The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 18, 1921, Page 1

EM = Weather Tonight and Thursday, showers; moderate westerly winds. ‘Temperature Last 24 Hours Maximum, 58 Minimum, 49. Today noon, 54, Onn On the Issue of Americanism miam There Can Be No Compromis The Seattle Star Entered as Second Class Matter May 3, 1899, at the Postoffice at 8 SEATTLE, , WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 1921. Wash., under the Act of Congress Mareh 3, 1879. Per Year, by Mall, $5 to $9 oe x 6 Oe il TWO CENTS IN awe wt eert oy BILLIE: BURKES? we read. It may be a splendid se lection. Nevertheless, it would ap- 20t & boy's job Asked for Definition ‘The retail food dollar is now worth nies 64 cents, according to census bureau. | BY HAL ARMSTRONG oe dre wonderful days for writ-| contest conductor's desk. poetry and cleaning the back “French ivory, -tollet articles trom | Standard Furniture © vera eatby & Co., stationery.”t " | “Vogne Hair Hhop, hair dresstne.” 7 “MY. Waist House, pair of satin Mary had & lttle calf, ee eR Fs ay As white, aimost, as snow— | And others.. But the contest con. | e hone ig made of skeeter net, ‘ And that is how I know. Germany says that if she pays her | rg ae debts she will be broke, which makes Burkes? German. id 00d-sized crowd. Fone ee ee’ O* | ANDREWS THOUGHT Haven't heara about snake-meat | ARMSTRONG KNEW becoming popular In Seattle, but on/ puzzled, the advertising departmen’ AH, YESSSS! ad department was approached. little belle of Neptune's court mur-) mur against the fate which prevents Burkes and thin, her from wearing anything so jaunty| He blushed ree red as a costume of checked gingham?) “What are Billie Burke: Gingham sults have been so popular| “Ob."* she smniled, “a | pn the Florida coast this winter!/ is a dress. One of those Would that the Northern resorts | dresses with @ belt fo nothing to interrupt their course! society pate. ge We submit the above as a fair) two,” she explained, sample of metropolitan journalese. made of material/ man. galled gingham, si “Billie Burkes,” he declared, ing silk.” A health authority says that every | of long, flow’ cerical worker should havo 10) CITY EDITOR BRIEF; square feet of office room, and in| $9 18 AILEEN CLAIRE the young onion season most of eM) The city editor was appealed * tomary brevity. smoothly, the bonuses will all be) inquired the dramatic critic. thing over three years after the/ed Dean. fishes and little crab apples! Those|could be no other.” SAVE POSSIBLY “FURDER” |the ankles with a pink ribbon, m There's nothing makes in oné piece like a union suit. Bil One brain feel weirder Than hearing some Made ‘em famous.” Bloke murmur “Nearder.” either blushing, grinning or | Burkes. i his throat while the toast- “Call the New York W: is introducing him, he may /and find out,” he commanded TO THE fi ten knock what the women |own creation ear ear muffs in winter, (Turn to Last Page, Column 2) OUR T SYSTEM PROHIBITION CHIEF SAYS PHONE TAPPED; RAID IS FRUSTRATED In the belief that bootleggers have tampered With his telepho taken following the fallure of a raid Tuesday night, when whisky runners succeeded in consignment addressed a letter W eiflo Telephone asking that they give the to send out for reinforcements. where the trouble lew. The director got n Snohomish county | But the sheriff and his depw McDonald then tried to call the Se. his phone had «ud-|man Albert Johnson of Washington that he hopes congress will adjoura His car had the meantime the “As soon an T found I went to my nor nelghbor‘s. “I learne® tater that they « McDonald In his Jetter calls atten: | tion to a similar experience one of his agents’ three weeks after a hurry call had been re oolved at 24, m., the agent's line Bergdoll Attorney Cited for Contempt WASHINGTON, houre committee investigating encape of Grover Cleveland Bergdohl today cited for | Weinberger of New York, attorney) for the slacker. He will be brought wefose the Las.ef the house for ti on ee _.| ONE FOR EDISON pear to us on the sidelines that it is|Star Staff ‘Stumped When rent dollar still looks like six/ Dean Andrews came In hurriedly and laid a list of notations on the ductor’s eye got no further than the item from the New York Waist ‘are Billie ‘Billie Burkes?’ Dean repeated. First ave, N. we've seen several peo-| “Why, I thought you knew No?