The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 3, 1922, Page 6

Diveleaner w Bn terprine Aw $4.40 for often good investments. (2) Promotion stocks. this state. Be sensible. Be wary. Be shrewd. |The Seattle Star |: By mail, out of ety 3 monthe, ° Senmae ot the © Ny SOc per month of Washington. oF 59.00 per year carrier year per maneen. hs Investigate Before Investing There are three kinds of stocks: (1) Legitimate, dividend-paying stocks of established concerns that are producing something of value or giving some kind of service. These are real securities and are These are sold to raise money prise. If the company is “on the square” the buyer of these stocks has the same chance of making money, generally speaking, as the man who “sits in” a straight poker game. He may win, but he is gambiing. he hasn't a decent chance to win. (3) Wild-cat stocks, comprising the majority of stocks now being sold publicly in They are “bunk” and the buyer invariably loses his money. Remember $10,000,000 was the cleanup of “con” operators in this state during the past year. ‘Be sure, if you have money to invest, thet you know to whom you are giving it and for what purpose it is to be used. Then investigate! port of concern it is. _ Keep Our Te sate "We need an Iroquois or Knick: theater disaster once in “In Seattle we have a building . It ts a good one. If we it, we will be virtually safe fire, stampede and col- aa there is always the tempta te wink at the code in order seme big contractor may a larger profit from the er that some landlord may @ fatter return on his in- lest by constant nibbling code itself become a flimsy ° A roof mrust be able to bear = ff snow the roof of the Knicker- > caved in, and the world aghast at the price society has f Met te psy in human lives for somebody's greed. We say society needs an oc easional disaster of this kind as ‘@ warning. Bat let's be selfish. Let some other city furnish the warning, and let us profit by it, mow and always, by building honest, steady structures. Bince almost the first days of my service in this body I have wit- Messed @ disposition on the part of quite a number, at least, to cut the salaries of those who are re- ceiving a mere pittance for their wervices, but in contrast to that apirit of economy which seems to ectuate some of these gentlemen in dealing with the salary of the per- gon who is making probably not more than $1200, $1,500 or $1400 @ year, when it comes to the ques- fion of dealing with the larger sal- @rics we find that they reverse their position and almost invariably favor increases in salary.—Senator Trammell (D.), Fla Many prophets and kings have desired to sce the things that ye fer, and have not seen them; and to hear the things that ye hear, and have not heard them —Luke #24. John’s Fine Future John Borg, Wall st. broker, ; aged 40 years, has made $2,000, TE —s(000, says it is enough, has given BS his business to his employes and 3 will devote himself to his bobby, “a newspaper made just as he % thinks a newspaper should be made.” ‘, Anybody with $2,000,000 can 4 have a newspaper as a hobby ; ‘and succeed in running it just as 7 he wants to, John. i First thing to do is to put $1,900,000 of the money in a re Hable bank on long-time deposit, say 10 years. By the time you s are 80, John, you'll then have $1,900,000, accumulated interest thereon, and a whole lot of sub- % stantial knowledge about news papers as hobbies, We may, if we choose, make the worrt of one another. Kvery one has his weal: points; every one has hie faults may fix our atten tion constantly upon these. But we may alec make the best of one another. By loving whatever is lovable in those around us, love will flow back from them to us, Ord life will become a pleasure in- stead of a pain; and earth will be- come like heaven.—A. P. Blanley. Before you invest—INVESTIGATE! to start some new enter- If the company is not on the square, The gold-bricker type of salesman with worthless stock to sell usually tries to close the deal and get your money in one call. Hear what the salesman has to say. Tell s him you will investigate his proposition. Ask him, if you wish, to call again later. One way to do this is to call up your Better Business Bureau and ask the bureau about the company. If the bureau doesn’t know about it already, they will find out for you, free, what Did you date your letters yesterday 2-2 You won't have a chance to do so much two-two- two-ing again for 100 years The rate of exchange b between een 1 foreign countries and the U. S. is seve: ral thousand gallons a day. Whena girl runs "her r fingers thru a man’s hair it is time to