The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 29, 1921, Page 6

Newspaper Fo terprine Asan. and United Press Servicn also asking “Why?” The Seattle Sta Ry mall, out of ofty, $4.00, In the stale of Washingto 44.50 for 6 menths, or $9.00 per year, Published 6 ; 2 months, #1 Ry earrter, city, Mr. Mellon and the Sur-tax About two weeks ago, The Star called attention to the astounding campaign that is being waged before congress by Secretary of the Treasury Mellon for greatly reducing the sur. taxes on swollen incomes at the same time that numerous means are being devised tor increasing the federal tax on the little fellows, A Star editorial on that subject concluded, “Why, Mr. Mellon, why?” clipped by J. A. Ferry, of Kirkland, and sent by him to the secretary with a letter This was In reply Mr. Ferry has received a letter {rom Secretary Mellon explaining his stand. It and press dispatches from Washington of the last few days argue that the present high rate of taxation on gigantic incomes has resulted in lowering government rev- enues rather than the reverse and have had a stagnating effect on business, All of which does not sound like very convincing reason for abolishing the high rate. Many wealthy men are dividing their fortunes among their avoiding the higher sur-tax rates, says Mellon They also are adopting such schemes as borrowing large sums of money, investing the principal in tax-free securities and then deducting the interest paid on the money borrowed from their normal incomes. families and thus If the sur-tax is forcing the division of vast estates, that surely is in the public interest, and ought to be encouraged by the government. are escaping their just share of taxation by such schemes as the other one outlined, the law should be so rigidly administered as to prevent these practices, or else amended so that a few of them will go to the penitentiary for doing it. But the idea of reducing the share of taxation now carried by the super-wealthy of the United States in order to increase the burden on the great mass of us is the distilled essence of gall and injustice. ell instead of taking it from the ground. Until the last day of his term as FL a Fed U t ‘the navy business. Let's turn the mavy over to private business men and buy our protection from them. Bome people want an economical government; others hold political jobs. A fool and his money are not parted any quicker than a fool and a has wife. Fame and Money Making Knut Hamsun, Norwegian novel- fet, and Nobel prize winner, was a * bumble fellow in America, a red- mitétened driver of a horse-car in Chicago. W. H. Davies has just been awarded 4 new civil pension in iy: England, in recognition of his achievements. Before he became known as a poet of distinction he ‘was as tramp and peddier in Eng- land and in the United States, Ability to prosper financially ts not the only test of human merit. , The ragged man one. passes at the next corner may have the brains to win fame which will burn bright when everyone has forgot the rich- st man in Seattle. Hard knocks are good for a man unless he’s doing the knocking. Mosquitoes are in disrepute be- cause they dite the hand that's feeding them. Parents should make their daughters promise not to smoke until they're 21. Too many hobby-horses are be- ing fed from the United States treasury. A man will chase a golf ball all over the links because it’s too hot to yo to church Taxation scems to be all 10 points of the law. If the immensely wealthy LETTERS TO EDITOR Suggests Auto Ride Service Editor The Star: owner calla up and volunteers, give You ovaig 7g & wonderfully hu-| him the name and addresg of the manitarian joa when you arranged | | for the automobile owners to come | "78t name registered, to the rescue of the shutins with the| Make it the duty of the arte own: idea of enabling them to visit “The | er to report to you when he has tak Waytarer.” en the person for a ride, when the Why not carry the idea a little fur. | cart of the recipient should be placed ther and make the idea productive of continued pleasure both to the! auto owners and to their leas fortu- nate brothers and sisters? Will you kindly permit me to sux gest to you a plan that only 9 news. | | paper could carry out, because of; in the back of the file, giving each auto owner inquirer the name of the person desiring a ride that appears first on the file, This wil! eliminate any belng overlooked. . Importance should be attached to the auto own ec’s report after the ride has been your ability to reach those most in-!