The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 9, 1922, Page 6

We might have known it was too good to be true. The phone company put up such a plausible story when {t announced the Inven- of the telechronometer, or speech-measuring meter, that lots of folks began to maybe they'd been misjudging the corporation, The telechronometer was to make the telephone cheaper; do away with the accursed "s busy;” revolutionize industry; end all unemployment; put a radio set and a piano into every workingman’s home, and, in short, bring about the millennium, least, that was the impression one had after reading the phone company's advance ment. ‘But now the halo’s shattered. i After less than a month's trial of the device, all Everett is up in arms, declaring ‘ as usual, the public has been sold. Instead of lowering the cost of telephones, the telechronometer has sent bills soar- to astounding heights. And none of the rest of the prophecy has come true. As a matter of fact, it was only to be expected. Public utilities companies have been known to sprout wings, and it was almost a foregone conclusion that ly would benefit from the reform—except the phone company. “The telechronometer, which, it is understood, costs approximately 90 cents to man- scture, is leased to the phone company at the rate of $3 a year—FOR EACH CE Any child would be able to see that this must, necessarily, add an average of $3 to yearly cost of each phone. And, in addition, a force of meter-readers must be installed, whose salaries must be added to the public’s phone bill. ' The phone company may claim that the Increases in some phone bills are counter- ‘acted by reductions in others—but this is fallacious on its face. Even if the installation of the telechronometer were to reduce the gross income of phone company the public would still be losing. Because the company is GUARANTEED a certain return on its investment, and if return is reduced all the corporation has to do is to go to Olympia and demand ‘that the rate per telechrone be increased. No matter how you look at it, the telechronometer will increase everybody's phone the $3 that the device costs to lease, plus the pro rata share of the salaries for readers. And the phone company isn’t going to pay it. He couldn't sleep for six years,” reads an ad- Pay vertisement. Six years is too long to sleep anyway. gle a ke cine te Perhaps we hesitate to recognize Mexico be- 100 cents on the dollar, cause we do recognize her. be compromises with his cred- ED he cannot expect to be able Only one-man top that doesn’t need two men to handle is an umbre It ta all right to hit a fly when he ts down. i i li ra] ; om his part. mere injurious te Russia than te 8 «¢ » the honesty of tndl past were te remain permanenity Absentee and the honesty ef gov anpaid Russia would have te Seerctary of the Interior Albert The communist gov- appeal to usurers and internation. ‘Frail takes his Job literally, That of Russia must have s al gamblers and in the end s, he ts Just about as often in the m loan to establish a stable would be compelled to pay in the “Interior” as he ly in Washington. y and to make Russia self- form of high rates of Interest for Having pald » fying visit to the once more, But, Rus- national capital afier an extended | ° ry stayin the West, Mr. Fall ls again at Three Rivers, bis New Mexico ranch, for another long visit, yi A] : i ef payment of the debt will not - be Pe Page ges “vig 9 Meantime things are popping tn : epetiated some time tn the arée chout ©. They hove taken Wethington--cald “popping” cow _ wre the clothes of George and have ‘ting about the absentee cabinet _ Whe Russian people have con him in the situation, so far as member, fiseated property belong to for lothes are concerned, of a Ro- Senator La Follette, with char- eigners who in past years invest. "on dlndiator. As an anatomwos! aeteriatio fearlessness, has at- fatwa was ‘ow cow 4 thier money in Russian secur oot nie ride on tek “a “Ind tacked the entire Interior depart- f i i i ment, charging it “reeks with cor ruption” in connection with Fall's other parts of his upper anatomy That statue ought to be put ina i government has been out ey a — Representative teases of the navy oll Iands of by the soviet authorities, 4 Teapot Dome, Wyo., to the pri- repayment has been refused. 1 submit te the senator from vate Sinclair intereste of New North Daketa that no consumer York. ever takes epsom salts willingly of — Renators Poindexter, McCumber ‘tie te anstously or affectionately. Sena- a4 other “old re » apectables,” have further loans. The acts of '°% Wiliams (D), Misa thrown up thelr bands tn holy Only European crowne worth horror. . anything are the ones dentists put “Why, this ts quite toe mach” Russia must be given terms by ‘ they chorus.. “If these charges are true they ought to be Investl gated thoroly. If they have even |m semblance of truth, they ought to be investigated. We must do something about this.” And Mr. Fall makes no reply. Foct ts, Mr, Fall, since his ap polntment over » year ago to one of the most important offices tn Net Contents 15 Fluid Dractay For Infants and Children. post of duty seldom, rather than Mothers Know That °° oisny ne emrnee trom Genuine Castoria the comfortable ranch house at Three Rivers ont on the New Always Bears the Mexican mesa, just long enough Signature to “put something over.” Then, of Russa wants to trade old debts cn nae PF when a storm of popular disap- proval is about to break, Fail re tire sto the ranch. Tt Is = great system, Little short of a wireless can |reach him at Three Rivers, and the ranch has no radio reeotver, | Down there under the turqnolse akios of the Mexican border where the only Interruption to the music \of nature's atiliness tn the con tented mooing of munching cattle or the chorus of mockingbirds tn In the nearest grove of cottonwoods, the hard-riding cabineteor Is en- Joying life free from such petty Use annoyances as congressional quer- | ton or investigating senators, | It's @ wonderful life if you don’t For Over ==. | In Nedraaka, @ fully preserved T 4 | prehtetorio tooth has Been found. Ir y bars Some tooth paste firm will be ad~ verti#ing he used thelr product, | flome men tell their