give up or go home. Fur coats are made by skinning dumb brutes— usually father. Newspaper Ethics At the state editors’ conference at the University of Oregon & code of ethics for journalists was drafted and read. This tentative code Is a useful document from the pen ef Colin V. Dyment, university professor and ¢x-journalist. It is beund to do geod. an unwritten code, It is the law of right and wrong applied to Journalism. Every experienced One must not write a lie, Subtle distortion of truth is as much a lie as actual misstatement, Omi sion of truth is a lie. The code is uncompromising on this point. One must not write maliciously. One must not grind private axes. One must not soft-pedal on a story because the person whom it concerns is a member of the writer’s party, charch or lodge or is an advertiser in the news paper by which the writer is em ployed. One must not violate a confi- dence, This is, perhaps, the ear- dinal sin in journalism, Better to be “scooped,” better to risk dismissal, ise given. There is a clause in the Dy- ment code devoted to kindness and constructive criticism. To this clause The Star cannot sub- scribe unqualifiedty, It is pleas- ant to be kind and constructive. But, if a newspaper has at heart the moral upbuilding of its com- munity, it is no more possible for it to be always kind and con- structive than it is for those who look after the physical upbaild- ing of the community to be always kind and constructive, If you have a ramshackle tene- in your city, a dangerous firetrap, do you approach it with constructive kindness? You do not! You attack it and tear it down to the ground! And you build a worthier structure in iis stead. The ramshackle, fire-trap must be destroyed make room for the modern fireproof building. The scoundrel must be kicked out of office room for an honest public servant, than to break a prom- ment to to make The important thing is the mo- tive behind the criticism, structive or destructive. Dyment tells us that the journalist must have always in mind the public good. And that is true. The written code will do good in that it will inform the public concerning good newspaper prin. con ciples and ideals, We will not always live up to the written code any more than we have always lived up to the unwritten code. But we will always try, as we have always done. Dyment explains that a code must be either intresocial or intraprofessonal. The doctor's code ix intra-professional in that lt regulates minimum fees, code of ethics at all. It is businesslike “gentlemen's agree ment,” and there is nothing ethical about it, the in the main its results may be good. The same may be sald of the law. yerw’ code, The journalists’ code fore, good. The danger of a written code, as we see it, is that It tempts men to observe the letter of it and violate the spirit, as other professions so often do. This danger, however, among journalists, whe are a sin gularly unbusinesstike lot. Star suspects there was not an editor at the Oregon conference who could not make more money in some other activity if he would give the same thought and energy to it that he gives to journalism. ? During the last 10 years the con- sumption of paper has grown steadily. Ite use 4s constantly teidening. In 1909 the production of paper in the United States mille was 4 216,708 tons, In 1980 there tas a production of 7334814 tona. The distribution of this production by grades ia of interest. Paper or box board led with a tonnage of £413,449. Newsprint was second, with 1,511,968 tona; book, 1,104,464; terappings, 1.403.812; fine papers, $89.322 tons; felts and building, 366,941 tons; tissue, 177,447 tone Hugh P. Baker, American Paper & Pulp Asan, before senate finance committee. We deck our heaven with images of earth And give to angel hosts a human form Our dearest dreams are duilt on tasted joys, Our evils are the power To make them naught, and so to consummate our own—our own The beauty of the fairest sorld we Charlotte Murray. LEARN A WORD EVERY DAY know GEOGRAPHIC PUZZLE | | Today's word is INCEPTION. | highest type. » paragraph that I It's pronounced—in-sep-shun, with] particularly refer to Is 4s follows [accent on the ond syllable. “The gold brick type of salesman, | It means—beginning, start, com|with worthless stock to sell, usually | | mencement ltriew to clone the deal and get your| | It comes from—Latin—"inctpere,*|money in one call, Don't buy from} to begin, ‘one-call’ salesmen, Hear what the Companion word—inceptive. |salesman has to say, Tell him you} It's used like this—Prices. are| will investigate his proposition. Ask creater now than at the inception of | him if you wish, to call again} it world war.” | later.” | - It is quite apr nt that the party | writing the above paragraph knew Yon little about the sale of securi- | a ae and is entirely ignorant of ae Free Examination y way that houses doing a legiti |mate business can market their | BES BEST $2. 