The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 20, 1921, Page 7

SDAY, SEPTEMBER 3 BIG Raincoat Specials for THIS WEEK ONLY | Editor The Star A posteard recetved by me from our Seattle Public Library sald: | “The book So and So, which you ask | to have reverved, ts missing, It will | not be reordered. Tacoma Library, altho not nearly The Road Ove: Roads over pass are wonderful! Roads from Easton to Cle Elum not © good, From Cle m to Ellens burg the roads are rotten. They tel! me the roads on to Yakima are ores. How the Japs Editor The Star: | If this ts a government by consent of the” governed, certainly gave our consent to Jap-| anese immigration, The land of the free and the home of the brave this ts the monicker we give to America, We sent an expedition to Japan in the middle of the 50's, under |Admiral Perry, and threatened | |Japan with total extinction, or tn | other words, we will make gun fod the then we der out of them if they don't open {thelr ports to the commerce of the world, These little fellows were adverse to this gun fodder stuff, #0 they con- sented. American business men saw a chance to lower the standard | of living of the American workman Home Town Paper Editor The Star: | I am enclosing a clipping from| The Courier‘Times, Sedro-Woolley, | that mi be of interest to you, com | ing as it does from the town in which one of the state institutions i» locat: i ed, for the cleaning up of which you| |have made such a splendid fight. | I am fully in sympathy with the| work of The Star and the Humani-| $47.75 = tarian Society tm thelr efforts to| Reduced clean up the asylums at Sedro Wool. | from $15 and $18 | ley and Steflacoom and make them fit institutions for the afflicted per-| MEN’S and WOMEN’S Superb Double Service MEN’S and WOMEN’S | sons who are unfortunate enough to bave to go there ] I, therefore, cannot understand the narrow-minded attitude taken by | The Courter-Times, which, tn its un-! Don't point the finger of scorn Jat the Japanese and try to stir up race hatred—remember @ govern ment by the consent of the gov Scotti Appreciates Reception Here { Subjects Star Readers A Have We a Seattle Library? volun so pretentious as Seattle's, teered to obtain the book In question | and apologized for not: having it| Why should Seattle be «o behind Ta coma? Yours’ for Seattle C. G, SHOWBLL, Bry n Mawr, Wash. r Pass Is Okeh Honestly, the people of the coast lon’t understand how much the folks here appreciate a boost for trriga tion B. J. Ry Ellensburg, Wash, Auto Tourist Came to U. S. and their wages, so they fleure put their own people on the bum by bringing over the Japs to*com pete with American workmen. Did it work? It did not! Just as soon as the Jap gave evidence that he was capable of competing in any line of industry, then they cried “exclude the Jap.” But just as long | as the Jap was willing to do the dirty work, the Jap was the white haired boy erned, and we gave our consent If you.don't like the Jap, get busy with that mouthpiece of yours in Washington, D. C.—-that is the place to get results. HM. P, Rushes to Defense! founded attack upon The Star, seems to consider the Northern State hos pital as a local institution, to be be friended at all costs, instead of one | of state-wide interest. Here is hoping you win. Very truly yours, J. C. F. DEVLIN, Auburn. A Hamilton, Wash. (The editorial enclosed tatks of the “unfounded attack” on the Sedro Woolley hospital, calls it “absurd,” and deplores the “false impression.” Then it concludes, “Of course, if} vome of the criticiam is justified, we ought to know about it from author- italive sources.) or shine coats— SIVE Raincoats leaapes seek Rain or +1522 Usually sold $18.50 to $22.50 MEN’S and WOMEN’S ff Raincoats including a big assort- ment of Scotch Tweed, Cravenette proofed GAB- ARDINES, Rubberized Silk Coats, Loraine Cash- meres and superb rain +1922 Usually sold from $25 to $30 THE ONLY _ EXCLU- RAINCOAT Editor The Star: ; that our efforts have been appre It ts with great pleasure that I ciated by the music lovers of Seattle take this opportunity to express to|as I have tried to gtve your city the you my appreciation and gratitude best that I had in my company | a hich} Thanking you again and with my| = er meee. | eincere good wishes, I remain, 6a hentai 7 awe Me Sincerely yours. columns ef your paper. A. SCOTTI, | I am extremely gratified to know Thinks Hazel