The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 30, 1921, Page 6

The Seattle Starz: By mail, out ef elty, ble per month; F months, $1.50; @ montha HLTH) year, 06, in the stale of Washington, Outside of the rtate, H8e per mouth, 44.50 for € months, or $9.00 per year, Ny carrier, city, 60 & month, Newspaper Ba- terprise Asm. and United Prose Service Japs on Normal School Payroll The Star is told by a Seattle man who spent the week-end siting Ellensburg Normal school that the cooking and janitor svork of the institution are done by Japanese! * Sixteen men are thus engaged, this guest was informed. This is an astounding state of affairs, and ought to be recti- fied at once. There is no excuse for the Ellensburg Normal, | in these days when American men and women so badly need i} the work, to employ Oriental aliens. i Fire these Japs, Mr. President, and put citizens on the pay- | roll. murder trial) geant Alvin C. York of the Ten | Just then OccU-| nesses mountains. He returned to ying @ 6904) q mortgaged farm in the hills of deal of space in| his native state, ¥ + ‘y 1 4 the papers. One! 4 4 2) J f the. men|. He too, had opportunity to earn o 4 en > Pre opr y & fortune upon the screen. The be (Copyright, 1921, by Beattie Stary adi the situatlon | suggest to him that if he has con hoe: ? It A nclentious scruples about using the Home? It's a place where it's good to be ‘i ; ra dent: ip When your heart is light and your mind carefree; me a der) pa hg OY, art) money, he can turn it to eharity It's @ place to dream and a place to rest HOW ad uD en une tells inj Ho Tetuses to touch it. He says : ; Dr 6 tel IUs @ place to welcome the welcome guent; oe aah. bald tatime” Sette wit| “I would rather lowe my farm and | A place whose motto ix “Do as you pleane,” serve as an excuse for the verdict | back to work as a common day Where you needn't fuss, where you take your ease y laborer than to commercialize the However you chooue; it's a place that glows of text ft reasonable With ¢ and comfort and calm repose; needa the pre’ “6 ‘ doubt. | It's @ place you look to from afar TH As & light that THE SEATTLE STAR ‘kona, a guiding star—~ TU { AN INTERESTING CONTRAST | BY DR. WM. BE. BARTON @ were sitting In & compartment on the — train! some weeks ago, | and discussing a jnear when the disgraceful stuff wil! be filmed broadenst, and she will get rich out of her shame. “The bravest single exploit of the world war, so far a» America had & share in it, was the deed of Ser that is certain to come, and which fame that was incidental to an act of providence.” in the brave red-headed lad “As for the man, he got what) SDAY, AUGUST 20, ! 1921. A PRIMER .WE ALL SHOULD STUDY Let me put the situation (in regard to exces profits and excess profits | taxes) in the form of @ primer on tax. ation: Q. What is the excess-profits tax? A—A tax on excens profits Q What are excess profits? A. Profits in excess of a reasonable return on capital invested. | Q Are excens profits consctohable? A. The practice of souging excess (or unreasonable) profits out of the people in the stress of war has ab ways been considered ae bigly repre hensible and as even unpatriotic, When life is Joyous and filled with gle, Flome is @ place where it’s good to bel sorry for what happened to him The woman will be engaged by any was coming to him, and no one is| Who single-handed killed 25 enemies captured machine Q Was this largely the reason for 132 prisoners and put 36 the imposition of the excess-profits ins outeof commission ome? Yt’ as one of a half dozen movie firms be-| Her ping Alvin York does not | tax? ~ me par Siege wpere-tt 3 gona to be fore she gets out of the town where | lose his farm. Here's doubly hoping| a. Tt waa A plaeh Where ermaeths Protos A the is tried,and her story will be| that he does not lone his faith that’ @ Is there any reason for contig. run as a highly moral show.” it all predicted, Where thoughts are tender and words ring true, Where you feel the clasp of a loyal hand And the love of those who can understand; When life is tragic or gay and free, Home ts & place where it's good to bet happened precisely and the Ume must be | cash, | patriotiam and devotion to God and aa he| duty are not ing the making of excess profits? A. None whatever, except inherent od. to be measured by Q Would we stop the eo xoese profits by repealing the tax? Explanation Should Be Made There are circumstances in connection with the purchase, building and terrible trag- edy which marked the finish of dirigible ZR-2, which require a lot of explaining. Until they are explained to the entire satisfaction of the people of the United States, the naval bureau of aeronautics will be under suspicion as to its competency. In the first place, whose was the final decision which made us the purchaser of ZR- 4 a foreign-built airship of new and to a very