The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 8, 1921, Page 7

Another Says “Call It Tacoma” Bditer the Star When I read your artic the mountain reputati egarding dy high points tn 1 believe your poposal mountain your alre no went up many j|my esteem jte call the oma |by far the best salution yet offered of the long-winded be tween the two cities, not to speak of the finest plece of advertising that could be obtained at this time. Such |& magnanimous act on the this city would spread far and wide and the saying how Rood the morale resulting would }nor only in the es but in other lands, where there are just such similar controversies or rivalries T am reminded of the controversy Is no do. Closing u pleture Editor The Star As Tam one of the unfortunate ones out of work I would like to An Entire Stock of Mighty Good Japa tl Det it ror enter your ind © publish just these reasons why a YOURE MAN cannot secure employ ment? } No. 1—There are 7,000,000 men out of work in the t S. and that at B Fltcast 2,000,000 giris and married women are taking the places where men have worked before, This is just wince the world war has been I am selling out at re- tail the entire stock of new and _ up-to- date shoes of the Editor The Star We have once m tively Halloween « ings) and find ourselves el speculating as to whether the merry makers will come back and again cover the front of our homes with wax and dirt if we start to clean up too soon You have a cleanup week in Se attle and in the same year and just as regularly you sanction a nerve racking, property-destroying duy when bad conduct Is allowed by law, when young people actually bide lived thru the son (th part of |1 much | | without words the to drink | [buckets simultaneously of two culve trying of different finally There out and Jagreeing to pull together never was a more glorious oppor }tunity for this elty to do a wonder fully ux and unselfish thing | which undoubtedly would rebound t ‘ * credit, I } tive prior to whieh spent four of the happiest years Jof my life in ‘Tacoma, so I believe I Am entitled to know just about all of | the pros and cons of this matter, I want to extend to The Star my ap eee’ of its suggestion ve ng have eight years here Sincerely SEATTLE SPIRIT.” From a Jobless One over, Some of these other means of support we men must go hu No. 2~And that big companies employ and Germans; so what chance an American-born boy? Tam not against a married wom: an working if her husband ts til or cannot obtain work, But it is @ shame if this must go on G. H. JAMES, Wenatchee, Wash women have But still 1 of the Japs, Greeks has Would Abolish Halloween [thelr time and up to get even with the stor pers or household ers or*anyone who displeases their y|fancy thru the year Im it well to lay unide a day (or three days) each year in which folke can go out and be bad (not too bad) and have all the other folks smile “Well, well, it's Hab | lo" | Why don’t we abolish Halloween | July? their of along with the Fourth | and Yours for the children | good, now and always ' A CHILD LOVER Why Light Rates Are High Kditor The Star: The county-city pay roll pets are sure getting on our nerves, and we pay the bill, We read of them a ashooting pool, and that recalls to And they are going! ff} mina the experience of a weil known Sale can’t last long at these prices: Spring's Cigar store on First ave. the other morning about 11:30. He heard two familiar voices to conversation at one of the rummy tables. “Holy smoke, Ross sent me ut to Ballard before 9 o'clock to do about 20 minutes work, but it's too late new. I'll go after lunch. Rows won't care.” The other one replied, “Well, Read sent we over to West Seattle Women’s $5.00, $10.00 Shoes Broken Sizes $4.70 for just one game of rummy, and here it's cost me $4.35. Il go this Editor The Star: 1 just want to say a word of two about these taxpayers. Iam in the eighth grade at school and will soon be graduated. Lately our teachers have been telling us to save, save, save. Our pencils are without eraners, For drawing we always used to have erasers. Now the taxpayers judge who had occasion to go into! afternoon and make up some cock jand bull story and get by with it.” | They were still playing when the | Judge left This is one reason why our taxes are so high, This is one reason why we are paying the high price for juice to Mr. Ross, Our elected officers are not doing their duty nor apparently making any effort. Got more pay and do leas, seems to be their idea of public wervice. When a lazy employe dors go on the car pet the civil ervice commission |diaminses the for lack of evi |dence. His fellow employes will not | equeal In it not time to clean out the whole bunch from basement to attic, land go to? \ A. T. AXPAYER. in the Schools If we want paste we must make it, Sometimes we must have old portfolios. Last year each child in the seventh and eighth had their own tablets of paper. Two a year, Now there is always a shortage of | paper; we keep asking the teacher for some and she asks the principal. | We always met the same answer, “Not yet, we'll have some more 8} sthool and she are complaining so much of high/ soon; but we haven't got it yet.