The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 17, 1922, Page 6

PAGE 6 Nownpaper tte. terprine Ase, and United Prom Servios, ¢ Washington tase tors Months, oF $9.00 per year Sign the Bill for Reapportionment HE politicians down at Olympia are chanting a hymn of hate against the initiative measure to redistrict this state. Some of the men who have bossed state legislatures for years are joining the chorus. Why? Here's the answer: To redistrict this state honestly means to give the majority of the peo- ple control of the state government. They haven't control now. The initiative, measure would reduce the number of state representatives and state senators some of the sparse- ly settled sections of the state may elect to the legislature, and increase the number to be chosen by the thickly populated sections and the cities. And that is eminently right, plainly in. ac- cord with the principle of the Ameri- ean government and our own state constitution. A Seattle citizen’s vote should be as | good, as powerful, as that of the man who lives in the far corner of some so- called “cow county.” But, it isn’t: His vote is worth two or three of yours. In some districts a few hundred voters select a member of the legislature, while in others, tens of thousands of voters have only one representative at Olympia. This system isn’t right, it isn’t just, it isn’t American. This state today has NOT representative govern- ment. It has a system of plural voting as wrong as that in Germany under the old kaiser. THE politicians declare. that if the state is redistricted, the cities will rule. Well, what of‘it? If the cities | have the most votes, the most people, they have a right to control. For this is the United States! And representa- tive government means equal voting power for all voters. A few days ago one of the bosses of the legislature—a man who voted FOR the poll tax and FOR nearly every other bad law that legislatures. have passed in recent years—proclaimed the theory that the cities need the bal- ance wheel, must have the check of the present system to keep them from going wild. In other words, he thinks the folks of the cities and the thickly populated districts haven’t common sense enough to run their own state, to run their own business, and that they should ‘sit quietly and pay three- fourths of the taxes of the state. The politicians don’t want this state redistricted because they might lose control of it immediately. There’s a clause in the state consti- tution, put there by the honest old Americans who founded this common- wealth, that COMMANDS the legisla- ture to redistrict the state every 10 years. And the legislature not ‘only has disobeyed the command of the constitution, but has fought bitterly to keep it from being obeyed. We have now the spectacle of folks who herald the supposedly high per- centage of their Americanism from house tops urging the people of the state to disregard the constitution. HE politicians are not alone in their fight against giving the ma- jority of the people control the state govern- ment. The politicians are being assisted by every special interest that has found friends in the state government. The special interests don’t want majority rule anywhere. They are afraid of the majority. Especially are they afraid of the people of the cities, for it is in the cities that the special interests have found their fattest plucking, their richest fields, The legislatures for the last 10 or 15 years have not represented the people of this state. We have not had anything but a mere form and fraud of representative government. We never will have it until the state is redistricted. If you believe in representative govern- ment, in the basic principle of Americanism, sign ‘the initiative petition to redistrict this state. And vote FOR that initiative at the gen- eral election. Ny carrier The Seattle Star HY mall, out of city, He por month: # mentha, $1.80; © montha 2.18: year, Outaide of the state, B86 ps city, Ape & month. Published Dally » or month, *Russia’s New Money The bolshevik government has degun to reform lis currency Like all bolshevik actions, it is an experiment in extremes; but any soviet effort to restore finam cial order must be welcomed by the world. New paper rubles have began to be printed at Moscow, like the old rubles, EXCEPT THAT THE LAST FOUR CIPHERS ARE ELIMINATED, That is to say, an