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

Pubiished Dotty by The Star Pui 105 Newspaper Rn- terprise Asam. and Untied Cheaper Gas! | 5 Why has Seattle the most expensive gas in the United States? _ Why is that gas, expensive as it is, the poorest in quality in the United States? Prices of all commodities are being reduced. Wage scales are ‘in process of painful readjustment. Foodstuffs have dropped so that it is even noticeable in some restaurants. And yet Seattle gas is higher than ever before! The New York Consolidated Gas company, one of the great corporations of its kind in the country, reduced its rates months ago—voluntarily. Portland gas companies have been compelled to slice their charges by the Oregon public service commission in the past few weeks. Seattle gas rates remain at the sanne peak ices! At the public hearing held before the state public service com- mission here last winter, Seattle residents by the hundreds testi- fied to the poor quality of the gas and to its almost prohibitive cost. The commission listened languidly to the great mass of: evi- ‘dence and then calmly reduced the heat unit of the gas! Seemingly the public is without redress. But the people are never without redress. Theirs is always the last word. if the Seattle Lighting company stubbornly refuses to reduce its rates in accordance with the reduction of prices general thruout the world, then it will be the sufferer. The patience of the people is elastic —but sometimes it breaks! : i Here is how Seattle gas compares, as to price and quality, with that sold in 15 other large cities: a Heat Cont. Price Per of gas 1,000 Cu. Ft. . eee $1.20 . 580 1.15 . 530 1.00 > 600 79 ° 600 80 . 600 85 528 1.40 Milwaukee, Wis. 520 65 ington, D. C 600 1.82 eee a 5. 525 1.40 The Teuton Rainbow Ga now is to have an immense advantage over all the other great nations. It is demanded of her, and she agrees to it, that she shall disarm as to military and naval and aerial forces. Let’s see what this signifies and how it looks in table form: DISARMED GERMANY ARMED NATIONS Increase in industrial ef-] Hundreds’ of thousands ficiency. producing nothing, in army Increase in ‘production. and navy. Increase. in thought and ef- fort for invention and Best brains devoted to poi- son gas, new explosives, big guns and warships. Enormous ever-growing Tremendous decrease injwar tax burden on the com- tax. (mon folk. It is true that the Germans will have to pay a big repara- tions bill, and must stand heavy taxation. But, they can rapidly whittle down that bill and they will not have to support a parasite royalty or a venomous militaristic tape- worm. All their brains and energy will be jucing and con- structing, solely. Man works best most successfully under such inspiration. Other nations will be groaning and sweating under taxation for support of institutions which produce waste, solely. The whole world has had to give the Germans credit for standing in the highest rank in science, art, industry, invention and commercial expertness. The Germans have now got to confine their endeavors to these lines. The next generation of Germans will hate militarism as their ances- tors worshiped it. Look out for the future Germany! It is not war-like progress but peaceful progression in invention, industry, and higher efficiency of brains and hands that count, in the final analysis of the life career of the human animal. All of Napoleon’s victorious battles produced—St. Helena. His laws, his roads, his public build- jence. Advancement in arts. Painless Dentistry AT PRE-WAR : PRICES Crowns ....... $5.00 fl; Paige 7 i : . gs and institutes, even some of his philosophies, bles Bridgework .. .$5.00 fil France today. r “ a Amalgam Fillings. Wasting and Wanting Up Nginiahs: those present there are doubtless many who sometime in their lives dragged by painful force milk from the protesting udder of a restless cow. ee who have learned the contortionist’s art while milking a cow, who was reaching for a fly on her starboard aft hatch, will appreciate something of the sinful waste of our present milk system. Any man who has milked a two-gallon cow in fly time will forever feel that every lacteal drop is too precious, derived at too painful a cost of human blood and tears, to be spilled this side some babe’s hungry lips. But the sad fact remains that in every American city thousands of gallons of milk are thrown away every day; just as the painful fact persists that the majority of American homes do not give the growing children all the milk and butter and fresh eggs they actually require tor normal growth. On the borders of every city will be found hog ranches whose chief feed comes from city creameries; spoiled milk, soured milk, melted ice cream by the thousands of gallons, milk improperly shipped, butter improperly made, ten thou- sand gallons of ice cream manufactured for a five thou- sand gallon market. There is enough milk on American farms for every American baby to be fully nourished, but between the cow and the baby there is many a slip, and the baby suffers and dies by the thousand every summer because of a too scant or improper milk supply. This is a sinful waste. SPECIAL True-to-Nature $8.00 Examinations and Estimates FREE Electro Painless Dentists Located foP Years at 8. E. Corner First and Pike Upstairs Let the “Dime & Dollar” Make Your Dimes and Dol- Try This on Your Wise Friend Can you make one word of these letters, using each letter but once: EDORNOW? Answer to Saturday's: Lay either board across a corner section of surrounding land and the other from this board to the island Almost every congregated group of boys and young men today is em erossed im shooting erapa.