@ taxes we only have one little red)and school has been going on for eraser some one left by mistake.| three months The same spelling papers we used| I think some of these taxpayers yesterday we must write on the! shouldn't be #0 cranky; if they wart back today. | their children to be educated good, SAME PRICE for more than 3() years BAKING POWDER YOU SAVE when you use KC— you use less than of higher priced brands. Satisfaction guar- anteed or your money refunded. “HIGHEST QUALITY” $6.50 to $8.00 $8.50 Values Values $4.30|$4.10 $7.50 to Men’s $9.00 to $10.00 Values 70 MILLIONS OF POUNDS BOUGHT BY THE GOVERNMENT This Store Quits! C. W. SHIVELY Selling Out “Better coffee cannot be produced — The just right flavor and?\ strength of HILLS BROS. “RED CAN’ COFFEE is sure to satisfy the taste of people etn enjoy a cup of good coffee. i Third and University Under Montelius Music House || "20-10" || favor of it || will cost |} time and en \| are paid for, and not to politics, ou || class” THE they must suffer the consequence My mother et three us three n« ined of a, | taxes that I know of, 1 supply self with pencils and ink Kditor The Once there was a man by the nan of Rows And a very great man was he j And he told us all that our electric) | rate Was as low as it ought to be When up spoke Armstrong of Star | And right: bravely spoke he | Said he, “J. D. Ohis is very old stuff You are giving out to the public as well a Star me.” wild And he tore, And he wrote some letters and sent them out i) The Banks’ “Accommodation” Editor The Every person and corporation of from Star character to the burglar and from pickpocket is and | every and capacity | the bank jt wo the They |the preacher after Money need all they can get jolt and jostle, butt heads together The | fight is furious and many blows are |struck below the belt Always every scrap and serab ble, in every round-up, all the money will be found with the bankers Bankers dividuals want it They in but are fine fellows as just like other people. banking ax a@ business is in a class | [by itwelf with special privileges. | They have everybody buffaloed and | are better treated than the pres dent, Anybody a bit miffed at the President bawls him out as tho he| were a common plug, but it is dif-| ferent with the banks. No one} dares speak iI! of the banks, Why?! Because they have all the money! And can easily and quickly get even | with any business for being im} polite, Funny, isn't it? We all put our meney in the banks and they do as} they please with it. The only whip| in the hands of the people is to check out their deposits. That would | produce # panic and punish the peo pie ax well aw the banka : The banks are corporations, A corporation has no conscience and| is without soul or syripathy The banks are thus specially protected jand fortified and, and being in their strongfort do about as they please as mimoda t and rates. If you are not willing | to accept the bankers’ terms you ean leave it for some one harder to ae ‘fa little after § and I came in herejor shall we surrender our homes|™P thaneyou are, who will pay the toll exacted Banks are in the business to make money for themselves, con- | trolled by directors, chosen for their One, farseeing business ability. They must make all the money possible un- der the rules of their association, Thay | are well organized and disciplined! and are not very modest in piing® up profita, The president largest New York bank admitted tc Pujo investigating committee that bie bank made profits averag ing 230 per cent for the last five years. I knew a thrifty Yankee, farmer who, every spring, had a! few cowr, horses and a lot of hay SEATTL books, ete right r The Ballad of Ross and Al |To fifty | And was peddling the | And To make But | Said perhaps they But | And difin't have to hide | When J, D. read this he sure went) We hope Al's boss won't can