The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 18, 1921, Page 6

The extremists have been doing a lot of talking about the Skagit project. One group of them has offered Seattle people a wonderful line of exag- geration on the industrial marvels which can be worked—if only they are given ANOTHER FIVE AND A HALF MILLION DOLLARS TO ’ COMPLETE WHAT THEY TOLD US BEFORE COULD BE BUILT WITH THE FIRST FIVE AND A HALF MILLIONS. And the other group—those who mistrust or hate the idea of municipal ownership—have sought to kill the ae and, incidentally, to give the entire city light department a black eye. The truth of the matter is that the city council faces an intricate business problem. What is needed to bring us out of a bad mess is clear - thinking, not biased perversion of facts, not bitter recriminations, not a blind insistence on some cherished attitude. This is what has happened: Our city govern- ment has taken a bond issue of $5,500,000, which it had assured the city was sufficient to erect the _ power plant, and has spent, or agreed to spend, ' nearly all of it. And for this great sum it has just about half-completed the Pee. It will not, pehars, assist a solution of the problem to con- uct a post-mortem at this point. But just as an illustration of how the money has gone, it might be noted that, where the original estimates called for a $120,000 road over which to haul machin- by 4 and supplies, a railroad costing a million and a half kes boon substituted. And here we are, in the midst of this peculiar year 1921, with a half-done power project. A half-finished power plant is just as sightly and just as useful, and just as pleasant a poses- sion as half a watchdog, or half a golf ball, or half a straw hat. ah Now, there are three possible courses for the city to pursue. In the first place, it can grit its teeth and close its eyes, and plow ahead, regard- less of consequences; that’s what the one set / of extremists is advocating. If it does, it will pay interest on $11,000,000 worth of bonds, instead of what is already issued. It will complete a plant which will produce us cur- rent at a cenf a kilowatt, or more, when we need current at a fraction of that figure. It will com- plete a plant which will supply us in 1924 with far more electricity than we have any hope of being able to market at that time. \.In the second place, we can kill the Skagit white elephant—kill him dead—and bury him in an unsung, unhonored grave. That is the pro- Zhe eattle Star (r= | |iewepager Fe terpetee Aso. and Untied ae hs a eee hed, tm the state of Washington, Outatde of the state, S60 per month, oom, ; $6.40 for ¢ montha, ov $9.00 per year. Ry enrrier, city, be © month month; 1 monthe, $1.50; ¢ montha $2.75; year, Phone Moin Edttor The Star: While your local contemporaries are busily engaged in finding murders, robberies, scan. dals and political pettifoggery with Like to Read Were Fat which to soll white paper, It ln re We have just noticed two good Henry Osborne, American su- |freshing to find The Star giving news items, One tells of meals: thority on the stone age, notes crr- peat 1 Nes ye grids rend: Fiyaee vie de being reduced to 20 cents at Cha tain small figures made by 8 rece | Count Korsybski's recent book on Justice and states «= nute, Kana In the other Secre of cavemen and left in thelr caves | “The Manhood of Humanity.” le open to debate. tary of War Weeks informs the in France, Years ago, How many ‘President Harding emphasized nation that his department has years? Ob, about 25,000! government's precarious finan- given up 349 real estate leases, The figures of women represent | of consideration by all thinking peo condition and the embarass- saving the taxpayers $31,531 8 them as extremely fat. He figures | pie, that another three te five month. this was because they didn’t ven- eomagg be 0ey ve eager Prego dollar expenditure might Seemingly there is net much ture out often, and ate a great deal | *incer, called attention of the ep connection between chedp meals at of marrow, ¥ ne xere +a Sang @ reward of Uncle Chanute and ceonomy at Washing: The men were thin from noch the soldiers for @ duty ton, but the more money Washing: exercise. If the common idea of a seven to oll tag o ever be couched in ton saves for us, the less it will caveman's wooing ts correct, o | “7° {rying oo) ues fa another question. cost to live in Chanute and in Se lover in those éays deserved all he | “7ay"S moans to nchieve the de certain; The aitle bind, or fim, time, and add to human soldiers is the progress and knowledge by starting cash to the When the navy ts divided be- upen the tween the Atlantic end the Pacific tt t@ @ typical Danicle blunder, of course; but