The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 1, 1921, Page 6

ster sear aang iteee arth tela 3 Se Aa i an ay eR ENE rN SE LE Serene “a Newspaper Ta- terprise Asm, and United Press Bervice downward. One of these is that the car user be charged three cents a ride, and that the remain- ing cost of the transportation system be borne by the general taxpayer. This proposal involves a number of interesting questions which The Star will discuss fully when the proposal becomes an issue on which the voters must pass, as it will next spring. Coun- tilman Erickson, various other municipal ownership enthusiasts, single taxers and car The Seattle Star Ry mati, ovt of $6.06, In the $4.50 for @ m Three-for-Quarter Tokens to Go! It looks as if the three-for-25-cents carfare was doomed to an early death in Seattle, Two agitations, coming from widely different sources, are afoot for a radical revision 800 per mon f Washing or $9.00 i, « users are proponents of this plan, The other demand comes from business men and some officials. It is for a return to the old nickel fare. The theory is that the increased patronage thus stimulated would make a five-cent fare pay. It is interesting to note that the advocates of these two ideas are using almost identical arguments. Both stress the advantages of low-priced, speedy and convenient transportation. Both point to added business that would result if people could more freely move about. Both urge the value to real estate of an efficient car system with low fares. Both plead for the benefit to the average family. Both are right on these points. The city council must work out a plan. The Star urges that sound business sense ‘and good judgment, rather than an hysterical response to agitation, be devoted to the Problem. If the city can put the fare to five cents and continue to break even on its car system it ought to do it. If it can’t, there must be some intermediate figure at which it can arrive. If it could perform the miracle of developing a means of cutting the fare even lower than a nickel—power to it! But certainly there is a genuine public demand for a car ride cheaper than eight and a third cents. And there seems jo be by The Star Purtishing Oe, rh ain $2.78: your, f mont, good business logic in the idea that lower fares are feasible. The councilmen have a clean-cut, tho not simple, problem demanding immediate solution. Waterway Transportation Water transportation on i f t ° a & g ; & 5 i i F t i : i | Z E i F | | i i ty t Ad F ! | Hay grees itt] rier lrifeil i i th i F F i 53 pri tf transport ‘ts out? Probably wil, When the railways take ‘nuff, business usually sneezes. “Great thoughts come out of a great character and only out of that. They will egme even tf you have but little ledrning and none of the graces which attract the eve. you must-have a character tha ever speaking even when your ¢ silent... . A good character sitines like a candle in a dark night.”"—Abraham Lincoin, James Says a Mouthful In the course of a speech, de livered on the Installment plan uring three weary days, Senator Reed of Missouri bit the hand of the patient taxpayer who has fed him these many years, when he said: “The average Intelligence of the A@werican people is just about fairly represented in the con- gress.” In rubbing {t in, however, his Bgile tongue rather slipped when be sald: ' “I am not now seeking to dis- credit the congress * * * but I emphasize the fact that there are thousands of men at home just &s capable as we ar If you will wade thra the 17,- 000-0dd words of Reed's speech you will probably agree that in the last quoted sentence James said & mouthful, The old law of supply and de- (mand makes talk cheap. 