The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 30, 1921, Page 7

Phone Company Won't Assist Maditor The Star Tm a steady reader of The and there is hardiy a day in the week where there hasn't been from to half a dozen or more burglaries com mitted in Seattle or any other town in the Union Now, Mr. Editor, this could be easily solved if there alarm system that could forded in every house where a telephone is installed, And T have it, too, but can HOt Fel aN agreement or rights trom! “Was Surely a Noble Sight” Baditor The Star jreduction made from their pay It Was surely a nodle sight to see | checks? No, no, the more time they the vast throng of city employes | can waste, the more will pack the council chambers in their | have to pay effort to defeat the will of the tax If our councilmen cannot solve the Payers at the hearing of the report s of city government witho of the advisory committee of the civil nee of SO Many civil servi service commission es, then we will have to find ‘This large number of men left their other method. If any of the Work, for which they are receiving! city employes does not like his job the highest rate of wage, to intimi. | there is nothing to prevent him going date the several candidates for future | somewhere else. The will of the tax Political honors (and the salaries, ete.. | payer must be carried out, and any that go with it) by their force of num-| official who will not fearlessly do his bers and the votes of their families duty should begin search now for @nd friends. Will they be reported other employment. Yours, “away without leave” and the proper | A. T. AXPAYER. Charitable Sentiment Exploited Editor The Star: }that it occurred to the custodians Might 1 trespass on your valuabte/ the dogs that they were passing 4 ~ |something up. Why not charge for Space end time with the following| tO Goes the people are “falling” for Telative to care of lost and disowned |i; | went to the pound the other @ogs. Some time ago a call was! day with this object in view-—to save made thru the payers asking the! a dog and was kindly informed (hat geod citizens to do an act of kindness | 1 could have one from six dollars up im adopting lost and disowned dogs | Thus was, and is, the kindness and turned into the pound and with 4 | sympathy of the people imposed upon life sentence hanging over their heads | and charitable sentiment commercial at the end of 24 hours. | ed, ‘This was thought to be a pity and! terday and there were between 20 im Order to save their tives it was|and 30 dogs there, but the terms im Fecommended that one go to the | posed makes intentional kindness pro ° pay the license fee of one dol. | hibitive. Yours truly and’ save the dog, The people JACK HOWARD, to this to such an extent! 1560 Lakeview place. the telephone company to connect my wires to t This Stay © telephone wires. is a phonograph burglar alarm which giving central the house number where thru the electrical of and glar en or a win is cay acourate str the bi ters a house dow where this system ts and the burg « action every time, Could y tell me who to commur get my alarm system in fore AN OLYMPIAN, problem. san in taxes we Answers Charges Against Banks The Star not been making money for the past 18 monthes—which means that the It is generally the proper course] of good repute to ignore | banks have been buying very lightly, | on his character and| Byt there is, furthermore, no sane such attacks become | reason why they should not buy wer, and appear to be | commercial paper—except for the is well for his friends fact that many local industries have jatkals out into the tied up all the money. Commercial nothing that | know paper is one of the best protections I shall sign this letter |for the depositors In a bank, be cause it is short-term, and, therefore. I refer to “The Ringmaster” in} “liquid.” The large Seattle bank and “Announcer” tive” in general, jin buying commercial paper. us take for granted the ex-| But “The Ringmaster” insinuates of the function of money | that jarge companies simply retire “The Ringmaster” in The) their commercial paper obligations lovember 26. We) by ixxuing more paper. It is hard to understand how this process could stem | last very long—it iy suggestive of Dusiness in so far as it | perpetual motion grant credit under certain care | Does our anonymous friend know it out restrictions. These | that total losses on commercial pa- | gubjects are unfortunately too|per in the past four years of un & part