The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 23, 1921, Page 6

SEATTLE STAR Poems! PAGE 6 Published Datty by The Star Poblishing Oo, Phone Mais ose0. From the Congressional Record THE LAND OF PLENTY Under the Payne rate of 100 per cent on flannel underwear there was an investigation of 120 children working in the underwear mills at Lawrence, Maas, It was discovered in that investigation that only seven of those children bad on any under wear at all, and hundreds of other children in that cold New England climate were working in the manu facture of comfortable garments for other children, while they them selves, because of the prohibitive tax of over 100 per cent, were un Newspaper Bn- terprise Asm and Untied Press Servic > or our The Seattle Star Ry mall, out of elty, He per month; J montha $1.50; # montha SLTE; year, $5.06, im the atate of W Outside of the i, Be per month, $4.60 for € mentha or t By carrier, city, 60e & month, THE SKAGIT DILEMMA“ Finish Plant Now, Urges Official. Ross Sums Up Arguments for The Star. Says It Means Cheap Power. Argues This Is Time to Build. At the request of The Star, J. D. Ross, head of the city light department, has written a full statement of the rea-— sons for proceeding now with the completion of the first unit of the Skagit project. Following is his article: The State Printer Business There’s a situation at Olympia that needs fixing, For it’s costing you thousands of dollars every year. And, it’s wrong. It’s the state printer business. This is the way it works out now: | The governor appoints the state printer. The state printer doesn’t have to be a ter. He may be a cobbler or a haberdasher. He may be a plain ward heeler. BY BERTON BRALEY Oh, never tel moe that life t* dull When up in the arching sky, Swifter than ever the hawk or gull, Men mount to the cloud»—and fly. And who shall wat! for a lost romance When, high from its towers hurled, able to buy them.—Rep. Collier (D.), A spark leaps over the blue expanse Mise And flashes o'er half a world! eee Our voices travel om singing wirea, FREE SUMMER EDUCATION BY J. D. ROSS SUPERINTENDENT CITY LIGHTING DEPARTMENT (Written Especially for The Star) doesn’t have to know anything at all. 4 ‘The state printer, under the present state law, is guaranteed ALL of the printing the state offices, departments and for most of the state institutions. With this guarantee, he can borrow the money to. buy the presses and machinery and a building. Most any bank will lend him the cash. The bank can't lose. The state law fixes the prices which the state printer may charge. AND THE PRICES ARE RIDICULOUSLY HIGH. You wouldn’t pay the price for your letter-heads or stationery that the labor de- nt or the education department has to pay. But the state officers can’t help themselves, They are forced by law to go to the te printer. They can’t go outside for a dollar’s worth of paper. They've got to buy the governor's appointee at the high price set by law. Now, then, the state printer nets a fat profit. He can’t help it. Naturally, he "t want to help it. _ Several state printers have grown rich on the job. But the state printer isn’t thru when he has collected and banked his cash. Election time comes. The office of the state printer turns out huge prints of the t and these prints appear all over the state. Much election stuff is printed. | Campaign expenses must be paid. Of course the state printer wouldn't think of being, so ungrateful as to let the governor pay them all. There are politicians to be cared for. Sometimes nice, easy jobs are prepared in ‘the state printer’s office. ‘There have been, reports from time to time that governors have taken a “cut” in profits of the state printery. But, of course, these stories aren't true. Anyway y can’t be proved. Or, at least, haven't been yet. Oh, it works out very nicely. A fat job for someone. Guaranteed profits. A “satisfactory arrangement” for political reasons, Campaign expenses taken care of without worry. AND YOU TAXPAYERS PAY THE BILL. carefully packed with the gov- thick-and-thin supporters, a made the boast that he MDOESN'T CARE what The Star, ‘er the independent papers in Spo and Tacoma, say about bim. | Maybe Hart doesn’t, | Maybe Hart is so conceited in arrogance that he actually be res bis present control of the fepublican party cinches his hold ‘on the state of Washington, and (all the people in it, while giving i, friends and retainers a free -ehance to go on grabbing while the _ Brabbing is good, Take away Hart's power IN the " party and you have i ely = disappointed, doddering eld man, 2 pitiful and somewhat example of a gang politi- who lived about 30 years too Dik The National rink ~} [ i i . § fr vif L cE | a » PrTETy EL nie rd Bil ’ ial ci he : i i ! gERpyeg? iets PESTS tre ipl at eps 8 i Dlackberrics they're red. being green when How many smiles per gal? Man rips what woman sewa, Pesstmist Song: A lull-of-bwy. English as She Is Spoke Miss Dagmar Perkins of New York, president of the National As- sociation