/ given, so all will be reached in turn | terested? First, make a heart ap-| There are doubtiess lots of folks } peat for those who own autos to re- who would appreciate rides, and if | spond and jet it be known to the old| they think they are given that ride or infirm that by registering their | with perfectly free will and a desire names with you they wil! be afford-|on the part of the auto owner to give ing the auto owners an opportunity | himself as much pleasure as they do of performing an act that will please | the recipient, thea they will respond, them more then the ride even will| particularly if they konw no pubiiel- the recipient. File the names of|ty will be given to it. Yours to a» those desiring an outing In the order | sist, J. 1 COOKE, they are received, and when an auto 1314 Fourth Ave —_—_—_——— Cutting s Postage Bill Editor The Star: One way of not solving it ts to T bave noted with moch interest latiigste the city to pay € per cent and some amusement discussion infor 40 yeafy on $1,250,000 of school the columns of all the Seattle news: | bonds. papers respecting the problem of feeding, clothing, housing and edu- ‘cating a large family of Little Seat- Uea This problem had {ts origin tn the Greater Seattle campaign of the city | and commercia) “dads” of 1906 oF |receives a statemem by mail, month thereabouts, whore ambitious preten-|ly, there is an Nem of $1,300 per sions, Uke Goliath's, made them for-| month, $15,600 per annum, for post- get, if they ever knew) the law of |age alone; paper, printing, envelopes, compensation, ete., and the federal postal employes’ All must pay for their own—and added burden—which, it seems to me, the follies of those whom they per-|could be wiped out, approximately, mit to act as their agents. |by combining both statements on In business an agent is amenable one; light on one end, water on the to the civil law. In politics the law-|other, customer's receipt in the mid: makers and administrators appear to|die. One envelope and one stamp to be immune. customers using both services, which Actually, there is a higher law/are both pald to one cashier, too. which “is no respecter of persons.” A. HL SILLAR, 215 12th ave. N, A Party That Is Going to Die Editor The Star: Ja more faithless bunch of represent- In its Sunday isue of July 24 a Se/atives than what we sent that time, attle paper states the third party, as|and this assertion you hear from far as this state is concerned, is as republicans nowadays as frequent dead as the proverbial door nail. |lty as from F.-L. party men. At the Now, I, too, voted the republican | next election, if the Hart adminis- ticket at the last election, and I am |tration holds out that long, I think tight here to state I am ashamed |you will find one party just a little Jof it, Furthermore, I think that all | bit deader than the farmer-labor par who voted as I did by now ought to|ty, and that party will be the old feel as I do. republican party. There,never wus sent to Olympia EVERETT READER. From Edgewick Resident During the winter or earty spring I read in your paper statement that the city light had 65,000 custo ters’ names on its books. Assuming that these Were or are all active accounts and that each Fei the Star: Have just fin-|way, then trailing three miles to get ished Reading your articles about |to a road! Oh, yes, indeed, we had Edgewick. May 1 add a few detalls?|a cable to hold to, so we would not You see I was one of the people who | fall from the planks, but the planks climbed the hillside at 1 a. m. | would not stay long at a time The hill was so steep and rough! Perhaps you did not know that Se the soles were torn from our shoes. attle engineers, two of them, were Then there was the all-night vigil called to look at the rising water the next night, a bitter cold night, | Saturday and: they gaid there was for fear the water would come high- | absolutely no danger. The flood oo er as mud filled in, Lots of the|curred wityjn 24 hours. people had not.yet been able to get| They were such home-loving men. out, as the road was washed out|Rather than spend the night in our and the debris in the center of the | village and return by morning train creek would not hold a plank for|to Seattle, they took the round-about long at a time. | route to Everett that night. The thrill (7) of walking a frosty| Kdgewick has settled. It was im® plank at least fifteen feet above an| possible at that time to step off of angry torrent, one end of the plank |debris without sinking. Place a on timbers, shore side, the other|stick on the mud and of its own high up on logs and brush in the | weight it would sink the depth of the stream and down again the same! mud. BM Wants Showdown on Hart Editor The Star: the respect of the people he repre- I wish to commend you for the stand you have taken in affairs of | state and nation. I feel more than friendly towards an editor of the| “people's newspaper,” who has the backbone to come boldly forward and print the exact truth as he finds it{ on aj! ratters concerning our gov. i ernment and officials thereof. j Now in regard to the charges against Governor Hart. I personally know | nothing of them, but this I wish to say, that the matter has gone too far to let it drop or to whitewash over, sents. #1f, on the other hand, he is innocent, then he is entitled to vindi- cation. One fact I am.aware of. A great many people believe him guilty, and unless steps are taken to