The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 7, 1921, Page 10

THE SEATTLE STAR | Auto Bandits Work | on Renton Highway PROFITS IN Ae esr ek — “=| Workers Control Five}]f Seattle Theatres 4 MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1994 a PAGE 10 —— =, M MOUNT HIGH King County Gets | | Federal Road Aid THE PESSIMIST Under the new federal highway Bootlegger ‘Tells How He poet eo Nothing ts good and nothing quite right jaa law, King county will receive . j Charity’s bad—dead wrong about $170,000 of the apportionment Made $30,000 in 18 | etna to fn ne ray a ah state, according to county Workers’ United Theatres Ten Per Cent Dividend Months of Booze Selling | Ho always sce tears in every smile, pe Sy ng IC i | cea aaeeliies tae |1op a new ieee panned Secure Five Prominent Paid Stockholders Last (Copyright, 1921. by The Seattle Star) Within his heart like potsoning bile | The ease and comparative safety of bootlegging, and the huge profits made by individuals and gangs illicit ly selling liquor, have been At everyone else's good works— This Pessimist. | His shadow ts cast o'er a |Democrats Discuss Government Waste | Seattle Motion Picture Houses Year on Operation of Class A Theatre Alone in preceding articies in The Star | And see the good he is & These facts were obtained in & But always the first Waste in county administration — i mational investigation by Newspaper To @ the worst and tax reduction were discussed t ww y , on ia ati Enterprise association service of | With never a friend in a world so vast— @ mesting Geterday of the King EW events have F TER operating been of greater in- Class A Theatre only about six months Seattle the collapse of the prohibition en forcement machinery | Supplementing these facts is the personal story, presented here, of a Dootlegger who in 18 months made $30,000 profit. / This man is 30 years old, a former boxer and later a restaurant owner. He went into the bootlegging busi- | ess during 1920 This is his own story, @ descrip- tion of operations that might easily be the story of the career of hun This man—accurst! | But e’en for this man, with a soul so dead, Who ne'er a good deed can boast. Who never as yet has offered 4 shred Of hope, or has given a toast To the bright success of bis fellows and kin, Or ever been Charity’s host It tan't too late even now to begin In the work that his country loves most— And bury the shame Of a loathsome name— And one that we hate like sin land Beneca st THE PESSIMIST. | to express approval will be held Friday | County Democratic club. |Disarm Mass Meet in Seattle Friday) A mass meeting of Seattle citizens! of arms by international agreement | | First Baptist church at Harvard ave Veace day was observed in the city} | | of the limitation | at § p.m. at the terest to the public than the transaction COLONIAL—Located at 1515 dreds of bootleggers like him. He} : i | unday by & majority of the told it onty under pledge that his Be a booster for the $750,000 Community Chest Fund. j ’ er fot TS y Ches' “ |churches, where hopes for the suc-| "ou: Sea’ Mame wouldn't be revealed. ean of the disarmament conference | Fourth Avenue, ttle “when I started bootlegging my | — capital was $5,000. 1 bought an au-/ tomobile, set aside $2,000 to buy | officers Lend a hand! from bothering us in Washington, D. C. | re Ja good business man himself. Capt “Pay of fixers range from $5 to $10 for each case of Liquor they} help us to obtain. | “When I first went Into the boot-) Hlegging business, I got most of my; stuff from another city. But crooks! My profits averaged $30 a case, or $2.50 a quart. “My business has grown, Today I have three fast automobiles and I employ drivers. The most reputable men in town are my regular cus-/ tomers and they are constantly | would be watching the roads for us sending me new buyers. and every time they beld us up it “The best customer I have is | meant paying them from $100 to) qillionaire business man. Only re-|$200. We soon discovered that cently in a single day I delivered to| these fellows who took our money | his house $5,400 worth of liquor. He| Would telephone to other crooks id me in cash. M. rofit was | @nd they would lie In wait for us 31.200. whic tand hoki us up again. | joy — 1 “I get my liquor from three dif “The supply at the third city Located ak” itirete within a radius of Where I get my Uquor ts smuggled | at Second