effort is being made to fix # standard ruble at the rate of one for ten thousand of the old, This ratlo was determined by estimat ing that ten thousand rubles in bolshevik money have the pur chasing power of one ctarist ruble. A ruble normally is worth about 50 cents, The soviet government is estimated to have printed ton million million rubles since it has been in power, At par of ex change this magical volume of currency would represent $5,000,- 000,000,000, or nearly 15 times the wealth of the United States—all created by soviet printing presses in five years, The bolshéviki are now trying to reduce this pyramid of irre deemable paper rubles to a value of $500,000,000, or about one sev- en-hundredth of the wealth of the United Stateg, at a single opera- ton. Having failed to reach the millennium by a series of colossal inflations, the bolsheviki are try ing to correct their mistake by one prick of the bubble, to bring about a super-colossal deflation. ‘The experiment is not unpreee- dented in principin All nations with irredeemable paper curren: les have had to go thru the same process in the past, before return ing to solvency. ‘The irredeemable paper money of the United States issued during ,the revolutionary war period, and immediately afterward, was simi larly cast aside, But gever be fore has any nation bad such enormous quantities of paper cur reney to get rid of. Deflation, carried out too rap idly, would work destruction in Russia if there were anything left to destroy. But, so little that is destructible is left that the laws of political economy are unsafe guides for prophets Rassia may astonish the world by making a quick financial re covery beenuse of the very stern measures the bolshevik financiers are taking. Their present step, however, i only preliminary. Eventually, the new rubles must be redeemed in gold before Rus- sia’s finances can become stabil faed, When that happens the mad ex periment of the bolsheviki with fiat money will have come to an end. e Bequoia was a Cherokee Indian. De was born in Georgia. He roamed all ovéf the Weat, includ. ing California, and was one of thé first to report the existence of the “big trees.” His English name was George Gest. After he had grown to manhood he co not read or write, but he wn d white men reading. and obt "9 knowledge from books. He saiv white men writing letters, tending them hun- dreds of miles away, and the peo- ple who received: them could read those letters and know what was in them. He inquired how this was set to work and in- alphabet of the Chero~ fect that a of five years of aoe on learning the alphabet can vead intelligently. Representative Curry (R.), Calif If it takes five years for Japan to get out of Shantung she muat be getting something besides her- aclf out. Another chorus girl has married @ millionaire for love American Farmers First The world’s 16 greatest batter. fat producing cows are listed by Professor W. W. Yapp of Univer- sity of Mlinois. Fifteen of them are in the United Statest This is one of many proofs that the American farmer is the most progressive in the world. For thus saith the high and lofty one that inhabiteth eternity, name i Holy; 1 dwell in th and holy place, with him also that 4s of a contrite spirit.—Isaiah Wik: 15. eee ° Tune your car To all the wordless music of the stars, And to the voice of nature; vour heart Shall turn to truth and goodness aa the plant Turns to the sven hands Reach down to help vou from their peace-crowned heights MU the forces of the firma- ‘ nt Mair fortify your strength. Ie not afraid To thrust half-truths aside grasp the whole Ella Wheeler Witcoz. and oun A thousand un And and nlareful to play cheek unday in Boston, what do they do for exercine? Nert to keeping a good man down the hardest thing is keeping @ bad one up. ER | MONKEY—KEY-+ TAG — -G +NAIL— THE SEATTLE STAR A Petter from cea MANN | dour Polke | The other day the Lions’ Club bad met to talk and eat their |] «rub, and T wa Nungry, too, but didn't bave « single sou 1] and so 1 thought I'd bum @ lunch by mixing with the Lions bunch I saw, ax I went up the atair, the Reverend Sidney Morgan there; I greeted him, took off my lid, and asked him “How in || business, Sid?” Ho maid, “It's eplendid, on the level—it makes |] me work to beat the devil wandered in and saw dinplayed the biggest buttons ever made; | waa on them all, in letters seven