The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 3, 1922, Page 6

vote. deprte ley it i < z [ rE | oh hi 3F RE i ii f ; I i ; ¥, i | i] 3 lial b 8 f z the senlority rights he now holds so sacred. ‘The railroads entered upon « Program of giving their repair work to contractors closing down the company re- shops. That meant lockout the railroad shopmen. It that they not only lost seniority rights, but their ‘The men appealed to the rall- labor board on @ test case the board decided in favor of might chill me to the bone. AWRIDGE MANN. ‘This letter, written by Bob Redpath, 2747 Belvidere ave, Beattie, was awarded one of the three third prizes by the contest Judges. By oe mmomthe, 08.78) tte por iment, $4.68 fer ¢ mont Jumping at conclusions often lands one in a hole. ay clock—and they wind it whenever a senator’s caught awake. I picture show as cheaply as one. @ No one ever became a star by staying out at night. The Seattle Star . Se per month: & Washington, Outs jenn, 96.00 An Antiquated System For the second time a jury has been unable to agree on the case of Madalynne chain and the state of California is facing the prospect of spending thousands of ars more for another trial. ‘This news in itself is of very little importance to the general public, Tho she has b exploited on the front pages of newspapers all over the country, Mrs, Obenchain ts ‘nothing more than an average woman who is no better than she ought to be, and prototype can be found in nearly any city block. her case is typical of a system which IS of profound importance to us all. has demonstrated—just as hundreds of other notorious characters have demon- before her—that there is a radical flaw in the present jury system. fact that there are a few pig-headed people on nearly every jury is no excuse the expenditure of thousands of dollars of public funds for countless retrials. The law which provides that a verdict must be unanimous to convict is sound—it the guarantee of justice to which everyone is entitled. no sound argument can be advanced against permitting acquittal on a major- ry few persons whose first trial results in a disagreement are ever convicted any- the majority rule would mean a huge annual saving—and a resultant de- With 14 women candidates, the next house of representatives may have more than one speaker. Insomnia never troubles a man when he has to work at night, Only thing more helpless than a pretty girl is a pretty boy. ti plied King railroad declares war on the people of the United States, on women and children, Present- ly he will ask President Harding to employ the United States army to fight under king raliroad’s ban- ner and against the people of the country. Then, again, the president will nrect the king. Trouble Horse doctors are growing searcer, being driven out by autos. The garage mechanic is the modern veterinary. At times, each man has to be his own. Having tinkere@ with an obstt- nate engine, you will agree that the auto ts subject to more dis anes than the horse, also harder to cure. As m piece of mechanical near-perfection, man's ingenuity has never been able to create any- thing equal to Dobbin. Dear Folks: Today I heard a cry like thin, ‘twas uttered by « comely mias, in such a hopeless, bitter tone: “I'm unloved, uniovely and alone!” ‘Twas hard to think that such remark could some from one with eyes #0 dark. I longed to learn her woeful tale and why she uttered such « wall; and thought to ask the maiden why such solitude, but passed her by—were I to speak without being known her look So now I seck an avenue where I may relieve her from her care—by written words that may have worth to derelicts upon the earth, and tell to any doubtful mind that most of us are always kind. And this is what I'd have to say that such as she shoulda do each day: Live not within yourself alone—eeek out the beauties of your home—no matter {f it's large or small, paint mental pio tures on the wall. ; i Hold to the things you most desire; have courage, faith, and you'll acquire a peace of mind and hope that brings the love and friendship and such things—that cast aside the aftermath of sor- row that has crossed your path. The past ts not part of today—cast your pernicious thoughts awnay—think, act and dream what you would be; use forco with your mentality; bulid up “a smile that you can sell” to love and friendship—it pays you wail. MAC. fasue of this strike and the first cause of all the trouble ts that the operators made an agreement to meet minery’ representatives this spring and negotiate a mew wage seale—and then broke their agree ment. They still refuse to make good on their broken contract. Lenin haa bought a farm. Berves him right. It's cheaper to move in high s0- clety than tt ts to pay rent. If the world’s @ stage, raGroad crossings are exits. American Dollars Abroad A quarter of « million Amert- cans, from all parts of the United States, are visiting Europo this summer. The Americans, in Interviews and letters, say the Europeans don’t want them. The Europeans accuse the sightseers of eating Europe's scanty food supplies and taking back to {America Europe's diminishing | stocks of goods, | The argument ts foolish, The | Americans pay for what they get in Europe with American dollars. |Burope needs American dollars |more than anything else, and they jam hard getting. An American |traveler is Europe's best asset, | When the American purchases an jumbrella in Germany, to carry back home, he ts presenting the Germans with enough dollars