The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 5, 1921, Page 6

a f i 1 | me PAGE 6 The By mall, out of 5.00, tn the state of for # montha or 09.00 per year, se Jobs---What’s in the Way seattlesS 8 Outside of Ry carrie: ‘ashington. Hundreds of jobs, according to L. B. Youngs, chairman of the board of public works, will be provided for Seattle's unemployed as soon as work is started on the pipe line construction in connection with the Swan Lake project. Sounds good, doesn't it? been approved by the city council. thorized. So what's in the way? Mr. Youngs continues: The project—a much-needed public improvement — has A $3,000,000 utility bond issue has been au- Let’s get to work—but, no; we can’t. “The project is held up by inability to market the bonds.” Seattle can’t market its bonds, The city’s not bankrupt. Far from it. There's plenty of cash lying around. Lots of it. Yet Seattle can’t market its bonds! It seems impossible. Yet there must be a reason. And there is. Investors are holding off because they can get promises of higher returns from out-of-town investments. . Which, when you come to think about it, is a peculiarly illogical argument. Because, after all, every Seattle investor's biggest interest is in Seattle. And Seattle cannot prosper so long as it has thousands of unemployed. So a few dollars a year of additional interest cannot counteract the depressing effect that outside investments have on general business conditions here. "It’s time somebody enlisted the banks in the Northwest Products movement. It’s just as important that we invest in home projects as it is that we buy home products. Tacoma Willing ‘to Co-operate @ront page editorial in Tacoma Times.) . Henry A. Rhodes was exactly Fight when he informed the visit- ing delegation of Seattle business i gtd yesterday (Wednesday) at ‘commercial club that Tacoma ig willing and anxious to cooper. aie with Seattle in working for betterment of the entire Pu- thirds as big as a gorilla. It's so much like a human that Malay natives gave it the name, orang- An economist says too much money makes a wo-. man unhappy. True—when her neighbors have it. “Elephants live 150 years.” And go to work when two years old. Let's hope Japan's policy of silence includes her guns. and the lever used by the caged monkey, If the orang-utan can figure eut ‘All that Tacoma wants is 9 “int Which means “man of the Gusstion of time until the jungle SQUARE DEAL from Seattle haiaasnd monsters will have their own "It is now very evident that Se- Orangutan in the New York automobiles. That is how man " attle wants co-operation, and has 400, wanting ¢o get out of its started. an honest desire to be fair to cage, hit on the idea of ripping bee ‘Tacoma. down its steel trapeze bar and How did man happen to dis Ta: cannot a from cover the lifting power ef the his treaty ‘eas 2 gi ad Te gaze bere eet Probably iis tler ie BY DR WILLIAM E. BARTON | ——] HERE ig @ place! some © of it, and the num- ber of those who do ts not as six- teen to one. And | this they did tell | me concerning one great mine where they now take forth silver and lead in great quantities. Eleven long years did they dig be- fore y found the silver, And they @ink much money and many hopes Refore they got back much of either, \For they digged a year upon ‘one lev4j, and made galleries to the fight hand and to the left. Then did y sink the mine deeper and run| leries Ukewise, And then did they dig in other directions, And when, at the end of eleven Years, their money having been well- nigh spent, they found silver, then| did they go back and try to discover why they had missed it before. Ana? they found that some of their dig. | ging had been upon the wrong level, and some of it had been in the wrong | direction, But one of their tunnels had been on the right level and in the right direction. And they went back to| Mt, and drilled yet again, to put in| “two or three good blasts, and, lo, the _aliver was there also, And they reckoned how long be fore they had wrought there, and they found that it ha4 been five years. And they measured the rock that had separated them from the silver when they abandoned that tunnel, and it was only five cubits, Now, if they had had onal faith as a grain of mustard seed and = few sticks of dynamite, they might have removed that mountain and be- gun to collect dividends five years sooner, And I considered, when they told) Me this, how ly men there be who | halt five cubits on the hither side of Buccess, when one more blast and a} little more faith would bring them their hearts’ desire. And I say unto a!l men who labor PARABLE OF THE SILVER MINE in a righteous cause not to be weary in well doing, for the reward is to where they mine him that overcometh. For the man for silver, and) who stoppeth five cubits this side of them | success hath many years of toil to rest en © smaller log thrust Hornaday, the oo's director. crowbar-fashion under the big log. “Finding that it didn't have U9 wens the big log, under his enough strength to use the lever, weight That mystery clung in i$ summoned another crang-utaa the primitive man's mind. Finally to help it.” he figured it out and applied it. Scientists