The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 11, 1922, Page 6

The Seattle St Oe per month; # months, of Washington. Outside of t am, OF 99.00 per year, My carr COME CLEAN! HE county commissioners must come more out in the open re- garding the proposed Lake Washing- ton. pontoon bridge plan than they have done to date or else the people who elected them are going to attrib- } ute unpleasant motives for their hos- | tile attitude. The shipping board is on record as willing to sell King county the needed 15 wooden ship hulls at a nominal _ price of $1,500. Citizens residing across the lake will raise the sum and give it to the county. Notwithstanding, the commissioners announce, in advance of a hearing on the question they are to hold the first of the week, that they are against the ject. And they are vague as to why. * * IHEY talk about the plan as “im- practicable.” Yet engineers uni- gem say the idea is entirely feas- le. Also the commissioners fall back on ' an opinion from the prosecuting at- torney about “responsibility” if the money is accepted and the hulls bought as another “reason” why they oppose the plan. What is this terri- _ fying “responsibility’’? The ugly charge is madé that the commissioners are deliberately try- ing to sidetrack the pontoon bridge lan because they have some unseen persuasive reason for desiring to see the lake ferry business flourish. It was charged in advance of the leas- _ ing of the ferry system to a private concern that the county commission- | ers had an undue interest in the trans- action. Now this failure of theirs to ‘@ anything to push the bridge ques- along adds weight.to the old innuendo. a Se re SrAR is not yet convinced that : the pontoon bridge should be built, but The Star is anxious to see | all the facts brought out and the ques- _ tion judged on its merits. The county ' commissioners, instead of doing this and taking the public into their con- fidence, are prejudging the issue and trying to hush the whole subject up. Come out in the open. Make the public hearing thoro. We've had too much star chamber diplomacy in Lake Washington transportation history. The people would like a plenary session. ‘never kissed a girl don’t say what gir as much as we are. _ ably does. a _ Glass Prices Tumble A price cut averaging 22 per @ent is announced in the window Blass trade by the largest Amer- fean manufacturer, } This is the result of foreign | _ tompetition. A price war is on between importers and our own | manufacturers. side of the fence you are on, | From “Tne Poets of the Future consumer or producer. | ity, 00 The 28 Princeton freshmen who say they have Mexico is discussing a prohibition law; but not Harding’s tailor’s name is Gettum. He prob- ar ee month, China's New Start Public opinion of the world has caused the return of Shantung to China, Japan has bowed to the world’s judgment, China's influ ence upon Japan would not have sufficed, unalded, to have regained the territory So Shantung is the world’s gift to China, The Chinese people will be unjust to themselves if they regard the restoration of thelr lost province otherwise than as an ine contive to prove themselves wor thy of the gift. The time must come when the 400,000,000 people of the “Celestial republic” will have to help them- selves or bow to the law of the survival of the fittest, Self-help is now China's sole salvation. The return of Shantung places China on trial, She must now prove her worth as other nations have done. The process is not different from the way individual men and women prove themselves worthy by self-discipline and by struggling for progress and better things. The big Montana lake that will be dry in 1,000 years must racing the reat of the country $19.25 Worth of Novels in Year In glancing back (bru the 1971 files of The Star, it is to be no- theed that there were published 10 high class novels, beginning with Francis Lynde’s “The Wreckers.” and running thru to Sinclair Lew- is’ “Main Street.” We handed the list to a book store and asked the clerk for the retail prices The 1¢@ volumes would cost $19.25, That was one value that Star readers received for their 50 cents a month. That is one reason why Star circulatiof is leaping stead lly ahead—good value for the money. ‘Canal Tolls | Question of | | | jot t jent [known Anglophobian member [marked that if the treaty dos terpre to its jof the U. 8 | guarding the Panama canal tolls.” the ve. this one? t * t on th follow out this policy WA —¢lor your —~ om — . A tariff would keep the price Am RO | is THE BIRTH OF A SONG Let all bitterness and wrath and BY DANIEL HUGH VERDER @nger and clamor and evil speak- Having nothing etae to break, the kaiser has broken silence. a | Only eleven more shopping months And halfaw: ‘ntl Christmas. That night T sated ing be put away from you with alt It strove all day for right of birth, malice Ephesians tv. :21. A Bah /end tender But the hours of birt To the twilight time and hours of mirth long. on a silver stream, Steered my boat straight into the moon. 4 and half in dream, I sang into life my song of June ‘The following is taken from the | Pan-American