The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 24, 1921, Page 6

By mail, ont of etty, 95.00, mm the ot $4.80 for & months, oF 19.00 per year 2 mentna ot Outside oF Ry on a significant fact he has observed. mot vote for the death penalty. murder case until capital punishment is abolished.” does this mean? f the books set us backward. The people resent this 0.” . Just that and nothing more. bridges? The people who are going to pay the bill subject. it assurance even have we that, after once levying The Seattle Sta months, #2 TH) year, Fo momth, The People and the Death Penalty “kead again a remark made by Judge Ronald, who is presiding in the Mahoney “Thirty-one people have been excused from jury duty in this case because they We will never be able to get a jury again It means that the people of the state of Washington op- from their hearts the spirit of the capital punishment law which a misguided ture recentiy re-enacted. It means that the law must be repealed. Washington step in advance when it abolished hanging; the legislature that struck that reaction. They loathe the ment; and, individually, they refuse to impose the extreme penalty. interesting item in the county budget that ought either to be materially re- by the commissioners or else considerably explained is, “Road and bridge fund, half million dollars for the commissioners to spend next year on what roads? would appreciate light on the amount for roads and the commissioners will the money for other + for mere thew §= on auto and 40 gallons. ef auto tires or bales of ‘at exorbitant figures or im King county at pres- dwindled to less than 93,000, taxpayers don’t find The Boys in Blue are pasalng, to produce that ap- on their march into eternity, at this sort should.be 80 rapid a pace that nine years over. hence the last one may be gone. commissioners, itemize! That will be taps for a mighty ‘as where those roads and army that had 2,778,000 enlist are that we're asked to ments and reeni'stments, ‘The United Contederate Veier- ship of ently 15.000—ull that ts left of the. Confederate army of 610,000, an army so valorous and effcient that it succumbed to su- rerior forces enly after four years ef conflict and sta:vatien, eee As the nation Draws the Boys fm Blue and the Boys in Gray, it must be s comforting satisfaction for the eid seldiers te look about a6 the powerfol Union that has risen since the civil war. The Gers and the Seuth honers the gat Northern velerama, Time bas welded the ence opposing armies possibty+ inte an indinsotuble ene. of the Our hats are off te you, Boys Beys in of "61, as you meet in Indianapolis Old age ts sounding taps. and Chattancoga. juring ere it dan- Teose nto nutes mos: Rays gk gerous when ene of them is driv- Fitty-ix years have | '"% Lee surrendered sf = =(Omaha women advertising for a Se the age of civil husband finds the male service must average 6@ ‘01. . Bewere! Children who play in mse. mud may grow up to be politicians Rag ther i oi Al some people lay aside for BY DR. WM FE. BARTON ward into the mouth of the river, . SAT before a win-|24 the yellow waters were stayed; dow that looketh | #24 the water of the ocean filled the out into a bay, | Channel of the river for tt may have where ‘the been « score of miles. And the wa- and wide sea| ‘ers of the bay were blue and the cometh in. And] Waters of the river received of their I beheld, and Io, | Dlueness. there came to.| And my friend said, thou seemest ward me a broad | to be interested in that strip of water yellow streak, | that aforetime was yellow and now is and it came from|lue. What seest thou? over against me,| And I said, I behold a parable of and pushed out|human life, For the influences of from the 6ther|¢vil flow where they would empty osu, into every man's being, and there is the of it mingled not in every man @ channel where might waters of the bay, but kept | "42.8 Yellow streak. were their own bounds, as if] 2 plod’ agg how then shall any 01 pee alt than. ‘But it came| ANd I said, look before thea, and ‘until it nigh unto me, | %* what thou beholdest, for what } ft turned and moved on toward And I watched {t for an thou seest, there is the remedy. And he said, I eee the incoming , and yet another hour, and then and the yellow streak was all tide, and how the waters of the ‘Way out to the ocean, as far as “he had “a river cannot prevail against it, be- cause the ocean is mightier than the t = ening stream. And I said, even so ‘the tides of And I cet tg! my Beng righteousness and high resolve flow said unto me, it is a certain river) out of the immeasurable ocean of | that floweth down from the hills, and) goodness and truth: and if a man th into the bay beyond the head-| dam them not back, they will wash #0 