The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 24, 1922, Page 6

retrograding in its daily routine physical life. than the great cities had a generation ago. have housed our school children in palaces. “garden.” The Seattle Star meenth: # months, $1.50; ¢ months, ‘Asie ef Washington, ‘Ownetde of the state, B80 per 44.48 for @ montha, or $9.00 per year, By carrter, city, te a mont! Clean Sinners, Anyhow ‘The country may be going to the dogs as far as its morals are concerned, but it is Pebltened Detty ty The Mar by voy Phene Main warn osee. year. manta. ‘There are cities on the Pacific coast that have no slums, that have no open toilets, at have no infectious areas, The average small town of this country today has bet- r sanitation, better home conditions, better civic ideals of art and music and amuse- drink pure water, and we use a lot more of it in our porcelain bath tubs. have abolished the indecent shack slaughter house. have kicked out the corner saloon, and cleaned up the suburban dance hall and wear fewer clothes but we change "em more frequently. schools give the young a clean, honest statement of the sex problem, where once dirty mouth in the corner of the playground whispered weird vileness. . r husbands beat their wives, and fewer wives nag. cine is generally abhorred. i her on onions. Dead-Beats ecome Fewer 3 F i af Ft : Hi Fe H Ee 7? li Hi tif it Dead-deats are steadily becoming . So say retail credit men, at their national convention in fs i 1 fF i live more out of doors every summer, and the kids grow brown and rugged. milk we feed our babies is clean, rich milk and the poison of the patent medi- No, sir, we may be going to hell, but we are going to hell with our faces washed and Americans in Germany say they are charged too much, Germans want them to feel at home. The only objection to living in the country is you have to go to town for your vacation. One way to keep a daughter at home is to feed A Mother of 21 Babies Seattle mothers will marvel at thie: : Mrs, Charles 8S. Willard, 36 years old, has given birth to 21 babies, She lives in West Haven, Coun. Mrs. Willard was married when M, had her first baby at 16. The babies all came singly, except for one set of twins. Only five of her 21 children are large-sized “mob” his lifetime that 99 per off by sickness,” most of them at becoming tired of support- cent of the people are inherently ages from four to nine months, ‘more or less representative honest. The remaining 1 per cent tho all were born big and healthy. for making of laws are being made honest by compul- The bealih of living babies is pelit- sien. ® greater problem than race sul- five T. All laws and regulations are cide. Cutting Infant death rate in made for » small minority. The two would be equivalent to in- to majority need few, if any, re creasing the birth rate on a big straints. orale, “Maelf be first investigated before tt farts an investigation cisewhere. outfit isa plumd putrid bunch poco CHAPTER XI. Garrick spread the net of Wireless V'LL TELL THE WORLD! (Continued from Yesterday) far and y AxrTHuR EVE . @ poured out what talking fast t TH EATTLE STAR LETTERS ce EDITOR Editor The Star; You have undoubtedly read reports Near Bast which are too appalling to even be mentioned in a synopais in thi letter The nature of the Turks, which has not been changed for so many centuries in the slightest degree, con Unues to exhibit itself as fanatical as it was in the time of Mohammed and his successors. It is practically & blemish to civilization to notice that in this enlightened era entire villages are burned, women violated, Jidren stamped out of existen and every other outrage committed by those uncivilized people, ‘The great burden is naturally, by reason of the geographical situation, falling on the Greeks, with the Ar. Menians and Syrians coming second The recent occurrences which brought forward the emphatic pro. teats bf an American officer, who actually maw these atrocities and re. Ported them in full fairness and with out exaggeration, ix a strong answer to anyone who might entertatin the Editor The 6t I observe that my good friends, Mra. Anne B. Stewart and H. B. W., have been writing letters to The Star about a subject that is far beyond them — the morale of the teaching foree of the Seattle schools, Incl dentally, they might be able to write much better if they were in sympa- thy with thetr subject; that is, if they believed in fostering morale in the teaching corps of the local schoo! Mra. Stewart obwerves that any morale that “can be affected by $160 ie cheap indeed.” Yes, it is cheap. It is just as cheap as