| ple going into the “Anaconda mar-/| Let's see. I'll ask one of the girls a et.” CITY LOSES TO ELECTRIC C0,'S [Propaganda Ci Costs Seattle | Millions, Says Ross eee Timidiy the young woman in the to make of the mermaid a) “We're making up the list of art! 1 ema By These new bathing|cles for the wardrobe of the winner | aD x idn’t the funny |of The Star-Universal Fitm Co. con-| Se ar oa tora ry | test,” Dean aa “Lot of Billie | He Burke one-piece That wellengineerea propaganda |*pread by the private light and power cost the city ral millions of dollars “But why do they speak of them —A blurb from @ Chicago newspaper | as pairs?” cut in the contest conduc “A pair of Billie Burkes—that's oa jot Beattle se It was apparent she was not famil- |i, charged by J What the writer is trying to say, of | iar with the subject. The managing | tendent of lighting, in his annual ré " e ed course, is that it is all right to wear | editor was asked. Ho's @ married) 146 puptic Wednesday. |minds of the people, hydro-electric o> underwear—kind of bloomers—made operating on know how to get it, “Damfino,” he enlightened, with cus-| Power where the city operates large of |ly on the tore expensive steam pow- | “The state auditor has only Aileen Claire was almost as brief one multiple signature writer.” |~1 can't be bothered,” she observed —News Item. “with these Edison questionnaires.” | If everything goes nice and| “What is it about Billie Burke, © corporation reaps a n harvest that would amaze the that Skagit j should come into Seattle in 1923, this city the greatest jand heanent 1 power plant in the v. 8. next to Niagwra Halle,” paid up in another year, or some| “A pair of Billie Burkes,” correct Is one of these four girls the sal Film company contest? They, and eight others in the|lana found bureau of the muny rail finals, were the subject of heated discussion by the judges | we Flocks of paint cans and But the winner has not yet been named. Top to bot- Louise Lough, Ruth Morris, Josie|* They are “registering amusement.” Star staff photographers. armistice. But if the state auditor! “Impossible,” replied the eritio. | should get the writer's cramp—ye| ‘There is but one Billie Burke. Ther bonuses may not get to the vets till] “Billie, Burkes,” volunteered the | peace is declared! courthouse reporter, “are bloomer |have been called in since 2%, # pajamas, the kind that pull tight at) total of $1,090,000 warrants the contestants are Tisdall and Hilda Eyler. —(Photos by Price & Carter r Harding Will Sign Immigration Bill| WASHINGTON, dent Harding will men the ity now has more than 65,000 active Burke wore ‘em on the stage once. Premier Denies He Sought Valera Visit Premier Lloyd | It was near pres time, The city | vin editor was growing impatient for| When a man can sit calmly with-|copy~THIS copy, explaining Billie Presi: | Katase, immigra-| World a lesson in Oriental honesty. tempted privately to arrange a ‘alat House | Valera of|congress, Representative to have poise And the New York Waist House| gilt said that Billie Burkes are “a panta- | 1: loon kimona of silk, Billie Burke's advances he had made statements in Jexpreased a willingness to meet any » who qualified ag a representa: Uve of the Irish people, immigra-| money bill with no purse on Battery 13 months to/st, between Clay nationals of |sts., on left side from Market st., at! in the United |five minutes after 10 a, m. So 1 i) jport to you with the money, *ition during the but bless their hearts, they] “That odght to make a good cats foreign waatey States in 1910, PRESIDENT MAY COME son He Hopes Congress dion the beach | Will Adjourn in Time the sheriff's of TT ’ 18 Mm Harding today told Congress. by Aurw so the president visit the Pacific Northwest and| Alaska, This confirms the statement Har-| ding made soon after his inaugura tion that he hoped to visit the Pa cific coast and the northern terri |tory this summer. |by invitations from the gover of Washington, Oregon and Id the « The pre almost entirely on the of congress. Northwest is possible. ‘The president today received a golden pags to the Pacific Interna itional league games, signed by Louls Burnett, of Tacoma, league President. He sid he would “4 to attend-a- Pals In game-while Wasbington. Accused Wife Is HONOLULU, T. H., May 18.—Mre. “Bluebeard,” charged with the pol- | soning of four husbands and her | brother-in-law, today said she hoped | to return to the mainland next week. She remained in bed today, declar- ing she was trying to build up her strength for the trip from the islands |}to Twin Falls, Idaho, where the | charges have been filed against her British Hoping to End . Strike LONDON, May 18.--With 24,000, 000 working days lost, British leaders | today returned to the task of end jing the coal strike, The mine owners were prepared to | offer a plan of great consglidations to reduce production cost# without }lowering wages greatly. The plan | was sponsored by the marquis of | Londonderry. He submitted it to his | fellow mine owners in a series of cir- | cular letters, It was expected to be the first thing considered by the owners at their next session. winner of The Star-Univer- HES EXACT AND HONEST | May 18.