The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 3, 1921, Page 6

esos ses Newspaper En- terprise Asma, and@ United Prese Service policies, .aid from that department. ington. The reason is POLITICS! in wrecked health! *\ count on you. es . The “Old Guard” for @ montha oF 99.00 per year, Ex-service men suffering from tuberculosis resulting from gas-burned lungs are re- fusing to go to the United States veterans’ hospital at Cushman, near Tacoma, be- cause they know months will pass before they begin to receive federal pay known as hospitalization money for their families. ” Hundreds of veterans are in doubt as to the standing of their government insurance Scores of service men are being cared for by non-government, unofficial organiza- tions, tho the government supported veterans’ bureau was founded for and is sup- posed to handle these cases. Delays, delays and more delays in the Washington, D. C., office of the veterans’ bureau are destroying what little confidence the veterans still have in the promise of Tiy carrier, city, & ; Red tape, bad business methods and rankest incompetence seem to prevail in Wash- Politics at the expense of the men who went overseas, or soldiered in bad encampments, or aboard ship, and who are now paying the price Col. Forbes, when you. were appointed, the nation felt that you would put your heart into this work and GET RESULTS. Either you do not know the facts and the feeling of the service men, or you are powerless, thru politics, to change conditions, _ Bat a chase must be made, Col. Forbes. The Legion posts thruout the country still And just this word to Vice President Coolidge, who addressed the national legion | ‘convention at Kansas City Monday. You said that President Harding would rather | sacrifice his own welfare than that of the veterans. Well, now is the time to sacrifice something, for the sick veterans need the help of their government and HUNDREDS ARE NOT GETTING IT. Yea, verily, a wooden leg.is more to be desired than a grouch, for ye man of ye wooden leg shall The “Old Guard” tn the Unica OUlstrip ye grouchy man in ye walks of life-—G. finish. . . peor Some political plums are grafted. spelibind- “MY NEEDLE SAYS” BY HAZEL HALL THE SEATTL LETTERS TO EDITOR Ross’ Explanation “Satisfactory’ Editor The Star: It woome to mo that The Star could | easily find real scandals to air, with: | out affronting the public with an at tack on an eminently successful mu nicipal undertaking. Tho attack on the olty Nght de partment's attempt to dispose of sur- plus power hag all the marks Bf be- ing ® play for applause from a sup. powedly ignorant public, I have used an electric range for several years, and find {t more eco nomical than gua, and superior in many respects, Perbaps Mr, Arm strong doesn't know how to use his, Superintendent Ross’ explanation seoms Very satisfactory, in view of| the unfair manner in which The) Star presented the case, and no one cares whether Mr, Armstrong is a ar or not, Very truly yours, JOUN DAVIS, 441 24th Ave. N. Mr. Davia, please get this matter straight. ‘ The Star has not “attacked* the city Nght department; The Star has for many years defended and backed | and alded tif city light department, and for many years to come will do the same, Mr. Adams Editor The Star: The clubwomen of Seattle will tead with some surprise the speech of Karl F, Adama, principal of Lincoln high school, Seattle, in which he claims credit for the Northwest Products show in the Arena last spring as belng entirely due to the teachers. It was a cooperative affair, but it was gotten up, orignially, by the clubwomen under the direction of Mrs. Claire Ketcham Tripp, and was the result of @ most strenuous and exhausting campaign on their part, for which they received un- stinte@ praise, which they earned. While the teachers played @ promt nent part in the work to which they stimulated the children, for them to claim the entire credit without any mention of the origi nators of the scheme, ts evidence of a spirit of unfairness and a lack of generosity that we would not expect to find in such a pre sumably intelligent body of cith zens. Among other things Mr. Adams says: “The business men of Seat- te, with their better understanding of the schools, are studying them constructively, and when the call comes to Seattle to support her schools more generously, she will respond—and the more generously because the schools themsclvee— pupils and teachere—have made that response more easily posable.” ‘Thin comes as a surprise to th? taxpayers, because it has been thought that amongst themselves, the limit of generosity had been reached, and that it was quite time that @ little generosity on the part of the teachers might be given « HARD WORK And so ts hard mental labor, the harder the better, Most of our work is not hard enough. It does not com- pel us to do our best. But worry will kill any man who lets it prey upon him. The man who can work and sleep, and not worry, will never