The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 27, 1921, Page 6

The Seattle Star My mail owt of city, ee per month: $4.00, im the state of Washington, 34.50 for © months or $8.00 per year 2 montha $1.60) € mothe, 62S) year, Outside of the state, Mee per mamth, Ry carrier, city, b0e a ment. Passing the Buck! One billion dollars of property is exempt by law from taxation in this state that are subject to taxes in California, Oregon, New York, Wisconsin, Mass- achusetts, New Jersey and most other states. ‘ As long as this continues, the taxpayers of Wash- ington will bear a greater proportionate burden than elsewhere. Local officials can cut local extravagances — and they should be made to do so. But they cannot bring that billion onto the tax roll. The legislature and the governor alone can do that. The tax problem, therefore, is two-fold: 1. To cut to the bone the expenses of government. 2. To revise our tax system. The man who advocates one, and omits the other, is trying to pass the buck, for one reason or another. Taxpayers in general cannot afford to have the buck in this manner. They must insist on a thorough job. They must insist on both items. They must insist, not on a _nine-mill reduction as promised by local taxing bodies, but on a total of 40 mills. The 40-mill cut cannot be accomplished by one method alone. s to the| ditor— MIGHT CHANGE DECISION Baitor The Star: I write to con) ulate you on your fine stand on tax question and wish to be re d and put down as favoring ntary legisiation, but I it would be useless to call gentlemen together. again to} ‘any relief for the people—I refer the legislature of 19231. I would/ ‘t take my chance wi! Observations The real White Man’s Burden is War Debt. Our tax laws need vision and revision.—Greenville S.C. Piedmont. : : Brevity seems the soul of style as well as wit.—Greenville (S. C.) Piedmont. _ France seems determined to start that Ruhr-al delivery in Germany.—Anniston Star. The place where prices fall is at the end of the rainbow. —Greenville (S. C.) Piedmont. The trouble with France is that she wants to know who won the war, anyway.—Dallas News. Einstein is like Volstead. It’s hard to tell, just yet, "| whether he’s a law or just a theory.—Nashville Tennessean. its, state, county, municipal and gchool district bonds and warrants it mot be considered as property the purposes of this chapter and case of State ex rel Wolfe inter, 50 W. 164 (Aug. 190! tried, Mount and Fullerton, and latter gave a dissenting decision. case held it unconstitutional to credits, mentioning “' The island of Yap has an area of eight square miles. In case of war the navy would send a steam-shovel to take it—Minneapolis Journal. Every man has believed at some time in his life that he could get the right telephone number.—New York Evening taxable. A friendly case might brought and put thru in the hope & new decision. I would rather such a recourse than trust any oxition to amend the constitu that crowd would put thru. They been working for a constitu convention for years and it is The Lucy Stone League, composed of married women, has adopted the slogan, “Keep your own name.” That's easy, provided they get the idea soon enough.—Pittsburg Gazette-Times. The chief stumbling-block in the way of safe readjust- cet ey ee O emend og ment is the fact that everybedy is trying to force every- If the need of supplementary teg-| thing down except his own income.—Fort Wayne News and {elation were put up to them in shape | Sentinel. i passage and they were confined that, toes toe teagkt ge With Germany and the allies carrying on their negotia- veyed to the legislature in a way|tions thru the American state department, it looks as if would find it hard to change or We were becoming the world’s postmaster, in addition to . but aside from such means| being its police, fire, treasury, and health departments.— st the be r 7 would MO INCENT. Ellensburg. | Chicago Journal of Commerce. Nearly every fellow that looks up his family tree is con- .. | tent to draw the curtain when he gets back about 200 years. Editor The Star: “Christianity” is) Getermined that the mia she|__Unele Sam tries to borrow $200,000,000 and bankers rush tiaims to have authority from above. |UP With $532,100,000. Think that over before converting In that she is mistaken. She has|your Liberty Bonds into speculative stocks. Goro: (NAPOLEON—TRAGEDY and superstition—not from God nor | BY DR. WILLIAM E. BARTON neither from the humble carpenter, | HE world has been thinking and talking much of late the great teacher, who said that Sunday was made for man. It was about Napoleon. The centenary of his death has brought afresh to the minds of men the glory and man who made Sunday God's holy Gay. We are indebted to the Baby-| Jonians for our day of recreation and the pathos of his career. Unfortunately, we have had recent cause to remember Waterloo, and the events that followed; and we have some reason to fear that the mistakes of the Congress of Vienna did not die with that distinguished body, but have found some measure of repetition in the Conference of Ver sailles Napoleon compels our admiration. Our condemna tion of his selfishness and his willingness to deluge the world with blood is tempered by our genuine and permissible admiration for his dominant will, which rallied vast hosts of men, willing to die at his word There are three kinds of people in this world Most men say there are two, but there are really th They are the people who have a purpose to Now, most all men and women) Wrong and the p who have a purpose to do right, and the people hope and believe that there 14 a God, | 80 have no purpose at all ‘And that He stands first. last and| The third is the one despicable