The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 16, 1921, Page 6

SATURDAY, JULY 16, 192T. ‘The Seattle Star By wall, out of city, Se month; # montha $1.60; @ months $2.15; year $4.08, im the state of Washington Outside ef the state, 00 per month, 44.50 for ¢ montha, or $9.00 per year. My carrier, city, Mee month Rev. M. A. Matthews will preach @ sermon Bunday morning entitled, ‘Tan oes” THE TIME: In the evening he will dincusn the subject. THE VICTORY OF 308 OVE a ANCIENT AND MODERN PANTHEISTIC CULTS Public is invited. eSB > or your s! SS... PARABLE ABOUT SURE THINGS MERE came unto| Information concerning Sure Things | me a man wholare playing checkers somewhere in| inquired of me,|an Old Men's Home for those who saying, Mast thou | have Seen Better Days. & little money to WILLIAM K BARTON. invest? = For 1) —————————______— ——— should like te let) thee in on the Ground Floor, 1 have Inside In-| formation upéna Sure Thing. And he told me ef a Corporation | whose stock was selling Very Low,| because the Management were Bear. | ‘ ing the Market that they might! © thrushes sing—and call her back; Cc t Sean hae-tehenis ante a the throng: themselves buy a Controlling Inter-| ik tetet tice wrtedeer olen ae natch eat in It; and how they Intended to | Of her mosttreasured vong, Bull the stock @ little later, and make {t Very Valuable, so that he! who bought now would make a Nice | Little Roll, | And I aald, If that be the ttle! From MoClure’s Magazine THE LIVING BY DANIEL M. HENDERSON I tread once more the market-place; In trafficking mry heart seeks balms But often, o'er trade's turmoll There falls a holy calm A thing she loved has met my sight; Arbutus, or a clump of ferns, Or in a@ stall of books I find Her well-loved poet, Burna, Basil M. Manly, former member of the U.S. war labor board, has protested to the te commerce commission against the half billion dollars or more of claims that open to be allowed the railroads because of alleged inefficiency of labor and defi- ‘cient maintenance by the government during wartime. He asks permission to cross-examine railroad witmesses and to introduce testimony and documentary evidence to prove these claims are not valid. In fairness to the people who will pay the taxes from‘which the railroads propose “to take this money, Manly should be given a hearing. Manly’s name is well known to ‘Star readers. He is an economist of national reputation. He bases his cRarge against railroads not on his reasoning as an economist but on facts which he says he pos- Based on this information he declares that the railroad claims are: Without warrant of law. In large part, false and fraudulent. * —_—“ JULY 23-30, OMITTING SUNDAY. Box office opens 10 a. m., Monday. Mail orders now received. Reserved seats, $2.20; box seats, $3.30, in- cluding war tax. Unreserved, $1.10, on sale at 6 p. m, evenings of performances at Stadium. Reserved seats sold only at the Arena Building, Because she loved the things of earth They hold her gentle spirit yet They ery to me, “Remember her!*—~ An if I could forget! As 2 whole, based on extravagant estimates and suppositions. And contrary to the facts in the sworn statements filed with the interstate com- by the railroads during the period in which the’ alleged inefficiency of labor was suffered. : Manly further charges that there is a deliberate program on the part of the raflroads te offset their obligations to the government by creating fictitious claims which may prosecuted indefinitely. If a steal is being planned it is not too late to stop it, ) The claims of “our former service men are about to be denied on the ground that he treasury cannot provide the funds, The funds for the railroads will have to come a9 7. Self-Government at Sea Capt. Stearns has suffered the @sual fate of ploneers in democ morrow blossoms, Many. S90 Sale pee news of come And bears his blushing bonors thick upon him; ‘The third day comes « frost, & killing frost; And when he thinka, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a ripening—he ie as I do, wrote moments ef almost i E il i LETTERS T0 EDITOR Some Suggestions on Taxation Editor The Star: RJ. Fausett mays Portland and New Zealand have tax law in which eath owner ts the anvessor of his own property, as does England, and it has worked some wonders, Germany bad the sume kind of @ law, which enabled it to build the Suez canal, Lf wo had a law that would compe each owner of real estate to lst his tand, with any and all improvements, at any value he wished to pay taxes on (not one value on Jand and one en improvementa>— Second, a law that the state, or an individual, or corporation, or com. pany could purchase at his listed val up, plus 10 per cent, by making a tender of the list value, pfus 10 per cent; if owner refused to sell, the buy er would apply to a designated court that would have the power to give as good & deed as the owner held, and charge 4 nominal fee for same, to be deducted from th? 10 per cent, deed to be executed in 30 days or less, tax Usting to be open to the public, own or required to sign tax leting. The above law would end owners of vacant lots paying tax on lots in the