when the ofl-burners i g experts and pared Bome people's ides ef prosperity point that revealed 4s when every one gets too rich to and gall, rather then behind the greater ‘The railroads have paring down He iY i Ht i t F i ce i f | fe contained within our borders. | my OO Neient, but which your daity nd that inctudes not = few un |iacy atfords no time for you to pur- hholy wartime profiteers. Its effect | sue. il be to make everything bought | You would ifke to take a corre by the ex-soldier ao well as nee <8 fest of us more that isn’t s square New tax laws are lated. What they a | F fr re Fett jie] i Pome §ret the courage he revealed. Her amile, her tint; Auto spooners, too, should be 1 have tue bint pelled to disarm. Her mirror true; REMARKABLE gr. Biaameambehe All gentle, too. REMARKS Iie eit oe, wort or py Each mood and whim, ‘Women who do not want to sit on ond suffer from mental laziness. — lian Barker, British suffrage ‘worker. She speaks thru him! Or dark or tair— eee Every Englishman #hould go to I see her there! erica for a tonic; every American nhcincaeeeniabanenennoniome Or you would fike to make a study of Engtish poetry, or of Chinese met- apbysics, or of Sanskrit, or of politi- cal economy. But you cannot do ft. You are held down to work. You can do it tf you have the will Rise an hour earlier, and do it while your mind Is fresh. But you need the sleep? Cut out the last hour at the mow fes, or the last bour of yawning, useless gossip, or of troubled and in effective work. But it is not certain that you need the extra hour of sleep. If you put in your night resting, you can spend an hour less in bed|our country has given millions of + | and still get more real sleep than/ dollars of free space in an jeavor many men now get. Tt is not the number of hours you spend between the blankets that count, but the actual rest and relax- study in which you would like to be | ation and reinvigoration, Prem “The Recking Heres” (Georgia M. Deran Co.) THE REFLECTION But that she is both beautiful and good In af that my friend thinks and eays, I see How brave and tender, day by common day, ‘Therefore, I eny I know her, be her face For when he shows his heart's most secret place i fi Now, isn't it a fact the press of to paint a mental picture of a land- lord as @ person far worse than the pawnbroker, the bootlegger, the lot- tery man, etc; and if the prees is successful Im painting this horrible 1 do not favor too short « night./ mental impression, why, 5 Mr. Edison may get on with four} many thousands of is vag 4 hours’ sleep, but I recommend more.| hundreds of millions of dollars at I think the first rule for suceess|their disposal for investment at a in life ts to get up in the morning) fair: rate of interest will naturally and go after it. refrain from becoming landlords? Int your controversy and would therefore like C to submit my understanding of game from the Bible standpoint. I notice the Rev. Klein's mentions “Love not the world, world If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.” 1 might add that the neat verse also gives us some light, “For all that ig in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, te business of cornering the BY CHRISTOPHER MORLEY and the pride of life, is not of the country’s wealth, the/lack of a I have not heard her voice, nor seen her face, Father, but is of the world.” John Square deal will be se obvious that Nor touched her hand; 1519, “If ye were of the world, the And yet some echo of her woman's grace world would love his own,” ete. oo es © I understand. ‘The we and ye class are the foot- bring it home people, wtep followers of Our Lord Jesus And President Harding will re I have no picture of her lovelihood, Christ. There are some imitation Christians (tares) and the Lord is Going the sifting now, and only those that are worthy will be grant- ed share in his kingdom. Jesus ta hie disciples to pray, “Thy Kingdom come; thy will be done on earth as it is done in heaven,” and when that class which are still in the flesh have passed beyond the veil, then God's kingdom will begin to operate in the earth “When the Judgments are in the earth the in- habitants will learn righteousncasn” Isateh 262. It is not up to any Christian to meddle with the affairs of the world now; they are to be separate from the world, and “by their fruits ye 4 go to England as a sedative.— C.F. i i 4 Satan, Migs manter ot/! — Try This on Your Wise Friend The odd digits 1, 8, 5, 7 and 9, total 25; the even figures 2, 4, 6 and 8 total 20. Arrange these «0 that the odd ones and the even ones add up alike, Answer to Saturday's: One train is twice as fast as tht other. To continue to construct warships 5 4 waste of money; and if we can ail agree in this respect, we «hall eonfer a boon on the world.