The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 18, 1922, Page 6

A coincidence— The Seattle Star Ry mall, eut of efty, Ble per month: # mentna £1.60) € monthe, FETE rear, $4.00, Im the state of Washington. Outside of t for @ montha, or $9.00 per year, per month, month ata Ty carrier, city. A state senator who voted against the poll tax in the last legislature—Dan Landon— is a candidate for mayor at the polls today, and in most precincts, close to the voting booths, energetic workers are circulating petitions to repeal the poll tax. A lot of people presumably are voting for Landon for mayor, for one reason, because _ he voted against the poll tax. But a lot of people didn’t know the poll tax repeal peti- tions were at the polls. If you were one of these, and didn’t sign the petition, there may yet be time. Hurry 7 | Le H 8f 3 i i lt lif | il sf ty i It peel 8 sreSe hi i r 7 | gee f j if i i 1,34F i i Fy 3 #2 = Hi i : i : i | | | i if 4 3 i , if EF a z e ef i i i : : i i 3 the many will have won the peace, @espite having lost the war. In Borneo, I believe, when one Person sucs another, the custom the litigants shalt The owner of the clam which winces first, or keels ever first, loses.—Senator Fletcher, DR. J. KR. BINYON Free Examination pest $2.50 cuasses on Earth We are one of the few optical i Northwest that real SEATTLE—ON FinST Ave | * Examination tree, by graduate op- cepts Glaswes not prescribed | absolutely necessary. | YOM, OPTICAL CO.}| Lice dt ST av | rites. rights? The word “obey” is being taken out of marriage Why not take “alimony” out of divorce Our idea of a lying contest is two strangers talk- ing, one a golfer and the other a fisherman. Clothes may notamake the man; but lack of them makes the man look. Perhaps civilization is hard to save because it is 8o scarce. No street is wide enough fora woman learning to drive. Gisturbing increase im banditry. The contempt of highwaymen for the police is inaking some munict palities resemble frontier towns England, in lawlessness. The post-war crime wave, sim- Shall the cat come back here, far in its daring holdups to too? Present conditions in America, has The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid ond deeds left undone, “the never Gestion Darling, the mest iow how I loved herl* “He never learned and the most baman of prow what he was to me!” “I ale the higher eceupants of the Brit ways meant to make more of our ish bench, recently sentenced a = /riendship!™ “i did not know what he wes to me until he was yore bandit in Liverpool te 1? lashes, Bech warls ere the getsened or ‘There was an outery from the poce which orvcl death shoots public. Bat Justice Darling com dackwerd at us from the door of tinned the experiment, and other the sepulchre. — Merriet Beecher Judges followed bis example, Sto" Holdnps dectined with astonishing And whe i tt that doce wot rapidity, and England now bs now that white in “the dear damp nearly bandit days beyond recall” the credit ti ot fare,.ot eli daat pheulé have deen piven te Vol ve ie wer. Blate, nevertheless by continuous A dozen of the eat is all the = 444 uninterrupted appeals to our most hardened criminal can eyesight we wore convinced that it stand. Its use is cruelty. was not Blais but Bohlite who made ‘There is humiliation as well ag Afiltoauker famous. Representative . mM. pain in recelving the eat, Crim “ie (®/ Imals prefer a long term tn jail. A word fifly epoken tke apples Te be flogged takes the heart out ef gold in pictures ef edver--Prow- of s man. It degrades @ bandit ¢7¢ et. 11. tm the eyes of his fellows. Theenly wey te fellow « dual- American cities are facing ® — aces is to keep up with it, OL or your _A CRAP Book THE-MOUNTAIN GIRL BY DU BOSE HEYWARD In “Contemporary Verse” for April Life ripens ewiftly in these lonely hilla, Ripens, then hangs long-withered on the bough. Out of their sullen hates, relentiess wills, And unsaid loves, youth burgeons fierce and strong, Ready for life when life has scarce begun; Eager to spend its all and then be done. So, as I gaze at Dorothea now, Windblown against the cabin's weathered «ide, Defiant, flushed, with bodice blowing wide, And rain-oaked homespun skirt that cannot hide The bold, strong, ardent curves of womanhood; My exultation winces into pain. Youth, splendid, careless, racing with the rain, Laughing against the storm as it roars by. And yet, perhaps when I pass by again, Hid from the beat of weathers rhe will be One of the sunken, burned-out lives I see Here where the mountains shoulder to the sky. S80, as the storm goes smashing down the range, Striking white fire from the smitten hills, Swelling the falle and streams until it fills The cove with giant's music wild andstrange. The laugh the sends acrons the shaken air Brings sudden tears; ita very triumph sings Of beauty #0 intense it cannot last Beyond the transient day of fragile things That brush us, ifke a wind from unseen wings, And then are gathered