that thou seest not the mouth | tne yellow streak that is in him the dal Be ie to sallow and fill the @hannel of his life with e is wl e be th s, Be eteen tins tates vneg |S, Siva, clear waters of virtue and teth the blue waters of the’ “Ana he #aid, that is worth think- where they enter the bay. ing about, and hereafter when I be. as I still gazed, behold, the|hold the river and the bay, I will turned, and the yellow waters | think of these things, ged to flow into the bay; yea, the) Yea, and they are well worth think. waters of the bay flowed up-!ing about. ° ° . Try This on Your Wise Friend ill gives Tom as many pennies as Tom has. Tom ives Bill as many as Bill has left. This done, Bill 86 and Tom has 42. How many had each at first? Answer to yesterday's: Number is 40. They once wanted a mule and 40 acres; now they want The bride doesn’t make apy re mother made; nor does the groom make money, like father made. q a, ower. a All is expensive in love and war. Safe and Sane Sea Serpent We had thought the silly sea- son was over, but up Boston way j THE SEATT WMéttor The Star: letter of H. P. Devlin, which was published in your paper on Sept. 26 191. 1 believe that Mr, Devtin ts getting some money or rake off on the Jap’s work in this county by the tone of his letter, If be is a white man, then he should be more than willing to give his brother in distress @ helping hand, But it appears to me that he would rather have the Japs do the work and let the men who did the Oghting for this country starve than tq offer them a helping hand, Now I am very glad that there Miss Marie Wallsteed, Beattle, Wash. My dear Marie; Im giad you wrote The Star your charming ttle note, in which you said it wasn’t right to put the Nuts tn every night, but only give us Chea and Wal, and not put Haze] tn at all T asked the artist why ft was, and all he said was “Just because?” the editor refused to may, the janiter mid, “Go away—we've nuts enough with Mr, Brew, without another nut like you.” 1 had te make another try to as certain the reason why; I thought the Nut House ought to tell, there I went and rang the bell, and in the twinkling of an eye, Min Hazel came and told me why. Editor The Star: I have been noting the various suggestions for state tax reform, among others that of Senator Rock: weil, I believe, who proposes a state tax on the smaller incomes not sub Such a tax would offset the recent tncrease by congress in thé amount of inconie exempted and would add to bear it. Then there are the “realtors,” as they call themnelves, with: 1. A ptrsonal citizenship tax 2. A personal income tax. 3. A property tax on land 4 A business tax. I am somewhat anxious to know what the “lumber fnterests” will propose to the Washington State Tax Commission in November, tn the way of taxation reform. I be Weve your readers would like to know more about these suggestions. Suppose you tell them from time to time. It is my opinion that Senator Rockwell, the realtors, the lumber tmterests, et al, will bear watching, and thelr proposed reforms bear dis- cussion. So far I have seen no suggestion to reduce the taxes to @ man clear Humane Society: Editor The Star: I notice the news ftem headed, “Dr. Read Wants City to Keep Dos Pound.” The transfer of the pound from the city to the Humane society had been asked for, Dr. Read sayn that “The city reaps no advantage by the change.” and that said change “would be the cause of considerable confusion.” Confusion to whoni? Why? Since the animals at the Hu city, what right has Dr, Read to ob- Ject to the proposed transfer? Why should the city expect “advantage” from a handful of half-starved, sick strays entitled to municipal care? Is Seattle that hard up? What “confu- affect the Dr.? I do not know conditions tn this city, but I do know of similar con flicts elsewhere and I think that hu- mane people, and humane officers es- pecially, should wake up and make a thoro and continued investigation. I AFTERWARDS BY BERTON BRALEY When afl my songs are finished, When all my dancing’s dona, Stl, #til!, quite undiminished Shine the golden sun; And stiN, from garden clones, When I am done with worda, Shall come the breath of roses, The twitter of the birds. Fach day will stil be bringing ‘The dancing, light as air, The kisses and the singing, But I ehall not be there! And #0 the Miiting measure Of cong or dancing tune Shall then bring me no pleasure Beneath the sun or moon; So now—while I can hear it, I make my biithest song, And, with the gayest spirit, I dance my way along; And till my days are over TN have my joyous fling, For when I'm under clover I cannot dance or sin pyright, 19271, Seatue Star.) (Co; YN WENT THERKS HERE” BER 25, ATS P.M Dd FOURTH AVENUR LE STAR Mr. Devlin and Mr. Schultz Just @ littie note in answer to the) try and IL Schulta is @ man who} for, or quickly and humanely put to, fession, ts going to be extended to Porsthty watchmen are necessary to death, not turned over to a lot of | helpless humans unfortunate enough | prevent the land's being stolen. 