The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 21, 1921, Page 6

| FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, 1921. |Managing the Public Dollar] Inquiring Reporter: (WOULD YOU LET THEMMARRY?|{ AS OTHERS SEE THE WORLD HERE are three kinds of dollars, your dollar, the other! | Kiitorialn and Cormenta Reprinted From Various Nempapers fellow’s dollar, and the public dollar. You manage your dollar, the other fellow watches his pretty closely, too; but nobody, it seems, pays much attention to the public | dollar : | ! . | 8 + Kenyon would brand professional lobby 06 earn bew ee . are costing their employers, It is doubtful if would end lobbys + Oh, yes; there are officeholders elected to manage the! ~2 ine. in Washington. Most members of coner eady know the oan public dollar, but a close examination of what taxpayers 3 r fessions! job’ i + capital, and q ys quainted with the I ae ores, Sho One, wees !vet for the public dollar shows it is more poorly managed] What anno) <i joceasional lobby tnt : ; HRO0 tn the State of W ‘|| than even the spendthrift’s dollar, Indeed, one is persuaded | (revel 4 FL. y 3 { What seo’: mown 20 “well ts how en are creas: Whee yg yh “li that the public dollar is the spendthrift’s dollar, But not) lpropesed in Konyon’s Bi, $660 to 96.008, will mean nothing much to an By carrier, ety jso in every city! gon. carclaas att to ae lobbyist who c spends $5,000 in an evening on one Imprisonment Maherprte . | Take, for example, Birmingham, Ala., which has just) jcdestrians dart across in front of 2 | would be a greater deterrent and United reas The nenator ¢ . use for embers of congress Grift int | published reports o $ rd year under the commission | my auto 7 The tor complainy becau mpr mermnby one rift inte Published Dany vy The mar Peomn-|/PUblished reports of its third yea . the lobby trade, and make use of their privilege he floor for that pur. \pose. Congress quickly can end thin by forbidding the floor to former 1LARBYING AND LOBBY (Prom the Cleveland Prem MI MORRISON, 903 Sum ine < Phone Main €0¢ form of government. Before Birmingham entered upon the) JOHN 8 HAY, 7011 Sycamore commission businesslike «form of government its public Noth & 5 It's all up bay as m 5 members. But this is rather futile; the moet expert lobbyiete, and the dollars were poorly managed. They bought less than other|*°" SS Sn ee lbest paid, have been lobbyixts while they were members ret . b.. o ruffle my tranquility 1 ; ene for twit dollars. e ci ri » debt, and couldn’t get out, Taxes ; The Kenyon n not end lobbying for special privilege. But 1c The city ran into debt, 1 g CARLSON, 908 Summit | if that cannot be ended by Jaw It can be seriously hampered by @ better NELS ‘ election of members, and its force can be counter in large measure were soaring and little was gotten for them. Then came) ,y.. Tne way autos crowd up to the commission experiment. With this was combined two | the gates of the street cars, making 4 . by a public lobby, which i# nothing more than a constituency keepimy || fine palicies of municipal government. One was taking | you rivk your life to get on or off * clone watch upon its representative's acts and keeping him advised as to the citizens into the confidence of public officials, The| JOHN WEIMAR, Mercer Island : ; what the home folks want him to do The way everybody rusher about | ether was businesslike management leithout watehing thelr step The 1920 figures are in, The city’s debt (from old form|” yins. wo om. ADAMS, 182% B : rs 5 ss of government), $207,000, was paid. And there was & SUT-|Pine st: Street car tures! In the Editor s Mail pius of $40,588.46 with which to begin thé new/year! Not |bad, eh? This was done with the lowest tax rate of any 1 asse t A PLEA FOR F ING Living nine miles out, he had !American city. Still better, eh? The tax rate was $1, of The Ambassador . HUNGRY BIRDS ? is el as winter rane sake which 30 cents went to schools, 20 cents to a sinking fund, ay, 1 > Editor The Star: 1 write to thank | birds and he took genuine delight in k ‘ rom Nowhere ling S soit. bexieale land only 50 cents for general municipal purposes. How did you for your linea in the lasue of (ting that mone went hungry. 