The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 16, 1921, Page 6

FRIDAY. DECEMBER 16, 1921. THE SEATTLE STAR y are not imbued with that spirit LETTERS TO EDITOR] =" (*4 84 leiples of the true American | Drama Music ne | as ‘aiker hapa a you an bag Pips bas joyable Christmas Present n you give than a term of on in MUBIC, DANCING, BX IABION, WRENCH. of & semnon ticket for a LECTURE COUKSK FF or for THE COLNISH PLAYERS? A handsomely engraved enrd of presentation will be furnished by the Sehool. ‘Telephone Capitol 0240. i “ Pudiiening Ma Ca, Phove Mate ooo « upon being so falr as to give both sides of the afrument a hearing in I trust the American ino with indignation and atop to the depredations Bayre and his fanatic) yours very truly, L, C, HAYHS, Chewelah, Wash, ” pei Diy carrier, city, be @ month A Chance to Rise Uncle Sam is the biggest employer in America. Outside the army and navy and po- litical appointments, in the civil service alone he has a payroll of 600,000 persons. Government employes are paid fairly well—that is, from $1,240 to $3,840 the year. Their tenure of employment is sure, under ordinary conditions, and after a certain 10, Both should be vitally tnter ented in wha er pertaing to the home or buriness life Halenc and | are the only two men "007 put who have really understood the mar of Kockwe and I have been hap- |!dea married these 15 years, happy | i day out 1 attribute ft to ywing the above, artich le wil our A LETTER FROM AVRIDGE MANN I left Seattle's busy viowly up ried status 1 am, pily day ina my fo Dear Mditor One day last week I rustionted, so to mpeak marts and spent @ day in foren parts, and rambled and na’s thriving little town net a friend of mine, and got invited out to dine; . If I would stay, he'd nee me nately on my way, catch—bis words 1 quote"the § o'clock Seattle Daddy, Noldt’s Putterhorns are de Heious —Advertineroent. | | ad 1920 Losses and Your Tax dowr I went and hed a dandy feed, and then he got his tron steed, and mumber of years they are retired on modest pensions. Hours of labor are reasonably short, eight hours the day or 44 hours the week, and as a rule conditions generally are comfortable and reasonably pleasant. Yet—colleges, high schools and private schools, report that an ever-increasing num- der of their best young men and women are expressing aversion to government em- ‘ployment, while instructors are reporting that on their side they are averse to the ‘Wdea of recommending such employment to students. _ What is the trouble? Lack of opportunity to rise to the top. In the old world, with its fixed institutions and conditions of life, steady employ- ‘ment and old-age insurance seems the ideal. In America the young man or woman worth while doesn’t want any such “insurance” and, as a rule, won't have it. He wants adventure, risk, opportunity, for which he is willing to take all kinds of chances. “He may never realize his ideals, but that is utterly beside the point. He will have taken the risk. " There you have the spirit of America, a spirit which must be fostered to make men women of the future who will not only be good, but what is vastly more im- lant, good for SOMETHING. : : They must have the chance to rise. Hun bank that failed with deficit of 345,000,000 marks might have been saved if somebody had chipped in a dollar and a half! If Peggy Joyce doesn’t marry again it’s going to save some man a lot of meney. future of the United States for good or Ul The interests of the American people require that these matters be passed upon to the fall extent of constitutional demands, The world has had a humiliating experience in its first encounter with the Ametican senate. It is of olf stock has been placed on the market since the Armisiice— nearly $80 for every American, or $400 for the average family. In @yving for pearls, watch out for the sharks, . Professor Rowbdud figures a fly the senatorial right to disagree hae $985,969359,755.100 deacend- ‘With the president upon funda- time for the senate to show that ants in five months. Suppose she mental matters of foreign policy. it can create as well as mutilate, | COCkied every time she laid an ego? | The rest of the world, having The Harding treaties will doubt | leas be accepted by more than the necessary two-thirds vote. It will be well for the world thus to learn how effectively the president and the senate call co-operate. And it will be well, too, for the senate to realise that it is re sponsible to the American people not only to destroy, but abo ta set things done. I want to sdy to you gentlemen | | took me to the elty dock to cateh the boat at o'clock; when we arrived the place was bare—theré waan't anybody there. We found a cop who sald, “I vow! The Inst boat leaves at 7 now; there ain't another boat tonight, but even so, you're wtill all right-—an interurban train will go at quarter after 9, you know,” We