up into the past. A Letter From AIVRIDGE MANN. Dear Folks Tomorrow night Il) be a beaut- and dig etud my feet For at the big Masonic hall they hold the Orthopedic ban; and you can bet I'll go and dance—I never even had a chance to duck the light-fantastic spree when Mra, Crawford collared met! And since it cost a buck, you know, 4 prudent guy has got to go; #0 nearly every man in town, from Mayor Caldwell up or down, will come and say, like gentlemen, ‘im glad to see your back again!” They say we'll get a bit of lunch, and aN we want to drink of punch; and tho I bet It’s pretty slick, I cannot guarantee the kick; but even tho the punch be dry, our spirita will he mighty high To open up the dancing show we'll march around by radio—the kind of one that you can hear without @ headpieco on your ear; and #0, you see, you needn't shirk, altho your headpiece doesn’t work. So join the Orthopedic dance and give the kids a fighting chance; for nearly everybody knows the mighty lot of good that flows from Orthopedic's tender care of all the crippled kiddies there! I'll polish up my old dresm sult, around my buried duds, and hunt for collars, shirts and 4 when the job is all complete, I'll hustle down to shake jing except that he wants to Kditor The Star A contributor in your columns has ed that after election I will roduce an ordinance for a 6-cent Please be advised that T have pre | Wants Seneca Editor The Star: May I offer you a suggestion whieh I have had on my mind for some time? ‘The wreck which occurred at First and Seneca the other evening proves Secrets wall at this place and make a that & substantial bulkhead should | death trap safe? be constructed there, Fortunately! Meier and Stone & Webster Editor The Star: | Your policy with regard to Cand. date Meier cannot be commended too highly. Yet you have left a lot un- said. Why not tell your readers how Meler tried to present Btome & Web| ster $300,000 of the taxon annenned amainet the street car lines, and was folled by Superior Judge Clay Allen? Why not remind your readers of the contract by Molor as corporation counsel to pay Stone & Webster for, juice, furnished or not, for an ex-| tended period? | Why not remind your readers hed | the obligation of the city to pur. Mrs. Clow and the City Pound Editor The Star; In Saturday night's Star IT reea| an article headed, “A Good Word for the Pound.” by Mra. R. M. Clow. No one has any complaint to make Seainst anyone or anything that in good, If & feed word ts coming to the pound, all well and geod. But Mra. Clow's article in both misleading and wrong. It seems strange to me when the people have a chance to make things better they don’t seem to want to help to do it. Everyone knows that Seattle needs a change in every department of the city gov. ernment. When a public servant de. Uberately tells a lie to bold his bom Attacks Nettleton Candida cy Editor The Star: One of the travention of the prement port campaign i# the herculean ef fort being put forth by « «mall group of port of Seattle employes to obtain from the Holo club fan orguniaation of exservice men) an indorsement for Clark Nettleton, one of the can-| didates. Fer the benefit of these shortanemoried gentiemen, as well jas for the edification of afl loyal and jPatriotic exeervice men, and the Public at large, I am submitting « fow facts that will show why an ac tien of this nature can be property termed a farce. On December 1, 1920, a few days before the last port election, the Se | attle Post-Intelligencer blossomed | forth with a twocolumn, front pase | editorial entitled, “The Port Conspir- | acy.” This scathing article, replete, in sarcastic and scornful phrases, was « vicious attack upon the can- ‘didacy of George Lamping. and no stone was left unturned to point out what the writer of the editorial con- sidered every weakness of the object of hin attack. Not content with re |viling the candidate himeaelf, the vari. ous organs and organizations that [Were supporting him were tneluded }in the attack. In this article, and « similar one entitled, “Mr. Lamping Indorwd.” which appeared in the same newspaper on December 3, 1920, abuse was heaped upon the Union Record, The Seattle Star and the Bolo club, as well as upon Lamp ling himeeif, and the reading of either jof these literary efforts will leave no |doubts in the minds of the readers an to the attitude of their author toward the working clas and the exaervice men. One particularly slg: nificant paragraph reads as follows “Former State Senator Ed Palmer |doeen't care a rap about Mr. Lamp back Are Piles of Idle Gold So Really Vital? BY AMATEUR ECONOMIST In the vaults of.our treasury and its branches Ue great piles of gold; from year to year it lies there undisturbed except when counted and checked up by the officials who have it in charg, We people never see it and never will. The refigion of finance de mands the unwavering allegiance of itn devotees to this unseon golden god, and those