raved and he fogged and! Or begin to sweat and stew But He wanting would want to buy lege dickering and setting on a price in! ax to profits, but exempt as to dam-|and let the government pry down en Yankee would say modate you. | When, might dispose of were a But 1 think it's nd pehief accommodation the extra waiting for credit of re 1,000 or] Price and big took th un H & good bar and there are about Interest jou ttle | Yet he 6 school children in me up. A SCHOOL, GIT. who backing ynade The director the Yankee ex und poliey of th littie attitude They Jcapital (way little compared they do 1 the wasted a world of wind and] do ink \ Al look like a } old all the time he had rhe be ey sahtii jown capital | for \" | banks wet together a because It is the men or more told Al's the kid had lied mamas with with little capital employed by Their and they call their wcoommodations. The fact | to be absolutely de but they compared purest: bunk thone business with) busine loaning money kunk joann Al boy, never batted an demand a both had ted, “i eae mG but all of the ¢ ation bank paper the 4 by the people 1i® propo |nition is easy t © by examining he knew told tye pital is provi kid pro thoir own statement What I ask is that bank At rates not in Jof the increase of wealth by produc | ple and the press are demanding re |duetion tr leaves the kid to do the loan at knows just how to 4 Oy lat work lower r |tion in basis Industrie armaments, in taxatior rail rates are 4e wages, and mand for re 4) duc nk The privi-| commercial makes the ba After! partners in all production and trade jin Employers }manding reduction in Neighbors | there ought to be a de interest at th There always number of those his just things: with the of paying after harvest top notch, which for hay would! price in the market at the| of a long muddy road, the! Just to aeeom:| I will let you have it.” in fect, the Yankee had th Gee and losses What can be done about it? Let's think and people elect ongress, Congress creates and con ols the banking furnishes them currency fr corporations, University Gives Music Week Fetes A general 4p and a Thurda the BABIES IN SEATTLE HAVE BEST CHANCE IN NATION TO LIVE Parents of iblew: Your le ones have a better chance than if they were other Meany m. Tuesday in university a the department of are contribution music at Music W . brought up in a gram b . ht to the Bureau of Com- Hw. M er. Hie im made the Calt- Models Built at fovnte city io | benches a Forestry School |)..." uned in the ampaign A 7%foot single-#pan the Pub- a complete forest line have been built by the forestr college The the lower publi nd include rumenta The the 4 Vb yoru! and in , Thuret Mu A't Mu Whi Epsiion a cal frat mu rnitier neing put on Bureau att le for model telephone Whee healthiest ment fige the period city's annual the Like: the healthiest rate of 10.5 at the university ar elty dults ed in the tu part of the The detail for work woods on ur hi ng th f 1906-20 university eampu this bridge and other complete in ever rate way only 9.76 will to be of the college all carried on along model forest The || wise in 1920 it w of forestry ix|} city, with a death per thousand Infant ten erve as a mode large constructed practical line has been laid in which the!] th and a mortality figures for cities give the of deaths per Portland, Ore 5 Pa 64; Spokane, 6 Albany, 79; Los Louisvfiie, 77. Lowe cities are Balt Pittsburg, 108% 131; Fall River, out eading work i; wing number bank wae rhacce . They If they elect pecting the the 1p their their ple pr people to dea fair not with have done do mend congressmen the special Let the postal banks “ie 62; Minnteapoll dut Oakiand, 76 ext of 43 large more, with 106; Lowell, Mass Mass., 134 to take back wes of the banks deposit in the rates by making long-time loans at} | low rates and give the |ehance to get from under row | GEORGE F. producers a|~ , : | FUNERAL SERVICES were held Sunds Mrs. Frontia Lytle at Bt Mark's Episcopal church. Mri the har RICHARDSON Wa ' Bellevue More About | Huntin Wier sus se s J read with much interest in your; columns the two letters by Alice M.