The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 19, 1922, Page 6

Presse Servies. =| The Seattle Sta Your Next Two Weeks’ Job Life, as someone once remarked, is just one darn thing after another. in polit Particularly Now that the shouting and the tumult of the primaries has died down, the voters awaken to find themselves confronting a more serious problem than ever. The general election looms but two weeks away—and the primaries have aroused so much interest that a great majority of the voters have not even had time to consider most of the vital issues upon which they must express their opinion. Obviously, then, it’s up to every voter to give immediate and serious consideration to the various matters at issue. In the first place, of course, he'll have to vote on the mayoralty and councilmanic can- didates who were nominated yesterday. Their records have already been given such general publicity, however, that this will not be very difficult. Therefore, attention should be centered on the other issues. Undoubtedly the most important of these is Proposition “A”—the Erickson 3-cent fare plan—a matter which vitally affects the pocketbook of every resident of the city. The port commission election is of scarcely less importance, a business of mammoth propor- tions, In which every citiven ts directly interested—and a director is about to be chosen for it; sure ly a matter of real moment. Two school directors must also be selected—and every father and mother in the city will certainty want to get the best men avail able for these posts. Other matters on which you must make up your mind are: Charter Amendment No. 1, pro- Posing that appropriations of tax revenues be limited to purposes specified in official estimates, ex- cept in cases of emergency. Charter Amendment No. 2, pro- posing that the maximum penalty prescribed by state law be made applicable to all penal ordinances, except as otherwise provided. Charter Amendment No. 3, pro- posing that the department of public utilities be abolished. Charter Amendment No. 4, pro- posing the creation of a depart- ment of transportation to operate the street railway. Proposition “B." proposing that the dog pound be turned over to the King County Humane society. Proposition “C.” proposing the issuance of $550,000 general bonds to build the Montlake-Stadium bridge. These are all matters of im- Portance—and the voter who goes to the polls on May 2 without in- forming himself folly on them will be remiss in his civic duty. Begin to study up. The heart sometimes grows feal- ous of iteclf, and ts fearful of being glad. We check the signa of re- turning joyfulness; we keep about a the signs of woe. This must not de. Every impulee toward return- ing happiness is of God.—George Dawson. The Trade Stranglers Yielding to an almost unac- countable impulse of generosity, Senator McCumber, chief senate tariff maker, declared a 10 days’ truce to allow his compatriots to study the tariff bill. The time is all too short. Bound in 438 large, closely printed pages, labeled “H. R. 7456,” this Fordney - McCumber tariff bill—formless product of the mid-MecKinley school of eco- nomics, defies description. One might, did time and other engagements permit, spend years in reading the 86 volumes of hearings printed on this ith- out really understanding what was intended by its creators. And yet, ghastly, headless, in- vertebrate as it seems, this tariff bill of Deacon MeCumber and Father Fordney, American valua tion and all, was and is de signed to do just one thing, viz., to build a protective tariff wall about Anrerican industry, agricultural, pastoral, manufactur- ing and alli—so strong and high that no foreign manufacturer or farmer or producer can possibly climb over it to disturb our fat complacency. That was the idea of the fram- every The port of Seattle is When a war veteran reads about the army worm ruining things he thinks it is a second lieutenant. A bachelor tak is taken on one. sa vacation while a married man It costs $32,000 a day to run congress, but isn’t worth it. ers, and, if enacted into law, that is what it would do. Meantime, what about our for- eign commerce? . Rising to a high peak of $8, 000,000,000 in 1920, it is now to be stimulated by a great ship sub- sidy bill, by means of which we are to carry vast cargoes to a waiting world while congress pays the ship owners 100 million more to fly the American flag. If this bill goes thru there will be next to nothing for these fine ships to carry. Foreign nations ¢an not sell to us, for nobody can pay the duties. And foreign coun- tries will not buy from us because we do not buy from m. Our congress would fix it so our subsidized merchant fivet would sail empty bottomed incom- ing and outgoing. Then there's that $11,000,000,000 foreign debt which we are pro- posing to collect. “Pay what you owe us!" we shriek across the Atlantic. “But we have no money, we have no credit; we have only the product of our labor and y won't let us sell you that?” they reply. What's the answer?) There ls no answer exeept to take the tar iff out of politics absolutely and forever. LETTERS EDTOR Editor The Star: Seattle is suffering from the sub- stitution of brainstorms for common horse sense in the administration of public affairs, and now we have up |the daddy of them all—the Erickson |ecar fare bill—guaranteed to admin ister the knockout to a sick patient Seattle is waiting until May 2, not very patiently, to