The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 20, 1920, Page 6

j (Prom the Loa Angeles Keoord) '% One of the greatest. municipal problems will be the solution of the street | Yailway puzzle. P A large part of the street railways of this country is inadequate to serve the) needs of the people. Man The Seattle Star by The Oar Pubtiening Oo. BY math, owt of city, Be per momih; # montha, F150) @ monthe, O8.7T8) year Phone Mate 1404, mo the Mate of Washington Outside of (he ot The per moot, oo 4450 for @ montha oF 99.00 per year. The Traction Problem tke per week. - | | } y have long since practically ceased to make exten- sions or improvements. Nearly every city has had from one to many fare OS. Every man living shall assuredly meet an hour of temptation, a certain critical hour, which shall more espe- cially try what mettle his heart is made of. — South. UCH is LIFE! Bleven more days te do your New popping, galx, amt Haxen J in the restap eee Here are a few of the sugeestions fer a new title for this column, the ‘Contest now being over, And the wine Mer to be announced tomorrow: | Mrs. J, Dines, 625 2ist ave: N— Chas. K. Severns, Ro No. 1, Ed /Mends—"The Mulligan Bow!™ (be qhuse it ls mixed with a little of P. O. box 233-—"Bo ® dustrial Mf. ‘Wife”; “The Jazzy Column.” : f George Kraemer, Quincy —Knutty Knol” of “The Cage.” le West, 1902 Ravenna bivd.— o Humor,” or “Ain't it the W. Jones, @¢@ Railway Ex- “Kautty Kelumn.” R. Wardiay, 1009 Tth—“Sea and Smoke Drift; “Borrowed ; “The Gig Saw"; “Flying ; “Thick Headed Thoughts”; bo Jt - Moore, 1033 Klmgreve st Berries"; “Knocking "Em ; “Jamz Berries’? “Let ‘Em Up, All Cut” “—"You Tellum"; “Old H. Davis, Bremerton—“Razz 5 “High Glee”; “Wid *Wina™; Guffae"; “Woozle Wob , Kirkland—"The ‘m. Davis, 156 20th'ave—"Gtving "Mn the Gai” ” ‘And here are o letters with suggestions new namen: “Someone once said: ‘A little non- + gense now and then is relished by the of men.’ So I suggest ‘Rare Reb “W.C. LUHRSEN, R. F. No, 4.” “SUBSCRIBER,” eee “In re head for your column, I'd all tt ‘Home Brew,’ because it's made at hore (originaly—is inexpen- sive and exhilarating, and usually has a ‘kick’ strong enough to be con Verted into a ‘punch’ when neces sary. *CHAS. N. HUDSON, 945 Doris St.” eee THE PERFECT FRUNE * ‘A fig for all problems perplexing! Cher up! Do not worry, you loon, Gloom grows lees, if not lesser— A certain professor May -aive us the pluperfect / PRUNE! eee Ironing out the wrinkles was tried by leading prune fanciers some years ago. Satisfactory resulta were ac- complished in individual cases, but “it was found that just as soon as a prune was left by itself a few days it got all baggy at the knees again, and the same old pouches appeared under the eyes. IT IS TO SHIVER Where is my picture? I have it in my heart. ‘Ab! 1 sce! Cold storage. | times. ‘The street railway played a tremendous part in the development of Amer-| jican cities. Electric lines into outlying sections and sparsely settled suburbs served to develop beautiful residence areas, to lessen congestion and its attend- ant evils and to make possible the development of great plants in well-defined industrial sections. | Failure of the street railways to continue these extensions and to maintain adequate gervice even for existing needs menaces the growth of many cities, threatens congestion toward the downtown centers and brings annoyance and discomfort both to passengers and to business, | The public has a well-developed, and probably well-justi- fied opinion that street car troubles today are due to mis |management, greed and inefficiency in the past. But this opinion is not helping solve the problems of the electric rail- ways, and for the good of the cities and their people the must be solved. Cheap and adequate transportation 1s as vital to a modern city as is blood circulation to a ages: being. A Within the next few years there must be some solution | to the ills of the traction companies. This is one of the most fertile fields in existence for progressive and thought-| ;ful study and work on the part of public officials afid patri- otic citizens. Who Gets It? “There's plenty of soom at the top.” Such & the admonition that greets every school bey and girivand te Intended te spur on those to