magazine, and ex | preases the belief of a large per cent people of the world at prem “The Panama canal act, framed land passed before the war, inchud- led a provision exempting American | Veasels from payment of tolls, in | plain contravention of the treaty, jand a heated discussion took place }in congress during which a well suit the U, 8. it should be torn up. However, the provision, which was probably intended as a test of feel |ing,. was eventually eliminated and | was supposed to be decently buried. farding’s election platform sug the removal of this exemp- vision by claiming an in m of the treaty contrary meaning and good faith “Britian circles insist that the ac | | ceptance of the new naval proposals | | renders the sagetity of treaties more | important than ever and that in/the light of this consideration it ts more | vital than ever to know what are the intentions of Washington re Senator Poindexter stated when last in Seattle that he believed that js should be removed. The ans are strongly considering y would question our right ct these tolls and then to| * our ships to enable them | ate, but nearly every nation | Sats but cond thom tn to seas will question us if we} Dear Folks } 1 wonder why we always state he reached the presidential chair THE SEATTLE STAR APetter from AIWRIDGE MANN that Lincoln waa fo very great but lots of other men were there he fought a winning war, ite Urue—but other men have done it, 1 the wlavem—a noble act; he ruled the land with skill © guided great affairs of state, excelled in eloquent on whole He wrote @ #peech we all shou! 1 trying Umes that seared the soul he kept a noble ld know-—“Four score and mven years ago"—end let the world and nation see a deeper sense of liberty; ia many Ways he biaged @ name immortal in the Halls of |] Fame. } And yet I think we mostly prize the kindly humor of his eyes |] his friendly, aflinelusive heart his simple, demoeratic art, that jet him talk and tell his Jokew a# friend to friend with common folks. For these are things we always prize, tho presidential glamor dies; tho glory ives itaglittie day his name will stand wien others’ for all, he Star: Cincinnatl, O, elagteic cars carried 220,000 fewer passengers in Decem. | ver, 1921, than In December, 1920, de lapite the fact that the rate of fare | was a full cont les per ride, This is shown by the financial statement ot | the Cineinnat! Traction Co, received by William Jerome Kuerta, street fallway comminsioner. The actual number of revenue pas | | erates | | [December 9.5 and other greatness fades away, fall, because his heart had room Lower Fare, Fewer Passengers weongers at @ Ti cent fare in Decem. ber, was 9 $3; in the preceding 949 revenue passen ger were carried at an §%-cent fare, In actual earnings, the railway re ceived $100,180 lem in December, 1921, than in the preceding Decem. ber This may be of interest WALTER M. BROWN. Business Man for Mayor | Editor The Star | “A burnt child dreads the fire.”/ | We have now lined up In the race for | mayor one real estate man, two law: | yers and one business man. It ts but @ short time since we had! a real estate man for mayor, and he administered to thia city @ done of the old “Filipino water cure.” In the shape of a badly watered junk pile called a street car line, that it will take us many years to reeover from. We have had Dr. Peter Witt and | others trying to look wise and tell us | what to do without relief. The pains of that “water cure” will stay right! | with us until we vomit up the gold for that water and rust, and also the | pay for the treatment. Bo much for one real estate mayor, and we are not ready for another We have had several professional politicians, who called themselves at torneys, for mayor, and it was the mame old story of. grab and eraft ‘The old ring that infests the county city building has made living so ex pensive that dying would be a plea ure, We have had too many attor- neys in the mayor's office. ‘This city needs, above all other things, @ sane, ponservative, honest business man for mayor, and the tax payer will eee to It that uch a mai is elected. Yours, A. T. AXPAYER Differs With Amateur Economist | | | | MAttor The Star | Im your February 7 issue I no diplomatic article | o@ doctrine by the my® | terious “Amateur Economist.* Big Import a2 "scam ar nce (_ GEOGRAPHIC PUZZLE OGR APHIC PUZZI 5 1s first, I am neither an economist nor an amateur economist-“but just a common human being, with the aver-/ Age person's mentality | In this article by our very con- stant writer he, or she, stater that | “we have not developed SYMPATHY, ‘UNDERSTANDING of FRIEND: SHIP in South America that will) |help us build a large business.” j Now, my friend, I for one rincere.