Nut Is Neglected | Edtter The Star: Gon't write something about thelr | Scotti | Lam a little gist 10 years old } | small sister Hazel Yours truly, have been reading about the Nu! w SED. Brothers, Ches and Wal. I hare been wondering why you} 8929 Bagley Ave Says Chambers Is on Right Track Editor The Star: | Mr. Chambers may call it coinct| You and your paper deserve much | dence, but he knows better. iis ar. commendation for the excellent man-| ticles are all good, and the people |ner in which you and W. EB. Cham-|of the East Side and many Seattie-| |bers are placing the facts of tho| ites appreciate your good work in| ferry deals before the general public| publishing same. You are certainly | of the county. on the right track again tn showir ‘The article In Thursday evening's | up the fallacy of this ferry monkey Star by Mr, Chambers ts the best of | business. the lot so far published and gives Most atncerely yours, much food for real thought and re W. EB. LeHUQUET. flection. Bellevue, Wash. More Praise From Bellevue Edlor The Star: | for justice and right. His efforts in Permit me te with you God speed placing the truth before the people in the work of giving to the public| of King county may be the means the letters written by W. BE. Cham | of them, tm the near future, seeing bers of Kirkland relative to the ferry | and realizing the dawning of a new | system. By his daring and bravery he has/ proved to his friends that he stands Editor The Star: The Western Washington Hospital for the Insane is not situated in Steflacoom, but at Fort Steilacoom. The newspaper men had better study up their home geography before go- ing Into print. ‘The pioneers ef Steilacoom resent the atiacks on the state institution, 904 SECOND AVE., Two doors from Marion Preacher’s Murder Trial to Be Oct. 3 LAKEPORT, Cal, Sept. 20.— Speedy justice was promised today tn the case of the Rev. John A. Spen- tr, Fulton, Cal, minister, accused of drowning his wife. October 3 was announced as the @ate for the trial, after Spencer had Deen held to answer to the superior court. Mrs. E. B. Barber, accused jointly ‘with Spencer, was freed of the charge against her on account of in- sufficient evidence. Spencer, who once was a physician fm Oklahoma, before entering the Presbyterian ministry, is accused of having drowned his wife while canoe fing in Clear lake on which Lakeport is situated. Costliest “Undies” ° Pe pa for Princess Bride} PARIS, Sept. 20—The most costly underwear produced in Paris since | the war was completed today. It was | for the youthful Grand Duchess Xenia of Greece, who will shortly be married to William Leeds. ‘The daintiest undergarments of all, | intended for the wedding day, are of | Alencon lace and worth a prince's | L The cose of the lingerie runs into hundreds of thousands of france. Whichever you choose it will be the BEST you ever tasted. "SALADA™ Editor The Stari While here in Portland I visited one of their famous eating places; namely, “The Coffee Cup,” where nothing but the best is served. I would not have paid any atten ion to it but for the name and the fact that I had lunch there. What Mill Hires Japs; ? Editor The Star: I would Uke to tnform the angud | that we have a local Chamber of Commerce, Rotary club, Kiwanis| club, American Legion, ete., and also a lumber mill. That when the latter reopened after a shutdown of sev-| eral weeks it gave preference in| employment to about 60 Japanese, most of them single, and who buy | practically all supplies thru the Jap| Editor The Star: You say in your editorial that per-| petual motion is one of the six im- | possibilities of science, or words to that effect; that the United States | patent office long ago refused to MIXED TEA|| GREEN TEA us duct enough green | | 4 Revelation tn Groen tea to make the Tes. Pure, transluceat Asylum Not in Steilacoom Proper Coffee Cup Refilled, 3 Cents Discovering Perpetual Motion | cording to their nature, are nothin, era, filled with honesty and well doing. B. K. BIGELOW. Bellevue, Wash. and their claiming it in Stella coom proper. Tell them Fort Stefla- coom is two miles out in the prairte from Steilacoom, and if they don't believe it, take them out and lock them up till they get their bearings, and call a halt in all their sensa- onal writings. JOHN L. RIGNEY. Stellacoom. attracted my attention the most te the coffee cup refill for 3 cents. Never in my travels around