The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 15, 1922, Page 6

Newspaper Be- terprioe Aco. and Unites Press Servies Ry 2 attained their end. The Se « the stale of Wasbinaten. att ‘The Star today takes off its hat to Dr, W. K. McKibben, secretary of the China club, i Canon W. H. Bliss, president of the White Cross society, for their achievement in about the passage of the Jones-Miller anti-narcotic bill. Certain other individuals and organizations contributed to the victory; as a matter of The Star believes that its own efforts in that direction were not entirely without effect. But to Dr. McKibben and Canon Bliss goes the principal credit, because, others worked more or less sporadically, these two never once paused until they a The Jones-Miller bill should—and will, if properly enforced—do more to stop the nar- traffic than all the “dope conferences” that were ever called. _ It deals with fundamentals. the Canton is $2,500,000 If i In & beautifully printed, care- fully bound, 36-page pamphlet 1s sued the other day, Budget Director Dawes shows how much 4 Money he has saved the govern- ment. Every newspaper in the country nearly everyone else got eepy of this remarkable docu- ment, remarkable perhaps because Bo one can understand It. a One newspaper expert figures that Dawes has saved us $45,000, 000, “while another, equally “ex- pert,” says it is $1,600,000,000! As to ourselves we rise in our seat to pay our humble tribute to at least one item of saving re- corded in this remarkable report. It {s found on page 71, under “Air service savings,” and reads as fol- lows: “By remodeling airplanes, which @therwise would be obsolete owing fo being unsafe to fly, which Would be replaced by new equip- "ment if the alr service was to have continned flying activity estimated) $2,500,000!” Whatever folks say about Gen. Dawes, no one can _ honestly charge him with being lacking in humor. i ¥ Former narcotic legislation has dealt solely with effects; it has been aimed solely at preventing the sale of dope. ‘The Jones-Miller act, on the other hand, deals with the cause; {t goes to the very of the evil and forbids the importation of the crude narcotic drugs. ‘ festly no narcotics can be sold if none are allowed to come in, The effect should be far-reaching. Beattle and the rest of the nation owe a real debt of gratitude to Dr. McKibben and Clean the Slate— Let ’Em Out Attorney General Daugherty evt- dently sees no distinction between ordinary crimes and offenses com- mitted under the espionage act, and during the stress and hy» teria of war. There was general consent to a surrender by the in- dividual of some part of his cus- tomary liberty during the war. There was censorship of both free speech and a free press while that seemed necessary, But once the war was over the espionage act and the rigors of governmental supervision of Individual tberty were distasteful, and the act was repealed. In England, whose people ap- pear to be more jealous ef their liberty than we are, 8 maximum sentence of six months was con- sidered sufficient to answer the purpose of suppressing pacifists, In this republic, in some instances, the sentence was as high as 20 years. All thru Europe political pris oners have long ago been freed. The present administration now takes the position that nothing is involved but the Mberty ef tndb le Sta month; P montha, $1.40; ¢ months, GATE) pear, Outside of the state, Be per month, 4 months, or 19.08 per year By carrier, sity, $0 & mon vidual prisoners, and ft wants personal application for clemency, with assurance that those con vieted for expressing their opin- fons In war times are repentant which they probably are not, The truth ts that most of those who demand that political prison- ers now be freed have no sym- pathy with their political opinions or with the varions political or. ganizations to which they belong. What they are interested in ts = restoration of the UWberty ‘of cith zens generally, and particularly the constitutional rights of free speech and a free press. Every legitimate and patriotic purpose for which pacifists, con scientious objectors and other antiwar agitaters who had the courage of thelr convictions were Jailed, has been accomplished. ‘Tie law Itself has been repealed. Most of the prisoners are In pen- itentlary for acts which are not now criminal Keeping them there merely makes the govern- ment itself appear revengefal. They do more harm te jal! than they could out. Let them out Wipe eff the slate Let's get THE SEATTLE STAR . Taxpayer at Bat Again fidence in the ability of their teacher Make @ reduction in , honest Mditor The Btar: With the election of two new mem: bers to the achool d it ts to be hoped that they will down to real business from a t or'e stand point, We are willing and expect to pay & big price, but we demand that We get some returns for our money. Now would be a good time to stop payment of the wartime bonus and 0 back to a reasonable wage. It better for all concerned to pay to promise more and h in warrants, whieh the teachers will have to diseount for cash and the taxpayer