4 ~ Bome men are well-to-do because they are hard to do. i America will never vote wet again—if the boot- leggers can help it. Disarmament party is athering, and hotel- keepers are ready for the charge. They now say, “Get thee behind me, Satan— and slip a pint in my hip pocket!” The administration proposes te lend balf @ billion dollars to the railways. whom the present extortionate But three important rafiways of charges of the railways have been the United States do not need equally profitable, loans. They have large surpluses Does President Harding propese on hand which they bave earned to loan @ part of the $500,000,000 im the past few years. These sur te these roads with surpluses’ Pluses are so large that they cm We ask to know, We have heard barrass these three rosds; se nothing about making exceptions much that each of them has ap What has been sald seems to tn- plied to the interstate commerce dicate that all the reads will grt commission for permission to use their little 6 per cent loans, And this money in a way that may then will these flush roads add puzzle the pisin reader net used what they borrow frem the gev- to high finance. They ask per- ernment to their surpluses and mission to “reinvest” their ac make us pey dividends on the cumulations In their own capital money wo have loaned? Why stock and divide this stock up im not? They could, just ae well as the form of dividends to their not, for they are embarrassed stockholders, with money now. And what a At least one ef the interstate travesty on governmental action commerce commissioners, J. B, !t would be to wring from the Eastman, ts opposed to this, He people money to lend to railway points out the fact that having surpluses! charged the people too much for transportation, so much that mon- ey has piled up, the roads now want to turn the overcharge into capital stock so that the people will have to pay dividends forever p ld oems'! ? or our | Bo ols IN THE AFTERGLOW BY FLORA 8. RIVOLA Mother o' mine, in the afterglow Of mothering years, I love you so; For loving me e’er life I knew, When next your heart a new life grew. Loving me on into fair childhood, When I #0 little understood The long, hard way we all must go, Mother o' mine, I love you so. Loving me, too, when life so sweet Tempted my wayward, girlish feet Away from paths of truth and right, To paths that lead to sin’s dark night. Winning me back with loving tone To ways that you had made your own By at By love's own cords you le and stress and pain and prayer, held me there, Mother 0’ mine, ‘tls mine to take This burdensome load, the stress, the ache, That come in motherhood’s fair years, The joy, the pain, the love, the tears; ‘Tis mine to give you what you gave me, Mother o’ mine, I would faithful be To the highest note in the song you taught My girlish ips, the music fraught With all the mother hopes and fears That fill to the brim the mothering years. Mother 0’ mine, tn the afterglow Of motherhood’s years, I thank you,so For gifts to m@ from out your heat, At thoughts that rise my hot tears start; God give me ways to make you know How great {9 my love before you go Away to rest from your mothering; I would remove life's every sting, And give you rest in the afterglow, For, mother o’ mine, I love you so, Podliened Datiy Paltor The Star: Two thin, paramount fatlures! They are prohi bition and abnormal carfare, We bought @ street car system much & man might pureh: ‘cond. hand automobile without an engine, paying the price of two new ones fully equipped with power—an un thinkable proposition, Tt wee a fraudorder, pure and simple, engineered by one whone exotiem fs only equaled by his genius for chicanery and his in satiadle thirst for publicity, Dusiness men have at last come to thelr senses, recognizing the fact tha® an eight and one-thirdcent carfare ts out of the question, Per hapa they have yet to learn that cars weighing useless tons, driven over steel ratis, primitive as the old aslidew steam engine. We are then paying miliions for something which ts obsolete and doomed to failure eventually. To the Editor: to nee the Food (et cetera) show; and I'D admit I never saw such lusctous morsels, cooked and raw, that met my approbative aight—the Bathing Girla were there that night I walked around and got the dope on stoves and coal and Playmate that put me fn a hungry mood, and made me quite enjoy the show—the Rathing Girla were there, you know, 1 drank Tokay-Sireena punch, ahd fathered up a dainty lunch, Yours Truly biscult, Meat o' Wheat, a cup of Rama, Chill Meat; ro IT proclaim the show was nice—the Bathing Girls were worth the price. Editor The Star: Let the writers make thelr stories things of beauty, things of truth and things of use as Ruskin and Morris tried to do, and the crowd will re. spond, as witness “Main Street.” which aa true to as a pho graph, “Main Street” is every large, and every small town tn Americ the town whose