The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 1, 1922, Page 6

e Seattle St ar Pudtianed Datiy by The Star Pudliening Oe, Pheve tof ety, Se per month: F montha 4 months, $2.78) Fear, | tm the etate of Washington, Outside of the state, #06 per month, ‘ 2 tor # montha, oF F940 per yaar, Hy carrier, elty, be a month. Repair These Downtown Streets must do something about its downtown paving. Any autoist and almost any . n can testify that nearly every business street is in disreputable condition, in at least. tuck-holes abound. Bricks project, to the destruction of tires and the menace of y. Bump succeeds bump as you roll along. Muddy pools are common, The railway crossings are rough and dangerous. work must be done. We all want taxes reduced, certainly, but even the desir- of low taxes must not stand in the way of this needed maintenance and repair ve will soon be upon us. How foolish for us to invite thousands of auto tour- Seattle and then not have respectable streets for them to ride over when they our business section! ‘f \ A Real Swell Affair ‘The democracy of England is all agog over the wedding of Princess Mary, set for this month. The brideamaids have already gone into training and Mary's wedding will be the first pulled off in FEBRUARY on MON TUE WED THU FRI the SECOND MONTH ts tue suortest mouth im the year, but tuil of holidays probably send his regrets, if in- groundhog tomorrow. If he sees his shadow, we're nd crown princes who bave been cold weather. funetioning, the net very hap- birthday. It's Georgia day tm that state, ily, of late, the day when James Oglethorpe arrived in 1733 and Also, George Harvey will prob- ably be there in ® plag hat, pat- ‘s day thruout the Union, and it's also ae ee coal ‘Washington's birthday on the 22d, the stntes Here's good tack to the bride EON AA alka: Aste Sip, - Athen du commen cn ‘Dn and we hope shel land a hus- in Florida and in all of Arizona, except the five northern counties. woe ra lina aay ends with a gala observation of Mardi Gras, in Alabama, and Louisiana. The 23th also happens to be Shrove Tuesday. ir. Ed. Gallagher yelled “Fore!” but Miss Har- #t Stevens didn’t duck and so caught the ball on apex of her wishbone, right where they tuck the : g into Thanksgiving turkeys. And a Chi- ourt refuses to make Ed. pay damages. Darn ellow who can’t miss a lady, anyhow! Angeles is shuddering over a queer shock t wasn’t earthquake or battleship gun practice. it was the progressives trying to answer ¢ was Hiram when the vote went in?” When the laboratories (photo- graphic) were confronted by that situation (the purchase of three laboratories by the Eastman com- pany) they entered into negotia- tions with the Pastman company. As @ remult @ contract wa: i” under which the Bast epecified that so lo oratories uaed American stock— meaning the Eastman stock — the Eastman company would never open these laboratories in competi- tion with these other laboratories, But a2 soon a8 there was any evt- dence of departure from that plan, the laboratories of the Eastman company would immediately ogen end go into competition with these ether laboratories, undersell them in the market and practically force them out of dusiness,-— Saul F. Rogers, For Film corporation, be- fore senate finance committee expression, “oceans of trouble,” means— and Pacific. and asked that in fairness to the veterans’ bureau an independent investigation be made and that if the veterans’ bureau be found blameless a correction be made. The Star has made such an investigation. It finds that while for some time following the armis- For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thon hast said, None eerth me. Therefore shall evil come upon thee: thou shalt not know from whence it cometh. —~ Isaiah ated. 219,11 Health hint: These days you had better not invite anybody to dinner the U. S. Veterans’ burean. tice, Brandon, in common with enicss you want him. editorial was composed al- thousands of other disabied sol ‘entirely of quotations from diers, was shamefully neglected, ry in the house of repre- that is not the situation now, nor LEARN A WORD by Congressman Hud has it been for months past, made out a case 2%, 1921, wrote to Congressman ¥ based upon the ree Carl Hayden, of Arizona: “The Today's word ts MILITANT. which showed that Soldier government has been very liberal It's pronounced —mill-i-tant, with ‘ he and his aged mother with me and I feel that I owe it accent on the firnt syllable. ol % ” It means—fighting, combating, en- 3 ie Seine meet anjuctly dealt ail to you: gaged in war, combative. with by Uncle Sam. The Star is gind that its atten- It comes from—Latin, “militare,” : of the highest