The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 14, 1921, Page 6

Seattle Star By mat, ont of etty, Oe per ewes 4 onthe $1.68; ¢ months 62.75: year, $8.00. In the Beate of Washinton Ouiaide of the stata Hte per month, $450 for & montha of 88.00 por Fear, My carrier, city, Ite per week Ruterprive — Amoctation Bed United Frees Bervios Pedlished Dalty dy The Star Puntish- tag Ca Phone Main 600, ‘Why do more brunets than Nondes @isappear? asks our contemporary, ‘The Star. answers: . 1. Because, 2 Do they? & Blondine must cost less than shoe biacking. 4 For the same reason that more Collar buttons disappear than mus- tachea, eee Ordinary individual have 204 ‘ones; crap shooters have 206, eee | Fourteen “taxpayers” started a Suit; one dropped out. Five lawyers Started the case, Five lawyers are sti at it The pol tax makes as big a hit as ‘the deuce of clubs In a heart flush. eee Mayor Caldwell designated March Pas fish day. That was one day aft r the election. Any connection? eee Fritst Scheff ts divorced for the third time. Sometimes the Sche* ts Rot much of a cook. see “Is this the hosiery department?” ‘#ald the voice over the phone. “Yes,” replied the weary sales ‘woman. you any flesh-colored stock- im stock?” asked the voice. es.” replied the weary mies “Whatdy ya want—pink, ye! er blackT’-Cincimnati En- aay. low “Bil talks too much about him- seit.” “He claims that that is the way fo make other people talk about “Yea, bat they won't say the game things that yo° do.”—Boston pt. | yA Home Brew sv! mits the fotlowing|im a big limousine and has a great, beautiful home | How differently those daughters feel toward their moth- jer than they would if they were being constantly reminded | Just What the Poll Tax Means in Thou- sands of Washington Homes THERE'S a young man working in a sawmill. He is | married and has two small children. He is tak- ing care of his wife's invalid sister and her mother. $3.60 a day. It isn’t necessary to describe this man’s difficulties in making $3.60 a day pay for his ordinary living bills. Figure it out for yourself. But he is facing still more serious trouble. There is a chance that he will be laid off soon. | | And even that isn’t all. | The Washington legislature has passed a bill to make him pay another $20 into the state treasury. | Tho he owns no home, his rent payments to his ab- sentee landlord cover the taxes many times on his lit- tle shack. Now the poll tax will make him pay an extra $5 for | himself and $5 for his wife, $5 for his invalid sister- | in-law and $5 for her mother. The poll tax will col- |lect a month’s rent from him. Now, what do you think is the feeling of this hard- | working, struggling young man when he ponders over | the fact that his landlord will pay no poll tax, because | he lives outside the state; that his employer, who rides and many servants, will pay but $5 or $10 poll tax? Is it possible to invent a burden more unjust, more contemptibly cruel than the poll tax? A tax more i Contemptible Injustice! | | Recently his employer cut this young fellow’s pay to} dangerous, more certain to breed disloyal thoughts and disrespect for government? * Gov. Hart will never regret it if he vetoes the bill! And in the meantime, the movement looking to- ward the referendum on this measure should go |right on. | Seattle Can Handle Its Own Business! Loge te pd LANDON AND HASTINGS deserve the »J thanks of Seattle residents for filibustering to dgath House Bill 162. The bill itself may or may not have been meritorious. Its | object was to impose upon Seattle a certain form of peor | system. If Seattle wants this system, it has ample means to provide it without an act of the legislature. Why should “cow county” members, who haven't the slightest interest in Seattle, and often delight in, kicking it around, tell this city what it should and should not have in purely local mat- ters? House Bill 162 applied only to Seattle. It did not apply to all cities. It did not impose the budget system on counties. "t did not impose a budget system on state offices. If it is| a good thing, why should the legislature, composed of mem-| bers from all over the state, apply it only to Seattle? If it) is a good thing, Seattle is empowered by its charter to pro- vide it without any sanction By the legislature. A fine spectacle, indeed, for the legislature to say in sub- stance: “We don’t