who blas- pheme against its good name are forever damned in the judg ment of these devotees. Henry Ford and Thos, Edison have but lately committed this awful «in and are thereby cast into outer darkness so far as any political future is concerned, we are told, At tho mere summention that we should change our money sys tem, the gold standard, hurd money mén, hold up their hands in horror. But when we get right down to the facts isn't it | proable that men in the future will look back at our money | system and laugh at ite crude nes? For example, during the | war we had to borrow a lot of wheat and cotton. Now when we come, to pay hack this joan we find that where we borrowed one bushel of wheat we will have to pay back three, and where we borrowed one pound of cotton we will have to pay back two; cer. tainly we could not have had a system of exchange that would have been much worse than the one we have, to assure the fair exchange of goods and the fair repayment of money borrowed, It doesn’t look to me as if it | would be impossible to work out | a better system than the one we | have, but I am afraid that we never would be able to agree on | one at least until we have some kind of a world organization that | holds the loyalty of the majority | of the peoples of the world. | ‘When such an organization be. | comes a fact, a change in our | credit system will probably be brought about LETTERS LDITOR Erickson and Five-Cent Fare LEARN A WORD EVERY DAY ‘Today's word ie JX HOMKIAS. It's pronounced—ek-me-Jebnin, with accent on the third syllable, | pared no such ordinance and have! It means—an explanation an expo an analysis, especially a crit. | loal examination of a secton from) the Bible. not authorized anyone t announce what I will do before or after esc tion. Yours truly, OLIVER T. BRICKSON, It comes from—Greek Vexegels. Anewe Member of the City Council. thal,” to explain. —A-+ SILK -LKtA = PERSIA -~ panion word—exegetidl f Vea _ It'n ured like this-—"Mow clergy} ang 6) St. Bulkhead men think & sermon should contain | 6» ene Indorsement, the Bolo club | that while the trolley syetem in nom no one was injured, out that was Just ‘or prepared exegesis ot the | nay te saved trom forever discredit Fema a seein & a . & fourdeatclover act. If a person | Xt ling itself in the eyes of the public. To further identify and define the | policy of Clark Nettleton, axpirant to our port commission, let us review the 16-page JAPANESE propaganda edition that was foisted upon cn mur) ing public on the morn serene, te, 1919, It & hardly pow nible that the people of this city have forgotten thin occurrence, The e4l-| c crtie would coll meee & tion in question should stand as an balloon; the whole of business is nothing of the kind, A» a simple of fact, under present eon ditions, it is maintained by @ frac Won of the community—the trolley. for the benefit of all the eom- The son-patrons of the trolley may say that thin does not interest them, but it does, If the | trolley system failed, the business of is driving down Seneca, or either way on Pirst ave, he or she is likely to take « 60-foot drop. Why can't the city construct a con. Clark Nettleton, “president avl pub. — inher” of the Seattle Poxt-Intilige one during the Ume the abgemen- | Uoned articles were printed, nd now! in the race for port ferred are the very name Bolo club re who were to receive and Di) receive | jobs when Lamping wa ebcted. And these same men havé no got! the effrontery to a the ret of Very truly yours, M.D, chase from Stone & Webster the four power plants, which the voters sup: pored were included in the deal, at a figure to be determined by some per son oF persons at this time un. known? Mr, Editor, M ie a mad fact that unlene we have @ personal interest in what we read at the time we read it, It falle to register, At this crucial time In the history of Seattle, while the people are giving civic matters more thought than usual, would tt not be 1 to give this remainder thru your well-read columns? Respectfully yours, ALMER LIMAN. the interested property shou the original tracks as part of paving bill, aod when « ##rpet finally been finished acco: Hing equitable city ordinances, | he t all belong to all the people ‘ind that ‘ the people ure interessed in tion he will lie again, and it ts time he Ss ‘ehane a for him to move Mrs. Clow myn the Humane society will not eateh the dogs. Did the pound master ten her this? If Mra. Clow will consult the circular giving the facts of the Humane society concerning the pound the will get the reni dope, an the members of the Humane moctety Will not mislead anyone on this sub ject. All that we ask is — square deal, with the truth and nothing but the truth. And I think to make He attie better beth for children, old folks and animals, would be to give the Humane society contro! of the city pound, Yours for tir play, PAUL GOBRNER. weeks, but ks @s hope be able to elecl as counciimen who will take the