The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 8, 1921, Page 6

Seattle Star =: tse: 4) year, f me Watch the Pea! : atch the pea, fellow taxpayers. Otherwise congress may fool you! F be what appears from Seattle to be a nifty little political shell game ts going on down at’ Washington, where the new tax bill is being framed. ‘The tax bill is drawn, ostensibly, to raise funds for defraying the current expenses of the government, paying interest on the public debt and setting aside a fund for re- ‘tiring borrowings. In peacetime, government revenue is designed to meet these necessary expenses. fhe administration that would openly propose to pay current administration expenses © by borrowing would sgon be called to account. a But in the revenue bill as passed by the house August 20 fs a section that has noth- whatever to do with taxes—at least with current taxes. “It amends the Second Liberty bond act by authorizing the secretary of the treas- wry to increase the amount of that issue from $7,000,000,000 to $7,500,000,000 “to ¥ public expenditures authorized by law.” The public generally, interested in the question of whether the tax burden under ’ it has been struggling is to be reduced, may not have caught the significance of little amendment. If you think it over, however, you may get the hunch that in order to make pos- an apparently lighter tax load, at the moment, congress is proposing to increase public debt—to borrow money with which to pay current bills. That this money will have to be repaid sooner or later, and that interest on {t will to be paid in the meantime, is obvious. an apparent reduction in taxes might be accomplished for this year, the total f the tax load on this generation would be increased. public wants lower taxes, certainly. does it Want them at the price of an increased public debt? present administration pledged a reduction of taxes. The people believed it what it said. To reduce taxes by borrowing to meet current bills does not ful- i the spirit of the pledge and is not what the public’ expects. She Was Moody He had called her his girlof- mar@-moods before he married her, And as that she appealed to him. When she was down In the month, 4 1 when he went home he wanted someone on whom he could de pend, someone who would attune to his pwn mood, someone who would forget herself enough to think ef him. And so she falled, an his wife, because. im her moodiness she was figures given by Willlam fm his letter on the ull 4 E 3 14K : g ret re rene ifibiil: | otherwise. ‘The tax revision bill Is easy on the millionaires as compared with the poor and moderately well-off. Ys that repayment? But this political railway scheme fs repayment multiplied over and ever sgain, if the administration ls trying to conceal a billion dol- ‘Jars which the roads owe the government. The thing goes be- ~ jond_misleading, unless the mis- “Jed ts 2 fool. The state department of public qrorka has ordered the telephone “companies of the Olympic penin- mula to improve thetr long-distance service, both in speed of handling galls and in reducing notse on the Hines. Everybody who ever tried to put thru a call in that neck of the woods will appreciate the need for improvement. “Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year.” —Emerson. The number of unmarried wom- en in America proves they are egainst war. Oysters have been away s0 long they haven't heard about price re- _ ductions. Of course with phonographs in postofficcs there's a fine chance to break records. Chorus girls now can wear their working clothes on the atrect with- out being noticed. Churches have act October 9 as “Fire Prevention Sunday.” We thought every Sunday was, The old drinks made you see ererything; the new ones stop you from scetng anything. depths, struggling with a nobody- lovea-me demon, he liked to jolly @ breathless game ef catch ft, in which he never knew what te expect next. But Mked it And when the storm got inte her blood, she raged, she trampled on bim and cared fot even o Uittle for how much she burt; stunned and sore at heart, he sought consolation at the very hands that had se tortured him and found a sort of exquisite joy itt ; i i Ai i i j | ‘i * eH Egat i i i Just what he wanted to escape. It was trying, this hoping to get away from the jangling nolses and ftrident voices of the office, and then find = veritable tem- pest, which raged anew when he came, merciless, relentless, He had so much of this moodl ness to meet at the offices that continually concentrating on her. olf, > Beare can live thru the winter without eating—except the Rus- aign one “Protect your lips from the son,” eays an advertisement. AA, a Miss. pring, Father had the car overhauled end then gave tt te the garage as part payment. What Is Your Life Worth? How much is your life worth? What would you pay to one who saved it? But are you sure you would? Dr. Harry Marsh Warren's Save-a-Life League has prevented 6,00@ suicides tn five years, He says that none of those whose life he saved has ever giv- en a penny to carry on the work. Still, Dr. Warren has the satis faction of » good deed well done, That's the real reward. ————— Geraldine