-The Rev. Chrivtian E. Reiner, New York clergyman, o ‘The rod i# the only methed of bringing (he youthful generation to its senses and teaching children to respect thefr parents and elders, Jugée Alfred J. Tailey, New York . o- Profane np all, married nh, ape considered bent npanies,—Bred National Surety Co. "Yy of New York. eee \ Just as soon as the people of Hu: rope are able to buy American goods the manufacturers of this country will see a great business boom— Colonel Leroy Springs, Pennsylvanta cotton manufacturer. eee Before us ts the greatest proaperity this country has ever witnessed.— Judge Elbert Gary, steel magnate, eee ‘The wortd is very sick. Pf I were & doctor, I would prescribe one month's enforced stlence.—James M Beek, United States solicitor general. MOST OF US ARE IN THE SAME FIX Our country now has a debt twen- ty four times as Inrge as it had five years ago. The Interest upon that debt costs the American people aa much as the whole appropriations of congress amounted to before the war. In addition to that, we have hanging over the country @ floating debt of $2,000,000,000, and the treas- ury department does not know what to do with it. It can hardly be funded, because to borrow the men- ey on bonds issued by the govern Ment would probably involve paying 5% per cent interest, and that will stall more depreciate the value of the Liberty bonds outstanding. The government today ts borrowing mon- ey at 5% per cent interest.—Senator Hitchcock (D.), Nebraska, - 8 ee WISE VIRGINS AND FOOLISH They (the Virgin triands) have had situation under which Danish laws ave governed those islands. For Matance, some offenses were puntsh- able by boiling tn ot!, but, of course, “ech punishment has never been {n- fBcted since we secured posnenxion ithe island.—sen. Kenyon m), ts Mankind has fallen on times when there is no hope for it if some com- muaities seek isolation while others inde@ge in unrestrained ambition for emptre.—President Warren G. Har- BY ISAAC WATTS ‘Tis the votce Of a sluggurd; I heard him complaia, “You have waked me too soon; I must slumber again;” As the door on its hinges, so his bed Turns his sida, and hie shoulders, and his heavy bead he in . “A little more sleep, and a little more slumber;” Thus he wastes half his days, and his hours without number: And when he gs up, he site fold ing his hands Or walks about sagmt'ring, or trifling he stands. I passed by his gar@en, and saw the wild brier The thorn and the thistle grow broader and higher; The clothes that hang on him are turning to rags; And his money still wastes till he starves or he begs. I made him a visit, stil hoping to tind That he took better came for im- proving hix mind; He told me his dreams, talked of eating and drinking, But he scarce reads his Bible, and never loved thinking. Said I then to my heart, “Here's a lesson for me; That man's but a picture of what I might be; But thanks to my friends for: their care In my breeding, Who taught me betimes to love-work ing and reading.” Daddy, bring nome some Bolit’s pastry, vertine ‘AL PAINLESS Fi rder to introduce our new (whalebone) plate, which is the lightest and strongest plate known, does not cover the roof of the mouth; you can bite corn off the cob; guaranteed 15 years. eed tor 15 years. jons taken in the morn- nd get teeth same day. Exami- jon and ativice free. CaN and See Samples of Our Plate amd Bridge Work. We Stand the Test of ‘Time. Most of our present patronage is ommended by our early cuatom- era, ti giving 064 satisfaction. Ask our cuss fomer: Who have tested our work. When erKe to ee office, be sure you are in the right place. Brin this ad with you. 7 whose work 4s n, fat men and, above! |ing rooms WANTS CONCERTS Another failing 1 that public of IN PARKS ficos here have @ habit of attract | Editor The Star: It seems to me ing small ealiber men to big jobs | that the city officers or authorities |We generally vote for a man be ought to put up the necessary funds caase he lx a aice fellow and needs to have band eoncerts in the public a meal tleket, |parks on Sunday afternoons and promixed to giv evenings; also community singing, It a job, Efficien in We the music and not considered | wt shadowy parks In|omy is considered @ fault. p t ov her, S@ a us to our home went, such ly eurmm: Then the d concerts and community sing ing are a splendid advertisement of the progress and prosperity of Seat tle In the past, when the bands played in the parks, I went, and when they quit, I quit going, I be lieve the cur fares of the extra visite ors to the parks for the sake of the music and singing would pay all the cost of the music. A, I. BIGFORD. cee THE SKAGIT—AND THEN WHAT? Editor The Star: A couple years azo the Skagit project was looked upon as the mvior of Seattle. It was expected to furnish power at a ridiculously low figure to tmdus- tries, and also sufficient power for our street car system. At present there is considerable talk of dropping the Skagit projec’ Personally, I believe M was n intended that the city of Sei should ever operate this project. The sooner it is dropped, the more money will be spent on some other fool hardy venture. How much money has been spent on this project up to the present time, or what has bee accomplished of bees mentioned to my publicly body's business, All we are expected to know fa, preduce the money or your home will be confiscated. One of our mental wizards