The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 11, 1921, Page 6

The Seattle Star By mail, out of city, bee per month; § montha $1.56; @ montha, SATS; year, $5.06, in the $4.50 for 6 months, oF 59.0¢ per year. By earrter, city, 600 a month. The Governor’s Conference ISN’T the county officials who ought to assemble at Olympia at the governor's call to It is the state legislators. The county officials can do nothing except in local matters. They have no mutual L discuss taxation. \ ts to serve. The probl so far as reducing expenses are concerned. The officials in Pierce coun s of King county in the least. The officials of Thurston county can be the most sconomical in the world, yet they can’t save a penny to the taxpayers of Spokane county. urpose of the conference at Olympia, set for June 20, is not clear. One thing is h county will be put to the expense of the trip to the capital for its officials, jout getting anything in return. ‘te | Nocounty will be aided AT " eut by the county officials ca ® move a foot out of their own home towns. © If the governor really means business and is truly anxious to help out in the tax mat- er, he should convene the legislature in special session to REVISE the tax system. The inty officials cannot do that. The law authorizes only the legislature to submit the constitutional amen The earliest opportunity s the legislature is convened in special session prior to that time, s in our tax system cannot be made till 1924. There will be at least two years’ ion is depended upon. eover, a yegular session, wrapped up in many other legislative items, is less apt to down to brass tacks on the tax problem than a session specially calleg for the purpose. Governor Hart isn’t merely setting up a smoke screen, he will call off a perfectly use- s conference of county officials, and get busy with that special session. if a regular sess MR. CRISSINGER HASN'T FELT THEM id now we have the comptroller currency giving out an inter. Pim the Washington Herald of Thursday, in which he virtually that hard times are good for ple. How much harder does nt them to get, In God's name? times dre good for the people, ‘Crissinger virtually said in that te Have they been hard for ? Are they hard for officehold- @ staff of employes to wait him, does not hear the cry the farm. the forge, the wheat the cotton field; from the ma- pe shop; from the printing shop, from every other ficid of indus. tor. Watson (D.), Georgia. eee IN ON INTER RUPTIONS Mme say here, gentlemen, that cent of the interruptions on no useful purpose. werve to divert the » to cause him to digress. If to say, let him say never get anything do not afford any- tm themselves. They are us ‘to criticise some state the speaker makes oF 4 to exploit the pve of the member who interrupts. is not & at all; ft is just of common sense.—Rep Ala sw would it not do to bring number of the higher offi- the various other branches service? Instead of bringing p up, let us bring some down. je are more officers, anyway, higher ranks than are nec- for the service in the army one commissioned officer to 19 men) and in the navy (about te commissioned officer to every 16 er ynator King (D.), Utah. live, a pleasure of the mind searches into nature.” How ily different is his definition from he art of American people of today, we do not wish to meditate, to y and dream. We are a rialistic race, content to satisfy Dodily appetites. Art is not a of the daily living of our peo In striving toward our goal of 42 Success, we have been and Missing the finer things of life. fe talk about democracy and giv- the “mass” a chance to really _ However, we are forgetting the ntal thing that real living is up of, that of high ideals and c of the finer arts. Like- ‘the emphasis in our education- syst has been on the practical / Learning, until recently, has regarded chiefly as a means of Di ing our position in the busi- ee world. We have heard little of n as a search for beauty or in fteelf. The study of the ty of nature or of real art has a tered seriously into the prob | fitting the “mass” for citizen- _ We have failed in our inter- n of democracy. We have striving to alleviate the condi- Of the “wage-slave” thru educa- ‘and vocational training, but we been leaving out the basic of personality, that of the de- nent of the inner man. So we ‘@ imve real democracy, @ na- efficiency, train the individual around citizenship. The mod- ‘ery has been for materialistic iciency, based on selfishness. Not ‘tecently have we begun to real- , tho we progress materially, will not last if the ly of the finer arts is omitted. 