The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 23, 1922, Page 6

Seattle Sta of, Sty, 00s per mon montha, $1.60; € months, $2.76) year, he state of Waehin Outatds ef the te per month, \ By carrier, city, be & month. Fall or Wallace? There's a row on in President Harding’s cabinet. It concerns YOU. Secretary of the Interior Fall represents the idea of private exploitation of the na- ‘tonal resources—YOUR property—by the big interested in Almighty The interests — concerns little save the Dollar. Secretary of Agriculture Wallace represents the idea of conservation of na- tional resources—of safe- guarding your’ interests against the big money- making concerns and oth- ers who would plunder those interests for private profit. Secretary Fall has just leased to a Wall Street concern some of your most valuable coal and oil lands. Now he wants to get con- trol of the 120,000,000 eacres of timber lands be- longing to you, but now HELP Your= sevr!! Editor The Star There has been considerable pub- Helty and comment ree con.| cerning the operation } under gone by Harold , McCormick, mil-| Hionatre, in an attempt to prolong life by gland transplantation, This in my opinion is the most dastardly | end to which modern seolence and ne put } 4 of business houses, stocks and bonds and real estate changing hands, We know, how in this country people were enslaved due to color distinctions, but when sold in bondage they were nut de-| prived of that substance the All Mighty gave them, and which they eded to in a strong healthy physique. The emancipa-| tion of the slaves supposedly done away with the selling of human! life, but what is happening today?! Poverty stricken individuals are } tracting to sell the moat invigorating | organs of their bodies for insig nificant sums of money, Is indi-| vidual life so cheap to be pur chased by mediums of exchange? Are we to stand idie and see un- Uncle Sam, Editor The Star: { 1 the Star recently there was tement from one of our paid paranites to the effect that the Lith amendment did not prohibit the ell ing of liquor on American ships out side of the three mile limit because it reads “on American territory.” | If the law would have to state every place where it is unlawful to nell liquor it would req books in whieh to write it tention of the law is very ph fact, #0 plain that most any gram managed by the depart- ment of agriculture. Secretary Wallace does not want Fall to have them. On whose side is Presi- dent Harding? It will be for him to say. The side having his support will win. ‘ prevent floods—which annually take scores of lives in this country and de- millions on millions of dollars’ worth of property. is rapidly becoming indispensable to drive our ships and our trains—on which, mar school pupil can understand it When people are on Aemrican | ships inside or outside the three-mile limit they are protected by America Why He Favors Editor The Star: It is with much gratification 1! note a tax of three cents per gallon on gasoline is contempisted, This plan that should be com it ln what a slangy friend of mine calls a “Buck” tax, meaning} ® tax that oan be passed along and} finally paid by the ultimate consum- er. The grocer, butcher, baker and small merchant do business on a very amall margin of profit, and any tax which Increases their delivery costa must of course be aded to their charges and paid by the purchasers LETTERS 2 EN TOR | Condemns Purchase of Glands | wer lous and cowardly men, who) wasted their youth In & most shame ful manner, purchase there organs at the expense of their Jowmen, and to a much greater ex pense to society? vital | fel-| Most of them own fliv their Sundays and holidays driving | around the country instead of stay: | ing at hor + and conserving thelr en orgies fc the next weeks work, as they shoud do if they had my in teresta at heart, Three cents a gal lon will eliminate much of thie Bun day joy riding by the working and | sglaried people, and gave wear and tear on our expensive highways By all means, boost for thin tax tditor The Star To employ modern to| "When you etart to make 1922 or acheve this end is a me tO! any other a “100 per cent year for democracy itself, Are the noble| seriie” you can't expect to do it principles of humanity which bave) expense of outside counties been secured at such a great sacri fice, to be reversed and lessened by persons, who would shorten a make miserable the lives of their) Let produce and exchange for the comforts of life should public morale become #o low as to tolerate for one moment the! recurrence of that aegrading and most un-human incident which hap: pened in one of our Southern cities. | us continue to modities but never! What America and the whole world needs is better and greater individual productivity, lcoupled with higher morale and a/ sense of righteounnens. | Respectfully yours, | Bootlegger and most certainly come under the laws of cu I am not taking a stand for or against Mquor, but will may that if} the 18th amendment does not mean everything that belongs to the Unit- ed States then it doesn't mean any thing, and anyone holding office) who { supposed to work for the best interests of the people says that it means nothing, should be kicked | out Things have come to a pretty pans if we must make blind pigs out of} our ships in order to get trade. Yours for law enforcement JOHN STILL, 4225 W. 62nd, ° a Gasoline Tax the tracts of idle land we are hold. ing for speculation. We have in-| vested heavily in land, which at} present is not worth much, but in the| course of a few years the “middie | classes” ae we like to onll them, | will by their industry build up the country and permit us to well these lands at a handsome profit with no particular effort on our part. It seems a shame that we should have| to pay taxes on thin property. A heavy gasoline tax will also per- mit the political suction pump to op- 1 erimination directly outw [the administrative nities; you can’t expect ever a polley of dis selfishness in favor of Seattle in administration or com mercial affairs without rousing bitter resentment, antagonism and retalia uen on the outside. Thia was evidenced at the recent at no-called convention Chehalin Ralph J, Benjamin says in b ticle of the 12th, lant; “The counties” hold a deep and bitter fea ing Against Seattle, It inp't all due by any means to the Palmer reap portionment initiative, which would cut the “cow county” legislative strength. Much of it in due to the anti Seattle bitterness that has been ed in the Industrial fights it 25 years: Ws Beatle politically #o republican Never were traer words written industrially and politically unpopu d wpend| And ap ie Seattle and Her Neighbors lar, What an arraignment of a city! You don't have to go to the “cow counties to find it out, either, In King county iteelf, in munities the elty, resent ment is wo stro that retaliation Measures are persistently ursued by merchants and people boycotting Be- attle firms, tranencting as little bus inems with the city as possible. And can this be wondered at when and commercial policy of Beattle for years hag been to give an little and take as much from outside communities 48 possi- bie. The recent crooked ferry, deal whereby @ half dozen or more com- munities were injured, is a rich ex- ample of this policy. A canvass of any of these plares will discover lit- tle love for Seattle. Strange, is it not, that the “Se tle wpirit” i@ not broad enough to concern itself with the welfare of thone communities at least, in its |immediate neighborhood, with which it expects to do business! Seattle must eventually discover that she ie not the state of Wash- The death rate from motor vehi- ele accidents ts higher in Low An- geles than in any other western our very life depends, ir their own enrichment? setback for the people at large. near a school house. was married. we to conserve these things as a sort of national insurance? Or are we to turn over to a few selfish interests who would forthwith convert them into dollars are questions which President Harding and his official family must soon t is reported the president is inclined to side with Mr. Fall. If so, it is difficult to ge how Mr. Wallace can long remain in his present position. for Mr. Fall will be a long step backward, a source of national peril, and a An optimist is a man who plants an orchard At the time of going to press another movie star A success is a self-starter. A failure is a self- and women ars : stopper. sgl deisiag &encual and certainly there is no ewpecial the Congressional Ree- necessity for their particular edu- thera cr ar lowke cation. There is great necessity for a general education of voter and official in the fundamentals of government, and if thiy New England experiment works well we may hope, in time, te get around to the average American official and give him six months kindergarten course in civies be- fore he can qualify for office. ‘There are a lot of officials who could not get their first papers on thelr knowledge of the jirst “uties of American citizenship. rest. She may not ar ee Hees. 0 It was the consenaus of opinion of all those in attendance at that meeting that next to the revolver the automobile ia the most useful tool of the criminal in perpetuation of all kinds of crime, from a hold- up on a country road to a murder tn @ large city.—Hiram C. Todd. United States attorney, before house commitee ‘gny general public training in the #ft of government, and the truth have no national con- government; we merely have class conception, party con- ception; prejudice, catch phrases and personal inclination. Probably tlre least ignorant lass In the nation is the new female contingent; probably the Page Mr. Newberry Our confidence in the American electoral system has received a tonic in the campaign cost state- ment filed by Col. Smith W. Brookhart, whe won the senatorial nomination out in Towa. Brookhart expended but $453.98 women take their franchise duties more seriously than do the men, in winning the nomination. “I received meals and lodgings from farmers and laboring people many different times,” he said, “and was driven thru a county on automobile trips several different times without expense.” The Lincoln kind of hale, hearty, wellmet campaigner, and ao far, far cry from Newhberryism. Is that also a country im which @ prairie dog kneels on the back of his heels and fervently prays for rain?