The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 31, 1922, Page 11

FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 1922. Club Has Made Editor 1 ar It has been brought to my atten Yon thru various sources that candi datos seeking oftige both In the eity and national primartes, are claiming jthe support of this organteation. In order that there no mis understanding in thin connection, I desire to advise that we Correct Apparel for Vomen will be aa an organ isation, hag not at yet taken action along thege ines, and do not expect | to, at least on the national campaign, jWntll shortly before the primaries. Anyone who claims our indorsement | Editor ‘The star: T have had both schoo! and war ex perience, baying taught in grade and | high schools, algo private and claxsic | Schools, I also wag retained to do | Necessary work among our returned | troops for months after the war was lover, I have talked to thousands of Overseas mon and associated with them in a personal and friendly we RUART new hat Here are some of their expressions up | your spring cos- }and tobacco tm “Tt ts a dirty habit.* “It Is a useless habit. “It ts an expensive habit.” “It is a habit that fastens iteclt up on us, and many of us are ashamed | to go home, to be seen slaves to the | abit. It te am Injurtous habit, and, like | the dope. it seems to give temporary | relief, but leaves its victims in a $15.00—$18.50 Tncladed are hate for t, Sports and D Editor The Sta One sometimes hears ft sald “Er- lekwon's theory of free car fares is & Joke, but at least be is sincere.” T hope so. It is not pleasant to think one’s fellow townsman, paid by the people's money to attend to |the people's business, te not playing fair secording to his lights, His jsincerity would seem more real, however, if his campaign was not Staged as @ violent appeal to clas hatreds, Well, turbans, clever off-the-f, b fests and Sacietas eathers, or beads. in all the new shades. Erickron ts sincera, then. were the king of England, Lioyd | George. Woodrow Wilson or the Messiah. We generally segregate |them, however, and do not employ them to conduct our affairs. We've had several “perfectly sin cere” people who in high official Position have done things to Seattle, the scars of which will remain for | many @ long year and for which we lare all suffering tn our purses and [our self respect. As an old-timer, who has ltved thruout most of Seattle's glorious Lundin Writes | Editor The Star: | Im ae letter from C. I. Hamfiten | published by The Star last Friday Did Ev i Marry the Gir 1 TRON MOUNTAIN, Mich. Mareb 21.—"Service” is ;| ments, One tn particular ts tn rela | thon to the League Opposed to Maln- taining Public Utilities by General ‘Taxation. of which chairman. ‘The league bas a one-room offices at 303 Securities bufkting and ts so Netting dollar contributions. We are For Constipated Bowels, Sick Headache, Sour Stomach, Bilious Liver ‘The in| pietely By morning, and you wil the world to physie your liver and|feel splendid. “They work while when you have Dizzy Head-| you sleep.” Cascarets never stir you Colds, Biliousness, Indigestion,|up or gripe like Salts, Pills. Calo of Upset, Acid Stomach is candy-|mel, or Oil and they cost only ten like “Cascarets.” One or two to|cents @ box. Children night will empty your bowels com |carets too—Advertisement nicest catharticlaxative Dress Well on Less Money Bradbury Clothes For Men and Boys Spring Suits and Overcoats | | A better tailored line of Men's Clothes in all } the latest patterns, finest quality materials nd at prices that represent Be ee ee. 929.50 Bradbury Junior tweed and amphools—Sincere and Otherwise | We've all known perfectly sincere | people who have believed that they! I was elected) CASCARETS 10¢ love Cas LETTERS ie LD TOR { DEAPPEARE No Indorsements | le dol fo without our knowledes, | A meeting f@ to be held Sunday April of all rallway orgar ations, for the purpoge of dincussing the can didates now rush fe mayor, council, school board and port eon minsion, If action is taken at that meeting whereby the club tnd anyone, we shall make a public st ment. Until then, all dorgement are fulne truly, GBO. 1. MA State Cr | Raflway Men's Polit | No Patience With Tobacco Habit | Weaker state finally Surgeons and physical examiners report that the uge of the cigaret is a ponitive injury to the health of our men and incapacitates them for the best work You su & Nittle bit Koed in the