—Baron Hayashi, Japanese ambassador to Great Britain, \ shall know them.” Jesus sald, “Love : Boosting Our Editor The Star: I have just read about the extremes of heat, of cy- clones, hurricanes and severe elec trical storms in the Eastern states, and I venture to say if the people East knew about our healthy ‘city, | 0 utilized that it preserves past or and longdiscarded methods; the owner who throws men out of work because he does not know te eS Editor The Star: Wi correct, Mr. Editor pay! }| been very successful, immediately 2. erpretation of the Bible Poem Ss for Benpeg ais glgnaen: | ee OwnClimate — yar LEA 4 i gram of the other set of extremists, They are eager for a first-class wake. If we do that, of course, we go on paying interest and sinking fund charges on the $5,500,000 already okehed for a long time to come. We calmly charge that tidy sum up to profit and loss. * * & Fortunately, there is a “third place.” Such sincere, far-sighted friends of municipal owner- ship as Councilman Oliver Erickson point to it as the best way out of an awkward situation. In the third place, the city can wait, say, two or three years. It doubtless will be able to arrange with the government that its water rights be fully protected. It can cut off all further Skagit ex- perfditures except the small sums needed to pre- vent rapid deterioration on the half-finished job. In the two years construction costs ought to de- crease greatly. The bond market should strength- en. (At present, the bonds cannot be sold if issued, except in violation of the spirit of the law which specifies a 6 per cent limit on the interest rate.) he business situation ought in that time to clar- ify, so that we shall have some intelligent idea of probable future power needs. This course will not please the engineers. En- One of the finest compliments ever paid to the Pacific Northwest was resentative from thin city, in his speech in Washington, D. C, Feb. M the Time-Binder aa 1921, on the Pacific coast de adapt himself to conditions in such| The distinguished congressman . way ‘ae to get business; the bust-| declares, in speaking of the Alaskan eas man who curtalls operations and waters, the following: waite for congress to repeal the in ‘In these Alaskan waters, lying come tax; the judge who closes his| open as the sky, are the greatest court for @ long vacation while the| §°ld-producing mines in America, if accused waits trial in jath—all these | Not in the world, today, The great respected gentiemen place them: | fishing industry is here. Canneries, selves on the name basis as the fake | Suteries, oll, and nitrate plants, be stock promoter, the chronic atriker| *ide the enormous deposits of copper for shorter houra, the bootlegger, | £94 coal now just coming under pro- the lounge lisard—wasting time, oc duction. Here also is the Alaskan cupying space, dissipating energy, government railroad, upon which the either their own of some one's elne,| Mion bas spent so many millions, leading directly to the very source ae ncoenpetental nn PMS#NS% | of supply of coal and copper. ‘These How many individuals can give « are prime necessities in war, and nt to the question, their acquisition and subsequent pro- re duction by an enemy would be a ‘What proportion of your time Is] raster stroke. These necessities, all tying wide open to the sea, and thus Pitaet ‘Baines sleeping, recres-| tiling into the hands of an enemy Uon, should preserve and increase without the fi 6 aot, od health and physique. Working time| fom Say point of view furnish a should leave tangible results propor: pectin iho er tg ta Ag ey tlonate to the best use of the beat | Pation of these waters facilities possible in the most eff- itis Public opinion in a class where they ble opinion, be one thing that ts Preventing the “law of supply and demand” from operating, and you know this is the only cure for the house shortage. If a newspaper publishes just « ema!! item, stating oll is etruck In» Rew section of the country, or gold is found in this or that region, or such and euch a legitimate business has you will find millions of dollars seeking investment in the said lines of business. Along this line of reasoning, don’t you agree, if the press would change its tactics, telling of the wonderful opportunities in building and renting property and what a dignified occupation this is to en gase in, hundreds of millions of dollars would be attracted and we soon would have plenty of houses to go around at reasonable rents? ‘Trusting that you will understand the spirit in which I am writing this letter, Lam | Yours moat sincerely, J. 8. OTIS. P. 8—I am not a landlord, just &@ lumberman. your enemies and do good to them ret hate you.” But men should remember that in Matthew..12:36 it says that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account im the day of judgment. That ts, they are forming characters and if they die they sleep till the resurreo tion, and as there is neither wisdom nor works in the grave, the dean know not anything; their breath (which ts the soul) goes forth and that very day their thoughts perish. 