The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 31, 1921, Page 1

$ T y First in | News—First i in Circulation (by 11,727 copies a day)—Call Main 0600 to Order The Star at Your Home 2-50 Cents a Month—Why Pay More? [ ANU ME Son Miommamnennn cmc :Let’s Make 1922 a 100: ‘Pet. Year for Seattle! Siticnitcrtic tte tee ts (EDITORIAL) EATTLE has just passed thru a hard year. “Hard” in the sense that every period of re- adjustment from soft times to times of stiff plugging is hard. On Seattle’s future The Star is an optimist, just as it always has been, but The Star is not a wild opti- mist. To overestimate the golden eggs your goose may lay is always foolish and sometimes fatal. For the coming year, The Star foresees more inev- itable reconstruction in our business and social life. But The Star does foresee also that 1922 will be a bet- ter year than 1921. How much better it will be for Seattle depends upon Seattle as a whole; how much better it will be for YOU individually depends upon YOU as an indi- vidual. The Star foresees, too, as the new year approaches, good days ahead for the man who will accept the changed conditions and put forth ONE HUNDRED PER CENT SERVICE. For service will be the keynote of every success of the coming year. The flush times, when the laggard drew the same rewards as the real worker, have Seattle as a whole must catch this spirit—the spirit of GIVING BETTER VALUE—then 1922 will be the good year for all that The Star foresees. Just so, the individual who catches this spirit will assure himself of a GOOD YEAR. wi tein * UR public employes must square themselves with this doctrine of Service. During 1921 Seattle made a commendable start on tax reductions — a little progress in public . efficiency. Much more of the same must be effected. Retailers, whose prices have failed to keep pace downward with the trend of wholesale markets, must fall in line. Wages? Common labor in many instances is down too low; in virtually all cases, low enough. Some skilled crafts have slashed their scales, but certain other lines of skilled labor have not liquidated. Build- ers and manufacturers hold that some of these high scales are holding back building and industrial growth. This puts the heaviest burden on the jobless worker. Too high wages block industrial progress; too low wages destroy American ideals and standards. This wage question in 1922 must be met squarely and hon- estly by employers and employes and settled fairly. THE RESULT WILL BE MORE JOBS The railroads owe a duty to the public which they must pay. That duty is to stimulate the life-blood of commerce. Rates must be cut to increase the ship- ment of goods—the product of labor! RENTS MUST COME DOWN! Costs of every public utility, especially telephone and gas rates, should be reduced to a minimum. The public service commission ought to see to this duty promptly and effectively. We are all making our living in Seattle. Our work turns out goods. These goods must be sold if we are to continue to work. It is part of the service we owe to each other to buy Northwest products. We, all of us—laborers, craftsmen, professional men, salaried folks, business managers, merchants, manu- facturers—must get this idea of ONE HUNDRED PER CENT SERVICE into our heads and into our hearts. PULL TOGETHER! LET’S MAKE 1922 A GOOD YEAR — A ONE HUNDRED PER CENT YEAR FOR SEATTLE! ’ INNER NINE ERERENINENING SNIPE IT VICTORY IN | | | { | det, photographed as he left Atlanta federal prison upon the Christmas pardon of President Harding. victed under the espionage act. Poindexter Joins in | | [ EUGENE DEBS AS A FREE MAN | HEAVY STORMS "2" 'sc20 cm ye Bia DUE ON PACIFIC’ a ae a eng RR “On the Patered as Se Class Matter May 3, 1899, at the Pe Jor the Act of VOLUME —< SEATTLE, WASH., SATURDAY, DECEMBER ssue erg Americanis m “There ‘Can Be No Compromise DOU! The Seattle Star =: fail, $5 to $9 1921. CHILD MURDER WAVE | * } | ‘Il TOTS Staid Communities Advocate Lynch Law to Put End to Epidemic NEW YORK, Dee. 51 —Wiend ish child murders have become an epidemic on the Atlantic coast. in New York and New Jersey alone 1) little vietins