The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 12, 1921, Page 6

te Nerprise dorm and Usiiet Pree Berrien * a at b, for goes bankrupt, the mech wealth in preacher on Sunday. day after bank <3 PT ad @ay before. t ‘ren The County The Seattle Star By mall, out of efty, Bee per month; # mentha, 81.606 mont tm thy Washington. Outeide of the 14.58 for # menthn oF $9.00 per year My carrier, 4 ing that we did not heretofcre believe true. ly Governor Hart played politics with the state banking department. AND EVERY OTHER POLITICAL JOB OR “POSITION” UNDER HIS CONTROL, @ fact, he doesn’t differ so very much from other governors we have had in this They have all played politics. That's why we have a huge state political Publtaned Patty by The tar $2.78) year, per moth, ¥, Be @ month P. Hay, the former state bank commissioner who was removed from of- a few months ago, makes some mighty serious charges against Governor Hart in § letter to the bankers of the state. The letter is extremely interesting, tho it tells Star doesn’t know whether Governor Hart ordered a postponement of the ex- of the affairs of the Scandinavian bank in Tacoma until after the last pri- - election. Hay says he did. And if he did, that’s politics AS THE ‘YED! For had the bank been closed before the election—who knows? wouldn't have been elected. get this thing straight. We know that Hart is playing polities. So do you. knew it before he was elected. It was the very thing we expected. when someone tells us it's true? Chilberg—whom every loser in the Scandinavian banks will remember—in- Hart? Certainly he did. What of it? Why be surprised? You knew it before Hart. Did you think that Hart would fail to listen to the words of a bess? No, You knew he would. Politics. Certainly. get us wrong on this question of politics. We use the term merely to describe of haman industry which is chiefly interested in getting control of the pub- That's the kind of politics we have had in going to have many years longer if we let the backroom whisperings iAME IS Maybe So why state for—oh! many years! a Roosevelt to drag his stuffed club into the corridors of the state capitol re the political ring! That's what Washington needs. A house cleaning. Until get it, prepare yourselves for more generous helpings of the sort of administration About as much paper is being wasted in discuss- ing the German marks as in printing the things. About all you can do with a nickel is pay the $40 Hay the Lynden Tribune.) THE SEATTLE STAR {LETTERS T0 EDITOR Exonerates One Fruit Firm | Editor ‘The Star |to in my former letter has ne con Please insert in your paper and| fection with the company where I made my purchase of “misrepre exone t it 001 ping | xonerate the fruit company doing | i onica apples.” Youre taly, business in the Lippy building on ard ave, From One of the Kiddies | Editor The Star: We wish that he and all other In @ recent edition of The Star| sympathetic friends would give us ore appeared @ letter from & oor dollar @ year for a paper the himaeit *A| print and also write for He told ef going down pally. It le eatied Good Will. | ave, and seeing a little) We also are printing litte memor |band of ehfidren playing in the|andum books and a little booklet, cold, “He also said it was so sold/ called Sense and Nonsense, There that he could not stand to listen | would be worth much to a purchas very long. er from the fact that every bit of We thank him for the kindly tn | work from cover to cover is being terest and sympathy he displayed,| done by our children, but we would like to ask him some] At the time mentioned by “A thing, READER” the band had just left Will he come out to the home atone of the theatres which they had Cc. C. BISLENAP, as this company referred 1900 Railroad Ave. Des Moines and visit us? If he will| heen invited to that day, and were he will find one of the happiest | waiting for a bus. nunch of children he ever saw, He} Iam a girl of the home and have would alwo find one of the most|been here for about seven years warmly hed bunch of ohiidren|and I am 13 years old and old he has een. Our home in about a) enough to know what I am talking block from the highway which runs|about. Yours for the kiddies, right through Des Moines and o HRYN WESTOVER, bus leaves every hour from 1918] Draper Children’s Home, Des Moines, Wash. Is Hunting Really a Sport? Editor The Star: and racipg, contestants faoe each Ie hunting realy @ epert? It other on a nearly equal basta, A} when man had to tackle the |lowances are even made for weigit Stewart st wns beast with his bare hands or crude and age. Two seemingly equivalent weapons. Inventions, through thow | forces thas meet, and the sport t& in the contest to determine which has a shade the better of ft. Hunting if @ sure thing. Tt tn but very little con mM |eands of