—T, gave the SAN He found a $5 bill on the stre With the following note he mailed y, af-|the bill to the police: “I have found five dollars paper and Washington | Lest We Forget IN AUGUST | Tells Representative John-| 18 EX-SOLDIERS | ARE GIVEN JOBS; But Only Five of These Jobs His intention was strengthened va amber of Commerce in & dozen Northwest cities, and the cut off and remained dead for nearly | newspapers of the Northwest, lent stated some weeks ago that his Beattie visit depended journment If the legislators quit work by August 1, a six weeks’ tour of the Building Strength Lydia Southard, alleged feminine scious. any time. Have the people forgotten? Vor hund of men in the hospitals in Western Washing- ton the war hax only begun. Beginning May 29, seven days have been set aside as “Disabled diers' week.” ‘The public Is urged to take thelr Sunday out ings at the exservice men's hos. pitals. Don't let the men who saved America think that they are for gotten! Are Permanent Eighteen world war veterans were supplied with jobs Wednesday by the Rainier-Noble post, American Le gion, thru the medium of The Star’s campaign, and the name of nine more jobless soldiers were added to| th: © list of those who went to work Five of the jobs filled today by Ad jutant Lindley’s office wereperma nent. The others ranged from two hours to a few days. Here is a typical case reported by Adjutant Lindley. Frank Mone out of _work He applied for hi# bonus Febriiary 8, but has not heard from it. He was given a fob for two and one-half days at $4.80 per da: ployer too his y. Out of this his em. as this that need steady employment The new names turned in Wednes- | nyth! ov. M. ‘Mahoney, 3110 ‘erdifiand st, truck driver, Inside work, clerk. Harry Purvis, 1113 Olive st., = clerk, packer, L. B, Antor, 500-A James at., “walt. er, janitor, hotel work T. W. Gibson, 4507 Sist ave. 8, nurse, Elmer P. Berry, 4835 Chicago st., chauffeur, truck, etc. Albert C, Smith, 724 Director st., teamster. Alexander B, Osler, 527 Seventh ave. N., laborer. Phone calls for work to Adjutant Hervey Lindley, Rainier-Noble post, Elliott 479, Resolutions expressing apprecia- tion and thanks for The Star's cam- paigns to wipe out unemployment | among world war veterans and to xpeed up payment bf their bonuses have been adopted by the Rainier- Noble post, American Legion. Chief Justice White Sinking; Death Near WASHINGTON, May | 18.—Chief Justice White of the supreme court ia "no better,” it was stated today at Garfield hospitat, ite was uncon. His death was expected at The belief prevails here that Wil- Ham Howard Taft will be named by President Harding as White's suc- cessor. UNICIPAL GOLF HAZARD IS OFF Fore! One of the great hazards on the! municipal golf links has been re- moved. W. T. Beeks, deputy collector of | revenues, told the park board Wed- |nesday that a war tax should not be leveled on greens fees. Hithertofore a 4-cgnt tax has been | added to the 40 cerfts charge for 18 holes, Beeks is waiting for a final ruling from national headqu are Quarrel Over Girl; Filipino Stabbed Alleged to have stabbed a fellow: Filipino in a quarrel over a girl, Vin- Jeent Leonor, 29 | was held in city |lico Wednesday. Detectives 'T, ¢ | Montgomery. and O, J, Van Buskir made the arrest on a telegraphic | warrant from Portland, Filipino contractor, il for Portland po- AINT-UP WEEK HITS CAR DEPT. It's “Paint Up" week in the lost jprcanse are being lost on Mf. Seat le's electric sedans, THE BEST OFFERINGS —Or— Seattle’s Best Stores appear regularly in the ad- vertising columns of The Star. Take advantage of them. You'll save many a dollar. poll tax. This was the first work Menejar had had in more than three months. It is such | ning the city government were | | | | KNOCKER! to keep the overhead—the |half solved. |pay their just proportions. |ble personal property alon ments, | What does that mean? Simply this: If the per capita cost of run- exactly the same in Seattle as in San Francisco, the tax neverthe Jess would be higher in Seattle because there would not be as much property taxed. Bank de posits and other “intangibles” would escape. Neither does Seattle get what it should out of taxes paid by the rail- ways. San Francisco does. San Way taxes based on the valuation of railway property located in the city. Seattle gets railway taxes only in Proportion to the number of miles of railway track located here. So that Seattle gets less taxes than some uninhabitated county in the state in which the only railway prop- erty