need this budget system for state of. fices, we don’t need it for county offices, we jon’t need it in any other city except Seattle.” What do these legislators know about Seattle’s require ments? Why, even in the King nore sf delegation, there are only two or three who could possibly get elected to a city office. The rest of them wouldn’t have a ghost of a chance in a city-wide election. Whatever may be said of our city officials, they, at least, were elected by the city at large. They don’t represent mere portions of the city. Taken as a whole our city councilmen average pretty high alongside our legislators. Seattle has been the sport of the legislature for a long time. This city hasn’t even the representation in the legis- lature due its population. | Once and for all, it should be made clear that Seattle is as jcapable of handling its own business as the legislature is of | handling its business. It can have the budget system out- lined in House Bill 162 any time it wants—and any other budget system it wants. And the chances are that Seattle |right gow is running its affairs on a more businesslike plan than @ther county or state government. |“(HILDREN NEVER PAY for their raising!” (SETH TANNER] Paid Up to Date Who has not heard this unkind remark from the lips of those who ought to know better; from parents them- selves! But, fortunately, not all parents think that way. We know a little woman with two daughters. All day long, day after day, she stands behind the counter of a de- partment store earning a living for herself and her girls, whom she insists on keeping in school. And this is what she says: “When I come home at night so tired I can hardly stand and find our little home clean and neat and a good hot din- ner on the table, and when my girls welcome me home with a kiss, I feel that they are paid up to date.” that everything they could possibly do was only paying a lit- tle on an overwhelming debt, which very thought takes away much of the joy and spontaneity of service. If we make our children feel that they are paid up to jdate, the chances are that they will respond with a gen- erosity that will surprise us. Daylight saving would be easy if one could tack on at the end what one doean't want in the early morning 0.) eerie The fly you moat now will not have a million descendants in July. BY DR. WILLIAM E. BARTON ® Robert Frost, in one of his recent poems, moralizes ; OF jostling rock in interstellar space, ym a stone which he found in a New England stone wall, which stone ap-| “It went for bullding-stone, and I, as tho ‘ peared to him to have | Commanded in a dream, forever go been of meteoric origin. | To right the wrong that this should have been so. It had fallen, white hot, |. in the field of some| “Yet ask where else it could have gone so well, New England farmer, | 140 not know-—I cannot atop to tell in his own day or long | He might have left it lying where it fell.” before, and the farmer | 15 might have left It there; but he needed the pofl id not need it there,| tirewine he needed the fen fis . a © ni n ne oe 16 meteoyic stone and did need it in his) went trom where it was worse than uscless to whe: stone wall. 1G aavae & ve - D where served a purpose, “He noticed. nothing in And yet it might have served some worthier use. 1| it to remark have a fine old Indian mortar which a farmer found| He was not used to| im the Kentucky mountains. He was heating stones | handling stars thrown | ‘© drop in a barrel to scald hogs, and he heated this dark stone and dropped it into the water, and tt broke And lifeless thro an in He could have obtained another stone by walking terrupted are. another yard in almost any direction, but he did not - care to exert himself to that extent. “Fie moved it roughly So perished the finished product of a skill th {ith an iron bar: wan's toil, preserved for centuries a it He loaded an old stone meant nothing to the finder. os boat with the star marble of Rome in her glory go to feed the lime ind not, as you might think, a flying car kilns of the conquering barbarians Life has in it much need of discovering, not onty| ‘He dragged it thru the plowed ground at a pce the fallen stars that besprinkle our corn-fields, but but faintly repainiecent of the race the uses of them after we have found them \THE SEATTLE STAR sd don" him.” | AS OTHERS SEE THE WORLD | Reporter. |i nee nixon, aie Editorials and Comments Reprinted From Various Newspapers | , 7th at: “Ob yot, yot, yol, yol, voi.” | S & WENATCHEE 18 SEATTLIS OWN (From the Seattle Seattle must not regard the ste: steamer Inauguraging a new service between Seattle and the Far Kast.” FRANK PYLE, 911 W. 69th at The Wenatehee means more than that! ike wan @ Recetas. 