class, and it is not small You can forever for right, honor, liberty and|*4mire a bad man who has a strong purpose, a clear plan, and who otiisation. resolutely sets out to attain his end, far more than you can admire an But, however, they don't believe|*Miable nonentity who has not personality enough to think out a plan fm a g04 of ignorance and mupersti. |r will enough to carry it out tion, a god of fear, a god who has| Napoleon was a bad man, and he went the way of men who carry had chosen people whom he detailed | their selfish plans to where they become a menace to the world. There to murder the remainder of the hu-|'# @ Man now temporarily resident in- Holland who must read with interest man family who were unable to|4ll that ix being printed in German about Napoleon, a ca tie, Mr. William HqMenzollern, late of Germany, must be doing some prof ‘All sacred books on earth today | itable thinking these days. His tragedy t# the tragedy of Napoleon, and ‘erigiaated from the minds of men, | |b¥ this time he must know it ‘As hay said ex-President Elliot of} But think of the heroic greatness of Napoleon, Harvard university, 0 say 1. “The| mighty will, had it been dire Bible is no more the works of God} and his conquest of Italy lie “than all works of man are of God." | “There shall no Alps!” And as also wid the late Bibert| There were none for bin Hubbard, so say 1: “The world would | tains. be better off without the Old Bible.” | Now as for me, I don't belteves that it is any of my business what | Others do on Sunday #0 long ax they | are indies and gentlemen. And 1} haven't the least that God thinks otherwise At is but selfivh and narrow mind. | @4 men who think otherwise ! H. W. ANDREWS. A day of recreation and rest was get aside by the Babylonians and) it was borrowed from them by the Israelites, and made God's holy day. And wor be unto him who desecrat- @@ it ‘The Jews in their early history were a self-styled chosen people of God, who knew less about God's business than do intellegent men and women on earth today. Supernatural religious men thru all history have been a menace to the liberty of man, woman and child. ‘The slogan with them has been, “be- lieve,” “obey.” “Think and do as we do, or to hell with you.” and the use of that toward worthier ends. Between him Alps That is the kind of faith that removes moun. Try This on Your Wise Friend Three oranges and 8 pears cost 47 cents, 6 oranges and 7 pears cost 58 cents. What is the worth of a single orange and of a single pear? Anrwer in Saturday's Star. idea |SETH TANNER | Family trees is sometimes like other trees—they need sprayin’. Wlattery is a knock, knocked in- aide out Reporter. TODAY'S QUESTION At what time ls your brain mont- | offichems? ANSWERS J. C. MORITZ, 916 Kighth ave, 8 "I have never discovered sufficiently to boast about it” L. B. NORMAN, Renton: “A fel jow can do a mathematical problem | better in the morning; be can play a | masica! instrument better in the eve ning.” | GEORGE ORMS, 655 Jackson st “When I'm asleep, | guess.” JACK ENGSTROM, 309 Maynard | ave: “In the morning.” | W. A. BELL, | 209 Washington at “If you've got any proof that I have & brain, give It to me.” WAS THE WAR A FAILURE? Senators and others have treated with ecyniciam or ridicule the state ment made by President Wilson that we had in view the making of the world safe for democracy. And yet, if the world were not made safer from the horrors and evils of war. it failed in part, at least, in its pur pome, We had no lust for conquest or denire for indemnities, We saw the world being destroyed by the red Ude of war, and a civilization which was the fruit of centuries of growth and civilization threatened by powerful foe. We battled to destroy complete if the hideous form of Militaria still menacea the world. ~—Senator King (D) Utah. eee PEOPLE The senator was talking about the | militaristic spirit which has de veloped. He was referring to Ger many. I presume the senator is aware that the militaristic spirit not only did what the senator naid it was doing, but that It pérvaded so clety; It became part and parce! of almost every citizen's life. Every German citizen was not only carry- ing a soldier on his back, but he grew up to look with reverence upon the man who carried a sword or was dressed in a uniform, and that spirit can not long prevail until the fellow who carries a sword and is dressed in a uniform is affected by it also, and he agsumes unto himeelf a right and « privilege that ordinary persons | do not ponsesa, and that is acquieaced in by the etvilians until the military | spirit is developed and diffused thru the people generally to such an ex: | tent that the ordinary person gets! off the sidewalk when a man with | a sword comes along. He does not} amert even the rights that the law gives him. He usually submits to it willingly, because be has incul cated in him part of that «pirit.— Senator Norris (Rh), Nebraska CONSERVING, POSSIBLY “Brown ien't @ brilliant man,” said | hia friend. “But he seems to have a whole lot of common sense.” | “He ought to have,” replied A Synic, “he never uses any.” Even when they are in stmitened circumstance™ some men are! crooked. When in Seatt Advertinement, . eat at Boldt'a— motorists. eetOUM yest ANNAN ERE rye en a | Am NNNN ase sateen ere ryote THE SEATTLE STAR || REMARKABLE REMARKS PARIS, May 27.—The permanent BUY WHEN YOU ARE READY, but don’t walt too Wie ie eatin ‘lens 4 Sui a eee is your opportunity to buy at your own price. TERMS TO SUPE. stripping the native population in Tobacco in the four social poluns alcohol and tobacco | tle, eminent British surgeon. Nobody can doubt that women are gumbiers Hobertson, Oklaboma. 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