The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 7, 1921, Page 6

MONDAY, MA Ga) ml THE SEATTLE STAR - | | NEW YORK’S WATCHING US A. Lesson From Seattle in the State of Washington operates city-owned trolleys. | . ¥. D. CLEAVES, 8641 424 8: “You tried a fare rate of ton conte | orscime tay, yout fai Or with four rides for a quarter. | jisrding is the real article.” *~ - | OTTO SEIFRIC, 5917 17th ave. & a H . | onze’ nt, don’t you think? He's |At the first chin! Take. Genuine Aspirin marked with last month raised the ticket ler wghtynd poy ant presidents |“ Bayer Cross’’ to break up your Cold and relieve the Hea the rate to three for a quarter. | {he country ever bad” Fever, Stuffiness. — he 2 | RAY C. DUMETT, 1122 16th ave Warning! To get Bis Asal srascnies br tes t ing trou i ite | “Well, Mardi nd 1 get alo a) ni Gen Spinin , t YY Dhysicias SEA I I I E bed vil t th ble meeting its \right. 1 think he's 8 gintir boot fel lover 19 years, you must ask for ‘Bayer Tablets of Aspirin,” a , 5 payroll a © present rates. jiow, mynoit.” . look for the name ‘‘Bayer’’ on the package and on each tabla, FRED DORE, 1903 Smith bide: Always say ‘‘Bayer.”’ “He mart be O. K., all right. He was & newspaper man, I believe, for quite Each ‘‘Bayer package’’ contains safe and proper directions (q the relief of Colds—also for Headache, Neuralgia, Toothacts, Seattle Bein Watched! The Let’s Be Careful ~ We Let Them Seattle | Say About Us in the East | THE EYES OF THE NATION are on Seattle today. | The friends and the enemies of public owner- ship are watching our street car system—the friends are fearful and the enemies jubilant over the valent | lies with which it is being attacked. | SEA i I The eyes of investors also are on Seattle. Investors | nt to know if this is a city that buys public utilities, | then refuses to pay for them. Investors want to know | SEATTLE if this is a city that repudiates its bonds. | trey SEATTLE TODAY'S QUESTION What do you think of Harding as a president by this time? $8.00 in the State of Washington ANSWEKS ie Of the state, Se per manth, | The eyes of rival cities also are on Seattle. have made great capital out of the silly ravings of our | | prophets of disaster, out of the talk of repudiation, | and out of the alleged but non-existent failure of our municipal railway. ae Z “a a } street |JN THE COLUMN AT THE RIGHT you see just SEATTLE tent cctntty vid er |+ one indication of the manner in which Seattle is due to economic and not local | being watched. conditions. That is a placard that appears today in the subways | ; nines he took his seat than I've felt ae . . . [Public Service Railway Company. | for the last eight arn.” of New York, where the operating company is seeking! 7,,, ;. 4 reproduction of a large placard that appears in| — 'o a of irin an 8-cent fare and is using the case of the Seattle mu-| 4, New York subways, whose owning corporation is fight-| WOODBURN. Or—Shot thra the | head, but with mone and valuables Benes of 12—Bottles of 24— Bottles of 100—A!so Capsules—Al! druggios nome time.” “AL STEWART, 126 24th ave: “I FR a ‘ae rey Bio e rae Earache, Rheumatism, Lumbago, Neuritis and for Pain . nicipal railway in an endeavor to prove that nothing | iny for an s-cont fare. The pla re wd we sent by George Seseeak, Waly OF Eimae 3” Vases) “A WORD FROM JOSH WISE | less will pay. Hastings, an ex to his , Cy Hastings, 1512) garage proprietor, found in ditch | kn tes sabia Wale td Daven tts ane ie “\"nus Ss man ihtne || In Seattle we know that our car lines DO PAY on | Boylston ave. sear Garvan. here ture _siuipped with» sit || an 8 1-3c fare, and we believe that they would have *| paid had the 6 1-4c fare been retained, and we think Theotore Roosevelt has been se lected for axsintant secretary of the navy. He ought to make a good one. He lived for quite a while near the ocean. eee All the News From Hicksville HICKSVILLE, March 1.—Wash ington’s birthday was appropriately celebrated in the school house with a varied program of music by the Hicksville silver cornet band, songs and recitations, The feature of the band music was a saxophone soto by Xenophen Moon and a cymbal solo by Mace McMartin. Dan Shriner, justice of the peace, recited from memory Washington's farewell ad dress instead of reading It as is gen erally done, and did not make # single mistake or have to be prompted once. eee An account of the changing of the name of the American house to Ogden inn is published in a promin ent paper printed in New York and devoted to the interest of the hotel | business The change has attracted much attention in metropolitan hotel circles. eee Levi Fittmore, the binckem!th, has ordered vulcanizing apparatus so that rubber tires can be vulcanized in Hick@ville, so that it will be un necessary to send to the city to have the same done. one The more daylight question is being debated right along. with most of the talk decidedly aguinst ft. A number of persons say that if they have to work under the more day tight law they will turn their clocks ahead an hour but begin work an hour