have to pay interest on ti it i paid. Eliminate all ¢ principal of the school, then that teacher Is not qualified to teach. The moral effect of a supervisor on t pupils ts bad/ for It lessens their oo Defends Tax Reduction Work Etttor The Start The repeated personal attacks upon Mra. Anne Stewart and Mre. Edger Blair of the Tax Reduction Counell, for the poattion each has taken on the subject of reduction of salaries of Seattle's school teach have certainly eprung out of undance of ignorance” of the under discussion. wrihee been ansoctated Stewart and Mre. Blair “an pubje: The writer has with Mrs. in the Tax Reduction Coune!l work for the past year and feels safe in #0 members of stating that both t the council are th with the whole Mra. Pialr probab about the financial end of the echoo! board than any member of the) board. She has mado most oz haustive survey of the finances of | the school district, having worked on several of the investigating com: mittees of the Tax Reduction Coun ell in thelr campaign (whieh has been productive of such splendid re wults that Seattle's tax rate ts now 65 mills instead of 73 last year, and that every candidate who wae elect «4 in the recent city, port and school elections pledged himself and herself to make every possible et: fort to further reduce taxes by eliminating graft and extravagance) Mrs. Blair has children tn the Seat- tle schools, and has been an officer of the PLT. A, and le a taxpayer who has suffered heavily from the increased rate, eo she ts qualified to approach the subject of teachers’ fro eral points of view. was @ teacher for has several grown educated tn nd the university, i taxpayer, and hae taken @ lead ing part tp all the findings of the various committees of tnvestigation during the past year, as she bas away from the war as fast as we cn finda Y 97 Wa Le Jr Tem nocturne of Fifth Avenue, Bel had asked to be dropped at the Brook, alleging a rendezvous of one sort or another, safely masculine, of course, Beyond reflecting that Rel was tn all likelihood lying, Lucinda had paid slight heed to his excuses. Then, too, she was not fl-pleased with having herself all to herself, in this thoughtful mood which had be- come hers since leaving the Sedieys. Besides, Bel bad been making too free with the Sediey cellar. Not that she was disposed to hold this a griev- ance, thorogoing mondaine that she was, saturate with the epirit of a day that wns learning to look toler. antly upon intemperateness as a fashionable form of protest against Prohibition. No: it wasn’t that, ft Was the fact, established by long ob servation, that Bel seldom drank more than he could manage grace fully unless on the verge of some new gallantry. Bel assuredly didn’t need anything to stimulate his en terprise, She fancied it must be be- cause alcohol served as a sort of anesthetic for his conscience, She had a smile transiently bitter. Bel's conscience! The most feather | headed, irresponsible of philanderers, | the moat incorrigible; between whiles the mort contrite... . His fits of penitence were terribly real, when she caught him misbo- having. Or was that, too, merely part of the game with Bel? Was it just a conventional gambit to make believe repentance and promise faith fully never, never to be naughty again? She discovered that the car was already at @ etandstill. Immersed in reverie, she hadn't noticed the turn off from the avenue, As always, her home enfoled her in its comfortable atmosphere of se- curity from every assault of adver. | sity by virtue of the solid wealth | upon which tt wan founded, that] formidable whole into which two great fortunes had been fused by her marriage with Bellamy. In the library she lingered a long} minute, purposelessly searching the rich glooms, her mind coddled by the} | feeling of ownership which this her hor. inspired. Twenty-six, mistress of riches, |had never needed to compute, 4 but for an ordered round of sti diversions, not yet @ mother .. . LOUIS JOSEPH VAN But love and beauty, tt seemed, were not enough. | mt / Bellamy Druce began the Gay fro | gally with grapefruit, the headlines of the Herald, and coffee. A® @ man of strong princtples, he made‘it a rule never to drink before six in the evening. Where were the signe of age, or fading charm? At thirty-five er something leas, Bellamy was beginning to notice that even a few drinks tended to| play the deuce with one’s memory. “It's this stuff they give you now adays’—meaning since the blight of prohibition had fastened upon these United States—"“you can't trust don't care who gives it to you.” His graver concern this morning was with the tone of his complexion and the look of his eyes. To his relief the one proved to be} clear and of good color, the other betrayed ravages of dissipation only | in a hint of heaviness. Already a strong constitution, hardened by an | athletic history and inured to abuse, was beginning to react to restora. tive measures taken tmmediately | after walking, deep breathing, « |ateaming hot bath, an tcy needle | shower, & rubdown, He straightened his shoulders, lift. been a member of the