The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 20, 1922, Page 12

STATE LAND PROJECT IS DEFENDED! White Bluffs Editor Takes. Issue With Letter From Mrs. Maude Sweetman RB. J. O'Larey, editor and pud: of the White Bluffs Spokes takee violent issue with a let Aer from Mrs. Maude Sweetman, re cently published in The Star under ‘the heading, “White Bluffs.Hanford ‘Project Is Proving Juley Lemon.” “This article,” O’Larey eays in a letter received today full of false and misteadi; statements, | bly an effort to discredit good fork. This valley was chosen only | > Siler an investigation of reveral months. Close to 20 projects were ‘Carefully investigated, not only by ‘Btate officials, but by a committee Appointed by the American Legs ‘And such experts as Marvin Chase, | lic engineer; Olaf P, Jenkins, | - ir reports are a matter ot} “This valley is on the banks of | ‘the Columbia river, about 45 miles from Pasco and Kennewick. | Boll is a decomposed volcanic ‘ash mixed with sand. The altitnde | Ha about 450 feet above sea level. ‘Tt has a long growing season and is ‘he of the earliest fruit districts mm | the Northwest. The land produces ‘QS much, and in most cases more, | any irrigated district in the and the quality of Its products #0 high that buyers pay a pre for its fruit. CCESS DEPENDS THREE ELEMENTS “Whether or not the attempt will Be a success will depend on three Whings—the ability of the soit to crops; the intellig of @tate administration, the! of settlers who take up the | ‘The first essential is proved By the number of well-todo farm: | ) @ee living on adjoining land. The \ has selected an able project ir in J.C. Scott, and, if he is ‘HOt tied up with red tape, there is) Tittle doubt about the supervision. | ‘The type of men who take up the ) Wand is the only gamble, and, it | they have some farming experience, | ih they are industrious and if they Thave enough capital to tide them (ever until the land t# brought to a Producing state, they cannot fail | “Mrs. Sweetman thinks the soll He wWorthiess because the project | Manager advised against plowing SMe the water for irrigation ‘Weedy. Anybody with irrigation ex. sipeuagh knows that is good advice im any irrigated district | “While the final date for receiving | i is nearly a month away, | a are already over 40 applications | Tor this land on file, and the average of capital of those applicants, | $2,700. That will probably be it news to Mrs. Sweetman.” “She says this valley ie a desert. course it is—that is, unim- section. So was every other and F. J. Sievers, soll ex: t |when he refuses leniency to a dis. THE SEATTLE STAR. Soprano With Grand Opera at the Met Cynthia Grey Woman, Who Docs Not Believe in Divorce, Takes Unfaithful Husband Back—Wishes to Avoid as Many Difficulties as Possible in Process of Recon- ciliation, | What's to be done when a husband breaks his vows to the wife who does not believe in divorce? | | This not uncommon situation presenta distressing diffi- }eulties. Of it, a wronged wife writes thus: “A woman stole my husband from me. | “I knew first because he was strangely | bored at home. Soon he began to stay downtown, night! after night. He became terribly nervous. 1 saw that he was | losing his health—-and I knew why. | “But I kept still until 1 was sure of the facts, and then we |had one glorious battle. I took my babies home to my par-|]) ents and left him to cure his ‘nerves.’ | “The woman who stole him soon | lost him to another, He is hand! some and fascinating, Women find him easy to annex, Now he is down and out, hia fine business is ruined. | “And after two years of separation he has dared to write me love letters! He regrets the past, and aska my for | giveness, 1 am the only woman he (stuns over loved, ete, ete.? I can see No reason for believing |firat proposed by the Prench econo what he ays, but I intend to eet up| mists, or phynocrats, in the # our home again because I do not be | half of the [8th century, Acco o tleve in divoree, I am sure my little! to the phystocratic theory of distribu. boys ought not to be deprived of tion, land ts the only factor of pre | itheir own father thru any obstinate duction irritable and M receive callers || tn by and Friday from 1 to 2 p.m. and on Tuesday and Thuraday from 11 a.m, to 12m, each week. Please do not come at other times as tt seriously interferea with her Grey will office Monday, Wednenday which yielts a net return Bianca Saroya, beautiful iie of mine. above subsletence or m Th | dramatic soprano, who makes |” «1 know there will be many diffi follows from th neory that taxes | fl her first appearance in Seat- | culties in the process of reconcliia:/on labor and capital, business and fH) tion, Perhaps I can avoid a few of commodities, muat inevitably be shift them if you will warn me what they j¢d fo the land, with much incidental will be” * lhardship to individuals and disturb Let's put the worst difficulty first of industry. Accordingly, alt ot seen her husband tarce should be levied directly upon Bhe wilt discover im the land. Thia theory wes popular~ will ined in the United Slates by Henr; ' not like, perhaps a coarsencas of fiber George, particularly in Ma “Progr the Boston opera. She will be | whicn wii shock her but which she and Poverty. 