The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 1, 1921, Page 7

Teetet, Ew Bei an “In the Interest of Accuracy” Wilitor The Star: In The Star of last Saturday a Bremerton correspondent calls me to task for stat. ing, in an interview in your paper, that the people of the state had enacted and approved our prohibi- ion laws, and, if it is desired to amend the law #0 as to permit the sale of intoxicants to hypochon- driacs by way of physicians’ pre- seriptions or by some other circuit ows method, that such a measure should be initiated by the people ut the next general election and not put up to the In your editorial you unwittingly coneede as true the statement of the correspondent that the 1917 leg islature, and not the people, was responsible for the “bone dry law.” t legistature did enact the “pone dry bill,” but the anti-probibi. tion forces filed a referendum peti. tion against the act, referring it to! the people to be voted upon at the election in November, 1918 The people approved the bill by a vote of 96,100 for the act to $4,322 votes Against the measure, The act was designated on the ballot as Refer endum Measure No, 10. This my main reason for sing the people have pe ly and finally directed and engineered the prohibition legislation of Wash ington. If there are those who are desir. ous of having intoxicating bever- ages administered with more free dom to the countless persons they claim are pining jay for the lack of such nourishment, in this erst while healthful commonwealth, let them initiate a bill to that end, to be. voted upon in November, 1923. For if relief is awaited from tne . md that body the law as sugmested, the proponents of such a& measure can rest assured that the act would be referred to the general election of 1924, for approval by the people. Their suffering sick by that time will doubtless ye passed to the Great Beyond for lack of the booze medicine it is desired certain physi- clans shall prescribe, Respectfully yours, B, HEISTER GUIE. Bremerton’s Election Béitor The Star: In your edition of October 21 T notice an article by R. B. Bermann | regarding the election of a mayor) Seg because of lewd conduct. | for the Good Government ie, you speak of Dr. F. A. La Violette as being one of ti most and two commissioners in Bremer-| active powers, I am informed he ‘s ton. jon the side of right and stands un. You mention Frank Reynolds as/equivocally against the trickery of one of the central figures. Have/ the vice gang, and also that he has | you dug into records enough to find attended two or three meetings of ) 5 ¥ that Reynolds was giving good sat-/the Good Government league since isfaction to all parties, as a police officer, until one morning about 4/ o'clotk he found the editor of one) of the Bremerton papers lying on his back on the sidewalk so drunk he could not get up; and, doing ny police officer should do, Janded him in the city jail? When brought before the police court the judge satl, “$25 and costs" for the editor, Since that time things have been happening for Reynolds. A jury in the Kitsap @ounty superior court brought a Verdict of “not guilty” in one case Not getting the personal satisfag tion desired from that verdict, a suit for defamation of charactor been started, supposedly by a of Bremerton, who, if re- ports can be believed, was forced to leave one of Bremerton’s rooming it was organized more than a year jago. Did your correspondent find out who stole the “copy” for the first edition of the “Union Civic | Journal,” the league paper, and de- livered i@ to the headquarters of the “Outs,” which headquarters ix sald to be controlled by the men who contributed a $1,000 check to &@ local attorney for the privilege of | installing @ dictagraph tn his office & few years ago? IT am sure you are right about the laboring men deciding the points at iasue in this election, Be ing men of intelligence, an uncloud ed presentation of the facts is ai! that ts ry to insure the con- Unuation of the clean-up policy of the present administration. Respectfully, AUNT I. GRAFTER. The Trouble With the Railroads Editor The Star: While our railroads are charging Prohibitive prices for the service L) they render, they are in a deplorable mn are not rail- plunderers, They took fine systems Wke the Rock Island and the W | bash and sucked them dry, leaving y them bankrupt. loaded them with debts, which presented nothing but water. One of tne greatest sys tems in