The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 3, 1921, Page 6

Published Datly Newspaper bn terprise Asm. and United Press Servicw The Seattle Star 76: year, By mali, out of city, S¢e per month; 2 montha, $1.50; € mor menth, $5.00, im the state of Washington, Outside af the sta $4.80 for @ montha, or $2ONper year, By carrier, vity, LOCAL TAXI COMPANY offers to save $100,000 a year to the A city if it is given a contract to furnish taxis for all public work, We must show no ruth or pity Th replacing the present municipal system of keeping a lot of automo- biles in charge of individual employes of the city. Sounds good, doesn’t it? : It ought to be accepted, if the proper bond guaranteeing perform- is obtainable. arrhere is no question that public autos are misused, that they are not strictly held to public uses, and that oftentimes private excur- gions are made in them at public expense. i True enough, the saving would be only $100,000 a year, and that is only one-third of a mill of the tax levy. One-third of a mill off the ' this, added to a number of other items, may finally result in a sav- ing of two, or three, or five mills. Every little bit helps. é ae Every extravagance of every kind should’be eliminated. The auto evil is one. : These cuts we can bring about NOW! ; No matter how big these cuts will be, they cannot be big enough to give the homeowner here the same tax rate he gets in San Fran- ¢isco, because down in California they have a different tax SYSTEM. - In fact, San Francisco could be much more extravagant than | Seattle in municipal, county and school expenditures, and yet retain - a lower tax rate. ; San Francisco, you see, has an occupation tax as well as a tax on roperty, and it taxes intangibles as well as real estate and house- old effects. : hak Tax revision must come here, if we are to get anywhere in this tax business. In the’meantime, we must cut all extravagances. And $100,000 a year is not to be sneezed_at. Pleasure in Learning | H. G. Wells is on good educational ground when he sug- }gests that the moving picture and the phonograph are jgreat assets almost unused in our educational system. There is no-reason why an impersonator of Caesar should not speak Latin from the movie screen with our Latin etudents, or Demosthenes talk to them in Greek, why pupils should not see all foreign lands and their ways of doing things, why our poets should not recite their verses in concert with our classes, why the dull, because unseen, processes of biology, should not go on before the eyes of the children, even in the country schools. | Observations | Our greatest national problem is whether we shall build warships or friendships.—! is Non-Partisan Leader, ‘as these enormous appropria- bills are introduced into con-| Ex-Kaiser Bill wears his uniform only at dinner. Maybe We would be negligent indeed/he attacks his food. ‘We aid not profit by the signs that written upon our own sky. A hty fleet has mobilized in the Pa- The president is about to re- another at Norfolk. Gen. Wood @ mounted a steaming Pullman has spurred straight for Manila An ominous tone pervades the fees, and each day articles appear th would lead the unwary to be- that we are about to go to war Fescue from the conscienceless that spice-perfumed isle that nes- ters of the hose very name the fancy with dreams of a breakfast food, a novel brand chewing gum, or a biological dis- n of the proposed new depart- (WHERE OUR FEOREAL TAXES ‘The per capita tax in the United has increased from $6 an- to $48. The percentage of ments annually by this coun ry show 67.81 per cent for past ps; 20.02 per cent for plans for fu-/ fe wars; 3.19 per cent for the legis-| executive and judicial of the government; 1.01 per for public health and education; per cent for public works, in- rivers and harbors, the Pan- canal and public buildings.— Harris (D.), Ga. eee [¥ THEY YAP ABOUT YAP “Three hundred bandits captured,” says a headline. Don’t cheer; it happened in Egypt. Ex-President Wilson is writing a book. “May I not—” Bet it begins, One of the eternal mysteries is how your neighbor can afford a better car. The end of a perfect day, these days, is a cool night. You can’t get rid of a war politician. Vote him out of office and he begins publishing his memoirs. Now we know why the Japanese make good servants. of general welfare. a b | Promising to get out of Shantung, they show that they me to deprecate Yap. = : rom what I can discover it 1s|¢4Nn't break China. sole priceless possession for hav-| = EDR RS BME a baie M4 7 made the world safe for democ-| A Toronto professor says he has a fluid that will make , and therefore it must have cost|a man tell all his secrets. So had we—a couple of years something like 40 billion dollars. | ago} we are not going to war over| a CE Japan, with her 93 fightin, s, . ‘ s, MMA) units, is not going te chat| Less than a third of the world’s population is white. And Tenge the mightiest nation on earth cnly about 10 per cent of these act that way.