5 Gate edinen She is a boat owned solely by the American people, You are a share. TODAY'S QUESTION | ber any of them” holder, I am a #hareholder; all we who pay taxes are shareholders! Her Who was Alton B. Parker's run | (Henry G. Davis ts correct) succews on the Oriental route is our succes! | ning mate in 19047 - How are we going to tr when # teams into Pu Atlantic Coast? Will we a Fur Bast without our supy first and keep it up? Wl we travel on our own steamer? ltt t* with these thin How about it? San Francisco is awake to the possibilities of the new shipping board | Heattie can’t afford to freight passenger service between Pacific Coast porta and the Ortent.| This port has ite best opp Business men of the Golden take a large trade junket to the ar Mast on one of these new palatial! other side of the Pacific with Seattle's unexcelled harbor and harbor facil liners next summer. Thin trade delegation, consisting of experts in vari | ities, Delay epellx failure! ous tines of business, will make an extensive tour of all the Far Hastern The Seattle Chamber of Commerce and Commercial Chub, Pacific ports, making trade conneetions and establishing closer relationship be | Steamehip Company and other Puget Bound commercial and civic bodies, tween the two countries, The mere fact that the Junket wil make the | secured the five «hipping board liners for this port with great difficulty. ipping board's 635 signifies what prominenes | Other Pacific Coast porta were after the mame carriers, and the allocation hed to the bedy, San Francisco knows that /of them for service between Puget Sound and the Far Hast in con much new business will result from this venture. sidered & triumph for Beattie. And now we must sustain that victory by Portland, Tacoma and Wenatchee are also alive to tmportance of send-| giving the liners our undivided wupport! } ing business men to the Orient, Uner Wenatches for trade Gelegations. Hach of thene cities will send «| we will have none to blame but ourselves, At the present time about body of from ten te twenty-five persone to the Mar Kast, when the | #0 per cent of the parnenger traffic moving to the Far Hast thru Van Wenatchee leaves from Seattle for Oriental points April 9. couver, i. C., our nearest competitor, originates in the United States | What should Seattle do in this respect? What is she doting now tn) If every American will give his support a great deal of this business will the way of preparing for @ trade junket? Will she allow Portiand,| come to Seattle. The shipping board liners must have our co-operation Tacoma and San Francisco to take the lead in the race for trade euprem The Pacific Steamship Company, the Admiral Line, will operate the trip aboard one of the and importance will be acy on the Pacific Coast? Repeatediy it has been announced from coast to coast in America, by | to handle veswele efficiently in the coastwine trade, and there is no doubt leading bankers, commercial experts, government officigle and foreign |that the traveler aboard the 63 agents, that before the United States can succesfully pete with other|on any transpacific passenger v nations in the Far East, Americans will have to respect the custom” of | It must hy ¥. P. DUIGNAN, 1406 Summit | ave.: “I can't think of him just now.” ournal of Commeree) MRS. 1. P. MILLER, 614 Pontius | pahip Wenatchee merely as “another ave.: “You can search me.” at her? What: Tesuption Wil We give Ber ANSWERS | Queen Kiizabeth, mys history, in Sound on her maiden voyage from the) war, L. MAMAGE, 154% W. Bist! troduced high hee D. her to steam « from Heattle for the — ; ietuiseeoenpenenalel Hane on . Will we pledge our support from the | tne Orientals, learn of their business methe 6 gain Fr confidence in mind that San into, Portiand, Taco ig their mowt influential men to the Far Kast 4 back when her competitors are forging ahead nity right now to invade the Orient with a Gate city already have plans under way to| trade junket, which will acquaint the importers and exporters on the nd Wenatchee