The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 22, 1922, Page 6

terprise Assn. and United | | Press Service well.” i i i i] fei is ili NH rt ts ag if : i} Es 3? F & fit eee } } : 4 iH a 3% my Te i ry z : 5 il sf il it | ref i is Hel We usually are unwilling to pay “the price for what we want most, eee A wise and philosophical poet dean La Fontaine, born at the head. - With wond'rous gles he feasted on the fish, And quickly swallowed down the royal dish. “Wercharged, however, his stom- 3 ach soon gave way, _ And dortors were required with. out delay. ‘The danger imminent, his friends desired He'd settle everything affairs re- quired. Said he, “In that respect I'm quite prepared; And, since my time s0 little ts declared, With diligence 1 earnestly re- quest 4 ‘The sturgeon'’s head you'll get me, nicely dressed” ke most of us, the glutton ied as he had lived. | _ Fortune never emiles at a man | because ne ts @ joke. . @ The only reliable substitute for brains is silence. can’t get along with or without his wife. The Seattl By mail, ou. of city, Se per menth; 7 montha $1.00) € mowtha, #2. ta the state of Washington, mantha er $9.09 per year eStar ‘Outetde of ti By cerrter, ett: Wether. Se | There’s something about the bravery of youth that brings a gasp to the throats ‘and a throb to the hearts of all of us. Little Bruce Robbins of Tacoma, fatally crushed “and mangled by the wheels of an oil truck, wiped away his tears and courageously in- sisted that daddy be notified to “come home and take care of mamma while I get Black tragedy entered one home but something of a feeling of real comradeship into the hearts of most of us who read about it. Unselfish heroism, the great- of all human emotions, portrayed by a dying lad on a city street—the heart of a gasping out its human message in the drab, dollar-seeking city. |, no terror, no fevered, angry words of blame; just the fine, clean soul of a suf- boy breathing unstinted kindness, —“And a little child shall lead them.” No tears of After mixing business and pleasure, business never looks the same. You seldom see a fly going out thru a hole ina screen. Why is it that nearly all rich men look like 30 cents? All you have to do to get a crowd to follow you is find out which way the crowd is going. BY 5—BONFIRES. Never dulld Tacoma Will bonfires in windy weather or Try Pass Plan where there is the slightest dan- ‘The Tacoma street railway is gor of their escaping from con- going to try out the weekly pass trol, Don't make them larger than plan. you need. The patron will pay $1 and in = &_FIGHTING FIRES. If you return receive a card which will find a fire; try to put it out. If qntitle him or any other person you can't, get to a telephone or to ride as many times during the ciegraph and notify the nearest week as he pleases, United States forest ranger or This te expected to reduce great- state fire warden at once. Keep ly the average cost per ride of in touch with the rangers of the the persons using the passes, and forest you are visiting. at the same time to increase con- e<tepcsannimesimentieenniemeenenn siderably the company’s receipts, Seattle city councit more than » Be Missing year age. Since then ft hae proved (From the Lynden Tribune) ® wonderful success in Youngs- ‘These Liberty bends, which you tewn, ©. and other cities, but ‘reded for steck im that factory here ft has mever even been re that was going to make auteme- ported out of committee. bile tires out ef sawdust, are all abeve par now, snd still rising. Things could be worse Suppose By the way, what happened to You lived in China, where people that pleasant young man with the whe bathe are called dudes. checked sult who told you how . much Henry Ford made in 16 Six Good Rules years, and sold you the tire stock cou! EVERY DAY dust of the fire before leaving them. Today's word in HARANGUE. Den’t throw them into brush, It's pronounced ha rang. with the heaves, or needles, gecent on the last syllable, The firet | 3-MAKING CAMP. Build s | 's as the « in ask, and the second a is shor! small comp fire in the open. Not It means——when used as a noun— against © tree of log or near | popular oration, @ speech addressed brush. Serape away the needies [to & large public amsembly, a notey, and trash from all around the ranting speech; when used as a verb fire, to addrens earnestly or noisily It comes from the French 4—BREAKING CAMP. Never | *harangue” meaning, literally, «| leave camp without quenching | speech before a large multitude your fire with water, and then It's used ike this-—as a noun: “F Gelivered an impassioned harangues? covering it with earth to be sure verb: “He harangued the| (Continued From Yesterday) ‘i pat it wae useless. The woman] «put» irifted back to her rambling state-| _, ments, Laughter and tears followed}. “Then use mine—so you'll have | one another in quick succession; the |€Vidence that I'm not married, Use breaking of restraint had come at|mine, if that's the kind of a man you last. At last she turned, and staring |are—so you can go back and tell with glazed eyes into those of Hous |them—back home—that I—I—" The ton, burst forth. last bond had snapped. She caught “You hate me, don’t you?” at him with clawing hands, her eyes 1" wild, her teeth showing from behind | “Don't deny it!” Querulous {m-|tightly drawn lips. “Torture me-~ Periousness was in the voice. “You|that’s it—torture me! At least, I hate me—you'll go back to Boston |didn't do that to you! I told you and tell my mother about this. I|that I believed in you—at loast that know—you've got the upper hand|cheered you up when you needed it now. You'll tell her why I came out!