The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 31, 1922, Page 7

hong. LETTERS | Mother Slain, Father Held to the | Wi id? EDITOR Whom ston Her Story aiat i Erickson Answers 7 Carroll Wditer The Star A week ago Sunday, Councilman = 3 J. BL Carroll opened ‘a newspaper | 5 campaign against the three cent car) . vy fare initiative ordinance, His closing | paragraph implies that I am promot ing a plan to confiscate homes and | drive industries from Seattle, That, | along with other points he has raised. impels me to take up the gauntlet he has thrown down j I came to Seattle more than 20 years ago, built a home, and still own it and live in it. I organized a man. | wfacturing business, gave ten of the q best years of my life to its deveiop- ment, and stil! retain my interest Paw ATTLE STAR Cynthia Grey: Young Man Let Only Girl Go Home From Theatre Unescorted—She's Peeved—He Secks Advice | Dear Miss Grey: FREDERICK & NELSON FIFTH AVENUE AND PINE STREET You have well settled the difficulties of other readers and now | am asking your assistance. For the t year I have kept company with a girl, who to my mind, is the so-called dream girl. She lives out in the Complete Homefurnishers and Interior Decorators country several miles, and quite frequently she comes to town in the evening while we take in a movie or other entertain ment | ‘The only means of getting to her home is by an auto bus, or Every time we ‘interurban, which runs three miles away, I would ride out to her home with her on the Lawt }month we went to a theatre and We waited for the next one and | mentioned that |1 had to be at work early the next |morping so asked her if It would be all fight if 1 did not go out to her |home with har Inam hb an the jbus came within a block of her hore }1 felt justified in doing this, She | immediately replied that #he was sat jisfied with that arrangement went out Miny Grey will reerive callers in her office Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 1 to 2 p,m, and on Tuesday and Thursday from 11 a.m. to 12 m, each week, Please do not come at other Umes as it seriously interferes with her writing bus. |minsed our usual bus. with fat turn deaf hubby's and even te bother to read in papers of the therein. For what purpose does Councilman Carrot! assume that 1! | Last Saturday I called her up and Just what is going on in polities a ad would have my home confiscated and she reminded me that I had let her |‘bings of state; instead of stitching lawn i tatting yokes and baking Ddusiness destroyed? }ro home on that long Journey alone. During my ac: tivity im business the Manufacturers’ | unprotected. With this conversation Ske, they frequently nag study till they have opin q association honored me with office ; and promotion from secretary to vice president and then president. Does . it seem reasonable that the manufac turers Of Seattle should have intrust:_ ed these positions to one ignorant [she politel? slammed the receiver in | truth own men conclusions fay ear. jlons of their own; to |. Now Miss Grey, do you think that of this‘and that, as th she was right or waa I right, whieh? | folks arriving at If she should take offense at such a/Wite unknown to me and you! Jamalt matter then girle are stub| O%. ‘Us @ aad state of affairs for The Arrival of a Direct Import Shipment Enables Us to of or indifferent to their welfare? | At " bere Jone who daily sees his womenfolks é upper left is Mrs.\ yoping you can set mo at ease, 1/tke on themnelves responsibilities « ‘ "s ; with gy , emp ater Pam \Norma Chiodo, daughter of|am , BLIM. |*tFong, brave man might shudder at Offer, Wednesday: FR etter the cost of production, 1 have was killed by Oscar Thomp-| torn becouse ef the astitude she Nee! vst squarely! He weeds to mpend wy fy I feet that she ta entirely son, Mrs. Chiodo's father. At) within rer rights, except that she |" Mecpless nights In learning how upper right is Mrs. May| should have taken the stand at the! vote, and reading up on fooliah Johnson, who was also slain|"me you proposed letting her go|things that other people quote; for. being male, the ruling sex, It Is quite Pe; " . i me unecacorted. 7 a was Mrs, Thompson's sister.|tutety unused to t alone late | Yote for Bill, or Bob, or Tom, or Jim At lower left is Oscar Thomp- in the evening, « cally | Of course, two males may disagree. son, about to be tried for the |have no ation she oe fog oe tggek by ornare . killings and who is said to| im auch ivule that “great minds differ"! But | have confessed, it is annoying to find a rib of Adam on einen eaking out as if she bad a mind! | ake my advice and never wed you're sure to chew the rag, and when the race ix over you'll be left to hold the bag. * * * Some day—oh shocking to relate!—when you have argued long, it might be proved that he was right and you were In the wrong! Ww. F eee What ean one do brows and eyelashes? Brush a little yellow vaseline in them night and morning with a soft learned that office seekers and land speculators how! more about the taxes of manufacturers and working: men than the manufacturers or workingmen themselves. While in the Manufacturers’ aero elation, T sw industries come into this city that were bled white by these land speculators. who are con- | Stantly sobbing about high taxes artv-| ng out industry. I have seen office Seekers on the stump weeping for Manufacturers. And I have seen | them in action in the city council] after their election. | _. For several years 1 have worked ‘as chairman of the utilities commit- tee to get a car line to the manufac turers on the Duwamish waterway. One of the councilmen much con cerned about manufacturers’ taxes Joined hands with a railroad corpor ation to block the building of this line, and Councilman Carrol! sup him until the manufacturers Unusually Attractive Values in Chinese Sea Grass CHAIRS and ROCKERS At: hen per-| is no real danger | haps there yearold Norma Chioda, married! daughter, who must make her cholce| A Man , when the state calls her as witness | “Worried at Thompson's fortheoming trial! Dear Mise Grey: Oh, aren't wom here. en dilly? It fs with great pain I If Norma honors her father she | note that is teak ons ata might cheat the law. in flagrant Honoring her mother will probably known to disagree send her daddy to the gallows. Children cannot, and 1 should not respect the parent who has done something to warrant their nome deciding how to vote canes they are for thin eye confesed crime by attacking the character of the two women The children have disowned me,” believe I LOS ANC , Jan, 31.