The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 14, 1921, Page 6

The THE SEATTLE STAR Seattle Sta tty, Se per month; § months, $1.50; € months, $2.75; year, $8.00, m the state of Washington, Outaide $4.50 for @ montha, er $9.00 per year. by ot the state, Ste per month, r, city, 60 a uveata. The Budget and Taxes E BUDGET BILL will become a federal law. This is a fine thing. It ought to make it possible for our appropriations to run n a few hundred millions of our revenue. will enable us to save money. It will put the government’s financial affatrs on a ‘at least as business-like as that of the merchant who chalks up his charges on the never has been so good as that. is, it will if congress tries to carry it out. It never has tried to carry out any plan. even if it saved all the government expenses except those of the army and navy, puld save us only eight per cent of our governmental fosts. That may as well be re- d. Expenses of past wars and preparations for future wars cost us $89 out of $100 we spend. y trying to make a show and crippling the departments in doing so, the administra- “Might do more harm than good, and it can save nothing really worth while as long go on headlong in preparations for war. And whether an international agreement proportionate limitations of armaments is arrived at or not, there is proportionately much—no, more—waste in the way the warlike 89 cents is spent. e We Social Slackers? B the best people in Seattle social slackers? If not, why is it that these families have, on the average, only 9 children each? By “best people” The Star means folks of some education, bod and good breeding, good physique and good health, } go d behavior and high principles. In short, the all- re finest 50 or 75 per cent, let us say, of Seattle's pop- off in your mind some of your acquaintances that that classification. Isn’t it true that in case after y have the inevitable two children? Or, if there is ional “big” family of three or four kiddies, it is equalized by another case with only one child or curious one, the man who is writing this editorial uilty. He is the dad of one pair.) is the matter with us? We love those two, and we y that our capacity for loving would not be diminished mber were doubled. We may say occasionally that » to have others “if we could afford to bring them rly.” But down in our hearts we know that is plain ; that we could “afford it.” ire’ we simply victims of a “herd” fear? Of a new vie? in family sizes? Are we afraid our neighbors will ‘at us as quaint and old-fashioned if we exceed the ave! i two? Is there some other social reason behind there some newly developed biological cause why i m woman cannot, in justice to her own well being, wn more than twice into the valley? iy rate, while we, who pride ourselves on being the the city and of the cream of the nation, are barely icing ourselves, every Jap farmer and many another mentality, weaker physique, lesser education and much income as us goes blithely ahead with a brood seven! And if this neighbor's family far bet think how the roll call of his grand- fof ours! For human increase goes in pro- for the future? Can the better does this mean for Keer Many Grade Crossings R fatal wreck on the Seattle-Tacoma highway. er automobile gets on the interurban tracks and d to bits. Four are dead. ness? Maybe. Reckless auto driving? Perhaps. signals working? Probably. Who is responsible ~ r of the auto? The motorman of the interurban? ental responsibility for the accident lies with o who laid out that road so that it crosses and re- the railway and interurban tracks time and again. are too many grade crossings. mts occur rhage there is the greatest chance for of human judgment. Grade crossings are breeders dents. We'll continue to pay the price in fatal acci- is long as we have those grade crossings. wits: o-warden says he cannot understand why so y Seattleites want to kill robins. Evidently he never ged a cherry tree on Queen Anne hill. ee reason we need so many lawyers is that we have so Jaws. And the reason we have so many laws is—but pw that as well as we do. ‘Speakin: of poets, many a muse has been strangled when ie pedding knot was tied. waves on Lake Washington Sunday. Including the Paes hotel Missed Norfolk boat. Go down Friday night. Leave door open. Will be home about midnight tonight (Signed) Ed Very sorry, but oversold for Yale game—Read into Record by Sena tor Kenyon (R.) lowa, their positions and use the to increase the salaries of the | ps, who already get good salaries?—Senator McKellar (D.), |¢ eee ASK AND YE SHALL NOT RECEIVE § pledge we made these men ta the promise that the disabled — the dependents of those who laid wwe their liver should be cared for m1 and generously, That was intention of congress; and that the intention, of the American It was not to be an act of ty; God forbid that this great) will ever feel for a moment fis defenders are to be consid. | from that standpoint. These} ask not for alms, but for jus-| ; not for sympathy, but for the | iment of an agreement, and if h and women ever deserved the and the generous consid- n of our republic these men| women deserve it--Representa- | Hicks (R.), eee ‘ELEGRAMS CHARGED UP 10 | _ ‘THE SHIPPING BOARD Cannot get down until Tuesday ing, Hotel Fairfax, 8:20. | go off Friday, 3 o'clock, | + So-and#o. Shail follow Satur- unless I stop at Joplin. 