Se attle have I ever heard of such qual- ity food in a similar place. This is a hint to Seattle houses, so judge and act accordingly. Yours truly, D. V. CHADWICK. Rejects Citizens stores in Seattle, and turned away an equal number of Americans of whom a great many are married bine The mill is the Puget Sound Mill & Timber Co.'s, and is controlled by the Chas. Nelson Co. Every morning white men are turned away, but the Japs and Rus sians are kept busy. H, SCHULTZ, Port Angeles, Wash, j have anything to do with the fdea. Why shouldn't it? What is the use of patenting nature? All things, ac but rates of motion. is a mode of motion It is not the stilmess of the rock that constitutes its hardness, but the inconceivable whirl of its atoms as the birth of pure strength turns in- side out and back again a billion times per second before our uncom- prehending eyes. Perpetual motion tmvolves that principle of creation which liew at the base of the visible universe; all growth in the plant, in our bodies, in the assimiliation and digestion of food, in the electric energy that drives our cars, or energy of what nature soever Je dependent upan this motion, All organic life upon this plant ts Matter itself TNE SEATT LE STAR participation on the part of the short-sighted landlord, for the Jap Help Edit The Star to Suit Yourself | Weraitoe sees ‘is Snsebanes int" thet If you wish to voice a public grievance, if you know | | line | 4 piece of news that the reporters have overlooked, ||| The real estate man, “geared if you have observed a good deed that you think feo hc stole ph adh ie di Aim should be recorded, if you feel a little editorial bub- business relations would automatical bling up irresistibly in your system—write the editor a letter. Keep it short; ing for publication. statement. main point. Write on one side of t sible, typewrite the lette address. and suggest a pen name or This is your department; edit it. magnetic and calorific as well. When the solar ray strikes the earth—belng positive to’ its life qual ities as incorporated in matter—it establishes a center in every mole cule of her material envelope; this center is known as the atom (for want of a better name); in reality it is @ #un-particle—a aun tn miniature. a center of life, of energy, from which springs all motion, A Remedy for the Jap Menace itor The Star: The writer some months ago, thru the medium of The Star, gave to all who chose ta read, a clear, clean and positive remedy for the Jap evils or problems. This remedy Mes wholly in the hands of the people—the buy | tne } people and ie as positive and’ JOBS, TAXES GO TOGETHER! High Seattle Rate Slows Manufacturing; Fewer Jobs By Henry G. Runkel Seeretary-treasurer ef the Voters’ In- formation league and = member ef the Tax Meduction council in Seattle, Unemployed labor and the taxpayer | must make a united fight if building | and industry is to be resuscitated. Thousands of men and women in every city In the state of Washing ton are seeking work. Merchant. re hoping for a revival of busines a ants are asking for a reduction in rent, while the poor, downtrodden. pice Aart AB ry one hod back against the wall facing a tax) | rate that ix 130 per cent higher than San Francisco and 83 per cent higher than Los Angeles. CAPITAL HOLDS OFF WHILE TAXES ARE HIGH Available local capital refuses to 1921 Record of Pedestrians Hit by Automobiles 54 Mra. Isabella M. Parka, 71, 2402 Federal ave, received & fractured hip when struck at Sec- ond ave. and Pine st. Sunday by an auto driven by D. im ave. N Duncan told police who investigated the accident that he was traveling very slowly and was un- able to avoid striking the woman. He |took Mra, Parks to the city hospital He was arremed and released. 5. Mra. Kate Ludwig was struck and seriously hurt at King st. station Sunday by the auto of T. R. Atkinson, 3260 Relve: dere ave. Atkinson mid he tried to warn the woman, who persisted in ‘trying to cross ahead of his car, She was knocked down. She was taken to city hospital for attention. 