The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 10, 1921, Page 6

hi: 2 meontha, $1 G ; [Good Idea, Mr. Paulson; Thank You About a week ago, The Star, in an editorial, praised “Main Street,” Sinclair Lewis’ THE SEATTLE STAR ee SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1 921, Subjects Star Readers Are Pondering Over A Lot-Buyer’s Experiences Eediter The Star: | foot of trying to bulld me @ Htte/ Twelve years ago I purchased a let | home, but not long since T got an | tn block 4, lot 1, Armour’s addition | asseanment on this lot for $503 taxes, | to Seattle, close to the Colman school. | about $48 per year, Said lot would | I have paid asxements and taxes | not sell under the hammer for $1,000. to date on this lot, which equals Its| Why the steal? Am I like thousands present under-the-hammer valuation. | of others in this city—« fool to try to own a home tn Seattle? ) it novel of the American small town. “Ihe most important American novel of the decade,” we called it. Over in Ellensburg, a typical American small town of the better class—P. H. Paul- Bon took his pen in hand to say, in effect: “If ‘Main Street’ is so doggone good, why doesn’t The Star buy it and run it as a Here’s Mr. Paulson's letter: I am not well acquainted with them. Don't think they congrogate mruch at this place—anlew it be some of the old stock that we have read shout.” ‘There & a farmer by that name somewhere around here,” he sald, and went hin way. Ie something peculiar about these eld tewna IfSinciar Lewis in hie beck, “Main Street,” hae what it b—Angels or no Angele—we al) ought to read it, fs the matter with The Star publishing the beok as » serial? That ie, if & can get the privilege 1 1B certainly would be o beast for the paper, ‘ we HAVE IT. rw Pr. Star'is glad to be able to announce today that we CAN get it, and furthermore Street” will appear in The Star, starting some time in October. We believe this will be a great treat for our readers. Star always welcomes suggestions by its readers for new features to be pub- in their newspaper. P If there is something YOU would like to see in The Star Bt be backward about telling us—we can’t promise to adopt all suggestions made, & we will appreciate and carefully consider each and every one, and any sincere Wy if i; iH ei i i i | 4 4 | i A fl ef FE FFF ly | if i i ff it if i f i fr tt lt i | | & | et it 3 ely I i F Ui it if | Ey rail 4 Hr 1 f Hi And !t came to pass upon a day that he crossed the track at grade, or attempted to cross it. And the result was attended with consider able inconvenience to himself and to the Train. For the skunk died, and for the next two hotirs the pas sengers upon the train were aware that Something Had Occurred, Now I was Among Those Prerent, and it was Summer, and the win- | Bema sons are @ credit to the ¢ y; others are just debts. : i Fi ed tr i c | F F F E i E 5 f F <f i , : 7 g i E ; f a Fo | i : i i E F ; if i Fe tl rite ty i] lerestes will only have regard for the eched. ules of other folk. For I write these words while the memory of this event ts yet fresh and ,urge upon my fellow men that they seek not to monopolize the traffic at life's grade crossings; for there is more than one good reason why they should regard the rights of others. The city tn regrading my property, | 4s well as many others, absolutely ruined my lot by making of it a/ first-class frog pond. I have no| money or gun to fight the city of| Seattle—just submit and let her go. Again, I purchased @ city lot tn the MoGilvra addition, with the ob- A Letter From Avridge Mann Dear Sir: You'll gtve me space I hope, to publish just a bit of dope about the batch of cars and tracks) that cost us fifteen million emacka, and tell you how it came about I/| worked the street car problem out. The other day I chanced to meet my old friend Cline upon the street; he anid, “I've saved a car for you & Ford that's just as good as new, it costa a hundred fifty rocks, which you could mve on shoes and socks.” And while I struggied to decide, I had a thought and I replied, “I'll buy it only if your etore can sell a hundred thousand more,” and he came back, “It's eure a cinch that Ferd can do it im « pinch.” EAétitor The Star: | | Opposes Smith-Towner Bill Féitor The Star: In @ recent imeue of ‘The Star ap pears @ letter from Paul Goerner in which reference is made te the SmithTowner bill This bill was/ formerly called the Sbepherd-Towner | bil, and, if the change in name has/ made no change In the provisions, I | surely agree with Mr. Goerner that the doctors need looking after. Are our women mere animals that | they need to be herded like cattle for thelr periodical roundup? It has/ been argued that this bill will save! the lives of many children among the | poor, The Infant Welfare society of | Chicago reports that “the children of the wealtby,are 50 per cent be The One Who Is Who Don't tell your hard-inck stories, For no one cares to know Why you have made « failure, | Why you haven't made things go. | The man they honey-up to, Is the man Who knows no fall; The fellow who was never known To tell a hardluck tale Don't try to find excuses | ‘When things don’t come your way: | Keep on doing the best you can, And don’t have much to may. Nothing counts for or against, Except what we oursnives do; The fellow who never writes faflure Is the only one whe ls wha ‘The fellow whe wins the batty, Must feel he ts going to wini Challenges Cham! Editor The Star: As @ constant render of your pe per I have notiesd that you have ald that you always etood ready to correct misstatements, so I would call your attention to enclosed par agraphs, taken from Mr. Chambers article on the ferries and published in Thursday afternoon's paper. ‘These statements are false and misicading. Ho eayd that the ad ditional run to Harper “carries a heavy lom to King county,” also that “the HarperSeattle traffic for the first six months of 1921 was $7,517.10." It ts evident that his ob- ject ts to lead your readers to be lteve that the “Washington” oper- ated on the Vashon Heights-Harper run for that period; which is not so. In order that your readers may know the truth in this matter, I am Those Who Can Give and Do Not I read in The Star that there were 2,000 children in Seattla who were not able to start to school because of destitution. I wonder if there are people in Seattle who are really able to help out In the need. There are a number of Bible verses which might apply to some that are able to-help or give, but do not:| Prov. 28-27: “Hie that giveth unto the poor shall not tack; but he that! “The Lonesomest Feeli Editor The Star: | When school started today, instead | of going, I had to come to work the same as ever. I got a terrible case of the blues, and this is the result: “The Lonesomest Feeling tn the World.” June—a month of brides and sweet girl graduates. School lets out, and those who have reached the goal and| have at last finished their work at high school, graduate. There te al-| ways much ceremony and festivity; everyone is happy. The fortunate | | more about children,” Some friends of mine in the Bouth wrote me for the facts about Sent | Ue I told them how big interests togk the dirt from under the hoines of Seattle and filled the water from, made the small home owner pay for it and lke it READER. He shoved me into hie coupe, and in @ jiffy oped away; to Western Union then we hied, and wired Heary. He replied: “I'll manufac ture, escondhand, enough to meet the whole demand.” So now I put it up te you ff this ls not the thing to do; we'll give the car line to the Stones, and take out fifteen million bones, and buy « bus for every man in al] Seattlo— that’s the plan. Then won't we spring a grand wor. prise when we commence to adver. tee, “Seattle is the place to live, where everybody ha» a fliv; we are The City of The Can? Yours very truty, AVRIDGE MANN. low normal, while in the tenements only 18 per cent are underweight.” ‘The report adds “Poor mothers know | The writer ts informed thaa none but patients un- der the care of allopathic physicians are permitted treatment in any of our hospitals! Do not these institu- tions receive appropriations at regu- lar intervals from public funds? Looks Uke the case of Big Brother who ts unable to hold bis own against | litte Brother and runs to mother tthe government), crying “Mamma, | I want you to hold Little Brother | while I give him @ licking”; and mother seems to be doing it! BE C. JACKSON, 1602 26th ave. The man who always expects defeat Is beaten before he starts in. No matter how often you've fallen, How often your efforts fell thru; If you win at the end of the battle, Youll find you're the one who ts wha | Don't be ashamed to Keep trying; Don't be discouraged and stop— | The fellow who keeps on