executive board of the council since Ite ergank Personal abuse, sentimental appeal for the “poor, underpaid, over worked teacher,” and gross mis statement of facts. Not one of these pointe i» well taken—abuse ts not argument and proves nothing but the weakness of the position of the person wring it; teachers are neith er poor, underpaid nor overworked, as an investigation will Glsclose; and diuff, threats and political activity will not pay the bille of school dis trict No. 1. What are some of the facts about the financial statue of the school district? The Seattle district has outstanding bonds; this is m han 40 per cent of the value of the en- for any deprectatic The district must pay over $325, 000 each year for the next five years, in lump sums and eerial bonds. We must pay $200,000 every year in tn on these bonds. Thirty per cent of all the taxes collected in the city of Beattie are spent for our schoo, and 80 per cent of these taxes are spent in nalartes. There haa to be paid out of the funds available, over $636,000 an nually for bond and interest ao count, before considering the echool expenses (maintenance and salaries) or new buildings. The amount expended for each pupti is $118, which ts 87 per cent higher than the average of 225 cities of 200,000 or more people, in the United States The tax levy in 1916-17 wae 65 mills, and tn 1921.22 i» 16.8, an tn- crease of more than 150 per cent tn five years. In money that means that our school costs tnoreased from $2,383,000 in 1916-17 to $6,608,740.45 in 1921-22. And 80 per cent of this amount ta salartea. Are Sonttle teachers underpaldt The average yearly salary is higher the than in any other city tn United States, The minimum aa paid to grade teachers ts $1,6 “Hie found Lucinda peated on a chaise-longue in her boudolr, run ning thru ber morning’s mall by way of preparation for the daily half-hour with her secretary which it demanded. Poned with unfailing grace in @ negligee scarcely more than a sketch in the lace and ribbon, with the light from the windows seemingly drawn to a focus by hair abundant, always rebellious, and the e4 his chin a trifle, and went to. pay | hue of ripe corn-sili, she seemed as his matutinol addresses to Liicinda,| pretty, as fair and fragile as a por. She went slowly up to her rooms. Pensively giving herself into the| hands of her maid, she siood op-| posite a long mirror, A shade of| concern tinged the regard she bent | upon that charming counterfeit, her | | interest grew meticulous as she ob-| served that slender and subtly fash foned body emerge from its allken sheaths, Where were the signs of age, of fading charm? What was it) Bel: saw in other women and falled| to see in her? What could they give} him that she had not to give? Was her real rival only man’s insatiable appetite for some new thing? Supple and young and fair, and slighted... Her heart, too, she searched, But there was nothing wanting there that the most exacting husband and lover could require. She still loved Bel, hoping she wouldn't notice anything | celain figurine, Bellamy needed only and, if she did, would be enough of | to see her thus to know a stab Of A sportswoman to let it paas without | shame and self-reproach, comment, | (Continued Tomorrow) (| GEOGRAPHIC PUZZLES] Dear Folks to teach them, the office force, study in the not be needed teots’ force, A few honest day's work wil better results, Instead of giving favored teachers extra or night work, give that work to those who are on the applicants Met, #0 that when « vacancy occurs it can be filled to greater advantage. When teachers take other employ ment thru vacation periods, stop their pay for such period. It te un fair to the unemployed, and the teachers are supposed to need that time to reat after their hard work of five days a werk. Now let the new board get busy Very truly yours, A. T. AXPAYDR. chewed the rv and so the conversation #' It seemed to us her wit bring about they like the best. mountains capped in anow. Puget Bound charm we own. A Petter from AIVRIDGE MANN A day or two ago I enw and had « talk with P. Pitt Shaw: we nt the ways we like to spend vacation aaj od to talk about the tourist trade, vat, year by year, @ lot of folks will motor thetr buses packed for onmping out, they oome to flivver roundabout, and pitch their tents and take © rest in any place ‘ And so they come from all around, to taste the Joye of Puget Bound; they want to stroll the beaches here, and breathe our salty atrnosphere, and watch the golden sunset glow behind the But when they atrike our tourists’ camp, thelr spirite get an awful cramp; it's very sadly out of reach of all our miles of salty beach; they have to leave their camping ground to even see the And #0, they way the facts appear, if we should really want them here it's up to us to go provide a camping place et water wide, for that’s the way they'll all be shown the truly greatest MONDAY, MAY 15, 1922, , LEARN A WORD EVERY DAY Today's word is OPTIMIGM, It's pronounced—op timiz'm, with accent on the first syllable, It means—the doctrine that every. thing in nature, being