now will debate wheth> The wedge principle probably er the erang-etan conceived the came te him by pondering how his wedgechaped teeth split s bene with casa And the wheel prinicple prob ably came when he sat on @ loose Freund stone and noticed ‘that it carried him with it easily when it rolled. Trotsky of New York certainly did make a name for himself, He has changed it to Travers. If Papafrangoes sticcceds tn bor- rowing that $88,000,000 for Greece he will be some sweet Papa. Women may not make their way, but they have tt. Cheaper farm produce will come to us if we mend our ways. Babe Ruth ts the highest paid in- who seek it find | ahead to make goog bis lack of faith.'fant prodigy in vaudeville. tapBook THE CAR OF HAPPINESS BY BERTON BRALEY A car of almost any kind, Rolls-Royce or Ford, is heaps of fun; For at the wheel of it you'll find Communion with the wind and sun. But there's one sort that brings a joy, Outdoing all the rest by far: Watch any little girl or boy : ‘Who owns and drives a kiddie-car, Its motor has a heap of pep (Two sturdy legs that make ft fly}, Pedestrians must watch their step And let the daring driver by; With whirling feet, with whizzing wheels, Undaunted by the bumps that Jar, The young speed-demon knows and feels The thrill that’s In a kiddie-car, ‘The motorist ts full of pride, A pride he plainly shows to you, But his conceit is naught beside The kid whose kiddie-car is new; And proudest of all folks amid This world where lots of proud folks are, Is be who owng that little kid Who owns and drives a kiddle-car. (Copyright, 1921, by Seattle star) Try This on Your Wise Friend What is the difference between twenty four-quart bot- tles and four and twenty quart bottles? Answer to yesterday's; A cat may look at a king. Praises Retsel Editor The Star: The Soldiers’ Home at Retsel ts under new management, ‘The writer wishes to state that he haa lately visited the home and found all the departments in fine sha) The new commander capable man, The grounds are being put into fine shape. A staff of men are at work beautifying the grounds, under the direction of @ landscape gardener, I saw the commander in- specting the work that was being done—new gutters and conduits, and inside the hospital new linoleum was betng laid on all floors, which has certainly brightened up the place, Dr. Newcomb, the home's doctor, fo held in high esteem, being kind Soldiers’ Home and always ready to respond quickly when called to a siclepatient The head nurse is kind, systematic, and most capable, I ate my meals in the dining ball; the food t# plentiful and well prepared under the direction of an educated dietician, The dining gentleman, I talked to quite a number of the inmates and they all expres#ed them selves ay well pleased with the food and general management, I also talked with the president of the W. FR. C., Mrs, Rice, She added her praixe to the management in general. MRS. BESSTE LEM, Fern Hill Station, Tacoma, Wn. The Case of One Man Editor The Star; Referring to a letter in The Star, signed by William Ormaby, 6953 24th 8. W., I wish té say that Mr. Orme by 9 registered in this aasoclation, also that there are over 7,000 other men with families registered here, And they all want the same thing, the opportunity to earn a living. I arm not trying to belitue Brother Ormsby's condition, but I do say that hia children are no worse off than thousands of others, and if they are suffering, it is his fault We have no job to offer bim, but ff his children need food, glothing, fuel or medical attention, if he will make hie wants known to this office, we| will see that they are provided for, and if there is any hold-up business Editor The Star: In The Star of Tuesday, November 1, I noticed an article telling of an old blind man of 60 years being sentenced to five years for stealing & saw and hammer to procure food I think thin ts outrageous, Necessary this organization will at tend to the details, 1 regret that The Star Is trying to obtain a job for an individual. What must be done is to create jobs for no lesa than 5,000 married men within the next %0 days, and an other 5,000 by January 1 To do this may increase taxes, but it also takes taxes to hire police, to |pay the state troops, to build jails | to feed prisgners, and if you shoot |us the taxpayer will pay the bill So, Mr. Taypayer, don’t worry: you will get yours right where you al ways got It whether you build jails or boulevards, or parks, or high | ways, or buy Liberty bonds for 100 cents and sell them for 87. W. R. ALLEN, Secy., Association of Unemployed. I think It is time for the people lof this country, thru The Star, to make a protest. Yours for humane treatment. EB. C, BETTEYS. Box 232, Toppenish. “Main Street” a Public Service Editor The Star: The Star is doing a great public service in publishing the greatest plece of fiction written in America the last 25 years, “Main Street.” The man who said, “I care not who writes the laws, #0 I can write the songs,” knew what he was talking about, for, believe me, legislators who time-serve the robber clas may make what laws they pleane to hold the people in subjection, the singer of songs and the teller of tales will set