whom life’s battle may appear to be & industry and thrift, with plenty of room at the Buch bas been the creed of modern in losing one. “Honesty, top for the deserving ones.” How much room t& this “plenty” that stipe ao gtibly off the tongues! of moralists afd economists alike? Returns of Income in the United States for December 31, published by the’ government, show that 4,425,077 persons pe taxes duting that year. There were that many people in the United | States who imid [fGgries exceeding $1,000 per annum if single and $2,000) ‘per year if marrigd Nearly 3.000,000 of them were heads of families] There are estimated tg be about 21,000,000 families in the United States. If it be ammumed that an income of $2,000 per annum in “the top” in American industrial life today, there were eighteem millions of families below “the top” compared to three milliond who were at the top, But an income of $2,000 per annum scarcely can be considered as achieving the topmost rung of the ladder of success. Asruming $5,000 per annum income to represent reasonable snocen: im the battle of life, it ts found that there were only about 459,000 per- sons who made returns on incomes in excess of that amount. They were leas than onehalf of ene per cent of the population of the United States, and they were about twe and one-quarter per cent of the 21,000,000 famitiqs in the United Statea Tt may seriously be asked whether a country that allows awo and one jquarter per cent of ft# families’ to“ become “wuccesaful* mila “plenty of room at the top. Has it not, rather, dangefous concen yatiqa of wealth at the top? . A Better Pattern m tmmigrant who landed at, Bilis isiand, whose head was put on shou tter than many persons thought, sid: “What le k you n& Give us @ pattern to go by.” ft t worth mentioning that Immigration Commissioner Caminetti has taken action to give the immigrants « betier pattern, te wit, women unmigration inspectors. ‘There is not s JUST immigration law on the statute booka. Incoming ; they are absolutely at the mercy of Tf an inspector gets up on the wrong fide of the bed, he cnn become very oppreastve toward these unfortunates, Immigrants have no recourse in the courts, and even aliens who have been here & long time are In sad plight whem they full into the hands of inapec- tors, Furti ore, ft is next to impossible to get congress to take any herate fn the paseage ef better tmmigration iaws, So) it falls to the women to administer humane treatment net sup- ported Bylaw. It is well that the itmmigrants are to fall inte the hands of the gentler sex. A goof woman doesn't need a written statute to measure her justice and considerate treatment of persons. It is unnatural for most women to be cru?! and tyrannical, Men inspectors }have probably been as good to the aliens an a strict Interpretation of the letter of the law would permit, But womén will administer the kindness first and interpret the law afterwards, “Too Stupid” Knut Hamsun came over from Norway some years ago and got a job washing dishes in « restaurant. He was “fired” His employer told him he was “too stupi@” to wash dishes. Maybe he waa Kowt got a job on & Chicago «street car, The superintendent “fired™ him He couldn't remember the names of the streeta “Too stupid,” was the verdict. Successivety Knut beeame porter tn a hotel, coal passer on a steam ship, deckhand, and many other things. Always he was diecharged and usually the boss told him he was too stupid to “earn his anit.> , But Knw Wasn't too stupid to write 15 volumts of poems, which have been translated into 17 languages, and which have delighted readers the world Over. He waan't too stupid to write novels no one can forget after readifig. He wasn't to stupid to earn and receive the Nobel prine for Hterature, nearly $50,000. He wasn't too stupid to. become one of the world’s really great writers. Yet, he was a failure as a dishwasher, On the other hand, many a failure in Iiterature would make a fine street car conductor. Housecleaning ; humanitarian thing to reacue Armenia from the wouldn't It be althost as well to rescue Hayti rete, 4 8g | It would-be a fine, Turk, but meanwhile, from ourselves? It would be great to secure freedom for Ireland, to stop the etvil sianghter by @ “Pax voblscum™ and make