1 > 1 ; d | gave a copy of The Star to a small they do it The commission explains Tuesday, January 11, concerning the | fay Prrtore tim to take it to sama TODAY'S BEST BET “By strict adherence to the policy of making the public ny Lope _— ER ' necessity of feeding small birds and/and ask his teacher's co-operation, This cokyum will go dry unless|/dollar go just as far as the skillfully managed private dol- “ Waahtaas ah Poe is _ Baril | pigeons during the inclement weath.|Today he reported that he had done Dmore folks «ot their literary moon-|Jars, Every unnecessary expenditure was eliminated, and | janamouert can contin to pay ler, Hunger alone i# bad enough, It|0 and that she had promised to in : lin worne alf.| terest all the pupils in her room, Ghine plants working pba cite ain » city was ne ore , * cae: snail Preeti lin w when combined with half. | pup! h aera jevery resource of the city was placed where it would dOjrent on the huge marble mana frozen bodies and plumage ruffied in| Several cities have an annual the most good. Expenditures for fire protection, for the sage valled the Russian embassy, unprotected gituations by the cold |Chrigtmas tree for the birds, usually . q . , ety for on 16th st a ceremonious affair in each of the hdy Vest. Pocket Alibie protection of public health and gafety and for education Ts i i ae | ry driving winds*we have had all week.|4@ ceremonious affair a ~ hag ste to Work es ~e hah w ae increased generously while appropriations a sows here Gaine to America “*) If you had a son of 15 or a daughter of 13 who wanted to| Many people, when their attention in| parks, and I wondered if Seattle had . | ees e ; ambassador of the Kerefiaky govern-| | ‘ ia . called to the plight of h ; formed this habit, In any case, Raitor H I wufferea an va-|yor things not so essential were held down to the minimum. | ment. He tater tried to hold himaeit | ¢t aggre and settle down, would you use a paddle, or givejcalied wo the cee ncae, “On T gusm | everyotie could the on bite of Set am oy, 2 A The test applied to every appropriation was this: Is this | out to the world as representing the | YOU blessing? Well, George Burch's father did both!) > “meneeae Deane . ‘ 3 1 A * |womebody will feed them!” apples, with scattering of seed, to the @ reach the office on time. /investment absolutely necessary to the proper functioning oe he st. eae enikin, | George is shown here with his 13-year-old bride. They were) ney don't know this. Oftener|tTee in their own yard, or having no stored my mouth paintully lof the government? If the proposal could not stand this| With tne. dixappearar married in Kansas City, Mo. They had been childhood sweet-| than not the “somebody else’ thinks |t®#®, Place it on # window ledge or fT) to relieve the i ; ” hearts in Sheffie . “8 ’ is the same thing an fe the tables | 200r sill Quite rot couree | test it was not made. these reactionary tnibaris earts in Sheffield, Mo., for four years. When a. flection same thing a3 erie ee abies | “or i only the ones whe ‘bare *, Bo was jt tardine: FY a ", itw ° ah et be m ” am anador | p ie a J ifi . i. 1 y ES tad circem =, tut tardiness! “The test is suggested to Mayor Caldwell, the city council, | Bahkmetioft has become amtmsad applied for a license the parents avere notified. 08 | eat, birds freeze to death in the |DUNEry who can really know how the - quale. i {Superintendent Henderson, and other municipal employes. from nowhere. He Kya a large fund) when George got the paddling. But the, paddling didn’t) trees, cuitied by hunger ax well ax|"Ungry feel. And God pity the one : ir - mally » the Shite | 0 Bis Sencuae SS ey Morgan bank. | change George's mind. After three more efforts to get alcoia, and shivering, star kittens | Who craves satisfaction of his own Where is the oldfashioned man|it may help them to more skillfully manage the public) ine nalance of the miliions loaned by | p08 cy , GC. lene @hew chet ek tens | eed yet will not share