of the long letter Of precedented depression have ueemaner™ — unfortunately |jeas than one-half of one per cent of juse they comprise all! the total volume of paper? Does he or true. ;know that such a loss is practically the | negligible when compared with lonses Incurred upon loans made to Seattle} nterprines? That condition ix un that Seattle bankers are combined to depress the business of their own city and to send its money abroad. It is appar: | ‘emt that such a policy, were it car |] out—ailtho it is not carried out— not but wean the community J) resources, thereby deprivin, of a large part of their |] Just as certainly as it would Does “The Ring: | posits are obtained from the East. | communities which he alleges |}, are #0 eager to assist? Can he - reason and the facts that ly thinks Seattle banks are | to Seattle that they | bring about their own certain to satisfy this unnatural hatred? atgument is not subtle. It is ‘ plausible. It certainly does sound sincere, It unavoidedly | r the impression that “The! his a bone to pick, a| to saitaty, which permits him | fo indulge his chagrin in a diatribe} that his own reason cannot fustify. Perhaps “The Ringmaster” is like the enthusiastic young man who! upon his banker for a loan| " oe ee F' "What security have you to offer” he asked. buolutely none!” an engaging «mile “You have no security?” “Nothing but my personality!” was) firm, response | the purposes of this story we say that he didn’t get the! Of course, at one time there it have been bankers who would | fe given him the money, It is Safe to say they are not in business | replied he with | ful variations the tiniest Doily q | rhe ofily reason that any individ | Bals or business firms are now re-| fused money in e—or elue-| where—is that they nothing to! o nothing but “personality.” | je Ringmaster” has said a tot! when he states that banks are the |f) custodians of the people's money. ||) Almost anyone who bad money in the failed ScanAinavian American bo will agree that banks should only lean money upon a reasonable | belief that they will get it back. You Bee, it ien't their money, and they must be careful with it. There has been 4 lot of hokum in certain Seat tle newspapers about young and striving firms who have been refused funds by the conniving banker. Put the sad truth is that they had noth- ing to offer—in the rare cases where they did, they probably wished both | eat their loaf and to keep it: And it is almost as hard to get something for nothing in Seattle as it is in| other parts of the world “The Ringmaster” asks some very NW, very superficial, very lead. questions sbout the investment of Seattle banks in commercial per—which he calle just “paper.” | There, says he, is where all the! 0 fs going. But even a casual | H0f financial conditions in this city would reveal the fact that local commercial paper houses have? 2 PIECES in 20-, 24- $4.85 and $6.35. and 10-inch, at 35¢ an BLE COVERS, exquisi ered on four corners, MADEIRA 45-INCH RO COVERS, $7.65; 53-in MADEIRA REFECTOF CLOTHS, 72x84, $65.0) MADEIRA OVAL COVERS, 10x14, $1.75, 12x18, $2.00 to $3.25; 16x24, $2.85. a | fortunate, but true installed, | I was down at the pound yes: | and | Which recently failed did not believe | been | MADEIRA CIRCULAR sizes, priced respectively at $2.85, Doilies to match, 6- MADEIRA 36-INCH SQUARE TA- DOILIES AND Therefore it ap pears that the | ing « 1 obligations f | I can't se@ aly other way they could pay them, unless we can believe in the strange plan suggested by “The Ringmaster.” Our friend large companies well y must pay thelr legitimate earning with a deft stroke of the typewriter, plerees the vell of the future and clearly sees that all banks will become nothing more than bond trafficking in naughty for seourities. But the fur houses, | eis velieve our f knows but he de admit them. facts THE The Ringmaster some extremely tr in which he de the banker ge beneath the the deek in security?’ Perhaps tt ts our friend who Is at sea, Except for high-clus " free dintre hatches while he walle oratory that being maybe very it is verne singly sue ingmaster” is indulgi 1 of abiding by reason fore ooret sorrow of the whip. in the phraseology that “The we @ we she »ly linked to that of the com: | hich he j acts busine PAUL HEDRICK, JR. Kitsap County’s Highways Editor The 1 invite all the citizens of Seattle Star to come over and take a look at the It ple-throwing comedy of Kitsap county roads, [is better than any farce you ever saw lid you see Harold d in his latest? Well, I ean sho uy something that will | please you Do not, however bring your car with you. Bring @ tank: it ts less likely to get stuck in the mud y | For years there have been ques | s put, battles fought made, and little in Kitsap } county towards improvement, And | things are a little better; but not as much so as they should pon sidering the amount of turmotl and To promises done be | bloodshed that has taken place, begin with. People of this county have wasted their energy on trivial propositi ever since the time it was firet county | At present, however, we find our jselves emerged a little from the | Dark Ages. . Our roads are better, but not much so. That tm where jthe comedy comes in, We are # | county surrounded by other coun ties that have good roads. But we |must be content with only small | Seements of decent highways, The | rest is, even yet, nothing but chuck | holes. Perhaps the funniest part of our ) T am confident that the | ; road ayatem ia that which lies be tween the Harper ferry landing and Port Orehard Some time before the ferry slip was put in, we nad | Ay managed to build a cement sea wall ching from Harper to South © made a fairly de A behind it the fi started running, what did those from the county seat do but have a fine variety of |red dirt put upon the surface of the road, which, in the rainy see son, promptly turned te mud, For good while, nothing was the ferry quit running during ny on. Then, last great mévement was begun a gravel road in between Har and Port Orchard. Wonde about to happen, and every: l. But the dream never With many delays, the 4 was put part way thru; but it iw of little value to those wikhing }to go from Harper to Port Orchard, for you may ride along smoothly two or three miles, yet you must eventually jamp into the old hog wallow So, our heavenly still in our dreams. be anywhere else? attle, come over and have # Inugh, Do not forget your tank by all n ne, have it insured before you come MARK NEW , Harper, after elne the r a put per were to highwaya are When will they More About Typing Records Editor The Star: As much as I disitke to enter into any debate regarding typewriting l records, I can hardly refrain from lreplying to the letter which ap [peared in The Star of the 22nd re garding Mies Paar's typewriting speed, signed by “Her Fellow Stu |dents,” inasmuch as they seem to ‘insinuate that I do not know what 1am talking about, and also want to hold up before the public a record of 75.2 words a minute as a world’s | record, if not ax to speed, then as to }accuracy combined with speed The signers of that letter have asked me for informat as to lewhen and where anyone has written jat the speed of 75.2 words a minute for 15 minutes and written unde: competitive conditions, perfectly,” and that they would appreciate the information, They have also mis. }aquoted me in saying that I men tioned school speed and accuracy record.” I mentioned nothing about to the extra-large CENTER- and 28-inch i d $1.00 each. $1.85 and tely embroid- $11.65. UND TABLE ch, $9.65. RY TABLE 0 and $75.00. DOILIES, ters, 6- to $2.25, $2.50; 14x20, $2.50; MADEIRA CASES, $1.65 each. MADEIRA MADEIRA CENTERPIECES, circular, 36-inch, $1.85 to $5.85; oblong, 65c, $1.25 and $1.50, school or students’ records, and either did the article which first appeared in The Star They have also xidestepped the issue of speed an emphasis upon accuracy, and have endeavored to lead the public to be lieve that Miss Paar is undisputed accuracy champion by stating that had Mr. Oswald not made the one error during the hour he would have been the undixputed accuracy cham pion of the world. Mr. Ow did make the one error, but he w one hour at a speed of 128 w minute, Now, let us suppow the sake of argument, that the error was made at exactly the middle of the hour's writing. If such was the cane, he then wrote for at least 30 minutes & speed of, well, to be precine 8 words a minute faster than Miss Paar wrote, If the error was not made at exactly the middle ||! of the hour, which is very probable then he wrote for a longer period of New Importations of Beautiful Madeira Linens Inspire Sensible Christmas-giving NE linens=-the pride of the hostess! What better cue for those planning gifts for homekeeping women than this timely arrival of hand-embroidered, exquisitely fine linens from the far-off Madeira Islands. Thousands of pieces to choose from, exploiting many delight- of hand-needled designs and Banquet ranging