The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 26, 1922, Page 16

‘ NOW PICKED ‘The following artlele was writ- ‘> ten by Alfred H. Lamdin, spokes man for the Citizens’ Comm ee ; | Opposed to Maintaining ° ‘ : UUltities by General Taxatl 8 : a reply to an article by Oliver T, Erickson, author of the Scent fare ordinance, published recent: Invention May Put} ‘7S fii mace End to Method) * & "mes eter in Use for Last 4) . "Aue _ Centuries pecans not My operated cotton picker, | Cheaper transportation. ty tried out here, threatens to | penses, device is mounted on a trac | matntenanc ‘The tractor not only furnishes | way, Motive power but generates the | rapidly revolving brushes. /11 cents toward extenai: ‘A vacuum then draws the cotton a flexible tube and after extract: | ssuericient.” from the cotton = Seon ARGUMENT ee ee ee | MISREPRESENTED |wented the arguments we advanc on tractor and nine rows cotton can be picked each trip ft injury to the plant or the -_sagalgr te above.” He tries to wish such This new device, It Is claimed, ean | ® three times as fast as the moet by hand, friend of the workingman | He would have you belleve that | what ts good for the worker is bad . METROPOLITAN ‘for the employer and what ta good ALL WREK for the employer te bad for the em SMART MUSICAL COMEDY§[ ploye. He tries to array labor [against employers at a time when Loa Angeles ts flourishing because ‘investments are being encouraged to come there, They have no Oltver Erickson In Los Angeles. Prickson ia sings his hymn of hate every time | you ask him to explain some of the with the jquestions he does not want : ORK COMPANY INTACT | answer. He tries to slip over this bye ‘TODAY | single tax theory on us by appealing | to hate. manufacture, New Inv alike. ANTIC ENTERTAINMENT COMEDY OF NEW YORK'S LATIN QUARTER policy for the city and railway never attempted In any American city. tra taxes each yar. DENIES CONNECTION WITH UNION LEAGUE |paper article, printed March 27, | bill, TACEO OW ANDERSON |civer merchants are crasy ORIGIN GREENWICH VIL LAGE THEATER COMPANY ure from a selfish standpoint te ae me Ww Bi THE SEATTLE STAR (MONS “Hurls Broadside at Arguments for 3-Cent Fare! aining them out ed from home e-——— | ‘The ¢ per cent increase in living} have put up the money for the Vic-| two warehe nenned va Beattle (true figuren) $85.00 t costs under the Hriekwon plan tin be-| for instance. Vogan Rejo WwW kes Company Wirauss & Co. of New York-and Chi Is and apartments ntore will have They will charge If you had $100,000 to Invest which eity would you choose if our mult of the vote stores will have to winh to make any com’ house bullder boon decisively defeated and hive sured us We can secure @ large loan | for a hotel on Charles Hort extra tax, and during the war thone vice prenident “Five building construc increases had a peculiar way of grow. Vive building constr ing each time they were passed on atreet oar are beg held S-cent carfare bill.” even know today what the rate of fare will be if Dis bill “LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Apri 26 -An|panses, It ie not a measure for Dexter | valuatic up pending the vote on the Erick not one of then The wholesaler, the jobber and the| retailer all @et the extra tax Our $1,250,000 build | ph ing will not be put up wong, (1) the company ad’ thoney will not public utilities are sup | eral taxation; (2) an 80 or S5-mill to. levy would create such an industrial and commercial situation that new office buildings would net If the measure ts defeat If it pannen, lenterprises can be financed neing the | thru will be fewer there will be lems industry here. costs are higher vitation or @ club? In it fair to tax the home and} toda property owners at least $90,000,000 extra taxes in the next 18 years for rides they may not take, meantime | tax guarantesing Stone & Webster all|taken a big step to put they are fighting for in the courts? le it fair to have the car ridert Htone & W price demanded, plus interest, ar then not own the lines when the pay for them? Erickson has got th cart only thing pi patruction in all cam George Wirth nothing with our building at Second ave unless the Erickson bill is defeat Mant tax rate would eat [the investment u; A eubstantial }for Fourth and Pike at Mareh| financed