The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 2, 1921, Page 7

FRIDAY, SEPTEMRER 2, 1921. [Page That Star Readers Edit for Themselves | Help Edit The Star to Suit Yourself If you wish to voice a public grievance, if you know a piece of nows 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- a up irresistibly in your system—write the editor i Keep it short; there are many other letters press- | ing for publication. Be fair and tolerant in your statement. Avoid bitter personalities. Stick to the’ i it. an “Write on one aide of the paper, plainly. If pos- typewrite the letter. If you do not wish them printed, say so Sign your name and and suggest a pen name or initials. This ‘ts your department; edit it mporting Stone for “U” Building or The Star: Please inform me thru your paper tf there was @ law by the state legislature four “er six years ago that Washington should be used tn the state butldings at Olympia, es. ly with reference to building ‘end if there ts such @ law, #¢ i also applies to other state } Dullings, such as the university reason for this Inquiry ts the contractors of the Educa. building of the state univer ity have let a sub-comract for the granite work to a firm which will use British Columbd!a granite. This doea not seem fair to home industry when we have so “inuch granite in this state, If local granite ts good enough for the capitol bulldings ft should also be good enough for the univer sity buildings. TAXPAYER. Attorneys advise me that there ts no statute requiring the use of Washington materials in the state capitol building at Olympia. There was a general understanding that ‘Washington materials would be used.— Editor, ! _— Wants Remedy for Evils ‘The Star: are to be congratulated on the work you are doing in spread ch publicity as contained in the c a article. (Relating to charges ‘{mbumanity to patients tn the ‘Woolley State Hospital for the contained therein has to make anyone's blood How ban out condition come to the attention of those who can remedy the condition? Here's wishing you success tn your geod work of publicity. Very truty, MRS. D, SWARTZ. 1903 D St., Bellingham, Wash. By a concerted campaign of letter: writing to the governor.—Editor, Seattle’s Best Shoe Values . STILL WE DO IT Selling GOOD SHOES far below the Prices today’s cost basis would seem » to permit, we set out to turn every |. shoe into CASH in order to prepare for ~ quick turnovers, and won't stop till we - doit! These Are All Dollar Savers ig MAIN FLOOR $490 up to $Q20 For MEN’S SHOES, worth $10.00 to $14.00 For Women’s $5590 Shoes, Oxfor worth $9.00 to and Pumps, 12.50 $790 BASEMENT $4.00 Women’s White Oxfords and Shoes, worth to $5.00 ' $90 ~ Women’s Shoes, Oxfords and Pumps, 4 worth to $10.00 $390 Women’s Shoes, Oxfords and Pumps, worth to $12.00 SCHOOL SHOES $940 Boys’ School SI worth ne $330 School Shoes, worth $4.00 to $5.00 $990 Misses’ 5S) worth $5.00 $380 School Shoes, worth $5.00 to $6.00 WNW HOE Cl (220-2% SECOND ow ae | Insane at Sedro-Woolley every word that G, J, Eckman says. . Insane Patient Mistreated Baitor The Star; T saw In your paper an article about the Northern Hospital for the I believe My miothér has been there for nearly nine months. Every time I go there to see her, whe tells me of the terrible food she wots. I saw her August 23, Sho said it was much worse now than ft was when she first went there, She sald they are eating last year’s potatoes which are almost black. They had spinach earlier in the\year; it was pulled up by the roots and half washed and cooked unseasoned When It came on the table It war a masa of dirt, gravel and grann, Mother ts very fond of spinach, #0 Raditer The Star: That our government must be supported by taxation Is not a de batable question. The question ts who shall be taxed and how. I do not think that anyone would advance the opinion that the money necessary to support a al be collected from a pe ‘The thoughts I shall offer hi reference to national finance to local taxation only and the taxes levied must be collected largely from the property or wealth of the locality. In there any system by which this can be equitably distributed among those who are benefited? @) I would tax all real eatate except that owned by the publio, all real estate In the same locality to be assessed the same Exempt all tmprovements on|'os for the support of that church.