officials of tion was called to this matter, to make war. federal government challeng- thus enabling it to do justice to a words—militate, mili- i a ney. 4 the statements in the editorial the veterans’ bureau. Oe task: ttee then PPhe eben ot the ? = — — arms conferénce at Washington ta to rd make nations lean militant” (that is, 4 |leas prone to make war). THE SEATTLE STAR DOEME or your CRAP Book From Lyrica of Joy (Myughton, Miffiin Co) MUSIC BY FRANK DEMPSTER SHERMAN In vain the quest: no mortal eyes may know ‘The secret haunt wherein by day and vight She shapes her dreams of audible delight And wends them forth to wander to and fro Spirits of Bound, invisible they go ‘To fill the world with wonder in thelr Might; Celestial voices, from whose starry height Btrange hints of song steal down to earth below. Listen and hear the rhythmic echoes fall ‘The winds and waves and leaves and bees and bi The biended harmony of reeds and strings, Chorus and orehestra,—the voice and all ‘The miracle of melody and words, Music herself it is who dreams and sings! LETTERS T0 EDITOR Gets Seeds from Poindexter Editor The Star; ‘Truman Newberry, the man who By a recent mail came a he bought hia peat in the senate, we aak of weeds, without postage, trom Btlea | "Wht should he harvest be?” Package contained @wart bean, le Poindexter, Washington, D. C, open | tuce, radinh, carrot and bect seeds. ing bis campaign for reelection. FRED K. OVERMAN, Coming #0 soon after hia vote for Everett, Wash. “Intolerance” Scene Repeated Editor The Star: |Juvenile authorities because it was Thousands of people wept when undernourished. The father had been the Uplift society ladies dragged the |out of work for montha, Necessities baby out of the arms of the Little [of life were impossible. The mother Mother in D, W. Griffith's “Intoler-|and father sacrificed themselves that ance.” |the baby might have milk. The 1 picked up a newspaper the other father begged for work. That's all— day, | just work. Out tn Renton the story ef “Intol| And epend our money te ge erance” was being repeated. and weep over the filma! A man and his wife were having JESSIE P. MOSTER, thelr baby taken from them by the 1324 Sixth ave Car Service on Western Avenue Editor The @ar: jtracks. I have seon time after time I wish to take up some of your| When the motorman would bay wait until the fellow got out aod valuable space and make @ few re) vowed his rig. 1 will admit that this marks about Western ave. |place tf congested, Dut the drivers One reason why the Ballard Beach ought to park their machines so the care are often late ts because the street cars could pans, Japs and other people isave their!) With the people's help tn matters autog and Other vehicles parked on/wuch as this the service could be that Avenue with the wheels and considerably improved. Renpectfully front part extending out over the! yours, SUBSCRIBER. The Men Who Sell Narcotics Editor The Star: I nodded, 1 noticed him ae T pamed wp the) “Did you Alale and too the vacant neat by hin | world seomingly filled to overflowing mide. He had a wealth of curly gray |with pleasure? A world filled with hair, but I should my he was not an emiling, happy faces and the laugh old an he appeared to ba ter of little children sounded iike the As the car started he turmed and |throaty notes of silver bells, and the looked me as atraight In the eyes anivery flowers seemed to wend out his nervous and reetiews even per’|more fragrance and seemed tinted mitted, anying florcely, ¥ should | with brichter hues, Then, a the hal: be hanged, every one of them! No,|iucination passes, were yoo plunged they should be fastened to the rack into the deepest depths of gloomy and screwed up until every fiber Of \deapair, with the nervous fibers of their bodies was drawn to a thousnnd your bedy strung to a thousand ten. tensions; then the cholcest of food sions? A despair in which « smile should be placed Just beyond reach, | distorted the face into the vieage of and they should be left to starve,|an imp of hell, and for a few more marve, starve.” jMinutes epent in the phantom world “Whb?" I asked, not quite clear asloe pleasure you would have bartered to the reason for this outhurat, your soul? “Those unscrupulous vampires who| “Mo, you never have. I can tef by wack the blood of the human soul;| your unflinching guse and the steadi- those hell-hounda who traffic in nean of your bands, Pray to God cotics, buying @ase and comfort while|you may never know.” spreading thé mowt damnable cursel He waa gone before I could am ever given to man,” nwer. CHARLES L. INGRAM. Answers Amateur Economist Editor The Star | bonds would carry interest at a rate Amateur Boonomist, In