The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 18, 1921, Page 7

Try It and See, He Urges Editor The Star municipal line not Why so much delay and wane nough about reducing the street car fare| Even when there wero more people te 5 cents? If it would be legal toto ride than there are at tle present do so, why not suspend the § 1-J.cent| time, so what reason have we to be« fare, say for 60 days, and try the 5 {vai it will now? The proof of the was taking tn to meet the requirements, cent fare out? puddin’ is the tasting was raised because the N, IL WINANS, Outside Work for Public Employes Editor The Star: | eulation, which appears to exist for The report of the committee on | political purposes only, in a paid ad. the office of corporation counee! to) vertisement wherein it is shown that the Tax Reduction council shows! Howard A. Hanson, 431 county.city that office to be the most expensive | building, ts the attorney in a probate of its kind In the whole Amertean | case, continent, It shows at least twice) In the ordinary lines of employ. as many highly paid emplpyes as| ment, it means that the one em. any other city of equal, Sr even} ployed gives the whole of hig time more, population in the United | and energy to his employer, and par. States, The report shows that Seat: ticularty when gaid employe ts re. tle pays 32 cents per capita, while|celving high record wages. Angeles pays 17 cents, Cincin-| If an employe in the federal serv: mati pays 13 cents, Portland pays 13/ ice devotes any time to outside work, eents and Minneapolis pays only 7 he finds himselé separated from the cents, | services, and it ts not so very long The question of why ts the big|ago that a city fireman found him question. Echo repeats the ques: | self in trouble for operating a jitney ton—WHY? The answer for at)in his hours off duty. least a part of it fe found in the ad-| Now, Mr. Editor, why should the vertising columns of the Duwamish | taxpayer furnish any lawyer, or one Valley News, a paper of limited cir.’ of any other profession, with tree of. a Brae wove hd cs The fare sswho“ would r want it? ‘Leesicall a3 ) ry and fa AND COLUMBIA in the State of Washington Established Thirty-one Years EINZ ; We sell direct to the retailer, in limited quantities, to make sure that every one of the 57 Varieties on his shelves is of the very fresh- est quality, when he offers it to you. ers sens savers wh oe Reduced costs, in foods or in the cost.of run- ning the Heinz kitchens, promptly lower the price of the 57 to the retailer. No retailer has large stocks on his shelves, And so the retailer can at once pass the benefit of the new Heinz prices right along to you. thea vee THE SEATTLE STAR fice rent, free light, free heat, free} energy become matters of product, books and free stenographer and/and an honest man will not eell the free typist, for any man to transact! same product twice, You can draw |his own private business? Remem:| your own conclusion | ber, Mr, Hanson tg already in recelpt| The corporation counsel declares of a salary that is as great or great-|he can not prune down his office er than the majority of men are! force or his exp If he does not earning, and yet is not satisfied | prune this condition out of his office Hanson has sold his time and his| then the taxpayers will gladly do a services to the taxpayer, yet takes! little pruning themsclves, Yours for that time, which Is well paid for, and| common honesty tn public affates, sells it again, In this case, time and! A, T. AXPAYER Circumstantial Evidence | Editor The Star: Well, here {9 what came out In the It has been my luck, or bad luck, | pittsburg When the | to see one man whom I believed in nocent hanged by ciroumatantial ev idence, and two or three others make | the gun and held the gun as evi very narrow escapes from being | dence, and even dug the ball out of hanged because the circumstantial) the wall and held it as evidence. evidence was go strong as to appear) At the trial, when the state's at positive, torney was thru, it sure did look I beg to relate a case that came! black for the prisoner, But the de under my observation in Pittsburg | fense at once threw a bomb into the about 60 years ago, which Is a per | evidence that knocked the states feet parallel of the trial of Maho- | evidence into the little end of nothing ney He called for the revolver and ball Two men were heard quarreling in | which the state had used, He showed a back reom; then a shot was heard.| the Jury that the ball would not fit When the door was burst open, | the gun, and the state's evidence fol) one man was dead from a shot thru | to the ground, the heart and the other man was| He had the jury visit the scene of standing with a emoking revolver in| the murder, and there it was shown his hand, that some ene from outside the The evidence seemed indisptuable. | room had fired thru the window and Nine men out of ten would have said had killed the man, The hole was the man with the gun had shot the | «till there in the pane of glass where other, just as a juryman had an |the ball hed entered the room and swered in the Mahoney trial. | killed the man, T. J. PIBRCE. cane: pollee Sings Praises o: raises of Clallam County Editor The Sta Sportemen and tourists come from If I were ex-service man look ing for an agreeable, healthy and promising location for a home, I | would come to Clallam county. Apart from land values, quatity of soll, cost of clearing and irrigation possibilities, there are features at j tached to this locality, which appeal }to @ young man of energy and enter. | prise, ‘The tract of land known as the | Sequim district, offered to the state | for a