The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 30, 1921, Page 6

THE SEATTLE . I) WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 1921. AS OTHERS SEE THE WORLD Editorials and Comments Reprinted From Various Newspapers Advertising the City REMARKABLE the Dallas Journal (From the Toledo Newn-Tee) “It the United. States carries out [UNDER THE ION, “Up in Seattle,” the D First impressions sink deepert and Yast longest ite military and naval program, The first @mpressions that four out of five immigrants to America get other nations will begin to fear ua r} in of the Btatoe of Liberty in New York harbor, The next impression “ ” Journal of March 4 printa the following edi- Germany was feared.” —Jane torial: |te Bilis Inland, | Addamna. ‘The first represents the hope that has brought these immigrants acrorn eee " e oT erlom Speaking of street car farec—and it seems like |the seas, Th geoond represents their first actual contact with Am n| we have heard something on that subject of late— there's the case of Seattle. Seattle owns her own | Institutions ‘ “Keonomic pressure, by capital in ANSWERS | Mills Taland te America’n doorstep. It le characterized by official inet. |th¢ form of @ lockout or by Mbor traction system. But Seattle hasn't paid for it. In fact, there is a little balance of $15,000,000 due. JAMES WILSON, 1683 Melrone|rictency, inhumanity and heartlessnons, by physical filth, hardship, dis |! the form of the strike, has ne And then there's the interest on that. “Walt Ull I get thin chill OUt case and sometirnes--death, | pane in @ ey ag form of gov. 04 ernment - 4. So far the income from fares hasn't met that in- Huggins, premi& f America had deliberately wet out to throttle hope and breed hatr - B fo wrens institutions in the hearts of be newcomers to our shores, ‘26 Judge, Kansas Court of Inagey k Ss terest, to say nothing of the principal or the wages of the men. So the city of Seattle is using tax it would have made Hills Island what tt ts. tein! Relations But America is trying to impress the immigrant that Uncle Bam's MISS D. HENRY, 1622 Union at.:|house i the best in the world and that it wants him to become a useful, money to pay the interest and is paying the street car men with warrants, which a bank discounts at 6 per cent. The worst of it is the grand jury in- “You bet. I just can’t keep from loyal and welcome member of bin hounchoid, | rising early in the morning.” ‘This is the purpose of the Americanization movement, to which many vestigated that $15,000,000 valuation and found that $10,000,000 of it was water. But the city con- 188 lL. BERKLUND, 1212 24 | Individuals and organizations are devoting their labors and their money.) ‘tracted hard and fast to pay it. TODAY'S QUESTION In your opinion has spfing ar- rived? “Ita tate of HILL, EBdamonda spring all the time in the Washington.” = in When the immigrant reaches it what dées he find’? GHORGE FENWICK, 4634 Chlow| wing, ineanitary quarters. New York health authorities charge go ave re latean garden ang Eile Island gives the immigrant more germs than | , ' at my bedding flower garéen in. Filth predominates, Drinking water ja contaminated, There is « that make your own decision.” ave: “You must be pretty callous if} While this movement i# putting Uncle Sam's house in order for the | you are unable to detect it yourself.” |!mmigrant, theegovernment permits its doorstep to belie everything with Perhaps Dallas is not the most unfortunate city in the world, after all. £ Outside of the fact that no part of the | due on Seattle’s railway until March, 19: incipal is when the city should, and no doubt will, be able to pay it; out- | side of the fact that the railway has paid every install- | ment of interest promptly when due; outside the fact ¥ FICTION Once upon a time there was a and his wife who were | (that not a cent of taxpayers’ money went to pay any | part of the purchase price or operating costs of the sys- aitho married. Friend | | tem purchased from the Puget Sound Traction Co. un- d had participated in a | night's work at the Tues: | Evening club, but had | |QOO was taken from the general fund as a loan, | which will be paid back as rapidly as efficient man- |agement of the system can be secured; outside the |fact that labor has received its wages promptly; have dinner at the Bunga: | outside the fact that in order to show a substantial loss way, a bookkeeping charge is made of $672,000 a year as depreciation, while at the same ||time the railway has been spending more than —_——_———* $1,200,000 a year for maintenance, equipment and re- = lacements; outside the fact that the city hasn't in- d seven dollars and aix | to the good, having had the fortune to hold three aces Sgainst three kings So the next day Friend Wife