if the measure passes waterfront terr ting immediate sorted by ger In @ speech made before the Ross Improvement club, March 15, Erick away with the present method of | go, condemned Superintendent Hen. cotton by hand, In use 4,000 | derson for trying to cut down ex “We ean do plans to erect and Stewart ASSUME NO These figures aanume that has been no cut In wage or days of ed we will bulla.” Erickson says you will under his plan, | Deduct $7.50 for these extra tokens At 3 cents each Erickwon says “Two thirds of | ary the land in Seattle is vacant property | when there 1 re who pay no part | tax P (the amount of the) turns to the Wilkes this week | tarea cotiected trom street ear riders), jin the comedy offering “A) | Pai Sit & ” sen, & bricklayer, living in West Se. | Pair of Silk Stockings. His attle in a letter printed in The #tar April 19, said he bought two lot there | he needed. | Tt te expected to cut the producing | The Erickson bill atmply provides of cotton in two and double the | the city counctl aball levy each year ity of cotton-productng states. | “sufficient” to pay all operating and costs of the sireet rail Wells Gwinn, bullder of homes, 394 “Inquiries for new homes in | were less than in January or | Plana for « Ia have been approved ment will not be made if the tax rate It leaves car riders to pay a fare, current that operates the whieh is not even mentioned tn the s lordinance, only sufficient ty pay off Picking apparatus consists of | Rtone & Webster and not to exceed | and re gather the cotton from the news; of track and equipment, His } DI does not say how much money shall be given to the system, It says & threat of an held by apecula coneulting ehgineer,| ‘The increased tax amounts to half a cent @ sack on $6,000 « month on Seattle's average | flour shipments to Japan and China or Portland | would have an advantage of & year in bidding for Oriental ship Bears Noebuck, Montgomery, pay $297,000 taxes | Burke bullding: Eric Jacob | goes thru those of un dependii try may ax well move natruction of a six-story com inlerete and That is a falsehood lines. popularity is evidenced by the hearty reception given him at) Weat seattio 11 years ago for $300! panced will not each performance. arte deliberately mi law ; Mpwo to four picker heade can be| Erickson has deliberately arent be versatile performer. §° up if the tax rate Thie te Just on | $160 widewalk assesements, making & | projects held up today by the Erick He has won scheme” Montgomery, of the Mont gomery Elevator company Erickson | contracts for elevators to go In two “partment houses and He has paid Vegan ia) eneh | mente alone, | total investment of [been offered $400 To date he has lost man believed in Portland, 00 stock alone eane would be $100,000, against his misnamed bill, He talks | about “crumb theorists who think that jobs and prosperity come from unemployed and therefore tess buat ees for their stores. we want here more than somebody | says he “is a slacker.” Erickson says the average work man's home in Seattle in ansenned at Is hia home acecswed at $4007 Hag he invented the savings from | the $30,000 he has drawr as counct! | ‘or have declared for | Aan in city lots ny oypepmeged Business men are | Would know that you cannot sell va-| shoulder to shoulder with employes | CAM lote today for what they |for a lower fare. OUGHT TO GET |WHAT WE DESERVE We operate our own lought to be able to get what we are jentitied to and want. We got a 15 per cent tax reduction this year be: cause we went after it. to The Star, April 18, Erickson said “A contributor to your columns an hounces that after election I will tn-| troduce an ordinance for a fivecent I have prepared no such ordi hance and have not authorized any: ‘One to announce what I will do either | before or after election.” If Erickson does not want lower fare that the rest of us want, and in #0 set on & “lens-than.cont fare” that he will make such « stat ment a that, we voters have a way of getting « lower fare. Ertckeon, in hie Star article, makes three ermuments. They follow with Joba are what Coant cities when our tax r: to pay our fares. — Strap-hangers’ league. Superintendent |“We are coming out of the woods” problem. Both can- tement on us and we never made T belong to the der ; 5 4 the cotton |!t. This $3,000a-year office ho! Re mach higher grade than that |AP4 politician posea as the only jin our street ¢ didates for m & lower fare. + on thes Council nominees are | x68 On them originally and improvements have been made repre rent additional lone OWNERS OF VACANT LOTS DON'T YIELD Hut the vacant jot owner, even tf he tn & “wlacke ior more tax money 1916 this city owned 16,000 certifi cates for property fortetted for non- | payment of taxes, PIKE ST.