soldier colony, is well situated for that purpose, It Is an ideal place for young men of vigor and action, for young men who enjoy hunting and fishing right at home instead of | going out hundreds of miles to find the same enjoyment, the sage-brush stretches of the Inland Empire to take a shot at our game and a glance at our scenery. This tract of land in reached by hard-surfaced roads; close to pont office, school, rullroad station theatre, stores, bank, lumber and creamery and many nces, Our climatic conditions are too well known to be discussed here: suffice to stay that they are almost killing frost, no scorching sum, rain in season. ‘The pioneering days of Clallam county are gone, The new farmers have the advantage of modern im ‘This land is situated within a very, provements and’ they may say with few miles of snow-clad mowntaina| truth ike the old Romans: “Rus io and a short distance from salt| ¥rbae.” We ure farming in town. | water, combining Alpine and qquatic| If I were to cast my lot with the diversion. soldiers’ land settlement I would In At tidewater are found the far. |Si#t on the choice of a location that famed Dungeness crabs and the suc: | Would afford manly amusements culent Port Washington clams. | With @ fair hope of prosperity. Here, too, are to be found ducks and T. BENOIT, wild geese. In the Dungeness river Carleborg, Wash. and its scores of tributaries, salmon and trout abound. Farther in the upland the sportsman finds grouse and pheasants, cougars and bears, while in the foothills he finds deer and elk grazing side by side Editor The Star: What is 4 despotism? It ts a no- jealled government in which author ‘ity has crossed its proper boundary, ‘moral rightfulness, set by the all-wise Creator and Ruler of the Universe and baa extended its power over the | whole domain of individual right and | individual liberty, leaving nothing to the individual that government can appropriate. Mercy is unknown in such a government. Do we have o despotic government Nourishing under the waving foid of the American flag, absolutely isnor ing the constitution of the U. &, that grand frultage of Magn | Charta, the visible expression of j given. principles, personal right and | individual Mberty? Yes, we have such a despotiam right here in Seattle un der which, ifa man invest his honest earnings in a home, he loses control of it; it is confiscated by the city, | which ignores his constitutional right embodied in the article, which de. oY _ atnew low prices | |clares private property shall not be taken for public use | compensation. Here the “millionaires, screened from the public, in their club rooms, without just Editor The Star: Maybe it will seem very much like [taken you home for dinner to criti [else an editorial in your horpitable paper, but I cannot resist making the criticism. Your “Birds of the Uplandi, ist, would have been so muc j happier if “dad” had left his gun at home. His pocket would not | have been stained with biood then, Earth stains perhaps and briers and traces of falling leaves, but not the ugly stain that testifies to man's selfishness and man's eavagery | An afternoon in the woods with my father used to be the happiest time of my life, and if he might {come baek from that world . go walking just as he used to do. | Always quick to see the little crea Seattle and the Speculators Editor The Star: arrived, they arrested the man with} thousands of miles and many from | as good as if ordered by phone—no | Condemns Assessment System Take Dad’s Gun From Him into| | which he has gone I think he would! Dad and His Gun Again) Halter The Star: Hunting season ts here again, and with it has come of} {blood and fear for the dwellers in This is the} @ carnival the woods and forests. time of the year when the civilized) man goes out into the woods to de) to kill the peaceful) If they would stroy, to wound. denizens of the wild kill all their prey outright, it would be bad, but thousands of |deer and other animals, and many bin left to drag their bullet-ridden or shot-torn bodies thru the woods; left to lead a miser able existence, sometimes for weeks until death ends their agonies Why do to pain and suffering to the helpless and the innocent? You say they and birds, and that’s what they are to be hunted. not 80 are wounded people want cause are only animal here for But, are you sure of that? The animals and the feathered folk Have rights the same as people have They feel pain as keenly as we do, they cannot talk, They ean cry out against their wrong as you and 1 can. Theirs is to suffer in silence. Out bere in the beautiful Hood's Canal country the woods are swarm ing with the redcapped men, their shots ringing thru the air—they| leave a trail of blood and foam wherever they go. And the beaut ful deer, that looked upon m: without suspicion just a few daye since, have learned what fear is ‘They are being hunted day and | night When “Dad” is seized with a long ing to go out into the wild to the earth that gave him why must he Wke a gun with him? Why must he yield to the savage impulse to kill? And he does not} kill. like the savages did, for food he kills for “sport.” He could “sniff the aroma of the} green hills” and enjoy the natore’s charms with a clear conscience if he would live and let live; if he would leave bis gun behind, bet:| ter still, never possess one! His] outing would do him far more good if he spends his vacation co-operat ing with nature and her children instead of destroying them. Yours for justice for every living er ANNIE M. BURGESS, Wash } | onty not | dictate the city government for their own aggrandizement. The leading of-| ficers of the eitycounty building