sumgested that How or at the Butler | “Nay, nay,” replied Friend ‘ d. “I don't ike to go the entertainers wear for the finds old vest with $40 tn it| PI | til after Mayor Caldwell came into office, when $83,- and fs complimented for honesty vested a nickel in the enterprise, and therefore is pay- he rushes the find to Seattle ing headquarters. Huh! We unconvinced he'd have done if he had found ured is old pair of pants with something . as profi the hip pocket. ; eee head was bald, his face was grand j 5 per cent interest to bondholders, which, had it until we know made any capital investment of its own, would be rae outside the fact that the railway is ing a clear profit now over and above haere Sees and depreciation charges, and that it will be on a solid | believe. an offer by stone & Web cash basis from now on; outside the fact that the made no investigation of the value of the EY property, but took the prejudiced estimate of ONE un- liver acted quite erratic; he was only ninetyeight, Hiram Ebenezer Grubb, the Young Men's Republican THE CIRCUMSTANCES, ONE WOULD SEEK KEY. D is terrible when he's an- T've seen him fight. He broke ) in jaw with one blow. No man | Grand Aunse would have dared thru a keyhole or climb ladders: ® watch Fred."—From interview during, ‘With “You may not” “expert,” who was hired to make an able report by the mayor’s lawyer-prober; outside the fact that the municipal i proposition than many other city departments and other state and county enterprises, ries, and aviation fields, and golf links, and highway SUFFERING, OR EVEN | construction; outside of these few facts, the Dallas | investment, ow Panes | Journal had a correct picture of the situation here. Sats hs om pay says: ~ Nr ong unfavor- railway is a paying ises, such as county fer- here for political effect, as the nevertheless. tical New Use for Discards uses are being found all the time for material | it my neighbor accepts my offer and ge aes IN which formerly was discarded. ‘The steamship Wenatchee is re) Straw is being distilled to make gas or gasoline. A to, have a bathroom adjoining | Similar use is being made of corn-cobs and sawdust. Stateroom. But the question} And there’s | Egypt. . Hal; out popped And spilled the gal. Poor Louie Hart, ‘The poll tax raker, Peeved Johnny Manning, The undertaker. eee Ty Cobb says it isn't fair for the| to expect too much of | fim this season. We're not expect-| tee much of you, Ty. All we expect| fe One fight a week. eee “1 noticed the other day,” post-| costs. earis E. W. D., “that Wilson G. said, “Erstwhile obtrusiveness highly colored relatively.’ I have always contended that this was #0 but never before have I found any | @uthority for it. Einstein, in his ‘Words on relativity, ignores the point altogether.” eee We found in Uncle Warren's in- @ugural address that he stood for “conciliation, mediation and arbitra tion” and Washington is trying to whether or not he is for “iso ." Here's a chance for the Jingiers. Conciliation is vexation, Mediation is the same— Plebdiscite : to his office. drinks. paper. Wood pulp is the chief material. But paper has been made of many other fibers since first it was manufactured from papyrus, a Nile rush, in ancient A new raw material for paper has been found in sugar cane stalks which have been run thru the mill. sugar cane might be particularly suitable for love letters. Bystem isn't system tf ¢ complicates. Paper from The Jap, by wanting Yap, put it on the Map. “Heads I win, tails you lose.” Liquor apparently ten’t as dry a subject as @ few months ago No man doubts nature until he sows garden seeds that never come up. Maybe Einstein can tell us why the more material in a dress, the leas it The carly bird may get the worm, but it’s the late rier that limousines If everything clee fails, why not send an American book agent to collect the German indemnity? Sclentists says comet may hit the carth, Everything's coming down, but this is too much of a good thing. Young America seems to hawe no right of self-determination when ma wants something at the grocery store. As cost of living drops, the landlord who docen’t cut rents ts in effect raising them, for his dollar steadily buys more. Toledo judge rules seller blameless if nature puts kick in temperance Naughty nature was the orginal brewer and distiller. MAIN STREET MONOTONY BY DR. WILLIAM E. BARTON ‘Mr. Lewis has set the literary critics to discussing his book “Main Street.” Those of us who were born as I was, on Main Street in an town, know there is not sordid and uninviting as he describes it, there is no denying the photographic accuracy of many of his descrip. tions. He says: “Nine-tenths of the American towns are so much alfke that it is the completest boredom to wander from one to