later. That is, instead of going to work at 7 as they now do, they will begin at 8; and they quit at 6 instead of 5. It is generally re- garded in Hicksville that the more daylight scheme is only a manifes tation of the eternal conflict going on between the cities and the coun- try. eee ‘The section hand who was laid off by the raifroad two months ago has been put back to work. Merchants also report a revival in trade, and it is believed the turn has come and baa are moving for the better. eee More News From Hicksville Mr. and Mra. C. Wickliffe Yulee with Mr. and Mrs. Herbert C. Pell spent sev- eral hours on the sun porch yesterday White Sulphur Springs, Va. correspond- ence, New York (N. Y.) Times. eee ‘Ten thousand men and women, says a Chicago man, have taken up 4s a profession in that city. fei, they picked a good location. A Cleveland woman has sued for Sivoree, alleging that her husband neglects to shave. We shall be as tonished if his defense is not that his wife sharpens lead pencils and cuts things with his razor. lon Department, U. 8. tle Health Service, Washington, D. C. Q Is there any way to cure cancer of the mouth? Can you advise any tnetitu- tion which Is treating cancer, or any re- Mabie doctor anywhere in this country? aN A. Cancer In the mouth can some times be removed entirely by means of a surgical operation. In recent years these cancers have also been treated by means of radium, tho I believe that the results have not betn uniformly good. I would urge you to dincuss the matter with your fam. Qty physician and have him refer you @& some first class surgeon. HURRY THOSE BONUS PAYMENTS Editor The Star: Many ex-service men are out of work and are com pelled to patronize the soup kitchens. Most of them have had their applica. tion in for the bonus a month and nothing more is heard. 1 believe your newspaper can do a real service if you will wake up the state auditor or at least learn the cause of the delay. Many of the business honses in Seattle are compl no business. T will quickly find its way to the mer. chant and it will do more than any thing else to tide us over this! period o Yours very truty, H. E, RHODA, An Ex-Service Man. ‘\counsel from $4,800 to $6,000. \that with proper management they could pay under a 5-cent fare. | But our mayor’s howlings about the “impossible bargain” and the publicity given them by certain local newspapers have received wide circulation, thanks to ithe public utility monopolists, who have hireling peneetne and newspapers in other cities as well as You may be sure that if the New York subway corporation uses tle as an illustration in its fight |for higher fares, it will also use Seattle as an illus- \tration in its fight to prevent public ip or operation of its system—you may be sure that the |lies about failure and the arguments for repudiation are being circulated wherever there is an interest that wants to keep public utilities out of the hands of the people. * x * LET US TAKE NO CHANCES with our municipal reputation. Let us squelch forever the private monopolists who are trying to make our railway sys- tem fail, and who, to accomplish their ends, have leagued themselves in an Unholy Alliance with the faddists and fanatics who, by their unbusinesslike experimenting, would help to make its failure sure. Seattle cannot afford to be damned in the eyes of the nation as a city which cannot manage its own utilities, as a city which.contemplates repudiation, as a city whose bonds are scraps of paper, as a city so torn by internal strife that it has no civic sanity. The rule-or-ruin crowd must be sat upon, good and hard, or Seattle will spend years in repairing the damage caused by their campaign of wreckage, repudiation and rot. Charter Amendments and Bond Issues HARTER AMENDMENT NO. 1, to take the railway so- perintendent, board of appeals and other non-compen- sated officers, from the civil service. This amendment is rather complicated and it is not quite clear what is sought to be accomplished so far as the railway superintendent is concerned. As for the board of appeals and non-compen- sated officers, it is plain that they should be out of the civil service. The railway superintendent should be out of the civil service if he is the man who occupies the ition of manager and passes on questions of policy as weil as on routine duties. If he is merely a superintendent of railways in the sense that he maps out the car schedules and such like, he should be kept in the civil service. In the belief | that the charter amendment is for the purpose of giving! the city an opportunity to hire a real expert to manage the| city’s traction system, The Star recommends a vote of “Yes” for Charter Amendment 1. Charter amendment No. 2 would take the lid off for park taxation. Taxation limit now is 1 mill for park purposes. This amendment is unsafe. Vote NO. Charter amendment 3 raises the salary of the corporation It would not affect the salary of the present official. Vote YES. Amendment No. 4 would change elections for city offices from March to May. This is