The Star|to net the bankers at least 7 per of January 24th, says, “Suppose| Cent, and we may assume that the that Seattle bankers were to make | Geal provides the railroad with §25,- & loan to @ company in Brazil of 000.000. About 810,000,000 would be $25,000,000, to bulld railroads, what|fequired for franchise, development | would happen?” Without desire to| nd similar expense, interest on un. be controversial, I should answer | finished construction, and funde for this question somewhat differently Preliminary operatian, of which prob- than doen Amateur Economiat. ably 80 per cent would be spent in Sines Seattle bankers are buainems | Brazil, and might find its way to the men, and the loanable funds under| United States, via Germany and} their control are largely deposits in| Pngland, doing some good en route. excens of their reserve and local|The other two millions would be credit requirements, this transaction |#pent in the United States for ser. would be a purchase of bonds, with | Vices of various kinda. a bonus of common stock large) Of the $15,000,000 left for construc enough to protect their investment|tion work, about 40 per cent, or thru control of the company. The!$6,000,000, would be required for ALetter from | AVRIDGE MANN. NOTE: The best brains of the state have been working on the problem as to what a married man should do when a strange lady writes him and invites him to a booze party. Married men who are awaiting a satisfactory solution will be glad to know that one has apperently been received. Dear Avridge Mann: 1 think it's nice for you to ask for our advice; the problem you Rave asked about requires brains, beyond a doubt; the jobs too 3 Much for you, I see, and so it's strictly up to me. 4 Z I think I'll be your substitute, and get myself a full enoot; the 4 Job ig ticklish, that’s a fact, it takes a guy with lots of tact; to Meet the girl you speak about requires nerve, I do not doubt I've drunk an awful lot of stuff, but still I never got enough; so Jet me be your substitute, and have a pre-Volsteadic toot; for I can safely save your life, because I haven't got a wife. ¥. O, M., Sedro-Woolley, Wash, Dear F. 0. M: I guess it's best for me to do as you suggest; if you want to meet the dame, I'll get the slip that has her name; I've got it safely hid away—I'll dig it up without delay. (One Hour Later.) P. 8. I've hunted high and low, and looked in every place I know; T've searched the houre with greatest care, but cannot find it any- where; and so it seems I've iost her name—now isn't that a rotten shame! WARNING! GEOGRAPHIC PUZZLE Colds Toothache ESTEROAY 3 ANSVWEIZ- MisT~T + SOUR +) == MISSOURI- Always say ‘*Bayer’’ when you buy Aspirin. Unless you see the name ‘Bayer’ on tablets, you are not getting genuine Aspirin prescribed by physicians over 22 years and proved safe by millions for Headache Neuritis Accept only “*Bayer’ Handy “Bayer” boxes of 12 tablete—Also bottles of 24 and 100—~All Druggiate. ’ *culria le the trade mark of Heyer Manstastare of Mowencoticacidesion of Salley lieacié Rheumatism Pain! Pain Neuralgia Lumbago ” package which contains proper directions. their payment in Brwxitia mate | tials, to be worked inte shape for Ford’s Ideas Make-No Hit |i2272s%nsomiv efit to all concerned, aa . cuming that it is desirable to have With Ba k Yr [the indemnities paid. n e S| The point in all this is that we BY AMATEUR KOONOMIST cannot collect trom all the world in We hear a great deal lately | #4 nor in goods without bringing about Henry Ford's idea of | the ruin of our own industrial finance. Now Thomas A son | Mblishments, Neither can we # comes out in defense of Ford's | Steely to our debtors, or where «x Proposition, The bankers are hay. |ChANae oF conte are againet us. Iu ing @ good laugh to themmelves, [American financiers can, and ee thinking thet they have at jast |2Ubt will, provide a great deal o Got something on the electrical |*PItal for developing the unused and gag Wisarda, natural rese « of the foreign The January monthly letter of entries whith afe ouf Sa the National City bank of New wkete, 7 new pane * York dinquases this proposition {With new customers, producing thru a ion article and, of course, | We#ith not heretofore existing, which | | serves partially to replace the wealth |s0 rapidly destroyed a few years ago |in Kurope. No party to the trans | action loses, while all can gain in some degree, and the owners of the capital, under modern economic ar Tangementa, in the strongest (bechune it i® the controlling) position. What better use can be made of loanable funds? Like Amateur Economist, I find much to be.desired in our American foreign policies, One of the many reasons