that unhappy island “the little bit of heaven” It was meant to be, but meanwhile, wouldn't Britain be justified in offering her amicable offices in adjusting our race problem, which it in to be feared results in quite as shocking out- rages as ever have happened in Ireland? It would be gratifying to release eighteen million Koreans from the overlordship of the Japanese, but meanwhile there are ten mililons of Pillpinos who are asking when they are to be given their promised Independence. In short, it would be exhilarating to our national concelt and tm- portance to go Galahading up and down the earth rescuing, restoring, |frecing and independencing, if we didn’t have so damm much to do at home! Meanwhile, there Iq a modest, but growing, institution known as a | Leag-onatians which is designed to help the world work out these and | similar problems and maybe, after awhile, we can help there, & deep thinker, Just because he tx #0 uncommonly solemn we conclude Gloom Producers 0 ng eth hat he must be convincingly seri BY DR. JAMES 1 VANCE ous, and we get out our weeds and When one’s brain is not being ex:! prepare for the funeral ercised, it is in danger of being vic-| But the peasimiat is not deep, Hoe tiznized. Then, when the thinking | has just stopped exercising his brain | appartaus 1s idle, jg the time that| awhile, and the evil spirits have got mental hallucinations get on the line! ten possession of the wires. and tempt us to discouragement and) Don't be proud of being a gloom despair | producer. The world does not need Therefore, don’t conclude that you| your product. Gloom never made are profound just because you are | anybody happlet or better. It is not Poxwimistic. You have doubtless! gloom the world needs, but sunshime, known that mistake to be made, |'The angels are in the sunshine busi- A man ach 3 a dejected expree | nena. sion of countenance and assumes ®) If you want to be cured of your | melancholy tone of voice, and pro-| pexsimiam, exercise your brain, Then ceeds to discuns the decadence of the | these aborinable hallucinations will] He views with alarm and) not be able to get on the line. looks with apprehension. Things| Jt ia not @ bad world, It is a good are not what they used to be, On| world, the beat God could make, The! every wide there are aliens of decline. | bad that in here is fihting a losing | Evil is marching on, and the outloole| battle, When the arms in the world to the good people of the earth is/confilct are finally a, it will! mighty bad. not be God who surren The oid cronker fooly some of us| Therefore, old Sober-Sides, ch with his pessimism. We think he is| up! THE SEATTLE STAR EVERETT TRUE YES, M@I. TRLG, AND SUKRAGE AMGNOM JUST WHAT SOOD You or ANY OTHOR WOMAN Gets WAIT L CAN'T S 1 By CONDO | 4 FTsR THe WOMAN Inquiring Reporter: NT HAS BEEN ADOPTS D Se Itt > AY'S QUESTION Do you believe another war is in evitable? | ANSWERS MRS. JENNIE MILLZNER, 805 B. Denny way Under existing con ditions it looks very much like war. I believe the tage could be set to prevent war, but I» no hope in that direction at present.’ MES, JAMES O'TOOLE, 802 19th ave. “Yea, tb * 10 me as if we can't possibly get out of having one with Japan.” MRS, LAURA OBY, 1101 Wash ington wt: “It probably ix pomaible to prevent war, but under the prew- ent arrangement of things another war is be i to come.” MRS, ROSE MONTGOMERY, $21 Fauntleroy ave “I'd hate to tell you what I see of turmoil on the mental horizon of the world.” MRS. A. TL MORRISSEY, 4043 10th ave. N. KB “1 think we could fix things so there wouldn't be an other war, but we haven't done it yeu" WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT - SEATTLE? QUESTIONS 1. How many mensenger boys are employed by the Western Union company to deliver mensages in Be. ate? 2. Name the two vice presidents of the Chamber of Commerce, 2. What were the 1919 imports of vegetable ofls from the Orient thru Beatue THEN ULL CPen XYove exes —— }X CPNTOL Votes Now I!) (Answers Tureday) In the Editor's Mail " Previo's QuEsTIONs er: WANTS WATER EXTENSION CITY That the minds | of some supposediy intelligent bu. Iman beings could coneeive such | diabolical plot as the cutting off of rs * | water and electric lights from fellow | Wh? exact a “connecting” fee of $50 RETAINED OUTSID Bditor The Star: lar humane outside the city limits goes | and a minimum charge of $3 month.