another. There is the game lumber yard, the same railroad station, the same garage, the same creamery, the boxlike houses two-story shops. * Such a society functions admirably in the large production of cheap automobiles, dollar watches and safety Fazors. But it is not satisfied till the entire world iso admits that the end and joyous purpone of living fe to ride in flivvers, to make advertising pictures of dollar watché, and in the twilight to sit talking not of love and courage but of the convenience of that life American | quite so | but | | of the spirit by a desire to appear respectable. safety ramrs. * * * The more intelligent young i, people and the fortunate widows flee to the cities so © mrreecpomtrnete dyreeeneresten treet “ with agility, and, spite of the fictional tradition, reso. lutely stay there, seldom returning even for the holl days, The most protesting patriots of the towns leave them, if they can afford it, and in old age go to live in California or in the cities. The reason is not a whiskered rusticity. It is nothing so amusing! It is an unimaginatively standardized background, a sluggishness of speech and manners, a rigid ruling It is contentment—the contentment of the quiet dead, who are scornful of the living for their restless walking It is the prohibition of happiness. It lavery elf sought and self-defended. It is dullness made God. A savorlees people, gulping tasteless food, and sitting afterward, coatless and thoughtless, in rocking chairs, prickly with insane decorations, listening to mechan. jeal music, saying mechanical things about the excel lence of automobiles, and viewing themselves as the greatest race in the world.” I have selected these sentences from several differ. ent pages, in order to give the gist of his picture concisely, As I say, I was born on Main Street, and at its intersection with another important thorofare, directly opposite the Town Pump, and I know the kind of town and its limitations. It ls not quite so deadly monotonous as Mr, Lewis represents. But can we not make life on Malp Street a little more spontaneous, 4 little more full of natu nd reasonable joy, a little less dependent on movies and automobiles for t tuff of life? For these are not the things on which men can live? The kingdom of heaven must be within us; and Main Street must be surveyed straight thru the New rusalem, av th’ ued to back ki Many » but Letters to the Editor— WHY CHE FRENZIED LAMENTATION? Editer The Star: Aa I understand and remember them, the press and the public of Seattle knew, such of them ag were interested, that the wtreet car lines which they contern plated purchasing were not a good investment, They knew that the ao- tual net earnings on the car lines alone, as operated by the Stone & Webster organization, were not such an to tempt any investor, They knew, and had seen ample proof, that the Stone & Webster organiza on a baxls satisfactory to the public except at a loan, Knowing these facta, then, the public, represented by its slected of ficia, of whom Mr. Caldwell was one, and reassured of its wisdom by dally papers, entered into negot!- ations with the Stone & Webster in terests for the purchase of the Se Atte car lines, The essential inci dents of these negotiations were, I ster to sell the lines for something like $18,500,000, which wae not ac cepted by the city; a counter offer by the city to purchase the lines for $15,000,000, which was accepted by Stone & Webster and ratified by the people, The purchase of the lines was loudly acclaimed as the solu tion of Seattle's car service. New, however, « far different story is told. All thene facts, which we read about at that time, were then and now are ACTUALLY true! ‘The street car lings are not a paying ‘we have had to pay the taxes and street upkeep ex penees of the car lines And so nome of ua have agilely about faced, blotted from our minds the casual and optimintic way tn which we once discounted these facta, and have turned our righteous wrath upon those who have the courage to fulfilt York and elsewhere—advertised for ills it is not en-|tneir obligations, however difficult | they may be, and upen Btone & Web | ster for letting us buy the lines, ‘The exact purpose of the frenzied lamentations l¢ not, on the surface, apparent, If my neighbor offers to sell me a used automobile for $1,000, and after investigation I offer to buy for $700, do I have any legal redress T tater find that the automobile wan not worth the purchase price? In other words, does the law Inquire in- to the adequacy of consideration Whether straw gas can be employed successfully for] where ita presence ts undoubted? driving automobiles hasn’t been determined, but satisfac- tory tests have been made of its use for stationary engines. | 2" Why not