Mrs. Stewart and her evangelical heroes on the board of education make it. The en thusiaam in any inatitution can rise no higher than its source. If dishon- enty and faithiessness to solemn pledges are traits of the heads of an inetitution, one must expect to find thone same qualities among the rank and file, Time never was when honest men could honestly do the behest of dishonest employers. Again, I repeat, as I warned these food patriots & week ago, that the freat economizers on the board of education who are struggling #0 nobly and uneeifishly to “save the children” of Seattle are doing the right thing not to “save the chil dren 1 de not doubt their sincerity. They honestly think that they are “mving the children.” But they are not. These men are not “saving the children” because they do not know how to save them. ‘They are physically, intellectually and temperamentally unfit to act as the “saviors of the children” because they are more intensely interested In saving dollars than they ere in sav ing children. Men whose business tt in to save dollars, and who have spent « lifetime in saving dollars, are totally inefficient and incompetent when it comes to saving children, for they are accustomed to think In terms of dollars, not in terme of children. They naturally think of the Goliars first, and where « question of douwbt_arises in & matter in which both echfidren and dollars are in volved, the dollars are invariably given the benefit of the doubt. Chil- Editor The Star: | I have watehed with interest the |controversy in The Star under the | heading “Jesus and the Wine,” and |it has amused me to note how vainly lour prohibitionist friends are trying of the actions of the Turks in the| Meeting to Protest Atrocities idea that this people could ever be expected to aanimilate civilization The Greeks of Beattie, in coopera | tion with some principal factors of this olty, interested in the matsers of the Near Bast, have felt it their duty to initiate a movement for the | Purpose of presenting to the world | this new phase of the problem which jis very far from doing honor to our Christian brothers, We have, there |fore, decided to call a meeting to be held in the Greek Orthodox church, corner Yale and Thomas streets, on Bunday, the 26th day of June, 1922, at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, in or der to voice & protest in the name of jelvilization on these barbarous deeds jcommitted on our Christian brothers, thie great republic in behalf of so | many people suffering today in those |regiona, The Right Reverend F, W. Keator, Bishop of Otym ot the Episcopal church, will pres! Yours very cordially, P. W. BCARLATOS, President of Greek Community, Beattie, Wash. Buying Morale at Bargain Rates dren mean nothing to these gentle. men unlem they are associated with Goliars in some manner or other That is why ao many of them can visualize only one form of education for our youth— preparation for a clerkship in a counting house, That We select for our school boards men who think in terme of dollars rather than men who think in t of children and what they may thean an citizens in the sole cause of the Present lamentable state of educa- tion in Seattle. Mra, Stewart is entirely right when she intimates that ail morale is not high priced as the brand pur- chased in recent years by the Seattle board of education, There are many cheaper grades, and if the inferior grades of morale are the great de- sideratum, this should have been made known long ago. It is obvious that the low-salary advocates are out for a morale to match the saiary, and that position ts logical. If they will secure a special dispensation trom the federal bureau of immigra- tion for the suspension of our immi- gration laws until # sufficient num- ber of Mexican peons or Hindu coolite can be imported to take the Places of our present teaching force in Seattle I believe that the right sort of morale can be established in the local schools, That is the type of morale that the dollar brand of education calls for, and no proponent of low malarien would object to it Of course, if there are any high | brows’ who are prone to sneer at this new culture of the great common people, they can migrate to Den- mark, where, it {* sald, they have some educationa) standards. Only let me add in conclusion. The idea that such @ thing an an American wage ought to prevali in the echoolroom is obsolete; so are American standards of living. These luxuries are taboo along with morale, for the board voted them down. What « really great day it will be for Seattle when some wise bird thinks intelligently in educational