The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 10, 1922, Page 6

Ing here? i : i H 548 H i E 5 i Bs } t sft i ef i i ? : if Hl i i i ry 3 j i if ly g | nu i | . i g i H a | ii t | i th | | | 3 figiuch © curse @ept for land owners and exploit- —— e at ony, tee ws Mh of Washington. Outside of the state, for ¢ months, or 19.00 per yearn My carrier, city, Telechronometers and Home Rule Who is to blame for telechronometers and excessively high phone bills in Everett? Who will be to blame if telechronometers come to Seattle and bills go skyrocket- eattle Sta month; & mentha £1.60; ¢ monthe $8.18) pean Peblisned Datty by The Star Publishing Os, Phene Main 0, 00 per mowth, & month And what {fs the remedy? How can people safeguard themselves against being forced to buy white elephants whenever so-called public service corporations wish? Figare it out for yourself— The telechronometer was given a try-out In Everett before any official permission was requested. This try-out was enough t convince everyone who witnessed It that ‘the people would never consent to a general installation of the device. ii So the phone company didn’t run the risk of being turned down by the city govern- Instead {t went down to Olympla and petitioned the state board of public works permission to install the telechronometers thruout Everett. ‘The board didn’t take the people’s desires into consideration; {t just went ahead gave the phone company what it wanted. Having done this, the board could hardly decline to accord similar perm!sston to he phone company in Seattle, or in any other city in the state, All of which is a mighty big argument in favor of a home-tule law pertaining to of the first class, which would deprive the state board of its arbitrary powers permit the cities to defend themselves against so-called public service corpora- In North Dakota a man has whiskers 17 feet long. A clean shirt must last him a month. When a litician sits on the fence you can tell where he stands by watching where he lies. U. S. Marines’ orders in Peking should be “China, handle with care.” In England, beer is getting so high the poor can’t buy it. Same here. More interesting, it ts the only form of free transportation. Je, the winter te past; the over and gone; the flowers on the earth; the time of the singing of dirds ts come-—Can- theles M1i-18 ror rein ts And mwelling dude are crowned, Sweet is thy reign, but short—the red dog star Shall scotch thy tresses, end the mower’s scythe Thy green, thy flowrete all, Remorseless shall destroy. —Anna L. Bardauld, Somewhere tn your neighbor hood, they are building s house. Ge over there, pick » piece of shin ing metal out of a keg, and the carpenter will tell you It's = “10 penny nafl.” Other naile are 20- penny, 80, 40 and so on. “Penny,” im connection with nalls, is @ measure of size. Originally, tt Gesignated the were put together with hard wooden pegs. Maybe you've no- tleed that when an ancient house was torn down. In the name of the “10-penny mall” you have the key to the whole scheme ef modern life— cheap prices, made possible by quantity production. S Evil, however, sonal Have you shined your shoes today with Zin Shoe Polish It improves your per- appearance and Nearly all of man’s tmportant productive inventions were discov- ered within the last 200 years, For thousands of years before that, human muscies were in o general sense the only important machinery. Caligula, spendthrift Roman em. at of crab meat from Japan. ® suggestion that a watch might some day sell for $7, would have seemed only s few centuries ago when timepieces were so prohib- itive that only kings and the very wealthy could afford them. Expensive Inxuries of today are the cheap necessities of tomon row. Standard of Iving stendity advances—but only by increased production. Any strictness which sour: temper, which makes us dtalt fellow-creaturi nich shuts us up tn ourselves; or again, any whtch interferes with our duties and op- presses us with ttle fidgety diffe culties, instead ef carrying ue along in obeying the laws of our state of Ufa, 1s almost certain to be @ morbid strictness—Dishop WU- Ham Temple. Tf summer comes, can the flee De far behind? saves leather. For Black, White, Tan, Brown and Ox-blood Shoes F. F. Dalley Company of New York, Inc. Buffalo, N. Y. Dear Polka: The other day I Wrote; it maid the ol years between, A simple little note, I know-— Dut filled with dreams of Long Ago, when hearts were gay and burdens light, and all the world was young and bright, and recollections crowded fast, from out the distant, rosy Past, I saw again the distant home, the fields and paths I used to roam; it made me long to live again the happy high echool days of Then; but such @ wish was vain, I knew—and dreaming merely made me biue, And so I talked with Miss Thirteen, whose high school days art still unseen; I told her many tales I know of high echool days of Jong ago; till from the past, we grew to eee a dream of here that are to be, And then my blues were gone et tnst-—we'd merged the Future with the Past; end all the “aretobe’s* and “were'n” are ever Jointly mine and hers; and #0 the Past le never dead—our high school days are still ahead! Bo he ls mighty rich who learns that Time ts just a wheel that turns; that we can live our youth again-—the Then be Now, the Now be Then—and