| ly believe that you are mistaken in! |your rather narrow views on the leubject. First, why the need of sympathy? Are we poor in health, | ~ wealth or friends? Or do you really | believe that after lending « helping | and guiding hand to South America like we have, that we should push our business interests on them, like & small boy on a basehall nine, who, after buying the ball, wants to bat first for the simple reason that be |epent his bared wrought ‘pennies for | nt you have said lack of understanding? Have they not tried and succeeded in many conntriea to master our form of government, our school sys | tem and our banking exchanges? Have they not a hundred times| janked for and received diplomatic colloquy? Again you might my we! have spent enormous sums of mon- | ey, and even wasted lives in our | PHILIPPINE BUNTAL RALIUVAG ¥ ESSED AND cel post, marking It “Netur EXCHANGE PnopeUcTs) co. 19 PLAZA CERVANTES MANILA. P. L Rev. M. A. Matthews 1100 » m, THE EVERLASTING TRINITY 7:15 p. m, Bong Segvice led by M. D. Wells. 7:30 p. m. WHAT CHRISTIANITY MEANS TO THE WORLD Come to the Men's Bible Class, taught on Sunday morning, at 9:30, by 8. D. Wingate. FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Seventh and Spring Second, understanding—or should! Again I fifmly believe that you are! decoyed in your printed thoughts. | | prime pennant | the American government af: | \ford to quibble about a question of }this character at this time, or can! we ever afford to follow out a policy that ls eo strongly questioned as is De net give or put away these! |iudament of their affairs. But, do not @ father and mother spend their health (and wealth) in raising @ fam ily? In the years it took to raipe them, were they every minute, day swrie, K~K+*HOUSE > Baye MAST —T + SAC Advances dients used price at this G. W. Skinner W. ©. Hutchinson Sole Owners KEEPING UP WITH “titzasticcAzem sinintts, He mother saved! READ “ALICE ADAMS” poor, sick, story for } old Mr. Adams, and then—well, read the RICH SOCIETY GIRLS | yourself and see if you don’t know people just like the STARTING NEXT SUNDAY IN | Adamses. | THE POST- INTELLIGENCER Announcement ATIONAL BAKING Company announces a slight rise in the price of staple wrapped breads (excepting “National” Health Bread), to go into effect Monday morning. Former Wholesale Price, lb. 6c New Wholesale Price, lb. 7c of flour and other ingre- cessitate the increase in 501 Third Avenue North SEATTLE SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1922. n problems would| panacea for criminals who are con , or trafficking olin the immorality of women id also solve our difth « that threaten us thra 4 birth rate among Japanese « sons of Nippon were de- lity to breed swarms ith ne | o mericans, they might Jone heir childre “ e heir motive in coming to ty and erlme be ram: | thi ntry us hear what other readers MRS. E, L. There are many reasot I believe; but the Bouthern of thie hemis phere have enjoy wince the open, Ing of the Panama canal, the great nomical development, which sny group of nations has er pert enced in the history of the world JACK NEW ) 4461 Winslow PI Immigration and Sterilization Editor The Star: I see that the Welfare league t« | hunting a home for the 17th child of a bolshevist father, and also for the father. We are wupposed to be protected by our immigration we, How then oan the steamship companies bring lewarme of these un irable people and make our nation a dumping} ground for them? It seerme that three babies have | already been born to there people | J only to be given away before they! | were even named by the mother who ing Safety for Your Funds IRE or burglars cannot rob you of your funds if deposited in our Savings Department. Yet your money is available for emergencies, Open Saturday evenings 6 to 8 o'clock bore them. | What is our Welfare league think: | ling of by encouraging this travesty | upon parenthood? Why has not this man been apprehended and compelled | to provide for his offspring or sub- mit to sterilization? If a law were enacted which would require the sterilization of parents of more than three children who de. sire admittance to this country many LEARN A WORD Dexter Horton National Bank Second Ave. and Cherry St: SEATTLE || EVERY DAY Today's word is DIFFIDENT. It's pronounced—diff fident, with | secent on the first syllable. 1 It means—Shy, timid, reserved, | | bashful It comes from—Latin “dis,” not, and “fidere,” to trust It's used like this-—-"Country-bred men are diffident in the presencs of women,” Grand Opening | OF THE NEW “O+TTS MASSACHUSETTS | Third and Madison, formerly Levy Orpheum Saturday Night, February 18 For eight days with Matinees Sunday, Wednesday, Saturday 0. D. WOODWARD Presents HAZEL WHITMORE Supported by ALEXIS B. LUCE and a notable cast in a fine production of “A WOMAN'S WAY” By Thompson Buchanan To be followed by weekly change of play at Bargain Prices At all matinees every seat (except boxes) 25 cents w= ™ NIGHTS—Every seat (except boxes) 5O cents =» é . in the cost f in bread ne- Formerly of Splendid Star—Excellent Support Players—! . a s ing Play Magnificent Play, Cece” by a Good Author—Direcied by 0. D. Woodward, re whose past record of productions is weeks in Spokane, Washington s in Denver, Colorado s in Omaha, Nebraska 408 weeks in Kansas City, Missouri We come prepared to please you Join the crowd at the box office Seat Sale opens Wednesday, February 15, at 9 o'clock Telephone Elliott 2564 Mail and Telephone Orders for Reservatio of Season Tickets, February 13 and 14 By Booth Tarkington j