The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 13, 1921, Page 6

i if i | i Hy 3 1 } "7 ti iF # Ls hy i \ ti OUR DAILY FICTION Once upon a time there was a young lawyer who became the weeretary of the Taxpayers’ | Teague. And he helped whoop it | up to beat the band, and when |. the budget officials met he | howled high and thunderousty | about the rate of taxation, So | the county commissioners pro- | posed to cut out ferry service to | ‘Vashon island, because the fer | ries were losing money. Now this lawyer lived on Vash | en island. | “What do you say to that? he was asked. 5 “Bully,” said he. “And I sug: | ‘| gest that you also cut out that Plece of road building near my | home.” owe Of course we were never kissed by pretty defendant, so we don’t know Mebbe Henry figured that a bit > @f osculation in public would be like ‘Bear-beer. The appearance would be There, but not the kick. : eee ‘There once was a young girl in Mar. j quette, ‘And she probably is somewhere - there yet, _ Who wag awfully gay, _ Always had her own way, ” “Why is it that the tetlow with the Sour dispogition generally has plenty of “sugar. eee Whene’er I read your column's wit, It makes me laugh with giee, think acu squir. now, Johnny,” said the , “can you tell what ts raised Mexico™ could,” said Johnny, “bat I ‘t want you to run me ragged.” cee "No matter how courteous and effi- an undertakef may be, his cus es never come back. eee ‘ STRANGE “Ask friends for help and, I'm afraid, Not one of them will heed it; they are quick to offer aid When they think you don't need tt. Gentle reader, do not hias you read a verse like this; For you Uttle dream, I'll bet, _ How it made the writer sweat. ; eee FS A GREAT BEVERAGE IF * YOU DON'T WEAKEN _ Frank Fency, 341 Plummer ave. ed Saturday on a charge of 1 tion and disorderly conduct, Ptartied attaches of the city court this morning when he said that he consumed half a pint of wood i. After imbibing the fire Water he entered a barber shop in W. State st, where he firet offered to fight the barber and then, chang- ing his mind, consented to become the recipient of 90 cents worth of tensorial art. The work completed, Feney rose from the chair and Again changed his mind and refused to pay the barber and so on, ad infinitum. — Lake County (Ind.) Times. ed THE POOR HOUSEHOLDER the day is warm and sunny, Gloom pervades his weary soul; Behold in him a broken-hearted man. esterday he spent the money— For another ton of coal— He was saving for a nice electric fan. THE SEATTLE Letters to the) Poll Tax NOT a Bonus Tax Sey poll tax is not a bonus tax. It is unfair to our service men to refer to it as such. The bonus law did not contem- plate a poll tax. When the people of this state demanded a bonus law for our service men, and when dollars a year. To raise that amount in general taxes would mean $1.50 to $2.50 a year for the small homeowners, and it should mean an increase in rents to that extent only. Instead, the small homeowner pays $10 a year for himself and wife, and the renter they voted for it by overwhelm- ing majorities, they did not have a poll tax in mind. The poll tax is unjust and dis- criminatory. The bonus is just and right. If the bonus law could not have been obtained except by forcing a poll tax upon the people of this state, it is possible that many sol- diers and sailors would have will- ingly foregone the bonus. Our service men are too big and too brave to ask something that is not right. And the poll tax, violating the essential principle of taxation that it should be borne by those able to pay in the proportion of their ability, is NOT right. To mention the poll tax, there- fore, in the same bréath as the bonus, is an insult to the veterans of this state. The poll tax is an invention of politicians at Olympia, mainly the same politicians who at first op- posed the bonus. The poll tax is a scheme to make small property owners and rent payers assume taxes that should be borne by larger property owners. That’s all there is to it. It is claimed the poll tax will raise between two or three million does the BIG p poll tax. poor man, No, the fund. pot. The poll bonus tax cabinet. should be game. Another Goal for Women HE national woman's party is going to try “to remove legal discriminations against women.” In the past one never knew whether he had to dodge a brickbat or a bouquet when Alice Paul’s pepful followers rallied ‘round the