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Newspaper Be- torprine Assn. and United Preae Services. | 18.08. tn the at 440.60 for € montha, oF The Seattle Star Ry Mall, owt of ety, Be per month) F montha, £1.60) € montha, FRTE year, side of the state, § Ry carrier, city, be & month, © of Published Datty per month, two years. “kick-backs.” _ This Editor Sounds Wrathy Baitorial From the Guemes, Ska- oa git County, Beachcomber) Political shenanigan has hope. defeated the Cap Sante Waterway and we may expect ’ better until God in His shall see fit to furnish ‘this people a few more much needed funeral processions. _ For % years Anacortes has starved to death for want co-operative public spirit, and by a designing corporation a handful of political spittoon is who bowed to the beck "and call of a regency whose sole “aim was self-enrichment, ignoring the future welfare of the city and the best interests of the com mon people. | The dredging of Fidalgo bay “Was ured as a political “come on” by Foster and Cushman, God rest “their souls in peace; by Levi An- _ keny, “peace to his ashes”; by Piles and Humphrey and Jones ‘and Poindexter. All these big of political palaver kept the circumambient other “Finging with promises from one gemsion of congress to another, et for years and years nothing Was done until finally Congress Lin Hadley secured for us a orphan appropriation, and eve of an election @ candidate to Did the city of take advantage of the Not so, for the Great Northern railway magnate objected, a few web-eyed worms @f retrogression supported the | @bjection, the Commercial club, which was then headed by 2» Great Northern employe, Manked, city council got cold feet and child died, the remains being shipped back to congress, the il- | Wegitimate father, for final inter- fF i There was once a personal-injury Vateyer out Minnesota that waed fo have on his staff expert wit- Resses who would testify to almost ererything. A errtain lawyer was Rominated for judge whom he did Mot like, and he said: “My ora Glows, if that mon is going to be Made judge | will have to take ail my witnesses and move to Du Gath.” — Representative Steencrson (RJ, Minn. At the time of going to press Chicago was leading New York by two robberies and one shooting. In Boston a neighbor's rent was ut because the landlord's baby @ried at night. Atta baby! Another Wet Leak Plugged An American bootlegger gets in fouch with a Canadian distiller. Me buys « carload of whisky and has it shipped to an imaginary person in Mexico. The railroad Shipment is routed across the United States, as permitted up to now by law. While the whisky freight-car Is in an American railroad yard, it is broken into by the bootlegger. He hauls his stuff away. Cenadian distiller doesn't He has his money. doesn't care. Freight was paid fn advance. No complaint, of course, from the imaginary con- signee in Mexico. All around, it’s &® beautiful arrangement. But the national supreme court ow rules that liquor, moving from one foreign port {o another, ean be seized on American terri- tory, under thre prohibition laws. One by one, the whisky leaks are being sealed. Japan broke her word with us, in that she has not taken her troops Out of Siberia. Japan has not abandoned to Russia that part of the island of Sakhalin which be~ Tongs to Russia. Bhe ta now ploiting the natural resources of that vast tsland. She stands before the world dishonored. — Senator Watson (1), Ga. care. The railroad er- They say Will Hays often works 20 hours a day: but that may just De what Will tella hia wife None of the who would make perfect husbands are mar- ried. day, is to be carried nearer the East. begged for and argued for by forward-looking men of the Northwe By 175 miles, as the auto runs, Seattle, the secretary of agriculture decided Tues- The Lewis and Clark highway, fought for, is to be built in It requires no great stretch of imagination to realize the tremendous aggregate sav- : ing to tourists when each motorist, headed thru Montana for the charms of this Section, can reach them 175 miles earlier. be eaten up in savings in short order. And it is to be done with no visible loss. The new route will bring before the tour- ‘ist’s eyes the scenic beauty of the great Selway National forest, connecting up with hitherto main arteries of travel after they are passed. In addition to this the possibility for protection of several forests will be increased the presence of the road link to be built. The Lewis and Clark highway The $475,000 which the road will cost