all thelr puny plans at naught in the end, and the day of the singer wi! be long after the lawmaker ts Light Rates Editor The Star: 1 would suggest that you send an investigator to the east, shore of Lake Washington; be can learn something here about high rates for electric power that will give you a real tasue. Over here tn Bellevue where I tive @ great many people have had to guarantee the Puget Sound Light Co, $36 per year for three years to wet service at all. If we had the city rate of 2%c per K. W. we would certainly think it great As it is, Blames Dry Law for Ills Editor The Star: What is the matter with America? Why are four million of her people out of employment? Is it true this condition was brought about by the aftermath of war? The United States was not Injured by the war, It is not the war that j hae hurt the United States, but her own foolish, tion. No country can destroy billions of Invested capital, turn millions of her citizens out of employment and ex- pect to promper, The liquor industry was one of our temperamental legisia- | forgotten. | Let me refer W. 8, Charles of Elma, whore letter appeared in The | Star of October 28, to Wes Branigan jon page 228, of “Main Street,” to | some truth—bitter, but truth just the | same. T say this as a nativeborn Amert can who voluntarily took up arms \for the glory of the country I was | born in, but of which I own nothing. My ancestors as far back as I have record of were Adam and Eve, who lacked a lot of being 100 per cent American, T. E. WALSH, $306 Twenty. sizth N. W. cross the Lake we are paying & cents per K. W. I would suggest to you that if yOu must find something to eriti clwe, get a real ispue; don't start on the best managed enterprise the citteens of Seattle own. Constructive newspapers are what Seattle needa. There are plenty of knockers without your helping them along, The Times can take care of the knocking part of the work; It's ite epecial line. Yours truly, D. D. DOBRINS, Bellevue, Wash. (roe commercial asecta. At one fell swoop, by an emotional vote, we destroyed a great employer of labor, without preparation for Peemploy- ment Many of those deprived of their means of livelihood were too old to learn new trades. The war saved an |immediato collapse, but the war is | Over and we now suffer from the ef: fects of undigested prohibition. Let |us use @ little common sense, repeal | the Votstead act, and make liquor pay @ large proportion of our taxes, get back to normal and there wil! be no unemployment to grouch about, GLOBE TROTTER, A Case of Soldier Neglect Editor The Star: 1 read in your paper with interest the article, “Veterans Wait on Red Tape,” so I thought, perhaps, I might also add a similar case, Last spring, about March, a young man was taken to Cushman hospital, and later to Port Townsend. He was the sole support of myself and his lite boy. I am his stepmother, J am past 60, and not strong, and the boy is 6 years old. The child was without shoes and clothing all summer. Then came the rainy weather, and still no help, Then a Our Electric Editor The Star: In regard to The Star's reomnt articles concerning electric light rates to Seattle homes, permit me to call your attention briefly to the fol- lowing facts and figures: City light department started by bond issue March 4, 1902. Residence light rates under private concerns $0.20 per kilowatt hour. Rate re- duced then to $0.12 K, W. H. by private concerns and to $0.10 K. W. H. in 1905, when the city light plant began operations. The city light rate at first was 90.08% per K. W. H., in 1911 re duced to $0.07 a K, W. H. then, in 1912 to $0.06, These reductions were met, of course, by corresponding re- ductions in the privately owned con- cerns, These rates were further re- duced to $0.055 K. W. H. and later restored to $0.06 K. W. H., when the cost of materials and wages rose, Now, Mr. Editor, in the face of these reductions, can you pronounce the city light or its management anything but an unqualified success? Lat us have all the facts please; give the people of Seattle the rates from Everett, Spokane, Bellingham and ate corporations. In the face of an average increase of nearly 70 per cent in living and materials do you think the rates have gone up much? Your paper costa 100 per cent more than it did a few years back, why? Gas is 60 per cent higher, phone rates higher, carfare higher. The only reason electric service isn’t higher ts be cause Seattle has its municipal light department competing with the pri- vately capitalized concern. It’ is, indeed, too bad the water won't stay up during daylight hours jand run down thru the hydro-clec- other municipalities served by | kind lady gave him shoes, and still he cannot go to school, as he has not the proper clothes. He caught cold and was sick for two weeks. I have ho money to buy bread, much lesa to buy medicine, and still no help comes. Tho last few days the Red Cross has done what it could, but right now this boy and myself have no fuct, and no money to buy any, The rent is not paid for more than a month. If it had not been for the kindness of a Filipino boy, I don't know what 4 would have done. MRS. MARY BURGER, Bremerton, Wash. Light Bills