5O GLASSES \iseues and give the public a return of a profit out of some industry | on Earth There ar at least five nat Sop | We are ony of the few optical known companies th oting | atores the Northwest that really | securition n the method | grind t to finish, and of selling, and in all cases they are| ¥° 8h | | YESTERDAY S Iwi Ate MOP ~—P + NUT al + ANT — T +&=MONTANA THE SEATT It haa o curred to me that you |] many people by writing @ letter |] fad for 40 years, and thru which || feeling an active an at 40, 30 oF 20 || years from now as I am today. * much to meet you face to face a wad of dow is what Dear Sir, I'd bet know; for tho your hair is gray ae young as 1 Our years ar for youth and and all ean find, as you bave found, th sound. We mighty giad to say, those birds ar For folks like you have learned of youth; it isn't myertic, magic heart, that keeps alive the boyish eutl APetter frou | AVRIDGE MANN. your #pirit brands the years a lie not the proper gauge to ascertain a person's age; wed to nee the old, redate, pulled an antiquated guise, and started in to fonnilize art I might do a lot of good to a great hag been m 1 find mynelf at 69 year And 1 expect to be ms * * Home day 1 should like very Moat sincerely yours B. A. O,, Beatie rr ik eh that you're a guy I'd like to you may, and tho, perhaps, your and makes you just don what we want to be; art of keeping young and bewhinkered guys of 28, who but now, I'm ‘© rarely seen today. the truth about the bled fount it's just to keep a youthful thrill at having youthful muscles | | when I'm blue and in dewpatr because I've lost another hair, || | I'l) think of you andrthen I'l] know that many years may come and but time and ude will not control the fount of youth within 2. my soul, | Cirridge | Editor The Star: A man does not object to paying | taxes, if he feels that the tax is according to the value of his prop nd that his money ia being properly spent by the government) officials. | Our exorbitant rate of taxation | and the extravagance in our court | house and by all our government officials in not under discussion This article is meant to show the | small homeowner how to proceed in case his property is amsenned Maher than others in his commun | ity | ‘A woman recently complained to! me that her taxes were $18 higher than fer neighbor. Her house was older lot the same size and} her neighbor had.« garage, and she | didn't She paints her house each spring, which makes it look better, but should she be penalised $15 for erty her dolling pp"? The trouble with hendreds of small home owners ix that they Jon't know how to protect them: [ selves politically | All big corporations bire a man Editor The Star ! A letter to The Star by Mary FE. Sellen appeared in your iasue of Jan nary 2h, ‘The writer seeks to give ad-| vice to Chrintian Sclentinte thru your | columns, but Christian Scientiate are | fully aware that she is not in @ poxt tion where she can #peak either for) them or to them, | She says “the onty ealvation ef) thin organization rests at present! with themselves by refusing longer to invest the present board with pow. or.” Mra, Eddy, in the rules and by. laws given in the manual of the) her Church, gave the Christian Science board of directors the power with which they are invested as direc. tors of the Mother Church. Members of the Mother Church are loyal only as | they rant the beard the power in vested in them by the manual tian Science publishing house sought to deny the authority given to the Editor The 8 ‘There are [being cared for at Roosevelt hail the p time Three |day are furnished them, the food be- jing provided from funds raised by all veteran organizations and pre. | pared at the hall itself. All but 15 Jot the unemployed are American |born, and all of them except five | served overseas, Qne veteran, who had been out of | | work for months, was given employ ment by the telephone company at [the req of one veteran organiza tion. He was to receive $4.9 day and was happy. At the end of two days |he was laid off in order to give an other veteran a job. When he went his y. Instead of get lting $8 an he expected, he was given | and a poll tax His father told me that he came home so and dixappointed o unemployed veterans at meals a to receive | nervous and angry land outraged that his hand shook so dn't shave F