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

j THE SEATTLE STAR THURSDAY, DECEMEEN 9, 199%. ‘Ingusing Reporter: |_| @ = The Seattle Star 50; @ mont \EVERETT TRUE— By ¢ NDO| | e [<= as Watching the Parade | BY JOHN PILGKIM | There wae an Englishman on the 6:40 last night, an American who had spent the summer in London, & twinwix voloe and @ positive manner and he certainly did like to une te o * By Wall, out of oity, Bho per month; & mo $5.08, m the Btate of Washington. v7 i" 04.60 for @ montha oF $9.00 per year - Or maybe he wan | Anyhow, he had “If I caught my wife using rouge,” mid he, “I'd make her stop it if “ Let the People Decide “ ee erie, whether you call them taxpayers, street car patrons, stockhold- rs in e system. It is but fair, itter. A WORD FROM JOSH WISE th Must be full uv rubber, judg- th’ way it gets stretohed. eee ‘Warren has given to his tat order for his “going in” party. | Woodrow, of course, bas all | thes ready for his coming out | we read over a description of Warren's togs, we see that gentlemen were justified they said they voted for him . he looked better than Cox pa oilk bat ody who has been counting | @ays there are approximately Students in the universities of the United States, We like to know {f the football | &re included In the 600,000. oe 1 @ more day to do your Leap! ing, gals, and Glenn Cork: | lawyer, bas gone to court has never been wooed eee Wilson has turned down of $150,006 to writ one Proving that the jewelry Must have done a good trade. eee F, maybe, he’s discouraged at the offer, considering what the funners are making tn British eee nightie sent to Grattie Montana ts still undeliv- ing to our contemporary, Probably Burleson consid males, that Otto | man, ls on Dec. 27. — Bud thas put chains on the rear bicycle, #o in case he snow he can get a good it, the prindiple being as in case,of chaing on an | ie in readiness for New Year's, to occur Saturday, the ist | ft month. i & Clegg, grocers, who were | ta anything that might interfere ‘Way with the movement to Prices, x Hally, our inventor, who be gs ‘work some months ago, trying é a one-handled wheelbarrow, mys it can be done, tho the idea is | Practical, as if only one handle two wheels will be necessary, A bowling alley will be established Ne this winter if a vacant | long enough for an alley can Duboice, the barber, who put | phonograph as @ substitute for Gazette for the entertain. of his customers on Sataurday | MG has taken it out, as it led to he then dancing, which jarred the floor and made the shaving of cus- somewhat risky. HAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT i d thru Seattle annually? Who .operated the first ferry ber Elliott bay? How many reservoirs and stand- here? (Answers Friday) PREVIOUS QUESTIONS 1. If the lumber output of Wash. | for one year was built into oot board walk it would reach times around the earth at the 5 i _& David Whitcomb, prominent business man, was elected last week of the National 8 association. | %. Beattie garfhent retailers this Purchased approximately $550, Worth of metchandise from local Jers, Sugar $375 a Pound _ Best and cane sugar prices have | Maple sugar alap has been high. suppose you were paying for , & sugar made from corn cobs’? Pound of that couts $120. Or ma- a sugar made from tvory nuts, are many sugars which aro known. Most of them are uned Scientific work, the cultivation of One such sugar is of great fn detection of typhoid. Aribinose, Levulose. Raffinone. ) These are all rare sugars. Inulin ts ® wugar made from dahlia bulbs y ite is a sugar made from man- | Manose at $140 9 pound seems pret. high, But the prize sugar is dul SA ‘eitol, a pound of which costs $376. municipal railway, or what not, must ultimately pay for the street then, that they should determine the policy of the ay. The people should have the opportunity to express themselves fully on the They should answer: ae Shall the street car system be retained by the city or shall it be returned to the bondholders by per- mitting the bonds to become delinquent when they fall due? 2. If the city is to retain the system and meet the obligations as they fall due, shall the fares be raised higher and higher, or shall the initial cost of the sys- tem be paid out of taxation? 8. .Shall the city obtain the services of a street car expert to manage the system for the next year? These questions must be answered by the people them- selves. They are going to pay the bills in the final analysis either as taxpayers or as car patrons, or as both, Do the people of Seattle, including the taxpayers, want the city to default on the bonds when they become due? This appears inevitable if we are to depend upon carfares alone, for carfares have not, even with the increases, shown | Will the credit of the city remain gs 7 t sufficient revenue. paired if one of its utilities fails to meet its obligations? is something to be seriously considered. On the other hand, the imposition of $15,000,000 upon the taxpayers, at the rate of a million and more a year, is also a mighty serious matter. But who is better fitted to decide these things than the/ people? They voted for the purchase of the street car system. If their approval had not been given, the deal would never have been. Now they should—they are entitled to—face some of the problems. It has been suggested that a