The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 21, 1921, Page 14

rt RAILROADS HARD Hit But They Are Doing Better, Correspondent Bronner Writes From Berlin BY MILTON BRONNER BERLIN, June 21.—German trains stil] maintain schedule much better than American ones do I have been traveling very exten- Bively tn Germany the past month fand in practically every instance Dave arrived at my destination right on the dot. But the speed matntatned ts not wo high as before the war. The high gverage used to be 80 kilometers per hour; now it is 65, duo to the state the rolling stock. “There is a marked tmprovement “fh the service compared with Yast Now all the principal trans “garry diners, on which you get geod table d’hote meals. They also have their full complement of first, sec ond, third and fourth-class coaches Before the war all cla of @oaches were clean, but now even the first-class coaches are often dirty. ‘They used to be upholstered with ood plush; there were mirrors; the ‘Windows had leather straps for rais- Qing and lowering. ‘When the revolution cama pas- @engers looted the coaches; cut off ‘the straps for belts or for repairing ; stole the mirrors and even Fipped the plush off the seats, Now the windows are provided ‘with straps made of woven twine | @nd the seats are covered with very | ‘@puch the same material. ‘The railway travel in Germany at | Present is enormous despite the tre : us increase in the price of | Germany #4 to have the best _ @nd cheapest railway service in the _ World. The railways made money _ ¢for the states which owned them, Now they cause a tremendous it. The French assert that the ent purposely creates a big @eficit by increasing the number of Tallway employes and also their pay. But many railway employes used fo work 12 hours per day; now the @ight-hour day is universal. The re ult is that the roads which used be ‘th ployes, Other in a P. last year had 1,053,620. items that for the def- the much mui h service. In services had a marks. Last an there has been a general _ Glackening in the service. City Officials Off to Inspect Skagit Members of the city council, the _ Board of public works and the engi- neer’s department left Tuesday for ‘@n inspection trip to the Gorge reek unit of the Skagit hydro-elec- _ tric project. The city officials will “make an exhaustive survey of the big development before returning, on Friday. 1921 Record of Pedestrians Hit by Automobiles 39 —Miss Catherine Olsen, East- * lake ave. and Denny way, ave. and Union st, in which Fourth ave. w. a fl Wnconsdious, She is not seriously in- Jured. and bruised when struck by an auto @riven by M. A. Grady, 1929 Sixth ave. W., at 10th ave, W. and Howe st, Monday. night Owing to wet Pavement, Grady's car skidded. The man said he was unhurt. budget esti} peen = ‘Wash, December 4, 1920. ‘Was a deficit of 3,000,000,- ‘was rushed to city hospital Monday Pies following an auto accident at ®he was thrown 30 feet by a taxi @riven by Howard Thompson, 1420 Miss Olsen was! crossing the street in the line of Pedestrian traffic when Thompson's | machine struck her, knocking her —A. J. Taylor, 1918% 10th! jave. W., was knocked down | Bureau of Missing Relatives The Sta co its readers: to use this ‘tment eid tn finding missin; relatives or wis, ‘The depart paral These ‘nde are missing are invited to report |the disappearance directly to The Star, may knew the whereabouts ‘Other newspapers e reproduce such items ee will interest heir commusitice. ee MRS, MARY NOLDE—This Ta- coma woman tg anxious to secure In, formation concerning her sister, Ida Louise Jackson, whom she has not seen since they were girls together in Nebraska, Address her general do- livery. JOHN HARDING—Miss A. Win- ter, sister of Francis Winter, 20, who uses the name of John Harding, is anxious for word of her brother, He follows the sea for occupation, but has not been booked as a member of any crew since August 1, on which date Miss Winter last saw him, Miss Winter's address is R. F. D, No. |5, Santtle, t u eee WILLIAM THOMPSON—Former. ly employed at the J. F, Duthie shipyards in Sq@attl, William ‘Thompson is sought by a distant relative, J. Leils Thompson, general 1 delivery, Seattle eee BURGESS GORDON—Unable to locate party, because of insafficient |address, Western’ Union Telegraph | Co. is holding an important message for Burgess Gordon, announcing death of a friend or relative at Trin- idad, Colo, ee MRS. DAISY BARKER — She writes that she is now Mrs. Daisy Kthg. She lives at 3556 Holly st, Seattle, eee ARNOLD KIRCHWEY—The fol- lowing communication is recetved |trom Oscar J. Kirchwey, 715 E. 18th jst. Los Angeles: “Arnold Kirch | wey was last heard from on his way from Detroit to the Pacific coast. He is believed to be tn Seattle I wish him to communicate with me at once, as mother ts sick unto death and is constantly calling for him.” JOHN E. ANDERSON—*Wi0 you please try to find John E. Anderson, who at one time was a corporal In the 71st Co., Coast Artillery, at Fort Casey, Wash. Before coming to Se. attle he was a member of the 13th infantry stationed at Buffalo, N. Y." Address C. Weigand, route No. 3, Kent, Wash. JOR LA PINE.