veteran got a job with the by paying jhe co Anoth Snoqualmie $1 to an employment a ave. 8. He paid $1.60 Lumber Co. ney on First up to get Editor The Star: four attention in called to an article appearing in your paper under date of January 27, under the heading, “Look Before You Invest.” There are certair therein that are v statements made much exagger “ated and which are not only mis ading to the public, but are also a cross injustice to a few concerns operating in Washington with head. quarters in states that have “blue |aky laws,” which are selling legit! |mate investment securities of the | bringing to the masses good invest. | ely a rental, but will give him at t a return of part of the profits out of the industries which they finance. The editorial places them LETTERS TO EDITOR About Taxes and Assessments | The Christian Science Controversy | Christian |considered by the court since then | tention of the board and have finally The board of trustees of the Chris. | The Veterans and the Poll Tax The “One-Call” Salesman er, CRAP = Coal Trade of America Lost in Year BY AMATEUR BCONOMIST Dur businers ta o United Sta received first or Age? ars alto ng the last year n he had to go out of busine The following figures «how what has happened to our coal export ot Joy (Houghton, Mifflin A BIRD'S ELEGY Grew bold at his glad call ; oh rte wagered 3 VROM GREAT BRITAIN TO ; BY FRANK DEMPSTER SHERMAN Mept., 1920. Dept, 4 He wan the first to welcome epring 6 #19 France 246.056 Adventurous, he came s.oa8 247 442 To wake the dreaming buds and sing | eed 1. rocus into flame | ies see rer He loved the morning and the dew; Gas endl fe loved the wun and rain : FROM THE 1 He fast 4 lyrics aa he flew | wept, 192 pom With love for their refrain. | Tons P 449-704 Poet of vines and blonsoma, he; Herpes Beloved of them all; | 198.661 The timid leaves upon the tree | 560,680 144.602 | He mang the rapture of the hills, And from the starry height He brought the melody that fills The meadows with delight. In one year our exports of coal to | these countries fell from nearly a | million and a half tons to leas than one-tenth of a million of tons, and | Great Britain's coal export to these wane countries rose from three-quar- | ters of a million tons to pearly two million tons. | Never before has a great export And now, behold him dead, alast Where he made Joy so long A bit of blue amid the grase,— A Uny, broken song. If the people of Washington want| doing something worth while, but | —~ a aan to eliminate the “wildcat” operator|don't try to discourage the only | tion or “donation of the nd for the to look after their taxes and to see and the bunko stock artist, why | legitimate means the public bas of | Cemetery and in its embellishment. which t# entirely erroneous. | trade comparable to our coal exports | — |Get that spirit, and then you are| “disappeared in @ single year, me suggest that the states that they are properly apportionéd | 40n't someone see to it that we have |inaking more than 5 or 6 per cent.|. +t And arsensed. en |men at our Olympla leginiature that| There are a few honest godess take this question into consideration, Nearly every community in this |W!!! put thru some kind of a “blue |houses even in the “wild-catters and, with the assistance of the na- city has community clubhouse |**Y law" to eliminate the shynter | paradise’—the state of Washington |tional government, each state pro where they have social gatherings; |@alers instead of coming out in th Yours very truly, vide its own cemetery in which to In- annually they elect officers. 11|DPess und classing us all ag robbers? | DONALD E. CLARK, | tr and ctre for the remalne:0f its would be a good idea at this time to appoint a man who would go to the county assessor's office in! to the men and women who crushed March, and look up the annessments | Editor The Star: jhospitals are full; druggists have a the Tun and Prussianism. Let us and values of the property in his y the way, is there any way of long line waiting at their prescription | dedicate a new Gettysburg to world particular community. At some pub lic meeting between March and! o¢ ny there August they could have an open discustion in the clubhouse and| girikes m everyone who thought his taxe® | careful abou! were assensed too high, could then 60 before the equalization board in| August and have them adjusted. | It in next to impossible to get *| Doctors ar in August to adjust them MAUDE SWEETMAN Lake locatio 1 was for ne last work rd of directors in the manual, and | Chalmette. 