matters! Yours, WILBUR WINTHROP, Rainier Beach, jever, he showed us clearly by his ex ample, that wine; i. ¢. spirituous liq uor, had its proper place as « food drink for the human race and a). | though he realised better than any | human being, just how drink could she knew, “The jig was up for the|:o bolster up prohibition by a mis-| be abused, he taught the only true ang. All they wanted wa: [and the money. to make a clean get-away, take all the Jewelry They waited until representation of the Scriptures. To deny that Jesus miraculously | changed water into (fermented) wine and proper manner in which to over come that abuse, but he never at tempted to force Christianity down and to arouse the official interest of | ,. wide to intercept the “Bacchante Within a few minutes he had the Radio Central, the New York police wireless station, ali the big private | the last minute to get fifty thousand | |for the Inner Circle and the other| stuff. But it failed. Then the only A New Radio a Sou Herman Kechie, of Lake broadcasting stations, even Defes's| i" P19 yo stoontord ay ale ei ” aw — —the ©., deat for 30 years, pats apparatus in the boathouse sending | Goin; heiress, as they ‘speak et] receivers over her ears. She out periodical signals of alarm. He |) .- & fine broadcasted concert bad turned the radio world vertlably | ys Low the “Bacchante’ had] upside down in the search. Forenoon lengthened into after noon. Dick worked feverishly tuning up his Defoe telautomatic hydroaero. plane. “This ts one of the newest of sclences—telautomatics,” he remark ed as Garrick watched. mearly faints. Takes the re off. Deafness returns. Is curative power locked up in ‘Mertzian waves? Repeatedly you hear of jbeen taking the stuff off rum-run ners. It was sheer bluff: posing as revenue enforcers, It was stored on the ‘Sea Vamp.’ Every time anyone drove into the city, they would take |& couple of cases or more to the/| jInner Circle or the Garage. From the Inner Circle and the Garage tt} “Telautomatics Was distributed. They were wealthy | “Yea. You probably know it by | bootleggers to the wealthy. Bootleg | another name. There is something | aristocracy weird, fascinating about the very ite of 1, . ? hed. “Up to» point, then, pone le psa os. Pron — |perhaps Ruth didn’t need saving | 1 :| from hersel h hereafter and wireless, depressing levers. Then miles away | preg rnelt 48 much ag I thought. | She was on the trail of 5 @ vehicié, an auto, a ship, an aero-| Se ° wi _—" rele oa rs | dig—this conspiracy » And she! Eewheré ere grown people in Ire- PAH*. & submarine obeys me! | almost landed her fish Only NERAdG never sesh poact: It may carry enough of the latest) 1, get into trouble from which it's and mest modern explosives that | taxing all the skill of Guy and Dick after-war acience can invent, enough to save her at the wedding feast of Cana, or that/the throats of those who disagreed he used fermented wine upon that| with him. most solemn occasion, The Last Sup-| Furthermore if Jesus did not deem per,—or for that matter to deny that| that forcible prohibition was then fermented wine was # common drink | necessary, it is very certain that it among Jew and Gentile in those) was not necessary in otr day, be days,-~ia to show a lamentable Inck | cause both scriptures and history of knowledge, not only of Holy Writ,/ clearly show that conditions in the but also of world histery in general. | then civilized world in general, would Professional prohibitioniste would | make our (recent) saloons look like tell us that the ancients drank un-|a Sunday school in comparison. fermented grape juice. It would be| However, the great lessons of Chris. very interesting to know what would| tian charity, true temperance and have happened to the luckleas wit tolerance of our neighbors’ beliefs who would have had the temerity! which Jesus left for us, are entirety of offering unfermented grape juice | lost sight of or disregarded by the to anyone, high priest or publican, | professional reformer (7) who sete his patrician, or centurion, in those days.;own puny judgment above that of As a matter of fact, the process of | divine providence, rescived to rule preserving grapé juice in an unfer.