nought the 915 express, and found the cop minoed hin kuese—the blooming interurban line had sent ite tra at 9; at lant, to cut the story down, I ht the midnight train to town. At 2 am. I reached the house and told my troubles to my apours; whe wald, “The yarn will have to do, for anyway, it's some thing new; besides, you tell it fairly well--but let me give your breath a smell!" Poem s! Civrite, Yomn French Appreciate Gates Editor The Star I réad in your paper a letter from Mra. Sweetman on “Has the Legion Forgotten?” I wish to state that the oversight to the counell of defense wax not the fault of the French in this city, We have special reasons to be grate: ful for the wonderful patriotic serv ices shown to us by the men at the head of this counetl, Mr, Gates used his energies all the time for us and to show our gratitude we sent a let ter to the committee on arrangements |for the reception of Marshal Foeh, |requesting that be and Mr, Preston be placed on that committee, know jing then that our interests would not be overlooked. ben Marshal Joffee comes to the city, an we hope he Will in the near future, we will see that Mr. Gates i# |shown the honor ne #0 richly de |werves, Yours very truly, | JACK SOMMER, French Vice Consul, Pioneer Bidg. Another Ten Commandments Editor The Star: 1. Of course, marry for love but not until] woman is 25 and man 30 years of age. 2. Give her and give him the privilege to come and go as they like or go. 3. Une endearing terms providing they are not bromidic. 4 Appreciate whatever is done by either, but don't show too much ap preciation. §. Don't marry a man, or man marry & woman whose habits must need correcting. Marry in your own class, Otherwise unhappiness will prevail & It ty the duty of every man or! woman, whether married or single, o ‘' Book _ baa that if beef sold on the hoof and bee? sold on the block at prices that were in proportion, the people would not care #0 darn much what the packers’ profits were. I want to ask you gentiemen and also the pockers if a four-cent beef steer and @ 40-cent beefateak have come to stay? 1 went to ask you whether @ four it lamb and a T5-cent lamb chop are fiztures in this government? — Representative Hudspeth (D.), Texas. Tt looks to me aa tho pretty soon we shall have more officera than privates in the United States army. —Senator King (D.}, Utah. Fast as the world gets better somebody invents something. : Making Money jin Oil A lot of the news you used to | read from Denison, “Texas, was \elicked over the wires by A. L. | Lancaster, telegraph operator. He | took @ flier in oil. Bought a lease }im the Mexia field for $930. Sold | it for $15,000, He quit telegraph- | ing. Many stories like that come | from the oil country. True ones, too. But before you invest, remem- ber that nearly $8,000,000,000 To the Public and Scandinavian American Bank Depositors Nearly six months have now elapsed since the Scandinayi American Bank closed its doors. Glowing promises were immedi@= ately made of an early settlement and a for dollar. Depending upon the pr pility of the public, while seeking to quiet the uneasy depositors, occasional reports of the progress of the organization of the pew Bank of Washington and {ts contemplative plans of buying the assets of the defunct bank, there- by reimbursing the depositors in full. However, throughout all this scheming of pulling the wool over the people's eyes and maintain- ing two expensive headquarters with a large force of clerks and bookkeepers, apparently no serious effort was made to arrive at some basin of settlement The facts as to the actual condition of the Scandinavian Ameri- ean Bank, and what has taken place during the last six months, have been carefully kept in the dark Here are some of the facts that the Depositors’ Committees has unearthed 268,462.90 of the depositors’ money has been spent, up to November Ist, in the “process of liquidation.” The committee Was also informed by the chief deputy bank supervisor at the time that 25 clerks and bookkeepers were then employed and that more had been employed in the past Wa Rent @ representative to Olympia and he was flatly refused vital information by the public officials. ‘The organization of the Scandinavian American Rank Deposit- ors was the result of a long and patient waiting for the banks and public authorities to merit the faith that has been placed in them by the depositors. Heretofore when a bank has failed the depositors haye meekly sat by ositive assurance of dollar ‘hile the banking interests continued their manipulation of whatever was left of the hard earned deposits, ‘The public officials ha last been aroused to the point where they &re now sending out warrants. But a closer scrutiny of the State Banking Laws will reveal the fact that since its amendment in 1941 the bankers ainply protected and given many loopholes by which they in evade paying thelr