wlves every- thing that happens and some tell | them even more than that. Nothing spoils an old eutt as much as getting a new one doe THE OENTAUR COMPANY, Hew veRR Crr¥, je etal a ag looks Uke @ low brow, THE SEATTLE STA A Petter from AIVRIDGE MANN. Dear Folks In fust another @ay or two, “If Winter Comes” will all be thru for now ite closing chaptere bring the stormy days that herald fipring; “If Winter Comes,” they bring to mind, “O, Wind! Can Spring be far behind?” And if you've read the book with care, you've learned to know Mark Sebre there; but tf you're not acquainted yet, you've atill « dandy friend to get; so read the book from end to end, and make @ true and trusted friend. When times are tough and daye are dark, I alwaye like te think of Mark; for life would never be #o grim, if folk» were only more like him; a little queer at times, perhaps, but «till @ prince of manly chaps In spite of prejadine or pride, he'd always hear the other side If he and | were disagreed, I'd bet @ lot he'd «tit ede my right to hold the views | had, and never think me wholly bad And when In need, I'd never doubt that Mark would always help me out; nor would he ever fear or dread a single thing convention said, nor give a rap for social creeds that raise m bar to friendly deoda And tho I've even heard It claimed that “Mark” was very rightly named, I'd #ttll be proud If I could be as true and real a man as he, and had the courage in my soul to go thru hell to gain my goul Crritge Tomn, A Word for the Filipino Editor The-ftar & Fillpine cannot become & ctiizen| ent from us in appearance. of the United States, Mont people which Is @ great wrong to the Fill-/so narrow minded? sen of this country. | I have been around the Filipino) place in Canada. boys for some time, and I know just what Iam talking about American people have forgotten the ts worthy of some consideration, Declaration of Independence, and MRS. MARY BERGER, some of us seem to forget also that A Defender of Prohibition Réttor The Star 1 am graphs which are so astounding that |the passover season se. She writer: i our asylums with dope om tien 4 our prisen celle with #0 absurd that I need not take up time and space to contro) vert it Her premise ts entirety | lwrong, 90 naturally ehe bas worked out an incorrect sotution. She goee on to say that Christ Diessed the water and turned it mto wine at the marriage at Cana, ert dently trying to fustity the lMquer traffic with all ite train of attend ant evils by the Scripture reference. The word “wine” in our Engiish Bible ja need for more than one word ip the original text-—werde of slightly different meaning. For instance there is the well known admonition of St, Paul to Timothy: “Use @ lit- tle wine for thy etomach’s sake.” |We learn from Pliny and other ancient writers that there wae & medicinal wine, much used for stomach troubles, which was an In- |fumton of certain herbs mixed with lxrape Julce which had been bolted to prevent fermentation. How nat- eral that Paul should recommend | this wing, @ home remedy, to the young Timothy who evidently suf: fered from Indigestion. We know that tn the time of Christ there was no wine such as |our wine of commerce because mod ern wines are fortified by brandy, lwhich was unknown then, as the lart of Gistillation wae not discovered lant! years tater The wine which produced intexton tion was only fermented grape fulce which would of necessity contain « | lower percentage of alcohol than our commercial wines, and not com [parable with the whisky which tn this country was much more com |monty used than wine. But wine, the intoxicating wine, wae an evil |thing then jow, and we find tn the Bible m warnings against St jand find drunkenness censured ané punished. In fact we find that in jal ages the history of Intoxtcatine 4rinks has been a tale of woo and l|eorrow, and in all ages legial jaction has been required to | the evil A Chinese emperor ued mation forbidding the use of ng drink as “causing much hundreds of years before the Christian ern | How unthinkable, then, that the loving Christ could have made thi sort of wine at the marriage feast The wine tn that Instance meant the |harmiess, fresh julce of the grape Alice M. B. 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It ts not so | across the line, In Vancouver, or any Tid not the Filipino boys 4o ther In the ma-| bit in the world war, along with our lyority of cases the Filipino ts a law. | own sons? 1 think the time hag come | abiding citinen and spends his money) when we should wake up to the fact freely, is kind and considerate, and that the Filipino ts an Amertean and many of them are highly educated. | is standing shoulder to shoulder with Hut it seems to me that sore of our our American boys tn our navy and 028 Fifth Bt, Bremerton, Wash used at the Last Supper, That Your paper of May § contained @/ was the passover supper and leaven, letter written by Allos M, B. Meyer.| the emblem of sin, was rigidly ex-|the other pupils If + concerned with only two pare-|cluded from Jewish homes during | pring about the desired improve. | ment, & little private talk from the | teacher always proved effective; if a On the lth 1 could scarcely believe 1 waa read-/of Nisan, the “preparation” for the Prohibition | passover, each head of a family It's pronounced with aecent on the necond ny’ It means —refusing being used expectaily with politioal matters It comen trom rable prefix meaning transigere,” to come to an agree ment, Ita’ ned like tht hie followers have transigent attitude relative to the irish situation.” swept the house by the light of # candle lest a crumb of leavened) bread should remain law precluded the use of fermented | wine, Orthodox Jews in thia coun try use for the passover a wine! i which I@ made by steeping in water | ried grapes brought from Palestine nos, again, wine means the unfermented julce of the | A. le D, GRAHAM, In this tn 1711 Bellevue. an showing” and “di under orders; that 11, from their higher-aps. pay for their full-fledged hospitals and how much rois, Tz. the woman whok i Beds built hn poe : nows Simmons natural that Simmons responsible for the m Cree of scien spring. 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