even a crumb who yammered: “The jitney must|dollars contributed by the taxpayers and street car riders |the United States duriog the war to | (C786, upid won out, and the parents relented. George\sn4 fora crust they wo seldoie get, {With his more helpless and hungrier F F “lot & F ‘ the Kerenaky government, ana pre | Clerks in a grocery store in Sheffield. Mee ate eee cae aitk” neq tenteael tik ? tof Seattle. , u I sell The Star and with every | | Here's another cor pution to that ‘ ; sal sumably it fefrom thie United States paper I wold 1 made it @ point.to - M. CLA! money (tha wm POUINE 5 “er eall attention to that first page para- | * ui Billion Dollars for Roads °° yp 'oe JUDGE HENRY NEIL craph Mont prsors Wome’ fore| NOTHING DONA member it. One man told me that! «1 told you to go to the music deal- eee . S last year during a cold hi ’ 3 OT every time can you kill two birds with one stone. | She's Young at 87 Writes for The attle Star Today on bought 60 waite of seed oe) bad | and get me “The Lost Chord.’ ” ¢ é ¢ : ~ That “stormy petrel” of the labor 60 giv him, a ht 120 at on “The dealer couldn't find it, my A Washington woman would tax And now there is need to kill two birds, and stones) oo ustorner Jones.” who. vialted MOTHERS’ COST, VS. POLICE 1 Aen apd pe con 33 a Gen Leakey ema aN the bachelors. That bachelor te) are scarce. Washington recently, ts 87 vere — - ~ P Bounds good to us. And we suggest) The “birds” are bad roads and unemployment. She has been jail nearty as| r Bist when the tax is collected the) “One billion dollars has been made available for road |many times as a Russian revolutien:| BY JUDGE HENRY NEIL ided a 3 a , ride eo ¢ he powe: na * i Deen” Uvited among us married) ork in 1921,” says the American Road Builders’ associa-|¥* Under the cont. ne powers tnit Father of the Mothers’ Pension Movement in America One of Seattle’s L. M. CLARKE. be have now stopped putting her in ode ag jtion, which has called a national gathering of good roads} ju In fact, she seems now to have R ENTLY two little boys were! The proper primary business of a To the first person giving Home| advocates to be held in Chicago early in February. a sort of charmed life. cked up by policemen at near | policeman is to wee that every hun Oldest Established } She goes and comes when and|ly midnight. wandering in the streets |gry* child has food and a mother's ytd + ge dap one 1a explanation! ‘The association is composed of government, state, county “ where she will, when others would|of Chicago; they were taken to their care, so that It will not steal. | " | ts about, Home Fre int 1 yo/and city highv officials, as well as engineers, contrac-| ip ested or whot down home. where the policemen found| When more money in spent for Dental Offices Gompiete roundtrip rides FREE in|tors, road users and manufacturers of road buildidng ma-! ge nas the entry in all govern-|their mother had Just returned from |motherw’ pensions the taxes to pay Shy elevator in the Alaska bulldmg.|chmery and materials. The Chigago meeting is to tackle t offices. She can me the secre-|her work. scrubbing in a downtown | policemen will decrease { , | the road problem from many ang?ts, including: tary ¢ attorney general jotticg building, and was just begin-| Bt coste the taxpayers lees to hire Specializing in High,Class I id thods in road building and maintenance their heels fr |ning her own washing for a family | Mothers to care for children than it Pla verenr } mproved methods Da and 3 ena e, r And when she seos|ot five does to bire p men. Why not Cr te ai ANSWERED the need for better highways as railroad feeders, road | hen eo y hear nome-| An adequate mothers’ pension |hire the mothers? rte nd By Mr. Cyathin Grey bonds, powers and duties of highway officials and the use| th r * pretty |would have enabled this mother to eithacceteenher’ weet ridgework ; % md ie undity stay at home all the time; the re-| my ’ of conviet labor on the roads. Types and foundations of by any complimentary pi sponsibility of rearing five children Is there ever any labor trouble |». ' a pry, li F