|or ruin, regardless of inherent just mented state for any length of time | ice, is a strictly modern discovery and it} An argument that has been ad. ie doubtful if even our great-grand. | vanced in this controversy was that parents in their old age, knew of! the only way we would get rid of such a thing as unfermented grape| the saloon was by absolute prohibi Juice in a commercial form. | tion. I wish to call particular atten even while par| on to what British Columbia hag taking of wine during his temporai|®°W been doing for tweive months Jesus however prohibition, but nothing else, and a)! ruled by a pitiful little handful of virile, educated Caucasians, who take their Scotch and soda regular Wherein has prohibition made thene| people any better morally or physi cally or in any way improved their lot? It in not to be wondered at that prohibitioniata eedulously avoid the subject of theae two examples of prohibition ridden peoples ‘The long and short of the whole thing is that absolute prohibition as we have it, is and always will bea total failure and no one realizes thin | better than the prohibitionisty them: ives, but naturally they will be the lant ones to admit it. This Is evi | denced by every-day occurences (such 4 the shipping board ruling, the Chehalis republic and by the privately expressed opin fons Of the majority of our clear thinking citizens.—the main reason being that the great mans of public opinion ts not behind the Volstead ‘act, professional reformers (7) and their subsidized papers to the con- trary, notwithstanding. The only ible solution is the repeal of all existing prohibition legislation and the substitution therefor of good sound legisiation along the lines out: lined in my letter which appeared in The Star on May 6, 1921, or along the lines of the British Columbia act, I am not an Anglophile, but 1 certainly admire our Canadian neighbors for the common sense they have shown in solving the liquor problem and we would well profit by thetr example and experience, In closing, 1 wish to quote what Senator Ingalls and Race Clashes BAitor The Star: ‘The letter which appeared in your columns some days ago under the caption “The Lesson of the Race Riots” and signed by Councilman Phil Tinda brings to mind the speech delivered by Senator John J Ingalls in the United States senate on July 23, 1890, in which he ap. pealed to the southern states to cease the violence in dealing with the color. 4 population of those states €rant to the colored man the full exerciae of those civil and political rights which had been guarunteed him by the Emancipation Proclama. tion and by the 13th and ith Amendments. While the speech of Senator In- walla had specific reference to the Negro question, it is to be noted that it was delivered just about the time of the enactment of the Chinesé ex. clusion law and no doubt with the lensons of the antiChinese riots and deportations in th mind of the speaker, What Senator Inwalls said on that occasion has a remarkable and prophetic bearing on the Jup anene question of today. He epoke in part as follows: “Upon the threshold of our second century, Mr. President, we are con- fronted with the most formidabio und portentous problem ever submitted to & free people for solution; complex, unprecedented, involving social, mor: al and political considerations, party supremacy, and, in the estimation of many though not in my own, in its ultimate consequences the existence Its of our system of government. Not Enough Big Mail Boxes Editor The #t Thru your liberal columns may I offer a suggestion? What I have in mind ts the scarci- ty of mail boxes in the district around Western and First avenues, between University and Pine streets. ‘There is not one large mail box on Western avenue, between Sentca and Stewart. As @ result the merch. ants of this district have to take thelr letters to the central office. On “Consti Our nstitut: Badlter The Star Juet « final word on teachers’ sal aries, In The Star of June 20, “Law and Order” writes that the cut in teachers’ pay is secondary to “sup- porting constituted authority. is an abstract statement to which the writer heartily agrees. But when, In concrete cases, this author ity becomes unjust and despotic there must be a resistance or this country will degenerate. In the present situation /it ts a case of requiring the teachers to “make good" for past extravagances and misappropriation of funda on the part of “constituted authority.” In one instance legal action was nec eosary in order to stop it This is This editor The Star ‘This is to answer a communication of J. H. Randall in your issue of June 22 as to whether or not it is a | fact that I was promised Dr. Brown's position. I desire to say that It not | only is net @ fact, but it is a further | fact that no suggestion of this char | acter, directly or Indirectly, so far as |I know, was ever made to any mem ber of the school board. 