to buy the raw material for a dozen new umbrellas, The German complaint that there are only a Umited number of umbrellas in the fatherland would not be valid if Germany had enough money to buy more, American dollars give Germany | this added purchasing ability. The |Kuropeans onght to understand | thet fact. Few of them appear to {do so. But, that only means the | war's effect is still making clear agra difficult. } nothing Ughter than mond. Long skirts are coming back, ac- cording to skinny girls, We the oar ae THE MISS INGIE The County-City pulling first to yleld up a candida: great contest The the hand of Hip Prince of Wa Mins Ingle Phinkera, private sec retary to the superintendent of un. paid taxes today submitted her pte ture IN the great internationat Sweepstakes If she should be the wing Will become the bride ot) the British hetr apparent—if he ts willing. There ts no other condition attached. Interview today, | maid | “TI should just love to become the | Princess of Wales, or whatever they | eatt the one that Is, Of course I | don't suppose I will be chosen, but stl you never can tell I slways say, end stranger things have hap. pened. in the Royal Highness, the Miss Phinkers FIRST CANDIDATE ENTERS RACE FOR PRINCE’S HAND ie they rin staging for} SEATTLE STAR PHINKERS ——Pertrelt by Tem Culverwell “Of course I don’t know much about royalty except that I've reid jota In books about it and I under stand that American girls just get along fine sometimes when they |maerry kings or dukes, maybe. “Us American girls are different from foreign girls. We can do any- thing we have to do, I didn’t know anything about being @ private seo retary, when o politictan friend of mins got me this job, but it's easy as pl never there's something 1 don’t know how to do, some of the other girs that've been here » long time always show me, And I ex peet It will be that way when—that is, if I should be lucky, the people over there would show me how to be & princess, or whatever It le you call bis wife. LET: In one of your cotumne last week I read & letter which interested mo very much. This letter referred to} the young people of the eity; what/| they were dotng and what the churches of the city had to offer. It jwae very clearly shown that the! churches and Christian Endeavor so: | | cleties filled « great need among the | youth who were craving for friends and entertainment, The writer of the | article In question had had the good | fortune of viriting the Endeavor so-| ety of the First Presbytertan | church and expressed the opinion that © good message and a hearty | welcome had been received. The attitude taken wna indeed com: | |mendable for tt showed an apprecia | tion of the really worth while things | im thie life, It was brought out foret. | bly that young people need whole. }rome places of amusement. The lwriter te right In saying that the [Endeavor societies do teach Chris | tian principles and combine with thts | | abor fhe LW TOR teaching many forms of entertain ment which bring ite members and Viattor# together for a real good time. Such & really good time as only earnest and Godfearing men and women can enjoy. The principles of brotherty love. mercy and justice are the ones upon Which thene societies are bullt and it ts to be hoped that more people wil! benefit themesives by attending them. Many of those who are thirst ing after noble Influences and friends can quench their thirst here. Thene inatitutions stand high tn the estimation of our bert citizens For that reason and also for the named reasons It behooves us to lose no time In connecting our selves with such organizations Trusting that good character ts de sired, let us cooperate to bulld up wood citizens by attending thers truly worthy societies, The meet ings are held every Sunday at 6:20 Pp. m and are always beckoning to all, G. BP. More on Salary Question | BAltor The Star: | I notice that “Another Taxpayer” | answers my question of how much | “automatic raine” the city employes get in regard to time, but not «ums | We know the teachers get an “auto- | matic raise” of $5 per month, or $40 | per year for 10 years. This party says: “City employes wore given |alight increase with a promise of | three automatic raises to be given in the five years to follo | WAGES AS Machinists ........ Boilermakers ..... Blacksmiths Car inspectors Helpers, all craft: OF ANY Apply W. H. OLIN Oregon-Washington Station Seattle, Wash. WILLIAM CARRUTHERS 106 South 10th St. Tacoma, Wash. UNION PACIFIC SYSTEM SHOPMEN WANTED FOR RAILROAD SERVICE AND AT Engine House Laborers. .38 cents per hour Sheet Metal and other workers in this line. . Freight car repairers. «+++. 63 cents per hour These men are wanted to take the place of men who are striking against the decision-of the United States Railroad Labor Board, and their status, and FULL PROTECTION GUARANTEED, STEADY EMPLOYMENT, SENIORITY Perhaps he knows more about it than I do. I have been studying the ware question for only the past year from the etvil service lista of rie paid, and from the reports of inves teations made by committess for the tax reduction counct!. All these com Mittees recommend a reduction tn because all salaries were tn 4 much higher than other businesses were paying, One eom mittes reported that the increase in FOLLOWS: - 70 cents per hour -71 cents per hour 70 cents per hour . -70 cents per hour .63 cents per hour . .47 cents per hour RIGHTS, REGARDLESS STRIKE or W. L. MILLER 736 Central Building Seattle, Wash, d. W. FOSTER 609 Tacoma Building Tacoma, Wash. @ A woman doesn’t have to be a good cook to roast her neighbors. 