—"Honor ‘Were forced to come to the city hall thy father hatred,” she asserts, and tearfully he accuses, “and would see mo Brush Pinch the brows into shape in a body and protest. Oscar Th 4 to adds, “I shall tell the truth, even if|M&nged to get a paltry life insur} T have worked and voted to get an ir Thompson, charged with lit means the noose for father!” ance.” Star readers who wish formula ‘ * * murdest Frets eed tha eat tajune.| “washer wae qr whe Grtahtne: || use teeeae be ameeeg ent treet HAIRS and Rockers of several sizes and patterns are in- Off-peak electric power rate for the manufacturers of the efty, which the! ‘Thomson ordinance t*k away from) Norma retorts mother, and “And thy mother——" Mrs. Bertha Thompson, |tion of the fourth commandment Norma and her 12-yearold brother land insanely Jealous, fle never supported ing electric Hight bulbs will receive kame by writing to The Seatt cluded in this offering. Two typically attractive designs cornered ‘them. We have had letters from the in her home and shot to death, to-| witnessed the killing. and themselves, | just didn't want anybody to be bap-'| star Washington bureau, are pict ed Superintendent of lighting and peti-|gether with her sister, Mra. May |they believe, barely escaped his mur. |py, I quem. Whatever love I may! | New York ave. Washingte ured. frenay. Their testimony will|have had for him is gone, TI shall, | ¢. and inclosing nelf-addressod tions galore to give the manufactur-| Thompson, by the enraged husband |derow ers this off-peak rate. The increased after years of unhappiness! [probably determine fate of {tell the t power rate of the Thomson ordinance! This im the tragic dilemma for 1%-|Thompeon, who sought to Justify the tho that will be hard one industry and drove others - laste = = Dusiness away from the light I pushed to a vote an ortt.| Testoring off-peak rates, and tr defeated. And Councilman Car. |]) helped to give the manufacturers | zecoee! FREDERICK & NELSON function wince the pub- | } FIFTH AVENUE AND PINE STREET | the if it means hig death, and stamped envelope for reply All pieces are strongly constructed and of comfortable proportions. Most of them have large arm rests. Some of the larger ones are fitted with magazine or sewing pockets. i 5 f i Three especially-attractive lots, offering unusual values— featured for Wednesday’s selling. (FOURTH FLOOR) Fit iB lf | Was created. yy ts the largest de- the city, collecting and ever $6,000,000 a year, bas no charter provision for ita it. Last year I tried to! the useless department abol-| ished and a transportation depart- Ment created, thereby saving manu. |) - —_——_~ ~ — — - facturers and home owners $10,000 or } $12,000 a year in taxes. Councilman In a Remarkably Attractive Offering: 275 New Japanese Crepe Tub Frocks leadership as a tax-saver, manufac ("SPECIAL | $2.85 Manufacturers have as much to! Sizes 16, 18 and 20 pain by low car fares and good serv AND-EMBROIDERY and striking i i i iA lee as anyone. High car fares or Poor service means a high turnover in the working force of a factory And that turnover alone may be More expensive in a factory than the added taxes under our three-cent fare _ plan. The manufacturers of the Du waterway expounded that to my committee Inst week. What manufacturers and home owners should consider ig that they are Now paying $6,000,000 a year for transportation. ‘That two-thirds of all the lots and lands in the city are ‘Yaeant and contribute nothing to this Yast sum. That under the three nt fare ordinance these vacant lots and lands ors bear a portion of thig transportation tax of «ix million: | @nd to that extent lighten the scat 4 _ Of industry and labor Counci! Carroll argues that This Is the Famous More car lines and more travel on the cars spelis more cost o ity. If that is true. reverse Bhould bring ews cost and prosper. ity, Assuming that is good logic, our service should be stopped and #ix million doliars a year saved. Can any home owner believe as Council ™an Carroll does, that paying $10 additional taxes and saving $50 on ear fare, is going to confiscate his home? Manufacturers and home owners should borrow. no trouble about the hobgobling of no fares, Whether de-| “sirable or not, it cannot be consid until the bonded debt is paid __ Out: ins bonds run for 18 yeur ‘Bnd at the end of that time there May be nothing left of our trotiey Hines except the last payment to Stone & Webster. Anyway, 18 years ig long enough to discuss fully the question of no fares. OLIVER T. ERICKSON EaAitor The Star: In your issue of the 2ist and again on the 26th, two soreheads are wondering why policemen ride free | on the street cars | If they knew a little more about the facts in the case, things might be different. First of all, police officers are re quired to come down to court and try to get convictions on arrests made the day previous. Ali this on their own time. They surely would in a fine fix on $135 per month paying carfare three or four times a Gay to gain revenue for the city During the tew weeks that police. men did pay on street cars, court revenue fell down from $14,000 to $7,000. So, after all, I don't where the city and the taxpayers are losing anything. Let's hope that “Ww. HY and T. M. Alvardo nee things in a different light now. Sincerely, B. T. H. nee “Perky Prim” Panty Dresses INE Japanese crepes in the gayest of colorings are featured in these quaint little | Play Frocks, with trimming of contrasting color, hand-embroidery and rick-rack | to accentuate their appeal. BROWN CORAL color-combinations are used with telling effect in these new Frocks of firm Japanese crepes—seven charming styles in the offering, four as sketched. 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