54 George Yost, 3810% 26th ave. & W. was struck) Sunday by an auto driven by EB C. Waller, 1546 Palm ave., at Fifth ave. and Pine st, and suffered minor) bruises. Waller said Yost put up his | umbrella and walked into the side of his car, 55 A. Darby, lving near ATki, suffered slight bruises when etruck at Fifth ave. and Pine st. by an auto driven by M. B. Sum. | mera, 4315 Sixth ave N. W day. Dery astreeta, . Sun- UNSWEETENED VAPORATE? derived primarily from the sun, and reaches us by means of the solar ray, in which all forms of expres- sion of energy tabulated by science aa @ distinct force can be detected, The sun is not only vital, but it is If you do not w mechanical or | H. Duncan, 714/ The accident was due to alip- | ly cease and a more desirable ter | would take his place. | ‘The Jap i# here to make money there are many other letters press- || ana for no other reason. His method Be fair and tolerant in your of making it is to produce at as low Avoid bitter personalities. Stick to the |a cont as possible and sell the prod vet to American residents, They do | not cater to tb trade of tho of If pos- Sign your name and h them printed, say so initials. he paper, plainly. or. . there would be no | gain in that, but to the white peo | ples. This accumulation is used largely to bring othens here to earn more money to bring still others and their own ra so on indefinitely | The Chinese are wiser than we. They employed the boycott, a per-| |otherwise. Some day we will learn | fectly legitimate proceeding—it being | its secret, its inconceivable power.| wholly negative. We do not need to} Then we shall command the ele | do anything to put it Into operation ments and they will obey our will,| Simply cease buying from the Jap, en have perpetual motion | directly or indirectly, and the prob 1, and perpetual bread also;| lem is solved, Within a week from world is not ready for this| the cessation of buying from them every class of retail business will be for sale and within a month the| “Japanese menace" wil have disap. | p together with most of our yet truth is we have been try ing to create something that already exists instead of discovering it W. H. SCOTT. Japanese competitors. We can truthfully say for this| panacea that {t is noiséless, pain lens (to un) and unfailing in its op- erations, and I might add that it is per nag of results as is the law of cause and effect itself. If applied it will cause no national | costiess. or international problems to solve Let each individual pledge himself nor racial conflicts to settle, There] to buy nothing from this undesirable would be no treaty violations nor ‘gentlemen's agreements” even. It would not even require any active nor | foreigner and the victory is won. A word to the wise is sufficient. How imany are wise? A B.C D. invest In industrial enterprises or tn the development and erection of new buildings as long as our present con. fiscatory tax rate is 40 per cent high er than the average of all cities in the United States of over 300,000 pop- |Ulation, Millions of dollars of Wash | ington money in being invested yearly| If there is no reason, then every in foreign and Eastern bonds which | newspaper, every business manager, |should rightly be invested here at/|tenant, landlord, employer and em home, if our tax rate were reasonable | ploye thruout the state, county and jand just. Meanwhile business is re-| city should join in chorus, demanding | tarded, and the unemployed are seek-| a cut of at least 20 mills from our 73 | ing Jobs, mill rate, which would give us a tax | If we analyze the situation we find| rate near the average rate of other that the city and county tax increase | larger cities. | for the past 15 years is astounding: | OCTOBER 118 DECIDING DAY ‘Tax Levy F PP ars The city and county ‘budget will 23.9 mills | stand approved on October 1, which 44.56 mills | means that you as a merchant, as an jemployer, as a homeowner, or unem- ployed consent to being taxed a rate that wif be not less than $30 for $1,000 of full valuation. SINCE 1919 OUR POPULA- TION HAS INCREASED 33 PEK CENT. IN THE SAME PERIOD OUR TAXES HAVE INCREASED BY $26.36 per $1,000 of ful! valuation. Se Atte is compelled to pay $36.78 per $1,000 of full valuation, or 40 per cent more Is there any reason why Seattle tn. dustries, merchants and homeowners should be discriminated against? Year 1905... Total Tax | Frederick & Nelson real ami personal tax was $122, The Hoge building was taxed over $35,000, Tho Green building wae taxed 177 PER CENT. over $28,000. The citizens could well afford to The Fisher Flouring Mills was close shop for one day and make taxed over $36,000, AD of which must be paid by the customers and tenants, indirectly. These kind of figures will not lure | capital in