4 of all) there must be educa- all, but it must not be mere- ‘@ training 4s a means to a voca- end, but also an appreciation ‘the means itself. Too much em pharis has been laid on the study the three R's, on preparation for fe in the workaday world. We train the next generation to a realization of the values of and the value of dreams, or, Redin says, we must take time to ch into nature. Our problem, then, in striving to Ward a rea! democracy, is to allevi- ‘the condition of the laborer, thru | @ducation and thru better industrial “@onditions, giving him more leisure ‘And an appreciation of the worth While in life, so that he may use this to the best advantage, RUTH ARNOLD, U. of W. ¥ state ef Washingion. Outside of the state, do per mouth, ems of King county are NOT the problems of Benton county, nty can be extraordinarily extravagant, yet not affect the OLYMPIA in cutting expenses. ‘Whatever expenses can be n be cut at the respective county seats. They don’t have dments. These amendments must be voted on by the peo- to ratify such amendments would be in November, 1922, he required Why Don’t the Hewitts Pay (From the Tacoma Times) Henry Hewitt, jr, was not a hypocrite about money. He made no pretenses. | He loved gold. He lived for it. fortune. It was not strange that he should take a step to pre-| ; Vent both the state and United States governments from \collecting an inheritance tax on his immense wealth, when he felt himself drawing near the grave. He regarded himself as a righteous man. He lived in| |a semi-medieval day and atmosphere. Too many questions |were not asked. Maybe Henry Hewitt, jr., when he came to die possessed as clear a conscience as a day-old babe. * * * But what can we say of the comparatively young men jwho today take advantage of the elder Hewitt’s act? How may we excuse them? f They helped circumvent a law that was made to lighten the grievous tax burdens of their fellow men. And their fellows have suffered from their success to date. The younger Hewitts must have caught at least a trace ef the new social conscience. Certainly it cannot be! pleaded that they, too, hold the ancient ideals and phil- osophy of their father. The Hewitt heirs did not earn the moncy, or even a mall part of it. It was not their skill at manipulating and acquisition or their vision that made them rich. It was only an accident of birth. * 8s The state law is plain. Its meaning cannot be mistaken. It clearly declares wealth transferred prior to the death of the owner shall not escape the inheritance tax. The action of the elder Hewitt is just as plain as the law. He transferred his great fortune to a holding com- pany owned by the heirs only 15 days before he died! . * & *% Tacoma may forgive and forget the elder Hewitt. But what are we to think of the sons who, tho three years have passed, do ngt come forward with just and proper payment to the state and the national government? AND WHAT ARE WE TO THINK OF THE PUBLIC OFFICIALS WHO LET THEM GET AWAY WITH IT? Meyer Lissner, of Los Angeles, has been appointed on the ship board, and Will Humphrey, of Seattle, loses. Still, Seattleites can get the ear of a Lissner when they might be talking in vain to a fellow whose hearing is bad. He accumulated a vast Hugo Stinnes, head of a German ship company, has named three of his Hamburg-to-South America passenger ships Tirpitz, Hindenburg and Ludendorff. Guess he knows the Americans are used to riding those three. 5 George Bernard Shaw says he has received an offer of $10,000 to put his name on a movie film. That ought to answer, once and for all, “What's in a name?” Rolls of fat! Jake ’em off this summer at the civilian | military training camp at Camp Lewis. The American golfers who invaded England @idn’t win the cup—but what use would a cup be in this country? A steeple painter gets on in life by starting at the top and working down. * Feathered footwear worn in Paris. Should be popular with highfliers. The Franchise Holder BY DR. WILLIAM E. BARTON There ts @ certain city where runs a trolley line upon « street where the trolley no longer pays expenses. The traction company would like to pull up its tracks from that street, and would like to plan to lay tracks upon another street in a residential district. But the city council and the residents of the street along which the new line is proposed to be run object strenuously to the new track, and ineist jthat the company shall fulfill its