—1 didn’t tell you that 1 belleved here—you'll tell her about the baby,|you guilty. Did 1? 1 didn’t continu- won't you? Yes, you'll” jally ask you for the name of the “I'l tell nothing of the sort,:man you'd killed? Oh, there were Agnes. I don’t fight that way. You/jother thinga—I know. there were ought to know that, You've been my lother things—" the lips seemed to enemy, I'll admit. I've feit bitter, \tairly stream words, “but at least, I terribly #0, against you. I believed |didn’t torture you. I—I—* that you used my trust to betray me. | Besides, the harm's done, It's in the| past. I fight men, not women.” bend madly cajoling, crazily eun- “Do you want help?” A thin hand | stretched out. “Will you give me a| “Listen, Barry, listen to me, You promise—it I give you one?” want to know things. I can tell “About what, Agnes?” «|them to’ you—oh, #0 many of them. “My baby. “You—you're not going |!'ll tell them, too—it you'll only do to let it stay there? You're—’ this for me, It’s my baby—my baby. “L hardly know what to do, 1|Don’t you know what that means? thought after you were better, 'd—" | Won't you promise for me? Take “I'm better now.” She tried to|her to @ priest—please, Barry—for “She hasn't one.’ rine, “I'm better—neo? I've more|What you once . thought 1 was? | strength. You could leave me alone, |Won't you, Barry? Haven't I had} I—I want you to take my baby,’ |Punishment enough? Did you ever “where?” lie all day and listen to the wind “Where she can sleep in peace -in|shriek, waiting for somebody who hallowed ground. 1—1 want a priest |didn't come—with your dead babe in for her, Tell him that I baptized her |Your arms? Do you want to punish , me more? Do you want me to die, . And the other name?” A weird laligh came from the col- orlens lps, i tell you why I did the things I did? (Turn to Page 9, Column 1) too--or do you want me to live and |’ Editor The Star You are always ready to act in the interest of all the people, and no doubt you are also ready to help any department of the city government that i acting for the best interest of all the people. The Seattle department of health and sanitation under its present com. missioner, Dr, H. M. Read, ta such | the people. @ branch of the city government. ‘The charter provides Editor The Btar: The “automatic raise” tn salary of | figures dre all government employes is & matter | high echool, average, 62,178). The that arouses different emotions tn/teachers are about 75 per cent of ther single women without a te, It ta, no doubt, regarded with great | no why must they get more than is | 'to $4699,421 we have § complacency by all the recipients, | required for a family of five? Dut the tanpayere—the people who) have to foot the dille—are not so wure that they do not “view with alarm” the situation. Teachers, city, county and pert commission employes met a raise of $6 & month, or $60 a year, year after the teachers for 10 years and hers for aa much time as they can “put it over.” ‘The groaning taxpayer wants to know why the raise? Who anreed to it? put up to the taxpayer? | must it be paid? | When employes in a regular busl- nous got a raise, they earn it by be- ing worth more to the company, by| who should take # out; performing more and different work, proving their ability and fitness for an increase, and taking on more re sponsibility; but what do teachers or| now why should they get so much? city or county employes do to deserve| Why should not those salaries be ‘The taxpayers who different breaste. that raise? Bvidently they get it by aimply| pay those anlaries are not entiafied | that the people getting that money being there! ‘There can be no doubt that falth-|earn ft, and, as employers, they feel ful service should be rewarded, but | that they have the cight to aay how such indiscriminate “raising” cannot | much shall be all be earned, and what incentive has nybody to perform faithful service? | men, and it looks very much as tho They get the raise anyway! j the time had come to set the salary Then there is the discrepancy about | for all workers what Is called a “living wage.” wage” Editor The Star: of at THE SEATTLE STAR Protests Dr. Read’s Removal It also seems a fair inference that the mayor is playing petty polition H [Tne a commissioner of health who|'% these figures upon people who will be inclined to follow his lead| 4° Rot stop to reason out what the