Ave- 150 miles. In one of these cities | Foods. cae pha tell | nue South and wholesale tootlergers, who obtain | ™¢ that all the fixing is taken care J the liquor from warehouses by pull | for $6 a case. Washington or by fake permits, distribute the} “During my 13 months in bust | Street, goods to uy retall bootleggers at an| Ress I have gotten into difficulties | Seattle nine times, but in every instance [1 have been able to fix it. | “A& bootiegger like myself must be) Disarmament Rally | old barn. “Nearly every time I go there for a supply, I meet a fixer who is in our pay. He ts there to keep to Be Held Friday Rev. Ambrose M. Bailey, pastor of the First Baptist church; Mrs. Fran-} 2s Axtell, chairman of the women's state committee for the reduction of | arms, and representatives of various other organizatiofia, will speak at al ‘The overflow from the meeting P A Held in Dope Raid Rosie Espinozo, 29; Joe Espinozo, M4, and Sheltoh Raglans, 36, were held im city jail Monday, charged with peddling narcoticn The trio were arrested Saturday night by a vho allege they found a small quan- ity of morphine in their possession. aunity. Interment was in Mount “easant cemetery. FUNERAL SERVICES for Wi | | am Quirk were scheduled for Mon- lay afternoon at Butterworth’s. | PUYALLUP.—Baby Marion Mil cane, aged 2, who fell into a pan of hot water and was scalded to buried Sunday. Her parents were Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Mileane of Furwood death, was Full course dinner, 75c, at Boldt's Served 5 to 8 p. m.—Advertisement. | | || Don’t Spoil Your Hair by Washing It When you wash your hair, be |and prepared shampoos contain too much alkali, which is very injurious, as it dries the scalp and makes the {hair brittle. The best thing to use is Mulsified leocoanut oil shampoo, for this pure and entirely greaseless. It's |very cheap and beats anything else all to pieces. You can get Mulsified at any drug store, and a few ounces Go to any grocery store and buy a package of TREE TEA ful is all that is required. an abundance of rich, creamy lather, lcleanses thoroughly, and rinses out easily. The hair dries quickly and Take it home and tryit. 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Primary j ony teas ri o caught. rey ol with warrants for the arrest of/now about $10,000, part invested) election results in victory of Floyd | etdel “Avduiee, tattle ia thats moenthe 1 habe ben in jbortineners end if & prohibition jin theve machines and the swt hept/ Vammen, war veteran, over T. H a business I have delivered to my cus. | arent turns up the fixer flashesjon hand to buy liquor and to pay| Hill, incumbent, ‘for office of clty | en { tomere—including business and pro-| the Warrant and says: ‘1. have al | fixers | treasurer s ; fessional men and politicians—1 000 | ready arrested these fellows. The ' _ — — —— — — — CLASS ‘Rul ted at | dozen quarts of whiskey and gin at|asent goes on bis way and we get f= _—_ pont : an average price of $120 per dozen, |away with the booze | : Pike Street, Seattle FLORENCE — Lo- cated at 512 Second Avenue, next Seat- tle’s famous L. C. Smith Building yé the Union | | ‘ PACIFIC FURNITURE COMPANY UIT Hours of Sale 8:30 A. M. to 6 P. M. Entire Stock Furniture, Rugs No Reasonable Offer Refused— Everything Reduced V3 to Y2 OFF of Nov. 1 which brought five of Seattle’s prominent motion pic- other city in the entire country have taken the lead in a new field of public ownership. Theatres Included The five theatres included are well known to the theatre-going public of Seattle. The Colonial is one of Seattle’s large, attractive and most centrally located thea- tres. The Florence, newly built and handsomely appointed, is just next to the famous L. C. Smith Building. Class A Theatre com- mands one of the busiest districts in the city, just off Pike at Third Avenue, and the Star and Joy are equally well located in the Occiden- tal and Washington Street centers. Considering the diversity of the districts and the representative patronage that these theatres com- mand, prospects for success under the new management and control of the workers promises great. We predict that the Workers’ United Theatres Company will soon be ranked among the most successful of the labor business organizations, Class A Theatre Organized about a year and a half ago for the purpose of build- ing a theatre or taking over one of the