real railway expert might be able to pull the railway out of its present lamentable status. There may be something to that. We must recog- nize that in place of the many experts of the Puget Sound Traction Co. we have today but one man to shoulder all the intricate financial and operation problems, namely, Supt. Henderson. Supt. Henderson was in charge of transportation duties in the Puget Sound Traction organization. Today he has those duties and many others. His experience has been in one phase of the operating end with the private corhpany. He was getting, we belieye, about $300 a month for his work. With all kindliness towards him, and recognizing the abil- ity which pushed Henderson from a motorman’s job to his higher position, it is hardly fair to impose the entire system upon his shoulders. A real expert, with sufficient authority to work out his plans, offers a gleam of hope. Still, as we have already pointed out, why not let the people decide these questions—all of them—at the March election? Rollo in Taxland One cold December night Uncle George was making ont his income tax return. He was cussin’ under hiv breath, Rollo looked up from hia oulja board and Ife sweet, childish voice asked: “Uncle George, how much income must a man have to keep an automobile?" : Then Uncle George took down a government report, looked in ft and said: “Last year onty 4,425,114 Americans stepped forward and admitted in hollow volees that their income was as much as $1,000 a year if single or $2,000 a year if married.” Then Rollo said: “So not many of them owned cars.” But Uncle George said: “In the same year about 6,400,000 Americans wore somelow able to own and opemte pleasure cars, This leaves 2,000,- 000 single men who say they make leas than $20 @ week and married men who make leas than $40 a week, yet somehow they ali manage to keep the old bus in repairs and gas.” Rollo asked: “Prices were so high in 1918, how did those 2,000,000 People ever get money to buy their cars tn the first place?” Unele George tried to fixure it out but gave up. He mald: “In New York state five people paid income tax to every two that owned cars In North Carolina there was only one tax return for every five autos.” “How do they do it? Rollo mid. “It beats me,” said Uncle George. “Eyer a lot of fellows are dodging taxes and making more for the rest of us to pay, or else they've dix covered how to make a dollar stretch like rubber,” , It Looks To Bure as shootin’ we've got to protect ou which ts certainly a cruel, crue! dilemma. wall right thru our midst, ap the belt line, or thereabouts, There has just arrived at Gan Francisco a ship loaded with 60,000 pairs of hich grade shoes which are to go on sale at 50 per cent of the present price of other shoon of equal quality. These shoes were made in Manila by our cheap Filipino-Americano labor, Since the war, manufacturers of machinery have had to go outside of the United States to dispose of much of their product, and certain shrewd investors have set up not only shoo but cloth factories in our Philippine islands, where the wage earner is satisfied with a neck: lace of beads, or something equally as good, tn his pay-envelope. The shoe business of San Francteco is aghast at the quality and prices of the newly arrived Filipino footwear and when the Filipino cloth begins coming in, the dry goods business ts going to be aghaster. Verily, it seems that the only way out of being cursed with cheap shoes and cloth is to make those Filipinos foreigners, by granting them independence, and then rearing tariffs against them that will hold them off. et ives against ourselves, We've got to erect a tariff Just when tt looked Whe clear sailing for the league of nations, @ woman's organization asked for a ruling on international marriages, Harding has been elected a Wife member of the typographical union, and ts eligible to help set the Congressional Record when there's a dull day at ALL SHIRTS WINTER UNDERWEAR NECKWEAR REEFERS AND PAJAMAS PRICE HenryG. Young’s Shirt Shops “The Place to Save Money” 1412 Third Ave. 1433 Fourth Ave. 221 Union st. Next to Boldt's Joshua Green Bldg. Bet. 2nd and 3rd WHAT ARS) You WHISTLING € I | Earthquakes Scientife machines record the worst earthquake that has taken place on the earth for several years. Some eclentiata think it was a sub marine quake, possibly a new moun. tain range being erected at the bot tom of the Atlantic ocean. Let us hope so. The Japanese will yawn when they read about this latest quake, They recorded £421 quakes in eight years. That's three a day. Away back in 1103 Yeddo, Japan, had the worst earthquake in recorded history, It killed 200,000 people. What causes earthquakes? entiats do not agree. Bome attribute them to voleante action, others to slipping of sliding of the earth's | crust, still others to shrinking of the earth, “We really don't know,” say# Dr. | al recruiting office)—Adv, Andrew TL Palmer of the United’ money. the beat tor your be hs « DEPOSITS Made on or Before ‘ JANUARY 10th Will draw interest from | JANUARY 1ST Start the New | Year Right THE BANK FOR SAVINGS We issue checks payable at sight all over the world. Pine St, at Fourth Ava If your gums are sore and bleeding you have Pyorrhea. This disease should be cured to insure good health. 