—Canton ‘With fleet of almost 500 fighting | Repository. COMING AND GOING the South Pacific whose title rests | BY DR. WILLIAM E. BARTON ately with us and is going to rest; . And while I never lived next | to a prophet, Iam going to Seg HOSH interesting people, the astronomers, who work while we sleep and tell us in the morning what they have seen while we were dreaming, bring back to us Stake my reputation ag one upon the @ssertion that when these bills are astonishing information there days. If they keep it up they may tempt some of the rest of us to sit up mifely out of the way we shall hear of nights and see whethet they tell the truth. ‘No more of Yap, and the war clouds now hover ominously over our will be deep in the bosom of Here is one thing they tell us now: That the spiral nebulae are moving away from us as fast as they can go, and the star clusters are coming toward us as fast as they can come. When we say that they are approaching “us” or receding from “us,” we need to consider who is “us.” “Us" is the Galactic System which has the Milky Way ag its backbone. It is the Main Street of that system of systems in which the Solar System occupies @ small and inconspicuous baek lot in an obscure alley. The astronomers tell us that the epiral nebulae are found in one part of the sky, relative to the Milky Way, and the globular clusters are in another part. These globular clusters are compact, made up of super-suns, beside any one-of which our sun is a mere marble. They are moving our way. The spiral nebulae, which may be solar systems forming, or systems that have smashed up, are moving away from us. Two of them have |been checked up, and their running time is now on record. One of them \is making something better than 800 miles a second, and the other is peice! good-bye at the rate of about 1,200 miles a second, ‘e had not supposed that any heavenly body wi eager distance between itself and us, Z a i oe And now the astronomers have to discover, if they can, why one class ot bodies is approaching this thickly settled part of the sky, and another class is removing. Is our Milky Way so desirable a residential district that all the first families among the stars are looking this way and moving in, while we drive the celestill tramps out into the unoccupied areas? Perhaps, if we knew the answer to this question, we should be able to discover one of the profound secrets of the universe. . As a we are very ignorant. Try This on Your Wise Friend A man gave some beggars 3 cents each and had 12 cents left. If he'd tried to give them 5 cents each he’d have been 8 cents shy. How many beggars were there? Answer to yesterday's: Six leaps, ent ocean buried. In other words, @ir, upon the tall of this imaginary comet, the profiteers of naval- fam and militarism have written the Profitable legion, “In hoe signo ‘Vinees.”—Rep. Knight (R.), 0. My little girl, 7, has a growth in her Mose. It fs real hard, red and very It is the size of a large bean, has there five or six months. I had her Molds and tonsils taken out three weeks mgo. It causes her to talk thru her none. Doctor said it was caused from the adenoids, and would probably take of itself. would be impossible to say, without seeing it, just what the ob- ' struction in your little girl's nose may be. It may be an overgrowth or ' outgrowth of one of the bones in the nose, or it may be a polypus. The late spring or early summer is the best time for the removal of a growth | of this kind, and if your physician | finds an operation is necessary he will probably advise you to have it| done. In the meantime he will, I am sure, be very glad to recommend any | local application or other palliative treatment that the present condition | Of the nose ee (1 total of 73 mills won’t affect the individual homeowner so much, but}. | In the Editor’s Mail | We should slay him very quickly Lest he swarm about us thickly “Swat the Fly And we suddenly grow sickly (Copyright, 1921, by Newspaper And we die! Enterprise) PROTECTIS THE ; ALMON Editor the Star mittee appoint y Gov, Hart says | jo, the rivers must close, That is their | my idea of the way to protect the sal mon, and probably a great many of | , the public, who do not understand | , the fishing of a gill net A gill net, to work successfully, | oa must be operated in fresh of brack ish water, It is the only means of catching fish without injuring the small fish, as nothing but the large fish are caught in a gill net, Some years go the fish commis. sioner started to close the rivers, one at a time, until today only two re main open on Puget sound, Still the fish are decreasing. It probably would help the traps by closing the remaining two rivers, so they could operate a few more years, but that would be protecting the traps and not protecting the sal- mon. Something must be done to stop the wasteful methods of trap and purse seine fishing to give the small fish a chance to mature, Some thing must be done to allow more! fish to get to the rivers, or there will be no salmon in a few years. | Skagit river used to have a good run of blueback salmon, The gill | netter did not catch them, as at the| time they were running he was us: ing his spring salmon