The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 10, 1921, Page 6

— - Seattle | The per month, | 9480 for & months oF $9.00 per! year, By cartter, city, Itc per week Newspaper Buterpriss Association wok United Press Service Published Daily by The Star Pubtish- Ing Co, Phone Main 6 a | A WORD FROM JOSH WISE: There's not many cold facts to hot alr. eee A Marion dispatch says Unole Warren keeps eight stenographers busy, Maybe he stands back of them with a club in his hand. eee count shows that three men ork. city voted for Charlie bs president. We feel sure the three men may feel disappdinted at the present may not be much disap at the end of the next four Trusting that you catch just wish to convey, ete rvy i Hf i i | eee i may, S B. Sellars Fairmont, W. Va. We don't Dusiness, but his initials in a book dealer. Long and Miss Lucille married recently in Sparkle Moore lives in Tamborine tives in Jol tity ett we 3 itt fy MORAL, NEVER VISIT RELA ‘TIVES Miss Marie Hackett bas returned to Milwaukee, where she t# resting at Biue Mound sanitarium after ‘visiting with her uncie and aunt, Mr. Adolf Pfister, here—She it a smile And trembied with fear at her frown? EDMUND u ©, don’t you remember The Momber, Ben Bolt. Remember her smile and her fro Duckwheats have often been boit- m ©. don’t you remember The Member, Ben And her stnkers delicfousty browned. Whose emile made the coffee too sweet cup ? the sugar was 30 per pound? COOKE. ng n, This is due, perhaps, to . There being no more hhootch, the men ke to reading, which “maketh a full man.” eee It is rumored once more that Fred Hohenzoliern, who used to be @own prince of Germany, is plan- to return to his fiative land and & monarchy. What Fred concern of ours, but if he to Germany he'd better a lunch. ee HOW ABOUT THOSE WHO DROP IN AT SUPPER TIME Until such time aa there shall be a hotel in Colony I request thd? all having business to transact ‘with me will arrange to come either early in the forenoon or else after dinner, as I cannot serve meals to my patrons. People who make it a practice to drop in just at noontime May expect to sit on the door step until I return from dinner, C. W Sheptiard—Colony (Wyo.) News. eee EASY TO PICK ONE WHO HAS A GOOD FRONT; BACKBO: SELDOM SHOWS THRU WANTED—An able bodied police man with ® good front and lots ot backbone. Make application at City hall.—-Advertinement in Marquette Qfich.) Mining Journal. eee A Milwaukee brewer has asked the government to le! him make medi cinal beer. Fine stuff for insomnia. ‘Teu or 12 bottles in succession and yeu can sleep soundly. . . A SMALL ORDER The Landlord—tI'll be fair.’ I'm willing to spend one month's rent in Gecorating. Mr. Littlefiat-—AN right. Here's my check. Put it ine one dollar bills ad Paper the living room with ‘em. } | Bon Voyage While the legislature holds the center of public attention today, county, port and state officials also come in for no small share of attention. They are nearly all entering upon | new terms of office, and the citizenry is hoping for nothing | more than that they severally and collectively exercise but jcommon sense in the execution of their duties. The public | |wishes them well. In this wish The Star joins heartily. | With malice toward none and good will to all, it is our fond- lest hope that every public official, sensing the true position ‘he occupies, will dedicate himself to the service of the peo- |ple. Elections are past, Factioral styife ought to be forgot- jten. Service and not spoils of offioe will spell success for | those upon whom the affairs of government now devolve. In a republican state, such as this, the example shown | by Senator Harding in calling to conference members of lopposing political faith should be an inspiration. In the larger matters of governmental, state and legislative action —aye, in county and city affairs as well—there should be no room for mere partisanship. ° To the governor and the lieutenant governor, to the leg- islature, to the new prosecuting attorney, and to the sheriff —to all the state and county officials—The Star wishes }you all: Bon Voyage! : The Rights of a State The old question of rights” bobs up again. When the Ame colonies. first were welled together jealougjes intervened to give a prominence, almost sacredness, to rights of a state to handle purely state affairs as It pleased. Gradually, the long list of matters regarded as purety state affairs @windied. But all the time the one thing universally held as a state's) right was the regulation of commerce within the state. This, of course, carried with it the right to regulate railroad rates within the state's borders, ’ | When the interstate commerce commission last summer gave railroads | increased rates on intervtate business (always held within the commis jsion's power), several states refused permission for similar increases tm rates for purely state traffic. This results in considerable confusion. Interstate rates are higher than Intrastate (within a state) rates in some states. In some state one may travel 300 miles within the state as cheaply as he may travel 200 miles if his journey takes him across the state line Naturally railroads suffered. They increase as they hoped to get. Naturally enough, to the I. C. ©. for further assistance. The interstate commerce commission now orders