great extent experimental type? Why were the British willing to sell her to us? To what practical use were we to put this giant of the air which could not be as well or better served by a smaller craft of tried and proven type, built in America, by American workmen, under constant supervision of our own experts? _ Did the fact that she was the biggest thing of the kind ever designed so appeal to the pride and imagination of our navy officials that they did not give enough con- sideration to the possible structural weakneesses which such great size might involve? When these weaknesses actually developed, as they did during her first practice flight several weeks ago, did our na "and re-proving of every engineering problem involved? val authorities insist upon a complete re-checking Or were they so anxious to accomplish the dramatic flight across the ocean at the Pp fundamental weakness? sti hi: i HH H F re} i 1 cl tt g He in 2120 A. D. The oldest piano in existence is exhibited at the Metropolitan mu- eum in New York. It was made 199 years ago, in 1722, by Cris- tofori, inventor of, the pianoforte, Doubtless, it was the marvel of fs day. But wouldn't the people of 1722 have gaped if they could have seen a modern phonograph! Wonder what kind of new mu- sical instruments they'll have 199 years hence? Ford’s Rate fiss I E The Silesian trouble ts running longer than @ Broadway bedroom farce. In these days of shooting hus- bands, women with high aims are in demant. to raise rates from $1.15 to $1.50 per thousand and to increase tts minimum charge from 40 cents to $1 per month, The investigation conducted by the commission showed that the existing rates yielded 714 per cent net profit on the investment in 1920 and that the profit this year will be greater. The New York public seems to have found a way to protect itself against public utility gouging. There t» a lesson in this for Seattle. Pedestrians look Another sign of a hard winter ts the price of coat. We need autos that can detour around trains, Real Boys Sir Ernest Shackleton is going to take two Scotch Boy Scouts with him on his coming trip to the Antarctic, We hazard the opinion that every other Boy Scout in the world is envious of those two Seotch youngsters. Dangers? Of course, lots of them. But what does a real boy care about dangers? Maybe the tariff can’t please alt Because it has too many duties. | romised, that they permitted superficial repairs which did not cor- union in Dawson, city of the far vorth Canadian Yukon. They cel- ebrate the twenty-fifth anniver- sary of the first rich strike of i gold on Bonanza Crock. Skookum Jim, a Siwash Indian, diseovered the gold fields of Klon- dike. Prospecting with his brother, sCultus Chartie,” and with “Siwash George” Carmack, Skookum Jim, while bis companions slept, went down to a creck, by an old birch tree, and panned a handful of gold from the gravel in a fow minutes, The world went gold mad wheh the news traveled out. Skookum Jim took a steamer to Seattle and spent $100,000, buying everything that caught his eye. Five years ago this discoverer of the Klondike died a pauper. He was a rainbow-chaser. eee As in all gambling games, as in all rainbow-chasing, the ma jority of the Klondike gold-scek- ers came home broke, Pondering that, you reflect that rainbow-chasing rarely pays. The. best opportunities are at home—right here in Seattle There's further food for thought, in that time has shown there is a thousand times the wealth in the furs, salmon, tim ber and oil of Alaska and the Yukon than there ever was in gold, That's the way here, too, Many seek gold—the easy money. But the real wealth is in hard work, useful service and the unromantic but profitable necessities of life. A friend in need leaves you broke. Many 4 man is driven to despair in his own car. Cultivating one’s voice usually raises a progeat, Tots of self-made men forget (heir wives boased the fob. Mitk 4s being made from oats, peanuts and water, Oate and pea- nuta are the new ingredients, Try This on Your Wise Friend If a man had one-half as much more money; one-third as much more and one-sixth as much more he would have $60. How,much had he actually? Answer to yesterday's: The man with the six dozen dozen. (A halt @ duren dozen ‘4 12 oranges. Six dozen dozen 1s 12 dozen oranges.) Women have always had a rot |in their stockings, Greeks get Turkey's Angora. Ita la city. A fool and her money are soon marricd LETTERS TO EDITOR a letter. sible, ‘The Star received a fow days ago & letter from @ convict in the ciate | net always @ very easy matter to 1) | Set employment. So, of course, it is penitentiary asking for publicity & regard to some writings he was try:| have a little money to fall back on|* Ing to market. The prisoner gave the /until be oan adjust himeelf and find | * Help Edit The Star to Suit Yourself If you wish to