rullng class of sordid bankers, fiercely exploiting manu facturers, struggling merchants and bombastic journalists oppose every attempt at beauty, for they rightly fear that this menaces their Dr. Kennicott, who setks ways to many. How many had he? Answer to yesterday's: 8 and 18. Try This on Your Wise Friend A boy, when asked how many pennies he had, said. If I had half as many, a third as many and a fourth as many I'd have seven more than if I had only half as Wanted: Market Editor The Star; ! When the French revolution cur. | in trad talled the opportunities of the Swiss for defending French kings and pal noes they started in to market thelr wild scenery. Bullding good roads and first class hotels, they induced visitors from all, over the world to come to Switedriand. Up to thin) time the taste of the educated had been for flat, formal, conventional and tidy landscapes, mountains being EATTLE High Car Fare Is Doomed em to stand out ae! A Letter From Soap, and lots of other tempting food } | If the mother of nature In the land STAR Concentration of power with Mht strong and durable equipment ta an absolute essential) to suc in transportation today. Why f# tt that the Scandinavian ship ls able to carry @ cargo around largely in the fact that the foretgn vousel In equipped with concentrated power. In other words, thene ves sols carry twice as much freight at driven vessel In view of the $16,000,000 paid for |the remnant of a traction system supplemented by atly increased tariff, thousands feel that we have | had insult added to injury; and so | thousands walk, and other thou sands ride, but never on the street jear, nor will they so long as pres ent coniitions obtain, Increased fares, decreased revenues, was an | entabliehed fact before its Insugura | tion here. W. H. SCOTT Avridge Mann I enw the Spredwell Butter stand read this sign; “For Titus’ sake, «o tell it to her with a cake! So I pro elaim the show was rare—you know the Bathing Giria were there, | And as for dainty folde-rola, I enw the chic Rainwater Dolle; I stopped at Mra. Porte and tried her )dreasings, one and all; but as for dolla and dressings—why, the Bath ling Girls are best, sez 1 It's mighty fine to see the beat of everything that’s In the West, and learn that old Seattle's beaches can beat the world for mr so give us Food show with Bathing Beauties on dinapla AVRIDGE MANN ‘ “Main Street” yevade his income tax, and who pa triotica! res to run out of town the man whone life has been made denolate by the cruelty of the mob of respectables, is a splendid specimen of the good man, ‘The reanon that the authorities of Columbia University refused the Pulitzer prise to “Main Street,” over the decision of thelr committee of literary men appointed for that pur pose, only shows that the ruling | clase power extends to the univers ity, a» well ea to the small town | like Gopher Prairie CHAS. D. RAYMER, . 1380 ist ave for Our Scenery things which are our own chief stock it should not be difficult te | wot up an empire in whieh the wen! of nature could command hundred. of thousands to appear at their court « of the Swise were to go on « spree and stand on her head she could pro. 4uce nothing more inspiring than Mt. Rainier (or Tacoma); nothing more worshipful than our own enchanted hel4 tn abhorrence. Los Angeles has outgrown Seattle because she has peretstentig market | ed her climate, And since the Swine | and the Angels have done the edu cating of the world concerning these! THE PARABLE OF By DR. WM. B. BARTON VISITED « Bat tleship, I and Keturah, and it was Some Ship.| Yes, it was the Flagship of the Fleet, and it bore upon ite Turrets & great letter EB, which being in- terpreted ‘5 Ex eelient in Marks mansbip, and) upon its Smoke stacks another B, which meant Ex cellent in Engineering. And the Captain treated me kin ly, and spake courteously unto Ke turah, and we sat down In his Cab in and held converse one with an other, Likewise the Admiral, when he knew that we were on board, rent for ws, and we sat down with him in his Cabin, ast we drank Tea, na there was red that was nothi@ge that we net done unto us, the ‘Ship had Great Guns And a and tw of them carried“ shells} that were almost @ Cubit in Diam-| eter. And the Captain permitted me to] point one of the Great Guna, and) to turn it upon its