are the arma with which despotic civic ‘power is wielded and the more ser: | vilely they obey their masters who dictate the government, the more ure they are to continue in office and the greater privileges they have in the use of fainghood, deceit | hypocrisy, cunning, subterfuge and chicanery in operating the machin- ery of government But the most alluring and beau-| tifully attractive of all the aids in ladministering civie dewpotiam is} found in the assessment area, be | cause of itn mupreme efficiency as a | amouflage for favoritism and graft! No scheme of civic government has, | up to date, approached it In value, money value, It is not likely to be jin the future, | The present regime is, of course, | very satisfactory to the millionaires, |but a safeguarding of home owners’ | interests would result in greager civic prosperity, but no retlef for home! jowners is in sight, for the people |have learned how futile and what folly it is to appeal to the courts for a redress of grievances. C. H. 8. tures, but never with any thought but that they should be undisturbed and unharmed, Your lines had the Inspiration of the out-of.doors in them and the up. lft of getting away from the town, | and I think you only put the killing im because—well, because we have ort of accepted those things, Wel aven't thought. We don’t think—| | util we are brought up face to face | with some awful tragedy. Some boy | that dad taught to shoot and to kill without mercy learns the unholy les | son all too well and often it's the woman or another man less pre pared to defend himself that is @ victim I wish you might have sent dad out without his gun. ‘The world’s ro full of hurt and pain just now we all must hold every smallest crea |ture immune from adding to | the bulk of it. H. H. JACOBS the speculator is favored." Ye FREDERICK & NELSON FIFTH AVENUE AND PINE STREET The “Campus Maid” Oxford The FREDERICK & NELSON Feature Shoe for College and High School Wear NEW shipment has just arrived — featuring a full run of sizes in these especially-designed Low Shoes for High School Girls and College Women, built of Sturdy Norwegian Grained Black Calfskin on a very smart Brogue last with heavy perfora- tions. Fine hand-welted sole. 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Urmst FLOOR FIRST FLOOR .|Church Federation Urged Evan Stressing the need for evan the Seattle Federation of Chui held three meetings Monday in First Presbyterian ¢ehureh, frocks and blouses, are marked considerably below — pointed ends trimmed with fringe, these Stole | of pink coutil, with medium bust, free hip and © N Loca! Protestant pastors spoke the necessity of Christian courag and Professor Howell Isaacs, of ¥. M. C. A., emphasized the rel power of music, f The principal address was made Dr. C. ©. Johnson, of Tacoma, om “The Church Must Do It.” ‘ Gods! Does not the author of that letter know that there is no specu lation in Seattle, and has he not eyesight enough to see that the speculator has quit Seattle because the #mall home owner is goat enough to fall for the very political schemes that he is now trying to foist on the public? The speeulator i. favored! In deed? Who are the speculators, and who is favoring them? When are! we of Seattle going to quit listening tosuch drivelling generalities? Their purpose is merely to arouse th sses into a state of prejudice against anyone and anything con caught my aye | nected with capital, How do you the same time was|*UPPose Seattle was built?» Certain jly not by any destructive doctrine | like that Mr. E Under your “Readers’ Rditorials,” you seem willing to print anything. even when it contains mischievous and misleading statements. Maybe you will print this—taking my open- ing sentence on its merits. All thir is inspired by a communication printed yesterday by you from an officer of the Public Ownership League (one of the prodigious num. | ber of organizations with which Se attle is burdened). Every one with an idea wants to start a club here— and ideas are plentiful, even if they are not practical. ‘The thing that jand my ire at the statement that the “small home owner in Seattle is the goat and President, H. J. 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Oven Baked Beans Peanut Butter Tomato Ketchup Cooked Spaghetti Tomato Soup Apple Butter Prepered Mustard at, just off Ui jone to (Thorou characterizes our ett itor, did you ever believe | when you went to school, that you j would tive to see the day when| oe & ; | ability would be belittied and sue sSeaiibes Mn | cess would be scored in this coun | one ranean — j try? you did not, But that . : 7 | dap le Here, because she hacia Gee Wednesday is the | blatherskites in polities who pander last day of the A ; 4 Anniversary Sale to them with rotten falsehoods If you miss this sale you merely to capture. their votes and | main power, Seattle has had a % ‘falling real estate market for 12 | years, due principally to the un- will be missing the great- est buying pre re of the year. i paralleled taxation caused by pol: | tlotans catering exclusively to popu: See page 4 Fraser-Paterson Co, 16 oz.—2l1c, 16 0z.—20c. 16 oz.—35c. methods in QUARTS HALF GALLONS Vinegar 42c. Pald on Savings Accounts Accounts Subject to Check Are]/lar fallacies, Speculators are too smart to even try to operate in an |atmosphore where there is no | chance for cither—workingman or capitalists, Yours, CHARLES Cordially Invited _foppeubvobbigs The Zeeland peasant girls, clad in their quaint costumes, gave a royal welcome to. Juliana, Holland’s 12-year-old priticess royal, on her recent visit, Ask your retailer Peoples Savings Bank SECOND AVE. AND PIKK ST. NASON,