render Life @ double trip, by taking kids in partnerehip. THE SEATTLE STAR APotter Arom AIVRIDGE MANN. jot @ note a former high school classmate s that used to be, would like to get a line from me, to tell them what I'd done and seen in all the many LETTERS EDITOR Corrects Her Statement Editor The Star: In The Star of May from me was printed under the cap tion, “Viviseotion, Flappers, Eto.” In thie letter the following estate ment appeared: “Christ bieased the water at the marriage of Cana and turned ft into wine He drank the wine him self and as Hie handed the goblet to his favorite discipla John, said, | ‘This te my blood, which ts shed for Q & letter] noes = I wanted to say that Christ blessed the water at the marriage of Cana and turned It into wine, and at the Last Supper he turned to his favo rite disciple, John, and lifted the goblet to his ipa, eald, “This te my blood, which is shed for thea.” ALICE M. B. MEYER. Urges Wage Reduction SMAitor The Star: I want to add « few words of en- couragement to the two ladies who almost alone are fighting for lower taxes thru lower wages. While they specialize In teachers, I should aay the entire civil list might as well be included. Of all things sinister, un safe and highly objectionable in any government, municipal, ate or fed eral, the worst ls a government sal arted clasa, with « politioal pall, that defies the wishes and best interests of the community or state. That be comes, an it were, a working arte toeracy. Our federal government to. day ts stl] In the throes of the war time high Jinks of get all you can, while you can, and hold it as long ae you can, regardiess of conse quences; and there is seemingly no way out of It It te & wellremembered fact that, while President Wilson's rush war orders were belng carried out, tn 1917, and during the most strenuous times, the refiroad brotherhoods re fused to move their traine unless thelr wages were raised to the Itmit. And this on the top of « similar raise hot long previous, With the govern. ment It was @ case of Neoensity, and rather than be delayed, It submitted to thelr demands when it should havo taken @ few thoosand soldiers yet wish to aveld doing any tnjus and corralled them in a stockade for! tics to those now here. treason. Of course, it saved a lot of trouble, but we are all still pay-|the Japanese were brought here tn Why 4i4 Mr. Wilson or Mr. Harding back down tn thetr efforte to reduce wanes? Not because a majority was againet them, but because « small minority had the advantage. In Seattle we find the same thing exemplified. After the armistice, the war being over, all of the civic wage earners of the city, seaing their last ohance to grab, set up @ how! about their low wages and the high cost of living for families of five, which of course excluded teachers, and the price of sirloin steak and «ilk stock ings, which 4i@ not, the sympathetic public, #till in the flueh of prosper. ity, being used to the best for a year or two, and falling to reaitze how Philip Tindall Replies | Editor The Stan Ta your tewue of April 94 Mr. (LEARN A WORD EVERY DAY | Today's word is SIGNATORY, | | It’ pronounced—sig-na-to-ri, with jthe accent on the first syllable, | It means—a signer; specifically, as| much used tn connection with recent and pending Kurepean diplomatic events, “a government bound with others to the terme of « joint agree | ment.” It comes from—Latin “signare,” to mark. | It's used ike thie—The allied signatories object to the German in terpretation of the Versailles treaty.” soon It would be sorry, sald, “Yes, go to it, Give them what they want.” But now that times have changed and the people are thinking of them |selves more, and want to retract jsome of those generous impulsive | gift, the answer comes, “Nothing doing, We keep what we have.” IT recall that & morning paper anid at that time; “We still adhere to our objections to @ raise tn teach. ord wagen, but will say no more, if the service ls improved.” Has the service been improved? Ia it better than last, or last year than 5 we $10,000 @ year? No, he deserves it, maybe, Does the same amount of work. A teacher who works but 10 months does not arn & year's salary, but deserves it, pavement, sometimes. Whe can tell? Ie there @ standard? Heretofore teaching in America has not been @ profession seeking only the doliar, but rather one tm- bued with the spirit of helpfulness and of upbullding thru a natural en thusiasm for American ideals and the raising of the standard of our ctvillzation, To be sure wages were necessary, but they were rather seo ondary than primary. It must be ad. mitted, however, that teachers, in the past, have been paid much less than they deserved: and it ts car. tainly @ good sign to find the people waking up to this fact, But it ts also & peculiar fact that teachers are reaching out for more and more dol-| jare. Some are even asking for we, To my mind, the model teacher ts the rural teacher, who leaves home and friends and society, gore into « strange place, takes charge of a mixed echool of 20 to $0 pupils of all grades tn the school course, and makes good. She is satisfied only, with resulta, tho she does not get the) wages she deserves oftentimes. | i. BW. | cities af servants or in amy other Frank P. Allen of Skagit county re|capacity. They are chiefly to be piles to