Seger This capacity must be at jalt times large enough 6 meet the maximum demand (peak load”) re- quirements of its consumers. This load comes on but a few hours a day, the rest of the 24 hours the lines are under-loaded. It is, there. fore, good business and common practice for a central station to make rates for “off-peak” daylight hours which will attract consumers anti fill the hollows in its “load curve.” Also it costs as much to address mail and read meters on a small house as on a factory. This overhead expense must always be reckoned with. It is not to be presumed The Star intentionally distorts the facts of the case. Neither, may I add, ts it to be presumed that the Star editors or re- porters are qualified as power plant superintendents. If Mr. Armstrong were as wise in electrical lines as Mr, Ross it is doubtful whether he would follow reporting as @ life voca- tion. Why not give moré of your atten. tion to getting out a good paper and leave Mr, Ross to run the city light department? Past experiance, and its growth to 65,000 customers, seem to warrant the assumption he is capable, Tacoma has a monopoly for its city electric plant of all Nght. etc. on residences. And its newspapers help Tacoma, Wouldn't it be fine if Seattle had? Yours very truly, GEORGE F. COOPER, City Light Employe. Admittedly, the Seattle light de. partment has been, in the main, beneficial and successful. Because of this fact The Star has always \trie machinery only at night; water jis so constituted, however, that it won't do it, An electrical machine, wire, plant transmission line can carry only Its championed {ts cause, However, the light department ts neither faultless nor sacred. And if it is not living up to the full meas. ure of its possibilities, it is open to hall is directed by @ mont courteous | : M (Continued From Yesterday) “Will, this is—1 must get this straight. Some one said to me the other day that in towns like this, on more than in cities, all the doc tors hate each other, because of the money—" “Who said that’ “It doesn't matter.” “I'll bet a hat is was your Vida Sherwin, She's a brainy woman, but she'd be a damn sight brainier if she kept her mouth shut and din’t let 60 much of her brains come out that way.” “wmt O Will! That's Aside from the vulgarity Some ways, Vida is my best friend, Even it whe had said it, Which, as a | matter of fact, she didn't He reared up bie thick shoulders, in absurd pink and green flannelette horrible! pajamas, He sat straight, and irri tatingly enapped bis fingers, and | growled: “Well, if whe didn’t say ft, let's |forget her, Doesn't make ference who said it, any Just oriticlem. Why are its light rates to house- wives 60 to 100 per cent higher than in Tacoma? The Banker’s Side of It Editor The Star: Commenting on the recent letters published {n The Star about the banks of Seattle and admitting the logic advanced, |, ¢., that a failure to loan to local merchants necessar ily curtalis business activity, still a word may be said on the other side. The average man, including the merchant and manufacturer, proty ably has no conception of the trials of the bankers, and it would scarcely be good business or good policy for the banks to divulge to every dis gruntied customer, or to every ap- plicant for a loan, the real reason for this recent restriction of banking credits, The bankers may, for all mont of us know about it, have been pretty busy keeping their own fences in repair and tight against a possible catastrophe. Perhaps con- ditions have been even more acute than most of us imagine, and the banks felt impelled not only to keep their money on hand or where they could get It quickly to meet some threatened emergency, but to collect inaxmuch es possible on old or past due paper. Of course, these things work a hardship on joeal enterprise, but 1 doubt if conditions have been any ‘worse In Seattle than elsewhere. It must be remembered that a return to “normalcy” involves retrenchment and getting back to earth, The banks had probably been too liberal in the past—in and Immediately after war Umes—and as a result that they have been obliged to carry heavy burdens—extending and extending in the hope that their heavy creditors Editor The Star: ‘There are various views concern- ing the American Legion, and the general impression seems to be that the American Legion is taking a light and impersonal interest in the coming disarmament conference. I am an ex-service man who saw service in the fromt Lines of the Meuse, Argonne and Mlanders. It’s unbelievable that any man who has been thra what the men of the Le- gion have can look at the disarma- ment conference nonchalantly. cannot stand still and refuse to par- Ucipate in the worlds movement for peace, Gen, Pershing sald: “Civilization may be destroyed unless the U. 8. takes the leadership in calling a dis- WOMAN AVOIDS . Star, N. C.—“My, monthly spells gave me so much trodbie, pan Be com they would last two weeks. I was treated by doctors without relief and they both said I would eperetion, 'Thed opera: my trouble four and ing that Lydia EB. table Comy ol to suffering women even efter have gone so far that an surell pay any woman who oud surel woman wi! ‘rom olgh eitmacts to try it, Presbyterian Church Seventh and Spring 11:00a.m.