The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 2, 1921, Page 7

let the government own and operate thoae ronda, If it pays for wagon roade let build those wagon rouds, Brandon Street Asks Help Editor The Star: hight now they are busy giving ehfle and keep the rich tnan‘s dirty hands| you have helped so many people In| dren the anti-toxin treatment, fome out of the public treasury. The! ¢nig city, perhaps you can help the| of the children are not Allowed to at- — trouble with the rank individualint, le who live on Brandon st, be-| tend school because they eS What About Unmarried Males? Bie ta to become of the unmar Even AA male, from 16 years of age up odd years old? Does the Com munity Chest offer any material as pe to them, other than that may distribute themselves as they can thruout the 46 societies | eed within its fold? What any of these societies hold out Salvation Army Industrial in gives steady employment to men of this type than any of rest, and It employs only 14 men toil, including janitor, cook and| most railway corporations have ineued Inatructiona not to em ploy men past 45 years of age, All positions regulated by civil service are barred to men past 60 years of The 8. army limits age from 18 to 36 years. The “stiffs” trom 48 to’ 50 years can’t get on the police force ‘t enlist in the army, can't work the postoffice, and even work on the raliroads, What ls to become of them? Wouldn't it be humane, under auch conditions, to start the wheels of log Outside of work necessary | tslation revolving In their directic run tts own buikling, the Y. M./and tax all unmarried men from 35 ©, A. furnishes no employment to| to 40 years of age $5 annually, and amy one, unless calls are received | if they continued in celibacy till 50 from the outside for a man to do an years old, shoot ‘em down on aight? edd job here and there, The Social! I really believe that the states Welfare league looks out exclusively | manship of Gov. Hart's legislature to help families, Mothey Ryther and that of Senators Poindexter and cannot be expected to take any of | Jones would just about be equal to these single “stiffs” among her little such occasion, orphans. And, if the YW. CA Something must be done or no one members were to marry these fel-/can blame employers for giving em + Jows, they'd not only lose what| ployment to the Japanese, who are home they have, but pile up ore | increasing in a three-fold ratio to misery for the Social Welfare| the whites of the Northwest Teague to absorb. J. C, BROWNE. age. Baitor The Star | Christ has warned us. When Jesus In your issue of November 29 is | Christ was here he did not work an article by Jobn W, Holway, in with the lodges and religions of al! Which he says he differs with me iM | way the truth > deageechagg ren t he is certain “the parliament of | no man could come unto the Father nm and the end of war are coming bot by him, and he said, “All that ‘y lever came before me are thieves 4and J would like to say, Mr. Editor, he|robbers." He said again “For Bas a perfect right to differ from) many shajl come in my name saying, me if he wants to, and I wish helt am Christ; might know the mushroom} many.” I can readily see how those Pooks which grew in 1913 hold no who have already been deceived by that excite my curiosity. | the cunningly devised fables of men | “That a Christ is to come and lec-| will fall for the greater sdheme ture and sell books among the great | which ministers to man's self pride and churches,” ts a thing I/ and depravity, readily believe, but, it will be “false” Christ of whom Jesus P. A. KLEIN, Pastor, Dunlap Baptist Church, More Power to the Nickel The Star: | you put fares at 5 cents, six for a ean't| | lands, but announced that he was the | and shal | deceive | sooner will you solve a very vital) | muntctpal problem, and our problem of cheap transportation. | Five cents ix real money today. | Gold may be a nation's standard, but this city’s, as well Aw that of other cities today, ix 6 centa, the alckel, or |the jitney, whichever you please to call it There will be leas #ush orders for signs reading, “Forced Sell,” “Forced to Close Out Must Ralee $80,000 by if pricer are put now where the business man can't kid himself Tuesday,” ete down, nieke)—that 6 WAYFARER More power to the cent plece! | Benevolent Capitalists Needed Editor The Star / In reply to “Inquirer,” who wishes to know how labor would feel to ward him as a capitalist, but help: | jing the cause of unemployment, also asking which is better for him, to |produce his article himself, thus | making 76 per cent profit, or to em ploy 25 men and make 10 per cent| profit besides relieving unemploy ment to that extent. I could not speak, ith any authority for labor, but will give him my opinion } This party seems conscientious and in favor of accomplishing something for himeelf, if he can retain the re spect of labor, and should be given due credit, We are all under a cap italistic system, which is condemned by labor a# unfair and unjust in considering labor's wights, but there | are many kinds of capitalists, and| as long as capitaliem etands, any individual who operdtes under the system should be considered right and fair in doing #0 if he endeavors+ always to