investing in new industries and enterprises for the employment of idle labor, SEATTLE IS FAR ABOVE AVERAGE RATE Our tax-epending bodies of the efty, port, school, county and state have | been asked to retrench. So far a few lof the budgets show a slight reduc- | tion, thank heaven! while others have |increased their budget, in spite of the fact that the “war ts over.” The average tax rato of the 1% | largest cities in the United States is ~ AMUSEMENTS LOEW’S PALACE HIP New Playing ted Days"; MeGreevy and Fred Lewis; Donnubelie ons Wilson; Wichman and Ward. Feature Photoptay: Bebe Daniels ia “SHE COULDN'T ‘Retrenchment fe REMEMBER: The chorus must chorus before October 1—or you take your medicino—A Bitter Borah Leads Fight Attacking Treaty WASHINGTON, Sept. 20.—Sena- tor William E. Borah will lead repub- ican opposttion in the senate to the Harding-Hughes peace treaty with Germany. After long deliberation Borah has made up his mind that he cannot vote to ratify the treaty because in his eptnion it ties the United States into the Versailles treaty. Vital Statistics’ Hipochige, Hangal, 1220 Ninth ave. atk ka, "notch, 910 Washington st, Buonertatian: A wen we i, mtonio, 3411 30th Schlueter, Harry, 1121 27th ave, boy. es Edmund Ly 4615 Morgan boy. Whitson, Kart T. 2008 Seventh Ny girl. apes aerr G, 1226 Eighth ave Witliamia. Harry B, 1703 Harvard ave., boy. Gurtatson “Car, RF. D. 6, box 261, Parmer, Howard N, Port Angeles, Sigmore Witter P. East Seattle, sneldon, ,ruomas ‘c, 1804 Republican ae alana Eben, 1218 Bigelow ave. |Grewory, Keith S. 5246 20th ave N. 610 10th ave., Hangan, George ‘A, Sie" Angeline at, boy. , Hans, 4508 38th ave S, boy. aah Sunnoo, 1229 Yesler way, irl. wifiaiame, Matusjuro, 589 Yesler | jHaelet, Witte HL, Carolina Court, | / + 723.N. 73rd st, Noy: jSandblom, Fred” ©, 917 W. 68th s! Do “agecbien, Thomas, 6702 15th ave. N. bo: Ww EB. 4745 35th ave. & Wy rl. ic wie n, Frank D., 963 17th ave N, girl MARRIAGE LICENSES Name and Residence. Age. | Brown, Joseph D. R., Seattle .. Johnson, Bessie, Seattle ......Le Minichiello, Guiseppe, Seattle . Paquila, Dorothy, Seattle Walker, Glenn R., Lynden . Romaine, Lecile Alma, Dayton: Tegal Bosswit, Alois A., Seattle +30 Vandemacle, Helene 1, Seattle .:! Tate, George H., Seattle . Groves, Constance, Bogue, Henry H., Grelsbach, Mae, ‘Thompson, Lemon, F ry Rel Keilly; Paul Sydelt onrPHEUM VAUDEVILLE MOORE CARLYLE BLACKWELL Neal Abel; Quixey Trio; Juggling Ballew; pany. tt Sisters and ¢ MecKAY AND AKDINE This Week—Mats, Wed. and Sat. “NIGHTIE NIGHT” wake Farce Lowery, FE: Jones, YourOwnPrice USED CARS FREDERICK | & NELSON FIFTH AVENUE AND PINE STR SET Stepsure Shoes for Little Folk are more than exceptionally good-looking shoes, though they do excel in appearance—they have the advantage of scientific designing and certain inbuilt qualities that enable them to gently guide growing feet in the way they should go, STEPSURES For Children From One to Four Years of Age BLACK PATENT COLTSKIN SHOES with gray kid uppers; button style, with hand-turned soles; sizes 6 to §— $5.00. BLACK PATENT COLTSKIN SHOES with white nu-buck top; button style, with hand-turned goles; sizes 2% to 6, $3.50 pair; with spring heel, sizes 5 to 8, $4.25 patr. 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Convenient Terms of Payment May Be Arranged Van Buskirk, Ernest S., Seattle Maley, Catherine, Seattle ‘er, William Rutkowski, Mary, Seattle Peterson, Edward, Moravii Baerwald, Ella, Lodi, Cal. DEATHS | James M., 7, itt Papbia bi 1:30 and 7:30 4th and Lenora Bushell Auction House Auctionégrs 63ra Paulo Di Ta 800 at the | Mann, the Hoover home on Stanford Unk Hoover, Jr., Asks Dad | ‘he ousr ner Wireless Right AU Ti N art, Cathryn, Seattle for sie The beet sugar industry is fford, Henry K., Seattle «Legal| PALO ALTO, Cal, Sept 20-—|tirely new in England. Ruth C, Mankato, Her Hoover, Jr. today asked Wednesday and Myers, Noah W, Seattle nether he could have a wire- Thursday Myers, Agnes, Seattle lesa station. cation to Secretary of Commerce Hoover for a permit to operate an ex- perimental radio station and for a lt cense as an amatour operator. cure proper recommendations—for submission to his own father, McDonald. ‘Julia, To, 4698 44a ay,8 He propores to erect the station at The Ri Company of pg ee ty Van Volken! “MR. FAUST” By Arthur Davis ‘Thureda; Young Hoover filed formal appli. Before he could file it, he had to se-