the nation which was pay- generous dividends was wrecked of dollars in capital investments, but ‘exploiters 14! equal to the sums stolen thru fhe [oueer The Consumer's Confidence in +"SALADA’ Every Home Every home CAN music, Should Have, |j Music have good of all kinds, with this popular model VI Victrola. As a special indocement we offer the |} instrument with 10 selections on five doubleface records, record brush and needles for $39.35. Also Grafonolas and Edisons Chickering and Other Fine Pianos You pay it at the easy rate of Come and hear this fine instru “More Heat Per Dollar” BUY BELLINGHAM OR ROSLYN COAL QUICK SERVICE PHONE ELLIOTT 1409 Freeman & Lambdin Co. operations of men who made viet fortunes by methods that would put the train robber so far in the shade Editor The Star: After the disclosures made by the Tax Reduction council of the fads and extravagances indulged in by Kaiser Cooper, chief spender of the taxpayers’ money, and “the unmin takable demand of the public for re trenchment, we are in no mood for further “fads and frills,” yet it ap pears there are more to come. One of the latest is the organiza- tion of the “Opportunity Class’ in the Broadway high, This class is made up of those who were unable to overcome the obstacles put in their way by “supervised study” fads and Jack of real study time to gain Promotion to the high school, useful in covering up the failur our high-priced teachers to make good, and to teach deceit, ‘The greatest result will be to in- crease the cost of the attendance department, In March, 1918, the cost of this department, according to the records in Clerk Jones’ office, was Editor The Star: Tf it wasn't bn it would be amusing for the King county tax. payers to watch the game of mar. | bles being played by the port com. missioners, with no regard for the best Interests of the $15,000,000 in- vestment with which they have been entrusted, Marbles is @ game of earliest, irre. sponsible childhood, and When grown men resort to it, they are childixh. Last Wednesday was the firat reg: ular meeting the commission held in four weeks, The previous week they were in Vancouver; the week before the port convention was im session, and the week before that Colonel Lamping was absent; last Wednesday t commission “was full” and sat down tn a circle to play a kid's game. Commissioner Lincoln shot first. He suggested that inasmuch os Mr. Lamping had pleaded gulity to “not being able to take charge of any port department, the heads of the Cham- ber of Commerce and the Seattle Manufacturers’ aasociation be Invit- ed-to come in and tell them how to do the work for the performance of which they were clected. Mr. jet 2 me, EO On Buying N. W. | Editor The Star: T am buying a home in this) town. I have seen the Chamber) of Commerce's appeal to every: body to buy Seattle made goody. I buy condensed milk, cereal foods: in fabt, most everything 1 buy I try to have homemade and advise my wife to do the same. T hope the members of the Asso elated Industries see .thia, I be eve the feeling among working people is going along that line. To whom do the Associated Im dustries think they sell all their goods? -Over 69 per cert of the business they do comes from the Pocketbook of a unlon man and 20 per cent more from the union sympathizers, ‘They have started an orgy of union destruction instead of trying to influence their employes to chase the radicals by my EW that every man who belongs to a union More “Fads and Frills” Commissioners Admit Incompetence hs | THE | | that he would be classed as a dumb | bell and & rank outsider in crime, | DR. W, H. PITTWOOD. 65 per month, In March, 1021, the pet of this same department was 40, oF an Increase of almost 770 per cent, Ia it not time for this non- sense to stop? Mr, Editor, you may also note the execution of a careful campaign to create a demand for the installation of movies in the public schools. ‘This sould take not leas than $40,000 from the taxpayers to start with.» ‘To continue ? 