Minnesota, Arkansas, Titinols and other states, to increase intrastate rates to the same high notch to which interstate rates have been boosted. The LC. C. says the lower intrastate rates “are found to be unduly preferential of futra state passengers, unduly prejudicial to interstate passengers and un justly discriminatory against interstate commerce.” This order, if upheld by the United States supreme court, removes from state regulation every transportation line which crmases any state, line. It makes state ratiroad as uneful an the ap pendix is to the human bedy This is what the large rmallway systems long have desired. It or may not, be in the best interests of passengers and shippers to have! ail railroad regulatory authority in one body. That i yet to be proven But one thing ts certain—the order, if it stands, buries one of the inst of the old state's rights family. More Mouths to Feed Census figures will show that approximately 30 per cent of persons in America are engaged in agriculture as an occupation as compared with the total number of persons engaged in all other occupations What this means ix fr the figures for previous are taken into comparinon | In 1830, 87 per cent of persons in America wore engaged in agriculture In 1840 the number had fallen to 77 per cent. In 1870 it bad fallen to 57 per cent: In 1880 to 44 per cent; in 1890 to 39 per ceht; in 1900 to 35 per cent; in 1910 to 22 per cent; and now probably it will be shown to be 20 per cent. In 1820 a farmer had only to produce crops for his own family and a small proportion of the things eaten and worn by the family of one en- gaged in another calling. Now he must grow over three times as much as that needed for his own family in order to supply in addition the needs of the families of two others engaged in some other calling. And he must supply the needs in addition to those who have no occupa- on. state's colonial the are not getting as much of an too, they appealed regulators about may, clear unless years] There has been much discussion as to the reason for the movement from the farm to the city, but the one thing which seems certain fw that it is our friend “economic determinism” at work And They All Owe Us By resort to her dyestuffs import act, Great Britain has taken a departure that may lead no man knoweth whither, but that ought to be full of interest to every country greatly concerned about foreign trade. This act, which became law on December 27th, prohibits the impor- tation of dyestuffs into England for 10 years and ts for the protection of England's tnfant dyestuffs industry Its a case of @ free trade country turning to prohibitive tariff, ax it were, and it suggests some juestions. If England bars out dyestuffs, why not other imports? If the American congress puts high tariff on importa, why shoulda’t England follow sultT 4 If this putting up of walls against each other is good for the big countries, why not for the smaller ones? If a war of retaliatory tariffs ensues, where will America, creditor nation, come out? including the new American brand, the great When Death Comes Death does not come with the trappings and sults of woe on island of Madeira. It comes as a friend, with bright music and flowers, with blue sashes and white frocks, and fireworks A tourist writes of meeting a funeral procession on a mountain trail The coffin wax silver-papered. It held the bedy of an Infant, and was carried by children who wore wreaths of flowers on their heads, and were dreased in their prettiest The arrival of the procession at signaled by a rocket Customs which suit one people may not mult another. Ideas which seem right and suitable there would perhaps seem out of place to those who live in another land. But death is the inevitable end of life., It ts as natural as birth, Something can be said for accepting it in that spirit, in the way it is accepted by the farming people on the littie island of Madeira. the the little mountain church was They must be using Mexico's oil to lubricate the wheels of government, decause not a squeak is heard south of the Rio Grande. The remorseful tax payer who sent $2,250 back taxes to the government has no more conscience than a lot of us; he simply has more money. The passenger who was ecaiped in a railroad wreck, when he went to collect damages was probably charged for a hair out. Ponei's poetry writing may prove to be simply a prosaic effort to estab- lish an insanity plea. Benate investigators of the coal graft will “get to the bottom” of the scandal if they only climb high enough || One of Seattle’s Oldest Established Dental Offices Specializing in High-Class Crown, Plate and Bridgework { Special Attention to Out-of-Town Patients } Modern Methods—High-Class Dentistry—Low Prices. These we offer you. | Electro Painless Dentists | Located for years at 5. E. Cor. Ist & Pike. Phone Main 2555. SEAT Senator Mark Smith, Ari- zona democrat, who was beat- jen for re-election, has been| of whieh are in the city named by President Wilson as | serapped t a member of the International Joint Commission on Canadi- an boundaries. ANO.1 When one asks, ““What kind of « man is he?" and the anewer is given, ‘He's A No, 1." the definition in clear enough. It in as plain as the Roge on a men firmt clase | in every parti dence and the possessor of merit How “A No. 1" came to be