-Deink Far All Ages / Rs Mite, Matted Grain Extract in Powder ‘Cooking—Nourishing~ Digestiblg It is a demonstrated fact that with the increase of fares from five cents to six and a quarter, the num, ber of street car riders decreased approximately 10 the people are getting far less service than they used to get, have to contend with a smaller and smaller buying public It would be just as well to }turn the property over to private interests, if possible, and den if it cannot give the people a lower fare and better THE SEATTLE STAR EVERETT TRUE Sec (IN THIS: MORNING'S HAS "DEAR SIR* “DIASeT” (3 Rt DIRGCT* TO HSE WICKER | | TODAY'S QUESTION Is the influence of the church in- creasing or decreasing? ANSWERS MRA. EB. J. BATON, 4 EB. Roy st: “We hope it's increasing, but |the way things are being run, it meormn to me we need more coopers | Hon between church and city authori tien.” MRA. TILLIF EDGAR, 703 23nd ave, & “1 hope it is, but I don't know.” MES, A. FARRAR, 2211 19th ave. B. “I believe it is Increasing.” MRS, W. C. HAMILEN, 4324 W. Morgan way: “I think it’s on the in- crease. More young people seem to be going to church than ever before I suppone it's on account of prohibi tion.” MRSA, ED HOOPER, €517 Green. wood ave: “In my locality I can see signa of improvement due, I think, to the influence of the church. SHORT TIME LEFT FOR THE TEN BUCKS Have you & suggestion for a brighter head for this column? Send it along. The best suggestion by the ond of Uhis week will win 10 sliver washera. “Fortune Founder” SAVINGS BANKS The Best Gift for CHRISTMAS Get One at THE BANK FOR » SAVINGS Open Saturday Evenings 6to8 Pine Street at 4th Avenue If your gums are sore and bleeding you have Pyorrhea. This disease should be cured to insure good health, We specialize in high- class dentistry at reason- able prices consistent with best work. 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Unemployment un der such circumstances points to certain responsibilities on the part lot o In alma | public bread lines the remedy? other relief seems to | Haven't we enough crimi |paupern without recruiting addition }al members from among such as! aim to be self-respecting and will-| ing to work? instead that } the community started work in de | veloping public paying | merely subsis wager. ‘There }are plenty of men who would be| | willing to work for two or three dol lars a day while waiting for things }to adjust themselves, provided, of courne, that the work is of a strictly Public nature so that they are as | mured that thetr labor ts not being jexploited for private gain "By CONDO WHAT WE ued woclety and Supp projects THEY CAUW IT “DIRECT ADVSRTISING™ | It i futile to blame the present condition of uner ment to any| | *pecial clasees or groups of men,| |organized or otherwine. We can hardly expect manufac turers to produce large stocks of | goods at prices that are not war-| ranteo by market conditions, Net ther will merchants stock up with high pri goods with uncertain market conditions ahead, Result—| | unemployment. | We are faci ‘condition The | question is; How Ww meet that con dition with least suffering and in a way that will maintain the stability of our institutions and lead to fur ther progress. Increasing public | improvements when business ix dull and cutting down public improve ments when business is active seems | logical remedy. We can see no The Sandwich jargument against such a policy C. WESTERGAARD, TOLL 46th Ave. 5. see NO NEED FOR MORE JUDGES, HE SAYS FAitor The Star: In your tame of December 9 there appeared an article tating the lawyers of Seattle in- tended asking for four more superior Judges. I think we are all interested in this, or at least should be, as these judges are paid by the taxpayers, and if we can keep our taxes down we ought to do so, They are high “ enough now. Last summer I was in EE eetcn” Montagu. Fourth Earl! tormed that each superior Judge took ‘5 three month’ vaction, and as we The earl was considerable of & have now nine judges a total of 27 Public man, it seems, a good debater, months was given up for this pur. and a sporting man. He was an in| pose | veternte gambler, Aa @ remult of thin! pprary he frequently gambled all thru ite| act “baioee bet to poliygesery: ies | meal hours, “sending out.” the story | months is by far too much time for has it. for “a aller of meat between any officer to spend away from the two pieces of bread”—there one has|dutien he waa elected to discharge 1, the sandwich, ‘The usual vacation period for office And just to make the memory of | men ia two weeks, and why superior the inventor of the sandwich H@teli-|judges should be allowed three bie, Captain James Cook, that won-| months for this purpeme is more than dertul navigator, named the Sand-|I can understand. If they could be wich Lalands for him back there in| limited to two weeks cash’ year, that amv. would be a total of 18 weeks, or four cut — When @ person goes into a restan rant and orders a sandwich he litue knows, nor little cares, perhaps, the history that’s come down thru the centuries, an to just how the lowly sandwich got it# name. 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He died a year fan the result of an epidemic, Commenting on Cornaro, a friend recently maid: “How long he might have lived, barring the epidemic, had he knows enough to drink water instead of wine, perhaps only William J, Bryag could tell.” “It ien't water that I drink, or what I eat, or what I go without that will make my ni known some day,” said Newton, “It ts the pi training of mind in determination and concentration that will develop m if I am ever developed.” That was before Newton discovered the law gravitation, Rpeaking of chafoes in life, Marden wrote: “There ix no Fortune does not visit repeatedly. Life pulsates with chances.” one Daniel Manning was born of extremety poor parents. Aft 15 he his business career a8 a newsboy on the Bowery In New York. Years lal he was made secretary of the treasury, John Wanamaker began to “turn up things” by walking five miles day to and from Philadelphia, where he worked in @ bookstore at $1.26 week. He next worked in a clothing store for $1.50 & week. But W: maker laughed at privation and persistently denied the efficacy of “luc Wanamaker today is worth many millions. aed a half months per year, for the| fire truck for about 10 mfmut nine judgen. The noise of the starting of } If I have been correctty informed | engine in the fire hall prevei an to the three months’ vacation, by | the men from hearing the clgnal it it | dicating the location of the fire andl would be a saving of 22% months, |inquiry was made of the telephont] or equivalent to about three judges |office. 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