promote ,a better condi n than existe for mankind. It in well for one in a doubtful case place himself as labor with the same hopes for the future for himself and | favor, | best way to accomplish it has of a capitalist @ capitalist who com yes to be good cit! also systematic and productive to the limit 1 in ex change he gives a good wage and healthful working conditions. Vie also given the purchaser of his article the benefit of this efficiency and I have not seen a criticiam of biti ets other than that he ls a good autoerat, I do not fa autocracy but If consideration of lo the pro ducer and the consumer is used to guide instead of all for self, it marits In this age if anything is useful and needed, the more employ ment that can be furnished the bet ter it in for the community The greatest opportunity is for the de velopment of benevolent capitalints who desire to be so and study the To bea capitalist of thie kind, one must sac rifice profits when the needs of bu manity are at stake, To be « servant to humanity's needs and t© render the greatest service to the greatest number Id be my idea of right CHARLES W. WHITE Gold Bar, Wash family as he Henry Ford is pels hig en) wens and y Capitalism itor The Star: “To be or not to be a capitalist,” is the subject handed out by “In quirer.” It seems to me that he ts | striving to make the argument that }labor is obligated to capttal; that j labor cannot live without the serv lices rendered by priyate capital In order to get right with our selves it is necessary to ascertain just what is private capital; how the individual became possessor of it Private capital is that portion of learnings withheld from labor, It iv fabove the cost of production might sell bis product for a price other wise he could never branch out and construct new factories and give em: ployment—but he could not branch out and build new factories without employes either. So, in reality, capital is dependent upon labor It is my conviction that “Tn qufrer” has a moral right to « profit from his enterprise in manufacturing 4 useful and needed product, but I do not believe that it is necessary for any government to let its busl- ings, streets, waterways ways to private contra lat the individual manage and direct his small business with a view to profit, but let that and buntnens | | whieh, by the very nature of things is public business, be completely ai voreed from profit-sharing and graft in general. If the government ha & large business over the railroads & business that will justify it, then | Why Let This Editor The Star United States the Spruc yction cor eonstr in Clallam county, in 1918, miles of railroad, and at Port Angeles a sawmill | These properties were built | y measures to haul spruce from Western Clallam county airplane material The railroad and mili were prac tically completed when the armistice was signed. Work thereon was im mediately stopped and they were never used. Roth railroad and mill haye been held at great expense and continue to deteriorate in value. The Spruce Production corporation been unable to sell them because of an effort to make them sell near re placement figures when it is well known that no rajiroad extensions are being fhade and no sawillis are being built in the Pacific Northwest The operation of the spruce rail road would permit of saving billions of valuable logs blown n in the great storm of January, 1921, which are otherwise a total loss, and the operation of this railroad would tend to greatly relieve the unemployment situation. { Why don’t the Loyal Legion and the Chamber of Commerce of Seattle take up this matter and cooperate with the lumbermen in the Sound cities? Usually there ts some sinis ter reason-—-POLITICS, more often than anything else, It can’t surely be that Seattle ip jealous because some other city might reap @ great er percentage of benefit. That which government hae benefits any Sound city directly or} indirectly affects Seattle, Three times now | have made an | matter inv oblivion, and the junk pile. the man who harps private profits and 54th ave, 8 thin street road. | polities and carrying his greedy ®* | many others, believed what the fen! Rainier ave w in that he insists upon meddling in| spine people on pirations into public affalre—make your profits but don’t) make them by polition! chicanery, if my answer to Inquirer As an individual you may think and even act largely as you please, But if you ever discuss the public bual dincuns it from the point of view of the people and] 1)) 4 to their homes. not of profits PUBLIC BERVANT. extate people told them the improvernents never came |reason is that the majorit property is vacant of It don’t want improvements Brandon #t., Sith ave. 8. from 46th Wealth Rot? m truck. The I wish you would help me.! dry season or go without Prominent lumbermen are telling Me | work is not no plentiful they want these properties and that! cannot fallen timber and it is rotting and!and ¢ thousands of men are out of work If something i#n't done soon these properties representing millions of dollars will follow the wooden fleet afford to buy ton lots | pack it on your back | The street department some gravel on the road ought to see the job. as well let it alone Yours tryly, ¥ | pense, MAUDE SWEETMAN. Safety First Is the Slogan of Pessimist LONDON, Dec. 2.