trouble to gate the history of th: from the advent of the into the state sei Mr. Lamping must be moved out of the way. Tom Murphine dosen't wive & hoot for Lamping except that with Lamping and Christensen as port commiesioners Murphine will be sure of « job. Comminstoner Christensen Das fo use for Lamping except in the belief that Lamping, if elected, will do an he i told and give Christensen the full swing of the big property aod organization. The Bolo club of war veterans, badly split over the Lamping indorsement, is looking for payroll places The Longsheremen’s union, unanimous for Lamping, has been assured an absolutely closed shop on the waterfront-—and the union refases to admit service men to membership.” That's clear! Jobs for Bolo club members! And yet the men who are now so vigorously campaigning for » and to do thie upper itp which J take to bea tache, the kind of clothes he his spért car and his solid dome, “but if he ever addresses me ‘old thing’ I'm going to hit him” CHT SOUS everlaming monument to the fact! ». naratyzed, thelr organisation, many P bor |that when the alralgtty Gotiar is c0n-|"" "icq we abandon the trom t these dull monthe to induce thimen (sidered, Americanism ts entirely they must be put on ; ‘Fang. |°enaideration with some men. same footing as all other methods Wp Neh geny’ then emg ‘Theodore Roosevelt once emi4:|transportation, All the people oan « meat ake te thil poo. |“Almect overs sean hee bin, pees) tribute te the bremmcrypag As v some than others’ ern andad necured yi pre ag oar tee hina rage forget > m0 | That Gierk Nettioton reostved| ten, ‘The treey ttes pay thelr she pri ig dhl ps a hed vn ged a a raeting COae insult to the people | yet are also expected to lay or J NOr Gatun tad theo PO lot thin city should cost him the vote | maintain thelr own roadbeds. fig LATE war, If these last ed |of every red-bleoded voter who is members wili turn out at the meet-|able to drag himself gg ol og ing scheduled to be heid on Apt! 20, May 2 Cc. BA 5 when the port gang expect tq “put $05 Yakima ave. fae {dae EEE ss Blames Asto for Car Crisis Editor The Star: t two economic factions on all local ‘The city of Seattle ts passin thre | aueotions, which for ease of refer- a critical period, and the mente be| ence may be called auto-crats and elected as counciimen should @ least | the trotiey-crats such & knowledge of tte past) As the situation stands, we have they may profit by tt furing|a rigid system of transportation their terms of office. competing with one of greater flex ‘The exprenned views on thq ques | ibility and more varied applications, tions which surround the mupicipal| yet the old reliable standby is abso- ' railway indicate that most of them |jutely necessary to the economic are speaking without having fudied| welfare of the community at large. the troubles which beset § and] In addition to the encroachments which ¢all for the highest @pe of|of the automobile on the trolley traf- financial ability if they are to be/ fic, the latter «yetem has to fight remedied. two natural obstacles, The sumer. The first fallacy is that thedim!f,| ous deep indentations of the water- ishing patronage of the #treé care) front have invoived a large trackage in due to the Increased fare pe ride.|to reach the outskirts of our seat As a matter of fact, history shows | tered city, while the broken topog- ‘h is not the case. From} raphy emphasiuas the problem by |, with @ Scent fate and | involving steep gradients. @ steadily Increasing populatia, the| There in no city in the United number of rides per individual fell) @tates similarly skuated and conse. steadily from 463 to 110. In 187 the| quently comparisans of costs with 316; in 1918, 372; 18 1919, | other cities is mideading. 420; with a stealy de crease since that date. Thin shows & slight increase during the ship buliding episode and « decline ance its cotiapne square, or an area of 36 square mparing the car fare with the | miles with a population double that mlard of wages, the Scent fare Of (of Seattle, which eanbraces a terri- 1916-1917 took @ greater percintage |tory about 12 miles from north to of the Individual income that does | south, and an east and west width the 4 12-cent fare of this date That | ranging from, four to-seven miles the failing off in the car patonage| Extension of lines to new districts im not due to inability to affed the |is out of the question until a large extra cont of travel is disproved by |mumber of the vaeant lots on all = steady increase of prosperty, a* | suburban lines have. been built upon shown by the number of automobiles |and are furnishing business. owned by the resident population.) effort ef the community must The census of 1910 showed 1310, oF |beit to increase the number of one to 176 persons; at the present who, either time the number is stated to be some | necessity, patronize 46,000 oF over, or about one to seven. 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