picket banner. Whether one agreed with them or not as to their un- precedented methods of campaigning, nobody questioned their courage. Many things entered into the late suffrage victory. of patient, educational work on the part of women hair is now white and whose feet move haltingly, firm foundation. They suffered the ridicule that comes to pioneers. They had the steadfastness of purpose to keep tight on when there wasn’t a ghost of a show of their winning out. Slowly public opinion changed to favor “the cause.” Wyoming, first state to grant equal suffrage, adopted it largely as the result of a joke. But from Wyoming to Tennessee, the “perfect thirty-sixth,” there has been no turning back. Eight years ago Alice Paul, a young Quaker, gathered a group of progressive women about her. “Let’s concentrate our fire on congress” was her call to her clan. The rest is history, or at least, first page publicity. But the battle is not yet done. “To remove legal discriminations against woman,” the new task the woman’s party has cut out for itself is no small one. Ae The most ultra-conservative can find nothing objection- able in that goal. But when it comes to altering laws already on the statute books there are several ways of doing it, none of them easy. Movies in Your Home OON you may have movies in your own home. The invention of a moving picture disc has been announced, by the use of which, movie pictures may be shown on a screen in the home just as easily as records are played on the phonograph. \ The claim is made that a 12-inch dise carries enough pic- tures on its surface to be equivalent to the length of the standard film, 300 feet, this being made possible thru the use of the microscopic lens in the taking. The story runs that the projecting machine will cost the home owner about $25, as against the phonograph’s $100 or more. And the “movie records” are expected to retail at a dollar or less. There may be wonderful possibilities in the idea, with millions of people having their movies sent in rather than going out to the palaces. And think of what a boon this invention will bring to thousands of places where there is no such thing as a nearby movie show. The time may come soon when one can send Willie to the corner drug store to buy—or rent—a Mary Pickford, a Charlie Chaplin or a Fatty Arbuckle, with the same as- surance that the bill will be filled as if he were sent for an ice cream soda. Observations Don’t forget the Orthopedic kiddies, “God saved me,” says Madge Sawyer. her lawyers from claiming a fee. Suff@ay evening. At the Arena. Concert. Canadian = Good soloists. Benefit of Orthopedic hospital. Tick- ets $1. Did somebody say a new hotel? Try This on Your Wise Frierid What ty the smallest family that could include one grandmother, 1 | grandfatRer, 2 fathers, 2 mothers, 4 children, 3 grandchildren, 1 brother 2 alsters, % sons, 2 daughters, 1 father-inlaw, 1 motherinJaw and 1 daughter-in-law? Anewer to yesterday's: That won't stop Uncle, likewise. which amounts to $7 or $8 a year, is a CONTRIBUTION from the small homeowners and renters to tax than it is a tax to help pay t no extravagances of capitol build-|cin. ings in Olympia. It is no more the salaries of the The difference, roperty owners and to absentee landlords. The absentee landlord pays no The big property own- ers pays no more poll tax than the and thus the poor man is paying part of the tax that the rich man and absentee landowner should pay. poll tax is not a tax to raise money for the bonus. It does not even go into a separate The poll tax money goes into the same general fund as the other taxes. It goes into the same is no more a bonus the ta a than it is a tax to pay governor's The poll tax is wrong and repealed. It probably will be repealed. In the meantime, don’t insult the veterans by calling it a tax to pay the bonus. Don’t play the politicians’ Inflammation of the Feet My hosband hes great trouble with his feet, The pain and Inflammation are tense, ometines the palm reaches te the knee, Keeping him awake at might, He dows lots of walking on @ hard Moor. His arches seem Bigh. By all means go to a qualified physician. Many different conditions could give rise to these symptoma A person may muffer pain due to a weak arch, even tho the arch tw stil! high. If there is ewelling in the logan, it in suggested that the doctor's |examination include an analysis of the urine. San ahot ke STAR ° Editor— ALL OF US KESPONSIBLE FOR 180M’'S DERELICTION Editor ‘The Star; When @ man has been found guilty of murder and the sentence ix pronounced, the judge says, “It in the this court t neck until ye God have mercy on your If there is any sign “that you be hanged by the neck until dead,” then also “may God have mercy on your soul” in not merely a figure of ubeech but plainly whows that those who deal in law believe that there is a,part of Isom White and his kind that the hang man cannot kill, a part of must go to a bigher court « th we have in the w may * to ne court works with law, applying to all allke—to the educated judge, to the governor And statesmen as well as to a lad of 1? who just grew up in ertme, un nourished and untaught But law, so far as we know It, in t of divine origin. It is made by people to express their sent. nts and feelings. A boy of ommite a murder No matter w his mental caliber ®, what influences mwung the pen julum too far one way in his life if it is proven that he killed a man, in the state of Washington he must be killed. But on the other hand the high officials who have had all the training, the experience, the ruits of the investigators in ertm: nology for years, they can murder this boy at the end of a rope and ot by” with it, What ts the dif ference If the individual commits murder or the state does it? It is murder Just the same, and if It ts the object of the tate to wet an ex ample for the youths of the land, it would neem that they have defeat ed its own ends by making other | he hate such @ system that does give the boy an opportunity to jecent in the firet place and then him. Hlow can we tmagine that we are delegated to take human life for any cause whatever? What argument can the wisest governor or statesman of any state bring forth to justify capttal puniah ment in the face of #tAtintios and facta at hand? Hanging does not reform the ertm. inal, does not protect society, and does not benefit by setting an ex ample. It places the rain beyond any fur ther hope of development so far a» we are concerned. It dingustsa and shocks and debases society and those who are closely connected with it It breeds further hate in the friends of the murderer and sets an example by the state—to kill a thing that gots in our way Instead of trying to make It useful and constrnetive. In the United States every year more men are executed than in all the other Christian nations combined Statistion show, after all this “pre a * | vention by example,” that the United States has a higher percentage of homicides than any other country in the world. And just m we will be eure to get them all, we hang tnno- cent men in the U. 8. on an average of one every three years. Capital punishment was abofiahed in Belgium, Finland, Holland, Nor way, Portogal and Rumania years ago. All these countries studied the queation, found that killing produced | more killing instead of preventing It. The death penalty has been abol lished in Alichigan for 69 years; Wi» consin for 63 years; Maine for 40 | years; Kansas, b9 practice 50 years, and recently by statute Migures |ahow that in these states murders {decreased atnoe the death penalty haa been abolished. In it @ mere coincidence that these states have jews than one-half the number of homicides than the states bordering them? - Not #0 long age cripples were tor tured and mutilated and put to death, and a century and @ half ago |insane persons were put to death |The time will come when our chit dren's children wil! look back upon the practice of killing our morally crippled with the mame dingust and horror as we now feel in regard te burning our witches. We taxpayers pay over two mi! lion dollars for the upkeep of box pitals for the Isom Whites of our land—hospitals where they can at least be given a chance if not entirely cured. I am @ part of the etate and as such I am responsible for the life of Isom White! I do not want to stand judgment for taking his life when I am in part to blame for the con ditions which nourished him in crime, neither do I wish to punish | him far crimes not yet committed | by killing him as “an example” It is & disgrace and should be a hu miliation to any thinking citizen that & mere boy of 17 should wet the ex ample for us tn our dealings with our fellowmen, LORA WOOD HUGHES, 905 Olymple Place. Sambo (calling from jail window) Hey, man! What time ts it? Jumbo (looking at watch and then replacing