Axis, and to} raise it and to lower it. And it was very easy, Likewlse did I look through a Telescope, that was fas tened to the gun, that I might see where I was pointing it. land Lete | behold, I could do tt myself, wood, Must we, then, walt for come Henry Ford of nature to spring out of ambush and by @ magic stroke of business startle us Into a recognition | of our treasure? Or sball some Billy Sunday of the Wild shout scenic eal. THE GREAT GUN And I examined the Great Gun, and it wae evtn #0. For there war no labor of bringing” the foresight down into the notch upon the rear ond of the barrel and then hunting around to see if the target was any- where on the same side of the Ship, for there wae the Target and the were the cronswires, and itwns very easy to lift or lower the Great Gun or to move It to the Right Hand or And I said, I have always sup Posed that this would be hard, but Now this have I discovered tn that it is often easier to do a) Great Thing than a Littl Thing.! And there are folk who do small| things with euch great Labor that they have no courage to attempt! anything larger. Whereas, if they! but knew it, the Great Task brings | with tt nse of Exhilaration and! Cournge and High Resolve that! makes {t easy; and when it is done, | there te gredt Joy In tt. Therefore do I ray unto cad Shrink not from the Great Tnask.! Undertake it bravely, and behold thou shall find that it ts better and| less arduous than the petty tasks at which thou dost waste thy life and get nowhere, | NIGHT - RADIO CLASSES And I spake unto the Captain, saying, I am a Fair Shot with a) Rifle, but this kind of Gun ts a Lit-| tle beyond my Caliber and Range.| And the Captain eald, Thou art) mistaken. It 1s much easier to/ shoot this gun than a Rifle, For with the Rifle thou must get three| things in Iine—the object and tho, foresight and the hindsight. But! with this, the man fn the Conning; Tower giveth thee the Range, and the Correction for the Wind, and all else-that thou needest, and thou) hast only to get the cross-wires of| the Telescope upon the object, ant hold them there, and that ts all there is to it, REV.M.A.MATTHEWS Will Preach @ Sermon on Sunday Morning tle “THE UNCHANGEADLE GOSPEL” In the Evening. He Will Discuss the Bubject “THE STATUS OF THD COUNTRY CHARGEABLE TO THE MINISTERS” Everybody Welcome FinsT Peto AN pring OPEN MONDAY * aT THE Y. M. C. A. SCHOOL OF RADIO TELEGRAPHY Prospects tor employment Next spring are good. Pre pare now for this oppor tunity. Experienced in structors, Bmall © classes, Individual attention. Fin est equipment in the West Room for 10 students tn night classes, meeting Mon Thursday and nings, NEW DAY CLASSES NOW FORMING Call at Room 210 United Y. M. C. A. Schools Fourth at Madison the world, giving @ freight rate |which i» quite tmpossible to the Amiérican versel? The answer lies | jthe same expense as the old steam: | but bad citizen. | | wonder if The Hague conference| } UNITED KGXeRN S: ter the children waiting boy the His only reply vation around the world? ) minutes Some one has said that “we need! outwide asked the +s ideas dynamite that wit break UP teacher 414 to him 1@ bony knobs that clog the brain jog Pes . and set thought free, I cast this little We “IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE into the mind; if it be a true life-| Some day we shall have @ radio #eod 1 have no fear but that it will moving picture station on Capitol Hill flawhing our scenery through the take root and grow.” It is better #o than that {t should explode and waste | ether, around the world, and we will hang the roc's egg In the dome, that iu) strength in forgetfulness, A boy at school wrote these words those proud spirits whores parent It is may grant us the supreme gift upon the board, “I am the beat kisser inthis town,” Said the teacher, “You the WISHBONE OF THE WORLD W.H, SCOTT. 