| Moyer, In her first contribution she | says there is no more harm in) “mercifully killing” the birds for food than it is to kill barn yard fowls, ete, In theory that ts perhaps correct; in practice, absotutely not, for the simple reason if one must have fowl to eat, death is, nine times out of] ten, quicker via the ax than by *ho bullet route, yard fowls, etc., to satisfy the meat hunger, it is obvious we do not need to go to the forest for the wild game, and those who do go are the ones who satisfy the blood lust in this legitimate way. They always kill three or four times more than they can eat, then | Pack away a little to bring home| to their friends—not from a stand- point of furnishing food, but to show , their prowess with the gun. | If they went to the forest for |food alone that would be all right,! |but we know they don’t do it for! this reason—they go for the pleas: ure of killing alone. | Incidently I would say that na ture is the best judge of whether the birds would multiply too fast or) not, and, furthermore, if we lived as God intended us to there would | bs no flanger of birds or anything | else breeding too fast, for God's! law, which we all know, is nature's law,is the “Survival of the Fittest.” EILEEN ARMSTRONG. | Criticises. Teachers, Editor The Star: H It would appear that our highly paid school teachers are giving more attention t6 politics than to teach. ing. According to the reports from the Bellingham convention of the Wash ington Educational association, a state-wide campaign is now on to secure the passage of the notorious plan to graft more money from an already overtaxed public, If the honest voters would secure a copy of this bill and read it care- fully, find the number of littl jokers in it, not one would vote in If this bill passes it Seattle taxpayers almost $1,800,000 for what is already gen erously paid for, and of that amount! about $140,000 would go to other| parts of the state and be a total) lows to the taxpayers of Seattle. If our teachers would devote their les to the work thoy xchools might regain their lost re» | ord for efficiency, the “opportunity unnecessary, and ‘the self: | made bouquets so generously thrown | at Bevingham and elsewhere would | be forgotten under the plaudits of satisfied employers and proficient graduates. Yours, A. T, AXPAYER. Furthermore, while we have barn: |[/ | | | | Four New Apron Styles for Busy Housekeepers 50c—75c—$1.00—$1.95 (Descriptions from left to right) The waist and skirt are joined to a fitted belt in this model, and trimmed with rick-rack braid. A large sash ties in the back. Made in Plaid and Striped Percales in medium-dark color combina- tions. Price $1.00, Checked Gingham in light and dark blue and white fashiong this “Mother” band-apron, It is trimmed with a deep circular ruffle and two patch pockets. Price 75¢. This Dress-apron is made of heavy quality plain colored Percale, and the V-neck trimmed with rick-rack braid in Red, White or Black. Price $1.95. A “Margaret” apron is made of splendid qual- ity washable Percale in medium-dark colored Plaids and Stripes. The bib buttons at the back. Price BO¢. —SECOND FLOOR Hand-made Lingerie Trimmed With Real Laces at Special Prices SPECIAL $2.50—A sleeveless Gown, as pictured, entirely hand-made of fine, sheer Flaxon cloth, and trimmed with hand-made filet edge. SPECIAL $2.50—Envelope Chemise, as sketched, hand-made of fine lingerie cloth, finished on all edges with hand-made filet lace; run with ribbon at top and has ribbon shoulder straps. 4 —SBCOND FLOOR “Merito” Corset $2.95 DESIG NED especially for the average fig- ure, this Pink Brocade Corset, with elastic top and very long skirt. A model that promotes graceful lines with no sacrifice of comfort. Spe- cial, $2.95. —SECOND FLOOR These Trim Kidskin Pumps at $5.00 fill the need for comfortable, goo d- looking Slippers for house wear. Made in two-strap style, with medium round toe, hand- turned flexible sole and low leather heel. Price $5.00. —FIRST FLOOR Imported Sewing Baskets ‘(With Fittings) SPECIAL | $3.85 S SUGGESTED in the sketch, these compact Sewing Baskets are fash- ioned with basketry base and leather-covered lid with handle and metal clasp. Lined with moire and fit- ted with two packages of needles, two thread winders, two bodkins, two bone crochet hooks, glove buttoner, steel crochet hook, needle holder, stiletto and scissors. Two sizes—914x13x4 and 81x12x4. Special, $3.85 each. —AISLE TABLE, FIRST FLOOR Music Week, November 7-12 The Kind of Music You Want —When You Want It HE VICTROLA is always ready to play — grand opera, popular hits, old-time favorites, whatever you will—the pleasure of hearing them is yours at the turn of a hand. VICTROLA 80, as pic- tured, equipped with record-filing system (a place for every record, and every record in its place). In mahogany and walnut—$107.50. Convenient Terms May Be Arranged for Any Victrola in Stock —yiern ruoor ~*~ ia apt sci eco ais pages: AREER.