4 THRU kK campus, on 15th ave, Before these halls of the tax rate since 1914 was at least 662-3 per cent, and that the increase | also 6629 per cent. This does not look like « “slight increase” to the | taxpayers. We realize that these employe, |them havg all kinds of luxurtes that can scarcely got the necessities, not to speak of the comforts of life, what is supposed to be the effet on us tax payern? If the counct! ts to keep faith with anybody, it had better be the taxpay- orm—the promise waa BOCONOMY, and surely the last election demonstrated knows what he wanta, and, what is more, la going to have it. The number of civli service em- ployes In the city ts about 6,200 (their jown figures). Now, shall that num- ber of favored citizens dictate to over 300,000 people what salaries THEY shall receive, tell us taxes we | MEN WANTED The Northern Pacific Raflway | Prescribed by the United States Labor j Mechanics and helpers are allowed time and one-half E ry 1) ar bac y LEO H LASSEN 5 “No Memories Grieve This Iron Heart” | (Statue of George Washington at entrance to University of Washington | tribunal whose decision caused them we must pay for, while we ourselves | THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 1922. CITY | ETS «# mith N, E. and E. 40th st.) - O deep thoughts of worldly plans Can tire these iron eyes; No words can pass these iron lips And only the glow of skies, | Tinged with the flush of the twilight hour, Fer lights the iron face | Of the Washington that keeps his watch In silence before this place. golden youth This iron man instills The love of land of those brave souls, | Who stained colonial hills j With their own blood, and followed him, A red, but glorious train; No memories grieve this iron heart | With dreams of crimson rain. ‘ | aban Pay to keep them fn luxuries, or ts It the privilege of the 200,000 to say jin salaries in the departinents was |‘ what salaries they are WILLING to; pay, and how much tax they will levy in order to pay? | 80 far as the “experts tn their | lines” are concerned, here tr what | jour neighbors, and when we see one committee said in the report| ployes want that the taxpayers be | turned tn: “We are also informed that in the city treasurer's office and tn other | departments of the city government there are efficient, ambitious and en. [ergetio employes, who work early® things of life, while they hold | and late and over hours In the inter. | ents of the department employing | them; bet, on the other hand, there seem to be other employes who not that the taxpgyer is in earnest and only waste the time in their depart. | ment, and use time when they should be working in thetr depart- ment, by uen thomaeives (thus putting « greater | burden on the honest employe) who (should be eliminated. as such drones are undesirable and a burden to the taxpayer. We also believe that tt Board, as 70¢ 70¢ 70¢ 70¢ 70¢ 63e 47c in excess of eight hours per day. Young men who desire to learn these trades will be employed and given an opportunity to do so. A strike now exists on the Northern Pacific Railway. Apply to any roundhouse or shop or superintendent. NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY _ AT SEATTLE WANTED For Shops and Roundhouse Stationary Firemen Boilermakers ... Passenger Car Men Freight Car Men Helpers, all classes. Mechanics and helpers are allowed thne and onchalf for time RATES Te to 700 . 700 per hour -630 per hour ++.470 per hour worked in excess of eight hours per day, APPLY ROOM 3028 ARCADE BUILDING SEATTLE 1: 3 ecenmartiy absenting | Bi will employ men at rates Various Rates Various Rates 70c to 70\,¢ Per Hour Various rates neig @[In Washington there’s a If time is money, most of us are millionaires on Sunday. @ Two can’t see a LEARN A WORD EVERY DAY | Today's word ts—OBVIOUS. It's pronounced—obvius, with eo cent on the first syllable. It means—easlly Gincovered, seen or understood; plain; evident It comes fromthe Latin prefix “ob,” meaning, among other’ things, “to, toward, facing, word “via,” ratiroaa strike | ere’ unwillingness to return to work | upon no better pledge than @ rehear- ing of their grievance by the same | to atrike in the first place.” j — eS {RADIO PRIMER LEAKAGE—Gradual discharge of & condenser after a voltage ts ap piled to it angi its terminals are left disconnected. A set of plates with Gry air as dielectric will retain the charge almost indefinitely after the voltage is cut off, but in some paper condensers, for instance, the charge disappears by leakage In a few min utes. —_—————— ees would be of a great aftvantage to the partments if an efficient dock sys tem were installed, and tn that way Grones could be eliminated; but this clock system should be created. con- trolled and managed entirely tnde made an elective office.” business knows whether this ts true | employes be kept on lower level, ft is the other way around—these em- cut off from all but “the plainest |food and the coarsest clothes—the minimum of bare existence,” so that they will go on dumbly working and providing them with all the good their “white-collar jobs,” too nice to soll their hands at common labor. MRS. ANNE B. STEWART, follows: Per Hour Per Hour Per Hour Per Hour Per Hour Per Hour Per Hour for time worked , per hour elty government and tts various de. Anybody visiting the city hall on or not, and 40 far as asking that the pendent of any department, and be a