net, which ts 9%-inch mesh, and what was left) after the traps took their toll went unmolested up the river, but they are’ nearly exterminated today. The Alaska rivers have bean closed, but conditions in Alaska are different from Puget sound, Near- ly all the bays and inlets of Alaska re muddy from giacier water, con- sequently a gill net will work any place. By putting the gill nets in Puget sound out in salt waters, you THE SEATTLE STAR is __ 7 Berton Brales-___ eres not one redeeming featu While we shout our battle ery, in to fil the vacancies from other | states, and even from Canada, The fish com-|they would only stop to think, at ast 90 cents of every dollar from arried man's pay check (who is a| home owner) goes back into the city | floater only wants ke to take away with him. That | is one of the thingy that they make |[! n, Whereas the pital out of in California, Yours, A MARRIED MAN. SETH TANNER] would be prohibiting the only gear | — from fishing that takes nothing but matured and does not injure the im-| tisement, matured fish. A FISHERMAN, bane “HOME” cits 8, HE SAYS Editor The Star: While I have been admiring your stand for a big- ger Seattle, I wonder if yoy have been taking some things into consid- eration? The merchants are saying, “Use Seattie-made Goods.” Then they turn around and hire outsiders, when there are so many men who, like myself, are out of work, ang in spite of the fact that we have been tax payers for years shunted to one side and men are actually being brought {| DR. J. KR. pate: Free Examination iBEST $2.50 cLasses on Earth We are one of the few optical stores in the Northwest that really lenses from start. to finish, and the only one in TTLE—ON FIRST AVENUB Examination free, by graduate op- # not prescribed | unless necessary. BINYON OPTICAL CO. 1116 FIRST AVENUR Between Spring and Seneca Phone Main 1550 Hot D tis Leaves Colman Bock 9 am. Fare $2.00 FOR INFORMATION CALL MAIN 3992 PUGET SOUND NAVIGATION CO, 1221-Third Ave “COR UNINERSITY Ham and eggs at Boldt's—Adver- FRIDAY, JUNE 3, 1921. Depends largely upon what his Tesi he. D, BE. PEACOCK, 1402 Fifth ave- Well, it isn’t absolutely neo it's very desirable. | REMARKS | » by agreement if possible and by ex- ample if necessary.--William Jen Phosphorus matches are bat lin Belgium. J, Men’s, Young Men’s re To the fly! To the fly; nings Bryan, TODAY'S QUESTION 4 : j In the country or the etly, He's an evil, loathsome creature, sda ae duabihail tabiasiel te and Boys’ Clothing, He must diet None deny; We have been called a nation of | ou8 os ea amar = Hats, Shoes and Do not cherish, do not pet him; _ to treat him spenders, but I believe the time is} 4 ee When you see him,-«o and got him, 494 the only way to treat hi | ANSWERS Furnishings eee ee aero nd do motéiet nim 18 to fight him when you meet him, Jat hand when Americans will evolve | Viait one ‘now stese aa oP Manip! af Smash, abolish, and delete him—|a new idea of thrift—John J. Pul Raking Lg F 2113 Jag kon Mt in| | charge account with us . ” yt f 0 ei ” . Swat the fly leyn, president, Savings Banks Asso. Den not to his business, . clation Ob, he ste ta the breezen, He's a menace—we must pot him, ees A. J. VROOMAN, 611 Third ave f We must swat and swat and swat! you wilt ting th ‘ | I'm in favor of it, but I can’t say it Bringing various disdases; nd that the Christian | !™ att ¢ That is why him, church is the best beauty parlor—| M408 the difference between suc The Rev, | Cems and failure, 1417 210t ave, £8 Beoes and it uses no cosmetics. | Dr. Percy St Grant, New York| BR. JORDA City elergym: jwnaw 1927 Fifth Ave. || Between Pike and Union Stre No. it | Reduction in Price In keeping with the lower cost of production these delicious soda wafers will be sold by gro- , cers at the following marked reduction in price. | Snow Flakes are made with the fimest ingredi- ents, in modern, sunny bakeries. Packed only in the red Snow Flake package. Small Size 15c Large Size 35c Fast I bought the woolen stock of a high-priced , tailor. He made only high- priced clothes, $65.00 and up. He had to have mon- ey—I bought this fine stock at my own price —paid him SPOT CASH. They are on sale to- day, your suit tailored to measure for— oo gi I couldn't wait on ev- ery one today; I’m sorry. SO COME IN SAT- URDAY BEFORE 11 A. M. PLL REFUND $1.00 ON YOUR SUIT. I'LL PAY YOU FOR COMING EARLY AND _ AVOIDING THE AFTERNOON RUSH. Many fine fabrics for you to choose from. AND REMEMBER THAT MY USUAL IRON-CLAD GUAR- ANTEE OF ENTIRE SATISFACTION GOES WITH EVERY SUIT I MAKE FOR YOU. By all means, see this fine stock tf woolens Saturday. LAFF, The Tailor 1106 THIRD AVE. Near Spring Neat to Old Telephone Bldg. Note — Overcoatings included in this great sale. Your Grocer Can Supply You Pacific Coast Biscuit Co. OLYMPIC'S the Pancake Flour.of the hour—s4 tested and found true wherever good appetites’ get together. You'll know it by the never-failing | flavorsome results, In kitchen or camp- kit, it’s indispensible for good pancakes or waffles. Simply add milk or water, mix and cook. 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