d 1, “ : rs 4 roads, materials,’ machine limitation and regulation Of) o purtering introduetior is alt that one woman should be ox P; ee eereet C.D. I traffic, financing local contractors, the use of trucks, trac-| she tells officials what she thinks | pected to undertake } recious Stones pecial Attention to Out-of-Town Patients Not a gread deal, the we know of a cing 4 4 ~ (@umber who went out on three| tors and trailers, all these matters will come up for dis-|of them and she telis them what the} Cook county, Ilinots, will pay this and Jewelry Btrikes tn one game last summer. | cussion conditions are where the labor war/| year nearly half a million dollars tn Bt According to officers of the association, $540,800,000 has|" pence che gets real old, Mother toe to the police, sth adh oats Unquestioned Quality Modern Methods—High-Class H oe ooyomed i cme he been appropriated for road work in 16 states alone. There} Jones says she intends to write her] The one city of New York will pay | Reliable Prices Dentistry—Low Prices. inse < lis available $160,000,000 thru federal aid, and $276,200,000 | reminiscences. If she does it will/ this year over $40,000,000 for police These we offer you. The time toc! 7 * Ba elses ag. | De a good story. She haw seen real] The 40 states now operating the ae |has been provided thru direct levies by states and counties. | 7" Ty" nad real adventure. This| mothers’ pension system will pay : |During the year it is probable that more money will be pte x | " - aaa ° e ’ Are there many mineral springs In| ©". , . > seems to have kept her young, as| nearly $15,000,000 this year to moth tr |" the state of Washington?" i available for road work in the year. The total will be well | tne §7 years have left no more traces | ers for caring for thelr own children. | Jeweler | ec ie] ain ess entis © Yer: a great many. There are a/over a billion dollars. bgeticctstinn werh Beit acte aiiet repeat ho te preveot bunary “1010 Second Avenue | Located for years at 8. E. Cor, Ist & Pike. Phone Main 2555, cong of rersmonga in Seattle that} There is no denying the need for better roads, miles and LIBERAL lanmiaen “tepee Pandan ns _— ee Imiles of them, in every state. Not since before the war| Pastor-—Thia morning 1 witli have | —— . aii « Why 's it that a man who digs|has there been a time when as many thousands of unem-|fer my topic “The Great Flood in 5 wells can never save any money?—| ployed workers were available for road work. A billion | (yr tper of Come \ GSA ~ ie » rill “kill” : les of bad d rominen ember Congregn B » ; z dollars, to begin with, will “kill” many miles of bad roads, | tion (arisingy—I've got an engage the sgl e is in the hole most of 44 many thousands of unemployment cases. It does both | ment to piay golf, #0 I can't stay, but A et lat the same time T'li head the subscription list with 3 : ; 181.000 to relieve the suffering Gene led But the underlying thought, and the highest geal, at negpie, a td a Xe cnet CANNOT | that congress, should not be providing employment for)" - : , ~ | workers, or a et for materials; it should be GOOD} ECONOMY What part of the ocean Is asleep it! * —) 45 meat | 1 am tempted to t the landlord What part right back of a ship is ajroads where they are needed MOST. Good roads are only| wat 1 think of thie rent ralne wake?—F. HS |GOOD roads if they are built to bear a traffic of many Don't do ft, Charlie, dear,* pro-| What kind of buttons docs i gg |years. Also they must be built efficiently, which is to| tested young Mra. Torkins, “It's bad in wear ii andcutts?—C. J. 3 : , Pr bg | rive thf har od | a. ped cahaabe ce ts | Ss without mixing either labor or materials with graft. | *°u«> to give him your hard-earned | pound or the peck?—J. H. A This latter is a topic the congress may well include in its| Tiendid i oesa oot im “Wash | UITS ] Did the naval airmen make their | discussions. prowwegd on sale , Mush from Moose Factory om corn = be apetinntiianie e for as little as- meal?