0) | to 0 her@ i#| Aviation ty all right just #o it Matt in this coun. | medical wtudents to be cut up alive.|to fall into thelr hands ae ee Canines need « better friend than|more than one Steilacoom, oren't apply to expenses. Cut ‘em |knowe just what he ta talking| ‘his surprisingly » | In the meantime, stand by your|down, Messrs, Commissioners, cut out. I have seen in nearly every m, with his humane society and nee to it that|’em down! pee a . confusions.” Cruelty is the devil's | they, and the antmais they would) US THE AXE! x. te |hotel and eating house in Seattle that Japs hold the upper hand. I think that our own countrymen should be given the work that right fully belongs to them and not the Japs. Hoping that Mr, Devlin gets enough of his Japs, and that Mr Bebulta get his job, I am, truly for the white race. ¥. A. SHIRLEY, U. 8. 8. Bwallow, Puget Sound Navy Yard. A Letter From Avridge Mann It seems her father, A. P. Nut, is really quite an awful mutt; he! thought that Ches and Wal would and #0 he told the artist, “No! daughter Hazel cannot go.” If she were in * Star, he said he know that Hazel would be read, and if she got so red, he knew, ‘that it would make her very blue to |have to look and act #0 green—ti | you ean figure what I mean, My do, without thelr haying Hazel too,| helpless animals, by the medical pro- Editor ‘The Star: Can you tell me whether ex-serv: foe men are being shown any consid eration in finding work? ¢ 1917, before he had finished his sen jor year in high school, He w there until the armistice, two decorations, a D. 8. C by Gen, Pershing. Editor The Star: rk, and the cruelty shown |help, have a square deal, t to} the front in July, 1918, and @tayed| along that certain He has| worked jonger than he. and the| croix de guerre; also a citation signed | otic business men who are giving de Now, because of this service, he has had to give up @ college course, The Case of Jimmie and Charlie I bave just read your article en titied “Our Costly County Purchas- ing Agent,” and to one who hap And #0, you see, bat she cannot get! her pleture in the “funnite” yet;| Flazel's good an good can be! ro} mane society are not a menace to the | sion” would the change neceasitate | and how would the said “confusion” | am ‘inclined to think that Dr. Read| and tells a lot of things to me that she would let me tell to you, tf you should ever want me to, AVRIDGE MANN. Suggestions for Tax Reform |ins land to make a home and a tr ing. Some such tax law will have to be made eventually if we expect | people to stay on the iand. As it |now ts, whenever a settler on new jland blasts out a stump, his as Jeet to the federal income tax law.) sesamenta and taxes are immediately | | increased. For years there has been & great deal sald about getting pro- ple on to logged off land and keep more taxation to those least able| ing them on the farms, but less land! jis being cleared today and real es tate men will tell you that there! are more farms for sale than for | many years, and ts it to be wondered at when our whole system of tax |ation is @ premium against improve ment, working discouragement | the farmer, the settler, the home owner, both in country and town? Your chambers of commerce can advertine the Northwest and the state of Washington with its logged joff lands as a desirable place for | settlers, from now to doonfAday, but until eome wuch. tax reform i» made |along the lines that | gonted, encouraging the eettier to | work, reducing his taxes the harder he works, the more stumps he grubs out, there will be no stampede of |wettiers to the state of Washing | ‘om GEO, T. THOMPSON. Portage, Wash ; Pound; Doctors , 9 and his medical associates can now got all the dogs they want from th: city pound, for vivisectional pu’ poses, free, or nearty #0, while if tl) humane society took over the activi | tes of the pound, he well knows that no dog or cat of any kind would be given him or sold to him at any price for any such putpose, Every well informed person knows of the shame. lows tortures inflicted upon antmais. cut up alive, unnecessarily, to gratify a mortid, insatiate medical curiosity It is blinding, gassing, amputations and regrafting of limbs, diserfibowe! ing, broken backs, crushed paws |freezing and baking, starvation stunts, as well as all sorts of inocula tions for poison tests, syphilis, lep- rosy, cancer, etc. It is one disease after another till death ensues, or the more horrible cutting up