| Mpirus revolted, and defeated the Al- the home of the homeowner, re quiring the unimproved land to pay sho tried to eat a little; she broke a tooth in the attempt. The attendants would not give the tooth the attention it should have had. If mother had had proper food and treatment I should have brought her home by this time, She has lost between 40 and 60 pounds since whe has been there, I send her something to eat every week. Sho said she didn’t know what she would do if I didn’t do this, The attendants are not very kind to the patients, either, Mother told of secing an elderly lady being |Deaten with a wet bath towel be cause she (the lady) would not get into a bath tub of hot water. MRS NAZEL REDMOND. 817 Pine St., Buohomish, Wash. Expresses Views on Taxation the game taxes as the improved. (®) Tax all stocks, bank accounts and movable property. (4) Tax all real estate held by re Uglous, charitable or educational or @anteations or by private parties used for any purpose whatever. I think the homeowner, of all others, should be encouraged so far of as ‘possible A homeowner with @ mortgage on hig home, paying taxes on the land and the tmprovements, ts paying double tax. The unimproved prop- erty adjoining him i» being tn- creased in value by his improve ments and the owner of that prop erty should pay his share of the taxes on that increase of value. To exempt church property from taxation ts an Indirect way of tax- LEVI WRIGHT, 6812 40th Ave So. " The Cost of a Job Editor The Star: In regard to a letter from Tom Payne appearing tn your column re cantly I will endeavor to ada some More from my own experience. I have been around the employment \offices & great Gest and I have talked to several of these able bodiéd men standing around. The fact i» that: (1) You must have one Gotlar to buy a@ job: (2) You must furnish your railroad fare which often ts more than $5.00, to pay your board and lodging Gf in ety) until you can @raw from your payroll. Now it doesn't matter how “husky” a man ts, if he can't “dig | up.” 0. J. Selleck, Wash. A Letter Fr Batter The Star: Dear Extitor: Let me remark, I'm not Uterary ehark; I hardly ever take @ look between the pages of « book, and never fall for high-brow stuff, but find the papers quite enough, For reading papere day by day. I'm safely rated triple Ai I read the news, the sports, the ads, the feature stuff and fashion fads; my eriticlem they escape, excepting only for their shape. I start my reading on the car. where lots of other readers are; but when I try to turn a page, ft . Avridge Mann buckles up and makes me rage, and though I hold tt bard and high, it | pokes my neighbor in the eye, At dinner there te troub! one corner setties in the enough to prop it up; I handle it with all my skill, but Willie's milk ts eure to apill. So couldn't you cut up your yards of paper into decka of carda? Of try the ancient Hebrew trick of roll- ing It upon a stick? Or even plait it, if you can, @ Yours very truly, AVRIDGE MANN. You're Invited to Cinema Party eupreme court right to carry pe my eee lgra mapas their plans to use “this park for @ 39,000,000 gallon reaervotr, After the picture ts taken the party will then proceed to Blaine, Wash,, where the artists will cinema the ceremonies of the peace portal dedication. The Volunteer park pic- ture will be attached to this and tn to be exhibited free by the British government throut all England. and exhibited for charity thruout Bel- gium and Frante. Very truty yours, SAMUEL HILL the Men Go Free that have and em tha: men go unpunished. What kind of @ law have we in « civilized coun- try—tf it fe civilized? What kind THE SEATTLE STAR ( FOR KOREA | .| Italy evacuated tn April, 1920, the ‘| province of Northern Epirus, which Korean self-determination will be urged before delegates the disarmament confer- ence at Washington by Syng4 man Rhee, president of the provisional government, who has come to the United States for that purpose. and Berlin, the Greeks of Northern banians tn every batUe during nine month. On May 17, 1914, the powers sign: ed the pact of Corfu, whereby the pact of London was nullified and Northern Epirus was made auton- omous. At the peace conference Mr. Vent- and, (8) You must have cold cash | 208 on the one hand, and numerous | Albanian delegations on the oth reopened the Northern Epirote tasue for a new settlement. The peace con. ference reached a unanimous agree ment on January 13, 1920, which definitely awarded Northern Eptrus, Including the district of Korytea, to Greece. One clause of the agreement, however, provided that Greece could not occupy the provines until the Adriatic lame was settied. The Adriatio Issue was settled on November 12, 1920 Meanwhile, she coupled since 1914, and