for my faith in Spanish America is the fact that the Monroe doctrine haa stood for « century the change of polities, and is backed by public opinion in the United States proves that Ford is entirely in the wron@. They tell ua what has happened in the past and let it go at that, Now, as it hap- pens, neither Ford nor Pdison hide ever stopped to consider too seriously what has happened in the past. If they had, Edison would never have tnade his won derful discoveries and Ford would not have built the first Mivver, Senator Ladd of North Dakota recently presided at a mass meet ing held to organize a new party of whore platform one of the planks will be the increasing of our cireulating medium to re- eve the present industrial and egricultural paralynis ‘The senator says that the re cent slump in values and the magnation following has caused & lons in the United States of 88 Dillion dollars and that the onty way to bring back promper- ity is to cireulate more money. A great many people are at a loss to know just what te the troubia. They realize that we murt not get away from the gold etandard, we must not make the mistake the free silver people made tn ‘96. They ferl that with the tremendous amount of gold in the United State there ts at present that there*is little dan ger of our money becoming un- wound. They feel that our finan clers should and could work out the problem of increasing the ctr culating medium without making our money unsound. The people want to know what could be done and when ft will be done. Editor The Star; Your editorias of Wednesday, “Ford Reincarnates Peter Cooper,” makes interesting reading, Bo does the ad- dress of Maurice Cassenave to Group 1 of the Pennsylvania Bankers’ asso- elation, printed jn the Congressional Record of January 13, It is replete with interest concerning French re construction and the way it was financed. “Under these difficalt conditions, while awaiting payments from Ger many, the Frenc) government began financing reparations out of the re sources of Frane,” eaid Cassenave. “Of course, if ont considers that cer- tain of the goods necessary for rep arations have to be purchased abroad it is readily understood that the cort of reconstruction is weighing heavily upon France, as he exchange is now against the fram end as the pur- chasing power of money in general [ham been greatly deteriorated. rails, bridges and rolling stock, and) “In apite of adverse conditions, a for this business Germany can com-|sound and provilent reconstruction pete in price, but not In quality, with | began, the part Most apt to produce American firma, and we may award riches receiving lirst attention, and this contract to the Krupps for &| now 96 per cent qf the fields are cul- lower price. About 30 per cent, or | tivated, 75 per cmt of the manufac WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1 Brasitians will take « large part of|and also in our neighbor republics, 922, one of which would fight to en- | force this policy. It is the only reat American foreign policy that is #0 supported, unless the senate should presently decide that the open door and a freedom from alliances are alee ‘il part of our national creed. Granted that our own government will do little or nothing to help for eign trade, the American r® from sheer self interest, en- their re of Amer: there any South apital to de many milli are invented remark that we Let us not forget dy. Let um not for- Kurope hag for centuries 8 and wanted treasure and the idem that urvive free com petition, but must have preferential advantages thru political ontrol. | Let us not forget that this idea still | persivta, and that no other nation, joutside of the two Americas, dnd perhaps China, Russia and Germany, really dewires an open door anywhere, Let us not forget that the rent of the world is now at Washington, trying to shut a few more doors tw us and to one another, and take out some burglary insurance. Lat us not forget that this is @ republic, and that we get action only when @ majority of the people know what they want, and make their desires known, Respectfully, J withdraw my | “forget Burope.” anything or anyt get that nhed pricel commerce can time ov IKA DYE. Peter Cooper and France neas with which Germany has mafe her payments.” ‘That means reconstruction came by “greenbacks,” backed by the re sources of France. Reconstruction haa been paid forthe devastated re- | sions restored, but doubtless French | bankers will discount the “treasury bilix” when they begin to accumulate | in order to earn and pocket the dis count. That's the way our Wall st. heroes |did. We canceled the greenbacks | that paid the soldiers and for the | war of '61 