1 could not n convention, eto,)| country.” nd to! Dr. Kelton Answers Critic SATURDAY, JUNE 24, 1922. ‘iy patriotic to help increase the tL literacy which the world war found startlingly great? Does Law and Order think the pulling power of the schools will in- ae or remain the rame with low. er ealartes? Does this gentleman and his sup. It’s pronounced—su-kum, with A¢-| porters #ee any connection when the cont on the second syliable, The “b’| press tells us dally of young men in wan once but is now rarely sounded. | their ‘teens gone wrong” It means—to He or sink down a#| Will the gentleman and his sup the result of pressure or force; to} porters tell the Star readers what it yield; to submit | oats & county in this state to con. LEARN A.WORD EVERY DAY | ‘Today's word Is SUCCUMB. It comes from--Latin “eub.” viet a young man of murder? under, and “cumbere,” which ts akin| And finally, will they look up the to “cubare,” to lie facts and find that the schools where It's used like this that young man ought to have gone sionally succumb to heat during the | had poor schools and of course poor. |wurnmer months in most parts of the | jy paid teachers? 1 it after all mutiny or patriotiem | —*|\ for the teachers of this country to lone of the greatest, if not the great. work for a good education for the Jest, American citizen, the immortal youth of this nation? | Abraham Lincoln, said when he was| And when you answer this Inst approached on the subject of pro-| question remember that thousands of | hibition: | schools were clored for want of prop. “Prohibition will work great injury |¢riy paid teachers in our nation’s to the cause of temperance. It is a| recent crints. | species of intemperance within It- LAW AND ORDER NO. TWO, self, for it goes beyond the bounds ~ of reason, in that jt attempts to con- trol a man's appetite by legisiation and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes, A prohibition law strikes « blow at the very principles jon which our government was found. 4." This applies just as much at thi present day a» it did in Lincoln's time, The Seattle Schools’ Finances | Editor ‘The Star: The real source of our difficulties in our schools today is the fact that the electors of Seattle School District No. 1 do not know the financial mire in which the school district is bogged. Recently the people have been striving to better the schools, and 244 departments to them, without realizing the schools, each year, are spending more than they have actu- gravity cannot be exaggerated and/aliy been able to collect from the ite discussion has been deferred too | various sources of income, The fol- lo Its solution will demand all | lowing table will give an iden of this the resources of the statesmanship of condition: the present and the future to prevent | Year Grons Income collected Expenditures Very truly yours, KE. V. GRISVARD. ® crisis that may become a catas- Reet, operating espense trophe. It should be approached i915 "| ..... 2.008,000.07 with cendor, with solemnity, with tie . patriotic purpose, with earhest scru-|1%ii tiny, without subterfuge and without |i 5:9 reserve. ... 1920 “Races that cannot intermarry do|!#?!_ «- 6 [not blend and become homogeneous.| These figures were obtained from Englishmen, Irishmen, Frenchmen,|the school financial statements of Germans, and Scandinavians emi-|1921, and prior thereto. This shows grate and in @ generation they are|during the 7 years quoted above, ex- Americans; their blood mingles with |penditures above income the great current of our national! life, | amounted to $936,325.24. and of ite allen origin nothing re-] The school authorities and the maine but @ memory, a name .« tradi-|publie do not seem to have remem- tion, Sometimes the invador becomes bered or appreciated the fact, that as the conqueror, like the Tartar in|the tax rates have increased, actual China, the Normans in England, but tax payments have diminished to a history contains no record of two/|larger extent than might be looked separate races peacefully exieting up-|for. As @ result, when the gross on terma of absolute social and po-|tax payments to the state, county, litteal equality under the same sys-|and city are behind, the school gets tem of government. Aniagonism is/ only ite share of what is collected. inevitable. They become rivalx and |The following tabulation will show competitors, and in the etruggie for|what a large sum {s at present due | supremacy the weaker has gone/the schools in back or unpaid taxes down.” carried as assets on the school reo- Can anyone doubt, after reading | ords. these words that if Senator Ingalls| List of unpaid taxes due were Alive today, he would! be align-/ schools: ed, frankly and courageously as he June > the + always was in a just cause, with |june 28. is¢ aaa those who are endeavoring to pre |Juns 30. iol acho vent the growth of a race probiem | . 