—Asked for the modern definition of @ pessimist, busy fighting Bishop Furse of St. Alban's replied: | worth school ‘A pessimist is a man who wears a| their culture belt as well It would be worth your while tu| this beautiful and see the open-sewer system that will remind you of the streets in | some of the European countries, department in sickness at the Whit- | storm Children have to have | ground was found covered with ff taken every few days, take street trip and see | ‘The health im But The of the and the owners so the about provements and bought homes, |rest of the people have to wade thru] #, to} is a vast sea of mud, on | which it is impossible to drive a car people have to | their coal for the winter during the Now that some of us coal in three and the answer ts has but put | you They had just and saved the ex kept BASLE, germs, and all this is no doubt like| by the insanitary condition ot district, and principally the ee of the street, with ite sewer dit on each side The people on this stret are | payers, and why #honldn't they ha: 4 street on which trucks and € can deliver their supplies wither tting stuck in the mud? OF | county roads are kept in condition, 7 Your for @ better and healti elty, A READER. Maybe They Live | on Mosquitoes, T. ORANGE, N. J., Dec, 2—0 of catteries in Northern New Ji report that a plague of fleas | prevalent thie year. They say @ every measure of relief for the tured pets has thus far failed that no real help can be €xp juntil colder weather comes, jauitoes, on the contrary, appear be less in evidence this year,” This Means Lower Cost of Frog- Dec, 2.—After a in Western Switzerland @ Superstitions Swiss believe ‘this # FREDERICK & NELSON | FIFTH AVENUE AND PINE STREET | are full of allow me to have a little of } quarter, bie space. I want to take | « some “business” people. | =~ — = : - —— ==2!:| FREDERICK & NELSON with a bootbjack (Greek) with | FIFTH AVENUE AND PINE STREET for a dolla that much! very necessary that the individual ness, such as construction of build effort to start a discursion on this to going back to the old 5 Here are his remarks: | ‘will shine shoes aguin for will throw my stand out in Sounds nice, doesn't it? 3—Confectionery and other fountain W6sers—When sugar per pound, you in turn the upward turn, to “meet You began charging Does Santa Know What You Want for: Christmas? E is waiting to see you and hear all about it and give you a fine picture of -himself—and best of all, you will find a letter for you in: his post-office that Santa Claus himself will give you! 4 Where is his post-office? Why, down in the heart of Toytown, in Frederick & Nelson's big store, where Santa is staying surrounded by all his wonderful toys. soda water. Now most) charging 15 cents, with 2) War tax, a total of 17} the “peak” price that ¢ during the war. No, | not over—FOR YOU. 1 2—Soft drink establish: | ments; thone selling “draft beer” at |f) - r-] cents per-—Before prohibition you! | couldn't get over 5 cents for a siass | (ah Ons , and you have the nerve) and get me to pay you 10 cents XN ; On Sale $3 300 Pillows at $1.65 any ways near beer.” reet car bowes (I don’ | you are}—Now that you've) spent $8,000 of oor money to have try to tell you what's the matter with you, maybe you can dig | —circular style, as sketched, with top or ee ied shirred to a large center button. Covered j tee ee with silk-and-cotton-poplin of lustrous ay ‘ weave in plain colors of Rose, Blue, Mul- berry, Gold and Black; special $1.65 each. id Up another $8,000 and hire a good 300 Silk Pillows at $3.25 Children, Do You Know a Fairy Godmother? E do, and if you will promise to be very good and not ask where she left her peaked cap and broomstick, we will invite you to hear her tell stories in the Audi- torium on Saturday, December 3rd, at 2:30 o'clock. The stories she will tell she has written herself. That's why she is a Fairy God- mother. Her name is Miss Loretta. Brady, and the name of the book she has written is “The Green Forest Fairy Book.” If you have a copy of the book, she will write your name in it for you and her own name, too. a. */. Santa is in his post-office every day, and will be so glad to see you! —IN TOYTOWN, THE DOWNSTAIRS STORE ei man, for a year, who will know real- ly where the real troubie Is. was going to say this to the) hootblack—Nover, before the war, have I been asked to pay over 5 gents at a street stand for a shine. Polish 3 have gone hich. Is tt an high Men’s and Women’s Reversible Leather Coats (Sizes to 4 $ 1 9.7 5 Special "THESE are practically two coats in one. One side] .~ is of attractively-finished leather and the reverse ] of novelty coating. Practically impervious to wet | and ¢old' and admirable for utility or motoring wear. Forty-seven Coats only; special $19.75. GIRLS’ AND BOYS’ LEATHER COATS, $10.75: Twenty-five Coats in the lot; unusual values. | © Sizes 30 to 40. Practical coats for winter school | ~ Wear, : Is labor ag high today? No. ‘eli, yway, we are going to get | | you. You will get the chance to) throw your chairs out into the street. | If all men and women reading this a lay off of these little profiteers ‘for a month or two, shine your own, without, you will again get a z shine, and at 5 cents. And this to the soda fountain pro- | Prietor—One of the most pleasant memories of my boyhood days, while 1 was carrying newspapers, was the Pleasure I got from a big, cold, fine chocolate ice cream soda, and at 5 cents, on many of those very warm days in summer. 