years, have steadily given man greater advantage, while ant mals’ defensive powere have not! changed | volves chance, In sport, ech as prizefighting | test. City Jobs and Their Pay Patttor The Star: on, nt tt] they are trying to and voter 1|cut $10 from his salary and on the cen ey a a tm |Temaining $90 he must clothe fred won word 1 payers picked at random should be upen to establish any new schedule dictated by a few members of the Chamber of Commerce for | called acceptance by the council | wage schedule ‘This agreement is unjust; % bene | Also the civil services eommienion fits some but hurte these drawing | needs some rearrangement. There small salaries, I know of a mar-|are too many jobs obtained by « ried man employed by the city | “pull” and some are taken without whose salary is $100 per month. | taking the civil service examination That mnlary today few could live] A TAXPAYER. | inane The 5-5-3 Plan Editor The Star: |, Should the United Staten agree In regard to your e@iterial “Step /to the 1910-7 plan of the Japanese Where You Are.” of December §:/ It would at first seem vaciliating on It is not improbable that the 663/|the part of the United States, and | and shelter his family. ‘There are |regurd to our lex city government. | hundreds of men employed by the lan article by Maude Sweetman also |city who draw $125 a month and hinrewe a light on the civil service | lee, and I do not believe it right | commisxton and “ts family ring |to cut them and add $50 to $75 to It seoms as tho our city govern-| the men drawing from $250 to $35 ment is getting into the hands of @| 1 believe a minimum salary should few, One example is the wage|be named for married men, and tax-| plan will be the cause of the suo would be an apparent victory in From Banners (George Ut When you con The racing fam With Marathons ‘The place where der that plan would not be great enough to be the cause of any de Jelsive victory for the Japanese in |the event of war, The battle of | Jutland is @ good example that the nLIty of whips is not the primary feature to a victory, The appar-| ently much weaker fleet of the Germans inflicted on the British more than twice as much damage as the Germans sustained, both in men and tonnage, It was any: jthing\ but quantity of ships that decided that battle. If Japan was conceded the 10-10. 7 plan its representatives would go Editor The Star: . I noticed a letter i the inne of Dec. Sth entitied, “The Man Who Drove Foch.” Any rightminded citizen § recor wen the right of this exnervice man to drive eo distinguished a vie- itor an the great Frenchman, and would be the last man to debar one of our overseas men from an honor so great, imply because the acct dent of birth cast bis lot among |the dark bloods of the earth Had the writer stopped at thie we would have been among the first to commend a epirit so unselfieh and generous, but when he expoures the cause of one to whom |ehip, and speaks of America as the lerucible of the world, in which to fuse the Mo 1 ow we are con stantly fusing the races of Burope, he treads on the toes of all men of the Pacific coast who have given any serious thought to this ques tion. EMitor The Star: It is most unfortunate that the lwalary schedule as presented did re duce the lower salaries and in orease the higher salaries. | That wae not what the taxpayers wanted. ‘They think that the eal- aries of al should conform to the Doran & Ce. CANDLES BY BABETT Joy lights the candies in my b of our pation deny citizen. | ’ — DEUTSCH art ry must fill the room of glearna. we are met ts gay And glowing with the darting rout, Till going, you swing wide the door, And blow them out, {home aatiafied and therefore much |leun Hable to “start something” than if they were not satisfied. Of course, we know the outcome if she does “start something,” but hat want to avoid in the If we can do that the United States will have won a vic tory in diplomacy. But should Japan stand as firm on 10-107 as 'the United States on 5-53 then I fear the conference has come to |naught and we who sponsored it shall lone infinitely more than @ |mere 10 per cent more or less in j armament. G. M. No Mongol Assimilation His term—the crucible ef the |world—applied to the Caucasian races of all climes i* proper and | within the bounds of reason; but lapplied to the Mongol ts ridiculous. The Mongol has been @ Mongol from earliest date and will remain one likely to the end of time—or until the eompleve fall of the pres ent civilization. | We cannot asstmfate this blood— |e fact recognized by all authorities |—and hin suggestion to passively | submit to any syetom by which this biood can gain supremacy and au thority, is pernicious and ill be comes a man who has Just shed the uniform of the U. 8, He should be the first to demand an America for American citizens, with