instead of surrendering it to Greece, she tn- yited the Moslem Albanians from Tirana and Aibassan to rule over the Greek Christian majority. Greece has today a valid interna tlonal title ever Northern Epirus. But sho dentres to avoid a clash with her ckibera the Albanians, She hopes that the supreme countil, now in seasion at Paria, will declare that the dectstons reached on Greek province without bloodshed. Otherwise, Greece will have to send an army to efiforee thie Paria agree- ment of 1920, as she was compelled to Go in the case of the treaty of Bovres, The contention of the Afbanian commission: at Washington that Greece rests her claima to Northern Eptrus upon the fact that the ma- fority of the inhabitants of that province belong to the Greek Ortho dox church, and upon the provisions of the secret treaty of London of 1915, is unfounded. Greece never ad- duced as an argument for the an- nexation of Northern Epirus the fact that the Northern Epirotes are or thodox tn the large majority. As to the secret London treaty of 1915, it is sufficient to state that Greece was party to that treaty, and con- aiders it equally as wicked as the happened Alger where | of officers do we elect? If there Albanians do. rather, bootleg: |is no law or protection for our The United States’ sympathies are couple of girls. Sirle let's do away with the courts afl on the Greek side of this tasue. my own daugh-|and go back to barbarity and live| Te senate and the president ter and the other a neighbor of mine. One of these girls ts just fg antmats, In reading of the Ky Klux Kian already gtven public utterance to their sentiments that Northern 16 years old, the other isn't 16 yet—|T think we need more of them, tho] “Pirus, tocluding Korytsa, should be just mere children. Yet knowing the men who com- mitted the depredation, I cannot get the prosecuting attorney to do a thing except to send the girls to the state training school and let the Editor The Star: As I was reading your paper of Aug. 20, I noticed we ha nother i Jap, lover with us. If this one, H. 4P. Devlin, thinks so much of those robbing, yellow Japs, why does he stay in a white man’s Innd? It is & sure thing if we were all as he ts, there would be no America; we id soon be living under the Setting Sun instead of Old Glory. O yes, and where ie that great Editor The Star: During May and June, there ap peared in the Seattle dally papers an advertisement with the heading, You?” It promised to t and called for $1,000 in The writer of this letter was one of those who answered this adver tlsement and found out that the same had been inserted by the Olympio Tire & Rubber Co. I, alo with three others, turned over to the firm $1,000, on condition that it teach me how to make tires and tubes and place me in a position to earn from $8 to $12 a day which they promined they would do. Their promise wan that in from two to six we we would have learned the trade and | would be earning’ not less than $200 | 4 month, and that if we were dissati Editor The Star: ‘The i9sue of Northern Epirus ts be tween Greece and Albania, Northern Pptrus ts a province to the north of Greece and to the south of Albania, bordering on the Adriatic sea; it has &@ population of 200,000 people, of whom 120,000 are Greeks and 80,000, Albanians. These two nationalities are so intermixed in Northern Epirus that it 1s mpossible to unite the Albanians with Albania and t! Greeks with Greece, The question is whether the 80,000 Albanians shall I, myself, am « lawabiding citizen. Please publish this and put my name at the bottom, Yours respectfully, Alger, Wash. ‘ Another Panning for Devlin mavy of the Japs that Deviin spoke of? Where was ft in the world’s war, and where fs that great skill of theirs? Why didn’t they use it when they had « chance? Now, Mr. Devlin, go to the land from where you came, whatever be its name, and don't bite the hand that ts feeding you, E, T. NOAH, Ex-Marine, 721 17th Ave Invested $1,000 in Job fied our money would be returned. month: weeks, and one two week: But up to date the Olymple Tire & Rubber Co, has not dono anything for any of these men other than put them laboring at 60 cents hour. This company has never made one single tire or tube. All of these men are dissatisfied and would like to get thelr money returned, but the com- pany refuses to give t to them. In- stead they offer them bon but there is @ question whether these bonds are worth ything. ‘The firm 4a located at Kent. I am working there waiting for them to come through with my $1,000, JAMES FLETCHER. Box 