community? Is ft an added woalth to state and city? Then why penalize the one that makes the in: provement? Mr, Fausett says there are fac” | tory sites in Everett that are held at prohibitive prices, but are taxed at $10 per acre. Everett has nothing on Seattie, as I am advised there are some acres in Seatle on §10 tax value. How many thousand acres of tim ber land are there in the state, the tax value of which is about a fourth of what they ask for the land when it ts logged off, not counting what | the timber was worth? How tong would logeedoff land from which cascard bark to the | amount of $50 an acre in taken, ro | main aaseweed at $10 an acre? This means 6.2 cents tax, If you clear | the ground and improve it with « | home and raise a crop, it costs you | nearly $20 an acre, If you had something you 414 not want to sell, it would only be neces nary to list it for more than it was worth to hold it; but it would compel you to pay what it is worth or to seli game of the Management, I will let) them play it. I have long stnee ceased trying to beat men at their own game. For 1 have stood and watched the | nimble Pea as it made its unobtru- | sive way from one Shell to another, | and I have considered how many! times I should have guessed wrong if I had guensed at val. | And he said, Nay, this ts no Shell-/ Game, but a Bure Thing. And I said, There are several men Playing Croquet at the Poor House, and others who have Graduated from Business and are now Pitch- ing Horse Shoes at the County Farm, who owe their present relief | from the presence of the Madding | Crowd to the generosity of friends | who let them in on the Ground} Floor of some Sure Thing. And I suid, Listen to me, and understand my position, whether thou dorst likewise or no. I do not Gamble. I do not Speculate. I deal! with @ very few Sure Things, and these are among them: A Dollar“Containeth One Frandred Cents, and no More. It ts easier to berrow an Hundred Dollars, than it/ is to pay back an Hundred and Six The best way to get Money ts to) Earn ft, and the best way to in| crease Money is to spend less than one earneth. | And he said, Those are O14 Foy Rules, and they'll never get thee Ughting and scenery. Store, Rhodes Co, and Box Office, Fifth Avenue and University Street. REHEARSALS AT STADIUM 7 P. M. Monday—Final Scene, tneluding March of All Nationa ‘Tuesday—Dress Rehearsal of A\) Singers, Actors, Musicians, wit ‘Thursday—Dress Rehearsal of All, same as Tuesday evening Words apd music of The Wayfarer, $1.00, at B. L. Gates Jewelry GREAT PROPHETIC BIBLE LECTURE Every Night Except Saturday Night, 7:45 P. M. at Big Tent Pavilion SUNDAY NIGHT, JULY 17 “Three-Fourths of the World's Gold in America; Also Five Million Idle Men—Cause and Remedy.” MONDAY NIGHT, JULY 18 “Higher Critics as Well as Christians Hawe The Bible fn the Critics’ Den. WILL THE OLD BOOK STAND THY TEST?” The rest of the week will be a consideration of some of the most interesting prophecies of the Bible. EVERY NIGHT A MUSICAL TREAT i : i Hatt ct Felt A Et ri ta i i if i rai 4, A London church furnishes coq- gation with cough drops—pr9gb- ly hoping to make them cough * German railroad rates have been weduced. Who won the wart 2 : Patience os Long Continuing In 1878 Sir James Murray, an English scholar, undertook the management of the compilation of ‘The New English Dictionary. The news from England is that the Ox- ford University press will publish the work in 10 volumes in 1923, 45 years after the first labor was pertormed on it. Mt will be the most exhanstive Publication of its kind ever at tempted in any language, & lasting monument to the patience and in- dustry of the hundreds of scholars of the English-speaking world who will share with Murray the tri- @mph of its production, The world will also make a beat- nm path to the door of the man tho uses his lawn mower at § en fic) sation finds 1 has plenty 4 relation, t [in ii Ht Hi j 7 HH =f “i! | é rif Hh i i fag fi f f E f K i ii Hf i F ee FY z3 8 F i Ae | i F z ; i i af vt 3 i : F il oH f s Ps | j : E i A r i *s i] ae rE g f ; f : i : i i Est a ‘ ill ij Hi th | af i volume, the number of small prof- its, in the selfish interest of both the manufacturer and the merchant— and certainly the public. ‘That's the road back to Good Times, Many famous Mbint debates are held in butcher shops, Speaking for the Women Alice Robertson, member of con- gress, says she is against anti tobacco legislation, and adds that “many reformers should be re- formed.” Woman suffrage is demonstrat- ing that no organization of women can speak for all women, just as ho men's organization egn speak for all the men in the United States, It's hard to make an old mata believe there are 2,000,000 more han women in America, Try This on Your Two trains start at the same {| I If they tion one hour and four hours respectively after passing iow much faster is o Answer to Sesterday's; Sunday, mg than the other? the other from B to A. each other, F g a i i F : i 2 e F I i ! i j i : if the if Hi i Ht if | Fs j iy i atts & i Hi 5? hi i i New Tariff Motto: port in @ storm, 4 road hog ts « man whe tcaves vou doth siden Congressional gas docsn’t make tares, The new tariff protects milk. Infant industry? The only time a man ts a hero in Ais own home is on pay day. Egottst: Any person with more troubles than yourself. The old gray outlook ain’t what she used to be. A speeder in time kilts nine, REMARKABLE REMARKS It is @ great deal better that girls should be absorbed in athletics than in embryo love affairs.