the nephews of Uncle Sam in | Positions of authority, be those posi Uons tn the training camps of the country or in civil life, Yours truty, CHARLES lL. INGRAM The Salary Schedule he ought to be cut down te $200” Those are the people who should | be reduced. The taxpayers’ idea of equalizing ealaries is that none |should be paid excesntvely high sal aries, Too many people are getting from $175 to $250 and $300 per month for duties that, if they were let out of their present well paid MONDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1021. Dear Fotkr With Chrintrrias tn the alr, I'd ifke to be a millionaire; for nearly every place I go, I want to spend a wad of dough—go in @ store and walk about, and buy the toy department out But being just a common bloke, at Christmas time [I'm neafty broke, and #0 it always tries my soul to contemplate my skinny roll, and know its meager size forbids things I'd like to buy my kids, And when I think of wealthy guys, and al) the «tuff their money bays for pampered kids whom I dectine to reckon half as good as mine, it makes me sort of bolahevist, to think of what my children mismed. Rut when I bay my kids thetr toys, I think of other girls and boys, in homes of poverty and care, whose Christmas days are biesk and bare; and then it’s in my heart to may, Should mine be better off than they? So when we bay our Christman toys, let’s think of other. girls and boys; for should one kid in al the land hold up a pleading, empty hand, and pray to Santa Claus in vain— then Christmas is a day profane Yor kids are kids—an even pare no matter what their parents are; they crave the candies, games and toys, and all the host of Christmas jor™, and Santa Claus should h their call, and be an equal friend of alll schools south of the efty. Judging from her appearance either she or her very immediate ancestors hail from a@ nation that was notoriously proGerman during the recent war. The male specimens from that coun- try in many cases took advantage of thelr alien standing and refused to serve this country in its hour of need. They had no objection, how- ever, to taking the jobs kept vacant by real red-blooded men, who aa he also bed @ great distike for the U. 8. marines, In fact, #0 great was his distike that he declined to meet them and sneaked off to Hol land, leaving his dupes to face |the music, Gen. Lejenne’s men, diplomary for Japan. However, the} miaries paid in the business world, | com or fallare of the disarmament | [percentage Japan would gain’ un- but tt t# not #0 much discrepancy the principle of county bankruptcy. If the Ger week, remsine techakeally know allied representatives will Fer te oversees the collection = summaied ateas Ben net so Gey wil if tie benkruptey te announerd , plsied enna, the financial post = cysiem the allies will be the Why 3 the Dankruptey for the Ger has would mean repudia §—erasfully German government blood? loans, It would Why of the value of of the ferry system, the people paper marks. It would who live acroms the lake, given » by shopkerpers te chance to submit the bid which more unsecured they offered last summer to sub- German people mit? When they objected to the the big sufferers. rotten deal which the commis might mean the ee = sioners tried to put over at that German Khine time, and would have put over if troops. This iss The Star had net ied # vigorous threatens Ger fight against it, they offered to recently Frenchmen form » company that would run Germans were secking the ferries with NO bonus from means of evad- the county and turn buck te the the indemnity. county any profits accruing, back France is begin §= ing up their promise with an ade Germany will co quate bond. In this suggestion | reason for that they were backed by representa the French are tives of the Chamber of Com, bankruptcy of their merce and the retail merchants, | DR. WM. E. BARTON YOUR CHANCE Now the lease of the lake fer | ties is given to Anderson with a bonus of 20,000 barrels worth $34,000, and seme other concessions of value, and backed by only a trifling bond, = bond that the lessee might well afford to lose after a year had passed and, be had garnered his 20,000 barrel off harvest While the present arrangement is vastly more beneficial to the county than was the ene which popular insistence killed, yet, does not look perfectly right The people want more light en the subject. second term and Martin Van Buren |} was soon to ride up Penr READ an item vania to the effect that |*"°"Ue In a coach in all easential im 18696 a clerk |Perticulars of construction eimilar to/ in the patent of-|'"° chariot in which Puraoah led | fice resigned be- | hs forces into the Red nea. cause he believed | This young man may posstbty that there would |MAVe seen a railway train but it not much longer|%®* °f % very primitive