will one of those improvements with which there are Seattle has scored, government forests have reaped an advantage and great American motoring public will share individually and directly in the gain to flow from the decision of the secretary of agriculture. Edgar Allen Poe beat Gladiator at the Jamaica race track. The pen is mightier than the sword. These talking movies never will succeed, You won't be able to hear them for the audience. A false alarm to a boy is when a house next to the school burns. When a man gets shot in Chicago they call it a natural death, Why the Constabulary? Thows fatminded irecencilables who constitute the deadly minor ity in every group of big employ. ets are carrying on a nationwide campaign, especially in the West, for the creation of state police forces. For years they have been over- flowing with gush about the won derful work the Pennsylvania con- stabulary has done in keeping quiet the rural districts, in mus aling the neighborhood dog, and shooing the cecasional tramp from the farmer's stoop. But when the coal strike ar. rived the real purpose of the Pennsylvania constabulary was shown, for from the start these rough riders have been at the beck and the call of the operators to ride down peaceful gatherings of strikers, to intimidate peaceful assemblages, to harry peaceful parades, and to put the fear into ‘em generally. Ne state in the anion needs mounted itinerant troops. No rural distriet requires any guarding; crime is not found in the country, and if it is the farm er can adjust matters with the family shotgun and the bull pup. The armed, mounted constabu- lary in every state has been the tool of the ignorant, bigoted mi nority among the bosses, who con- trolled the political machinery that kept high state police of- ficials in soft snaps, and the story of insylvania, of West Virginia, of Colorado, always points but one morals the mounted armed state constable is the tool of the des perate bows, always. There will be further deter. mined attempts made in all West- ern legislatures to put over simi- lar troop organizations. The West requires no siate gunmen; let the recalcitrant bosses employ their own snipers and thugs; for be sure that the plug-ugly guard is always an esvential to the plug: ugly employers’ program. Behold the tabernacle of God ta with men, and He shall dwell with them, and they shall be His peo- ples; and God Himaclf shall be with them, and be their God.—Revela~ tions xxi. :3, “ee Earth's crammed with heaven, And every bush aflame with God; But only those who see take off their shoes, a The rest sit round it and ect black berries. ~—Plizabeth Barrett Browning, common Methuselah lived to be 969; but he never dodged autos. A friend ia a man who cusses the same people you cuss. | | | | Dear Folks country. APetter “from AIVRIDGE MANN. A New Boss for the Gunmen The nomination of Gifford Pinchot for governor of Pennayl- vania on the republican ticket is probably equivalent to election. Pinchot’s success is important, It means that the coal and tron police (the mounted state constab- ulary or Cossacks) will have a new commander-in-chief. Pinchot inclines more to forest rangers than to gunmen; to con- servation than to blackjacking. With unconscious irony the Pennsylvania — legistature, way back in the days of Quay, named its standing army the “Coal and Iron Potice.” It has been a labor. crushing and .& labor-baiting agency ever sines, Our guess now is old Pennay is about due for some thrilling changes, If Pinebot runs trae to form, Cossack rule, terrorization of the plain fotks and industrial unrest, so long » part of life in the Key- stone state, will be relegated to where the woodbine twineth and the whangdoodle mourneth for evermore, And in their place will come an era of constructive policies and public services—in short, a much- needed breath of clean, fresh air. Mr. President, I wish to call at- tention to the fact that crude pe- troleum in Pennaylvania, at the wells, in January, 1919, was 34 per berrel. and at the same 4 at the who of 24.5 conta ime paso ale price On Moy I1 crude oi 5, while the wholesale price Of gasoline was 26 conte twill thus be seen that while the price of crude ol has very greatly de- creased, the price of gasoline has om aed substantially. — Senator McKellar (D.), Tenn. Cast thy burden upon the Lord and He shall sustain thee.—Paalm cee In breathing there are two Kinds of blessings, inhaling the air and exhaling it; the former ts oppreas- ive, the latter refreshing, #0 strangely is life mingled. Thank God when he lays @ burden on ua, and thank Him when He lifts it off.