Farrar says shen never marry again. Farrar, but colder, . Don't knock fazs orchestras. Boilermakers must work some- where. Perhaps they keep making new laws because the old ones are broken, A $udge suggests longer court. ships; we suggest longer mar- riages. Among our great men shall we have to list Representative Alice Robertson? Ford says he made a railroad out of funk, Reversing the custom ad your RECIPROCITY BY BERTON BRALEY (Copyright, 1921, by Seattie Star) When you love a girl and a girl loves you, The sky seems always a brighter blue, And on country | Or on elty street, There's « softer breeze And an air more sweet, And all of the world is a place m new, ‘When you love a girl and a girl loves you! So whether alone or in a throng, Your lips are humming a happy song: Your eyes are glowin: Your heart beats h And life goes flowing Serenely by; And all of the fairy tales are tru, When you love a girl and the girl loves you! When you The world ¢ for a girl and she doesn't care, a desert bleak and bare; So my wish is therefore Thus expressed: “May the girl yo Love you best.” And “till the journey of life is thru May the girl you love be in love with you! care for Try This on Your Wise Friend Ifa farmer had half as thany pigs, twice as many and three times as many, as he really had, and one pig more, he would have 56. How many had he actually? Answer to yesterday's: Strike while the tron is hot. THE SEATT Futile to Writ Editor The Star The work your paper ts doing to help clean out the rotten condition of our public Institutions, such Sedro Wool ts @ grand one the Insane asylume at ey and Steliacoom, and I only trust that good results One thing ts certain: agitation carried on determinedly and eon Unuously does effect many lasting reforma The disclosures made concerning these two tnstitutions alone make the blood b Indeed unfortunate humanity would write to the governor if we knew he would see, or hear about, our let ters. But his secretary permits him we lovers of | LE STAR LETTERS TO EDITOR] (_NAccIc_) e to Governor {to #¢6 only those communications that have flattering words for him! |The columns of The Star are a bet rr medium for getting wrongs brought before the public. ‘The dreadful deeds of brutality, told by lthe ones who euffer fror them rouse all the chivalry and compas jeton In ur hearts which we are capable of feeling |} We ask, In all Juatica, cannot some remedy be suggested that will }rouse our lawmakers to a sense of their responsibility? I sincerely hope The Star will be the of rousing public opinion | highest point of endurance, then something will happen. MRS. CLARA SMITH. Anacortes, W A Letter From Avridge Mann To the Editor: Dear Sirm—Your editortal’s right; tt ian't common sense to fight; the win. ners weary from t loner’s always down a 4 out; we should stop this «lly battle between Tacoma and & tie. For while we Juggle local names, old foxy California claima to be the Garden of the West, and doen ber bout, the! level-headed best to tell the Kastern tourist host that she's the whole Iu } elfte So let us meet on common ground const. And if “The Mountatn That Was/to boost the whole of Puget Bound God" must still remain a constant prod because its name will give of. fons, let's use a little common sense land concentrate upon a name thet we can jointly bring to fame, to let |them know, from coast to coast, the and find a name we both agree ts | glories that we jointly boast fitting for posterity. When two dogs fight to get a bone, A third dog coming all alone will take advantage of the fray and grab the bone and run away, and that, it seems wo very clear, Is Just the situ ation here, “The Mountain That Was God if we should call it every Mount Puget"; then we can acclaim @ common, until they know, the world around, "Mount Puget and the Puget Sound!’ AVRIDGE MANN. Woman Replies to Delvin Mdltor The Star: I certainly am proud The Star ts not afraid to publish the truth. 1 have a few words to say to this, our friend and neighbor, HM. P. RK F. D. Auburn, Wash. Yea, I ive at Enumelaw, Wash. and am proud of ft, for it is begin ning to wake up, Last March wher the White River Lumber comp: started ite larga mill camps anery, they employed than whites, buy the owners of the mill works are white people, and I didn't know ff it waa the lectures they received from hungry ex-ser men of if thelr conscience had just awakened them, but anyhow, I was told the other day that it is now a white man's camp. No Mr. Delvin, I think your wishbone Is where your backbone should be. Maybe you are like a fel low I know of whose wife did sew ing, washing and cooking for board ers, while he helped old John Barley 2 ruin our boys and girls. Now you may look at all the holdups and murders. Whone fault ts it? Pec just ike you, for when a white will turn down the white man to hire the Jap he should be painted with a dark brown coat of paint and a Jap Japs Clothes for 3,000 Needy Children Editor The Star: Why in the world cannot the Sal- vation Army and the Volunteers of America come forward and clothe the poor children who cannot go to school for lack of necessary clothing. They both have at their retail stores, where