455, Kent. Greece, Northern Epirus and Albania be handed over to Greece, together with 120,000 Greeks, or whether the 120,000 Greeks shall be dragged into Albania on account of the 80,000 Al- banians in the province, In 1918, Germany and Italy threat- ened to precipitate @ world war un- less Northern Wpirus was awarded to Albania. Yielding to that threat, the ambassadors of tho in the London treaty of 191%, gave the province to Albania, But in 1914 when the Albanian troops advan to make good the’ designs of Rome awarded to Greece. It ts to be hoped that Ambassador Harvey will com- municate those sentiments to the su- 7 lar of fur. silk or satin collars. School Shoes and Stockings Underwear Girls’ Dresses and Coats Girls’ Hats Boys’ Suits and Caps Girls’ and Boys’ Sweaters —these are just a few of the items in School Apparel that are pur- chased to advantage in the DOWNSTAIRS STORE. Boys’ Rain Coats $4.50 and $4.95 ave it ready. 18 years, $4.50 100 Boys’ Cloth Hats to 50c Each Hats of Tweeds and Cloth Mixtures in various egg fe sizes, reduced to e Redu FREDERICK FIFTH AVENUE AND PINE STREET, & NELSON a oo The New Season’s Values in Coats" me, Are a Great Satisfaction to Downstairs Store Shoppers find a good-looking Autumn-style Coat with fur collar, at $15.00, is one of the surprises in store for Coat-shoppers in the Downstairs Store —and other groups offer values just as attractive. THE COATS AT $15.00 offer choice of soft velours and wool mixtures, in ripple-back and belted models—with braided designs or large col- Sizes for women and misses. THE COATS AT $25.00 feature smart styles in Wool Velour, Tweeds and Mixtures, with printed linings—many with broad fur DOWMSTARS STORE ee Notable offerings also in Coats at $18.75, $29.50 and $35.00. —THE DOWNSTAIRS STORD A Featured Value in the Downstairs Store: This Good School Coat at $8.50 —in a substantial weight of navy cheviot, full-lined, with large round collar and button- trimmed inset pockets. A prac- tical, well-cut school coat, with no superfluous trimmings to be- come shabby. Sizes 8 to 14 Heavy Black Rubber Coats, ventilated under arm, with) storm collar, two | large ets and buckle fastening—sizes 4 to 18 Rain Coats of medium- weight tan rubberized cloth, in buttoned style, with two pockets and storm collar. Sizes ‘3 $4.95. Hats to match these Coats, 50¢ each. years—$8.50. Autumn fashions in other School Coats of Bolivia, Velour, Mixtures and Black Plush, sometimes fur-collared, priced at $10.50, $12.50, $15.00, $17.50 to $25.00. FELLOW is bound to find use for @ Rain Coat ‘before the school term’ is over, so it is a idea to get it now and ‘HE good laces and the soft quality of the Crepe de pS ps in these Envelope Chemises point to unusual value. The Chemise sketched uses Filet-pattern lace in two bands at top and for ed, the points over the shoulder. An- other has satin band yjoined to Calais lace in- sertion for trimming-and satin ribbon for shoul- der straps. : Valenciennes and gette bands. -~THE DOWNSTAIRS STORE preme council, even unofficially. H. KOTOLARI President Eperotic Union of Seat _ ' . 7 An Answer to Dear Chief: I get « lot of pleasure out of your weekly budget. You usually hit the najl on thé head. I read your article about thé white girla who hold positions as wait. in Jap pool halls, etc. Did you ever stop to think that the girls who are out of work at present will take almost any kind of a position as long as it ia honest? ‘There are a good many girls tn this town today who would not be following the line of least resis’ if they could have found even a Mce protected bootlegging joint” where they could have earned enough to keep their body and soul clean. ‘When you're hungry and shabby of life, Don’t blame the girls. They are lucky to have « “job” even if it isn’t just the place for a young girl. “ f Seattle It’s easy for a Seattle manufac turer to express “horror” at euch @ sight, but I don’t doubt that I and numerous other girls have tried to find work at his place of business only to be turned away. I am a true American girl. I lost my husband in the world war, and I have no love for the Japs, but if they can give me employment I'll sure work for. them, even if {t isn’t a “fit environ- ment for a young American woman.” I am sure I am not the only girl who feels this way, as I have met hundreds in the same position dur ing my search for work. “DOWN” BUT NOT “OUT.