—Goethe. Lots of us can ace how the styles have ¢ by comparing our the new ones nord suits with Maybe Burbank could cross moa- Guitoes with fish and make them anrious to bite June brides are quitting their Office jobs because they are other- wise engaged. It's perfectly natural “Oh, say can you sect” bootleg party. to sing after a This in the time forall good lemons to come to the adé of their | They're building houses up our way, and, working at it every | day; and so, of course, there's always found a bunch of working. | men around, and all the kids—and grown-ups, too—are always | watching what they do. } Most every night the women say, “the men did thus and #0 to- } day"; they tell a dozen things or two that they have seen she workmen do—I wonder when they've ali begun to start to get their housework done | ut then, however that may be, I'll tell a tale they told to me They say, at noon, the working bunch had quit to go and eat | their lunch, and started sitting all around, in any shady place they found And one of them, this fatal day, went off alone a little way; he opened up his dinner box and placed it on some handy rocks, and went to find himself a seat before he started in to ent While he was gone, a neighbor's pup came by and ate his dinner | up; when he returned, it wasn't there—hia box was merely full of air, And #0, the story gives the hunch—be careful where you put your lunch TONNE RET THE SEATTLE STAR LETTERS: EDITOR Paying for Common Honesty Mditor ‘The Star A cameo pin, of the intrinsic value ‘of only $10 but of @ sentimental jworth beyond mere money, was lont the other day by a neighbor of ours She advertised, offering a reward to the finer, A masouline voice poke to her over the phone, “How much ard it asked. The owner of the voloe was not sAtinfled with one dollar, nor two. 1 am wondering by what sophistry the finder of the pin has convinced Editor The Stag: In The Star of May 18 there ts a Jletter by some poor youngster in which he expresses his fear that he will be compelled to learn the Ger man an he mays, Oh language. I guenn the kid guying him at sehool, They aways do that to kids that write out their name the way he does ltehard nefield White. T would advine him © call himself Dick or Manny or Editor The Star: ‘The recent communication Phillip Tindall regarding the Can- adian parliament's action in over whelmingly adopting the resolution to ourb Oriental invasion of Can certainly is refreshing when com pared to the action of our own law makers, Something i» needed to awaken them f their lethargy An aroused public opinion at the coming congrenstonal tion will go If the West could elect of a long way @ strong representation to congress firmly intent on seeing that the menace of Oriental immigration tm at tended to, the spectre of future xrave troubles will be minimised consider. ably, Senator Porndexter has proved decisively that he t# unfit for re election. He has degenerated into a hopeless reactionary as ‘can be proven by his ord in congress, He has done absolutely nothing that I ean remember that was beneficial to the public in general. He hae done & great many things that deserves condemnation from the people. Me Will soon be here to eet the neoplo’s viewpoint. Let's remember him, This Jap queation only keepn get ting worme as the Japs begin to spread out over the city’s best res! dential districts, They have invaded jhimaectf he has a right to dicker for a reward, Doesn't he know it is not his pin and that, reward or no re ward, he is a plain thief if he does not return it to ite rightful owner? Boclety has come to a pretty pass if rewards must be offered to re cover what ix one’s own, Hoclety jitself ham itwelf to t in part at least, for this lowering of the moral |etandard, He who offers a reward |for honesty creates thieves x. ¥. % Kids Will Be Kids | Whitey, and he'll get along better |with the kids in the grade school, and after he gets into high school jhe will find it all bull, and that it is not compulsory to take up any for cign Janguage. Richard writes quite la long letter and has lots of ble words in it, I'll bet the poor little fellow spent many a long hour hunt ing them up in the dictionary, Kida will be kids. \ WILLIAM KLAUNIG. Jap Question and the Election | the North Broadway and Capito! HiIl | districta, much to those districts’ detriment, Property values have de. preciated and their presence in de. tented by all, The problers is getting worne all the time que