7 Mal rening | will have to tolerate. | ee | poe Ry el ew ih any td No husband was ever improved by| Dear Minn Grey: Not long ago! in te Je ‘ “stolen” by @ succession of ‘The Star printed the population of donna, women. No man prows morally acute! London and New York an follows: ————-een= | by getting acquainted with evil. | Landon, over 1,000,000, and New York | | On the contrary, Ais notions ef over 5,000,000, which I believe in cor- | ethics and morals get pretty blunt rect: at least, London was over 7,000,- | id this dullness the wife must un-|000 before the war, according to let-! | derstand, and endure. }ters from Kngtand | The wife's scoond big hurt will be) ~The other day you gave the popu AT THE WILKES .."::: tle Wednesday evening in “Cavalleria Rusticana” with the San Carlo opera company, | now playing a week's engage-| The wife h ment at the Metropolitan, |for two wears | She wil dis Miss Saroya was formerly of 0" re"¥, edn being the husband's personal reaction to |lation of New York an over 6,000,000 | 4 London over 4,000,000, Kindly For every moment of his joy the tell which ix correct w.cH wife hea paid and will continue to) The World's Almanac for 1982 Poy with her teers lout only about a month, now, Play of Commonplaces Gets Fale Reception — | wta'srsaseranear nt ne WHS Serutel fie oe | Ruy? RR | He wilt mot, Ie vill auppose that! London, taking in the “outer ring.” | By Glenn Hughes |the wife's silence implies forgiveness has a population of 7,)76,16%, while . . jand forgetfulness. |New York, taking in the five bor-!| Pe TON oe an nl | And if she dares to remind him of |oughs —~- Manhattan, Bronz, Queens, hiayerng be ce uttsanyls # so at the plorious past he will be furious | Brooklyn and Richmond—haos a pop- . io oe ae nl o f th fa allog io 7 ian of over bf On Wilkes theater by the Co-operative aa tf the fault were alloocther her | ulation ° 00 04 Stock company. The first perform own! Lf she ventures to name the! New York, including the boroughs, z evn: ed ladies” for whom he sacrificed his a called “Greater New York,” and Ti _— mee given ae pefore & i sons and hia business, he will rage! | London, including the “outer ring,” bs moderately appreciative auc These ore but two of the hard de- | called “Greater London.” The theme of the play has to do “ sellciee" conan: cused of complicity in a theft, whe) . ts. upon release from prison, jumps her| parole, goes West, meets and marries| What ts single tax? @ railroad man who eventually be-| Single tax is a proposed plan of comes a great executive and returns | Placing all taxes save those levied for | with her to New York. This husband |"¢#frictive or regulative purposes is @ stickler for the prosecution of |“P0" the unimproved value of land; criminals and the rigid enforcement | ¢, the whole value of land less the of the law. At the very moment |®PPraised value of improvements upon it, The single taz on land was EXPECT 10,000 AT. CONVENTION] More than 10,000 former. service men are expected to attend the an! nual convention of the Veterans of| Foreign Wars, to be held in Seattle | August 14 to 21, provided a rate of) 1 cent a roile in granted by the rail-| roads, as) waa given to American | Legion representatives attending the) Kansas City convention last fail Veterans are expected in the city fromevery state in the Union. Many of these former service men will nee! honest employe, he discovers his wife's secret. From this dilemma the | playwright extricates him in the fourth act—just in time to prevent the abhorred unhappy ending. | Mary Ann Robbins assumes the Readers wishing a government bulletin on Home and Vegetable Gardens may obtain eame by writ- |] Ing to the Publications Division, |] U. & Department of Agriculture, Union League Club 1 banquet at the Crystal Pool a ery ent ona t employes of the line were killed Snowslide Wrecks white and black. 