* Dear “Down.” Rest assured that neither the manufacturer I quoted ‘Well, one of these four men has/and out of a job even @ Jép pool| nor myself blamed the girls in ques- been working thete for over two| hall looks good, for it means that|tion for the condition referred to. one five weeks, one six] we can at least have the necessities | We were blaming the condition Itself, which you, t recognize as far from ideal. Hei hoping a way out for you and the other girls can be found. CHIEF SEATTLE. Injustice of New Ferry Plan Editor The Stars ‘The writer desires to express the gratitude that he believes he holds jn common with many other east wide residents for your recent edi- torlals on the ferry leasing propos- als, There can be no doubt that ‘they contributed greatly to putting the quietus on what you @o truly called “a ats A The Lake Washington boats and ferries render two kinds of service. One, in transporting those who come from a distan ind desire to enter the city in that manner; the other, which is vastly more import- ant, in carrying to and from Seattle the thousands who have established their homes on. Mercer Island and on the east shore of the lak Now that the county commisston- e have been balked in leasing, they purpose to solve the ferry Problem by taking eway entirely from hundreds’ of these residents any direct meana of forth on the lak have in good faith gone back to the land—an act that we are fre- quently told !s most commenda! They are now forced to face a aitu- ation which makes it difficult, if not impossible for them to retain their home, because of greatly increased inconvenience, loss of time and larger expense in making the trip to Seattle. The result must be a loss to all concerned. The county loses the taxable values these people themselves suffer large financial losses, keen disappointments and embitterment of spirit. Is not all this too high a price to pay for such @ solution of the ferry prob- lem? ‘The writer believes that the lake ferries cannot be made to pay, nor that any good can come to the city of Seattle by checking the lop» rich @istrict that es across Lake Washington. Respectfully, CHAS. W. BOVEE, Bellevue, Wash. MARE ISLAND TO BE BIG CENTER? Inference Drawn Because Admiral Made Head fAN FRANCISCO, Sept, 2.—An- Calais lace insertion and edges others, in connection with plain or tucked Geor- ds Special Saturday, $1.95. —THE DOWNSTAIRS STORE Crepe de Chine Envelope Chemises Special $1.95 ribbén-run —THE DOWNSTAIRS STORE STATE MEDICOS HEAR SPEAKERS Sclentiflo Papers Read at: Annual Meet Here. Friday's session of the 82nd meeting of the Washington Medical association, being held at ‘Washington hotel the last three days nouncement that Rear Admiral Jo-| dressed aish 8, McKean, commanding the Soventh division of the Pacific Meet, will be appointed to sueceed Cap- tain Edward L. Beach as command- ant at Mare Island navy yard was contained {n a letter from Con- Sresaman Curry received by naval authorities here. ‘The fact that an admiral has been chosen to take charge of the yard, navy men aver, indicates that Mare Island fa to be considerably devel- oped as a naval center. No intimation was given by Con- gsaman Curry as to who will re place Admiral McKean as Seventh division, commanier. Plane Takes Jockey to Ride Horse Race LONDON, Sept. 2.—-George Beasty, English jockey, made use of the air. pi in going to France to ride a He left England at 10:45, rode mid-day race at Ostend, which , and got back to London in time to dress and keep a dinner en- gagement. The trip took eight hours. ND THE SUIT’S FEELINGS, TOO? DENVER,—One Palm Beach suit cost $531. C. R. Connor sent his summer weave to the tgilor. The latter rutned it. Now Connor wants $1 for damages to the auit and $530 for “reckless and wanton disregard of his feelings.” A carload of living quail has been sent from Mexico to the state game commission of Maryland, « .«: aoe ene teen ne neat lll of Bone Surgery with a Ni Saw,” and Dr. W. D. close of the day for the elt officers. Tho evening wil) be spent at a din- ner dance at the Seattle Golf and Country club, ‘was served at the Washington. Harry Lauder Takes on Real Estate:'Game LONDON, Sept. 3.—Harry Lauder is going to sell hie new estate of 13,- 000 acres in Argyilshire because it has cost a small war loan of money, he said.. When he first bought the place he said of it: “Think of the beauty of the surroundings. There's Loch Eck on the one’ hand, and Lock Fyne with its herrings on the other, and then there's the and the memory of its smells at low water.” USTA LIVED — = IN APARTMENT: DES MOINES—Somebody stole $800 worth of saxaphones from a» music store here. They were re turned today without thanks, 8 Nuremberg, Germany, conter of the world,