to the inaction of Our representatives In congress. ‘The people must act by electing men pledged to remove the evil by proper legisiation, It ean be done if the people resolve to retire those whose records prove they have done , nothing. niexter ix one. We cer tainly ¢ da's action jit we « ° clans } men, pledged to preserve our | try for our own people. There ts | nothing unreasonable in that We in the United States, are far worne fotf than Canada, as Mr. Tindall | proved by his figures, yet we aren't | strong enough to have a following in congress who can vote for the pro- tection of the Went and for the whole country, for that matter We, who desire to see the Went kept white, cannot be ancuned of be: ing Jingoom, On the contrary, the tu ture will have the pioneers who fought for them in this day, to tha for the struggles gone thru to pre tect them, The real patriots are those who are fighting to protect this coun. try for the real Americans, } Jape. PROTECTOR. k An Expert Writes on B. T. U.’s Editor The Star: There bas to my attention a ping from The Star of Apri 27. }1922, headed, “More Gas Used if B T. Us Low--@an Francisco Expert ence Like Seattle's which cer tain apparent quotations are made from an interview with the writer Iam «ure that The Star desires to Ibe of the greatest service to the city of Seattle and the people thereof, and that In taking up the question of the quality of the gas supplied you are doing it with a belief that an Increake In heat content would be of benefit to the public ‘The clipping which I have received seta forth, as regards experience here, much that in correct. The Ietatement am it stands, however, is lapt to be misleading and might lead your paper into urging that a return to a higher heat content of gas be made when this change might result in detriment rather than benefit to consumers im Seattle. There jshould be added to what has been set forth in your article of April 27 some further statements From testa here no inconventence has been found to result to consum ere from the service of a uniform qua y of «nn of as low as 500 B T. U. per cuble foot. In fact, in some jinatances we have found that it was |much easier to maintain a more unt j fe t content T. per that er Kervicn re that wan waved umers thru the fixing of a lower standard, It may be pornible, tions of the the m quality at a lower he jot gas than 570 to 600 B. be |ouble | wulted to the cor foot and vey under condi manufacture of gas jfrom coal rather than oil, that ser | vice required by the consumer can be rendered at a lees cost with aj lower beat unit gas than 570 or 600,| and money actually saved to the) one or by such service, Ther are instances where it is difficult | and almost impracticable, to supply | & uniform quality of high heat gas (and therefore good wervice) and for that reason it would be uneconom. foal and inadvisable to attempt to return to the higher heat units or to continue a higher quality stand ard if such service is being rendered. The problem of rate and service regulation ts not to maintain the | highest heat content of gan ponsible, | but to détermine what quality of gas jean be supplied such that the con- sumer will reosive service of the | best quality at the minimum cost | it would appear that what should be determined in Seattle is | First, excluding for the moment the question of rates or bills, does the present quality of gas result in | Rood service? Second, with the present quality of gas, fe the cost of production and | distribution of the gux and render ing of service lene than If either a higher or lower quality of gas was supplied? Third, if the supply of a 600 B T. U. gan le Uy apest per heat unit delivered, and best from the standpoint of service, are the pres ent rates such as to give the con sumer service at a rate equal to or than the value of the service and, under the existing rates, does the gas company receive more than a fair return upon the reasonable the Dividends on a Concrete Street To the taxpayer—because there are practi- cally no repairs. Maintenance is built into Concrete pavement. To the motorist and the truck owner — from the better service, slower car deprecia- tion, higher gas mileage. To the property owner—from the in- creased value of his property. To the merchant, from the trade a good street draws and keeps. To the whcile community—from the safer, quicker, uninterrupted traffic of every sort assured by this skid-proof, permanent pavement. A Concrete Street means continuous dividends—not perpetual expense. Our