are w have made reservations aboard the) Should our own stearmers suffer from Iack of busines: In the future. five boats between Beattie and the Orient. It han demonstrated its ability will have every convenience offered | |. The Admiral Line is our agent. | © our confidence and support! fit is included, rades was 28 production, Revival of Lumber Industry Greatest Single Factor In Restoring Prosperity Lumber manufactured and shipped, with present freight rates limiting distribution, vesults in @ loss of approximately two and one-half times the value cf our standing timber, Each tree cut should return to the state and community @ profit in adequate wages and sup~ ply purchase distribution. Any increase in former freight rate handicap, will make impossible the prosperity that every direct and indirect interest, including the railroads, has a right to expect from the lum- ber industry. This is your problem, Mr. Reader, as well as that of the lumberman, orthwest’s “Meal Ticket” t. received. This shows the direct inter- est of the grocer, butcher, dai: an, EW realize what the lumber industry means fo the 4100” in Lumber Western part of Oregon and Washington—how it contributes to the living of literally hundreds of thou: sands of people—how vitally its prosperity or depression influences all from the smallest to the greatest; worker, banker, merchant, manufacturer. Small exaggeration if we call it the “‘meal-ticket” of this Northwest. Sixty per cent of the payroll of Oregon and Wash- ington west of the Cascades is received from the lumber industry. In 1520 it brought in from other sections 200 million dollars in nice new money, and d direct to labor 110 million dollars—nine million do! each month for distribution through trade channels. Lumber and allied industries employ ordinarily an army of 90,000 men in this district. With their families “and dependents (five in a family) there are close to half a million people whose bread and butter come direct] from lumber, a city larger than Seattle or Portlan The product fills 200,000 freight cars with six billion board feet. A four-foot wide rd sidewalk from the earth to the moon do the humming saws cut in a twelvemonth. Investment in the lumber “industry is around $400,000,000. ceapaining, SALAS meet cover, exw Yet this great industry is from 2,000 to 3,500 miles supervision, depreciation, etc. N. from the large consuming lumber market. Excessive freight rates can strangle it to death, throw tens of ow gost thousands of men out of work and cause the entire Northwest to suffer. Rates that give us the former re- lationship in long established Eastern markets can go far toward restoring the industry to prosperity. Lumbermen are fighting for these rates. We cannot operate mills if we cannot sell our product, nor can railroads pay their expenses without freight. The final answer of the railroads to our insistence upon adequate relief is filled with meaning for every man, woman and child of this lumber producing region. ., _,The railroads have recently announced certain re- ductions in rates which do not equal the reductions the Authority: University lumbermen know to be imperative. To some the dif- of Washington ference may seem trivial, yet based on the volume of School of Business 41919 shipments it would amount to one and a half Administration million dollars per year. LaGor’s distribution of each $100 The lumber industry by these open letters has had but one Purpose; namely, to arouse every constituent porte raph race medi eget Hisar part of the citizenship of the Northwest to the common tp metin gt Votre ele pO danger confronting us, to the end that, fortified with such roll in Oregon and Washington ap- fundamenal facts, a unanimity of though and action proximated 110 million dollars, Fifty ° per_cent. of this payroll _has been cut will result. pression affecting every merchant in the Pacific North cravmecetce: . West Coast Lumbermen’s Assocation Seattle Tacoma Portland New York Load a year's forest products of Western Oregon and Washington upon @ train headed for the Atlantic seaboard, and the engine would be over 1,875 miles upon its way—entering St. Paul—be/fore the tail-end left the Coast. MONDAY, MARCH 14 CHAS. SCHWARTZ ts etrint and yee Vienmined and GUARANTY BANK AND TRUST CO. ON SAVINGS . WACHTIN, Mer. Foreign Dept. 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