4 thelr contention thru a long | period of litigation. During this trial | Selentista withdrew their | apport from the publications, as evt- | dence of their loyalty to the form of | government as constituted in the manual The momentous decision of the supreme court of Mansachusetta, rendered on the 24th of November laxt, was a complete victory for the board of directors, Minor matters have #till further established the con- rewulted In placing new trustees In the publishing house who are loyal} to the board of directors, so that Christian Scientists are renewing their subscriptions to the periodicals. Any information given to the pub. | | le which denies the facts here stated | | ls false and mintending. LOUIS FE. SCHOLL, Christian Setence Committee on Pub- cation for Washington. there, worked three days, was laid off, and when he was given his pay, he also was deducted $5 for his poll tax. He had barely enough money to back home. | Hart bas bought an $11,000 limousine. Gov, Veterans, you who fought the kaiser, since you came home, has the blood in your veins turned to water? | And theese men who went to Olym- pia last year say they are going hack next year. One of them baa even announced himself for mayor—Dan Landon. | Every man who went to Olympia and handed Washington a poll tax and an administrative code should be cleaned out—every man who is now in the city hell backing up the ex penditures which are making our county and city bankrupt, should be cleaned out—the county commission. | ers and the port commissioners and the achool board who ai i for use. leas parasites on the payroll should | be cleaned out | Clean out the court house! | MAUDE SWEETMAN, in the same category as the ordinary bunko “wildcat” stock salesman, Concerning the Flu Epidemic estimating how many thousand cases counters. Ue at the present time? California has earthquake news j can't be gotten for love or moneys! > national cemeteries, of the law for their creation own who fell in battle, and those ver rans of the world war who will fol- low later, There erect a monument peace, “that government of the peo ple and for the people shall not per+ ish from the earth.” P. P, CARROLL Money-back guarantee with every ~ suit. Laff, the Tailor, 1106 ard—aAdv, © ““T NEED are in the city of Beat Yet we all flock to the movies, the stores, churches and gchools. No ¢ that we have been as warnings are issued and no health t suppremaing Clu news as | precautions taken. How come? JESSIE P. MOSTER, 1824 Sixth Ave. 6 rushed to death; nurses |readjustment of taxes after the Jequalization board has passed on| National Cemetery a “a Cam Lewis MONEY! thengp Pp And must 60 dental Every taxpayer ean find ont from | Editor The star ]it has been said, Jackson fought the | Sok to eet it. the assessor's office in March of| ‘The suagestion for « national cem: | Pritish from behind cotton bales and |e ced work this year, the yunt of his taxes |etery at Camp Lewis should be acted) won the battle that ended the war of for next year, and if they are too|¥POn. It is an ideal location, and | 1812 et he board of equali c ean be made attractive in many I bellewe T wae the firet ont bard of equalisation meets | — et have in mind the American | that Arlington, Pree Dn. used as @ natia ‘Tl dettar you pay me the government had taken possession | for your dental work following pass. of it. EDWIN J. BROWN Gate My I urge the national cemetery at! 104 Columbia st. as such official was ‘at American Lake and will frecly give| or more thas 26 the battlegroand where, |my time and experience to the neque ty — years superintendent of Clean-Up Event : Incomplete lines of highest quality foot- wear from our two stores, consolidated in one huge half-price offering. This special sale is being held on the MAIN FLOOR of the SECOND AND MADISON STORE, ONLY. —for WOMEN! 1,700 pairs of fine Shoes in a wide selectioMof styles and patterns. Included in this lot are Laird, Schober & Co., 1, Miller & Sons and other famous makes. All at one-half regular prices, —for MEN! 800 pairs of Men's Shoes in both high and low models; bal, Blucher and brogue styles. Included in this lot are John- ston &*Murphy, Nettleton and Bostonian makes. All at one- half regular prices. Not all sizes in every style, but dozens of styles to select from. Our extensive assortments enable us to please every taste and to fit every size and shape of foot. These drastic reductions offer an unpar- alleled opportunity to supply your shoe needs for the year AT HALF THE ORIGINAL PRICE. ¢ Positively No Exchanges Refunds or Returns MAIN FLOOR, — AND MADISON STORE NLY ‘Sazpcpaee ea gegggrn®. ceeReOgeR. B9ESNS. OF.8 COE -PIIITT cesar BLS ss EF TESTS Lae on T5337 5° ah ABB 8S ggaceuae gsae.