kindly wreaths of tobacco smoke.” You would not think so if you rode on the rear end Of & street car when some when asked about the use of liquor! fellow fills hig mouth with “emoke| just before he mounts the platforin. then blows it in the throes of those manding there, Or go to some cat ing place with your wife and daugh ter, and just you begin to enjoy your meal, to be compelled to take u good share of #6 band stuff. Yours for a square deal for our teachers and children, H TSAA 4217 11th Ave. past, Iam sick unto death of there damphools posing ag statesmen, run ning amuck and laying waste the | fairest and most promising city on the Pacific Coast with their erack } drained nostrums, thelr wildeyed theories of government. Let's end this thing now and for all time. Let's bury this communis tle scheme that hangs over Srattic }like a black pall, and bury ft #0 [deeply that the world will have notice that Seattle is thru with tts orgy, that Seattle has “come back” and proposes to fulfill her destiny @s the chief city of the Pacific; that Seattle is no longer the national |testing ground for cranks but an upstanding American city with a | citizenship endowed with ma common sense amd common honor. Otherwise we might just as well jall move out—rich man, poor man, beggar man, thief—it will be the curtain for Seattle. pod, A sick perwon ean stand fost 60 | much, and that this ie the crisis of Seattle's case I have no doubt what ever, and I am an optimist Cc. T. CONOVER. on 3-Cent Fare raising no big funda We are not connected with the Washington Union league I am not a member |there are several glaring misstate|of that organization and do not be | sponge tn 1921. Heve tn it. The sooner tt goes out of existence, In my opinion, the bet | ter off the etty wil be I am not getting a cent fer my eorrvices lem the Ertckawe tf es |® citixen who believes ft t# funda mentally wrong aod will injure everybody in Seattln High taxes have the power to destroy and Seat. te today Is in ne shape to drive out one single industry of restrict the operations of any pervon offering employment to our citizens. Our community problem i» to get Joba for our 10,000 unemployed, not to mon- key with an untried experiment | which will trpove a total tax bur- }den of £13 cents on every dollar | Of aasessed valuation. | Mr. Hamilton forgets that a street car ride, like a hair cut, tg an In- dividual service, not # community | Fewponsibility, He mys «treet car | patrons comprise lens than 60 per cent of the city’s population. He forgets the Erickson plan is funda mentally unsound for {t proposes that the riders pay for a system which | the taxpayers, net the riders, will jown when Stone & Webster will be paid everything they want. The tax payers are to pay for the rides, which they may or may not use. It le un just for the Rainier Valley home own er to pay 22 more mills in 1923 to Argues for the Three-Cent Fare Editor The Star: Councilman Carrol got this off his cheat “If the Erickson plan 4id not hold a club of an extra levy of anywhere from 20 to 22 mills in 1922 over the heads of men who believe tn Seattle and want to put thelr money Into cirenlation here, we would have fewer former service men and oth. er citizeng walking the streets.” In reply I will exy that if we did not have such as John FE. Carroll in our city council] we would not have 5. 000.000 men and women a month walking the streets Instead of patro- nizing our muntelpal street car sys. tom. We would not have the rent | signs of which he speaks staring us in the face at every turn. We would not eee houses In the suburbs, with the doors and windows boarded up, and the tenants gone--God knoww where. We w of the oppressed at every turn of the road. We would not see the business |man closing out his stock and quit ting the game, as many are doing. We would not hear the cry that bust A i in Seattle. Mr. Carrot! has nothing on me as to the welfare of the ex-ervice man, but I am just as solicitous of the fa ther of a family who is out of work, Dn “perhaps there ts | 11d not hear the ery| THE SEATTLE STAR Edna Taylor, University of Cht |Cage coed, ond daughter of A. H Taytor, Jr., New York architect, whose | mysterious disappearance from scho caused a nation-wide search to be started, After three days she was found living in a room and looking for a job. “Wanted to prove T could) earn my o1on living.” ahe said. buy rides for others when he can. not use the municipal