in protecting @ limited pertion of the | public from @ just quarantine be cause of vice disease, and thereby acting agninay the best interest of all storm. lanxious to keep his Read, SARAH McGLUE, A man sald recently in your “Can amall fe, | month ($1,800 per year)?” | Who insures them 81,8007 Who started Was ft ever And why merely a living wage, “readjusted”? pala cut out the “living | formance, and cut out favorttiam. coal MRS. AN B. STEWART, The common practios of condemn: | of the story. tng without force county and bust common pra public ot is great i. ‘Take fast steamers at Colman Dock REGULAR SCHEDULE Leaye Beattie daily = 10:80 + 1130 a om pe = 9:15 900 BAS - 5:8 p.m. *Bacept Sunday SPECIAL NIGHT SERVICE Bremerton From Seaitle to Saturday and Sunde: eaday, Sunday 11.90 tle to 7:15 - 11:30 a. m trip Saturday and Bunday 9:30 p.m. 045 a. m. N c scrimination the whole foe of constantly iterating the statement that Vorarday and rom to Bearte Saturday and Sunday .1030 p.m to Beatle 100 + $00 p m. trip Gaturday and Sunday 1020 p. Visitors accompanied by Bremerton Chamber of Commerce Guide per. mitted in Navy Yard at 1 & 3 p.m. Passenger fare 80c round trip. AVY YARD ROUTE loyed by t rrying on the the equally re or demerits of the case good government. mer arntem anne ne It im to be hoped that our city that &®2Y/counct! will not allow our former section of the mayor affecting the! perennial candidate for, Oh, most any commissioner of health must be con- firmed by « two-thirds vote of the counctl, ‘This provision was made with the object of removinie, aa far aa poanibie, svueh an important position from the influence of petty politics. Mayor Trown, who, it seems, has admitted his “head ts in an uproar, is attempting to remove Dr. apparently without good and suffi ctent reason. office! and now, at last, our mayor, to get away with his latest brain Looks ea if Mayor Brown wae more pre election | pledges to the underworld In regard |to abolition of the “blood test” than [he is to redeem his promises in ref) cont of government for 1923 without erence to the Scent street car fare.| considering any increase in the coste 2016 42nd ot. 8. W. RI RO a) “The Automatic Raise suah cot: suaeeniee' eentiees ber on what they pe outing. wien ing 10 years from $1 to $1.70, This m man in Beattie provide a | DUC’ $6,203,978, oF $1,418,166 lens family with the necessities of {> might naturally be expected, according to a white man's bared on the increase in population standard, with less than $150 per|“"4 prices in general. fiide by side with these standard ized wage earners are the taxpayers. living wage of The taxpayers Go not wish to see Any cuts made in salaries that are but they do feel that if the majority of employes can live on $1,800 per year, that those who receive more than that eum can stand @ cut, and it te those people th are hundreds qetting $200 a month ana|‘t %* the frequent weapon used by Fete, Col nat cane Bie en enemtn,| Breexion and thus discredit, if pos ‘We net the salary for our couneti “auto. ‘The | matic raise” and ask for efficiency as civil service league bulletin says that|the standard by which to judge her. | and $1,409,198,086 for the city and a family of five must have a | least $1,864.78. teachers complain that they.can’t live The True Cost « of City Government from giving the public but one side 720 Nob Hill ave. Those who assume the responal | bility of public commentary on the | profession acts of government, should, as good | | cltisens, kive the facts on both aides, | enormous extent by those who have }#o that the public may form an tn. there | telligent judgment as to the merits extravagance and Ineffic fency in the public departments, is a danger and an evil which comes @A diplomat is a man who picks up the beans somebody else spills. le m meet the bootlegger and spend it all ona wet night. @ After practicing drinking coffee for 40 years some men still spill it on the tablecloth. ALetter rom AIVRIDGE MANN. A recent article in a morning newspaper was so misleading as to have @ tendency to create unwar- ranted prejudices against the whole j city government and thore who ad- minister it, The article sought to make @ comparison between the costs of city government for 1913 and that anticipated for 1923, show: ing an increase in dollar cost of per cent in the intervening years, The natural impression made figures really mean is that the city government ts extravagantly con ducted, A fair statement of facts will show the reverse. The census reports for 1910 and 1920 show that the increase in popu- lation for that period was 23 per cent This would naturally account for an inereane of 33 per cent in the cost of city government. The same ratio of increase would properly apply to the 10 years between 1913 and 1923. if we add this 23 per cent to the cost of government in 1913, which according ® total of $4,599,421 as the normal of labor and matertals. According to the figures tamued by ‘the U. 8. department of labor and by the college