—SECOND AVE.—UNION ST. Let Home-Furnishin Bring Spring Into Your Home New Cretonnes 40c Yd. Scrim Curtains $1.00 Pr. - ~ Cartains A new line in a large selection of designs—latest color combinations— and a full yard wide. Can be split for draperies. In 1922 the city Last year 5,000) vacant lots were forfeited because the Seattle needs jobs to take the place’ of those lost after tne war, We shouldn't drive awiy ene single tmente mean more jobs, which mean better [times for employer and employe Uncoliected taxes on Beattie prop: erty November 1, 1921, amounted to an increase of cent from 1916, whe: | Was 45 mitle, or slightly more than | | half what Erickson proposes for 1923. | Property values increased in thone x years 9 per cent, while city taxes | increased 24 per cent tax workmen like Jacobsen until he makea him let his property go for taxes: But when he j jecem off she tax rolls by high taxes, | makes the rest of us| shoulder the burden. | 32. Erickson saya “It haw been maid | Inereased taxes will drive employers | away from Seattle. years ago city In 20 years our taxes have inereaned . and manufacturing | the total tax Beattle ts to vote May 8 on @ propo. nition that proposes to eat up be tween $90,000,000 and 100,000,000 tn extra taxes tn the next 18 years; Proposes to guarantee Stone & Web- ater everything they are fighting in the courts to get and proposes to FOND ANNUAL REVUSICALE) nave Seattle adopt a new financial Along the Aisles Coty’s New “Paris” $3.00 Ounce “Paris” is the name of Coty’s new perfume—and it certainly han all the allurement of ite In bulk, $3.00 an ounce, or In art glans bottles, Ertekson may | 1. A Docent fare, secured by having | home and property owners pay To to 40 per cent additional city taxes in 1923 to pay for the operating and maintenance costs, is cheaper In the final analysis than an §1-2-cent fare. | Answer, First of all, we who are fighting the Erickson pian, are deter mined to have a lower far Present one, and we do not propose to resort to taxation to get ft. sume we do go on under an#1-3cent gives Erickson all | Dest of the argument. Let's see what COST UNDER PRESENT FARE (One Family) Tax on $1,000 home (nanenmed value)—(We pay this even if Arives 6,000/ voting on the Ertekson bill we must decide whether or not we belleve tn the principle of free streét car rides. It means approximately $5,000,000 ex. Twenty seven —No. 1 Russwin Food Choppers at $1.65. —l4-quart Tin Bread Raisers, 98¢. —Lace-edged White Shelf Paper, 5 yards UPPER MAIN FLOOR Tweed Tones in Mockings $1 Mercerized and Lisle Stock. in openwork rib effects, in all the emartest tweed col ova to harmonize with the pop- ular tweed suite UPPER MAIN FLOOR Resilla Cloth From France—$1.00 Yard Loone open weave that lends iteelf attractively 200 per cent and business have not shunned her. Erickson has tried to connect our jcltizens’ committee with the Union leagu He raves about a “slush ‘rund™ to kill his bill. There fs none. | Several hundred men and women, |many of them workers in stores and im the building trades, are doing edu- cational work after work hours and) without salary. In a signed news They do not have to go to Oregon or California for low Why do they not move to Duvall oF Issaquah, where they have & ten-milk levy? i My ansWer to Erickson’s « found in the following signed state. manager of “We employ We have plans for! We want to But if the Erickson | measure and {te tax Increase passes | We will have to move to California $ 25.00) We do not sell any planes in Seattle We must compete with Eastern and 20.00 | Southern plants.” ENT FARE LOSES LOANS CAN BE HAD Stephen A. Hull, Seattle represent of Strauas & Co., ‘ew Washington hotel, put mil $145.00 | lone more in Seattle buildings and month before the primary, I sald: “I)| am not a member of the Union