system which |does not serve Rainier valley | It in unfair that Seattle residents | |should pay taxes to pay for the cont of the ride of the euburbanite, trans. Jent or tourixt for these people will only pay 4 fare for bond lrement, extensions and renewals uf track and equipment, Hamilton ts Impreaed by Erick jeon's promise that he ts going to make the vacant lot owner and the non-resident owner of the L. C. Smith building pay for much of the coat of} operating the «ystem. Hamilton for | gets there were 5,000 pleces of vacant) property forfeited in 1921 for non-| |peyment of taxes levied in 1916, when | [the total rate waa 44 mills, frick json admits his plan will mean $1 }milix, We any 85 mille. Those 6.000 pieces of property are |not paying taxes now, What they did pay must now be pleked up by the remaining Some owners, Bach time 5cu drive 1 piece of property off the tax roll you force up the tax rate. The power to tax is the pg Po Eye AE A TRIMMED HATS ‘building will get $20.080 extra taxes ]im 1922. It cam divice that by ite | 600 rooms and charg): each Seattle tenant $33. Erickson bag hymn ef hate Against the vacant lot owner, Who is the vacant lot owner? By all |odde he is a resident of Seattin In many cases frugal workmen here bave put their savings in Seattle lots. Mrickson forced §,000 of these «mall |property owners to toms up the A wonderful lot of to go on sale here at A mest wonderful | Now let's seet? theretee real av. [ing when the decent fare ie secured | by making someone elve pay for it. | Let's take Brickson'’s favorite arrv- | ment of the home owner living in a | house ammenned at $1,000. Today he | pays $63 taxes; 1.000 takens cost him $83.33, Total taxes and car }fare $146.33. Under the Scent fare his 1923 taxes will be $85, and 1,000 okens $30. To this must be added a5 per cent Inerease in retall prices of food, clothing, fuel and necessities on his family budget of $1,000. This |is $50, Added to $85 taxes and $30 for tokens it makes his total coset $165, a loms of $18.67 under the Hrickson plan. Tnen he must deduct from what he thought he saved the leost of any extra riding done under |@ cheaper fara The 5 per cent in crease in living expense in because retailers will baye to pass on thelr extra tax on building and stock. It will appear just like a miles tax | dora. | Theme figures tgnore the ftem of unemployment, the most vital of all | The labor union man of 20 years’ standing who thonght the bill a fine thing @ month ago, studied ft out The other day he told me “The | Mrickson bill means the murder of Seattle and more joblesn” I belleve| it with all my heart. ALFRED H. LUNDIN. | give double what they are giving to med hats, values as high as $6.00, $1.95 TRIMMED HATS ladies’ trimmed hats that former- ly sold as high as $20.00 on sale at $4.95 The Greedy Creditors Demand the Yellow Gold They want their money and want it in a hurry, so there is only one thing left and that is to throw the entire stock at the mercy of the public. It is a case of selling the goods at almost any old price. It will be the most colossal Millinery Sale ever known in the City of Seattle, Sale Starts Saturday 9 216. Pike St. WONDER ee | MILLINERY CO. 2nd and 3rd Aves. THE MOST SENSATIONAL MILLINERY SALE YOU HAVE EVER SEEN OR HEARD OF $25,000 STOCK TO BE ladies’ trim- A dandy lot spring trimmed high as $10.00, here at $2 selection of A special | support the branches of the manic | Pal government?” ‘The city council arbitrarily levied, in extra carfare,| d Against $0 per cont of the homes of Of $100,000 of taxes on the “dry Seattle, an expense equal to 40 milin|G0ck.” because of the negligence, or, on the aasensed value of said homes, | still worse, incompetence of the coun: not for service, but a tax, pure and) ty attorney. simple, to buy a municipal utility in| The unspeakable Gov. Hart, with which all have an interest, but failed | bis poll tax, that robbed the citizens r | yi < der to Include the speculator in vacant|of $250,000 In King county, um lands and “big burines.