for the Improvement of American Speech, has undertaken a bard job, She wants Americans to quit saying “gimme” and “ain't” and “watchyerstep” and the like. But Miss Perkins is not a Pioneer, "Way back in the early years of the 19th century the dis- tinguished educator, Horace Mann, attempted to teach New England how to speak English. He failed miserably, New Englanders con- tinue to murder the language until this day. A woman can’t understand why @ man stays single, But she can readily see why another woman docs. Dr, Adler says one out of 10 ts mare All 10 pity the poor =~ — = s. A Fes ge i | i HE Hae iH HE e? & F g 5 if i 8 k fiir £ Constantine to get out of the reign, would have increased the danger to his patient, He didn't—a week later he died of blood poisoning. ‘The medical profession has to its honor a long list of such sacri- fices to duty. America spends a Ddillion @ year for soft drinks but you never heard of “The face om the drug- store floor.” It ts rumored that the woman who spent $5,000,000 in Paris stop ped at an American hotel. Ratring railroad rates has razed Ddusiness. British Feud Is On Again The Lloyd GeorgeNortheliffe feud has broken ont again and the two most powerful men tn Great Britain are at each other's throats, Northcliffe's newspapers attacked Lioyd George as being unfit to rep- resent Great Britain at the Wash ington disarmament conference, The premier countered by bar- ring the Northcliffe newspapers from his office and the Britisg for- eign office, Northeliffe may or may not have enough influence to keep Lioyd George away from Washington, but It’s a hundred to one shot that no one favored by Northcliffe will coma, We've quit sending owr clothes te the laundry; bought @ sausage grinder and are doing our own Some men are so cautious they want two guesses at who will win @ prizefight. A man out of work regards any fod as a vacation. When a Russian starves the ver- et is “natural death,” ~ With speech that is heard afar; And we skim the roadways on magic tires, As wo drive in a wonder car. With the harnemed strength of a roaring stream ‘We turn the great wheels of trade, And what was only a dreamer’s dream Is builded, and shaped and made! Life's dull, you tell me? In a world of marvelous And yet you éwell power, Where each moment brings you a wizard’s #pell— And « miracle every bourt (Copyright, 1921, LETTERS TO EDITOR} | by Beattic Star) How About the “Flu” Prize? Editor The Star: Once more I beg to question whether the $10,000 which was offered for ward ing off the Influenza epidemic io January, 1920, (when all of the peo ple were to be killed, outside of the buman devils by whom the ep demic wus started) was found? The epidemic was warded off. Put | the $10,000 was not given as yet ‘Therefore, we want to know, what banker or treasurer has been made the holder of the $10,0007 ELIZA ROTH. 231 Johnson ave, Bryn Mawr, Has Book 368 Years Old Editor The Star: Seeing in a re cont Star a letter to the editer about man having a book printed in 1665, which he referred to as being the old. eat in the United States, I would like to come forward as the third person to claim the distinction, Mine tf» an old Bible, printed tn the years 1653-54, in Zurich, Switzerland, and before the St. James version ap- | peared. So, you see, this book i 238 years olds It ean be seen by any | body who is interested at my home. MAA. F. 8. LEONARD, Tracyton, Wash. Cure for Saunders’ Hiccoughs Editor The Star: I notice in the paper that District Atiarney Saun- ders te suffering from & severe case ef biccoughs If any one can get him some biack Dameon plums, either raw or fam, canned or jelly, tt will cure the hic- coughs, Yours truly, MRS PLR, Shall the Government Mine Coal? Editor The Star: The announce ment from Mr. Hoover, of the ae It te good to reflect that ont of eight years of democratic rule, we have this one law of real conserva tion, and which, if enforced with courage and promptness, would give relieg “from monopoly and oppres- sive conditions.” One of the conditions, aa respects the uses of the government, was found by the Calder committee inves: tigating coal shortage and conditions generally, when it developed that the war department, being in need of large quantities, was obliged to seek the aid of one of the large operators, who secured the coal from another operator, at the very highest prices, and charged the war department therefor $35,000 as a commission, It surely will not require any proof to the householder in any part of the United States that by reason of high prices caused by strikes and prohibi- tive freight rates, conditions are “op- pressive.” In reading the proceedings of the State Federation of Labor just re cently, my attention wns attracted by the following tub to the autocrat lc whale. In substance: “We favor such amendment to the law provid. ing for the calling of a constitutional convention that will require only a majority of electors voting, Instead | of @ majority of the electors of the state.” This