fort, He be use for the |Pad Never seen aw telegraph and patent office, | Ad never lighted @ fire with a I wrote to the|™*tch. He never knew of the pos commissioner of | “!ility of using steam in any large| patents ana|Way in manufacture | asked bim | Except for a limited une of water " that story was true | Mgr mare and the sails | | ne knew nothing abot Fle replied that it was impossible | an} ure’ of power on the ye ath mive @ categorical answer, because | man other than that which resided | Hire in the patent office destroyed |in his own arma or was mad | 6f the correspondence of that |eibig by his use of domecce oot but he eaid that there was) mais and the explosion ef @ small & tradition of jong standing | charge of black powder > nt in the patent office. | He never dreamed of the use of ‘This young man mid, according | electric light or of the camera or the story, that he had examined | of X-rays or of moving pictures or ily the range of inventions as|of the airplane, The distinctive his official duty and that every-|inventions of modern times were | they appeared to have| unknown to him. hed the limit of inventive! ‘He had opportunity to ac @ permanent lore he withdrew t office. “That young man had never seen room lighted with electricity nor th gas, nor even with kerosene. irew Jackson was finishing his | which despondent souls were not Position, and jaffirming that the times of oppo from the|tunity were gone. And somo of jest and the reasons assigned were | Most cogent, were on the | threshold of new | There never has been an age tn the ages when the wall wae loud very end startiiog dis This 4s such an age, coveries, 1 000,00 followers, which lag behind. crowns, or several dollars, “Randits Run Amuck*—headtina The “Amuck” must be a hotel Austria's defictt is 150,000,000200 ex The Telephone Good teleph care in calling telephone numbers. ber called causes loss of time to you, to the party called and to the operator. Every avoidable inconvenience to all concerned. ! Tt is not the loss of time to you alone or fo tha operator that concerns us most, but it is the annoy- ance to the party called. Your mistake seit — to him, and the Telephone Company is held responsible for your error. Consulting the current issue of the telephone di- rectory, instead of trusting to memory; giving your number clearly, and quickly correcting the operator if she misunderstands your call, will greatly in- cease the efficiency of the service. : The Pacific Telephone And Telegraph Company conferences. WHAT CITY IS THIS Study this diagram and see if you can figure out what city of the United States it representa in the lower miaries paid, for in- stance for typists and stenogra- phera, as In the higher poritions, whore they are already receiving from around $209 a month This argument was presented: ‘That the employe receiving $30 was rained $40, a 50 per cent rain, while Decide what each part of the picture means, add and/tne employe recetving $250 was j subtract as directed, and the city’s name should result, | ‘The correct answer will be published in tomorrow’s Star. Directory 1one service depends vitally upon wrong num- instance means raised only $70, a much lower per- centage. To statisticians this may seem an insurmountable argument, but ordinary people who know what it means to live on $120 per month, would say, “Let the employe who is getting $120 keep that rate of pay jbut as for the party Aetting $250 [he was getting enough in the first | Place, he didn't need @ raise, in fact Editor The Star: Leaving Seattle called at the substation near the King st. depot for the mall. Sev. eral U duty. Their presence seemed very one-half a million ($500,000) it nowhere apparent In the report and the report a# presented could not have been adopted without a tre mendous amount of work for which |there was not time. The dispost- [ton of the report leaves the tax- payers a very excellent opportunity to do exactly what they want done; | cut down the tax rate next year. | ABB _ Criticises Rural Teacher } distasteful to a young woman pas on the Des senger on the bus, and she voiced } Moines bus a few mornings ago, we her dislike in a very unjust and un- patriotic manner, The writer, who ax also a passenger, was greatly 8. marines were there on | surprised to learn that this woman | was a teacher in one of the rural r, leith as loyal as they the country be in far better shape than today. It would then not be neces- sary for the government to have troops guarding the mail trains in time of peace. You should have the decency to resign your position and make way for some one who hag read the constitution ef the United States wou! it wa The saving en Bellingham Coal, “More Heat Per Dollar,” will fll many youngsters’ PEND less for better fuel. 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