die In the insane asylum, and is not likely to de in the poorhouse. from overwork, no matter how hard be works, Work is a great blessing, and most of us do not do enough of it to keep as healthy an we ought to be. yest works himself to death. And no one ought to worry him- welt to death, Tt does not pay. secant mat bw E STAR In criticising the city light depart ment’s household electric rates, The | Star presents the matter in a purely constructive manner, We want to seo lower household rates, for the good of the average consumer in Se attle, and for the good of the light department, The quesiton is not whether you) can use an electric range more; cheaply than you can gas; the ques- tion fe whether the city is furnishing you electricity for that range as cheaply as it ought. You pay 2% cents a kilowatt hour for your electricity for that purpose. If you lived in Tacoma, you would buy it for ONE CENT. If you use city electricity for wa ter heat, you pay 2% cents; In Ta coma, you would buy eurrent for that purpose for ONE-HALF CENT. For your electric lights you pay @ half more to double what the Taco- ma householder pays. In view of these FACTS, The Star cannot agree with you that “Super intendent Ross’ explanation seems very satisfactory.” Satisfactory to whom? Certainly not to Seatule con sumers—EDITOR the Clubwomen working chance. This ts giving notice of what the overburdened taxpayer may expect, | so it might be as well for the 0. T. to begin to do @ little de fensive talking. This gentleman who is expecting more generosity recetves the comfortable salary of $591.66 a month-—$4,700 @ year—no income tax, lives outside the city! limite—so don't even make that much of & contribution to his owa large salary as the tax on his own) home—has only five working days & week of six or seven hours, #0 that he can devote considerably more time to improving his subur- ban home than the ordinary busi- ness man-—and counts only 20 days to a month, with two whole months, or in reality 10 weeks, for @ vacation and all time geting bis ealary of per month. Don't the taxpayers (think this) would be @ good time to discuss the idea of paying the teachers for the time they work? They are very fearful of @ reduction of sal ary, so here's where they could display their generosity, cut ont the two months’ pay and they would still be quite comfortable! Do you hear an awful noise? Uttle Diapepsin occasionally keeps! powerful Well, the taxpayers my how much/ this delicate organ regulated, and! against ignorance the world has some of our officials shall get, as| take care of your liberal limit with-| ever known.” out fear, If your stomach doesn't for Instance, the city council shall consist of nine members, elected) for a term of three years, and get) $3,000 per year. They have tried several times to raise the ante, but) It couldn't be dome, and when the, 4cid ls Pape’s Diapepsin, which coats | achools to the methods of a hundred ‘ah basgee2 come for the people to set the, price that they can pay. They/ have been generous, but when they | find that by their generosity they have only created @ great, big! autocracy, which is more inter-| all others in Delicacy and Fragrance. "SALAD A" TEI A. SEALED PACKETS ONLY : was in is misdirected. For results, bat- ‘ republican majority Cron ‘he {etlow whe wells the tle for beautification, not elim in the it would not surren- should have saved Ais war wages to =—Btlon, of billboards, No reasen | der, either, any vestige of the In- some profiteer who didn't give him Why « billboard couldn't be made a j la soca Fy merican = as beautiful as a famous paint- ‘pbout masers ef capital ing or s sunset, _ It would not surrender, bat ta Mey not the Ku Kius Klan be @ |the clections of 1912 16 died, and snique plan to rid the market of © ) a thes em uieag Ot Hf 08 ‘the United States had eight years '2! of ightahirts which were reie- “ard ‘et Wisen php [agp neneng.. slg asa years pajomas!—. 9 _ publican minorities the senate ; : —- sccutemed te ~=Smoke Begins OF ae atin reputticans (0 Pour BY DR. WILLIAM E. BARTON | again got sen- _ Businces ie better, says the HL HAVE heard ef; Riga tw the ©. Frick Coal Ce, branch of the uw men working! i ola 1920, U. 8 Steel corporation. It ae det hA LY when ever. ‘starts up 1250 coke ovens, know- not not think I whelming of republicans ing that it soon will have mar- have ever known orm oe het for tt of fu omy. Ss . In » moment of exultation, the When steel industry begins to good many men! “Old Guard” was tempted to sing PFick ap its ears, general bust who had died) ati gprs endl ness is ready te climb out of from what was bed. overwork, | guard dies but it never sur- but I doubt the/ “3 Farmers often pray for rain. diagnoats. But before the music was well ‘iY people should pray for Work 19 goed for mon. It does Sunder foe smoke—the sure and enly sigh | 10t kil! them, and they can ¢o more way a new appeared, of industrial . of it than most of them do. _ Mot om the democratic