plainly {6 following m the footsteps of Gompers, who an- nounced last summer that he would support no man for congress who was not known to be loyal to Inbor and shows a willingness to form an alliance with our friend the enemy— autoeracy in any form or under any banner, The fact that such amend- ment is unneceswary testifies to the ingenuity of the platform worker. With all thie work for a constitution al convention, no man can point to a single definite attack upon the con- stitution. The understened, In a glatnty writ ten communication to the big papers of the state—two or three of them, at least—asked them to in what respect amendment was needed, but no reply Was deigned, It is appar: Rev. M. A. Matthews ‘Will preach a sermon Sun- day morning eftitied THE SIGNS OF SATAN In the evening he will discuss the subject THE VICTORY OF DAN- 1KL OVER AN vy AND MOD PAGANIS) Public Is Invited FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Seventh and Spring. ent that the only purpose of a con stitutional convention is to make op- portunity to attack any part of it without disclosing and taking any Mr. President, I am very much pleased to know that the senator from Georgia (Mr, Watson) derived some benefit and improvement from the seoond half of my speech, and if he will Usten to both halves of my speeches hereafter I am satisfied that he will derive a great deal more benefit, and will be @ much better citizen than he is now.—Sen. Myers (4 Mont. REMARKABLE REMARKS Germany is tn far better condition than the other countries of Central Europe.—A. 8. Burleson, former post. master general eee Fathers who work hard are better progenitors than those who take it easy.—Casper L Redfield, Chicago heredity expert. eee Medical beer is not recognized by the medical profemdion.—Wayne B Wheeler, general counsel, Anti Saloon league. When the young married couple | met to talking “at” instead of “to” each other, the honeymoon is thru thp last quarter, responsibility for the attack. Every man who reads and remem- bers what be reads, knows that the constitution has been free from at tack since its formation, and that it hag been amended in every progres- aive respect demanded by the spread of enlightenment. Let them pat up thelr propositions to amend, but down with the convention, for it is unsafe at this juncture, when the fate of our great democracy at times seems to be in the balance, i, A. VINCENT, Ellensburg, Wash. ARABL ET Satec } evening when the sun had set, and 1 and = Keturab had had our din- and I was peace with Keturah and with all the world. For 1 had removed my shoea, and put on my slippers, and = hung up my coat, and I sat in @ jacket, reading a now book that I wanted to read before any one-should ask me, saying. bast thou read it? And Keturah spake unto me, say- ing, In not this the night that they have the Great Meeting in the Opera Houne In favor of the Readjustment of the Universe? And I said, Keturah, why art theu forever taking the Joy out of Life? I had forgotten this meeting, and now, behold, I must go And she said, Thou hast a Plat form Ticket, and art to sit up on bigh and support the Cause e Sa here tn @ comfortable jacket than to put on my long black Fireless Cooker and sit up on high. For he payeth well who hath a platform seat. For he mist not yawn, no matter how long the meeting ia, nor how dull the speeches, and be cannat slip out unnoticed. f And I considered why there are any Platform Seats, agd why they do not fill them with Effigies of George Washington and Benedict Arnold and other distinguished men. But Keturah said, Now be silent, for I know thine beart, He can despise platform seats who hath them, but thou knowest if they had not been sent, and thou hadst seen the platform filled with men thou deemest no wiser nor better than thyself, thou surely should have noticed It. Wherefore put'onm thy Fireless Cooker and go, and try to look wise, for that ts why they want thee on the platform. And I did even as she mid. And it was a good on be- half of a good Seance WILLIAM F. BARTON. “Why Seventh-Day MONDAY, JULY “A Search for Sunday TUESDAY, JULY “Who Changed BIG TENT - Lectures at Big Tent Pavilion Corner Fourth Ave. and Virginia St. | PETTIT-SCHAFFNER EVANGELISTS Three Important Lectures Adventists Keep the Seventh-Day Sabbath” : SUNDAY, JULY 24, AT 7:45 P. M. “Why I Keep the Seventh Day” 25, AT 7:45 P. M. Sacredness in the New Testament—Bogus Claims for Sunday Examined” 26, AT 7:45 P. M. the Sabbath?