first estimated the cost of this project at unit, including « permanent dam. most any grammar school pupil could have made « better guess. Wild guessers and expertmenters are re sponsible for our high taxes here to & considerable extent. We are told that the proposed dam will be only @ temporary affair. one that caused so much discussion a few years ago. The transportation charges and advice of a thousand and one experts and rubbernecks cost far more than the anticipated commercial value of the dum {tself. In fact it got to be such an unap- preciated joke that the general pub- He finally said, “O, damn the dam,” and ft was sonsigned to the list of other succemes, such as the garbage incinerators, The more I think of {t, the more Tam convinced that our municipal affairs were looked after better the days when the boss gambler @ pointed our mayor, prospective cou cflmen bought their votes themsely: ‘and elections were held merely as matter of form. How often have we heard the re held back by the Northern Pacific? Stone & Webster have « strangle hold on Seattle and the majority of ‘us don't even know {t Tt has been suggested that the money which has been raised for the Skagit be used on the Lake Union steam plast. Thir sounds like a voice from Boston. What chance would the city haye with steam planta, as- ing ot] at $2.13 per barrel, in com- petition with hydro-electric plants? This would be a plain case of mia appropriation of public funds, One of our principal troubles is, there are too many officeholders, ad- Vieers and hangers-on, who consider the ti&xkpayers’ money commen prop. erty, like cigaret papers and matefics, If you are one of those who is with in reach, help yourself. They con- sider ft no crime or dingrace to pil fer or waste it. Anyone who believes in being conscientious, or using dis- cretion in spending public moneys, they consider a ehumo, BUY NO DYE BUT “DIAMOND DYES” Unless you ask for “Diamond Dyes” you may get a poor dye that streaks, spots, fades and ruins your goods, Every package of Diamond | Dyes contains simple directions for home dyeing or tinting any new, rich, fadeless color into garments or draperies of any material, No mis. takes! No failures! up to the present time has never) knowledge, That, I presume, is no- | approximately $5,000,000 for the first | According to the latest estimates, al- | In al! probability it will be like the Whenever we elect business men to publie offices we will have a buat ness administration, They not be ing professional politicians, would not appoint ward heelers or political ‘ring-horses as their subordinates. And then we wonder what ails Seattle. All Seattle needs isa square deal from her own people; and it ts up to us to see that she gets it, That Seattle has prospered in spite of all this opposition and raw jeality proves beyond all reasonable |doubt that the alluring power of her natural resources are something to be marveled at. on . SAYS STRAWBERRY BOXES UNDER SIZE Editor The Star, Did walk thru the markets and see the | nice big boxes of strawberries? Don't they look good? Yum, yum! You just have to have @ nice big box of thoue |berries for 20 cents or more. You make your purchase, And you later |find you get a mice big box with | the bottom raise@ one inch, My! what |a surprise! You get a nice, big box, | but that box contains fust about 32 cuble inches of space for berries. Now to be sure that you do not |founder yourself on berries and get | stem of them on the first box, the packers that they are not too fol. I ve measured several \boxes that I have purchased and they measure two inches deep by four inches in diameter, and hold just about @ pint, or enough for one person. The Eastern states where straw berries are sold have laws protect- jing the public—such as [linots, In- |diana, Ohio, Tennessee and others. | There lew fs that a box of straw berries shall contain one full quart. A heavy fine is imposed ff you are found selling short measures. Why not #0 on this coast? If a box\were made to be 3% imehes deep by 4 In diameter, it would contain 66 cubte Inches, but even then the public would be get oe TAXPAYER. . you ever | thal would be better than at pres- lent.’ W. K. McLEOD, Bremerton. There may be argument about what is the greatest word in the Engitsh language, but for a phrase you can’t beat “Enclosed find check.” WE HAVES RECENTLY ADDED 1500 NEW BOXES TO OUR MODERN SAFETY DEPOSIT VAULTS. Come and examine our equipment for the mflekecping of bends and other valuable papers. Entrance comer Secund sve. at Pike SEATTLE TITLE TRUST COMPANY, 114 Columbia St. WASHINGTON ABSTRACT COMPANY, 216 Marion St. Nalgen is also recom- me neuritis, and all mded for lumbago, sciatica, gout kindred disor- ders. A woman suffer- ing from rheumatism and lumbago writes: “I cannot say enough of the wonderful results of Nalgen. After taking two bottles, I was com- pletely cured of rheuma- tism and lumbago.”— NELLIE E. GAY, 4219 Lucile St., Seattle. Before spending a for treatments at health tions with doctors, try Nalgen. $3.00 At All Drug Stores great amount of money resorts and consulta- It has already helped many, and we recommend it with con- kindred disorders, OHIO sus 207 UNIVERSITY ST. Opposite Fraser-latterson Co, fidence to ail sufferers from rheumatism and | ting slipped a short measure, but at! TODAY'S QUESTION Do you think hotels and theatres . Should equip themselves with smol- BUTTERMILK Nature's wonderful tonic fo should find a place in every hom for women? 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