have been placed in their graves in the last six month: Eugeric V Deéba, several times socialist candidate for presi-| , A stranger before her N: Debs was con-|K™ pat gins wes ee | J ap Exclusion PF ight’ : ator Miles Pe ndexter Saturday ; mer Alexander Returns to Home i in Tacoma ""*! MA. D 1—H. F. Alexar Ri KILLS SMALL * DALGHTER rgling his daughter, 6, t < FRAD > Jap Arrested for Carrying Weapon Veterans to Hold ) Big Dance Tonight | haby, w em the gir v t hopes would t “About two miles from the ext distant trees, a distin maine what, it was Dry New Year’s Eve ould blame atter he didi e stood a moment in the drifts, to torn by TACOMA, D uM und dryest New Yea 1 and al dancing m Jat midnight DIE IN 6 MONTHS vieted eneed = ‘Theresa | Is Promised Tacoma *\\""' ust ston | shipping turned over to a State Needs Corporation All Its Own! (EDITORIAL) The idea put forth by Cliair- man Lasker, of the U, 8, Ship- ping Board, for the organization of a large Pacifie Coast corpora tion popularly owned and popu- larly financed, to buy and op erate U. 8. sels, is good, in part at least. But what The Star would like to see is, not # gigantic corpo- ration to monopolize the entire trade from all Pacific Coast ports, but one strong company to handle all the business, and others, if the peo- ple there so desire, to serve the Oregon and California ports. The people of all the com- munities of Washington are standing together and working together as never before in their history. What finer cial undertaking could they car- ry thra during 1922 than to launch 4 great overseas trading sid carry our flour and grain, our lomber, our canned goods, our manufactured articles to other lands and bring commer- whie | back the silks, the oils, the tea, coffee and other goods we buy in exchange? lieves that with supplied locally) such a corpora- tion could be successfully start- ed. The Star believes that Northern Idaho would join in financing the undertaking, thus tieing that rich district's inter- ests even closer ‘with our own. With an all-Coast company in operation there would be an ever-present danger that the Washington ports would not obtain their just share of the business, as California, with its much larger population and cor- respondingly greater share in | control, might, naturally enough, use its influence to divert ship- ments which we considered we | were entitled to have, Let the ports to the South organize to handle their own commerce, and us ours. The competition will be good for all of us. And Puget Sound's natural advantage of lying closer to the Grient than does San Francisco, 281 miles will have a chance TO OPERATE FREELY TO PUGET SOUND'S ADVAN- TAGE. i = SHPPIN MEN CONSIDER PLAN | Giant Corporation Idea to wn sia by Be Threshed Out Prominent » shipping men of the S ment shipping 0 meee Admission to U.S. . “Ihave not found (Purn to Page 4, Column 2) shipping board ves | Washington | _TWO CE NTS IN SE ATTLE EAST. BUSES: 10 RUN AGAIN Despite Threats 0 Arrest, Coweft | Park Is Promis Transportation * With both sides claiming vie tory as the result of the handed down in the county superior court Judge John M. Wilson, the © en park jitney situation as hopelessly deadlocked ag ever S: yo ness that be would grvext j drivers Nttempting to Davee \Gawke park line. aa | The deadlock ene. boanent on | @ifferences in interp | Thurston county judge's order, order denied the right of the 4 rate, and called on the: 0 issue a new Js declared that this ¢ ner re took away the last of right to run the buses. } “At least until a new | cate of necessity is | Maj. Reeves asserted, “this | sion leaves no loophole for Jitney interests.” { Crawford took issue warmly | this view. j “The certificate of necessity,’ | he asserted, “is merely the proval of the state to an act ready legal. It is not to have one to operate buses.” He was emphatic in his reit that, in epite of threats of arrest, |sitne ys would be back in op Saturday aftetnoe OOn. ABE ATTELL'S E WIFE IS Accused of Complicity oo Bond Theft Attell is charged with ver use of chemicals, tng i and many “!57 Chinese Seek ng I Itbe Unite ol Staleae