7? ? ‘There is but one film producer pro dpeing educational filma, and they ale released at the rate of 1,000 feet a | week, which can be thrown on the screen in about 12 minutes’ time. Now, why waste this money? Give the pupils the three R's and what consistently goes with them, and send the fads and frills to thg “How pital for the Insane,” whe they may amuse and not consume the time required to obtain the funda mentals of education. Yours, A. T. AXPAYER. ing shot back: “Before we invite others to help us, let us first deetde | on the form of government we want --managerial or commission.” Mr Christensen shot: “I don't want « j Managerial form—I won't play that way.” Hach kid took his marbles back, ‘The game started over. Mr. Lincoln shot; “Inasmuch as Mr. Christensen has outlined plans | for retrenchment to the tune of} I move that we vote on! "Mr, Christensen shot “We can't Petrench until we reor ganixe.”” Mr, Lamping, in an aside to Mr. Christensen: “He is trying }to put us both in a hole-take your | medicine.” | Commissioner Lincoln shot again: | “It's the first time I bave heard of re-organization.” Bach kid took his marbles back. They went home. If it wasn't tragical, it would be amusing. But the King county port commissioners are playing a kid's game with a $15,000,000 investment beloniing to the taxpayers. ‘They ought to be spanked and put in a dark closet MAUDE SWEETMAN. W. Products attend every meeting until they do away with the radicals. Bighty-tive| per cent of unions ts conservative. [All the empleyer needs to do te jsay “You go to every meeting for the next six months,” and organized labor will cleanse itself, Organized | labor clean, but it has a lot of} i | SEATTLE STAR November 1-12 9 to 5 Daily , Auditorium, Fifth Floor _ Scheduled for Wednesday: An Important Selling of Philippine Envelope Chemises Hand- SPECIAL | Hand- fashioned embroidered $1.95 $3.95 $4.95 MUCH more lavish embroidery than has been customary for these prices is afforded in'this new importation of Philippine Checiocy-caill on excellent quality batiste and beautifully hand-scal- loped. Special $1.95 Camisole-top and regulation styles The camisole-top styles have ribbon of fine, closely-woven batiste, beau- shoulder straps and lower edge beau- tifully hand-embroidered as suggest- tifully hand-scalloped; the regulation ed in the sketch, and often with styles are hand-hemmed at bottom. designs in bak as well as in front. Special, $1.95. - ae dirty g oma und it that can be easily dix of. I hope this capital and labor war ceases before everything that is made in Seattle becomes boy- cotted at home and abread, for when that starts it will be one dead, man’s town. I came here with my family and $1,000; have worked steadily, spent every dollar I earned tn this town, besides investing what I brought. If things turn for the better I shall continue that way; if not, I shail soon liquidate and flee the threatened storm. AN EVERY DAY READER THE STAR. or A Sharp Answer for “Neutral” Editor The Star: I have always admired a person who, when he does not know any- thing, will ask questions, or those who will consult me about the sub- fect in question before trying to has Al down my throat, or the “oe oy ‘my admiration of these characteristics. common only to some of us, may I take the privi- lege of commending “The Neutral” if for nothing more than the humorous, way he has- of looking ata thing. (if humor it is.) How can you, Neutral, compare yourself with Patrick Henry? Was he not considered a great man? Or how can you compare’the present economic unrest now prevailing all over the world with th se times witnessed in the United States, pro ceding the war for independence in 1775? How can you term this govern- |ment by 100,000,000 people as | bureaucratic, oligarchy and par | waitor The Star: ‘The “Ringmaster,” the “An |nouncer,” Mr. Richardson and no doubt others have had, their say in your columns concerning the bankers, “our money,” tunemploy- |ment and collateral subjects. May I have a word on a phase of the subject hitherto untouched by any of the gentlemen mentioned? Hy all means let us be heard on this important subject! ‘Without the technical knowlédge apparently possessed by the “Ring: master,” or the learning on the subject of economics evidenced in the letter from the “Announcer,” I believe it to be pretty well un- derstood by the average layman that there is a very close rela- tionship between banking and the present depression, unemployment nd all that ts implied, but average man does not know just lhow to get at the matter and so goes struggling along, hoping, and, jin a vague sort of way, believing \that the government with its spe jcially appointed committees and | the like, will in some manner, some time, straighten it all out. The man Ho knows, or the man who feels in his bones that the banks are literally responsible for present conffMions; that