99 65-10; 3,19-20- Pealms 146:4; He hath appointed a day tn which he will judge the world (at some future time) im righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained. + Allover the wortd people use this goody for its pen are like artists and architects; they de- ight in visioning a great picture, then carrying the idea thru to materialization. The money cost is incidental to them. Nor will it please the hat- ers of municipal ownership; they see a chance in the present deplorable muddle to capitalize their hostility. lg ae as But such a course ought to appeal to the good sense of the rank and file of Seattle home own- ers, taxpayers and consumers of ates What they want is plenty of LOW-PRICE cur- rent. An $11,000,000 Skagit plant at this time spells high-priced current, higher than we al- ready have; that is certain. A writing off of $5,500,000 of bad investment, that, too, spells high-priced current. But to complete the project eventually, when prices and bond conditions are more favorable and when we are more certain we can sell what ~ current we do produce—that would be a step to- ward what the people of this city want. . This third way out looks like the sane course for the city council. In any event, it should not rush to either of the extremes. It should devote some careful, analytical thought to the problem —the lack of which in the inception of the project has led to all the present troubles, And in speaking of the tmportance| tion. I would not be fulfilling my | of Seattle and Tacoma, he states: | duty did I not speak for them an@ “Here on Puget sound are great| likewise warn the nation of their railroad and steamship terminals,| peril. It must not be forgotten the most extensive on the Coast.|in 1918 the customs district of 2 Here are docks, grain elevators, and| sound was second in importance only | warehouses of unsurpassed excel-| to that of New York. a lence stocked with grain, all co-or- “Over and above all these, howew | dinated with the rail heads. This is| er, great ae they are, there 7 the heart of the lumber industry,|to an enemy the enormous not only of America but of the| gaining access to the great coal world. Here are smelters, shipyards,|of Puget sound. Coal in all qi Gry docks, and explosives works. | ties is mined fairly at tidewater Flouring and lumber /mills abound, | finds its outflow thru Seattle and together with all the thousand and one other activities found in great commercial and industrial centers. A half million of people live on Pu- get soun: 7 “Beattle itself, chief city and port, now ,of the Kansas City-Minneapolis le class, is truly from any angle the B. 0. CLAUSON, marvel of the great Northwest and Seattle Y.MC. A of the Coast, and, broadly speaking, | 7 of all America. While I may be par- doned for the loca] pride I have in my own home town, I would be derelict in my duty as a representa- tive in this body did I not point out in the broadest way the dangers which may #0 easily be theirs. Dan gers which would come not only to) them but to others in similar posi-' for a Without extra charge, 432 Walker Bldg. WRIGLEY. “After Every Meal’” will be continually referred to in @ general way as “Rent Hogs,” “Rent or Profiteers,” “Rent Gougers,” eta ‘This, Mr. Editor, may, in my hurh- j Wey i Acts 1731. That day is to come| JZ ‘ fRIGLEYS when Jesus Christ shall judge the > a 4 quick (the living) and the dead at His appearing and His kingdom. DOUBLEMINT 2 Timothy 4:1. Jesus says Himself HEWING GUM A eet ALY that He “came not (at that time) to Judge the world (J@in 12:47), and it was because it was not God's due time for Him to do so. The judg- ment day for the world is yet fu ture, and will not come till Christ's kingdom is established, 2 Timothy 4:1; Rev, 11:15-18. And the judgement day will be 1,000 years long, Seo 2 Peter 3:7-8. In 2 Peter 2:9 you will find that none of the unjust (the world) will be punished before the day of judgment. Member of the I. B. 8. A. MRS. HANS HANSEN, R. No. 1, Box 40 B, Stanwood, Wash. of the fine £limate, of the chemicalty * pure watef, of the resources which e » we the Pacific Northwest offers, they would not hesitate a minute to come —_ out to the Pacific coast to make their homes here, ,