818 640.5 | : 7 jfar more difficult of solution than | june 3 test 134 one which ‘as attempt to a “ pv bom jem he wr oune Running concurrently with the in- JOHN J. SULLIVAN. inne of warrants and interest car- ried thereon, which formerly when the school it wi Firat avenue the only sort of mall cashed at 4 ina per out, BOL Sa receptacles visible are those real pear ¢ per cent. interest, small ones that hold about 100 or isch year Warrant more letters. eodin Outstanding Every time a business man desires | ; to mail a number of letters he has| not time to go to the central post-|1 office. Therefore, I make a motion |/*!s | that several more mail boxes be es. |; }tablished along Western and Bérat |i? x avenues, It can be confidently expected that Yours for service, speed, and ef-/the sehool year closing June, 1922, fictency, M.D. | will show still larger amounts in all —_ these columns ed A th: iti: ” The school board cannot hope to uthorities collect all there back taxes for many jthe real cause of the trouble which | years to come, as is evidenced by the j has not been sufficiently brought to | fact that at the recent county sales | the surface, so that many well inten-;of property for non-payment of | toned critics are Judging erroneous. | taxes, over 4,500 pieces of property ly. That the teachers feel the in-| were bid in by the county because | justice done them in being required "0 one would buy them. Again at to pay the fiddlers where they have/the first of the year 1 the pay- |not danced is not to be wondered| ments including 1920 tax levy were jat. Our “constituted authority” first/ behind practically 10 per cent. of | aquanders and illegally spends money | the total, all of which does not hold jand now does not seem to be able Out immediate hopes of sudden pay- |to distinguish between esentials and/ ment of all back taxes, without which | non-essentials in its efforts at re-|the school cannot get its full share, |trievement. This is the best that} It must be remembered that the n be said for our directors. When! heavy tax increases only started in matituted authority” deals fairly |1917, and the tax sales of the year with the people, there will be no Which took piace in the fall of 1921, disgruntied factions of any sort what-| Were on tax levies for 1916, when { snever. E. C. JACKSON, jthe tax rate was very much lower than in the following years. With the increased tax levies fol- lowing after 1916, there will no doubt be an increased number of proper ties that will be bid in by the county | of mine can be intelligently interpre: |for non-payment of taxes as no one j ted to indicate that I have. The/will buy them. The possession of | fight that the American Legion has! this property by the county will not | made, and with which I have had |help the schoo! board or county until something to do, has been waged for | conditions gradually right themselves the purpose of bringing rebuke and and this property can be sold, a mat- bitter condemnation down upon the ter of several years in all probabilt- heads of men who will fiagrantly vio- | ty. late their sacred pledges, and be-| In the meantime the school busf- cause, In our judgment, such men | ness must be carried on and its ex- Interest Paa je | munication from me, nor any word uthnceta gy g Sanat Virn's eyen wore rentlessly glanc. | life never neglected to teach to his 2ilst ANNUAL ling thru the window down the| disciples and to us through them, by | si It goes where I direct it. It explodes ; “magi where and when I want it. and i¢|'084. Suddenly her face beamed,| both precedent and example ¢ wipes off the face of the eatth any.|Sh¢ forgot her rumpled dress an it | «reat lesson of true temperance, Had telautomatica!” AllNight DANCE Given by the Confectioner Union Local No. 9 AT 7th and Union genuine admiration. rest,” went on Dick. letters on the hey binator—forward, back, the rost, It The machinery is it delays until th impulse is given. tage of the delay to hav Nita Walden in “She called me main line. here first. “But how? quered Dick. “Ask Vira. you all she knows, I What of thing that I want annihilated. Th: Garrick regarded his friend with “I won't go into of the radio com start pro. peller motor, stop propeller motor, rudder right, rudder left, the angles light signals forward and aft, and all really delayed contact Iways ready, but right, selective And I take advan. the mee nal repeated back to me, to her car with McKay hefore the laboratory from Southold; 1 went over and met her train on the And I’ve brought her | Guy, telephone to Glenn; | I know how anxious the boy is.” Ruth?” She has come to teli| made These youngsters are getting toned) her. had ried on her, her disordered ha “Glenn's coming! | Oh, boy!" Out of the room she fie William Jennings Bryan 4 Dear Folks: Bill Bryan's making lot# of says it’s bunk that all of us stuff for him! any limb of my ancestral tree He says he's “getting votes always man, he thinks—we di Ie race, down. Maybe Ruth will listen to| survey the bunch—the many reason when she gets back. Oh, if 1|] "Ach we aren't finished yot! only had her’ | : that, too! erted Dick.