obligations as already assumed. The company does it, but in this fashion: Once a day a forlorn old car, with flat wheels and rickety gear, runs from the car barns out to the end of the line, and then turns around and at its convenience runs back. This arrangement yields no revenue, for not once a week, probably, does the conductor ring up a@ fare. No one thinks of riding upon that Une unle@s by some rare chance he happens to overtake the car going in his own direction at a time when he desires rest and is not pressed for tima The car is operated as a “franchise-holder” and nothing else. I am not sufficiently informed concerning the merits of this particular controversy to express any judgment between the street car company and the city. But of this I am assdred: The franchise-holding theory of street ear operation will not answer permanently. Only for a little time, and as a weapon, can it be tolerated. It turns what should be a utility into an irritation and a nuisance. Moreover, the franchise-holding theory of life must go. The idea that a man’s life is to be operated on the basis of holding all that one acquires and of rendering the least possible service in return is not confined to street car companies. More and more good business as well as good morals must rest on the jsiving of the largest possible value in service in return for what a man takes out of the common wealth of the town or state in which he lives or the firm he serves. ‘ Every day in the year !t becomes more certain that successful business must be administered on the basis of service, Try This on Your Wise Friend A square *island is 21 feet, on all four sides, from the square land surrounding it. How can a man get to the island with two boards, one 19 feet long, the other 18 feet long and both one-half foot wide? Answer to yesterday's: 9, (Example: 9x2 equals 18, and the sum of 1 and 8 is 9.) i fME SEATTLE STAR AFTER RAIN BY ALFRED ARNOLD ‘The esky ts bright, like a scrubbed blue Moor; And the air is washed till it's sweet once more; afl Letters to the Editor— WARNS OF REAL ESTATE CROOKEDNESS Editor The Star: I wish to warn prospective purchasers, women espe clally, thru your paper of a fraudu: lent acheme by Which I waa induced to purchase logged-off land recently y means of which I was defrauded out of $27.85, and almoat lost several hundred dollara This despicable brand of hold-up men calling them- seives salesmen will apparently stoop to any sort of misrepresenta tion to gain @ commission and are apparently immune from prosecution resulting from such tacUcs, I was) anxious to obtain a small tract which | I could later develop Into an income” bearing property, and made inquiries of a firm advertising largely of what splendid opportunities awaited their purchasers, the setuement scheme being loeated not far out of Beattle Wag told by the salesman that they had one tract éf 3.3 acres so nearly cleared that tt could be finished for I knew nothing of such a proposition. How ever, as I bad made inquiries at a bank where I had a small account re garding the firm and bad been as sured they were reliable, I never bad | @ suspicion that everything was not | as represented. ‘The salesman told | me they had another purchaser who would be glad to rent the property on a share baais, I to pay him the) som paratively small amount of $50 or 360 to finish the clearing, Therefore 1 purchased the property, paying | ahead for a year on my payments, and later a man was brought to me| whom they represented as the man fho would rent the property on shares, ete. As I supposed, 1 made all arrangements with him, thru the real estate agent, to take the place on shares‘ and clear the land, and there let the matter rest. Some little time later the man said he had done and I asked the if he had been at work thera, and being arsured that he had, I paid bim § count of clearing. Later, hearing further from him, I went out te the place and @iscovered he had dropped out of sight, leaving behind a board nd his clothing. 