it}—What's difference? You ain't goin’ nowbere—-Cartoons Magazine. will insure you all the nourish. ment that good Milk should, and you will find the quality and purity the same 365 days in the year. Ask your dealer, or phone , Beacon 40. Sa Bertom Be aley’ Oh, it’ great to be @ spender tn the splendor Of your youth And you hate to be a tightwad with your light waa, That's the truth, And you shouldn't be a miner; but it's wiver Now and then To deny yourself « craving, and be saving Vive or ten; For when wet days follow sunny And the luck is running rank Tt'n @ comfort to have money In the bank! Yen, I know each old curmudgeon who in trudgin’ To the grave Has a lot of stuff to preach yon that’ teach you How to wave; And I know {t's Irrttating—all this prating Handed you, (And the most distressing fact is that, in praction It is true); You can emile at mott reverses When you hear the pleasant clank Of your jolly old sexteroes In the bank. I was ones a merry spendthrift, couldn't blend thrift With my tun; Now I'm off and I xm seedy and I'm needy Listen, #on; don’t you trample On my trail. Don't spend every jot and tittle, « Of your kale, To be busted iem't funny When you're old and drear and dank, —Keep a little roll of money In the Tm « Horrthie Example a little bank! (Copyright, 1921, by Newspaper Enterprise Association) BY DR. WILLJAM E. BARTON It in generally known that the successful navigation of the atmosphere In machines “heavier than air” was accomplished only after long study of the mechanics and method of the Might of birds It was a surprive to the builders of these machines when they found it advantageous to modify their first drawings of the body of the car and shape @ like a fish. The first attempts were tn an effort to reduce hend-resistance, and the cars were bullt with pointed fronts and binnt eterna, Now the cars of airplanes are “stream-lined” or shaped like a fish The wings of the airplane eupport it in an elevation above the earth as the propeller drives it forward; it Ix the blunt end of the car thatis pushed ahead; the taper ing end ts at the rear The inventors discovered that It was not the head resistance that slowed down the plane, but the suction behind 8o the plane pushes its blunt end into the wind, and the rear end tapers to an edge. Now the announcement is made that boats also may be modified by changes in the construction of the stern #0 as to lessen the suction and increase the speed. Wonderful are the adaptations of life to its environment Structural Modifications of the forms of life to meet the requirements of conditions in which these forms of life must be lived excite the wonder of the learned and become the more remarkable as we know more about them. Creation is very full of mysteries, and of things understood in part only. As we learn « little here aad a little there we are profoundly im Premed with the wisdom which undergirds the whole universe and con- tingousty operates thru ita widely various forma. But whatever we discover & of sornething planned long before our dix covery. While we make our blundering advances in the field of knowl- edge, we gradually approach to some aspects of truth which were mani teat tn the creation. We learn slowly what God knew first. STAR WANT ADS BRING RESULTS FRIDAY, MAY 12, 1921. Inquiring Reporter y TODAY'S QUESTION Do you believe that sparing the rod will spoil the child? ANSWERS RAYMOND BALLARD, 1021 at: “Not in my household. are more powerful things than rods, you know.” KR. TURNER, 214 Summit ave, Ms | “Ill be @ model child that gate along without it, I'm thinking.” B. Ei. LAKE, 1316 KB. Jefferson atg “Not necessarily. One should ump judgement, I suppose, in every case® G. G. MURDOCK, 2605 14th aveg “Why talk of business when spring jim here?’ TH. N. MARSON, 1019 EB. Pike ats. “If it doen, 1 ought to be a model young man.” HERE is one good thing about being discouraged. A man at leart realizes that there are some things he cannot do alone and, un liews & man does realize that, he will | |not get very far in the world, —Rev, J. Ralph Magee, Pastor, First M. E. churdy oe i “Thru il-emelling jazz we been making children a animals. ‘This is the fault of tig gustus Smith, Boston university, eee “The good of the world for the next century depends on Anglo-Saxon com cord more than any other thing.”"= Arthur Meighen, prime minister @f Canada. 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