side ef the — I believe fully that most men could » aisle, nor yet en the republican, g se do much mcr work and be better feinle calls reparation “Wiel for it, ‘but on beth sides; a “bloc” of sen ott Wark is good for body and brain. ators from agricultaral states, But work, combined with worry, “who had, It appeared, ideas of kills mep, and worry without work “their own about the way the gov- kills them faster, ? I never advise men not to work farument should ‘bo Fun. The thing that troubles the coun- | hard. but 1 do advine them to vary ‘The republican majority of the ped og the unemployment adhe wees: On nae Sorry about it. finanee committee, remnant of ti t the idleness of the 1 do not talk on this matter whoil “O16 Guard,” had ing: a ne American | a8 4 theorist. I know what bark brought eabervian work fs I ha r livt irevenue bill of which it was very beta hands. Tt aid = pir 4 . proud. 5 ¢ long, hard days which for th 0 The Billboard years T put in upon a farm bave besa Ufelong blessing to warning that no such bil could Problem The hours were eas. Five o'clock pass. More agitation against bill- {n the morning found u: “l at Did the “Old Guard” man its boards, this time an organized || ¥°TK, and wo were still at it when guns and bravely shout: “The old movement in Massachusetts, vb ay dark. Tt did not hurt us guard dies, but it never surren- It ts not pleasant te the eye | found ‘cos ay jot aoe recnl em < ig lg pes age senses, to find a Hard physical labor is good for men. THE PRICES This poem won the $100 prize offered for young poets in Poetry Magazine. it was one of a group of poems, “Repetitions,” mostly in honor of that very feminine instrument, the needle. Miss Hall 4s an invalid who has _ earned her living with this instrument, and knows whereof she speaks. } : My needle says: Don’t be young, | Holding visions in your eyes, | Tasting laughter on your tongue; Be very old and very wise, d sew a good seam up and down In white cloth, red cloth, blue and brown. i: : The many seams they have to do In white cloth, red cloth, brown and blue? _ © etd This on Your Wise Friend e years ago, yet made today, employed while others sleep; which none would want none woul care to keep. What is it? nn Answer to youterday's: Neither; 11 and 7 and 9 are 27—not 28, THIS PAPE H. SILVER & CO. JEWELERS (7. } QUITS BUSINESS Be on Time—Be in Line—It’s a Thriller My needle says: What is youth ‘e ing fa an the truth; aM di Lips that call, hands that shun tuna TOMORROW EVERY LEAF PURE ns NIGHT |true Americanism! And it should) cwted in protecting what they bay got, and in reaching out for more that instead of inerensed efficiency, there is only gross extravagance, introduction of expensive fads that prevent the children from learnin The Movie in Queen Anne School | Editor The Star: Owing to a wide diversity of opinion concerning motion picture) machines In the schools, I have been asked many questions regard ing therm. The motion picture machine tn the West Queen Anne school, ao curately speaking, is the property| of the children and the teachers The movement to purchase it was sponsored by the Parent-Teacher association, but the funds were raised by the children. I understand this is true regard- ing 11 other grade schools in Be attle. Not one machine has been purchased by the school board. Most of the money was raised thru the sale of old newspapers and magazines, Here is where the first value of| our motion picture machines be | gan, the splendid spirit exhibited | lw the children They had a cause in common for which to work. And that first sale! Little children left home with loads they could not have carried two blocks, others came to their resoue, and a he!p- ing hand extended, regardicss of} the social or financial position of the other child Wagons were piled high #o that some must hold the load steady while others pulled. A wonderful epirit of team work! The spirit of “Diapepsin” for Bad Stomach, Indigestion Take rupees Diapepsin now! In five minutes your stomach feels fine. Don't bother what upset your stom- ach or which portion of the food did the Gamage, If your stomach is sour, gaasy and upset, and what you} just ate bas fermented Into stubborn lumps; head dizzy and aches; you! belch gases and acids and eructate | undigested food—just take a little} Pape's Diapepsin, and ip five min- utes you Wonder what became of the Indigestion and distress, Millions of men and women today know that it fa needieas to have a bed stomach. A take care of your liberal limit wtih- out rebellion; if your food is a dam- age instead of & help, remember, the quickest, eurest, most harmiem ant: | only sixty cents for a large case at drug stores.