is the tracks leading to Seattle. SEATTLE SUFFERS UNFAVORABLE COMPARISON With this sort of a system, nat urally Seattle suffers unfavorable comparison with other cities. It may run its affairs in the most economi- cal way possible, and still the people here would pay more taxes. On top of all this, on top of the fact that a billion dollars of “intangi- bles" escapes all state and city taxa- tion in this state, Washington also clings to another law that places Se. attle and the rest of ‘the state in an unfavorable light. This is the law which declares that property must be valued, for assess |ment purposes, at one-half its real value, This sort of thing does noth- ing except double the advertised mill levy. To illustrate: You own a home in Seattle valued at $5,000. It is as- sessed at $2,500, The tax levy in |Seattie is 71 mills because all prop- erty in the state is similarly asses- were assessed at its full value of $5,000, the tax levy would be only half of 71 mills, or 36% mills. In California they look at this thing more sensibly, Why adver tise a big mill levy? In California, they don’t assess property at 50 per cent of the value. Their law does not compel the assessors to do any such ridicu- lous thing. ‘They assess certain classes of property at full value, and others at a reduction, The av- erage is 75 per cent of the value. Thus, they gain a decided advertis- ing value, in that one respect alone. FRISCO TAX RATE NOT >) LOW AS ADVERTISED San Francisco's tax rate is about 35 mills. It is so advertised to the 1d. But 35 mills is a heavier tax in San Francisco than 35 mills is in Seattle, In fact, 35 mills in San Francisco is as heavy as 52% mills in Seattle. Figure it out for yourself. A imill tax on $1,000 in this wo state yields 50 cents. (Property be- ing assessed at 50 per cent.) A 1-mill tax on $1,000 in Califor. yields 75 cents, (Property beliig sed at 75 per cent.) The 36-mill tax in San Francisco yields $26.25 per $1,000, % | To obtain the same amouh in Seattle it would require a 52%-mill ta n other words, our tax laws fre so antiquated that we are forced “Intangibles” Escape Taxation Alto- gether; Railways Pay Small Share of Levies Here Washington's tax “SYSTEM | is Seattle’s | This is the duty of city, state, county, port and school executives. It has to do with the number of men em- | ployed, with the eradication of duplication, with unde |taking no losing projects, and other items involving cost After the costs of government or expenses are b jto the lowest possible point, the tax problem is onl The other half of the problem consists of distributii the burden of taxation fairly and upon all classes able In Washington, taxes are borne by real estate and jand in most other states, in- tangibles are also taxed; ‘that is to say, cash in the banks, and stocks, and bonds, mort- gage loans and similar invest- Francisco gets an amount of rail-| sed at half value. If your property) pan, these officers think that the There are two parts to efficient government. One i expenses—as low as possib In California and in O PLAN BIG FLEET. FOR THE PACIFIG Into Armada WASHINGTON, May 18.—The Ab lantic and Pacific fleets are to be joined into one American armada if present plans of the navy depart ment are carried our, it was learned — authoritatively today. + The question of bringing the two fleets together is understood now to be before President Harding and — a decision by the president and See retary of the Navy Denby is expect ed shortly, Naval officers believe that the new fleet should be assigned at first to the Pacific ocean. Tho it is de nied that this would be any evi dence of unfriendliness toward Ja: — # international situation is such that it would be better that the mail American fleet be stationed in UM® Pacific. ANTS DIVORCE IN A HURRY Stating that she has heard @ divorce may be obtained in Seattle within four days, a woman in Paras dise, Kansas, has written to United States District Attorney Saunders for more complete information, e % The district attorney informed her that he knew of no way to hurry the matter, and that it required at | least six months, to the best of hig | information, 4 Whoops! Circus Is : in Seattle Today? : Seattle kids were up in the cold gray dawn Wednesday. It was Cir. cus Day. The big street parade of the Al. G. Barnes’ commenced at 10:30 o'clock. ‘The. performances commence at 2 o'clock and at o'clock. ‘The circus lot is at Fourth — ave. and Lenora st, NITED GOATS NOW ORGANIZE SPRINGFIELD, Hl.—The worm has turned. The secretary of state has granted articles of incorporation to the “United Goats of America,” (Turn to Page 3, Column 2) whose purpose is “resistance of blue laws."