|| UF Maker's work was done, 15 WONDERFUL DOOR PRIZES Admission 75c Includes Dancing All Night! Everybody Welcome ! hoat fn the hold, a boat for of us could get off. cholce—inaisted-—settied jt to be done in a second in emotion. of heroism of Ruth, ' we found a duck | one, One Ruth made the It had She made me! go-—-even when I fought her to stay.” | Dick grasped Nita Walden's hand It was a splendid plece “Don't you see?” explained Vira, be, some distant day, a joy to fact is free from doubt-—the steady aim to BE the best we I hear his engine. Vira and Glenn came up the road A Letter rom ATVRIDGE MANN. God and against apeism."—News item, He says, “No ape for met he likes to think a hunk of sod was used to make a man, No high and mighty human ginks could come from any brute; for n't agree with William B., altho he may be right; it seems to me, could happen over night It wouldn't give me any fun to ree the human mob, and think think we're on our way to higher things and greater-—that And tho the way we came about is very fa matter how we came, or how the race began. Girritge Yann ir, [Jesus in hig alleceing divine wis- dom, deemed prohibition a necessity w.|either then or in the future, he would have taught it unhesitatingly and clearly, just as he taught the great ; |The story wi 7 e pe ase: yng Mhe story ‘Whe repeated. , Dick re |< Sine of true Cheletionlty, avon un bs tpn Bor = et (Turn to Pa, Column 1) to the Cross. On the contrary how “stumping the nation for votes for fuss on how we got our shape; he Are sons of any ape, No evolution No monkey swung from for God” against the monkey clan; man was idn't evolute, no human In fact, when I men I've met—J get a mighty solid and we're « fitished job; I like to we may our Creator. r from elear, one simple we are here! It doesn't if we but keep a fact that can, past. They have very successfully eliminated saloons and public drink jing places without prohibition aw it is known here, through government operation. As a result they have eliminated all the old evils of the #aloon aystem (without incurring th bootlegging system in its ntead) and have just closed. their first year un der that system, showing a net pro- fit aceruing to the province of Bri- tish Columbia of some three miliion dollars. Fellow tax-payers, please note. Of course, our dry friends will arise to state that there Is atill bound j te ba some abuse even under the B. C. system. In view of the fact that the millenium has not yet dawn ed, that is undoubtedly true, but I te this fact and I state it advisediy, that if we would, and could, proceed to deprive the human | race of every natural privilege that could be abused, and is abused, to as great if not a greater extent, than | liquor ever was or could be, then the human race would pass off the face of the earth in less than 60 | years, just as inevitably as day fol | lows night. ir professional reformers also tell | us what a wonderful race of people | we will become under absolute prohi- | bition, But they never cite Turkey |and India, both of which have been bone-dry for many centuries pasi for religious reaso! Alcoholic lq. uors of all kinds are absolutely for. bidden In the Koran to all followers jof Mahomet. Yet look at Turkey throughout her history up to the Present day. A semi-barbaric race, zealously abstaining from liquors, but committing every crime in the | decalogue and living among the most breeding conditions that human be- Ings can exist under, as witness Con. stantinople, Or take India, a coun. try of millions upon millions of poor, ishorant, atarving people, who have unspeakably unsanitary and disease |runs who declares he will slash teach- accept the position even if it were! offered me by the unanimous vote of | the board, nor would I do so under | present conditions. } I do not believe any honest individ. | ual who knows me ever questioned my motives, but It will perhaps fur ther enlighten those honest people who do not know me and will estab. |hefore “ate crooked