plunging, Ie the one who comes nearest the top. Just clinch your teeth tight, brother, Be loyal and honest and true; The world will soon take notice That you are the one who is who. HARRY KNIPE, . Bellingham. ? Figures quoting the exact figures, which can be verified in the auditor's office. ‘The “Washington” went on the ‘Vashon Hetght»Harper run on May 28th, 1921, and from that date to the close of business August Stet, bas taken In $17,265.15, of which $10,389.45 was Harper receipts, and $6,875.70 was Vashon Heights re- ceipta, The additional run from Vashon Heights to Harper amounts to two hours running time a day, during which time she will burn stx barrels of fuel ofl, and at the current price ef $1.88 per barrel, amounts to $11.28. I trust that you will gtve this article the same publicity you did Mr, Clambers’ com:aunication. A HARPER RESIDENT. hideth his eyes shall have many a curse.” Prov. 14:31: “He that op Preaseth the poor reproacheth his maker; but he that honoreth him hath merey on the poor.” Prov. 19-17; “He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the ; and that which he hath given be pay him again.” Prov. 31-13: “Whoso stoppeth bis ears at the cry of the poor, he algo shall cry himself, but shall not be heard." M M. stand wide open waiting to gtve thetr owners the best tn life. But what about the graduate, who held the center of the stage in June? Ah, she is but a “back-number” now, one of the many in the great game of “Lite And when she sees her form- ¢r school mates starting off to schoo! | in the morning—talking and laugh- ing about school functions and school | activities and possibly exams.—even | the one-time dreaded exams hold a/ charm for her, and tn her mind's eye | a long line of events pass in revue. A particular ball game, a botany field 20 per cent of that salaries, Why does Miss Winn use 1918 fig- ures for instruction costs and 1924 for cont of luxuries? Game old equivocation which makes us wish we could take our children from un- der this Influence and teach them | the candid thinking of our fathers. Hlowever, we have the isttor of Mins Myra Snow, for which we are grate ful grado teacher who ts what we donire. We are with her and ber kind. Mis Winn says $402,208,516 for education in the U, 8. Let us sea The Seattle May, 1921, school pay roll was over $500,000 for one month; 165 per cent greater than five years previously, during which time at- tendanee increased but 27 per cent. Instruction alone cost $2,827,986.49 for Seattle District No. 1 last year. Wigure from that the various cities, towns, ete., in the U. 8. and ee how true are Mine Winn's figures. In- struction cont given does not include administration, operation or anything like maintenance, You, we are spending a great dea: Observations on Public Spirit FAéltor The Star; The public spirit of a city, county or state is often made manifest by the consideration shown for the pub- Uc's welfare, be it local or tranaient, Aa we are living in an age of motor transportation in which Seattle is visited each year by hundreds of tourista, who, when leaving our city, radiate to all parts of the United States, heralding thelr impressions of the various cities thra which they have traveled, it might, therefore, be | well for Seattle to occasionally make & comparison. On & recent trip East the writer was very much impressed with the interest shown by the people of the various towns and cities along the way in their preparation of their tourist camp equipment, each group evidently realizing the possibilities of much an arrangement as an vertining medium for their city, For instance, a} Deer Lodge, Mont. a large area close to the railroad stat "onding, tions is set aside for this purpoee. The equipment consists of six beaut! fully built brick stoves with high brick flues, @ lavatory with hot and cold water, shower baths, complete electric laundry equipment, including electric Hot Point irons; also base- ball grounds in connection. In Billings I was informed of a It demonstrates the type of | for luxurtes, but father ten't mpend | ing it The fellow on the public pay. roll, income tex free, with a boost | here and @ boost there; the profiteer }and the teacher still hanging like grim death to the war bonus whilst the chap who paid the price walks the street without work, and whilst father loses the home he worked #0 hard for, are buying the