|“"Y Other individual in the world | beyond the comprehension of persons | ly from every household that ts oul eraeenen miles amounted to close to who have given the matter aay root thought. Does the city council know, or can execution of such an idea can meant it imagine what the believe at Hunareds, yen thousands of work: | and all they ponvenn will be the only | men, driven out of the city by high choices these people will have if your rents and their inability to pay for order to the water department to dis | city real estate of sufficient dimen continue service after April stone on whieh to grow a real gar carried out. Yours very truly, den and keep more than six hens, | have their all tied up in their little homes within short distances of the eity Limite, In a district south of the city line we laid our own water maina cut, hauled out and se, our own Usht poles, and we are bearing the full expense of maintenance. We are paying a minifvur rate of $1 for Tight and $1 for water lars & year per family merety for | the privilege of buying these com. mModities” from the city If & mittake was made by the city tn promintng us water and light and s actunfly have it, then | it was but one of many of which ty city of Seattle is guilty, and it must take the consequences inconvenience In the city suffering in letting us continue their use? short, what's the big idea? To the gentlemen of the counct I wish to say that I fully realize that | your duty is to serve the best inter. | tata of the citizens of Seattle, and I only hope you will continue to be as| considerate oftheir welfare as you seem to be in the matter under dis | cussion, but let me add that the city) of Seattle will be better off by far if! You allow these outside ysers of your | water and light to strugkte thru the! beat they can under present adverse conditions without adding the pro vérbial straw that will break their | then letting backs. The unemployment situation haw! Many are job | jesse and now you propose to make them homeless, for that t# what it) will mean in the final analy: should know that such a thing as once of water sim Tt will cont district from $400 to $1,000 @® wink a well, much a practice ts not going to ma hit these people hard. existing in the a ply ien't being ¢ every family in this very popular. The driving of the Acadian peas | ants from the valley of Grand Pre} wae the moet atro- | cious crime recorded in the history Can it be that by the British, of North America. you would make yourselves guilty of government records, It was slight in tee paraliet? nature. Now, gentiemen, drive us back to| * There are 16 boulevards in Se age a into the Att, each with distinctive scenic e kerosene lamp oF Ito the Oi ceuoteriation clutches of the P. 8 T, 1. &P. Co.) 3 “Weary” CW. A) Witkina, of Seattle, sold more thrift stamps than inh aa to desire much a luxury as @octric lights, but abandon the Hun. nish idea of cutting off our water supply, which next to pure air is the/ Vice, 1,068 returned and resumed 1 CADDO thing most necesaary to life their college ‘courses. The abandonment of their homes | — Of the 1320 students who. left Yale univerwity to enter war ser. shop” only meant what they eaid, then no American could have any quar. rel with them, Only their case is prejudiced by the oft-quoted boast | that they are “going to GET union labor this time”; that they are going to “put it out of buriness And it is ex-President Taft who is quoted as saying, “The ‘open shop’ really means the shop open to everybody but the | union man.” This after Taft had had considerable experience with th lab@r probibm at first hand a» chairman of the war labor board. Clean your own house, gentlemen! Throw your false doctrines out the window and kick yqur lying selfseekers down the back steps. 