The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 15, 1921, Page 9

NOVEMBER 15, 1921. TUESDAY : Advises Ross to Cut Deadwood PBaitor nterfere with vacations, Between as have a little more Hght on | emergencies this big force has little quest to do but kil time and sign the x Reduction counell has up n Ww < bury Now, Mr. Ross, if each man on ' é a es your payroll were to do two hour Land the deadawood trimmed off, | honest work a day, how much would trim. | there be left to « “ wld have a litt off our light bills t Follow the spirit of ‘The Star and gations of your Mr ‘ong administer the Affairs of your de Bicnows tt g¢ vrad-| partment as you had the bil AI taxpayers hope | to pay. Sufficient capital has been u bv the | mvested in the light plant that, with tod. the proper management, it should be evil is corre Mr. R reputed to have a auf.\a source of income to the city ente of any emergency and still not! A. T. AXPAYER c _Defends the Hunters Editor The St AS @ sportsman | As for giving game to the char n 1| ttable organizations I would like to few sluge at} @sk Mr, Clarke if he has ever do ortsmen Clovers!ing is the pastime of petenen bloodthirs-| of leisure, I always knew [was & gentleman, but I have never re part of it yet onomic and Mr. Editor, 1 J fon that, especta , Hand degraded part of it I to say and say it loud, I'm * sportaman in a blood ertminal, Including the gov of our fair state also man: our courtaSand lots of of brains. In fact, we Seattle who year fol 1 and eots out of his fellow men — Dleod-thirsty, neither am I D graded one judge in ALB |epends many hours wilt @ Mr, Clarke asks low his dogs MIRE are not hard at heart, with Co@rse| gale and the next ness of soul, My answer is—ThOO-! justice to mar if we sportsmen wien dore Roowevelt, I need not explain} ow, Mr. Clarke, if you will at » the | further. Yes, the birds eat Ins tend the annual banquet of the tock FE but why should we humans stand stare 5 <dmbonlahion hale oma for that; has not the insect a right! in ene Temple each tall to live as well as other things. = / you will meet a buneh of real live ‘The furmer never bunts? Just/ honest, trustworthy, let Mr. Clarke go out and see.| square-shooting men About 80 per cent of the farms in} In closing I would suggest you this state are posted to hunters,|spend your leisure time but Mr. Farmer always has a gun) the state legist handy. A “miserable unmerited/ forbidding the mmercial fisher ath upon innocent creatures just] men from letting the salmon di a ‘fun’ of seeing mangled, blood-|in slow stages after they. are stained bodies fall, and I'l add! hauled aboard their joats, later t ‘ “Dead.” Ninety per cent of ‘the| be consumed by yourself and » birds shot by hunters are dead be-jeral thousands innocent people. fore the hunter gets to where the | Yours for the rod and gun. fall. Cc. lL. IMERSON. — honorable. j Environment Not Final Editor The Star: decile the moral character of the “What that man was to become|siver—not the rn good and bad alwaya before individual. The lowest dreg# of civilization turn out the most beau. tiful moral characters. The highest Christian culture, the finest educa would depend almost wholly upon bis benefactor."—-Sentence from a popular novel. * A greater misstatement was nev ef uttered. When the 8 preme In telligence of the universe placed in the | ost colleges often produce the ex mind of the half ape, half man, the! treme of depravity. Goodness thtives first flash of the conception ghee amid squalor, wretchedness, dix God, of eternal life, of ae OF |death, temptation — without these good and punishment for bad, in that! there can be no goodness, same instant God put beyond His| sie cannot give the human soul the own power the decision for character | wit} ¢o choose and then miould It In a F that every human being must hold) certain fashion. Nor can one individ | within himself, else he would be @/uaj make or mar the moral charac ; mere pas hong it to sori Be of another except as that one | laws and a fix stiny. ut wills it, | life is superior to animal and vege) Financially, socially, in material! LETTERS TO EDITOR in Monday’s| noted a cow or two, He says hunt-| getting | ture to pass a law) se tion and refinement from the great: |“ “ito use the re God bie | table life only in a conception of y and a moral choice. Every a activity ts equally shared by the dog and the tree, by the micro-| scopic atom and the mountain range j that rears its head abové the clouds 1 and rigidly adhering to fixed nwa, of chance, tossed and baffled by the }ounning and deviltry of other hu mans and millions of-adverse natural laws—dut thru all the maze of dis placement and misery every human soul holds within itself the infinite success or failure we ure creatures | lives, carries its burdens, shelters.|rignt of good or bad. It must be reproduces, changes, all blindly im) or the world and humanity is chaos, barmony with laws fixed by univer: | without intelligence, justice, love. sal decrees, H. B. EMERSON Examples, good and bad ca: ors amt 204 First Ave. N. Money y Is Not Capital Editor The Star: it is not apt there be any doubt There are only two factors In the) on the subject the assurance of the production of wealth, capital and la-/accepted masters in political econo- These factors are entitled to|my will be helpful. The definitic pital are as follows: ; bor. ail the credit and profit arising from | of the creation of wealth. be Does money have any right to par ticipate in these earnings? In other words, is money capital? We think —Try Them Indigestion makes people feel despairing, despondent all over. It is only tem- Porary, ‘tis true, but while it lasts pitch nor gn sae Keow You're All Stuart's Dyspepsl it's awful. Wise people keep a box 4 of Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets handy to prevent these attacks or relieve them when they come. And such what they like—ple griddle cak other such su sour hing, gasey stomach due to dyspepsia. These tab- lets give the alkaline effect to thus sweeten the mach and make it comfortable, Try them if you are q subject to indigestion will find them on sale at all @ 60 cents a box.