The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 20, 1922, Page 6

Peblished Delty =| The Seattle Star and United aa Press Servien. © menting, 1 ream, a stain, 800 per month, Hor, city, 600 & month . out of etty, Ete per month; # mentha Ff in the state of W @ for ¢ montha, or 8 OMtnide of ® ston per year It has just been done, 50 feet under Could you keep a fire burning under water? the surface of New York harbor. Near Staten Island, a 36-inch steel water pipe on the floor of the ocean was smashed by adredge. It had to be cut away. Divers came up out of the muddy depths and reported that the water immediately lished their steel-cutting acetylene torches, But an “underwater fire chisel” has been developed by a company that salvages Ine wrecks. This chisel was brought into play. As it burns, it generates a gas forces back the water on all sides, leaving an open or hollow space for the flame. is scientific magic. It the inventor had lived 500 years ago, his exhibition would have made even kings to him in superstitious terror, * * * * * * * * * you were in the hands of enemies, about to be shot, and they told you, spare your life if you can light a fire under water and keep it burning.” answer probably would me, “It can’t be done”—even tho your life depended fet it can be done, as in the device used under water near Staten Island, an electric starting the flame. from this that nothing is Impossible. * * #* * 8 * * * #* Archimedes, who' discoyered the principle of the fulcrum, said he could move the if some one gave him a fulcrum, a long enough lever and something away from earth to stand on. Nothing was impossible, to Archimedes. Wet, if he’d been asked to weigh the earth, he probably would have said it could } done had he had a big enough pair of scales and a star to rest them on. 1 scientists, with a delicate mechanism which measures the attractive power tead and other elements, have discovered that the earth is about six times as heavy | an equivalent bulk of water. i the earth has been accurately weighed—found to tip the scales at 6,000 billions th staggering achievements should inspire all troubled and discouraged people. ‘problems can be solved. The solution is found by the one who never gives up the who refuses to recognize the phantom, defeat. If you want to know why there is a scarcity of farm hands, look at the big league ball teams. A man is making lightning. This is real light- ning and not the kind put up in bottles. After a man breaks his word it isn’t as good as it was. tal balldings? 5 5 nicer ct un, Ataz on every bonus plan might raise the bonus. im everything we do? for . Beveucs jour or five streets cress institutions, bul In Basiness at 4 given point there ts ne reason ‘cer att? for Yourself tm the world why men and women Meratare, Most of us imagine that oar should be injured there any more than et emy other place if the what they fimanctal troubles would vanish trarfic laws were enforord and parry if we could only get inte business obeyed. The reason why on ecct- DrAe tor oursetves. lence the eld d@nt happens ct places of that kind preach. It is “Better ¢ because men drive into those ary” comm “#7 ine. own 8 Pprannt laces at reckless rates of aperd— “wet.” stand than work for seme @n® senator Underwood (D.), Alm hypecray ont SPENT Yet an analysis of Income tax returns shows that even in 1919, “Prohibition doesn’t prohib't,” is the iccesincacchistinglicmniagallt boom year, 110564 corpors the trite sayings of the 1... had ne net incoma They When it's lowe ef first sight, tt “The whele cither lost money or barely broke Ses te look @ second fine, Joke—everybody makes - eee i” we Bome folks can make everything are true ig giles "eos mae coamamed except ends meet claim, “the ifs hard te keep @ cook—even pe REBEL NR hen you are married to her. ft soap turneth away wre goctiiities | Semes— ant Sussteunetl trying to em aside the as country does such reason : wrong. All law should be enforced. If law, enforcement proves it if bad law, enforcement kills O7 aur More quickly than anything CRAP Book BITTERSWEET BY ROBERT KENT I have my dreams, but what shall I gain If I must ever be content with them, Like little stars that cling to the garment hem Of Night, too pale of light, and shine in vain? It's evening now and all of joy I own Are bits of fantasy and wondering— Perhaps the hours of a newer day wil bring The sunlight to my heart—so long alone Be we need not expect to get far with this prohibition so long as many of our and enforeers pay lip to the Volstead law in and to the bootlegger’s Jug I have just left the noisy city treet; A stranger lost in lonely foreign places Could never realize the bittersweet Of Life more truly; « thousand faces Hurried on + ++-I have my dreama, but yet What shall I gain? My heart can not forget! 1 1 have been at several of these Pemeteries (where the dead of the &. EB. F. are buried) in Rurope, the at Suresnes, which is men- in the resolution here. It ts outside of the city of Paris. I ik they have something like graves there now. They are famiier among the yeovis¢ | School Boys and Girls of Seattle! France agreed among themselves fo adopt for cach family one grave fo look after #0 long as there ts @nybody belonging to that family in earth. It is a beautiful thing to do. It is a remarkable sight to ace dowens of families represented en those grounds by the children, who were planting flowers on the grave of which their parents had Become guardian. At one place in the north, Romagne, there were 27,00 graves dug at one time, but Of course many of the bodies have Been brought back to this country. Representative Kahn (R.), Calif. The boys and