—B. L. W. In the sensational] Stock-Reduction Sale Red ants will not eat hard coal nl i ieilik-of tenis to can brocen distinction is one of our cherished American institu-| now In progress here. Our entire stock corn, as it loses its flavor in @ few| tions, He is a national product that makes us justly proud) of high-grade cloth is reduced one- days. tof America and yet he occurs only in the ratio of six to a ; third. Never try to open a soft-boiled egg illi i SES coxopener million of population. ‘A Tacoma inventor has obtamed a| | TO one of him there are 978 men who have gained dis-| Patent on a rubber collar that can be| tinction with the aid of college educations, according to NEW AUTHORIZED PRICES Washed and ironed ‘ | figures compiled by an investigator. r A wooden dishpan will not rust. | ‘This investigator found that without schooling only 31 AND SOME WASTE IT ON THE OUt of 5 millions attained distinction. 0 D ARMY BLANKETS DESERT AIR | With elementary schooling only 808 out of 33,000,000 Prairie Rose: phone 07. With high school education 1,245 out of two millions at-| é —weqegliad tears o tained distinction. a one AY ALL-WOOL Berlin police have been ordered With coJege education 5,768 out of one million attained “ to wear monocies. A monocle | distinction. 4 es seem | Sr compel Sentbeiaet ts Seek oe | While such exemplars as Lincoln are inspiring to our| i Ms scopes? national pride, the boy who, like Lincoln, is without any dead nedver ude dal ors a eee Free Examination A eee |echooling whatever is a long shot of 978 to 1 in the race guest at » house of Arthur M.| fo» ¢, ; ‘ . for fame against a college boy " Cavenaugh, M. P., who hont ° : oO . arms or legs, was aby thoanded 1, And even one with a high school education has about one BEST 2.5 GLASSES Corner Second and Marion Knowing how he fed himself; but| chance to win fame against nine for a person with a college on Earth the conversation and manner of the | degree. , t e host was so ch © are one of the few optical ming that the vie a i rs 2 a etine are 7 rincipe | store t Northwest that rea i dernet to antisty hie cutieits ff to win fame or distinction were the principal aim of |*' a" frei Slat a Soke existence, then the figures would be discouraging. But the « © in (i " gi . Philip of Leiahtolss after heari s\thare pad) Sank multitudes Eh onlpve “SGRIMIO aatioc! bad TTR ON FIs AVENCE: ‘Says Ordinary Buttermilk Best to 12-POUND CAN Examination f graduate op the report of Demosthenes’ famous| high school education who, whife never attaining distinc-|tometris«t Glas Oration, sai Had | been there he| 4: ‘ . ote j s. livi + "| Unions absolutely necessary. ee] sa ” MTA CE isutuaded the to th tion, are comfortable citizens, living righteous lives, pay-|\" by Hocesepry R move T ll T I T f A ie Geiss aeninet ene take) ing their debts and bringing up their children to good BINYON OPTICAL CO. Ce e a e races 0 ge, ; a . My horse shed last May. When) Rit my weed seg! ce. 8. | The Fame Handicap | MR. GREY'S HOUSEMOLD HINTS HE self-made man without schooling who attains great} *\citizenship. And these accomplishments are about as much 1166 FIROT AVENUB NEXT! las should be expected of any citizen. Eien Main i380" Wrinkles, Furrows and Crow’s Feet The backbone of a nation are not the famous citizens, | ~ but the average fellows. | le nei ARMY WORSTED ,, i || THE CHIEF NUT ot : Cc | | | | When a woman orts to a certain age, she starts to re-vamp. and . Thi od : ese goods, together with a large number Provably Harding sill choose eome party wheel horses to hitch to hel] HAZEN J. TITUS “Veok Yearm Younger. of other government articles, are rapidly being cab-inet | “ are good advertiners, ‘Thoy nay af\ application of Rut exhausted, and when these lines are out they Hughes, Hill, Hoover, Harvey and Hays have been suggested ay an|| ot With a few words nd Cream to whit WE. deroatp con dps Erde ak pect ithe iim and remo cannot be replaced. Buy early and get them or DOUGHNUTS to brag t before they are gone. | An apple a day (in the form of hard cider) keeps the doctor (and nisl about, but prescription blanks) away. | we are THE a g to ¢@1 m i com- ros . 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