know there is to be prosperity or decay and disintegration. The question arises: “If we pull thru our present peril, is there no way of safeguard ing ourselves in the future from similar attacks?" There is—an amendment to charter that candidates seeking ad ministrative offices in the city must pass an examination by competent alienists as to their mental fitness. This is suggested by an article in April Scribner's by James Hendrie Lioyd, M. D., author of “Mental Con tagion and Popular Crazes.” It clearly discloses the origin of Se attle’s troubles. Here are some ver m extracts: The type is called *hypomaniac’ that is, he is not a full Medged maniac; he is only an understudy His usval characteristic Is extreme optimism; a tendency to see things not as they exist, and to govern his |conduct accordingly. The patient jshows emotional instability the jformation of schemes, a slight de gree of incoher and an inca pacity for the performance of con | tinued fine mental labor. The basis lof his a disturbed | state of the emotions. This is shown mental state in in the erratic and irrational im. | Pulses which guide his conduct. The |hypomaniac, altho weakened in his | sense, is apt to engage tr moral schemes. These seem to have | Editor The star | Who is the slacker in this town “the vacant or Council He has been a mem lot owner” | man Erickson? | He gets $2,000 a year, He has drawn When he went into office, our city Today it is 2 rate was 14 mills. | “Letter from Dear Fotks FE lection Day I grabbed my for I Have v jeved the verbal » 1, as it eeemed, the dope too; for when I got there like me; the rushavoiders @ face ut since it ery often heard it pays to be an early sh, “Come ea I could see th filled the does no good to whine AIVRIDGE MANN. coat and hustled down to cast my vird; and rush.” believed it, and avoid the for other folk lace was full of guys full as measles fill is true place I got my pl me and stood in line, and watched the voters come and go, to see if they were fast or slow; and some, it seemed, crawled in to die, while other voted on the fly And then, a t, I reached the dame who sat and asked us, “Waaza name? I am A. Mann,” I blurted out; she «aid, “At that, I have my doubt; but cut the funny tommyrot—I asked you WHO you are, not WHAT!" Why, that's my name,” I answered then, “My name is Mann MAN-N a front name, plea. Her face jooked pained; Just A thank you," I explained. And then I had to make her look © found it in the book ateppe ide, alert and keen, and quickly worked the old hine; the curtains, when I'd pulled the bare, so much re c 1 cars, the folks outside could almost hear me ask Crritge Nomn _——_—_ whether | the | Vacant Lot Owners Slackers? A Remedy for Brainstorms an irresistible attraction for him. | “He is incapable of sustained in ellectuat | thing to its logical conclusions, But moral concepts are more easily srasped than complex intellectual ones, This tendency in the hypo- Maniac ix in strict accord with the well recognized law of pathology, for & dixeane process ix alwaye likely to |ahow itself in some weak spot in the organism. Therefore, when the ethical instincts are morbidly excited or deranged, it is in this sphere that the dixorder of conduct will mani | fest itwelt “This ix doubtiess the explanation of the fact that this unfortunate egotint wometimes poses ax a social |reformer, and the additional fact that he does not often trouble him. nelf to ascertain whether his re forms are practical. He thus be comes an incorrigible optimist—a thing Is to be attained because he wants it to be at ned. His emo. tions supply the place of arguments It follows that he goes to extremes and if he has his way, he is likely to spoil any rational schemes for ameliorating conditions. “There & good many prople at the present time attempting to solve the problema of universe but the mental equipment of moat of them dors not give assurance }that the problem will be solved. It is more likely to take its place among the problema of menta pathology, The hypomaniac is self centered. He lon, if shake the least set up a sc timiam of this in not philosophy, it of rule can, in his own opin not apherea, at jal paradise, Op wrrigible sort not even a pay CONOVER. itisan ntal state, | chosin « ; Mills, and he wants to add 20 mill | more for 1923 and make it 46 mills Now, what has happened to me in the 11 rs Erickson has been in the council? I believed in ma ttle. I worked and saved. I bought two lot in the Hoston tract addition, in West labor: Be can't think a| 1 bought two lots at $300) open C_/CRAP BO THE LEARN A WORD EVERY DAY Today's word if SOPHISTICATED. It's pronounced — #o-finm-ti-kayt-ed, with @ on the it meane—worldly wh |the artificial phases of lite | enoed. It comes from make Latin “w wine; from | "wophon,”” wi Companion word—-unsophiaticated. It's used Like thie-City girls have the reputation of being much more sophisticated than thelr country | courins.” | ties each. In 11 years T have paid $260 taxes, I have paid $150 for sidewalks and improvements, So I have paid }$600 in taxes and improvements. | When I tried to sell my lots, recent ly, because of getting tired taxes, I found that the laws of sup. ply and demand for yacant lots was such that §200 each wag the beat of. fer I could get. T paid $600 for the lots, apent $600 In taxes and improve |ments, or « total investment of $1,100, exclusive of any interest. Today IT am offered $400 for the }}ots, and not by @ real estate man, | but by a man who is shopping for paying lots, pre tory to building a home So, while Erickson has been raising | taxes of a man who works hard for [his money, he hag been drawing | $22,000, rain or shine, and now he he has the nerve to say “vacant lot | owners are #lackeps; make them pay | part of your taxes.” I've been heip ing pay for the policemen and fire. men protecting Erickson's fine home. If his bill panses and I have to pay one-third more taxes next year, I'll throw up the sponge, declare my in veatment a dead lon and wonder how |tong we are going to stand for thene schemes calculated to keep Erickson In the council at $2,000 a year for 11 = longer. There are a lot of ant lot stiackers” who would like to have a steady $3,000n-year job. He iw a slacker because he has done noth'ng to reduce our taxes, so that we can get industries here, I helped build the New Washington hotel. Now Strauss & Co. who financed that and other big Jobe here, give | formal notice that they will not make | any more investments here if the tax | rate goes higher, or if we adopt a | Policy of running public utilities by | taxation. There ix one way to ret it, and that ts to clean out the poll tickans who haven't got the backbone to go thru and give us a Scent fare, just as they he in Frisco, with « municipally operated line. | On election day I am gol@r to vote | for the counclimen who aay they will | work for a lower fare without tara tion, They will cut the «treet raft way's sult to fit the cloth, and give | us a lower fare. | Remember that when T anit paying . which represent a there will be thou than the | taxes on my to! los of $700 today ran more —even more 5.000 vacant lots forfeited for non payment of taxes last year, Then when we quit paying taxes, that wil! be more for every one left to pay This tn the bunk. I wish I had had [the $23,000 city milary, rather than | my two lots, which are “slacker” lots. |he maid, That's the way he rewards workers who put thelr money tn | Seattle, rather than buying Argen. | tine bonds of sending the money out of town ERIC JACOBSEN, Weat Seattle, |The Humane } e ’ ° Society’s Side | Editor The Star: t was m h Interested in Mre Clow's letter of praise for one of the to learn of such prompt action tn emergency from a city employe. Nat jurally, she was grateful, and voiced her approval most graciously She has, however, been misin. formed as what will happen should the Humane society take over the pound, for there would atill be a catcher, with this difference—the ound, with all of ita functions i be under the direction of the society, and the public would contin receive its present service, with additional benefits made pomible b the coalition of the two offices The Humane society employs only kindly f and intelligent ue t efficient men, and | should the proposed change of man- ment occur, w that employes of the pound at present giving satisfaction would be discharged. There seema to be an erroneoun im. pression prevalent as to the aims of the Humane society. ‘The « self—and the whole name for the Prevention of Cr mais and Children”—is organization coms it does not necessart 1 of big-hearted ns who give of for the sole distress and benevolent per their time purpose of relievin, their fellow-creat of the organt und money among The officers giv Ing freely of thelr time and energy and expenses are paid from dueg of nm are unpaid. members and private donations There is no self.seeking involved in the desire of the society to include the operation of the 4 pound among itse activities—merely a wish to place Seattle in line with other important cities, like New York, Bos ton, Cleveland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland, ete, where this same plan is being followed so suc your “THE KING OF DREAMS” BY CLINTON SCOLLARD Some must delve when the some must toil when the But when the night comes Bv'ry man is @ King of At plow or loom till the But when the night come: Ev'ry man | a King of One is slave to a master Another serf to a despot But when night comes and Ev'ry man is a King of This you may sell and that This you may barter for But there's one domain tha dawn ts nigh noonday beams and the soft winds sigh, Dreams, One must plod while another must ply sunset gleams, and the moon rides high Dreams. ery seems, the discords die Dreams may buy gold that gleams, ' is fixed for aye, ev'ry man ls @ King of Dreams, SEATTLE WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1 TAR y —__—_—___{, loomstully, Fees from licensing and| occurrence, for @ benevolent organ! Privately contributed, put the pound| who are not only efficient, but on a self-supporting basis, with a! high moral worth. 00d balance in the elty mury | At the coming election, let's #ive Hore is another point often oyer.|the Humang sodety « chance to show looked; Assuming the courtesy and) What they can do for the elty er j efficiency of the present pound em.| atte! Thank you ont | |plpyes, in the event of a change of| }municipal administration, other men, | THE BRIDGE OF SIGHS | not so worthy, may be appointed to| From Judge | [fill their pi men who would Wife awakened) —Why se grumpy Abuse the animals intrusted to their m? Didn't your host have a con care, for it ly noteworthy that polit nial gathering? sear e teal plums are not always intrusted| Tom (st Yeah; there were YE ANSWER |to the fit. When the 8. PC. 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