girte of Seattle thoroly appreciated pamphlet our Washington bureau prepared for them on president's cabinet and the work of the executive departments ashington, that we asked the bureau to prepare anoth tin useful in school work—this time, on THE PRESIDE HIS POWERS, DUTIS, ELECTION, COMPENSATION, Fy = the the It tells all about how a president ts elected, what he can and cannot do In running the government, how much pay he gets and what bis other allowances are, whom he can appoint, how he army and what his relations are to congress, other valuable information, told in @ simple and under- lable way and Any boy or girl (or man or woman) who wants this information may have it by filling out carefully the coupon below and send ing to our Washington bureau. Why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eve, but Porcetvest not the beam that is in thine own eye?—Luke vi.:4t. oee While we are colfly discussing man's career, sneering at his mts- takes, blaming his rashness and Tabeling his opinions, that man in Hits solitude ta perhaps shedding hot tears because his sacrifice is a Dard one, because strength and pa- Hence are failing him to speak the | difficult word, and to do the diffi- cult decd.—George Eliot. oo Washington Bureau, Seattle Star, 1322 New York Ave, | Washington, D, Ci: I want the pamphlet on THE PRESIDENT, and inclose two cents in stamps for postage. ee Street and No. City er Town It is casy to find the best man en earth, He ia the one your wife | Could have married and didn’t, THE SEATTLE STAR ( MUST STOP WASTING BOOTLEGGER’S TIME ties MONDAY, MARCTI 20, 1922. A Letter from AIVRIDGE MANN Dear Polke: Noah Webster, he whowe name the dictionary brought to fama, T hear wan quite a human guy, about the same as you and Il—and many other lowbrow men who bit the high spots now and then. One day when Noah Webster's spouse was visiting ber sister's houne, she raid to Noah she would stay and spend the night with finter May; and Noah, like « chevalier, said “That will be okeh, my dear.” So, feeling mite from wifely care, he planned « party then and there; he bought @ bateh of beer and gin, and asked @ bunch of cronies in; and when the early evening came, they opened up & poker game. At 12 o'clock the poker crowd wan getting lively, gay and loud; when Noah Webster softly swore at someone coming thru the door; and, terrified, they turned to stare at Mra Webster standing there! A solemn atlence struck the crowd, and no one dared to breathe aloud; as Mrs. Webster took it tn, from poker chips to beer and gin, she rained her hands and shook her head, “Why, Noah! I'm surprined!” she said. Poor Noah's face was pale with pain, as he replied “My work is vain! You never read my book, I fear, and even now you're wrong, my dear; your choice of words must be revised, for YOU'RD ‘astoniahed’—I'M ‘surprived’T™ Gee?! 1 @GeN WAITIN’ FOR THAT BIRD ’ 30 MINUTES! ij HE DON'T CUT 1T SOON WE'LL HAVE TO GIT ANOTHER determined that more money shall be raised and turned into the school fund (the Heaven only knews what for, a» they are the bert paid and lightest worked of any government officials), have not even gone to the trouble of sequeinting themselves | 768,700 only $ with the provisions of the laws | the rural disti which they wish to have changed, | than one-sixth and put forth this plausible theory the relief of that Increasing the amount raised will equalize the expense. ‘The school expense under the $10-$10 pian was about $14,000,000. Changing to the $20-$10 In 1921, gave | the raine in the salaries of the high another $3,600,000 pius—tut the! school expense for 1921 was $24,000,- | 000. $18,000,000, plus $3,000,000 is only of the rural $21,000,000, Where did the difference| GROANING TAXPAYER NO. 1 ° ° Approves of Bible Quotations Editor The Star: | In a letter to the editor I note a man at Big Lake is averse to Bible quotations “cluttering up” the col-) umns of your paper. 1 consider it) good policy to print Scriptural texts, | You should be commended for doing | 0; it shows that your paper is built | on a sure foundation. I am giad the Scripture can be read in news papers. I hope that you may fim every oor EVERY DAY i Today's word ts GLAMOR, The Murder of Seattle MaRor The Mar: I As & member ef ergantesd tnbor | for 30 years, and as « resident tnter | eeted in having | job and living tn a| city which conducts its affairs in & ne manner, I want te reason with the workers who only knew the Bitickson bil, te be voted on May 2, as &@ threecent carfare bill. ‘The Erickson bill t« @ynamite to workers here and a fine thing for industries in other Pacific coast cities, our rivals Also Stone & Webster ehould give Erickson @ medal at least for getting for them the full $15,000,000 for their bum systern when they are unable to get what th want in the ‘urte. Once we pay an Scent (oe, to many @ three-cent fare sounds like very good music. They Jump at the idea without thinking. Statistics show that only one man in 789 thinks, A threscent fare was only in Vogue once and that was tn Cleve. jland, Ohio, In Tom Johnson's time: |Labor wag cheap, hours were long —— |and material was low, yet it did not lant. Today there is no carfare in the nation for les than five cents, and mostly the fare runs from six to 10 jeenta, Now te [] poesibie that this city burdened as It is with a wreck of a car service and appurtenanons there of, running behind annually, cam per: | ~~~ form the supernatural? Vote for the threecent carfare and taxes will go up 21 mills on the dollar; room rent will go up 60 cents per room weekly. We bad the only Ole and mow have | the onty Erickson, Therefore, should this referendom pam it would mean