—From Katland. Vermont, comes the following letteh © war to have 740,205 em-| of inquiry, signed by Leo H. Stone, | QUAI 49 Grove st: “Being an ex-reader of your paper and knowing its wide mak railway treasury are the| circulation, I wish to make a re-j quent. costs of materials. quest which means much to my Zest year Germany paid-for tts} mother in the way of mental ro ty coal 19 times as ch asin lief. I have an uncle, Joo La Pine, | hotel and, with several of his closest © petro-| who left home some 20 years dgr backers, buttonholed the leaders of ch for steel| He tx about 50 years of age, quite |‘lesations backing Gompers. Lewis uch for loco-| tall, with dark blue eyes and light | eretofore has remained at his own curty hair. He left home in 1900 for a smal lumber job over the mountains, 30 or 40 miles away, and from that day to this has never heard from. Recently my mother was informed he was some- where in the Northwest.” ROBERT L. ALFORD.—Son of Mrs, Roberta Alford, Westerville, Ohio. Was discharged from the United States navy at Bremerton, Former ly on U. 8S. S. Wyoming. He ls 21, about 5 feet, 7 inches tall, 158 pounds, blue eyes and fair hair. : . in Murder Trial CHICAGO, June 21.—Rosamond Dove today testified that Merbert P. Ziegler, for whose murder Mrs. Cora C. Orthwein is being tried, threat- ened to kill the defendant. Miss Dove was sprung by the de- fense as a surprise witness and told of meeting Mrs. Orthwein on a lonely road last March. “I was a member of an auto par ty,” she sald “We saw the defend. ant walking along the road. She was crying and her face was bruised. She pleaded for us to take her back to town. “Ziegier’s car overtook us and, after beating up one of the men in our party, he threatened to kill Mrs. | Orthwein if ehe did not return with | him.” Body of Paul Edward Simonson, 6, son of Mr. and Mrs. 8. J. Simonson, Yakima, brought to Seattle for cre- mation. SHED YOUR COATS, FOLKS, FOR SUMMER IS HERE! BR-R-R-R! Br-r-rt (indicating chattering teeth) Did you wear your overcoat to work this morning? According to the calendar you should have worn a Palm Beach suit, instead. It’s the first day of summer, Also, it's the longest day of the yeart THE SEATTLE STAR LEWIS SEEKING LABOR'S CROWN History Repeated in Fight Against Gompers BY J. I. a TLIVAN DENVER, Colo, June 21,—-TIls tory flowed toward the ot repetition today as the new orior challenged tho old in organized labor, Samuel Gompersa, who directed the destinies of the Amertean Fed eration of Labor for 39 yeafs, faced today his second sertous challenge mould for leidership at conventions in Denver. In 1894 Gompers was defeated for president of the federation at & convention in Denver by John | McBride, a mine worker, GOMPERS SLOW, CAREFUL LEADER In the contest for the office to day—tne only time since the 1894 eat that Gompe position as 4 of the labor movement has been seriously threatened, his op- ponent is @ coal miner—Joha L. Lewts, During the time he headed the trade unions movement, Gompers built up a powerful organization. He was a slow, careful leader. His actions were never striking, but with cautiousness and sureness he Teached out to galn objectives near at hand. Lewis came to the front tn the labor union movement during the Ridicules Piffling Attempts to Cut Taxes While Shameless State Waste Is Permitted Piffling attempts to reduce inconsequential expenses while shameles ment were attacked today by George B, Lamping, Seattle port commissioner, and former state senator. Lamping was invited ‘by Governor Hart to sit on the taxation conference of public officials at Olympia Monday. Lamping refused in a sharp letter addressed to the governor, Lamping’s letter bitterly Mays Hart for failing to call a special zx istlature and public offictals would meet the situation fairly and remedy of publ mein enaprny Bien ge of public funds as the calling of 0 ridicules the assertion that the poll tax was necessary to pay the soldiers’ bonus, Hoe de clares that thiy money cannot be used for the poll tax, at all, The state's tax system, he de. clarea, is “obsolete, discriminatory, | unjust, and places the whole burden / $900,000 and in comparivon with 1913, the year before the world war, of $175,000, the extravagance lxhed by the legisiature “Any decreas in our direct tax) levy the coming fall for state pur poses must be thru the shifting of A 2. urde pro: ate! or | extravagances are permitted in state govern-|\h®, burden of egw apelin |those who are forced to pay this amount thru the operation of the above mentioned new laws, session of the legislature to re | the defects in our organic Iaw thru| “I believe our public officials must viso the taxation law while |submission of constitudional amend-|look at this matter fairly and “calling into convention In Seat | ments or the calling of a constitu-|squarely and take immediate steps tle at public expense” the Na- | tonal convention, so that the enormous amount of tional Guard officers of the “Tho cost of the conference of the | Wealth in the state now escaping state, wh “more than | National Guard officers in Seattle, |t*ation and known as intangibles the total mbership of our or diem pay, transportation ex 1 exemptions be placed upon the state legislature” = =—‘This, he | penses, subsistence, ete., must have | rolls. A conservative estimate charges, cost thousands of dol [run into the thousands of dollars "OWS that 66% per cent of the prop- lars, and was at the expense of the tax-|¢ty that should justly pay taxes, un Ho refers to the poll tax meaw | payers der our present system, escapes all ure as an “abominable law “It seems to me that if we are taxation or cost of government. which taxes the destitute, the |nugeiing over expenan, puch waste The legislature of 1919 enormous unfortunate and those burdened . jly increased the revenue for the which 1# estimated to produce ap- |proximately five hundred thousand |dollars a year, “With this enormous tncrease tn taxation a» state revenue, none of our road or other levies were abol “In words, it Is no decrease In taxation, but simply a makeshift to lower the levy two or three mills, which is made up thru the operation of the poll tax law and other acts, military conferences, with approxi. |DW!iding of roads by ralsing the mately 76,000 trained ex-soldiera in| Sutomolile lednse fees and the 1921 our state now, is a useless extrava session further increased those taxes | Teheas by a tax on gasoline and also an automob! driver's cense aX, “Our last legispture appropriated | which combined produce ian for military purposes in excess of | million dollars, Despite this increase for the building of good roads no jreduction whatever in the direct tax spectacular action. ‘The support which each of these commissioners, school boards thru out the state fully realize the condi two leaders draws from the com |tions and are endeavoring to correct vention delegates is in conformity |them and to eliminate and cut down with their methods of working. expenditure of public moneys in The conservative, slow moving, old elements are standing back of Gompers. Lewis has drawn the support of the younger, fighting delegations, such as the machinists, the carpen ters and the miners, As the campaign progressed to- day, the tenseness of the situation grew. RRELS IN LOBBIES FREQUENT jevery way in their power under our |present system, The system of taxation tn this) |state is rotten to the core and the |glowsing over or polishing up the | outside will not eliminate or erndi cate the rottenness of our system. |The very basis of our taxation sys- tem must be changed. “Now the farmer, the small home owner, manufacturer and upbuilders of our cities and state bear the whole burden of our cost of government. If there is to be any change for the betterment In our tax problem under our constitution It will take some years to adopt a modern, construct. ive plan to eliminate the evils we are now laboring under, “A little more than a year age ® special session of the legislat ure was called to rakse our taxes and I believe that now is a most Quarrels in hotel lobbies were fre- Lewig personally invaded the headquarters of the Gompers supporters. He went to the Albany headquarters at another hotel sov- eral blocks vy. Both’ factions deplored the fact that the fight was without an issue. Each claimed to belleve that if some great principle could be brought forth on which the fight for leader ship could be made, they would win, As the campaign progressed, more and more it became apparent that it was just another case of the old order challenging the new, “There is somé opposition to the calling of a special session based upon the expense of convening the legislature. 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Driv state military departn » le ing ond fighting his way ab the home owner, the constructive! tnormoua ee Py PA as Pla caggy ae } - manufacturer, the farmer, and per With, the increase of fees for he rode roughshod over th manufacturer, : p om termined shod over the do-|imits {hove who can invest their ac | “TRO lat logistattre Mkewise |automobiles and their owners and a inns eee oe tie atin [cumulations in tax free investments |Pi#ced & tax upon the consumption |tax upon gasoline the direct road government to prevent the strike, /PUMUIALONS In ly dens and cost of (of Suoline which wilt produce an|levies for state purposes should be The settlement fave to miners ths) M CMADe OO ae jestimated revenue of a milflon and eliminated or at least materially de-| ‘ increased wages which Lewis had) ""), eannot pee,” Lamping writes, |* half dollars approx! ely a year; | creased.” | ° sought, “how auch & conference can get at| U0 ® driver's automobile license law! 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