alive— |@ practice more shameful than any. thing that disgraced the Dark Ages. If Dr, Read has any other purpose than this, he has not stated it, I fail | to understand his very sudden and inexplicable tnterest in dogs In my home clty, the humane no- ciety had long sought to take over the functions of the city pound. The bonus, as well as wages given un scrupulous dog catchers, the manner of the dogs’ capture, thelr later lack of care, their slow, hideous, agon- izing death by means of a burning gas had long been a grievance. It seemed Impossible to make a change. Later it was discovered that for sev- eral years the pound had been fur- nishing dogs for 60 or 75 cents cach to the medfeal schools for vivisection. Over 800 head bad been supplied in one year alone, A storm of protest arose, not only from humane people there, but aleo from all over the U. 8. The mayor, finally, ashamed of his city, exerted himself in the matter and caused all strays to be placed in the hands of the humane society alone. When a sick, frightened, broken. legged or lost dog falls into a hu man’s hands It ts entitled to a square deal. It should be properly provided SERMON TOPIC Mission Work, South Africa By REV. W. B. WHITE, the president of the South African Mission of Seventh- Day Adventists, will spgak Sunday at 7:45 p. m. A feneral invitation to the pubile ts given by Pastor G. W. Pettit of the Central Seventh- Day Adventist Church Boytston and Olive Street REV. M. A. MATTHEWS will preach a sermon Sun- day morning entitled, CUP In the evening he will dis- t, TO MAN Public Invited FIRST PRESHYTERIAN CHUROH Seventh ai ring I bave «ug! pens to know some of the detatls of how this purchasing agent got his position, and Low little he was | fitted for ity it is not a matter of the mark. I hardly think, tho, Mr, Editor, it will do much of qny good. know Charlie is Jimmy's brother. | Editor The Star: | forts to economize. Whose friend is the county pur chasing agent? In other whove influence secured the appoint ment for him? hold an office paying a good salary and at the same time waste or squan der public money should not be tol erated. Seattle and King county need hon- | news, but, be that as it may, it hite . | there, You Jimmy always had to provide a job Who Shall We Break? words, Any man, who will In these times, Very win leerely yours, L. M, CLARKE. Do Service Men Get Consideration? tho he ts not impaired, physicaDy or «| mentally. Since August 1 he has been 100k-| pensive I have with me an ex-service man | !ng for work here, and every position who enlisted in the early spring of | has been filled bY men having had | experience. ‘They may not have had experience line, but have I wonder if there really are patri serving exservice men preference or if such is only newspaper talk! A QUESTIONER. for Charlie or Charlie would “have |no job, and Jimmy would have to keep him net only in food but In buiton hole bouquets, fawn gloves and loud overcoats, Now, this wouldn't be fair, so when Mr, Ram. |nay wanted to be county commis sioner, Jimmy agreed to put bim there if he would provide a job for Charlie, That's how Chaptie got the job and that’s how Charlie stays You can wee by this that the lonly way to get rid of Charlie is to get rid of Ramsay, Come on; let's go. A READER. jonuse of high taxes. It is the reason ‘The sheriff's office is deserving of why no industry of any consequence commendation on account of its ef- has located bere within the last |two years, It is the greater factor |in the unemployment situation, | does Chart Our County _ Buying Agent Editor The Star: You speak of King connty’s ex urchasing agent. You know why? Charlie Wood is a brother of Jim, Good standpatter, ringaround the-rosey, etc. Runs all thru the “Im visible Monarchy.” Charlie is generous: lots of char ity—-where it pays. Buys things, , in bulk, but done up in anal) packages like paste, thousands of little bottles, each one with a brush to be thrown away. Rubber bands by the million, three-fourths of thern wasted. Looseleaf books at about three prices, etc., ete. One bidder told me that his firm charged the county just double that which they would charge @ private individual for all press work. They like Charles, even ag certain other organizations and firms are fond of him. Case of Mary and the lamb; they “linger patiently about.” Well, to be sure, Charlie loves his job. Salary is no object. Only 200 bucks and nothing to do only to wateh it coming in. When I was in California in the 80's if a man came in and asked the limit they pointed heavenward. Ge in and win, “Hurrah for hell; who's afraid of smoke?” That was before the days of corkscrew politics with jaze-kooks on the flippers was per fected. Let me whisper to you