1 mail three blunk checks to Your favorite, fresh every day from Boldt's big bakeries. Just what you like—“As You Like i” 913 Second M14 Third 415 Pike St, Also Madison and Queen City Markets enough to live on a good American standard, of good | BY DR. WILLIAM E. BARTON OR certain rea- sons which need not here be re cited, but which are writ large in the history of the American colonies the Puritans of New England never greatly liked the British flag. Hawthorne has toid us of stern John Endicott, and how with his sword be cut the cross of St. | George out of the flag, to the great scandal of some and the delight of others, The British flag had to wave over the castle in Boston harbor, and be used in the saluting of passing shipa, but as for the Colonia) militia, they invented their own flings, and they were most unlike those of Great Britain, Bull, when the day came when the fag first appears in our national song and story, ft was only there, and nowhere else: By a reee bridge that arched the Their fing to April's breese un ‘urled ; Here Son the embattled farmers ire Ss ee ehot heard round But if we had asked Mr. Emerson ‘and great-grandchildren will exceed the possible | been geometrical jtamps.” “No taxation without rep- resentation.” And n6éw and then bore the effigy of a stamp-seller. At the outset, there was such free- dom in the matter of invention of flags, such vartety in their use, that there was opportunity to test out several different ideas The Betsy Ross story comes to as rather remarkably well attested. Her daughters and grandchildren have written the narrative as she told it to them. She was a skilled needie- woman, and lived in a small house in Arch st, Philadelphia. Three gentlemen called upon her with a pencil sketch of the flag they wanted her to make, She made, as she afterward re membered, three suggestions. ‘The first was that the flag should be Jonger in proportion to its width than the sketch they brought; she suggested that it be @ third longer than the breadth. The next was that the stars should not be scattered irregularly, but ar- ranged in some regular form, The third was that the stars have five points instead of six, as in the plan proposed. One of the men sug- gested that a five-pointed star would | be hard to cut; but she showed how cloth could be folded so as to cut a This Cabinet Phonograph With 50 Selections is yours to enjoy for only $1.75 a week! The former price of the instrument alone was $120 and we now offer it with 50 selections (25 double- faced rec- ords), 300 needles and arecord brush for the moder- ate total of $99.70. | \ SETH TANNER A lot of women pat on things © attract attention, an’ then pre tend to get mad of some man stares at ‘cm. What's become & the old-time country cat what always had a fit in th’ middle av a cottage prayer meetin’? five-pointed star with a single cut. She folded a scrap of cloth and cut @ five-pointed star, The three men adopted AN her eur: gestions, and she made the flag ac- cording to the amended design. The three men were her uncle by marriage, Colonel Rosa, who knew of her skill and was responsible for the visit; General Washington, and, ag is believed, Robert Morris. There seems to be a little doubt about the third man, but none as to Ross and Washington. The symbofiam of our fing ts beau- tiful, The red is for heroism, the |blue for truth, and the white for purity. The longitudinal stripes lend | themselves to the waving effects of the breeze as ts not accomplished so effectually by any other flag. We are to remember that we had the stripes before we had the stars. A paper published at Newbern, N. C., in 1776, describes the sailing from Philadelphia on February 9, 1776, of a ship “under the display of a Union flag, the 13 stripes in the field, em- biematical of the 13 United Colonies.” | On May 13, 1776, the London Ladies Magazine said, “The colors of the American fleet were stroked under | the union with 13 strokes, called} the United Colonies, and their stand ard, @ rattiesnake: motto, ‘Don't tread on me.’” It was our savy that gave us ocr flag. 