of business administration of the University of Washington, the would make the value of the 1913 dol- lar only 64.8 cents at the present time. If we divide that 68.8 dollar the normal cost of government in 1928. The budget asked for for 1923 When we get right down to the actual facts, the cost of government has not been extravagant, and, on the contrary, it has been held down to « cost far below what conditions would naturally lead one to expect, all things considered. Instead of an increase of 80 per cent, as claimed by this newspaper | article, there has been a saving of 40 per cent over what conditions would erem to justify, The charge | of extravagance is without basia, but | those who desire to create that tm: | sible, thone who administer the cit; jsovernment from the mayor to the | least of the city employes. Seattio is suffering from an over. population of tex dodgers rather than | jot taxpayers, and until a full and/ complete valuation is made posible the tax rate will seem high. For| taxation purposes last year Seattle jhad a valuation of $244,964,997, as |compared with §300,044,715 for the city of Portland, $87,614,000 for the city and cour San Francisco county of Los Angeles. @ Lots of men with good eyes can’t see when you are broke. @J A man who marries for money Some men saving Dear Folks: | And #0 I've found a way to 1 |] daym; with all ite evil, view and for recollection still holde dear the barkeep’ How many biue and lonely ginks would wander in to buy the drinks, and rest their hoofs upon the rall, and start to spout their They knew the barkeep listened well, and further. little wall! more, he wouldn't tell. there, Each time he'd hear my “You bet, it's tough! pick no lemon out!” He'd said thousand other guys. sive me, with « glass of beer, I always like t6 try to find that every cloud is wfiver lined, ond everything beneath the sun has some good point, if only one; it |] Must be there, it seems to me, altho t | And when the wife had gone away, I'd wander tn at close of Gay, and ali my loneliness I'd air to that good scout the barkeep, And when I'd eny, “That wife of mine has got ‘em beat all down the line,” he'd say, “I bet she has, olf scout~—you'd never So now I'd think it quite @ boon to see again the old saloon, to | i somehow, when I'm feeling biue, a soda clerk don’t seem to do! | JULY 22, 1922, up for a rainy day often hard to see. praixe the ol4 saloon of ancient sin, It had a bit of good within, mpathetic ear, bunch of guff, he'd nod and say, the same, as I surmise, to seven barkeep'’s sympathetic ear; for, tax annually than is collected in Beat the as taxes, and that in addition, the ‘usual tax levy is made and added to the amounts thus collected from other sources, The total of these are the cont of government in the cities of that tate, and a comparison of taxes in Beattie will show that the property owners and the business men of Los The recent reduction in sible for us to allow the ing in on all models. and old prices: Touring ....... Now Roadster woe Sedan Light Delivery ..Now F. Touring . .. Now Seattle raised by taxation last year $4,338,843.43 an compared with $9, | 981,960.93 In Los Angeles, where! $1,645,364.99 was collected as a busi. | neas tax in addition to the amount) levied. San Francisco and Portland also impose a business tax, and this | woman engaged in business or in o Seattic bas been maligned to an annually exploited “high taxes’) | without a single effort to show taxa. | In no oth-/ tion in other cities or to prove that or way can-we expect to secure|in all California cities more is col- | lected in Heenses, fees and business | steamer. Leave Seattle 8 A. M. .m, Extra ete EXCURSION AMONG THE GULF ISLANDS East Sound, Friday Harbor, ete.—an outing trip not soon forgotten. Bracing air. Sunday, July 23rd STEAMER SIOUX Round Trip, $2.50—Children Half Fare LUNCHES SERVED Tickets on Sale Now PUGET SOUND NAVIGATION CO COLMAN DOCK, } | Fine Lovely scenery. Return 10:30 P. M. | has to be paid by every man and | ~ Effective July 17, 1922 490 Models 1,168 Old price $1,180.00 1,162 Old price 1,180.00 1,821 1,821 ALL ENCLOSED MODELS ARE EQUIPPED GENUINE FISHER BODIES Above prices include freight, handling and war and cover the complete car delivered in Seattle, with [_NongING To BUY RUT TH LICENSE —] Fred S. Haines Company Twelfth and East Union Georgetown Branch: North End Rainier Brewery Premises ed Angeles and California pay taxes al- most as high as Seattle and pay as much more in seme other form. Still, California citizens and news pepers have yet to launch such cam- paigns as are annually carried on in Seattle in an effort to lower taxes and incidentally aid the tax dodger. PUBLICITY COMMITTEE, CIVIL SERVICE LEAGUE, = to this article was $3,449,506, we have | The following are the new Old price 1,875.00 Old price 1,875.00 East 1442 ADMIRAL LINERS carry Fine, Jazz Orchestras you haven’t danced for a of the latest hits played aboard the. know #! 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