* the pretext of “catching the float Carroll is hollering on the theory | ¢ts.” that our tax rate will be raised to 35 | Wo think, alsa, of the $208,000 0 mills tf the 20-mill levy is spread over| month filched out of the home own- the entire city, Ignoring the fact that|¢rs’ pockets to buy that dirty streak the entire load is here now and has| ot rust by our “mis-representatives’ | rained the expense to those who are| at the city hall, and then we think of of Tacoma were selling above par, Three days ago a report of @ lors |earrying it more than 40 mills onthe “gall” of John 1. Carroll in bis thelr asseased valuation, raising efforts to perpetuate these eutrage thelr burden to over 105 mills and| |letting “big business” eacape at 63 | mills on a low valuation Such Inequality is contrary to Jaw |paitor ‘The Star: and Justice, and cannot be succesful-|” 1 Monday's Seattle Star ta an ly defended, The power to tax is the | article reflecting on the police de power to Kill, and the fundamental vrtmont of Seattle, intimating tt is principle laid down in law is that all/bot an pure, clean and honest ag it | taxes must be levied on all citizens | Mignt be. alike, so that all shall bear their es equal share of the cost of govern f B. d moe Great for Ba | We may thank our Incky atars |that there are no gag laws in this with four or five children to feed and | #tate, to hinder a citizen from crit clothe. | clsing & measure or the officers or Mr. Carrols whole thought tm for| interest back of It, or to make it a Coughs and Colds Make Your Own Medicine and | “big business and the man who In going to invest In Seattle. Again he says say if they were aske 4 proposition to practically voter to vote Yes’ on Rats in the Cellar Mice inthe Pantry | Cockroaches in the Kitchen) | What can be more disagreeable crime or impropriety to do so. Every citizen ghould be free to dis- Have the Best There Is “What would the| cuss, criticise and demand a repeal.| youn gay It's Good When All Mucus |cngwer is obvious, If necessary, of any vicious law. If) Disappears and Clean, Healthy he can bring a sufficient number of| Membrane Is Your Reward c zens to think with him and to . vote with him, the obnoxious laws | Here is an _ inexpensive home- may be changed, nullified or re! mage remedy that you. can't beat pealed. and one will quic my) up at phi the snuffiing, re I may be pardoned If I tndulge tna {ht Phy mestelis, ow criticisms of our public servants K easy » stubborn at the city hall, and I will begin with ‘and persistent coughs to Va= many times over night Boys’ Suits, smartly tailored in linan’e bore frfested with pests’ |S 0 By el ee een ee mayor, Nang? timien over Might cassimeres —tough-wearing Knickerborker small part of | Destroy them with nse fo ca val | Hugh M. Caldwell, with his great In Catarrh, Chest, Colds, or any Suits with extra pair of pants 9 85 the price when Rat and Roach Paste, the standard | | ti ton of the purchase of the ating nose or throa Troubles Boecial Value at. re+--eresere . Ne price when | |I] Caterminator for more than forty-| ves een wae w cost of $000 ot the tft Poul be flag you Fun acroms sh ue : sf Haren yeeate, . Sancta looses hard-earned money, to re (Get from any druggist one ov gare of the bal i rats, mice, coc oD sl-pigeons, noth-|of Parmint (double ° } | i i ward & few af bie stool-pigeons, fo it ‘a little sugar and enough ance by the waterbugs or ants in a single RiER ing gained, ter 'to'make oneshalf p week or month. Does not blow oray ame BO reset a he wtord” 0, B, Fitagerald’s “Pe make it in two ming better * bile sore MALIARY HATS MEN'S SHOKS | 209 Union St. 1332-34 Second Ave. |ready for us | | piss tions in 15 languages in every x. | 20m, size Bic. 15 om, size, $1.60 | Money Back If It Fails } —Adverlisement it is mixed er Witt” Investigation, at a cost of th hain over $8,000 jreetly on the mer . Ci " 4, id throat and acts so effectively “Lora” Cooll B. Witegerald’s mle of Hi) Til hie, all tickling and in- our water bonds at a discount Of fiammation speedily disappears. nearly $200,000, when the city bonds | & woment, ous measures, Hear him send ont bis distress eall to the “Rolo club” jana the “ex-service men” in the tn terest of “bie business,"—it is to |make one eplit one's sides with | | langhter. | Don't forget, citizens, that all these robberies and piratical schemes were put over by the men who are behind the Nght on the Erickson plan. Don't forget that the “hand Pleked” ticket, backed by the Cham ber of Commeres, Is the sume breed | that has been robbing your political “hen roost” for the last 15 or 20 yearn. Respectfully submitted, | R. J. WILSON, President Public Ownership League. | | We Disregard Divine Laws | There are several questions that may be asked. First, is Seattle apy |more corrupt than the samo depart nent in other cities of the United | States? Seeond, is the city govern: | ment of Seattle any worse than that of other cities of the Union? Third, fre the people of Seattle any worse | than the people of other cities? If wo are to take the reports of | the daily papers as a criterion, 1| would answer these questions in the negative. The question then arises, what ts |the matter with this nation, and the jentire world, for that matter? The} It is the misuse | of the divine or universal laws. We| cannot break, Violate or disobey di-| vine law, but we ean misuse them. and ajl the crime, poverty and blood. |shed are traceable to their misuse, jand each of us who misuses these ¢|laws are directly responsible for this | condition. When our Iawmakers, national and |state, our ministers of the gospel jand the press of our nation learn to rightly use, and do rightly use, the divine laws, according to the teach- ing of Jesus and tho 10 command: ~|menta, we will hear no reports of murder, robbery and other crimes, D. L. HOFFMAN, Retsil, Wash, Two principal colloges for women UNTRIMMED HATS lot spring and summer shapes, values as high as $2.50, on sale at 49c THROWN TO THE PUBLIC Must Raise $10,000 Almost Like a Godsend to the Ladies of Seattle is eee This Gigantic Millinery Event = There may have been sales—you have seen the signs—but never in your exalted moments of agitation have you had the opportunity to come, see and actually believe that Millinery of such a high character could be sold at such prices. A Few of the Prices That Will Simply Astonish You TRIMMED HATS TRIMMED HATS A splendid assortment of ladies’ newest style spring hats values to $15.00 on sale at $3.95 UNTRIMMED HATS A special lot of ladies’ spring and summer shapes in all the new- er shades, values to $3.50, on m+ §6'719c¢ of ladies’ new hats, values as to go on sale 95 of untrimmed 30 A.M. 216 Pike St. . When It Rained Geese Editor The Star: jin front of him, several dropped The tnclosed clipping was taken /alongside the car and twe more from the January issue of the West: | struck the top and bounded off. ern Story magazine. Would.you call! When he stopped hig car and got it a knock or @ boost? jout, the road behind him for several 4 SEATTLE BOOSTER. | hundred yards was strewn with wild - geese. He took several of the dead THE CLIPPING birds, which were immediately picked A ealesman named F’. R. Davis, of | up by people living along the read, Seattle, Wash, was recently return: and brought them into Seattle, None ing from a business trip to Everett, | of the birds bore a mark of shot or a a neighboring town, About six miles! purn from the electricity. It #s°sup- south of Silver Lake, Mr. Davis and| posed that the geese, flying south his automobile were overtaken by a thru the heavy rain, were in direct severe electrical storm. Mr. Davis reports that he saw a flash of light-| line with the bolt of lightning, and numbers of them were electrocuted ning, followed by a violent peal of thunder, and then it began to rain | while the rain was charged with elew | tricity. wild geese, One goose hit the road Constipation, biliousness and like annoying ills will quickly disappear ANOTHER is always anxious to give the safest and best medicine toa constipated baby, but is puzzled which to select. Let her decide by the ingredi- ents oa the package. Every bottle of Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin has the formula printed Siiniy on the outside ofthe carton under the portrait of Dr. Caldwell, who wrote the prescription in 1892, You will Find that it is a combination of yptian Senna and other simple laxative herbs with pep- sin. It will not gripe the baby, and it is free from narcotics A bottle sufficient to last a family several months ean be had at _ drug store, and the cost is only abouta centa dose. While no one, young or old, need take a drastic purgative like salts or calomel, be espe- in Ireland are Queen and Alexandra, betlr in Dublin. cially careful what you give a child. Some contain minerals, coal tar and other drugs that might rove dangerous by over stimu- ating the intestines or Sep eenee the heart. The ingredients 0! Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin are recommended by the U. S. Pharmacopoeia. Half-Ounce Bottle Free Few excaby conssipetion, de H ‘Ouney Trial Bowe of my Soru Pebwin FREE OF oa Ce oe have it handy when m ‘Simply send your name and address to Dr. W. B. Ce . st4 Washington St., Monticello, li. Write me today.