Booklet R-4 tells other Interesting things about Concrete Streets, Write for your copy. PORTLAND CEMENT ASSOCIATION Seaboard Building SEATTLE, WASH. cA National Organization to Improve and Extend the Uses of Concrete Other Cities | Offices in 23 . way GENERAL - EARL * OA = GENOA } value of its properties? If, under present conditions, the company is not receiving more than a fair return and the her heat unit gas would require greater cont per heat unit delivered to the con sumer than the present quality of gas, it would not appear that any thing would be @ an increase in the that, in our experience, would re quire at least a proportionate in: crease in rates per cuble foot of gas delivered if the utility is entitied to the same fair return, and the con sumer would be no better off than ned by obtaining quality of gus, a Light Wine and Beer Editor The Star: 1 feel that such letters as Mra Alice M. B, Meyer writes ought not to go unanswered by people who know that our laws prohibiting th manufacture of aleoholic beverages are for the betterment of the buman| seventy-tour per cent of those that race 1 do not know the Bible as she says she does, but I know many passages in it which warn against the use of wine and against drunkennens. GEOGRAPHIC PUZZLES j She may know the letter, but does) not know the spirit of the Bible. I am afraid that brilliant father never) bave you found it advinable to pre impressed this on her consctousnens:| *ribe these liquors (thin included ise, my duty as a good citizen die “Lat no man put a stumbling block | Whisky, or an occasion to fall in his brother's She scoffs at our civilization, would she be living today If others had not tried all these years to better | best known authority on foods and She drugs, says: “The most recent studies surely ix not helping by advocating | of snake-bite poisoning show that the conditions in which they lived? the return of wine and beer. Mrs, Meyer says @he does not be Neve in naloona. thinks the places in which # beer and wine sold will be like has no facts upho! ments as have been saved during the flu ept- demic could they have had whisky” blood.” After summarizing the results of make money, then they ought to be t the @ questionnaire rent to 63,000 physt-| fair-minded enough to study this sub-| clans, the Journal of the American Medical Anso lowing conclusion “The majority of physicians would welcome a change in prohibition Mr. Petersen Comes Back Editor The Star: In The Star of May 18, I note that B. Swann is quoting a number of verses from the Old Testament, which he evidently believes is in favor of the Volstead act. He then proceeds to invite me and ail other alleged mixguided sinners, who may not admire the way certain laws are enforced, or not enforced, to get out of the United Staten. ‘That kind of language was typical religious liberties Ike they outlawed of the kaiser before our boys paid him a visit; it sounds like the Swan ong of the late lamented 110 per|consumption of alcoholic beverages |stan centers, but It is 200 years behind the|in 1917 was 20.20 as against 3.01 incomes out. Made in two forms-—a time in this country and cannot be! 1920, please bear in mind that beer, considered except as a joke of rather which probably constituted 90 per bad taste. Ketter try the Bible again, Mr.|in 1920, as far as the statixtios are | or the liquid—the action is the same, It contains the everlasting | concerned: truth, and the fundamental laws of | shine all nations, but not one verse or one|and the enormous quantities of un- Swann. sentence contains an advice or de- mand to enforce prohibition of man’s beverage; but to the contrary, in How | Whisky at any time. I wonder what she! thusiastic snakes would claim. It is e wants |the opinion of physicians who have She | studied this subject that the adminis ing such state-| tration of alcohol is the chief cause “thousands of lives would) of fatality in snake-bite.* 4 “good port wine enriches the| country are not trying to have our ation came to the fol-| | } detrimental to the public service in|! “sree, Was a bad system), crimem | Beattie. Yours very truly of larger calibre are on the increas LESTER READY, |in all parts. In Ohio the peniten Chairman Joint Committee on Etfi.