assessments into the State Guaranty Fund. The only sécurity the deporitors in the banks have for their money is @ pass book, and unless steps are taken to entorce leginia- tive action for their protection as well as the banks, they will be left entirely at the mercy of bankers The executive board of the Scandinavian American Rank De- ouitors Protective Association calls upon all those who have money n the defunct bank to join the association and help carry on the work of obtaining 100 per cent on the dollar For further information call on H. W. Powell, 424 New York Bullding. A mass meeting will be held at the Longshoremen's Hall, 1400 Western Avenue and Union Street, Sunday, December 18, at 3 p.m PUBLACITY COMMITTEE OF THE DEPOSITORS’ PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION THE LURE BY LEO H. LASSEN Refore the shrine of Beauty 1 have kaseled While Time haa claimed tn hours precious tol! Of Youth; Pleasure would have staked my soul In gardens that Desire had revealed: And then to answer Music I have tried To soive the magic of the tvory keys That hold the tones of master melodies— But still the Urge has not been satiafied! I know that somewhere, whether near or far, I shall find peace, but now the wanderiust, Like the lure of some fardistant star, Has called me from the common road of dust. Each hour of living 1 am on the quest To find the hidden hills of endless Rest! GEOGRAPHIC PUZZLE YESTERDAY S ANSWER. 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Don't marry @ person not physically fit. | & Have wparate sleeping apart. ments—there are moments when the |"king or queen” needa be alone. — [providing they know where each oth | ‘Treat each other|as much as ponnible jae guests” | & If either ts i show considera tion. Kaditor The Star In your edition of Wednesday un ing “New Income Tax wlutement wag made that “Lonwen in 1920 could be deducted |from net income of 1921." | That In not correct, ‘The new law fllows net lonwes for 1921 to be de jducted from net incomes of 1922, but is Not retroactive to 0, This applies to individuals, partner. ships and corporations, | Aw a large number of taxpayers |made net lowes during the business collapse of 1920, the statement in your article may mislead some of [them tn thelr tax lability for 1921 | entimaten ELI MOORHOUSE & CO, Certified Public Accountants. ‘Thank you for setting this matter straight —Kditor, Editor The Star: It was with considerable interest that I read an article in your yalu- able paper of Dec, 24 entitled “Man starts drive to kill all cats in U, 8.” I wish to take this means of ex Presving to you my most bitter oppo- nition to the tatements and plan of fered by one Rockwell Sayre to ex- terminate the cat. It makes me hang my head in shame to think we have to call American citizens, people who harbor and propagate such heathenish prin- ciples as thone offered by Mr. Bayre. 1 would ery beware of the person who would wilfully torture dumb animals just to satisfy their own greedy lusts, Buch people are dan gerous to the welfare of socitty THE BOSTON TEA PARTY | BY DR WM. KE. BARTON ERHAPS you do not care for an niversaries but if you do you will be intérested in the fact that 148 yours ago tonight on ‘Thursday eve ning, Dee. 6, 1778, & group of men disguised an Indians boarded three ships Iaden : with tea, then lying {n Boston harbor, and broke open the cheats, 342 in number, and threw the tea inte the ocean. In memory of that event, and of the festive and patriotic crowd who thus mingled their patriotiem with merriment, it would be in order to- night to put the kettle on and have & mild cup of old Oolong, which our fathers called Bohea. | Viewed from this distanes, it may jneem 4 trivial matter but old John Adams did not think so. In his diary he called it, “The most magnif- jcent movement of all” He said— “There is & dignity, a majesty, a [solemnity in thir last effort of the [Patriots that I greatly admire. This demtruction of the tea in so bold, #0 jdaring, #0 firm, so intrepid and so jfiexible and it must have #o im. portant consequences and so lasting |that I cannot but consider it as an lepoch in our history.” | He was right about it. The Boston Tea Party was one of the important steps leading up to the American Revolution apd the freedom of the colonies, The inwue over which this event occurred Is now remote and it Is not necessary to go into historic details nor to recall much of Iterary com: ment There im, however, one lesson which law-making powers might all consider in every generation and that is that the revenues necessary ; he Support of the government |should be so levied and distributed as jt yield the necessary funds with the past practicable discomfort and re- Special gift boxes | eentment. ‘The tax on tea war a trivial thing, and may neem not worth the fuss and bother it cauned. 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