voice a public grievance, if you know a piece of news that the reporters have overlooked, if you have observed a good deed that you think should be recorded, if you feel a little editorial bub- bling up irresistibly in your system—write the editor Write on one side of the paper, plainly. typewrite the letter. This 1s your department; edit it. Asks Help for Convict | If pos- Sign your name and address. If you do not wish them printed, say so Phang Thee digge Bhar So as Hey c and suggest a pen name or initials. lahe not tell the publie about such 2 i (this man has served 15 years) It te very important that this prisoner name of « Belfair, Wash. woman 42 | work. reference. Following is a letter on |the subject from this woman: Editor The Star Your favor of August 22 has been fortune,” received, and in regard to prisoner No, 4110, J. H. Le Roy, would say that I believe he will try and “go straight” when paroled. And I am reaponably sure that whatever money he may obtain from the aale of his booklets will be used to help him get & new start when released from the state penitentiary. You know the great difficulty the paroled man has to contend with, es pecially when he is penniless. The police, who may know something about his past, are so apt to hound him and perhaps even arrest him for vagrancy when the man ts doing his best trying to find work. The Umes are hard, as everyone knows, and for one who has been shut away from the world for so many years The Fruit of Mob Law Editor The Star: At Mason City, Iowa, the other day, & socialist lecturer, & woman, was mobbed while speaking by a gang of men(?, kidnaped, taken 10 miles into the country and “dumped out” into the road. A brave deed, to be sure! These hoodtums were supposed to be members of the American legion or the Ku Klux Klan, ‘The ocourrence was typical of mob rule, an attack on a woman and free speech, and is only one of a number that have occurred of late. If these organizations must be, if these seit appointed committees of public safety must operate, 1 do not care if they be members of the American legion the Ku Klux Klan or what not, let A Hot Shot From Tolt Editor The Star: In answer to a letter In The Star August 19, headed “Married Women in Jobs,” and signed by “A Constant Reader of The Star 1 think he may also be one of the work even . city, one who will not when given the opportunity. I was in Seattle August 18, with four or f one. I visited atx employment offices. I could have gone out on at least 75 different jobs, as follows: falling, slashing, mill yard planerman, railroad work, bridge car- penters, working on farms, at wages ranging from $2.50 to $5.00 a day, At two offices agents were out on the sidewalks crying out the jobs they had orders to fill, Hundreds of able-bodied, husky men stood around, pn applaud, and go after big game. He may be a constant reader, but | constant loafers on the etreets of our | ing bums? If The Star can help by giving publicity to J. H. Le Roy's booklets, entitied, “Love, Happiness and Mis. and “After © Thirty-two Years of Bitter Remorse and Nights of Burning Anguish He Leaves the Underworld’s Wretched ‘Mumanity,” it would belp him to got the desired capital to start life all over again. Mr, Raymer, of the Raymer’s Old Book Store, First ave, Seattle, has kindly consented to place these booklets for sale in hls store, “just to hetp the nan out.” Also they may be ordered from the prisoner.author, P. O. Box 620, Walla Walla, at 15 cents per copy. And if The Star can help this man to find a position when he is re leaned that would be splendid. Thanking you, Very sincerely, ANNIE M. BURGESS, Belfair, Wash. them at least do something as near like men as mob rule and night rid- ing will permit. Let them do some thing the public as a whole will per- Why not grab some big fellow, some conscienceless profiteer, who thinks himeelf mafe from reprisal, or some political pirate, elected to office, who Is abusing the public confidence and laughing at his constituents, and give them a coat of tar and feathers? Thy the way, Mr. Editor, has the poll tax law been repealed, ts Gov. Hart dead or the Scandinavian American bank depositors got their moncy yet? ‘Sawful quiet. VETERAN, Portage, Wash, and not/one of them even so much as asked @ question in regard to any Job enumerate Can “Constant Reader” say any of these men were wanting a job? Was it necemary to discharge energetic married women to satisfy these loll NO! And many of them were, true enough, returned soldiers, strong and healthy. I am & poor man and a working ve hours of leisure while | man, and I am aware that laborers waiting for some dental work to be} re underpaid in comparison to the many of the married women holding down jobs now would no doubt be willing to resign the positions they Bucking, | are compelied to hold. work, | Tam an ex-#oldier of ‘98, and