| Uary i» Installing cots to take care TEDNESDAY, MAY 24, 1922. LEARN A WORD EVERY DAY Today's word is INSIDIOUS. It's pronounced in-wid4-us, with wae It means—characterized by treach ery and deceit, full of plots, intended It comes from—Latin “insidiowus,* un ambush It's uned like this—The federal supreme court, while expressing “laympathy with those who oppose f child labor, says its suppression thru unconstitutional legislation would be an insidious practice he in at the present time I am we to you because 1 feel that the report from Franciseo of April 26 - ~ emily touches one part of the ques tion, and that you might be led into | misinforming your readers in urging something which might in iteelf be | ng thie communication Swann that lew arrests are made thruout the country for drunkenneng during the saloon system (which of |of the erowds, according to « news cleney and Eeonomy of Gas, th Raitroad Comm of the | item of last week State of California, 961 Flood| Kceonomic conditions, however, are Bidg., Ban Francisco, Cal. probably more to blame for the erime n the Voistead act, but the’ 1 principle of prohibition, vay our liberties, invades regulations which would take from| ur homes without warrant, createg them the burden of the distribution | intolerance, stool pigeons and graft of alcoholic liquors.” ers, permits unlimited quantities of liquor in the rich man’s cellar and clubhouse, while the poor man goss] to jail if his breath smells from home | brew or hard cider, is in my opinion, | unjust, unreasonable and un-Amerie can, and it should be changed in @ To the question, “Do you regard | jawful manner as soon as ponsible, wine as a necessary therneutic| 4, there are a number of misrepres yo geo pot eget varmypentidin soe ng | sentatives whose terms of office will 7 lexpire within a short time, whose To the question, “How many times! goie mission in life has seemed to be | to make life miserabie for everybody wave th un-Amertc that takes a ae.) Sb One question was: “Do you regard beer as & necesnary therapeutic agent in the treatment of medicine?” gr ern #428 answered voted also) & month?” 656) tates that I stay right here and as | stated that they had not sist in their removal from office, and Neceanary prescribe | can, therefore, not even consider your invitation to leave my country J in its time of need. ROBT. T. PETERSON, 1228 Shelton St. ees ees per cent found it to Dr. Harvey Wiley, probably the remedy has claimed more yictims of iu: has snakebite than ever the most en Cnty oe conene af 5e re been produced in the last 26 years, | Toledo, ©. boasts of the largest — | goldfish hatchery in the world. If the people who want beer and wine manufactured and sold in thie laws changed to allow this in order to Oecw ESVrtrs Fs er @ ject from @ scientific view point. Your for a better, healthier, more Christ-like human race, MRS. E. DAVTS, Sec. Wash. Bivd. W. C. T. U several instances, tt advises the drinking of wine. If, however, must insist on mixing prohibition with religion, why not try the Mo hammedan or Budahist faith? You may do that (except bigamy) and re-| main in our country with perfect | freedom, providirtg you do not insist on enforcing it on the rest of us against our desire, or until another bunch of fanatical reformers outlaw our personal liberty. The simplest Nom | When you state that the per capita | Blue-jay. At . Then the corn loosens and” itolorless, clear liquid (one drop does it!) and in extra thin plasters. Use’ cent of the total, was entirely absent |whichever form you prefer, plasters Safe, gentle. Made in a world-famed \laboratory. Sold by all druggists. Free: Write Bauer & Black, Chicago, Dept. 25 for valuable book, “ Correct Care of the Fest.” also, liquor, that {lileit moon. degenerated alcohol lawfully imported alcoholic liquors re not included in your 1920 figures. While I readily agree with Mr. “Will You Excuse It, Please-— There Is No One onthe LineNow” . Mistakes are bound to happen. We all make them. When your telephone bell rings and the operator says, “Will you excuse it please, there is no one on the line now,” she. is not responsible for your annoyance and inconvenience. The occasion for the use of the phrase most frequently arises when the called party is slow to answer—the callin and hangs up his sclaglinie. Many times daily telephone users call wron numbers—use incorrect prefixes, such as “Main for “Market"”—t fi . such as 5342 for 5432. Selduly % ene Gee on they hang up their telephone. Without fault or negligence on her part the telephone operator is left to explain, and the sentence first quoted is that adopted as most briefly and concisely covering the situation, %, The Pa And Telegraph Company “we wad subscriber does not wait ” realizing their mistakes, cific Telephone

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