—Representative Hayden, Ariz, in house committee. Abolish the Constitution Admittedly the U. 8. constitu. tion is inflexible, difficult to amend, Admittedly also there are vari- ous amendments which ought to be made, many others that large groups of citizens would like to bave made. ‘Then why not one single amend. ment simply abolishing the con- stitution? Then bring about the changes owe by one an statute law. This is a proposal that some thinkers in polities are pro- posing. 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Says one, “Go rip them up the back for cutting down the teach. ers’ jack; the teachers earn their pay. for teaching children always was the biggest job to say, “How do you teachers get that You haven't any right to fuss of us; when other folks are going broke your little cut is just So what the deuce am I to do, to try to satisfy the two? 1y who always tries to do hin best to harmonize. which, I'll confess to you, is often pretty hard to do. However, here's a thing I know, regarding everybody's dough: In drawing pay the things that counts is not the fixed, exact &mounts—but everybody wants to feel we all rece fo, in these reconstruction days, we'll find one plan alone that pays—to make remuneration falr to everybody everywhere, each of us must give or take, to sive the rest an equal break Girritge Yomm and there you bet! We need the best you're better off than most For a job ive an honest and erate on the tourists, who now come | of the necesities of life, Buck taxes| from other states, use our roads, en. | city. are eantly collected and are not no-| joy our scenery and have a general | teed to any great extent by the ul-| good time without paying anything timate victim, and it ts really aston-| towards the upkeep of the state, Of ishing how large a sum of money can | course many will #! be coaxed into the political coffers by | count of this goug: petty larcenies of this sort want any one in the ‘This tax will be a great benefit to | jects to being shaken down for some! me and my associates, It will make | sort of a tax taxes on our real estate lower and| Also, 1 feel sure this tax will in permit us to secure greater profits on creane the efficiency of my workers. 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It would be E “ ja simple matter to create another State Department with a flock of! 7 word is AMBIGUOUS, It's inspectors to go from houre to houve | pron 4—arn-big-a-us, with accent and give the banks the once over and! on the second syllable make the collection in—doubtful, uncertain, Very renpectfull apable of being understood in more | A. CASH, than one way It comes from—Latin “ambigere,” |to wander about It's uned like this—“Recent rulings ington, that she is not altogether|by the interstate commerce commia. King count rion have been eriticized somewhat, GKO. T, THOMPBON Jon the ground that they are ambigu. Portage, Wash. oun.” GIVE US YOUR “FILL IN” ORDER Are you down to your last ton of coal? Want a little more coal to carry you the summer? ae 22 SRESSY S2aSesse Kill two birds with one stone. Fill in with Newcastle. You probably have heard much about this coal. Give us a small fill-in order—learn for yourself just how it will do in your own Try Newcastle this way—with a small order, if you prefer. When fill-up time comes, when you have found, as thou- sands of others have found, that New- castle is the economical, satisfactory coal for stove and range, order your winter’s supply. Phone for a small order of Newcastle now. Try it. Note how quickly your oven picks up to baking heat. Note how easily the heat is controlled by regula- tion of the drafts. Note, after a few months’ use, how free from soot are your curtains and walls—note the ab- sence of that sooty, greasy lining inside your stove and pipe. Try it. NEWCASTLE $8.30 $9.30 NUT LUMP 494 EeUrsos® em Ke PSO YEes KEE: “=p stbace | For Stove and Range Price per ton for two or more tons delivered In the “A” zone A 2849 BeBe wesesus voxwue 1@°ReRsesesese Or phone any of the following dealers — they carry Pacific Coast Coals: GRurrw LAxkB cOaL Co. FUEL Co., 716 Northlake, 8800 4th N. Melrose 0141. Kenwood 3090. BAYLES BROTHERS 3907 12th N. E.,, ‘WOOD YARD, Melrose 0277, 2613 Dearborn, Beacon 0102. zm BLAIR FUEL 801 Ber UEL CO., 5223 California Ave. ‘West 0067, SUNNYSIDE COAL & ‘WOOD Co., 208 Northinke Ai Meltose Ao ow. ‘ Rainier 0007, PAGIFIO Coase Rainier and Alaska, or ¥ y opecany OAL 00.) 503 Ralirond Ave, B0., Vigton wume co. Melrose 0141, Main 5 eee inee’’ tt Sea town Yard, ‘Raitroad and Thomas Glendale 0465. Garfield 0093. RAINIER BEACH | WAINWRIGHT & yee Rae MMyect of Broad ainier, Rainier 0613, Sen iste edge of the Yakima Valley: In Everett call the Keithly Wood & Coal Co., Phone a7 Tn Wenatchee call the Pacitic Coast Coal Co., Phone 123, Night $84 Black Tn Tacoma cail the Pacific Coast Coal Co., Phone Main 4448 In Portland call the Pacific Coast Coal Co., Phone Broadway 237 or Broadway 4045