generally, but when gold began to sneak back into circulation | the ery wan taken up for the gold standard, the greenbacks were can- jesied until they touched the mark | of $346,000,000, when we sold bunds and bought $150,000,000 gold and put it im the papers that we had arrived at specie payments. Besides « billion lor so of canceled greenbacks had been replaced by national bank notes | backed by bonds running far into the future and subject to refunding, and for which the paltry $150,000,000 bad to stand and is still standing. Now at this date, with $970,000,000 free gold, the banks stopped loans $4,600,000, would be spent in earth-| work, conerete, ete, for the roadbed. There is no country in the world! within uwo generations of the United | States in equipment and methods and men for thin sort of work, and fully half of this item would go direct | © American firma. If our new rail- turing plants arein operation; every-|and plunged the country into the where one can ne fieids covered with | present chaos. I don't care where the crops and newly equipped factories | gold was—in vaults of the treasury surrounded by buts in which em-|oF in the banks—it was free as the ployes and empkwers alike live in| air and was good to back §2,425,000,- hardship. The spitit of the farmers, | 000 federal reserve notes. Instead of laborers and of tht people in general | doing that, congress revived the war can be compared with the spirit of road is lomted in the western part |the pioneers, for Gry give no thought finance corporation and permitted it to issue and sell bonds ad libitum of the state of Bahia (it would be useful there), we could add the bill for lumber, and ship that from) to the hardship @ their daily life, | and equipped the farm land banka te having only one Hought—the work issue tax exempt bonds, which en- to be done.” |abled the banks to loan the money Seattle cheaper than any existing ageney could get it from Brasil. Ammume that half of this four and @| the address in jy, obtainable thru half millions is paid to Brasilian | representatives in pongreas. 1 quote labor and merchants, who consume |again: “With a Yew to providing German goods exclusively. The re|for reconstruction, the government maining 20 per cent of our construc | had recourse to geet process. It ion money will be needed for oper | framed a means € mobilization of ating facilities, such asx buildings, 'ai the working fibds of all the re- fuel and water stations, and at Irast spensibilities of Bance by issuing one good repair shop. American) treasury bills. Thi government has I regret to hay to omit several paragraphs of a! ing interest, but and reap the reward, and like the Profiteers, who paid the excess profits tax up to January 1, encApe just that much tax which the rest of the country will have to shoulder. Hats off to Peter Cooper and Henry Fora. L. A. VINCENT. + - OH, THESE COLLEGE FELLERS! Folks envied him his shoulders end His form, but goodness knows They were not wise—he wore his foot- firms can safely be awarded the shop |been reproached pr insuing these equipment, which is one of the thing® treasury bills; hotever, thanks to Wo Bull export to Europe, but per-' these treasury bill, the 50,000,000, haps $2,600,000 of this last 30 per. 009 frances needed could be raised cent will be spent io Brasil and Ger-jand o large part pf reconstruction many, |has been made in pite of the slow. A few strokes of the mathematical | Pencil show that at the end of Shares} years, when the road is completed, | American firms will have bad $5,250,- | 000 in Dew business, as well as the| $3,750,000 or more interest paid to/ American bondholders. At the same time, some $10,000,000 | will have been put into circulation in Brasil, and enough American con- struction men, American tools, sup- plies and ideas will have been im-| ported into the state of Pahaia to| make a few more Brasilians want American goods they never wanted| “Pape’s Cold Compound” before. Better #till, some new min- Ing and grazing lands, some new fer. a t blow. | tile river valley, will be opened to| Dowt stay stutfeup! Quit blow-/ settiers and to commerce, and wili | ine and snuffling! | dose of “Pape's| continue to pay our Seattle investors | Cold Compound” ken every two (the banks sold these bonds jong ago) | hours until three ones are taken their 7 per cent for « long series of ysually breaks up cold and ends yearn. all grippe misery. | Further still, the Gorman firms! The first dose ons clogged-up! who sell to the railroad and to the! nostrils and ait p@ages of head:| Spgs in taste other offee and ” Tell your grocer you want it. J. A. FOLGER & CO. 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