—Advertisement. for service. EARNINGS OF T THU any thing ond favoritiem, that the bane of afl autocracy, th payers must find their voices an | epeak up. AN OVERBURDENED TAX PAYER be remembered our schools are the heart of our democracy. How proud the children { The barement of the building was like! the proverbial Thanksgiving Gons-| tion to the country parson, when | his parishioners all brought cab-| bages. | There were papers to the right of them, = Papers to the left of them, Papers in front of them, Stacked up by hundreds. ‘This dale netted them nearty $240. Every one had helped, #0 every one was interested and the remainder of the payments were easily met. The school board furnished the fireproot booth. Our principal so cured « license to operate the ma- chine. Our manual training in structor also has an operator's lb conse. Bo there ts no expense for & trained operator. To cover the rental of films a small admission fee is charged for the oo casional films which are shown after school, These are called recreational or pleasure films by the children, and | a child’s attendance ts optional. Many parents make this attendance rest on the degree of proficiency which the child bas attained in his regular work, These filme are all censored by a committee from the Parent-Teacher association. Kdueational filma have | sem fhe answered me, “1 been shown during the Monday morning assembly, The school rec ords show that tardiness so preva- lent on Monday has decreased to @ minimum. ‘The statement has been made that motion pictures are not really help- ful to education, The United States government used motion pictures and slides to a large extent during the war, Charies W. Duke says that six million feet | of film made during the war did [more to educate the people to the! necessity of food conservation and the needs of our soldiers than any other agency. Our own Chamber of Commerce has films setting forth the ad vantages of Seattle both from a scenic and an industrial etandpoint. The State college at Pullman has over 60 filma which are loaned at Uttle more than the cost of trans portation, Dr. John James Tigert, United States commissioner of education, says: “Bighty-five per cent of all our knowledge comes to us thru the ageney of the human eye... . With- in that celluloid film Mes the most weapon for the attack If we do not feel ft is good bust- ness to go back to the ox team for transportation and the hand loom in! the home for our clothing, why should we wish to relegate our years ago? Go into our schosts, study the Diversity of Industry As Safety Factor Puget Sound Power & Light Company's | Eight Per Cent Five-Year Gold Coupon Notes Dated September 1, 1921; Due September 1, 1926—Price Par, Plus Interest Sizes $100, $500 and $1,000 YIELD 8 PER CENT The Dexter Horton National Bank of Seattle, Trustee THE EARNINGS of this Company come from the sale of public necessities—power, light, transportation, gas, heat, etc. | —the demand for which is constantly increasing. Manufacturing plants, smelters, coal mines, flour mills, paper mills, cement plants, canneries, lumber mills, pumping’ and irrigation projects, street railways, interurbans and rail- ways, homes and farms, chicken ranches, street lights, stores, offices, business houses and residences DEPEND UPON US DEMAND IS SO DIVERSIFIED THAT DEPRESSION. ‘IN ANY ONE LINE, OR EVEN IN SEVERAL LINES § OF INDUSTRY, CANNOT SERIOUSLY AFFECT THE §) HIS COMPANY. Our Eight Per Cent notes are a safe security because of | this diversity of business back of them. | SDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1921, Dear Folks I went to bed the other night, and soon was sleeping sound ang ; tight, and sawing wood to beat the [hand beneath the trees of slum |berland, when suddenly I beard @ |sound that made me waken with la bound, 4 I told the wife, “Beyond a douht | there's someone prowling round jabout; Il bave to go, I'm sure of that, and get the gun—where is # really fear it’s im the Kitchen close, dear.” And as I clambered out of bed | my hair was rising on my my stomach felt a Uttle fi, atmosphere was very chill, knees shook like a pair of Gea and both my feet wero cold as ice. I navigated down the stain te catch the burglar unawares; braced my feet upon the floor, and tried to pull the kitchen door; and then I nearly had a fit—I coulést open it @ bit! The reason was—T blush to because my foot was in the end when at last I had get my hands upon the made so many dishes founded like a boiler And then, with courage bora ~ ext am iu i 3 R weed ght, and found the woke us up was just a friendly pup! 80 thought behind your greatest enemy is Fear, Cirridge ye ws methods and work from all angica, with the ut co-operation Anne school MRS. ALAN W. ESHELBY, President West bes Ps —_ OUR OFFER Notes in limited amounts may, if desired, be purchased by paying fF order and the balance in nine monthly payments, we detaining the a bi final payment is made. Interest at 6% will be allowed on installments paid. Améunts paid may be withdrawn at any time before final payment is made, in} which case 4% interest will be allowed. Fuller information may be obtained at any office of this Company CONSULT YOUR BANKER Puget Sound Power & Light Ce Seattle Bellingham 4 Tacoma Everett