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Just red enough to coming off on you, Girls who give t fine and sweet and good an the other wort tempered, too, for they know the « 1 to pick between two girls whifting the second glance t how, this English fowl made 1 Jim was the w tired of it wn A canary, He used she slipped a berries over his head the bucket “We will have no more dimension she picked the botling berries out graceful, James.” , “Aw.” said the corporal, “call me ‘ PROPOSAL 8¢ Editor The Star having’ be your ¥ Well, Mr, Béitor, me accustomed to expect r to voles sentiments which, generally speaking, are Just, I am wondering what you think about the recommendations made to tke city council by Councilman Thomson relative to a general re duction in the salaries of all city em ployes. | I can't exactly express my senti- mentawithout the use of vitriolic speech, but here are a few facts whieh should be given consideration The city employes, during the Period of soaring prices and high wages, were always from #ix months to & year behind the industrial world in obtaining Increases in salary and, | except in a few instances, never did reach the level of industrial con- cerns . Councitman Thomson always con- eotting. | istently (or inconsistently) opposed lent days when the earth's|®P4 bitterly fought every increase; thin old world | A#ked for by the city employes, but) did anyone hear. his voice in protest weather bureau. nter of the earth ts 196. ‘entigrade, This ) But waa thinner, ive, George Darwin, noted Engiieh When the city counciimen were ask-| , Reologint, thought that the moon for- merly that ft was blown into space by eqmbination earthquake and voleanto Aisturba nce. from a jue of home brew. This is another argument against the jo Set | neing in FLORSH RIOR $18.00 ing the taxpayers for an increase of 2,000 per annum? Counciiman Thomson makes the statement that living costs have It went out Uke « cork | 4ropped+20 per cent, but I think he would have difficulty in proving of at He is evidently taking whole- jeale prices qr a basin, the effects of Was connected with the earth, the good —_ — | which will not reach the cansumer £0” and get rome of those | for some time to come. | KIM SHOES that CUR-| Councilman Thomson says that “if welling at $940. worth the salaries of city employes were! jor Way (under nav-| reduced they would be no works | lof? than they were six months ago.” The right food gives your boy-the right start— How he does enjoy his big bowl of gs" Rolled Oats with plenty of rich milk and a sprinkling of sugar. You know he is going to be a happier, healthier boy for the good food he is eating. Oats are most novrishing of the break- fast cereals and furnish in an easily di- wages form just the nourishment that e and all your family need for hard work and play. Fisher’s Rolled Oats do taste different. It’s the plump, full grown western oats to begin with and the unique Fisher process develops the best of the rich oat flavor. Electrical toasting in our own ovens gives the rich golden color and the delicious toasted flavor. "Manufactured By Fisher F louring Mills Co. haw Pt Kp me same sort, loud, noisy, overbearing, and at heart to dominate his wife until she got She wae a nice little thing must have accepted him in @ dark room nite ware kettle full o' Jim had a good deal of trouble getting out of ooaune the ball caught under his chin. w? There tn nothing decorative y globules on it, Anda girl with @ one who reflects the The be kissed without the stuff heir look# a fair chance are just ax ‘They are apt to be better yutlook is apt to be fairly bright I'd choone the one I could look at o the clock. think of Corporal Jim Hughes too nice for Corporal Jim. She One day he went a bit too far bolling rasp: in this house, James,” said she, as of his eyes, “This has been dis ‘Jim’ * | | ren's that a pretty sentiment, and! 4 inn't it nice for good Americans to have to swallow that? Virtually, he | admits that elty employes were not very well off six months ago and now, becausé living conditions are a trifle easier and city employes can | begin to see daylight, Councilman | Thomaon Would advocate the une of | the fron heel and shove them back | into the mire and gloom again. | And why? Because thé street.rafl-| way fund is running behind. But} what good, may I ask, will tt do the | street railway fund to reduce sal &ries in the engingering, light or any | other department than the street railway department? Not that I would advocate a¥reduction in the) 4. wages of the street car men, I worked long enough as « trainman | to know that they earn their money. | Couneliman Thomson would do well | to oppose some of the wasteful ex-| penditures ‘rather than to start on/ alaries, the reduction of whicg| ‘ould pot be @ drop in the bucket) eo far as reducing taxes & con cerned. If, as he says, Councilman Thom- non's desk is pited bigh with letters | clamoring for this thing which he| advocates, I can but suspect that | they come from sources other than the homeowners and the multitude | of people who pay moderate taxes. Councilman Thomson seems to me to be in the mame class with Post- master Burleson, both of whom re-| 4! fect kaiseriam and autocracy, and are @ mighty foree in developing bolsheviem, HOME OWNER, TAXPAYER, ITY EMPLOYE. | vampires, TODAY'S QUESTION Should the movies featore vam pires? 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