1 used to work'}) hard to sell enough “extras” to make | & cents, #0 1 could get a soda. Now \]/ ¢ \ you have been a kill. joy. Get back to J) 4 > q F 5 cents, make a good soda, as good | or better than you are making now; then advertise, Watch the steady procession of nickels rolling in. Maybe you don’t care for children’s | business—if you don’t, someone cise | does, and will get it. And this for you, street car bosses —You have killed all pleasure for/ ™a, pa and the kids. No more can Pa take the family over to see grand-| Mma, or to some park when the weath-— €f permits, or over to relatives for #) Gay. It costs too much. The quicker; | A New The Very Smart Leather Vanity Cases Special $4.45 Saturday ERY well- fin- ished and cov- ered with good panther - grain, cobra- grain and spider-grain leath- ers, these Van- ity Cases are of worthy gift quality. Fitted with gilt - finish powder and ‘ rouge boxes, and lip stick, also coin purse. IN BROWN, GRAY AND BLACK —with handles long enough to go over the arm, if desired. Special $4.45. circular Pillows with fruit decoration and corded shirring, as sketched, covered with plaincolor or change able taffeta silk. Plain Rose, Blue, Black and Gold; eight beautiful fwo-tone color combina- tions in the changeable silks. Special, —AIBLE SQUARE, iT FLOOR —-THE DOWNSTAIRS STORE. Me Men’s Christmas Ties In Likable Patterns -65c PROFUSION of cross-striped, figured and dotted patterns as well as brocade effects in these good-looking Ties—so many that it is no task at all to choose two or three that will be bound to meet a man’s ideas. ‘ —THE DOWNSTAIRS STORP Girls’ Tailored Coats, $9.00 —First Floor terete Shipment of Silk Blouses Brings Particularly $7.95 G Values at. . A Pocketful of Toys Comes with these clever Play Aprons for very little boys and girls! For instance, in the pocket of a striped blue and white Carpenter Apron is a tiny saw, hammer and rule—what fun for a small boy! The price, $1.00. “What time is it, please?” Just look at the tiny Wrist Watch that comes with the little girls’ School Apron, along with colored pencils. It costs $1.25. Many others at 75c, 85c, $1.00 and $1.25. INFANTS’ WEAR SECTION, Second Floor Have You Tried the New Licorice Caramels? Full Cream Caramels, made in our own > 6 ” Candy Kitchen of the purest and best Boys Army Last Shoes ing Saturday SPECIAL at SO¢ a pound. / |{III $3.00 and $4.00 ITH broad toes and heavy soles, is a comfortable and durable Shoe for daily wear. Sizes 11 to 1314, $3.90; sizes 1 to 2, $3.50; sizes 214 to 6, $4.00 pair. HE DOWNSTAIRS STO. Who are the people in Seattle that think the street railway and! Our cars are junk? Get on @ car and ask the people who ride in it Just what i« the, matter with the Ger; every one of them will give a stony look and wonder, “where'd that nut come from, noth Ang the matte? with this car;” but Mf you stopped a\$10,000 limosine its Passengers would probably tell you | Ahe cars were too old-fashioned and | Pothing but junk. | | Pink Mesh . Bandeaus, 50c NEW Bandeau model, with elastic shoulder straps as well as elastic band at the waistline. Back fastenings as indicated in the sketch. Sizes 32 to 42, price 50¢. —THE DOWNSTAIRS STORE H SAVY Mixed Coatings are used to fashion these warm, serviceable Coats in Navy, Brown, Rein- deer, Pekin Blue and Maroon; some trimmed with fur collars. Exceptionally low-priced, $9.00. —THE DOWNSTAIRS STORE i I have been in 14 cities, from St Paul to New York, spent some time in fact. lived in four of them. y we have a fine, healthy | Atreet car system that needs to be | 7) tatended a little more. The cars! GoUlld be made warmer for the rest of | ee winter by putting glasw dpors in| 4 back end or putting a canvas) tain acrows the end for a month! two. | But that is no excuse to spend six Pillion for new equipment. The) lors im these cars certainly must of a very fine type and construc: | iif they were not they wouldn't ‘Pegotiate the steep grades they do. | © If you had lived fn Chicago 16) Years ago you would have seen a| Tegular junk railroad and you would Know one when you saw it And every day or two you'd nee 20) OF 49 care stalled somewhere waiting | for a clear track. 8.E.H, ‘|| - fivth Ave, N. . [oe vo) REPE DE CHINE Over-Blouses in decidedly smart modes are featured in this new showing, lavishly hand-embroid- ered or with details of contrasting color, and a number of youtlhifully-styled Blouses have round collar and cuffs of white muslin—these in Mohawk, Copeau, Brown, Rust, Pearl and Black. Tailored Blouses with plaitings and fine tuckings are also featured at this price, in Pussy Willow and Crepe de Chine, in white, flesh-color and bisque; also Tailored Crepe de Chine Blouses in Black, Navy and Brown with plaitings of Paisley-patterned silk. In a Saturday offering, at $7.95. Buy @hem at the New Candy Booth in THE DOWNSTAIRS STORE —Seeond Floor 1 NES ARCOM R OME SEES SCL POORER Ane