a vol unteer, But I claim no special hon- er or favor above my fellow-men, I did no more than the duties of man hood require of an American citizen, Tam not ashamed to sign my namo in full. TOM PAINE, Carrier. Tolt, Wash. Why Supervise Teachers? Kdltor The Star: In all cases but the teachers that Conilin Crescent Piller Fountain Beng Why supervision of teachers? In! certifi means something. one Stationers, dowggists, jewelers, all the other professions those WhO) Supervising teachers cost the tax. . nics make a profession the means of a! payer of Settle some $42,609.98 or livelihood either keep up to date by}more per year, (See financial state- THE CONKLIN PEN MANUPACTURING Co, their own exertions or some one! ment, Seattle School District No. 1, TOLEDO, On10 else will get the business, Why not} June 30, 1920, page 7). . #o with the teachers? 5 It has also cost the competent Bde. = t If a lawyer gave his ease only a . teacher her confidence in her own the time it took in court, how/ability and her self-respect. many cases would he win? why4 It has cost the pupils confidence should not the lawyers have &lin their teacher's ability supervisor? Why not the dentists,| What has been the result of our doctors, #alesmen, and all other pro-| schools? According to your editor- fessions have supervisors? jal of Aug. 18th only 8 per cent of How many professional people} the pupils can compose a 200-word other than the school teacher would letter correctly, Is it not time to permit any other person to come] stop this efficiency-killing extrava- around and tell them bow to con-|gance? If a teacher's pupila show duct thelr business? inefficiency why not get a new The teachers, like doctors, dent-|teacher? With supervision abolish: ists, engineers, mariners and others,| cd we will have increased efficien- must have a certificate of efficion-|cy at reduced expense, ey, and other qualifications, before] Yours for less taxes, they can pfactice their profession, A T. AXPAYER What Is Starwich’s Height? Eedttor The Star: , office of deputy sheriff? Having been @ constant reader of | YANKEE. your valuable paper for many year®./ 1 porn tn Austria Has been th Trwould deem it a favor if you will America since he was 9 years old. answer the following questions: 2 Height in stocking feet, 5 feet, 1, What I Sheriff Matt Starwich's | 5% inches, ide Ssh 3. No regular height is required a y? |for deputy sheriffs. According to 2. What te his height without sheritr starwich, the chief require shoes? |ments are “good horse sense, nerve 3. Is there @ specific height for the and courage. | | idlisingicay | ' Wants More Steilacoom Facts we stop long enough to think about Editor The Star: Keep it short; there are many other letters press- |! 1 have been reading “The Hell| the way « few people can commit ing for publication. Bo fair and tolerant in your ||Hole at Steilacoom." by Mrs such crimes pee ag i] statement. Avoid bitter personalities. Stick to the |}Brown. It looks very strange, If It 1411 20th Ave. West. || main point. be true, and I have no doubt that | | it is, but there are some things) that Mrs, Brown is leaving out, | ai? That may prevent some else from having to go thru much as sho’ has, Or maybe worse; then, again, why not tell what that loving husband bas to eay about such, and what is she going to do about it? Why doesn’t her husband tring sult against the doctor that sent her there? And if it ts net bod hy do thé authorities allow such story to be printed? It Just makes | one’s blood boll to think if we are) to be put tn trust of such beasts in burnan form, what will become) of ur? I think we ought to have more | information. It makes some think be husband must have been very weak to let things go on so long and #0 easy. Please let us know more about that place where most ‘ony one of us may have to go, if —_————$—$—$—$—$———_ —_—__—_ After the show, we'll go to Boldt's. 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ALL CORDS Most Popular Standard Make 30x3'% Non-Skid Cord 18 $16.00 31x4 Non-Skid Cord $18.50 31x4 Ribbed Cord $17.00 - 32x32 Ribbed Cord $17.50 No Tax Added. 7! ha Some Large Sizes Left. - These are lower than dealers’ cost on Subject to prior sale—so come early, HOWELL TATUM ~ TIRE CO. Phone East 1479 1117 East Pike Street Near Twelfth Ave. A. We would not. The same spirit ff greed which pfompted thelr ezac- ‘tion in the first place would continue with unabated force. Q Is there any guarantee that if the excess profits are repealed, the profiteers would reduce prices to the consumer? _A. None whatever, except their propaganda arguments, which are far from being promises. —Representa- tive Griffin (Dem), New York. Epwis 3. nnown7, D. D. &. 106 Columbia St. Por over twenty yea Seattle's Leading Dentist Read my article tn pest Saturday's Star. SALE Non-leakable—$2.50andup ' j ; i ' 1 { 4 I" )