privately, without vulgar exaggeration, that Starwich will not be liked by the courthouse fraternity, It was the same idiosyncrasy in Tom Irving The remedy lies within reach, but| chat made him disliked. Tom is ebtef none is so blind as those who will| custodian for the voting machines not Ae, and he insists on buying bis own Why should the courthouse ring/ supplies, Last year he bought seals make up the slate for every cam. for sealing machines at election paign? Why does its slate run true|tine for $5 per thousand; they had to form nine times. out of ten? | Would not @ man be an ungrateful) They |wretch, to turn against the gang! of been paying $35 per thousand, do not like this sort a man around the County lost and conscientious men in public that put him in? The question is,| City buflding. No doubt Starwich, jour troubles im Seattle, FRANK E. LESLIE, 1711 Ferdinand st. That Aviating Haitor The Star: Riding a hobby ts ‘all right if the rider foota his own bills, but when the paying the other fellow does sometimes he ts prone to kick. This ts exactly the case with King county’s proposed aviation field. Local taxpayers were held en. tranced with visions of @ govert ment field with airplanes and aqua planes soaring and sooming and thru the air, and big apluttering machine shops and lote of employ ment and the like until congress re- Now they have sme down out of the air and begun used our proffer. » look at the expense account, The Sand Point property was pur- chased from the Ferry-Leary Land is composed of Co. The 219.729 acres. tract It cost $867 an acre. This is too much for land #0 t#o- lated, Inferior In quality, and with our transportation facilities, in the light of prevailing prices. for approximately one-half Sand Point, land can in similar quantities acre. the Sand Point 4 secre and it was onehalf cleared. Sand Point purchase price Clearing contract ts. 1620 expenses . 1921 expenses. . Ramsay trip to Washing- ONLY COMMON SENSE The sound business man carries ness. He is protected against resplting from fires, cyclones, burglaries, ete. jerashes and drownings. | damage? e \ NOTE ¢ OUR SCHEDULB OF INDEMNITIES Accidental Death tn Railroad Wreck er from Burns in a Hotel Fire. .$16,000.00 en. reg any other means.. Loss. of rt} yes, Both Li OUR Hoth Arma ne ee Loss of One Hand and One Foot..., 2,800.00 RECORD Toms of One Hand or One Foot, or ‘ one Kye oy teeeeee 280.08 | Weekly Indemnity (Total ry FOR 28 YEARS nhiy _indemalty ¢ Dia- ae Weekly Indem $ ‘The annual cost of membership has aver- Disability) . acccnecs 1200 | aged less than $10. MEMB We have never had te settle one claim ERSHIP ELIGIBILITY through the courts, White male similar organizations, 7th Floor State Life Bldg. ‘The same acreage within fire min-/ utes’ walk from the docks across Lake Washington can be purchased this price. South of Seattle, closer to ‘The Lee property, which practi cally adjoins the proposed aviation field, was sold a few months before ance on his home, his factory, his busi- water damage, Fires and burglaries are accidents— but so are railroad wrecks, automobile | When your income is dependent upon your own personal welfare, why should you not have the proper protection | against lossea resulting from personal ‘The largest +per capita reserve wy ef al Aviation Field Total cost to date......$216,527.33 Option on additional land 35,057.15 Total cost to be.....$261,584.48 This land when cleared will cost the county more than $1,900 an A payroll is @ regular occurrence. No thinking Artistically insur- losses | AT THE CORNISH | Beginning the Second Week of “MR. FAUST” By Arthur Davison Ficke m can The Repertory Company of Maurice Browne and Ellen Van Volkenburg Thursday, i, and Ma Single ‘Seats, $200-Plus War Tox A REGRETTABLE INSTANCE-- BUT A CONVINCING ARGUMENT4 ACCIDENT INSURANCE IS eee eee lm workers. ain and the resultant claim was pre) — by us even before new of the existence of this policy. Serckents, Sinks yin, We inoite your correspondence regarding details and applications, etc. THE INDIANA TRAVELERS’ ACCIDENT ASSOCIATION to| office, more now than ever before. | shall we break the ring or break the) like Irving, sees to it that bills are | Graftitie is the cause of most of | taxpayers? It is the! mot paid twice and then charged some flexible account. é If the story of tne courthouse wouldn't be balf the navigator that + 1,146.74) he is (or was) supposed to be, ONE WHO KNOWS. cm 0 suneen H OH Boy! ford to miss it beaut staged, by AN OBJECT LESSON IN THB WISDOM OF PROTECTION Mr. J. A. Hughes, Corfu, W: joined this association in June, 1920, at the suggestion of one of his fellow He was drowned in July, ea for mother between 21 and oS ae B. offic! and elmilar could be told, Sinbad the Sailor . /