more taxes. The power to tax tw the |power to destroy. It needs only a Uttle more taxation, much jess than the extra 18 or 21 mills Erickson tax to destroy both business and labor |We workers voted for the present system and we must play the game. | We have to live by labor, We ‘have to ask for a Job and there are 10.000 unemployed more interested in A job than a threecent oarfare, ob- tained the Frickson way, We can- not have a three-cent carfare without | an S4aill tax levy, We cannot get men to put up bufldines, operate fac | torien, or carry on buntness to give | us jobs on an S4rnfll tax levy. | Let's make the right ehoten I am | joing te vote “No" on the Erickson [DI Dont forget that no other city | has ever tried out the scheme Erick: | son is putting over, and don't forget | that Stone & Webster will get their | | full $15,000,000 no matter how much unemployment may result. This bm means the murder of the city of | Seattle KB. TERSDALR, | 602 Firth st. | “30-10” Bill Very Vague | Féitor The Star: | Would It not te a service to the | general public If The Star would give a complete analysis of the no-called "20-10" bill, which eould equally weil |be called the “60-60” bill, No two lof the number of people discussing [thie bill appear to have the same jconception of it. In @ bill no vague that but few ean understand it a proper bill to put on the ballot? RR. W. Swetman, the manager of tte campaign for this bill, in the | ¥gbruary number of the Washington FRucation Journal, answers what are purported to be questions on the 80-10." The points selected for | ttmee answets are ones intended to Jeatch the voter, for the so-called lanewer is always favorable to the Jone that has to pay the taxes, He} jis very careful to keep away from! 12-Hour Day in Fitor The Star: 1 I have been Interested tn your articles regarding the 12-hour day at the Port Angeles mills, | If I am not mistaken, theme pro- ple own the plants at Antioch and Herkeley or Exmoryville, this state. | A few years ago I worked at the Antioch plant at a time when a man by the nanr of Patterson waa man ager and it may interest you know that the hours of the day shift were from 7 a. m. untill 6 p. m., and of the night shift from 6 p. m. until Tp. m. No time was allowed for lunch and many times we did not get a chance to eat, particularly when the | Paper did not run well | Bearing One Another’s Dividends Editor The Star fl 8. Penson of Kent has some Kind Jand sympathetic words to hand out to the “rroaning taxpayers,” and among other things quotes Scripture to the effect, “Bear ye one another's burdens,” | That would be a lovely and effect ive mensure if the people who are living on the “groaning taxpayers’ would muddenly resolve that they were arking too much of thone lor muffering workers and decide t they would try to live on lew o {a smaller salary, and try to do effective work for what the “groan! Some Other Plants | the main trace, which Is “to eet more money and to take the control of the Public schools of the state of Wash- | ington away from the taxpayer and voter and put it fn the clutches of | A carefully selected few." If you question this statement, then I will refer you to the attempt to amend section 4209 of Remington & Ballinger’s Annotated Codes of f Washington, at the 17th won, to read: “The renen ministration and contro! of the public schools shall be vested in a state board of education which shall consist of mven lay members.” The proposed legisiation carrina with It this same provision under slightly different wording and is «-Ameri can for it takes awny rights we fought long and hard for. Very truty yours, AT. AXPAYER. | Saturday nfght we commenced | work at the usual time @ DP. m.) | worked until 7 a.m, when the mill | closed down, and from that time un- til the belts were chaned. This was until noon and often later. ‘The next week we enjoyed (7) the li-ho shift of the day crew. { T have traveled rather extenstvely | thru the South and it ts my opinion that the old-time slaves enjoyed some freedom tn comparison with the em Ployes of this company Anyone at the town of Antioch, Contra Costa county, in this state. will verify those facts and no doubt these conditions are still maintained at the plants above referred to, A READER, Fairplay, Cal, ing Taxpayers” could afford to pay!! Instead of any such reciprocity, however, we have the unparalelied situation of these very beneficiaries, actually asking to have $3,578,700 more added to the school funda! Telling the taxpayers tha. they must hand out that sum, with all kinds of fallacious theories, that it won't Increase the taxes, or mean any more money, but will “equalize” school expenses! (It mounds like what they tell children in the den tist’s ehaird School law says that the stat. county tax can be used only to pay martes and provide equipment. The local district tax must be levied to| teed sword piercing. even te the buy school sites and build school | dividing asunder of soul and spirit. Lap~sesnd houres, the latter can be applied to | Joints and marrows, and 4 dis-| Companion word—glamorous. | the other expensea, but the | my and county tax cannot be uned to | Of the heart.” Heb. 4:13, buy sites or trifld achool houses. porsible space with texta, because ‘The word of God is quick and | "PtH, attraction. Z powerful and sharper than any two.| It comes from—Seeteh “gtamour,’ corruption ef English “gramarye” mtate Comer of the thoughts and intents! 11’ used like this—“The South Sea | tants have an unusual glamor at @ i Very truly yours, | distance, but they are not so pleas — ‘The law ts very that MRS. T. H. 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