0 the hotel and arrangements made for his board by the same salesman who had “ar- ranged” with me for the clearing, so I was told by the landlady, I then started in to try and get somecne elge to take the proposition on the same basis and discovered, much to my surprise, that the low. est price at which I could get the work do was $125 per acre (which I have since found out fs a very falr price), which wag entirely beyond my purse and not at al! like what had been represented to me. | at once took the matter up with the! manager in the office where I had transacted the business, and was told T had better let the matter go for a year, (Why?) Finally was given the name of the manager fm their head office In town, and also was told by another salesman that if I would do just as they want)d me to I might get something back, and if I would Way to Trust & Savings Second Avenue | Was out the $12, the $10 paid to | court. HE high road to success stretches out before everyone with ambition. The way is plain and easy to travel on. With a Savings Account you are on this road. Each deposit-brings you a step nearer your mark. Opportunity awaits the man or wom- an with a surplus fund in the bank. Combined Resources, Horton National Bank $23,818,290.20 Dexter Horion Trust and Savings Bank The grass and the frees, that showed neglect, And the flower bed by the winter wrecked, Are changed, and chipper with self-respect. ‘The paving stones all the way down street Shine under the passing horses’ feet; And the sidewalks respectable seem to lq As not ashamed of the human eye, And almost proud to smile at the sky. And talkative women are stretching lines For thelr new-washed clothes; and veranda vines Are being trimmed up by whistling men; And the children are loud at play again; While there on the bird-house sits Jenny Wren. Everyone moves in a live Even a stranger receiv And doors are open, and styley a smile; windows wide, And you smell the dinner, cooking inside; And you know that you couldn't feel sad if you tried. not I woulda’t get anything out of | it, The reason of this being that I had objected to giving them @ quit claim deed and assignment of © tract before they had their check ready for me, which was their de sire I should do, Also I was told I had made them a lot of trouble by having the contract put on record at the county seat. (Evidently they had calculated on the contract being re- turned to them or canceled for some reason or other.) When I saw the manager at their head office he of fered to re-sell the property, giving | me only a part of the purchase price, | #12 less than I had paid in to the | firm on the contract; and then be |wides that, when he did finally resell | the land he took out from the agreed price to me $2.25 for fillng fees for the quitclaim deed to them. I call) | thin systematic robbery, nothing leas. the man for supposedly clearing, the | $2.60 it cont me to place the contract on record, and the $2.25 they grabbed for filing the quiteclaim deed back to them. Now, the reason I did not take the matter into the courts was, had I gone into criminal action 1 would not have received anything ck, might possthly have sent the salesman who misrepresented the property to jail, but I doubt {t, and had I taken the matter into the elvil lawyers have to be well paid, and also this particular concern is & very wealthy proposition and could easily law me to doomeday, Such| practices aa this are a menace to the! pubiie and should be roundly con- demneg and people safeguarded by | more étringent laws than Washing ton seems to have on the statute books, ° Working people, especialy women should be made aware of the crooked methods employed to filch their money from them by such scoun- dreis, It seems as if shady methods jof business are winked at here | Seattle, and apparently designated | the “Seattle Spirit.” People who will rob others, especially working wom- en, by such methods, are certainly & menace to the public and the only safety to the people is to put them behind bars, but by taking such ac- tion the purchaser would only lose everything and nothing gained by It personally. J trust some other wom MAKING THE FIRST “BILLION. DOLLAR CONGRESS” LOOK LIKE A PIKER ‘The majority party will enact measures calling for nearty $1,000,- 000,000 for these two departments (war and navy) for the coming year. The burden will rest upon the repub- lican party for the increase of taxes, or, at’ least, for failure to reduce taxes, and for these enormous ex- penditures provided for in republican legislation. Senator King (DJ, Utah. an reading this may be saved from | | losing her savings as I have lost mina It is too hard to get money ahead to allow such high-handed rob- bers to get their clutches on our purses without a word of warning from one who bas been already swindled by the crooks. MRS. E. lL HANSEN, OPPORTUNITY STARWANTADS REV. M. A. MATTHEWS wij) preach @ sermon Sunday morning entitled, YOUR CHILD In the evening he will discuss the subject, THE CHAOS OF MODERN