—“The Holy Spir- it Glorifying Christ” 3:00 ¥ m.—Great Mass Meet- ing Noa’ Sermons by Rev. A. B. Winchester D. D, LL. D. of Toronto, Ont. Great Song Service at 7:15 Public Is Cordially Invited to the Services The Story of Carol Kennicott BY SINCLAIR LEWIS Caprright, 1920, Harcourt, Brace & Howe, Ine. . | don't_ smoke, To American Legion He! point is that you believe it, God! To think you don’t understand me any better than that! Money!’ (This is the first real qnarre! we've ever had,” she was agonizing.) He thrust out kis long arm and watched his wrinkly vest from a chair, He took out a cigar, a match We towed the vest on the floor, He Ughted the cigar and puffed savage ly. He broke up the mateh and mapped the fragments at the foot board. She suddenly saw the footboard of the bed as the footboard of the grave of love. The room was drab-eolored and i-ventilated—-Kennicott did not “be Meve in opening the windows #o darn wide that you heat, all out doors,” The stale air seemed never to change, In the light from the hall they were two lumps of bed clothes with shoulders and heads attached. She begged, “IT didnt mean to wake you up, dear. And please You've been smoking (Turn to Page 11, Column 1) ‘Why 1s its rates for electric ranges two and a half times as high? Why ts its heating rates five times as high? EDITOR. | would be able to unload at figures that would enable them to at* least pay off the bankas. It is too well | known to be considered a secret that |the banks have carried and are now carrying a lot of just such paper— “war babies"-—and as this paper can | not be paid by rapid liquidation with- |Out some one getting stung, and as even the big reserves carried by the ‘banks generally would pot warrant |it being written off as a loss, the banks just hang on and try to find ; ays and means where their slow | customers can clean up without an avalanche of failures. | As to their exporting money’ | While that is true, why not? As I have tried to point out, while carry: ing the loads they have been carry: ing, they could not take 4 chance on any more slow loans and still they |must make money to meet overhead and pay dividends, and when condi- tions do not permit of their making any profits in the normal way—that is, legitimate banking—why shouldn't they turn their hand to whatever safe method that offers of accom. plishing the same thing? The pur- chase and sale of safe bonds, while in a measure a brokerage business and not commercia! banking. {s none &@ good business and, I be- profitable one. ‘The merchants, and all the rest of the business people of: Seattle, have been experiencing depressed times, and wo bave the bankers. Their path has been none too easy without add- ing to their hardships by all this cridcism. Yours very truly, CONSERVATIVE. tousied | Mee. years in t letter by “M don held “About @ year ago @ mag another up in Walla Walla, after getting only 59 cents, told vietim that he was sorry he |to do it, that he was out of and was starving. him if he would call at his the next day, he would give hims job. The man showed up, and the victim turned him over to the, He was sentenced to penitentiary."—From @ in The Star, To Governor Hart: Dear Governor, It seems to you ought to set this fellow free, geezer up, it’s true, but now what we would do, The victim we a jobless, friendless bloke, unaided, starved and broke, Why give him five years in can because he showed a falth Why punish him because thought he'd get the work Is justice but a that punishes for Faith And what about the lied—was his an act to view Are we to praist the bird who violates his given when Life is built upon the confidence of man in man? For life is very tough at time: many kinds crimes; and who shall say that must shun the guy who gets it with @ gun, and call it but a noble deed to double-cross a man in need? — So, while you're handing pardons out, here's one more man to and I would ask it boon, to let him out—and soon; it’s not an awful task to I'd gladly do as much for you! man? sought? pride? and there about; petty and man ¥ 7 ee ee Men armament conference to prevent fu- ture war.” The influence of the American Le gion thruout the country is unques- tioned Let's have an active cam- paign on the part ef the American Legion to influence the people of the U. S. and the world for a move- ment toward disarmament and peace. ry banners expressing views to wards disarmament in the Armistice \day parade on November 11. A PVT. OF THE 91ST. Full course dinner, The, at Boldt’s, Served & to 8 p. m.—Advertisement. Men of the Legion: Why not car. |j ! Safe Way. Safe method. Safe Ways to Send Money Take no chance of losing the money * you send to foreign countries—use*a It is easy to deposit funds here and receive in return a draft that no one can cash but the person to sent; or this bank will f money by post remittance—the other Better be Safe than Sorry. Let us explain before you forward money. Foreign Department Dexier Horton | National Bank. Second Ave. and Cherry St. i SEATTLE om it is your i a ee ag gee gs t © a C i t PS ae ee a aa eee Paw e bhedcea & . r B r 1 I I I r T t I :