intended to give voters a better | chance to register, as in even numbered years the time is| limited now to a few days from January to within 20 days of the election in March. The amendment would extend the) time. Vote YES. Amendment No. 5, making it possible for a civil service | jemploye to take an appointive office, and then retire to his former standing, should be approved. Vote YES. Bond Proposition No. 1, providing $200,000 to improve playfields. Vote YES. Bond Proposition No. 2, providing $750,000 for Montlake! bridge. Vote YES. | ItTl s00n be warm enongh for the woung lady down the strect to worry about the street light illuminating the front porch hammock. Has it ocowrred to congress that the larger the navy the smaller the army expenditures may (and should) be? China still holds her place at the Uttle end of the horn of plenty. AS OTHERS SEE THE WORLD Editorials and Comments Reprinted From Various Newspapers SLOWER SPEED ON ELEVATED (From the Seattle Journal of Commerce) Some day local newspapers will carry headlines covering an “etewated horror” and the city morgue will be taxed to capacity unless the exceus- ive speed maintained by most of the cars using the elevated in the south end industrial section is not checkdd As bas been stated before in these columns, the elevated wax never intended to t the strain that is now being upon it. It was a war emergency proposition and was built to transport men rapidly 0 and from jthe shipyarc At present hundreds of heavily loaded cars a day over this ‘There are some exceptionally bad curves, and excessive speed is mainttained by many of the motormen. The road in elevated sufficiently so that a ear body, tearing loose from its trucks on a sharp curve taken at excessive speed, would result in the death of a large number of people if the car was crowded at the time of the crash ted railroads are a new experiment with us. In certain Eastern’ are The West Seattle cars are also of an obsolete type stend the strain that the big steel cars in use on Eastern elevated railros The management of our street railway department will do well to keep a very watchful eye on any “speed maniacs” on the front end of street |cars using the elevated. The lives of dozens of passengers are endangered whenever @ loaded car swings around the turns of the “shipyard | Cause and Effec IERN PINE DIMENSION (2 #44) Here you see contrasted the relation of mill re- turn to freight charges, January, 1921, on lumber from the West Coast and from Southern Pine dis tricta, delivered in Chicago. The first two lum- ber items represent lower*and less valuable grades, and the third, flooring, one of the upper gradea Upper grades average only 20% of the West Coast products; lower grades, 80%. The returns upon an average carload of West Coast and Southern Pine dimension delivered to Chicago are divided as/ follows: West Coast, total returns, $1,005; freight charges, $600; mill, $405, Southern Pine, total returns, $940; freight charges, $340; mill, $600. + The Cause The nectingnnying phs show how tremendous a factor railroad rates are in delivering West Coast lumber to middle western and eastern markets, and how much less, relatively, is the freight prob- lem for southern shippers. Under the old parity rates western millmen had to ab- sorb around $10 a thousand feet to meet southern competition. It is plain to be seen that a 33 1/3% advance, such as came last August, on a 30-cent rate from the south is relatively a small matter con- trasted with the same increase on a 60- cent rate from this Coast. The Effect Virtual wiping out of two-thirds of the Northwest’s normal market. Unsatisfac- tory and inadequate rate concessions now offered by the railroads (see map above)’ fail to restore the old ‘rate balances with Southern Pine built up during years of competition. ers —. ow, as a youngster, you p “teeter-totter” on a board? These rate parities are a parallel. A pound or two extra on the heavy end of the board will keep the light end in the air. So acent or two per 100 pounds differen- tial against the West is fatal. + _ _ Increased freight rates may not materially affect prices on cloth- ing, silk shirts, etc., but it is a different story with lumber and other low-grade, heavy articles, Yet the rate problem is as great for the railroads as for the lum- ber manufacturers. If the carriers cut West Coast mills off from the markets, they lose their greatest single source of revenue. Approxi- mately 50% of normal eastbound traffic from the Northwest is lumber. _ _ This must not be a fight of the lumbermen against the railroads. It is, or should be, a fight of the railroads themselves, to give the West Coast lumber industry a chance to live. It will restore to the railroads their own life blood. Railroads, too, know that to force the diversion of lumber traffic to the water route means a double loss—loss of the initial revenue and loss of the return cargo as the boats come back from the Atlantic Coast laden with westbound freight. West Coast Lumbermen’s Association Seattle Tacoma Portland New York