a syno-| many indeed fpllowed thereafter, at|recelved and rate and only | nym for axéelience is interosting, too. Al in a notation in Lioyd’s Reg! the Briuish shipping guide, and it « plies to a ship as being in firet-clacs| condition, both as to the hull and to the storen aboard the veasel, The character A ts used to denote! either new ships or #hips that have been restored uptil they are ag good | as New. The stores of the veanets! are described by the figures 1 or 2; if “well and sufficiently found,” then the figure 1 is used, So, in Britain, Al indicates @ high degree of excel | mission has regulative pe lence; over here the same thing is ex: | premed by A No. 1. Just how long ago the term panned hy of confi- | July and in August, |100 feet TLE STAR ‘Letters to the || | Editor— ON LIGHT AND WATER | OUTSIDE THE CITy Kditor The Star; In your imue of the 20th you print a very able and pointed article by Mr, B. T. Li, tn re gard to the city council threat to cut off the water to us outsiders. If you will per your correspondent’s query, to-wit Hut what inconvenience is the city suffering in letting us continue in their use” (meaning water and light)? jth no data, but assuming for vt that the city water $6,000 a month from ua and that the water depart ment balance shows now an even break, in it not plain that the city | would be $60,000 a year in the hole if the water was cut off f w And would this deficit not fe an increawed rate within the city limit? City folks, empecially those wh don't stop to think, are aanume that we certainly we ure, b , tem without contributing thereto, As & matter of fact, the citixens of Seat Ue did not contribute a penny to the nyntem. It financed itself from re celpts of water rate by insiders and outsiders, To be sure, the cithens paid themacives for their lateral |mains, We outsiders will undergo the same process when we too will be in, and our own water mains, parts will be t My own 2inch main, 260 eet within the city, serves 63 taps nd pays into the water department h, There tx only one meter ] one bill and @ 2cent stamp involved, while for $53 collected from homen wjthin the city there are 106 readings, as many bills and stamps in the transaction Since even Mr, Cotterill, when he waa mayor, didn’t know that we had water outside, nor the late H. Gill that we had light, J will give a brief history thereof, A Minch ¢ was given me in 1909, water was given me. Others preceded me and first we paid at of for what meter wed. Two or three years after we were changed to a base of 60 cents for each tap for 323 a. f. and 15 centa for every shove that. Hut tn Sep. tember, 1918, the rte was doubled to $1 for 600 feet and 15 cents above minimum as before, the present status, Four years ago the legis lature lemalized the selling of water to outsiders, and if I am well in formed the rtate public service com: er thereof. About mix of seven years ago, city lights began to trickle thru to us. The city had solicitors in the fleld into pouplar speech as it in at pres | Many transferred to the city line and ent applied is not known, tho Charles | Dickens used the figure as carly aa 1847. A tramp painter known the world over discarded hi for A No.1 while he painted on ev- or rafiroad sta m in this countr Ok the price of the juice came down to 5% cents a kilowatt About 18 months ago * city sudden hang o4 front ght war to minimum. Subscribers, of course siampeded to the P. 8 T. & L. Co rained Written it T will try to anewer | re TODAY'S QUESTION Do you expect Beattie o have a} very prosperous year in 19217 ANSWEKS 8. A. KEENAN, 1422 F. Roy at Proaperity will begin with thi spring and be very encouraging, af tho gradual.” MRS, WILLIAM C Wallingfard ay * will grow better in th expect @ banner year | Hi, BELL, 2024 61st ave, 8. W | "Yes, sir, the beet year we ever had | MRS. M. B. LOOMIS, 921 20th ave: “I can judge only by my hopes and they are for an exceptionally good year.” KR, HW. ULLRICH, 1911 25th ave. N I expect very good business condi tions.” ‘WHAT DO YOU KNOW ALOUT ‘SEATTLE? | at ESTIONS } 1. What rating has the U. 8 chipping board given Seattle harbor? 2 What percentage of Seattle fam: are listed a» homeowners? 3. What percentage of the popula tion here can read the English lan | euage? (Arewers Toenday) | PREVIOUS QUESTIONS 1. There are nearly 11,000 exer vice men and women in Beattie 2. Approximately #3 the city’s population is foan 3. The U OTT, 3809 think thing» but I don’t per cent of native Amer. | 8. awnay office here has paid for gold to the value of $267,237,715 In 20% years, but could not trannfer, abused octopus friend. Finally it, too, followed the | city’s "lead, and about three months ago it rained from 50 cents to $1 minimum and from 5% to § cents a kilowatt, while in the city it charges 6 cents County commissioners, state public and Chamber of Commerce, please take notice, | FRANK BORZONE, * 630 W. 86th at service commission We dye your rags and old carpets and weave them into handsome rugs. The Fuzzy Wuzzy Rug Co. Phone Capitol 1 KKK KKAKKKKEK: The pleasure of creating music Men find, in the Player Piano, a particular sat- isfaction. It represents THEIR chance to create music, whether they are trained or not. ing’s entertainment, other than that of an agreeable wallflower. 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