confer with the Stowe) If relief from the agreement is de- & Woebdster officials over tno ae | method of settling the matter such & settlement is impossible, why not stand by the guns, co-operate in & level headed manner, decide on} the best possible plan of operation, and “carry on“? Why not admit that we made a poor bargain, dis- play a little common sense, and make the best of our bargain? Above all, why not cease the disgusting flow of insinuations which decide nothing, help no one and injures us all? If Seattle is to live as the impor. tant center of the Northwent, would it not be well to make of it a place where decent men may hold office without having every difference of opinion on their part met by recrims- mation and abuse from those with whom they differ? By way of explanation, I may nay that the most I ever received from Stone & Webster was a tranefer, and I paid for that M. F. PUGH. wretched shortage of tollet facilities. The immigrants are herded like cattle, Many must sleep on floors. | ion wae unable to operate the Hoes) Frequently they are held for weeks. | Who's to blame? Dr. Royal 8. Copeland, health commissioner of New| York, says city health officials have been barred from the iwland by | ati | Commimxioner Wallis, Mrs, Helen Bastedo, representing 15 welfare organ: | Z tuations working at the island, blames Wallis, Wallis passes the buck | to bis superior at Washington and to congress, | There may be doubts as to who's to blame, about who should start a housecleaning, That ts clearty a job fo congress. And it should Be cleaned up in conjunction with action in | pending immigration measures, | We bave a new a@ministration In Washington. New brooms have the reputation of sweeping clean. | ‘The new adminixtrative broom should house-clean fot only Ellie Island jbut the whole immigration service. | | President Harding bas just nominated William Walker Husband to mucesed Anthony Caminetto as commissioner general of immigration. |But more than personnel is involved. There are fundamental ‘vile in| the syste that must be corrected. Ellis Island must be made sanitary, | wholesome, human—Americant | ‘These immigrants, we all hope, wilh become good American citizens They should be given such a clean, healthful, kindly and friendly -greet- ing that they will be truly American from the start. U tf C8 Be Bee G Questions ef benlth, sanitation, brgtene will be ancwared M cont so ion Department, U. A. he Health Mervics, Washington, D. C. The xymptoma of eye-atrain may be} entirely local, such as fading of vision, eye pains, inflamed lids, watering, ete. They may be reflex tn character, appearing as Gintant pains or disturb- ances of certain organs ‘They may be pxychic and make the child appear stupid, when the real trouble in that he cannot see com fortably. GC CBies score and eleven years eee Slobbering and Bed. Wetting My Mitle son, 3 years and 1 monthe old, slobbers constantly fight and day and wets tie bed, athe 1 take him up during the night At his age (as I presume he has fin- ished cutting his temporary teeth) his condition ia most apt to be caused by an inflammation affecting the lin ing of the mouth, some form of nerv- ous or mental defect, or paralya. With reference to the bed-wetting, you should have the boy examined by & physician to learn whether there is any disease or local condition that might cause the trouble. Begin hia training during the day by taking him to the tollet every hour tor two or three aa the case may be), and gradually increase this interval Follow the mame method at night In 1850, Folger’s Coffee made its firstappearance—areal “wild Western” juct—toasted and blended on the During al ing all these seventy-One years, , the Folger name has been a mark of ity. That is wh can Ige’s Golden Gate Coffee to have a flavor that is smooth and rich. And this fine flavor is kept for you scaled in vacuum- tins, e Folger’ s Golden GateCoffcereallyis ““Different in taste from other cof- fee and better.” Find out for yourself how good it is. Ask your grocer for it. J. A. FOLGER & CO. Son Framcine - Seastle - Kansas City + Dallas Sbizmeha, Japon e Stammerrrs Weela you approve the marriage of two stammerers who BAve partially over- come thelr affliction ? Lf they are tomperamentally adapt- ed in epite of this speech defect, there would seam to be no reason, as far aa they are concerned, why they should not marry. It ts poasible that chil- dren born of this union would also have a speech defect. There is a ten- dency on the part of children to tml. tate the mode of speech of thosd about them However, in many cities there are | clinics and classes for the correction Of defective xpeech. GET WHAT YOU WANT BY WHIT HADLEY Senator Hehry F. 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