they sell the clothes they col lect (for the poor) at all kinds of ry large ntock of chil shoes, dresses, eto, In the State Insane Asylums Editor The Star: I have noticed with much Interest your reports of the “happenings” at the state inaane institutions. I worked at both Institutions dur ing my vacation period some years . Tam a« teacher. This I will say from my personal obrervation: The physicians mean to be kind, and in fact practice kind ness, But are handicapped by ferior class of help. Many institutions a number of y speak and act unkindly to the poor unfortunates, If they do not like new attendants | they make it difficult for them to re- main by telling untruthful stories to the physicttns or the matrons—tn other words, “tale bearers.” While the physicians show kind ness to the patients they are most Would Tax. Editor The Star: Being @ constant reader of your valuable paper, I am pleased to say I heartily appreciate the stand tak- en on the alien question, which without doubt is one of the most important questions of the present time. As an American citizen and re turned soldier, I certainly feel the injustice done our returned men, I ani & marriod. man with a family to support, and have been work for four months and it makes things hard when you apply for a Proposes Unemployment Remedy Millionaire Club: I notice In the papers that you In vite suggestions regarding the best manner of supplying the unemployed and needy people of Seattle with work, food and clothing this winter Hero Is my beat guess, I think it will actord with the famous “Seattle | Spirit” of old, and if it « nould be known as the “Seattle Way.” There should be a syndicate |formed, or a corporation, if neces: jsary, of people who would be satis fied with small interest or nothing for the use of their money up to $100,000 or more, to be drawn upon |wiqn needed. Then, whatever else |the club might do to help the un jemployed, heads of families and able and willing, T stiggest the following | Search the city for “Lots for Sale,” Go to the owners or agents and say We want to beautify your lot; plow It, grade {t and sow it to grass; plant fruit trees, berries, flowers or what wet out trees along the street, eteIn other words, we want to wet the unemployed to work beau tifying the city It seems to me plain that every lot that is thue improved and fixed up adds to its value, not only the Jintrinsic value of expense, but a kreatly enhanced value due, to growth, beauty and desirability, A man asks $1,000 for a lot, let us say There is $100 worth of improvements added, That“is to say, that is the cost) but its enhanced value and ite salable value ts considerably more So that, presuming the yalue before improvement to be $1,000, It is now ; Worth $1,200 or more, and should be | Star first, because if the suggestions. Detvin, | name applied You evidently own a lot of the valley where you are and no doubt |teame it to the Japs for a few paltry dollars more than our white race |would pay for {t I can point out Jozens of farms where the Japs have f gardens and datry and live in a chicken, coop, eat rice and fish. It 41 make a follow « in their house so-called white person who hires & Jnp in preference to m white taken lout in midocean and dropped In. | God said, “Go ye, and teach the gospel to all nations." He didn’t say that they should be brought into another land 1 hope to nee the label on all goods made by white labor, ay I see th Diamond Match company, of Chi Cal, bave on their boxes of tooth | picks. So when I buy toothpicks and |matches I demand the Diamond Match company brand, typifying name, | THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 192f, _, on her alimony an@ and probably te | him as much as any of them. and she itv But this 1 know, that he waa not|drives @ big car, only one to blame, His wife! wasteful in big things and stingy ia q | kept up with hig financial prosperity little things. i - so far an wearing better clothes was | a iy i 'ON | There are sins great and sins litte, BER. a - Fgpesiney & concerned, but that was all, Input one of the sins for which no m aire who began oyu) thing elve she lived on the level | will forgive » woman is that of pet | life in humble | the Zearn when they had to count | nagging, ‘ © umstan: | (a | oe rianoon:| He would come home at night, ana|_,An¢ women are not quite the only root ACauIre’ the would meet him with a woe-be- |°V# Who nag. | j crest wenlth. | |gone look because the cook was de- | Whoever does it ore f stop ™ nfortunately,|manding an extern dollar a week;|The divorce court is only one of sew/ his wife had no We can for ” wh ede “bata te can't afford it)” mhe said. the making of hia| She knew that ehe could afford money, and it|@8monds and fur coats, but she never knew that she could afford anything that would broadep her jmind or enlarge her sympathien, I do not suppows he wan an patient | aad ways of ping it There are other ways that are cheaper, and much more sarisfactory. Nagging is cne of the unpardom able sins, Stop itt came more rap idly than was g004 for her After awhile he It's good, that's sure, 400 Supreme | Blend Coffee, Hansen, 49 Economy | got a divores,| With he he should have been, | and marriéa an-|¥et I know he was more patient) Market { other woman, than some people thought. He tried and he suffered the reproach of thone |t0 Widen her horizon, but did not suc: | ppwiw 3. BROWN, who said that his wealth ought not |Ced. His home life was one round| D. s. ly in |Of petty n hin St. |to have made hie wife less lo segings, and mont of them [bis eyep than she had been before, |Sbout petty LUttle meannesses in| twenty That is true and just, and I blame|Money matters. . “| And so they were divorced, and| have value it tm better that the|he has married again, and lives with! Read my whole people may consider tt @ younger and more stylish woman; | ®¢*t Saturday's Star. H. Bw. WwW. ae — — — —— 1732 47th &. W, ATLANTA, Gax-Gov. Hardwick to for military protection fol lowing dynamiting of an Atlanta | Birmingham & Atlantic freight train |near Atlanta,‘ Beveral persons re | ported injured | UNQUESTIONABLY BEST BUY EVER OFFERED YOU MOST POPULAR STANDARD MAKE AT THE CORNISH Rey St. at Harvard The Repertory Company of MAUTKICE | BROWNE and ELLEN VAN VOLKENB. KO | will present |} “Yesterday’s Husband” A Comedy of Greeawich Village, by John Joseph Martin, for the Viret Thm: Rings ‘There will be Thureday, Friday and t 6:16, and Batur ot 216 + $2.00, pine war tax. Mati Orders received at the Cornish. Hox Office open t to Pp m. Capitol 40. No Tax Added All Other Sizes Proportionately Priced These prices are lower than dealers’ cost on Fabric Tires. Subject to prior sale—so come early MAIL ORDERS ACCEPTED, SUBJECT TO DELIVERY C. 0. D. These Tires Wil) Make You a Regular Customer of My Shop HOWELL TATUM TIRE CO. 1117 EAST PIKE ST.,.NEAR TWELFTH AVE. PHONE EAST 1479 INVESTIGATE AFFAIR” —At the— WILKES out of | | I wonder if Delvin didn’t have hops on bin ranch before prohibition be ne effective. Well and good, friend, I voted for | prohibition A constant Star render, | MRS. TY. Enumclaw, Wash. The Jumbie Shop of the Red Cross also has ® good stock of children's clothes, Between the three of them one would naturally think that there would be no children tn Seattle with out ¢lothes to go to school. ‘They all get these clothes for fust the expense of collecting them. Freely yo have received, freely Respectfully, a Ww. R j Wndust to new attendants by bellev Ing false statements without a hear }ing. Many sad incidents came under my observation—refined, educated | women compelled to work and un I justly discharged, My first day on one of the wards, or rather, In the bath room of the ward, I saw an attendant push « soapy cloth in a patient's mouth be cause the poor unfortunate did not get into the bath for her, I remon g | strated at once, I often wonder if the attendant is still there. If looks would kill, 1 would not be writing thin letter, She made it unbearable for me after I spoke to her that |morning. I did not report the mat | ter, feeling it was useless to do #0. The matron was an ignorant woman always chewing a toothpick. Sincerely yours, A SUBSCRIBER. Alien Wage Scale Job of any description to look about jand seo the alien being taken on while the American is turned down As a citizen and one lable for the |poll tax, I feel the unfairness, 1 | would suggest as a@ remedy that the alien be taxed say 5 per cent of his gross income, and his employer taxed the same, I certainly believe }if some such plan was put into effect it would force the alien either to become an American citizen or move out. Also, tt would force the employer to hire American citizens. | Yours sincerely, H. MaeD., ' 2921 B. Madison St taxed in’ anme ratio, and sold for |tnat; and there is no doubt in my 1 but tt could be, readily, In such ase, when the lot has been soli, jall Of the price above the original will go the club, from which it will Ceduct general expenses for that par jtcular lot, including a Uttle for in terest, office rent, ete., and deposit |the balance tn a fund for the sick and needy who are unable to work In this way a fund once established will be constant and self supporting; and, taken tn connection with the new spirit that seems to be awaken jing, I belleve great results will be obtained. Thero are right here in West Seattle hundreds of lots and, in |many cases, whole blocks grown up to weedg; eyesores and a detriment | }to prope d justifiable building of | homes, which if Improved as I have | suggested, would Increase the tane of environment, attract attention and |admiration and, as I believe, tend to coach up a sense of hominess not now experienced, much as you know | we do when we want to coax a hen |to lay--we make a nice nest and put nes _—— jan ege in it, YTV AAV TAVITA ANY, | What do you think of tt? ‘There Sip kAteCoes GMAees See ea ee Os Saree es jare, no doubt, numerous “million. | aires" in West Seattle who would be glad to co-operate in such a scheme and in every different section of the city as well, Yours sincerely, H. B, WELCH, Tam sending this to The Pp. 8 each make and recom or its correct’ lubricati. STANDARD OIL COMPANY (CALIFORNIA) . e a By ZEROLENE rade for e TAY YANG fe. Arde. < Lubrication Engineers knows the yo pe re) Spade of ZEROLENE |