inches tall; 1 | ed wimply, “Guest,” and bid behind it, like the rest neard an awful din—Doo Rutherte ne | March's music rang, “Here comeg the*bride,” the | Olken paused from chewing chow, and said, “He's & #peech on “Tow a guy can win & bewan to dose, for how they do It, no ® and even Doo will later find he can't explain @ wou An's mind. But thi T know there; and then, with play. Bo, I enjoyed the luftch! Cirridge 7 anew friendly feeling r sober thought 1, tank youeI I ike the Inte, 1 Mke th ain, 1 like the way they te . you're @ dapdy bunch How to Reduce the Price of Bread Editor The Star The following simple procens, work by ordering ont eminem, tommencing with Monday, the 0th inst, let every b bake her own br unu November od I have not heard tha’ Increased since then quantity ot ry ed in this and A the price of bread @ thin cour be purchased at email loaf or 11 cents the large. Per sone taking meals in restaurants or cafeterias may amist in the good "Tis the Candidate United States, Yours very truly NORMALCY. awe ring thought it would be sings “Howdy, howdy, how ¢ priate to have you pass this on How jx your wife a to readers of our Star paper. jAb, it Ota my fist « or Can, |The honest odo ‘ork THE CANDIDATE ae Nae mea | “Father, who travels the road ao/| ba Thank you, MRE. CC. “Hon Md! lie the eandidate! {rar [Me k «What Will History Say = dirty face He calls thru the {once to the farmer He bores the merchant, he bothern/ f Tl ° E meth weewneun| OL Lhis Era? Ho greets, and this is the song he! singe, BY AMATEUR ECONOMIST Will the history written 60 years in the future tell our chil dren of the reeenstruction after the great war in the following words? “rhe people of the United States found themecives in a very for- ondmic position after the great war. Their factories Were able to produce more than ever had | . sides the great amount of wealth | that was prod d at home the pe were com at quantities of 4 States to pay debt that had * Nowty, howdy, how @ye do? How is your wife. and how are youT| Ah, ft fita my fist an no other can, | The horny band of the working-| man.’* } I , | tunate ec “Husband, who ts that at “H@e, my love, it's the ca | “Hurwand, why can’t he work | you? he nothing at home to do™ , whenever & man in down, d too proud to In the past; be countries ny town, polled t Too plain { preach, ac ber, ent on \ 0 4 too lazy to dix. “ Teo timid to rob and - tax: 4 he, #TOWN up during the first years Then over his horse » lege of the war Oingr. ‘The people of the United Stat the 4 eople this song he Pe " oe Rates Ang to the dear peop ” s would have been wu eo to profit sings by this ¢ ¥y to raine the . standard of living thruout the ” ‘Howdy, howdy, bow d'ye do : : a ght Cite my fist an no other ¢ a financiers , of the country The herny band of the working a - Fa 4 mly way it | ume the Brothers who labor early and late, a one lank these things of the candidate What i# bis record? How he stand the period fol t war is marked 6 honest and « s your pet page ako je bo st of living that has m ny period in history will we find the following eraph? Slogan on Auto Accidents Editor The Star fore the great war the plane n the Unitdy States the highest of nation The pr and the| that oblem of the na time up to had been . The appalling loms ‘of life / para accounts of which appear daily in then conducted the fovern rt your paper, arouses the most silent) tne people had been able t zen to protent, sent for your earnest t the following slo ural resources of nd were then con and reticent Let me su on th considerat Jaily, in small italics, | gan be place under each 0) lopment uate for the now confronted After the d before the 4 item of your paper:| item hotel cos efully ins “Regulate ty speed of automobiles that jand stop the et crossing slaugh ter.” ide on the pro ‘ould to the minds of Proper fe haber eign policies. The politicians de 300,000 readers each day of your! manded thnt Kurope pay the | valuable paper the idea that each has | debt which had accumulated dur a duty and a bility, drivers| ine the first years of the war n of great quan r¥"to pay | I. ja a frourts that | few intelligent and f ors, together with a r ne will not be told he 4 larive « onable there in a spirit of revenge, but, amount of thought and study on rather he is there in a spirit of right-}| the part of the average voter, eous indignation and justice would have enabled America to w.P ILLY, have kept the prominent place in 5630 Palatine ave.