clear him of guilt the republican party is doomed in Washington. There was a great howl about what would hap- pen if Bridges were elected, but could he have done much worse than Hart is charged with doing? Hop- ing this mipt of doubt will be cleared, I close, Yours for a square deal, P.W.B ® Box 32, R. F. D, If he ia guilty he has no right to hold the high office he does, neither Mt. Vernon, Wash. ° ° : Try This on Your Wise Friend A room has eight corners; in every corner sits a cat; on every cat’s tail sits a cat, and before each cat is a cat. How many cats were there? Answer to yesterday's: Pluck it off the stork’s back. a Y From The Westminster Gasette (London), | OVERHEARD IN JERUSALEM BY HAROLD LEWIS-COOK 1 once met a kind man Who laughed with me, I'd have liked him for a brother For his jollity. He mentioned Beersheba And Galilee, And other places lying deep In the cool country. A little boy told me, Stopping in his play, | That it might have been Christ Who talked to me that day. | Uncle Sam with a golden spoon, What Samsonlike kids are many ‘of the great cotton-mill factories, jand yet they must be sustained and |noothed with Fordney high protec | Uon lest they perish, | ©The sober truth is, many of these infants are “bearded like the pard™ jand have pockets on them Itke meal | sacks, filled with gold and silver! “PROTECTED” Jand profiteering protita wrung from | Now, af to infant inaustries, most4 the sweaty hands of tired but of them are fully grown, and yet! pdtient consumers all over the land the Fordney bill now pending pro-| Some of these tarifftavored| Congressional | Record MORE INFANTS TO BE poses to still treat ther if they | youngsters stalk all about tn seven were sightiess, toothiess babies league boots. Many of them are in “mewling and puking in their! fants like the one described tn First | Samuel 17, whose height was six a lusty infant is the Amert.| cubits and a span; who had a hel can Woolen Co, and yet tt must| met of brass upon his head and was still be coddied and protected armed with a coat of mail, and the nurse's arms.” Wh 40. “a | munity Whoxe experience in similar. rt THANKS! How fow thanks does the school . | teacher “lve in portion to the value of her work! How many . aa welledited insues of the loca) paper BYR WILLIAM BARTON een ee ion, and how gs! ear Ag a promptly doe the irate subscriber where I live] write in to protest when he reads ntands man| something he does not like whone businexs| How easy it is to scold the tele it in to watch a| phone girl for the one time in 19 grade crossing, | When she gives the wrong number and prevent peo-| There are eral people whowe Hie Wree ple from getting | dally ithfulnes makes us their run over by the| debtor and whose work goes almost ™m. trains. I stopped| Wholly unrecognized by the people 4 et one day and) whom they benefit | talked with I have a suggestion Let every and he told me| reader of this article try to think \his wag not a care-free life. | of one faithful person whom he has] He said he had to keep alert al)| never thanked, and thank him. ) the time be une people took | chances which they had no business Augustus Octavianus, first of the to take. He wald that people Who! Roman emperors, wan an expert came up in thelr automobiles expect: | shorthand writer ing to get acroms the track some WS eS mes cursed him for shutting down the when they thought they had plenty of time, He waid he once shut down the| gates in front of a foot-paswenger, | a man of 55 or 60, and that the man | Sunda Blue Laws | stooped down and crept under the gate #0 a8 to gain five seconds of time, and was standing on one track | watching the train go east upon the other track, and that he would have | been killed by @ train coming In the other direction, had not the crossing tender, in peril of his own Wife, left } the gate and jerked him off the} track Ho enld the man whose life he! saved abused him soundly for what | he had done, REV. G. W. PETTIT Pastor of the Central Seventh- Day Adventist Church, will discuss in a sermon on— Friday at 7:45 P. M. Iam sure he told me the truth. | —the He who stands between people and danger every day Wag no friends in| I “Results of Sunday Blue the community which be nerves i Few people know him well enough | 1 Are They in to nod to him. “Not once in alx Ha y With the We are one months does any one thank him, | tores in th There are other men tn the com-| | BET Y Teachings of Christ?” At Big Tent Pavilion Corner Fourth Ave. and Virginia St. upon his legs and a target of brass | between his shoulders. And the staff of his spear was like a weav.| er’s loom; and his spear's head} What @ bearded child is the Steel! weight of the coat wan 6,000 shekels Trust, and yet it must be fed by of brass; who had grooves of brass] Tillman (D) Arkansas, welghed 600 sheKels of iron. — Rep. | PUBLIC WELCOME ——— Be Cp a he terfie CIGARETTES and the blend can’t be copied 20 for FRIDAY, JULY 29, 1921. E. 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