THEOLOGY PUBLIC INVITED Success Dexter Horton Bank and Dexter at Cherry Street |wpot of earth, and rest thine eyes by looking at it; THE PARABLE OF THE OUTDOOR ART GALLERY I paged thru the part of the city where dwell the people of Ethiopia | And the street had been cut down so that the houses stood upon a bank |about six cubits in helght., And the steps were rickety that led to the top. And at the top of the steps in a certain place, I beheld @ shack that bore a sign in Red Paint, Washing Done Here, And 1 bebeld upon the Fence much Broken Crockery hung. And I ascended the steps, and I beheld a Wonderful Sight For there was a apace of about five cubits with Plates that were Somewhat Broken, yet Showing Pictures of Fish or Fowl or Other Things. These were hung to the Fence by Nails and Wire. And the earth at the foot of the fence and at the top of the steps was |hedged in with other Crockery. And upon it were Twelve Plaster Casta, 4 some of them were badly broken, as they had been picked out of the City Dump. And I suépected that the Dump had furnished the Whole | Outfit. had furnished the Whole Outfit. And a voice spake unto me, saying, Do not go away. And fhe woman |of the house came forth and explained unto me. And she said, I have « taste for the Artistick, And I have not the money for Expensive Worke of art. Therefore have I gathered such as God sent unto me, And there be thove of my neighbors who say that this is the Grave of my Mother; and that is not true, but I have rather come to think that it is true, and to like the thought. But this ts th expremsion of my Love of Art. And she spake of the Statues, and she sald, That gentleman at the head is Abraham Lincoln; and he hath the place of Honor. And that one that is broken off, with both heads gone, is a lady and her daughter, and I know not their names, but I think thet they were Saints, And canst thou tell me the name of the man with the Curly Hair? And I said, That was a musician, even’ Mozart. And she eaid, I painted him black, for I thought with his Curty Hair I could make of him a member of mine Own Race. But he did not really look like @ Colored Gentleman, and the paint hath. well nigh worn off. And she said, Some of the neighbors think this Right Nice, and some there be who say that I am Crazy. But I spend my days at the Wash Tub, and I weary of looking ever down into the Suds, wherefore do I sometimes look up unto my God, and then again do I look out at mine Art Gallery. And I told her the names of certain of her other Plaster Heroes and Heroines, and what Great Men and Women they were; and I spake con- cerning certain of the Historical Events which were emblazoned upon her Crockery, and I said nothing unto her that would make ber think less of her Art Gallery. And if it made it more sacred unto her to think ef ft as her mother’s grave, that, too, was all to the good; for I had no idea that her mother would rise up and rebuke her for the Shrieking Discord of her Post- mortem Decoration. For tho it was as absurd a manifestation of the Artistick Spirit as T have ever seen outside an Exbibition of Modern High Art wrought by the Impressionists, yet It did no harm unto any buman soul, and to its owner it was a comfort. Wherefore do I say unto all men and women, Look not ever downward into the suds of Business, or of Worldly Things. Brighten eome little ea, now and agi E. BARTON. lift them higher. WILLI beat that Akron tire worker who is golng to ask the courts to sustain his claim to real estate in the heart of New York by inheritance from TODAY'S QUESTION Do you think you are entitled to a raise in pay? ANSWERS F. G. HAM, 615 29th ave. Ma “1 think you've got the wrong Mr. Hem I'm & journeyman brick- layer.” F. W. HEWES, 216 Roanoke ava: “Tm getting war pay now and Fu lucky if I don’t get cut” RESINOL SOAP (& tan! for tee wits med bade, ate poms drugstss for theses protects. TOMORROW The $1,000 Photoplay: Title Contest Tomorrow’s Post-Intelligencer will contain complete rules and full details of the Photoplay Contest as well as The First Picture in the Contest $1,000 in Cash Prizes To Be Divided as Follows: First Prize $500 Second Prize $100 Four Prizes $25 Each Two Prizes $50 Each Twenty Prizes $10 Each Order Your Paper Today Get Ready to Be a Winner Don’t miss the heaps of fun and th: chance to win one of the big cash prizes. ‘Tomorrow’s edition of the Post-Intelligencer is limited to 80,000. Don’t miss the chance of getting in on the $1,000 Photoplay Title Contest. Be sure and order your Sunday I