| t% World's affairs that she then © 4, But the waders played | 5 vdustrial disorgant Greenland was discovered and n followed. From this it Inamed about the end of the tenth many years for the nation Jcentury by a Norseman to recover GEOGRAPHIC a J IL = MONTANA LETTERS 2 EDITOR rolls or bis followed by the. people mt be satinfied with a will rewult in th® reduction of the return of the price to eight cents: price of bread to something within the figures quoted above were tbe reason Prices of bread'in San Francisco last anywhere in the Editor The Star heer such @ man till the welkin While looking thru some old poems rings, [that my grandfather had ted |Join in the choris when thus he FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, a 1 1 EARN A WORD | _EVE RY DAY * aA * 5 . for your “nem CZCRAP B RO DOK - ke th Po! are em To Bir Ernest Bha BY LEO H. LA And new horizons held a mynte Jud Ag U BY i“ GIRLS! LEMONS That urged him on aerc rystal plains lynn That stretched into the tar, untrave . | WHITEN ROUGH i = Where Adventure and his | | Belt: poe sii teebeia the ire Ya vastér opecen. _ CHAPPED HAND of two lemons tape ing th ounces of wh any drug a few cents, wt thrill never know He loved the whip of winds, the wtn That léfe could give; but The loveliness of spring upon a hill Ali green in resurrection; at eventide, Whiten day had faded, he could never go u have « quarter | Within a little gate where joys abide pint of harmless and delightful lem —_——_—————— [on-bieach lotion to noften and whites red, rough or chapped hands. Thi In Honor of Lincoln j¢ lemon lotion js far supe! personage at Orchard W tore will mupply fe shake well, and yo lycerine and rose water te en the #kin A thought struck us, that it would | peauties ine it to Sisal ten pe, be nice to form a Lingoln club, which that soft, clear, rosy-white complex would ma its businens to see that ion, because it doesn’t irritate—A@ those to whom the members gave | vertisement, thelr patronage make such @ display | on February 12 of each year in fut ® ure, and that the teachers do not of to tell the story of this the | ent of God's noblemen, rapecttully your | W. W. LEGHORN. | Why Always Believe the Woman? | Editor The Star [did not need any, as her husband! Have our state legislators auth. Whe & citizen, ered a new law in paychology, that | remister, women are more truthful than men?) Now, why should the clerk take! |best St pain snd ache It would appear go to me from the! her word for it that she was mar hbor. voting law. Yesterday I went tg.the | ried and that her husband was a cit-| You can just tell by its izen? Is not my word just as good stimulating odor that it is going to e | as here? Why should 1 have to You good. Sloan's Liniment is deag” prove that I'm entitled to vote and non-skin-staining. she not have to do the same? Keep Sloan's handy for those eedden + thing I cannot quite un. |80d unexpected ago of Rocce) lumbago, sciatica, lame. seid weather after-effects, - At all druggists—35c, 70c, $1.40. regieter, by showing his birth certifi 9, cate as proof to what he claims? P I have to prove I wan naturalized, Sloat i Why should my word be doubtec Editor The Star Reading your Deautiful tribute to the memory of Abraham Lincoln re minded me of strolling the rtreets on Bunday with some friends. We noted that 9 per cent of the sepers could not find suff their windows ture of thin, the ans, and we won: PE A RHEUMATIC ACHES QUICKLY RELIEVED lematt y all Ar thom forgetful citien had been eq f the existence of et She was allowed to Pros inv 2 roe folks all over the ind Sloan's to Le the | liniment. ‘Ask your’ ee 4. courthouse to register. The clerk lasked me if I w nin this coun jtry. 1 told him hat I was a citizen. He ask naturalizs tion papers and i me that Tt could not vote unlens I showed them to him to prove that I wan a eltizen T brought my papers last year, and the fact that my name was oh year’s lint should have t I wan a citizen, But, no: to again prove that I was tell ing the truth be While talki | leter If a man says that he here he owed to regis he not have is allowed to} last to pre been proof re I could register NISTESEES. . & lady came to reg She was asked for her natu alization paper and hls not? Why? Yours truly, “ B. J. 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