80 | asked: “Who can tell me what falth Rainier ocourred in 1870, according to | let in} KT CHAS. SCHWARTZ and Mfg. Optician ned aad Uinsers Witted Finest Pie, per cut GANDWICHES Hot Hamburger ........15¢ Hot Cakes and Syrup ...20¢ Doughnuts and Coffee ..15¢ Best Coffee in Seattle HOYT’S 822 Pike St, at Fourth WE NEVER CLOSE We Twelve dol of Estates | Involves a very high or- der of le learning and ability. ¢ title to tens of thousands of parcels of land in King County | is affected by the Pro- bate Proceedings through which the title has passed. There have been | 28,300 different estates probated in King County | to date. It is a part of the duty of the Title | Company to search each | Probate Proceeding and trace down the title of all real estate thus pass- ing through probate. But what in A Wee Bit From Your Xmas Purse wilt give you the pleas ure of seeing distant ob jects clearly and the comfort of reading or sewing without that weary “red eye fool ing.” - Come in and have us make your glasses, At Your Service Since 1899 a ee | You! WASHINGTON TITLE | and SEATTLE OPTICAL Co Sec ynd Ave in43 +4 > Fresh, full-cream milk and the extract of se- lected malted grain, reduced to powder form, The Old Reliable Round Packdge Ip order to introdu: and strongest plate | OHIO "> Superior to tea, coffee, cocoa | Prepared ina moment hot or cold water. Keep at home or Ask For ens Get Horlick’s SUBSTITUTES Cost YOU Same Price ‘Write for free sample to Horlick's, Dept B, Racjne, Wis. REAL PAINLESS DENTISTS our new (whalebone) piat own, covers very Nitie of the root of ‘the mouth; aren adays From CUT-RATE DENTISTS i Oe UMIVKNSITY 6 e Y. W. C, A. How tel will not accept a 26 per cent commis- sion for calling a taxi- cab. Neither will the Washington, the Frye, the Seattle or the Cal- houn. They know this com- mission has to be col- lected (with an addi- tional profit) from their guests who have entrdsted them with their order. Later we will pub- lish a list of institu- tions who do accept commissions on calls. Get the ORIGINAL The Food-Drink tor All Ages. Used successfully for over 1/3 century. A quick lunch teadily' digested. Invigorating, Nourishing, Delicious Ask for Horlick’s at All Fountalna ly the powder in traveling, thus Avoiding Imitations Always insist on calling The Seattle Taxicab Co. MAIN SIX FIVE HUNDRED We do not pay com- missions, which t# the lightest can bite corn off the ib youre, ome re, PAINLESS EXTRACTION impression taken im and advice free. mm je und vidge Work. We Stand the you. te 12 for Working Peopte Opprcite breser-raterscn Gh MONDAY, DECEMTER 29, 1920, ba | | |e TS Housecleaning Demanded, i EDITOR'S NOTE—~This is one of a series of articles being published by The Cleveland Press on the industrial conditions thruout the country, Burleson, Palmer, et al. to the contrary notwithatanding, America 18 @ democracy federal constitution and most of our state constitutions grant even the anarchist a right to his opinions, And even the most un desirable o the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Bo union labor has no moral right to inwist that the man who doesn't believe in labor organizations, and doesn’t belong to one, shall be debarred from any employment At the #a time no employer has any moral right to refuse to employ or to discharge @ man because he is a member of a union. If one prop onition ina dod one, then the other must be a good one, too, If the employers’ organizations that abe now clamoring for the “open your counsels may be of value in tf great Americafl project of today: thé’ readjustment of relations between employer and employe on & #aner, sounder baajs, and in the interests of prosperity for all! ‘ Out ‘of the No doubt men are just a6 foolist as women, but you seldom hear of a man suing a woman for breach - Mouths of Babes tc 'Promive §. A little 4-yearold miss wanted «| 4 man who can make an after fan, but could not remember the! dinner speech but won't is lees tire co name of it, #0 she said; “Mamma,|some than one who can't but will wr | vcihd Seta « : where's the thing you brush the PROPOSALS, indoreed ° ith? for Traveling warm away with? | or weline % “If I were to tell you there were | { in no seeds in this apple fou would be Cc. until lieve me without further proof, would 1923, and you not?” asked the Sunday school (he, s8m4 teacher. Wash. | opened “Yeu, ma'am,” answered the clans. pride vy Depadstment, 2 o'eloe! et Sow re publicly jectric travell or a tock steel stor crane for th “Well, that is faith,” said the | pours st Ba pots teacher cation No. 4326 may The next Sunday, in order to test OP the their recollection of