jleague. Neither am I tn sympathy with it. The sooner it goes out of [business the better this city will be jin my opinion.” That goes today |Just a# then, not only for me, but for thousands fighting the Erickson per family in 1921) Roeing Airplane Co. 380 to 400 men. increasing the payroil. —Woolnap inches, $3.49 —Bleached Pillow Cases, 42x36 inches, at COST UNDER % FARE (One Family) Tax on $1,000 home—(We pay this even if we rent) 1,000 tokens at 3c tinte—green, peach, rose, blue, Erickron’s charge that we defend the high fare ts a falsehood. I know + — |severnl heads of big retail establish VISEO AND | ments who gave interviews favoring the fivecent or #ix and a quarter.| cent fare. They are against his| J9HN scheme. Erickson must suppose men MURRAY [like D. & Frederick, W. L. Rhodes, A Fraser, Herbert Schoenfeld and per cent Increase tn cost of It's 36 inches wide, THIRD FLOOR— THE BON MARCHE —Heavy Pillow Cases, 45x36 inches, 30¢. (Based on family expenses Of $1,600 per year) ........ who financed When Baby Takes the Air! Mothers take pardonable pride in having baby “dressed up” when he goes forth for his daily airing — these iterns will help the effect. Lovely Coats and Capes attrac- tively priced from $3.95 to $10.00. THE BON MARCHE RGAIN BASEMENT Another Reason Basement Prices Are Lower WE TAKE NOC. O. D. ORDERS | If those men thought the highest tax rate in America and a three-cent fare would bring more people into |their stores they would work for the | Erickson bill. If they thought it would put more men to work in tn dustries, waterfront, offices, eto., they would campaign for the meas. They oppose the bill because they |know it means fewer jobs and more Plaided Coats in dainty First Transcontinental Tour of the Great American Actor OKLAHOMA CITY, April 26.— Enforcement of the prohfbition law is # failure. Congress slipped up on the country’s blind side during the war and put this prohibition “Rest since Edwin Booth” —New York Globe “SERVANT IN THE q HOUSE” over. zy Sunday Eve. and Saturday Mat. So says Governor J. B, A. Robert 4 “OTHELLO” json of Oklahorma,. who dediaged he Monday and Suturday Eves. “HAMLET” Tuesday and Priday Eves, “TAMING OF THE tolerate the Opén saloon again, | ernor, county in the state. VENICE” Wednesday Eve. “MACBETH” Thursday Eve. | his hip | |fense against Mquor laws. Mail Orders Now Addresn jetters, checks, pomt+ offices ney orders to Metro- ya are trying to politen Theater. Add 10 per but people make it cent tax. Include seif-ad~ officers can break it.” dressed stamped envelope. PENS Ris ER 8A AM Planning Mill Is ter than pea WARF The Astoria-Warrenton Lumber ¢ hs $1.50 and $1. Gal- >» he 776 Wednesday Matiner—Orchestra, 1m, not been determined Silk and Wool DRESSES $7.50 Women, this is the op- portunity you have been looking for to get a dress for little money. Comforts to match, $6.95; Wash Bonnets or Silk-quilted Bonnets in endless 50 to $2.95 quilted linings In pink, blue or Dry Amendment 'a Failure, Says Gov. Robertson Pillows, fine white down fill- Ing, B85 to $1.50, Pillow Cases Blankets in Ught colors for to wrap baby in embroidered on batiste, $1.65— white linen, $1.95. BABY SHOP—SBCOND RLOOR—THE BON MARCHE Give Baby Plenty of Exercise Lectures—11 o’Clock Thursday Dr. Herbert E. Coe, child sur- geon and orthopedist, on “Cor rective Exercises—Spinal Cur atures—Infantile Paralysis,” Weighing and measuring of babies, 1 to 8 p. m. BABY SHOP, SE Awfully good taffeta, Poiret twill and trico- tine, trimmed with embroid- ery, stitching, banding and In black, blue and brown.. Broken sizes to 42. Smart Trimmed Hats $3.95 We have all the gay colors so popular for Spring and Summer hats. Many clever horsehair models with Most of the hats are trimmed with wreaths of field flowers. Children’s Capes $5.00 Attractive little Capes in Polo cloth and velour— plain and embroidery trimmed, green and Mohawk. was a prohibitionist before the Vol- jstead act and that he would never HEALTH “Nearly every home tn Oklahoma has its own hootch,” said the gov. | “You can get corn whisky tn every OND FLOO! “You can’t go on a plenic without ay | | some fellow having @ load of it on ‘Jails of the counties of the state are filled with men thrown in for of. which are not full ought Most sheriffs and county anttor. force the