luxuries. Yea, “Teachers should live normal liven.” Is life in @ hotel at $65 per month, minus meals, normal? Is run | ning into Russian prison against the | will of woviet government normal? | Are our children to receive more po- litical economy nonsense when the notoriety-seeking teacher, whoue way | we paid for “professional advance | | ment,” returns? Beattle schools are top-heavy, 10 months’ warrant basis this year. Quoting equivocal figures won't solve the problem. We look toward) Miss Snow and the many of her kind | | in our schools to work with us We are with them, Sincerely, MES. MDGAR BLAIR Rainier 116 W. most rentarkable case of public spirit displayed by G. Herman Smith. Mr. Smith was formerly chief of the old volunteer fire brigade. and mean-| while managed his undertaking and | taxi buwiness, When Billings organ- ized the department on a salary basis, Mr. Smith stayed with his | Dusiness, but being a natural fire | fighter, he at once equipped a Ford | with @ «mall chemical, had a wire in | stalled, connecting with the fire de- | partment over whien he receives all calls sent into the department and to which he immediately responds, many times reaching the fire and ex- | tinguishing it before the department | arrives; his ambition seems to be to j outdo the department or to fight | shoulder to shoulder with the boys |in the service. Mr. Smith keeps a! ‘complete record of all runs, showing | the amount of hose laid, chemical | and water used, number of men re-/| apparatus wsed, time in| jand time out. Those records are kept so accurately that, I am told,| the insurance companies do not hes!-| tate to accept them. For the entire; equipment used and service rendered, | Mr. Smith does not ask nor does he | receive one penny from the city. WALTER THORBURN, 2030 Ingersol placa | In Black Diamond and Franklin EAéitor The Star: I want to write a few lines about advanced kaiserism as perfected by the Pacific Coast Coal Co, tn Black Diamond and Franklin, - Some of the people have built And it looks as if they were to get away with It, as the court issued evacuation notices on Nes The trial comes off the 12th of this month, I think. One poor family has a shack is valued at practically nothing, and Is It not too rotten for the American | people to stand? | If they win, hundreds of families will be robbed of their homes, which | hey have built and paid for. Not | only that, but they have cleared the to antagonize the miners into some thing drastic. Even to pulling a gun on some miners who were walking on | the track, which has 3 been fired becayse he bought a pair of shoes for a miner's little child. Ho was discharged by the superintend- ent of the mines, These gunmen are all deputtzed, but are picked by mine owners, and are paid to do their bidding. The regular deputy of Black Din mond ie the worst. He even picks on juveniles, 33 This is just a Ittle of what they are getting by with. I am not a miner, tho I was born fn Black Diamond anda am living in Cumberland at present. It is not the miners’ fault that them was no market for coal It isn't their fault that they have too much overhead expense. Or tt was not their fault that they have wasted mil Hons of dollars on thelr mistakes learning to mine coal. Hoping that you will do what you can for those who are being kicked out of their own homes. Some of ther haven't worked in the mines for years and some are olf and o work, but the big company has heart now. And, besiden, to a44 to thetr mizary, the banker ran away with all their money and Liberty bonds «a few months ago. Some had their Dfe’s savings there. But you didn't see that in the papers until he had time to get out of the country. But that fs because of our faulty banking laws. Yours truly, SAM BORGEN, Cumberland All Minnesotans to Picnic at Fortuna Park Sun- day, Sept. 11 Minnesotans from Seattle will unite at the State of Minnesota Pio nic for @ real good time. Free dane ing afternoon and evening. Races and sports will feature the day. Come and meet your old Minne sotan friend.