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Whirlpool, canna, electric, black, navy, midmght, silver, jade, raffia, Bermuda and white. in shell pink, tan, jade, peach, brown, gray, rose, navy, pink, Copenhagen, black, ‘i Corsets, Exceptional Values R. & G. Corsets f ; Tuesday at é Hanford did found ‘the *motional role of Margaret Case, the > town that bears bis name,’ but we! victim of circumstances. In her “Raver heard he ‘lost a fortune trying |climatic scenes she runs the gamut Grrigate land in this barren coun-|f pathos. James Blaine, in spite of asking for a copy of Department Ciredlar No, 48, The Club Mem- bers’ Home Vegetable Garden No postage need be sent. DO NOT write to The Seattle Star || the Pacific Northwest for the first] time as guests of Roosevelt post No. M4, the Seattle unit of the organiza tion, 85c | | “Objections are made to the fact | that water for irrigation is secured from wells. and that settlers are ‘forced’ to sign three-year contracts rer. and that the land will cost settier $200 an acre. Irrigation from wells has proved the most eco. Reomical and satisfactory, and ciee tricity is better than any other pow fF for the pumps. The settler is “foreced’ to sign no contract; he Is Privileged to get a farm equipped With well, pump. motor and buildings for from $2,590 to $4,000. He will be able to get his pumps, motors, fene. ing and lumber for Prices thru the state, « will pur hase the land for about a fourth of ‘What it cost the settlers already here “The question of Holstein cows Clark seedling strawberries and oth er like questions are administration Matters. “Mrs. Sweetman says a larce Mortcage company has fore closed on many acres of land in this valley, ‘after futile efforts had been made by experienced In the last 10 Fears only two places were fore- closed on by this company where the land was improved. WANT TO PROTECT STATE INTERESTS “The rules and regulations gov erning the project have been revined and further revision, will be made if necessary, But to assume that it was the intention of the etate to lasso and hog-tie the pro wettier, as Mra, Sweetman « " is foolish, The state officers having this matter in charge are the cus todians of the $100,000 appropriation Are they to be blamed for wanti PPotect the state's interest any” no doubt Mrs. Gussie Wolfe, _ Pioneer, Is Dead Funeral services for Mra Wolfe, 60, a renident of Seattle for 50 years, were held at 2 p, m. Monday @t the Bonney-Watson chapel, witn interment in Hills of Eternity ceme Gussie Mrs. Wolfe died Sunday, at the home of her sister, Mrs. Sarah Ruck a * 1215 V. tet st addition to Mra, ueker, *. Carl K. Wolfe and Harold J, Wolfe Seattle, and M. J. Wolfe, Low An geles—-and by two brot » Charles and Sam Kaufman, Seatt 4 FUNERAL SERVICES for Wa 4 Clareberg. 18. who died #und. of Mr. and Mra. W: 2509 24th ave. 8, w held P.M. Tuesday at the Bonney. Watson a chapel. Three conventions of exservice men are to be beld on the Paci oust this summer, Veter of Fi eign Wars in Seattle August 14 to 21 the unineptred and piatitudinous na ture of his lines, gives a very good | performance. He is at all times in| ——— — é character, and succeeds very well in| ceptable as James Burke, the thief |] Washington bureau for this suggesting a strong, dignified man | who tries to go straight Disabled American Veterans of the} of means and influence | The play, in its conventional man-| World War at San Francisco June The comedy of the play, tho almost /ner, unfolds with a certain amount | 26 to 50, and the Spanish-American | inconsiderabie, is contributed by the |of effectivenem, and those who en-| War Veterans in Portland | spirited and genial T. Daniel Fraw-|joy a restatement of the common-| Senator Wesley L. Jones has intro ley. with Howard Russell an partner. | places of the theater will find it fair- | duced a bill in the senate providing a Arthur Belasco finds himself at ly palatable. | 1cent mileage rate to be granted to home in the role of Carroll, the| There will be the customary eve | al! veterans traveling to and from} eagieeyed sicuth who “never for-|ning and afternoon performances ' their national conventions or encamp- | gets”; and Vaughn Morgan {is ac-|during the remainder of the week menta | THE BON MARCHE Ba RGAIN BASEMENT THE BARGAIN BASEMENT SERVES ITS PATRONS WELL By procuring the latest and best merchandise for the lowest possible cost. Tweed and Herringbona New Mannish Top Coats $15.00 and $18.50 Most Popular Styles for Street or Sports Wear Smart new coats, double breasted, with raglan sleeves, patch pockets, and buckled belts. In gray, tan and brown herring- bone, $15.00, and in green and brown tweed $18.50. Sizes to 42. 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