law, Noonday Lunch 50c Sirloin steak, French friend potatoes, cake and ice no molasses: coffee or milk MEN'S GRILL AND RESTAURANT, fe Chicken Pie Lunch at the Cou 35c UF Destroyed by Fire ‘TON, Ore, April 26— m. pany planing mill burned here Jast night with a loss estimated today to Baleony, $1. Gallery, 50c.B | be $10,000. The origin of the fire has —Gluten Flour, special Thursday, § For little girls from 6 to 14 —Popular Blend Coffee, 2 Ibs. for 38¢; FLOOR— 1k BON MARCHE the Erickson plan, per $1,000 of am | oute luation, would be reet Erickson says seve 81.00 Jandy Portland 42.00 s ¢ is inereaned to 5 mills? Mt THE BA nay we are at “hard pan ¢ ban “got to hit the ball.” have got to get astern money nottiers just Hike Low Angeles. Would | $400,000 less than the 1922 operm S%-cent tax on every thousand | appropriation dollays aswessed valuation be an in- | good turer, ster the full purchase m by tax ght and | voters, Brooms, 69¢. —Japanned Tin Bread —Porcelain Wash Bowl —Potato Ricers or and Pitcher, $1.95. Fruit Presses, 24¢. UNION STREET RASEMENT—THE BON MARCHE Linens and Bedding at Interesting Prices —Mercerized Cloths, —Seamless Bed Sheets, 68x68 inches, $1.95. 81x90, Rg a 4 —Crochet Bedspreads, —All - linen Table 72x83 inches, $1.95. —1l6-inch Crash Tow- Cloths, 70x70 inches, 36.95. eling, 10¢ yard. —Feather Pillows, 17x —Turkish Towels, 21x 24 inches, 78¢. 42 inches, 25¢. THIRD FLOOR—THE BON MARCHE New Mayflower Aprons $1.95 An Exceptional Value for Apron Thursday —\ Aprons of excellent black sateen — cleverly designed with May basket pockets—sash and trimmings of gay colored cre- tonnes. And the best of it is—we guarantee the colors, Sunbonnets of percale—may be unbuttoned to iron out flat, and only 59¢. —Garden Hats of bright col- ored cretonnes—priced $1.25. SECOND FLOOR— THE BON MARCHE Japanese Crepe 19c Yard 1,500 yards Japanese Crepe in light weight, 29 and 80 inches wide—old rose, pink, tan, green and blue—a good value. Lonsdale Muslin 19c Yard 2,000 yards of Lonsdale Muslin, full yard wide, and in lengths to 10 yards. THIRD FLOOR—THE BON Mid-Week Savers in The Bon Marche Food Shop Brand Bread 10c Loaf Made with best ingredients very palatable, All Bakery Goods advertised also ‘on gale at The Bon Marche Branch, Third Ave, and Pine St, Bonele: Armour's Rolled Ib, 18¢. people under bis plan If he can do | put the same efficiency y and give us a lower fare out our forcing it? Benttle today reduction with ite 15 per xhape to offer more to the man investor and settler than on the Pacifle coast, the voters announce to the coui willing to pay for th n fares, are interested im bust before the horse. He is not|management of the street raiiwi asking the taxpayers to pay for «| line which they will own, If that were the case he would ask them to vote $5,000,000 « year for three years Instead, he asks them to pay $5,000 000 a year forever to operate the it the right way, cisco has a lower fare on municip If we pay for operating and matin. | owned lines. taining our street car ay: ation, why not our wate power utilities? Is Seattle ready to and the real interest we all have) monkey with that policy? The Erickson plan means $500,000 ‘Their total tax in-|lees for our schoolm next year and $60,000 lens for the park and library | Can Seattle compete with our rival | departments, Do we want this? Is} mand and get a lower fare. ates under | Heattle in shape to be the first city they em, are determined to get nd « lower fare, they uch to restore confid }and prosperity in this city, one wants a lower fare. have done I appeal to the comrion sense to their spirit of fair Seattle, the best city on the Const given a chance, to vote plan and register Then let's all Erickson for civic ALYRED H. LUNDIN, Days —hemstitched and fin- ished with neat lace edges—2\%4 yards long, in white only. Very in- expensive for any one refurnishing the home for spring. Save on Housewares Thursday —White-enameled Bath —New (not refilled) Stools at $1.45. Tungsten Lamps, 27¢. —Hardwood Rolling —Fine quality Parlor Pins, 24¢ each. Boxes at $1.25. OL Me } ’ ‘ eqn Cottage Butts 34c Lb. delicious for frying or boiling, —Paul's Jams—s kinds fresh—4 jars, OB¢@: jar, 25¢. —lilg’s Wieners, 1b. 304. —Choice Kippered Salmon, very delicious: UPPER MAIN FLOOR— THE BON MARCHE