—Advertise COUGHS bronchitis or other ail- ments are ear-marks of broken resistance. cott’s Emulsion taken regularly imparts new energy, increases the powers of re- sistance and helps drive out the cause of weakness. SM tall aoe "Taare LJ. 20-87 stores at) ‘hat part of a man’s stock which }he expects to afford him a revenue tis called his capital."—Wealth of Nations, Book II, ch. 1; Adam Smith. "Capital is that part of wealth of a country which is employed in pro- duction, and consists of food, cloth- ing, tools, raw material, machinery, etc., Necessary to give effect to la- bor.""—Principles of Political Econo- my. ch. 5; Ricardo, “The capital of a nation really comprises all those portions of the produce of industry existing in it that may be directly employed either to support human existence or to |facilitate production.” — Notes on | Wealth of Nations, Book Il, ch. 1; McCullough. “Whatever things are destined to supply productive labor with the shelter, protection, toole and ma terialg which the work requires, and to feed and otherwise maintain the [labor during the process are capi uk I, ch, 4; John Stuart Mill “The common sense of the term jis that of wealth devoted to procur ling more wealth.” Poverty, Book I, ch 11; George. Henry capital must, as an essential be a part of wealth, as Henry , m his “Progress and Pov Book I, eh, 1, ex it: “Now is devoted to | nott can be capital which does not fall within this definition of Waitt * and further, on the same |page, “But tho all capital is wealth {all wealth is not capital. Capital is only a part of wealth—that part certain purpose, \of production.” It is evident, then, that money to be capital must also be wealth. That i | it is neither, we have but to consul that eminent authority, John Stuart s in his “Principles iticnl Economy,” Book I, ch. 4 “Mone is no more synony lor P mous with eapital than it is with wealth ey cannot in itself per ce to production To do this it nged for other things.” Also Irving Fisher, who says, in his “Why the Dolla * Shrinking,” ch, 11, py 16 “First of all we must not make the mistake of con. fusing money with wealth. We ha seen that wealth is different from nd bigger than money Yet it i netonishing ho asy it is to forget simple fact ne great truth that money Is not be and hence cannot become is rapidly gaining ground, jand it will impress itself more and |more as the world reall | wrongs money has committed d still commits, in the name of | capital ’ | As the exchange of commodities | becomes wider and more complex, |the more is money thus abused; the |rewult of this abuse becomes more Jand more manifest Ul the centera jof population and complexities In lexehange are reached. . Here wé are confronted with conditions which must be exeh | tat Principles of Political Econo. | Progress and | It appears from these definitions | namely, which is devoted to the aid | rt of the office of cap-| ice it ean afford no aneist. | Jhave perplexed philosophers trom time immemorial, the disgusting wealth of the few and pitable mis ry Qnd poverty of the many; and this in the midst of plenty, and in ja day when the wor of produc j tion was never greater as to the cause of th ondition, have been advanced; but we are constrained to believe that the abuse of money, by thus permitting it to usurp the func n of capital, is th t virulent and active polxon, and ts by far the tent cause of the dixeased cond tion of the sstrial world Interest or ywed money Is a edit for the it. No law levy taxes as anything but a government func tion. ‘The borrower pays this tax to jthe bankers and then pays another | tax to the government for the com modity for which he exchanged his | credit Jrecognites the power t privilege of exchangt THE ANNOUNCER Insufficient Fire Escapes Editor The Star Among the many letters printed In your valuable pay fire escapes Here in Seattle we have had sev eral sad cases where people have to leap to thet been compelle from upper windows, altho first-class fire escapes are built in the rear of the building When a fire starts, it is natural the flames get fanned Into a roar ing furnace where there is the most draft. Stairways, elevator shafts and hallways make splendid funnels. There is where the danger is, As they are the main exits from any of the upper rooms Now suppose tenants In the upper rooms a trap 1; where can they! mcape? They would either have to p thru or wait for a fire ladder, whi may come too |(ln lots of cases the ladders would only reach half way) On the other [hang it is impossible for the fire men to reach all the rooms at once Here is my suggestion: In order ny of these accidents, compel the owners or landlords to supply every room with a long stout rope, which will reach from the top |floor to the ground; fasten one end | securely a ring-bokt on the wall or floor, and that will make a good fire escape. The rope should be coiled and kept ready for immediate If the rope ig an objection to mod-| ern apartments, put it in a cabinet ne {In case any one in unable or afraid ecscape-—fasten the rope securely around thelr bedy and} make them go, reef the loop thru! jthe ring and lower them down| 1 any Here in Seattle are rome old wood jen structures called rooming-houses that are genuine “fire-trapa.” I can} point out some where the fire escapes }are nothing more than a delepidated/ ladder, spiked to the wall in the rear jot the building. A monkey wouldn't [trust his life on it. Would like to nee a few lines from some of The Star readers on this subject. I. 0. 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