they are unjust to local business in preferring outsiders as risks @© in- dustries of thelr own town, has been so impressed by the bankers and is, he fancies, so dependent upon them, that the “Fear of God” enters his soul whenever he thinks of a just rebuke or retaliation. Under our economic and bank- ing system the people have for #o long been trained to regard the banker as a superior sort of be ling-—one living on an elevated in- tellectual plane from the normal mortal—that he approaches him with something of awe in the at- titude of a supplant and a ones the} tisan, run by rapacious partisan politicians? Surely, Neutral, you must be jcking; if not, then you are crazy. If you deny that, then you have insulted evgry true American, an act for which I can term you as @ traitor, a detriment and an insult to this, the best country on earth. I am sure, Neutral, that if you had any sign of brain that you might mingle with this humorous imagination of yours, you would draw down a much larger wage than Warren Stone. For in this country men are paid $25,000 per year for what they know and can impart thru thelr knowledge for the benefit of the greatest number of people; never ar e they paid for what they can work out in their own way for their own mere selfish gains, Are you afraid or just ashamed, Neutral, to sign your name? There are several up my way who would like to know who you are, RALPH HANSEN. Psychology of the Bankers mind at work, for reduced to cold logic and analysis ‘the banker is but an ordinary—I may say very ordinary—being. He is not slow, however, to take advantage of the paychological facte—in fact he thinks there is really something to this, that he is entitled to all hom- age—is in’ a manner specially an- noihted—gifted with something & little above the ordinary degree of intelligence, expecially as regard to all_matters pertaining to business. The banker will turn down with a curt wave of the hand as un- worthy of consideration the propo- sition that the careful business- man may have spent months in planning, and his “thumbs up” or “thumbs down" forever fixes the merits or demerits of the proposi- tion. Asea matter of cold fact there is probably no class of men so abysmally ignorant, when it comcs to affairs outside their own par- ticular restricted circle, as the bankers. Their horizon is limited and their viewpoint restrigted; they do no know, nor are they capable of understanding, the position of the man on the outside, They possess what may be called, for lack of a more expressive term, cunning; they know how to figure cent per cent and are familiar with all the wires and springs that control the trap doors and sliding panels which are incident to the me they play, but when i comes to a general knowledge of fundamental things—well! they are simply not there, The boys who really know and figure out these intricate economie problems are the “high brow” college professors and the like, who are woefully un- derpaid, while the bankers and high financiers safe behind their |}mahogany desks and fat salaries apply the principles involved and take advantage of them without Special $3.95 Special $4.95 New and unusual patterns, beauti- Exquisite embroidery and lacy fully executed, almost cover the tops colada insets are combined in these of these dainty Chemises, and the charming Envelope Chemises in the hand scallops: that finish the edges manner suggested in the sketch— are centered with hand-embroidered distinetive styles of worthy trous- dots. seau or gift quality. —seconp rLoor TOMORROW AFTERNOON AT 2:30 The Second of a Series of Lectures by Mr. John L. 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First of all, it seem to. me, if We are to find a rem for pres- ent conditions and a preventive for their recurrance, we must rid ourselves of the superstition re- garding bankers. When they are divested of their halos and we ‘treat them as we would the ordinary “dub” who tries to sell us some/"bum” mining stock on @ ton of coal, we will ha¥e begun to get at the fundamental basis of a new start. As long as we insist on treating our banker as a financial god just so long he will be one. Yours for @ better understanding. THE WHIP, MONTREAL, Que.—-One person MILLIONS OF POUNDS * BOUGHT BY THE GOVERNMENT SAME PRICE. For more than 30 years WHY PAY WAR PRICES? 2601 Railroad Avenue meanor akin to™~réverance. is|really knowing why, treet cars col et Stn te carom | Leahey ide nel etd