— Advertising. Sermon Topic “The Unpardonable Sin” —at— CENTRAL SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH Corner Boylston Avenue and Olive Strect Pastor, G. W. PETTIT Sunday, 745 p. m Public Welcome MEN WANTED Experienced Coal Miners, Hard Rock Miners and Timbermen Who Are Willing to Dig. Coal Can Use Several Experienced Coal Mine Firebosses Response to our call for coal miners and hard rock miners has been very satisfactory. Seven mines have been opened and are now operating. High-class men from all parts of the North- west and distant states have come faster than we could take care of them. We have now caught up with the first rush and can use several hundred more experienced coal miners or hard rock miners who will dig coal. i ones attend university and #0 con-| trip, the senior ball, the commence. tinue thetr school life—the best part| ment exercises, the critical moment | of life. The ae bce amg | when she passed across the stage to} png jpop eng a of ota | secnlve her diploma—and when the A PLACE FOR DREAMS BY LEO H. LASSEN I have a desk within my sho'tered room ‘That holds a myriad of treasures there That only I appreciate or care friend, “World.” Then September—the summer va cation iy over, The school bell rings again, and hundreds of pairs of feet turn toward school—whose doors Some Figures.on the Schools Editor The Star: | Very interesting are the figures) which you give over the signature, Agnes 8. Winn, ag interesting ag the! equivocal figures shown us by other} revue ig ended, her heart aches—for she knowg that now she ts left out; and then there comes to the sweet girl alumnus “the lonesomest feeling in the world.” Very cordially yours, “ONE OF THE '21's.” over and above the vacation extra pay. Tho figures “per child” are abso- lutely ridiculous, Anyone with a fifth grade education knows that in| Because’ of a strike most of Washington’s commercial coal mines have been idle. Now all relations with the United Mine Workers of America have been permanently severed, and the mines are being opened independently of the union. We want miners who’ wish to locate permanently where hotels, schools and houses as well as general working and living conditions are good. Outside Men, $4.50 to $6.00 per Day Inside Men, $5.25 to $6.00 per Day WAGES | educators when we axked for facts. | a little place where there are 10 chil No one has sald there were 300/dren, the pro rata cost will soar as teachers ip Seattle. 1 have before! against a large city where the maxi- me figures obtained by Mr, Staude,|mum of efficiency and spread of comptroller, Seattle district No. 1,| cost is possible, That argument is upon big written application to those| as wise as one made at Bellingham cities, Miss Winn says Cleveland| Normal recently, comparing the cost maximum grade salary ty $2,880;| of education in Bremerton (a tiny they give us $2,400, which amount town) with that of a dreadnought for Ané4 safely keep from mother’s basy broom! A fragment of a card that means to me New courage; a cherished book, a broken rule And bits of crayon that I knew in school Such things as theg are steeped in memory. ‘The world remembers onty that which brings A quickened puise to tts vast b but yet This stuff for dreama I never cas forget Contract Miners Can Earn $7.00 and Up per Da All Based on Eight Hours’ Work No Professional Strike Breakers Wanted For I remember, too, the little things. I have @ desk within my shelteredjroom ‘That I must guard to keep from mdpher’s broom! There are two numbers, the sum of wose squares is greater by 14 than their product, and wwose product is od by 4 than their difference. Wha are the num- 370 teachers receive as against our 43% teachers in the largest or domi- pant group, She gives Denver $3,080; their reply to us is that the maxi- mum there Jg $1,960. ‘The figureg which she quotes may include wage for extra service, In that cang let us look at the fact that we have teachers receiving for grade work the maximum, $175 per month, and on top of that $54 for evening work and $80 for vacation work, even whilst drawing the full $175 every month including vacation time, one of the largest nations upon earth. One must wonder whether these so-called educators really have no more practicality than they here evince, or do they think the averagb citizen is gullible? “Less than 70 per cent of money expended for public schools goes for instruction” does not apply to Seat- tle. Mr, MeAdam went over these figures a month ago and found 80 per cent went for salaries alone. Thirty-six per cent of our Seattle taxation last year was schools, and Apply in Person or by Letter to W. E. MALTBY, Representing the Operators, : 1707 L. C. Smith Bldg., Seattle. Phone Elliott 6242.