from Table Cover. MADEIRA TEA WAGON COVERS, $1.50, $1.85, $2.25 MADEIRA HOT BREAD COVERS, and $2.85. $2.35 each. r HANDKERCHIEF SCALLOPED-EDGE circular, with plain cen- 10-inch sizes, 20c to 65c; oval, 50¢ to $1.35. SCALLOPED-EDGE 18- to —First Floor FREDERICK & NELSON FIFTH AVENUE AND PINE STREET have laid the} lives and trans | | Then, | i spring, | Meanwhile, Se-!the office of the Underwood Type | | i SEATTLE STAR FREDERICK & NELSON FIFTH AVENUE AND PINE STREET. DOWNSTAIRS § Baron Ldmund von Thermann snapped as he arrived in nerica to become Germen charge d'affaires at Washington, the first diplomatic representative of Germany in the United | States since Von Bernstorff left in 1917. | time than 90 minutes at the speed cial bulletin ts now before me on my | desk | It is @ very fine thing to be loyal © your fellow students, and I admire you young people for taking a stand in favor of Miss Paar, and she is to * congratulated on her fine show: | ing, but it is another thing to mis e | quote and dodge the al issue and | endeavor to make things appear con- | facts. } Now, will the business college pro: , who is responsible for these mentioned Now, “Her Fellow §tudents,” here! is some of the information you have asked for: Miss Bessie Friedman wrote at the rate of 132 words a minute for 15 minutes with errors, on June 8, 1918, befor International Contest committe the New York Business show in New York city. Mr. Howard G, Pfrommer at the rate of 84 words min. for 16 minutes with no and befe May 6, 1916, am a. t the rate ds a minote for 16 minu before the same committee and with no errors. | wonder if you will now admit that Miew Paar is not world’s! of business privacy, ad champion as to either speed or ac-| to evolve world’s typewriting records curacy? |by the armful? we records can be verified at| Very respectfully | 8. B. GETCHELL, Mount Vernon, Wash. above. Gifts of Silver-plated Tableware | AT IMPORTANT SAVINGS | HE DOWNSTAIRS STORE has arranged for Thursday a remarkably attractive offering of Rogers & Brothers’ Princess-pattern Tableware—of- fering the most desirable pieces at a decided conces- sion from their regular prices. Gifts may be chosen with confidence from this offering, for every piece is silver-plated on nickel-silver base—will wear white all the way through. SPECIAL 15¢ EACH—Teaspoons and After-dinner Coffee Spoons. SPECIAL 20¢ EACH—Dessert Spoons, Dessert Forks, Sugar Shells, Orange Spoons and Fruit Knives. | SPECIAL 25¢ EACH—Table Knives, Table Forks, | Table Spoons, Salad Forks, Bouillon Spoons, Soup Spoons, Butter Knives. SPECIAL 50¢ EACH—Cream Ladles and Cold Meat Forks. SPECIAL 65¢ EACH—Berry Spoons and Gravy Ladles. —THE DOWNSTAIRS STORE CHRISTMAS CRAVATS To Be Featured Thursday At aRemarkably Attractive Price, to ne numerous have been | d to which he t letter to ¢ them records this school rred in his re Star, or will he embr clovely in the protecting f writer Co., and a copy of the offi-i | Charges Golfers With Speeding Editor The Star large cars, and I presume are golf. I wish to make a comment about | ers on th ay to the links, When the way autos n the road/ some of these fellows pass Green ing to t if club. wood the d they go is from 30 Having my h in the country | to miles an hour, if my observa ral miles north of Seattle, I| tions are correct. Speed cops are ave occasion to traverse this r conspicuous by their absence. What's & good deal the reason? M. FOXBIRD, The guilty people usually have Richmond Beach. Marks Soar hen 1nd 7 of London Advices NEW YORK, Nov 50. Marks opened today at $0.0042 This strength rks in due to the strength in m, where the mark [sold at 9880 marks to the pound, The strength in London is generally at tributed to the visit of Dr. Walter au, former German minis: instruction Other foreign exchange quotations: Demand sterling, $3.99%; francs, $0.0709; lire, $0.0416 ‘THE Men’s Furnishings Section commends this offering to its patrons as a particularly good op- portunity to buy good Scarfs for Christmas Gifts. The Scarfs are cut on the shapes used in our highest grade neckwear. The Silks, specially selected, are all-silk and from foreign looms. The patterns, while rich, show the conservative good taste which the well-dressed man de- mands in his neckwear. Two, three or a half dozen of these Scarfs will make a Christ- mas Gift that is sure to be sin- cerely appreciated. The values are extraordinary at the special price: $1.85. —Virst Floor FREDERICK é& NELSON FIFTH AVENUE AND PINE STREET