my letter of April 13 in which I attempted to answer certain critictams by him of my position on the Japanese question In hie last letter Mn Allen ovte forth @ point of view which te held by | great number of earnest-minded Americans whe belleve we should stop further Japanese immigration, The potnt he seeks to make te that is Japanese are to be seen tn the found in the farming communities where they secured their first hold by competing with American farm labor and inter by acquiring posses | sion of a large and rapidly increas | ing part of the land iteelf. In this! state the Great Northern railway first encouraged their coming tn numbers, For some years they were | in evidence in the cities chiefly as house servants, as hotel and saloon | porters, and in similar menial post. | tions, Today @ majority of them are i" v4 j Ing for it in high freight, which adds|the first place without blame on|!" business for themscives. In the materially to the high cost of living,| thelr part “to be servants for the and the government seerns impotent.| wealthy lazy Americans.” Next to our isolation from Europe, the present high railroad wage ix the chief hindering factor to normalcy This tx true only tn « Mnited eens, In Ca) ifornla, where the question te far more acute than here, comparatively or gour CRAP Book OEMS y “gricultural sections they at worked an farm hands, and later, in California, quickly took over the| Pomsension of the land Iteelf. | But Mr. Allen ts tn error in maytng that they were “brought here” in the| same way the negroes were first | brought Into this country. Every Japanose in thie country came here! willingly and eagerly, moat of them with full knowledge that their pres | ence was resented by an overwhelm. | ing part of the thinking people of | the Pacific coast. This knowledge has been shared in by thelr govern ment, which in 1908 entered into a solemn agreement with President Roosevelt to stop all further mass | emigration to this country and to te sue passports only to persone desir. ing to come here temporarily as stu. | dents and travelers, The subject is HORSEBACK MEN BY BADGER CLARK in The Sunset ‘The horseback men were the freest men From the days of the big ice pack, When they first crawied out of their musty den And followed a horse's track. The cave man crouched in But his son found out tha dark and died ‘orld ts wide th When he cilmbed on @ horse's back Morweback men, O horseback men, Bowlegged brave old crew! Here's to your kin where the free stare spin~ Cowpuncher, Consack and Bedouln, Gaucho, Mongol and Sioux! ‘The bola Goth spurred tnto lnay Rome Great Genghis loped with his force; Our Westerner fought for his wide new home Bestriding a brona, of course, New land, new freedom, or just the deuce~ Whenever the spirit of man broke loose He went and straddied a horse, Horeeback © heresback men, men, ‘The weak hide under their roofs, But only the strong to your tribe belong Bo history's mostly @ horseback song, An4 eet to the thud of the hoofa But the sword bows down to the monkey-wrenchi And the naddle fades from the scena, For the warrior squats in @ miry trench Or charges by gascline— And grim Time, quitting his off horse jog, Whire us forward into the fog On the wings of a swift machina Horseback men, O horseback men, Your long day dims at last, But your fame will climb to a myth subtime Frota the horse tracks thick on the trail of Time And the echo of hoofs from the past. YESTERDAY 4 AW. QUEEN -EN + GEOGRAPHIC PUZZLES fully eet forth in President Roose velt's autoblography which can be seen at the Seattle public library, Mr. Allen ts under a further mis apprehension in saying that Ameri | cans will not do hard or menial| work. He asks me whether I would | Our Booklet obo! Concrete Af National Extend the Dividends on a Concrete Street he taxpayer— because there are practi- bate no repairs, Maintenance is built inte Concrete To the motorist and the truck owner— mae Ooo tion, gas To the property owner—from the im creased value of his property. To the merchant, from the trade a good etreet draws and keeps. Fo the wield: commutiay—teem the Strecta PORTLAND CEMENT ASSOCIATION SEATTLE, ip aa ization to Improve Uses of Concrete Olfices in 23 Other Citlee bina We fo oe. 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Use ALL the po ané af other fre. box if they fall, ing back the empty bex and get your money. of every Building est Nails the digestive juices are so fs that is winning fame wiers te directions, climb onto a garbage wagon and help clean up the city’s swill. When in the army I did a great deal of wuch, and even less agreeable work, as G14 thousands of other Americans. In the city of Seattle thie very work is being done today almost entirely by Americans who are glad to have the opportunity to do tt, and who see in it nothing beneath their dig- nity es American citizens, It ts strange that anyone should think that here on the Pacific coast we must have Japanese to do work which is belng done by Americans everywhere else thruout the United States, I believe that fundamentally Mr. Allen and I are of the same opinion on the Japanese question, but I be Heve that he gravely underestimates the capacity and willingness of the American people to perform hard and disagreeable work. 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