4 will remain after school.” Some ten Says City Directory Not Accurate Editor The Star: directory, even as much as having Not long ago there appeared in a| Dumbers on streets that do not exist newspa: BL stnveet Ae icg " | Further, in every city served by the paper @ protest from @ stranger) 14) company, the Information con to our eity about the unfomillarity tained tn the directory gives not only of our citizens with the atreets and the name and address of the resident what bulldings of this city, To him every-| but the PLACE of business or occu one appeared strangers in a strange | pation, This is as it should be, but elty, for nO one could answer any of | Seattle never gets this servi | his questions, This appears bad from a« tourist's Time we were put on an equality basis with other cities, We are su | standpoint ly entitled to It. Apologies from the | What we need is more “Informa. local company will not correct the | ton” signs in public places, Now my | errors which are evident In the 1921 [object In writing this letter ia to | director Let them compare t complain about the poor directory | service rendered other cfttes and they On Monday night I thonght Ia go! end took a slant at Candyland, and **rvice given by the local company | will soon notice the difference. which publishes the directory. Min } takes can be found all thru the latest | | The Shipping Board and Its Jobs | Editor The Star: money that needs circulation’, Money There have been published, in wa-/ that lies dormant does no one good. rious papers, articles advocating cur-| If we can keep the ships running |tailment of governmental and mu-| and provide employment for our peo- | nicipal expenses by the discharge of| ple, the-time will come when we will employes, | be thankful to have those ships and One of the chief things they howl thelr trained crews when the great at isthe U.S. shipping board, These! national erisis comes and we want self-appointed dictators of our indus-| them in a hurry. trial policies are too short sighted! The-German kaiser eald that the | to realize the effect of throwing more | state's first duty is to look out for men into the already huge ranks of the welfare of her people and the | the unemployed. people's first duty t@ to the state. |. What matters tf the U. 8. ehtpping | I am beginning te think the kaiser board ts a huge graft? Has not! was right after all. grafting exietéd ever wince King Yours respectfully, Solomon started building his temple? | ALBERT H. RYAN WU tt not exist as long as there in $32 19th ave. Wants U. S. Booze Referendum | Editor ‘The Star: ing? No, we laugh and pay that he In The Star of the 28th T saw a! was too careless. Chief Fitzmorris Jcartoon of Uncle Ram trying to stop | States that half of Chicago's police | the feaks in the Volatend dike. Under | force are bootleggers, Some guar | it a headline state that 11 were are i of the law, I'll say. jrested in a boone ring charge. Life| Th trouble seems to lie with us. seams one darn booze scandal after) 0 we want the liquor laws en- inother, All right; why? forced? Evidence seems to be to A short time ago m man shot sey.|the contrary, Let us then have a ral policemen and the people rose as| Dation-wide vote and settle the mat- ne man and demanded justice, And| ter, once for all, If the nation usticn was done. Again a horrible! votes DRY, then make it no less rime ts committed in our midst and/ than 16 years at hard labor for we hear talk of lynching. Seems «| liquor violations. The law will then waxte of the people's money to try be respected. Again I say, “Boy im, says the crowd. But when a| page Vox Popull.” waster bootlegger (excuse the adjec Sincerely, ive) ls caught, Go we talk of lynch. PAUL VAUGHN WOODHOUSE, The Cost of the Street Cars Béitor The Starr jae that 45 per cent of the people I Delleve that the cost ef opers-/of Seattle are property owners? tion of the street rallways should) Where do those who rent come tn? fall on those who can afford tt How much has the auto owner paid fow the upkeep of the present sys tem? Is it not fair that a munic!- pal debt be borne by each individual person in the municipality? Wil Mr. Erickson's plan remedy this? As I understand {t, it places the financial burden on the shoul- ders, mainly, of the property own. Respectfully, A BL the income tax be applied as a solu- tion to our important transporta- | tion problem? Those who do not jenter in the tax can well afford to pay @ fivecent fare. Then might not the possible deficit in the cost | Of operation be better made up by | those who can better afford to bear | this financial burden than by those ere of this city. The taxes are too| who are struggling to withstand the high already and t# @ dtrect knock | strain of present