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BINYON OPTICAL CO. 111@ FIRST AVEN s Just a Little Longer Hse Me as Oh, the Yanks they cromved the ecean with « rather silty notion ‘That they'd take the golfing cup across the foam; Be we welcomed them politely, and we entertained them rightly, And we did our best to make them feel at home, Then wé mustered up our forces, and we played them reund the courses, And the Yanks performed tn highly clever style; But necessity demanded that they go home empty-handed, For we thought we'd better keep the cup awhile Ttw a aitty sort of trinket, and you really woukin’t think ® ‘Was the kind of cup to trouble much about; StM, tt has a valuation as @ clubhouse decoration, And we rather hate to see it taken out. Se we faced the Yank invasion, as befitted the occasion, With @ handshake and « welcome and a smile; ‘We were truly glad to meet them, but it seemed we bad to-beat them If we wished to keep the cup a litle whila ‘Well, we won, the score disctoser; and the trophy st! reposes Where our eyes may fall upon it, now and then; Ané we don't intend to shift it—tho the Yankees hope to Bf & When they come around to play with us again, They are golfers skilled and clever, they are bully sportsmen ever, And they're welcome to our fomgy little isle, But the cup, the cup they covet—well, we're rather Jealous of ft» And, in fact, we plan to keep it quite awhile! P (Copyright, 1921, by Newepaper Enterprise) U.S. ROYAL CORD A famous tire—efamoustread. Acknowb edged among motorists and dealers alike as the world’s foremost example of Cord tire building. Always delivering the same fepeated economy, tire after tire, and TUESDAY, JUNE 14, 1921. Letters to th Editor— FERGUSON EXPLAINS IRVING'S REMOVAL Editor The Star: With your per mission I would like to reply to the letter printed in your issue of June ¢ and signed by a voter, Inasmuch as your correspondent offers a crit clam on my office, 1 want to submit & statement of facts so that your readers may know the truth in the voting machine situation. I deny, absotutely, the charge that I intended to appoint the brother of my chief deputy as chief custodian of voting machines. f In removing Thomas Irving as custodian of voting machines I haye this to say: My pledge to the ta payers of King county was that, if elected, I would give them an effi- cient, economical and businessiike administration. I am endeavoring to the best of my ability to carry out that pledge. I have already made a number of changes in my office by consolidating the work of various de- partments and I expect to make more. The chief custofian of voting ma- chines 1g appointed by the county auditor and his salary is fixed by law at $200 a month. There will be no more elections until Apri, 1922, and I can see no reason why the custodian of voting machines should not be duties tn the auditor's office during long periods between elections, This has not been done in the past. Mr. Irving, whom I have removed as chief custodian of voting ma- chines, is not adapted to clerical work. By combining the work, as I have outlined, a saving of more than $2,000 a year to the taxpayers When people saw through discount tires this was bound to happen-~ AR-OWNERS make assigned to some regular! ————— REMARKABLE REMARKS Prohibition has fafied to prohibit, and is producing the finest crop of youthful brewers and distillers the world has ever known.—The Rev. Dr. Elmer 1. Goshen, Salt Lake City clergyman, eco age competition by tariffs and com bines, they will have socialism t@ face.—-Senator King, Utah, ee Parents ere to blame runaway girls of the nation—Mra, Alice Clemmona, Chicago police woman, for @e ‘The low standard of serual mo» rality which ruined Roman society we seem to be fast approaching in America,—Bishop Frederick Burgeem, Episcopalian, Long Isiana, eee ‘We must all realize that recrese tion must have a larger place om Sunday than In the days when was less exacting and monotonous, —Bishop Lines, Episcopalian, New ark. Renner can be mada, The taxpayers of King county are entitled to know these things and have further a right to expect a fair month's service for a fair month's pay. I am endeavoring to the best of my ability to see that all employes connected with my office render the services expected of them. one criticism of the tire business well worth thinking about. From their point of view the phrase “stand- ard quality” in connec- tion with tires is too care- lessly used. If there are so many “standard ” tires why all these discounts—20%—- 30%—40% off? Off what? What basis of value to begin with? Why so much talk about discounts and so much silence about ser- vice? To-day, “discounts” have proven just one thing to the public: -—That somewhere there is the standard tire —the greatest and most constant worth—the | tire that all other tires can be measured by. Par quality—at a net price. Any car-owner who intends to do standard tire-buying will find his best guide in the simple out-spoken remarks he hears everywhere. “Still running on a last season’s set of U.S. Roy- al Cords.” “Going to get Royal Cords this year.” “Everybody out our way drives U.S. Royal cAs people say everywhere United States Tires are Good Tires “Yes, I know—but the dealer said these were as good as Royal Cords.” The dominant public opinion for U.S. Royal Cords is all the more significant because every one in the tire business started with an equal chance. It was open to any tire maker to set the standard. Today most motorists know what to expect from a tire. And when more tires render a service meas- urable in terms ofU. S. Royal Cords there will be more nef tire prices —and less and less room in the tire business for “discounts”, United States Tires United States @ Rubber Company Tire Branch, 212-216 Jackson Street ;