—Mies Hovey, headmistress of British girls’ school. eee I hope the president wil put war where Lincoln put slavery—in the! Process of ultimate extinction.—Wil- liam Jennings Bryan, cee It would be a mistake to reach out for foreign trade by the extension of, further credit to the impoverished Kuropean nations—Alfred J, Den-| nis, commercial attache of U. 8. Lobdon embassy. Wise Friend ime, one from A to B, arrive at their destina- this city at 76 mills on @ valuation of | at a profit of 10 per cent on your list $500, and asking $1,500 for same lot.| (your own valuation), and let some It would stop penalising small | one else pay more on It, and it would home owner for owning a hoi be leas than what the «mall home An example: The writer purchased | owner now pays, per dollar invested. a house in Seattle in April, 1915. It Of course, there would have to be was in course of construction at time/a clause to take care of improve Writer paid 1914 tax| ments belng place’, also on crops planted in the spring and harvest in the fall, and #o on. State lind used by a corporation {Individual for commercial purposes should pay taxes; school and church land should not pay, unless used for commercial purposes, Why should a Gol-| hewpital net pay taxes? It charges ag much as tf It aid pay, unless it ts a free hospital to any and every one. Yours very truly, A TAXPAYER our country and city. Your stand in the matter of the | published in this state, and it ts liter. dlagraceful évents perpetrated in the /ally the only one which I care to city jail on July 4th ts worthy of the | read from beginning to end. deepest reapect and admiration of afl| Wishing you and your paper the cltizena who truly have the weifare | prosperity which is so well deserved, of Seattle at heart, and it ls a com 1 remain, fort to find that there is at least one publication that is not afraid to Even Prisoners Are Human Editor The Star: With all due re) good by finding and discharging the spect to the honorable judge whose | offenders of a square deal. letter appeared in these columns) Does it take two of our policemen would like to ask him whether be re-| to knock out one helpless drunk? In members the old Plymouth Gram-| fuct, is it necessary to knock out mar, that contaimed the error in an drunk at all? Did our Savior strike adage, “It depends on which side of | the offenders? Do the members of the fence you are sitting how hard/the greatest, most efficient police the wind blows.” force tn the world, the Canadian Fortunattely, I am sitting on the| mounted police, strike their prison. same side of the fence as you, judge, |ers? To date, only three members of and have no sympathy for drunks,| that noted body of men have re- but they are humana, and should be| turned without accounting for thelr treated as such, We all make errors| man. Yet even they do not strike, and mistakes, Theirs is drink, Ours| except in self-defense, may be far worse. | As for giving this publictty, are Too much blame should not be! our police ashamed of what they do placed upon the officials of our police|—or what they have done? Give us force, as it is almost impossible to| the news of everything that happens, keep out the man that takes advan-/ not only what the police want us to tage of the authority given him with | know. Give us a chance to get back his uniform, We had that man tn | the same grit and backbone our fore. our army, in our navy, in all our) fathers had, and put it where the large city police forces, and in our! well-known wishbone now repones. sheriffs’ offices thruodt the country.| The world knows we are losing our While I cbuld criticise our chief backbone fast enough, and if it con- of police for some of his actions in| tinues 25 years more, the average this matter, I am not going to, be-| American will have to hire some one cause I believe he is going to make | to do his thinking for him. D, H. Yours very truty, GM Y, Continuous LOEW'S PALACE HIP *".": “Where You Get the Most for the Least” Tomorrow Till Wednesday—An All-Star VAUDEVILLE SHOW And a Goldwyn Feature Photoplay WILL ROGERS “Boys Will Be Boys” An Irvin S, Cobb Story far up the Ladder of Finance. And I said, Those rules and a few | other Sure Things have kept me| thes far with a safe distance be-| tween my door and the Wolf, and I bave rent and carfare and a meal Ucket for some days in advance, And that will still be true of me whe: © who trust tn the Inside DR. Come and Enjoy a Profitable Evening at PETTIT -SCHAFFNER LECTURES BIG TENT PAVILION Corner Fourth Ave. and Virginia St. . DR. PAINLESS PARKER, M. O. SIPES to Manage PAINLESS PARKER Seattle Office Dr. Sipes, one of ‘Seattle’s best known dentists, has joined the Parker staff and is now under the E. below. R. 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