existing playhouses, the Seat- tle Union Theatre Company took over the Class A Theatre, located on Third Avenue near Pike Street. Almost immediately business done by that house was doubled, and dend, payable to all shareholders in the company. One to Five tent of the Seattle Union Theatre can finance and manage success- Working Men and Progress Through ing men and women have made in the last quarter of a century through their organized efforts is one of the bright spots in the world’s history. Working men and women are awakening to the tre- mendous possibilities there are for labor business organizations. In every state in the Union workers are managing successfully factor- ies, creameries, insurance societies, live stock shipping, laundries, food markets and even banks. Why not theatres also? People’s Theatres The idea of theatres owned by the people is not new, but is a field where the endeavor of the workers has not as yet been great- ly concentrated. It is to be hoped that Seattle workers take this un- dertaking so seriously that they make a noteworthy success of it. Cooperation is what makes prog- ress possible, and the cooperation of the people in the theatre field ought to mean a big step forward. With five theatres in Seattle, lo- cated in different centers, operat- ing at different prices and cater- ing to all classes, success is cer- tain. Economists Say and have long recognized the fact that the workers supply the money that makes possible the existence of most business organizations. Forward thinkers among workers, recognizing this fact, are using their best efforts to mobilize the It is a wholesome influence to have the people of any community begin to concern themselves about fi d 4 h fi evenly, and is soft, fresh looking, the management of places of en bright, fluffy, wavy and easy to ; a md it the finest heniie: Speen, 1 Voneaue hea But it has always been the in- tertainment. Not only from an economic point of view, but from houses are probably the most , % Per Ton, Delivered in Load i a Lote ays goal Bla aa fully very large business under- popular and universally at- ¢ > GARFIELD 2743 takings. tended amusement centers. | ¢ Theatre Company paid all stock- holders a dividend of 10 per cent. mase meeting Armistice day. at § p. ture houses under the control of This record is considered a very Sather tis wiae aiken ic eons a VICTROLA, the Workers’ United Theatres Women Make Great remarkable showing. The dividend attle residents to express their ap- GRAFONOLA, Company. There is probably no was paid in January of this year, just about one year after the or- will be addressed in St. Mark's Epls- | and SONORAS where such a representative group ganization of the Seattle Union coe oak SOR crt Prices from $25 & U of theatres is owned by the people. Organized Effort Theatre Company. Girl and Two Men P i wore at Denne workers The splendid progress that work- | ]Q Per Cent Dividends When it is considered that the 10 per cent which was paid to the stockholders of the Seattle Union Theatre. Company was earned in six months’ operation of one com- paratively small theatre, it is easy to estimate the dividends that can be paid on twelve months’ opera- tion of a string of five fine city. theatres. The problem of a better ousiness investment for workers has been advantageously solved by the Seat- tle Union Theatre Company. It has simply demonstrated that pa- tron stockholders are the ideal combination for the successful — financing and management of a theatre business. It has proved again that if workers will unite their savings they can operate business enterprises that will re- turn large dividends to every indi- vidual investor. Your Future What do you do with your sav- ings? What would you do with them if an extraordinary oppor- tunity for investment came to your. attention? Why not join your fel- low workers—unite your ae with their savings—prove the sol darity of the money power- of the workers? man and woman who has savings can share in the profits of one of the biggest coming business enter- prises. If you wish the Workers’ Ceylon enka Pe ae oe after six months of active business money power of the workers in United Theatres Company Success, ¢4 Simply molsten the hair with wa-| an an es the Seattle Union Theatre Com- promoting labor business organiza- | Mail the coupon below. 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