the work of Got, ts for the best, or, as take the most hopeful view, the best. the teacher? Is tt worth nothing & woman, that she can go into community in the country and mediately be taken into the antee of honor, integrity and te telligence? bonus, granted during the war and not yet Giscontinued? How many know that the teachers do not pay income tax? How many know that they are paid by the year and only work 10 months (or leas)? How many people know that teachers have certain special privileges, such as discounts at stores? How many people know that Seattle bas always been considered as peying such high salaries that several thousand applications for positions are on file continually tn the school board office? How many know that there were $,000 applica- tions on file at the time that the hue and ery went up that no teach- ers could be secured at the low salary paid, at the time the cam- palgn was on for the bond tasue to pay & 35 per cent increase? Are Beatile teachers overworked? They work five and six hours a Gay for five days of the week. They year, the maximum for grade teach ors, $2,100, For high school teach- ere the’ minimum ts $1,800, the bigh- eet in $2,400 for teachers. Only a very small number recetve the low- eat anlary, either in grade or high schools; the highest salaries are pald to the largest number or “the dominant group.” as it ts called For example, only nine high echool teachers receive $1,800, receive $2,400. Twelve wet $2,280, $2,100, while 107 same proportionate rate of nant group,” or the largest jetting the higher rate, is im the grade schools ae in the high schools, How many people tn Seattle know that teachers are recelying @ war have two and three weeks vacation at Christmas and Waster, and more than two months during the sum- mer, #0 that In reality they work only nine months tn the year. They have so much surplus strength and time that many of them work after school hours and earn extra money #o that they are able to spend large amounte on expensive tours, auto mobiles and other luxuries, In spite of all the editorials tn the newapapers, the pitiful pleas of teachers and their friends, the fact Tremaine that the teachers are get- ting better pay than any other line of work outside the moviestar group. And in edition to their 6004 salaries, short hours, long va cations and pleasant work, they have the social prestige which the Position hae alwaye given them, and no woman receives greater con- eideration and respect than a con- acientious teacher, who, from the tors themselves cormmercia!’ calling by majority of the want to get back to the o! of education, self-respect courtesy, end she believes be eventually accomplished Graham’s Decide to Retire From Business Two hundred thousand dollars’ worth of Women’s Coats, Suits, Dresses, Waists, Sweaters, Negligees, Cor- sets and Millinery. Fixtures for sale and store for rent. Sale to open tomorrow morning at half past nine. OR reasons which have been made public in the daily papers, it has been deemed best to sell the stocks on hand and the fixtures, and to retire from business. Today (Monday) the store is closed. This, in order to give our loyal helpers time to mark the reduced prices plainly and to arrange the stocks for the last time. Everything is for Sale. The Car- pets, the Fixtures, the Office Equip- ment, and all the Furnishings need- ed in a business of this character. * * »- N view of the fact that the busi- ness is to be wound up, it is nec- essary to make the following rules and regulations in regard to the sale: All Sales are for Cash. All Sales are Final. No merchandise can be sent “C. O. D.” without a reasonable deposit. In order to avoid dangerous over- crowding, admission will be had by the Second Avenue Entrance. The — Street Doors will be for Exit only. Please take small parcels along. The Delivery of large purchases *K + DOOR - PO + FAR -R. 8 KOREA J. S. Graham Co., Inc. SECOND AVENUE AT PINE STREET will, of necessity, have to be at our convenience, os 8 @ Two hundred extra Salespeople have been engaged for the Sale, but patrons will confer a favor if they buy quickly—and keep to the right in the aisles. Elevators will carry passengers up only. Please use the stairways in descending. It is the purpose ta sell all the mer- chandise on hand and close the af- fairs of the J. S. Graham Co., Inc, by the end of the present month. Prices have been made with this end in view. on * s NEED it be said that nothing has been added to sell “cheap” in the sinister sense of the word, and that the same high principles which have governed this business for over thirty-two years, will be maintained to the last minute of its existence? Nor can we let this occasion pass without publicly thanking all those who have contributed to the ve large measure of success the bus ness has enjoyed in the years that are passed. more commonly applied, a disposition t It comes from—Latin “optimug@ — the confidence and the regard of the profession being taken as « cop Or at least thie has always been true tn the past, before the educa. ==, 23 wseanmas es ae ae Se ae ewe ae