the lesson she Sound, W of postal money or $10, payee r to the Chief of the Bureau of Ye) a and Docks, is required for the safe retura of the drawiay and specification. C, W. PAR! | November 20,1920. “Chief of Burren | RESTAURANT MEN} | MUCH DISTRESSED) | Complain Loudly Because Colegrove Reduces His Prices—But the Public Isn’t Sorry Big Patronage Proves That 10 to 20% Reduction Through Use of Coupon Books Is Popular Move AND NOW that the Colegrove restaurants have inaugurated a plan for lower living costs, ee come some of our most prominent restauran' proprietors with public statements to the effect that it’s not at all proper to reduce prices at this time. They don’t mention Colegrove restau- rants in particular in issuing this bit of advice, but the implication is quite plain enough. “Competition may be the life of trade” says one of there caterers in a statement in a@ well-known periodical, “but we are all selling our merchandise at the lowest possible figure consistent with business success, and to make the slashes in prices that several of our restaurants have made in the past two weeks cannot spell anything but a net loss for them and a serious distress of mind for those who would stand pat on living prices. The caterer who thinks to undersell his com petitor and thereby win some of his business is sitting in « fame at which two can play, and if two do play at this same dangerous game both will ultimately be in distress.” Sit in, Mr. Caterer, The Colegrove restaurants sre willing to play the game with any one. But look out; we hold some wonderful trump cards: Efficiency, service, good food. . Fr No “distress” in our ranks, Public Glad to Save Money And our deductions have proven correct, for we have never enjoyed a bigger, more satisfactory business than now. The public ‘certainly appreciates the opportunity to save money on their meals, as offered through our coupon books, and belleve is” “I can,” promptly answered a small urchin, “It's an apple what ain't got no weeds tn it.” ns us, we are not at all “distressed” over our increased volume of business. And then comes another well-known restaurant man with the published statement that “it looks bad for Seattle that its caterere must cut their prives to get by. Price cutting may bring more business, but it will also bring more work, more brea! . & larger expe account, and practically no profits. In view of the fierce white beat of competition, one could. not get by with that kind of Ff catering.®, Only Doing Our Part, That’s All Just what our good friend means by the “fierce white heat of competition” we are at ‘a loss to know, because we didn’t realize there was any. As for our action In reducing prices, our only excuse, If an excuse be necessary for such action, is that the whole world is now passing through a period of reconstruction wherein everyone is trying to reduce the cost of living, and we only trying to do our part in response to general public de: We believed the time for action was here, and we proposed to do Serving More Folks for Less Increased volume of business and increased efficiency” of the employes tn Colegrove’s restaurants has certainly justified our action, enabling us to serve more people, with the same high quality of foods, for less money. The sale of our coupon books ts cementing to us a large number of new patrons whose patronage is certainly appreciated, And it’ very evident that the savings offered by us are appreciated by the public, Coupon book No. 1 gives you $5.00 worth of meals for $4.50; book No, 2 gives you $10.00 worth of meals for $8.50, and book No. 3 gives you $20.00 worth of meals for $16.00. Books are on gale at the cashiers’ counters tn all Colegrove restaurants, Wonderful Christmas Dinner Coming ° Incidentally, now's the time to reserve your table for Christmas dinner. We were swamped with business for our Thanksgiving dinner, 80 this is jut a word to the wise to prepare in plenty of time for one of the most wonderful Christmas meals ever served in the Colegrove restaurants, How many places, please? is Hiliott 63: Lope me Clare S. Colegrove RESTAURATEUR Northold Im, 214 University Specialty Food Shop, 110 Pike St. Egyptian Kitchen, 1524 Third Ave. Auto Kitchen, Pik@ at Broadway ® “Distinctly Different.” ‘ t