element interes {such advice, our actions would then ed in this matter, for me to advise | be Much more pleasing to them. But |Mr, Randall that appeared in person | the American Legion, thru tts nation- before the schoo! board and spoke in| #! body, has adopted an educational Dr. Brown's behalf. | program and policy, a part of which No; if I wanted this position, or| includes co-operation with honest any other of like character, I would, members of school boards and a bit. purr and pussyfoot, because that is | tet unrelenting and everlasting fight the way such positions are usually | #&#inst those whose motives are be- obtained. The man who ts direct | Heved to be unclean and positive, and fights without giv.| So T can say to all foes, both per- |ing quaxter, is not usually selected | Sonal and those foos of the Amer |for positions where politics plays the | can Legion, that no matter what at- | leading role, tack is directed against us by those Aa to whether ft would be better | whom we have proven false, our | for someone else to lead the fight of | Stand for honest principles, particu. | the teachers, let It again be empha. | larly in the public schools, shall re- ‘nized that Tam not, nor have I been | Main adamant, leading a fight for them, No com- WALTER KELTON. The Teachers and Their Pay Editor The Star: lor and good politics. If anybody The gentleman who informs us he] hollers then, it will be mutiny is & war veteran, speaks for himself] Will Law and Order tell us if the And poses as a spokesman of “Law |late Secretary of the Interior, Lane, and Order,” presumes to be @ de-| was wrong when he asked in his an cldedly patriotic citizen, nual report, what was to be said Waving the flag as he does, he/about a nation one of whose com. ought to answer a few questions for |monwealths spent less than $3 per the general benefit of the reading | capita for the education of its chil. public. | dren? “Everything is theory with a candi-| Will date," he tells us. school board is right in lowering sal Will he stand for it If at the next/aries when the best authorities tell school board election a candidate! us that the average salary for the | teachers of the United States is a ere wages farther and stand for no| national disgrace? raises, sald candidate being elected,| “There is nothing holy about a then votes for a substantial raise? | school teacher,” this “veteran” tells Lat the champions of the teachers | us. take notice, This will be a la Tay-| Does the gentleman think it high: can not be trusted in public office, If the American Legion followed the dictates and advice of a lot of people, some of whose motives are Patriotic and pure (and others who are guided by a patriotic spirit equal exactly and on a par with pro-Ger- man sympathizers when we were fighting in France}—if we followed Law and Order argue the pense must meet the income. Leaving aside the matter of outstanding war- rants at the end of 1921, and the outstanding warrants for 1922, the ress aggregate income, if all taxes are paid up promptly for 1922 will be roundly $5,485,000, Judging from past experience, however, there will be at least $300,- 000 short on tax collections which will leave the actual income of the school district for all current ex- Penses $5,185,000.00. The first ten on this will be Interest and: bond ption fund of $646,008, leaving $4,548,994.00 to carry on the actual cheol operating expense. When it is remembered that last jyear the school operating costs were $4,927,733.84 and the net reduction from 1920 to 1921 expense was ap | Proximately $250,000, it will be seen at once that a further substantial cut in the school operating expense ‘must be made In some way. This, jwithout reference to how the money has been spent in the past, or to the taking care of the huge and con- stantly growing warrant issues out- standing. It will be the work of the school authorities to make the nec essary reductions so that the school operation lives within its own means. If the tendency of the achool au thorities. as shown by the facts here inabove set forth, is allowed to con+ tinue for a short time longer, the entire school system will be on & basis of paying its expenses out of , depreciated Warrants, and sooner oF ter a readadjustment and cleaning up of the growing indebtedness on general expense account, will have to follow whether we like it or not, and the sooner this whole position is fully understood by all concerned, and remedied, the better of every: one will be and the better results jWe WHE get in our schools H. 8. GLEASON, 7933 46th South, ee aes a ee a Re ee a ee ee ee» 10 eee ee ee