taxes? Is this not to the Interests of @ property-own: | worth considering? ing public at heart, Is it not a| ROOD GALE. —_—-— Prohibition and Arbuckle Fdttor The Star: ers assure us of the sodden drunk. Ha, bere’s another thing for which |¢nness of England and Scotland, prohibition is responsible! Nothing | RY. of course, they taut be. sls: | lees than the Arbuckle outrage, tf) i000) wae clnenttebee inte ] Zou Slenesl Ih: senily seeks 088 | can he ne seek: RARMASEME thike! ba the Saturday night orgies of which Kenneth Roberts, to mention one | Writer, writing in the Saturday | Evening Post, tells us. Another writer says that In some sections in wasn't the cause of the world war, According to @ recobt letter writer to The Star, there seems to be very little that ie wrong in America to- day that cannot be traced directly to the working of the V To read this write would suppose th drunkenness in the “good old day nor any girls outraged. I may be) misinformed, but ft seems to me I have heard of cases even before the | jaw was passed. And when travel | DoesThorough Training Pay? Of course it dors, Ask any n who bh reached esuccess in his chosen work. You can ‘et nowhere without ft. herefore, If you seek to become an auto mechan- fo—and eventually gar- auto business your train- ing in such @ school as the Y. MW. C. A. Automotive School Betty Baxter as “Alan-a-Dale” Place your above all other consid- ons. Ita che: are experienced special. fats who want to be of service to you; who know their subjects and can pass on this knowl- edge to you. Th are small and you individual ee at- ‘ More than this, the equipment fs complete and adapted to all teach~ ing needs, If you om. and ‘mean school like this muaet appeal to you, NEW CLASSES NOW FORMING ambitious usiness, a Visit our Won't bo obligated to us. Ask for Catalogue. Feur Months Chicage Beane PRICES— jaturday Wednesday Ma‘ SEAT SALE MONDAY | xicated Why might not the principle of |” (Day and Evening) PRICES “¢ vps EVENINGS oe ATS bo, SAT, wAS t ‘ heat: rohestra Which 1s organized to Orchestra Orahonwe: 5228 The Play That Made New York Laugh for Two” Edinburgh tt te wetuany be on the street Satu; | lems one at least pretends ‘Whale ty Might up. © ben we have 4 pro} fen. Nor do we have | I hardly think | this condition in aittiny “pubs” waiting for theig come cut and go reel | them, if the miserabig | hey exint can be calieg I really wonder writes who blame al} which flesh ts hetr onto ere sincere in this are ike the iittle man | the minister anked if any ea to the marriage then going queaked out, “I object—t myseit!’ If we are to repeat law because it tm a fi then to follow | clusion we cust hee login! cop: | egainst et abolish the law | t stealing, for there ty 4 day goen by that that ek broken, and only too often oe thieves get away and the the | find no trace-of thems tn ‘tuet an |! the usual ending of the that of our numerous robberies, — Or, on the other boys from good fi the gang for a into m store, carry set caught and sent tory—a life ruined Rot repeal the law so that they can get without having to to do it? Nonsense, it any more other Itne of argument there ts still liquor sold, | going on, we shoula |Our defenses and let ol4 leyoorn take our soul? If officers of their oath of office, them doubtless do, the ally 73 ul = 4 li Bi Fy Fy e: i i E ty i i Hi to them, and the more great, indifferent publie whe, sneers and jeers, make psn difficult and tn many cases impos sible. We are not #0 much about those who already | quired the taste for drink as to try to keep the coming | ton from doing lkewise, \idie rich drink themeeives jin foreign ports if they let us do everything in to remove this one danger, from our boys of writer I have mentioned men ere drinking now Grank before prohibition; of the many more who begun to drink under the | tions! The yearly grist [had to be ground up | mill to replace the ruined east out at the other would have been much the few who, trom @ spirit ado, drink merely to “personal liberty.” It seems to me that i es zt jl zg a ee : comes out now and states that Mquor consumed “s brand of Scoteh equally fine brand of other one thing in our feation. MRS. C. F. ‘Twe Months ‘te Broadway Cast and Production =. ATES ES SU St he Plas. tinee: $1.50, $1.00 and os @A ot @tites ot eo ee oh le tlm