— Christ or Anti-Christ?” Sunday, Monday and Tuesday Evenings PAVILION PUBLIC WELCOME There are several questions that are most important at this time. Is There Scarcity of Power in Seattle? ‘There ts a great scarcity of hydro power, and steam power is high in cont. City Nght has onty 10,000 K. W, at Cedar Falla. A new machine now being installed will add to this during high water and help te con serve fuel. On the other band, tt ie planned to use as much as pos sible from Cedar Lake and this exhaust that reservoir in Septem” ber or October, and for several weeks the city must be suppl altogether from steam power, The local electric company’s st ment at Olympia shows that purchased over 67,000,000 K. W. HL last year from Canada and Spokane, Is This the Time to Build? It Is One of our banks and one of our newspapers have just expanded into new quarters. The telephone com pany is building a new plant. The municipal plant of Los Angeles has 72,000 HL P. in hydro power in service as against our little 13,500 H. P. at Cedar Vallis that has ac complished so much in the past, and Los Angeles is building more. Consequently, industriek that we should have are going to Las An- geles. Callfornia plants all cost more than the unit of Skagit sow building, yet they are starting new ones, Niagara, on the ‘ side, is rushing in 500,000 HP. more. One California company has started building on a program to | develop 66,000 H. P. @t a cost of $300,000,000, The Spokane com} is just finishing 14,500 H. P, some of which will no doubt be used im Seattle, 5 Is the Skagit the Best Site? Yes An4 the only large site left on a permanent rock character. It was the electric company’s great asset and was wrested from them when they bought up sites for which the city had called for bids, 60,000 H. P. is now being built at an cstimated cost of $176 per H. P. at Beattle boundary for labor and material, or $194 per H. P., includ- ing interest during construction. This includes about $2,000,000 or $40 per H. P.. for railway, prelim!- mary work and construction plant chargeable to the whole Skagit plan. The 40,000 H. P. plant started by Can Skagit 50,000 H. P. The city paid $618,581.37 to the electric company last year for street railway power, meaning that we must pay nearly $1,700 a day until the Skagit produces power. $500,- 000 = year can be saved at Lake Union steam plant. The general de mané@ for light and power will edd to this revenue and belp our city. City lght te making a substantial surplus every year. Interest charges on Skagit at 6 per the Los Angeles municipality is Umated to cost $250 per H. P. California company’s $6,000 HL program is to cost $346 per EL P, The succeeding units at will be cheaper per H. P, The will be asked only after the demonstrates itself. The final age coset at Skagit, when com built, will be $100 per H. P, same cost as the 500,000 H. P. being built at Niagara is The engineering features of Skagit have not been materially tacked and have been passed on im the highest terms by some of Amen ica's greatest engineers, | Unit Be Financed? Yes” cent are $528,000, and with operating, 000 to epply on Skagit, with revenue from further Can We Delay Construction? No ‘We tmvite al] the investigation anyone wanta. There ts plenty of time for a dozen investigations be- fore @ contract can be let for the tunnel, unless the investigations are exceedingly dense, and there is no reason for abandoning or delaying work at a cost of several bundred thousand dollars just because some one was asleep in the past years and wakes up to ask for a new in vestigation. The city bas already paid severa] thousand dollars for outside experts to pass om the proj- ect, and they are all strongly for it, and they are men who know, The city paye the electric company $1,694 every day for railway power. be effective while the city operates | ef el | re ts i : iL E i H ‘| 8 B i i i i i 3 E i i : : | rs E t g f E i § Hl <8 ih i Why Was the Estimate of Cost Increased ‘The lighting department has been pleading for hydro power since 1911 and an ordinance was passed av thorizing $5,500,000 In bonds to build & 25,000 H. P. plant and $500,000 substation, Many difficulties arose with which our citizens are familiar and 10 years with hydro power shortage made it imperative to use steam power, The 25,000 HL P. plant idea with two more years to wait after waiting 10 years, already is far’outgrown and would not more, than supply the present street rail- way. The plant has therefore been doubled to 50,000 H. P. with a tum nel for 112,000 H, P. later, The estimate has been raised from $5,000,000, or $200 per H. plus $500,000 for substation, to $8,800,000, or $174 per H. P., and $90,000 has been added for interest during con- struction. This item in the first estimate was omitted as it was then the intention that the interest should P. of Installation in prewag | years, Coffee down egain. Highest prices, 40c and 38a Lowest price, 20c. Lunch with me—Quick wholesome food. ‘ M. A. Hansen, 40 ket.— Advertisement, Try This on Your Wise Friend What like portions of a dollar, a half dollar and a quar- | ter can you add and then subtract a nickel from the sum | and have a dollar left? Answer to yesterday's: Strike out the first 2 to the left, the sevens and the two nines to the left, Don’t Be a Square Peg in a Round Hole Have yourself analyzed. Find your right place in the commercial world, and fill {t full You will be happy and efficient in your work. Peggy M. Reeves, M. A. 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